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Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field
Julie Thompson Klein, Interdisciplining Digital Humanities: Boundary Work in an Emerging Field. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015. 201. ISBN 9780472052547 $30.00.
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Classicists can take digital humanities (DH) for granted. We are all familiar with projects like the TLG, Perseus, the Bibliotheca Neo-Latina, and even BMCR itself. Arguably the first DH project of all was in classics, Fr. Robert Busa's 1949 concordance to Thomas Aquinas (p. 38). For us, classical DH projects are as much part of the landscape as JSTOR, arXiv.org, and so on are for colleagues in other fields. Even if we do not work on digital projects ourselves, we use tools from DH. But the place of DH in classics deserves discussion: first of all, is DH work "in" classics at all? Is it possible to be both a classicist and a DH scholar, or must one choose one or the other? Is DH work disciplinary, inter-disciplinary, or para-disciplinary?
These are the questions raised by Klein's book. She herself is in an English department, but she makes an effort to cover the relationship of DH to many humanities fields, in particular including both classics and archaeology. She is concerned with the definition of DH and how it positions itself relative to other fields, how it labels its own boundaries. She sketches the history of DH, and discusses how it fits into colleges and universities (mainly in the US): this includes not only where DH scholars are situated on campus, but how DH work counts for tenure and other assessments and evaluations of faculty.
Although several guides and textbooks on DH have appeared in the last dozen years,1 this book is different because it's more theoretical: not "what is DH so I can use it?" but "what am I doing when I do DH?"—or when I do classics with DH tools. It's a book to argue with rather than one to study. The biggest question is whether DH actually is an interdisciplinary field in the same way as, say, medieval studies (which is one of Klein's regular examples of an established interdisciplinary field, for example p. 75, 94, 118). Klein's goal is to test this idea through examination of the "boundary work" of DH, that is, "the claims, activities, and structures by which individuals and groups work directly and through institutions to create, maintain, break down, and reformulate [boundaries] between knowledge units" (p. 5).
The first chapter, "Interdisciplining," explains different ways of crossing or transcending disciplinary boundaries. An activity or field may be multidisciplinary, juxtaposing "inputs" from several disciplines, or truly interdisciplinary, integrating rather than just combining (p. 15). It may be narrowly or broadly interdisciplinary, depending on how disparate the underlying disciplines are in their methods, questions, and epistemology (p. 16). Interdisciplinary work may be methodological, focused on improving results in one discipline by bringing in methods from elsewhere, or theoretical, aiming to generalize beyond one discipline (p. 17); it may be instrumental, focused on solving a problem, or critical, paying more attention to the structure of knowledge itself (p. 18). Finally, interdisciplinary work may be transdisciplinary, if it gets beyond the world-view of a single discipline (p. 20). Klein suggests that DH as practiced today is transdisciplinary in this sense, and points to work on "critical digital humanities" (p. 19) to show that DH is more than merely instrumental. She acknowledges that "Digital Humanities is widely viewed as methodological in nature" (p. 17) but suggests that the change from thinking of "humanities computing," as we used to call it, to "digital humanities" reflects a movement from methodological to more theoretical focus within the field (p. 17). In other words, for Klein, DH is interdisciplinary in all the best ways.
Chapter two, "Defining," steps back to ask what DH actually is. The term is surprisingly hard to pin down, and practitioners even disagree about whether it is a field or "an array of convergent practices" (p. 47, quoting Jeffrey Schnapp and Todd Presser's Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0). Klein identifies a "first wave of Digital Humanities in the late 1990s and early 2000s" which "emphasized large-scale digitization projects and technological infrastructure," basically quantitative in orientation, and effectively replicating 500 years of print culture in digital form, followed by a second wave which "has been qualitative, interpretive, experiential, emotive, and generative in nature," expanding beyond text to visual, spatial, and temporal forms like film or music (p. 47). It is in this second wave that DH truly becomes interdisciplinary, she argues.
Chapter three, "Institutionalizing," talks about how DH fits into the university. Digital humanists may be in humanities departments, like classics; in the library; or in a center for DH. There are named chairs, graduate fellowships, and everything in between. Klein gives a broad, clear overview of the affiliations of DH scholars and practitioners and the state of the job market in DH (p. 74-79): currently, there seem to be more jobs for administrators and technical support staff than for researchers and faculty within DH (p. 77-78). Research centers, often funded by grants, "provide interstitial space for boundary crossing and collaboration" (p. 79) and give DH visibility as a type of faculty work rather than part of the school's information-technology service-computing infrastructure (p. 85).
"Professionalizing," the fourth chapter, discusses communities of practice within DH, and scholarly publication and communication. There are several scholarly organizations for DH (p. 96), and there are interest groups or other sub-divisions within disciplinary organizations (for example, the Digital Classics Association holds its annual meeting at the SCS annual meeting). Communities arise around projects (p. 93, using Integrating Digital Papyrology as an example), around teaching (p. 94), and around the creation of standards (p. 95).
Scholarly communication includes publication both of DH projects themselves and of theoretical work about DH. The latter might appear in printed books or journals, but the former necessarily require a digital platform of some sort. The first DH projects were fundamentally similar to print books, but various new types and genres of publication have been created, from annotated and transcribed page images to GIS-based mapping projects (p. 97-98). DH projects may also be libraries or collections. These projects, especially the largest ones, require collaboration, and, as Klein observes, "the concept of authorship is more complex in digital environments because it entails the composite work of compiling and archiving, editing and curating, and making or adapting tools for searching, indexing, annotating, and collaborating" (p. 101).
"Educating" is the fifth chapter. Here Klein looks both at courses on DH and at courses using DH: "digital teaching and learning as interdisciplinary practice" (p. 11). The overview of syllabi and texts for introductory DH courses (p. 111-115) will be useful to anyone preparing to teach such a class. Students who work in or with DH should gain not only some technical skills but also skills of integration, critique, and collaboration (p. 125), all things that will be useful even for the majority who won't go on to careers in DH (p. 128). In fact, some scholars and practitioners suggest that, at its core, DH is "a means of scholarship and pedagogy" (p. 129, quoting Jon Saklofske, Estelle Clements, and Richard Cunningham).
"Collaborating and Rewarding," Klein's final chapter, picks up the idea of communities of practice from chapter 4 and considers how DH is recognized and rewarded in universities. Collaboration is much more common in DH than in the humanities generally. As a result, humanities disciplines have not yet figured out how to assess collaborative work, as scientists have. Klein surveys some of the working arrangements different projects have made, best practices for agreeing ahead of time about ownership and credit, and in general the ethical principles necessary for working together (p. 136-144). While much of this may be obvious, for example the value of intellectual generosity in collaboration, some points are more subtle, such as the discussion of how cross-disciplinary teams develop their own language, which may eventually lead to a new field (p. 141).
Interdisciplinary work and collaborative work also pose problems for the usual systems of evaluating humanities faculty, which expect us to produce single-author books and journal articles. But new standards are evolving. Klein refers to the MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media and the AHA's Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians; both of these documents have been updated since the versions she cites.
A seventh chapter, "Resourcing," by Andy Engel, gives an annotated list of resources, most on line, for keeping up with DH. These include scholarly associations, journals, and blogs. Of particular interest to classicists is Digital Classicist, a collaboration among British, German, and American scholars, with links to project sites and tools.
Klein concludes her last chapter with a look to the future of DH (p. 151). Perhaps, as she suggests, "the promise of Digital Humanities also remains greater than the uneven realities of practice and institutionalization" (p. 153). In classics, the tools of DH have become ubiquitous, and they make even "ordinary" (we might even say, "classic") work in classics easier. While a scholar who uses the tools, methods, or corpora developed by DH to do non-digital work would probably say she's not actually doing DH, and would not call herself a digital humanist (compare p. 56), nonetheless these tools influence the types of questions we think of asking, or how difficult it is to answer them. Is there a basic core of "DH knowledge" that every classicist should have? Each discipline needs to find its own answer to a question like this. Klein points us to what our colleagues in other fields have done, and to ways of thinking about DH both as a field and as a practice. The book is useful not merely as a summary of current thinking in and around DH but as a stimulus to defining Digital Classics.
1. For example, Susan Schreibman, Raymond Siemens, John Unsworth, edd., A Companion to Digital Humanities, Blackwell, 2004; Melissa Terras, Julianne Nyhan, Edward Vanhoutte, Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader, Ashgate, 2013; Anne Burdick, Johanna Drucker, Peter Lunenfeld, Todd Presner, Jeffrey Schapp, Digital_Humanities, MIT Press, 2012. Klein lists and describes these and other books, p. 8.


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Kosovo's poisoned generation / Una generazione avvelenata
Date: January 15, 2009Author: Nando Sigona 1 Comment
By Nick Thorpe, BBC News, Kosov0
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The children are sick with lead poisoning. The camps were built close to the Trepca lead mine and smelting works. The factory was closed by order of the UN administration in Kosovo, in 2000. But the slag heaps were never cleaned up. The lead blackens the children's teeth, blanks out their memory, and stunts their growth. The children swing between bursts of nervous hyperactivity, and something like a coma. Some have epileptic fits.
"Every child conceived in these camps will be born with irreversible brain damage," says Paul Polanski, a US human rights activist based in Nis, Serbia. "Everyone talks about resettlement, but that's not the problem, the problem is medical treatment."
Dangerous levels
Mr Polanski claims 77 people have died in Cesmin Lug and another nearby town, Osterode, mainly through complications from lead poisoning. The local UN administration in Mitrovica sees him as a trouble maker. Lead in the blood is measured in micrograms per decilitre. "This is the worst ever lead poisoning that we know of in Europe," said Dorit Nitzan, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) regional office in Belgrade. "We are talking in the tens – 40-50 mg/dl, more than a 100 in the blood… really high levels." In 2004, the WHO recommended the evacuation of Cesmin Lug, and two more Roma camps at Kablare and Zitkovac. All had been set up by the UNHCR in 1999 as a temporary measure, when the Roma Mahalla, on the southern shore of the Ibar River, was burnt down by Albanians in the dying days of the conflict over Kosovo. In 2006, Kablare and Zitkovac were closed down, and the Roma from there moved to Osterode, a former French army base. It was polluted by lead too, but after the topsoil was removed and concrete put down, the WHO classified it as "safer" than before, and about 600 Roma, including some from Cesmin Lug, moved in. Some children began medical treatment, known as "chelation" – to clear the lead from the blood – sponsored by the WHO. But the success of the treatment assumes that the children have been removed from the source of the pollution – that assumption remains a source of controversy today.
Who is responsible?
In Cesmin Lug, children go barefoot, even in winter, on the polluted earth. In Osterode there is concrete, running water, and indoor toilets, but still the wind blows the deadly dust through the air. In May 2008, the UNHCR handed responsibility for the camps to Kosovo. "It was quite a shock," says Sasa Risic, the minister for communities and returns. "We were told to solve, immediately, a problem which the UN had not been able to solve for nine years." The UNHCR turned down our request for an interview, on the grounds that administration of the camps belonged to the UN Mission in Kosovo, Unmik. "The main culprit is always Unmik, or the UN, but it's not true," said Gyorgy Kakuk, outgoing spokesman of Unmik in northern Mitrovica. So what can Unmik fairly be blamed for? I asked. "Our responsibility over the years," he replies carefully, "lies in the fact that we were not tough enough, in bringing those people back, from the beginning." "We always withdrew when we faced resistance." Resistance came from two sources. One was the local council in Albanian-run southern Mitrovica, which delayed the rebuilding of the Roma Mahalla, where the gypsies lived before 1999; the other was the Roma in the camps themselves. Today, the rebuilding of Roma Mahalla in southern Mitrovica, funded by the Dutch and Norwegian governments, is proceeding slowly.
In Phase 1, some 400 Roma returned, but Phase 2 has not yet started. The US government has also launched a new project to re-house 50 families from Cesmin Lug – but there are complications. Some Roma at Cesmin Lug told me they were afraid to leave the Serb-controlled north, for the Albanian-majority south, because they feared they would lose their welfare payments – which were still paid by Belgrade. Others said they would not feel safe living among Albanians again, after what happened in 1999. Later this month, the WHO will make their next fact-finding visit to the camps. As a wintry sun sets over the slag heaps, the children sing a nursery rhyme some say dates back to the time of the Great Plague in England. "Ring a-ring o'roses, a pocket full of posies. A-tishoo! A-tishoo! We all fall down."
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John McLaughlin : Floating Point
John McLaughlin – Guitar & Guitar Synthesizer
Ranjit Barot – Drums
Sivamani – Percussion
Louiz Banks – Keyboards
Hadrien Feraud – Bass Guitar
With Special Guests:
George Brooks – Soprano Saxophone
Debashish Bhattacharya – Hindustani Slide Guitar
Shashank – Bamboo Flute
Shankar Mahadevan – Vocals
U. Rajesh – Electric Mandolin
Naveen Kumar – Bamboo Flute
Niladri Kumar – Zitar
1. Abbaji (for Alla Rakha)
2. Raju
3. Maharina
4. Off The One
5. The Voice
6. Inside Out
7. 1 4 U
8. Five Peace Band
In 2007, during an extended stay in Madras, India, an inspired John McLaughlin was overwhelmed with a sudden burst of creativity; which produced eight new songs. Rather than waiting until he returned to Monaco, he decided to record the new pieces in India featuring some of the young lions of India's music scene.
The result is Floating Point, John McLaughlin's debut studio CD release on Abstract Logix. According to John, the Floating Point is the sensation musicians can experience when a band is really clickin' and the music goes to a higher level; the change of consciousness feels like you're floating.
Floating Point builds upon, refines, and stretches the musical direction in progress on 2006's Industrial Zen. Instead of using a variety of musician line-ups, this recording has a single rhythm section supporting McLaughlin and a featured soloist. The twist on this CD has the Indian musicians playing in a western music framework: i.e. improvising over chords and working with the harmony. This concept, combined with the Indian instruments, imbues McLaughlin's jazz fusion with a noticeably different feel. Floating Point has a very unique world quality. But that's just the beginning.
As John relates the Floating Point to the interaction between musicians, it could also apply to the music itself. McLaughlin is a master of merging/blending the music of the East and West, but on Floating Point the method is slightly different. John brings the East and West close together, but he doesn't let them touch: like the hands in the Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel. The rhythms of the East serve as a foundation while the harmony of the West is suspended above them; each moving parallel to the other at the same time – and the effect on your senses is startling! Your ears react to the melodies, your body reacts to the rhythms; and your mind has to connect the two. But as Funkadelic rightly put it, Free your mind…and your ass will follow.
McLaughlin's love of rhythm – and drummers – is given free reign on Floating Point. In fact, the drummers steal the show. Ranjit Barot is killin' on every track! Sivamani, who's also burnin', provides an additional rhythmic undercurrent and counterpoint to Barot. With Barot playing propulsive polyrhythms and expressive embellishment on the kit, and Sivamani – matching him stroke for stroke – weaving in and out and around the rhythms on percussion, the resulting maelstrom creates a sense of relentless dynamic energy (and unresolved tension) within the songs.
McLaughlin's understanding of Indian music is essential here. John avoids the cliched drummer keeping a static 4/4 funk beat and a guy tapping bongos routine (all together now…smmooooth jaaazz) and unchains the drumming tandem. He lets the drummers improvise, subdivide and extend the rhythms without the restriction – and limits – of a single groove within the songs.
Bass phenom Hadrien Feraud and keyboardist Louiz Banks round out the rhythm section. Feraud was not available for the recording sessions in India and added his parts later in Monaco. But plenty of space was left for him to play his melodic bass lines and jaw-dropping solos. Louiz Banks handles most of the accompaniment, allowing McLaughlin to mix it up with the stellar cast of guest musicians.
Some highlights of the CD:
Abbaji (for Alla Rakha): named after and dedicated to the master tabla player (and Zakir Hussain's father). The pensive melody and chords of a mid-tempo blues hover over drums that sound like the jugalbandi of a raga. That sense of two independent styles playing at the same time flows throughout Floating Point, and is wonderfully shown on this piece.
Off The One: one of my favorite tracks. Shashank on bamboo flute gives this piece a little more of an eastern feel; and he really soars during his solo. Again, the drummers really keep things percolating.
The Voice: this could be a companion piece to Mother Nature from Industrial Zen. Where Shankar Mahadevan lets loose with his wordless vocals at the end of that song, here he rips (and riffs) through the whole tune. He always sends a chill through me when I hear him sing!
1 4 U: another favorite track of mine. Without a doubt, this is one of the catchiest – that's right, catchiest – songs in the JMcL songbook. This CD isn't just about complex rhythms, it is also VERY melodic. If radio play lists weren't so restricted, this tune could be coming from your car speakers. Naveen Kumar on bamboo flute trading licks with John on this piece is a real treat.
Five Peace Band: after Niladri Kumar's blistering solo on electric sitar, everyone had to be floating when this track was being laid down.
In the March '85 issue of Down Beat, John McLaughlin said, I'm a guitar player – that's what I am primarily; that's what I'll always be. I like to write music, but a guitar player's all I ever want to be. I want to be better and better, just as I want to be a better person. But his guitar playing can overshadow the complete musician and artist that is John McLaughlin. John the composer produced a consistently strong collection of intricate and melodic songs. John the dreamer had the vision to conceptualize and carry out this project; stretching the boundaries of music – again. John the believer has to have faith in music he doesn't know from where it comes and directed with no idea where it is supposed to go. With a life in music spanning more than 50 years, there is a degree of certitude that we have of John McLaughlin and his music. Standards deemed impossible for others to reach we consider the norm for him. But whatever standards we hold him to, the standards he sets for himself are infinitely higher. Floating Point is another amazing example of just how high those standards are.
Oh yeah: Five days of the Madras sessions were filmed, along with interviews with the musicians, and are available on the Meeting Of The Minds (DVD). McLaughlin also recorded a separate commentary track; offering more insight into the creative, and collaborative, process.
Raju, Maharina, and Five Peace Band [**] were performed during The 4th Dimension Tour in Sept.–Oct.'07; and available on the Official Pirate download and Official Bootleg CD. Although they were released first, in a way they are cover versions of the original recordings on Floating Point. I recommend comparing the different versions as a way of seeing how music – not just the notes – changes not only with the musicians, but with their cultural approaches as well.
** Five Peace Band was also performed by Remember Shakti and is available on The Way Of Beauty (DVD). A version of Maharina is also available on The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007 (DVD) .
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Q: Ubuntu/Windows suddenly freezes I've a strange problem with my ubuntu 10.04 installation. Whenever i boot into ubuntu the entire system freezes / hangs soon after (~ 2 mins in). This problem exists on my windows 7 installation too. However if i start World of Warcraft or Warcraft on windows it doesnt hang for the duration i'm playing the game. After i stop playing and exit the game my laptop hangs inside 2 mins. Here is when it gets weirder. If i disconnect the charger, the laptop doesn't hang.
However when I start it in ubuntu recovery mode and drop to root shell and use the 'startx' command everything works perfectly. I cannot figure out what the problem is.
i have an intel core2duo 2.2ghz processor, intel mobile 965 graphics, 2 GB RAM
for more details here is the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo :
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz
stepping    : 11
cpu MHz        : 2201.000
cache size    : 4096 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 0
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 0
initial apicid    : 0
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips    : 4389.80
clflush size    : 64
power management:

processor    : 1
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7500  @ 2.20GHz
stepping    : 11
cpu MHz        : 2201.000
cache size    : 4096 KB
physical id    : 0
siblings    : 2
core id        : 1
cpu cores    : 2
apicid        : 1
initial apicid    : 1
fdiv_bug    : no
hlt_bug        : no
f00f_bug    : no
coma_bug    : no
fpu        : yes
fpu_exception    : yes
cpuid level    : 10
wp        : yes
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm ida tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority
bogomips    : 4388.96
clflush size    : 64
power management:

here is the output of cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:        2052440 kB
MemFree:           55924 kB
Buffers:          579352 kB
Cached:           821752 kB
SwapCached:          704 kB
Active:           897124 kB
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Active(anon):     412140 kB
Inactive(anon):   264804 kB
Active(file):     484984 kB
Inactive(file):   767452 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:       1178440 kB
HighFree:           6012 kB
LowTotal:         874000 kB
LowFree:           49912 kB
SwapTotal:        995988 kB
SwapFree:         986616 kB
Dirty:              8928 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:        527596 kB
Mapped:            76536 kB
Slab:              39480 kB
SReclaimable:      21100 kB
SUnreclaim:        18380 kB
PageTables:         5672 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:     2022208 kB
Committed_AS:    1856400 kB
VmallocTotal:     122880 kB
VmallocUsed:       11928 kB
VmallocChunk:     104644 kB
HugePages_Total:       0
HugePages_Free:        0
HugePages_Rsvd:        0
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Hugepagesize:       4096 kB
DirectMap4k:       16376 kB
DirectMap4M:      892928 kB

Also the kern.log doesn't show any errors. What I want to know is what might be the problem, how i could test for it and if there are any solutions I could try. Thanks :).

A: Sounds like a hardware problem (yeah, Cpt. Obvious is here). If the laptop still got warranty, use that. Wouldn't mess around with it (not like you could fix it).
Guess it's a problem with the power management. Inside the laptop that is. On Windows, it uses "Balanced" usually. When you go into the game, it tries to squeeze out everything from your lappy. On Linux if you start from recovery console, the performance governor won't start I guess. Try checking: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz from the recovery and from the normal start (well... at the normal start try to be fast. ;))

Note: Please, next time open a topic like: My laptop freezes. Ubuntu is OK , but its not a desktop OS and even freezes with a random Intel VGA. So... guess everyone starts to think about such a problem first. (Problem with the OS, not with the laptop.)

Workarounds:
On Windows, try setting your energy settings to performance. If that doesnt help, install BOINC. Join into the "World Community Grid" and that's it, convert your laptop into a hairdryer, AND you help important researches. Profit! :) (your pc works and you do a good thing)
On Linux: Guess you'd have to disable the governor with sudo service % stop (% = service name, like cups). Uhm check which is Ubuntu's governor. (ls /etc/init.d/) If you can't figure it out, post it here. But first, I would be happy with one (W7) half working OS until I get it into the service.

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Katherine Lomax, one of Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40
Katherine Lomax, president of Elegant Touches, a Canadian Rental Association member located in Edmonton, Alta., has been named as one of Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine.
Each year, Avenue's Top 40 Under 40 recognizes the individuals in Greater Edmonton who are leading the city through this period of growth and change.
In addition to being named one of Edmonton's Top 40 Under 40, Katherine was awarded Planner of the Year by the Greater Edmonton Meeting Professionals International chapter in June of this year.
Lomax and Elegant Touches were also profiled in the March 2006 issue of Canadian Rental Service.
Riding the waves with CRA Ontario
The Ontario chapter of the Canadian Rental Association (CRA) has announced a successful conclusion to its latest regular meeting, hosted by A World of Rentals in Kingston, Ont.
Ready to board the Island Star.
The event began at 12 p.m. with tours of A World of Rentals, owned by Colin and Chris Wilson. In addition, representatives from Patron Products and L.B. White Construction Heaters were on site at A World of Rentals from 2 to 3:30 p.m. to answer heater-related questions and to provide demonstrations of their products. This portion of the event was sponsored by Rentquip Canada.
After tours were concluded, the gathered rental professionals boarded the Island Star for a dinner and cruise among the Thousand Islands.
For more information on the CRA, please visit www.canadianrentalassociation.com .
Grand opening of Stephenson's Rental Services in Cambridge
Stephenson's Rental Services has opened a new branch in Cambridge, Ont. The grand opening event took place on Oct. 14, 2010.
Some of the Stephenson's team were on hand for the grand opening of the Cambridge location. From left: Tom Newell, VP of sales and marketing; Bryce Taylor, GM of hub operations; Joe D'Ovidio, RDM operations – hub locations; Marco Tavolieri, marketing manager; and Wayne Macneall, VP of operations.
Doug Craig, the mayor of Cambridge, was on hand to cut the ribbon and officially open the new store. The event also included a contractor supply sale, with booths by a number of different vendors.
Marco Tavolieri is the marketing manager for Stephenson's Rental Services. He says the new store facilitates faster service to local market locations and will also help to provide a much wider offering.
"We've got very good coverage in the Greater Toronto Area, and the Cambridge store is helping us to expand our reach," says Tavolieri. "In addition to serving the local market for both contractors and homeowners, it will act as a hub for our other stores in the region."
The Cambridge location of Stephenson's Rental Service is very large, with a correspondingly large yard. This allows the company to keep large construction equipment on hand, and deliver directly to the customer where needed.
For more information on Stephenson's Rental Services, please visit www.stephensons.ca .
New international rental exchanges foster leadership development
The latest participant in the international rental exchange program has travelled from Australia to Canada, beginning his time abroad learning and developing his leadership skills.
Jim Clipperton (left) of Nor-Val Rentals and Matt Gordon of Centenary Hire. Nor-Val is hosting Gordon as part of the International Rental Exchange.
Matt Gordon of Centenary Hire in Darra, Queensland, Australia, will be learning about Nor-Val Rentals in Arm-strong, B.C., throughout the next month, as well as sharing business practices that he has learned. Gordon also will attend the American Rental Association (ARA) Leadership Conference in Chicago in mid-October to meet local, state and provincial leaders involved with ARA and the Canadian Rental Association (CRA), plus ARA's board of directors.
The international exchange program is administered by the ARA Foundation for the Global Rental Alliance and provides young rental professionals the opportunity to develop their leadership skills. The participants are able to experience how the rental equipment business functions in countries and operations other than their own. Overall, the program encourages international travel and cultural and business sharing of information.
Gordon will blog about his experiences at www.globalrentalalliance.com .
Since the International Rental Exchange program began in November 2008, three successful exchanges have been completed.
Associations involved in the Global Rental Alliance are: ARA, CRA, DLR (France), European Rental Association, Hire Association Europe, Hire Industry Association of New Zealand and Hire and Rental Industry Association (Australia).
CRA B.C. raises $2,600 through golf tournament
The Canadian Rental Association (CRA) of British Columbia held its golf tournament recently at Country Meadows Golf Course in Richmond, B.C.
More than 60 members of the rental industry took part in the B.C. golf tournament.
The industry was well represented at the event, with 60 members of the rental industry taking part in the golf tournament. The tournament had a fundraising element as well, with a total of $2,600 raised to go to an education fund for the children of Suk Dosanjh, a well-known member of the rental industry who passed away in early August.
A number of prizes were awarded at the end of the tournament. The "Lowest Scoring Team" consisted of David Flaa, Renato Cusi and Darryl Mounsey of Ideal Tents and Noah Russel of Apex Tents. The "Most Honest Team" was Raj Pooni, Raj Jhand, Anoop Jhand and Raul Torcelino of Ideal Tents. Robin Lott of Cavalier Industries took the prize for Men's Longest Drive, with Raj Pooni of Ideal Tents taking the Ladies'. The prize for "Closest to the Pin" went to Karyn Bruschinsky of Pikes Rental for the Ladies', and Bruce Fromme of Arnold's Rentals won the Men's. Rick Wallace of Sabre Rentals and Steve Baker of Western Financial Group came in firstst and second in the putting contest.
For more information on the Canadian Rental Association, please visit www.canadianrentalassociation.com .
Pat's Party Rentals launches Partycade
Pat's Party Rentals has rolled out a new addition. . . literally. Called Partycade, it's a fully equipped mobile arcade on wheels, available for parties and events in Burlington, Hamilton and Oakville.
The 24-foot trailer fits about 16 guests inside and, weather permitting, another group can play outside on the big screens.
The new mobile arcade can fit 16 guests inside, and can accommodate even more on the external screens.
Partycade is equipped with four 47-inch 1080p HD flat screen LCD TVs, each equipped with an XBOX 360 and PS3. The outside of the Partycade trailer features two 55-inch 1080p HD LCD TVs that operate XBOX 360 and Wii, for Rock Band and numerous sports games. The systems inside are networked to accommodate multiplayer games such as Halo and Call of Duty.
"We were looking at different options on how to expand the business," says Paul Storey, general manager and owner of Pat's Party Rentals. "This is something that's booming in the States, and we thought it would be successful here. Our eventual intention is to set up a franchise operation."
For more information on Pat's Party Rentals, please visit www.patspartyrentals.net . For more information on Partycade, please visit www.partycade.com .
Correction: Web address for L.B. White
It has been brought to our attention that the entry for L.B. White's Premier series of heaters, as profiled in the October issue's heater showcase, lists an incorrect address for the company's website. Information on L.B. White's heating equipment can be found at www.lbwhite.com .
We apologize for any confusion this may have caused. Please see www.lbwhite.com for information on the Premier series and other heating products.
Swisher named CEO of Texada
Texada Software has announced that William Swisher, chairman of the company, has been named CEO, effective immediately. In connection with his appointment as CEO, Swisher will purchase two million common shares at 10 cents per share and has been granted a million options to purchase common shares at that price for a period of 10 years.
Swisher was named as the chairman of the board of Texada Software in July as reported here. Brian Spilak will continue as president of the company, and will purchase 350,000 common shares at the same price. The issuance of all shares to Swisher and Spilak is subject to customary regulatory approvals.
Texada Software is based in Guelph, Ont. For more information, please visit www.texadasoftware.com .
Ken Myers replaces Steve Shaughnessy as president of Skyjack
Linamar has announced that Ken Myers has been named president of Skyjack, replacing Steve Shaughnessy.
Myers previously held the post of group president for the Powertrain division of Linamar's automotive manufacturing sector. He holds a bachelor of science degree and a bachelor of business administration degree, both from the University of Windsor. He has also earned a masters of engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Shaughnessy is currently serving a two-year term as president of the International Powered Access Federation. IPAF said Shaughnessy will continue as IPAF president.
Skyjack is based in Guelph, Ont. For more information, please visit www.skyjack.com .
David Poole joins Uniquip
Yves Pronovost, general manager for Uniquip Canada, has announced the appointment of David Poole as internal sales and customer service representative.
David Poole
Poole comes to the Uniquip team with strong experience in internal sales, customer service and purchasing within tools suppliers such as plumbing and heating distributor Wolseley as well as Wurth Service Supply.
Uniquip customers may contact David Poole at 1-800-332-4012, ext. 205, or via e-mail to dpoole@uniquip.ca.
Weber MT hires Ontario regional sales manager
David Knight has joined Weber MT's North American sales team.
Knight boasts more than 20 years of experience in equipment rental and sales, working with several companies in that time. In his most recent position, with Wacker Neuson, Ltd., Knight worked closely with dealer sales representatives and provided major municipalities and large contractors in-field training and product application services. Under his nine-year jurisdiction at Wacker Neuson, Ltd., sales increased between 17 and 22 per cent annually.
Knight will join Weber MT as a full-time regional sales manager in Ontario.
Kevin Albin and David McRae join Marindustrial Ontario
Roger Hiscock, branch manager of Marindustrial (Oakville) has announced the addition of two outside sales representatives for Ontario.
David McRae
David McRae brings to Marindustrial an extensive sales and marketing background of more than 20 years. McRae has worked in the consumer outdoor power equipment and industrial markets in Ontario in a variety of capacities. McRae will be responsible for servicing existing and developing new accounts notably for Subaru Industrial Products, Hatz Diesel and Twin Disc for Marindustrial in the GTA, central and eastern Ontario.
Kevin Albin has also joined Marindustrial as the sales representative for western and northern Ontario. Albin's past service and sales management experience will be well utilized as he services the existing Marindustrial customers in his region and develops new accounts, representing Subaru Industrial Products, Hatz Diesel and Twin Disc. For a full product range availabilty please visit www.marind.ca.
To contact either Kevin Albin or David McRae, please call 905-829-3004 or 1-800-866-3831.
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Rural sanitation
Naween A. MangiPublished June 11, 2015
The writer is a journalist and founder of Ali Hasan Mangi Memorial Trust.
THE ancient civilisation of Moenjodaro was famous, among other things, for its covered drains. Over 5,000 years later in villages surrounding the ruins and hamlets further beyond, sewage spills over broken open drainage lines and seeps onto roads and into homes and shops.
According to Water Aid, over 93 million people, or half of Pakistan's population, don't have access to adequate sanitation. Each year, over 40,000 children die of diarrhoea caused by poor sanitation and unsafe water.
Settlements across rural Sindh bear testament to these dreary statistics: most homes have little more than a hole dug in the ground that functions as a toilet. The waste passes directly into an open drain running in the lane outside that leads to a bigger drain and eventually ends in an open pond; a breeding ground for mosquitoes and disease.
Normally, there's no government or community intervention in sight. The government appoints sweepers at the local level who draw salaries going into several thousand rupees a month paid from taxpayers' money. Many give a portion of their salaries to their supervisor as a bribe for permission not to show up for duty. This scourge goes up the chain all the way to the top. Communities are no less apathetic. At best people clean the area just outside their home and ignore the clogged and overflowing sewerage lines that create filth all around them.
People must take charge at the community level.
The province's planning, budgeting and execution in the area of sanitation hasn't produced results. Even in cases where government contracts for repair of drains are given, the engineering work is so faulty that the system falls to disrepair. How can we tackle this problem? At the community level, people will need to take charge; recognising that the government's failure is damaging their children's future and ignoring the problem won't lead to a solution.
For a start, communities must organise themselves at the village level. People representing all the neighbourhoods should select a panel of youngsters willing to take on the task of cleaning up their village.
To create awareness, the panel could begin by holding a monthly community clean-up day. Schoolchildren, teenagers and shopkeepers can all be motivated to take part, selecting a main street or area to sweep as a start. During the clean-up, skits and corner talks can be held to raise awareness about the impact of cleanliness and proper sanitation on health. This will encourage communities to stop trashing their streets and blocking their drains with candy wrappers, medicine jars etc. They will also learn the importance of building a simple, affordable toilet at home.
Then, communities can begin work to dry up large open ponds where children often play and get sick. They can partner with either the government — which can be cumbersome, or impossible for the ordinary villager — or perhaps more easily with an NGO or sponsor to build a wastewater treatment plant. This is a simple model designed by the Orangi Pilot Project which operates based on gravity rather than expensive fuels and filters sewerage water, treats it with a simple home-made effluent and then transports it into an irrigation canal to be recycled for fruit and vegetable farming.
Then, the clean-up panel should begin making regular visits to local government offices to demand locally appointed sweepers be ordered to attend to their duties. Normally, the sweepers only appear when a secretary or other officer issues a direct order. One way to mitigate this is to create a formidable people force. If a motivated panel makes daily visits to the local government office, presents their case and offers to supervise the sweepers, some result is bound to show.
Once sweepers begin to regularly clean the drains and ensure blockages are removed, any slack they can't pick up can be taken up by privately hired sweepers who receive a salary from community contributions. Once villagers begin to see the results, they will be motivated to go forward. Then contributions can be gathered from members of the village and combined with a government or NGO effort to put in underground pipes and create a proper drainage system.
The government is responsible for providing sanitation. Given its failure, the communities affected must stand up and take ownership of their villages. They can become a force to push the government to make some contribution for which people will hold them accountable. People will also take more interest to maintain cleanliness if they have a direct stake and have made contributions towards the effort. If Moenjodaro's people could create far-sighted, efficient sanitation systems, thousands of years and inventions later, we should be able to do at least as much if not better.
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southie
author,your article points to a priority in the subcontinent,personal and public hygiene is crucial for India,Pakistan and Bangladesh. Educating the masses should be done at grass root level through govt prompted campaign and NGO S .
Allahdino M H Kango
A nice article reflecting urban perspective
Nazish
Yesterday I read an article in DAWN about two people who provided electricity to their village. But my village has electricity. So I thought how about I try and improve the sanitation with the help of villagers. Today I came across your article it's like a roadmap
Pakistan's rural area is highly neglected part of this world. Sprawling cities and uncontrolled urbanization made rural life more immune to live under such miserable situations . Where did you see community centers or NGOs working in rural areas anywhere in Pakistan ? I guess you got highly impressed by USAID ads which was showing some highly progressive rural area and their smiley faces and shiny clothes.
Aesar
I am utterly agreeing with points you raised regarding rural sanitation. You may find many such examples in many villages of Hunza where communities themselves manage their sanitation system on sustainable basis. If any one wants to know more about this system you must visit and see Karimabad, Haiderabad and Aliabad villages of Hunza valley. Hope such living examples will encourage many other rural settings to adopt and manage rural sanitation in their areas.
Abdul Hafeez
@Anwar -- you should read the website for the author's organization. She has done amazing work in rural sindh, including on sanitation and knows what she is talking about. And by the way her project village includes an amazing community center. We must support such work and people, not criticize without doing our homework.
AYZA
Some notable points and solutions to the growing challenges of sanitation in developing nations like Pakistan. Once a community "owns" its resources and takes pride in its development, it's not unrealistic to hope such communities would prefer a safer sanitation system for their children and neighborhoods. The Orangi Pilot Project is an excellent example of this and even more tragic when one of its dedicated members, Parween Rehman is no longer with us to carry on her noble work in this besieged part of Karachi.
Good article full of excellent ideas. In countries which have succeeded in cleaning up their towns and villages, a lot of emphasis is paid to teaching cleanliness to children. We should begin from schools. Practical hygiene should be an intrinsic part of education.
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If you entered from the California side, you'd see a wall-hanging: women of all ages, shapes, and origins, holding hands and dancing. You'd notice the display of the latest books from a variety of small presses that clung to life in Colorado Springs and Santa Fe, from literature and poetry to cultural studies. The shelves closest to the door on the California side included a decent amount of women's and queer studies but also a strong selection of classic literature, going back to Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston. Plus some brand-new paperbacks.
If you came in through the American front door, the basic layout would be pretty similar, except for the big painting of the nearby Rocky Mountains. But you might notice more books on religion and some history books with a somewhat more conservative approach. The literary books skewed a bit more toward Faulkner, Thoreau, and Hemingway, not to mention Ayn Rand, and you might find more books of essays about self-reliance and strong families, along with another selection of low-cost paperbacks: thrillers and war novels, including brand-new releases from the big printing plant in Gatlinburg. Romance novels, too.
Go through either front door and keep walking, and you'd find yourself in a maze of shelves, with a plethora of nooks and a bevy of side rooms. Here a cavern of science fiction and fantasy, there a deep alcove of theater books—and a huge annex of history and sociology, including a whole wall devoted to explaining the origins of the Great Sundering. Of course, some people did make it all the way from one front door to the other, past the overfed-snake shape of the hallways and the giant central reading room, with a plain red carpet and two beat-down couches in it. But the design of the store encouraged you to stay inside your own reality.
The exact border between America and California, which elsewhere featured watchtowers and roadblocks, you are now leaving/you are now entering signs, and terrible overpriced souvenir stands, was denoted in the First and Last Page by a tall bookcase of self-help titles about coping with divorce.
People came from hundreds of miles in either direction, via hydroelectric cars, solarcycles, mecha-horses, and tour buses, to get some book they couldn't live without. You could get electronic books via the Share, of course, but they might be plagued with crowdsourced editing, user-targeted content, random annotations, and sometimes just plain garbage. You might be reading The Federalist Papers on your Gidget and come across a paragraph about rights vs. duties that wasn't there before—or, for that matter, a few pages relating to hair cream, because you'd been searching on hair cream yesterday. Not to mention, the same book might read completely differently in California than in America. You could only rely on ink and paper (or, for newer books, Peip0r) for consistency, not to mention the whole sensory experience of smelling and touching volumes, turning their pages, bowing their spines.
Everybody needs books, Molly figured. No matter where they live, how they love, what they believe, whom they want to kill. We all want books. The moment you start thinking of books as some exclusive club, or the loving of books as a high distinction, then you're a bad bookseller.
Books are the best way to discover what people thought before you were born. And an author is just someone who tried their utmost to make sense of their own mess, and maybe their failure contains a few seeds to help you with yours.
Sometimes people asked Molly why she didn't simplify it down to one entrance. Force the people from America to talk to the Californians, and vice versa—maybe expose one side or the other to some books that might challenge their worldview just a little. And Molly always replied that she had a business to run, and if she managed to keep everyone reading, then that was enough. At the very least, Molly's arrangement kept this the most peaceful outpost on the border, without people gathering on one side to scream at the people on the other.
Some of those screaming people were old enough to have grown up in the United States of America, but they acted as though these two lands had always been enemies.
Whichever entrance of the bookstore you went through, the first thing you'd notice was probably Phoebe. Rake-thin, coltish, rambunctious, right on the edge of becoming, she ran light enough on her bare feet to avoid ever rattling a single bookcase or dislodging a single volume. You heard Phoebe's laughter before her footsteps. Molly's daughter wore denim overalls and cheap linen blouses most days, or sometimes a floor-length skirt or lacy-hemmed dress, plus plastic bangles and necklaces. She hadn't gotten her ears pierced yet.
People from both sides of the line loved Phoebe, who was a joyful shriek that you only heard from a long way away, a breath of gladness running through the flowerbeds.
Molly used to pester Phoebe about getting outdoors to breathe some fresh air—because that seemed like something moms were supposed to say, and Molly was paranoid about being a Bad Mother, since she was basically married to a bookstore, albeit one containing a large section of parenting books. But Molly was secretly glad when Phoebe disobeyed her and stayed inside, endlessly reading. Molly hoped Phoebe would always stay shy, that mother and daughter would hunker inside the First and Last Page, side-eyeing the world through thin linen curtains when they weren't reading together.
Then Phoebe had turned fourteen, and suddenly she was out all the time, and Molly didn't see her for hours. Around that time, Phoebe had unexpectedly grown pretty and lanky, her neck long enough to let her auburn ponytail swing as she ran around with the other kids who lived in the tangle of tree-lined streets on the America side of the line, plus a few kids who snuck across from California. Nobody seriously patrolled this part of the border, and there was one craggy rock pile, like an echo of the looming Rocky Mountains, that you could just scramble over and cross from one country to the other, if you knew the right path.
Phoebe and her gang of kids, ranging from twelve to fifteen, would go trampling the tall grass near the border on a "treasure hunt" or setting up an "ambush fort" in the rocks. Phoebe occasionally caught sight of Molly and turned to wave, before running up the dusty hillside toward Zadie and Mark, who had snuck over from California with canvas backpacks full of random games and junk. Sometimes Phoebe led an entire brigade of kids into the store, pouring cups of water or Molly's homebrewed ginger beer for everyone, and they would all pause and say, "Hello, Ms. Carlton," before running outside again.
Mostly, the kids were just a raucous chorus, as they chased each other with pea guns. There were times when they stayed in the most overgrown area of trees and bracken until way after sundown, until Molly was about to message the other local parents via her Gidget, and then she'd glimpse a few specks of light emerging from the claws and twisted limbs. Molly always asked Phoebe what they did in that tiny stand of vegetation, which barely qualified as "the woods," and Phoebe always said: Nothing. They just hung out. But Molly imagined those kids under the moonlight, blotted by heavy leaves, and they could be doing anything: drinking, taking drugs, playing kiss-and-tell games.
Even if Molly had wanted to keep tabs on her daughter, she couldn't leave the bookstore unattended. The bi-national design of the store required at least two people working at all times, one per register, and most of the people Molly hired only lasted a month or two and then had to run home because their families were worried about all the latest hints of another war on the horizon. Every day, another batch of propaganda bubbled up on Molly's Gidget, from both sides, claiming that one country was a crushing theocracy or the other was a godless meat grinder. And meanwhile, you heard rumblings about both countries searching for the last precious dregs of water—sometimes actual rumblings, as California sent swarms of robots deep underground. Everybody was holding their breath.
Molly was working the front counter on the California side, trying as usual not to show any reaction to the people with weird tattoos or with glowing silver threads flowing into their skulls. Everyone knew how eager Californians were to hack their own bodies and brains, from programmable birth control to brain implants that connected them to the Anoth Complex. Molly smiled, made small talk, recommended books based on her uncanny memory for what everybody had been buying—in short, she treated everyone like a customer, even the folks who noticed Molly's crucifix and clicked their tongues, because obviously she'd been brainwashed into her faith.
A regular customer named Sander came in, looking for a rare book from the last days of the United States about sustainable farming and animal consciousness, by a woman named Hope Dorrance. For some reason, nobody had ever uploaded this book of essays to the Share. Molly looked in the fancy computer and saw that they had one copy, but when Molly led Sander back to the shelf where it was supposed to be, the book was missing.
Sander stared at the space where Souls on the Land ought to be, and their pale, round face was full of lines. They had a single tattoo of a butterfly clad in gleaming armor, and the wires rained from the shaved back of their skull. They were some kind of engineer for the Anoth Complex.
They had sold their only copy of Souls on the Land to one of their most faithful customers on the America side: a gray-haired woman named Teri Wallace, who went to Molly's church. And Teri was in the store right now, searching for a cookbook. Mitch had just seen her go past. Unfortunately, Teri hated Californians even more than most Americans did. And Sander was the sort of Californian that Teri especially did not appreciate.
"So it looks like we sold it a while back, and we didn't update our inventory, which, uh, does happen," Molly said.
Molly had already decided not to tell Sander who had bought the Hope Dorrance, but Teri came back clutching a book of killer salads just as Sander was in mid-rant about the ethics of retail communication. Sander happened to mention Souls on the Land, and Teri's ears pricked up.
"Oh, I just bought that book," Teri said.
Sander spun around, smiling, and said, "Oh. Pleased to meet you. I'm afraid that book you bought is one that had been promised to me. I don't suppose we could work out some kind of arrangement? Perhaps some system of needs-based allocation, because my need for this book is extremely great." Sander was already falling into the hyper-rational, insistent language of a Californian faced with a problem.
Molly could see this conversation was about three exchanges away from full-blown unpleasantries. Teri was going to insult Sander, either directly or by getting their pronoun wrong. Sander was going to call Teri stupid, either by implication or outright. Molly could see an easy solution: She could give Teri a bribe—a free book or blanket discount—in exchange for letting Sander borrow the Hope Dorrance so they could digitize it using special page-turning robots. But this wasn't going to be solved with reason. Not right now, anyway, with the two of them snarling at each other.
So Molly put on her biggest smile and said, "Sander. I just remembered, I had something extra special set aside for you, back in the psychology/philosophy annex. I've been meaning to give it to you, and it slipped my mind until now. Come on, I'll show you." She tugged gently at Sander's arm and hustled them back into the warren of bookshelves. Sander kept grumbling about Teri's irrational selfishness, until they had left America.
Molly had no idea what the special book she'd been saving for Sander actually was—but she figured by the time they got through the Straits of Romance and all the switchbacks of biography, she'd think of something.
Phoebe was having a love triangle. Molly became aware of this in stages, by noticing how all the other kids were together and by overhearing snippets of conversation (despite her best efforts not to eavesdrop).
Jonathan Brinkfort, the son of the minister at Molly's church, had started following Phoebe around with a hangdog expression, like he'd lost one of those kiss-and-dare games and it had left him with gambling debts. Jon was a tall, quiet boy with a handsome square face, who mediated every tiny dispute among the neighborhood kids with a slow gravitas, but Molly had never before seen him lost for words. She had been hand-selling airship adventure books to Jon since he was little.
And then there was Zadie Kagwa, whose dad was a second-generation immigrant from Uganda with a taste for very old science fiction. Zadie had a fresh tattoo on one shoulder, of a dandelion with seedlings fanning out into the wind, and one string of fiber-optic pearls coming out of her locs. Zadie's own taste in books roamed from science and math, to radical politics, to girls-at-horse-camp novels. Zadie whispered to Phoebe and brought tiny presents from California, like these weird candies with chili peppers in them.
Charles Yu is the author of three books, including the novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, which was a New York Times Notable Book and named one of the best books of the year by Time magazine. He received the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award, and was nominated for two WGA awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for upcoming shows on AMC and HBO. His fiction and non-fiction have been published in a number of publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate and Wired.


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using Jekov.Nevix.Common.Data;
using Jekov.Nevix.Common.Data.Contracts;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace Jekov.Nevix.Web.ServerApi.Controllers
{
    public abstract class BaseController : Controller
    {
        protected INevixData Data { get; set; }

        public BaseController()
            : this(new NevixData())
        {
        }

        public BaseController(INevixData data)
        {
            Data = data;
        }

        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }
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