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We are delighted to welcome Ashgate Publishing and Gower books into the Taylor & Francis Group.
With nearly 50 years of distinguished publishing in the Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities, Ashgate complements Routledge's commitment to support academic research and scholarly publishing. Ashgate is a leading research publisher in Art History, Music, History, Social Work, Politics, Literary Studies, and many other disciplines. Routledge is also now home to Ashgate's imprint, Gower Publishing, one of the world's leading publishers of specialist business and management books and resources.
With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and going forward into an uncertain future. Drawing upon…
Hardback – 2018-10-12
Material Culture and Modern Conflict
The title of this volume implies two things: the greatness of the scientific tradition that Muslims had lost, and the power of the West, in whose threatening shadow reformers now labored to modernize in order to defend themselves against those very powers they were taking as models. Copernicus and…
Hardback – 2018-02-14
This book explores a striking common feature of pre-modern ruling systems on a global scale: the participation of childless and celibate men as integral parts of the elites. In bringing court eunuchs and bishops together, this collection shows that the integration of men who were normatively or…
Hardback – 2017-08-15
Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community…
Hardback – 2017-05-04
The county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called 'crusader states' established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The present work is the first monograph on the county to be published in English, and the first in any western…
Hardback – 2017-05-04
Rulers of the Latin East
The period between the 1880s and the 1920s was a time of momentous changes in the Ottoman Empire. It was also an age of literary experiments, of which autobiography forms a part. This book analyses Turkish autobiographical narratives describing the part of their authors' lives that was spent while…
Hardback – 2017-03-16
Life Narratives of the Ottoman Realm: Individual and Empire in the Near East
Warfare has long been central to a proper understanding of ancient Greece and Rome, worlds where war was, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, 'both king and father of all'. More recently, however, the understanding of Classical antiquity solely in such terms has been challenged; it is…
Hardback – 2017-02-22
Identities and social relations are fundamental elements of societies. To approach these topics from a new and different angle, this study takes the human body as the focal point of investigation. It tracks changing identities of early Iron Age people in central Europe through body-related…
Hardback – 2016-12-14
Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-called 'anatomical votives'. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling…
Hardback – 2016-12-12
Medicine and the Body in Antiquity
Presenting a new and revealing overview of the ruling classes of the Roman Empire, this volume explores aspects of the relations between the official state structures of Rome and local provincial elites. The central objective of the volume is to present as complex a picture as possible of the…
Hardback – 2016-11-29
Dreams and Lives in Ottoman Istanbul explores biography writing and dream narratives in seventeenth-century Istanbul. It focuses on the prominent biographer 'Aṭā'ī (d. 1637) and with his help shows how learned circles narrated dreams to assess their position in the Ottoman enterprise. This book…
Hardback – 2016-11-11
Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies
Collected Studies CS1062 This volume brings together a selection of the major articles of Alexandra F. Johnston, which along with similar volumes by the late David Mills, Peter Meredith and Meg Twycross makes up a set of "Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies". Alexandra Johnston, the…
Hardback – 2016-10-10
Variorum Collected Studies
Since its rediscovery in the early 20th century, through spectacular finds such as those by Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos, Minoan Crete has captured the imagination not only of archaeologists but also of a wider public. This is shown, among other things, by its appearance and uses in a variety of…
Hardback – 2016-09-08
British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
Analysing the narration of the translatio of the body of Saint James from Palestine to Santiago de Compostela and its impact on the historical and biblical construction of Jacobean pilgrimages, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the two cities at the centre of the legend: Jerusalem…
Hardback – 2016-08-17
Compostela International Studies in Pilgrimage History and Culture
This book explores the concept of 'the Levant' as a component of the regional and international system during the age of imperialism. At its heart is a focus on the experience of Greek-speaking societies and, above all, the independent state of Greece that came into existence in 1830. A key…
Hardback – 2016-08-08
British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies
This volume challenges and redefines the traditional distinction made between the sacred and the secular in medieval healing, medical practice, and theory as evidenced in the historic, text record, and by material culture (sites and objects). The studies here are interdisciplinary and are grouped…
Hardback – 2016-07-20
AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art
At the start of the Second World War, Britain was at the height of its imperial power, and it is no surprise that it drew upon the global resources of the Empire once war had been declared. Whilst this international aspect of Britain's war effort has been well-studied in relation to the military…
Hardback – 2016-07-07
Over the past 500 years westerners have turned into avid consumers of colonial products and various production systems in the Americas, Africa and Asia have adapted to serve the new markets that opened up in the wake of the "European encounter". The effects of these transformations for the…
Hardback – 2016-06-23
In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mainly on organic inputs and local knowledge and skills, supplying products into a market that was partly local or national, partly…
Hardback – 2016-06-20
Rural Worlds
The Emperor John II Komnenos (1118–1143) has been overshadowed by both his father Alexios I and his son Manuel I. Written sources have not left us much evidence regarding his reign, although authors agree that he was an excellent emperor. However, the period witnessed territorial expansion in Asia…
Hardback – 2016-06-20
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have started to explore the different ways in which it shaped contemporary European society. Just as important, however, was the range of interactions which took place between the three…
Hardback – 2016-06-13
Crusades - Subsidia
Places and spaces are key factors in how individuals and groups construct their identities. Identity theories have emphasised that the construction of an identity does not follow abstract and universal processes but is also deeply rooted in specific historical, cultural, social and material…
Hardback – 2016-06-10
Today it is widely recognised that the 'long 1970s' was a decisive international transition period during which traditional, collective-oriented socio-economic interest and welfare policies were increasingly replaced by the more individually and neo-liberally oriented value policies of the…
Hardback – 2016-05-20
The war against the Ottomans, on Gallipoli, in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective, written in English, represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This…
Hardback – 2016-05-06
Routledge Studies in First World War History
Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, and Vikram Seth through the lens of T.W. Adorno's poetics of lateness, Tania Roy reads the category of late style in terms of the "belated" literatures and cultures of the postcolonial world. When does artistic or literary failure become the…
Hardback – 2020-06-28
Using a canonical work of Dutch literature, Ooghentroost (Consolation for the eyes), as a focal point, this book examines the development of literature as a specific discursive domain during the early modern period. It traces how literature begins to be set apart from the scientific and religious…
Hardback – 2020-03-01
Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity
Susan Paterson Glover here presents, in modern type, a critical edition of the first printed work by an English woman writer, Sarah Chapone, on the inequity of the common law regime for married women. Glover's extended, original introduction provides an account of Chapone's life; a discussion of…
Hardback – 2018-02-12
The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions
In Acts of Modernity, David Buchanan reads nineteenth-century historical novels from Scotland, America, France, and Canada as instances of modern discourse reflective of community concerns and methods that were transatlantic in scope. Following on revolutionary events at home and abroad, the unique…
Hardback – 2017-08-31
Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Reading the Runes in Old English and Old Norse Poetry is the first book-length study to compare responses to runic heritage in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England and medieval Iceland. The Anglo-Saxon runic script had already become the preserve of antiquarians at the time the majority of Old…
Hardback – 2017-04-04
The nineteenth century witnessed a proliferation in the literary uses of dialect, with dialect becoming a key feature in the development of the realist novel, dialect songs being printed by the hundreds in urban centres and dialect poetry becoming a respected form. In this collection, scholars from…
Hardback – 2017-02-20
Bess of Hardwick's Letters is the first book-length study of the c. 250 letters to and from the remarkable Elizabethan dynast, matriarch and builder of houses Bess of Hardwick (c. 1527–1608). By surveying the complete correspondence, author Alison Wiggins uncovers the wide range of uses to which…
Hardback – 2016-11-25
Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
Opening a dialogue between ecocriticism and transatlantic studies, this collection shows how the two fields inform, complement, and complicate each other. The editors situate the volume in its critical contexts by providing a detailed literary and historical overview of nineteenth-century…
Hardback – 2016-11-10
Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
Twenty-two leading experts on early modern drama collaborate in this volume to explore three closely interconnected research questions. To what extent did playwrights represent dramatis personae in their entertainments as forming, or failing to form, communal groupings? How far were theatrical…
Hardback – 2016-10-21
One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets;…
Hardback – 2016-08-04
The Nineteenth Century Series
In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier's ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter's previous interest in surrealism, representation,…
Hardback – 2016-08-01
Studies in Surrealism
Organized thematically around the themes of time, space, and place, this collection examines Charlotte Brontë in relationship to her own historical context and to her later critical reception, takes up the literal and metaphorical spaces of her literary output, and sheds light on place as both…
Hardback – 2016-07-11
'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only…
Hardback – 2016-07-05
Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
The author of numerous books on Geoffrey Chaucer, the nineteenth-century scholar, Mary Eliza Haweis, has been largely erased from general histories of Chaucer studies. In her critical biography, Mary Flowers Braswell traces Haweis's career, bringing her out of obscurity and placing her…
Hardback – 2016-07-05
Each of the book's five chapters evokes a colonial Mexican cultural and intellectual sphere: the library, anatomy and medicine, spirituality, classical learning, and publishing and printing. Using an array of literary texts and historical documents and alongside secondary historical and critical…
Hardback – 2016-06-30
New Hispanisms: Cultural and Literary Studies
Saracens and Franks in 12th - 15th Century European and Near Eastern Literature examines the tension between two competing discourses in the medieval Muslim Mediterranean and medieval Christian Europe: one rooted in the desire to understand the world and one's place in it, and another promoting an…
Hardback – 2016-06-30
During and after the English civil wars, between 1640 and 1690, an unprecedented number of manuals teaching cryptography were published, almost all for the general public. While there are many surveys of cryptography, none pay any attention to the volume of manuals that appeared during the…
Hardback – 2016-06-20
Beginning with the premise that the portrait was undergoing a shift in both form and function during the Romantic age, Joe Bray examines how these changes are reflected in the fiction of writers such as Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton and Amelia Opie. Bray…
Hardback – 2016-06-09
In her study of the unsuccessful nineteenth-century emigrant, Tamara S. Wagner argues that failed emigration and return drive nineteenth-century writing in English in unexpected, culturally revealing ways. Wagner highlights the hitherto unexplored subgenre of anti-emigration writing that emerged as…
Hardback – 2016-06-08
Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement…
Hardback – 2016-06-08
Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's literary output, which includes six novels, a prodigious number of short stories, and two volumes of domestic sketches. Organized around the themes of…
Hardback – 2016-05-27
Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici explores Catherine de Medici's 'flying squadron', the legendary ladies-in-waiting of the sixteenth-century French queen mother who were alleged to have been ordered to seduce politically influential men for their mistress's own…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
With the Paduan playwright Angelo Beolco, aka Ruzante, as a focal point, this book sheds new light on his oeuvre and times - and on Venetian patrician interest in him - by embedding the Venetian aspects of his life within the monumental changes taking place in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
An intense fascination with the experience of time has long been recognised as a distinctive feature of the writing of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863). This collection of essays, however, represents the first sustained critical examination of Thackeray's 'time consciousness' in all its…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
The Nineteenth Century Series
Michael Christoforidis is widely recognized as a leading expert on one of Spain's most important composers, Manuel de Falla. This volume brings together both new chapters and revised versions of previously published work, some of which is made available here in English for the first time. The…
Hardback – 2017-12-04
How do musicians play and talk to audiences? Why do audiences listen and what happens when they talk back? How do new (and old) technologies affect this interplay? This book presents a long overdue examination of the turbulent relationship between musicians and audiences. Focusing on a range of…
Hardback – 2016-12-12
While attention has been paid to various aspects of music education in China, to date no single publication has systematically addressed the complex interplay of sociopolitical transformations underlying the development of popular music and music education in the multilevel culture of China. Before…
Hardback – 2016-12-12
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Zeitmaße is one of a group of four acknowledged masterpieces composed between 1955 and 1957 that together established Karlheinz Stockhausen as the leading figure in the European avant-garde. Of the four works, it is the only one that has not been thoroughly analysed from the composer's sketches and…
Hardback – 2016-12-05
Landmarks in Music Since 1950
Whilst Contemporary Worship Music arose out of a desire to relate the music of the church to the music of everyday life, this function can quickly be called into question by the diversity of musical lives present in contemporary society. Mark Porter examines the relationship between individuals'…
Hardback – 2016-11-29
Congregational Music Studies Series
Thomas Adès (b. 1971) is an established international figure, both as composer and performer, with popular and critical acclaim and admiration from around the world. Edward Venn examines in depth one of Adès's most significant works so far, his orchestral Asyla (1997). Its blend of virtuosic…
Hardback – 2016-11-24
Landmarks in Music Since 1950
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) was arguably the most important Russian composer since Shostakovich, and his music has generated a great deal of academic interest in the years since his death. Schnittke Studies provides a variety of perspectives on the composer and his music. The field is currently…
Hardback – 2016-11-17
In 1864, Union soldier Charles George described a charge into battle by General Phil Sheridan: "Such a picture of earnestness and determination I never saw as he showed as he came in sight of the battle field . . . What a scene for a painter!" These words proved prophetic, as Sheridan's desperate…
Hardback – 2016-11-15
Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people have understood and…
Hardback – 2016-11-11
In an age when students come to class with more varied music listening preferences and experiences than ever before, music educators can find themselves at a loss for how to connect with their students. Listening in Action provides the beginnings of a solution to this problem by characterizing…
Hardback – 2016-10-21
SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
Nineteenth-century British periodicals for girls and women offer a wealth of material to understand how girls and women fit into their social and cultural worlds, of which music making was an important part. The Girl's Own Paper, first published in 1880, stands out because of its rich musical…
Hardback – 2016-09-20
Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Pierre Boulez's first piano pieces date from his youth, prior to his studies in Paris with Messiaen, and his subsequent meteoric rise to international acclaim as the leader of the musical avant-garde during the 1950s. His most recent published work is a solo piano piece, Une page d'éphéméride,…
Hardback – 2016-09-19
This book explores how the Enlightenment aesthetics of theater as a moral institution influenced cultural politics and operatic developments in Vienna between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Moralistic viewpoints were particularly important in eighteenth-century debates about…
Hardback – 2016-09-15
Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
The enigmatic character of The Art of Fugue became apparent as early as in its first edition, printed more than a year after the composer's death. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, who published both the first and the second editions, raised several unsolved questions regarding this opus. Anatoly P Milka…
Hardback – 2016-09-08
György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974–77, revised 1996) has consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to a global audience. Famously dubbed by…
Hardback – 2016-09-01
Ashgate Studies in Theory and Analysis of Music After 1900
The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have…
Hardback – 2016-08-19
Flamenco, Regionalism and Musical Heritage in Southern Spain explores the relationship between regional identity politics and flamenco in Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous community of Spain. In recent years, the Andalusian Government has embarked on an ambitious project aimed at developing…
Hardback – 2016-08-08
SOAS Studies in Music Series
Christopher Fox (1955) has emerged as one of the most fascinating composers of the post-war generation. His spirit of experimentalism pervades an oeuvre in which he has blithely created his own version of a range of contemporary musical practices. In his work many of the major expressions of…
Hardback – 2016-08-01
Heavy Metal, Gender and Sexuality brings together a collection of original, interdisciplinary, critical essays exploring the negotiated place of gender and sexuality in heavy metal music and its culture. Scholars debate the current state of play concerning masculinities, femininities, queerness,…
Hardback – 2016-07-18
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Performing arts in most parts of Maritime Southeast Asia are seen as an entity, where music and dance, sound and movement, acoustic and tactile elements intermingle and complement each other. Although this fact is widely known and referenced, most scholarly works in the performing arts so far have…
Hardback – 2016-07-08
SOAS Studies in Music Series
Long remembered chiefly for its modernist exhibitions on the South Bank in London, the 1951 Festival of Britain also showcased British artistic creativity in all its forms. In Tonic to the Nation, Nathaniel G. Lew tells the story of the English classical music and opera composed and revived for the…
Hardback – 2016-07-04
What does it mean to talk about musical coherence at the end of a century characterised by fragmentation and discontinuity? How can the diverse influences which stand behind the works of many late twentieth-century composers be reconciled with the singular immediacy of the experiences that they can…
Hardback – 2016-06-30
The use of technology in music and education can no longer be described as a recent development. Music learners actively engage with technology in their music making, regardless of the opportunities afforded to them in formal settings. This volume draws together critical perspectives in three…
Hardback – 2016-06-24
SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
In the age of digital music it seems striking that so many of us still want to produce music concretely with our bodies, through the movement of our limbs, lungs and fingers, in contact with those materials and objects which are capable of producing sounds. The huge sales figures of musical…
Hardback – 2016-06-09
SEMPRE Studies in The Psychology of Music
The post-communist development of media systems has been uneven in the countries of the region. Television and newspapers, together with the emergence of social media, have had great influence on the political debate in various countries. Ownership of the media has been a factor in many instances.…
Hardback – 2016-09-22
Global Interdisciplinary Studies Series
The book speaks to the widespread quest for concrete alternative ways forward 'beyond capitalism' in the face of the prevailing corporatocracy and a capitalist system in crisis. It examines a number of institutions and practices now being built in the nooks and crannies of present societies and…
Hardback – 2016-09-20
Routledge Critical Development Studies
While the military use of drones has been the subject of much scrutiny, the use of drones for humanitarian purposes has so far received little attention. As the starting point for this study, it is argued that the prospect of using drones for humanitarian and other life-saving activities has…
Hardback – 2016-09-05
Emerging Technologies, Ethics and International Affairs
The problematic of biopolitics has become increasingly important in the social sciences. Inaugurated by Michel Foucault's genealogical research on the governance of sexuality, crime and mental illness in modern Europe, the research on biopolitics has developed into a broader interdisciplinary…
Hardback – 2016-08-12
This book is a very timely account of the legal, economic and political consequences for border states caught in the current tug-of-war between the West and Russia.The Ukraine crisis of 2014 focused policy-makers' attention on a geographical area full of dangers that had gone relatively unnoticed…
Hardback – 2016-08-04
Many researchers and China observers would agree that understanding how China pursues global communication is critical for assessing its growing soft power. While soft power as a concept has, in many ways, become almost inextricably linked with the PRC's (People's Republic of China) international…
Hardback – 2016-08-02
Rethinking Asia and International Relations
Rethinking Hobbes and Kant argues that predominant approaches to the theoretical relationship between Hobbes and Kant have reached conclusions that were pre-digested in assumptions about the 'isms' which these two writers are propounding. Chou shows how these assumptions have inhibited commentators…
Hardback – 2016-08-02
Rethinking Political and International Theory
The Palestinian national movement reached a dead end and came close to disintegration at the beginning of the present century. This critical analysis of internal Palestinian politics in the West Bank traces the re-emergence of the Palestinian Authority's established elite in the aftermath of…
Hardback – 2016-07-25
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) has evolved into one of the European Union's major foreign policy instruments and received considerable attention. However, other EU neighbourhood policies, and their relevance for the ENP, also require examination. The Arab uprisings, civil wars in Libya and…
Hardback – 2016-07-25
Exploring recent configurations of social relations in post-socialist, post-war, post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina this collection of ethnographic research turns an analytical lens on questions of sociality. Contributions based on long-term, in-depth research projects explore how people in…
Hardback – 2016-07-25
Southeast European Studies
This book delivers on two analytical levels. First, it is a broad study of Sweden as an international actor, an actor that at least for a brief period tried to play a different international role than that to which it was accustomed. Second, the book problematizes the role of international military…
Hardback – 2016-07-18
Military Strategy and Operational Art
The European Union (EU) and the Eurozone became the economic integration example to follow for years. However, the worldwide economic crisis that unfolded in 2007 put the whole economic integration process in question, the European project in jeopardy and the euro under pressure, with serious…
Hardback – 2016-07-12
The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series
Ethnic and tribal loyalties in Afghanistan provided the lethal cocktail for the violent conflict that engulfed the country following the collapse of the Soviet backed government in 1992. The ensuing fighting between mujahideen groups paved the way for the tectonic social and political shifts, which…
Hardback – 2016-07-07
Relying on the concept of a shared history, this book argues that we can speak of a shared heritage that is common in terms of the basic grammar of heritage and articulated histories, but divided alongside the basic difference between colonizers and colonized. This problematic is also evident in…
Hardback – 2016-07-05
InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
The Kurdish people and the Kurdish Regional Government faced huge challenges rebuilding their nation and identity after the atrocities and human rights abuses committed by Saddam Hussein and his regime. In 2005 a new Iraqi constitution recognized as genocide the persecution of Faylee Kurds, the…
Hardback – 2016-06-27
Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World. Giving a broad overview of the tradition through summaries of the…
Hardback – 2016-06-13
Koivula examines the discursive space related to the use of military force by the European Union (EU). By examining the EU's relationship to its use of military force during the course of its history and by demonstrating that the contemporary discursive space of the EU military dimension is…
Hardback – 2016-06-03
This book investigates civil society regionalization in Southern Africa. The point of departure is the study of 'new regionalism', which refers to the wave of regional integration globally since the 1980s. However, whilst the current regionalism studies undoubtedly contributes to a deeper…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
The International Political Economy of New Regionalisms Series
This book begins discussion at a point where many civil–military conversations end. Hartwell identifies underlying dynamics, key issues, and challenges that civilian and military organizations encounter when negotiating their roles in real and virtual volatile environments. These include managing…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
Rodnoverie was one of the first new religious movements to emerge following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its development providing an important lens through which to view changes in post-Soviet religious and political life. Rodnovers view social and political issues as inseparably linked to…
Hardback – 2016-05-20
Studies in Contemporary Russia
This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues. As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical and political questions raised when doing…
Hardback – 2016-05-12
A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have…
Hardback – 2016-05-06
InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
In the initial phase of the Obama administration, India's ruling class and strategic community formed a perception that the spirit of strategic partnership between the two countries might be diluted on account of China looming large in the priorities of this administration. Despite…
Hardback – 2016-05-03
Rethinking Asia and International Relations
Nation-building as a process is never complete and issues related to identity, nation, state and regime-building are recurrent in the post-Soviet region. This comparative, inter-disciplinary volume explores how nation-building tools emerged and evolved over the last twenty years. Featuring in-depth…
Hardback – 2016-04-25
Post-Soviet Politics
Rather than being ephemeral fads, new religious movements (NRMs) have always been and will always be with us. So will their study. Offering an assessment of the state-of-the-field of the study of NRMs, Visioning New and Minority Religions begins by considering the analytical tools for the study of…
Hardback – 2016-11-15
Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
'Cult Wars' in Historical Perspective provides a broad characterization of the shifting religious contours over the past several decades. Offering an assessment of several important topics in the study of new religions, this book explores developments in well-known groups such as the…
Hardback – 2016-07-12
Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
Jonathan Edwards' theologically sophisticated psychology of grace remains one of the deepest and most fertile theological psychologies in the Protestant tradition. The heart of his account lies in his foundational doctrine of spiritual perception where he locates the psychological core of the…
Hardback – 2016-07-07
Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology
This ground-breaking book provides an in-depth analysis of the theory and practice of sports chaplaincy in a global context. Written in an accessible style, yet based on academic evidence and theory, the contributors include those leading major national chaplaincy organisations located in the UK,…
Paperback – 2016-06-21
An important reconceptualisation is taking place in the way people express creativity, work together, and engage in labour; particularly, suggests Kidwell, a surprising resurgence in recent years of manual and craft work. Noting the wide array of outlets that now market hand-made goods and the…
Hardback – 2016-06-16
All too often religion is largely ignored as a driver of identity formation in the European context, whereas in reality Christian Churches are central players in European identity formation at the national and continental level. Christian Churches in European Integration challenges this tendency,…
Hardback – 2016-06-14
Advancing strong, scholarly discussion on the Holy Spirit and the church in the context of the ecumenical movement, six theologians in five different churches offer new theological and pastoral insights into the work of the Holy Spirit in the churches of Christianity, in ecumenism, and in witness.…
Hardback – 2016-06-10
Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology
Exile constitutes one of the most central experiences in the Bible, notably in the book of Genesis. The question has rarely been asked however as to why exile plays such an important role in the lives of Biblical characters. Biblical Portraits of Exile proposes a philosophical reading largely…
Hardback – 2016-06-03
Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
In the ancient conversation between Western philosophy and Christian theology, powerful contemporary voices are arguing for monologue rather than dialogue. Instead of these two disciplines learning from and mutually informing each other, both philosophers and theologians are increasingly…
Paperback – 2016-06-01
Issues of homosexuality are the subject of public and political controversy in many African societies today. Frequently, these controversies receive widespread attention both locally and globally, such as with the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda. In the international media, these cases tend to be…
Hardback – 2016-05-25
Religion in Modern Africa
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In 2009, prosecutors in Detroit discovered more than 11,000 boxes of potential evidence in rape cases left completely unprocessed. Row upon row of what are called "rape kits" remained untouched on shelves in a police evidence room for years. No DNA evidence was extracted; no DNA evidence was used to catch or prosecute the assailants.
Since then, Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy has lead the effort to sort through those 11,000 rape kits and to find the funding to get them processed.
"I don't know if they were just forgotten, I don't know if they were ignored, I don't know if they were deliberately put there," Worthy tells weekends on All Things Considered's Guy Raz, "I don't know any of that. All I know is that they were there and that we had to do something about it."
Worthy arranged for a federal grant of one million dollars, but says that didn't allow her team to do much more than sort the evidence, match them up with police reports, and begin a database. To process all of the kits, Worthy estimates, would cost about $15 million.
"If we had the funding to examine and have all of these rape kits tested, we would do that. But right now ... we have to categorize and prioritize the cases that we are looking at first."
So far, just two of the cases are set for trial.
Now to a disturbing story out of Detroit. Prosecutors there discovered more than 11,000 boxes of potential DNA evidence in rape cases left completely unprocessed. Row upon row of what are called rape kits remained on storage shelves for years unexamined so no DNA evidence was ever used to catch or prosecute the assailants in those cases.
Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy has taken the lead in sorting through those 11,000 rape kits. That's been her mission since they were discovered two years ago.
KYM WORTHY: There was an inventory being done by the Michigan State Police crime lab, and that is when they were discovered sitting on shelves in an annex to the Detroit Police Department property room that we didn't even know about.
RAZ: Explain what is inside of these kits.
WORTHY: Well, inside of the kits are all of the fibers, the hairs pulled out from every orifice of a rape victim. Sorry to be so candid, but that's what it is. A rape kit process can be over three hours or more, subjecting the victim who has just been sexually assaulted to this really intimate intrusion - yet another intimate intrusion. And so there's all kinds of evidence that can be tested and that hopefully can be used in a trial to identify a perpetrator.
RAZ: Eleven thousand in Detroit alone. I mean, how did it get to that point? Why was nothing done?
WORTHY: That's the $64,000 question. I don't know why. I don't know if they were just forgotten. I don't know if they were ignored, I don't know if they were deliberately put there, I don't know any of that. All I know is that they were there and that we had to do something about it.
RAZ: So there are hundreds, if not thousands of rapists who have never been prosecuted, let alone arrested for their crimes potentially.
WORTHY: Thousands and thousands. Even though some of the rape kits we did find, there had been cases that were conducted without any kind of rape kit analysis and that had already been adjudicated. But the overwhelming majority were not in that posture.
RAZ: You applied for a grant from the National Institute of Justice...
WORTHY: Yes.
RAZ: ...to review the kits. You did receive a grant of $1 million.
WORTHY: Yeah.
RAZ: Tell me what will happen now. Will you be able to use that money to begin testing these kits?
WORTHY: Well, yes and no. The first major thing that was done is that there was a random sample taken from the 11,000. And we were told by the Michigan State University statistics department that if we take 400 of these kits randomly, that'll give us a snapshot of what we have in the 11,000. And as a matter of fact, we have two of those cases that are currently set for trial.
The others, we went through - did an inventory, for lack of a better word, of the over 11,000 rape kits. It took over 50 assistant prosecutors and volunteer interns to be able to put it in a database, because you have to understand, one of the biggest problems we had at the time, there was no database with the Detroit Police Department.
That meant there was no way that we could crosscheck the police reports with the rape kits so there was no connection. So this is a very, very long process that took months and months and months to do. The biggest problem we have now is the funding. If we had the funding to examine and have all of these rape kits tested, we would do that. But right now, since our funding is extremely limited, we have to categorize and prioritize the cases that we are looking at first.
RAZ: My understanding is that it can cost more than $1,000 to process each of these kits languishing on the shelves.
WORTHY: You are correct. It costs approximately $1,500 to test a single kit. And our estimate, if all the kits were to be tested, would cost us about $15 million.
RAZ: Wow. This is not just a Detroit problem.
WORTHY: No.
RAZ: You have found this - similar problems...
WORTHY: Yes.
RAZ: ...in cities all across the country, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Houston...
WORTHY: New York, L.A., Chicago, everywhere.
RAZ: It's worrying that so many victims of sexual assaults and those crimes are just going uninvestigated.
WORTHY: It's particularly bad with sexual assault, if not the most unreported crime, one of the most unreported crimes. So you have women out here that are already not reporting, and then, if - when they hear things like this, it could cause a woman who would be inclined to report, not to report.
RAZ: So if a woman is a victim of sexual assault in Wayne County now, she should feel confident that it will be investigated and that testing will happen.
WORTHY: Yes. We really, really want to make sure this doesn't happen again. We really want to work to provide a national protocol. So if it does happen in any jurisdiction in this country that they will know exactly what to do, and it won't take them as long to rectify their issue.
RAZ: That's Kym Worthy. She's a prosecutor in Wayne County, Michigan. She's heading up the effort to process more than 11,000 unprocessed rape kits in Detroit. Kym Worthy, thank you so much.
WORTHY: My pleasure. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Author Spotlight: David G. Hallman
When I lost a partner to AIDS in 1995, I immediately found myself adrift in a sea of ever-changing emotions, which with I wasn't yet equipped to deal. I didn't have the tools needed to properly channel and process my chaotic state, until I tried writing about my experience. Author David G. Hallman suffered a similar loss when his partner of 30 years was diagnosed with cancer, only to die just two weeks later. He too used writing as a way to explore his emotional state, and that commonality helped us forge a friendship when we were fortunate enough to finally meet at the Rainbow Book Fair in New York. His memoir, August Farewell, details the death of his partner to cancer and was noted by The Advocate magazine as one of the 21 Biographies or Memoirs You Should Read Now, calling his novel Searching for Gilead "an honest examination of questions about God, injustice, love, and death." It was a pleasure to speak with him recently about his life and journey to author-hood.
Kergan Edwards-Stout: Hi David. Nice to talk to you again.
David G. Hallman: Good to connect with you too, Kergan. The last time was over martinis in New York after the Rainbow Book Fair! I remember getting fortified so I'd be in good shape for the Black Party that night.
KES: Yes, the rest of us were a bit in awe that you were heading out to dance all night after being at the book fair all day!
DGH: Well, I'm not a father of two kids like you and your partner, Russ. That takes an impressive amount of energy. I bow to you in the personal stamina department.
KES: As you mention stamina, you've been through quite an emotionally exhausting journey. While you'd written other books prior, you wrote your memoir, August Farewell, after the dramatic death of your partner, Bill, from cancer. When you began writing, was it as a cathartic outlet or were you intending it to be a book?
DGH: I never intended anyone else to see it. Bill was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer in August 2009 and died two weeks later. After it was over, I started panicking that I would forget the details of those excruciating, intimate, heart-wrenching, spiritual, god-awful sixteen days that were, at times, punctured by Bill's uproarious sense of humor. So I started writing the story of those days and spontaneously began integrating vignettes from our thirty-three years together. I wrote nonstop for six weeks. But I only did it so that I could have that record to go back to and relive our time together in the years to come. Just like how we treasure photo albums.
KES: Why did you decide to publish it?
DGH: I shared it with a few close friends who in turn passed it around to others. It started circulating wider and wider. Photo copied pages in a black three-ring binder. People kept telling me that this was a wonderful love story that should be more widely available and it could be helpful to others who were dealing with grief. But it took a year of cajoling from friends before I agreed to publish it.
KES: So many people want to be in a relationship. What brought you both together, and what kept you together?
DGH: Sex. Sex. And more sex. Actually, no, that's not quite true. I had lusted after him for months but I thought that he was so good-looking he wouldn't ever notice a nerd like me. Unbeknownst to me, he had been trying to cruise me. But I was so dense, I didn't realize it. Anyway, once we finally did connect in 1976—yes, I am that old—we started living together within a week. And stayed together for thirty-three years. It was passion that brought us and kept us together—intellectual, emotional, artistic, spiritual, physical passion.
KES: Following August Farewell, your next book, Searching for Gilead, was a work of fiction. What was your inspiration for your novel?
DGH: Though writing August Farewell was cathartic, I still had—still do have—issues with which I'm struggling in my head and in my heart. So I decided to try and grapple with them through a work of fiction. That's where the title comes from. I made a list of those issues and they spelled out GILEAD – God and religion in general; Injustice in the world; Love and relationships; Environmental crises; the Arts; and Death.
KES: You and I share some commonalities, in that we've both lost partners, mine to AIDS and yours to cancer, and that has lead to common themes in our writing. And yet, while both of your recent books are very personal, they're also very different.
DGH: One of the things that I admire so much about your wonderful novel Songs for the New Depression was your artistic risk-taking in telling the story in reverse chronological order. I think it worked brilliantly. Similarly for me, I wanted to push myself aggressively and with passion—there's that word again—to tackle the issues of love and loss that characterize the memoir August Farewell but this time through the demanding genre of a novel. So while Searching for Gilead is a fictional story, the underlying themes are profoundly autobiographical.
KES: While I've always viewed good writing as the connection between emotional authenticity and craftsmanship, someone recently accused me of using the death of Shane for my own aggrandizement. To me, it was essential that I try to honor him and to tell my story as well, but where is the line in telling other's stories? Do you ever feel that you've shared too much?
DGH: I worry about that all the time. I think sometimes I've skidded into an emotional exhibitionism…
KES: …what a great phrase, "emotional exhibitionism…"
DGH: Pouring my broken heart out through the memoir and the novel, through my blogs and other recent writing, is so antithetical to the more personally circumspect person that I used to be. And Bill, though a larger-than-life personality, was quite a private person in terms of his personal life. So I do worry about how he would feel about people around the world reading our life story. But the feedback that I get from readers reinforces my gut instinct that these are important issues for us to be dealing with personally and as societies. And I guess I contribute to that social conversation through my writing.
KES: How do you think the LGBT community, as a whole, has dealt with the AIDS crisis?
DGH: As a community, we've had to deal with a lot of death and have found ways to support each other personally, socially, and politically. Now that HIV is more of a long-term chronic disability and less of an automatic death sentence, I hope we as a community can generalize from our AIDS experience to help each other as we fall ill and die of the same sort of diseases that everyone else does. Like, uh, I dunno, cancer maybe.
KES: What books have most resonated with you as a person, and why?
DGH: Gosh, to have to identify only a few titles that have really thrilled me…well of recent reads, I'd say David Rakoff's Half Empty…such a tragedy that he's just died—of cancer—at such a young age…, Christopher Bram's Eminent Outlaws, Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child, Esi Edugyan's Half-Blood Blues, David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, Colm Tóibín's The Empty Family, Alan Bennett's The Uncommon Reader… The common denominator I suppose is that all of those have taken my breath away, the writing has been so damn good. Sometimes that's intimidating for me as an author, but generally the exhilaration of reading exquisite writing is what sticks with me.
KES: Are you working on anything new?
DGH: I've started work on a collection of inter-related short stories. But I'm taking my time. During the two years that I spent writing August Farewell and Searching for Gilead, I did very little reading. I had no time. I was always writing. Now, I find myself parched and I'm reading, reading, reading. The energy for writing will come back, I hope, but at the moment, I feel the need to slake my thirst for the good writing of others. It's where my energy is. And I'm going with my gut, passionately.
For more on David G. Hallman, please check out his website: http://DavidGHallman.com. He can also be found on Twitter @authordhallman.
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2-3 June 2005 - Moscow, Russian Federation
This meeting took place on 2-3 June 2005 in Moscow. The objective of this plenary meeting was to discuss the policy framework and practices for two priority areas identified by the Roundtable at its previous meeting :
Both institutional and regulatory issues were identified as weaknesses in the enforcement framework. This includes: poor monitoring by the securities regulator, insufficient authority of the securities regulator and low levels of fines, and heavy case-load at the courts as well as lack of clarity in the law particularly on liability of company officers and board of directors. The key challenges for improving corporate governance of SOEs in Russia include: weak SOE boards, poor transparency both of individual SOEs and of the state's ownership policies, as well as un-equitable treatment of shareholders.
More information on the Russian Corporate Governance Roundtable
Synthesis Note English / Russian
2 June : Enforcement of Corporate Governance Rules
Background Paper: OECD Work on Corporate Governance in Russia
This note was prepared as background to a meeting of the OECD-Russia Liaison Committee meeting, to take place in Moscow on 20 June 2005: English / Russian
Opening Remarks by Daniel Blume, Principal Administrator for Corporate Governance Outreach, OECD
PART I : Supervision and Regulatory Enforcement
Session a : Securing, maintaining and strengthening investigative power and sanctions
Session b : Ensuring capacity, integrity and accountability of Regulators
Part II: Judicial Enforcement
Session a : Court practice - supporting effective civil and criminal enforcement
Session b: Ensuring Judicial Infrastructure
3 June: Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises
Introductory presentations, Ms. Mathilde Mesnard, Administrator, Corporate Affairs Division, OECD - OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises and the OECD Comparative Report : English version
Session 1: Ownership function of the state
Session 2: The Responsibilities of the Boards of State-Owned Enterprises
Session 3: Transparency and Disclosure
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Checking in on… the Patriot LeaguePosted by Brian Goodman on February 4th, 2011
Kevin Doyle is the RTC correspondent for the Patriot League.
A Look Back
Bucknell's Winning Streak Snapped—In easily the biggest surprise in the Patriot League over the past two weeks, Bucknell entered Christl Arena and had no answer for Army's offensive attack. The Black Knights put together their best effort of the season in a 20-point dismantling of first-place Bucknell. Entering the game, the Bison had a nine game winning streak that was the fifth-longest in the nation.
Shazier, Johnson, and McCollum in the National Rankings—Speaking of Bucknell, two of their best offensive weapons rank high in statistical rankings. Darryl Shazier has a 3.5:1 assist to turnover ratio which is ninth best in the nation, and sharpshooter Bryson Johnson is connecting on 47% of his three point attempts which ranks him just inside of the top 50. What may be even more impressive than the preceding statistics, however, is Lehigh sophomore C.J. McCollum's ability to score the basketball. McCollum is averaging 22.1 points a game which is the highest total for any sophomore in the country.
The Service Academies—Not a whole lot was expected from Army and Navy at the beginning of the season. In the preseason poll, Army was picked to finish eighth and Navy not that much better at sixth. Although each team is not taking the league by storm and entirely proving these prognostications wrong, they did knock off the league's two top teams in easy fashion. Army defeated Bucknell 90-70 and Navy beat American 73-52. This just goes to show that no team in this league has so much more talent than another that they are immune from suffering bad losses. Impressive, to say the least.
Five-Way Tie for Third Place—After the first go-round to begin league play, there are five teams that have matching 3-4 records. Bucknell and American have separated themselves from the pack—although are clearly susceptible to losses on off nights—but Lehigh, Lafayette, Navy, Army, and Holy Cross are in a cluster directly behind them.
Yaw Gyawu Reaches 1,000—The junior forward from Colgate joined Jared Mintz as another Patriot Leaguer to net his 1,000th point this season. In the process, Gyawu also recorded his ninth straight double-double.
J.J. Avila One of Only Two—Through the completion of games on February 1, the Navy freshman is one of only two freshman in the nation to average at least ten points, five rebounds, and two assists with the other player being Langston Galloway from St. Joseph's. For the season, Avila is averaging 11.7 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 2.0 assists.
Joe Lunardi's Bracketology—Bucknell predictably fell in Joe Lunardi''s latest bracket after their loss to Army. They moved from a 14-seed playing BYU to a 15-seed in the East Region taking on the University of Connecticut. Wonder who Dave Paulsen would rather prepare for: Jimmer Fredette or Kemba Walker?
Mid-Major Top 25—Bucknell is currently #33 in the College Insider Mid-Major Top 25 as they garnered 17 votes in the January 31 poll. The only other Patriot League team that can be found in the poll is American, who received just four votes. I still believe Bucknell is slightly underrated by the pollsters, but I suppose that their recent loss to Army justifies the Bison's position.
Team of the Weeks (Jan. 20-Feb. 2): Navy: Ever since I began to give a "Team of the Weeks" back in the December 10 edition of Checking in on the Patriot League, Bucknell has been awarded the honor every time. Truth be told, they were far and away the best team over the course of those two weeks in every edition as they compiled an impressive record of 11-2 during this stretch. Although Bucknell went 2-1 over the past two weeks, the Navy Midshipmen were hands down the best team in the PL. Beginning 0-4, Navy was reeling, but a victory over rival Army jumpstarted them. They followed this win up with a shocking upset over American, and then made the trek up to Hamilton, NY where they defeated Colgate in double overtime. We shall see if their markedly improved play carries over to February 5, when they travel to Bucknell.
Player of the Weeks (Jan. 20-Feb. 2): C.J. McCollum, Lehigh: I am not sure what is more impressive, the point total McCollum amassed over three games or his rebounding average. The sophomore from Canton, Ohio led Lehigh to two critical victories that brought the Mountain Hawks back into the Patriot League race. He averaged 25.3 points in three games, but corralled 13 rebounds a game as well. Mind you, McCollum is not a center or forward—he would not even be considered to be a "big" player by many—but the 6'3 guard simply has a knack for finding the ball. Constantly around the rim drawing contact, McCollum has a propensity to get to the free throw line too. He was 28-29 from the stripe in the three games, and for the year roughly 30% of his points have come via free throws. The Patriot League has some supremely talented players in the league this season—Vlad Moldoveanu, Jordan Sugars, Julian Simmons, and Mike Muscala to name a few—but none of them compare to C.J. McCollum.
Freshman of the Weeks (Jan. 20-Feb. 2): J.J. Avila, Navy—It is becoming routine that J.J. Avila is named the freshman of the weeks. The numbers alone do not express how valuable Avila has been to Navy this year, especially during Patriot League play. In league action only, he is more than doubling the next best freshman's point total—ironically, that is his teammate Isaiah Roberts—and is the top rebounder, shot blocker, and steals leader. During Navy's three game win streak, Avila averaged 16.7 points, 5.3 boards, and 2.3 assists. For a big man, he is also impressive from downtown as he went 9-20 from three. The Patriot League, due to his efforts, named Avila their Rookie of the Week for the fifth straight time.
Clip of the Week: A fantastic compilation of the highlights of games through the conclusion of games on January 27. Also included in the highlights is some action of the Patriot League lady hoopsters.
Quote of the Week: Following their loss at Lehigh, Holy Cross head coach Milan Brown spoke with Hoop Time editor Chris Courogen:
"We'll keep pushing. When we make those winning plays, you'll know. I won't be in here ready to break the table. I'll be smiling."
Good thing coach Brown, we don't want any broken tables, either.
Power Rankings (Last week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Bucknell (1) (15-8, 6-1)
Previous Two Weeks: W Colgate 76-49, W Lehigh 81-68, L Army 90-70
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 Navy, 2/9 American, 2/12 @ Holy Cross, 2/16 @ Lafayette
The Bison were poised to sprint through the first round of the Patriot League schedule with an unscathed 7-0 record. They blew out a weak Colgate team—although, it should be known the Raiders have been playing better—and then soundly defeated Lehigh. All that was in between them and their tenth win in a row was perennial basement dweller Army. Clearly, the Black Knights did not get the memo that they were supposed to roll over and allow Bucknell to coast to an easy road win. Instead, it was Army—losers of their last three prior to their date with the Bison—that made Bucknell look like the team that was picked to finish last in the league. It should be known that Darryl Shazier, the engine that makes the Bison run, was under the weather against Army and it showed as he had one of his worst performances of the year. Even with the loss, Bucknell's exceptional play through the first half of league play cannot be discounted. Sophomore Mike Muscala is averaging an even 20 points and nearly nine rebounds, Shazier is hands down the top point guard in the lead, and Bryson Johnson and G.W. Boon are two of the top three point shooters. What Bucknell found out against Army is that they cannot be so shortsighted to think they will win games on talent alone—a good lesson to learn now, rather than in the conference tournament.
2. American (2) (15-7, 5-2)
Previous Two Weeks: W Holy Cross 60-57, L Navy 72-53, W Lafayette 73-60
Next Two Weeks: 2/6 @ Lehigh, 2/9 @ Bucknell, 2/12 Colgate, 2/16 @ Army
American picked up a crucial early conference road win against Holy Cross as the winner of that game moved into sole possession of second place behind Bucknell. Following the big win in Worcester, the Eagles suffered a major letdown against Navy losing by 19 points; further proof that on any given night any team can win or lose in this league. Although they did manage to go 2-1 over the past two weeks, American's star player Vlad Moldoveanu struggled by his standards. He averaged a cool 15 points and six rebounds in the three games, and had a real tough time finding the basket as his shooting percentage was just 35.5%—nine percentage points below his season average. Moldoveanu will need to turn his play around in a hurry as the Eagles open their second round of games at Lehigh and Bucknell which is a very important stretch to say the least. Two wins here and American may have the inside track to the conference tournament's top seed.
3. Lehigh (6) (12-10, 3-4)
Previous Two Weeks: W Lafayette 79-62, L Bucknell 81-68, W Holy Cross 79-75 (OT)
Next Two Weeks: 2/6 American, 2/9 @ Navy, 2/12 @ Army, 2/16 Colgate
The Mountain Hawks got off to a real rocky start with their low point coming in a loss in the final seconds at Colgate, but C.J. McCollum and Co. have begun to slowly right the ship. They began by traveling just miles away to their arch rival Lafayette and soundly defeated the Leopards behind 23 points and 14 rebounds from McCollum. A week later, they found themselves in a 12 point second half hole to Holy Cross, but climbed back into the game and eventually won it in overtime. McCollum came up big all day pouring in 29 points, but it was his teammates that made the integral plays down the stretch to propel Lehigh to the win. Michael Ojo hit two threes—one late in regulation and the other in overtime—Jordan Hamilton (not to be confused with Rick Barnes' sophomore) provided a spark off the bench by scoring three points the conventional way to tie the game at 68 towards the end of regulation and then corralled a big offensive rebound and put back to seal the game in overtime, and Gabe Knutson had one of his biggest games scoring wise by flushing in 22 points. When it is more than simply C.J. McCollum playing well, Lehigh becomes a dangerous team.
4. Army (4) (11-11, 3-4)
Previous Two Weeks: L Navy 85-81, L Lafayette 83-60, W Bucknell 90-70
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 Colgate, 2/9 @ Holy Cross, 2/12 Lehigh, 2/16 American
From a pure wins and losses standpoint, it was not the most successful two weeks as Army went 1-2. In their latest game, however, the Black Knights had easily their best performance in maybe the past few years. Without having any knowledge of the performances of both teams to date, one would have thought Army was the 6-0 team and the class of the Patriot League. That is just how well the Black Knights played. Here are several statistics to back it up: the shot 53% from the field, 46% from three, 84% from the line, had nearly a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio, and scored 90 points; entering the game, Bucknell was giving up an average of 61.5 points in the PL. Jeremy Hence scored 23 points in the win and was one of five Black Knights to score in double figures. The victory over Bucknell is good and all for Army as it moved them into that logjam that is third place, but now they must capitalize on it.
5. Navy (8) (8-15, 3-4)
Previous Two Weeks: W Army 85-81, W American 72-53, W Colgate 81-78 (2OT)
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 @ Bucknell, 2/9 Lehigh, 2/12 Lafayette, 2/16 @ Holy Cross
As the old basketball adage goes: "When you live by the three, you die by the three," and this saying has clearly held true for Navy. They got off to a disastrous 0-4 start, but since then have won their last three games. The difference? The three point shot, obviously. In PL play, Navy is hoisting up a ridiculous 25 threes a game, and making an average of nine a game for a very respectable 36%. Here is the kicker though, in losses they are shooting just under 25%, but in victories they are at 38%. This is a dangerous way to live, no doubt about it, but if Jordan Sugars and J.J. Avila continue to have hot hands, Navy will have the ability to win some more games.
6. Holy Cross (3) (4-17, 3-4)
Previous Two Weeks: L American 60-57, L Colgate 79-72, L Lehigh 79-75 (OT)
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 @ Lafayette, 2/9 Army, 2/12 Bucknell, 2/16 Navy
The feelings in Worcester were pretty good after beginning 3-1 in the league—well, as good as one can possibly feel with a 4-14 record—but they have taken a turn for the worse since then. The Crusaders allowed three very winnable games slip through their fingertips and are now 3-4 in the league as opposed to being within striking distance of first place Bucknell. After falling to American in a nip and tuck game that saw Stephen Lumpkins pour in 22 points as HC had little answer for him on the low blocks, the 'Saders came out very flat against an inspired Colgate team. When looking back on their past two losses, the games against Colgate and Lehigh were polar opposites. They trailed Colgate at one point by 18 in the second half, but mounted a late comeback to get within four. Against Lehigh, they flew out of the gate taking a 16-8 early lead and had a 12 point lead midway through the second half, but eventually collapsed and allowed Lehigh to push the game to overtime where the Mountain Hawks would win by four. There is no quit in this Holy Cross team and unquestionably not a lack of energy and fervor that is exuded at the top with Milan Brown, but this has yet to translate into consistent wins.
7. Lafayette (5) (8-14, 3-4)
Previous Two Weeks: L Lehigh 79-62, W Army 83-60, L American 73-60
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 Holy Cross, 2/9 @ Colgate, 2/12 @ Navy, 2/16 Bucknell
After jumping out to a 2-1 start in the league, Lafayette has dropped three of four games and finds themselves in that pack of teams in third place. Jared Mintz continues to be the staple that holds everything together for Lafayette, as he is by far their most consistent scorer, but aside from Mintz the Leopards lack another go-to player. Jim Mower and Ryan Willen have the capabilities and mentalities of a scorer, but both have by and large underperformed in the PL. Mower was virtually invisible in two losses for Lafayette scoring just three points in each game, and Willen has scored in double figures just twice in PL action. When Mower and Willen are both playing well on the offensive end, Lafayette may find some success, but in their last three games the two have a combined average of 16 points a night. Far too low, and an integral reason why they are 1-2 during this stretch.
8. Colgate (7) (5-17, 2-5)
Previous Two Weeks: L Bucknell 76-49, W Holy Cross 79-72, L Navy 81-78 (2OT) W Longwood 97-86
Next Two Weeks: 2/5 @ Army, 2/9 Lafayette, 2/12 @ American, 2/16 @ Lehigh
Colgate had a rare non-conference game at this stage of the season—a game that was not affiliated with the BracketBusters—and capped off their fourth game of the past two weeks with an offensive outburst as they defeated Longwood 97-86. In the grand scheme of things, this game had absolutely zero meaning, but what it may do is provide them with some much needed confidence heading into the second round of Patriot League games. It may be hard to believe, but Colgate has made serious strides lately and will no longer be a pushover like they were for the majority of the season. The Raiders have won four of their last six games, and during this stretch they have witnessed the breakout play of Sterling Melville. Prior to the Dartmouth win, the Plano, Texas native was averaging 3.7 points a game, but during this six game stretch he has been putting up nearly ten a night. Against Longwood, Mike Venezia scored a season-high 21 points; it is a great sign to see Venezia progressing from his knee injury. Venezia is a real fixture in the Colgate backcourt, and one of their best scorers when at full strength. Don't get me wrong, Colgate will still struggle the rest of the way, but this is a squad that has been steadily improving and can surprise some teams—Lehigh and Holy Cross both saw this.
A Look Ahead
Ryan Willen to 1,000?—Lafayette junior forward Ryan Willen currently has 905 career points. Is it possible that Willen reaches 1,000 points this year, or will he have to wait until his senior season rolls around to reach the mark? The Leopards have, at minimum, eight games remaining in their season (seven regular season games, and one game guaranteed in the conference tournament). Assuming Lafayette plays just eight games, Willen would have to average roughly 12 points a game to reach 1,000. For the season, he is averaging 10.5 points, but in conference games he has gone cold averaging just seven.
Who Will Emerge From The Five?—As I previously mentioned, there are five teams who have identical 3-4 league records. In looking ahead to the second half of league play, which team will most likely emerge from the bunch and garner what will most likely be the three seed heading into the tournament? Currently, Navy is the hottest team and is senior laden, but it is hard to see the Midshipmen sustaining their impressive play of late for the balance of the regular season. Holy Cross has been reeling having lost their last three contests, but their great play to begin conference play is encouraging for the Crusader faithful. Army and Lafayette are both very streaky teams; some nights they look to be a top tier team. It is hard for me to pick against Lehigh and C.J. McCollum. Lehigh is one of the youngest and most inexperienced teams in the league, so if Dr. Brett Reed's youngsters continue to mature they may be in good shape. Plus, it doesn't hurt to have McCollum bail you out when necessary.
How Will Milan Brown Manage Andrew Keister?—A few years ago, former Holy Cross head coach Ralph Willard faced the predicament of how to handle the nagging injuries of two of his top players: Alex Vander Baan and Pat Doherty. Both were sidelined with injuries for part of the season, and Willard periodically rested Vander Baan and Doherty to keep them fresh for certain games. Fast forward to 2011, and Milan Brown faces a similar dilemma. His star forward Andrew Keister has a nagging Achilles, but has been valiantly battling through it. Will Brown limit Keister's minutes until the conference tournament rolls around, or will he utilize him in a manner that gives HC the best opportunity to win each and every game? I would guess the latter.
Critical Upcoming Games:
- Bucknell vs. Navy (Feb. 5)—Is Navy's three game winning streak a sign of things to come, or will they fall back into the depths of the Patriot League after their date with Bucknell?
- Lehigh vs. American (Feb. 6)—The Eagles won round one in D.C., but now Lehigh gets a shot at Vlad and others in Bethlehem.
- Bucknell vs. American (Feb. 9)—A game of extreme importance for American if they have any desire of obtaining the number one seed in the tournament. It is hard to see them losing to Bucknell twice, but stilling being ranked one in the tournament.
- Holy Cross vs. Bucknell (Feb. 12)—No matter what the records are of these two teams, the game is always an absolute dogfight that always seems to go down to the wire. Mike Muscala hit a baseline jumper with just over a second left to win the first game, but Holy Cross proved they could more than hang with the Bison in the loss.


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. – Following an upset win on Monday night in the Conference Carolinas Tournament, the King University women's soccer team's season came to an end on Thursday afternoon at No. 4 seed Pfeiffer University. The eighth seeded Tornado fell 2-0 in the Conference Carolinas Tournament, marking the farthest the Tornado have advanced in the league.
The Falcons (13-6) pressured the Tornado defense early and often, compiling 12 shots in the first half. Pfeiffer had a pair of corner kicks in the first five minutes, followed by a header that sailed just high of the goal. Their first shot on frame came in the 18th minute, but Nicole Dagher was there to keep the game scoreless. Dagher made another save before the Falcons broke through in the 32nd minute.
Kayla Rodriguez took a corner kick that ended up in a scrum at the back post where Miracle Campbell gathered the ball and slid it into the back of the net to put Pfeiffer ahead. Dagher game up with four more saves, and totaled six stops in the first half, as King (6-11-2) trailed 1-0 at halftime.
It didn't take long for the Falcons to extend their lead in the second half as they took three shots in the first four minutes. In the 52nd minute, Aaliyah Jackson ripped a shot that went off the back post where Hannah Hill collected the ball and sent it into the open net to give the Falcons a two-goal advantage.
The pressure didn't stop as Dagher came up with three saves in a row from the 64th to 66th minutes to keep the Tornado deficit at two. In the 80th minute the Tornado put a little pressure on the Falcons as Lindsay Curtis took a corner kick that was headed toward the goal by Rachel Thorpe. However, the attempt went wide. Thorpe placed King's lone shot on goal in the 90th minute, but the shot was saved as King's season ended with the 2-0 defeat.
Pfeiffer outshot King 23-3, and had eight corner kicks to King's one. Dagher came within one save of her career-high with 11 saves.
The senior trio of Devon Shanklin, Bekah Ramstack and Kelsey Plummer conclude their careers after helping King transition into NCAA Division II and Conference Carolinas. They also helped lead the Tornado to their first Conference Carolinas Tournament win on Monday when they defeated top-seed Lees-McRae College.


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Did you do a default installation? My preferences.txt ended up in C:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Application Settings\Arduino(But I have no idea how it got there. I just unzipped arduino-0018.zip in a "sandbox" directory and started it up.)
This is better than nothing.
I'm not sure I'm entirely clear on the supposed bug here. If you quit (File > Quit or Control-Q), the IDE should save and restore the sketches you have open, along with their location and position.
My latest Teensyduino installer adds a patch for bug #78. Even if you never intend to use Teensy, you can run the installer on your Arduino 0021 and it should fix this, plus a few other long-standing bugs.http://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_download.html
By the way, I take it that it'd difficult to make your own changes to the IDE?
If the installer worked, you'll see 4 new "Teensy" items in the Tools > Boards menu, and a couple new menus like Tools > USB Type.


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Family-Style Turkey Potpie
"Despite our last name, we like spicy flavorful foods like this hearty potpie seasoned with zesty green chilies and cheese."
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 45 min.
Makes6 servings
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup cold butter, cubed
- 3/4 to 1 cup cold water
- 4 cups cubed cooked turkey
- 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
- 1 cup (8 ounces) sour cream
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 1 can (4 ounces) chopped green chilies
- 2 green onions, sliced
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until crumbly. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 10-12 times or until smooth.
- Set aside a third of the dough. Roll remaining dough into a 15x11-in. rectangle. Transfer to an ungreased 11x7-in. baking dish.
- In a large bowl, combine the turkey, cheese, soup, sour cream, onion, chilies and green onions. Spoon into crust. Roll out reserved dough; make a lattice crust. Place over filling; trim, seal and flute edges. Cover edges loosely with foil.
- Bake at 400° for 45-50 minutes or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly.


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All About Broccoli
Broccoli is the 11th most consumed fresh vegetable in the United States. Every year, we each consume around 6.7 pounds of fresh broccoli and 2.6 pounds of frozen broccoli. Here are some interesting facts about this favorite green.
How it's grown:
- Broccoli is grown year-round in Mexico and California! Other primary growing locations include Canada, Arizona, Florida, Maine and Wisconsin. It can be grown as a summer or fall crop.
- This vegetable prefers cooler climates, so California (which grows 90% of the broccoli we eat in the U.S.) is the ideal setting with its breezy coastline and lower evening temperatures.
- Broccoli tends to produce heads, flowers and seeds more rapidly if planted in early summer versus spring or fall.
- Optimal spacing for broccoli cultivation yields about 14,000-24,000 plants per acre (that's about 8.15 tons of broccoli)!
How to shop for it:
- Look for broccoli with a rich green color and minimal to no yellowing. Broccoli florets should be firm and tight. Broccoli should have a texture that is not mushy or limp, but also not tough or "woody."
How to store it:
- From its day of harvest, broccoli has a 10-14 day shelf life at 95-100% humidity. However, after purchasing from the grocery store, it can be sealed and stored in the refrigerator (<40° F) until the best by/use by date, or for 3-4 days after opening.
- Once you get home, wait until you're ready to eat or cook with the broccoli to wash it.
- Fresh broccoli can also be frozen for up to a year.
How to prepare it:
- Do not overcook broccoli. This can release an undesirable foul smell.
- No need to throw away the stems! Peeling off the outside layer of stalks uncovers a tender stalk that can be pureed and combined with cheese or nondairy cheese as a spread, shredded to use in slaws, saved for homemade vegetable stock or thrown in a frittata.
- If you purchase broccoli with leaves still intact, they can be used in dishes. The leaves can be cooked (and taste) similar to collard greens. However, as broccoli matures, its leaves become more bitter, so it may be wise to seek a younger plant or season the leaves well upon preparation.
How to eat it:
- The options are endless with cooked broccoli! It can be used in a casserole, stir-fry, pasta (such as fettuccine alfredo), gratin, quiche, potato cake, fried with tempura, or even served atop pizza.
- This green also fairs well raw in slaws and salads. Some favorite ingredients to combine with broccoli include pears, pine nuts, raisins, apples, water chestnuts and onions.
Nutritional highlights:
- Broccoli is cholesterol free (characteristic of all plants), fat free and very low in sodium. As with many vegetables, this veggie is high in water content and low in calories.
- Broccoli also contains the compounds indoles and isothiocyanates, which may have anticancer properties.
Broccoli is high in vitamin A, vitamin C and folate. Fresh broccoli also has 2.4g protein, 2.2g fiber and 269mg potassium per serving.


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In 1979 he joined the first violin section of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and four years later became a member of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London, a position he continues to hold.
Away from the Philharmonia he plays in András Schiff's hand-picked chamber orchestra, the Cappella Andrea Barca, in violin ensemble concerts with his group, '4 Violins & a Bass' and is professor of violin at the Kent Academy of Music
His compositions and arrangements have been performed by orchestras and groups throughout the world, directed by conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Robertson, Mikael Pletnev and Carl Davis. Recent arrangements have been recorded for EMI by Alison Balsom and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and by cellist Natalie Clein with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Vernon Handley.
Julian Milone's work has appeared on the recent Australian documentary, 4, based on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons and at the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles, for which he arranged the music. His works have also been performed at US festivals by Gil Shaham and Cho-Liang Lin, in Amsterdam and Cape Town by Ivry Gitlis and Daniel Rowland and by Janine Jansen at her festival in Dubrovnik.


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It's highly unlikely that paint fumes can harm your unborn baby, as the risk from modern household paints is very low.
It's highly unlikely that painting or being around paint fumes while you're pregnant will harm your unborn baby, as the risk from most modern household paints is very low.
The risk of harm to your baby may be slightly greater from solvent-based paints and old paintwork, which may contain traces of lead.
For this reason, you should avoid using solvent-based paints and stripping old paintwork while you're pregnant.
If you're concerned about this and want to eliminate the risk of paint fumes affecting your baby, you should avoid doing any painting and decorating while you're pregnant.
But if you do choose to do some painting and decorating, taking these steps can help reduce any potential risks:


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SANTA ANA – A 34-year-old mother dabbed at her eyes with tissue Friday as she was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing her 23-month-old daughter when, prosecutors said, she squeezed the infant and slammed her on a hard surface.
Linda Wilborn, 34, of Seal Beach, was convicted in July of second-degree murder, assault on a child causing death and two child-abuse counts.
Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons told jurors during the trial, in front of Superior Court Judge Richard Toohey, that Millicent Wilborn "died at the hands of the person who was supposed to protect her."
The mother was also convicted of abuse for fracturing the skull of Millicent's twin brother, whom experts at Children's Hospital of Orange County found to be malnourished, developmentally delayed because of emotional neglect and suffering from multiple bruises consistent with grabbing and squeezing.
Wilborn, mother of four, called 911 on Dec. 17, 2009, to report that Millicent was unresponsive, according to testimony. First-responders found the child lying on the floor with her arms spread out, showing no signs of life and not breathing.
Simmons said the autopsy showed that the child died from blunt force trauma to the thorax.
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Trying to avoid the transfers especially when wet and after breaking my legs so many times they do not fit in a wheelchair correctly.
Just had a breakthrough the other day on transferring into my power chair but trying to transfer into a shower chair (which is basically my manual chair) my legs just won't stay on the foot plates. Long story short, A have been stuck in bed for the last few years. Can still do my transfers but not any complicated transfers like I used to.
When I do take a shower it crashes my blood pressure another reason to avoid the extra exertion of the transfers. Also wouldn't be comfortable doing this machine by myself.
Thank you for your help it was just an idea.