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The Durian Apocalypse
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The Delirium
Posted on July 3, 2012 by Eddie
This week of Durian Ecstasy has not been without its cost. In my addled state, I have managed to:
Lose my juggling balls! Next day, when I realised that I'd lost them, I went back to where I'd last been using them, but they were nowhere to be found. This is certainly the worst tragedy to have befallen me during my stay in Asia. If I can't find replacements, I guess I'll have to use some rocks or something.
Lose one of my camera's batteries. It was the bullshit off-brand one; but at least a crap backup was better that no backup at all.
Get sunburnt over much of my person.
Fall down off a step while trying to get a better angle to view a piece in a museum. Bruised my keister and torqued my back a little. No biggie, as it happens. Still…
Not to be messed with, these Penang Durian!
Friday eve. I finally et me a Red Prawn.
Oh, my. That's what all the fuss is about!
Also met Faisal's grand-uncle; the owner of a Durian orchard here on the island. He was asking me, if I recall, whether my travels had interrupted my time in the military. "No! Never been! Never would! I hate that shit!"
Confused, he asked is not it mandatory in the States to serve in the military? Nah, it ain't, I corrected. Still confused, he asked, what about Mike Tyson?
"Mike Tyson?? … In the military? … Not that I'm aware of!"
He was sure he'd heard something about Mike Tyson having done time for having skipped out on his military obligations. Of course, it then struck me that he was confusing Mike Tyson with Muhammad Ali; and fifty years ago with nowadays.
Funny, isn't it, how odd little bits of cultural ephemera can get all twisted and tangled like that?
By Saturday, Hassan declared, upon my arrival, that there was not much new left for me to try. He wanted to sell me a "Ganja" (I guess that's really what it's called), but when he opened it up, he didn't like the looks of it.
"What about D600?" I wondered. He was surprised to learn that I'd not yet tried this variety; and so it was off to the races. The D600 was quite nice; but it was the D2, which I did next, what really threw me for a loop. So good I had to immediately order another of the same variety.
They call during a "heaty" fruit: it makes you sweat. Mangosteens are frequently taken to counteract the effect. But for me, the effect is slight or even non-existent. Except with the D2 – I was burning up well into the night. Pretty crazy.
Sunday, the last day of the fest, it was really getting down to the nitty-gritty; as they didn't want to take any Durian home with them. But when I arrived, there was still a massive Red Prawn available:
Just as I was getting ready to dig in, Faisal stopped by with a lovely Cei Poi. I polished that one off first, before moving on to the Red Prawn, and then another D2 to finish the festivities with.
Sunday, the prize-competing fruits were lined up, awaiting their destiny.
I was sizing them up, and Faisal came over and just started rattling them off: "That's a Musan King, that's a Hor Lor, that's a Cei Poi, that's a Capri…" The kid is a prodigy.
At the end of the night, after all the Durian had been sold, and all the fixtures broken down and loaded into the truck to take back to the shop, Faisal and Hassan presented me with a gift:
My very own Durian Knife! Yeah, yeah, I remember: I said before that to open a Durian with a knife is a sacrilege. I still believe this in principle; but, when in Rome…
I ended up back at the shop again Sunday night, hanging out for a while. But it was almost midnight, so Faisal was too tired to drive me back up to George Town, and instead his father did the honours. He says that next year when I arrive, he will teach me how to speak Malaysian. For beginners, he taught me to say, "My name is Eddie." But I've already fucking forgotten it. (Well, except for the "Eddie".)
Meanwhile, staffer at the hostel who loves to talk Durian with me says he knows a guy who knows a guy, and he's going to see if he can get me a job working on a Durian farm next year. Stay tuned!
Moreover, arrived to-day with an armload of Durian fruit whilst he and a handful of friends were sitting around shooting the shit. They were all amazed that I was able to list off my fave varieties; and aghast when I was able to pound down my entire day's catch in one sitting. They promptly invited me to join them in a visit a few days hence for a Durian-farm pigout.
Haw haw; the vendor from whom I purchased my Durian to-day was also quite shocked when I told him it'd be of no moment to knock them all out. "Jesus Christ, you are just like that other guy…" He's met a farang here on the island who eats Durian and only Durian for the duration of the season. Don't think he's seen him around this year, however.
Bottom line: Malays, they may be snobs when it comes to the quality of their Durian; but when they find a farang able to exhibit even a modicum of knowledge of and appreciation for their prized crop, the hosannas, from on high will they rain. (For the record: in truth, I'm such a piker when it comes to Durian obsession; but my protests are never able to find purchase with the locals…)
The non-Durianical news will need to be short-and-sweet this time; just too many interesting people here to leave much time for blogging.
In re the temples: still great!
Note to proles: fuck off and die, because, "Executive Committee are selected by Divine through Lord Buddha."
This one temple was having a goddam super-mega smokeout day the other day. I wasn't the only one brought to tears.
Speaking of smoke, a shoppe in Little India went up in flames yesterday. Huge throng of rubberneckers converged upon the scene to see what was what.
In re the galleries: pretty fucking out there, some of them!
In re the architecture: still cool.
See this shit?
It may well be the number-one tourist destination in all of George Town. Every time I walk by, there's a big crowd there, each and all waiting to get photographed against the wall. Weird.
From the Nothing To See Here Dept.:
Doesn't rain every day here; but when it decides to cut loose, it takes the form of a major walloping.
They've got these "clan jetties", five or six of them, jutting out into the sea, with houses-on-stilts built astride them. So each of a given jetties' houses belong to Chinese immigrants from a certain family. A real step back in time. Best of all, so peaceful way out at the end of the jetties; not a motorcycle to be heardanywhere.
Know what the one on the bottom-left means? Do tell! Best I can come up with is: "No pinching of salt."
Night-time parade the other day. Hostel staff didn't know the occasion; didn't try to research it further.
Got the ferry over to the mainland 'cause I wanted to go to the Bird Park. But when I got there, it was fuck-ass expensive, so I ended up going instead to this stoopid mall, hoping to find some juggling balls. No luck. That's a friggin' living embodiment of Hell over there, Butterworth: fucking pavement as far as the eye can see.
Yeah, I was at the Esplanade yesterday, Monday, doing some jumping and hopping and pull-ups and shit; dude (name of "Fadzil", to go by his work uniform) asked why I was doing that, and I said it was pretty good cardio and so on and so forth.
"But," he pleaded, "What about the balls?" He executed the universal juggling pantomime.
"Oh, man, I fucking lost them! I'm so sad! I…"
He cut me off: "Why?"
"Why? Fuckin' because I'm stupid, that's why."
I think he's more upset about it than I am, truth be told. I'd only ever juggled over there two or three times; but the Malaysians seem to dig it even more than do the Laotians and the Thais.
Anyhow, while over on the mainland, went to the train station to check out schedules and rates and whatnot, and some drunkards on the steps were giving me shit for my bare feet (but in a friendly way), and trying to let me buy a cellphone for 30 RM, and stuff. Dude kept hassling me, "My friend! … My friend! … My friend!" Every time I wanted to go, he had some new worldly piece of advice to give.
Finally, at the end of my rope, I turned back and snarled, "What?"
"I love you very much." Made my god damn day. I loved him very much right back, and asked could I take his picture?
Lastly, another reminder to, come November, cast a vote against the Asshole In Chief. You'll not be able to read this without retching.
As we observe the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, we reflect with solemn reverence upon the valor of a generation that served with honor. We pay tribute to the more than three million servicemen and women who left their families to serve bravely, a world away from everything they knew and everyone they loved.
From Ia Drang to Khe Sanh, from Hue to Saigon and countless villages in between, they pushed through jungles and rice paddies, heat and monsoon, fighting heroically to protect the ideals we hold dear as Americans. Through more than a decade of combat, over air, land, and sea, these proud Americans upheld the highest traditions of our Armed Forces.
It's not just me, right: Obama's even more rah-rah pro-military than was Kerry during the 2004 campaign? Such a fucking piece of crap.
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4 Responses to The Delirium
your sister says:
No pick-pocketing?
Uh…you mean, so Durian Delirious as to engage in pick-pocketing; or too delirious to notice when others have perpetrated the deed against me? Either way: not yet (so far as I'm aware!).
The "No pinching of salt."
Uhm…oh! Don't think it would be that, 'cause it's not a generally accepted practice anyway. Like, they wouldn't need to put a "No Kicking Your Fellow Man In The Nuts" sign (although I would be ecstatic to see such a sign!)…
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Le Bestiaire d'Amour est une œuvre en prose de  Richard de Fournival rédigée vers 1245 et qui connut un immense succès au .

Caractéristique de l'œuvre
C'est œuvre en prose originale qui connut une fortune européenne considérable et immédiate. Le Bestiaire d'Amour, est une œuvre d'une invention ingénieuse, ayant pour objet d'exhorter les dames à aimer.

Avec Richard de Fournival, un nouveau type de bestiaire est né, l'énoncé de la nature et des propriétés des animaux ne sert plus à développer un enseignement moral ou religieux.

Sur le modèle, mais en marge des bestiaires moralisés, Richard de Fournival  adapte le symbolisme animal à une casuistique courtoise qui illustre sous une forme pseudo-autobiographique les étapes et les infortunes d'une quête amoureuse. Une soixantaine d'animaux, empruntés à la tradition zoologique antique et médiévale, viennent fixer, par l'image autant que par la valeur emblématique que l'auteur leur impose, les postures et les démarches de l'amant sincère et de la dame.

Le Bestiaire d'Amour de Richard de Fournival comprend les animaux suivants :

 Li cocs (le coq)
 Li asnes salvages (l'âne sauvage ou onagre)
 Li leus (le loup)
 Li crisnon (le grillon)
 Li cisnes (le cygne)
 Li chiens (le chien)
 La vuivre (la guivre)
 Li singes chauciés (le singe)
 Li corbiaus (le corbeau)
 Li lions (le lion)
 La mostoile (la belette)
 La kalandre (la caladre ou calandre)
 La seraine (les sirènes)
 Li serpens aspis (l'aspic)
 La merle (le merle)
 La taupe (la taupe)
 Le tygre (le tigre)

 Li unicornes (l'unicorne)
 La panthère (la panthère)
 La grue (la grue)
 Li paons (le paon)
 Li argus (l'argus)
 L'aronde (l'hirondelle)
 Li pellicans (le pélican)
 Li castors (le castor)
 Li espics (le pic)
 Li hyreçons (le hérisson)
 Le cocodrille (le crocodile ou coquatrix)
 L'ydre (l'hydre)
 La singesse (la singesse)
 La serre (la serre)

 La torterele (la tourterelle)
 La pertrix (la perdrix)
 L'ostrisse (l'autruche)
 La chuigne (la cigogne)
 La huppe (la huppe)
 Li aigles (l'aigle)
 Li olifans (l'éléphant)
 Le dragon (le dragon)
 Les coulons (la colombe)
 La balaine (la baleine)
 Li gourpius (le renard)
 Li voutoirs (le vautour)

Éditions du Bestiaire d'amour
 Le Bestiaire d'Amour et la Response du Bestiaire (vers 1250). Édition bilingue. Publication, traduction, présentation et notes par Gabriel Bianciotto. Éditions Honoré Champion, 2009. 1 vol., 432 p., broché, 12,5 x , .

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie
 Gabriel Bianciotto, Les bestiaires du Moyen Âge, 1980.
 Michel Pastoureau, Bestiaires du Moyen Age, Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 2011

Liens internes
 Amour courtois
 Bestiaire
 Richard de Fournival

Liens externes
 Gallica : Le Bestiaire d'amour suivi de la Réponse de la dame, enrichi de 48 dessins gravés sur bois publiés pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque impériale, par Célestin Hippeau, professeur à la faculté des lettres de Caen, Paris, Auguste Aubry, 1860
 Le Bestiaire d'amour, suivi de La Réponse de la dame (Google book)

Notes et références

Œuvre médiévale française
Œuvre poétique médiévale
Amour courtois

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"""This module provides a completely general way to create axisymmetric
nanopore geometries and meshes in 1D, 2D and 3D, only from the shape of the
pore (given by a set of nodes) and some additional parameters, like membrane
thickness and position etc. In 3D there is the possibility of adding solid
spheres at arbitrary positions; in 2D, half-spheres that lie on the
central axis."""

# TODO: Use the list of domains and boundaries, together with initial mesh
# creation parameters and adaptivity parameters that apply to ALL pores,
# to create an accurate string representation of the adapted mesh, which can
# then easily be reused and only has to be saved once, e.g. for saved force
# fields.

# TODO: For 3D extension it should be easy to add "rotations" other than along
# a circle, i.e. along an ellipse, square or arbitrary polygonal closed curve;
# just add parameter affecting behaviour of Pore.CylSurfaces.

import nanopores.py4gmsh as gmsh
import nanopores.geometries.curved as curved
from nanopores.geo2xml import geofile2geo, reconstructgeo
from nanopores.tools.polygons import (Ball, Polygon, MultiPolygon,
                                      PolygonPore, MultiPolygonPore,
                                      plot_edges, isempty)
from nanopores.tools.utilities import Log

default = dict(
    geoname = "cylpore",
    porename = "protein",
    dim = 2,
    R = 15.,
    H = 15.,
    x0 = None,
    rMolecule = 0.5,
    lcMolecule = 0.25,
    lcCenter = 0.5,
    hmem = 2.2,
    zmem = 0.,
    cs = None, # crosssections; list of z coordinates
    poreregion = False, # whether to include fluid above pore as subdomain
)

default_synonymes = dict(
    #subdomains
    bulkfluid = {"bulkfluid_top", "bulkfluid_bottom"},
    fluid = {"bulkfluid", "pore", "nearpore"},
    nearpore = {"poreregion_top", "poreregion_bottom"},
    poreregion = {"pore", "nearpore"},
    solid = {"membrane", "poresolid", "molecules"},
    ions = "fluid",
    #boundaries
    noslip = {"poresolidb", "memb", "moleculesb", "sideb"},
    bV = "lowerb",
    ground = "upperb",
    bulk = {"lowerb", "upperb"},
    nopressure = "upperb",
)

class Pore(PolygonPore):
    "PolygonPore with additional gmsh creation functions"

    def __init__(self, poly, **params):
        params = dict(default, **params)
        self.dim = params["dim"]
        self.geoname = params["geoname"] # name of folder where mesh is created
        name = params["porename"] # name of pore wall subdomain, i.e. "dna"
        self.names = [name]
        PolygonPore.__init__(self, poly, name, **params)

    def build(self, h=1., subs=None, reconstruct=False):
        with Log("computing polygons..."):
            self.build_polygons()
            self.build_boundaries()
        geo = self.build_geometry(h, subs, reconstruct)
        return geo

    def build_nogeo(self, subs=None):
        self.build_polygons()
        self.build_boundaries()
        self.add_synonymes()
        self.choose_domains(subs)

    def build_geometry(self, h=1., subs=None, reconstruct=False):
        self.add_synonymes()
        self.choose_domains(subs)
        self.geo = None
        if reconstruct:
            self.geo = maybe_reconstruct_geo(params=self.params)
        if self.geo is None:
            with Log("writing gmsh code..."):
                code, meta = self.to_gmsh(h)
            meta["params"] = dict(self.params)
            self.geo = geofile2geo(code, meta, name=self.geoname)
        self.finalize_geo(self.geo)
        return self.geo

    def finalize_geo(self, geo):
        geo.params = self.params
        geo.params["lscale"] = 1e9
        geo.params["lpore"] = self.lpore
        geo.import_synonymes(self.synonymes)
        self.add_curved_boundaries(geo)

    def add_synonymes(self):
        # define porecurrent depending on molecule position
        porecurrent = "pore0"
        if porecurrent == self.where_is_molecule():
            porecurrent = "pore%d" % (self.nsections - 1,)
        dom = self.polygons[porecurrent]
        self.params["lporecurrent"] = dom.b[1] - dom.a[1]

        poresolid = set(self.names)
        poresolidb = set([b for b in self.boundaries if any(
                         [b.startswith(name) for name in self.names])])
        pore = set(["pore%d" % i for i in range(self.nsections)])
        molecules = set(self.balls.keys())
        moleculesb = set(name + "b" for name in self.balls)
        if not hasattr(self, "synonymes"):
            self.synonymes = dict()
        self.synonymes.update(default_synonymes)
        self.synonymes.update(
            porecurrent = porecurrent,
            poresolid = poresolid,
            pore = pore,
            poresolidb = poresolidb,
            molecules = molecules,
            moleculesb = moleculesb,
        )

    def unpack_synonymes(self, syns):
        if isinstance(syns, str):
            syns = {syns}
        domains = set()
        for syn in syns:
            if syn in self.domains:
                domains.add(syn)
            elif syn in self.synonymes:
                domains |= self.unpack_synonymes(self.synonymes[syn])
        return domains

    def choose_domains(self, subs):
        if subs is None:
            return
        domains = self.unpack_synonymes(subs)
        for dom in self.domains:
            if not dom in domains:
                self.domains.pop(dom)

    def get_subdomain(self, sub):
        domains = [self.domains[k] for k in self.unpack_synonymes(sub)]
        return MultiPolygon(*domains)

    def add_curved_boundaries(self, geo):
        if self.dim == 1:
            return
        geo.curved = {}
        for bname, ball in self.balls.items():
            if not isempty(ball):
                name = bname + "b"
                if self.dim == 2:
                    subdomain = curved.Circle(ball.r, ball.x0)
                elif self.dim == 3:
                    subdomain = curved.Sphere(ball.r, ball.x0)
                geo.curved[name] = subdomain.snap

    def to_gmsh(self, h=1.):
        # create mappings for nodes, edges
        self.gmsh_nodes = {}
        self.gmsh_edges = {}
        self.gmsh_cyl_surfs = {}
        self.gmsh_ball_surfs = {}

        lcs = self.set_length_scales(h)

        # create volumes
        for pname, p in self.domains.items():
            gmsh.Comment("Creating %s subdomain." %pname)
            if isempty(p):
                gmsh.NoPhysicalVolume(pname)
                continue
            lc = lcs[pname]
            #print pname, lc
            self.Volume(p, pname, lc)

        # add physical surfaces
        for bname, bset in self.boundaries.items():
            self.PhysicalBoundary(bset, bname)

        gmsh.raw_code(["General.ExpertMode = 1;"])
        #gmsh.raw_code(["Mesh.Algorithm3D = 2;"])
        code = gmsh.get_code()
        meta = gmsh.get_meta()
        self.code = code
        self.meta = meta
        return code, meta

    def set_length_scales(self, h):
        lc = {p: h for p in self.polygons}
        lc.update({p: h*b.lc for p, b in self.balls.items() if not isempty(b)})
        lc["molecule"] = h*self.params.lcMolecule
        for i in range(self.nsections):
            lc["pore%d" % i] = h*self.params.lcCenter
        #lc.update(dict.fromkeys(self.names, h*self.params.lcCenter))
        return lc

    def Volume(self, p, pname, lc):
        dim = self.dim
        if dim == 1:
            # only build right boundary
            R = self.params.R
            lines = [self.Edge(e, lc) for e in p.edges if e[0][0]==e[1][0]==R]
            if len(lines) > 0:
                gmsh.PhysicalVolume(lines, pname, dim)
            else:
                gmsh.NoPhysicalVolume(pname)
            return
        elif dim == 2:
            surfs = [self.Edge(edge, lc) for edge in p.edges]
        elif dim == 3:
            surfs = self.Surfaces(p, lc)
            if hasattr(p, "holes"):
                for hole in p.holes:
                    surfs.extend(["-%s" % s for s in self.Surfaces(hole, lc)])

        ll = FacetLoop[dim](surfs)
        vol = Entity[dim](ll)
        gmsh.PhysicalVolume(vol, pname, dim)

    def Surfaces(self, p, lc):
        if isinstance(p, Ball):
            return self.BallSurfaces(p, lc)
        elif isinstance(p, Polygon):
            return [s for e in p.edges for s in self.CylSurfaces(e, lc)]
        else:
            raise NotImplementedError

    def BallSurfaces(self, ball, lc=1.):
        x0, r = tuple(ball.x0), ball.r
        if (x0, r) in self.gmsh_ball_surfs:
            return self.gmsh_ball_surfs[(x0, r)]

        surfs = add_ball(x0, r, lc)
        self.gmsh_ball_surfs[(x0, r)] = surfs
        return surfs

    def CylSurfaces(self, e, lc=1.):
        if e in self.gmsh_cyl_surfs:
            return self.gmsh_cyl_surfs[e]

        # do nothing if edge is in center
        if e[0][0] == e[1][0] == 0.:
            return []

        # create Line
        line = self.Edge(e, lc)
        surfs = []

        # rotate in 4 steps
        for j in range(4):
            ex = gmsh.Extrude('Line{%s}' % line, rotation_axis=[0., 0., 1.],
                           point_on_axis=[0., 0., 0.], angle="Pi/2.0")
            line = ex + "[0]"
            surfs.append(ex + "[1]")

        # save, also for flipped edge
        self.gmsh_cyl_surfs[e] = surfs
        self.gmsh_cyl_surfs[e[::-1]] = ["-%s" % s for s in surfs]
        return surfs

    def Point(self, x, lc):
        if x in self.gmsh_nodes:
            return self.gmsh_nodes[x]

        #print x, lc
        if self.dim == 1:
            x1 = [x[1], 0., 0.]
        elif self.dim == 2:
            x1 = [x[0], x[1], 0.]
        else:
            x1 = [x[0], 0., x[1]]
        gmsh_x = gmsh.Point(x1, lc)
        self.gmsh_nodes[x] = gmsh_x
        return gmsh_x

    def Edge(self, e, lc=1.):
        # generalizes Line and Circle
        # if exists, return gmsh edge
        if e in self.gmsh_edges:
            return self.gmsh_edges[e]
        # otherwise, discriminate between Line and Circle
        points = [self.Point(v, lc) for v in e]

        if len(e) == 2:
            gmsh_e = gmsh.Line(*points)
        elif len(e) == 3:
            gmsh_e = gmsh.Circle(points)

        # save, also ffor flipped edge
        self.gmsh_edges[e] = gmsh_e
        self.gmsh_edges[e[::-1]] = "-" + gmsh_e
        return gmsh_e

    def get_boundary(self, e):
        dim = self.dim
        if dim == 1:
            R = self.params.R
            x, y = e[0], e[-1]
            if x[0] == y[0] == R:
                return []
            elif x[0] == R:
                return [self.gmsh_nodes[x]]
            elif y[0] == R:
                return [self.gmsh_nodes[y]]
        elif dim == 2:
            if e in self.gmsh_edges:
                return [self.gmsh_edges[e]]
        elif dim == 3:
            if isinstance(e, Ball):
                bdict = self.gmsh_ball_surfs
                e = tuple(e.x0), e.r
            else:
                bdict = self.gmsh_cyl_surfs
            if e in bdict:
                return bdict[e]
        return []

    def PhysicalBoundary(self, bset, bname):
        # should not create any new stuff
        gmsh.Comment("Creating %s boundary." %bname)
        boundary = [b for e in bset for b in self.get_boundary(e)]
        if len(boundary) > 0:
            gmsh.PhysicalSurface(boundary, bname, self.dim)
        else:
            gmsh.NoPhysicalSurface(bname)

class MultiPore(MultiPolygonPore, Pore):

    def __init__(self, polygons=None, balls=None, **params):
        params = dict(default, **params)
        self.dim = params["dim"]
        self.geoname = params["geoname"] # name of folder where mesh is created
        MultiPolygonPore.__init__(self, **params)
        if polygons is not None:
            self.add_polygons(**polygons)
        if balls is not None:
            self.add_balls(**balls)

FacetLoop = {
    1: lambda x: x,
    2: gmsh.LineLoop,
    3: gmsh.SurfaceLoop
    }

Entity = {
    1: lambda x: gmsh.Line(*x),
    2: gmsh.PlaneSurface,
    3: gmsh.Volume
    }

def add_ball(m, r, lc):
    # add ball in 3D
    return gmsh.add_ball(m, r, lc, with_volume=False)[2]

def get_geo(poly, h=1., reconstruct=False, subs=None, **params):
    pore = Pore(poly, **params)
    geo = pore.build(h=h, reconstruct=reconstruct, subs=subs)
    return geo

def get_geo_multi(polys, balls=None, h=1., reconstruct=False, subs=None, **params):
    pore = MultiPore(polys, balls, **params)
    geo = pore.build(h=h, reconstruct=reconstruct, subs=subs)
    return geo

def maybe_reconstruct_geo(params=None):
    # return None if it does not work
    name = params["geoname"] if params is not None else "cylpore"
    try:
        geo = reconstructgeo(name=name, params=dict(params))
    except EnvironmentError as e:
        print e.message
        geo = None
    return geo

if __name__ == "__main__":
    from nanopores import user_params, showplots
    params = user_params(
        h = 1.,
        porename = "dna",
        H = 20.,
        R = 10.,
        x0 = [0.,0.,0.],
        dim = 2,
        subs = None,
    )

    dnapolygon = [[1, -5], [1, 5], [3, 5], [3, -5]]

    # --- TEST
    p = MultiPore(dict(dna=dnapolygon), **params)
    p.build_polygons()
    p.build_boundaries()
    #print p.polygons.keys()
    #print p.boundaries.keys()

    p.protein.plot(".k", zorder=100)
    #p.polygons["bulkfluid_top"].plot()
    p.polygons["pore0"].plot()
    p.polygons["bulkfluid_top"].plot("--k")
    p.polygons["bulkfluid_bottom"].plot("--k")

    plot_edges(p.boundaries["memb"], color="blue")
    plot_edges(p.boundaries["lowerb"], color="green")
    plot_edges(p.boundaries["upperb"], color="green")
    plot_edges(p.boundaries["sideb"], color="yellow")
    plot_edges(p.boundaries["dnab"], color="red")
    showplots()
    # ---

    geo = get_geo_multi(dict(dna=dnapolygon), **params)
    print geo
    print "params", geo.params

    geo.plot_subdomains()
    geo.plot_boundaries(interactive=True)

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What Happens If Shelling Continues at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant?
By Fast News World August 13, 2022 Updated: August 13, 2022 Science No Comments9 Mins Read
KYIV, Ukraine — When Russian forces seized regulate of Europe's biggest nuclear energy plant in early March, a fierce gun combat with Ukrainian troops induced a blaze that raised international alarm over the hazards of a catastrophic radiation leak.
The fireplace used to be temporarily extinguished. And despite the fact that a Russian shell hit the No. 1 reactor, its thick partitions safe it from injury, the Ukrainian govt stated on the time.
Now, 5 months later, repeated shelling throughout the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant advanced over the last seven days has stirred new considerations, with Ukrainian and Western officers caution that the assaults heighten the chance of a nuclear coincidence.
Each aspect blames the opposite for the explosions on the plant.
The Ukrainians have accused the Russians of directing moves there to bring to an end power provides to different towns and to check out to discredit the Ukrainian army on the planet's eyes. The Russians say Ukraine is doing the shelling.
Both aspects would undergo if a meltdown came about and unfold radioactive subject material.
Ukrainian officers have additionally expressed rising alarm over the running prerequisites on the facility. More than 10,000 Ukrainian workers are charged with protecting the plant working safely whilst Russia has reworked it into an army citadel and engaged in what Ukrainian officers say is a marketing campaign of intimidation and harassment.
Rafael M. Grossi, the pinnacle of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stated Thursday at a gathering of the U.N. Security Council that the sector confronted a "grave hour" as the security of the plant deteriorated and known as for a workforce of world mavens to be given get right of entry to to the plant in an instant.
Mr. Grossi stated that for now there used to be "no immediate threat" on account of the new shelling however warned that the overview "could change at any moment."
The United States has known as for the advent of a demilitarized zone across the plant, however Russia has given no indication that it could even imagine leaving the power.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, chatting with a country that also bears the scars of nuclear disaster from the meltdown of the power at Chernobyl in 1986, stated the Kremlin used to be enticing in "unconcealed nuclear blackmail" and known as the placement on the plant "one of the biggest crimes of the terrorist state."
As international officers warn of the rising possibility on the plant, here's a have a look at the placement and probably the most urgent considerations.
Shelling persevered over the last week.
The Zaporizhzhia plant occupies a place at the Dnipro River alongside the entrance traces of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. The Ukrainian Army controls the west financial institution, whilst the Russians are entrenched across the plant at the river's east financial institution.
For weeks, Ukrainian officers say, Russian forces had been fortifying the out of doors of the plant and the use of it as a staging flooring for assaults on Ukrainian-controlled territory, calculating that Ukrainian forces won't go back fireplace as a result of the chance posed by means of an errant strike. Ukrainian officers stated they're most commonly no longer returning fireplace, and after they do it's guided, like a drone.
On Aug. 5, shells struck the advanced. Shelling has persevered over the last week.
After shelling on Thursday, staff on the plant have been pressured to turn on an emergency coverage energy unit, in line with a remark from Energoatom, the Ukrainian company liable for working all of Ukraine's nuclear energy vegetation. It stated the plant now stood the chance of running with out correct fireplace protection requirements as a result of injury to its inside energy methods.
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Another spherical of shelling ignited a fireplace within the space of the plant's nitrogen-oxygen station however it used to be put out.
At least one group of workers member running within the space the place dry spent nuclear gasoline is saved used to be injured in but some other episode of shelling.
The maximum urgent considerations focal point at the possibility of a meltdown.
While they're designed to resist a variety of possibility — from a airplane crashing into the power to herbal screw ups — no running nuclear energy plant has ever been in the midst of energetic combating, and this one used to be no longer designed with the specter of cruise missiles in thoughts.
There are a number of primary considerations.
The concrete shell of the web page's six reactors be offering robust coverage, as used to be the case when the No. 1 reactor used to be struck in March, officers say. More being concerned is the risk {that a} energy transformer is hit by means of shelling, elevating the chance of a fireplace.
Ukrainian officers have accused Russia of hiding dozens of army cars with an unknown quantity of munitions at the premises of a minimum of two reactors. If a fireplace have been to damage out on the energy transformers and the electrical community used to be taken offline, that would reason a breakdown of the plant's cooling gadget and result in a catastrophic meltdown, stated Edwin Lyman, a nuclear energy knowledgeable on the Union of Concerned Scientists, a non-public team in Cambridge, Mass.
He famous that the lack of coolant right through the Fukushima coincidence in Japan in 2011 ended in 3 reactors present process some extent of core meltdown.
If the cooling is interrupted, Dr. Lyman stated, the nuclear gasoline may just turn out to be scorching sufficient to soften in an issue of hours. Eventually, it would soften during the metal reactor vessel or even the outer containment construction, liberating radioactive subject material.
According to Ukrainian officers, a shell hit an influence transformer on the No. 6 reactor on the similar time the No. 1 reactor used to be struck. It didn't explode, in line with Ukrainian officers.
Dr. Lyman stated the danger would lower in relation to an army strike at the dry spent-fuel garage space subsequent to Zaporizhzhia's reactors. While used gasoline can nonetheless be dangerously scorching for years, it temporarily loses a lot of its radioactivity, making any breach much less threatening — despite the fact that it if have been hit by means of a shell or missile the radioactive debris would unfold within the air.
Workers are dealing with tough prerequisites.
Russian squaddies are detaining staff and subjecting them to brutal interrogations in a seek for conceivable saboteurs, prompting many workers to go away and elevating considerations about protection, Ukrainian officers say.
"People are being abducted en masse," Dmytro Orlov, the exiled mayor of the close by town of Enerhodar, stated right through a gathering ultimate month with officers from Energoatom. "The whereabouts of some of them are unknown. The rest are in very difficult conditions: They are being tortured and physically and morally abused."
A Ukrainian power legitimate who mentioned plant safety issues at the situation of anonymity as a result of the sensitivity of the topic stated that a minimum of 100 group of workers participants had been detained in contemporary weeks. Some who have been launched endure the scars of torture and 10 workers are nonetheless lacking, the legitimate stated.
Those claims may just no longer be independently showed.
Ukraine says Russia is the use of the nuclear plant as a type of drive.
Ukrainian officers have stated the Russians are the use of the plant as a type of nuclear blackmail, and that they've shelled the power to remind the sector that they regulate what occurs there. The moves, they declare, are directed by means of officers from the Russian nuclear company, Rosatom, who're at the web page and feature to this point been directed to hit issues that don't seem to be thought to be very important to the protected operation of the plant, just like the sewage gadget.
Russia too can disrupt the ability provide throughout Ukraine by means of decreasing the drift of power from the plant to the Ukrainian grid.
"The Russians understand that energy is a massive tool of power," R. Scott Kemp, a professor of nuclear science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised The New York Times when the Russians first took regulate of the plant. "It's a point of tremendous leverage."
How a long way radioactive subject material may just unfold right through a meltdown is dependent upon the cases.
Let's believe a meltdown came about and radioactive subject material unfold out from the plant.
Disaster situations with nuclear reactors in most cases are in accordance with native cases — how dangerous is the breach, does the groundwater drift in a selected route, is the wind blowing and, if that is so, which means and with what forcefulness over the years, secure or variable?
In phrases of energy output, the six reactors at Zaporizhzhia are kind of the similar dimension because the Chernobyl reactor that during 1986 suffered a meltdown and explosions that destroyed the reactor construction. In that case, the breach used to be extraordinarily dangerous and the existing winds blew the clouds of radioactive particles most commonly into Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. Lesser quantities have been detected in different portions of Europe.
Dr. Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists stated that, although moderately small, the repercussions of a meltdown may just contain native contamination, mass evacuations, farm stoppages and lots of billions of greenbacks in cleanup prices.
William J. Broad and Anna Lukinova contributed reporting.


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DWU women's basketball hoping to win more close games in 2015-16
If the Dakota Wesleyan University women's basketball team wants to have a shot at finishing in the upper half of the Great Plains Athletic Conference, it will have to learn how to win close games.
DWU's Erica Herrold (14) drives to the basket during a game in the 2014-15 season at the Corn Palace. (Matt Gade/Republic)
By Garrick Hodge
"I think we have a team that could be there, but last year we had 11 games that we were in but didn't win," DWU head coach Jason Christensen said. "We need to figure out how to win basketball games. That's going to be the key. Hopefully with us being a little more mature. we'll finish down the stretch."
The Tigers don't have a senior on their roster, but do feature returning players that played significant minutes in a 14-17 2014-15 season.
"I'd like to think we matured a little from last year," Christensen said. "But we are still a young team."
Christensen will get his first look at his team's prospects as the Tigers open the 2015-16 season at Oglala Lakota College at 5 p.m. on Tuesday in Kyle.
The Tigers were picked to finish eighth-out of 12 teams-in the GPAC preseason coaches poll. Morningside College-the reigning national champion-was projected to finish first, with national runner-up Concordia University picked to finish second.
"It'll be a dogfight this season," Christensen said. "Four teams (in the GPAC) will probably make it to the national tournament. Our conference is so good, you don't have to win it to get into the national tournament. The hardest part is getting there, once you get there, there's a chance to win some games. We can't get caught up in other people though, we need to take care of our own business."
Offensively, DWU will rely on junior forward Erica Herrold to pick up points in the post, as she averaged 12.1 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest last season. Junior forward Kristin Sabers will be another go-to option in the post, as Sabers averaged nine points and 3.6 rebounds per contest a season ago.
"We're going to lean on them a lot this year," Christensen said. "Both Erica and Kristin will have to be leaders this year and help some of our other players out."
When Sabers and Herrold need a break, forwards Ashley and Amber Bray could see minutes as forwards. Ashley Bray averaged 8.6 points and 3.7 rebounds per contest, while Amber Bray had 2.5 points and 1.7 rebounds a game in 2014-15.
Christensen said that sophomore point guard Chesney Nagel-who was expected to open the season as the starter at point guard-tore her anterior cruciate ligament last week and will miss the entire season. Last season, Nagel averaged four points and 3.3 rebounds a game while dishing out 55 assists in 29 games.
In her absence, junior Gabby Frykbo and freshman Rylie Osthus could see minutes at point guard. "She's not an easy kid to replace," Christensen said. "She really started to become a really good player for us, but unfortunately she got injured. It happens, injuries are part of the game. I'm not sure what we'll do at that position yet. We're moving things around."
A few other guards that could see playing time are Winner native Kelsey Bertram, Corsica native Hope Menning, Madison Kuehl and Shanna Selby.
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Humans are of two persuasions on this question.
On the one hand you have the materialists who say, "No, what you see is what there is." To be clear, they don't really limit reality just to what you can see; they limit it to what is observable or explainable if matter is all that exists. For example, a materialist might explain something like love (which is kind of hard to see, even under a microscope) with an appeal to evolutionary theory: the feeling of love benefited our human ancestors by helping us form attachments that resulted in tribes that protected members and assured survival of the species. In other words, what we call love is really a complex combination of chemical reactions.
On the other hand, you have the spiritualists who say, "Yes, there is a reality beyond the physical realm." They might explain something like love by appealing to God, a being not confined to the material world. They might say love is a real thing that flows from God and has a power on us in a way similar to gravity.
Before we go any further, let's be clear on one thing: materialism and spiritualism both require faith. Materialists look around at the world and choose to believe that only that which is physical or explainable by the physical is real. They limit their world based on the belief that only that which can be empirically (scientifically) verifiable is real. There's no undeniable proof for this belief, it takes a leap of faith to hold it. Meanwhile the spiritualists believe in a bigger universe based on the belief that humans are limited in what we can know and observe. Again, there is not proof, just evidence that can be observed and interpreted.
Meaning. Scientists, scholars, sages and Sunday school teachers all agree that people need a reason to live. Each of us wants to attach our individual life to something bigger: a cause, a concern or a story. We want to believe and live as if our life mattered for more than just taking in oxygen and releasing carbon. Materialists have a tough time with meaning (for an interesting read on this, check out Owen Flanagan's book The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World).
Justice. Materialists often cry out for justice, but for the life of me I cannot figure out why. We all want people (other people and ourselves, but especially other people) to live justly. Justice is the notion that things are not right and should be made right. But by what measure can the materialist appeal for "right?" In a materialist's world, right and wrong, good and evil are not real – they are just fabrications that help us operate well in the material world. Right and wrong are created within the material world, not imposed from beyond. But if right and wrong are constructs, why not choose a different way to live since we are not really bound by such unreal concepts as right and wrong?
Suffering, Life and Death. Spiritualists say there is something about you that is more than just your cells and chemicals: you have what some call a soul that exists beyond your body and maybe even after your body is dead. Materialists say that you live and you die and then it's over and it doesn't really matter. But everyone who's ever loved another person knows there is more to life than that. When your mate suffers, you suffer. Should your child die, you will grieve with a pain that is unimaginable. When death takes a loved one, nobody says, "Oh well, that was nice while it lasted, what's for dinner?" Materialists and spiritualists both agree that life is sacred and that we should treat every person accordingly, but only spiritualists are consistent on this issue. Life cannot be sacred if there is no such thing as sacred.
So what do you believe and do you live consistently?
Lots of people say they believe in God, but do we act like it? Do we live justly, show love, and operate according to higher powers and higher rules? Or do we live for momentary pleasures, the accumulation of stuff and our own self-interests? Do we mourn the death of a loved one because her life is sacred while maintaining hope that her soul is still real and we will reconnect on the other side?
Lots of other people claim to be materialists, but do you live accordingly? Do you eschew love since it's an illusion? Do you treat your child no differently than you treat your neighbor's dog since they're both just a complex combination of cells? Do you fight for justice even though you know right and wrong are human constructs?
BTW, if you want a great book on these matters, check out Tim Keller's recent book Making Sense of God.


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Uruk (وركاء or أوروك), Warkā' or Auruk; was an ancient city of Sumer and later of Babylonia. Situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the dried-up, ancient channel of the Euphrates, some 30 km (19 mi) east of modern Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BCE. At its height c. 2900 BCE, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 6 km2 (2.32 sq mi) of walled area; making it the largest city in the world at the time.
Founding and Decline
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IriGal Temple
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Uruk is the type site for the Uruk period. Uruk played a leading role in the early urbanization of Sumer in the mid-4th millennium BCE. At its height c. 2900 BCE, Uruk probably had 50,000–80,000 residents living in 6 km2 (2.32 sq mi) of walled area; making it the largest city in the world at the time.
In addition to being one of the first cities, Uruk was the main force of urbanization and state formation during the Uruk period, or 'Uruk expansion' (4000–3200 BCE). This period of 800 years saw a shift from small, agricultural villages to a larger urban center with a full-time bureaucracy, military, and stratified society. Although other settlements coexisted with Uruk, they were generally about 10 hectares while Uruk was significantly larger and more complex.
circa 2700 BCE
According to the Sumerian king list, Uruk was founded by the king Enmerkar. Uruk went through several phases of growth, from the Early Uruk period (4000–3500 BCE) to the Late Uruk period (3500–3100 BCE). The city lost its prime importance around 2000 BCE, in the context of the struggle of Babylonia against Elam, but it remained inhabited throughout the Seleucid (312–63 BCE) and Parthian (227 BCE to 224 CE) periods until it was finally abandoned shortly before or after the Islamic conquest of 633–638 CE.
The legendary king Gilgamesh, according to the chronology presented in the Sumerian king list, ruled Uruk in the 27th century BCE. In myth and literature, Uruk was famous as the capital city of Gilgamesh, hero of the Epic of Gilgamesh. It is also believed Uruk is the biblical Erech (Genesis 10:10), the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar. The city was formed when two smaller Ubaid settlements merged.
The temple complexes at their cores became the Eanna District and the Anu District dedicated to Inanna and Anu, respectively. The Anu District was originally called 'Kullaba' (Kulab or Unug-Kulaba) prior to merging with the Eanna District. The Eanna District was composed of several buildings with spaces for workshops, and it was walled off from the city. By contrast, the Anu District was built on a terrace with a temple at the top. It is clear Eanna was dedicated to Inanna from the earliest Uruk period throughout the history of the city.
The original city of Uruk was situated southwest of the ancient Euphrates River, now dry. Currently, the site of Warka is northeast of the modern Euphrates river. The Anu district consists of a single massive terrace, the Anu Ziggurat, dedicated to the Sumerian sky god An.
Evidence from excavations such as extensive pottery and the earliest known tablets of writing support these events. The introduction of the fast wheel for throwing pottery was developed during the later part of the Uruk period, and made the mass production of pottery simpler and more standardized.
The Stone Building (Steingebäude) of Uruk is a semi-subterranean building made of stone, that comprises of three rectangle rooms, that are nested in each other, with its central room C. The rooms were over 3m high. The access was made trough a ramp leading down from the surface level. The inner floor was paved with stone slabs. It is also unclear, if the building was only sub-terranean and had a flat or no roof at all, or if a super-structure was standing above the Stone Building. The location of the Stone Building right beside of the Anu Ziggurrat seems to indicate a special function however.
Originally built by the Seleucids circa 320 BCE, the Temple of IriGal or Aree Gal was located south of the Beit Reesh. The southern part of the temple includes a room used for religious rites. The temple was constructed with glazed bricks, but was severly neglected after the Seleucid era.
The Temple of Gareus is located in Uruk in Iraq and probably dates to circa 110 CE. Probably built during the Parthian period, it is among the few surviving religious structures of Parthian date in Babylonia. The building originally stood in a fortified area, which was slowly built over. Underneath the buildings there was a bath. The temple structure was partially restored in 1972. An inscription was found near the temple, which refers to the otherwise unknown god Gareus. Because of this, the temple has been ascribed to this deity.
While earlier scholars such as Jerome (4th century) had identified Erech with the Syrian city of Edessa (now within Turkey), the modern consensus is that it refers to the Sumerian city-state of Uruk in south Mesopotamia. See Warwick Ball, 2001, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, p. 89. Ball further speculates that the earlier traditions connecting Edessa (Orhai) with Erech might have arisen because the ancient Uruk was possibly 'transferred' to the more northerly location in the reign of Nabonidus of Babylon, 6th century BCE.
Halloran, John Alan (2009). "Sumerian Lexicon Version 3.0". Retrieved 2018-03-06. uru(2)(ki), iri, rí; iri11: city, town, village, district [URU archaic frequency: 101; concatenation of 5 sign variants; UNUG archaic frequency: 206; concatenates 3 sign variants].
While earlier scholars such as Jerome (4th century) had identified Erech with the Syrian city of Edessa (now within Turkey), the modern consensus is that it refers to the Sumerian city-state of Uruk in south Mesopotamia. See Warwick Ball, 2001, Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire, p. 89. Ball further speculates that the earlier traditions connecting Edessa (Orhai) with Erech might have arisen because the ancient Uruk was possibly 'transferred' to the more northerly location in the reign of Nabonidus of Babylon, 6th century BC.
Tertius Chandler, Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census, Edwin Mellen Press, 1987, ISBN 0-88946-207-0.
R. van der Spek, "The Latest on Seleucid Empire Building in the East." Journal of the American Oriental Society 138.2 (2018): 385–94.
R. van der Spek, "Feeding Hellenistic Seleucia on the Tigris." In Feeding the Ancient Greek City, edited by R. Alston & O. van Nijf, 36. Leuven ; Dudley, MA: Peeters Publishers, 2008.
Cooper, Jerrol S. (1996). The Study of the Ancient Near East in the Twenty-first Century: The William Foxwell Albright Centennial Conference. Eisenbrauns. pp. 10–14. ISBN 9780931464966.
Douglas Frayne (1990). Old Babylonian Period (2003–1595 B.C.): Early Periods, Volume 4. University of Toronto Press. pp. 439–483, 825.
William K. Loftus, Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana, Travels and Researches in Chaldaea and Susiana: With an Account of Excavations at Warka, the "Erech" of Nimrod, and Shush, "Shushan the Palace" of Esther, in 1849–52, Robert Carter & Brothers, 1857.
Julius Jordan, Uruk-Warka nach dem ausgrabungen durch die Deutsche Orient-gesellschaft, Hinrichs, 1928 (German).
Ernst Heinrich, Kleinfunde aus den archaischen Tempelschichten in Uruk, Harrassowitz, Leipzig 1936 (German).
H. J. Lenzen, The Ningiszida Temple Built by Marduk-Apla-Iddina II at Uruk (Warka), Iraq, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 146–150, 1957.
H. J. Lenzen, The E-anna district after excavations in the winter of 1958–59, Sumer, vol. 16, pp. 3–11, 1960.
H. J. Lenzen, New discoveries at Warka in southern Iraq, Archaeology, vol. 17, pp. 122–131, 1964.
J. Schmidt, Uruk-Warka, Susammenfassender Bericht uber die 27. Kampagne 1969, Baghdader, vol. 5, pp. 51–96, 1970.
Rainer Michael Boehmer, Uruk 1980–1990: a progress report, Antiquity, vol. 65, pp. 465–78, 1991.
M. van Ess and J. Fassbinder, Magnetic prospection of Uruk (Warka) Iraq, in: La Prospection Géophysique, Dossiers d'Archeologie Nr. 308, pp. 20–25, Nov. 2005.
Hans J. Nissen, The Archaic Texts from Uruk, World Archaeology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 317–334, 1986.
M. W. Green, Archaic Uruk Cuneiform, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 90, no. 4, pp. 464–466, 1986.
Stefan, Burmeister. The Interplay of People and Technologies Archaeological Case Studies on Innovations - Berlin Studies of the Ancient World 43. Bernbeck, Reinhard, Excellence Cluster Topoi (1., 1. Auflage 2017 ed.). Berlin. ISBN 9783981675184. OCLC 987573072.
Baker, H.D. "The Urban Landscape in First Millennium BC Babylonia". University of Vienna.
Beaulieu, Paul-Alain (2003). The Pantheon of Uruk During the Neo-Babylonian Period. BRILL. p. 424. ISBN 90-04-13024-1.
Charvát, Petr; Zainab Bahrani; Marc Van de Mieroop (2002). Mesopotamia Before History. London: Routledge. p. 281. ISBN 0-415-25104-4.
Crawford, Harriet E. W. (2004). Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-521-53338-4.
Fassbinder, J.W.E., and H. Becker, Magnetometry at Uruk (Iraq): The city of King Gilgamesh, Archaeologia Polona, vol. 41, pp. 122–124, 2003.
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5 Takeaways from Vote 2012
Values & moral concerns resonate in an economy-driven election
Messages sent in elections are notoriously murky and subject to varied interpretations. But voters in 2012 made clear that they're still voting their values, albeit sometimes in ways that buck conventional formulas.
Exit polls from the presidential contest suggested that core moral values might have held more sway than religious doctrines or even political philosophies. Now the parties need to read the tea leaves for what it all means going forward.
Five important takeaways have floated to surface:
1) Family comes first for Latinos. When all was said and done, Hispanic Catholics lined up strongly behind President Obama. They gave him 75 percent of their votes (up from 72 percent in 2008), according to exit poll analysis from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Immigration reform was a top priority for Hispanic voters this year, according to Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Clergy and Christian Leaders. Though Obama failed to act on the status of some 11 million undocumented immigrants in his first term, Latinos still trusted him more than Romney to get it done soon. At stake for many is whether family members will be allowed to work and stay together, or live under the threat of deportation indefinitely.
Republicans insist they should be the party of Latinos, who tend to be regular churchgoers and hold socially conservative views. But the GOP's positions on abortion and same-sex marriage can't sway those who want, first and foremost, promising paths for their loved ones. Family values prevailed in a raw sense over ideology. And if Obama gets credit for passing immigration reform in the future, it could be hard for Republicans to win these voters' hearts.
2) Republicans are broadening their religious coalition. God's Old Party, as it's playfully known, broke new ground by lining up support behind a non-Protestant presidential nominee. Evangelicals overcame hesitations about voting for a Mormon as 79 percent cast ballots for Romney. In another interesting sign, 85 percent of Americans living in Israel voted for Romney as well. While Jews overall went for Obama, 30 percent voted for the GOP nominee, up from 21 percent in 2008. Efforts to bring the devout from various backgrounds under one political tent are arguably making progress.
3) Democrats attract non-traditionalists, who nonetheless vote values. As growing numbers of Americans (nearly 20 percent) profess no religious affiliation, Democrats are reaping the harvest of their skeptical votes. Sixty-two percent of those who never attend religious services voted for Obama. In fact, it's now proven that the less often one worships, the more likely he/she is to vote Democratic.
Demographic shifts point in Democrats' favor, as the ranks of Hispanics, single adults and people with no religious ties all continue to grow. If there's a shared value system holding these disparate groups together, it might revolve around this conviction: let's promote wider sharing of all that's good in America, from steady wages to freedom to marry the person of one's choice. But "sharing" in many contexts means curtailing what individuals can do. That might eventually chafe this constituency somewhat if and when the 'let's share' principle gets written into law.
4) Establishment values are safe with Republicans. People who might fancy themselves as stalwarts of society – married women, weekly churchgoers and high earners, for example – voted overwhelmingly for Romney. These are people who, if we may generalize, tend to value societal stability and the taking of personal responsibility for one's affairs. In other words, they value holding people accountable, sometimes by letting markets mete out discipline and sometimes by enforcing limits on what individuals may do.
Being an establishment-friendly party isn't especially promising, however, at a time when more and more people feel alienated from institutions. If there's hope here, it's for the moral value of accountability to be applied meaningfully to powerful corporations and individuals, along with everyone else. If establishment pillars get a free pass, then lip service to accountability will ring hollow and disingenuous. A party that seems unwilling to use power judiciously won't appeal to fairness-minded, religious voters forever.
5) Issues framed in moral terms resonate. The religious right might be smarting after Vote 2012, but moral concerns in public life are far from defeated. Candidates such as Elizabeth Warren framed issues in terms of moral responsibilities. Example: holding white-collar lawbreakers accountable. A presumed duty to protect the vulnerable, articulated by Nuns on the Bus and others, gave a moral architecture to President Obama's victorious campaign.
In Alabama, concerns for public morality helped so-called "10 Commandments Judge" Roy Moore win election to the state's highest judicial post. Moral arguments for the sanctity of life carried the day as Massachusetts voters shot down efforts to legalize physician-assisted suicide.
Even successful same-sex marriage initiatives in Maryland, Maine and Washington were framed not only in terms of tolerance but as "the right thing to do" in terms of extending marriage benefits beyond heterosexual couples. Voters of all stripes seem to want governance from a place of moral conviction.
If there's any loser in 2012, it might be the notion that one cannot or should not legislate morality. Moral codes are very much driving what's afoot in red states, blue states and the nation's capitol. The specifics and interpretations just happen to vary – sometimes quite a bit – from one setting to the next.
G. Jeffrey MacDonald is a journalist, ordained minister and author of Thieves in the Temple: The Christian Church and the Selling of the American Soul (Basic Books, 2010). Check out his work here.


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Zelalem returns as Arsenal progress and the Man U game that never was (but was paid for)
Posted on 20 November 2018 by Tony Attwood
Everton v Arsenal Women the Match Report. 8 games, 38 goals!
Arsenal have run further than any other PL team this season. And this proves that...
It is certainly not the most well-followed trophy among those that Arsenal are engaged in, but it is there, the fifth competition on the agenda, and having seen one of our games thus far I can confirm for those who do go, it is good fun.
For below the Permier League, FA Cup, Europa League and League Cup, Arsenal are also playing in the Checkatrade Trophy. In this, clubs from the third and fourth tier of football, play against the under 21s of some Premier League sides.
We played against Cheltenham, Forest Green and Coventry, and having beaten Coventry but lost to Cheltenham we've now beaten League Two's Forest Green (who play in Nailsworth) to qualify for the next stage. The reward is an away game against Portsmouth in the next round.
In the Forest Green game Joe Willock opened the scoring with a penalty just before half time, and then two minutes later (even closer to half time) Willock received the ball from Saka and scored his second.
Tyreece John-Jules got third after Forest Green had pulled one back in the second half, 1602 being in the ground. The Arsenal team was
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Ballard, Bola, Bramall, Pleguezuelo
Willock, Zelalem, Coyle
John-Jules, Olayinka, Saka
Zelalem, whose brilliant career has been cut short by a series of injuries was substituted at half time, but I am not sure if there was an injury of if this was tactical.
So the table ended up…
Pos Club P W D L F A GD Pts
1 Cheltenham Town 3 2 0 1 8 6 2 6
2 Arsenal 3 2 0 1 8 7 1 6
3 Forest Green Rovers 3 1 1 1 6 4 2 4
4 Coventry City 3 0 1 2 1 6 -5 2
Meanwhile the Football League clubs have agreed a new deal with Sky for the televising of games, although some of the larger clubs are reported to be unhappy with the package on offer and continue to be looking into setting up their own direct to viewers service. Sky are also introducing some games which are only made available to pubs and clubs.
And elsewhere there are more revelations among which is the story that Manchester United paid Monaco €4.5 million for a friendly match which never took place, as part of the arrangements for a loan of Radamel Falcao.
The allegations say that Manchester United proposed making part of the payment for the loan dependent on them finishing in the top four and thus qualifying for the Champions League.
That however would have been completely illegal and been utterly obvious to anyone taking more than a cursory glance at the accounts – which suggests there was either supreme arrogance on Manchester United's part or else they were woefully ignorant of the rules.
What then happened instead, it is said, is that Falcao did indeed go on loan for €6 million but a second contract was agreed in which Manchester United would pay €4.5 million to play the friendly with the contract saying that the money would be paid even if the game was not played.
In fact the club could not have played the friendly since as normal they were on tour (in the USA) in the summer. Falcao then moved to Chelsea on loan.
There is one other development emerging amidst all the leaks of emails that have given us these stories in recent times, and that is that the Premier League clubs who have not been accused of any wrong doing in the leaks, are said to be getting a bit fed up with the notion that they are abiding by the rules, and others are not, and are starting to discuss between each other what might be done next.
As for the reactions to the leaks and other tales of potential wrongdoing, I've mentioned my own amusement about the comments that we should not handle the story because Arsenal bribed its way into the first division. Amusement since we were the ones who published on the Arsenal History Society site the only complete account of those events, with evidence. The key articles are listed below, in case you are interested.
Then we have had the argument about the fact that FFP is itself illegal and could be challenged in the courts. In fact it has been challenged both in football's own courts and in the European courts, the those seeking to overturn it have lost each time. Those details are included in the rather obviously named article Is FFP legal or could it be challenged in the European courts?
A third argument is that the evidence used in the articles we've been running in the interlull has been stolen, and therefore not somehow acceptable. That's obviously a matter of opinion, but for me, given that this is not (at least the last time I looked) a court of law but just a place where issued can be explored, the source of the data is not particularly relevant. What matters is whether it is likely to be true, and the impending enquiries suggest to me it might be. And therefore the tales seem to me to be worth covering.
Although all that is just my view of course.
Here are the articles about Arsenal's election in 1919.
The preliminaries
April 1915: New revelations concerning perhaps the most important month in Arsenal's history
November / December 1915: the match fixing scandal comes to the fore: Norris is armed
The voting and the comments before and after the election
The first suggestion that Arsenal could be elected to the 1st division.
Arsenal in January 1919: rioting in the streets and the question of promotion
What the media said about the election of Arsenal to the 1st division in 1919
Arsenal prepare for the vote on who should be promoted to the First Division
March 1919: The vote to extend the league and what the media said
Why did the clubs vote for Arsenal rather than Tottenham in March 1919?
More anon…
Arsenal have run further than any other PL team this season. And this proves that…
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long but interesting article
https://theblacksea.eu/stories/football-leaks-2018/eric-mao-asset-stripper-european-football/
Why is Arsenal election into the first division kept coming up as if it was true that Arsenal had financially bought the way to election to the first division before they got elected into it? And the election was at the expense of Tottenham Hotspur who have been alleging ever since then saying, they are the ones who were better placed then to be elected based on a higher cumulative points collected by them above the cumulative points that were collected by Arsenal then? And therefore they were the ones who should have been elected instead of Arsenal who got elected.
The past is the past. And the present is the present as both Arsenal and Tottenham have been playing in the Premier League. But Arsenal have never been relegated from the PL. And are they the only club side who has never been relegated from both the first division and the Premier League since they were elected to the first division in 1919? ( man pass man) Whatever be the way that Arsenal legitimately used or allegedly illegitimately used as been tailored around by Tottenham thereafter when Arsenal got elected after both Arsenal and Tottenham seek election to the first division but Arsenal beat them to it, Tottenham Hotspur should forget about beating the dead horse that has died continuously which they can't bring back to live. For, Arsenal election to the first division since 1919 is a fact in history that cannot be changed and it has come to stay for life irrespective of whatever be the level of accusation on the matter kept been leveled against Arsenal by Tottenham to discredit the Gunners. if I were Tottenham, they should be focusing on how they can avert a PL match defeat to Arsenal who are bent on punishing them with defeat in that PL match encounter at the Ems in less than a fortnight time as their reward for the slander of Arsenal which they've been doing which will result to them certainly not escape from getting punished severely at the hands of the Gunners in the match to force them to henceforth keep their mouths shut.


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African American & African Studies 4921: Intersections: Approaches to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (cross-listed with WGSST 4921)
#34681, M 9:35AM - 12:20PM, Denney Hall 214, Kelly Fulkerson-Dikuua
English 2282: Introduction to Queer Studies (cross-listed with WGSST 2282)
#28886, WeFr 2:20PM - 3:40PM, Campbell Hall 335, Lesia Pagulich
English 4580: Special Topics in LGBTQ Literatures and Cultures
#25911, WeFr 2:20PM - 3:40PM, Hagerty Hall 042, Martin (Joe) Ponce
German 2256: Fan Fiction: From Homer to Harry Potter*
#28091, WeFr 2:20PM - 3:40PM, Ramseyer Hall 100, Matthew Birkhold
Human Development and Family Science 3440: Human Sexuality
#32660, MoWe 2:20PM - 4:10PM, Jennings Hall 060, Anita Parker
#13980, Online, Katye Miller
Human Development and Family Science 5440: Human Sexuality in Context
#12453 or #12451, TuTh 2:20PM - 3:40PM, Campbell Hall 167, Anita Parker
MEDCOLL 4126: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Health [LGBTQ+ Health]*
#2713, TuTh 11:00AM - 12:30PM, Graves Hall 1130, Carmine Grieco
Sexuality Studies 5620: Sexuality and Violence
#20023 or #20022, TuTh 2:20PM - 3:40PM, University Hall 086, Zoe Brigley-Thompson
Social Work 3597: Adolescent Parenthood and Sexuality: An International Perspectives
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Social Work 5002: AIDS Survey: Facts and Issues
#14560 or #14561, Online, Randi Love
#14643 or #14642, Online, Nina Lewis
Social Work 5006: Integrative Seminars: Sexualities, Diversity and Social Work
#14337 or #14336, Th 5:30PM - 8:15PM, Stillman Hall 245, Marjorie Schwartz
Sociology 5605: Sociology of Sexuality
#20987 or #20986, WeFr 2:20PM - 3:40PM, Mendenhall Lab 125, Stephanie Spears
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 2230: Gender, Sexuality and Race in Popular Culture
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*WGSST 2260: Queer Ecologies: Gender, Sexuality, and the Environment
#34108, TuTh 11:10 – 12:30, Smith Lab 2150, Mary Thomas
WGSST 2282: Introduction to Queer Studies (cross-listed with English 2282)
WGSST 2367.03: U.S. Lesbian Writers: Text and Context
#27473, TuTh 9:35AM - 10:55AM, Baker Systems 394, Swati Vijaya
WGSST 3370: Sexualities and Citizenship
#28494, TuTh 12:45PM - 2:05PM, Cockins Hall 218, Tatsiana Shchurko
WGSST 4921: Intersections: Approaches to Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality (cross-listed with AAAS 4921)
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4921: Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality (Cross-listed in Comp Studies and WGSS - MAJOR ONLY)
TBD, WF 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, 110B Hale Hall, Maurice Stevens
City and Regional Planning
3610: Sex and the City (ELECTIVE CREDIT FOR AU19 ONLY)
34736, TTh 5:30 PM-6:50 PM, 115 Ramseyer Hall, Cody Price
What does sex have to do with urban life? Cities have long been sites for the pursuit of self-discovery and sexual freedom. They have also been home to the creation and growth of robust sexual subcultures and communities. The course will be divided into two sections: 1) the sexualities of cities and space, including the formation and examination of gayborhoods and red light districts, and 2) the regulation of sexually oriented businesses within cities. The first part of the course explores fundamental concepts in the study of sexuality and urban space, the impact of culture on urban sexual subcultures, individuals and society at large, and controversies around new forms of sexuality and sex that are emergent in urban life today. The second part of the course will explore and consider sexually-oriented businesses as (1) controversial or perceived offensive land uses and activities, (2) the reasons why the uses are controversial, (3) why courts or legislatures recognize and protect those uses, and (4) the land use and other regulatory tools available to address these uses at the local level.
2214: Introduction to Sexuality Studies (Cross-listed in Sexuality Studies)
34624, TTh 3:55 PM-5:15 PM, 2150 Smith Lab, Heather Frazier
4921: Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality (Cross-listed in AAAS and WGSS - MAJOR ONLY)
17946, WF 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, 110B Hale Hall, Maurice Stevens
Educational Studies: Counselor Education
4270: Love, Sex, and Relationships
12942, ONLINE, Rochelle Dunn
2282: Introduction to Queer Studies (Cross-listed in WGSS)
34915, ONLINE, Jian Chen
4581: Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures (ELECTIVE CREDIT FOR AU19 ONLY)
29414, TTh 11:10 AM-12:30 PM, 162 Macquigg Lab, Joe Ponce
This course examines 20th and 21st-century U.S. ethnic literatures—particularly, experimental or innovative literatures through the frames of U.S. empire, racialization, and sexuality. In what ways did the practices of U.S. imperialism—including chattel slavery, westward expansion, overseas war and colonization, economic and cultural neocolonialism—produce racialized, colonized, and gendered-sexual subjects? How have African American, American Indian, Arab American, Asian American, and Latinx writers critically and creatively engaged with such practices of racial and sexual subordination and territorial domination? What sorts of literary experiments have they invented and used to claim cultures and communities of survival, renewal, and transformation?
4592: Special Topics in Women in Literature and Culture (BOTH SECTIONS - ELECTIVE CREDIT FOR AU19 ONLY)
19053, TTh 2:20 PM-3:40 PM, Jennings Hall 140, Jennifer Higginbotham
Sonnets: Women played an influential role in the development of the sonnet. When the Italian poet Petrarch invented the form in the fourteenth century, he started a literary vogue that continues today, and women have been at the forefront of its innovation in the English tradition almost from the start. Initially present only as love objects, women quickly adapted the form to their own poetic voices. The Protestant exile Anne Lock published the first original sonnet sequence in English in 1560, re-purposing the secular love lyric to express religious desire, while women like Elizabeth Carey, Lady Spencer participated in the translation of Petrarch's original Canzoniere in the 1590s. After we dive into the mechanics of what makes a sonnet "a sonnet," we'll apply our knowledge to trace the history of women's sonnets from the sixteenth century to today. Poets may include Lock, Carey, Mary Wroth, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marilyn Hacker, Marilyn Nelson, Patience Agbabi, Wendy Cope, and Jackie Kay. In addition to gaining mastery of poetic form, students will engage with feminist and queer theory to explore what sonnets help us understand about gender and sexuality, and what gender and sexuality can help us understand about sonnets.
34814, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, Hayes Hall 006, Molly Farrell
Gender and Empire: The colonization of the New World has usually been told as a "boy story," with pirates or explorers, shipwrecks or frontiers, as its characters and settings. This class asks what would happen if we put girls and women, homes and domestic spaces, at the center of that story instead. Reading literature from and about early America, we will look at the ways sex, gender, and families are inextricably bound up with appetites for expanding an Empire. Beginning by asking why Toni Morrison set her new novel A Mercy among women in colonial America, we will read a novel about Americans caught in the Haitian revolution written by Aaron Burr's secret lover; ask why the first best-selling American novel, The Coquette, was about a sex scandal; and examine the persistent problems of gender and marriage in the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
2630: History of Modern Sexualities
34677, WF 3:55 PM-5:15 PM, 371 Journalism Bldg, Marc Arenberg
3215: Sex and Gender in the Ancient World
33035, TTh 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, 060 Jennings Hall, Tina Sessa
Human Development and Family Science
3440: Human Sexuality
13306, ONLINE, Katye Miller
13543, M 5:30 PM-8:15 PM, 130 Adena Hall, Tina Angeletti (NEWARK CAMPUS)
14203, MW 2:20 PM-3:40 PM, 167 Campbell Hall, Anita Parker
5440: Human Sexuality in Context
12595, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 309 Campbell Hall, Anita Parker
Kinesiology: Sport Industry, Sport Management
5614: Sport and Sexuality
11882, TTh 3:55 PM-5:15 PM, 082 University Hall, Melissa Wiser (UNDERGRAD SECTION ONLY)
2333: Psychology of Human Sexuality
22666, MWF 9:10 AM-10:05 AM, 251 Journalism Bldg, Lisa Miller
4555: Adolescent Sexuality
22831, TTh 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, 280 Pomerene Hall, Leslie Rudy
4875: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion
33348, TTh, 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 038 University Hall, Hugh Urban
2214: Introduction to Sexuality Studies (Cross-listed in Comp Studies)
3597: Adolescent Parenthood and Sexuality: An International Perspective
14396, ONLINE, TBA
14738, ONLINE, TBA (7-Week Session 2)
14776, ONLINE, TBA (LIMA CAMPUS)
5002: AIDS Survey: Facts and Issues
14755, ONLINE, Nina Lewis (MARION CAMPUS)
5016: Affirmative Social Work Practice with LGBTQ Individuals, Couples, and Families
14836, T 5:30 PM-8:15 PM, 240 Stillman Hall, TBA
2340: Sex and Love in Modern Society
23019, WF 2:20 PM-3:40 PM, 247 Townshend Hall, TBA
3435: Sociology of Gender
34122, MW 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, TBA, Rachel Schneider (NEWARK CAMPUS)
34165, MW 9:45 AM-11:05 AM, TBA, Michelle Kowalski (MANSFIELD CAMPUS)
5605: Sociology of Sexuality
23166, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 137 Caldwell Lab, Corinne Reczek
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
2230: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Popular Culture
23691, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 324 Hitchcock Hall, Treva Lindsey
23692, TTh 5:30 PM-6:50 PM, 250 Denney Hall, Treva Lindsey
26592, MWF 10:20 AM-11:15 AM, 005 Hayes Hall, Allison Susor
27387, WF 9:35 AM-10:55 AM, 218 Cockins Hall, Rachel Buckner
29345, ONLINE, TBA (MARION CAMPUS)
2282: Introduction to Queer Studies (Cross-listed in English)
2367.03: U.S. Lesbian Writers: Text and Context (MAJOR ONLY)
26657, WF 3:55 PM-5:15 PM, 184 Baker Systems, Cindy Burack
4404: Regulating Bodies: Global Sexual Economies
33938, WF 2:20 PM-3:40 PM, 056 University Hall, Azita Ranjbar
33940, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 082 University Hall, Juno Parrenas
4921: Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality (Cross-listed in AAAS and Comp Studies - MAJOR ONLY)
Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization
7858.01 / .02: Seminar in U.S. Ethnic Literatures and Culture (ELECTIVE CREDIT FOR AU19 ONLY)
34806, T 1:50 PM-4:50 PM, 435 Denney Hall, Joe Ponce
This course takes a queer comparative approach to 20th and 21st-century U.S. ethnic literatures. Focusing in particular on formally innovative writing that highlights the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality, we will consider how writers of color have critically and creatively engaged with the legacies and ongoing practices of U.S. colonialism and imperialism. Potential genres and topics include historiographical metafiction, speculative fiction, experimental poetry, and nonlinear autobiography dealing with settler colonialism, slavery, continental and overseas expansion, racialized bodies and desires, and political radicalism.
8950: Seminar in Musicology - "Music and Queer Desire"
29418, TTh 12:45 PM-2:05 PM, 270 18th Ave. Library, Arved Ashby
4635: Men and Women in Society
23047, TTh 3:55 PM-5:15 PM, 137 Caldwell Lab, TBA
18069, ONLINE, Lesia Pagulich (8-Week Session 2)
8626, ONLINE, TBA
11158, MWF 11:40 AM-1:15 PM, 040 Jennings Hall, TBA (8-Week Session 2)
9703, ONLINE, Gwendolyn Rees (8-Week Session 1)
10647, ONLINE, Gwendolyn Rees (8-Week Session 2)
5002: AIDS Survey: Facts and Issues (all sections 8-Week Session 2)
9770, ONLINE, Randi Love
9771, ONLINE, Nina Lewis
10325, ONLINE, Nina Lewis
18065, ONLINE, Marie Lerma (6-Week Session 2)
21274, ONLINE, Joy Ellison (6-Week Session 1)
11158, MWF 11:40 AM-1:15 PM, 040 Jennings Hall, TBA (6-Week Session 2 - UNDERGRAD SECTION ONLY)
5002: AIDS Survey: Facts and Issues (8-Week Session 2)