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Greek Paleography - Thematic Pathways on the Web
Greek Paleography From Antiquity to the Renaissance [by T. Janz]
Greek paleography
1. MAJUSCULE BOOKHANDS
2. INTRODUCTION TO MINUSCULE BOOKHANDS
3. OLD ROUND MINUSCULE
4. NINTH- AND TENTH-CENTURY MINUSCULES
5. BOULETÉE AND PERLSCHRIFT
6. ITALO-GREEK SCRIPTS (TENTH – TWELFTH CENTURIES)
7. INFORMAL AND SCHOLARLY HANDS OF THE LATE ELEVENTH AND OF THE TWELFH CENTURY
8. THIRTEENTH-CENTURY HANDS
9. LATER PALAEOLOGAN HANDS (LATE THIRTEENTH – FOURTEENTH CENTURIES)
10. SCRIPTS FROM THE BYZANTINE PERIPHERY (TWELFTH – FOURTEENTH CENTURIES)
11. FIFTEENTH- AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY HANDS
Alexandrian Majuscule
Biblical Majuscule
Vat. gr. 1209 Collage Transcription
Observations on the Original Scribe(s) of Vat. gr. 1209
Vat. gr. 1209 Collage Transcription Sorted by Scribe
Nomina Sacra
Ogival Majuscule
Liturgical Majuscule
The Greek Minuscule Alphabet
Minuscule Abbreviations
How to Refer to a Greek Manuscript
The second old canon of majuscule bookhand is now usually referred to as "Alexandrian," though in older scholarship it is often referred to as "Coptic" (this designation is now avoided because the received Coptic script, which indeed resembles this type of majuscule, was in fact derived from it, not vice versa). The name with which it is usually referred to today has an unusually ancient pedigree, far antedating the discipline of paleography itself, being derived from an anecdote regarding the ninth-century patriarch of Constantinople Photios I, who, in the course of a political intrigue, is said to have forged a document and written it "in Alexandrian letters" (γράμμασιν Ἀλεξανδρίνοις) in order to increase its apparent age; G. Cavallo ("Γράμματα Ἀλεξανδρῖνα", Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 24 [1975], pp. 23-54, repr. in Il calamo e il papiro, pp. 175-202) demonstrated that the type of script referred to in the story about Photios was almost certainly this one. This script is also objectively associated with Egypt and especially with Alexandria in that several preserved exemplars of the "Festal Letters" which were published annually by the Patriarch of Alexandria from the third c. onwards to announce the date of Easter are written in this script (more on these below).
The most common type of Alexandrian majuscule displays the following characteristics, which are illustrated by the words θαυμάσια καὶ (taken from Vat. gr. 2125, p. 91 [Joel 3:26]):
a vertical axis;
opposition between narrow letters (alpha, beta, epsilon, theta, iota, omikron, sigma, rho; in other words, the letters which are circular in the Biblical majustule [epsilon, theta, omikron, sigma], plus alpha, beta, iota and rho) and wide letters (all the rest): the former are shaped so that they fit into a narrow rectangle, while the latter are shaped so that they fit into a square or even into a wide rectangle;
a tendency to replace angles with curves or loops, and to add small curls or blobs at the extremities of strokes;
a tendency to prolong descending strokes along the base line so that they touch or nearly touch the following letter (such prolonged strokes are known as "pseudo-ligatures") ;
peculiar shapes for the letters alpha (written in a single, complex stroke, or so as to appear thus written), mu (with a curve replacing the two oblique central strokes) and ypsilon (with a loop replacing the descender, so that the letter respects the bilinear scheme rather than descending below the base line as in the Biblical majuscule).
Stroke contrast is not a consistent feature of this script (though it is sometimes present), the chiaroscuro effect being achieved rather with loops and curls.
What we have described so far is in fact only one of two "types" of Alexandrian majuscule, which is sometimes called the "plurimodular" type, because the module of the letters varies between wide and narrow. The other type, known as "unimodular", has a constant, squarish module comparable to that of the Biblical majuscule; you may see it in sample 7 in the collage at the top of the page on Majuscule Bookhands (from cod. Borg. copt. 109, which you may see more of here). We will not study this type of script further here, because you are very unlikely to come across it in a parchment or paper manuscript written in Greek.
The earliest examples of Alexandrine majuscule are papyri which are dated to the second century CE; it does not seem to have been used as a normal bookhand after the seventh century, though its use continued long afterwards as an Auszeichnungsschrift (i.e. a distinctive script used for titles and the like; for a tenth-century example, see the titles in Vat. gr. 1613). The only real reference points for dating the plurimodular Alexandrian majuscule as a bookhand are two of the Festal Letters we have already mentioned, namely P. Grenf. 2,112, which, based on the date it gives for Easter, must be from either 577 or 672 CE; and P. Berlin 10677, which must be from either 713 or 719 CE. Cavallo carefully analyzed the differences between the scripts of these two papyri (Γραμματα …, pp. 45-6 = Il calamo …, pp. 194-5), interpreting them in terms of a chronological development of the script over a period of a little over a century (and arguing, as indeed this interpretation required him to, that the Grenfell papyrus should be dated to 577 rather than 672 — the later date would have made it very nearly contemporary with the Berlin papyrus). Even supposing that Cavallo's dating of the Grenfell Papyrus is correct, such an interpretation is, of course, rather hazardous when only two samples are available (it is obvious that even two contemporaneous scribes may have somewhat different scripts); at any rate, the upshot, which is not unlikely to be correct, is that the contrast between wide and narrow letters tended to increase over time, as did the presence of flourishes like blobs and curls at the extremities of the strokes; in sum, the more "baroque" the script is, the later it is likely to be.
You may familiarize yourself with this script by studying and transcribing one of the most important preserved manuscripts written in Alexandrian majuscule, the so-called Codex Marchalianus of the Old Testament prophets (Vat. gr. 2125), from which you also may see a sample below. In this manuscript, you will note a further "baroque" characteristic, besides those noted above, namely the ornamental enlargement (sometimes to enormous proportions) of the letter phi. This manuscript is generally dated to around the year 700, primarily on the basis of the resemblance between its script and that of the datable manuscript P. Berlin 10677. (Note that the accents and breathings in this manuscript do not seem to have been written by the original scribe; it is impossible to say when they were added).
Vat. gr. 2125 (initial view: p. 388, Jeremiah 14:14-18)
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What happens when a college psych study goes shockingly wrong? Based on the notorious true story, THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT stars Billy Crudup (Watchmen) as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Featuring an extraordinary cast including Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Tye Sheridan, Keir Gilchrist, Michael Angarano, and Thomas Mann, and created with the close participation of Dr. Zimbardo himself, THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT is a chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller about the dark side of power and the effects of imprisonment.Special Features: Commentary with Dr. Zimbardo & Filmmaker Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Featurette: Bringing to Life The Stanford Prison Experiment, Featurette: The Psychology Behind The Stanford Prison Experiment
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More than thirty Mennonite women have been left without any place to go after a tornado ripped through the heart of a local MCC Thrift Store yesterday afternoon.
The women are looking for something else to occupy their days, but in the small town of Kjrieselstorm, Kansas, the options are fairly limited.
Emergency garage sales have been set up throughout the village in order to give the women some place to buy second hand stuff during the day.
The women had briefly considered hanging out all day at the coffee shop with the men, but decided wandering the streets aimlessly was a preferable option.


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Arrest for Sword Attack on Penzance Avenue
by Robert L. McCullough , March 31, 2020
Photo: Stephen Gilbert Montijo
March 28, 2020 – Ventura County – One can only imagine the primal rage that must accompany certain physical altercations, particularly those that involve any weapon other than a firearm. And when the weapon of choice is a samurai sword, the consequences of any attack can be serious.
According to Ventura County Sheriff's Department spokesman Det. James Douglas, the arrest early in the evening of March 26th of Camarillo resident Stephen Gilbert Montijo came after Camarillo Police Department deputies were called to the scene of a physical assault on Penzance Avenue.
Upon arrival, the deputies discovered "two adult victims suffering from several lacerations." Both victims were given emergency medical attention at the scene and were then transported to Ventura County Medical Center for further treatment.
The ensuing investigation and witness interviews indicated that Montijo had arrived at the victims' residence "armed with a large sword." When the victims exited the residence, they were attacked by Montijo.
The victims managed to escape, at which point Montijo "fled the area" himself. During the course of this investigation, another 911 Emergency Call reported "a second disturbance involving Montijo."
Having seen the injuries and mayhem at the first scene, deputies wasted no time in responding to the second location, where they made contact with Montijo and took him into custody. He was then transported to Ventura County Jail, where he was booked on two felony counts of attempted homicide and a single count of felony mayhem, with his bail set at $90,000.
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Bob McCullough is a television and screen writer-producer who has worked for every major television network and film studio with more than 200 produced credits. Bob has recently co-authored "Where Hollywood Hides: Santa Barbara", a hardcover book featuring a wide range of film, television, and music industry celebrities living on the Central Coast. His weekly iTunes podcast about "all things Hollywood" can be heard at http:wherehollywoodhides.com.
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California State Senate votes to ban driftnets for swordfishing
Steve Bittenbender, Seafood Source
June 8, 2018 — California has taken a key step in its effort to ban the use of drift gillnets and transition to a swordfish and thresher shark fishery that conservation groups claim would reduce the amount of bycatch.
Last week, the California State Senate voted 32-0 to prohibit the use of the large nets by 2023. The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), also would compensate fishermen for their nets and provide incentives for them to purchase gear that is less likely to ensnare turtles, dolphins, and other marine life.
California is currently the only state in the country that allows driftnets for swordfish and thresher shark fishing off its coast.
"I am pleased the approach taken in SB 1017 to phase out the use of this damaging equipment earned broad bipartisan support in the Senate today," Allen said. "I look forward to continuing to work with stakeholders on a plan that protects marine life while being fair to everyone involved."
According to conservation groups, driftnets can kill or injure up to 70 different species. Fishermen deploy the mile-long nets overnight.
"We have been working to reduce the devastating and cruel impact of this driftnet fishery on whales, dolphins, and sea turtles for 20 years, and passage of this legislation will go a long way toward making the Pacific Ocean safer for endangered marine wildlife," said Todd Steiner, biologist and executive director of Turtle Island Restoration Network.
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LADA Screens: George Chakravarthi
Originally a three-screen installation, 'Barflies' presents representations of different femininities embodied by transvestites and cross-dressers, the pleasures, fears and dangers of being in public 'en femme' and the relationship they have with the heterosexual male.
The different styles of Maureen, Claire and Jasmine signify some of the variations found within feminine identities in the transvestite/cross-dressing communities. 'Barflies' also highlights the specificity of TV/cross-dressers in relation to public, social spaces. Many women 'born female' do not feel comfortable alone in bars because of the threat of unwanted attention from heterosexual men. Being out in a social space such as a bar for most TV/cross-dressers is often celebrated as a triumph, where a mixture of fear and delight may be experienced through a public expression of one's female self.
Recorded on telephone chat-lines, the soundtrack offers an intimate undercurrent to the unedited footage. Transvestites, transsexuals, cross-dressers and their seekers engage in conversations which interlace the private, confessional and sexual.
'Barflies' has been screened at Site Gallery (Sheffield, 2002), Tate Modern (London, 2006) and was screened most recently for LADA's Just Like A Woman programme for the City of Women Festival (Slovenia, 2013).
George Chakravarthi's artistic practice spans over a decade of live performance, video installation and photography. Predominantly engaging with the politics of identity and representations of the self, the works often cross and renegotiate the restrictions of space, culture and heritage.
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A limited edition print of derived from Barflies (2002) is available to buy on Unbound.
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LADA Screens is a series of free, online screenings of seminal performance documentation, works to camera, short films/video and archival footage. It is part of Live Online, LADA's dedicated space where you can watch short videos and films drawn from LADA's Study Room or generated through our programmes and initiatives.
Each screening will be available to view for a limited time only, and will be launched with a live event at our space in Bethnal Green, London. Online art magazine, thisistomorrow will also feature the films on their website for the duration of the screenings.
LADA Screens is curated by the Live Art Development Agency (LADA). LADA is a 'Centre for Live Art': a knowledge centre, a production centre for programmes and publications, a research centre setting artists and ideas in motion, and an online centre for digital experimentation, representation and dissemination.
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Watch Shailene Woodley Explain Why She's No Longer in 'The Amazing Spider-Man 2'
Just about a month ago, word got out that Shailene Woodley would not appear in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 as Mary Jane Watson, despite having shot scenes for the film. Apparently the movie was in need of some trimming so the filmmakers made the choice to cut out MJ's brief appearance.
Considering The Amazing Spider-Man 2 will feature the characters from the first film and also introduce us to Jamie Foxx's Electro, Paul Giamatti's the Rhino, Dane DeHaan's Harry Osborn and Chris Cooper's Norman Osborn and have a little something involving the Ravencroft Institute, a prison for supervillains, it does make sense that something had to go.
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Giancarlo Esposito Talks Breaking Bad And Once Upon A Time
All caught up on Breaking Bad? No? First off, how dare you? But, more importantly, watch out because this piece is packed with spoilers!
Earlier this evening Breaking Bad baddie, Giancarlo Esposito, showed off how unlike Gus Fring he really is, enjoying a nice night out with his daughter at the premiere of The Adventures of Tintin. Naturally, after Gus' shocking demise, the obligatory question had to be asked – is that really the end of Gus? While Esposito artfully dodged the question, he does note that "no one dies on Breaking Bad" and that Gus will "definitely be back" perhaps "to put a final stamp on the series' ending."
Regardless of how big Gus' return will be, it looks like Esposito will have another show keeping him quite busy, ABC's Once Upon a Time. So far, we've seen Esposito's Mirror pop up a few times, but the character most certainly has room to grow, especially with the Mirror's intriguing newspaper reporter real life counterpart, and it seems as though the show will take advantage of that opportunity. Esposito explained that he's actually shooting material for the show tomorrow and that we should all keep an eye out for episode 111, teasing his character might be getting closer to the Queen.
Hear it all yourself straight from Esposito in the video interview below and watch out for our full coverage of the red carpet for The Adventures of Tintin closer to the film's December 21st release.
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Steven Spielberg Revisits The T-Rex Roar
My inner fan girl takes over! Earlier this evening, Steven Spielberg took to the red carpet for his upcoming release, The Adventures of Tintin. Keep an eye out for the Tintin coverage closer to the film's December 21st release, but for now, we've got something for all you Jurassic Park diehards out there.
As Jurassic Park is my favorite film of all time – yes, you can certainly quote me on that – it should come as no surprise that I legitimately wake up to the roar of Spielberg's T-rex every morning. After schvitzing quite a bit as Spielberg made his way closer and closer to my spot on the pressline, the time came and I went with my gut – I whipped out my iPhone and showed Spielberg my alarm clock.
What better segue to ask about Jurassic Park 4? Sure, it's been beaten to death at this point, but my T-rex wakeup call did lead to an enthusiastic, albeit new news-less, discussion. Check it out for yourself below.
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Interview: Writer-Directors Jon Hurwitz And Hayden Schlossberg Talk American Reunion
Not only do Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg have the pleasure of seeing Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle turn into a very successful three-film franchise, but now they get to have a hand in a different series of films, something that had a great impact on them when they were first kicking off their career, American Pie.
After a nine-year hiatus, the whole gang is back to celebrate their high school reunion and Hurwitz and Schlossberg are behind the wheel dictating the action. Similarly to what they just did with A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, American Reunion finds its roots in the idea of seeing where these high school stereotypes wind up when they're in their 30s.
While celebrating the release of Harold & Kumar round three, Hurwitz and Schlossberg took the time to talk a bit about American Reunion, how they got the gig, how they worked on that and Harold & Kumar simultaneously and more. Check it all out for yourself below.
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To Post or Not To Post: Reports From 'Hunger Games' Extras
Unofficial set photos are nothing new to the movie news industry. Professional and amateur photographers hang around the set, hoping to get a quick glance at a star they admire or perhaps just a look at the costume design for a particular film. No big deal, right? Personally, I never thought so, until recently.
There's a pretty glaring divide between the images that make their way onto websites every once in a while and the material that's pouring out of the set of The Dark Knight Rises. The film is still about a year away yet I feel as though I've seen the large majority of it. Even if Christopher Nolan does have something up his sleeve, as Anne Hathaway recently suggested, does that make it okay to spoil everything else?
Luckily material hasn't been oozing from The Hunger Games set at the same pace, but we've got the fan sites and Lionsgate to thank for that. Just recently, several outlets received an e-mail from an individual who claimed to have accessed the set illegally and was eager to spill the details. On a less threatening, but still debatable note, legitimate set extras are sharing their stories, too.
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Selena Gomez Is 'Heartbroken' About Ending 'Wizards Of Waverly Place'
Selena Gomez has some bad news for fans of her popular TV series "Wizards of Waverly Place." The Disney star reveals that when she heads back to set to the next season of the show — it will be her last. Gomez told MTV News she was sad to be saying goodbye. But when we caught up with her as she promoted another project, "Ramona and Beezus," due in theaters July 23, she also had plenty to be excited about.
"Unfortunately, I'm doing my last season of my show, which I'm really heartbroken about," the actress told us. "That's gonna be a terrible time for me. I'm gonna do a movie for my show, which I'll be excited to end it with, and then a tour."
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Hub City Comic Con happens August 24-26, 2018. You can see more of their incredible cosplay at the official R Squared Cosplay Facebook Page.
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George Martin – piano and producer.
One of the best major-label heavy rock albums of the era. Stevens was previously with The Boston Tea Party, and also played on Atlee Yeager's solo albums, as did Don Francisco.
Francisco became an L.A. session player and has an extensive recording history into the 1980s.
Originally formed in 1965, this underground band were transformed into a pop-orientated outfit by songwriting duo Howard and Blaikley, who had earlier achieved success with The Honeycombs and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich. Although not psychedelic, their music was packaged to fit the flower power era. Their first Fontana single, the catchy I Can Fly, failed to enter the charts, but the sombre orchestrated follow-up, From The Underworld, reached No 6 in 1967, and the excellent Paradise Lost, notable for its 'stripper music' intro and finale, and I Don't Want Our Loving To Die, reached Nos 15 and 5 respectively in 1968. The group's teen appeal was largely attributable to Peter Frampton, voted 'the face of 1968' in the music journals. However, their next single, Sunshine Cottage, failed to chart and when Frampton quit, appalled by some of the trappings of the music business, the band disintegrated. Of course, he later re-emerged to form Humble Pie - an early Supergroup - with Stevie Marriott, and later attained phenomenal success in the USA as a solo artist. Bown and Spinetti later joined Judas Jump and then formed the folk-rock group, Storyteller, although Bown wasn't actually a member. He also made solo albums and was later in Status Quo. This Boy's Always Been True later resurfaced on Sixties Lost And Found 1964-69.
Predominantly a hard rock album with some soft passages and psychedelic overtones. It has been reissued and is well worth investigating for its good guitar work and vocals. The band have been variously reported as coming from Indiana and Ohio. The album is sought-after among collectors and even the reissue is now hard to find, although Gear Fab are currently working on a legitimate CD release, so watch this space!
The single album released by Haze had another of those extraordinary artwork sleeves designed by Walter Seyffer of Nine Days' Wonder fame. It was made to look exactly like a slide picture, complete with frame and a transparent picture of the group Haze. Hazecolor-Dia was a Hauke & Dierks production, recorded during April 1971 at the Clerks Studio. All five tracks were written by Dietmar Low. Slow, cleverly-arranged heavy progressive numbers with a faint blues tinge, featuring humorous lyrics: "A Way To Find Paradise" told about a hippy's struggle to get his hashish to smoke! Scherler really had a strange and wild voice (he usually screamed as loudly as he could), adding much to their gutsy freak rock style. Several tracks also featured flute (the flute player is not identified on the cover). Haze were probably inspired by The Edgar Broughton Band, Arthur Brown and Captain Beefheart. Their album is recommended for all freak rock fans!
Vincent Crane - Hammond C3 organ.
John DuCann - Fender guitars, vocals.
Preston Heyman - drums, percussion.


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'Queenie' by Candice Carty-Williams
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Fiction – paperback; Trapeze; 392 pages; 2019.
In the past couple of years, I have read dozens of novels about young Millennial women trying to find their place in the world, but none of them was quite like Candice Carty-Williams' Queenie. This brilliantly entertaining read has an upbeat narrator and wears its heart — and its politics — on its sleeve.
Set in modern-day south London, it follows the ups and downs of a young Black journalist, Queenie, as she navigates life without her beloved (white) boyfriend, Tom. The pair have been together for three years but are now on a three-month "break" to refresh their relationship. Or, at least, that's the way Queenie, a glass half full type of person, presents it; Tom has other ideas.
When the book opens, Queenie is at a sexual health clinic getting a contraceptive coil fitted. The medical staff tell her that she has uterine scarring, which indicates she previously had a miscarriage, something she had been unaware of, and now she's caught up by the idea that she could have had a baby with Tom. It's a devastating realisation, but it's too late to tell him because he's already told her to move out of their shared flat.
As she enters the dubious, grubby world of share house living, things go from bad to worse (the scenes in which Queenie inspects properties with lecherous landlords and is interviewed by overly fussy tenants with rooms to let would be outrageously funny if they weren't so close to the bone), but she remains cheerful and upbeat through it all, telling her tight group of friends that it's only a temporary arrangement — she'll be back living with Tom soon enough.
Meanwhile, determined to find herself a new man to occupy her time, she makes a string of bad choices, sleeps with men who don't quite have her best interests at heart and succumbs to the advances of a stalker-like guy at work who turns out to be not all that he seems. (Be warned, there's a lot of casual sex in this novel — and quite a few visits to a sexual health clinic as a result.)
And all the while she tries to make a name for herself at work as a writer on a newspaper that keeps turning down her ideas for politically outspoken features because they aren't "palatable" enough for a supposedly white-liberal audience.
Yet the more Queenie forges ahead with her new life without Tom, the more she mourns his loss and the more she tries to compensate for this by looking for love in all the wrong places. This begins to take a toll on her working life and her mental health to the point at which something has to give…
A Millennial Bridget Jones
Queenie is essentially Bridget Jones for the 21st Century — with one important difference. Bridget Jones didn't have to spend her whole life dealing with casual racism.
It's Queenie's support of the Black Lives Matter movement and the ways in which she is constantly made aware that she comes from a non-white background that gives this story its edge. There are many toe-curling scenes involving white people behaving badly, saying clearly offensive things and failing to understand what they've done wrong. Even Tom doesn't get it: on more than one occasion he doesn't even bother standing up to relatives who make slurs against his girlfriend, excusing them because "they're old and don't know any better".
It's relentlessly dispiriting and yet Queenie keeps forging on, helped in part by an amazing group of girlfriends (Kyazike, her Ugandan friend, is a stand-out character, outspoken and resilient, the kind of person who says all the things you think but are too afraid to say) and a loving set of maternal grandparents whose Caribbean ways don't always chime with what's best for their granddaughter.
It also helps that Queenie's got a wicked sense of humour — her constant wisecracks really do give the novel its wry comic flavour even if the story does stray into some very dark territory.
I admit that I raced through this novel in the space of a weekend, unable to forget about Queenie's many problems whenever I put the book down.
It's a thoroughly modern tale, complete with WhatsApp chats and work emails integrated into the narrative, and tackles all kinds of issues, including racism, sexual harassment, domestic violence, mental health and identity, without banging the reader over the head. I loved spending time with Queenie, her crazy cohort of friends and her proud grandparents.
This is my 13th book for #20booksofsummer 2021 edition. I bought it from my local independent bookstore last year. It is also my 8th book for #BIPOC2021, which is my plan to read more books by black, Indigenous and people of colour this year.
Tagged #BIPOC2021, 20 books of summer (2021), Candice Carty-Williams
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11 thoughts on "'Queenie' by Candice Carty-Williams"
heavenali says:
I loved this too, I read it with my book group. I loved Queenie, and worried for her too. The Bridget Jones tag annoyed me, for all those reasons you state, the two women's experiences of life so entirely different.
Yes, I worried for Queenie… I kind of wanted to step in and give her some advice! And yes, she's not like Bridget Jones, who came from a comfortable middle class background and enjoyed all the privileges with being white, but there are similarities in the sense they're both working in the media and both looking for love.
Liz Dexter says:
I loved this book so much. I got cross about the Black Bridget Jones tag till I found out the author was comfortable with it. SO much better than Bridget though. It reminded me of my rackety South London 20s and was the best millennials in London book I've read so far (and I've read a few). Loved her friend group and the mental health theme.
I feel bad now, because I mentioned Bridget Jones… I've not seen other reviews of this book so wasn't aware that others had drawn comparisons. But as point out in my review, Bridget didn't have to deal with racism. And as I say to Ali (above) she wasn't from a comfortable middle-class family either.
Agree about this being one of the best of a bunch of millennial-focused stories. I think this one was far less naval-gazing and angst-ridden than other ones I've read. I enjoyed the wry humour in it.
Kate Dwyer says:
I also really enjoyed it when I read it – it was great entertainment.
Yes, a quick fun read even if it does stray into some dark territory.
I really enjoyed this novel and thought the comic writing was excellent. I also appreciated the more serious dimension of the story, although I felt the rich, spoilt Jewish character was terribly lazy stereotyping that was at odds with one of the central messages in the book.
Hmmm… was Cassandra the Jewish character? I can't recall and I don't have the book with me to check. But that's an interesting point… she has definitely linked Cassandra with money which *is* a Jewish stereotype 🤔
yep, Cassandra is an antisemitic caricature of a Jew – and not only that but the author crafts part of her storyline seemingly AGAINST the idea that Jews count as a minority. Cassandra plays the role of a money-lender who leads a life full of privilege (she says, "if you run out of money, why don't you just use your other money?" and talks about her dad helping her to get a job) but who still (annoyingly, to Queenie) talks about her minority status. Queenie recalls how they met when Cassandra introduced herself as Jewish and said they could be the two minorities together. The author pointedly juxtaposes Cassandra's privilege with Queenie's situation to insult Jewish minority status. I can't imagine any other group of people having their minority status and the difficulties they face insulted in this way, but apparently you can do it to Jews and still get multiple awards and plenty of positive reviews.
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Building the next generation AI systems
ERC grantee Martin Vechev, originally from Bulgaria, is a computer science professor at ETH Zurich and the leader of its research lab working in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). His ERC-funded project was the first to combine advanced programming languages with machine learning technics, aiming to fundamentally change how developers build software. Based on the results of his ERC project, he co-founded a start-up that was recently acquired by a leading cybersecurity company. In this interview, Vechev talks about his ERC-funded work, AI breakthroughs, and Europe's future in the field of AI.
Your ERC-funded BIGCODE project aimed to change the way developers build and reason about software. Could you tell us more about it? With the project nearly finished, did you achieve what you set out to do?
My team and I combine two rather different computer science worlds, advanced programming languages and machine learning, to develop new probabilistic models for learning-based systems. These are the systems able to automatically learn and improve from their experience.
Our project built numerous such systems and was instrumental in shaping and creating a new sub-area of learning, triggering follow-up research in the process. Some of the systems we built during the project are already widely used. For example, JSNice for converting a complicated code into a simple form has hundreds of thousands of users.
Based on the results of the BIGCODE project you co-founded a spin-off called DeepCode, which was recently acquired by a billion-dollar company in cybersecurity. What does DeepCode do?
The success of the big code systems we built in academia encouraged us to create an even more broadly applicable tool. One from which every developer and company in the world could benefit. We wanted to address the issue of programmers spending a lot of time on reviewing and fixing code, rather than creating new one. This is how DeepCode came to life in 2016.
To explain what DeepCode does, we could use an analogy with Grammarly, a system that takes as input a sentence (code in our case) and produces automated suggestions for how to fix the sentence (the code). Our technology automatically examines billions of lines of code found in open source repositories and learns how to detect and repair defects in new, unseen, code. This is unlike any other system today.
What makes your work frontier research?
I think our project successfully shows what ERC grants are all about. We developed fundamentally new techniques that helped expand a new area in science. Our project built widely used systems demonstrating the potential of the methods, and the international scientific community recognised our work and breakthroughs at the highest level. This project ultimately helped create a successful high-tech start-up, leading to more jobs and opportunities in Europe.
We also received various awards for our frontier work. The one I am most proud of is the prestigious ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award given to my former PhD student Veselin Raychev. It was only the third time in the 40-year history of the award that a European PhD was recognised.
Your project's long-term goal is building a system that could write sophisticated code by itself, which would be a step towards general AI. How far are you from achieving this goal?
We are still decades away from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of understanding and performing any task that a human can. By 'we', I mean any research label or a company, not just my lab. It is because the breakthroughs behind AI technology in the last few years were happening in closed world domains, where the AI models were trained and optimised for a specific task.
For example, OpenAI Five won against the best human team in the Dota 2 (an online battle video game) in 2019. It was in a setting where the game was fixed and rules were known. The same applies to programming: so far, AI can only perform tasks where the programming language and the task are fixed a priori.
While we can build AI models that solve specific tasks well, even better than humans do, this is typically possible because AI learns from massive datasets by finding useful patterns and shortcuts, not because it possesses cognitive abilities to generalise from its prior knowledge.
Many AI experts claim that the development of GPT-3 – a language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text – is last year's biggest AI breakthrough. Would you say that your current approach to general AI is still competitive?
Yes, not only is our approach competitive, it is significantly superior to what GPT-3 can achieve and will be able to achieve with its current approach. For example, models like GPT-3 completely fail when tasks require abstraction and reasoning. While this system might be able to provide statistically likely solutions, it cannot reason about them.
In our work, we focus on building the next generation AI systems. We combine the strength of traditional symbolic search techniques that are an effective approach for developing AI system's reasoning capabilities, and the more recent statistical methods that allow systems to learn from data.
How do you see the impact of AI on labour markets?
AI could enable humans to focus on what they are good at – being creative – while letting machines do the repetitive work that can be automated. I also expect advancements in AI to create entirely new jobs. For example, those involving deeper interactions with AI agents to accomplish a task.
What could be the biggest strength in the European AI industry's future, and what still needs to be improved?
Europe could establish itself as a leader in certain areas of AI where it is traditionally strong and which are becoming more and more important. These are, for example, safety, robustness and fairness of AI models. However, what could perhaps still be improved is the AI start-up ecosystem, where experimenting with new AI products is still more easily done in the U.S. I believe this is changing rapidly, with the ERC being a very important ingredient for closing the gap.
How important was the ERC grant for the success of your research?
The ERC grant enabled us to focus on the core research questions over a longer period, contributing to a conceptual and fundamental level of our research, but also to our ability to build systems from beginning to end. This kind of freedom was instrumental to achieving our goals and establishing Europe as a leader in this field. As I have spoken before at the European Parliament on this topic, I believe the ERC is a key ingredient for helping drive deep technological innovations.
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Unite the Resistance | Solidarity from Unite the Resistance to striking Post Office workers!
Solidarity from Unite the Resistance to striking Post Office workers!
Post Office Admin and Supply Chain depots and units were hit by nationwide walkouts today, as hundreds of angry staff took action against the threat of compulsory redundancies and for a fair pay rise.
Lively pickets and rock-solid action was reported from locations north, south, east and west, with Post Office spending taxpayers' money on deploying many of their managers on the controversial "rapid response teams" of replacement drivers in a futile attempt to break the strike.
Once again, I'm very proud of the courage, determination and fighting spirit of our members who stood up to bullying bosses and made a stand for fairness and dignity at work today.
Both Dave and assistant secretary Andy Furey attended this morning's picket at the rain-swept East London Depot, where they told strikers that next Monday's postal executive will be discussing a formal proposal from them to hold a nationwide strike ballot of all Post Office members.
From Glasgow, CWU unit rep Alan McLachlan reported "100 per cent support.
"Everyone's up for the fight, and for as long as it takes. As soon as they open the door to compulsory redundancies then it's just going to keep coming back at us," he pointed out.
Managers in Birmingham have also been sending inexperienced and under-trained replacement drivers out to try to break the will of the union, according to CWU branch secretary Steve Reid, and as in London and elsewhere, this management tactic has failed.
Morale in Manchester was boosted by barbecue sausages on the picket line, from where unit rep Steve Rigbyreported: "Not one of our lads went in and we're ready to go again if we need to.
Swindon Stock Centre, and other Admin grades workers strongly backed the action too, said CWU rep Lynn Simpson. "Our members have only taken action once before, but they're absolutely united in their determination to stop compulsory redundancies," she explained.
"Hammering rain" in Swansea could not dampen the spirits of our striking members, said CWU rep Rob Jones. "Today was a good show of solidarity, everyone out and only three managers went in.
"It's all about the compulsory redundancies – we've got to stop them," he vowed.
Up in the north east, Newcastle rep Keith Gibson and his colleagues are "already planning for the next strike and digging in for a tough fight.


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Nigeria's Central Bank Centralises Regulation Of Islamic Banking
VENTURES AFRICA – Nigeria's Central Bank has become the latest regulator to opt for a centralised approach to Islamic Banking after it issued guidelines for an advisory body that will oversee the industry in the country. Nigeria has the largest Muslim population in sub-Saharan Africa, virtually half of the country's 170 million people.
The advisory body, known as the Financial Regulation Advisory Council of Experts, will be tasked with ensuring all banking products that are designated as Islamic conform to sharia principles. The Central Bank guidelines, published on Friday, set out minimum requirements for the advisory body, which will comprise a minimum of five members including one of its official. Members will serve renewable two-year terms, must be qualified in Islamic jurisprudence, and are restricted from working for any other financial institution supervised by the central bank. The guideline also stipulates that the advisory body will be guided by the principles of sharia governance issued by the Malaysia-based Islamic Financial Services Board.
Although Islamic banks have long practiced self-regulation, a centralised model of supervision is increasingly being favoured across much of the world. Morocco is one of the several countries that have adopted such format in a bid to limit differences between products, speed the design of new products and boost investor confidence
Financial institutions that offer Islamic banking products in Nigeria are already required to have their own boards of sharia finance experts, who are limited to serving in one institution at a time. However, the centralization is part of the effort to establish the country as the African hub for Islamic finance.
(Ventures / 23 February 2015)
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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Sets Guidelines For Islamic Finance Advisory Body
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has issued guidelines for an advisory body that will oversee Islamic banking in Nigeria, becoming the latest regulator to opt for a centralised approach to the industry.
Nigeria's advisory body, known as the Financial Regulation Advisory Council of Experts, will be tasked with ensuring all banking products that are designated as Islamic conform to sharia principles.
The guidelines, published on Friday, set out minimum requirements for the advisory body, which will comprise a minimum of five members including a CBN official.
Members will serve renewable two-year terms, must be qualified in Islamic jurisprudence, and are restricted from working for any other financial institution supervised by the CBN.
Financial institutions that offer Islamic banking products in Nigeria are already required to have their own boards of sharia finance experts, who are limited to serving in one institution at a time.
The CBN's advisory body will be guided by the principles of sharia governance issued by the Malaysia-based Islamic Financial Services Board.
Countries including Bahrain and Morocco have opted for such a format, which can help to limit differences between products, speed the design of new products and boost investor confidence.
(Channel Television / 23 February 2014)
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Yes. This is actually happening.
BBC News reports that due the UN Human Rights Council are set to sit down and discuss the ethics of using robots capable of killing. Now this may sound somewhat silly, but its actually an interesting question raised about the future of modern warfare. The robots in question are autonomous machines that have no direct human control, unlike the drones currently used by the US military for strikes on suspected hostile areas.
These questions are set to be pondered in the next few months.


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olek it's not just a building, we don't want Lunky in Prague, kf drustva fand
Can you describe how Drustvo fan Bohemians works?
The answer to this question is not entirely simple, because a functioning DFB has its own dual character. The first way is that DFB works by default like any other company in the Czech Republic. The custodians meet at the custodial meetings, where they choose their representative to the board of directors, who is the executive body of the custodians, and to the supervision of the commission.
At the same time, the nature of the DFB differs from other crustaceans. Drustevs pay their pensions without thinking for a moment about the fact that perhaps their deposits are sometimes drilled. By its very nature, the DFB's primary mission is to support the Bohemians Praha 1905 football club, not to make a profit. The company has sent more than 10 million crowns to the football club in various ways during its existence. And for their property, the DFB will always have a duty to support the club in difficult times. As a result, we are faced with the obligation to mitigate the effects of the crisis crisis on the club's budget.
From your position, it is obvious that you communicate with fans often. How can I explain to them somehow not exactly popular?
DFB has more than 2,300 members and the fan is going a lot more. Therefore, it would be mistaken to declare that I can always explain. Especially some unpopular measures often arouse large winds and it is not easy to reach a generally satisfying agreement. It is then up to the board of directors to take responsibility and make a decision on which there may not be a 100% consensus of everyone and the fan. Nevertheless, fans believe in the world that the decisions we make as the DFB Board of Directors are always welcome in an effort to find the optimal member of the club.
I am interested in one darkness regarding communication. How is it, to be on one example about the reconstruction of the alder? Do they take a master's degree as an equal partner?
I'm sorry about that. We have earned this position with the persistent attitude that the city has to be reconstructed in such a way as to meet the basic criteria for the European Cup. We want a modern stadium for eight and ten thousand people, which will be a decent country not only for our club in the coming decades. We support our current strong position with factual arguments and a willingness to promote good money. We are glad that the fans are very happy at the preparations for the architectural competition and that their voice is heard.
So what is the repair of the olka in? Did she get stuck on them?
Activities and intensive one Drustva fan Bohemians at the owner on the Marin nmst started sometime three years ago, and if one landing is ever stuck, I can not read. Our arguments for a reasonable reconstruction are very strong. Any serious politician who was willing to listen to them soon realized that there were only two options for the City Stadium. The first is that this city property is repaired so that it can be used for its sports and social class, or the second that it will be introduced very soon for the poor technical condition. Unfortunately, it would probably be not only the end of the famous Bohemians club, but such an urban planning as in Brno, where the Za Lunkami stadium is falling apart in the city center.
I can't imagine the second option. olek to Vrovice and Prague free pat and Bohemka pat to olku. We are in the process of preparing an architectural competition and the fans are happy about it. olek deserved a sensitive reconstruction from the best architects in order to preserve the charm of the future. It will be clear that in 2022 we will know the project and in the next year there will be a club in a decent stadium of the 21st century.
Are you promised by the master? Can fans really take part in vtze soute for five years?
Vm v to. The great hope that the revitalization of Vrovice and olka will soon be taken a step further is the addition of a memorandum between the city council and the magistrate. In addition, the parties to the memorandum note the current state of the area as unsatisfactory and declare a joint will to cooperate in its gradual reconstruction and revitalization of the land associated with it. At one of ours, we are politicians willing to announce an architectural competition around the country as soon as possible in 2022. At the same time, however, we realize that the city is a highly bureaucratic organization and everything is coming. Therefore, the DFB's work is far from over.
olek years ago saved the first management of the capital. How do you remember this period?
So she did not fall from the same heaven. The fact that the football club has returned to its aristocratic stadium and managed to revert to the league is something unique not only from a European but even a global point of view. Not only did DFB, but a kangaroo fan community in general, precede this. Convincing the political representation and giving the political representation enough chickens to make a profit, but nevertheless a step forward, was around with an uncertain end. This means that at that time the club had to face the circumstances of the unfinished bankruptcy and the elites taking steps from the former bad owner of the club.
Eventually, a number of state politicians and visions found themselves, who realized that the attraction is not just a building, but a significant sports facility with a long history and long-term future. And for that, thank you very much: fans, residents of Vrovice, politicians, sports and cultural personalities who at the time supported the preservation of olka.
According to vs tkv, the magic of the Vrovice stadium? Is there anything you are proud of?
If fans have their home stadium, that's not surprising. olek m bag has the specific feature that it has a lot of games and opponents fans. The answer is, for that, it's not like that. Due to the tightness of the space and the steep main grandstand, there is contact between the game and the fan immediately. Therefore, it is also true that a possibly mischievous and unfair game is then quickly revealed through the eyes of the fan, and the reaction of the audience is also quick. The bag is currently able, and I'm proud of that, to appreciate a good game of the opponent's darkness. The players so often hear applause when they leave the cabin. At what other stadium, not only in R, can the fans from the main grandstand and the balcony in the vicinity? Where else can I get on the trams that stumble, which someone from the street kicks back to the stadium? According to me, olek has always been a phenomenon of city stadiums with a unique atmosphere, unique location and unique direct contact between the game, the girls and its surroundings.
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Drifting into September feels like taking a deep breath. Locals come back out to play, Seasonnaires are still around and everyone seems to have a little more time for the important things in life, like each other! It's also a time when we start to say fond farewells to those who have been such a big part of the journey for the summer and now head back out to Uni, city life, or set off on their travels.
This year we have been so blessed with our team - Harry (top) is back off to York for his final year studying drama next week. He came to us a coffee enthusiast and leaves two months on as a very gifted barista (ask him for a 'swan' next time you order a flat white!). Harry's brought awesome energy and hilarity to the kitchen and we'll miss him very much. Next we have Honesty (above) who has been catering dynamite, dishing out consistently 'wow' food really fast, with such diligence and humility. Honesty is moving to South Wales to plan her next steps. Such an honour to work with both of these guys and the best news for us is - hopefully - they'll both be back next year!
It's really exciting to welcome Ffion, who is with us now for the next stint until October half term. Joff (below) is just about to finish the first year of his theology degree, and Tubestation has now agreed to host a second intern - Sarah Elks yeeewww! After spending the summer working with us, Sarah has delayed her Midwifery degree so that she can spent the next year as an SWYM (South West Youth Ministries) intern at Tubestation which is awesome!
The Sunday Session this week with the wonderful Sophie Doyle speaking on health and wellbeing, and music from the Oscillators.
2019 Wadebridge Holiday Club - meeting 7.30 evening of Sept 25th at Cornerstone Wadebridge for anyone who is interested in helping out, it's great fun!


You climbed a narrow staircase to the office of The Austin Sun. There was always someone working, be it 3am or pm. At peak times (so it seems in memory), everyone talked at once, one or another crucial piece of machinery had just broken down, and a teenage Margaret Moser, in cut-offs and tank top, sat on a windowsill (the only cool spot) eager for whatever came next.
In that environment, I met James BigBoy Medlin. He was still driving a beer truck with his sidekick, an affable and very dangerous carny guy named Clint. Big showed no trace of his excellent education or his battleground wound in Nam. Contrary to his roaring reputation, he was quiet, watchful – in daylight; nighttime was a different deal.
Big and I had some basic stuff very much in common: We were pushing 30 and we thought of ourselves as writers, but we weren't yet published. The Austin Sun was our shot. We were equally devoted to playing that hand for all it was worth.
Fast-forward 30-odd years later – years of living by his wits, typing two-finger style, earning his keep as what I call a "working writer": James BigBoy Medlin sat down in his indescribably decorated garage in Venice, Calif., to write the novels that he was finally ready to face.
As a working writer myself, I can tell you that if you're playing for high stakes it doesn't get much scarier than turning from what you know how to do and attempting what no one knows how to do: write a novel – because if Great Expectations and Naked Lunch are novels, then what's a novel? Big – Mr. Medlin, to you – found himself writing something as funny as it was dark, a tale with no heroes and no answers, that, after many a raucous romp, ends up kind of scary (in a quiet way).
Now that I think of it, Mr. Medlin is kind of like that: raucous, rompish, a good-times cat if ever there was one – and kind of scary, in a quiet way.


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Sara Sankey is an ex England International who has 98 caps for her Country, over 17 years.
She played for England juniors from U11 all the way through to U17, where at the age of 17 she first represented England at senior level. As a junior she won numerous International tournaments, not to mention every National title from U11 to U17.
As a senior England International, Sara played in 7 World Championships, 8 Uber Cups, 7 European Championships, 3 Commonwealth Games and 1 Olympics.
She has won various titles around the World and competed in most Countries. In the Commonwealth Games in 1990 in Auckland she won Team Gold and Ladies Doubles Gold in the individual as well as Silver in the Mixed Doubles. In 1998 in Kuala Lumpar she won Gold in the Team event, having just come back from a very serious injury that happened 10 weeks before. In 2002 in Manchester, this was Sara's farewell performances in her beloved Lancashire, where she gained a Gold in the Team event and a Bronze in the Mixed Doubles.
In the European Championships, she won 5 Silver Team medals, 1 Bronze Team Medal and 3 bronzes in the Ladies Doubles Individual event over three decades, in the 80's 90's and 00's.


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Трихинеллёз ( синоним: трихиноз) — гельминтоз из группы нематодозов, характеризующийся лихорадкой, миалгиями, отеком лица, кожными сыпями, эозинофилией крови, а при тяжелом течении — поражением внутренних органов и центральной нервной системы.

Этиология
Возбудитель — трихинелла Trichinella spiralis. Половозрелые самки и самцы паразитируют в тонкой кишке. Длина тела самки 1,5—1,8 мм, после оплодотворения — до 4,4 мм; длина тела самца 1,2—2 мм. После оплодотворения самцы погибают, самки через 2 сут. после инвазии начинают производить личинок, которые через ткани слизистой оболочки кишки проникают в кровеносные и лимфатические сосуды и разносятся по всему организму, оседая в поперечнополосатой мускулатуре. В зависимости от интенсивности инвазии выделение самками личинок продолжается 4—6 нед., после чего паразиты погибают.

Юная личинка через сарколемму проникает в мышечное волокно, частично его разрушая. Вокруг личинки развивается клеточный инфильтрат, а через 3—4 нед. после инвазии формируется фиброзная капсула с сетью кровеносных сосудов. Стенки капсулы постепенно утолщаются, импрегнируются солями кальция. Личинки остаются жизнеспособными много лет. При прогревании сырого мяса до 62,2°C погибают все личинки.  Человек заражается чаще всего при употреблении инвазированного личинками трихинелл мяса (гл. обр. мясо свиньи) или сала (жирового слоя) с прослойками мышечной ткани.

Клиническая картина
Обычно заражение протекает без особых симптомов или осложнений. Трихинеллы первоначально располагаются в кишечнике. В течение 1—2 дней после заражения начинаются такие симптомы, как тошнота, изжога, диспепсия и диарея; тяжесть этих симптомов зависит от степени заражения. Позднее, в зависимости от расположения паразита в различных частях тела, могут появиться головная боль, лихорадка, озноб, кашель, отеки, боль в суставах и мышцах, зуд.

Большинство симптомов может наблюдаться в течение нескольких лет. В самом опасном случае паразит проникает в центральную нервную систему. Он не может там выжить, но причиняет ущерб, достаточный для получения серьёзного неврологического расстройства (например, атаксии или паралича дыхательных путей) и даже смерти.

Трихинеллёзное поражение глаз сопровождается экзофтальмом, отеком лица, односторонним птозом; наблюдаются диплопия, слабость конвергенции, боли при движениях глаз, внутриглазные кровоизлияния и др. После этого трихинеллы внедряются в мышцы, где образуют вокруг себя оболочку, после этого симптомы проявляются редко. Иногда наблюдается боль в мышцах.

Возбудитель

Самец длиной 1,4—1,6 мм, шириной 0,14 мм. Самка вдвое крупнее — 3—4 мм длины, живородящие. Червь может поражать любые виды млекопитающих. Если животное ест мясо, которое содержит цисты, кислота в желудке растворяет покрытие, освобождая червей. Черви находятся в тонком кишечнике, и в течение 1—2 дней становятся зрелыми. После спаривания женские особи производят личинок. Личинки могут проникнуть в любую ткань, но могут выжить только в скелетных мышцах.

Диагностика
Анализ крови или мышечная биопсия выявляет трихинеллёз.

Лечение

Лечение симптоматическое аспирином и кортикостероидами. Тиабендазол может убить взрослых червей в кишечнике, однако пока не существует лечения, которое убивает личинки.
Лечение больных со всеми формами трихинеллёза, кроме стёртых, проводят в стационаре, поскольку возможны прогрессирование болезни и тяжелые побочные реакции на специфическое лечение. Лечение больных со стёртыми и лёгкими формами трихинеллёза, а также больных, поступивших под наблюдение в периоде реконвалесценции после заболевания средней тяжести, проводят противовоспалительными нестероидными средствами. Специфическое лечение — мебендазолом проводят больным трихинеллёзом средней тяжести и тяжелобольным. Мебендазол назначают взрослым по 0,3 г в сутки (детям в дозе 5 мг на 1 кг массы тела) в 3 приема после еды в течение 7—10 дней в зависимости от тяжести болезни. Для предупреждения побочных аллергических реакций в ответ на гибель паразитов специфическое лечение проводят на фоне противовоспалительной терапии ибупрофеном или диклофенаком. Глюкокортикоиды назначают вместе со специфическими препаратами при тяжелом течении заболевания с органными поражениями — преднизолон в дозе от 30 до 80 мг в сутки или 6—10 мг дексаметазона в сутки на период химиотерапии с быстрым снижением дозы препарата после 5—7 дней его применения.

Вынужденное положение больного и его обездвиженность требуют ухода с изменением его положения в постели, после выведения из тяжелого состояния — массажа, пассивной, а затем активной гимнастики.

Профилактика
Существуют следующие рекомендации:
 Не употреблять мясо, не прошедшее лабораторный контроль с отрицательным результатом.
 Готовить мясо диких животных максимально тщательно. Нагревать мясо необходимо до достижения температуры +77 °С в глубине куска.
 Замораживание мяса диких животных даже в течение длительного времени может быть неэффективным. Это происходит потому, что эти виды трихинелл более устойчивы к замораживанию, чем виды, которые заражают свиней. При обычной температуре замороженного мяса (−10 °С) личинки Т. spiralis выживают долго, при −12 °С до 57 дней, при −18 °С до 21 часа. Личинки Т. nativa выдерживают замораживание до −23 °С в течение 3 дней, а при −16 °С они сохраняют инвазионность в течение 20 мес. При посоле возбудители трихинеллёза могут сохраняться в глубине куска до 1 года.
 Анализ добытой туши животного проводится через микроскоп (трихинеллоскоп), путём 24-кратного нарезания продольно волокнам полосок ткани из разных участков (язык, гортань, брюшные мышцы) размером 5×5×2 мм, точность такого «полевого» метода 70—80 %, операции выполняются в разовых перчатках, нарезание производится разовым лезвием (канцелярский нож).

Интересные факты
 Трихинеллёз является вероятной причиной гибели некоторых полярных путешественников, в частности, от него могли умереть члены шведской экспедиции Саломона Андре (1897), питавшиеся заражённым мясом белых медведей.

Примечания

Литература

 Мезенцев С. В. Дератизация при трихинеллёзе птиц // Вестник Алтайского государственного аграрного университа. 2015. № 12 (134). С. 107—111.

Ссылки
 http://www.sci.aha.ru/ATL/ra57c.htm
 http://www.infectology.ru/nosology/parasitic/helmintoses/trichinellosis.aspx
 http://www.med.unipi.it/ict/ICT%20Recommendations%20for%20Control.English.pdf

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The specification an implementation of these letters makes them significantly less useful than intended. This also means that 'A' does not match the intent of LDML/CLDR.
This new definition will not change the definition of the single letters 'A', 'n' and 'N'. It will also not change the definition where there are enough letters to handle the maximum field value, eg 'nnnnnnnnn'. The only cases it changes are cases like 'AA', 'AAA' and 'AAAA' which are essentially unusable today. Since this is changing patterns are not currently usable, it seems reasonable to argue that it is a bug fix and not a major change to the spec. That said, I don't think this can be backported to Java 8.
The user-facing documentation in `DateTimeFormatter` is vague enough that this change can be made. It would benefit from clarification that pattern letters 'A', 'n' and 'N' may have any number of letters and that the value will always output, zero padded if necessary.
Note that JDK-8148947 proposes pattern letter 'g' which is another example of this kind of format.


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At Joaquin Miller Park, volunteers hit the trails
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1of5Dave Sturgis helps to fix a trail at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland on November 23rd 2013. Near 500 volunteers have pitched in to help fix up the park by fixing trails, pulling weeds, and putting in new trail signs.Sam Wolson/Special to the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of5A volunteer uses a tool to help fix a trail at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland on November 23rd 2013. Near 500 volunteers have pitched in to help fix up the park by fixing trails, pulling weeds, and putting in new trail signs.Sam Wolson/Special to the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of5Brent Englund, left, chats with a group of volunteers before heading out to Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland to help fix a trail on November 23rd 2013. Near 500 volunteers have pitched in to help fix up the park by fixing trails, pulling weeds, and putting in new trail signs.Sam Wolson/Special to the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
4of5Volunteers help to fix a trail at Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland on November 23rd 2013. Near 500 volunteers have pitched in to help fix up the park by fixing trails, pulling weeds, and putting in new trail signs.Sam Wolson/Special to the ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Oakland's parks maintenance budget may be dwindling, but you'd never guess that by taking a stroll through the redwoods at Joaquin Miller Park.
Thanks to more than 600 volunteers, the popular 500-acre expanse in the hills looks better than it has in decades. Clean trails, less erosion, new trail signs, less Scotch broom and more oaks are all due to the efforts of hikers, bicyclists, dog walkers, gardeners, horseback riders and others.
"Oh my gosh - we are so grateful," said naturalist Stephanie Benavidez, a supervisor for the city's Parks and Recreation Department. "All that beauty - the greenery, the redwoods - is part of what makes this city special, and we couldn't keep it up without volunteers."
Oakland has slashed its parks maintenance budget over the past few years, leaving only a skeletal staff to care for the city's 130 or so parks, playgrounds and open spaces. In many cases, volunteers have stepped in to fill the gap, doing everything from picking up trash to pruning roses.
Perhaps no park has such an array of uses as Joaquin Miller. In its various hillside pockets is an amphitheater, a dog run, a picnic area, a horse arena, miles of trails, a native plant nursery, a grand cascading man-made waterfall and numerous oddball structures built by the late poet Joaquin Miller, including his own funeral pyre.
Many of the trails and structures date from the 1930s or earlier, as the city took over Miller's property and nearby acreage that had been mostly cleared by loggers after the Gold Rush.
The park is now covered with a thick forest of second-growth redwoods, oaks and bays, and connects to thousands of acres of open space owned by the East Bay Regional Park District.
On a recent Saturday, about 35 mountain bicyclists gathered to build a bypass to the Cinderella Trail to protect an adjacent creek from erosion.
Using grant money from REI, and under the supervision of park staff, the group was using pickaxes and tampers to reroute the trail along a hillside so it would be less steep and less likely to flood when the creek overflowed.
"This park is a great treasure," said Brent Englund, a production manager from Oakland who was helping lead the day's work. "Just a few minutes from the city you can be in the woods, away from it all."
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Tom Gandesbery, an environmental consultant from Piedmont, said he decided to get involved because he'd been enjoying its trails for two decades, and figured it was time to give back.
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Q: Vector drawable in any location within text view (not outside of it) Is there a way to add a drawable in any position within a text view programmatically without having to position it on a particular side of a text view? The following code works when using unicode character but I want to try the same with a vector drawable.
textView.text = getString(R.string.app_settings) + " \u2794 " + getString(R.string.display)

A: For me, ImageSpan works.
You can put a delimiter and replace it with the drawable. I used a google icon in this example
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Code with delimiter replacement:
    Drawable drawable = ContextCompat.getDrawable(this, R.drawable.google_icon);
    drawable.setBounds(0, 0, 100,100);

    String text = " Google %google_icon% icon";
    String delimiter = "%google_icon%";

    int icon_index = text.indexOf("%google_icon%");
    text = text.replace(delimiter," ");

    Spannable span = new SpannableString(text);
    ImageSpan image = new ImageSpan(drawable, ImageSpan.ALIGN_BASELINE);
    span.setSpan(image, icon_index, icon_index+1, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

    textView.setText(span);

Or, you can place the drawable on any index like:
span.setSpan(image, start_index, end_index, Spannable.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

PS: I used Display1 in text appearance. You need to change drawable bounds according to your own needs.

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It's actually a hang-on from my days as a plain old C developer, most of the time it's not relevant to C# but there's one particular instance where it is.
So when we run this, we might not get the result we expect.
I actually wrote about this in an article some time ago, but back then I was talking about doing it deliberately, and as part of a work of extreme evil.
OK, so that's a convoluted example and in reality you're unlikely to cause yourself serious problems in C# because C# is very strict about the result of whatever's in an if statement being Boolean. So if you did accidentally write this, it wouldn't compile.
This is because the result of assigning null to someObject is null, which is not a Boolean.
However in C the equivalent will compile and will run. In C anything that evaluates to zero is treated as false and anything that evaluates to non-zero is treated as true.
This will crash every time, because we're actually assigning NULL to the value someStruct. The result of that assignment is zero, which evaluates to false, so execution skips the contents of the if statement and goes directly to where the structure is accessed – the structure that we've just assigned to NULL.
This won't compile, because you can't assign the value in the variable someStruct to the constant NULL.
So, in a nutshell, that's why when I'm comparing a variable to a constant I tend to put the constant first.
This entry was posted in Technology on 2014-02-27 by Tom Fosdick.