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The nonprofit organization Department of Sound recently introduced its new youth music and podcast production course, "Summer of Sound 2020." At no cost, students thirteen years of age and older will be able to learn the basics of music composition, live recording, and more. EDM producers and fans alike will be happy to hear that many of the students go on to create electronic music and that a Kaytranada remix is analyzed as part of the coursework. You can listen to the completed beats created by the students here.
Students are able to learn at their own pace, with no deadlines aside from the program's end date on September 22nd, 2020. They will not need to purchase any gear as it can be completed entirely within Soundtrap, an application available on Internet-enabled laptops, tablets, or smartphones.
In addition to the actual music-making education, included is a course on the basics of music business and entrepreneurship. This section of the program highlights some important topics in the industry, like distribution and marketing, and even lifestyle tips like de-stressing with music and hearing loss protection.
Founded in 2019 by John Hamilton and Tyler Garnett, Department of Sound hopes to bring music education to youths who might not have access to expensive equipment or tutors. Through its free workshops, the organization hopes to inspire the next generation of artists and help their hometown of Sacramento become the next big music hub.
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Dags för Design March 2014
Design Nation participates in Design March on Iceland. The event is going on March 27-30 in Reykjavik. Daniel Byström from Design Nation will take part in a seminar focusing on Design for Small Communities – Explore. Reflect. Respond. The seminar will be held on Friday 28 of March at Hannesarholt, Grundarstígur 10, 101 Reykjavík. Read more about it here – http://designmarch.is/program/explore-reflect-respond-designing-for-small-communities-seminar/
Also, Design Nation contributes to the exhibition of Designers & Forests. Daniel Byström is a part of the Designers & Forests team, who visited the State of Utah, USA in 2013 to explore and reflect about the issues in the region. The forests in this region are affected by beetle kill and aspen die-off. In summer 2013, members of Designers and Forests explored and experienced the region, with the intention of finding new ways of looking at the problems of stressed forests. The project linked designers from Sweden, New York, and Iceland with foresters, activists, designers, artisans, and community members in Utah. Design Nation has contributed in facilitating workshops and leading the process, as well as creating design concepts with the aim to find new solutions, bring attention and communicate.
Designers & Forests is an initiative to help revitalize forests and foster healthier communities by taking a holistic view of both natural ecosystems and the design process. Forests provide many benefits and services to society. Climate influences the structure and function of forest ecosystems and plays an essential role in forest health. A changing climate may worsen many of the threats to forests, such as pest outbreaks, fires, human development, and drought. Through an interdisciplinary and creative approach, Designers & Forests aims to share knowledge and engage communities in sustainable forest management and regional development.
Read more about the project here – http://www.designersandforests.us
The exhibition will be open from 27-30 during Design March at Minjasafn Reykjavíkur, Aðalstræti 16, 101 Reykjavík. Read more about it here – http://designmarch.is/program/explore-reflect-respond/
Informal opening event / Pressinfo: March 27 at 6 pm
About Design Nation's contributions to the exhibition:
The lamp: HOLLOW illuminates society's involvement with forests. It is a lamp made from a hollow tree, caused by wood-decay fungus. HOLLOW is an experimental design concept that makes use of practically worthless dead wood. HOLLOW has not only a unique design, but also something important to say. It aims to explore the social and ecological approach to forests, to spread awareness, and to prompt reflection on the place of humanity in the ecosystem.
HOLLOW is an open-source design, made with craft techniques, which can be locally produced. is aspect of social sustainability connects to not only the human yearning for creativity, but to also engage communities in the creation of HOLLOW.
Material: Spruce
Design: Daniel Byström & Kristján Kristjánsson
Contributors: Advisor & supplier Forester Magnus Edmark, Project sponsored by PHILIPS
Thee stool TRIO is inspired by the heritage of Utah, which is historically connected to Scandinavia through the immigrants who settled the region in the nineteenth century. TRIO draws from a simple, yet sophisticated, and sustainable form of craftsmanship. The legs are tapered and octagon shaped. They are fitted with the seat using a traditional technique of wedged joints, which are very strong and durable.
The "three-legged stool" is commonly used as a model to explain sustainability. Sustainability centers on a balance between the three legs – society, economy and environment. TRIO aims to remind us about the intersection of people, planet and profit while also being an attractive, useful, and well-made piece of furniture.
Material: Spruce
Design: Daniel Byström
BLUE STAIN is conceptual flooring made from stored scotch pine that has become discolored from blue stain fungus. Nothing is wrong with the wood apart from the color marks, which can be seen as an asset. The color variation in the wood brings a unique expression, and adds personality and character to the floor. Despite such character, the demand for blue stained wood is very low.
The BLUE STAIN flooring concept aims to showcase the material to the public and encourage its market demand. It should also prompt us to question why we should overlook a material with such aesthetic richness in favor of more uniform and traditional woods.
Material: Scotch pine
Design: Daniel Byström
Contributors: Advisor & supplier Forester Magnus Edmark

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Key questions to ask in finding the perfect stroller or travel system for your family travel needs
I have a confession to make. I own 6 different strollers. And 6 different car seats for that matter, plus two boosters. I'm not ashamed; I used to blush a little but I'm comfortable now with my fleet, with a perfect justification and purpose for each purchase, honest!
It wasn't always this way. We used to be a one-stroller, one-car seat kinda family. When we lived in London. When we had only one bundle of joy to worry about. When these things seemed like the most important, life-defining decision we'd need to make for our child.
We spent hours researching our first purchases. Like all new parents, we wanted the best; we were one of those couples surreptitiously making notes at the park on what other people were pushing.
I think Dads find gadgetry their area of baby preparation responsibility and take it deadly seriously. After all, mums are doing the entire baby baking, swollen ankles, leaky boobs, nausea, head spins, cramping, nesting kinda stuff. Seems fair.
How and why we chose our strollers
There were small heart palpitations when we realised we were about to spend more on our daughter's first chariot than a small used car. We overcame this by explaining to ourselves
"that's ok, we'll get a travel system that can convert from newborn to toddler, then become a double. We'll only need to buy the one then and we'll likely get at least three years use out of it then sell it".Innocent new parents, 2010
How wrong we could be. Within six months we had already purchased a second, collapsible stroller for travel – a Maclaren. Within 18 months we were looking at an upgrade upon discovering the heinous cost (and size) of converting our first love into a double for number 2 – it could not physically fit into the lift in our building without being completely collapsed so here came our first unplanned upgrade.
Then we moved to the Middle East. We may as well of completely scrubbed any previous research criteria and started all over again.
Our needs had completely changed; we hardly ever took walks from the house it was too hot. We were constantly in and out of the car and needed a double that could be flexible to our travel needs. We also needed to leave a stroller at my son's nursery for walks in the garden and naps. Roll on more research.
Then I got pregnant with my third. We had become avid family travellers by this point, there was no way an extra child was going to slow us down, but with lots of walking and exploring, where were we going to put them all? I don't mind babywearing but not for long distances.
Every holiday we have taken a different combination of strollers at the different stages of our children's lives – from doubles to two singles, to car seat and chassis only. I doubt we will need all three in strollers again as our oldest has just turned five.
Key questions to ask when choosing a stroller
Rather than let all these years of research go to waste, here's the lowdown on some of the key criteria that I recommend you look for in selecting a travel stroller:
- Do you regularly travel by car? (Look for something with car seat adaptors)
- Do you have lifts/stairs doorways to contend with? (look at overall dimensions and weight)
- Will you be taking buses or regularly in situations where the stroller needs folding? (Look for easy or one-handed collapse function)
- Will you need to carry shopping too? (look at the size and accessibility of shopping baskets, will it fall over if items hang off the handlebars?)
- Will you be going off-road or only on smooth surfaces (think about tyres – size and pneumatic vs solid)
- Will you regularly be jogging or on rough terrain? (think about three-wheelers)
- Will you be flying regularly? (think about ultra-compact)
- How tall are the regular pushers? (look for adjustable handlebars or umbrella strollers for taller parents)
- Do you need the stroller to last through infancy into toddler year? (look for convertible bassinet style into an upright seat – how tall can they grow, is it adjustable?)
- Do you intend to have more children; if so what age gaps? (Look for convertible options)
- Will you be out in adverse weather (look for rain covers and how well they actually protect baby and bags)
- Do you want an older child to sleep? (check if they can comfortably recline, do sun shades actually cover in a reclined position?)
Extra advice when looking at double strollers:
Read our complete guide to selecting compact Double strollers for travel here
The two basic designs are side-by-side or tandem, where one sits forward of the other.
- Side-by-sides can be troublesome in narrow locations but overall are slightly easier to maneuver than a tandem. (Remember if testing these in a shop, add lots of weight for when there are two older children!)
- Tandems do not collapse easily, almost always coming in several parts which are not easy to deal with when you need to quickly fold, e.g. getting on buses, carts, etc.
- Don't compromise on seat size, if you are purchasing a double for a toddler and infant, make sure the seats are still wide enough and tall enough for the older child to fit, a more robust double jogger stroller may be suitable for your larger kids.
- Check from what age the infant can fit; some side-by-sides will go completely flat and adapt for a bassinet, others they can only sit in from 3 months+ with head support.
- Do the two seats work independently, i.e. if one wants the sunshade over but the other doesn't, or if both children need to nap together do both seats go flat?
Stroller selection tips for avid travellers
- Accept that no matter how much you research, absolutely NO.STROLLER.DOES.IT.ALL. You need to select the one that works best the majority of the time, then for the odd time you need something different like taking a flight, can something be borrowed or an extra stroller purchased second-hand for occasional use?
- Unless you simply love babywearing all the time and never travel too far, accept that if you have more than one child less than three years apart (or even four!) you should invest in a double. If you still love your single, try and store it for those interim years as there will be a day again when you only need a single.
- It is worth paying more for a better brand if you want it to last the distance; good quality stroller brands have good reputations for good reasons.
- Collapsible strollers that fit in an airplane overhead locker like the Mountain Buggy Nano or Yoyo might be great when you have one child or multiple adults; when you have multiple children or travelling solo just remember when it's not being used it's another thing for you to carry as well as the kids and the bags.
See our full product review of the Nano
- I strongly suggest spending the little bit extra for a travel bag / gate check bag to store your stroller; these things can be quite roughly handled by baggage handlers and frequently break, so give them something with a handle to hold it by, even getting items shrink-wrapped and making a handle with tape will do.
- We also photograph our baby equipment before travel so if there is any damage you can prove the condition prior to travel back to the airline).
So what are the "must-haves" on your family stroller(s)? And own up, how many have you owned, or still have?!
(PS- As we're coming into the end of our stroller years, we've now owned 8 different strollers! You can see the comparison of our favourites over the years here)
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Laurie Halse Anderson
in conversation with JACLYN FRIEDMAN
This event includes a book signing
March 13, 2019
(Doors at 5:30)
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge, MA 02138
$19.25 (book included)
Harvard Book Store welcomes LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON, the award-winning, bestselling author of Speak, for a discussion of her new memoir, SHOUT—a searing poetic memoir for the #MeToo era. Anderson will be joined in conversation by writer, performer, and activist JACLYN FRIEDMAN.
Please Note
This event is for mature audiences only. Children under 13 will not be admitted.
About SHOUT
Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. In 1999, her groundbreaking, award-winning novel Speak opened the door for a national dialogue about rape culture and consent. Now, twenty years later, she reveals her personal history as a rape survivor in a searing new poetic memoir, SHOUT.
In free verse, SHOUT Anderson shares reflections, rants, and calls to action woven between deeply personal stories from her life that she's never written about before. Searing and soul-searching, devastating and triumphant, SHOUT is a denouncement of our society's failures and a love letter to all the people with the courage to say #MeToo and #TimesUp, whether aloud, online, or only in their own hearts.
"A captivating, powerful read about clawing your way out of trauma, reclaiming your body, and undoing lifetimes of lessons in order to use your voice as the weapon it is. Fervent and deafening." —Booklist, starred review
"Powerful . . . Alternately raw and lyrical." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"An important book for the #MeToo movement." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Tickets are available online only at harvard.com and harvardbookstore.eventbrite.com. All book-included tickets include a copy of SHOUT. Books bundled with tickets may only be picked up at the venue the night of the event, and cannot be picked up in-store beforehand. All student tickets include a $5 coupon towards the purchase of SHOUT at the event.
Tickets are non-refundable and non-returnable.
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As you exit the station, cross Mass. Ave. and proceed along Brattle St. Follow Brattle St. as it curves to the right in Brattle Square (follow the sidewalk on the right side of the street). The Brattle will be on the left-hand side of the street. The building is shared with Algiers Cafe and Alden & Harlow Restaurant, and the theatre entrance is on the left side of the building—look for the sidewalk poster case and marquee.
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The Slow Apocalypse and Fiction
1 — Descending into the Substrata
The Sonic Acts Geologic Imagination Festival (Amsterdam, February 26 — March 2) as I experienced it was less festival than upbeat funeral march conducted in bright light, set to a soundtrack of experimental music, and festooned with colorful Power Point graphics like ornaments on a post-apocalyptic Christmas tree. According to the pocket guide, a fundamental starting point for the festival "is the thesis that we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. Human activity has irreversibly changed the composition of the atmosphere, the oceans, and even the Earth's crust…humans have become a force on a geological scale." The festival brought together "scientists, philosophers, theorists, artists, and researchers" to talk about ways to rethink "our attachments to the world, our concepts of nature, culture and ecology."
To experience this in person for more than two hours at a time is a sobering experience, since you're entering a place that's trying to stare directly at the supernova known as global warming. You oscillate from finding it worthwhile to wondering if you're inviting depression and anxiety to take up residence in your brain — and for what purpose? To tell people what they already know? Except, in my case participation consisted of the even more useless context of a presentation entitled "AREA X: The Fictive Imagination in the Dusk of the Anthropocene," about what types of fiction are likely to go extinct before we do. This included thoughts about reactionary post-apocalyptic fiction, revisiting the way we write about our fellow animals, and interrogating the inefficiencies of so-called "smart" tech. If you were standing in a hideous post-apocalyptic landscape, would you want me to tell you a story or would you just want me to shut up long enough so you could convert me into edible protein?
If you were standing in a hideous post-apocalyptic landscape, would you want me to tell you a story or would you just want me to shut up long enough so you could convert me into edible protein?
Still, it was hard to be too glum, with my family in attendance as a slideshow of my favorite wilderness places ran on the screen behind me and I muttered on about: deliberately misunderstanding philosophy as a fictive strategy; how even in a Terence Malik film about the New World, the lack of biodiversity in the backdrop is a kind of lie we tell ourselves (it was always this way, except it wasn't); and suggested mash-ups of Girls and The Walking Dead as a way to bring some frisson of the shock of the new. My grandson drew me as a bearded smudge and my audience as cats. Later, back at our daughter's place, he surprised us with the smiling piles of plastic skulls he'd arranged for us, promptly followed by marathon bouts of watching Adventure Time (which seems rather more on-point than I understood then).
In this context perhaps you can forgive me for wondering at times if the festival was in the least bit important or was instead impotent and useless, a death ride at the end of a death ride, all of us having arrived on death planes and going home on death planes, and in between trying to figure out a life based on the certain knowledge of impending doom. I say "wondering" because anyone invested in science, and thus in noncontroversial concepts like gravity and inertia, knows we're all just atoms anyway and forever about to return to atoms.
Yet any qualms I had about what could be accomplished, or at least articulated, dissolved when I explored the Sonic Acts book The Geologic Imagination. This fascinating tome represents an act of radical imagination, an attempt to wrench our thinking out of the same tired old tracks. There's heft to the book, and perhaps the juxtaposition of cutting edge content with solid, sturdy precision in the object reassures as well. Things that matter in the world have weight. Is that too human a reaction in these post-human times? I don't know. I don't care. But I do care about how the book and festival made me directly confront themes and issues that had previously come out organically in my fiction. When that happens, the way forward changes irrevocably.
2 — A Chronicle of Our Science-Fictional Present
Aral Sea
The cover and immediate interior of The Geologic Imagination are dominated by photos of the barren Aral Sea, destroyed by the Soviets and their successors for the sake of cotton crops — an ecosystem snuffed out by a fanatical devotion to ultraorthodox ideologies — and the photographs within are also alive with the ways in which human beings still try to grapple with our own destructiveness and understand the humiliations of our particular moment. Images from abandoned industrial zones in Russia might in another context scan as disaster porn, but here, foregrounded by the idea of viewing life at "Earth magnitude," are oddly melancholy yet redemptive. Visual elements like "Human Nonhuman," mostly blurred photos, require the full festival presentation to appreciate, but then you turn the page and something like Kurt Hentschlager's "Sublime Landscapes 3.0" confronts you. Fifteen pages of texture triptychs from his recent audiovisual installation "Measures" filter nature "through communication channels and media." This focus on environments in juxtaposed layers of strata is interesting even without the audio component and begins to hint at fresh ways of seeing the detail-work that goes into our world.
The essays and interviews in The Geologic Imagination are similarly provocative, smart, and uninclined to engage in melodrama. For example, rather than exist in the realm of the polemic or the abstract, Liam Young and Kate Davies traveled the world charting the path of the components that we use to create smart phones. Young and Davies, interviewed by BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh, run the Unknown Fields Division, a "nomadic design studio" that explores "unreal and forgotten landscapes." That could be double-speak for something insufferable, but it's not. Their account of trekking "back up the global supply chain of consumer electronics" is not just fascinating and necessary but almost revelatory in its devotion to specific detail and understanding the consequences of that detail. (If you're reading this on a smart phone, don't worry — your minor discomfort will end…now.)
Essays like "Poetry and Bookkeeping" by Michael Nelland examine the role of the imagination in science, making by association a link between science and philosophy. The visual representation of a "tree of life" with Mankind at the top — sometimes mistakenly thought to have been endorsed by Charles Darwin — is juxtaposed with a "wheel of life" that shows human beings as just a creature between the common chimpanzee and the Norwegian rat, with no special significance. If the decentralization of humanity's place at the center of the universe begun by Copernicus had found its way to the wheel instead of the tree, would our cultures, our society, our science, look fundamentally different?
Tree of Life
Another essay, Timothy Morton's "Human Thought at Earth Magnitude" surprised me in the giddiness of its tone and shifting emphasis. The most interesting parts involve an argument that ascribes imagination and intent to the decision-making displayed by social insects and other animals. "It's been shown," Morton writes, "that ants, while climbing up little ladders, look around them rather than walk up automatically. They weigh options," which suggests they "anticipate and assess situations," and in other cases "rats experience regret" while "bees build mental maps to find their way home." Morton compares these findings to, for example, an architect's decision-making process, suggesting similarities. In putting forward this evidence, Morton asserts that too many scientists have gone into study of animal behavior already believing they knew the cause and effect: "Scientists are now beginning to figure out something we've known in the humanities and arts for ages and ages. Namely that you are entangled in what you are seeing."
Morton's argument is a way of saying that if you believe this kind of animal behavior is automatic, then what about manifestations of the human imagination? Are they perhaps being influenced by factors other than free will? This is an important thought experiment given how science is beginning to suggest that more of what we do than previously believed is reflexive rather than the result of conscious decision-making. Whether you believe humans have less free will than we previously thought or that animals have more, meeting in the middle brings us closer to accepting that we exist in close proximity to our fellow animals. And although it's possible to think of Morton's approach as substituting one type of human gaze for another, I prefer to believe that his ideas push back against animals' existence only as a reflection of our own making — in spiraling, multi-directional ways that include how animals perceive (in whatever way they perceive) our actions and the often non-logical systems we ourselves impose on animals due to our misunderstanding of them.
Alas, our world contains too many counter examples, on a daily basis, of casual cruelty and thoughtlessness codified as practical or reasonable behavior — or even an "empathy" regarding animals that twists the meaning of the word. Some of these unanalyzed meta-narratives exist at the LOLCats level, like the much-shared "cute" photograph of an otter imprisoned in a cage, with holes in the glass so you can shake hands. Mass media also flattens and simplifies animals into possessors of one human trait — for example, propagating the idea that sharks are dangerous solitary creatures, despite evidence of complex social systems and unique patterns of communication. Adding to the problem, the New Yorker blog reported recently that some dictionaries are being purged of words about the natural world in favor of words about the human-created world. (Acorn being replaced by motherboard is perhaps the saddest trade-off I can think of.)
Some dictionaries are being purged of words about the natural world in favor of words about the human-created world. (Acorn being replaced by motherboard is perhaps the saddest trade-off I can think of.)
Morton, then, challenges us to bring new complexity to bear from a particular angle, and, much as in the essays of John Gray, to question some of our most basic ideas. Given that most traditional systems and institutions created by the human imagination have contributed to ecological devastation and that even with some triumphs by conservationists we've been unable to stop the reduction of total animal biomass by almost 50 percent since 1970…don't we need a new way of seeing?
The concepts in Morton's essay verge on science fiction in terms of extrapolation, and throughout The Geologic Imagination science fiction is heavily referenced, although with an optimism and reverence that may, upon reflection, be unearned. The subject comes up again in Kodwo Eshun's interview entitled "Geologic Time, the Anthropocene and Earthquake Sensitives," in which he discusses the aftermath of the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Eshun says that "our notion of the SF of the present is inspired by the work of J.G. Ballard," in the context of a "speculative fiction theory of the present." Ballard was a genius, and genius doesn't come around that often, but isn't this more or less an admission about contemporary SF? That it has either failed to take up the challenge of grappling with our modern condition or that interesting approaches have failed to register in the popular imagination? (Cyberpunk arguably represents a turning away from these themes.)
Science fiction is explicit, too, in contexts that you might not expect — for example, in the Center for Land Use Interpretation's "Terminal Atomic: Technographic Mounds," which features photographs from the air of underground catacombs built to store nuclear waste, described in the accompanying text as "uncanny monuments." These are rarely seen images for most people, especially from this perspective, and have the appearance of alien outcroppings, of alien beachheads on terrestrial soil. Which of course they are, since we have become alien to ourselves and continue to render natural settings unfamiliar by imposing a context that is uncanny at its core. The true alien quality of these uncanny monuments is that they, for a moment, bring to light all of the uncanny things that surround us daily, rendered invisible to us because we have made them mundane and overly familiar.
In all ways, then, the content, focused in part on "dark ecologies," should bring home to readers those specific facts, experiences, and ideas that might allow us to dream better, to create a world that has less of us in it, and more of something else.
3 — "Hyperobjects," Global Warming, and the Invading Presence
In examining The Geologic Imagination, I haven't brought up one important subject, in part because it requires a fair amount of unpacking. A concept that lurks behind almost everything in The Geologic Imagination is the idea of "hyperobjects," a term that Timothy Morton created and explored in his recent book Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World. Morton's term is a way of using a word as an anchor for something that would be otherwise hard to picture in its entirety. For example, global warming can be considered as a hyperobject. Why? Because per Morton's definition a hyperobject is something viscous (they stick — to your mind, to the environment) and nonlocal (local versions are manifestations or hauntings from afar). Hyperobjects have a unique temporality that renders them invisible to human beings for stretches of time and they exhibit effects through the interrelationship of objects that may not seem to be connected at first.
Even with just this bare context given, I hope it's clear why the term is of use. Because a hyperobject is everywhere and nowhere — cannot really be held in one place by the human brain — reaction to it by the human world is often inefficient or wrong or even directly antithetical to the stated objective. For one thing, we are unable to hold in our minds the necessary number of variables and the connections between those variables; thus immobilized, sometimes also misled by disinformation, we rationalize or compartmentalize. In a sense, the enormity of the situation renders us irrational, could also be said to act as an invading agent or alien presence in our thoughts that destroys the impulse toward necessary autonomous action.
"Carbon Capture," a recent essay by Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker, exemplifies this condition of being contaminated or undermined by a hyperobject. In brief, Franzen suggests that too great a focus on the fight against global warming threatens biodiversity in the short term by making conservation efforts of secondary importance. The essay contains a fair number of flaws, rightly pointed out by the Audubon Society and in David Robert's rebuttal over at Grist. I empathize with the outrage of scientists and naturalists who are doing hard work, in the face of powerful special interests and don't need an ally who discounts their efforts. But Roberts provides a wider context: "Jonathan Franzen is confused about climate change, but then, lots of people are," which drives home the point that hyperobjects deceive us.
Yet, in the spirit of Roberts' call for "better storytelling" about the slow apocalypse, I also have to note that in isolation — extricated from the faulty supporting evidence — some of Franzen's ideas seem reasonable in a certain context. If you don't accept the premise that the Earth's biosphere is now doomed, then I guess Franzen seems a bit deranged, albeit along with a number of climate scientists. But if you do accept the premise, one of the most ethical acts individuals can perform is to try to preserve every last bit of biodiversity for the present moment. In addition, although Franzen may create a false opposition between capping emissions and conserving wildlife and habitats, it seems not unreasonable in the era of Koch & Co. to guard against the possibility of cynical elements creating the appearance of such an either/or for their own short-term material gain. Franzen may also have read Rebecca Solnit's editorial in the New York Times that in certain paragraphs seems to pit conservation against global warming, although that isn't the ultimate message. (If you hate Franzen on principle, your discomfort at my partial defense ends…now.)
If you don't accept the premise that the Earth's biosphere is now doomed, then I guess Franzen seems a bit deranged, albeit along with a number of climate scientists.
It's not as if there aren't odd ideas amongst members of the very core of the conservation movement, either. As Brandon Kein writes about in "Earth is Not a Garden," some environmentalists are capitulating to what amounts to end-stage Capitalism with a bizarre form of corporate sponsorship of gentrified "nature." Further confusion occurs when considering books like Elizabeth Kolbert's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction juxtaposed with articles that seem to refute parts of her text, like "Rethinking Extinction" by Stewart Brand. Meanwhile, the Dark Mountain not-romanticists who advocate a pre-industrial human footprint are probably fuming at Solnit's Harper's essay "The War of the World," which suggests that if we had just kept to pre-World War II technology and population levels, global warming wouldn't be an issue. Is that true? I'm sure most of us hope so. Still others ask "Should We Be Suspicious of the Anthropocene," making assertions that don't match my impressions of the ways scientists and philosophers used the term at the Sonic Acts festival.
To be honest, such conflicting storylines can freeze me and, yes, confuse me. The flurry of points of view also brings to mind an interview in the Geologic Imagination with Dipesh Chakrabarty in which Chakrabarty grapples with the disconnect between "the issue of injustice between human beings" and the issue of "the environment and the collective human footprint." Chakrabarty suggests that neo Marxism, like Humanism before it, has failed to understand that the well-being of the planet, and thus humanity, depends on so much that is not human or connected to human ideology. A global approach that integrates earth systems science and evolutionary thinking with thinking about Capitalism and postcolonial studies is still in its infancy.
Paralysis, then, can occur due to competing or insufficiently interwoven ideological stances. Beyond that, the very real senseless slaughter we impose upon animals and the myriad ways in which we destroy ecosystems without understanding the complexity of what's been lost also creates stasis because it becomes so brutal and visceral that it's unbearable to think about.
Can "hyperobjects" help unfreeze us from all of this? Usually, I feel writers should be wary of pat terms, should interrogate and push back against them. The easier it is to transform a label into a marketing category, the more useless it tends to be. But I find "hyperobjects" interesting in part because I doubt there will ever be a "Hyperobjects" category in the bookstore — and for this reason I think it's worth exploring. This is not true of, for example, terms like "Cli fi" or "Eco-fabulism," which strike me as potentially compromised, even if many who enact the ritual of enshrining these categories seem to think that the Will will follow the name, or that, talismanlike, the enshrining of the word means the war on the War on Ecology will be won. In fact, the terminology as enshrinement usually just shortens the time before the enshrined takes its slotted space on the shelf in the Wal-Mart of Ideas: identified, commodified, ritualized, and digested like a capsule that makes us feel better for a short while but turns out to be a placebo.
A hyperobject so carefully defined, catalogued, stacked, and numbered is either messing with you or not a hyperobject at all, but a human being in a hyperobject costume trying to sell you a term of art.
4 — Why Fiction?
Because of both an explicit and implied complexity, The Geologic Imagination is a humbling affair for a fiction writer to read. It suggests ever more strongly that what you do is irrelevant, perhaps even counter-productive. Even in leafing through the pocket program guide for the festival, the thumbnail panel descriptions — for example, fresh perspectives on both light pollution and noise levels in the human era — suggest fascinating entry points to fictional narratives, few of which I've come across in my reading. It is impossible after this perusal not to conclude that fiction is languishing behind other disciplines in grappling with these issues. Yet, the entire time I'm writing this the hyperobject of global warming looms over me and shines through me and is all places and in all ways is shining out and looming over. How can it not be in the subtext of much of what we write?
Reading The Geologic Imagination, too, certain kinds of escapism or simplifications in near-future fiction begin to seem morally, ethically wrong. This thought, like the trickle and gush of oil from the BP Gulf Oil Spill, infiltrates your head and once an aspect of a hyperobject is in your head, once you are aware of it, even as a black dot at the corner of vision, fast approaching, you cannot get it out. Speck. Dot. Death Star. Well. Tunnel. Tower. The manifestation does not matter.
BP Oil Spill
In theory, the near-future mid- or post-apocalyptic scenario, even in the context of commercial fiction plots (or perhaps especially, as these are efficient and familiar delivery systems), should still allow for extrapolation and exploration of Morton's "Human Thought at Earth Magnitude." But few of these novels really deal with the issue of ecological devastation, using a magician's sleight of hand to make you think you are experiencing one thing when you are actually experiencing something else — i.e., a post-apocalyptic novel rather than nostalgia. There's a headache after or a kind of rush of disconnect, that the world you live in seems substantially less nice than the world you just read about thirty years hence. Ironically, this kind of fiction still becomes agitprop on behalf of the hyperobject, because what we are allowed to forget we only remember more vividly after putting down a Nostalgia Book.
Given our modern predicament, readers may soon reject myths that aggregate as they do in many near-future novels as wistfulness for car commercials, for Starbucks lattes, or for a thousand trifling conveniences. On the other hand — suspended in this slow apocalypse as we are, neither raw nor fully cooked — we may soon not accept these things in novels set in the present-day, either. We may begin to see novels of the mundane and modern that seem like they could be written thirty years ago, give or take a smart phone or two, as symptomatic of a failure. The only form of nostalgia not seen as grotesque may be a yearning for that moment in time before we had set upon a course that would ultimately require radical change to ensure human survival or the survival of the planetary biosphere. Who, sane, ethical, would wish for a time like ours of unrelenting animal carnage, for example? For the dead wreckage of our systems being sold to us as the height of technological evolution?
We may begin to see novels of the mundane and modern that seem like they could be written thirty years ago, give or take a smart phone or two, as symptomatic of a failure.
Another question I ask myself is this one: If sharp, intelligent fiction from the 1960s and 1970s by Ballard, Ursula K. Le Guin, John Brunner, and even T. J. Bass (Godwhale) did not create sustained change then why should we think our fictional efforts now will result in a different effect? I don't have an answer, but perhaps it is because the opportunity remains so open. Only a handful of recent writers, like Margaret Atwood and Kim Stanley Robinson, have made any real impact in this area, in terms of the ideas behind their novels pushing into the public awareness.
A number of what ifs come to mind that seem not to have entered the popular consciousness, but foremost among them is a radical reinvention, at the subatomic level, of how we position animals in our fiction. Animals still exist as inert objects, aspects of setting, in much of our fiction, or exist only in what is projected onto them personality-wise by us. They are in a sense, lost narratives, and lost lives or minds — in a context in which even a simple broach on a bedroom mantel can contain an entire series of stories both in real-life and fiction.
For living creatures to be less animate than the inanimate speaks to lapsed chances for interconnectivity, and a rebuke to the idea that we house a particularly deep imagination. Somehow we need to be humble enough to finally admit to the true complexity of and importance of animal life — not just some anthropomorphic and patronizing sympathy — and in the process continue the necessary step of de-centralizing the human experience within a universe that clearly sees us as simple atoms like everything else.
Portrayals of a thousand, a hundred thousand animals, in prior novels and stories wait like sleeper cells to be activated by new understandings of animal intelligence and behavior, the erosion of our human gaze, our hopeful new awareness of the truth of things and the value of minds not like our own. If that time ever comes, the ghosts of living things will stare back at us from the page, will rise up to destabilize both our fictional and real-life narratives. Because they were always this way despite our fatal lack of recognition.
If that time ever comes, the ghosts of living things will stare back at us from the page, will rise up to destabilize both our fictional and real-life narratives. Because they were always this way despite our fatal lack of recognition.
A true hyperobject for a fiction writer, then, might manifest as both all-encompassing metaphor that helps break through received ways of perceiving the world and also a localized phenomenon at the sentence level — both literal and figurative, here and there. Engaging with the concept could become an important jumping off point for storytellers wishing to engage with the slow apocalypse. This perspective even provides a very different point of view on basic elements of fiction, like how writers should think about their characters — from motivation through to ideas of effect and agency. The major attribute of human beings who come into contact with a hyperobject is ineffectiveness, according to Morton. How do we more effectively convey ineffectiveness?
And if we must talk about categories, is science fiction up to this challenge or is mainstream realism better suited? At this point, with a science-fictional reality impinging on our day-to-day, science fiction doesn't have a lock on prediction or on conveying an experience of the future, which means any fiction writer can find an entry-point. Certain strands of lauded mainstream literary fiction have less of an issue with "loose ends" and tend to generate plot through close observation of characters, an approach that may be more suitable to capturing this moment and this moment, and the next. I think of novels like Submergence by J. M. Ledgard, which contains more science-fictional ideas per page than many actual science-fiction novels — or Wallcreeper by Nell Zink, which does a great job of showing us ecological efforts at the tactical, neighborhood level, along with the attendant human folly. And what does it tell us that the most interesting fictional take on our future in 2014 came in the form of a fiction pretending to be nonfiction, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future? (Although even in that context, the authors have to resort to a random act of luck so that their narrator isn't actually a future ghost rather than a future survivor.)
To extrapolate further, is poetry perhaps even more aligned to what I've been reading in philosophy and science? Perhaps, as suggested by Nelland's "Poetry and Bookkeeping" essay, poetry is also more attuned to the subtlety required to meet the challenge of reflecting, refracting, and projecting — internalizing — the necessary sedimentary layers while still creating art not agitprop or didactic sermon? If ordinary extrapolation by definition is possessed of a very human logic, is it too limiting as a method of exploration? What simplifications are useful and which are harmful? Does dependable old logic get it wrong? Does it conflate the wrong things, put into contact too small a set of variables? Want the wrong things. Empower the wrong things. Place the wrong actors in the wrong context.
I don't know the answers, and, unlike some, I am not ever certain enough or rigid enough or authoritarian enough in my thinking to suggest all writers need to grapple with these issues. I also know that some questions fiction writers ask are always more useful if they remain as questions, without definitive answers. I just believe that the questions should be asked more often and that, despite my own failings, I have irrevocably turned toward this particular examination of the geologic imagination.
Many thanks to Matthew Cheney, Eleanor Gold, Ramez Naam, G. Eric Schaller, Cat Sparks, and Ann VanderMeer for conversations and emails about these topics, which helped clarify elements of this essay in rough draft form. Many thanks as well for insightful edits by Lincoln Michel and Halimah Marcus. Any mistakes, however, are my own. Much of this text is also part of a book in progress.


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I just wanted to share this hilarious "Batman and Robin" Parody Art I came across lately. I'm not sure when this book came out but it has been out awhile. This was on the cover of an IDW Comic Book titled, "Infestation Team-Up" and they took that book's main characters, Bat Boy and Archibald by Bill Morrison. He posed them just like the ultra-classic artwork of Carmine Infantino, as seen down below.
The cool thing, besides the humor being so funny, is that this tribute was done while Mr. Infantino was still alive and he really deserved it, even more than ever. Yes, we miss him deeply, R.I.P. Good Sir.


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From Abracadabra to Zombies
reader comments: falun gong
26 Oct 2007
This feedback is out of concern for the Falun Gong section of the online Skeptics Dictionary.
You state that, "He also claims to have some 100 million followers worldwide."
Actually this number of 100 million comes from a Chinese government survey that was published in 1998. Falun Gong had been spreading since 1992 in China and was quite popular, so the government completed a survey which showed that 70 to 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong.
Secondly, Falun Gong mainly teaches moral principals, encouraging one to be a good person. It is basically a self-improvement practice. People from all walks practice it. I know Falun Gong practitioners who are successful businessmen, medical doctors, lawyers, engineers, and even professors and researchers in various Universities throughout North America. I even know of some who are eminent cancer researchers in respected Universities and another one who worked as a astronomer for NASA. I myself am a geophysicists, though I only have a bachelor's degree.
I point this out to emphasis that I think Falun Gong is absolutely not "anti-science, anti-medical establishment, and anti-materialism" as your website says. Furthermore, the practice emphasizes morality. As I understand it, part of being a good person is working at a job, doing it well and thereby fulfilling a part of your role in society. This is certainly different from what is on your page "members may not be very useful to society..."
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice. Although you have a section on your website dealing with Christian ultra-fundamentalism, you don't have one dealing with normal Christianity and you don't have one dealing with normal Judaism. Doesn't the Bible have much content that on the surface is very "anti-science, anti-medical establishment, and anti-materialism"?
When I read the Bible, if I don't believe in something there I just regarded it as something like a fairy tale and I imagine you do to. Since it too mainly talks about being a good person, why can't you do the same with the unbelievable parts of Falun Gong? The vast majority of people who practice do so to become better people, that is all.
There is 100 million Falun Gong practitioners in China and for 8 years they have been brutally persecuted. There has even been allegations of live organ harvesting that have been verified by several independent reports (http://organharvestinvestigation.net/).
Yet the whole time this large group of people have only ever resisted the persecution peacefully. I think they deserve commendation.
Yours is a skeptic's website after all and I think it can definitely provide a good service to society. You already have a section on ch'i kung, shouldn't that be enough? Do you really need to have a separate page critical of a specific group of people (who are just trying to improve themselves morally). These people are also right now undergoing a huge, vicious tribulation in China. Why not speak out for them instead? You have a section on Holocaust denial, where you talked about the viciousness of that persecution.
Please consider this email and feel free to email me back with any concerns.
Thank you,
Also please take 2 min and read the forward of this publication, Compassion Magazine. The foreword is written by a non-practitioner Arthur Waldron, Lauder Professor of International Relations, University
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reply: Organ harvesting of Falun Gong members? That's a charge that should be investigated by the police. I'm not the police.


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Not only is the Netitude MD a Formula 1 fan, but this fast-growing IT services company uses the same type of technology that monitors the stability of Frome's Jenson Button's F1 race car to constantly check on their clients' computer performance.
"24-hour diagnostic monitoring of every device is now the norm for Netitude's managed services customers" says MD Adam Harling, "because their businesses have to operate at all times and in all situations. Our technology means we have the advanced warning to deal with issues before they become a business disaster".
The critical importance of Netitude's cutting-edge technology was highlighted very recently: In the early hours of a Saturday morning an unusual fault occurred at a local professional services firm. Netitude's on-call engineer was alerted immediately and remotely diagnosed the probable cause.
"All Netitude technical staff are fully briefed on the nature of our customers' business" says Technical Manager Nathan Charles, "so we knew that if we could not fix this then forty professionals would have no work to do come Monday morning."
Because Netitude had installed a fully resilient system, the solution could be automatically initiated and the backup servers were online and fully available within minutes. Since the backup system had taken over full duties, the faulty machine could then be repaired without any business downtime.
"Nowadays, we always configure computer networks with disaster resilience in mind" said Nathan, "our customers' business has to continue, whether there is a fire, flood, virus or a rare hardware failure." The greatest satisfaction for Nathan came when a senior manager praised the Netitude performance with the ironic words "Well, nothing was lost and the staff didn't even notice!"
This highlights the fact that instances can arise at any time, and businesses that do not have disaster resilience or backup plans in place can experience equipment failure without warning. By comparison a local firm, who were not a client of Netitude at that time, recently suffered two weeks of lost productivity and a data recovery bill of several thousand pounds due to hardware failure and a lack of backup disaster recovery solution in place. Netitude were able to assist with the data retrieval and got the business back in operation within the minimum time possible. Needless to say they are now using Netitude to reconfigure and manage their IT services.
Netitude Ltd was founded in 2001 and in the past twelve months has doubled in size, now with a team of 15, and has become one of the region's leading IT services companies. Having helped its customers succeed through waves of internet business usage, Netitude is now providing a wide range of mobile and cloud applications for workforces with increasingly flexible time and location requirements.
MD Adam Harling says that he puts their rapid growth down to "Listening to our customers, appreciating their comments and always striving to improve our services by implementing better processes and developing excellent people."
As the UK economy steadily brightens, Adam Harling and his team expect more and more companies to move from 'Break & Fix repair shops' to the resilient services that Netitude provides. "At the end of the day" he says "it's all about ensuring the computer systems we manage for our customers are 100% available, productive and secure for their business."
Remarkably Netitude has also become a recognised name in outdoor event Wi-Fi, particularly in technically difficult locations. Whether it's connecting Stephen Fry to his seven million twitter fans at the Hay Festival, transmitting Jamie Oliver's new recipes from his Feastival event or handling a whole variety of events at The Bath & West Showground, thousands of event visitors are able to communicate to the world via Netitude Wi-Fi.
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I just launched a new Skillshare course on Drawing the Eye from start to finish. This class is for all drawing levels. Class link: https://skl.sh/3rb7R1x It's a one hour course on drawing the eye from the very beginning, and in … Continued


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Mark A Dykstra, Noah J Switzer, Caroline E Sheppard, Kevin A Whitlock, Richdeep S Gill, Xinzhe Shi, Daniel Birch, Shahzeer Karmali. Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta; Center for the Advancement of Minimally Invasive Surgery (CAMIS), Royal Alexandria Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta; Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta..
Background and Objectives
The laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) is growing increasingly popular as a first line bariatric procedure due to its ability to both restrict oral intake and modulate gut hormone regulation. The most significant challenge for surgeons associated with LSG is postoperative hemorrhage and gastric staple line leakage. To mitigate the risk of these complications, bariatric surgeons have promoted numerous preventative techniques. These techniques include over-sewing the staple line, adding buttress material and, most recently, adding additional staples lines. Our objective was to assess and compare two of these techniques: staple line reinforcement via the Duet tissue buttress reinforcement stapler system and the Covidien TriStaple design. We performed a qualitative institutional review of complications in postoperative LSG patients.
We performed a retrospective review of 213 consecutive patients that underwent LSG at a single institution between January 2008 and October 2012. There were 97 operations completed with Duet staple line buttress reinforcement, and 116 operations that used the Covidien TriStaple system. Our primary outcomes were staple line bleed or leakage. Secondary outcomes included wound infection, hematoma, upper GI bleeds, cardiopulmonary complications, and operative time.
Both patient cohorts had similar baseline demographics. The mean patient age was 44.4 (+/-9.2) and 44.3 (+/-9.5) years (p=0.938), and preoperative BMI was 44.9 (+/-9.3) and 44.3 (+/-6.9) kg/m2 (p=0.78) for the tri-staple and buttress group respectively. Our primary outcome of gastric leak was not met in either group, and the rate of gastric bleeding was not significantly different between the TriStaple and buttress group (0 vs. 1; p=1.00). We found no significant difference between the TriStaple and buttress groups in regards to wound infection (1 vs. 4; p=0.379), hematoma (1 vs. 0; p=0.455), upper GI bleeds (0 vs. 1; p=1.00), or cardiopulmonary complications (0 vs. 1; p=1.00). Interestingly, we found that the OR time was significantly shorter in the TriStaple group (80 +/-22 min) than in the buttress group (96 +/-25 min) (p<0.001).
Both the TriStaple and the Duet Tissue Buttress system are safe and efficacious options for managing the staple line in a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, as both show low rates of postoperative complication. We found no significant differences in gastric bleeds or leaks between the two systems. Due to the low incidence of these complications, further studies with larger patient populations and randomization are needed to detect differences between the two systems.


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"Friends at home didn't have a brother or sister with cancer, we did. And everybody here did."45
"This place is flat-out special."
"Camp is a serious life-line for me."
"You can do anything you put your mind to."
Live with. Live Beyond.
Live with. Live beyond.
"This is a place where you learn to wear what you have as a badge of honor."
~ Sophia, age 16, Teen Heads Up Conference
Camp programs are organized by age group. We are an all-abilities, cost-free camp. And we are a leader in offering programs specifically for teens and young adults who've experienced brain cancers.
"Giving back to Camp Mak-A-Dream in my son's memory was more than I could imagine."
~ Dawn, parent of camper
Dawn lost her son Brent to cancer, and chose to volunteer for a week as a way to honor him. "It gave me a glimpse of what he experienced over the three years he attended Camp. I am forever thankful." Learn more about the many ways you can support Camp experiences.
"It can be life-changing for campers — medicine for the part of the body that doctors can't fix."
~ Rhys, Teen Cabin Volunteer
Camp is medically supervised and among a very few camps nationwide that takes participants who are in treatment. We are fortunate to have skilled physicians and nurses who volunteer their time for our various camps. Learn more about these and other volunteer needs.
130 miles on a bike in one day? That's nothing.
Each June, Camp Mak-A-Dream holds RATPOD, a 130-mile bike ride around and through the Pioneer Mountains. And each year it raises several hundred thousand dollars for camp. When we ask riders why they do it, they say compared to cancer their effort on a bike is nothing. Well, it means everything to us. Learn more about RATPOD and other fundraising events this year.
Everyone here is just like me.
From hiking the butte to fireside chats, see the difference Camp makes. This is a place, in Montana, where dreams come true. A place where connections like none other are made — without boundaries, without stigmas, without judgment. Because cancer is cancer, no matter what fancy name its diagnosis goes by.
Learn more about Camp Mak-A-Dream and see the individuals who steal the show, rightly so.
The People of Camp
The people of Camp Mak-A-Dream are what make this camp so distinctive. Read and hear some of their stories and thoughts on Camp.
"I thought I was going to die, but I didn't ... I made it up to the top and it was so rewarding to be able to say, I climbed this mountain."52
"I've actually found people with the same diagnosis as me ... it's really good to be around people like me."61


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My father became seriously ill, and I was notified that he was very, very sick, so I asked for a request to transfer to his camp [in Jerome]. By that time I had had a little baby girl, my first child born in Manzanar. I went with my daughter to see him and to be transferred. They would not allow my husband to go [with me] at that time because they [the War Relocation Authority administration] said [to him], "He's not your father. It's her father." So we got split at that time and that was a very bad thing that happened in our lives. The day I reached Arkansas, the camp, my father was just being pulled away in an ambulance to go to the [camp] hospital so he got a glimpse of my daughter and that was the first and only time he saw her because he died ten days later, on Christmas morning in camp. It was a pretty bad time for us.
Date: August 26, 1998
Location: Virginia, US
Interviewer: Darcie Iki, Mitchell Maki
Contributed by: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum


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We're not the only ones who fell in love with Dame Harriet Walter when she played "Queen Elizabeth" in Mary Stuart on Broadway in 2009. American actor and fellow cast mate Guy Paul literally fell in love with her - and she with him - and they married on Saturday in Minneapolis according to The Telegraph. Congrats Dame Harriet and Guy!
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Children's views of their teacher's role in helping them learn mathematics
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Taylor, M., Hawera, N., & Young-Loveridge, J. (2005). Children's views of their teacher's role in helping them learn mathematics. In Proceedings of MERGA 28 - 2005 the Annual Conference: Building Connections: Research, Theory and Practice, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia; 7-9 July 2005 (pp. 728-734).
Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8102
This paper reports on data from 183 nine-to eleven-year old children attending six Waikato schools. An analysis is provided of children's responses to a question about their teacher's role in helping them learn mathematics. Four major roles were identified, including mentor, classroom manager, transmitter of information, and arbiter of decisions. The implications for students' mathematics learning of viewing their teacher in each of these roles are then discussed. The importance for teachers of recognising the ways they are perceived by their students is also considered.
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Inc.
© 2005 the authors.
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Xellia To Invest $25 Million to Expand Sterile Drug Product Manufacturing
Xellia Pharmaceuticals, a Copenhagen, Denmark-headquartered specialty pharmaceutical company focused on anti-infective treatments, has broken ground on a new $25-million facility for sterile manufacturing at its Copenhagen site, which is the location of the company's headquarters and the company's largest product manufacturing plant.
The company began construction of a new 1,000-square meter multi-story building for sterile manufacturing earlier this month.
Xellia's Copenhagen site is responsible for manufacturing, stability testing, and packaging of both sterile active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and the finished-dosage forms for anti-infectives such as vancomycin, and colistmethate sodium.
In addition, over the past 15 months, the company has expanded several of its sites. In the US, the company has been expanding production capacity for sterile injectable products. In addition to Xellia's Raleigh, North Carolina site, a new production facility in Cleveland, Ohio received notification from the US Food and Drug Administration in November 2016 to allow packaging and distribution of drug products at the site. Full manufacturing of products is anticipated during 2018.
In August 2017, the company also completed the expansion of a new $13-million, 3,000-square-meter, multi-story Centralized Laboratory Services building at Xellia's Budapest, Hungary, manufacturing site. The expanded building, located next to Xellia's current API manufacturing plant, gives the company additional product-stability and release-testing expertise and capabilities.
The company also expanded it R&D team with more than 15 new scientists and approximately 1,000 square-meters of new lab space at its Center of Excellence in Zagreb, Croatia in September 2016. The Xellia Zagreb site, now has approximately 100 highly skilled employees, who are working to improve the efficacy, safety and delivery of existing anti-infectives, reduce toxic side effects, and develop drug-device combination antimicrobial therapies.
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I'm attempting to write a native iPhone app to transmit a file via an existing SOAP webservice.
The file webservice takes a Base64Binary type as the parameter in which the file is transmitted, but I can't find what I need in order to:
>load a local file (.doc or .pdf) into binary
> convert to Base64Binary
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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French Dude by Vape Breakfast Classics 60ml
French Dude ejuice by Vape Breakfast Classics is the flavor of thick slices of French Toast, a drizzle of maple syrup, with a handful of fresh blueberries and topped with whipped cream. The breakfast favorite of eggy bread with sweet toppings, makes for a well-balanced treat. Vape Breakfast Classics French Dude ejuice provides delicious French Toast covered in maple syrup with blueberries and cream on the exhale. Each flavor note is captured perfectly for your next all day vape!
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Why Emo Music Meant So Much To This Generation In Our Younger Years
At 15, I was a generally optimistic kid living in a perfectly benign suburb of New Jersey. I had friends and family and interests and ideas about a future that still felt safely far away; a compromise-free life I was still sure was utterly, all-inclusively attainable.
There wasn't much to complain about, which I was, surprisingly, honest with myself about at the time.
Still, for reasons I've never examined until recently, that self-awareness didn't stop me from blasting Taking Back Sunday and Motion City Soundtrack while I got ready for school every morning.
I'd go to emo shows every chance I got, grasping instinctively to the music and the dynamic, romantic struggle it seemed to stand for.
I struck a bizarre balance between identifying with the now cringe-inducing Abercrombie outfits I so proudly wore throughout high school and this nagging, sort of intoxicating feeling about how much life I had left to live and how much I still had to understand.
Though it often caused eye rolls from my well-intentioned mother, emo music represented a world I hadn't yet touched, one that welcomed me with open arms, nonetheless.
That lack of pretense and sense of inclusion is what makes this music so important to the people who love it.
These bands sang and screamed and pleaded about things the average teenager knows absolutely nothing about: raw, complicated love; transitions from one stage in life to the next; confusion and regret; an underlying, hope-driven desire to carry on, despite the circumstances.
Fifteen-year-old me wasn't oblivious enough to think she related directly to the music's subject matter, but she did authentically gravitate toward its essence: Never give up -- not on yourself, on your important relationships or on your principles. Things are weird and hard and, sometimes, unfair, but they're also gorgeous and rewarding and worth stopping to appreciate.
Emo music unapologetically encompassed all of what life seemed to be like on the other side of adolescence. It produced a sort of envy in me as a teenager, a fierce desire to be instantly older, more experienced and more challenged, so as to be more interesting and worthy of telling my story.
For so many of us, this music added an element of depth to what are naturally very bewildering years; it complemented our growing tendency to reflect on ourselves and our surroundings and on "what it all means," even if, parallel to those internal musings, we still chatted cheerfully on AIM about homecoming and weekend plans and the latest episode of "Gilmore Girls."
Now, more than 10 years later, I no longer frequent Bamboozle and Warped Tour or make CD mixes featuring Jack's Mannequin and Motion City Soundtrack.
Still, whenever that music pops into my life, whether it's in a movie, on a random playlist, or a drunken mention among those of my college friends who also half-heartedly describe their teenage selves as "emo kids," I am suddenly and seamlessly 15 again.
I am that curious, restless girl, desperate to burst out of her comfort zone and feel the kind of passion she so naïvely but earnestly nodded along to on a daily basis.
I think many 20-somethings adopted their own versions of this half-assed angst, and many of us would probably feature emo music in some form on the soundtracks to our unique coming-of-age stories.
Though many of these emo pop bands have continued to enjoy steady success in the years that followed our high school careers, in the minds of many current and former fans, their music from the early 2000s exists only there.
It's suspended somehow in our formative years; it's property, in some sentimental way, of our former selves.
No matter how long it's been, we hear Dashboard Confessional's "Hands Down," for example, and immediately, we remember how sweet and overwhelming first loves, independence and life, in general, seemed.
We grew up; we felt most of those things; we started navigating the confusion and exhilaration about which these artists spoke.
We began to understand. But, still, this music transports us back to a time when everything was new and delicate; ongoing processes of discovering ourselves while also creating ourselves was just starting.
It's nostalgia in its most genuine form; it's a silent conversation between you and your teenage self, a sort of private smirk and a thought that yeah, (s)he'd probably be pretty proud of you. Or, maybe it's a gentle reminder to stop giving so much of a sh*t; (s)he would have wanted it that way.
That's what happens when Millennials listen to this music. We listen to ourselves and to each other in a way that forces us to pay attention.
So, being in a room with several hundred of my peers doing just that at Emo Night LA was, frankly, magical.
What started out in a small dive bar transformed, and continues to transform, into a bonafide event; a nostalgic escape; a chance to reconnect with the music that, whether we realized it at the time or not, contributed greatly to our development as sensitive, determined, creative humans.
Emo Night is the brainchild of coworkers Barbara Szabo, TJ Petracca and Morgan Freed. It was born, like many great ideas, from a late-night karaoke sesh. The three share a love for emo music and decided last summer that other people in LA probably do, too. They were right.
The reception has been more than they could have hoped for; the once-monthly Emo Night LA, also known as Taking Back Tuesday, draws hundreds of people, all of them excited to party like it's 2005 and more than happy to patiently wait in round-the-block lines, regardless of weather, to get in.
Each event, which happens one Tuesday night a month, features guest DJs, video messages from supportive band members and, of course, consistently crowd-exhilarating sets of the infatuating emo music of our youth.
When I decided to check it out, I was more than half-expecting gaggles of 16-year-olds to make up most of the audience, but that was a selfish assumption. After all, I am far from the only 20-something who was influenced by this music as a teenager.
Not a tween in sight, the venue turned out to packed with giddy, beer-spilling 20-somethings, all of us jumping, singing along and remembering why we loved this music so damn much in the first place; others questioning why we ever stopped listening to it at all.
The united energy of a giant group of strangers belting Panic! At The Disco sort of forces you out of your head and into the moment; there's nothing to stress about, no judgments to pass and no expectations to meet.
Consistently-packed venues and the regular participation of in-demand musicians speaks to just how enthusiastic our generation remains about emo music.
A portion of money from each show is donated to a charity selected by that night's surprise guest; Mark from Blink 182, for example, requested the money be sent to SPCA LA when he stopped by to DJ.
The founders' hope for Emo Night LA is that down the line, as its popularity and resources grow, they'll be in a position to expand charity efforts.
Unlike a lot of other genres, I don't think the artistic objective of emo music has ever been to provide a sense of clarity, resolution, decisiveness, or even distraction. Instead, it gives listeners permission to indulge in their confusion; to embrace their obstacles; to live passionately and bravely, despite their ever-present doubts.
Experiencing Emo Night LA reminded me of the purpose that brand of nostalgia serves; it doesn't have to exist just when a certain song comes on, or when you're home for the holidays and snort-laugh at how ridiculous you were for doodling dramatic, despair-laden Brand New lyrics directly next to an entry in your high school journal about how much fun you had recently at the movies.
It should -- if we're really honest with ourselves, it likely does -- exist on a deeper, more fluid level.
Whether it comforted us during truly difficult, painful years, or simply fostered a sort of faux angst often rooted in boredom, which, ultimately, taught us how to feel and dream freely and deeply, emo music, for many Millennials, had a notable impact on our still-unfolding journeys.
Much like our future selves will, inevitably, be the result of our present attitudes and experiences, it can be worth reflecting, too, on the fact that we are who we are today -- in all our independent, disorganized, adventure-seeking glory -- because of what we, at 15 years old, believed in, wondered about and, yes, listened to.


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Rough weather. Two of our destroyers turn back & leave us with 4. They are sturdily built & weather the rough stormy weather marvellously. The lookout man has an unenviable job for tis raining & misty.
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Bundling CSS in a custom HTML plug-in
You can create a DITA-OT plug-in that provides a custom stylesheet with the typography and colors that define your corporate identity. Coworkers can install this plug-in to ensure consistent HTML output across projects without having to copy the stylesheet to each project.
About this task
This scenario walks through the process of creating a very simple plug-in
com.example.html5-custom-css) that creates a new transformation type:
The html5-custom-css transformation includes a custom CSS file and sets four parameters to integrate the custom stylesheet in the generated HTML5 output. These parameter settings make the following changes:
Specify the css subfolder of the plug-in as the source directory for custom CSS with args.cssroot.
Specify the name of the custom CSS file with args.css.
The value of this parameter tells DITA-OT to use the custom.css file provided by the plug-in.
Ensure that the CSS file is copied to the output directory by setting args.copycss to yes.
Set the destination path for CSS files in the output folder with args.csspath.
CSS files are copied to the root level of the output folder by default. Setting this parameter places CSS files in a dedicated css subfolder.
All four parameters are set in the Ant script (build_html5-custom-css.xml).
- In the plugins directory, create a directory named com.example.html5-custom-css.
In the new com.example.html5-custom-css directory, create a plug-in configuration file
(plugin.xml) that declares the new html5-custom-css transformation and
its dependencies.
Note: This plug-in will extend the default HTML5 transformation, so the
<require>element explicitly defines org.dita.html5 as a dependency.
- In the com.example.html5-custom-css directory, create a subdirectory named css.
In the new css subdirectory, create a file named custom.css with
your custom CSS rules.
Tip: When you first create the plug-in, you may want to include a rule in your custom stylesheet that makes it readily apparent when the custom styles are applied (the example above will change body text to "red"). Once you have verified that the plug-in works as intended, replace the placeholder rule with your own custom styles.
In the com.example.html5-custom-css root directory, add an Ant script
(build_html5-custom-css.xml) to define the transformation type.
The plug-in directory has the following layout and files:
├── build_html5-custom-css.xml
├── css
│ └── custom.css
└── plugin.xml
What to do next
Use the dita install subcommand to install the plug-in.Note: For more information, see Installing plug-ins.
- Build output with the new transformation type to verify that the plug-in works as intended.
dita --input=my.ditamap --format=html5-custom-css
- Refine the styles in your custom.css file as necessary.


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Maarten Baptist
Everything about
Maarten Baptist
A design that challanges youEspecially surprising is the way in which designer Maarten Baptist (1976) fulfils his desire to discover new shapes. By playing with expectations, he challenges you to change your view on the environment and products. By using, for example, unexpected form, functionality or production methods, new shapes emerge that are both commonplace and familiar.
Cutlery designMartin has a great affinity for the food and hospitality industry. This is why he chose cutlery for his final project for the Man & Living course at Design Academy Eindhoven. This design, called Open Air, immediately received wide recognition. Among others, it was recognised by Professor Gijs Bakker and Director Li Edelkoort from the Design Academy. Today, Maarten Baptist can boast an extensive collection of wonderful products for the table. His work is characterized by organic shapes and an elegant novel approach to everyday objects.
A sense of wonderAfraid to become jaded, Baptist decided not to set up an independent studio. Instead, he founded the JOINE Office for Design alliance. In this way, he remains challenged, is able to stretch the limits of its capabilities and is able collaborate with people from other disciplines. This keeps a sense of wonder of everyday things alive. Changes do not need to be great and compelling in order to achieve a functional effect. His designs regularly feature small imperfections, making them different, but at the same time elegant and familiar.
Clear visionMaarten Baptist has a clear vision, which he communicates through his products - from tableware, kitchenware to furniture - interior designs, and exhibitions . Especially when it comes to food, he aims to challenge professionals such as chefs and cooking enthusiasts. His products have to strengthen the experience of cooking rather than focus on taste alone. He communicates a message with his furniture as well. The Single Sofa couch and Teardrop table provide a solution for uncomfortable TV watching and awkward table dimensions. Finally, theGoods Wave glass plays with the common ´perfect´ shape of our glasses. Apart from their quirky and playful effect, the waves of the Wave glasses also have a function. Thanks to their symmetrical shapes, these glasses can be stacked on top on each other!
International workIn addition to his work for the label JOINE, Baptist designed the interior of the Time Out bar in Moscow, and curated the exhibition "No Windmills, cows or tulips". His Single Sofa was awarded the Red Dot Award in 2010. His work can also be admired in several permanent collections, such as in the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the Cooper Hewitt in New York. Finally, he is a welcomed guest at events such as the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, ICFF New York, 100% Design Tokyo, etc.


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- Collection of contamination free samples from monitoring wells or groundwater pumps
Disposable Bailers provide a simple and effective solution for the collection of contamination free samples from monitoring wells. The easy to use design features a 'top empty' solution for high quality control when taking samples and each bailer is individually cleaned and sealed to provide sample integrity.
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The Most Frigid City on Earth from a series by Steeve Iuncker.
John Mooalem on Crazy Ants in the NY Times.
Excited to try out Coin Age, a micro board game.
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