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Panel: The Future of Black
This panel discussion of the anthology, The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry features editors and contributors Tara Betts, Mallessa James, Len Lawson, Cynthia Manick, and Craig Stevens moderated by Chicago's Dr. Eve L. Ewing.
Pre-signed books will be available for purchase.
About The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry:
The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics' characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genre—receiving wide literary and popular attention.
This groundbreaking collection highlights work from poets who have written verse within this growing tradition, including Terrance Hayes, Lucille Clifton, Gil Scott-Heron, A. Van Jordan, Glenis Redmond, Tracy K. Smith, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Joshua Bennett, Douglas Kearney, Tara Betts, Frank X Walker, Tyree Daye, and others. In addition, the anthology will also feature the work of artists such as John Jennings and Najee Dorsey, showcasing their interpretations of superheroes, Black comic characters, Afrofuturistic images from the African diaspora.
Dr. Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit, Arc & Hue, and the forthcoming Refuse to Disappear. She is the inaugural Poet for the People Practitioner Fellow at University of Chicago and founder of Whirlwind Learning Center. She is currently teaching poetry classes at Northwestern University.
Mallessa James is an emerging writer and artist whose work explores blackness, science, and theopoetics. Her writing has appeared in The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; The Black Liberation Blueprint; Gumbo Magazine; Edge Effects; and BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation. Originally from the occupied lands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago, Illinois), she identifies as a Black, sci-fi fantasy loving, cis-female person of the global majority; currently resides on the occupied lands of the Powhatan Confederacy (Richmond, Virginia); and enjoys extended walks, expansive conversations, and extra spicy food.
Len Lawson is the author of Chime (Get Fresh Books, 2019) and an editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Press, 2021). He has earned fellowships from Tin House, Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Callaloo, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts among others. His poetry appears in African American Review, Callaloo, Mississippi Review, Ninth Letter, Verse Daily, and elsewhere. Born and living in South Carolina, Len earned a PhD in English Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is currently Assistant Professor of English at Newberry College.
Cynthia Manick is the author of No Sweet Without Brine (Amistad-HarperCollins, forthcoming 2023), editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair Publishing, 2021), and author of Blue Hallelujahs (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). Manick is Founder of the reading series Soul Sister Revue and her work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day Series, Callaloo, Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. She currently serves on the board of the International Women's Writing Guild and the editorial board of Alice James Books.
Craig Stevens (@mrblackatlantic) is an artist academic that writes and curates around themes of transcultural Blackness, freedom making and radical solidarity. He is co-founder of the Black & African Solidarity Show (B.A.S.S.) and a doctoral student in the Northwestern University Anthropology Department.
Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a sociologist of education and a writer from Chicago. She is the author of Electric Arches, which received awards from the American Library Association and the Poetry Society of America and was names one of the year's best books by NPR and the Chicago Tribune. She is also the author of Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, the writer of Marvel Comics' Ironheart series, and the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues.
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Ben Folds reveals what he has planned for his Forest Hills gig this week
The 51-year-old musician will be joined by Cake for Friday's concert at Forest Hills Stadium.
Ben Folds intends to play "everything and anything" when he takes the stage in Queens. Photo Credit: Getty Images for NAMM / Lisa Lake
By Michael Dolce Special to amNewYork Updated August 12, 2018 3:24 PM
Musician Ben Folds can pinpoint exactly why his career has been so difficult to define ... and why he wouldn't have it any other way.
"I don't get the approval of mainstream magazines or radio or television. And at the same time there's nothing weird about what I do, so I don't sit in that place like Tom Waits," the 51-year-old jokes. "No, my music's normal. It's totally accessible stuff. I'm just in my own little category, which I enjoy. That's what I asked for. It's a lonely spot [laughs], but that's what I do."
On the heels of his upcoming team-up at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens with fellow '90s contemporaries Cake, amNewYork caught up with Folds to discuss how the tour came about, why he hates the idea of nostalgia tours and why he doesn't feel the need to play "Brick" at every show.
How did this tour with Cake come about?
There isn't some great story behind it. It just [made] sense. They're one of my contemporaries that I really respect, like to work with [and] have a beer with. That's a very short list.
Are you a fan of the '90s and 2000s co-sponsored tours that have become so popular recently?
Eat it. Drink it. Do it. Tackle the city, with our help.
In my career, it's been unthinkable for a band below the level of, like, Lady Gaga at her height [to not team-up]. It's just what you do. [At the same time], I'm very picky about going out with bands from my era. I don't want to go out like a heritage act to relive the magic and the good old days. I probably would have toured [by myself] with a bass and drums. But by going out with Cake, I get to do something different.
What songs can fans expect to hear at these shows?
When I go out on tour, I play everything and anything. I never concentrate on one era. Even with the new album I mostly still run the gamut. I'm interested in how my songs age. I never retire them I think they subtly reinvent themselves.
Some artists feel obligated to play the hits, while others resent that idea.
There are some people of an older generation that feel I have to play "Brick." I don't really play it that often. [Meanwhile], people who came on board around the "Rockin' The Suburbs" time, which is now kind of old school, don't really think about the song "Brick" that much because they're on another plane. So they're kind of confused when someone thinks that has to be played. It's awesome that I feel like I can play anything I want.
Cake & Ben Folds are performing on Friday at 6 p.m. at Forest Hills Stadium, 1 Tennis Place, Forest Hills, foresthillsstadium.com, $49.50-79.50.
Also coming to Forest Hills Stadium:
Aug. 18: Russell Peters
Sept. 8: Jamiroquai
Sept. 12: Van Morrison and Willie Nelson & Family
Sept. 15: David Byrne with tUnE-yArDs
Sept. 22: Portugal. The Man with Lucius
Sept. 29: The National with Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Cigarettes After Sex, Phoebe Bridgers and Adia Victoria
Sept. 30: The National with Future Islands, Cat Power, U.S. Girls and Bully
Oct. 6: EEEEEATSCON food festival
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Birmingham Post Business Awards
Birmingham Post Business Awards 2021: the high-flying firms shortlisted for another big win
Less than a month to go until the free virtual event
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Squire Patton Boggs won the Professional Services Firm of the Year award in 2019
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We've all had to adapt this past year, whether it be in our personal or professional lives. The business community has shown endless ingenuity and conviction, providing us with ways to navigate these unprecedented times.
The Professional Services Firm of the Year category celebrates the companies across a variety of areas that have been determined to produce the best results for their clients.
They have demonstrable strengths in service excellence, business growth, innovation, technology, training and personal development.
The online awards ceremony takes place on Tuesday June 15 - visit the event website here to register for your free ticket.
Please email nikki.kandola@reachplc.com for more information and to learn about sponsorship opportunities.
The ceremony will be hosted on our new virtual events platform The Awards Room which gives nominees and sponsors the chance to experience real-time networking, with guests grouped together on their own tables.
Follow the hashtag #BPBAwards for updates on social media.
Bevan Brittan
Bevan Brittan is a UK top 100 commercial law firm based in the heart of Birmingham that supports clients and communities nationally. With a deep commitment to the Midlands, it provides leading legal and advisory services to local businesses and organisations in and around Birmingham.
Across the UK, Bevan Brittan advises more than 800 businesses across various sectors, including acting for 60 per cent of all NHS Trusts and more than 170 private health and social care providers.
It advised the NHS on the creation of 'Nightingale' hospitals in response to the pandemic, in addition to advising on the YMCA Heart of England merger that allowed the YMCA to expand its local services.
During 2020, the company lived its values of 'what matters to you, matters to us' to meet its clients' rapidly changing needs, launching its covid-19 Advisory Service and Information Hub and hosting 40 webinars about crucial issues for SMEs in the region.
Millennium Point raises more than £25m for STEM projects in the West Midlands
The business experienced financial growth that allowed it to repay furlough monies back to HM Treasury alongside promoting five Birmingham-based lawyers and offering 80 per cent of its newly qualified solicitors a role within Bevan Brittan. In just the past year, the business has won at the Legal 500 Awards, HealthInvestor Awards and Bristol Property Awards 2020.
Gateley
In 2015, Gateley became the first UK law firm to float on AIM, a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange. Since then, both headcount and revenue have doubled with more than 1,000 people employed across 11 locations. During the last 30 years, the business has achieved an unbroken record of increased profit delivery through expanding business services and sustainable growth.
Its Birmingham head office has provided commercial legal services to individuals and businesses since it was founded in 1808 and has more than 400 professionals based there. It won the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce Awards for 'Excellence in Contribution to the Community' and 'Excellence in Sales and Marketing'.
The business has acted for many well-known organisations, like Gymshark, Diageo, Birmingham City University and Dudley Council.
The event will be virtual this year
In 2020, the company made many developments. It appointed a new chief executive, made two acquisitions, created a bespoke real estate dispute resolution service and more. It is focused on expanding the breadth and depth of service lines through its 'Platform Strategy', bringing together its legal and consulting businesses to provide cross-selling opportunities for existing clients and representing a compelling go-to-market strategy for new ones.
Barclays donates £100m to charities helping communities affected by the Covid-19 crisis
The company invests heavily in its people by providing a range of training and development opportunities alongside its bespoke junior and senior mentoring schemes and Women in Leadership programme.
Shoosmiths is one of the largest law firms in Birmingham, with its Birmingham office home to a quarter of the entire firm's partnership. As a UK law firm with 13 locations, it has a total of 213 partners and 1,608 lawyers and business support employees.
2020 marked record financial results and to reflect the firm's people-centred approach it was also awarded Investors in People, Platinum status. Further development included winning at the UK's first ever Women in Law Awards, the introduction of a reciprocal mentoring programme and mandatory unconscious bias e-learning.
Birmingham Post Business Awards 2021: The small businesses making big strides
It is especially proud of the game-changing initiatives emanating from the Birmingham office. For example, its new working principles and innovative client initiatives early in the pandemic. The office is home to Birmingham Law Society Awards 'Solicitor of the Year', Kishma Bolanji, who also founded 'Birmingham Black Lawyers'.
In May 2020, Alex Bishop and Beth McArdle took over as co-heads of the Birmingham office, seeing the role be shared by a female for the first time. Both have many accolades and have been vital in the firm's growth.
The full list of 2021 categories and sponsors is:
New Business of the Year - sponsored by Millennium Point
Small Business of the Year
Manufacturing Business of the Year - sponsored by Propel Finance
Covid Defiance Award
Professional Services Firm of the Year
Property and Construction Business of the Year
Third Sector Organisation of the Year - sponsored by InYourArea
CSR Project of the Year - sponsored by Barclays
International Trade and Export Award
Young Businessperson of the Year - sponsored by Birmingham Metropolitan College
Company of the Year (chosen from the category winners)
FinanceDon't fall for 'Tulipmania' style fads – get perspective on your financesFinancial expert Peter McGahan warns about delusions and fads
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Boosting the skills of a new generation
ApprenticeshipsA Gloucestershire college on the site of a former nuclear power station is at the forefront of developing young students for the careers of the future
Construction and engineering businesses to get help going green from DN Colleges Group
EngineeringSkills Development Funding secured to support steps into renewable energy and evironmental sustainability


GTriddim is an internet based radio station that began its operation on March 29, 2012 and operate at this website it was founded by two Guyanese Brothers Anthony Johnson and Ezekiel Johnson (DJ Madmax), both brothers having a passion for Music and over the years they realized Local Guyanese Artistes were struggling to get their music known worldwide, therefore Anthony and Ezekiel created GTriddim Guyana Radio, so they can help in the exposure of Guyanese Music worldwide an at the sametime make it easier for persons to find Guyana Music.
Anthony and Ezekiel then teamed up with long-time friend Selector Andre who joined them on their Mission, GTriddim started with the Focus on all music genres, primarily a mix of ole skool, the hottest, and latest in Soca, Dancehall, Reggae, Hip Hop, R&B and so many more.
Under the Direction of Anthony Johnson and a hard working dedicated team GTriddim.com has expanded over the years making us the #1 Source For the latest Guyanese Music Online, GTriddim.com currently has one of the largest Guyanese Music Collection online with thousand's of Music from over 120 Guyanese artiste.
GTriddim Radio is strictly for promotional use only. Support the various artists by purchasing their music legally!
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Faux leather, or imitation leather, refers to any material that resembles the look and feel of genuine leather. The materials range from flexible fabric to plastic, sometimes even paper. It is then coated, embossed or printed to simulate the appearance of real leather. Artificial leather and synthetic leather are also two of several names commonly used to describe faux leather.
What is PVC Leather ?
PVC leather is a type of faux leather that is made by covering a base of natural or synthetic material with vinyl, made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and plasticizers.
PVC has no hair-follicles (pores) which makes it virtually waterproof, but may become unbreathable in hot temperatures.
Due to its plastic nature, PVC leather requires no special care or conditioning in comparison to genuine leather, but may crack with extended use because of the application of plasticizers.
What is PU Leather ?
PU leather, also known as bicast leather, bycast leather or split leather, is made by covering a backing fabric such as cotton, polyester or shredded leather with a layer of polyurethane.
Its surface can be treated to look and feel like real leather, which makes it the most common faux leather these days.
Unlike PVC leather, PU leather has microfiber pores, which allows it to "breath" better than PVC, but still easy to clean and maintain like most plastic materials.
In some regions, people consider PU leather as genuine leather when a stratified layer of animal hide is used as backing.
However, bicast leather neither develop a patina nor exhibit characteristics associated with aniline leather. Therefore the use of terms like "leather", "genuine leather" or "100% leather" in relation to bicast treatment is not permitted in countries like Denmark, New Zealand, and United Kingdom.
Bonded leather, also known as reconstituted leather, blended leather, composite leather or composition leather, is made from recycled leather off-cuts, trimmings and shavings that were discarded by the leather industry, then mixed with bonding materials.
It is made in rolls 140 cm wide, which gives it a better cutting yield than real leather.
It is hard to predict how a product made from bonded leather will perform over times. You may see flaking on the surface of lower-quality materials in a few years. But some better-quality bonded leathers may last longer than low-quality genuine leather.


(left to right) Jennifer Black with U.S. Sugar, and Linda and Bob Margolis, supporters of YSPB's Choir in the Glades.
(left to right) YSPB Board Vice President Dave Frankland with son Sean Luca Frankland, and fellow Board Member Larry Bernstein and Amy Bernstein.
(left to right) Jeff Trompeter, Dan Clark, and Freddy Rhoads.
(left to right) Beth Clark, past YSPB Executive Director/CEO.welcomes Rachel Ramos, YSPB's new Executive Director.


Arsenic trioxide is the most important commercial compound of arsenic, and the main starting material for arsenic chemistry. It is the highly toxic byproduct of certain kinds of ore processing, for example gold mining. It is so toxic it is used to manufacture arsenic-based pesticides, for poison research, as a wood preservative, and to poison termites. It is absorbed if swallowed or if inhaled or even through the skin if you touch it.
Arsenic exposure if it doesn't kill you first causes diarrhea, vomiting and abdominal pain, convulsions, heart toxicity, and inflammation of the liver and kidneys. Arsenic causes skin disorders and a number of cancers. When it was found that vinyl chloride plant workers were contracting the rare liver cancer, angiosarcoma, became clear to the manufacturers, at least one of these companies attempted to point the finger at arsenic as the source of the rare liver cancer. Arsenic is one of the few compounds besides vinyl chloride that causes angiosarcoma, a good indicator of arsenic's potent cancer causing properties. Dr. Tom K Hei, associate professor of radiation oncology and public health at Colombia University College of Physicians and Surgeons has shown that Arsenic triggers the formation of large quantities of free radicals and these damage some genes and he reasons that the result is the cancer. Dr Hei was further able to prevent the mutations to susceptible genes by treating cells with powerful antioxidants. Pinning the arsenic-induced mutations on free radicals suggests that people chronically exposed to high levels of arsenic, such as people working with asbestos, could take antioxidants to reduce their chances of developing cancer. Dr Hei published his findings in the July 1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Arsenic trioxide is also used to treat drug resistant leukemia in an injectable form called Trisenox; it is a potent chemotherapeutic agent that causes leukemia cells to die. The use of Trisenox to treat leukemia is limited because the drug is severely toxic to the heart causing the death of heart tissue.
In this new study mice were treated with Arsenic Trioxide and their heart function was monitored and blood was tested for elevations of enzymes that indicate damage to the heart muscle is occurring. They were supplemented with Resveratrol. With the strong protection offered by Resveratrol to the cardiac muscle there was no extreme change in heart rhythm on the heart monitor; there usually is prolongation of the QT interval. Lengthening of the QT segment occurs due to electrical disturbances caused by damage to structures called ion channels. These electrical effects predispose a person to a very fast heart rhythm. The electrical disturbance can cause fainting and sudden cardiac death. Resveratrol reduced damage to the heart cells preventing their death. Resveratrol prevented an increase in heart enzymes and insured ongoing protection by the three antioxidant enzyme systems; Glutathione, Catalase, and SOD in the heart muscle. Resveratrol greatly improved the ability of the heart cells to survive. In conclusion Resveratrol significantly protected the heart from developing dangerous-life threatening electrical disturbances, prevented structural damage of the heart, protected the heart from free radical damage and decreased the rate of death of heart muscle cells caused by arsenic chemotherapy in these animals suggesting it may protect the hearts of cancer patients from the toxicity of chemo0therapeutic agents. The study is published in the March 2008 issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology.


Crayola paint and create is a remarkable iPad coloring book app for kids. Crayola has many coloring and drawing apps for kids but this one has to be the best one of them all.
This app has many coloring activities and different coloring variations for kids, which we want to introduce to you, one by one.
A special feature of the Crayola coloring book has to be the interactive coloring pictures. Some of the objects move and some make sounds, when they are being colored in.
The coloring-in pictures are all equipped with some coherent background music, which is quite nice.
The coloring pages are separated in categories such as, "four seasons", "pirates" and "illusions" (knight's & princesses).
Kids can try out a palette of many coloring tools and pictures, whilst they're in the "free draw" category. Those tools are: felt-tip pens, coloring pencils and wax crayons, all in many different colors and with a visible coloring difference. The wide range of options and colors is amazing and leaves us perfectly happy.
If you're already a happy owner of the Crayola iMarker, then you'll be glad to know that this app is compatible with the iMarker pen for kids. If you don't have one, then that's not a problem as you can use any iPad stylus or simply your fingers, to draw and color in the pictures of this app.
We always recommend a reasonable priced capacitive pen from amazon, with what we've had good experience with so far and with which you can have a lot of drawing fun.
It is also advisable to take a look at the settings: you can find the options "stay inside the line" – a very good option, with which you can even color in smaller and fine details precisely and also with your fingers, without drawing over the lines.
Crayola paint & create is a very beautiful iPad color-book app for kids.
We love the variety and range of options in this app, and the way the app has been structured.
We also like the different difficulty levels in the drawing activities, which makes the app interesting for kids of different ages and abilities.
We would have liked to have seen the variety of pictures sorted more evenly, as there are much more pictures for boys (pirates, knight's, dragons), then there are for girls.


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The Cusp of a Wildlife Protection Renaissance
10/25/2021 9:43 AM | Kathleen Avitt (Administrator)
By Guest Contributor | October 19, 2021, 12:55 pm | in Columnist
By Eric Stiles and Collin O'Mara
The historic, bipartisan Recovering America's Wildlife Act (RAWA), recently introduced in the US Senate which aims to invest a total of $1.4 billion annually for state-led efforts to protect thousands of at-risk wildlife species, will be the most significant investment in wildlife conservation in a generation. An investment of this magnitude will support at-risk species population numbers to prevent them from having to receive federal protection under the Endangered Species Act, as well as provide funding to recover species already federally protected. RAWA's benefits will extend to economic stimulation with job creation and support for the outdoor recreation economy.
A loss of species and biodiversity is a here and now problem, only exacerbated by climate change. A shocking one-third of America's wildlife species are at an increased rate of extinction and sadly, more than 150 U.S. species have already gone extinct. The recently released Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) report must serve as our final wake-up call to propel us toward aggressive strategies tailored to the species, habitat, and unique human-wildlife connections. RAWA will serve as one resiliency strategy by providing science-based planning and implementation support. Historically, funding for wildlife recovery and protection was lacking, but greatly needed. RAWA will provide unprecedented support through directly funding wildlife recovery and conservation to effectively protect the most vulnerable of species throughout the country.
Specifically, federal funding from RAWA will flow directly to state-led efforts to recover wildlife outlined in each state's Wildlife Action Plan. These plans are a Congressional prerequisite to receive wildlife-supporting grants. Serving as a blueprint for conservation of species, New Jersey's Wildlife Action Plan is tailored to the Garden State's specific wildlife conservation needs and habitat protection. With funding to implement the Plan, we have a chance to prevent species from becoming threatened or endangered and support the recovery of species that are already considered at-risk. In New Jersey, species such as the red knot, little brown bat, common tern, corn snake, northern red salamander, and banded sunfish, are just a few of numerous species in need of assistance.
New Jersey's diverse habitats such as forests, grasslands, and wetlands, are home to diverse species of birds, mammals, reptiles, fishes, amphibians, and invertebrates. Habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change are just a few threats to the existence of not only New Jersey's wildlife, but wildlife throughout the United States. Recovering America's Wildlife Act will be an effective, tailored approach to recovering the species most at-risk and investing in state-led efforts to prevent the extinction of the wildlife with whom we share our home.
Further, Americans spend $140 billion dollars on wildlife-focused recreation every year. The outdoor recreation industry generates $788 billion in economic activity, supports 5.2 million jobs, and generates $59.2 billion in state and local tax revenue annually. An investment in wildlife conservation will result in more funding for outdoor opportunities and public access for all Americans. RAWA is also expected to create more than 33,000 jobs every year in communities where the Act's dollars are invested, putting money back into the pockets of American's that have been hit hardest by the ongoing global pandemic.
Eric Stiles is the President and CEO of New Jersey Audubon
Collin O'Mara, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation


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After starting the treatment process in my SBR (activated sludge) tanks the dissolved oxygen will not pass 1.1 mg/L no matter how much the blowers are turned up. It stays like this for ten hours until it climbs rapidly up to 5mg/L. ORP is -350mv to -150mv during this time. I see effervescent bubming at the water surface but something is stopping the oxygen from dissolving into the water until after that ten hours of aeration. It is like the satiration limit is extrememly low at the begining of the treatment. Any ideas?
Are you adding an anti-foaming agent to the SBR? Soya oil?
No. The wastewater is very oily though. it is a dairy wastewater.
It could be the oil, as it changes the water surface tension. In addition, if might also be the cleaning agents from the dairy. Do you have an oil and fat trap previous to your SBR? If not, probably your SBR is overloaded and your aeration sytem is blocked with fat and oil as well.
Ah! The surface tension due to oil is an interesting theory! The grease trap does not work for us since the infpuent is basically an emulsion because the cleaning chemicals are designed to emulsify oils it just flows straight through the grease traps.
High BOD loading is also a good reason.
The aeration system is working OK. But yes the air could be increased to help the situation.
Floc won't settle in clarifier?!?!


has reached out to us for a super fun and exciting makeover project, which involved a weekly pop up concert and dance showcase throughout December 2018 till January 2019. OUI has invited many talented singers and dancers and also athletes to be in the show. A different kind of energy was brought into the mall every week.


This page contains various aquatic invasive species resources as well as our annual watercraft inspection and decontamination data and reports for the AIS Program. Keep up to date with everything AIS in Hubbard County by viewing the document center below.
Established in Minnesota Statute 84D, the State uses a four tiered system to classify invasive species, which establishes the level of regulation and allowable uses for each species. These classifications are Prohibited Invasive Species, Regulated Invasive Species, Unregulated Nonnative Species and Unlisted Nonnative Species. These classification definitions as well as what species fall under each classification are included in this document.
This document is a comprehensive list of all of the known AIS in Hubbard County and what lakes they are located in. This goes above and beyond the MN DNR Infested Waters List (which only includes 18 prohibited invasive species) by including regulated invasive species as well as all prohibited invasive species. Some of the invasive species you will see on this list that are not included on the MN DNR Infested Waters List are mysterysnails, rusty crayfish, common carp, curly leaf pondweed and purple loosestrife.
This guide provides general identification knowledge and places to look for AIS. For more information on AIS visit the Interactive Distribution Map sub-page.
This document is a template for an invasive species prevention letter that resort or campground owners can utilize to communicate invasive species prevention practices with their future visitors prior to arriving to the area. Please feel free to make necessary changes to make the letter better fit your business.


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Want to learn more about UA Entomology research? Join us for this series of punchy, TED style talks by several of our faculty and booth coordinators. This talk series will take place from 10:00 AM -12:00 PM in room N120 of the ERN2 building.
Ask A Scientist Cafe brought to you by the Entomology-Insect Science Graduate students. These panel discussions will take place from 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM in room N120 of the ERN2 building.
Graduate students will be three panel discussions on interesting issues in entomology. Check with the Information Desk at the eastern entrance of ENR2 for more details.
Desert Dangers brought to you by Laura Morehouse.
Poison, venom, danger! Come learn about the creepy-crawlies of the desert with the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center.
Fruit Flies brought to you by Dr.s Luciano Matzkin and Todd Schlenke. The Fruit Fly booth will let us take a closer look at the little flies that love your fruit bowl, your glass of wine, and the rotting cacti in your backyard. We will learn what's unique about their biology, what challenges they face in nature, and how they've helped us humans understand basic biological principles.
Come learn about the diversity of insects that inhabit the Colorado Plateau.
Desert streams don't always have much water, but they are usually packed with life. Come and learn about the wild world of aquatic insects in Sonoran Desert streams!
Stings 'N Things brought to you by the laboratories of Dr. Justin Schmidt, Dr. Warren Savary and Dr. Leslie Boyer.
Insects are tiny and often tasty – and they are in a big world with lots of big nasty things that want to eat them. But many ants, wasps, and bees have a trick to level the field: they can sting. Come see insects, spiders and scorpions and learn about what happens when they sting.
Learn more about native bees with all sorts of fun activities at Tohono Chul's Native Bee Workshop!
Find entomo-items for yourself and your loved ones! Totes, posters, and new shirts for 2017! All proceed go directly back to supporting the festival. Thank you for your support!
Directions to your best festival experience are at the east entrance of ENR2 -- near the vendors and food trucks!
University of Arizona Insect Collection brought to you by Mr. Gene Hall and the University of Arizona Insect Collection.
The University of Arizona Insect Collection is a UA core facility that is the cornerstone for entomological research and insect diagnostics for the state of Arizona. The UAIC maintains approximately 2.0 million insect specimens and is the most comprehensive in the world for the Sonoran Desert Region.
Insects as Food brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Yves Carrier.
We feed the world with insects and provide information on insects as food.
Nature's Notebook brought to you by USA National Phenology Network.
Backyard Vampires brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Michael Riehle.
Meet the most dangerous animal on earth … the mosquito. Mosquitoes kill more than one million people every year and sicken hundreds of millions. See these insects up close and learn what you can do to control them and prevent the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus.
Build A Bug brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Kathleen Walker and the Insect Discovery Program.
You've probably made sandcastles or towers before, but have you ever built a bug? Stop by our Build-a-Bug booth and create your very own insect! Design and craft together a bug of your own…and show off your creation to your friends!
Bugs Get Sick Too! brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Patricia Stock.
Did you know that germs, worms and other bugs can make insects sick? Where you aware that Insect parasites and pathogens can be used as biological pesticides to kill insects pests and are alternatives to chemical pesticides? Do you know that many of these germs and worms that kill insects are mass-produced and formulated in USA and other countries of the world? Please come and learn more about some interesting facts about germs, worms and insects.
SE Arizona Butterfly Association (SEABA) Local Butterflies brought to you by SEABA.
SEABA is the local chapter of the North American Butterfly Association having monthly meeting and field trips which welcome beginners. We will exhibit some of our local butterflies and moths and have some live caterpillars as well.
Life in Miniature brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Molly Hunter.
When you look at a grassy field, you probably don't think of how many thousands of small creatures call it home. In our booth, we bring the small insects in from a field in Tucson for you to see. Look through the microscopes and see many different types of insects and all of the different ways that these insects make their living - from sucking on plant juices, to spearing other insects with their sword-like beaks.
Meet and Pet a Caterpillar brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Goggy Davidowitz.
Some juvenile insects look like the spittin' image of the adults. In other insects the juveniles look like they've come from a different planet than the adults. Come see how this happens. You will be surprised which is which!
Pollinator Paradise brought to you by the laboratories of Dr. Dan Papaj and Dr. Judie Bronstein. One-third of our food requires the services of animal pollinators, which usually means insects such as bees. We will have videos and live specimens available, and provide information about insects as pollinators.
Social Insects brought to you by the laboratories of Dr. Kirk Anderson, Dr. Anna Dornhaus, Dr. Gloria Degrandi-Hoffman, and Dr. Vanessa Corby-Harris.
Some insects live together permanently in large groups and are called social, while others are solitary. Social insects live in colonies that may have a few dozen members or hundreds of thousands. They work as a team to build a nest, find food and care for the young. Ants, termites and some bees and wasps are highly social and their colonies are well structured and efficient. Come meet the social insects and learn about the ways they organize and work together at our booth.
Transgenic Crops for Pest Control brought to you by the laboratories of Dr. Bruce Tabashnik and Dr. Xianchun Li.
Application of pesticides to control crops pests often yields multiple side effects such as killing of non-target organisms (birds, bees, natural enemies, etc.) and environmental pollution. To overcome these side effects, a new approach of pest management -- transgenic crops with pest-killing genes inserted -- has been adopted to protect crops from pests for over a decade. The purpose of this booth is to share the science behind transgenic crops.
Poetry gives us a vehicle to express our feelings about the natural world. The Poetry Center docents will enable participants to create their own poems about the insects they encounter and couple this with their artistic representations of the insects. This will be a fun exercise for children (and adults) of all ages!
The Joy of Roaches brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Kathleen Walker and the Insect Discovery Program.
Roaches are ancient, useful and beautiful Come meet these misunderstood and cuddly creatures!
Hissing cockroaches are lovely, gentle pets.
Check out the nature - entomological and otherwise! available in our nearby National Parks.
Solutions for Pests In and Around the Home brought to you by the laboratory of Dr. Dawn Gouge.
Got problems with unwanted visitors in or around your home? We cannot help you with your in-laws, but we can help you get rid of pesky 4, 6 and 8-legged pests. Bring bugs for identification, ask questions or come learn about some of our top pest problem species.
Growing Up brought to you by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and ASDM's Art Institute.
eButterfly brought to you by Dr. Katy Prudic.
Come learn how to identify local butterflies, what they eat and how they make a living. We'll have live caterpillars and butterflies for you to look at and coloring! If you are a butterfly connoisseur, learn about eButterfly, an personal online tool to keep track of your butterfly checklists and photographs while sharing this information with butterfly enthusiasts all across North America.
TBG Butterfly Magic! brought to you by the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Have you ever wondered how or why bugs build things things like traps, hives, or other homes? Come and see the wondrous structures insects create as dwellings, to collect food, or to otherwise protect themselves. The College of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture will have some insect-inspired designs on display.


With $2,000,000 in Singapore, you can choose between a Rolls-Royce Phantom, a penthouse, or a dinner. When the masters of diamonds and lifestyle join forces, you can expect no compromise for the world's most expensive, and exclusive culinary dining experience, for two diners only. This one of a kind $2,000,000 dining experience comes with coveted luxury items including the 2.08 carat blue diamond Jane Seymour ring and more.
The 8-hour retreat begins with a phenomenal air, land and sea journey–commencing with a 45 minute helicopter ride offering scenic wonders of Singapore, a chauffeured Rolls-Royce drive, followed by a luxury private cruise. As the duorise elegantly upon CÉ LA VI's highly coveted venue –atop the 57thfloor of Marina Bay Sands Hotel,the sight and scent of 10,000 fresh roses set against breathtaking 360-degree views would redefine them. The gastronomic adventure, an 18-course Modern Asian menu, would then be served during sunset.
While in complete privacy (the sanctuary will be reserved in their honor), the culinary voyage includes Fresh Belon Oyster with Champagne foam, AlmasCaviar, Jamón Ibérico, Gewürztraminer-Poached Foie Gras, Veal Liver, Lamb Sweetbread, Bresse Poulet Consommé, Striped Sea bass, Air-Flown Alaska Wild Salmon,Verjus Sorbet, Slow Cooked Pigeon, Glenvale Pork Loin and Apple-Wood Grilled Mishima Sirloin. Among the planet's most extraordinary tipples, alongside44 and 55 year-old vintage wines, are paired with the spectacular menu; 1988 Salon 'S' champagne, 2008 Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru, 1996 Domaine de la Romanee-Conti, Romanee-Saint-Vivant Grand Cru,1961 Chateau Haut-Brionand 1972 Oremus Tokaji Aszú 5 Puttonyos. During the candle-lit affair (set both indoors and al fresco style),the guests shall dine with diamond-studded chopsticks(engraved with their names), while being seated luxuriously in custom-made designer furniture.
The grand armchairs, fabricated by The Plush and configured to the diners' home and personality, would eventually make their way to the couple's residence. Complementing the ambience is not only the live band; WORLD OF DIAMONDS Group has introduced an unforgettable star-studded recognition to the evening. The Jane Seymour, a beyond rare 2.08 carat Fancy Vivid Blue diamond ring, would be presented in a delectable savory.
The high jewelry masterpiece, created to celebrate the accomplishments of illustrious A-lister Jane Seymour, OBE, is encrusted with a cushion-cut sparkler that flaunts a mesmerizing blue hue. Seymour had worn and personally endorsed The Jane Seymour during a lavish dinner celebration at CÉ LA VI Singapore in April this year, and while the creation is in no hurry to be sold, it is the world's only celebrity ring that isn't pre-owned.
To mark the exhilarating moment when the ring finally graces the divine one at midnight, Louis XIII de Rémy Martincognac would be served, complete with an extravagant fireworks display to the envy of the universe.
"At CÉ LA VI, we live to create unique experiences that stimulate the senses, elevate the spirit, amplify passion and fuel the pursuit of pleasure. This ($2,000,000 dining experience) done conjointly with our esteemed partner, WORLD OF DIAMONDS Group, is the zenith of all experiences", stated Mr David Sarner, CEO ofCÉ LA VI Singapore.
The conglomerates behind this offering are willing to extend the hospitality for a night's stay, if necessary. After all, c'est la vie. Even if you accept the eye-watering price tag however, there is a prerequisite. The enchanting experience will only be sold to a qualified individual –at the discretion of both WORLD OF DIAMONDS Group and CÉ LA VI.
CÉ LA VI Singapore: At CÉ LA VI, we live to create unique experiences that stimulate the senses, elevate the spirit, amplify passion and fuel the Pursuit of Pleasure. Iconic rooftop locations that command breathtaking 360-views. Globe-spanning culinary adventures in a spectacular setting. Cocktails that concoct magical spells –transforming surprising ingredients into unexpected treasures. Legendary and stratospheric nightlife with a cult following; theme parties that are a magnet for the glitterati and jetset.This is CÉ LA VI. This is living.
World Of Diamonds (WOD) Group: Having launched and sold The Royalé Dream–the world's most expensive perfume collection –in Singapore in 2015, the WOD Group has always been behind some of the finest diamonds and jewelry pieces. Through joint ventures with maisons in Europe and the Americas, the Russian conglomerate is almost fully integrated in diamond mining, polishing, high jewelry creation and distribution to leading houses of the world. As one of the largest privately held diamond mining corporations, the WORLD OF DIAMONDS has directly catered to billionaires and members of royal descent.


Bokashi Bran (Pty) Ltd, established in 2012, is a business located in Johannesburg, South Africa. We manufacture Bokashi Bran® and offer sustainable, green solutions for food waste disposal. Untreated food waste rots at landfill and generates methane gas and leachates. Bokashi Bran's vision is to make a difference in diverting food waste from landfill.
Silverstar Casino, part of Tsogo Sun Group, implemented the Bokashi Bran® Food Waste Management System in February 2016.
By separating food waste at source and composting, Silverstar have reduced their landfill waste from 37 tonnes per month (2015) to a mere 5 tonnes per month (2018) – a whopping 86% decrease!
In addition, waste collection costs reduced by 59% over the same period. This was achieved by eliminating the compactor and reducing the number of skip lifts.
Following the success of Silverstar, the following organisations also implemented the system.
Artisan Training Institute, Eagle Canyon and The Blades Hotel have all been using the system for over 5 years.
She has been involved with the African Youth in Organic Agricultural Production and Processing and was an expert facilitator for the African Union for the Youth and Governance Conference.
Bokashi Bran is involved with developing environmentally sustainable systems for household waste that will benefit the community in the form of job creation, composting and food gardens.
Bokashi Bran was awarded 2nd place in the Africa Sustainability Awards 2017 held at the JSE in Sandton. The award recognised the green solution in the waste industry.
Bokashi Bran won the Mail & Guardian Green Awards 2018 for green solutions in the waste industry.
In June 2016, the owner of Bokashi Bran, Bronwyn Jones, attended the Waste Expo held in Las Vegas, USA. The trip consisted of a week-long lectures on food waste management including workshopping on possible solutions. It was encouraging to note that in many respects, Bokashi Bran was already implementing working solutions for this problem. Many of the municipalities in the US and Canada have a weekly food waste collection service but face the challenge of bad odours and the attraction of vermin. Using Bokashi Bran® to treat this food waste will eliminate this problem and offer export opportunities for South Africa.
Food waste has long been a waste problem for municipalities which operate waste processing plants in the form of landfill dump sites. The separation of recyclable waste at landfill is hampered by food waste. Food waste rots when dumped, attracting vermin, disease and causing environmental damage.
Bokashi Bran presents an opportunity to recycle landfill-bound food waste, save landfill space while benefit from the bokashi compost. The implementation of the system also improve quality and quantity of recyclable material.
Bokashi-treated food waste contains a high nutrient value which, when composted, produces quality plant food and soil enhancer free from chemicals or harmful substances.
The introduction of the macerating machines has opened the market for Bokashi Bran to engage with organisations that have high volumes of food waste. Through the maceration and de-watering system, we are able to reduce food waste volumes by up to 80% resulting in savings in compactor or skip removals.
I began my journey in 2011 when I was introduced to bokashi and realised the enormous impact the product had for the environment. It seemed "too good to be true" to be able to compost cooked food and protein.
I studied Marketing and Sales Management after completing my schooling on the south coast in Scottburgh. I then spent 5 years in the office automation industry before travelling around Europe and the US. On my return, I joined my family printing business where I developed my broad range of skills from design, photography, administration, production and generally running a business. In 2000, I qualified with my MBA from Cardiff University in Wales.
I spent 18 months developing and testing my recipe for Bokashi Bran before having it analysed by the Agricultural Research Council. On receiving overwhelming praises for my product, I registered Bokashi Bran (Pty) Ltd in 2012.
With the sobering realisation that, despite my formal academic education, I actually didn't have a clue about running this business. I attended the Richard Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship where I began to formulate target market segments and develop strategic business plans.
I was also privileged enough to attend the Sophiatown Green Incubation Ide8 programme in December 2015 where I learnt creative and innovative ways of assessing my business and through careful development and refinement of my business model canvas, I have moulded the business to what it is today. To further enhance my business development, I was selected to participate in the mentorship programme that guided me through many business development decisions and strategies. In January 2017, I was mentored by Growth Wheel Consulting under the "Activ8" programme.
To further the growth and development of the business, Bokashi Bran has been part of the iLAB programme through the Entrepreneur Institute and Roger James Hamilton. This is a program of clearly defining the ROI for customers when implementing the Bokashi Bran® system.
I am also now a qualified Carbon Footprint Analyst which gives me the full understanding of the detrimental effects of food waste on the environment.


Last week some calm weather blew into the Chalten massif, but with cold and snowy conditions. Jon and I hiked into Niponino with some loose plans to scratch around on something while wearing crampons. After hemming and hawing for a while on the Torre Glacier at first light on the 16th, we finally decided to head up Tobogan. Tobogan is a slanting system of of ramps and gullies that climbs on the southeast aspect of Cerro Standhardt up to the Col dei Sogni (the col between Cerro Standhardt and Punta Herron). The route was established in 1999 by the uber-powerful team of Rolando Garibotti and Silvo Karo.
Jon and I found much icier conditions on Tobogan than Rolo and Silvo experienced, allowing us to enjoy high-quality ice and mixed climbing, rather than the "alpine groveling" that Rolo refers to. And while the dry conditions forced Rolo and Silvo into aid on some of the lower portions of Tobogan, the good ice conditions allowed Jon and I to make the first free ascent (if you're into that kind of thing... :P), at reasonable difficulties I would estimate to be AI4, M6.
I believe that we made the second ascent of Tobogan to the Col dei Sogni, but, like Rolo and Silvo, we didn't manage to climb any higher than the col, and the route remains unfinished to the summit of Punta Herron or Cerro Standhardt.
Jon at the Col dei Sogni, with a frosty Spigolo dei Bimbi above, about to start our favorite ritual - rappelling through the night!


Who Was There: Richard Rouse III, narrative director of Assassin's Creed II developer Ubisoft Montreal.
What They Talked About: Rouse began his 2010 Game Developers Conference presentation by saying that the debate on whether or not games can make you cry isn't new. In fact, Steve Meretzky, creator of the 1984 text game based on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, told him "That topic is so 1993." However, with games becoming more and more accepted as an art form, Rouse laid out some approaches used in other media that he thinks can make games more emotionally resonant.
First off, Rouse pointed out that many other kinds of media make people cry. (He himself opened up the waterworks at the end of the movie Titanic and during a Rush concert "because they are so damn awesome.") One of the ways this is done is through reminiscence, or the process of making the viewers or listeners look back at their life. As an example, he played the video for Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt," which showed the aged singer--not long before his death--intercut with footage of him as a young man in the 1950s and 1960s. "That was your life," is how Rouse summarized it.
This common technique is used in films like Titanic and in games such as the Sims, which scrapbooks key moments in a sim's life and saves them for the player to watch later. The prime example he showed was the ending cinematic of Fallout 3, in which the "Lone Wanderer" protagonist is shown his accomplishments in the game via a sepia-toned photo montage.
Rouse found the father-son bond in Fallout 3 particularly moving.
The second method of narrative tearjerking is "amplification through abstraction." To illustrate this point, he showed a clip from the anime drama Grave of the Fireflies, which chronicles the struggles of a young boy and his younger sister in Japan at the end of World War II.
Orphaned and shunned by extended family members, the starving pair take refuge in a mine shaft before the boy goes out to seek food. When he returns, he finds his delusional sister dying, having eaten dirt clumps and marbles thinking they were rice balls and candies.
Rouse said that if the scene had featured real actors, it might have been unbearable or cheesy. However, since it was an anime, the young girl is abstracted. She is a template for viewers to project images of young girls in their lives onto the experience, making the emotional punch more powerful.
Players would miss Portal's GLaDOS AI if it were gone, says Rouse.
For Rouse, games that have done this include the text-only Planetfall, in which the character Floyd sacrifices himself to save the player, and the very anime-like ICO. He showed a clip from the "art game" Passage, in which two tiny characters walk down a passageway, not knowing what lies ahead.
Method three for evoking eye-sopping emotion in games is transformation. "The weak shall inherit [the Earth]," says Rouse, before showing the film paradigm of this concept, It's a Wonderful Life. The Frank Capra classic centers on George Bailey, who stays at an unprofitable small-town savings and loan because he feels the need to help others buy homes. Discouraged, he ponders suicide and is then shown that his life touched others. Showing the film's finale, Rouse said this is the classic example of people crying at a narrative's happiest part, not its saddest.
BioShock's Little Sisters are an example of game characters evoking emotion through transformation.
In games, the example Rouse offered was the finale of BioShock--if you chose to rescue rather than harvest the Little Sisters. He showed a clip that has the game's penultimate scene, when an ADAM-mutated Frank Fontaine is bum-rushed by all the Little Sisters the player has saved. As the freakish hulk collapses while being pierced by dozens of viciously long hypodermic needles, Rouse deadpans it wasn't quite It's a Wonderful Life.
Rouse's fourth method for evoking tears in games is the concept of loss, or "you don't know what you've got until it's gone." His filmic example of that was a scene from director F.W. Murnau's silent film Sunrise, in which an alluring woman from the city convinces a small-town local to kill his wife. When it comes time to do the deed on his rowboat, he finds he can't go through with it. Later, though, his wife is knocked overboard and presumed lost. Furious, he goes to kill the city woman--only to learn his wife is still alive, making for a happy, but tear-filled, ending.
In games, Rouse held up Portal as an example of the "you don't know what you've got until it's gone" technique. He said even though the GLaDOS computer spends much of the game trying to kill the player, the deranged AI is the player's only companion throughout the game. So when it comes time to destroy its computer core, players are left somewhat saddened since they effectively lost a friend. That feeling diminishes, though, when the player discovers that GLaDOS is still alive. He joked, "Oh, that's great! She's back and can try and kill you some more!"
When Rouse's Nintendog disappeared, he went through the five stages of grief.
That said, Rouse said the only time he personally cried was because of a game one might not expect. He then showed pictures of himself and his young daughter playing Nintendogs on a DS. Due to his daughter's tender age, Rouse had spent hours showing her how to care for their Nintendog. Confident she could handle caring for the virtual pet on her own, he left for a weeklong business trip--only to be told via phone by his wife that the dog had disappeared.
Distraught, he came home and discovered the dog was indeed gone. Despondent, he said he actually went through the five phases of grief--until, one day, the dog reappeared with a gift in its mouth. Rouse explained that Nintendo had put a mechanic into the game that made a dog vanish if it wasn't cared for properly but that made the dog eventually return to give the player a second chance. He said that was a perfect--and powerful--example of a game maker using the loss technique.
Rouse's fifth and final method to make gamers cry is nostalgia. To illustrate this point, he showed a scene from the season finale of the first episode of the television series Mad Men. In the scene, the philandering advertising executive Don Draper makes a powerful pitch for a campaign for Kodak's then-new slide projector. While showing photos of his own family during happier times, he talks about how "in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound." He names the slide projector the Carousel, since it "lets us see the world as a child sees it."
Rouse repeatedly referred to ICO as one of the most emotionally evocative games in recent memory.
In Rouse's opinion, games do the same thing as the Carousel. Whereas kids like to play dress-up, games let teens and adults don a different guise and enter a similar fantasy world. This can have a powerful effect in single-player, he explained, again holding up ICO as an example of emotionally poignant game-making.
Rouse concluded by saying that massively multiplayer online games can also bring about a sense of nostalgia the same way real life does. That's because increasingly, people are making friends while playing MMOGs. Online play also helps sustain friendships between friends separated by distance when one friend moves away.
Quote: "What do you mean, 'Fu-Fu's gone'!?" --A distraught Rouse, upon being informed by his wife that his favorite Nintendog had disappeared.
Takeaway: "Games let people live lives we never had and lets us think about our lives in a new way," said Rouse.


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Kevin Owens Clarifies If WWE Handles Twitter Accounts Of Superstars
By Sai Mohan |December 24, 2021
RAW Superstar Kevin Owens has seemingly debunked the notion that WWE handles the Twitter accounts on behalf of its wrestlers.
On Thursday, a fan tweeted that "WWE Superstars aren't allowed to make their own posts to social media" and the accounts are managed by the company. In response, Owens wrote:
Oh s--t, I guess I didn't get the memo!
Corey Graves also chimed in with a response, as seen in the tweet below.
It is beleived that WWE manages only the Facebook accounts of its Superstars, and has no involvement in their other social media platforms such as Twitter, TikTok and Instagram.
Owens has the opportunity to win his first WWE Championship next Saturday at the Day 1 pay-per-view in Atlanta, GA. Big E will defend his title in a Fatal Four-Way against Owens, Seth Rollins and Bobby Lashley. As noted, Owens and Rollins aligned on RAW and could potentially form a tag team on the red brand.
Oh s--t, I guess I didn't get the memo! https://t.co/wpYiYaD1E1
— Kevin (@FightOwensFight) December 23, 2021
This is my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
— Corey Graves (@WWEGraves) December 23, 2021
WWE RAW Superstar Reveals Whereabouts Of Veer Mahaan
Jonah Thinks WWE NXT 2.0 Is "Just Another WWE Product"


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After injury-riddled regular season, Gopher volleyball enters NCAA Tournament finally healthy
By Pat Borzi | Contributing Writer
The Gophers approach this postseason without last year's pressure and expectation, which may help.
Can the Twin Cities support two minor league baseball teams?
That's the big question after a proposal to build a $42 million, 8,500-capacity stadium in Shakopee near Canterbury Park that would be home to a team called the Metro Millers was unveiled this week.
It's time to rethink the notion of loyalty when it comes to big-time college coaches
There's nothing really stopping Fleck from jumping at the next big thing, for more money or a higher national profile. But there's also nothing stopping Minnesota from firing him if things go sideways.
What P.J. Fleck could learn from the Gopher women's hockey team
If you want ESPN's attention, skip the talk. Give them something they can't ignore — like what Gopher women's hockey player Amy Potomak did with her Magical Mystery Goal.
In polarizing times, one issue can still unite lawmakers in Minnesota (and everywhere else): sticking it to the NCAA
Republican state Sen. Roger Chamberlain plans to introduce a bill in 2020 modeled on legislation passed in California, a measure that would let student athletes profit from their name and image, including endorsement deals.
What to expect from Minnesota's three most visible basketball teams this season
A look at the Timberwolves, the Gopher men and Gopher women, in order of likely success.
How the Houston Astros became world champions of terrible judgement
If you're wondering how a club could employ an executive with so little common sense, and how its media relations team could mangle crisis management so badly, it's because … well, they're the Astros, one of baseball's most arrogant and tone-deaf organizations.
Sad part of Tommies' ambition: It risks the end of a special rivalry
If UST succeeds, Saturday's annual St. Thomas-St. John's football game may be the next-to-last in the MIAC's most popular rivalry. UST is scheduled to exit the MIAC in the spring of 2021.
Where the Twins go from here
Twins officials have hinted at a much more active winter. Expect the team to re-sign Jake Odorizzi and possibly Michael Pineda, then go hunting for starting pitching.
Twin Cities Business
Rough waters for the Minnesota Whitecaps
By John Rosengren
League problems threaten the stability of local women's pro hockey.
What the 2019 Twins could learn from 2004 Red Sox
"I like the Twins," said Kevin Millar, who played on that Red Sox team and who's now a talking head on the MLB Network. "I don't think they're getting enough credit all the way through the board. This isn't an 89-win team."
Minnesota United's playoff berth marks another step in Loons' long-term development
Until Wednesday, the Loons had never won an MLS game they trailed at halftime, going 0-8 this season and 0-32-6 since joining the league in 2017.
If Maya Moore wants to devote the rest of her life to something besides basketball, fans should cheer her on
Too many people have made it clear they care about only one thing when it comes to Moore: whether she returns to the Minnesota Lynx to play basketball.
How new roster rules will change Major League Baseball — if they actually go into effect
MLB still hasn't announced how the roster expansion and other proposed changes for 2020 are supposed to work. "We haven't gotten clarification," Indians manager Terry Francona said last weekend at Target Field. "It's very vague."
'Nothing more you can ask of her': Why the Lynx's Naphessa Collier should be the WNBA's rookie of the year
At least according to her teammates, including former league MVP Sylvia Fowles, who has taken to calling Collier "Roy," fashioning a nickname from the initials for Rookie of the Year.
Minnesota's surprising role in boxing's modest comeback
For all the optimism around boxing these days, however, worrisome signs abound.
Why Twins fans are nuts about the Target Field squirrel
With the Twins squandering a 11 1/2 game lead in the AL Central, none of their relievers inspiring any confidence, and fear persisting that the Twins will blow the division to Cleveland, fans have welcomed whatever help the Twins can get.
A whole bunch of Minnesotans could be legitimate contenders for the 2020 Olympics
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After injury-riddled regular season, Gopher volleyball enters NCAA Tournament finally healthy

By Pat Borzi | Contributing Writer

Dec. 6, 2019

The club room at Williams Arena resembles a lot of meeting spaces at the University of Minnesota, large but not ostentatious, with paneled walls and utilitarian maroon carpeting. That's where the Gophers volleyball team and about 100 boosters gathered last Sunday to watch the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on ESPNU.

The players pulled up chairs around an overhead flatscreen television while Coach Hugh McCutcheon claimed a table by himself at the back of the room. His assistants sat on the floor along a wall, legs extended, tapping away at their laptops. The players cheered when "Minnesota" appeared on the screen as the tournament's No. 7 seed, a placing McCutcheon later said was "about right" for a 23-5 team that endured more injuries and lineup shuffling than any since McCutcheon took over in 2012.

The Gophers host NCAA first and second round matches this weekend at Maturi Pavilion. It comes the year after the Gophers were seemingly ordained to breeze into Final Four as the host school — not by them, but their ticket-buying fans. The sting of a four-set, upset loss to Oregon in the NCAA Regional semifinals lingered for months, and McCutcheon was still being asked about it this week.

"The one thing I can say is, it was really hard to get away from it last year," McCutcheon said. "You go the grocery store and someone wants to chat with you about it — which is great, right, because they care. They've got their tickets to the Final Four, and it's wonderful that we're (possibly) there too, and all the rest of it. It was just one of those things, that it was probably more present as much through the community as anything else.

"This year is different for a variety of different reasons, and mainly for the team and the stuff we've gone through already to get to where we are. Having gone through so many real tests of our ability to compensate and adjust, and show some resiliency, all that stuff. That's probably the major differentiating factor."

Start with the roster upheaval. Besides losing All-American setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson, who graduated, three significant contributors transferred — outside hitter Jasmyn Martin to Florida State, defensive specialist Lauren Barnes to Wisconsin, and backup setter Sara Nielsen to Kansas. Needing to fill a one-year gap between Seliger-Swenson and highly-touted 2020 recruit Melani Shaffmaster, the Gophers brought in Kylie Miller, a senior transfer from UCLA who enrolled in January. Miller quickly built an on-court rapport with the Gophers returning hitters, especially two-time All-American opposite hitter Stephanie Samedy.

McCutcheon's past teams avoided significant injury problems, but this one couldn't. Five regulars sat out at least one match. Miller had the worst of it, suffering a concussion in late September that idled her for most of the next two months. How it happened, she won't say. But it wasn't her first — that came at UCLA — and she missed 13 of 15 Big Ten matches in the meat of the season. The Gophs went 11-2 without her, both losses to Wisconsin. That decided the conference title: The Badgers finished 18-2 in Big Ten play to Minnesota's 17-3.

"It was super frustrating and super hard, because I just wanted to be on the court with my team competing," Miller said. "Head injuries are serious, so I just had to be patient and knew that I was doing everything that I could to get back out there."

The offense struggled at times without Miller, whose absence forced McCutcheon to alter his substitution pattern. But Miller's backup, 5-9 sophomore Bailey McMenimen, isn't tall enough to block effectively, so McCutcheon subbed in a better blocker whenever McMenimen rotated to the front line. In those moments 5-8 freshman Tamara Dolonga subbed in for a different player to set until McMenimen's position swung to the back row.

A good setter is like a good quarterback, reading the defense, delivering the ball precisely where each hitter likes it. Switching up setters in a match isn't ideal, especially when injuries leave you scrambling elsewhere. McCutcheon frequently used 10 to 12 players instead of his preferred eight or nine. NCAA teams are allowed 15 substitutions per match, and one night things got so crazy that McCutcheon ran through them all — a first for him.

All that subbing meant less court time for Samedy, whom McCutcheon often took out when McMenimen went in. Samedy played all six rotations her first two seasons as a Gopher. The sight of Samedy on the sidelines cheering on her teammates seemed odd, if not counterproductive.

"I thought Bailey and Tamara did a phenomenal job, and certainly Bailey," McCutcheon said. "That being said, people coming in, people coming out, there's a lot of turnover. One of the strengths of having a more stable lineup is just the consistency."

Miller returned Nov. 22 in a five-set home loss to Nebraska. McCutcheon used Miller and McMenimen the first two sets before going exclusively with Miller from Set 3 on, which allowed Samedy to stay on the court. Miller quickly reestablished herself, and the Gophs closed the regular season by beating Iowa, Rutgers and seven-time NCAA champion Penn State. Minnesota hadn't won in Happy Valley since 2004, but Samedy's 21 kills and Miller's 49 assists and 10 digs keyed the four-set victory.

"I hadn't practiced for awhile, so I was a little nervous about being rusty," Miller said. "And I was for the first few days. But we did specific drills that I was able to set the hitters, and keep up that connection. In like a week, I was fine."

The Gophers approach this postseason without last year's pressure and expectation, which may help. Seeded teams generally move through the first round with little drama. Heading into Friday's match with Metro Atlantic champion Fairfield, the Gophers are 22-1 in the first round, 6-0 under McCutcheon. Iowa State or Creighton await the winner in the second round. That winner advances to next weekend's Austin Regional and a possible showdown with second-seeded Texas. The Longhorns swept the Gophers there in early September.

"We've had a pretty up and down season with lineups and everything," said senior middle blocker Taylor Morgan. "But we're figuring things out, and we're connected more than we have ever been in the past. I'm really excited to see what we have in store."

Miller experienced the vibrant atmosphere of the sold-out The Pav in 2016 as a UCLA freshman, when the Gophers eliminated the Bruins in three tight sets in an NCAA Regional final to advance to the Final Four. She loved it, and remembered the energy when it came time to transfer. Miller can't wait to dive into that mayhem again.

"Finally, they'll be on my good side," she said, smiling.

This article first appeared on MinnPost and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.


Two weeks into recruitment season, I have to say that there are many things I expected with this job but many more that I did not. Firstly, I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of grade 11 and 12 students that have shown thorough drive and initiative when it comes to post-secondary learning. The number of students that came to the Ontario Universities' Fair (OUF) on their own and for their own reasons was very encouraging and makes me proud of what we are doing. These students really know what they want and it makes me feel so good when we can provide it for them.
I hope that everyone keeps working hard toward their post-secondary goals because being accepted to university is a huge accomplishment and milestone in itself. If I see any of you at our Open House I will feel like I did my job, and my hope is that you realize how many opportunities I have seen UOIT offer to our students.
Throughout recruitment I am also seeing many students that are not really sure what they want to do (don't worry, to be honest I hadn't a clue when I was 17 either!) The important thing for you to know is that you are not alone; there are many students in your current situation. It can seem like there are a lot of outside pressures associated with picking a university, but what I think is most important is that you as a student are the happiest with your decision. UOIT offers many foundation year programs, so you are not locked into one specific thing as soon as you come to school; this is something that certainly would have been very helpful to me throughout the school selection journey.
The most important piece of recruitment information I want to offer to high school students is to take the time to do research. My hope is that your selection process will be more than just gathering up as many viewbooks as you can and leaving. Yes, these books are extremely informative and important but I'm here to help you as well. All of us liaisons are here to ease the important questions you might have in regards to university. Please ask questions!
Finally, the very most important part of your research should be about visiting EVERY university that you are interested in. This especially goes for students who are completely unsure about what they want to study. The look and feel of a campus can be everything that you're looking for in a study space and the programs can just fall into place after that. In fact this is exactly what happened to me for UOIT. I took the time to visit the campus and fell in love with it. I then had more of a fire under my bum to research programs thoroughly. It actually made me excited and more motivated to do the research. I urge all of you to do the same and to ask as many questions as you can; without questions there are no answers and my job has taught me that all the information you need is readily available to you. I am here to help and I have a special empathy for those who are unsure.
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During World War II the slogan of " Double-V"—victory against fascism abroad and racism at home—became a popular expression of African-American hopes about the war's outcome.  This widespread opposition to fascism, however, was not a direct descendant of 1930s antifascism. The notion of a double victory, implying a double war, is telling in this respect: in contrast, the Communist antifascism of the 1930s had constructed the struggles against European fascism and racism as part of a single struggle against "fascism," broadly defined to include all instances of imperialist, capitalist, reactionary injustice.
 See Plummer, Rising Wind, 85; on African-Americans and World War II generally, see Plummer, Rising Wind, Ch. 3.
 James Bernard Rucker to wife, July 3, 1943, in ALBA 212, Box 1, Folder 2.
 James Benét to Christopher Brooks, July 18, 1993. Response to survey of Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for Brooks' graduate thesis, in ALBA 27, Folder: " Summaries of Survey responses: VALB, Mac-Pap, IBA; Index to African-American Volunteers," at Tamiment Library, New York University.
 Rucker detailed the circumstances in a letter to his wife, April 6, 1943, ALBA 212, Box 1, Folder 2.
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Boskalis to Transport LNG Export Modules
Feb 15 | 2019
Shipping and dredging group Royal Boskalis Westminster has been awarded a "sizable" contract for the transportation of a number of breakbulk modules for a North American LNG export facility.
The scope of work will include the logistical management and transportation of various large modules from the fabrication yard in China to the facility in North America.
"The contract ties up two high-end open-stern heavy transport vessels commencing the second quarter of 2021 through to the third quarter of 2022," a spokesperson for Boskalis said.
US$55 Million Contract Value
Valued at about US$55 million, with additional options for extensions worth up to US$30 million, the contract is tied to the increase in energy consumption with natural gas being recognized as an important bridge in the energy transition.
"The Boskalis strategy accounts for the long-term macroeconomic trends that drive global demand in our selected markets: global trade, increasing energy consumption, population growth and the challenges related to climate change," the firm said in a statement.
Headquartered in the Netherlands, Boskalis provides a range of heavy-lift and project cargo capabilities, and operates one of the largest dredging fleets in the world. The group plans to sell its stake in SAAM SMIT Towage with expected proceeds of more than €175 million.
Offshore Wind Replacement
The group also said it recently signed a contract for the replacement and repair of a part of the inter-array cables at an offshore wind farm.
Boskalis will utilize three anchored barge spreads for the project, including the cable repair assets Bokabarge 82 and recently acquired BoDo Constructor from Bohlen Doyen, accompanied by a variety of support vessels.
The contract value for the inter-array cable project is estimated at about €80 million.
Photo: Boskalis vessel. Credit: RBW


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LATIN EXCERPTS
AND FRAGMENTS
Many of Roman references to the Argonauts' journey are simply allusions or references in longer pieces on primarily unrelated topics. This section collects some (but by no means all) of the most interesting fragments and excerpts that provide Latin-language written accounts of the Jason myth.
Quintus Ennius, Medea Exul
2nd c. BCE
Opening lines to Ennius' lost play Medea Exul, an adaptation of Euripides' Medea, as restored from the fragments:
Nurse:
Would that in the woods of Pelion the fir trunks
Had never come down to the earth, cut with the ax,
Or that the first building of the ship had never started
To commence, that ship which is called by the name
Argo because of the chosen Argives who sailed in her
And sought to carry away the golden fleece of the ram
Of Colchis by the command of King Pelias, through a trick.
For never would my mistress Medea, going astray, sick in her soul,
Wounded by savage love, have stepped foot from her house.
(translation by Jason Colavito)
Lucius Accius, unidentified tragedy
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De natura deorum 2.88-90:
Yet these people [the Epicureans] doubt whether the universe, from whence all things arise and are made, is not the effect of chance, or some necessity, rather than the work of reason and a divine mind. According to them, Archimedes shows more knowledge in representing the motions of the celestial globe than nature does in causing them, though the copy is so infinitely beneath the original. The shepherd in Attius [i.e., Lucius Accius], who had never seen a ship, when he perceived from a mountain afar off the divine vessel of the Argonauts, surprised and frighted at this new object, expressed himself in this manner:--
What horrid bulk is that before my eyes,
Which o'er the deep with noise and vigour flies:
It turns the whirlpools up, its force so strong,
And drives the billows as it rolls along.
The ocean's violence it fiercely braves;
Runs furious on, and throws about the waves.
Swiftly impetuous in its course, and loud,
Like the dire bursting of a show'ry cloud;
Or, like a rock, forced by the winds and rain,
Now whirl'd aloft, then plunged into the main.
But hold, perhaps the Earth and Neptune jar,
And fiercely wage an elemental war;
Or Triton with his trident has o'erthrown
His den, and loosen'd from the roots the stone;
The rocky fragment, from the bottom torn,
Is lifted up, and on the surface borne.
At first, he is in suspense at the sight of this unknown object; but on seeing the young mariners, and hearing their singing, he says,
Like sportive dolphins, with their snouts they roar
and afterwards goes on--
Loud in my ears methinks their voices ring,
As if I heard the god Sylvanus sing.
As at first view the shepherd thinks he sees something inanimate and insensible, but afterwards, judging by more trustworthy indications, he begins to figure to himself what it, is; so philosophers, if they are surprised at first at the sight of the universe, ought, when they have considered the regular, uniform, and immutable motions of it, to conceive that there is some Being, that is not only an inhabitant of this celestial and divine mansion, but a ruler and a governor, as architect of this mighty fabric.
Source: M. Tullius Cicero, Of the Nature of the Gods, trans. Thomas Francklin (London: William Pickering, 1829), 114-116.
Catullus, Poem 61: On the Nuptials of Peleus and Thetis
Before 54 BCE
When Argos' sons, the golden fleece to gain
That hung in Colchis, dared the briny main
In a swift vessel, and the azure sea
Cleaving with oars, urged on their rapid way,
Then the tall pines that grew on Pelion's steep
First learned to float along the watery deep,
Far as where Phasis rolls its copious waves,
And the wide realms of old Aeetes laves:
The inventive Goddess, whose imperial throne
From the proud citadel o'erlooks the town,
First bade the ship each varying blast obey,
And curved to floating hulks the obedient tree;
Fair Amphitrite's crystal bosom taught
To bear the work her magic hands had wrought;
Scarce its swift prow through the cleaved ocean flew;
And, vexed with oars, the billows whiter grew;
Then rose the Nereids from the foamy tide,
To see this wonder o'er their dwellings ride:
Daily the enormous structure they beheld,
To mortal eyes their naked frames revealed;
And full to view, emerging from the flood,
Their swelling breasts and shapes half-human stood.
Source: Gaius Valerius Catullus, The Poems, vol. 2 [trans. F. Nott] (London: J. Johnston, 1795), 3, 5, and 7.
Marcus Terrentius Varro, On Agricultural Things
1st c. BCE
The most important persons of antiquity were all keepers of live stock, as both the Greek and Latin languages reveal, as well as the earliest poets, who describe their heroes some as poluarnos (rich in lambs), some as polumelos (rich in sheep), and others as poluboutes (rich in herds), and tell of flocks which on account of their value were said to have golden fleeces, like that of Atreus in Argos which he complained that Thyestes stole away from him: or that ram which Aeetes sacrificed at Colchis, whose fleece was the quest of those princes known as the Argonauts: or again like those so called golden apples (mala) of the Hesperides that Hercules brought back from Africa into Greece, which were, according to the ancient tradition, in fact goats and sheep which the Greeks, from the sound of their voice, called mela indeed, much in the same way our country people, using a different letter (since the bleat of a sheep seems to make more of the sound of bee than of me) say that sheep "be = alare," whence by the elision of a letter as often happens, is derived the word belare (or balare), to bleat.
Source: Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Terrentius Varro, Roman Farm Management (New York: Macmillan, 1913), 185.
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History
77-79 CE
Natural History 2.109
Naphtha is a substance of a similar nature (it is so called about Babylon, and in the territory of the Astaceni, in Parthia), flowing like liquid bitumen. It has a great affinity to fire, which instantly darts on it wherever it is seen. It is said, that in this way it was that Medea burned Jason's mistress; her crown having taken fire, when she approached the altar for the purpose of sacrificing.
Source: Pliny, The Natural History of Pliny, vol. 1, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), 139.
Natural History 3.22:
Six miles beyond this place lies the river Formio, 189 miles distant from Ravenna, the ancient boundary of enlarged Italy, and now the frontier of Istria. That this region takes its name from the river Ister which flows from the Danube, also called the Ister, into the Adriatic opposite the mouth of the Padus, and that the sea which lies between them is rendered fresh by their waters running from opposite directions, has been erroneously asserted by many, and among them by Nepos even, who dwelt upon the banks of the Padus. For it is the fact that no river which runs from the Danube discharges itself into the Adriatic. They have been misled, I think, by the circumstance that the ship Argo came down some river into the Adriatic sea, not far from Tergeste; but what river that was is now unknown. The most careful writers say that the ship was carried across the Alps on men's shoulders, having passed along the Ister, then along the Savus, and so from Nauportus, which place, lying between Æmona and the Alps, from that circumstance derives its name.
Natural History 7.57
We learn from Philostephanus, that Jason was the first person who sailed in a long vessel; Hegesias says it was Paralus, Ctesias, Semiramis, and Archemachus, Ægeon. According to Damastes, the Erythræi were the first to construct vessels with two banks of oars; according to Thucydides, Aminocles, the Corinthian, first constructed them with three banks of oars; according to Aristotle, the Carthaginians, those with four banks; according to Mnesigiton, the people of Salamis, those with five banks; and, according to Xenagoras, the Syracusans, those with six; those above six, as far as ten, Mnesigiton says were first constructed by Alexander the Great. From Philostephanus, we learn that Ptolemy Soter made them as high as twelve banks; Demetrius, the son of Antigonus, with fifteen; Ptolemy Philadelphus, with thirty; and Ptolemy Philopater, who was surnamed Tryphon, with forty. Hippus, the Tyrian, was the first who invented merchant-ships; the Cyrenians, the pinnace; the Phœnicians, the passage—Boat; the Rhodians, the skiff; and the Cyprians, the cutter
Source: Pliny, The Natural History of Pliny, vol. 2, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855), 233-234.
Natural History, 33.15:
Before this time too, Saulaces, the descendant of Æëtes, had reigned in Colchis, who, on finding a tract of virgin earth, in the country of the Suani, extracted from it a large amount of gold and silver, it is said, and whose kingdom besides, had been famed for the possession of the Golden Fleece. The golden arches, too, of his palace, we find spoken of, the silver supports and columns, and pilasters, all of which he had come into possession of on the conquest of Sesostris, king of Egypt; a monarch so haughty, that every year, it is said, it was his practice to select one of his vassal kings by lot, and yoking him to his car, celebrate his triumph afresh.
Source: Pliny, The Natural History of Pliny, vol. 6, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley (London: George Bell and Sons, 1898), 93-94.
Martial, On the Spectacles
80 CE
Epigram 27:
If the ages of old, Caesar, had begotten Carpophorus, a barbarous land had not dreaded Parthaon's wild-boar, nor Marathon the bull, leafy Nemea the lion, Arcadia the Maenalian boar. When he armed his hand the hydra had died a single death, all the shapes of Chimaera had been stricken by him once. The fire-breathing bulls he might have yoked without the Colchian's aid, he might have vanquished either monster of Pasiphae. Were the story of the sea monster renewed, he alone would loose Hesione and Andromeda. Let the glories of Hercules' honour be summed : tis more to have quelled twice ten beasts at one time.
Source: Martial, Epigrams, trans. Walter C. A. Kerr, vol. 1 (London: William Heinemann, 1919), 21.
Martial, Epigrams
86-103 CE
10.4, To Mamurra
You who read of Oedipus, of Thyestes deserted by the sun, of the Colchian princess (Medea), and of the Scyllas, of what do you read but fabulous wonders? Of what advantage to you is the story of the rape of Hylas, or of Parthenopseus, or of Atys, or of the sleeper Endymion? Or of the youth Icarus despoiled of his falling wings? or of Hermaphroditus, who shuns the amorous waters? What do the empty tales of such frivolous writings profit you? Read in this book of mine of real life, of which you may say, "It is mine." Tou will not find here Centaurs, or Gorgons, or Harpies; my pages savour of man. But if you have no wish, Mamurra, to study the manners of the times, or to know yourself, you may read the myths of Callimachus.
Source: Martial, The Epigrams of Martial, trans. Henry G. Bohn (London: Bell & Daldy, 1871), 163.
11.1, To His Book
Whither, my book, whither are you going so much at your ease, clad in a holiday dress of fine linen? Is it to see Parthenius? certainly. Go, then, and return unopened ; for he does not read books, but only memorials; nor has he time for the muses, or he would have time for his own. Or do you esteem yourself sufficiently happy, if you fall into hands of less note? In that case, repair to the neighbouring portico of Romulus; that of Pompeius does not contain a more idle crowd, nor does that of Agenor's daughter, or that of the inconstant captain [Jason] of the first ship [Argo]. Two or three may be found there who will shake out the worms that infest my trifles; but they will do so only when they are tired of the betting and gossip about Scorpus and Incitatus.
Source: Martial, The Epigrams of Martial, trans. Henry G. Bohn (London: Bell & Daldy, 1871), 500
Statius, The Thebaid
c. 80-96 CE
3.516ff:
(Amphiaraus is speaking): Oft indeed, father, have I read omens of various sort from Phoebus. Yea, when in my vigorous youth the pinewood barque of Thessalybore me in company of princes half-divine, even then did the chieftains listen spellbound to my chant of what should befall us on land and sea, nor Mopsus' self was hearkened to more often by Jason in perplexity than my presagings of the future.
Source: Statius, Thebaid, Achilleid, trans. J. H. Mozley (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1928).
Tacitus, The Annals
117 CE
Annals 6.34:
They [the Parthians] claim to have been descended from the Thessalians, at the period when Jason, after the departure pf Medea and the children born of her, returned subsequently to the empty palace of Aeetes, and the vacant kingdom of Colchi. They have many traditions connected with his name and with the oracle of Phrixus. No one among them would think of sacrificing a ram, the animal supposed to have conveyed Phrixus, whether it was really a ram or the figure-head of a ship.
Source: Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals of Tacitus, trans. Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb (London: Macmillan, 1895), 171.