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Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling
Fidan Seker, Ahmet Cingoz, İlknur Sur-Erdem, Nazli Erguder, Alp Erkent, Fırat Uyulur, Myvizhi Esai Selvan, Zeynep Hülya Gümüş, Mehmet Gönen, Halil Bayraktar, Hiroaki Wakimoto, Tugba Bagci-Onder
High mortality rates of glioblastoma (GBM) patients are partly attributed to the invasive behavior of tumor cells that exhibit extensive infiltration into adjacent brain tissue, leading to rapid, inevitable, and therapy-resistant recurrence. In this study, we analyzed transcriptome of motile (dispersive) and non-motile (core) GBM cells using an in vitro spheroid dispersal model and identified SERPINE1 as a modulator of GBM cell dispersal. Genetic or pharmacological inhibition of SERPINE1 reduced spheroid dispersal and cell adhesion by regulating cell-substrate adhesion. We examined TGFβ as a potential upstream regulator of SERPINE1 expression. We also assessed the significance of SERPINE1 in GBM growth and invasion using TCGA glioma datasets and a patient-derived orthotopic GBM model. SERPINE1 expression was associated with poor prognosis and mesenchymal GBM in patients. SERPINE1 knock-down in primary GBM cells suppressed tumor growth and invasiveness in the brain. Together, our results indicate that SERPINE1 is a key player in GBM dispersal and provide insights for future anti-invasive therapy design.
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Seker, F., Cingoz, A., Sur-Erdem, İ., Erguder, N., Erkent, A., Uyulur, F., Selvan, M. E., Gümüş, Z. H., Gönen, M., Bayraktar, H., Wakimoto, H., & Bagci-Onder, T. (2019). Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling. Cancers, 11(11), [1651]. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11111651
Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling. / Seker, Fidan; Cingoz, Ahmet; Sur-Erdem, İlknur et al.
In: Cancers, Vol. 11, No. 11, 1651, 11.2019.
Seker, F, Cingoz, A, Sur-Erdem, İ, Erguder, N, Erkent, A, Uyulur, F, Selvan, ME, Gümüş, ZH, Gönen, M, Bayraktar, H, Wakimoto, H & Bagci-Onder, T 2019, 'Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling', Cancers, vol. 11, no. 11, 1651. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers11111651
Seker F, Cingoz A, Sur-Erdem İ, Erguder N, Erkent A, Uyulur F et al. Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling. Cancers. 2019 Nov;11(11):1651. doi: 10.3390/cancers11111651
Seker, Fidan ; Cingoz, Ahmet ; Sur-Erdem, İlknur et al. / Identification of SERPINE1 as a regulator of glioblastoma cell dispersal with transcriptome profiling. In: Cancers. 2019 ; Vol. 11, No. 11.
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By Pam Chamberlain, submitted 2011
When Lacey Schnitzler graduated from Augustana with a major in business economics, she never imagined she'd end up writing fantasy novels.
Lacey (née Cadieux) graduated in 2005 from the Bachelor of Management program. She followed that with a certificate in project management from Mount Royal College. Her first job was as a business development coordinator with Calgary-based M-Tech Information Technology. She quickly moved up to project coordinator and then project manager in a group responsible for implementing identity management systems. Lacey's role was to coordinate the scope, time, and cost of the project.
In 2007, Lacey became a self-employed project coordinator and worked on a contract for the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA). She was awarded Most Valuable Project Coordinator for her work on the Enterprise Solutions Initiative, which focussed on implementing new UFA offerings for agricultural producers.
Lacey says her work in project management was rewarding: "I enjoyed working with a team of professionals who were committed to seeing a project through from beginning to end. Mitigating challenges, big or small, within a set budget and timeline made the successful completion of an individual project rewarding."
In 2008, Lacey and her husband, Ryan Schnitzler (BA, '05) (a junior negotiating landman for ConocoPhillips), had a baby girl named Shea. This life-changing experience inspired Lacey to shift gears, and now she stays home to care for her daughter. This has allowed her to explore another passion: writing. In the past two years, she's completed two manuscripts for young adult fantasy novels.
Lacey was drawn to the fantasy genre because she loves fairy tales. Her stories are inspired by The Princess Bride, Bridge to Terabithia, and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. She didn't take creative writing courses in university; however, she explains, "The creative flame was lit in my first-year English literature course when I was introduced to Jane Austen, who is now my favourite author. Her work helped me develop an appreciation for the craft of writing and inspired me to write."
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Reigns, a second-generation wrestler whose real name is Joe Ano'ai, on the latest episode of Talk Is Jericho. Reigns said he and Corey Graves came up with the name together back when WWE was using Florida Championship Wrestling as its developmental home.
"I knew I wanted Roman," Reigns recalled. "I liked Roman. I wanted Roman only and they were like, 'No, you need a last name'. And there's actually another guy in FCW by the name of Calvin Raines. He spelled it like 'rain', like a 'raindrop'. And they, I believe, released him and sorry, brother. He's a good man, a real nice brother. Sorry. Roman Raines sounded good to me, so they were like, 'Alright, give me four or five different names.' "
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In several of the first matches, the Colonials came out hot but faltered in the latter phases of the sets.
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Bernson said the team has focused on bolstering their offense throughout the sets by practicing serves, middle transitions and passes. She said they have improved their sign-off percentage, holding more points during transitions than last season.
In several of the first matches, the Colonials came out hot but faltered in the latter phases of the sets. The squad has struggled on the receiving end of serves thus far, resulting in 34 reception errors. Bernson said the team needs to improve how they deal with nerves and pressure so they don't deviate from the game plan and allow their formation to get tight.
"So we've been really talking a lot this week about over-communicating during those times and try to avoid going into yourself when you feel that stress," Bernson said. "So that you can work on your execution, whether that's the service patterns or the swings where you attack."
Senior middle blocker Melody Williams said the team is looking to score more points in transition and to create a bigger presence around the net. She leads the team with 15 blocks on the season. Regardless of the losses, Williams said the team is keeping their expectations high.
"I think we've all been really determined to show our A-10 conference and all of our opponents that last season wasn't us, that we're a much better team," Williams said. "So I think our work ethic in the gym has picked up greatly, and so has our communication."
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Freshman outside hitter Salem Yohannes also racked up a season-high 18 kills and 13 digs against the Eagles. She currently ranks first among the team with 53 kills, striking at a .160 clip in the first five games of the season. LaBeck said Yohannes has been a great fit with the team and she has been impressed with her play despite her youth.
"She's very composed on the court," LaBeck said. "And she has a lot of experience, which shows me her volleyball IQ, she's able to hit shots that even experienced players aren't able to hit."
Bernson echoed LaBeck's sentiment and said she expects Yohannes to improve over the season and utilize her in a variety of sets as she becomes more accustomed to the team and the collegiate level of play.
"I think she's just going to continue to get better and better, she adapted very quickly to learn the whole system of offense," Bernson said. "Not just learning how an outside hitter moves within our gym, but then how an outside hitter moves within the system of a play."
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"Considering all of those complications that could have derailed a team, we were still able to persevere and play well," Bernon said. "We had some really great moments, so I think our mental toughness this year is much better than last year, and I think it's exciting to watch."
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Q: Scala function that returns an anonymous object? I want to do some funky closure-like stuff.  I want a method to return an anonymous object whose guts make reference to the parameters of the method.  Here is the code that I wrote that illustrates my intent:
object SessionManagement {

  implicit class SessionManagementExtensions( val c : ChainBuilder ) {

    def set( dest: String ) = object {

      def from( src: String ) =
        c.exec( session => {
          val list = session( src ).as[Vector[String]]
          val i = if ( list.size == 0 ) -1 else Random.nextInt( list.size )
          val value = if ( i > 0 ) list(i) else "INVALID_" + dest
          session.set( dest, value )
        })

      def to[T]( v: Expression[T] ) =
        c.exec( session => session.set( dest, v ) )

    }

}

What I'm TRYING to do is have a call to "set" return an object that allows me to then chain together a call to ".to", like so:
.set( SOMETHING ).to( OTHER )

But I can't say
def foo = object { ... }

Is there a way in Scala to get what I am after?  Do I have to define a class and instantiate it?

A: You can simply return a new anonymous object. Your syntax was almost right: just replace object by new:
def set( dest: String ) = new {
  def from( src: String ) =
    ...

  def to[T]( v: Expression[T] ) =
    ...
}

However, this will give a structural type at call site, which will have to use reflection to use the methods. To prevent this, define a trait with the API of your object:
trait SetResult {
  def from(src: String): ReturnTypeOfFrom
  def to[T](v: Expression[T]): ReturnTypeOfTo
}

def set( dest: String ): SetResult = new SetResult {
  def from( src: String ) =
    ...

  def to[T]( v: Expression[T] ) =
    ...
}

Note that I used ReturnTypeOfFrom and ReturnTypeOfSet because I've no idea what your methods return. Btw, this is a bad habit: public methods should always have an explicit result type.

A: I'm not sure what you want to do, so hopefully this will give you starting point.
You can not have anonymous object but you can have inner objects, so you can do:
implicit class SessionManagementExtensions(val c: ChainBuilder) {

  object MyInnerObject {

    def from(src: String) =
      c.exec(session => {
        val list = session(src).as[Vector[String]]
        val i = if (list.size == 0) -1 else Random.nextInt(list.size)
        val value = if (i > 0) list(i) else "INVALID_" + dest
        session.set(dest, value)
      })

    def to[T](v: Expression[T]) =
      c.exec(session => session.set(dest, v))

  }

  def set(dest: String) = MyInnerObject

}

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The huge IMAX screen - ten times bigger than the average screen - at the Science Museum is one of the few places in London... More
Bush Theatre
7 Uxbridge Road, W12 | 22 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
London's essential theatre for new writing has been the first step into the big time for dozens of Britain's best playwrights. Challenging, disturbing and original... More
Puppet Theatre Barge
Opp 35 Blomfield Road, Little Venice, W9 | 24 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
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Cine Lumiere
Institut Francais Cultural Centre, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London SW7 | 24 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
The Cine Lumiere is a shining beacon for all fans of European and World cinema. Attached to the Institut Francais, its programme is varied and... More
263-267 Brompton Road, Earls Court, London SW5 | 24 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
The Troubadour is a lovely little cafe, which hosts an inspiring program of folk, blues, psychedelia and poetry downstairs. It's also the place where Private... More
265 Old Brompton Road, Earls Court, London SW5 | 24 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
Kensington's original boho coffee house. Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon played here back in the 60s. Of course, Kensington has changed... More
Troubadour White City Theatre
201 Wood Lane, White City Place, W12 | 26 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
A new multi-purpose state-of-the-art 1,200-seat theatre comes to White City Place , the old home of the BBC Media Village,... More
The Playground Theatre
Unit 8 Latimer Industrial Estate, Latimer Road, W10 | 26 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
In the Ladbroke Grove area of west London, just a ten-minute walk from Latimer Road tube station, The Playground Theatre is... More
Bush Hall
310 Uxbridge Road, W12 | 27 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
A unique venue whose high ceilings have played host to a wide variety of artists from cabaret to cutting-edge electronica. Built in 1905 as a... More
Finborough Theatre
118 Finborough Road, Fulham, London SW10 | 28 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
The Finborough Theatre in Earls Court punches well above its weight, presenting award-winning plays and works by new writers in a small theatre above a... More
Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith
Blacks Road, W6 | 30 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
Established since 1995, The Irish Cultural Centre provides a frequently changing programme of Ireland's traditional and contemporary musicians, an Irish... More
Lyric Hammersmith
Lyric Square, 2 King Street, W6 | 30 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
Frank Matcham's velvet and gilt theatre was saved from demolition - following a public outcry - by being carefully dismantled, moved from its location further... More
Chickenshed Kensington and Chelsea
Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW10 | 33 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
Chickenshed theatre company has been working to make theatre inclusive for over 30 years and in 2011 they launched a new theatre programme in Kensington... More
Riverside Studios Theatre
101 Queen Caroline Street, W6 | 33 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith's historic 86-year-old arts centre, includes two theatre spaces. With tiered seating for 200, Studio 3 is the smaller of the two while... More
Following a five-year redevelopment Riverside Studios, Hammersmith's historic 86-year-old arts centre reveals its new multi-million-pound building. Reopening in three phases, first to launch in November... More
Cockpit Theatre
Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 | 34 minutes walk from The Windsor Castle
A vibrant fringe theatre in Marylebone, the Cockpit Theatre was designed by Edward Mendelsohn and built in 1969-70. Notable as London's first purpose-built theatre in-the-round... More
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'Inconvenient Truth' Director Trains Lens on Americans Locked Out of Traditional Banking
"Spent" documents the struggles of the financially underserved.
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'Spent: Looking for Change': Official SXSW TrailerDavis Guggenheim's new documentary explores the plight of the financially underserved.Participant Media
March 10, 2014— -- What's it like to live paycheck to paycheck, unable to gain access to the everyday financial tools that most people take for granted?
Yesterday at the South By Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive conference in Austin, Texas, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim tackled the subject, previewing his latest documentary, "Spent: Looking for Change."
Guggenheim is known for addressing social causes through his works, with notable films like "Waiting for Superman" and "An Inconvenient Truth." With "Spent" he has trained his lens on the unbanked and underbanked population in America.
Consumers classified as unbanked or underbanked are those who do not rely on traditional banking services, and typically forgo a checking or savings account, opting instead for alternative financial services like check cashing and payday lending as their primary methods for accessing personal funds. In 2011, the FDIC and US Census Bureau surveyed 45,000 households and found that 20.1 percent, or 1 in 5 households, were underbanked, while 8.2 percent, or 1 in 12 households, were unbanked. For most of us, it is hard to imagine how one could not have a basic checking account to manage our daily transactions, but the reality is that despite the availability of banks, the arrangement is simply not financially feasible for some consumers.
Tiffany Richardson knows what it's like. In 2008, she was in good shape financially. She earned a steady income working as a nurse in Houston and contributed regularly to her company-sponsored 401(k). She enjoyed dining out, shopping and traveling. But everything changed when Richardson's mother was diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
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As the cancer advanced, Richardson was forced to take increasing time away from work to tend to her mother, and the multiple absences eventually led to a mutual parting of ways with her company. Richardson decided she could afford to take time off to care for her mother full-time and return to job-searching afterwards. "I had a nice nest egg saved for a rainy day, and I think this was kind of a rainy day that turned into a tsunami," Richardson said.
After depleting her savings to cover the cost of cancer treatments, drugs and hospital bills, she began searching in vain for work in 2009, just as the financial crisis was underway. With no full-time positions in sight, she picked up temporary jobs where she could but it wasn't enough. Eventually, she lost her home, moved to a rental apartment and filed for unemployment. With bills mounting, payment became a game of haphazard selection. "You're spinning the bottle: what to pay next, what to pay when," Richardson said. Despite a relationship with her bank stretching back to 1990, her checking account was closed for being overdrawn past 30 days.
Unbanked and underbanked consumers find that maintaining a free, basic checking account at traditional banks often involves conditions they cannot meet. Banks typically require customers to maintain a minimum balance or set up a direct deposit of weekly paychecks to avoid fees. Unfortunately, for customers like Richardson, who need access to the entire portion of their funds and whose temporary gigs don't guarantee regularly scheduled paychecks, these mandates translate to yet another financial liability.
Recent data on unbanked and underbanked Americans shows that Richardson is far from alone. Last year, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (published by the Brookings Institution) found that almost half of all U.S. households could not come up with $2,000 in the event of an emergency. According to a 2011 FDIC survey of unbanked and underbanked households, nearly 70 million Americans are financially underserved by traditional financial services.
"Not having a bank account makes it incredibly difficult to manage your day to day finances, it often means you can't establish credit, and therefore you can't buy a home, finance a car, or take out a student loan," Guggenheim stated in a press release. "Multiply that by tens of millions of people and you can start to see how it's possible that entire communities in the U.S. are systemically excluded from economic freedom that most of us take for granted."
"Spent" will premiere this summer and is sponsored by American Express. The company currently offers two alternative financial products for the financially underserved, in their "Serve" and "Bluebird" prepaid debit cards. To coincide with the film's release, the Amex "Ventures" division has launched an initiative to finance and spur early-stage tech startups in creating solutions for these consumers. Said Guggenheim, "My hope is this film will shed light on this important issue . . . at a time when new technologies are opening up new possibilities to help fix this issue."
For Richardson, who currently owes thousands on loans she took to make ends meet, the experience has been sobering but the lessons have not been lost on her. "All of this has been real gloomy, but it was lessons that I have learned . . . I usually like to get my lessons for free, but these I had to pay for."


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Bernard Nsaidzedze Sakah
Chris Sowton
Emmanuel Asonye
Fiona Robertson
Friederike Lüpke
Henry Adolphus
Ian Cheffy
Jimmy Harmon
Leigh Swigart
Lina Mukhopadhyay
Lori Thicke
Muhammad Zaman Sagar
Natalie Tarr
Peter Mayeso Jiyajiya
Philip Hayab John
Umar Kabanda
Read the original blog posts from many of our delegates who presented at the Language and Development Conference, as well as the contributions from other language experts from around the world.
Bernard has been the Managing Director for Big Steps Outreach Network-Cameroon since 2012.
Chris is a freelance international education consultant and a doctoral student in education at Bath University (UK).
Emmanuel Asonye is a researcher and fieldwork linguist, a Speech-Language Pathologist with multiple ongoing community-based research with Nigerian Deaf communities, including the document
Fiona is qualified as a secondary teacher in Scotland but worked in Italy for many years, teaching in schools, including SEN, and then universities.
Friederike Lüpke (Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa, SOAS, University of London) has a research focus on the Mande and Atlantic languages of West Africa.
Henry is founder and creative director at Henripegasus Group. He is also a writer, entrepreneur and the winner of the 2017 AltPublish Writing Contest in USA.
Ian Cheffy has worked in literacy in Africa for 30 years. After ten years in Cameroon, he returned to the UK where he is now based.
From 2004 to 2012, Harmon's public advocacy of biliteracy in English/ Mauritian Kreol led to the introduction of Kreol Morisien in all primary schools as from 2012.
Leigh is Director of Programs in International Justice and Society,International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University.
Dr Lina Mukhopadhyay is Associate Professor at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India.
Lori Thicke is a language activist who is passionate about language and technology for global access to knowledge.
Muhammad has been working on language development since 1992 and with the Foreign Language Institute since 2004, as a trainer, researcher, advocate, and mobilisation person for marginalis
Natalie Tarr is a PhD researcher and lecturer at the Center for African Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.
Peter is a linguist and a communication specialist and lecturer whose research interests are in forensic linguistics, and ecolinguistics.
Philip's research investigates the impact of language policy on education and languages and cultures of northern Nigeria's marginal societies in danger of disappearing.
Kabanda is a PhD Candidate in Governance and Regional Integration at the Pan African University Institute of Governance, Humanities and Social Science and the University
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All Alumni Arts Campus History and Tradition Research and Discovery Sports Students
Bill Larsen: Legacy of a Professor, Mentor, and…
Campus Icons
From Half to Whole
Life-Changing Experiences at Camp Koinonia
Supporting Men of Color Through Graduation
Readers Remember Dancing the U-T
A Leading Lady in the SEC
Connected by Purpose
From the Hill to the White House
Deeply Rooted
The Volunteer Spirit at Home in Appalachia
Putting Up Murals, Breaking Down Walls for Women
A Love Letter to Black Appalachia
Diva Extraordinaire
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Volunteer Commitment
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Protecting Our Front-Line Workers
Looking Back: UT's 1962 GE College Bowl Team
When the U-T Ruled the Dance Floor
UT & ORNL: An Innovative Partnership
UT in Times of Crisis
The Man in Plaid
Joe Johnson: A University Icon
The Heartbeat of a Community
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The Vols Tackle the Smokies
The Birth of Volmania
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A Beacon Shining Bright
by Torchbearer Staff September 18, 2019
On September 10, 1794, at the edge of the American frontier, a spark of an idea was kindled. That flame has grown into a beacon that continues to grow stronger.
What began as Blount College centuries ago is now Tennessee's flagship university and premier public research institution, and Volunteers have been lighting the way for others, in Tennessee and throughout the world, for 225 years. Today, UT educates more students, conducts more groundbreaking research, and receives more support from stakeholders than at any other time in its history.
In 1794, Knoxville was the capital of the Southwest Territory and Blount College was the first public institution chartered west of the Appalachian Divide, two years before Tennessee was officially declared a state.
Samuel Carrick
Blount College's president and sole faculty member, Samuel Carrick, was the first in a history of leaders committed to the idea of higher education in Tennessee, despite seemingly insurmountable challenges. The story of the university is one of perseverance and patience. UT's success is built on persistence and hard-won victories laid atop one another for 225 years.
In the intervening years, the institution overcame funding shortfalls, disputes over religious affiliation, resignations of presidents, and disagreements about the tuition and curriculum. UT's progress was stopped in its tracks as the nation—and the campus, which closed in 1862—was ripped apart by slavery and secession.
Thomas Humes, UT's 10th president, reopened the college in 1866 and great strides were made to reorganize and rehabilitate the war-torn campus. Several new buildings were constructed, new faculty were hired, and 10 years later, enrollment was at a record high.
The university was again transformed following its land-grant designation in 1869 thanks to the federal Morrill Act, which sought to make education available to all. The Herbert College of Agriculture, AgResearch, the College of Veterinary Medicine, and UT Extension are all direct results of the Morrill Act and other legislation. In 1879, the state legislature designated what was then East Tennessee University as the University of Tennessee.
Under the tenure of Charles Dabney at the turn of the 20th century, UT received its first direct appropriation of funds from the legislature. Dabney directed significant changes to the course of study and insisted that university schooling must prepare young people for an active—not contemplative—life. By the early 1900s, record numbers of faculty, staff, and students—which now included women—were involved in the studies of agriculture, mechanical arts, mining, engineering, law, and military instruction.
New Traditions
It was around this time that many of UT's traditions began to form. After a heated student debate, Tennessee's colors were officially named orange and white in 1894. The UT football team was called the Volunteers for the first time in 1902 when the Atlanta Constitution reported on a football game between UT and Georgia Tech.
The state owed its nickname—the Volunteer State—to the large number of volunteers who fought in the War of 1812. At the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846, 30,000 Tennessee volunteers responded to the secretary of war's call for 2,800.
As UT's athletic reputation grew, the Volunteer became the bedrock of the university's identity.
The 1901 football team shown in the 1902 yearbook
In 1921, UT completed work on Ayres Hall and added an engineering building, two women's dormitories, Cherokee Farm, land along Cumberland Avenue, and Shields-Watkins football field.
The forerunner to Torch Night, the freshman pledge ceremony, was first held in 1925. Soon after, Aloha Oe began, and "On a Hallowed Hill" was adopted as the alma mater.
By 1932, UT had adopted the Volunteer Creed—"One that beareth a torch shadoweth oneself to give light to others"—and the university's official symbol—a man holding a torch high in his right hand and the Goddess of Victory in his left hand.
In 1942, UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory—then called Clinton Engineer Works—created a collaboration that continues today to shape the frontier of modern scientific research.
Beginning in 1945, scientists could start a UT graduate program in chemistry or physics without interrupting their employment.
During the Manhattan Project, a number of UT faculty worked at CEW, including six engineering faculty members and a physics instructor. After the war ended, the UT Board of Trustees responded to the increased enrollment of veterans by offering new PhD programs in chemistry, physics, and English. A new program was established to offer graduate courses at the Knoxville campus and in Oak Ridge.
While UT was modernizing on many fronts, it still lagged behind in its policy on admitting black students. As elsewhere in the South, UT was desegregated because of a grassroots movement led by black southerners.
Gene Mitchell Gray
UT's first black graduate student, Gene Mitchell Gray, was admitted to study chemistry in the winter quarter of 1952. His admittance followed a lawsuit in fall 1950 when he and three other students sought admission to the university's graduate programs.
After a judge in federal district court upheld their right to admission but did not issue an order, the students took their case to the US Supreme Court. UT changed its policy, admitting Gray, so the Supreme Court declined to act.
Theotis Robinson Jr., Charles Blair, and Willie Mae Gillespie were UT's first admitted black undergraduates in January 1961.
Growing Campus
Into the 1960s, under the leadership of Andy Holt, student enrollment tripled, faculty and staff doubled, eight new buildings were added, and the west side of campus was developed. In 1968, UT underwent an administrative reorganization that made the Knoxville campus the flagship and headquarters of the new UT System.
UT's reputation as an athletic powerhouse continued to grow in the last quarter of the 20th century. The university holds eight women's basketball national championships and six football national championships. The men's swimming and diving team and track and field programs have won national titles and fielded Olympians.
During this time, the university's research work was also gaining attention. UT achieved its first designation of producing the highest level of research activity from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The university received R1 status in 1973, the first year that Carnegie began classifying research institutions.
UT achieved its first designation of producing the highest level of research activity from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education in 1973.
In 2018, UT had a record $260 million in research expenditures. Faculty members are working to understand life on other planets, help the Air Force travel at five times the speed of sound, and develop strategies for advancing STEM education in Appalachia.
The university engages some of the world's top scholars and students in the quest for solutions to complex global issues. It is the hub of a vibrant research community that includes 11 colleges, major private industry partners, federal agencies, local companies, and student start-ups.
Additionally, in all the colleges, students see the creative spirit at work and at play, igniting lifelong passions for authenticity and expression. Fueled by curiosity, Volunteers are using their understanding of the natural world and human experience in creative endeavors.
Volunteer Spirit
In 2015, UT earned the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification for collaborating with community partners to address society's most pressing needs. At the time, UT joined a group of just 52 universities with a very high intensity research classification and an engaged status designation.
Around the world, more than 250,000 proud Volunteers share their light within the communities where they work and serve. A record 47,000 donors gave to UT last year, helping the university meet its $1.1 billion Join the Journey campaign goal two years early. This campaign has created 857 undergraduate scholarships, 303 graduate fellowships, and 159 faculty awards, professorships, and chairs.
With every Tennessean who finds a path to their future at UT and every graduate who crosses the stage at commencement, the spark of 1794 glows even stronger. Each Volunteer carries with them 225 years of showing up to answer a call, building a tradition of excellence in teaching, research, scholarship, creative activity, outreach, and engagement.
Volunteers have been working together to light the way for others, through service and discovery, for 225 years. The light of this university is seen in every corner of Tennessee and throughout the world—a beacon shining bright.
This story is part of the University of Tennessee's 225th anniversary celebration. Volunteers light the way for others across Tennessee and throughout the world.
Learn more about UT's 225th anniversary
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Michael Sawicki September 13, 2019 - 12:31 am
Re: "the T-shirt" and the full scholarship… WELL DONE!
I don't know anything else about UT but, henceforth, I will be aware and note when I hear anything about the university. I'm a new fan.
Raymond Cantrell September 13, 2019 - 4:45 pm
This is a great account of UT History. I attended UTK during 1961-64, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. God continue to bless our hallowed university!
Jean Rowley Ellestad October 7, 2019 - 1:47 pm
UT College of Liberal Arts gave me the best education around. Because of the mandatory classes in the curriculum, I took courses that I would not have chosen, but "Liberal Arts" then meant exactly that and the university was committed to educating the whole person. Dean Nielsen was outstanding and knew me, my roommate, and many of my friends by name. The quarter system with the mandatory five academic classes per quarter was very challenging and emblematic of UT's academic standard. I learned so much and have been forever grateful for UT's excellence. When Dean Nielsen gave me my sheepskin at graduation, he said, "Congratulations, Jean. I am just so proud of you." He knew my name. And, all Liberal Arts students had to pass the swimming test to graduate! I received an outstanding education for a low cost, including living in the dormitories. Thank you, my Alma Mater!
Laura Arnett Smith October 7, 2019 - 3:29 pm
It is Reverend Samuel Carrick, minister of the Old Presbyterian Church, still meeting in downtown Knoxville on what was Carrick's turnip patch. This is yards away from Blount College, named after Teritorial Governor and signer of the Constitution, William Blount on land given by Knoxville founder James White.
It is not accurate to say, "…for 225 years," since the school was closed from 1809-1820 after the death of Carrick, and again during the 1860s, as you mentioned.
Lisa Baker October 7, 2019 - 3:57 pm
Thank you for this. I grew up in Knoxville and have a Master's from UT but didn't know much of the history.
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Since the appointment was with the midwifery section, it was a midwife who saw us. Perhaps they had gone for lunch too. After all, they are also human. The midwife was young and super cool. The session went on for more than 30 minutes, as she carefully noted down everything that was required to create a patient record for my wife. When we told her that the ultrasound was done only a day before and we did not have the results with us, she called Capital Radiology and got them to fax them over to the hospital. She did not receive them at that moment, but she said she will attach them to Ama's patient record for the doctor to see the next time. She also recommended us to get the flu vaccine and the whooping cough vaccine, both of which were free for the parents to be. We could have received it at the GP or at the hospital.
After we saw the midwife, we went back to the reception and there we were handed over a card, kind of like a schedule for our visits. She had marked our next appointment: 9:30am on 10th May, which was in a week. This time, the appointment was with the doctor. We were also handed over a bag with few commercial products (to promote them) and a guide book. We received similar items back in Japan as well.
It was almost 3:30pm and I felt there was no point going back to work, so I called in and took the whole afternoon off. To put the half-day to full use, we decided to get the vaccines sorted out at the hospital.
And, as expected, I had to pay $16 for parking for more than two hours!
We were also advised that everyone at home received whopping cough vaccine. My son did not need it because he had received the DTPA vaccine according to his vaccine schedule, but my parents had to get it. But there was no need to rush it as the delivery was due in more than 2 months' time. We postponed it to a convenient time.
I very well remembered the parking fees that I had to pay last time, so I wanted to do something about it on the day of the appointment with the doctor. There are on-street parking spaces available near the hospital with a time limit of two hours at a time, however, they were all full by the time we reached the hospital. Apparently nobody wanted to pay this much for parking and rightly so. So I dropped my wife off at the entrance of the hospital and went around looking for a parking spot. I had to go all the way down to the parking area near Coles supermarket in Clayton to find one. That is also a two-hour parking area. Parking fines are monstrous in Victoria (probably throughout Australia), so I had to make sure I come back within the allocated time, so I set a timer on my phone. After parking the car, I rushed back to the hospital, but it still took about 10 minutes.
Since my wife was a public patient at the hospital, we didn't have the privilege to choose our own doctor. (You can be treated as a private patient at a public hospital too, but then you will have to pay out of your pocket for the additional privileges you get.) We had to go with a doctor assigned to us from the hospital and it could well be a different doctor the next time. The doctor we were assigned to was an Australian in his late 40s or early 50s and he was very calm and smiling. He had an apprentice or an intern on that day, a Sri Lankan descendant but he didn't look like a typical Sri Lankan at all. The doctor asked how my wife was feeling and whether the baby was kicking and moving. As for the test, he did a physical examination of the belly, listened to the heartbeat of the baby and measured my wife's blood pressure. Everything seemed good. After the checkup, both of us walked towards where I parked the car and we probably lost about 10 minutes because my wife was not at liberty to walk fast.
The next appointment was in three weeks. That's 31st of May and this time it was at 9:45am. Again I had to go park the car at the Coles car park. We didn't have to wait too long this time; only abut 15 minutes. The doctor assigned to Ama this time was the same doctor as from the last time, which was unexpected. But there was no need to complain about it because the doctor was nice. He had no apprentice this time. He did the same checks as the last time, and he was happy with how the pregnancy was progressing. He asked if we had any questions, and we had two.
First one was about the list of things we needed to bring with us when admitting to the hospital. My wife called it the "hospital bag". Since this was the winter just as the last time, most of the things we needed pack were similar. But it is a different hospital and a different country, so things could be different. The doctor handed a piece of paper with a list printed on it.
The other question we had was about the delivery. My wife worried too much about giving a normal birth. It was funny how she had no worries cutting someone open her belly, but worried so much about doing it naturally. Our first baby was also a normal birth, so it's not new to her, but we had to induce labor that time, as her body does not seem to take the initiative. Because of this, she had to go through a long period of pain, and I think this is why she was worried about it. But everyone, including the doctor was telling her that the 2nd baby will be easier and the labor period would be shorter. But the doctor insisted there was no need for a Cesarean. Well, my wife was not too convinced. The doctor comforted her saying that she could have a Epidural instead, which will make her not feel the pain. The doctor insisted that it was very safe.
After the checkup, we got our next appointment for the 14th of June at 8:45am. Instead of both of us walking down to car park, I rushed and brought the car back to the hospital to pick up my wife. It was around 10:30am when I reached work.


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Jon Voight urges followers to 'fight for Trump's victory' calling Joe Biden's victory 'a lie'
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Watch: Jon Voight issues video of support for Donald Trump
Actor Jon Voight has thrown his weight of support behind Donald Trump in a new video in which he calls the recent election of Joe Biden 'a lie'.
"My fellow Americans," Voight says in a video shared on his official Twitter account, "I stand here with all that feel as I do, disgusted with this lie, that Biden has been chosen. As if we all don't know the truth."
Even as Mr Biden passed the 270 electoral college votes needed for victory in the US presidential race, Mr Trump declared the election was "far from over", and accused the former vice president of "falsely posing as the winner".
Read more: Jon Voight says Trump is greatest President since Lincoln
Trump is yet to concede defeat in the presidential race despite broadcasters calling the result in favour of Mr Biden and Kamala Harris on Saturday.
President Donald J. Trump awards the National Medal of Arts to actor Jon Voight in the White House, 2019. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
The 80-year-old Midnight Cowboy star – and father of Angelina Jolie – is a vocal Trump supporter and was was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Trump at the White House in 2019.
The Oscar-winning actor goes on to call Trump's battle to have the election results overturned "our greatest fight since the civil war".
Read more: Pompeo says 'there will be a smooth transition to our second Trump administration', despite Biden win
"Let us give our trust to God and fight now for Trump's victory, because we all know this ballot count is corruption like they are. So let us not back down, let us fight this fight as if it is our last fight on earth."
American actors Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight on the set of Midnight Cowboy, directed by John Schlesinger. (Photo by Photo United Artists/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)
In his statement immediately following the news of Biden's victory, Trump said: "Joe Biden has not been certified as the winner of any states, let alone any of the highly contested states headed for mandatory recounts, or states where our campaign has valid and legitimate legal challenges that could determine the ultimate victor."
There has been no evidence of election fraud produced by the Trump campaign so far.
Joe Biden will be inaugurated at the 46th President of America on Wednesday, 20 January, 2021.
Watch: President-elect Biden addresses Trump's failure to concede the election
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If you are in tourism, crises from external events are increasingly affecting your business. The connected world that greatly extends your market reach today also brought to your door step the effects of remote crises which only a generation ago had a lesser impact across continents between tourist destinations and originating markets.
Unlike natural disasters, such as earthquakes or tsunami, virtually all other crises have social or political roots, however remote the connection may seem to be. For example, floods are rarely a purely natural event. More often than not, the cause may be land mismanagement like deforestation, or ineffective flood control compromised by economic or political considerations.
Political crises unfolding in or near tourist destinations can have a devastating effect, far beyond the human tragedy that is often the immediate result. The repercussions of these events affect many people and organisations, from the innocent holidaymaker to local political bodies and tourism organisations. They may ruin industries, cities, even countries. So learning to manage them and their after-effects is vital. While there are several studies of tourism crises caused by terrorism and natural disasters, few in-depth studies have explored the impact on the tourism industry of political crises in general.
"Blood on the Beach" is a how-to handbook to apply crisis management to political crises and provides a framework for political crisis responses and practical solutions for the tourism industry.
The title of the book reflects the impact of political crises upon tourism as it happened after the terrorist attack on the beach of Sousse, Tunisia in 2015, because of its significance for the tourism industry at large: it was more than a destination being affected, it was the product itself - the beach – that became affected. Then the Brussels lockdown following the November 2015 terror attack in Paris transformed a destination crisis event into a product crisis now affecting all major cities. When, a few days later, the US State Department issued a worldwide travel alert, tourism stakeholders face the broadest threat to the industry since the last world war as its two key products, beaches and major cities, became affected globally by current events.
The framework of political crisis responses that is the foundation of this handbook is built from the a classification model of political crisis situations that can usually be assessed in terms of the degree of violence involved and their duration, as expressed in this figure.
The first dimension is the degree of violence, which ranges from non-violent to violent. The second dimension is the duration of the crisis, which ranges from ephemeral to enduring, where ephemeral may span from a few hours to a few days and enduring from several days to months or even years. From these two dimensions, political crises can then be divided into four main types: (1) violent enduring crises, (2) violent ephemeral crises, (3) non-violent enduring crises, and (4) nonviolent ephemeral crises.
Why is tourism increasingly affected by political crises?
In the span of a mere generation, tourism has become a significant industry for many areas that were previously the destination of choice for only adventure tourists or backpackers. Local and international entrepreneurs and organizations have since seized upon the changing tourist landscape to build infrastructure that includes hotel and restaurant chains, transportation services, amenities and attractions. Directly employing hundreds if not thousands locally, many more are employed in the far-extending supply chain. Simultaneously, tourism investments have grown in the generating markets to match these opportunities whether through airliner purchases or extensive marketing.
In the span of this same generation, the world has witnessed traditional media and telecommunications evolve into a global medium where people feed, relay and consume news nearly instantaneously. Whereas traditional media reported, summarized and editorialized to an unknowing audience, the "news" element is already in the public knowledge thanks to social media and instant telecommunications today. Details and in-depth reporting is often too late to influence the already formed opinions drawn from 140 character tweets and smartphone pictures posted on Instagram during the course of a crisis.
The greatest damage to a destination occurs immediately… as the worldwide audience is watching it unfold live. While the effects may be felt days or weeks later, the damage has already been done. Crisis management serves as a crucial emergency centre during these times, but a plan must be in place first in order to be effective when and if needed. In this way, crisis management acts similar to an insurance policy for events that hopefully will never take place. Large companies including most airlines have dedicated crisis management teams; however, it is neither practical nor cost-effective for smaller organisations to maintain staff specifically for the task.
Fortunately, the most important element of any crisis management strategy is… communication, which a stakeholder of any size can leverage. While instant communications like tweets and Instagram pictures so quickly shape public opinion as crises develop, the same avenues of communication are also the most effective means for tourism stakeholders to enter the conversation and manage the effects as soon as possible.
In practical terms… all stakeholders must have the following: a detailed crisis contingency plan, a resource guide for employees, and the ability to delegate decision-making and communications to those best suited to respond during a crisis event.
Odds are slim that the person leading a crisis management effort will be easily accessible at the most critical of times, therefore the chosen resource guide book for employees should be both effective and adaptive in ensuring that best practices prevail. The guide should offer concise and adaptable instructions so that no employee is caught desperately searching a lengthy index to find a simple answer. As American English is the most widely understood language by the global audience, consider using it as the language of choice.
The next step is to select, build and train a crisis team. Keep in mind that most experienced and senior staff may not be on site, or they may remain unreachable far into an unfolding crisis. Therefore, the best candidates for a local team should be those already adept at utilizing social media. Regardless of their work experience or placement, they should be motivated team players who can be trusted with important responsibilities. Of course, they should be able to communicate in basic English; additional they will require some training in crisis management to ensure that order, not mayhem, prevails.
Instead of an arduously written, lengthy, post-event press release… that is often viewed skeptically, build a crisis response plan which serves as a foundation to mitigate negative effects and build credibility in this age of powerful and immediately information. Digestible and accurate communications from coordinated sources distributed throughout the course of a crisis are the key to successfully mitigating their consequences.
Vorawan & Associates is a consultancy particularly well learned on the subject of political crisis management for the tourism industry. Do not hesitate to contact us with your questions or inquiries.
Welcome to my new endeavor!
After four gruelling years of researching and writing my doctoral dissertation, I did it! The proof lay before me as I glance at the nicely bound green book with gold lettering that reads, Development of a Framework of Political Crisis Responses for the Tourism Industry. While it's an attractive keepsake to be sure, the best reward of this intensive process still awaits. It is my intent that this new blog bridges the gap between the academic theory of travel and tourism and my real-world experiences in the field.
Who we are – Vorawan & Associates Ltd. was founded by me in the aftermath of my doctoral degree. It seemed only natural to create a consultancy which, like my own background, draws upon the unique knowledge and resources of both the academic and business worlds to better serve clients. V&A Ltd. is based in London and offers tourism crisis management consulting services to a range of private organizations, NGOs and government agencies. Additionally, we participate in conferences and publish industry papers and books on the subject.
While I leverage my knowledge of the effects of political crises on tourism, it is the "associates" element of this consultancy that is crucial to developing a unique, valued and credible reputation by serving clients who face increasingly complex issues. These associates will continuously evolve to include academics and industry executives alike who possess broad knowledge and experience that can be applied to tourism, politics and crisis management.
What to expect - Expect to find V&A Ltd.'s published papers, conference schedules and associates' biographies on our new website, Vorawan.com. This blog will offer a mix of trim academically-oriented short papers and current event analysis alongside trade-oriented briefs devoted to application models and practical suggestions. The blog, like the consultancy itself and my own background, reflects the integral connection between theory and practice to best serve our clients and readers alike.
With that, welcome once again to this new endeavour!


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Called to Be Amish Book by Marlene C. Miller
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Few outsiders join the Amish faith— and even fewer stay for a lifetime. Since 1950, less than 100 people have joined the Amish, and Marlene C. Miller is one of them. In this flowing memoir, Marlene recalls a life that took an unexpected turn, from being a cheerleader and majorette to becoming a Old Order homemaker.
After an unhappy childhood, Marlene fell in love with a young Amish man named Johnny. Against the wishes of both sets of parents, Marlene and Johnny got married and began raising a family (they would eventually have ten children).
With the help of her new community, Marlene began wearing Amish clothing, and learned to sew, cook, and help her husband on their hundred-acre farm.
God's love gradually called Marlene from the bitterness and despair of her childhood, leading her to embrace her new life, despite hard work, family tragedy, and the inevitable strains of living in a new culture. More than 40 years later, Marlene is still an Old Order Amish woman, and believes her life was directed by God.
From Herald Press Plainspoken Series, which publishes true stories about Plain People.
Author: Marlene C. Miller


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The malice and sexism behind the 'unmasking' of Elena Ferrante
At the bottom of this so-called investigation is an obsessional outrage at the success of a writer – female – who decided to publish and promote her books on her own terms
Books by Elena Ferrante on sale in a bookshop in Rome. Photograph: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images
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"Her books' sensational success made the search for her identity inevitable. It also left financial clues that speak by themselves." So writes Claudio Gatti in the New York Review of Books. We know that money talks, but personal bank accounts have nothing to say for themselves unless a journalist is doing the ventriloquism.
These accounts weren't the Panama Papers or bungs or bribes or secret payments to secret mistresses. The woman in question wasn't a politician or a Berlusconi-style businessman. She paid her taxes. She wished to live quietly and get on with her work. She is the writer we know as Elena Ferrante.
Gatti tells us that a decade ago a team at La Sapienza University, Rome, analysed the books using software programs and decided that they were written by Domenico Starnone – a writer who happens to be the husband of the woman who is and is not Elena Ferrante.
That must have been a relief to those who still want to believe that Branwell Brontë wrote everything for his mousy sisters, or that Willy really did write Colette's masterpieces, and that only a man can write about women – or write about anything, which is, after all, the basis of the literature myth. JK Rowling knew boys wouldn't read her books if she was called Joanne. Later, wanting a fresh start from both Harry Potter and from herself, she chose the name Robert Galbraith – definitely male, and soon unmasked.
Elena Ferrante: the global literary sensation nobody knows
The not-so-wise men at La Sapienza (note that Wisdom is female – Sofia is her Greek and medieval incarnations) could not eliminate gender bias from the analysis of their software program, and I am sure that we will soon hear that Signor Starnone is the "real" author, by marriage, of the Neapolitan Quartet.
Why? Because at the bottom of this so-called investigation into Ferrante's identity is an obsessional outrage at the success of a writer – female – who decided to write, publish and promote her books on her own terms.
It is only 150 years in the UK and 110 years in Italy since women were able to own property, earn and keep their own money, and stand under the law equal to men. Women got the vote in Italy late – 1946 – and Italy is still a Catholic country with strong patriarchial attitudes towards women. Gatti is no doubt a secular journalist, but listening to him talk about his scoop on the BBC – his pompous unthinking sexism, his desire to discredit the creator of both Ferrante and Ferrante's books, what he calls her "lies" about her mother, tells us a lot more about him than about his subject. Which is not a surprise, because this is all about him. This is his shot at the limelight. Claudio Gatti is a nobody with too much time on his hands. Elena Ferrante is a writer with worlds at her fingertips.
And I go on calling Elena Ferrante Elena Ferrante because that is who she wishes to be. She has been very clear about why she has chosen to be two people – one of whom can be known through her books, and one of whom cannot be known at all. Writing is an act of splitting – like mercury. Writers are multiple personalities. This is clear when we create other characters – it can be confusing when the character we create is ourselves.
My first novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit uses a character called Jeanette. I like to read myself as a fiction as well as a fact. It is creatively freeing. Henry Miller, Philip Roth, Paul Auster and Milan Kundera have all used themselves as their own aliases. When men do it, it is called meta-fiction and part of their playful experiment. When women do it, it is called autobiography.
Karl Ove Knausgaard writes about himself with monomaniacal fixation. Yet this does not reduce him – it expands him, because his claim to be his own artwork is accepted. Antony Gormley uses his own body as the cast for his forms. Tracey Emin has determined her own space in much the same way – as subject and object – but her reception has been very different. Women who say, as Beckett did, I and Not I, this is me and not me, this is myself but it is someone else, are driven back from the larger open spaces of the artwork to the smaller spaces of the self.
Gatti has swivelled the lens so that we are looking at the writer instead of looking at the work in its own right
This is exactly what has happened to Ferrante. By forcing us to concentrate on biography and bank accounts, on the writer and not the work, Gatti has invaded the space that belongs to the work. He has swivelled the lens so that we are looking at the writer through his eyes instead of looking at the work in its own right. He justifies this by telling us that "Ferrante has relinquished her right to disappear behind her books."
This is the "short skirt – she was asking for it" – argument. According to Gatti, inventing a life for the fictitious Ferrante, especially inventing a mother, is lying; in fact it is publicity seeking – so it's double lying, because she says she doesn't want publicity – therefore she deserves all she gets.
In the Facebook world where privacy is an anachronism and nothing is real unless it is photographed and uploaded, Ferrante's desire to remain hidden in plain sight needed only one response: respect. Gatti did not respect Ferrante, and neither did the New York Review of Books. This is Hello! magazine journalism.
The stripping and parading of Elena Ferrante is violent and crude. Creatively it might destroy her (she has said she cannot write without anonymity), so it is a deliberately malicious act, too. Rightly, around the world, most people seem disgusted by what has happened.
There's an essay by TS Eliot from 1919 called "Tradition and the Individual Talent". He talks about personality – and how creative work is a means of escaping personality. This is the I Not I that is difficult to explain. You lose yourself, yet you are most clearly yourself in the creative act. It's the Indian rope trick.
Ferrante claimed the freedom of I Not I. I hope she will know, in time, that no one can take that from her by force, as Gatti has tried to do. It is her right to claim it, her right to keep it. Whoever else she is, she will always be Elena Ferrante.


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Other volumes of JLE Mallet's political diaries have been destroyed or lost. As far as we know, this is all that survives of the original diaries. Extracts from the diaries survive among the papers of Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) at Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, Trinity College Library, Sraffa Papers D3/11/161).
II.01a, 1b. Two notebooks, volumes IV and V of political diaries, October 1822 – February 1823 and February 1823 – January 1825. Copies are in the Bodleian (as of 1969).
II.02a-c. Three volumes of a Commonplace Books, marked: 'B.1, 1816, 1817, 1818, 1815;' 'B.2., 1819, 1820, 1821'; 'C.2, 189, 1820, 1821.' These items have been photographed and images are available to researchers on request.
think one of the political…?'These items have been photographed and images are available to researchers on request.
II.04. a volume marked '?A draft of the 1st vol. of autobiography, afterwards expanded'.
II.05. a volume, book of extracts, started from both ends. Probably copybook of Louis and Charles Mallet as children (1835 and 1838).
Françoise Mallet, 1815, and extracts from 2 letters from Elizabeth Desgouttes.
II.08. two bound typescript volumes (?by E Hugo Mallet) of the second volume of the Autobiographical Retrospect, marked Part II and Part III.These items have been photographed and images are available to researchers on request.
II.09. 'Black List' or peers who voted against the Reform Bill 1831, with JL Mallet's annotations.
II.12. Packet of letters JL Mallet to William Smyth, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1835-1837.
II.32. Volume starting with inscription on Mallet du Pan's tombstone in Richmond, and with entries 18 May 1803 – 1827. These items have been photographed and images are available to researchers on request.
II.33. Volume John Lewis Mallet 'an Autobiographical Retrospect' 1890 printed by Thomas E Luff.