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Wonders of the animal kingdom. Mammalia
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black, grey and white (composed of dots of blackish brown on a white ground), with a tinge of yellow. The back, with the fins and tail, are black. The skin of the body is slightly furrowed, like the water lines in coarsely laid paper. On the tail and fins it is smooth. The skin is about an inch thick; the outer part of this can be pulled off in sheets after it has been dried in the air, and is not thicker than parchment. Under the skin lies the blubber, or fat. This and the whalebone are the parts to which the attention of the fisher is attracted. Its colour is yellowish white, yellow or salmon colour. It is by this covering that Providence enables the whale to defy the most dreadful extremities of cold, and to preserve a strong animal heat even under the eternal ice of the Pole. The blubber in its fresh state is without any unpleasant smell. The flesh of the young whale is of a red colour, and when cleared of the fat, broiled and seasoned with pepper and salt, does not eat unlike coarse beef; that of the old whale is nearly black, and is exceedingly coarse.
The Esquimaux eat the flesh and fat of the whale, and drink the oil with greediness. Indeed some tribes, who are not familiarized with spirituous liquors, carry along with them in their canoes, in their fishing excursions, bladders filled with oil, which they use in the same way, and with a similar relish that a British sailor enjoys a dram. Both adults and children eat the skin of the whale raw; and it is not uncommon, when the females visit the whale ships, for them to help themselves to pieces of skin, preferring those which have a little blubber adhering, and to give it as food to the infants suspended on their backs, who suck it with apparent delight. Blubber, when pickled and boiled, is said to be very palatable. At a whale feast, Captain Lyon states he has seen the Esquimaux lying on the ground, and their wives feeding them with blubber, filling the mouth, and then cutting the dainty off at the lips, repeating the operation until an enormous quantity was thus consumed. Mr. J. B. Noel, in a tract on the whale-fishery, informs us, " that about the thirteenth century, the flesh, particularly the tongue, of the whale was sold in the markets of Bayonne, Cibourre, and Beariz, where it was esteemed as a great delicacy, being used at the best tables;" arid even so late as the fifteenth century he conceives, from the authority of Charles Etienne, that the principal nourishment of the poor in Lent, in some districts of France, consisted of the flesh and fat of the whale. Besides forming a choice eatable, the inferior products of the whale are applied to other purposes by the Indians and Esquimaux.
Some membranes of the inside are used for an upper article of clothing; and one part in particular, being thin and transparent, is used instead of glass in the windows of their huts: the bones are converted into harpoons and spears for striking the seal, or darting at the sea-birds, and are also employed in the erection of their tents, and, with some tribes, in the formation of boats; the sinews are divided into filaments, and used as thread, with which they join the seams of their boats and tentcloths, and sew with great taste and nicety the different articles of dress they manufacture; and the whalebone, and other superior products, so valuable in European markets, have also their uses among them.
From the great size of the animal one would suppose that its motions would be sluggish and inactive, but this is far from being the case. A whale extended motionless on the surface of the sea can, in the space of five or six seconds, sink beyond the reach of its human enemies. When struck by the harpoon, which is used to capture them, they have been known to carry with them line to the depth of an English mile, and with such velocity, that when drawn up by the line attached, they have been found with the jawbones broken by the blow struck against the bottom. When the whale feeds it swims with considerable velocity below the surface of the sea, with its jaws widely extended; a stream of water consequently enters its capacious mouth, and along with it large quantities of cuttle fish, sea blubber, shrimps, and other marine animals; the water escapes at the sides of the mouth, but the food is entangled and sifted, as it were, in the whalebone, which, from its compact arrangement, and the thick internal covering of hair, does not allow a particle to escape.
The whale has but one young cub at a birth, when it is said to be from ten to fourteen feet in length. The mother suckles it for about a year, or until the whalebone enables it to procure its own nourishment; at this time it is called by the sailors Short-head; at two years old, Stunt.
The maternal affection shown by the whale for its offspring is peculiarly striking and interesting. The cub, not being sensible of danger, is frequently a snare to its mother; for when her offspring is struck by the harpoon, she joins it at the surface of the water whenever it rises to breathe; she encourages it to swim off, assists its flight by taking it under her fin, and seldom deserts it while life remains; she is then dangerous to approach, but affords frequent opportunities for attack, as she loses all regard for her own safety in anxiety for the preservation of her young, and rarely escapes being captured. The most insensible of her enemies cannot but be struck with the degree of affectionate regard thus shown by the whale for its


Follow M23 towards Gatwick. At the East Grinstead / Crawley junction, follow A264 toward East Grinstead. At the 'Dukes Head' roundabout, turn right, through the village of Turners Hill (with the crossroads which you go straight accross) and then take the first left after the next roundabout (about 1 mile from Turners Hill). Turn into Station Road (almost at the far end of Sharpthorne village) and continue to the bottom of the hill.
There is some restricted parking along the west side of the line with a good view over the line, or along the roadside in the estate.
Train to East Grinstead and then a bus to the village is the only real way.
There are some village shops and a pub in the village.
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https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/UConn-to-open-dorms-in-Stamford-Wednesday-11822807.php
UConn-Stamford opens first dormitory
By Martin B. Cassidy
Updated 3:53 pm EDT, Wednesday, August 16, 2017
The new UConn Stamford dorm building in Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, UConn President Susan Herbst and others attended a grand opening and tour of the new residence hall, which will house nearly 300 students. The 116-unit building is located at 900 Washington Blvd., two blocks south of campus. less
The new UConn Stamford dorm building in Stamford, Conn. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, UConn President Susan Herbst and others attended a grand opening and tour of the new residence hall, ... more
STAMFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reflected Wednesday on a failed effort nearly two decades ago to bring residence halls to the University of Connecticut's downtown campus.
The former Stamford mayor believed converting the old YMCA building into dorms would attract more students and benefit the entire UConn community.
UConn Stamford dorms offer luxury - and a bit of tradition
Malloy's vision has become a reality a few blocks away on Washington Boulevard, where a six-story, 116-unit student apartment building was officially opened on Wednesday.
On Aug. 26, 260 full-time students, mostly freshmen, will begin moving into the building's 10 studios, 57 two-bedroom and 49 one-bedroom units. The building's target occupancy is 290.
"Establishing a dorm has been an important goal for Stamford for some time," said Tom Kruger, a Stamford resident and member of UConn's board of trustees. "Our promise is that we will not stop here and we will continue."
The building, which was built by local developer Randy Salvatore and is about two blocks south of the campus, was already under construction when the state selected it from more than 10 dorm proposals.
The room-and-board costs for a shared bedroom range between $995 and $1,295 a month, according to the school. The school has said it's a more affordable option than the average Stamford one-bedroom of $1,900 or a two-bedroom for $2,700.
"I think it is going to have a great impact on campus culture and be a shift from what was a commuter environment and I'm happy I am getting a chance to take part," said Jonathan Harrington, 21, a senior who will live in the dorm after commuting the past three years from his Stamford home.
Malloy, UConn President Susan Herbst and others on Wednesday toured some of the apartments, which are equipped with full kitchens and bathrooms, granite countertops and other amenities.
"You hear this phrase perhaps too often, but in this case, it is true: this is a game-changer," Herbst said. "This experience will pay dividends long into the future for our alumni, the university and the city."
Terrence Chang, campus director at UConn-Stamford, said the residence hall has increased student interest. He said UConn-Stamford enrollment for the fall semester has increased to 2,300 students from 2,100.
There was a 500 percent increase among incoming UConn freshmen who listed the Stamford campus as their first choice. The size of the incoming freshmen class has also grown to 550 students compared to 370 last year.
"We felt the impact of this residence hall almost immediately in the recruiting season that led up to this incoming class," Chang said.
"We're really embarking on an incredible journey of growth, and of course, hopefully prosperity."
Student housing in Stamford has been a three-year process and was part of Malloy's $1.5 billion initiative to expand digital and risk-management academic programs in the city — the third-largest in Connecticut — and reshape the main Storrs campus into a leader in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
The so-called Next Generation fund for UConn's 10-year expansion plan approved in 2013 by the Legislature allocates $10 million for Stamford.
"I've wanted to have a dormitory at UConn-Stamford since when I was mayor, but it was apparent that UConn wouldn't pay to do a full build," Malloy said. "I'm very happy to see it complete."

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Don't worry about cover charges or expensive drink packages—Logan Arcade's annual year-end bash is free to attend and filled with free pinball. Spend an evening setting high scores on the arcade's selection of vintage machines, accompanied by live DJ sets and cheap PBR and Malort. Plus, the bar's robotic dog Misfits cover band the Biscuits will be performing throughout the evening, so learn the words to "Rat Fink" so that you can sing along with the repurpoed Chuck E. Cheese machine.


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Бори́с Никола́евич Кузы́к (род. 19 октября 1958, Александровка, Кировоградская область, УССР, СССР) — российский бизнесмен и экономист, доктор экономических и технических наук, профессор, заслуженный деятель науки Российской Федерации, академик РАН (2011), директор Института экономических стратегий.

Биография
Борис Николаевич Кузык родился 19 октября 1958 года в посёлке Александровка Кировоградской области.

В 1979 году с отличием окончил Ярославское высшее военное финансовое училище (специальность — «финансист-экономист»), а в 1987 году — также с отличием — окончил военный факультет Московского финансового института.

Работал в Министерстве внешних экономических связей (1987—1993) и помощником Президента России по вопросам военно-технического сотрудничества России с зарубежными странами (1994—1998). В 1991 году защитил кандидатскую, а в 1996 году — докторскую диссертации по экономическим наукам; 30 июня 2005 года также защитил диссертацию «Разработка моделей и методов решения проблемы оборонной и энергетической безопасности» на соискание степени доктора технических наук (официальные оппоненты А. И. Дивеев, В. Б. Рудаков, А. А. Слепов). Генерал-майор запаса. Генеральный директор компании «Новые программы и концепции» и Национальной инновационной компании «Новые энергетические проекты».

22 мая 2003 года избран членом-корреспондентом РАН, а 22 декабря 2011 года — действительным членом РАН по Отделению общественных наук РАН (экономика, в т. ч. экономика социально-экономических трансформаций).

Научная деятельность
Научные интересы Б. Н. Кузыка связаны с вопросами экономики. Он изучил особенности формирования инновационной системы современной России, разработал комплекс предложений по развитию и реструктуризации высокотехнологичного комплекса, обеспечению экономической безопасности России, поддержке наукоёмких отраслей, долгосрочной стратегии социально-экономического развития России. Предложил комплексную систему мер в области экономического обеспечения национальной программы «Водородная энергетика».

Б. Н. Кузык — автор более 200 научных работ (включая 26 монографий). Под его руководством подготовлены и защищены 12 кандидатских и 5 докторских диссертаций.

Награды и премии
За свою научную деятельность Б. Н. Кузык награждён медалями, удостоен различных премий и званий. Среди них:
 Лауреат Государственной премии Российской Федерации
 Почётное звание «Заслуженный деятель науки Российской Федерации» (2000) — за заслуги в научной деятельности
 Золотая медаль имени Н. Д. Кондратьева (РАЕН, 2004)
 Медаль имени В. В. Леонтьева
 Медаль имени Н. И. Вавилова

Основные работы

 Россия — 2050: стратегия инновационного прорыва. М.: Экономика, 2004;
 Ивантер В. В., Кузык Б. Н. Будущее России: инерционное развитие или инновационный прорыв?. — М.: Институт экономических стратегий, 2005;
 Экономика военной сферы, Учебник. — М.: МГФ «Знание», 2006, 224 с.
 Кузык Б. Н., Яковец Ю. В. Цивилизации: теория, история, диалог, будущее. — М.: Институт экономических стратегий, 2006, Т. 1-2;
 Китай-Россия 2050: стратегия соразвития. — М.: Институт экономических стратегий, 2006.
 Кузык Б. Н., Шаумян Т. Л. Индия — Россия: Стратегия партнерства в XXI веке. — М.: Институт экономических стратегий, 2009. — 1224 с. — 3000 экз. — ISBN 9785936181580.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Историческая справка на сайте Архива РАН
 Личная страница

Генерал-майоры (Российская Федерация)
Предприниматели России
Выпускники ВФЭИ
Награждённые Золотой медалью Н. Д. Кондратьева
Действительные государственные советники Российской Федерации 1-го класса
Авторы учебников экономики
Выпускники Финансового университета при Правительстве Российской Федерации
Преподаватели МИФИ

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MEET Jerry Mofokeng
Jerry Mofokeng is a South African legend of the stage and screen who has appeared in a number of critically-acclaimed films, including Cry, The Beloved Country; Mandela And De Klerk; and the 2005 Academy Award-winning film Tsotsi.
He has played numerous varied roles in film and television, including Hlabeni the taxi driver in Cry, The Beloved Country; Walter Sisulu in One Man One Vote; Thami in Friends; Hank in Drumbeats; Induna in Rhodes; Mzwakhe in Inside; Vusi in Tarzan; Magistrate in Justice For All; lawyer in Yizo Yizo; the diviner in Bones and Darkie the cop in Behind The Badge. He was also the host of the magazine programme Curious Culture. In 2006 he appeared in the mini-series When We Were Black and he played the role of Nkosi in the SABC2 drama series The Mating Game, in 2010.
In 2013 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Acting at the 7th annual South African Film and Television Awards. In November of the same year he joined the e.tv soapie Scandal! in the role of crime lord Neo Mokheti. He also had a starring role as Elias Matume Malema, a 45% shareholder in Late Bliss Retirement Community who can't wait to get rid of the residents and Pete in order to finally have his dream Jazz Eden, in the SABC3 sitcom Let Heaven Wait, in 2013.


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Designed specifically for young learners this attractive acoustic Guitar offers scale with a compact body providing excellent playing comfort.
All of this, combined with excellent playability and superior tone, makes it an instrument that will keep practice inspirational and exciting for years to come.


Singletrack Trails has been fortunate to have worked in the Grand Valley of Colorado since 2007. The work in the Grand Valley is the foundation of the growth of Singletrack Trails - this is the mother-lode of all mountain biking. Grand Valley trails serve as a model for partnership, advocacy and superior riding experiences, thus drawing national and international users while creating amazing close-in daily rides for local residents. If you haven't ridden these trails, stop reading this and grab your bike.
Working for Bicycle Colorado as it prime trail building contractor, Singletrack Trails coordinated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Colorado Plateau Mountain Bike Trail Association (COPMOBA) to implement the shared-use, non-motorized portions of the Bangs Canyon Trail Plan, better known as the Lunch Loops at the Tabeguache trailhead. Singletrack Trails planned and built with local riders the first official freeride trail on BLM land in the country, Free Lunch. In addition to Free Lunch, Singletrack Trails provided staff labor and volunteer support to complete 15 miles of trail re-routes in the Lunch Loop area. Then we got to ride it all.
Singletrack Trails was a key partner in the construction of two bicycle skill parks in the City of Grand Junction and the City of Fruita. Each two acre park features dirt jumps, a pumptrack, and skill features to help any rider add a few tricks to their wheelhouse.
Partnering with the City of Fruita and COPMOBA, Singletrack Trails planned and help build the first trail expansion of the North Fruita Desert Mountain Bike Area, 18 Road. The six miles of flagging were approved by the BLM and implemented by volunteers from COPMOBA and staff of Singletrack Trails, paid for with funding from the City of Fruita. The crown jewel of this part of the project was PBR Trail, a linear 2 mile pumptrack that was completed in time for the 2012 Fruita Fat Tire Festival. Fun was had by all.


Law & Economics Workshop organized by Concurrences Review in partnership with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and CRA.
Richard Whish started by describing Intel as an exceedingly important judgement. The workshop only dealt with the actual issue of rebates, and left aside questions of jurisdiction and due process. The rebates issue is "like an ocean-going ship that has been successfully floating around the world for many years, which then one day went into swallow waters and got grounded on rocks". For many years that ship has been grounded on the rocks with nowhere to go. Intel is a gigantic wave that releases that ship from the rocks and allows it to move again. It is remarkable that on the specific issue of rebates, we are here to discuss 4 paragraphs, one of them citing Hoffmann-La Roche. It is as well inevitable that at some point discuss Post Danmark II. He remarked, that the judge rapporteur in Post Danmark II is the same as in Intel.
Intel is a good judgement. It puts an end to a debate we have been having since 2005 (Discussion Paper) about the move towards the more economic approach, or effects-based analysis. When giving advise to clients one must always distinguish the normative from the positive approach. With this in mind, one will often refer to the Guidance Paper as containing in part that modern application, with the added caveat of the existence of the very formalistic case law and how the Guidance Paper might be constrained by that jurisprudence. The advice suffers from this caveat. Intel has a very clear merit of bringing in no uncertain terms to an end the debate, making very clear that the Commission can rely on the as efficient competitor (AEC) test and the proclamations in the Discussion Paper and Guidance Paper.


Original publication and holotype designation: Mason, L.R. (1953). The crustaceous coralline algae of the Pacific coast of the United States, Canada and Alaska. University of California Publications in Botany 26: 313-389, Plates 27-46.
Precise date of publication14 January 1953 (stated on obverse of inside cover page of paper). The requirements for valid publication are specified in the ICBN (International Code of Botanical Nomenclature).
In accordance with ICBN 13.3, the name Polyporolithon is treated as pertaining to a non-fossil taxon because its type is based on a non-fossil specimen. No species based on fossil types have been assigned to the genus.
Description: No description is provided as Polyporplithon is currently included in synonymy.
Comments: Mason (1953) explicitly designated P. conchatum as type species of Polyporolithon. Adey (1970: 23, 27) concluded from an examination of the lectotype specimen (TRH B17-2541; see Woelkerling et al. 2005: 340) of P. conchatum that it belonged to the genus Mesophyllum. This was subsequently confirmed by Athanasiadis et. al. (2004: 140-146, figs 54-91), who provided a detailed accounts of the lectotype and the species as a whole. Consequently, Polyporolithon Mason (1953) is treated as a heterotypic synonym of Mesophyllum Lemoine (1928).
Numbers of names and species: There are 4 species names in the database at present.
Adey, W.H. (1970). A revision of the Foslie crustose coralline herbarium. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1: 1-46, 13 figs.
Foslie, M. (1902). New species or forms of Melobesieae. Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter 1902(2): 1-11.
Lemoine, M. (1928). Un nouveau genre de Mélobésiées: Mesophyllum. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France 75: 251-254.


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Neurochemistry
Is Nitrous Oxide a Psychedelic Drug?
Despite its euphoric effects, nitrous oxide is not considered psychedelic.
July 20, 2021 - By Alaina M. Jaster, BS
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Nitrous oxide (N2O) is both commonly used in medicine and recreationally. There are some similarities between the intoxicating effects of N2O and psychedelics, but ultimately they are very different in their mechanism of action and drug classification. These differences make nitrous oxide non-psychedelic.
What is Nitrous Oxide?
N2O is a naturally occurring gas used for sedation and pain relief for minor medical procedures.1 It is commonly used in dentistry as general anesthesia, as well as in some emergency rooms.1,2 Besides its medical usages, the gas also has narcotic effects when inhaled, leading to its recreational use. N2O is also referred to as "laughing gas" due to side effects from inhalation. When used recreationally, the method of use is typically inhalation via filling balloons.1-3
Similarities and Differences with the Effects of Psychedelics
Classic psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin are known for their ability to produce alterations in cognition, sensory perception, and more.4 Nitrous oxide also produces some feelings of euphoria and alterations in sensory perception.2-4 Inhalation effects usually manifest as laughter or general feelings of happiness and a tingling face. Other body and sensory sensations such as numbness, muffled noise or ringing in the ears, and blurred vision or sometimes hallucinations may occur. Unlike most psychedelics, these effects are very short-lived and typically dissipate within a few minutes of acute nitrous inhalation.2,3,5
Psychedelics produce their behavioral and cognitive effects mainly through the serotonergic neurotransmitter system.4 The direct mechanism of action of N2O is still being investigated, but the giggles and good feelings that come with inhalation are thought to be due to the gas displacing oxygen in the lungs and bloodstream.3 Other systems have been implicated in the pain-mediating and calming effects of N2O, including opioid receptors, glutamate receptors, and GABA neurotransmission.3
Another large difference between psychedelics and N2O is their safety profile. While psychedelics produce longer-lasting and stronger sensory effects, N2O is considered more dangerous. There have been several case reports in which prolonged use of the gas causes vitamin B12 deficiency, which can cause neurological and muscular dysfunction.5-6 Chronic recreational use of N2O has also been reported to cause death through lack of oxygen to the brain6. In the case of psychedelics, no deaths from LSD overdoses have been reported, even in cases where over 500 times the normal recreational dose of LSD was taken.7 Studies on the pharmacokinetics and safety profile of psilocybin have reported no serious physical or psychological adverse effects of different ingested doses of psilocybin.8
Although there is some overlap with the effects of nitrous oxide and classic psychedelics, nitrous oxide is not considered a psychedelic. Psychedelics represent a unique class of compounds that are characterized by serotonin receptor activation, as well as their long-lasting and strong effects on perception and cognition. Interestingly, recent clinical studies have assessed N2O as a treatment for depression,9 similar to psychedelics, but the potential therapeutic effects may be through different pathways. Despite some similarities in effects, nitrous oxide's basic pharmacology keeps it from being classified as a psychedelic.
Alaina M. Jaster, BS
Alaina is a PhD student in pharmacology at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her research focuses on behavioral changes and circuitry of psychedelics involved in preclinical models of addiction and depression.
Gabriel Caumartin
Psychedelics aren't a pharmacological class of drugs so the debate over whether nitrous is or isn't one is entirely pointless. When you described psychedelics as being defined by their serotonergic activity you leave out salvia, a kappa opioid antagonist, and ketamine, an NDMA receptor antagonist, who are both considered to be psychedelics. Like ketamine nitrous also mediates glutamate and produces a similar feeling of dissociation. Additionally, when you highlighted the negative effects of nitrous oxide abuse, you compared this long-term abuse to infrequent use of classic psychedelics which is an unfair and biased comparison. Acting as a gatekeeper for what… Read more »
Reply to Gabriel Caumartin
Thank you for your comment! Psychedelics is a class of drugs but what falls under that may differ with who you ask. This extensive review of the class by well known scientist David Nichols is very informative: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813425/ In it he also states, "The discussion will not consider cannabinoids, dissociatives such as ketamine, salvinorin A (a specific opioid κ agonist), or entactogens such as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). In certain contexts, all of these and some related agents have been swept into the catchall category "hallucinogens." Although they all can produce profound changes in consciousness, they have a different mechanism of action and will… Read more »
Phillip Weaver
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Alaina, I respectfully disagree with you as well. In fact you have misrepresented Dr Nichols in your argument above by omission of earlier parts of this text in which he clearly points of that he is discussing the 'classic psychedelics' or 'sertinogenic hallucinagens' which is indeed a pharmacological class and a subset of 'psychedelics' which is not.
Gabriel is absolutely correct, I will give you benefit of the doubt that you may not have understood this distinction rather than have sought to deliberately misrepresent David Nichols, we are all human after all
I would respectfully disagree with this analysis. Psychedelic means "mind-manifesting." It doesn't necessarily mean long duration of action (consider smoked DMT), lack of toxicity (consider mescaline and iboga), or even exclusively 5-HT2A (consider salvia, ketamine, etc., unless you specifically talk about "classic" psychedelics.) So the question should be, does nitrous oxide help the mind "manifest" itself in a meaningful way? William James certainly seemed to think so: https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/jnitrous.html He writes of the nitrous oxide: "With me, as with every other person of whom I have heard, the keynote of the experience is the tremendously exciting sense of an intence metaphysical… Read more »
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Chevy Bolts Ahead of Tesla Model 3
Chevrolet's milestone Bolt EV will be coming to showrooms in late 2016 as a 2017 model, representing the first truly affordable battery electric vehicle with a sought-after 200 mile driving range. This is a big win for Chevrolet since the Bolt beats the 200 mile Tesla Model 3 to market, likely by a long shot. Unlike the Chevy Spark EV, an adaptation of a gasoline-powered model that's been available in select markets since 2013, the Bolt EV was designed from the ground-up as an electric vehicle. Thus, there are no compromises along the way.
The heart of the Bolt EV is a nickel-rich lithium-ion battery pack developed with LG Electronics. The 200 mile range provided by this pack is about twice that of competitive EVs now on the market. New battery chemistry delivers desired levels of power, in this case 160 kW, and energy of 60 kWh. The chemistry also provides improved thermal performance that requires a smaller active thermal conditioning system to keep the battery operating at its optimum temperature, delivering longer battery life and maintaining peak performance under varying climates and driver demands.
The battery pack consists of 288 lithium-ion cells in a configuration that spans the entire floor to maximize interior space. The five-door Bolt EV seats five passengers and has 16.9 cubic feet of cargo space behind the rear seat. Thin-frame seats enhance rear-seat roominess.
A standard 7.2 kilowatt onboard charger allows overnight charging from a 240 volt wall charger. A typical commute of 50 miles requires a charge of less than two hours. The Bolt also features an optional SAE Combo DC fast charging connector so the battery can be charged to deliver up to 90 miles of range in just 30 minutes at a public fast charger, if one is available.
Electricity is supplied to a 200 horsepower drive motor featuring 266 lb-ft torque that delivers 0-60 mph acceleration under 7 seconds and a top speed of 91 mph. Power delivery is controlled by Chevrolet's first Electronic Precision Shift system. This shift and park-by-wire system sends electronic signals to the Bolt EV's drive unit to manage precise feel and delivery of power and torque based on drive mode selection and accelerator inputs. A by-wire shifter requires less packaging space than a traditional mechanical shifter resulting in more interior space and improved interior layout.
Regenerative braking has become more than a means to boost range by recapturing energy. Now it can also can provide an improved EV driving experience. The Bolt EV has a new regenerative braking system that can provide one pedal driving through a combination of increased regenerative deceleration and software controls. When operating in Low mode or by holding the Regen-on-Demand paddle located on the back of the steering wheel, a driver can bring the vehicle to a complete stop under most circumstances by simply lifting their foot off the accelerator. However, the system does not eliminate the need to use the brake pedal altogether. Operating in Drive mode without pulling the paddle while decelerating requires using the brake pedal to stop.
he Bolt EV will offer connectivity and infotainment technologies that seamlessly integrate smartphones and other electronic devices. Low energy Bluetooth, designed specifically for the Bolt EV to minimize energy usage, seamlessly connects a smartphone to the car as an owner approaches the vehicle. Many of the Bolt's technologies are supported by OnStar 4G LTE, which turns the Bolt EV into a Wi-Fi hotspot that provides easier access to apps and services via a high-speed wireless connection.
Additional connectivity and infotainment features include a 10.2-inch MyLink color touchscreen display, rear camera mirror, and Surround Vision that provides a bird's-eye view around the Bolt for improved safety during low-speed driving and while parking. An all-new MyChevrolet Mobile App combines important owner and vehicle information and functions including battery charge status, OnStar Map service, remote start, cabin pre-conditioning, owner's manual information, and dealer service scheduling. EV-specific navigation capability provides routes that maximize range and while identifying nearby charging locations. In the future an accurate driving range projection will be based on the time of day, topography, weather, and an owner's driving habits.
The Bolt will be built at GM's Orion, Michigan assembly facility while its battery pack, motor, and drive components will come from Korea. Its price is expected to be $37,500, a figure that dips below $30,000 after full federal tax credits.


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Maya Darjani, (Aspiring) Author
(let your word babies fly, baby fly)
Writer In Motion Week 2: The Self Edit
Posted on July 22, 2021 by Maya Darjani
This logo is amazing and makes me want to go to the beach
Welcome to anooooother week! Unlike last season, I didn't jump immediately into self-editing. In fact, I put it off, mostly because I didn't have a plan. Last year I created a world out of whole cloth, and so a lot of my self edits was thinking about if my random world-building made sense. The other edit was changing it from a scene into a story.
This year, I already know my world and my characters, so what I had left was to think about structure. One thing I struggle with in flash fiction is what a scene is and what a story is. I prefer to have a structure that's like a novel in miniature, with rising action, a turn, and falling action. This time my turn isn't much of one; it mostly reveals that Tim and Karenna's relationship is in trouble, leading to the final lines that cast a different light on the conversation. But I couldn't figure out how to improve it, so mostly, what I did was remove a few words and adjust some lines for clarity.
The one "major" thing that changed is that I was reading Catalyst Gate by Megan O'Keefe, and there was a note in there about how dust motes are a really bad sign on a space ship! And I had a line in my first draft about dust motes dancing around Karenna's hair, highlighted by the sunbeams (I think you can still get sunbeams on a spaceship, lol).
Anyway, I changed the line to reflect that reality and make it more sinister.
Bonus: I'm deep in edits in Shining Palais (the ms that was inspired by last season's Writer In Motion) and I have flash-fiction length interludes. Came across this one:
Ammu called her taara, star, and told her she was created from the same particles as the glorious furnace blazing down on them without rest.
Shine always. Shine bright. The stars are you and you are the stars.
Like maira? she remembers once asking.
No, beta, Ammu said. This is a different type of magic.
Anyway, here's the much-unchanged Take Two on the prompt:
The Stardust in Our Souls (FYI, the title is actually the proposed title of this MS)
When Tim was young, his mom told him that all humans were made of stardust. And Tim would look in all his nooks and crannies, checking belly lint and earwax and boogers, trying to find evidence of sun particles, but all he could find were the lumpy, stinky, bulbous leavings of Earth-bound bodies.
Little did he know that stardust was powerful enough to turn a man immortal. Or that it could bring a civilization to its knees. But when one immortal man took stellar dark particles and cast them past the heliosphere of a backwoods star system, he created a chain reaction that led to the entropic collapse of humanity's interstellar space lanes. Now Tim, captain of the ESS Starfell, was on a mission to recreate a path between Sol and Alpha Centauri, employing the very dust that had stunted them before.
Because yes, the dust giveth and the dust taketh away. Funny word, dust. A noun and a verb, the verb being a Janus word, one that means one thing and its opposite. To dust interstellar space could be spreading dark spores everywhere, or furiously brushing it away. Just like the verb sanction, as in, the Earth Union sanctioned a plan to use Martian technology to create a way to reconnect the star systems, but the Union also sanctioned his wife, the celebrated Admiral, because she prevented those self-same Martians from taking a few mining exoplanets—and the miners that lived on them—as compensation.
And now his wife was coming along on the five year journey to blaze a path between the stars, and she was adjusting rather badly, indeed, to being busted down to mere civilian, subject to the captainly authority, of all people.
"Karenna, I swear to the Ancients, this is not what I need right now, pre-launch on a brand new ship. You remember what that's like, don't you?"
Karenna, his beautiful, ageless, immortal wife—one of those blessed Ancients touched by stardust—crossed one long leg over the other and leaned back with a pout. "I'm just saying, Tim. You're new to this. I was a captain for forty years. And I'm tellin' ya, the Admiralty is up to something."
"What," Tim said, "you think I can't make Captain on my own?"
Sunbeams danced around his wife's curly red hair. They looked dust motes, which was charming, but—
Dust was a death knell in space.
"That's not what I mean. But they're using you. Lo and behold! You get tapped to command the ship that's going to be out of pocket for five years, knowing there's no way I'd want to be separated from you. And they get what they want. The only way I can come along is if I'm on sabbatical as a civilian and bonus, I'll be out of the way."
Tim contemplated the end of his highball of whiskey, looking at Karenna through distorted glass. "Seems a little you-centered there."
Antagonym, that was another term for that type of word, which brought to mind antagonist, like the way he and Karenna had been the last few months, duking and sparring and circling, waiting for the other to land the death punch. They cleaved to each other during the original crisis that led to the collapse of the space lanes, but the current spate of disasters were cleaving them apart. They were bound for Sol, but were chafing at being bound for life.
"Maybe," Karenna mused, "they're hoping you'll keep an eye on me."
Tim snorted. "They'd have a high opinion of my ability to keep up with you. Besides, what would you even be doing?"
Karenna put her hands on her hips and pursed her lips. "You know, this ship…" she began slowly.
"I'm not sure you should finish that thought, K."
"It has an amazing cross-section of humanity. Union officers, but also civilian scientists, and Coralie theologians, and Martians, even. I'm thinking," she said, tapping her chin, "I can gather some intel on what Mars is up to, and do some influence ops to right the Union's thinking."
"I'm thinking you have too much time on your hands. You need a hobby. Ever try knitting? Making ceramic cats?"
"I'm serious, Tim."
"And I'm serious. I'm the captain of this ship. The senior Fleet officer, once we get out there in the black. I know you still think of me as that down-on-his-luck pilot you met on your ship, but I have a job, and one of them is not letting anyone under my purview foment unrest. Unless you don't want to hitch a ride with us. I'll drop you off."
She gave a low whistle of appreciation. "You're hot when you're commanding." She gave him an apologetic smile and came closer, sighing happily as he pulled her in his lap.
Contronyms, that was another term. They were both older, and weathered, not the same love-struck pair they'd been at the beginning, but they could weather any storm. Hopefully.
He buried his face in her hair. "Promise me you won't stir up trouble?"
"I'll try to respect your authority. But my opinions are my own, you know?"
He mmhd, breathing in her scent. Sanguine. Confidently cheerful.
She ruffled his hair in turn, and left him to this work.
He sat alone in a darkened captain's office, and groaned in frustration. Sanguine also meant cheerfully bloodthirsty. Like the instinct that led him to accept a captaincy, in exchange for a job as a snitch.
He pushed a hidden button and spoke, throat coated in ashes, voice thick with regret. "Did you get that, sir?"
"Copy," came the voice. "Keep your head, Captain. Our analysts think our disgraced Admiral is going to make a move soon."
Tim signed off, and put his head in his hands, trying to ignore the crumbling ruins of his marriage all around him.
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3 thoughts on "Writer In Motion Week 2: The Self Edit"
Erin Fulmer on July 22, 2021 at 10:01 am said:
Oooh, love how you focused in on his marriage in this draft! I didn't pick up on that as much in the last draft.
M.A. Crosbie on July 23, 2021 at 8:09 am said:
Woww this was brilliant! I loved seeing their relationship, but then that twist at the end???
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Q: Find number of Wednesdays (or other weekday) in a month - Oracle SQL I found this query for finding the number of Sundays in a month.
I have been tinkering with it but cannot figure out how to change it to get, say, the number of Wednesdays in a month, for example. Can you show me how?
    with
months as (
        select add_months(trunc(sysdate,'YEAR'),level-13) month
        from dual
    connect by level <= 36
  )
select to_char(month,'YYYY') year,
       to_char(month,'Month') month,
       to_char(month,'Day') first_day,
      to_char(last_day(month),'Day DD') last_day,
      4+
      case
        when to_char(last_day(month),'DD') - decode(to_char(month,'D'),1,0,8 -to_char(month,'D')) >= 29
          then 1
        else 0
      end nb_sunday
   from months

A: Here's the game: You give me a year (like 2015) and a day of the week, in the form of a three-letter string (like 'Wed'). I will return a table with each month of that year and with the count of days-of-week equal to your input in each month.
Simply implementing here the suggestion from my Comment to MT0's Answer. I am hard-coding the year and the day-of-week (in a CTE) since "how to pass parameters to a query" (through bind variables and such) is not the focus in this thread.
with
     inputs ( yr, day_of_week ) as (
       select 2015, 'Wed' from dual
     ),
     prep ( dec31 ) as (
       select to_date(to_char(yr - 1) || '-12-31', 'yyyy-mm-dd') from inputs
     )
select     to_char(add_months(dec31, level), 'Mon-yyyy')               as mth,
           ( next_day(add_months(dec31, level)    , day_of_week) -
             next_day(add_months(dec31, level - 1), day_of_week) ) / 7 as cnt
from       inputs cross join prep
connect by level <= 12;

MTH       CNT
-------- ----
Jan-2015    4
Feb-2015    4
Mar-2015    4
Apr-2015    5
May-2015    4
Jun-2015    4
Jul-2015    5
Aug-2015    4
Sep-2015    5
Oct-2015    4
Nov-2015    4
Dec-2015    5

12 rows selected.

A: The last wednesday of the month is given by:
TRUNC( NEXT_DAY( LAST_DAY( :month ) - INTERVAL '7' DAY, 'WEDNESDAY' ) )

The first wednesday of the month is given by:
NEXT_DAY( TRUNC( :month, 'MM' ) - INTERVAL '1' DAY, 'WEDNESDAY' )

Subtracting gives the number of days between them. Divide by 7 and add 1 and you get the number of Wednesdays:
SELECT ( TRUNC( NEXT_DAY( LAST_DAY( :month ) - INTERVAL '7' DAY, 'WEDNESDAY' ) )
       - NEXT_DAY( TRUNC( :month, 'MM' ) - INTERVAL '1' DAY, 'WEDNESDAY' )
       ) / 7 + 1
       AS number_of_wednesdays
FROM   DUAL;

Or you can just use the difference between the first Wednesday of the month and of the next month as suggested by @mathguy
SELECT ( NEXT_DAY(
           ADD_MONTHS( TRUNC( :month, 'MM' ), 1 ) - INTERVAL '1' DAY,
           'WEDNESDAY'
         )
       - NEXT_DAY(
           TRUNC( :month, 'MM' ) - INTERVAL '1' DAY,
           'WEDNESDAY'
         )
       ) / 7
       AS number_of_wednesdays
FROM   DUAL;


Economy - overview: This small, wealthy economy encompasses a mixture of foreign and domestic entrepreneurship, government regulation, welfare measures, and village tradition. Crude oil and natural gas production account for nearly half of GDP. Per capita GDP is far above most other Third World countries, and substantial income from overseas investment supplements income from domestic production. The government provides for all medical services and subsidizes rice and housing. Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion, although it became a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC (Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation) forum. Plans for the future include upgrading the labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening the banking and tourist sectors, and, in general, further widening the economic base beyond oil and gas.
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When Lars Olrik started life 47 years ago, he had very little idea of what he wanted to do.
Twenty years later he wasn't much the wiser, but he had noticed in himself a flair with words.
It was that flair that landed him his first job, writing freelance for a music magazine and later an apprenticeship with the direct marketing giant Wunderman to learn the trade of copy-writing. ' It was hard work and a bit boring but it was well paid and I had 84 rejections before Wunderman so I decided to live with it.' He muses.
For a bit of fun Lars entered competitions in his spare time; winning prizes on his poetry, slogans and songs. One day he was grabbed by a member of one of the most popular Danish bands at the time 'Laban' and asked if he would write them some lyrics.
Having just won an award for campaign work at Wunderman, Lars flushed with success didn't waste a minute to accept this opportunity to give up his day job to become a freelance songwriter. 'I thought I could walk on water.' He chuckles.
An early recession in the advertising industry made freelance copy-writing jobs hard to get by and the songwriting didn't pay much. 'It wasn't long before, my ex and I were sucking stones.' He remembers.
In the spirit of a true Viking; Lars battled on and during this time he wrote and had published four novels and an alternative dictionary. 'I dug out old words and made up new meanings for them. It was quite popular amongst my friends actually.' Lars smirks.
By now the recession was not just personal to Lars, but global and surprising everyone by it's ferocity; in particular the Danes who had become quite used to being held up as an example of economical and social success. 'It was doom and gloom galore everywhere, the press in particular.' Lars admits.
Instead Lars brought it back into the living room, unpacked it, and dipped one of the knives into some of the paint that hadn't dried out. – When he next looked up six hours had passed. 'I was hooked.' Lars admits.
Over the next months Lars would paint furiously. 'Some of it was pretty bad, but I enjoyed it and I did seem to get better.' Learning through his mistakes and by studying other painters on the Internet; Lars finally felt he was ready to let the world have a look and posted his first painting on his Facebook page. 'Within half an hour, I had three offers – people wanted to buy it!.' Lars recalls.
Three years and 87 paintings later Lars admits his success. He is now fully booked with exhibitions four months in advance and has offers from three galleries.'If twenty-seven years ago you had told me that I would become a successful painter I would have thought you were crazy.' Lars Laughs.


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Yangon (Agenzia Fides) - The Catholic Church in Myanmar, civil society organizations, several international NGOs have expressed full approval for the UN's decision to establish an official inquiry and a mission to investigate human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingya in Burma's Rakhine State. The measure was made official by the UN Human Rights Council, which promoted an "independent international fact-finding mission" to "ensure full accountability and guarantee justice for the victims" of human rights violations in Rakhine. Simultaneously, the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar has been extended for a further year. The government of Burma has publicly dissociated itself from the UN resolution.
In a note sent to Fides, the Christian-based NGO "Christian Solidarity Worldwide" (CSW) observes: "The UN Council for Human Rights resolution sends an important message to the people of Burma: the international community is committed to addressing the heartbreaking situation in the country, particularly in Rakhine state. We regret the fact that the Burmese government has disassociated itself from this resolution and we urge it to fully cooperate with the mission to establish the facts, providing full and unrestricted access to UN delegates, particularly in Rakhine state, but also in Kachin and Shan states. There are, in fact, reports of serious human rights violations also in the north of the country". CSW also calls for the Burmese army to immediately stop the military offensive in Rakhine to allow immediate access for humanitarian aid to the displaced.
The condition of the population of Muslim Rohingya has deteriorated rapidly since October 2016. On 9 October 2016, nine police officers were killed in an attack in Rakhine on the border between Burma and Bangladesh. The Burmese military branded the incident as an "act of terrorism", sparking a broad military offensive against civilians, which led to a serious humanitarian crisis and a flow of evacuees. The soldiers are accused of committing serious human rights violations against the Rohingya, burning houses, carrying out executions without trial, torture and mass rapes.


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24. October, 2018 | Posted by MacKenzie Warren | Categories: Reviews
MacKenzie Warren reviews Sam Byers' Perfidious Albion
This is the second part of a two-part essay on the British state-of-the-nation novel in its less conventional forms. The first part, The first part discusses Tony White's The Fountain in the Forest.
Sam Byers, Perfidious Albion.
Faber & Faber. £15.99.
Buy direct from the publisher.
If a state-of-the-nation novel is at risk of being outdated on the day of publication, there's at least one way for a writer to avoid calamity. They could write a novel that doesn't quite take place in the here and now, in the nation of today — a novel set in the future, but only marginally and perhaps only nominally. Looked at one way, this sort of novel might be read as a commentary on the state a nation is heading towards, a critique of the path it is already on. From another angle, though, it might be very much about the present because it illuminates one of the most deceptive aspects of the present: the illusion that a nation is heading towards a future which is in fact already here, and has been for some time.
Sam Byers' Perfidious Albion is set very soon, but not just yet, at some nebulous moment in the weeks and months ahead: after the British referendum to leave the European Union, but before the day of departure and not (it seems) at any point in the past. That said, it's a novel that wants to put its finger so firmly on the pulse of contemporary life that it seizes the zeitgeist by the jugular and throttles it. That this is its ambition, and that Byers is aware of the difficulties of writing a state-of-the-nation novel with such a twisted timeline, is clear from the first page. Perfidious Albion opens with a cocktail party discussion between two men, both involved in daily journalism, as they pinpoint the impossibility of writing the present. The first man says that his attitude towards his own writing is "like, if it's not now, I'm not interested. You know?" The second man concurs: "Who wants to write something that's already yesterday?" But the first man despairs at ever being able truly to break free: "What isn't yesterday these days?" he asks. The second man, void of principles and positions to defend, takes a moment "to ponder just how much was yesterday right now" and observes: "These are post-present times." Even by the most generous measure, that's a nonsensical statement, but Perfidious Albion sets out to make it make sense — sort of.
How does it do this? Firstly by taking a plethora of conditions that define the digitally mediated national and civic life of Britain today, and then by consolidating them into a highly localised network of activities. The uncanny result is a survey of the state of the nation that seems slightly futuristic on page one but then, by the end, seems to have been ripped straight from this morning's newspapers: the future retracts into the present during the course of the reading. I'm writing this review in the same week that three separate scandals have attracted mainstream coverage after pitchforks and torches came out on social media. In the last few days, Ryanair staff have penalised the victim of a racist diatribe on a flight from Spain to the UK, the CEO of the plague-ridden Persimmon Homes has evaded scrutiny of his publicly-funded £75 million annual bonus, and the chief of staff to David Davis, the former Brexit Secretary, has taken to Twitter to insult a hospitalised child he'd never met, calling the boy a "pathetic cretin" for supporting the campaign for a public referendum on the government's Brexit deal. In retrospect, then, it's hard to see a clear delineation between the reality of these stories and the pages of Perfidious Albion.
Among the novel's many targets — for scrutiny, for satire, for a combination of both — are big tech and the faux machismo of tech bros, the local privatisation of public utilities, citizen journalism, microtasking, the gig economy, the sharing economy, the fad for "life-hacking", TED Talks, the growth of social credit systems, dick pics used as revenge porn, out-of-context tweets that go viral, trolling, dogpiling, doxing, machine learning, the antics of Anonymous, the EDL, and, of course, public outrage over issues of identity politics. There's a key character modelled on Nigel Farage and others reminiscent of Jordan Peterson and Elon Musk. Reading the book requires a good degree of familiarity with the charlatans, buffoons, and nefarious powers whose crimes and misadventures make the daily headlines. The only hot-button personalities who escape Byers' gaze are the incels.
Even though it is set in the fictional town of Edmundsbury — the sort of place that fed-up Londoners flock to when they're priced out of the capital — Perfidious Albion is panoramic in scope and features a wide cast of characters. As its omniscient narrator flits from person to person, the novel takes its time to allow connections to crystallise, and then, halfway through, an explosive incident galvanises the core players and kicks the plot into high gear.
At the centre of the action is Trina, a lower-middle-level supervisor of gig workers for a Googlesque tech company called Green. Green is involved somehow with an opaque government contractor called Downton — think Serco, G4S, or Carillion with a veneer of friendly nostalgia pilfered from Downton Abbey — and Downton's major project in Edmundsbury is the redevelopment of a council housing estate called Larchwood. Most of the residents of Larchwood have been coerced into leaving; Trina is one of the few to cling on, along with an incapacitated elderly widower named Darkin. Darkin, for his part, is the stereotypical Brexit voter: white, nationalistic, instinctually conservative, yet heavily dependent on state services decimated by austerity, and therefore persuaded by the right-wing press to train his ire on immigrants and minority ethnic groups in general. Trina is black and makes a comment, publicly, that brings her into conflict with Darkin. Between the two of them, and exploiting both of them for his own political gain, is the Farage simulacrum Hugo Bennington, who makes it his mission to defend "the Darkins of the world" even though he is in cahoots with Downton to evict Darkin from the Larchwood estate.
There's more, much more, orbiting around all of this. There's the earnest community reporter Robert, who has been covering events on the estate. There's his girlfriend, Jess, who surreptitiously undermines his work using a variety of fake online identities. And there are the activists known as the Griefers, who combine political protest with performance art when they threaten to publicly release the digital secrets of the people of Edmundsbury. It's a breathtaking experience to watch Byers set all these plates spinning and maintain the momentum for several hundred pages, and it's breathtaking in both senses of the word — equal parts exhilarating and flat-out exhausting.
Byers is at his best when he is at his most merciless, when he has a clear subject to skewer and he takes palpable pleasure in the prose that sharpens the blade. Often, he uses the narrative voice to give details on characters who are streamlined into caricatures: their more human qualities are simplified while their idiosyncrasies are exaggerated to grotesque effect. Here, for example, is Byers' introduction to Hugo Bennington's political advisor and media pointman Teddy. As man whose defining characteristic is a fetishisation of efficiency and productivity in the Apple, Inc. sense of those terms — a man who claims that "Choice is unproductive" and whose "tanned skin [speaks] not of invigorating outdoor activity but of expensive indoor labour" — Teddy times his periodical intake of nutrition "to the minute", relying exclusively on one type of meal that can't be eaten so much as imbibed:
For approximately a year, Teddy had consumed no solid food whatsoever. Instead, his diet was composed entirely of a semi-liquid, neon-yellow goo called Fibuh, which he consumed four times a day at carefully scheduled intervals and which he claimed was scientifically calibrated to provide an even more rounded meal than the average rounded meal. Fibuh had been invented by a seventeen-year-old chemistry genius so socially awkward that he was unable to eat in the school canteen and so in need of remedial life-skills training that he was unable to prepare a sandwich. He'd therefore devoted his life to the design, production, and marketing of a product that eliminated both of those horrors and which also, conveniently, made him a millionaire. He claimed he was going to live to be two hundred years old because he was achieving optimum nutrition. A series of nutritionists claimed that as a result of never allowing his body to process solid food he'd be colostomised by forty.
Teddy took a long haul on his flask and came away with his upper lip painted bright yellow.
"Mmm," he said, with a slightly uneasy satisfaction. "Yeah."
Hugo Bennington, meanwhile, eats almost nothing but artery-clogging pub fare which torments him as it both taxes his metabolism and enhances his public image:
The problem was that as well as being a perpetual font of youthful vigour, Hugo also had to remind potential supporters that he was just like everyone else. He was, according to his own personal branding, the man in the street. More importantly, he was the man in the pub. If he ever failed at being the man in the pub, was the fear, men in the put would stop being impressed by him. This put pressure on Hugo's photo opportunities. The second [his advisor] got wind of a photographer, he parked Hugo behind a full English, or jammed a fag between his fingers, or hastily pulled him a pint of ale, even if it was barely ten in the morning.
The result was that Hugo's perky exterior was grossly at odds with his slowly corroding interior. Regardless of the glow in his cheeks, his campaign was killing him from the inside.
And here's an early description of a self-professed public intellectual in the mode of Alain de Botton, who turns out to be a man as misogynistic as he is gloriously egotistical:
After a progressively unsuccessful intellectual career based entirely on scathingly dismantling the work of his peers, Groves had reinvented himself as an international man of feeling. His most recent book was an alphabetically arranged series of micro-essays on things that made him cry. Having 'done' tears he was now 'doing' laughter, and had published a series of 'provocations' about the importance of humour in the face of oppression and good grace in the face of injustice. His Twitter feed was a carefully curated gallery of nauseating bromides like, It's not always what we feel that's important; it's the very fact that we feel at all. Dumbstruck by his own capacity for emotion, he spoke at all times as if he were the first man on earth to experience a feeling. Apparently affirming his delusions, people huddled round him at parties and used him as a litmus test for what they should be feeling themselves.
At other times, rather than relying on narrative voice for satirical effect, Byers allows the dialogue to unspool so quickly that characters end up with enough rope to hang themselves:
Norbiton stuck his head round his office door.
"You three," he said. "I'm calling a huddle. Right here. Right now."
"You can't," said Bream. "You used your huddle quota this morning. Your allocation won't reset for another twenty-four hours."
"Are you kidding me?" said Norbiton. "Trina: confirm."
"It's twenty-four hours," said Trina.
"Email me," said Bream.
"Copy that," said Holt.
"OK," said Norbiton, "I'm going to play ball, but if I get a load of auto-responses I have to say a touch of negativity might start creeping into my day."
Norbiton went back into his office and started pounding his keyboard. Trina logged on and fired up her email to find that Norbiton had sent a high-priority scheduling invite to her, Bream, and Holt.
"I didn't have time to turn off my auto-response," said Trina.
"Me neither," said Bream, not making any sort of move towards his desk. Holt just shrugged. From inside Norbiton's office a sort of war-cry went up. He came back out of his office and marched up to them.
"You lot are so fucked," he bellowed. "Do you even know how fucked you are? You are beyond fucked. You are quad-core, ten gig of ram, retina-display, twenty-hour battery life fucked. Bream: my office."
"No can do," said Bream.
"No can do? What do you mean no can do?"
"I used up all my Meeting Minutes at the huddle this morning and just now when I had to take time out to explain to you how huddles work. I can't do any kind of meeting now until next week."
"Then why in the name of fuckery did you tell me to email you to arrange a huddle tomorrow?" screamed Norbiton.
"So I could respond by email to let you know I am out of Meeting Minutes and could we maybe do next week," said Bream.
Much of Perfidious Albion reads like this, with dialogue in which sparks fly as snarky zingers strike against droll repetition, and Byers, taking his cues from Tigger, bounces around manically from storyline to storyline, from debacle to full-blown cataclysm. Occasionally the technique is grating, and the dialogue can be as well, but mostly it is full of zest and infused with a propulsive energy that makes the novel difficult to put down.
If all of this sounds something like Helen DeWitt's Lightning Rods (2011), there's no doubt that Lightning Rods is the clearest forebear of Perfidious Albion. In his ridicule of insincere corporate speech and exploitative social interactions, and in his reverse application of mercantile logic to people's private lives and societal affairs, Byers is every bit as sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued as DeWitt, especially when he eviscerates everyday racism just as meticulously as DeWitt eviscerates sexism in the workplace. David Foster Wallace's The Pale King (2011) seems to have been something of a model for Perfidious Albion, too, and perhaps, more recently, the corporate absurdities of Megan Dunn's Tinderbox (2017). Still, its outlook is very, very English — because Edmundsbury itself is so very, very English — and finally it's difficult to read the novel as something that can be easily extricated from The Fountain in the Forest. These two books are Janus-faced: the one looking back seriously but serenely at the events that have brought Britain to its current malaise, the other looking slightly ahead at the already germinating consequences of the nation's half-distracted, half-distressed response to its malaise.
Fittingly, Perfidious Albion ends with these words, including the absence of a full stop:
Error 404: The page you are looking for does not yet exist
For a while, too, those words served as a placeholder ending for this essay. I copied them down and left them at the bottom of the final page as a reminder to myself to use them as a sort of yardstick: to see how high the tides of calamity might rise in the time between my final reading of the novel and my completion of these thoughts, to see how much of the sheer entertainment value of Perfidious Albion would be subsumed by the growing horror of things that did not yet exist when I started writing about it.
Now it's midday on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. Last Saturday, 700,000 people flooded the streets of London in protest against the disastrous Brexit deal currently being "negotiated" by the Conservative government. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Opposition Leader were present, nor were they even in the city at the time, nor have they publicly commented on the event. Theresa May thought it more important to visit a community art exhibition in her constituency, which included a painting that depicts her "carrying a cross over a river of bad Brexit headlines". Jeremy Corbyn thought it was an opportune moment to discuss human rights in Geneva. On Sunday, Nick Clegg, former Deputy Prime Minister, announced that he has taken on a role as a "global lobbyist" for Facebook. On Monday, the House of Commons condemned the discourse of its own as-yet-unidentified members who used the language of murder and execution to describe the fate awaiting Theresa May. On Tuesday, it was reported that — in an unprecedented move for Britain during peacetime — the government is "drawing up plans to charter ships to bring in food and medicines in the event of a 'no-deal' Brexit", and to legally requisition privately owned ships, "in a move greeted with disbelief at a stormy meeting of Theresa May's cabinet". But it's too late, apparently. Only this morning, the National Audit Office reported that Britain has passed the point of no return on its preparations for the collapse of Brexit negotiations, meaning, in effect, that civil unrest is on the agenda for next March if Britain doesn't either revoke Article 50 or capitulate to the demands of the European Union.
Perfidious Albion isn't about any of these events, nor does it make a dated attempt at predicting them. But there's a cultural madness at play in this country, which has buoyed such events from a zero probability just three years ago to rock-solid reality today, and the energy of that same madness courses through the events of Perfidious Albion like a madcap clown through a harlequinade. With what can only be described as malevolent zaniness, a spritely slapstick comedy of domestic fascism, the novel performs something that purports to be tomorrow's news — but is actually today's news without the reportorial waffle that blunts its edges. It has no solutions to offer, and no comfort either, except maybe the comfort of realising that in a culture going insane, everyone suffers the insanity equally. Whether that's enough to give it validity beyond today — or at least March 29 next year — will probably take a decade to determine. But since Britain seems poised right now to spend a decade in cultural and political stagnation, a novel that captures the times as precisely as Perfidious Albion may well be the novel that best reflects the times to come.
About MacKenzie Warren
MacKenzie Warren read English at Oriel College, Oxford. She now lives in Bristol where she works as a freelance copywriter and social policy advisor for the local authority.
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Tips to protect your home: If you are going to be away from your home for an extended period of time, be sure to take some safety precautions before leaving to make sure your home and possessions are safe.
For starters, make sure to not post on social media sites about your being away before your departure. The less people who know about your vacant house, the better. And speaking of that vacant house, try to make it so that your home looks "lived in" even when you are away. Set your lights to turn on and off with a timer and leave a car parked in the driveway at all times. These small steps alone will deter any burglars or unwanted guests from entering your property.
Make sure to stop your mail or have a neighbor bring it in for you. Hiring a house sitter is also a great idea to amp up your home's security. Install deadbolts on doors and make sure all windows are covered.
Another often-overlooked idea: Make sure all of your insurance policies are up-to-date and accurate. Keep this information secure in a fire-proof safe. You aren't going to be taking every valuable possession with you, so be sure that the ones you do leave behind are completely covered in the case of a burglary, vandalism or fire.
With the proper protection in place, and these tips to protect your home, your mind can rest easy and be focused on your trip at hand.


The popular Nigerian rapper, Folarinde Falana, popularly known as Falz, celebrity his 27th birthday last week, in order to make the day more glamorous, he released a music album titled '27'.
However, this has caused lots of criticisms and arguments on social media as to the truth of his age, many claimed he is obviously older than the age he celebrated.
Although, falz himself reacted to the social media uproar that he would show them his birthday certificate to prove his actual age, in order to calm the doubting Thomases. He also listed the qualities he wants a woman he will marry to possess.


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OLIVIA O'BRIEN RELEASES NEW QUARANTINE MUSIC VIDEO FOR VIRAL SMASH "JOSSLYN"
Today, singer/songwriter Olivia O'Brien releases a new music video for her viral smash "Josslyn," which is a standout piece in the age of at-home DIY content amid social distancing. The lively standout track comes hot off her second micromixtape The Results of My Poor Judgement released earlier this year and is laced with the young artist's signature poetic vulnerability as well as comedic vulgarity.
Motivated by the discovery of her love interest's infidelity, the 20-year-old pop singer's raw heartbreak comes through loud and clear in the song's unforgettable chorus: "But now we're off and we'll never be on again//I hope that it was worth it f*cking Josslyn."
The new visual is vibrant and chaotic, certainly reflective of the new reality of life under self-quarantine as it was filmed entirely at her home. The LA-based pop princess' homemade video, charmed with a DIY aesthetic and dance moves for when you are alone in your bedroom, shows just how much untapped creative energy she has.
The feisty single is an anthem for anyone who has been in a promising relationship with someone only to find out they were unfaithful with their respective 'Josslyn,' making it the ultimate at-home breakup track. Olivia O'Brien remains one of pop music's true gems and has certainly set the bar high for future tracks.
Most recently Charli D'Amelio, posted a dance video to Tik Tok using "Josslyn" catapulting the streams to over 16 million in about two months. Before the world was abruptly halted by COVID-19, Olivia was expected to perform at Coachella and was on a headlining tour across North America.
Over the past few months, Olivia has amassed over 1 billion global artist streams and has been releasing micromixtapes – a concept she ideated to give her fans music quicker as larger albums are becoming more difficult for fans to consume.
She released the first micromixtape, titled It Was A Sad Fucking Summer, in November that received praise from the likes of NYLON, V Magazine, Ones to Watch and more. In February, she released the second micromixtape The Results Of My Poor Judgment which featured standout track "Josslyn."
She will also be performing at Zach Sang's virtual prom on May 22 alongside Lewis Capaldi, Finneas O'Connell, Lauv, Noah Cyrus and more.
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Glenn works as a cook at the Harvester salad and grill restaurant at Latham Road. Upon arrival I was told that there was a 20 minute wait to be seated. It was apparent that Glenn was extremely busy so I waited for his shift to end and passed the time by sampling the cooking.
I helped myself to the unlimited salad at the salad bar and had grilled chicken, a sundae and coffee.
By the time I was finished feasting, Glenn had finished his shift.
I explained what I was doing and Glenn gave the assemblage a Take us Home Menu. I circled the Chicken Takeaway Feast Glenn especially likes cooking as it is quick and tasty to make.
Glenn then sent me to meet Jordall, his friend from college who now works at Blunsdon House Hotel.


Cases of employee lawsuits at large, well-known companies often make headlines. However, a small business may be just as likely to find itself as a defendant in a lawsuit where the consequences can be even more dire to the business. In fact, research indicates that one in five small and mid-sized businesses (under 500 employees) will face an employment charge, which will cost an average of $125,000 to defend, including expenses such as attorney's fees and settlement costs.
Although most employers understand the seriousness and consequences of harassment, it can occur even if the perpetrator is not the employee's supervisor or even by someone outside the company. Employees have brought suits against employers who did nothing to stop harassment by customers or vendors of the company - and they've won. Be vigilant in your efforts to maintain an appropriate and safe working environment, and make sure that those who demonstrate offensive behavior are dealt with and made to know that such conduct is not welcome at your business.
Every family has conflict, even your business 'family.' Take the time to understand why employees might sue and how you can prevent it. Fostering a professional environment and encouraging employees to report concerns before they become larger issues will help avoid potential litigation, allowing you to better ensure that employees are happy, treated fairly and your business performs as it should.