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Hapa Yoga
Mindbody Customer Story
Customer Overview
Mindbody University
Before Tina Ardolino became pregnant with her first child, she was active in many different styles of fitness and yoga, and acquired class passes at every studio she attended. While pregnant, she found it difficult to find a class that was safe for her to take.
"I couldn't use the packages I purchased because it was hard for me to take some of those classes while pregnant," Tina said. "And then, I started thinking about how great it would be for them to offer prenatal-friendly classes."
Once she had her son, Tina found herself battling postpartum anxiety—and her difficulty finding access to classes increased.
"I felt like I was in a dilemma with what I needed regarding holistic wellness and healing through yoga," Tina said. "I was in desperate need of yoga and meditation, and I just couldn't find a place to go where I could take the baby with me or that accommodated childcare."
Instead of giving up, Tina decided to do something about the problems she encountered. She wrote up a business plan, and nine months later, Hapa Yoga was born in September 2012.
Hapa offers everything Tina sought while pregnant and after giving birth: fitness, yoga, and childcare in one location. Students at Hapa can select between classes like nonheated yoga, mat Pilates, barre and heated vinyasa, hot Hatha, and prenatal yoga. Plus, Hapa offers music and movement classes for children as young as six weeks and even offers classes for local college students.
Overall, Tina knew that the concept behind Hapa was something that other people could benefit from, so her business plan included a strategy to open a second location—and more. Three years after opening her first location, she successfully opened a second location in Eastlake. Now, Tina is now the franchisor of Hapa Yoga & Fitness after being approved for franchising.
"The last five years of growth have been amazing," Tina said. "I wanted to make sure I was able to open a second studio, and that it was repeatable, which it was."
Tina's business journey has helped her grow personally, too. "About halfway through my journey, I had to change my perspective and look at the business from a softer side of healing people and not just the business standpoint," Tina said.
Despite her success, Tina knows that it wouldn't be possible without her staff. "I've been blessed with the team I have," Tina said. "I have an amazing group of people with me."
Tina also credits MINDBODY with helping Hapa grow. "We would not be able to do business as smoothly without MINDBODY software," Tina said. "Starting a brand-new studio, I was nervous about that. MINDBODY made everything easy."
As Tina and the team at Hapa look toward future growth, they'll continue to focus on healing, by offering yoga, fitness, and wellness to everyone, from toddler to postpartum parent.
How Heartcore Benefits from a Hybrid Business Model During a Pandemic
Heartcore prides itself on being the creators of London's fitness and wellness scene with one simple goal in mind—to touch lives.
How Clear Mind Studio Uses AI Technology to Improve Profitability and Work-life Balance
Clear Mind Studio leverages the power of artificial intelligence to increase profitability and provide better work-life balance for staff.
How Happy Melon Studios Promotes Mental Wellness with On-Demand Classes
Building a video library for customers to use can be a considerable undertaking, but it's worth it. Just ask Happy Melon Studios in Melbourne,


[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]At Focus College we are currently offering our Beginner ESL Classes (English as a Second Language) at our Kelowna Campus.
We are the only college in Kelowna offering evening classes for ESL studies at this incredibly low price. Take advantage of evening classes that work around your schedule!
This course provides the opportunity for everyone to be involved through active listening and speaking. Lesson topics are tailored to students goals, unique needs, and are facilitated in a friendly and supportive environment. Everyone is encouraged to participate and most importantly have FUN!
Students will also be introduced to the basics of English grammar and pronunciation.
The classes run Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 PM – 8 PM at the Focus College Campus in Kelowna.
Price: $160.00 for the entire 10 weeks. This is only 8 dollars a class!


In order to avoid overcrowding, or the likelihood of overcrowding, the Ministry of Education has directed the Board of Trustees at Katikati Primary School to adopt an enrolment scheme. Under this scheme, students will be enrolled if they live within the home zone. The zone will run from Wright Road to the south (including side roads) to 1054 State Highway 2 to the north. Families living both sides of the state highway between these two points will be considered in zone.
The enrolment of out of zone students is governed by the provisions of the Education Act 1989. We are happy to announce that we have space for 20 out of zone enrolments for term 2, 2018. Applications for out of zone places should be received by the school office by the 30th April 2018. If a ballot for out of zone places is required, it will be held on the 1st May. Parents will be informed of the outcome of the ballot within three school days of the ballot being held.
If you live in the school zone and have not yet signalled your intention to enrol your child during 2018, please contact the school to assist us with our planning.
The enrolment scheme, which includes a precise description of the home zone, can be downloaded below.


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In French, je ne sais quoi, is loosely translated to a certain something special that cannot be easily described.
The first part of that phrase (je ne) sounds similar to my name, Jenée. My parents bestowed me with a French name to match our Cajun French heritage, and it has shaped almost everything about me.
Jenée Sais Quoi is a source of inspiration to discover that certain something special that celebrates the allure and complexity of a life well lived.
A life well lived is really about the small wins and charming details of life that add up to a more fulfilling life experience. A life well lived looks good on the outside and the on the inside. When you look good you feel good, but also when you feel good, you look good. It is a place for those with a visual appetite for beauty because if we can't find it, we will create it.
Style & Fashion: Your wardrobe is also your costume. Be who you want to be.
Home: Like your wardrobe, Your home is your set. You design the set.
This dress is straight from the source: Ari's grandmother! She passed this one down to me on one of our visits. Amazingly we are the exact same size, and have similar taste ?!?!
I guess we do end up marrying our father/ mother… grandmother.
© 2017 JenéeSaisQuoi. All Rights Reserved.


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import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.CacheObjectInput;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.CacheObjectOutput;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.surrogates.BuiltinSerializationSurrogate;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.surrogates.CacheIOException;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.surrogates.CacheInstantiationException;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.surrogates.SerializationSurrogate;
import com.alachisoft.tayzgrid.serialization.core.io.surrogates.SerializationSurrogateBase;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * LongSerializationSurrogate is responsible for writing and reading
 * instances of Long class.
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 * @version 1.0, September 18, 2008
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public class LongSerializationSurrogate
        extends SerializationSurrogateBase
        implements SerializationSurrogate, BuiltinSerializationSurrogate
{

    /** Creates a new instance of LongSerializationSurrogate */
    public LongSerializationSurrogate()
    {
        super(Long.class);
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     * defines where the object is "read" from.
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     * @exception java.lang.ClassNotFoundException If the class of a serialized
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     * @throws CacheIOException If any of the usual Input/Output
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            throws CacheInstantiationException, CacheIOException
    {
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     * class that implements this interface defines how the object is
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    {
        try
        {
            input.skipLong();
        }
        catch (IOException ex)
        {
            throw new CacheIOException(ex);
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Unforgiven (2000) — третье по счёту шоу Unforgiven, PPV-шоу производства американского рестлинг-промоушна World Wrestling Federation (WWF, ныне WWE). Шоу прошло 23 июля 2000 года на «Фёрст Юнион-центр» в Филадельфии, Пенсильвания, США. На шоу было проведено восемь матчей.

Главным событием стал матч за звание чемпиона WWF. Скала защищал титул против Криса Бенуа, Гробовщика и Кейна. Бенуа первоначально выиграл матч, удержав Гробовщика, но так как нога Гробовщика была на канате, а рефери не заметил этого, матч был перезапущен, и Скала удержал Бенуа, чтобы сохранить титул.

Это событие также ознаменовало возвращение Стива Остина после десятимесячного отсутствия, за исключением его появления на Backlash, а также эпизодов Raw is War и SmackDown! в конце апреля.

Результаты

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Спортивные соревнования в Филадельфии
События 24 сентября

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The TUC has launched a campaign to find Britain's meanest, most Scrooge-like boss this Christmas.
The union body has called on employees to grass up bosses who act like latter day Ebenezer Scrooge's as part of its drive to improve the way workers are managed and the conditions they work under.
Common complaints in the run-up to Christmas include bosses making staff work on Christmas bank holidays or face losing pay and those who count Christmas holidays as part of their annual leave.
Other gripes include keeping the office freezing cold to save on energy bills, only deciding on Christmas leave arrangements at the last minute and banning workplace relationships that start at the Christmas party.
Not allowing parents time off to go to nativity plays also raises hackles with many workers, as does not allowing Christmas decorations at work.
Other complaints include not paying the minimum wage for temporary Christmas jobs, making people work late over Christmas and cancelling Christmas parties on safety or compensation grounds, said the TUC.
The best (and worst) stories will be featured on the website workSMART.org.uk, with a hamper awarded for the best story of petty stinginess, it added. It urged workers to share their stories at www.worksmart.org.uk/scrooge.
TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said: "A minority of stingy employers have lost the Christmas spirit - some even break the law or use mean and petty loopholes to cut costs, at the expense of peace and goodwill at work.
"We know that modern-day Scrooges are out there, and we want to shame them into ditching the 'humbug'," he added.
Iwas laid off the week before christmas. I've been working a public works project,prev. wage), and that part is great. The bad part is my boss has'nt paid us since Nov. He says there is no money and there won't be any till after X-mas. there are from 20 to 30 employees at this company. The project manager for the job I was on showed us the documentation of pay form they recieve after paying their sub-contractors. It stated that everyone had been paid in Dec. Where is the money. Do you believe the underside of his christmas tree is bare?


Scientific communication is at the forefront of what we do here at Ecology for the Masses. We like to celebrate good examples of SciComm whenever we can. But every now and then it's misused so overtly that you have to talk about it. So today I want to share a recent example of scientific communication that confused and worried me.
Eating beef isn't great for the environment. But can someone who occasionally snacks on cows still be in favour of conservation and other ecological causes?
Today I want to talk about a tweet. Or more accurately, the attitude to sustainability that this tweet represents. It occurred during the recent Ecological Society of Australia conference, and went roughly thus*.
Good to see only vegetarian food at ESA2018. We know that it's not possible to be truly in support of conservation unless you cut meat out of your diet.
Now for starters, I want to make it clear that I am 100% in support of eating vegetarian. For those of us fortunate enough to be living in relative affluence, vegetarian diets are easy to maintain, generally cheaper (based on personal experience), and have a proven positive impact on the climate. I'm not completely vegetarian, but I take a lot of steps to minimise my diet's climate footprint. It doesn't take much.


The holidays are fast approaching and at More Than Paper, it's our favorite time of year to craft with our children. When they were small, we used to make all kinds of pilgrim hats, hand turkeys, fall leave decorations and more. Pinterest is chalk full of great kids craft activities and we've rounded up a few of our favorites -- some you can do with small children and some you can do with them as they get bigger.
Wrap up some of those turkey treats and finish them off with a personalized gift sticker from More Than Paper! Give them as little Thanksgiving gifts to grandparents or neighbors. We have dozens of styles from which to choose and you can personalize them however you want. Or use them as return address stickers! Here are a few of our favorites.
How are you celebrating and getting ready for Thanksgiving this year?


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Q: How to add project dependency (classes from another module/folder) in Grails? Is there a way for me to add dependencies from other folders/projects(non-grails, but definitely java projects) into my grails project? I've tried searching but didn't really get much of an answer.  :(

A: You can use every possible library which is in a maven repository. So transform your java project to a maven or gradle project. Install your builded jar to maven repo and then you can add dependency in grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy.
dependencies {
    compile "your.group:your.artifact:1.0"
}

A: You have to get the code into your project somehow.
These are the options:
JAR
Package your module as a jar file and copy this to your project's lib/ directory.
source code
Copy the source code for your module into src/java/
Maven Artifact
Package your module as a maven artifact, and specify it in the dependencies closure of grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy.
Read more in the grails documentation at http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/conf.html#configurationsAndDependencies

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PubliCalendar
PubliCalendar: The Obama Doctrine
Today's picks for civic nerds
By Atoosa Moinzadeh 5/28/2015 at 3:34pm
Human Error, Redefining Behavioral Economics
Economist Richard Thaler is here to dispel some myths about economics—as well as challenge some of the field's assumptions about human behavior.
His basic idea that humans are far from rational decision makers is pretty standard, but Thaler likes to highlight the nuances: how this plays out in everything from hitching an Uber ride to the inner workings of the NFL draft. Sounds a lot more interesting than the run-of-the-mill college-freshman microeconomics class.
Human Error, Redefining Behavioral Economics, Thu, May 28, 7:30pm, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave, $5
For Friday
Meaningful Movies Presents: 'White Like Me'
White Like Me is Tim Wise's acclaimed primer on white privilege. Exploring race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness, Wise's history lessons dismantle the myth of meritocracy and the "postracial" society.
The film looks into race-based white entitlement programs that shaped the American middle class and how our failure to come to terms with its legacy continues to perpetuate inequality. Check out the trailer and bring a friend or two.
Meaningful Movies Presents: 'White Like Me', Fri, May 29, 7pm, Meaningful Movies Wallingford, 5019 Keystone Pl N, Donation-based admission
Advance Notice for June 1
'The Obama Doctrine' and 2016 Elections
In a recent interview with The New York Times, President Obama said, "We will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities," in reference to U.S.-Iran nuclear relations. Obama Doctrine author Colin Dueck believes this philosophy can be extended to all White House actions.
Join him at Town Hall on Monday as he reflects on Obama's last two terms and gives foreign policy suggestions for the presidential successor, just in time for the 2016 elections. Hillary supporters may especially want to attend this one!
'The Obama Doctrine' and 2016 Elections, Mon, June 1, 7:30pm, Town Hall Seattle, 1119 Eighth Ave, $5
Want to see your nerdy event featured on the PubliCalendar?
Send the details to Atoosa Moinzadeh at [email protected]
Publicalendar, Meaningful Movies, Race, Social Justice, Film, Economy, Town Hall, Obama, Election 2016, Presidential Election

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Cambridge as students, faculty or alumni.
2.1 Buildings 2.2 Sites 2.3 "Town and Gown"
BBC World Service and is also syndicated to hundreds of radio stations in the US. The first television broadcast of the festival was in 1954.
Queens' College contains "some of the earliest patterned brickwork in the country" and the brick walls of St John's College provide examples of English bond, Flemish bond and Running bond.
Cambridge University Reporter, the official journal of the university. Since January 2005, the membership of the Council has included two external members, and the Regent House voted for an increase from two to four in the number of external members in March 2008, and this was approved by Her Majesty the Queen in July 2008.
Trinitarian formula (in nomine Patris...) may be omitted at the request of the graduand: "Auctoritate mihi commissa admitto te ad gradum ____, in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. (By the authority committed to me, I admit you to the degree of ____, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.)"
Special formal halls are organised for events such as Christmas and the Commemoration of Benefactors. After the exam period, May Week is held and it is customary to celebrate by attending May Balls. These are all-night long lavish parties held in the colleges where food and drinks are served and entertainment is provided. Time magazine argues that some of the larger May Balls are among the best private parties in the world. Suicide Sunday, the first day of May Week, is a popular date for organising garden parties.
Second World War to disrupt radar on enemy planes.
Cambridge but is more widely known as a poet. Simon Ockley made a significant contribution to Arabic Studies.
William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, largely responsible for the abolition of the slave trade; leading Evangelical churchman Charles Simeon; John William Colenso, the bishop of Natal who developed views on the interpretation of Scripture and relations with native peoples that seemed dangerously radical at the time; John Bainbridge Webster and David F. Ford, theologians of significant repute; and six winners of the Templeton Prize, the highest accolade for the study of religion since its foundation in 1972.
Tristram Shandy is judged to have inspired many modern narrative devices and styles, was admitted in 1733. In the following century, the novelists W. M. Thackeray, best known for Vanity Fair, Charles Kingsley, author of Westward Ho!
David Gibbins and Jin Yong, and contemporary playwrights and screenwriters such as Julian Fellowes, Stephen Poliakoff, Michael Frayn and Sir Peter Shaffer.
Cambridge Critics, the important Marxists Raymond Williams, sometimes regarded as the founding father of Cultural Studies, and Terry Eagleton, author of Literary Theory: An Introduction, the most successful academic book ever published, the Aesthetician Harold Bloom, the New Historicist Stephen Greenblatt, and an extensive group of distinguished biographical writers such as Lytton Strachey, a central figure in the largely Cantabridgian Bloomsbury Group, Peter Ackroyd and Claire Tomalin.
^ The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.
Cambridge – United States of America". University of Cambridge. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 2 September 2012. ^ "'A brave bad man': Oliver Cromwell, 1599–1658". Cambridge University Library. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35851-4.
American Cyclopædia article about University of Cambridge.


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Smashing Pumpkins, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and AFI Announce North American Tour
The bands will hit Toronto this summer
Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will embark on a North American tour this summer, with support from AFI.
The strange combination will kick things off in Camden, NJ, on August 8, trekking north of the border for a single Canadian show in Toronto on August 13.
The remainder of concerts will take place stateside, eventually wrapping up in Mountain View, CA, on August 31.
See the full list of dates below. Tickets for the upcoming tour go on sale this Friday (March 8) at 10 a.m. local time.
Smashing Pumpkins' latest album, Shiny and Oh So Bright Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun., arrived last November. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, meanwhile, released Who Built the Moon? the same month.
Naturally, Gallagher's younger brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam Gallagher has commented on the joint tour announcement, declaring it "Pumpkins n Potatoes."
Excited to announce The Smashing Pumpkins and @NoelGallagher's High Flying Birds will be touring North America this summer with special guests @AFI. Tickets on sale this Friday, March 8th, at 10AM local. https://t.co/LyAvkyg2Iu
*LA's on sale date TBA pic.twitter.com/BTqREl0AJR
— The Smashing Pumpkins (@SmashingPumpkin) March 4, 2019
Pumpkins n potato's what ever nxt
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) March 3, 2019
08/08 Camden, NJ - BB&T Pavilion
08/09 Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater
08/10 Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Amphitheater
08/13 Toronto, ON - Budweiser Stage
08/14 Detroit, MI - DTE Energy Music Theatre
08/15 Chicago, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
08/17 Columbia, MD - Merriweather Post Pavilion
08/19 Cleveland, OH - Blossom Music Center
08/20 Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte
08/21 Alpharetta, GA - Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
08/23 Rogers, AR - Walmart AMP
08/24 Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion
08/25 Houston, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
08/28 San Diego, CA - North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre
08/30 Los Angeles, CA - Banc of California Stadium
08/31 Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
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AFI Unveil 'The Missing Man' EP
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Smashing Pumpkins Get Courtney Love, Peter Hook, Chino Moreno for 30th Anniversary Show
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Rise Against Get AFI and Anti-Flag for "Mourning in Amerika Tour"
After taking Pierce the Veil and White Lung out on a headlining run last year, Rise Against have now mapped out a North American tour alongs...
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Smashing Pumpkins head Billy Corgan is back with his promised new solo album Cotillions. Yes, his latest as William Patrick Corgan is out no...
Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan Unveils New Solo Album 'Cotillions'
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Hear Silverstein Cover Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm"
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Smashing Pumpkins' D'arcy Wretzky Is Apparently Playing with a New Band
It appears former Smashing Pumpkins bass player D'arcy Wretzky is working with a new band — or at least that's according to Michigan doom-sl...
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Reveal 'Blue Moon Rising' EP
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have revealed a new EP titled Blue Moon Rising. It will arrive on March 6 via Sour Mash. The mini rel...
Noel Gallagher Says He'd Rather Have Boris Johnson as a Brother Than Liam
Noel Gallagher has delivered another verbal blow in his long-running feud with his brother and former Oasis bandmate Liam, insinuating that...
Liam Gallagher Actually Said Something Nice About His Brother Noel
Liam Gallagher is well known for taking very public digs at his older brother and former Oasis bandmate Noel, but in a recent interview he a...
Watch Noel Gallagher Eat Spicy Chicken Wings and Cry on 'Hot Ones'
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Nelson, Ingrid L.
Ingrid L. Nelson
English, European Studies
Associate Professor of English; Director of Studies
413-542-5458 @amherst.edu 301E Johnson Chapel
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Chaucer's Shorter Poems
NOVELS, PLAYS, POEMS
Autobiography in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Reading Poetry
Chaucer's Shorter Poems
Major English Writers I
Lyrics Before the Lyric
Imagining the Past
Poetry and Research
Medieval and Renaissance Lyric
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Early Women Writers
Avant-Garde Poetry
Making Literary Histories I
Race and Otherness in the Middle Ages
Research and Teaching Interests
Submitted by Ingrid L. Nelson on Tuesday, 10/8/2019, at 4:33 PM
My interests include the literature of later medieval England (1200-1500), English poetry of all periods, genre theory, lyric theory and poetics, media theory, and cultural studies. I teach courses on Chaucer and other medieval and renaissance literature, and on poetry across the English tradition. A continuing concern with literary and material forms underlies both my scholarship and pedagogy. How does the form of literature--or any text--interact or intersect with the contexts of its cultural practice? My first monograph, Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre and Practice in Later Medieval England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) defines the medieval English lyric genre based on its practices rather than its poetic forms. My current project, tentatively titled Chaucer's Premodern Media, explores the institutional, spiritual, and perceptual contexts of medieval ideas of media, and draws on these to read Chaucer's poetry, especially The Canterbury Tales, as works concerned with the literary capacities of mediation. My peer-reviewed essays on the medieval poetry, genres, and concepts of media have appeared in New Literary History (NLH), Exemplaria, and the Journal of English and Germanic Philology.
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300- and 400-level courses on medieval literature and poetry.
Publications (selected)
"Poetics of the Rule: Formalism, Biopolitics, and Chaucer's Boethian Lyrics." New Literary History (NLH) 50 (2019): 65-91.
Lyric Tactics: Poetry, Genre and Practice in Later Medieval England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
"Form's Practice: Lyrics, Grammars, and the Medieval Idea of the Literary" in The Medieval Literary Beyond Form, ed. Robert J. Meyer-Lee and Catherine Sanok. Boydell and Brewer: in production.
Editor (with Shannon Gayk), "Special Issue: New Approaches to Early English Genres." Exemplaria 27.1-2 (Spring 2015).
"Introduction: Genre as Form-of-Life." With Shannon Gayk. "Special Issue: New Approaches to Medieval Genre." Exemplaria 27.1-2 (Spring 2015).
"Premodern Technologies of Transmission in the Man of Law's Tale." Exemplaria 25.3 (Fall 2013), pp. 211-30.
"The Performance of Power in Medieval English Households: The Case of the Harrowing of Hell." The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP) 112.1, (Jan. 2013), pp. 48-69.
Submitted by Ingrid L. Nelson on Wednesday, 1/9/2013, at 8:46 AM
Ph.D., English, Harvard University (2010)
M.A., English, University of Colorado (2005)
B.S., Mathematics, College of William and Mary (1997)


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The ingredients, including almonds, often show up for Easter, frequently in the form of marzipan. The rice might be the equivalent of the young wheat that is soaked and folded into an Italian Easter pie called pastiera di grano, from Sicily, the part of Italy where bakers are often busiest.
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"Hazelnuts are very much more Swiss," she said. "Maybe the rice or wheat are used in place of all nuts because nuts were so much more expensive."
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Nick Malgieri, the baking teacher and author, discovered the tart when he was in Switzerland and based his somewhat lighter recipe on several he found there.
A Finnish rye and wheat Easter bread, paasiaisleipa, which also calls for almonds, eggs, cream, raisins and lemon zest, is seasoned with cardamom and is baked in a milk pail.
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\section{Introduction}
The long distance behaviour of a strongly interacting $SU(N_c)$ gauge theory
has a strong dependence on the number of fermion flavours $N_f$ and on the representation under which the fermions transform.
When the number of fermions is reasonably small, these theories break the chiral symmetry similarly to QCD and are confining.
However, if the number of flavours is increased while the number of colours is kept the same, the theory will develop
a non-trivial infrared fixed point (IRFP) and the long distance behaviour of the theory becomes conformal.
Increasing the number of flavours even further will cause the asymptotic freedom to be lost. This upper limit in the number of flavours
before losing the asymptotic freedom is perturbatively known to be $N_f^\mathrm{AF}=11N_c/2$ and is called the upper edge of the conformal window.
The exact number of fermions at which the conformality onsets is called the lower edge of the conformal window and is unknown.
Different perturbative estimates have been given for the location of the lower edge, but since the conformality generally
onsets at large coupling, a non-perturbative analysis is required.

In this paper we focus on the $N_c=2$ gauge theory with 2--8
fundamental representation Dirac fermions in the limit of vanishing quark mass
and try to paint a complete picture of the conformal window in $SU(2)$ theories.
These $SU(2)$ symmetric models offer a simple framework for testing different long distance dynamics~\cite{Sannino:2004qp}.
The current status of lattice simulation~\cite{Ohki:2010sr,Bursa:2010xn,Karavirta:2011zg,Hayakawa:2013maa,Appelquist:2013pqa,Leino:2017zyg,Leino:2017lpc,Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2018qvq,Amato:2018nvj}
indicate that the $N_f=2,4$ are confining and $N_f=6-10$ are inside the conformal window. Above $N_f=11$ the asymptotic freedom is lost.
Here we review our results, published in~\cite{Leino:2017lpc,Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2018qvq,Amato:2018nvj}, that clarified the existence of an IRFP in
$N_f=6$ and $N_f=8$ models.

We have performed running of the coupling analyses on $N_f=6$ and $N_f=8$ models and confirmed that they feature an IRFP.
From the same configurations we also measure anomalous dimensions characterizing the behaviour near the IRFP.
Alongside, we have run a systematic study on the spectrum in SU(2) gauge theory with $N_f=2,4,6$.
From the scaling of hadron masses with respect to quark masses we observe chiral symmetry breaking for two and four fermion models and
a strong indication of conformality for the $N_f=6$ model. In the $N_f=6$ model we can also extract the mass anomalous dimension
which confirms the results obtained from the measurement of the running coupling.

\section{Lattice formulation}
The study of SU(2) gauge theory with $N_f$ massless Dirac fermions in the fundamental representation is carried out
using a combination of HEX~smeared~\cite{Capitani:2006ni} $S_\mathrm{G}(V)$ and unsmeared $S_\mathrm{G}(U)$ Wilson gauge actions.
These gauge actions are combined with a factor $c_g=0.5$.
For the Fermion action we employ clover improved Wilson fermion action $S_\mathrm{F}(V)$, with tree-level Sheikholeslami-Wohlert coefficient $c_{sw}=1$.
We use the smeared gauge links in the fermion action.
Combining these actions we get a total lattice action: $S_\mathrm{G}=(1-c_g)S_\mathrm{G}(U)+c_gS_\mathrm{G}(V)+S_\mathrm{F}(V)+c_{sw}\delta S_\mathrm{SW}(V)$.

For the running of the coupling study, we use the Schr\"odinger functional boundary conditions by having Dirichlet boundaries on temporal directions and periodic boundaries on spatial directions.
This allows us to easily tune the fermion masses to zero and subsequently measure the mass anomalous dimension.
Elseways, for the spectrum study we choose periodic boundaries in all directions, which in turn means that the masses have to be tuned with the traditional PCAC mass relation.

In general, the simulations are run with multiple different lattice sizes and bare couplings. For exact numbers of these quantities and
comprehensive algorithmic details we refer the reader to the original papers~\cite{Leino:2017lpc,Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2018qvq,Amato:2018nvj}.

\section{Running of the coupling}\label{sec:run}
We measure the running of the coupling using the Yang-Mills gradient flow~\cite{Luscher:2009eq,Luscher:2010iy}.
With the gradient flow method we continuously smear the gauge field towards the minima of the Yang-Mills action removing the UV divergences.
The gradient flow is defined as a differential equation with respect to fictitious time $t$:
$\partial_t B_{\mu} = D_{\nu} G_{\nu\mu}$ with initial condition $B_{\mu}(x;t=0) = A_\mu(x)$. Here the
$D_\mu=\partial_\mu+[B_\mu,\,\cdot\,]$ is the covariant derivative and $G_{\mu\nu}(x;t)$ is the field strength tensor.
On the lattice one has to choose the discretization for the $G_{\mu\nu}(x;t)$.
We evolve the gradient flow with both with L\"uscher-Weisz action (LW) and with Wilson action (W) in order to investigate the discretization effects.

The coupling can be measured from the evolved fields at a scale $\mu^{-1}=\sqrt{8t}$: as $g_{\rm GF}^2(\mu)=\mathcal{N}^{-1}t^2\langle E(t+\tau_0)\rangle\vert_{x_0=L/2\,,\,t^{-1}=8\mu^2}$.
Here $E(t)$ is the energy density and the normalization factor $\mathcal{N}$ is defined for the Schr\"odinger functional boundary conditions in~\cite{Fritzsch:2013je}.
Because of the boundary conditions break the time translation invariance, we only measure the coupling along the central time slice $x_0=L/2$.
$\tau_0$ defines an empirical $\mathcal{O}(a^2)$ improvement for the gradient flow coupling~\cite{Cheng:2014jba}.
We choose $\tau_0=0.025\mathrm{log}(1+2g_{\rm GF}^2)$ for $N_f=6$~\cite{Leino:2017hgm} and $\tau_0=0.06\mathrm{log}(1+g_{\rm GF}^2)$ for $N_f=8$~\cite{Leino:2017lpc}.
In~\cite{Leino:2018qvq} we employ alternative $\mathcal{O}(a^2)$ improvement by combining clover and plaquette measurements of $E(t)$ with empirical coefficient $X$~\cite{Fodor:2015baa}.
Furthermore, the fictitious time $t$ at which the coupling is measured, is determined by relating the lattice and renormalization scales with a dimensionless parameter $c_tL=8t$.
The choice of $c_t$ defines the renormalization scheme.

We measure the gradient flow coupling at multiple bare couplings $g_0^2=4/\beta$. The bare couplings are varied from 0.5 to 8 for $N_f=8$ and to 10 for $N_f=6$.
We then interpolate these couplings with either polynomial or rational ansatz. For $N_f=6$ model we perform the interpolation with 9th degree polynomial for lattices larger than $L=16$
and 10th degree polynomial for smaller lattices. In $N_f=8$ model we use a rational ansatz with 7th degree polynomial in the numerator and 1st degree polynomial in the denominator.
With the interpolated couplings we can define a continuous
the step scaling function and extrapolate continuum with:
\begin{equation}\label{eq:stepscale}
\Sigma(u,L/a,s)=g_{\rm GF}^2(g_0^2,sL/a)\vert_{g_{\rm GF}^2(g_0^2,L/a)=u}\,,\qquad\qquad \Sigma(u,L/a)=\sigma(u)+c(u)\left(\frac{a}{l}\right)^2\,,
\end{equation}
where we have assumed discretization effects to be of order $\mathcal{O}(a^2)$.
The step scaling function allows us to evaluate the running of the coupling and the IRFP will be identified by a condition $\sigma(g_{\rm GF}^2)/g_{\rm GF}^2=1$.

\begin{figure}[t]
  \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{cont_sigma_c030_small_l12.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{bsigmac4t1.pdf}
  \caption[b]{
  			  Continuum extrapolated step scaling function~\eqref{eq:stepscale} with different discretizations for:
              \emph{Left}: $N_f=6$ theory with $c_t=0.3$, $s=1.5$ and \emph{Right}: $N_f=8$ theory with $c_t=0.4$, $s=2$.
             }
  \label{kuva1}
\end{figure}
In Fig~\ref{kuva1} we present the continuum extrapolated step scaling function~\eqref{eq:stepscale} for both the $N_f=6$ and $N_f=8$ fermion models.
In the $N_f=6$ model we use a step size of $s=3/2$ and set the scheme with $c_t=0.3$, while in the $N_f=8$ model we use a step size of $s=2$ and set the scheme with $c_t=0.4$.
In order to ensure correct continuum limit we perform the analysis using several different discretizations of flow and energy density, of which we show two examples with different colours in Fig~\ref{kuva1}.
We observe that our measurement follows the universal 2-loop $\overline{\textrm{MS}}$ curve up to some intermediate coupling before diverting towards an IRFP. The higher order perturbative curves
are scheme dependent and only shown for a comparison. We do not plot the recent 5-loop result~\cite{Herzog:2017ohr} as not only does it not have an IRFP with these numbers of fermions,
it also develops two separate conformal windows in SU(2) models clearly indicating a breaking of perturbation theory at high couplings~\cite{Leino:2017hgm}.
As can be seen from Fig~\ref{kuva1}, the $N_f=6$ theory has an IRFP at $g_\ast^2=14.5(4)^{+0.4}_{-1.2}$~\cite{Leino:2017hgm}
and the $N_f=8$ theory has an IRFP at $g_\ast^2=8.24(59)^{+0.97}_{-1.64}$~\cite{Leino:2017lpc}.
Here the first set of errors is the statistical error for the chosen set of discretizations and the second set gives the variation between different discretization choices.

\section{Anomalous dimension of the coupling}
\begin{figure}[t]
  \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{nf6_linear_c3.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{nf6paper_normm.pdf}
  \caption[b]{
              The anomalous dimension of the coupling $\gamma_g^\ast$ can be measured in two different ways: as a slope of the $\beta$-function \emph{(left)}
			  or with finite-size scaling method \emph{(right)}. Both figures are for $N_f=6$ model. On the right hand figure, the red lines indicate the measurement from the slope,
			  and the difference between solid and dashed curves indicate the uncertainty in $g_\ast^2$.
             }
  \label{kuva2}
\end{figure}
While the location of an IRFP is a scheme dependent quantity, the first irrelevant dimension of the gauge coupling $\gamma_g(g)=\beta^\prime(g)-\beta(g)/g$~\cite{NunesdaSilva:2016jfy}
is invariant at the IRFP $g=g_\ast$. At the IRFP $\gamma_g(g_\ast)=\gamma_g^\ast$ reduces to a slope of the $\beta$-function,
which we can measure directly from the step scaling function~\eqref{eq:stepscale}.
Alternatively, a finite-size scaling method of measuring $\gamma_g$ was proposed in~\cite{Appelquist:2009ty,DeGrand:2009mt,Lin:2015zpa,Hasenfratz:2016dou}.
In a functional form these two approaches can be written as:
\begin{equation}
\gamma_g^\ast=\frac{\mathrm{d}}{\mathrm{d}g}\frac{g}{2\mathrm{ln}(s)}\left.\!\left(1-\frac{\sigma(g^2,s)}{g^2}\right)\right\vert_{g=g_\ast}\,,\qquad
g_{\rm GF}^2(\beta,L)-g_\ast^2 = \left[g_{\rm GF}^2(\beta,L_\mathrm{ref})-g_\ast^2\right]\left(\frac{L_\mathrm{ref}}{L}\right)^{\gamma_g^\ast}\,.
\end{equation}
Both of these methods can be used with the same interpolated data used in section~\ref{sec:run}, but, because our interest now only lies at the IRFP,
we can get statistically more significant result by doing lower order fit in the vicinity of the IRFP~\cite{Leino:2018qvq}.
This procedure is demonstrated in the left side of Fig~\ref{kuva2} for the $N_f=6$ theory.

By measuring the slope of the $\beta$-function with multiple different fit ansatz we extract $\gamma_g^\ast=0.66(4)_{-0.13}^{+0.25}$ for the $N_f=6$ model and
$\gamma_g^\ast=0.19(8)_{-0.09}^{+0.21}$ for the $N_f=8$ model~\cite{Leino:2018qvq}, where the two sets of errors are again the statistical and systematical errors, respectively.
These results are in agreement with the scheme independent perturbative estimates~\cite{Ryttov:2017kmx}: $\gamma_g^\ast=0.6515$ for $N_f=6$ and $\gamma_g^\ast=0.25$ for $N_f=8$.

On the other hand the finite-size scaling method offers a consistency check for the result obtained above.
Because of the finite size effects and poor signal at the IRFP caused by $g_{\rm GF}^2-g_\ast^2\sim0$, exact numbers cannot be extracted using this method.
On the right side of Fig~\ref{kuva2} we present this method for the $N_f=6$ model and we can see that the finite-size scaling method develops a maximum that agrees with the
measurement obtained from the slope of the $\beta$-function~\cite{Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2018qvq}.

\section{Mass spectrum}
\begin{figure}[t]
\centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{mass_spectrum_Nf2_b1.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{mass_spectrum_pion_Nf4.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{mass_spectrum_pion_Nf6.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{decay_constant_Nf2_b1.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{decay_constant_Nf4_all_beta.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.32\textwidth]{decay_constant_pion_Nf6.pdf}
  \caption[b]{
             Singlet meson behaviour \emph{(upper row)} and pseudoscalar decay constants \emph{(lower row)} for
			 $N_f=2$ \emph{(left)}, $N_f=4$ \emph{(middle)}, and $N_f=6$ \emph{(right)}.
             }
  \label{kuva4}
\end{figure}
We have determined the masses of pseudoscalar $\pi$ and vector $\rho$ mesons by fitting time sliced average correlation functions with Coulomb gauge fixed wall sources.
The spectrum of these particles are shown in the upper row of Fig~\ref{kuva4} for the $N_f=2,4,6$ models. For the $N_f=4,6$ models we only show the $\pi$ meson, and for the $\rho$
results we refer the reader to the original paper~\cite{Amato:2018nvj}. As shown in the Fig~\ref{kuva4}, the $N_f=2$ model shows clear QCD-like chiral symmetry breaking behaviour
with the pseudoscalar scaling like $M_\pi\sim\sqrt{m_q}$ and the vector meson mass having a finite intercept in the $m_q\rightarrow0$ limit. The ratio $m_\rho/m_\pi$ diverges in this limit.

The $N_f=4$ model is closer to conformal window and therefore the signal is expected to be harder to measure. In Fig~\ref{kuva4} we observe the fit quality decreasing as the $\beta$ parameter
is increased, probably due to finite size effects. However, as long as the $\beta$ is reasonably small, we get a good square root fit for
the $N_f=4$ model singlet meson behaviour which is observed to be similar to the $N_f=2$ case and consistent with a chiral symmetry breaking.
This confirms the previous running coupling result~\cite{Karavirta:2011zg}.

In the final $N_f=6$ case, we observe heavy volume dependence manifested by a plateau in meson measurements at small quark masses shown in Fig~\ref{kuva4}.
As the difference between filled and hollow points show, the onset of the plateau moves to smaller quark masses as the volume is increased confirming this to be volume effect.
Regardless of these volume effects, it is still possible to do a scaling fit and extrapolate to zero mass. We observe that the pseudoscalar scales towards zero and
indicates a conformal dynamics, which confirms the result obtained from the running of the coupling~\cite{Leino:2017hgm}.

On the lower row of Fig~\ref{kuva4} we show the scaling behaviour of the pseudoscalar decay constant $F_\pi$ for all the models $N_f=2,4,6$. For the chirally broken cases $N_f=2$ and
$N_f=4$ we observe finite intercept of $F_\pi$ at zero quark mass limit while in the conformal $N_f=6$ model the $F_\pi$ scales to zero. For the numerical values of the interception points
we again refer the reader to the original paper~\cite{Amato:2018nvj}.
The pseudoscalar decay constant also offers a criteria to assess the finite volume effects.
For the $N_f=2$ we have $F_\pi L > 1$ indicating the finite volume effects to be under control in the chiral limit. For the $N_f=4$ model we satisfy this condition only for the $\beta=0.6$ and
for the larger $\beta$ this onset of finite volume effects explains the decrease in fit quality in the upper row in Fig~\ref{kuva4}. For the $N_f=6$ model $F_\pi$ scales towards zero
indicating an IRFP.

\section{Mass anomalous dimension}
\begin{figure}[t]
\center
  \includegraphics[width=0.49\textwidth]{gammt_alt.pdf}
  \includegraphics[width=0.36\textwidth]{modenumberpdf.pdf}
  \caption[b]{
              The mass anomalous dimension $\gamma_m$ with step scaling method (\emph{left, shaded curve}), scaling of meson masses (\emph{left, points}), and
			  spectral density method (\emph{right}). On the left we only have $N_f=6$ and on the right we have both $N_f=6$ in yellow-black and $N_f=8$ in pink-blue.
             }
  \label{kuva3}
\end{figure}
As a gauge theory approaches an IRFP the coupling becomes and irrelevant direction and only relevant operator is the quark mass.
At the IRFP, where $g^2=g^2_\ast$, all composite-state masses run to zero together with the quark mass
with an universal exponent: $m_q^{1/(1+\gamma_m^\ast(g_\ast))}$. We can fit this behaviour to both pseudoscalar masses in Fig~\ref{kuva4} and vector masses~\cite{Amato:2018nvj} to measure the mass anomalous
dimension $\gamma_m$. This measurement is shown as coloured points on the left side of Fig~\ref{kuva3}.

Alternatively, we can measure the mass anomalous dimension from the configurations used in the running of the coupling study~\cite{Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2017lpc}.
We extract the $\gamma_m$ using two different methods: the step scaling method and the spectral density method. In the step scaling method we measure the running of
the pseudoscalar density renormalization constant
$Z_P$ and define $\gamma_m(u)\mathrm{log}(s)=-\lim_{a\rightarrow 0}\mathrm{log}[Z_p(\beta,sL/a)/Z_p(\beta,L/a)]|_{g_{\rm GF}^2(\beta,L/a)=u}$,
where the continuum limit is taken assuming $\mathcal{O}(a^2)$ scaling. Interpolating $Z_p$ with 8th degree polynomial we get the continuum limit shown in Fig~\ref{kuva3} for the $N_f=6$ theory.
This method becomes rather unstable at higher couplings which is perceived as increased errors. Again the higher order perturbative curves are shown as a reference and are not directly comparable.
For $N_f=8$ theory the step scaling method is unstable and is not presented here; our take on the continuum limit in $N_f=8$ model can be found in~\cite{Leino:2017hgm}.

The last method of measuring $\gamma_m$ is the spectral method. In the spectral method we stochastically extract the mode number of Dirac operator~\cite{Giusti:2008vb,Patella:2011jr}.
The mode number is known to a scaling $\Lambda^{4/(1+\gamma_m^\ast}$ in the vicinity of an IRFP. With this method we can extract $\gamma_m$ for both $N_f=6$ and $N_f=8$ as shown on the
right side of Fig~\ref{kuva3}. We also observe that the results agree with those attained with other two methods. The only caveat of this method is that we only get a good signal at large lattices,
and hence we have not enough points for proper continuum limit and the curves shown in Fig~\ref{kuva3} are only for the single largest lattice sizes.
We measure the values $\gamma_m^\ast=0.283(2)_{-0.01}^{+0.01}$ for $N_f=6$ and $\gamma_m^\ast=0.15(2)$ for $N_f=8$.

\section{Conclusions}\label{concl}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cccc|cc}
        & $g_{\rm GF}^2$ & $\gamma_g^\ast$ & $\gamma_m^\ast$ & $\gamma_g^{\mathrm{R\&S}}$ & $\gamma_m^{\mathrm{R\&S}}$ \\
\hline
$N_f=6$ & $14.5(4)^{+0.4}_{-1.2}$  & $0.66(4)_{-0.13}^{+0.25}$ & $0.283(2)_{-0.01}^{+0.01}$ & $0.6515$ & 0.6 \\
$N_f=8$ & $8.24(59)^{+0.97}_{-1.64}$ & $0.19(8)_{-0.09}^{+0.21}$ & $0.15(2)_{-0.01}^{+0.01}$                  & $0.25$   & 0.3
\end{tabular}
\caption{Location of IRFP and its anomalous dimensions compared to scheme invariant perturbative estimates~\cite{Ryttov:2017kmx}.}
\label{tabtab}
\end{table}%
We have studied the running coupling and mass scaling in the SU(2) lattice gauge theory with 2--8 massless Dirac fermions. From the results it is clear that the $N_f=2$ and $N_f=4$ models are chirally broken
and have QCD-like behaviour. Meanwhile, we have presented strong evidence on the existence of an IRFP in $N_f=6$ and $N_f=8$ models. For these conformal models we have completed table~\ref{tabtab}
with all the properties we have measured at the IRFP. We have also included comparison to the scheme independent perturbative estimation~\cite{Ryttov:2017kmx}.
We have checked the scheme independence of these results by varying the gradient flow parameter $c_t$,
these numbers and many more details are available in the original publications~\cite{Leino:2017lpc,Leino:2017hgm,Leino:2018qvq,Amato:2018nvj}.

\section{Acknowledgements}
This work is supported by the Academy of Finland grants 310130, 308791 and 267286.
S.T. is funded by the Magnus Ehrnrooth foundation. J.M.S. and V.L. have been funded by the Jenny and Antti Wihuri foundation.
V.L is currently supported by the DFG cluster of excellence "Origin and Structure of the Universe" and
Bundesministerium f\"ur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) under the grant
Verbundprojekt 05P2018 - Ausbau von ALICE am LHC: Hydrodynamische Entwicklung und Berechnung des nuklearen Modifikationsfaktors, Projekt Nr. 05P18WOCA1.
The simulations were performed at the Finnish IT Center for Science (CSC) in Espoo, Finland.

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The Power of the Unsaid: A Conversation with Sion Dayson
by Cameron Finch
Sion Dayson is the author of As a River, her debut novel, which is available from Jaded Ibis Press. Born in New York, raised in North Carolina, and a decade spent in Paris where she acquired French nationality, she now resides in Valencia, Spain. Her work has appeared in numerous venues including The Writer, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Hunger Mountain, Utne Reader, The Wall Street Journal, and several anthologies, including Strangers in Paris and Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men. Sion has won grants and residencies from the Kerouac House and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, among others. She holds an MFA in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
In her recently released novel, As a River, author Sion Dayson tells the tale of Greer Michaels, a man who returns to his segregated hometown of Bannen, Georgia, in 1977 after sixteen years of trying to outrun a devastating family secret. While taking care of his dying mother, Greer finds comfort in his budding friendship with Ceiley, a teenager who aches to run away from her own family secrets and travel the world like Greer. Alternating between the past and the present, Dayson's lyrical prose moves like water, carrying us through the tributaries of her characters' lives. From romantic rendezvous at the riverside to overflowing bathtubs and drowned bodies, Dayson's novel is indeed as a river—full of life, mystery, and danger to be discovered far beneath the surface.
Cameron Finch: What inspired the idea for your debut novel, As a River?
Sion Dayson: None of my writing ever starts with a big idea, but rather a small detail: an image, a scent, a stray line of dialogue. As a River definitely was sparked by the latter. I was walking through Harlem one day and overheard some teenage girls chatting. One said, "She's pregnant and never even had sex." You can imagine, that really caught my attention!
I rushed to my apartment and immediately wrote a scene. What came out featured a young girl in a small town in Georgia in an era before I was born. The dialogue I'd heard on the street transformed itself into the person of Esse, a young girl who weaves a story of a miraculous conception to make sense of something more troubling. But afterward, I got interested in her daughter, Ceiley, too. What would it be like to grow up with a mother who raises you with this tale?
The more I wrote, the more the cast of characters expanded. Soon, an intriguing man with something haunting him from his past entered the picture. I could sense there was some sort of connection between Greer and these characters I had already met, but I didn't yet know what. It became clear he was my main protagonist and I really wanted to understand him more. That meant getting to know not just him, but also his mother Elizabeth and why she was so sad. And Caroline, his first love. And on and on.
As I began with dialogue, and then with character, it took awhile to discover the heart of the story. The central question became why Greer had fled his hometown and left everyone behind. But the seed of the idea had been crucial. As a River is very much about our origins and how the stories we tell about ourselves shape our lives.
CF: As a River has had quite the journey leading up to its publication by Jaded Ibis Press. In the novel's acknowledgments, you mention that "the time between first page written to published book in hand spans more than a dozen years." Wow! You know the quote, "You can't step into the same river twice"? As you, the author, evolved over the course of those twelve years, how did your approach to your novel likewise evolve?
SD: I should clarify that it was the whole process that spanned more than a dozen years. So while the book did take a while to write, it took equally as long for it to find the right home. Writing and publishing are two very different things.
When I first started the project, I was in my mid-20s. So when I imagined Greer in his early to mid-30s, he was older than I was. It's hilarious to me that I'd conceived of him as wiser and more mature when I've blown past his age now. Ha!
I had finished the book years ago. But things kept falling through in the quest for publication. I found the querying process pretty demoralizing, even though I had willed myself not to take anything too personally. Then I signed with a small press—but it shut down right as my book was up in the production queue. Then it went to another one—and they ghosted.
I kept returning to revision with each new bump in the road. Endless editing. But at a certain point, it was basically there… Except that I continued changing the last five pages! I could not settle on an ending. It tormented me.
Though it can be hard to admit, I'd wager that the book hadn't truly landed in a lasting way anywhere because I wasn't really sure of it myself. I think you can see my evolution by that ceaseless re-working of the ending. What I wanted to convey as the lasting idea changed as I grew.
The most common critique I received from agents was that the book was "beautiful, but too quiet." Instead of trying to turn the volume up, I kept moving even more toward the quiet, more toward the minimal. Stripping away every last bit of fat. In earlier drafting I was trying to think through things structurally and find the most appropriate narrative arc. The longer the process took, however, the more the question became, what is true? Life doesn't offer us—at least not usually—the big climax, the tidy ending. So I started allowing myself to play in the ambiguity more.
CF: Your novel is set in a fictional segregated town called Bannen, Georgia, and the majority of the novel alternates between the years 1961 and 1977. Why did you choose to fictionalize a town instead of choosing a real city? And how did you go about researching the culture, politics, and environment of '60s and '70s Georgia?
SD: One of my writing mentors at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Xu Xi, talked about establishing the "facts of the fiction." For me, one of the facts of this particular fiction—from that very first scene I described above—was its setting. (Though I first called the town Banning, only to Google later and find out that Banning, Georgia, exists! Did my subconscious know that? I changed the name to Bannen).
I did wonder why I should set the story in Georgia, and not North Carolina where I grew up. I admit feeling self-conscious about that. But writing has always worked best for me when I don't prod too much at my creative impulses and let my curiosity guide me. Working with a fictional town liberated my imagination by offering a freedom to build the world intuitively and organically without having to fact check against a real place. Most elements of the story were a mystery to me at the beginning, but I felt solid about my invented Bannen, Georgia, from the start.
Of course, we're talking about a small, segregated town in the South during those years, so obviously there are racial and political realities inherent in the terrain, regardless of whether it's a fictional town, or not. I did weave in time markers and incidents to acknowledge the charged context. But I didn't do as much research as you might think.
I am a lover of history, but as a person of color in the United States, you feel this history as you move through the world. It's a lived experience. One doesn't need to research to recognize the unsettling looks, the acts of bias, the microaggressions (and the overt aggressions) that make up daily existence.
I appreciated how a reviewer in The Arts Fuse put it: "While the central conflict of As a River wouldn't exist without the miserable history of racism in the South, racial tension provides less a background than a means of psychological pressure in the narrative." That psychological pressure was something I could create from my own understanding.
CF: Writing about racial and sexual violence, death, and strained family relationships, I can imagine many of these scenes were quite difficult to write. Was it ever uncomfortable to write about your characters' suffering? How do you find the mental strength to continue writing through these emotionally-charged scenes?
SD: I'm a highly sensitive person (literally; HSP is an actual designation!). I do feel things deeply and consider myself an empathetic person. Witnessing anybody's suffering is difficult for me.
That said, writing in and of itself—regardless of the content—is usually an excruciating exercise for me. I feel like I'm having to extract each word from the well.
One saving grace of this painstaking process is that it allows me enough time and space to work through difficult material. I endlessly polish a sentence before I can move onto the next. That also means that I'm building up the strength with each pass.
I remember having difficulty with a scene and telling my MFA advisor that I was walking away unsatisfied each time I tried to write the scene. She replied, "So don't walk away." There's no other way out than through. You have to stay in the scene, especially when it's charged. That's where the real material lives.
CF: Within the novel, your characters constantly grapple with the question, "Can we ever know the whole truth about another person?" Each character has secrets that they guard with their lives, and often they must decide which is more dangerous: to keep those secrets or share them. How do you, as the author, decide which secrets you want to share with your reader and which secrets shall remain unspoken?
SD: I'm obsessed with the fact that we can never truly know the whole truth about anyone. I strive for understanding, but no matter how much you place yourself in someone else's shoes, you can never access the totality of their thoughts and feelings.
The book wrestles with that idea by putting it under extreme pressure. All of the characters have secrets. For the purposes of knowing which to reveal and which to remain unspoken, I thought through who the characters were and what made the most sense for the story. I interrogated the concept of what constitutes surprise in fiction. There are different ways to create tension. One is that a reader discovers information and the revelation comes as a shock. Another is that the reader is privy to information that the characters aren't. So the suspense happens in wondering how things will play out, not what the secret is.
But the book is very much about the power of the unsaid, too. Things don't have to be explicitly stated for you to know them to be true. I trust the reader and knew that I didn't have to point a neon sign to certain facts. With each draft, I crafted more subtlety into the plot.
CF: This novel is also concerned with family mythologies and the ways in which our beliefs guide our choices and actions. For example, Ceiley grew up hearing of her own "immaculate conception." Greer calls the little information he has of his father a "mythology."
There's this wonderfully poetic passage in the chapter "Invisible Light (1961)": "Only a truth did hide in the myth, it was not lost in water: Man is elemental. You cannot hold water, but it is necessary for life. Greer had this great need to know his father, yet there was nothing of him. Greer, beating heart, blood, flesh and bone. How did he exist with half of himself unknown?"
Both Ceiley and Greer are curious about their origins almost to the point of disbelief. As they work to discover the truth about their past, their desire to run away from their homes grows and grows. What are the difficulties in writing characters so full of contradictions?
SD: That's an interesting question. Is there anyone who is wholly consistent? Something that makes human beings fascinating creatures are our contradictions. I understood the impulse that you so beautifully described. One can wish to know the truth, but fear learning it at the same time. One of the key takeaways of the book is that you can't run away from yourself or your history; you carry it wherever you go. But it can be difficult to grapple with painful truths. It is common for people to try to run. So while it can be a challenge to capture a character who might have shifting impulses, I think it's an accurate depiction of their nature. As long as it's clear to the reader what is behind an action, I think it's all part of creating three-dimensional characters.
CF: I see so many comparisons in your work to the great writings of James Baldwin, especially in the way light and shadows are cast in As a River. Which writers/texts have influenced your writing, and particularly this novel?
SD: Well, there could be no higher compliment for me. You've just named my biggest influence! I revere the work of James Baldwin; if you see shadings of him in As a River I am deliriously happy.
I am always more interested to hear what influence readers see in my work than naming them directly, as I'm not sure what translates directly to the page. But I feel like there is a whole canon of Southern literature that informed my work. And I'm not sure As a River would have come out as it did without reading the work of Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Randall Kenan, Jean Toomer, Ernest J. Gaines, and so many more.
CF: What is next for you?
SD: I have no idea! I'm currently heavy in the promotion phase of As a River. I'm envious of writers who manage to keep working creatively while in the depths of publicity, but I am not someone who can. I'm just trying to keep my head above water at the moment. But the book took so long to make its way into the world that I am grateful for every second of this.
I have about a quarter of a nonfiction book about Paris gathering dust that I might pull out again and dive back into. But I am always open to what unfolds. Who knows when I'll hear the next line of arresting dialogue while innocently walking down the street? It could set me off on a whole new adventure.
Cameron Finch
Cameron Finch is a cross-genre writer and freelance editor whose work appears in Entropy, Glass Poetry, Windmill, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and elsewhere. Her interviews with authors, artists, and small presses can be found in Michigan Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, and The Rumpus, among others. Find her online at ccfinch.com.
Cameron Finch November 26, 2019


Helen Larson was 12 years old in 1935 when she became the official pianist of Arnegard, N.D., population 333.
Her love of music would take her to St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., where on a snowy night in 1943 she would meet the Naval Aviation Cadet who later became her husband. Her music accompanied them around the world as they charted parallel careers in music and soil science.
Known for her sharp wit and her velvety alto voice, Helen was strong, generous and endlessly creative. She was a formidable adversary in bridge. And she was the proud head of large extended family of children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, cousins, nieces and nephews.
She died in her sleep Wednesday from complications following ankle surgery. She was 96.
Helen Marjorie Drovdal was born in Arnegard in 1922. When the town's piano teacher moved away, Helen took over playing for church services, the Boy Scouts, the Ladies' Aid and the P.T.A. At home, she practiced more challenging repertoire, including her favorite, "Rustle of Spring," by the Norwegian composer Christian Sinding.
At St. Olaf College, where she sang with the renowned St. Olaf Choir, she discovered that her true instrument was her voice. She moved to New York to pursue voice studies at the Juilliard School, then transferred to Yale University's nursing program in hopes of helping with the war effort—all the while corresponding with the young naval aviator, Kermit Larson. They married in 1948, and Helen's mother shipped the family piano to the couple's new home.
Moving with Kermit and their children from town to town in North Dakota, Helen gave private piano lessons, ran public-school music programs, directed church choirs and taught voice at the University of North Dakota.
In the late 1960s and 1970s, Kermit and Helen did two four-year tours in India and Pakistan, where Kermit worked with farmers on increasing food production. Helen worked as a secretary in the U.S. consulate in Peshawar.
Helen is survived by her sister, Dorothy Anne Honeychurch, brother, George Stenehjem, children Nancy Larson Maloney (Timothy) of Arden Hills, Minn., Thomas Larson (Melanie) of Aptos, Calif., and David Larson (Linda) of Sykesville, Md., as well as seven grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a loving extended family.
Visitation will be 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 15 at Schoeneberger Funeral & Cremation Service, 100 Jake Street, Perham. Visitation will resume from 10:30-11:30 a.m. followed by the funeral service at 11:30 on Monday, July 16 at Calvary Lutheran Church, 619 3rd Ave SW, Perham. Burial will be in Calvary Memorial Cemetery near Perham.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the Minnesota Elder Justice Center (https://elderjusticemn.org/).


One whole year. I'm not sure how, but we're here. I'm so in love with this last year because of you. I've never loved someone so deeply in my whole life.
I've sustained you for a whole year. That first month was so hard. I was so tired and didn't know what I was doing. But then we were on the verge of giving up our breastfeeding journey and in your own way you told me no and that you wanted me. Only me. It was the biggest turning point in my motherhood journey. Even at 1 month old, you showed me how much you loved ME. From that point, nursing you began to be the biggest honor of my life.
One random morning you were swinging and we were singing Disney songs. I sang the words "when you meet the one you've been waiting for and he's everything that you want and more. You look at him and you finally start to live for someone else" and I looked at you and you were smiling at me. My heart grew by the millions. Another turning point in motherhood for me. You became my best friend.
Your laugh is the greatest thing my ears have ever heard. Your smile is the greatest thing my eyes have ever seen. Your scent is the greatest thing my nose has ever smelled. Your love pats are the greatest thing to have touched me. Your love is the greatest thing my heart has ever felt.
You quite literally complete my life. I look at you a million times a day and can't believe I have this life. I marvel and wonder how you are mine and I am yours.
I love you, Kai. Happy 1st Birthday my handsome darling boy. & cheers to many more snuggles and adventures ?


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North Yorkshire Devolution Explained
The most significant shakeup of local government since 1974 is about to change the North Yorkshire administration map for many years to come – and whatever the outcome, due to be implemented in March 2022 – it will have an impact on all of the region's residents and businesses.
And with the deadline looming and the debate heating up, Harrogate BID has asked local resident, John Harris, to explain what Devolution will mean to Yorkshire as a whole, and more importantly what is being proposed for our county of North Yorkshire and our District of Harrogate in terms of local government.
In addition to John's article, we have included information from North Yorkshire County Council, a joint letter to businesses from its Leader, Coun Carl Les, and Chief Executive, Richard Flinton, and information compiled by the Leaders of North Yorkshire's district and borough councils.
Incidentally, Harrogate District Chamber of Commerce's forthcoming meeting, being held via Zoom on Monday, September 7, at 6pm, will hear from the Leaders and Chief Executives of both NYCC and Harrogate Borough Council, who will put forward their differing Unitary Authority proposals.
If you have a view and want it to be heard, you are encouraged to write to your local MP as well as Simon Clarke MP, the Minister of State (Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government) at simon.clarke.mp@parliament.uk who is charged with Yorkshire Devolution.
Local Government Services Matter To Business – How They Are Delivered Matters To Harrogate Business
The government has proposed that Yorkshire should operate not as One Yorkshire Together but as four separate areas, each with an Executive Mayor to work alongside unitary local government councils with powers and a budget devolved from central government.
This will mean wholesale change in North Yorkshire as there are nine existing councils which would be replaced as from April/May 2022.
The government criteria for new unitary authorities states that a minimum acceptable population level is 300,000 and the optimum is 400,000 – the population of North Yorkshire and York is 820,705 (2018) so we can expect two unitary authorities to replace the nine current councils – and if the councils do not agree on one preferred solution by the autumn, the government will impose one. It is suggested that the government look for a balance of population and of the economic base between the new unitary councils.
Local government is important; a locally elected democratic organisation is a vital ingredient still in our society to deliver services which matter. It matters to business in Harrogate that the government gets this right.
The Leader of NYCC has suggested that the answer is to create the existing county council area into one unitary authority alongside the existing York City Council unitary authority and disbanding the seven existing district councils.
Local government services involve education, social services, highways, area promotion, economic development, strategic and local planning, housing, public health, refuse collection and disposal, recreation and leisure, parks, arts and entertainment and in Harrogate town, the Convention Centre and tourist attractions.
The seven district councils have tasked management consultants KPMG to carry out a study and to work with them to identify the most appropriate model for this local government reorganisation.
The economic and geographical factors and clear community interests will need to be balanced in assessing structures which would be more efficient, effective, economical, and representative than the duplication we have at present. All will have a local perspective – Scarborough will not see things like Harrogate – York will not see things like Richmond but the seven shire district councils have indicated they do not support the whole of the present North Yorkshire county council area being one council only.
For Harrogate business what are the critical factors for the local government structure?
In terms of economic community of interest, York, Selby, Harrogate (and Craven) have all been part of the Leeds City Region, recognised by successive governments, supported by the travel-to-work area statistics, the transport usage and pressures, and the economic interests and characteristics. To the north, Richmondshire and the Northallerton area of Hambleton look to Teesside and Durham, not to Harrogate.
How significant is it that Harrogate and York together are the main urban centres in the area with commuter profiles, both part of the Leeds City Region, with similar profiles for their economies (tourism and visitors with major heritage attractions, conference/exhibition delegates, service and some production industry, growth areas for housing and employment, transport infrastructure and investment)? Conversely how can the county's distinctive countryside and coastal areas and agricultural interests be best represented?
The choice favoured by the district councils is to associate each urban centre (Harrogate and York) with the rural areas to their north (ie east with York/west with Harrogate options) which would achieve a rough balance of population and economic base.
So, where could the best interests of 'Harrogate' lie – the Harrogate BID town centre area, the town as a whole of around 75,000 people, the Harrogate and Knaresborough Parliamentary constituency. The wider district with a population of 160,533. And what do Knaresborough, Ripon, Masham, Pateley Bridge and Boroughbridge think as part of the current wider district?
The present local government structure goes back to 1974. Whatever is put in place from 2022, after nearly 50 years, can be expected to last a very long time.
Individually and collectively business can make its views known to government and to their member of Parliament.
This article was produced in conjunction with John Harris, a local Harrogate resident, and those who wish to consider the issues further might like to look at two articles on Yorkshire Bylines:
Proposals for a North Yorkshire executive mayor
And a follow up article:
The unfolding saga of the proposed unitary authorities for North Yorkshire
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William Shakespeare edited by J. W. Lever
Quote image for "Measure For Measure"
Editorial matter © Cengage Learning 2008
This play is out of copyright and you do not need to apply for rights to perform this play.
Acts: 5. Scenes: 17. Roles: Male (15) , Female (5) , Neutral (0)
In a city swamped by impotent law and sexual decadence, Shakespeare reveals repressed desire, skewed hypocrisy and arbitrary justice. His only play to be set in Vienna, Measure for Measure has, along with Troilus and Cressida and All's Well That Ends Well, been labelled a 'problem play', although in its first appearance in print in the 1623 First Folio, it is listed under the 'Comedies'. Using conventional literary and dramatic devices such as the bed trick and the disguised ruler (whose humanist piety some critics have seen as a direct nod to the newly crowned James I), the play's main source lies in the Italian writer Cinthio's prose Hecatommithi (1565) (whence Shakespeare had also drawn the inspiration for Othello). Shakespeare reworks Cinthio's tragic ending of rape and execution so that his play ends, as is usual for a comedy, in multiple marriages.
The Duke of Vienna lends his power to the uncompromising Angelo and pretends to leave the city, but remains disguised as a friar. Angelo begins to enforce the city's neglected laws, and condemns Claudio to death for getting Juliet pregnant out of wedlock. Claudio's sister Isabella, who is about to become a nun, begs Angelo for mercy, but he falls in love with her. He offers her a bargain: Claudio will be released if Isabella sleeps with Angelo. Isabella will not consent, even when her brother encourages her.
The Duke, who was visiting Claudio in prison still disguised as a friar, overhears Isabella talking to Claudio. He suggests they trick Angelo into thinking that he is sleeping with Isabella, but he will really be sleeping with Marianna, his ex-fiancée whom he abandoned.
Their trick is successful but Angelo does not pardon Claudio: he is still to be executed, and his head sent to Angelo. The Duke intervenes, and gets the Provost to agree to send another prisoner's head instead – initially Barnadine's, but then Ragozine's when Barnardine refuses to be executed.
The Duke 'returns' to the city as himself. Isabella, not recognising him as the Friar who helped her, begs him for justice. The Duke pretends to dismiss her. Mariana arrives as a witness. The Duke re-enters as the Friar. When he reveals himself, Angelo confesses and the Duke orders him to marry Mariana then condemns him to death: Angelo is pardoned when Mariana pleads for him. Claudio is revealed to be alive. The Duke proposes to Isabella.
The first record of performance for Measure for Measure was at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall, on 26th December 1604, though it was probably composed and performed earlier that year. The play's exploration of illicit sexuality led to it being underperformed or bowdlerised throughout the centuries that followed its publication; at the start of the twentieth century, critics and practitioners 'uncovered' the play's emphasis on grace and divine atonement.
video Measure for Measure (Globe on Screen 2)
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From Measure For Measure
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Second Series
British drama


text:
Pyramid of Pepi I är en pyramid i Egypten.   Den ligger i guvernementet Giza, i den norra delen av landet,  km söder om huvudstaden Kairo. Pyramid of Pepi I ligger  meter över havet. Den byggdes åt faraon Pepi I.

Terrängen runt Pyramid of Pepi I är platt, och sluttar österut. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km öster om Pyramid of Pepi I. Runt Pyramid of Pepi I är det mycket tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Giza,  km norr om Pyramid of Pepi I. Trakten runt Pyramid of Pepi I består till största delen av jordbruksmark.

I trakten råder ett hett ökenklimat. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är januari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är januari, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är april, med  mm nederbörd.

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