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JBBS Vol.2 No.1 , February 2012
Association of Genetic Variation in the Promoter Region of OXTR with Differences in Social Affective Neural Processing
Author(s) Garret O'Connell, Heather C. Whalley, Prerona Mukherjee, Andrew C. Stanfield, Christian Montag, Jeremy Hall, Martin Reuter
Division of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Department of Psychology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Center for Economics and Neuroscience, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Evidence supports the involvement of oxytocin in social behavior. The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been associated with differences in social brain function and risk for autism. Motivated by recent work, we investigated the effect of variation in the common functional rs2268498 T/C polymorphism in the promoter region of OXTR on neural responses to fear expressions. 46 healthy subjects were divided into genotype groups of C carriers (n = 32) and TT ho-mozygous (n = 14) and neural activity was measured during the recognition of fear and neutral expressions. Results showed that during the recognition of fear expressions, the TT genotype group exhibited increased responding in the inferior occipital gyrus, considered important for face processing, compared to carriers of the C allele (P < 0.005; cluster corrected for whole brain), an effect not found for neutral faces. These results indicate the impact of this OXTR genetic variant on individual differences in social affective neural processing.
OXTR; Promoter Region; Inferior Occipital Gyrus; fMRI; Emotional Facial Processing
G. O'Connell, H. Whalley, P. Mukherjee, A. Stanfield, C. Montag, J. Hall and M. Reuter, "Association of Genetic Variation in the Promoter Region of OXTR with Differences in Social Affective Neural Processing," Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2012, pp. 60-66. doi: 10.4236/jbbs.2012.21007.
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September 15, 2016 , Marketing/Advertising, International
Jackson National and the Rolling Stones. Of course.
By Editorial Staff Thu, Sep 15, 2016
Sponsored by the British-owned, Michigan-based insurer, a massive traveling exhibit called "Exhibitionism" will feature the personal memorabilia of Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood. It opens in New York City in November.
Jackson National Life will serve as the official U.S. sponsor of "Exhibitionism — The Rolling Stones," a traveling exhibit that offers comprehensive insight into the Rolling Stones through an immersive and interactive tour highlighting the band's iconic artistic legacy.
According to a Jackson release, "Exhibitionism" is "the largest touring experience of its kind and the first time in history the band has unlocked their vast private archives. Previously housed at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Exhibitionism will make its North American debut in New York City in November at the iconic Industria, West Village."
Barry Stowe, chief executive officer and chairman of Prudential plc's North American Business Unit, said the sponsorship is "a natural fit for the company, and a defining project in enhancing Jackson's brand identity."
"Exhibitionism is a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the history of true rock 'n' roll legends," Stowe said in the release. "Like the Stones, Jackson's history began in the early '60s, a time that brought the onset of an era of dramatic change. Focused on helping the generation that led this change plan for the next phase of their lives, Jackson is pleased to be able to sponsor a world-class exhibition focused on an artistic and cultural phenomenon that helped define and shape the baby boomers and generations to come."
The exhibition will include 500 unseen artifacts from the band's personal archives and take visitors through the band's 50-year history, from living together in a small apartment to headlining stadium concerts, and embracing "all aspects of art and design, film, video, fashion, performance and rare sound" associated with the band.
The exhibition includes original stage designs, dressing room and backstage paraphernalia, guitars and instruments, iconic costumes, rare audio tracks and unseen video clips, personal diaries and correspondence, original poster and album cover artwork and unique cinematic presentations.
Exhibitionism is promoted and presented by Australian company International Entertainment Consulting (iEC) with the participation of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood. Collaborations and work by Andy Warhol, Shepard Fairey, Alexander McQueen, and Ossie Clark to Tom Stoppard and Martin Scorsese will be included.
The exhibition includes nine different rooms, each with its own distinctly designed environment. Starting with an introductory "Experience," visitors will look back at the high points of the band's career through a new film, with a high-octane soundtrack. Visitors will then be taken back to the Stones' beginnings and on the remarkable journey that made them one of the most successful rock 'n' roll bands in the world.
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A classically trained violist and double bassist, Jean has worked with an eclectic array of artists including David Byrne of the Talking Heads, Eartha Kitt, Yo-Yo Ma, Wunmi, Enzo Gragnaniello and Italian rappers La Famiglia. She spent 6 years with the NYC based down-tempo outfit SiSe with whom she recorded two albums including their self-titled debut and sophomore effort "More Shine", which was engineered by friend Bonsai Caruso (of Damian Marley "Jamrock" fame).
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See also
 List of sandwiches
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Walt Faulkner  fou un pilot estatunidenc de curses automobilístiques nascut el 16 de febrer del 1920 a Tell, Texas.

Faulkner va córrer a la Champ Car a les temporades 1950-1956 incloent-hi la cursa de les 500 milles d'Indianapolis d'aquests anys.

Walt Faulkner va morir en un accident el 22 d'abril del 1956 disputant una cursa a Califòrnia.

Resultats a la Indy 500

(*) Cotxe compartit.

A la F1
El Gran Premi d'Indianapolis 500 va formar part del calendari del campionat del món de la Fórmula 1 entre les temporades 1950 a la 1960.
Els pilots que competien a la Indy durant aquests anys també eren comptabilitats pel campionat de la F1.

Walt Faulkner va participar en 4 curses de F1, debutant al Gran Premi d'Indianapolis 500 del 1950.

Palmarès a la F1
 Participacions: 4
 Poles: 1
 Voltes Ràpides: 0
 Victòries: 0
 Pòdiums: 0
 Punts vàlids per la F1: 1

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Russel History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
Russel is one of the many new names that came to England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Russel family lived in Dorset. Their name, however, is a reference to Roussel, Normandy, the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The family there were lords of Rosel, an ancient neighborhood of Cherbourg. [1] [2]
Early Origins of the Russel family
The surname Russel was first found in Dorset where they were originally descended from William Bertram, Baron of Briquebec, living in 1012. His son Hugue (Hugh) named de Roussel attended Duke William at Hastings, and became Marshall of England. "Hugh de Rosel, a benefactor of the abbey of Caen accompanied the Conqueror to England, and was rewarded with possessions in county Dorset, the principally of which were Kingston, afterwards called Kingston-Russell and Berwick, the latter of which is still in possession of the family." [1]
The noted Scottish author George F. Black believed that while not discounting the Norman influence, he felt the name was "most probably a diminutive of rous, 'red'," and that Chaucer's reference to 'Daun Russel' in Nonne Prestes Tale was "alluding to his reddish color." [3] He also notes one the first records in Scotland was Walter Russell who witnessed a charter by Walter filius Alani to the Abbey of Paisley, c. 1164-77. A few years later, John, son of Robert Russel of Doncallaw, granted lands to the Hospital of Soltre between 1180 and 1220. [3]
Moving back to the English branch of the family, we found a few listed in the Hundredorum Rolls of 1273, specifically: Miriel Russell in Huntingdonshire; Simon Russel in Cambridgeshire; and Elyas Russell in London. The Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls of 1379 listed: Johannes Russell and Robertus Russell. [4]
Over on the Isle of Wight in Yaverland, a small branch of the family was found at one time. "An ancient mansion of the Russells here, subsequently of the Richards family, and now a farmhouse, is a good specimen of the Elizabethan style." [5]
"The Russells have ever been the most liberal of landlords. Every improvement made in Tavistock, [Devon] has been carried out by the Duke for the time being, ' regardless of expense,' with a taste as well as a liberality that have resulted in making the little town so far as its main thoroughfares go the handsomest of its size in the West of England. " [6]
Early History of the Russel family
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Russel research. Another 283 words (20 lines of text) covering the years 1012, 1259, 1296, 1310, 1320, 1321, 1376, 1539, 1683, 1727, 1741, 1437, 1423, 1424, 1432, 1417, 1486, 1555, 1550, 1577, 1632, 1601, 1614, 1602, 1669, 1625, 1632, 1669, 1639, 1683, 1660, 1731, 1613, 1700, 1680, 1711, 1642, 1714, 1679, 1683, 1694, 1702, 1710, 1735, 1629, 1692, 1683 and are included under the topic Early Russel History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Russel Spelling Variations
Anglo-Norman names are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. When the Normans became the ruling people of England in the 11th century, they introduced a new language into a society where the main languages of Old and later Middle English had no definite spelling rules. These languages were more often spoken than written, so they blended freely with one another. Contributing to this mixing of tongues was the fact that medieval scribes spelled words according to sound, ensuring that a person's name would appear differently in nearly every document in which it was recorded. The name has been spelled Russell, Russel and others.
Early Notables of the Russel family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was John Russell (died 1437), an English landowner and Justice of the Peace, Speaker of the House of Commons (1423-1424) and in 1432, High Sheriff of Herefordshire in 1417; Sir John Russell, (c.1486-1555), Lord High Steward and Lord Keeper of the privy seal under Henry VIII and Edward VI, created 1st Earl of Bedford in 1550; Thomas Russell (1577-1632), an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1601 and in 1614; Sir William Russell, 1st Baronet, of Wytley (ca. 1602-1669), an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in...
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Russel Ranking
In the United States, the name Russel is the 5,804th most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. [7]
Migration of the Russel family to Ireland
Some of the Russel family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
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Russel migration to the United States +
For many English families, the political and religious disarray that plagued their homeland made the frontiers of the New World an attractive prospect. Thousands migrated, aboard cramped disease-ridden ships. They arrived sick, poor, and hungry, but were welcomed in many cases with far greater opportunity than at home in England. Many of these hardy settlers went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations in which they landed. Among early immigrants bearing the name Russel or a variant listed above were:
Russel Settlers in United States in the 17th Century
Maximilian Russel, who landed in Virginia in 1622 [8]
Francis Russel, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1683 [8]
Gavin Russel, who arrived in New Jersey in 1685 [8]
Peter Russel, who arrived in New Jersey in 1685 [8]
Charles Russel, who arrived in Virginia in 1723 [8]
David Russel, aged 25, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1774 [8]
James Russel, who arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1775 [8]
Elizabeth Russel, who landed in Virginia in 1783 [8]
Stephen Russel, who arrived in New York in 1801 [8]
Frances Russel, aged 40, who arrived in New York, NY in 1803 [8]
Annie Russel, aged 38, who landed in New York, NY in 1803 [8]
John Russel, who landed in Baltimore, Maryland in 1811 [8]
Catherine Russel, who arrived in New Jersey in 1813 [8]
Russel migration to Canada +
Russel Settlers in Canada in the 18th Century
Mr. Cornelia Russel U.E. who settled in New Brunswick c. 1784 [9]
Mrs. Jane Russel U.E. who settled in New Brunswick c. 1784 [9]
Russel migration to Australia +
Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Russel Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Mr. Vincent Russel, English convict who was convicted in London, England for life for stealing sheep, transported aboard the "Asiatic" on 5th June 1819, arriving in New South Wales, Australia [10]
Jonathan Russel, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Abberton" in 1849 [11]
Eliza Russel, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "Stebonheath" in 1849 [12]
Charles Russel, who arrived in Adelaide, Australia aboard the ship "William Hyde" in 1849 [13]
Russel migration to New Zealand +
Emigration to New Zealand followed in the footsteps of the European explorers, such as Captain Cook (1769-70): first came sealers, whalers, missionaries, and traders. By 1838, the British New Zealand Company had begun buying land from the Maori tribes, and selling it to settlers, and, after the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, many British families set out on the arduous six month journey from Britain to Aotearoa to start a new life. Early immigrants include:
Russel Settlers in New Zealand in the 19th Century
Mr. A. Russel, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 9th February 1858 [14]
Mrs. Russel, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 9th February 1858 [14]
Miss Margaret Russel, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 9th February 1858 [14]
Miss Jane Russel, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 9th February 1858 [14]
Mr. John Russel, Scottish settler travelling from Greenock aboard the ship "Robert Henderson" arriving in Port Chalmers, Dunedin, Otago, South Island, New Zealand on 9th February 1858 [14]
Contemporary Notables of the name Russel (post 1700) +
Samuel Russel, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1912 (speaker) [15]
Joseph Russel, American politician, Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, 1875-78 [15]
John W. Russel, American politician, Candidate for New York State Assembly from Kings County 4th District, 1909 [15]
John Russel, American politician, Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives from Bethany, 1839 [15]
Jim Russel, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from California, 2008 [15]
Harry L. Russel, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate for New York State Assembly from Washington County, 1920 [15]
David Russel, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from California, 1972 [15]
Charles E. Russel, American Democratic Party politician, Alternate Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1972 [15]
Andrew Russel (b. 1856), American Republican politician, Illinois State Treasurer, 1909-11, 1915-17 [15]
Alexander L. Russel, American politician, Secretary of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1850-52; Adjutant General of Pennsylvania, 1862-67, 1870-73 [15]
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Historic Events for the Russel family +
HMS Prince of Wales
Mr. Russel, British Ordnance Artificer, who sailed into battle on the HMS Prince of Wales (1941) and survived the sinking [16]
Yorkshire Poll Tax Rolls
High Sheriff
Poll Tax
Filius
First Fleets
The Russel Motto +
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Che sara sara
Motto Translation: What will be will be.
^ Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
^ Worth, R.N., A History of Devonshire London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.G., 1895. Digital
^ Rubincam, Milton. The Old United Empire Loyalists List. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. (Originally published as; United Empire Loyalists. The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada. Rose Publishing Company, 1885.) ISBN 0-8063-0331-X
^ Convict Records Voyages to Australia (Retrieved 14th July 2020). Retrieved from https://convictrecords.com.au/ships/atlas
^ State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) The ABBERTON 1849. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1849Abberton.htm
^ State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) STEBONHEATH 1849. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1849Stebonheath.htm
^ State Records of South Australia. (Retrieved 2010, November 5) WILLIAM HYDE 1849. Retrieved from http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1849WilliamHyde.htm
^ New Zealand Yesteryears Passenger Lists 1800 to 1900 (Retrieved 26th March 2019). Retrieved from http://www.yesteryears.co.nz/shipping/passlist.html
^ The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 18) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
^ HMS Prince of Wales Crew members. (Retrieved 2014, April 9) . Retrieved from http://www.forcez-survivors.org.uk/biographies/listprincecrew.html
Russel (English)


You could see me everywhere today as if it was my daughter's wedding. All arrangements from decoration to food and from band to beauty parlor bookings were in my control because I knew best what she like the most. Today was the wedding of my best friend Shruti. It all happened so quickly that we didn't get a day to celebrate our friendship by remembering childhood days but then I always believe that anything that happens is for our good. Kushal is a nice guy, Shruti's parents approved him in first meeting but they only informed Kushal parents only after my approval. Seeing them happy and Shruti satisfied with all that was happening I have least reason to say no to such a brilliant match. I am proud of myself for two reasons today, first that all functions from sangeet to vidai were liked by all and secondly nobody knows that I was hiding my tears behind a veil of smiling face. My first love, my only love, my childhood love remained incomplete.
Even today when I was leaving my home I didn't notice slight remorse in Karan's eyes for not having me in his life. He was in his usual energy managing all my marriage arrangements. Bhaiya and Papa wouldn't do such arrangements of my choice. He is like that always ready to help. Nobody knows that I loved him from my childhood and always thought he also loved me but he never said anything not even when my parents asked for his approval regarding Kushal. I have found a good life partner in Kushal but I knew and I would lament that my first love, my childhood love remained incomplete.


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I've been thinking about Adam a lot this last week. He died five years ago on the 5th; today he would have been 38 years old. I call the period of time between the 5th and the 10th the Week of Adam (it has not caught on yet), a time to celebrate his life. I've learned a lot from him, both because of his life and through his death, lessons that are valuable because of the pain and suffering that went into them.
This is the rock. I took a picture of it that morning.
We found out that Adam died late Sunday night. There was a concerning news story, and I did some sleuthing, eventually uncovering a name and a number that confirmed our fears. I didn't sleep. My word had crumbled; I was in pieces. Early the next morning I went running, because that's what I do. Regardless of the situation, I run. Not that running holds back tears. I passed this rock that morning, a rock with interesting growths that I'd passed about a hundred times before, promising myself each time that one day I would stop and really look at it. That morning I did; it occurred to me that there's no guarantee of tomorrow. Appreciate the now, live in the moment.
Adam loved the outdoors. He died in the outdoors in a place that's beautiful and peaceful (I've since visited the spot). The most beautiful spots aren't the mansions or the castles, but the surrounding wide, wide world. Not that I would be opposed to visiting a castle. When you're in that nature, breathe it in, love it. He would have loved Lizzy.
Hiking in Moab to Adam's rock, one year after he died.
Adam was that one sibling that got along with everybody. I've since wondered how he could talk literature with me and science with Joseph and then hiking with Bonnie without a blink. Family was important to him. The week before he died, I spent some unexpected, precious afternoon hours with him. A tender mercy. The Lord knew I would need those moments. And the thing is, it wasn't just me. It was all of us; we all had those moments with Adam just before he died.
Adam's always had a special place in his heart for his nieces and nephews.
No matter what was going on in Adam's life, and some of it was tumultuous, he never became bitter, never turned his back on God, never used trials as a crutch to leave his faith behind. He believed it; he knew it. That's a powerful example.
Not all dreams come true, and that's okay. His career path (like mine, now that I come to think of it) was jagged, not a straight line. And when he did all he could do to make a dream come true, and it still remained elusive, he found new dreams. That's an admirable trait.
I had a conversation with Adam the week before he died that was extraordinarily personal, so I won't repeat it, but he told me he believed in me. It made me realize that if he believed in me, then maybe there was something worth believing in, and I should believe in myself. It hasn't always been easy, but it's been worth it.
This harkens back to another conversation I had with him. He told me to start my adventure; it's never too late to do something new or make a change. View it as an adventure instead of as awful, evil change. Your perspective will change.
I'm always learning more from Adam, even if he isn't here. Grief doesn't have to be something negative; it can be filled with love and hope and happiness. I opt for the happiness, because he's never felt "gone." He's just not here. Away for the moment. But it's only a moment.


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Posted on July 29, 2010	by iwrotethistoday
Worked on an exercise from What If? and continued with "Ghost Dad," the scene from that story that's probably at least a novella. I'm calling the whole piece "The Conservator." You can skip ahead to that scene here.
From What If?:
Pull out one of your stories that doesn't feel finished. Have your main character do the following exercises – as if he had his own notebook. For example,maybe you write with a number 2 pencil, but your character prefers to use a Rapidograph [me – what the fuck is that?] Go with the pen. Remember, your character is doing this exercise – not you, the author!
The last story I workshopped is called "Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up." You can read that story here.There's definitely some stuff missing, so I decided to have the narrator, Anthony "Ant" Raduazo, write an email to his father. I feel like I have to mention how annoyed I was at the "your character is doing this, not you!" business. Little too acting exercise-y for me. But maybe I'm contradicting myself.
Hey, Dad,
Thanks for your email. I should be able to come home for the baby shower, but I'm subbing on the following Monday, so I won't be able to stay that long.
Still don't have a sense of whether they're gonna hire me full-time for the next semester, but the principal and the HR people seem to like me. I don't know. At the moment, I don't even know if I have it in me to teach full-time. I mean, I really believe I can make a difference, but it's tough knowing that I'm not the only one with influence over them.
I don't know. I guess today ended up unsettling me a bit. There's this gang of sixth-grade boys, and I'm not using the word "gang" lightly. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were already selling drugs or something. Anyway, I was in charge of the afterschool thing today with another teacher, Jeremy. I think I told you about him – reminds me of Mark a little. Frat boy, ex-bartender, primarily concerned with having a good time. He stepped out to take a piss and a couple seconds later, two of the leaders of the gang came up and stood in the doorway. I think they must've gotten held back a couple years. They're huge and one of them is growing a freaking mustache.
Anyway, I asked them if their parents had signed them up and they said no. So I told them they needed to move on. They kept standing there and I said, "Do you need something?" And they started cackling to themselves, not answering, so I raised my voice this time and asked, "What do you want?" Then one the kids elbowed the other and he said, "I just want someone to suck on my big ol' dick!" And then he starts undoing his zipper. I got up from my desk at the same time Jeremy came back, yelling, "What the hell do you think you're doing? Get the hell outta here before you get your ass kicked!"
And that's what worked for them – threats of violence. And when they have kids, that's the only kind of discipline they'll know. Great. I mean, I don't know what I was gonna do when I got up from my desk. Later, Jeremy said, "They're not the kind of kids you reason with." So do we let those kids just go by the wayside? Ignore them till they're threatening another kid?
Do I sound like I'm getting disillusioned? I think maybe discouraged is a more appropriate word. I just think that if I had a full-time gig, I'd be more sure of my influence. I'd get to know the kids better, actually be a part of their lives, instead of just being the "nice sub." I like being the nice sub, but I know that I could do more as a full-time teacher.
Now my earnestness is nauseating me. I better wrap this up. Send my box of books any time or if you want me to haul them home next weekend, let me know. Is Sheila doing OK? She hasn't been in touch lately and I wanna know how my nephew is doing!
Love to you and Mom,
I think I lost his voice, his tone a lot in the email, but I got at the bad kids a little bit more. Got them doing something specific instead of just being described physically and called bad kids. I guess that's what the call "show, don't tell." Yay?
Most if the class was falling asleep, and I wanted to join them, but Lou-lou kept on reading anyway:
The two soldiers had almost reached the King carrying the package from America. If their plan worked, then the evil King who wanted to make everyone slaves and take all their money, would change his mind and make peace. When they finally found the King, he was surrounded by guards carrying swords and guns and knives and baseball bats and shields. The two soldiers lost all their weapons in the desert, but when the guards came up to them, the soldiers just opened the package. All of a sudden, this made the guards put down their swords and smile. One of them wanted to touch what was inside, but the soldiers wouldn't let him.
The two soldiers marched up to the King who was about to tell the guards to chop off their heads, but then the soldiers opened the package. All of a sudden, the King sat down and smiled and clapped. He called in his most trusted advisor and whispered in his ear. The adivisor walked away bowing and smiling. The King stood up and said, "Free all the slaves! Give everyone a million dollars! Let us live in peace!" The two soldiers returned to America and were elected president and vice-president. World peace lasted forever and ever.
Are you wondering what was in the package?
Well, silly, it was a box of puppies, of course.
When Lou-lou said the end, like a Pavlov's dogs, the rest of the second-graders applauded even though most of them had been too busy scratching their crotches and playing with their hair to pay attention. And then, me, the hairy substitute teacher with the MFA in creative writing from Northwestern who ended up in Troy, Michigan, me, I can't turn off my workshopping mind. Well, Lou-lou, even though you've done a good job of plotting a clear beginning, middle and end, you only tell us how evil the King is. His transformation at the end will be even more effective if you show us through scene (as opposed to summary) how evil he is. This is a solid first draft and I look forward to reading it as it develops.
"Very nice, Lou-lou," I said.
She rocked back and forth on her feet and smiled, but her lips were so chapped that a vertical sliver of blood seeped to the surface. She swayed back to her desk, sucking on her lip and crushing her report against her chest. She had a round belly that stretched out the muzzle of the dog silkscreened on her t-shirt. Today it was a Rottweiler. Yesterday, a bichon-frise. I had been her sub for eight days and she'd worn five different doggie t-shirts. They were all just a little too tight for her eight-year-old body that had already grown tiny boobs, poofy and triangular like the corners of a cushion. She was at least six inches taller that the tallest boy in class, and she stood in a permanent backbend, with her hands on her hips and her butt sticking out: a gymnast at the end of a shitty performance. The school told me they held her back a year because she was unfocused. But, let me take my own advice and show instead of telling.
Once, when I shuffled the class off to the bathroom for a pee break, a boy stole the stuffed animal poodle she kept under her desk all the time. When we got back to the classroom, she let out a scream so wretched that I ran to her hoping there wasn't too much blood. She grabbed at my flabby belly and wept, "She's gone! She's gone!"
The other kids were tense and terrified. I don't think they'd ever seen such naked grief. They watched from their desks, sucking on their t-shirt collars and breathing with their mouths open. Except Josh. He sat next to Lou-lou. His head was down and his hands lay flat on his desk. Ah. The culprit reveals himself in his hidhing I kept one hand on Lou-lou's trembling back and with the other, opened up Josh's desk and pulled out Lou-lou's toy. She threw her body around it, sat at her desk and moaned, "I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry."
She had to be taken to the nurse's office till her dad could pick her up.
In my undergraduate college career, focused on early education, I learned that finding the pariah and deciding in an unspoken manner to "gang up" on one kid was a necessary and forgivable way of bonding for children in grade school. Lou-lou didn't know it, but she was helping all of the other kids with their developmental process.
In school, I loved the theory of education. The idea that we could study kids until we figured out the perfect way to raise and teach them so they would no longer need the Lou-lous of the world aligned itself with my love for school and my heritage of teachers: my mother, my father, my maternal grandmother, my paternal grandfather. Teaching was my calling until I started to teach.
I assisted Mr. Barbu at Kilgour Elementary School in Hamilton County, close to Cincinnati, my last year of undergrad at the U of C. He was a year away from retirement, and I couldn't tell if his red nose was from drinking or from his year-round allergies that had him constantly reaching for a moist, translucent shred of cloth that he kept in his back pocket. He wore black-rimmed glasses with frames he had not changed since he got them in college, or so he told me. His short-sleeved, button down wouldn't button down over his belly. His hairy navel stuck out for all the kids to see.
During my semester review with him, I blabbered on and on about how much the kids had impacted me and that it seemed like the kids had enjoyed my being there with them. They had. Back then I was funny at least in comparison to Mr. Barbu who only cracked a smile when a kid didn't know the answer.
"I think we laughed a lot together," I said, blowing my wad of earnestness all over his face.
He took off his bifocals so he could look me in the eye. "Remember. Whenever they're laughing, they're laughing at you."
I squirmed through the rest of the evaluation and condemned the man as old, bitter and burnt out on the car ride home. But when I looked at myself in the mirror, all of 22 years old, shaving my head already because most of my hair was gone, love handles that no one held onto and bow legs that belonged to a jockey, I realized I was the pariah all the kids bonded over. I gave up the idea of changing the world one kid at a time and got an MFA in creative writing. Writing graduates don't ever actually get paid so I ended up taking sub gigs so I could eat. And maybe somehow make a difference in some kid's life.
When Lou-lou's dad came to pick her up after her freak-out, he stopped by the classroom where I was monitoring the would-be latchkey kids. It was the first time I'd met him, even though I'd seen him gather up Lou-lou in the parking lot and take her away in his Ford truck. He reminded me of a gorilla. He didn't look like he'd stood up straight in years, which might have been the case because he worked as a machinist in the car parts plant. He was wearing the same uniform I always saw him in: Carhartt jeans and one of those beige work jackets that college students like to wear. A Tiger's ball cap over his head. He took it off when he apologized for his daughter, worrying it in his hands the whole time he was inside.
"Sorry 'bout this," he said. "Her and her dogs." Then he covered his bald spot with his hat and apologized again before leaving with Lou-lou who had been talking to her poodle during our conversation. She was the last kid left so I packed up my stuff and went to happy hour to meet up with some of the other subs.
The after-school program was reminiscent of happy hour. The administration set it up because of all the studies they did on latchkey kids and how they ended up being more fearful and insecure than kids who had adult supervision after 3pm. Two teachers monitored each session, but most of the regulars swapped their shifts with subs because they knew we were always looking for extra money.
It was do-nothing money. The rigidity of in-school hours relaxed, the division between grades was erased and the two teachers in charge only had to make sure nobody got beat up. So, groups of guys and groups of girls clumped together, gossiping, telling stories and lies, laughing, while keeping an eye out on the opposite sex to see if any of the opposite sex were keeping an eye in return. A couple times each session, someone would defect to the other side, usually a girl. She would confront them about why they were laughing so hard and they'd all say, "Nothin'," until she pressed them hard enough to tell her. When they did, the information was so gross, probably something about penises or pubic hair, that she'd flap her hands up and down and holler, "Ew. Ew. Ew," and run away to the girls. After this came a few moments of quiet during which the boys stared at the girls' group and waited till she imparted the newly-learned information to the rest of the ladies. Following this was an avalanche of exclamation and outcry.
That can't be true.
gigglegigglegiggle
If it were a real happy hour, the defector girl would finish the night at some strange guy's house with her feet in the air.
When I got to Bailey's, Jeremy, another sub, was sitting with two others, shout-talking over everybody else. He went to a Florida state school on a baseball scholarship and graduated with a degree in Communications and a shoulder that could never take 162 games a season. He was my partner in monitoring the kids' happy hour that day, but it had been a small group so I told him he could leave and get a head start on drinking.
"I stay the fuck away from the girls, though," he was saying when I sat down with my gin and tonic. I had just taken a shot at the bar so I could catch up. "It's not like I don't like them, I do, they're cute as hell, but their parents, forget it, man. They're just itching for someone to come along and molest their daughters so that something interesting actually happens in their stupid little lives. Fuck that, man. I'm not getting dragged through the mud just because I hugged a little girl on her birthday."
"It's not that bad!" This came Carol, older than me and Jeremy, subbing to pay for her Master's in psychology. "They just want to protect their children."
I nodded at Carol and finished half my gin and tonic. I nodded and may have grunted some sort of sound that indicated that I wasn't agreeing with Carol, but could see her point. Then I took care of the rest of my gin and tonic and went to the bar to get us another round.
"I don't need anything," Annabel called after me. She was a tiny, pale, Nordic-looking girl barely out of college who claimed she couldn't hold her liquor. But she only said that so she could go home with Jeremy or whatever other jock sub got her attention and then insist she didn't remember anything the next day.
I ordered a Guinness for Jeremy, a midori sour for Annabel, and the house white for Carol. When I got back to our table, Carol was waving her hands at Jeremy and saying, "You can't condemn them for the rest of their lives for who they are now. They're not even making their own decisions yet. You can't tell who they're gonna be."
Jeremy leaned back in his chair, pulled his hat down lower on his head and said, "Oh, please. Anne Lager is gonna be an emotionally neglected, pill-popping housewife in Grosse Pointe and everybody knows it."
"No, we don't!" Carol said. Her voice was getting more agitated and the diphthongs in her accent even more liquid. "How do you know that?"
"The way she bosses her three little boyfriends around," he said. "Tony Payne, Brandon Dowley, and Chris Doss. They do whatever the fuck she wants and she still cries at least once a week."
I made another grunting sound. Annabel turned to me while sipping on her neon green booze. "I told you I didn't need anymore," she whispered to me, leaning in and patting me on the knee. I lifted the corner of my mouth on the left side and edged away from her slightly. She was cute, but what's the point if she was only going to pretend to not remember fucking me?
In any case, I was planning on leaving after the drink I was working on. I was close to achieving my goal of getting buzzed enough to loosen the day, but not so drunk I couldn't drive – or write. I was also drinking to loosen up myself enough to write. I'm not Hemingway or Dylan Thomas, but alcohol and writing are a time-honored tradition that I feel obligated to uphold.
"A lot can happen between now and Grosse Pointe," Carol said.
"Yeah," Jeremy said. "She could take a turn for the worse and become somebody's bag bride in Flint."
Everyone but Carol laughed, including Annabel, who leaned toward me and said, "What's a bag bride?"
"You all are awful," Carol said.
"I think we're just tired," I said. "I mean, none of us grew up wanting to be substitute teachers." I leaned in toward Carol, which meant I had to lean into Annabel who gave me more of her weight. "I mean, the valedictorian of my high school is delivering pizzas in Jackson while he waits for construction gigs."
Carol opened her mouth, looking as if she was going to say something, but then finished off her wine. I did the same with my gin and tonic, se the glass down on the table and stood up. "I gotta get home."
As I turned around, Annabel swung her arm out to catch hold of my elbow and started blabbering, "Can you take me home? I got drunker than I wanted to and then you bought me that other drink on top of that and you don't need to pick me up in the morning or anything because I can take the bus and just walk here after work tomorrow, I mean, it's kinda your fault with the last drink and -"
"OK, OK," I said, getting her to her feet. I bade goodnight to the other teachers who were looking at their drinks, at the table, at the floor. As Annabel fell into the passenger's seat of my car, I tossed around ideas about who her teachers thought she was going to become. How did she tease boys back then?
We had a few more drinks at my place. Maybe I was hoping I would get so drunk I wouldn't be able to fuck her, but I could. Afterward, she wanted to stay the night, but I had to write and called her a cab because I ended up to buzzed to drive. When she was gone, I lay in bed still naked with my laptop on knees, but I couldn't write, either.
The rest of late winter was pretty much wash, rinse, repeat for me. I ignored writing and subbed whenever they needed because that was the easy money and I was having a positive influence on children or something. But there was this group of sixth-grade boys, all from the remedial class, with precocious mustaches and jeans hanging down way below their Hilfiger boxer shorts, all enormous for their grade because they'd been held back more than once, The kind of kids who terrify the teachers. None of them ever signed up for the after-school program, but they would flock around the classroom, grabbing their dicks and talking about how much pussy they fucked. Jeremy handled this by running them down the hallway and screaming about skull-cracking and ball-breaking. Because of my undergraduate degree, I knew he was going about it all wrong. In cases like those, it was essential to involve the family as soon as possible, the early educators would say, because the biggest obstacle was often the parents' refusal to recognize the gravity of their child's behavior, which would only get worse. So if we can't get the parents to wake up, we just have to get through the year without a knifing and then they're somebody else's problem. As a sub, I had no obligations so if I ever got a call for the slow kids' class, I turned it down.
It rained a lot that spring. During kids' happy hour, they sat at their desks, holding their chins in their palms and looking at the rain wash the windows. Then, out of nothing but boredom, some little boy would smack some little girl upside the head, just to get something to happen for a few minutes. I always let the little girl scream for a while to keep something happening.
On the first day of warm, sunny weather, halfway through May, Jeremy and I were taking care of the afterschool kids. He watched the ones who chose to play outside, the majority of them, and I watched the others, the ones like me who didn't understand what the big deal about nice weather was. They all sat happily clicking away on the school's laptops, keeping up with their social networks, but even I appreciated the warm breeze coming in from the open windows and the sound of children laughing and screaming. I liked how their laughter and their terror sounded the same.
I opened up a story I had been working on and began typing. The words flowed, as they say, and I felt like it was because of the connection I had unwittingly developed with the children. It was good for me to be around them, to charge myself on their raw potential, to put my preconceived notions away again and again day after day. And I couldn't help feeling that this relationship was reciprocal, that I did, after all, manage to have a positive influence on these kids, maybe not in a quantifiable way, maybe not in a way that could be measured for years, maybe not even in a way that most of them would remember, no, probably not. But at that moment, I was content to exist as a seed in the forest of all that would be good in their lives.
Then, I heard whistling. The wolf-kind, the whit-whew kind that construction workers do in old movies. After that, a cacophony of male voices howled: "Ow! Ow! Ow!" I slammed my feet onto the floor and sat erect. If I had been a dog, my ears would have perked up. Finally, I heard, "Take it all off!" and I dashed (Yes, "dash" is the right word to describe what I did.) to the window. I saw the back of Lou-lou's body, wearing an undershirt and her underpants. Those cocksucking fucker sixth-grade hoods were trying to persuade her to take off her bottoms. I shouted, "Lou-lou! Get in here. NOW." One of the boys said, "Oh, shit," and they scattered, hooting and laughing away to safety.
A moment later, Lou-lou came skipping into the holding room still in her underthings. The indoor kids, mostly boys, good kids, but boys, looked up from their screens and stared. I shot over to Lou-lou and whispered, "Honey, where are your clothes?"
"Outside, where I left them," she said, clasping her hands in front of her privates. "Do you want me to go get them?"
"Yes," I said, and then realized that would she would go off skipping again half-naked into the playground. "No. No. I'm gonna take you to the girls' room and I'll go get your clothes. Don't come out till I get back. OK?" I turned to the boys and told the oldest one that he was in charge for a few minutes.
"OK," she said, skipping slowly. "I wish you were our sub more often, I missed you, you were always my favorite, everybody liked, everybody liked you and thought you were cool.Do you remember the time we built the universe out of styrofoam?"
"Thanks, Lou-lou," I said, opening the bathroom door for her. "I'll be right back."
I went outside to the patch of dirt that had served as Lou-lou's stage and retrieved her K-Mart jeans and her t-shirt. It had a blue cartoon dog on it. No particular breed, just the floppy ears and hanging tongue that signify "dog." I felt like a cop returning a girl's clothes after she'd been raped.
After Lou-lou put her clothes back on, we sat outside the girls' bathroom, leaning up against the lockers with our knees hugged to our chests. I didn't say anything. I think there's some child psychology technique that encourages the adult to stay silent so as not to lead the conversation, but really, I just didn't know how the fuck to approach it. Finally, Lou-lou, tapping her feet and looking at her knees, said, "I feel like I did something wrong."
"What do you think you did, Lou-lou?" I asked.
"I don't think I was supposed to take my clothes off in front of those boys," she said. Her eyebrows were smushed together and her eyes were all crinkled up, as if she were understanding her mistake for the first time.
"'Cause you're supposed to keep your private parts private," she said. This was a direct quote from health class. "I forgot."
"That's OK," I said. "Lou-lou, can you tell me why you took off your clothes in front of those boys."
She scrunched her lips together and sat on her hands. "They told me they had a puppy."
I felt like my heart was leaking out of my body and taking my lungs with it. What was I supposed to say? If she's eight and giving it away for a puppy, isn't it already too late to stop her from becoming an eighteen-year-old who gives it away for her tuition? Or her rent? I didn't even know if it was my place to stop her. I wasn't her dad, wasn't even a real teacher, just a sub who usually came in hungover or stoned. Maybe Jeremy was right. Maybe it wasn't too early to condemn these kids for the rest of their lives based on their current behavior. Maybe some little girls were supposed to grow up to be strippers.
I took her to the prinicipal's office to report what happened. The secretary gasped, pulled Lou-lou away from me and said, "I'll handle this from here on. We'll have to get a statement from you tomorrow morning."
On the way back to kids' happy hour, I saw her dad getting out of his truck. I imagined how he would be in the principal's office, taking off his cap, crumpling it in his hands and saying, "Her and her dogs."
"I miss you," I said. "So does Mom."
He held out his hand and patted my cheek with his cigar fingers. It wasn't exactly a touch, more like cold water touching my skin, then instantly evaporating. "Don't worry," he said. "Let's take a walk."
He led me into the bathroom. "This is where I ended up after you arrived." Then he drew back the curtain and opened the window, saying, "Take a look."
I did but I couldn't see anything. I should have been looking at the east side of the neighbor's building, illuminated by the street lamps, but instead it was as if someone had put up a blackboard. "What?"
He peered out the window. "You can't see anything?"
He shook his. "I wonder how long it takes to know all the rules." He turned to the right and to the left as if searching for something. "You must have a lighter on you."
I pulled the elastic of my shorts. "Boxers. No pockets."
Grumbling, he moved past me and opened the linen closet to pulll out a flashlight. Before he closed the door, I caught a glimpse of my old Star Wars sheets. A click came from the flashlight and my dad directed its light toward the open window. "Now do you see?"
I saw. Replacing the neighbor's home and who knew how much of Florida was a shallow cave. The ground and the walls appeared shiny, wet and black, like an oil spill. At the far end of the cave, piled up and stacked like a game of Tetris, were boxes, cardboard boxes, the kind you used to move. Familiar handwriting announced such contents as "shoes," "Brian's," "Dad's books," "kitchen." At the top of the stack, a few rows had been removed, revealing that there was another layer of boxes behind that one. A ladder rested on the ground.
"What the fuck?" I said. I hadn't used that word since I arrived; Dad had always been the parent you could cuss in front of.
My dad sighed. I could feel his breath on the side of my face. It was so cold that ice crystals formed on my cheek. They melted against the heat of my head. I went to wipe away the condensation, but the moisture had already dried up.
"I'm not sure what the fuck," he said. "But no matter what window or door I open, this is where I come out." Then he handed me the flashlight and jumped out the window. "Remember, I don't know what all the rules are."
He took one my hands and led me out into the cave. It was like being held by water, though his grip was firm. The ground underneath me had that feel, too, like water solidified without being frozen. The cave seemed bigger and taller than it had from the other side. I heard my dad behind me, chuckling.
"What?" I said, facing him. I was 16 when I passed my dad in height and then kept growing another 3 inches to 6'1, but in the cave I had to look up to him again, something I'd only done figuratively in 18 years.
He ruffled my hair. "My boy," he said.
I observed my body. From the look of my skinny arms, my hairless legs, the acne on my chest, this must have been me at 11? 12?
"What the fuck?" I said.
"Like I said, I don't know the rules," he told me. "And don't swear. You're too young."
Despite everything, I was happy death hadn't killed his sense of humor.
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Complementary studies: biosphere modelling for dose assessments of radioactive waste repositories.
Already as a result of the highly successful first phase of the international BlOsphere MOdel Validation Study (BIOMOVS) considerable progress had been made in representing features, events and processes (FEPs) relevant to many aspects of biosphere modelling. Nevertheless, at the start of BIOMOVS-II, it was recognised that there was a need to further investigate and develop available tools for representing the biosphere in long-term assessments of radioactive waste disposal. At a practical level, the Complementary Studies working group looked at the way contemporary models were able to perform calculations for a real site given the type of data available in real performance assessments. The use of a well-defined database allowed detailed comparisons of FEPs for transport as well as for the calculation of exposure pathways. Results have indicated not only the common basis in many model descriptions but also where further development and consolidation are required. This paper summarises some of the key findings from the study. The title Complementary Studies was chosen for the working group to indicate that work would complement waste disposal related scenarios from the first phase of BIOMOVS. Within BIOMOVS-II the work of the group also complemented the Reference Biospheres working group.


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Hwandudaedo ("ring-pommel sword") is the modern Korean term for one of earliest original types of Korean sword, appearing  in the  Proto–Three Kingdoms of Korea.
These swords were at first symbols of a ruler's power, but their availability increased in the 5th century, and it became a more widespread symbol of military or political rank. The frequency of finds declines in the 6th century.

The hwandudaedo was a large military sword made for battle, as it had a thick back and sharpened blade. This sword's name was given because of the round shape of the pommel ( 대도把頭). The swords were richly decorated, with inlay work and especially by elaborate pommel (sword) shapes.

Hwandudaedo subtypes are distinguished based on their decoration.  They include  Sohwandudaedo (no decoration on the pommel rings), Samyeophwandudaedo (pommel ring with three opened leaves), Samruhwandudaedo (three pommel rings forming a triangle), Yonghwandudaedo (pommel with dragon),  Bonghwandudaedo (pommel with phoenix), Bonghwangmun (a pattern of a legendary bird), Indongdangchomun,  Samyeopmun, Wondudaedo, Gyududaedo, Samruhwandudaedo, Bangdudaedo,  Duchudaedo.

References

 History and characteristics of Korean Swords by Park Je Gwang – Curator War Memorial of Korea

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Q: How perform Deconvolution (transposed convolution) in Theano/ Keras? I am trying to perform deconvolution or transposed convolution using Theano/ Keras as described in [1].
I have acquired the weights of a given layer by the following code:
W = self[layer].get_weights() # 'layer' is the layer of interest

I have used the following code to deconv the Image by the weights acquired:
X = K.deconv2d(X, theano.tensor.as_tensor_variable(W[0]), self[layer].input_shape)
print X

Where X is the input image of dimension [9,3,32,32]. The output I am getting is as follows:
AbstractConv2d_gradInputs{border_mode='valid', subsample=(1, 1), filter_flip=True, imshp=(None, 3, 32, 32), kshp=(None, None, None, None), filter_dilation=(1, 1)}.0

Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here?

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IDs of Richmond shooting victims released
Lawrence Gadlin, 23, of Berkeley, Gerald Jackson, 34, of Richmond and Tony Albert, 51, of North Richmond all died from their wounds. The fourth shooting victim, who has not been identified, was treated at a hospital and released.
Capt. Steve Warne of the Sheriffs Investigations Unit says the shooting occurred sometime after 9 p.m. on the 1700 block of Truman Street. He said the four men were working on a car in front of a house when a red minivan pulled up. Witnesses say two men were seen in the vehicle.
Warne says multiple shots were fired. The victims were shot numerous times. One witness told ABC7, he heard at least 25 shots.
Police say the incident may be related to a prior shooting earlier in the day. No one was injured in that case. Warne says this may be gang related retaliation.
He says the minivan has been located but would not disclose where.
The last murder in North Richmond was March 25.


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Subject: The 20-Year Cycle or: The Grand Unified Theory of The 2010s 90s Revival
Written By: RepoOne on 08/06/10 at 9:03 am
I posted this giant wall of text on Facebook originally, but I feel that it might interest some people here.
It is commonly stated that pop culture recycles itself every twenty years. I always thought that was a stupid statement and a vast oversimplification of a rather complex anthropological topic. Well, recently, I've been starting to think that I was wrong. There are influences from the 80s in 2000s culture. It appears that a ton of pop culture from the 90s is going to return this decade, and there is a lot of evidence to support this claim.
First off, I'll detail the 80s in 00s culture. Bright colors, electropop, skinny jeans, hair metal, colored jeans, crazy hair, shutter shades, and loads of makeup have come back this past decade. I hate to give them credit for anything, but "scene kids" show this the most, and are arguably the most 80s subculture of the 2000s. The only thing about it is that the style mixed with modern emo and rap culture, modifying it some. However, one simply has to look at the description of a "scene kid" to see the 80s influence: big hair, bright colors, shutter shades or giant sunglasses, and tight jeans. Their music even has many 80s similarities. Synth- and electro-pop, which were popular in the 1980s with musical artists such as Gary Numan, The Buggles, Thomas Dolby, The Eurythmics, a-ha, and Tears for Fears has returned (albeit with heavy modern emo and rap influence) in bands such as Owl City, 3Oh!3, Ke$ha, Hot Chip, and MGMT.
It appears that much of the pop-culture of the 90s is about to return in the 2010s, especially in music. This is partially due to the direction modern popular music is taking, but primarily due to the massive amount of reunions of bands that topped the charts in the 1990s. Here is a list of a few, categorized by genre:
Eiffel 65
It seems that Grunge and Eurodance are going to make especially strong comebacks, with many of the genre-defining groups reappearing. Many modern groups are going for a 90s sound as well, such as Katy Perry with her upcoming album, which she described by saying "It's roller-skating! It's '90s! It's Ace of Base! It's Cyndi Lauper! It's like all these colors and more". After listening to her newest single "California Gurls", it sounds like she isn't lying. The song is incredibly upbeat and sounds somewhat reminiscent of late-90s Eurodance.
Some 90s groups, such as R.E.M., who have not released albums in a long time, are also writing new material this year.TV is also starting to go look back to the 90s for show ideas and revivals. Futurama was recently revived by Comedy Central, and it is said that Beavis and Butthead is going to be brought back. Even a remake of the terrible show 90210 is currently on TV.
90s-style video games are also being made again. Perfect Dark was just released on the Xbox Virtual Console. A new Goldeneye game is being made for the Nintendo Wii. The next Sonic game (Sonic 4) is said to "pick up right where Sonic 3 left off" and it "feels like the old Sonic games". Introversion Software is making a game that is a successor to Uplink, which was a 90s-style game (2D, PC-only, etc) released in 2001 (some even argue that the 90s did not culturally end until 2002 or 2003).
Other things are starting to change, as well. Celebrities are starting to wear flannel, big shoes, darker colors, and other "90s-style" clothing. This means that it is only a matter of time before the average person starts doing this. Another return to the 90s might be seen in the news that "Companies brace as the made-in-China era comes to a close"; while most products in the 90s were made in China, it was nowhere near as prevalent as it is today.
Also, even though there is little evidence of this occurring, I would love to see a return to the design patterns of the 90s: bright, deep colors put over dark colors and angular, minimalist (frequently text-based) design. I'm sick of all of this Apple-inspired grey-on-white, reflective, "artsy", curved crap. I don't want my computer to be a work of art, I want it to be a big box. When I look at a company's logo, I don't want to be overwhelmed with bright round shapes and circles. When I'm surfing a website, I want to see light-on-dark, not dark-on-white. I want to see EDGES on some things.
In conclusion, I'm starting to see how the "20 year cycle" may not be an incorrect idea after all. A ton of bands from the 90s are starting to come back and modern bands are going for "that 90s sound". TV shows are being brought back, and modern games are being made that bear a strong resemblence to 90s games. I'm just hoping that my prediction that the 2010s will be more like the 90s than the 2000s is true, for the 2000s generally sucked.
So, what do you think of these observations?
Subject: Re: The 20-Year Cycle or: The Grand Unified Theory of The 2010s 90s Revival
Written By: Emman on 08/06/10 at 10:12 am
Some of the 90's eurodance stlye is coming back with artist like Lady Gaga, I think there might be very euro sound in pop music this decade.
Written By: Starde on 08/06/10 at 12:35 pm
Yes, the 2010s will be the 90's nostalgia decade and I liked the observations you pointed out. I'm already starting to see some of that 90's nostalgia creeping in already in terms of music. Already, I'm hearing a few more songs with people sampling popular 90's songs within the past year. Here are some examples I've heard:
Ex. #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-26hsZqwveA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthEnZz67wk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdI6jJkAZU
And I heard another song recently sampling this, but I can't remember the name right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i0XGs39BrQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edNViP4nTJ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emM_juVdzds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7VLvjkyQ30
And there's probably more out there. In the early 2010s, I think we'll see a little bit of 90's nostalgia coming in, but we won't see the full effects 'til around the mid 2010s.
Written By: RepoOne on 08/06/10 at 7:20 pm
I've heard this argument before, but I just don't hear the similarities between Lady Gaga and Eurodance. Her music isn't upbeat enough, and her style is a bit too weird. 90s Eurodance artists seemed content to just make happy bubblegum music, and their styles reflected that.
Written By: robby76 on 08/06/10 at 8:07 pm
Lady Gaga's "Eh Eh" sounds very 90s. Almost like an Ace of Base song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yFMHAXIZY
Written By: Cory! on 08/06/10 at 8:21 pm
Ehhh I dunno I haven't seen enough proof lately that the 90's are making their comeback.
I mean yeahh there are a few of those little things you've pointed out. I mean the bands reforming/making
new music, sure. But are people actually listening to them and are they successful like they used to be? As for the video games has that ever really stopped? The 80's just recently made a huge comeback (to the mainstream not just to the scene kids) over the last few years (08-now) and I don't really see it going away anytime soon. :P
Written By: Starde on 08/06/10 at 9:21 pm
I also thought the same. Originally, I thought it had this 80's sound to it, but the more I thought about it, it did sound more Ace of Base-y.
Written By: JTCool on 08/07/10 at 12:30 pm
While I think the 2000s did have some 80s things become popular again. I think the 2010s will have a lot more 80s things coming back into style but with some 90's things as well. The early 2000s to me had a very retro 70s feel to them in terms of some of the music and clothes, but by the mid-2000s that was kinda gone. While I think there are a lot of songs now that have a 90's feel, there's equally as much that have the 80's synth-pop feel to them.
I don't think this new revival is just 90's but a lot of 80s as well. I was just researching some of the things that were popular in the 1990's, and in the late 1990's alot of 60's styles were in style along with 70's style coming in in the early 2000s.
Written By: joeman on 08/07/10 at 12:37 pm
Also, there is a "mini retro fad" that appears 40 years from the past. The 50's nostalgia wasn't totally gone until the 2000s, as there was a few movies like PleasantVille that is set in the 50s. The 60s was kind of popular in 2000s, but I think it would fade away with a 70s comeback. However, those retro-fads of 40 years are far in between, at least compared to the 20 year cycle fads.
Written By: Cory! on 08/07/10 at 12:40 pm
There we go :) Thats what I think as well.
Written By: JTCool on 08/07/10 at 1:02 pm
Yeah I can kinda see that too. And in the 1980s the 50s were the cool retro thing, so when/if there's a big 80s revival, other styles(like the 50's) from different decades become popular again too because they were also popular in the 80s. I don't know if that makes sense but hopefully it did :)
Subject: Re: The 20-Year Cycle or: The Grand Unified Theory of The 2010s 90s Revival.
Written By: davedude228 on 08/07/10 at 5:47 pm
I totally agree with the whole history repeating itself thing. I would like to see movies like What they did in 1993 with Dayzed and Confused where it is set in the 1976, as well as other films that are set in that decade when the 1970s was making a comeback. not in this decade, we should start seeing alot of films that are set in the 90s. Then there will be something for the people that were comming of age during that time to enjoy. If anyone hears or know of anything about to come out , let me know cuz I wanna see it.:)
And as far as styles. who ever though that the afro would ever return in the 00s? I remember how corny they looked. I see them all the time. Now heres another possibility..... I would not have any doubt in my mind that in some kind of form, the Mullet would become popular again. Think about it. of course we may not see it until later on in the decade. but as the saying goes: history repeats itself. OOOWWWWW!
Haha I actually have seen some people with mullets, it's scary! I think it looks disgusting but if they can handle dealing with all the strange looks they'll be getting and having that thing on the back of their head than more power to them.
Written By: 2015 on 08/07/10 at 11:52 pm
i hope not. to me, it would almost be like a 30-year span of 90s-ness. the 90s influence on the 00s (direct influence) never died until well, not even now. i think the 10's will be a mix of 80s and early 90s style.
Written By: Todd Pettingzoo on 08/08/10 at 5:50 am
Despite some 80's things coming back, the 2000s reminded me more of the 70's in spirit. I think someone on this forum once said, the 90's were like the 60's in spirit. Maybe it's like a 30 year pattern, for the spirit of a decade to come back.
Written By: yelimsexa on 08/11/10 at 7:36 am
Whatever happened to the Gay Nineties?
Written By: bchris02 on 08/15/10 at 6:13 pm
Would agree. The '70s were very turbulent with a seemingly endless war, high oil prices, a bad economy, government scandals, and Jimmy Carter. The '00s were strikingly similar, except replace Jimmy Carter with Barack Obama.
Barack Obama? He was only in office for one year (2009) of the 00s? Hardly enough time to say his adminstration defined a large part of politics for the whole 2000s decade. Bush's politics however were a big part of the decade.
Written By: Emman on 08/15/10 at 9:52 pm
I agree, couldn't have said it better myself ;).
Economy wasn't bad until late 2007. Before then, we were still living off the economy boom. I do agree with government scandals, being a Floridian myself with a governer being Jeb Bush at the time.
Written By: 2015 on 08/19/10 at 10:35 am
I see more of an 80s revival than anything. The 80s never really fully came back until about 2009, because the back lash was still too strong. I see people wearing neon colors everywhere - before, I thought the 80s revival was just something people talked about, people still looked late 90s until like 2006 for the most part. But now, I really see 80s back, though with a 2010's twist - teal and pink shirts, headbands, and crisp plaid everywhere.
Yeah, the 80's had a huge 50's revival too(mainly the early 80's), like the greaser look came back. 20-30 years seems to be the time it takes for a past decade's pop culture nostalgia to kick in full gear. Alot of rock music was still tied to the 90's for most of the 00's too besides emo, hip hop/urban culture defined the 00's though. The dance/electropop music and fashion so popular now is more "agreeable" with elements of the 80's, unlike the 90s-like post-grunge or the very 00's crunk/dirty south rap.
Even though I think more 80s thing are starting to become popular now. I have noticed on I-tunes radio that they are slowly adding more 90s stations that just play music from the decade.
Written By: Superflykid2008 on 09/06/10 at 3:51 am
I agree with everyone else here. The majority of the 00s was kinda a mix between the 70s and the 90s. For instance, ripped jeans and the whole grunge look was popular for a lot of the 00s. Skinny jeans and stuff weren't really popular for kids until around 09, unless you were emo. And electropop never really overtook the airways until late 08. I think Lady Gaga came out in November of 2008, so more so 2009 is when the 80s came in full force. I think the 80s retro thing is gonna be here for a while. Plus you have 80s electropop artist like La Roux that came out this year, in 2010...
I disagree. In my opinion, the true '90s were gone by 1999 and the cultural '00s had begun. Think about it, most of the cultural aspects associated with the '90s had changed radically by 1999. Grunge was dead, eurodance was on life support, hip-hop and urban pop was breaking into the mainstream in ways it hadn't previously, baggy clothes had made way for a clean cut preppy look, the popular mid '90s hairstyles for both men and women were no more, I could go on and on. You could say the '00s had a heavy influence from 1999, but NOT the rest of the '90s decade.
Written By: tv on 09/09/10 at 3:01 pm
I thought the 80's revival lasted from about 2002 till about mid 2007 and just died after that.
I think I agree with you the 90's were gone by mid 1999(the 1992/1993-1996, 1997-1998 style 90's)
I don't remember hip-hop dominating until 2003 and urban pop either until like 2004 maybe.
No the ecomomy was good till like 2008 maybe than it went in the toilet!
Written By: Todd Pettingzoo on 09/09/10 at 9:16 pm
Maybe this past decade is to the late 90's, what the 70's were to the late 60's. Up until disco, around 1976, weren't the 70's very similar to the late 60's?


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Wenger insists he'll fight to keep this Arsenal star, after player's exit comments
By Admin On October 27, 2016 In 2016-2017 Season, Arsenal News & Comment, Arsenal Transfer News No Comments
Arsene Wenger has revealed he would do whatever needs to be done to keep Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain at the club, according to a report in ESPN.
Chamberlain's future has been up in the air since the end of last season. He was linked with a move to other clubs in the summer, having struggled to nail down a spot in our starting xi over the years but somehow managed to stay with us.
The winger also revealed on Sunday that he would reconsider his future at the end of this season should he not get enough playing time this year but Wenger says he would fight to keep the midfielder at the club.
Wenger says he wants the former Southampton man to remain with us for a long time and suggested he would get the chance to impress during the course of the season.
"I can understand, yes.
"On the other hand, when you buy a young player at 17 years of age and you spend a lot of money, you would like him to stay at the club.
"I think his place is here. We like him, I personally rate him as a player and I hope that he will show that he can have a stable position in the team until the end of the season."
Wenger also compared Chamberlain to Theo Walcott who has become a top player for us having struggled last season like Chamberlain.
"He is similar to Walcott this season. He has not been rewarded yet, but he is in a similar position because he has worked really hard," he added.
Wenger's recent comments are contrary to reports that have been circulating in the last few weeks. It was claimed that Wenger had given up on the midfielder, with some reports even claiming this season is his last chance to impress the boss but Wenger's recent comments shows he still has faith in the winger which should be a huge boost for him.


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— потенциально опасный околоземный двойной астероид. Астероид был открыт 27 января 2020 года в результате работы телескопов автоматической системы  в обсерватории Мауна-Лоа на Гавайях, США.

 был идентифицирован группой астрономов, которые были в основном вовлечены в проект ATLAS: Ларри Денно, Джона Тонри, Арен Хайнце и Генри Вейланда.

При открытии астероид получил временное имя A10jUnf. После подтверждения объекта, ему было присвоено предварительное обозначение .

Орбита и сближения с Землёй

Орбита астероида сильно вытянута и простирается от 0,76 а.е. до 2,44 а.е. Эксцентриситет орбиты равен 0,757. Астероид в своём движении может быть ближе к Солнцу, чем Венера и дальше, чем Марс. Формально он классифицируется как астероид, принадлежащий к группе околоземных астероидов Аполлона.

Орбита имеет достаточно большой наклон к плоскости эклиптики — 40°.

Орбита астероида пересекает орбиту Земли. Минимальное расстояние астероида с Землёй может составлять приблизительно 0,002 а.е. (0,30 млн км). Такое сближение позволяет считать астероид потенциально опасным, но в течение как минимум 200 лет таких проходов не будет. Астероид имеет индекс опасности по туринской шкале 0, то есть неопасен.

3 февраля 2020 года в 18:56 UTC,  прошёл на расстоянии 0,02915 а.е. (4,36 млн км) от Земли. Астероид приближался к Земле со скоростью около 90 000 км/ч, а его видимый блеск достиг максимума 15,7 звёздной величины. Следующие два сближения с Землёй произойдут в феврале 2022 и 2024 года на расстояния 0,18 а.е. и 0,34 а.е. соответственно.

Сближения

Физические характеристики
Благодаря сближению удалось провести радиолокационные наблюдения. Для обсерватории Аресибо в Пуэрто-Рико этот объект стал первым наблюдаемым после прекращения работы после землетрясений в декабре 2019 года. По наблюдениям удалось измерить размер, форму и период вращения астероида, а также был обнаружен небольшой спутник.

Астероид имеет почти круглую форму и диаметр порядка 165 метров. Скорость вращения точно не установлена, но получен верхний предел периода — 2,8 часа.

Спутник
Спутник был обнаружен 4 февраля 2020 года Луизой Ф. Замбрано-Мари в обсерватории Аресибо.

Согласно номенклатурными правилами спутник получил предварительное обозначение S/2020  1.

Расстояние между спутником и астероидом оценивается примерно в 360 м, что только в 4 раза больше диаметра астероида. Период обращения спутника составляет около 45—50 часов, и такой же период вращения вокруг оси.

Вращение спутника синхронизировано. Так как есть неопределённость в измерениях, есть ещё один возможный орбитальный период в 15—16 часов. Средний диаметр спутника не меньше 7 метров.

См. также
 Список астероидов, пересекающих орбиту Земли
 Классификации малых планет
 Список астероидов, пересекающих орбиту Венеры
 Список астероидов, пересекающих орбиту Марса

Примечания

Ссылки

Астероиды, пересекающие орбиту Земли
Астероиды, пересекающие орбиту Марса
Аполлоны (астероиды)
Двойные астероиды
Астероиды диаметром менее 2 км
Астероиды, открытые в 2020 году


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Az alábbi szócikk a Rejtélyek városkája című animációs sorozat epizódjait sorolja fel.

Évados áttekintés

Epizódok

1. évad (2012-2013)

2. évad (2014-2016)

Rövidfilmek

Évados áttekintés

Bevezetés a megmagyarázatlan dolgokba (Dipper's Guide to the Unexplained)

Mabel bevezetője (Mabel's Guide to Life)

Soos megjavítja (Fixin' It with Soos)

TV rövidfilmek (TV Shorts)

Mabel albuma (Mabel's Scrapbook)

Rejtélyek városkája: Rejtély epizód (Gravity Falls: Between the Pines)
A sorozatból készült egy 23 perces különkiadás is, melyben Alex Hirsch, a sorozat alkotója beszélt a műsor kulisszatitkairól és annak munkálatairól. E szegmens 2016. február 8-án jelent meg, később pedig a magyar Disney Csatorna is leadta július 23-ai premierrel.

Jegyzetek

Televíziós sorozatok epizódlistái


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