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Backing away from social media is not always easy. Often we feel compelled, even when we are busy doing more than we really can or should take on; yet I was fortunate. I forced myself to lay a few things aside; to re-prioritize and re-focus, the result of which was over 2500 words in one afternoon! (Yes, I'm smiling!)
The scene is an epic fantasy battle; war between the Fey of the Light and the Reviled, which has been brewing since the middle of book one. It has also been hindering me for months; after all, I've never written an epic battle scene. How do you relate the horrors of war without the graphic violence that is inescapable? How do you describe the emotions of battle when you yourself (thankfully!) have never personally experienced it? How do you build suspense to a fevered pitch without going into horrifying details that are neither the true point of the scene nor what you really intend to relate?
I knew what I wanted, but had no idea how to create it. I spoke with a friend about the realities of war and being a soldier (as he has suffered through that particular horror) and gained some measure of perspective; yet the hows and whys swirled in my mind like a blizzard.
A Blizzard, during which an epic battle would take place. I mulled and I pondered; I mused until I was extraordinarily confused. Then it occurred to me; the blizzard was the answer. It was the symbol of the confusion of battle I was searching for; and with a bit of silence (brought on by backing away from the aforementioned social media, which, sadly, even included BnV) I was able to sit quietly long enough to hear the voices in the blustering gales.
My point is two-fold. Perhaps, in sharing how I found inspiration, it may be of some measure of help when The Silence assaults your own writing, and possibly it may also lend some ideas of how to let the story lead you when you become entangled. Today I'd like to share two short excerpts from Dark Fey: Breaking Into The Light, which may illustrate how the blizzard inspired.
Arrows rained down on the Liberators, bouncing off shields and skidding across leather fortuitously coated with a heavy rime of ice and snow. Fey Guards and Legionnaires slashed at each other with blades nearly frozen into their hands. Demonfey hurtled from the sky with spears, seeking the lifeblood of any Lighter they could catch unawares, and the entire clearing seemed to shudder in the violence of the tumult. Screams of pain and hatred mingled with cries of lament and weariness; growls of ferocity answered viperous hisses of hatred, and the shrill clangor of metal against metal shook the snow-laden air. Beneath their boots, trampled and torn, the pristine landscape wept crimson tears while the hands of winter enwrapped the combatants in a unifying mantle of white.
As the uniforms of those locked in battle became masked by snow, the Fey of the Light and Reviled found it increasingly difficult to distinguish Light from Dark. They looked to the wings and the shade of the eyes of the one they faced, as they alone became the means of differentiating one from the other. Red blood bled red and pain expressed itself through its own language that all too clearly understood.
Zraylaunyth stood upon the bulwark of one of the Temple walls, winter whipping around him as if hysterical, whispering in voices only he could understand.
It spoke of wrath and loathing in wailing tones. It articulated enmity and mistrust through its icy hands. It shrieked in anguish as the life-force of countless Fey suffused into its inexorable embrace.
Sparkling cerulean lifted to the starless sky, seeking release from the torturous song of the storm. Cobalt, emeraldine, amber and violet glistened in the azurine sea of his gaze amid crystalline tears; yet the howl of the tempest did not relent.
Listening keenly, he held his silence and waited.
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You might think making a film about real-life events would be easier than making up a story from whole cloth. After all, your script is already written for you, and your presumptive audience already knows — and is presumably interested in — your story. But in fact, making a film about historical events adds another layer of complexity to an already difficult art form. What at first look like advantages turn out to be liabilities. If you're telling a story about the life of a famous person, where do you begin and where do you end? Your subject is famous, so everyone knows what she or he looks like. How do you find someone who looks enough like that famous face, who can act as well? Movies are carefully controlled flows of information, but real life is big, messy, and totally unconcerned with how many characters it has to introduce to an audience in the first 20 minutes. And audiences who care about your subject will have very strong opinions about how things ought to be, and woe be unto you if your interpretation is different.
The filmic battlefield is littered with failed attempts at historical biographies, which make the list of successes, such as Spike Lee's Malcolm X, James Mangold's Walk the Line, and Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page, all the more remarkable. And to that list of successes we can now add Ava DuVernay's Selma.
Former publicist turned director DuVernay, who was the first African-American woman to win the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival, set the difficulty level at "expert" for her third narrative feature. She wanted to illuminate the character of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., like Lee had with Malcolm X. But to avoid the pitfalls of the epic sweep of Lee's film, she chose, like Mangold's Walk the Line, to concentrate on a specific period from her subject's life: The 1964 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. And, like Harron had Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page, she needed a good actor who also resembled MLK. Choosing veteran English actor David Oyelowo to portray King may have been the smartest move DuVernay made in this production that's full of smart moves.
Like Spielberg did with Lincoln, DuVernay clearly wants to humanize King and bring his gifts of leadership into sharp relief. The film opens backstage at the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, as Martin and Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejogo) nervously prepare for his big moment. Later, in a kitchen in Selma, King goofs off with Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) organizers, and Oyelowo ably paints King's momentary joy in being just one of the guys.
But ultimately, King is alone, even as he locks arms with the throngs of marchers during the epic battle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The same tactical genius King displays when choosing to bait Sheriff Jim Clark (Stan Houston) into confrontation by surrounding his courthouse with protestors demanding to register to vote tells him that J. Edgar Hoover (Dylan Baker) will similarly try to isolate him from his closest circle. And yet, Martin is blindsided when Hoover reveals Martin's marital infidelities to Coretta. DuVernay handles the controversial incident deftly, actually getting laughs from the audience as Martin squirms under Coretta's gaze. DuVernay paints King as both wholly divine and wholly human; he was a man like you, which means you can rise to his level of greatness if you keep your eyes on the prize.
Beyond Oyelowo, Selma is populated with good performances: Tim Roth's portrayal of Governor George Wallace cuts to the bone, and Oprah Winfrey's turn as Annie Lee Cooper is short but indelible. As 82-year-old protestor Cager Lee, Harry G. Sanders shares a heart-wrenching scene with Oyelowo as he is called to identify the body of his son, who was slain by police.
Confronted with such an epic story, there's only so much complexity DuVernay can cram into the movie. President Lyndon B. Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) is a conflicted figure, torn between his sympathies for the movement and the realities of Washington politics. But Wallace and Sheriff Clark are just mustache-twirling villains. Malcolm X (Nigel Thatch) appears briefly, apparently to give King someone to be jealous of, and is then assassinated offscreen. But these are minor missteps in the narrative minefield the director must traverse. In bringing together the personal, the political, and the historic, DuVernay has crafted a film that will be remembered and studied for years to come.
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President Obama to address U.S. from Afghanistan one year after death of bin Laden... after SEALs slam him for taking credit for killing
- President's war address will come exactly one year after special forces started a raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan
- Obama is in Afghanistan to sign agreement with Afghan president about U.S. future in the country after war
- Unannounced meeting comes as SEALs criticise Obama for taking credit for the death of bin Laden and for using it as re-election campaign tool
President Obama will today address the nation from Afghanistan - where he has taken a secret trip to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai exactly one year after the death of Osama bin Laden.
The president arrived in Kabul shortly after 2.30 p.m. to sign an agreement with Karzai cementing the U.S. role in the country after the war ends in 2014.
He will give a speech on the war effort that will be broadcast in the U.S. at 7.30 p.m.
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Together: President Obama has arrived on a secret trip to Afghanistan, where he has signed an agreement with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the U.S. presence in the country after the war
The agreement with Karzai covers how the U.S. will be involved with security, economics and governance after the unpopular war is brought to an end.
It will essentially give both sides political cover: Afghanistan gets its sovereignty but knowledge it won't be abandoned, while the U.S. ends its combat mission but keeps a foothold in the country.
While the deal does not force the U.S. to maintain an troop presence, it does allow the nation to keep forces in the country after the war ends for training and targeted operations against al Qaeda.
Obama arrived at Bagram Airfield - the main U.S. airbase in the nation - and was greeted by Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
He then flew by helicopter to the presidential palace in Kabul to sign the agreement with Karzai.
Obama will be in Afghanistan, where the U.S. has been engaged in war for more than a decade following 9/11, for about seven hours.
In agreement: Obama and Karzai sign the strategic partnership agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul
A done deal: Obama and Karzai shake hands after signing the agreement, which outlines how the U.S. will be involved with security, economics and governance
Support: Obama will deliver a speech to the U.S. later tonight in which he will say that although the war finished on his watch, the commitment to the country will continue
His speech is scheduled for 7.30 p.m., which is 4 a.m. local time. It will come exactly a year after special forces, on his order, began the raid that led to the killing of bin Laden in Pakistan.
Its message will be that the war is ending on his watch but the U.S. commitment to its ally is not, the Associated Press reported.
Media travelling with Obama had agreed to keep it secret until Obama had flown to the nation's capital, Kabul, where Taliban insurgents launch lethal attacks.
As he battles for re-election, Obama is seeking to portray his foreign policy record, including the killing of bin Laden, as a success - yet it has also come under scrutiny today.
Serving and former US Navy SEALs slammed the president for taking the credit for killing bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as 'ammunition' for his re-election campaign.
The SEALs spoke to MailOnline after the Obama campaign released an ad entitled 'One Chance'.
Side by side: President Obama and President Karzai signed the agreement at the presidential palace in Kabul
Future: It does not commit U.S. troops to stay in the country but they can remain to train Afghan troops
In it President Bill Clinton is featured saying that Obama took 'the harder and the more honourable path' in ordering that bin Laden be killed. The words 'Which path would Mitt Romney have taken?' are then displayed.
The White House is also marking the first anniversary of the SEAL Team Six raid that killed bin Laden inside his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan with a series of briefings and an NBC interview in the Situation Room designed to highlight the 'gutsy call' made by the president.
Mr Obama used a news conference to trumpet his personal role and imply that his Republican opponent Mr Romney, who in 2008 expressed reservations about the wisdom of sending troops into Pakistan, would have let bin Laden live.
'I said that I'd go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did,' Mr Obama said. 'If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they'd do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it.'
Unannounced visit: President Obama shakes hands with U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker after arriving at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan. He will address the U.S. from the country tonight
Arrival: Obama, pictured leaving Air Force One, is in Afghanistan exactly one year after the death of bin Laden
Welcome: President Obama is also in Afghanistan to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Ryan Zinke, a former Commander in the US Navy who spent 23 years as a SEAL and led a SEAL Team 6 assault unit, said: 'The decision was a no brainer. I applaud him for making it but I would not overly pat myself on the back for making the right call.
'I think every president would have done the same. He is justified in saying it was his decision but the preparation, the sacrifice - it was a broader team effort.'
Mr Zinke, who is now a Republican state senator in Montana, added that Obama was exploiting bin Laden's death for his re-election bid. 'The President and his administration are positioning him as a war president using the SEALs as ammunition. It was predictable,' he said.
Obama has faced criticism even from allies about his decision to make a campaign ad about the raid. Arianna Huffington, an outspoken liberal who runs the left-leaning Huffington Post website, roundly condemned it.
She told CBS: 'We should celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. It's one thing to have an NBC special from the Situation Room... all that to me is perfectly legitimate, but to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do.'
Invite: Karzai invited President Obama to sign the agreement at his presidential palace in Kabul
Campaigning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Mr Romney responded to a shouted question by a reporter by saying: 'Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order.'
A serving SEAL Team member said: 'Obama wasn't in the field, at risk, carrying a gun. As president, at every turn he should be thanking the guys who put their lives on the line to do this. He does so in his official speeches because he speechwriters are smart.
'But the more he tries to take the credit for it, the more the ground operators are saying, "Come on, man!" It really didn't matter who was president. At the end of the day, they were going to go.'
Chris Kyle, a former SEAL sniper with 160 confirmed and another 95 unconfirmed kills to his credit, said: 'The operation itself was great and the nation felt immense pride. It was great that we did it.
'But bin Laden was just a figurehead. The war on terror continues. Taking him out didn't really change anything as far as the war on terror is concerned and using it as a political attack is a cheap shot.
Target: Bin Laden, pictured in his compound in Pakistan, was killed a year ago
Mission: Senior figures, including Hillary Clinton, gathered to watch Navy SEALs invade the compound
'In years to come there is going to be information that will come out that Obama was not the man who made the call. He can say he did and the people who really know what happened are inside the Pentagon, are in the military and the military isn't allowed to speak out against the commander- in-chief so his secret is safe.'
Senior military figures have said that Admiral William McRaven, a former SEAL who was then head of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) made the decision to take bin Laden out. Tactical decisions were delegated even further down the chain of command.
Mr Kyle added: 'He's trying to say that Romney wouldn't have made the same call? Anyone who is patriotic to this country would have made that exact call, Democrat or Republican. Obama is taking more credit than he is due but it's going to get him some pretty good mileage.'
A former intelligence official who was serving in the US government when bin Laden was killed said that the Obama administration knew about the al-Qaeda leader's whereabouts in October 2010 but delayed taking action and risked letting him escape.
Rival: Mr Obama has questioned whether Mitt Romney would have done the same
'In the end, Obama was forced to make a decision and do it. He knew that if he didn't do it the political risks in not taking action were huge. Mitt Romney would have made the call but he would have made it earlier – as would George W. Bush.'
Brandon Webb, a former SEAL who spent 13 years on active duty and served in Iraq and Afghanistan, said: 'Bush should get partial credit for putting the system in place.
'Obama inherited a very robust package with regards to special ops and the intelligence community. But Obama deserves credit because he got bin Laden – you can't take that away from him.
'My friends that work in Special Operations Command (SOCOM) that have been on video teleconferences with Obama on these kill or capture situations say that Obama has no issue whatsoever with making decisions and typically it's kill. He's hitting the kill button every time. I have a lot of respect for him for that.'
But he said that many SEALs were dismayed about the amount of publicity the Obama administration had generated about SEAL Team Six, the very existence of which is highly classified.
'The majority of the SEALs I know are really proud of the operation but it does become "OK, enough is enough – we're ready to get back to work and step out of the limelight." They don't want to be continuously paraded around a global audience like a show dog.
'Obama has a very good relationship with the Special Operations community at large, especially the SEALs, and it's nice to see. We had the same relationship with George W. Bush when he was president.'
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Mix the olive oil and crushed garlic together and rub the fillets of salmon with this mixture, season with salt and pepper.
Place the fillets in a frying pan, pour in the water and place the sprigs of rosemary on top. Cover with a lid and gently poach the fillets on a low heat for about 7–10 minutes until cooked. Remove from the heat and let them cool for a couple of minutes.
Meanwhile roast the asparagus in a dry frying pan for about 6–8 minutes, until just cooked. Season with salt and fresh ground black pepper, drizzle over the extra virgin olive oil.
Gently warm both sides of the deli rap in a dry frying pan, place on a work surface and cut in half. Place half of the curd cheese across the middle of each half deli wrap, sprinkle the chives on top and arrange the salmon fillets and asparagus over the cheese.
Carefully fold the sides of the deli wraps inwards to enclose the filling to form a cone shape. Serve at room temperature.
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2 x 130 g fillets of salmon, skin off
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 small clove garlic, crushed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
11/2 tablespoon water
3 sprigs fresh rosemary
8 thin asparagus spears, bases trimmed
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
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What are my chances?
A challenging goal
In spite of the very demanding qualifications and achievements needed to become an academic, it is still a very popular role. It is a much more competitive occupation than many other business, industry or other public sector roles.
Before embarking on the path to an academic career, you should review the evidence:
- The academic job market - overview
- Destinations of UK graduates and postgraduates
- Longer term career destinations
You should also consider how well you stand out compared to your competitors and what you could do to enhance your chances:
The academic job market - overview
It is hard to establish how many aspiring academics finally make it into a permanent academic job. It takes many years to establish an academic career and very long term career destination surveys are not routinely carried out.
However, those short and longer term reviews which are available for the UK are discussed below.
What does emerge is that the academic job market varies significantly by discipline. In some disciplines, there may be a shortage of suitable candidates. This is more likely in
- fields where other fulfilling - or lucrative - careers are keen to target doctoral researchers, such as academic medicine or some areas of business and finance
- emerging fields, where funding is strongly supported by government or industry/commerce and qualified academics are in short supply
However, for most disciplines, it is clear that having a PhD is not enough to get you into an academic career. To assess the challenge ahead of you, look at the number new PhDs graduating in your department each year - and the number of vacancies for new lecturers.
Destination surveys
Destinations of UK graduates and postgraduates
What data is collected?
Each year, all graduates (including postgraduates) who graduate in the UK and whose home base is in the UK are surveyed within a year of completing their degree to find out where they go next.
This data is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
HESA have also started to collect longitudinal destination data of a sample of these graduates and postgraduates, three and a half years on from graduating.
Various analyses of the data relating to doctoral researchers have been published by Vitae in their 'What Do Researchers Do?' series.
What does it show?
For those graduates in UK employment in November 2008, three and a half years after graduating (all disciplines):
- First degree graduates with a 1st or 2:1
0.3% were working in HE research occupations, 0.2% were teaching or lecturing in HE
- Masters graduates
1.7% were working in HE research occupations, 1.7% were teaching or lecturing in HE
- Doctoral graduates
19.2% were working in HE research occupations, 21.6% were teaching or lecturing in HE
It is unsurprising that few first degree or Masters graduates were in HE roles, three and a half years after graduating. Even those who ultimately become academics would be more likely to be undertaking doctoral research at that stage in their careers.
For doctoral graduates, however, there is wide variation by discipline.
- Arts and Humanities
Only 7.5% were in HE research roles (the lowest of any group of disciplines), but 50% were teaching and lecturing in HE (the highest of any group of disciplines)
- Biological Sciences
27.3% were in HE research roles (the highest of any group of disciplines), but only 7% were teaching or lecturing in HE (the lowest of any group of disciplines)
- Biomedical Sciences (which includes clinical disciplines)
23.3% were in HE research roles, 14.8% were teaching or lecturing in HE
- Physical Sciences and Engineering
18.8% were in HE research roles, 14.0% were teaching or lecturing in HE
- Social Sciences
13.7% were in HE research roles, but 46.5% were teaching or lecturing in HE
Care should be taken in interpreting this data as 'teaching or lecturing in HE' also includes 'university tutorial and teaching assistants' and does not indicate that those in this category have achieved permanent lectureships.
However, it does indicate the proportion of doctoral graduates who were still working in HE, three and a half years after graduating. It also gives an indication of the significant proportion of doctoral graduates no longer working in HE research or teaching at that stage in their career.
For further details, see the Vitae series of "What do researcher do?" publications (see link in box in this section). In particular
- What do researchers do? Doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on, 2010 - pages 21-23 for information on occupational clusters
- What do researchers do? Doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on. Methodology, 2010
Longer term career destinations
The UK Research Councils, who fund a good deal of research in UK universities, have an interest in understanding the impact of that investment. They have commissioned the "Doctoral Career Pathways Study", one of whose outputs has resulted in the "What do researchers do? Doctoral graduate destinations and impact three years on" publication (for discussion, see previous section above).
Individual subject Research Councils have also periodically undertaken destination surveys of their sponsored PhDs.
Two recent surveys include:
In 2006, 413 people who had undertaken AHRC-sponsored PhDs were surveyed (most of the respondents were between 3 and 6 years on from graduation). Of these, 38% were in permanent academic positions, with another 21% in fixed-term academic posts.
- Science and Technology Facilities Council - A Study of Career Paths of PPARC/STFC Funded PhD Students
In 2009, 658 people who had undertaken STFC or PPARC (Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council) sponsored PhDs were surveyed (most of these respondents were between 6 and 9 years on from graduation). Of these, 15% were in permanent Lecturer or Senior Lecturer positions, with another 27% in fixed-term teaching or research posts or research fellowships.
The biosciences career pyramid
Dr Ian Lyne, Head of Skills and Careers at the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, gave a presentation in June 2010 at the Concordat Workshop, London and East of England Regional Hubs.
In this he presented the following data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency for biosciences employment in UK universities:
- Professors - 1,190
- Senior Lecturers - 1,710
- Lecturers - 1,720
- Post-doctoral researchers - 5,515
It is unlikely that large numbers of these Lecturers would be ready to retire or be promoted within the next 1-5 years. However, most post-doctoral researchers would generally be looking for their next move within that time frame.
On top of this, new PhDs join the ranks of post-doctoral researchers every year.
Undergraduates, graduates and masters
As an undergraduate, you would normally expect to gain at least a 2:1 or a 1st class honours degree if you aspire to becoming an academic.
Some undergraduates only shine once they move into postgraduate study or research, or later in their careers, but you are starting out with a potential disadvantage if you get a 2:2 or lower.
- What could you do to convince academics to take you on to Masters or doctoral research programmes?
- Have you made a positive impression with the right academics, so they might be prepare to take a chance on you for a studentship or research assistantship?
- Are you aiming to work in a very competitive discipline or could you look at an alternative emerging field where the competition may be less fierce?
- Have you talked to a number of academics to do a reality check?
Masters degrees can be awarded as a Pass, or with Merit or Distinction. Some disciplines at some universities expect at least a Merit or Distinction at Masters level for entry into their doctoral programmes. However, a Pass is sufficient for many other programmes.
Assess the competition
Doctoral researchers and post-doctoral research / staff
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Moon phase on 15 December 2078 Thursday is Waxing Gibbous, 11 days young Moon is in Taurus.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Waxing Gibbous is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 83% and growing larger. The 11 days young Moon is in ♉ Taurus.
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Previous main lunar phase is the First Quarter before 3 days on 12 December 2078 at 07:52.
Moon rises in the afternoon and sets after midnight to early morning. It is visible to the southeast in early evening and it is up for most of the night.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♉ Taurus tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 0.9% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1950".
Next Full Moon is the Cold Moon of December 2078 after 3 days on 18 December 2078 at 23:34.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 11 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the first to the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 976 of Meeus index or 1929 from Brown series.
Length of current 976 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 42 minutes. It is 1 hour and 57 minutes longer than next lunation 977 length.
Length of current synodic month is 5 hours and 58 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 1 hour and 5 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠196.6°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠225.6°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
12 days after point of apogee on 2 December 2078 at 15:34 in ♏ Scorpio. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 2 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 17 December 2078 at 21:10 in ♊ Gemini.
Moon is 364 414 km (226 436 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 2 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 358 828 km (222 965 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♉ Taurus at 19:09 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from South to North. Moon will follow the northern part of its orbit for the next 13 days to meet descending node on 28 December 2078 at 21:50 in ♏ Scorpio.
At 19:09 on this date the Moon is completing its previous draconic month and is entering the new one.
8 days after previous South standstill on 6 December 2078 at 12:06 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.555°. Next 4 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.536° in the next northern standstill on 19 December 2078 at 14:06 in ♊ Gemini.
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I wanted to follow up on my earlier thoughts on the Flat Earth movement and, just to prove to Peter Reilly that I could not mention Kent Hovind even once.........DANGIT! Ok, no more after this.
I'm fascinated by the individuals, the movement and the thought processes behind social phenomenon such as the Flat Earth.
I haven't been able to gather more than anecdotal evidence but I suspect a fairly sizable crossover between Flat Earthers (FEs) and 9/11 "Truthers." Whether this is broadly true or simply for those to whom this does apply, it seems likely that it is a "logical" extension. Given the length of time and the dwindling media coverage of and interest in the 9/11 conspiracy peddling, maybe one explanation for the flat earth is that it's simply the conspiracy theory du jour.
I've heard FE debaters give their bios along these lines: "Well, I was into 9/11 and just kept looking and now I'm into this." So, "logical," right?
There is a great deal of research on what makes otherwise functioning members of our society latch on to conspiracy theories of all sorts.
Evolutionary psychologists refer to the "tiger in the weeds" phenomenon. Our ancestors on the savannah noted a rustle in the weeds. Individuals that attributed it to the wind or thought nothing of it at all might continue happily munching on some carcass and find they lost the opportunity to become our ancestor, pass on their genes and avoid the beast that began happily munching on them.
Those that lived long enough to become our ancestors were those that saw agency in the rustle and scampered up the nearest tree even when it was just the wind. Paranoia has a survival advantage but also creates a species prone to what scientists refer to as false positives and confirmation bias. In one sense, seeing agency (read conspiracy) even when it isn't really present is hard-wired into humans.
Psychologists refer to another glitch in the human mind that demands a bad answer rather than no answer at all. One of the most difficult parts of training to be a scientist is the requirement to be comfortable with not knowing. Scientists live on the frontier between what is known and unknown. The budding scientist who sees a hole in our knowledge and simply inserts something without the proper foundation is excoriated by her peers.
The scientist who posits "I don't know what this is....... It MUST be......" and it doesn't matter how brilliant the next word or words that follow are. That scientist's peers will eviscerate his work in peer-reviewed journals. If you don't know what it is, the conversation is over until you do. If a researcher doesn't know something they are required to say as much.
Not so in the world of conspiracy theories. It almost seems in that world that you win points for coming up with the most outlandish untested and, often, untestable theory. Lump multiples of those together and you double your bonus. It's the opposite and antithesis of Occam's razor. Rather than minimize assumptions, Conspiracy Theorists revel in multiplying them.
Much of modern science has simply passed the layman by, myself included. I've heard scientists themselves say "the easy problems have all been solved." The cutting edge mysteries being worked on now require multiple nations, millions of dollars and at least a 30 minute conversation just to describe what's being studied in the most rudimentary way. We're way past the time when an amateur with zeal, working alone in his basement in his free time can push the boundary between the scientific knowns and unknowns.
Some of those that long for those days and are working to recapture them are conspiracy theorists. These zeal-filled folk can't discover the Higgs boson but they have the internet and don't have to have a particle accelerator or leave their basement to "contribute" to the flat earth movement. They do this, in other words, because this is what they can do.
We've all heard "knowledge is power," and psychologists have studied the power dynamic of conspiracy theorists. Doing this, whatever their 'this' is, gives conspiracy theorists a feeling of power and control in a world where few of us experience a surfeit of either given the pace of change in our modern world. We've all felt that rush when we knew something before everyone else in our office or family or local bar knew it. Same with knowing something no one in our circle will ever know if we don't tell them.
Whether what the conspiracy theorist knows is factually correct is completely beside the point.
On specifically the Flat Earth movement I approached this question the same way I did following 9/11. Forget the minutiae, that's where FEs live and breathe and you'll never get those minutes of your life back that you waste on it.
Look at the big picture of what is really being proposed. Their map, when they give you one (it's more difficult than you think to get one from them) fails. No matter how they lay it out, there will be two points that their map says are far apart that just aren't. They usually propose something like one of the maps shown here.
So, ice in the middle, an ice ring around the perimeter and a tiny sun, really close to the earth that doesn't provide heat in any logical way. Frequently gravity is denied.
To conclude, though, let's remember that this is a Conspiracy Theory. Set aside the question "Why would so many people and groups even bother?" because there isn't a good answer that I've heard. Let's focus on the Conspiracy. It makes 9/11 look timid by comparison. Who is in on it?
An incomplete list:
1) Every major nation, certainly every nation with a space or satellite program. You know, the Government. Governments. Even the ones that hate each other.
2) NASA of course. All lying. Every astronaut is an actor and we never went to the moon.
3) Google and their satanic Google Maps.
4) Every international airline which takes the trouble to fly inefficient and expensive routes to maintain the fiction.
5) Every major shipping company
6) Every astronomer and observatory
7) Every scientist from a relevant field for the last 300 years.
No single entry to this list could maintain a Conspiracy, much less all of them. Our President can't keep a meeting of 8 White House officials about leaking secret. 7 of the people in that meeting leaked and that's just a meeting about trying to stop leaks.
That list is nowhere near exhaustive but the simplest evidence for a globe earth I know came from my time in the US Army (also in on it). I did basic training at Ft. Benning in Georgia and had the privilege of visiting the Army Shooting Team's barracks.
This is a clip from 'Suicide Squad,' one of the many super hero movies in vogue just now. Will Smith plays Floyd 'Deadshot' Lawton, an assassin for hire who gets imprisoned and then coopted to join a super hero group of villains deemed expendable. He agrees to this to shorten his sentence so he can try to reunite with his daughter. Spoiler alert, they succeed in their mission and he's granted some time to visit his daughter. Pay close attention to what he says to her about long distance shooting:
Long before Flat Earth became a thing a fantastic marksman in the Army confirmed that fact to me. Seems rather obvious, no? Shoot long enough and you have to factor in the curve of the earth and snipers are not in the business of missing to maintain a conspiracy.
Believing in this, thinking about, writing about it and even having conventions about the Flat Earth may fill some of these people's lives with meaning, no matter how misguided. What FE's future may be can't be known but we'll all keep our eyes on the horizon, even if it is fake, for the next Conspiracy Theory to come along.
See, Peter, I did a whole post without mentioning Hovind.........DANGIT!!!
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The Premier League resumes after the international break with a tasty North London derby between bitter rivals Arsenal and Spurs at the Emirates on Saturday afternoon.
For most of the modern Premier League era, North London has been "red", with Arsenal dominating, but the balance of power in recent times has shifted marginally to White Hart Lane, with Mauricio Pochettino's side four points ahead of the Gunners in the league table going into this weekend clash.
Both teams face German opposition in Europe next week, but it is Spurs who are in the Champions League (against Dortmund), while Arsenal have to make do with a fixture against Koln in the less glamorous Europa League.
For Arsenal, the 3-1 loss to Man City before the international break has left the Gunners 12 points behind Pep Guardiola's side with barely a third of the season gone, and the calls for "Wenger Out" will intensify if they lose to Spurs at home on Saturday. The Lilywhites, on the other hand, ground out a hard fought 1-0 win over Roy Hodgson's Crystal Palace, with South Korean international Heung-Min Son scoring the winner in the second half.
Arsenal strikers Alexandre Lacazette and Alex Iwobi both found success for their respective countries during the international break, with the former netting a brace in France's 2-2 draw away at Germany and the latter playing a pivotal role in Nigeria's surprise come from behind 4-2 win over Argentina.
For Spurs, Christian Eriksen scored a hat trick, including one absolutely sumptuous goal, as Denmark beat the Republic of Ireland 5-1 in the second leg of their playoff tie in Dublin to qualify for the World Cup. Key defender Jan Vertonghen sat out Belgium's 3-3 draw against Mexico with an ankle injury, but played in the Red Devils' 1-0 win over Japan in mid week and should be fit to take his place in the starting XI on Saturday.
The trio of Harry Winks, Harry Kane and Dele Alli didn't feature in England's friendlies against Brazil and Germany, and Spurs fans will be hoping that the time off will see them return in peak condition for a clash against their biggest rivals.
For all of Arsenal's troubles in recent times, the Emirates remains a tough place to win for Spurs- their last triumph came back in 2010, and several of their key players, like the 30 year old Vertonghen, have never tasted league success away at Arsenal. That would explain Wenger's men being quoted at 29/20, with Spurs at 37/20 to win at the time of writing.
The referee for this one is Mike Dean, who was also the man with the whistle when Spurs lost 3-2 in the League Cup to West Ham a few weeks ago. Dean's last game in charge of Arsenal was the seven goal thriller against Leicester that the Gunners won 4-3 to start the new Premier League season on a high.
Recent form (Arsenal)
Man City 3-1 Arsenal
Arsenal 0-0 Red Star
Arsenal 2-1 Swansea
Arsenal 2-1 Norwich (Cup)
Everton 2-5 Arsenal
Recent form (Tottenham)
Tottenham 1-0 Crystal Palace
Tottenham 3-1 Real Madrid
Man Utd 1-0 Spurs
Spurs 2-3 West Ham (Cup)
Tottenham 4-1 Liverpool
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur at the Emirates Stadium on 18 November, 2017.


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With the amount of snow we've had this past winter, Connecticut landscapes have really taken a beating. In the last 3 weeks I've seen more damage from this winter than I have in the previous 10 winters combined. Here is a picture of a beautiful Japanese Cutleaf Maple not only with a major crack in the central leader but also trunk damage caused by rodents. Neither situation is good. Let's hope this mature specimen tree makes it to see another landscape season.
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Do You Dare
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Do you dare to be truly YOU? With all your faults and all your pleasure? Do you dare to reach deep into your center and pull out all that lights you on fire and share it with the world?! Leave YOUR Mark by daring to be your you-est you!!
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text: Houston is a city of deeply-rooted southern rap origins. Starting in the late 80's with the groundbreaking Rap-A-Lot Records then transitioning to the early 90's with DJ Screw and the Screwed Up Click and then, Swishahouse Records, but The City of Syrup had gone on a drought musically following the glory days. That was until a young man named Albert Mondane from "Dead End", one of the infamous neighborhood's in Houston's Southside (and home to Texas legends Fat Pat and Big Hawk) started his own record label called, The Sauce Factory. The label consists of Sancho Saucy, Sosaman, Rizzoo, Doughboy Sauce, 5th Ward JP, Peso Peso and many other artists that makeup the strong starting lineup. The trailblazing efforts of the relatively young label have been recognized in the city, and the tremors of this new era of Houston's rap scene are still felt nationwide in the culture directly & indirectly. Many people familiar with Houston's influence in the hiphop genre see this as a resurrection of sorts for a clutch save of a city which in recent times has been fairly stagnant save for a few standout artists. Very recently the well known H-town artist Sauce Walka dropped the music video for his song 'Ghetto Gospel' a return to form for the 'Sauce Overload' rapper. With a beat produced by the Sauce Factory's talented in-house producer, Iceman Chamberlain that incorporates the sample "Kingdom Hearts" by Utada Hikaru the song has a mellow, almost ethereal feeling that truly puts Iceman's elite production on the spotlight, complimented with the hard hitting lyrics reminiscent of Sauce Walka's former alias – A-Walk. This track is a certified street classic with the stamp of approval by Splif D and the ear of the real Houston rap stans and hiphop heads worldwide.


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Oktober 2018: ASPERITY
You are in the lower earth orbit on a mission to the International Space Station ISS. Next to you, shuttle captain Charles Overmyer steers the spaceship - but suddenly he is put out of action by a malfunction of the shuttle. It's up to you to steer the shuttle safely to the ISS. What sounds like a dramatic science fiction film, is in fact the starting point for the VR experience ASPERITY (Director: Sebastian Ingenfeld | Producer: Lena-Carolin Lohfink | Technical Director: Seyed Ahmad Housseini).
ASPERITY is a multisensory experience that begins even before you put on your VR glasses. While you take seat on the detailed replica of a cockpit chair, you get a foretaste of the upcoming adventure. With the help of a joystick, the player can control the shuttle, while a glove with a Vive Tracker gives them the opportunity to operate the switches in the cockpit. The immersive experience is enhanced by the vibration of the seat and the binaural sound. All of these features turn ASPERITY intoan exciting 360° installation that puts the user in the middle of space. "It is a great experience to be able to break out of the personal comfort zone of linear filmmaking and be challenged over and over again," says director Sebastian Ingenfeld. For producer Lena-Carolin Lohfink, the project was a unique experience: "Producing ASPERITY with all its features was exciting, divers and has always presented me with new challenges that I have grown up to".
Further information on ASPERITY can be found on the project website.


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Discover the earliest forms of patterns and symbols
Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Piketberg
Though not open to the public, Diepkloof Rock Shelter near Piketberg is perhaps the most significant destination on your route. A provincial heritage site, the site – comprising two caves – is where researchers have discovered evidence of human occupation for nearly 85 000 years, and what is believed to be some of the earliest use of symbolism by early humans.
In addition to Middle Stone Age tools and other artefacts, scientists from the University of Cape Town's Department of Archeology and French colleagues have found about 300 pieces of ostrich eggshell with patterned markings thought to be around 65 000 years old in the shelter's deposit.
The researchers believe the graphic designs had meaning, indicating a form of communication ("symbolic messaging") that set our Diepkloof ancestors apart from their predecessors.
In addition to the Middle and Later Stone Age deposit, the site also displays rock art dating back to San hunter gathers, Khoe pastoralists and the colonial period. The overlapping sequence of these rock paintings also shows the long period during which the cave was occupied and used.
You can't enter the Diepkloof excavation site, but there are plenty of other cultural riches to discover nearby.


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We publish Articles in print three times annually. Articles are distributed to our subscribers, who still number in the hundreds, including libraries and databases across the world, and are available on LexisNexis and Westlaw. Our Articles have been cited in multiple courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court and the International Court of Justice.
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Bleeding symptoms
Approximately one third of carriers have clotting factor levels of less than 60 per cent of normal and may experience abnormal bleeding. In most cases, carriers experience symptoms similar to those seen in men with mild haemophilia, as well as some that are specific to women, such as prolonged or heavy menstrual bleeding.
Symptomatic carriers and women with haemophilia:
- may bruise more easily;
- may experience prolonged bleeding after surgery;
- may experience serious bleeding after trauma;
- often have heavier and more prolonged bleeding during their periods (menorrhagia) and are more likely to require an iron supplement or to undergo hysterectomy;
- are more likely to have postpartum bleeding following childbirth;
Studies have shown that the most common symptom women experience is prolonged bleeding after surgery such as a tooth extraction or tonsillectomy. They are also at risk of serious bleeding after an accident or injury.Menorrhagia
Carriers with low factor levels have a greater risk of heavy or prolonged menstrual bleeding (menorrhagia). Girls may have especially heavy bleeding when they begin to menstruate. Excessive blood loss can lead to anemia due to low levels of iron in the blood, resulting in weakness and fatigue.Dysmenorrhea and mid-cycle pain
Women with bleeding disorders are more likely to experience pain during their menstrual bleeding (dysmenorrhea). They may also experience a small amount of internal bleeding during ovulation, which can cause abdominal and pelvic pain (known as Mittelschmerz, a German word meaning "middle pain"). This bleeding can be severe or even life-threatening, especially in carriers with very low clotting factor levels, and may require urgent medical attention.
Perimenopausal bleeding
Menopause is the time in a woman's life when menstrual periods permanently stop. Perimenopause is the 3- to 10-year period before menopause when hormones are "in transition." Heavy and irregular menstrual bleeding occurs more commonly in all women as they approach menopause. Gynecological conditions (such as fibroids, polyps, etc.) are also more common at this stage of life. Carriers of haemophilia are at risk of more severe bleeding symptoms and may require treatment.Other gynecological problems
During the process of ovulation, women can develop simple (also called functional) ovarian cysts. These cysts are usually small, do not cause any problems, and go away on their own. Carriers of haemophilia seem to have a greater risk of bleeding into these simple cysts, which then become "hemorrhagic" ovarian cysts. Hemorrhagic ovarian cysts can cause considerable pain and may require urgent medical intervention.
Some carriers also suffer from endometriosis, a painful condition in which endometrial tissue, the tissue that lines the uterus, forms in the abdomen or other parts of the body. Although we do not yet understand the cause of endometriosis, women who experience heavy menstrual bleeding are more at risk of developing the condition.


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