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Audiophiles are notoriously difficult to shop for. That's why we've compiled this list of five different headphones that even the most discerning music lover would appreciate. And, since each one is discounted by as much as 73 percent, now is the perfect time to get started on your holiday shopping.
AirSounds Pro True Wireless Earbuds
These look similar to Apple's popular AirPods but cost a fraction of the price. They provide a crisp, clear sound and feature modern technology ― such as Bluetooth 5.0 ― so they'll remain on the cutting edge for years to come. And they offer four hours of playback per charge, they're super comfortable, and come with a handy case that recharges wirelessly.
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These true wireless earbuds from 1VoiceNYC are designed to provide the perfect listening experience. They deliver awesome sound, are ergonomic so they can be worn for long periods, and they are completely wireless so they place no limitations on what you can do while wearing them. And, at this price, they fit practically any budget.
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Looking for a pair of headphones that any audiophile will appreciate? Then check these out. They feature neodymium-backed 40mm speakers for superior audio, T-Quiet™ active noise canceling technology, and an ergonomic design so they can be comfortably worn all day. They're perfect for commuting, hitting the town, or even for drowning out your noisy coworkers.
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These headphones provide the perfect blend of portability and sophistication. They offer up to six hours of audio playback, feature a water resistance rating of IPX7 so they can be worn in all kinds of weather, and are ergonomic so they'll maintain a comfortable fit. Plus, they boast graphene-powered drivers, so you'll enjoy quality sounds, especially considering the price.
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Zunammy Bluetooth Over-Ear Headphones with Comfort Pads
Many of the Bluetooth headphones on the market cost well over a hundred dollars. These, by contrast, maintain a price point that's far more affordable yet doesn't ask you to compromise on quality. They offer six hours of playback time, feature ultra comfortable ear pads, and sport control buttons that are among the most easily accessible.
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In the works for two years, East Hampton Town's five ongoing hamlet studies and associated business study are ready for public review and will be presented one at a time at public hearings before the Town Board beginning next month.
The Town Board informally agreed to move into the public hearing phase, beginning in early September with the Wainscott study, after a presentation on the hamlet-study process by planning consultant Lisa Liquori at Tuesday's work session.
The ultimate goal of the studies is to provide guidance to the board so that it can update and amend the town's Comprehensive Plan — and eventually the zoning code — to reflect each hamlet's future land-use aspirations. Before each study can be adopted as official policy, they require a public hearing and an environmental assessment, which will be conducted after the hearings
Town Councilman David Lys commented on Tuesday, for example, that the community wants to "remove the potential for more development in the lots in front of the IGA" in the Amagansett East area.
Based on comments from the public, officials, Citizens Advisory Committee members, businesspeople and others, hamlet studies have been in the works since 2016, when workshops, focus group and tours were held in each hamlet by the private planning firm, Dodson & Flinker with assistance from RKG Associates and Fine Arts and Sciences.
Studies will be presented late this summer and into the fall for Amagansett, East Hampton, Montauk, Springs, and Wainscott as well as a Hamlet Business District Plan.

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High tech from tip to handle, Global knives from Japan created a sensation when they burst onto the world's culinary stage as an alternative to traditional European-style cutlery. Blades are made of hard molybdenum/vanadium stainless steel and "face-ground" with a long taper rather than a short bevel so edges remain sharp longer than even the best high-carbon stainless-steel knives. Edges also are ground at a more acute angle than traditional European-style knives and arrive from the factory razor-sharp. Although Global also makes a "heavyweight" line for cooks who prefer hefty knives, its original knives–of which this 5-1/2-inch knife for precisely slicing and chopping vegetables is an example–have thinner blades and are lighter than traditional European-style knives. Global also dispensed with bolsters on its original knives to reduce weight. Balance is achieved by injecting a precise amount of sand for a particular blade style into a hollow handle. To ensure balance is continuous, the sand flows inside the handle as a blade is maneuvered. A finger notch between blade and handle provides safety.
Stainless-steel handles are Global's most striking feature. They're molded to fit the hand and dimpled to resist slipping. Smaller around than many European-style handles, they're easy for small-handed cooks to grasp and seamless for sanitation. Global recommends using a ceramic sharpener or a diamond steel instead of a metal sharpening steel for its knives, supplemented by a synthetic whetstone, a ceramic whetstone, or a Shinkansen sharpener. Global also makes a Sharpening Guide Rail so blades can be honed on a whetstone at the proper angle. Global knives should be hand washed to protect edges. They carry a lifetime warranty against defects and breakage. –Fred Brack
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Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to exploit human beings for some type of labor or commercial sex purpose. Every year, millions of men, women, and children worldwide—including in the United States—are victims of human trafficking. Victims are often lured with false promises of well-paying jobs or are manipulated by people they trust, but instead are forced or coerced into prostitution, domestic servitude, farm or factory labor, or other types of forced labor.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for investigating human trafficking, arresting traffickers and protecting victims. DHS initiates hundreds of investigations and makes numerous arrests every year, using a victim-centered approach. DHS also processes immigration relief through Continued Presence (CP), T visas, and U visas to victims of human trafficking and other designated crimes. ... continue reading>>http://www.dhs.gov/topic/human-trafficking
GEMS is the only organization in New York State of its kind. The organization has helped hundreds leave the commercial sex industry and the documentary and exposé of human trafficking of young girls on the streets of New York titled, Very Young Girls was directed by David Schisgall and Nina Alvarez and highlights the work that GEMS does. Rachel was named one of the 50 Women Who Change the World, as well as recognized as one of the 100 Women Who Shape New York by the New York Daily News.
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HIPS is a nationally recognized program that meets the needs sex workers and assists them in their efforts to eliminate the transmission of HIV, increase sexual health, and reduce violence and harm associated with sex work and drug use.
HIPS programs serve an estimated 2,000 sex workers a year on the streets and in our drop-in center, providing a full spectrum of programs to address basic & immediate needs, long-term goal setting and life skills development.
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But when I say the story is incredible, I mean that in the literal, largely abandoned sense of the word. It is not credible -- I don't believe it.
I'm not saying that the author of the story, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, deliberately fabricated facts. Nor do I believe that all of her reporting was flawed. There may be an outrageously callous attitude toward sexual assaults at UVA. Rape, particularly date rape, may be a major problem there. I've talked to enough people with connections to the campus to think that part is credible enough.
But the central story isn't about a spontaneous alcohol-fueled case of some creep refusing to take no for an answer (an inexcusable offense in my opinion). It's an account of a well-planned gang rape by seven fraternity pledges at the direction of two members. If true, lots of people need to go to jail for decades -- if.
The basic story is this: Jackie is asked out on a date her freshman year by a junior named "Drew" (not his real name). After dinner, they go to a party at Phi Kappa Psi. Quickly, Drew asks Jackie, "Want to go upstairs, where it's quieter?"
Jackie is led to a "pitch-black" bedroom. She's knocked to the floor. A heavy person jumps on top of her. A hand covers her mouth. When she bites it, she's punched in the face. And for the next three hours she's brutally raped, with Drew and another upperclassman shouting out instructions to the pledges, referring to Jackie as "it."
Many alleged details (though Erdely never uses the word "alleged") aren't suitable for a family paper. Others are simply hard to believe. The pitch-black darkness doesn't prevent Jackie from recognizing an attacker or seeing them drink beer. The assault takes place amidst the wreckage of a broken glass table, but the rapists are undeterred by shards of glass.
The most unbelievable dialogue comes later. Sometime after 3 a.m., Jackie leaves the still-raging party, "her face beaten, dress spattered with blood," without anyone seeing her. Distraught, she calls three friends, Andy, Randall and Cindy (not their real names) for help. They arrive in "minutes." One of the male friends says they have to take her to the hospital. Cindy replies, "Is that such a good idea?" adding, "Her reputation will be shot for the next four years."
Erdely expounds: "Andy seconded the opinion, adding that since he and Randall both planned to rush fraternities, they ought to think this through. The three friends launched into a heated discussion about the social price of reporting Jackie's rape ..."
Really? Neither boy put Jackie's medical needs above their pledge prospects? What a convenient conversation for an exposé of rape culture -- it reads like a script written for a feminist avant-garde theater troupe. Similarly, when Jackie reports what happened to school authorities -- again, a brutal, premeditated gang rape by nearly half the pledge class of a prominent fraternity -- the dean is described as responding with all of the emotion you'd expect if Jackie requested to change majors. Meanwhile, it was all kept hush-hush until Erdely reported it.
Erdely admits she set out to find a sexual assault story at an elite school like UVA. She looked at lots of other colleges first, but "none of those schools felt quite right" in the words of a Washington Post profile of Erdely. But UVA, which Erdely describes in Rolling Stone as a school without a thriving "radical feminist culture seeking to upend the patriarchy," was just right. As Worth magazine editor Richard Bradley noted last week, the whole thing seems like an adventure in confirmation bias.Initially, Erdely wouldn't say whether she even knew the names of the alleged rapists. Late Monday, according to the Washington Post, Erdely's editor said Rolling Stone "verified their existence" by talking to Jackie's friends, but the magazine couldn't reach them. Uh huh.
Erdely's story was reported uncritically for days as a powerful example of the "rape epidemic" that is somehow taking place amidst a 20-year decline in reported rapes. News outlets repeated the claim that 1 in 5 college women are sexually assaulted. This bogus statistic comes from "The Campus Sexual Assault Study," a shoddy online survey of just two universities that counted attempted (forced) kissing and the like as "sexual assault" -- and never even asked female respondents about rape.
Erdely's story may be proven true after a needed investigation, but I suspect it will turn out to have been one of those stories too useful to verify.


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With head held high and a twinkle in his eye, president of SCE Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida continues to beat the drum of PlayStation positive thinking. "All the things are now coming together in terms of the right hardware, cost and pricing," said Yoshida to Videogaming247.
He refers, of course, to the increased hard disk space in the new PS3s which will retail for the same value of previous, lesser gig-happy SKUs. It's interesting to take note of his comment on "cost," which tells us that producing PS3 is becoming more cost-efficient ... possibly due to unpublicized hardware revision. As any head of a company would, Yoshida assures that this year is a strong year for PS3 and that 2009 will be just the same holding scores of new titles both announced and unannounced.
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For this week's post, we went back into the blog archives to find our content on dyslexia that has proved most useful to our readers. We'd like to share these articles here as the ones that, going by popularity and response in the comments, resonate the most with our audience. Thank you for reading!
1. Searching for words: what to call dyslexia
This post provoked some interesting discussion in the comments section. We asked readers what they thought of referring to dyslexia as a learning disability vs. a learning difference.
This question was brought up in response to a comment left by a reader on one of our Facebook posts. We looked at how different dyslexics identify with different terms and what is the reasoning behind the labels. One of our most popular articles ever. Read more.
2. Early intervention for dyslexia
The earlier dyslexia is diagnosed, the sooner intervention can begin. This article looks at the research behind the widely-held view that early intervention is beneficial to dyslexics, while delaying intervention can have long-lasting repercussions. Read more.
3. Dyslexia: after the diagnosis
Whether or not a diagnosis comes early (see the post listed above), parents and dyslexics can often be left wondering: what next? This post puts together a list of online resources for first steps to take following a diagnosis. The resources can provide guidance and support during what is sometimes a difficult process. Read more.
4. Famous dyslexics: inspiration
Dyslexia poses challenges to those who have it, but the many dyslexics throughout history who have accomplished great things can serve as role models to children and inspiration to adult dyslexics. This list of famous dyslexics is one of our most popular posts. Read more.
5. What age groups can benefit from Orthograph?
Finally, this post on Dybuster's learning software for students with dyslexia is also among our most-visited articles. We are honored that readers are looking to us as a resource for dyslexia intervention. Read more.
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Typhoon Fitow barrelled into China's east coast on Monday, packing winds of more than 200 km/h, after hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated and bullet train services were suspended.
At least three people were reported killed, all of them near the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, the state broadcaster CCTV said.
Parts of Zhejiang, which borders the commercial hub Hangzhou, saw nearly 29 centimetres of rain over 17 hours from Sunday to early Monday, while areas in Fujian to the south saw up to 16 centimetres, the official China News Service said.
In the hard-hit county of Cangnan in Wenzhou, more than 1200 homes collapsed and damages amounted to hundreds of millions of yuan, China National Radio said.
One of the victims, 55-year-old Ni Wenlin, died "after strong wind blew him off a hill" late Sunday, Xinhua news agency said, citing municipal flood control authorities.
Another person died of electric shock, CCTV reported.
In Fujian the typhoon snapped electricity poles in half, leaving power lines on the ground, and bent iron road signs out of shape, the radio reported.
In the coastal city of Ningde, a village leader told the Beijing Times that huge waves had damaged a 200-hectare seaweed farm, on which nearly 100 families depended for their livelihood.
At least 59 bullet trains in Zhejiang were cancelled, along with 22 flights from the provincial capital Hangzhou and 27 in Wenzhou, Xinhua said.
Sections of highways were shut and more than 350 buses from Wenzhou were cancelled.
Forecasters said the storm was expected to move north-west but weaken quickly.
But continued rainstorms were expected due to another typhoon, Danas, which was set to hit Japan's main islands on Monday.
Packing winds of up to 180 km/h near its centre, Danas was battering the southern Japanese chain of Okinawa, where more than 50 flights at Naha airport were cancelled while schools were shut, according to local media.
The Japanese meteorological agency issued an alert for strong winds and high waves, while urging residents to remain on guard for floods and landslides as well as lightning and tornadoes.
Local authorities in Okinawa and Kagoshima separately issued evacuation advisories to some 6500 households, public broadcaster NHK said.
In China, authorities had evacuated hundreds of thousands and issued the country's highest alert on Sunday as Fitow approached the mainland.
The storm was packing winds of up to 151 km/h on Sunday night as it moved towards the coast.
Winds rose to 201 km/h in parts of Wenzhou, Xinhua reported later, citing local flood control authorities.
Zhejiang has so far evacuated more than 574,000 people, while in Fujian 177,000 have been displaced, it said.
Two port workers in Wenzhou were missing and may have fallen into the sea, the agency added.
Xinhua quoted the weather centre as saying it was unusual for a typhoon to come ashore in China's south-east during October, at the end of the storm season.
Chinese maritime authorities also issued red alerts, warning of storm tides and waves. Fishermen were urged to return to port and local authorities told to prepare harbour facilities and sea walls for high tides.
In Zhejiang more than 35,000 boats returned to harbour while in Fujian nearly 30,000 vessels were called back, according to Xinhua.
Named after a flower from Micronesia, Fitow has hit just two weeks after Typhoon Usagi wreaked havoc in the region, leaving at least 25 dead in southern China.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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LONDON (AP) — An American private investment firm is considering making an offer to buy English Premier League club Tottenham.
Cain Hoy Enterprises said in a statement released Friday that it is "at the preliminary stages of assessing a cash offer" for Tottenham and must announce whether it intends to make an official bid by no later than Oct. 10.
Cain Hoy, whose headquarters are in Greenwich, Connecticut, said it was releasing the statement "without the consent of Tottenham Hotspur."
Tottenham reacted by saying in a statement that the club "is not in takeover discussions with Cain Hoy or any other party," but confirmed officials had met with representatives of the U.S. company regarding financial options for the building of a new stadium.
"However, there are no ongoing discussions with Cain Hoy," the Tottenham statement added.
Tottenham is planning to build a new 56,250-capacity stadium adjacent to its current White Hart Lane ground.
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Chocolate Covered Pretzel Sunglasses. They're tasty, they're cute, and perfect for summer cookouts and birthday ideas.Continue Reading →
Because my mother is awesome, I tend to consider Mother's Day months prior. This year, I went through the same series of hurdles when trying to decide what to give her.
I could buy her some nice slippers. She has an odd fetish for them, or something. I'm certain if I opened her closet several […]Continue Reading →


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At the upcoming VIBE Conference, respected researcher Warren Solochek will present "Satisfying Our Thirst for Beverages," during which he'll explore how the beverage market has evolved on-premise, which beverages are growing in demand, and what drives someone to order one beverage over another. We spoke with Warren to get a sneak peek at what attendees will hear.
VIBE: What's the most important trend on-premise as it relates to beverages right now?
Warren Solochek: If there's softness in beverage today, it's because of casual dining, as visits to casual dining continue to be soft. In addition, casual dining softness is being driven by the independents rather than the big chains. That's important to note because incidence of purchasing beverage alcohol tends to be higher at independents rather than the big chains. What's happening, therefore, is overall fewer people are going to casual dining, although bigger chains are holding their own. If you have fewer people going to independents, beverage alcohol is going to decline overall because they account for about two-thirds of all the traffic.
VIBE: What are you seeing in terms of consumer behavior?
Solochek: From a consumer perspective we're seeing people trading down from casual dining as a whole to less expensive restaurants. The average check has gotten to a point for many people that they can't afford to go to casual dining restaurants perhaps as often as they have in the past, spreading the purchase cycle within casual dining. People are going less often and spending less on food and beverage.
VIBE: How are chains reacting?
Solochek: Bigger chains have started to do things like promoting burgers more, or sandwiches more, as opposed to some of the more traditional center of plate entrees because they're trying to get the price point down a bit. In fact, casual dining is moving a bit toward special occasion and away from the regular mix.
VIBE: How about beverage specifically?
Solochek: If you look at the mix, a couple of things stand out. If you look at fine dining and more upscale operators, beverages held their own there better than at traditional casual dining. The consumer going to fine dining is a little more upscale, so incidences of purchasing are doing better in fine dining. Where that growth is coming from is cocktails, which is a change from what we've seen in the past which was a little more wine driven. Part of what's driving this some of the price points are getting really high for some of those premium wines and I think people look at that and ask, "Is that wine worth 12, 13, 15 bucks?"
VIBE: That makes higher priced cocktails look like a bargain and a value.
Solochek: Yes, and the other thing maybe cocktails have going for them is you have a greater ability to customize and try something really unique and different, and people are willing to try something once to see if they like it and pay it a little bit more
We're also seeing a little softness in beer in casual dining and I think though last year was a really good year for beer, a lot of that was because of craft and I'm wondering if, within restaurants, craft is getting closer to the peak of interest, only because restaurants can only carry so many varieties. There's a limit and maybe we've hit it.
VIBE: Finally, what do you see in terms of non-alcohol?
Solochek: Non-alcohol beverages are down, and that's really being driven by carbonated soft drinks (CSDs). There's a health factor: people are looking at things they perceive to be more healthy, like lemonade or iced tea. The other thing is CSDs have gotten really expensive at restaurants. If you're being charged $2.50 for a glass of Diet Coke but can buy a 20-pack case for six bucks, you may not want to spend that much. Tap water has been one of the top growing beverages for several years now in casual dining because it's cheap, obviously, and it has that healthier perception. If I'm trying to manage my spend, tap water really helps.
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- n Money. I really would like to go to the shore this weekend but I just don't have the ends. 1990s
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Ends — A term used to denote the warp threads of a fabric, most often used in connection with the sett of the warp, e.g., 90 ends per inch … Dictionary of the English textile terms
ends — index confines Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
ends — 1. n. money. (Streets.) □ You got enough ends to get you through the week? □ We don't have enough ends to pay the gas bill. 2. n. shoes. □ You even got holes in your ends. □ … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
ends — cal·ends; ends; week·ends; … English syllables
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Ends — This name is of Anglo Saxon origin and is topographical for one resident at the end of a settlement of a street. The derivation is from the Old English pre 7th Century ende , (Middle High German ende , from the Old High German enti ). Early… … Surnames reference
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ends — Jamaican Slang Glossary A place. Mi a go pon one ends still. (I am going to one place) … English dialects glossary
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Is this how your porch looked this morning? Many thanks to blog reader Steve whose comment was the inspiration for this post. Steve says: July 1, 2011 at 7:40 PM "hey has anyone ever had a problem with bugs after long storms… just got over a tropical wave and there are these ant-like things with long black wings EVERYWHERE… theyre coming under my door like a little army too… when do they go away!?!?!" louisiana2dominica says: July 1, 2011 at 9:29 PM "Yes, Steve we all get 'em. Some worse than others, especially if there are holes in your window screens. The jury is out on whether they are flying ants or termites. I hear people call them the "after the rain bugs". In the morning, if not already, you will see their dead wings on the floor or all over your porch. They seem to be attracted to light. So I turn off all my outdoor lights when they are swarming. They won't hang around. They die quickly…but you can always expect them with the rain. Gross, huh ?"
How could I have forgotten to warn the newbies about the flying ants ??!!! Epic blogger fail ! I've lived here so long they don't even phase me anymore. It's just part of rainy season. The only thing I can relate the flying ants experience to is termite swarming in New Orleans. Imagine hundreds of flying thingies nose diving into you, lights, walls, your dinner plate (come on, you know it happened to you at the Tomato last night), trying to get into the front door of your home when you open the door, suddenly appearing on your kitchen floor, and wait…is that an insect wing in my hair ? Three words come to mind…plague, biblical, proportions.
Once you get used to it, it's not so bad. Just keep your doors and windows shut when they are swarming. You'll see, the pests leave as quickly as they arrive.
So, what do you think, ants or termites ? I'm sure there is somebody out there who was an entomologist prior to coming to Ross ? Maybe some local readers can enlighten us as to what these winged creatures are.


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From December 16, tons of alive clams had washed up in the beach in Thach Hai Commune in the central province of Ha Tinh's Thach Ha.
|Locals bring clams to sell in markets or cook as food .Tons of alive shellfish washing on beach produce big income for locals (Photo: SGGP)
Locals said that from September to November of Lunar Calendar annually, when there have been big waves and rough sea, the shellfish have concentrated in piles in the beach.
Locals have brought them to sell in local markets or cook them as food. Prices of husked shellfish fluctuate from VND30,000 to 50,000 per kilogram and unhusked clam are VND10,000 – 20,000 a kilogram.
Administrators in Thach Hai Commune said this phenomenon is popular adding that each year, masses of shellfish wash up dead on beach one or three times.


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ABMC Maps
Thursday, April 18, 2019
To accompany its series of books summarizing the operations of each US Army division in World War I, the American Battle Monuments Commission produced maps showing each division's position during the battles in which it participated.
High-resolution digital versions of the two ABMC maps referenced in A Very Muddy Place are given here. Click on a map to view or download the larger image.
On the maps, straight red lines mark division sector boundaries. The ragged red lines show the division's limit of advance at midnight on the date indicated. Each map is divided into one-kilometer (0.62 miles) squares. Contour lines show elevation in five-meter (16.4 feet) intervals.
Grange-le-Comte Sector, September 21-25, 1918,
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, September 26-October 3, 1918
30th Division, Somme Offensive, October 3-22, 1918


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Brought to you by the same people that opened Umi Sushi, here's Issho Izakaya, a newly opened Japanese restaurant that specializes in tapas and yakitori. A perfect place to visit for a wholesome dinner comprising of Japanese and western fusion dishes and complete with drinks be it alcoholic or not.
Experience an authentic dining experience with dishes whipped up by Chef Takayuki Fukushima, who hails from Tokyo, Japan and the rustic Japanese decor here with private rooms with floors seating on tatami mats.
A variety of Japanese imported beers and beverages filled up the menu. As a tea lover, I liked their combination of green tea and roasted brown rice. Another drink worth mentioning was the Abashiri Ryuhyou Blue Beer ($15), a unique brew that uses water from icebergs and blue seaweed. When poured into your glass it has unique blue-purple tint which is light and refreshing, with the after-taste of minerals.
Tapas were served and I loved the chicken liver pate ($7.80), served alongside wafer thin slices of bread toasted to a crisp. The pate was velvety and bursting with umami flavours, with the crunch of the bread adding a much needed textural element to the dish. Another dish which we liked was the buta shabu salad ($12.80). Heaped on the crispy fresh vegetables, are thin slices of pork, which have been grilled to perfection. The cuts of meat which they use offer just the right amount of fat running through each slice making them moist and tender but not oily. Hitting a home run and bringing in all these ingredients together is the goma (sesame) sauce in which the salad is tossed. Specially made by their chef, it provides an amazing balance of savoury, sweet and sour flavours of the dish.
And of course, their menu has an extensive range of Japanese charcoal grilled skewers. Agemono, Nimono, Nabe, Tempura, Sushi, Sashimi items and interesting desserts are all available too.
Shabu Shabu came next and its accompanying assortment of vegetables, well marbled U.S. beef, pork, home-made chicken meat balls, fillets of fresh cod, salmon as well as prawns. We were told that this is a typical meal a sumo wrestler in Japan would consume everyday.
Arm wrestling contest. Choose any staff of Issho Izakaya to play this with and winner gets a free mug of beer!
A very big Thank You to the friendly and very hospitable management for this invite, we definitely enjoyed our dinner :)
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I have the HD version downloaded on the Stuck N The Rut Profile. You can make your comments there. Check us out on Facebook @ 'Stuck N The Rut'. In my youth, there used to be moose all over these clear cuts, eating the fresh growth of brush in their wintering grounds. Wolves moved in and in a two year span, there's not a moose seen on that mountain anymore. Management must be done. To explain what happen, the day before this, my sister came up from college to shoot a deer so that she can have some meat in her freezer. I decided to go to an area that is well known for white-tail and moose. We open the door of the pickup and started our hike. On top of the snow, we saw wolf tracks. We also found a couple fresh deer kills that they left to waste. 3 miles hiking, we heard a wolf howling. It being wolf season as well, we tried to hunt it down, but he outsmarted us that day. We also got word that the cattle rancher's herds were getting slaughtered by wolves as well. We borrowed my friends electronic wolf howl and went back in the same spot the very next day and this is what happened. Howled this wolf in rifle range and shot it all on video!!!!! City children, save your negative comments. 400 yard shot. I will get the HD one edited and posted soon. Hunting with Stuck N The Rut equipment.


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The battle between colleges and the music industry over illegal file sharing by students is heating up yet again: Not content to lobby Congress for federal rules discouraging such activity, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has turned its sights on state legislatures.
In its latest effort to quash online piracy, the RIAA has developed a coordinated campaign to get states to pass legislation that would require state colleges and universities to take measures cracking down on illegal file sharing.
In May, Tennessee's governor signed legislation that requires higher-education institutions in the state to create and adhere to policies prohibiting students and staff from infringing on copyrights. The new law also requires those schools to make real efforts to prevent copyright infringement on their networks, based on how many copyright-infringement notices they receive.
Similar legislation in the Illinois state legislature, still pending as of press time, would require schools to make "reasonable efforts to install and implement a technology-based deterrent system to attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources" if they have received 10 or more valid copyright-infringement notices in the last year.
In addition, California state officials have met with RIAA representatives and might be on the way to introducing their own bill.
The RIAA has done something similar on the federal level, lobbying to get language into the Higher Education Act reauthorization bill that would force colleges to adopt technology-based measures to restrict online piracy on their networks. It's clear from the group's latest efforts, however, that the RIAA isn't waiting for federal lawmakers to act.
The nonprofit higher-education technology organization Educause objects to such legislation, because it would force colleges to "take technological steps to block allegedly infringing material…when there is no consensus on what technology can adequately and accurately accomplish that goal," according to a statement.
During a technology piracy conference held in Virginia in mid-May, an Educause representative told attendees that laws such as the one that passed in Tennessee also could be very costly to colleges and universities.
Methods under scrutiny
Even as the RIAA seeks legislation that would force schools to block illegal file sharing on their networks, the group continues to confront college students and other individuals suspected of online piracy with an ultimatum: Pay a royalty settlement out of court, or we'll sue. But there is some legitimate doubt as to the legality of these actions.
The RIAA's methods for identifying suspected file sharers have come under increased scrutiny by legal experts. And though the music industry trade association continues to defend its practices in court, the group has suffered a few legal setbacks in recent months.
A federal judge has ruled that the RIAA must pay the legal fees of Tanya Andersen, against whom the group was forced to drop its complaint when the courts found in her favor after she challenged the RIAA's claims that she illegally shared music.
After no evidence of piracy was found on her computer, Andersen–a disabled single mother from Oregon–decided to sue the RIAA in turn, accusing the record companies of conspiracy and using tactics in their crackdown that amounted to extortion without even making sure they had the right person. Industry insiders say Andersen's lawsuit could force the RIAA to reveal details about its investigation techniques, which many have termed controversial.
She is seeking national class-action status for the complaint.
In a separate case, defendant Jammie Thomas of Minnesota–the first person ordered by the courts to pay royalties after she unsuccessfully challenged the RIAA's claims–might receive a new trial.
At issue is whether record companies have to prove anyone else actually downloaded their copyrighted songs, or whether it's enough to argue that a defendant made copyrighted music available for copying online.
The recording industry says all it has to prove is that the defendant made the music available. Music-sharers have argued that the only proven downloaders of their music were investigators working for the record companies.
That was the case in Thomas' trial last fall. U.S. District Court Judge Michael J. Davis instructed jurors that making sound recordings available without permission violates record company copyrights "regardless of whether actual distribution has been shown."
Soon after making that comment, Davis said it might have been a mistake.
He wrote that he found a 1993 ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Minnesota, stating that infringement requires "an actual dissemination of either copies or phonorecords."
The question of how much the record companies have to prove to win their case came up just before Thomas' trial went to the jury on Oct. 4. Davis decided the issue from the bench, siding with the jury instruction favored by the record companies.
Upon reevaluating his comments, Davis wrote that neither side presented the 1993 decision to him. And he noted that one of the rulings in another case from Arizona, which the record companies used to support their side, was vacated on April 29.
Oral arguments on the question of a new trial are planned for July 1.
Record company attorney Richard Gabriel said even if the companies have to prove downloading occurred, it should suffice to show the downloading was done by investigators working for the record companies.
He said they also proved at the trial that Thomas violated copyrights, because the files on her computer bore the signatures of online music pirates. Thomas claimed the music came from her own CDs.
"If we have to retry the case, we will do so without hesitation," Gabriel said.
Record companies have sued at least 30,000 people for distributing music online. Some cases have been dismissed, and many defendants–including several college students–have settled for a few thousand dollars. Thomas was the first to take the record companies all the way to trial.
Jurors ordered her to pay $222,000, which was $9,250 for each of the 24 songs the record companies brought up in her trial. The original lawsuit accused her of offering 1,702 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network.
The question of how much the record companies must prove to win their lawsuits seems destined for more dates with appeals court judges.
Different judges have ruled different ways on the matter. In April, a federal judge at a pretrial ruling in Boston said that merely making songs available online is not copyright infringement. But a ruling by a New York judge took the opposite position.
Ray Beckerman, an attorney who has represented other downloading defendants and runs a blog tracking the most prominent cases, said the RIAA has been using the Thomas verdict to support its side.
"We've been saying all along that it was submitted to the jury on an improper theory, and now the judge recognizes his error and he realizes he was misled by record industry lawyers," Beckerman said.
Taking creative steps
Some colleges and universities aren't waiting to see how these issues play out. Instead, they're taking creative steps to crack down on piracy on their own campus networks.
Missouri University of Science and Technology (MUST), for instance, has launched an innovative program to address the problem. Instead of banning the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing programs outright, as is common in many schools around the country, MUST allows P2P access for students who can pass an online quiz on copyright infringement.
Students must ace a six-question quiz on digital copyright law before gaining access to P2P software that allows users to share music and movies online.
As a result, the number of copyright complaints by the recording industry has plummeted from 200 in 2006-07 to just eight in the academic year that recently concluded, said Tim Doty, a campus systems security analyst.
"We're not acting as copyright police," he said. "We're still allowing peer-to-peer access, but in a controlled fashion. We're providing [students with] the information to make an informed decision."
The University of Florida and Ohio University have made moves to eliminate access to P2P software–however, that software also can be used for research and other legitimate academic purposes.
At Stanford University, students who do not remove illegal downloads from their computers lose their campus internet connections and must pay $100 to reconnect. A second offense boosts that fee to $500.
Many schools have chosen to provide students with free, legal music-sharing programs such as Ruckus, Rhapsody, and the now-legal version of Napster. But those programs carry their own restrictions, from more limited song selections to the inability to transfer songs to iPods and other portable listening devices. Duke, Clemson, North Carolina State, Princeton, and Georgia Southern University are among those schools using Ruckus.
MUST students who complete the online quiz with a perfect score acquire six hours of P2P access. They are limited to eight uses a month, or a maximum of 20 each academic year.
Doty and other technology experts on campus acknowledge that the quiz isn't foolproof, but instead is a deterrent. Each time a user logs on, the order of the six questions changes, as do the possible answers in the multiple-choice exercise.
"It's intentionally worded so you have to read it," he said. "Otherwise, it becomes a click exercise. The intent is to educate."
Because illegal users can be identified only by a numerical internet address, the recording, film, and television industries rely upon colleges to match that information with the schools' own records to identify users.
"Universities that educate their students about what's legal online and what's not are taking a step in the right direction," said Jonathan Lamy, an RIAA spokesman.
Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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Are You Ready For Leap Day?
For those of you (me) who have ever wished out loud that you had more time to tackle life's huge to-do list, I have news — you do. Well, sort of. If you've been paying attention to your calendar, you've likely noticed that 2016 is a leap year, and that Feb. 29 is Leap Day. But what is Leap Day, exactly, and why does the extra calendar day only pop up every couple of years? Time is a funny thing that I can't pretend to fully understand, but at least when it comes to Leap Day, I have a few answers.
For one thing, did you know that Leap Day is a celebration of love? That's right — just when you thought you had put all the traumatically mushy sentiments of Valentine's Day behind you, February offers up an extra day of romance. Custom has it that on Leap Day, women are supposed to propose to men, instead of the other way around (if you haven't watched the 2010 movie Leap Year starring Amy Adams, now would be an appropriate time.)
But in case you're more interested in actual science than folklore (and the subsequent predictable story lines of rom-coms gleaned from outdated tradition), here's what you really need to know about Leap Day.
Why do leap years happen in the first place?
If you were a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and your million dollar question was "how many days does it take the Earth to travel around the sun?" you'd probably feel confident answering "365." In this case, however, you'd be better off phoning a friend. The fact is, it actually takes the Earth 365 days, five hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds to make a full trek around the sun. If we didn't add an extra day onto the calendar every four years to account for that extra time, the seasons would be off by 24 days in just 100 years. Not ideal. Not ideal at all.
Julius Caesar is the person responsible for Leap Day
The Roman general obviously has a lasting legacy, but one of this actions continues to affect us today — Leap Day. Caesar is credited with introducing Leap Day more than 2,000 years ago, adding it to the Julian calendar so that it fell on Feb. 24 once every four years. Pope Gregory XIII later included it on the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
When is Leap Day?
In modern times, Leap Day falls on Feb. 29 once every four years. The last Leap Day was in 2012. The next will be in 2020. As a general rule, Leap Day falls on years that are divisible by four, though that's not always the case with century years (for instance, 1800).
How should I celebrate?
However the heck you want! You have a whole extra calendar date to use as you please — whether that means catching up with old friends you've been meaning to get back in touch with for eons, finally tackling work you've been putting off because you haven't had time (I see you, taxes), or simply enjoying an extra day by yourself, Leap Day is yours to be relished. Just make sure you take advantage of it — this calendar idiosyncrasy won't be around for another four years.
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Maria Corrigan, Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Eccentric Rhythms: Soviet Cinema Revisited
My dissertation explores the art produced by the members of the Factory of the Eccentric Actor (FEKS), a collective founded in the revolutionary exhilaration of the Soviet Union of the early 1920s. Poised as it was at a crossroads between the aesthetic traditions of theater and cinema, avant-garde experimentation and socialist realism and, most significantly, silent and sound film, the youthful and enthusiastic FEKS negotiated a rapidly changing political landscape and the demands placed on Soviet artists by the state. This dissertation synthesizes elements of the previously fragmented, untranslated history and legacy of Eccentrism in the Soviet Union, in order to shed light on a poignant and informative example of media in transition across technological, national, and ideological barriers..
Michael Craig, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
Beauty in / and / vs. Action: The Question of Aesthetics in
1990s Japanese Role-Playing Games
Much current academic video game theory begins from the assumption that games are designed to engage players in states of constant, fluid activity. Michael Craig argues that Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPGs) of the late 1990s, contrary to scholarly assumptions, value extended periods of inaction. Craig views the emphasis on emotion and visually evocative environments as a fundamental element of gameplay experience. He explores how this focus on creating aesthetically beautiful worlds for a player to inhabit resonates within the sociocultural context of the 1990s in Japan, a decade in which a crippling recession stifled the possibility of types of civic activity and spurred the proliferation of media genres dramatizing the withdrawal from political sociality into private affects.
Andrea Davis, History, UC San Diego
Democracy's Orphans: The Demobilization of Grassroots Movements During Spain's Transition to Democracy, 1968-1986
In my dissertation, I examine how and why the vibrant grassroots movements forged during the final decade of the Francoist dictatorship were demobilized as democracy was consolidated in Spain. Analyzing a network of local actors as they moved between neighborhood assemblies, clandestine organizations, sociopolitical movements and institutions, my dissertation outlines the model of popular democracy advanced during Spain's transition. It also identifies the forces -- both national and transnational -- that hindered local actors from realizing their model, which contrasted with the model of liberal democracy ultimately established. Part of a new historiographical trend that seeks to understand the social origins of democratization, my dissertation also sheds light on the largely overlooked post-transition era. By explaining the mechanisms and consequences of demobilization, a phenomenon popularly referred to as "disenchantment," I further complicate and historicize the internationally promoted view that Spain's transition was a model democratic transition. As such, my dissertation contributes to our general understanding of democratic promotion and the possibilities of democratic enlargement as the Neoliberal agenda emerged and the Communist alternative weakened.
Heather Dron, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UC San Francisco
Poisoned Pregnancy: Research and Advocacy on Teratogens and Birth Defects in Mid-Century America
My dissertation addresses the evolving history of lay and expert views of environmental exposures during pregnancy in mid-century America. I explore the relationships between scientists and practicing obstetricians seeking to create a coherent and legible field of research on birth defects, by studying and grouping a diverse range of syndromes evident at, or shortly after, birth. In particular, I'm interested in the rising concern for environmental (i.e. non-hereditary) causes of infant disability among professional groups and the way that professional activities performed under the auspices of preventing birth defects affected both the way this environment was defined (as a workplace, a womb, or a global concern) and the status of women's health citizenship. I argue that the environmentalist understandings of the etiology of congenital malformation were intimately linked to research and public concern over iatrogenic and recreational drug exposures, such as thalidomide, diethylstilbestrol, and LSD, among others. Mothers and other lay advocates were also interested in the origins of fetal disability and in avoiding birth defects. From the 1940s, there was an active dialogue about the potential harms that pregnant women faced, illuminated by modern science. Using case studies, I trace the ways in which efforts to have a 'normal' child unaffected by environmental (or genetic) factors took on more salience and the how the womb was increasingly constructed as the site of exposure and a source of potential abnormality as specialized clinicians increasingly focused on the fetus as a patient and teratologists probed the etiology of congenital malformations.
Laurence Dumortier, English, UC Riverside
My dissertation explores how key American artists and writers in the second half of the twentieth century have responded to the death of an intimate friend, and expressed their grief, both privately and in their art. The artists and writers who figure prominently in my study are Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz; Nan Goldin and Cookie Mueller; Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol; Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath; Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe; and Diane di Prima and Freddie Herko. Specifically, it is about how these figures have responded to bereavement in the context of their queer friendships. My project will examine how, in each case, the artist who was left behind responded to that loss—and how those responses reflect, complicate, and/or contest then-prevailing ideas about death and mourning in American life. At the same time my study of the particularities of each of these relationships is the basis for my argument about the emotional and political potential of friendship as distinct from either romantic/sexual couplehood or kinship. Indeed, one aim of my study is to revalorize relationships that exceed the heteronormative model of sexual couplehood/platonic friendship/familial kinship, and to argue for the political and affective possibilities of such friendships.
My dissertation research presents an innovative interdisciplinary approach for the documentation, preservation and communication of cultural heritage. This research aims to investigate the potential use of 3D technologies for the analysis and interpretation of archaeological and heritage sites. In the last ten years the use of new technologies for the 3D documentation and reconstruction of cultural heritage has changed the way to approach the archaeological survey. Archaeology is becoming increasingly 'digital'. The use of 3D laser scanners and photogrammetric methods is well established in the archaeological field now, since these techniques allow to digitally preserving information through time. In this way archaeology and tangible heritage can be revisited over the long-term and, thanks to the following of new discoveries, analyzed by multiple experts and subjected to new analytical techniques. This research aims to analyze this new digital phenomenon and understand if, due to the use of new technology, it is really possible to increase objectivity in the excavation process, leaving the subjective level to the final interpretation of material data. Scholars are debating on the authenticity of 3D digital reproductions in heritage and archaeology. How should we consider these digital and virtual reproductions? Are they original digital representations of our cultural heritage or just virtual 'fakes'? My research wants to investigate if it is possible to define universal predetermined categories for the definition of 'authentic' or if 3D digital reproductions of tangible heritage are influenced by the subjective interpretation of the creator of 3D contents.
Jieun Lee's dissertation is an ethnography of stem cell enterprise in South Korea (Korea) focusing on the emergence and proliferation of promises that center on the biological potential of stem cells. Conducting a fieldwork in Korea, she has observed burgeoning markets for stem cell promises and their derivatives. From the novel business of stem cell banking, often fashioned as "bio-insurance", to presumably more risky and expensive forms of illegitimate stem cell treatment, they revolve around the biological potential of stem cells as the basis of promises. Her dissertation examines how this specific techno-scientific object called "stem cell" is made into a "promissory thing"—an object of knowledge and concern that drives desire, investment, and speculation for diverse actors with myriad anticipations for the future. Exploring various sites where stem cells are studied, discussed, and marketed from laboratories to consumer markets, she investigates the relations and practices that make stems cells into entities enfolding social-scientific-economic futures.
Lee is particularly interested in how stem cells are discursively and materially made and maintained as a specific life form, how they have gained cultural and economic significance as a promissory thing, and how they address people's hope and anxiety through their biological specificity. Conceptualizing stem cell enterprise as a kind of "ecology of promises", she highlights how promises are made to proliferate and become concrete elements of the social fabric of life in Korea.
Heidi Morse, Literature and Feminist Studies, UC Santa Cruz
Minding "Our Cicero": Nineteenth-Century African American Women's Rhetoric and the Classical Tradition
My dissertation documents a literary history of the Americanization of classical rhetoric as it intersected with African American education and public speaking in the nineteenth century. Black women's strategic receptions of ancient Roman rhetorical models, I argue, altered the trajectory of American classicism by undermining its monopolization by white elites as a measure for intellectual and cultural superiority. Minding "Our Cicero" recovers an alternative history of the relationship between rhetoric and race in a series of classical reframings. Elementary pedagogical advice in Quintilian's 95 CE Institutio Oratoria acts as a blueprint for freedpeople's self-teaching. Anna Julia Cooper adapts rhetorical models from Cicero's 55 BCE de Oratore in her advocacy for women's higher education. Sojourner Truth revises her casting in the white press as the "Libyan Sibyl," and Henrietta Cordelia Ray's poems reverberate with the voices of black orators imagined as modern-day Romans. Joining the resources of classical scholarship with those of critical race theory and print culture, my investigation of classical receptions in the aftermath of trans-Atlantic slavery offers a philological and cultural analysis of the impact of ancient Roman antecedents on the fabrication of racial categories and their institutionalization in the U.S., particularly in the context of post-Emancipation educational access. My research advances scholarship in the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of "black classicism" by foregrounding African American women whose interventions in print and oratory vis-à-vis the U.S. culture of classicism constitute an archive of liberatory uses of the classics not dependent on elite education or bodily inscriptions of social authority.
Katrina Oko-Odoi, Literature, UC San Diego
The Forgotten Soldiers: Puerto Rican and Chicano Narratives of the U.S. Wars in East Asia. Challenging Racism from Within
My dissertation addresses the literary and cultural representation (through fictional narrative, non-fiction chronicle and autobiography, historiography, screenplays, and documentaries) of the experience of minority ethnic soldiers of Latino heritage—specifically Puerto Ricans and Chicanos—in the U.S. military during the Korean and Vietnam wars. As a minority ethnic soldier—an "outsider within," to borrow from Patricia Hill Collins—I argue, the Puerto Rican and Chicano soldier, as well as his extended Latino/a and Chicano/a community, have the potential to view the U.S. military through a critical lens due to the minority ethnic soldier's marginalization within the armed forces, and to draw attention to the systemic racism within the very system to which he belongs.
My work makes several unique interventions into the extant scholarship on these subjects. The experiences of Puerto Ricans in these two wars present an almost completely untapped area of research in the literature and cultural studies disciplines. My project examines the work of Puerto Rican authors José Luis González and Emilio Díaz Valcárcel (Korean War veteran), as well as a screenplay, and documentary on minority soldiers' experience in Korea. Moreover, through an analysis of the narratives Let Their Spirits Dance by Stella Pope Duarte, Motorcycle Ride in a Sea of Tranquility by Patricia Santana and Toy Soldiers and Dolls by Gloria Velásquez, I reflect on the unique positionality of female authors to reflect on the Vietnam War's impact on the larger Chicana/o community. Through this discussion, I aim to fill the gap in scholarship addressing the experience of Chicana women and other family members left behind during these wars.
Anna June Pagé, Indo-European Studies Program, UCLA
Birth Narrative in Indo-European Mythology
My dissertation presents a study of the narrative patterns that underlie a set of tales about the extraordinary births of heroes. These tales have been selected from a range of Indo-European mythological traditions, but I place particular emphasis on texts from Celtic, Greek, and Indic literatures. Birth narratives of this type have primarily been studied within the context of the "Heroic Biography Pattern," which encompasses the full life-cycle of the hero. However, my own approach to these narratives goes beyond the study of this unified narrative pattern by identifying multiple types and sub-types of narrative structure, and by treating both the formal characteristics of these structures and their functional properties. I then evaluate the evidence for some of these types, or some features of these types, being specifically Indo-European, and identifiable as reflexes of Proto-Indo-European myth. I focus on a few key themes, including reincarnation, miscarriage, incest, and various types of asexual conception, in a representative selection of ancient and medieval narratives. Drawing especially from the methods of comparative linguistics and folkloristics, I establish correspondence sets of narrative features, which in turn support the examination of how motifs, narrative episodes, and even full tales interact with one another to form variants of familiar tales or entirely new tale types. My dissertation devotes considerable attention to the comparison of diverse myths, but also to the problems and methodological considerations involved in arguing for reconstructing aspects of myth, as opposed to attributing shared features to typological factors or to diffusion through cultural contacts.
Magalí Rabasa, Cultural Studies, UC Davis
The Book in Movement: Radical Politics
and the Recrafting of Books in Latin America
Rabasa's dissertation is an ethnography of the print book, and examines its production and circulation in current social movements in Latin America. Over the past two decades, Latin American intellectuals have conceptualized the region as a "continent in movement" with waves of popular mobilization from Patagonia to Tijuana expressing repudiation of both neoliberal policies and the post-neoliberal capitalist models of current "progressive" governments. In recent years, there has been an explosion of alternative presses (publishing houses) working alongside the autonomous movements, which Rabasa asserts are defined more by their practices(cooperativism, self-organization, horizontalism) than by any specific categories or identities (class, race, etc.). It is in this context that new political concepts are emerging as grassroots political actors theorize their own experiences, creating a new body of political theory. The alternative presses, whose production and circulation practices the dissertation follows, are on the frontlines of this process. Grounded in more than two years of participatory research with presses, writers, booksellers, and movements in the capital cities of Mexico, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, Rabasa's dissertation explores how the print book is made of—and is continually making—political, social, and economic relations. She argues that a different print book is emerging, which she calls the "organic book" drawing on Gramsci's notion of the "organic intellectual." Produced by the very actors and practices theorized in its pages, this object— the "book in movement"—is organic to the politics it describes. The organic book emerges from early twentieth century anarchist traditions, but today it appears as an "old" medium being made anew. A multi-sited ethnography, Rabasa's dissertation takes methodological inspiration from cultural studies, anthropology, book studies, and political economy, exploring how books participate in multidimensional networks that zigzag across the continent.
Pawan Rehill, Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Who Could Know the Wiles of Women?
The Texts and Contexts of triya charitra in South Asia
This dissertation uses a genealogical approach to examine the diverse appeal, meaning and effects of 'feminine wiles' representations (trīya charitra) in South Asian literary and visual sources from the late seventeenth century. Focusing on three moments in Sikh history in which triya charitra narratives were produced, I argue that triya charitra has served as a resource, explanation and argument for Sikh thinkers interrogating questions of self and other, the nature of embodiment and sexual desire, the meaning of the past, and aspirations towards the good life, during times of immense historical change. I examine the emergence of trīya charitra discourse in the literary workshop patronized by in the court of Guru Gobind Singh, which led to the creation of the largest anthology of triya charitra narratives, the Charitropakhyan Granth (1696 CE; CPG). A close reading study of this text suggests that the narratives are inextricably bound to the moral and ethical problems keenly felt during times of war, and that it creates a new aesthetic of feminine bravado and conquest that organizes affect and conveys worldly knowledge. In the mid-19th century, Punjabi poets invoked trīya charitra in their articulation of memory, linking the fall of the Sikh kingdom in Lahore and the emergence of colonial rule (1849 CE) with the fallen queen Jind Kaur's trīya charitra. In the postcolonial period, I examine how transformations in the reception and reproduction of the CPG, as encoded in online debates over the (im)morality and authenticity of this text, animate affective registers of belonging that induce new roots for political affect and solidarity. I also argue that the heroic warrior woman, originating in the CPG, discursively constructs gender specific subject positions for modern Sikh women in diasporic communities. My project therefore posits that triya charitra serves as representation, performance discourse and is therefore productive site for understanding cultural and social transformation.
Cristina Rodriguez, English, UC Irvine
Find Yourself Here: Local Logics in Chicano and Latino Literature, 1997-2012
Contemporary political geography has generated exciting critical accounts of space in Latino literature, yet to date these readings have been limited to urban centers or general regions. More recent Chicano/Latino literary criticism has turned toward transnationalism, the study of new global patterns of immigration, as an interpretive lens. My project combines the two approaches, bringing current transnationalist research to bear on an already existent critical discourse on space in narrative. My dissertation focuses on the intersections between the transnational and the local in contemporary Latino literature, by analyzing the narrative strategies authors employ to depict their own local immigrant communities. I argue that these authors seek experimental stylistic forms to enact their neighborhood, using literary elements such as pastiche, shifts in narrative voice, and innovative page layouts to make their text embody a place. The four novels I study, Salvador Placencia's The People of Paper (2005), Junot Díaz' This is How You Lose Her (2012), Helena María Viramontes' Their Dogs Came With Them (2007), and Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman (1997), each develop a tight relationship between their setting and narrative structure to represent what a neighborhood's distinct character tells us about its Latino community. By interpreting the cultural modes of individual immigrant neighborhood spaces as enacted through literature, "Find Yourself Here" demonstrates transnationalism's concrete effects at the most local level.
Cristina Rodriguez is a Ph.D. candidate a UC Irvine who has advanced to candidacy. Her dissertation, "Find Yourself Here: Local Logics in Chicano and Latino Literature, 1997-2012," examines the experimental narrative strategies authors including Junot Díaz, Salvador Plascencia, and Francisco Goldman employ to depict Latino immigrant neighborhoods, seeking to thus inductively determine a vision of Latino immigrant experience through its literary production. She has presented portions of her research at MELUS, ALA, and MLA.
Jillian Rogers, Department of Musicology, UCLA
Grieving through Music in Interwar France: Maurice Ravel and his Circle, 1914-1934
Many scholars of French musical modernism have demonstrated music's role in negotiating politics and national identity after World War I. In my dissertation I contribute a new thread to these conversations by showing that Ravel's post-World War I compositions were also sites for the emotional, physical, and political negotiation of grief. Ravel was deeply affected by the losses he sustained during World War I, and he wrote much of his postwar oeuvre for friends who had lost loved ones during the war's tenure. I use correspondence, diaries, photograph albums, and scrapbook in order to determine what mourning meant for Ravel and his peers, and how music helped them cope with grief. Through a combination of music analysis, cultural history, and interpretive approaches drawn from psychoanalytic and affect theory, I show how Ravel engaged in a burgeoning discourse on the therapeutic benefits of musical performance in the music he wrote after 1914. I argue that in Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917) and Frontispice (1918) Ravel critiqued nationalistic prescriptions for public mourning, while in La Valse, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (1926), and Boléro (1928), he participated in fin-de-siècle discourses on memory and the ability of objects to psychically and sensually "keep alive" dead loved ones. In other compositions, like the Piano Concerto in G Major (1932), and the Sonatas for Violin and Violincello (1920) and Violin and Piano (1927), Ravel provided his performers with opportunities to cope with grief through bodily movement.
Katherine Ryan, English, UC Irvine
Modernism's Suicidal Impulse: Psychic Contamination and the Crowd
Katherine Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of English at UC Irvine. Her scholarly interests include Anglo-American Modernist fiction and poetry, theories of affect, and histories of mental illness. Her dissertation project explores the psychic effects of urban crowding in relation to fantasy and autonomy within interwar modernist literature.
On January 24, 1731, near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, the French colonists of Louisiana defeated the Natchez after a bloody two-year war. The French army captured some Natchez while others escaped. The French enslaved over two hundred Natchez and, fearing prolonged resistance, sent them to Saint Domingue (modern-day Haiti) for sale. Those who escaped enslavement fled northwest to live with the Chickasaws; in the 1740s the escapees moved again and settled among the Creeks and Cherokees. In the 1830s, the U.S. government again displaced most of the Natchez to "Indian Territory" (Oklahoma) during the decade of the "Trail of Tears." Today, the Natchez exist as part of the Creek Nation of Oklahoma and are working towards Federal recognition. Some Natchez remained in the South after removal and exist today as the Natchez-Kusso of South Carolina. My dissertation uncovers the history of the Natchez diaspora after 1731 and highlights the significance and interconnectedness of French, Spanish, English, and American colonialism to Native American history in the Atlantic World. Through the use of French and English written sources and Natchez oral history, the project enlarges the temporal scope of Natchez history and its significance to larger colonial processes, emphasizing the importance and impact of Natchez interactions with a number of different European and Native American powers in different geographical spaces over time.
In her dissertation, Naomi Weiss examines the dramatic function of references to mousikē (music and dance) in the plays of Euripides, particularly in his supposedly "dithyrambic" choral odes. Weiss explores the dynamics of choreia (choral song and dance) and the sociocultural meanings of different musical images in four plays to demonstrate that these odes, which have often been considered disconnected, irrelevant, or even spurious, in fact play a crucial role in both directing and complementing the movement of the plot. There has been a tendency in Euripidean scholarship to see the proliferation of references to performance in the tragedian's later work as evidence for his increasing engagement with the "New Music"—the developments in musical style, instruments, and language in Athens in the late fifth century BCE. Weiss emphasizes how Euripides combines both new and traditional mousikē in language and performance to develop a musicality integrated within the fabric of each play.
Monique Wonderly, Philosophy, UC Riverside
Toward a Theory of Emotional Attachment
In my dissertation, I identify what I call "security-based attachment" as a philosophically neglected, yet rich and ubiquitous emotional phenomenon, and I develop an account of its nature, functions, and ethics. I argue that security-based attachment involves a peculiar sense of well-being (felt security) that distinguishes it from related phenomena such as emotion-laden desire and caring. I then suggest that, owing to this sense of well-being, security-based attachment plays integral roles in how we view the world and interact with it: roles in structuring our agency and guiding our moral deliberation and action. Finally, in exploring the dynamic interplay between certain ethical demands and the emotional ties that bind us, I discuss how attachment relationships might be constitutive of, or inimical to, values that define a flourishing moral life.


text: From April next year, new parents and adopters will have an opportunity to share up to 52 weeks' leave between them and up to 37 weeks' pay, in a way which best suits their families, via a new right called shared parental leave ("ShPL") and shared parental pay ("ShPP"). Eligible parents will be able to take time off together to care for their child, transfer leave to their partner, and return to work in between leave periods during the child's first year. The scheme will potentially offer parents a huge amount of flexibility, but to achieve this, the rules are highly complex and are likely to create a headache for most HR departments. Employers must understand this new regime otherwise they will not be able to respond to requests from their staff to take ShPL which can be made from 1 December this year. Shared parental leave is optional It is important to understand that parents do not have to take ShPL. It is entirely optional and those who do not 'opt in' will still benefit from existing family friendly rights such as maternity, adoption and paternity leave (although additional paternity leave is being abolished and will only be available for those whose babies are due before 5 April 2015). Employers are required to offer and to run parallel systems. Employees do not have to make a decision about whether they wish to take ShPL before their baby is born or their adoption takes effect. Instead, they can start maternity or adoption leave and then decide to convert any remaining leave to ShPL at a later date. ShPL is only available to eligible parents whose babies are due on or after 5 April 2015, or to adoptive parents who have a child placed with them on or after this date. With regard to birth, parents can still take ShPL even if their baby is born before 5 April as the trigger for eligibility is the due date, not the actual birth date. Who is eligible? Only employees can apply for ShPL. To qualify, your employee must have been continuously employed for at least 26 weeks before the 15th week before the baby is due and must remain so. The co-parent must also be 'economically active' which means that they must have worked (although not necessarily as an employee) and earned a minimum amount over a qualifying period. So, if your employee is the sole bread winner, he/she will not be eligible for ShPL. Your employee may also be eligible to receive Shared Parental Pay ("ShPP") for up to 37 weeks, provided she has earned not less than the lower earnings limit in the relevant period. However, ShPP will only be paid if there is any remaining statutory maternity or adoption pay that would otherwise be available which can, subject to certain rules, be transferred to the other parent or utilised by the primary carer. Statutory maternity pay is currently 90% of pay for the first 6 weeks of maternity leave and then 33 weeks at a flat rate (currently £138.18 per week). Note, however, that ShPP is paid at the flat rate only. Therefore women requesting ShPL in the first 6 weeks of their maternity leave would lose out on the enhanced element of statutory maternity pay. Another point to consider is whether any contractual maternity pay would still be payable if an employee exercises their right to take ShPL. Employers should take specific legal advice on this issue as some employees may argue that withdrawing contractual maternity pay amounts to unlawful discrimination. Notification requirements An eligible mother who wants to take ShPL, or enable her eligible partner to take it, must end her maternity or adoption leave. She can do this by returning to work before the end of her maternity leave period, or by giving notice that she intends to end it at a future date. The employee will be bound by her notice unless it was served before the baby was born, or the child's father has died. Once a mother has returned to work, she cannot revoke ShPL. Your employee must give you at least eight weeks' written notice when she wishes to book leave. This must be signed by the eligible co-parent. Your employee may only give you three notices to book leave or to vary a previously agreed pattern of leave, unless you agree to extend this. This means that employees must carefully consider the arrangements they need if they are to avoid 'wasting' a notice. Do you have to agree to the leave periods requested? Employees who ask to take a single block of leave are entitled to take it. However, if your employee asks in a single notice to take leave in different blocks (for example, two weeks in June, three weeks in September etc), you do not have to agree to it. Instead, you have two weeks to discuss the pattern of leave and suggest alternatives. If you refuse, your employee has the right to take the amount of leave as a continuous period, but is not obliged to do so. However, it appears that an employee will still be able to take leave in up to three discontinuous blocks by serving three separate notices in respect of each discrete block of leave, provided they have not already used up all of their three leave notices. Is there any help available to understand this? The rules are a good example of how a simple and laudable concept (sharing the responsibility for child-rearing) can become fiendishly complex when put into practice. The Government has recently published guidance on ShPL and ACAS has also produced a guide which businesses may find useful. However, due to the complexities of the rules and the interaction with your own policies, specific legal advice is likely to be necessary to ensure your policies are compliant and you avoid discrimination claims arising from a misapplication of the new rules. 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Amarelo Manga comes with a new fall collection in the line "Morocco".
Part of the Morocco Collection is this dress Quezzane.
This simple yet elegant dress comes in White, Black, Brown, Red and Blue.
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Bracelet: Istanbul Bangles (Gift) by Chop Zuey (NEW)
Hair: Moss (Edited) by Lelutka
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