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Professor of Childhood Studies
Adjunct in Sociology
dtcook@camden.rutgers.edu
Office: 329 Cooper Street, Room 116
Dr. Cook's work focuses on moral configurations of childhood and the child vis-à-vis commercial and economic cultural fields. In particular, he explores the various ways in which tensions between "the child" and "the market" play themselves out in various sites of children's consumer culture, such as advertising, food, rituals, clothing and media. He is the author of The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (2004, Duke University Press) and an Editor of Childhood, A Journal of Global Child Research. Along with John Wall, Cook is editor of Children and Armed Conflict (2011, Palgrave) and is sole editor of Symbolic Childhood (2002, Peter Lang) and The Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008, Palgrave). He is also the founding Chair of the Section on the Sociology of Consumers and Consumption of the American Sociological Association and serves on numerous editorial boards of journal and scientific committees of international scholarly organizations.
Currently, Cook is editing the SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies, a proposed five-volume, linked reference resource which will bring together, under one cover, an impressive array of topics, methods and perspectives definitive of contemporary approaches to the study of children and their childhoods. He also is co-editing, along with Spyros Spyrou (European University, Cyprus) and Rachel Rosen (University College London), Reimagining childhood Studies due to be published in 2018 with Bloomsbury Press. Ongoing research includes a study of how children's market research professionals (e.g., marketers, market researchers, digital developers) and others in the "kids' space" conceptualize their practices in relation to deployed notions of childhood. He is author of a number of articles and book chapters on childhood theory, consumer society, play, leisure and urban culture.
Meredith A. Bak, PhD
Undergraduate Coordinator
Assistant Professor of Childhood Studies
meredith.bak@rutgers.edu
Web: https://www.mabak.wordpress.com
Dr. Bak joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies in 2014 from Franklin & Marshall College, where she was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. Her research and teaching interests focus on children's film, media, visual, and material cultures from the nineteenth century to the present. Her research explores historical and contemporary children's media and material culture and she is at work on a book manuscript about the role of pre-cinematic visual media from optical toys to early pop-up books in shaping children as media spectators. A second project in development considers the history and theory of animate toys from talking dolls to augmented reality apps.
She is currently working on a range of projects, including book chapters on the Give-a-Show Projector, Talking Dolls, and the DC Super Hero Girls toy line. Since joining the faculty at Rutgers-Camden, Dr. Bak's research has been supported by the Penn Humanities Forum, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center. Dr. Bak is also currently a book reviews editor for H-Childhood.
Sarada Balagopalan, PhD
Associate Professor of Childhood Studies
sarada.balagopalan@rutgers.edu
Broadly focused on postcolonial childhoods, Dr. Balagopalan's inter-disciplinary research engages marginal children's experiences with compulsory schooling, labor, gendered school-spaces, children's rights discourses and pedagogies of 'citizenship'. Trained in education and anthropology, her work is directed at both challenging the exclusionary logics that often underlie humanist efforts around marginal children, as well as productively drawing upon these children's lives to decenter hegemonic assumptions around childhood.
Dr. Balagopalan is currently engaged in two separate research projects. The first of these is an archival exploration of various efforts undertaken to democratize schooling in India from the late nineteenth century onwards. Her effort is to trace shifts in ideas, institutions and technologies set in place, to not only include marginal populations of children, but to also design 'appropriate' and 'meaningful' curriculum for them. Her second research project is an ethnographic exploration of India's much touted youthful 'demographic dividend' with a particular focus on urban female youth, who are first generation school goers, and the complexities that frame their transitions from schooling to skilling.
Sarada's book Inhabiting Childhood: Children, Work and Schooling in Postcolonial India (Palgrave, 2014) foregrounds the tension between children's work and schooling as a key site where discourses of colonial modernity, the 'developmental' nation-state, late capitalism and current transnational efforts around children's rights play out. Her work has been published in several journals. Sarada's work has also involved efforts to translate her research interests into curricular and related interventions in elementary education. Between 2005-08, Sarada served as the Chief Advisor to the Indian government's middle-school 'Social and Political Life' (earlier known as 'civics') textbooks. Dr. Balagopalan is currently a Board member of Nirantar, a center for gender and education in New Delhi, and has also been a part of Eklavya, an NGO in Madhya Pradesh, engaged in pedagogic reforms in India's public schools. Prior to joining Rutgers University, she was an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi .
Kate Cairns, PhD
kate.cairns@rutgers.edu
Dr. Kate Cairns joined the Department of Childhood Studies in 2014 after completing a postdoctoral fellowship in sociology at the University of Toronto. Her work brings a feminist perspective to the politics of childhood and explores how young people are positioned as the promise or threat of collective futures. She has investigated these dynamics across diverse sites, including neoliberal education reform, maternal foodwork, and youth urban agriculture. Dr. Cairns is a member of the Common Worlds Research Collective, and serves on the editorial boards for Gender & Society and the Critical Perspectives on Youth series with NYU Press. During 2018-2019 she is a Faculty Fellow at the Rutgers-New Brunswick Institute for Research on Women.
Dr. Cairns is the coauthor of Food and Femininity (2015, Bloomsbury) and Introducing Sociology Using the Stuff of Everyday Life (2017, Routledge). Her research on food, consumption and mothering has appeared in venues such as Gender & Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Theory and Society, and Signs. More recently, she has studied contemporary efforts to connect children and young people with their food, with publications in Antipode, Children's Geographies, and Harvard Educational Review. Dr. Cairns teaches courses in children's geographies, gender and education, girlhood studies, and introduction to childhood studies.
Dr. Daniel Hart
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
daniel.hart@rutgers.edu
Web: https://hart.camden.rutgers.edu/
Dr. Hart studies personality, moral, and civic development in context. His most recent book, written with Jim Youniss, is entitled Renewing Democracy in Young America, and will be published by Oxford University Press in 2018. They argue that civic development can be reinvigorated by lowering the voting age for municipal elections to sixteen and by creating opportunities for young people to contribute to community welfare through environmental activism.
In his applied work, Dr. Hart and his colleagues are working with eleven communities across New Jersey to create opportunities for youth to become civically engaged and to develop leadership skills. This work is funded by New Jersey Health Initiatives as part of its Next Generation Community Leaders program.
Wenhua Lu, PhD
w.lu@rutgers.edu
Dr. Lu joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies in 2016, after completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Silver School of Social Work, New York University. Before that, Dr. Lu earned her MS in science journalism and PhD in health education from Texas A&M University. Dr. Lu's research centers around child and adolescent health disparities, with a focus on minority and underserved populations. In particular, Dr. Lu is interested in understanding and intervening on behavioral, psychosocial and environmental factors that influence minority and underserved children's health risk behaviors (e.g., unhealthy food-purchase, lack of physical activity), negative health outcomes (e.g., childhood obesity), and mental health problems (e.g., adolescent depression).
Currently, Dr. Lu is initiating two health disparities research projects to 1) examine factors underlying unmet mental health service needs among Asian American adolescents with mental health issues, and 2) investigate the real-time influence of nutrition environments on adolescent food-purchase behavior in different neighborhoods. Dr. Lu is also the Co-Principal Investigator of a RWJF-sponsored project to evaluate the implementation and impact of RWJF's Next Generation Community Leaders initiative. Dr. Lu's research has been published in leading public health journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, and the American Journal of Health Behavior.
Susan A. Miller, PhD
millersa@camden.rutgers.edu
Dr. Miller joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies in September 2009. She is the author of Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls' Organizations in America (Rutgers, 2007) and a contributor to several anthologies, including Scouting Frontiers: Youth and the Scout Movement's First Century (Cambridge Scholars, 2009); Rendering Nature: Animals, Bodies, Places, Politics (UPenn, 2015); and Childhood, Youth, and Emotions in Modern History (Palgrave, 2015). She is also the author of the Oxford Online Bibliography on the History of Childhood in America. Her current research interests include children's patriotism and nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the ways in which nineteenth-century female reformers and suffragists included younger girls in their political campaigns. Staying true to her graduate training in the history or science, she is also working on an article about Madame Curie and her daughters, Eve and Irène.
Dr. Miller teaches courses on the history of childhood and youth in America, from colonial times to the present, as well as courses on children and war, and youth sports. She is a former high school mathematics and history teacher who now spends her spare time as a volunteer tour guide at Philadelphia's historic Laurel Hill cemetery.
Lauren J. Silver, PhD
ljsilver@camden.rutgers.edu
Office: 329 Cooper, Room 212
Lauren J. Silver is Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. Dr. Silver joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies in 2009 and is also an Affiliate Scholar of the Center for Urban Research and Education. She is a critical ethnographer whose work lies at the intersection of the sociology and anthropology of youth, feminist methodologies, and analyses of urban systems. Her scholarship centers on the lives of young people who experience structural violence through poverty and social constructions of race, gender, and sexuality; it is deeply connected to the urban places where she lives and works.
Dr. Silver's book, System Kids: Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation (2015, University of North Carolina Press) is based on two years of ethnographic research with youth of color and explores their identity work and service negotiations in a large, urban child welfare system. She is currently completing fieldwork for her next project: Youth Pathways Across Camden: Narratives in Urban Schooling. Dr. Silver's research and teaching interests include: youth identities, urban education, gender & education, child welfare, and comparative urban ethnography.
Lynne Vallone, PhD
vallone@rutgers.edu
Dr. Vallone was the chair of the Department of Childhood Studies from 2008 until 2011 and again from 2013-2016. She is the author of Big and Small: A Cultural History of Extraordinary Bodies (2017, Yale UP), Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1995, Yale UP) and Becoming Victoria (2001, Yale; a cultural biography of the young Queen Victoria) and the co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature (2005, Norton), Virtual Gender: Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment (U of Georgia P), The Girl's Own: Cultural Histories of the Anglo-American Girl, 1830-1915 (1994, U of Georgia P), and The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature (2011, Oxford UP). In 2011, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature was awarded the Children's Literature Association's best edited book prize. She is general editor of the Palgrave series Literary Cultures and the Child. Her current work historicizes the cultural and political identities of the fetus.
John Wall, PhD
Professor of Religion and Childhood Studies
johnwall@camden.rutgers.edu
Web: https://johnwall.camden.rutgers.edu
John Wall is Professor of Philosophy and Religion, as well as Childhood Studies, at Rutgers University Camden. He is the author of Children's Rights: Today's Global Challenge, Ethics in Light of Childhood, and Moral Creativity, as well as co-editor of Children and Armed Conflict, Marriage, Health, and the Professions, and Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought. He is an internationally recognized expert on post-structuralist ethical theory as well as philosophies of childhood and children's rights. He co-wrote the proposal that created the first Ph.D. program in Childhood Studies in the United States and was co-founder and chair of the American Academy of Religion's Childhood Studies and Religion Group. He has taught at Rutgers University Camden since 2000, including courses in Children's Rights, Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Childhood, Religion and Contemporary Culture, Biomedical Ethics, and Evil. He was awarded a Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence and a Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence. He grew up in England, earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, and now lives in Philadelphia.
Joann Schroeder
joann.schroeder@rutgers.edu
Associate Faculty, Childhood Studies
Bob Atkins, PhD, RN, National Program Director of New Jersey Health Initiatives of RWJF and Associate Professor
atkins@NJHI.org
Dr. Atkins is the co-founder and president of the Camden STARR Program, a non-profit youth development program which sought to improve the life chances of youth living in Camden
Holly Blackford, Professor of English
blackfor@camden.rutgers.edu
19th/20th Cent. American Literature, Children's Literature, Meanings that children create from literature
Cati Coe, Professor of Anthropology
ccoe@camden.rutgers.e
Care across the lifecourse, nationalism, politics of culture, educational anthropology, West Africa
Charlotte N. Markey, Professor of Psychology
chmarkey@camden.rutgers.edu
Health Psychology, Psychology of Eating-Related Behaviors, Psychology of Adolescence, and Child Development
Naomi Marmorstein, Professor of Psychology
marmorst@camden.rutgers.edu
Psychopathology in children and adolescents
Margaret Marsh, University Professor of History
mmarsh@camden.rutgers.edu
Reproductive Medicine and Technology, Reproductive Sexuality, Women's and Gender History, the History of Medicine in the United States
Jane A. Siegel, Professor of Criminal Justice
jasiegel@camden.rutgers.edu
Impact of incarceration on children; family factors in crime and delinquency
Carol J. Singley, Professor of English
singley@camden.rutgers.edu
American Literature, Children's Literature, Literary & Cultural Representations of Childhood, Kinship and Adoption.
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La Loutre de Sumatra (Lutra sumatrana), également appelée loutre à nez poilu est une espèce de mammifères de la famille des Mustelidae.

Description
C'est une loutre mesurant environ 50 à 80 cm de long pour les plus grandes d'entre elles avec une queue pouvant mesurer jusqu'à 50 cm, et pesant environ 5 à 7 kilogrammes.

La caractéristique dominante de celles-ci est son museau poilu, couvert d'une fourrure sombre (mis à part ses narines).

Sa fourrure est brun foncé, parfois teintée de rouge, avec une couleur plus claire sur la face inférieure, tandis que sa gorge est blanc jaunâtre.

Son corps est long et possède des pattes palmées munies de grandes griffes.

Son crâne est aplati et allongé, et pourvu d'une multitude de moustaches sensibles lui permettant de détecter des proies sous l'eau.

Cette espèce de loutre se distingue des autres par la forme de sa queue, ayant une base arrondie, elle est effilée.

Distribution
C'est une espèce rare, que l'on pensait éteinte jusqu'en 1998. Originaire de l'Asie du Sud, elle était autrefois très répandue.

Elle se rencontre, de nos jours, au sud du Cambodge, au Vietnam dans le delta du Mékong, en Malaisie, à Sumatra et Bornéo, et aussi en Thaïlande dans la province de Surat Thani et Narathiwat.

La loutre de Sumatra vit dans différentes forêts et zones humides d'eau douce (mangroves, marécages, zones côtières)

Selon certaines données historiques, cette espèce pourrait vivre en altitude (ruisseaux d'eau douce jusqu'à 1800 m.).

Cette espèce se rencontre en Asie du Sud-Est

Alimentation
C'est un animal carnivore, qui se nourrit essentiellement de petits serpents, de poissons, de grenouilles, lézards, tortues, crabes, insectes ainsi que de petits mammifères. La loutre utilise la surprise pour chasser ses proies.

Comportements
La loutre est habituellement considérée comme relativement sociale, mais celle-ci s'avère être solitaire. Cependant, il a été observé que la communication qu'elles établissent entre elles se manifeste de façon olfactive. Elles utilisent ce marquage via des troncs d'arbres, des branches en contact avec le milieu aquatique pour informer leurs congénères de la présence ou pas de nourriture dans un site. Elles communiquent également en utilisant différentes vocalisations.

Menaces

Prédateurs
La loutre de Sumatra n'est que très rarement confrontée à des prédateurs naturels. Ses seuls prédateurs potentiels sont des pythons ou des crocodiles marins (et très rarement des crocodiles du Siam). Mais lorsqu'elle se trouve en milieu terrestre, elle devient la proie du dhole ou de grands rapaces.

Commerce
Une autre menace qui pèse actuellement sur la loutre de Sumatra en Asie du Sud-Est (et surtout sur la loutre cendrée mais aussi sur la loutre d'Europe et la loutre à pelage lisse), est qu'elle est capturée dans la nature pour être ensuite vendue comme animal de compagnie.

Publication originale
 Gray, 1865 : Revison of the genera and species of Mustelidae contained in the British Museum. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, vol. 1865, .

Liens externes

 (fr) Référence Manimal World : https://www.manimalworld.net/pages/mustelidae/loutre-de-sumatra.html

Références

Carnivore (nom scientifique)
Mustelidae
Mammifère aquatique
Faune d'Asie du Sud-Est

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Clemson is "10-8cious"
by Sam BlackmanClemson's road to the National Championship in 1981 included a classic game with North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. on November 7th. It's considered to be one of the greatest games ever played in Atlantic Coast Conference history.It was eighth-ranked North Carolina against second-ranked Clemson, the first meeting of top-10 ACC teams in league history. "The North Carolina game did more for us winning the national championship than any other game," said senior linebacker and captain Jeff Davis. "It was the ultimate test for us. We expected to win in Death Valley and we expected teams to already be behind when the whistle blew to start the game. But, to go into the backyard of a top-10 football team with everything at stake, and win, that did it for us. "Remember, North Carolina had everything to play for. It's right there for them. You can think there were people wondering 'Can Clemson stay focused?' And we beat them in a fight. It was an all-out brawl. May the best man win! It was man-on-man." With an ACC Championship and a major bowl bid at stake, it was dubbed the biggest game to ever be played in the state of North Carolina."North Carolina came to play," defensive tackle and All-American Jeff Bryant said. "They were at home and they were a top-10 team. We both were striving for that goal which was to win the ACC and take it further from there."It was a very physical game. I can remember being sore for a couple of days after that." It was also Homecoming Weekend in Chapel Hill, NC and it was the last game at Kenan Stadium for UNC's seniors – a class that had helped the Tar Heels win an ACC Championship the year before and beat traditional powers such as Texas and Oklahoma along the way.To top things off, there were bowl representatives from eight bowl games in attendance, more than at any other game that afternoon across the country. Sports Illustrated had been at Clemson all week to chronicle the Tigers' magical run and was in Chapel Hill on that afternoon. ABC was broadcasting it as part of their regional coverage and carried the game throughout most of the country.All of America's eyes seem to be placed on this small school from the foothills of South Carolina, and then Clemson Head Coch Danny Ford knew he had to do something to turn his team's focus to what was really important – beating the Tar Heels."Were we excited about the hype? Yes! We wanted the stakes high," said Davis. "It didn't get any better than this. This was another opportunity for us to do something in Clemson football history that had never been done. "We took all of that into consideration. We would not have approached that game any other way because there was the crown jewel of college football standing right in front of us. We could almost touch it."The world was watching. We had a great opportunity. It was everything that a young man and a young student-athlete could want.""North Carolina, for me, was a big game," Davis said. "I'm from Greensboro, North Carolina, and I wanted to beat them more than anyone else we played. This was my last opportunity to make a statement in North Carolina that I made the right decision in coming to Clemson." "Both teams knew it was going to be a hard-fought, physical game. They had some very good athletes and they were a very good football team. We were going into their backyard. It was going to be tough."Ford knew it was going to be tough too."I was concerned about how we can play physically with this team," he said. "We were out-muscled in 1980, which did not happen too often with our football teams. Their game plan in 1980 was to out-muscle Clemson, and I think they did it."We knew that's what they were going to try and do again."The game started as a defensive struggle and lived up to its billing. The score was 0-0 at the end of the first quarter. McCall had a game-high 84 yards before he left the game injured and scored the game's lone touchdown – a seven-yard run with 6:54 to play in the second quarter. Clemson led 7-5 at the half. North Carolina ranked second in the country running the football coming in, but Clemson held the Tar Heels to 84 yards on 42 carries. Stopping the run had been the Tigers ammo all season. With new defensive coordinator Tom Harper at the helm, Clemson led the ACC in rushing defense and ranked second in the country. "We would put a goose egg on our (defensive) board before every game," Davis said. "We didn't do it as a mark or just to put something up there. No, we actually believed it. It was symbolic to us. You were not going to score on us. Even if you get in our territory, you might have a chance to get a field goal, but you can forget about scoring a touchdown on us."We took pride in that. You were not supposed to score on us. We even took pride in goal line situations in practice. I don't care how close you put the ball you were not going to score on our defense. We believed that. That was not some tough guy talk or something to motivate people. We believed it."North Carolina running back and three-time All-ACC selection, Kelvin Bryant believed it. In his first game back after arthroscopic knee surgery earlier, he gained just 31 yards on 13 carries as did fellow running back Tyrone Anthony on eight carries."When I see Kelvin, he likes to joke that he gets a headache right when he sees me because we were hitting him so hard that day," Davis smiled.Clemson's defense was stifling.No team that season learned that any better than the Tar Heels. Twice, North Carolina had first-and-goal inside the Clemson 10, and both times it was held to short field goals by Brooks Barwick.Early in the second quarter, North Carolina appeared to have a possible touchdown on a third-down swing pass in the flats to Tyrone Anthony, but Clemson All-American safety Terry Kinard came out of nowhere to drag him down at the five. The Tar Heels settled for a 22-yard Barwick field goal and led 3-0.Now Trailing 10-5, following a Donald Igwebuike 39-yard field goal, North Carolina took its second drive of the third quarter and marched down to the Clemson four thanks to a 21-yard halfback pass from Anthony to Griffin. But, Davis and Kinard stuffed Kelvin Bryant for a five-yard loss on the next play and then Stankavage threw incomplete on second and third down, forcing the Tar Heels to settle for a 26-yard Barwick field goal.The Tigers led 10-8 heading into the fourth period.In the fourth quarter, North Carolina again had an opportunity to take the lead following a muffed punt by Billy Davis at the Clemson 37. After gaining just four yards on first and second down, the Tar Heels hopes for taking the lead were dashed when freshman nose guard William Perry broke through and sacked quarterback Scott Stankavage for a 10-yard loss."With the kind of defense we had, we never panicked," defensive tackle, Jeff Bryant said. "We are going to make the big play. It was always role call to the ball."Following a Clemson punt, UNC again moved into Tiger territory to the 39, but again the defensive stiffened, with a tackle for a loss and two incomplete passes.Unable to move the ball, Clemson punter Dale Hatcher then pinned the Heels deep in their own territory at the two-yard line following a 47-yard punt with 2:19 to play, setting up the final dramatics in one of the biggest victories in Clemson history. After moving the ball out from the shadow of their own goal post , the Tar Heels found themselves with a first down at their own 40 thanks to a 12-yard scramble by Stankavage on third-and-10 from the two, then a nine-yard pass to wide receiver Ron Richardson and a 14-yard pass to Anthony.With just over a minute to play and one timeout left, the Tar Heels called a screen pass to fullback Alex Burrus. Stankavage threw the ball behind the line of scrimmage and when Burrus went to make the catch, defensive end Bill Smith met him, knocking the ball to the ground.The ball rolled 15 yards backwards towards the Clemson sideline, and that is where defensive tackle Jeff Bryant jumped on the football at the UNC 25-yard line.Smith is sort of the unsung hero. The play everyone remembers is Bryant having the presence of mind to jump on what appeared to be an incomplete pass with 57 seconds to play.The pass was ruled a lateral, and by jumping on the loose football Bryant secured Clemson's 10-8 victory in front of a then record crowd at Kenan Stadium of 53,611. But, what people don't recall is who actually caused the fumble. That would be Bill Smith, a current member of the Clemson University Board of Trustees. "They were moving the ball down the field, and all they needed was a field goal to win," Smith said. "That was just a timely play that happened."Timely indeed, it was perhaps the calling-card of the 1981 defense. In 1981, Clemson ranked seventh in the nation in turnover margin and led the ACC in forced turnovers with what is still a school-record 41.Jeff Bryant, who played 12 seasons in the NFL, had a stellar career at Clemson, but it wasn't until Tom Harper became the defensive coordinator in the spring of 1981 when he finally realized what kind of player he could be. Harper did wonders for Bryant's play. He not only helped him become sound fundamentally, he helped him with his technique. He helped him become a better football player, and a better person."Tom Harper was very instrumental in my development," Bryant said. "He was a great guy. I wish I had Tom Harper all four years. I'm thankful I had him when I did, though, because he really made a difference with me."Bryant credited Harper's instruction as one of the reasons he stayed alert and recognized the lateral on North Carolina's final drive."I was coming up field pretty hard because I figured they were going to pass the ball. I had a good rush on and I was about as deep as the quarterback," he said. "I noticed him throwing the ball, and I saw the hit, but I noticed he threw the ball behind him."Bill made a great hit, and I saw the ball coming out, so my thinking was to rush over there and get on it because no one else thought it was a lateral. I thought it was one because of the angle I was at because I was right there behind the quarterback as he threw the ball."Smith, who admits he did not know it was a lateral at the time, sometimes wonders about the "what ifs" had Bryant not jumped on the loose ball."Who knows what would have happened had we lost that game, but thank goodness we can say 'what if' all we want because we didn't lose it," he said. "We won it and we did all we could do to win it. That was the mentality of that team all year."After Jordan fell to the ground three times to run out the final 57 seconds, a mass celebration broke out on the Clemson sideline. As Tar Heel fans made their way to the exit, the Clemson players and the 10,000 or so Tiger fans that traveled up to Chapel Hill, stayed and enjoyed what they had accomplished, a 10-8 victory over North Carolina.The next day, The Greenville News had in its headlines, in bold print, a very clever headline, "Clemson is 10-8cious.""We knew that anything was possible at that point," Bryant said.With a victory over the eighth-ranked Tar Heels behind them, Clemson for the first time, admitted the possibility of going undefeated and playing for a national championship was on its mind."It was important because we started thinking a little bit now about being undefeated," Davis said. "Until that point, we were not trying to touch it. There might have been a few rumblings here and there, but we were all about one game at a time."At that point, and where we were at, you were going to have to do something phenomenal to beat us."The Tigers were simply 10-8cious that day and that season.
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Raipur, Feb 22 (UNI) Legislators in Chhattisgarh have again received naxalite literature and a compact disc, depicting alleged police atrocities on the tribals of Bastar.
The issue figured in the assembly on the second consecutive day today when Mr Ravindra Choubey (Congress) raised the matter saying that some unidentified persons had delivered these materials at the MLA rest house in the state capital.
''It's a serious issue,'' he said, adding the state government should make a statement in the House over the issue.
He said Speaker Prem Prakash Pandey had convened a meeting in his chamber on this issue before the House assembled for the day.
''The state government must tell us as to what steps are being taken to provide protection to the legislators,'' he said.
Mr Shiv Deharia (Congress) confirmed that naxalite literature and a CD was found at his door step of his residence at around midnight.
He also alleged that the government was not serious.
Home minister Ramvichar Netam was present in the House when the issue was raised during the Zero Hour.


what aspects of Faraday's life and work contributed to his reputation?
The author of the extract is obviously an avid fan of Faraday and writes with enthusiasm and great respect for the scientist and lecturer. The author starts off by mentioning the 'beauty of some of the experiments was remarkable' and thus hints at the simplicity of many of Faraday's experiments that are now taken for granted. His electrical discoveries alone turned Faraday into one of the great scientists in our history.
Faraday was not interested in material possessions and the author mentions that he could have made a fortune out of benzol or some of his other discoveries. He chose not to as 'he felt that he had other work to do' and it was this attitude that won him many admirers. He was also a self-made man who had not studied at University but had still aspired to laying Nature's mysteries bare. The Victorians believed Faraday was how a scientist should be and that 'he lived simply, with few wants' further proved his focus on science and all it's secrets.
The author writes that 'his eye was fixed upon the truth itself and not upon the useful results that might come from the knowledge of it' which highlights how Faraday was not particularly interested in creating new material technologies but more the truth behind them. This allowed Faraday to work on many different things and start off a chain of thought in a certain direction. It was because of Faraday's expansive studying that so many technologies were attributed to him such as the electric light, the telephone, the electric motor, etc. As more inventions were assigned to the work that Faraday had done his reputation increased to such an extent that the Faraday centenary celebrations took place.


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"Civics for the Culture" wants to be "Gen Z's 'Schoolhouse Rock.'"
Civics for the Culture wants to be "Gen Z's Schoolhouse Rock." Produced by Fair Fight Action, an organization founded in 2018 by Stacey Abrams to counter voter suppression, Civics for the Culture just kicked off its second season aimed at empowering—and educating—young voters. The series engages with young voters by explaining aspects of the voting process, breaking down legal jargon, and diving into conversations with individuals offering their own perspective on issues discussed. Chelsey Hall, the Director of Media and Brand Partnerships at Fair Fight Action, kicks off season two by discussing Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill and why it's harmful for governing bodies to create legislation that "tells humans how we should identify." YPulse's causes, charity, and activism research shows 94% of young consumers are passionate about a social cause, while 50% say their generation can make the biggest difference in the world. Civics for the Culture is just one example of how brands / companies / platforms are empowering the next generation of voters in fun, educational ways. (Paper Mag)


Dabarti Light Assistant – dabarti.
Light Assistant helps with aligning reflections and adjusting the parameters of V-Ray lights.
Interactively ALIGN lights reflection directly on the geometry. Hold shift for "Rim Light Mode".
Interactively change light distance, size and rotation in ADJUST mode..
Quickly control V-Ray Light properties with "Light Lister" like interface.
Adjust light intensity using Exposure Value (EV).
Align and Adjust modes work well with some non V-Ray lights.
10 Softbox presets in material library included.
Chaosgroup V-Ray is required to use this tool and it's best to use with V-Ray GPU in ActiveShade (interactive) mode.
Light assistant was developed for in-house use at Dabarti and released for free to general public. We're using only V-Ray in our pipeline so at this stage there are no plans to fully support any other renderers.
[Bug Fixes] (*) Fixed Corona non target lights crash.
[Bug Fixes] (*) Fixed crash when VRaySun light is present in the scene.
(*) Ability to change texture map of the light.
(*) Right click on EV buttons for double the effect.
(*) Crash when trying to revert light (ON) state when new light was added.
(*) Added "Enable Tooltips" button switches on display of shortcuts tooltips while in Align or Adjust mode.
(*) New Adjust mode. Allows interactive adjustment of distance, size, rotation around target and local rotation of the light.
(*) Added Adjust Selected button.
(*) Added ON button with right click funtion to switch off all other lights. Right clicking again will restore their previous state.
(*) New Align mode: CTRL – align light to world normal with snap.
(*) Align Selected and Adjust Selected should work with some other lights that can be targeted.
(*) Scaling light is moved from Align mode to Adjust mode.
(*) First Version released to public.
(*) Ability to align VRayLights based on viewport or camera position. Doesn't work in orthographic view.
(*) While in Align mode press SHIFT for rimlight mode.
(*) While in Align mode press CTRL (or ALT+CTRL) and move mouse to scale the light.
(*) Added ability create new VRayLight and align.
(*) Added ability copy selected light and align.
(*) Added ability align selected light.
(*) Added ability adjust light distance from the target.
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Thank you for a nice tool.
I have just switch from Max2016 to Max2018 and now the Adjust button seems to be broken?!
Thanks for the plugin. I am running 3ds max 206 and would love to try your softboxes matlib. Do you think you could convert them down?
There seems to be a plugin doing that….
Thnx 4 great and useful script, but it have some troubles with non-targeted lights in Corona.
Version 0.901 works perfect! Thank you Tomasz!
will there ever be a chance to get this working as interactively in corona?
thanks for this great tool by the way!
There is an bug in Corona that I've reported – https://corona-renderer.com/forum/index.php?topic=17281.msg108324#msg108324 . If that's something you want fixed, maybe you could reply there to let them know it's important for you ?
Photos, service manuals, youtube videos. A lot of reference gathering went into it.
This is absolutely Awesome !! Thanks!
At this stage I don't plan doing this tool for Maya.
Would Corona ever be supported?
It is supported partially… You need to select the light for aligning manually (or through alternative light lister) and than use one of those – https://www.dabarti.com/screens/sc09e7088-e665-4a70-b999-c62be892c4f4m.png . It won't be as interactive as in V-Ray GPU (RT) but will work.
If I were to make a simple recommendation, it would be to add an 'Instance' button next to the 'Copy' button.


In response to fiber market conditions, a manufacturer has started mixing OCC and white recovered papers together to create a cheaper line of tissue products.
Quebec-headquartered tissue and packaging manufacturer Cascades announced its Latte Collection, which includes paper towels, toilet paper and facial tissue.
According to a press release, the company's R&D and innovation teams developed the mixed-fiber tissue products as a strategy to hold down product costs. High virgin pulp prices and shortages of high-grade recovered papers have resulted in record high price increases for customers wanting white paper products, according to Cascades.
Cascades is a publicly traded company with 90 facilities in North American and Europe.


I've just got a Humax YouView Box from BT, and have tripped up on the problem where the router's multicast implementation is not compatible with the Humax box. There seems to be little info on the web about using these two pieces of hardware together.
Has anyone had any success or are there any known hacks to make it work?
I've just run into the same issue as I take part in the Plusnet TV trial. Did you ever find a workaround, or reach-out to AVM for support?
Where the CP intends to use Multicast, IGMP reports destined for Openreach Multicast for GEA shall be encoded as IGMPv3 or IGMPv2 over C-VLAN ID 101. Source Specific Multicast option within IGMPv3 must not be used.
Where the CP is using PPP and intends to use Multicast for GEA, the modem shall be able to detect and process multicast frames differently to unicast. Multicast for GEA frames sent into Openreach (IGMP reports) shall not be encapsulated with PPP otherwise they will passed transparently as normal GEA traffic.
Definitely not for the faint-of-heart! I'll send my findings to AVM and ask if they can create an ISP profile covering Openreach GEA Multicast, making this configuration automatic should the user select the right profile.
I can confirm that the above is working here (FTTC Multicast to YouView).
Hi i know this might not be the right thread to post on but it looks like u know the fritz config file a lot better than i ever will i was just woundering if it is posible to put in the sky dhcp option 60,61 requests in to the config file?
Fritz 7390 Firmware 84.06.20i seems to disallow editing the saved settings and reloading them - it reports the file is not a valid restore file. Does any one know a work around to add Doug's edits?
The only downside for me is the entire UI being German, but I managed to get by thanks to Google Translate.
I've tried FBE Editor version 0.7 and I don't seem to be able to save my edited files back to my Fritz!Box 3790. I saw your suggestion of using the latest version, which I am using as far as I can tell. After you edit the file should all you need to do is select Konfiguration zur�ckspielen ? After that you restart the box and you should be have the new configuration loaded or am I missing a step?
I'm trying to get my box support bt tv, managed to get it to support VDSL fairly easily, one more change to go!
If the Fritz!Box accepts the configuration as valid it should reboot automatically following 'Konfiguration zur�ckspielen'. If nothing happens, check the configuration changes for typos and retry.
Make sure not to include NoChecks in the config; that option no longer exists and will cause validation to fail.
Until I upgraded to the latest version the Fritz!Box silently rejected my updates and didn't reboot.
Hi Doug, Greatly appreciate your help. I'm definitely using FB Editor 0.7 and my firmware is 84.06.20 but no matter what I do I cannot seem to save changes to the configuration file.
I even tried change my active_name in the ar7cfg block as I figured I couldn't go wrong there. In all cases it never rebooted.
i have made sure I am not using NoChecks command as you mentioned before. I've spent a hour or two googling around tonight to find a solution but I cannot seem to find an answer.
Have you encountered this problem i have described and would you recommend a something I might try to over come this issue?


In 1477, when Giovanni Calco died, his belongings passed over to his son and then to Bartolomeo Calco (1434-1508), who was the first Prime ducal Secretary of the State of Milan, during the age of Lodovico il Moro.
After his death in 1508, those belongings passed over to his sons, among which Polidoro Calco (?-1539) who was the Governor of the State of Milan. The possesions related to Vescogna were later split into different parts and the northern portion of them was given to Antono Maria, son of Polidoro and to his son Giovanni Battista Mauro Calco, born in 1567.
Giovanni Battista's doughter married Giulio Marliani, hence these belongings were finally owned by Marliani's family, passing to his sons Luigi, Giuseppe and his grandson count Luigi.
Toward the end of the XVII century, the Marliani's, probably Luigi himself or his son, built a big villa on the northern portion of the hill of Vescogna.
The cartography of the land registry in 1721 shows the ultimate "U-shape" of the villa facing the south-west (Sartirana Briantea). The area south-west was built by including and transforming pre-existing buildings; a courtyard was also created together with other buildings serving for rural aims. A new central portion of the house was constructed as well, including dreds, a cellar on the main front, a big gate was created and on both side of it, there were two spiral staircases taking upstairs. on the side wings of the main courtyard, two porches with columns were also built up.
At the end of the XVIII century, the count Luigi Marliani (1736-?) found himself covered by debts and he was forced to give away his properties in Masnago in the territory of Varese and Calco. These properties were "holdings with rural houses and a big noble house with a courtyard with garden, croft and nets for catching birds, for total amount to 788 perches".
The whole property was sold during an austion in 1804 to Andrea Cavalli Lanfredi, an inhabitant of the city of Milan. From that time on, there was a period of continuous divisions and hand overs until it became mostly possession of Don Andrea Forti, priest of Arlate, between 1821 and 1826.


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10 players get scholarships at 8-man banquet
By Jim EllisThe News-Record
Ten players received scholarships during Friday night's annual awards banquet held in conjunction with the Oklahoma Eight-Man Football Coaches Association all-star game.
The 10 equals the most awarded since the game moved to Miami in 2003.
"We used to give away two when we were in Alva,� OEMFCA executive director David Zachary said during the banquet, held at Mount Olive Lutheran Church. "Tonight, we're giving away 10 $1,000 scholarships. That is fantastic.�
Touchstone Energy and Oklahoma Farm Bureau have been the game's two primary sponsors since it's shift here.
Recipients of the Touchstone Energy scholarships were Rodnie Wickham of Weleetka and Zac Thompson of Ringwood.
Wilson Nease of Marlow and Mark Frieouf of Pond Creek-Hunter were the recipients of the scholarships from Oklahoma Farm Bureau.
Twins Brian and Brett Wilson of Burns Flat-Dill City received the Alert Services Student-Athlete Scholarships, presented by longtime Oklahoma high school football supporter Sam Aguilar.
Kevin Mills of Alex and Morrison's Dustin Sloan won the Dr. Anthony Kruse Southwest Orthopedics scholarships.
The OEMFCA scholarship was presented to Ryan's Heath Morrison.
Dusty McClure of Morrison picked up a full one-year tuition scholarship from Northeastern A&M.
Morrison's Josh Day was the Class B defensive player of the year while Brian Wilson was the offensive player of the year in Class B.
Temple's Darell Holden was honored as the top offensive player and Heath Morrison of Ryan was the defensive player of the year in Class C.
Cory Bales, who guided Morrison to a second Class B championship in three years and its 12th overall, was saluted as the Class B coach of the year.
Brad Spurlock of Temple, which finished as runner-up to four-time defending champ Shattuck, was Class C's top coach.
The OEMFCA added a new award this year: assistant of the year.
Bill Butler of Fox and Mike Kaiser of Covington-Douglas were the honorees in Classes B and C, respectively.
Oklahoma State University assistant coach Gunter Brewer was the guest speaker.
He was accompanied by former Northeastern A&M head football coach Dale Patterson, who is now assistant director of football operations at OSU.


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Williams prepared for opportunities
Sherman'The Tank'Williams, in town over the weekend as a guest of the Pan American Caribbean Boxing Organization(PACBO), admitted that initially he was disappointed with the controversial no-contest ruling by referee Dave Johnson after he had knocked Evander Holyfield around the ring for three rounds.
When Holyfield refused to come out for the fourth round and his corner claimed that the slight cut at the corner of his left eye was bothering him, the referee made his ruling. Williams has moved on though.
"When I saw that I was not going to get the victory I deserved, I moved on. Whatever the World Boxing Federation(WBF)does, I will go ahead with my career. If the ruling is favorable, fine…but if it is not I have options.
"Roy Jones calls just about every day. James Toney wants a piece of me now. I will just move ahead with fights. Some solid names in the game are interested in fighting me,"said Williams.
He has the right attitude. Williams has to, however, sit with his manager and advisors and make the right decision. The WBF, although not vacating the title, has named Williams as the mandatory opponent in the final elimination bout for the Interim title.
If Williams follow the WBF plan true to form, he will bide his time, network with prospective partners in The Bahamas and prepare for a huge sports/tourism boxing bonanza in either May or June right here. Brazilian Raphael Zumbano and South African Francois Botha have been slotted in an elimination fight, the winner to meet Williams in The Bahamas.
This is a good time for Williams. He has never been in a better situation. At 38, he has been fighting for 14 years and sports a 34-11-2-1(win-loss-draw-no contest)record.
Zumbano, at 30 and standing 6'5″, has won 28 fights and lost four. He is presently on a 12-match win streak. He is expected to be a very tough opponent for Botha. On the other hand, the South African is a noted veteran who has been in the ring with the best while compiling a 47-5-3 record.
Just last April, he was stopped by Holyfield for the WBF title. He has not fought since. His other defeats came against champions Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson and Michael Moorer.
Botha is 42, the same age as Toney and Roy Jones. So, there is this cavalry of seasoned fighters out there and Williams is the key figure in the group. The Grand Bahamian has come from afar.
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Please note that the amounts reported here may not precisely match current superintendent earnings, but is based on the latest information the district has made available to the public. Additionally, many pension contributions have been estimated based on a standard MPSERS employer contribution rate.
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Ishan Kishan 99 ~ Ever heard of a Cricketer who bowled 115 mph and whacked over 130 yards !!!
IPL is all about opportunities – Ishan Pranav Kumar Pandey Kishan, what an innings he played yesterday ! Ever imagined a bowler delivering 115 mph and whacking ball for 130 yards !!!!
A day after IPL 2020 delivered an incredible thriller with the highest ever successful chase, the Mumbai Indians and the Royal Challengers Bangalore went one better. They were still behind even when Kieron Pollard smacked Adam Zampa and Yuzvendra Chahal for an imagination-defying 49 runs in two overs during his unbeaten 60 off 24 balls. At the other end was Ishan Kishan - back in the XI due to a Saurabh Tiwary niggle – played an innings of life - out for 99 to make it five needed off the last ball. Pollard hit a four, to bring the match to a Super Over.
Today, when teams have AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock, Jos Butler, Pooran, John Bairstow, MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik Wriddhiman Saha, Rishab Pant, KL Rahul keeping, there is still place for the likes of Josh Philippe, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan and others to play !! .. .. ..
I grew up watching Farokh Engineer, (heard of P Krishnamurthi) – when he settled elsewhere, Syed Kirmani came and dominated for a decade or more – though Barath Reddy, Surinder Khanna, Sadanand Viswanath got few chances – it was a settled team with Kiri behind – Kiran More too was stable, and then Nayan Mongia. Later there were many who played - Sabha Karim, Vijay Yadav, MSK Prasad, Vijay Dahiya, Sameer Dighe, Deep Dasgupta, Ajay Ratra, Parthiv Patel, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Wriddhiman Saha, Naman Ojha, Rishab Pant. MSD was a saga .. .. the point is it is tough breaking into a side.
Moving away from IPL and India, have read the neighbouring Paki always is embroiled in controversies. Former Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Khalid Mahmood, while criticising incumbent PCB set-up, says that by not fully implementing the new constitution despite passage of one-year the body has made a mockery of law and the system. In an exclusive interview with Dawn, Khalid said what was going on in PCB's affairs was amazing noting the cricket infrastructure at the grassroots level had been destroyed because of non-existent provincial associations, city associations and after abolishment of departmental cricket.
I have seen Imran Khan, Sarfraz Nawaz, Sikhandhar Bakht, Azeem Hafeez, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Aaqib Javed, .. .. have never head of Farooq Hamid. Read this in Dawn - Former fast bowler Farooq Hamid, an unsung hero of Pakistan cricket history, on Saturday said he left cricket in 1969 at the age of 25 in utter disappointment due to dirty politics which continue to plague Pakistan cricket.
Farooq, who could play just one Test match against Australia, and claimed the only wicket of Ian Chappell in 1964 in Melbourne, in an exclusive interview to Dawn said: "All my colleagues know what sort of treatment I was meted out from my captains, topping that list is great Hanif Mohammad — may God bless his soul — and his brother Wazir Mohammad, who made sure I never played international cricket after the tour to Australia.
"When I took seven wickets for 16 runs against Wellington in a match (on the New Zealand tour), they were dismissed for 53 runs in just ten overs." recalled Farooq, whose nickname was Tooty. "However, everyone was surprised to see that I was not in the Pakistan team for the Test match that was played at the same venue after a couple of days. And neither was I included for the other two Tests played against New Zealand in that series," he said. "In 1963 when I was part of the Pakistan Eaglets team touring England, I had taken five wickets in three overs but my captain Wazir Mohammad did not give me the ball for further bowling against Lancashire at the old Trafford ground," said Farooq. "Later, Secretary MCC Mr. Howard told my manager that, "today Farooq bowled a yard quicker than Truman at his best."
"This and much more of the same treatment disheartened and demoralised me so much that I decided to quit cricket at the young age of just 25," he said. Farooq added that his bouncers during his peak cricketing days were ferocious and quite unplayable that unnerved a lot of fine batsmen. "Wazir, while facing me in a trophy match, was hit right on the mouth by my bouncer and four of his teeth were broken and his lip got ten stitches. "Hanif, while facing me in 1969 final in Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, was bowled with an out swinging yorker on the very third ball he faced. Many international cricket personalities such as great Sir Don Bradman besides or own Imtiaz Ahmed, Zaheer Abbas and others considered me as the fastest bowler, even faster than Charlie Griffith of the West Indies," he said.
"Many leading cricketers were scared of my bouncers, but former Test batsman Mohammad Ilyas is one of those who could face my bouncers with better technique. Ilyas also proved a better hooker against Griffith, who toured Pakistan in 1963 with the Commonwealth team " he recalled. "On that tour, great batsman Rohan Kanhai was floored by my lethal bouncer. Later, the commentators said that I was much quicker than Griffith. I must have been bowling at around 110-115 miles per hour I think," he said.
Asked if his aggressive attitude was one of the reasons behind his short international career, Farooq replied: "Every fast bowler should be aggressive , it was the job of the team management to handle fast bowlers carefully. "Yes, the same politics is going on and harming our cricket. But we are lucky now that we have legendary all-rounder Imran Khan as Prime Minister and hopefully cricket will improve under him," observed Farooq. "However, if Imran Khan fails to correct the system then only God can save our cricket." Farooq disclosed that he also coached Sarfraz Nawaz in the early stage of his career and later they both played domestic cricket together.
During his early days, Farooq also earned a name as an International athlete, winning gold and silver medals in Pakistan National Games from 1961-1970 and his total points in decathlon were 6700 in National Games when the Asian champion in then Asian Games could muster 6300 points. As a batsman too, Farooq could do a fair job when in form. He said that he might be the only cricketer who hit maximum big sixes in Sydney and at the Gaddafi Stadium. "My six at the Sydney cricket ground went out of the stadium over the ladies pavilion into the car park. Approximately over 130 yards," he said. The Australian newspaper termed him 'Farooq The king hitter of the world'. The one at Gaddafi Stadium landed on top of the stairs of the stadium.
Farooq also suggested the PCB should make amendments in its pension package for the old cricketers. "I want to suggest that PCB follow the policy of the Defence Forces, where after the age of 72 the pension is doubled automatically," he said. He added that very few cricketers are living to 70-plus age, so their pension should be more than doubled," he said. Farooq's sister Tahira Hamid also helped Pakistan in setting up the Women cricket association in 1978 and she was the first secretary of the association.
Reading the article published in Dawn this week, it does appear that this man was immensely talented but was given a raw deal – sad, politics in sports have kept people out !!
PS: news on Farooq - reproduced from the Dawn.
Posted by Srinivasan Sampathkumar at Thursday, October 01, 2020
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Posted on 11th October 2019 20th April 2020 by Virtual Recluse
More crimes against literature and books we just love to hate.
Powerful, magical and utterly romantic, On the Other Side will transport you to a world that is impossible to forget, and it will have you weeping from the sheer joy and beauty of it all.
I must start by saying that I feel partly awful for writing this, especially since I didn't even buy the book and therefore I can't personally claim that I have wasted my own money on it. It was, instead, left behind at my house by my visiting sister-in-law, who read it and obviously decided that it wasn't worth the valuable space in her luggage on the return journey.
Well, you know me. I love books, I am an avid reader and even though 'romance' is most definitely not my usual genre of reading material, there is something endearing, almost tantalising about reading a 'free' book, especially one so causally disregarded. I felt rather sorry for it.
So, I picked it up and studied the embossed cover, tracing over it with my fingertips, admiring it's simplicity, I read with interest the glowing reviews and the praise on the inside of the cover from various other authors, none that I recognised, but like I said romance is not really my usual category. I read the introductory blurb on the back and then dived headfirst into the story, giving it my absolute full and undivided attention for fourteen hours.
Let me start by introducing you to some of the characters:
Mr Autumn
Evie Snow, her brother Eddie and her parents Mr and Mrs Snow
Mr and Mrs Summer and their son James
Vincent Winters
August Summer and his wife Daphne
Isla Summer
Clementine Frost
There could even be additional 'seasonal' related surnames that I have momentarily forgotten but I feel that I've given you the general idea. I have to admit that just a few short chapters into the story and not having really enjoyed what I had read so far, in my desire to ensure that the book was read as quickly and as painlessly as possible, I did rather rattle through it, turning each page with not so much a breathy and wistful sigh, but an irritable and impatient 'tut' as I more than occasionally flicked to the final page, number 402, and mentally calculated how many more pages I needed to endure.
The book, as you have by now established, is littered with generic, unimaginative and frankly unbelievable character names that at the introduction of each seasonal related character name, completely undermine any possible realistic character development as from the outset they are figures that simply cannot be taken seriously, a bit like Mr Greedy, Mr Muddle, Mr Nosey or Mr Forgetful!
Or, even worse, the more appropriately romantically pun intended: Mr Perfect, Mr Wrong, and Mr Daydream.
I had to keep referring to the front cover of the book, the praise on the inside cover and the seemingly serious write up on the back to make sure that I hadn't picked up a children's book by mistake.
Is this perhaps teen-fiction I wonder?
Surely, this material can't be aimed at intelligent, articulate adults?
Timeline: quite frankly there is none and whilst this might have been achieved relatively intriguingly and expertly by a more experienced and adept writer, in this scenario it amply gives the resounding impression of someone who simply couldn't be bothered to make the effort to keep things within their relative time period or properly research it or even give a second thought to the jumbled confusion of timelines they are offering up in their storyline, though much blame has to be directed at the editor and publisher for this enormous omission.
For instance (sorry, unavoidable spoilers from hereon in):
Evie Snow dies peacefully at the age of eighty-two, the story quickly returns us to a much earlier period when she was twenty-seven and lived in her 'happy place', an apartment on the eighth floor (what country, what city, what era? we have zero idea).
You could be forgiven for thinking that this may be sometime in the 1930's, 40's or 50's given her age at death and some of the nostalgic descriptions of 'carpet bag shoes', panelled corridors and polished wooden doors, but her meeting of Vincent Winters at an underground station as a busker, their fast food date of takeout burgers and chips, a casual reference to him being bisexual and wearing black skinny jeans would suggest otherwise. I realise that at this point it doesn't wholly rule out an earlier timeline but there are two conclusive references to mobile phones in the twenty-seven year old Evie timeline. The first is in reference to a sleazy colleague of hers working his way through the female office staff as his sexual conquests and saving these young ladies in his 'contacts list' with contemptible nicknames that would flash up on his phone when it buzzed on his desk at which he would invariably press 'decline' to the call. The second is when her brother Eddie calls her at three-am one night whilst she is in her beloved apartment, there is a knock at her door, she opens it and there is Eddie, with his phone pressed to his cheek! At the very least it would have to be mid 1980's but since mobile phones were still not advanced or particularly common even then, it is likely that it is probably just set at the time in which it was written in 2016.
Yet this is meant to be at a time that Evie was aged just twenty-seven and therefore this in turn would suggest that the eighty-two year old Evie Snow is from the year 2071, fifty-five years into the future, though this too is startlingly at odds with the various descriptions, particularly as events, objects and people become more dated and are seemingly from periods in the past rather than in the future. It's very whimsy and twee in places and also conversely modern in others, but nevertheless, the story rushes on regardless that we haven't been told where or when it is, which far from allowing the reader the richness of their full imagination, it limits the development of the story and makes it feel devoid of any real depth or detail.
However, as lazy as the lack of any specifics regards to era felt, I did try not to dwell too much on the completely nonsensical timeline for it is not the most irksome area of this book where the reader is required to utterly suspend belief and any sense of reality.
It continues as a somewhat generic romance with one dimensional characters with ridiculous names, a story about a girl expected to marry the very handsome and wealthy son of her wealthy parents closest friends and business partners, the Summers. James Summer (her betrothed) is in fact her very best friend, kind, thoughtful and desperately in love with Evie even though he knows his love is wholly unrequited.
At this point, we are supposed to feel endearingly sorry for poor Evie, that she doesn't want to marry her drop-dead-gorgeous, utterly sought after, best friend James and have a perfectly easy life ahead of her without a financial care in the world, a world in which I assume she could pursue any kind of career that she wished to, especially with the love, support and financial security of a husband who absolutely adores her and would do anything to make her happy. Would this really be such a terrible existence, in the absence of none other?
Instead, like so many silver-spooned progenies, she wants to move to the 'city' and play at being poor (but happy, naturally!) and revel in her new found freedom, with an aim to becoming an animation artist for motion pictures and as a result, work with a gamut of misogynist creeps.
It is on this temporary adventure that she secures a low-rung job with a newspaper as their artist/cartoonist and ultimately meets poor, struggling, world-class-talented-but-not-formally-educated Vincent Winters who is 'obviously' dashingly handsome but not in the same perfectly formed and impeccably groomed way that James is, but in that slightly unconventional way that all ill-advised but utterly irresistible romantic leads are, groan!
Yada, yada, yada, more generic dirge of a million badly cobbled together romance novels, plus perhaps the insertion of a few very personal romantic experiences of the author given the level of detail surrounding some very specific events; namely boiled sweets and sweet wrappers.
Vincent and Evie are instantly smitten but the love-struck young pair are struggling against the might and demands of Evie's emotionally devoid mother, Eleanor Snow, who's character appears to have been fashioned on the eternally wicked Stepmother from Snow White or a number of other children's fairy tales. She is solely depicted as a rather stereotypical cruel, cold, calculating and heartless character.
This really is very puerile. A rehash of so many 'little girl' stories, fantasies and fables it's difficult to know what parts of it are genuinely original.
Some of the absolute worst bits:
When Evie & Vincent fall out, as they invariably do given their terribly 'difficult' against-all-odds predicament, they take to sending each other apologies and love notes on…..wait for it…..the wings of a white dove.
This little white dove, called Little One, seems incredibly docile and obedient, flapping off between Vincent's flat and Evie's apartment to carry their messages scrawled all over it's lovely white plumage in black ink. I mean really? This is not metaphoric either, this is literal. The bird is later described as now resembling a Blackbird, so covered in ink it has become, from their incessant scribbling to each other.
I would have thought that the very idea of physically restraining a living creature so that you could graffiti it, would have been rather monstrous to most but the author obviously finds this to be a fantastically romantic gesture. So, much more whimsical, dramatic and flouncy than just using the mobile phones that were clearly and evidently available.
This symbolic nonsense, however, is sadly not limited to this one situation, there is a point at which her numerous drawings and sketches pinned up around her apartment (remember she is an aspiring animation artist) all turn to glass and splinter and fracture into a million shards when the life she desperately wants has to be forfeited instead for the life she feels she is duty bound to lead. I thought this was the 'metaphorical' shattering of her heart or life as she knew it, even when I read that she and James swept up all the glass fragments with a broom and hid them in a box under the floorboards in Evie's apartment, firmly closing the chapter on her life with Vincent. That was until later in the story, when from beyond the grave Evie wills her daughter to visit the now empty apartment from fifty five years before to retrieve 'the box' and what her daughter recovers is an 'actual box of broken glass' instead of a box of dusty old drawings. I'm sure we could all have understood these themes far better if they had remained metaphorical instead of the author glibly describing them to us as some strange, jarring and frankly impossible reality.
Sadly these are still not the most dire or ridiculous of themes.
I'm saving those!
So, to cut a long (and incredibly dreadful) story short. Evie agrees to leave behind her life in the city and say goodbye to Vincent and also to marry James due to (in my opinion) a completely unnecessary requirement for her to look after her able-bodied, able-minded, adult brother simply because he wants to come out as being gay and will thus have to leave the cold, unloving and unforgiving Snow residence. For this reason and this reason alone, Evie commits to a lifelong marriage to James. They buy a house by the sea, have two children, fa-la-la-la-la and poor, perfect, doting James who has done absolutely nothing wrong, spends fifty-four years married to a woman, knowing that she doesn't genuinely love him back and was never entirely happy, whilst Evie lives amongst the adoration of her brother and her husband for being such a true martyr.
I believe there are some contrived attempts at suspense, when the early introductions of the son, August, spell out to us all too obviously, that he too is very musically gifted, playing both the violin and the piano (we learn this on page 177 in the chapter called 'August') I presume this is provide to the reader the possibility that perhaps Vincent is the father, to keep us in anticipation, wondering who it was that Evie finally married, was it James Summer, was it Vincent Winters?
Oooooh, if only I could give even half a crap!
Perhaps we were even to continue to consider the possibility that the son was Vincent's, long after it was confirmed to us on page 259 that Jim (James Summer) was indeed Evie's husband and also 'Dad' to August and Isla. Though with August arriving two years after their marriage, I daresay it was not the implicit intention of the author to taint Saint Evie with any suggestion that something untoward had occurred.
In fact, the romance is all rather chaste, no steamy sex scenes, very moderate language, so the more I think about it, the more I wonder if this is indeed teen-fiction masquerading as a more mature novel.
Oh well, I've started now and I'm just getting to a bit that thoroughly annoyed me, though there were indeed many infuriating parts, so I'm jolly well going to continue in my 'appraisal' and if it ends up that as a forty-seven year old woman, I am trashing a teen-romance novel, then perhaps somebody in the industry will have the future sense to put 'age appropriate' suggestions on the front covers of teen-fiction so that intelligent adults, like myself, don't inadvertently end up reading this drivel .
Where was I? Oh, yes, one of the biggest eye rolls of them all…..
It is now the day of the actual wedding and I have by this point assessed Evie to be a rather selfish, shallow and somewhat inane creature, despite the authors various attempts to paint her as quite the opposite.
As such on her wedding day and just minutes before the wedding ceremony that has naturally been lavishly organised by the rather severe and icy Mrs Snow, Evie relays a message, via her brother Eddie, to James to delay the proceedings for fifteen minutes and whilst she does not give her reasons for doing so, he dutifully obeys.
In the meantime she skips off to attend to this rather last minute issue. Knowing that she cannot give her heart to Vincent but also that she truly can't give it to James (despite that he is adorable and her best friend and they are about to get married which she fully agreed to, and that she hasn't even considered for one moment that a true and deep love might grow where purely friendship once existed) she…..wait for it….sneaks off to the garden in her family home, dressed in her full, enormous, white Cinderella wedding dress, veil, bridal shoes the whole attire, digs a hole in the cold, icy, November/December soil with the help of nothing more than a twig from the hedge…… opens her ribcage…….yes you read that correctly……. retrieves her shiny red beating heart and buries it in the garden, telling her heart/herself that if she cannot give it to the man that she truly loves, then she will give it to no-one.
Wow!.
Just take a moment there……
I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a vampire/zombie-bride/Romeo and Juliet suicide-pact story as much as the next person but again, could this not have remained metaphorical?
The logistics of it are just far too implausible and the stickler/neat-freak in me is genuinely having the hardest time trying to imagine doing all of this in a great big, full-skirted wedding dress. I found it difficult enough just pulling my own knickers down to go for a wee whilst dressed in my very own wedding meringue and had to eventually enlist the help of my best friend!
So now, at this point, where I presume we should all be marvelling at how wonderful and romantic and symbolic this was, I'm just sat thinking "well, how does THAT work?" Never mind the pints and pints of blood or the fact that she should, by rights, have dropped down dead, I'm worried about the grass stains on her wedding shoes, whether her hair is in a right old mess after all that running and digging and pulling out out of hearts and has she been a dope and absent-mindedly wiped her hands down her dress and got mud and blood and rankness all over it?
But, No! Remarkably, none of the above. At this stage, without a beating heart in her body and despite her badly timed and inappropriately attired gardening escapades and self-conducted open heart surgery seemingly having had no ill effects on her full wedding regalia she simply, purposefully strides back to the 'wedding' venue and promptly marries the ever grateful, ever thoughtful, ever patient and ever understanding James.
Which leaves me to draw the quite obvious conclusion, that far from being wonderfully kind, she is indeed utterly heartless.
I realise that I could have simply stopped reading but at this point I was already at page 324, with only another 78 pages to go.
Might as well finish it, surely it can't get any worse!
Realistically, I could go on and on and on about how trite, clichéd, banal and ludicrous the numerous other elements of this story are but it really does have to be read in it's entirety to fully appreciate just how compellingly awful this book is.
I won't even start on 'The Wall' or 'The Good Tree'. I'll leave those preposterous 'gems' for you to discover for yourselves, because quite frankly, just like the author in so many cases, I simply can't be bothered to describe them adequately to you; I'll merely suggest them with the briefest of introductions and instead you can use your imagination to fill in the gargantuan blanks and if that fails, you can simply call on some well know fairy tale predictability to see you through.
I'm sure the author, in her clear excess of enthusiasm for her own capability and talent, thought she was doing a marvellous job of creating these wonderfully exuberant characters for us to champion and her attempts at being all inclusive, with a bi-sexual lover, a gay brother and a hastily penned pansexual character that is suddenly dropped in there as a crowd pleaser; Isla, the 'Snow residence' housekeeper, is somewhat forcibly injected into the story in what feels like the minimalist detail possible, as the then confidante of a sixteen year old Evie, yet another timeline oddity that rankles any natural flow of this clumsy story and my feelings are that it is purely to adopt the pansexual identity. I thought it all smacked rather too much of desperation of the author attempting to gratify her current extensive fan base as a thoroughly modern YouTube personality and celebrity.
Personally I thoroughly disliked Evie, I couldn't find one redeeming quality about her and she is farthest from the idea of the virtuous and aspirational heroine that I think the author was desperately trying to promote to the reader. At the time of her death, her 'children' in the book are aged fifty-two and forty-seven but behave in the most juvenile way, there is a good deal of tongue poking at each other and chasing each other around the family home, as they share various disagreements whilst they decide how best to fathom the normally difficult situation of handling dear recently departed mothers possessions and supporting their bereft father in the process. It makes them come across as total imbeciles and no amount of the author detailing their various attributes, talents and achievements can take away from the feeling that they were originally penned as 'children' despite being introduced to the story at the point of being middle aged adults!
It's genuinely difficult to feel anything for Vincent since aside his immense implied skills as a violinist, his penchant for orange flavoured boiled sweets and his dishevelled but utterly adorable (apparently) good looks, he is a very one dimensional character who was completely forgettable until, that is, that he predictably pops back up at the very end of the story, right on cue…ta da! The only character I felt a modicum of empathy and warmth for was the besotted and loyal husband James and she barely paid him any attention or details in the story, except to say they remained married for fifty-four years.
He was most definitely only ever the supporting cast in every way imaginable, popping up conveniently to do a chivalrous deed or to bolster her ego and finally to lament her passing in the most idolising fashion.
I realise that the author is still quite young, twenty-six in fact and just twenty-three at the time of writing this novel, Maybe a number of elements of the younger Evie are modelled on the author herself, perhaps the dashing and dishevelled Vincent is based on a real life partner and possibly the older Evie is modelled on the authors Grandmother or another such homely figure?
That would certainly answer the glaring question as to why there are so many problems in the timeline and the fact that the younger Evie and her beau of choice seem far more current than the Evie and the subsequent characters of fifty-five years later!
I realise that for some fictional writers, it can be very difficult to write about things that they have not personally experienced which can be problematic when attempting to create the necessary details and depth to a story. I'm obviously not talking about having personally experienced removing ones heart and burying it in a garden or dying at the age of eighty-two.
Having a vivid imagination can truly be a wonderful thing (as J.K.Rowling has richly and adeptly demonstrated) but the ability to tell a story and make it both vivid but also relatable to the reader requires more than just imagination and sadly these rather vital and very necessary other elements were severely lacking in this attempt at a fictional novel.
I was simply left feeling that this book was incredibly immature, intensely shallow, considerably vain on the part of the author and extremely poorly written and was certainly not the great romantic or magical fiction it is dubbed to be.
"Spellbinding" More like completely absurd.
"A magical treat" Yes, if you liken it to the poisoned apple in Snow White.
"A heartwarming love story laced with magical realism" I'm really not sure what opiates you would need to be indulging in, to coin this as "magical realism".
In short, and I don't feel that I have particularly disguised my feelings up to this point, I intensely disliked this novel. For me, it is by far, the worst book I have read. In fact, if a dog were to be left, unmonitored in the reading corner of a public library and decided to idly chew up a random selection of mediocre romance novels before retching and heaving and ultimately throwing up the contents of it's stomach, it could quite probably and purely by accident, present a more articulate intelligible and likeable piece of reading than 'On the Other Side'.
I have, however, created a handful of potential new readers who are now vying to read it purely on the basis of my less than flowery review and observations, though clearly this is not an edict.
Just one woman's humble opinion.
I daresay, my now 'personalised' copy will be on permanent loan to a host of avid readers for the foreseeable future.
I would, however, still like to thoroughly congratulate Carrie Hope Fletcher on churning out a novel of rather inept proportions yet still managing to achieve a 'number one best seller'. It really is an extraordinary achievement and it seems she is quite the successful entrepreneur and celebrity. Nevertheless, I can't help feeling that there are many more literary creations far more deserving of publication and accolade.
Evie Snow: "No, I won't be hopeless. I am full of hope. I'm a Hopeful"
Carrie Hope Fletcher, On The Other Side
If I had to live on a literary diet of low-calorie, zero-carb crap like this and by that I mean 'no real substance to it', I for one would not be 'hopeful'.
Maybe I've found my new forté.
I could become the Nina Myskow of book reviewers.
Instead of "The Bitch on the box", I could be the "The Bitch on the books"
Please note that all of the above are merely my opinions, they are not facts, they are not excerpts of the original works, there are no libelous intentions or suggestions of plagiarism where I have drawn parallels with other works of fiction and my observations are all entirely without prejudice.
Reminder: Powerful, magical and utterly romantic, On the Other Side will transport you to a world that is impossible to forget, and it will have you weeping from the sheer joy and beauty of it all.
It will certainly be a long time before I forget On the Other Side but I was far from weeping from the joy and beauty of it all, I was merely rejoicing the fact that it was finished.
The only 'magical' thing about this book for me, is that it somehow managed to compel me keep reading it, long after I desperately wanted to stop.
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In early September, 1914, E 3 had the temeritous good fortune to manage to capture a German seaplane and her two crewmen when she surfaced alongside the surprised airmen after they'd landed their plane. However, on 18 October, luck abandoned her when she was stalked while participating in the Western Ems patrol by U 27, which had cleverly positioned herself up-sun to close to 800 yards before firing. E 3 sank rapidly and the German submarine did not stop to pick up survivors.
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