The genus Aloe is arguably one of Africa's most iconic and valued plant genera, prized by succulent plant collectors, horticulturalists, and pharmaceutical companies alike for years for its fleshy leaves and therapeutic medicinal properties.
But what makes Aloe-Aloe cultivars suddenly so appreciated and in demand is not their claimed medicinal properties (most recognized in "Vera"), not their water wise nature, and not their trendy architectural shapes but their spectacular flowers they deliver-All in the 40 year South African breeding program- larger, more prolific and for longer periods than pure aloe species.
Different aloe species come from a range of habitats with vastly different climatic conditions which include the desert which is dry and tropical regions receiving a lot of rain.
Many of these pure aloe species will not survive in Australian gardens with climates that differ from their natural habitat.
With the increased popularity of Aloe-Aloe's, there is a proliferation of different aloe plants (pure species and new hybrids) becoming available across Australia (some branded and others not). This is great news for the sector of the market following the "succulent craze" collecting small plants for pot culture as there are some amazingly beautiful textural and coloured leaf forms now appearing. Some of these, referred to as "fantasy aloes" contain striking jaggard teeth and leaves containing red,orange and yellow markings.
However, being the only dedicated aloe specialists in Australia, we constantly receive complaints from gardeners across the country on aloe species and other new aloe cultivars that are not Aloe-Aloes, such as "mine has never flowered" or "mine died when we received a lot of rain".
It is important to understand that whilst certain pure aloe species are capable of being used in landscaping, they are usually less desirable than Aloe-Aloe hybrids, as the species are adapted survive in a specific habitat conditions that is generally difficult to simulate in a garden in Australia.
Whilst species aloes and these fantasy hybrids are great for collecting in pots, usually they have insignificant flowers and more often than not, are unreliable in–ground as garden plants in our harsh Australian climate.
Aloe-Aloe's have been bred and selected over 40 years for a range of specific criteria to ensure that they are reliable garden plants and are long and spectacular bloomers. Failing to meet one of these criteria would render the hybrid unsuitable and it would be destroyed. Every plant carrying the Aloe-Aloe label gives you the great advantages that cloned hybrid vigor offers over ordinary seed grown aloes- that we can guarantee.
There are currently 37 different cultivars in the Aloe-Aloe collection.
Plant sizes include small (some groundcovers), medium (some shrubs), large and extra large (some trees) in the Aloe-Aloe collection.
Flower colours comprise orange, pink, red, white, yellow and also many bicolours in the Aloe-Aloe collection.
Aloe-Aloe cultivars all have different flowering times, but the majority of larger cultivars flower in autumn and winter in the Aloe-Aloe collection.
Whilst some do not have a fixed flowering season, generally they will always flower in the same season relative to their location. Flowering in the south of Australia is generally later than that of the northern parts. By carefully selecting aloe cultivars, your garden can have an aloe in bloom every month of the year.
Because food is stored in the fleshy leaves they can be dug up, have the soil shaken off and then sit around decorating homes being quite happy for many months (up to12) and they can then be planted out in the garden – for this reason they are increasingly being sold in this way, with no risk of moving nasties in the soil.
Aloe-Aloes a popular choice for the green roof and wall industry because of their flower performance, their ability to grow in shallow medium and their easy to care for and low water use qualities.
Because most aloe flowering is in autumn and winter when there is little else in flower, aloes are great plants to encourage wildlife to the garden. Bees (Australian native and European honey bees) feed from the nectar constantly and for honey farmers, honey production is significant in winter. The aloes provide nectar and pollen continuously for nectar feeding birds during the day to keep them interested. During the day as they drink nectar, they continuously pollinate the Aloe-Aloe's. Butterflies and other insects are also attracted to the garden by the nectar, which in turn also attracts insect feeding birds. By planting Aloe-Aloe's we can provide a habitat for a range of creatures around us, and thereby contribute to the biodiversity of our environment as a whole.


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Home Insights How The COVID-19 Crisis Has Spurred Innovation Across Businesses And Industries
How The COVID-19 Crisis Has Spurred Innovation Across Businesses And Industries
22 November 2020 AIthority Publication
Authors: Michele M. Simkin
This article was originally posted on AIthority, and is republished here with permission.
COVID-19 crisis has shown us that the traditional ways of working aren't always successful during such chaotic conditions. Countless companies have found themselves forced to adapt or fail. As such, we've watched businesses reimagine what their industries can look like and how to get things done in the face of distance and adversity.
Necessity has always been the mother of innovation – and COVID-19 Crisis is no different. Throughout the world, we're seeing businesses work creatively and collaborate in ways we've never seen before. Some of these impressive and strategic shifts could very well reshape the world we know through the rest of COVID-19 and beyond.
Virtual Technology Amid Social Distancing
Businesses were hit hard by the havoc COVID-19 Crisis created around the workforce and workplace safety. Manufacturing was especially impacted due to its essential designation and need for in-person labor – while many businesses could issue a work from home order, manufacturing simply could not. As such, we've seen manufacturers look for unique ways to reduce transmission risk by limiting in-person attendance while still carrying out the work necessary to so many Americans and industries.
For example, manufacturing employees wearing a variation of Google Glasses enable engineers to see what line workers are doing, diagnose any issues, make recommendations and ensure efficiency – all from a distance. Expect to see more of this tech, especially in the AR/VR spaces as industries recognize new benefits of virtual services amid the current crisis.
Collaboration Between Companies and Government
The poster child for this effort is the FDA's work with pharma companies to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. We've never before seen the speed at which the FDA is approving and pushing forward vaccine trials to end the pandemic as soon as possible. While these types of approvals have traditionally taken a very long time, the FDA and pharma companies are doing what's necessary, while still safe, to move efforts forward.
Innovative Practices to Combat the Virus
Countless companies are developing significant inventions for sterilizing and tracing viruses more effectively as a result of the pandemic. From advanced air filters on planes to sprays killing COVID-19, we've seen rapid innovation. Thinking back to when COVID-19 first came to America to the present day, we've seen amazing progress in fast and accurate diagnostics. The efforts have paid off as well. For example, colleges conducting frequent COVID-19 testing, such as through pooled sample testing, have a much better chance of managing the safety of on-campus students. As testing continues to be a main factor in identifying the virus and enabling society to live more normally, we'll continue to make progress here.
Pharma's Increased Investment in Data
Amid the pandemic, more pharma companies have recognized the value of data, AI and machine learning. We're even seeing some large companies hire their first AI scientists.
Historically, pharma has been slow to adopt data-focused initiatives. Healthcare and drug costs can be expensive because consumers are paying for both the successful drugs as well as the failed attempts that led to the final product. With the same number of drugs failing phases 1 and 2 of trials now as 10 years ago, an emphasis on data-driven techniques can help companies get better at predicting which drugs will work and how to more efficiently develop healthcare. As well, with a more diverse team (consisting of researchers, data scientists, medical experts), companies can find unique, innovative ways to advance healthcare forward.
A similar data-driven strategy is being put forward with the use of AI to predict the spread of COVID-19. By aggregating data and using AI to predict the areas most at risk, more hyper-focused and proactive management is possible. With this strategy, resources can be distributed more efficiently to help those most at risk.
Unprecedented B2B Partnerships
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the race for a vaccine has been seeing the level of collaboration taking place. Successfully developing and distributing a COVID-19 vaccine is requiring partnerships among life science and high-tech. The distribution will require leveraging manufacturer know-how in mass production/infrastructure systems – something that's already in the works in anticipation of the vaccine. Companies who are normally competitors are teaming up, sharing information and working towards a common goal. The Moderna and Pfizer announcements regarding their respective vaccine successes, for example, were made possible by a high level of collaboration.
Innovation and Collaboration Moving Forward
At a basic level, COVID-19 has shown us that, when faced with a challenge, businesses are teaming up to get things done. This includes companies, big and small, government agencies, individuals, and beyond. The business landscape won't be the same for many reasons after the COVID-19. However, the innovations and collaboration birthed during this pandemic will have permanent impacts beyond the COVID-19.
Michele M. Simkin
msimkin@foley.com

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Nigel has over 30 years' experience in the financial services sector and brings a varied set of business skills, knowledge and networks to the role of Chief Executive of Aoraki Development. Having first-hand experience as a business owner through to various governance roles and involvement with a number of community organisations enables Nigel to fully understand the challenges and opportunities facing new and existing local businesses.
He serves as a board member on Sport Canterbury, Independent Advisory Board Chairman of 100% Pure New Zealand Honey (NZ's largest privately owned exporter of manuka honey) and is a past Chairman and Mayoral Trustee of the Aoraki Foundation. He is also Trustee of the Aoraki MRI Trust and also of Aoraki Sports Persons Charitable Trust.
A born and bred South Cantabrian he is passionate about the region and doing what he can to make this an even better place to live and do business.
With a background in communications and marketing, Di has worked in print and radio journalism, public relations, marketing and on-air presenting for commercial radio. She has also been involved in establishing and running two retail businesses, specialising in importing goods. Di holds a Graduate Diploma in Business Studies and Certificates in Journalism and Adult Teaching.
Courtney has a background in tourism, graduating from the Diploma in Tourism Course at Aoraki Polytechnic in 2013. The past 4 years Courtney has been working at the Timaru Information Centre as a Sales and Promotions manager. Her passion is in customer relations and office administration work. Courtney did her secondary schooling on the West Coast in the town of Greymouth, soon after she moved to Timaru where she calls home.
Alice has been an accountant since 1978 and enjoys working with clients to provide timely advice. Alice previously tutored Business Studies at the local polytechnic for approximately 20 years, heading the department in latter years. She thoroughly enjoyed passing on her extensive knowledge of Business Studies. Alice specialises in accounting, tax and small business profitability.
Mark is a professional director. He is a Ministerial Appointment on the South Canterbury District Health Board, a director on the Board of Dunedin International Airport Limited and holds Chair and Member positions on a number of Advisory Boards. Mark has a broad background in governance and experience to Chief Executive level. Mark has worked in both the commercial and governmental spheres and is experienced in strategy, finance and operations with a specialist knowledge of change, risk and health and safety. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand, a Member of the New Zealand Institute of Management and a Member of Risk NZ. Mark holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science.
Brian and his wife Sarah have a small sheep & cattle farm between Temuka and Pleasant Point. Brian and Sarah run Solaray Technology Ltd, supplying and installing on and off grid solar power systems.
In partnership with her husband Jonty, Nicky owns and farms Levels Estate, an intensive sheep, beef and arable irrigated property on the outskirts of Timaru. She has worked for 20 years in the sheep, beef & deer industry as a registered farm advisor, predominantly with Macfarlane Rural Business, based in Ashburton. Nicky holds director positions with Opuha Water Limited (Vice Chair), advisory board positions on several private farming companies and Chairs Irrigation New Zealand. Nicky has a passion for rural New Zealand, its communities and sustainable agriculture.
Andrea's background is in tertiary education and she has a consultancy business, Authentic Education which designs education solutions for training within the primary industry sector. Andrea farms in partnership with her husband Warren, a 700 hectare, sheep and beef property just west of Cave. A member of the Institute of Directors and having recently completed a Masters of Professional Studies, Andrea has a variety of governance roles, including chairman of the Craighead Diocesan board of trustees and as board member on both the South -Mid Canterbury and National YMCA.
Warren is the joint owner of retail clothing businesses Camerons Clothing and Evolv with 4 stores in Timaru, Waimate and Oamaru. With 33 years hands-on retail experience and 14 years of ownership he has embraced the need to continually adapt to the changing face of retail and is passionate about the future growth of this sector in South Canterbury.Proudly born and bred in Timaru, Warren and his wife Beth have two school-age children and enjoy being actively involved in this family-friendly community.


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Sound recordings (171)
Video recordings (151)
Audiotapes (144)
Scrapbooks (137)
Videotapes (111)
Art museums. (32)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (16)
Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Secretary (16)
Calder, Alexander (14)
Adams, Ansel (13)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (12)
Kuniyoshi, Yasuo (11)
Nevelson, Louise (11)
Washington, Booker T. (11)
Whitney Museum of American Art (11)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) (10)
Picasso, Pablo (10)
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications (10)
Custom Craft (9)
Guston, Philip (9)
Johnson, Ray, 1927- (9)
Motherwell, Robert (9)
Rice, Moses P. (9)
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (9)
Scurlock, Addison N. (9)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison) (9)
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders) (9)
American Federation of Arts (8)
Anacostia Community Museum (8)
Indians of North America (20)
Hispanic Americans (12)
Latino Americans (12)
Asian Americans (4)
Igbo (African people) (4)
Yoruba (African people) (4)
Japanese Americans (2)
Navajo Indians (2)
10th Naval District Steel Band (1)
Aboriginal Australians (1)
Caribbean Area (23)
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) (3)
Mall, The (Washington, D.C.) (3)
National Air and Space Museum Archives (16)
National Anthropological Archives (12)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Research and Scholars Center (3)
Query: Artists at Work: A Smithsonian Celebration of Staff Creativity (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)
925 records — Page 33 of 93
Borgatti, Jean
3617 slides (photographs) (color, 35 mm)
166 contact sheets ((2 binders))
3555 negatives (photographic) (black and white, 35 mm)
4 Notebooks ((1 box))
1 cassette tape ((2 boxes))
25 Film reels (Super 8)
Jean Borgatti's collection dates from 1971 to 2003 and was created in Nigeria and Ghana. Much of the collection documents masquerades, shrines, festivals, market scenes, and ceremonies, and includes images of Urhobo, Uzairue, Ishan (Esan), Etsako, and Otuo peoples.
Calvin Burnett papers
Burnett, Calvin, 1921-2007
bulk 1960s-1970s
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The papers of graphic artist and arts educator Calvin Burnett measure 6.1 linear feet and date from 1920 to 1979, with the bulk of the collection dating from the 1960s to the 1970s. The papers contain biographical material, correspondence, writings, material related to his education and professional activities, personal business records, printed material, a scrapbook, and a small amount of photographs and artwork.
Letterio Calapai papers
Calapai, Letterio, 1902-1993
1858, 1870, 1900-1993
AAA.calalett
The papers of Italian-American painter, engraver, and printmaker Letterio Calapai measure 3.4 linear feet and date from 1858 through 1993 (bulk 1920s-1993). Found are correspondence, teaching and project files, writings and notes, printed materials, photographs, and sketchbooks, including one with scenes of Rockwell Kent's dairy farm in upstate New York.
Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers
Pollock, Jackson, 1912-1956
Krasner, Lee, 1908-1984
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The papers of abstract expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and wife Lee Krasner measure 16.1 linear feet and date from circa 1914 to 1984, with the bulk of the material dating from 1942 to 1984. The collection documents their personal and professional lives, as well as the legacy of Jackson Pollock's work after his death. Found are biographical material, correspondence, writings by Krasner and others, research material, business and financial records, printed material, scrapbooks, artwork by others, photographs, interview transcripts, audio and video recordings, and motion picture film.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1971 Festival of American Folklife
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
July 1-5, 1971
1 Cubic foot (approximate)
CFCH.SFF.1971
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet papers
Bulliet, C.J. (Clarence Joseph), 1883-1952
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The C. J. (Clarence Joseph) Bulliet papers measure 34.6 linear feet and are dated circa 1888-1959. Biographical materials, correspondence, writings, subject and artist files, printed material, photographs, and artwork document the career of the influential Chicago art critic and writer. The records contain extensive information about art and artists in Chicago and the Midwest from the early to mid-twentieth century.
Exhibition Records (Declined)
National Museum of American Art. Curatorial Department
1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
This accession consists of exhibition proposals declined by the National Museum of American Art (NMAA) and the Renwick Gallery. Materials include correspondence, notes, memoranda, proposals, brochures, and color slides.
Terry Dintenfass, Inc. records
Terry Dintenfass, Inc.
AAA.terrdint
The records of New York art gallery Terry Dintenfass, Inc. date from 1947 to 1987, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1961 to 1983, and measure 22.1 linear feet. The records are comprised of administrative files, correspondence, exhibition files, artists' files, and financial records.
Curatorial Records
National Museum of the American Indian, Curatorial Office
17 cu. ft. (17 record storage boxes)
This accession consists of records which document the activities of the curatorial staff of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Subjects covered include the exhibition master plan, workshops, repatriation, exhibitions, councils, collections management, collection research, conservation treatment, budgetary matters, and research....


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Not Welcome Anymore
Nico Bell 4.7.11
Oh, Bob Ellis. And to think I loved you once.
Ellis is truly of Labor's old guard, with his legacy of eloquent humanistic writings about the inner workings of that party and Australian politics. However, he hasn't been coping in recent years with the decline in the relevance of the Australian Labor Party, producing increasingly disjointed and even offensive pieces in his blog on ABC's The Drum. Today however he has outdone himself, with this disturbing piece on accusations of rape made against political figures. It's all feminists' fault, complains Ellis, that great liberal and left leaning political figures are brought down by these mud-slinging woman. Feminism is killing the left.
There's so many things wrong here, from Ellis' apologia for rape - he never acknowledges the complicity or illegality of his heroes' actions - to his assessment of the political potential of some of his touted victims. The former far outweighs the latter in gravity, of course. But I'm particularly incensed by Ellis' view of women in political situations. Women are not a part of the left movement, not human beings of equal value; they are a distraction from men's real work. Ellis may be an anachronism in his views on this, but he's not a rare one; it's a sentiment frequently expressed in blogs and writings - there are "people", and then there are "women". Two separate things. Women are a sideline from the real action, the important men's business. In Ellis' worldview, feminism is not the vital part of progressive that I dearly believe it to be; it is at war with it. Ellis has written beautifully on human rights; apparently to him women's rights are not human rights, women's rights are at odds with the greater good of humanity.
This is where the rush to blame the woman in political scandals springs from. In his heart Ellis believes that women have no business messing around in politics. They should keep to the sides and keep their mouths shut. His views aren't welcome in this society any more, and I hope (though don't entirely expect) to see him lose his position with the Drum as a result. It's kind of heartbreaking to see such things thought, said and written down, and from someone I once greatly admired (and personally signed copies of whose books I have on my shelf) nevertheless.
Just a quick word about our new poll question. I highly admire the work of the Anti-Bogan, who exposes the racist, misogynistic and homophobic things said on Facebook and puts them on the public record. By definition your average racist isn't very bright, and a lot of people saying these things list their employment details along with their statements about how all Aussie they are and how great the Nazis were (we fought the Nazis. They lost). It so happens that sometimes these statements are brought to the attention of said employers, and people have lost their jobs as a result. So, I'm asking if you think this is okay. Should people be fired for statements made on Facebook - they may be the support of their family but that doesn't excuse breaking the law, or are they entitled to their views away from work - bigotry's awful and all, but not worth losing your job over? Voting closes on Saturday...
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Q: Formatting Instant to String with specific pattern I'm trying to format Instant to String with a specific format. Based on the question here Format Instant to String, I'm doing this -
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        .withZone(ZoneOffset.UTC);

// Fails for current time with error 'Field DayOfYear cannot be printed as the
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Any suggestions on why is this happening?
Thanks

A: Take a look at the documentation of the DateTimeFormatter. So, D stands for the day of the year, while d is the day of the month, which is what you want.
Plus, there are several formats that are already defined. The one you want is almost like DateTimeFormatter.ISO_INSTANT.

A: Pattern YYYY-MM-DD'T'hh:mm'Z' is wrong:

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*YYYY - week-based-year       wrong: use uuuu year

*MM - month-of-year

*DD - day-of-year       wrong: use dd day-of-month

*hh - clock-hour-of-am-pm (1-12)       without AM/PM you probably want HH hour-of-day (0-23)

*mm - minute-of-hour

It's weird, because you even referenced a link that had the right pattern characters. Unless of course you thought upper- vs lower-case didn't matter, but if so, how did you think MM (month) vs mm (minute) worked?
You might want to actually read the documentation.

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Royal Wedding Cakes - 1904
Wedding Cake of Prince and Princess Adolphus of Teck
One English firm has long made the wedding cake for all the weddings in the royal family. This prestigious firm, patronized by Queen Victoria and the English nobility, owes its success to the fact that a box of cakes, given by its founder, Richard Bolland, to the Queen, when she was a young princess, in 1835. The Queen was so pleased that later the cakes made by Bolland, were branded made "by royal warrant purveyors to Her Majesty Queen Victoria and His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales."
At the wedding of King Edward's daughter, Princess Maud of Wales, twelve cakes were sent to notable relatives who could not be present.
Here is the recipe, with its very novel almond icing, said to be that which was used for the Royal Wedding Cake:
One pound and a half of butter
One pound and a half of flour
One pound of sugar
One pound of dried cherries, slightly chopped
One pound and a half of currants
One pound and a half of candied orange, lemon, and citron peel in equal quantities, all of these to be shredded very fine.
Eight ounces of pounded almonds
Twelve whole eggs
The rinds of four oranges rubbed on sugar
Half an ounce of ground spices, consisting of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, mixed in equal proportions
A teaspoon of salt
Half a pint of old brown brandy
All these delicious things are to be combined in the following manner:
In a large earthen cake or mixing-bowl place the butter, and cream it with a wooden spoon.
Next add, gradually, the sugar, flour, and eggs, continuing to blend them with the butter steadily.
When these have been thoroughly mixed, the cherries, currants, candied peel, ground almonds, brandy, salt, and spices must be added gradually; and, when all of them have been very thoroughly incorporated with the batter, the whole mass is to be poured into a pan that has been previously lined with buttered paper.
After the long, slow, and steady baking that all such cake requires, it must be iced, when wanted.
At the Bollands', the cakes are kept at least six months to season; and thousands of pounds are kept on hand ready for shipment, on sudden orders from any colony or country around the globe,—Australia, India, or America.
A Boston woman caterer has cakes on hand during the summer for quick use, but does not frost them until wanted, as, she says, the frosting darkens from contact with the cake.
The above cake is to be iced, first, with an almond icing:
Mix eight ounces of very fine-powdered almonds with double that quantity of sifted sugar, a little orange-flower water, and sufficient whites of eggs to form the whole into a soft paste.
Spread a coating of this all over the surface of the cake, and, when it has become cold and hard, a second and different icing is to be put on over this one.
To make it, take eight whites of new-laid eggs in a large-sized basin, and add a pound and a half of sifted sugar and work together with a wooden spoon, adding now and then a little-strained lemon juice, until the whole compound has a thick, shiny substance.
This icing must cover the first one at least a quarter of an inch deep and be dried in a warm atmosphere.
Wedding Cake of Princess Maud of Wales
A new fashion in wedding cakes was introduced by the one provided for Princess Maud of Wales. Instead of the dead-white decorations hitherto considered the proper thing, almond paste, caramel and other delicate tints were introduced in the wreaths and monograms adorning the handsome three-tier cake.
Besides the twelve cakes made by this recipe for the absent royalties, there was the grand one for the wedding banquet, tall and graceful and exquisite, combining the arms of England and Denmark.
Each tier was encircled with white satin ribbons, bordered with pearls, and ornamented with bridal buds and true lovers' knots, and surmounted by the god of love holding a nautilus shell, from which fell in long lines silver bullion and sea mosses.
The shell held roses and starry bridal flowers; and around the base, richly emblazoned with the royal arms, was a wreath of the same flowers.
Even a fairy princess could ask for no more charming and superb cake than this. For each succeeding royal marriage, an appropriate design is made for the majestic cake, with heraldic devices and fitting emblems.
Julia Davis Chandler, "Wedding Cake," in The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science & Domestic Economics, Vol. IX, No. 1, June-July 1904, p. 3-5, xii.
Epicurean Wedding Feasts
Wedding Feasts
Bridesmaids Luncheon for an August Bride - 1904
June Wedding Menus - 1916
The Buffet Style of Serving & Bridal Buffet - 1922
The Wedding Breakfast - 1914
Wedding Anniversary Menus - 1905
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Selection of the study participants for the research will be done at the antenatal clinic.
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* Steve Shaviro has his favorite science fiction of 2019. I can definitely endorse the Chiang, Hurley, and Tchaikovsky entries, and hope to report in on some of the rest soon… Meanwhile Sean Guynes has a roundup of the best books of the decade in science fiction studies, fantasy studies, American studies, and comics studies.
* Kim Stanley Robinson: "What the Hell Do We Write Now?"
* Tolkien, Lewis, and The Enchantments of Escape.
* Abigail Nussbaum has some questions for The Rise of Skywalker. I thought the Blank Check episode was terrific, too.
* I wanted more 'Star Wars.' I got my wish, and 'The Rise of Skywalker' made me regret it. The Rise of Skywalker: Memorabilia without Memory, a Misunderstanding of Hope. Welcome to the Star Wars zoo. We Can't See 'Star Wars' Anymore. Will "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" rebalance Disney's universe? I've heard worse ideas. Improv. Disney produced an unprecedented 80 percent of the top box office hits this year. The Decade Disney Won. And one last time, for old time's sake: The 10 Best Stories In the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
the full corporate takeover of fan culture has turned fans from a subculture whose creativity stems from overidentification with commodities into guardians of IP, enabling the transition of 'their' franchises into a series of expensive but low-risk technical updates
— traxus4420 (@traxus4420) December 29, 2019
& to shift the political horizon of fan 'resistance' away from from IP theft & toward minor gains in representation
repeating to my self in the mirror "Star wars is for adults" before seeing the final one & having a violent reaction like ingesting a poison
— wint (@dril) December 22, 2019
still the best star wars story produced in any medium cc @mattthomas pic.twitter.com/cfllpuBDzT
* Huh: They're gonna make a movie out of "Coyote vs. ACME."
* Ed Solomon reflects on the greatest work of science fiction he's been associated with, the profit statement for Men in Black (1997).
The greatest work of science fiction I've ever been involved with – my Men in Black profit statement – arrived for the holidays. Sadly it lost 6x what it lost last period. Impressive for a movie that hasn't been out in 22 years. Unless it's been *sneaking* out. Yeah, that's it. https://t.co/fE3bFMRJvb
— Ed Solomon (@ed_solomon) December 27, 2019
* The Outer Worlds isn't quite a socialist video game. But it's close. Class War on the Final Frontier. Coming to the Switch in 2020! Meanwhile, on the nostalgia front: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary has so much to teach modern games.
* Watchmen, season two: Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for cheap healthcare and a decent standard of living. The article even offers up a point of view character perfectly sociopathic for prestige tv:
After his military career, Rockhold worked as a defense contractor, operating mostly in Africa. He first returned to Vietnam in 1992 to work on a program to help economic refugees. He settled in Vietnam in 1995, the same year the United States and Vietnam normalized relations. He married a Vietnamese woman in 2009.
"The Vietnamese were extremely nice to me, especially compared to my own country after I came back from the war," Rockhold said at a coffee shop recently inside a polished, air-conditioned office tower that also houses a restaurant and cinema.
* The New Yorker on Watchmen. Whitewashing 'Watchmen.' Who's Watching HBO's Watchmen? (Parts 1, 2, and 3).
Not to be all Everything Is Connected, but an inability/unwillingness to think hard and carefully about Society–and an insistence on individuals as the only thing that's real–is why Star Wars, Watchmen, and Bret Stephens are obsessed with genetics
— Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) December 28, 2019
* Kill Your TV.
* A quirky exploration of sci-fi and masculinity. Science Fiction's Wonderful Mistakes. And some more hot Shaviro sf content: "Defining Speculation: Speculative Fiction, Speculative Philosophy, and Speculative Finance."
* Can you racebend Little Women? I imagine the next adaptation will, or at least will try too.
* What happened to Dudley Heinsbergen?
* 'Streaming has killed the mainstream': the decade that broke popular culture.
* Meme formalism. Secularization and the death of the humanities. And Christopher Newfield reviews the book giving everyone who works for a college nightmares, Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education. The disgusting new campus novel. Radical academics for the status quo. Can literary studies survive?
* Arundhati Roy: India: Intimations of an Ending.
* What the Prison-Abolition Movement Wants.
* The invention of ethical AI: how Big Tech manipulates academia to avoid regulation.
* One of Amazon's first employees says the company should be broken up.
* The system works: The richest families in Florence in 1427 are still the richest families in Florence. Must be nice!
terms like 'financial crisis' and 'bad economy' are propaganda obfuscating the fact that the point of capitalism is to bleed working people
for the vast majority of humanity there's no such thing as a good economy, and there's no such thing as a crisis for the ultra rich
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) December 27, 2019
You have to be really dumb to trust the government. Instead I trust Company, whose stated primary purpose is to maximize profits at any cost, and who gets caught committing fraud every 5 years
— Raging Dull (@InternetHippo) December 27, 2019
* We Should Recapture the Optimism of the 1960s.
* James Harris Jackson went to New York with a Roman sword and an apocalyptic ideology. He stabbed a stranger in the back and left him to die. Iowa woman admits she hit 14-year-old with SUV because the girl 'is Mexican.' Senate removes phrase 'white nationalist' from measure intended to screen military enlistees.
* Washington state lawmaker accused of "domestic terrorism" refuses to resign.
* Deaths in custody. Sexual violence. Hunger strikes. What we uncovered inside ICE facilities across the US. Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts. Trump's Tent Cities Are on the Verge of Killing Immigrant Children. The Pacific Northwest vs. ICE.
* More than simple racism or discrimination, the destructive premise at the core of the American settler narrative is that freedom is built upon violent elimination.
* America's self-destructive love affair with electronic voting machines, continued.
In a somewhat healthy polity the fact that the president is pardoning, championing, and hanging out with this monstrous war criminal would be treated as a massive scandal and have serious consequences. But America is not healthy, and its political and civic elites are failing. https://t.co/vJdnrU69bT
— Thomas Zimmer (@tzimmer_history) December 23, 2019
* So you automated your coworkers out of a job.
* On pretty privilege.
* Trade war with Wakanda lol
* MetaFilter has your oral history of Y2K. The New Republic has your recap of the decade from hell. National Geographic has your top twenty scientific discoveries of the decade. The 84 Biggest Flops, Fails, and Dead Dreams of the Decade in Tech. The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. The 15 most awe-inspiring space images of the decade. How Did This Get Played's Top 10 Games of 2019.
* Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt.
* The geoengineering question. "The three hottest days on record in Australia are now Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week."
* Yer cancelled, Harry.
more seriously tho it's striking what these two franchises, which are immense cultural productions and supposed testimonies to the limitlessness of imagination and possibility, implicitly posit as immutable – war, class stratification, various ideologies of gender and sex, etc
— Patrick Blanchfield (@PatBlanchfield) December 19, 2019
* Pete Buttigieg's Wikipedia Page Has a Very Attentive Editor.
* Democratic insiders: Bernie could win the nomination. What Would the Bernie Presidency Really Look Like?
* The Obama Years, or, A Decade of Liberal Delusion and Failure.
* Why Trump's Second Term Will Be Worse.
SANDERS: I was the only senator in 1999 who opposed Fat Bastard wanting to eat a baby, whereas my colleague Joe Biden was in favor of it
BIDEN: Look I've been friends with Fat Bastard for a long time, and I told him Fat, you gotta stop this talk about eating a baby, its not right
— cj (@currentvictim) December 20, 2019
* Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it's learned may be crucial to Western democracy.
* Women are filing more harassment claims in the #MeToo era. They're also facing more retaliation.
* But there is another kind of memory that develops considerably later in human children, and never (as far as we know) in nonhuman animals. This is called autobiographical memory. What is the difference between episodic and autobiographical memory? In autobiographical memory, you appear in the frame of the memory. Not only do you remember how you felt on the first day of school, you see yourself going to school and having those feelings. It's not just a matter of what happened, as with episodic memory; it's a matter of what happened to me.
* The truth about PAW Patrol.
* Chaos at the Romance Writers of America. The Implosion of the RWA.
* Hallmark Movies Are Fascist Propaganda.
* Home Alone 14.
* Promise me I'll never forget this moment as long as I live. It's bad, Zeus. Welcome to hell. Santa. Soulmates. Superintelligence. Policy. Physics. Doom.
* Oracle, how can I live forever?
* 21 Gravity-Defying Sculptures That Messed With Our Heads.
* When Salvador Dalí Created Christmas Cards That Were Too Avant Garde for Hallmark (1960).
* Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men: To Make Girl Who Is Deaf Feel At Home, Dozens Of Neighbors Learn Sign Language.
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Seven Pounds of Sunday Links in a Three-Pound Bag
* If you missed it, my contribution to the thriving "Star Trek at 50″ thinkpiece industry: "We Have Never Been Star Trek." And some followup commentary on First Contact and the Rebootverse from Adam Kotsko.
* Elsewhere: To Boldly Imagine: Star Trek's Half Century. 13 science fiction authors on how Star Trek influenced their lives. 50 Years of Trekkies. Women who love Star Trek are the reason that modern fandom exists. What If Star Trek Never Existed? In a World without Star Trek… The Star Trek You Didn't See. How Every Single Star Trek Novel Fits Together. What Deep Space Nine does that no other Star Trek series can. Fighter Planes vs. Navies. Fifty years of Star Trek – a socialist perspective. Star Trek in the Age of Trump. Star Trek Is Brilliantly Political. Well, It Used To Be. Sounds of Spock. A Counterpoint. Catching Up with Star Trek IV's Real Hero. The Workday on the Edge of Forever. A few of the best images I gathered up this week: 1, 2. And of course they did: CBS and Paramount Royally Screwed Up Star Trek's 50th Anniversary.
Happy birthday #StarTrek50, celebrating fifty years of unforgettable fashion for men. pic.twitter.com/LpWHv39ozU
— RedScharlach (@redfacts) September 8, 2016
* And some more Star Trek: Discovery teasing: Time to rewatch "Balance of Terror." And Majel might even voice the computer.
* Deadline Extended for the 2016 Tiptree Fellowship. The Foundation Essay Prize 2017.
* CFP: Speculative Finance/Speculative Fiction. Editors David M. Higgins and Hugh Charles O'Connell. Call for Chapters: Transmedia Star Wars. Editors Sean A. Guynes and Dan Hassler-Forest.
* Not a CFP, but I'm glad to see this is coming soon: None of This is Normal: The Fiction of Jeff VanderMeer.
* Polygraph #25, on sound and the modes of production, is now available.
* Tolkien once said that fantasy can't work on stage. Katy Armstrong argues that The Cursed Child only works on stage. Harry Potter and the Conscience of a Liberal.
* On Utopia and Reaction.
* Poetry and Class Struggle.
* This LARB essay on scholars fighting about King Lear is as spellbinding as everyone said.
* Here is a list of things that I am including in this book. Please send me my seven-figure advance. An Easy Guide to Writing the Great American Novel.
* Concerns Over Future of UMass Labor Center.
* Lockout at LIU. The Nuclear Option. Unprecedented. This is the first time that higher-ed faculty have ever been locked out. Lockout Lessons. Students Walkout. As Lockout Continues at Long Island U., Students Report Meager Classroom Instruction. This has been, to say the least, an amazing story.
7. Otherwise, what Middle States is saying is that all a university is is a bunch of buildings, a bank account, and administrators.
— Jacob Remes (@jacremes) September 10, 2016
* Decline of Tenure for Higher Education Faculty: An Introduction.
* Salaita's Departure and the Gutting of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois.
* Inmates Are Planning The Largest Prison Strike in US History. 'Incarcerated Workers' stage nationwide prison labor strike 45 years after 1971 Attica riot. Your Refresher on the 13th Amendment.
* The long, steady decline of literary reading. History Enrollments Drop. Werner Herzog Narrates My Life as a Graduate Student. My dirty little secret: I've been writing erotic novels to fund my PhD.
* Quebec's massive student strikes emerged from an organizing model that constantly trains new generations of activists.
* Retirement Plan Roulette.
* The First Trans*Studies Conference.
* Donna Haraway: "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene."
The unfinished Chthulucene must collect up the trash of the Anthropocene, the exterminism of the Capitalocene, and chipping and shredding and layering like a mad gardener, make a much hotter compost pile for still possible pasts, presents, and futures.
A bit more here.
* Elsewhere in the Anthropocene: Montana declares state of emergency over pipeline spill, oily drinking water. The Gradual Atlantis (and see Dr. K.S. Robinson for more). Fast Fashion and Environmental Crisis. The Planet Is Going Through A 'Catastrophic' Wilderness Loss, Study Says. The Oceans Are Heating Up. A Monument to Outlast Humanity. New genus of bacteria found living inside hydraulic fracturing wells. And from the archives: Louisiana Doesn't Exist.
* The Joyful, Illiterate Kindergartners of Finland. What Should a Four-Year-Old Know? How to Raise a Genius.
* Michael R. Page on the greatness of The Space Merchants. Bonus content from University of Illinois Press: Five Quotes from Frederik Pohl.
* The problem with this reasoning, at least as it relates to graduate students, is that we have had fifty years to find out if unions destroy graduate education. They don't.
* How Unions Change Universities. Scabbing on Our Future Selves.
* Of Moral Panics, Education, Culture Wars, and Unanswerable Holes.
* The Death of ITT Tech, Part One: What Happened?
* Audrey Watters on the (credit) score.
* Clemson's John C. Calhoun Problem. And Jack Daniels's.
* Welcome to Our University! We're Delighted to Have You, But If You Think We're Going to Cancel the Ku Klux Klan Rally, You've Got Another Think Coming. Cashing in on the Culture Wars: U Chicago.
* The things English speakers know, but don't know they know.
Things native English speakers know, but don't know we know: pic.twitter.com/Ex0Ui9oBSL
— Matthew Anderson (@MattAndersonBBC) September 3, 2016
* Raymond Chandler and Totality.
* Writing Like a State.
* Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde.
* Capitalist Saboteurs.
* Why 'The Stranger' Almost Didn't Get Published.
* It's Getting Harder and Harder to Deny That Football Is Doomed.
* After Richmond Student Writes Viral Essay About Her Rape Case, the University Calls Her a Liar.
* Milwaukee vs. Pikachu. The World's Most Dangerous Game: Pokémon's Strange History with Moral Panics.
* Weapons of Math Destruction: invisible, ubiquitous algorithms are ruining millions of lives.
* British artist Rebecca Moss went aboard the Hanjin Geneva container ship for a "23 Days at Sea Residency." But the company that owns the ship went bankrupt on August 31, and ports all over the world have barred Hanjin's ships because the shipping line is unable to pay the port and service fees. Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept.
* Christopher Newfield talks his new book on the collapse of the public university, The Great Mistake.
* Bill de Blasio's Pre-K Crusade.
* The Plight of the Overworked Nonprofit Employee.
* FiveThirtyEight: What Went Wrong?
* The Lasting Impact of Mispronouncing Students' Names.
* The law, in its majestic equality: Black Defendants Punished Harsher After A Judge's Favorite Football Team Loses.
* Fred Moten on academic freedom, Palestine, BDS, and BLM.
* Being Nadja Spiegelman.
* The Night Of and the Problem of Chandra.
* The Book of Springsteen. Relatedly: Bruce Springsteen's Reading List.
* Defining Unarmed.
* New research suggests that humans have a sixth basic taste in addition to sweetness, sourness, saltiness, bitterness, and umami. It's starchiness.
* Against Theory.
Differently from philosophy, which functions under long, frustrating timings, and very rarely reaches any certainty, theory is quick, voracious, sharp, and superficial: its model is the "reader," a book made to help people make quotations from books that are not read.
* The largest strike in world history?
* The Walrus has an absolutely wrenching piece on stillbirth.
* How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead.
* "Science thought there was one species and now genetics show there are four species," Dr. Janke said. "All zoos across the world that have giraffes will have to change their labels."
* The Mysterious Ending of John Carpenter's The Thing May Finally Have an Answer.
* Teach the controversy: No Forests on Flat Earth.
* The clash of eschatologies.
* Wisconsin appeals Brendan Dassey's overturned conviction.
* Abolish the iPhone. How Apple Killed the Cyberpunk Dream. It's not much better over there.
Fuck it, let's do a planned economy pic.twitter.com/KYwvQ3wPeM
— Luke Savage (@LukewSavage) September 9, 2016
* Atwood and comics.
* The NEH's chairman, Bro Adams, tries to make a case for the humanities. Is anyone listening?
* Britain isn't doing a super great job with Brexit.
* No other image has better captured the struggle that is simply living every day: Drunk Soviet worker tries to ride on hippo (Novokuznetsk, in Kemerovo, 1982). Yes, there's still more links below.
* The DEA vs. Kratom. Why Banning the Controversial Painkiller Kratom Could Be Bad News for America's Heroin Addicts.
*Never-Ending Election Watch: How Donald Trump Retooled His Charity to Spend Other People's Money. Trump pays IRS a penalty for his foundation violating rules with gift to aid Florida attorney general. A Tale of Two Scandals. That Clinton Foundation Scandal the Press Wants Exists, But they Won't Report it Because it's Actually About the Trump Foundation. Inside Bill Clinton's nearly $18 million job as 'honorary chancellor' of a for-profit college. No More Lesser-Evilism. And Vox, you know, explaining the news.
* Dominance politics, deplorables edition.
* And put this notion in your basket of deplorables: Darkwing Duck and DuckTales Are in Separate Universes and This Is Not Okay.
* How Fox News women took down the most powerful, and predatory, man in media.
* Yes, Here Comes Trump TV.
* Corporal Punishment in American Schools.
* Black Teachers Matter.
* I say jail's too good for 'em: US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.
* Bugs Bunny, the Novel, and Transnationalism.
* Understanding Hellboy.
* The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad. The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes.
* What's the Matter with Liberals?
* Alan Moore Confirms Retirement from Comic Books. An interview in the New York Times where, lucky for me, he talks a lot about David Foster Wallace.
* The Need For Believable Non-White Characters — Sidekicks, Included.
* What Your Literature Professor Knows That Your Doctor Might Not.
* Geologic Evidence May Support Chinese Flood Legend.
* Fully Autonomous Cars Are Unlikely, Says America's Top Transportation Safety Official.
* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal roundup: The Clockmaker. Science Journalism. I Am No Longer a Child. Teach a Man to Fish. How Stress Works. On Parenting. You haven't hit bottom yet. Keep scrolling!
* Today in unnecessary sequels: Mel Gibson confirms Passion Of The Christ sequel. And elsewhere on the unnecessary sequel beat: We Finally Know What the Avatar Sequels Will Be About.
* At least they won't let Zack Snyder ruin Booster Gold.
* Poe's Law, but for the left? Inside the Misunderstood World of Adult Breastfeeding.
* The Revolution as America's First Civil War.
* Mike Konczal on Eviction.
* What Happens When We Decide Everyone Else Is a Narcissist.
* 45,000 Pounds of Would-Be Pennies Coat Highway After Delaware Crash.
* 'Illegal' Immigration as Speech.
* Second Thoughts of an Animal Researcher.
* Conspiracy Corner: Obama and the Jesuits.
* On Sept. 16 the opera "Happy Birthday, Wanda June," based on Vonnegut's play, will have its world premiere in Indianapolis. A dayslong celebration of, and reflection on, the best-selling author's works called Vonnegut World will precede it.
* The Unseen Drawings of Kurt Vonnegut.
* The Science of Loneliness. Loneliness can be depressing, but it may have helped humans survive.
* Once more, with feeling: On the greatness of John Brunner.
* Let us now praise Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
* Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Man Dies, Leaving Behind a Sea Of Big-Boobed Mannequins. Yes, it's a Milwaukee story.
* Play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Video Game Free Online, Designed by Douglas Adams in 1984.
* Taking a Stand at Standing Rock. Life in the Native American oil protest camps.
* Earth First: The Musical.
* The Subtle Design Features That Make Cities Feel More Hostile.
* Hitchens wept.
* Rebel propaganda. All the Ewoks are dead.
* Finally.
* Salvador Dali Illustrates Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
* Where the Monsters Are. The Wonderful World of Westeros.
* And I'll be bookmarking this for later, just in case: A lively new book investigates the siren call—and annoying logistics—of death fraud.
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Weekend Links!
* I have a short essay in the New Orleans Review's science fiction issue. Check it out! (Sorry, it's not online.)
* CFP: Special Issue of American Literature: "Queer about Comics."
* Academics of color experience an enervating visibility, but it's not simply that we're part of a very small minority. We are also a desired minority, at least for appearance's sake. University life demands that academics of color commodify themselves as symbols of diversity—in fact, as diversity itself, since diversity, in this context, is located entirely in the realm of the symbolic. There's a wound in the rupture between the diversity manifested in the body of the professor of color and the realities affecting that person's community or communities. I, for example, am a black professor in the era of mass incarceration of black people through the War on Drugs; I am a Somali American professor in the era of surveillance and drone strikes perpetuated through the War on Terror.
* Universities love a flagship building that sets them apart from the rest. But are they being designed with learning and research in mind?
* Cornell Grad Students Form Unrecognized Union.
* The Irony of Catholic Colleges.
* The end of content.
* The end of tenure.
69% NTT faculty already (https://t.co/r9iXfWWbZL) | State College of FL eliminates tenure http://t.co/I2KZo9ToEk via @miriamkp @gerrycanavan
— Andrew Goldstone (@goldstoneandrew) September 24, 2015
* Fake traffic is rotting the Internet.
* So weird: John Boehner, House Speaker, Will Resign From Congress.
* The College President-to-Adjunct Pay Ratio.
* The Journal of Academic Freedom has a special section devoted to Steven Salaita.
* Science proves you like being ripped off by airlines.
* Fordham, Marquette rescind honorary degrees they gave Cosby.
* Here's More Evidence That Galactic Super-Civilizations Don't Exist. Yet!
* What a massive sexual assault survey found at 27 top U.S. universities. Counterpoint: The latest big sexual assault survey is (like others) more hype than science. Counter-counterpoint: The University of Chicago's message to the Class of 2019: Don't be a rapist.
* Speech and the campus newspaper at Wesleyan. And from the Southern Poverty Law Center: Campus Newspaper Thefts since 2000.
* Today in the apocalypse: Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold 'blob' in the North Atlantic Ocean.
* Ahmed's Clock, Banneker's Clock, and the Racial Surveillance of Invention in America.
* "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges."
* A recent study suggests that acetaminophen—found in Tylenol, Excedrin and a host of other medications—is an all-purpose damper, stifling a range of strong feelings. Throbbing pain, the sting of rejection, paralyzing indecision—along with euphoria and delight—all appear to be taken down a notch by the drug.
* Volkswagen and the Era of Cheating Software. Volkswagen hires BP's Deepwater defense team as the lawsuits start. But it's not all bad news.
* Stojcevski was sent to the Macomb County Jail in Mt. Clemens, Mich., on June 11, 2014, to serve a 30-day sentence after failing to appear in court over a ticket for careless driving, according to the lawsuit. During the 16 days between his imprisonment and his death, the lawsuit alleges, staff at the jail knowingly allowed him to suffer through "excruciating" acute withdrawal without treatment.
* Inside the collapse of Scott Walker's presidential bid.
* Inside Retraction Watch.
* Inside Salvador Dali's Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
* Rather than fighting for more and better work, we should fight for more time to use as we please. Proposals like a universal basic income may well lead to this. Most importantly, in thinking about the time bind, we should keep in mind what it would mean to be really free from it. We should keep in mind the full possibilities of liberation: what we want is not to be allowed to work more or in better conditions, but to be allowed to live as we see fit.
* Counterpoint: Against UBI.
* I had nightmares like this: What If the Answer Isn't College, but Longer High School?
* A Urine Collection Bag from Apollo 11 marked with the initials "NA."
* The Bowe Bergdahl case is a weird choice for Serial season two, but I suppose nearly anything would be.
* Netflix Data Reveals Exactly When TV Shows Hook Viewers — And It's Not the Pilot.
* DC reboots the Spectre.
* Happy Birthday, everyone.
* …the digital apocalypse never arrived, or at least not on schedule. While analysts once predicted that e-books would overtake print by 2015, digital sales have instead slowed sharply.
* Honestly this would work pretty well for academics too.
* Listen, this is just getting silly now.
* We have burned all the furniture for fuel and we're starting to chop away at the deck. We are a terrible, dispirited society and we finally have the terrible, dispirited Muppets we deserve.
* What Can 'Star Trek' Teach Us About American Exceptionalism?
* Rude hand gestures from around the world.
* And I'm devoting the rest of my career to the Mysteries of the Unknown books, now that I've been reminded they exist.
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Neil Tennant Quotes
I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did.
Mustache, Want, Shirts
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
You should always celebrate your successes because someone else will celebrate your failures.
Celebrate, Should
"Pet Shop Boys: cab drivers ask us if we've retired". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.
It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.
Boys, Our World, Pet
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
Song, Musical, Way
I've got the brains, you've got the looks, let's make lots of money
Brain, Looks, Lots Of Money
We hope we are moving toward a world where sexual orientation is not an issue, because we hate the idea of a gay ghetto. I think that it's a real shame that people become restricted by their sexuality or define their whole lives by their sexuality.
Hate, Real, Moving
"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
There's the paradox of making pop music when you're in your 50s. People weren't meant to be doing that originally and yet they are. Mick Jagger [used to say] we're not going to be doing Satisfaction when I'm in a wheelchair.
People, Satisfaction, Paradox
She's been a smack addict, she's had big success in Europe in the '70s, and she's lost everything. She's been rediscovered in the '80s, and as we meet her she's just about to sign a new recording contract.
Success, Europe, Lost Everything
When I was I younger I didn't want to be gay. Not because I was scared of the sexual thing; I didn't want to be a clone. Now this was in the late '70s.
Gay, Want, Scared
To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.
Should Have, Issues, Individuality
She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together.
Character, Play, Together
A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
Sex, Moving, Gay
The first song is called 'London.' It's about two Russian soldiers who desert the Russian army and escape to London, where they indulge in a life of crime.
Song, Army, Two
We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.
Variety Of Music, Choices, Sexuality
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
Thinking, Long, Way
I think the world should be one community.
Thinking, Community, World
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
Change, Spring, Rocks
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
Sex, Issues, Talking
I think there's an element where people get very comfortable in their ghetto. Which is fair enough.
Ghetto, Thinking, People
The big gay clubs like Heaven started having mixed nights in the late '80s.
Gay, Night, Heaven
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
Musical, Would Be, Theater
Chris Lowe
Vince Clarke
Stuart Price
Derek Jarman
Chris Lowe Musician
David Tennant Actor
Dusty Springfield Singer
Johnny Marr Musician
Vince Clarke Musician
Stuart Price Electronic musician
Boy George Singer-songwriter
Derek Jarman Film director
Grant Morrison Comic Book Writer
Burt Bacharach Singer
Cilla Black Singer
Dionne Warwick Singer
Lesley Gore Singer
Jackie DeShannon Singer-songwriter
Shirley Bassey Singer
Nancy Sinatra Singer
Diana Ross Singer
Marianne Faithfull Singer
Marvin Gaye Singer-songwriter
Janis Joplin Singer
Occupation: Musician


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The bathroom is modern. We also serve breakfast. Our homestay is called Granny's Inn.


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Every day in the UK, eight women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and three will lose their lives to the disease. It's hard to fathom that cervical cancer still claims the lives of around 1000 women in the UK every single year, but research has shown that one in five women don't attend their screening appointments when invited. It's an illness that is largely preventable thanks to cervical screening and the HPV vaccination programme, but the uptake of smear tests is now decreasing year on year as we become complacent and 'too busy' to attend appointments. Although smear tests aren't enjoyable, they're so quick and painless that we should all be making the time to get tested and look after our health. However, it seems that we all make excuses to delay our appointments – from not having the time, blaming work commitments, not being able to get a convenient appointment or simply prioritising everything else over a smear. Today marks the start of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, an initiative from Jo's Trust to help raise awareness of the importance of smear tests and the symptoms associated with cervical cancer, and it's something I'm wholeheartedly supporting.
to the bottom of your priority list, especially because doctors appointments often require time off work. However, early detection and education is key in increasing survival rates; Cervical Cancer Prevention Week provides us with an opportunity to open up the discussion around cervical screening and cancer in order to prevent any more women suffering because of a largerly preventable disease. I've been extremely open about my medical history, sharing my experience of smears, what happens when the results don't come back normal and undergoing a procedure to remove pre-cancerous cells from my cervix. I've supported the GSK 'Time To Test' initiative, spoken on the Sky News network about the importance of attending appointments and been able to support a huge number of readers through similar experiences. Suffice to say that I believe every woman should take responsibility for their own health; smear tests aren't scary, but the result could be if you don't attend them regularly.
This week Jo's Trust are campaigning for women to understand the importance of cervical screening, as well as continuing their support of those that have been struck down with the disease. They're raising funds to offer a helping hand to those women that need someone to talk to, as well as focusing upon education – if we don't understand the health roulette we're playing by not attending, how can we start to attempt to wipe out such a devastating illness? Smear tests take less time than boiling the kettle and are nowhere near as embarrassing as you may think; they're swift, discrete and painless, but they could also potentially save your life. If you do one thing this week, then make sure it's checking when your last smear test was or booking that appointment you've been putting off… Your lady bits will thank you for it in the years to come.
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I had a health scare a couple of years ago but everything is fine now. It's not always in the back of my mind though, so I go for regular smears and checkups. When I moved my new gynecologist said 'I didn't need to have smear test every year since I'm still so young' but I insist to have one anyway at least once a year.
I'll tell you what is scary. Being told you have cervical cancer and need an immediate radical hysterectomy. That's what happened to be because I was ''too scared'' to go for smear tests. Which I can promise you are NOTHING compared to what I went through. Go for your smears and don't be an idiot and gamble with your life like I did.
Great post! I have learned a lot here and it opened my eyes regarding the importance of pap smear. Cervical cancer is serious and we need to be serious about it too.
Great post. I can't believe people avoid their smear tests, yes I can imagine it's a bit embarrassing, but it could be life saving! I'm not 25 yet but I really wish I could have one done because there have been so many under 25s loosing their lives to cervical cancer recently, it's so scary. I hope your post and everything else being done to promote Cervical Cancer Prevention Week will encourage women to go for their tests and hopefully do something to make the age limit be reduced or removed!


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On Saturday, April 13th, the Boys Varsity Tennis Team traveled to Cuyahoga Falls to participate in the Tigers Doubles Tournament. The Bears finished in 2nd place out of six teams. The Bears lost 20 games to 19 in the Championship round to Brunswick playing a three sets of double to 13 total games format. Congratulations Bears!!
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Do you remember your first best friend?
An excerpt from "Running Through Sprinklers," a novel about the intense friendships young girls have with one another. Full novel available April 2018 by Simon & Schuster USA.
Michelle Kim , novelist/ filmmaker/ actor
Cover art by Alexandra Huard
NADINE and I are at my house, playing with Cookie, my hamster. We put him in his plastic ball and let him run around the downstairs of my house.
I got Cookie more than three years ago, in grade three, after my orthodontist appointment one day. This happened after spending most of the summer trying to convince Mom it was a good idea.
I remember how I begged: "Pleeeease, Mom. I've never had a pet before."
"Why do you want a rat? They are so dirty. I don't understand," she said.
Me: "It's not a rat. It's a hamster. They're small and cute and they don't have those long tails."
She actually looked slightly thoughtful. She said hesitantly, "Just how long are their tails?"
"No longer than a centimeter, I swear."
"And when will it die?"
"In two years, I promise."
It's now past the two-year death wish and my hamster is still going strong. He's almost four years old. I'm not kidding. He's even got gray hair and survived a stroke. But I think the reason my hamster has lived so long is because when I first got him, my mom was too freaked out to let him in the house so she banned the cage to the garage. Cookie spent the first year inhaling the fumes of Mom's stinky Chinese medicine that she cooks on a little camping stove in the middle of the garage.
In the garage at night:
The pot simmers on low. My hamster runs on his wheel. Then he gets off and goes into the middle of the cage. He stands up on his hind legs, sniffing the air and breathing in the medicine.
Slowly, my hamster becomes . . . Super Hamster.
Cookie is so smart. And getting more so with age. We put him in his plastic ball and he runs all around the house in it. But when we want him to appear, all I have to say is, "Cookie, come here!" And he does, a small plastic ball spinning toward us, his little teddy bear face inside.
On the weekends during the school year, while I do my homework, I put Cookie in my left koala slipper to sleep. I even lay down one of Mom's maxi pads just in case he pees. But he never does. He is the best hamster ever.
Anyway, since it's Friday night, it's sleepover night, at Nadine's house. But we are still at my house.
Nadine: "Can we eat here, then go to my house? My mom's making meatloaf." (For the record, I actually like her meatloaf. But I think you always like someone else's mom's food.)
"Okay," I say. "Let's eat here."
Mom, from downstairs: "I'll make you bibimbap!"
Us: "Hooray!"
In a bowl: Steamed white rice. Different kinds of namul on top: spinach, thinly sliced carrots, radish, spicy bean sprouts, mountain fernbrake, beef, and fried egg. I mush it all up: a rainbow in my bowl.
After dinner, we help Mom put everything away, and I watch Nadine stand at the sink to do the dishes with my mom. "You're so lucky," she once said. "I wish your mom was my mom." Which is funny, because I wish hers was mine. It's more fun at her house. Mrs. Ando is so relaxed, and we do whatever we want without her getting mad at us. Plus she's always making cookies. My mom is stricter, like Nadine's father. Nadine and I often think that my mom and her dad should be married and that my dad and her mom should be married instead. But it's good to have balance, I guess. A bit of both.
Cookie will be sleeping over too. I grab the cage and we start walking across the street. It's dark outside and the streetlights cast a big spotlight on us and Cookie's cage, like we're movie stars. Or prisoners.
In Nadine's room:
We stay up late, lying on her bedroom floor in our sleeping bags, and talk about what we're going to do the last few weeks of summer. Like go to Crescent Beach when the tide is out, play hide-and-seek in the forest, and research new looks in magazines for grade seven. I'm secretly excited for summer to be over. I can tell Nadine is too. We can't wait to be the oldest in the school and rule the school. Hey. That rhymes.
Moonlight streams through the window, between the blinds, and onto our faces.
The shine of Nadine's retainer and my headgear match the shine of the wire on Cookie's cage. As Nadine sleeps beside me, a strand of hair is in her face, and I lightly brush it with my fingers and tuck it behind her ear.
In the mall, I buy a gold pendant in the shape of a heart that says Best Friends. You're supposed to break it in half and give half to your best friend and keep the other for yourself. I'm going to wait for the right moment to give Nadine half of the heart.
I'm waiting for her to finish her ballet class.
I buy two chocolate bars from the vending machine, one for me and one for Nadine. But I eat mine right away, I can't wait.
Through the big glass window: A wooden floor that stretches under pink satin slippers, and when you look up, there is Nadine, in her pink bodysuit with her black hair coiled on top of her head, and her leg stretched out further than the rest.
After, when she's walking out with her pink bag over her shoulder, I give her her chocolate bar, already partially unwrapped for her convenience. She takes a huge bite and puts her arm around me and we walk down the hall and out the door together.
I love Nadine Ando. I love the way she spreads peanut butter perfectly on bread for me after school without making the bread tear underneath, and how she always smells like vanilla lip gloss because she applies it, like, every ten minutes, and how she walks with her feet slightly pointed outward kinda like a duck because she's permanently stuck in first position.
It's only ever been Nadine and me, her family and mine. And though we live in separate houses and have separate names, it's never really felt like we have separate lives. It's the way my shoes line up at their front door, the way my favorite snack sits on their kitchen table after school, the way I can still smell her house on my clothes when I come home. Sometimes, because we are together so much, it feels like we are one person. And I don't think this will ever change.
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Michelle Kim is a Korean-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and actor. Her first novel, Running Through Sprinklers, will be published by Simon & Schuster this April.
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I think Canon Rumors is overestimating the demand for this product!
This is what Canon built the 7DII for - sports and event photography. It's not your next video camera. It's not your 4K monster. It's not your lowlight video king. It's not your super cheap, Super35 high-end codec camera. It's a DSLR! Period. Remember those....the ones that take pictures? And it takes pictures of fast moving objects while tracking them and keeping them in focus!
Take a look at some of the specs: 65 point AF, built in intrevalometer, 10fps (31 RAW and over 1,000 JPEG as long as your card is fast enough to write the data), automatic lens distortion correction in-camera, GPS, weather-sealed aluminum body, and a completely revamped and upgraded metering system. These are features video guys/gals don't care about. Action photographers do. This camera makes a legitimate swipe at the Canon 1D X and Nikon D4S for a third of the price (yet, there are still reasons why a photographer might want a 1D X or D4S over a 7DII).
If Canon wanted to announce a new video camera, DSLR or not, it had NAB in April or IBC last weekend in Amsterdam. But they didn't. They announced the 7DII at Photokina, a photography show. That should say a significant something about where they intend to position this camera in their lineup.
Read the specs and press release for Canon's 7D Mark II here.
I'm curious to see if Canon announces any C-series products this weekend. Given how well the series is selling I'm guessing Canon doesn't feel a whole lot of pressure to do so. And they'll also want to avoid the Osborne effect with any announcement they do make.
Photokina officially starts next Tuesday (September 16). Much like NAB though, announcements tend to start coming out the weekend before.


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Walead Beshty walk-through of Jay DeFeo exhibition
At 534 W 26th St.
Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 3 pm
Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Jay DeFeo's work in New York since the acclaimed Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2013. Assembling fifty key works spanning the years 1965–1989, the exhibit examines DeFeo's distinctive exploration of visual vocabulary, rich materiality and experimental process across the media of painting, drawing, photography and rarely seen photocopy works.
DeFeo's diverse and constantly evolving practice extended far beyond her seminal work The Rose (1958–66). Throughout her career, DeFeo consistently blurred the boundaries between abstraction and representation, transcending the identity of the common objects that fascinated her.
Moving seamlessly between painting, drawing and collage, DeFeo introduced photography into her oeuvre in 1970. In the mid-1970s, the artist began using the photocopy machine as a new type of photographic lens through which she created series of works that defy an accepted understanding of the limitations of the photocopier.
As seen in large-scale works such as Tuxedo Junction (1965/1974), surface and texture are of paramount importance in her oeuvre, partly inspired by the crumbling facades found in Paris and Florence, where she traveled early in her career. The densely layered surface of built-up oil paint in Tuxedo Junction is echoed decades later in the wrinkles of tissues pressed against the glass plate of the photocopier as DeFeo investigates texture in two and three dimensions.
This exhibition focuses on a handful of forms and objects that appear and reappear in her work: a torn fragment of a 1958 work titled White Spica, her camera tripod, a hybrid item created from an antique candlestick telephone, flowers, a generic tissue box, or a tiny ceramic cup. By continually returning to these motifs, DeFeo imbues seemingly ordinary objects with a heightened sense of ritualized creative process. Artist Walead Beshty, who authored the essay for the exhibition's illustrated catalogue, explains, "Just as the ritual object accrues meaning incrementally and over time through a repetitive process of investment and stewardship, DeFeo came to favor producing paintings through a process of slow accumulation in lieu of the explosive and loose gestural compositions that were common at the time."
Beshty writes further that DeFeo's object: "would appear in photographs of her home and studio, the images positioned uncomfortably between works of art, studies, and simple documentation, showing the object in its mundane existence, a nod to its modest belonging in the quotidian. Yet the object would also perform as a compositional element in some of these still lifes acting in the service of a picture rather than as its focus, reduced to schematic line and shape by the eye of the camera or the swipe of charcoal. Its image would bounce from surface to surface, material to material, going dormant for a period only to return later."
About Jay DeFeo
Jay DeFeo (1929–1989) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and attended the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her masters of fine arts degree in 1951. With a fellowship from the university, she traveled in Europe and North Africa in 1951 and 1952, creating her first body of mature works there. Returning in 1953, DeFeo became a pivotal figure in San Francisco's historic community of artists, poets and jazz musicians. She began incorporating the dualities of representation and abstraction, organic rhythms and geometric form, refinement and expressionism that became distinguishing traits of her art. DeFeo worked with unorthodox materials to explore the broadest definitions of sculpture, drawing, collage and painting.
In 1958 DeFeo began working on The Rose, a monumental work created over eight years, with so much oil paint that she called it "a marriage between painting and sculpture." In 1959 she had a major solo exhibition at the Dilexi Gallery in San Francisco and her art was included in Dorothy Miller's momentous exhibition Sixteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles mounted her next solo exhibit in 1960.
After completing The Rose, DeFeo began investigating new materials and became deeply involved with photography and mixed media works, pursuing these in the 1970s. Often her subjects were favored domestic oddities, which she transformed into images that, in her words, "transcend the definition of the objects from which they are derived."
In the 1980s, DeFeo returned to oil paint, while still continuing to mix and assemble materials in her work, creating large, glowing canvases and an expansive scope of works on paper. She accepted a teaching position at Mills College, where she became a tenured professor. DeFeo was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 1988, but continued to work prolifically until just before her death on November 11, 1989, at the age of 60.
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All images © 2014 The Jay DeFeo Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
A fully illustrated catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition with an essay written by Walead Beshty titled "The Ritual of Everyday Life: On the Migrating Objects of Jay DeFeo". Beshty will give a walk-through of the exhibition on Saturday, May 3rd at 3 pm.
Jay DeFeo


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(On Cable TV, February 2019) The obvious knock against Shine is that it does, at times, seems like the most Oscar-baiting of all the Oscar-baiting films. While it doesn't qualify for Nazi bonus points, it does feature a down-and-out disabled musical prodigy who, thanks to the love of a good woman, regains his talent and his ability to live normally—and it's based on a true story. It went on to be nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Geoffrey Rush an Oscar for Best Actor. If it seems to you that you've seen quite enough of those movies already, you're not wrong: it's a formula, and even the best-executed formulas can still feel overly similar. Still, this is all understating that Shine is, by most standards, a really good movie. Rush gets a flashy role as a musical prodigy hampered by an overbearing father and his own brain's chemical imbalances—it's not subtle acting, but it's the kind of off-beat grand performance that earns notices. The point being that this is the kind of film that allows actors to take centre stage. The focus on music allows Shine to feature better-than-average editing and scoring, further making it feel substantial. As far as formulas go, it's a successful implementation. There have been far worse Oscar nominees.
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