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happy november!

like most, i always look forward to a new month ahead. a fresh month feels like a blank slate allowing us to make better choices with our health, our finances & our time.

one practice that has helped us manage our time better & communicate more effectively is our family calendar meeting.

do you sit down as a family for a monthly calendar meeting?

i am a paper planner kind-of-person & it drives my hubby nuts because he's a fan of the google calendar. this practice allows us to merge both of our preferences & our obligations/responsibilities for the month into one calendar that's been discussed & shared.

it's best to start this practice at the beginning of the month & have your meeting the first week of the month (we prefer the first sunday of the month).

we bring our daily calendars & write down important events such as birthdays, book clubs, & visitors in town. we also talk about potential holiday travel & taking time off of work.

our calendar isn't really color-coordinated, but you could always designate a color to a specific person's activities.

i keep the calendar in my office where we both see it regularly. if we need to add something to the calendar, we let the other person know.

 our calendar is from hobby lobby. i like the simple white frame that can be hung on the wall or fridge with ease.

the most important piece of this practice is communication! this practice allows us to connect as a family & manage our time more effectively together

do you have a monthly calendar meeting? how do you manage your time & communicate as a family?

Kaylan said...

We're a big google cal family over here but I use pen/paper list making all the time for more personal stuff!

Catherine Daly (mrsdalydoo) said...

Completely agree about new month, new slate! My goodness, there is something so wonderful about A. WHOLE. NEW. MONTH. (although sometimes, it would be nice if some of the 'to do' had shrunk and been completed) HA!

My husband works away a lot (specially during season - he works in winter special effects) so we find we often need more frequent meetings to keep track of his work commitments, and plans that we can make, and plans we now have to cancel (we don't always get the best notice for his travels).

Taking the plan to 'regroup' and focus on the month ahead always helps us have a better month financially and allows us savour the moments we do have together, and use the time fruitfully. With a young baby in the mix, carving out family days for fun (and even better free activities) ensures we all get the time and attention needed.

About 3 or 4 times a year, we sit down (normally over a nice meal) and make the bigger plans for our finances to ensure we still have some of the bigger goals in our sights (like houses/holidays/savings etc).

We are BIG, BIG fans of meal planning and budgeting in our household.

Thanks for everything you share!

Jenny said...

My husband & I communicate best through email. Silly I know but if it's written down we both remember it. At our age, we need to say it when we think it or it may never come again!

We also use google calendar, I hate that they don't sinc anymore. He used to be able to add things to it at work & it would sinc at home. Now he has to add it twice or send an email to me so I can add it. It makes it much easier to plan things & schedule appointments when I can see his work calendar - he has things scheduled 24/6 with one day off. I can see what days he has early meetings or late night trainings & work around that.

If we're together & need to communicate, he carries a little Picadilly pocket notebook that he writes in. If he gets it written down, he remembers it & gets it done.

The only time we have a 'meeting' is if we have a full week coming up or to plan holidays. We sit down & go over budgets & schedules to pencil in what we want & what needs to be done. Otherwise, he balances our budget weekly. I do all the shopping & sometimes he has questions about credit card statements to be clear where it goes in our budget but we don't do it together.

Back when we had debt (we've been married 27 yrs, mortgage free for 15 yrs & debt free for 9 yrs) we had monthly meetings to keep us on track on our budget more than anything.

Bethany said...

Man I wish I lived in that area, or at least in the States at least! That calendar is so beautiful, congratulations on this new project!!

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The Hotel Asia Exhibition & Culinary Challenge is the biggest ever gathering of Hospitality Industry professionals in the Maldives, and attracts all levels of decision makers from the industry. As in the previous years, Hotel Asia 2015 will once again consist of exhibitors from Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives and Pakistan.

Visitors from the Food Processing Industries, Catering & Hospitality Industries, Restaurant owners, Bakers, Design Firms, Catering, Specialty Food Services Establishments and persons related to the industry have been invited by the organizers to source their requirements from participants at the exhibition. Chefs and personnel from the purchasing departments of almost all the Maldivian resorts are expected to visit the event and on the product of their interest exhibited by Sri Lankan exhibitors.
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They are International Foodstuff Company Agri Bio-Tech (Pvt) Ltd, Raux Brothers (PVT) Ltd., Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC, D Samson Industries (PVT) Ltd, Fanam International (PVT) Ltd., Kandygs Handlooms Exports (PVT) Ltd., Felicitas Trading (Pvt) Ltd and Celcius Solutions (PVT) Ltd. These companies are participating under the NCE banner.

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Tuesday, 15 June 2010

NHS manager sacked following patient's death

A senior NHS official accused of trying to cover up an error that led to a patient's death has been sacked.

Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has announced that Kate Levy has been dismissed following an inquiry that looked into the death of John Moore-Robinson. Mr Moore-Robinson died in 2006 after doctors at Stafford Hospital failed to spot that he had ruptured his spleen in a bike accident.

During an inquiry into standards of care across the Trust it emerged that its board secretary and head of legal services, Ms Levy, had asked a member of staff to cover up the mistake. Following a disciplinary hearing, Ms Levy has now been sacked...
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Joakim Noah latest Bull to support Vinny Del Negro

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Players support their coaches. We’ve all seen just terrible college football coaches — guys who needed the axe — having players making public offers of support. Normally you don’t read too much into that.

But the public support for Vinny Del Negro by Bulls players — particularly Derrick Rose — has to give the Bulls brass pause. And now Joakim Noah has hustled to his support (he hustles everywhere), according to ESPNChicago.

“Yeah I endorse Vinny [Del Negro],” Noah said on Wednesday. “He did a lot for me as a player. He gave me a chance to play.”

The public campaign for Del Negro makes one thing interesting — if they do fire him, who do they replace him with? It has to be a name big enough, someone popular enough that the move does not seem lateral. Just a little more pressure for John Paxson and the Bulls decision makers.

Watch Russell Westbrook drop a triple-double in epic battle with James Harden (VIDEO)

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HOUSTON (AP) Lou Williams scored 31 points off the bench, James Harden finished with 22 points and 12 assists, and the Houston Rockets never trailed while cruising to a 137-125 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday.

Russell Westbrook had 39 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists for his second straight triple-double and his 36th this season, but Harden led the Rockets to a 25-point lead through three quarters in the matchup between top MVP candidates.

Trevor Ariza and Eric Gordon added 24 points apiece for the Rockets, whose lead was trimmed to eight on a 3-pointer by Westbrook with about 90 seconds left. The Rockets scored four quick points after that to secure the victory.

Harden left late in the game after crashing into the court and appearing to injure his left wrist but said in a TV interview he expected to be OK.

Houston jumped out to a 9-0 lead and was up by at least 20 for most of the game. It was a stark change from the first three games between these teams this season, which were decided by a combined seven points.

Williams made 11 of 15 shots, going 7 of 8 on 3-pointers. He didn’t miss a shot until his layup was blocked by Jerami Grant early in the fourth quarter.

Houston won its fourth straight overall and has won nine of their past 12 games against the Thunder.

The Rockets shot 71 percent in the first half, and Harden made a layup before grabbing a rebound and hitting a 3-pointer at the buzzer to extend Houston’s lead to 113-88 entering the fourth quarter.

The Thunder chipped away with a 12-4 run midway through the fourth quarter to get within 126-114 with 4 minutes left. Williams hit a 3-pointer after that to slow down the Thunder the team’s late run.

The Rockets had a 16-point lead in the third quarter before they used a 13-4 run to make it 108-83 with about 90 seconds left in the quarter. Williams had two 3-pointers in that stretch and a highlight came when Houston stripped the ball from Westbrook and Harden dished to Ariza, who finished with another 3. The run wrapped up with an alley-oop dunk from Harden to Clint Capela, but Capela received a technical on the play for hanging on the rim.

Mike D’Antoni received a technical seconds later for arguing that call.

Houston had built a 79-59 lead by halftime thanks in part to nearly perfect 3-point shooting by Trevor Ariza and Williams. Ariza made four of five attempts and had 16 points at the break, and Williams was a perfect 6 for 6 overall, with four 3-pointers to pile up 18 points in the first two quarters.

Thunder: Victor Oladipo finished with 15 points. … Steven Adams and Alex Abrines scored 11 points apiece.

Rockets: Houston’s 79 points were the most the team has scored in a half this season. … Sunday was the 12th time this season where the Rockets had 100 points before the fourth quarter. … Williams had at least 20 points off the bench for the 29th time this season.

Houston’s Ryan Anderson will miss about two weeks after spraining his right ankle on Friday night against the Pelicans. D’Antoni hopes Anderson will recover in time to play the last couple of regular-season games and be at full strength for the start of the playoffs.

Thunder: Visit Dallas on Monday.

Rockets: Host Golden State on Tuesday.

Watch every one of Jimmy Butler’s career-high 14 assists in win over Bucks (VIDEO)

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Chicago Bulls star Jimmy Butler seems to be thriving without backcourt teammate Dwyane Wade. On Sunday in a win against the Milwaukee Bucks, Butler dished out a career-high 14 assists to go along with 20 points, six rebounds, and three steals.

Butler, 27, helped Chicago to a 109-94 win over the Bucks. He looked good doing it, dropping dimes off of both the pick-and-roll and while coming off screens.

The NBA put together a handy little video to be able to check out all of Butler’s assists.

Clippers blow 18-point lead, lose in final 2 seconds on putback to Kings (VIDEO)

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The Los Angeles Clippers had a rough go of things against the Sacramento Kings on Sunday. Up by 18 with more than five minutes to go, LA blew their lead and were left to watch as the Kings sealed the game late.

The final possession for Sacramento came on a missed corner 3-pointer by Clippers guard Jamal Crawford. The Kings got the outlet pass out on the rebound, but Ben McLemore took it to the rack and missed. That’s when Willie Cauley-Stein stepped in, cleaned up the board, and put the game-winning shot home with less than two seconds left.

Los Angeles lost in spectacular fashion, and became the only team this season to lose given their game situation.

Here’s a compilation the NBA put together of Sacramento’s epic comeback:

Meanwhile, Chris Paul called it the worst regular season loss of his career.

The Clippers peaked too soon. Like, the first 20 games of the season too soon.

Russell Westbrook throws incredible halfcourt bounce pass vs. Rockets (VIDEO)

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Russell Westbrook had yet another triple-double on Sunday. The Oklahoma City Thunder star notched 13 assists in the loss to the Houston Rockets, 137-125, and one of them came on a nifty pass to teammate Victor Oladipo.

The play happened with the Thunder on the fastbreak early in the third quarter. Westbrook was moving from left-to-right across the middle of the floor with the ball while Oladipo streaked down the right wing.

With the Rockets defense collapsing, Westbrook reached halfcourt and fired a bounce pass that sliced through the opposition.

Oladipo finished with the clean dunk.

Still not sure it beats this one, but I think we’ll have to compare once the season comes to a close.


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New Canaan girls track runs eighth at Class L finals

New Canaan juniors, from left, Isabel Hetherington, Liz Gordon, Maureen Schott, and Emily Wood, with their bronze medals after finishing third in the 4×800 relay at the Class L track and field championships Friday in New Haven.

The New Canaan Rams delivered a pair of bronze-medal finishes and took eighth place as a team at the CIAC Class L girls track and field championships, held Friday at the Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven.

The Rams’ 4×800 relay team, featuring the junior quartet of Isabel Hetherington, Maureen Schott, Elizabeth Gordon and Emily Wood, finished their race in 10:02.32 to take third place. Warde took the top spot in 9:50.73, with Avon second in 10:01.05.

Sophomore Beth Kelley also came through with a third-place finish in the pole vault, tying South Windsor’s Madison O’Brien at nine feet. Kelley’s performance also qualified for the CIAC State Open.

The 4×800 team earned six points, while Kelley earned five towards the Rams’ team total of 17 points, which was good for eighth place overall. Darien won the championship with 126 points, well ahead of second-place Wilton, which scored 48.

Wood gave New Canaan another four points when she finished fourth in the 1,000-meter run with a time of 3:15.24. Gordon was eighth in that race in 3:21.58.

Senior Isabelle Herde finished off the Rams’ scoring by earning two points in the shot out, taking fifth at 32 feet, one inch.

Hetherington was ninth in the 1,600-meter run (5:35.83), while freshman Samantha Stewart was 16th in the 300-meter dash (45.07).

In the 600-meter run, junior Alexandra Naughton was 12th (1:48.30) and Scott was 13th (1:48.41).

The Rams 4×200 relay team of Stewart, senior Julie Spindel, junior Azadeh Amir-Aslani, and Naughton finished 11th with a time of 1:55.21

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Excerpt from the Vietnam Speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Our nation has taken the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a 'thing-oriented' society to a 'person-oriented' society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism and militarism. With this powerful commitment we shall boldly challenge the status quo and unjust mores and thereby speed the day when 'every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.'

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Friday, January 25, 2008

Functional Flow Control

In normal programming languages, there are many keywords for flow control, such as for, while etc. These flow control keywords encode a particular pattern of iteration, such as looping over a range (in the case of for) or continuing until some condition holds (while). Imperative programming languages continue to add more iteration keywords: both C#/Java have introduced some form of for-each; Python/C# have yield; Ada has many variants.

Haskell doesn't have these iteration keywords, but instead relies on recursion. This choice, when coupled with a few other Haskell ingredients, makes it much more powerful. Take for example the task of looping over a sequence, adding 1 to each element:

// In C
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)

-- In Haskell
incList (x:xs) = 1+x : foo xs
incList [] = []

I've used C mutating an array, and Haskell allocating a new list, simply because that would be the natural thing to do in each language. However, the great thing about higher-order functions is that we can now go back and abstract the flow control in Haskell, giving us:

incList = map (+1)

The above function maps over a list, incrementing each element. People have identified a common pattern (iterating over a list) and rather than baking it into the language with a keyword such as iterate-over-list, a library function can provide the operation. It is very important that map is not special in any way, and can simply be defined as:

map f (x:xs) = f x : map f xs
map f [] = []

The great advantage is that rather than being restricted to a limited range of flow control operators that someone somewhere decided upon, we can add new ones. Let's take another example, that of summing a list:

-- in C
int total = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < n; i++)
total += list[i];

-- in Haskell
sum [] = 0
sum (x:xs) = x + sum xs

-- or using the built in foldl
sum = foldl (+) 0

In Haskell there is a standard library function foldl which iterates over a list using an accumulator, managing updates to the accumulator for you, and setting an initial value. In C there is no such operator, so the more general purpose for is used.

But these examples are very common, so C's for keyword has provided most most of the control flow. However, sometimes you need more exotic flow control, which the authors of the language did not think of including. Take the example of computing a fixed point of a function f on the value x:

int x;
while (1) {
int x2 = f(x);
if (x == x2) break;
x = x2;

fix f x = if x == x2 then x else fix f x2
where x2 = f x

Here the Haskell version shows its power, instead of having defined a particular instance for a particular f and a particular type of value x, in Haskell we have basically defined fix as a new form of flow control.

In C we were still able to define something, but it was much harder. Now consider the following example that I was working on yesterday. I have an algorithm which has 4 stages, lambda, simplify, inline, specialise. Each stage must be run in turn, but if any stage changes something, then we restart from the beginning. For example, we apply lambda, then simplify - if something changes we restart at lambda. We only finish once all the stages have been run without changing anything. In Haskell this code is simple:

fixList orig x = f orig x
f [] x = x
f (a:as) x = if x == x2 then f as x else f orig x2
where x2 = a x

fixList [lambda,simplify,inline,specialise]

I define a new function called fixList, which provides an abstraction of flow control. The actual operations have been well isolated from this structure. I considered how to express this in structured C and drew a complete blank. My best guess is:

int x, x2;

x = x2;

x2 = lambda(x) ; if (x != x2) goto begin;
x2 = simplify(x) ; if (x != x2) goto begin;
x2 = inline(x) ; if (x != x2) goto begin;
x2 = specialise(x); if (x != x2) goto begin;

It might be possible to change some of this flow control into a macro, but I can think of no clean abstraction. Haskell is a great language for building abstractions, flow-control is just one highly useful instance.

PS: C Issues

Some of the code in this article isn't quite as nice as I'd wanted it to be, and isn't really a fair comparison. The array processing code in C relies on having defined n to be the length of the list, and having that tracked separately. The fixed point definition on C works over int to get a nice equality test, but that is merely a limitation of the language not having a standardized way to do equality. The C code could use function pointers, but in reality inline takes an extra argument so is used as a closure in Haskell - and besides, that would hardly be the standard way of coding C.

Vlad said...

Actually, there is a more general way of expressing this algorithm in c.

int (*a[])(int) functions={lambda, simplify, inline, specialize};
int i;
int x,x2;
for (i=0;i<sizeof functions/sizeof functions[0];) {
if (x!=x2) i=0; else i++;

Freedom of putting arbitrary tail calls is indeed as dangerous, as goto statement, and can produce spagetti code in the same way. So it can't be used as argument for haskell supreme expressive power.

Neil Mitchell said...

Vlad: As I said in the PS, you can do it in C, but its hardly the standard and recommended way. Also, as I mentioned, inline is actually a closure so your C code wouldn't solve my actual real problem.

As to comparing tail calls to the goto, thats probably excessive. C has tail calls in some circumstances too! Recursion is a nice principled and structured way of doing flow control, while goto is a fairly horrid way.

Vlad said...

Can't agree with that. Having goto-stuffed C code, you can directly translate it into mutually recursive tail calls passing all (at worst) local variables, and inverse translation is also possible in most cases.
By this reason, functions as a formally isolated blocks of code doesn't provide structural properties by itself, at least in Dijkstra's sense of structural programming. To get structural property, each block is required to have separate meaning, and composition is required to be heirarchical, allowing level-by-level understanding how does program work. But in your example function "f" obviously doesn't have such meaning: you even didn't bother to give it a substantial name (and probably it's impossible, because "f" is directly related to a particular task, specifically using outer name "orig"). And in general, ways of composition are not hierarchical too: you can call arbitrary function from arbitrary one. There is no more meaning in this function, than in a fragment between label and closest goto statement in an imperative code. Introducing this functions seems to me as dirty as introducing label in procedural program.

My point is that comparing with C, of course haskell have additional ways of expressing (functions as first-order objects and laziness provide more powerful ways of decomposition), but recursion regarded as flow control feature is not among them.

Anonymous said...

Recursion is definitely a flow control feature.

Anonymous said...

This is a complete tangent, but... You don't need to use goto. Most C programmers probably wouldn't, I think...

More likely on a more interesting data type, the function would mutate the structure in-place and return a bool (er, int) indicating whether or not they changed anything, making it:

while (true)
if (lambda(x)) continue;
if (simplify(x)) continue;
if (inline(x)) continue;
if (specialise(x)) continue;

Which gives you relatively clean (if more verbose than strictly necessary) code at the cost of less generic pieces. (Maybe this is less tangential than I thought...)

rkleckner said...

I think a more interesting comparison might be between Haskell and eagerly evaluated functional languages. In Haskell, you can directly define functions that do control-flow-like things, like the fixpoint operator, folds, and whatever you please. In Scheme, if you want to control the order of evaluation, you need to resort to macros, which are alright, but it's more code to write. I imagine the same goes for ML and the like.

Vesa Karvonen said...

If you typically have a source time specified sequence of functions to fix, I would recommend a combinator approach rather than a specialized function to fix a list of functions. Using combinators has the advantage that it will much more likely be be amenable to compiler optimizations such as inlining and contification.

As an added bonus, it turns out that the solution will be simpler that way. You can still use the same fix function. All you need is a combinator that takes a pair of functions and pipes the result through both of them only if the first function does not change the result. Here is how the code could look like in Standard ML:

(* The combinators: *)
fun fix f x =
(**)case f x
(***)of fx =>
(******)if fx = x
(******)then x
(******)else fix f fx

infix >>

fun (f >> g) x =
(**)case f x
(***)of fx =>
(******)if fx = x
(******)then g fx
(******)else fx

(* And an example: *)
fun mk name n x =
(**)(print (concat
(**********)[name, ": ",
(***********)Int.toString x,
(***********)"\n"]) ;
(***)if x < n
(***)then n
(***)else x)

val lambda = mk "lambda" 1
val simplify = mk "simplify" 2
val inline = mk "inline" 3
val specialize = mk "specialize" 4

val 4 =
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Neil Mitchell said...

Anon: while/continue is a much better way of writing it - I just didn't think of it.

vesa: Yes, my original version did use combinators in a similar manner to what you suggest - but at some point I changed, although I'm not entirely sure why. Your combinators also have the advantage that if one stage is idempotent you can define:

f !>> g x = g (f x)

And still use the same structure as before. In this case, the action functions are very large so there won't be any noticable benefit from inlining etc.

And yes - I do with the blog did code much better - pre tags might help, its how I have to do the code in the posts.

Vesa Karvonen said...

The idea of trying pre tags did not escape me. The blog complains: "Your HTML cannot be accepted: Tag is not allowed: <pre>".

Miles said...

It doesn't look to me like you've said anything much about recursion versus iteration - all your examples relate much more to Haskell's first-class functions.

rkleckner: you can write fold in Scheme without macros :-) You do need macros for some other control-flow stuff, though.

Anonymous said...

Hi, can you tell me how to go about this kind of problem with recursion:

Write a defnition in Haskell, when passed a non-negative integer n, returns 0 + 1 + 2 + · · · + n.

This was on an exam I did but skipped the question.

Neil Mitchell said...

Anon: That's a fairly introductory question, with a large number of answers, some of which are covered on the Wikipedia page for Haskell. I'd recommend asking either your lecturer, or the haskell-cafe mailing list. You need both an answer, and an explanation of the answer.

perreal said...

while (

I know it's pointless :)


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Ted NolandThe Buffalo Sabres made some big changes Wednesday morning, when they overhauled the face of their franchise by firing general manager Darcy Regier and head coach Ron Rolston. Those two were replaced by Pat LaFontaine (in a new president of hockey operations title) and interim head coach Ted Nolan.

As if it wasn’t obvious, the pair said at their introductory press conference that they were looking to change the culture of the hockey club. Apparently that doesn’t necessarily mean ridding the team of two potential liabilities.

Nolan met with the media once again following Sabres practice Wednesday afternoon. That press conference had more to do with the nuts and bolts of the on-ice product, the team Nolan will oversee for at least the rest of the season. The Sabres are one of the worst teams in the league for a reason, and much of that has to do with an untalented roster.

However, Nolan plans on rolling with arguably the team’s least-talented player John Scott for the time being. The enforcer, Nolan says, will remain in the fold, despite widespread feelings that he’s not good for much of anything on the ice than punching people in the face. He’s very good at punching people in the face, and he certainly fills that role, but he offers very little in any other part of the game.

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Speaking of revisiting, Nolan also said Wednesday that he’s open to bringing back Patrick Kaleta. The agitating forward was recently waived by the Sabres after serving his latest suspension, a 10-game ban. He unsurprisingly cleared waivers before being sent to Rochester of the AHL.

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Western Noir--Jake Hinkson

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Ed here: Jake Hinson writes fine noirish fiction and fine noirish essays. Here's just one more example.
Noir is like a disease. Its symptoms are moodiness, despair, guilt, and paranoia. There were early strains of it in German Expressionism; in the crime fiction of Woolrich, Holding, and Cain; in the prewar American cinema of Welles, Ingster, and Huston. The first full-fledged outbreak started somewhere in the war years. Some say Street Of Chance in 1942; others point to Double Indemnity and The Woman In The Window in 1944. Gradually noir spread out of the crime genre, however, and attached itself to different genres. Perhaps the first victim was the cinematic stalwart, the Western.
At first glance the Western would seem antithetical to noir. (A fetishist for strict definitions would probably insist that noir be defined essentially as a crime genre. I’m taking more of a thematic approach, here, interpreting noir as something closer to a moral thesis: that people are weak and existentially screwed.) The tropes of the Western—sunlight, open spaces, nature—would seem to immune to the noir disease. But make no mistake, the Western caught the disease. A genre that seemed to be the quintessence of American optimism, a genre that seemed to embody the notion of moral clarity, slowly gave way to darker themes and more neurotic characters.
One reason for the spread of the noir ethos to the Western is the overlap of talent between crime pictures and oaters. Noir icons like Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck, and Dick Powell all spent plenty of time out on the plains. Moreover, the behind the scenes talent—directors, writers, cinematographers—all did double duty as well.
It’s no coincidence that many early experiments came out of RKO Pictures, the company that noir historian Eddie Muller once dubbed “The House Of Noir” for its prodigious output of the dark stuff. RKO’s stable of supporting actors looks like a roll call of noir’s great goons, and most of these mugs and hoodlums popped up in dusters and six-shooters at one time or another.
Here then is a beginner’s guide to the classic Western Noir:
1.      Pursued (1947): Released in film noir’s golden year, this Raoul Walsh oater stars noir’s greatest leading man, Robert Mitchum, as an orphan tormented by nightmares of his family’s death (not to mention a quasi-incestuous love for his adopted sister). With full-on noir cinematography by the great James Wong Howe, this film is one of the premiere examples of Neurosis In The West.
2.      Blood On The Moon (1948): Robert Mitchum is back as a drifter caught up in the age-old land war between homesteaders and cattlemen. He’s pitted against his old pal, played by Robert Preston, and romanced by a spunky gun-wielding Barbara Bel Geddes. The team here is a who’s who of noir greats—director Robert Wise, cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, composer Roy Webb. Hell, it even has Charles McGraw in a supporting role.

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R.T. (Tim) said...

You write: Noir is like a disease. Its symptoms are moodiness, despair, guilt, and paranoia.
That is, hands down, the best description/definition of noir that I've ever encountered; it should be required reading for anyone who attempts to critique/review noir fiction/films. It's succinct and complete. Well done! (I might steal it -- with attribution -- whenever I have occasion to review noir books/stories in the future. You've been warned. Larceny is in my moody, desperate, guilty, paranoid, disease-infected heart.)


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DiscoverE educator award Grand and PittsLeon R. Grant III, preengineering teacher and advisor for the Marietta High School Civil Engineering Club, Marietta, Georgia, received one of three 2015 DiscoverE Educator Awards at a ceremony held earlier this month at the National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C., for his work championing an extraordinary three-year project to research, engineer, design, and construct “green” sustainable buildings for communities in Haiti using repurposed shipping containers. Grant was nominated for this award by Marcellus Pitts, M.ASCE, the club’s professional advisor.

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Mr Razali wants Aung San Suu Kyi released
A United Nations special envoy has met Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an attempt to break years of political deadlock.

I think Razali will insist the [government] shows concrete progress

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Razali Ismail, a retired Malaysian diplomat, is trying to negotiate an end to Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest, as part of reconciliation talks with the ruling military junta.

There were no details of his talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League of Democracy (NLD), which were held at her lakeside residence and lasted for two hours.

Earlier he met the junta's number three, Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, the influential chief of military intelligence.

Neither Mr Razali or the Burmese Government made any official comment on those talks either.

But the UN envoy is reported to have told local businessmen afterwards that he had "a good meeting" with General Khin Nyunt.

A South-East Asian businessman told AP news agency that Mr Razali was optimistic of progress "in a few weeks".

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This is Mr Razali's seventh visit to Burma since he initiated secret talks in October 2000.

On arriving in the country on Tuesday he said he was "always optimistic" and told representatives of Burma's ethnic minorities he hoped for progress in the dialogue between the pro-democracy leader and the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC).

Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won 1990 elections by a landslide but the military junta refused to give up power.

The opposition leader has been under house arrest since September 2000 when she tried to take a trip outside the capital Rangoon. Rumours have been rife in diplomatic circles that the junta might be about to release her, perhaps during or shortly after Mr Razali's visit.

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UN officials say Mr Razali's visit is a make-or-break trip because the international community is growing increasingly impatient at the lack of concrete results.

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But privately, UN officials have told the BBC that the prospects for a major breakthrough are dim.

The negotiations have so far resulted in the release of about 200 political prisoners, but have achieved little else. Mr Razali has hinted he might resign if he leaves the country empty-handed this time.

Diplomats say that only Aung San Suu Kyi's release can counter growing suspicion that the junta is using the negotiations as a means of ending the poverty-stricken country's isolation and lifting crippling sanctions.

"I think Razali will insist the [government] shows concrete progress," an Asian diplomat based in Rangoon told Reuters. "The easiest way to do it is to release Aung San Suu Kyi."

Mr Razali is also to meet Senior General Than Shwe, the leader of Burma's junta at some point during his four-day visit.

He will again meet Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, party officials said.

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Burma's hollow gains
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UN envoy's Burma trip is cancelled
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Behind Burma's 'non-coup'
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Aung San Suu Kyi meets Burma general
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BBC director general Mark Thompson has said Moira Stuart lost her regular TV news slot because the traditional role of the newsreader was dying out.

TV news was now being presented by journalists who could undertake a wider variety of roles, Mr Thompson told MPs.

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The 55-year-old, who joined BBC News in 1981, recently left Sunday AM.

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Mr Thompson said: "BBC News, News 24 and the radio networks have changed over the years and the traditional role of the news reader, as opposed to a correspondent or presenter, has virtually died out over the services."

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"Has anyone telephoned you to say 'are you mad?' Moira Stuart is one of the most popular newsreaders on the BBC," he asked.

"If this is how you treat someone who's much loved, I'd hate to see how you treat someone you don't like."

Stuart spent six years reading the news on the BBC Breakfast programme until last May when the role was integrated into the main presenters' duties.

The broadcaster, who was made an OBE in 2001, has recently taken part in other BBC programmes, including the family history series Who Do You Think You Are?

She also had a cameo role in comedy series Extras and was in 1980s show The Adventure Game.

The move to sideline Stuart prompted a number of high-profile figures to speak out in her defence, including Sir Trevor McDonald and former BBC newsreader Michael Buerk.

Stuart began her BBC career in an era when newsreaders were solely responsible for the delivery of bulletins, while journalists worked behind the scenes.

A BBC spokesperson said the advent of rolling news broadcasts in particular, such as BBC News 24, required news presenters to be more versatile, both reading bulletins and being able to deal with breaking news stories live on air.

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In a HardTalk Extra interview screened on 4 February, Patrick O'Connell spoke to Henry Rollins about music, acting and what it means to be American in the modern world.

Henry Rollins is one of America's most enigmatic and versatile artists.

He first came to world attention in the 1980s with the punk rock band Black Flag.

Since then he has carved out a successful career as an actor, writer and poet.

A self-confessed "news junkie", he now tours the world as a spoken word performer, venting his rage against the political establishment.

How does Henry Rollins find his place in the USA, and what does he think of his country's place in the world?

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World's smallest pigs 'thriving'

By Rebecca Morelle
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Camera-trap footage reveals that the pygmy hogs are thriving after their release into the wild (footage: PHCP/Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust)

The world's smallest and rarest pigs are "thriving" following their release into the wild last year, conservationists report.

Camera-trap footage and surveys suggest that the captive-bred pygmy hogs have adapted well to their new home in the grasslands of Assam in India.

The team now plans to reintroduce more of the little pigs to this habitat.

Pygmy hogs stand just 25cm-tall (10in) and weigh only 6-9kg (13-20lb). Few are thought to exist in the wild.

An 'enigmatic' pig

Professor John Fa, director of conservation science at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, one of the partners in the Pygmy Hog Conservation Programme (PHCP), described the pigs as "enigmatic".

He told BBC News: "It is a shy creature and it's about the size of a small dog.

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Only one population of the pigs is thought to survive in the wild

"It is very well adapted to living in grasslands - it is bullet shaped and has a sloping back, which is a feature of animals that live in very thick vegetation."

Scientists think the pigs' range could once have spanned the southern edge of the Himalayas in the Indian sub-continent.

But now just one population is thought to exist in the wild, and these pigs are situated in Manas National Park, in the state of Assam. However, their habitat is under threat.

William Oliver, chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group, said: "The practice of indiscriminate dry-season annual burning and uncontrolled livestock grazing threatens the last surviving wild population of pygmy hogs in Manas and, if continued, will doubtless also affect many other threatened and sensitive grassland species."

In 1996, conservationists began a captive-breeding programme in a bid to boost the pigs' numbers, and in May 2008, 16 of these pygmy hogs (seven males and nine females) were released into the Sonai Rupai wildlife sanctuary.

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Pygmy hogs were released into the wild last year

Professor Fa said: "Since the release, we have been doing very extensive surveys every month to find out how they are using their habitat. The good thing about these pigs, like all pigs, is that they build nests and you can see where they have spent the night.

"And getting the camera-trap footage was the icing on the cake."

The surveys and films suggest that up to two-thirds of the released pigs are thriving, and one of the female pigs may have given birth.

Now the PHCP plans to release another 14 captive-bred hogs into the same area. They are currently being held in a "pre-release" facility.

Dr Goutam Narayan, from Durrell, who heads the PHCP in India, explained: "Here, we don't have much contact with them, they are out on their own and we feed them very little so they have to forage - we are preparing them for the wild."

Baby pygmy hog  (PHCP/Durrell )
Some of the released pigs may have had piglets

As well as bolstering the population, the conservationists say that the released animals are helping them to better understand the wild pigs, which are extremely hard to study.

Professor Fa said: "I call it 'reverse pig-ology'. From these [released] pigs, we can learn how they choose certain types of grassland, how they behave in certain areas etc. And this information can then be applied to the wild pigs."

PHCP is a collaborative project of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group (IUCN-SSC PPHSG), the forest department of the Government of Assam and the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of India.

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Sanchez on course for Aussie win
Luis Sanchez (let) and Alberto Contador
Contador (right) took the stage win ahead of team-mate Sanchez
Luis Sanchez looks set for victory in the Tour Down Under after an another impressive ride on the penultimate stage on Saturday.

The 21-year-old, in only his second professional race, was part of a break dominated by his Liberty team.

The stage - a 92-mile ride from Willunga to Willunga - was won by team-mate Alberto Contador.

Contador's victory came in what was his first competitive ride since recovering from brain surgery.

The Spaniard first discovered his health problem when he crashed during the Tour des Asturias last season.

"I had bleeding on the brain, which made me crash during that race," he explained.

"Fifteen days later the same thing happened again but when I was asleep. That's when they took me to the hospital, and 20 days later they operated.

"Thank God, in November they said that I was healthy so that's when I started training harder than ever so that something like this could happen.

"I want to dedicate the stage to the team, who supported me during the difficult times."

Sanchez now holds a 35-second lead over team-mate Allan Davis, while Stuart O'Grady is in third place, another 12 seconds back.

Britain's Bradley Wiggins had a diabolical day in the saddle, finishing almost 20 minutes behind the stage winner.

Stage five result:
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) 3hr 17min 51sec
2 Luis Sanchez (Spa) same time
3 Allan Davis (Aus) at 22secs
4 Javier Ramirez (Spa) at 25 secs
5 David McPartland (Aus) same time
6 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) same time
75 Bradley Wiggins (GBR) at 19 mins 11 secs

Overall classification:
1 Luis Sanchez (Spa) 15hr 00min 15sec
2 Allan Davis (Aus) at 35secs
3 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) at 47 secs
4 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) at 48 secs
5 Javier Ramirez (Spa) at 51 secs
6 David McPartland (Aus) at 53 secs
23 Bradley Wiggins (GBR) at 19 mins 51 secs

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'Does what I study even matter now?' Yes, it does. Here's why.

Every once in a while, I have an existential crisis. I question my career, my relevance, my purpose. Why, I ask myself, am I doing research when there are so many more immediately important things going on? Why do I agonize over articles that so very few people read? Who cares about our ivory tower questions when there are so many pressing political, social, and environmental issues pressing down on our planet?

These moments are generally sporadic. Yet for many of us at Berkeley, these questions have become chronic — even urgent — in the face of current world events.

This situation is not helped by others outside of academia who may look at you askance, as if asking, “Why aren’t you doing something meaningful?” In my case, given that I study intergroup conflict, the question takes on a particular sneer: “Why aren’t you down there, making a difference on the ground and in the trenches, instead of watching it all from your thinking chair?”

So, today I am moved to share with you what I need to remind myself of during my existential crises. I share these thoughts because it is so easy to lose sight of the context of what we are trying to accomplish, and because these truths matter more to me now than at any other moment since I chose my route as a professor.

students in classroomSo why does what we do matter? To help answer that question, I recommend you start here. You see, it’s not just about the thinking chair. It’s not just about the why, but the how.

You are part of a public institution that drives upward mobility. You — right now — are playing a role in creating access and opportunity. We do not see the change we make as dramatically as we might with a protest, for example, but the change you are helping create is long lasting. It impacts the lives of people in your classes, your labs, your sections, your study groups.

That said, we are far from perfect, and there is much room for us to improve in providing this access and opportunity. As the UC Climate Survey shows, many people continue to feel marginalized and left out of our community and our learning spaces. A wealth of literature in psychology and other disciplines now makes clear that a sense of safety and belonging are key components to people’s ability to learn and succeed. And for many among us, safety and belonging are in especially short supply at the moment.

This brings us back to the question: why — and how — what you do matters. Remember that you have the privilege of being able to engage in a unique manifestation of social change as an educator at a public university. No matter how esoteric your area of scholarship may be, you have a chance to create an inclusive micro-climate every time you invite someone different from you to share in those ideas. You are creating opportunity. At the level of the interpersonal interaction — in other words, at the level of the people that you meet — you have daily opportunities to help provide that access and that feeling of belonging to someone who may be different from you. In this process, it is the small things that matter — smiling at someone, remembering someone’s name, encouraging a growth mindset.

This is not just “be kind to everyone you meet.” This is recognizing that, in our role as educators, we influence students’ and peers’ motivation and career paths. If we are invested in increasing access and diversity in our classrooms, our discipline, and our university, our own micro-level interactions matter.

What you do makes a difference, every bit as powerfully as any other form of activism. Please, remember that next time people (including you!) question the relevance of what you do. What you do matters, and how you do matters. How you collaborate, mentor, and engage in discovery matters. Now, arguably, more than ever.

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W&L Law Alum Honored by Judicial Peers

Jack L. Lintner '69

Jack L. Lintner '69

Judge Jack L. Lintner, a 1969 graduate of Washington and Lee's School of Law, received the 2013 Trial Attorneys of New Jersey Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, in October.

The award honors attorneys whose "character, competence, and commitment to the highest professional standards mark them as outstanding members of the bar."

The New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law is a cooperative venture of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the state and federal judiciary, and New Jersey's three law schools.

Jack began his judicial career as a trial judge in the superior court in Middlesex County in 1988, where he spent nine years in the civil court, attaining the position of presiding judge of the civil and chancery divisions. He was appointed to the appellate division in 1999 and was a presiding judge there from 2006 through his retirement in 2008. During his judicial career, Jack published more than 100 opinions.

Prior to his appointment to the bench in 1988, Jack concentrated his practice on civil litigation in both the state and federal courts. He received the 2008 James J. McLaughlin Award from the Civil Trial Bar Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the 2001 Distinguished Service Award from the Institute for Continuing Legal Education.  He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Association.

He belongs to the Bridgewater, N.J., firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus P.A, focusing his practice on alternative dispute resolution, insurance coverage and appellate advocacy consultation.

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Announced before the Vita was even released, Dragon’s Crown is a side-scrolling beat’em up from Vanillaware, best known for releases such as Odin Sphere and Muramasa: The Demon Blade. Dragon’s Crown had all but disappeared, until now. In a press release sent out today, Atlus has revealed that Dragon’s Crown is slated for release this summer.

Featuring the intricate 2D artwork and animation for which Vanillaware is known, Dragon’s Crown is also the first title they’ve worked on with a multiplayer focus. There are six different characters to play—Fighter, Dwarf, Amazon, Wizard, Elf, and Sorceress—and up to four of them can be in play at once. The PlayStation 3 version will feature drop-in multiplayer, while the Vita version can be played via the adhoc network function. The two are not cross-compatible.

Though Dragon’s Crown has yet to be rated by the ESRB, Atlus is expecting a T rating.

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Windows 10, Microsoft’s flagship OS is now active on more than 200,000,000 devices monthly. This is big news for the Redmond based company that only launched the new version of Windows back in August.

Windows 10 Installed on 200 Million Devices Globally

According to the official Windows Experience blog, Windows 10 is now on the fastest ever growth trajectory of any previous version of Windows. That makes its growth 400% faster than Windows 8, and outpaces the adoption of Windows 7 by just under 140%. Over 40% of the latest Windows 10 activations came after Black Friday.

The new figures mean that Microsoft are starting 2016 with some really positive news. The stats are also show that the tech company are well on their way to their long term goal of seeing Windows 10 being active on 1 billion devices.

The high adoption rate of Windows 10 is seen as being largely due to the positive and enthusiastic response from both consumers and critics.

“We continue to be excited – and humbled – by the incredible response to Windows 10,” said Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for the Windows and Devices Group. “Overall, we are seeing significantly higher customer satisfaction with Windows 10 than any prior version of Windows.”

Mehdi also revealed in his blog that people spent “11 billion hours on Windows 10 in December alone.” But it’s not just the high adoption rate of Windows 10 that has given Microsoft reason to be excited about the future.

Mehdi also pointed to other figures that seem to show that Microsoft is riding a wave of resurgence generally:

  • People spent more than 44.5 billion minutes in the Microsoft Edge browser across Windows 10 devices last month. It wasn’t revealed how many searches were made for ‘Google,’ however.
  • In December, Windows 10 generated more than a 4.5x increase in revenue per device, as compared to Windows 8
  • Cortana, Microsoft’s personal assistant has been asked more than 2.5 billion questions since launch. It was however unclear how many bad jokes she had told in that time.
  • There have also been around 30% more Bing search queries per Windows 10 device compared to prior versions of Windows.
  • In December alone, 60% of paying customer were new to the Windows Store.

2015 was also the year that Microsoft released their first Windows 10 smartphones as well. The Lumia 950 series of phones sold out within a month, with demand apparently outstripping supply.

As Mehdi says in the end of his blog post, 2015 was a great year for Microsoft. 2016 looks set to continue this trend.


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Two faculty members win National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Mon, 12/16/2013

LAWRENCE — Two University of Kansas professors, Iris Smith Fischer, English, and Arienne Dwyer, anthropology, have won National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships to pursue their research next year. KU faculty members have won 21 NEH Fellowships since 1998. Smith Fischer received a grant for “Charles Peirce and the Role of Aesthetic Expression in 19th Century U.S. Philosophy and Semiotics” and Dwyer for “Narrative and Metanarratives of the Silk Road.”

“To have two faculty members receive this highly prestigious award in the same year speaks to the incredible breadth and depth of expertise in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,” said Danny Anderson, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences dean. “The research of these two outstanding professors comes at a crucial time, when we most need knowledge from the humanities to help us in our struggle for meaning and understanding across cultures.”

Victor Bailey, director of the Hall Center for the Humanities, also praised the winning applicants. “To win a fellowship from the principal federal agency supporting the humanities, in light of the prevailing odds of success, is a remarkable achievement, and our two colleagues are to be warmly congratulated. Their success is testimony to the caliber of their scholarship, and, as they were the first to acknowledge, to the services provided by the humanities grant development office.”

Dwyer, a linguistic anthropologist, will use her NEH Fellowship to produce a book, "Camel Spring: Narratives and Meta-Narratives of the Silk Road," which explores the stories told by and about Central Asians. She will analyze more than 150 fictional and historical oral texts by Central Asian tellers, as well as the narratives of early Western explorers and the modern Chinese state. The stories she has collected show how cultures and ethnic groups interacted along the eastern Silk Road across the past eight centuries. The study will fill a gap in the studies of Central Asian literature, culture, ethnic groups and history and will also appeal to general readers interested in the history and culture of Central Asia.

Dwyer has won 11 major external grants and fellowships since joining KU in 2002, including an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a joint NEH/National Science Foundation Fellowship and major research grants from the Volkswagen Foundation and NSF. Dwyer's current NEH award follows closely on the heels of NSF grants for "Light Verbs in Uyghur," "Interactive Inner Asia: Documenting and Endangered Language in Contact Area," and "Co-Lang: Institute for Collaborative Language Documentation Training."

Smith Fischer will complete her study on "Charles Peirce and the Role of Aesthetic Expression in 19th Century U.S. Philosophy and Semiotics" with the assistance of the NEH Fellowship. This work will focus upon the 19th century American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce. His interests in both theater and semiotics, or the study of how phenomena attain meaning, led him to develop a mode of inquiry that combined scientific study with acting and performing methods.

The resulting book will be of interest to scholars of theatre, performance studies, philosophy and semiotics, and to general readers interested in the history of science. With the aid of smaller awards, she has been conducting research in archives, including the Library of Congress and the Institute for American Thought, and hopes to complete a draft of her manuscript during her NEH Fellowship tenure.

English Chair Anna Neill said the award is a coup for the Department and for the humanities at KU.

"The NEH Fellowship will enable Iris to complete a book manuscript based on meticulous research and rigorous inquiry that will contribute to the reputation of English literary and theatre studies at KU," Neill said.

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Derbies, cupsets & more: Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round storylines

Once again, the underdogs in the Third Round of the Emirates FA Cup didn’t read the script, and went on to upset the big boys, with Millwall downing Premier League Bournemouth and Non-League Lincoln City sweeping aside Ipswich Town.

And rising stars like Blackpool’s Bright Osayi-Samuel, Sutton United’s Dan Fitchett and some bloke for Man United called Anthony Martial caught the eye.

They’re among the big themes of the cup’s Fourth Round ties. But first, there are some local affairs to sort out.

Derby days promise cup crackers

The Fourth Round draw has thrown up no fewer than six local derbies, with Brentford’s visit to Chelsea and Millwall v. Watford perhaps the most eye-catching pair from a superb half-dozen.

With away crowds always sizeable for Emirates FA Cup ties, we’re expecting a terrific atmosphere from the likes of the Bees, and Blackpool fans travelling to Ewood Park for a Lancashire derby against Blackburn Rovers.

Elsewhere, Manchester United look to continue their defence of their cup crown against Wigan Athletic – and record a seventh win in eight home games in the process.

So, will the cup kings finish the weekend with local pride intact? Can the Bees sting the Blues? And are Watford set for a mauling in the Lions’ den? All will be revealed…

Where will the cupset(s) come?

There’s always one, and often more. If you support a Premier League heavyweight, you’re praying it’s your team who avoids the lower-league banana-skin, if you’re a follower of a small-town club, it’s a time to dream big.

Millwall are aiming for a fourth successive home win in this competition, so could cause problems for a Watford side who have suffered five defeats in their last six away games – including a 6-1 tonking at Anfield.

Elsewhere, Sutton United are keen to continue their cup heroics as they welcome Leeds United. The hosts have won nine of their last 14 at home, and will look to draw on the spirit of 1989, when they beat then top-flight giants Coventry City.

And you can’t overlook Oxford United, who knocked out Premier League Swansea City last season, as they host a Newcastle United side with just one Emirates FA Cup win in the last five years.

Can lower-league aces continue to shine?

While Tottenham v Wycombe Wanderers will likely see the world-renowned attacking talents of Harry Kane and Dele Alli on show for the hosts, the Chairboys have a young star of their own looking to give his reputation a boost – Scott Kashket.

The 21-year-old has netted nine times in 10 games, including a hat-trick against Chesterfield in the Emirates FA Cup Second Round, and could well get his name up in lights again at White Hart Lane.

Elsewhere, Bright Osayi-Samuel netted the winner for Blackpool in the 121st-minute of their Replay at Championship Barnsley, and the nerveless 19-year-old will be looking to add to his one senior goal so far at Ewood Park.

Likewise, Sutton pair Dan Fitchett and Roary Deacon, with the duo already chalking up a combined six goals in this year’s tournament so far. Garry Monk and co. beware…

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Dave graduated with an MA in English Literature at Durham University, and worked in marketing before joining the Ladbrokes News team. A Man United fan and avid groundhopper, he’s also an ardent follower of Rugby League. You can usually find him at a ground near you, clutching a big cup of tea.


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Rhetorica 2016

Rhetorica 2016

Rhetorica, the echo of the name itself manifests a superlative degree of sage words. Amidststrewn streamers and loud cheers, the three day literary fest of CET, Mody University, Lakshmangarh commenced on 2nd September 2016. The fest was started by thelamp lightening by Prof. (Dr.) Suresh Advani, President of Mody University and Prof. (Dr.) V. K. Jain, the Dean of CET. Rhetorica, the mecca of literature lovers is packed with snappy surprises and Duchene smiles. The cauldron is brimmed with quizzes and spell bees, to which we added dollops of debates and elocutions and sprinkled it with extempore and story writing. We seasoned the dish with JAM and poetry writing.

Adding cherries to the cake, we had talk sessions with two luminaries-the charming SanahRizwi and the veteran Shraddha Bakshi on 3rd of September. In addition, the talk of the town was of course, the MUN Conference. Rhetorica Model United Nations 2016, the third edition of Rhetorica MUN, was held at Mody University, Laxmangarh, Sikar on 3-4 September 2016.  The delegates were all decked up in formal suits and ties, flaunting their skills, diplomacy and suaveness. The event featured four committees namely the UN Security Council, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the African Union and the Lok Sabha. The topics on the table for discussion were: Establishment of a framework which aims for combating poverty and terrorism in the continent for African Union; drafting an action plan on nuclear safety forInternational Atomic Energy Agency; reviewing Armed Forces Special Power Act for Lok Sabha and measures to curb revenue generation by extremist group for UN Security Council. From novices to mavericks, we had an eclectic mix of flavors who believed that nothing is more powerful than carefully directed sentences.

The aforesaid committees witnessed two days of heated debate on their respective agendas and also formed their resolutions by the end of the day. The executive board interacted with the delegates and successfully moderated the debate. In addition to that, the event also received adequate coverage by the members of the International Press, an in-house media. The event has a brilliant ideology behind this conference as it prepares the youth to be a part of national and international policy making in the future. And undeniably, they came. They Spoke. They conquered.

The event witnessed around 150 participants from colleges nationally. The enthusiastic students and the veteran executive board members processed the idea of the youth into a discussion for two days, which consequentially formed policies to solve various national and international issues.

The evening concluded with a closing ceremony where the Secretary General addressed the august gathering with a thank you speech, paving way for the next edition of Rhetorica.