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Kim Stanley Robinson: Forward the Future
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Kim Stanley Robinson was born March 23, 1952 in Waukegan IL, and grew up in Orange County CA. He earned a BA in literature from UC San Diego in 1974, a master's in English from Boston University in 1975, and a Ph.D in literature from UC San Diego in 1982. He went to Clarion in 1975. His doctoral thesis was revised and published as The Novels of Philip K. Dick (1984). He lived in Switzerland and Washington DC in the '80s, and has spent time doing research in Nepal, Antarctica, Italy, and China, among other locations.
Robinson's first stories appeared in Orbit 18 (1976). Many of his short stories are collected in The Planet on the Table (1986) and Remaking History (1991). Retrospective collection The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson appeared in 2010. Important short works include World Fantasy Award winner "Black Air" (1983) and Nebula Award winner "The Blind Geometer" (1986). He edited Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias (1997), and In the Sierra: Mountain Writings by Kenneth Rexroth (2012), and he is part of the "Mount Thoreau Collective" along with Paul Park, Michael Blumlein, Carter Scholz, and others, which published Naming Mt. Thoreau, edited by Laurie Glover, in 2017.
His first novel, The Wild Shore (1984), began his Three Californias trilogy, collected into one volume by Tor in 2020. The Gold Coast (1988) and Pacific Edge (1990) followed, with the latter winning the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Other early novels include Icehenge (1984) and The Memory of Whiteness (1985). Fantasy works include mosaic novel Escape from Kathmandu (1989) and surreal fantasy novella A Short Sharp Shock (1990), winner of a Locus Award.
Robinson made his name with the groundbreaking Mars trilogy: Nebula Award winner Red Mars (1992), and Hugo and Locus Award winners Green Mars (1993) and Blue Mars (1996). A collection of related material, The Martians (1999), also won the Locus Award. Near-future ecological thriller Antarctica was the result of a National Science Foundation grant that sent Robinson to Antarctica as writer-in-residence. Locus Award winner The Years of Rice and Salt (2002) is a major alternate history about the development of science.
His Science in the Capital trilogy explored global climate change and ecological disasters: Forty Signs of Rain (2004), Fifty Degrees Below (2005), and Sixty Days and Counting (2007); a version updated and abridged as single novel was published as Green Earth (2015). Campbell Memorial and Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist Galileo's Dream (2009) combined historical fiction and far-future SF, while Nebula Award winner 2312 (2012) explored the solar system 300 years hence, and Shaman (2013) is set in the Paleolithic era. Campbell Memorial Award finalist Aurora (2015) is about a generation starship, and Hugo and Campbell Award finalist New York 2140 (2017) explores the city transformed by sea level rise. Red Moon (2018) is about a Chinese lunar colony. His latest novel, The Ministry for the Future (2020), concerns the consequences of climate change.
Robinson lives in Davis CA with his wife of almost 40 years, environmental chemist Lisa Nowell; they have two sons.
Excerpts from the interview:
"When we're at my wife's family place in Maine, I don't have enough time to do all the things I want to do. It's like Calvin and Hobbes – 'The days are just packed.' When I'm here in Davis, it's the opposite. There's nothing to do but write. This explains a lot about me. I have my daily gardening and running frisbee golf with a friend, and my walk with Lisa, and beyond that, it's writing. That's not so terrible, since I like to write. But wow, in this first week back from Maine, it's kind of shocking. Hopefully we'll spend more of every year in Maine, in the years to come. These days I'd rather build my sentences with rocks.
"One Zoom event I'll get to here is the Antarctic Artists and Writers' alumni group, which has finally been formed, and right when it's needed, since the Trump administration killed the program last year. Now that there's an alumni group, we have a way to fight to get the program reinserted into the NSF budget next year. That would be good. There are about 120 of us now, and they've done great work.
"Most of what I wrote about in The Ministry for the Future is already out there in the world. I did very little extrapolating of technology. The book's plan for slowing down Antarctic glaciers is the idea of an individual glaciologist who shared it with me, telling me he didn't want to talk in public about it because he didn't want to get dragged into the geoengineering wars. After doing an event with Michael Mann, I had to agree that once you get tagged as a leading climate scientist, your whole career is torched from then on by enormous political firefights. For geoengineering, it's even worse, so if what you really love is glaciology, you need to stay out of that. This guy told me, 'You spread the idea. That's what science fiction is for.' So I asked other glaciologist friends what they thought of it, and they said, 'Can't be sure, would be hard to know where to pump the water up, the glaciers would need to be the kind that are bedded in canyons, not just flowing down a big tilted slope, so you'd have to get lucky, but maybe it could work in some places,' and so on – they went on like that in the usual scientist way, and I thought, 'Heck it sounds good enough, I'm going to run with it.' It seems plausible enough to be worth bringing up. I like the sea level where it is.
"The other important part of my plot, the carbon coin, comes out of a paper I ran into online, by Delton Chen. It sounded plausible to me, so I asked some economist friends about it, and they said, 'Yeah, this is an idea being discussed.' It's a kind of quantitative easing, which we've certainly seen a lot of recently, only this time it involves newly created money that gets paid specifically for carbon sequestration. The idea has gone from fringe to mainstream quite quickly, as people realize we need some Keynesian or postcapitalist political economy to pay ourselves to decarbonize and otherwise mitigate climate change, to hopefully dodge a mass extinction event. It was clear to me that this financial plan was an important element for any story describing a best-case outcome. Even the president of the World Bank recently said, 'We need to put a price on carbon.' It was shocking to hear the World Bank say that, because it's been awful throughout its history, an instrument for extracting value from the developing world. It's backed fossil fuels, gigantic dams, cash crops instead of local food production, and so on. It's added to climate change, and is among the institutions that need reform, from inside or out. With this statement we see a crack in the wall. Pretty soon after that, the Paris Agreement was signed, and that was huge. A major event in world history. All this turmoil in economic theory for coping with climate change seemed to me like it was right on the cusp of being a coherent story, a future history that could be told without being too implausible. It felt sort of like the Mars terraforming discussions in the late '80s. A whole body of ideas had been coalescing for a while, and a big new story was there waiting to be told. The same is true now for climate change-driven postcapitalism.
"My novel is a patchwork, in a 'form follows function' way, because history is a patchwork. I wanted a global story, and this was the method that let me do it. Lots of different modes came in useful. I have my smooth interviewer and his grumpy guest, based on the WWII BBC tapes of George Orwell and William Empson, with Orwell unflappable in the face of Empson's rudeness. That struck me funny, and in general I was looking for funny. Climate change and existential survival, the likely grotesque nature of the next 30 years – it's not obviously funny. It's not even narratizable, really, but I'm under a compulsion, it seems, so I've had to think about art as entertainment versus art as education. Aristotle and Brecht are both clear on this as a false distinction, that education can be entertaining, and entertainment educational. You want both. But it's easier said than done, and this novel deals with particularly grim stuff. Heat waves killing millions, PTSD both individual and social – the pleasure to be had in reading about such stuff was a little elusive to me. So when I came to the form of many voices and styles, I saw that the variation itself could be pleasing for some readers. There are 106 chapters, but when you start a chapter you don't know what kind of thing it's going to be. It might be a riddle, might be an ordinary dramatized scene, might be an interview or a transcript, or meeting notes, or an eyewitness account. Patterns could emerge from that, or at least a certain rhythm, and a game to play.
"The eyewitness accounts were the crucial discovery for me. Eyewitness accounts are a genre of their own. I had not comprehended that until I began to read collections of them. What people saw in the spring of 1945 in Germany, or during Napoleon's Waterloo campaign, or May 1968 in France, or in the current refugee crisis, and so on. I read about a dozen of these collections and began to understand that in this genre, you don't dramatize scenes, not like a novel does. You cut to the chase – in effect, you don't show, you tell. And that I loved. I hate all workshop prescriptions for how fiction is supposed to work. Do this, do that – give me a break. We don't know how fiction works, so I don't believe in writing workshops, which is of course hilarious because I'm so involved with Clarion, and I'm a child of the workshop system myself. I've sorted out that confusion by realizing that the workshops themselves are fine – they're like getting published for the first time, to a small audience that actually gives you helpful feedback, so all that is fine. It's just all the generalizations about writing that have emerged from that system, the various MFA truisms and the bullshit lexicons, and even the standard craft terminology, it's all stupidly simplistic. So you have to go into workshops distrusting every generalization, because there aren't any rules, and anything might work. After One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 'show don't tell' in particular is shattered, because that novel is 350 pages of telling, with no showing whatsoever, and it's one of the greatest novels ever written. Ponder that before you write yet another story made up of seven dramatized scenes in a row. It's time for some telling. You're not a mime."
Interview design by Stephen H. Segal. Photo by Arley Sorg.
Read the full interview in the December 2020 issue of Locus.
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Real Life Returns
Posted on August 6, 2019 by Abigail
Illustration by Kurt Wiese
All The Mowgli Stories, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1936
I've just finished writing and footnoting an article, exploring new territory, with potential impact in a controversy that's been roiling opinion-shapers for decades. Tonight I sent it to an editor at an influential journal of opinion who has signaled that he is receptive.
Of course, I've said things along these expectantly hopeful lines before, in this column. As my mother used to say, "the unexpected always happens." In this case, the unexpected would be that … nothing happens. Or a flower pot could fall on my head, and with it – there goes the influential article. Instead we have to line up the mourners for a very small, local, social event: my funeral.
But as of now, I rather think something will happen, meaning that this article could well be accepted by an appropriate editor. I am not trying to get rich and famous. I am trying to say something that hasn't been said and ought to be said. How does that make me feel I wonder.
It makes me feel like a very small child, walking through the tall, sunlit grass, pushing back the dandelions on the path. Instead of feeling like a grownup who's applied for epaulettes of her own, I feel … like a kid again.
At Camp Hilltop, the bungalow colony in the Watchung hills of New Jersey where we kids spent our summers, we only took our parents along because somebody had to cook and pay the rent. But it was essentially our place. I named all my friends after the animal characters in Kipling's Jungle Book, reserving "Mowgli," the name of the boy who was raised by the wolves, for myself.
I fought my first battle against injustice there. I was six and Jan, the unjust boy, was five. So maybe you'll think it was an unfair combat. Why fight a smaller kid?
Well he may have been smaller, but he was certainly badder. It started when we were all sitting on the porch steps of one of the bigger bungalows. Jan came along with a hammer. We wore sandals. That gave Jan the idea of going from bare foot to foot to hammer our toes. Nobody said anything. They all sat there while Jan took his turn at each set of toes. The big kids were just putting up with it.
That didn't look right to me. Before Jan could smash my toes, I rose to my feet and said loftily,
"This time, Jan, you've gone too far."
I didn't know what that meant exactly, but all the other kids did. It meant, we had to have a fight. It was first (and, to date, my last) combat with fisticuffs.
I didn't like it one bit, and would have run away as soon as Jan's first blow landed, but the other kids wouldn't let me. The had formed a circle around the combatants and were yelling,
"Don't run away, Abby!"
As Johnny Cash says in "A Boy Named Sue,"
"What could I do?"
Jan ran away first. It was counted a famous victory.
I was ten when I met my first romance at Hilltop. Arnie. He was twelve. We played tetherball. He coached me to swim more lengths of the pool. That was as far as it went. He won the name of Baloo, the bear in Jungle Book. Mowgli's friend.
Flossie was Bagheera, the black panther. I thought she was the most wonderful person in the world. She was thirteen, which is much more elevated than ten. Together with a girl who lived in the compound of the farmer down the road who kept horses, we went on a tearing gallop up Old Stony Road. In this world, it hardly gets better than that.
So why, having just finished an extremely grownup thing, an article taking moral risks in a real controversy, do I remember Camp Hilltop and feel like a kid?
It's been a long and stony road. I don't know where Arnie is now, or Flossie, or poor Jan. But I feel like I'm in the midst of …
real life again.
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2 Responses to Real Life Returns
Johan Herrenberg says:
Yes, when you step out into the unpredictable, life can hit you with all the freshness of childhood. Beautiful piece! Good luck, Abigail!
Thanks Johan for welcoming me to the Camp Hilltop of the world!

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Inspired by reading Vilém Flusser, I created this video art piece. The technological engagement against nature for survival. The inevitability of death and the cycle of renewal. Human culture is absurd, a failed attempts to attain immortality by preserving information after its creator's death in the form of artifacts that eventually crumble and fade. "technology & culture" are products of a "natural" neuronal circuits in human brains.


Whether it's a tiny cottage on St. Barths or the grand Mustique estate of the late Princess Margaret, there's a villa for you, reports Ian Keown.
NEWPORT, RI, November 2002 - THERE ARE FEW EXPERIENCES MORE GENUINELY relaxing than staying in a private villa with the owner's personal staff in attendance. The terrace at sundown. Hummingbirds hovering around the bougainvillea as you're served a martini or late afternoon tea. Ah to read, chat, play backgammon, or just snooze. A bell tinkles, dinner is ready. Candles flicker, tree frogs chatter, the surf swishes. No crowds, no cares-just you and the family.
The newest villa-or, rather, complex of villas-is Temenos on Anguilla. Spread over 2.2 acres next to Long Bay Beach are three exquisite two-store houses: Sand, Sky, and Sea. The first two feature four bedrooms, the third has five. Temenos is Greek for 'sanctuary' and there is a remarkable appropriate sense of well-being in the design and décor here. The color schemes harmonize with the names of the villas; master bedrooms have indoor-outdoor bathrooms; skylights filter light down on high-ceilinged living rooms with panoramic windows and curving walls. Each villa has its own infinity pool, formal dining room, and casual pavilion for outdoor dining. Upstairs there's an atelier office complete with laptop, Internet access, printer, and fax machine. The three villas share a beach pavilion, a gym, and three lighted tennis courts. They also share a polished staff, including several chefs and a tennis pro.
Mustique in St. Vincent-Grenadines, may be the ultimate villa vacation-1,400 private acres that are both rural and grand. There are no crowds, no peddlers, no paparazzi, and no cruise ships. There's also no traffic. In fact, there's nothing at all to distract you. But this island does have its surprises, which include a remarkably well stocked public library of 4,000 books, even a clinic and medical staff.
Of the 89 private houses on the island 55 are available for rent. They are one-of-a-kind, their designs and locations often quite dramatic. All have live-in staff (who overnight in mini-villas on the premises), and each zealously guards its privacy and seclusion. Yet they are all within a short drive of two very sophisticated little inns with restaurants and a couple of fairly lively nightspots. But that's it. This is not St. Barths. One eats at home, and for the most part, home (assuming that you have the proper staff, especially a cook) can be very, very delicious. Nor, surprisingly, is Mustique as pricey as St. Barths. In fact, rates on this toniest of tony islands compare favorably with much less glamorous hideaways. Last year ten new villas entered the rental pool and a few more reemerged from major renovations. The most glamorous renovation has been at Les Jolies Eaux, the villa-estate-compound that once belonged to Princess Margaret. She, of course, made the island famous. Translated as "Beautiful Waters" and built overlooking Gelliceaux Bay, the estate was a wedding gift from English aristocrat Colin Tennant-always referred to as Lord Glenconner-who developed Mustique in the late sixties. Margaret's son, Viscount Linley, recently sold it to an American couple who have completely redone the villa in very grand style. The property, which overlooks both Caribbean and Atlantic, leads down to a heavenly clifftop pool with a cabana on one side and a free-standing bedroom-cottage on the other. Hilltop Serenissima, a four-bedroom Balinese-style villa, overlooks Macaroni Beach-perhaps the best beach on the island because of its cool windward location and the absence of those dreaded little sandflies. Owned by a stylish Italian couple with children, it has the advantage of being both urbane and child-friendly. There is even a 'rec' room downstairs, and one of the best-equipped kitchens on the island.
Point Lookout is one of the most satisfying beachside villas I've ever stayed in, sole occupant of a narrow headland with stereophonic sea sounds. L'Ansecoy Beach curves off almost from the front door, a tiny patch of sand awaits a few paces from the terrace, and a small circular swimming pool perches amount the rocks at the end of the lawn. Beyond the elegant, if slightly untropical, façade of native stone and dark hardwoods is a leafy garden foyer that leads to a spacious open living room. Three of the four bedrooms are grouped in a wing, an arrangement better suited to a family than to four couples.
One of the villa's most inviting features is an octagonal dining pavilion facing the water, casual by day and just formal enough by candlelight to make family dinners special. After dark you won't see another light except for the occasional fishing boat. It is quiet, peaceful, and blissfully secluded-and yet a short, bumpy ride in the villa's "mule" (a cross between a golf cart and Jeep) will take you to a chic bar and as much socializing as you can handle.
Thee butlers and a private chef at your beck and call, and an excellent wine cellar with 1,000 bottles: You'll find them all at Anguilla's two-year-old Altamer. The architecture is ultramodern, with a four-store wall of glass facing the beach. The stylish interiors are filled with antiques brought back from Turkey and Russia (the owners are international bankers) and custom-designed Murano glass fixtures.
Take the elevator to the second floor and you can while away an hour or two at a custom-built billiard table. There's also a "communications center" with a computer, phone, and fax, a lighted tennis court, and an air-conditioned gym. The lap pool is practically on the beach (a ravishing crescent of white sand), and the trio of butlers will keep you supplied with chilled drinks and fresh towels ad infinitum.
Warning: This may be the last year of Altamer's coveted absolute privacy. A second villa is planned to go up 120 feet away.
Saba, one of the Netherlands Antilles, is not your typical Caribbean island. The peak of a volcanic cone, it shoots straight up from the sea to a height of almost 3,000 feet without the usual lowlands of beaches and palm trees. It's perfect for adventurers, with spectacular scuba diving and equally dramatic hiking through the rainforests. Notched into the side of Troy Hill, high above the village of The Bottom, Haiku looks almost like a birdcage among the mahogany and breadfruit trees. It's a setting of sublime serenity. The Japanese-styled exterior hints at its minimalist interiors by Jan des Couvrie, one of the Netherlands' leading decorators: comfortable sofas, wooden rockers, and pencil-post beds, a teak dining table that seats 12, and a state-of-the-art kitchen by Siemens. There's a television and DVD player, but with its rustic post-and-beam construction, high ceilings, and panoramic views of forest, sea, and sky, it feels more like the ultimate luxurious treehouse.
I fell in love a few years ago with this tiny house designed in vernacular French West Indies style. A wood-framed cottage just off much-photographed St. Jean Beach (St. Barts), it's a real find. The living room and kitchenette are on the patio, screened from passersby by high walls draped with hibiscus. Louvered shutters lead to the air-conditioned bedroom, casually done up in white and buttercup. It's the sort of spot romantics love-despite its jarringly unromantic computer code name, CHI. The beach is just a stroll way beneath the sea-grape trees, while the familiar bistros and boutiques are two minutes away in the other direction. If you prefer something less dainty, right behind are BOO and DAD, two brand-new villas that are also done in local style, but with four bedrooms each.


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Hickey on Hockey: Crosby's early exit puts spotlight on stupid NHL policy
Pat Hickey, Montreal Gazette · Postmedia News | Posted: July 19, 2020, 5:37 p.m. | Updated: July 20, 2020, 8:41 p.m. | 4 Min Read
Sidney Crosby, seen in file photo, left Saturday's practice with 25 minutes to go.
Sidney Crosby left practice Saturday and he wasn't on the ice Sunday .
We would like to give you an update on the Pittsburgh Penguins superstar's condition, but all we can do is speculate because the National Hockey League, in lockstep with the NHL Players Association, has imposed a total blackout on any news related to the health of the players.
"As the league has put forth these rules, we're not permitted to comment," Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said when asked about Crosby's decision to leave Saturday's practice with 25 minutes to go.
I understand the reasoning behind the rule. The players are entitled to some degree of privacy and they may fear there's some stigma attached to testing positive for COVID-19 and suggestions they became infected because they did something stupid and didn't follow the rules.
The league has provided some general updates on the number of positive tests, and two players — Toronto's Auston Matthews and Edmonton's Caleb Jones — have said they tested positive and are practising after dealing with the virus.
The main drawback to the rule is that it leads to speculation. When a player doesn't show up for practice, the team can announce only that he is "unfit to practice." There's no way of knowing whether he is infected with the virus, is treating a minor injury or has undergone surgery that will keep him out of the lineup for months.
The Crosby case illustrates the stupidity of the rule. We can assume that he didn't suddenly decide in the middle of a practice that he was suffering from COVID-19. Somewhere down the line, we're going to learn that Crosby tweaked something in practice and it was decided that the best course of action was to take some time off rather than risk aggravating the injury.
Would it have hurt anyone for Sullivan to use a little common sense and say Crosby tweaked something and it wasn't serious?
The coronavirus has provided the NHL with an excuse to formalize an unofficial policy of hiding medical information. With a few exceptions, teams routinely release information using vague terms like upper-body or lower-body injuries. Teams are generally afraid to use the word concussion, and the league's protocol for in-game concussion testing is a hit-or-miss proposition.
But there might be a reckoning on the horizon.
Betting on sports events is a growing business in the United States where 18 states currently allow sports betting and another five states are getting ready to launch sports books. There are only three states that aren't contemplating legalization.
The NHL has jumped into bed with the gambling industry in hopes that casual sports fans will become more invested in hockey if they bet on games. The William Hill Sports Books in Nevada reported a 38-per-cent jump in betting on NHL games in the 2018-19 season, at least partly because of the arrival of the Vegas Golden Knights.
The NFL is popular because it's easy to bet on games and the league requires every team to provide accurate and up-to-date information on injuries. With the increased interest in the NHL, don't be surprised if bookies and punters demand more transparency on issues like injuries and starting goaltenders.
Taking the bite out of the game: Social distancing is difficult in hockey, but with the NHL taking all the necessary precautions to keep the players safe, I hope Brad Marchand is reminded that licking opponents isn't cool. And all players should heed Daniel Carcillo's admonition that "Men don't bite men." That comment came after he was (allegedly) bitten by Marc Savard in the 2010 playoffs.
There have been dozens of instances of players sinking their chompers into opponents over the years. The Dracula wannabes include Hall of Famer Chris Chelios, Dave Manson, Matt Cooke, Andrew Shaw and Laval Rocket assistant coach Alex Burrows.
My favourite biting incident occurred in the 1986 Stanley Cup final when the Canadiens' Claude Lemieux bit Calgary's Jim Peplinski on the finger. Peplinski, who needed a bandage and a tetanus shot, famously noted: "I didn't know they allowed cannibalism in the NHL."
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The Lemelerberg Lodge
The Lemelerberg Lodge is situated at one of the most beautiful spots in Overijssel. East of Zwolle on the southern slope of the 60 meter high Lemelerberg, one of the highest hills of Salland. Hidden between the trees with nature all around and overlooking the heather you find a historic wooden chalet. Brought as a building kit all the way by train from Austria in 1925 by the Dutch banker Abraham Ledeboer. In summer the family organized delicious picnics and in winter, children played in the snow. The original cross country skis are still in the attic. You can still feel the rich history of the lodge which we recently renovated together with Landscape Overijssel as a cosy hide-away to enjoy slow living. With natural materials, pure and eco-friendly. Book your stay.
With the variety of moors, sand plains, forests and springs the Lemelerberg is unique. It is with about 1000 hectares the largest nature area of Landschap Overijssel and designated by Europe as Natura 2000. More than 150,000 years ago an ice sheet of 100 to 400 meters thick covered the northern half of our country. In addition, rocks of thousands of kilos were transported from Scandinavia and gradually smoothed or pulverized on the way. The glacier pushed everything inch by inch. This created a hill with a height of 78 meters: the Lemelerberg. From different points you can enjoy beautiful views. Part of the year the heath is grazed by a herd of about 200 sheep. It is a beautiful cycling and walking area. With luck you can see deer, sand lizard, polecat, pine marten, ermine, honey buzzard, hawk, woodlark, tree pipit, nightjar, buzzard and raven. In winter, the cormorant hibernates here.
With your stay at the Lemelerberg Lodge and 't Witte Huis we help Landschap Overijssel protect nature and national heritage in Overijssel, so we can all enjoy it.
Vechtdal Overijssel
Vechtdal Overijssel is a beautiful region. In 't Witte Huis and the Lemelerberg Lodge you will find more information and maps of the area. The river Vecht winds its way through the landscape of Gramsbergen near the border with Germany via picturesque towns such as Vilsteren, Beerze and Zwolle. Dalfsen is located in the heart of the Overijssel Vechtdal, where our By Mölle studio is also located. Peace and space predominate. Old royal roads run past historic hamlets with medieval castles and estates. You will find ice age moraines, forests, heathland, fields and meadows. Because the Vecht often flooded, the valley next to the river became more and more fertile. The most beautiful and tastiest ingredients grow here, which are processed by local farmers into beautiful, honest products and dishes. From sandy soils with asparagus, organic dairy farms to traditional spelled bread and unsprayed soft fruit such as strawberries, redcurrants and blueberries that you can pick yourself directly from the field. As far as we are concerned, the Vechtdal is made for roaming around both on foot and by bicycle. Every season there is a delicious dish to taste from traditional growers.


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Aeglea BioTherapeutics, Inc.
SCHEDULE 13G
(Amendment No. )*
Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share
00773J103
Check the appropriate box to designate the rule pursuant to which this Schedule is filed:
¨ Rule 13d-1(b)
ý Rule 13d-1(c)
¨ Rule 13d-1(d)
(Page 1 of 12 Pages)
*The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).
CUSIP No. 00773J103 13G Page 2 of 12 Pages
NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
Adage Capital Partners, L.P.
2 CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP
(a) ¨
(b) ¨
3 SEC USE ONLY
PERSON WITH: 5
10 CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (9) EXCLUDES CERTAIN SHARES ¨
PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (9)
TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON
Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C.
Adage Capital Advisors, L.L.C.
Robert Atchinson
Item 1(a). NAME OF ISSUER
The name of the issuer is Aeglea Biotherapeutics, Inc. (the "Company").
Item 1(b). ADDRESS OF ISSUER'S PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES
The Company's principal executive offices are located at 901 S. MoPac Expressway, Barton Oaks Plaza One, Suite 250, Austin, TX 78746
Item 2(a). NAME OF PERSON FILING
This statement is filed by:
(i) Adage Capital Partners, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership ("ACP") with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by it;
(ii) Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C., a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware ("ACPGP"), as general partner of ACP with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by ACP;
(iii) Adage Capital Advisors, L.L.C., a limited liability company organized under the laws of the State of Delaware ("ACA"), as managing member of ACPGP, general partner of ACP, with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by ACP;
(iv) Robert Atchinson ("Mr. Atchinson"), as managing member of ACA, managing member of ACPGP, general partner of ACP with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by ACP; and
(v) Phillip Gross ("Mr. Gross"), as managing member of ACA, managing member of ACPGP, general partner of ACP with respect to the shares of Common Stock directly owned by ACP.
The foregoing persons are hereinafter sometimes collectively referred to as the "Reporting Persons." Any disclosures herein with respect to persons other than the Reporting Persons are made on information and belief after making inquiry to the appropriate party.
The filing of this statement should not be construed in and of itself as an admission by any Reporting Person as to beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein.
Item 2(b). ADDRESS OF PRINCIPAL BUSINESS OFFICE OR, IF NONE, RESIDENCE
The address of the business office of each of the Reporting Persons is 200 Clarendon Street, 52nd floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02116.
Item 2(c). CITIZENSHIP
ACP is a limited partnership organized under the laws of the State of Delaware. ACPGP and ACA are limited liability companies organized under the laws of the State of Delaware. Messrs. Gross and Atchinson are citizens of the United States.
Item 2(d). TITLE OF CLASS OF SECURITIES
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 (the " Common Stock").
Item 2(e). CUSIP NUMBER
Item 3. IF THIS STATEMENT IS FILED PURSUANT TO Rules 13d-1(b), OR 13d-2(b) OR (c), CHECK WHETHER THE PERSON FILING IS A:
(a) ¨ Broker or dealer registered under Section 15 of the Act;
(b) ¨ Bank as defined in Section 3(a)(6) of the Act;
(c) ¨ Insurance company as defined in Section 3(a)(19) of the Act;
(d) ¨ Investment company registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940;
(e) ¨ An investment adviser in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E);
(f) ¨
An employee benefit plan or endowment fund in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(F);
(g) ¨ A parent holding company or control person in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(G);
(h) ¨
A savings association as defined in Section 3(b) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act;
(i) ¨
A church plan that is excluded from the definition of an investment company under Section 3(c)(14) of the Investment Company Act;
(j) ¨ A non-U.S. institution in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(J);
(k) ¨ Group, in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(K).
If filing as a non-U.S. institution in accordance with Rule 13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(J), please
specify the type of institution: Not applicable.
Item 4. OWNERSHIP
A. Adage Capital Partners, L.P., Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C. and Adage Capital Advisors, L.L.C.
(a) Amount beneficially owned: 1,458,591
(b) Percent of class: 6.61%. The percentages set forth in this Schedule 13G are calculated based upon the 22,081,554 shares of Common Stock reported to be issued and outstanding as of August 23, 2018, in the Company's Proxy Statement set forth on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 6, 2018.
(c) (i) Sole power to vote or direct the vote: 0
(ii) Shared power to vote or direct the vote: 1,458,591
(iii) Sole power to dispose or direct the disposition: 0
(iv) Shared power to dispose or direct the disposition of: 1,458,591
ACP has the power to dispose of and the power to vote the shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by it, which power may be exercised by its general partner, ACPGP. ACA, as managing member of ACPGP, directs ACPGP's operations. Neither ACPGP nor ACA directly own any shares of Common Stock. By reason of the provisions of Rule 13d-3 of the Act, ACPGP and ACA may be deemed to beneficially own the shares owned by ACP.
B. Robert Atchinson and Phillip Gross
(b) Percent of class: 6.61%
Messrs. Atchinson and Gross, as managing members of ACA, have shared power to vote the shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by ACP. Neither Mr. Atchinson nor Mr. Gross directly own any shares of Common Stock. By reason of the provisions of Rule 13d-3 of the Act, each may be deemed to beneficially own the shares beneficially owned by ACP.
Item 5. OWNERSHIP OF FIVE PERCENT OR LESS OF A CLASS
Item 6. OWNERSHIP OF MORE THAN FIVE PERCENT ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON
Item 7. IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF THE SUBSIDIARY WHICH ACQUIRED THE SECURITY BEING REPORTED ON BY THE PARENT HOLDING COMPANY OR CONTROL PERSON
CUSIP No. 00773J103 13G Page 10 of 12 Pages
Item 8. IDENTIFICATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF MEMBERS OF THE GROUP
Item 9. NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION OF GROUP
Item 10. CERTIFICATION
Each of the Reporting Persons hereby makes the following certification:
By signing below each Reporting Person certifies that, to the best of his or its knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were not acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having that purpose or effect.
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of his or its knowledge and belief, each of the undersigned certifies that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.
By: Adage Capital Partners GP, L.L.C.,
By: Adage Capital Advisors, L.L.C.,
/s/ Robert Atchinson
Name: Robert Atchinson
ROBERT ATCHINSON, individually
/s/ Phillip Gross
PHILLIP GROSS, individually
EXHIBIT 1
PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(k)
The undersigned acknowledge and agree that the foregoing statement on Schedule 13G is filed on behalf of each of the undersigned and that all subsequent amendments to this statement on Schedule 13G shall be filed on behalf of each of the undersigned without the necessity of filing additional joint filing agreements. The undersigned acknowledge that each shall be responsible for the timely filing of such amendments, and for the completeness and accuracy of the information concerning him or it contained herein and therein, but shall not be responsible for the completeness and accuracy of the information concerning the others, except to the extent that he or it knows or has reason to believe that such information is inaccurate.


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Iker Sánchez made his remarkable debut conducting the Basque National Orchestra in 2007. Since then, he has been invited to conduct some of the best orchestras in Spain and Portugal including the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona National Orchestra, Principado de Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, Oviedo Philarmonía, Oporto "Casa da Musica" Symphony Orchestra (Portugal), Bayonne Côte Basque Symphony Orchestra (France), JONDE (Spanish National Young Orchestra), Donostiako Kamara Orkestra (where he was granted the second National Prize for Young Ensembles in 2007), Humboldt-Universitat Orchestra Berlin, Concentus Alius Berlin, Bogotá Youth Symphony Orchestra and Venezuela´s Teresa Carreño Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2020 he will make the debut with Montenegro Symphony Orchestra and will again conduct the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra and Gasteizko Ganbara Orkestra.
Iker has been the Artistic Director of Bilbao Sinfonietta since 2017, performing with soloist like Angeles Blancas and Stage Directors such as Barbora Horáková. El repertorio de BS es amplio, llegando a interpretar con gran éxito desde "Pierrot Lunaire" de A. Schönberg, hasta música escénica como "El amor brujo" de M. De Falla o "Mahagonny Songspiel" de K. Weill. Varios compositores actuales han escrito obras nuevas para la propia formación. The repertoire of BS versatile, reaching great success from "Pierrot Lunaire" by A. Schönberg, to scenic music such as "El amor brujo" by M. De Falla or "Mahagonny Songspiel" by K. Weill. Several current composers have written new projects for the group itself.
During the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons, he worked as assistant conductor for the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra (BOS), a position that he was given after winning a competition organized by the Orchestra. He spent several intense years assisting renowned conductors such as Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Vasily Petrenko, Juanjo Mena, Pablo Gonzalez, Günther Herbig and Michael Jurowsky who have left a profound impact on the formative years of his conducting career in orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
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He also participated as the assistant conductor in the production of Richard Wagner´s "Parsifal" with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko, in Manuel de Falla's "Retablo de Maese Pedro" (Master Peter´s Puppet Show) with the Mtro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, as well as Verdi´s "Ballo in Maschera" with Maestro G. Marcianó. Among others, he has taken part in several operas such as Bizet´s Carmen, Bartok´sBluebeard´s Castle and Strauss´ Salome, worked with singers like Nikolai Shukoff and Violeta Urmana.
Apart from the great Romantic repertoire, Iker Sanchez has also built up an enviable reputation for his interpretations of Contemporary music, conducting many instrumental ensembles including the Smash Ensemble (Salamanca-Paris), T.I. 04 (Vitoria), Bilbao Sinfonietta, Conjunto Instrumental Musikene (San Sebastián), Kabos Ensemble (Bilbao), Cre-art-project (London) and Krater Ensemble (San Sebastián). He has conducted many premieres worldwide. Countries such as Finland, France, Colombia, Venezuela, Portugal as Italy have all seen the talent of this young conductor.
In 2008 he became Artistic Director of the EIO Symphony Orchestra (8 years), a national music project which involves music students from the Basque Country, and in 2014 Iker Sanchez was appointed Principal Conductor of the Gasteizko Ganbara Orkestra, performing with soloists like Asier Polo, Ara Malikian and Perico Sambeat among others.
He has recorded several CDs, many of them linked to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries including Bilbao Symphony Orchestra for the label "Brian´s records", the Basque National Orchestra, the Ensemble Residencias (trío Arbos + Neopercusion), with Iñaki Alberdi (accordion) as soloist for the label "Verso", the premiere of two piano concertos by Luis Fraca and Mikel Mate with the Anitz Symphony Orchestra , and music by Borja Ramos for a Victor Ullate's ballet with Sigma Project+Krater Ensemble. In 2020 he will record with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra the full opera "Maitena" by the French composer C. Colin for the label "IBS" and with Bilbao Sinfonietta the first version (1915) of "Amor Brujo" and "Seven Spanish songs" by the great composer Manuel de Falla, also for the label "IBS"He also made recordings for the Spanish and Basque National TV and radio channels (RTVE, RNE and EITB).
Iker Sánchez Silva was born in Irún, Spain, where he started taking trumpet and double bass lessons. He developed his music specialization in San Sebastián, Bordeaux, and Richard Strauss Konservatorium of Munich, collaborating with orchestras such as the Münchener Symphoniker, the Basque National Symphony Orchestra or the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra as a trumpet player.


Remainers from Harpenden wrote personalised Brexit messages to their MP on a large banner in the town centre.
Campaign group Harpenden For Europe (HfE) invited passersby to pen a note to Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami on a 20ft banner last Saturday.
Responses on the People's Vote banner came from residents aged eight to 89.
HfE say they will deliver the banner to Mr Afolami in person in the coming weeks.
This comes during uncertainty over the future of Brexit - Prime Minster Theresa May's Withdrawal Agreement has been rejected multiple times by Parliament and she is due to ask the European Union for a second Article 50 extension.
As it currently stands, the UK is scheduled to exit the single market on Friday, April 12.
During all this, HfE has been fiercely campaigning for a People's Vote, and 1,000 people from local Remainer groups joined the largest ever Brexit march through London on March 23.
A petition asking for Article 50 to be revoked garnered more than 16,600 signatures in Harpenden alone, adding to the six million supporters from across the country.
HfE treasurer John Galvin said: "We have been campaigning in Harpenden for a year now and we have never seen scenes like this before.
"We were amazed how many local residents came to us to sign the banner as the prospects of a disastrous Brexit continues.
"They wanted to tell their MP Bim Afolami in person how much they want a People's Vote. We will be proud to deliver this banner and their messages to Mr Afolami on their behalf.
The same morning HfE gauged local opinion on a 'Brexitometer'.
Out of 335 participants, 87 per cent wanted to remain in the EU, either through a referendum or by revoking Article 50. The Withdrawal Agreement was supported by just one per cent of respondents.


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Q: Use RMSE in Gradient Boosting Is it possible to use the RMSE loss function in XGBoost or in sklearn's GradientBoostingRegressor as is done in CatBoost?

A: Yes you can use rmse for XGBoost. RMSE is used there in the eval_metric for the regression and error in classification.
Reference: https://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/parameter.html?highlight=rmse


The Women's International Match Racing Association (WIMRA) is an international association of women sailors devoted to expanding and strengthening women's match racing as a sport and promoting opportunities for competitive women's sailing at every level. WIMRA's vision is to create a pathway for women to compete at the highest level in the sport of sailing. By using the platform of competitive match racing, the sailors and teams can gain knowledge and skills that will translate to successful business and life skills.
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Celebrity Fat-Shaming Drives Up Anti-Fat Attitudes In Women, Study Shows
"These cultural messages appeared to augment women's gut-level feeling that 'thin' is good and 'fat' is bad."
By Charmaine Noronha
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Remember when the late fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld, called singer Adele "a little too fat" in 2012? Or when a fashion critic said of "Mad Men" star, Christina Hendricks, that 'you don't put a big girl in a big dress?'
These instances of celebrity fat-shaming, among a myriad of others, negatively affect how women feel about their weight, according to a new study from McGill University published Monday in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Researchers compared 20well-known celebrity fat-shaming momentsthat were publicized in the media between 2007-2015with women's implicit attitudes about weight, both before and after the events.
Adele performs onstage during The 59th Grammy Awards at Staples Center on February 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
The fat-shaming events included the Adele and Christina Hendricks examples, as well as Tyra Banks being shamed for wearing a bathing suit on vacation in 2007, and when Kourtney Kardashian's hubby Scott Disick didn't think she was losing her pregnancy weight quickly enough in 2014.
The researchers obtained data from the public website, Project Implicit, from participants who had completed the Weight Implicit Association Test, an index of implicit anti-fat bias.
Results showed that celebrity fat-shaming resulted in a spike in more than 90,000 women's implicit anti-fat thinking.Implicit weight bias also increased between the years of 2004 and 2015, potentially showing that weight discrimination could be getting worse.
What does 'implicit' vs. 'explicit' bias mean?
Jennifer Bartz, one of the authors of the study, told HuffPost Canada that "explicit attitudes" are those that people consciously and publiclyendorse, while implicit attitudes — which were the focus of this investigation — reflect people's gut-level reactions that translate into thinking something is inherently good or bad.
"We know people are profoundly influenced by what others say and do, but this kind of social influence is difficult to document as it plays out in society at large," said Bartz. "We observed a spike in women's implicit anti-fat attitudes in the two weeks following a fat-shaming event, compared to the two weeks preceding an event."
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"These cultural messages appeared to augment women's gut-level feeling that 'thin' is good and 'fat' is bad," said Bartz. "These media messages can leave a private trace in peoples' minds."
Amanda Ravary, PhD student and lead author of the study noted that weight bias is recognized as one of the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination.
"These instances of fat-shaming are fairly wide-spread not only in celebrity magazines but also on blogs and other forms of social media," said Ravary.
Poet and writer Priyanka Saju, who told HuffPost Canada that she has long struggled with her own anti-fat bias and body image when she was younger and less self-assured, noted that she too was not immune from these messages.
For years I dreaded the warm embrace of summer heat. It meant not being able to wear clothes that hid me. That draped my body in fabric, so I wouldn't have to exist in the discomfort of showing myself to the world. Not feeling worthy as I was. 🤦🏻♀ . I see these lies now for what they are. 🙋🏻♀ . . . #summertimesadness #loveyourself #bodypositive #embracethesquish #feminist #poem
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"When these media outlets use a celebrity's weight, or more specifically fatness, to diminish her, it sends a message to women that fat bodies are wrong. These media messages show us all that the consequence of being fat is public shame and ridicule," said Saju.
"I mean, if even the most powerful and admired in society — celebrities — are not immune from this this form of discrimination, then what does that mean for us mere mortals?"
Amanda Scriver, a freelance journalist and body image advocate, told HuffPost Canada that fat-shaming celebrities sets the standard for how we view bodies in Western culture.
"All too often, people realize too late that no amount of weight loss or body alterations will actually free them from feeling like they are good enough. We need to teach people how and why they don't need to change their bodies, and this starts with media setting the tone for fat positivity and body neutrality."
Saju said that ironically, a big part of feeling more comfortable in her skin and expanding her own definition of beauty has come from social media.
"There are so many accounts, writers, artists, thinkers and activists out there who are spreading a more inclusive idea of beauty — one that includes fat women," said the writer. "I have been spending more time online exposing myself to the celebration of these bodies. In a way, it has given me permission to show up for myself and hopefully give permission to others to take up space."
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My memoir, CHASING MY FATHER, traces 6-years of transformation and healing after breast cancer and divorce.
I invite you to read or listen to this exclusive excerpt from Chapter 4 from my book, CHASING MY FATHER. I'd received a vision from Jesus two weeks before on the night I received my cancer diagnosis and He'd asked if I was willing to die for Him. After much thought, I summoned my courage to respond, "Yes." For the next two weeks I underwent dozens of test, all that puzzlingly came up negative. Why had He asked me to die for Him if it looked like I was going to live?
"The hematoma was still painful and I was grateful that Dr. Cooper would remove it during my next surgery the following week. My tossing and turning was keeping Curtis (my husband) up, so he decided to sleep upstairs in the guest bedroom until things returned to normal. As I was drifting off to sleep Friday evening, the little curly-haired blonde girl reappeared in the meadow in the twilight. A tall man was in the distance, but as the little girl ran, he got closer and closer to catching her. She was laughing and playing in the long shadows when a dark cloud came over the field. Startled, I sat up in bed.
I heard the voice again and the white apparition appeared at the end of my bed, "Did you call me?"
"I thought I heard you call my name."
Could I have possibly heard correctly? Could God really want me to rest and heal? I'd been prepared to do anything that He asked, but instead He wanted to delight in me so that I could become whole again.
With that, the apparition disappeared.
I fell back asleep with a new joy, not over living longer, but about having a real purpose in life, whatever that was going to be. As I fell asleep, the same dream started over, but this time I could see the little girl's face. It looked just like an old photograph of me when I was three years old. As I ran in circles, I delighted in being just outside the man's outstretched arms. I'd usually wake up just as the man was about to catch the little girl, but this time the dream was different. I began to tire and my running became slower and slower. Just then the man scooped me up into his arms and held me tight as I buried my head into his shoulder.
"Agatha, I love you. I have always loved you. It's time for you to quit running and rest with me."
Here ends the book excerpt.
Could it be possible that Christ was willing to let me heal before I started to work for him? Was it even possible that I could be healed from the shame of a dysfunctional family as a child, or the guilt from bad decisions that I'd made as an adult seeking affection and love? Could it be possible that I could be emotionally healed and learn how to discern both the positive and negative relationships in my life?
Looking back, I realize that that night was the turning point when I knew that I really wanted to be healed of the shame and brokenness of my past, and I understood that my brokenness wasn't going to be healed overnight.
It's been a long and continuous journey and I want to thank you, the readers of my blog who've inspired me to keep traveling on this path of renewal.
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I want to offer blessings for your healing, too. Will you come rest with me?


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Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988
Fact Sheet #36: Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988
(Revised July 2008) (PDF)
The Department of Labor administers and enforces the Employee Polygraph Protection Act of 1988 (the Act) through the Wage and Hour Division of the. The Act generally prevents employers engaged in interstate commerce from using lie detector tests either for pre-employment screening or during the course of employment, with certain exemptions. The Act, signed by the President on June 27, 1988, became effective on December 27, 1988.
Under the Act, the Secretary of Labor is directed to distribute a notice of the Act's protections, issue rules and regulations, and enforce the provisions of the Act. The Act empowers the Secretary of Labor to bring injunctive actions in U.S. district courts to restrain violations and to assess civil money penalties up to $10,000 against employers who violate any provision of the Act. Employers are required to post notices summarizing the protections of the Act in their places of work.
A lie detector includes a polygraph, deceptograph, voice stress analyzer, psychological stress evaluator or similar device (whether mechanical or electrical) used to render a diagnostic opinion as to the honesty or dishonesty of an individual.
A polygraph means an instrument that records continuously, visually, permanently, and simultaneously changes in cardiovascular, respiratory, and electrodermal patterns as minimum instrumentation standards and is used to render a diagnostic opinion as to the honesty or dishonesty of an individual.
An employer shall not:
Require, request, suggest, or cause an employee or prospective employee to take or submit to any lie detector test.
Use, accept, refer to, or inquire about the results of any lie detector test of an employee or prospective employee.
Discharge, discipline, discriminate against, deny employment or promotion, or threaten to take any such action against an employee or prospective employee for refusal to take a test, on the basis of the results of a test, for filing a complaint, for testifying in any proceeding or for exercising any rights afforded by the Act.
Federal, state, and local governments are excluded. In addition, lie detector tests administered by the Federal Government to employees of Federal contractors engaged in national security intelligence or counterintelligence functions are exempt. The Act also includes limited exemptions where polygraph tests (but no other lie detector tests) may be administered in the private sector, subject to certain restrictions: To employees who are reasonably suspected of involvement in a workplace incident that results in economic loss to the employer and who had access to the property that is the subject of an investigation; and
To prospective employees of an armored car, security alarm, and security guard firms who protect facilities, materials or operations affecting health or safety, national security, or currency and other like instruments; and
To prospective employees of pharmaceutical and other firms authorized to manufacture, distribute, or dispense controlled substances who will have direct access to such controlled substances, as well as current employees who had access to persons or property that are the subject of an ongoing investigation.
Qualifications of examiners
An examiner is required to have a valid and current license if required by a State in which the test is to be conducted, and must maintain a minimum of $50,000 bond or professional liability coverage.
Employee/prospective employee rights
An employee or prospective employee must be given a written notice explaining the employee's or prospective employee's rights and the limitations imposed, such as prohibited areas of questioning and restriction on the use of test results. Among other rights, an employee or prospective employee may refuse to take a test, terminate a test at any time, or decline to take a test if he/she suffers from a medical condition. The results of a test alone cannot be disclosed to anyone other than the employer or employee/prospective employee without their consent or, pursuant to a court order, to a court, government agency, arbitrator, or mediator.
Under the exemption for ongoing investigations of workplace incidents involving economic loss, a written or verbal statement must be provided to the employee prior to the polygraph test which explains the specific incident or activity being investigated and the basis for the employer's reasonable suspicion that the employee was involved in such incident or activity.
Where polygraph examinations are permitted under the Act, they are subject to strict standards concerning the conduct of the test, including the pre-test, testing, and post-test phases of the examination.
Civil actions may be brought by an employee or prospective employee in Federal or State court against employers who violate the Act for legal or equitable relief, such as employment reinstatement, promotion, and payment of lost wages and benefits. The action must be brought within 3 years of the date of the alleged violation.
Where to Obtain Additional Information
For additional information, visit our Wage and Hour Division Website: http://www.wagehour.dol.gov and/or call our toll-free information and helpline, available 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in your time zone, 1-866-4USWAGE (1-866-487-9243).
This publication is for general information and is not to be considered in the same light as official statements of position contained in the regulations.


Ok, I'll be honest with you – I did not feel like writing today. I had surgery on Friday for a repair of my colon that had been an ongoing issue, but got much worse during my pregnancy. That makes my fourth surgical procedure in the past four months, and my sixth over the past four years. I'm tired and cranky and in some serious pain today and feeling like it will never end. My body is tired of hurting and I'm tired of pain and feeling weak. I remember each time I go through this that I much prefer to be the one taking care of others than allowing myself to be taken care of. But my devotions today were about how we are all members of one body, and that each member has to be connected to another in order to function. The ear can't hear when it's laying on the ground, it has to be connected to the body to work! And then I got to thinking — I am stubborn and prideful and not very good at accepting help from others. I see it as personal weakness when I can't take care of myself, my home, and now, my daughter. I hate asking for help and take too much pride in being self reliant. But what God spoke into my heart today was that by being resistant to offers of help, mainly from my loving family, I am not allowing them to use their gifts and to minister as God has gifted them and to fulfill their purpose within the body.
I prayed so many times that God would heal me supernaturally like the woman of faith who was healed in Matthew chapter 9, verse 20 – just by touching the hem of Jesus' robe she was healed of her long term illness. If He could heal just through fabric, He could heal me! I cried out in pain so many times, begging to be spared what I knew would be a painful operation. But as so many times happens, God got my attention through physical weakness. When I am forced to rely on His strength to get through the day, I have a new level of spiritual and personal growth that wouldn't be possible if I was physically well and able to take care of myself. He is taking away my stubbornness and pride in allowing me to go through these times when I must rely on others…I'm not doing it gracefully by any means, but I'm learning. I fear being a burden, and being perceived as needy. But when help is offered in love, I shouldn't feel this way. We are all parts of the body and we cannot stand alone. I had the surgery and I am healing….I didn't have supernatural miraculous healing because I suppose God knew that my spirit needed more attention than my body did.
I was also reminded just how blessed I am. I was able to have surgery under anesthesia to fix the problem while I was blessedly asleep. I had doctors and nurses to care for me, and medicine readily available. I have a loving and wonderful family to care for me and help with my daughter when I am not able to care for her. I have medical insurance to help with the bills. The things that I take for granted could be the difference between life and death for someone somewhere else in the world, and I am extremely blessed.
I didn't feel like writing today, but I'm glad I did because it reminded me of my blessings and to keep on believing and keep on leaning on God and others in the Family. That's how God designed it to work, and we know He is never wrong.


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Cody Taylor Hall (né le  à Miami, Floride) est un catcheur (lutteur professionnel) américain. Il travaille actuellement à la . Il s'est fait auparavant connaitre à la  en tant que membre du clan . Il est le fils du catcheur Scott Hall.

Carrière

Entrainement et circuit indépendant (2012-2014)

Hall envisage de devenir catcheur quand il vient voir Kevin Nash et que des fans viennent demander des autographes à Nash qui le présente comme le fils de son coéquipier et ami Scott Hall. Les fans lui demandent alors de signer aussi des autographes. Hall s'entraîne d'abord avec son père mais ses problèmes d'alcoolisme et de drogue ne font pas de lui un bon entraîneur et n'est assez influent pour l'aider à faire sa place sur le circuit indépendant nord-américain. Il rejoint l'école de catch de la , une école de catch de Floride, où Larry Zbyszko et Chasyn Rance lui enseigne les bases du catch.

Il remporte son premier combat le  face à Josh Hess. Son style de catch est assez semblable à celui de son père et utilise d'ailleurs certaines de ses prises comme le  ou encore le .

New Japan Pro Wrestling (2015-2017)

Bullet Club et départ (2015-2017)

Il fait ses débuts le 5 janvier, en se joignant au Bullet Club. Cody Hall fait ses débuts à la NJPW le 2 février, en faisant équipe avec Doc Gallows, Karl Anderson, Kenny Omega et Yujiro Takahashi lors du match principal, où ils sont battus par Captain New Japan, Hirooki Goto, Katsuyori Shibata, Ryusuke Taguchi et Hiroshi Tanahashi, qui l'a épinglé pour la victoire. Comme c'est généralement le cas avec les "jeunes garçons" au Japon, Cody Hall perdrait beaucoup de ses premiers matchs à la NJPW et se retrouvait souvent placé dans des matchs par équipe. Lors de Destruction In Okayama, lui et A.J. Styles perdent contre Chaos (Kazuchika Okada et Toru Yano). Lors d'Invasion Attack 2015, lui, Yujiro Takahashi et Tama Tonga perdent contre Tencozy (Hiroyoshi Tenzan et Satoshi Kojima) et Tomoaki Honma. Lors de The New Beginning in Niigata 2016, lui et les Young Bucks battent Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask et Captain New Japan.

Il quitte la NJPW en janvier 2017.

Pro Wrestling Noah (2017–...)
Le 13 mars, la Pro Wrestling Noah annonce qu'Hall va travailler régulièrement pour la compagnie à partir du 11 avril. Il participe ensuite au  avec Randy Reign, mais ils ne remportent que quatre matchs pour trois défaites. Pendant le tournoi, ils battent les futurs vainqueurs du tournoi et les actuels GHC Tag Team Champions Naomichi Marufuji et Maybach Taniguchi et deviennent ainsi challengers n°1 pour les titres. Le 4 juin, ils perdent contre Naomichi Marufuji et Maybach Taniguchi et ne remportent pas les GHC Tag Team Championship. Lors de , il perd contre Eli Drake et ne remporte pas le GFW Global Championship.

Le 14 octobre, lui et Maybach Taniguchi perdent contre Naomichi Marufuji et Akitoshi Saito et ne remportent pas les GHC Tag Team Championship.

Caractéristiques

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 Équipes et clans
 Bullet Club (2015-2017)

Palmarès
 European Wrestling Promotion
 1 fois EWP Junior Championship

 Independent Pro Wrestling Germany
 1 fois IPW International German Championship

 Southern Fried Championship Wrestling
 1 fois Georgia Heavyweight Championship

 Superstars of Wrestling
 1 fois SOS Championship

Récompenses des magazines

Vie privée
Il est le fils de l'ancien catcheur Scott Hall, a une sœur prénommée Cassidy née le 27 mars 1995. Il a décidé de suivre le même chemin que son père, devenir catcheur professionnel.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Catcheur américain
Catcheur de la New Japan Pro-Wrestling
Naissance en mai 1991
Naissance à Miami
Catcheur de la Pro Wrestling NOAH

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Q: Creating a PHP array from space delimited text file I have a text file which is a listing of directories that I would like to turn into an array. I figured space delimiting will work but the number of spaces varies between each item and the spaces in the directory name would be a problem. I would like to parse the text into a PHP array.
The text file has a very rigid structure that looks like this:
04/17/2013  09:49 PM    <DIR>          This is directory 1 (1994)
03/11/2013  06:48 PM    <DIR>          Director 2 (1951)
04/15/2013  08:34 PM    <DIR>          This is going to be number 3 (2000)
08/17/2012  09:50 PM    <DIR>          Four (1998)
10/17/2011  05:12 PM    <DIR>          And lastly 5 (1986)

I only need to keep the folder date (not time), the complete name of the directory (as one entry) and the year in parenthesis. Thanks in advance!

A: Sure, use preg_split:
<?php
$str = "04/17/2013  09:49 PM    <DIR>          This is directory 1 (1994)
03/11/2013  06:48 PM    <DIR>          Director 2 (1951)
04/15/2013  08:34 PM    <DIR>          This is going to be number 3 (2000)
08/17/2012  09:50 PM    <DIR>          Four (1998)
10/17/2011  05:12 PM    <DIR>          And lastly 5 (1986)";

function sp($x) {
    return preg_split("/\s\s+|\s*\((\d{4}).*\)/", $x,0,PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
}
$array = preg_split("/\n/", $str);
$processed = array_map('sp', $array);

print_r($processed);

This will create an array of arrays. Each line will become an array, containing an array for each item. For instance, $processed[0][3] will contain This is directory 1
Keep in mind this code assume that spaces working as division must be 2 or more; only 1 space is considered as part of the same field. (You'll probably need to hand hack that according to your needs)
Edit: I added the part to get the year as a separated element of the array. Now $processed[0][4] has 1994. (you don't need the (), right?)
See it working with this change here: http://codepad.org/in973ijV

A: Why you dont forget about this txt and use scandir?
http://php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php
$mydir = "/home/folder/";
$scan = scandir($mydir);
$i = 2 /* bypass dot and 2dots dirs */;

while($i < count($scan)){
    echo $scan[$i];
    echo "
";
    $i++;
}

A: The most simple (to read) pattern is:
$pattern = '~^(?<date>\S+).*<DIR>\s+(?<name>.*) \((?<year>\d{4})\)$~m';
preg_match_all($pattern, $subject, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);

foreach ($matches as $match) {
    printf("
date: %s, name: %s, year: %s",
           $match['date'], $match['name'], $match['year']);
}

But you can optimize a little being more explicit:
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         . '(?<name>(?>[^(]++|\((?!\d{4}\)\s*+$))+)' . '\s++\('
         . '(?<year>\d{4})'                          . '\)\s*+$~m';


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