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The ongoing costs of running a high speed rail system are sometimes overlooked or underestimated. In July 2010 a World Bank report cautioned that governments planning high-speed rail systems: ". . should also contemplate the near-certainty of copious and continuing budget support for the debt".
Japan was the pioneer of high speed rail in the 1960s but within two decades had accumulated massive debts. The system was privatised by creating seven Japan Railway operators, and the $280 billion debt was transferred to the taxpayer and is still being paid off. Apparently four of the seven operators are still government owned, and it is thought that the privately owned operators receive concessionary usage fees. In addition, the three private operators receive another $2 billion annually from the government. And all of these subsidises are needed despite Japan having the highest rate of rail use in the developed world.
The French accounting system treats taxpayer subsidies as "commercial revenues". So the French programme's $1.75 billion "profit" occurs through a $10 billion annual subsidy according to a study by Amtrak in 2008. The national rail infrastructure assets were transferred to Réseau Ferré de France (RFF) in 1997. Between RFF and SNCF there was an accumulated debt of €38 billion from building lines for the TGV by 2011. To deal with this debt, RFF is expected to increase track fees by 40% between 2008 and 2012 to reduce this debt. SNCF has threatened to cancel low ridership routes and has indicated that its reduced profitability will make it impossible to renew its 1981 fleet of TGVs before 2020. TGV fares are being increased by more than twice the rate of inflation and in some cases even more.
It is believed that Spain spends nearly $3 billion on high speed rail subsidies annually and Germany more than $1 billion per year. We also know that the high speed line between Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Breda (in the Netherlands) has been saved from bankruptcy with a £250m government bailout. It has been losing £320,000 per day due to disastrous levels of patronage.
Further afield in Taiwan, it became necessary for the Taiwanese government to take over the running of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation in 2009 as it was almost bankrupt, two years after it first started running its high speed trains. It had lost more than $2.1 billion. One of the contributing factors to the financial problems was that passenger numbers were approximately one third of those that had been forecast.
China which now has a greater distance of high speed line than any other country also has the largest debts from its rail building. In the first half of 2011, these debts amounted to $317 billion which has raised concerns for the World Bank. It is anticipated that almost $80 billion will be spent on building more high speed rail this year, with some funding coming from private sources as banks are restricted in their lending. One of the problems in this country is very low occupancy rates of high speed trains. The Chinese Railways Ministry is required to pay interest of up to 120 billion yuan (US$ 18.26 billion) each year. Apparently the railway system is currently only able to pay interest on the debt, and is unable to repay any of debt itself.
Is it surprising that the states of Florida, Ohio and Winsconsin turned down government incentives to build high speed lines? Not really because the individual states would have had to pick up any ongoing losses associated with such a programme.
Sir Roy McNulty's report in 2011 highlighted the £5 billion annual subsidy paid in this country to subsidise our railways and recommended it be reduced. Our Secretary of State Justine Greening accepted the subsidy should be reduced when she attended the Transport Select Committee last December. However, HS1 is currently being subsidised by Kent County Council. It may be a small amount and of a temporary nature, but it does cover just 5 trains per day and it is still a subsidy. It would appear from the experiences of several other countries that HS2, if it is built, will add to the subsidy required for railways in the UK. Is this sensible for a country as indebted as the UK?


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We are living in a new time. A new world has emerged. Like many things that are new on such a scale it is at once frightening, disturbing, uncomfortable. We have emerged from the geological epoch of the Holocene into a new epoch designated as the Anthropocene.[i] This notion of the Anthropocene refers to a profound realisation that human aggregate activity is now the single most decisive force shaping the planet. We have become the most significant geological agent acting on the Earth. For better or worse we have broken through a certain limit and possess now the power to determine the biosphere of the planet.
In the Anthropocene the old simplicities are gone. We are no longer human subjects acting upon an objective nature 'outside' us. Nature and human are now bound together. Free nature is over. Free humanity is over. They are relics of the Holocene. In our new age, Earth and Human are entangled irrevocably together. Welcome to the era of Earth-bound responsibility! The assumptions, the myths, the illusions of the Holocene no longer apply.
This recognition of a new epoch is not the result of argument or claim or campaign. It is not a question of belief, unless one thinks one must believe in reality itself. The new age is grounded in a measurable and observable set of facts, facts on such a scale as to be beyond questions of faith. The difficulty in recognising the new epoch is therefore not one of evidence. Rather, the challenge before us is that the vast panoply of institutions, practices, ideologies and cultures which structure human meaning and behaviour are the product of the Holocene. Our dominant and still prevailing worldview is rooted in the epoch of climate stability and security where humans were a discrete species inhabiting the objective Earth as free subjects.
This no longer applies. The Holocene gave rise to all the great civilisations of human culture, the philosophies, the great religions. How can we possibly re-think all of this in the little time that epochal change offers us to adjust and adapt? Because what is at stake could not be clearer. Either we adapt to the reality of the Anthropocene or we collapse into the perils of extinction as yet another mal-adaptive life-form.
In this brief paper, which serves only as an introduction to a more comprehensive treatment, I will sketch in summary terms the implications of living in the Anthropocene. Knowing where we are is one of the most basic life-skills for dwelling on planet Earth. The challenge is to re-think and re-inhabit our planet. This challenge is for everyone even for those who consider themselves 'right' on the environmental question. Environmentalism too must now radically change. The Anthropocene will sweep all of the Holocene before it including our notions of environmentalism and that old chestnut of comfort 'sustainability'.
… the geological epoch that began after the Pleistocene at approximately 11,700 years BP and continues to the present. The Holocene is part of the Quaternary period. Its name comes from the Greek words ὅλος (holos, whole or entire) and καινός (kainos, new), meaning "entirely recent". It has been identified with the current warm period, known as MIS 1, and can be considered an interglacial in the current ice age based on that evidence. The Holocene also encompasses the growth and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all its written history, development of major civilizations, and overall significant transition toward urban living in the present.
… a proposed epoch that begins when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth's ecosystems. The term – which appears to have been used by Russian scientists as early as the 1960s to refer to the Quaternary, the most recent geological Period – was coined with a different sense in the 1980s by ecologist Eugene F. Stoermer and has been widely popularized by atmospheric chemist, Paul Crutzen, who regards the influence of human behaviour on the Earth's atmosphere in recent centuries as so significant as to constitute a new geological epoch for its lithosphere. As of April 2015, the term has not been adopted formally as part of the official nomenclature of the geological field of study.
Crucial to the identification of the Anthropocene is determining whether there is an objective, measurable impact on the planet, especially on its life-forms, which may be discoverable by scientists many centuries, indeed, millennia from today. Many scholars of this topic suggest that the detonation of test nuclear devices beginning in 1945 is precisely that – a clear marker of a new order of impact on the Earth's very structure of life which will be forever present as an observable impact on the geological and biological record.
As noted in the definition above, the official, academic geological approval of this terminology is not yet achieved. That may occur in 2016 or not. Nonetheless, the heuristic and rhetorical potency of the Anthropocene has already had a significant impact on a raft of social sciences where it has become central concepts for theorists in history, sociology, anthropology, geography and philosophy.[iii] It is not I hope too reckless a claim to suggest that the intellectual and conceptual space opened up by the identification of the Anthropocene is having a major innovative impact on the social sciences generally permitting theory to finally step beyond the modern and 'post-modern' epistemes of the 20th century. This new frame may also offer a decisive shift in our understanding of the 'environment' as merely something 'out there which surrounds us' and of environmentalism as a social and political movement.
The justification (at least within social science terms) for the Anthropocene may be best glimpsed in terms of whether something truly new has happened. If one may present cultural history in very crude and linear terms then a number of key human-nature movements can be discerned, at least within the Western historical trajectory. This after all is the trajectory that gave rise to modernity and has brought us to the impasse we presently find ourselves in.
The first movement within Indo-European culture was likely to have been that of animism – the notion of the Earth and 'nature' as teeming with multiple points of consciousness. The sensibility that arose seems to be one of either communing with, or placating, these nodes of spirit manifested within animate and inanimate forms of life.
The Judeo-Christian movement represented a significant change. Here was emphasised the notion of the human as 'created' by a supernatural being who is external to nature and Earth. The human stands apart from the rest of creation – present but absent, image of God but condemned to struggle within the brutal requirements of life on Earth.
The image here is of the human separate and alienated from the Earth – a being destined ultimately for an unworldly heaven rather than an Earthling.
It is little wonder that this sensibility led inevitably to anthropocentrism – the Universe and the Earth seen in terms of their value to the human, the human as superior to, and above, brute, inanimate creation. The Cartesian revolution of the early 17th Century further augmented this view of human consciousness trumping mindless matter – cogitans above extensa.
The license this gave to the human permitted the emergence of industrialism and capitalism. The Earth was now mere resource, mere empty space to be shaped and conquered and utilised for human development and progress. The empty formlessness of nature required human agency and expansion to give it meaning and value.
By the second half of the 20th Century it became clear to many that nature had in fact limits. Resources were in fact finite. Pollution could only go so far in terms of the planet's carrying capacity. Human activity had to be at least tempered, rendered in the new jargon 'sustainable'. Environmentalism as a modern sensibility was born.
For many, indeed most, this remains the sensibility of today. We are caught in a world of exploitative limits. These limits are imposing stresses on us. We are told we merely need new policies and approaches. This sensibility still sees the human as subject and agent, confronting a nature external to us but affected by us. We exist in a relationship with nature. Our task is merely to learn to relate better.
But now, alas, we have indeed come to the end of this world. The new world begins with the recognition that nature as object, as free, as autonomous, is over. The line was crossed. There is no nature outside the human.[iv] There is no human outside nature. Our impact is such that nature is us, is being fashioned by us. Rather than being inert recipients of our action, the Earth (Gaia) has stirred and is also now active, an agent in its own right, giving us feedback, responses, messages that we must receive. We are tied together now. There is no gap between us. The old human sensibility of the Holocene is no longer adequate. A new mode of being human is required, one that is profoundly responsible for all it does, but must be profoundly attentive to the new agent stirring and moving all around us – the Earth itself. We have entered the inter-subjective, multi-agential Anthropocene world. Shall we be terrified or exhilarated?
The Anthropocene began in a clear moment when human impact started to shape the planet's very life-forms in a manner greater than any other discernible force or in a manner quicker and sharper than other agents. For our purposes now we can leave the argument to one side as to when this can be dated. Three key facts determine that unwittingly, unintentionally, we have fallen into a new world.
There is an absolute limit to economic growth.
The data on human global impact is simply staggering.[v] Bio-diversity, land use, water use, resource use, urbanisation, and so on, have been utterly altered by human behaviour. Almost nowhere lies outside the realm of human impact. Barely any life-form exists without the chemical markers of human activity. We are not one species among many. We are of a different order altogether.
Though the loss of bio-diversity is the largest single impact, our greatest recognition of the effect of human behaviour is possibly in climate change. Once this was a theory. Then a distinct possibility. Now it is our reality. It is underway. There is no credible scientific doubt. The only issue is how far it proceeds and how quickly. Will our climate alter in a continuous progression or tip suddenly into a new climatic steady-state? We do not know. Our models tell us one thing. The paleo-climate record tells us something else.
The point though is that climate (all our accumulated weather events over space and time) is no longer 'natural'. It is us. We have made it like this. But altering climate is not simply changing weather patterns. Climate is nature, nature is culture. When the rains fall, where the rains fall, if the rains fall, determine the entire movements of civilisation.
The apparently safely inanimate background of climate and nature has stirred, has become animate. It addresses us, demands response. It is no longer reliable, predictable, secure. We have entered a world of inter-agency between the human and the non-human Earth. This is the Anthropocene. From once believing ourselves humans free upon a stable nature to do as we wish we find ourselves newly earth-bound, tied into the Earth itself, as part of it.
What is clear is that we cannot go on as before. The old mode of living, the mode developed in the Holocene, is no longer possible. Business as usual is not an option. At its most simple level our adherence to the goal of perpetual economic growth is rendered dysfunctional and literally impossible. Growth simply cannot be the paradigm for development in the Anthropocene. If U.S. standards of consumption were globalised then five separate Earths would be required to support it. But there is only one Earth. It just cannot be. We have hit the limit of the possible within the economic growth model. Capitalism has no place now other than as destroyer of a world.
Epochal shifts are extraordinary times. They are full of possibility. They are full of danger. Everything is possible. Nothing is guaranteed. The objectivity underlying the emergence of the Anthropocene does not nevertheless deliver us automatically into new modes of presence on the Earth, new forms of inter-species and human justice. Politics endures. Arguments continue. Options remain. Choices tantalise. In short, the Anthropocene could lead us to deliverance or doom.
The objective realisation of human-Earth entanglement and the limits that necessarily follow from that do not in themselves resolve matters. We remain beings who choose. Our choices are set by our perceptions of self-interest, by the immense inequalities and environmental injustices that exist among us and by the spontaneous framings of meaning and reality configured by our ideological perspectives. We cannot escape all of this. We cannot avoid the messiness of politics and argument. Human responsibility for our precipitation into the Anthropocene is not evenly distributed. The Western capitalist world is largely where responsibility lies and even there the fingers of judgement must point to those in the socio-economic upper tiers.
But what are we to do? How shall we fashion a civilisation fit for the Anthropocene when all of our Western cultural references and our institutions and practices are products of the Holocene. Even our dissenting discourses of Marxism, Feminism and Environmentalism are rooted in a Holocene conceptual framework whereby we perceive a human subjectivity significantly cut off from nature's inert objectivity.
Everything is possible. Authoritarian Fascism all the way to new modes of intra-human and human- Earth solidarity and co-living lie open. But some things are clear. Some things must happen if extinction of the human project on Earth is to be avoided. Three immediate implications at least seem apparent.
The notion that we need to think may seem banal. We live in a culture which values feeling, emotion, expression. Fast thought is all about us in soundbites, power-point slides, net-based summaries. It seems to me that we must return to thought, recover our innate human capacity to think our way out of challenge. Deep thinking is needed in a world where our sense of deep history is to be recovered or discovered. Human history begins in the depths of evolutionary time when the first eye emerged, the first ear, the first mammal limb, the first of each thing that makes us what we are. Our thinking is what enables us to inhabit reality – the world as it really is – and see past the murky atmosphere of symbolic and ideological interpellation. Here is the real task for a renewed education in the Anthropocene, one which prepares us to be positive participants in the cosmogenesis of Human-Earth reality rather than the outdated late-Holocene agitation of being fit for capitalist market engagement.
If the Anthropocene serves as a new frame within which to view and construct social modes of presence then we must accept our collective responsibility for our human status as geological drivers of our planet. It is as it is. This is our fate, our lot, what modernity with its striving for rationality, progress, development, wealth, anthropocentrism has bequeathed to us. Most of humanity derived limited benefit from the great turmoils of modernity. The injustice is clear. But we must fashion together a way of inhabiting the Earth as it is. The challenge of changing our energy systems, our food systems, our consumption systems, our transportation systems, and so on are immense. We do so while the vast majority of humanity believe themselves inhabitants of the Holocene. The vast majority of humans act, behave and believe as if the Holocene stability was still holding sway. Even while it slips away from them and the Earth cries of the birthing Anthropocene sound all about us they carry on.
We occupy different worlds. The inhabitants of the Ptolemaic cosmos stood eyeball to eyeball with those of the Copernican. Though one held absolute power and dominated symbolic space the other inhabitants were standing on the actual world of orbit and motion. The truth of the Earth is not to be denied. It lies beyond the reach of human symbolisation and ideology.
The great political fault-line is not as the late politics of the Holocene imagine, that is between the economics of austerity versus the economics of Keynesian expansion. Rather it is between the adherents of economic growth (which include both right and left) and those who realise we must move beyond growth, beyond capitalism and its strange alter of State communism. Neither will serve in the Anthopocene. Living in the Anthropocene is living within planetary limits. We are finally recognisably Earthbound. The new human subject is no longer in nature – they are nature. Nature is no longer nature – it is indelibly become humanised. Anthropos is the new agent of geostory. As argued above this does not mean no politics – it just means that politics starts from here.
New thoughts, new perceptions are often strange at first. They seem peculiar, unclear. They don't fit in with our expectations, our assumptions. The old certainties which formed the background stability of human political and economic life are faltering. Something new is taking place. Our culture, our ideologies, our practices remain centred in a Holocene world that has given way to a new epoch. While there is but one world of course two human modes of inhabiting that world now confront each other. As social theorist Bruno Latour has said: 'There is indeed a war for the definition and control of the Earth: a war that pits – to be a little dramatic – Humans living in the Holocene against Earthbound living in the Anthropocene'.[vi] In one we thought we were above the world, superior to it. In the other, we have stumbled to the recognition that there are necessary limits, that we must inhabit the world within constraints required by the Earth itself.
For those Earthbound in the Anthropocene our fellow humans of the Holocene appear to be inhabitants of a strange, mythical, unreal place. A bizarre parallel world where fossil fuels are developed, where consumption bewitches, where species die. Language itself in the Holocene seems devoid of content. 'Development', 'progress', 'sustainability', the 'environment' sound hollow and disconnected, spoken by confused subjects seeking safe purchase in a diminishing fantasia version of the planet. We need a new language, a new way of speaking, a new way of articulating our human-Earth inter-subjectivity. We cannot go back to pre-modern sensibilities for this. That too is a false turn. We are inescapably the beings of modernity. But our sciences, natural and social, need to fashion Anthropocentric resonance. We need deep history, deep sociology, deep economy – that is, frameworks of meaning that situate the human within far wider processes of evolution and life.
[i] The official confirmation of this awaits the 2016 meeting of the Geological Society of London.
[iii] See for example Chakrabarty, R. (2009), The climate of history: four theses. Critical Enquiry 35 (2): 197-222.
[iv] McKibben, B. (1989), The End of Nature. New York: Random House.
[v] See, for example, Steffen W. et al (2004), Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag.
[vi] Latour, B. (2015), Telling Friends from Foes in the Time of the Anthropocene (pp. 145-155), in Clive Hamiliton et al (eds) The Anthropocene and the Global Environment Crisis – Rethinking Modernity in a New Epoch. London: Routledge.
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The native Indian first peoples in North and South America caused massive extinctions in the thousands of years after their arrival about 18,000 years ago. These are the Pleistocene extinctions. Fifty-seven of 80 species of large mammals (over 100 pounds at maturity) went extinct after humans arrived in North America. The same sort of extinctions happened in South America. It is the same with the native first peoples who arrived in Europe about 40,000 years ago.
We are continuing that process at an accelerating rate.
That said, we do need a better vocabulary for this era. It is the Anthropocene. It is the era of THE global crisis. It is overshoot and collapse. And it is looming ecocide.
That's what we need. More of that. My work with visionary leaders focuses on that. So does Joe Brewer's work with the Evolution Institute. There is so much to do! And there is plenty to do for any person who wants to help avert ecocide and turn the Anthropocene into a new era where humanity blossoms and seeds our galaxy with life from a sustainable Earth with no poverty, with democracy, with law. And with love.


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A technique is introduced for the theoretical prediction of electronic spectra of lanthanide complexes by replacing the metal ion by a point charge with the ligands held in their positions as determined by the SMLC/AM1, and by computing the theoretical spectra via the intermediate neglect of differential overlap/spectroscopic-configuration interaction (INDO/S-CI). As a test case, we report the absorption spectrum of tris(picolinate-N-oxide)(2,2′: 6′,2″-terpyridine) of EuIII complex which has been synthesized in our laboratory. The predicted absorption spectra (complex and free ligands) compare well with the UV region experimental data. Moreover, the computed triplet energy levels display transitions near 470 and 560 nm which are due to the N-oxide and which may be relevant for the luminescence.


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Medicaid Expansion Has Led to Earlier Cancer Detection Among Americans With Low Income
Alana Hippensteele, Editor
Following the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, individuals with low income are less likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer.
Following the expansion of Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act, individuals with low income are less likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancer, according to a study published in CANCER.
The passage of the Affordable Care Act expanded Medicaid coverage for most American adults with incomes up to 138% of the federal poverty level. In 2014, many states opted into this expansion and increased coverage in their state, which led to growth in Medicaid enrollment of individuals, many of whom were previously uninsured.
Those individuals now covered by Medicaid will most likely receive more consistent care and regular cancer screenings, allowing for earlier detection of cancer if present, the researchers explained in the study.
In order to investigate this potential for earlier cancer detection, the research team analyzed data from 12,760 individuals in Ohio aged 30 to 64 years who were diagnosed with invasive breast, cervical, colorectal, or lung cancers between 2011 and 2016 and who were uninsured or had Medicaid insurance at the time of diagnosis.
The researchers then compared the data sets from the period before Medicaid expansion (2011 to 2013) and after Medicaid expansion (2014 to 2016), while making note of whether patients were diagnosed with early (non-metastatic) or advanced (metastatic) cancer.
The results demonstrated that individuals with low income who were diagnosed after Medicaid expansion had a 15% decreased likelihood of having metastatic cancer compared with those diagnosed before expansion.
Additionally, as a control, the researchers had developed a separate analysis of data from individuals with private insurance from high-income communities. They found no significant changes regarding the likelihood of being diagnosed with metastatic cancer for these individuals before or after the expansion.
"Cancer stage is the strongest predictor of survival for patients. Long-standing disparities in mortality from screening-amenable cancers between high-income and low-income adults have been driven in large part by differences in metastatic cancer rates," said study co-author Uriel Kim, PhD, a medical student and researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Center, in a press release. "Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was associated with a significant reduction in the likelihood of being diagnosed with deadly metastatic cancer among Americans with low income. These improvements represent substantial progress in closing a persistent gap in cancer survival between Americans with high and low income."
The study also highlights the ways that Medicaid expansion has increased access to preventive services more generally beyond cancer, explained the study's senior author, Johnie Rose, MD, PhD, assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine's Center for Community Health Integration, in the press release.
"This fact is particularly relevant in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic as tens of millions of people have lost their jobs, and record numbers are expected to rely on safety net programs like Medicaid," Rose said.
The authors also noted that their findings were consistent with the findings of other studies that have examined Medicaid expansion on cancer outcomes. They explained that the cumulative findings demonstrate how important health coverage through Medicaid is as a predictor of cancer burden and early cancer identification.
Study indicates that Medicaid expansion has led to earlier cancer detection among individuals with low income. Wiley; July 6, 2020. eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/w-sit070120.php. Accessed August 19, 2020.
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Cleveland Clinic Medical Resident Barred from Entering U.S. is Now Suing Donald Trump
by Eric Sandy
Suha Abushamma, the first-year Cleveland Clinic medical resident who was forced to leave the country last weekend, has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump. She's not alone.
The suit revolves around claims of unlawful detention and removal. Recall that Abushamma had returned to the U.S. right after Trump's travel ban executive order had gone into effect. She was detained for about nine hours and told to leave the country immediately or face deportation. Facing dim prospects and chaos across the U.S., Abushamma flew back to Saudi Arabia to regroup with family. (Abushamma holds Sudanese citizenship.)
The complaint, filed in federal court, gives a detailed account of the uncertainty plaguing JFK International Airport, including the tireless work of Customs and Border Protection agents coming between travelers and their attorneys.
U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon will hold a hearing on Feb. 15 over Abushamma's request to return to the States.


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Labor Board Decision Prompts Call For Legislation
by Christine Stuart August 18, 2015, 4:30 am January 21, 2021, 6:43 pm
State Rep. Matthew Lesser, D-Middletown (CTNJ file photo)
At least one lawmaker said he plans to raise legislation next year that would allow student-athletes to form a union.
The announcement comes that same day that the National Labor Relations Board declined to answer the question about whether student-athletes on scholarship are employees. In a unanimous decision, the NRLB said having union and non-union teams could lead to different standards at different schools and create competitive differences within an athletic conference.
It "would not promote stability in labor relations," the five-member board concluded.
The ruling comes after a regional director in Chicago found that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are employees and are entitled to organize. Monday's ruling puts that move to unionize on hold.
"The NLRB's decision punts the question of allowing athletes to form unions to the states," Rep. Matthew Lesser, D-Middletown, said. "This year, I introduced legislation in Connecticut to allow some college athletes to form unions and I plan on reintroducing that bill next year."
He said the decision only increases the pressure on states to act and decide "whether or not we value athletes' rights."
He added: "I can guarantee that this issue isn't going away."
Similar legislation Lesser introduced this year didn't even get a public hearing. However, another bill that called for studying the issue did get a public hearing before it died in committee.
Lori Pelletier, executive secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, testified at that February hearing that college athletes should be considered employees of their institutions.
"These students directly or indirectly earn money for their schools. Endorsements from apparel companies, beverage and food companies, and TV rights just to name a few, bring in large amounts of money to the schools," Pelletier said. "This income is earned by the student athletes for the schools thus making them employees of the school."
The Connecticut Labor Department was in favor of a study, if there was money in the budget to fund it.
University of Connecticut Athletic Director Warde Manual told the Labor Committee in February that full scholarship athletes will be provided with an additional stipend in the 2015-16 school year to cover the full cost of attendance.
"The purpose of this additional stipend is to compensate for the money that student-athletes are not able to earn through part-time jobs due to their demanding schedule," Manual said in his written testimony.
It was a decision made after a March 2014 interview with former UConn basketball player Shabazz Napier.
"As student athletes we get utilized for what we do so well," Napier told reporters. "But that doesn't cover everything. We do have hungry nights where we don't have enough food and sometimes money is needed."
Lesser said he'll introduce the legislation in February 2016.
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Obamacare's effects on Lilly: Modest pain, no gain
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Historically, Americans with health insurance spent three times as much money on drugs as those without insurance.
So it made sense that, with Obamcare expected to boost insurance coverage nationally by 32 million people, drugmakers like Eli Lilly and Co. stood to benefit.
But it's not working out that way. At least not for Lilly.
John Lechleiter, CEO of the Indianapolis-based drugmaker, said last week that Lilly expects to receive no significant positive impact anytime soon from the Affordable Care Act.
"We don't anticipate a significant positive impact to our sales as a result of the expanded coverage provided, at least not in the near-term," Lechleiter said Jan. 7 during a meeting with Wall Street analysts and investors.
That's not because Obamacare has failed to (at least partly) deliver on its promise to reduce the number of the uninsured. In fact, a poll released last week by Gallup said the nation's proportion of uninsured had fallen to 12.9 percent, down from 17.1 percent in late 2013—just before the rollout of Obamacare's mix of expanded Medicaid eligibility, tax subsidies to help low- and moderate-income individuals purchase health insurance, and a tax on those that fail to obtain health insurance.
The problem is, Obamacare has also changed the nature of health insurance. Some Americans have shifted from private insurance plans to Medicaid, which pays drugmakers much less than the private plans for their medicines. Also, many private insurance plans—especially those sold on the Obamacare exchanges—have adopted "narrow formularies" that restrict access to brand-name drugs, like those Lilly sells.
Sometimes, that means health plans are leaving brand-name drugs off the list of drugs the plan will cover, if there's a similar drug available that is sold for a cheaper price. In almost all cases, it means health plans are heavily incentiving consuemrs to pick older, generic drugs over newer, brand-name drugs.
On top of that, the aging of Americans means many have shifted from private insurance plans onto Medicare, which tends to pay drugmakers somewhere between Medicaid and private insurance prices.
"At a high level," Lechleiter explained, "additional sales from covering new lives are likely to be offset by a shift of currently covered lives from plans that have today more favorable access in pricing to plans with less favorable access in pricing."
Pricing pressure has been particularly strong in the areas of diabetes and cancer, both of which are key growth areas for Lilly.
Meanwhile, Obamacare continues to cost Lilly about $500 million per year. The law required that drugmakers give larger rebates to state Medicaid plans, which has sapped more than $400 million per year in revenue from Lilly, Lechleiter said.
At the same time, the law also raised administrative and some health benefits expenses, costing Lilly about $100 million per year.
Combined, those hits add up to about 6.5 percent of Lilly's nearly $8 billion in annual U.S. sales of pharmaceuticals. (It's less than 3 percent of Lilly's total annual revenue, which includes foreign markets and Lilly's animal health business.)
Still, it's sizable enough, that Lilly will keep arguing for health plans to include as many medicines as possible.
"You can bet though, as a company, as an industry, we're going to continue to call attention to the factthat the best healthcare plans for anyone covered under any type of plan is one that enables accessto a broad array of medicines," he said. "Medicines are the most cost effective way of preventing disease and curing disease, and we want to make sure that as healthcare coverage continues to evolve, that this is the central tenant of that coverage."
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Joey Barton's agent has revealed his client will not be offered a new contract by Newcastle when it expires next year.
The 28-year-old midfielder has been one of the stars of the Magpies' successful Barclays Premier League campaign and his retention beyond the final year of his existing deal has been one of manager Alan Pardew's key priorities.
But Barton's agent Willie McKay today told Sky Sports: "I had a meeting with Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias and club secretary Lee Charnley and they have indicated Joey will not be offered a new contract."
McKay added: "Joey will continue to be a Newcastle player next season and then he will leave on a free transfer at the end of his contract. He would have loved to have extended his stay at Newcastle, but unfortunately it is not to be.
"Joey has loved his time at Newcastle and nothing will change his commitment for the club next season. Obviously we will be monitoring the situation next January to try and find a new club for Joey as he can speak to clubs from abroad in January."
The news will come as a massive blow to fans who had hoped to see Barton, skipper Kevin Nolan and Spanish full-back Jose Enrique commit their futures to the club to maintain the foundation they have established back in the top flight.
Barton was understood to be close to extending his stay at St James' Park in January when the bombshell of Andy Carroll's departure for Liverpool dropped. Talks were put on hold until the end of the season with the player later indicating that he would be happy to stay if Nolan also put pen to paper on a new deal.
But with Enrique seemingly heading for the exit door this summer, Barton's situation will pile further pressure on Pardew, who had hoped to resolve the outstanding contractual situations before concentrating on his summer recruitment plans.
Barton joined the Magpies from Manchester City for £5.8million during the summer of 2007 as then manager Sam Allardyce took a gamble on him following his infamous training ground bust-up with Ousmane Dabo.
Following further problems both on and off the field, including a spell in prison, the Tyneside faithful finally saw Barton back at his best last term as he helped to inspire a more than creditable first season back in the Premier League.


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When David brought in her breakfast tray that morning, she melted as he freed her from her embarrassing bondage.
"I was… someone…" Iris stammered, flustered that David found her in that state. She didn't know what to say.
"Shh— you don't have to explain… some dude had fun, that's it… are you all right, Iris?"
She nodded and trudged to the bathroom.
In the shower, Iris scrubbed her skin raw and tried to erase all traces the intruder left on her skin. She took a deep breath and let the thought sink in… it was just another fuck.
Iris came out of her room that evening with feigned enthusiasm. "I'm heading for dinner now, David. What do you think of my outfit?" She whirled to show her butler the little black dress with low-cut front opening that gave a sneak peek at her healthy breasts, and flowed down perfectly to a balloon skirt that barely grazed her knees.
"You look well-rested, and stunning as always. Well, it's free-seating at the dining hall tonight, a good way to meet new friends. Enjoy your dinner, Iris."
Iris entered the dining hall and waited at the foyer to find a seat. She looked around at the guests hoping to find Adam, but still no sign of him. Someone tapped her on the shoulder. She turned to a tall black guy behind her.
"May I offer you a seat at my table?" The guy was hot and cute.
"Sure, you just saved me the trouble of finding one, thank you."
"I'm Morris… like the cat," he made a Morris-like cat move, "and how shall I call you?"
"Iris, like the flower," she laughed. Although I really think I'm Aphrodite coming out of the shit pit. Wait, didn't Zeus try to rape Aphrodite? She winced and tried to block out thoughts of rape.
Two other men were seated on the table with them. Hans and Edward introduced themselves as gay lovers. They've been repeat guests on the cruise for years.
Hans gave her a fascinated look. "Iris… what a lovely name. Why did you choose that alias?"
She laughed. "No reason, actually, it was the first thing that came to mind, and it's my favorite flower."
"Did you know that Iris is the name of the Greek goddess of the rainbow?"
"Wow, really?" She said with awe. Was she raped by Zeus too?
"Iris flowers have been a garden favorite for centuries. A king in ancient Egypt immortalized his admiration for it through sculptures of irises in a temple in Karnak… while its sweet perfume were used as an offering to the gods. It is the flower of royalty— like the fleur-de-lis…
"An iris flower never fails to captivate its beholder… especially when it blooms and displays its stunning beauty— splendidly resembling the delicate labia." He smiled.
"That's quite… intriguing… you must either be a botanist or a poet, Hans." She said as she dismissed the erotic allusion of an iris to the female anatomy.
"That's Hans, always curious, he marvels at just about anything under the sun." Edward said.
"Anywhere you go on the ship, a pleasant surprise awaits… have you been to the black room yet? Oh I adore that place." Hans said while Edward nodded in agreement.
"What's so special about the black room?" Iris was curious. Her butler never mentioned it before.
"It's a dungeon," Edward said, "of thrills and chills."
"Oh," Iris leaned back on her chair. "Thanks, but I don't think so. I'm not really into that kind of thing… sort of." She giggled.
"You'll never know till you give it a try… just take a look-see. We were not into BDSM before either, but once in your life, you gotta have it." Hans winked at her.
"You know what? Hans is right, shall we go give it a try later?" Morris reached for her hand and kissed it. "Would you be my submissive for the night, Iris?"
"Okay, sure." She found him attractive and sexy, why not?
"We can go right after dinner. You won't regret it. It's just role play that thrills you. I think we could start now." He said with a naughty grin.
"Sure, what do we do?"
"All you have to do is trust me. If I do something you don't want, just say the safe word, 'red' and I will stop. Clear?"
"Crystal," she smiled at him, thrilled at what he planned to do to her.
Morris showed her a piece of leather that looked like a dog collar with a metal ring at the center. "I have to put this on your neck." He said. "It signifies that you're my sub for tonight, okay?
"O— okay." She whispered.
Iris turned to look around at the other guests in the hall, when she felt Morris's hand on her thigh. She didn't mind a bit of foreplay before dinner, so she let Morris touch her and continued scanning the tables to look at the other guests, but found no one familiar— not even Jo, or Alex, or other guests she'd met. There were a bunch of couples kissing and making out like it was the standard appetizer for dinner.
"Stop looking around, and keep your eyes down." Morris said.
Iris already knew she was going with Morris soon, at the black room or wherever. It excited her. She wanted to erase all thoughts of rape. Giving in to Morris can help with that.
The thought of doing it in a dungeon gave her the creeps. While Morris played with her at the dinner table, it gave her a bit of fright but also a weird kind of pleasure. She got wet like she always did, with the slightest bit of stimulation.
Embarrassed, she checked at Hans and Edward to see if they were aware of her unexpected arousal. They didn't seem to care— they were into their own little play. Edward's head bobbed up and down on Hans' lap— so what else could be happening at the other side of the table?
Morris took something out of his trouser pocket and reached down on her again. This time, he inserted a ball of some kind into her, and pushed it deeper in with his finger. Her already wet cave let it in smoothly, while a string connected to the ball was left hanging outside.
"Are you comfortable? Keep it there until we get to the black room, okay?" he said.
Although she felt uncomfortable, she nodded in agreement. Morris gently stroked her cheek. "You'll be fine, Iris, it's just a ball, it won't bite. You just do what I say and you'll be fine." He gave her a peck on the neck.
She felt a different kind of high. At least he wasn't raping her— she immediately blocked out another memory of last night. Some men can be real-life assholes and I was just fucked by one last night— forget it.
Just then, dinner was served. Grilled rock lobsters, mushroom pasta, and spinach soup paired with dry sauvignon blanc.
Iris didn't feel like eating much. She drank her wine and asked Morris to pour some more for her.
"You have to eat. You'll need the energy later." Morris whispered in her ear and caressed her cheek.
"I'm sorry, I'm getting really nervous about the black room. But okay, I'll eat a bit more." She squirmed on her seat. The ball aroused her with every move.
"That's my pet," he said and caressed her hair.
After dinner, Morris took out a long piece of chain and attached it to the ring on her collar.
They had to walk about half a mile to reach the Black Room, which stood at the other end of the ship near the hull. Morris held the chain as if he was walking a dog. Iris had difficulty walking with the ball stuck inside her, especially when every stride made her twitch with pleasure.
Besides that, she had to keep her thighs close enough and keep the ball in place. The salty wind blew its way through her dress, she shivered. It was torturous, but it exhilarated her.
A muscled guy wearing leather mask, leather pants, and topless, like an executioner, stood guard at the door of the Black Room. He let them in without a word.
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Sure, stem-cell research has had something of a controversial past, but a new revolutionary skin gun has the ability to spray away a burn victim's unsightly injury.
The medical device, which will be shown in an upcoming National Geographic show, is currently just a prototype, but it has already been used to help a small number of burn-victims.
Scientists have been developing the skin spraying gun for a number of years now; the current working prototype by Jörg C. Gerlach works by taking healthy skin cells from the burn victim, then spraying them onto the desired area. Thanks to the safe stem-cell science behind this process, healing can now take just hours or days, rather than the usual weeks and months.
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Vigil held for Timothy Dean as family prepares to file civil suit against Ed Buck
By Eileen Frere
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KABC) -- One year since a fashion consultant was found dead in Democratic donor Ed Buck's apartment in West Hollywood, family and friends are renewing their call for justice.
Loved ones shared stories about Timothy Dean. He loved basketball and played in the 2018 Paris Gay Games, and helped those around him.
"He would give the shirt off his back," said friend Mark Chambers. "He literally gave suits to homeless people."
"Timothy was such a funny, great guy with great sense of style," said another friend, Michael Cautillo. "I just don't know him as the guy that would die that way, that he did, in this man's apartment."
MORE: Democratic donor Ed Buck indicted in two overdose deaths at his West Hollywood home
California political donor Ed Buck was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for two overdose deaths in his West Hollywood apartment and charges he provided meth to three other men.
An attorney announced the filing of a civil lawsuit against Buck on behalf of Dean's family at the vigil. The allegations include wrongful death, assault and violating the Drug Dealer Liability Act.
Dean was found dead of a methamphetamine overdose in the West Hollywood apartment of Buck.
Last year, the 65-year-old Buck was arrested. He's facing a number of charges, including allegedly providing meth to Dean and another man, Gemmel Moore, who also died after being injected with the drug in 2017.
Buck has pleaded not guilty.
"Even though today is very bittersweet, I am so happy Ed Buck is in jail," said political consultant Jasmyne Cannick.
The arrest came after years of protests. Some criticize District Attorney Jackie Lacey for not filing charges sooner, alleging Buck's ties to Democratic politicians helped protect him.
The D.A. denied that accusation in the past, saying her office investigated the case the same as everyone else.
By phone, Dean's sister Joy, asked for continued prayers.
"This is a heartfelt battle that we have to continue to make sure that my brother did not die in vain," she told the crowd at the vigil.
Buck's federal criminal trial is expected to begin in August.
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If one of your hiring managers sexually harasses – or even assaults – a job candidate during the interview process or during pre-employment testing, can your organization be held liable?
That question came up last month after the CBC broke a story about three female RCMP officers who alleged they were sexually assaulted by a male RCMP doctor — two before they were hired, and the third while applying for a promotion.
The power the doctor had over the women is unquestionable – the medical exam was the last step in the hiring process, and all that stood between them and their dream of joining the national police force or getting a promotion.
The women applied for compensation from a previous RCMP sexual abuse settlement, but the two recruits who were not on the payroll were denied money because they weren't employees at the time of the medical exams.
In any sexual harassment or assault case, the perpetrator would clearly be responsible for his actions. But, for employers, the question of liability isn't as clear cut as you may think.
Ford pointed me to a 2017 Court of Appeal for Ontario ruling — Ivic v. Lakovic — involving an intoxicated woman who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a cab driver. The appeal court upheld a lower court ruling that the taxi company was not liable for the actions of the driver. The court relied on the principles established in an earlier Supreme Court of Canada ruling, known as Bazley v. Curry.
What a court needs to see is a strong correlation between what the employer was asking its employee to do and the misdeed.
"It must be possible to say that the employer significantly increased the risk of harm by putting the employee in his or her position and requiring him to perform the assigned tasks," the court said in Bazley.
That might be a difficult argument to make in the case of a hiring manager, with no criminal record and no history of sexual harassment, who acted inappropriately.
But if the employee was a senior executive, or the owner of the company, then the outcome could be different, said Ford.
There's also a danger that, if a candidate can prove she wasn't hired because she rebuffed an unwanted sexual advance, there could be liability for discrimination in the hiring process.
The simple fact, as pointed out by the Supreme Court of Canada in Jacobi v. Griffiths, is that society has already put strict punishments in place for sexual assault.
"There may be little an employer can do in reality to deter such conduct in its employees if the possibility of 10 years in jail is not sufficient," it said.
Then what should employers do? There are some obvious solutions. Last year, when I was at the Society for Human Resource Management's annual conference in Chicago, I spoke with a vendor who said some of his clients were placing cameras in interview rooms to deter misbehaviour.
But it's not a panacea. The court in Ivic pointed out that even if taxi companies were forced to install cameras to monitor driver's behaviour, the cameras could still be shut off or the assault could take place outside the cab.
My mom had a better solution. An elementary school teacher, she had a blanket policy — she would never be alone with a student. That's a best HR practice, too. There are rarely good reasons to have one-on-one interviews.
"I actually think more employers are moving towards having multi-party interviews, so that people understand what was said but also to have two people taking a look at a potential candidate for compatibility with the organization," said Ford.
Employers still need to do everything to eliminate sexual harassment and assault in their workplaces — whether it's customers, job candidates or employees. But it's interesting to note that courts have set the bar surprisingly high when it comes to shifting liability for egregious conduct from the offending employee to the company itself.


This assessment relates to course learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 stated in the e-course profile.
Assessment 3 is an individual assessment.
In recent years, the ability of Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to provide historical, curre nt, and predictive views of business operations based on the collection, extraction, and analysis of business data to improve decision has been the basis of several studies. More recently, "Big Data" and "Big Data Analytics" have further stirred the interest of researchers and practitioners alike.You are required to conduct market research and write a report on how Big Data can be used in Decision Support and Business Intelligence (DS&BI).
2. Identify and align business initiatives, objectives and tasks with the developed Business Strategy.
5. Discuss support of NoSQL for Big Data Analytics.
6. Discussion on different NoSQL Databases and its use in Big Data use case you have chosen.
8. Discussion on Big Data Value creation process.
The length of the assignment is 3000 words. You are required to do extensive reading of more than 10 appropriate and relevant chosen topics in Big Data use case. Please do in-text referencing of all chosen readings. Newspaper and magazine reports should be limited to a maximum of 2. A comprehensive report covering all key aspects of the topic selected is required. Report should be extremely well supported with relevant case studies. Any assumptions made are clearly noted. The report structure should be clear, easy to read and logical, directly addressing the question. Suitable headers should be used throughout the report. Good use of graphics and charts should be made. No spelling, punctuation or grammatical errors.
You will produce a report that aims to explain your Decision making using Big Data as per the layout and submission guidelines mentioned below.
Students are advised to observe the word count limit to 3000 words.
Students need to define what they are going to talk about. Students need to show what they are trying to do with the selected use case ---the topic - the direction. Students should show what they are going to cover (and what they not, if required). Students need to give background information necessary to understand the report. Introduction must identify the project objectives.
Present your reflections about the decision making using Big Data (e.g. achievement and constraints).
Marks for Assessment 2 will be allocated as follows: Assessment mark will be weighted to 40%.


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Military Watches Of The World: U.S.A. Parts 1 & 2
by koimaster » November 19th 2018, 10:07am
Much has been written already about the world's iconic military watches and their origins, with numerous articles on individual watches appearing over the years right here on Worn & Wound. In this series, we aim to do things a little differently by taking the reader on a world tour, stopping at a different country in each installment and discussing that particular nation's military wristwatches, and for our first installment (released in two parts), we're going to be covering the good ol' U.S. of A.
World War I & Inter-War Years
America entered World War I in April of 1917, one year before the conflict ended, and it has been recorded that many doughboys arriving on the continent were in fact issued wristwatches. Though these watches were not given mil-spec markings like their counterparts issued to, say, the British Expeditionary Forces, certain models were produced specifically for military use and officially issued to U.S. soldiers.
https://wornandwound.com/military-watch ... 8jVbTJux6Q
Military Watches Of The World: U.S.A. Part 2
Words By Oren Hartov
A few weeks ago, we kicked off our Military Watches Of The World series with America Part 1, focusing on watches from World War I through the early '60s. In Part 2, we'll feature watches issued to the U.S. military from the Vietnam era through today.
With the release of the MIL-W-3818B spec in 1962, the fog lifts once again and there is a clear, traceable history of issued watches. This revision was meant to simplify the requirements for a 17-jewel, hacking wristwatch with an extended service life, and the watch ultimately produced under this spec was the Benrus DTU-2A/P. It featured a parkerized steel case, a black dial with numerals and indices in white and an inner ring with military time, hands filled with green luminescent paint (tritium), an acrylic crystal, and an orange-tipped second hand also painted with tritium. The movement featured 17 jewels, hacking, a 36-hour power reserve, and accuracy of +/- 30 seconds per day.
https://wornandwound.com/military-watch ... -s-part-2/
Military Watches Of The World.pdf
Military Watches Of The World Part 2.pdf
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William F. Halloran
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William Sharp
Fiona Macleod
European Studies: English and Irish Studies
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod"
VOLUME I: 1855–1894
William F. Halloran (author)
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod": Volume 2: 1895-1899
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman.
Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp's own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp's intriguing "second self".
With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
What an achievement! It is a major work. The letters taken together with the excellent introductory sections - so balanced and judicious and informative - what emerges is an amazing picture of William Sharp the man and the writer which explores just how fascinating a figure he is. Clearly a major reassessment is due and this book could make it happen.
Emeritus Bradley Professor of English and American Literature, Glasgow University
The three volumes of the Sharp/Macleod letters edited by William F. Halloran mark a major intervention in our understanding of Sharp, shedding light on his life, on his literary networks, and on Macleod's literary development. Through decades of research and his detailed editorial apparatus (including lengthy introductions to each year of Sharp's life), Halloran not only contextualises the surviving letters but unlocks and interprets many otherwise opaque details within them, such as Sharp's coded references to his muse and the inspiration for Macleod, the writer Edith Wingate Rinder. As such, these volumes provide the most detailed portrait available on Sharp, his networks and movements, and how Fiona Macleod came to be.
"Moulding A Persona: The Life and Letters of William Sharp and Fiona Macleod". Studies in Scottish Literature, vol. 47, no. 1,
Chapter One: 1855–1881
Chapter Two: 1882–1884
Chapter Three: 1885–1886
Chapter Four: 1887–1888
Chapter Five: 1889
Chapter Six: 1890
Chapter Seven: 1891
Chapter Eight: 1892a
Chapter Nine: 1892b
Chapter Ten: 1893
Chapter Eleven: 1894
(pp. 1–8)
Emeritus Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee


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