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#146 Backstory of the Poem "The Night Before Our Dog's Death" by Melissa Fite Johnson
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#146 Backstory of the Poem
"The Night Before Our Dog's Death"
by Melissa Fite Johnson
Can you go through the step-by-step process of writing this poem from the moment the idea was first conceived in your brain until final form?
My husband (Marc) and I don't have children. (Above Right) We have dogs, which is not the same as having children. I don't call them "fur-babies." I feel defined in some ways by our decision not to have children, and my chapbook (A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky, a Vella Chapbook winner through Paper Nautilus Press) is largely about that.
But while the dogs aren't kid-substitutes, they are family. They're our loves. And for thirteen years, Marc and I had only one dog—a black lab mix named Knuckles. We were a unit of three, and I'd long felt that Knuckles was what made us feel like a family and not just a couple. Knuckles died in December 2015, and after a few months I felt ready to write about him. It's hard to write about a pet in a way that doesn't feel too sentimental, and my first few versions were. (Above Right: Marc and Knuckles)
Where were you when you started to actually write the poem? And please describe the place in great detail. Marc and I have since moved to a different house in a different town, but I wrote the poem in our home, the one we shared with Knuckles. The smallest room in our house was my writing space—second floor, with a vaulted ceiling.
What month and year did you start writing this poem? I keep all versions of all poems, so I know I wrote the first version of this poem in March 2016 (Right). I spent a year revising it.
How many drafts of this poem did you write before going to the final? (And can you share a photograph of your rough drafts with pen markings on it?) Seven. (And I'll look through my journals later and try to find one. It might take a bit!)
Were there any lines in any of your rough drafts of this poem that were not in the final version? And can you share them with us? The poem originally had a whole first half. It was much more narrative, which is more my usual style. I described our whole night—car ride, ice cream treat, letting our dog sniff for an extra long time before we headed inside:
He sniffed, or tried,
grass, the base of a tree, our shoes.
Marc and I cried. Cars drove by,
headlights shined on our wet cheeks.
Ultimately, I had too many details. They were honest and well-intentioned, but they took away from the tone. They were a little twee. When I pared the poem down to just the last thing my husband and I did with Knuckles the night before he died—read poems aloud to each other as we held him in our lap—that's when the poem finally felt right to me. (Right: Melissa in December of 2019)
What do you want readers of this poem to take from this poem? I teach Creative Writing to high school students, and I always have them read Bruce Weigl's "May," (https://www.poem
hunter.com/poem/may-58/) a poem about having to put down a dog. (Above Left: Melissa teaching in her classroom)
So many students are angry with me for making them read it, and I always explain to them that I'm not trying to be a jerk. I'm trying to get them to understand that poetry at its best is specific, honest, real. It's a whole relationship whittled down to a moment. That poem makes them get it more than anything else we read because pets are maybe the purest form of love any of us ever gets to experience. I hope my poem makes people feel, the way Weigl makes my students and me feel.
Which part of the poem was the most emotional of you to write and why? The ending. God, we put off going to sleep as long as we could. We could not fathom our lives without him, and we knew our lives without him would begin the next morning. It sounds dramatic, but I told Marc that with the exception of my father's death when I was sixteen, our dog's death was the hardest one I'd ever experienced. Harder than grandparents, even. That might sound terrible, but my father and Knuckles both lived with me when they died. Their deaths changed the fabric of my everyday life. I was reminded of their losses every time I walked into a room. (Above Left: Melissa as a toddler with her father)
Has this poem been published before? And if so where? It's one of the few poems in my chapbook A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky that wasn't published in a journal. So it's nice that it's being featured here!
Anything you would like to add? First, I'm honored you're including me on your blog—thank you so much. Also, my husband and I thought we might never get another dog, but somehow now we have three. We miss Knuckles, but life is for the living, you know? Dogs fill us with joy, and when we were ready, we got one (and then another and then another and I think we're done).
my husband found a poem
about a dog slogging through
a snowy street behind his owner,
read it aloud, slid me the book.
I found a poem comparing
each of our remaining days
to a wooden block the child stacks.
He found a child reaching
for the wrong grown-up's hand.
I found an ambulance wailing
into the drive. He found a river.
I found a tricycle overturned
in the yard. He found a poem
about a dog sleeping in tree shadow.
I found his hand, our dog's fur,
my hollow voice in the near dark.
Melissa Fite Johnson's first collection, While the Kettle's On (Little Balkans Press, 2015), won the Nelson Poetry Book Award and is a Kansas Notable Book. She is also the author of A Crooked Door Cut into the Sky, winner of the 2017 Vella Chapbook Award (Paper Nautilus Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pleiades, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Sidereal, Whale Road Review, Broadsided Press, and elsewhere. Melissa teaches high school English in Lawrence, KS, where she and her husband live with their three dogs. For more, visit melissafitejohnson.com
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BACKSTORY OF THE POEM LINKS
001 December 29, 2017
Margo Berdeshevksy's "12-24"
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-new-crc-blog-series-backstory-of-poem.html
002 January 08, 2018
Alexis Rhone Fancher's "82 Miles From the Beach, We Order The Lobster At Clear Lake Café"
Barbara Crooker's "Orange"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-new-crc-blog-series-backstory-of-poem_12.html
Sonia Saikaley's "Modern Matsushima"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-fourth-installment-of-new-crc-blog.html
Ellen Foos's "Side Yard"
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/01/5-backstory-of-poem-sidewalk-by-ellen.html
Susan Sundwall's "The Ringmaster"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/02/6-backstory-of-poem-susan-sundwalls.html
Leslea Newman's "That Night"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/02/7-backstory-of-poem-that-night-by.html
Alexis Rhone Fancher "June Fairchild Isn't Dead"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/02/8-backstory-of-poem-june-fairchild-isnt.html
Charles Clifford Brooks III "The Gift of the Year With Granny"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/02/9-backstory-of-poem-gift-of-year-with.html
010 March 03, 2018
Scott Thomas Outlar's "The Natural Reflection of Your Palms"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/03/chris-ricecooper-caccoopaol.html
Anya Francesca Jenkins's "After Diane Beatty's Photograph "History Abandoned"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/03/11-backstory-of-poem-after-diane.html
Angela Narciso Torres's "What I Learned This Week"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/03/12-backstory-of-poem-series-angela.html
Jan Steckel's "Holiday On ICE"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/03/13-backstory-of-poem-jan-steckels.html
Ibrahim Honjo's "Colors"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/03/14-backstory-of-poem-ibrahim-honjos.html
015 April 14, 2018
Marilyn Kallett's "Ode to Disappointment"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/04/15-backstory-of-poem-ode-to_14.html
Beth Copeland's "Reliquary"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/04/16-backstory-of-poem-reliquary-by-beth.html
017 May 12, 2018
Marlon L Fick's "The Swallows of Barcelona"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/05/17-backstory-of-poem-swallows-of.html
Juliet Cook's "ARTERIAL DISCOMBOBULATION"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/05/18-backstory-of-poem-arterial.html
019 June 09, 2018
Alexis Rhone Fancher's "Stiletto Killer. . . A Surmise"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/06/19-backstory-of-poem-stiletto-killer.html
Charles Rammelkamp's "At Last I Can Start Suffering"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/06/20-backstory-of-poem-at-least-i-can.html
021 July 05, 2018
Marla Shaw O'Neill's "Wind Chimes"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/07/21-backstory-of-poem-wind-chimes-by.html
Julia Gordon-Bramer's "Studying Ariel"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/07/22-backstory-of-poem-studying-ariel-by.html
Bill Yarrow's "Jesus Zombie"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/07/23-backstory-of-poem-jesus-zombie-by.html
Telaina Eriksen's "Brag 2016"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/07/24-backstory-of-poem-brag-2016-by.html
Seth Berg's "It is only Yourself that Bends – so Wake up!"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/08/25-backstory-of-poem-it-is-only.html
David Herrle's "Devil In the Details"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/08/26-backstory-of-poem-devil-in-details.html
Gloria Mindock's "Carmen Polo, Lady Necklaces, 2017"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/08/27-backstory-of-poem-carmen-polo-lady.html
Connie Post's "Two Deaths"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/08/28-backstory-of-poem-two-deaths-by.html
Mary Harwell Sayler's "Faces in a Crowd"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/08/29-backstory-of-poem-faces-in-crowd-by.html
030 September 16, 2018
Larry Jaffe's "The Risking Point"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/09/30-backstory-of-poem-risking-point-by.html
Mark Lee Webb's "After We Drove"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/09/31-backstory-of-poem-after-we-drove-by.html
Melissa Studdard's "Astral"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/32-backstory-of-poem-astral-by-melissa.html
Robert Craven's "I Have A Bass Guitar Called Vanessa"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/33-backstory-of-poem-i-have-bass-guitar.html
David Sullivan's "Paper Mache Peaches of Heaven"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/34-backstory-of-poem-paper-mache.html
Timothy Gager's "Sobriety"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/35-backstory-of-poem-sobriety-by.html
Gary Glauber's "The Second Breakfast"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/10/36-backstory-of-poem-second-breakfast.html
037 November 04, 2018
Heather Forbes-McKeon's "Melania's Deaf Tone Jacket"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/37-backstory-of-poem-melanias-deaf-tone.html
Andrena Zawinski's "Women of the Fields"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/38-backstory-of-poem-women-of-fields-by.html
Gordon Hilger's "Poe"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/39-backstory-of-poem-poe-by-gordon.html
Rita Quillen's "My Children Question Me About Poetry" and "Deathbed Dreams"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/40-backstory-of-poems-my-children.html
Jonathan Kevin Rice's "Dog Sitting"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/41-backstory-of-poem-dog-sitting-by.html
Haroldo Barbosa Filho's "Mountain"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/42-backstory-of-poem-mountain-by.html
Megan Merchant's "Grief Flowers"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/43-backstory-of-poem-grief-flowers-by.html
Jonathan P Taylor's "This poem is too neat"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/11/44-backstory-of-poem-poem-is-too-neat.html
Ian Haight's "Sungmyo for our Dead Father-in-Law"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/045-backstory-of-poem-sungmyo-for-our.html
Nancy Dafoe's "Poem in the Throat"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/046-backstory-of-poem-poem-registering.html
Jeffrey Pearson's "Memorial Day"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/47-backstory-of-poem-memorial-day-by.html
Frank Paino's "Laika"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/48-backstory-of-poem-laika-by-frank.html
Jennifer Martelli's "Anniversary"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/49-backstory-of-poem-anniversary-by.html
O50 December 19, 2018
Joseph Ross's "For Gilberto Ramos, 15, Who Died in the Texas Desert, June 2014"
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/50-backstory-of-poem-for-gilberto-ramos.html
"The Persistence of Music"
by Anatoly Molotkov
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/51-backstory-of-poem-persistence-of.html
by Michael Farry
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/52-backstory-of-poem-under-surveillance.html
by Renuka Raghavan
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/53-backstory-of-poem-grand-finale-by.html
by Gene Barry
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/12/54-backstory-of-poem-aftermath-by-gene.html
055 January 2, 2019
by Larissa Shmailo
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/55-backstory-of-poem-by-larissa-shmailo.html
"The Seamstress:
by Len Kuntz
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/56-backstory-of-poem-seamstress-by-len_6.html
"Natural History"
by Camille T Dungy
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/57-backstory-of-poem-natural-history-by.html
by Brian Burmeister
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/58-backstory-of-poem-blockade-by-brian.html
by Clint Margrave
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/59-backstory-of-poem-lost-by-clint.html
by Pat Durmon
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/60-backstory-of-poem-menopause-by-pat.html
"Neptune's Choir"
by Linda Imbler
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/61-backstory-of-poem-neptunes-choir-by.html
"Views From the Driveway"
by Amy Barone
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/62-backstory-of-poem-views-from.html
"The heron leaves her haunts in the marsh"
by Gail Wronsky
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/63-backstory-of-poem-heron-leaves-her.html
by Terry Lucas
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/01/64-backstory-of-poem-shiprock-by-terry_29.html
"Summer 1970, The University of Virginia Opens to Women in the Fall"
by Alarie Tennille
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/65-backstory-of-poem-summer-1970.html
"At School They Learn Nouns"
by Patrick Bizzaro
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/66-backstory-of-poem-at-school-they.html
"I Must Not Breathe"
by Angela Jackson-Brown
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/67-backstory-of-poem-i-must-not-breathe.html
"Lunch on City Island, Early June"
by Christine Potter
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/068-backstory-of-poem-lunch-on-city.html
by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/69-backstory-of-poem-singing-by-andrew.html
by Christopher P. Locke
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/70-backstory-of-poem-daily-commute-by.html
"How Silent The Trees"
by Wyn Cooper
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/71-backstory-of-poem-how-silent-trees.html
"A New Psalm of Montreal"
by Sheenagh Pugh
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/72-backstory-of-poem-new-psalm-of.html
"Make Me A Butterfly"
by Amy Barbera
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/73-backstory-of-poem-make-me-butterfly_23.html
by Sandy Coomer
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/02/74-backstory-of-poem-anthem-by-sandy.html
075 March 4, 2019
"Shape of a Violin"
by Kelly Powell
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/75-backstory-of-poem-shape-of-violin-by.html
"Inward Oracle"
by J.P. Dancing Bear
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/76-backstory-of-poem-inward-oracle-by.html
"I Broke My Bust Of Jesus"
by Susan Sundwall
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/77-backstory-of-poem-i-broke-my-bust-of.html
"My Mother at 19"
by John Guzlowski
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/78-backstory-of-poem-my-mother-was-19.html
by Chera Hammons Miller
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/79-backstory-of-poem-paddling-by-chera.html
"Of Water and Echo"
by Gillian Cummings
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/80-backstory-of-poem-of-water-and-echo.html
081 082 083 March 14, 2019
"Little Political Sense" "Crossing Kansas with Jim
Morrison" "The Land of Sky and Blue Waters"
by Dr. Lindsey Martin-Bowen
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/81-82-and-83-backstory-of-poems-by-dr.html
"A Tune To Remember"
by Anna Evans
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/84-backstory-of-poem-tune-to-remember.html
"At the End of Time (Wish You Were Here)
by Jeannine Hall Gailey
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/85-backstory-of-poem-at-end-of-time.html
by Marletta Hemphill
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/86-backstory-of-poem-view-from.html
"Letters From a War"
by Chelsea Dingman
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/87-backstory-of-poem-letters-from-war.html
by Bob Heman
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/88-backstory-of-poem-hat-by-bob-heman.html
"Clay for the Potter"
by Belinda Bourgeois
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/89-backstory-of-poem-clay-for-potter-by.html
#090 March 30, 2019
by John Hicks
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/03/90-backstory-of-poem-pose-by-john-hicks.html
#091 April 2, 2019
"Last Night at the Wursthaus"
by Doug Holder
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/91-backstory-of-poem-last-night-at.html
by Diane Lockward
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/92-backstory-of-poem-original-sin-by.html
"A Father Calls to his child on liveleak"
by Stephen Byrne
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/93-backstory-of-poem-father-calls-to.html
by Marc Zegans
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/94-backstory-of-poem-xx-by-marc-zegans.html
#095 April 12, 2019
"Landscape and Still Life"
by Marjorie Maddox
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/95-backstory-of-poem-landscape-and.html
"Strawberries Have Been Growing Here for Hundreds of
by Mary Ellen Lough
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/096-backstory-of-poem-strawberries-have.html
"The New Science of Slippery Surfaces"
by Donna Spruijt-Metz
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/97-backstory-of-poem-new-science-of.html
"Tennessee Epithalamium"
by Alyse Knorr
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/098-backstory-of-poem-tennessee.html
"Mermaid, 1969"
by Tameca L. Coleman
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/99-backstory-of-poem-mermaids-1969-by.html
"How Do You Know?"
by Stephanie
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/100-backstory-of-poem-how-do-you-know.html
"Rare Book and Reader"
by Ned Balbo
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/101-backstory-of-poem-rare-book-and.html
by Jefferson Carter
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/04/102-backstory-of-poem-thunder-by.html
#103 May 01, 2019
"The sight of a million angels"
by Jenneth Graser
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/103-backstory-of-poem-sight-of-million.html
"How to tell my dog I'm dying"
by Richard Fox
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/104-backstory-of-poem-how-to-tell-my.html
"Promises Had Been Made"
by Sarah Sarai
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/05/105-backstory-of-poem-promises-had-been.html
#106 June 01, 2019
"i sold your car today"
by Pamela Twining
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/106-backstory-of-poem-i-sold-your-car.html
"Abandoned Stable"
by Nancy Susanna Breen
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/107-backstory-of-poem-abandoned-stable.html
by Julene Tripp Weaver
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/108-backstory-of-poem-cupcake-by-julene.html
#109 June 6, 2019
"Bobby's Story"
by Jimmy Pappas
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/109-backstory-of-poem-bobbys-story-by.html
"When You Ask Me to Tell You About My Father"
by Pauletta Hansel
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/110-backstory-of-poem-when-you-ask-me.html
#111 Backstory of the Poem's
"Cemetery Mailbox"
by Jennifer Horne
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/111-backstory-of-poem-cemetery-mailbox.html
by Kate Peper
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/112-backstory-of-poem-relics-by-kate.html
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/113-backstory-of-poem-q-by-jennifer.html
"Brushing My Hair"
by Tammika Dorsey Jones
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/114-backstory-of-poem-brushing-my-hair.html
"Because the Birds Will Survive, Too"
by Katherine Riegel
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/06/115-backstory-of-poem-because-birds.html
by Joan Barasovska
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/07/116-backstory-of-poem-divorce-by-joan.html
by Michael Meyerhofer
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/07/117-backstory-of-poem-new-years-eve.html
"Dear the estranged,"
by Gina Tron
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/07/118-backstory-of-poem-dear-estranged-by.html
"In Remembrance of Them"
by Janet Renee Cryer
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/07/119-backstory-of-poem-in-remembrance-of.html
"Horse Fly Grade Card, Doesn't Play Well With Others"
by David L. Harrison
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/120-backstory-of-poem-horse-fly-grade.html
"My Mother's Cookbook"
by Rachael Ikins
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/121-backstory-of-poem-my-mothers.html
"Cousins I Never Met"
by Maureen Kadish Sherbondy
https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/08/122-backstory-of-poem-cousins-i-never.html
"To Those Who Were Our First Gods"
by Nickole Brown
http://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2019/09/123-backstory-of-poem-to-those-who-were.html
"Looking For Sunsets (In the Early Morning)"
by Paul Levinson
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North America Electric Bus Market - Growth, Trends, and Forecast (2020 - 2025)
October 2020 •
The North America Electric Bus Market is anticipated to register a CAGR of about 26.76 % during the forecast period.
- The growth of the electric bus market in North America is attributed to the increasing concerns about the depletion of fossil fuels and increasing levels of environmental pollution.
- In order to tackle the aforementioned issues, governments in the region, such as Canada, initiated changes in the public transportation systems, by committing to electrify their complete electric bus fleet in areas, such as Montreal and British Columbia.
- The United States has been leading the electric bus market in the region, with increased governmental initiatives, such as tariff waiver programs for electric bus operators.
- Some of the possible restraints that hinder the growth of the electric bus market in the region are careful route optimization for better fuel economy, tail pipe emissions from hybrid buses, limited capital expenditure grant, insufficient driver training that leads to lower fuel-saving achievement.
Increasing Adoption of Electric Buses
Electric buses offer more comfort to travelers compared to gasoline or diesel buses. The NVH levels in electric buses are minimal, unlike traditional diesel buses, providing enhanced comfort to passengers.
Also, the limited vibrations during operation aids in extending the vehicle's life, in turn, reducing maintenance costs, and also offers comfort to passengers.
Currently, the United States is the most promising market in the region, and it is expected to lead the demand for e-bus over the forecast period. There are presently close to 650 electric buses (total 2255 zero-emission buses) running in the United States, and the demand is over taking the production rate, and federal grants are making it easy for transit operators to acquire new units. Almost every state in the United States has a transit agency that currently owns or planning to own new electric buses to its fleet.
In Canada, government initiatives are helping the growth of the electric bus market. Although, Canada is home to electric bus companies, such as Quebec based Lion Electric and Vancouver based Green Power, the adoption rate in the country has been relatively slow. In February 2020, Canada launched North America's first research cluster for researching fuel cell and battery-electric buses. The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC), along with seven other partners, are contributing USD 4.2 million to support the National Academic Committee on Zero-Emission Buses (NAC-ZEB), along with additional federal funding of USD 551,000. CUTRIC will support research in electric and hydrogen bus modeling and simulation tools, cyber security of electric buses, battery and fuel cell electric bus performance visualization for batteries, motors, powertrain, fuel cell stack optimization, etc.
In 2016, along with Paris, Mexico City was one of the first cities to announce restrictions for diesel ICEs as soon as 2025 under the C40 fossil-fuel-free streets declaration. The country also aims for zero-emission buses from 2025 and zero-emissions in major areas of the cities by 2030 also in accordance with the C40 declaration.
In January 2020, Mexico added 63 electric trolley buses to its public transportation fleet under the Trolebici project, which aims to improve transport and commuting infrastructure in Mexico City with an investment of nearly USD 35million.
The COVID 19 outbreak is expected to restrain the market growth due to the shut down of manufacturing facilities and fall in demand due to public transportation avoidance by passengers.
United States Will Lead the Electric Bus Market in North America
According to CALSTART, in 2019, a 37% growth in the United States electric bus fleet compared to the figures in 2018. Many states and cities in the United States are receiving grants for purchasing the electric buses. For instance, in 2019, the City of Portland in Maine received a grant for its first 2 electric buses that will start operations from 2021. Similarly, Wichita received a federal grant for the first electric bus in Kansas in 2019. As of 2019, only five states, namely North Dakota, South Dakota, West Virginia, New Hampshire, and Arkansas, did not have any near plans to induct electric buses in their present fleet.
Currently, California has the highest number of zero-emission buses (1016) and over 200 electric buses in use, along with many other backlogged order.
The adoption of electric buses is expected to save a lot of fuel costs for transit agencies in the country. In Chicago, a research found that 2 electric buses save nearly USD 24000 of annual fuel expenses.
The implementation of stringent emission laws and regulations are expected to fuel the market growth of electric buses in the United States. Many cities in the United States now require a certain fraction of their bus fleet to be electric or hybrid, and they are also pushing the limitations on new IC engine bus tenders. For instance, SE PTA, the transport authority of Philadelphia, is committed to restricting the diesel bus share in its bus fleet to less than 5% by 2021.
The United States is the hardest-hit country by the COVID19 crisis, and the unavailability of the workforce in manufacturing facilities, shutdowns, budget trimming, fear of using public transportation, etc., led to the slowing down of electric bus demand and the market is expected to show slow recovery.
The North America electric bus market is led by a few players which include Proterra, BYD Motors and New Flyer of America. Companies bringing out electric school bus models include Blue Bird Corporation, Nova Bus Corporation, The Lion Electric Co., Thomas Built Buses, GreenPower, Collins Bus Corporation, and Trans Tech.
The companies are expanding their product portfolio by launching more number of products and are actively taking more orders. For instance,
- in June 2019, Proterra Inc. was selected by the Virginia Department of General Services for the supply of battery-electric buses and charging stations for its state-wide contract.
- in July 2020, Yutong announced that a major batch of 130 battery-powered trolleybuses to Mexico City. The new trolleybus fleet is divided into 80, 12-meter vehicles and 50, 18-meter buses.
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The Pea Blossom
There were once five peas in one pod. They were green, and the pod was green, and so they believed that the whole world must be green also, which is understandable.
The pod and the peas grew and as they grew they arranged themselves all in a row. The sun shone and the rain fell and the peas, as they sat there, grew bigger and bigger and started to think about what they were going to do with themselves.
"Are we to sit here forever?" asked one. "Will we not turn hard, sitting here this long? It seems to me there must be something outside, I am sure of it."
Weeks passed by, the peas became yellow and the pod became yellow.
"All the world is turning yellow, I suppose," they said.
Suddenly they felt a pull at the pod. It was torn off and held in human hands; then it was slipped into the pocket of a jacket, together with other full pods.
"Now we shall soon be let out," said one, and that was just what they all wanted.
"I'd like to know which of us will travel the farthest," said the smallest of the five, "and we shall soon see."
"What happens, happen," said the largest pea.
"Crack!" went the shell, and the five peas rolled out into the bright sunshine. There they lay in a child's hand. A little boy was holding them tightly. He said they were fine peas for his pea-shooter, and immediately he put one in and shot it out.
"Now I am flying out into the wide world," said the pea. "Catch me if you can." And he was gone in a moment.
"I intend to fly straight to the sun," said the second. And away he went.
"We will go to sleep wherever we find ourselves," said the next two. And they fell to the floor and rolled about, but they still ended up in the pea-shooter. "We will go farthest of any," they said. "Then we can take it easy and live the easy life."
"What happens, happens," exclaimed the last one, as he was shot out of the pea-shooter. Up he flew against an old board under an attic window and fell into a little crack which was almost filled with moss and soft earth. The moss closed itself about him, and there he lay, trapped.
"What happens, happens," he said to himself.
Within the little attic lived a poor woman, who went out to clean stoves, chop wood into small pieces, and do other hard work, for she was both strong and hard-working. Yet she remained always poor, and at home in the attic lay her only daughter, not quite grown up and very delicate and weak. For a whole year she had been ill in bed, and it wasn't clear if she would ever get better.
All day long the sick girl lay quietly and patiently, while her mother went out to earn money.
Spring came, and early one morning the sun shone through the little window and threw his rays over the floor of the room. Just as the mother was going to her work, the sick girl fixed her gaze at the bottom of the window. "Mother," she asked, "what can that little green thing be that peeps in at the window? It is moving in the wind."
The mother stepped to the window and half opened it. "Oh!" she said, "there is actually a little pea that has taken root and is putting out its green leaves. How could it have got into this crack? Well, now, here is a little garden for you to amuse yourself with." So the bed of the sick girl was drawn nearer to the window, that she might see the budding plant and the mother went out to her work.
"Mother, I believe I will get well," said the sick child in the evening. "The sun has shone in here so bright and warm to-day, and the little pea is growing so fast, that I feel better, too, and think I shall get up and go out into the warm sunshine again."
"I really hope that!" said the mother, but she did not believe it yet. She took a little stick and propped up the green plant which had given her daughter such pleasure, so that it might not be broken by the winds. She tied the piece of string to the window-sill and to the window frame, so that the pea plant might have something to curl around. And the plant shot up so fast that you could almost see it growing every day.
"A flower is really coming," said the mother one morning. At last she was beginning to let herself hope that her little sick daughter might indeed recover. She remembered that for some time the child had spoken more cheerfully, and that during the last few days she had raised herself in bed in the morning to look with sparkling eyes at her little garden which contained only a single pea plant.
A week later the sick girl sat up by the open window a whole hour, feeling quite happy in the warm sunshine, while outside the little plant grew, and on it a pink pea blossom in full bloom. The little lady bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves.
"I think that pea has come down from heaven itself to bring joy to you and hope to me, my darling child," said the happy mother, and she smiled at the flower.
But what became of the other peas? Why, the one who flew out into the wide world and said, "Catch me if you can," fell into a gutter on the roof of a house and ended his travels eaten by a pigeon. The two lazy ones were carried quite as far and were of some use, for they also were eaten by pigeons, but the fourth, who wanted to reach the sun, fell into a sink and lay there in the water for days and weeks, till he had swelled to a great size.
"I am getting beautifully fat," said the pea; "I expect I shall burst at last; no pea could do more than that, I think. I am the most remarkable of all the five that were in the shell." And the sink agreed with the pea.
But the young girl, with sparkling eyes and the rosy colour of health upon her cheeks, stood at the open attic window and, folding her thin hands over the pea blossom, was divinely thankful for that little pea and what it had done for her.
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When Jerry Hrdy moved to Sun City, one of the first things he did was join the Silver Club. A private pilot who had built two planes, he welcomed the challenge of learning something new. His teacher for jewelry-making was the late and great Keith Staley. Today, Jerry's using this knowledge to develop new and original jewelry designs.


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Founder of First Cyber Military Unit Deems Iran as 'Most Persistent' Threat to U.S.
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Edwin Mora
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. government civilian and military units have warned for nearly 25 years about a damaging cyberattack dubbed the "electronic Pearl Harbor." While threats continue to intensify, America's ability to deter and defend against such an assault still suffers from capability gaps, testified a top expert before a House panel.
The congressional witness is Jason Healey, a former Air Force intelligence action officer and one of the founding fathers of the first joint cyber war fighting command, the Joint Task Force – Computer Network Defense in 1998.
In his written testimony prepared for a House Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday, Healy identified Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and to a lesser extent terrorists as the top cyber adversaries facing the United States.
"Of America's adversaries, Iran has been the most persistent conducting disruptive attacks meant to disrupt US companies and infrastructure, especially banks," testified Healey, currently a cyberwar expert at the Atlantic Council.
Credibility is one of the top elements of cyber deterrence, which is essential to combating cyber assaults, according to Dr. Martin C. Libicki, a cyber security expert at the RAND Corporation, who also testified at the House panel hearing.
He acknowledged that "the United States has yet to retaliate to any cyberattack with any truly serious consequences of the sort that the rest of the world can see," a lack of action that makes America more vulnerable.
"The credibility of U.S. reprisals cannot be ranked very high" at the moment, added Dr. Libicki.
While Iran is the most persistent cyber threat, cyber attacks stemming from Russia are increasingly getting bolder. "Since annexing Crimea, Russian cyber operations have gone from quiet, professional political and military espionage to far more aggressive and obvious intelligence and influence operations," notes Healey.
Congressional hearing witness P.W. Singer, a cybersecurity expert at New America, told lawmaker that Russian cyber attacks on NATO targets are up 60 percent while those against the European Union have increased 20 percent in the last year alone.
Healy noted that America's ability to defend against cyber attacks does not lie with the U.S. government and military but rather the private sector, which suffers the bulk of the attacks.
"Cyber power is not focused at Fort Meade with NSA and US Cyber Command. The center of US cyber power is instead in Silicon Valley, in Route 128 in Boston, in Redmond, Washington and in all of your districts where Americans are creating and maintain cyberspace and filling it with content the world is demanding," he testified,
"Our critical infrastructure companies are on the front lines of nation state attacks and our cybersecurity companies collectively have even more capabilities to defeat these threats than our military, and can do so at no cost to the public purse," he added.
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This was a collection of illustrated hearts I made for Valentines Day. Here I try to represent love in all its phases. We have all had broken hearts, mended hearts or hearts in love in our lives so I just wanted to share some of the ones that I have personally experienced throughout my life. I hope you can all relate!
They were all made in Adobe Photoshop.


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Kerry Claims Ignorance of Hunter Biden's Burisma Work Despite Evidence
Former Secretary of State John Kerry claimed ignorance of Hunter Biden's work with Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate, on Sunday—despite evidence to the contrary from Obama administration officials and even his own stepson. Kerry, who recently endorsed Joe Biden's White House bid, was asked about the topic while campaigning with the former vice…
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John Kerry Recruits Bill Clinton, DiCaprio for New Climate Coalition
Former Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday announced the launch "World War Zero," a star-studded coalition of former heads of state and Hollywood figures dedicated to advocating for solutions to climate change. The forthcoming organization's website states their chief objective is to mobilize resources to tackle global warming in a way akin to the…
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press release: The 18th annual Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest is accepting entries online for the 2021 competition until 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31.
The contest is designed to encourage entrepreneurs in the startup stage of tech-based businesses in Wisconsin. The contest links up-and-coming entrepreneurs with a statewide network of community resources, expert advice and mentoring, management talent and possible sources of capital.
The webinar is hosted by the Wisconsin Technology Council and is the latest in the Tech Council Innovation Network's continuing webinar series, "Crossing the Coronavirus Chasm." This event is free to attend. Click here to register. The Tech Council's Julie Johnson will be sending webinar credentials prior to the event.
Panelists include Jackie Hind of Plumb Pharmaceuticals, the grand prize winner of the 2020 contest, long-time contest judge and Tech Council board member Jim Jermain of AT&T, and Tom Still, president of the Wisconsin Technology Council. The three will discuss tips on competing at a high level in the contest.
"Over time, the Governor's Business Plan Contest has connected contestants to resources, investors and other entrepreneurs like themselves, helping them improve their chances of business survival in a competitive world," said Tom Still, president of the Tech Council.
The Wisconsin Technology Council is the independent, non-profit science and technology adviser to the governor and Legislature, with events, publications and outreach that contribute to Wisconsin's tech-based economy. To join, go to www.wisconsintechnologycouncil.com or call 608-442-7557.
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Should parents be obliged to immunise their children against childhood diseases?
Or do individuals have the right to choose not to immunise their children?
Some people argue that the state does not have the right to make parents immunise their children. However, I feel the question is not whether they should immunise but whether, as members of society, they have the right not to.
Preventative medicine has proved to be the most effective way of reducing the incidence of fatal childhood diseases. As a result of the widespread practice of immunising young children in our society, many lives have been saved and the diseases have been reduced to almost zero.
In previous centuries children died from ordinary illnesses such as influenza and tuberculosis and because few people had immunity, the diseases spread easily. Diseases such as dysentery were the result of poor hygiene but these have long been eradicated since the arrival of good sanitation and clean water. Nobody would suggest that we should reverse this good practice now because dysentery has been wiped out.
Serious diseases such as polio and smallpox have also been eradicated through national immunisation programmes. In consequence, children not immunised are far less at risk in this disease-free society than they would otherwise be. Parents choosing not to immunise are relying on the fact that the diseases have already been eradicated. If the number of parents choosing not to immunise increased, there would be a similar increase in the risk of the diseases returning.
Immunisation is not an issue like seatbelts which affects only the individual. A decision not to immunise will have widespread repercussions for the whole of society and for this reason, I do not believe that individuals have the right to stand aside. In my opinion immunisation should be obligatory.


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Flavours of Azerbaijan
Khabiba Kashkay (author)
864 pages - 240mm x 196mmmm
Flavours of Azerbaijan brings together a collection of over 200 modern and accessible recipes inspired by the rich cultural heritage of Azerbaijani cuisine. Divided into six volumes, this elegant collection features dishes perfect for the whole family, from everyday cooking to special occasions. From the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultures come the delicious flavours of lamb, chicken and fresh fish, aubergines, tomatoes and pomegranates, along with fragrant herbs and spices such as dill, sumac and saffron. There are also volumes dedicated to sweets and doughs, dairy dishes, and pilaffs – often considered to be Azerbaijan's national dish. Specially commissioned photography accompanies each recipe, with some methods guided by additional step-by-step photographs. .
Khabiba Kashkay is an art and music historian. She holds a PhD in music and art history, and has written numerous articles, research and books on the history and theory of music, musical theatre and ballet. Here the author shares the recipes which have been in her family for generations, passed on to her by her mother and grandmother, and which she continues to cook for her own family today.
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In the late 90's I was a huge fan of Paul Masterton and his aliases Yomanda and Hi-Gate (alongside Judge Jules).
This 90 minute mix pays homage to my favourite tracks and remixes courtesy of Yomanda / Hi-Gate.
Includes classics such as Synths & Strings, Pitchin', Sunshine, Gonna Work It Out plus remixes for DJ Jean, Mario Piu, Progress, The Crazy Drummer and more.
This music era of bouncy club sounds holds fond memories.
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This study aimed to investigate the age‐related differences in sprinting performance, kinematic and kinetic variables in girls aged between 7.0 to 15.3 years. Step‐to‐step spatiotemporal variables and ground reaction impulses during sprinting were collected in 94 Japanese girls across a 50 m in‐ground force plate. From the results, a difference in rate of development in sprinting performance in girls over 12.7 years compared with younger girls (YG) was observed. The older girls (OG) became slightly slower each year (−0.09 m/s/year) compared to the YG (0.24 m/s/year) who increased their running speed. Moreover, height increased by 6.3 cm/year in YG and only 3.6 cm/year in OG, while step length during the maximal speed phase increased by 0.07 m/year in YG and plateaued in OG (0.01 m/year). Propulsive impulse during the initial acceleration phase was the only kinetic variable to differ in rate of development between the age groups with an increase of 0.024 Ns/year in the YG compared to −0.010 Ns/year in OG. The development of sprinting ability in Japanese girls was more rapid before age 12.7 years. The difference in rate of development in sprinting ability can be primarily attributed to greater growth rates in YG, contributing to increases in the propulsive impulse during the initial acceleration phase and step length during the maximal speed phase. The limited gains in step length and the propulsive impulse in OG may reflect their reduced growth rate in height and the fact that increases in fat mass with maturation impaired relative force production.
Nagahara, R., Haramura, M., Takai, Y., Oliver, J.L., Wichitaksorn, N., Sommerfield, L.M. and Cronin, J.B. (2019) 'Age‐related differences in kinematics and kinetics of sprinting in young female', Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. DOI: 10.1111/sms.13397.
Article published in Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports on 29 January 2019 (online), available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13397.


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A break-action firearm is one whose barrels are hinged, and rotate perpendicular to the bore axis to expose the breech and allow loading and unloading of ammunition. A separate operation may be required for the cocking of a hammer to fire the new round. Break open actions are universal in double-barrelled shotguns, double-barrelled rifles and combination guns, and are also common in single shot rifles, pistols, and shotguns, and can also be found in flare guns, grenade launchers and some older revolver designs. They are also known as break-open or break top actions.
A substantial hinge pin joins the two parts of the rifle or shotgun; the stock with its firing mechanism and the fore-piece and barrel, which hold the round to be fired. In some cases the hinging pin may be easily removable, allowing the two portions of the weapon to be compactly and safely stored. In other cases the hinge will consist of a hook over a pin; releasing an auxiliary latch will allow sufficient travel to allow the hinge to be unhooked.
A latch is operated to release the two parts of the weapon, allowing the breech to be exposed. A shell is inserted into the breech (up to two for a double barreled shotgun and six to eight for a revolver), and the mechanism is closed and latched. When the operator has positioned the weapon downrange the hammer is pulled back and latched. The weapon is now ready to fire, done by squeezing the trigger.
After firing the round(s), the break action is unlached and the barrel and forearm are allowed to fall forward. This will cause an extractor catch to remove the spent shell, which is allowed to fall to the ground. The weapon is now ready for a new cycle.
The break open action is one of the most compact firearms actions. Since there are no parts to reciprocate, it is much shorter than a repeating firearm, and as built the break-open is generally more compact that other non repeating firearms such as the falling block and rolling block actions. This compactness means reductions in weight and size, compared to larger actions; this can also allow a longer barrel in a firearm of equivalent size.
Since the cartridge extractor or ejector is built into the barrel assembly on break open actions, the breech face is simple a flat plate with a hole for the firing pin to project. This makes break open actions ideal for interchangeable barrel firearms, such as the popular Thompson Center Arms Contender and Encore pistols. The simplicity of the break open design, especially external hammer types, also reduces the cost of manufacture. There are a number of companies, such as H & R Firearms, producing break open rifles at far lower costs than comparable bolt action rifles.
Another advantage of the break open action is the ability to insert very long objects into the chamber. This allows cartridges of a length impractical in most other designs, as well as easy use of caliber conversion sleeves. It is common to find double barrel shotguns available with conversion sleeves for smaller gauges, allowing the same gun to be used with, for example, 12, 20, 28, and .410 gauge shells [http://www.briley.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=102] .
The break open design is best suited for non-repeating firearms. To get multiple shots requires either multiple barrels or a revolver cylinder; while this is fairly simple for shotguns, with double-barreled shotguns quite common and even four-shot designs like the FAMARS Rombo available, double rifles require very precise alignment of the barrels so they shoot to the same point of aim. Modern double rifles are very expensive, and designed for short range use; the barrels are often regulated for ranges under 100 yards (90 m) for use against dangerous game.
Wear in the mechanism is focused upon the small contact area of the latch, and the breech is difficult to seal properly once the latch wears. In some firearms, such as the Thompson Center guns, the latch was a removeable part that could be replaced when worn. Designs without a replaceable latch could be fixed by building up the worn part with a welder, then filing back to shape.
Break open actions are also not as inherently strong as other action types. The action is generally held closed by a single locking lug, usually below the barrel in a single shot or between the barrels of a double barrelled gun. This is not as strong as the bolt action design, which generally uses multiple locking lugs around the perimeter of the bolt to provide an even distribution of the forces of firing. Since many break open rifles, such as the inexpensive H&R models, are build on large frames originally meant for shotguns, the action is very heavily built. Still, belted magnum cartridges such as .300 Winchester Magnum are generally only found in the highest quality, very expensive break open rifles.
Another disadvantage of the break-open action is the low pressures it is capable of withstanding. The single locking lug is subjected to all the force from the firing of the cartridge, and the small area (compared to, say, a bolt action design) means that the total force (the product of pressure and cartridge head diameter) allowed for safe operation is limited. For shotguns, which operate at very low pressures, this is not an issue; the Thompson Center Contender, on the other hand, was limited to .30-30 Winchester level cartridges. To fire more powerful cartridges requires a much larger locking lug, such as that which Thomson Center used on the larger Encore model.
Break open designs work best with rimmed cartridges, which can use a solid extractor. Rimless cartridges require a spring-loaded extractor, which can slide out of the way for cartridge insertion, and spring back to engage the recessed rim. While these spring loaded extrators are found on even inexpensive models, the spring loaded extractor is not as strong as a solid extractor, and increases the chance of failure to extract.
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Queen's Alumni in the UK
I recently noticed that LinkedIn will provide a geographical breakdown of where people who attended a given university are now living. You can further refine your search to show the locations of people who graduated in particular years. It looks like a great resource.
In a spare moment, I looked up graduates of my Alma Mater who are currently living in the United Kingdom. LinkedIn says that just over 76,000 Queen's students and alumni are on LinkedIn, which sounds reasonable because I think about 100,000 people have studied at that university since its creation in 1841. Most Queen's alumni on LinkedIn live in Canada, which isn't surprising, with large numbers living in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, and Vancouver, which is precisely what you would expect. 1,310 of Queen's graduates live in the United Kingdom. Of these, 414 were my contemporaries (i.e., people who studied at Queen's between 1995 and 1999 and who are therefore now likely in their thirties). LinkedIn doesn't say where in the UK they live, but given that many of these individuals work for firms such as PwC and Deutsche Bank, I suspect that most are in London.
The first screen grab shows all Queen's alumni in the UK. The image below show just my rough contemporaries (1995 to 1999).
Queen's Alumni in the UK, My Contemporaries
I know that there was a branch of the Queen's alumni association in the UK before the financial crisis, but I think that it is now inactive. I haven't the time to help re-establish one. However, if some other Queen's alumni were to organize an informal gathering, say a barbecue in or near London, I would be interested in attending.
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Date : September 20, 2013
Tags: LinkedIn, Queen's Alumni Association, Queen's University


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package org.broadinstitute.dsde.rawls.model

/**
 * Created by dvoet on 10/27/15.
 */
case class UserIdInfo(userSubjectId: String, userEmail: String, googleSubjectId: Option[String])

case class UserList(userList: Seq[String])

class UserJsonSupport extends JsonSupport {
  import spray.json.DefaultJsonProtocol._

  implicit val UserIdInfoFormat = jsonFormat3(UserIdInfo)
  implicit val UserListFormat = jsonFormat1(UserList)
}

object UserJsonSupport extends UserJsonSupport

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module ActsAsOrderedTree
  module Iterators
    # @api private
    class OrphansPruner
      include Enumerable

      def initialize(collection)
        @collection = collection
        @cache = Hash.new
        @level = nil # minimal node level
      end

      def each
        return to_enum unless block_given?

        prepare if @cache.empty?

        @collection.each do |node|
          if orphan?(node)
            discard(node.id)
          else
            yield node
          end
        end
      end

      private
      def orphan?(node)
        !has_parent?(node) && node.level > @level
      end

      def has_parent?(node)
        @cache.key?(node.ordered_tree_node.parent_id)
      end

      def prepare
        @collection.each do |node|
          @cache[node.id] = []

          if has_parent?(node)
            @cache[node.ordered_tree_node.parent_id] << node.id
          else
            @level = [@level, node.level].compact.min
          end
        end
      end

      def discard(id)
        if @cache.key?(id)
          @cache[id].each { |k| discard(k) }
          @cache.delete(id)
        end
      end
    end # class OrphansPruner
  end # module Iterators
end # module ActsAsOrderedTree


The large milk bottle sculpture near the ice cream spot on campus.
An enormous salad of arugula, avocado, hummus, goat cheese, tomatoes, and kalamata olives.
A self-portrait (do I only snap these when I am wearing a chambray shirt?) intended to demonstrate how much I love the non-lipstick lipstick I bought recently through Mick's side project as a Beauty Counter rep. (Full transparency when it comes to ingredients in the stuff we put on our faces? Yes, please.) I never really learned how to wear makeup, but I can appreciate that sometimes it matters to look/feel a little more put-together, and this lipstick does that for me. Maybe you can't tell that I'm wearing it, but I can tell. Granted, this picture is most likely from a day spent sitting on the couch and/or porch wrapping up my semester.
I am out of the frame here, grading. Boh is chomping on a tennis ball in my face, trying to distract me.
A lovely walk in the woods with a dear friend who was back in town last weekend.
Silly, sweet, completely tuckered-out dog. I snap these morning pictures of him on days when he isn't waiting at the front door to go outside after I put the water for coffee on. Sometimes the weather is lousy, sometimes he's still sleepy from a big day of adventuring, and sometimes, as in this next picture, he's waiting in order to ask for a belly rub before we start the day.
This animal is just too much.
New bright shirt for summer.
A walk to our local waterfall. Creek level is high right now.
Homemade peanut butter cookies for a going away party.
The falls at night. I've never walked to see them at this time of day (8 pm? 8:30 pm?) and the light on the water was just breathtaking. I'll be taking more evening walks this summer for sure.
By the end of our weekend with Tango, here's what was happening: dog pile. Tango is staying with us this weekend, too, and I'm psyched for more of this!
Lap dog? I don't know why Boh was feeling this lovey, but I managed to snap a picture with my free arm.
I used to make applesauce bread every week, especially during my first year of grad school. I don't know why I stopped. I made maybe the first loaf I've baked of it in this house on Tuesday. Delicious.
We are both working. Hard.
My friend R. offered this caption: The ultimate comfort food. Love it.
Which brings us to pesto. I made this last night with basil from my first farm share of the summer season, and it was the perfect post-yoga meal.
Oops. Looks like there's no knitting content here. Which doesn't mean I'm not knitting. My pinwheel blanket is growing. Really, it is.
a post from last week.
So I formatted a handful of photos for a blog post last week — and then life got in the way, and it turns out I never actually wrote the post. Forgive me; I'm a little bit frazzled. This is the week before classes start, and I've been hustling to get everything in order for my very first course as the instructor of record: I pitched the class, wrote the syllabus, and students enrolled! (I TAed my second and third years of grad school — and enjoyed lots of autonomy and the professional/personal development that accompanies it — but this is the first class that is entirely mine, if that makes sense.) Bear with me as I try to establish a rhythm for the semester.
More reading and Boh snuggling occurred last week.
And an amazing care package arrived from New Mexico: green chile, red chile powder, tortillas, biscochitos, even yarn (made partially of possums?!) from my friends' recent trip to New Zealand! Boh's reaction made me smile — he must remember the desert. And he has been extra attentive whenever the green chile and tortillas are out. Good boy.
Creamed spinach. (And a little bit of kale.) Easy and so good.
We finished Stegner last week. I think Boh was sad for it to end — we haven't been parked on the couch with a good book at all this week. Instead, he keeps wandering into my office, sighing, and collapsing into a pile of sleepy dog on the floor near my desk. It is cold, snowy, and blustery today, but I'm hoping to bundle up and give him an extra good walk.
Also, I've been seeing a pair of pileated woodpeckers in the yard with some regularity over the last couple of weeks. I only had my phone handy, so this is the best I could do. Isn't s/he lovely?


Ordinary users will have to wait until 2014 before finally try Google Glass, glasses "intelligent" made from Mountain View. To declare, co-founder of Bigg, Sergey Brin.
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"Our project will be realized fully within a year – said a beaming Brin Speaking to Bloomberg – and within two years we will be ready for distribution to the general public.


In an ideal world, every organisation would have an effective board leading the way – especially in view of a business environment that has metamorphosed into its current form, in which dealing with intensive, increasing scrutiny is now the norm for an organisation's upper echelons. Of course, there are no hard and fast rules as to what constitutes an effective board. However, a clear role and focus, a culture of trust and respect, a balanced board team and an effective chairman would seem to be prerequisites for success. Ultimately, in today's more vocal and less forgiving business environment, the need to have an effective board guiding the way is a key component for success.
FW moderates a discussion on using M&A as a strategy to create shareholder value and manage risks between David McCourt atGranahan McCourt Capital, Diego S. Krischcautzky at Marval O'Farrell & Mairal, and Derek Devgun at Medtronic.