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"A Leaf from America's Tea Heritage"
Oliver Pluff & Company
(Client of SCORE Charleston)
Darren Hartford, owner of Oliver Pluff & Company, spent over 28 years in the Air Force where he had the opportunity to travel the world and experience many different tea and coffee cultures. As Darren's love for tea and coffee grew, he purchased a small coffee and tea importer, blender, and distribution company in January 2018 after retiring from the Air Force. Since, Darren has expanded his product line, increased distribution mediums, and continues to successfully move his business forward by leaps and bounds.
Proud to have earned the Southern Living Foods Award, Oliver Pluff & Company's teas, toddies, waissails, coffees, and cacao are hand packaged with great care in artisan tins and are reminiscent of historical products.
Darren explains, "We connect people around the country to the Colonial American experience through historic beverages. We started by trying to answer two key questions, 'What tea was thrown in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party?' and 'What did they drink when they finished?"
Serving up a bit of our nation's history, Darren explains, "Oliver Pluff & Company seeks out the same tea gardens that supplied the British East India Company in the markets at Canton, China in the 17th and 18th centuries. We bring delightful beverages from America's heritage including Colonial Bohea Tea, Lapsang Souchong Tea, Cacao Shell Tea, Hyson Tea, Bourbon Vanilla Coffee, Colonial Blend Coffee, southern iced teas and other fine beverages. In fact, our name is derived from 'Oliver', which is meant to remind people of an English Tea Merchant and 'Pluff' which is a tip of the cap to the Lowcountry", referring to the Charleston's many scenic marshlands.
"We recreate the blends and tell the stories of these historic American beverages for National Parks, historical sites, gourmet markets, and direct to consumers through our online store. We connect people to the early American experience while they enjoy great cups of tea, coffee, and other fine beverages!"


Hi, we have a test set and test run where the Actual Duration appears to be averaging for each test. If you look at an individual test, you can see the start and stop time adds up to 6 minutes for example, but the actual duration is recorded as 19 minutes. Is this a bug? Is there a setting I need to change?
I would recommend submitting a help desk ticket so that we can better understand the issue and see if it's an issue (known or otherwise).


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Valve's Faliszek: Team Self-Determination Drives Left 4 Dead 2 DLC Strategy
February 24, 2010 | By Chris Remo
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Valve is legendary for its sprawling development cycles and serial delays, so much so that the company's public development wiki has an entry for so-called "Valve Time." It's one of the side effects of the company's production mentality, which eschews top-down management in favor of team-driven initiative.
In reality, the Seattle-area developer has largely left behind its legacy of releasing a single game once in a blue moon. Since 2007, the studio has released at least one game per year, including the new franchises Left 4 Dead and Portal, the long-awated sequel Team Fortress 2, and the latest entry in the Half-Life 2 sub-series of now-regrettably-named "episodes."
But Valve writer Chet Faliszek, whose current project is "The Passing" DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, says this newer, more prolific Valve hasn't appeared in spite of the company's traditional self-driven practices -- it has developed because of them.
"The structure of our company [means] we're really autonomous," Faliszek told Gamasutra, "and if there are enough people who want to do something, we do it. We wanted to do Left 4 Dead 2. It's not [marketing director] Doug [Lombardi] or [president] Gabe [Newell] or [COO] Scott Lynch sitting on top saying, 'This is what we must do.'"
When the team decided it could ship Left 4 Dead 2 a year after the first game -- an unprecedented level of speed for a full-scale Valve sequel -- it was a self-determined goal, Faliszek said.
"It lets us make the choices more," he explained. "Our payoff for being able to do Left 4 Dead 2 so quickly really was about how passionate the team was about doing it, and how we had a singular goal and vision -- this shared vision. That team was assembled by essentially looking around [the company] for people and talking with them. 'What would you want to do in that world? How would you want to go?' and finding that everybody was just focused."
"If you have that, you can work really fast and be really focused about it," he said. "[Lead designer] Tom Leonard really was the one who said, 'We can do this in a year. I want to try this structured scheduling we don't normally do.'"
"It could have gone wrong," he admitted. "We don't really talk about that, but there were three different times when we could have pulled the plug on Left 4 Dead 2, and we said, 'No.' That was iteration hitting all the points right. Every time we hit a mark, we were better off than we thought we would be."
That same self-guiding principle has applied to the downloadable content strategy for all of Valve's games. The Passing, set to release for Left 4 Dead 2 on PC and Xbox 360 next month, tells the story of a meeting between the four survivors of Left 4 Dead 2 and their counterparts from Left 4 Dead. Valve plans to follow that up a month later with DLC for the original game, which further fleshes out how the original survivors made it to the Southern locales of L4D2.
"To us, the game's not done, ever -- and we're given that leeway," Faliszek said. "I really love the Left 4 Dead world, and I want to [stay] in the Left 4 Dead world. We get to extend that out. Last year, we updated Counter-Strike: Source because someone at Valve was interested in doing that. We really like the games and the worlds we stay in, and we want to keep expanding out. There's whole mapped-out stuff for Left 4 Dead 2 that we want to still go into, so we're not done yet."
Faliszek acknowledged that there are reasons for the "Valve Time" reputation -- but that experience remains valuable in shaping the way the company operates today.
"The company works the way it works now because those guys never left," Faliszek said, referring to longtime Valve employees like key Half-Life 2 series developer David Speyrer and Team Fortress co-creator Robin Walker. "They may have had some problems then, and they learned from that. They help us newer guys -- I've been there for five years, but I still feel like a new guy -- get better and work better and think of things in a better way. People don't normally leave Valve; so having that continuity really helps us learn and helps us understand what we're doing."
Still, he added, "I think the 'Valve Time' thing is a leftover from the Half-Life world, because I've been very careful with my dates and times in Left 4 Dead."
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If only you could be as comfortable in your work chair as you are when you are relaxing at home. A comfortable chair can make sitting down to work a pleasure as opposed to a pain! Polyurethane operator chairs do not have to be uncomfortable. It is possible to combine durability and functionality with comfort – in all workplace settings.
Here are 10 easy and cost effective ways to make your operator chair more comfortable.
Start with your feet. This may seem strange but the position of your feet is crucial. You must be able to place your feet on the floor when you are sitting on your seat to avoid back and leg strain.
Keep checking. Don't fall into the trap of 'just sitting down for a second' without adjusting your chair and then realising an hour later that you have lost track of time and have been sitting awkwardly for too long. Check your posture every time you sit down.
Support your back. Your lower back is very vulnerable to strain. If your seat does not have adequate lumbar support you can add a small cushion instead.
Adjustable back rests for optimum comfort. Take a moment to adjust the back rest to suit the length of your spine to get the maximum postural benefits.
Use a foot rest. This will ensure that the angle of your knees is correct and will help to avoid lower back strain.
Depth is so important. Don't forget about the distance between your pelvis and knees – shorter office workers require a seat with a smaller depth so that they can bend their knees at the edge of the chair.
Don't forget about your arms. Many cases of neck pain originate from tightness in the shoulders. Relax your shoulders by using the arm rests.
Individual design. No two office workers are the same shape and weight so how can one type of chair suit them all? Choose a chair that is suited to your frame and build. Larger workers will require a completely different chair to a petite employee.
Make a replacement. Sometimes you just have to admit defeat and invest in a new chair. Old, worn and damaged chairs are never going to help to maintain a good posture at work.
Be bold and brave! Perhaps traditional office chairs are simply not going to work for you. Try out stools and saddle seats or even consider trying an exercise ball.
Choose your polyurethane operator chairs wisely and you can be very comfortable at your work station all day long. Adjust your backrest angle, the height and the depth to your own requirements. You can have all the features you require, such as wipe clean or steam clean materials, yet not compromise on comfort. These chairs are perfect for workshops, factories, food premises and healthcare workplaces. Check out our products at Furniture Online and select the features you need.
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2K Games is giving Xbox One and PS4 owners one heck of a deal with its Borderlands: The Handsome Collection. It consists of remastered versions of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel plus all of their currently released DLC, all for the price of one game. But 2K also has something for people with extra money to spend: a remote controlled Claptrap.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection Claptrap-in-a-Box Edition costs $400 (USD) and is limited to only 5,000 units. eBay scalpers can pre-order it now from GameStop.


Breathtaking, pulse-raising, life-changing situations. Involving stories that engage and draw you in. Modern, daring shows that you can't wait to talk about. Sky Witness will invite viewers to absorb themselves in the most riveting US dramas on television today, including the UK premieres of four exciting new series that are sure to be essential viewing.
And as for Sky Living's range of hit shows? Don't worry, they will all be right at home on Sky Witness. Expect to see fan favourites including Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, Madam Secretary and The Good Doctor all return in the autumn.
So save the date, Monday 6th August!


Palliative Care Australia cares for our loved ones when we no longer can.
This isn't about death and dying. It's about life.
Palliative care is all about providing the best quality of life at the end of life.
Think ahead (hopefully a long way ahead) to your last days. How do you want to go? At home, surrounded by family, in a specialist hospice with an expert team keeping you comfortable?
If you're anything like me, you spend half your life making plans and choices – from the type of coffee you like to kickstart your day, location of your next holiday, to where you want to live, and how you'll save for your kids' future. Why is it then that we leave something as important as our end of life care to chance? Are you one of the 50% of Australians who haven't spoken to our loved ones about what we would want?
Palliative care is all about providing the best quality of life at the end of life. Of course it's about managing physical and emotional pain and discomfort, but it's done in a holistic way with a genuine focus on the individual. People with a terminal illness and their loved ones tell us palliative care provides them with a level of support that they simply hadn't expected – it truly does help them to live well until the end. What worries me is that it comes as such a surprise to people that this is the type of care they can, and should, expect.
None of us want to deal with the situation faced by T, who struggled to fulfil her father's dying wishes. Apparently unbendable hospital rules led to T's father being transferred from a nearly empty rural Queensland hospital, where he was gently dying close to the community he loved, to a nursing home an hour's drive away. His community priest drove to visit him but had lost the nursing home address. Despite knowing the priest well, the hospital would not divulge the nursing home details, and the priest did not arrive in time. However, T was with her father the whole time, giving both of them great comfort. But T's grief and sense of mistreatment of her dad will take a long time to heal. Memories of the care of the dying remain with those left behind.
The wonderful people at Palliative Care Australia.
I recently met a lovely NSW woman whose father-in-law was adamant he wanted to die at home. He spent his final weeks in his own bed, surrounded by bustling family activity. And love. Family meals were shared at his bedside, games of cards were played across his feet, and the little kids staged concerts for his "entertainment". He was kept comfortable with the advice and support of a palliative care team, who gave practical advice about what to do when the time came. He slipped away peacefully in the middle of the night with his beloved wife holding his hand.
Now it goes without saying that caring for a dying loved one is very, very stressful. But knowing what they want ahead of time can make a difficult situation that little bit easier.
We need to tell our loved ones what we want, where we want to be cared for, who we want with us, what medical treatment we would prefer to pursue or not to pursue. A recent Palliative Care Australia survey showed that of those who had shared their end of life care wishes, 9 out of 10 had their wishes respected. Don't rely on chance – sit down and tell your loved ones what you want. Have the conversation now, and make it clear who you want to make decisions about your care if you can't.
People ask me if it's depressing working in this field, but that just tells me that I'm not doing my job well enough. The focus of palliative care isn't death and dying, it's life! Palliative care is all about helping people live as well as possible until they die – recognising what capacity they have and building upon it, and acknowledging their preferences and values. It's also about caring for the carers and other loved ones to ensure that their journey is as supported as possible.
I would love to think that all Australians with a terminal illness and their loved ones could access palliative care, or health professionals skilled in a palliative approach, as required. But they can't. People encounter barriers due to their location, their diagnosis (you are more likely to be able to access palliative care if you have cancer than other illnesses), their ethnicity, and the knowledge base of both themselves and their health professionals.
Palliative care is not an exclusive club centred around terminal care. It's a vital service that should be demanded by everyone with a terminal illness – whether delivered through specialist palliative care, or a primary care team delivering generalist palliative care or a palliative approach.
There is no question about it. Palliative care is everyone's business.
Dr Yvonne Luxford is the CEO of Palliative Care Australia. For National Palliative Care Week this week, PCA have launched their new initiative MyTribute where you can write and post a memoir for the ones you love and have lost. If you would like to create a memory for your loved one, please visit the My Tribute website here to make a tribute and share it via social media.


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Last week we had a customer send us a Canon Eos 7D Mk2 + a recently purchased Sigma 500mm F4 sport and a 1.4 x matched converter. This lens was pretty much out of the box. As the number 1 Sigma calibration specialist in the UK we see a lot of 500mm lenses and even more of the 150-600mm. On average we calibrate 5-6 150-600mm lenses a week so we were not surprised….yet!
He was complaining of soft images. Understandably, the lens being new, having a camera and lens calibrated was not something he considered. Fear being that the lens was faulty and wanted us cast an eye with a view to correcting this accordingly or sending back to the place of purchase with our reports.
The magnification factor of the 7D's crop factor along meant that the 500mm was the equivalent of an 800mm thus any micro adjustment would make a considerable improvement and with the 1.4 x converter the equivalent of 1120mm… again the minutest of adjustments making a considerable difference.
The calculated Auto Focus Micro adjustment for the 500mm + 1.4 x may be considered acceptable (remembering that Sigma's tolerances are typically + or – 15 micro adjustments). However we are actually looking at a + 16 as it is counteracting the -14 already required to correct the 500mm on its own.
This goes to prove what we see on a regular basis that more often than not converters tend to add greater discrepancies with regards front and back focus issues. if any users have any concerns with regards the performance of their lenses why not let us have a look.
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– manga stworzona przez Yoshihiro Togashiego.

Rozdziały mangi ukazywały się w latach 1990–1994 na łamach japońskiego tygodnika "Shūkan Shōnen Jump" wydawnictwa Shūeisha, a następnie zostały wydane w formie 19 tomów tankōbon.

Na podstawie mangi studio Pierrot wyprodukowało anime, które składa się z czterech sezonów opartych na mandze.
Seria zdobyła na świecie wielką popularność. Autorzy obecnie popularnych mang (jak Naruto czy One Piece) przyznają, że czerpali z niej inspirację do własnej twórczości.

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Corsair One
Corsair One Review
One of the best small form factor systems we've ever used.
By Bo Moore 28 March 2017
Corsair's first foray into complete system building is a triumph in both performance and design.
Excellent gaming performance
Small and quiet
Hard to access interior
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Corsair has long been a trusted brand in the PC building world, known especially for its high-quality RAM, cases, and even keyboards. If you've built a PC in the last two decades, you've probably used at least one of the company's products. But until now, the company has not forayed into offering complete, pre-built systems in the same way as companies like MSI and Gigabyte or custom build manufacturers like Digital Storm or Origin PC. The closest the company came in recent years was with the Bulldog—an ugly-as-sin "PC starter kit" case that included a mobo, PSU, and liquid CPU cooler, but made you supply everything else. Considering the company makes nearly every part of a PC, it's only sensible that it would create a complete system.
With the One, Corsair clearly establishes itself as a true pre-built system manufacturer—and it'll have a strong foundation to built upon from there. The One is a triumph in clean design, excellent performance, and small form factor. Measuring 7.9 x 6.9 x 14.9 inches, the One stands only a few inches taller than the Mac Pro, and with a look that's futuristic more by way of Tron than of dustbin. It has definitely earned a spot in our best gaming PC roundup.
One of the most impressive things about the Corsair One is its cooling solution. Both the CPU and GPU are cooled by their own 240mm radiator. But rather than outfitting each of those with their own fans, the entire One is cooled by a single 140mm maglev fan up top that pulls cold air in through the radiators and exhausts it out the top. The result is a well-cooled system with a minimal footprint that runs whisper quiet.
Overall design is impressively compact. Sure, you can build and buy mini-ITX systems that are small—smaller even, than the One—but Corsair utilizes every internal square-inch of the One to full effect. There's no wasted space, and no addons for the sake of having frills. The One takes the best that Corsair has to offer, and distills things down into a very svelte machine. Did I mention it's powerful?
Packed inside is an Intel Core i7 processor, Nvidia 10-series GPU, and liquid coolers for both. CPU/GPU power, as well as storage size, varies by tier—the One starts at $1,800 for an i7-7700, GTX 1070, and 240GB SSD + 1TB HDD, and goes up from there. The unit I tested featured an i7-7700K, GTX 1080, and 960GB SSD for a retail price of $2,300. If you don't like the specs, Corsair will offer several other options.
I put the Corsair One through our standard battery of performance, productivity, and gaming benchmarks. You can see the full results in the chart below, but the highlights include excellent scores in Cinebench 15, TechARP's x264, and PC Mark 8 Creative, hot on the heels of much larger, beefier systems. Gaming performance fell short of systems with dual-GPU loadouts, but the One's single GTX 1080 beat almost all other single-card systems we've tested lately, losing out only to a GTX Titan X system we tested last year. (I haven't had the chance to test a prebuilt sporting a 1080 Ti yet—though the One can be configured with it.)
As you can see, the Corsair One more than delivers on the promise of excellent gaming performance in a small package. Even better, it does so without relying on large, loud fans to keep everything cool. I've played with small form factor systems before, and heat management is often their achilles heel. Not so with the One—performance remained stable even after running high-load benchmark tests one after the other.
Of course, pre-built systems are known for adding a bit of price premium over the cost of building a rig yourself. But adding up the individual cost of everything packed inside the One, you reach a price not that much cheaper than the cost of the complete system—especially when you factor in the cost of Windows. Either way, Corsair brings a lot to the table here. For one, small form factor systems are especially tough to build inside, and the innards of the One are manicured with precision. Similarly, the One's custom chassis isn't the kind of thing you can easily recreate DIY-style. There's also the added benefit of a manufacturer's warranty—the One comes with 2 years parts and labor covered. But most of all, it's the ease of having a plug-and-play gaming system that looks great and performs even better, and some people just don't want to build themselves.
The One is a major milestone for Corsair. Having made components and accessories for decades, Corsair is now in a position to fuse all of its strengths together into one system. The One is a really exceptional culmination of everything Corsair does, and I'm excited to see more.
Bo Moore
As for former head of PC Gamer's hardware coverage, Bo was in charge of helping you better buy, understand, and use your PC hardware. You can usually find him playing Overwatch, Apex Legends, or more likely, with his cats.


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Scholarship in the age of wokeness: Top 10 ACADEMIC targets of cancel culture in 2020
Academics are supposed to be engaged in the disinterested pursuit of truth. And universities are meant to be places where you attack the argument, not the man. But in recent years, many scholars in the English-speaking world have found themselves embroiled in controversies just for expressing an unorthodox opinion or – in one case – pronouncing a Chinese word correctly. The individuals below were all targeted for cancellation in 2020. Some were investigated by their employers, others lost book contracts, speaking engagements and even university positions.
10. Gordon Klein
On June 2, Professor Gordon Klein (who has taught at UCLA for 39 years) received an email from one of his students calling for "leniency with black students" in light of recent "traumas." He replied by asking, rhetorically, how he could identify the black students (given that classes had been online) and whether he should give mixed-race students a full concession or only half. He also suggested that the student's request would violate Martin Luther King's maxim not to judge people by the color of their skin. Later that day, a petition was launched demanding Klein's termination, based on his "woefully racist response" to the student's email. (It eventually garnered more than 20,000 signatures.) The university put Klein on leave while it 'investigated' the incident, but he was subsequently reinstated.
9. Harald Uhlig
In a series of tweets posted on June 8, Professor Harald Uhlig compared Black Lives Matter activists who support Defund the Police to "flat-earthers and creationists." The next day, a petition was launched calling for Uhlig's resignation as editor of the Journal of Political Economy. It accused Uhlig of "trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement" and marginalizing "people of color and their allies in the economics profession." Then on June 11, one of Uhlig's former students – who is black – claimed that Uhlig had belittled him in class six years earlier. Uhlig's employer, the University of Chicago, looked into the matter, but found no basis for further investigation. However, the Chicago Fed severed its ties with Uhlig, noting that his views are not compatible with the bank's "commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion."
8. Bruce Gilley
Professor Bruce Gilley has been a wanted man ever since he published his article 'The Case for Colonialism' in 2017. The latest attempt to cancel him came on September 26 when a petition was launched calling for the termination of his new book series, 'Problems of Anti-Colonialism'. (The petition's organiser, incidentally, describes the Revolutionary Communist Party of Canada as an "organization I support and promote.") Three days later, Gilley received notice from his publisher that the petition had achieved its aim. The embattled professor then came out fighting: he shared letters from distinguished colleagues criticizing the publisher's capitulation; and announced in the Wall Street Journal that "this sort of publicity is hard to buy." Although the publisher refused to backpedal, Gilley managed to find a new home for his book series.
7. Selina Todd
A respected scholar of women's history and former president of the Socialist Educational Association, Professor Selina Todd is an unlikely victim of cancel culture. But in 2020, if your views aren't 100 percent in line with prevailing orthodoxy, you're not exempt from cancellation. Back in February, Todd was disinvited from the 50th anniversary of the National Women's Liberation Conference (an event that she herself had helped to organize) under pressure from trans activists. The activists, who threatened to boycott the event unless Todd's invitation was withdrawn, objected to her involvement with the organization Woman's Place UK, which has been described as a "trans-exclusionist hate group." However, Todd refuted the allegation that she is "transphobic," and said that some groups of people "just refuse to engage in civilized debate."
6. Lawrence Mead
On July 21, Professor Lawrence Mead published an article in the journal Society, which argued that higher poverty rates among blacks and Hispanics are due to culture, not discrimination. Three days later, the article came to the attention of Twitter activists, one of whom said, "F*** WHOMEVER ALLOWED THIS TO GET PUBLISHED!" Two petitions were then launched. According to one, which eventually garnered 3,510 signatures, Mead's article expressed "racially violent narratives directed at the Black and Latina/o/X community." Next, Mead was denounced by his own university, and separately by the directors of ten poverty research centers. On July 31, his article was retracted. Mead, however, refused to back down. In a statement to Campus Reform, he maintained, "There is no evidence" that serious multigenerational poverty is caused by racism.
5. Nathan Cofnas
Back in December of 2019, graduate student Nathan Cofnas published a paper titled 'Research on group differences in intelligence: A defense of free inquiry' in the journal Philosophical Psychology. On January 20, the paper came under attack from academic activists. One individual (who has since earned the nickname 'Mafia Mark') told Cofnas, "You're about to learn why people generally avoid f***ing with me," and called for a boycott of Philosophical Psychology. When asked whether he was physically threatening Cofnas, the academic in question (who later received a lavish grant to study 'intellectual humility') clarified, "Nah, just ruin his reputation permanently and deservedly." That same individual then launched a petition demanding an "apology, retraction, or resignation" from the journal editors, but it was unsuccessful.
4. Stephen Hsu
Professor Stephen Hsu had served as senior vice president for research and innovation at Michigan State University for eight years. In a series of tweets posted on June 10, the MSU Graduate Employees Union called for his removal, describing him as a "scientific racist and eugenicist." Two petitions were launched, one of which was signed by a large number of Hsu's colleagues at MSU. (Both petitions emphasised the university's "commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion".) Hsu rebutted the accusations against him on his blog, and shared letters from various academics offering comprehensive rebuttals of their own. There was also a counter-petition, which was eventually signed by 2,466 people. But these efforts were to no avail. On June 19, MSU's president asked Hsu to resign.
3. Bo Winegard
The trouble started for Dr. Bo Winegard when he was invited to give a talk on human biological variation at the University of Alabama. During the Q&A, Winegard was accused of 'racism' for suggesting that genes might contribute to psychological differences between populations. Two weeks later, the academics who had invited him (and who had approved his talk) issued an embarrassing apology, describing his views as "non-scientific." Winegard was subsequently called for a meeting with his bosses, and told to be more "strategic" in the future. Next, an anonymous activist began emailing his colleagues with links to supposedly offensive material he had written. This prompted another meeting, which was apparently "less congenial" than the first. A few days after Winegard published another paper on human biological variation, he was informed that his contract would not be renewed.
2. Norman Wang
On March 24, Professor Norman Wang published a paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which argued against the use of affirmative action in medical school admissions. On August 2, it came to the attention of Twitter activists, one of whom said, "Rise up, colleagues! The fact that this is published in 'our' journal should both enrage & activate all of us." Over the next few days, Wang's paper was denounced by: the journal's editor; the American Heart Association itself (twice); the president of the American Heart Association; and the American Association of Medical Colleges. On August 6, the paper was retracted. To add insult to injury, Wang was removed as director of the Electrophysiology Fellowship Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
1. Greg Patton
The single most ridiculous cancellation of 2020 involved Professor Greg Patton at the University of Southern California. On August 20, Patton – an expert in communication – was giving an online seminar about the use of pause or filler words (like 'umm' and 'err'). He noted that Chinese speakers use 'that' as a filler word, which is pronounced 'nega'. As Patton said, "so in China it might be 'nega, nega, nega, nega.'" However, because 'nega' sounds similar to a racial slur, a group of students complained. In a letter to the dean, they described Patton's use of the term as "hurtful," adding, "We should not be made to fight for our sense of peace and mental well-being." Patton was then suspended from teaching the course. A leaked report subsequently revealed that his colleagues felt "betrayed" and were "scared of students."
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Before I continue, there's something you must know. On 23 October 2017 I had a road traffic accident. I needed to have three major surgeries and stayed in hospital for six weeks. I felt really down some days and didn't feel like doing anything else. But music helped me to see the bigger picture.
I play the flute. I have played for approximately three years. One of the reasons why I love it is because it sounds just like a bird: high pitched and calm. When I was seven years old, I started playing the fife (the smaller version of the flute.) In this same year, I remember a lady from the London Music Fund come in with a silver flute. I remember all my classmates discussing what they would do if they had one. But here I am, just three years later, already doing so.
Anyway, the year after, I started playing the flute, but this is also the year of my accident. My music teacher was so impressed with how quickly I managed to catch up and how determined I was to erase this ordeal from my life, he applied me for a Scholarship.
I got my Scholarship at the beginning of the last academic year. I was in the middle of a lesson when my music teacher calmly walked into the classroom. However, you couldn't tell anything from his face because it gave nothing away. So when he told me I got the Scholarship you can imagine how shocked I was! I t was honestly one of the most amazing moments of my life, and those who know me will know that never happens. Before I came back to school from hospital I was a nobody. I was only a person in my best friend's eyes. But when I got my scholarship all of that changed.
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Pakistani regulator bans TV anchors from expressing opinions
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A man watches television as Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks to the nation at an electronic market in Karachi on 26 August (photo: Asif Hassan / AFP).
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns a draconian new directive from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) that effectively orders TV channels to impose prior censorship on their anchors by ensuring that they express no personal opinions.
Issued on 27 October to all licenced satellite TV broadcasters, the PEMRA directive says journalists who host TV discussions must limit themselves to "moderating" and must never express an opinion or judgement.
"[The] role of anchors is to moderate programmes in an objective, unbiased and impartial manner, excluding themselves from their personal opinions, biases and judgements on any issue," the directive says. It adds: "Therefore, anchors hosting exclusive regular shows should not appear in talk shows whether their own or other channels as subject matter expert."
The directive ends by referring to sections 30 and 33 of PEMRA's statutes, under which non-compliance is punishable by a fine of up to 10 million rupees (60,000 euros) and withdrawal of the TV channel's broadcasting licence.
"It is not the media regulator's role to dictate who can express opinions during debates, or to decree what can or cannot be said," said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF's Asia-Pacific desk. "This grotesque PEMRA directive not only violates journalistic independence and pluralism but even goes so far as to criminalize opinions. We urge PEMRA's members to recover a semblance of credibility by rescinding this order, whose sole aim is to intimidate media outlets and journalists."
"Banned" subjects
As grounds for the directive, PEMRA said Islamabad high court judges had expressed annoyance with comments by TV journalists about a decision to release former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on bail. The former prime minister is one of the subjects that is implicitly "banned" by the authorities
The court has initiated "contempt of court" proceedings against Sami Ibrahim, a political analyst who had commented on the release and who was previously the target of an intimidation attempt by the government last June. The court issued summonses to five other journalists – Kashif Abbasi, Muhammad Malick, Amir Mateen, Hamid Mir and Arshad Sharif – without giving any reason.
One of these journalists, Hamid Mir, told RSF he regarded PEMRA's directive as a "continuation of censorship" that already existed. "I not only condemn this directive but I will resist it because as a journalist it is my right not only to ask questions but also report and express myself."
Pakistan is ranked 142nd out of 180 countries in RSF's 2019 World Press Freedom Index.
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Plug-and-play: Wallmark proving to be a gem in the middle of 'Canes 4th line
by: Michael Prunka
Posted: Jan 1, 2020 / 11:03 PM EST / Updated: Jan 1, 2020 / 11:09 PM EST
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Carolina Hurricanes coach Rod Brind'Amour said he doesn't rely on Lucas Wallmark for scoring. It makes sense given Wallmark's role as fourth-line center and the amount of firepower throughout the 'Canes lienup.
Still, with an assist on Ryan Dzingel's empty-net goal in Tuesday's 3-1 win over Montreal, Wallmark extended his career-long point streak to seven games. He has four goals and five helpers in that span.
It's a testament to Wallmark's rounded skillset and his ability to step up whenever and wherever needed.
Carolina Hurricanes' Lucas Wallmark celebrates his goal against the Minnesota Wild during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Raleigh, N.C., Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
"He's super important. I don't know if he sets the tone as much as he does he kind of fills in. If there's a leak, he plugs it," Brind'Amour said. "Whatever we ask him to do, whether it's to kill penalties, now he's scoring power-play goals, playing against (other teams') best lines, he's capable of doing all that."
The 'Canes are 4-3 over those seven games. They endured a three-game skid but have back-to-back wins over the Capitals and Canadiens since coming back to Raleigh for a seven-game homestand.
Wallmark's role may not have him earmarked as a day-in, day-out scorer, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the skillset. He had 10 goals in 81 games last season. He's well on pace to surpass that total with eight tallies halfway through the campaign.
Wallmark showed it at the AHL level, too. The 24-year-old Swede had 24 goals and 46 points in 67 games in his first season with the Charlotte Checkers. A year later in the 2017-18 season, Wallmark notched 17 goals and 55 points in only 45 games.
The recent surge in scoring has meant a spot centering the second power-play unit. Wallmark may not be the best skater on the team or have the most dangerous shot, but he makes up for it in his hockey sense and with playmaking skills.
Giving him the special-teams role was born out of necessity due to Erik Haula's nagging knee injury. Keeping Wallmark there upon Haula's recent return didn't require much thought.
"It's a pretty easy decision," Brind'Amour said. "He has a good knack. He's not the quickest guy, but on the power play sometimes you have a little more time and space. He's been really effective."
Wallmark is finding twine one just over 15 percent of his shots. That number is going to regress a bit to the average and he won't always chip in on offense.
Still, the occasional production coupled with the second-most faceoff wins on the team helps Brind'Amour better distribute ice time. Wallmark was on the ice for 14:18, compared to Aho's 18:08 in the weekend win over Washington. Wallmark was only on the ice for 9:48 in Tuesday's close win over Montreal, but the Canadiens also committed only two minor penalties, thus limiting Wallmark's special-teams appearances.
Wallmark is a versatile player capable of contributing in various ways. Scoring isn't usually what he'll be asked to do, but the 'Canes will never mind if he chips in a goal here and there.
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The Beast of Cabo Rojo Part Three
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The Beast of Cabo Rojo
by Arnaldo Lopez Jr.
The man who had just introduced himself sat in a motorized wheelchair, his index finger rested on the small joystick near his right hand. His large dark eyes and dark hair were in stark contrast to his pinched, pale features. He wore a lab coat, and was covered from the waist down by a thin, white blanket. White gloves covered his hands, and a white scarf was wrapped around his neck.
"It's good to finally meet you, Professor," Jones said, extending his right hand. "And it's Detective Jones by the way."
Lamboi glared at the proffered hand until Jones put it away. "I wish that I could say the same," he said. "I'm not used to the police barging into my facility and questioning my employees."
Lamboi turned his formidable glare on his assistant before whipping his chair around and soundlessly scooting away. "Follow me," he said as he rolled down one of the corridors.
Annoyed, Jones hurried to catch up. "I didn't just barge into your facility," he said once he'd caught up to the professor and his chair. "I'm here on official police business.
Lamboi ignored him and continued past the doors of what were obviously offices and meeting rooms.
"Why don't we just stop at one of these offices?" Jones asked. "What I need to ask should only take a few minutes. And, by the way, I have to admit that I'm impressed at how quiet that chair is, it makes absolutely no noise."
"The offices are the domain of my assistant and the other drones," Lamboi answered dismissively. "I prefer to conduct my business in the labs."
Lamboi ignored the detective's observation about the chair.
They passed through two sets of double-doors that opened automatically into what the professor described as the main lab. Then he spun the chair around so that he now faced Jones.
"So what business is it that brings the police to my facility unannounced and unwelcome?" Lamboi asked.
Jones hid his annoyance and sighed inwardly. "I apologize for the intrusion, Professor," he said. "But I'm here investigating a series of murders…"
"And what does that have to do with me?" the professor asked shortly.
"Have you heard about the recent killings that have taken place right here in Cabo Rojo?" Jones asked.
"I'm a very busy man, I don't have time for television or newspapers," Lamboi sneered, "Or the garish goings-on of the internet."
"I understand," Jones said as he glanced around at the rows of stainless steel and plastic contraptions that filled the enormous lab. "Well it appears that these killings may have been committed by a very powerful creature—an ape in fact."
Lamboi rolled his eyes, "There are no apes here," he said.
Jones took out his notepad and flipped through the pages. "According to a Mr. Benitez, your facility received a donation of a large, adult chimpanzee…"
"Oh yes, that creature," Lamboi sniffed. "I accepted that animal mostly as a favor to the desperate young man that runs that particular facility, but once I'd received it—and after a thorough examination—I'd concluded that the creature was far too damaged to be of any use to me."
"So where is it now?" Jones asked.
Lamboi smirked. "Follow me," he said as he spun his chair around and headed to the far end of the lab.
Jones followed.
Lamboi stopped his chair in front of a bank of stainless steel racks filled with glass containers of various sizes. "There's your ape," he said, indicating one of the large containers with a thrust of his chin.
Jones looked and was immediately repulsed and sickened. Floating in the fluid that filled one of the larger jars was an ape's head, its face frozen in a perpetual scream.
"What happened to it?" Jones asked once he'd composed himself.
"I euthanized it, of course," Lamboi said matter-of-factly. "As I said, it was far too damaged for it to be of any use to me."
"Where's the rest of it?"
"What's left of its body is a pile of ashes in our on-site crematorium," Lamboi said. Then he added with another smirk, "Feel free to take its head with you if it will help with your investigation."
"No thanks," Jones said, irritated with the professor's condescending attitude.
"Very well then," Lamboi said as he spun away and headed towards the doors through which they'd entered the lab. "In that case, I assume that our business here is finished."
"Yeah, I guess it is," Jones said as he snapped his notepad shut and put it away.
Lamboi led Jones back to the lobby where he and his personal assistant, Anna Vasquez, watched Jones exit through the front door and go out to the parking lot. Lamboi then turned his chair towards Anna Vasquez, his face twisted in rage.
Detective Perfecto Jones stepped out into the parking lot and walked the short distance to his car. The day had become overcast and Jones could hear the boom of thunder in the distance. The incoming weather matched his mood—this path of his investigation had basically come to an end—his theory, as crazy as it was, of a rogue ape being somehow involved in the killings in Cabo Rojo had ended in a pile of ashes, and a pickled head in a jar…
Suddenly a terrified scream came from inside the facility, followed closely by a loud thud and an even louder inhuman shriek that made the hairs on the back of Jones' neck stand on end.
Jones yanked his pistol from its holster and ran back into the lobby of the facility…and into a nightmare!
Anna Vasquez's body lay on the tiled floor in a rapidly spreading pool of her own blood. Her head was missing. Crouched over her, his gloved hands covered in blood, stood Professor Lamboi—his wheelchair lay on its side.
"Hold it right there, Professor!" Jones yelled. "Don't move!"
Lamboi slowly turned his head, looking first at Jones' raised gun, and then directly into Jones' eyes. He smiled. "It was your fault, you know," he said calmly. "She knew how I value my privacy. She knew better than to allow the police to come nosing around in my business."
Outside, thunder rumbled and announced the approaching rainstorm with a dramatic series of bass drumrolls. Inside, the two men ignored it and kept their eyes locked together.
"It was only a matter of time before you were caught, Professor," Jones said evenly.
"Don't you want to know why? Or how?" Lamboi asked.
"I can find all of that out once I have you cuffed and in a cell," Jones answered. "Right now what I want is for you to lay face down on the floor right there."
Professor Lamboi glanced down at the slowly congealing pool of Anna Vasquez's blood. "That can be quite messy," he said.
Jones quickly took a glance at the blood too, just as a sharp crack of thunder exploded outside.
Lamboi leapt at the detective, reaching for the pistol in Jones' hand. Jones squeezed the trigger but at this close range he couldn't tell if he'd hit Lamboi or not. As the two men struggled over the gun, Jones was able to fire off two more shots but they went wide; the bullets burying themselves in the fancy receptionist's desk. Lamboi then succeeded in knocking the gun out of Jones' hand, nearly breaking the detective's wrist in the process.
The thunder, now accompanied by brilliant flashes of lightning and the staccato sound of rain, continued to boom outside even as the two men inside savagely fought for the upper hand.
Jones, although he was larger than the professor and trained in hand-to-hand combat by the military, could tell, to his horror, that he was losing the fight. He latched onto the professor in a futile bid to wrestle him to the ground, but Lamboi managed to knock his hands away and shove him back. Jones sprawled onto his back, tearing away the professor's blood-spattered lab coat as he fell.
Jones quickly raised himself up onto his elbows; the lab coat still clenched tightly in his hand, and looked around wildly for the professor.
At first, Jones' mind was incapable of processing what he was seeing, and he just sat there propped up on his elbows trying to will his eyes to see reason. But his eyes betrayed him, because what they insisted on seeing was the professor's head attached to the thickly muscled body of an ape!
"Like it?" Professor Lamboi asked, puffing out his chest and standing a little straighter. "Quite by accident I found that the amalgamation of chemicals in the ape's body not only negated its natural ability to reject foreign tissue while maintaining a more or less uncompromised immune system, but the ape's physiology was such that it seemed to welcome and even embrace multi-tissue interfaces while still remaining capable of fighting off the typical microbial invaders that cause infection. I considered it a miracle that this animal found its way to my facility. Due to my unfortunate disability, I'd already conducted a massive amount of research on the probability of performing a successful head transplant, and after that it was a matter of programming my surgical robots to perform the surgery."
Jones stood up on legs that felt like rubber, and tried to keep his hands from shaking. "I have no idea what you just told me," he said. "But is all that the reason you killed those people—for some kind of research?" Jones inched his way to the door as he spoke.
"Oh no," Lamboi said. His eyes, feverish and shiny, followed Jones' every move. "Even though the surgery was a complete success, I'd made one slight miscalculation…I had opted to keep the ape's brain stem intact, it's the reptilian part of the brain that controls base functions such as breathing. Unfortunately this eventually had the effect of somehow transferring the creature's substantial, and for the most part, uncontrollable rage to me. In essence, its madness became my madness."
Jones could make out a viscous line of drool leaking from the professor's mouth and making its way down to his chin. When he looked back up to the professor's eyes, all he could see were the dizzying depths of his insanity. In desperation Jones threw the lab coat at Lamboi and ran out into the storm.
The wind and rain lashed at his face, blinding him. He fumbled for his car keys, but his trembling hands wouldn't cooperate and he dropped them on the ground. Jones heard the building's door open behind him, and he turned to see the monster that used to be Professor Lamboi framed in the open doorway. Lamboi tore the gloves from his hands and flexed his powerful fingers.
"Your head will make a fine addition to my collection, Detective!" Lamboi called out before bursting into maniacal laughter that ended in a series of ape-like hoots and shrieks.
"My God no!" Jones gasped before turning and running across the parking lot and out through the still open gate.
At first Jones ran along the road, but then he heard the beast that had been Professor Lamboi gibbering and shrieking insanely behind him, and he plunged into the darkening forest in a panic.
Jones soon lost his bearing as he crashed through the trees and underbrush, his breath coming in ragged gasps. He had hoped to somehow get to the lighthouse, with its promise of shelter and people, but now he had no idea where he was going and he was too afraid to care. All he knew was that every instinct, every sense, indeed every fiber of his being screamed at him to get away!
Another flash of lightning lit up the sky, burning the image of the forest into monochromatic relief before his eyes, and revealing the glint of water in its strobe. Jones stumbled towards it.
He'd almost made it when he was forced to stop short. He thought that he had been headed towards a beach and the possibility of more people, but instead he now found himself standing on a muddy knoll that abruptly ended right in front of him. The hurricane must have washed away a chunk of the land here, and created a ragged outcropping that jutted out about ten feet above the water.
Jones searched the immediate area desperately as he tried to figure out which way to go, but it was no use—he was trapped.
Jones turned towards a blood-curdling shriek that came from the forest behind him just as a bolt of lightning silhouetted the nightmarish figure of the professor hurtling towards him!
Professor Lamboi barreled into the detective, wrapping his long, powerful arms around his torso as both men flew off the knoll and into the water ten-feet below.
The shock of hitting the cold water caused Lamboi to loosen his grip on the detective who, despite having the wind knocked out of him, managed to kick and flail his arms until he found himself free and swimming towards the surface.
Once he'd broken through to the surface and had filled his lungs with air, Jones nervously scanned the surrounding water for any sign of Lamboi.
A few moments later, sputtering and coughing, the professor surfaced about three feet away from where Jones was effortlessly treading water. The detective could see that Lamboi was having trouble staying afloat.
"Help me you fool! Help me!" The professor coughed.
Jones could only stare.
Professor Lamboi let out a terrible shriek and reached out with one of his long, monstrous arms in an effort to grab Jones, but the sudden movement only caused him to momentarily sink beneath the water. He soon returned to the surface again, his dark eyes wide with fear. "What's wrong?" He asked. "I can't stay afloat!"
"An ape's muscle-mass is too dense for it to swim," Jones recited, remembering being told this earlier in his investigation. "It would just sink."
"No!" Professor Lamboi spluttered past a mouthful of seawater, his arms beating frantically at the water around him. "Save me! You must save me-e-e…" And then he sank beneath the waves one last time, his pale face still visible for several feet under the sea's covering before disappearing into the depths.
Jones looked away, noticing for the first time that the storm had passed. He saw lights and heard distant music coming from a strip of beach about 50 yards away and tiredly made his way in that direction. Back to the world of comparative normalcy, and away from the final watery resting place of the Beast of Cabo Rojo.
Arnaldo Lopez Jr. was born of Puerto Rican parents, and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He's sold articles to Railway Age magazine, The Daily News magazine, Homeland Defense Journal, and Reptile & Amphibian magazine; scripts to Little Archie and Personality Comics; and short stories to Neo-Opsis magazine, Lost Souls e-zine, Nth Online magazine, Blood Moon magazine, The Acentos Review magazine, Feed Your Monster e-zine, Fangs and Broken Bones horror anthology, Swallowed by the Beast horror anthology, Trembling with Fear horror anthology, Monsters Attack horror anthology, Mythic horror & Sci-fi anthology, and the A reflection of Me: An AAMBC Anthology. He was also editor of Offworld, a small science fiction magazine that was once chosen as a "Best Bet" by Sci-Fi television. His first novel, Chickenhawk, is the winner of two International Latino Book awards.
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She's going to fall! She's going to fall!
By Martin Hill Ortiz
The giant green lady stood unbalanced, tipping backwards on the heels of her sandals. A dusting of snow covered her toes. Jake Morrison stared upwards, taking in her imposing figure. Although impossible, he thought that her inflexible neck had bent. Her lifeless pupils seemed to have rolled up to scan the heavens. From Morrison's view, the sharp rays of her crown, so far above him, appeared as parallel lines, each pair stretched out to where they met at the vanishing point.
Once the government proclaimed the Statue of Liberty a holy relic, they contracted the firm of Morrison, Kopovitz, and Shoemaker to install a four-hundred-foot tall cross to complement the sculpture and to affirm Lady Liberty's place as part of the One Nation Undergod's Daeo-Christian heritage. As a further design improvement, the statue's tablet was changed to the Ten Commandments which she now held at arm's length for all the world to witness.
The new structure, a massive thick-beamed cross, towered over and behind Liberty, dominating her; its bone-white bricks gleamed. But...
... but perhaps I shouldn't have used so much dynamite to excavate the foundation for the cross, Morrison thought. As a result of the blasting, the backside of Liberty's pedestal had sunk three feet below the center. The front, in turn, had risen three feet, enough to cause a fifteen-foot displacement at the height of the torch.
"She's going to fall," Kopovitz said.
"Just a little bent," Morrison replied. "Besides, look on the bright side: no one remembers the architect of the Leaning Tower of Pisa."
"Bonanno Pisano," Kopovitz whispered.
Shoemaker peered down on his partners from an observation window on top of her head, a flea on her scalp.
Kopovitz thought of his grandparents, all four of them arriving at different times at Ellis Island, just a stone's skip away. Lithuanian, Irish, Italian, and Armenian, all finding this nation and making a home, all passing this giant's torch, all finding each other, first as husbands and wives, then ultimately sharing the same descendants.
I can save Liberty, Morrison told himself. That chain at her ankles, symbolically broken, could be mended to serve as an anchor. Spikes could be driven through her feet to secure her to her base. The arm holding the Bible could be lashed to the horizontal beam of the cross for support and the wrist of the arm raising the torch could be nailed to the vertical column.
Strange, he thought, from this perspective her crown seemed to be made of thorns.
Martin Hill Ortiz, a native of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is a professor of Pharmacology at the Ponce Health Sciences University in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Martin has authored numerous short stories that have appeared in print and online journals, four mystery thrillers, and his 60-page poem, Two Mistakes, won the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid poetry award. He assembled and wrote the introduction to a three-volume anthology of the best short stories in English available through Rook's Page Publishing. He has also worked in theater, having run a comedy troupe in South Florida.
Billy the Kid on a Flashdrive? – The Anaya Wormhole Effect
Review of ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid,
a Rudolfo Anaya Extra-Fiction Novel
By Armando Rendón
In Rudolfo Anaya's latest book,ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid, science as in science-fiction gives way to the true fundamental forces of nature as he weaves a story that flashes back and forth in time.
The title is misleading because it's not really ChupaCabra, the goatsucker demon of Mexican lore, that meets Billy the Kid, a historical human artifact mythologized by Western writers of the purple prose, but a clash of realities. Obviously, the title suggests some weirdness going on. Is it fantasy, sci-fi, horror, a retro version of the time travel gimmick?
Or is Rudy just pulling our collective leg?
As with really good time-travel yarns, underlying the storyline are critical views of society, its social mores or disregard for humane values. I would say that in all the best science fiction I've read over half a century – that's a lot of reading – writers generally conjure up the bad guys or create a social setting that contrasts with the narrator/author's own time.
In H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, the protagonist reconfigures a chair with odd bells and whistles, powered by who knows what and travels thousands then tens of thousands of years into the future. It seems he never returned from his last trip, so the Traveler may still be out there.
In a way, Anaya has come, I was going to say, full circle, but only half circle back to his highly acclaimed book, Bless Me, Ultima, which is on many reading lists of schools throughout the U.S. Ultima, the curandera who becomes a spiritual guide for Antonio, the young protagonist in the story, imbues the book with her other-worldly persona and a powerful aura of mysticism.
To Anaya, his homeland is a mystical place, the mountains guardians of secrets and beauties found nowhere else, its rivers arteries of life in an otherwise harsh land, and a challenge to survival which his forebears have continually encountered for generations. I've caught a glimpse of these truths—seeing how mountain peaks jut up to cut off the horizon, finding a río at the bottom of a gorge by a glint of sun, leaning back a chair against a sun-warmed adobe wall...
Anaya's treatment here conveys the hardships of survival in the New Mexico of the latter 1800s into the early 1900s following the takeover by the U.S. government of half the territory of Mexico as a result of America's invasion of Mexican territory beyond the Rio Bravo (Grande). Those hostilities ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848.
Yet, this book also celebrates the nuevomexicanos who survived for generations from the meager resources the earth grudgingly gave up. Their devotion to a religion which was increasingly remote resulted in the creation of homegrown zealots, los penitentes, a secretive society of men who preserved the religiosity of the communities through extreme exercises of penitence and sacrifice. The hard life of the early residents resulted in a resolute people, determined to survive in spite of the hardships faced every day.
This is how I perceive nuevomexico, from readings (Anaya's works and others) and conversations and the few times I've ventured into the state, traveling far up toward the headwaters of the Rio Grande in the San Juan mountains of Colorado.
Out of this history evolved a few persons whom I got to know personally: Tomás Atencio, who created a literary headwaters in Dixon, co-founder of La Academia de la Nueva Raza and author of Resolana: A Chicano Pathway to Knowledge; Enriqueta Vasquez, who was one of the first Chicanas to publish a book on the Chicano Movement (Viva la Raza, 1974) and was part of founding the newspaper, El Grito del Norte, in 1968, about the same time that Quinto Sol Publications arose in Berkeley, which by the way was first to publish Bless Me, Ultima, and Con Safos out of East Los Angeles; Esteván Arellano, a writer and photographer, who drove me up into the mountains the time I met Atencio, and Reies Tijerina, who was a Tejano, but allied himself with and became the most prominent leader of the land grant movement in New Mexico.
And Anaya.
This sampling of people and experiences inform my reading of ChupaCaba Meets Billy the Kid. I say Anaya circled halfway back to Ultima, because the plot in this book depends heavily on tried and true sci-fi gimmicks, though the story is set in the middle of the Lincoln County War of 1878.
A super deep state government unit, operating out of the infamous Area 51, called the C-Force, which also answers directly to the White House; an incredible experiment run by C-Force gone awry which combines the DNA of chupacabra and alien DNA (think Area 51) to produce a devilishly vicious though sometimes clownish hybrid called a Saytir; the good-old wormhole angle worms its way in somehow (well, I know but I'm not telling), and the time-lapping magical laptop (magical because it seems to have a solar powered charger in 1878) that functions for note taking and for checking emails from this now (2018).
The reference to the White House, that is, to an actual living person is rare in science-fiction. But Anaya's story is happening in real time—his book is fresh off the presses. The president has authority over the C-Force and its members are continually advising him. (Does the C stand for ChupaCabra or Chili? Is C-Force to blame for the direction of current events? Is the current president really a Saytir?)
In other words, Anaya throws every quirky sci-fi accoutrement ever devised into the fray. You've got to love it.
Something seemed to be lacking in the story for me as I started to read it, but then I met the aspiring writer protagonist, Rosa, who believes it is her mission to write the true story about Billy the Kid. The true story, "it's what every writer wants," she says, still queasy though from some of the not so savory action she'd seen so far. So, lots of background fact-gathering, laying the groundwork for the story, but little of the spiritual or otherworldly that could connect us to his earlier writings, especially Ultima. Yet, Ultima lies in wait in the background throughout the book. For example, look for the flashback to the movie of the Anaya classic.
Rosa, the young person documenting all these events and characters, teams up with Billy the Kid, who mysteriously shows up at her new-found digs in 1878 New Mexico. A sort of platonic relationship ensues—Billy is a very approachable fellow with the young ladies even though rather reproachable otherwise.
So how does Rosa end up in 1878?
Rosa's chief means of transportation is by horse, of course. She witnesses key events in Billy the Kid's last few days and shares the lives of kind Mexican American hosts who give her food and shelter, even lend her a proper dress for a señorita to go to el baile, basically because she is friend of Bilito, the Kid.
Armed with her laptop and with a lot of time on her hands, so to speak, as she battles writer's block or rides shutgun next to the Kid, Anaya, I mean, Rosa, ponders a number of issues: the very notion of time, the role of literature in culture, what is driving her even to consider writing about this outlaw and what happened in a backwater of history 140 years ago, like who cares? Rosa suggests that there is far more to comprehend beyond what we see or seek to comprehend. "Time makes something new of us all," Rosa tells Billy as the Kid's own timeline draws to a close. Some of us have more time than others, she fails to add. Rosa, of course, knows Billy's last day is approaching—but she can't reveal that fact.
After what seems like months living in this past world, Rosa begins to worry about how she is to return; there's no ponderous circus balloon she can take to get back home.
Exactly the point, because we want to find out what happened, she has to come back to our real "time" and tell us, but how does she get back? A low-rider spaceship with hydraulics powered by frijoles de la olla?
No, chale! The force that bends space and time, Anaya tells us, is beyond quantum physics, string theory, time warps, marvelous spaceships powered by dilithium crystals to visit San Francisco Bay in the 1950s, let alone a barrio kid's scooter that magically carries him back to historic moments in Chicano history.
We know that somehow she made it back. All the while she has been recording what she sees and hears. At the end of the book, she has graciously provided a detailed timeline, "Rosa's Notes and Observations," downloaded from her laptop no doubt of what she saw, so that's proof. But the question still remains, how?
When we find out what that inexorable source of energy is, all falls into place. This is what Anaya is getting at. It's what he has been writing about all his life. How we ourselves can be transported back in time, back to a transcendent period of our own. It's so obvious when you read the book.
Armando Rendón is editor/founder of Somos en escrito Magazine, author of Chicano Manifesto (1971, 1996), and creator of Young Adult novels, including the four-part series, The Adventures of Noldo and his Magical Scooter, (2013-2016) and the latest Noldo novel, The Wizard of the Blue Hole (2018).
For an excerpt from ChupaCabra Meets Billy the Kid, a Rudolfo Anaya novel, the book was featured recently in Somos en escrito under the title, "I am becoming a recorder of history." The book is available at ChupacabrabyAnaya.


Soba Noodles Salad with Ginger Peanut Dressing | We Like to Cook!
We are always looking for alternatives to the same-old, same-old pasta salad especially as the weather starts to warm up and we fire up the grill for cookouts and other outdoor gatherings. We first had this salad years ago from the deli counter at the DeKalb Farmer's Market. We brought it back because it is relatively healthy compared to many other pasta salad recipes. The whole wheat pasta is easier to digest, the dressing is low fat reasonably low in fat and the peanut butter provides a protein punch.
This salad is delicious warm or cold and is actually better when made in advance. It holds up well at a picnic because the ingredients are not quick to spoil as afternoon temperatures climb. Be the hit of your next potluck with this tasty, unique salad.
Mix soy sauce, mirin (which is seasoned rice wine vinegar), peanut butter, honey, ginger and garlic in a small mixing bowl and whisk together until smooth and creamy.
Toss the dressing with cooked soba noodles (or you can substitute whole wheat spaghetti which is what we have done here) pasta that has been allowed to cool. We sometimes use pasta leftover from another meal. Make sure that the pasta is well coated with dressing but not swimming in it. Place the coated pasta in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Before serving, top the salad with toasted sesame seeds and chopped peanuts. This salad is especially tasty when garnished with freshly chopped cilantro.