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Ma belle amie est morte
I am getting sick of paying tribute to the greats. I love singing their praises, but it breaks my heart observing their passing. What a week of loss for lovers of great singing. First Bubbles and now Régine Crespin. As I wrote to a friend earlier, in the course of a few days we lose the quintessential American soprano and now the quintessential French soprano.
This is a singer I loved like few others. She had enormous reserves of power but her singing always had delicacy and a certain Gallic élan that few non-native French speakers ever muster (of course I except Maggie Teyte and Mary Garden). I was privileged to be able to see her when I was young as Madame de Croissy in Dialogues of the Carmelites (and yes, it was in English) on the Minneapolis stop of the Met tour. Her performance was riveting, perhaps surpassed in my experience only by Teresa Stratas as Suor Angelica (what is it with these divas and nuns?) One really felt that she was going through the death agonies. I only hope that, unlike her Croissy's, her passing yesterday was peaceful.
In my Sills entry, I forgot to mention that in my mind, she will always be as she was in the mid-seventies. The other, more hard-boiled Sills was perhaps a natural outgrowth of that other persona, but she should be remembered as a singer, not an administrator, as she herself said. But Crespin always gave the sense of being beyond age. Her Carmen and Charlotte toward the end of her career were as magnificent as her Kundry and Marschallin toward the beginning. And she always presented herself with such a sense of glamour and "womanliness", the term used perhaps most frequently to describe her and her singing.
There are so many recordings of hers I'd love to put on here. But how could I possibly choose: her faultless recording of Fauré's "Soir" from her 1966 EMI song recital? But what about that transcendent "Sombre foret" or "D'amor sull'ali rosee" from her 1958 EMI aria recording? Much less well-known but riveting are the excerpts from Hérodiade from 1963, one of a series of excerpts from French operas done by Pathé in the sixties. Even her effervescent Offenbach and Satie recordings from later in her career are to be treasured.
Given these and so many others that are more readily available (her definitive Nuits d'été and Shéhérazade, her exquisite Poulenc recordings (the Stabat Mater, which displays her exquisite pianissimi, the Dialogues des Carmélites, the ultra-beautiful profoundly moving recording of "C") I have chosen two of her more rare recordings. They are both from a 1967 Hunter College recital with my dear John Wustman at the piano.
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It's Just Too Much! - from the oldest
#dontwannadoit #notwearingamaskallday #illbeathome
Being in school with a mask on all day, is just too much! I don't want to sit in a plastic covered chair and have to deal with that all day. How can I learn in such a cramped environment?
I really want to see my friends and have fun with them, but the thought of that just deters me from wanting to be there. It has nothing to do with the actual virus. It is simply the drastic measures that we have to take to be in school.
Times are definitely changing! What are your thoughts of going back to school and how it will feel for you?
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The Modern Language Association congratulates the 2019 MLA Bibliography fellows who will serve from 2019 to 2022. The MLA International Bibliography staff members work with approximately one hundred field bibliographers, from all parts of the world, who cover subject areas, journals, and languages that cannot be indexed in the New York office. Each spring, five… Read more »
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MLA Members Receive 2019 NEH Grants
Congratulations to the nine MLA members who are among the winners of National Endowment for the Humanities grants announced in August 2019. Their projects include a scholarly edition of Charles W. Chesnutt's stories; a five-day institute for using digital methods to research digital culture; and a symposium on James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney. Scholarly Editions… Read more »
MLA Members Win MacArthur Fellowships
We are pleased to announce that three MLA members are among the 2019 Fellows honored by the MacArthur Foundation. Congratulations to the following: Saidiya Hartman, literary scholar and cultural historian Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University Jeffrey Alan Miller, literary scholar Department of English, Montclair State University Emily Wilson, classicist and translator Department… Read more »
MLA Teaching Institutes on Reading and Writing at Access-Oriented Institutions
The first two MLA Teaching Institutes—aimed at strengthening the teaching of English at access-oriented institutions—were offered this summer in Seattle and Amherst. The institutes are funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This year's thirty-two participants, a mix of faculty members at access-oriented institutions and advanced doctoral students at regional universities, received $2,500 stipends to… Read more »


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Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College will host the South Carolina Bar Pro Bono Program's Law School for Non-Lawyers from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, Feb. 16-March 29.
The Bar periodically offers the seven-week Law School for Non-Lawyers course, which covers a variety of general legal subjects and includes a helpful textbook on South Carolina law. It will meet in Room C-118.
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Five Things We Learned at the USA Indoor Championships (day 1)February 22, 2014 | Jesse Squire
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Is It Safe To Go To The Movies Yet?
Know the risks versus rewards.
It's been nearly six months since you could go out for a proper movie date, but films might once again be coming soon to a silver screen near you. CNBC reports that AMC, Regal, and other major national movie theater chains have begun re-opening as of late August. Though you can still catch premieres like live-action Mulan while streaming at home, you might be wondering if it's safe to go to the movie theater.
Is It Safe To Go To A Movie Theater?
In order to understand whether or not movie theaters are safe, you need to understand how COVID-19 spreads. "Movie theaters are enclosed environments where individuals are sitting for extended periods of time," says Dr. Sanjeev Jain, M.D., a doctor double-board certified in immunology and internal medicine. That's precisely the kind of environment you probably want to avoid during COVID, as good ventilation — think being outside, or at least having windows open — is an important part of lowering the risk of the virus spreading. However, if all your fellow patrons are wearing masks from commercials to end credits, viral particles might not spread within the theater itself; The Atlantic reports that wearing your mask and not talking can lower transmission rates by a factor of 50 as compared to talking very loudly (which hopefully, you're not doing in a theater anyway). "In the grand scheme of things, going to movie theaters is less risky than going to the gym or a bar, and has a similar risk to taking a two-hour airplane flight," Dr. Jain says.
What To Know Before Going To The Movies
"Going to movie theaters during COVID-19 pandemic certainly carries risk of transmission, but individuals need to make choices based on their individual circumstances and their risk tolerance," Dr. Jain says. The theater might be safer than your local gym, he explains, but that's not all there is to it. "One also needs to consider whether one is in contact with elderly relatives or individuals with other medical conditions, who have a much higher risk of complications from COVID-19." Even if your loved ones and coworkers stay home from the movies, there's a chance you could go and bring the virus back to your quarantine pod. Dr. Jain advises remaining extremely aware of the risk factors of people you live with or tend to be in contact with.
"The risk does vary greatly between region to region and the specific community," he adds. "Individuals need to know how prevalent the virus is in their specific community to better assess their risk." Check to see if your local COVID-19 stats are rising, staying steady, falling, or close to containment — the closer your county or state is to containment, the less risky an outing will be.
The other question is if your state regulations even allow movie theaters to open. According to CNN, about 1,400 theaters across the country were reopening as of late August, with chains like AMC pledging only to open after meeting guidelines set by state and local officials, requiring masks, and sanitizing theaters between screenings. Dr. Jain also says that it's best to find out what precautions your movie theater is taking — think temperature checks, limiting seat availability, and upgrading ventilation systems — before you grab your tickets and popcorn.
What Safety Precautions Should I Take At The Movies?
"Keeping a distance of six feet and wearing a mask are clearly beneficial, and are likely to reduce the risk of transmission by over 80%," Dr. Jain tells Bustle. But even if seats are spaced out, it's important to consider one of the hallmarks of American movie theaters — popcorn and soda. Dr. Jain says that the risk of transmission "increases dramatically" when people are taking off their masks to eat and drink in an enclosed space. Even if you order ahead to pick up your nachos and massive soda without customer service contact, remember that you've got to take your mask off to enjoy them — thereby potentially spreading viral particles you're carrying. And that might not be worth the rush to get back to the big screen.
At the end of the day, taking a two-hour airplane flight is probably more essential that going to the movies. Catching a new release, then, might not be high on your priority list for some time. "Reduction of risk down to zero is not practical or necessary, but life is unlikely to go back to pre-COVID state until after a safe and effective vaccine is widely administered," he says. "The most optimistic estimates for the majority of the population to be vaccinated is summer of 2021." In the meantime, he explains, you'll need to assess how safe a movie theater might be based on your own situation.
Dr. Sanjeev Jain, M.D., doctor double-board certified in immunology and internal medicine, Columbia Asthma and Allergy Clinic


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Effectively, we are saying, you get your head on the dating sport still! Being unemployed is the perfect time to see different folks and discover a partner who will enable you view your self in a much bigger context. This time, you'll no longer establish yourself as person with this job, quite you will outline your self by contrast: What sets you aside from the others? What are you able to do this others can not? What can you provide to the world? Dating will make it easier to find the correct answer. And once you do get a solution, you'll probably get a brand new job since dating and job hunting are just about on the identical airplane. They each involve confidence, power, chemistry and thrill of the chase. Basically, it's identical to declaring why you're the most effective candidate for the position.
The truth is western girls are below a variety of strain what with career and the same old everyday life-style, a lot so that they neglect one thing very important: The man in their life. The fact of the matter is the majority of western women as of late have not been introduced up with a lot in the best way of household values in comparison to some other international locations.
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Communication is very important in a relationship. It may be a phone name, a chat, a voice mail, an email or just a simple SMS. If the man desires to go out with you, he'll try to be in contact with you a way or the opposite. He may simply name you to ask you the way your day was. That is a certain sign of him wanting to meet you once more. Nevertheless, if you don't get to hear from him after your date, then it is best to take the trace. If the man actually likes you, he'll call you. If he does not, then you want to move on and find somebody higher.
Infatuation or the Actual Thing three. Wake yourself up with a can or three of vitality fizz Do not overlook the latter as you attempt desperately to hunt out the first. You just could be missing out on a great factor. We digress. Please can we dissuade you from Googling for clues concerning the person you are seeing later? The temptation could also be irresistible if you happen to met online and you're about to fulfill in particular person for the primary time, however "research" and creativeness are a dangerous mixture.
It saves you a tremendous period of time in dating.
This is maybe the most important benefit of senior dating on-line: availability of scores of individuals fortunately saying "I'm obtainable". Compare this to your native church or different place of worship. The larger number of older folks will often be "taken". Then there are these that can find something to speak about when you as a lot as insinuate that you want a date. And there are at all times the backstabbers and judgmental sorts.
Long distance marriages usually occur after a couple has lived together for some time period. The separation is often due to one associate's profession. Physical distance locations a number of distinctive stresses on a wedding. To start with, the bulk of family and baby care responsibilities fall to at least one associate. This accomplice may grow resentful or envy the liberty and seeming glamour of the commuting companion's life. They might also really feel insecure if their companion is going to be working carefully with members of the alternative intercourse.
Many women will not be reliable and will cheat on their companions in the same manner as men do, but in the end this isn't what a person or you're looking for in a long term partner so at each stage of attending to know one another, show him you're a woman value attending to know.


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French girls, as you know, do everything better: skin care (it's just a bit of cream), parenting (bébés have a national child-care system), and weight loss (they simply do not get fat). Naturally, they also have more fun.
And when in France, why not do as the French do? It's perhaps this embrace of a blasé French attitude that led a 32-year-old Swiss man to take LSD on a trip to Disneyland Paris, à la Lisa Simpson. Le Parisien reports that the man's girlfriend slipped him the drug, after which he promptly disappeared into a pond "launching a 130-person search with helicopters and dogs."
Rescuers found the man naked and barefoot a mile outside the park that same evening. Both he and his girlfriend were arrested, but were released after 24 hours, having suffered enough. Disneyland Paris was reportedly unfazed.
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Harrington, Rufus and Taylor, Karen (2019) The WISER MIND Model of cognitive behavioural resilience and therapy: a method to build resilience and treat psychological disorder. In: BABCP Bath 2019 47th Annual Conference & Workshops, 3-5 September 2019, University of Bath, UK. (Unpublished) Full text not available from this repository.(Contact the author)
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|Painting by Lloyd K. Townsend. c. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Illinois
Archaeologists working at Cahokia, America's first true mega-city, have discovered that many of the city's 50,000 inhabitants drank a highly
caffeinated beverage called 'Black Drink.' Black Drink is a dark colored tea made by roasting the leaves of the Yaupon holly. Yaupon holly, and the Black Drink, contains very high levels of caffeine- as much as six times that of a modern cup of coffee.
caffeinated beverage called 'Black Drink.' Black Drink is a dark colored tea made by roasting the leaves of the Yaupon holly. Yaupon holly, and the Black Drink, contains very high levels of caffeine- as much as six times that of a modern cup of coffee.
The discovery pushes back the date of first use of Black Drink by over 500 years. It also speaks to the widespread trade network maintained by the Cahokians as the closest source for the ilex vomitoria is the Gulf Coast, hundreds of miles south of modern St Louis, which is 20 miles from Cahokia.
According to the Illinois News Bureau story, Black Drink was used for many purposes, many of which were rituals. It often served as a key component of a purification ritual before battle or other important events. Because of the strong caffeine content rapid consumption of large quantities of the hot drink led to vomiting, which was often an important part of purification rituals.
The Illinois News Bureau story notes that scientists "found key biochemical markers of the drink – theobromine, caffeine and ursolic acid –in the right proportions to each other in each of the eight beakers they tested. The beakers date from A.D. 1050 to 1250 and were collected at ritual sites in and around Cahokia."
The discovery lends credence to the theory that Cahokia was not an isolated city, but part of a broader web of economic and cultural connections in the area of what is now the Southeast and Midwest of the United States. According to Thomas Emerson, the director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey: "[Cahokia] was the first pan-Indian city in North America, because there are both widespread contacts and emigrants…" Emerson also went on to suggest that Cahokia had attained "… a level of population density, a level of political organization that has not been seen before in North America."
I have to say I am thrilled by what we are learning about Cahokia. However, the article quotes Emerson as follows. "Cahokia was ultimately a failed experiment. The carving of figurines and the mound building there came to an abrupt end, and the population dwindled to zero. But its influence carried on. Cahokian influences in art, religion and architecture are seen as far away as Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Wisconsin… ." My main
problem with this is the description of Cahokia as a failed experiment.
Let's celebrate the fantastic discovery, the achievement of the Mississippian "civilization," but lose the negative connotations of 'failed experiment.'


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In his accommodationist book Rocks of Ages, Steve Gould importuned both science and religion to keep their distance from each other: "Thou shalt not mix your magisteria." But he didn't say anything about mixing metaphors.
Now that they're starting to build atheist churches (a horrible idea), are we going to start making similar embarrassing errors on our signs?
Evolution, Mr. Roemer, is not rocket surgery!
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It's that time of year again.
Woke political memes are being spread around and "land back" is being discussed by the useless online "leftist" scene as well as the true history of thanksgiving.
Doesn't take much to realize the piece of colonial propaganda and the continuation of colonization here in amerikkka that is thanksgiving.
It's always been "No Thanks" from us here at Black Hammer.
So how do we actually take action against colonialism to take the land back? And no, not just donating to an organization that gives charity to indigenous people or reposting to "spread awareness."
For an answer, we can look at our revolutionary ancestors, their struggles, wins and contradictions that came along with fighting the colonizers from their lands.
We can look towards the countless anti-colonial movements whether from Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde which was led by Amilcar Cabral or the victory of the Vietnamese communists led by Ho Chi Minh against the strongest military power at the time.
In order to take on the struggle of our ancestors, we must learn and pick up where they left off as well as combat any incorrect ideas among the Colonized masses.
For example, learning from the divide and conquer tactics used by the colonizers on Turtle Island, pinning one tribe of Indigenous people against the other. We know now that we must unite regardless of whatever sector of the land and people we represent.
Some have the incredibly wrong take that says those who are not indigenous to Turtle Island are "settlers" when in reality they are displaced Colonized people while others believe that anyone who is non-native "benefits" from the continued genocide and removal of indigenous people.
This type of talk leads us nowhere and is counterintuitive to actually taking back the land and the anti-colonial struggle. It goes against our Second Principle of Unity here at Black Hammer which states that all Colonized people are equal.
We are all indigenous to somewhere. But regardless we must learn from our ancestors and understand that we must unite as Colonized people worldwide to take down the largest empire to ever exist.
Not many are doing so but Black Hammer is; in word AND action. Building worldwide, from Turtle Island to Africa, we are uniting as Colonized people to finally end colonialism and build a new world where no one lives at the expense of another.
Enough of the liberal nonsense, the "What You Can Do To Help" and the completely wack ass analysis of land back and thanksgiving. Colonized people worldwide know they are still enslaved and we shouldn't give thanks to the exploited workers for giving us food by simply keeping them in mind; we thank them by getting free and building power for them and all those that are slaves for white power.
What we need as Colonized people is absolute control over our lives, labor, land and resources. We currently don't have any of this; that's why land and water protectors are constantly being arrested and abused by the white power state.
So be part of the land back movement that will actually get us free and recognizes each of our struggles as Colonized peoples as one single struggle. From Palestine to Turtle Island and everywhere in between, we will all be freed.
And for the mayosapiens reading, check out the post below, recognize your parasitic existence as the actual settler colonizers on stolen land and pay reparations to the Vanguard. CashApp: $BlackHammerOrg
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What more is there left for me to do?
I have laid my love at the feet of my beloved.
Along with all of my desires, above all, union.
This everlasting unity that surpases all things,
That the human mind dares to fathom.
Death, Forgiveness, Life.
What more is there to do?
For your hearts are hard,
And many harbour anger within their souls.
How can you see shame in him
For his sin, he had given in.
Thirty pieces, even.
"How can you say to your brother,
'Let me take the speck out of your eye,'
When all the time there is a plank in your own eye?"
You who give me up everyday freely.
What more is there left for me to do?
Reciprocation is what I hope for,
But not what I am in need of.
For it is mankind who needs I.
What more is there left for you to do?
Than to turn to me
Accept this gift that has been laid before you.
The burden that is no longer
The wages of sin demolished.
Death defeated!
What more is there left for me to do?
Other than to wait for you,
My beloved to return to me.
"The garden is planted in the east of Eden
Cherubim are stationed on the east side of the Garden of Eden
Parts of the burnt offering are to be thrown to the east side of the altar
The tabernacle's entrance faces east
In Ezekiel's vision God's glory comes from the east and enters the temple from the east.
The same temple faces east with a river flowing east from it"


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Sprite Packer - The Big Bang
I'm so excited to announce that today I'm officially starting my first (and hopefully not last ;)) ever blog for my new project.
As I was researching for my next simple 2D game I compiled a short list of tools that I thought I will need to make a complete game in short time. Sprite packer was one of them.
There are already a number of sprite packing software lying around the Internet that I could use. Namely, the two packers that I just have to mention for their efficient packing capabilities are the Image Packer from Blitz and the Sprite Sheet Packer developed by Nick Gravelyn, who was also looking for a tool for making sprite sheets and at the end decided to write his own.
While two of them are really good, especially the Sprite Sheet Packer, I felt it would be a great exercise for me to create my own packer that should give the user more control over sprite properties. Such as, defining sprite classes and subclasses (or types/names whatever you wanna call it), manual arrangement of sprites as well as auto-packing capabilities.
Another reason for doing this project is to use "best coding practices" such as coding to interfaces and TDD (just to name the few), and see exactly how much overhead is assosiated with applying them? I'm sure that the benefit of using such practices will, at the end, outweigh the overhead but still I would like to see how much time I will spend on applying each practice.


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Earlier this week, we showed what the XCOM 2 Collection looks like running on iOS. The game itself has also been out on PC and consoles for over three years now. Between mobile port footage and critical consensus, you can likely already decide if you want to pick up the XCOM 2 Collection on iOS. For the purposes of this review, I'll be talking less about the game itself (which--generally speaking--is good) and more about the nitty gritty details of Feral Interactive's port job that may influence your decision further.
Is this port portable?
If the reason you're eyeing XCOM 2 Collection on iOS comes from a desire to have a mobile-friendly version of the game, you may be in for some disappointment. Although you can technically play this game on-the-go, it's not exactly a recommended experience. XCOM 2 Collection has a long startup time on iOS, drains battery quickly, can often look cluttered and dark, and has a fickle cloud save system.
All of these things make it tough to justify whipping the game out at a moment's notice for quick-play sessions. In fact, I'd go as far to say that playing XCOM 2 Collection on a phone in general is not exactly advisable, as the issues described above are exacerbated by playing on a less capable device with a smaller screen. On cloud saves specifically, I have yet to successfully sync my saves across both devices, despite popups that ask me if I'd like to. All I've managed to do on that front is not completely overwrite my progress, though I have managed to delete old saves accidentally using this sync option.
Mobile performance
In our preview coverage of the XCOM 2 Collection, we laid out the devices that can run the game, but just because a device can run the game doesn't mean it runs well. I spent the majority of my time with XCOM 2 Collection on a 2018 11" iPad Pro, which is certainly up to the task of running the game, though on missions with weather effects, dropship fly-ins, and other moments of additional graphical intensity, the game would start to chug and drop frames.
It's worth noting that the iOS version of XCOM 2 has no graphics options, so you don't have the ability to tweak anything to make it run more smoothly. XCOM 2 Collection targets 30 frames per second for all supported devices, but there are definitely times where my iPad would venture both well above and below that target. I would have loved to see some options that could allow for some more consistent performance (or to make on-the-go play more viable), but sadly that is not the case.
Is it worth it?
Despite these issues at the margins, I still really enjoy every session I have with the iOS version of XCOM 2 Collection. To be crystal clear, none of these compromises fundamentally change the core experience. XCOM 2 Collection on iOS is the same game as the ones offered elsewhere, to the point that you can even transfer saves from the mobile version to continue your progress on the PC version of the game.
As a value proposition, XCOM 2 Collection may seem pricey by mobile standards, but everything in this package retails for over $ 125 on Steam. In paying a fifth of that asking price, you get more than your money's worth, even considering the trade-offs involved.
The bottom line
The problems with the XCOM 2 Collection aren't game-breaking and shouldn't stop anyone with a capable device (and a desire for a native app designed for mobile play) from picking it up. In a world where we seem to be on the verge of simply streaming PC games to our phones and tablets, though, folks who already have XCOM 2 on PC might want to wait and see if they can fire up remote (and better) version of the game in the near future.


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Rangers' draw at Alloa produced mostly mediocre performances, according to the results of our fan player ratings vote.
Michael O'Halloran was the clear Man of the Match, whereas the worst rating by far Martyn Waghorn, who was only saved from a score of about 1.8 by a late run of merciful 5s (perhaps due to people having calmed down voting later, with yesterday's votes the result of frustration and anger. We're not Rangers Report, this isn't scientific. And anyway, anger and frustration are perfectly legitimate emotions when you draw with Alloa.) Elsewhere, it was mostly fives, sixes, and other similar numbers.
Check out the full ratings:
Wes Foderingham: 5.2
James Tavernier: 5.7
Rob Kiernan: 5.7
Danny Wilson: 5.1
Lee Wallace: 6.0
Jason Holt: 6.0
Harry Forrester: 5.1
Andy Halliday: 5.2
Martyn Waghorn: 3.0 - Diddy of the day*
Michael O'Halloran: 6.8 - Man of the Match
Barrie McKay: 6
Kenny Miller: 5.2
Billy King: 6.1
Nicky Clark: 5.4
*Aye, well you try and come up with something better, then. Any ideas, leave them in the comments.


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The Washington Wizards suffered their 13th loss of the 2016-2017 season on Tuesday night by falling to the Orlando Magic 124-116, but that didn't stop Wizards point guard John Wall from giving the maximum effort.
Wall poured in a career-high 52 points in the loss while shooting 18-for-31 from the field, 5-for-8 from the three-point land, and 11-for-14 at the free throw.
Despite the impressive effort from Wall, the Magic scored 124 total points to create a new season-high for the Magic's 29th-ranked offense. That left Wall very unhappy with the Wizards' effort:
"Not even defensive effort, just playing hard," he said, according to Chase Hughes of CSN.
"Our job is to wake up and just play hard. Before you made it to the NBA or got a college scholarship, you played hard every day to get to where you wanted to. To still be talking about playing hard, that's something that you should be able to do after just waking up. Everybody has a job and they have to go work hard.
"Our job is to come here and play hard and compete. That's the easiest thing that you should do without any contracts or any money, just come in and play basketball."
The 26-year-old Wall, a three-time NBA all-star, is now averaging 24.1 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 9.8 assists per game this season.
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Maserati to electrify all new models and produce in Italy
Maserati is clarifying its electrification strategy: the Italian brand will introduce hybrid and purely battery-electric drives in all new Maserati models. Besides, all the electrified vehicles will be developed and built entirely in Italy.
Electrification will start this year with a hybrid version of the Maserati Ghibli, before production of the first all-electric Maserati models, the GranTurismo and GranCabrio, begins next year. Maserati is investing 800 million euros in the production of these electric vehicles.
Only recently, Maserati started testing its all-electric drive system, and plans to equip said first models with it from 2021. The GranTurismo and GranCabrio EVs are to be built in Turin, where parent company FCA is currently also building a battery assembly centre. According to the Group, the so-called battery hub will also have a centre for technology and prototype development, among other things. Besides, the new all-electric Fiat 500 is also scheduled to roll off the production line there from the second quarter of 2020.
So, the Mirafiori plant in Turin is to become the hub for the electrification and mobility of FCA in Europe in future. Still, "the heart of Maserati" will remain in Modena, where the headquarters and innovation laboratory are located. This plant, too, is currently undergoing extensive modernisation.
According to an investment plan published last November, Fiat Chrysler plans to invest more than five billion euros in the electrification of its Italian plants by 2021. Apart from Maserati, FCA will spend on a shared vehicle architecture and a plug-in hybrid drive system for the Jeep, Alfa Romeo and Fiat brands at the Mirafiori and Pomigliano plants.


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|The First Annual Robot Tournament
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Sure, let's pretend that freezing Bubble Man's bubbles could turn them into deadly projectiles once broken. It makes about as much sense as anything around here.
Man, there really is a lot of blood in this robot tournament, isn't there?
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Wednesday, October 31, 2001
It's Halloween! My pumpkin is outside on the mailboxes, smiling back at my apartment. I had to use one of my duck candles. I suppose it's worth it to see the glow of the orange-yellow fruit.
thenar: n. Anat. the ball of muscle at the base of the thumb.
Tuesday, October 30, 2001[Cafe Parvaneh]. I could barely keep my eyes open afterwards! It was so delicious, though. Too bad I was literally knocked out by the overindulgence.
I've been on a book-buying spree this last week. Since the purchases I mentioned [last Thursday], I've gotten Rosemary Hennessy's Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism, Lauren Berlant's The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, and Susan Oyama's The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Eep. They're all books I've had on my to-read list for ages. A couple of them I've had checked out of the library for quite awhile, too. My reading rate during the semester is atrocious, unfortunately, except for books assigned for class and articles directly related to papers I am writing. Even then, I can't read nearly as much as I want. But now I have them in my possession, so I can read them whenever I want without worrying about due dates and such.
Poor Joe. He's sad. But he's brave. He's so brave always. I admire him for what he has done and what he continues to do with his life, even though it is so hard sometimes to deal with people's reactions.
(Alliterate me: Parvenu Paul pickled peppers patiently, surpassing staid Sal's supermarket sales?)
parvenu: n. (fem. parvenue) 1 a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth or position. 2 an upstart. § adj. 1 associated with or characteristic of such a person. 2 upstart.
Monday, October 29, 2001
Someday, I might become an amanuensis. In fact, I used to like to copy out by hand stories I liked. Gimme your manuscripts!
amanuensis: n. (pl. amanuenses) 1 a person who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts. 2 a literary assistant.
Sunday, October 28, 2001
As I was trying different places on the window ledge, going outside to look and then coming back inside, I noticed how absent the apartment complex is of any Halloween decorations. Oh well. I'm thinking on Halloween night I'll put my pumpkin out on the mailboxes structure.
I saw [Mulholland Drive] last night with some friends. It was straaaaaange. I haven't seen anything else by David Lynch before, but now I sort of understand why my friends in college insisted I would like his stuff. I actually didn't care too much for Mulholland Drive, though. Its oddity is what seems superficially appealing. But it lacks a sustained exploration of that oddity, in my opinion. In this movie, Lynch wants to think about identity and desire. I've been told that he's often used this "trick" -- switch the identity of his characters halfway through the movie. Well, okay. But what of it? By the end of the movie, the shifting identities and names only seems to be a game. There's no idea about what identities mean, if they are really shiftable, iterable, not completely fixed as we often think. Maybe there is some sort of clearer pattern of what Lynch did in changing the identities (one friend last night thought that every time the identities shifted, it was "one over"). But still, what of it? Are his characters all just stuck in a horrendous loop, doomed to replay the same desires between the same few players?
(Oops...burned the eggs I was frying. Need to learn how to pay attention when I'm cooking.)
One thing I could see in the movie was how Lynch was playing with the idea of acting. There seemed to be a consciousness in his characters by the time they switched identities that they were re-acting certain relationships with each other, re-interpreting them. It helps that in the first version of the story, Betty is an aspiring actress who practices a scene with Rita and then auditions the scene with an actor shortly after with an astounding difference. What seems flat, silly, and melodramatic at first becomes passionate, silly, and melodramatic the second time around.
I may be a cynic, but I think part of what was going on in the movie was a desire to have soft-core lesbian porn, too. And ok, yay for liberating female sexuality, but it quickly turned into craziness of women and love triangles with a man and jealousy and stuff.
effluvium: n. (pl. effluvia) an unpleasant or noxious odour or exhaled substance affecting the lungs or the sense of smell etc.
Saturday, October 27, 2001[LGBT UNC students respond to news of Durham murders.]
Running a bunch of small errands today. Maybe picking up some more books from the bookstore. As if I needed more of those things to pile up around my apartment. I've long since run out of bookshelf-space.
obstreperous: adj. 1 turbulent, unruly; noisily resisting control. 2 noisy, vociferous.
Friday, October 26, 2001
Word-of-the-Day brought to you by yesterday's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (a question asked about the shape of a ziggurat -- how obscure is that? but now you know)
ziggurat: n. (in ancient Mesopotamia) a pyramidal stepped tower built in several stages which diminished in size towards the summit, on which there may have been a shrine. Possibly derived from earlier platform temples, ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC; the one at Babylon may have been the biblical Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1-9).
Thursday, October 25, 2001
Bought today: Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole on DVD. Annie Leibovitz's Women. Edward Gorey's The Doubtful Guest. Issue #4 of Joss Whedon's Fray.
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
theodicy: n. 1 the vindication of divine providence in view of the existence of evil. 2 an insistence of this.
prurient: adj. 1 having an unhealthy obsession with sexual matters. 2 encouraging such an obsession.
I just want to surround myself with walls of sound, to drown out everything but loud music. There isn't any particular kind of music that I'm feeling now, though. I've put in Sarah McLachlan's Mirrorball, and I guess that's doing an okay job.
I'm thinking about working on a paper about emotions and violence. "Moved to Violence." Violence and the intent to harm.
E asked me this morning again what's wrong, and she thought I was just not wanting to talk about it, so she wanted me just to tell her what's up. But I don't know why I have this antipathy to people. I think it must be related to my periodic existential crises -- what am I doing in school? what is my goal? etc. etc. But how can I deal with these questions? Nothing ever seems to change.
Life is not about singular events. It's about repetition, a constant accumulation of sameness. Last night, [Buffy] went through a time-loop thing (like in the movie Groundhog Day) and I noted how much her situation was actually not extraordinary. Work, especially in a retail job, is the same every day. There is little to differentiate one day from the next, just the relentless onslaught of customers, questions, and problems to solve in keeping those customers happy. And I guess that's what's so confusing for me -- in studying literature and culture, I/we seem to look at singularity, even if we're looking at "representative" events. But how can we understand the utterly quotidian as informing our selves, our behaviors, our emotions?
Monday, October 22, 2001
How frightening is all this anthrax? It makes me feel like the world is so much more vulnerable than ever. I guess that's how terrorism works -- takes away any sense of a safe, good-intentions-driven world. I only hope that we've seen the limits of biological terrorism now. How awful to see scientific technology used as an insidious weapon.
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I love the developing relationship between Otoh-boto and Nurse Tyler in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night. I just love that book. It is so rich in depictions of novel possibilities of gendered and sexual relations. Where else do you get a moving story of a gay male nurse falling in love with a transgendered boy? There is a sense of humor in the book, but for once, this kind of relationship isn't simply a joke or a tragedy. I've been thinking about Cereus Blooms at Night again because of a flyer for a course being taught next semester. Apparently, there's an honors program at [UNC] that allows outstanding undergraduate seniors to teach a course of their own design. And someone is teaching a course on South Asian visuality in which one of the texts is Shani Mootoo's novel. Mmmm . . .
I'm feeling academically paralyzed gain (surprise). I look at all the stacks of book I have lying around that I should've been reading, but haven't. I try to sit down to write down my thoughts about a book, and I can't. I start reading articles that other people have written on these books, and I just feel small and insignificant. I think it's looking less and less likely that I'll be continuing with the PhD... But then that leaves a gaping hole where my future career used to be. What am I going to do?
Sunday, October 21, 2001[7 Questions with Gorillaz]. I really like the idea of a cartoon band. I've always flirted with the idea of doing music, but it would never be the kind of music we consider as music -- you know, like singers and guitar players who you see perform and stuff. And I think this cartoon band does something with the idea of pop music, messes with how we view our favorite bands, the people, their stories, etc. Still, I can't quite make out what they're trying to do with all the stereotypes they play with . . .
A couple of days ago, I was considering again the cumulative effect of a daily, regular inundation of things. I was thinking about it in terms of living in the South. I never really have felt like the South is its stereotype of religious fundamentalism, overt racism, etc. (Of course, many people would say the Raleigh-Durham area is only a faint reflection of the "true" South, over-run as it is with people like me from the Northeast, the Midwest, California, and all over.) But as I was driving home Friday, I became despondent over the insistence of Religious Right messages on people's bumper stickers ("Children Are a Gift from God," "Choose Life," etc.), the sight of American flags everywhere (I know, this is a result of 9-11 more than an effect of Southern-ness itself), and as I pulled into the parking lot of my apartment complex, a sticker on a pick-up truck that said, "Defend Southern Values" (or something like that) next to a picture of the Confederate flag. I realized that though people are very nice here, there is also an aspect of people that is antithetical to me. I am the embodiment of so many things that people here hate and violently, at times, have tried to expel. I am for all intents and purposes a Northerner. I am not white. I am not straight. I am not religious. I am a feminist. I am queer. BUT, while it is easy to polarize, to think of oppositions and points of contention, I finally realized later that night that these things are ever-present wherever we are. And in some senses, my life will always have to be about negotiating other people's attempts to delineate my existence (just as everyone faces the same predicament, albeit with varying levels of tension). To run away, to extricate myself from a particular point of social existence, would never completely free me from these concerns. I would only have to enter another sphere of influences and expectations.
Saturday, October 20, 2001
The weather has been gorgeous here the last few days. I'm sitting inside my office right now with the shades mostly drawn, but the sun still peeks through. It's such a happy feeling. The sun has been shining so brightly, but temperatures have stayed comfortably in the sixties and seventies. The leaves are a beautiful mixture of greens to reds, with the breeze blowing ever so softly through the shedding trees. (I was thinking about a post I made about a year ago about the swirling yellows, oranges, and reds of the leaves on the sunlight-mottled street as cars flashed by. I guess I've been at this blogging thing for a little over a year now. That's the longest continuous stretch of time I've written in a journal. Go me!)
I got the [Gorillaz] cd yesterday. I'm not quite sure why. I like the fact that they're a cartoon band. I'm not sure what to think about them overall, though. There seems to be some sort of racial-play, too -- and I can't tell if they're people consciously playing with stereotypes of Asians, blacks, latinos, etc.
I thought [David Eng's] talk on Thursday afternoon was very interesting. It was titled, "Queer Diasporas/Psychic Diasporas: Structures of Kinship in Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together." I like what he's trying to do, thinking about the psychic and affective dimensions of racialization. I think he gets a lot of criticism for taking up the language of psychoanalysis, but I think he is very conscious of what he is doing and very aware that psychoanalytic discourse is traditionally very problematic in its conceptions of homosexuality and race. But anyways, I can't say that I really understand all the nuances of his argument or how he is making an intervention specifically into a traditionally materialist-based analysis of Asian American studies. Maybe I'll try to e-mail him. But how likely would it be for him to respond?
In his talk, Eng described the two main characters of Happy Together as men who refigure each other as mother-figures in the Oedipal scheme of socialization. The movie is notable for the absence of mothers (and women in general). Rather than rely on the specifics of the Oedipus Complex, Eng sees the underlying dynamics of loss, rejection, and re-socialization of the Complex as an appropriate structure in thinking about how Lai and Ho (the two men) relate to one another and ultimately move away from one another. Very interesting idea...
Thursday, October 18, 2001
Here is Gorey in his own words, ruminating on everything from French symbolist poetry to soap operas, from George Balanchine and the unique beauty of ballet to Victorian photographs of dead children. We meet the artist in his ramshackle book-lined studio in Manhattan and his equally bizarre house on Cape Cod. We listen as he describes his legendary upbringing and vast range of influences, as well as how he managed to work amid all his cats.
['Ascending Peculiarity': How Gorey Became Gorey]
"The artist and author of more than 100 meticulously hand-lettered, intricately rendered little books had to all intents and purposes become one of his own drawings."
What disappointed me about the show was the insistence on Clark Kent's wanting to be "normal." And while I understand that's a common trope for TV shows set in high school (including the first seasons of Buffy), I thought Clark would be more aware of the problems of a "normal" culture that defines itself by excluding others. And yet, he wants to join the football team. He wants to be a jock so he can be with Lana, the cheerleader. It's all so "all-American." And utterly uninteresting. Still, there is some hope for the show for me. Obviously, Clark will have to come to terms with his outsider-ness. He's just learned he's an alien, after all. And he seems to have known always that he has these superpowers.
Watched [Wong Kar-Wai's] Happy Together again last night at a screening in advance of [David Eng's talk] on the film.. There was so much in it that I didn't remember . . . Such an amazing movie. The strange thing is that I haven't been much impressed by Wong Kar-Wai's other films. But this one -- likely because of the central gay love story -- just makes me want to cry. I just bought the dvd, too, even though I don't yet have a dvd player. I figure I can force people I know with dvd players to watch it this way. And I can watch it at school.
I'm thinking about doing an independent study with [Tyler Curtain] on legal understandings of sexual orientation. I know that's a really broad topic at the moment, but I know next to nothing about how the law understands sexual orientation / identity / actions. I want to figure out what allows sodomy laws are still "on the books" in so many states, for example. I want to understand why and how discrimination against gays is legal (in the Boy Scouts, the military, etc.). What got me thinking about these things is the little I've read in Critical Race Theory, a legal discourse, largely marginal, that critiques the limitations of rights laws in regards to race (and gender). It got me to thinking about the possibility (or redundance?) of something that might be called Critical Queer Theory. One confusing thing is that I think so many people outside of the law (like me?) have taken up the term "Critical Race Theory" as any theorization of race and discrimination. I want to delve into CRT and understand specifically the goals and issues of CRT in the legal context -- the problems legal scholars of color face when thinking about race in the law -- as opposed to a general critique of racial discrimination. And then I want to see if there could be something similar done with thinking about sexual orientation.
The "queer theory" part, of course, comes in both in a particular understanding of sexual deviance as something more than identity and as a conscious (and conscientious) stance against the normalization and policing of sexual and other behavior. Because what I've seen so far of legal discourses of difference and discimination is kind of disturbing -- in order to be protected under the law from discrimination, you have to argue that you are bound by immutable characteristics. Even the term sexual "orientation" falls into this kind of thinking, a move away from the term sexual "preference" (which I prefer). Talk of homosexuality seems largely to have shifted away from a choice, a desire, and to an unchangeable, biological essence or trait. Why is that a problem, you might be asking? It isn't necessarily, except when that "essence" has been distilled, isolated, fixed -- and then what we have again is another site of the normalization of identity and actions. And again, there will be people who fall outside those definitions, more vilification, etc. What needs to happen is a shift in how we understand these things -- a focus, perhaps, on what constitutes desire, agency, will, consent . . . But I know these are difficult concepts, always easily convertible into their opposites. (I just read some of Saidiya Hartman's Scenes of Subjection in which she discusses how female slaves were both willing to have sex with their masters -- they are insatiable creatures of lust -- and utterly lacking in will or agency -- so they couldn't possibly have been raped because rape implies lack of consent.)
Anyways, if any of you lawyers or anyone else has any ideas on how to help me define my project, please drop me a [line]!
Wednesday, October 17, 2001[Our First Line of Defense]. Laurie Garrett on the public health system. Heard her give an apocalyptic talk on bioterrorism back in the spring of 2000. She doesn't see a very effective public health system in place to deal with epidemics. She differentiates the public health system from medical responses and political responses. I think I agree with her that knee-jerk reactions to bioterrorism could have wild consequences, but I don't quite understand what an adequate public health system would entail. Mostly I think my problem is not understanding the specifics of the public health system. Understandably, though, in light of Garrett's argument about the lack of attention paid to the system by the general public, medical practitioners, and politicians alike.
Tuesday, October 16, 2001[Gypsy Boys]. It was a very trite presentation of gay men looking for love in the bar scene. I'm confused by the use of the word "gypsy" in the title, though. I don't recall the word being developed much (if at all) in the film, and so I'm kind of wary of the gesture towards the racialized type of gypsy-wanderer as analogy for wandering-in-love gay men. [One] of the actors was really cute, though, and as Joe pointed out, he was really the only good actor in the movie. The others played like played-out stereotypes of bitchy queens, arrogant attractive guys, and deceiving manipulators. (I think the imdb.com review describes the acting as "soap opera" level.)
I'm usually not impressed by movies about the "guys looking for love in the gay bar/club scene" anyways. But it does seem to be the kind of life some people lead, at least. I can't understand why people can reconcile the sexually free space of bars and clubs with their romantic ideals of monogamous coupledom. I have a friend in NYC who consistently goes to gay clubs, hooks up with guys, and then laments the inconstancy of their "love." Look, they were there to have fun and hook up. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It doesn't mean sex is bad. But it just isn't the place people really imagine as the meeting ground of future husbands. At least not in my perspective. And if it is, not in the way of random hook-ups -- possibly through chains of friends, meeting new people through your friends and your friends' friends as you bump into each other.
Monday, October 15, 2001[Daffy Duck]
It's no wonder Daffy Duck has a split personality. In his early years, Daffy was manic, explosive, and unpredictable, engaging in adventures that seemed outlandish even to him. As his personality gained depth at the hands of Warner Bros. cartoons' directors, the little black duck became more self-analytical, competitive, peevish, paranoid, and neurotic. Eventually, Daffy found himself more and more at the mercy of a universe that seemed to favor everyone but him. So why do audiences love him? Despite his failures, Daffy, like the Greek hero Sisyphus, is a victim of injustice who continuously protests. And it's his refusal to surrender his will to the whims of the conspiring universe that makes him heroic. How could one not feel sorry for an ill-equipped duck with Daffy's voice that just can't seem to get a break? At least Daffy aims high. And when he fails, he resets the bar . . . even higher.
Sunday, October 14, 2001"The Clash of Ignorance" by Edward Said
A unilateral decision made to draw lines in the sand, to undertake crusades, to oppose their evil with our good, to extirpate terrorism and, in Paul Wolfowitz's nihilistic vocabulary, to end nations entirely, doesn't make the supposed entities any easier to see; rather, it speaks to how much simpler it is to make bellicose statements for the purpose of mobilizing collective passions than to reflect, examine, sort out what it is we are dealing with in reality, the interconnectedness of innumerable lives, "ours" as well as "theirs."
Now in my warm, dry apartment, I have the music up high. It drowns out the sound of rain outside. And sometimes I turn it off and just listen to the rain. The whistle on my kettle calls to me. I make some coffee. It's sort of dark outside, though night has not truly fallen yet. I want to be in a small circle of light, just enough for me to read and sip my coffee.
And like many other people, I am fascinated by the biography of the Brontës. The three sisters who each went off to take positions as governesses in houses, as teachers in schools, or abroad as students in a foreign country -- all returning dissatisfied with and unnerved by the outside world. I think about how much I want just to withdraw from things, to return to isolation. To live apart from others, content in reading and writing for myself. But then I think, how selfish that seems . . .
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Thursday, October 11, 2001
There was a brilliant red toadstool growing out of the foot of a tree outside my apartment building. I wanted to draw it to capture the way it jutted out of the tree just above the ground. I wanted to capture the color of it, the way the sunlight made patches of brightness on its top. But a week or two ago, someone overturned the cap. Destroyed.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2001
In fact, these past few days have been wildly moody. I was very happy Sunday morning. Then I suddenly became sullen and pissed off at Joe. I wonder why my emotional state fluctuates so crazily.
I realized yesterday, too, that I need to come up with more manageable paper projects. I'm always drawn to these questions of disciplinarity, of what it means to do literary studies, of what it means to interpret a text, of the difference between social commentary in "creative" works vs. "critical" works, of the use of particular texts in disciplinary formations . . . And all of these things really require knowledge of disciplines, their history and concerns. I know nothing about anything. And here I am trying to extrapolate from a single text the effects of reading and analysis on whole institutions and programs of study. Sigh.
Monday, October 08, 2001[salon.com] when I click on a news article titled, ["FBI probes anthrax, terror link."] Just as I get to this paragraph, "'We regard this as an investigation that could become a clear criminal investigation, and we are pursuing this with all the dispatch and care that's appropriate,' Ashcroft said," I hear the radio reading the words out loud to me! The radio station was apparently doing a news story on the exact same story, with a news clip of Ashcroft saying the words. So strange. Usually, the voice in the background drones on, mostly unnoticed. But when the voice starts sounding much like the reading voice in my head, I take notice!
Sunday, October 07, 2001[Nelly Furtado's] "Turn Off the Light." I think I'm going to go out to Millenium Music and buy myself Furtado's album. I just can't get over the rhythms of her lyrics, the caesuras (ooo... music word... probably not the right word... I think I'm really just thinking about the quirky cadences of her lines) that seem to move the melody along.
Friday, October 05, 2001
So, there's a bit of an [anthrax scare] in NC. Freaky that this Florida man was in Durham, where I live, when he got sick. And since I've been sick this past week with cold symptoms, I was in a bit of a panic last night. The news coverage, as always, was apocalyptic, and even when the actual report claimed there was no ascertainable evidence that this case of anthrax was an intentional terrorist attack or even that anyone else had anything to fear, the news people gave out so little information about anthrax to dispel individual fears. So many people around campus have colds and pneumonia now, too. I'm sure there are a lot of very panicked people out there.
What concerns me is this quote:
Anthrax can cause pneumonia, and patients are treated with antibiotics. By the time the pulmonary form of the disease causes symptoms, however, it�s widely considered too late for successful treatment. There is also a vaccine to prevent the spread of the disease, but it is available only to the military now.
Coupled with an earlier detail about inhalation anthrax incubation times ranging from two to sixty days . . . I'm not convinced that we're all in the clear. One of my students, as a matter of fact, came down with "pneumonia" this past weekend, but went to the doctor early enough to prevent real danger. So, what's scary is that once anthrax causes symptoms, you're past the point of help? Very very scary.
And a strange thing is that my dad left me a voicemail message two nights ago telling me he was sending me antibiotics in case of anthrax warfare. I hadn't told him I was sick, either. (Whenever I tell him I have a cold, he always makes me feel like I'm such a lousy person for getting sick all the time and not remembering what kind of medicine to take. I've recently realized I don't have to call him to tell him I'm sick. He's a doctor, see, so I've been used to consulting him first about my sicknesses.)
Thursday, October 04, 2001
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Grading papers for a writing class is so laborious. I have to pay attention to all the details of my students' writings, not just the strength of the arguments (if there are any to begin with).
There are piles of papers and books all over the place now. I haven't been filing away the stuff I generate and refer to for a few weeks now. Library books are mixed in piles with my own books mixed in with other people's books. I'll never sort them all out.
At least my mom sent me yummy mooncakes.
Joe is so cute with his digital thermometer. I've been feverish the last couple of days, so he's taken out his trusty thermometer a few times to see how badly off I am. Sometimes it's great to be with a hypochondriac. Of course, he wants me to go to the hospital and all....
So annoying that this week in my classes we've been discussing some things I'm very interested in, but I'm so dizzy and feverish I can't concentrate very well in class! The discussion we had on Wuthering Heights was the best class discussion we've had in that particular class all semester. Today in another class we talked about critical race feminism and the law -- subjects that continue to intrigue me even as they are frustrating in their seeming inability to address crucial issues...
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As is tradition here at The Atlantis Bookshop, we read aloud a chapter on each of the three days to celebrate and commemorate the reception of the Book of the Law by Aleister Crowley in Cairo in 1904e.v.
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Leading global procurement reform by sharing the lessons learned from the Digital Marketplace
At dxw, we've partnered with Oxford Insights, the Government Digital Service, the OECD and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for our first ever international project to explore how the United Kingdom can take the success of the Digital Marketplace and share those lessons globally. This project is part of a larger piece of work where the UK is leading information and communication technology procurement reform for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
Since 2014, the Digital Marketplace, as a singular platform for digital, data, and technology products and services for central government departments and public sector organisations has created an efficient and coordinated way to connect public sector organisations with the best-qualified suppliers to do the job that needs to be done. The core of the Digital Marketplace is a commitment to user-centred, design-led, data-driven and transparency in procurement and contracting. When buyers are clear about what they want, and suppliers are clear about what they can provide, everybody benefits.
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At dxw, we're excited to be part of this international project. Figuring out how to bring the ethos of the Digital Marketplace to the world is no easy feat, but it all starts with having conversations with people who are immersed in digital, data and technology procurement in their home countries. We've already gathered a list of global participants from Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand, and Mexico, just to name a few!
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post2120597501834209039..comments2023-06-23T13:25:51.274+05:30Comments on Electric Sheep Blog: MacBooks for ThoughtWorkersAnonymoushttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-29062644455034385252007-10-24T10:36:00.000+05:302007-10-24T10:36:00.000+05:30Hey Sidu, thats nice to hear that you are eager to...Hey Sidu, thats nice to hear that you are eager to lay your hands on MacBooks and MacBook Pro. Working for a company in Udupi, that develops products for the Mac market, i am a proud user of MacBook for the past 2 years:-)The Refrigeratorhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-24018831120729698692007-09-24T15:58:00.000+05:302007-09-24T15:58:00.000+05:30okay. i think its time to get back :-Dokay. i think its time to get back :-Dkarthik chttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-78636265950160977732007-09-23T01:00:00.000+05:302007-09-23T01:00:00.000+05:30@caufieldDude, why don't we talk about this on mai...@caufield

Dude, why don't we talk about this on mail? You can reach me at my first name at thoughtworks d0t com.Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-24781880515022100962007-09-22T21:20:00.000+05:302007-09-22T21:20:00.000+05:30@keshav, That's good :-). Not just good, awesome! ...@keshav,
 That's good :-). Not just good, awesome!
 Long ago, I (and Amit Rathore and Ajey Gore) had to effectively kidnap Roy (Singham) to persuade him to authorize laptops for everyone coz the powers that be in India dragged their feet over buying laptops *for everyone*. The prevailing idea was that a limited number of laptops were doled out the "people who needed them". (not blaming them, they had their reasons I am sure :-) )

It is good to know that laptops are now a standard perk! Enjoy those Macbooks! I am sure the folks with Dells would turn them in and ask for Macs!!!Ravihttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-48980676062114230022007-09-22T17:33:00.000+05:302007-09-22T17:33:00.000+05:30Maybe sidu wants to answer the questions. But I wa...Maybe sidu wants to answer the questions. But I wanted to go ahead.

Ravi,
Everyone in TWI gets a laptop (DEll Lattitudes) including the fresh graduates and support folks.

But i can't wait for the Mac!Keshav Ram Narlahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-87556217915071807262007-09-22T16:21:00.000+05:302007-09-22T16:21:00.000+05:30Just curious, but does every single employee in TW...Just curious, but does every single employee in TWI get a laptop these days? If so that's a definite change (for the better) since when I worked there.Ravihttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-89517949957383069712007-09-22T15:52:00.000+05:302007-09-22T15:52:00.000+05:30Awesome !!! simply awesome.... I am feeling like ...Awesome !!! simply awesome.... I am feeling like a total idiot now for not being able to ger thru .. just siitin like an ass n kickin my butt..

One question siddu.. Is by any any remote chance in the world is it possible for me to get an interview call.. even though the code wasn't accepted ... just need a chance to explain why I used the methods/approach...

I know m soundin so desperate here in a public forum.. but I just can't seem to get over the hang of ur company...

Will really appreciate it if u can help..

Ne ways... once again.. congrats on gettin the new Macs.. After all how many employees workin in India are fortunate enough to get a Mac from the company.soodyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3718956085911858962.post-21365779377622408752007-09-22T01:57:00.000+05:302007-09-22T01:57:00.000+05:30As a current owner of a macbook pro, let me warn y...As a current owner of a macbook pro, let me warn you to avoid mixing Parallels and Boot Camp. I tried this with various builds of the last version of Parallels (version 2), and it always ended up hosing my Boot Camp partition so that I couldn't boot to Windows (I could only use it with Parallels).

I've moved to using Boot Camp exclusively for Windows, and I use Parallels for Linux and other operating systems I want to mess around with.

I haven't tried Parallels version 3, but it would be hard to convince me to go to the trouble, especially since, after you install XP enough times, your key becomes invalid and you have to call Microsoft to get a new one.

So, I'd say choose one or the other. I chose Boot firstname.lastname@example.com


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35m² Apartments
From 378 CHF/week
Each of the 16 35m² apartments is furnished by LAGO with contemporary furniture and the highest attention to detail.
The apartments are inspired by the concept of matching environmental sustainability to an elegant and functional design.
Covered terrace
Underfloor heating and cooling
Air conditioning and home automation systems
48" Smart TV with Swisscom Blue TV
Full-kitchens complete with appliances:
- dishwasher
- oven
- induction plates
- washing machine
- dryer
What they say about us
The balance between people, nature and technology drives each LAGO project. Lo Scudo di Stabio gave us a chance to bring our values to life by spreading a sustainable design philosophy.
The ecological awareness of this building supports the planet in an effort to regenerate itself. Not only by materials and construction techniques that make it ecological, but also by inducing its guests to a virtuous and sustainable relationship with the environment.