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RANGPUR, Sept 14: A day-long training programme on 'Service Rules and Regulation for University Office Staffs' was held at Kobi Heyat Mamud Bhaban of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) on Friday, reports BSS. The BRUR unit of Institutional Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) organised the training programme participated by all employees working as office assistants and computer operators in the university. Vice-chancellor of the university Professor Dr Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah attended the training programme as the chief guest while Director of the university's IQAC Professor Dr Nazmul Haque presided over and moderated the event. Professor of the Department of Statistics of Rajshahi University Dr Jahanur Rahman conducted the training programme as the main resource person. Head of the Department of Chemistry of BRUR and Assistant Proctor HM Tarikul Islam and Head of the Department of Statistics Dr Md Rashidul Islam addressed the event as special guests. In his PowerPoint presentation, the resource person discussed the service rules and regulations for the university office staffs and answered various questions asked by the participants.


The high season is the economic boom of the island. We look at the net flow of people per day. Thousands of people come for Fugawi and immediately leave the next week. The gradual peaks are people coming all week to vacation, and the more pointed dips show how people tend to leave at once on Sundays.


We fondly remember being busy in preparation for the arrival of 8 students from Tohoku in August this time last year.
Those students, who flew into Seattle with such zest, I wonder how have they grown up.
From this year, PSP Children Foundation will be heading in a new mission and helping children realize their dreams.


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Close Date: Aug 31, 2020
Last Updated Date: Oct 08, 2019
Award Ceiling: $250,000
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Spoilers! The 5 most shocking 'Joker' moments that everyone will be talking about
The first teaser trailer for Joaquin Phoenix's "Joker" has been released. The movie hits theaters this October. USA TODAY
Spoiler alert! The following contains many specifics about the plot of Joaquin Phoenix's new movie "Joker."
The supremely dark new movie "Joker" is the type of flick that offers itself up to many interpretations – both positive and negative. But one aspect can't be argued: It is disturbing and shocking in a way that a major studio film hasn't been in years.
Director Todd Phillips' character study imagines the origin of the classic Batman villain in a retro Gotham City. Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a rent-a-clown who yearns to be a stand-up comic because his beloved mom Penny (Frances Conroy) told him he was meant to bring joy and laughter to the world. (She even calls him "Happy."). But a violent incident leads him down an unfortunate path to becoming the new version of an iconic antagonist.
The grim and gritty "Joker" is a not an easy watch by any stretch, and here are five truly distressing moments that will stick with you after the credits roll.
** Major spoilers ahead, so stop reading now if you don't want to know. **
Arthur fights back, and the Joker is born
Phoenix's troubled character has dealt with unsupportive social workers, street hooligans and dismissive, angry fellow Gothamites when he fatefully gets on a subway train. He's still in his clown garb after having been fired for bringing a gun to a children's hospital – one given to him by a co-worker – when three rich Wall Street types board. One of the jerks sings "Send in the Clowns" at him and they proceed to beat him up. Suddenly, the gun goes off and you see Arthur's shot one in self defense, and then he shoots the other two.
One gets away, with prey becoming predator: Arthur hunts the wounded survivor to the next subway stop, shooting him in the back twice before he's dead. Arthur locks himself in a nearby bathroom, then the switch occurs that turns Arthur into Joker: He dances around slowly, the fear turning into a sense of power.
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) cares for his mom Penny (Frances Conroy) in "Joker." (Photo: NIKO TAVERNISE)
Joker dispatches his mother
After believing for a bit that he might be the long-lost son of wealthy mayoral candidate Thomas Wayne (Brett Cullen), Arthur discovers his memories of a happy childhood were a lie, and the mother whom he had lovingly tended to for years had allowed him to be horrifically abused by her boyfriend when he was a child.
After finding this disturbing information in files at Arkham State Hospital, where she had been committed, Arthur visits his ailing mother after she suffers a stroke, approaches her bed slowly as she tries to say something to him and puts the pillow to her face, suffocating her. He never loses the calm, resolved look on his face as his mother's hands frantically flail before stopping.
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Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) goes down a dark, face-painted path in Todd Phillips' psychological drama "Joker." (Photo: NIKO TAVERNISE)
Joker bludgeons his work frenemy Randall
After his mother's death, colleagues from his former clown job visit Arthur to pay condolences – little person Gary (Leigh Gill), the only one who was actually decent to Arthur, along with bullying Randall (Glenn Fleshler), the co-worker who had given Arthur a gun. The two are startled to find the indifferent Arthur in white face paint. But the nascent Joker takes it beyond next level by stabbing Randall in the neck with scissors, then repeatedly and brutally slamming his head against the wall. Randall slumps to the floor and Arthur smiles as his own white face is now speckled in blood.
Gary, who moans in emotional agony watching the brutal death from a corner, is allowed to pass the slumped Joker, who tells his old co-worker he won't hurt him, but Gary can't reach the lock on the door to leave. Arthur stands up, leaving the audience (and Gary) to wonder if he was lying, but instead Arthur kisses Gary's head and lets him depart safely in a rare moment of mercy.
Joker murders his idol on live TV
Arthur is a super-fan of Gotham TV host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro), but begins to sour on him when the host mocks Arthur's stand-up routine on his show and even gives him the name "Joker."
When Arthur is invited on Murray's show, he initially plans on telling a knock-knock joke and killing himself. Instead, Arthur confesses to the subway killings and rails against the Gotham upper class. "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you (expletive) deserve!" Arthur screams before shooting Murray in the face, causing chaos in the studio and outside on the riotous Gotham streets.
As the camera is still rolling, Joker shimmies toward it and repeats Murray's signature sign-off: "That's life!"
Writer-director Todd Phillips says it isn't fair to link his film "Joker" to real-world violence. And star Joaquin Phoenix says he felt uncomfortable while making the movie — and is pleased that audiences have had equally strong reactions. (Sept. 24) AP, AP
The scary shepherd meets his flock
Joker, in many appearances across many mediums, has always been something of a cult leader, and his violent actions in the movie spark a "Kill the Rich" movement with followers who wear clown masks.
After being arrested for Murray's murder, Joker smiles in the back seat of a police car at the sight of the carnage he's sparked, but he winds up unconscious after a stolen ambulance slams into the vehicle. His new acolytes pull him out and when he wakes up, Arthur stands atop the cop car, triumphant, while they surround him and cheer. It's a scene made even more visceral when Arthur evolves his look one last time to the Joker we know: He takes blood from his mouth and streaks it across his cheeks to match the character's terrifying trademark grin.
Audiences may differ on whether or not the movie glorifies Joker's violent streak or presents him as a hero, but what's for sure is that he is an onscreen symbol for a Gotham that wants to resist a system and embrace anarchy – and a role that Arthur, like other iterations of the villain, relishes.
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JoJo Romero was your selection as the #8 prospect in the Phillies' organization.
Romero received 97 of the 213 votes cast (45.54%). Enyel De Los Santos received 36 votes (16.90%), Jhailyn Ortiz received 24 votes (11.27%), and Cole Irvin received 15 votes (7.04%). Sixteen guys shared the remaining 41 votes.
JoJo Romero was the Phillies fourth round pick in the 2016 Amateur Draft out of Yavapi College (AZ). He signed an over slot deal and reported to Williamsport. I didn't see him until a couple of innings during 2017 spring training before he was assigned to full season Lakewood. He returned to Clearwater mid-season and logged 10 starts for the Threshers.
Romero started the 2018 season in Reading where he posted a 7-6 record with a 3.80 ERA. He made 18 starts, logging 106.2 innings (4 outs short of a 6.0 inning/game average). He walked 41 (3.5 BB9) and struck out 100 (8.4 K9).
8 games where he allowed just 5 earned runs (in 42.1 innings).
And Clearwater was his age 20 season (3.1 years younger than league average.
Romero was 3.4 years younger than league average during his age 21 season in Reading in 2018. He seemed to handle the aggressive assignment well. With all the pitchers log jammed at the top of the organization, Romero might start the 2019 season in Reading. But he looks like he could also handle an opening assignment to Lehigh Valley.
Romero attended Yavapai College. The Phillies have dipped into Yavapi several times for players. In the past decade – RHP Matt Southard (2013) and RHP Ken Giles (2011). Former Phillie Curt Schilling was drafted by the Red Sox out of Yavapai. Charley Kerfeld, Special Assistant to the General Manager, is also from Yavapai.
The poll for the #9 prospect will be posted in a separate thread.
Here are the complete results for the #8 poll.
Romero is my #6 but I haven't been able to vote for him because I have De Los Santos at #4. Enyel might be the next choice so I can start picking someone else after that.
Jo Jo still has lots of upside. Once he figured out how to pitch last year his numbers were terrific after a tough start. He could really jump up this next year.
FYI – Howard is definitely making the Top 100 list coming out fairly soon.
KLaw has been high on JoJo from the end of the 2017 season..
I wonder where he has him this season.
I like De Los Santos but I don't really view him as a prospect.
Jo Jo is someone finally I agree with. He has put in the time and shown with his stats a true prospect. Watched him thru his Milb career and deserves this accolade.
Too bad most of those listed above receiving this recognition have not done the same.


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Leaf by Niggle
By Tom King
With Hollywood's recent adaptation of his works, the name JRR Tolkien has come to be associated with huge spectacle and epic scope. So much so that it's easy to forget that the man himself was a shy, quiet sort of chap – temperamentally closer to the pastoral idyll of The Shire than the clamour of a battlefield.
Leaf by Niggle is a beautiful, quiet tale matched by a beautiful, quiet performance.
It's this spirit that Puppet State's Richard Medrington brings to life in this retelling of one of Tolkien's lesser-known tales, the story of Niggle – a little man of no particular importance and but one singular talent – the painting of leaves. We follow him through a life of small kindnesses, slightly underachievement and harmless meandering, through an unexpected journey and its unforeseen significance.
As our window into this life, Medrington is a warm presence – very much as one might imagine Tolkien; casting a benevolent if slightly-disapproving eye over Niggle's day to day and celebrating the gentle wonder of a life lived with the best of intentions.
Despite exhorting his audience not to read too much into Leaf by Niggle – Tolkien, by all accounts, being loathed to see his work as allegory – Medrington still gives the tale extra depth by subtly interweaving his own family history.
Choice objects turned up in Medrington's exploration of his mother's attic act as a guide to this history, a story attached to each; the tiny cigar-box ladder made by his grandfather who served alongside Tolkien at the Somme; the cards belonging to an ancestor born with his heart on the wrong side of his body; the book of his mother's beautiful sketches and the delicate shawl belonging to his maternal grandmother.
All of these find their place as the tale unfolds – a shawl as a green hill, the ladder mirrored in Niggle's own studio, the sketchbooks echoing a talent unappreciated in its time - even one character's reference to Niggle as having his heart 'in the right place'. It's these touches which serve to keep us rooted and gripped by a story in which moves very gently from start to finish.
Leaf by Niggle is a beautiful, quiet tale matched by a beautiful, quiet performance. Though not the sword and sorcery epic that one might expect, it still serves to reinforce a very Tolkienesque and very important lesson – not all those who wander are lost.
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In 1939 Tolkien was despairing of ever bringing his great work The Lord of the Rings to a conclusion. One morning he woke up with the tale of Niggle, a struggling artist on a curious journey, complete in his mind and wrote it down. The story is often seen as an allegory of the writer's own creative process. Surrounded by ladders, bicycles and heirlooms, Richard Medrington (Jean from Puppet State's The Man Who Planted Trees) recounts Tolkien's miniature masterpiece, with original score by Karine Polwart and MJ McCarthy. 'Enchanting one man show' **** (Guardian).
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I have always said that although we work in what it's still a man's world, we should not try to act like men. We should not try to forget that we are women, we love, we cry, we get emotional but we are also fierce, strong, stubborn and we work hard! And I'm not just saying this only for the ladies at sea. I have in mind my mom and all the mothers out there who are doing a full time job and try to live their own life at the same time and work and be wives to their husbands as well. And they do it, but what happens when you are a female mariner and decide it's time to have a baby?
In the last years I've had many of my friends getting married and having kids. The girls I used to party in the crew bar back in the days, now they are full time mothers. I got to see their first baby echo pictures. I got to see how something that seemed to look like a pea became a peanut and then became a tiny human!! I got to see them trying to stay awake at work or how they wanted to eat my plate too sometimes. How they were day dreaming, wondering how their tiny human will turn out to be and how I was the only one having coffee when we were going out for coffees. I got to see their baby bump grow and then next thing you know they had a baby in their arms and I had to take a few minutes to adjust!
Recently, I got the news that some friends and colleagues of mine, who recently got married, are having a baby and currently they are both working onboard! She is actually the first female Bridge Officer (1st Officer) I personally know who is navigating the ship while being pregnant! Imagine that?! I can only say Kudos to her!! Now that's a story to tell your baby one day and to our guests when they ask us "who's driving the boat?"! I can only wish them all the best and cannot wait to meet the little one!
The big question that remains however is: how does a baby affect a woman seafarer career? I guess this is a matter of choice. Women can come back to work in a year time after having a baby but some decide not do to so or return later on. Whatever they decide, as parents and adults, is, I am sure, well considered.
Wow things change, I wish I stayed until I was pregnant also sailed as a deck-officer best job in my life ever. So does my husband he is now a captain. We thought it might be smart to first find a shore job otherwise it are to much changes… then getting married not pregnant is nicer so I can have a drink and a normal wedding dress. 2 months after trying we ended up in a fertility clinic on the waiting list for 4 years. During the waiting list time is started to miss sea sooooo much now I'm pregnant I hope the little one is gonna replace it but never expected this feeling would stay….
Hi A., thanks for your comment and hope the name edit is ok with you now. Congrats for your baby!!! Is scary how much the life at sea can stick to us right?


As described in our earlier post, creating an image with a transparent background has many benefits, specifically for websites.
In this tutorial, we shall teach you how to create an image with a transparent background, and save it as a *.png file. We also discussed why using a *.png is better than a *.gif image.
If you select Background Contents to be transparent here, you're already ahead of the game.
If you have already created your image, your best bet is to rasterize your background layer, and drop the transparency to zero.
Shown above, I have already rasterized the layer, as well as converted it to a smart object (one above the other in the image above). When you convert your background to a raster it allows you to play with that layer more, and when it's converted to a smart object layer, you can do even more stuff to it (you'll notice a little lock goes away when you convert it to a smart object).
Once this is done, drop your opacity down to zero, and you should have a transparent background.
The key here is to make sure that the layer you want to make opac is selected, and also at the bottom of all the layers.
The checker means it's transparent, unless you've tweaked the settings, in which case, I doubt you're reading this.
So, now we have our image in photoshop, all that's left is to save our file as a *.png file.
The next prompt asks you if you would like to use some kind of interlacing. I haven't found any reason to use interlacing, but maybe you have one?
You should now have a *.png file in your location you saved, ready for you to enjoy!


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25 drug companies to phase out animal antibiotics
Associated Press March 26, 2014
FILE - In this April 11, 2012, file photo, poults raised without the use of antibiotics are seen at David Martin's turkey farm, in Lebanon, Pa. Twenty-five pharmaceutical companies are voluntarily phasing out the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals processed for meat, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Citing a potential threat to public health, the agency in December 2013 asked 26 companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for treating human infection as acceptable for use in animal production. The FDA did not name the one company that has not agreed to withdraw or revise its drugs. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty-five pharmaceutical companies are voluntarily phasing out the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals processed for meat, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
Citing a potential threat to public health, the agency in December asked 26 companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for treating human infection as acceptable for animal growth promotion. The FDA did not name the one company that has not agreed to withdraw or revise its drugs.
The companies will either withdraw the drugs from animal use completely or revise them so they would only be able to be used with a veterinarian's prescription.
Many cattle, hog and poultry producers give their animals antibiotics regularly to make the animals grow faster and ensure that they are healthy.
Withdrawing the animal drugs is designed to limit antibiotic-resistant diseases in humans as that resistance has become a growing public health problem. Repeated exposure to antibiotics can lead germs to become resistant to the drug so that it is no longer effective in treating a particular illness.
In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released estimates that more than 23,000 people a year are dying from drug-resistant infections.
The biggest risk is from germs spread in hospitals, and it's not clear how much of the problem is related to the use of drugs in animals that become meat. But the FDA has said this is one step toward addressing the problem.
FDA said it was working with industry on the issue because it was an easier and faster route than the protracted regulatory process. Two of the leading manufacturers of animal antibiotics, Zoetis and Elanco, said they would comply.
The FDA said the 25 companies represent 99.6 percent of the supply the agency is targeting.
Consumers increasingly have clamored for antibiotic-free meat. McDonald's, among other companies, has moved to limit the drugs in the animals that supply their meat, pushing many animal producers to go along.
Some advocacy groups said the FDA needs to go even further to curb animal antibiotics, including limiting companies who use them for disease prevention when holding animals in crowded conditions. The current guidelines address antibiotic use for growth promotion.
"If the voluntary guidelines do not rein in antibiotic use, compliance from drug companies is meaningless," said Keeve Nachman of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future."
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Edluar generic name zolpidem is a sedative which affects chemicals in the brain that cause sleep deprivation. Another brand name is Edluar and both drugs are recognized as hypnotics. It may also be used for other purposes.
Do not drink alcohol while taking Ambien as it will amplify the sedative effects and can cause extreme drowsiness or unconsciousness.
Do not take this drug unless under the care of a physician if you have, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease such as asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, obstructive pulmonary disease, sleep apnea, myasthenia gravis, history of depression, mental illness, suicidal thoughts, a history of drug or alcohol addiction.
Less serious side effects of Ambien and alcohol are drowsiness, dizziness, weakness, light headed, drugged, lack of coordination, amnesia, forgetfulness, abnormal dreams, nausea, constipation, stuffy nose, sore throat, headache, muscle pain or blurred vision. If these occur call your physician for advice.
Serious side effects of Ambien and alcohol are depressed mood, suicidal thoughts, unusual thoughts, risk taking behavior, decreased inhibitions, no fear of danger, anxiety, aggression, feeling restless or agitated, hallucinations, confusion or loss of personality. If these occur get emergency medical help.


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I have seen this one a number of times and at first it looks as though it might be an impossible problem to fix, many people will tell you that windows would need to be reinstalled or that it cant be fixed.
But superkev has the know how to get you back working as you should be.
So you open up your computer and this is what you see all of your icons have changed mysteriously to the one program and everytime you try to open a shortcut to the internet or you favorite game it fails and tries to open with what ever program is asscociated with that file type.
You can change the file asscociations in Default Programs on the start menu but this wont help you in this situation as the files which have changed are all .lnk files which are shortcuts, these files do not have a specific program attached to them and that is all you can fix in Default Programs. so the first step is to download this file from my blog on another computer or if you already know how to load up your browser from the original EXE file then you can use your own computer.
Once you have downloaded the file open it up and extract the contents.
You then need to type in the search box .lnk and select the .lnk option.
Press the Remove file association (User) button.
Once this has finished you can click on the OK button.
You will now notice that all of your shortcuts are back to normal with the correct icon for each program.
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XHPRof: Test Twig+Smarty Support
Author: beberlei
--FILE--
<?php

include_once dirname(__FILE__).'/common.php';

class Smarty
{
    public function fetch($template)
    {
    }
}

class Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase
{
    public function fetch($template)
    {
    }
}

class Smarty_Internal_Template extends Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase
{
    protected $template_resource = 'foo.tpl';
}

class Twig_Template
{
    public function getTemplateName()
    {
        return 'test.twig';
    }

    public function display($variables)
    {
    }
}

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        'Twig_Template::display',
        'Smarty::fetch',
        'Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase::fetch',
    ))
);

$template = new Twig_Template();
$template->display(array('foo' => 'bar'));

$smarty3 = new Smarty_Internal_Template();
$smarty3->fetch("bar.tpl");
$smarty3->fetch(NULL);

$smarty2 = new Smarty();
$smarty2->fetch("foo.tpl");
$smarty2->fetch(NULL);

print_canonical(qafooprofiler_disable());
?>
--EXPECT--
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main()==>Smarty::fetch#                 : ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>Smarty::fetch#foo.tpl          : ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase::fetch#bar.tpl: ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>Smarty_Internal_TemplateBase::fetch#foo.tpl: ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>Twig_Template::display#test.twig: ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>Twig_Template::getTemplateName : ct=       1; wt=*;
main()==>qafooprofiler_disable          : ct=       1; wt=*;


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Space on Screen
In retrospect, it's not surprising that Georges Melies' A Trip to the Moon (1902) is the first science fiction film. After all, the sky is the original cinematic experience: the lights go up and come down; the moon and constellations change; the colors shift, fade, and intensify; and the weather provides drama and tension. Staring at the sky in night or day is an emotional, humanizing experience. It emphasizes how small you are in the face of the universe. Thus it only makes sense that one of the first subjects for narrative cinema would be the desire to explore what's up there.
(Digression: I, like most babies of the 80s and 90s, came to know Melies' work because of the Smashing Pumpkin's video for "Tonight, Tonight," which remains most excellent.)
What I want to think about today, though, isn't films such as A Trip to the Moon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Contact, or Armageddon, which concern themselves with space in an entirely imaginative or fictional way, but instead with those that attempt to tell the "true" story of human space exploration.
For the sake of conciseness, I'm going to limit myself to The Right Stuff (1983), Apollo 13 (1995), The Dish (2000)*, The Astronaut Wives Club (2015)**, Hidden Figures (2016), First Man (2018)*, and Apollo 11 (2019)**, arguing that while these films are about humans leaving earth, neither the films nor the history they represent successfully abandon earth's baggage, specifically gender and race.
A few micro summaries in case you haven't seen these movies:
The Right Stuff focuses on the Mercury 7 astronauts and the earliest days of the American space program. It's based on the book by Tom Wolfe.
Apollo 13 is about the disaster during the titular mission.
The Dish turns its attention to the Parkes Observatory in Australia, which received and broadcast the TV signal from Apollo 11.
The Astronaut Wives Club represents how the wives of the Mercury 7 astronauts (plus a few later additions) experienced the 1960s. It was adapted from a book by Lily Koppel.
Hidden Figures tells the stories of three African American mathematicians who worked at NASA in the mid-twentieth century. Margot Lee Shetterly's book provided the source material.
First Man, a biopic of Neil Armstrong, zeroes in on Gemini 8 and Apollo 11.
Apollo 11 is a documentary about that mission assembled entirely from archival footage.
When we take these movies as a group, the first cleavage is between the astronaut-centric films and the earth-centric ones. The Right Stuff, Apollo 13, and First Man are all celebrations of The Astronaut (TM), while The Dish, The Astronaut Wives Club, and Hidden Figures are about what happens at home, focusing on the people who make the missions happen or who are affected by them secondarily. Apollo 11 is more or less evenly balanced.
In this first subgroup of films, The Astronaut is a man, a specific type of super hyper manly man. He rides horses and motorcycles and drives his convertible too fast. He has a beautiful wife who worries for him (more about her in a bit) and a gorgeous house and adorable children. He is absolutely competent and betrays few emotions, though he is quick to make jokes as a demonstration of how unafraid he is or as a deflection.
The Right Stuff established this archetype, and it's fascinating how little deviation from it there has been. In Apollo 13, Kevin Bacon, as the first truly single American astronaut, is almost hilariously cliched, while Tom Hanks and Bill Paxton are slightly more textured versions of the same type. Even more recently, my most substantial problem with First Man is how conventional its vision of Armstrong was.
In astronaut-focused films, The Astronaut's masculinity is often contrasted against that of the engineer. Few of the engineers in these films have names or specific personalities. The engineer wears white button-down shirts with skinny black ties and glasses. Always glasses. He–and it's almost exclusively a he–is very, very anxious. The engineer in this first set of films does not have a spouse or a home life; he is utterly devoted to work.
Apollo 13 does name Gene Kranz (played by Ed Harris), but the flight director is this type down to the pocket protector. The film perfectly exemplifies how difficult it is to tell a compelling story when the primary action is technological. It chooses to focus on the (repressed) emotions in the capsule rather than the frantic work in Houston to address the catastrophe, evenly though, arguably, what's primarily happening is the work of the engineers. I can't deny that it's affecting, and of course the astronauts did stand to lose the most if the mission couldn't be salvaged, but it feels like a cop out.
Additionally, it makes The Astronaut and the astronaut wife play the same role. In a hilarious essay for Vulture last year, Maggie Fremont gave "Nine Tips for Becoming the Perfect Astronaut Movie Wife," drawing largely from Claire Foye's performance in First Man and Kathleen Quinlin's in Apollo 13. These tips boil down to smothering your fear and dread in order to project perfect mid-century femininity–which is almost exactly parallel to what The Astronaut does.
In these films, The Astronaut and the engineer are two poles of white, straight masculinity: the body and the mind. But bifurcating those ways of knowing renders The Astronaut so atavistic that he has almost no agency. He is along for the engineer's ride; his wife merely frets about it.
In the earth-centric films, the astronaut (when we see him) is not much changed. Glenn Powell's John Glenn in Hidden Figures is more of a Boy Scout, but he still fits the type. The engineer and the wife are entirely different, however.
Take Hidden Figures. While the film does have some garden-variety engineers–Jim Parsons and Kevin Costner–it's focused on another set of engineers, those played by Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer. Each of these women has her own arc: Henson trying to do her job in an office full of racists who belittle and demean her and her romance with Mahershala Ali, Monae's push to be admitted to a segregated all-white school and the tension this causes in her marriage, and Spencer's attempts to provide opportunities for the African American computer pool and to become a manager.
In every case, gender and race stand in the women's way. These engineers have to remake the environment (e.g., NASA's Langley facility) because it wasn't designed to accommodate them. Only by making NASA itself as radically modern as its mission will humans get to the moon. While whiteness and masculinity are subtextual in the astronaut-centric films (for both The Astronaut and the engineer), they become text in Hidden Figures.
For more on this, I highly recommend Tom and Lorenzo's analysis of Hidden Figures' costumes, which argues that the film turns the central engineers into super heroes. In this way, Hidden Figures supplants The Astronaut with Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy–diverse, three-dimensional engineers–to genuinely revolutionary results.
The Dish lacks the racial or gender diversity of Hidden Figures, but it introduces American chauvinism into the mix. The American engineer sent to oversee the project (Patrick Warburton) thinks the Australians are rubes. The Australians think the American is joyless and arrogant. In order to salvage the Apollo television broadcast, they'll need to abandon this binary, reductive, nationalist framework for the greater good.
What's singular about The Dish is that astronauts don't appear in it beyond the archival footage. So, like Hidden Figures, because it has lots of engineers, it has lots of different kinds of engineers: from Warburton's stick in the mud, who could have wandered off the set of Apollo 13, to a gentle beta math nerd (Tom Long) and several positions in between. These engineers weren't cut out of a mold; they're all unique. It's the danger of the single story, in the words of Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi, exemplified.
But more isn't necessarily better. In The Astronaut Wives Club, we meet lots of different women all of whom just happen to be married to astronauts, from the one who'd rather be a pilot herself (Odette Annable) to the glamorous one (Yvonne Strahovski), the one with a dark secret (Erin Cummings), the perfect military spouse (Zoe Boyle), etc.
The Astronaut Wives Club does some things extremely well; its productive design and costuming are top notch, for example. However, while it foregrounds gender, it fails to interrogate whiteness and class. It wants us to believe that these women are stand-ins for all American women in the 1960s, with a variety of hopes and dreams that are inexorably tied up with and limited by their womanhood. But of course these women have privileges that Katherine, Mary, and Dorothy from Hidden Figures don't. The show's few attempts to grapple with this–an African American housekeeper and her son who routinely run into the astronauts in Florida, a protest in which someone reads "Whitey on the Moon"–feel shoehorned in.
And, related, while The Astronaut Wives Club is grounded in real people and real history, it suffers from the Forrest Gump problem. All of the 60s motifs, cliches, and situations pop up, and the show (because, as I discuss below, it is a show and not a movie) begins to feel like an exercise in checking boxes, not a coherent whole or a character-driven piece.
So while astronaut-centric space films suffer from a reductive take on gender, earth-centric space films have more diversity, though they don't always use that to show what those social structures mean or how they've shaped human space exploration.
And this brings us to Apollo 11. When I saw it in theaters a few months ago, what struck me was how different it felt from other space movies. It's carved out of archival footage from the Apollo 11 mission, including a planned though later scraped behind the scenes TV special. There is no overarching narrator, no talking heads. Instead, it uses image and soundtrack to build the story. The rising tension, the complications, the resolution: all the bits and pieces of drama are there, but there aren't characters in the classic sense.
The vast majority of voices that we hear are white and male, though the crowds watching the launch and the later moon walk are diverse and a few white women and men of color do appear in mission control, in the labs, and so on. But what it has is magnitude. Nothing else I've ever seen on space history has better captured how totalizing this effort was. And in deemphasizing individual contributions, Apollo 11 managed to obviate some of the problems often present in space films. These astronauts aren't The Astronaut, and these engineers aren't engineers. I'm certain someone could respond that they aren't particularly developed at all, but the film's focus is on the collective in a way that feels fresh and surprising.
What I'd like to see in space movies going forward is what I'd like to see in space exploration moving forward: more diversity and reflection. If space exploration is to truly be human space exploration, it needs to feel more, well, human. And whoever is in the capsule and mission control, whatever stories we're telling in the next wave of space movies, I hope we're less reductive about it–if only for variety.
(*If you're curious, I've written about The Dish and First Man at much greater length. Links on the titles in this paragraph.)
(**Yes, one of these, The Astronaut Wives Club, is a short-lived TV show. If I'm including it, why not also put From Earth to the Moon (1998) in there? Essentially, much of the plot of From Earth is covered elsewhere and its visual style overlaps heavily with Apollo 13. While From Earth did have one wives-centric episode–episode 11, if you're curious–Wives Club covers that ground more thoroughly. And yeah, Apollo 11 is the only documentary on my list, but it has a classic three-act narrative structure and absolutely STUNNING visuals that warrant its inclusion here.)
Author EmmaPosted on May 17, 2019 May 18, 2019 Tags Fine Romance Friday, Fly Me to the Moon, Movies, Space History
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sonomalass says:
I keep thinking about the astronaut-engineer conflict in The Right Stuff. How the astronauts want to be treated like pilots, not monkeys. There they are fighting for agency, because they want to be more than the pretty faces, they want to be in control. A little ironic.
YES! They (both the characters and the real life astronauts) knew they didn't have much power. They were figureheads…who ultimately were happy to go on figureheading.
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Posted on 1st September 2017 5th September 2017 by Christina Imrich
I had the pleasure of managing the Conservation Leadership Programme's (CLP) 2017 Conservation Management & Leadership Workshop in Sulawesi, Indonesia from June 28 – July 13. This training course brought together 21 rising conservation leaders who, throughout two weeks, gained not only practical skills and knowledge, but an increase in confidence, motivation, and an awareness of their strengths as leaders in this field. Allow me to introduce you to a few of our rising leaders who use their strengths to inspire change from the roots up. Meeting them has certainly inspired me!
Niomi Pridina is a rising conservation leader in Indonesia
"I bring a sense of excitement to face challenges in my work. This allows me to stay positive throughout the project as I adapt to changes. The CLP training course helped me understand my inner strength and build a strong global network with other leaders in conservation." Niomi is part of the 2017 CLP project "Using light to reduce mobula ray by-catch in Indonesia's small-scale fisheries."
Alfonso Hernández Ríos is a rising conservation leader in Mexico
"I bring passion and innovation to my work. These strengths allow me to try different paths as I look for new solutions to current conservation issues. I appreciated the CLP training course because it provided me with tools to improve my conservation decisions and allowed me to build bridges within a network of committed conservationists." Alfonso is part of the 2017 CLP project "Conservation status of Craveri's murrelet in Mexico."
Zoya Irshad Tyabji is a rising conservation leader in India
"I bring commitment and focus to my work. These strengths allow me to be diligent and pursue my goals, especially in difficult situations when the odds are against me. The CLP training course helped in both my personal and professional growth. I became more confident, aware and appreciative. I also gained valuable knowledge about leadership styles, project planning, stakeholder engagement, and behavior change which will help in the current project and future endeavors." Zoya is part of the 2017 CLP project "Assessing the status of threatened elasmobranchs in the Andamans, India," funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
Abdulrahman Rashid Mubarak Al Hinai is a rising conservation leader in Oman
"Two of my leadership strengths are self-motivation and the ability to work as a team player. These qualities allow me to motivate other project members to achieve the best results we can. I appreciated the CLP training course because it gave me the opportunity to identify my strengths and share them with the group. The training provided tools that helped me become a better leader, for example by understanding the unique strengths of each person on the team and the value of using these strengths to improve the project." Abdulrahman is part of the 2017 CLP project "Conservation assessment of Arabian dragon tree (Dracaena serrulata) in Oman," funded by the Global Trees Campaign.
Chaona Gertrude Phiri is a rising conservation leader in Zambia
"I bring focus, determination, and persistence to my work. These strengths allow me to get my hands dirty with my team and keep pushing until we achieve our goal. I appreciated the CLP training course because it proved a very rare opportunity to be with people within my age group, with the same passion I have for biodiversity conservation and facing the same challenges that I face. Although we are all working in different countries, our problems are the same. In addition to having the training itself, I also got a lot of helpful tips from my new friends on how to deal with some of my challenges." Chaona is part of a 2017 project funded by the BirdLife/Birdfair Young Conservation Leaders Award. The title of her project is "Assessing breeding probability of slaty egrets (Egretta vinaceigula) on the Barotse Floodplain, Zambia."
The Conservation Leadership Programme is a partnership of three non-government organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, Fauna & Flora International, and BirdLife International. Drawing upon the expertise of conservation professionals from across the globe, CLP directs project funding and training to early career leaders from developing countries who are tackling priority conservation challenges. Over more than 30 years, CLP has provided important career stepping stones to over 2,600 individuals who now form an extensive global network of conservation practitioners.
We appreciate the support of our donors whose investment has made this training possible. Our donors include: BP plc, American Express Foundation, Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, the Global Trees Campaign, and the British Birdfair.
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A cross-border exchange to benefit vultures
Posted on 1st September 2017 1st September 2017 by Christina Imrich
Asian vultures have undergone a catastrophic decline in recent decades, with populations crashing by as much as 99%. In India and Nepal, four of nine vulture species are Critically Endangered, largely as a result of poisoning by a drug commonly used to treat livestock, diclofenac. The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) funded projects in both Nepal, in 2010 and 2013, and India, in 2016, to improve the outlook for these overlooked species. In March this year, a CLP Learning Exchange brought a project team member from each country together to share their knowledge.
Khima Nand Balodi, who led a project to assess the population status and threats facing vultures in Uttarakhand, India, in 2016, visited Bhupal Nepali, who was part of a team working to strengthen Vulture Safe Zones in Nawalparasi, in 2010, and to enhance community-based conservation in western Nepal in 2013. Here, Khima shares his Learning Exchange experiences.
As part of my CLP's Future Conservationist Award my team and I have been conducting field surveys to assess the population status of several vulture species. We have also been trying to fully understand what is threatening vultures in the lowland of Uttarakhand state, which is a potential site for a Vulture Safe Zone (VSZ). I'm interested in this work because vultures play a crucial role within ecosystems, by eating carrion and helping prevent the spread of disease. But they also suffer from being maligned and misunderstood, which has hindered their survival.
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I spent my first few days in Nepal learning about the work being done by Bird Conservation Nepal (BCN), with Krishna Bhusal in Kathmandu. Krishna was also part of the 2013 CLP project team alongside Bhupal Nepali, and is now BCN's Vulture Conservation Program Officer. Nepal has initiated successful in-situ vulture conservation interventions, such as community-managed Vulture Safe Zones, and the declaration of Diclofenac Free Districts, both of which emphasise the importance of cooperation between multiple stakeholders. We discussed the work we're involved with in our respective countries, including my ongoing CLP project, and came up with a plan for the rest of the trip so I could learn as much as possible about what's been effective in Nepal.
I then headed west to Butwal to join Bhupal, who had arranged for us to meet with lots of different people and organisations over the next few days. We met with para-vet associations, and with government officials from the veterinary and forestry departments, who are concerned about vulture conservation. We spoke with community forestry associations about their role in monitoring nests and raising awareness, and with vulture restaurant (special sites where carcasses are left out to feed vultures) management committees about their work in ensuring safe food is available. We met district livestock service officers and pharmacists to discuss the use of diclofenac and alternative drugs, and also held discussions about transboundary issues relating to drug use and monitoring in cases where safe zones span the India-Nepal border. Everyone shared a lot of information with me and I found it all very useful.
We also visited three safe feeding sites — in Gaindatel, Pithauli and Dhachuk — to observe how these were managed, and a municipal waste site to see how this was run and which species could be found there. Finally, we visited two nesting colonies of the Critically Endangered white-rumped vulture, where we were able to see chicks in the nest.
The Learning Exchange was also useful in deepening my understanding of Nepal's cultural heritage — for example, we visited Lumbini, the birth place of Buddha — and its close linkages with India. I also gained insight into the potential for using the religious and philosophical connections that vultures have in South Asia in their conservation.
The field visits, and the interactions with different stakeholders, gave me lots of ideas to take back to India, and to use in the advocacy, education and outreach plan I'm developing for Uttarakhand. I ended my trip in Kathmandu, working on that plan from the BCN office, and I'm putting it into action now that I'm back in India. I'm also in the process of organising a meeting about transboundary vulture conservation, to share and discuss these issues further with state institutions in both countries, and working on an action plan for vulture conservation in Uttarakhand state which can be incorporated into the Vulture Conservation Action Plan of India. I am very thankful to CLP for supporting this excellent experience, and for the opportunity to develop a collaboration with BCN team members.
Since returning to India, I have continued with our project work in Uttarakhand. We have collected 100 tissue samples from livestock to assess the use of diclofenac, and we have also recorded very small, scattered populations of two Critically Endangered species, the white-rumped vulture and the red-headed vulture, in Uttarakhand state. But electrocution risk seems to be the major existing threat to these vultures, as we recorded more than 100 dead electrocuted birds, including vultures and steppe eagles, at various carcass dumping sites. These are often situated close to transmission lines, making collisions likely, so we are working to shift all unsafe sites to safer locations.
We have also conducted several meetings with various stakeholders in the state and have organised 15 awareness camps in various districts of Uttarakhand, as per the plan prepared during the learning exchange. To celebrate International Vulture Awareness Day 2017, we are conducting around 20 events in different locations through local NGOs, schools, volunteers and our Vulture Mitra (Friends of the Vulture) initiative.
Thanks to Claire Salisbury for support preparing this blog. Images © Khima Nand Balodi unless otherwise indicated.
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US secretly approves Saudi nuclear ambitions
The Levant Mar 28, 2019	Energy, News, Saudi Arabia, United States 2 Comments
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has approved six secret authorizations by companies to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia, according to a copy of a document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
The Trump administration has quietly pursued a wider deal on sharing U.S. nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia, which aims to build at least two nuclear power plants. Several countries including the United States, South Korea and Russia are in competition for that deal, and the winners are expected to be announced later this year by Saudi Arabia.
Perry's approvals, known as Part 810 authorizations, allow companies to do preliminary work on nuclear power ahead of any deal but not ship equipment that would go into a plant, a source with knowledge of the agreements said on condition of anonymity. The approvals were first reported by the Daily Beast.
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said in the document that the companies had requested that the Trump administration keep the approvals secret.
"In this case, each of the companies which received a specific authorization for (Saudi Arabia) have provided us written request that their authorization be withheld from public release," the NNSA said in the document. In the past, the Energy Department made previous Part 810 authorizations available for the public to read at its headquarters.
A Department of Energy official said the requests contained proprietary information and that the authorizations went through multi-agency approval process.
Many U.S. lawmakers are concerned that sharing nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia could eventually lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told CBS last year that the kingdom would develop nuclear weapons if its rival Iran did. In addition, the kingdom has occasionally pushed back against agreeing to U.S. standards that would block two paths to potentially making fissile material for nuclear weapons clandestinely: enriching uranium and reprocessing spent fuel.
Concern in Congress about sharing nuclear technology and knowledge with Saudi Arabia rose after U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed last October in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Part 810 authorizations were made after November 2017, but it was not clear from the document whether any of them were made after Khashoggi's killing.
Representative Brad Sherman, a Democrat, called on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a congressional hearing on Wednesday to release the names of the companies that got the approvals by the middle of April, and Pompeo said he would look into it. Sherman also said the Trump administration had attempted to evade Congress on sharing nuclear power with the kingdom.
Pompeo said the administration was working to ensure any shared technology nuclear power would not present proliferation risks.
Last month, Democratic House members alleged in a report that top White House aides ignored warnings they could be breaking the law as they worked with former U.S. officials in a group called IP3 International to advance a multibillion-dollar plan to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia.
IP3 did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether it was one of the companies that got a Part 810 authorization.
Separately, the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, accepted a request by Senators Marco Rubio, a Republican and Bob Menendez, a Democrat, to probe the administration's talks on a nuclear deal with Saudi, the GAO said on Wednesday.
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(In whatever form they end up)
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Is to establish
A buyer that can compete strongly
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This is what is happening.
It a good thing.
And it is also known ( by those who are
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President Trump ),
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Lazer Focus, which is happening now
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We knew not what we were doing.
We know better now.
To break The Spell
It is only necessary
To begin the discussion
About un-hoardable money;
Money with adjustable
controllable Demurrage.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to manage
A form of money
Which can be removed from
And hidden
Even in massive hoards
Stashed away as CASH,
Especially US Dollars
Since that is what we have been using
so much of in the world
For the last almost 100 years.
We are in the process of
Fixing the mess.
Thank you President Trump
And his administration
And partners around the world.
It's a small group funding
The Dark Forces,
And their power lies in
Hoardable money.
We can "melt" their
Power.
And there need be no blood at all.
It's an economic decision.
Everyone will benefit
When we push through Capitalism
To The Other Side,
Paradise,
I am at your service,
Angel NicGillicuddy ?
The Retirement of Santa
Actually a very strategic and clever move
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The Dark Forces can't
Just buy ALL the components real quick
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Just the talk about declaring Demurrage
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The Iranian government says it has arrested the eldest daughter of the country's former President, Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Faezeh Rafsanjani was one of five family members detained yesterday.
The other four have since been released.
State-run TV says ten people died in yesterday's demonstrations against the election result.
That brings the number of deaths in a week of protests to at least 17.


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Hey everyone, hope you're all doing well!
Sorry I've been inactive recently, but with arriving in Japan three weeks ago, I've been spending a lot of time exploring Osaka and generally being amazing by absolutely everything I see.
I have a couple of Japan posts in draft that I'm hoping to post this week, but first I wanted to give you a quick update about my November plans.
As the title suggests, I've – finally – decided to do Nanowrimo this year and I'm actually really excited about it.
For those of you who haven't heard of it, Nanowrimo – National Novel Writing Month – is an annual project where writers from across the globe challenge themselves to write 50k words of their novel. Of course, the challenge can be whatever you make it, it can be more or less than 50k words, and the style and genre can vary entirely too.
Nanowrimo is a non-profit organisation, designed to help budding and published writers get their novel into the world. You can check out the Nanowrimo website for more details.
I've wanted to take part in this project for the last four years, but having always been busy with university, exams or work, I've never found the time. This year, however, I have a lot more free time because I'm travelling in Japan, and find myself actually able to do it.
So from 1st to 30th November, I hoping to write at least 30k words of my first fantasy novel. It's set in a world where there are two types of individuals with abilities – those with transient gifts, whose powers can be stolen or traded, and those with permanent powers, whose abilities cannot be stolen but are generally more passive.
I started with my world, then created the characters, some of whom are not fully fleshed out, but thankfully, I have a few more days to finish penning their personalities and abilities. With the discussions about diversity that have been going on in the book community recently, I've been thinking a lot about character diversity and how important it is for every genre of writing. As a result, I've tried to give my characters names, ancestry and backstories that will make them as representative of different groups of individuals as possible. To make sure I'm representing different cultures in the way they'd wish to be represented I'm planning on requesting critique and feedback about my writing in the later stages of editing.
My main issue at the moment comes in the form of plot. I have four potential plots and I just can't figure out which one I want to run with. Anyone else having this problem?
I'm going to force myself to settle on one idea today and finish planning the details tomorrow. I also currently don't have a title, but that doesn't bother me so much, as I normally think of the title towards the end of a story, or it comes to me while the work is in-progress.
Writing begins on Tuesday and I'm excited to get started. I don't want to spam you all too much so I'll probably only post occasional updates on here, but if you want you can follow my progress on my author page of the website or on twitter, where I'll no doubt be asking for advice or crying over my (lack of) plot.
Let me know if you're also doing Nanowrimo and what you plan to write; I'd love to buddy up with others people taking part! If you've done Nanowrimo previously, let me know how it went for you and feel free to give me any tips or advice!
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The Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource is a collaborative effort of the UBC Library, the Museum of Anthropology, the Centre for Japanese Research, the Department of History, and the Department of Asian Studies to promote the study of Japanese history and culture using digital materials from UBC collections.
Curated and edited by Tristan Grunow and Naoko Kato, the Meiji at 150 DTR is designed to present open-source scholarly content that will be useful for educators and academics looking for new images and topics to introduce into their classroom teaching, while highlighting the academic research possible using UBC's digital materials.
The Meiji at 150 Visual Essays pair digitized materials with historical narrative and interpretive analysis. The companion Digital Resources page collates all of the Japan-related digital collections at UBC into one convenient location to facilitate accessibility for research purposes and for easy adoption in the Japanese studies classroom.
The Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource would not be possible without the generous financial support of the Consulate-General of Japan in Vancouver, The Japan Foundation, Toronto, and the UBC Faculty of Arts, along with the logistical cooperation of the UBC Library Digital Initiatives, UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections, Asian Library, and the Museum of Anthropology.
For more information, inquiries, and feedback, contact us here.
Naoko Kato is Japanese language librarian at the University of British Columbia. She completed her PhD and her Master of Science in Information Studies degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Her doctoral dissertation, "Through the Kaleidoscope: Uchiyama Bookstore and Sino-Japanese Visionaries in War and Peace" (2013), is a transnational history that focuses on Sino-Japanese networks surrounding a bookstore in Shanghai during the first half of the twentieth century and touches upon Pan-Asianism, Christianity, and the peace movement.
Benjamin Bryce is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Northern British Columbia. He received his PhD and MA from York University (2013, 2008) and his BA from the University of British Columbia (2005). His research focuses on migration, education, and religion in Canada and Argentina. He is the author of To Belong in Buenos Aires: Germans, Argentines, and the Rise of a Pluralist Society (Stanford University Press, 2018). He is also the co-editor of Making Citizens in Argentina (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) and Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada (University Press of Florida, 2015).
KANAYA Masataka is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Architecture in the Graduate School of Engineering and Design at Hōsei University in Tokyo, Japan. He specializes in the modern architectural and urban history of Tokyo, and is researching the repurposing of former warrior compounds into cultivated fields in the early Meiji Period, early Meiji urban dairy farming and agriculture, and changes to the urban core and suburbs of Tokyo under Shokusan Kōgyō policies.
Radu Leca is a Romanian historian of art and cartography, who has studied Japanese literature and art history before engaging with the history of maps in Japan. An extended version of this article is forthcoming as Radu Leca, "Maps of the World in Early Modern Japan," in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, ed. David Ludden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
Dr. Yukari Takai is a professor at the Department of History at the University of Windsor and a Faculty Associate at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University in Canada. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, she completed her PhD in history at the Université de Montréal in Canada. She is a historian of North America and Asia specialized in issues of migration, women and gender, border and borderlands. A former Fulbright Research Fellow at Columbia University in New York, Takai is the author of Gendered Passages: French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920 (2008).
Miriam Wattles is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara. She has worked on a range of topics in Japanese visual culture from the Edo through the early Shōwa periods. Her present book project concerns the little-known transition from giga to manga from 1870-1930. The gendered history of textiles and garments in Japan during the long twentieth century is a new scholarly interest of hers.


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Joey Logano expecting a 'very aggressive" Daytona 500
Leave a Comment / NASCAR NEWS / By Checkered guy / January 28, 2021 January 28, 2021
Joey Logano believes that the Daytona 500 will turn out to be an aggressive event as everyone is trying to win the race as in the championship.
But the championship can be won by only the four drivers who are qualified for the event. As for the Daytona 500, everyone participating in the race has a chance to win it.
And over the years, this race has maintained its status as one of the most important races in the NASCAR season. Having won the event in 2015, Logano knows its value for the drivers.
"The only race you would argue is bigger than that is the championship race, and that's only for four cars. This is the biggest race for 40 cars out there," the Team Penske driver said.
During the regular season and the playoffs, drivers try to finish as higher as possible to collect points. But, just like in the championship race, there is no reward for finishing second in the Daytona 500.
"Everyone is out there racing extremely hard. Especially towards the end of the race, the pushing and shoving becomes very aggressive. That has been consistent over the years but as the rules package changes. Especially with this new spoiler on the back of it," Logano added.
"You try to collect points while you can during the stages…At the end of the race, it's like the championship. No one remembers who finished second. No one remembers who finished second in the Daytona 500 last year. That's just what this race is about."
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Thirty-six students vied for first prize in the Law School's Transactional Lawyering Competition, which offered tools to understand and structure a complex deal – something much in demand in business law but rarely taught in law schools.
The intramural event, which took place November 13-14, was the first ever at a major law school.
"The value for our students was the direct feedback from experienced business lawyers," reported organizer Professor Charles Whitehead, who teaches business law, including a course on deal structuring. Twenty-seven Law School alumni, some from places as far-flung as Seattle and Beijing, came to campus to judge the competition and help instruct the students.
"I think law students who have this experience will have a tremendous leg up when they start doing [deals as lawyers]," said competition judge Mark Underberg, a partner with Paul, Weiss.
"It's a great program and something law students don't get enough of," said Professor Sital Kalantry, competition judge and former business lawyer. "Half our graduates or more become corporate lawyers," she noted.
"There was a tremendous amount of learning in just two days," said Elisa Durrette, who with Omair Khan was chosen as the best seller's counsel. Joseph Pohlkamp and Nick Menillo were named the best buyer's counsel.
At the start of the fall semester, 36 students were selected (out of about 90 applicants) through a lottery and assigned to teams of two, half representing buyers and half sellers in an asset sale. As part of the competition, they were given a hypothetical case involving an upstate New York State hotel property and asked to mark up a simplified purchase agreement, citing concerns and proposing changes. Teams raised questions with their hypothetical clients that helped ferret out key information affecting deal structure and value. They also got confidential news – some negative (sellers learned of termite infestation at a nearby national park), some positive (buyers heard a Harry Potter theme park was planned close by). During three rounds of negotiations over the mid-November weekend, they amended their markups and got critiqued by the volunteer instructor-judges.
"You're not Santa Claus. If you give up something, make sure it's in exchange for something else, suggested Ray Minella, retired vice chairman of Jefferies & Company.
"Think 'What is it that would be important to my client that isn't in this draft?'" added Deborah McLean, a partner with Nixon Peabody.
"When you put in a provision, think reciprocal," advised Frank Schiff, a partner with MidOcean Partners, who said he was impressed with students' efforts, knowledge base and ability to think on their feet. "I wish I'd had something like this when I was a law student," he said.
Throughout the fall semester competition students and others attended five lectures on deal structuring and a mock negotiation led by Skadden partners Steve Banker, Tom Greenberg, and Eileen Nugent, all Cornell alumni.


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Ron Shurer '01
Former Special Forces combat medic and Washington State University alumnus Ron Shurer '01, now serving as a member of the U.S. Secret Service, returned to his alma mater last November a national hero. He earned the Medal of Honor for his heroism in Afghanistan, and WSU bestowed the Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award on Shurer in 2018. » More ...
Gene Conley x'50
Washington State baseball and basketball standout Gene Conley x'50, the only professional athlete to win both a World Series and NBA championship, died July 4, 2017. He was 86.
Conley was a pitcher with the Milwaukee Braves when the team won the World Series in 1957 and he helped the Boston Celtics to three NBA titles from 1959 to 1961. He played against sports legends such as Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Jackie Robinson, and Wilt Chamberlain during an 18-year dual-sport career that also included four All-Star appearances.
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Former Cougar football and NFL standout Steve Gleason '00, whose battle with ALS has become an international symbol of perseverance and determination, has been named the Regents' Distinguished Alumnus for 2017.
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The request came last spring.
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Surviving the challenges of deep space exploration could rely as much on botany as astrophysics.
NASA sees plants not only as potential food sources aboard future spacecraft but as natural oxygen producers. The space agency is preparing for its first in-depth study of how growth and development of plants is affected by gravity, or more specifically the lack of it.
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Rooted in World War I lore, and popularized with dramatic references in books and TV shows, military challenge coins have become a powerful symbol of camaraderie and support.
Beginning this spring, they also will help recognize the sacrifice and determination of student veterans at Washington State University. The newly minted WSU challenge coins will be handed out to all graduating veterans, and to faculty and staff with military service.
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