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'The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age,' A remarkable two-day colloquium with international reach, part of the Walker Cultural Leader Series for 2013-14
Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | By Brock University
In photo: Jill Dolan
Listening to theatre companies, they've never needed theatre critics more. Listening to them after a bad review, they've also never resented them more. This strange dance of mutual need has been going on since the first time someone recited dialogue on stage, and someone in the next day's paper wrote "it doth sucked, verily." But what of that relationship today? Do critics matter? Can anyone with a blog call themselves a theatre critic? Are critics there to serve theatre companies or readers? (John Law)
See the complete article by John Law in the Niagara Falls Review about his upcoming participation in the two-day colloquium 'The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age' organized by Professor Karen Fricker of the Department of Dramatic Arts on the occasion of the special visit by Jill Dolan, Annan Professor in English, Professor of Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Director, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Princeton University, noted theatre blogger (thefeministspectator.com) and a Walker Cultural Leader for 2013-14. Special guests J. Kelly Nestruck of The Globe and Mail and Richard Ouzounian of the Toronto Star will join local guests and luminaries including cultural leaders like Jackie Maxwell, artistic director of the Shaw Festival, and Steve Solski, director of the St. Catharines Centre for the Performing Arts.
The two day program begins this Friday morning with the public lecture, "Moving the Body Politic: How Feminism and Theatre Inspire Social Re-imaginings" by Professor Jill Dolan. The lecture is presented in association with the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies.
For a complete list of participants and more information please see the Brock News Article, the Department of Dramatic Arts and the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts web pages.
Come join us! There is no charge to attend and engage in what will surely be a remarkable exchange of ideas and opinions in this "blossoming" cultural scene of Niagara (Professor Karen Fricker).
All events will be live-streamed at BrockVideoCentre's DART channel [Click on the "live video" button on that page.]
Tags: colloquium, guest speakers, J. Kelly Nestruck, Jackie Maxwell, Jill Dolan, John Law, Karen Fricker, Richard Ouzounian, Steve Solski, walker cultural leader series
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Powwow held on Campus Sept.7
Sunday, September 09, 2012 | By Brock University
Adrienne Smoke. Photo By: DK Martin
(Source: The Brock News, Monday, August 27, 2012 | by Tiffany Mayer)
Students, staff and Niagara residents were invited to start their school year off to the beat of a different drum.
The Student Justice Centre hosted a powwow on Friday, Sept. 7 in Jubilee Court to celebrate the fall harvest in partnership with the Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education, Aboriginal Student Services and Brock University Students' Union.
The event featured inter-tribal drumming and dance demonstrations, and opportunities for audience members to participate in traditional dancing.
"It's a gathering to celebrate life and be thankful as well as to hang out with old friends and make new ones," said Adrienne Smoke, a third-year drama student, who came up with the idea for the event. "Powwows are about sharing our culture to help educate people about the current native people not the ancient ones we read about in old outdated textbooks."
This free event also featured a barbecue, vegetarian options and samples of traditional food, such as three sisters soup, corn bread and strawberry juice. The Brock farmers market was also held during the powwow.
Doors opened at 10 a.m. with the grand entry happening at noon. Closing ceremonies were at 3:30 p.m.
For more information or to participate as a dancer, drummer or vendor, email the Student Justice Centre, visit them online or call 905-688-5550, ext. 6325.
Tags: Aboriginal Student Services, Adrienne Smoke, BUSU, powwow, student justice centre, Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education, The Brock News
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Brock welcomes more community partners to downtown project
Wednesday, June 20, 2012 | By Brock University
An artist's rendering of the Marilyn I. Walker School for the Fine and Performing Arts showing the new theatre for the Department of Dramatic Arts.
(Source: The Brock News)
As Brock University prepares to select a contractor for its new arts school in central St. Catharines, community members are coming forward to financially back a project many people see as being a crucial bridge to future economic and cultural health.
This summer, contractors will be invited to bid on the major job of renovating and expanding the old Canada Hair Cloth textile mill into the new home for Brock's Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts. Work is to begin this fall.
Besides relocating 500 students, faculty and staff into the downtown, the new school will also complement and share some facilities with a public Performing Arts Centre being built by the City of St. Catharines on an adjacent lot. Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2014.
Brock's school has a construction budget of $39.6 million. The Ontario government has given $26.1 million to the project, and the University is continuing efforts to raise more than $10-million to pay its share.
Important supporters of the Brock project were revealed today when it was announced that three donors with strong ties to the community and Brock University are making gifts totaling more than a quarter-million dollars.
Peter and Janet Partridge are giving $100,000 to the project. Art and Val Fleming have also committed $100,000. And the St. Catharines law firm of Lancaster Brooks & Welch is donating $75,000 to the new school.
Peter Partridge, Vice President and Portfolio Manager with RBC Dominion Securities and a past member of Brock's Board of Trustees, said their gift is a way of giving back to the community.
"To have a cultural campus strategically positioned in the heart of the downtown is very important," he said. "This is going to bring a whole new level of artistic experience not only to young performers but to an audience here in Niagara."
The Flemings are also eager to see the Walker School flourish.
"We really believe in Brock," said Val, a Brock graduate and past member of the Board of Trustees. "We especially want the Walker project to succeed. It's a wonderful opportunity, and we believe the downtown will definitely be rejuvenated because of it."
At the offices of Lancaster Brooks Welch, senior partner Dave Edwards said the law firm believes the benefits of the new school will be more than economic.
"This will change the culture of the city centre for the better by bringing students into the downtown during normal working hours," said Edwards, a former member and chair of the Brock Board of Trustees. "It will provide an integration that's entirely different compared to when they're only downtown at nighttime.
"It makes you think of Kingston, and how students there are often in the downtown during the day. This will help our restaurants, stores, coffee shops, and bring a new vibrancy to the downtown throughout the day."
Douglas Kneale, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock and a member of the committee overseeing the University's downtown project, said the support is very heartening and much-needed.
"The truth is, we really are all in this together, this strengthening of the community," said Kneale. "And when you have partners like these marvelous people, it is this kind of support that helps make these dreams come true for everybody."
Tags: Art and Val Fleming, canada hair cloth building, Dave Edwards, Douglas Kneale, downtown revitalization, Lancaster Brooks & Welch, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Peter and Janet Partridge
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I almost left the shop dressed in it, but then I remembered I am an adult and behaved accordingly (except a huge grin on my face and some very mature dance moves/sounds).
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E-book Self-publishing Options for Indie Authors
by Kerstin | Aug 14, 2021 | Publishing |
Indie authors are privileged to live during a time when it's easier than ever to self-publish their eBooks. There are several self-publishing options.
While self-publishing was considered an inferior way to publish eBooks only a few years ago, today it continues to gain respect and grow. With the increase of e-readers such Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, and others there's never been a better time to self-publish eBooks.
Advantages of Self-publishing an eBook
Minimal production costs are one of the biggest perks to eBook self-publishing. Another advantage is the short amount of it time it takes. Authors can obtain a world-wide audience in only 24 hours or less. Authors also have more control over their content and graphics.
What Are eBooks and Indie Authors
EBooks are books in a digital format that can be read on reading devices including iPhones, iPads and e-readers such as Amazon Kindles, Barnes & Noble Nooks, Sony Readers, Kobo eReaders and others. You can also read eBooks on your computer and print them out as hard copy books.
Authors who self-publish their eBooks are also known as "indie authors" or independent writers.
Self-publishing with Amazon Kindle
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is a free publishing site offering a 70 percent royalty option for books priced between $2.99 and $9.99. Books priced lower than $2.99 receive a 35 percent royalty rate. KDP has more traffic than others, although its rates are lower than Smashwords, which distributes to multiple buyers.
Besides Amazon Kindle e-Readers, books published on KDP are made available for sale on the iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Android phones, PCs and Macs. Documents may be submitted to KDP in digital formats including Microsoft Word, html, text and other formats. This site has considerably more traffic than the other self-publishing sites, although its rates are lower than Smashwords, which distributes to more book retailers. It also offers an active community message board with professionals who are quick with answers for newbies to e-publishing.
Smashwords Publishing for Indie eBook Authors
Smashwords distributes to several eBook publishers, including Barnes & Noble, Apple, Kobo, Diesel and others. One of the best perks is the free guide that Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, provides. It's lengthy, but don't be intimated by the amount of pages. Much of the material is repetitive and it's full of clear-cut graphics and diagrams, explaining details on subjects such as creating a table of contents and how to insert images.
Documents are loaded onto the publishing platform for the Smashword's "Meatgrinder" so they can be converted into the various formats. They need to be in the Microsoft Word .doc file because this is the most common word processor for authors.
Because Smashwords makes your eBook available for so many distributors, the format limits paragraph breaks to only two hard returns; using the tab key and space bar to create indented paragraphs is not allowed.
Payments can be made through Paypal, which is another advantage. Royalty rates are 85 percent for books sold directly on their site, but are 60 percent for books sold through their channels. Smashwords also has a forum where authors can ask questions and get acquainted with other e-publishers.
Barnes & Noble Pubit
Barnes & Noble makes it easy to self-publish an eBook with their pubit site. It's similar to Amazon's KDP, taking about 24 hours or less to publish a book and be available for purchase. Epubit is only for authors residing in the United States. Royalty rates, which are somewhat lower, are 65 percent of the sale price for books priced from $2.99 to $9.99. However, the rate is 40 percent for books priced lower than $2.99 or higher than $9.99. The lowest an author can price an eBook is $.99, while the highest is $199.99.
Although you can easily hire someone to format your book for whatever site you choose for self-publishing, it's better to learn how to do it yourself. It's really not hard, but just takes time in learning the ropes and requirements of each publishing site. Also, don't settle on just one publisher, but have your book published on as many self-publishing platforms as possible. Trying all of them out is the only way you'll know which one works best for you. Even better your books will have more exposure for sales.

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Home Archives 2001 HP to Ship Its First Combination DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive; Rewritable Drive Offers Consumers...
HP to Ship Its First Combination DVD+RW/CD-RW Drive; Rewritable Drive Offers Consumers Affordable, Easy Creation of Custom DVDs and CDs
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP) today announced plans to ship its first combination DVD+RW/CD-RW drive. The drive allows novice to expert users to easily create personalized rewritable DVDs and CDs from digital or analog video, data and photos at home or in the office.
Easy to install inside a PC, the HP DVD-writer dvd100i drive enables users to create DVDs from their own videos using the DVD+RW format. Users also can transfer analog or digital video directly from a camcorder or VCR to a DVD disc(1), create and play digital music CDs and store large amounts of data safely and securely on both CD and DVD media.
"Using the premier DVD+RW standard, this drive will change the way people create and share their precious video memories," said John Spofford, vice president and general manager, HP Personal Storage Solutions. "With this drive, consumers can safely store large amounts of information, explore new ways to create custom video and music discs and share those discs with almost anyone who owns a DVD video player or DVD-ROM drive. And unlike videotape, the quality will last up to 100 years."
The HP DVD-writer dvd100i drive is bundled with HP MyDVD Video by Sonic Solutions, a direct-to-DVD solution for DVD recording and editing that provides consumers with an easy, step-by-step method to transform home videos into interactive DVDs.(1) Also included is HP Recordnow by Veritas to quickly and simply make custom music and data CDs and DVDs; HP DLA(2) to drag and drop files to CD or DVD directly from any application; Power DVD by Cyberlink to play DVD movies on PCs; and, HP Simple Backup(2) to store critical data reliably.
The HP DVD-writer dvd100i drive offers the following technical specifications:
— IDE/ATAPI DVD+RW/CD-RW drive with buffer underrun protection technology;
— 2.4x DVD (re-write), 8x DVD (read) speeds; and
— 12x CD-R (write), 10x CD-RW (re-write) and 32x CD (read) speeds.
The HP DVD-writer dvd100i drive is expected to be available in the United States in September at Best Buy, Circuit City, Comp USA and other retail outlets at an estimated U.S. street price of $599(3). HP also plans to include DVD+RW/CD-RW combination drives in selected configure-to-order and HP Pavilion home PCs later this year.
HP DVD+RW discs also are expected to be available in September at an estimated street price of $15.99(3).
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Bob Dole offered to be Trump's senior adviser
By Cindy Adams
June 15, 2016 | 6:11pm
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Frig Nixon. Watergate lives. Once the watershed for "Let me be perfectly clear . . . I am not a crook . . . ," the newly exquisite hotel reopened Tuesday after Euro Capital's $125 million scrub. The jammed debut outnumbered those who bid adieu to Richard Milhous.
Amid staffers in Emmy-winning "Mad Men" costume designer's uniforms, against an ultramod, curved, undulating copper wall with custom-curled silver lamps, former Kansas Sen. Robert Dole, two-time GOP nominee (for vice president in '76, and president in '96), told me:
"I've spoken with Donald Trump. Once he called me, once I called him. I like him. Two weeks ago, I said I'd be his senior adviser — but to be president of the United States, he has to tone it down. Getting things done in Washington means working with both sides of the House.
"In the old days, my friend Sen. Pat Moynihan never got deserved credit for saving Social Security. You can't have everything. Nobody gets all they want in life. Give a little, get a little. Compromise. Cooperation is working together. It's not about Democrats and Republicans.
"Yes, this country can be No. 1 again. I am encouraged with the new generation. Look, I remember we had problems with our generation.
"Both candidates are flawed. But this is the year to run. Sound bites are easy. Problem is, you have to back them up. Donald needs solid people. He's never been in politics, but he can do it."
Dole's wife, Elizabeth, stunning in a designer suit and heels, stood inside a herd of wash 'n' wear partying locals as Sen. Dole said: "I'm going to the convention. My friends want me to be there.
"In '96, I was 73. Nixon [had previously written a] two-page letter to me, saying: 'Your age is not a factor. You have a sound voice. But if the economy is good, you cannot beat Bill Clinton. Your campaign cannot suggest things mightn't improve. Saying things could get worse is not a winner.'
"Donald's got a big following. Republicans like the guy but feel he's gone too far. He can win. He's just got to tone it down."
And why is Dole at the reopening of this National Registry of Historic Places hotel, which once housed bodies like Elizabeth Taylor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Martha Mitchell and Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods, who somehow couldn't account for 18 minutes of her boss' erased tape?
"I love the Watergate Hotel. It will be great again. We have a lot to do. We'll all be great again."
Selling Joan's shmattas
Melissa Rivers' private party Thursday precedes Christie's Joan Rivers auction.
"My mom never saw a tag sale she didn't like. Of her thousands of glossy, ornate, rococo objects, she said, 'It's what Marie Antoinette would've had if she'd had any taste.' About Louis XVI cream and pink painted chairs that upheld Wendy Williams' rear, she said: 'My own ass has been on every seat.'
"Tons of china, service for all New York, like for when Nancy Reagan came. Frames, objects, boxes, books, tables, Fabergé. Mom once gave me notes for friends. Her red chinchilla jacket to you, large vase to Deborah Norville.' One big-ticket item, maybe $150,000, will be her mahogany commode." Who peed in it? "I can't say exactly but, trust me, it's for an older, large prostate."
Melissa is then in Washington, DC, to open and close the Kennedy Center's Joan Rivers Tribute and preserve forever Joan's Master Joke File.
As for settling the medical claim surrounding her mother's death, minus a deposition or protracted lawsuit: "I have that minute-by-minute log. The outcome could not be different. My son did not need to relive that horror. Nor can I live through that pain. Those who need to assume responsibility did."
Overheard in the Hamptons: "You can overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom or do a flyover in Air Force One, providing your wallet is considered carry-on luggage.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.
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An Octave suite of programs to estimate the gravity field of the Earth using spaceborne gravimetry concepts.
This project is libre software. This software can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or any later version.
EGRAFS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.


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      query_string << inject([]) do |params, (key, value)|
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    # Convert all option names to downcased strings, and replace underscores with hyphens
    inject({}) do |normalized_options, (name, value)|
      normalized_options[name.to_header] = value.to_s
      normalized_options
    end
  end

  def to_normalized_options!
    replace(to_normalized_options)
  end
end

class String
  def previous!
    self[-1] -= 1
    self
  end

  def previous
    dup.previous!
  end

  def to_header
    downcase.tr('_', '-')
  end

  # ActiveSupport adds an underscore method to String so let's just use that one if
  # we find that the method is already defined
  def underscore
    gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
    gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
    downcase
  end unless public_method_defined? :underscore

  def utf8?
    scan(/[^\x00-\xa0]/u) { |s| s.unpack('U') }
    true
  rescue ArgumentError
    false
  end

  # All paths in in S3 have to be valid unicode so this takes care of
  # cleaning up any strings that aren't valid utf-8 according to String#utf8?
  def remove_extended!
    gsub!(/[\x80-\xFF]/) { "%02X" % $&[0] }
  end

  def remove_extended
    dup.remove_extended!
  end
end

class CoercibleString < String
  class << self
    def coerce(string)
      new(string).coerce
    end
  end

  def coerce
    case self
    when 'true':          true
    when 'false':         false
    # Don't coerce numbers that start with zero
    when  /^[1-9]+\d*$/:   Integer(self)
    when datetime_format: Time.parse(self)
    else
      self
    end
  end

  private
    # Lame hack since Date._parse is so accepting. S3 dates are of the form: '2006-10-29T23:14:47.000Z'
    # so unless the string looks like that, don't even try, otherwise it might convert an object's
    # key from something like '03 1-2-3-Apple-Tree.mp3' to Sat Feb 03 00:00:00 CST 2001.
    def datetime_format
      /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\w\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/
    end
end

class Symbol
  def to_header
    to_s.to_header
  end
end

module Kernel
  def __method__(depth = 0)
    caller[depth][/`([^']+)'/, 1]
  end if RUBY_VERSION < '1.9'

  def memoize(reload = false, storage = nil)
    storage = "@#{storage || __method__(1)}"
    if reload
      instance_variable_set(storage, nil)
    else
      if cache = instance_variable_get(storage)
        return cache
      end
    end
    instance_variable_set(storage, yield)
  end

  def require_library_or_gem(library)
    require library
  rescue LoadError => library_not_installed
    begin
      require 'rubygems'
      require library
    rescue LoadError
      raise library_not_installed
    end
  end
end

class Object
  def returning(value)
    yield(value)
    value
  end
end

class Module
  def memoized(method_name)
    original_method = "unmemoized_#{method_name}_#{Time.now.to_i}"
    alias_method original_method, method_name
    module_eval(<<-EVAL, __FILE__, __LINE__)
      def #{method_name}(reload = false, *args, &block)
        memoize(reload) do
          send(:#{original_method}, *args, &block)
        end
      end
    EVAL
  end

  def constant(name, value)
    unless const_defined?(name)
      const_set(name, value)
      module_eval(<<-EVAL, __FILE__, __LINE__)
        def self.#{name.to_s.downcase}
          #{name.to_s}
        end
      EVAL
    end
  end

  # Transforms MarcelBucket into
  #
  #   class MarcelBucket < AWS::S3::Bucket
  #     set_current_bucket_to 'marcel'
  #   end
  def const_missing_from_s3_library(sym)
    if sym.to_s =~ /^(\w+)(Bucket|S3Object)$/
      const = const_set(sym, Class.new(AWS::S3.const_get($2)))
      const.current_bucket = $1.underscore
      const
    else
      const_missing_not_from_s3_library(sym)
    end
  end
  alias_method :const_missing_not_from_s3_library, :const_missing
  alias_method :const_missing, :const_missing_from_s3_library
end

class Class # :nodoc:
  def cattr_reader(*syms)
    syms.flatten.each do |sym|
      class_eval(<<-EOS, __FILE__, __LINE__)
        unless defined? @@#{sym}
          @@#{sym} = nil
        end

        def self.#{sym}
          @@#{sym}
        end

        def #{sym}
          @@#{sym}
        end
      EOS
    end
  end

  def cattr_writer(*syms)
    syms.flatten.each do |sym|
      class_eval(<<-EOS, __FILE__, __LINE__)
        unless defined? @@#{sym}
          @@#{sym} = nil
        end

        def self.#{sym}=(obj)
          @@#{sym} = obj
        end

        def #{sym}=(obj)
          @@#{sym} = obj
        end
      EOS
    end
  end

  def cattr_accessor(*syms)
    cattr_reader(*syms)
    cattr_writer(*syms)
  end
end if Class.instance_methods(false).grep(/^cattr_(?:reader|writer|accessor)$/).empty?

module SelectiveAttributeProxy
  def self.included(klass)
    klass.extend(ClassMethods)
    klass.class_eval(<<-EVAL, __FILE__, __LINE__)
      cattr_accessor :attribute_proxy
      cattr_accessor :attribute_proxy_options

      # Default name for attribute storage
      self.attribute_proxy         = :attributes
      self.attribute_proxy_options = {:exclusively => true}

      private
        # By default proxy all attributes
        def proxiable_attribute?(name)
          return true unless self.class.attribute_proxy_options[:exclusively]
          send(self.class.attribute_proxy).has_key?(name)
        end

        def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
          # Autovivify attribute storage
          if method == self.class.attribute_proxy
            ivar = "@\#{method}"
            instance_variable_set(ivar, {}) unless instance_variable_get(ivar).is_a?(Hash)
            instance_variable_get(ivar)
          # Delegate to attribute storage
          elsif method.to_s =~ /^(\\w+)(=?)$/ && proxiable_attribute?($1)
            attributes_hash_name = self.class.attribute_proxy
            $2.empty? ? send(attributes_hash_name)[$1] : send(attributes_hash_name)[$1] = args.first
          else
            super
          end
        end
    EVAL
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def proxy_to(attribute_name, options = {})
      if attribute_name.is_a?(Hash)
        options = attribute_name
      else
        self.attribute_proxy = attribute_name
      end
      self.attribute_proxy_options = options
    end
  end
end

# When streaming data up, Net::HTTPGenericRequest hard codes a chunk size of 1k. For large files this
# is an unfortunately low chunk size, so here we make it use a much larger default size and move it into a method
# so that the implementation of send_request_with_body_stream doesn't need to be changed to change the chunk size (at least not anymore
# than I've already had to...).
module Net
  class HTTPGenericRequest
    def send_request_with_body_stream(sock, ver, path, f)
      raise ArgumentError, "Content-Length not given and Transfer-Encoding is not `chunked'" unless content_length() or chunked?
      unless content_type()
        warn 'net/http: warning: Content-Type did not set; using application/x-www-form-urlencoded' if $VERBOSE
        set_content_type 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
      end
      write_header sock, ver, path
      if chunked?
        while s = f.read(chunk_size)
          sock.write(sprintf("%x\r\n", s.length) << s << "\r\n")
        end
        sock.write "0\r\n\r\n"
      else
        while s = f.read(chunk_size)
          sock.write s
        end
      end
    end

    def chunk_size
      1048576 # 1 megabyte
    end
  end

  # Net::HTTP before 1.8.4 doesn't have the use_ssl? method or the Delete request type
  class HTTP
    def use_ssl?
      @use_ssl
    end unless public_method_defined? :use_ssl?

    class Delete < HTTPRequest
      METHOD = 'DELETE'
      REQUEST_HAS_BODY = false
      RESPONSE_HAS_BODY = true
    end unless const_defined? :Delete
  end
end

class XmlGenerator < String #:nodoc:
  attr_reader :xml
  def initialize
    @xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new(:indent => 2, :target => self)
    super()
    build
  end
end
#:startdoc:

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Discuss The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church: Discuss Meridian's friendships with Belle and Emma. How do women's friendships illuminate their lives differently than the friendships between men?
Discuss Meridian's friendships with Belle and Emma. How do women's friendships illuminate their lives differently than the friendships between men?
What gifts and challenges does Belle's friendship bring to Meridian? How does Meridian's friendship with Belle differ from her later friendship with Emma? How do women's friendships illuminate their lives differently than the friendships between men?
RE: Discuss Meridian's friendships with Belle and Emma. How do women's friendships illuminate their lives differently than the friendships between men?
Meri needs both of these women in her life at the different times. There are so many things in life that only another female can relate to and expand on that are key to every woman's ability to see what is going on around them and how it affects them. Some one who knows you well, accepts you as you are and can discuss the various ups and downs in everyone's life with concern and discernment is a valuable asset to all of us.
Belle was the catalyst that initially took her out of her little world and introduced her to socializing and enjoying herself. Emma was there when she was trying to expand her horizons a little and had met with some rather bitchy ladies in the process. She became her confident and safe harbor when things began to unravel. Men are compadres in their relationships with other men but rarely confidants.
Absolutely support Joyeces closing comment that men are compadres in their relationships with other men but rarely confidants. Many women seek out confidants in their lives whether through book clubs, long standing friendships, or in the old coffee gatherings at each others' homes when the families were out of the house. We use these to help find ourselves as well as have a sounding board for concerns. In Meridian's live Belle was her support and guide. As I read the book I loved their relationship the most.
My observation is that women tend to share more of their feelings, hopes and dreams with other women. In my opinion, this allows for discussion, hearing of other opinions, and sometimes just airing thoughts out loud...which can help in decision making. Both of these women helped Meridian in this way.
Meri's friendships with Belle and Emma allowed her a freedom that she did not have in her relationships with either man in her life. She felt free to confide in both of them about the issues that were important in her life at the time, and to strategize with them when she needed to deal with an issue neither man could be trusted to treat impartially (generally because they were its subject). Alden's rejection of Belle and her husband, and his reaction to their deaths was a low point in his relationship with Meri.
Women connect on a more emotional, intimate level than they do in relationships with men. Women tend to open up more an expose themselves when they feel they are with a true friend. You can be who you really are and not the way someone wants you to be or perceives you. Belle was able to bring out a side of Meridian that she didn't know existed. It allowed her to grow an experience life in a different way - beyond the intellectual.
Women share feelings, men share issues. The friendships with belle and Emma were different as they took place at different times in Meridian life.
I loved Meridian's friendship with Belle because it allowed her to escape the controlled life she had with Alden. While the alcohol fueled part of her rebellion, Belle reenergized Meridian and allowed her to think of herself as more than a housewife.
I was encouraged by Meridian's friendship with Emma because she was the first female she let in after Belle's death. She was partially responsible for inspiring Meridian to develop the women's discussion group and later form the foundation for young women.
Belle and Emma were both strong, supportive and open minded. These two helped Meridian be more daring and confident. Women tend to share their thoughts and feelings with other women. I have known my best friend since first grade, we share everything. My husband has friends, but they are more buddies to have a beer or play golf with not confide in.
Men are generally shallow talkers. They talk about their families, adventures, successes. They do not seek approval or direction. They most assuredly would never speak about feelings toward a person or thing. Women sometimes just st need to have someone to commiserate and see the world through their eyes. Two sides to every event, but the stories have totally different narratives.
Women need other women to share and understand what each is going through. If a woman is isolated from other women she will not know that she isn't the only one who has the same experiences, grief or fears that she has.
I agree with lynnw. Having friendships has been shown to increase your lifespan. The friendships gave Meridian purpose. She needed someone to escape from the loneliness and because she was such an intellectual soul, a petty person would never be able to fill that role.
I feel like Meri's friendships with Emma and Belle filled different gaps in her life - addresses different deep needs she had. Belle taught her to love life, be free, to just live. From when she was young and the death of her father, Meri did not have much fun in her life. She seemed happy and had passion (for her birds) but no one was encouraging her to be happy and have pleasure. Belle did this. Emma filled Meri's need for someone to appreciate and stimulate her intellect. She had had that as a young person but that wasn't nurtured by Alden. Emma - and their group - did this for Meri. Women's friendships tend to fill gaps, go deeper than men's friendships. Men make good friends - but at least from what I have witnessed - they do not make soulmate friends with other men. Emma and Belle were soulmates for Meri.


text:
Way of Creating Bile Duct Cells May Help to Treat CF Liver Disease
by Steve Bryson PhD | November 29, 2021
Researchers generated functional bile duct cells from human-derived stem cells that can be used to support the development of therapies for liver disease in people with cystic fibrosis (CF), a study reported.
"These studies highlight the importance of generating mature cells from stem cells that faithfully mimic the functional properties of the native tissue," Christine Bear, PhD, a study co-author, said in a university press release. "We can better understand the real effect of disease-causing mutations and cystic fibrosis therapies, especially in those hard-to-access organs."
The study, "Generation of functional ciliated cholangiocytes from human pluripotent stem cells," was published in the journal Nature Communications.
CF is caused by a faulty CFTR protein that normally transports chloride ions and water in and out of cells. Without this protein, cells cannot properly regulate the flow of chloride and water, resulting in thick sticky mucus that clogs the airways and digestive tract.
The CFTR protein is also produced (expressed) in cholangiocytes, which are cells that line bile ducts — tube-like structures in the liver that carry bile to the small intestine to aid in digestion. CFTR regulates bile secretion and, when faulty, leads to deposits of thick, acidic bile that is toxic to surrounding liver cells, causing damage and risking organ failure.
March 4, 2020 News by Marisa Wexler MS
Ultrasound Patterns May Predict CF Liver Disease, Study Suggests
Currently, liver disease is the second most common cause of death in CF patients, and organ transplant is the only effective treatment.
Developing therapies for CF-related bile duct disease requires model systems, either in cells or animals, that accurately mimic disease processes. Ultimately, creating healthy cholangiocytes that can be implanted into patients may bypass the need for liver transplants altogether.
Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada developed a method to generate functioning cholangiocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) — fully matured cells that can be returned to a stem cell-like state, then transformed into a cell type of choice.
"Until now, we have not had a good scientific model to study the human liver's bile duct system physiologically," said Shinichiro Ogawa, PhD, the study's senior author. "In order to study a disease in a dish at the basic cellular and molecular level, we need functional cells."
Deriving properly working bile duct cells "from stem cells gives us a totally different way of evaluating and treating defective cells," Ogawa added.
Starting with hPSCs, the scientists investigated the role of different signaling pathways to generate mature and functional cholangiocytes. Treatment with various regulators found that signaling by pathways related to retinoic acid (RA), a metabolite of vitamin A, alone induced significant levels of CFTR expression.
Retinoic acid promoted the development of cholangiocytes with CFTR in single layers (monolayers), but they were not fully mature because less than 20% of the cells had cilia — hair-like structures that extend from the surface of almost all cells and are important for locomotion. Further experiments showed that treatment with a combination of compounds called NFR, along with retinoic acid, promoted cilia development.
"Taken together, the findings from this series of studies demonstrate that it is possible to efficiently generate functional ciliated cholangiocytes in a monolayer format with appropriate staged manipulation of specific signaling pathways," the researchers wrote.
Next, they evaluated how these cholangiocytes responded to CFTR modulator therapies. Single layers of cholangiocytes were created from hPSCs derived from three CF patients carrying the F508del mutation in the CFTR gene, the most common disease-causing mutation.
Modulators examined ranged from approved single and combination CF therapies — including ivacaftor (sold as Kalydeco), lumacaftor plus ivacaftor (sold as Orkambi), and tezacaftor, elexacaftor plus ivacaftor (Trikafta) — to experimental therapies targeting CFTR.
Combination therapies increased CFTR activity, although cholangiocytes from patient cells showed different responses to different combinations.
"These results demonstrate that the cholangiocytes generated with the monolayer culture described here can be used to screen for drugs that modulate CFTR function in CF patient-derived cells," the researchers wrote.
Three-dimensional organ-like structures, called 3D organoids, were also generated from the monolayer of cholangiocytes and had a measurable CFTR-mediated swelling response, supporting their use in assessing the effectiveness of investigational therapies.
Further work demonstrated that hPSC-derived cholangiocytes released calcium in response to adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary carrier of energy in cells, and fluid flow, which are two pathways that regulate calcium secretion in cholangiocytes found in bile ducts. Fluid flow stimulation also increased calcium signaling, which regulated CFTR activity and controlled fluid secretion.
hPSC-derived cholangiocytes in 3D organoids were also found to be similar to molecular profiles seen in cholangiocytes from human adult liver tissue.
Finally, human cholangiocytes were transplanted into the spleen of TK-NOG mice, an immunodeficient mouse strain designed to prevent transplant tissue rejection, to test the feasibility of developing cell-based therapies to regenerate bile ducts in patients.
Six weeks after the transplant, multiple duct structures consisting of cells that expressed a human gene from energy-producing mitochondria were detected throughout the liver, and cells within ducts expressed cholangiocytes markers and had cilia.
Human cholangiocytes also aligned with mouse cholangiocytes in the liver, "suggesting that they may be integrated into the mouse biliary system," the scientists noted. Similar results were found after transplanting mature human cholangiocytes into the kidneys of another immunodeficient mouse strain.
"In summary, we report on the successful generation of functional ciliated cholangiocytes from hPSCs that will provide opportunities to study and treat diseases of the liver," the team wrote. "Both monolayer- and organoid-derived cells are adaptable for further bioengineering approaches to produce more complex hPSC-derived liver tissue with biliary ductal structures.
"Additionally, the successful engraftment of differentiated cholangiocytes in the liver of immune-incompetent mice provides the basis for developing innovative therapeutic strategies to treat cholangiopathies," the scientists concluded.
This research was funded through Medicine by Design, a strategic initiative at the University of Toronto and its affiliated hospitals that brings together science, engineering, mathematics and medicine to accelerate discoveries in regenerative medicine.
Steve Bryson PhD Steve holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Canada. He worked as a medical scientist for 18 years, within both industry and academia, where his research focused on the discovery of new medicines to treat inflammatory disorders and infectious diseases. Steve recently stepped away from the lab and into science communications, where he's helping make medical science information more accessible for everyone.
bile ducts, CFTR modulator therapies, cholangiocytes, liver disease, Medicine by Design, organoids, pluripotent stem cells
November 9, 2021 News by Marisa Wexler MS
#NACFC2021 – Trikafta Lowers Need for Antibiotics, Mucus Clearance in Children
October 15, 2021 News by Yedida Y Bogachkov PhD
Liver Disease in CF Appears Linked to Problems in CFTR Protein
October 1, 2021 News by Margarida Maia PhD
Elixir Chooses Maxor Specialty as CF Medication Provider


IF you have finished your first term of enlistment or period of obligated service AND You have at least six years of service AND You are separating involuntarily AND You are not yet eligible for retirement AND You are not separating under adverse conditions THEN You may be eligible for separation pay.
Separation pay must be listed on the separation orders to be payable. The type of separation and conditions under which you are being separated will determine if you qualify for separation pay. To find out if you qualify, talk with your unit commander and local personnel and finance office.
If you do get separation pay and then file for VA disability benefits, you must repay all your separation pay before you receive any disabilty compensation from the VA.


Opportunity Zones: What's the Big Deal?
Charlie McCurry is a Senior Associate for the CBRE Brokerage Services team in the Triad office of North Carolina, comprising the Greensboro, Winston Salem, High Point, and Burlington markets. Mr. McCurry specializes in office and industrial tenant and buyer representation through a range of professional services including strategic planning, site selection, contract negotiation, and transaction management. His extensive experience and legal background affords him a unique perspective of buyer/tenant transactions for a variety of businesses including professional service firms, corporations, and local businesses.
Prior to CBRE|Triad, Mr. McCurry worked for Commercial Realty Advisors, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC. Mr. McCurry is an active volunteer in the Triad, serving on several non-profit boards. He is a past president of the Winston-Salem WakeForest Alumni Association and a past chair of the NAIOP Piedmont Triad government relations committee.


text:
Airlines and Cattle Farmers Have Beef With Google's Climate Math
Flying premium from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a common trip for some Californians, could generate 101 kilograms of carbon emissions, or perhaps 142 or even 366 kilograms—depending on what source you search online.
The wide range of estimates stems from what some climate experts view as a growing problem, with Google at the center. More people are trying to factor climate change impacts into life choices such as where to vacation or what to eat. Yet scientists are still debating how to accurately estimate the impacts of many activities, including flying or producing meat. While the math gets sorted out, some industries decry emissions estimates as unfair.
Google has led the way among big tech companies in trying to inform users about their potential carbon footprint when traveling, heating their homes and, as of recently, making dinner. But airlines, cattle ranchers, and other industry groups are pushing back, saying Google's nudges could hurt their sales. They have demanded—successfully, in the case of airlines—that the search giant rethink how it calculates and presents emissions data.
The United Nations' climate panel has begun saying individual decisions are significant, noting for instance in a report last year that taking trains and avoiding long flights could account for as much as 40 percent of the potential cut in global aviation emissions by 2050 from changes in how people choose to travel. But for consumers, getting a personal read on their carbon impact is tricky, as major studies tend to focus on global or regional averages and not personalized metrics, emissions researchers say.
Scientists and startups working on emissions estimates worry that showing shoppers varying data will leave them not only misinformed about the impact of their choices but also discouraged from trusting emissions estimates for years to come. That could hamper efforts to slow the release of planet-warming gases.
"It's concerning when there is fragmentation and misalignment," says Sally Davey, chief executive of Travalyst, a nonprofit convening travel players including airlines, Google, Expedia, and Visa to standardize emissions formulas. "If we create noise and not clarity and consistency, people switch off, and we won't drive the behavior we want."
Climate Pledge
Google emerged as a potentially powerful force in consumers' personal climate footprints since publicly setting a goal in September 2020 to help 1 billion people make sustainable choices through its services by the end of 2022. That pledge has led to several new features across Maps, Flights, Search, Nest thermostats, and other Google services, which collectively have more than 3 billion users. Last year brought record high Google searching for "rooftop solar power," "electric bicycles," and "electric cars," according to the company.
Rivals such as Apple, which optimizes iPhone charging based on the mix of energy sources on the local grid, and Microsoft, which highlights eco-friendly shopping items on Bing, have launched "green" features of their own. But no consumer tech company can match the breadth or audience size of Google's climate features or the granularity of data it pushes at consumers, down to the tenth of a kilogram of emissions in the case of protein sources.
Yet Google's chief sustainability officer, Kate Brandt, acknowledges that its mission to inform users about less-emissions-intensive choices is a work in progress. "We're seeing people want information, but they don't know what are the most meaningful choices they can make," she says. "The data is going to keep changing and getting better. It's not static." Brandt declines to say whether Google met its goal of helping 1 billion people by the end of 2022 but says the company plans to show its progress in its annual environmental report, which is due middle of this year.
Joro, a startup that offers an app for tracking and offsetting emissions from card purchases, recently reviewed four online calculators for estimating flight emissions to aid consumers. Its analysis, which drew on guidance from academic advisors such as Yale University environmental researcher Reed Miller, revealed big differences on routes including San Francisco to Los Angeles.
"Hopefully, we eventually have a sense that a cross-country flight has about the same impact on our climate as eating 200 beef burgers."
Joro CEO Sanchali Pal
The International Civil Aviation Organization (the UN's aviation body) and the international airline trade group IATA offer diverging formulas for calculating aviation emissions, Joro says. The trade group focuses on flight time over distance traveled and uses data from airlines on fuel-burn averages by aircraft and load that are drawn from real flights instead of what the group considers to be less accurate estimates used by other calculators.
Joro also found Google splits with the Swiss nonprofit Myclimate, which consults with companies seeking to tally and mitigate emissions. Unlike the search company, Myclimate incorporates emissions from beginning to end including jet-fuel manufacturing, idling planes at airports, and busing passengers from gates. Myclimate also adds some non-carbon impacts, including the heating effect on the atmosphere of contrails, which are the clouds formed by plane exhaust.
Emissions on the San Francisco route show as 75 to 101 kilograms per first-class passenger on Google. Myclimate suggests 366 on average, the trade group 142, and the UN body 85.
Google has a financial stake in making people comfortable with flying. Google does not charge a commission on flight bookings, but travel and hospitality operations, including airlines, are among the biggest spenders on Google ads, and consumers feeling uncomfortable about traveling because of its contributions to global warming ultimately could slow travel and ad sales.
People find value in seeing emissions data when buying flights and will spend more for a less polluting option, according to a 2021 study by UC Davis researchers who showed people an experience similar to Google Flights. But the completeness of Google's estimates for individual flights will become more important as people start comparing modes of transport for a potential trip and begin developing an intuition about emissions from different parts of their lives to make trade-offs, says Joro CEO Sanchali Pal.
"We have a sense that 1,000 calories is a lot, 10 is a little," she says. "Hopefully, we eventually have a sense that a cross-country flight is about 1,000 kilograms carbon dioxide equivalent, about as much as a month of regular living. And that flight has about the same impact on our climate as eating 200 beef burgers or driving a car around for a few months."
In the San Francisco–to–Los Angeles case, considering the full emissions impacts of flying clearly reveals that traveling slower by bus or car is likely the most impactful choice the traveler could make that month, Pal says. "If they look at the incomplete CO2 impacts, the relative impact of that choice versus others becomes a lot less clear," she says.
Google's emissions estimates for that flight would have been higher before last July, when it dropped the impacts of contrails after criticism from airlines, as the BBC first reported. Google says it made the decision independently to reduce uncertainty. "What we know right now is contrails make a big contribution, but there isn't a good model for looking at that," Google's Brandt says, noting more study is needed to model variations by region or time of day. Further changes will come to Google's flight estimates: The company joined a task force with big airlines and researchers in November to tackle the issue.
Google's decision to drop the contrails data for now has frustrated some climate experts. "While it is fair and true to say that contrails need to be studied in more detail, the first step in that direction should not be to remove their impact altogether," says Ulrike Burkhardt of the German Aerospace Center's Institute of Atmospheric Physics.
Oncarbon, which sells a flight emissions calculator to online travel agencies, says it had told Google that its methodology returned results that were too low even before it removed the contrails. "We just have this feeling that people have a right to know, and they have a right to know actual numbers," says Joanna Kocik, a spokesperson for Oncarbon. "It's like when a bag of chips says it has 50 percent less fat but there are still 600 calories."
While some airlines support emissions labeling as a concept, they are not exactly happy with Google even after it revised its estimates. The National Air Carrier Association, which represents low-cost US airlines, says some of its members pushed for the scaling back that Google introduced in July but that the members are keeping a close eye on what comes next.
The trade groups Airlines for Europe, European Regions Airline Association (ERAA), and Airlines for America all say calculations need to take into account additional factors, including individual airlines' sustainable fuel usage and offset purchases.
ERAA, whose members include Azores Airlines and Loganair, says Google's current model will inevitably favor low-cost carriers and larger aircraft and will potentially mislead consumers on the least polluting option.
Dietary Advice
Similar criticism has come from the meat industry since Google in September announced plans to show a chart of emissions from different proteins such as chicken and tofu alongside recipe search results. The company says it has seen user interest in understanding food choices.
Google worked with the UN to draw on data about popular meats and alternative proteins from a well-known global study by European researchers. Joseph Poore, a researcher at the University of Oxford who was involved in that study but is not working with Google, describes the report's data as the most comprehensive available and says the search feature is incredibly important. "It provides information on one the 21st century's most decisive problems—climate change—directly to people when they are making choices about what to eat," he says.
The US National Cattlemen's Beef Association of livestock ranchers is less supportive. After a query about the group's view of Google's project in October, it issued a press release denouncing "Google's decision to bias consumers against beef through their new sustainability search feature that provides inaccurate climate information on cattle production."
Don Schiefelbein, a Minnesota rancher and president of the association, says the global averages Google is using for emissions of several types of meat fail to take into account that the US industry ranks lower than peers such as Brazil in emissions. Google also fails to promote the environmental benefits that raising cattle has over some other foods, such as preserving green space and using less water, he says.
Not only US cattle farmers have doubts about Google's approach. A spokesperson for the UK industry group Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board says that listing only emissions impacts is not enough, because the overall sustainability and environmental impact of foods also depends on other factors such as biodiversity preservation and pesticide pollution.
As Google adds climate-related features and they grow more influential, the company will likely encounter outrage from additional businesses with vested interests. One of its Maps options directs drivers on what the company calls more "eco-friendly" routes. It prevented emissions equivalent to taking 100,000 cars off the road in its first few months in the United States and Canada, according to Google.
Complaints about eco-friendly routing have not yet broken out in public. But Jeff Gonder, a US government mobility and energy researcher who advised Google on the feature, speculated that it could be possibly navigating drivers away from certain toll roads that enable higher speeds, burning more fuel, on less direct paths.
The International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association disputes that theory, pointing to tolled routes that can actually be eco-friendlier because they require less merging and slowing down due to better roadway conditions and more direct paths.
UC Davis animal science professor Frank Mitloehner, who works closely with farmers and ranchers, says consumers appear condemned to be confused by internet services pushing emissions estimates on them as they shop or seek other information online. "It's bugging me that these things that are complicated and nuanced are being simplified in ways that lead to inaccurate choices," he says.
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3/4. Recommended for new music heads generally, and people who bring an interest to this album.
2/4. For fans only; less-than-recommended for others.
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is a way-better-than-average mainstream rock record.
Criticism has hit the Foo Fighters' latest from both sides; P4k says it's not enough like The Colour and the Shape, while the AV Club complained "Dave Grohl and company fail to keep the surprises coming." Both angles essentially discuss what the record isn't, avoiding a face-on reckoning. In an atmosphere of such high and incompatible expectations, what's a Foo to do?
A little something for everyone, including your muse. Radio rock, Dave's songwriting interests, the band's back catalog, and artistic progress all make their arguments on Echoes…, and it's when they synthesize and coexist that the result seems to work, rather than they collide. For example, the contrast between rocker "The Pretender" and the mellow "Stranger Things Have Happened" strikes me better than the mostly-acoustic "But, Honestly" with its tacked-on punk ending.
I've tried to get past my own expectations as I've carried ESP&G around since it was released last week. To its great credit, nine of the 12 tracks have been stuck in my head for at least part of a day, and "Come Alive" and "Erase/Replace" have each had their own.
The lyrics' subtle, amorphous, but mature spirituality have also struck me. "The Pretender" hides a radical existential self-affirmation within its FM-owning wrapping. "Erase/Replace" laments the breaking of a promise the singer held sacred. The singer's "absence of faith" is felt openly and honestly in "Home," while the darkness of "Come Alive" gives way to a breaking-in of the infinite life of the universe.
I keep hoping the Foos have another four-star album in them. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace isn't it. In the meantime, it's a worthy addition to the discography (reviewed below).