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St. Mary girls basketball preview: Snowbirds hope strong defense leads to efficient offense
St. Mary girls basketball preview
Alec Brzezinski
abrzezinski@petoskeynews.com
GAYLORD — Former Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant famously said: "Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships." The Gaylord St. Mary girls basketball team might live by that motto this winter.
Although tickets likely won't be sold either way, due to COVID-19 concerns, St. Mary expects to feature a lock-down defense this season as they look to climb above Bellaire for a Ski Valley Conference title.
While scoring points is always a must in basketball, St. Mary head coach Pat Schultz believes his team's defense could be their best offense.
"I'm excited and a little bit nervous just because there is so much to do" Schultz said, regarding the start of the season. "We are in pre-season shape and we get one shot for a conference title this season, so we don't have a lot of room for mistakes. I feel a lot more pressure than (I have) in my entire coaching career. I feel we have so much to teach in a short period of time."
Although the Snowbirds are still a young team, they bring back four starters from last year's squad.
"Theoretically we could benefit from playing teams just once," Schultz said. "I'm more comfortable about what we have returning defensively than offensively."
Senior guard Kinzie Jeffers returns to lead the backcourt. Jeffers was among the team leader in points, assists, rebounds and steals last season. She will again be counted on to produce points. Jeffers mostly played point guard last winter, but that might change this season.
"This year Kinzie will probably carry a lot of the scoring load," Schultz said. "She will draw a lot of attention this year. To get her to score might mean moving her off the ball, which means I might have a new point guard, who will be younger.
"We have to have someone who can handle pressure, so Kinzie doesn't have to handle the ball."
The Snowbirds feature three sophomores and two juniors on the roster this season. Junior Bailey Murrell, sophomore Ava Schultz and sophomore Sydney Grusczynski could all carve out very big roles. Sydney might be the player called on to take recent graduate Megan Grusczynski's place in the starting lineup.
"We were balanced scoring the ball last year, so this year offense will be a question mark," Schultz said. "We are going to try and emphasize transition. That's new stuff, which takes up a lot of practice time.
"Our defense will probably dictate how far we go (in the postseason) and how well we do."
Schultz is another player who steps into a larger role on offense. Although St. Mary is not an overly tall team, Schultz's height in the paint creates some mismatches against conference opponents.
"For a freshman on varsity, I was extremely happy with the way Ava played last year," Schultz said. "She's the kind of player who has a nice mid-range jumper, but she doesn't create her own shot just yet. She's a really good spot-up shooter, so we're looking to run some action plays for her to get some looks."
With games flying fast and furious once cleared to begin, depth and stamina will be key aspects to the basketball season. Schultz is excited about his team's overall talent.
"I'm hoping to do a better job managing substitutions this year," Schultz said. "We want fresher legs to help the overall chemistry and conditioning of the team. We have a deep bench, and it will be a lot easier this year to throw players in and still have high expectations."
St. Mary enters the season again among the favorites for a conference title. Bellaire boats a strong team as they look to defend their title, and Johannesburg-Lewiston, again fully healthy, are also expected contenders. But the Snowbirds, who also have a tough non-conference slate of games, could be right there among the teams fighting for a chance to hoist the conference trophy.
"I'm hoping that we have an advantage as a defensive squad," Schultz said. "We are bringing back a lot of good players. And a lot of these payers understand what we're trying to do defensively, which I hope gives us an advantage in the conference.
"We scheduled a really tough non-conference slate. I want us to be challenged so that when we hit our conference schedule we are prepared and battle-tested."


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New College Rankings Look at Your Return on Investment
Most students and their families quickly dive into rankings when searching for the "best colleges and universities."
However, Georgetown University, itself on many of those "best college" lists, has veered from rankings based on grade-point averages, admission rates and SAT scores, and come up with a new metric, ranking institutions of higher education based on the financial return students receive from their investment in the school.
Traditional private, four-year schools that offer bachelor's degrees have the highest returns on investment not just immediately after graduation, but 40 years after enrollment, Georgetown's report on the ranking says.
"For example, Babson College, a private college in Massachusetts, ranks 304th in net present value at the 10-year horizon, but ranks seventh at the 40-year horizon," Georgetown's University Center on Education and the Workforce said. Its detailed project included 4,500 schools that offer degrees and certificates.
Tops on the list for return on investment over 40 years was Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, a private nonprofit institution that costs about $50,000 per year. It was calculated to return $385,000 at 10 years, $1.3 million at 20 years, and $2.72 million on that investment to the graduate after 40 years.
By comparison, the private, nonprofit, four-year Stanford University in California that ranked No. 5 on the Georgetown list would return $307,000 in 10 years, $1.013 million in 20 years; and $2.068 million in 40. Tuition and fees are about the same as Albany College of Pharmacy.
Those calculations are published prices and do not include financial aid discounts.
"Everyone is asking, 'Is college worth it?' and we set out to try to find an answer," said Anthony P. Carnevale, lead author and CEW director in a statement. "Not only will it help students, but this kind of information on the costs and benefits of higher education holds institutions more accountable."
Carnevale served for a decade as vice president for public leadership at the Educational Testing Service, the largest private nonprofit testing service, which administers the SAT and other tests that are required or highly recommended for admission into higher-education programs.
Data from some obvious affordable schools CEW could not gain access to include the U.S. service academies. Those schools do not collect tuition and fees, and students are given stipends to pay for expenses like dry cleaning, barbers and laundry. Admission and graduation is exchanged for service in the U.S. military after graduation.
And who's who in Georgetown's Top 20? Some names you don't typically see in the popular annual rankings and careers that you won't find on many other lists. (Hint: Get your sea legs on.)
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (N.Y.)
St. Louis College of Pharmacy (Mo.)
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Mass.)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mass.)
Stanford University (Calif.)
Maine Maritime Academy (Maine)
Babson College (Mass.)
Harvard University (Mass.)
Georgetown University (D.C.)
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (N.Y.)
University of the Sciences (Pa.)
St Paul's School of Nursing-Queens (N.Y.)
Massachusetts Maritime Academy (Mass.)
Harvey Mudd College (Calif.)
Stevens Institute of Technology (N.J.)
University of Pennsylvania (Pa.)
California State University Maritime Academy (Calif.)
California Institute of Technology (Calif.)
Colorado School of Mines (Colo.)
Bentley University (Mass.)
No, that's not a typo, you are reading correctly: Pharmacy and maritime schools offer excellent return on investment along with notable STEM colleges and universities.
For-profit and certificate schools scored the lowest return on investment, and include beauty, rabbinical, ethnic and arts schools.
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We have a PHP web page that people are submitting before it is complete because they want to enter a new line in a multiline input control.
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Americans' net worth rebounds from recession
Economists expect the regained wealth to contribute further to the overall economic recovery.
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – It took 5½ years.
Surging stock prices and steady home-price increases have finally allowed Americans to regain the $16 trillion in wealth they lost to the Great Recession. The gains are helping support the economy and could lead to further spending and growth.
Home equity is the largest source of wealth for most middle-income Americans, but home values remain about 30 percent below their peak. The Associated Press
Household wealth amounted to $66.1 trillion at the end of 2012, the Federal Reserve said Thursday. That was $1.2 trillion more than three months earlier and 98 percent of the pre-recession peak.
Further increases in stock and home prices this year mean that Americans' net worth has since topped the pre-recession peak of $67.4 trillion, private economists say. Wealth had bottomed at $51.4 trillion in early 2009.
"It's all but certain that we surpassed that peak in the first quarter," said Aaron Smith, senior economist at Moody's Analytics.
Household wealth, or net worth, reflects the value of assets such as homes, stocks and bank accounts minus debts like mortgages and credit cards.
National home prices have extended their gains this year. And the Standard & Poor's 500 index, a broad gauge of the stock market, has surged 8 percent since Jan. 1.
Some economists caution that the recovered wealth might spur less consumer spending than it did before the recession. Dana Saporta, an economist at Credit Suisse, notes that the value of home equity Americans are cashing out has fallen 90 percent in six years.
And since the housing bust, when home values fell broadly for the first time in decades, many homeowners are skeptical that higher prices will last, Saporta said. They won't necessarily spend more as a result.
The rebound in wealth has benefited mostly wealthier Americans. The Dow Jones industrial average has just set a record high, and roughly 80 percent of stocks are held by the richest 10 percent of households.
And for the past five years, middle-class Americans have sold stocks and missed out on much of the rebound. In the October-December quarter, Americans dumped nearly $466 billion in stocks and bought $229 billion in bonds, the Fed's report showed.
For most middle-class Americans, home equity is their largest source of wealth. National home values remain about 30 percent below their peak.
Homes accounted for two-thirds of middle-class assets before the recession, estimates economist Edward Wolff of New York University. Among all U.S. households, they accounted for only one-third of assets.
Still, economists expect the regained wealth to contribute further to the economic recovery.
"It should boost consumption, because as people feel wealthier they tend to spend more," Saporta said. "It doesn't necessarily mean that households will go on a spending spree."
Carl Riccadonna, an economist at Deutsche Bank, is a bit more optimistic. He thinks higher home values and some easing of credit requirements by banks will lead Americans to cash out more of their home equity.
Riccadonna forecasts that the increase in home prices alone could boost consumer spending this year by roughly $110 billion — nearly offsetting the $120 billion cost of the Social Security tax increase.
The Fed report also showed that Americans are increasingly taking on more debt, enabling them to spend more. In the October-December quarter, household debt rose 2.4 percent. It was the sharpest gain in nearly five years.
And it marked a shift from when the recession ended in June 2009, after which many households focused on repaying debt rather than borrowing. Economists increasingly think that process, known as "deleveraging," is ending.
"The drag from deleveraging is now a thing of the past," Smith said. "Household credit is once again supporting growth."
Smith noted that the two key trends in the Fed report — higher wealth and more consumer borrowing — are likely enabling people to spend more at a critical time: Social Security taxes increased this year for most workers. Someone earning $50,000 has about $1,000 less to spend in 2013. A household with two high-paid workers has up to $4,500 less.
And gas prices have risen sharply. The average price for a gallon is $3.72, roughly 44 cents more than when the year began.
"The combination of what we're seeing in terms of wealth increases and higher household borrowing explains why spending has not fallen more in the face of higher taxes and gasoline prices," Smith said.
Household finances are still improving, even with the increase in borrowing. Total household debt amounted to about 100 percent of after-tax income in the October-December quarter, down from 126 percent in 2007.


Ordered 2 weatherproof motorcycle 12v power sockets, arrived today.
2. Also saw that for the diff install, put the bottom 2 bolts in first then use a rope tourniquet clamp to help pull the top holes into alignment for the top bolt.
Update from Jon in Denver, "Arrival date for the ship in Houston is April 7 (Sunday). Kits should arrive in Denver on the 9th or 10th (Tues or Wed)".
Went to Ford dealership in Reno, bought the gasket sealant to attach new sump, and back ordered the sealant remover. Ford told me they don't do a good job with special tools like the flywheel lock & to try elsewhere. I found a 3rd party on internet – but price is $162 – do I really need that or can I hold the crank/flywheel turning by some other means. We'll see when I try to torque up the new flywheel.
It would be nice to know what engine add-on parts come in the kit.
• I am not sure what of the EGR/Air valve/etc (emission control parts) are needed. None are needed.
• Engine coolant plumbing diagram. I created one, later in the blog and updated again when I made changes.
• Gasket for valve/camshaft cover – re-usable Not actually – I bought one from Napa.
• Crankcase vent oil separator – no (with crate engine) I bought one from theFord dealer.
• Coolant pump – no I re-used the water pump that came with the engine.
• Air valve & bracket – the EGR valve is not used and a blocking plate is supplied with the kit.
• Spark plugs – no I bought from Napa.
Oh dear, here goes the Speedo…..


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Q: An optimization problem involving matrix This is a problem derived from this problem, and first thanks to everyone who replies in that answer.
Consider $n\in N_+$ and a vector of length $m$: $a=[a_1,...,a_m]^T$, where $a_i\neq a_j, \forall 1\leq i<j\leq m$, and assume $m>n$. And consider the matrix $A\in R^{m\times m}$ and $[A]_{ij}=(a_i−a_j)^n$. My simulation implies that the rank of $A$ is $n+1$. In 1 there is a proof verifying that the rank of $A$ is at most $n+1$. But the guess that the rank equals $n+1$ requires further verification.
Another simulation result is that when $n=2$, $A$ seems to be semi-definite, but I still cannot give a proof.
Finally, I am considering an optimization problem for $n=2$ as follows:
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Q: Split string for SMS with GSM-7 and UCS-2 I wanted to figure out how I can take a string that may or may not contain unicode such as emoji and split it properly into "parts" that can be sent over SMS. I work with multiple different SMS API's and can't rely on all of them to concatenate the same (or properly), so I'd rather take the responsibility for splitting messages myself. In addition, I'm wanting to implement some sort of word-wrap so that when messages are forcibly split, I don't cut a word in half- but rather push it to the next SMS.
From my understanding, SMS is limited to 160 characters, or 153 in the case of concatenation, but that is strictly with GSM-7's 7-bit characters, and adding unicode characters in from UCS-2 makes the character limit drop significantly because of the UCS-2 encoded characters eating up more bytes. It seems that counting characters is therefore unreliable and instead I need to somehow split on bytes without ruining the message.
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Accessing expertise
'Tragedy can happen to anyone': how we kept business afloat in tough times
From the death of family members to serious illness, resilient entrepreneurs explain why it pays to prepare for adversity
Ellen Manning
Tue 14 Feb 2017 02.15 EST Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2017 12.51 EST
Keeping your cashflow under careful control can help alleviate stress in times of difficulty. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
In 2012, entrepreneur Sue Rizzello found herself blindsided by a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, a disease for which symptoms are often overlooked.
Rizzello survived thanks to a radical treatment in the form of a Petroc trial. She entered remission in January 2013, but lamented the harm her illness caused to her PR company, Potion.
Although she had taken little time off and worked from her hospital bed, the side-effects of chemotherapy made work and keeping up with clients difficult.
Sue Rizzello. Photograph: Lily Glover Photography
"I became ill remarkably fast and it pulled the rug from under the business," she says. "I had no key man insurance [life insurance on the key person in a business], no senior person in the firm who could step up, so when I entered chemotherapy almost [as soon as I was diagnosed] I had to effectively virtualise the company, losing the offices and moving everyone to freelance.
"My accountant had been warning me for years that I ought to have key man insurance in place but the problem is we tend to think we are immortal."
Rizzello, who has since dissolved Potion and set up a new business called Remedy Services, has learned several lessons from the loss of her first business. "Now I have better plans in place for, 'What if'," she says. These include keeping outgoings as low as possible and making sure large bills don't arrive at inconvenient times. Rizzello only invests in short-term software deals and has negotiated a fixed monthly price for business accounting. When she needs extra staff, she uses freelancers.
She adds: "I save money in advance for any foreseeable business expense, including VAT and PAYE costs, so I reduce the risks if a bad month or quarter comes. I can't effectively mitigate against the possibility of a longer term illness any more, I'm not yet very insurable as I haven't survived five years [since entering remission] yet. But I'm trying to make sure my domestic finances stay in decent shape, just in case."
For anyone facing a serious illness, work takes a back seat. But for small business owners, it's not so simple.
Of the 5.5m private businesses in the UK in 2016, 4.2m (76%) didn't employ anyone aside from the owner. So what happens when the owner or a key member of staff has to take leave?
Research (pdf) from Legal & General in 2015 revealed that 40% of small businesses would cease trading within a year of losing a key employee or owner. Despite that, 60% didn't have any business protection in place.
Personal trainer and matcha tea entrepreneur Johnny Harris, who developed the condition hydrocephalus – a build-up of fluid on the brain – aged 18, is a big fan of "future-proofing". He is aware that his condition could return and worries even more now that he is a husband and father.
Harris, now 38, has worked to ensure his business relies upon him less in case he were to fall ill. In 2012, he launched T-tox, a matcha tea brand aimed at fitness enthusiasts, and recently secured extra funding to build his business through CNBC's Pop Up Start Up show.
Johnny Harris.
"Let's say I had to take significant time off, I've gone from selling myself to selling a product," he says "In terms of future-proofing, it's about building a business that will support me when I'm not working."
If you are self-employed, you may be entitled to support from the government to top up your income in difficult times. If you're working for yourself full time but your income falls, you may qualify for working tax credits. Or, if you already claim these, they could increase.
If you find yourself unable to work because of illness, injury or disability, while you may not be able to get sick pay, you might be entitled to benefits to supplement or replace your earnings, such as employment and support allowance, or personal independence payment. And other benefits exist to help with mortgage interest or council tax if you experience a sudden drop in income.
Financial products, such as key man insurance, are available to protect your business from being crippled by the loss of key staff, says Peter Alderson, managing director of small and medium-sized business lender LDF.
Of the 10,000 businesses LDF lends to, about 8,000 have three or fewer employees. This means that if even one is absent, it can have a disastrous effect.
People management is also key in the face of a prolonged absence. Francois Landers, head of SME development at HR professional body CIPD, says this includes being clear on each employee's role, and spreading responsibility: "If you have only got four or five members of staff you have got to be really clear about who does what, [doing so will flag] any pinch points that could be an issue if someone has to be off."
Faye Smith's Sheffield-based PR, marketing and personal branding company Keep Your Fork was built around her and her expertise. But when her husband and her 12-year-old daughter died within a few years of each other, she was forced to rethink the structure of her business.
Faye Smith. Photograph: Faye Smith
"Gabi died on the Saturday morning. My GP came round on the Monday, got her pad out and said, 'I'll sign you off'. I said, 'From who?'"
Generous friends and clients raised a few thousand pounds on a charity fundraising platform, allowing Smith to take time off to grieve – but she acknowledges that such generosity isn't something business owners should rely on.
The business no longer relies solely on Smith, she now has two permanent staff, a business development manager and freelance help.
"If there's one thing I have learned it's that you never know what's round the corner. Tragedy can happen to anyone, but you need to take personal responsibility."
Five ways to prepare for personal adversity
1 Plan for the worst. When planning a new business, think through every eventuality, even those to do with your health or family problems.
2 Employ the right people and don't be scared to delegate. Share knowledge and responsibility.
3 Protect yourself – insurance will be a lifeline if you have to take time out.
4 Don't over-commit – look at hiring freelancers or working virtually if you can't guarantee stable income.
5 Communicate and ask for help – you might not want to admit defeat, but communicating with staff, customers and suppliers in times of difficulty could provide essential leeway.
Sign up to become a member of the Guardian Small Business Network here for more advice, insight and best practice direct to your inbox.


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Sizzling Sixth and Seventh for Pata Yamaha at Chang Race One
Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK riders Alex Lowes and Sylvain Guintoli battled the heat at the Chang International Circuit in Thailand today to take sixth and seventh respectively in the first race of the MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship's second round.
The morning brought a positive start for the two Pata Yamaha riders, concluding the final 15 minute free practice session in fourth and sixth, having worked on a number of settings improvements between them. With air temperatures already hotter than those seen for the previous day – peaking at 34°C – the early afternoon saw Guintoli and Lowes set about the task of Superpole, having both secured direct promotion to the second session thanks to Friday's free practice performance. The British rider showed immediately impressive pace, setting a 1'34.371 on race rubber for his first timed lap, and while prevented from utilising his run on the qualifying tyre by a technical issue, the 25-year-old's original time was enough to take seventh. Guintoli continued his performance development with the YZF-R1 as shown throughout the weekend, claiming a top-five spot on the grid with a 1'33.866 lap time placing him on the second row.
A great start by Lowes saw him jump to fifth position off the lights as race one began before circulating in seventh for the opening laps. Closing on countryman Chaz Davies and the front group by lap nine with determined 1'34.6 pace, the British rider looked to be about to make his move before running wide at turn three leaving him in ninth place. An impressive comeback saw Lowes again dig deep, regaining ground and three positions to take sixth at the flag and 10 valuable championship points.
Guintoli had a fight on his hands for the early laps after losing time at the start. Crossing the line in 12th after the opening revolution the Frenchman quickly began to regroup, making up time and places to hold eighth then sixth by the mid-race point. Fighting with his teammate for position at three-quarters distance he eventually consolidated seventh position, adding nine points to his already healthy total and leaving him fifth in the standings heading into tomorrow's final battle.
The Pata Yamaha Official WorldSBK Team return to Chang International Circuit on Sunday for the second 20-lap race scheduled at 16:00hrs local time.
Race: 6th / +20.754 / 20 Laps. Championship: 13th / 12 points
"A difficult day for me overall, but the race was quite positive with a sixth place finish so I'm quite happy with that even though we know the potential of the YZF-R1 and the package is a lot more. It's my first proper full race of the year and I feel good with the direction we are going. I'm looking forward to making some more improvements for tomorrow and seeing what we can do in race two."
Sylvain Guintoli
Race: 7th / +24.221 / 20 Laps. Championship: 5th / 30 points
"It was a difficult race for us in the end and we had difficulties in the braking zones meaning I ran straight, on three separate occasions. The first half of the race was really good – after recovering from the first run on – I had a good pace and was catching the Ducati's but in the second half I started to struggle with rear-tyre-life so I couldn't keep up that pace as I wanted. It was a tough race, which we were expecting but we will just have to keep working on the development of the YZF-R1 ready for tomorrow."
Paul Denning – Team Principal
"It's difficult to understand whether the team should be disappointed or extremely positive with today's results. Disappointed perhaps because sixth and seventh, despite the very early stage of development of the YZF-R1 in WorldSBK trim, is slightly below our target and also because a technical issue stopped Alex from using his qualifying tyre and starting as high up the grid as he could have done.
"The positive aspect is that both riders came away with solid results despite suffering with some restrictions during the race which made a significant difference to their potential. This is only our second WorldSBK event as Pata Yamaha and we are already not so far away; we can look forward to time and experience allowing the YZF-R1 to make very significant steps forward in race distance performance."
Davies 4th in Race One in Buriram, while Giugliano crashes out towards the end when he was 5th
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A$AP Mob Talk The Making Of "Purple Swag"
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A$AP Rocky, Ferg and more talk about the early days of A$AP Mob and the making of Rocky's "Purple Swag."
Complex's "Magnum Opus" series has artists look back on some of their most successful songs or albums and describe the "making of" process. Today, A$AP Mob get their own episode to recount the genesis of A$AP Rocky's "Purple Swag," the first song that alerted the world to the crew's movement.
Interviewing Rocky, Ferg, Bari, Ty Beats and various people involved in the making of the song and/or video, the video team gives us a pretty exhaustive picture of the scene surrounding Rocky while he made the song. As a surprise, Bun B steps on at the end of the video to talk about the song's Houston influence.
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Between eight and 10 people have been killed in a shooting by a student at a Texas high school, the police in the United States have said.
The suspect in custody has been identified as 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, according to CBS News.
Police said that explosive devices had been found at the school, which is 40 miles (65km) south of Houston, and in surrounding areas.
The death toll makes this the deadliest school shooting since the one in February at Parkland, Florida. That attack left 17 dead and spawned a nationwide youth-led campaign for gun control.
Santa Fe Police Chief Jeff Powell said: "There have been explosive devices found inside the high school, and in the surrounding areas adjacent to the high school.
He advised residents to be aware of any suspicious objects they find.
"Do not touch any items that look out of place," he said, warning residents to immediately call police.
He said a Santa Fe school police officer was among the injured.
Two hospitals south of Houston said they had received nine patients from the school shooting.
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ENERGY JUSTICE – GOING FURTHER THAN NUMBERS TO ASSESS ENERGY PROJECTS
By Ms Nancy Van Nieuwenhove | 9th July 2019 (updated: *25/03/2020, ** 27/07/2020)
Diane Kraal
Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Law & Taxation
Research interests: natural resources taxation, incl. resource rent taxes and royalties; taxation policy and reform; superannuation, tax history; energy justice.
Diane Kraal has a PhD in humanities and social sciences from La Trobe University. She held roles in the minerals resource sector with Conzinc Rio Tinto (CRA Australia) Ltd. She worked with Ernst and Young and was a registered tax agent. For eight years she was the taxation and banking manager at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Dr Kraal has experience in the financial services sector and was the taxation manager with Australia's largest administrator of industry superannuation funds.
Dr Kraal has been with the Monash Business School since 2010 as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation. In 2017, she was called as an expert witness to the Federal Senate tax inquiry into Australia's offshore oil and gas industry. In 2018, she received the Monash Business School Dean's Commendation for Research Impact for her work in tax reform in both Australia and Papua New Guinea. Dr Kraal comments: "I like both teaching and research for the flexibility they afford. My interest in the energy sector has grown over my time with Monash University".
Dr Kraal's journey into using the framework of 'Energy Justice' started at Monash. "Energy justice provides a decision-support tool for policy makers to bring into balance the competing aims of economics (e.g. energy pricing), politics (e.g. energy security) and the environment (e.g. sustainability of biofuels), known as the energy trilemma". She adds: "Energy justice can be defined as a world-wide energy system that equitably disseminates both the costs and benefits of energy and includes due process in decision-making. The energy justice framework is operationalised through eight principles: due process, transparency and accountability, availability, affordability, sustainability, responsibility and intra- and inter-generational equity."
Energy justice acknowledges the competing aims of economics, politics and the environment. Dr Kraal comments: "I'm finishing a comparative study with colleagues from the Netherlands about how gas is priced in both Australia and the Netherlands. The Groningen gas project in the Netherlands has had severe environmental issues related to the gas extraction-induced earthquakes. The Dutch made a decisive political decision to close their Groningen gas field by 2030. The Netherlands are giving up the economic benefits of revenues from gas to tackle this unique environmental issue and to lower greenhouse gas emissions." We can see that energy justice is also about energy choices. Is a renewable or non-renewable resource better? Given energy is needed to create energy, what is the carbon footprint to produce your selected energy? Is gas, a fossil fuel, better than coal? How do we evaluate alternative forms of energy beyond simple economic imperatives?
In regard to applying the energy justice framework to an Australian energy projects, Dr Kraal comments: "Energy Justice concerns energy law and policy. It is a tool to enable analysis, through a wider lens, of both renewable and non-renewable energy projects. For many resource projects, there is the need for policy to be converted into regulations or legislation. Economic concerns have always been dominant in the energy sector, with community lobbying of politicians and the environment issues left as secondary. But this has changed. For instance, many in Queensland were attracted by the promise of jobs and growth from the Adani coal project and then voted accordingly. Environmental lobbyists have other concerns, such as opposing ground water extraction and protection of indigenous birds. Mineral resources onshore and below the ground in the Australian jurisdictions are owned by the community. In the case of the Adani mine, it's up to the Queensland state government to manage those resources on behalf of the community to ensure an equitable return…"
To make a type of energy happen, governmental support is essential whether local, state or federal government. Dr Kraal notes: "On the positive side, there are potential employment opportunities in Australia in the renewable space. Recently, the IRENA 2018 report on biofuels shows employment in this sector as second only to solar". In Australia from 2007 to 2014 we experienced the golden age of biofuels research and activity. Dr Kraal comments: "It was when the price of oil was well over $100 a barrel and this prompted the quest to find alternative fuels. But by 2014, the oil price fell to almost $30 a barrel, which led to a dramatic drop in biofuels research and associated commercial activities. The government support faded away too. Along with Monash research colleagues, A/P Victoria Haritos and Dr Rowena Cantley-Smith, we are trying to stress to government that biofuels are a legitimate part of the energy mix. New technologies have been developed to create a range of products and many processes are now mature. One problem in Australia is the lack of feedstock to generate viable commercial quantities of biofuels. A different type of feedstock, called lignocellulosics could be a solution."
We understand there are politics connected with any resource project, and within politics there are a variety of competing aims. There is also competing sustainability aims in moving to a low carbon economy. In terms of politics, we need to be able to persuade our politicians to progress policy into legislation."
Dr Kraal was a member of the Monash delegation to the 2018 UN Climate Conference COP24, held in Poland. She was Co-Head of the delegation in the 2019 COP25, Madrid.
The Business of Energy - video (11mins, 17/6/19), from "A Different Lens".
Australian Biofuels - presentation, Assoc. Professor Victoria Haritos, Dr Rowena Cantley-Smith and myself: https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/1813458/Rethinking-Biofuels-Masterclass-Pres-Comb-Survey-Issue.pdf
Energy Justice concept - research paper: Kraal Diane (2019) 'Petroleum industry tax incentives and energy policy implications: A comparison between Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea', "Energy Policy", Vol 126 (March): 212-222, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.11.011
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** 10 June 2020, ARC-EESep & WaterRA Water Innovation Webinar Series: Challenges and Opportunities of Water Industry in the Emerging Hydrogen Economy. Policy of a Tax on Water to Address Scarcity and Quality: What about the hydrogen economy impact? Dr Diane Kraal (Monash University) and Dr Rob Whait (South Australia University). Re-watch the entire video.
25 February 2020, Diane Kraal, re-published by "Austaxpolicy",'In the midst of an LNG export boom, why are we getting so little for our gas?', https://www.austaxpolicy.com/in-the-midst-of-an-lng-export-boom-why-are-we-getting-so-little-for-our-gas/
20 February 2020, Diane Kraal, re-published by Monash Business School', In the midst of an LNG export boom, why are we getting so little for our gas?' <buseco-facultybroadcast@e28.e.monash.edu
18 February 2020, Diane Kraal, re-published by "The New Daily" ,'In the midst of an LNG export boom, why are we getting so little for our gas?', https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2020/02/18/lng-producers-tax-revenue/
17 February 2020, Diane Kraal, "The Conversation" ,'In the midst of an LNG export boom, why are we getting so little for our gas?', https://theconversation.com/in-the-midst-of-an-lng-export-boom-why-are-we-getting-so-little-for-our-gas-131461
26 June 2019 Diane Kraal interviewed by Nick Rheinberger, ABC Illawarra, Morning Program: 'Coal and Biofuels'.
18 June 2019 Diane Kraal interviewed by Meecham Philpott, ABC Tropical North, Breakfast Show: 'Taxation incentives and Biofuels'.
17 June 2019 Diane Kraal appearance in "The Business of Energy", Monash Business School, https://lens.monash.edu/2019/06/14/1375453/australias-sustainable-energy-future
10 June 2019, Diane Kraal, 'Petroleum Industry Tax Incentives and Energy Policy Implications', Austaxpolicy, https://www.austaxpolicy.com/petroleum-industry-tax-incentives-energy-policy-implications/
12 April 2019, Diane Kraal appearance on the ABC, "The Business" program re: the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, < https://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-business/2019-04-12/the-shine-is-coming-off-the-golden-age-of-gas/11020910
19 March 2019 Diane Kraal interviewed by Meecham Philpott, ABC Tropical North, Breakfast Show: 'Biofuels and fiscal support explained'.
20/02/2017, ABC 7:30, 'Petroleum Resource Rent Tax increase under consideration by Government'.
21/08/2016, ABC 7:30, 'LNG boom turns to bust as falling oil price hits exports'.
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Хелен Глоуг (; 1750, Мутхилл, Пертшир, Шотландия — 1790) — супруга султана Марокко Мохаммеда III бен Абдаллаха.

Хелен Глоуг родилась 29 января 1750 года в семье кузнеца Эндрю Глоуга и его жены Энн Кей в деревне Вестер-Петт, к югу от селения Мутхилла в шотландском графстве Пертшир, будучи старшей среди четырёх братьев и сестёр. Её отец вновь женился после смерти её матери, но у Хелен не сложились отношения с мачехой, из-за чего она покинула дом в возрасте 19 лет, сев на корабль, шедший из Гринока в Южную Каролину. Судно было захвачено берберскими пиратами из Марокко, через две недели после начала плавания.

После захвата пиратами мужчины с корабля были убиты, а женщины отправлены на невольничий рынок в Алжире. Глоуг была куплена богатым марокканцем и передана султану Сиди Мохаммеду бен Абдаллаху. Будучи под впечатлением от её красоты, рыжих волос и зелёных глаз, султан ввёл её в свой гарем. Его страстное увлечение ею привело к тому, что она стала его четвёртой женой, а в конечном итоге и вовсе «главной» или любимой женой. Впоследствии Глоуг была удостоена даже титула императрицы. Её участие, по некоторым данным, сыграло важную роль в освобождении моряков и рабов, захваченных пиратами Сале.

Глоуг имела возможность переписываться со своими родными и принимать в Марокко своего брата Роберта, который рассказал её историю в Шотландии. В её заслугу ставилось сокращение активности марокканских пиратов, хотя это также могло быть связано с увеличением числа британских и французских военных кораблей в окрестных водах, присутствовавших там из-за растущей напряжённости перед Наполеоновскими войнами.

Султан Сиди Мохаммед бен Абдаллах умер в 1790 году, а на трон взошёл его сын Мулай аль-Язид. Хелен на месте императрицы сменила другая представительница гарема султана. Новый правитель укреплял свою власть, убивая всех возможных своих соперников, включая двух сыновей Хелен. Предположительно она сама могла быть убита в период двухлетнего хаоса, последовавшего после этой смены власти.

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As I liked it
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I've long had something of an uneasy relationship with As You Like It. While I recognise it to be a charming pastoral idyll, I don't really see enough in the play to account for the reverence many feel for it. For instance, in his book 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, eminent Shakespearean James Shapiro refers to As You Like It as Shakespeare's finest comedy, while, at the same time, he characterises Twelfth Night as relatively safe and conventional, a step backwards from the glories of the earlier work. As someone who reveres Twelfth Night, and who, admittedly to his embarrassment, has never seen much more to As You Like It than a certain charm, I found Shapiro's evaluations of these works somewhat startling. And, since I read a Shakespeare play each month anyway – these works are, after all, to be lived with, not just read once and put away – I decided it was high time to revisit As You Like It.
Having now read it again, I must say that it seems to me still a sunlit pastoral idyll, a work of tremendous charm and delight, but with little or none of the profound darkness and melancholy that seems to me to push Twelfth Night towards the realms of the tragic. But that does not necessarily make As You Like It a lesser work – unless one were to imagine, as, I must admit, I sometimes tend to do, that the tragic gives us a more profound vision of life than the comic can.
However, all authors of sunlit idylls need to decide how much if any of the world's darkness to depict, or even to acknowledge; and darkness is not entirely absent from As You Like It. Indeed, the opening act of the play, like the opening of A Midsummer Night's Dream, most definitely contains at least the seeds of tragedy. But as we move from the court to the enchantment of the wilds, these seeds fail to bear fruit: the dark shadows seem, in both plays, to dissolve, and give way to something wondrous.
In order to achieve this, realism has to be suspended. Oliver, for instance, whom we see at the start of the play mistreating his brother Orlando, and who later follows Orlando into the Forest of Arden meaning to hunt him down, is transformed when this same Orlando, returning love for hate, risks his own life to save that of his murderous brother. And once this murderous brother is converted to good, there remains not the slightest taint of the evil that had previously consumed him: there remains not even an awareness of the misery that his past evil had brought on others, or any hint of remorse that would normally accompany such an awareness. Even more oddly, perhaps, this lack of remorse is not noticed: no-one, not even Orlando, holds his past against him. This evil, which had been utterly unmotivated from the start, vanishes completely, leaving not a rack behind.
Something similar happens to the usurping Duke, Celia's father. Although he is, we are told, a usurper, he has allowed his niece, Rosalind, daughter of his exiled brother, to grow up in court with his own daughter. But suddenly, for no apparent reason, and without any motivation, a madness seems to take hold of him: he banishes Rosalind from the court on pain of death; and goes even so far as to threaten Oliver with banishment and with seizure of possessions should Oliver fail to bring back his brother Orlando, dead or alive. But by the end, this same usurping Duke is also miraculously converted to good: marching into the forest to finish off his banished brother, he is met by a hermit, and, as with Oliver, all the evil in him miraculously vanishes, as if it had never been.
Since this play is an idyll, Shakespeare does not, after the first act, focus on the evil. Indeed, he keeps it as far from the action as possible. Once we are in the Forest of Arden, we see Oliver only after he is already converted, and the danger of his evil has passed. Similarly, we hear of the Duke's incursion into the forest at the same time as we hear of his conversion: the encroaching evil has vanished even before we get to hear of it.
It is not surprising that Shakespeare should keep the dark shadows of evil so firmly in the background in this the sunniest of all his plays; but such a vision of evil is very different from the one presented in his tragedies – in Macbeth, say. In As You Like It, evil is an external force, almost an illness, which may infect a person, but which is not an integral part of that person. In a work such as Macbeth, however, evil is not the monster out there, but, rather, the monster that resides within. In all these tragic masterpieces, the capacity for evil is presented as an innate aspect of our human condition: our ability to be evil is, in short, one of the features that make us human.
However, in his very late play, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare seemed to return to the way he had viewed evil in As You Like It: once again, it is seen as an external force, a sort of illness that infects us, and from which it is possible to be cured. Macbeth or Lady Macbeth cannot be cured of their evil: what's done cannot be undone; but Leontes' case is different – his evil departs as mysteriously as it had appeared. And there seems to me in As You Like It something very Leontes-like both in the usurping duke and in Oliver: they are evil for reasons not apparent; but then they are "cured", and the evil disappears completely. Indeed, it is hard not to see the usurping duke very much as a prototype of Leontes when we see him banishing Rosalind on the pain of death, or when he threatens Oliver: mere anarchy seems loosed upon the world.
At the end of the The Winter's Tale, the vision is darker than in As You Like It, and the joy is subdued. Perdita, she who had been lost, is restored, and Hermione, in a prefiguring of the Resurrection itself, returns from the dead. But Mamilius remains dead; and there can be no recompense for the lost years, for all the immense suffering that the illness of evil has brought into the world, both to those it had infected, and to those it hadn't.
All this is very far from the world of As You Like It. Here, evil is kept on the sidelines of the action, very much out of view, and when it vanishes, it does so without leaving a mark behind. And if such a vision of life does not give us quite the richness of Twelfth Night (which, I must admit, still seems to me the greater work), it communicates nonetheless a formidable charm, and, perhaps, teaches us that our life, such as it is, is more to be valued than to be lamented. All in the end are here reconciled – except Jaques, who scorns the very idea.
What is the poem Miles recites in "The Innocents"?
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WordPress kindly provides me with the various terms people have searched on to get to this blog. Many of these search terms are very obviously essay assignments. As I have said before, those students who really can't be arsed to do their own work and who aren't above plagiarism are welcome to steal whatever they can from this blog, as long as they bear in mind that this blog is not written to exacting scholarly standards; and that if they can find this blog from a search engine, so can examiners.
But be that as it may. One search item that ferquently finds this blog is the question "What is the poem Miles recites in The Innocents"? Search engines then provide a link to a post I had written some time ago on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, and the film The Innocents, that was based on it. However, that post does not answer the question. So, as this blog is ever ready to be as helpful as possible, the answer is:
The poem was written by scripwriter Truman Capote specially for the film.
No charge – all part of the service.
(And I'd be grateful if students who have nicked some part of this blog for their essay assignment could let me know what grade they got for it.)
"Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev
Posted by argumentativeoldgit in Culture, literature.	Tagged: Books, literature, Turgenev.	5 comments
"Rudin" by Ivan Turgenev. Translated by Richard Freeborn, Penguin Classics
The "superfluous man" is a recurrent figure in Russian literature, especially in the writings of Turgenev, and the eponymous hero (if "hero" is the right word here, which it probably isn't) of Turgenev's first full-length novel is often considered the epitome of this curious character. He is a specifically Russian figure, so much so that Dostoyevsky once remarked that it is not possible for a non-Russian reader to understand Rudin. As a non-Russian who cannot even speak the language, I cannot tell whether or not I have adequately understood Rudin: I can only report on what I perceive, and trust those with a better understanding to correct me if I am wrong. But, for what it's worth, my understanding of the character of the "superfluous man" is that he is intelligent, idealistic, and even passionate about his beliefs; he may, indeed, throw himself into various activities with the greatest of enthusiasm; but, for all that, he remains curiously detached from reality, and is, as a consequence, ineffectual. He is incapable of leaving behind any distinguishing mark, anything substantial. And he is intelligent enough to be aware of his ineffectuality, although unable to understand it.
Rudin himself was described by Turgenev as a mixture of Hamlet and Don Quixote. It is a curious mixture, and a paradoxical one: Hamlet and Don Quixote are – at least in simplified form – epitomes of, respectively, reflective inaction on the one hand, and unreflecting action on the other. And this apparent contradiction informs the figure of the superfluous man.
Turgenev had depicted the "superfluous man" before, most notably in the story "Hamlet of the Shchigrovsky District" from Sketches from a Hunter's Album. But here, in a full-length novel, the treatment is more extensive; and the greater space allows Turgenev also to depict more fully the context of the drama – the supporting cast, as it were. We are in a country estate, with a collection of various landowners, relatives, and hangers-on that we are all familiar with from the plays of Chekhov. Or, indeed, from Turgenev's own A Month in the Country, the play he had written only a few years before this novel. Rudin seems very much conceived as a play, with a sequence of individual scenes depicting the characters interacting with each other, and both the characterisation and the action presented almost entirely through dialogue. Even when, having introduced Rudin as a character, Turgenev wants to tell us something of his past, instead of giving us a flashback, as might have been expected, he gives us a long narrative speech from someone who had known him earlier – exactly as he would have done had he been writing a play, Were it not for the occasional descriptive passage of luminous lyricism (I doubt there has been any other author who could match Turgenev when it comes to communicating of the beauties of nature), the reader may well be left wondering why this story hadn't been written as a play in the first place, rather than as a novel.
The plot, such as it is, is very simple. Into a provincial country estate comes Rudin, who impresses everyone by his idealism, his eloquence and his intelligence; the young and impressionable daughter of the house predictably falls in love with him (inevitable echoes here of Pushkin's Tatyana: it's hard to come across any Russian novel that doesn't have somewhere the ghosts of Pushkin or of Gogol); but, as time progresses, Rudin appears not quite so admirable as he previously had done, and by the time he leaves, under something of a cloud, general opinion has turned against him. As an epilogue, we see him again many years later – still idealistic, still eloquent, and still ineffectual; but now, he is sadly aware of his own failure, though unable to account for it.
And the question is left open for us also: why is Rudin such a failure? What can account for this paradoxical mixture of ardency and detachment? Is it, as Dostoyevsky thought, so specifically Russian a characteristic as to be inaccessible to the rest of us? Suspicious as I am of the very concept of unique national characteristics, I find myself unwilling to accept this. At some deeper level, I can sense that the seemingly contradictory aspects of Rudin merging to form a unity, and yet, I am not sure how this happens: he remains to me an enigma. Unlike Oblomov in Goncharov's novel, he is not lazy, either intellectually or physically; neither is he cowardly; and he certainly isn't foolish. However, under certain circumstances, he can give the impression of being all three. I'd genuinely be interested to know if Russian readers find the character of Rudin as elusive as I do. I suspect he is an enigma regardless of the reader's background: after all, he remains an enigma even to himself.
In other respects, the writing is masterly. Arguably, Turgenev introduces too many characters in the first chapter: this would not have been a problem in a play where the audience can distinguish the characters by sight, but in a prose narrative it's a different matter, even when, as here, each character's appearance is carefully described. However, I suppose allowances may be made for a first novel; and in any case, it isn't long before one stops referring to the list of characters – the dramatis personae, in effect – that translator Richard Freeborn thoughtfully provides for us. The characters, once introduced, are all delineated and brought to life with the most economical of touches: there's the impressionable young tutor, who has to keep to himself his dissatisfaction with the family he serves, and who becomes devoted to the idealist Rudin; there's an ageing aristocratic widow, who is happy to have Rudin as a house guest and is a gracious hostess, but who knows where to draw the line; there's a local landowner who is happy to live up to his reputation as an engaging eccentric, but who is in reality a boor and a bigot; and, perhaps most importantly, there's a neighbouring landowner, Lezhnev, who comes closest to representing the authorial voice: he had known Rudin previously, and, initially unsympathetic to his former acquaintance, tries to distance himself; but when Rudin's failure becomes apparent, his estimation of Rudin becomes more generous: a human cannot be judged, after all, purely on the basis of how effective they are. If Hamlet's inaction is reprehensible, the depth of his thinking isn't; if we regard as absurd Don Quixote's inability to see reality for what it is, we may at least admire his nobility of spirit. Rudin, by the end, is a failure; but the failure, as far as Lezhnev (and, most likely, Turgenev) is concerned, is not contemptible.
The novel is short – it may even be described as a novella – and, rather like its protagonist, it remains a puzzle. But a most intriguing puzzle, all the same.
"The Little Demon" by Fyodor Sologub
Posted by argumentativeoldgit in comedy, Culture, literature.	Tagged: Books, Devil, Dostoyevsky, pamela davidson, Ronald Wilks, Saltykov-Schedrin, Sologub, The Little Demon.	15 comments
The Little Demon by Fyodor Sologub, translated by Ronald Wilks, Penguin Classics
In her introduction to the Penguin Classics edition of The Little Demon, Pamela Davidson writes:
Neither in Russian Orthodox demonology nor in folk tradition was there much emphasis on the towering figure of Satan in splendour.
Rather, she continues, Russian devils tend to be small, petty creatures, "little demons", proliferating in a multiple of guises.
One gets this sense of the pettiness of the demonic on Russian literature also. Not for the Russians the magnificence and tragic grandeur of Milton's Satan, nor the spectacle that is Dante's Inferno: when Gogol set out to depict inferno, he depicted a dull, provincial town, dirty and petty and corrupt and stagnant, peopled only by souls that were morally dead. This provincial town has haunted Russian literature ever since. It is the town from which Chekhov's three sisters long to escape to Moscow; it is the town the microcosm of which is the horrendous "Ward 6" of Chekhov's story; it is the setting of Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, and also Demons (another work featuring petty little demons); it is the town that forms the setting of Saltykov-Schedrin's Golovlyov Family, where, once again, it stands for Hell itself. And Russian demons are, as Pamela Davidson says, always small and petty, like the Devil who appears to Ivan Karamazov in the guise of a shabbily dressed gentleman, or the little demons Father Ferapont sees elsewhere in the same novel. And evil, too, is mean and petty and nasty: Raskolnikov imagines he is another Napoleon, when, in reality, he is simply a sordid axe-murderer in a sordid tenement. There is nothing grand or magnificent or charismatic about the Russian concept of evil: it is just mean and nasty and petty – though none the less destructive for being so.
Sologub's The Little Demon (I believe the title may also be translated as The Petty Demon), written in the 1890s, presents a vision of evil that is very much in this tradition. The setting is once again that Gogolian provincial backwater from Dead Souls, and, once again, it is a hellish place. The principal character, the schoolmaster Perodonov, is obviously mad, and, indeed, is often recognised as such; but the rest of the town is only slightly less mad than he. Despite being, by any reasonable standard, stark raving bonkers, he is judged an eligible bachelor, and there's an entire line of women desperate to trap him into marriage. His live-in mistress even commissions her friend to forge letters as part of an elaborate plan to marry him.
The lunacy deepens as the novel progresses. Peredonov, convinced that there is a concerted campaign to slander him, goes round the houses of various officials to convince them of his probity, and of his patriotism. He also goes round the houses of various students in his class, insisting that they had behaved badly, and encouraging the parents to have their child flogged. In one particularly grotesque sequence, the mother is ready to flog her child, but the father, much to the mother's frustration, refuses; she then tells Peredenov that she will call him when her husband – the "tyrant", as she calls him – is out, and that they could then flog the child together. The scene where they actually do this was cut by the author in the final published version, but is printed here as an appendix: it is among the most disgusting things I have read. After the two of them flog the boy together in turn – Peredonov taking over from the other once she has become too tired flogging him – they collapse in each other's arms in sexual ecstasy.
Peredonov also sees a strange demonic being materialising. This is referred to by Sologub as a nedotykomka, which, Pamela Davidson informs us in the introduction, is an obscure dialect word that "has the same meaning as nedotroga, a 'touch-me-not': an object that cannot be touched or a person of touchy and irritable disposition (like Peredonov)". This creature is clearly an emanation from Peredonov's fevered mind, and is hence an aspect of his psyche, and Ronald Wilks, perhaps rather confusingly, underlines this by translating nedotykomka as "the little demon" of the title. This nedotykomka starts appearing frequently to Peredonov, whose mind, never too stable to begin with, seems to collapse entirely. The aristocratic princess who he imagines is his benefactor he soon starts picturing as a grotesque and withered crone, but has erotic fantasies about her anyway. Then, imagining that the pack of cards is spying on him, he cuts out the eyes of the Jacks, the Kings, and the Queens. He then identifies the Princess with the Queen of Spades, and finds himself forced to burn the entire pack.
There develops also a very strange sub-pot, concerning the lad Sasha, aged about 14 or so, who has girlish good looks. Peredonov, presumably attracted to him sexually, insists that he is a girl, and tries to have him expelled from the boys' school. Later, a young lady, Lyudmilla, develops a fixation on him – a fixation that is described with imagery of lurid eroticism – and, although they never consummate her passion, she delights in having him close to her, undressing him, getting him to put on women's clothes. And Sasha himself, so apparently pure and innocent, finds himself strangely affected:
He wanted to do something to her, be it pleasant or painful, tender or shameful – but what? Should he kiss her feet or beat her long and hard with supple birch twigs?
It is all strikingly grotesque, but I must admit that I couldn't help wondering what all this was leading towards. This depiction of the banality of evil – to use Hannah Arendt's famous expression – remains, for all its strangeness, earthbound: there is none the poetic flights of fancy of Gogol, nor the humanity and melancholy of Chekhov, nor the visionary intensity of Dostoyevsky. Nor is there any trace of tragic despair that we find in Saltykov-Schedrin's Golovlyov Family. At the end of Gogol's Government Inspector, the mayor turns to the audience to tell them they are laughing at themselves; in a similar vein, Sologub tells us in the preface to the second edition:
It is true that people love to be loved. They are pleased if the loftier, nobler aspects of their souls are portrayed. Even in villains they wish to see some signs of goodness, the so-called "divine spark" as it was called in days of old. That is why they cannot believe it when confronted with a picture that is true, accurate, gloomy and evil. They want to say, "He's writing about himself."
No, my dear contemporaries, it is of you that I have written my novel…
For this is how Sologub sees humanity. Madness, sordidness, stupidity, paranoia, sadism – that's all there is. Gogol's dead souls were in need of redemption, and he even tried- albeit unsuccessfully – to depict that redemption; but here, redemption is not even to be thought of: the very concept is meaningless. And there isn't even a sense of sadness that this should be so.
Much though I admired and wondered at the strangeness of Sologub's imagination, I cannot say I was satisfied with this vision. I appreciate that in saying this, I am introducing a very personal note that has no place in objective criticism, but sometimes, a personal reaction is so strong that it becomes impossible to keep it hidden. If this is all humanity is, it isn't worth anything; it's certainly not worth writing novels about. If I want to see how cruel and gratuitously sadistic humans are, I need only read the news: there is evidence enough these days for cruelty and gratuitous sadism wherever one looks, and, even for eternal optimists such as myself, the temptation to believe only the worst of humanity becomes powerful indeed. This temptation needs, I think, to be resisted: the view of mankind as irredeemably wicked and debased and worthless leads but to the genocidal fury of Gulliver, and to "Exterminate all the brutes" of Colonel Kurtz.
Perhaps I was not in the right frame of mind for this book. I might, perhaps, on another day, have found myself engaged by the black humour, and capable of entertaining, if not necessarily accepting, Sologub's unrelieved pessimism. This time, for whatever reason, I couldn't: the novel cut a bit too close to the bone, and, by the end, I felt that the vision it presented was merely reductive. Perhaps other readers will fare better with this novel than I did.
Posted by argumentativeoldgit in Culture.	Tagged: Aeschylus, Books, Borges, H G Wells, Montaigne, Rant, Rod Taylor.	24 comments
As a young lad, I used to enjoy a film often shown those days on television – an adaptation from the early 60s of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine. It's been a long time since I last saw that film, but one scene in particular stays in the mind. The protagonist, played by Rod Taylor, has, with his time machine, travelled into some far distant post-apocalyptic future, and the people he encounters there appear uncommunicative. Eventually, he asks if they have some books that would help him understand their culture. "Books?" says one. "Yes, we have books." And the protagonist is led into a long-disused library in which vast shelves of books are crumbling into dust. Yes, he reflects bitterly to himself, that tells him all he needs to know about their culture.
Back in the present, our local library appears to have a policy of selling off books that have not been taken out over a long period, and I have, over the years, bought from these sales some very fine hardback volumes, in often pristine condition. I have bought for the princely sum of two pounds each the Everyman editions of the Complete Essays of Montaigne (translated by Donald Frame) and George Thomson's translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia, the Collected Fictions of Borges (Andrew Hurley's translation), and many others. These books had never been taken out of the library, the shelves of which are now are groaning with celebrity cookbooks, misery memoirs, and the like.
I wonder what this tells us about our culture.


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Choosing a toothbrush is an important part of proper dental hygiene. There are many selections available on the market today, so it can be confusing which one to buy. Here's a simple guide to help you find the right brush.
We all know that brushing twice a day is essential, but you must have the right toothbrush to do that. While there are many aspects to the toothbrush that you want to look for, it can be broken down into a few that are very important.
Pick a brush with a small head so it can move around easier inside your mouth.
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It can be stated that the healthcare system in Emilia-Romagna is in "good health". Puns aside, in a sector considered to be cutting edge at a national and even international level, the industry related to health and wellness is in very good shape.
The region has many centres of clinical excellence and services which, despite growing difficulties, maintain high standards, as well as a certain sensitivity towards social issues.
All this translates into strong attractiveness in terms of visits and treatments, making the region a popular destination for the quality of services provided: the conditions are therefore favourable not only for the specific diagnosis and treatment sector but also for everything related to health prevention.
The umbrella of the "white economy", the economy that revolves around this sector, includes a wide range of companies which also benefit from the Emilia-Romagna research system. The pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries are undoubtedly cases of excellence; although not numerous, they are growing thanks to start-ups.
There are also cases of investment by large foreign companies and smaller industries in the field of natural health and cosmeceutical products.
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My research interests are in Spanish cultural studies and film studies, especially Spanish popular film, the development of film cultures in Spain (reception, consumption and fandom), and the cross-cultural dialogue between Spain and other world cinemas (international traditions of the horror genre, global psychotronic culture). Publications in these areas include two co-edited volumes, Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste (Manchester University Press, 2003) and Spanish Popular Cinema (Manchester University Press, 2004), and the monograph Spanish Horror Film (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). I was Visiting Lecturer at the Universitat Rovira i Virgil (Spain), Departamento de Estudios de Comunicación, April-June 2009.
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