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Q: show all employees from specific set of stores My job is to cleanse the database from broken store records(records with missing data like a store name or streetname, database example below). However it turns out some of those records have employees linked to them so we can't just delete them.
Question: what kind of query do I need to make sure only the employees of those stores are shown?
I have three tables in which i need to work: user, department and store_users (store_users is a table in which all ID's are packed together to see which user_id belongs to which store_id.)
Example of code
its most likely wrong but its to give some insight in what I am trying to accomplish.(its purely mysql at the moment)
SELECT
    *
FROM
    gebruiker
WHERE
    (SELECT
            *
        FROM
            winkel_adresgegevens
        WHERE
            winkel_id IN (SELECT
                    winkel_gebruikers_winkel_id
                FROM
                    winkel_gebruikers)
                AND (winkel_naam = '' OR winkel_straat = ''
                OR winkel_huisnummer = ''
                OR winkel_postcode = ''
                OR winkel_plaats = ''));

database example
+--------+---------------+----------+------------+------------------+
|store_id|store_branch_id|store_name|store_street|store_streetnumber|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|   1    |     100       |  Jumbo   | Hilversum  |        14        |
|--------+---------------+----------+------------+------------------|
|   2    |     150       |  Lidl    | Kerkelanden|        24        |
|--------+---------------+----------+------------+------------------|
|   3    |     105       |          | Loosdrecht |                  |
|--------+---------------+----------+------------+------------------|
|   4    |     200       |  Coop    |            |        14        |
+--------+---------------+----------+------------+------------------+

hence the question: only show employees from the broken records. (the ones with missing data, see store_name, store_street and store_streetnumber)

A: UPDATE : This is what you want
SELECT *
FROM employees
WHERE store_name IS NULL OR store_street IS NULL OR  store_streetnumber IS NULL ;

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Chrystal is a graduate of Bowdon High School and attended West Georgia College.
She is an avid participant in Crossfit training, trail running, gardening and cooking. She is involved in Power Core, Gwinnett Church, the Gwinnett co-op, White Oak Elementary PTA and faculty committee.
She and her husband, Rusty, started Fairway Insurance Advisors in 2011. They have two daughters and a dog, and they all enjoy spending as much time outdoors as possible.
A Central High School graduate, Rusty attended Georgia Southern, Southern Tech and Oglethorpe Universities.
An avid golfer and skier, Rusty is very involved in exercise and physical fitness. He is a member of the BNI networking group and Gwinnett Church.
Rusty and his wife, Chrystal, founded Fairway Insurance Advisors in 2011. Previously he was involved in the mortgage industry. He has a special interest in data breech, cyber security, technology and science risks as well as various types of bonds.
Rusty and Chrystal have two daughters, a dog and enjoys outdoor activities.
Kenya is a graduate of Southern Adventist University. She attended high school at Atlanta Adventist Academy. She is a licensed property & casualty, life and accident & sickness agent in the state of Georgia.
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Lori began her career in the insurance industry in 2006. She joined Fairway Insurance Advisors in 2014.
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Chanukah begins on the evening of the 25th of Kislev and continues for eight days.
For the entire eight days of Chanukah it is forbidden to fast or to eulogize.
There is no obligation to have festive meals; however it is customary to celebrate by eating special meals anyway, because of the fact that the dedication of the Temple and Altar took place during Chanukah.
It is customary to sing during the meals songs that thank and praise Hashem. To sing and speak about Torah makes the meal into a seudat mitzvah, a meal of religious significance.
It is customary to eat milk foods because Yehudit, daughter of Yochanan the High Priest, was taken to be defiled by the Greek ruler Holofernes. She fed him cheese (to make him thirsty) and wine (to quench his thirst); and after getting him drunk she killed him. This was one of the events that sparked the Maccabean uprising. Food fried in oil is also eaten to commemorate the miracle of the Menorah. Latkes and donuts are the most common foods.
One should not fast during Chanukah, even on the occasion of a parent's yarhzeit (anniversary of death).
The festivities of Chanukah should be combined with study of Torah. Although many people have a custom to play card games on Chanukah, the Mishna Berurah states that, "He who cares for his soul should not involve himself in card games."
It is obligatory to light candles, and one should even borrow money to fulfill this mitzvah. If a poor person needs money for Chanukah candles the community is obligated to provide for him.
The minimum obligation is that every household should have one candle burning every night. It is customary to be scrupulous regarding this mitzvah: to have one candle on the first night and an additional candle every night (1-8), and for everyone in the house as well.
Any type of oil is acceptable for use in the menorah, however, it is best to use olive oil. The oil should not be made of a forbidden substance, nor should it be something from which it is forbidden to derive benefit.
The menorah should be similar to the Menorah in the Temple and hence most authorities forbid using electric lights or gas lamps.
Wax candles are also acceptable, providing they have a single wick.
All wicks are acceptable, but it is best to use cotton. The same wicks may be used over and over again.
It is correct to have a Menorah of glass or metal if one is lighting with oil, since other substances such as clay become disgusting after one use. If one can afford it, it is correct to buy a beautiful Menorah.
If one is using candles a Menorah is not necessary.
If a number of people are lighting in one household they should make a slight separation between their menorahs so that there is no confusion to the observer as to the number of candles.
Ideally, the Menorah should be placed outside the house to the left of the entrance. Since anti-Semitism was so common throughout Jewish history it became customary among may communities to place the Menorah inside the house, near the entrance or on the table. In many families it is the custom to place the menorah in a window facing the public, especially where many people share one entrance (e.g., apartment building). In Israel it is customary to light outside in a special box that prevents the flames from blowing out.
The menorah should be no lower than three tfachim from the floor (approx. 10.5 inches or 27cm) and should be no higher than 20 amot from ground level (35.5 ft or 10.8 m). Ideally, it should be about 10 tfachim high (35 inches or 90 cm).
The Menorah should have all the candle or wicks on the same level, none higher or lower than the others.
It is customary to have an additional candle (the shamash) with which to light the other candles and in order to use it's light. The shamash should be placed in a way that shows that it is not one of the Chanukah candles.
It is forbidden to derive benefit from the light of the Menorah just as it was forbidden to derive benefit from the Menorah in the Temple, and also in order to show that its purpose of the Menorah is for a Mitzvah, not just for illumination.
It is preferable to have the candles in a straight line, and not in a semi-circle, however it is permitted to have them in a semi-circle providing each candle is clearly separated from the others.
It is prohibited to light the shamash from the Chanukah candles.
Left over wicks and oils should be destroyed after Chanukah (except for unused oil left in bottle) since they may not be used for anything else. One should not store the used wicks and oil for the next year, since there is a probability that it will be used for profane purposes by accident.
There are different customs as to the lighting of the Menorah. Some light at sunset. Some light about ten minutes after sunset and some light 1/2 hour after. Some specifically light after the evening service is recited (Maariv). Ideally a person should follow the custom of his father. If this is not known or is inapplicable for any reason, one should follow the custom of the local community.
It is obligatory to put in enough oil, or a long enough candle to burn for at least 1/2 hour after nightfall (i.e. the appearance of three medium size stars).
In exceptional circumstances one may light one and a quarter hours before sunset with a blessing. (However one should be careful to put in more oil or to use longer candles). If possible it is better to appoint an agent to light candles at the correct time, than to light early. .
If one forgot or was not able to light at the correct time, one may light as long as people are still awake in the house in which one is lighting.
One should prepare the wicks and candles etc. before Maariv (if you light after) or well before the time of lighting in order to light the Menorah at the correct time.
I t is best to light in the presence of many people in order to publicise the miracle.
On the first night three brachot, blessings are recited. "Lehadlik ner shel Chanukah", "She asa nissim" and "Shehecheyanu". .
On the other nights only the first two blessings are said.
All the blessings should be recited before actually lighting the candles. First light the Shamash before the blessings to avoid delay. It is forbidden to speak between the recitation of the blessings and the completion of candle lighting.
"Haneirot Halalu" is recited either during or after the lighting of the additional candles.
"Maoz tsur yeshuaty" then sung.
Place first candle on the extreme right of the Menorah. On the second night add a candle on the left. Light the newest candle first and proceed to the right.
There are different customs regarding the placement of the candles, some follow the right and left of the observer from outside, some follow the right and left of the person lighting inside.
Do not remove the Shamash from the wick until the flame catches on most of the wick.
One does not add candles if they forgot to light on any night..
The Menorah should not be moved after is has been lit.
If the Menorah was lit in accordance with the requirements of Jewish law and it was extinguished, one is not obligated to relight it, but one may relight it without reciting a blessing.
If the Menorah was not lit properly in the first place, or was lit in a windy place and blew out then one is obligated to relight if it went out within 1/2 hour after nightfall.
On Friday afternoon, the Chanukah candles should be lit before the Shabbat candle-lighting time (if one accepted Shabbat early, it is forbidden to light Chanukah candles). Mincha should be said before lighting, if possible.
When lighting on Saturday night, some authorities say that one should light Chanuka candles before Havdalah, others say after Havdalah. One should follow their family custom in this. ( Mishna Berurah 681:2 and Aruch HaShulchan 681:2). One may not use the Menorah as the candle for Havdalah.
If one is a guest at someone's house (and staying there), one should give the owner a small amount of money to buy a portion in their candles and one may fulfil the obligation through the owner. Alternatively the guest may light his own Menorah.
If one is eating out then one should light the Menorah at their place of residence.
During morning prayers, Shacharit, one should recite the full Hallel every day.
"Al hanissim" the special paragraph of prayers for Chanukah is added in the silent prayers, Shmoneh Esreh and also in Grace after meals. If one forgot to say this addition, one should not repeat either Shmoneh Esreh or Grace.
It is customary to light a Menorah in the Synagogue every evening. It is placed at the southern wall of the Synagogue, in imitation of the Menorah in the Temple in Jerusalem.


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I guess being a college senior, it's more than normal to be consumed with work! However, I have started to find that flow of managing all 5 classes and nothing is "too hard". In about 2 weeks it will already be midterms which is so weird! If it weren't for this heatwave, I think I'd feel like it was Christmas is just a few weeks! Time is flying! One thing I've been struggling with is inspiration in my cooking and baking (i.e. this work, this blog). I want to get creative in the kitchen, but when I go to make something I lose all steam and my mind goes blank. I also feel like I'm wasting time when I could be studying or doing more school work.
A viral Facebook post worth reading.
An honest post on the cons when all you seem to see are the pros.
This woman is not a fan….more for us!
From our favorite safe brands!
+ Secondhand Trauma. Is It Real?
Can we all be traumatized by disaster?
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A walkthrough on how it's done.
Love reading random threads on Quora!
Find it and hold it tight!
It is an embarrassment to say blogger. People have ruined the term and I hate using it.
A beautiful season for photos!
All the questions you have!
Because those little habits aren't what it's about!
Well….I was shocked by how "not scary" and "nonchalant" the FTC rep was!
That is very interesting. The part about NJ too.
You never would have guessed!
What's your favorite horror movie? Nothing scares me; I need options!
The ultimate in Asian food!
Honeycrisp season! (although I just buy the cheapest apple at the store these days).
That just looks so good and filling!
O so perfectly flavored and spiced!
+ I DID actually bake one thing and shared the process on my Instagram story this week. It was the first thing I've made in weeks and did feel good, but still kind of forced.
+ What do you do to get out of a creative rut?
Those small towns make me want to travel! Isn't it great to mine the treasures of the web?!
fueled by my just not feeling like doing anything lately. ._.
I would love to trave lin my 20's, but quite unfortauntely, it isn't possible right now. :'( Somedayyy!!
We'll travel together when we both get older 😉 Retirees!
So much content here….marking some of these to look at later, but heading straight for the Podcasts. I'm always on the hunt for new ones! I actually just read an article that was an interview with an FTC rep and was surprised at how they made everything relatable and manageable. I thought it was going to be waaaay over my head. haha!
Some people make it seem SOOO scary, but honestly it's not. People mess up, whatever, it can be annoying when you see a big influencer not disclosing, but a normal person wouldn't know and doesn't care. No small "normal" blogger is getting fined or put in jail, haha!


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April is here on the Treasure Coast and brings Spring conditions to the area. Mild temperatures and windy days will be the norm this month. Fishing will be very productive as bait fills the river and the fish are hungry. It has been a mild winter and I am always excited to welcome Spring back again. Have fun and enjoy the fishing!
The grass flats will be active with trout and redfish. I love using a DOA Deadly Combo in April to locate the fish. There will also be pompano cruising the deeper flats. Doc's Goofy Jigs are great pompano lures when they are in the river. Mackerel, bluefish and jacks will be plentiful around the inlets and channels this month. Small shiny lures will find you some action. April will bring lots of opportunities to the area.
Snook fishing will continue to be good this month. Inlets, bridges and sea walls can give you a good chance at catching a slot fish. DOA Bait Busters, feather jigs, live pilchards or pinfish are all excellent choices for snook fishing. There are many great areas to fish so plan on getting some fishing in this month.
Bridges will continue to hold sheephead, jacks, bluefish and some black drum. The sheepshead were in early and many have already left the river. The warmer water this year has progressed things earlier than normal, but there are still plenty of fish to be caught. Docks will hold the same fish and an excellent chance at hooking up with a redfish. The surf will hold whiting, pompano and a host of other fish feeding on the bait schools along the beaches.
April is the first month that fish can enjoy all the many baitfish schools and they will be feeding heavily on the schools around the flats. With the mild winter the water temperatures have remained mild and will be warming up more this month.


Stefan Sagmeister needs no introduction. The internationally acclaimed designer is the founder of the New York-based agency Sagmeister Inc, which became Sagmeister & Walsh in 2012. Stefan Sagmeister does it all (environmental art, typography, package design, conferences, books, happenings) and he does it well: he has earned practically every important international design award under the sun. Clients of his include the Rolling Stones, American cable network HBO, the Guggenheim Museum, Lou Reed and Brian Eno. In his talk, Stefan Sagmeister will reveal his sure-fire method when it comes to designing a product: when thinking about an object's design, you must start off with another object altogether. The pen example is quite telling. Shall we tell you more about it?
Stefan Sagmeister views his work like a playground and is not afraid of putting on a performance when it comes to experimenting and pushing boundaries. He constantly explores the methods and possibilities to achieve happiness as a person and as a designer. He feels so passionately about design that he is not one to see his calling deteriorate into a simple "job". What's more, he is always striving to create designs that will induce happiness among the audience. Lots of clips from his upcoming documentary feature: The Happy Film will be shown during his conference.


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Connexins (Cxs) and pannexins (Panxs) are highly regulated large-pore channel-forming proteins that participate in cellular communication via small molecular exchange with the extracellular microenvironment, or in the case of connexins, directly between cells
Connexins (Cxs) and pannexins (Panxs) are highly regulated large-pore channel-forming proteins that participate in cellular communication via small molecular exchange with the extracellular microenvironment, or in the case of connexins, directly between cells. in Cx40?/? mice was further exaggerated in double knockout mice. Thus, while gestation and gross development were conserved in Cx40?/?Panx1?/? mice, they exhibit cardiac hypertrophy, hypertension, and impaired endothelial-mediated vasodilation that phenocopies Cx40?/? mice. Nevertheless, the augmented renin homeostasis observed in the double knockout mice suggests that both Cx40 and Panx1 may play an integrative role. [3C5]. Conversely, the most well-understood pannexin, pannexin1 (Panx1), has been demonstrated to form large-pore membrane channels, which facilitate autocrine/paracrine-mediated signaling via the release of purine nucleotides, most notably ATP [6]. Within the mammalian cardiovascular system (cardiac tissue and peripheral vasculature) connexins and Panx1 participate in both protein-specific and homologous protein functions that coordinate cellular Cannabichromene responses requisite for vascular homeostasis. The enrichment of both proteins within the same cardiovascular tissues suggests a functional co-operation between connexins and Panx1; however, it is CENPA not clear whether Panx1 plays any additive or synergic role [7C9]. In the mammalian heart, connexins are obligatory for normal myocardial and vascular development and function [10]. The synchronized contraction of myocardial tissue, as well as the conduction of electrical impulses generated by the sinoatrial (SA) node relies on gap junctional intercellular communicationprimarily via Cx43, Cx40, and Cx45 isoforms [11]. Generally, Cx45 expression remains confined to the SA node and atrioventricular node; however, the Bundle of His and Purkinje fibers express Cx45, Cx40, and Cx43 [12]. Interestingly, the Cx40 isoform, which has a well-established role in regulating blood pressure and renal-renin secretion [13], is developmentally regulated in the murine heart. Peak expression levels are observed ubiquitously throughout fetal cardiac tissue at E14, only later to be confined in the atria tissue and the conduction system of the adult heart, while Cx43 remains highly expressed throughout the heart [14]. Human mutations in the gene encoding Cx40, rat cardiomyocyte culture have implicated that Panx1 functions at the cell surface as a calcium-sensitive large conductance cation channel [31], and that Panx1 genetic ablation Cannabichromene promotes cardiac electrophysiological abnormalities (prolonged depolarization/repolarization and atrial fibrillation susceptibility) [32]. In cardiac inflammation and ischemia models, Panx1-mediated ATP release plays a pathological role in cardiac fibrosis, but a cardioprotective role against ventricular infarct size in mice [33C36]. While pannexin isoforms 2 and 3 (Panx2 and Panx3) have been identified in a small subset of vascular tissue within the murine arterial network [21], it has been reported that Cannabichromene cardiac tissue expresses little Panx2 that is intracellularly localized, and no Panx3 [37,38]. Thus, primarily Panx1 channels participate in a myriad of processes within the vasculature and potentially the heart to support healthy organ function. Although Cx40 and Panx1 originate from distinct protein families, both appear to play critical roles in the heart and vasculature. It is not known however, whether compensation, redundancy, or unique roles exist for Cx40 and Panx1 in supporting cardiovascular function. To address this question we developed the first mouse line lacking both Cx40 and Panx1 (Cx40?/?Panx1?/?) and we hypothesized that deletion of Panx1 in Cx40-deficient mice would exacerbate cardiac phenotypes observed in Cx40?/? mice. In the current study, we found that Cx40?/?Panx1?/? mice are viable, fertile, and exhibit similar adult morphological development to wild-type (WT) mice. Compared with WT and Panx1?/? mice, Cx40?/?Panx1?/? mice exhibit cardiac hypertrophy, and significantly elevated arterial blood pressure that phenocopies Cx40?/? mice. Furthermore, Cannabichromene aortic ring myography revealed reduced endothelium-dependent vasodilation in all tested genotypes compared with WT. Interestingly, Cx40?/?Panx1?/? mice demonstrated significantly elevated kidney renin mRNA and plasma renin activity, surpassing.
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A Stock-Flow Analysis of the Welfare Caseload
Jacob Alex Klerman
This paper reconsiders the methods used in previous studies to assess the welfare caseload movements during the 1990s. We develop a model in which the welfare caseload is the net outcome of past flows onto and off of the caseload and show that such a stock-flow model can explain some of the anomalous findings in previous studies. We then estimate the stock-flow model using California administrative data. We find that approximately 50 percent of the caseload decline in California can be attributed to the declining unemployment rate. These estimates are more robust and larger than those obtained when applying more typical methods to the same California data.
Jacob Alex Klerman & Steven J. Haider, 2004. "A Stock-Flow Analysis of the Welfare Caseload," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 39(4).
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Hayashi, Masayoshi, 2014. "Forecasting welfare caseloads: The case of the Japanese public assistance program," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 105-114.
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Bo Zhao & David Coyne, 2017. "Walking a Tightrope: Are U.S. State and Local Governments on a Fiscally Sustainable Path?," Public Budgeting & Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(3), pages 3-23, September.
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Marianne E. Page & Joanne Spetz & Jane Millar, 2005. "Does the minimum wage affect welfare caseloads?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 24(2), pages 273-295.
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Grogger, Jeffrey, 2007. "Markov forecasting methods for welfare caseloads," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 29(7), pages 900-911, July.
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Mix together the cake mix, 1 C milk and melted butter.
Take half of the batter and press into the bottom of the prepared pan; set remaining batter aside.
Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. While it's baking place the caramel bites and 1/3 C milk into a bowl.
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During the 2014 K020 Antarctic expedition, Professor John Brooks took two AUT UAVs (the original Hawk and a newly purchased Swampfox, and two ground control stations) to Scott Base. After the Antarctic Skills Training course, John and the two UAV systems were flown by Squirrel helicopter ZK-IDE to the Taylor Dry Valley. The first flights were reported earlier in this blog.
After John and the K020 team had been in the Taylor Valley for about a week, a TV3 news crew arrived to make a short clip about the expedition, which included a very short segment on flying the Fox UAV. This was shown on TV3 news as part of a series reports on Antarctic research.
A couple of days later, Nigel Latta arrived with a small film crew. They were making a documentary about research in this harsh climate. The crew spent a whole day filming with the K020 researchers and also filmed in Scott Base and visited several of the research outposts on the continent.
Clearly, Nigel and his team were very impressed with the Fox UAV and its potential for application as a research tool. The UAV segment lasted for around ten minutes and was narrated by Nigel in his amusing, unscripted style, which infuses the viewer with his enthusiasm for science. His final comment was that "This is how a schoolboy would conduct research - with a model aeroplane and a big rubber band". While not entirely accurate, this comment did reflect his excitement about the technique.
In the few days since the broadcast, John has received much positive feedback on AUT's use of UAVs in environmental research.


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Borda is a lunar impact crater that lies between Santbech to the north-northwest and Reichenbach slightly further away to the south-southeast. It was named after French astronomer Jean-Charles de Borda. It has a low rim that is broken along the southeast by a smaller crater. The rim is intruded into by another small crater along the southwest side, and there is an irregular cleft along the northwest face. There is a central peak at the midpoint of the floor.

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High military suicide rates could be 'new normal'
Psychologist: 'Nothing that the Army has done' has helped.
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Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY Published 12:53 a.m. CT June 18, 2016
U.S. Army soldiers patrol near Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2014. Suicide rates remain persistently high across the military.(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Seven years after the rate of suicides by soldiers more than doubled, the Army has failed to reduce the tragic pace of self-destruction, and experts worry the problem is a "new normal."
"It's very clear that nothing that the Army has done has resulted in the suicide rates coming down," said Carl Castro, a psychologist who retired from the Army in 2013, when he was a colonel overseeing behavioral health research programs.
The sharp rise in the Army's suicide rate from 2004 through 2009 coincided with unusually heavy demands on the nation's all-volunteer military, as hundreds of thousands of troops, most of them in the Army, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The vast majority have since come home, but suicide rates remain stubbornly high.
The Army's suicide rate for active-duty soldiers averaged nearly 11 per 100,000 from Sept. 11, 2001, until shortly after the Iraq invasion in 2004. It more than doubled over the next five years and, with the exception of a spike in 2012, has remained largely constant at 24 to 25 per 100,000, roughly 20 percent to 25 percent higher than a civilian population of the same age and gender makeup as the military.
As the Army is the largest service branch in the military, the Pentagon suicide statistics reflected a similar increase.
"Seven years of relative stability at these profoundly higher rates may well be the new normal," said David Rudd, president of the University of Memphis, who served on a panel of scientists that reviewed military mental health programs and issued a critical report in 2014.
Rudd said he worries that a sense of heightened concern that gripped Congress and the Army when military suicides spiked has dissipated.
"You don't see any significant outrage about it now," he said.
The Army used to post suicide statistics promptly each month, but data are now published by the Pentagon each quarter and often delayed for months.
"I do think there is a sort of creeping mind-set of, 'Well, this is just how it is now,' " said Craig Bryan, executive director of the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah. "The sense of urgency about this problem has started to fade away."
Deaths, however, persist at only too regular intervals.
Scientists still don't know exactly why suicides increased so dramatically in the military. Major studies have shown no direct link between the deaths and being deployed overseas, and suicide increased even among soldiers who did not deploy.
Many experts remain certain that combat is a crucial factor of suicide and that after 9/11, the Army came under enormous pressure. Scientists argue that deployment does not always equate with combat. Many troops are sent to noncombat zones or serve on large bases with little exposure to violence.
Lt. Col. Chris Ivany, Army director of behavioral health care, said mental illness is linked to suicide and noted that the illness rates have also risen. Combat experiences are known to cause behavioral health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder or depression.
"(Suicide) rose during a period of war, and it's just implausible to me to discount the role that being at war might play on the changing environment of Army service," said Michael Schoenbaum, a scientist with the National Institute of Mental Health who is involved with a $97 million ongoing study into suicide in the Army.
Schoenbaum and others say lower suicide rates in the military before wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made sense. Soldiers, in a period of peace, have advantages that should make them less susceptible to self-destructive urges. Unlike many civilian peers, soldiers have jobs, health insurance, stability and a sense of purpose, and they are screened for mental and physical issues before entering the military.
"You would expect a particular version of the healthy worker effect," but fifteen years of sustained conflict might have altered that effect, Schoenbaum said.
Castro, the former military behavioral health research chief, said the Army has never conducted the kind of peer-reviewed studies necessary to see if its suicide prevention programs actually work.
"They would roll out new programs that would use new technology. But never did they assess whether or not it was improving knowledge, improving awareness, deterring people from thinking about suicide," said Castro, an assistant professor at UCLA. "Nobody in the field wanted to wait for evidence-based prevention efforts. They just wanted to do something."
Pentagon officials say that is changing. Adam Walsh, director of research and program evaluation for the Defense Suicide Prevention Office, said a series of new programs enhancing peer support, suicide prevention training and interventions are being evaluated.
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PLC 2019: Free Markets and the Celebration of Capitalism
"Free markets and the celebration of capitalism" was the theme of the 30th anniversary of the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference (PLC), and as U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) pointed out in his speech kicking-off the two-day event, there has been plenty about capitalism of late to celebrate.
"We have the strongest economy in 50 years," Toomey said to a packed ballroom at the Radisson Hotel in Camp Hill last Friday. "We have added 2.6 million jobs. Unemployment is at a 50-year low. We have highest African American and Hispanic employment rate in history."
There was also a cautionary message from Toomey and other free market leaders speaking at the annual gathering of conservatives: many in the Democratic Party are embracing socialism in a style reminiscent of the post-World War II delusion with Soviet communism, and that is a threat to our economic and constitutional freedoms.
"What we really want to get across is that conservative pro-growth free enterprise polices work," said Loman Henry, President of the PLC, and Chairman of the Board of the PMA. "We need to get past the talking points about what really lifts people up, and it's not socialism it's capitalism."
Mainstream media isn't telling the full story either. News reports either ignore the economic gains under Trump or twist good economic news to fit an anti-Trump theme. A recent New York Times story, for instance, covered how labor shortages in construction are pushing workers' salaries to $25 an hour.
"But because the Times can't stand to give Trump any credit," wrote New York Post columnist Charles Gasparino, "the story was framed that this shortage as a bad thing, a terrible burden for wealthy construction companies and contractors. What hypocrisy."
The key drivers of the booming economy are the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" of 2017 and the roll back of paralyzing federal regulations. Senator Pat Toomey played a key role in both.
More good news along those lines: the country has what economists call full employment, the number of jobs available actually exceed the number of workers; wages grew 3.2 percent over the last twelve months, at a much higher clip than inflation; the country has created 480,000 manufacturing jobs since Trump's election and 209,000 in just the past twelve months.
"Over the past two years, we've seen the undeniable proof that free markets and economic growth can lift everyone and that people can become empowered through the creation of wealth," said David N. Taylor, President & CEO of PMA, and Chairman of the PLC. "Manufacturing jobs, the highest paying jobs in any sector, play a central role in helping people realize dignity, security, and independence."
The fight continues. Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court in Janus vs. AFSCME ruled unconstitutional the law that gave public sector unions to right to extract dues from the paychecks of government employees who chose not to join a union. But Mark Janus, the former state employee who filed the original case in Illinois, told PLC attendees that many unions are still denying workers their constitutional liberties.
"The Constitution governs our country, but a lot of people think of it as merely a suggestion," Janus said.
The Liberty Justice Center (LJC) out of Chicago, where Janus now works, has brought two cases against unions in Pennsylvania.
In one, LJC is representing Shalea Oliver, a Department of Human Services employee in Philadelphia, who is suing SEIU to recover all the money she paid to the union since June 27, 2018, the date of the Janus ruling. The union first resisted letting her drop membership, then later reimbursed her only a portion of what she was owed. "It almost came across like a blood contract," she told Watchdog.org.
In another case, four mental health workers in Lebanon County tried for months to quit their government union, Teamsters Local 429, with no success.
"They discovered they would be forced to pay union dues until their union membership anniversary, an arbitrary opt-out window," Janus said. "After exhausting all options to exercise their rights with Lebanon County and Teamsters 429, they turned to the Liberty Justice Center for help. It's like the unions telling you can only exercise your constitutional rights at a certain time of the year."
The weekend's featured speaker, Kimberley Strassel, member of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, warned that "socialism is by definition authoritarian."
"They have to remove individual freedoms to implement their policies," Strassel said at Friday night's Liberty dinner.
"A lot of people say that the fight is against big government but that is too limited," she added. "But we already have big government, but it's big government still operating in capitalist mode. The fight is against government acting in a socialist mode."
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The ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX O11G Gaming comes 'Spec' heavy, running on the latest Pascal architecture and equipped with 11GB GDDR5X Memory, a massive 11 GB frame buffer, 1.708 MHz OC Boost Clock, the famous "Strix" tri fan cooler, AURA RGB Lighting and a black metal backplate.
Thanks to advances in technology ASUS GPU's utilise premium alloy components that maximise performance, improve reliability, reduce power loss and when used in combination with the DirectCU III cooler, Wing-Blade Fans and MaxContact Technologies achieve thermal levels that are approximately 50% better than previous designs. The ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 Ti STRIX O11G Gaming additionally utilises 0dB Technology enabling complete silent operation below 55°C.
Featuring advance embedded customisation technologies such as ASUS Aura and ASUS Aura Sync you can personalise the colours of the LED's built into the shroud and backplate, enabling millions of colour combinations, upto 6 different effects and automatically syncing your GPU lighting effects with your Aura-enabled motherboard.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is based on the GP102-GPU Pascal architecture and is the flagship GPU of the GeForce GTX 10-series. Employing a massive 11 GB of VRAM, 3584 CUDA cores as well as a minimum boost clock of 1582MHz, the GTX 1080 Ti was made for 4K/UHD-resolution gaming, and represents an excellent choice for experiencing the best that Virtual Reality has to offer - as demanded by HMDs like the HTC Vive.
Forged with the new 16-nm FinFET manufacturing process, the GPU fits 12 billion transistors onto the 471 mm² GP1102 die. The 16 nm process, in combination with the Pascal architecture, also permits a notable reduction in power consumption over previous generations with a 250 Watt TDP.
The GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card is equipped with 11 GB GDDR5X VRAM which is connected to the chipset using a 384-bit memory interface. GDDR5X VRAM has a 50% higher bandwidth when compared to GDDR5 VRAM which, combined with the high memory clock frequencies, allows a memory bus bandwidth of 484 GB/s.
Simultaneous Multi-Projection 4.0 (SMP) allows the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti to conserve geometry-rendering performance by rendering multiple perspectives (known as "Viewports") in a single pass. The Pascal architecture supports up to 16 Viewports simultaneously. SMP is primarily of interest to users of Virtual Reality (VR) and can massively improve the performance of the GTX 1080 TI during VR-related applications when compared to its predecessors.
One component of SMP 4.0 is known as Lens-Matched Shading (LMS). LMS optimises image rendering and prevents parts of the image unseen by the user (Due to Headset limitations) to remain unrendered.
Asynchronous Compute is the simultaneous execution of both the necessary calculations and render requests - This is especially relevant in the context of APIs like DirectX 12 or Vulkan. As a result, faster and more efficient communication between the CPU and GPU occurs. Pascal architecture is designed to allow the GTX 1080 Ti to pause calculations and buffer them, also known as "pre-emption".
Asynchronous Timewarp and Interleaved Reprojection technologies are techniques utilised by VR HMDs to prevent frame-rates falling below 90 Hertz. Asynchronous Compute allows the GP102 GPU to better prioritise these rendering techniques to guarantee an incredible VR experience.
At Overclockers UK, defective ASUS graphics cards that are validly returned (meaning that the faults can be verified by us) by customers during the three year warranty period, starting with the receipt of the goods, will be immediately replaced with a brand new card if in stock. This way, lengthy waiting times can be avoided entirely since forwarding the defective goods to the manufacturer is no longer necessary!
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Love this card. Upgraded from an R9 290X to this - whisper quiet even when gaming at full settings on 2K. Wolfenstein 2, Elder Scrolls Online and Company of Heroes 2 look beautiful. Don't even miss the FreeSync the old card needed, this has brute horsepower to give fantastic visuals.
even though my example wont quite reach 2000mhz, it is extremely quiet and keeps cool. alot quieter and colder than my previous zotac amp extreme 980ti. It has been mining at 1987mhz for three weeks now and is currently sitting at 57c at 27% fan speed. this is helped because of the 4 pin fan connections driving the front two 140mm case fans also. excellent card and will be buying more soon when the prices come down due to volta.
My full system specification is: i7 7700k (water cooled and overclocked to 4.6Ghz), Maximus IX Hero, TeamGroup 16Gb DDR 3200Mhz, M.2 Samsung Polaris SSD and I recently purchased the Asus ROG Swift 27" 165Hz monitor at 1440p.
Installed this beast of a card in my Corsair 540 case with no issues at all! It fits perfectly and looks absolutely stunning which was one of the main criterias for my new build; excellent performance but also good looking hardware for aesthetics... why not!?
In Battlefield 1 on Ultra settings (with the exception of effects turned down) This card is hitting between 150 to 200 FPS at 165hz with Gsync on a 64 man servers. Its just tears through the game like its nothing! I also get 90-120 FPS in PUBG on Ultra which has yet to be optimized!
The card temperatures never seem to go above 65'C at full load. I cannot hear the fans when gaming; this is partly due to the case fans whirling away but even with them turned off the card is near silent which is amazing given how hard its working in games!
What can I say, this card is a monster.
Is it worth buying over a base GTX 1080 Rog Strix? Yes if you are going to make the most of it. Me personally replaced my 2 month old GTX 1080 Rog Strix with this GTX 1080TI Rog Strix, however merely just because I need to squeeze the utmost performance I can to effectively run 4K gaming and applications.
If you are running 1080p or 1440p (2K) I'd say this card isn't really worth the massive investment and you would be perfectly justified and leaving it alone and going with a lower model base GTX 1080 (As I had myself when running 2K), especially if you already own a Non TI card it doesn't seem worth jumping ship to rebuying essentially the same card but with more power. Unless you plan to do things like GPU Rendering or 4K Display.
Worth the money if upgrading from a low tier card and plan to use it to its potential. Otherwise perhaps a lower cost card would be more suitable. This card packs a big punch, as one would expect and hope from the price tag. But for people whom will make the most of it. Most certainly worth the price.
Asthetically speaking it is also a wonderful looking card and has RGB for those that like some lighting within their rigs also.
It runs very cool thanks to the three pretty beefy cooling fans allowing a large volume of airflow. I haven't once go above 75C in all my tests.
The list goes on but the lowest I hit was 55FPS, which was due to the 2.0x SSAA on Metro.
ArmA III was also a test of mine, but due to how horridly that game is optimized, I excluded the tests simply due to it being a mainly CPU focused engine rather than GPU.
If you are looking for the biggest and meanest card around, you are looking at it. Excluding the latest Titan Xp.
I have been waiting 6 months to install this recently released Graphics Card, in my X99 system.
It was 100% worth the wait.
The core clocks to 1923.5Mhz out of the box. No Bios switches. No afterburner. Just preoptimised for your delight.
I have tested: GTA 5 (90+fps) and Watch Dogs 2 so far. Both run silky smooth at maximum settings @1440p on an Asus Swift monitor (g-sync).
Watch Dogs 2 ( a very demanding game) with Ultra Texture Pack installed was running at max settings and well above 60fps (never saw one frame under 65). Currently downloading free game GR: Wildlands.
You pay a lot for the small (but not insignificant) hike in performance compared to a regular 1080Ti.
The size of the card dwarves the size of my now old GTX780 (GB Ghz edition). So check you have room in case first.
I know this is a sore point for many, however the aesthetics are beautiful. No photos does the card justice. RGB for the win.
I have been waiting 6 months to install this recently realised Graphics Card, in my X99 system.
I was undecided between this and the Gigabyte Aorus - the Gigabyte having the boost edge... But oh boy was this the right choice. It's an absolute powerhouse and stunning at staying cool. First time in a long time a component has really felt like it was worth its price!
Simply one of the best graphics cards you can pick up.
Runs cool given its power and very quiet.


Richard is a light eater. He doesn't eat much. He isn't a heavy eater. He eats a light breakfast, a light lunch, and a light dinner. Richard is not fat. He is thin. He will always be thin, because he is a light eater. He eats a bowl of cereal for breakfast. He eats a bowl of cereal with milk. He eats a sandwich for lunch. Sometimes it's a fish sandwich. He likes fish. He eats rice and vegetables for dinner. All he eats for dinner is rice and vegetables. He will never get fat.


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Interventions to minimise doctors' mental ill-health and its impacts on the workforce and patient care: the Care Under Pressure realist review
Carrieri, D; Pearson, M; Mattick, K; et al.Papoutsi, C; Briscoe, S; Wong, G; Jackson, M
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Background The growing incidence of mental ill-health in health professionals, including doctors, is a global concern. Although a large body of literature exists on interventions that offer support, advice and/or treatment to sick doctors, it has not yet been synthesised in a way that takes account of the complexity and heterogeneity ...
Background The growing incidence of mental ill-health in health professionals, including doctors, is a global concern. Although a large body of literature exists on interventions that offer support, advice and/or treatment to sick doctors, it has not yet been synthesised in a way that takes account of the complexity and heterogeneity of the interventions, and the many dimensions (e.g. individual, organisational, sociocultural) of the problem. Objectives Our aim was to improve understanding of how, why and in what contexts mental health services and support interventions can be designed to minimise the incidence of doctors' mental ill-health. The objectives were to review interventions to tackle doctors' mental ill-health and its impact on the clinical workforce and patient care, drawing on diverse literature sources and engaging iteratively with diverse stakeholder perspectives to produce actionable theory; and recommendations that support the tailoring, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of contextually sensitive strategies to tackle mental ill-health and its impacts. Design Realist literature review consistent with the Realist And Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards quality and reporting standards. Data sources Bibliographic database searches were developed and conducted using MEDLINE (1946 to November week 4 2017), MEDLINE In-Process and Other Non-indexed Citations (1946 to 6 December 2017) and PsycINFO (1806 to November week 2 2017) (all via Ovid) and Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (1987 to 6 December 2017) (via ProQuest) on 6 December 2017. Further UK-based studies were identified by forwards and author citation searches, manual backwards citation searching and hand-searching relevant journal websites. Review methods We included all studies that focused on mental ill-health; all study designs; all health-care settings; all studies that included medical doctors/medical students; descriptions of interventions or resources that focus on improving mental ill-health and minimising its impacts; all mental health outcome measures, including absenteeism (doctors taking short-/long-term sick leave); presenteeism (doctors working despite being unwell); and workforce retention (doctors leaving the profession temporarily/permanently). Data were extracted from included articles and the data set was subjected to realist analysis to identify context–mechanism–outcome configurations. Results A total of 179 out of 3069 records were included. Most were from the USA (45%) and had been published since 2009 (74%). More included articles focused on structural-level interventions (33%) than individual-level interventions (21%), but most articles (46%) considered both levels. Most interventions focused on prevention, rather than treatment/screening, and most studies referred to doctors/physicians in general, rather than to specific specialties or career stages. Nineteen per cent of the included sources provided cost information and none reported a health economic analysis. The 19 context–mechanism–outcome configurations demonstrated that doctors were more likely to experience mental ill-health when they felt isolated or unable to do their job, and when they feared repercussions of help-seeking. Healthy staff were necessary for excellent patient care. Interventions emphasising relationships and belonging were more likely to promote well-being. Interventions creating a people-focused working culture, balancing positive/negative performance and acknowledging positive/negative aspects of a medical career helped doctors to thrive. The way that interventions were implemented seemed critically important. Doctors needed to have confidence in an intervention for the intervention to be effective. Limitations Variable quality of included literature; limited UK-based studies. Future work Use this evidence synthesis to refine, implement and evaluate interventions.


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"I don't understand why Narcissus is a fool actually. How could one not be in awe of a reflection? Is it really just the body in the reflection?" – Ladan Osman
Posted by PrachyaReview | Oct 29, 2016 | Interview | 0 |
In the very beginning of this year, I was first introduced with Ladan Osman's poems through a Bangla translation done by Mahmud Alam Soikot. Those translations in my native language made me interested in reading more works of Ladan. I found her works brave in a very sophisticated way. Ladan Osman was born in Somalia and later she moved to Ohio, US with her parents. She grew up there. Her first poetry collection The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony (published by the University of Nebraska Press) got the award of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and in 2015, her chapbook Ordinary Heaven has been included in the box set Seven New Generation African Poets which is a project of the African Poetry Book Fund. She has brought the readers into a new sight of Somalia to see and think beyond the conventional existing westernize idea of any African country.
One day in a conversation, Nigerian poet David Ishaya Osu asked me why I am not taking Ladan Osman's interview for Prachya Review, since she is now considered one of the most powerful Afro-American voices in poetry. I jumped up and said, "Yes! I love her work!" Anika and I then contacted her and she agreed for the interview, even gave us two poems of her to publish along with it. She talks on various issues here, like her idea of poetry, her root and background, African literature, writers who influence her, her plans for the future and much more.
– Shafinur Shafin
Shafinur Shafin: Hi Ladan! Thank you for accepting our request for the interview. You were born in Somalia. Do you have any memory of Somalia, from your childhood?
Ladan Osman: I remember the scent of the ocean and the earth; my parents' home, that stone; light on the ground and the walls and floors. I grew up in the U.S. but cellular memory is real, geographic memory is bodily. This is added to revisiting albums and my parents' stories. Something in me glitches whenever I see photos, or hear the names of streets distantly familiar to me.
Shafin: In a conversation with Alex Dueben, you mentioned that your parents were most comfortable speaking Somali to you, at home. Why have you chosen to write in English and not in Somali?
Ladan: By the time I was a preteen I became self-conscious speaking Somali. After college, I don't hear hours of Somali on a daily basis. I didn't lose my language but I lost confidence speaking it. I spent most of my life writing in English and in order to do my best work, to the best of my ability, I write in English. This is the language in which I exercise the most control. Lately I've studied my father's translations, and feel capable translating Somali to English. We always hope to return home, wash the rust off our tongues.
Shafin: Maybe this is why you said in an interview that you are translating the memories and experiences of Somalia that your parents carried. Do you miss your root? Or do you enjoy the fluidity of your identity? Don't you think if you were in Somalia all along, the way of your expressions would be different than now?
Ladan: My root is deep deep. I can never lose it so I can never miss it. I do enjoy privilege from the fluidity of my identity. I can't tell what would be different if reared in Somalia. I think my reference points would be different but think my core understanding of the world may be similar. This is because my parents are my first and best teachers, and they don't seem to think losing their root or shifting their core is possible. They never spoke it to me if they do.
Anika Shah: What pulled you to be a poet? Did it even occur as a conscious event, or it just happened? Have you ever considered any other medium to express yourself other than poetry?
Ladan Osman: I was writing short stories as soon as I could, mostly what's now called magical realism. In the fourth grade, I read Maya Angelou's "When I Think About Myself." I didn't know this storytelling form existed. It wasn't until the end of undergrad I felt I could do something with poems. But I studied philosophy and poetry to learn how to think. That's the main thing.
Poetry includes but transcends poems. Poems are an artifact, and the form I've published most. I write fiction and nonfiction, and photograph. I teach, story-tell, perform, and consult artists across disciplines. This is all poetry.
Shafin: How do fables, fairy tales, folk stories, and religious rituals of Somalia influence your poetry?
Ladan: Many of the poems in my first book are parables. I was interested in constructing worlds, using events and figures to indicate a world, and for that world to be in conversation with the world we experience directly. Somali stories and turns of phrase influence my thinking and my writing. More than anything, inclinations in the language turned my eye to the natural world. Somali has many words for intention, many ways to indicate personal responsibility in an outcome. This affects my narratives and my syntax. The Quran and other religious texts contain the verses people turn to in distress and jubilation. We memorize them. We carry them. Besides personal pleasure in scriptures, I feel I have a duty as an artist to study the texts that are important to so many of us.
Shafin: A bunch of your images are centered on the body and household chores. Beside that you have used Biblical and Quranic references in some of your poems. In your composition, is it important for the elements to harmonize with the themes, or do you simply allow the poems to pop up organically without control?
Ladan: I don't think looseness has to be sloppy. There's a lot of control in the organic. What looks like imagination or menagerie is actually evidence of study and my will to include the chaos of everyday life in my work, to joyfully document the everyday sublime. We hear and feel through harmony in so many ways, and each poem has its breaths, its mode of disrupting the air around it. I allow their irregularities and allow the poems to make demands on me but this is all control. I'm forced to regulate my artistic insecurities. Even wandering demonstrates a form of control. For me, there's a difference between control and rigidity.
Shafin: Back to your childhood: In your poem, "Amber doll," you maintained a conversation with the doll as though it was a living being. I would put two questions in one: how much of memory do you find favorable to deplore in your poetry? Were there moments in your growing up that you did not admit as true to your girlhood?
Ladan: I don't think I deplore any memory or invented narrative. There's friction and some reservation but mostly I'm curious about that tension: the distance we try to make between what we see and what we choose to tell. "Amber Doll" has many real elements, and most of my work is puzzle-making. Even my nonfiction is not exactly real. I try to focus on what's true, and that includes emotional register, context, what I hope to communicate in our present moment. Receiving the event and sharing it, every choice I make putting it on the page, is subjective. So many things are true to my girlhood because in my memory, my girlhood was a state in which I may include worlds more vast than the one most people could say was closer to an objective truth. It's dangerous for me to invest much in that so-called objectivity. It makes others' perspectives the point of origin. Given the frequency of flat ideas on identity, it makes no sense for a black girl to invest there. They want us to believe their world is irresistible. It's not.
Anika: How important are metaphors to you? Does it ever make you worry that your metaphors may not comminute with the readers like you intended them to?
Ladan: Everything we experience seems allegorical. Metaphor is the language of emotional and spiritual life. We describe our internal worlds using images from our known worlds. Metaphor is something I pursue in language—how are people looming, striving to connect with each other via images? If you listen carefully, people reveal a lot through their imagery banks and tense choices. Through them we indicate plans, mood, comfort with ourselves, and the people we're addressing.
I trust in my readers. I trust my reader to return to my work. I trust my reader to argue with it. I never intend obtuseness but do welcome ambiguity. When I was writing this book, I didn't think about readers. I thought about drafting true atmospheres and improving the technical skill needed to share them. This has led to some fracture after the release of the book because I hadn't thought about people reading it, responding to it.
Shafin: You brought the issues of racial politics, religion, violence against women and the identity crisis and the struggle of an African immigrant in the poems of The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony. They come up in your poetry so much, how significant are these issues to you, and why?
Ladan: I was thinking this morning about archaic uses of the word "issue": as in progeny or as a verb (what I put out from myself). I'm almost always talking about our relationship to God, to empire, to the law. It may look like a love or family poem but I'm thinking through philosophies of the body, the city as a structure, an invention. On the surface, these things are important but I'm most drawn by their sources. From where do these delineations and schisms flow?
Shafin: I find, I am obsessed with my brown body – I feel like it's a temple and I worship it, it reflects in my poetry often. You wrote in a blog, "I often think of my black body as a site of invention, and invention as an act of faith." I liked this part, I could connect myself with this. I have felt that in your poetry what has been expressed about the body is more than just a simple body. How do you see "body", really?
Ladan: Sometimes I have a very impersonal relationship to my body but I love it, and understand our love for our bodies. I don't understand why Narcissus is a fool actually. How could one not be in awe of a reflection? Is it really just the body in the reflection? I see myself as a creation, in conversation with marvel and I like to express awe and gratitude for this body. But I don't put it before the intangible. Some days I have to remind myself I am a woman, a black woman, and the year/city in which I live. I do work to tether myself in a body that others celebrate, or attempt to transgress. Some call this struggle anxiety but it's something else. It's the weirdness of inhabiting a form. I think I recognize what's unreal about our forms.
Shafin: In "First Red Dress", the speaker tells the girl as a warning, 'Go out in that dress/ and you'll get split like a watermelon. Down there.' That poem had a massive impact on me. When I read it I imagined the fear, of being raped, of being torn. Could you tell me a little bit about your thoughts on that poem?
Ladan: This is the poem that made me realize how unprepared I was for response to my work. Many young women, unfortunately, relate to it, and recite lines from it to me. While the poem isn't completely real, I revisit this fear when it's cited: that our bodies are not ours, that we can expect abuse. The conceptual violence, implanted in girls by a very young age, is much worse than abuse of the body. It complicates abuse of the body, makes it seem total. This is how we can tell patriarchy is working: you wish you were not a girl at all, you wish you had never left the house at all. What a blasphemy!
Anika: Who are your favorite writers and poets? On more than one occasion you have expressed your love for the works of Toni Morrison. I am curious because she is my favorite too: what do you love most about her?
Ladan: I love the work of Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Jamaica Kincaid, Mahmoud Darwish, Jim Crace, Salvador Plascencia, Selah Saterstrom, Teju Cole, and the first or soon-to-be published works of poets like Airea D. Matthews, Roger Reeves, Mahtem Shiferraw, and Keith S. Wilson.
Toni Morrison holds everything at the same time. Theory, narrative, music, mystery. Sometimes each sentence requires the same parts of our brains as logics in geometry or abstract math. I admire her intelligence and her sensitivity, her love for others' stories. I don't know many writers who seem so attentive to the declarations, the flesh, even exhalations of other humans.
Shafin: How do you feel the influence of Afro-American writers on your writings? Is it that the influence of Afro-American writers is the strongest on you?
Ladan: Definitely the theoretical and creative works of African-American thinkers has significantly impacted my spirit and work. These are the artists I first studied when suffering from displacement, when looking for a rootedness that relies on more than the arbitrary lines and identities of this fickle realm. But when I visit home, I realize the particularities of my parents' language and personalities impact my work. It's only a few weeks ago, I realized I'm trying to communicate the complexity of my mother's jokes, for example.
Shafin: Africa is a multicultural, multi-ethnic and obviously multi-national continent. But when people talk about African literature, they often take it as a whole, as if Africa is a country, not a continent. That hardly ever happens when talking about the literatures of other countries or continents. Why do you think it is different in the case of Africa? How do you feel about that?
Ladan: Those people have a limited imagination about the black body and everything it issues. Anti-blackness is a mark of stupidity and its practice draws one into deeper stupidity. It's an amusing but not fascinating compounded degeneration. I can't afford to give much attention to this thinking. I may have to hear it out and about but I don't often carry that garbage to my desk or the sacred space of meditation. It's a waste of time to explain what's obvious to a racist. That's the point. To waste our time (Toni Morrison explains this best). I don't owe anyone a demonstration of my or my continent's wideness. The work will never lead us to foolishness and is probably the best use of our time.
Anika: Tell us about your next project. Do you ever intend to write a novel, or an autobiography?
Ladan: I'm releasing new poems in coming months, and writing essays. I only intend to write what insists on being written, and what I need to write in order to evolve. I want to feel grown when I finish a manuscript. I want to see that I'm a sounder human, who is of better use to others. When I visit schools, students request a novel, and I trust in the youth.
Two Poems of Ladan Osman
at a Claudia Rankine reading, University of Chicago, 2011
I enter: carpet, curtains,
large, framed pictures of robed white men,
a glassy glare over a forehead, below the voice box,
students in bland shades.
I don't belong, the luxury of thinking,
the wealth of talking about thought,
privilege of ease among important people.
I am afraid of them, their smell,
their cotton, their expensive running shoes,
their faces so hard to read
when they make odd-placed sighs
at black people histories. There is not one
bright color. A professor laughs—
quick, self-turning, a paper cut
to his own heart.
I hate myself for the shame of forgetting
the books on my shelf,
the many others read on the floors of libraries,
corners of bookstores where the cashier can't see me.
Shame when I see all the book spines there ever were,
their colors and textures like women bent in prayer on a high holy day.
My voice is small as it asks,
What will it matter to them if I make a book?
I am one poet. Isn't there space for me?
And the tears are sweet, completely sweet
as if they mean, even now you don't believe?
The colonizers couldn't have dreamed it,
the preoccupation with the heights of my soul,
my intangible qualities, if I am only the silhouette
of a shadow. If this poet is white in third world countries,
what am I here? It's possible I'm just like the wind in the curtains.
They monopolize part of the eye.
The wind makes its mischief in goose flesh.
A girl closes the window.
[First published Kweli Journal.
The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony, University of Nebraska Press, 2015.]
Practice with Yearning Theorem: Tangents
I make room on the doormat
though no one is coming.
It's a hot night. I'll eat cool soup,
maybe out the can. No,
garnish it: are carrot shavings
good in butternut squash soup?
I take a photo, crop the chip in my bowl.
Maybe I'll send it to my siblings
to show them I'm living well.
I'm eating soup and salad
I couldn't buy at a restaurant
most days. I remind myself
I shower, sleep free from molesters,
that I've paid my bills this month,
and washed my dishes this morning
with my own two hands.
But am I grateful? Last night,
I tried to kill a moth. Two moths
sprang out of it, and split.
I didn't know moths made formations.
The night before that, I killed a moth,
got a paper towel to clean the wall,
and found another moth next to it.
I killed it, too. Why should I go on
killing moths? What have they done?
On the way home tonight,
I saw two pots of flowers,
with fronds cascading from them.
Then I saw a dog with his head,
forepaws outside the fence.
He seemed to need a pat
but I recalled his barking,
his paws slapping the fence.
I wondered if this was the same dog.
On some hot nights, I remember
a poem about a restless woman
in a laundromat, her wetness.
At eighteen this was amusing.
Later, I read that rare plants
thrive in laundromats,
and understood her.
It's a hot night. End of summer.
A scratch on my nose burns
but I don't wash off my makeup
in case I go out.
Maybe I'll "get to go out,"
like a kid waiting at the kitchen table
looking at the back door,
her mother at the sink.
I kill yet another moth,
and consider leaving its body,
bait for the ones eating uneven holes
into the blooms of my favorite shawl.
I call it favorite after ruin.
I wore it to the conservatory
so it could visit siblings.
I'm concerned with families
not the families of moths, apparently,
because I miss the one I came from,
and the one I don't have yet.
It's a hot night.
I'm aware of my wetness.
I'd wear rosebud undershirts
as a girl, my chest poked out.
Relative women noted my posture,
said, so, you're smelling yourself,
and that, too, I understand only now.
Interview taken by
Shafinur Shafin, a poet and writer from Bangladesh
Anika Shah, a writer and translator
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"I like to speak plainly without putting a barrier between me and the reader." – Lydia Davis
'When I was growing up, we never had any Bhutanese authors. All the books we read came from outside.' – Chador Wangmo
'The memoir is very frustrating. I can't seem to explain what happened to me.' – Vijay Seshadri
"I don't believe in art. I believe in death." – Henry Avignon – an Artist of our Time


CHESTERFIELD - It was double the fun and double the signing for two senior Matoaca student-athletes on Thursday morning as Jaelyn Jackson is headed to the University of Maryland to play Division I college volleyball and Jessica McCabe is headed to James Madison to play Division I college softball.
Both Jackson and McCabe took their time as they were surrounded by their family, friends and coaches that have helped be a part of their journey during their careers.
With a huge smile on her face Jackson couldn't wait to sign on the dotted line as she is one of the few high school athletes within the Central Region to be playing Division I college volleyball next season at the University of Maryland.
Over the course of five years, Jackson quickly took her volleyball skills to the next level as she has become one of the most feared outside/middle hitters within the area.
"My sister played volleyball for one year and I said I should try this too so I started playing club volleyball with the 14-year-old group when I was 12 and it kind of just grew from there," Jackson said. "I just liked [volleyball] and it was fun and plus when I got to play with some of the guys I wanted to incorporate what they were doing into my game."
When Jackson first started she said that she wasn't that good at as she was still continuing to grow, but she knew that if she worked hard enough, she could make something of it.
"I was horrible but I could see something in myself that I could have a future with volleyball so I stuck with it from that point on," Jackson said.
One of the biggest influences Jackson has had throughout her career is having good coaches that surround her with positivity.
"One of my coaches gave me this note and I can still remember what it says in that I am so proud of all that you have done and I cannot wait to see what you will become in the future," Jackson said.
Since that time, Jackson's love of the game has continued to grow even when she suffered a terrible stress fracture in her right shin.
"It was a very tough time because I had to will myself back. The pain was terrible, it was like someone using a chisel on you, I was miserable," Jackson said.
But because of her strong desire to get back so that she could make the best of her volleyball career, Jackson persevered.
"You have to will yourself back. Being miserable is not my thing, I am always pushing myself so I knew that I had to get out of that state of mind," Jackson said.
Once Jackson was able to see the results of her hard work during her workouts and physical therapy sessions, she was super excited when she accepted a scholarship to play Division I college volleyball at the University of Maryland.
"It was surreal because they came to one of my tournaments in Atlanta and said that you looked so good on the court and I just loved them after that," Jackson said.
Jackson had other offers from George Mason, West Point and Michigan State but decided that the University of Maryland who will join the Big Ten next year was the best fit for her.
"It's close, it's a big and beautiful campus and the players and coaches are so nice there," Jackson said. "I can't wait."
Matoaca girls volleyball coach Warren Pruett who has coached Jackson for the past two years was thrilled that not only she will be going to good academic school that she also gets to live out her dream with volleyball.
"It's awesome, going to be a Big Ten school is huge. Like I said at the banquet last night it just shows how much she has contributed to this program and what kind of work ethic she has," Pruett said. "When I first started coaching here as an assistant, I've seen how much she has worked with getting her technique right and how that she will leave something valuable for the girls on this team. Her strength has gotten so much better because when she hits, she puts the ball away hard. She's been a true leader on this team."
The University of Maryland is located in College Park, Md. and will be joining the Big Ten Conference next year.
Jackson has a 3.3 GPA and plans on majoring in Criminal Justice with a strong desire to be part of the squad team.
With her parents right next to her, McCabe said that this day has been two years in the making for the Matoaca senior pitcher who has accomplished quite a great deal over her three years.
"As long as I kept working hard and stayed with the right people and had my goals in my mind I felt like this day would come," McCabe said. "My parents and my coaches have always kept me on the right track."
For McCabe, this day was even more special due to the fact that like Jackson she suffered a horrible injury before her sophomore season.
McCabe had torn a ligament in her right foot causing her to miss her entire sophomore season after having guided the Warriors to their first trip to the Group AAA tournament in school history as a freshman.
"I really had to work hard. In my first year everything just kind of came natural and I knew that I would have to still work hard at it, but after my injury I had doubts."
After having such an incredible first year, it took a toll on McCabe not only physically but mentally as well as she questioned how long it would take her to get back to where she once was.
But because of her love of softball, she wanted nothing more than to be out there with her teammates for her junior season where she helped guide the Warriors to another successful season and a three-way tie for first place in the final year of the Central District.
"I definitely had to practice everyday and do my workouts. I needed to bring back my strength and getting my mechanics back to where they were before," McCabe said.
McCabe still thinks about how well the Warriors did during her freshman year that she couldn't wait to get back to try and make another trip down victory lane.
"That state run I think about it all the time and Coach [Scott] Driskill still has that clip from the news on his desktop when we beat Cosby, we still watch that from time to time," McCabe said. "Those girls during my freshman year meant so much to me with Berkeley Driskill, Melissa Skoff, Katelyn King, Ashley Warren and Victoria Lloyd, they made it a lot of fun for me and I just wanted to be a part of that again."
But also during the time that McCabe was going through rehab it was her desire to play college softball that also kept her spirits going.
Within that time, she had committed to play at Radford but that's when the coach at Radford decided to move to James Madison and coach there and McCabe couldn't wait to jump at that chance to follow.
"I really liked the coach and he was so excited to have me because I was the only pitcher that he had recruited and I wanted to go with him to JMU," McCabe said.
From that moment on, McCabe has continued to push herself with vigorous workouts over the course of the summer where she has gained more strength and more confidence within the variety of her pitches.
"I needed to be more focused and I think that has made me become smarter on and off the mound," McCabe said. "With my pitches all I've done is work on my spins on my rise balls and develop a better change-up. Also I go to CJW where I have a trainer that has helped me gain more strength with my hitting and helping me drive my legs better when I pitch and I hit."
James Madison competes in the Colonial Athletic Assoiation (CAA). McCabe has a 3.0 GPA and plans on majoring in athletic training where she hopes to be an athletic trainer in the future.


The Blackwell series / Blackwell Legacy Steam achievements?
The last time I played this game it didn't have the extra commentary and it wasn't even on Steam, but now it seemed like a good time to replay them.
I just noticed the game has achievements and I unlocked the Joey one in game, but not in Steam.
While there is an old topic on this and it seemed to be resolved? Is there some step I missed?
EDIT: Never mind, I verified the integrity of the files and now it's working. If this was already been addressed, I'll just delete this topic.
I give up on the "Keeping it Reel" and "Know it All" until someone tells me exactly what to do.
I used the energy reader even on the clouds and everything until it's no longer usable and still nothing.
Oh, I think I did that, if you get the Three Musketeers award, that means you got him, right?
Someone in the Steam forums said the the tape deck give out an energy reading, so it must be in the first chapter.
How do you do that? I thought all you had to do was give him the medal.
-You mean the Three Muskeeters achievement? I did the same as you mentioned and got it, you didn't let him deal with the big mean robot, right?
-I found a forum post here that says all the entries, but I didn't get the achievement.
-I also have no idea were the tape deck is.
-I'm missing the Peeping Tom one, but I've heard what I have to do, can I still do it even if I've built the energy tracker? Or do I need a fresh save?
I don't really care about achievements, but I thought we'd get the Steam keys pretty soon, so I'd just wait for it.
He said on Twitter it would be today, so I'll just be patient. Does it have cloud synced save files? That would be neat!
I finally got the bird to chase away the doctor, but..... I have no idea what the toy soldier does, I can't figure out what to do with the bubbles, heating them up does nothing.
I'm really stuck... I can't pick up the gunk either, so I have NO clue of what to do next!