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John T. BAKER
RESIDENCE: of Natchez, MS and W. Feliciana Parish, LA
Father: (RESEARCH QUERY) BAKER
Family 1 : Patience COBB
+William D. BAKER
John T. Baker of Natchez and Patience Cobb of Wilkinson County, MS, widow of Josephus Smith of Natchez, born between 1790-95. The family moved to West Feliciana Parish and acquired significant land holdings.
_(RESEARCH QUERY) BAKER _|
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|--John T. BAKER
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Harriet H. CASTLEMAN
1798 - 26 Jan 1848
RESIDENCE: VA & Shelby Co. KY
BIRTH: 1798, Shelby Co. Kentucky [S2647]
DEATH: 26 Jan 1848
Father: Jacob CASTLEMAN
Mother: Sarah WHITE
Family 1 : James Taylor PENDLETON
MARRIAGE: 27 Jun 1815, Shelby Co. KY
"1: Harriet H. (JnC) Castleman, b. 1798 at Shelby Co., KY, m. Phillip nmn Slaughter m. James T. Pendleton, d. 26 January 1848."
_Andreas Lodewich (JDK) CASTLEMAN "the Immigrant"_+
_Lewis CASTLEMAN ____|
|                     |_Margaretha Elisabetha SCHAFER "the Immigrant"____
_Jacob CASTLEMAN ____|
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|                     |_Jemima PEARSALL ____|
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|--Harriet H. CASTLEMAN
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|_Sarah WHITE ________|
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|__________________________________________________
William CROUCH
RESIDENCE: Goochland Co. VA
Family 1 : Sarah Downer REDFORD
+Edward Redford CROUCH
Reese CUNNINGHAM
RESIDENCE: of Nelson Co. VA
BIRTH: ABT 1790, Virginia
Father: James CUNNINGHAM
Family 1 : Jane Chase DILLARD
MARRIAGE: 22 Oct 1819, Nelson Co. Virginia
Valentine H. CUNNINGHAM
+Elizabeth Ann "Eliza" CUNNINGHAM
+John Reid CUNNINGHAM
"On my family tree, as handed down to me, one of my ancestors is a J. Reece Cunningham, born in 1825, most likely in Virginia. He had a daughter named Eliza Jane Cunningham born in Buckingham Co., Va. in 1864. The names Reece and Cunnigham together may well indicate a connection."
Name: Cunningham, Reece Township: Unknown Townships
County: Nelson State: Virginia
Year: 1820 Roll: M33_130 Page: 192 Image: 367
_(RESEARCH QUERY) CUNNINGHAM _|
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_James CUNNINGHAM ___|
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|--Reese CUNNINGHAM
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Nancy Croxton HIGGINBOTHAM
7 Oct 1821 - 15 Jun 1901
RESIDENCE: Amherst Co. VA
BIRTH: 7 Oct 1821
DEATH: 15 Jun 1901
RESOURCES: See: [S267] [S669] [S1060] [S1300]
Father: Aaron HIGGINBOTHAM III
Mother: Elizabeth Stewart SANDIDGE
Family 1 : William Aaron HIGGINBOTHAM C.S.A.
Pauline Pettus HIGGINBOTHAM
S. P. HIGGINBOTHAM
Mittie HIGGINBOTHAM
_Aaron I HIGGINBOTHAM _+
_Aaron HIGGINBOTHAM II_|
| (1752 - 1794) m 1775  |
|                       |_Clara GRAVES _________+
|                         (1720 - 1780) m 1746
_Aaron HIGGINBOTHAM III______|
|                             |                        _Samuel CROXTON Sr.____
|                             |                       | (1730 - 1767)
|                             |_Nancy CROXTON ________|
|                               (1756 - 1823) m 1775  |
|                                                     |_Elizabeth_____________
|                                                       (1730 - ....)
|--Nancy Croxton HIGGINBOTHAM
|                                                      _John SANDIDGE ________+
|                                                     | (1730 - ....) m 1752
|                              _Benjamin SANDIDGE ____|
|                             | (1758 - 1829) m 1783  |
|                             |                       |_Keziah GATEWOOD ______+
|                             |                         (1730 - 1796) m 1752
|_Elizabeth Stewart SANDIDGE _|
|                        _Joseph CHILDRESS Sr.__+
|                       | (1740 - 1809)
|_Elizabeth CHILDRESS __|
(1765 - 1845) m 1783  |
|_Mary FARIS ___________+
Capt. Robert HIGGINSON "the Immigrant"
ABT 1597 - Aug 1649
TITLE: Capt.
OCCUPATION: prominent Indian fighter. commanded the Middle Plantation.
RESIDENCE: England and York and Gloucester Cos. VA
BIRTH: ABT 1597, Berkswell, Warwick, England
DEATH: Aug 1649, Virginia
Family 1 : Joanna TOKESY
MARRIAGE: ABT 1620, England
+Lucy Burwell HIGGINSON
Aka: Hickerson. [g] Captain Robert Higginson (a name that appears to have been commonly pronounced Hickerson) seems to have been prominent as an Indian fighter. In 1646, and earlier, he commanded, at the Middle Plantation, a palisaded settlement.
A deed, recorded in York August 24, 1682, states that for his services he was given 100 acres at the Middle Plantation. He seems also to have owned land in Martin's Hundred.
The epitaph of his daughter Lucy (who died November 6, 1675) on her tomb in the Burwell graveyard at "Carter's Creek," Gloucester, only states that she was the widow of Maj. Lewis Burwell, and that "She was descended from the ancient family of the Higginsons. She was the only daughter of the valiant Capt. Robert Higginson, one of the first commanders that subdued the County of Virginia from the power of the heathen."
Was spoken of as "One of the first valiant commanders who subdued the colony of Virginia from the heathen." Commanded at Middle Plantation later called Williamsburg.
Father: Thomas Higginson b. Circa 1570-73 in Berkeswell,Warwick,England
Mother: Anne
Elizabeth PHILLIPS
RESIDENCE: Plymouth Colony, Duxbury, MA
Family 1 : John ALDEN II
Eliza Ann SMART
Oct 1831 - Jul 1878
RESIDENCE: Calloway co. MO
BIRTH: Oct 1831
DEATH: Jul 1878
Father: Thomas Austin SMART
Mother: Harriet Louise THOMPSON
Family 1 : I. M. RIDGE
_Elisha Carter SMART "the Immigrant"_|
| (1756 - 1832) m 1786                |
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_Thomas Austin SMART _____|
|                          |                                      _Robert GLOVER Sr._____+
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|                          |_Amy GLOVER _________________________|
|                            (1763 - ....) m 1786                |
|                                                                |_Amey PRICE ___________
|                                                                  (1738 - ....)
|--Eliza Ann SMART
|                           _William THOMPSON Jr.________________|
|                          | (1785 - 1815) m 1803                |
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|_Harriet Louise THOMPSON _|
|                                      _Thomas Smith MOSELEY _+
|                                     | (1759 - 1835) m 1782
|_Mary "Polly" MOSELEY _______________|
(1787 - ....) m 1803                |
|_Magdalene GUERRANT ___+
Elizabeth TRAVERS
RESIDENCE: of Lancaster and Stafford Cos. VA
DEATH: AFT 1748, Stafford Co. Virginia
Father: Raleigh TRAVERS Sr.
Mother: Hanna BALL
Family 1 : John COOKE "the Immigrant"
+Travers COOKE
Hanna Ball names daughter Eliza. Cooke in her will and grandchildren Travers and Hannah Cooke; .......
_William TRAVERS Sr.__________
_Raleigh TRAVERS "the Immigrant"_|
| (1622 - 1670)                   |
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_Raleigh TRAVERS Sr._|
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|                     |_Elizabeth (widow of Stevens)____|
|                       (1620 - ....)                   |
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|--Elizabeth TRAVERS
|                                                        _William BALL "the Immigrant"_
|                      _Joseph BALL of Epping Forest____|
|                     | (1649 - 1711) m 1675            |
|                     |                                 |_Hannah ATHEROLD _____________
|                     |                                   (1617 - 1695) m 1638
|_Hanna BALL _________|
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|_Elizabeth Julia ROMNEY _________|
(1658 - ....) m 1675            |
|______________________________
Dora Olive WARD
11 Nov 1879 - ____
RESIDENCE: Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
BIRTH: 11 Nov 1879, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
Father: John Lowrey WARD
Mother: Laura Ann EDMONDSON
Family 1 : William Penn CUNNINGHAM
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_John Lowrey WARD ____|
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|--Dora Olive WARD
|                                                  _Michael Smith EDMONDSON _
|                                                 | (1800 - ....)
|                       _Augustus Vann EDMONDSON _|
|                      | (1830 - 1894)            |
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|_Laura Ann EDMONDSON _|
|                           __________________________
|_Martha Nancy THOMPSON ___|
(1838 - ....)            |


The past couple of weeks have revealed, again, the manner in which the radicalisation of white ethnonationalism in Australia has been driven by a toxic interaction between social media and traditional media.
Racist radicalisation doesn't just happen on social media (as News Corp, among others, say) and it doesn't all happen through traditional media (as the UK's anti-terror boss suggests). It takes traditional media to craft the messages from legitimate spokespeople that get turned into rhetorical bullets fired around social media. And it takes platforms geared for algorithmic amplification that the extremist right can game to spread it around.
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As red tide, algae blooms drag on, health agencies stay mum on what constitutes a crisis
Amy Bennett Williams
The News-Press
It wasn't just the fish carcasses littering the shoreline that got to Terry Katz; it was the coughing, the sneezing, the burning throat. Turns out an unwelcome guest had crashed the birthday he and his twin brother, Chris, were celebrating at Vanderbilt Beach: red tide, the noxious effects of a saltwater algae bloom caused by a single-celled organism: Karenia brevis.
Astonished by the marine carnage, the Katz party took creative action, forming the word, "help" from the casualties. "It was kind of amusing at first," Terry said, "but the more fish we added, the more disheartening it became."
Disheartening is a good word to characterize the whole summer of 2018, when water-avoidance has become the new normal, as governments and nonprofits warn residents and visitors away from beaches and shorelines. Not just on account of the red tide pall, but also because of another algae, the toxic blue-green algae kind that's coated the Caloosahatchee and area canals for the last two months.
More:Florida algae crisis: What's the difference between red tide and blue-green algae?
What this toxic season — with two kinds of dangerous algae blooms at once: one in freshwater, one in saltwater — might bode for residents' future health remains a question.
Short-term, the effects of this one-two punch of foul water are fairly obvious: respiratory malaise, headaches, rashes and gastrointestinal distress. Long-term, though, statistics and data are scarce, which is worrisome for scientists and doctors seeing patients affected by the blooms.
Yet as the dual crises persist, government agencies that oversee public health have left media questions about implications unanswered for days stretching into weeks.
Chief among them: At what point does Southwest Florida's algae crisis become worthy of study? Of official epidemiological surveillance? And what agency would bear that responsibility?
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention referred questions about the blooms to the Florida Department of Health. The News-Press began reaching out to Lee County's Health Department more than two weeks ago, before being referred in an email to its Tallahassee headquarters, which had not responded to repeated calls and emails by Friday.
That doesn't surprise Miami neurologist Walter Bradley, former chair of the University of Miami's neurology department. He's one of several scientists participating in a panel discussion in Fort Myers following a screening of "Toxic Puzzle" on Aug. 14.
"The Florida Department of Health is very keen to play down all of these problems from the harmful algae blooms, isn't it, because of the effect on tourism," he said. "A lot of people are very upset over here as well. It's stinky. It's terrible and it really doesn't do any good for the tourism, but it's better that people know about it and we start to do something to try to prevent it."
Especially, Bradley says, because the toxins affect people far from the shoreline, who "develop the asthma-like symptoms at a very long distance form the water. That toxin carries for miles," he said, "and that indicates that these poisons get aerosolized, the wind blows them and they go a long distance. So it's not just the people who go in the water who suffer from it; it's people who live or play maybe five or 10 miles away from where's the water's got these blooms."
Even though it didn't directly address the question of surveillance, on Friday, the health department issued a press release advising caution around red tide that didn't mention blue-green algae.
Tips included:
▪ Wearing a particle filter mask may lessen the effects, and over-the-counter antihistamines decrease symptoms.
▪ People with chronic respiratory problems, like asthma, should avoid areas with active red tides. People with symptoms that persist should seek medical attention.
▪ Pet owners are advised that red tide poses a risk to animals brought to the beach. Red tide can affect animals if they drink affected water, lick their wet paws or fur, or breathe marine aerosols.
▪ Residents sensitive to red tide and living in beach areas affected by blooms are advised to close windows and run the air conditioner (making sure that the AC filter is maintained according to the manufacturer's specifications).
▪ Seafood, including shellfish, in restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, and markets is safe to eat. Cooked shellfish (oysters, clams, mussels) thoroughly to prevent exposure to Vibrio vulnificus. Shellfish should not be harvested or eaten from areas with active red tide.
More:Florida algae crisis: Red tide victims? Florida beaches reeling
It also referred residents to the Florida Poison Control Information Center, which handles questions about red tide and algae, and has seen a decided increase in calls recently, said information specialist Frank Alcantara.
"Lots of respiratory trouble, runny nose, headaches, shortness of breath, coughing," he said. "And every now and then, you get someone with intestinal distress."
Over in Stuart, which is also experiencing a toxic bloom centered around the St. Lucie River, Martin Health, the region's major hospital and health care provider (analogous to Lee Health in Lee County) now routinely questions its patients about their exposure to algae, said Vice President Miguel Coty.
"I think it's our obligation to step up and take a position regarding the health of our community ... that's what we believe our role is," Coty said. "It's just like anything else: You need to collect data ... to quantify and collect it and study it over a length of time and unfortunately I think we're on the front end of that process (but) we're saying it needs to be addressed as quickly as possible, because it seems to be getting worse, and we don't know the long-term effects."
Lee Memorial hasn't started any similar measures, said spokesman Steve Doane, in large part because its emergency departments aren't seeing algae-sick patients.
Family physician Tyler Spradling, with the Lee Health Family Medicine Residency Program, said he thinks red tide has troubled more of his patients than toxic algae. "We see some respiratory distress from the aerosol (from) the blooms," Spradling said, "As well as some abdominal distress."
At The News-Press' request, the system looked at its records of diagnostic codes for exposure to harmful algae or its toxins in July of this and last year. The numbers include the system's primary care offices, urgent care clinics and emergency departments. No cases registered last July. This July, from a total of 33,401 visits to Lee Health, seven included a diagnostic code for algae exposure. Four were reported from primary care offices, two from urgent care and one from an emergency department.
But as for any effects the twin blooms might have in the future, Spradling can't say. "There just aren't the studies."
University of Miami Professor Larry Brand, another of the scientists on the upcoming panel, is trying to change that, especially because there are a few studies linking some kinds of algal toxins to grave illness when eaten.
"There're good reasons to believe it can lead to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS," he said.
More:Blasts of tiny bubbles may be new tool in SWFL algae crisis
More:Florida algae crisis: Restaurants react to 'pungent smell' affecting business, appetites
More:Florida algae crisis: Dead sea turtle count at 400; Lee County opens fish disposal sites
As for the kind of blue-green algae blooming in Southwest Florida, Brand wants to determine what happens when the toxins get into the air, because "that can be a more direct route to your brain (than eating it). Whereas if you breathe these toxins in, they can go directly into your blood system through your lungs, or go directly up the olfactory nerve, directly into your brain."
This might be even a more dangerous pathway, Brand said, "So far, we really have not done any research on that, but we're hoping to get funding to do this type of work."
HEALTH TIPS FOR RED TIDE
What: Public forum on health and toxic algae featuring Dr. Parisima Taeb, M.D., Internal Medicine, Dr. Jennifer Boddicker, Ph.D., Microbiology and Annisa Karim, M.S., Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
When: 6-8 p.m., Monday, Aug. 6
Where: Broadway Palm, 1380 Colonial Blvd., Fort Myers
Cost: Free, but must be requested in advance. Email FLCoalition4Science@gmail.com and include your first name, zip code and any questions to be addressed during the forum.
Questions: Call Joe Bord: 646-300-4616
What: "Toxic Puzzle," followed by a panel discussion
When: 5:30 Tuesday, Aug. 14
Info, buy tickets: Call 239-278-4422; online: https://broadwaypalm.com/shows/toxic-puzzle/
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Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Special Issue 4/2022
Studia Universitatis Babeș-BolyaiPhilologia
studia.philologia@lett.ubbcluj.ro
[REMINDER] LEA 2022: Conflict and contrast in language and literature
Journal LEA, University of Florence, Italy
Call for Papers – LEA 11 (2022)
Deadline for submissions: May 8, 2022
Publication: December 2022
LEA is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal based at the University of Florence that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature, linguistics, and philology.
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for LEA 11 (2022):
Conflict and contrast in language and literature
Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers: Transgression and Irish Writing since 1921
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers
Transgression and Irish Writing since 1921
(Guest Editors: Anne Fogarty, University College Dublin / Wei H. Kao, National Taiwan University)
Publication Date: December 2022 (Issue No. 48)
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2022
Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth
Rachel Berman
Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth to be published by Emerald
Patrizia Albanese, and Rachel Berman, X* University, Canada, Xiaobei Chen, Carleton University, Canada
*undergoing a name change
Thematic focus and rationale
Gold Rush!? Poe and 1849
Poe Studies Association (session at MLA Convention)
This panel follows the occasional tradition of examining Poe's life and works in an Eastern Seaboard city where he once lived and wrote that happens to be hosting the Modern Language Association's annual convention, but with a West Coast slant as the MLA gathers in a land that Poe called "Eldorado." Synonymous with the California Gold Rush, 1849 was also the year of Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death. 1849 was a productive year for Poe.
2022 eLCC Annual (Virtual) Conference
eLearning Consortium of Colorado (eLCC)
Are you interested in eLearning? Do you have an idea to share about immersive environments, equitable multimedia principles, and/or justice in technology and online learning? The eLearning Consortium of Colorado (eLCC) is looking for students to participate in its annual conference, which will be held virtually this year from April 13th – April 15th. We are looking for the following:
MLA 2023: Labor of Laughter: Working Conditions and Humor
American Humor Studies Association
How do issues of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender affect the production and consumption of American humor? Please send 250-word abstracts and a brief bio by March 12th to Sam Chesters at samantha.chesters@gmail.com.
2022 CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE! Call for Chapters on Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film
Beyond the Occident: Perspectives on Past, Present and Speculative Future in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film
2022 CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE!
Call for Chapters
We have extended our call for papers deadline through April 1, 2022. We look forward to your proposals on Beyond the Occident in Fiction, Art, Media, and Film.
To be edited by Sümeyra Buran and Jiré Emine Gözen.
FILOLOG: a peer-reviewed open access journal
Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 6:09am
University of Banja Luka, Faculty of Philology
Filolog / The Philologist is a peer-reviewed open access journal promoting contemporary theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to language, literature, and culture.
We publish papers in English, Serbian, Russian, German, French, and Italian.
https://filolog.rs.ba/index.php/filolog
"The Origins of Global Shakespeare Studies", a special edition of Multicultural Shakespeare
Multicultural Shakespeare
The Origins of Global Shakespeare Studies
The guest editor of a special issue of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance invites submissions on the topic of "The Origins of Global Shakespeare Studies"
Bodies of Pain: Somaesthetic Explorations
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invite paper proposals for a conference on "Bodies of Pain: Somaesthetic Explorations"that will be held November 3-4, 2022 at FAU's Boca Raton campus. The conference's call for papers is as follows:
CEI | Call for Papers - E-REI (E-Journal of Intercultural Studies) N.º 10 – 2022
Centre for Intercultural Studies
The Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI) of ISCAP-P.PORTO is preparing the 10th issue of E-REI – E-Journal of Intercultural Studies (ISSN 2182-6439), to be published on-line in May 2022.
Posthuman Bodies & Embodied Posthumanisms: An Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Warwick & Nottingham Trent University
Conference venue: University of Warwick, UK and online
Website: https://posthumanbodiesconference.wordpress.com
Prof. Richard Dyer
Prof. Claire Colebrook
Polylogues at the intersection(s) of decolonisation, conviviality and 'critical diversity' literacy: (Re-)imagining a 'good life'
Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and Convivial Thinking Collective
Editors: Wits Centre for Diversity Studies and Convivial Thinking Editorial Collective
The Oxfam Inequality Report is a yearly reminder of the pervasiveness and depth of embedded injustices and inequalities in our daily lives. Colonial trajectories continue to shape contemporary tendencies to universalise the constitutive elements of a 'good life', encapsulated in global goals such as the SDGs. The resultant erasure denies other social and political imaginaries, other ways of knowing and understanding the world; as the Zapatista say, 'a world of many worlds', wherein we collectively create pluriversal spaces to flourish.
CFP Edited Volume - Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Caribbean and Mediterranean
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 9:55am
Marilen Loyola
CFP Edited Volume
Sea Change: Representations of Transformation in the Caribbean and Mediterranean
sea change n (from Shakespeare's The Tempest, I. ii. 403) 1: a profound or notable transformation 2: a substantial change in perspective, especially one which affects a group or society at large 3: archaic : a change brought about by the sea
British Identities Medialised - Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures 2022
University of Salzburg / Society for the Study of British Cultures
Call for Papers – British Identities Medialised
Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures
University of Salzburg, 17 to 19 November 2022
LAWSUS 2022 : CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS "LAW AND SUSTAINABILITY"
MYKOLAS ROMERIS UNIVERSITY (LTIHUANIA)
THE IDEA OF THE EDITED BOOK:
Law fostering sustainability and sustainable development is one of the fastest-developing, most challenging legal disciplines globally. Sustainability has many different definitions, but its essence was articulated by the Brundtland Commission, tasked by the UN in 1987 to formulate a global agenda for change: "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". The edited volume "Law and Sustainability" analyses the ways on how law and legal profession should change and contribute to sustainability.
Marxism and Neoliberalism Today
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 5:18pm
The University of Florida Marxist Reading Group
CFP: Annual University of Florida Marxist Reading Group Conference
(EXTENDED DEADLINE)
Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida
April 8-10, Gainesville, FL
Keynotes: Rachel Greenwald Smith (St. Louis University), Mitch Murray (Emory University), Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)
WSU SJCon Re-storying Social Justice: Constructing Coalition at the Intersections of Theory, Community, Positionality, and Practice
Washington State University Interdisciplinary Social Justice Conference (WSU SJCon)
Conference Dates: Friday, March 25th and Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Location: Virtually with optional in-person opportunities from Washington State University, Pullman
"Re-storying" Social Justice: Constructing Coalition at the Intersections of Theory, Community, Positionality, and Practice
By "re-storying," I mean a retelling and imagining of stories that restore and continue cultural memories… [a] radical disruption of master narratives through the telling and retelling of stories that disrupt dominant formations of history and culture.
Studies in Popular Culture Article Submissions
Studies in Popular Culture
Studies in Popular Culture (SiPC), a journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South (PCAS), publishes articles on popular culture however mediated through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events--any of the material or conceptual conditions of life.
A multidisciplinary journal, SiPC gives preference to submissions that demonstrate familiarity with the body of scholarly work on popular culture but avoid the jargon associated with certain single-discipline studies. SiPC accepts submissions on all forms of popular culture (American or international) studied from the perspective of any discipline.
Moving/Pictures: Graduate Student Conference
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 10:00am
University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Organization
Moving/Pictures
Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Keynote Speaker: Haidee Wasson of Concordia University
Date: September 23-24
The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce "Moving/Pictures," its eleventh Annual Graduate Student Conference.
Different Forms of Feminism in English Language T.V. Series: Legacy and Resistance in Different Types of Methodology of Discourse Analysis of Female Identity
Aix-Marseille Université/ Université TOulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès
Over the past few decades we have seen a sharp rise in the number of central female characters in TV series, offering a wide palette of complex female identities, characters following very diverse narrative journeys. Whether we have in mind the genius and tortured nature of the heroine of Homeland (Showtime, 2011 - 2020) and Killing Eve (BBC One, 2018 -). Or the whole gallery of characters in Orange is the New Black (Netflix, 2013 - 2019) or the different seasons of This is England (Channel 4, 2006 – 2015),the importance of central female figures is well established and even conveyed and measured by monitoring centres of the audio-visual sector.
Nabokov and Curiosity (MLA 2023)
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society invites paper proposals for the 2023 MLA Convention (San Francisco, January 5-8) for a panel session on the topic "Nabokov and Curiosity." Proposals should examine some aspect of curiosity as a theme in Nabokov's works or as an approach to reading them.
CFP: Translingual Digital Practices of Global English (MLA 2023 Annual Convention)
MLA Annual Convention 2023
Online settings foster mediated social actions that take place at the intersection of technologies, relationships, and cultures. This panel welcomes investigations & considerations of translingual, transmodal iterations of global English in online interactions.
Please send an abstart of 250 words to (CMigliaccio@mec.cuny.edu).
This is a guaranteed MLA 2023 panel organized by LSL (Language Studies and Linguistics) Global English forum.
Submission Deadline: Friday, 18 March 2022
Anticolonialism as Theory Symposium
UC-Berkeley & The Association of Postcolonial Thought
Fall 2022, University of California, Berkeley
The Futures of Postcolonial Thought: Anticolonialism as Theory
September 30-October 2
The Prescience of Margaret Atwood's Works: Lessons from the Past to Illuminate the Post-Now (MMLA, Minneapolis, 11/16-11/21-22)
Margaret Atwood Society
MMLA: November 16-21, 2022, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN.
The Prescience of Margaret Atwood's Works: Lessons from the Past to Illuminate the Post-Now
Ulysses 100
Georgian-American University of Tbilisi
T.S. Eliot called Ulysses 'the most important expression which the present age has found; … a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.'' Indeed, after a century it is a book which is still read, discussed, translated, researched and which influences not only writers, but painters, musicians, philosophers, photographers, film directors.
We invite scholars and students from various fields to send proposals for a 15-minute paper with a creative approach towards any aspect of Joyce's works.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
The Art of Subsidy / The Subsidy of Art
Performance Paradigm
Performance Paradigm 18 (2023) — Call for Papers
Call for abstracts: Folio: Stories of Australian Comics
Folio: Stories of Australian Comics
SUNY Albany EGSO 2022 Conference
University at Albany's English Graduate Student Organization
Online Conference April 2nd, 2022 (EST)
Call for Critical and Creative Proposals:
"Not all of us can say, with any degree of certainty, that we have always been human, or that we are only that."
--Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (2013)


I suppose the best way to begin this letter would be to say thank you! Many readers might say that you changed their lives with the inception of your boy wizard. I'm sure that's true. But I want to let you know that you've not only changed my life, you've shaped it.
This year, on May 2nd, I spent the day remembering the seventeenth anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. I remembered all of the amazing things in my life that happened because you wrote a story about magic, about good and evil and friendship and love.
This may seem like a lot of remembering. Maybe you could even say that I drowned that day in the Pensieve. I also remembered a line you quoted from Arthur Levine: "and they say we shouldn't teach children about evil." If reading the Potter books taught me anything, it was that evil exists in every part of the world, wizarding or not, and often it exists within each of us as well. But there is something even more powerful that you've taught us through seven years at Hogwarts. You've taught readers about friendship, love, loyalty, imagination; all of which are true magic.
Today I turned on the news only to hear about murders and horrific acts of violence. But I also saw acts of kindness and love and it makes me think that there is hope for our world. If your books gave me anything, I'm glad it is a sense of hope beyond the atrocties. And while many of us would rather not face what is happening, I think about teenagers coming together to fight the power of a Ministry, I think of Dumbledore's Army hiding out in the Room of Requirement to train for the difficult days ahead. I think of sacrifice and intellect and I think of the tension between Purebloods and Halfbloods and Mudbloods. Of propaganda posters railing against "The Chosen One," of lightning bolt scars, and hateful words etched on arms. I think of the damage of the Holocaust. I think of the destruction in cities and countries and the callous acts happening everywhere. And I think about what we can do to try to stop it.
I know it will take a group, or an Order of people coming together to make this world right. Sometimes I wonder why others are so willing to ignore the atrocities of your Wizarding World and all that it stands for. What's to say we won't do the same thing when it comes to our real world?
So once again I am reminded of that quote, "and they say we shouldn't teach children about evil," one that I believe originated on the day our world became a world of after, the day two towers fell and began this war on "terror." But if we remember, as you've taught, that there is hope for tomorrow, that maybe someday there will be a better world, maybe things will begin to change. After all, "happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
With September 1st just around the corner, I imagine myself stepping toward Platform 9 3/4 and boarding the Hogwarts Express. I think about Treacle Tarts and Acid Pops and Chocolate Frogs and even Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. I think about thestrals and dementors and the Sorting Hat (I think we'd have quite the conversation since I'm a Revenpuff; wise and loyal). I think about all of the beautiful times I've already spent at Hogwarts, and I know, it is my home away from home.
From my front yard I look at the single hydrangea bloom as summer starts to fade. It reminds me of Harry hiding beneath the window sill, listening to the news. And it reminds me of the summer I spent on my back patio devouring Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I remember watching one of my favorite worlds darken just as my real world did the same thing. I lost friends and battled the halls of high school, but I always had Harry, Ron, and Hermione. I was the bookish girl who made it through because of your books and your role models and your wonderful words.
And if you aked me if I still love your world and your writing "after all this time," I would reply "always."
Kayla King is a writer of poetry and fiction. She is the Blog Manager and Staff Reviewer at YABC, which means she loves to read and review books! She is an editor for 1:1000 and as such, reads great stories and contributes a new piece of flash fiction every month, and is a permanent writer for Germ Magazine. Kayla graduated from Buffalo State College with her B.A. in Writing and is currently pursuing her MFA from Southern New Hampshire University. You can find her website and blog here.
LOVE!! I'm just now reading Order of the Phoenix and wish I had read them sooner! Such an amazing world!


Mission Viejo, CA – January 23, 2018 — CynergisTek, Inc. (NYSE AMERICAN: CTEK), a leader in healthcare cybersecurity and information management, today announced that — as a result of successful, multi-year engagements — several of its healthcare clients have contracted for additional cybersecurity and privacy services. Valley Presbyterian Hospital renewed CynergisTek's Patient Privacy Monitoring Service (PPMS) and signed on to leverage the company's Compliance Assist Partner Program (CAPP). In addition, Legacy Community Health renewed its use of CynergisTek's CAPP service and will also adopt the company's PPMS offering in 2018.
CynergisTek's PPMS offering helps to establish, enhance, and maintain a customized patient privacy monitoring program, in order to ensure compliance with OCR privacy regulations. The company's CAPP service provides privacy, security, and compliance expertise to help healthcare organizations mature security programs through routine assessments, testing, and ongoing advisory services. Working with CynergisTek, provider organizations can access the critical support needed to supplement internal resources in order to deploy and maintain successful cybersecurity and privacy programs. The company's PPMS and CAPP offerings are the most comprehensive available in the market and are designed to complement the organization's existing programs and specific needs.


Police are appealing to the public to trace a teenage girl who has been missing for four days.
Cerys Vickers, 16, was last seen at 9.30pm on July 14 in the Stanway area of Colchester.
It is believed the teenager, from Colchester, has links to Chelmsford and Braintree.
Cerys is described as being of slim build and is 5ft 11, with long brown hair, which is usually worn in a ponytail.
She no longer has the braces seen in the above photograph.
Cerys was last reported to be wearing a light pink tracksuit and a pink Tommy Hilfiger coat.
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "If you have seen Cerys, or have any information, please call our officers at Colchester Local Policing Team on 101."
Earlier this morning (Wednesday, June 18), Essex Police incorrectly stated that Cerys had been missing since June 14. A spokesman for the force has since highlighted this error.


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Anatomy of the sense of touch in sea otters
Sarah McKay Strobel,
A combination of approaches can be used to interpret underwater foraging behavior of sea otters. Previous research in our laboratory has focused primarily on behavioral assessments of sensory abilities that sea otters likely use to detect and acquire prey. For example, we have worked cooperatively with trained otters to learn about texture discrimination using touch in air and under water. Our understanding of sensory biology in this species can be supplemented through fine scale histological analyses of sensory tissue. Here, we provide results from our recent efforts to link skin structure and touch function using anatomical approaches. We obtained freshly harvested hairless skin samples from the paws, nose, lips, and flipper pads of euthanized sea otters (n=4) through collaboration with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. After fixing the tissues in 10% neutral buffered formalin and processing them for histochemical staining with H&E, we imaged each tissue sample with light microscopy. In addition to gross descriptions of skin morphology, we report density of multiple mechanoreceptor types (including Pacinian corpuscles, Merkel cells, Meissner corpuscles, and unidentified lamellar corpuscles) responsible for different touch sensations. We compare these data across skin structures and within paw regions (digit pads, palmar pads, carpal pads) to test the hypothesis that different structures contribute to different tactile functions of skin regions in sea otters.
Beyond morbidity: an integrated approach to sea otter intestinal parasitism
Kyle Shanebeck,
Univeristy of Alberta
Food webs are often more complex than biology textbook figures let on. Sea otters are charismatic animals at the centre of considerable conservation efforts. They are also keystone species in their ecosystems and play a vital role in kelp forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Potential variations in their breeding success and population dynamics following perturbations can have dramatic effects on the whole ecosystem. The only parasite that exclusively uses sea otters as a definitive host, Corynosoma enhydri if often dismissed as insignificant for otter and ecosystem health. We argue here that the dismissal of this widespread, prevalent and abundant parasite of sea otters is premature, and potentially negligent. Parasites are increasingly recognized as an integral part of food webs in marine ecosystems. Many species affect host behavior, influencing rates of predation and prey preference. Some parasites suppress immune response, and may increase rates of polyparasitism or secondary bacterial infection. Parasites can also affect energetics and metabolic success of hosts, a limiting factor for sea otter population success. Furthermore, little is known about how increasing ocean temperatures and climate change may influence infection levels and how this could affect sea otters and kelp forest ecosystem health.
Sea otter toxicology research: what can we learn about toxic compounds in sea otters using non-invasively collected fecal samples?
Amy Olsen,
The Seattle Aquarium
Pollutants and other toxic contaminant compounds are found in ecosystems throughout the world, from the Arctic to the Mariana Trench. These chemicals have been associated with negative health effects in wildlife, including those that live in the marine environment. Sea otters are a marine predator with a high metabolism, and extensive consumption of contaminated prey may result in biomagnification of these toxic compounds. The Seattle Aquarium houses four Northern sea otters, and their diet includes a variety of restaurant quality seafood. The Aquarium measured three chemicals for trial testing, all known to cause adverse health effects in high concentrations: polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs, a flame-retardant used in furniture and electronics), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs, a coolant and lubricant), and pyrethroids (a common synthetic insecticide). Seafood diet items and non-invasively collected fecal samples were tested. Overall, values of the three chemicals were found to be below the threshold for concern in humans for all sample types. There is no known threshold for concern in sea otters, so human concern values were used as a proxy. Seattle Aquarium sea otters were ingesting levels below the daily oral limits set by the EPA and World Health Organization. Pyrethroids were the highest measured chemical overall, most likely because PCBs and PBDEs have been managed or fully banned in Washington for 40 and 10 years, respectively, while pyrethroids are still permitted for use both residentially and commercially. The Seattle Aquarium will use these data to improve our animal care by providing our animals with the cleanest sources of food and water, and to serve as a foundation for understanding sea otter toxicology.
Investigating the energetic cost of anthropogenic disturbance on the southern sea otter
(Enhydra lutris nereis)
Heather E. Barrett,
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, California State University
As coastal populations and tourism increase, there is an increase in human-wildlife conflicts.
The impacts of these conflicts are not well understood for many coastal species, and of particular concern is the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis). Sea otters have high metabolic costs and are at risk of increased energetic costs due to human disturbance. To investigate the effects of human disturbance, behavioral scans were conducted over three years to record sea otter activity in response to potential disturbance stimuli at three locations in California (Monterey, Moss Landing, Morro Bay). We developed a hidden Markov model to predict the level of increased activity based on location, disturbance stimuli, and distance. We then paired previously recorded metabolic rates to the observed activity changes to calculate expected energetic cost. Our data indicate that disturbance to sea otters and consequent change in activity is location and distance specific. This activity change correlates to energetic costs that increase with disturbance stimuli proximity and frequency. The coupling of metabolics to activity change in response to a disturbance furthers our understanding of the true energetic cost to sea otters, while providing a sound scientific basis for management.
Investigating microplastic ingestion in sea otters through scat analysis
Jennifer Van Brocklin,
The presence of microplastics in marine environments is becoming an increasing concern due to their potential impacts on marine species. As part of a master's thesis project to investigate how sea otters may be exposed to these pollutants, we will be assessing the number and type of microplastics ingested by sea otters by analyzing diet and scat samples in ex- and in-situ individuals. We will also be exploring the possible change in microplastic load sea otters have experienced over time by observing microplastic presence in archived samples.
Using behavioral and physiological data to evaluate animal welfare in marine mammals: a case study on sea otters
Megan Hagedorn,
Oregon Zoo
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In recent years, zoos and aquariums have increased their efforts to systematically evaluate and improve animal welfare. One tool that can be used for objective assessment of physiological state is the monitoring of adrenal hormones in fecal samples. Since 2015, animal care staff at the Oregon Zoo have been collecting fecal samples from various animals for hormone analyses in our on-site endocrinology lab. The lab uses enzymeimmunoassay (EIA) techniques to track reproductive hormones like estrogen, progesterone and their metabolites, as well as adrenal hormones like cortisol, corticosterone and glucocorticoid metabolites (GMs). Temporary increases in GMs can occur in response to negative or positive events and can be used to identify acute stressors and responses to novel stimuli, such as a new enrichment item. Long-term elevations of GMs may indicate the existence of a chronic stressor, such as an on-going health issue. When paired with detailed behavior data, hormone data can be used to evaluate animal welfare, investigate responses to specific events or management decisions as well as facilitate end of life discussions. The following presentation discusses several examples in which paired hormone data and behavioral data were used to monitor animal welfare in 2.1 southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris).


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Thurmont's Main Street Receives National Recognition
Just announced by the National Main Street Center, Thurmont's Main Street joins the accredited 2016 Main Street America Program!
This national organization recognizes cities and towns of different sizes that successfully execute programs dedicated to excellent economic growth to the town's central Main Street community. To be included in this prestigious cultivation of thriving downtown Main Street communities, Thurmont exudes the qualifications that make it worthy of such accreditation to the National Main Street America Program!
These qualifications include fostering public-private partnerships, maintaining public outreach, operating on a fiscally secure budget, preserving historic buildings and sustaining revitalization efforts. Since it opened at 11 Water St. in 2015, Thurmont Main Street has served as the town's focal point, housing the visitor center, an art gallery, a public meeting space and headquarters for holiday events.
The Thurmont Farmers Market is one of the many revitalization efforts that have contributed to Thurmont's Main Street accreditation. Other efforts include new streetlights, benches, sidewalks, and bicycle accommodations.
Visit Thurmont and their thriving Main Street community today to see that this small town has big happenings all year long!
*To remain accredited, Thurmont Main Street must abide by the Maryland Main Street guidelines administered through the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, according to Thurmont Main Street manager Vickie Grinder.* – FNP 7/6/2016
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A relatively simple and specific test has been developed to distinguish eggs of Echinococcus from those of other morphologically identical taeniid species. A specific anti-Echinococcus oncosphere monoclonal antibody was produced which binds in an indirect immunofluorescence test to egg-derived oncospheres of E. granulosus but not to those of other taeniid species, such as Taenia hydatigena, T. saginata, T. pisiformis, T. ovis, T. multiceps, or T. taeniaeformis. Specific fluorescence was obtained with oncospheres of E. granulosus derived from either hatch/activated viable eggs using artificial intestinal fluid or from hypochlorite/detergent treated eggs. The potential use of this test in the study of the transmission of Echinococcus in Turkana, Kenya, is discussed.


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Expert insights Artwork by an algorithm is up for auction, so does that mean AI is now creative?
Artwork by an algorithm is up for auction, so does that mean AI is now creative?
Sven Brodmerkel
| Oct 17,2018
GUEST OBSERVATION
A painting generated by artificial intelligence will go up for sale at auction later this month – raising again the question of whether a machine can be creative.
The painting, called Edmond De Belamy, is estimated to be worth between 7,000€ and 10,000€ (A$11,375-A$16,250).
The auction house Christie's says the painting is the product of a Generative Adversarial Network, in which one artificial neural network (the so-called Generator) creates an image based on its analysis of a database of 15,000 paintings by real people.
Another network (the Discriminator) then compares the new artwork to human-made paintings. If the Discriminator cannot tell the difference, the computer-generated image has passed the test.
But isn't art the highest expression of what it means to be human? How could machines possibly emulate truly creative practices, which are often regarded as the pinnacle of human achievement?
Ultimately, the nature of creativity – and whether machines will ever be genuinely creative – is a deeply philosophical question that rests to a large degree on where we look for creativity.
If we locate creativity in the actual artwork, it is hard to deny that machines are capable of being creative.
Margaret Boden is a pioneer in the field of AI and computational creativity. In her 2016 book AI: Its nature and future she defines creativity as: "…the ability to produce ideas or artefacts that are new, surprising, and valuable."
She then distinguishes three different types of creativity: combinational, exploratory, and transformational.
Types of creativity
Combinational creativity combines familiar ideas in new ways. A good example is the AI artist Pindar van Arman, who trained his robots to paint portraits, including self-portraits. In his view, artistic creativity: "…is little more than a complex mix of competing generative algorithms."
Exploratory creativity, argues Boden, exploits some "culturally valued way of thinking" (styles, genres, and so on) and generates new work within these parameters.
For instance, The Next Rembrandt, a campaign by the Dutch bank ING, used feature-extraction algorithms to identify all the stylistic elements that characterise Rembrandt's work. It then used this dataset to create a new portrait in the unique style of the famous Dutch painter.
Transformational creativity does not just explore a given genre, but goes beyond it. It drops, negates or complements existing styles to such an extent that new artistic conventions might be developed in the process.
This form of creativity can be achieved by so-called evolutionary algorithms that can transform themselves and evaluate their "ideas" based upon criteria provided by the programmer.
The advertising agency M&C Saatchi used these algorithms to create an outdoor poster for a fictional coffee brand that "evolved" based on the level of "engagement" it elicited from consumers.
Equipped with facial recognition technology and connected to the internet, the algorithm determined which features of the ad – colours, typography, copy, layout – were successful and worth being replicated in further "generations".
So it can be said that machines have successfully conquered all of the conceptual domains of creativity.
The artist's intention
If we locate creativity not in the actual artwork but in the mind of the artist, two key objections are commonly made:
The actual creative act does not reside in the output generated by the machine, but in its initial programming. Therefore, it is still fundamentally human ingenuity that drives the creative process.
The art generated by AI is not creative, because it is unintentional.
Given recent advances in the creation of deep neural networks and learning algorithms, the first objection is increasingly hard to defend.
When Google/Deep Mind's AlphaGo beat the highest-ranked human player of the ancient Chinese board game in 2016, some of its moves had never been played before by humans and were described as "creative".
Importantly, AlphaGo does not follow pre-programmed rules. It uses general machine learning techniques to figure out for itself how to succeed at the game. It would therefore only be fair to attribute creativity to both the human programmers and the machine.
The second objection is more difficult to dismiss. We hardly ever appreciate creative artefacts based solely on their immediate appearance and the responses they evoke.
As Ellen Winner, a professor of psychology at Boston College, argues in her upcoming book How Art Works, the notion of an unmediated experience of art is most likely a myth.
The value we ascribe to art is deeply influenced by multiple forces – an important one being what we think the artist's intentions were when creating the work.
Just look at debate over the value of the Banksy artwork Girl With Balloon that went to auction. Some argue its value has increased after the artist deliberately part-shredded the artwork.
The artwork, now renamed Love Is in the Bin, was described by Sotheby's Alex Branczik as: "…the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction."
Seen from this perspective, we will accept machines as being genuinely creative only when they attain a sense of self and the capability to explain why they did what they did.
Disrupting the creative economy
But machines don't need to be genuinely creative to have an impact on jobs and industries. According to a large survey of machine learning experts in 2015, AI is predicted to be able to write high school essays by 2026, generate a top 40 pop song by 2027, and write a bestselling book by 2049.
These experts also expected AI to beat humans at Go in 2027 – a feat AlphaGo accomplished in 2016. Do we need to worry then? Are machines going take over both the mundane tasks and the creative jobs?
While they will definitely displace humans when it comes to routine creative activities, a study by McKinsey expects that overall jobs in the creative economy will increase.
But job profiles will most certainly change, and established value chains in the creative economy will be disrupted. For instance, machines already compose high-quality music or imagine new video games from scratch.
How exactly these advances in machine creativity will affect the creative industries – and what economic, social and ethical consequences this entails – is an issue deserving much more attention than it receives at the moment.
But none of this will matter when the portrait of Edmond De Belamy comes up for auction. What matters then is only how much appetite bidders have for AI-generated art – keeping in mind that there might be much more of it in the future.
Portrait of Edmond Belamy, 2018, created by GAN (Generative Adversarial Network). Obvious
Sven Brodmerkel, Assistant Professor for Integrated Marketing Communications, Bond University
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Since the Gaia Spacecraft's second massive data drop last week, scientists have released over 30 new research papers in just two days following the announcement. One especially intriguing paper describes the possibility that a powerful gravitational force sent ripples through our galaxy, like a stone into a pond, between 300 million and 900 million years ago that might have been due to a close approach from the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy orbiting the Milky Way around 70,000 light years away.
Information from this second release has also helped unmask some features of the Milky Way that only limited data had hinted at before. "Right below the central region (of the Milky Way is), there is a strip of stars sticking down and this is actually a dwarf galaxy being torn apart in the tidal field of our own galaxy; it is called the Sagittarius dwarf. We knew about its existence already, but this is the first time that you can just see it sitting there in a map of the star density on the sky," said Anthony Brown, with the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium.
"We have here provided the clearest evidence that our own Galaxy disk has suffered from perturbations, bringing it to an out-of-equilibrium state, which may well be due to the interaction with an external satellite galaxy," write the authors, led by Teresa Antoja from the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, in the paper published last week on the arXiv preprint server.
halo kinematics, Gaia Universe Model Snapshot.
The European Space Agency released its second set of Gaia data last Wednesday, and with it came new information about 1.7 billion stars in the Milky Way. That included 1.3 billion stars' apparent motion in the sky and actual velocities for over 7 million stars. The researchers behind the newest study used this information to study the galaxy in phase space—fancy talk for how its stars' velocities vary with their position.
This second data release takes the census of our Galaxy to an entirely new level, as it includes three-dimensional positions and two-dimensional motions of more than 1.3 billion stars, along with their distances, brightnesses and colors that can help paint a bigger picture about the star as its colour gives information on its surface temperature; the hotter the star, the more blue it is; the cooler the star, the more red it is.
Gaia has achieved this impressive feat of data collection by sweeping across the sky while taking observations in a large circular motion. "In about one minute, Gaia measures about a hundred thousand stars on the sky," said Anthony Brown. It takes around two months for Gaia to look at the whole of the sky and in this data release most stars will have been recorded on average about 70 times.
This multitude of measurements for each star can then be plotted to show its varying brightness as it moves around the galaxy and how it changes in size as it pulsates. Variable stars are an important tool in astronomy because their periods (how often they pulsate) are directly related to their luminosity or brightness, so they are sometimes used to measure distances within the Universe.
Not only that, but animations built from Gaia data allows the positions of stars to be seen in 3D, allowing scientists to rotate around a particular star cluster for example to see it from all sides.
Over its whole lifetime of 5 years, the satellite will take 29 independent measurements of the whole sky, giving astronomers an unprecedented look at how the stars in our Milky Way behave and evolve; data gleaned from Gaia will help to literally reconstruct the whole history of the Milky Way.
One of the highlights of this particular release added Brown, is the radial velocity data on seven million stars, which tells scientists how the stars are moving towards us or away from us. "Although 7 million might look like a small number compared with the rest, it represents the biggest radial velocity survey ever carried out over the whole sky," explained Brown.


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Pingshan, you're so awesome, does everyone know that?
Shenzhen Satellite Television (Shenzhen TV) September 19, 2022
Speaking of Pingshan
Everyone's mind still seems to be
That relatively remote place
But today, we go there again
It, it seems, is no longer the way it is remembered
This week's Poetic China - A Walk Through Shenzhen
The "Urban Cycling Program" series launched
Will take everyone from Pingshan
Look at this new area in
A poetic blueprint about the interweaving of Shenzhen's history and future
Pingshan, how many surprises do you have that people don't know about?
Pingshan Cultural Colony, the new cultural landmark of Pingshan District. Here, people can immerse themselves in a sea of books at the Pingshan Library, or enjoy a unique cultural performance at the Grand Theatre, or walk into the art museum and stop in front of modern artworks to feel the charm of art.
-Pingshan Grand Theater-
The Pingshan Grand Theatre, an important part of the Pingshan cultural colony. The appearance of the theater is like a theatrical square box, allowing those who are ready to open it to experience the fabulousness of it. The sky garden on the top floor, the theater space with mixed colors, incorporates diverse interpretations under its minimalist design appearance. Today, it has also become a microcosm of cultural innovation and artistic development in Pingshan.
-Pingshan Art Museum-
Pingshan Art Museum, located in the northern part of Pingshan Cultural Settlement, is a new urban art museum focusing on contemporary art. The three-dimensional architectural space and the imaginative exhibition of works make people eager to go in and feel a wave of art.
Recommended Exhibition "Peach Blossom Source - Trace
Liu Xiaodu, who is the director of Pingshan Art Museum, mentioned that "Peach Blossom Source - Traces" is a solo exhibition by artist Zhou Li, and the traces used here are not recorded notes, but traces of traces, which is actually a state of our mind's journey, a kind of tracing.
Zhou Li, she started to experience some stages and changes in her life from the time of 2005, and at this time she sprouted a life state like the ideal one in Tao Yuanming's "The Peach Blossom Source". In the exhibition hall, there is a column knocked out to reveal a new structure, signifying a new hope. The Peach Blossom Garden, instead of showing a purely beautiful ideal world, also shows you a process of continuous self-reconstruction.
It is worth mentioning that the Pingshan Museum of Art recently launched a bus series project in which the buses were redecorated with the Pingshan Museum of Art's third anniversary logo. The public can ride from downtown to the Pingshan Art Museum for free, and on the bus they can read the museum's materials and the curators will do public education on it.
Director Liu mentioned that art museums nowadays are not in a particularly serious and demure state to display art. He wants people to feel that the atmosphere of the art museum is related to their lives, a way of combining art and life.
Built in the year 56 of the Qing Dynasty, Dawanshiju is one of the largest and best-preserved square Hakka houses in China, preserving the historical folklore relics and cultural essence of the Hakka people. It has a layout of three houses in the front and back and two houses in the left and right, and it is still ancient and simple after a century of vicissitudes.
-Daimyo Shinkakuin-
On the west side of the Dawanshi Residence, there is the Mingxin Academy, which is a combination of Chinese and Western styles. Today, it is also one of the Pingshan City Study Houses.
Xiong Qiman is a young writer who loves the land of Pingshan. He says that this place has a very warm humanistic feeling. Just like the Mingxin Academy, it is a revitalized use of some old houses into the Pingshan City Study Room, so that people today can continue to relax, culture and entertain here, and continue to pass on this cultural lineage. This piece of land has the thickness brought by history and time, but also the temperature brought by humanities.
After watching
Did you instantly get the beauty of Pingshan?
Thoughtful deep to everyone attached Pingshan traffic tips
Hurry up and collect it!
Pingshan traffic tips
【High-speed rail / Train】
1.Shenzhen North Station - Shenzhen Pingshan Station about 17 minutes
2.Shenzhen Futian Station - Shenzhen Pingshan Station about 40 minutes
About 45km from Futian District to Pingshan by car, takes about 1 hour
[Public Transportation
1.Shenzhen Metro Line 3 to Shuanglong Station, then transfer to m497 and get off at Pingshan Experimental School Station
2.High Speed Bus No. 884/821, get off at Administrative 9 Road Station
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We explored Shenzhen on a "fun" ride
Feel the dense in the forest of tall buildings
The subtle poetry between the rhythm of the rush and
After watching this season of "Poetic China - Reading Shenzhen
What is your favorite place to live poetically?
Remember to lock in tonight at 21:35
Poetic China - A Walk Through Shenzhen
Talking about poetic life together
Looking ahead to the great beauty of Shenzhen
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TRADERS: The 'Flash Crash' arrest is a joke
Julia La Roche Apr. 23, 2015, 1:46 AM
This is the house where Navinder Sarao traded his account. Reuters/ Neil Hall
Traders we spoke with think that the arrest of a 36-year-old UK-based trader for his alleged involvement in the 2010 "Flash Crash" is a total joke.
On Tuesday, futures trader Navinder Singh Sarao, was arrested in London in connection with charges in the US.
He's been charged on one count of wire fraud, 10 counts of commodities fraud, 10 counts of commodities manipulation, and one count of "spoofing" — buying or selling large orders with the intent to cancel. The US is seeking extradition.
According to the complaint, Sarao allegedly used an algorithm to manipulate the market for E-Mini S&P 500 futures contracts (E-Minis) on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).
"Sarao's alleged manipulation earned him significant profits and contributed to a major drop in the U.S. stock market on May 6, 2010, that came to be known as the 'Flash Crash.' On that date, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by approximately 600 points in a five-minute span, following a drop in the price of E-Minis," the DOJ said in a release.
Here's how futures traders reacted (emphasis ours):
"Well what he did is a problem for CME, which they are cleaning up. They have been cracking down over past 6 months hard. He was not the cause of the flash crash. That is a joke," one New York-based trader said. (The problem the trader is referring to is "spoofing").
"[Spoofing] is a separate issue, but spoofing doesn't happen risk free," another trader explained. "If someone is in the market spoofing it they are taking the chance that a real buyer can lift their contracts and all of the sudden they are seriously short or long a position they never wanted to be in…which is why the market is normally a better liberator of these things than regulators. If I'm a big fund and see someone doing this, I may try and wait for the right time and then buy 5,000 contracts when I see them doing this if I know I need to buy a lot more and squeeze him as a short. That's far more painful to him than a one time fine."
A New York-based quant trader said that regulators absolutely should be tracking spoofing. However, the trader thinks regulators needed someone to blame this time. "My gut says he is basically being made a target because they need someone to blame for the 'Flash Crash.' The trader thinks that this "case smells of political PR" and that "someone somewhere is really working hard on their career."
The quant also pointed out that the complaint said Sarao had been using the trading algo before the "Flash Crash" and in the years after. If he was the cause of the crash, why did we only have one crash in that period?
One Midwest-based trader said it was "impossible to have been caused by one trader or even exaggerated." He added, "It's insanely entertaining to think an individual or an entity caused that day."
The trader explained that there were "far too many other markets losing liquidity just as fast and in fact FASTER that it's LUDICROUS to think one individual in just the EMINI caused it. Insanely [reckless] in fact."
"This arrest is retarded," one of the traders said. "To blame them, to blame them for the 'Flash Crash' is absolutely ridiculous. It's beyond ridiculous." The trader later added, "If anything, OK someone is trying to game the market here. It's f—–g stupid."
Sarao was the sole employee of UK-based Nav Sarao Futures Limited. It appears that he traded his personal from his home in a London suburb.
If you're a futures trader, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Feel free to reach out to [email protected]
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Arts+CultureNews
3November 2015
TextDominique Sisley
Ireland set to decriminalise cannabis, cocaine and heroin
The country will open the first supervised injection centres early next year, with an overall aim to legalise personal use
Personal use of weed, cocaine and heroin is set to be decriminalised in Ireland over the next year, according to reports in The Irish Times.
National Drugs Safety minister Aodhán Ó Ríordáin announced the radical new plans at an LSE talk yesterday, along with his intentions to open the country's first ever supervised injection centres. He claimed that decriminalisation would help remove the "stigma" surrounding drug addiction, and bring about a major shift in the way the illness is treated.
"I am firmly of the view there needs to be a cultural shift in how we regard substance misuse if we are to break this cycle and make a serious attempt to tackle drug and alcohol addiction," he told The Irish Times. "Research has shown that the use of supervised injecting centres is associated with self-reported reductions in injecting risk behaviours."
The first of these injection centres will apparently open in Dublin "early next year", before being rolled out gradually across the country – following in Cork, Galway and Limerick. Ó Ríordáin claims that the spaces will be "clinically controlled environments" to ensure addicts don't get caught up in the criminal justice system. He made it clear, however, that it would still remain a crime to sell, distribute or profit from illicit drugs.
Although the plans are still being processed, Ó Ríordáin has stressed that there is now a "strong consensus that drugs across the board should be decriminalised". Irish officials have allegedly been discussing the technicalities with the Portuguese – who decriminalised all drugs in 2001, and have seen an overall drop in usage since.
"Too often those with drug problems suffer from stigma, due to a lack of understanding or public education about the nature of addiction," he added. "This stigma can be compounded for those who end up with a criminal record due to possession of drugs for their own use."
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