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Art Review: Cheryl Gross and Andrea McKenna at the Eonta Space
February 7, 2020 /in header, Journal Square, Latest News, Visual Arts /by Tris McCall
It's difficult to be a human being on a planet in ecological distress. It's far tougher to be anything else. Plants and animals have been hit hard by the Holocene—they've suffered from widespread habitat degradation and general disrespect from the dominant species (us). Some scientists argue that we humans have driven the biosphere into its sixth global extinction event. Others say we're merely cutting a swath of unprecedented devastation. All agree: It's bad out there.
Exterior conditions eventually seep into our interior worlds. Most thoughtful human beings are haunted by what we're doing and how we're living, and artists, for whom sensitivity is part of the calling, are particularly susceptible to guilt feelings. Yet expressing those reservations about our poor stewardship of the planet is a challenge. If an artist's commentary is too subtle, she risks soft-pedaling something that demands immediate action. If her commentary is too blatant, she risks coming off as a scold.
An existential crisis requires an aesthetic response more forceful than the creeping unease present in many modern gallery shows. In a moment as fraught as the one we inhabit, we shouldn't be put off by a firm guiding hand or even a wagging finger. "Commit to Memory: The Precipice of Extinction," an arresting two-artist show that opens at Eonta Space (34 DeKalb Ave., eontaspacenj.com) at 6 p.m. tonight and runs through the end of March, makes a passionate case for the animals. It can be blunt. At times, it's downright angry. But it's never less than articulate, and if it prompts viewers to chuck fewer bottles into the ocean, it's wall space well used.
Not that all of it is on the walls. Some of the pieces in the show hang on a gauzy black curtain—a veil, really—that cuts Eonta Space in half. The rest of the gallery is inhabited by Cheryl Gross's creatures drawn on paper in bright, lurid colors. Almost all of them are single images of animals that are either extinct or endangered. A few of these tributes to the beasts in the crosshairs have been framed. Others feel like they were torn from the sketchbook and hung in the raw, which imparts some added urgency to a show that already rings like an alarm clock. Some of this work was indeed recently completed: A multi-panel image of an owl, its white wings fluttering across a hot yellow background, bears a 2020 date. Gross is feeling the press of time. She expects you to feel it, too.
Those familiar with the artist might remember prior work that possessed the fantastic quality of storybook illustrations. These drawings aren't dissimilar: Her animals are patchworks of colors and textures, and the scenes they inhabit often contain splatters of ink, frantic crosshatches, waves and dots that reveal a world untethered and in motion. Yet the whimsy associated with Gross's prior pictures isn't always present. Instead, there's peril, and unwelcome restraint—frogs hemmed in by black lines that bunch and scratch like barbed wire, red ink that drips suggestively over the determined face of a tortoise, a penguin with a bullseye in its belly. A flying squirrel, soaring from a blue sky into a nebulous field of gray, appears to be coming apart. Others blend in as best as they can, but camouflage isn't easy to find. Many of the animals bump against the limits of the page, their presence too large for the paper to contain—goldfish that have outgrown their tiny bowls to which they've been consigned by humans. The message is clear: There's nowhere to hide.
To her credit, Gross resists the urge to anthropomorphize her beasts. She's preserved their alterity and with it their dignity. The artist demands that the viewer confront these animals in all their animality and see them as creatures with the same right to inhabit the planet that humans have. The violence of habitat loss is not always left implicit. One fish is trapped in a bottle like a mariner's model of a ship, while another confronts a row of plastic containers (and another blood-red splatter) with a look of extreme agitation. This sort of literalism would swamp an artist with lesser skills. But her experience handling fantasy material helps her out—she's able to draw an allegory with a point so fine that you don't mind cutting your fingers on it.
Gross supplements the drawings with a fifteen-minute animated film that features some of the same characters you'll recognize from the walls. That penguin, for instance, has a starring role, although notably she's given a near-human personality and a near-human set of concerns. This elicits sympathy for the character, but it doesn't address the viewer with the same straightforward, impersonal honestly that the drawings do.
"Undercurrent" by Andrea McKenna. Photo courtesy Eonta Space
A better counterpoint to Gross's images of animals is provided by a series of devastated paintings by Andrea McKenna, who is also the curator of the gallery at Art House Productions. These hang like scrolls from rough wooden rods affixed to both sides of the black curtain in the middle of the gallery. Each image is of a single spectral human figure whose face and body is dissolving into the gloom that surrounds her. Some of the paintings are so distressed that they're practically translucent—like a threadbare coat that's no longer up to the task of stopping the wind. Gross's color palette runs marvelously, unreasonably hot; McKenna works in steel gray, rust red, and institution blue. Gross's work speaks of a fiery, vivid present where the animals are in peril. McKenna's paintings whisper of a cold future after the animals are gone.
Both artists do have their antecedents in the canon. McKenna's images, for instance, echo the modern dislocation and emotional fraying that Francis Bacon captures in his canvases. Nevertheless, their styles remind me more of pop-album art than museum art, and as a huge appreciator of record sleeves and covers, I don't mean that as an insult. McKenna's scraped and slathered paint and ghostly figures are evocative of industrial music and the art that surrounds it—images from the catalog of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, and similar groups. Likewise, the furiously colored animals in Gross's drawings bear more than a passing resemblance to the menagerie of Roger Dean, the imaginary-landscape artist who designed the covers to many of the classic Yes sets of the 1970s. Yes was one of the first rock groups to take environmental threats seriously, and Dean's images, fragile and fantastic as they are, are visual analogues of lyrics about a world spiraling close to the edge. Yes's message was timely then, just as Eonta Space's message is timely now. But eventually, time runs out.
"Commit to Memory" series by Cheryl Gross. Photo courtesy Eonta Space
Commit to Memory: On the Precipice of Extinction
Eonta Space (www.eontaspacenj.com)
34 DeKalb Ave.
February 7 — March 31
Artist Reception Weekend Hours: Friday 6-10 p.m., Saturday 4-8 p.m., Sunday 2-6 p.m.
Header: "Commit to Memory" series by Cheryl Gross. Photo by Tris McCall
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Mayor Steven Fulop and the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation (JCEDC) have launched the latest round of emergency funding to provide over $2.5 million in direct aid and support to Jersey City's neediest residents, regardless of immigration status. The city will partner with York Street, Women Rising, United Way, and Puertorriqueños Asociados for Community Organization.
Mayor Steven Fulop is joining forces with Uber to announce a new agreement that will expand residents' access to COVID-19 vaccinations with free Uber rides to and from Jersey City vaccination sites. Phase 1B includes essential frontline workers and seniors 75 years old and over.
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Did not know about this! And i wish i still had not! Sounds like it could be as bad as the new The Brave from a few years back..
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I'm not sure if this is new or not but it might make a small difference that the amount someone can donate is restricted to $5, 10, 20, or $50. It's a bit of a jump from 20 to 50. If there was a way to put in your own amount, then you might get a few more bucks here or there. For example, someone might want to donate $30 but can't afford the $50 so they settle for giving you $20. Just a thought.
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Yup. But there's enough talent in TMF that the next album could turn that around.
It really is a hard one. I guess in the "pure" sense of D2, you'd have to go with Ted. Either one would be great. Perhaps some sort of Allen/Lande concept album type project?
It would be Ted for me. Paul is great of course, I just prefer Ted.
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Professor Libby Anker's research and teaching interests are at the intersection of political theory, critical theory, cultural analysis, and media studies. Prof. Anker received her PhD in Political Theory from UC Berkeley, where she also received a Designated Emphasis in Film Studies. She has held research fellowships at Brown University's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and UC Berkeley's Charles Travers Fellowship in Ethics and Politics. Her research has also been supported by multiple faculty grants from The George Washington University.
Professor Anker is associate editor for the journals Contemporary Political Theory and Politics and Gender. She serves on the editorial boards of American Political Science Review and Theory & Event. She was past chair of the governing council for the Association of Political Theory and past co-chair of the Foundations of Political Thought section of the APSA.
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Professor Anker's book Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom (Duke, 2014) examines the role of melodrama in US politics. Melodrama is a powerful political discourse that intensifies suffering and galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Orgies of Feeling reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, melodrama animates desires for unconstrained freedom in devitalized citizens. Orgies of Feeling was a finalist for the 2015 Romero Prize for the Best First Book in American Studies, awarded annually by the American Studies Association.
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"Left Melodrama"Contemporary Political Theory 11.2 (May 2012): 130–152.
"Villains, Victims and Heroes: Melodrama, Media and 9/11." Journal of Communication. 55:1 (March 2005): 22-37.
"The Communist Manifesto in an Era of Late-Capital: Melodrama and Melancholia" The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto eds. Terrell Carver and James Farr. (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
"The Limits of Neoliberalism: The Wire and Market Rationality" Everything is Connected: The Politics of HBO's "The Wire" eds. Shirin Deylami and Jonathan Hovercraft. (Routledge, 2014).
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California Drought: Parts of Central Valley…
California Drought: Parts of Central Valley sinking 2 inches a month
By Lisa M. Krieger | lkrieger@bayareanewsgroup.com |
PUBLISHED: August 20, 2015 at 12:49 a.m. | UPDATED: July 28, 2018 at 5:23 a.m.
Parts of the great San Joaquin Valley are sinking almost 2 inches every month, as the state's subterranean water supply is being drained to record lows by farms and towns coping with the devastating drought.
On Wednesday, the most comprehensive study yet of the problem revealed the startling pace and extent of the damage: NASA satellites found the ground subsiding almost everywhere in the 140-mile stretch between Modesto and Tulare, with some of the worst sinking near the town of Corcoran, dropping 13 inches, and El Nido, 10 inches, over a six-month period through early this year.
Even worse, the sinking is threatening the stability of the California Aqueduct, as satellite images show a bowl of land between Huron and Kettleman City plunged about 14 inches less than half a mile from the state's great canal.
"We are pumping more than we are recharging," Mark Cowin, California Department of Water Resources director, lamented in a Wednesday news briefing to release data collected for the state by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He urged regulation of new wells, saying: "We don't believe we can sustain this type of pumping."
Another report released Wednesday warned of the drought's calamitous impact if California's historic dryspell continues for another two to three years.
Rural low-income communities, which rely on shallow wells for their water supply, and the environment will suffer the most acute affects, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California study. As many as 18 species of native fish, including salmon, could go extinct, the study found. It also warned of deaths among water birds that use the Pacific Flyway.
In contrast, cities are likely to avoid extreme scarcity, because they've invested heavily in conservation, expanded storage, recycled wastewater and other sources, according to the institute's report.
But the crisis is already well underway in California's agriculture-rich Central Valley: The intense pumping has left groundwater levels at record lows — up to 100 feet lower than previous records, according to Cowin.
The damage is mounting: Roads have cracked, some pipelines have been exhumed, and the slope of the land is altered, changing drainage patterns, said Jeanine Jones, the department's deputy drought manager and interstate resources manager.
Along the California Aqueduct, the canal lining has been raised in multiple locations over the years in order to preserve flow.
And the damage to the earth may not be reversible: Even when rains resume, the water cannot expand the underground deep layers of clay, sand and gravel that store the state's great freshwater aquifers. When pumped too dry, they collapse, stacking like pancakes.
NASA's satellites can map surface deformations of a fraction of an inch over large areas — making it possible to monitor groundwater and subsidence as never before. The study ended last winter, so does not reflect any additional subsidence caused by summer pumping.
Decades ago, overpumping sunk half of the entire San Joaquin Valley, in one area as much as 28 feet. The subsidence largely stopped when the state and federal governments built reservoirs that delivered water to agriculture.
But with little rain and reduced flow from reservoirs, farmers are turning to aquifers to support their crops. The Central Valley, home to the world's largest swath of ultra-fertile Class 1 soil, is the backbone of California's $36.9 billion a year, high-tech agricultural industry.
Some of the areas of greatest subsidence are where agriculture has shifted from grazing and row crops to more intensive cultivation of orchards, such as almonds and grapes, that command a higher profit but demand water to survive year-round. Domestic wells are also failing, because they are shallow and subsidence causes casings to break. In Tulare County, more than 1,500 domestic wells have failed in the past year and a half, and about 1,000 households depend on the county to provide bottled drinking water.
Modesto farmer Paul Wenger blamed the loss of delivered "surface water" from reservoirs for the crisis. Because of the drought, less water is made available to farmers — and more is devoted to fish in the rivers, he said. In 2014, Central Valley farms lost roughly a third of normal surface water supplies, or 6.5 million acre-feet. In 2015, the deficit may rise to 8.7 million acre feet.
Even conservation has unintended effects — drip irrigation, unlike traditional flooding of fields, sends less water back into the ground, he said.
"Farmers have known for a long time about groundwater and subsidence," said Wenger, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation. "But when I throw you a lifeline, you'll grab it. You take what you can't get anywhere else. Farmers are trying to pay bills. They'll continue to access the only water they have, which is groundwater."
Last year, the state created a framework to regulate groundwater — the first time in state history — but it won't be fully implemented until 2020. And then it will take a decade or two for water levels to rebound, Cowin said.
He urged counties to follow the example of Glenn County, which on Tuesday night issued a six-month moratorium on permits for new wells.
"The most important thing that can happen is for counties to pass or strengthen ordinances that limit over-pumping," he said. "It will take that kind of action to have any real effect."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098. Follow her at www.facebook.com/LisaMKrieger and Twitter.com/lisamkrieger.
The report, Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California, prepared for the Department of Water Resources by researchers at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is available here: http://water.ca.gov/waterconditions/index.cfm
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Optic Nerve (CN II)
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Abducens Nerve (CN VI)
Facial Nerve (CN VII)
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1 Spinal Nerves
2 Branches of the Cervical Plexus
2.1 Muscular Branches
2.2 Sensory Branches
3 Clinical Relevance – Cervical Plexus Block
The cervical plexus is a network of nerve fibres that supplies innervation to some of the structures in the neck and trunk.
It is located in the posterior triangle of the neck, halfway up the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and within the prevertebral layer of cervical fascia. The plexus is formed by the anterior rami (divisions) of cervical spinal nerves C1-C4.
In this article, we shall look at the anatomy of the cervical plexus – its branches, functions and clinical correlations.
Spinal Nerves
The spinal nerves C1 – C4 form the basis of the cervical plexus.
At each vertebral level, paired spinal nerves leave the spinal cord via the intervertebral foramina of the vertebral column.
Each nerve then divides into anterior and posterior nerve fibres. The cervical plexus begins as the anterior fibres of the spinal nerves C1, C2, C3 and C4.
These fibres combine with each other to form the branches of the cervical plexus.
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Fig 1.0 – The spinal cord outflow at each vertebral level.
Branches of the Cervical Plexus
The cervical plexus gives rise to numerous branches which supply structures in the head and neck. They can broadly be divided into two groups – muscular branches and sensory branches.
We shall now examine these branches in more detail.
Muscular Branches
The muscular branches of the cervical plexus are located deep to the sensory branches. They supply some of the muscles of the neck, back and the diaphragm.
After arising from the cervical plexus, the muscular branches tend to travel initially in an anteromedial direction. This is in contrast to the cutaneous branches, which travel posteriorly.
The phrenic nerve arises from the anterior rami of C3-C5. It provides motor innervation to the diaphragm.
After arising from the cervical plexus, the nerve travels down the surface of the anterior scalene muscle and enters the thorax. In the thoracic cavity, the nerve descends anteriorly to the root of the lung to reach the diaphragm.
A good memory aid for the roots of the phrenic nerve is C3,4,5 keeps the diaphragm alive.
Nerves to Geniohyoid and Thyrohyroid
The C1 spinal nerve gives rise to nerves to the geniohyoid (moves the hyoid bone anteriorly and upwards, expanding the airway) and the thyrohyoid (which depresses the hyoid bone and elevates the larynx).
These nerves travel with the hypoglossal nerve to reach their respective muscles.
The ansa cervicalis is a loop of nerves, formed by nerve roots C1-C3. It gives off four muscular branches:
Superior belly of the omohyoid muscle
Inferior belly of omohyoid muscle
Sternohyoid
Sternothyroid
These muscles (the infrahyoids) act to depress the hyoid bone; an important function for swallowing and speech.
Other Muscular Branches
Several other minor branches arise from the nerve roots to supply muscles of the neck and back:
C1-C2: Rectus capitis anterior and lateralis
C1-C3: Longus capitis
C2-C3: Prevertebral muscles and sternocleidomastoid
C3-C4: Levator scapulae, trapezius and scalenus medius
The middle and anterior scalenus muscles also receive innervation directly from the cervical plexus.
Fig 1.1 – The branches of the cervical plexus. The smaller branches have been removed for simplicity.
Sensory Branches
The cutaneous branches of the cervical plexus supply the skin of the neck, upper thorax, scalp and ear. These nerves all enter the skin at the middle of the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid. This area is known as the nerve point of the neck (Erb's point), and is utilised when performing a cervical plexus nerve block.
Greater Auricular Nerve
The greater auricular nerve is formed by fibres from C2 and C3 roots. It provides sensation to the external ear and the skin over the parotid gland. It is the largest ascending branch of the plexus.
The nerve also communicates with the auricular branch of the vagus nerve and the posterior auricular branch of the facial nerve (which innervates some small muscles around the ear).
Transverse Cervical Nerve
The transverse cervical nerve is also formed by fibres from C2 and C3. It curves around the posterior aspect of the sternocleidomastoid, and supplies sensation to the anterior neck. The nerve then pierces the deep cervical fascia and then gives branches that pass superiorly and inferiorly to supply the anterolateral skin of the neck and upper sternum.
Lesser Occipital Nerve
The lesser occipital nerve is derived from the C2 root, with a contribution from C3 in some individuals. It supplies cutaneous sensation to the posterosuperior scalp, and commonly communicates with the posterior branch of the greater auricular nerve.
After its formation, the nerve curves around the accessory nerve, and passes superiorly, close to the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid.
Supraclavicular Nerves
The supraclavicular nerves are a group of nerves formed from the C3 and C4 roots.
They arise from the behind the posterior border of sternocleidomastoid, and provide sensation to the skin overlying the supraclavicular fossa and upper thoracic region and sternoclavicular joint.
Clinical Relevance – Cervical Plexus Block
A cervical plexus block is used to provide regional anaesthesia, usually for surgery in the neck region – such as carotid endarterectomy, thyroidectomy and cervical lymph node excision.
The anaesthetist inserts the needle containing the local anaesthetic, midway up the posterior border of the sternocleidomastoid (the nerve point of the neck). They then proceed to inject three times in a fan like fashion, with the needle pointing cranially, caudally and then anteriorly.
Note: as this procedure can also affect the phrenic nerve, it is usually not performed on those with co-existing cardiac or respiratory disease.
Fig 1.1 – The nerve point of the neck, where many cutaneous branches emerge.
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Emotion [electronic resource] : new psychosocial perspectives /
edited by Shelley Day-Sclater ... [et al.].
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
xi, 263 p. ; 23 cm.
Palgrave Social Sciences Collection
Emotions--Psychological aspects.
Emotions--Social aspects.
Sclater, Shelley Day.
Emotion [electronic resource] : new psychosocial perspectives / edited by Shelley Day-Sclater ... [et al.].
Licensed for access by U. of T. users.
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PART I: A Psychosocial Approach to Emotion: The Missing Dimension: Emotions in the Social Sciences / Michael Rustin -- Representation, Affect and the Theory of the Subject / Anthony Elliott -- Using Winnicott / Juliet Mitchell. PART II: Emotions in the Public Sphere: Explosive Humiliation and News Media / BarryRichards -- 'As if' Intimacy? Mediated Persona, Politics and Gender / Jessica Evans -- Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK / Candida Yates -- 'Count the Beats of Your Heart not the Fingers on Your Hand': the Emotionalisation of Promotional Culture / Helen Powel. PART III: Emotions in the 'Private' Sphere; Thinking Psychosocially about Difference: Ethnicity, Community and Emotion / Simon Clarke -- Panic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency / Wendy Hollway and Tony Jefferson -- Separation and Changing Identity in Becoming a Mother / Cathy Urwin --- What is this Thing Called Love? Narratives from Two Generations / Joanne Brown -- PART IV: Practices, Interventions and Therapies: 'Be quiet and listen': Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality / Andrew Cooper -- Emotions and Contemporary Developments in Criminology / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Emotional Literacy in Schools: A Psychosocial Perspective / Heather Price -- -- A Psychosocial Understanding of Personality Disorder: The Historical Problem of Moral Insanity / David W. Jones -- Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture / Nicola Diamond -- Conclusions: Psychosocial Studies-A Therapeutic Project? / Barry Richards ... [et al.].
"This book offers a uniquely psychosocial take on emotion, exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood. The book draws on sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalysis"--Provided by publisher.
Shelly Day Sclater is a freelance writer in the UK. Her areas of interest include psychosocial aspects of families and relationships, sociolegal studies of families, gender, self and identity, reproduction, the body, autonomy and narrative methodologies. David W. Jones is Principal Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London, UK. His Previous publications include Myths, Madness and the Family and Understanding Criminal Behaviour: Psychosocial Approaches to Criminality. Heather Price is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. She also teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, UK. Her current research interests are in Childhood Studies and include the emotional contexts of learning in the education system, the emotional labour of teaching practitioners, and research and teaching informed by psychoanalysis. Candida Yates is Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies at the University of East London, UK. She also teaches at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust, UK. Her research combines cultural, social and psychoanalytic theory to explore issues of gender, consumption, affect and cultural change. She is author of Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema and Culture and the Unconscious.
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This collection provides a psychosocial approach to emotion, exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood, and including contributors from sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalytical studies.
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A unique psychosocial examination of emotions and the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena, drawing on experts from sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies and psychoanalysis
A uniquely psychosocial take on emotion, this collection of specially commissioned essays from leading scholars draws on sociology, psychology, media and cultural studies, and psychoanalysis to explore the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena. Topics covered include war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy, political speeches and motherhood. The book presents a new interdisciplinary perspective on emotion based on pioneering research and original theory, with an integrative approach, linking theory, method and practice. It is driven not by old disciplinary boundaries but by a concern to offer new perspectives on emotion that capture both the subjective and the objective dimensions of human experience. Authoritative and scholarly, the book is written in an engaging way making it accessible to a diverse range of readers. A substantive Introduction by the Editors places the essays in context and guides the reader to the main themes and issues discussed by each contributor. The book is crucial reading for those who want to learn or to teach psychosocially.
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This book offers a uniquely psychosocial take on emotion, exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood. The book draws on sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalysis.
This book& offers a uniquely psychosocial take on emotion,& exploring the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena as diverse as war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy and motherhood. The& book draws on& sociology, psychology, cultural and media studies, and psychoanalysis.
This collection of specially commissioned essays from leading scholars draws on sociology, psychology, psychoanalysis, media and cultural studies to explore the emotional undercurrents of everyday phenomena. The book presents a new interdisciplinary psychosocial perspective on emotion, based on pioneering research and original theory, that integrates theory, method and practice. There are chapters on war reporting, popular culture, advertising, education, criminality, public policy, political speeches and motherhood.
Acknowledgements p. vii
Notes on Contributors p. viii
Introducing Psychosocial Studies of Emotion p. 1
A Psychosocial Approach to Emotion
The Missing Dimension: Emotions in the Social Sciences p. 19
Representation, Affect and the Theory of the Subject p. 36
Using Winnicott p. 46
Emotions in the Public Sphere
Explosive Humiliation and News Media p. 59
'As ifÆ Intimacy? Mediated Persona, Politics and Gender p. 72
Masculinity, Flirtation and Political Communication in the UK p. 85
'Count the Beats of Your Heart not the Fingers on Your Hand': The Emotionalisation of Promotional Culture p. 97
Emotions in the 'Private' Sphere
Thinking Psychosocially About Difference: Ethnicity, Community and Emotion p. 111
Panic and Perjury: A Psychosocial Exploration of Agency p. 123
Separation and Changing Identity in Becoming a Mother p. 139
What Is This Thing Called Love? Narratives from Two Generations p. 153
Practices, Interventions and Therapies
'Be Quiet and Listen': Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality p. 169
Emotions and Contemporary Developments in Criminology p. 183
Emotional Literacy in Schools: A Psychosocial Perspective p. 197
A Psychosocial Understanding of Personality Disorder: The Historical Problem of Moral Insanity p. 212
Between the Body and Social Trauma: Working with the Aftermath of Torture p. 227
Conclusions: Psychosocial Studies - A Therapeutic Project? p. 242
Index p. 255
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Celebrating Indian Culture
Shambhavi International School of Kathak
Tags: #PurdueFortWayne, #ShrutiFortWayne
By Heather Herron
Watching the performers from the Shambhavi International School of Kathak is like watching colors come to life in a rhythmic, perfectly timed, powerful
The costumes, the choreography, and the music are weaved together to tell a story by using unique hand movements, footwork, and facial expressions. It's a story that will be told during a show at Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m.
Horizons…Kathak and Beyond will be performed in Fort Wayne for the first time ever.
"They usually only come to metro areas in the United States, but we are fortunate enough to be able to bring them here," explained Sudhakar Krishnan. He's part of the Shruti Fort Wayne Indian Cultural Society, which was instrumental in bringing the troupe all the way from India.
Preeti Jain also belongs to Shruti and says she and other members feel strongly that part of their mission is to share different cultures, promote diversity, and highlight fine arts within the community.
The society is part of the Sangam Charitable Foundation which has been around for many years, but recently became more active. They're all volunteers who have a common desire to serve.
"I'm truly honored to be living in this city that celebrates so much culture and recognition of the performing arts," Jain said.
"Our goal was to introduce it to the community," said Shruti president Vijay Chilakamarri. "We all grew up with this and we knew where to find these concerts. But they were only happening in bigger cities. We wanted to introduce it to people in smaller cities who otherwise wouldn't have a chance to see these shows — especially the students."
This is the seventh season for the partnership between Purdue Fort Wayne and Shruti. The series initially focused on instrumental shows, but soon featured dancers.
"This program, we actually bring in instrumental music in the spring and a dance program in the fall," Chilakamarri said. "That was not the intention when we started, but it evolved. There was a performance my daughter was in, and the chancellor and dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts saw my daughter's group dance and wanted to see more. The first program was well-appreciated, so we started doing more."
"It's an exhilarating evening of dance," said John O'Connell, the Dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue Fort Wayne. "There are just beautiful costumes and they change them often during the show. There is lots of foot tapping, so there are microphones at the front of the stage to enhance that. They wear cymbals on their ankles and they have specific hand gestures. These performers are classically trained for many years because it's very intricate work."
"The costumes are very bright and they're coordinated," Krishnan said. "Each dance has a different significance, so they change their costumes accordingly."
"This type of dance is expressed with vivid emotions through the dancers' eyes, intricate movements with their entire body and astonishing feet," Jain said.
Bringing dance troupes like this to the Purdue Fort Wayne campus can be challenging. There can be language barriers and, of course, lots of travel for members of the Shambhavi School of Dance. But organizers say dealing with a few logistical issues is worth it. Not only does it offer international influence, but it also helps build Fort Wayne's reputation as a destination city for the arts.
"This is meant to be introduced to the whole community, not just for the Indian community," Krishnan said. "There are so many regions, and they each have their own dance styles and music styles. They all have their own take. We just needed to find all of those different people who were willing to come to Fort Wayne."
"We're delighted to have them here," O'Connell said. "It's so unique and interesting. And it's wonderful that organizers really want anyone and everyone to be able to experience them, so they keep the cost low."
Corporate donors and local arts organizations underwrite the cost of the show, so that it's accessible to everyone. Students with a current school ID get in free. It's just $10 for everyone else.
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Samsung Galaxy S III official: 4.8-inch 720p Super AMOLED PenTile display, 1.4GHz quad-core Exynos
No surprises here, the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone is official. The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich device will now happily take the throne as Samsung's flagship smartphone and it has been donned with some amazing hardware and software features.
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The Galaxy S III will be offered in three storage capacities, 16, 32GB and 64GB and the ability to add more via the microSD card slot. It has 8-megapixel rear and 1.9-megapixel front-facing cameras with the a 990ms start-up time (they could have just said 1 second), 3.3 frames-per-second burst shooting ability and will also happily pick the best shot out of eight for you.
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News of Project Mayhem, as it's called, broke a few weeks ago when the first images of a Nokia N9 running Android ICS appeared, but now a developer has released the first Alpha version of the port, which anyone can download and try-out — at their own risk of course. The port even allows Nokia N9 owners to dual-boot between MeeGo and Android 4.0.3.
Nexus S to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update soon, for real this time
One of the allures of getting one of Google's developer-friendly Nexus Android devices is that you have bigger chances in getting timely official updates when new major Android versions hit. Well, the Nexus S and Nexus S 4G started receiving the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) update only a month after Google released the latest and greatest version of Android, however the update was soon pulled with Google citing battery and Wi-Fi issues related to the update.
HTC Sensation and Sensation XE receiving Android 4.0 and Sense 3.6 update in Europe, here's how to update yours now
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Limited numbers of HTC Sensation and Sensation XE owners in Europe have been receiving over-the-air (OTA) updates to Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and Sense 3.6. HTC had eluded in a previous statement that the Sensation and Sensation XE would be getting an early taste of Ice Cream Sandwich in Europe with entire line (including the Sensation 4G and Sensation XL) to be updated by end of March.
The update comes as a hefty 200MB+ download and seems to be rolling out to individual countries in stages and specifically to unlocked (i.e. without carrier branding) handsets. If you have an unlocked European handset and are anxious for the update, you can download the leaked HTC RUU 3.30.401.101 and 3.30.401.1 on a Windows computer to manually update either handset.
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The HTC One X a.k.a. Endeavor a.k.a. Edge is the company's worst kept secret. We first heard of the quad-core Tegra 3 smartphone back in November last year and information has been trickling in since then. We already knew that the HTC Endeavor would be sporting a large 4.7-inch optically laminated display with a 720p resolution, but now we some additional information. Namely that it will utilize a Super LCD instead of an AMOLED panel. HTC has been going with S-LCD displays for its most recent flagship smartphones, with both the Sensation and the Rezound featuring the technology.
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HTC has already promised March 2012 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) updates for its Sensation series smartphones worldwide, but some lucky users might be getting an early taste very soon. The company just sent us word that it will be updating a limited number of Sensation and Sensation XE handsets in Europe to the latest version of Android and its own Sense 4.0 UI.
HTC is calling it an "early access preview" so that a few hundred users can play around with the new software and hopefully share the experience with the rest of the Android community. HTC will be doing similar sort of previews with other handsets in the future. As a reminder, the HTC Sensation, Sensation 4G, Sensation XE and Sensation XL should all get Android ICS updates by the end of March.
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Google announces Chrome for Android beta browser
Google has just announced a mobile version of its Chrome browser. You will need a device running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to get the beta app. It does not replace the default Android browser but rather co-lives with it. We will be posting more info as we test the new browser.
Android 4.0.4 IMM30B update for LTE Verizon Galaxy Nexus leaks early, brings fixes
A lucky Verizon Galaxy Nexus (check out our in-depth review here) owner got an over-the-air (OTA) update notification for a brand new Android Ice Cream Sandwich build, version 4.0.4 IMM30B. We will some help from the forums over at Android Central he was able to pull the update from his device and then share it with the entire Android community.
As there is no official changelog, obviously, you'll have to rely on users' comment on what has been fixed/improved in this latest Android release. Discounting for any 'placebo effects', those who've updated are reporting UI responsiveness and speed improvements, better 4G/3G switching and improved signal strength among others.
Skinny HTC Ville stars in early hands-on video, shows-off Sense 4.0 skinned Android 4.0 (video)
The HTC Ville has been in the rumor mill since last November and it's only reasonable to expect that we will be seeing it at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in late February. Well, it seems the Android device was too anxious to hit the limelight and it has popped-up in an early hands-on video. Although it should be tramped in specs by the quad-core 4.7-inch 720p HTC Edge, it's definitely no slouch. The Ville is said to have a 4.3-inch 540×960 qHD screen, and run on a 1.5GHz dual-core processor.
CyanogenMod 9 Music app available as standalone application, Android 4.0 still needed
CyanogenMod's popularity lies in the fact that the ROM brings to Android a level of customization never seen before. The CyanogenMod team already let us know that they will be releasing individual parts of their upcoming Android Ice Cream Sandwich based CyanogenMod 9 ROM. First the CM9 launcher titled Trebuchet was made available as an APK file, and today you can download the CyanogenMod 9 Music app as a standalone application.
The Music app is extremely customizable; using a theme engine, designers can change every UI element in the app. If you'd rather have the familiar Android Ice Cream Sandwich look, you can download the 'Google Music' theme which is based on the latest version of the Google Music app. Within the application you can share what you are listening via social, set songs as ring tones, delete tracks and search. There is a drag-and-drop queue and playlist, a custom lockscreen, and shake and flip actions — you can pause your music by flipping the device face down, and you can customize the shake action to skip tracks for example. The app also comes with a number of custom widgets.
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Iconic Fort Worth Hamburger Joint Fred's Is Moving
Massive development off West 7th Street in recent years pushes out a piece of Fort Worth history
By Scott Gordon	• Published November 26, 2021 • Updated on November 26, 2021 at 10:40 pm
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After 42 years located off Fort Worth's West 7th Street, Fred's Texas Café is moving.
Long before West 7th was West 7th, long before all the trendy bars and nightspots replaced a mostly industrial neighborhood, there was Fred's.
Named after the dog of the original owners, Fred's has served its famous hamburgers and brews to countless customers.
"We cook with love," co-owner Quincy Wallace said. "That's why we've been here so long."
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Parking is cramped now, and the truth is this land on Currie Street has become too valuable. So the owners are making a business decision.
"It's for sale," Wallace said.
Wallace said he can't stop change. But he will miss this place.
"I'm glad for the developers but we're just an old hamburger joint," he said.
This old hamburger joint will close at the end of the year and will re-open at a new location.
Customers will miss the old place.
"I think I will miss that old Fort Worth energy," customer Laura Horton said.
Wallace understands – perhaps more than anyone.
He has been a part of it since soon after Fred's opened in 1978.
Wallace started eating here as a young boy -- his dad owned a cabinet shop next store -- and he worked in the kitchen before he became co-owner.
"The dishwasher was in the same spot when I learned to do dishes," he said. "I'm sad to move from here."
He said he'll literally take many of the memories with him to the new place, including an old pickup parked outside the restaurant.
"It's just the new Fort Worth is out there, and we're still the old Fort Worth," Wallace said.
The new Fred's will open in a few months in what was a steak restaurant at Highway 183 and West Camp Bowie Boulevard.


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Many years ago when I was attending grade school in Tehran, I had a friend whose mother was Polish. In the course of our friendship I heard stories about how, during World War II, many Polish refugees came to Iran.
My quest to visit Armenian communities took me to Athens, the venerable capital of Greece. As most people will agree, Greece is a heavenly place to visit with plenty to admire.
They say, "Every dark cloud carries a silver lining." The following story that I'm going to tell you, was the silver lining of a dark cloud.
Korioun Khatchadourian has been appointed as the new Managing Director of The Children of Armenia Fund.
Where do I begin the story of my return to Gyumri and how I started my research on the 1988 earthquake?
The city of Gyumri is known for its wealth of distinctive architectural style homes, mostly in the form of mansions, dating back to 1800s and which tell us about the aristocratic lifestyle of Gyumri's yesteryears.
As the 30th anniversary of 1988 earthquake of Gyumri was getting closer, a desire inside me awakened to do some research about it and meet people who were affected by it and to write.
If you've been following my trips, you may know that last year I had a chance to travel to Western Armenia. It was my first visit to our ancestral lands.


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Q: Asp:Label is not shown when visible is set to true? I have a simple web form which has a couple list boxes and a search button.  When the button is clicked, it returns a DataSet.  If the dataset contains records, I set the asp:label which is initially set to false to true, but this is not happening.  If the dataset has records and the visible property is set to true, the label still does not show up.
I have also tried putting the label and a couple other controls in an html table and setting a runat="server" attribute on the table and changing the visibility on that, but it does not show either.
Here is aspx code:

        <asp:Label ID="lblSortBy" runat="server" Text="Sort By:" Visible="false">
        </asp:Label>
        <asp:DropDownList
                        ID="ddlSortBy"
                        runat="server"
                        AutoPostBack="True"
                        OnSelectedIndexChanged="ddlSortBy_SelectedIndexChanged">
        <asp:ListItem Value="Gross">Gross</asp:ListItem>
        <asp:ListItem Value="Population">Population</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>

Here is simplified code behind when a button is clicked:
public void GetData()
{
    DataView dv = GetReportData().DefaultView;

    if(dv.ToTable().Rows.Count > 0)
     {
        lblSortBy.Visible = true;
     }
     else
     {
        lblSortBy.Visible = false;
     }
  }

I have a couple Update Panels around some ListBoxes and a GridView, but not the Label and Dropdown.  Would this cause an issue?
I did a test, I set a label that was in an update panel to false if records were found and the label disappeared, so it is working if it is in an update panel.

A: If I'm not mistaken, your label should exist on an updatepanel, because as far as the static HTML page is concerned, the one and only time that your current label exists, it's set to be not visible.  You would have to reload the whole page to make it visible again.

A: If the button is inside an UpdatePanel, then the Table, Label, etc. also have to be inside an UpdatePanel to get updated. Otherwise only the contents of the UpdatePanel get updated when clicking the button (this is what's called partial page-rendering).
So if the button is in an UpdatePanel, you have two possibilities to solve the problem:

*

*put the table, Label, DropDownList etc. into the same UpdatePanel

*or put them in another UpdatePanel and set the UpdateMode of that property to Always, so that it gets updated, even if a Postback was initiated by a control within another UpdatePanel.

See this page in MSDN for details.

A: *

*You just need runat="server" on the label itself; though Visible should default to True.

*Make sure you add a ForeColor to avoid mixing it in w/ background.

*Debug to ensure your label has content and it's not in another control whose Visible=False.

A: I am assuming that you are gonna hide the ddl as well if there is no data. Have you tried putting a panel around both of them and setting its visibility to true
if you are returning rows and your button is in an updatepanel, then is your label and ddl in that updatepanel as well

A: If the table is changing visible and is the parent container of the label I don't believe it is necessary to change the label's visibility at all as it should always be set to visible.

A: thanks its really useful, put Lable in a update panel.

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The company, Pacific Mineral Developments Pty Ltd, is owned by Sam Catalano and his wife Dorothy.
Sam is an Innisfail man, born and bred, and is from a farming family. He has always had an involvement with sugar cane and cattle, and ventured briefly into the timber business. Sam has also spent some time working in the mining and quarrying industry, and set up his own quarry in the early 1980's.
He started noticing that crops in the paddocks around the quarry appeared to have less trouble with disease where there were stones lying about. He also noticed that the cattle preferred grazing near the quarry and drinking the water that was used to wash down the plant. When the Catalanos investigated, with the help of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), they discovered the increased mineral content in the soil and the water to be the reason.
This was followed by nearly 5 years of research, with CSIRO, looking at the results of mineral rock dust on the soil and on plants, and a product was formulated. Further experiments were done by specialist researchers and the Queensland University and James Cook University, which tested a variety of situations. This identified the need to produce a more consistant product.
The different stones contained mineral elements, and in differing quantities, which led to too much variation under test conditions. It was decided, therefore, to set up a plant to try and find a method of reducing this variation, and a pilot plant was established.
Since no similar plant existed anywhere, the Catalanos had to start everything from scratch. They designed their own equipment to handle the processes needed to produce a viable end product, and it took about twelve months to achieve this.
Sam Catalano started manufacturing the commercial product, Minplus, in July 1992, and started to sell locally and nationally. Today, he is in a position to export this proven and highly successful volcanic rock dust around the world.
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The year 1588 marked a turning point in England's national story. Victory over the Spanish Armada transformed the Britain into a seafaring nation; and sparked a myth that, one day, would become a reality – that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth and power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force, to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service and our economy; and how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity, and British democracy. R-issued in trade paperback format, Brian Lavery's narrative explores the navy's rise over four centuries; a key factor in propelling Britain to its status as the most powerful nation on earth, and assesses the turning point of Jutland and the First World War. He creates a compelling read that is every bit as engaging as the BBC TV series itself.
Over the last 150 years, gun designers have sought to transform warfare with artillery of superlative range and power, from William Armstrong's 19th-century 'monster guns' to the latest research into hypersonic electro-magnetic railguns. Taking a case study approach, Superguns explains the technology and role of the finest monster weapons of each era. It looks at the 1918 'Wilhelm Gun', designed to shell Paris from behind the German trenches; the World War II 'V-3' gun built to bombard London across the Channel; the Cold War atomic cannons of the US and Soviet Union; and the story of Dr Gerald Bull's HARP program and the Iraqi 'Supergun' he designed, for Saddam Hussein. Illustrated throughout, this is an authoritative history of the greatest and most ambitious artillery pieces of all time.
Dr Jeremy Brown, a veteran ER doctor, explores the troubling, terrifying, and complex history of the flu virus, from the surprising origins of the 1918 flu that killed millions, to vexing questions such as: are we prepared for the next epidemic, should you get a flu shot, and how close are we to finding a cure? While influenza is now often thought of as a mild disease, it kills thousands each year. Dr Jeremy Brown, currently Director of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health, expounds on the flu's deadly past to solve the mysteries that could protect us from the next outbreak. In Influenza, he talks with leading epidemiologists, policy makers, and the researcher who first sequenced the genetic building blocks of the virus to offer both a comprehensive history and a roadmap for understanding what's to come. Dr Brown digs into the discovery and resurrection of the flu virus in the victims of the 1918 epidemic exhumed from the tundra, as well as the bizarre remedies that once treated the disease, such as fatal doses of aspirin and blood-letting. Influenza also breaks down the current dialogue surrounding the disease, explaining the controversy over vaccinations, antiviral drugs such as Tamiflu, and the federal government's role in preparing for a pandemic. Dr Brown warns that many of the most vital questions about the flu virus continue to confound even the leading experts. Influenza is an enlightening and unnerving look at a shapeshifting deadly virus that has been around since long before people and will most likely be with us, for a long time to come.
Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has – unintentionally – caused racial offence or hurt. After, all, a racist is the worst thing a person can be, right? But these reactions only serve to silence people of colour, who cannot give honest feedback to 'liberal' white people, lest they provoke a dangerous emotional reaction. Robin DiAngelo coined the term 'White Fragility' in 2011 to describe this process and is here to show us how it serves to uphold the system of white supremacy. Using knowledge and insight gained over decades of running racial awareness workshops and working on this idea as a Professor of Whiteness Studies, she shows us how we can start having more honest conversations, listen to each other better and react to feedback with grace and humility. It is not enough to simply hold abstract progressive views and condemn the obvious racists on social media – change starts with us all at a practical, granular level, and it is time for all white people to take responsibility for relinquishing their own racial supremacy.
1983 was a supremely dangerous year – even more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the US, President Reagan massively increased defence spending, described the Soviet Union as an 'evil empire' and announced his 'Star Wars' programme, calling for a shield in space to defend the US from incoming missiles. Yuri Andropov, the paranoid Soviet leader, saw all this as signs of American aggression and convinced himself that the US really meant to attack the Soviet Union. He put the KGB on alert to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack. When a Soviet fighter jet shot down Korean Air Lines flight KAL 007 after straying off course over a sensitive Soviet military area, President Reagan described it as a 'terrorist act' and 'a crime against humanity'. The temperature was rising fast. Then at the height of the tension, NATO began a war game called Able Archer 83. In this exercise, NATO requested permission to use the codes to launch nuclear weapons. The nervous Soviets convinced themselves this was no exercise but the real thing. This is an extraordinary and largely unknown Cold War story of spies and double agents, of missiles being readied, of intelligence failures, misunderstandings and the panic of world leaders. With access to hundreds of extraordinary new documents just released in the US, Taylor Downing is able to tell for the first time the gripping but true story of how near the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983. 1983: The World at the Brink is a real-life thriller.
The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists, who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history. In Fall 1939, Richard Feynman, a brash and brilliant recent graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. The prim and proper Wheeler timed their interaction with a watch placed on the table. Feynman caught on, and for the next meeting brought his own cheap watch, set it on the table next to Wheeler's, and also began timing the chat. The two had a hearty laugh and a lifelong friendship was born. At first glance, they would seem an unlikely pair. Feynman was rough on the exterior, spoke in a working-class Queens' accent, and loved playing bongo drums, picking up hitchhikers, and exploring out-of-the way places. Wheeler was a family man, spoke softly and politely, dressed in suits, and had the manners of a minister. Yet, intellectually, their roles were reversed. Wheeler was a raging nonconformist, full of wild ideas about space, time, and the universe. Feynman was very cautious in his research, wanting to prove and confirm everything himself. Yet when Feynman saw merit in one of Wheeler's crazy ideas and found that it matched experimental data, their joint efforts paid off phenomenally. The brilliance and originality of each physicist stimulated the other's imagination, leading to a rethinking of the nature of time and reality that proved essential for late-20th century breakthroughs in particle physics. Instead of a linear flow, Feynman's concept of 'sum over histories' showed how the path a particle takes is a blend of all possible options that a particle could follow. Wheeler's attempts to remake particle physics from the ground up, spurred the now landmark idea of wormholes, and influenced his student Hugh Everett's conception of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics. The two thinkers pioneered the use of doodles and diagrams in explaining quantum interactions, giving birth to the now essential Feynman diagrams that show possible backward- and forward-in-time paths for particles. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. As The Quantum Labyrinth reveals – in a riveting read; together, Feynman and Wheeler made sure that quantum physics would never be the same again.
Democracies can die with a coup d'état – or they can die slowly. This happens most deceptively when in piecemeal fashion, with the election of an authoritarian leader, the abuse of governmental power and the complete repression of opposition. All three steps are being taken around the world and we must all understand how we can stop them. From the rule of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile to the quiet undermining of Turkey's constitutional system by President Recip Erdogan, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt draw insightful lessons from history to shine a light on regime breakdown across the 20th and 21st centuries. Based on years of research, they present a deep understanding of how and why democracies die; an alarming analysis of how democracy is being subverted today; and a guide for maintaining and repairing a threatened democracy, for governments, political parties and individuals. History doesn't repeat itself. But we can protect our democracy by learning its lessons, before it's too late.
A dazzling new history of the modern world, as told through the remarkable story of population change. Every phase since the advent of the industrial revolution – from the fate of the British Empire, to the global challenges from Germany, Japan and Russia, to America's emergence as a sole superpower, to the Arab Spring, to the long-term decline of economic growth that started with Japan and has now spread to Europe, to China's meteoric economy, to Brexit and the presidency of Donald Trump – can be explained better when we appreciate the meaning of demographic change across the world. The Human Tide is the first popular history book to redress the underestimated influence of population as a crucial factor in almost all of the major global shifts and events of the last two centuries – revealing how such events are connected by the invisible mutually catalysing forces of population. This highly original history offers a brilliant and simple unifying theory for our understanding the last two hundred years: the power of sheer numbers. An ambitious, original, magisterial history of modernity, it taps into prominent preoccupations of our day and will transform our perception of history for many years to come.
The gripping and definitive account of the Day of Infamy, the attack on Pearl Harbor that led to the United States' entry into the Second World War. On 7 December 1941, an armada of 354 Japanese warplanes launched a surprise attack on the United States, killing 2,403 people and forcing America's entry into the Second World War. With vivid prose and astonishing detail, Craig Nelson combines thrilling historical drama with individual concerns and experiences, following an ensemble of sailors, soldiers, pilots, diplomats, admirals, generals, the emperor, and the president. Unmatched in breadth and depth, Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness in a portrait of the terror, chaos, violence, and tragedy of the attack that would prove to be a turning point of the war.
If you follow the news, the 21st century doesn't seem to be going so well. From 9/11 to the Great Recession, the Syrian civil war, the Ebola epidemic, growing inequality, racial unrest, and bitterly contested elections, the world seems to be sinking into chaos and hatred. Moralising commentators tell us that the decline of religious belief and close-knit communities has left us spiritually adrift, without a grounding in moral values, so it's no wonder we're suffering through an epidemic of loneliness, unhappiness, and suicide. And then there are the futurologists who speculate on what will finish us off first: resource wars, nuclear annihilation, unstoppable climate change, or robots that steal our jobs, enslave us, and turn us into raw materials. But, as Steven Pinker argues in this landmark new book, we do not truly inhabit a dystopia of deprivation and violence: in fact, every global measure of human flourishing is on the rise. We're living longer, healthier, safer, and more affluent lives-not just in the West, but worldwide. Why? In Enlightenment Now, Pinker proposes that human progress is the gift of a coherent value system that many of us embrace without even knowing it. The values of the Enlightenment underlie all our modern institutions, and deserve credit for the stupendous progress we have made. The progress we have enjoyed is not, of course, an excuse for complacency: some of the challenges we face today are unprecedented in their complexity and scope. The way to deal with these challenges, Pinker argues, is to treat them as problems to solve, as we have solved other problems in our past. Putting the case for an Enlightenment newly recharged for the 21st century, Pinker shows how, by using our faculties of reason and sympathy to understand the world and to enhance human flourishing, we can tackle problems that inevitably come with being products of evolution in an entropic universe.
A ground-breaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity's greatest tragedy: concentration camps. For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. First used as battlefield strategy, camps have evolved with each passing decade, in the scope of their effects and the savage practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to reckon with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history tells us we have broken our own solemn promise of 'never again'. In this harrowing work based on archival records and interviews during travel to four continents, Andrea Pitzer reveals for the first time the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps. Beginning with 1890s Cuba, she pinpoints concentration camps around the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation, or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanising sites that have claimed the lives of millions. Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life, during the past century.
Conquer your phone addiction in just 30 days, and discover a happier, healthier and more fulfilled you. Is your phone the first thing you reach for when you wake up? And the last thing you see before you sleep? Do you find the hours slip away as you idly scroll through your social media timeline? In short, are you addicted to your phone? If so, How to Break Up with Your Phone is here to help. How to Break Up with Your Phone is a smart, practical and useful plan to help you conquer your mobile phone addiction in just 30 days – and take back your life in the process. Recent studies have shown that spending extended time on our phones affects our ability to form new memories, think deeply, focus and absorb information, and the hormones triggered every time we hear our phones buzz both add to our stress levels and are the hallmark signs of addiction. In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning science journalist Catherine Price explores the effects that our constant connectivity is having on our brains, bodies, relationships, and society at large and asks, how much time do you really want to spend on your phone? Over the course of 30 days, Catherine will guide you through an easy-to-follow plan that enables you to identify your goals, priorities and bad habits, tidy your apps, prune your email, and take time away. Lastly, you will create a new, healthier relationship with your phone and establish habits and routines to ensure this new relationship sticks. You don't have to give up your phone forever; instead you will be more mindful not only of how you use your phone, but also about how you choose to spend the precious moments of your life.
This is one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century. It is a first-hand account of a mission by an SAS soldier sent behind the Iron Curtain by MI6 to find someone who didn't necessarily want to be found and how, on a follow-up mission, he found himself manoeuvring against a mysterious KGB officer – one Major Vladimir Putin and a murder plot by Kremlin hardliners. If the plot had succeeded, it would have given the Russians the excuse they were looking for to roll out the tanks across East Germany, the Berlin Wall would not have fallen – and the map of Europe would look very different today. It tells of roof top chases, the interrogation of terrorists to gain vital information, a beautiful, East German female (who he suspected of being a Stasi spy), betrayal by people he trusted, an escape through forests pursued by enemy agents and ending in a climactic gun battle at Colditz castle, formerly used by the Soviets as a psychiatric hospital to detain dissidents. In James Bond novels, it is MI6 operators who carry out this type of work, but in reality – when facing a committed foe in an isolated and deadly environment – the intelligence agencies call upon members of the British Special Forces. This is the first insider account of how UK operators working undercover, do what needs to be done in order to protect the UK's interests abroad – revealing their hidden hand in world events.
Zombieism isn't just the stuff of movies and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It's real, and it's happening in the world around us, from wasps and worms to dogs and moose – and even humans. In Plight of the Living Dead, science journalist Matt Simon documents his journey through the bizarre evolutionary history of mind control. Along the way, he visits a lab where scientists infect ants with zombifying fungi, joins the search for kamikaze crickets in the hills of New Mexico, and travels to Israel to meet the wasp that stings cockroaches in the brain, before leading them to their doom. Nothing Hollywood dreams up can match the brilliant, horrific zombies that natural selection has produced time and time again. Plight of the Living Dead is a surreal dive into a world that would be totally unbelievable; if very smart scientists didn't happen to be proving it's real, and most troublingly – or maybe intriguingly – of all: how even we humans are affected.
We've all asked ourselves the question. It's impossible to look up at the stars and not think about it: Are we alone in the universe? Books, movies and television shows proliferate that attempt to answer this question and explore it. In Out There, Space.com senior writer Dr Michael Wall treats that question as merely the beginning, touching off a wild ride of exploration into the final frontier. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which, top NASA officials told Wall, is only drawing closer). What would the first aliens we meet look like? Would they be little green men or mere microbes? Would they be found on a planet in our own solar system or orbiting a star far, far away? Would they intend to harm us, and if so, how might they do it? And might they already have visited? Out There is arranged in a simple question-and-answer format. The answers are delivered in Dr Wall's informal but informative style, which mixes in a healthy dose of humour and pop culture to make big ideas easier to swallow. Dr Wall covers questions far beyond alien life, venturing into astronomy, physics, and the practical realities of what long-term life might be like for we mere humans in outer space, such as the idea of lunar colonies, and even economic implications. Readers won't just be hearing from Dr Wall. As a long-time science journalist – whose work at Space.com is syndicated in outlets from Scientific American to Fox News – he has assembled an impressive array of contacts to provide expert commentary. From a former NASA chief scientist to leading science educators like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye to would-be space traveller Elon Musk, Dr Wall shares the insights of some of the leading lights in space exploration today; and shows how the next space age might be brighter than ever. In the vein of Randall Munroe's What If? meets Brian Green's Elegant Universe, a writer from Space.com investigates what's really out there.


Reading FC have confirmed a re-arranged date for their home encounter with Barnsley.
The two sides were due to play the Championship game on Tuesday, September 12.
However, due to the Tykes' involvement in the Carabao Cup, the match had to be rearranged .
The new date for the game at Madejski Stadium will be Tuesday, November 28 at 8pm.
Tickets purchased by fans for the original match remain valid and anyone unable to attend can claim a refund.
If you would like to go to the game, tickets will be on sale from 9am on Monday, October 30.
It will be the third game in a week for Royals with Bolton away the previous Tuesday and Sheffield Wednesday at home three days before.