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July 1, 2013 by jeremylenzi
An Ode to Kevin…
I'm guessing that I was 11 years old or so, when I was warming up to take part in the Love Run, a race that started by the Troutman's building in downtown Greensburg. This was going to be my first official road race, and I was able to take part only as long as I dropped out as the course passed our house at roughly the 3 mile mark. I really had no idea what I was doing, but saw other people running around to warm up, so I figured that was what I should be doing.
It was at this point that I first met Kevin Gatons. He approached me, somehow knowing that I was scared to death, and gave me a few helpful hints: don't go out too fast and have fun. I can tell you that I remember this like it was yesterday, not 31 years ago. This was my introduction to Kevin and it didn't take long for him to become a living legend in my book.
After I seemingly proved to my dad that I could run distance, I was able to enter more road races. Kevin was at everything in the Greensburg area — and he always won. He was just flat out awesome. And he took me under his wing. Of course, I may have forced him, as I tagged along everywhere he went on race day, trying to do everything exactly as he was. Honestly, I don't remember him ever losing a race around Greensburg. I was just in awe.
As I got older, and started to run cross country for Greensburg Salem, I also started to do some Saturday and Sunday runs with Kevin during both the summer and the actual season — more so in the summer, but sometimes during the season depending on what was going on that week. I looked forward to him picking me up in his MG and then later in his Jetta and taking me to Hempfield High School to run with a crew of his friends that included Mark Griffin and Tom Panigall and later some other runners from Hempfield's team. I did everything I possibly could in order to try to impress him, improving as a runner in the process.
I remember doing a ladder workout on the track (400-800-1200-1600-1600-1200-800-400) in which everybody had to take a turn leading until the last 200 meters. Nobody was allowed to pass the pace setter until that last 200. I wasn't passing too many people, needless to say, but from the beginning I was chosen to lead the 800 on the way down. I was absolutely, completely dead by this point, but seemingly killed myself to lead that first 600. (I'll come back to this specific workout in a little…)
I also remember a spontaneous 10 miler through the hills around Hempfield High School that almost took me over the edge. It was spontaneous in that the guys decided that they wanted to do some running on the roads instead of intervals on the track — but I was not prepared for this, mainly because I had never run around that area and had no clue where I was going whatsoever. In addition, at this point in my running "career," I had run 10 miles maybe two or three times. It took everything I had to just keep the group in sight so that I wouldn't get lost — they absolutely crushed this run. If you happen to know the area, you also know that if there are any level areas, they are few and far between. I got back to the school and it seemed like everyone else was just lollygagging around. I was keeled over, literally losing everything in my stomach — I had completed the run in 59 minutes low and felt it. Kevin just kind of laughed at me. I ached on the ride home.
I hope that I'm not one of the the older I get the better I was kind of guys — I think I'm realistic about how I used to be able to run. I was pretty good in cross country and pretty average in track and field; I was better suited to the longer distances and needed the hills to make up for my lack of speed. If I remember correctly, my PR in the 3200 meters was around 10:13 and I never broke 5 in the 1600 — except on BOTH of those 1600s I listed in that ladder workout. I ran 4:54, 4:52 on those two. In a freaking workout. Not a race, a workout.
People often think that people run because they love it and I'm absolutely certain that some do. I didn't, really. But I was pretty good at it and loved being a part of our team. I loved running with Kevin and his "guys" even more. There is truly something about enduring a long run at a hard pace with people whom you know are suffering just like you are. You don't need to say anything, you just know. And I had the chance to run with some great guys. Curry Franklin was a beast — placed second in the state in cross country and was just unbelievably naturally talented. Ron Diehl still holds our school records in the 1600 and 3200 meters and worked harder than anybody I ever saw then or have coached since. Roy Fatur just hung on and hung on and hung on.
We did every run together and had a blast, typically choosing one person to make fun of for each run. And we sang and we hopped bushes and garbage cans and ran over parked cars and sang at the top of our lungs and did head first slides through a flooded Lynch Field. And we pushed ourselves, always trying to beat each other as we completed a run. Or tried to beat the others we trained with during the summer — Ron Moore and Ed Dunn and Greg Colburn and anybody else who came to summer training at Lynch. And there was always that one glorious week during the Aerowest Long Distance Camp that we absolutely, positively crushed ourselves to impress Sam Bair, who seemingly swatted us on the runs like little mosquitoes gnawing at his achilles tendons.
But, as much fun as I had with them, it was just, different when I ran with Kevin. There are three men who have truly influenced me in my life: my dad, my coach, Steve Snider, and Kevin. He was somebody I could always turn to for a brutally honest opinion. And if you knew Kevin, you knew he wasn't going to bullshit you. And I loved this about him. He spoke his mind and stood by it. He understood ethics and loyalty and the competitive spirit.
His opinion meant the world to me, to say the least. When my high school girlfriend broke up with me the week before WPIAL Finals and I was feeling sorry for myself, he told me to quit moaning and just run. When I (finally) graduated from college he gave me the most incredible note, letting me know that he always knew I could do it, no matter how long it took. He was there when I needed an ear after I found out that my somewhat estranged mother had breast cancer and he was there when she died and I was a mess trying to sort out what that even meant to me. When I got divorced, he was there to listen and there to let me know that he was disappointed in me for not calling it off beforehand (remember, brutally honest). And he was always, just, Kevin.
He was a heck of a runner and if you were going to beat him, you were going to have to work to do so — whether that be in a 5K or a marathon (2:24 PR at the Grandma's Marathon in 1995 – I'll do the math for you – that's a 5:29 per mile pace). He laid it all on the line, every time he stepped on the line. A fierce competitor, he was also a fantastic basketball and baseball player. He became a teacher and was a tremendous role model for the kids in our district — especially those who needed a male voice in their lives. He married Cheryl Collins, who is an incredible runner in her own right (clicking on her name in this sentence will take you to an article by Colin Dunlap that highlights some of her accomplishments). She brought a completely different type of happiness in to his life. They have three children, Sydney, Quentin and Lillian. I've always suspected that Quentin was named after a character in John L. Parker's book entitled Once a Runner, one of the few books Kevin would admit to reading willingly. If you've read this book, Kevin was my Bruce Denton — but I was never even breathing the same air that Quenton Cassidy was!!!
Kevin tragically died while previewing the cross country course for the state meet in 2006. He suffered from a condition known as ARVD (Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia — and nobody should ever have to know what that combination of letters stands for) which is a very rare heart disease. He left all of us, but especially his family, way too soon. (Colin Dunlap, then of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, wrote an obituary that did a very nice job of capturing much of what Kevin was all about. You can find it here). There have been very few days that I haven't thought of him since that day.
We created a race in Kevin's honor and truly had the opportunity to celebrate his life for the five years of its existence. In addition, we were able to raise more than $30,000 for both the Children's Fund as well as scholarships in Kevin's name. We also set up some children's races and I know that Kevin would have been incredibly proud to see his kids take part. For me, this was always bittersweet. I loved watching the kids run — more so than the actual race, but it was so incredibly difficult for me to watch as Kevin's son Quentin would round the last corner, his blonde hair jumping in the wind he was creating. It was like seeing Kevin all over again. I can only hope that we honored Kevin in an appropriate manner.
Lillian, Quentin, Sydney & Cheryl…
And so I get to an even more personal point of this post. I've struggled with my running since high school. I could have gone on to run in college but decided that I had had enough — what a joke. I wish I could go back and slap some sense in to the 17 year old me. Instead, I went to Penn State for a year, quit running, drank like there was no tomorrow and gained 65 pounds. Yes, you read that correctly. In fairness, I needed to put a few on — if you look back to that first picture, I'd say I'm around 105 there. I graduated at 115. I always ate like crazy, but the running kept it off. I have struggled to maintain a solid sense of running — and if you run, I think the way I just said that will make sense.
I have allowed my weight to yo-yo and at times it's gotten way out of hand. I've never eaten well. I've never taken care of myself in this regard. Never. I eat out entirely too much and too often I refuse to allow the restaurant to get the best of me, if you know what I mean. I have struggled with motivation and have allowed a lack of toughness to lead me down this path. It's gotten to the point that I have to do something. I have to take this in to my own hands — I have nobody to blame but myself. I have sat by and told my athletes that if they put their mind to something they can achieve it, always feeling as though they are looking at me and laughing as soon as I'm out of earshot. I have felt like an absolute fraud at times. I have allowed myself to make excuse after excuse after excuse and I have let myself down. I have more to offer than this…
So this is what I vow to Kevin — and more importantly, to myself. I will drop 40 pounds in the next year. I will do this in a manageable way, eating out sparingly and eating better at home (this may not seem like a lot to some of you, but it is, trust me, it is). I will maintain this weight from that point forward, making it an absolute priority in my life. I will quit making excuses and I will give more to the athletes I have the opportunity to work with, talking with them as we run together rather than me running behind them. I will become a better person in the process and I will think of you even more, Kevin, as I go through this difficult process.
I owe it to myself — and I owe it to you, Kevin.
One of my favorite pics with Kevin — 1994 State Cross Country Meet. Go ahead and make fun of my hat!
Posted in just random	| Tagged Bruce Denton, Colin Dunlap, Curry Franklin, John L. Parker, Kevin Gatons, Once a Runner, Quenton Cassidy, Ron Diehl, Roy Fatur, Sam Bair | 11 Comments
November 10, 2011 by jeremylenzi
The concept of civil discourse is dead…
I'm not even really sure where to start — I've gone through the gamut of emotions since the Penn State University scandal first broke and it's unbelievably difficult to get a grip on where to begin. But let's give this a try…
I'm single – check that – I'm divorced. I don't have any kids, and that's probably the biggest reason why I'm divorced. I have faced hardship in my life, but so have you, so have others and I work hard not to dwell on it. I have faced NOTHING that even approaches what Jerry Sandusky's victims have faced – thankfully. I have made too many mistakes in my life to count but I work hard every day to become a better person. I struggle with my faith/spirituality on a daily basis — there are days that I don't even know what those things are — and this past week has included a couple of those days.
Perhaps it's because I work with students on a daily basis and I see as they struggle with so many issues that I've gained some perspective on this particular type of issue. Perhaps it's because I've seen my friends who have kids transform into different people who think only of what's most important for the life they brought into this world that I feel this way. Perhaps it's because I know that somebody, somewhere always has it worse.
But these are the things I feel in my gut:
Everyone involved in this, from Mike McQueary to Joe Paterno to Tim Curley to Graham Spanier (and anybody else I may have missed) needed to be fired immediately upon finding out that they stood by and did nothing to help curtail this situation. All were complicit by their lack of action and this is inexcusable.
That Mike McQueary has not been fired yet as well is just incomprehensible to me – not only did he walk by and do nothing to stop what was going on in that shower, but after reporting this to Joe Paterno, he did nothing after seeing that it was not being handled as well.
"…in hindsight, I wish I had done more." Those are Joe Paterno's words – I said this on facebook as well as on twitter: I am appalled at this statement. So what you're saying is that it took over nine years and getting CAUGHT for you to realize that a report of a 10 year old boy being raped (by anybody, let alone your former Defensive Coordinator) is wrong? I refuse to accept this, because if this is the case, then it means that Joe Paterno is completely hysterical. Yes, he reported this to Curley, his superior, but then nothing happened. At what point do you say to yourself, Hey, they said they would take care of this, but I haven't seen anything done yet. I better double check this situation. Do you do that after a week? A month? A year? Nine?
Jerry Sandusky is hands down the greatest villain in this situation, and he will get his (I'm truly relying on prison justice to handle this). But that doesn't excuse the inaction of others.
The press conference held last night was just utterly despicable — all the way around. Concerning the Board of Trustees – I believe you made the hard, but correct decision. Having said that, handling this by phone call is reprehensible. As for the press conference itself, it was not a shining moment in the history of journalism, to say the least. Two tweets from last night stood out to me in this concern: @PittScript "With reporters like these in State College, it's becoming easier to see how no one ever questioned what the athletic department was doing" and @colin_dunlap "How are these reporters going to type their stories wearing their big, foam Penn State No. 1 fingers on their hands?" The way that the reporters in that room handled that presser was embarrassing at best. I have a friend from high school who is a professional writer who wrote for The Daily Collegian. I admire and respect his work greatly – I know that he would have handled himself much better at that presser than what we saw and heard.
There is no way in the world it should have taken this long to reach these decisions – having said that, having a 10:00 pm press conference for something of this magnitude is just ludicrous – especially knowing that what happened in the streets afterwards was going to happen in the streets afterwards. This is nothing new on that campus, unfortunately.
Perhaps, as @colin_dunlap suggested last night, those students should have marched to the house of Jerry Sandusky to express their frustration — better yet, perhaps they should have taken part in the Candlelight Vigil that was being held at the same exact time in honor of the true victims in this case.
Twitter and Facebook both exploded last night (and to be fair, before then as well). There was some incredible insight from both sides of this debate and it happened quickly. Perhaps it happened too quickly. And this is quite possibly where I found the most disappointment. It's also the reason I posted this as I have. Please understand this about me – I have absolutely no issues with you having a differing opinion than mine. By no means would I ever expect you to agree with everything I think. But, and this is a big BUT – if you unfollow me or delete a comment of mine, I will not permit you to re-follow me or I will unfriend you (depending on the social media site). By doing either of those things (unfollowing or deleting), you are telling me that my opinion doesn't matter – and if you feel that, fine, but don't think that we're going to be friends on these sites. And if you've read this far, I doubt that will be the case. Civil discourse – with the emphasis on civil, please. I want you to challenge my thoughts. I want to take part in that conversation.
I understand the love affair with Joe Paterno that people in Happy Valley have. I grew up a Pitt fan, but spent my first year of college at Penn State. I fell in love with everything while there – the campus, the people, the football team, Joe Paterno, CC Peppers – everything. But I have noticed two major "camps," if you will, in this argument: those who are younger and those who are older (and don't get me wrong, there are absolutely exceptions to this). For the most part, those who are younger and have chimed in don't have kids, and don't necessarily have enough perspective to look at this objectively. Maybe I should make that four "camps," because it seems to be pretty easy to also tell who has read the entire grand jury indictment and who has not. (As an aside, when I was at PSU I lived in East Halls — Geary Hall — and for a time I was doing some running. At the end of one run, after crossing through the old Lot 80, I came to the intersection and went to cross. I was hit by a car – or maybe I hit the car? – going over the hood and landing on the street. I was fine, but got up loaded for bear. Joe Paterno got out of the car and I immediately apologized to him. I don't know why. I don't know what came over me – but this was a person I didn't know but grew to revere in a matter of months. I understand your idolatry and reverence, but it's clouding your judgement. All of that being said, I still think he needed to be fired.
I was told yesterday that a sin is a sin and probably had the best conversation regarding religion with my brother that we've ever had. That being said, I struggle with people telling me that raping a 10 year old boy and stealing a loaf of bread are equivalent in God's eyes. I really, truly struggle with that. I respect, but disagree with those who believe this and I'll leave this bullet at that.
It sickens me to see the word prescient used in conjunction with Mark Madden, but it's apt in this situation. Perhaps if people took him seriously, more would have listened to him calling all of this last April. This is precisely why people are taking seriously his claims that Sandusky was "pimping out" boys in Second Mile to wealthy donors.
It also sickens me to see some people jumping over all of PSU. While the football team is well-known and Joe Paterno is a household name for many, this is by no means all that PSU is about. Penn State students and alums have so much to be proud of. Beyond the school being a great one, I have but one word for those who are hating (as a student said today) – THON. Enough said.
I'm sure that this has been all over the place — but so am I right now — just treading water as I attempt to wrap my head around this ocean of disgusting.
Incidentally, I've read a TON of great pieces about this whole situation so far — and I've also read a ton of not so great pieces. These are my two favorites:
Growing Up Penn State — Michael Weinreb nailed this – and his writing style was good enough to convince me to order his book.
An Appeal to Joe Paterno — by Rachel Lenzi-Gallagher — know that we are not related — she knows her stuff, to say the least.
This was from ESPN's First Take – please understand that I can't stand Skip Bayless – but I do agree with many of the things he has to say. Not sure that I'm willing to absolve McQueary, though.
In addition, if you are on twitter, you need to be following @DarrenRovell — phenomenal, objective look at all things sports and business from CNBC's primary Sports and Business Reporter.
Posted in daily life of a teacher, reaction to the news	| Tagged Civil Discourse, Colin Dunlap, Darren Rovell, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Michael Weinreb, Mike McQueary, Penn State University, PSU, Rachel Lenzi-Gallagher, THON | 8 Comments


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Q: I want to download the files having same name from multiple server. but below code is not working properly and slow Code is working very slow. and output is not as expected, getting only two files in output directory instead of 4. Since i have 4 servers so i should get 4 files. Seems it is creating output file for only first and last server.
Log_report.sh:
#!/bin/bash
MAIN_PATH=/migration/CS_ETL/DM_AUTOMATION
file`enter code here`name='FTP_config.csv'
n=1
while read line; do
IP="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $1}'`"
echo $IP
USER_NAME="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $2}'`"
PASS_KEY="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $3}'`"
SCP_PATH="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $4}'`"
CBP_PATH="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $5}'`"
CBP_ID="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $6}'`"
REMOTE_TOOL_PATH="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $7}'`"
MASTER_BACKUP="`echo $line | awk -F"," '{print $8}'`"
./Log_sftp.sh $IP $USER_NAME $PASS_KEY $SCP_PATH $CBP_PATH $CBP_ID $REMOTE_TOOL_PATH $MASTER_BACKUP
n=$((n+1))
mv $MASTER_BACKUP/Exception.log $MASTER_BACKUP/Exception_$CBP_ID.log
done < $MAIN_PATH/TASK/$filename

Log_sftp.sh:
#!/usr/bin/expect -f

set username [lindex $argv 1];
set password [lindex $argv 2];
set ip [lindex $argv 0];
set scp_path [lindex $argv 3];
set cbp_path [lindex $argv 4];
set cbp_id [lindex $argv 5];
set slave_path [lindex $argv 6];
set master_bkp [lindex $argv 7];

spawn sftp $username@$ip:$slave_path/Logs
expect "password: "
send $password\r
expect "$ "
set timeout -1
send "lcd $master_bkp\r"
send "get Exception.log\r"
send "exit\r"
expect "$ "

A: Have you tried using autoexpect -p to see what would be generated when you try doing this interactively?
You may also want to use log_file to debug what's happening with your script.
If it's behaving slowly that's probably an indication of expect timing out. Try adding a
set timeout 2

line to see whether it runs more quickly. If it does then probably one of your expect patterns is wrong.

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Women's ice hockey: Piacentini breaks program scoring record in disappointing tie
By Owen Gotimer
SU jumped out to a 4-0 lead against Lindenwood, but couldn't hold it through the final two periods.
42. To "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" fans, it's the answer to life. To professional sports fans, it's the number Jackie Robinson used to break the Major League Baseball color barrier.
To Syracuse University junior forward Melissa Piacentini, it's the record number of career goals she has scored while suiting up for the Orange women's ice hockey team.
On Friday in front of a home crowd at Tennity Ice Pavilion, Piacentini scored seven seconds into an early power play against the Lindenwood University Lady Lions to tie Margot Scharfe's record of 41 career goals set just last season. Almost ten minutes later, Syracuse freshman forward Stephanie Grossi saw Piacentini sneak in behind the Lady Lions' goalkeeper, hit her with a pass, and Piacentini connected with the second of four Orange goals of the first period.
After the first period, however, Lindenwood junior goalkeeper Nicole Hensley stonewalled the Orange attack and the Lady Lions' offense poured on four goals over the next two periods, sending the teams to an eventual 4-4 tie.
"I think that going up 4-0 can bite you in the a-- sometimes. We got too complacent," Piacentini said. "You're up 4-0… you never think you're going to lose the game, but if you start playing as individuals instead of a team, that's what happens."
Until late in the first period, the Orange had more goals than the Lady Lions had shots on goal. Syracuse senior forward Allie LaCombe – who scored late in the first period – felt her team should have taken a different approach after taking the commanding lead early.
"When you're ahead it's easy to get excited, but once you get comfortable with your lead, that's when teams struggle. That happened with us, too," LaCombe said. "I think we need to learn to push the pedal down rather than let up on the gas when we have a lead."
Syracuse coach Paul Flanagan felt his team should have had a more keen focus on defense, but noted the Lindenwood coaching staff made some key adjustments in the second and third periods.
"They outcoached us and made some great adjustments. Give them a ton of credit. They upped their game a lot," Flanagan said. "All we had to do was play good, smart defense. We didn't need any more goals. That's not to say you don't want to try to score, but just be smart. Don't give them any ammo."
Lindenwood's ammunition came in the form of senior forward Jordyn Constance who assisted on each of the four Lady Lions goals.
Allowing four goals was not in Syracuse junior goalkeeper Jenn Gilligan's game plan after shutting out the Lady Lions once already this season.
"I thought I battled hard for most of it. Four goals, obviously, isn't what I need to be doing, but hopefully I can come back tomorrow with a better performance. I thought I did my job for the most part, but it wasn't enough tonight," Gilligan said.
Gilligan, LaCombe and Piacentini all knew the game was winnable and struggled to deal with yet another tie.
"Ten ties. I never thought in my four years I would say that in a season," LaCombe said. "Ties are very frustrating. Obviously we want to win. I don't think we're satisfied with just one point. I think we should have won that game. Ties are a little deflating, but I think our team has enough energy to bounce back and win tomorrow."
While the team will try to rally in its rematch with Lindenwood at 2 p.m. on Feb. 14, Flanagan feels like it's time for his team to grow up.
"We're shooting the pucks like we're 12 year olds. You're not going to win hockey games," Flanagan said. "It's just a lack of skill and lack of determination I guess. That's really frustrating because we had a lot of opportunities."
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This week's WOW is a little bit different because I am participating in a fun blogger project in relation to Rebel of The Sands. This story tells of a world where metal and magic clash with deadly consequences. Amani finds herself becoming a myth in the making, legendary for her sharp-shooting skills, more gunpowder than girl. So, inspired by Amani's legendary skills and growing reputation, I present to you my own blogger reputation post!
Some of you may be familiar with my constant hair brained ideas. Now, I have to admit that not every idea that I come up with is necessarily bad or crazy for that matter. However, I do sometimes let my imagination run wild and I have a hard time knowing when to stop. Let's just say that once I put my mind to do something, I build and build and build upon it and never seem to let it go.
Do you have a reputation that follows you around?
I love the sound of this book! Just reading the premise makes me feel excited. I'll be waiting for this one, definitely.
I'm super curious about this book! I'm seeing it around a lot lately. I hope it's great! 🙂 Nice pick!
I think that I probably have a reputation of drinking too much coffee, zoning-out when I read books, and reorganizing my bookshelf too often. ;-D I am really excited for "Rebel of The Sands" to come out! Great post!
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Dhalgren
By Samuel R. Delany
About Dhalgren
In Dhalgren, perhaps one of the most profound and bestselling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel R. Delany has produced a novel "to stand with the best American fiction of the 1970s" (Jonathan Lethem).
Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. Something has happened there…. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man–poet, lover, and adventurer–known only as the Kid. Tackling questions of race, gender, and sexuality, Dhalgren is a literary marvel and groundbreaking work of American magical realism.
Also by Samuel R. Delany
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About Samuel R. Delany
After his seventh novel, Empire Star (1966), Samuel R. Delany began publishing short fiction professionally with "The Star Pit." It appeared in Worlds of Tomorrow and was turned into a popular two-hour radio play, broadcast annually over WBAI-FM for more than a decade. Two tales, "Aye,… More about Samuel R. Delany
Published by Vintage
May 15, 2001 | 816 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375706684
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"A Joycean tour de force of a novel, Dhalgren…stake[s] a better claim than anything published in the country in the last quarter-century (excepting only Gass's Omensetter's Luck and Nabokov's Pale Fire) to a permanent place as one of the enduring monuments of our national literature."–The Libertarian Review
SAMUEL R. DELANY ON DHALGREN:
Q: How long did it take you to write Dhalgren?
A: Writing times are hard to pin down with fixed and fast dates: so much of the work is thinking. I don't remember the name of the writer who, when asked how long it took to write one work or another, answered: All my life. My initial idea was to write a series of political novels–five in fact–in which factors of modern life I'd seen burgeoning throughout the previous decade–in the counter-culture of the sixties–eventually worked to bring down five societies that we actually have: consumer-industrial capitalism; another, a highly repressive collectivism; one was a classical parliamentary monarchy; another was a regular fascist dictatorship; still another was largely a corrupt bureaucracy that ran on bribes and payoffs. . . . (My picture of the original project was something like a set of Alfred Bester-style far-future adventures interpolated with lengthy passages of repartee a la George Bernard Shaw.)
As 1968 gave way to '69, on New Years Eve I flew from New York to San Francisco, and in the course of the trip, I realized I wanted to do something more . . . well, I can only call it more poetic–and less intellectual. A week or so later, in San Francisco, when I began to write the text–or rather, to rewrite it, for I'd already drafted some desultory scenes back in New York–I realized that no, I was going to write one large book, not five small ones; and it was going to be much closer to the here and now than I had previously thought.
Usually I tell people Dhalgren took me just shy of five years. In my mind that time runs between the dates I put at the end of the book: January '69 through September '73. But the proposed five-volume Ur-Dhalgren predates that by as much as six months. Should that time be included? I was still fiddling with the book right up until the galleys went off from London, sometime around July or August of '74. That would add another eleven months–almost a whole year.
Q: Many critics believe Dhalgren, with its ambitious scope and modernist style, transcends the boundaries of the sci-fi genre, and you yourself use the term "speculative fiction" to describe your writing. Do you find the label "science fiction writer" liberating, restricting, inaccurate? Or none of the above?
A: I used the term "speculative fiction" between 1968 and 1972. I haven't since, nor do I find it a particularly necessary of useful term today.
Labels are neither confining nor liberating. They're names; and names are useful. (Think about negotiating the world without them!) But now and again you have to sweep aside the prejudices and assumptions–the emotional and cultural baggage–that accrue to them.
During the four years I did use "speculative fiction," it meant something fairly specific. A joint term, it covered traditional science fiction, as most of us usually think of it, as well as classical fantasy–again as most of us think of it–and finally a small area of experimental fiction that used science fiction of fantastic imagery, but not in the way science fiction or fantasy usually do. Examples of this list included such stories as Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe" and J.G. Ballard's "condensed novels," eventually collected in his 1967 volume The Atrocity Exhibition. But speculative fiction was the "umbrella term" for all three. After '72, however, through general use the meaning changed so that it no longer covered the S-F and Fantasy components and only indicated, rather, this last experimental material.
A few years after that, in the middle seventies, academics took it up and began to it for whatever they liked–usually the science fiction they happened to find particularly interesting to distinguish it from all the SF they didn't personally care for. Well, to me, that was silly.
Today I make-do–and have made-do for more than twenty-five years, now–with "science fiction," "fantasy," and "experimental fiction" using "SF imagery." As far as I'm concerned, you can call Dhalgren any of these three, and I won't be the least offended.
You could call it speculative fiction, if you liked–but, no, it's not a term I've used since well before I finished writing the book, more than twenty-five years ago.
Q: Dhalgren details numerous sexually explicit situations. How were the book's frank sexual passages received upon publication in 1975? How do you think people would react to those passages today if the book had just been published for the first time? In which ways have people's attitudes towards sexuality, specifically bisexuality and gayness, changed since the book's release?
A: I don't think the sex in Dhalgren was that big a deal. A thriving pornographic paperback industry had a fairly large selection in pretty much every major urban bookstore, at the time–much larger, I suspect, than you'll find today. When the book first appeared, there was more comment over the use of street language then the description of specific sex acts. Twenty-six years ago, every adventure movie and crime film wasn't speckled with the language working men and women use–in real life.
Before 1968, the word "fuck" or "shit" in a book literally made it illegal. And a whole population of folk really felt that any reference to the perversions in a public document was immoral. Such things were so powerful that to name them was to spread them. Ignorance, they felt was the only protection. Between Stonewall (in 1969) and the advent of AIDS(in 1982), came a bakers'-dozen-year long period when gay men and women began to make various sides of their lives known to each other and to a range of American readers. Dhalgren was a small part of that. But I'm happy that played whatever part it did.
Q: Kidd in Dhalgren becomes a hero against his wishes. How do you define the role of a hero? How was that definition changed for you since the late sixties and early seventies?
A: I don't think I ever have defined "the role of a hero." Kidd's situation on several occasions takes the social form of a hero's life, because other people decide he's heroic. Kidd is generally pretty uncomfortable with those decisions, as I recall. He doesn't feel he's really done anything to warrant them.
The truly heroic things he does are small and help one person here, one person there–and are a matter of his fighting down one or another of his personal demons.
During the fifties and into the sixties, mainstream literary critical discourse spent a lot of time talking about heroes–and the lack of them in modern life. The purpose of poetry was assumed to be, for example (self-evident and unquestioned), the provision of images of heroes to the public, who could then, one assumes, model their own lives around them.
Well, one of the things Dhalgren wanted to do was laugh–and laugh pretty sardonically–at this inflated notion.
Q: What is the significance of Kidd having a beautiful body and ugly hands that he's scared of? What are your hands like?
A: Kidd simply has hands like many men who have done lots of physical labor and who also bite their nails to extreme. Now, he thinks his hands are ugly–even hideous. But Lanya finds them beautiful. They're big. They're strong–and a good deal of Kidd's history is written in their scars and calluses. I never saw him as really frightened of them–except once he looks at them very hard while on acid. That is a pretty universal syndrome, I suspect: Look at any part of your body (or anybody else's, for that matter), fixed and unwavering–your face in a mirror, your thigh, your forearm–and you begin to see the skeleton beneath the skin, the potential for decay and death that underlies all living flesh and sinew. The presence of a hallucinogen in your system can make that quite spectacular–and particularly unsettling–experience. The judgement that the first woman Kidd meets makes–that someone with hands like his must be crude or cruel–is precisely the kind of judgment he is trying to get away from by going to Bellona.
You ask about my hands?
They're the ordinary hands of a middleclass intellectual. I never did bite my nails, neither as a child nor as an adult. As hands go, they're pretty unexceptional–rather dull, I've always thought.
Q: How did New York City, where you were born and raised, influence the creation of Dhalgren's Bellona?
A: Basically New York is my city. I was born here–in Harlem, where I lived the first fifteen years of my life. Its history is my history: Its structures and strictures of thought are the way I tend to think. In summer 1957, my family and I moved from central Harlem to the periphery of the neighborhood, into a co-op apartment in Morningside Gardens. We were a part of an exodus from Harlem that left the "inner city"–Harlem and the South Bronx–a devastated and abandoned ruin, where a few people managed to hang on, many living in absolutely sub-human conditions.
Nor was this only a New York City phenomenon.
Every major city in the country, between 1965 and 1985, developed a neighborhood–or neighborhoods (most of them black or Hispanic ghettoes)–that took on the same desolate state.
Why . . . ?
Often through their geographical relationship to the rest of the city, these areas should have been prime real estate.
What was it happening . . . ?
What was the reason . . . ?
You can find clear and hard-edged socioeconomic explanations for what was going on. But what it looked like to most city dwellers (even to those with an intellectual handle on economics) was a kind of malevolent, unexplainable magic, which took blocks and blocks of what should have been thriving real estate and turned them into ruins and abandoned shells.
Today, of course, as Bill Clinton sets up office space in Harlem–the most recent "event" in a series of reclamation's that have been going on for a dozen years–this period of "inner city" devastation is going in reverse. But it's particularly intriguing that Dhalgren is being reissued now: it was constructed almost wholly from images of those shattered and burned-out neighborhoods in New York and throughout the nation, from those decades between 1960 and 1995.
Q: In 1975 Delany fans had been waiting six years for another Delany novel to be published. What was it like to write Dhalgren, knowing the expectations that were building about your "big book"? How was the novel by fans of your other books?
A: I was twenty-five when my previous novel, Nova, was finished. (It came out when I was twenty-six.) In the time before I started Dhalgren, I had decided to give up writing altogether. For between eighteen months and two years, I threw myself into music, working with a now long-defunct rock group, Heavenly Breakfast. I wasn't spending a lot of time with fans or at SF conventions–and indeed when I did, it was usually to show up, give a talk or do a panel, then go about on my business.
So I didn't have much of a sense of fan expectation.
Looking back, more than twenty-five years later, I think some readers were just hoping for a colorful space opera–not a carefully observed book about life (whatever the fantastic elements that were introduced) in the (then-) present day.
I think some traditional science fiction readers wanted a story in which the non-normal situations could be explained away by science. I gave them a story in which the institutional support needed to put together any kind of scientific explanation at all is precisely what has broken down. Thus, the non-normal situations function in the book as they might in a novel of magic realism. Some of the early audience–the more traditional science fiction readers–weren't prepared for a book in which the anxiety quotient connected with such images came from the fact that the scientific institutions that could have offered explanations for those non-normal situations were what had eroded from the landscape. You couldn't call up the astronomy department of your local research university and say, "Hey, guys! What's going on . . . ?"
ON HIS CAREER:
Q: As the writer most often identified as the first gay and African-American science fiction writer, do you feel obligated to address certain political issues in your writing? Do you consider yourslelf a role model?
A: No I don't.
Like everyone else, I have my political and social opinions. I break them out when they're relevant to the story or essay I'm writing. But I also do a lot of what D. H. Lawrence called "thinking against oneself." The characters who feel differently about the world from the way I do get the bulk of my sympathetic analysis–and that includes their political ideas.
As far as being the first gay and African-American SF writer?
Well no one like a tattle-tale: Nevertheless, Arthur C. Clark has been "out" since his novel, The Fountains of Paradise. And Murray Leinmster, author of the classic SF story "First Contact"(1945) was gay. Black writers George Shuyler, M.P. Sheil, Martin Delany (no relation, sadly), an otherwise unknown black writer named Johnson, and even W.E.B. DuBois wrote science fiction, or proto-science fiction, twenty-three, fifty-five, and even a hundred-three years before I did.
My very small claim to fame is that I am the first black SF writer who came up within the commercial science fiction field as it was formed in the late thirties.
From time to time, especially when I was young, my stories stemmed from politics–usually my political discontent with the way things were. (My early SF trilogy, The Fall of the Towers, is, I'm afraid, soggy with politics.) As I get older, however, politics becomes more and more peripheral.
Q: When did you decide to be a writer?
A: I made my first try at writing a novel when I was thirteen. At fifteen, I started one and finished it: It was just under three hundred pages. After seven more tries, the tenth one–which I wrote when I was nineteen–actually sold. It came out when I was twenty.
Q: When Dhalgren was first published, you were associated with a maverick group of sci-fi writers known as the New Wave. What was the New Wave and what became of them?
A: The New Wave was a group of writers, mostly English, such as J.G. Ballard, Brian Aldiss, and Christopher Priest–or, in a few cases, such as Thomas M. Disch, John Sladak, and Pamela Zoline, Americans living in England during the sixties–clustered around Michael Moorcock's extraordinarily lively and energetic magazine New Worlds, whose editing the twenty-five-year-old Moorcock took over from Ted Carnell with the 1964 May/ June issue.
Through a couple passing visits to London in '66 and '67 I became friendly with these writers–and as much in sympathy with what they were doing–but I was never really a member of the group. First, I was still writing space operas while their concerns were largely with near-future SF that had pointed social relevance, as well as a romantic current that–as Moorcock has said on several occasions since–was what was most important to him in the work he was putting forth in the magazine. Second, save for six days in April of '66 and two weeks over the Christmas–New Year holidays of '66-'67, I lived in New York City–not London. One–and only one–of my stories appeared in New Worlds–a story which went on to win a Hugo Award: thus for some readers, my name was associated with that primary New Wave outlet. But, really, the story was an anomaly for New Worlds–as it was its award.
Q: You have written in so many genres–science fiction, of course, but also historical fiction and literary analysis. You've also written graphic novels, mainstream comic books, books of essays. What genres are you most comfortable writing in?
A: I'm particularly fond of the long–forty to a hundred-twenty pages. Works of mine I still enjoy include Heavenly Breakfast, the two essays that comprise Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, as well as "Wagner/ Artaud" and the other essays collected in my book Longer Views. (My Hart Crane essay, "Atlantis Rose. . ." is probably my favorite.) But, really, I don't have a real genre preference. I think good writing is good writing, wherever you find it, in fiction or nonfiction.
Q: You've written more than twenty books. Do you have a favorite?
A: No, I don't, really. Which is to say, the one I'm currently working on is pretty much always my favorite. And I've learned the hard way to never discuss that one–until it's finished.
Q: How has sci-fi changed in the years since the publication of Dhalgren? Do you keep up with contemporary writers?
A: How has it changed? Well, for one thing, serious readers who appreciated the genre never called it "sci-fi." (Or "skiffy," which is, of course, the proper pronunciation!) That term was reserved for particularly brainless raygun and rocket-ship extravangeanzas. Serious readers said "science fiction" or "SF" and down their noses at anyone who said "sci-fi."
Now, of course, everybody says "sci-fi"–except, possibly, me.
Do I keep up, you want to know?
Nowhere near as much as I should!
Q: In the mid-seventies, you had a brief stint as a writer for Wonder Woman comic books. How did this come to pass?
A: One of the glories of the late-sixties comic book field was what were then called "relevant comics." In reaction to the freedom and daring of the then-burgeoning "underground comics," commercial comic books of the era began to take on far more mature themes and problems–social topics that had some punch: racism, child abuse, drugs, and what-have-you. The leading writer in this movement was Denny O'Neil and the leading artist, Neal Adams. It was an exciting moment in comics. The New York Times Magazine even devoted a Sunday cover article to them.
Well, five or six years before that, Wonder Woman's writers had found themselves with the "Superman problem": Because she was so powerful, none of the villains could really offer any resistance, and Wonder Woman–nee Diana Prince–had been reduced, for several years, to Saving the Entire Earth from the Blue Meanies of Mars, or other equally mindless adventures. So, finally, the editors had done the only sane thing: Most of her super-powers had been taken away, and she was now just your ordinary black-belt karate expert and generally super-brave kick-ass heroine type–a sort of female Steven Seagal. She was still pretty damned heroic. Instead of the flag bra and blue bikini briefs, she wore a white karate gee with a black belt. Certainly it made it easier to come up with reasonable plots for her, and alone made it possible for the plots to have some relevance to the real world.
Once the new relevant comics came along, the editors decided an area they wanted to tackle was women's problems. By that time Denny was editing Wonder Woman; he asked me to write a series of scripts for Wonder Woman that would touch on problems of actual women. (You might have thought, if they were really serious, they would have gotten a woman writer. But that, I suppose, was a bit too radical.) I came up with a six-issue story arc, each with a different villain: the first was a corrupt department store owner; the second was the head of a supermarket chain who tries to squash a women's food co-operative. Another villain was a college advisor who really felt a woman's place was in the home and who assumed if you were a bright woman, then something was probably wrong with you psychologically, and so forth. It worked up to a gang of male thugs trying to squash an abortion clinic staffed by women surgeons. And Wonder Woman was going to do battle with each of these and triumph.
Well, we only got through two issues–and the first was a matter of writing Wonder Woman out of the last adventure she was in and getting back into her Lower East Side neighborhood, which is where Diana lived by then anyway.
One day about six weeks after I had come on board, Gloria Steinem was being shown through the D.C. offices. Proudly they showed her the new Wonder Woman. Steinem hadn't looked at a Wonder Woman comic, however, since she was twelve. Immediately she exclaimed: "What happenned to her costume? How come she isn't deflecting bullets with her magic gold bracelets anymore and tying people up with her magic lasso?" Steinem didn't get a chance to read the story of course. But she complained bitterly: "Don't you realize how important the image of Wonder Woman was to young girls throughout the country?"
She had a point, I admit.
But, a day later, an edict came down from management to put Wonder Woman back in her American-flag falsies and blue bikini briefs and give her back all her super powers. Well, that's what happened–and she went back to Saving the Entire World from the Blue Meanies of Mars. . . . There was no way I could work those in with the relatively realistic plot lines I had devised. So my stories were abandoned, and I was dumped as a writer–and Wonder Woman never did get a chance to fight for the rights of a women's abortion clinic.
It's a case of the world being over-determined–and over-determined in some destructive ways. But Steinem had no idea of the stories her chance comments were used to scuttle.
Q: In the last year, graphic novels (Jimmy Coorigan, David Boring, and others) have received a great deal of acclaim and attention. Tell us about your contribution to the graphic novel.
A: In 1978 I wrote the text for a hundred-four page SF novel, drawn by Howard Chaykin, called Empire. Save that some of the carets–the tales on the dialogue text–go to the wrong characters, I'm still fond of it's color and liveliness. The term "graphic novel" didn't exist then, so I suppose–technically–I'm one of the genre's forerunners.
More recently I wrote an autobiographical "graphic novella," called Bread & Wine (1998), which artists Mia Wolff drew. It's forty-six pages, and tells how I met my current partner, Dennis, in 1990, when he was homeless and living on New York streets. Mia did a wonderfully inventive and evocative job.
What do these books contribute to the genre? I wouldn't even begin to speculate.
ON BOOKS AND WRITING:
Q: You have been teaching creative writing for three decades. What are the most difficult and rewarding parts of the job?
A: The hardest thing is imparting a sense of how difficult it is to be a writer–only partially because of the real hurdles within the profession per se, but even more so because most people who want to write–and often who want to write desperately–simply have no talent. Stupid people can never become writers. But intelligence–even extraordinary intelligence–is still no guarantee that one can write fiction–or even lively nonfiction. For that matter, neither is literacy, wide reading, a superb sense of grammar or of what William Strunk and E.B. White called "the elements of style"–nor is being a wonderful and inspiring teacher. These may make you a decent editor; but that's all.
What's really hard is breaking through the resistance almost all writing students maintain against the knowledge that writing thin, cluttered, or cliché sentences, scenes, or stories is not practice for writing good stories. It is only practice for writing more thin, cluttered, and cliché sentences and scenes.
What's most rewarding is when a student with some talent finally comes to you and explains he or she doesn't need a writing class any more; that he or she would do better writing on his or her own, and that, if they wanted to remain in school, they'd prefer to take a class in which they were learning tangible data about substantive topics. This doesn't mean that the student hasn't gotten anything out of your writing class. But teaching is always a self-destruct endeavor. The idea is to make the need for it vanish. And watching ignorance self-destruct is a joy.
Q: What books do you recommend to someone coming to the sci-fi genre for the first time?
A: Like poetry, like the literary novel, like drama, science fiction is a formal genre. What's the first literary novel you give to some one who's never read one before? The choice is of the same difficulty and complexity. There are as many types of science fiction as there are types of literary novels. Someone who loves Huckleberry Fin may be baffled by Moby-Dick. Someone who revels in Portrait of a Lady may be bored to tears by Sentimental Education–though all are great books.
Someone entranced by the wonderfully vivid present-day scene setting and characterization of Theodore Sturgeon may be completely lost in the far-future pyrotechnics of Alfred Bester, or vice-versa–though both are fine science fiction. Joanna Russ, Thomas M. Disch, the early work of Roger Zelazny–all are superb SF: indeed, all three are superb writers, period! But they are as different as Auden, Eliot, and Hart Crane. How do you go about choosing?
In practical terms, when I'm presented with the problem, I try to find out what a new reader is interested in. Then I recommend a well-written SF novel about that topic. (And let's face it: If you have got someone who has never read any science fiction at all, then you got a fairly limited and–however well they may think of themselves–unsophisticated reader. I don't particularly enjoy mysteries as a genre, but I've read my fifty or sixty, which include a good number of classics–Chandler, Hammet, Trent's Last Case, Cornell Woolrich, a few Jim Thompsons, and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd . . . Reading something in every genre–including the odd bodice-buster romance–is simply a part of literacy.) There are science fiction tales about dance (Harness's The Rose) and psychotherapy (Zelazny's "He Who Shapes" and "Salvador") and ecology (Stewart's "Earth Abides") and religion (Morrow's Only Begotten Daughter) and history (Crowley's Aegypt). One of the great myths about SF is that you've seen three episodes of Star Trek or Babylon-5–or perhaps read Neuromancer–somehow you know all there is to know about science fiction.
Q: What books do you go back and reread, over and over?
A: Lots of science fiction lends itself to rereading. Again, Russ, Disch, and Zelazny are all writers it's easy–and rewarding–to read and reread. In my case, of course, I reread them because I often teach them. But I also love them.
The book I have probably read most times in my life, however, happens not to be SF. It's Djuna Barne's 1936 novel Nightwood. A poet, Marie Ponsot, gave me a hardcover copy when I was sixteen. (It didn't appear in paperback from New Directions until a couple of years later.) The first time I read it, it made no sense to me whatsoever! But every few months I'd break it out again and give it another try. By the time I was twenty-five, I had read it cover to cover–at least three times. And I had begun to realize what an extraordinary novel and prose object it was.
Since age thirty-five, I've probably read Nightwood an average of once a year. It's written in three distinct styles: the opening movement's glistening indirect reportage on Felix's beleaguered Jewish father and German gentile mother; the lapidary narrative transfixing Jenny, Nora, and Robin to Barnes's page; and the associative leaps of Dr. O'Conner's hallucinatory American night-speech. Each is impelled by a different inner machinery, though all belong to the novel's extraordinary conceptual engine. A few years back scholar Cheryl J. Plum put out a critical edition with the Dalkey Archive that untangles the editorial work T.S. Eliot did on the book–and restores as well the cuts he made–and also chronicles in detail Emily Holmes Coleman's considerable critical input. It's three times as fascinating as watching Pound cut down the Wasteland to size.
One of my more humbling experiences was learning of a woman on the West Coast who has read Dhalgren once a year for more than twenty years now. Since I know how rich a book has to be to sustain attention, I'm just dazzled someone could find–for whatever reasons–something I'd written that interesting.
(New York City, March 2001)


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A University of Dundee scientist has been awarded a £1.9 million Wellcome Trust grant for innovative basic research which could lead to the development of new treatments for a range of debilitating diseases including cancer, Alzheimer's, and diabetes. Professor Daan van Aalten, at the College of Life Sciences at Dundee, has received the funding from the Wellcome Trust for his research on how proteins in the cell are regulated by an unusual chemical modification called O-GlcNAc.
Congratulations to Anton Gartner on being awarded tenure on the 29th of May 2009.
Professor Brian Hemmings, a former post-doc (1980-1982) with Professor Sir Philip Cohen FRS and Professor David Glover, former faculty member (1990 - 1998) were elected as Fellows of the Royal Society on 15th May 2009. The College of Life Sciences offers warm congratulations to our former Colleagues.
Professor Sir David Lane and Professor Birgit Lane are to leave the University of Dundee and take up full-time appointments with the Agency for Science, Technology and Research in Singapore from 1st September 2009. Sir David Lane will resume his position as Chief Scientist to the Agency for Science, Technology and Research. Birgit Lane will resume full-time duties as Executive Director of the Institute of Medical Biology at the Agency, which she helped to establish.
A University of Dundee scientist's research into diabetes has been boosted by a £12,500 donation by a local fundraising group. The Dundee and District Diabetes UK Volunteer Group will present Dr Kei Sakamoto of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Protein Phosphorylation Unit with a cheque at the Wellcome Trust Building on Tuesday, May 26.
Professor Dame Louise Johnson FRS, of the University of Oxford, has delivered the 25th Peter Garland Lecture at the University of Dundee. The Peter Garland Lecture is the most important lecture held in the College of Life Sciences and has been held every year since 1985. The lecture is named after the University's first Professor of Biochemistry, who was instrumental in developing Life Sciences at Dundee over the period 1970-1984.
Photo opportunity: 11am, Tuesday May 12th 11amWellcome Trust Building, Old Hawkhill, University of Dundee.
Professor Irwin McLean, of the University of Dundee, has been awarded the American Skin Association Achievement Award for his pioneering work on skin diseases. Professor McLean, who discovered that mutations on the filaggrin gene cause eczema and other related disorders, was presented with the award at the Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting in Montreal.
A University of Dundee scientist is the first UK winner of the prestigious 2009 Young Scientist Award presented by the Federation of European Biomedical Societies. The award, which comes with prize money of €10,000, has been given to Professor Frank Sargent in the Division of Molecular Microbiology at the College of Life Sciences at Dundee.


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LEARNING FROM A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH:THE EVOLUTION OF A MEDITERRANEAN GECKO
23 Jan 2016 - CANCELLED - Catarina Rato (CIBIO-InBIO/UP) | February 5, 2016 - 15h00 | CIBIO-InBIO's Room A, Campus de Vairão
The lack of morphological diagnosable characters typical of cryptic species, poses a particular problem to taxonomists. Phylogenetic studies on the Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica, uncovered extremely high levels of mtDNA diversity with six identified clades. Because of the conserved morphology of this species and lack of monophyly, it was suggested that T. mauritanica is a cryptic species complex, originated around 6 Mya. The recent addition of novel genetic markers and Bayesian coalescent species delimitation analysis support all these six mitochondrial clades as ''unconfirmed candidate species", pending morphological data to define them.
The quantification of realized niche overlap and the integration of species distribution models (SDMs) with calibrated phylogenies to study niche evolution are becoming powerful tools to understand speciation events. Our results suggest that the diversification within T. mauritanica, during the Miocene and Pleistocene, is associated with both niche divergence and niche conservatism, related to temperature and humidity. Our ecophysiological experimental study suggests that the individuals from European populations display a trend for higher water loss, but less rigid, compared with the Iberian populations. The detection of a phylogenetic signal suggests divergent evolutionary responses to the environment, which may account for the differences in their range expansion.
Catarina Rato is a Post-Doc Researcher (FCT Grant) of CIBIO-InBIO, since 2014. BSc in Biology Applied to the Terrestrial Resources (2004, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon), MSc in Biology (2007, University of Porto), PhD in Biology (2012, University of Porto). Member of the Applied Phylogenetics (AP) and Population Genetics, Hybridization and Speciation (POPGEN) research groups of CIBIO-InBIO. She has studied deeply the phylogeny and phylogeographic patterns of the Mediterranean Moorish gecko, Tarentola mauritanica and how these have affected the genetic diversity of several genomic compartments. She has also carried out studies on niche evolution and ecophysiology experimentation to understand better the invasive and establishment capacity of T. mauritanica in Europe. More recently, she is interested in studying the sex determination patterns of the Moorish gecko, whose sex allocation is influenced by environmental temperature, to understand the genes behind this process and the impact of climate change in the population dynamics and survival.
[Group Leader: James Harris, Applied Phylogenetics]
Image credits: Catarina Rato


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Amy Freed's comedy "The Beard of Avon" is a somewhat show-biz take on the "authorship" question which has engaged some Shakespeare scholars--and not a few crackpots--over the years. Originally commissioned by L.A.'s South Coast Rep in 2001, this racy contemporary farce set in Elizabethan England, plays with the Bard's life and language. Its clever conclusions may offend some of the Oxfordians and will certainly set local Stratfordians quibbling. The rest of the audience gets a good laugh at it all, aided Diego Arciniegas' well-paced direction.
The central characters are Edward DeVere, the dissolute Earl of Oxford, played by local stalwart Bill Mootos, and Will Shakspere(sic) played by Gabriel Kuttner, last seen in Sugan's "Talking to Terrorists." Publick Theatre regular Eric Hamel plays Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton in a Oscar/Bosey relationship to Devere, while Will is attached to a put-upon Anne Hathaway played by versatile Helen McElwain. The complications which ensue are a mix of period and modern comedy, with plenty of innuendo. The action includes Queen Elizabeth, played in high style by M. Lynda Robinson and the members of the vagabond company Will runs off with. Richard Arum plays John Heminge and Gerald Slattery is Henry Condol, the two actors named in Shakespeare's last will and testament. Ellen Adair has great fun playing Geoffrey Dunderhead, the boy who plays female roles, while Risher Reddick is a blustering Richard Burbage. Barry Press, new to the Publick, who will play Neils Bohr in their "Copenhagen" which opens later in the month, gets to be Old Colin, a Stratford friend of the Shakspere's, Lord Derby, and Walter Fitch, a mistreated playwright. Others in the acting company double as members of the Court; Bacon, Walsingham, Burleigh, and Lady Lettice as well.
Emerson's Rafael Jaen has provided first class period costumes with contemporary touches--Devere is in leather and McElwain gets to show quite a bit of leg. The stage has been further upgraded and allows Judy Stacier from Tufts to create a variety of environs, well lit by production manager Anthony Phelps, once the sun goes down. Steven Barkhimer has contributed an original score which suggests the period. The ensemble manages to be convincingly Elizabethan while playing in contemporary form. Freed's script doesn't really contribute that much to the "question" but it does raise interesting issues of inspiration. Given the choice between exploring an idea and pulling a gag, "The Beard of Avon"'s more liable to go for the laugh, which results in a pleasant entertainment with a few thoughtful moments.


Why does Opera keep asking if it should save autofill addresses that are already saved?
I'm running Opera 58.0.3135.107 (which was the latest version a few days ago). I have several names and addresses saved to autofill online forms. The addresses fill most forms correctly, but when I have Opera autofill a form, most of the time it then asks if I want it to save the address. This isn't a case of asking to save a change, this is exactly the address that Opera already has saved and which it just used to fill a form.
So far as I can tell, it makes absolutely no difference if I click "yes" or click "no" or just click the X to close the question. Regardless of which I do, Opera does the same thing again, the next time I fill in a form.
One other thing that seems odd is that the bar which Opera posts at the top of the screen asking if I want to save the address isn't very prominent, so sometimes I don't even notice it until later.
Creating a topic here is kinda easy.
CREATING a topic is kinda easy, once you figure out the weird way the page is laid out - with no explanation of what goes where.
Then once you do figure out how to create a topic, it doesn't accomplish anything because the forum gatekeepers don't allow questions to be posted. So far as I can see, questions get posted only if a gatekeeper has a snide remark they can post as an answer to insult the person for having a problem with their beloved Opera.
Sorry but it shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes to choose the category where you want to make your post and click on 'start new topic'.
Regarding the 'first post needs moderation' policy, mentioned here, you should also have seen a message at the bottom right warning you about it.
Believe me, I ignore that rule a lot.
Regarding my previous reply, you made a comment about posting in the forums being something difficult and I replied saying that it's easy, simply that.
That's nice, but it's still not an answer to the overall problem -- and, so far as I can tell, my question STILL has NEVER appeared in the forum.
You will get an answer to your question if and when someone has one to give.
What I can think of at the moment is that one of fields is different and this is causing Opera to ask you to save it again. It could also be a bad file or profile.
Did you try to empty the autofill entry and add it again?


Izvornik: Work design in practice / Haslegrave, Christine M. ; Wilson, John R. ; Corlett, Nigel ; Manenica, Ilija (ur.). - London : Taylor & Francis , 1990. 169-173 (ISBN: 9780850667707).
Mjesto i datum: Zadar, Hrvatska, 18.-20.04.1989.
This study investigates the effects of job redesign efforts in a sewing machine factory on job satisfaction, sickness absence, turnover, and quality of output. Two types of assembly lines were compared: "old" lines that include machine-paced, monotonous and highly specific work and "new" lines with wider variety of tasks, determination of work space, responsibility for quality control and improved job conditions. The biographical and work attitude dana were administered three times over a two year period to the sample of subjects who worked on different types of lines. The adapted version of Job Description Indeks was applied to give a measure of job satisfaction. Sickness absence, turnover, and dana on quality of output over a three year period were obtained from company records. The findings suggested that job redesign had some positive effects on work attitudes and behaviour. The work outcomes most strongly associated with job redesign are significantly higher job satisfaction (especially satisfaction with the work itself) , and lowe absenteeism due to sickness among the employees who worked on "new" lines. Turnover rate was also lower. However, this difference was not significant. The relationship between job redesign and quality of output proved to be more complex. Workers with redesigned jobs accounted for more errors but less products rejected as waste.


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Want to see if your campus has a campaign or find other divestment campaigns near you? This live map shows which colleges are and have been part of the movement!
How to Use this Map
Click the icon in the upper left-hand corner to open or collapse the legend, which shows the various categories.
Each category is shown as a layer, which can be checked or unchecked to be visible or not.
Click the gray arrow next to each category to see all the campuses in that category.
You can view the full map by clicking the icon in the upper right-hand corner. The full map allows you to search by name of school.
Fully divested - "Fully divested" means these campuses have committed to divest from all (or the Carbon Tracker 200) fossil fuel companies including oil, coal, gas. This includes campuses that have divested only their direct investments.
Partially divested - "Partially divested" means these campuses have committed to divest from some fossil fuel companies, such as only coal, tar sands, or certain fossil fuel companies.
Active - started 2017 or later - Campus with a currently active divestment campaign that was first founded in 2017 or later.
Active - started before 2017 - Campus with a currently active divestment campaign that was first founded before 2017.
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Active prison divestment campaign - Campus with a currently active prison divestment campaign.
The data for this map came from Enlace, who organizes and support campus prison divestment campaigns in addition to other anti-incarceration and immigrant justice work. For the full map, go to Enlace's National Prison Divestment Map.
(Map is still in progress) Reinvestment asks - Campaigns that have incorporated a reinvestment ask into their campaign.
If a campus is not pictured, it means that there has never been an active divestment campaign there.
This map was compiled by our staff, and it's possible that there are errors! Do you see a mistake or have a question about a campus on the map? Email Alyssa at alyssa[at]betterfutureproject.org.


During follow-up (1986-2012), 2,452 melanoma cases were pathologically confirmed, among those 196 deaths due to melanoma.
Increased number of nevi was associated with melanoma death; the hazard ratio (HR) for ≥3 nevi compared with no nevi was 2.49 for women and 3.97 for men.
Among melanoma cases, increased number of nevi was associated with melanoma death in men (≥3 nevi: HR=1.89), but not in women.
Similarly, number of nevi was positively associated with Breslow thickness in men only.
Li W-Q, Cho E, Weinstock MA, Li S, Stampfer MJ, Qureshi AA. Cutaneous nevi and risk of melanoma death in women and men: A prospective study. [Published online ahead of print January 10, 2019]. J Am Acad Dermatol. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2018.12.058.


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.source "AbsListView.java"

# interfaces
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# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Landroid/widget/AbsListView;
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.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x0
    name = "MzDelaySpringBack"
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    .prologue
    .line 8162
    iput-object p1, p0, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$MzDelaySpringBack;->this$0:Landroid/widget/AbsListView;

    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    return-void
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    .prologue
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    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$MzDelaySpringBack;->this$0:Landroid/widget/AbsListView;

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    iget-object v2, p0, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$MzDelaySpringBack;->this$0:Landroid/widget/AbsListView;

    invoke-direct {v1, v2}, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$FlingRunnable;-><init>(Landroid/widget/AbsListView;)V

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    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$MzDelaySpringBack;->this$0:Landroid/widget/AbsListView;

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    iget-object v0, p0, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$MzDelaySpringBack;->this$0:Landroid/widget/AbsListView;

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    invoke-virtual {v0}, Landroid/widget/AbsListView$FlingRunnable;->startSpringback()V

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