As I prepare to work with another cohort of the Pregnant Athlete E-course, I've been wrestling with how to approach the topic of prenatal mental health. Most of us, by now, understand that many new parents struggle with postpartum depression and anxiety but we often don't talk about mental health during pregnancy.
I had a significant bout with prenatal anxiety and, while I'm not yet ready to write about it, I wanted to share something on the topic. When Leia posted on her social media about her own work through prenatal anxiety I asked if she would pen her story for you, reader.
She DID and it is raw, beautiful, relatable, hopeful, and honest. Some of us use medicine, therapy, coping mechanisms, or other ways to manage our mental health; here's to de-stigmatizing the decision to employ medicine as a means of supporting a healthy pregnancy.
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There are lots of ways that we can self-identify. I identify as a mom - with a three year old son and another boy on the way. I am a runner, which is a huge part of my identity as it branches into running coach, race director, and instructor. I am a wife, who has a spouse that supports me on my running and momming adventures. These are the identities that I latch onto. They're positive and offer fulfilment. Unfortunately there's also a large piece of me that struggles with anxiety. I do not enjoy identifying as a person with anxiety, but if I don't own that piece, it risks the other positive identifiers that I claim.
About ten years ago I decided to start seeing a psychologist as a first step.Though even though it helped, it wasn't quite enough. I had started running, and it became a great help, but also still not enough. After some time I was referred to a psychiatrist to discuss medicine. This is one of the hardest things for me to accept. I do not want this kind of help. I want to be ok on my own. I want to find coping mechanisms that I can hold on to and that will fix everything for me and make me feel better. However, I am a much better, mom, wife, and runner on medication and I have had to come to terms with that. I still incorporate talk therapy as I need to. It's not a constant, but it's helpful to have when I need a little extra.
A major struggle with medicine is determining whether or not to take it while you are pregnant and nursing. We talk a fair amount about postpartum depression, but we often don't acknowledge how hard it is to actually just be pregnant. There are the hormonal changes that can cause moods to alter or stress to rise. Then you may have coping mechanisms in place that no longer work to ease your stress, depression, or anxiety. For my first pregnancy I chose to get off of the medicine that I was taking at the time (Citalopram). I had a comfortable pregnancy, was thrilled to be able to run and work out as much as I was able to, and managed fairly well. I even thought that I might be able to stay off of the medicine once I had the baby.
I was so in love with our little boy and managed for several months. Then I started to struggle again. I stopped enjoying things like running, particularly group runs, which are a big part of my life. I was worried about keeping up or taking time away from family in ways that were completely disproportionate to the concerns. I talked to my doctor and started taking Citalopram again. I felt better, like myself.
Fast forward three years and we are expecting again. One of the problems is that there really isn't a lot of research out there that clearly outlines SSRIs (Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) and their impacts on pregnancy. Google becomes a tool for stirring up emotions. I was struggling with the balance of how I felt being off medicine with how worried I was about being on it. Again I decided to get off of medicine.
It did not go well. Right before I got pregnant I ran a forty-eight hour race; it was one of the most successful races I have run and it was also the longest. So even though I was still running and strength training throughout this pregnancy, it was a huge let down from what I had been been doing right before this. I had a couple of stressful events happen and I was not handling things well. I was pregnant and not eating or sleeping enough, which was causing another layer of anxiety because I was worried about that too. I was sucking it up to teach classes and work with my clients, and was a mess at home. I started seeing my psychologist again, and though it helped, nothing was really making me feel truly better. At around five months pregnant I talked to my doctor about getting back on medicine. She was kind and empathetic (I could also go on and on about why it's important to find a doctor who you truly trust and connect with during your pregnancy) and recommended Zoloft during pregnancy.
After a couple of weeks I started to feel better, and after about a month of being back on I was like my old self. I initially felt guilty for needing this. I know so many women who feel so broken asking for medicine. I totally understand. It's the feeling that you are out of control or can't manage on your own. For some people talk therapy and coping mechanisms are enough, but not everyone. When I am on my medicine, I feel like myself, or how I really identify.
I'm always amazed by how many people thank me for being open about this. I choose not to be ashamed, not to feel broken, but to feel stronger because I've asked for and gotten the help that I need. I'm far more excited about this pregnancy now that I'm in the third trimester because I feel better; I'm enjoying my family more and am okay with what I can manage on my runs. I'm glad that I didn't try to wait until after I delivered to ask for the help that I needed. I believe I'm having a happier healthier pregnancy because of it.
Leia Anderson is a running coach and co-owner of Team Sparkle Productions in Kansas City. Team Sparkle coaches individual runners, has group training programs, workshops, and races. She's passionate about helping people find their love of running and safely grow in the sport.
Find out more about her work here and follow her on Instagram here.
<— that is Leia during her forty-eight hour event!


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Cross-referencing Ambiguities: towards Algorithms for Writing and Reading
My working theory and methodology of literature continues to develop...
Is it too strict, or not, to say that language is representational in its denotative function and evocative in its connotative function? That is, the denotation(s) within a word are referential, and the connotation(s) within a word are contextual. "Cow" gives you both a thing to envision as well as a pre-loaded collection of typical places to put it, people it typically works with, and things a cow would typically make and do. Like chewing its cud, giving milk and, on rare occasions, parachuting into stadiums.
As any sentence progresses, each word offered in sequence introduces vast ambiguities, unclear possibilities of endless potential meanings, which our mind processes at nigh infinite speed. For example, just look back two lines: "As", "any", "sentence", "progresses"; even that phrase has no coherent meaning until the possibilities of those first three words are tied together in one meaning by the fourth word in its turn. Likewise, "progresses" by itself conveys many possible meanings, but, as the fourth word in this particular phrase, the potential meanings for "progresses" have been reduced to a single meaning, due to the combination of cross-referenced ambiguities when combined with "As any sentence".
Likewise, the pool of uncertain meanings for "As" and "As any" and "As any sentence" becomes gradually smaller, by association, and thus more clear. The first three words restrict the fourth word to its intended meaning, and although this is addition of words is a constructive process, the work being done is actually a reductive enterprise. In order to write with clarity, the proliferation of meanings from individual words must be cancelled out by juxtaposition with other words. In order to be clear, the writer does not encode specific meanings so much as cancel out extraneous ones.
Eventually - early on, actually - the human computer learns to process whole phrases as units, so frequent combinations don't require reprocessing each time. Consider, as a unit, "And they're off." Does that refer to horse racing, or something else? Consider these familiar standards, each three words long: "Can I have", "Did they really", "How do you" and "Would you like". Each phrase, as a unit, conveys a normal set of referential and evocative potential. Now, consider that "Would you like a" presents another infinitely different set of meanings than "Would you like to". Different, and yet, smaller.
Observe that "Would you like" contains all the potential of "Would you like a" plus all the potential of "Would you like to" as well as several other possible variations. ("Would you like several" of something; "Would you like not" anticipating a gerund; Etc.) The variation of meanings appears to multiply, but in practice it actually divides. Comprehensively, it is not the vast difference of "a" versus "to" that somehow 'creates' a new set of thoughts. Rather, it's the combination of potential meaning sets that strategically reduces ambiguity until one meaning is clear. Potential meanings are reduced by cross-referencing against one another.
This explains both why and how the last word in a phrase often causes re-evaluation of the first word in a phrase, and of the entire phrase. The process has been going on all along. It isn't magic, it's an algorithm! What feels like magic is when a particularly surprising combination appears, just at the end. The common suddenly twists to become something uncommon. But! There isn't a different process going on when the last word is surprising. In fact, this process of detecting such "hidden meanings" - whether symbolism, irony, sarcasm, or punch lines - is always precisely the same.
A connection of two or three words (meanings) doesn't create a new meaning, it cross-checks, or 'triangulates' their trajectories from all possible meanings. As those vectors are starting to converge in a general area of thought, a new laser beam joins the rest from an unexpected angle, and shouts 'hey, over here'. Now the semantic search area gets smaller. The combining of words is what provides more precise meaning, but the eventual meaning we're given (*or, the one that we 'take') was actually there all along, waiting to be discovered, once we knew where to look. (*Unless the reader gets truly inventive; on which, see below.)
Remember Mark Twain's famous dictum on word choice: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning." Actually, that's the original quote, according to Bartleby.com, but the famous line has been popularly rephrased, so that "bug" now tends to be the last word of the quote. This collectively approved revision slightly improves on the quotation, if not the idea, because, to a broad audience, it better illustrates the point being made. While Twain's original emphasis moved from weak (an insect) to impactful (a storm), and thus encouraged authors to work for poetic effect, the "bug" ending (while more pedantic) emphasizes the most basic aspect of what's being discussed in the first place. What better way to illustrate the power of word choice than by employing the ever popular 'twist'!
Just as the last scene in a story can cause reevaluation of the entire plot line, the last word in a sentence has a well known ability to provide this same counter-interpretative effect. My point today is to observe that there's nothing especially magical about the last word, at least, not apart from all the words that preceded. As we all know, 'the twist' doesn't change things. It reveals things that were already there.
The best writers have known this for eons. The real power behind a punch line is all in the setup. For instance, here's a groaner that I happen to adore. Did you hear the one about the golden retriever, in the old west? He limped into town one day and said, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." (Cue groan.) I enjoy telling that one mostly for the brevity and efficiency. Set the stage. Load the twist. Pull the trigger. Paw!
It's not the funniest joke, but the minimalism of construction is beautiful. Telling that joke is like a social experiment. The phrases pile up, the world of infinite possibility is slowly whittled down, and the search for understanding is visible on your listener's face. A positive subject (lovable dog, must be our protagonist!), a setting (time and place, probably visualizing the cliche'd main street or ghost town) an odd detail (the limp) more familiar cliches ('into town', 'looking for a man', together evoking the well worn pastiche of the main street showdown) and the punch line, which evokes one last familiar 'old west' cliche, replete with the pun ("shot my Pa").
The cliches and the pun certainly undermine the joke's quality but the efficiency is breathtaking. A whole world is built - actually not built, but evoked - fleshed out and then made unique. The uniqueness comes in the surprise juxtaposition. We've heard all these phrases before, but never in this particular combination. Again, meaning is not so much constructed as restricted, with fine tuned precision. A series of denotations and evocations in sequence systematically reduces the listener's ambiguity, as they process rapidly, and the potential meanings coalesce into one particular world, denoting one particular event, including the twist. (Note: the most work this joke has to do, linguistically, may be in the opening. I've tried variations on this one dozens if not hundreds of times, and when I leave out "Did you hear the one about", the punch line sometimes leaves them hanging. In other words, you have to set up that this is going to be a joke! Apparently golden retrievers and cowboy movies aren't well known for being used in comedy. However, with the first line included, or perhaps with people who know me as a joke-ster, the punch line rarely fails to deliver - laughs and/or groans, that is!)
In many ways none of this is news to our understanding of human communication, but the innovation in terms of literary and language theory is that instead of looking for "the loaded word" which connects with the twist, we recognize that *all* words in an effective composition are designed to contribute - not just to the 'punch line' but - to a strategic, even a systematic, sentence-wide program of reducing ambiguity by cross-referencing ambiguities.
All the words must be checked against one another, while considering meanings, in sequence, before the last word can fly in and take all the glory. Even with normal sentences, that don't appear to have such a big 'twist', the last word can be fairly predictable, but it still ties up the meaning. Thus, all last words in sentences (or phrases, or clauses) perform this type of a function, but some last words get less glory than others.
There's a grammatical corollary here, also. Punctuation doesn't so much indicate a pause for breath or style, so much as when to pause and compile the most immediate unit of meaning, or when to stop and re-compile several units as one. Alas, the period will never get as much glory as that crucial last word!
Here's a common experience summed up in a well known sarcastic saying. It goes, "How come you always find something in the last place you look?" We recognize the absurdity alongside the familiar emotion. Finding something after much exasperated searching does feel that way, producing that Aha! moment in a way that feels more dramatic than if you hadn't spent so much time looking fruitlessly in all those places at first. Except that's just it precisely.
You didn't look fruitlessly in all those other places. You concluded, sequentially, that each of those other places was not the desired location. Thus, revelation arrives not by a sudden discovery, but by a gradual process of elimination, which can quickly approach exhaustive proportions. Whatever the proportions, this much is true. In general, the more work goes on during that elimination process, the more profoundly one feels that satisfying surprise at the end. You thought it was going to be in all these other places, but it's here, and you didn't see it, but it seems so obvious now.
So goes the twist sentence. You thought the meaning was going to be all of these other things, but it's this, and you didn't see it, but it seems so obvious now. Like the 'fruitless search', the more work being done by all the words being cross-referenced, the greater the impact of a twist at the end. But - and this is vitally important - the twist both is and isn't the thing, at least not like we think of twists. That is, the twist may almost always be there, but it rarely has to be something incredibly special.
Observe: Jack and Jill go up a hill. Jack and Jill go up a ladder. Jack and Jill go up to bed. Jack and Jill go up the org-chart. Jack and Jill go up the meter. Jack and Jill go up the ante. Jack and Jill go up in flames.
Here, it's easier to see how the clarifying power of the final word always takes effect in reverse. Again, the period is a pause to compile. In these elementary examples, note how the meaning of "go" and "up" changes based on whatever comes next. Even the context of going up a ladder conjures a dramatically different situation than going up a hill. Further, if we add "go up the ladder" you might mentally insert 'corporate' before 'ladder'. This is not merely elementary.
What's most instructive is recognizing what all this implies. All language begins in ambiguity and the progress of working towards clarity is actually negative, rather than positive. All language works together in varying juxtapositions, constricting meanings both ahead and behind, meta the linear sequence, but in order to communicate more precise meanings the work being done is not constructive so much as reductive.
Sentences are built but meaning is sculpted.
In theory, this implies a heavy role for the writer. In practice, of course, the reader's role is as important as the writer, if not much more so. As they say, "Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, going backwards in high heels." In all the strategy of composition, it is ultimately the reader who does the hard work of reducing ambiguities. There is much more to be said here about the reader's role which is positive.
On the flip side, however, an overly subjective approach to reader-theory destroys the whole game. If readers create new meanings after the writer has finished composing, then those new meanings were not available to the writer (as part of the collective pool of all meanings shared by their culture or sub-group of language users) and thus a fully reader centric approach to "meaning" is, by definition, a deliberate sabotage of authorial intent.
On the other hand, both writer and reader know that language is always evolving. Both writer and reader know that the writer is capable of coining new phrases. Indeed, an enjoyable writer will often invent neologisms and neophrasisms as well, although the experienced reader knows that this type of surprise meaning construction will generally be rare in most compositional efforts. Either way, the reader who leans heavily toward creative interpretation in meaning "construction" has definitively dropped all respect for the writer as strategist, and for the dynamic of composition itself.
Composition itself, as this theory now holds, works by strategy. Without strategic reduction of ambiguities in language, there is no possibility of communication between two persons. Thus, overly subjective or creative readings can be valid as interpretive exercises, or perhaps even as defiantly personal affirmations, quixotically, but when the reader divorces the writer she destroys the text as composition. In a real sense, it remains true that "All meaning is constructed" but strong minded readers should also grapple with "All text is composition" and "All communication is reductive."
In short: Please do not attach onto my words any additional meanings because the whole point is that I was busily trying to whittle them down, for your sake.
And yet, there is a fundamental problem remaining.
Creative readings become inevitable whenever compositions are less than completely effective at reducing ambiguity. Of course, this describes all writing, at times.
Here is where the rubber finally meets the road.
So far, this theory has implicitly described the way in which "good" writers communicate effectively and the way in which "good" readers follow the appropriate cues in "making meaning" successfully. Ah, but who is a "good" writer? Everyone sometimes, but nobody always. Therefore, in practical terms, the real challenge is not what to do when ambiguity persists. The real challenge is what to do when a writer is unclear. Technically, that should say, "when writing is unclear", but although this does not often describe whole works of literature, but it does often describe portions and snippets and phrases within literary works.
Quite often, compositions show consistent patterns in their attempted strategy, however inconsistently effective it may be. The most basic axiom of this 'Ambiguity Theory' has to say about Literature is that writers attempt to be clear by reducing ambiguity, and that any persistent ambiguity may indicate a point where the composition needed additional work, but it also indicates a moment when the composer expected the opposite. In short, patterns of persistent ambiguity may, themselves, suggest the readers' path towards clarity.
To underscore the point a bit: Just as there is no Santa's list of naughty or nice little children, for all are both at times, so also there is no way to divide writers between "good" and "bad" and there is no way to judge units of language as objectively "clear" or "unclear" - at least, not in a Boolean sense. If this theory only worked for "good" writing, then it would be no theory at all. Rather, perhaps it would not even be necessary. (!) To illustrate, we may recall that the most frequently misconstrued book in the western civilization is widely believed to have been written by God, and there is probably no theory of "authorial intent" which can square that paradox objectively. (!!)
Where, then, is the "good writing", and how do we judge portions of it to be relatively clear or unclear? In one sense, there is none and we cannot. In a more practical sense, however, we may have some graspable handles on this problem, right in front of our faces.
What we need is a method for measuring - comparatively, if not independently (although, according to Physics, all measurement is technically comparative and no measurement is technically independent, but I mean here to draw contrast against the conventional sense of how people measure things, in practice, versus (say) how we measure people, which is by comparison to other people) - just how often any given writer appears to be clear or unclear.
This, at last, may present a practical algorithm for readers. Are there any patterns to notice in the way a text leaves some terms are unexplained while providing other references with (alternately) minimal or excessive amounts of expository attention?
Given that all writers vary somewhat in terms of how effectively they provide readers with clarity, or 'reduce ambiguity' as we can say now, then the best way of understanding a given writer should be to study their most ambiguous elements first of all, gather observations and draw tentative conclusions if possible, and then apply those discoveries as a comparative standard for recognizing and interpreting less ambiguous elements within the same work.
Wherever meanings can be exhaustively catalogued - which may not be very often - then exhaustive cross-referencing may be possible, perhaps by computer. In all fairness, a full application of this seems completely unattainable for most words/meanings in any language, but a moderate application may be somewhat more feasible for certain categories of meaning than others.
For starters, historical information may be of some use here; if a writer shows by greater ambiguity which historical references he expects his readers to need no help in remembering, then we might ask - Where by comparison does the writer spend more labor, attempting to help the reader recall, or (alternatively) attempting to help the reader reframe particular facts and suggest her opinions? Where does he work less, and where does he work more? In the more laboring passages (note: I do not mean 'laborious'), we will have to judge: is this verbal labor sufficient to identify and introduce, or does it seem more characteristic of what is modernly called 'spin'? Is the amount of explanation being provided for some historical reference unduly dissimilar to the amount provided for a related reference, which was provided with complete ambiguity (ie, total confidence of reader recognition)?
Depending on how we answer these questions, we might well discover what the reader "knows" (or perhaps, remembers) and when the writer is trying to reframe in some fashion, to clear up popular misconceptions or to push an agenda (whether personally or narratively driven), as opposed to when the writer is merely trying to inform ignorance. (The greater bulk of all literature, one suspects, takes by far the less noble endeavor. I don't merely want you to know what I know. I want you to see as I see. If I have to inform, it becomes harder to spin. Spinning works best when there is a shared experience to start from. Thus, we should expect writers to assume that readers know a great deal. It's only how to know, and what they know, that are questions for us.)
Still with regard to historical references: Even in places where we lack external corroboration (or lack additional information that bears against some apparent non-information in the composition being studied) we may be able to delineate patterns that show what is substantially explained, versus what is substantially unexplained, versus what perhaps seems more "spun" than explained. In turn, all of this might begin to show how the writer's compositional mind was working, strategically, at least some of the time.
If we find success via this method for discerning historical meanings, we might then proceed to more esoteric meanings that convey 'themes', ideologies and so forth. The kind of trope (irony, metaphor, etc) should not be the determinative difference, but the accessibility of meanings.
For another example, let's consider geographical references. If a modern writer says "New York" it may remain completely ambiguous, unless he wishes to draw out particular aspects of New York, to highlight or refresh particular connotations in the popular awareness of "New York". Alternatively, if a writer says, "Yonkers" or "Pougkeepsie" or "Oneonta", the burden of necessary explanation would probably rise. Naturally, the most efficient writers would find ways to both inform and to spin simultaneously, which also enhances engagement for differently informed readers all at once, and the more pedantic writers (or those writers deliberately aiming at lower levels of readers) might explain before proceeding to spin. Nevertheless, researchers in some post-apocalyptic library in the far future would likely be able to determine, comparatively, that the burden of reducing ambiguity fell disproportionately on the less familiar of locations. Even if the state and island of New York were completely obliterated (in this hypothetical future), the ubiquity of that term, "New York", and (more importantly) the high levels of ambiguity that various writers felt comfortable allowing for that term, would naturally testify as to the familiarity that pre-apocalyptic readers were assumed to have had with the term, "New York". The post-apocalyptic critic could then proceed to consider how much literal exposition "Yonkers" and "Pougkeepsie" and "Oneonta" received, comparatively. And so forth.
This results in the kinds of observation that have been obvious in ancient studies, at the times when they've been obvious.
What I am wondering about in this theory is whether this can be made systematic, algorithmically.
Now, let's try and pull this all together.
Instead of focusing primarily on looking for 'unknown unknowns' (or, more accurately, worrying about not knowing when we're missing a hidden meaning and thus a hidden connection) we might gain more ground by beginning with 'known unknowns', that is, identifying the most blatant ambiguities across one piece of literature and using those as a sort of 'meaning map', detailing what types of information the writer assumed (whether thoughtfully or tacitly) that the reader would also assume.
Such a catalog, or meaning map, built on the most ambiguous aspects of a text, could be helpful in discerning the strategic purpose of less ambiguous phrase work, whether that might be to introduce completely new information, or to redirect the readers' thoughts about familiar information, or perhaps to do both at one time. Again, it should be the comparative patterns of one writer within one work (or across multiple works) that can reveal what a writer most likely assumed readers to recognize, to know, to remember, to varying degrees.
The basic idea is to begin with a text, analyze it all throughout, and consider what types of reader knowledge (or memory) this writer went about assuming, in general, before finally going back to review individual statements. The basic hope is that we might determine, at least, whether some phrase of dubious clarity has any parallel in linguistic construction or in topical similarity, elsewhere, that can reveal the more likely angle of the phrase under scrutiny, whether: to inform afresh, to explain known curiosities, to reframe the familiar, or to ironize (play on) the familiar. Note that all of these angles can be for various purposes, whether: rhetorical, narrative or ideological.
All of this contrasts with the opposite method: speculate, fill in perceived "gaps", and then put it all together with a semblance of objectivity.
Clear writing reduces ambiguities through precise cross-referencing. Unclear writing perhaps attempts this but fails at reducing precisely enough, for whatever reason. The critical problem of bad writing is assuming too much. The critical problem of good writing is assuming just enough. No one writer is perfectly "good" or "bad", but many writers display a consistency of technique and ability across individual works, for the most part. Comparing the relative ambiguities allowed to remain in a single literary piece may be the best way to determine precisely how much is being left "in between the lines".
This is all I can say without further experiment.
Look for an application of this theory to the Gospel of Matthew, as soon as I'm able.
Thanks for reading. I know this was somewhat repetitive, but I sure hope it was clear!
Posted by Bill Heroman on February 12, 2013
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Claudia Rankine to Fund Racial Imaginary Institute, Sleep at Dracula's Castle, and More
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
If you don't have plans yet for Halloween, perhaps you'd like to spend the night in Dracula's castle. Airbnb is offering a night's stay at Bran Castle in Romania, the basis for Dracula's residence in Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Not only will you meet a relative of the author—Dacre Stoker, Bram's great nephew—you'll also have the option to sleep in a plush coffin! (Telegraph)
Poet and MacArthur "genius grant" recipient Claudia Rankine discusses her plans to use her $625,000 MacArthur stipend to found the Racial Imaginary Institute in New York City, a "space which allows us to show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the structure of white supremacy in American society influences our culture."
"He is someone who believes that each poet has her own music, and that rhythm imparts a heavy significance, both on the page and off." Amanda Petrusich writes about the poetry of Peter Gizzi, whose latest collection, Archeophonics, is a finalist for the National Book Award. (New Yorker)
At Salon, novelist Teddy Wayne asks five fiction writers with new books—Brit Bennett, Jason Diamond, James Lasdun, Daniel Menaker, and Mark Slouka—about their influences, strengths, and what career they would choose if writing was not an option.
Thom Jones, an author best known for his short story collection The Pugilist at Rest, has died at age seventy-one. Jones worked as a high school janitor when he submitted his first story to the New Yorker, and quickly rose to acclaim. (New York Times)
Fiction writer Emily Barton talks about her latest novel, The Book of Esther; writing a young woman protagonist; and examining gender, sexuality, and genre fluidity in her work. (Rumpus)
In advance of their forthcoming novels, best-selling authors including John Grisham, Lee Child, and Jodi Picoult are releasing digital "singles," standalone short stories or prequels to the books, for $1.99. (USA Today)


Was the invasion of Iraq moral?
MRB: One of your longest chapters is your argument that the war in Iraq was justified. It is meticulously researched, and not only in the moral and philosophical literature but also in the geopolitical. It's a highly controversial position to take, as many would say there's no question this war was unjustified. What's your case in a nutshell?
NB: I'll try and be as succinct as an answer to a very complicated question can be. Most people reckon the 2003 invasion of Iraq to have been immoral for four reasons: Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction; Bush and Blair lied to us; the Coalition was woefully unprepared for the task of national reconstruction; and the consequences have been disastrous.
First of all, let me concede what should be conceded. Washington's claim of a causal connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11 was groundless and false, and the Blair government should have acted to correct the press's misperception that the claim that Iraq could launch WMD within 45-minutes related to strategic (rather than tactical) weapons. Washington did lie; London failed to clarify an important and politically useful misunderstanding. Still, this alone doesn't tell us whether the invasion was justified or not. It's probable that President Roosevelt lied twice to the American people in the course of trying to persuade them to get directly involved in Britain's war against Hitler. While the president's conduct may be reprehensible, it doesn't establish that America's entry into the war was wrong.
As regards nation-rebuilding, the Coalition was indeed woefully under-prepared, and it made some fateful mistakes in the early days of the occupation. All this is morally reprehensible. Nevertheless, the Coalition did not walk away from its mistakes, but strove to correct them by maintaining a substantial military commitment for seven years, thus making a crucial contribution to Iraq's stabilization. That was morally commendable.
Have the consequences been disastrous? If the word "disaster" implies unmitigated evil — and I think it does — then the results of the invasion have not been disastrous; they've been mixed. On the one hand, the level of terrorist violence has remained far too high (although the blame for that lies first and foremost with the terrorists), the integrity of the country remains fragile (although managed disintegration might not be such a bad thing), sectarian mistrust continues to bedevil peaceful politics, and Iranian influence is greater than (some in) the West would like it to be. On the other hand, Iraq is no longer a military threat to its neighbors, it is no longer intent on developing nuclear weapons, children are no longer dying in their thousands from the regime's political manipulation of economic sanctions, power has been peacefully transferred by democratic process, the Kurds are thriving, and the domestic oil industry is booming. The results of the 2003 invasion are mixed, not simply disastrous.
But surely, you might well be thinking, the bottom line is that we went to war to rid the world of the threat of Iraq's use of WMD, and then it turned out that no such weapons existed. What more needs to be said? The invasion was launched on a premise that proved to be completely false. This is indeed the crucial point, but I think it's more complicated. The problem of Iraq's use of WMD already in its possession was not in fact the only reason for invading. There was also the problem of Iraq's sustained intent to acquire such weapons, especially nuclear ones. There is good reason to doubt that further attempts at containment would have succeeded in preventing that. And even David Kelly, the British expert on biological weapons who tragically committed suicide in July 2003, was convinced that only regime-change would end Iraq's nuclear threat for good.
What's more, the problem was not merely the use and development of WMD, but their use and development by a regime with this record and of this character. The issue of WMD and the issue of the atrocious nature of the regime are connected. If Iraq had been like Sweden, we wouldn't have dreamed of invading. As it was, Saddam Hussein's regime had been responsible for the killing of 4-500,000 of its own citizens in the fifteen years before the invasion. It was an atrocious kind of regime that the West would not have tolerated for a moment among its own members. According to Christian just war reasoning, this fact alone — quite apart from the threat of WMD — is sufficient just cause for military intervention aiming at regime-change.
Ah, I hear you saying, but that wasn't the reason given us by Bush and Blair for invading. Well, actually, it was among the reasons — and in Tony Blair's various apologias for the invasion it was a prominent one. For sure, the WMD reason was way out there in front, but largely because that was the only one around which a case could be made in terms permitted by current international law. But post-1945 international law and Christian just war theory don't always see eye to eye.
In sum, my view of the invasion of Iraq is that of the articulate leader of a group of young Iraqi professionals, who visited me in Oxford in 2011. When I asked them bluntly, "Should the invasion have happened?", without blinking one replied, "It was good that it happened. It could have been done better. And it isn't over".
MRB: Some of the criteria for just war might be considered too subjective. Who is to decide whether all options have been exhausted, whether the intended response is proportionate, and whether there is a prospect for success? Military history seems to show us that something "unintended" always comes out of the "intended response," and that the "prospect of success" is going to be viewed favorably by the one entering the war. Why should we imagine that this time things will be different?
NB: All criteria are "subjective" in the sense that they are susceptible of various interpretations. Still, we have ways of telling a good interpretation from a bad one — the solidity of the grounds of the premises, the rigor of the argument, the strength of the evidence, etc. However, I entirely agree that the prudential criteria of just war — especially proportionality and the prospect of success — are the least strict of them. That is why I think that more weight should be placed on those criteria that don't require the "guesstimation" of consequences. In the case of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, for example, I think that it's much easier to judge the justice of the cause(s), the rightness of the intention(s), and the legitimacy of the authority than whether or not the costs "outweighed" the benefits. Nevertheless, with regard to going to war — as with regard to doing all sorts of things — it makes sense to consider as carefully as possible how likely it is that what you propose to do will actually achieve what you intend, and whether it'll be "worth" it. It remains true, however, that this consideration is as necessary as precision in its conclusion is impossible. When all is said and done — and carefully thought and talked through — we must take risks; and sometimes risks taken in good faith and with due consideration turn bad.
MRB: Kantian ethics deems self-interest an immoral motive, and most popular opinion follows the same line. If a nation launches a war, we want to examine what motives might lurk behind the decision: natural resources and financial advantage, regional foothold, etc. But you don't view national interest as an immoral motive, and in fact you suggest that it should form part of the decision-making process to go to war.
NB: As a Christian I believe that the material and temporal world that God created is good. At least, that's what the book of Genesis tells us. What that means is that we have a duty to take care of all God's creatures. Since we too are God's creatures, it follows that we have a duty to take care of ourselves. After all, if God loves us, ought we not to love what God loves? Jesus appears to have thought so, when he told as that we should love our neighbors as we love ourselves. There is, therefore, such a thing as legitimate self-interest. If there weren't, then it would be illegitimate to care whether or not we overcome sin, are united with God, and come to enjoy eternal life. Even Jesus urged us to consider whether gaining the world and losing our soul really would profit us. Self-interest only becomes selfish when it is pursued immoderately or unjustly.
As with individuals, so with nations. Sometimes a nation has a legitimate interest in, say, achieving greater independence or securing water supply or even reliable oil and gas supply. It might have a just claim to them. Further, sometimes a nation's self-interest is not private, but corporate or public. Thus Britain had a legitimate interest in preventing the destabilization of the Balkans by Serbian ethnic cleansing in Kosovo in 1999 — but it did so with the rest of Europe, not to mention Turkey. Of course, this is not to say that national self-interest is always legitimate. Britain had no business sending gunboats into Canton in the mid-nineteenth century in the interest of expanding the opium trade; and Germany had no business invading eastern Europe and France in the interest of establishing a continental hegemony in 1939-40. National self-interest need not be morally unjustified, but sometimes it can be. Therefore, its mere presence among the motives for going to war does not prove that war's injustice.
MRB: You mention that in order for a war to be justified, the injustice being committed must be intolerably grave. Has that line been crossed in Syria, or would you say the British Parliament and President Obama made the right decision to say no to war?
NB: It appears that Syria's disarmament of WMD is proceeding, which is very good. That it was achieved through diplomacy rather than war is even better. Nevertheless, it is notable that the diplomacy did not burst into life until US warships were stationed in the eastern Mediterranean. Sometimes the serious threat of war is necessary to get parties to the negotiating table.
Meanwhile, however, the bloody civil war continues. How should we read it, morally? Under Bashar al-Assad's father, Hafiz al-Assad, the Syrian regime was populated largely by members of the Alawite minority, was dominated by the military and security forces, and secured and enriched itself through the patronage of business. The regime was also fiercely repressive of dissent, holding that it alone stood between peaceful order and anarchy — anarchy of the kind that would ensue, they argued, if Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood were ever to get their hands on the levers of power. Upon Hafiz al-Assad's death and his son's election to the presidency in 2000, there was some hope that Bashar would pioneer both economic and political reform, and indeed he gave some early signals that these hopes would be met.
However, when in 2011 symptoms of the Arab Spring began to blossom in Syria, the regime reflexively reverted to its customary, repressive mode. In the first week of March 2011, ten children in Deraa, aged between nine and fifteen, wrote an anti-regime slogan (probably more anti-corruption than pro-democracy) on the wall of their school. For this misdemeanor the Syrian authorities had them arrested, sent to Damascus, interrogated, and apparently even tortured. On March 15 a few hundred protesters, many of them relatives of the detained children, began protesting in downtown Deraa. Their ranks swelled to several thousand. Syrian security forces, attempting to disperse the crowd, opened fire and killed four people. The next day the crowd ballooned to about 20,000. According to reports, on March 23 security forces killed at least fifteen civilians and wounded hundreds of others. President Assad subsequently refused to punish the governor of Deraa, his cousin.
What this narrative shows is that the Syrian rebellion was originally an act of nonviolent protest against arbitrary and ruthless state coercion. Only when it became clear that the state was unrepentant, and that its very center was prepared to own the arbitrary repression by refusing to repudiate it, did peaceful protest develop into armed rebellion. Assad's refusal to dismiss the governor of Deraa, and his blaming the unrest on external interference, meant that the arrest of the Deraa children became an icon of the decades of arbitrary oppression. It also made it clear that this oppression was essential, not accidental, to the regime. Since March 2011, of course, the regime has confirmed the indiscriminate ruthlessness of its determination to crush opposition through its use of chemical weapons against rebels in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus on August 21, 2013, and possibly on several earlier occasions.
Given this history, it seems to me that the launching of armed uprising in Syria did have just cause, both as an act of self-defence against grave, systemic, and persistent injustice, and as part of a demand for sufficient political change. It was also a last resort, developing only after hopes for a negotiated solution has been dashed. But does it have political legitimacy? The Syrian case presses us to deepen and complicate our understanding of what such legitimacy means. On the one hand, the armed rebellion can rightly claim to be serving the common good of all those on the wrong side of the ruthless Baathist state. It is the necessary self-defense of a gravely oppressed group. In that limited sense, it is a responsible public undertaking, rather than an irresponsible private one.
On the other hand, the rebels cannot claim to represent all of the Syrian people, or even a majority of them. By presenting itself as the protector of minorities against repressive Sunni Muslim rule, the Assad regime has secured at least a 20–30 percent loyal support base; and when loyal Sunnis from the business class and Sufi Muslims are added, loyalists probably account for close to half the Syrian population. Additionally, the rebels cannot claim to offer a coherent alternative to the Assad regime and Baathist state, since the opposition movement is riven with political, if not military, disagreement. What is more, the proportion of jihadist elements in the movement appears to be rising, which means that an increasing number of rebels are now quite as ruthless and indiscriminate in their means as the Assad regime, and their political ends quite as repressive.
Does this mean that, according to just war reasoning, the Syrian rebellion is unjust? I do not think so. The rebellion retains the basic form of a corporate act of last defence by a gravely oppressed part of the population. While it is possible that the ruthless means and repressive aims of some of its members could infect the whole of the opposition movement so as to make it morally indistinguishable from the regime, it is not clear that this has yet happened. Until it does, the rebellion will remain basically just in its cause and last resort, and predominantly just in its intention and means.
Nevertheless, as of October 2013, no party in the Syrian civil war has overall political legitimacy in terms of the social fact of popular support. If the rebellion is to achieve more than partial legitimacy, it will have to transcend its own political quarrels, marginalize the jihadists, and offer a political plan acceptable to the vast majority of Syrians. But if this is to work, it would require the regime and its supporters to become persuaded that military victory over the rebellion is beyond reach and that political compromise is the only way forward. And unless Russian and Iranian diplomatic pressure can achieve it, such persuasion might require a more even balance of military forces — and therefore increased Arab and Western support of the non-jihadist rebels.


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Founder's Rock
Welcome to a New Year and the first entry in the new Capt. Brian's Whiz Bang and semi-new Tauy Creek. I thought long and hard about how to make the changes work and decided that Whiz Bang will focus on history, pop culture, writing and a sprinkling of personal entries. I figured I would start on something history related, namely Founder's Rock in Lawrence.
The first group of emigrants arrived in the Lawrence area on August 1, 1854 and for the first nine years of its existence, Lawrence had a very tumultuous history. In 1929, Lawrence celebrated its 75th anniversary. Two of the major celebrations Lawrence had was the dedication of Lawrence Municipal Airport in Grant Township just north of North Lawrence and the dedication of Founder's Rock, commonly known as the Shunganunga Boulder.
The dedication ceremony for the Shunganunga Boulder on October 11, 1929.
The Shunganunga Boulder rested at the confluence of the Shunganunga Creek and the Kansas River near Tecumseh for centuries after it was deposited at this location by glaciers hundreds of thousands of years ago. The rock, a beautiful red granite boulder, was considered sacred by local Natives and used routinely in ceremonies and as a landmark. In September of 1929, a Topeka attorney, A.A. Graham, brought attention to the boulder and suggested that it be moved to the grounds of the state capital. Graham suggested that people could donate money to pay for the cost of moving the boulder to the statehouse. Before Topekans could act, however, someone in Lawrence learned of the boulder and gathered a group of his friends and with the help of the Santa Fe Railway, got the boulder to Lawrence without anyone in Topeka knowing what was going on.
The rock was placed in Robinson Park at Sixth and Massachusetts Streets and honors the two emigrant aid parties that came to Lawrence in August 1854 and September 1854. Robinson Park is named for Charles Robinson, one of the men who selected the area Lawrence would be founded and the first governor of Kansas. The plaque on the boulder lists when the original settlers left Massachusetts and arrived in Lawrence and their names:
In 1883, a Kansa Indian named Pahn-le-gaqli told five Kansa song-prayers about the boulder. One of the songs went like this:
O Wakanda! O Wakanda!
We see the big, red rock;
It has a hard body,
Like that of Wakanda!
May we continue like it--
Like this big, red rock!
Until next time, I remain...
~Brian
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HxGN Content Program updates 3 million square kilometres of aerial data in U.S., Europe in 2020
by pdubey@v1-media.com | Jun 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (23 June 2020) " Hexagon's Geosystems division announced today the HxGN Content Program, the largest library of high-accuracy airborne data, is updating 3 million square kilometres in 2020 of high-accuracy four-band orthophotos, digital surface models (DSM) and stereo imagery across the United States and Europe.
The HxGN Content Program will capture 3 million square kilometres of new four-band orthophotos, DSM and stereo imagery in 2020.
In North America, the HxGN Content Program will update 2.5 million square kilometres of aerial data, close to a third of the continental United States. This includes a refresh of previously captured states, such as California, Texas, Oregon, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and New Mexico. In Europe, more than 500,000 square kilometres of data will be collected. The refreshed data will be available before the end of 2020.
In addition to the standard 30-centimetre resolution in wide areas and 15-cm resolution in urban areas in the U.S., the 2020 program will include 15-cm resolution data in wide areas upon customer request. The Danish DDO program, the premier aerial data provider in Denmark, will also become part of the HxGN Content Program for the first time and will cover the country at 12.5-cm resolution on a biennial refresh schedule.
The regular data refresh and the high accuracy standards make the HxGN Content Program an ideal, cost-effective solution for many industries. Depending on the application, users have slightly different data requirements. To meet these demands, we have now made our product offering more flexible, said John Welter, President, Geospatial Content Solutions, Hexagon's Geosystems division. The automotive industry requires very high-resolution leaf-off data for street-level detail, while in telecommunications leaf-on data provides information for line-of-sight analysis for 5G network implementations. In the public sector, data needs depend on the urbanization rates of the area. Ultimately, we are a customer-driven program that provides data to enable informed decision-making.
Enabling machine learning and AI applications
With a consistent and scalable high-resolution aerial imagery database, the HxGN Content Program offers large quantities of highly accurate and reliable data ideal to train machine learning algorithms that depend on steady streams of input to automatically recognize unique attributes. Artificial intelligence is used to automatically extract features in the data to provide valuable information across multiple applications, such as buildings, roads, railways, vegetation, solar panels and many more.
The HxGN Content Program achieves the needed consistent data for the algorithms by emphasizing repeatability in sensor technology, flight planning, acquisition parameters and processing techniques. Entire states and regions are collected in the same season to avoid a patchwork of irregular images. The multispectral source data is stored in a non-proprietary cloud optimized geo-tiff format ready for direct access.
About HxGN Content Program
Since its inception in 2014, the HxGN Content Program has collected 21.7 million square kilometres (8.3 million square miles) of 30-centimeter (1 foot) resolution aerial data and 815,000 square kilometres (315,000 square miles) of 15-cm (1/2 foot) data in urban centres. The program follows rigorous acquisition and processing standards to offer the highest positional accuracy for applications such as asset management, public safety, telecommunications network maintenance and installation, utility mapping, and property assessment. For consistency across the imagery, every state is captured in the same season, allowing to leverage the data organisation-wide. The orthophotos are available as RGB and near-infrared imagery via streaming subscription or as a download. Derivate data products, such as digital surface models (DSM) and stereo imagery, are available upon request, and Hexagon will keep updating its offering based on consumer needs.
About Hexagon
Hexagon is a global leader in sensor, software and autonomous solutions. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, safety, and mobility applications.
Our technologies are shaping urban and production ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous " ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.
Hexagon's Geosystems division provides a comprehensive portfolio of digital solutions that capture, measure, and visualise the physical world and enable data-driven transformation across industry ecosystems.
Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 20,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 3.9bn EUR. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB


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MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL — A leading aviation industry association has recognized the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) for completing the second step of carbon accreditation – a process to reduce carbon emissions and advance sustainability efforts – at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Airports Council International – North America (ACI-NA), which administers the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, recognized the MAC for its work on carbon emissions. To achieve the second phase, the MAC developed a carbon management plan, documenting methods the MAC will use to implement carbon reduction strategies.
As part of the Airport Carbon Accreditation program, airports commit to reducing their emissions by making investments in efficient heating and lighting technology; electric, hybrid or gas-powered vehicles; public transport incentives; and stakeholder engagement to encourage further emissions reductions.
Last year, MSP reached the first level of certification by mapping its carbon emissions in base years 2014 and 2015. That work involved a comprehensive study of MSP's carbon emissions from various sources controlled by the MAC.
For the second step of accreditation, the MAC developed a MSP carbon management plan that includes a carbon metric and reduction target, actions and projects to achieve the target, and implementation plans to achieve year-over-year carbon reductions. MSP's plan calls for reducing MAC-controlled carbon emissions by 15 percent by 2020 from the baseline average achieved in 2014 and 2015.
ACI-NA's carbon accreditation process recognizes airport efforts to manage and reduce their CO2 emissions through independent assessment and verification.
The full Airport Carbon Accreditation program is a four-step process, where the mapping of carbon emissions is followed by a reduction in the carbon footprint, work with third parties on further reductions, and eventually carbon neutrality for direct emissions.
A total of 27 airports in North America have been recognized for attaining accreditation. Of those 27, six - including MSP – upgraded to the next level of accreditation this year. Other airports joined the accreditation process or renewed their accreditation.
MAC Chairman Dan Boivin, and Commissioner Dixie Hoard.


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Three Secrets Of The Only 5 Year Old iPhone Hit App
Tero Kuittinen Contributor
I cover mobile hardware, software and gaming.
In March 2009, an iPhone app called "Doodle Jump" debuted and entered rapidly the Top 20 paid download chart. Apple's iPhone app platform was still in its infancy and nobody realized just how huge the content empire would be. One early app hit held on for half a decade of app industry turmoil. Five years later, Lima Sky's platform jumper is still a Top 30 mainstay. It is the only iPhone app with this kind of longevity. Igor Pusenjak, the quirky and intense cocreator of the game, has a very clear and idiosyncratic vision of how to run the one-game empire he built with his brother. These are Igor's Rules.
1) No Sequels. Unlike so many later hit franchises, "Doodle Jump" never got a sequel. This was a conscious move designed to prevent dilution and fragmentation of the core brand. Practically all mobile games now receive regular updates and expansion packs, but "Doodle Jump" more or less pioneered the concept. New seasonal or themed variations do affect game play and introduce some variation, but they never disrupt the original flow and feel of the game. Many majestic mobile game franchises have recently stumbled with sequels that have introduced unnecessary complications or sprawl. "Plants Vs. Zombies 2" was a major stumble by Electronic Arts, tarnishing the crown jewel of its app range. "Angry Birds Star Wars II" has been widely criticized for having a confusing, opaque bonus and extra power system - and the four years younger Rovio game is actually now performing at par with the ancient "Doodle Jump" in the US iPhone chart. The no sequel rule is not without cost - as lucrative freemium games have proliferated, the $0.99 "Doodle Jump" has faded out of Top 500 in the US iPhone revenue chart. But its global revenue is still respectable considering its age. And the franchise no longer depends on only game revenue, because licensing income is starting to roll in.
2) Creative licensing approach. The goofy, yet somehow melancholy vibe of the game has created a unique brand for the alien creature patiently navigating bizarre environments. Lima Sky has made some outrageous moves in crafting a unique licensing strategy. First - the company waited for four years to build a global presence and evaluate best possible branding and licensing partners. It did not rush to cut deals without careful consideration. But when the company finally started making moves, they were original and memorable. The decision to create a jumbo-sized arcade machine was particularly outrageous - but there are now more than 1'000 "Doodle Jump" consoles across America, many of them placed in premium locations at Chuck E. Cheese and Dave & Busters. As it turns out, consumers are willing to pay to play a game they could download for a buck - because the traditional video arcade market defined by complex, deep games is dying. The new arcade market needs games that can be played by consumers with no time to study and learn strategies. The return of the simple platform jumpers suits "Doodle Jump" perfectly. By not making quick licensing deals, Lima Sky was able to hold out for the big kahoonas, partnering with Sega, Crayola and Ravensburger, as well as approving pop culture integration into shows like "Parks & Rcreation" and "Big Bang Theory".
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3) Keep it very, very, very lean. Many app vendors have started doing licensing deals - and that typically lead to staff size ballooning as IP lawyers, middle managers and branding experts are hired. After five years and in the middle of a major licensing deal expansion, Lima Sky is still extremely compact; in addition to two founders, three people work on game. Another three work on platform expansions. All the licensing is handled by one man. "Doodle Jump" franchise has CBS , Nickelodeon and Warner Brothers deals in the pipeline, but the company is maintaining a strict no-bloat approach. Lima Sky is depending on the wizardry of the Australian Mario Bros toy expert Goldie Marketing to help it find appropriate toy partners. There is a unique Japan strategy with Sega, one of the leading mascot experts in that app-crazy giant market. Interestingly, that strategy leans on introducing the main character of "Doodle Jump" to Japanese consumers without making a big push for the mobile game; the goal is to enable the mascot to start living a separate life from the app universe. Over the next year, various media tie-ins in the US market combined with a broad toy range launches globally and Sega-driven strategy in Japan will determine whether the franchise can make the leap to the big leagues of the global licensing game. If it does, it will be the end result of a very long-term game plan crafted in an industry where most products are still mayflies with a life span measured in months.
Tero Kuittinen
Managing Director at Magid Associates. Special focus areas are mobile app licensing and branding, app partnerships between European vendors and Japanese, Korean and Chin...


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Transport leaders agree to work on ending extortion
Arifur Rahman Rabbi
Published at 12:33 am June 5th, 2020
File photo of buses on a road Mehedi Hasan/Dhaka Tribune
Meeting between Bangladesh Police chief and leaders of transport workers' federation decides
The transport leaders – representing the owners as well workers – of the country have agreed to put an end to extortion in the name of different organizations related to the sector.
This decision came after a meeting between the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and leaders of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' Federation held at the Police Headquarters on Thursday.
The Police Headquarters, in a press release, said that the transport workers' leaders have agreed to stop extortion in the name of employers and workers' organizations in the transport sector.
In the meeting, other issues regarding the transport sector such as – no driving without a license, no unfit vehicles to be allowed to run, no human haulers (such as Nasimon, Korimon, and others) to operate on the highways, and to ensure discipline on the road at any cost – were also discussed.
The IGP called upon all transport owners and workers to work together to stop extortion in the transport sector so that with the cooperation of all discipline and order can be maintained on the road.
Moreover, all metropolitan commissioners and range DIGs participated in the meeting through videoconferencing.
The IGP instructed them to abide by the issues discussed at the meeting.
Among others, MP and President of Bangladesh Road Transport, Workers Federation Md Shahjahan Khan, Vice President Sadekur Rahman Hiru and General Secretary Md Osman Ali, Additional IG Md Moinur Rahman Chowdhury, DMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam, Additional IG of Highway Range Mallick Fakhrul Islam, and other police officials and labour leaders took part in the meeting.
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This IDC study describes how IDC's Customer Insights and Analysis Group evaluates the worldwide robotics and drones market opportunity, identifying top-ranking regional use cases and providing market forecasts from IDC's Worldwide Semiannual Robotics and Drones Spending Guide. We provide worldwide use case figures for 2016-2021, analyzing the current size and future potential of implementing several key robotics and drones use cases and setting the forecast within the context of the broader ecosystem."Robots and drones are proving to be powerful business tools," said Stacey Soohoo, research manager, IDC's Customers Insights and Analysis group. "They have become a solution to many tasks and applications once deemed too dangerous, dirty, dull, or dear. The opportunity for drones is growing out of its infancy, and expanded use cases for robots have fueled an acceptance of robots outside the traditional manufacturing factory floor. Innovators in the field of robotics are producing robots and drones that can be used in a wide range of tasks across a spectrum of industries. In addition to building upon existing technology, innovators are layering on additional elements such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), collision avoidance systems, full automation, and cloud applications, enabling robots and drones to work with people rather than replace them in the workplace."


THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION began in England and spread through English colonisation and missionary work. Although it has historically been largest in former English colonies, it has a strong presence throughout the world, especially in Africa. This page lists those parts of the Anglican Communion that are in Africa and in the Province of the Indian Ocean. As always, we list everything that we know about that has a web page. See our "notes on structure" page.
If you know of a web site that should be listed here and is not, please tell us. If you represent a church or diocese that should would like to have a web page, please see The Society of Archbishop Justus web hosting. SOAJ are the organization that sponsors Anglicans Online, and if your web page would be listed here, they might be able to sponsor you. too.
We've listed the continent-specific links at the bottom of this page. Jump there now.
Provinces that are specific to one country are listed alphabetically in the next section. These provinces span multiple countries. See also 'Africa Resources' at the end of this page.
The following list is ordered alphabetically by country. We list every country, but we do not list individual dioceses unless they have web pages. In places where Christians are not a large fraction of the population, a diocese can span more than one country. In places where Anglicans are not a large fraction of the population, a province can span more than one country. In the remaining cases there is a province or autonomous church associated with the country. If the country has a province or autonomous church, we link the name of the country to it.
The authoritative source of this information is the Anglican Communion Office in London. We check their information regularly and make sure that ours corresponds to it. Should you note any discrepancies, please tell us. Our information differs from theirs in that we list in order by country, and we include links to web pages; they list in order by province.
Links to all administrative components of the entire Anglican church on the ANGLICAN.ORG web site are here.
Basic information on each diocese in Kenya may be found on the Anglican Church of Kenya web page.
'To further the work of the Anglican Communion in Mozambique and Angola, and to broaden the awareness of the Anglican Communion of their sister churches in Mozambique and Angola'.
Anglican schools and Theological and Anglican-related colleges and universities are listed separately below.
'endeavors to enable communities of the member dioceses to achieve fullness of life and the integrity of creation through integrated sustainable, participatory community development programs'.
Anglican Church of Kenya Language and Orientation School, Nairobi.
Established in 1965 by the church Missionary Society.
'a community development project operated as a joint action by Butare, Cyangugu, Kigeme and Shyogwe dioceses of the Episcopal Church in Rwanda'.
'partners with other churches, NGOs, ecumenical bodies, funding partners and the government to fulfill its vision on social transformation'.
'the development arm of the Anglican Dioceses of Eldoret and Kitale'.
'the development arm of the Diocese of Mombasa and Taita Taveta of the Anglican Church of Kenya'.
For the dioceses of Bungoma, Butere, Katakwa, Maseno North, Mumias and Nambale. Incorporated in January 1997.
'set up to nurture and empower orphans as well as vulnerable children and families for a brighter future'.
The oldest ship still afloat in Africa is the Chauncy Maples, launched by the Universities Mission to Central Africa as a free hospital ship on Lake Malawi. The Chauncy Maples was constructed in 1898-1901, and refitted in 1933 and 1967; it is time for a renovation to enable the ship to provide medical care in a third century.
'A Partnership between the Croydon Episcopal Area of the Diocese of Southwark and the Anglican Diocese of Central Zimbabwe'.
'The DPDO goal is the reduction of rural poverty and our focus in on food security and household income, literacy, health, education, civil rights, and equal opportunities. The challenge is to help the communities reduce, prevent, and cure the underlying causes of social imbalances.' Headquartered in Lira, Uganda.
'addresses the significant lack of funding and resources faced by East African schools by drawing together scholastic institutions whose students and faculty can help each other in a relationship of love, mutual respect and support'. Links young people in West Virginia and Pennsylvania with students in the Diocese of Katakwa, Kenya.
'set up in [the UK in] 2002 to enable funds for education and the relief of poverty to be transmitted to Byumba Diocese'.
Kumi Hospital was founded by the Church Missionary Society in 1929 as a leprosarium for eastern Uganda. Today it is a general hospital with close ties to the Anglican Church of Uganda.
'initiated by the parishes of All Saints, Brookline[, Massachusetts], Grace [Church], North Attleborough [Massachusetts], and Trinity [Church,] Melrose[, Massachusetts] in 2008'.
'supports the work of Christ Church Cathedral in Zanzibar'.
'the official Social Development arm of the Anglican Diocese of Eastern Zambia'.
'a Faith Based Organization aimed at meeting the needs of the rural poor and water stressed communities in Diocese of Kigezi, in SW Uganda'. Founded in 1986.
'a Christian Hospital that serves those of all faiths, and none. It is a fee paying hospital, but no one has been turned away through reasons of poverty. It is a distant rural hospital, but well known throughout Uganda'.
'We are a Charity that is dedicated to helping the people of [the Diocese of] Mityana in Uganda. This is one of the poorest countries in the world, and we want to make a difference to the lives of its people.' Based in Wokingham, England.
Mothers' Mercy Home, Diocese of Mt Kenya South.
'a warm and friendly Christian establishment governed by the Church Commissioners and managed by a team of dedicated staff'. A former monastery and retreat house, this conference centre is now owned and operated by the Trustees of the Anglican Church of Uganda.
Youth and children ministry for the Diocese of Kigali.
This ministry of the Diocese of Egypt 'has more than 22,000 people registered for access to emergency care, medical care, advocacy, training and income generation opportunities'.
Short-term missions sent from Huntington Beach, California to the Diocese of Mt Kilimanjaro, 2004-present.
'Helping orphans and other vulnerable children'.
SLA's 'goal is to educate the public on the advantages of renewable energy for the benefit of impoverished communities throughout the world.' It was founded in 1997 by retired Episcopal Bishop Alden Hathaway. To date, this organization has provided electrical light and power to more than 2,000 facilities, such as medical clinics, orphanages, schools, churches, and private homes located in rural regions of East Africa.
'the umbrella organization of the Anglican Church in Zambia comprised of 5 dioceses'.
Established in 1910, for boys 14-18. Its Old Boys Association is also online.
'a branch of the Anglican Young People's Association which comprises every Anglican student in this country'.
sponsored by the Diocese of Nambale.
'a home, an education and hope for a fruitful life for children orphaned or made vulnerable by AIDS in Western Kenya'.
Founded in 1960. See also the B. W. Harris Episcopal High School Alumni Association, USA Inc.
The Diocese of Wellington (NZ) provides funding for ongoing building projects at this diocesan school in Kagera, Tanzania.
Operates under the auspices of the Diocese of Victoria Nyanza.
'an Anglican Theological Institution within the Diocese of Western Tanganyika'.
Affiliated with St John's University of Tanzania.
'a registered secondary school established by the Anglican Diocese of Ruaha, Tanzania'.
Founded in 1955 as a boarding school for boys, Peterhouse now has two associated schools: Springvale House (preparatory for boys and girls) and Peterhouse Girls' (for girls, mostly boarding). Extensive website.
Limuru, Kenya. Established in 1903 in Mombasa by the Church Missionary Society. Since 1955, St Paul's has been a joint school for the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa and the Methodist Church of Kenya. Students responses to the Windsor Report are available online from the Anglican Communion website.
Mission 'is to assist in ensuring that the Episcopal schools in Robertsport, Liberia (Episcopal Elementary, Episcopal High, St. John's, House of Bethany) are restored to being distinguished educational institutions in Liberia'.
'trains ordinands for future service in the Anglican Church of Tanzania. In addition to studying for ordination the ordinands also take secondary school classes so that by the time they graduate they will have not only completed their theological education but also achieved their Form IV secondary school certificate.' Founded in 1962 by Trevor Huddleston.
'a Constituent College of Uganda Christian University, located in Kabale in the Southwest of Uganda'.
'the oldest private university and the fastest growing in Uganda'. Founded in 1992.
'A major private University offering men and women undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate studies. The University was established by the Province of the Church of Uganda and licensed by the Government of Uganda, Ministry of Education in 1997, with a view to making it a broad based University with campuses in Eastern, Northern and Western regions of Uganda'. Bishop Tucker Theological College, founded in 1913, was the leading theological college in the Anglican Church of Uganda. Encouraged by the basic educational facilities at Bishop Tucker Theological College, the Provincial Assembly of the Province of the Church of Uganda resolved to make Bishop Tucker Theological College one of the campuses and also the headquarters of a broad-based federal university. Uganda Christian University was born from Bishop Tucker Theological College.


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Q: Can I use the same std::promise and std::future objects multiple times? Can I use the same std::promise and std::future objects multiple times?
For example, I want to send several values many times from Thread-1 to Thread-2. Can I use promise/future multiple times, and how to do it thread-safety?
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Euro Kafe brings taste of eastern Europe to Nicholasville
Published 9:34 am Thursday, September 8, 2022
The Euro Kafe is located 904 South Main St., across from the Arby's parking lot. (Submitted photo)
The cafe features a delectable array of treats made by owner Zarifa Musa. (Submitted photo)
By Gillian Stawiszynski
A new cafe has come to Nicholasville and is not your typical chill new coffee joint.
It's got a unique twist.
Zarifa Musa opened Euro Kafe on Thursday, August 19, celebrating European cuisine with lattes, macchiatos, and cold brew made with coffee beans from Albania, Turkey, and France.
Musa was born in Mostar city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and moved to the United States in 1996 when she was eight. Her family originally moved to North Dakota, and after staying for many years, her family relocated to Nicholasville for the weather.
Whenever friends visited Musa's home, they loved her coffee so much that they constantly encouraged her to open a shop.
So, she did. Musa decided to diversify tastes in the Nicholasville caffeine scene.
"I actually have a [Polish] lady that comes here every other day just for the coffee, and she feels that she's in Europe. And that's how I set up my place," said Musa, "She had tears in her eyes, and she said she feels like she's at home because of how I made it feel like Europe."
Besides coffee, Musa serves hot and cold teas with a wide array of flavors at the Euro Kafe, including cold blueberry and raspberry refreshers, sparkling water, and mint lemonade. Hot Turkish, mint, rosehip, blackberry, and chamomile teas are available for those who enjoy a warm cup of tea.
Don't just go to get caffeinated- enjoy the sweet treats. Delicious homemade baklava, European chocolates, walnut cake, Nutella crepes, and sugar cubes are sold for the shop and takeout. Musa also sells three cake pops for $1.
The Euro Kafé is open every day from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. As a mother of four, Musa leaves to spend time with them after school and then opens again from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Take a vacation to Eastern Europe without boarding a plane at 904 South Main St., across from the Arby's parking lot.
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The client is a leading Reprographic dealer based in the USA. The manual system they had was very much labour intensive and error prone and wanted Teknokraaft to design an online solution that was efficient and cost-effective.
The challenge in building this application was that it should be user friendly and at the same time enable the customers of our client to login and fill up the details without errors. The empty ink cartridges present at the customer premise needs to be correctly tagged and brought into our clients' factory so that they could refill and sell it again.
For this the customer can log into the site and fill up they details about the no: of cartridges they are depositing in the blue boxes kept by the client at the customer premise. The client will then send in their logistics guys to pick up the boxes.
Teknokraaft was able to build a system for our client using which their customers could log in and fill in the correct details of the cartridges as per their specification and the brand. The online application works in a wizard manner and helps the customers who may not be IT savvy to fill in the required details without any errors.
The application also includes an Admin facility by which the client can set up the machine and the corresponding cartridge details for the customer so that when he logs in the needed details are already available for him.
The application also has a feature by which the cartridges send in by the customer can be verified by the client and the status of the same – Accepted or Rejected can be notified back to the customer.


Praise God from whom all blessings flow! How rewarding it is to celebrate life blessed with God's everlasting love. To my wonderful family & precious dear friends, words cannot express how deeply I appreciate & how thankful I am for all your inspiring love & powerful prayers during my brain surgery and recovery. Merry Christmas to you and have a blessed New Year.


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#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <setjmp.h>
#include <cmocka.h>

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

static void torture_test_malloc(void **state)
{
    char *str;
    size_t str_len;
    size_t len;

    (void)state; /* unsused */

    str_len = 12;
    str = (char *)test_malloc(str_len);
    assert_non_null(str);

    len = snprintf(str, str_len, "test string");
    assert_int_equal(len, 11);

    len = strlen(str);
    assert_int_equal(len, 11);

    test_free(str);
}

static void torture_test_realloc(void **state)
{
    char *str;
    char *tmp;
    size_t str_len;
    size_t len;

    (void)state; /* unsused */

    str_len = 16;
    str = (char *)test_malloc(str_len);
    assert_non_null(str);

    len = snprintf(str, str_len, "test string 123");
    assert_int_equal(len, 15);

    len = strlen(str);
    assert_int_equal(len, 15);

    str_len = 20;
    tmp = test_realloc(str, str_len);
    assert_non_null(tmp);

    str = tmp;
    len = strlen(str);
    assert_string_equal(tmp, "test string 123");

    snprintf(str + len, str_len - len, "4567");
    assert_string_equal(tmp, "test string 1234567");

    test_free(str);
}

int main(void) {
    const struct CMUnitTest alloc_tests[] = {
        cmocka_unit_test(torture_test_malloc),
        cmocka_unit_test(torture_test_realloc),
    };

    return cmocka_run_group_tests(alloc_tests, NULL, NULL);
}

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Bio: Captain of the Odyssey ship and protagonist of the show, Ulysses is brave and strong. Always fighting for the greater good, Ulysses protects his son and Yumi on their quest to find the Kingdom of Hades.
Most likely to say: "By the great galaxy!"
Bio: Son of Ulysses, Telemachus is responsible and trustworthy for his years. Second in command of the Odyssey and a good pilot, Telemachus needs to be on top of his game to save Ulysses from tight spots.
Most likely to say: "Father!"
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GATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCH, WYLIE, TEXAS - A FUN PLACE TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT GOD!
Activities for Wednesday, April 17, are cancelled due to the threat of severe weather.
A Growing Church for a Growing Community!
and reach the nearby communities of Sachse, Murphy, Lucas, St. Paul, Parker, Lavon, North Garland, and Allen.
Our worship team leads the service with contemporary Christian music selections that set the stage for Pastor Blake's practical and Bible-based sermons. Dress comfortably and expect to be greeted by friendly people who are genuinely glad to see you.
Gateway offers a dynamic Youth service for grades 7-12 beginning at 9:15 AM where they learn to live out their faith.
Sunday school occurs both at 9:15AM and 10:45 AM for preschoolers through 6th grade with an exciting curriculum designed to reach deeper into God's word while exploring a Christian worldview.
Curriculum for infants and toddlers is Biblical and age appropriate, and also occurs during both service hours.
Gateway Preschool Academy provides a 2- or 3-day weekday program with hands-on, age-appropriate education and strong Biblical teaching for children 18 months to Pre-K.