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Excerpts from 1D1F Documentary: We have no raw materials for Komenda Sugar Factory – Minister
SOURCEAkua Boakyewaa Yiadom
Deputy Minister for Trade and Industry, Michael Okyere Baafi has admitted to the lack of raw materials to feed the Komenda Sugar Factory despite the government's promise to commission the factory by end of 2022.
According to him, the absence of the raw materials has delayed the operationalization of the factory which has been abandoned for years.
Residents of Komenda in the Komenda/Edina Eguafo/Ebirem in the Central Region in an interview with Adom News expressed worry over the development, especially as they were optimistic about gaining employment with the factory.
Throwing more light on the availability of raw materials, Mr Okyere Baafi revealed that managers of the factory will use molasses or unrefined sugar for the first year and later revert to the use of raw sugarcane.
The Komenda Sugar factory was inaugurated in 2016 but shut down a month into production due to what officials explained at the time to be due to the unavailability of raw materials.
Seven years after closure, the President during a visit to the area in September said the factory will be open by the close of the year.
Listen to the Minister in the video below:
Komenda Sugar Factory 98% complete – Alan Kyerematen
Komenda Sugar Factory to be commissioned by end of 2022 – Akufo-Addo
Komenda Sugar Factory
Michael Okyere Baafi
Komenda sugar factory could not have produced raw sugar – Carlos Ahenkorah
If there's a jail sentence, you'll suffer alone; be smart – Assin North MP told [Audio]
Govt to make Ghana a vehicle manufacturing hub – Trade Ministry
Komenda Sugar Factory acquires 20,000 acres for plantation
Komenda Sugar Factory to begin production in April

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Q: How do you sync contacts between Outlook and Windows Live? Does anyone know how to sync contacts in Outlook with Windows Live contacts? I've got Outlook Connector but all that does is makes Live contacts visible in Outlook and doesn't actually sync them.

A: Paul Thurrott has a few thoughts about this:

Yes, you can actually change a Windows Live account to be the default account in Microsoft Outlook. You do so by visiting Tools, Account Settings and then the Data Files tab in the Account Settings dialog. If you select your Windows Live account (typically named username@live.com) and click the Set as Default button, you will see your Windows Live account data by default when you click the Mail, Calendar, Contacts, or Tasks shortcut buttons in Outlook. And if your Windows Live account is your main email account, or your only email account, you may want to do just this

It seems if you set your Windows Live to your default in Outlook, you should be able to move your contacts over to Windows Live contacts and sync them immediately.

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You can then sync between Outlook and Soocial
as well as between Soocial and Windows Live.
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The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) shares data with many stakeholders, including providers, hospitals, laboratories, local health jurisdictions and federal agencies. To improve upon our data exchange, analysis, and reporting capabilities, CDPH has developed a secure health information exchange (HIE) web application, the CDPH HIE Gateway. The Gateway will allow providers, hospitals and health information exchange organizations to register and manage public health data exchange with CDPH for specific types of reportable diseases and conditions.
Note: In 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has renamed the EHR Incentive Program to the Promoting Interoperability (PI) Program. For historical purposes, the Promoting Interoperability objectives and measures will continue to be referred to as Meaningful Use (MU) objectives and measures in this website.
CAIR2 Submitters seeking to meet the Stage 3 Meaningful Use Immunization Measure will be required to complete the online CAIR2 Bidirectional Interest/Readiness Survey. Visit California Immunization Registry for the survey. Interested sites should continue to submit immunization messages to CAIR2.
CalREDIE previously declared readiness to meet the Stage 3 Meaningful Use Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR) Measure. CalREDIE meets the 2015 Edition CEHRT criteria. As noted in the CDC document, there are no changes for ELR between 2014 and 2015 Edition CEHRT.
As of July 1, 2017, CalREDIE declared readiness to meet the Stage 3 Meaningful Use/Promoting Interoperability Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) Measure.
Beginning January 1, 2018, Eligible Professionals (EP) and Eligible Hospitals (EH) are able to use the CDPH Health Information Exchange (HIE) Gateway to register intent to submit electronic initial case reports (eICRs) in support of Objective 8, Measure 3 - Electronic Case Reporting. Please check the California Public Health Electronic Reporting Capacity Matrix to see whether your Local Health Jurisdiction prefers you to register using the CDPH HIE Gateway or a local solution for eCR.
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Quick Access Guide to register into CA Parkinson's Disease Registry.
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June 8, 2018: REGISTRATION PORTAL OPENS. Establish intent to report to CPDR by registering on the CDPH Health Information Exchange (HIE) Gateway.
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In the same conversation, we talked about how we experience events, places, people, etc. that we might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience. She asked me for a list of books that her students (she's a professor) could read if they wanted to experience queer folk in their multitudes of awesomeness and hardship.
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Но́рман Нил Гри́нвуд (; 19 января 1925, Мельбурн, Австралия — 14 ноября 2012, Лидс, Великобритания) — австралийско-британский химик-неорганик. Внёс вклад в исследование химии соединений бора, в частности, гидридов бора, а также других элементов главной подгруппы. Совместно с Аланом Эрншо является автором популярного учебника по общей и неорганической химии «Химия элементов», впервые опубликованного в 1984 году.

Член Королевского химического общества (1960), Член Лондонского королевского общества (1987), иностранный член Французской академии наук (1992).

Ранние годы и образование
Норман Гринвуд родился в пригороде Сент-Килда рядом с Мельбурном. В семье были ещё старшая сестра и младший брат Эрик. Когда Норману было около двух лет, его родители развелись, и он воспитывался матерью и тётей, которая приехала на выручку из Англии.

Начальное образование получил в образовательных учреждениях пригородов Мельбурна — школах Мон-Альбер и Обёрн. Позже учился в старшей школе при университете Мельбурна с 1939 по 1942 год.

Получил высшее образование в университете Мельбурна и обучался с 1942—1945 гг. Обучение приходилось на военное время, и Гринвуд в рамках военной программы университета занимался исследованием свойств нитроглицерина.

По окончании университета Гринвуд получил стипендию от Королевской комиссии по выставке 1851 года и переехал в Кембридж, в Англию. Там в 1951 году по результатам своих исследований по галогенидам бора и хлоридам иода он защитил диссертацию на степень доктора философии, или PhD.

Дальнейшая карьера
С 1951 по 1953 год Гринвуд работал старшим исследователем в Научно-исследовательском центре по атомной энергии под руководством Джона Кокрофта.

В 1953 году занимал должность ректора в Ноттингемском университете и преподавал там вплоть до 1961 года. Здесь Гринвуд продолжил изучение химии элементов группы бора; некоторые из исследований выполнял со своим первым пост-доком Кеннетом Уэйдом, который позже внесёт значимый вклад в развитие химии бороводородов.

В 1961 году Гринвуд был приглашен в университет Ньюкасла на позицию профессора неорганической химии, которой раннее в Англии не существовало: неорганическая химия занимала второстепенное место по сравнению с органической или физической химией.
В этот период Гринвуд обращал особое внимание на бурное развитие инструментария для методов анализа неорганических соединений — ИК-, ЯМР- и мёссбауэровской спектроскопий. Также именно здесь, в университете Ньюкасла, Гринвуд начинает работать с гидридами бора, работа с которыми продолжилась позже в университете Лидса и привела Гринвуда к известности в области исследования бороводородов.

В 1971 году Гринвуд получает приглашение в Лидский университет в качестве профессора и заведующего кафедрой неорганической и структурной химии. Вместе с Гринвудом переезжает и бо́льшая часть его исследовательской группы. Деятельность группы была разделена на три темы исследований: бораны, мёссбауэровская спектроскопия и химия твёрдого тела. Должность заведующего кафедрой Гринвуд занимает до выхода на пенсию в 1990 году.

Научные исследования

Бороводороды
С самых первых пор после окончания университета научная деятельность Гринвуда была тесно связана с химией бора. Будучи аспирантом, он работал со своим научным руководителем над аддуктами BF3; позже, после получения степени доктора философии, исследовал химию BCl3 и BBr3.

Его наиболее значимые работы были сделаны в области бороводородов в периоды преподавания и исследований в университетах Ньюкасла и Лидса. Именно благодаря Гринвуду университет Лидса стал в свое время крупным международным центром химии боранов. Основными предметами изучения в этой области были реакции газофазного термолиза, бораны в качестве лигандов для переходных металлов, а также conjuncto-боранов и их производных.

До исследований Гринвудом реакций газофазного термолиза бороводородов отсутствовало представление о механизмах и скорости реакций разложения этих соединений, а также о причинах образования тех или иных продуктов. В тот момент уже в университете Лидса, в 1970-х годах, он, вместе с Гиббом и Гретрексом, соорудил термостатированную реакционную емкость, соединенную с масс-спектрометром высокого разрешения, и принялся анализировать продукты разложения бороводородов. С 1979 по 2000 год была проделана плодотворная работа и опубликовано большое количество статей по анализу реакций газофазного термолиза, в том числе газофазных реакций смесей боранов и смесей боранов с алкенами/алкинами: последние реакции приводили к получению удивительных соединений, представляющих собой бороводороды, в структуре которых один или несколько членов {BH} замещен на {CH} — карборанов.

Другой областью изучения было применение бороводородов в качестве лигандов, или электронных доноров, для переходных металлов. В 1974 году Гринвуд, Граймс и Дэвисон независимо синтезировали новое соединение — металлоборан [(CO)3FeB4H8], аналог широко известного металлоорганического [Fe(CO)3(η-C4H4)]. Также это соединение можно представить как производное пентаборана B5H9, в котором апикальный {BH} фрагмент замещён на изолобальный фрагмент {Fe(CO)3}. Принцип изолобальной аналогии был развит двумя годами позже Роалдом Хоффманном, за что он был награждён Нобелевской премией по химии в 1981 году.

При сотрудничестве с научным сотрудником Дж. Д. Кеннеди, экспертом в области синтеза бороводородов и ЯМР-спектроскопии, Гринвуд описал множество новых металлоборанов, conjuncto-боранов и других производных бороводородов: список публикаций на эту тему в период с 1978 по 2005 год превышал сотню.

Исследование Гринвудом бороводородов и открытие новых производных этих соединений позволяло теоретикам в этой области модифицировать существующие теории. Полученные знания распространялись не только на химию боранов и их производных, но и на тесно связанную металлоорганическую химии и, далее, химию кластеров металлов.

Мёссбауэровская спектроскопия
Другим ключевым направлением научной деятельности Гринвуда была Мёссбауэровская спектроскопия, интерес к которой он обнаружил после прослушивания лекции на Гордоновской конференции в конце 1960-х годов. Гринвуд сразу оценил возможности метода в анализе неорганических соединений и изотопов. Он был одним из участников группы учёных, которым были предоставлены данные мёссбауэровской спектроскопии, полученные в миссиях Аполлон-11 (1969), Аполлон-14 (1971), Аполлон-15 (1971). Также Гринвуду были предоставлены для анализа образцы лунного грунта с советских автоматических станций Луна-19 (1970) и Луна-20 (1972). Изучение лунного грунта является важной задачей, составляющей одну из многих в изучении космоса, не только с точки зрения научного интереса. Знание элементного и фазового состава лунного грунта позволило подтвердить предположения об условиях его образования под действием градиента температур, высокого вакуума и солнечного ветра в отсутствие значительного магнитного поля. Например, позже в 2008 году на 212-ом ежегодном собрании Американского астрономического общества было предложено использование лунного грунта, представляющего собой смесь минералов, стекла, изверженных горных пород, сцементированых стеклом, в качестве компонента для производства зеркал для телескопа.

Совместно с Т. С. Гиббом в 1971 году Гринвуд написал книгу «Мёссбауэровская спектроскопия» с кратким введением в природу метода, подробным изложением его применения и достижений последнего десятилетия.

Учебник «Химия элементов»
Существенным вкладом в развитие неорганической химии было создание Гринвудом учебника «Химия элементов» совместно с Аланом Эрншо в 1984 году. Основным отличием книги от обычных учебников по неорганической химии являлось подробное описание промышленных химических процессов и коммерческих применений неорганических соединений. Особенно детально в разделе химии бора описываются бороводороды, что неудивительно: Гринвуд изучал эти соединения на протяжении почти всей своей научной деятельности.

Данная книга до сих пор актуальна для начального изучения неорганической химии. В России с 2008 по 2021 год было выпущено пять изданий двухтомника «Химии элементов» издательством «БИНОМ.Лаборатория знаний», последнее из которых было выпущено в 2020—2021 году.

ИЮПАК
В 1960-е годы Норман Гринвуд был приглашен в ИЮПАК; там он вошел в Комитет по определению атомных весов элементов, позже получивший название Комиссии по изотопному содержанию и атомному весу (англ. CIAAW). С 1970 по 1975 год являлся председателем данной комиссии, а также президентом вышестоящего Отдела неорганической химии, также известного как Отдел II.

Семья и увлечения
В 1951 году Норман Гринвуд женился на норвежке Кирстен Райдланд. У них родились три дочери: Карен, Анна и Линда. Вместе с семьёй он в свободное от научной и преподавательской деятельности много путешествовал и, в конце концов, осуществил свою детскую мечту побывать на всех континентах мира, даже в Антарктиде.

В молодости Гринвуд уделял время и спорту — занимался теннисом, катался на горных лыжах в Австралийских Альпах, ездил на велосипеде. В то же время поучаствовал в странствующем шоу менестрелей в качестве флейтиста, путешествуя по сельским местностям Австралии.

Публикации
Гринвуд является автором или соавтором 490 работ, в число которых, помимо статей, входят тексты лекций (всего 13). Он автор автобиографической книги «Воспоминания учёного», а также нескольких научных монографий (некоторые до сих пор сохраняют актуальность):

Награды и звания
1960 — Член Королевского химического общества

1961 — Почетная степень доктора наук ScD, Сидни-Сассекс-колледж (Кембридж), Кембриджский университет.

1966 — Чтение Тильденской лекции и премия Тильдена, Химическое общество, Лондон

1967 — Приглашенный профессор, Университет штата Мичиган, США

1973 — Приглашённый профессор, Университет Западного Онтарио, Канада

1974 — Медаль Королевского химического общества по химии элементов главной подгруппы

1977 — Почётный доктор наук, Университет Нанси, Франция

1979 — Приглашённый профессор, Копенгагенский университет, Дания

1985 — Приглашённый профессор, Уханьский университет, Китай

1985 — Приглашённый профессор, Университет Ла Троба, Австралия

1987 — Член Лондонского королевского общества

1990 — почетный профессор университета Лидса

1991 — Чтение лекции Людвига Монда и медаль Людвига Монда, Королевское химическое общество

1991-93 — Приглашённый профессор, Университет Тохо, Токио, Япония

1992 — Иностранный член Французской академии наук

1993 — Премия за высшее образование Королевского химического общества

2000 — Почётный доктор наук, Университет Тохо, Токио, Япония

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Hello everyone! As you can see above, I have (once again) updated my map of the complexity sciences.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE INTERNET VERSION OF MY MAP
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A HIGH RESOLUTION PDF VERSION OF THE MAP
To cite this map use the following
Castellani, Brian 2013. Complexity Map Version 5. Sociology and Complexity Science Blog. http://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-complexity-map-version-5.html.
Complexity Map Version 5
Complexity Map Version 5 is a massive update, based on my continuing attempt to keep the map as useful as possible to an ever-growing field and audience. For Version 5, I went back to the beginning, as they say, trying to "fill in" the map and its major trajectories by:
Breaking larger areas of study (such as social complexity or the dynamics of complex systems) into sets of smaller but interconnected areas of research.
Adding newer or smaller areas of study that have stabilized into identifiable fields of scholarship, such as computational biology, visual complexity or data science.
Adding more scholars (both major and minor) to reflect the widening depth of the field.
Reading Complexity Map Version 5
This map is a macroscopic, trans-disciplinary introduction to the complexity sciences. Moving from left to right, it is read in a roughly historical fashion, evolving along the field's five major intellectual traditions: dynamical systems theory (purple), systems science (light blue), complex systems theory (yellow), cybernetics (grey) and artificial intelligence (orange). Placed along these traditions are many of the key scholarly themes in the complexity sciences. A theme's color identifies the historical tradition with which it is best associated, even if a theme is placed on a different intellectual trajectory. Themes in brown denote discipline-specific topics, which help illustrate how the complexity sciences are applied to different content. Double-lined themes denote the intersection of a tradition with an entirely new field of study, as in the case, for example, of visual complexity or agent-based modeling. Connected to themes are the scholars who founded or exemplify work in that area.
Mapping Science: A Few Lessons Learned
I learned a few lessons about the challenges of mapping the history of science.
First, as Foucault says, there are only histories of the present. History is largely a backward looking profession, charting the movements of things across time and place from the present position of the historian. For example, I remember my father-in-law, Len Rusnak, saying that the further away we get from certain presidents in the states, for example, such as Truman, the better or worse they start looking, depending upon the lines of influence we are drawing from them to the present. The same seems to be true of science.
I have noticed over the years that, as new area of study emerge within the complexity sciences, new historical lines of influence are established, new scholars emerge as more or less important, and new historical lineages are developed. Case in point. If you go back to the reviews of complexity written in the late 1990s, the emphasis was, historically speaking, almost entirely on systems science, cybernetics and the work taking place at the Santa Fe Institute, in New Mexico, USA. More recently, however, lots of smaller and more specific histories have emerged. In the social sciences, for example, ties are being made to all sorts of epistemological positions, from postmodernism to poststructuralism to constructionism to critical realism. And, while a scholar like Per Bak and his work on self-organized criticality, for example, was a "massively major" field of study back in the 1990s, he and his work have receded into the background, as new areas and scholars have come into the picture, so to speak, and have taken over. As a result, the old stories have receded or softened a bit, turning into a more complex and nuanced storyline. In response, I have found myself having to constantly evolve, develop and adapt the complexity map.
Second, it seems that, given how wide-reaching the field is now, everyone has their own personal standpoint on the history of complexity. I am constantly told, for example, that the complexity map, "while useful, is incomplete!" or that, "while it gets at most of the major stuff, it is a partial view of just one person!" What? Of course it is! Have you not read anything on the philosophy or epistemology of complexity, going all the way to the early scholars developing the field of cybernetics and systems science? The big, big point made by all these scholars is that all maps, models and theories of complexity and its interdisciplinary study will be, by definition, incomplete! I mean, we are talking about an approach to science that, as Stephen Hawking and others have suggested, will most likely become, in the next fifty years, the dominant definition of science, with the word "complexity" simply being dropped. So, C'mon folks!"
Given such realities, what is the goal of the current map? While it strives to be reasonably exhaustive and impartial, it ultimately strives to help people into the field, to give them a broad understanding of many of its key fields of study and important scholars, pointing them in a variety of directions which they can explore further, drilling down, as they say, into finer and finer levels of analysis. Or better yet, giving them the tools to develop their own maps, their own networks of connections and so forth. It would be interesting, for example, to give people only the names and areas of study on this map and see how they arrange them. I am sure that, while common patterns of arrangement would emerge, major differences would exist, never to be resolved.
Third, it is clear that, far from slowing down, the complexity sciences are advancing at an incredible speed, as this field's various approaches to modeling the topics of science are taken up across the academy! It is very exciting to watch and map this progress, as the work scholars are doing is just incredible!
So, let's think of this map as an evolving dialogue (with the appropriate paper-trail) if you will: a debate, an argument, or (better yet) a charted negotiated ordering that has emerged through our complex interactions with the larger scientific history of which we are a part. As such, I am sure that Version 10 of the map, to my own detriment (Ha!), is not too far off in the immediate future. phew!
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David Kelly was a man who has been on many visits to Iraq. He had seen countless horrors while he was there. The BBC describes him as a "gentle man with a core of steel." "There was no give in that man," said close colleague Scott Ritter in the same BBC article. He was hardened by many years in Iraq, one of the world's toughest countries, as a high-profile inspector. Yes, he was under intense pressure when he revealed his conversation with Andrew Gilligan, but surely the man was not naive enough or inexperienced enough to buckle?
And then his death. It may well be a suicide. If it was, then there must be other extreme and underhand factors (such as the "dark actors" he described hours before his death) that drove this hardened man to end his successful life so suddenly. The ordeal may have been over within a couple of weeks, there was no reason to end it all now.
Imagine, for a moment, that it wasn't suicide. If you wanted someone out of the way, you would trail them to a deserted area. Then, you would kill someone in a way that would look for all the world like the victim had done it himself. He slit one wrist – is there any precedent for a man dying after slitting just one wrist? Privately, many doctors agree that it is unlikely enough blood would be lost. And this happened in woods where no one could see him, and where there would be no sign of a struggle.
Maybe I'm reading too much into it. But Esther Rantzen was the first person to comment on it this morning on Radio 4. Have a listen to it here – skip to 37 minutes. She doesn't say it directly, but implies a whole heap of suspicion in the medical community.
Important, pivotal people eliminated – it's happened before, it'll happen again. Will others have the courage to wonder?
Start your conspiracy theories… David Kelly, the weapons expert accused by the Government of handing anti-government information to the reporter Andrew Gilligan (causing all sorts of news this week), has gone missing, and police have found a body. Did anyone see a man answering to the name of Campbell running away from the scene?
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CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN BIOGRAPHY
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 — September 10, 2005) was an American blues musician. He was born in Vinton, Louisiana and raised in Orange, Texas. He is best known for his work as a blues musician, but embraced other styles of music, having "spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, cajun music and rhythm & blues styles" His work also encompasses rock and roll, rock music, folk, electric blues, and Texas blues. He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, Alright Again! He is regarded as one of the most influential exponents of blues fiddle and has had enormous influence in American fiddle circles. Brown's two biggest musical influences were Louis Jordan and T-Bone Walker.
His professional musical career began in 1945, playing drums in San Antonio, Texas. He was tagged with the "Gatemouth" handle by a high school instructor who accused Brown of having a "voice like a gate". Brown used it to his advantage throughout his career. His career was boosted while attending a 1947 concert by T-Bone Walker in Don Robey's Bronze Peacock Houston nightclub. When Walker became ill, Brown took up his guitar and quickly wrote and played "Gatemouth Boogie," to the delight of the audience right on the spot. In 1949 Robey founded Peacock Records in order to showcase Brown's virtuoso guitar work. Brown's "Mary Is Fine"/"My Time Is Expensive" was a hit for Peacock in 1949. A string of Peacock releases in the 1950s were less successful commercially, but were nonetheless pioneering musically. Particularly notable was the 1951 instrumental "Okie Dokie Stomp", in which Brown solos continuously over a punchy horn section (other instrumentals from this period include "Boogie Uproar" and "Gate Walks to Board"). Okie Dokie Stomp was also recorded by Cornell Dupree in the 1970s and he had success with it as well. As for his gutsy violin playing, Robey allowed him to record "Just Before Dawn" as his final Peacock release in 1959.
In the 1960s Brown moved to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in a syndicated R&B television show, and while he was there recorded several country singles. He struck up a friendship with Roy Clark and made several appearances on the television show Hee Haw. In 1966, Brown was the musical director for the house band on the short-lived television program, The !!!! Beat. However, in the early 1970s several countries in Europe had developed an appreciation for American roots music, especially the blues, and Brown was a popular and well-respected artist there. He toured Europe twelve times, beginning in 1971 and continuing throughout the 1970s. He also became an official ambassador for American music, and participated in several tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department, including an extensive tour of Eastern Africa. Brown appeared at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival, where he jammed with American blues rock band Canned Heat. In 1974, he recorded as a sideman with the New Orleans pianist Professor Longhair on his album, Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo (originally a Blue Star Records release). He moved to New Orleans in the late 1970s. In 1979, through his manager at the time, Jim Halsey, Brown embarked on a 6 week, 44 concert tour of the Soviet Union. This was an historic event as it marked the first time the Soviet Union made a contract with a U.S. private citizen (Jim Halsey) as regards a musical tour. All previous tours were under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. To date, this was by far the most extensive tour an American band had taken in the USSR.
In the 1980s, a series of releases on Rounder Records and Alligator Records revitalized his U.S. career, and he toured extensively and internationally, usually playing between 250 and 300 shows a year. He won a Grammy in 1983 for the album Alright Again! and was nominated for five more. "Alright Again!" is credited with putting Brown back on the musical map. He also won 8 WC Handy Awards. In 1999 Brown was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. In his last few years, he maintained a full touring schedule, including Australia, New Zealand, and countries with political conflicts in Central America, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. His final record "Timeless" was released in 2004. In September 2004, Brown was diagnosed with lung cancer. Already suffering from emphysema and heart disease, he and his doctors decided to forgo treatment. This greatly affected his musical career. Later his home in Slidell, Louisiana was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and he was evacuated to his childhood home town of Orange, Texas, where he died on September 10, 2005 at the apartment of a niece, at the age of 81. Brown is buried in the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas. However, flooding caused by Hurricane Ike in September 2008 damaged his grave. His grave has since been refurbished and through donations a very impressive headstone has been erected in his honor.


Blow Dry is a film which sets out to do for Keighley and competition hairdressing what The Full Monty did for Sheffield and stripping.
No fewer than three voice coaches are acknowledged in the credits, but none of them could claim they had been successful in getting Josh Hartnett, the young and immensely good-looking American actor last seen in Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, to sound like a Yorkshireman.
Perhaps that is inevitable when you have an English film, backed by American money (Miramax are investors, Sydney Pollack co-produces) and an Irish director (Paddy Breathnach).
But Hartnett is far from alone in struggling in a film curiously described as being 'based on the screenplay Never Better by Simon Beaufoy', writer of The Full Monty.
Our own Alan Rickman stumbles over dialogue that JB Priestley might have had second thoughts about, while Natasha Richardson wanders around dying from cancer and saying things like 'aye, he's sweet on her, awreet'.
There is a nice idea here, as the National Hairdressing Championships are brought to Keighley by the town's ambitious mayor (Warren Clarke).
But a) it's a pretty small idea and b) Kevin Allen had more or less the same one two years ago when he made his film The Big Tease starring Craig Ferguson and Mary McCormack. That wasn't a great film either but it did get there first.
What lets this film down is its plotting and structure, which border on the ludicrous.
Rickman plays Phil, who used to be a championship hairdresser until his wife (Richardson) ran off with their salon model (Rachel Griffiths).
Now, he is just a blunt-talking Yorkshire barber (albeit with beautifully sculpted side-burns) sharing the shop and the scissors with his son (Hartnett).
Then the championships sweep into town, bringing an old adversary (Bill Nighy) and his conveniently Florida-raised daughter (Rachel Leigh Cook) with them.
Will Phil's old competitive instincts come to the fore? Well, probably not - until his estranged lesbian wife tells him she is dying. Oh, for goodness sake.
There are some compensations for all this silliness. Nighy and Clarke are both excellent and very funny, while Rachel Griffiths acquits herself about as well as an Australian actress can when playing a tattooed Yorkshire lesbian.
But while the comic charm of The Full Monty was under-pinned by the miserable reality of being a redundant steel worker, this - fatally - has no reality at all.


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« Why Toxins In Pet Food Is Nothing New
Kitten Rescued From Storm Drain »
Artist Who Saved Dog From Fire Dies From Injuries
Michael James Keenan, a San Francisco artist, risked his life to save a friend's dog from a fire. Keenan was house and dog sitting for a friend when a fire broke out in the house. He went outside of the house and realized that the dog, Bobby, was still inside the house. He went back in the house and found the 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier hiding under the bed.
Although both Keenan and Bobby escaped the fire, they sustained critical injuries. Bobby was in intensive care at Pets Unlimited, a non-profit veterinary hospital and animal shelter, due to eye damage and swelling.
Keenan sustained burns over 80% of his body. After months in the hospital, Keenan suffered an infection and died of a stroke earlier this week. His friends and family remember him as a hero and a completely selfless human being. Keenan not only saved Bobby's life, but he saved a woman that was drowning six years ago.
Bobby is doing well after his month of intensive care in the hospital, and Pets Unlimited graciously forgave Bobby's $26,000 bill.
More on Keenan after the jump.
From SFgate.com:
"He was the kind of guy who would walk into any pub and walk out with 15 friends," said Owen Kelly, who knew Mr. Keenan since childhood.
"He was a very sparkly being," said a friend, Stacie Krajchir of Los Angeles. "He had butterfly sense — no time, no boundaries, no rules. If the sun was shining, he'd let the sun kind of lead him."
Mr. Keenan was heartbroken when his pit bull, a female named Charlie, died a year ago. Friends said they expect some part of Mr. Keenan's memorial service will be on the beach at Fort Funston, where he used to take Charlie for walks.
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8 Responses to "Artist Who Saved Dog From Fire Dies From Injuries"
God bless him.
High Note says:
If more people were like Keenan there would never have been a pet food problem on this earth. Wish there were more wonderful people like Michael James Keenan.
Jenny Bark says:
Mr. Keenan is now with God & Charlie and having a wonderfull time & no pain. What a gift to this world this man was.
They should rename that animal hospital after this selfless hero.
Pit Bull Lover says:
What a wonderful yet devastating story. I'm saddened to know this brave, kind, man is no longer gracing the earth.
Here is a picture of him with Charlie, the pit bull: http://www.michaeljkeenan.com/
Bless him for caring so much and doing what he could in life. I tried looking up some of his artwork but only came up with articles about him and the fire or his passing.
I hope he is resting easy now, what a hero he was!
The courage and compassion of this man are awe inspiring. I hope now that Bobby makes a full recovery — great that his intensive care bill has been forgiven. Seems a fitting way to honor Keenan's selflessness.
God bless him. I wish everyone was like him.


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Goff, Rams D Leads Win Over Bucs
Associated Press Published: November 24, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jared Goff won a matchup against Tom Brady while helping the Los Angeles Rams retain a share of first place in the NFC West.
Goff completed 39 of his 51 passes for 376 yards and three touchdowns in the Rams' 27-24 victory at Tampa. Robert Woods, Van Jefferson and Cam Akers grabbed short scoring passes from Goff as Los Angeles improved to 7-3.
Cooper Kupp had 11 receptions for 145 yards and Woods finished with 10 catches for 130 yards. But the Rams didn't go ahead to stay until Matt Gay kicked a 40-yard field goal with 2:36 left.
Jordan Fuller picked off two passes from Brady, who was under pressure much of the game. Brady finished 26 of 48 for just 216 yards and two touchdowns as the Bucs fell to 7-3.
An all-Black officiating crew worked an NFL game for the first time in league history.
Referee Jerome Boger led the crew, which also included umpire Barry Anderson, down judge Julian Mapp, line judge Carl Johnson, field judge Dale Shaw, side judge Anthony Jeffries and back judge Greg Steed.
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The battle for Zwarte Piet: Everyday racism in the Netherlands by Dorothea Hilhorst
By	Dorothea Hilhorst Posted on December 3, 2018 May 18, 2020
Every year around this time, a major cultural and identity clash emerges in the Netherlands as proponents and opponents of Sinterklaas (the Dutch version of Santa Claus) clash over Zwarte Piet, his black servant. However, instead of leading to resolution, debates on Zwarte Piet have become increasingly marked by violence and intolerance, as some fiercely defend this tradition, while others call for change. What is the debate all about, and how can it provide us with insights on everyday racism in the Netherlands and beyond?
As a child growing up in a Dutch, white suburb, my favourite tradition in the Netherlands has always been Sinterklaas. It is our variation of Santa Claus, but our Sint gives the children presents on the occasion of his birthday on 5 December. Three weeks before the big day, Sint arrives by steamboat in the Netherlands and during the three weeks' stay he visits schools, families, and hospitals to meet children. Before going to bed, kids place their shoes near the chimney or door. They sing the traditional songs about Sinterklaas, and add a root or water for Sinterklaas' horse. In the middle of the night, Sinterklaas' servants – so the story goes – would enter through the chimney and place sweets or presents in the shoes.
THE ISSUE WITH ZWARTE PIET…
As a child, Sinterklaas was the highlight of my year, and I was never aware of the racist character of the tradition. Sinterklaas is surrounded by servants that are black. Although there are many myths about the origin of Zwarte Piet, it is not difficult to see remnants here of the Dutch history riddled with slavery. The representation of Zwarte Piet, a servant with exaggerated racial traits, including shiny black skin, kinky hair, and fat red lips, is perceived by many as reproducing racial stereotypes and as a form of everyday racism. For the last ten years, the discussion on Zwarte Piet has escalated to become a principal battleground of what it means to be Dutch in the twenty-first century.
In 2014, a UN research team concluded that Zwarte Piet was indeed racist, and the report noted that the committee was shocked to find how ignorant Dutch society is about its history with slavery. The e-mail account of one of the researchers, Jamaican professor Verene Shepherd, had to be temporarily closed due to extensive hate mail from Dutch people who felt that one of their most precious traditions was being attacked.
ZWARTE PIET REIMAGINED?
While protest against Zwarte Piet is growing in the Netherlands, it is important to note that the tradition is not under attack. Nobody wants to ban the tradition of Sinterklaas, protesters just want a minor adaptation to Zwarte Piet. The proposed alternative is Roetveegpiet: a person of unspecified ethnicity that is blackened by the soot from inside the chimneys through which Piet supposedly enters the houses. This alternative seems simple and doable, yet the Netherlands continues to be utterly divided over the matter. When HEMA – a popular store – announced in 2015 that it was changing its December displays to the Roetveegpiet, it quickly had to backtrack because of a consumer boycott and security threats received by HEMA personnel.
In 2017, when Sinterklaas' arrival by steamboat took place in the province of Friesland, a number of people blocked the highway to stop anti-Zwarte Piet demonstrators from holding a peaceful protest. The people who blocked the highway have recently been convicted by a court to several weeks of community service, but fail to understand why and show no remorse or regrets.
This year, 2018, the arrival of Sinterklaas was accompanied in many cities by violent attacks on peaceful protesters against Zwarte Piet. Apparently, the core of those coming to the defence of Zwarte Piet is now formed by football hooligans that take joy in throwing cans and other objects at the protesters. Dozens of the hooligans have been arrested. While extremist hooligans are the most visible part of the pro-Zwarte Piet movement, surveys show that in the society at large the support for Zwarte Piet is declining, but that he can still count on majority support among the population.
For this reason perhaps, the Dutch government so far has refused to intervene in the debate, claiming this is not a political, but a socio-cultural issue. Only last week, the leader of the Christian party Christen Unie that forms part of the current government coalition publicly announced his support for Roetvegenpiet.
It is quite incredible how Zwarte Piet has become the epicentre of the stormy discussion on how the Netherlands has to relate to itself in times of diversity and migration. Accusations of racism on the one hand and treason on the other entrench antagonism in the battle for or against Zwarte Piet.
RESISTING EVERYDAY RACISM
At ISS, everyday racism is a major topic of analysis. One of the things that I've learned from our international students is that something can be racist with or without intention. When somebody is reprimanded after telling a nasty joke about black people, the usual defence is, "Oh, but I never meant that to be racist, and, by the way, I have many black friends."
But even without the intention of racism, a joke can be racist in the sense that it reproduces prejudice about minority groups with a different skin colour or a non-majority ethnic background. And even without racist intention, these friends may still find it unpleasant to hear the jokes.
How can this insight help us in the Zwarte Piet debate? Could Zwarte Piet critics believe that the large majority of Zwarte Piet lovers have no racist intentions? And could Zwarte Piet defenders then acknowledge that Zwarte Piet is nonetheless a hurtful expression of everyday racism?
The author (on the right) with her sister in the 1970s.
In November 2013, the ISS community sent a letter to Erasmus University's Rector Magnificus to raise the issue of the celebration of Sinterklaas and the everyday racism it represents. The letter was a response to an invitation (which just had a picture of Zwarte Piet) to celebrate Sinterklaas on the Erasmus University campus in Rotterdam. Authors of the letter called for the recognition and appreciation of principles of tolerance on which the ISS strives to be built and requested that the university starts to consider alternative forms of representation to overcome the racial stereotyping from the celebration of Sinterklaas. The letter was signed by 52 members of the community.
Picture Credit: MysterieusVP
Dorothea Hilhorst is Professor of Humanitarian Aid and Reconstruction at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Here is the full version of the letter that was sent to the Rector Magnificus on 21st of November, 2013:
Subject: Celebration of Sinterklass at EUR
Earlier, on the 6th of this month, the community at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) received an invitation to participate in the 2013 Sinterklass celebration to be held on 30th November 2013 at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). The invitation from 'owner-eurmedewerkers-l@eur.nl' consisted of a web address and just a picture of Zwarte Piet.
We understand that the Sinterklass and Zwarte Piet tradition has strong cultural value in Dutch society. It is said to be like Christmas in many countries, a time of family togetherness with many positive values. However, we are also aware, that lately the recurring image of Zwarte Piet has caused controversy among different segments of Dutch society, for perpetuating negative racial stereotypes.
ISS is a highly diverse international community of scholars and students from the global north and south, which make up over 80% of the school's student body. From its inception in 1952 to the present day, the Institute has brought together people, ideas and insights in a multi-disciplinary setting which nurtures, fosters and promotes critical thinking and conducts innovative research into fundamental social problems. One of the strengths of this Institute is its respect for all social orientations of race, ethnicity, gender, religious, as well as schools of thought, as long as these orientations have a spirit of tolerance for and appreciation of difference.
Thus, we request that Erasmus University recognize and appreciate the principles of tolerance upon which ISS is built and to integrate these principles into its ongoing relationship with the Institute. As part of Erasmus, we would therefore request that the University start to consider alternative forms of representation to overcome the racial stereotyping from the celebration of Sinterklass and to demonstrate our commitment towards principles of tolerance and diversity.
Members of the ISS Community
(with attached list of signatories)


Zanesville, OH – A $25,000 grant from the Nestlé Purina PetCare Foundation is giving local dog owners something to cheer about. The money will be used by the City of Zanesville and "Friends of Riverside Dogzville" to improve the city's new dog park by installing water fountains, pathways, agility units, benches, and shelter. The dog park originally opened in October 2016, and the new features are expected to be added by late Spring 2017.
The dog park is 2.6 acres in size, and is split into different areas for large and small dogs.
Nestlé Purina also values its longtime partnership with other area organizations, like the Animal Shelter Society, United Way, Christ's Table, Salvation Army, Zanesville Civic League, & Big Brothers/Big Sisters.


To avoid blooming or discolouration, do not refrigerate your chocolate. Store in a cool, dry, dark place.
Kilbeggan handmade chocolates are best enjoyed at room temperature. 50 – 60 degrees fahrenheit is ideal.
Once purchased, Kilbeggan chocolates can be stored for up to 12 months or more, although once sampled, they seldom last that long.
Luxurious fondants and mouth-watering fillings are added to create the perfect taste so make sure you have a clean palate between samplings.
One of the first studies to highlight the benefits of dark chocolate came out in 2003 and reported that eating dark chocolate daily could help lower blood pressure in people with moderately high numbers. The study, from Germany, had participants eat 100 grams of dark chocolate daily for two weeks and found an average drop of 5 points in systolic blood pressure and two points for diastolic (that's the top number and the bottom, respectively). Other studies have shown that eating a little dark chocolate can increase blood flow, and a later study found that limiting participants to just 30 calories of dark chocolate a day could still lower blood pressure over time.
Eating dark chocolate regularly can help reduce the buildup of plaque in the arteries, reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular disease by more than 50 percent, and even reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease among elderly people over the course of many years. This makes sense because of the blood pressure lowering capabilities of chocolate and its link to lower levels of bad cholesterol.
Antioxidants are a powerful way to protect the body from the effects of aging just by eating healthy foods, and dark chocolate turns out to have a ton of these protective molecules. Researchers found that people who ate dark chocolate had more antioxidants in their bloodstream than people who ate milk chocolate, or who chased their dark chocolate with milk.
There are many healthy nutrients in dark chocolate that can help qualify it as a healthy choice. An ounce of dark chocolate has 2 grams of fiber and is a decent source of iron, magnesium, copper and manganese; trace elements that can be difficult to pick up in your diet. That little serving also has 1.4 grams of protein.
We probably don't need to tell you that having a little chocolate at the end of a hard day makes you feel better, but there's a scientific basis for that boost. A chemical in dark chocolate, phenylethylamine, boosts endorphins and makes you feel similar to the feeling of falling in love. The small amount of caffeine in dark chocolate can give you a mental boost, too, making you feel more focused.
Those antioxidants and mood boosters in dark chocolate can reduce feelings of stress and release of stress hormones, which may make your skin look better. Stress hormones can break down collagen in the skin, which makes wrinkles appear more prominent. Flavanols in dark chocolate may also make skin healthier, improve blood flow to the skin, giving you a healthier glow, and protect against sun damage.
Eating dark chocolate has also shown increased blood flow to the brain, which can make you sharper and reduce the effects of aging on the brain. Again, caffeine may help boost brain power when you eat chocolate, too.
Even dark chocolate has a fair bit of sugar in it, so you should keep servings small or take something out of your diet to make up for the calories you consume in chocolate. But there's one more bit of good news, and that is that flavanoids in dark chocolate can help reduce insulin resistance, which can in turn prevent type 2 diabetes.


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BURNABY, BC — The SFU men's Hockey Team were unable to seal the deal and clinch first place in their penultimate regular season game against Trinity Western. Defensive mistakes and a three goal night by Spartan defenceman Kaleb Denham snapped SFU's six-game winning streak and seven-game point streak.
"It was one of those games played between the hashmarks, there really wasn't any sustainable pressure by both teams," said head coach Mark Coletta. "Just simple mistakes in our own end cost us."
Both teams traded chances in a fast-paced opening frame, but neither team put it in the back of the net. Trinity Western led in shots 10-9.
SFU were unable to capitalize on drawing three straight power plays — including one four minute power play.
Off the momentum of the four minute kill to begin the second period, Denham gave the Spartans the first lead of the night, with his first goal on the night, on the breakaway.
Missed opportunities were the theme of the first two periods for SFU, as they had a few empty net chances that were ended when the player missed the puck.
Trinity Western controlled the pace of play in the second frame, outshooting SFU 11-5.
Denham struck again, scoring just 34 seconds into the third to give the Spartans a two-goal lead.
However, SFU started to regain their form, and limited the Spartans' shots in the period to the one that scored for more than half the period, and began pouring pressure on Silas Matthys.
The hard work paid off as Jaret Babych put the Clan within one with 8:47 left in the game, with his 11th of the year. Graham Smerek put up an assist for his 22nd point.
The comeback was in full force when Denham abruptly put up his third of the night for his first career hattrick. Despite pulling the goalie and some key pressure late, SFU were unable to solve Matthys again.
Lyndon Stanwood made 23 saves on 26 shots (.885 SV%). The game marked Stanwood's first loss of the year, in his 11th game.
"We just have to do better job of supporting the puck in the offensive zone," said Coletta. "Our D-zone has got to tighten up a bit, and we've got to get shots. Silas is a good goalie — he saves everything he sees. So we've got to get better at getting traffic to him."
SFU needs just one point to clinch first Saturday night. However, if SFU loses in regulation, Trinity Western will tie SFU in points with 36, and will take the tiebreaker with the advantage in head-to-head matchups. (SFU has five points against Trinity Western, while the Spartans currently have six).
The Clan will take on the University of Victoria in the first round of the playoffs if they achieve first place, and will face Selkirk College if they place second.
Saturday, SFU will honour graduating seniors Jesse Mysiorek and Mike Sandor as part of the ceremonies for the final regular season home game. Jordan Liem will start in net. Brendan Lamont and Adam Callegari are expected to draw back in after not playing Friday.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and seniors, and free for children under 6 or for SFU students with valid ID. The game will also be streamed live on HockeyTV. Puck drop is at 7 pm.
1st Star: TWU #6 Kaleb Denham (3G, 0A)
2nd Star: TWU #34 Silas Matthys (25 Saves/26 Shots, .962 SV%)
3rd Star: SFU #1 Lyndon Stanwood (23 Saves/26 Shots, .885 SV%)
AROUND THE BCIHL: Eastern Washington had the first goal, but were to provide an answer to Selkirk College's four consecutive goals in a 4-1 loss in Castlegar. Kyle Blondin opened the scoring for the Eagles, but just over two minutes later, Matt Martin answered back for the Saints. Selkirk College outshot Eastern Washington 33-13.
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About Jennifer Fleissner
I am a scholar and teacher of, primarily, nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature, although I have also written essays on critical method as well as on the novel more broadly and on some British novelists such as Ian McEwan. I have a special interest in the turn into the twentieth century, the period often associated with the rise of American modernity, and, hence, with many of the phenomena, both social and intellectual, that continue to engage us today. Overall, I have a commitment as a critic to taking works of the past seriously as living resources for our own thought in the present, but which challenge us precisely because they are not simply precursors of the ways we think now. This not simply historicist relation to history, in my view, is crucial to the importance of humanistic scholarship.
My first book, Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (2004) intervened into largely critical accounts of American modernization (industrialization, urbanization, the rise of consumer culture, etc.) by asking how we could understand these developments' concurrence with the rise of the "New Woman." This entailed a rereading of a literary genre, naturalism, often associated with a pessimistically determinist account of human agency, as central to a larger and more ambivalent turn-of-the-century project of thinking futurity through the figure of the modern woman.
My second book, Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem (forthcoming 2022) has both a literary-critical vector and a more philosophical one. It aims to situate the nineteenth-century American novel more centrally within novel studies, a field within which it has remained surprisingly marginal. It does so by reorienting the novel's engagement with modern subjectivity around the idea of the will, a concept that links American writers from Melville, Hawthorne, and James to Elizabeth Stoddard and Charles Chesnutt to European novelists from Goethe to Balzac to Eliot. More broadly, the book argues for a new genealogy of the concept of will that runs counter to our standard association of it simply with rational agency—one that can account for its importance for Romantic philosophy and vitalism as well as for, more familiarly, liberalism. Thus reframed, I argue, the will can offer a gateway into a lost context—albeit one still relevant to the contemporary novel—in which still-pressing debates about modernity, individualism, and personhood played out across a much more heterogeneous, interdisciplinary or, better, pre-disciplinary ground.
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Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem (Chicago 2022)
Women, Compulsion, Modernity: The Moment of American Naturalism (Chicago 2004)
"'As If!' in Thunder," American Literary History 34, no. 1 (Spring 2022)
"Romancing the Real: Ian McEwan, Bruno Latour, and Post-Critical Monism," in Rita Felski and Elizabeth Anker, eds., Rethinking Critique (Duke 2018)
"Historicism Blues," American Literary History 25, no. 4 (Winter 2013): 1-19
"Familiar Forms, Unfamiliar Beings," J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1, no. 2 (Fall 2013): 452-59
"The Ordering Power of Disorder: Henry Adams and the Return of the Darwinian Era," American Literature, 84, no. 1 (March 2012): 31-60
"After the New Americanists: The Progress of Romance and the Romance of Progress in American Literary Studies," in Caroline Levander and Robert S. Levine, eds., A Companion to American Literary Studies (Blackwell, 2011)
"Wharton, Marriage, and the New Woman," in Leonard Cassuto, Clare Eby, and Benjamin Reiss, eds., The Cambridge History of the American Novel(Cambridge, 2011)
"Objecting to Novelty: The Objectivity of the Novelistic," part of "The Future of the Novel," a forum, Novel: A Forum on Fiction 44.1 (Spring 2011)
"Earth-Eating, Addiction, Nostalgia: Charles Chesnutt's Diasporic Regionalism," Studies in Romanticism 49, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 313-36
"Symptomatology and the Novel," Novel: A Forum on Fiction 42.3 (Fall 2009)
"When the Symptom Becomes a Resource," American Literary History 20, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 640-55
"Henry James's Art of Eating," ELH 75 (2008): 27-62
"Obsessional Modernity: The 'Institutionalization of Doubt,'" Critical Inquiry 34, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 106-34
"The Biological Clock: Edith Wharton, Naturalism, and the Temporality of Womanhood," American Literature 78, no. 3 (September 2006): 519-48
"Is Feminism a Historicism?" Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 21, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 45-66
"Dictation Anxiety: The Stenographer's Stake in Dracula," Nineteenth-Century Contexts 22, no. 3 (Fall 2000)
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When my mother was in labor for 36 hours she and my grandmother looked out the window at the same time and watched a coyote come out of a bush look at the pair of them then transformed into a bald eagle and flew away. Since then I have spoken to a shaman and he said they witnessed the trickster watching over my birth.
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U-Haul signs offend the eyes of neighbors
Owners of Shelburne's Burlington Bedrooms are building a fence to block the sight of their trucks.
U-Haul signs offend the eyes of neighbors Owners of Shelburne's Burlington Bedrooms are building a fence to block the sight of their trucks. Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: http://bfpne.ws/2cMxel9
Nicole Higgins DeSmet, Free Press Staff Writer Published 12:02 a.m. ET Sept. 10, 2016
Burlington Bedrooms, a family company, began selling U-Haul rentals in 2015. Now owners Catherine and Andy Collette are charged with building a fence.(Photo: NICOLE HIGGINS DESMET/FREE PRESS MEDIA)Buy Photo
SHELBURNE - The owners of a mattress and storage company on Shelburne Road are building a cedar fence at the town's request, and they are paying for it too.
"I hope it detracts from the billboards on wheels," Bill Hogan of Wild Rose Circle said on Tuesday. He spoke of the fence being erected to obscure U-Haul trucks, which are emblazoned with orange logos. He and neighbors pass by the corner store and must share their road with the store's parking lot entrance.
A fire lane forces store owners Andy and Catherine Collette to park the U-Haul rentals in the front parking lot of their building. An embankment which dips below street level to the front of the building partially obscures the parking lot, but the settlement agreement this August with the town and Wild Rose residents still specifies an 8-foot cedar-fence with cedar trees be built.
The Collette family has owned Burlington Bedrooms since 1982, according to Catherine. They began offering U-Haul equipment rentals in 2014. Court documents indicate the Collettes were issued a zoning permit violation this summer.
According to minutes from a Development Review Board meeting in April 2016, neighbors in Wild Rose Circle were concerned about truck traffic and advertising slogans.
Across the street from Burlington Bedrooms on Shelburne Road, Sept. 7, 2016. Soon a fence will obscure the store and the rental equipment. (Photo: NICOLE HIGGINS DESMET/FREE PRESS MEDIA)
"Andy will be done this week, following the site plan," Catherine Collette said. She told Free Press the materials alone cost roughly $8,000. The Collettes hope to minimize costs by installing the fence themselves.
She was curious if other businesses on Shelburne Road had been asked to build fences to conceal their signage in the commercial mixed-use development zone along Shelburne Road.
Tractor Supply Co. has lawnmowers and other equipment parked in its lot a 1/2 mile south of the Collettes' store on Shelburne Road. Jim Landry, general manager, said he had heard about the fence, but he couldn't comment per company policy.
Steele DuBrul, vice president of the Automaster car dealership on Shelburne Road, which is just south of the furniture store, wouldn't comment specifically on the Collettes' situation.
"We do our best to accommodate our neighbors," Steele said. He did admit that when the Automaster bought the parcel along Bay Road they were asked conform to a landscaping request.
"But it was nothing unreasonable," he said.
James Carroll, president of Rice Lumber on Shelburne Road, told the Free Press the company had never been asked to build a fence.
"Just Shelburne being Shelburne," he said, referring to the town's request to the Collettes.
This case appears to predate the new form-based zoning the town adopted in April. The new zoning, which is still voluntary, was promoted as a way to not only encourage economic development on Shelburne's portion of U.S. 7, but also to make it look less like a strip mall.
This story was first posted online on Sept. 10, 2016. Contact Nicole Higgins DeSmet, ndesmet@freepressmedia.com or 802-660-1845. Follow her on Twitter @NicoleHDeSmet.
Andy Collette at work on the foundation for the fence on Sept. 7, 2016. (Photo: NICOLE HIGGINS DESMET/FREE PRESS MEDIA)
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Just a reminder the Frankford CDC, State Representative Tony Payton, Friends of Overington Park and Northeast EPIC Stakeholders are holding a free family movie night TOMORROW in Overington Park at 7:00p! Bring your own blanket, though we'll have popcorn and drinks for the kids! See the flyer below for all the details – we hope to see you there!
Don't hesitate to contact Michelle Feldman at 215-743-6580 or mfeldman.fcdc@gmail.com with any questions!


On our trip to Tokyo, we only managed to book 5 nights to enjoy the best the city has to offer. Of course, discounting the day of arrival and departure, this left us only whit 4 days to explore the city. And knowing Tokyo in 4 days, especially on a family trip with one children is not an easy task, so we had to study our destination well, choose the priorities to visit, the ones we really wanted to see and, of course, the ones we wanted to see but we probably would not have time to visit.
Something that makes it difficult to get to know Tokyo in a few days is its immensity. Tokyo is really huge and, for those who want to visit it with little time and do not organize their trip, it will be easy to feel lost, and will waste a lot of their precious time, so we really advise to, like we did, plan what you want to visit, how to do it, and organize your itinerary very well.
On recent posts we described each one of the different days of our stay in this wonderful city. Now, what we propose in this post is to conduct a joint itinerary of the four days we spent in the city, hoping to share our experience of traveling in family but, mainly, to give some help to pleople that want to organize theyr stay in this city. We can garante that , of all the cityes we visited around the world, this is perhaps the one that required more planning and organization, but at the end of the trip we felt that these 4 days allowed us to enjoy much of what Tokyo has to offer, and were a huge success.
So, let's us start by sayng that the solution to make the most of your stay is to divide well and organize your days, that is, within the attractions you want to see in the city, try to see which ones are closest to each other and try to join your visit, so that it allow you to avoid going from one side of the city to the other and having to return to the same side of town on another day that you had already been there.
Unlike other cities, it can't be said that Tokyo has a center. What we can say is that it has several centers and each one with its attractions. It is also necessary to mention here that what each of us looks for in each destination can be completely the opposite of another person, so we always advise people to study as much as possible your destination (which in itself is always a pleasure for us, before the trip is like starting the trip), and choose what you want to see.
We also always advise you to choose what is really indispensable for you and you can't lose, always leaving these priorities for the first few days, because imponderables can always happen, especially for those who travel with childrens.
Well, let's talk about the description of our itinerary and our organization day by day.
An important question about where to stay in Tokyo will be tied to the location of your stay. Contrary to what we had read in many places, we did not consider Tokyo the most expensive place we have been. After our trip to Iceland, that is a really expensive destination (you can see our trip to Iceland here), all destinations seam to not be so expensive.
During our stay in Tokyo we can say that you can make a life with values not very different from what is practiced in other European cities, even cheaper than many in northern Europe.
However, on a hotel level, you will easily check through an internet search that this is not a cheap destination. And, as we said earlier, it is not too easy to know what the center of the city is. So what we tried was to take into account a hotel that was close to the main metro line, JR Yamanote Line.
Given the conditions we intended, we ended up staying at The B Ochanomizu hotel (you can see here his official website) near the Kanda area. This 3 star hotel has provided us with a location which, in our opinion, was optimal. First of all, we had several metro stations within easy reach and, even on foot, we could reach the Akihabara area, as well as the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station, for those of us who like to walk.
Throughout our itinerary, we tried to walk the most, but this is an impossible task to do all over the city, which is really huge, so we recommend the Metro, which is an cool adventure, but an experience that you will have to do on your trip to Tokyo.
Of course our itinerary was connected to our base, but in the morning we went to the Marunouchi district, perhaps the center of Tokyo, where we strongly advised to visit the Imperial Palace Gardens, a great way to start your day and your trip through Tokyo.
After the visit, we walked to Tokyo Station, still in the Marunouchi district, where, in addition to meeting one of the busiest stations in the world, we had the opportunity to experience a delicious meal, namely at Tokyo Ramen Street.
Continuing at the station, we took the subway to Hamamatsuchō Station, where we aimed to visit one of the temples we loved most in the city, namely the Zojo-Ji Temple, one of the best surprises in the city.
Very close to the Zojo-Ji Temple, is the Tokyo Tower. This red and white Japanese version of the Eiffel Tower is impressive but we only visited its exterior because we had planned for another day to see the city high up in another iconic building.
After the visit to the Tokyo Tower, we made our way to Hamamatsuchō Station, where we took the subway to Akihabara Station, to see the end of the day / beginning of the night in the Akihabara neighborhood, the "electronic city" of Tokyo .
Still in this neighborhood, we used to eat delicious sushi at Uogashi Nihon Ichi Atre Akihabara, which we highly recommend.
Click here to see the full description of the firstday of our family trip in Tokyo.
We purposely left this itinerary for Sunday for two reasons and one is because it is this day of the week that multiple weddings are held in the Meiji Jingu Shrine and we wanted to see the brides in their kimonos, so that's where we headed later of breakfast.
After the visit, we came to know the Yoyogi Park, which is located the Meiji Jingu Shrine but, whose entrance will have to realize by another place (Learn how to get here).
Even near Yoyogi Park we already knew where to eat, so after a short walk we arrived at the Afuri Restaurant, for another perfect dining experience in Tokyo.
After lunch, we took another short walk to Takeshita Street, which is in the Harajuku Quarter. And this was another reason why we booked this itinerary for Sunday, because it is on this day that usually many young people of Tokyo take the opportunity to walk these streets in the most peculiar forms, being the zone of excellence for cosplay of the city, in which creativity, daring the conventional rule.
After walking along Takeshita Street, we took a 1.5-kilometer hike (you can go by subway, but as you know, we like to walk) to the Shibuya district, one of the youngest districts of Tokyo and full of electrifying energy. We took the opportunity to take a stroll along the famous Shibuya Crossing, one of the busiest pedestrian walkways in the world, as well as to visit the Hachico Statue, before we purposely let ourselves be lost in what is considered, for many, Tokyo Times Square until it was time for dinner.
For dinner, we stopped by the Shibuya neighborhood, where we went to experience the futuristic version of eating Sushi at Genki Sushi.
For the return, we took the subway at Shibuya Station, having the pleasure of exploring one of the other major stations in the world, impressive.
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We started our day early because we wanted to go to the Tsukiji port area, where one of the biggest fish markets is held every day and, believe me, it is worth doing this unique experience in Tokyo.
Right next to the Tsukiji Market is the Tsukiji Hongwanji Buddhist Temple, which is one of the most unique and unique temples in Tokyo, which most reminds us of a Thai temple but which gives it a unique serenity in a place as busy as Tsukiji.
It is said that it is at the Tsukiji Market that one can eat the best sushi in Tokyo and, we can say that, the best sushi of our life was, really there, in Sushi Katsura, which we highly recommend.
After our delicious lunch, we made a beautiful walk towards the Ginza district, where we took the opportunity to see the exterior of the Kabuki-za Theater, a majestic building with a significant weight in traditional Japanese culture.
Although we did not take much time in this neighborhood, it is a great place to walk and, for those who wish, to buy but, as that was not our purpose, we took the metro in Ginza to go to the neighborhood of Shinjuku.
We ended up leaving at Shinjuku station and, had we already seen such impressive metro stations, this is probably the biggest and busiest of all, in our opinion. In fact, the whole neighborhood of Shinjuku is hectic and full of life, surrounded by skyscrapers and bustle but, an always organized and not noisy bustle, which is impressive.
This is a park that we tried to get into, but by chance it is closed on Mondays, so we could know it from the inside.
Also in the Shinjuku neighborhood is the Park Hyatt Hotel. This is a hotel that, for those who are fans of the movie Lost in Translation is a must visit. Of course our dream would be to stay at this hotel but such would be at all unbearable for our budget.
Right next to the Park Hyatt Hotel is Central Park Shinjuku, which turned out to be the ideal spot for a break in the middle of the action and for those traveling as a family, as is our case, for the kids this is a perfect place to stay. play and explore.
From free entrance, this is the perfect place for you to have a 360º view of the entire city and hopefully see up to Mount Fuji.
Piss Alley does not appear to be an attractive name for a meal but, we can assure you, it is in this area, which is right next to the Shinjuku station that we had one of the best meals in Tokyo.
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In our last day in Tokyo, we made a change, namely in the place where we would spend the night because, as on the next day we would have to catch the plane early and, as it would at Narita airport which is still far from the center of Tokyo, from Haneda Airport, we opted for the last night's sleep at a hotel in Narita that had a transfer to the airport. This option ended up working beautifully, had only the annoyance of, during that day we had to carry our bags but, as we always try to travel as light as possible, this was not a great inconvenience.
For our day, we had planned to visit one of the most famous attractions of Tokyo, the Senso-Ji Temple, which is in the Asakusa neighborhood. This is undoubtedly one of the most impressive temples in Tokyo. It is really beautiful, immense, but something we loved in Tokyo was the fact that we never feel in a tourist place, but in a city where we live. However, when arriving at the Senso-Ji Temple it was not what we felt, this being the place where we most feel tourists and, unfortunately, tourists like us end up taking beauty to a fabulous place.
On the outskirts of Senso-Ji Temple is famous Nakamise Dori Street, a street that accesses the temple and where commerce and restoration reigns. Of course, each person has his or her opinion and we are not all obliged to like it, but we were disappointed with this street, which is also very tourist-oriented, and neither the articles sold nor the restoration have captivated us minimally and, in all different from what we felt the other days in Tokyo, reason why our desire was quickly to leave there.
Leaving Nakamise Dori Street, we took a short walk to see the Asahi Beer Hall building, one of the headquarters of the Asahi Breweries, which is on the other side of the Sumida River. This building was designed by French designer Philippe Starck and really makes you think of a glass of beer, so it deserves the fast ride, for being one of the most recognizable modern buildings in Tokyo.
Another of the most striking modern buildings in the city is the Tokyo Sky Tree which is 634 meters high is the tallest structure in Japan. It is possible to climb to this tower and we believe that the view must be impressive from its top, however we were limited to seeing from outside its impressive structure and height.
The day was not to be the most wonderful of our stay, we can assure you that the visit to Ueno Park has come to change. This is a huge park and it made us feel again in communion with this wonderful city. Of course, the highlight of our visit to Ueno Park is the height of cherry blossoms during Hanami parties, but we were not lucky enough to travel at that time.
Even at Ueno Park we took the train that took us to Narita, where our hotel was, and still allowed us to explore the city of Narita a bit.
In Narita we had already planned to visit the Narita-San Shinsho-Ji Temple, which we loved and it was a huge surprise. It is huge, full of beauty and history and very empty, quiet and silent, which allows to appreciate the calm of the place. A big surprise for the farewell to Tokyo, because the next day we would take the plane back, putting an end to our family trip in the beautiful city of Tokyo.
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We hope our itinerary helps you plan your family trip in Tokyo. We would like to invite you to follow our experience with us for the 4 days of the trip, in which we describe in detail our entire trip and we believe that it will help you to plan your trip to Tokyo. We also invite you to comment and give your opinion, and we thank you very much for your visit to our Non Stop Family travel blog, which we hope you have liked and continue to visit us.
Wow, you have managed to see so many things in just 4 days! I would love to go to Tokyo one day and I have to admit that I would be lost initially with where to start creating my itinerary. It's good to know that the city doesn't really has a centre and that each neighborhood has something to see in it.
I can't wait to do a trip to Tokyo one day! My parents took me once when I was a baby, but it would be great to experience it as an adult. I bet you could stay for a month and still have places to discover!
Thank you! This is very helpful for family travelers!
Oh wow, Tokyo is such a great place ti visit. I always wanted to go here. Truly a bucket list material.
I never travel much but this has got me inspired, thanks for sharing really informative and well written.
This is such a great post and very detail itinerary to used. Such a great timing, we're planning to go there early next year. We will use this as our guide. Thank you for sharing this.
Looks amazing! My wife and I really want to visit Japan and Tokyo will be one of the spots for sure on that list. It looks like this is so much to do and see!
This is a MAJOR item on my bucket list, though it may take me a few years to get there. Definitely bookmarking!
Thanks for sharing these tips. Tokyo seems to be a very nice place to wander. The places you mentioned above are very interesting. Nice blog.
This is such a thorough and informative post! I can't wait to visit Japan. It's been on my wishlist for years.
This looks amazing. Your pictures are awesome!
This sounds like you had a great 4 days there. It looks amazing. I always wanted to go here.
Thank you for the info, I always wish one day I will visit a place like Tokyo and New York city.
Wonderful pics. Totally agree with you on pre-planning. You planned really well and hence such a wonderful itinerary.
great post!! I would love to go to Tokyo some day soon!