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Love in the UAE - is it legal to live together before marriage?
A reader who has just moved to the UAE wants to live with his girlfriend but was not sure whether that was legal. The man wrote in to Gulf News to find out what the law says, which I explain has recently changed meaning the couple are able to do so without fear of legal repercussion. A Presidential Decree issued in November 2020 changed a number of matters, including that men and women who are not from the same family are able to live together. Previously a one year prison sentence followed by deportation was the punishment facing couples who were found to be in violation.
Protecting those with special needs: strict COVID penalties in force
A prison term of up to five years and fine of up to Dh100,000 is the penalty in cases where those entrusted with caring for people with special needs transmit COVID-19 to their clients -intentionally or unintentionally. In a recent article in the Khaleej Times, I explained the country's communicable disease laws, which entered into force six years ago, that aim to protect people with special needs and outline these penalties that apply if such a person becomes infected due to intention or negligence by a carer. Penalties can be doubled on repeat offence, while any death that results would amount to a new offence of causing wrongful death.
New law stops relatives of Emirati citizens being deported for crimes
I am quoted in an article carried by The National newspaper that details an amendment to the penal code that will prevent the deportation of non-Emirati citizens who are directly related to a citizen. I explain that, previously, many families have been broken up by the law that deports non-citizens who commit crimes, even in cases where the crime was minor and the guilty party had been living in the UAE for more than a decade. However, I explain the exception on grounds where the crime threatens national security is necessary to ensure the safety of UAE society.
Released! The law around freeing an arsonist who killed 14 prisoners
In an article in The National newspaper, I explain the law behind why a 40-year-old Emirati man is able to walk free, despite receiving a life sentence in 2001 for his role in a prison arson that led to the deaths of 14 people and injured another 18. He explains a specialist committee examines the current profile of an inmate, and if he or she poses a threat to society if released, as opposed to the nature of the initial crime - which has already been considered by the sentencing judge.
Dubai minibus crash: Families of victims must pursue compensation on their own
My legal analysis is published in an article in The National newspaper that details the likelihood no criminal case will be taken in an accident that killed seven passengers, in the wake of the death of the driver who is believed to have been responsible for the crash. I explain that the families can still pursue a 'blood money' or 'diyya 'civil case, which allows families of relatives who died to claim compensation for up to Dh200,000 in addition to emotional damages. However, I explain that it must be established by the families that they are legal beneficiaries of the deceased before they can take any case.
How can I file a malpractice case against a doctor?
In my publication this week, I discussed about the laws relevant to the medical practice and their importance to be adhered by the medical practitioners in the UAE. Medical practitioner's duty, includes disclosure of the correct nature and severity of the disease to the patent, and the patient's family members. Doctor's ignorance and negligence or any other medical liability will be dealt according to the UAE Federal Law No. 10 of 2008.
Can I report my husband for stealing from me?
In my publication this week, I discussed about limitations of filing a theft case against a family member (siblings, parents, children or spouses). I also discussed about aggravating circumstances in a theft case that can warrant a higher sentence.
The time limit for filing a civil suit here will depend on the initial criminal case
In my publication this week, I discussed about various applicable statute of limitation in civil and criminal cases.
Life in prison, dh100,000 fine for human trafficking
In my publication this week, I discussed about the applicable law and punishment for human trafficking in the UAE. I also gave my analysis how such criminal activities can impact the societies in UAE.
What is the punishment for a bounced cheque now that there is no jail time?
In my publication this week, I explained applicability of new Criminal Order Law, regarding cheque cases, where the punishment is only a fine if the value of cheque is less than AED 200,000. I also discussed about the applicability of local laws on real estate(s) located in the UAE.
Debtor Asks What Action a Bank Can Pursue When a Loan Goes Unpaid
In my publication this week, I discussed about the legal implications in the event of a bounced cheque. I also discussed about the legal remedy and available course of action.
I Fear My Bank is Overcharging Me Interest on Mortgage
In my publication this week, I discussed about filing an expert case with the courts to determine if there are any discrepancy in mortgage payments. I also discussed about the consequences for breaching the bail conditions.
Man Kidnaps Daughter to Dubai After Losing Custody of Her in Kazakhstan, Court Hears
In my publication this week, I discussed about an ongoing case at our firm which was decided in our client's favour. To summarize, the case was filed on behalf of estranged wife to seek full custody of her daughter in the UAE. Before initiating proceedings in the UAE, both parties had obtained a final divorce and custody judgment in their home country. According to that judgment, the custody was awarded to the wife but wife had agreed with her husband that allowed the daughter to travel with him every year. The problem started when the Husband travelled with his daughter to the UAE and cut-off all contacts or ties with the wife back home. This transpired proceedings against the Husband in the UAE. After hearing arguments from both sides, the court awarded full custody to the wife.
Dubai Prosecutors Seek Tougher Sentence for Torture Mum Who Killed Son
In this publication, I discussed about the legal obligation to inform child protection specialists or child protection units if there was any threat to the child's physical, psychological, moral or mental health as per the Child Protection Law.
What is the Procedure for Applying for Bail after Being Detained?
In my interview this week in The National newspaper, I explained the conditions for requesting bail in the event of an arrest. I further explained whether or not it is possible to for a victim to request the public prosecutor to deny a bail.
In the UAE, Compensation Is Divided into Two Categories:Tort and Contractual Liability
In my interview this week in The National newspaper, I spoke about the legal status of compensation in the separate cases of tort and contractual liabilities. I also outlined the law as it related to the specific facts behind our success in obtaining Dh600, 000 in compensation for one of our clients.
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How Easy Was It For FBI To Find NJ Man Who Had Ashli Babbitt's Blood On His Hands?
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He literally had Ashli Babbitt's blood on his hands. But that wasn't what made it simple for the FBI to find and arrest Mercer County's Thomas Baranyi for his role in last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol building.
Baranyi, a 28-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Ewing who ended up in a viral video showing a reporter his bloody hand, was charged by the FBI Tuesday with disorderly conduct and being in a restricted building.
Following a video-conferenced hearing in Newark, U.S. District Judge Cathy Waldor released the former wannabe U.S. Marine on a $100,000 unsecured bond and prohibited him from entering any government buildings except for court.
She then moved the case to the district for federal prosecutors to handle along with dozens -- and possibly hundreds -- of others involving the rampage.
Baranyi made it easy for the FBI to find him, not only giving a WUSA9 reporter an interview outside the Capitol building but also his name and state.
An agent then matched the video against his driver's license photo.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: Thomas Baranyi Interview With Reporter
An affidavit sworn out by FBI Special Agent Cassidy Vreeland quotes Baranyi telling the reporter that he entered the building on the side "with the scaffolding."
It goes on to quote the former College of New Jersey student as saying:
"[W]e tore through the scaffolding, through flash bangs and tear gas, and blitzed our way through all the chambers just trying to get into Congress or whoever we could get in to and tell them that we need some kind of investigation into this.
"It was a joke to them until we got inside and then guns came out, but we're at a point now, it can't be allowed to stand. We have to do something. People have to do something."
Baranyi told the reporter that he was with Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from California, who was shot and killed by a member of the Capitol police force as she tried to climb through a smashed window next to a barricaded door in the building.
"There was a young lady who rushed through the windows," he said. "A number of police and Secret Service were saying, 'Get down, get out of the way.'
"She didn't heed the call and as we kind of raced up to try to grab people and pull them back. [T]hey shot her in the neck, and she fell back on me.
"She started to say, she was fine, it's cool, and then she started kind of like, moving weird, and blood was coming out of her mouth and neck and nose, and I don't know if she's alive or dead anymore."
Baranyi is seen in another video trying to move Babbitt immediately after the shooting.
"[I]t could have been me," the U.S. District Court filing quotes him as saying, "but she went in first. It was one of us."
The FBI charged Baranyi with "knowingly and willfully" joining a crowd of individuals who "forcibly entered the U.S. Capitol and impeded, disrupted, and disturbed the orderly conduct of business by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate."
Vreeland noted that Baranyi was seen in other video and still images before, during and after the shooting in the same New York Giants hoodie and carrying the same backpack as in the TV interview.
Baranyi is among 70 people charged by federal authorities in connection with the rampage, which left five people dead – among them, Brian Sicknick, a Capitol police officer who grew up in New Jersey.
Although many initial charges involved misdemeanors, Baranyi and several other defendants could face extremely more serious charges – among them, assault on law enforcement officers, theft of national security information and even sedition, Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin for the District of Columbia said.
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RTS and Partners Host Charity Fundraiser
New York, NY--RTS Unified Communications, in conjunction with its key manufacturer partners, held a charity fundraiser in Jersey City, NJ.
Left to Right: Ret. Chief Joseph Morris, Principals; John Vezzi, Robert Pepe and John Pepe,VP- George Meglio.
RTS hosted a benefit dinner in support of The Port Authority PBA Widow's and Children's Fund on Tuesday, November 1, 2011. This fund was established to provide and maintain bereavement benefits to aid and assist Port Authority PBA officers and their families in the immediate aftermath of an accidental injury or death.
The event was held at Henry's on the Hudson Restaurant in Jersey City, NJ. Restaurant manager Tony Kaszuba provided guests with a four course dinner with wine pairings.
Manufacturer partners — including KBZ Communications, Sapphire Marketing, Projection Design, VSO Marketing, ClearOne, Milestone AV, SurgeX, Stewart Film, Kramer, Lutron, Middle Atlantic, ScanSource, Almo Nick's Towing Services, and Revolabs — fully sponsored the evening. With their help, RTS was able to raise $10,000 for the Widow's and Children's Fund.
RTS annually hosts charity events and sponsors a different charity each year.
"As part of our ongoing commitment, RTS Unified Communications is pleased to support local charities. We all appreciate the hard work and commitment to our safety in the Tri-state area that the PAPD provides," said John J. Pepe, CEO of RTS Unified Communications.
Retired Chief Joseph Morris was the guest speaker. On September 11, 2001, as Commanding Officer LaGuardia Airport, he responded to and took part in the rescue and recovery operations following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
"Over the past 10 years, 37 men and women of the Port Authority Police department have passed away, leaving behind young families. These were men and women who came to work every day just like you and I, except that they went to work to protect us and protect our freedom. Our heartfelt thanks for all of their contributions and to all of the men and women of the Port Authority Police Department," said George Meglio, vice president, business development.


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Reverend Cecil Williams, the legendary leader of Glide Church, recently celebrated his 86th birthday. Now, thanks to the heroic efforts of film director Robert Zagone, a 1975 television program on Reverend Williams will be shown December 16 for the first time in four decades.
I saw the film recently. It is not to be missed.
If you have never seen the pre-1980 Cecil Williams, you are in for a remarkable treat. His passion and revolutionary ardor dominates the screen.
The show was filmed in the wake of Glide's getting national attention in February 1974 for conducting a food giveaway demanded of Randolph Hearst by his daughter Patty's kidnappers. The event firmly put Reverend Williams on the national map.
Zagone, whose 1966 film Drugs in the Tenderloin has played to two sold-out showings at the Tenderloin Museum, directed the television program in 1974 for the national PBS series, Interface, which presented an innovative perspective on African-American and Latino culture.
Reverend Cecil Williams became pastor of Glide Memorial Church in 1963. His spirited Sunday services became jazz-filled "Celebrations" that drew people from many different backgrounds. Under his leadership Glide's membership grew from 35 to a 10,000- member congregation of all races, ages, genders, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and religions.
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We interview John Robinson, President of Our Ability Inc., and Jean MacKay, Director of Communications with the Erie Canalway Heritage Corridor. John and Jean talk with us about the historic Erie Canal, and the exciting Canalway Challenge, a new initiative from the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor that invites people to trace history while tracking miles walking, running, cycling or paddling on the New York State Canal System and Canalway Trail. John, who will complete his 7th end-to-end trip along the canal, speaks about the 'Journey Along the Erie Canal' ride to raise awareness for the benefit of employment for all New Yorkers and to raise funds toward building employment opportunities and empowering people with disabilities. He and his team invite listeners to join them for the '1st Mile Challenge' as part of their ride.
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Berry Global's Salmon Named an Officer for the Alliance to End Plastic Waste
Tom Salmon will help guide the alliance's decision-making on global projects that are sustainable, circular, and scalable businesses.
Berry Global Group, Inc. recently announced that Tom Salmon, chairman and CEO, has accepted the appointment as an officer of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. As a founding member and first converter to join the alliance, Berry reports that this continues its leadership role to help convene a global network of over 80 member companies and partners in the mission to end plastic waste in the environment.
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Dianoia by Michael Heller (Nightboat Books)
Posted on May 7, 2016 by tearsinthefence
The Scottish philosopher Sir William Hamilton proposed the term dianoiology for that portion of logic which deals with dianoetic processes of the mind: the thinking through of ideas. For a writer this may well involve what Michael Heller refers to as the 'breaking apart' of 'clods of what was named' because after all language is the 'hardest / of earths, each word narrowing…'. So many of these poems in Dianoia deal with stasis and movement and they are deeply moving testimony to an artist who has spent a lifetime trying to let stillness convey fluidity.
In 'Visiting Brigflatts with Ric', written in memory of Ric Caddel, the opening lines plunge the reader into a memory:
'Your car chugging up the pass
into snow's unseasonal bursts,
all the while sun shining overhead,
then a plunge down to Bunting's grave,
stone of Quaker plainness…'
The movement of that opening line followed by the unusual nature of the weather hardens out into 'stone' which in turn will become 'austerity of row upon row.' The picture we are given of Ric Caddel is of 'an elm's rooted trunk / or northern stone pillar' but the metamorphosis of this poem's language, the stasis of what is memorialised, is given fresh movement in the last line with 'currents animating earth'. And there we have it! The poet at work!
In 'Lecture', we move between an account of the German artist Max Beckmann's painting 'Tot' and the Number 30 London bus being blown up in July 2005. We move between the Japanese poet Bashō who 'travels along paths and byways' producing 'spontaneous evocations in poetic form, haiku, linked haiku' and the American poet George Oppen who writes of a highway accident with 'The wheels of the overturned wreck / Still spinning – '. As Heller looks closely at the photographs of both the London bombing and of a bus blown up is Israel he notes
'No need here to go into "visual" languages, semiotics, etc. We're talking about what gets communicated across the special loneliness between you and me and I and it.'
Referring again to Bashō and his journal writings in Narrow Road to the North Heller gives us one aspect of the artist caught in a moment: 'that impression of spontaneity is part of the art of it'. He quotes the short piece of Bashō which evokes the memory of the heroic death of Lord Sanemori, an ageing warrior who dyed his hair to disguise his age, and whose helmet was carried to the shrine that the Japanese poet has just passed:
'I am awestruck
To hear a cricket singing
Underneath the dark cavity
Of an old helmet.'
The living quality of stillness is central to Michael Heller's art and in the opening page of 'Lecture' he focuses upon his own walking in which he is accompanied by all that makes him who he is. He walks with Bashō, 'stopping at a shrine, experiencing awe and reverence, the surround of mountain peak and foliage, the pines he likened to solitary figures'. The image from the Japanese is part of who he is as he moves through a living world of gone things. Focusing on the July bombings in London he writes of the world of the here-and-now and how it impinges upon who we are:
'The self. That's what got me going here, the self alone against murderousness, the sudden "nearness" (I don't know how else to put it) to random murder perpetrated by others against innocents.'
The Number 30 is the bus that often carried the poet from Islington to Bloomsbury, to the British Museum. 'Had we arrived a day earlier…'. The sense of how we see ourselves in relation to the world around us is central to the vision:
'…My sense that A can morph into B,
tenuous nets of companionship, that we ride
like they ride who elsewhere are killed.'
Heller writes that 'We are exposed / to the possibility of unplanned ruin' and he seems partly to echo Paul Auster's comment at the opening of In the Country of Last Things:
'When you live in the city, you learn to take nothing for granted. Close your eyes for a moment, turn around to look at something else, and the thing that was before you is suddenly gone. Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.'
The bitterness of the narrator in this apocalyptic novel from 1987 is, however, far different from Michael Heller's determination to make the moment live, to give stasis currency and it seems appropriate to conclude not only with that image of 'currents animating earth' but also with the short poem Ric Caddel wrote for John Riley, the Leeds poet who was murdered in 1978:
'What in the world we see
is what's important. There
the days seemed shorter and our hearts
spun with the compass under
trees, magnificent pointers
out of galaxies. Continental drift,
an appointment we were late for,
an old friend missed.'
My review of The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller, ed. Curley & Kimmelman, has just appeared in the current issue of PN Review.
Ian Brinton 7th May
Posted in American Poetry, Books and tagged Bashō, George Oppen, John Riley, Michael Heller, Paul Auster, Ric Caddel. Bookmark the permalink.
Tom Chivers: from drainage to Dark Islands
Posted on June 14, 2015 by tearsinthefence
Words around the grate
When Nine Arches Press published Tom Chivers's The Terrors in March 2009 the blurb on the back was written by Iain Sinclair:
Dark London history, dredged and interrogated, spits and fizzes with corrosive wit. Language-receipts sustain the necessary illusion. IT MATTERS. It matters: the weight and pace of delivery, the balance of breath. Tom Chivers understands the risks he risks, the play in a taught rope. "I'll ghost-write, if you ask."
The poet addressed the reader at the opening of this startlingly powerful reconstruction of pages that owe much to The Newgate Calendar:
What follows is a sequence of imagined emails sent from the author to inmates at London's Newgate Prison incarcerated between roughly 1700 and 1760. All mistakes, typos and anachronisms are deliberate.
An interest in how the past threads its way through our present was evident after Tom Chivers went up to St. Anne's College, Oxford, to read English in 2001 and founded a magazine of contemporary writing, Keystone. The first issue of this little magazine contained work by Ric Caddel, the co-Director of the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre, David Caddy, whose influence on the work of Tom Chivers was immense, Lucy Newlyn, winner of the 2001 British Academy's Crawshay Prize for her work on 'Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception' and Bernard O'Donoghue, teacher of Medieval English at Corpus Christi College whose collection of poems, Here Nor There, was a Poetry Book Society choice. The long poem which Chivers wrote himself for this first issue was titled 'Effra' after the lost river of South London which had two branches in the Norwood area, flowed under Half Moon Lane in Herne Hill towards Coldharbour Lane, Brixton before ending in the Thames near Vauxhall Bridge. It has been suggested that one possible derivation for the name of the river is from the Celtic word for 'torrent' and John Ruskin, who grew up in Herne Hill, referred to it in his autobiographical writing Praeterita:
Our house was the northernmost of a group which stand accurately on the top or dome of the hill, where the ground is for a small space level, as the snows are, (I understand,) on the dome of Mont Blanc; presently falling, however, in what may be, in the London clay formation, considered a precipitous slope, to our valley of Chamouni (or of Dulwich) on the east; and with a softer descent into Cold Harbour-lane on the west: on the south, no less beautifully declining to the dale of the Effra (doubtless shortened from Effrena, signifying the "Unbridled" river; recently, I regret to say, bricked over for the convenience of Mr. Biffin, chemist, and others)…
Ruskin also suggested that his first sketch revealing any artistic merit, done when he was thirteen in 1832, was at the foot of Herne Hill (where the Half Moon Tavern is now), showing a bridge over the Effra. He also suggested that the stretch of the river towards Dulwich was 'a tadpole haunted ditch' and the language here finds echoes in Graham Swift's novel Waterland and Chivers's own poetry:
Under tarmac, Effra
swills in drains,
only witness
to every crime,
and one eye to the Thames.
Let us forget
the river: block him up,
his seasons and his rages.
Let's shout him out
And seal him up
Beneath the Railton Road.
Effra! Effra!
calling at night.
The river bore strange testimony and in the nineteenth-century a coffin was discovered floating in the Thames having sailed from West Norwood Cemetery although the grave itself was undisturbed. It was hinted that the grave had been dug too close to the course of the Effra which runs beneath the cemetery, and that the coffin had subsided into the river, flowing underneath south London before reaching the Thames at Vauxhall.
Tom Chivers combines a passionate interest in Medieval literature with a fascination for what lies buried below a surface. In 2013 he was commissioned for Humber Mouth Literature Festival to write Flood Drain, published by Annexe Press in the following year. The author's note at the opening of the chapbook gives an intriguing picture of the poet's awareness of the connections between the past and the present:
In the opening of the great medieval dream vision Piers Plowman, the narrator lies down 'on a brood bank by a bourne syde' and is sent to sleep by the sound of the stream which, as he says 'sweyed so murye'. The poem registers a universal truth, that there is something mesmeric about running water, but it also prefigures the Jungian association of rivers with dreaming and the unconscious. The river, of course, can also stand for death or, as Styx, the underworld. In another medieval poem, Pearl, an unfordable river separates the dreamer from the ghost of his daughter and the promise of heavenly paradise.
The poet tells us that his poem 'meditates on the dual themes of dreaming and drainage, inspired by a two-day drift down the river Hull':
The city, recently announced as Britain's Capital of Culture for 2017, is properly called Kingston-upon-Hull; but such is the ubiquity of the shortened name Hull that the river itself has got somewhat lost. Perhaps this is not so surprising; after all, the city faces out into the vast grey estuary of a much larger river, the Humber, leaving its eponymous stream to snake through the industrial landscape of wrecking yards and ruined docks undisturbed and unrecognised.
Just as in the early poem 'Effra' the derivation of the name is important. Whereas the lost river of south London may have taken its name from the Celtic word for 'torrent' or even, given the epigraph to the poem ('Sous les pavés, la plage! Paris, 1968), the French 'effroi', the name for Hull has no definitive etymology:
Some claim it as Celtic for 'deep river' or Saxon for 'muddy river', but the most alluring explanation was offered by Nathan Bailey in his 1721 An Universal Etymological English Dictionary:
HULL…of hulen, Lower Saxon heulen, Teutonic, to howl, from the Noise the River makes, when it meets the Sea.
An interest in the world of medieval dream-poetry may well have merged with Chivers's interest in contemporary poetry: the Gawain-poet's Pearl is linked of course with Barry MacSweeney's sequence of poems about which he talked on Radio 4 in 2009.
The movement of rivers to the sea lurks behind James Joyce's injunction in Ulysses, 'Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past' and drains filter out those relics which lie stranded on the shores of a grating:
flat world in which everything slips
fix a chain & a windlass at the mouth of the new cut
disgorging of pipes / tubing / culverts & drains
into Sayer's Creek
disgorge into estuary
deep slug of Humber
pours the gravy of Hull
in a sound like a sawmill
in a sound like vomiting
in a sound like the howling
of the Fever Hospital
what is old	/
(Flood Drain)
In his collection of short case-histories, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks wrote that 'We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative—whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each of us constructs and lives, a 'narrative', and that this narrative is us, our identities […] for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative…' With these thoughts in mind it is possible to understand why the History teacher, Tom Crick, in Waterland talks of the Grand Narrative as a 'filler of vacuums' and the 'dispeller of fears of the dark'; the 'dark' is the absence of a narrative, either on an individual or a collective level. The dark is a terrible amnesia or a fragmented mass of information, unbounded by the comforting coherence of memory, that inner narrative 'whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. As teachers / adults we tell stories to children and acknowledge that, as Crick informs his class of children in a Greenwich school, reality is a vacuum; defying the amnesia and chaos of the universe we construct narratives, tell stories, tales, look at the debris collected by the bars of the drains, convert detritus to words and, as the phenomenological world dries out, we create islands, even dark ones.
Ian Brinton 14th June 2015
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Post Position
Nick Montfort
An Amazing Linked List
I strongly encourage those of you who haven't seen it yet to check out Brian Kim Stefans's Introduction to Electronic Literature: a freeware guide.
Right now it is "just" a list of links to online resources, from Futurism through 2010, that are relevant to understanding different important aspects of electronic literature – making it, reading it, sorting through different genres, and understanding its historical connects.
It's extremely useful in this form, but Stefans is also hoping to put these selections together in a Lulu.com book that he'll sell at cost. To that end, he's selected only texts – work that will fit in a book – as opposed to pieces that need to be read on a networked computer. Stefans also intends to put together a website that collects and mirrors these writings, uniformly typeset in a legible way, as PDFs.
I'm of course pleased that Stefans was inspired by The New Media Reader, which Noah Wardrip-Fruin and I edited for the MIT Press, and that he included a few of my pieces.
As I have a strong preference for assigning publicly available texts instead of scanned articles that live being a university paywall, I find these texts very useful for teaching. Stefans is taking suggestions for how to revise his Introduction over on his netpoetic.com post.
Practice Safe Public Art
(Seen at a university in Cambridge, MA – not MIT or Lesley University.)
Keynote, Papers Announced for ICCC-11
The 2011 International Conference on Computational Creativity will be held in Mexico City April 27-29. We now have information on the keynote address by Prof. George E. Lewis, "Improvising With Creative Machines: Reflections on Human-Machine Interaction." And, there's a list of accepted papers and demos. I'm looking forward to seeing those of you who are presenting at the end of April in Mexico City. And if any others with an interest in the field can make it to the gathering and be part of the discussion, attend the presentations, and learn about systems through demos, please do!
My Curveship Talk at PAX-East 2011
I gave a talk about Curveship in the "IF Suite" (actually an ordinary hotel room with a few upturned beds, not a suite) at PAX-East 2011 earlier this month. It was great to present to fellow IF author/programmers from around the world at this event, which was effectively the second annual Festival of Interactive Fiction. The IF Summit was organized by Andrew Plotkin, a.k.a. Zarf, once again this year. Thanks to Jason McIntosh, there's pretty good-quality video (very good, considering the ramshackle setup) of the first 22.5 minutes of my talk:
Nick Montfort on Curveship at PAX-East 2011: Watch on Vimeo
The parts where I actually demo the system and discuss how games are written are missing, unfortunately, but my comments do introduce Curveship and its motivation.
Also check out the video documentation of the "Setting as Character" panel with Andrew Plotkin, Rob Wheeler, Stephen Granade, and Dean Tate. (This one took place in the more capacious Alcott Room, which we had on Saturday, March 12 thanks to Dave Cornelson.) Also, there's video of the panel on "Non-Gamers Gaming," with Caleb Garner, Tim Crosby, Heather Albano, Sarah Morayati, and Andrew Plotkin.
La Muchacha y el Lobo
In 2001, Beehive was the first Web publication to print a creative digital media piece of mine, "The Girl and the Wolf." I had written this story back in 1997 in Janet Murray's Interactive Narrative class at MIT. (These days, I teach this class here at MIT.) It was strongly inspired by the readings of folk tales we had done in Henry Jenkins's Children's Literature class. "The Girl and the Wolf" is a very early creative piece of mine, but I remain pleased with the systematic concept and with what I wrote. It's a simple arrangement of nine versions of a story, allowing the levels of sex and violence to be increased independently. With some contemporary references and a few other turns of phrase, I introduced only a few deviations from well-known folkloric versions of the Little Red Riding Hood story.
Ruber Eaglenest has now translated this "variable tale" into Spanish as "La Muchacha y el Lobo."
Eaglenest describes himself as a "wannabe" game programmer, but has participated in the Spanish IF community in many ways using the name El Clérigo Urbatain. In addition to writing many reviews and articles and doing several interviews, he has written and collaborated on several pieces of interactive fiction: Por la necedad humana, Astral, Aventurero en el Sega Park, El extraño caso de Randolph Dwight, and an episode of El museo de consciencias. He has also adapted several interactive fiction games and translated several to Spanish – most recently, Graham Nelson's Relics of Tolti-Aph.
Eaglenest has also provided a lengthy and very useful post about the Little Red Riding Hood story and "The Girl and the Wolf" on his blog (in Spanish).
Death and the Powers Permieres in the U.S.
Death and the Powers had a brilliant and resonant U.S. premiere on Friday at the Cutler Majestic in Boston. I've been looking forward to the opera's completion, and then to its coming to the U.S., for several years. My mentor from the B.U. poetry program, Robert Pinsky, wrote the libretto, and my current colleague Tod Machover composed the opera. Congratulations to all those who put this production together, including Tod's Opera of the Future group at the Media Lab. Death and the Powers is technically intricate and thematically ambitious, and all of that came together perfectly. (Image source.)
Rettberg on After Parthenope
If you're interested in story generation or Processing, do check out Scott Rettberg's new screencast describing the process he undertook in writing and programming After Parthenope. He goes through the nuts and bolts of the piece and how it rolls out language using a hand-crafted trigram model; he also explains some of the pleasures of authoring a system like this.
Improviso is Out
Jeff Orkin, of Restaurant Game fame, has just launched Improviso, a system that allows players to improvise (online) and make a somewhat corny science fiction film by taking the role of director or lead actor. Orkin developed the system with collaborating students at the Singapore MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. I was pleased to see an early version of the system this summer, and very glad that the project has now blasted off. If you do Windows, download Improviso and see what you can make of it and with it.
The IF Summit Peaks
I had a great time showing Curveship, and explaining the motivation behind it, at the IF Summit next to PAX-East today. And it was generally a great weekend of catching up with the people who are continually discussing this system (and many other matters) with me online. My thanks particularly to Zarf, the main organizer of the IF suite, Dave, who set up us the conference room, and Emily, who ran the IF Demo Fair on Saturday night. And generally, hooray for interactive fiction and the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction – I hope we have many other productive gatherings in years to come.
March 15 in Philadelphia: OuLiPoLooZa
[An announcement from Penn's Kelly Writers House:]
We're pulling out all the constraints for our OULIPOLOOZA next Tuesday,
March 15, at 7:00 pm. Organized by our own Sarah Arkebauer (C'11) and
Michelle Taransky, this celebration of all things Oulipo will feature five
experts and aficionados talking about the "Ouvroir de littérature
potentielle," the highly-influential French school of avant garde poetry.
The evening will be rounded out by the launching "An Oulipolooza," a
collection of new Oulipian writing, and a constraint-inspired reception.
This is one celebration you should not A Void!
The Kelly Writers House presents
OULIPOLOOZA
a celebration of potential literature
LOUIS BURY
JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ
GERALD PRINCE
and NICK MONTFORT
Tuesday, March 15, at 7:00 PM in the Arts Café
Kelly Writers House | 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA
No registration required – this event is free & open to the public
Come help us celebrate the continuing potential of literatures by attending
the OULIPOLOOZA, a Kelly Writers House-style celebration of all things
Oulipo. The OuLiPo, or "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle" (workshop of
potential literature), is a group of experimental French poets founded in
1960, devoted to exploring the potential of literature, language and freedom
through the lenses of different constraints. Oulipolooza will include
readings about the Oulipo by five experts and aficionados, a reception full
of Oulipo-inspired foods, and the launch of "An Oulipolooza": a collection
of oulipian texts.
KATIE L. PRICE is a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Pennsylvania's
English Department completing her dissertation, tentatively titled "'The
Tangential Point': Pataphysical Practice in Post-War Poetry." She is also an
associate editor for Electronic Poetry Center, co-coordinator of the Poetry
& Poetics graduate group, and will teach a course in the fall entitled
Poetry, Technology, Gender and Globalization.
LOUIS BURY teaches literature at New York University, is a part-time
professional poker player, and is completing a constraint-based dissertation
about constraint-based writing, titled Exercises in Criticism, at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
JEAN-MICHEL RABATÉ is Vartan Gregorian Professor in the Humanities at the
University of Pennsylvania. Co-founder and curator of Slought Foundation,
he is a senior editor of the Journal of Modern Literature. A fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has authored or edited more than
thirty books on modernism, psychoanalysis, contemporary art and philosophy.
Recent titles include Lacan Literario (2007), 1913: The cradle of modernism
(2007), The Ethic of the Lie (2008) and Etant donnes: 1) l'art, 2) le
crime (2010). Currently, he is editing a collection of essays on Modernism
and Theory. He is the president of the Samuel Beckett Society and completing
a book on Samuel Beckett and philosophy.
GERALD PRINCE is Professor of Romance Languages and Head of the French
section at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of many articles
and reviews on narrative theory and on modern (French) literature as well as
of several books (including A Dictionary of Narratology and Guide du roman
de langue française: 1901-1950) and his work has been translated into a
dozen languages. A co-editor of the "Stages" series for the University of
Nebraska Press and a member of a dozen editorial and advisory boards, Prince
is working on the second volume of his Guide du roman (1951-2000).
NICK MONTFORT writes computational and constrained poetry, develops computer
games, and is a critic, theorist, and scholar of computational art and
media. He is associate professor of digital media in the Program in Writing
and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is
now serving as president of the Electronic Literature Organization. He
earned a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of
Pennsylvania.
March 14 in Philadelphia: Platform Studies, Material Computing, and the Atari VCS
Platform Studies, Material Computing, and the Atari VCS
Nick Montfort, MIT
A presentation in the
Workshop in the History of Material Texts
University of Pennsylvania – March 14, 2011 – 5:15pm
Van Pelt Library, 2nd Floor
Platform studies is a family of approaches that aim to help us understand the relationship between computational platforms and the creative work that is done on them. At a high level, two realizations are particularly important to platform studies: First, that creative production on the computer, using computation, is culturally relevant; and second, that we can usefully look to the underlying systems and structures that constrain and enable this creative production. In this talk, I will describe how participating in this workshop helped me to engage with the materiality of texts and then of computing, how I initially sought to investigate the relationship between textual studies and computational media, and how, working with my collaborator Ian Bogost, I found a deeper, productive connection between digital media and textual materiality that is based on the concept of the platform. Along the way, I will discuss and use as my main example the Atari VCS (a.k.a. Atari 2600). This famous early cartridge-based game system was the focus of my and Bogost's 2009 book, Racing The Beam, the first book in the MIT Press series Platform Studies.
The People's Republic of IF is Shiny
As if polishing a statue of our glorious leader, the Web secretariat of the People's Republic of Interactive Fiction has hoisted a fine new website. It has everything the old site had, but shiner and more expandable – which is important for a Cambridge-based group with a destiny that is manifest, a group that continues to share IF with the Boston area and the world.
Please do note that PR-IF will be at PAX-East 2011 with a suite and a conference room. All events are open to the public and do not require a PAX-East badge. I'll hope to see some of you there.
The ELMCIP Knowledge Base is Online
Interested in electronic literature, and a new large-scale resource listing works, authors, and more? The ELMCIP Knowledge Base is now available in beta form. Also, check out this screencast about the ELMCIP Knowledge Base.
By ELMCIP, we mean Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, a research project that extends throughout Europe and is funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. ELMCIP is a project to try to understand creative communities working in electronic literature. Among the many involved parties are friends and collaborators Scott Rettberg (the project leader) and Jill Walker Rettberg.
In describing the newly opened Knowledge Base, Scott writes:
We are still working on the design and some features are still in progress but we are happy enough with the work-in-progress to open it up to more readers and contributors. I hope that you will join us in developing this important resource. We need your help to make a good platform into a great resource.
Here, as it stands, is the list of works in the Knowledge Base. Take a look, even if you want to browse, but particularly if you think you may wish to contribute.
Best Failed Search Ever
I guess that answers the perennial question, "I can has cheezburger?"
The IF Theory Reader Arrives
Almost a decade after the project began, the IF Theory Reader is finally here, thanks to the hard work of editors Kevin Jackson-Mead and J. Robinson Wheeler. The book has been published by Transcript On Press and has made it out in time for PAX-East, where Kevin's group The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction will be hosting a hospitality suite.
There are 438 pages in this book, which can be downloaded as a PDF for free or purchased as a paperback for a mere $13.26.
My own contribution, "Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction," has a first page which (except for the title of the article) is entirely occupied by a footnote. Perhaps ominously. I did, however, revise the article for the N+1th time, trying to make it a bit more accessible. I began writing this particular piece back when this book project was first being formulated, and am very, very glad to have it officially published after all these years.
The compendium of writing about interactive fiction that we finally have here includes 26 articles – the same number, I should mention, as there are letters of the alphabet:
Crimes Against Mimesis – Roger S. G. Sorolla
Toward a Theory of Interactive Fiction – Nick Montfort
Characterizing, If Not Defining, Interactive Fiction – Andrew Plotkin
not that you may remember time: Interactive Fiction, Stream-of-
Consciousness Writing, and Free Will – Mark Silcox
2 Brief Dada Angels – Ryan Stevens, writing as Rybread Celsius
Object Relations – Graham Nelson
IF as Argument – Duncan Stevens
The Success of Genre in Interactive Fiction – Neil Yorke-Smith
Parser at the Threshold: Lovecraftian Horror in Interactive Fiction – Michael Gentry
Distinguishing Between Game Design and Analysis: One View – Gareth Rees
Natural Language, Semantic Analysis, and Interactive Fiction – Graham Nelson
Afterword: Five Years Later – Graham Nelson
Challenges of a Broad Geography – Emily Short
Thinking Into the Box: On the Use and Deployment of Puzzles – Jon Ingold
PC Personality and Motivations – Duncan Stevens
Landscape and Character in IF – Paul O'Brian
Hint Development for IF – Lucian Smith
Descriptions Constructed – Stephen Granade
Mapping the Tale: Scene Description in IF – J. Robinson Wheeler
Repetition of Text in Interactive Fiction – Jason Dyer
NPC Dialogue Writing – Robb Sherwin
NPC Conversation Systems – Emily Short
10 Years of IF: 1994–2004 – Duncan Stevens
The Evolution of Short Works: From Sprawling Cave Crawls to Tiny Experiments – Stephen Granade
History of Italian IF – Francesco Cordella
Racontons une histoire ensemble: History and Characteristics of French IF – Hugo Labrande
Again, congratulations to Kevin and Rob, and thanks to my fellow authors. I've read many of these articles before; I'm looking forward to sitting down and reading everything, previously seen and unseen, in this excellent codex.
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\section{Introduction}

The IMF quantifies the number of stars formed per stellar mass bin in
a given episode of star formation. As such, it represents a key
parameter to characterise galaxy evolution from photometric
surveys. The IMF has long been assumed to have a universal shape,
mainly because of near-invariant results obtained for the closest star
forming regions in our Galaxy (see e.g. \cite{Kroupa01}). However,
recent observational developments put this notion in question. These
evidences came mainly trough two separated channels. A systematic
excess of the mass-to-light ratios derived using integral field
stellar kinematics with respect to photometric values based on a
universal IMF has been reported by many authors (see
e.g. \cite{Cappellari12}). Moreover, high-resolution spectroscopy of
spectral features sensitive to IMF variations (due of their dependence
on stellar surface gravity and/or effective temperature) suggests an
excess of low- relative to intermediate-mass stars, compared to the
universal IMF, in massive early-type galaxies (ETGs, see
e.g. \cite{Conroy13} and \cite{LaBarbera13}). In both cases, the
reported excess increases with increasing galaxy stellar mass
($M_\star$) and/or velocity dispersion. It is worth stressing that the
spectroscopic probe clearly favours a {\it bottom-heavy} scenario
(i.e. an excess of low-mass stars with respect to the universal IMF),
but it samples only to the low-mass end of the IMF ($<$1
$M_\odot$). On the other hand, the dynamical probe is sensible to the
whole shape of the IMF, but cannot distinguish between a {\it
  top-heavy} (i.e. an excess of high-mass stars with respect to the
universal IMF) or a {\it bottom-heavy} scenario. The observational
picture is further complicated by the radial IMF gradients reported
for local ETGs using integral field unit spectroscopy (see
e.g. \cite{Sarzi18}). These findings suggest that the low-mass stars
excess increases in the innermost regions of these galaxies. However,
these trends stand in apparent contradiction with the well-known
metallicity gradients in ETGs: the increasing $\alpha$-enhancement
towards the centre seems to require a larger contribution from Type-II
SNe, thus a larger fraction of high-mass stars.

\section{Variable IMF implementations in {\gaea}}

In my contribution, I present recent results obtained in the framework
of the semi-analytic model {\gaea} (GAlaxy Evolution and Assembly;
\cite{Hirschmann16}). This state-of-the-art model features key
improvements in the treatment of (a) chemical enrichment (i.e. it
follows the differential evolution of AGB stars, Type-Ia and Type II
SNe) and (b) stellar feedback (i.e. it implements an ejective feedback
prescription that combines results of high-resolution hydrodynamical
simulations with energy conservation arguments). This model is able to
provide a self-consistent picture of galaxy evolution, reproducing the
evolution of the galaxy stellar mass function (GSMF) and cosmic star
formation rate (SFR) up to $z\sim8-10$ \cite{Fontanot17b}.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
 \includegraphics[width=15cm]{Fig1_Osaka_Fontanot.eps}
 \caption{Variable IMF implementations discussed in this talk (in all
   panels the thin solid line represents the universal IMF in the solar
   neighbourhood as in \cite{Kroupa01}). {\it Panel (a):} evolution of
   the IMF shape as a function of SFR, according to the IGIMF theory
   \cite{Weidner13a}.  {\it Panel (b):} evolution of the IMF shape as
   a function of cosmic ray energy densities, using the numerical
   results from \cite{Papadopoulos11}.  {\it Panel (c):} composite IMF
   evolution as a function of SFR and cosmic ray energy densities
   (only the $U_{\rm CR}=U_{\rm MW}$ case is shown) as proposed in
   \cite{Fontanot18b}. In all panels, each IMF is normalized to 1
   $\msun$ in the stellar mass interval 0.1-100 $\msun$.}
   \label{fig1}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

In a series of recent papers, we include in {\gaea} prescriptions that
link the variability of the IMF to physical properties of model
galaxies. In particular, in \cite{Fontanot17a} we test the integral
galaxy-wide IMF theory (IGIMF - \cite{Weidner13a} - Fig.~\ref{fig1},
{\it panel (a)}): this analytic model predicts an evolution of the
high-mass-end slope of the IMF as a function of the global SFR of
galaxies. In \cite{Fontanot18a}, we build on the results of numerical
simulations from \cite{Papadopoulos11} to relate the position of the
knee of the IMF with the cosmic ray density field ($U_{\rm CR}$,
normalized to the Milky Way reference value $U_{\rm MW}$) associated
with model galaxies (Fig.~\ref{fig1}, {\it panel (b)}). In a variable
IMF scenario, it is only possible to calibrate the models against
photometric data; in detail we consider $z=0$ luminosity functions
(LF) in the $g-$, $r-$, $i-$, and $K-$band, and the redshift evolution
of the $K$- and $V-$band LFs. In order to compute self-consistent
synthetic photometry for our variable IMF realizations, we construct
Single Stellar Populations libraries (for different ages and
metallicities) corresponding to each assumed IMF shape, using an
updated version of \cite{BC03} models. Synthetic photometry represents
the only observable we can directly compare with observational
constraints. Indeed, most of the estimates for physical properties of
galaxies available in the literature are derived under the hypothesis
of a universal IMF, and it could be problematic to compare them with
the {\it intrinsic} properties of model galaxies, as predicted by our
variable IMF runs. To better explain this issue, in the following we
focus on galaxy stellar masses. We define a photometrically-equivalent
{\it apparent} stellar mass ($M_\star^{\rm app}$) by applying to our
synthetic photometry mass-to-light versus colour scalings typically
used in photometric surveys (see e.g. \cite{Zibetti09}). In this way,
we derive the $M_\star$ an observer would associate to our synthetic
photometry assuming a universal IMF.

\begin{figure}[t]
\begin{center}
 \includegraphics[width=12cm]{Fig2_Osaka_Fontanot.eps}
 \caption{Evolution of the GSMF. In each panel, solid lines correspond
   to the GSMF as a function of the apparent
   photometrically-equivalent stellar mass $M_\star^{\rm app}$, while
   dot-dashed lines show the GSMF as a function of the intrinsic galaxy
   stellar mass $M_\star^{\rm int}$. Dark points show a collection of
   observational measurements as in \cite{Fontanot09b}. }
   \label{fig2}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\section{Results}

Both our variable IMF realizations provide consistent results in terms
of galaxy properties and their evolution. In particular, they are able
to naturally solve the long-standing problem of $\alpha$-enhancement
in massive ETG (see e.g. Fig.B1 in \cite[Fontanot et al.,
  2018]{Fontanot18a}). We compare the intrinsic stellar masses
$M_\star^{\rm int}$ as predicted by the models with $M_\star^{\rm
  app}$ and we find that our realisations are able to reproduce the
excess of dynamical mass (that closely correspond to $M_\star^{\rm
  int}$) with respect to the photometrically derived stellar mass (see
e.g. Fig.B3 in \cite[Fontanot et al., 2018]{Fontanot18a}). In the
framework of photometric surveys, the most interesting results involve
the study of galaxy evolution, as traced by statistical estimators
such as the GSMF. In this case, the effect of assuming a variable IMF
might be dramatic, as shown in Fig.~\ref{fig2}. Solid lines represent
the GSMF evolution derived using $M_\star^{\rm app}$: in most cases it
agrees quite well with the observational estimates (also obtained from
photometric surveys assuming a universal IMF). On the other hand,
dashed lines correspond to the intrinsic evolution of the GSMF in the
same {\gaea} runs: it is clear from this comparison that the variable
IMF hypothesis can change our understanding of galaxy evolution, as
seen using photometric surveys. In particular, the real GSMF might
differ significantly from estimates based on photometry, assuming a
universal IMF.

It is worth stressing that all variable IMF approaches we consider so
far do not predict a change in the low-mass end of the IMF. Therefore,
they wouldn't be able to reproduce the spectral features observed in
ETG spectra. Nonetheless, these models are able to reproduce the metal
enrichment of ETGs better than universal IMF runs.  In
\cite{Fontanot18b} we present a new derivation for the variable IMF,
that combines the IGIMF theory with the numerical results of
\cite{Papadopoulos11}. We assume the IMF shape depends on both the SFR
and $U_{\rm CR}$.  As a representative example, in Fig.~\ref{fig1},
{\it panel (c)}, we show the evolution of the IMF shape as function of
SFR, for a MW-like $U_{\rm CR}$. This scenario provides a possible
explanation for the observed IMF and metal gradients in ETGs. Indeed,
at increasing SFR the predicted IMF shape becomes {\it the same time}
shallower at the high-mass end (which implies a larger number of
massive stars) and steeper at the low-mass end (thus predicting an
excess of low-mass stars).

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Q: CSS - Force a child DIV to expand page width? I am working on an editable navigation. The user can add many tabs across the top as they wish. In the event that there are many tabs that would force the set of tabs to be broken/wrapped to the next line, I would like to force it on 1 line even if this means that the page width would grow immensely.
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A: The only way to expand a child past it's parent is to use an absolute width. If you do something like that, you'll have z-index issues to sort. You could do something like make the tab list scroll within its div.
jsFiddle here

A: This can be done using white-space: nowrap on the body and display: inline-block on the columns. vertical-align: top may also be required on some columns.
Here's a working demo. I tried to remove everything that wasn't needed to just illustrate the concept.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/ThinkingStiff/xauMb/
CSS:
body {
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}

#container {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: top;
}

.column {
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.rightnav {
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The Gruffalo's Child
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Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler team up again to create this funny and adorable sequel to The Gruffalo. One night, the Gruffalo's child wanders into the woods to search for the Big Bad Mouse. But instead, she comes upon a small mouse in the woods . . . and decides to eat him! But wait, what is that? A shadow of a very large, scary creature falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse after all?
Julia Donaldson is back to create this funny and adorable sequel to The Gruffalo. One night, the Gruffalo's child wanders into the woods to search for the Big Bad Mouse. But instead, she comes upon a small mouse in the woods . . . and decides to eat him! But wait, what is that? A shadow of a very large, scary creature falls on the ground. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse after all?
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Julia Donaldson is one of today's best-loved children's authors. She was the UK Children's Laureate 2011–2013 and has written more than 100 books for children, including the international bestsellers The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. Her books have received numerous awards, including the… More about Julia Donaldson
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Busy media day, with appearances on DW News (Germany) and Al Jazeera English. Both spots were on Argentina's mounting currency crisis, with the peso losing half its value this year and suffering a really steep drop last week.
The year-long decline owes to a number of structural constraints, but last week's near panic was caused in large part by some botched communications that created a lot of uncertainty and enhanced doubts about President Macri's fiscal management. The government will try to rectify that this week, but losing value against the dollar is much easier than getting it all back. This is a closely watched number in Argentina, with really big political implications. The only "positive" for Macri is that the Kircheristas are themselves caught up in problems with serious corruption alleged and lots of concerning evidence coming to light.
I was looking at government budget plans that had the peso gradually falling to nearly 22 pesos to the dollar — by 2021. It's now struggling to stay above 40. Those economic plans, like many others, have gone up in smoke.
I haven't done much in this space for a while, but I will try to add a bit of summary about my time in Chile on the Fulbright from March to June, what I learned last week in Mexico for the Robert A. Pastor North American Research Initiative, and some very brief capsule reviews on some of the books I've been reading over the summer.
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When I first started following God I assumed that "His will" involved finding a career or ministry that was right for me, and then pursuing that with everything in me. The thing was, God brought many different areas of serving others into my life: writing books, speaking, volunteering in a pregnancy center, and mentoring teen moms to name a few. All these things involved loving others with what I had.
At the same time I was serving others, I was also raising kids. I felt like the most horrible mom ever dragging them along. I assumed "my" service was taking me away from time with my kids. I assumed a good mom would focus on having fun with my kids rather than just helping others.