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Uncanny Valley
By: Anna Wiener
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Categories: Business & Careers, Women in Business
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The prescient account of a journey into Silicon Valley: a defining memoir for our digital age.
At 25 years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else's phone had worn thin. Within a year she had moved to San Francisco to take up a job at a data analytics start-up in Silicon Valley. Leaving her business-casual skirts and shirts in the wardrobe, she began working in company-branded T-shirts and hoodies. She had a healthy income for the first time in her life. She felt like part of the future.
But a tide was beginning to turn. People were speaking of tech start-ups as surveillance companies. Out of 60 employees, only 8 of her colleagues were women. Casual sexism was rife. Sexual harassment cases were proliferating. And soon, like everyone else, she was addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing social media, scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. Slowly, she began to realise that her blind faith in ambitious, arrogant young men from America's soft suburbs wasn't just her own personal pathology. It had become a global affliction.
Uncanny Valley is a coming of age story set against the backdrop of our generation's very own gold rush. It's a story about the tension between old and new, between art and tech, between the quest for money and the quest for meaning - about how our world is changing forever.
©2020 Anna Wiener (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Biographies & Memoirs Women in Business Workplace Culture
"Joan Didion at a startup." (Rebecca Solnit, best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me)
"This was the memoir I'd been waiting for. A witty, unique perspective and fresh insight showing us the behind the scenes of the tech industry in a new thrilling way." (Emma Gannon)
"A rare mix of acute, funny, up-to-the-minute social observation, dead-serious contemplation of the tech industry's annexation of our lives, and a sincere first-person search for meaningful work and connection. How does an unworn pair of plain sneakers become a monument to the end of sensuousness? Read on." (William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days)
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What listeners say about Uncanny Valley
Engaging narrator, thin content
It rattles along but really it felt like a magazine article stretched into a book.
Zebra Karma
Underwhelming.
I'm baffled as to why this memoir has received so many rave reviews in the press and been named in Best Reads of 2020 features. Whatever the point of this non-story was, I missed it entirely.
Nothing really happens apart from the author moving from tech job to tech job. Her insistence on not naming certain social media platforms swiftly got on my nerves. "He wrote on the micro blogging site." "I logged on to the social media site that everyone hated". Fine once or twice, not repeated over and over. By the end I was yelling at my device: "Just say he tweeted, for the love of all that is good and holy."
genevieve cooper
S boring book of lists
The author's descriptions consists of lists and lists of things and the way the narrator reads this like a performance piece is really irritating. It's really hard to take in. Even regular sentences are read with a weird valley girl, overly performed, sing-song cadance with too many dramatic pauses. It's like the book version of Paddy McAloon's I Trawl the Megahertz, which is meant to be snippets of stories and fragmented. A book shouldn't be disjointed, arty snippets of description. Everything is described in such a detached way. People are only referred to by their titles. It was a slog to get through. The author just seems like a bored teenager trying to prove she's better than everyone.
A.J.F
Neverending dullness
If she hates the tech industry so much why does she stick with it?! I repeatedly asked myself this while forcing myself to reach the end of this extended moan from the author. The book outlines the typical misogynistic environment of the tech industry and is basically a long ramble about the injustices and hardships the author encountered on her life journey. I can't believe I made it to the end- zoning out helped. It's well read at least...
Olly Buxton
great polemic
This is a polemic for our times, cutting, quick-witted, self aware and self-deprecating. Especially in the final straight there are some devastating acknowledgements of the vacuity of youth, absurd expectations for what are really simple ideas, and the casual (again, youthful) insouciance of these tech entrepreneurs of the long range effects and consequences of their cargo cult.
Excellent narrator, too.
L. V. Smith
Hair-raising account
I loved this. It's an account that rings totally true and it's pretty shocking - even if you think you know how toxic the tech world is. I loved the personal details and the ups and downs. Loved the frankness and the humour. As a picture of contemporary Silicon Valley life it's amazingly real and instructive. I've recommended this book to several people and I'm still thinking about it.
Ingrid Liland
just a book everyone should read
a valuable and insightful observation and reflection of the world we live in. having worked in tech, I was both a bit embarrassed and relieved to hear the tales from the echo chamber of business.


"Why do you let that stupid hyena taunt you like that? You are the king. Do something about him."
... and throws a rotting gazelle onto the desk. The counter person shouts "what is this?" and the hyena says "it's my carrion".
Teacher : What's wrong? Why do you have a black eye?
John: Our house is very small. My mum, my dad, we sleep on the same bed. Every night my dad asks, "John are you sleeping?" Then I say "No" & then he slaps my face & gives me a Black eye.
of God as he see it in the deepest darkest parts of the African jungle. Since companionship is scarce, he entertains himself in the evenings by sitting outside his crude shelter and playing his violin.
surveyed the turtles in view.


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Two Sisters With Breast Cancer. One Made It. One Didn't.
Two sisters with breast cancer. One made it. One didn't. A story that could save your life.
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Norma Fredrich (left), diagnosed in 1994 at age 34, died in 1996 Her sister Apryl Zemla, diagnosed in 2004 at age 34, in remission since 2005
Norma Fredrich (left), diagnosed in 1994 at age 34, died in 1996
Her sister Apryl Zemla, diagnosed in 2004 at age 34, in remission since 2005
Apryl Zemla knew she was dying. She first sensed it when she showed her doctor the lump in her right breast, and then when she was sent immediately for a mammogram, an MRI and a biopsy. She knew it for sure the moment she went to his office in February 2004, and he hugged her—always a sign of bad news—and said the words she'd been expecting for weeks: You have breast cancer.
"Crap," she said, starting to cry. "I'm going to die. I have three years to live, and then that's it. I'll never see my kids grow up."
Apryl, a 34-year-old skin-care specialist from outside Los Angeles, had reason to panic: Ten years earlier, her sister, Norma, then also 34, had been diagnosed with the same kind of breast cancer in her right breast. Only 24 at the time, Apryl had watched helplessly as her sister suffered through multiple surgeries; constant chemo-related nausea and infections; the return of her cancer just weeks after remission; weakness that left her unable to care for her two small kids, just five and two; and terrible pain as the cancer spread to her skin. Apryl had cared for Norma, feeding her and bathing her, right up until, almost three years to the day after finding the lump, her sister died. "She was sick all the time," Apryl says. "It was hideous. I remember thinking I'd rather be shot to death in an alley than go through that."
But now Apryl faced an eerily identical diagnosis: same age; same breast; same kind of cancer. How could her fate not be the same too?
Except it wasn't. Unbeknownst to Apryl, in the decade between Norma's diagnosis and her own, treatment for breast cancer had taken a dramatic leap forward. As a result, for the first time in years, the number of American women dying from the disease has actually started to drop. Though Apryl didn't know it at the time, her battle with breast cancer would bear little resemblance to Norma's. "It took me a long time to accept that things could be different for me," Apryl says. "Dying from breast cancer was all I knew. Surviving it never even seemed like a possibility—until I did."
Apryl first noticed what seemed like a lump in February 2004, a few weeks after she'd stopped nursing her son, Ryan. "When you lose a sister to breast cancer, getting the disease yourself is always going to be in the back of your mind," Apryl says. "But at that moment it felt like that nagging feeling had come to life." Because of Norma's cancer, Apryl had had a mammogram in her late twenties, which her doctor used as a baseline to compare with the image of what he saw now: a two-centimeter tumor that was most likely cancerous. After the appointment, Apryl called her two surviving sisters to her house and broke the news. "We sat there and cried, without saying anything," Apryl recalls.
"I just didn't think it could happen to us again," says Helen Clark, Apryl's oldest sister, who's now 53. "And I definitely didn't think it would happen to Apryl, the baby. I thought maybe my mom or I would get breast cancer. This was just awful."
Apryl's mind was going there anyway, reliving her sister's illness, so she decided to pull all of Norma's medical records, spread them out and make a diagnosis-to-death time line. Norma discovered her tumor in late 1993. Initially, she had felt no urgency—she was young and didn't have a family history of breast cancer—so it was weeks before she saw a doctor. And she didn't rush to schedule her surgery. In the end, nearly three months had passed before she got a lumpectomy, which her doctor told her would be just as effective as a total mastectomy. With Norma's husband at work full-time, her sisters rallied around her—especially Apryl, who was then single and living nearby. "Norma's illness was all-consuming, for all of us," Apryl recalls. "Every time the phone rang, I immediately thought it was something about Norma. Nothing else mattered." A month after surgery, Norma started on a standard regimen of chemotherapy that was long, brutal and debilitating. Just days after her second treatment, she was already too weak to get out of bed. "I remember going to her house and finding her lying there, crying," Apryl says. "Her kids were unfed and running wild around the house, but she couldn't do anything about it. It broke my heart." Soon, constant fatigue, chills and vomiting took hold of Norma, and she all but stopped eating because of burning, chemo-induced mouth sores. She ended up in the emergency room, her body wracked by infections. After several days, Norma's doctors decided to cut her chemo dose in half for the rest of her treatment—a move that helped reduce the nasty side effects, but may have hastened a recurrence.
In August 1994, after three weeks of radiation, Norma was in remission. But the reprieve was short-lived: Three months later, she discovered another lump in the same breast. "It was Thanksgiving and the whole family was together," Apryl remembers. "We were sitting around after dinner and Norma started crying. She knew in her soul that the cancer had returned. My mother asked what the worst case scenario was and Norma screamed, I could die!' It was the first time any of us realized that that was a possibility." Norma had, in fact, relapsed, and over the next year she endured a mastectomy, seven months of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant that kept her in the hospital, near comatose, for a month. None of it slowed the cancer for a moment—it spread, first to the skin graft on her chest, and then to her back, lungs and liver. Norma started a journal to chronicle her illness, and as Apryl flipped through it a decade later, she could practically hear her sister's voice in those suffocating final months. "The doctors consider me terminal," Norma wrote. "I'm so scared. I'm not ready to die. Now I'm hoping for a miracle." At the end Apryl was with her sister almost every day, spending hours just holding her hand or stroking her back with a paint roller—the only thing that helped relieve the pain in her skin. One afternoon Norma asked whether Apryl could imagine caring for her this way for another six months. "I'd do this for the rest of my life if I had to, just so I could talk to you," Apryl replied. Norma died that night. "I think we were all in denial until that moment," Apryl recalls. "We couldn't wrap our heads around the permanence of it, of her not being there anymore. Somehow, even after all we'd seen her go through, her death was a shock."
Like Norma, Apryl had two kids under age five—and a 10-year-old stepson—when she was diagnosed. One day she caught herself neglecting them as she struggled with the first wave of insurance forms and doctor appointments. She spent hours on the phone or crying on the couch and barely took the time to dress her toddlers, let alone play with them. When she finally crawled into bed that night, she began sobbing. "If I'm going to die in three years, how did I not make the most of this day?" she asked herself. "How did I not play with my babies?"
From that moment on, Apryl set out to do everything differently from Norma. Already she was moving faster toward treatment: Within three days of showing the lump to her doctor, she had a mammogram and needle biopsy that confirmed its malignancy; in the next week, she had a PT scan, CT scan, MRI and several other tests to ensure the cancer had not spread to any organs or bones. She told every appointment scheduler about her sister, and pushed them to arrange for surgery within two weeks. "At every step of treatment, I wanted to know that I'd acted more quickly than Norma had," Apryl says. "I thought if I hit these magic times, I might survive."
Apryl had always known that if she got breast cancer, she'd want doctors to perform a full mastectomy, rather than a lumpectomy. "Even though it may not have made a difference, my sister went to her death thinking she should have had a mastectomy to begin with," Apryl says. "She always, always regretted that." Apryl took it one step further; she opted for a radical double mastectomy, removing the left breast as a precaution. Her doctors said it wasn't necessary for her to remove both breasts, but Apryl knew that doing so could lower her chance of recurrence. "I knew that if I kept my natural breasts, I would never stop worrying about the cancer coming back," she says.
For most women, mastectomies are no longer the norm—the number of patients who opt for them has dropped by about 50 percent at many major hospitals. "There is much more breast-conserving surgery done today than ever before," says Lou Fehrenbacher, M.D., medical director of oncology clinical trials at Kaiser Permanente Northern California in Vallejo. "There are more specialists better trained at deciding who to operate on, how to get all the cancer and when a lumpectomy will work just as well as a mastectomy." And even lumpectomies are less invasive now: "I've seen patients who come in for a consultation, and I have to ask which breast had surgery on it," says Larry Norton, M.D., deputy physician-in-chief for breast cancer programs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "That's how much the technique has improved."
As she was being wheeled into surgery in early March 2004, Apryl said a prayer that the cancer had not spread to her lymph nodes—if it hadn't, she wouldn't need chemotherapy. But the surgeon woke her up in the recovery room at midnight to break the news that two of her lymph nodes were, in fact, infected. "That means chemo?" Apryl asked. The surgeon nodded and Apryl burst into tears. "I immediately thought of Norma and how sick she had been," Apryl recalls. "All I wanted to do was curl up in a ball and cry, but I had to stay on my back and lie still and just let the tears roll down my face. I felt really naked at that moment."
Three weeks after her surgery, Apryl sat with her husband, David, in the parking lot of her oncologist's office, steeling herself for the first meeting with the doctor who would oversee her chemo. Since diagnosis, David had remained positive in the face of Apryl's anxiety. "No one ever told us she would die," he recalls. "Until that happened, I wasn't going to consider it at all." Still, he worried about the physical and emotional toll chemo would take on his wife. "She's phenomenally strong," he says, "but this was something that terrified her. I was worried about her sanity." In the car he gently gripped her hand and asked if she was ready. When she hesitated, he repeated the advice a doctor had given them at the start: "Be as aggressive as you possibly can. You have nothing to lose by doing so, and everything to lose if you don't." Those words got her out of the car, but she was still trembling as she waited in the examination room.
Then she met her oncologist. The doctor didn't hug her like all the others who had bad news to give. She wasn't alarmed by Norma's history. And she seemed perplexed by Apryl's sense of doom. "Don't kill yourself before you have to," she said. "I really don't think you're going to die. In fact, I think you're going to be fine." She described the treatment matter-of-factly, with no mention of crippling side effects like nausea and mouth sores. Her tone was hopeful—positive, even.
The oncologist told Apryl that, like Norma's, her tumor was estrogen and progestin positive, which meant that its growth was influenced by her hormones, and could be particularly receptive to chemotherapy and additional hormone therapy post-chemo. But the doctor also knew something else about Apryl's tumor: It was Her2/neu positive, which made it especially aggressive and prone to reoccur. Norma had likely been Her2/neu positive as well, but the research on that protein had been preliminary when she was sick and she'd never been tested for it. By Apryl's time, screening for the Her2 protein was becoming standard, one of several tests developed in the last decade to identify exactly which genes, proteins and enzymes are associated with a patient's disease. That information has led to more refined treatments specifically targeted to attack the root of the cancer, not just the fact of it—treatments that help account for the recent drop in breast cancer deaths. "We've been waiting for this for a long time," says Freya Schnabel, M.D., director of breast surgery at New York University Medical Center. "These targeted treatments are finally starting to show in increased survival rates."
Apryl was prescribed a type of chemo used specifically for Her2 patients, followed by radiation that was more localized than Norma's had been. And unlike Norma's long course of chemo, Apryl was scheduled for a "dose-dense" treatment every two weeks, but for only four months. This now standard regimen is more effective while being less toxic, says Dr. Norton. "Cancer cells are vulnerable to more frequent treatments, while normal tissues tend to degrade the longer they are exposed to chemotherapy," he says.
Apryl's first step was to have a port inserted into a vein in her chest to receive the chemo, so nurses wouldn't have to prick her with a needle every time. The night before she began treatment, she lay awake rereading 50 Essential Things to Do When the Doctor Says It's Cancer, an inspirational book she'd found among her sister's things. "It was like getting a pep talk from a camp counselor," Apryl says. "By the next morning, David was more nervous than I was. I was focused and ready to go."
Apryl began her therapy with an arsenal of drugs now prescribed to patients to ward off potential side effects. Before leaving the house she took two Tylenol and a Benadryl to prevent allergic reactions to the chemo. At the oncology office the nurses gave her another Benadryl plus antinausea medications. Then they took Apryl to the chemo room, where the look of the other patients surprised her. "I expected everyone to be old and dying," she said. "But there were middle-aged people—and younger—in there. There was even a woman not much older than me who'd been battling cancer for 10 years," Apryl recalls. "She became a symbol of hope to me." After the chemo, Apryl took antinausea pills and went home with Ativan, another antinausea medication that also helped her to sleep. The next morning she took more Benadryl and waited for side effects to kick in. They eventually did, but they were oddly familiar. "It was like morning sickness all over again," Apryl says. "And the nausea went away as soon as I ate something. Nothing I couldn't handle." She also began shots to boost her white and red blood cells, which a friend administered for her. ("The needles gave me the heebie-jeebies," Apryl says.)
Every two weeks Apryl went in for chemo. She never threw up, never had a mouth sore, never felt too weak to play with her children and was able to keep working part-time. And doctors say her experience was typical: "I have patients who leave my office and go on to do a major athletic event, or go onstage or on TV," says Dr. Norton. "What's normal now is to get treated and go on with your life." Even losing her long blond hair was easier than Apryl expected. The day it started to fall out—in the shower, on her thirty-fifth birthday—she focused, once again, on staying one step ahead of her disease. "I remember Norma was always reacting to what the cancer did to her," Apryl says. "I was really obsessed with being in control of it. I wanted to know what I'd look like with no hair before it just happened to me." So Apryl asked David to shave it all off. "That was one of the freakiest days of my life," David recalls. "I shave my head, so I know how to do it, but you never expect to have to shave your wife's head." From then on, Apryl wore wigs and hats—or nothing at all. "My neighbors got used to me being bald," she recalls. "And my kids thought it was funny, so it never really bothered me."
Apryl began to realize that chemo wasn't going to be the beginning of the end, as it had been for Norma. Soon, fighting her disease became routine, like a job, something David referred to as Cancer, Inc. "She took on the whole thing like a project," he says. "She carried around a binder full of stats and studies and phone numbers. She owned her cancer, which I think helped save her life." While Apryl focused on getting well—running to appointments, monitoring her medications, researching every bit of information she could find—her friends pitched in with the housework and cooked meals. David continued to work, spent time with the kids and looked after Apryl. "Everyone just wanted me to worry about me," says Apryl. "Taking care of myself was my full-time job. And once it was over, I closed the binder and we moved on."
Like Norma, Apryl had several weeks of radiation and less than a year after she was diagnosed, she was considered to be in remission. But her treatment didn't end there. Because of her type of cancer and family history, her doctor recommended a hysterectomy—removing her uterus, ovaries and cervix—to keep her body from producing estrogen. Again, this represented an aggressive approach, but "I'd already had my kids," Apryl explains. "Once I found out it was the best thing to do, I didn't hesitate. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it for the peace of mind."
Finally Apryl started two treatments aimed at preventing a recurrence: a recently developed hormone-blocking therapy and Herceptin, a new drug specifically designed to prevent a recurrence in Her2/neu positive patients. A so-called biotech drug, Herceptin, which is given intravenously, is one of the first to target a specific protein, and has been heralded for turning what was a notably aggressive cancer into one that is particularly manageable—with few patients ever experiencing side effects.
Shortly after starting on Herceptin, Apryl made a discovery that shook her to the core. Flipping again through Norma's journal, she read of the "miracle" her sister had pinned her hopes on in her last months: a clinical trial for a new drug for late-stage cancer patients. "I remember Norma saying that she would do anything, try anything, just to be around in case they found the one thing that might cure her," Apryl says. "She desperately wanted to see her sons grow up." Norma had trekked back and forth from California to Maryland, three different times over her final two months of life, to receive the experimental IV treatments.
The drug hadn't worked for Norma, who was already too sick, but as Apryl read through the journal entries, it dawned on her that her sister's hoped-for wonder drug was now her own—Herceptin. "I realized I was benefiting from what Norma had tried to do by joining the trial," she says. "She did it to save her own life, but who knows how many lives have been saved as a result of the women on those original trials? It's hard to think of it like this, but in some small way, Norma's awful struggle to live has helped me to survive."
6 simple ways to lower your risk
Drink Less. It's true that red wine can be good for your heart, but if you're worried about breast cancer, think before you sip. Studies show that the more alcohol you drink, the higher your risk for breast cancer.
Exercise More. A recent study found that women with no family history of breast cancer who get more than six hours of exercise a week (and yes, power walking counts) are 27 percent less likely to get breast cancer than those who don't exercise at all.
Eat Healthier. There is some evidence that consuming higher than average amounts of animal fat increases the level of hormones that may cause breast cancer, so oncologists recommend a high-fiber diet, rich in fruits and vegetables, with moderate amounts of red meat and poultry.
Quit Smoking. Researchers are still trying to prove the link between smoking and breast cancer, but many doctors point to the increasing evidence that the carcinogens in cigarettes may up your risk, particularly if you smoke before having your first child.
Know your breasts—and never skip mammograms. Every woman should familiarize herself with the look and feel of her breasts—and watch out for any changes. (Go to glamour.com/health to see what various lumps and bumps can mean.) For high-risk women, doctors may recommend a mammogram as early as age 25 to establish a baseline for further exams. Otherwise, schedule a yearly test starting at 40.
Call your doctor immediately if you suspect something. Early diagnosis is key to survival and to making it through treatment with the least amount of difficulty.
Good news about breast cancer
One look at these stats shows why we all have reason for hope:
43,389 Number of women in the United States who died from breast cancer in 1990
119 , 327 Number of mastectomies that were performed in U.S. hospitals in 1993
10 to15 Number of lymph nodes surgeons in the early nineties typically removed to test for spreading cancer, often leaving women with numbness and permanent swelling of the arm
24 Number of months American women typically spent in chemo during the eighties
29 Percent of women 40 years of age and older who in 1987 reported having had a mammogram within the past two years
40,970 Number who died in 2006—the first major drop in decades, despite a growing population
72, 630 Number performed in U.S. hospitals in 2005, due primarily to early detection
2 to 4 Number of lymph nodes that surgeons remove using today's standard technique, the sentinel node biopsy, which pinpoints if and where the cancer has spread
2 to 6 Number of months typically spent in chemo today, thanks to more targeted treatments
70 Percent who had a mammogram within the last two years in 2003. Early detection is one of the main reasons for the decline in death rates.
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Titanic's Cargo Gear
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by Captain Charles B. Weeks
Because of my experience on cargo ships and the fact that I teach Dry Cargo Operations to students at Maine Maritime Academy, I have long been fascinated with Titanic's cargo gear. Chronologically she came during a transition from square rigged sailing ships to the breakbulk freighter of WW II and later fame. As it turns out her cargo gear was a little of several types of gear used at various times. She had a combination of Gin Blocks on wire spans, rotating electric cranes, and one swinging heavy lift boom. Titanic had six cargo holds, 1, 2 &3 were forward and 4, 5&6 were aft. The Gin Blocks (large diameter metal blocks hung from span wires or boom heads) on Titanic were similar to those found on the stay of a square rigged ship.
While building a 1/350 scale model of her I had noticed that there was no apparent cargo gear at #1 Hatch. This was very puzzling, and led me to research many photos of her fore deck looking for clues as to how they worked cargo in #1 Hatch. In several of the pictures I thought I saw a smudge in the rigging or was it a block hanging over the hatch? I was never certain if there was actually something there or it was the quality of the photograph. The only solid clue was the steam winch on the Fore Deck, directly aft of #1 Hatch. There were also 3 ton electric cargo winches mounted on deck at each hatch except #2 & 4. Thus each hatch except #4 could have a cargo runner from a Gin Block, in addition to the rotating cranes. You can bet that if White Star Lines went to the expense of installing a steam winch on deck there was a purpose for it. Finally I came into possession of a rigging diagram of Titanic, and there was the answer. They hung a Gin Block, rove off with a cargo runner, from a span wire, which ran from the Eyes of the ship up to the cross trees on the Fore Mast. The block was spotted directly over the hatch; the runner was hauled by the steam winch. Now a Gin Block spotted directly over the hatch has some limitations in its use. You can make the hook go up or down, but it is very hard to move a draft of cargo of any weight sideways. The solution to that I suspect lays in photographs of Berths 43 & 44 in Southampton. They show gantry mounted electric cranes on the pier. There is a photograph of this on page 86 of John P. Eaton and Charles A. Haas' book "Titanic Triumph and Tragedy". I suspect these cranes hoisted the draft of cargo up from the pier and either set it on the Fore Deck alongside the hatch, or they used the crane to do the whole job from pier to hold. If the draft was deposited on the Fore Deck by the crane, then a Longshoreman hooked the ship's runner to the draft and the winch aft of #1 Hatch hoisted the draft up till it cleared the coaming then let gravity swing it sideways till it was directly under the Gin Block, at which time it was lowered into the hold. Discharging was done the same way but in reverse.
In New York I believe, based on my own experience, that they married the ship's runner to a House Fall from the pier. Thus they had two winches and runners working so they could hoist the draft up out of the hold or off the pier apron then, Burton the draft athwartship and lower away. According to the Rigging Plan there could be similar Gin Blocks on stays rigged at each hold except #4.
Mounted on the after side of the Fore Mast was a single Heavy Lift (Jumbo) Boom. It was primarily to service #2 Hold. Those books on Titanic that address the subject of her cargo gear usually specify that this boom was for loading/discharging automobiles in #2 Hold, however it looks to me as though it could also serve #3 Hold. To use it would have required four winches, one to run the topping lift (Vertical Position of boom), and another to control the cargo hook, the last two to control the guys (Horizontal Position of Boom). These winches were clustered around the base of the Fore Mast, and would also have served the Gin Block that could be rigged there. It would probably take about an hour to rig or unrig the boom, rather time consuming.
Further, there were eight rotating electric cranes built by Stothert and Pitt, Ltd. They served holds #3, #4, #5, and #6. The two cranes at #4 Hold were 30 cwt, ( 1.5 Ton capacity) the others were 50 cwt, (2.5 Ton capacity). To convert cwt (hundred weight) to tons, Webster's Dictionary advises to multiply the cwt by 112 Lbs if in U. K. and by 100 Lbs if in the U.S.A. then divide by 2240Lbs per Long Ton. These cranes were rigged in pairs, one to port the other to starb'd, that way one could always plumb the pier and the hold regardless which side to they were berthed.
So we see that just as Titanic's engines transitioned from reciprocating to turbine so to her cargo gear was a transition to a more modern type gear.
Bonsall, Thomas. Titanic. New York: Gallery Books, 1987.
McCluskie, Tom. Anatomy of the Titanic. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 1998.
Ocean Liners of the Past, Olympic and Titanic. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens Ltd. 1983.
Photographs by Charles Weeks. Taken at Mystic Aquarium, of a 1:48 scale model of R.M.S. Titanic, by Fine Arts Models.
Text and Photographs © Charles B. Weeks Jr 2004
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The Mystery of March 22, 1909 and Titanic's Keel-Blocks
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The icy hues of Norway's landscape are a stark contrast to the warm-hues of the homes and buildings dotted along rollings hills. When visiting, it's easy to be astounded by the glassy fjords, the emerald-green foliage and the forward-thinking ideas reverberating from the country's progressive cities.
We were charmed by Norway's pristine nature and simple way of living, so for Volume 12: Our Planet we brought minimalist, jewel-toned pieces into this frosty shoot. SUITCASE stylist Tona Stell and co-stylist Kjersti Andreassen (from Style Management) selected the perfectly dreamy pieces for model Lærke Simone at Le Management. Photographer Steffen Oftedal shot Lærke in a variety of stunning locations. Jens Joan Wiker styled Lærke's platinum locks and rosy makeup.


The second Romanitas book, "Rome Burning", ended on a huge cliffhanger so I was keen to see how it was resolved at the beginning of the concluding book in the trilogy. The resolution of the cliffhanger didn't turn out exactly as I expected it to and the first chapter dealing with this is one of the best and most powerful in the trilogy. The rest of the book follows the aftermath of those events and it does cover a lot of different plotlines ranging in scope from two characters trying desperately to hide from the authorities while travelling across a continent (a plotline McDougall likes so much that she seems to use it at least twice in every novel) to a World War between the two empires of Rome and Nionia (Japan) while ever-present in the background is Una, Varius and Sulien's determination to abolish slavery in the Roman Empire.
There are a lot of potentially interesting plotlines in the book, but some of them are more successful. The series has tended to be at its best when it focuses tightly on a small number of characters and this is true again here with the scenes of characters in captivity or on the run among the most effective in the book, particularly in the mid-novel scenes where there are attempts to save a character from being executed in the Coliseum. The Coliseum scene and the trial preceding it is perhaps the highlight of the book. The book isn't quite as assured when it comes to the storylines involving the war. It struggles to really convey what is happening in the war as a whole and what we see of the overall strategy is sometimes unconvincing while the ordinary legionaries conscripts that play an important role in the second half of the book seem a bit shallow compared to some of the other characters. The war storyline is at its best when showing the claustrophobia of living in a city under aerial bombardment, probably because it allows McDougall to focus on the pressure it puts on the characters. The world-building continues to be a bit vague, although there are some nice touches such as the Pharos Lighthouse and Great Library still standing in Alexandria and various characters' confusion at encountering an obscure religion in Ethiopia which uses a cross as its symbol.
The ending of the series is satisfying, although some elements of it do seem a bit rushed and slightly too easy. The bittersweet epilogue is also good at showing that even in victory the impact of the war doesn't go away.
The characterisation has generally been the strongest part of the series and I'd say that largely continues here despite some occasional issues – Sulien can be a frustrating character to read about and even he seems puzzled by some of the things he does while Drusus continues to feel a bit of a cliché of a self-centred despot. The novel does suffer a bit from the lack of Dama, who was probably the most intriguing character in the first two novels but Una and Varius continue to be interesting characters.
Overall, this is an entertaining conclusion to a series that has always been a bit uneven but has enough good points to be worth reading.


This recipe for Crock Pot Sticky Chicken is sweet and tangy and, well…sticky!
This Crock Pot Sticky Chicken is one of my all-time favorite slow cooker recipes. I've tried several similar recipes, but I've found this to the be absolute BEST sticky chicken recipe.
I'm always on the look out for easy and tasty slow cooker chicken breast recipes. As soon as I made this Slow Cooker Sticky Chicken I knew it would be a winner!
This recipe has it all going on. I just love the rich and sweet tomato flavor. It's deep and rich and kicked up with fresh ginger and garlic. I seriously think everything is better with garlic and ginger. They're two of my all time favorite flavor boosters.
This recipe is definitely a keeper – it was really good! It was packed with flavor. And so easy to make — a perfect recipe in my book.
You only need a few simple ingredients for this easy sticky chicken recipe. The incredible sauce is a mixture of brown sugar, soy sauce, fresh ginger, garlic and tomato paste.
The recipe calls for cayenne but it's not too spicy. If you don't like spice, you can easily omit it – it won't change the flavor profile too much.
One of the things I love about this recipe is you can use chicken breast or chicken thighs. I've made it both ways and it's incredible. If you're planning to use chicken breasts, you should use the thicker ones. Thin sliced chicken breasts will dry out very quickly.
When I make this recipe with chicken thighs, you can use bone in or boneless. It's up to you. These slow cooker chicken thighs will cook for a long time so it's pretty flexible.
You may be tempted to skip the broiling part of the recipe, but don't. This final step is what makes this recipe one of the best slow cooker recipes of all time. And, any recipe that calls for fresh ginger is a winner in my book.
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This Crock Pot Sticky Chicken is one of my all-time favorite slow cooker recipes. I've tried several similar recipes, but I've found this to the be absolute BEST sticky chicken recipe. It's easy to make and always get devoured.
3 pounds chicken - breast, thighs, legs, etc.
Combine 1/4 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons soy sauce , ginger, garlic, and cayenne pepper in a bowl or zipper bag; add chicken and toss to coat.
Place in a slow cooker and cook on low for about 4 hours or until done.
When done place chicken in a broiler proof dish and preheat the broiler.
Combine remaining 1/2 cup brown sugar, water, and tomato paste, and remaining soy sauce.
Brush on chicken and cook under the broiler for about 5 minutes or until chicken is slightly crisp. Keep a close watch on the chicken under the broiler.
My new favourite sticky chicken recipe, I used the oven for this recipe & marinated the chicken for 5 hours! Turned out amazing thank you for an awesome recipe & will definitely be using again and again and again!


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Home Reviews TV Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
Touken Ranbu: Hanamaru
(2016) 4 discs. 300 min. Blu-ray/DVD Combo: $64.98. Funimation (avail. from most distributors). Volume 33, Issue 5
by Charles Cassady
While based on a video game, the plentiful dialogue references to Japanese history and folkloric characters here somewhat distinguishes this anime series from so many others about young "sentai" teams of warriors. In the year 2205 (which, at least in confined settings, does not look particularly different from today), an unseen "Master" has given human form to the most famous swords in Japan's feudal past (wielded by mythic heroes such as Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Oda Nobunga). The result is a team of eager young fighters with different temperaments (one constantly rues that he is not based on the original sword, just a copy of it), who embark on missions to various eras to fight against a "History Retrograde Army" that is trying to rewrite the outcomes of famous clan battles and duels (with monsters). Even with a premise promising loads of action, there is just as much—if not more—non-violent comedy-drama and lengthy talk (even musical-style) about divided loyalties, longing for "old times," the living swords' contrasting personalities, and—of course—who gets to do the chores around the compound. Presenting all 12 episodes from 2016 in a dual-language Blu-ray/DVD Combo set, rated TV-PG, this is a strong optional purchase.(C. Cassady)
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A city center that Atlanta and plenty of other cities dream about is the reality here.
Atlanta certainly doesn't have the waterfront lure or historic charm of its older cousin. But the importance of a pedestrian-friendly downtown and Savannah's careful cultivation of a vibe that appeals to a wide swath of residents and tourists may hold lessons.
One of the biggest contributors has been SCAD, the arts school that's lured thousands of affluent students from across the nation to Savannah's streets.
Rather than focusing growth around a central hub, SCAD has made its mark by buying a scattering of aging or abandoned buildings across town, rescuing several historic sites that were vacant or in disrepair. The result is a disconnected campus that still manages to feel unified, spreading youth and energy across the city.
The school's model, like those of some other urban universities, illustrates how a centralized campus isn't always necessary to foster cohesion and identity. The thousands of college students spread across Savannah's streets take care of that. The college-town vibe will only grow as Atlanta's John Marshall Law School converts a mammoth hospital in Savannah to house its local branch.
Atlanta city officials hope for a similar effect as Georgia State University continues to expand in downtown Atlanta. The school has scooped up properties across a swath of downtown, including the recent purchase of the Atlanta Life Financial Group building that gives it a new foothold on Auburn Avenue.
While Savannah's 12 million annual tourists pales in comparison to the 37 million visitors Atlanta estimates it attracts each year, the industry's growth there has had a profound and undeniable impact. Savannah's tourism draw differs, too, since many of the visitors come in strictly for vacations as opposed to conventions, sporting events and other gatherings.
The number of hotel rooms in Savannah has swelled by 4,000 in the last decade , and the surge of travelers has buoyed restaurants and amenities a town of Savannah's size couldn't otherwise support. The struggling economy has played a part, making a domestic destination like Savannah more attractive.
So has the city's packed calendar of activities and heavy policing.
Savannah hasn't been immune from growing pains. Graffiti mars some buildings and alleys. Construction and roadwork makes navigating some streets difficult, and parking can be an obstacle for larger businesses. And strict zoning rules and building requirements can make it tough for new construction or renovation.
Hodesh is part of another key factor that's underpinned the city center's growth: A renewed emphasis on creative types, from artists to tech ventures, who call Savannah home. The nonprofit, funded by city officials, helps small companies push city policy, find investors and network with other local businesses, an echo effect that can help draw other creative industries to town.
A nascent bicycle coalition has helped pave the way for a growing web of bike lanes throughout town, where pedestrians now routinely dodge cyclists. A weekly farmer's market has also taken root in a massive intown park, fostering a growing foodie culture.
There are scant numbers to quantify the trend, although the city's population has inched up modestly over the last decade, and the number of city approvals required to modify the historic buildings in downtown Savannah has almost doubled since 2009.
The Savannah metro area's unemployment rate is stuck around 9.2 percent, but job-generating projects include a $30 million development in the city center anchored by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the first construction of its type in decades. A proposal to build a new downtown baseball stadium is floating around, city planners say, and Georgia Power has huge tracts of land for sale on opposite ends of River Street.
The real difference can be felt on the ground. Broughton Street, one of Savannah's main corridors, could feel almost empty in the late 1990s. Since then major retailers, including GAP and Banana Republic moved in, and more coffee houses and restaurants followed. Now the space above those ground-level floors is being converted to condos or rented as vacation homes.
With questions hanging about ambitious projects that stalled out during the recession, such as the mixed-use Savannah River Landing development, some say the city's future remains tied to its past.


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When realizing that you will need assistance with a problem with substance abuse you have made the first and most difficult step on your path to sobriety, but the next step of finding that help might be a intimidating task if you do not know where to look. This page contains a list of private, public, non-profit, and gay drug rehabs and intervention specialists near Livonia Center, New York.
Livonia Center is located in Livingston County and contains the following zip codes: 14488.


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Samsung Partners with Manna to Deliver Galaxy Devices by Drone to Irish Customers
Alan Hicks, CTO, Manna and Eamonn Grant, Head of Online, Samsung Ireland. (Credit: Andrew Downes/ Xposure)
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has announced a new partnership with Manna Drone Delivery, a move that will see drone delivery made available to Irish customers when purchasing online the latest range of Samsung Galaxy devices.
The new service, which is a first for Samsung, will facilitate an end-to-end contactless experience for Samsung customers from their initial online order through the company's Irish eStore, right through to fulfilment.
The service will first be made available to customers based in Oranmore, Co. Galway, with Samsung and Manna keen to expand this service nationwide in the future.
Manna, founded by Bobby Healy, uses custom-developed aerospace grade drones to deliver products directly to customer's homes, and is headquartered at NovaUCD and with offices in Wales.
Manna drones fly at an altitude of 50-80 metres and a speed of over 60 kph enabling delivery to homes in Oranmore within 3 minutes.
Eamonn Grant, Head of Online, Samsung Ireland said, "At Samsung we are always looking for ways to bring meaningful innovation to our customers so we're really excited to move beyond our existing same day and next day offerings on our products and be the first technology company in Ireland to make our products available to our customers via drone delivery."
He added, "To be able to deliver our products to our customers within three minutes of leaving the dispatch centre is a brilliant example of innovation in motion. Superior customer experience is at the heart of what we do and with this new service we are embracing what we believe will be the future of retail. In the current environment, there is no better time to provide a contactless alternative to 'click and collect' and we are really thrilled to be partnering Manna to achieve this."
Alan Hicks, CTO, Manna, said, "This partnership with Samsung marks the first of its kind in the world. To date, we have been working with Tesco and local businesses to deliver grocery, hot food, books and pharmacy items, to people in the area. We recognise that the potential for the application of drone delivery is enormous. Samsung is one of the most innovative and widely recognised brands globally that always puts its customers front and centre. It's for this reason we are genuinely excited to be embarking on this next chapter with them."
Last year Bobby Healy was named the recipient of the annual NovaUCD Founder of the Year Award.
For more information contact Micéal Whelan, University College Dublin, Communications and Media Relations Manager, NovaUCD, t: + 353 1 716 3712, e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie
Samsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, network systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions. https://news.samsung.com/uk
Manna Drone Delivery is the world's first aviation-grade B2B drone delivery 'as-a-service' company. The Manna drone fleet - which is autonomous - is operated by Manna directly from the restaurant, dark kitchen or retail premises and is accessible via API to food tech providers and online food platforms alike in a channel-agnostic manner. One fleet for all demand. https://www.manna.aero/


For my Energy and Capital article this week, I take a fresh look at the debate over offshore oil drilling, its risks and rewards, and put the Outer Continental Shelf production potential in perspective.
For my Energy and Capital column this week, I celebrate Earth Day by finding many reasons for optimism in the wave of green initiatives sweeping the nation, but also find a market still staggering under the weight of a broken financial system.
For my Energy and Capital article this week, I debunk the recent excitement over space based solar power and other energy pipe dreams, and shift the focus to utility scale solar players with real technology and real profits.
For my Energy and Capital article this week, I consider the long time frames of energy transformation and the energy illiteracy of most Americans, and find a profit opportunity in the ignorance gap.
In this week's Energy and Capital, I see an air pocket forming in future natural gas supply just like the one I anticipated in oil, and suggest that it's time to buy gas.


This series of workshops is designed to help you gain awareness of specific aspects of your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energies using chakra theory as a guide. Derived from eastern yogic philosophy, the chakras are energy centers that represent various parts of the physical body, our emotions, our perceptions, and how we project ourselves to the world. Using the chakra system as a tool, we will use group discussion, Hatha and Kundalini yoga, and meditation to gain insight into ourselves, find balance, and move towards higher states of being. Participants are welcome to attend any of the workshops individually or join us for the whole series. 3/9/19 – The Navel Chakra – Building Inner Strength and Power The third chakra is called "Manipura," which translates from Sanskrit as "city of jewels" or "lustrous gem". Physically, this chakra is located at our navel center or solar plexus, and it is connected to the element of the sun. Just as the earth would not survive without the sun, we rely on our third chakra to regulate and energize us and to give us the power to take proper action to manifest our goals. If our connection to our third chakra is weakened, we may feel angry and aggressive or hold guilt and self-doubt within. We may look outward for validation and use our power to manipulate others. It is also common to have difficulty with addictions and see obstacles everywhere we look. When this chakra is balanced, we have seemingly unlimited energy, strong will power, the ability to make commitments, and a solid inner balance. The navel center is our center of power and control, and this workshop will focus on self-empowerment, building inner strength and will power, and overcoming obstacles. We will also work on learning to let go of control when necessary, which is a challenge for many of us. 4/13/19 – The Heart Chakra – Live from Your Heart, and Trust the Unfolding The heart chakra is also known as "Anahata," which translates from Sanskrit as "unstruck sound," relating to the constant rhythmic beat or vibration of the heart. Located in the center of the chest, this chakra is related to the physical heart, lungs, arms, hands, thymus gland, and immune system. Energetically, the heart chakra is related to compassion and unconditional love. If we are fully connected and living from our heart, we treat everyone with kindness and offer forgiveness freely. Ourselves included! We accept and trust that all is as is should be. Through the heart chakra, love is our motivation and our relationships with others, nature, and ourselves are harmonious. When this chakra is unbalanced, we tend to feel alienated, lonely, and sad; it is easy for us to be hurt, we fear rejection and are dependent on others clingy. We can be cruel, critical, and passive aggressive or suffer from helper syndrome, always giving and sharing with those who may not want it. This session will focus on opening the heart, establishing self-love, and trusting the unfolding of life. We will also work with turning our minds towards prosperity rather than scarcity or fear. 5/11/19 – The Throat Chakra – Speak Your Truth The Sanskrit name for the fifth chakra located in our throat is "Vishuddha" which could be translated into "purification". The Throat Chakra has to do with your self-expression and speaking your truth in order to live from the highest expression of who you are. Physically this chakra is made up the ears, nose and throat, including the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Imbalances in the chakra can manifest as: lying, gossiping, communication issues, inability to listen or hear, weak or dominating voice, shyness, or speaking too bluntly. We may also notice tension in our neck and shoulders or a sore throat. When the throat center is balanced, we have a clear, strong voice, we speak clearly with honesty, and our neck and shoulders are relaxed. When you can express your truth you are truly free! This class will focus on communication, truth, and courage. We will let go of tension in our neck and shoulders and tune into our voice. 6/8/19 – The Third Eye – Find Clarity and Strengthen Your Intuition The Sanskrit work for this chakra is "Ajna," meaning "to command". Located behind the forehead between the eyes, the 6thchakra is associated with the pituitary gland and gaining mastery over the mind. The third eye allows us to have a clear perception of our reality so we can fully understand our purpose in life. When our sixth chakra connection is strong, we have a reliable intuition and we trust our inner wisdom. We may experience synchronicity and feel "tuned in" to our lives. On the other end of this spectrum, when we are disconnected from the third eye and our intuition, we can feel confused and depressed. We may feel "out of it," and have a hard time focusing on any one thing. Physically, imbalances may manifest as eye problems, headaches, sinusitis, or nightmares. This session will focus on strengthening the pituitary gland, gaining an awareness over reality, and connecting to our own inner guidance. 7/13/19 – The Crown Chakra – Integrate your Experiences, and Connect to Infinite Knowing Also known as the "tenth gate," the crown chakra, or "Sahasrara," meaning "thousand-petaled lotus," is our connection to oneness with the universe or cosmic consciousness. Located at the top of the head, the crown chakra is associated with the central nervous system and the pineal gland, which yogic texts say is the "seat of the soul." The theme here is transcendence. With our connection to this chakra comes our belief systems, belief in a higher power, self-knowledge, transcendence and universal understanding. When the Sahasrara is balanced we seek out deep questions, integrate life lessons and spiritual teachings, have an open mind, and transcend the ego. The crown chakra can be underdeveloped when one is not able to explore spirituality on their own, such as from having a rigid religious upbringing. This class will focus on our connection with the universe and on allowing ourselves to have our own direct experience of consciousness. Investment: $55 per class 10% discount if you register for a package of 4 classes Facilitator: Marie Coma, LPCA, E-RYT-200, loves sharing the healing practices of yoga and meditation and making them accessible to everyone. She has been practicing yoga since childhood, learning from her parents, who were students Yogi Bhajan, the man who brought Kundalini Yoga from India to the west. Marie completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training at Eternal Health Yoga in 2007 and has been teaching ever since. She is a registered yoga teacher (E-RYT-200) and teaches Kundalini, Hatha, and Vinyasa yoga in Louisville, KY. Her classes are lovingly inspired by her own yoga and meditation practice. In 2018, Marie completed her master's degree (Master of Education in Clinical Mental Health Counseling) at the University of Louisville and became licensed as a professional counselor (LPCA) in Kentucky. She currently works full time as a mental health therapist for Kentucky One Health. In her free time, when she's not doing yoga, Marie enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, going for long walks, and eating yummy food with friends. She also has a passion for creative endeavors such as writing, painting, photography, and music. Marie and her husband live in Louisville with their three black-and-white cats.


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New Directions in the Science of Structural Oppression
Nov 12, 2022 09:00 AM - 11:45 AM(America/New_York)
20221112T0900 20221112T1145 America/New_York New Directions in the Science of Structural Oppression
Social oppression is generally understood to be "structural": formal and informal rules and common patterns of interaction cause disparate and inequitable outcomes for members of certain social groups. However, it is common-especially in psychology and some philosophical subfields-for work to focus narrowly on features of individuals or interpersonal interactions. This symposium brings together four papers on the science of structural oppression that aim, in different ways, (1) to diagnose the causes of this tendency to examine interpersonal rather than structural phenomena, (2) to identify barriers to studying structural oppression, and (3) recommend new avenues of research that embrace the structural character of oppression. Thus, we examine experimental measures of discrimination, hypotheses about conditions that make microaggressions harmful, and how oppression can be facilitated by artifacts and by categorization choices in demography. This symposium will present new work that grapples with the structural character of oppression rather than its personal or interpersonal manifestations, and bring attention to recent work from various disciplines that does the same. We also hope to model a valuable kind of work in philosophy of science that supports a broader project of inquiry through interdisciplinary engagement and constructive, good-faith criticism.
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Who Counts in Official Statistics?View Abstract
Symposium 09:00 AM - 11:45 AM (America/New_York) 2022/11/12 14:00:00 UTC - 2022/11/12 16:45:00 UTC
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Debates about racism and calls for racial equality have recently surged. This shift is reflected in the EU's expansion of its anti-discriminatory policies to include race and ethnicity as categories. To determine the extent of racial/ethnic discrimination and the success of 'positive action' measures, the EU recommends the collection of statistical data. Unlike the systematic investigation of racial disparities in the UK and the US, in most European countries, 'race' and 'ethnicity' are not used as statistical categories in comprehensive data collection. In Germany, reservations towards gathering racial/ethnic data and even the very term 'Rasse' are deep-seated due to the history of National Socialism. Instead, categories such as 'migration background' are used. We argued in previous research that collecting racial/ethnic data is crucial to map patterns of multi-layered disparities and discrimination, inequalities and vulnerability and identify effective mitigation strategies. Building on this work, we argue that the category of "migration background" is both ethically and epistemically unsuited for this task and explore alternative approaches. First, we draw on accounts of ethical-epistemic analysis (Tuana, 2010, 2013; Katekireddi & Valles 2015; Valles forthcoming), as well as social-scientific research to argue that the category of 'migration background' is both epistemically and ethically problematic. As Aikins et al. (2020) point out, it does not capture the putative racial discrimination of some racialised groups. For example, black Germans whose parents both have German citizenship by birth have no 'migration background' (https://afrozensus.de/reports/2020/). This suggests that demographic categories such as 'migration background' can render certain social groups invisible (Will, 2019). The stakes are high as the current demographic categories disallow investigating to which extent structural racism is a causal factor explaining racial disparities related to, e.g., health outcomes in the context of COVID-19 (Plümecke et al., 2021). Second, we draw on debates on the metaphysics of race and ethnicity to examine alternatives to 'migration background'. Drawing on an ongoing experiment study (James et al., in progress), we provide a comparative analysis of race talk in the US and Germany. We address concerns raised by the use of racial/ethnic categories related to, e.g., privacy, and reflect on the controversy regarding the meaning of the German term for race ('Rasse'). One metaphysical worry is whether adopting racial categories in official statistics commits us to the view that races are biologically real, a view widely held to be refuted. However, we argue that, while talk of 'racialised groups' may be preferable in most (including social-scientific) contexts, cautious talk of 'Rasse' is permissible in others. In particular, the latter may be suited to publicly communicate how racial discrimination shapes material and (physical and mental) health conditions, socioeconomic positions and overall well-being in racialised people (Hendl, Chung and Wild, 2020). Thus, we explore how conceptual ethics can inform the social-scientific and public debate over racial/ethnic classification and thereby facilitate racial/ethnic data collection that is both ethically and epistemically sound.
Tereza Hendl
The University Of Augsburg And Ludwig-Maximilians-University Of Munich
Materialized MicroaggressionView Abstract
Microaggressions, as defined by psychologist Derald Wing Sue, are "the brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial, gender, sexual-orientation, and religious slights and insults to the target person or group" (Sue 2010: 5; see also Sue et al 2007). Amongst these three different mechanisms, environmental microaggression is most rarely discussed and most poorly understood. On Regina Rini's (2021: 21) characterization "Environmental microaggressions are distinctive in that they don't involve any particular perpetrator. They are background facts that regularly confront marginalized people with casual disregard or disdain." Sue's own examples tend to primarily involve social arrangements, and his own analyses tend to primarily be about messages communicated. For example, he talks about his own experience, as a non-white person, going into a room of university administrators, all of whom are white, and how this monochromatic scene sends the message "You and your kind are not welcome here." (Sue 2010: 25–26). However, I contend that the background facts that regularly confront marginalized people are often not only social, but also material. For example, automatic soap dispensers that work less well for darker-skinned users also realize environmental microaggressions. Such objects and spaces are not merely biased against some class of users, but a downstream consequence of injustice toward an oppressed group and an upstream antecedent of further injustices. That is, they are oppressive things that don't simply reflect or reveal past injustices, they also perpetuate it: in particular, they do so because—on a broadly 4E cognition perspective—our thoughts and actions causally depend on, and may even be partially constituted by, our cognitive environment (Liao and Huebner 2021). My proposal can be thought of as a generalization of Alison Reiheld's (2020) account of microaggressions as a disciplinary technique for fat bodies. Specifically, Reiheld gives examples of furnitures that are not built to fit fat bodies as examples of such environmental microaggressions. But the world is also full of similarly materialized microaggressions against oppressed groups along axes of race, gender, disability, etc. and their intersections. These objects and spaces have the same epistemic profile as verbal and behavioral microaggressions. People in the oppressive group tend to not notice the existence of such materialized microaggressions. But even people in the oppressed group tend to not notice their systematicity: that is, they might be inclined to explain away individual interactions as isolated incidents. In particular, the connections between materialized microaggressions and other manifestations of oppression remain opaque. Taking seriously the materiality of environmental microaggressions also challenges Sue's own understanding of the concept. While he focuses on social arrangements and symbolic communication, a materialist conception of environmental microaggressions emphasizes their role in scripting thoughts and actions. To address environmental microaggressions, we do not need training sessions with consultants; instead, we need to gradually, but quite literally, remake the world.
Presenters Shen-yi Liao
A Structural Microaggression Concept for Causal InquiryView Abstract
Microaggressions have received increasing attention in recent decades because, although individually they may seem minor, they are hypothesized to have significant harmful psychological and social effects in aggregate. However, correct usage of the term "microaggression" is contested; authors across disciplines defend a variety of inconsistent accounts. Psychologists, moral philosophers and other scholars (e.g. Sue et al., 2007; Rini, 2020; McTernan, 2018; Pérez Huber and Solorzano, 2015) construct definitions or glosses in service of their varied investigative aims, which include the assessment of moral responsibility, near-term institutional reform, and the construction of anti-oppressive phenomenologies. However, I argue that these accounts are not so well-suited to guide empirical research about how microaggressions cause certain social ills. I propose a pluralist account of microaggressions that builds on these extant accounts while facilitating causal-explanatory inquiry. Public health researchers (e.g. Gee and Ford, 2011) have found that inequitable structural outcome gaps—like the U.S. racial health gap, racial and gendered income gaps across the world, gaps in mental health outcomes, etc.—are not fully explained by correlated factors like socioeconomic status. Microaggressions are thought to contribute to these outcome gaps, but there are outstanding questions about precisely what causal role microaggressions play. Let the "explanatory project" be the effort to answer these questions. I recommend a pluralistic causal role account, that microaggressions are whatever interpersonal and institutional factors explain the outcome gaps. I identify a number of independent (but not mutually exclusive) hypotheses about mechanisms that might fulfill this causal role, including attributions to prejudice, attributional ambiguity, plausible deniability of discrimination, and implicit bias. These hypotheses correspond to emphases in various extant accounts of microaggressions, and suggest distinct kinds of interventions. While a priori disputes about these accounts can serve some investigative aims, the explanatory project can only be resolved satisfactorily through future empirical work. Most extant accounts of microaggression are poorly suited to the explanatory project, because they are crafted to accommodate, rather than to overcome, our present epistemic limitations. In particular, most extant accounts take as given various social controversies or gaps in our understanding of microaggressions and the causal role they play in individual well-being and structural oppression. Rini (2020) objects to "structural" accounts like mine on the ground that they lack epistemic humility; in particular that they are inconsistent with attractive versions of standpoint epistemology. I argue that Rini's arguments presuppose her project—assessing moral responsibility—and her discussion artificially forecloses empirical possibilities because of epistemic constraints that apply to individuals, but not to research programs. It is possible that when we better understand the mechanisms that cause outcome gaps, we may decide that they are so diverse that they do not merit being grouped under a common label. That is, my account may eventually be self-eliminating. But I do not recommend the wholesale elimination of the term "microaggression," since the term can still function as a tool outside of the explanatory project, e.g. in phenomenological or moral accounts.
Presenters Mikio Akagi
Associate Professor Of The History And Philosophy Of Science, Texas Christian University
Path Dependence in Psychological Measures of Racial DiscriminationView Abstract
Early scales developed to measure experiences of everyday racial discrimination employ an interpersonal schema of the racial discrimination construct (e.g, McNeilly 1996; Williams 1997; Krieger et al. 2005). For example, the Perceived Racism Scale conceives of racial discrimination as "a belief or attitude that some races are superior to others and discrimination based on such a belief" (McNeilly 1996, 155). However, racial discrimination is now recognized to be a more expansive construct that includes structural oppression. Measures of discriminatory experiences of structural oppression lag behind. In this talk, I argue that the concept of path dependence is useful for understanding how measurements of everyday racial discrimination in psychology and sociology have (1) developed to primarily measure features of interpersonal discrimination and (2) frequently fail to measure cases of structural discrimination. Path dependent systems are those in which a particular change in a system's history reinforces its development along particular "paths" and hinders other "paths". The concept of path dependence gained traction in economics, social science, and science and technology studies (e.g., David 2001) to analyze why some standards set by a previous technology are perpetuated in future designs, even when alternatives may be as good or better. The classic but contested example is the QWERTY organization of keyboards (David 1985; Leibowitz and Margolis 1990). According to David (1985), the QWERTY layout was chosen to solve a technical issue with previous typewriter designs, namely, putting commonly used letters further apart to avoid errors when congruent type bars are pressed in sequence by . While we no longer face this technical problem, QWERTY layouts persist even when superior alternatives exist, such as the Dvorak layout. Path dependence can help explain why interpersonal scales have dominated the measurement of racial discrimination in psychology and sociology. The features of measurement validation reinforce the early focus on an interpersonal schema of the racial discrimination construct because earlier published scales become standards by which to evaluate future scales. When multiple measurement scales are intended to measure the same construct, we assess their convergent validity: the extent to which both measures do in fact measure the same construct. In psychology, convergent validity is often measured by assessing correlation coefficients of the scores on those measures. There is no explicit rule to determine what strength of correlation is required, so judgments are made implicitly and case-by-case. Further, an imperfect correlation is to be expected: noise in the data is expected and different scales ought to have some relevant differences. Small differences in scales can sometimes lead to importantly distinct results (e.g., one or two questions for race and ethnicity in the U.S. Census would impact the amount of self-identifying Hispanic people; Valles 2021). Thus, when implicit judgments require high convergent validity between existing scales and new scales, path dependence can emerge. Applying this analysis to the case of everyday racial discrimination measures, this path dependence has led to a focus on interpersonal discrimination over structural discrimination.
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Candlelight vigil due in Germany over Abe's revisionist move
By Kim Hyo-jin
German and Japanese civic groups plan to hold candlelight vigils in Germany in May to condemn Japanese leaders' previous visits and prevent future visits to the controversial Yasukuni war shrine.
"We will hold candlelight vigils with German and Japanese civic groups in Berlin on May 7 and in Heidelberg on May 10," said the Institute for Research in Collaborationist Activities (IRCA), a civic organization studying modern history of Korea, Monday.
"They aim to raise awareness of Japan's revisionist movement throughout the world," said IRCA's International Cooperation Team director Kim Yeong-hwan. He said the events will take place in time for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Since it was established in 2006, the IRCA has held annual protests over Japanese politicians' visits to the Yasukuni shrine every year in Tokyo.
The Germany rally has been organized on the suggestion of Berlin-based civic group Korea Verband. It will be the first rally in Europe condemning Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Yaskuni Shrine visit in 2013, the IRCA said.
The IRCA's director said Germany is the best place to build a sense of solidarity against Japan's revisionist moves.
"Post-war Germany is respected by the international community as it faces its past squarely and apologizes for its wrongdoings," Kim said. "We believe holding a rally there will better appeal to the international community. "
The civic group director said Abe's move is not just a Northeast Asia-related matter"Abe's visit to the Yaskuni Shrine is linked with his attempt to bring militarization back to the country and pave the way to have self-defense forces, which breaks Japan's postwar commitment to the world," he said.
Abe has continuedhis push to revise Article 9 of Japan's Constitution that renounces war and prohibits Japan from maintaining readiness to go to war The move has triggered opposition both at home and abroad.
The IRCA plans to distribute video clips and booklets about Japan's wartime atrocities, such as the issue of forcibly conscripted comfort women and forcibly drafted laborers during World War II. They include victims' comments on their painful experiences.
The civic group will deliver the video clip to UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Committee Head Maria Bohmer in Germany.
The meeting aims to express its opposition to the possible listing of a group of Japanese industrial facilities on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
The Japanese government has sought Meiji Industrial sites, where tens of thousands of Koreans were forced to work under Japanese rule in the early 1900s, to be recognized as intangible cultural assets.
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I've been working on re-working our guest room. This space has to be multi-functional as a space for guests, a place for me to work (my desk is in this room) as well as a place to store some toys and a lot of our clothes. Our master bedroom has fallen victim to a very small closet.
For several years this room has been a dumping ground, and this past month I've set out to change that. I did a fairly deep cleaning of it a few weeks ago and had to stop when my boy ran into a wall with his head and needed me more than the mess in the room. I picked up where I left off, though, and this past weekend I spent time doing some smaller changes to brighten things up.
I changed out the bedding (goodbye pink double-sided comforter from my bachelorette days of 14 years ago.) I also hung a few of the Ikea spice racks that I love so much so I can display some of our photo books and whatever I feel like I want to display at the time. I had some empty space on one wall, so I hung this artwork and I have to say – I'm in love with the look.
The folks at Minted sent this piece to me to check out. Minted has a whole new line of framed art. This piece came already framed and ready to hang. All I had to do was add a nail to my wall and it was ready to go.
Minted has such a wide variety of prints and frames. This particular piece comes in three color variations and many more frame options. I went with the 11×14 print in Coastal Blue and the distressed charcoal stain wood frame. It has a wire hanger on the back to make for easy hanging. There's such a variety of sizes to choose from with all of their pieces. I'm anxious to order more for the rest of my house!
What space in your home do you wish for an update? The guest room has been long on my list of updates. Our kitchen is my next project!
**While I did receive artwork from Minted to facilitate this review, no other compensation was exchanged and all opinions are my own. Links above may be affiliate links.
The spice racks are awesome! I have 3 in my son's room for a few books. Finally put them up in here, and had all that empty space so I added the frame!
It looks great! I'm still in the process of finishing up the basement. It's just not 100% there yet!
These frames are really beautiful and would look great on my living room wall. I love exhibiting my favorite photos in lovely frames like these.
I do like that print. I need something for a wall in my bedroom–I think I will mossy on along to that site and see what art they have that I would fall in love with–I LOVE that they come already framed!!
Our whole house needs updated but we are taking it one room at a time. I'd love to retexture the walls going up our stairs and fill it up with photographs.
Looks so great! We are moving at the end of summer and I can't wait to decorate and get new things to make it all nice like this!
This would be a quick and easy way to add some nice art to my living room. I love the piece that they sent you!
What some gorgeous looking frames, I would really love to just update the whole place here. A fresh lick of paint would make so much difference.
Artwork can add so much to a space. I definitely need to take a look at Minted.
Wow, I love their stuff. We just finished a bedroom remodel and I am looking for things for my walls so I will have to take a look through everything. I love your ideas with the spice racks. Such an easy way to change the photos out.
That print is stunning. It looks like lights and the ocean edge on a beach. Really nice. I could see that in a variety of home decor designs.
What a lovely idea. I love how you intertwined the photos and shelves together.
There are a number of areas I would like to change. I think the one I want to change the most is my bedroom though.
I love that picture, knowing it comes already framed great. I am decorating our playroom so I will have to check out what they have available for that.
These are nice frames. I am redecorating my twins' bedroom. These frames are perfect.
We have been updating all year. Next week we would have been at the new house exactly a year. We have been working on it constantly. We are almost finished with the laundry room. Our next room will either be the office or the guest room. I want to create a sewing nook inside the closet. I love the frames and art you chose. I will have to look at that website because we need more wall art!
Nice artwork. It is amazing how art can really add some personality to a room.
I would love to redecorate my bedroom. I find my room is always the last room i tend to do. I have some great artwork i could get framed and put up.
I think prints can really bring a room together. Also, a nice frame can really make a picture a piece of art.
I'm working on putting on finishing touches for my house and cleaning up the garage. I can't wait until it's all done.
This looks so gorgeous! The spice racks print is really awesome. Looks like a quick and easy way to decorate your home with some nice & awesome art. Thanks for sharing.
Looks wonderful! I'm considering ordering some already-framed prints from Minted, or just the prints then framing them myself. But for the cost and convenience, seems like pre-framed is the way to go! Curious…. what did you think about the quality of the frames from Minted?
I think their frames are nicer than what I would have chosen myself. I tend to cheap out on frames, but this one is pretty high quality and looks so nice!


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