text:
Eating low-fat, thanks to lupin proteins
Eating low-fat, thanks to lupin proteins
Plant-based food ingredients can be expected to play a particularly important role as a substitute for raw materials derived from animals, researchers say.
In emerging countries such as China or Brazil, meat consumption is rising dramatically. Indeed, worldwide consumption of red meat has quadrupled since 1961. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expects increasing prosperity to lead to a doubling of global meat production by the year 2050.
The question is whether our planet, with its limited farmland resources, will still be able to meet all of our needs into the future. Possible solutions for the brewing dilemma are familiar to Dr.-Ing. Peter Eisner of the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV in Freising, Germany.
It takes a lot of land to produce meat. "Producing a kilogram of meat consumes between seven and 16 kilograms of grain or soybeans as animal feed," Eisner reports. "As a result, in the US around 80% of grain is fed to livestock."
Source of energy
Compared to meat production, the cultivation of plants as a food source is considerably less land-intensive. It takes 40 square meters to produce a kilogram of meat, yet that same space could produce 120 kilograms of carrots or 80 kilograms of apples instead.
As the researcher points out: "Plants are a source of high-quality foodstuffs, but they can also provide raw materials for technological applications – and are a source of energy."
He demonstrates this in the case of sunflower seeds: up until now, they were used for oil production, their residues serving as low-grade livestock feed. As a result, a 2 ½ -acre parcel of land could be expected to yield around 950 euros. If all of the components were processed and converted to high-quality raw materials for the food, cosmetics and fuel industry, that same parcel would generate some 1770 euros in income.
Plant-based food ingredients can be expected to play a particularly important role as a substitute for raw materials derived from animals. Eisner presented a "milk substitute" made from lupin proteins and suitable as a basis for foods such as ice cream or cheese.
It contains no lactose, has a neutral flavour, is cholesterol-free and rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Lupin seeds are also the basic ingredient in a new vegetable protein isolate with fat-like properties that has been developed by IVV researcher Daniela Sussmann. A special production method applied to the lupin seed yields a highly viscous protein suspension with a very creamy consistency.
"The microscopic structure of this product resembles that of the fat particles in sausage meat. So you can use it to produce low-fat sausage products that taste just as good as the original," the researcher added.
More sustainable
In sensory tests she investigated whether adding lupin protein could improve the juicy and creamy impression of a low-fat sausage recipe. With success: "By adding 10% protein isolate, we were able to markedly improve the fat-like impression of low-fat liverwurst."
Since sausage products are among the foods with the highest levels of fat, this would certainly be a step in the right direction.
On average, a German eats 31 kilograms of sausage products each year. The result: An overweight population and cardiovascular disease.
If some of the fat could be replaced with proteins derived from plants, every one would benefit: the consumer by eating less fat, the farmer through higher in come, and the environment because plants can be produced more sustainably than meat.
Leave a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 (15-ounce) container whole milk ricotta cheese
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 lemon, zested
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1 lemon, zested
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
In the large bowl combine the butter and the sugar. Using an electric mixer beat the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating until incorporated. Add the ricotta cheese, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Beat to combine. Stir in the dry ingredients.
Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. Spoon the dough (about 2 tablespoons for each cookie) onto the baking sheets. Bake for 15 minutes, until slightly golden at the edges. Remove from the oven and let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for 20 minutes.
Combine the powdered sugar, lemon juice, and lemon zest in a small bowl and stir until smooth. Spoon about 1/2-teaspoon onto each cookie and use the back of the spoon to gently spread. Let the glaze harden for about 2 hours. Pack the cookies into a decorative container.
Makes 44 Cookies (1 Cookie Per Serving)
Nutritional Info Per Serving: Calories 113, Total Fat 3.5 g, Protein 2 g, Carbs 22 g, Sodium 76 mg, Fiber 0 g


text:
How to stop client complaints about finances before they start; a look at how cat owners really feel about veterinary visits; a case study on managing a 9-month-old kitten with FIP; plus video, photos, quizzes and more.
The editors of dvm360.com have announced that the special 28th digital issue is now available for download inside the dvm360 iPad app. The first and only veterinary digital publication designed specifically for the iPad, the dvm360 app offers you everything you need to succeed in veterinary practice right on your iPad. News. Medicine. Business. Team training—all from the veterinary profession's most respected and trusted brands—dvm360.com, dvm360 magazine, Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Economics, Firstline, and CVC.
Download the app on your iPad now (or search for "dvm360" in the App Store)!
A look inside issue 28
Here's a sneak peek at the content available in the 28th issue:
In every issue
Like the award-winning site, the dvm360 app offers veterinarians and team members everything they need to deliver exceptional patient care and excellent client service every day. Each monthly issue of this free veterinary app offers cutting-edge, integrated content designed specifically for the iPad with rich interactive and multimedia elements, such as:
Download the free dvm360 iPad app today!
Want to be a beta tester?
If you work in the veterinary field and would like to help us improve the dvm360 iPad app, submit a request to join the iPad app beta testing group.


text:
ART 8000 Thesis Research: Printmaking
After passing to thesis and selecting a thesis topic, graduate students enroll in ART 8000 Thesis Research: Printmaking with the chair of the thesis committee. Students are expected to write an articulate proposal outlining creative, formal, and research goals for the thesis year. Their work culminates in a written thesis and a professionally mounted solo exhibition.


text:
What Cross-Cultural Workers Ought to Know about Saying Goodbye
Ronald Koteskey
download as a pdf | download as a doc
One cross-cultural worker said, "I am tired of making friendships and then moving all over; to me it is not worth the effort. On furlough I know I know I am leaving, so why try?"
Another said, "I don't know how to deal with the changes that surround the arrival and departure of staff members on the field. Especially with short-termers coming and going, it seems like we are always expanding and contracting to include so many different people on our team…. How do we love deeply yet hold lightly?"
Still another said, "I find it hard to have to say goodbye all the time. People I become friends with leave our part of the field, and I have to stay behind. How do I cope with that other than to quit building relationships?"
When you became a cross-cultural worker you probably thought about saying goodbye to your family and friends in your passport country and then leaving. However, you may have never considered how difficult other goodbyes would be. Is this a new problem? Is it getting worse? How can you cope with it? Let us consider these issues.
Is this a new problem?
No, this problem has been around as long as cross-cultural workers have. A look at Paul and his relationships with the people of Ephesus shows us some of the problems with saying goodbye.
Paul was apparently in Ephesus only a short time near the end of this second term. After speaking in the synagogue, Paul left a couple in Ephesus to continue the work. People asked him to spend more time there, but he declined, saying he could come back if it was God's will (Acts 18:19-21). He and his co-workers there had to say goodbye.
Near the beginning of his third term, Paul again went to Ephesus. After more than two years of evangelism, discipleship, spiritual warfare, and encouragement Paul again said goodbye and left. He traveled to Macedonia with a multinational team of seven others (Acts 19:1-20:1). Again he and the disciples he left there had to say goodbye.
Near the end of his third term, Paul decided not to stop at Ephesus even though he was passing close by, because he was in a hurry. However, he did stop a few miles south of Ephesus and sent for the elders of the Ephesian church so that he could meet with them briefly. Then they again had to say goodbye. In this instance we are told more about the nature of the goodbye: They wept, embraced, kissed, grieved, and finally tore themselves away (Acts 20:16-21:1). Saying multiple goodbyes to coworkers is nothing new for cross-cultural workers.
Is it getting worse?
It is probably no more difficult to for each individual, but it may well be that people have to say goodbye more often than they did in Paul's day. Changes in the last half of the twentieth century have made short-term cross-cultural work to any part of the world a reality. Before the advent of reasonably priced air travel since 1950, just reaching many places to work cross-culturally often took several weeks crossing the ocean by ship. Today people can be in any country in the world in a matter of hours, a couple days at the most.
One type of short-term work very popular now is one where a group spends a week or two in another culture to teach a Bible school, help construct a building, or do routine maintenance work. Though this has helped expose millions of people to cross-cultural work first-hand, it means many hellos followed by many goodbyes a week or two later. Thus the long-term cross-cultural workers never have a chance to develop relationships with them. Relationships take time.
Another type of short-term work increasing in recent years is one where a person goes to another culture for several months or a year or two to help out generally, or to complete a particular project. These people have no intention of staying long-term and are most common among people born since the mid 1960s. In this case there is time to develop a relationship, but the cross-cultural workers on the field may be reluctant to do so knowing that the short-term person will soon be gone. Saying goodbye to someone you know only superficially is easier.
Does this affect everyone?
Yes, it affects everyone, but it affects people differently. Some people seem to have little need for deep relationships and are content to keep relationships at more of a surface level, so saying goodbye has relatively little effect on them. Other people have a greater desire to share intimately with a larger group of friends, and saying goodbye affects them, very deeply.
Women tend to be more relationship oriented than are men. Therefore, they may be more affected by leaving their friends or having their friends move away. Unfortunately, their husbands are sometimes not sensitive to this difference between themselves and their wives.
Of course, such mobility is common in developed countries. In the United States about one person in six moves every year, so even the person who does not move says goodbye often. When our oldest son was in first grade, there were five boys in first grade on our street. By the time he was in sixth grade, he was the only one left. Of course, a move within a country may be within the same area, rather than half way around the world, but it still affects relationships.
Do we just quit building deep relationships?
Some people try to cope by simply becoming detached or "hardened." By not getting deeply involved with their fellow cross-cultural workers they decrease the pain of having to say goodbye. This coping mechanism may reduce the pain of goodbyes; but the person becoming detached, the person who is "rejected," and the gospel message are all harmed by this.
Jesus commanded us to love each other as he loved us. Loving and being loved are important to both our mental and physical health. When deep relationships are avoided, both parties lose a part of their potential support system. In addition, Jesus pointed out that this was how others would know that we are his disciples. Thus, by not developing these relationships, we make it less likely that people will see Jesus in us (John 13:34-35).
How do we love deeply yet hold lightly?
Since saying goodbye is a normal part of life, especially cross-cultural worker life, we can take steps to minimize the pain.
Change your perspective. Rather than concentrating on the negative aspects of anticipating parting, it is better to concentrate on the positive aspects of the current relationship. As someone said, it is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
- Look for people who "click." When you find people with the same values, same aspirations, same commitment, etc., become close friends even if it seems there is no "future" in the friendship. One couple we met more than a decade ago when visiting a field are still good friends. We have become one of their supporters, visited them on the field again, made contact at conferences, had them in our home while on home assignment. We have spent hours talking and sharing deeply.
- Become intimate sooner. Third culture kids of all types (cross-cultural worker, military, etc.) become experts at this. When they meet each other and realize their common background, they begin to share at a deeper level much sooner than those raised in a single culture. With practice, anyone can develop this capacity.
- Communicate while apart. This has always been possible, but is much easier with the invention on e-mail in recent years. However, e-mail is a mixed blessing.
- On the positive side, friendships can be continued at virtually no financial cost even when people are far apart. (In fact, relationships can be initiated without ever meeting personally, and that may become a problem.)
- On the negative side, some people become so busy keeping old friendships alive that they fail to make new ones. Some cross-cultural workers communicate via e-mail daily with old friends, but spend little time with the people living near them currently. Thus, they fail to continue to make new friends.
- Grieve your losses. It is all right (even necessary) to do all the things Paul and the elders from Ephesus did:
- Wept
- Embraced
- Kissed
- Tore away
- Pick up where you leave off. After you become good friends, you can pick up your friendship where it was when you parted. You still have the same values, aspirations, concerns, etc., so all you need to do is get an update on what you have been doing, and your relationship continues from there.
- Remember that relationships give hope. At creation God built parting into the family. When a young man and young woman grow up, they leave their father and mother and cleave to each other (Genesis 2). Most people do not refuse to have children because their children mature and leave, they look forward to reuniting with their children both here on earth and in heaven. We also look forward to reuniting with other loved ones in heaven.
Ronald Koteskey is
Member Care Consultant
GO International


text:
Part VII: Others[edit | edit source]
As noted in the preface, this report by no means exhausts all the microlivestock possibilities. Lack of space and time precludes discussion of creatures such as edible insects, snails, worms, frogs, turtles, and bats, which in some regions are highly regarded foods. Similarly, we have not included fish, shrimp, and other aquatic life.
This is not to say that these are less worthy of consideration. The decision to leave them out was arbitrary, but with several recent breakthroughs in tropical beekeeping it seems prudent to include bees. Accordingly, the final chapter of this book describes the smallest livestock of all.
Bees are one of the most promising microlivestock. They forage on flowers that are otherwise little utilized and produce honey, wax, and other products of high value. They are important as plant pollinators and can greatly increase the production of some crops. Bees can be kept virtually anywhere with little disruption of other activities, and they are easily available.
35 Bees[edit | edit source]
Of all the livestock reviewed in this publication, bees are the smallest, the least demanding of space, probably the most familiar, and perhaps the most easily adapted to worldwide rural development efforts. For all that, however, they are an often forgotten component in agricultural programs. This is unfortunate because bees can be particularly valuable to tropical countries, providing pollination of crops, useful products, and a premium source of income.
Almost every village in every tropical country traditionally has had a beekeeper or two. Most use "seat-of-the-pants" methods and "rustic" hives, and this generally leads to low yields and inefficiencies. Today, numerous innovative methods and appropriate equipment are coming available. Many are still not widely known; however, their importance is slowly being recognized. Indeed, some developing countries are already turning bees into a valued natural resource.
For example, in less than 10 years Kenya has become self-sufficient in honey production and - despite increased local consumption - is now exporting. In seven years, Papua New Guinea has met its local honey requirements and now also exports its surplus. In only four years, Thailand increased yearly production from practically nothing to more than 1,000 tons. In Brazil, beekeeping is more widespread and production greater than before the outbreak of the African honey bee. These achievements can be largely attributed to the promotion of innovative equipment, modern beekeeping techniques, and extension support for small-scale beekeepers.
Honey bees are generally easily recognized and need no description here. The major species and subspecies are all roughly similar in appearance and size.
Among several hundred species of bees that store honey and pollen in harvestable amounts, only two "social" species, Apis mellifera and Apis cerana, produce multiple combs and can be kept in hives.' Given adequate forage and proper management, they can build up a honey surplus that can be harvested without harming their colonies.
Apis mellifera, the most widely distributed and exploited honey bee, comes from Europe and Africa. The subspecies from Europe (especially the Italian type, A. mellifera ligustica) is normally preferred because of its docility and high honey yields. It is now the predominant honey bee throughout the temperate zones of Europe, North America, Australasia, and China.
Of the many subspecies in Africa, A. mellifera adansonii and A. mellifera scutellata have the widest native ranges. The latter was accidently released in Brazil in 1957. It has become naturalized and has dominated the European bees formerly kept by beekeepers. By l990, it had spread northwards to the southernmost areas of the United States and southwards deep into Argentina.
The docile Asian hive bee, A. cerana, is found in Asia from the Middle East to Japan and as far south as Indonesia. Although it produces much less honey per hive than A. mellifera, its overall production in many Southeast Asian countries may be greater.
Honey bees do not face extinction. However, genetic diversity is disappearing due to loss of habitat, insecticides, displacement by massproduced, genetically uniform queens and exotic breeds, destructive harvesting, and the spread of diseases and pests such as protozoans, bacteria, insects, and mites.
Honey bees can exist in locations from deserts to rainforests and from near the Arctic to the tropics. They occur wherever there is nectar, pollen, tree resin (for nest building), shelter, and a little water. Heat, drought, and especially rain and humidity may curtail their activities, but a well-managed colony can survive periods of extreme adversity.
Honey bees live in rigidly hierarchical colonies. Normally there is a single queen. After mating, she begins laying hundreds of eggs a day. Those that are fertilized become sterile females, called workers; those that remain unfertilized develop into males (drones), whose only role is to fertilize future queens.
After two or three years the queen, worn-out, starts laying fewer and fewer eggs, and the colony may replace her. At that time a few female larvae are raised on royal jelly, a nutritious, little-understood secretion that causes them to develop into queens.
Workers perform different tasks as they mature. Young ones tend the queen, guard the hive, and raise the larvae. Older ones, comprising the vast majority of a colony's population, gather pollen and nectar and water. Pollen provides the protein and fats, and the nectar, converted into honey in the bee's body, provides carbohydrates to feed the colony.
Honey bee activities are dictated by weather, availability of food, genetics, and the overall strength of the colony. They are mediated by chemical interactions between the queen and the workers that control almost all behavior.
While the Asian and European hive bees are relatively docile, most of the African subspecies are unpredictable and may defend their colonies in great numbers and with great persistence. The threat of "killer bees" has been greatly exaggerated, however. Africans have provided them nests and hives - and harvested their honey - for thousands of years.
Occasionally, large numbers of the bees in a colony split off from their nest or hive. They usually cluster on a nearby tree or building, calmly waiting for "scouts" to find a suitable new home. These homeless swarms can be captured and will readily move into a hive- the simplest and cheapest way for beekeepers to acquire a colony.
Honey and beeswax are two of nature's best known and most valuable products. Honey can be employed in hundreds of foods. It is widely used in baking because, in addition to its flavor, it retains moisture better than sugar or syrup, and the product keeps longer. Honey-based alcoholic beverages are popular in many parts of the world.
Beeswax also is used in many products, including candles, lubricants, polish, waterproofings, soaps, cosmetics, and electronics. Beeswax can be locally important for ´'lost-wax" metal-casting and sculptures as well as batik-dyed clothing.
Both bee pollen and royal jelly are used in cosmetics and can be eaten. Bee venom is used medicinally, particularly in Europe and the developing world. Bee larvae are eaten raw or fried in many parts of Asia and Africa and are considered a delicacy.
Keeping bees means managing a colony so that it produces surplus honey or wax. Specifically this requires:
- Providing a suitable hive;
- Obtaining bees by collecting a swarm, transferring a wild colony, or purchasing a colony complete with an active queen;
- Maintaining the colony free from natural enemies in an area that allows it to produce excess honey; and
- Harvesting the excess honey without weakening the colony or causing it to flee (abscond).
Few other livestock enterprises require less capital, less space, or less attention. Moreover, scarcely any other provides higher quality, more marketable products.
Beekeeping is a respected and traditional activity in most areas of the world. It promotes self-reliance and requires little, if any, land or money. It is an easy-entry cottage industry that can be started with minimal equipment or training. It can be done by any member of a family as it requires no special strength or size. It is especially appropriate for increasing women's income in the many areas where men are away working.
Beekeeping is suited to remote areas where many agricultural enterprises are at a competitive disadvantage because their products are bulky and far from the markets. Honey, wax, pollen, and other bee products can all be sold far from their point of origin, have high monetary value for their weight, and generally find a ready market. Local honeys often command premium prices (in part because many of them are considered medicinal). In addition, beekeeping encourages people to remain in rural areas rather than move to the city in search of an income.
Pollination increases the productivity of many crops, and therefore a few hives can boost local food production. By rotating hives among farmers' fields and orchards, a beekeeper performs a valuable service.
Beekeeping is also an important adjunct to reforestation and desert reclamation projects. It can provide income during the long wait for the trees to reach marketable size. Many forests are potential reservoirs of honey and other products. In some cases, the bees also enhance the fruitfulness and standing value of forests. They also increase pollination in tree-seed orchards and tree nurseries. And in newly established forests, bees improve reseeding potential.
So many hives have been developed in recent years that a design now exists for almost any level of expertise. One of the most important for Third World beekeeping is the top-bar hive. This crate-like box, derived from an ancient Greek design, incorporates modern beekeeping principles but adds the innovation of sloping sides. Beneath its lid are removable boards (top bars) from which the bees hang the combs (because the sides are sloping the bees do not attach the edges of the comb to them). By lifting a top bar, the comb can be inspected and handled - and the honey harvested - with little disturbance to the colony.
This simple hive can make beekeeping accessible to even the poorest people. It is easy to build and use, and can be locally constructed from scrap lumber. It is well suited for raising most types of honey bees.
More elaborate and productive is the African long hive. In addition to having top bars, this square-sided box has removable frames within which the bees build their comb.
The most elaborate is the Langstroth hive - the type most common in temperate zones.* These yield the most honey. They can be made only where there are facilities for precise carpentry, where durable, nonwarping parts are available, and where there are good extension services to aid and assist beekeepers. Although traditional Langstroth hives are demanding to build and maintain, simplified designs have been created for use in developing countries.
By far the most common bees in the tropics, perhaps in the world, are bees that cannot sting. Their stingers are so akophied as to be essentially nonexistent (but some can deliver a pretty fierce bite). They live in colonies and store their honey in wax pots, some as large as egg cups.
Stingless bees can be abundant. In a two-block area in downtown Panama City, 150 nests have been counted. However, many species depend on trees and their populations are plummeting as more and more tropical forests are felled.
Like honey bees, stingless bees have been "domesticated." For thousands of years in the tropical Americas, Indians have raised them in special hives made out of logs, gourds, clay pots, and other simple containers. Cortes reported in 1519 that Indians on the island of Cozumel, the now popular tourist spot off the east coast of Yucatan, practiced beekeeping. That was almost 300 years before the European honeybee was introduced. A popular Mayan drink was honey wine, and Mayan beekeepers carved stone earplugs to keep these bees out of their ears.
Honey from stingless bees has less sugar than normal honey. However, it is usually more tasty. It is used throughout the tropics: the Americas, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia, for instance. Normally, the nests are just robbed, which devastates the bees because the queen cannot fly, and when she is disturbed the colony dies. In some areas people open a little hole in the nest. By putting in a plug, they can then harvest honey a couple of times a year without destroying the colony.
Today, a few scientists are reconsidering stingless beekeeping. In the state of Maranhao in Brazil, an area of crushing poverty, biologist Warwick Kerr is harnessing stingless bees. He began after learning that peasants were spending a third of their meager incomes buying sugar. As part of his experiments, he keeps 60 hives stacked in his garage on the outskirts of the city of San Luis. (A notable feature of these bees is that there is no prohibition against keeping them in populated areas.)
Kerr has found that stingless bees can be made to produce well. After years of experimenting with different-sized boxes, he can now obtain more than 4.5 lifers of honey per hive per year. He reports that the stingless bees are easy to maintain, and can be raised by poor peoole without land or equipment.
Compared to raising four-footed livestock, beekeeping is inexpensive and fairly trouble free, but it is not without problems. Many things can go wrong, and include, for example:
- Losses. Bees are susceptible to various predators, pests, and diseases. Although ways to avoid or control most afflictions are available, once a colony becomes infested it may have to be destroyed.
- Theft. Hives or combs - usually kept in secluded areas - that are full of honey are tempting targets and may be stolen.
- Swarming and absconding. Some or all of the bees may leave a hive and start a new nest, taking even the honey with them.2
- Bad management. Beekeeping requires certain skills and knowledge, and sometimes frequent attention (such as when the colony is stressed, diseased, or swarming).
- Lack of equipment. Beekeepers need hives, smokers (to quiet and repel the bees), hive tools, and - advisable but not absolutely necessary - gloves and a veil.
- Inadequate storage. Some areas lack the knowledge or the bottles in which to store liquid honey.3
- Pesticides and herbicides. Nectar- and pollen-collecting bees are vulnerable to insecticides, which farmers may apply (often inappropriately) at the time their crops are flowering. Herbicides can destroy important sources of bee forage.
- Neighborhood concerns. Bees can sting people and livestock. Although wild bees (and other insects) are the principal culprits, the beekeeper is often blamed.
- Stressful conditions. When rainfall, aridity, heat, or cold are excessive, bees often cannot produce surplus honey.
Surprisingly, much remains to be learned about the natural science of bees. Although some of the research requires sophisticated equipment and facilities, much can (or must) be performed locally by beekeepers because many factors - such as colony behavior, foraging habits, and microclimatic adaptation - depend on the local conditions. This research may include the following:
- Adaptation. The provision of locally adapted bee varieties is an important basis for developing advanced beekeeping. This can be done by selecting an appropriate local queen. Further, local breeding of queens and workers lessens the probability of importing exotic diseases and pests. Recent developments promise to move the mass production of queens and workers from the realm of high technology to common practice.4
- Integration. Continued developments in beekeeping cannot succeed without research, promotion, education, training, and extension services. These are essential for integrating beekeeping with agriculture and reforestation efforts. Thus, descriptions of agronomic plants should always include pollination requirements as well as nectar and pollen potentials. Planting nectar- and pollen-producing firewood species would increase the number of bees, which would in turn help ensure forest survival.
- Bee plants. There is still much to be understood about the relative qualities that different plants bring to beekeeping. Recently, many valuable bee-forage plants have been identified.5 These deserve special consideration in any reforestation or beautification projects. Broad introduction of these plants may also encourage beekeeping that could produce high-value "specialty" honeys or ensure more continuous production of honey. There may also be a place for "bee farms," where every plant is bee forage.
- New bee species. Nontraditional species of Apis as well as other members of the bee family (such as Anthophora, Bombus, Megachilae, Nomia, Osmia, Xylocopa, and especially Trigona and Melipona, which are stingless) should be studied to determine their role in pollination and - for some species - their further exploitation for honey.


text:
accessories Acne Anti Aging Beauty billions business capitalize channel Communicate Cosmetic Surgery country Diabetes Drug Abuse Engineer equipment family finance google Google reviews Health and Fitness home Jewelry Massage Meditation Nutrition part Personal Training Physician Planning Popular Diets products recommended Repairs sale security services shopping Skin Care Spa and Wellness Speech Pathology suggestions supermarkets Technician Weight Loss YogaPartner Links
Tag Archives: services
There is an excessive amount of traffic coming from your Region.
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged accounting, business, companies, google, near me, offices, restaurant, sale, services
Comments Off
What Are The Greatest Changes In Shopping In Your Lifetime
What are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime? So asked my 9 year old grandson. As I thought of the question the local Green Grocer came to mind. Because that is what the greatest change in shopping in … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged billions, capitalize, country, family, services, shopping, supermarkets
Comments Off


text:
You may also like
Presenting our Gorgeous Round Trilogy Natural Diamond Ring.
Available in 18k Rose Gold, Yellow Gold, White Gold and Platinum. Expertly crafted in the metal of your choice.
The ring and band in picture is in 18K White Gold.
Total Diamond Weight of the ring and band is 0.27cts VS Clarity G Colour.
All our rings have a lifetime warranty with unlimited free in store cleaning.
Delivery: Your ring will be packaged and presented in our light up boxes and sent as insured special delivery with Royal Mail.
Subscribe today to hear first about our sales
Sign up to be the first to hear about new collections, in store events and online promotions


text:
Mauer put on 7-day concussion disabled list
Published 8:55 am Wednesday, August 21, 2013
DETROIT — Minnesota Twins star Joe Mauer was put on the seven-day concussion disabled list after he experienced dizziness during his pregame route and was scratched from the lineup against the Detroit Tigers.
"I'm glad we have the means to find out that someone's hurt and do the right thing for them," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said after a 6-3 win Tuesday night. "For a long time, you had guys playing through these things, but now we have the tests to find out that something is wrong and take care of them."
Gardenhire said a few hours before the first pitch that Mauer was probably not going to catch during the three-game series in Detroit, adding he planned to play him in each game as the first baseman or designated hitter.
Mauer caught Monday's game against the New York Mets.
"He did take a lot of balls off the mask, but that has nothing to do with this," Gardenhire said Tuesday afternoon, explaining why Mauer was in the original lineup at first base for the series opener in Detroit. "He's fine."
Justin Morneau was shifted from designated hitter to first to replace Mauer in the field. Outfielder Chris Hermann moved up to hit second in Mauer's place in the lineup.
Mauer is hitting .324 with 11 homers and 47 RBIs for the Twins, who sit in fourth place in the AL Central.
Morneau, who has battled concussions since 2010, said the team made the right choice by placing Mauer on the seven-day DL.
"I definitely think it is the best," Morneau said. "The worst thing anyone can do is try to play through a concussion because then you get another one and you can be out for a long time. I know."


text:
Genowhirl (talk) | |
Date Created: | May 24, 2009 |
Status: | Complete |
Editing: | Please feel free to edit constructively! |
Balance: | Fighter |
Bat Out of Hell [Type::Fiend] Summary::You scream across the world Prerequisites: Prerequisite::Fly SpeedBenefit: You may use an attack of opportunity to greatly accelerate your flight, provided you fly in a straight line. On the round that you use Bat Out of Hell, you double your fly speed (that is, add your fly speed to itself). Once you use this Bat Out of Hell, you cannot use it again for three rounds.Special: If you have multiple attacks of opportunity in a round, such as from Combat Reflexes and a high Dexterity, you may spend an additional attack of opportunity to create an infernal shriek as you fly, dealing [1d6 damage per three character levels + your Constitution modifier] in sonic damage to those within forty feet of the path you take. You can also spend attacks of opportunity to increase your flight speed further, adding your base fly speed again for each attack of opportunity used this way.
Back to Main Page → 3.5e Homebrew → Character Options → Feats


text:
See the links below for comprehensive information and a discussion of the following Woodstock Georgia divorce and family law issues.
Call 770-609-1247 to speak with one or our Woodstock Georgia divorce and family law attorneys.
• Adultery
• Alimony / Spousal Support
• Child Custody / Visitation
• Child Support
• Contempt
• Contested Divorce
• Divorce Lawyers & Attorneys
• Father's and Men's Rights
• Mother's and Women's Rights
• Mediation
• Name Changes
• Standing Order
• Temporary Hearings
• Uncontested Divorce
Call 770-609-1247 now to speak with one of our dedicated and caring Woodstock Georgia divorce and family law attorneys. If you are facing a divorce or family law issue, our attorneys and staff are experienced and ready to help you now.
Offices | Articles | Attorneys | Contact
Call 770-609-1247 or use the Email Submission Form Below
Weekend and Evening Appointments and Consultations Available.
[contact-form-7 id="1180″ title="CLG Contact – Body"]
Coleman Legal Group, LLC's Georgia lawyers practice in the areas of Divorce, Family Law, Estates, Wills, Trusts, Probate, Bankruptcy, Business Law and Immigration. We have offices conveniently located at:
Alpharetta Georgia North Point Park 5755 North Point Parkway Suite 52 Alpharetta, GA 30022 Phone: 770-408-0477 | Map |
Atlanta Georgia |
Dunwoody Sandy Springs 1200 Abernathy Road Building 600 Northpark Town Center Atlanta, GA 30328 Phone: 770-408-0477 | Map |
Cumming Georgia |
Johns Creek Duluth Georgia 11555 Medlock Bridge Rd Suite 100 Johns Creek, GA 30097 Phone: 770-609-1247 | Map |
Duluth Georgia |
Kennesaw Georgia TownPark Center 125 TownPark Drive Suite 300 Kennesaw, GA 30144 Phone: 770-609-1247 | Map |
Lawrenceville |
Copyright © 2017 | Coleman Legal Group, LLC | All Rights Reserved. Coleman Legal Group, LLC • 5755 North Point Parkway, Suite 52 • Alpharetta, GA 30022 • 770-609-1247 DISCLAIMER: The information you obtain at this site is not, nor is it intended to be, legal advice. You should consult an attorney for individual advice regarding your own situation.


text:
"It's funny, just recently in the last few shows we've done in Toronto, there are people that are seeing us for the first time and that's the song they're familiar with," says Paul Murphy. "They *are* surprised by the rest of the songs---they don't really expect our band to sound like our band. It's neat to surprise people."
On the line from Montreal on a two-week break between tours---"I'm at my girl's," he reports---Murphy is deconstructing "Weighty Ghost," the breakout single from Welcome to the Night Sky. A rolling, almost gentle track, underscored by a droning organ and jangly acoustic guitar, it had modest beginnings wedged in between the original material and early Wintersleep songs that comprised the singer's occasional solo shows. (He has introduced it as "an Irish pub drinking song.")
Under the full-band treatment, the song became an instant crowd favourite, inciting clap-alongs and shouts of the chorus' hooky refrain: "Oh have you seen my ghost?/Seen my ghost?/Seen my ghost?"
But when Wintersleep entered The Sonic Temple last summer, its members---Murphy, drummer Loel Campbell, bassist Jud Haynes and guitarist Tim D'Eon---along with its Scottish producer, Tony Doogan, decided to approach it differently.
"It was kind of more rocked out," says Campbell, also from Montreal. "We demoed it once before and we knew it wasn't gonna work like that. It sounded horribly cheesy. It's one thing to be watching a band in a live atmosphere where you can get away with it, but when you're committing something to the catalogue of records this band is going to produce, it wasn't going to jive."
First runner up: Jenn Grant, "Dreamer"
Second runner up: Dog Day, "Oh Dead Life"


text:
Of course your aging parents prefer to stay at home. And fortunately, there are things you can do to help them stay safe and independent.
In elder care especially, an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure! Older adults frequently decline after an episode severe enough to cause a hospitalization. Thus, helping prevent a crisis or injury is one of the best ways you can contribute to your aging parents' health.
Common avoidable causes of hospitalization include:
- Confusion about medications
- A fall that results in a hip fracture
- A car accident
- Not recognizing signs of a chronic illness getting worse
To help you avoid crises and prolong your aging parents' ability to stay independent, we offer the following articles:


text:
Niacin (B-3) is one of the best researched for all the vitamins, and the evidence for using it to treat high blood cholesterol, trigly-cerides, poor circulation, stress, leg cramps, headaches and diabetes.
Non-flush Niacin (Inositol hexanicotinate as �IHN? is a special form of Niacin that is slowly hydrolyzed to a form of six-to-one (6:1) molar ratio of Niacin and inositol. Its unique properties may maintain the function of both Niacin and inositol, and allow for true niacin effects without Niacin�s unpleasant flushing sensation.
Research Information
Studies showing that IHN improves lipid profiles date back as far as the early 1960s. In an in vitro study using fat cells from rats, IHN was found to be more effective than niacin in reducing hyperchole-sterolemia. When given to rabbits on a fatty diet, IHN resulted in normalization of all lipid fractions, including cholesterol.
In human subjects, studies has shown IHN to reduce cholesterol that was even more profound than that produced by niacin. In a clinical study conducted in Germany, IHN was compared with niacin and other nicotinic acid derivatives for their ability to control free fatty acid levels overnight. IHN, but not niacin, was found to be capable of producing a significant reduction in free fatty acids during the entire night. The reseachers suggested that IHN should be a good choice for producing a prolonged reduction in blood lipids. Two other German studies have also found that IHN is more effective in reducing levels of LDL and VLDL , and was also effective in raising HDL levels in some types of hyperlipidemia. They suggest that IHN is a safe and effective alternative to niacin and does not cause the flush that many people find so unpleasant.
98.0 - 101.0%
Dosage and Safety
IHN has been used in Europe for over 30 years to lower cholesterol levels, with an excellent safety record. Dosages between 600-1800mg per day show no side effects or adverse reactions with significant reductions in cholesterol levels


text:
For his twelfth novel, Richard Powers wanted to do something different. This will come as no surprise to his fans: his books explore diverse topics, from neuroscience, to the rise of the modern corporation, to genetics, to music, and more.
But for The Overstory, Powers says, he needed to "unblind" himself.
"When you stand in front of a 1500 year-old redwood, and realize that the mountains had been covered with them, and there are only very small pockets now remaining, it's tough to turn away from," he told me. "I simply had to say: I've missed a huge part of the story of who we are, and I need to educate myself."
The Overstory, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize among other honors, follows several individuals who make the same discovery, and change their lives based on what they learn. It invokes myth and storytelling, and embraces an extended timeline to reflect the lifespan not just of its human characters, but of the trees they learn to see.
In early January 2019, I discussed the book with Powers over the phone. We talked about trees, the transformative power of storytelling, and how writers might respond—and stay responsive to—the unique demands of this moment in both human- and tree-time. The following is a transcript of our conversation, with minor editing for clarity.
Charlotte Wyatt: So many of your books explore and integrate science and art, and I'm curious about the treatment of the concept of "progress" in this book—especially with your character Nick's ancestors written about early in the story, one of whom "succumbs to the disease of improvement." I love that in the same paragraph, his Kodak No. 2 camera is introduced. And it has a slogan, "You push the button, we do the rest."
Richard Powers: Right! The by-word of all modernist, individualist techno-sublime fantasies!
CW: Exactly! It read a little to me like a Faustian bargain, especially given how much we see his immigrant ancestors go through, and since so many of your other books—and I'm thinking especially of The Echo Maker and Gain—cast human progress and technology in a sometimes ambivalent light. So I wondered: The Overstory takes that idea quite a bit farther. What made you want to write this book now?
RP: So, it seems as if there are several things on the table. One is the relationship between technology, humanity, the non-human, living world, human destiny within that world, on one hand – but also this question of social time, and the aptness of the novel at this moment in cultural or social history. So let me talk about the first component of the question first, whether and where what you called a "Faustian bargain" comes into play. All of my books have been concerned with exploring this question of human destiny and human transformation, to some degree. Trying to take the human story out of the merely personal, the individual, the local, the domestic, and to place it back into an historical context. The one that asks this question about where are we going, where did we come from? How are we getting there, what do we hope is waiting? I don't know the answer to the question of what or where the Faustian bargain gets introduced. I don't think it's necessarily implicit in the technological transformation of human kind. And for that I think we have to widen our lens a little bit, and remember that to be human is already to have a relationship to technology, and the transformation of the rules of living on earth. It's one of the distinguishing features of our species, that we manipulate tools and that we create and project our powers with various leveraging devices, that change the terms of time and space for us. And we've been doing that from the beginning. In fact, the very most powerful technologies in the human drama are often the earliest ones. When you think of fire, to flint-knapping, all the way down to writing, every one of these technologies is a huge revolution that transforms our own sense of what we're capable of doing, and what we want to do.
So to tell the human story is to tell the story of an uneasy relationship with legacy, versus desire for future, and more powerful, manipulations. But the point is, the real Faustian bargain, the real villain in the story of human destiny as I've identified it in The Overstory is not technology per se but the myth that certain technologies have allowed us to become susceptible to, which is this belief in human exceptionalism. The belief that somehow we will, with the accumulated leverage of all our technologies finally cease to have to live here on earth, within the boundaries of what the planet can supply. And this notion that somehow we have reached the level of technological dominance that leaves us exempt from the reality of biological systems, the reality of climate systems and so forth, that we got seduced into believing in our own omnipotence.
I think that's the heart of the story—we have had a reciprocal relationship with nature from the beginning, and we have integrated tools into that reciprocal relationship, and we have been ourselves profoundly shaped by the very wildernesses and living systems that we've left our mark on. It's the inseparability of those two things that lie at the heart of my story. Not necessarily the idea that we're doomed by the first stone that we pick up and attempt to use as a tool.
Are there technologies that lend themselves more to human exceptionalism than others? Yeah, I think there probably are. That's a deep and complicated question. That's a question that deserves lots and lots of stories being directed to it.
So on to the second part of your question, which is, why now? That has both a personal component and a public component to it. The personal component is I had simply, after eleven books in a third of a century, I had matured to the point where I was suddenly confronted by my own tree-blindness, my own blindness to the nonhuman. By my own oversight, and the realization this was an essential component, perhaps the essential component, to the story that I was trying to understand and tell about the uneasiness of our situation here on this planet.
This transformation in my own consciousness came about six years ago when I was living in California and acquired a kind of very dramatic confrontation with these enormous trees, 98% of which had been destroyed. When you stand in front of a 1500-year-old redwood, and realize that the mountains had been covered with them, and there are only very small pockets now remaining, it's tough to turn away from. It's a kind of "Road to Damascus" moment. I simply had to say: I've missed a huge part of the story of who we are, and I need to educate myself. I need to un-blind myself.
So that's an interesting question of why this book now, as far as my capabilities, in my personal development and growth, as someone who is trying to see what a kind of human exceptionalism and modernism prevented me from seeing.
The question of the social timing is interesting too. I didn't anticipate when I started this novel, to write this novel five-and-a-half years ago, that my more or less historical drama—this tale of a group of people in the late 90s and early 2000s—would have such resonance for the world the book would be published into.
I didn't foresee the Trump administration, I didn't foresee the roll-back of fifty or sixty years of environmental legislation. I didn't even see at that time this huge aggregation of tree disasters. That now, North America looks like a battle zone on all fronts. The fires, the agricultural deforestations, the devastation by disruptive ecosystems in the form of exotic pests and destructive beetles. All this conjunction of the complete destruction of the arboreal landscape, that's not something that was in my head six years ago.
But I'll tell you that I probably could have used another year working on the book and really was reluctant to let it go a couple of years ago, but realized with the complete change of the political climate in the country, I had to get it out there sooner rather than later. I really wanted it to be part of the conversation that it seemed to me was in danger of being completely overwhelmed by this tsunami of political revolution that happened in 2016.
CW: I can only imagine what it has been like for you to see the book go out into this particular moment! On that note, I'm fascinated by how thoroughly the story interweaves with America, with events in American history, especially. I'm not sure how much of that was meant to be foregrounded, but with the call in the book from the radicalized environmentalists, who talk about becoming indigenous again, I wondered how you saw the role of specific place and ecosystems in the book. I'm thinking especially in parts of the United States in and around Houston, where places and environments have changed radically in recent years due to climate change.
RP: It's a very important question. This notion of place was so central to me as I was working on the book. And I was trying to do two things that sound almost incommensurable: on the one hand, I was trying to move the book around as much as possible, and you'll see in the book a kind of geographical sweep. Sections that deal with the mid-west, sections that deal with the east, sections that deal with the southeast, and of course this kind of culminating, dramatic showdown that happens in the Pacific Northwest. I really—to the extent that I could, I really wanted to move the book through a lot of different places, even internationally. There is an extended passage where Patricia Westerford goes to Brazil, as part of her seedbank work, and experiences tropical ecosystems, and is overwhelmed by them.
This was important to me because when writers talk about the importance of place, we often talk about it on the microscopic side. The essential way in which the local makes us who we are. And that's an important thing. I'm living now in the Smokies, where to go over one ridge is to enter into a very different ecosystem, and this understanding of the way in which geography is destiny is an important thing that fiction can reveal, and I do try to intensify a palpable sense of what life is affording. What the local constraints of geography and climate are giving to the affordances of local life. And I do love fiction that does that, and when I was working on this book, I was reading the kinds of people whose work is steeped in the particulars of the living system in a world where the characters unfold. Writers who know the names of the plants and animals of the area where the story unfolds in, and whose geography you can actually experience in a very sensory way.
But there was this other issue at stake too, which is to get beyond the local and show the way in which the vitality of life and especially its larger essence creates hugely diversified and varied challenges and opportunities for understanding ourselves and for living within the nonhuman world. There are at least sixty-thousand species of trees in the world. Perhaps more, depending on how species are counted.
And you know, there are – the differences between what a tree does here and what a tree does in Maine, and what a tree does in Iowa, and what a tree does in Oregon and the Cascades, is important. We don't want that to drop down into a single reified concept as if trees were one thing.
In fact, one of the startling things I learned while working on the book is that this basic plan of getting up on a wooden trunk, and sticking your solar cells out, and turning sunlight into food, is so powerful and so essential, that it gets developed by natural selection at least six entirely different times. Six completely different coevolutionary events. And that's important. That's important for us to understand the relentlessness and the invention and the diversity of nature. To adopt our own vision of the possibilities of human life. Accordingly, we can't—we can't continue down this cultural sense that we can create single conditions of comfortable or desirable life that are independent of where we are. It's crazy.
CW: In similar terms to the way landscapes affect individuals and individual experiences in the book, The Overstory struck me as being just as much about the role of storytelling and its transformative effects on these people. You've spoken in other interviews about the different levels of storytelling, in terms of the psychological, and conflicts between people, and then people in conflict, somehow, with the natural world. How did that idea of storytelling as being transformative affect the genesis of the The Overstory?
RP: When I had my revelatory moment in northern California – and it was just a visceral thing, you know? –it was just falling in love with trees. I mean, plain and simple. Having gotten to the ripe old age of fifty-five without ever really taking them seriously, they suddenly seemed like the most astonishing and beautiful and essential things in the world. It really was a kind of affective transformation. It was just a love affair. I wanted to read everything that I could about them. And see every kind of tree that I could within reach of where I was. And it produced a series of long days when I would just go out into the world with my field guide, and stand in front of an individual tree. And not necessarily to say, What is it? But say, what is it doing? And what is it doing that no other tree is doing? What is it doing that I spent half a century not noticing it doing? And really it was this completely passion-driven and ecstasy-driven adventure. I ended up reading over 120 books about trees. And it was there that I started to begin thinking about stories. Because the more I read about trees, the more I understood their essential and fundamental relationship to all the cultures of the world. And the role that they play not just in the cultural social and industrial development of all the different regions of the world, but the role they played in the imagination and spirit and literature of all the different places.
You mentioned Ovid and how he becomes a recurring motif throughout the course of the book, but he's not alone. The book is completely peppered with indigenous myths, Golden-age myths, and legends of as many cultures as I could fit in. And it occurred to me, retroactively, after discovering how essential and important trees were to most of the stories told by most of the people in the world throughout most of human history, it became kind of a shock to realize the deficit that happens in western literature in the last two hundred years. And they effectively become exiled, or you know, stage props. At best. And rarely that.
So that, to me, was a kind of a moment as well. When did they disappear from story, and why? What would it take to place them back in center stage? Because as I mentioned, it would have been inconceivable for anybody setting out to tell a story about humans trying to make their way in the world prior to western modernism, inconceivable to try to tell a story without putting the non-human squarely at the center. We have traditionally understood ourselves in terms of what the rest of the living world affords and allows us. So it really became clear to me that this would have to be a recuperative kind of project. It would have to be saying, something has disappeared from western literary fiction that leaves the story incoherent at best. And misleading and trapping at worst.
CW: Have these ideas of storytelling as being transformational--has that affected your sense of the responsibility the writer? Or your responsibility as a writer?
RP: Well—what is the responsibility of the writer? That's an interesting question. I would say it must have something to do with trying to turn honestly to this question of who do we think we are? And where are we? And how did we get here? So, in some ways, I've obliquely answered, in my previous answer: What it did was alert me to that portion of my responsibility that I wasn't living up to. Mainly, that I was taking seriously the psychological and the social, without taking seriously the inextricable, reciprocal relationship to everything that we call human and everything that we call nonhuman. So really, the responsibility that the book invokes has to do with the recognition that there is no separate thing called humanity. No separate thing called nature. That if we do want to tell stories about ourselves, it's only going to be as a small component of vastly complicated and webbed-together networks of things we've kind of been neglectful of for a long time.
CW: Absolutely. And I saw in other interviews you've mentioned writers who foreground that in different ways: Ursula K. Le Guin, and you've referred to the Ents from Lord of the Rings, and as a writer myself who likes to move between so-called "genre" and "literary" writing, I was delighted to see you mention your next project might be science fiction.
RP: It seems to want to go there. It's interesting too, this whole pecking order. If we go into an MFA program, there's also this understood hierarchy that literary fiction, namely fiction that sees drama primarily psychologically and domestically, is somehow superior to other genres, where say character development or the depth of psychology is less important than larger social structures or the relationship between societies as a whole, and technologies, or non-human societies—why is that? I think it's because this transformation that we were talking about earlier, this transformation inherent in modernism, actually becomes persuaded, in its full embrace of humanism, that meaning can only be an individual, synthetic, subjective thing.
That's what we talk about with the modern break, right? And the post-modern break. That somehow, we can no longer believe that meaning is out there. And somehow to be discovered or to be shared, or submitted to. Literary fiction becomes the primary vehicle for the articulation of individualist, human-centric commodity culture. It is the perfect genre for the beliefs in the primacy and centrality of the individual. And that starts 150, 200 years ago. And that's when the novel really rises to prominence and becomes this central thing.
The use of the novel form to subvert that and to suggest that we may be kidding ourselves when we say that meaning is just a purely private, subjectively created thing, is marvelous. All these writers, all these practitioners in other genres were saying, let's use this same form that literary fiction says is primarily about understanding individual psychology and just turn it outward. Just throw it outward. And it's the thing that makes people who are committed to literary fiction so uncomfortable with those other forms. Where is the depth of psychology? Where is the deep character study? How can I take this seriously as an expression of meaning when I don't see meaning being creative in the way of the individualist world that I embrace?
A lot of that maybe sounds provocative, but I don't mean it to be. I think literary fiction itself would be richer if it didn't place all of its efforts in this notion that somehow the only way to reality, or a comprehension of the contingency of reality, is through this dialogical bumping up against private personalities. I think it's that commitment that has caused the estrangement from the earth and that ultimately has allowed this vast system of externalized destruction that we're only now starting to come to reckon with—and interestingly, as it becomes clear to us that we're not in charge and that this whole project of mastering control is completely doomed, and that life is kind of surging back and looking for revenge now, and the whole world is—the conditions of existence are changing rapidly—as that all becomes clear to us, literary fiction is changing. And it becomes more and more acceptable, and even necessary, to throw open that aperture and start doing the things that science fiction never abandoned.
CW: And there seem to be other vehicles too, that seem to be rising – maybe they're creating their own critical reception. You see these narrative mediums like television and video games and films trying to take some of these questions, and changing perspectives, on as well. I was especially struck by Nilay's vision towards the end of the book. His "learners" that he sends out into the world? I thought, wow—this almost feels like there's some momentum—certainly, in this part of the book—suggesting or moving towards a new narrative medium.
RP: I like that reading very much. Interestingly, I've had a tremendously gratifying response to the book. It's amazing at the age of 60, in my twelfth book, to suddenly feel like there's been an ignition upon publication that really goes into a new territory that I've never experienced before with my previous books. One interesting thing is, people have been very moved by the book, and who respond viscerally and affectively to the story of these people who put their lives on the line. Who make this catastrophic decision, perhaps blunder, and then have to live with it for twenty years—these readers are deeply moved by and embrace the traditional gestures of literary fiction, but they'll sometimes say, "What is Neelay doing in there? I couldn't fit him into the rest of the story. He doesn't fit the rest of it." Or, "What are Ray and Dorothy doing there? I don't see how they fit back into the story." That's fine. Their puzzlement is an indication of a kind of narrative engagement. And it's not my role as an author, necessarily, to lead them to an explanation of what my intent was in putting that person there. But it is interesting to me to see that portion of the story that's most deeply interested in trying to understand technology's role in the integration or disintegration of humans with the rest of the non-human world is what may cause the traditional reader of literary fiction the most problems.
CW: So speaking of the many parts of the book, there's a piece on LitHub written by Kevin Berger where he reports that you spoke to him about your writing process changing with this book. That earlier in your career, there was an urge to produce a certain amount every day, and to put certain parameters on your process. And that now, there's maybe more an attitude of being receptive to what comes. But as a writer, reading this book that is enormously well researched and that has such an enormous scope, I wondered if you could elaborate more on how that receptivity operates in crafting such a complex piece of fiction?
RP: We're always walking under a very fine line. The insider/outsider quality of the writer is a precarious balance. Always. And your question may be just asking about an aspect of that.
To me, when I was younger, and more willing to participate in the individualist, humanist vision, it seemed to me that I must then be either already versed in all the truth that I need to know, or capable of making it for myself in the act of making art. And so while research was always important—and I've never written a novel that didn't require some copious research—the writing process itself, the sensibility, the interactions and the truths I wanted to immerse myself in were primarily private affairs. If you reach a certain age, and you have a certain amount of social interaction and heartbreak and experience in work and love, you can lock yourself in the room and do the Proustian thing and tap into your memory forever. And just try to represent the bewilderment and the pain and the joy of interacting in the social world.
But when you go beyond the social world, when you no longer accept that easy equivalence in the way we human beings say "the real world," meaning the one we've invented and created—when you start challenging that, you're thrown back on attention and you're thrown back on presence. And you have to start to acknowledge that you can't simply produce meaning on your own. If you believe that meaning is out there, then you have to be out there.
I'm so moved by these passages in Thoreau where he says, "My work now is simply making myself ready to what there is." And if I sit all day in the orchard and listen and smell and look, that is my work. And when he says that, he says, if it should happen to be converted into sentences and paragraphs down the line, so be it. But I can't make the sentences and paragraphs on my own. I have to rediscover my kinship and the reciprocity of these other forces that I want to live in and among. So it's not simply a question of saying I've learned how not to be anxious of: do I have enough at the end of the day? It also has to do with another kind of humility. I don't even know what the story is. I can't make it up by myself. Therefore, I have to put myself in the presence of these other things and just attend long enough to see what's out there.
Charlotte Wyatt is a third-year MFA student in the University of Houston Creative Writing program. She is the recipient of a 2018 Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize for fiction, and was the 2017-18 Inprint/Creative Writing Program Fellow. She has served as a Fiction Editor for Gulf Coast and has taught fiction in Houston with Inprint, the Boldface Conference, and WITS. Charlotte also serves as the Fiction Director and Director of Admissions for the Napa Valley Writer's Conference.


text:
Wise Woman Consulting is pleased to offer many services to teach you how to grow and make money on your blog. Many people are making money by doing what they love through the popular social medium of blogging. Not only that, but they are also working in the comfort of their homes, without any startup costs, and able to spend more time with their families. With just a little help and guidance, you can do the same.
When we first started implementing different strategies we made a thousand in a few short weeks and last month we earned $3000.
Since then we have learned how to make even more than that and entered into a five-digit income for the past year. We would love to consult with you and show you how we did it.
Is your blog making what it could? Please visit our services and rates page to find out which consultation would be the best fit for you.


text:
Please note that the recommended version of Scilab is 2024.1.0. This page might be outdated.
See the recommended documentation of this function
frequency of values of a matrix or vector
[m]=tabul(X [,order])
vector or matrix (of real or complex numbers or strings)
- order
(optional) a character equal to "d" or "i" (default value "d")
- m
a 2 columns matrix (if
is a numerical vector or matrix) or a list with 2 members (ifX
is a string vector or matrix).
This function computes the frequency of values of
the components of a vector or matrix X
of numbers or
string characters :
- if X is a numerical vector or matrix
is a two column matrix who contains in the first column the distinct values ofX
and in the other column the number of occurrences of those values (m(i,2) is the number of occurrences of m(i,1)).- if X is a string vector or matrix
is a list whose first member is a string (column) vector composed with the distinct values ofX
and the second member is a (column) vector whose components are the number of occurrences of those values ( m(i)(2) is the number of occurrences of the string m(i)(1) ).
The optional parameter order
must be "d" or "i" (by default
order="d") and gives the order (decreasing or increasing) the distinct
values of X will be sorted.
X = [2 8 0 3 7 6 8 7 9 1 6 7 7 2 5 2 2 2 9 7] m1 = tabul(X) m2 = tabul(X, "i")
X = ["ba" "baba" "a" "A" "AA" "a" "aa" "aa" "aa" "A" "ba"] m = tabul(X,"i")
n = 50000; X = grand(n,1,"bin",70,0.5); m = tabul(X,"i"); clf() plot2d3(m(:,1), m(:,2)/n) xtitle("empirical probabilities of B(70,0.5)")
// computes the occurrences of words of the license of scilab text = read(SCI+"/COPYING",-1,1,"(A)"); // read the scilab license bigstr = strcat(text," "); // put all the lines in a big string sep = [" " "," "." ";" "*" ":" "-" """"]; // words separators words = tokens(bigstr, sep); // cut the big string into words m = tabul(words); // computes occurrences of each word [occ , p] = gsort(m(2)); // sort by decreasing frequencies results = [m(1)(p) string(occ)] // display result
See also
Wonacott, T.H. & Wonacott, R.J.; Introductory Statistics, fifth edition, J.Wiley & Sons, 1990.
Report an issue | ||
<< Summaries | Summaries | reglin >> |


text:
Maybe the most pleasingly unexpected aspect of the Samsung Galaxy S3 is it's e-reader usefulness. I have a tablet collecting dust…the size / resolution of the S3 screen knocks it out of the park.
The iPhone 5 is a pretty nice piece of hardware, but that screen is a joke compared to the Galaxy. Take a look at the phone if you have not…best piece on the market hands down.
Even more pleasing than the e-reader function is the fact that I am done e-reading this boring piece of shit…
Scratch that off the old to-do list. Stab five at this thing was finally a success, with the four previous (print form) attempts failing after a short bit. I finally 'get' the book, but really think the thing is overrated. Whatever…on to something new. Go Samsung.


text:
Student with Autism Crowned Hiram's Homecoming King
HIRAM, Ga. - He has been a student athlete since 6th grade, is beloved by his classmates, and was crowned this past Friday night as his school's homecoming king. Ryan Tomberlin has never let any challenge stop him.
Ryan's mother, Stacey, said he has Autism and almost lost his life 14 months ago when he had a seizure and nearly drowned in his grandmother's pool. He was in a medically induced coma.
She said his first thought when he woke up was rejoining the varsity football team at Hiram High School as their manager.
Stacey said she is just so overwhelmed with how the community embraced him over the last 14 years. She thanks God for them every day for making her and her son feel at home.
Friday, the community paid him the ultimate compliment by making him homecoming king. Stacey shared photos and video of the crowning ceremony during the game. She said she is extremely proud of his accomplishments.