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Wayne C. Booth and The Rhetoric of Fiction
By Nasrullah Mambrol on March 2, 2019 • ( 0 )
In his 1979 study, Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism, Booth argues that there are five ways of approaching novels, or literary texts. The critic James Phelan summarizes these as follows: as an imitation of the world external to it (the mimetic approach), as an event in time (the historical approach),
as an autotelic object (the objective), as an expression – and revelation – of its author's psychology or experience (the expressive or biographical), as a communication to an audience (rhetorical or reader-response). (Phelan 1988: 63)
The New Critics saw the text as autotelic, as a structure of words independent of its context, but Booth's emphasis is on a textual environment of communication and reception. In his 'Afterword' to the second edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth makes it clear that (unlike Trilling's) his project is trans-historical and non-political: 'studying the rhetoric of fiction is one thing and studying the political history of novels . . . is another' (Booth 1983a: 413). Whether such a project is possible, productive, or welcome is another matter.
Booth's entire approach to the novel is determined by his conviction that '[t]he novel comes into existence as something communicable' (1961: 397). It is, or rather should be, an 'essentially public' form (1961: 395). Throughout The Rhetoric of Fiction and The Company We Keep, the focus is on fiction 'viewed as the art of communicating with readers' (1961: xiii). In terms of our communication model of narrative (p. 16), itself mainly derived from Booth, it is not just that the key elements in The Rhetoric of Fiction are the author, text, and reader; the concentration is on how these interact (or are thought of as interacting) in the process of writing and reading a novel. As Booth acknowledges, 'James began at a different place entirely, with the effort to portray a convincing mind at work on reality' (1961: 43). It is worth issuing a health warning at this point: an enormous amount of fiction is discussed or referred to by Booth, and there can be no expectation that his readers (or the readers of this book) can have read and assimilated all this material. Everything is to be gained, however, by reading more of the novels that surface in his argument.
Booth sees the author's central task as that of transmitting to the reader a clear sense of a fictional world and its moral problems. Crucial to this act of communication is the extent to which the forms of rhetoric it adopts are effective to its purpose. There is no time in The Rhetoric of Fiction for what Booth projects as solitary, self-regarding, experimental novels that privilege the complex and meandering visions of idiosyncratic writers. Retreating to a 'private world of values' may be one response to a 'fragmented society', but the purpose of the novel in such a world should be to 'mold a new consensus' (1961: 393). If Trilling's antagonists in The Liberal Imagination are novels committed to social realism and political propaganda, Booth's are works of fiction that offer peculiar and confused social and moral perspectives, or novels that distinguish themselves as 'pure' because they strive for a seemingly impersonal style with no detectable perspective at all. The reader is offered little guidance in a world of moral complexity often intensified, for the sake of entertainment and technical display, by the multiplication of unresolvable ambiguities and interminable symbolism.
Booth has in mind novels such as the Austrian Franz Kafka's (1883–1924) The Castle (1937) where '[n]o one tells us . . . what K's goal is, or whether it is attainable, or whether it is a worthwhile goal in the first place' (Booth 1961: 287). He saw 'deliberate confusion' (1961: 285) as a disease of the modern novel, and the Irish writer James Joyce (1882–1941) as one of its first proponents. Booth also criticizes James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) for its muddled and muddling narrative and absence of any clear moral position. It will become clear as the book proceeds, however, that Booth's enduring legacy is less his rather inflexible views on morality, and much more the vocabulary and concepts he developed in order to explore what he sees as the gains and losses of impersonal narration.
Wayne C. Booth
For Booth, the main tool for the writer and critic of the novel is rhetoric, the means by which a particular author's fictional world and its moral norms are communicated to the reader. Booth sets out to consider 'whether rhetoric is compatible with art' (1961: xiv) and ends up concluding that every move a writer makes is rhetorical: fiction is rhetoric. Booth demonstrates that despite the claims of the purists, each element of a novel (including dialogue, setting, symbolism, and so on) is part of its system of persuasion. As we have seen, there are two extremes in the spectrum of rhetoric available to the novelist: the use of garrulous narrators who obstruct at every opportunity the reader's own access to the fictional world; and the elimination of such narrators to the point where the reader is left drifting. An example of the former would be the narrator in Henry Fielding's (1707–54) novel, Tom Jones (1749), and the French writer Alain Robbe-Grillet's (1922–2008 ) Jealousy (1957) is offered by Booth as an example of the latter (1961: 62). Although Booth feels able (grudgingly) to 'endure' its 'unmediated, mindless sensation or emotion' because it is 'less than 35,000 words long' (1961: 63), he was generally repelled by the development in the 1950s of the nouveau roman in France. By the mid-twentieth century, in the culmination of that process which started with Flaubert and others in the mid-nineteenth century, only novels in the 'pure' category were regarded by many critics and readers as 'realistic', or convincing. What The Rhetoric of Fiction sets out to deny is the validity of any distinction between 'pure' and 'impure' fiction.
For Booth, ultimately, distinctions between 'pure form', 'moral content', and the 'rhetorical means of realizing for the reader the union of form and matter' are arbitrary because novels are 'human actions', and 'moral judgments . . . are implicit whenever human beings act' (1961: 397). It is almost impossible to detach any move Booth makes on the novel from his overriding moral concerns. It is worth noting here that the inseparability of form and content, and form and morality, is specified by Booth as inherent to novels that communicate successfully. This inseparability is formulated in organic terms ('the unions of form and matter') shared by Trilling and that reach back to James's The Art of Fiction.
For those who abhor 'the modern love of generalization' (1961: 29), and Booth is at one with James and Trilling here, the novel is the most appropriate form of art. Booth endorses James's insistence on the absurdity of applying general laws to the writing of fiction. Novelists are not, or should not be, bound by one method. They can create 'peculiar literary kinds', each of which, like James's 'subjects' in The Art of Fiction, entails its own appropriate technique (Booth 1961: 35). In a biological framework – also occupied, again, by James – a novel is like an organism whose shape is determined by its purpose (not the other way round), a purpose that also includes the effect it is designed to have on its readers. The three main 'variables' of the novel are 'subject-matter, structure, and technique', and these 'depend finally on notions of purpose or function or effect' (Booth 1961: 57). In the same way that James refuses to accept any pre-existing, predetermining ways of writing the novel, and Trilling repudiates Parrington's insistence on political and social relevance, Booth argues that only the novel's purpose within the context of its specific conception can define and shape its form and content.
This sense of the limitless possibilities of novels restricted only by their initial choice of subject seems to correspond with Trilling's celebration of the variety to which the form gives rise. But Booth sees Trilling's recommendation of the 'novel of ideas' in The Liberal Imagination as an example of exactly the kind of extraneous constriction, or 'normative' approach, he wants to resist in favour of being 'descriptive' (Booth 1961: 31). There is an incoherence here, however, that comes close to wrecking the whole edifice of The Rhetoric of Fiction, and to which we shall return at the end of the book. Booth is close to rejecting rules established elsewhere in order to smuggle in his own. 'The ultimate problem in the rhetoric of fiction', he asserts, is 'that of deciding for whom the author should write' (1961: 396). But regardless of whether he writes for his peers, or fellow-novelists, 'himself as imagined reader', or his wider audience (1961: 397), he is involved in an act of communication that cannot be other than moral because, again, the human activity of communication can only ever be a moral act; one available, that is, for approval or condemnation. Towards the end of The Rhetoric of Fiction, the approach hardens into the normative view that technical innovation should always be subordinate to the 'obligation to be as clear about' the 'moral position' as possible (1961: 389). It seems at this point as if Booth is much more interested in a 'conscious moral purpose' (James 1884: 62) for the novel than either James or Trilling.
Booth is certainly a long way here from Trilling's commitment to the liberating potential of ambiguity. Although he shared a belief in the need for novels to conduct a complex investigation of the disparities between illusion and reality, he had a firm view of the moral certainties such an investigation ought to yield. 'Pure' narration has 'fouled' our 'lines of communication': 'we have looked for so long at foggy landscapes reflected in misty mirrors that we have come to like fog' (Booth 1961: 372). The task of the novel, as Booth insists on it, is not to create the fog but to issue fog warnings. The 'deliberate confusion' of 'fundamental truths' (1961: 285) ought not to be the purpose of the novel.
Realism in The Rhetoric Of Fiction
Early in The Rhetoric of Fiction, Booth considers the idea that the difference between the 'intrinsic and extrinsic' is central to any definition of realism in fiction (Booth 1961: 93). As we discussed in Chapter 1, by rhetoric Booth means the devices used by an author as part of that act of communication, or persuasion, which he sees as constituting all novels. 'Extrinsic rhetoric' is one way of labelling the overt commentary of conspicuous narrators. Where the narrator is much less conspicuous, or even seemingly invisible, judgements about the characters and issues involved are intrinsic to the novel, or embedded (for example) in the scenes between characters. Partly on the authority of Aristotle, no less, the New Critics, in particular, tended to castigate the extrinsic approach as impure, or unrealistic, and to celebrate the intrinsic, on the other hand, as being pure and realistic.
Plato made an important distinction, further pursued by Aristotle, between 'simple narrative' (or 'diegesis') and 'narrative conveyed by imitation (mimesis)' (Plato 1972: 60) which does indeed, at first sight, appear to correspond with that between the extrinsic and the intrinsic. Furthermore, Aristotle seems to favour the intrinsic approach over the extrinsic when drawing on Plato's terminology. He praises Homer for speaking in his own person 'as little as possible' (Aristotle 1972: 125) and for avoiding, thereby, too many elements extraneous to the imitated action. Booth sees this dispute as central to the consideration of realism in the novel. But before turning to it, he offers a useful taxonomy, or list, of the elements involved in the concept of realism itself. Booth proposes that there are three variables, three areas over which any author has to exercise control, in producing the effect of realism: subject-matter, structure, and narrative technique.
The subject-matter can involve a commitment to doing 'justice to reality outside the book', or to society (reverting to the narrative model on p. 16), or 'social reality' (Booth 1961: 55). When Trilling concentrates on the representation of Lady Bertram's integrity to the self in Mansfield Park, Booth would term this 'metaphysical' reality or 'truth' (1961: 55). Some writers regard their subject-matter as the 'sensations' aroused by objects and people in the world of experience, the task being the 'accurate transcription' (1961: 56) of such sensations. Finally – although Booth admits that he is passing over, among many others, 'economic, psychological', and 'political' (1961: 56) programmes – there is the broad subject-matter of character and how much of any particular character should be included, or described, and how, for the purposes of realism.
Writers who 'have tried to make their subjects real' usually seek 'a realistic structure or shape of events' (1961: 56). The key issue here is that of probability in relation to cause and effect. Some novelists have concluded that it is 'unrealistic to show chance at work' in what readers always know is actually a 'fictional world', whereas others reject 'a careful chain of cause and effect' (1961: 56) as artificial. If life-likeness is to be a gauge of realism, the 'soaring climaxes or clear and direct opening expositions', in fact plots in general, are to be 'deplored' (1961: 56).
It is narrative technique, however, that takes Booth back to the main object of his attack: the privileging of the intrinsic over the extrinsic in the interests, mistakenly, of realism. Where a novel veers towards focusing on the metaphysical, technical dogmatism is likely to be the result. A writer dealing with the ambiguities of the human condition, the lack of certainty about anything in the world, for example, is likely to insist on the exclusion of the 'authoritative narrative techniques' (1961: 56) of the extrinsic method. Whereas this kind of realism often results in 'creating the illusion that the events are taking place unmediated by the author' (1961: 57), other writers require that stories should be told as they 'might be told in real life' (1961: 57). Joseph Conrad's (1857–1924) The Heart of Darkness (1902) would be a case in point, even though there can be nothing realistic about the phenomenal powers of recall and narrative control with which Conrad imbues Marlow.
Booth believes that it is important to bear in mind the different agendas of writers who think that realism is an end in itself and those who see it as the means towards some other end. There are openly didactic writers for whom realism is only the means by which their particular message is transmitted; such writers are likely to fracture the illusion of realism where necessary. An example of this would be the constant interruption of the story by George Eliot's narrator in Middlemarch (1871–2). For Henry James, Booth argues, the illusion of realism, rather than realism itself, is the objective. The creation of this illusion 'as an effect to be realized in the reader' (1961: 58) is subordinate to all other considerations. A writer such as Dickens may have prided himself on his mimesis, his relentless imitations of action (although he often included narrative asides), but he was always willing to sacrifice realism for the sake of comic effect or entertainment.
Like James and Trilling, Booth is vigorously opposed to prescriptions in advance about realism. Booth sees James as committed to that 'dissimulation' discussed in the first section of this chapter. Yet James certainly did not have a one-size-fits-all narrative strategy. In a nutshell, Booth's position is that there should not be 'a general rhetoric in the service of realism', but 'a particular rhetoric for the most intense experience of distinctive effects' (1961: 50). Horses for courses, we might say. In the same way that Aristotle did not rule out diegesis, objecting only to its excessive use, Booth argues that extraneous commentary may be necessary for the sake of clarity and clarification in some narrative situations, but obtrusive and unwelcome in others. This takes us back not only to the concept of organic form, but to one of its first proponents, Aristotle. The unity of a text was critical for Aristotle. As a biologist, his model for that unity was the body. Plays in particular, which is what he had in mind in his Poetics, should represent, or imitate, a 'unified action', so that they produce their 'proper pleasure like a single whole living creature' (Aristotle 1972: 123). The point about bodies, or organisms, however, is not just that they are organized, but that they are organized for diverse purposes and can adapt, physically and mentally, to particular environments.
There are few, if any, rules that can be handed down in advance for the unique experiences an individual encounters. The same goes for the novel. The blanket rule that the intrinsic method will always serve the purposes of realism better is absurd: it implies that realism (in ways that Booth's taxonomy has falsified) is a monolithic category and overlooks the extent to which communication, again the main purpose of the novel for Booth, should have as its goal successful transmission and reception in particular contexts. For Booth, every element of the narrative model on p. 16 is part of this overall transaction. But as we saw at the end of the last chapter, Booth's flexibility is a form of the dissimulation of which he accuses James. By the end of The Rhetoric of Fiction, as will emerge in the final chapter, it is clear that Booth prefers the extrinsic to the intrinsic method, even though he wants to deny the validity of the distinction. This is why he attacks James for wanting to conceal the illusory nature of his realism.
Key Theories of Wayne C. Booth
https://literariness.org/2017/02/24/key-theories-of-wayne-c-booth/
Antczak, Frederick J. (ed.) (1995) Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press
Baker, John Ross (1977) 'From Imitation to Rhetoric: The Chicago Critics, Wayne C. Booth and Tom Jones', in Mark Spilka (ed.) Towards a Poetics of Fiction, Bloomington, IN and London: Indiana University Press: 136–56.
Bialostosky, Don (1985) 'Booth's Rhetoric, Bakhtin's Dialogics, and the Future of Novel Criticism', Philosophy and Literature 4: 257–65.
Comstock, Gary (1984) 'Wayne C. Booth, Pluralist', Religious Studies Review, 10: 252–7.
Kilham, John (1966) 'The "Second Self " in Novel Criticism', British Journal of Aesthetics, 6: 272–90.
Phelan, James (1988) 'Wayne C. Booth', Modern American Critics Since 1955 (Dictionary of Literary Biography 67), ed. Gregory S. Jay, Detroit, MI: Bruccoli Clark Layman: 49–66.
Richter, David (1982) 'The Second Flight of the Phoenix: NeoAristotelianism Since Crane', Eighteenth Century, 23: 27–48
Schwartz, Daniel R. (1985) 'Reading as a Moral Activity', Sewanee Review, 93: 480–5.
Stecker, Robert (1987) 'Apparent, Implied, and Postulated Authors', Philosophy and Literature, 11: 258–71.
Source: Rawlings, Peter. American Theorists of the Novel. London: Routledge, 2006. Print.
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Dwayne is 15. When he came to Tammy Lewis as her 25th foster child, she had no idea what impact he would have on her life.
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MIDDLEBURG, Fla. — "Dwayne came to us as a foster child. We knew he was blind, but we didn't know he was blind because of cancer in his eyes," Tammy Lewis explained.
Lewis lives in Middleburg in Clay County, Florida. Dwayne was 10 months old when he came into her home as her 25th foster child.
The doctors didn't give her much hope. "They said it was one of the worst cases they'd seen in the U.S. They really didn't think he would survive it," Lewis says.
Dwayne was diagnosed with bilateral retinal blastoma of both eyes. And despite the discouraging outlook from the doctors, Dwayne pulled through.
Now, as a thriving 15-year-old at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, Dwayne has beautiful prosthetic eyes and a certain charm about him.
Maybe that's because he plays the organ, the piano, and the drums. "I like this one," he says about a Christmas song, "because I taught myself to play it."
Lewis says, "I just feel so blessed to be able to be here to witness this."
Her statement has more to it than you might realize.
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That's because, just like her adopted son, she is a cancer survivor.
Back in 1993, she began following Jeannie Blaylock on the TV talking about her Buddy Check program. The joint program between First Coast News and Baptist Health encourages self-exams to catch breast cancer early.
"I just didn't know that was something I was supposed to be doing until I saw it on the news," Lewis says. She remembers thinking, "What an awesome idea."
So she started doing self-exams and she found a lump in her breast.
"I'm just so thankful for Buddy Check 12. That is what saved my life," Lewis says.
What did her lump feel like? Typical breast cancer. Firm, not mushy and not painful. She says it felt like her finger.
Credit: What her breast cancer felt like
She checked faithfully and that was key. "I thought right away that was not there last month," Lewis says, pointing out how women can detect a change that might indicate breast cancer.
Turns out Lewis has beaten breast cancer twice now. She says the treatment was rough, especially the second time around. But she's grateful to be alive to watch Dwayne grow up and succeed.
Credit: Tammy Lewis during chemo
Now Dwayne can also fix small motors, even without his sight. And he can participate in snow sports and perform as an actor on stage at school.
Dwayne says this about his mom, "I love her to the moon and back."
"I just can't imagine not being here for him," Lewis says.
Lewis' story reminds all of us to check. If you catch breast cancer early, experts say you have a better than 97% chance of beating it.
You can get a free Buddy Check kit with a card to hang in your shower to remind you how to do a self-exam. Just call Baptist at 904-202-CARE. The kit will be mailed to you at no charge.
If Buddy Check helped you find breast cancer, Jeannie Blaylock would love to hear from you. Just email her at: jblaylock@firstcoastnews.com
Credit: Buddy Check
What you can't see in these gorgeous blue eyes. I can't wait to share Dwayne's story with you tonight at 6 on @FCN2go pic.twitter.com/AdESgFuaq7
— Jeannie Blaylock (@JeannieBlaylock) August 12, 2021
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A person is adversely affected if he or she suffers any form of loss or damage, distress or inconvenience, if he or she is put in danger or is otherwise unduly put at risk of being adversely affected.
This is where a manager deals with the way someone has behaved. It can include: showing the police officer or member of staff how their behaviour fell short of expectations set out in the Standards of Professional Behaviour; identifying expectations for future conduct; or addressing any underlying causes of misconduct.
This could be the Police and Crime Commissioner, the Common Council for the City of London, or the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime.
A flexible process for dealing with complaints that can be adapted to the needs of the complainant. It may involve, for example, providing information and an explanation, an apology, or a meeting between the complainant and the officer involved.
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A matter where no complaint has been received, but where there is an indication that a person serving with the police may have committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.
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Powerlessness, indignity, isolation, frustration, confusion, humiliation and fear. These are the feelings children often describe about time spent in police custody, though they may conceal them from police with bravado.
The average human brain takes 25 years to develop. Yet at just ten, a child is criminally responsible and must make key decisions, such as whether or not to have legal advice.
Children in custody are disadvantaged by more than cognitive development. They are much more likely than other children to have poor mental health, a learning disability (up to 32% versus 4%), communication disorder (up to 90% versus 7%), be autistic (15% versus 1%), or have suffered a head injury with loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes (18% versus 5%). Race, gender, abuse, neglect, trauma, exclusion, and 'looked after' status can also compound disadvantage.
Much of this is invisible unless actively looked for. Children detained regularly may 'know the ropes' while still being distressed and disadvantaged.
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The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) requires police to involve AAs when detaining, or voluntarily interviewing, any child or 'vulnerable person' (defined in Code C 1.13(d)). Without one, proceeding with many processes would breach PACE, risking an unfair investigation and inadmissible evidence.
AAs safeguard a person's interests, ensuring fair treatment, effective participation, understanding of rights, and the ability to exercise them. They support, advise and assist; observe and intervene; and assist communication. Importantly, they cannot give legal advice but can make sure a lawyer attends, even if a child has declined legal advice. The AA role covers the entire custody episode and can be complex and challenging.
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PACE prioritises parents as AAs (unless involved in the case), and many children will value someone familiar and trusted who understands them. Yet, in emotional circumstances, parents must interpret PACE, understand their role, and challenge police appropriately, while relying on them for information. Well trained AAs (volunteers or paid) have the knowledge and experience to challenge without obstructing an investigation and, in theory, could be subject to inspection or regulation. But they are usually unknown to the child and must be skilled in building rapport. The ideal may be for schemes and parents to work together.
The AA safeguard is essential, but too often it is not used effectively. While many children receive rapid, extensive and excellent support, some only get an AA immediately before an interview. They spend hours without support, significantly increasing risks to justice.
PACE requires police to tell the AA and secure their attendance as soon as is practicable, and children have a right to consult privately with their AA at any time. However, research has found police delaying referrals and limiting access to children.
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There is a significant, perhaps widening, gap between law and practice. Some PACE requirements are seen as impractical. Breaches are commonplace and often considered a minor matter, especially where cases will not go to court.
Resources are critical. Both police and councils are doing difficult jobs in challenging circumstances.
However, so is culture. Notwithstanding the police's rigorous focus on physical safety, and initiatives on modern slavery, trafficking, county lines, and using custody constructively, children are in the first stage of an adversarial justice system. They are in crisis and at risk. They are not 'safe'.
Much more must be done by all of us: NAAN, government, police, lawyers, councils, providers, and AAs. We must make sure our 'children first' laws and policies apply in practice.
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Organ: LSAT Profiles Of Matriculants And Law Schools, 2010-2019
The decade from 2010 to 2019 has been a challenging decade in terms of enrollment in law schools. I have written previously here and here about the changing composition of the cohort of matriculants at ABA-accredited law schools. This blog post updates the analysis of enrollment trends to look at how the composition of the entering class of matriculants based on LSAT scores evolved between 2010 and 2019.
Table 1 shows the trend lines for the applicant pool and matriculants from 2010 to 2019 based on data maintained by the ABA. The applicant pool started at 87,900 for fall 2010 and bottomed with 54,500 for fall 2016. Since then it has increased gradually to 63,000 in 2019. The current cycle suggests another modest increase in applicants, perhaps close to 64,000. The number of matriculants fell from a high of 52,000 in 2010 to a low of 37,100 in 2016 and 2017 and has increased modestly to 38,400 in 2019. My best guess is that we will end up in about the same place this fall, somewhere between 38,000 and 38,500 in terms of the number of matriculants.
While the applicant pool and the cohort of matriculants shrank in size between 2010 and 2016, the applicant pool and cohort of matriculants also saw a general weakening in terms of LSAT profile from 2010 to 2016, but has since seen a strengthening over the last three years. Table 2 highlights the growth in the number of matriculants with a high LSAT below 150 (from 7,000 in 2010 to 8,620 in 2016), while the number of matriculants in all other LSAT categories fell from 2010 to 2015. Indeed, among those with a high LSAT of 160 or higher, the number of matriculants fell from roughly 20,100 in 2010 to roughly 11,200 in 2015. Starting with fall 2016 through fall 2019, all LSAT categories from 150 and above have seen increases in terms of the number of matriculants, while the number of matriculants with a high LSAT less than 150 has fallen from 8,620 in 2016 to less than 6,400 in 2019.
Table 3 highlights the composition of the matriculants on a percentage basis segregated into three LSAT categories — 160+, 150-159 and <150 — between 2010 at the top and 2019 at the bottom. The 160+ category drops from 40.8 percent of the class in 2010 to 32 percent of the class in 2015, while the <150 category increases from 14.2 percent of the class in 2010 to 23.8 percent of the class in 2015. By 2018 and 2019, however, the percentage at 160+ had increased back to 36.1 percent in 2018 and 36.7 percent in 2019, while the percentage at <150 had declined back to 19.1 percent in 2018 and 16.8 percent in 2019. Interestingly, the percentage between 150 and 159 is relatively stable throughout the decade, dropping from 45 percent in 2010 to 43.6 percent in 2014 and then climbing to 46.5 percent in 2019.
Table 4 looks at this from a slightly different perspective, but with a similar lesson. Table 4 focuses on law schools — looking at the trends with respect to the number of law schools with a median LSAT in each of six LSAT categories. During the first part of the decade the three highest LSAT categories — 165+, 160-164, and 155-159 — see declines, while the three lowest LSAT categories — 150-154, 145-149, and <145 — all see increases. Starting in 2017, this trend reverses.
Finally, Table 5, much like Table 3, looks at law schools with a median LSAT in each of three LSAT categories — 160+, 150-159, and <150. This image looks remarkably similar to Table 3. The number of law schools with a median LSAT between 150-159 is remarkably stable, ranging between 105 and 110, with eight of the ten years being between 108 and 110. But from 2010 through 2016, the number of law schools with a median LSAT of 160+ drops from 77 to 49, while the number of law schools with a median LSAT less than 150 increases from 9 to 42. But starting in 2017, that trend reverses and there is a growth in law schools with a median LSAT of 160+ and a decrease in law schools with a median LSAT of <150.
Table 5 -- Number of Law Schools with a Median LSAT in Three LSAT Categories -- 2010-2019
The current admissions cycle is likely to see these trends continue, as there has been growth in the number of applicants with an LSAT of 165+ (up about 700, or about 8%) and a decline in the number of applicants with an LSAT of <155 (down about 1000, or about 3%).
While the bar results this year will be impossible to compare with prior years because of the varied approaches to the bar exam across multiple jurisdictions, these data suggest that bar passage results in 2021 and beyond should be better than they have been in recent years because the cohort of graduates is getting stronger based on entering class LSAT profiles in 2018 and 2019 and 2020.
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Astrocyte dysfunction is associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) pathology in new research using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology. The study, from the University of Eastern Finland, highlights the role of brain astrocyte cells in PD pathology and the potential of iPSC-derived cells in disease modeling and drug discovery.
PD's exact cause is still unknown, but several molecular mechanisms have been identified in PD pathology. These include neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, dysfunctional protein degradation and alpha-synuclein pathology.
The disease's major hallmarks include the loss of dopaminergic neurons and the presence of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites. The loss of dopaminergic neurons and the subsequent decrease in dopamine levels are considered responsible for PD's typical movement symptoms.
There is no cure for PD and currently, the treatments are targeted to alleviate the motor symptoms with dopamine replacement therapy and surgery.
The biggest risk factor for PD is advanced age, but some environmental factors, such as toxins and pesticides, have been shown to increase PD risk. Though most PD cases are late-onset and sporadic with no evidence for an inheritance, approximately 3-5 % are monogenic.
The most common cause for monogenic PD is mutations in the leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene. LRRK2-associated PD is clinically closest to sporadic forms of the disease regarding the age of onset, disease progression and motor symptoms.
Additionally, mutations in the GBA (glucosylceramidase beta) gene are the most significant risk factor for PD identified to date. The molecular mechanisms by which GBA mutations result in this increased risk are currently the focus of substantial research efforts.
Astrocyte Contribution To PD
While studies focusing on dopaminergic neurons have brought new insight into PD pathology, astrocyte contribution to PD has been investigated only sparsely.
It was long thought that the astrocytes worked solely as supporting cells for neurons, but today the role of astrocytes is known to be far more extensive. Until now, only a few studies have used iPSC-derived astrocytes obtained from PD patients.
The current study used iPSC-derived astrocytes from two PD patients carrying a mutation in the LRRK2 gene, one of them presenting with an additional mutation in GBA to further characterize the PD astrocyte phenotype.
Alpha-synuclein
The researchers found out that astrocytes from PD patients produced significantly higher levels of α-synuclein, a protein that accumulates in PD patients' brain. One of the key pathological features caused by α-synuclein aggregation is the disruption of calcium homeostasis, and the study showed increased calciumlevels in PD astrocytes.
As inflammation is considered to be an important contributor to PD pathology, the response to inflammatory stimuli was studied in astrocytes. The PD patient astrocytes were highly responsive to inflammatory stimuli and more sensitive to inflammatory reactivation than control astrocytes.
Additionally, PD astrocytes showed altered mitochondrial function and lower mitochondrial DNA copy number. Furthermore, PD astrocytes showed increased levels of polyamines and polyamine precursors while lysophosphatidylethanolamine levels were decreased, both of these have been reported altered in PD brain.
"The results provide evidence that LRRK2 and GBA mutant astrocytes are likely to contribute to PD progression and offer new perspectives for understanding the roles of astrocytes in the pathogenesis of PD,"
says researcher Tuuli-Maria Sonninen, the lead author of the study.
Image: PD patients' astrocytes manifest several hallmarks of the disease, these include: (1) increased production of alpha-synuclein, (2) increased reactivity upon inflammatory stimulation, (3) increased astrocytic Ca2+ levels, (4) mtDNA maintenance defects and (5) metabolomic changes. Image credit: Tuuli-Maria Sonninen
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Q: Display large dataset from Sqlite database in Python wx I have a large data set (log data) that is stored in a SQLite3 database. I created a Python GUI using Wx.listctrl that displays that data from a query. It works fine for small amounts of data but obviously hangs on larger sets.. therefore I would like to implement one of two things:
-paging were the first 5000 records are shown in the listctrl and then if a user clicks a button the next 5000 are shown .. so on and so on..
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-as the user scrolls down the listctrl its constantly populating with new data..
How would I implement one of these concepts?  Thanks in advance for the help!

A: Make it a virtual control as described in the docs. The listview will invoke a callback as required in order to request the specific rows being displayed.

A: In different scenarios, the strategies will be different. The assumption is that you just use wxPython for presentation purpose, and you have a separate module/package dealing with the data. wxPython controls get data only from the data abstraction layer.
Scenario I: load all the log data into the memory and use wx.listctrl or wx.listview to display the lines.
Scenario II: fetch data from the database when the wx view is updated.
In Scenario I, you just need to setup an variable to remember the position the UI has read up to, or even you can simply use list sliding if you load the logs as list. Automatically updating the view by scrolling down/up can be implemented in scenario I because all data has been loaded and no more sqlite db connection will be made. It will be a bad choice to implemented auto-updating by scrolling down/up in scenario II since there would be too many db operations - imagine you scrolling down very quickly expecting to get the 5000th line?
In scenario II, you can setup a page size and use LIMIT/OFFSET to get the data set you want. You keep another variable for the offset number. With the variables page_size and offset, you can simply fetch the data and update the wx view. This scenario is especially good for limiting the memory use. I don't know how big your log is, but after all it is not a good idea to load all of it into the memory because a log keeps growing and you may also need to load other relatively large dataset at the same time.

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No one likes nagging, yelling and punishing, neither adults who do it nor children who are on the receiving end. Here are a few ways to encourage the kind of behaviour that can make the day go more smoothly for everyone.
• Organize the environment to make it easy for children to do the right thing. For exam- ple, install coat hooks and toy storage shelves where children can reach them; put away breakables.
• Provide enough appropriate supplies and materials for everyone.
• Supervise carefully, be observant and act to change the situation before behaviour gets out of control.
• Establish some structure and routines throughout the day.
• Make sure that children have nutritious snacks and meals.
• Avoid too much TV or any long periods of inactivity.
• Set simple, firm, clear limits which apply to everyone.
• Once you've set the limits, stick to them.
• Within the limits you set, allow children to make choices that are appropriate to the situation and to their ages.
• Show children how you want them to behave by setting a good example.
• Say what to do instead of what not to do: "Use your quiet voice in the house." Avoid overuse of words such as "no", "don't" and "stop".
• Show children that you like being with them: smile, make eye contact, call them frequently by their name and use words of encourage- ment and hugs.
• Use your voice as a teaching tool. Speak slowly, calmly, distinctly and directly.
• Let children know you notice when you like their behaviour. A little positive feedback goes a long way!
• Remember that, just like adults, children sometimes have a bad day and that is okay.
• Know what behaviour is typical for different ages. Let this guide you as you decide what you can reasonably expect from a particular child.
• Choose activities that you enjoy and do these with children. Enthusiasm is contagious.
• Be aware of your own stress level and take care of yourself.
This resource sheet was adapted from material developed by Janice MacAulay, Jane Fox and Cindy Helman for Caregiver Training, a collaborative training program of the Family Resource Services Group and Home Child Care Agencies of Ottawa-Carleton.


text:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime;
using Windows.Foundation;
using Windows.Foundation.Collections;
using Windows.UI.Xaml;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Data;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Media;
using Windows.UI.Xaml.Navigation;

// The Blank Page item template is documented at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=391641

namespace BakaReader_Test_7
{
    public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
    {
        public MainPage()
        {
            this.InitializeComponent();

            MainGrid.MaxHeight = Window.Current.Bounds.Height;

            this.NavigationCacheMode = NavigationCacheMode.Required;
        }

        protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
        {
            // TODO: Prepare page for display here.

            // TODO: If your application contains multiple pages, ensure that you are
            // handling the hardware Back button by registering for the
            // Windows.Phone.UI.Input.HardwareButtons.BackPressed event.
            // If you are using the NavigationHelper provided by some templates,
            // this event is handled for you.
        }

        private void Light_Novel_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(LightNovel_List_Page));
        }

        private void WatchList_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(WatchList));
            //this.Frame.Navigate(new WatchList());
        }

        private void Resume_Novel_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {

        }

        private void Alt_Language_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(Alt_Language_List));
        }

        private void BookMark_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(BookMarks));
        }

        private void Settings_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(Settings_Page));
        }

        private void Downloads_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(Downloads));
        }

        private void CommandBar_Opened(object sender, object e)
        {

        }

       /* private void History_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {

        }*/

        private void Search_Click_Event(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            Frame.Navigate(typeof(Search_Page));
        }
    }
}


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BOSTON — The National Grid Foundation has awarded United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley a $150,000 grant to provide emergency fuel-neutral financial assistance to local families in need this winter, the organizations announced today. United Way will distribute the funds to six community-based organizations serving several cities, including Boston, Chelsea, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Quincy, and Somerville.
The $150,000 gift from National Grid is being distributed through United Way's Family Fund, which helps families across Eastern Massachusetts make ends meet by assisting with basic needs such as heating, food, and housing. A new report by Prosperity Now shows that only 56 percent of Massachusetts families report keeping emergency savings in the past year. That means almost half of Massachusetts households did not keep emergency savings, and 60% of households in America have experienced a financial shock in the past 12 months, according to Pew research.
"When an emergency or an unexpected financial crisis hits, families should not be forced to choose between paying for food, fuel or their rent or mortgage payments,' said Michael K. Durkin, United Way President and Chief Executive Officer. "But we know this need is there. Last year, United Way's Mass 2-1-1 helpline received over 9,400 requests for help with just these three basic needs. The funding from the National Grid Foundation is critical to our efforts to provide families in crisis with direct emergency assistance."
"We are pleased to again be able to help our neighbors by supporting the United Way's Family Fund," said Ed White, Executive Director of the National Grid Foundation, "For the fourteenth year in a row, this partnership helps connect people with emergency assistance and basic needs when they need it most. We are thrilled to team up with United Way and be part of a program that helps so many."
The National Grid Foundation grant to United Way will benefit six community-based organizations serving several cities, including Boston, Chelsea, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Quincy, and Somerville:
$25,000 to Action for Boston Community Development
$25,000 to Catholic Charities
$25,000 to Greater Lawrence Community Action Council
$25,000 to Lynn Economic Opportunity
$25,000 to Quincy Community Action Programs
$25,000 to The Neighborhood Developers
One hundred percent of the funds are designated for direct distribution to families in need of fuel neutral assistance. Last year, funding from National Grid Foundation helped provide assistance to 423 households in the communities served by these partners. In 2018, United Way's Family Fund served requests from more than 1,800 families.
The National Grid Foundation has supported United Way's efforts in this area for 14 years, bringing the total of its support to over $1.5 million.
About the National Grid Foundation
National Grid Foundation was created to enhance the quality of life across its grant making territory. The Foundation's ongoing challenge is to create opportunities for solutions to educational and environmental issues. Its objective is based on the principle that giving people the tools to build hope is an essential ingredient in the development of individuals, families and communities. Since its inception in December of 1998, the Foundation now in its 20th year has granted nearly $25 million to local community organizations.
Media Contact Information
Brigid Boyd
Senior Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley
9 Channel Center Street, Suite 500 | Boston, MA 02210
bboyd@supportunitedway.org
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Kent Workplace Mission is a vibrant and growing Registered Charity; run by a group of dedicated Christians who work ecumenically and are committed to living out Christian discipleship in the workplaces of Kent, Medway, Bromley and Bexley.
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The first benchmark of actual field-sampled cotton production came in the August USDA report. The August report did three things that tightened up the picture for prospective U.S. production.
First, the August report revised the cotton plantings number downward slightly, from 9 million to 8.9 million acres. More significantly, USDA raised expected abandonment from 5.5 percent (in the July report) to 11.3 percent in the August WASDE. That means USDA moved from assuming historically low abandonment to a more normal average abandonment.
Third, USDA's forecasted average yield, based on field sampling, was 795 pounds per acre, down from 819 pounds per acre in July. Month over month, the effect of a lower yield from fewer harvested acres from slightly reduced plantings multiplies out to an unexpectedly low 13.08 million acres of new crop U.S. cotton production. That projection is down 1.5 million bales from the July projection, a fairly large downward revision.
Having fewer new crop bales suggests fewer exports, which USDA reflected by an 800,000-bale cut in forecasted exports, month over month. With some other minor tinkering, the bottom line was a forecast of 2015/16 ending stocks at 3.10 million bales, which is historically tight and over one million bales smaller than the July forecast.
The expected market response to such an adjustment would be price supportive, and ICE futures did not disappoint. Dec. '15 cotton traded up over 4 percent on the day of the report's release, with no outside support from lower grain and oilseed futures, and with falling stock prices as well.
Some of the initial strength in cotton futures likely involved covering recent short positioning by hedge funds. The market reaction appeared to regain roughly a third of the six-cent slide that began July 2 and had seen four days of prior settlements below 62 cents per pound. Perhaps this will simply leave the market back squarely in the 62- to 68-cent range that it has been in for ten months.
Some big uncertainties remain to play out between the small and late aspects of this crop and the weather. The squares and bolls that USDA observed in August will need moisture in August and sunny, dry maturation weather September and October. Whether the West Texas crop will get timely August moisture is anybody's guess.
Meanwhile, an ongoing forecast for strong El Niño conditions has the implication for wetter, cooler weather during the fall and winter. If this translates into a cool, misty "deer hunting weather" in the early fall, that could erode cotton yield potential, in addition to degrading quality. That possibility could lead to further whittling away at USDA's production estimate and help support futures in the upper 60s. In addition, a very strong harvest-time basis for those growers who can supply quality fiber for the export market could develop.


Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) announced BEE Star Label version 1 for laptops. The guidelines announced by BEE are based on United Sates Energy version 5 guidelines.
"US Star energy version 5 is the base for BEE standard announced today," Ashwini Aggarwal, Executive Dditor, Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology told PTI.
The guideline will be extended to other categories of IT and Telecom products in a phased manner by BEE. Unlike BEE star labels which indicate the efficiency of products like refrigerator, air-conditioner and others, these guidelines do not specify the levels of energy saving that a product will deliver to consumer.