Soil fertilization with animal manure or its digestate may facilitate an important antibiotic resistance dissemination route from anthropogenic sources to the environment. This study examines the effect of mineral fertilizer (NH4NO3), cattle slurry and cattle slurry digestate amendment on the abundance and proportion dynamics of five antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and two classes of integron-integrase genes (intI1 and intI2) in agricultural grassland soil. Fertilization was performed thrice throughout one vegetation period. The targeted ARGs (sul1, tetA, blaCTX-M, blaOXA2 and qnrS) encode resistance to several major antibiotic classes used in veterinary medicine such as sulfonamides, tetracycline, cephalosporins, penicillin and fluoroquinolones, respectively. The non-fertilized grassland soil contained a stable background of tetA, blaCTX-M and sul1 genes. The type of applied fertilizer significantly affected ARGs and integron-integrase genes abundances and proportions in the bacterial community (p < 0.001 in both cases), explaining 67.04% of the abundance and 42.95% of the proportion variations in the grassland soil. Both cattle slurry and cattle slurry digestate proved to be considerable sources of ARGs, especially sul1, as well as integron-integrases. Sul1, intI1 and intI2 levels in grassland soil were elevated in response to each organic fertilizer's application event, but this increase was followed by a stage of decrease, suggesting that microbes possessing these genes were predominantly entrained into soil via cattle slurry or its digestate application and had somewhat limited survival potential in a soil environment. However, the abundance of these three target genes did not decrease to a background level by the end of the study period. TetA was most abundant in mineral fertilizer treated soil and blaCTX-M in cattle slurry digestate amended soil. Despite significantly different abundances, the abundance dynamics of bacteria possessing these genes were similar (p < 0.05 in all cases) in different treatments and resembled the dynamics of the whole bacterial community abundance in each soil treatment.
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
This research was supported by Estonian Ministry of Agriculture , project number 372 ; Estonian Ministry of Education and Research (grants IUT2-16 and 3.2.0801.11-0026 ); and by Estonian Doctoral School of Earth Science and Ecology project. “The effect of cattle slurry and cattle slurry digestate on the grassland microbial community”. Authors are grateful to Dr. Matthew Copley for his suggested manuscript revisions.
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- Antibiotic resistance
- Digestate fertilization
- Grassland soil
- Manure slurry fertilization


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Do you have relationship problems or unresolved issues with people around you in office and in social circles? Are some of your habits and attitudes worrisome to you or others? Take this test to check if you are affected by a personality disorder
that alters your perception and attitude.
If any personality disorder is indicated as a possibility, it is recommended that you see a doctor to verify, and follow your doctor’s advice.Please read the following instructions carefully
The screening test involves a series of statements which are marked True or False
, based on whether they appropriately describe your behavior or attitude
. The test is intended to be self-administered
, and it is not to be taken in lieu of somebody else. Read each statement carefully and think carefully before you mark each statement, marking it True (or False) only if it has been part of your behavior or attitude for a prolonged period of time, typically at-least more than 5 years, or since early adulthood. Try not to revisit questions. Do not spend more than a minute on any individual question. The entire test should take about 15 minutes to complete.
ReferencesLoranger, A.W., Janca A. & Sartorius, N. (Eds.) (1997) Assessment and Diagnosis of Personality Disorders. The ICD-10 international personality disorder examination (IPDE). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

domain: psychology


Serta to Launch Campaign for iComfort Line
May 13, 2014,
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.-Serta will debut a new advertising effort for its iComfort mattress collection tomorrow.
Called "Always Comfortable," the campaign will include television advertising spots and social-media promotions. In addition, the company will introduce testimonial films online that will highlight real consumer experiences with iComfort. The intent, according to a Serta statement, is to communicate to consumers that iComfort mattresses are "so comfortable, you'll be comfortable with anything."
The TV commercials, which will break on May 21, feature a man communicating a variety of misguided ideas to his wife, who is relaxing on their iComfort mattress and who says, "I'm comfortable with that" to each idea. The online films will follow five real consumers and their experiences with their iComfort mattresses. The social-media promotions, which will take place during the summer, will use the hash tag #ComfortableWithThat.
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At least not yet. I have plans for Gays in the third saga but for now they would take the stage of side characters.
Michelle is a tough female character but I plan on having her straight for the lack of straight perverted female badass anti heros but that doesn't mean Jimmy Black and Maria aren't Bisexuals but they pretty much date the opposite sex (except the 3rd villain but I rather not talk about gay villains for now). Michelle's relationship troubles would be explored in the Michelle's story part 2 or is it 3 x.x.
Michelle's inspiration is from DBZ's Vegeta and HDN's Vert Green Heart. I have plans for her to have children but I also plan to screw her over in more stories to make her relatable to male and female readers.
She is planned to be the female character I always dreamed of to destroy certain female cliches that annoys me

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All of these songs were written by The Who. All you will hear in most of these vids is my piano and my voice. There are no added instruments or effects accept for my rendition of "Eminence Front." I'm a perfectionist when it comes to my musical interpretations. I welcome all the criticism I can get, and I will respond to comments that I find to be especially interesting. I hope you enjoy.


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Do you use a medical device? You probably do, even if you don’t know it. If you have been harmed by a medical device, you may have a legal claim.
Do you wear contact lenses? CooperVision AVAIRA Toric Soft Contact Lenses were just subject to a Class I recall, which is the most serious type of recall, meaning there is a reasonable probability that use of the product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death. The contact lenses were recalled because of a silicone oil residue on the lenses which can cause blurry vision, discomfort, or serious injury requiring medical treatment and jeopardizing vision.
Have you had orthopedic surgery? There is an ongoing safety review of arthroscopic shavers that are used in some orthopedic surgeries, because pieces of tissue, not evident to the naked eye, are remaining in the shavers even after cleaning which can compromise the entire sterilization process.
Those are just a couple of examples of medical devices that have been subject to a recent recall or safety communication.
Medical devices include virtually everything you might come in contact with in a healthcare setting other than drugs. Medical devices include instruments, machines, implants, and other similar items that are not drugs, which are used for the diagnosis or treatment of a disease or medical condition. Medical devices can include things as complicated as an artificial heart or as simple as tongue depressors, as well as a wide variety of devices in between, such as catheters or infusion pumps.
Prior to a company marketing a medical device, it must be cleared or approved by the FDA. A new medical device can receive “approval” if the FDA finds that the applicant has provided reasonable assurance of the device’s safety and effectiveness. This is the most stringent standard applied by the FDA with regard to the marketing of medical devices, but it has weaknesses because it relies on the accuracy of the information provided to the FDA by the company that wants to sell the device. Alternatively, a medical device can receive “clearance” if the applicant shows that the device is “substantially equivalent” to another device that is already legally marketed for the same use, although the devices do not have to be identical.
In theory, receiving clearance from the FDA to market a medical device that is substantially equivalent to another device that has already received approval would seem to make it possible for consumers to have access to safe medical devices sooner. However, the medical device you trust is safe may have only received a superficial clearance based on the manufacturer’s representation of substantial equivalence.
As each new medical device deviates slightly from the one before it, but is still deemed “substantially equivalent,” decades can pass between the time the original device was approved and the time the medical device you use receives clearance. That means your medical device may bear very little similarity to the original medical device that was approved pursuant to a more stringent review for safety and effectiveness years earlier.
Just because a medical device received approval or clearance from the FDA does not necessarily mean it is safe. The FDA posts information on an ongoing basis about medical devices that are subject to recalls and safety communications as adverse events are reported by patients, physicians, and medical device manufacturers. Some of the problems encountered with medical devices are minor, but some can lead to serious injury or even death.
Rather than trying to protect patients who have to trust that the medical devices they use are safe, the United States House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee is supporting legislation that would make it easier for medical devices to receive clearance. The Committee says it is worried about the delay in getting medical devices to patients while they undergo review by the FDA. But wouldn’t you prefer for the FDA to thoroughly evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a medical device rather than allow you to use it, only to find out later that it wasn’t safe? Do you want to be the test patient without giving your consent?
The Committee says that the current FDA process for approval and clearance of medical devices is causing manufacturers to move overseas where there may be less oversight, supposedly resulting in the loss of jobs to Americans and making it so that medical devices are available in other countries but not in the United States. Even if that is true, is that so bad? One of the great things about living in the United States is that this country cares about the safety of its citizens in a way that many other countries do not. Do you really want to use a medical device that is manufactured by a company that is trying to avoid FDA review of its safety and effectiveness?
If you were injured by a defective medical device, you can check the FDA website to see if it was subject to a recall or safety communication, and you should discuss your injury with an attorney as soon as possible to determine whether there is a legal claim you can pursue.
The Legal Examiner and our Affiliate Network strive to be the place you look to for news, context, and more, wherever your life intersects with the law.

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Frankfurt Motor Show & Continental Tire
Another motor show is in the books! This time it was the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.
FrankFurt Motor Show
The event took place between September 14-24, 2017 and showed off a number of new cars and concepts. Ever wanted an all-terrain baby stroller? Say goodbye to the car key we have come to know and love? Long for cars that will never make it to the U.S. market?
Why not learn about the new Continental tire that can change the tire pressure with the weather. The new system is called ContiAdapt.
Continental's ContiAdapt and ContiSense
ContiAdapt is a system that integrates small compressors into the wheel. It's can inflate or deflate the tires, which expands or reduces the tire's contact patch. The contact patch is the amount of tire that actually touches the ground at any given point. So it suits different weather and driving conditions.
They also announced another technology alongside ContiAdapt. ContiSense uses conductive rubber to send electrical signals to the car's computer from a sensor embedded in the tire. ContiSense detects changes in road conditions. It then warns the driver accordingly. This system supposedly reacts to punctures and changes in tire pressure even faster than current TPMS available now.


Social media has become a major form of advertising for businesses around the world. Not only do social media platforms leverage sales and exposure for brands, but also they act as a main hub for advertising campaigns and marketing strategies. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and Kickstarter are all examples of dominating social media sites, attracting billions of users worldwide for both personal and professional endeavors.
Just like many businesses and stores, an Amazon private label business may greatly benefit from a strong social media presence. Amazon businesses that utilize social media platforms to advertise and increase brand exposure are more likely to scale than Amazon businesses that only advertise on Amazon.com. Social media for business is no longer optional, it is essential. In this blog, Black Caiman media is going to explain why social media is key for Amazon businesses to use as a means to reach more customers, gain valuable insights, scale and increase brand awareness. Furthermore, the blog will cover the top three social media sites you should be using to further build your business on Amazon FBA.
Social Media Marketing Perks
1. Social media can help boost customer service and engagement for your Amazon business.
A business that utilizes social media has a better chance of connecting with customers, building brand awareness and receiving feedback from potential buyers. Social media users tend to follow business profiles that strike their interest. These social media users are potential customers as well, so having a business profile on Instagram, for example, can be a way for your Amazon business to interact with customers on a deeper level. Customers can reach out to your business on social media with their questions, concerns, ideas, feedback and commentary, which boasts your brand’s customer service initiatives. Additionally, new customers are introduced to your Amazon business as you leverage your social media presence and reach larger audiences. Just like with Amazon questions and Amazon reviews, you will be able to comment and connect with customers and show that you value their feedback and patronage.
2. Social media allows businesses to establish their reputation and personalize their brand.
Social media is a great way for businesses to establish their reputation so that customers can personally relate to and “buy in to” their brand. A great social media profile for an Amazon business should display its values for its customers to see, perhaps by putting faces with the brand or by giving insider tips and descriptive content about its niche. You can run 24-hour Stories on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram that give followers an inside look into your business, whether that be a clip that highlights one of your products or a giveaway that increases customer engagement. In sum, social media is an excellent outlet for Amazon businesses to use to build their reputation in a personal and engaging way that attracts customers and reaches new audiences.
3. Social media increases sales and website/listing traffic.
Social media is a great resource for driving traffic to your website or Amazon listing. There are several ways you can use social media as a means to drive traffic to your website or listing, one of the simplest ways simply being a link to your listing or website in the bio of your business profile. This makes it easy for your followers to navigate to your business profile, click on your link and begin shopping your products. You can also use social media as an additional platform to sell products on, such as with Instagram Shopping. Instagram Shopping is “a set of features that allow people to easily shop your brand’s photos and videos all across instagram”. Such features as this can send your sales sky-high and effortlessly elevate your website traffic. Furthermore, analytics tools offered to business profiles that operate on specific social media platforms can help businesses identify their audience and target specific groups.
What Social Media Platforms Should You Leverage Your Amazon Business on?
- Facebook: Connecting your Amazon business to Facebook is one of the best ways to create a space where millions of people can discover and connect with your brand. You can do things like showcase products and services, run Facebook Ads via Facebook Ads Manager, and create promotional sales and special discount codes, which can be linked to Amazon and used at checkout.
- Instagram: Instagram is one of the most popularly used social media sites today, with roughly one billion users and millions of business profiles. Instagram may be used to gather insights on your customers, sell products, connect with followers and turn those followers into loyal customers. Instagram is all about visuals and images, so it is a great place to display your content and put a face to your brand.
- Pinterest: When it comes to do-it-yourself projects, discovering inspiration and creative endeavors, Pinterest is the go-to platform. Pinterest provides businesses with in-app analytics, engagement tools and idea boards that boast your brand exposure and work to scale your business. It also attracts a unique audience that otherwise would not be reached from other social media platforms.


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The UK crime drama Broadchurch will return to BBC America in March, it has been revealed today. David Tennant and Olivia Colman will return to the roles of Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller for the third and final season of the award-winning series as the detectives reunite to investigate another serious crime.
The announcement was made during the BBC America panel at the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour 2017. The event, currently underway in California, allows TV networks and cable stations to present their upcoming programming to an assembly of journalists and columnists from the USA and Canada.
In Broadchurch Season 3, three years have passed since the events of Season 2. While Alec is still worrying about his daughter, Ellie has moved on from husband Joe and faces new difficulties thanks to her elderly dad, played by Roy Hudd.
New faces include Julie Hesmondhalgh who will play Trish Winterman, the victim of a violent sexual assault that Hardy and Miller must investigate. UK comic and author Charlie Higson plays her husband and Sir Lenny Henry joins the cast as Ed Burnett, the owner of the local farm shop where she works. Sarah Parish co-stars as Trish's best friend Cath Atwood, married to fellow newcomer Mark Bazeley as garage owner Jim. Georgina Campbell plays new DC Katie Harford who will team up with Hardy and Miller to work on the case. They will be joined by returning cast members Jodie Whittaker, Arthur Darvill, Andrew Buchan, Carolyn Pickles, Charlotte Beaumont and Adam Wilson.


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Martha W. Petry
Worthington, Ohio, USA
Kindred Spirits embraces important components of my life including my marriage, my love of walking with my dogs and my awe of the wonders of nature. I can’t think of anything more romantic than taking a walk with someone you love and a furry four footed friend under the falling snow, a brilliant sky and a golden moon.
January is a season of snow where I live and the Wolf Moon is the full moon for that month. As the wolf is known to be one of the few species that mate for life, it was a natural choice for this quilt. Because animals hear and smell things that humans do not, the howling wolf and dog communicate in a way that is haunting and romantic.
The quilt is sprinkled with embellishments of beads, buttons, lace and ribbons to capture the sparkle and magic only nature can design. Leaning into each other, the couple stops to listen to the mysterious sound and gaze across crisp white snow through the silhouette of a bare tree at the full, round moon.
Machine pieced and machine applique. Hand quilted, hand embellished with buttons, beads, ribbons, lace and embroidery (ricing).
Cotton fabric, buttons, lace, ribbon, beads, netting, pearl cotton floss.

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Re: Central America
28 Mar 1995 19:05:01 GMT
In article <Pine.SGI.3.91.950325140145.19428Afirstname.lastname@example.org>,
Bonedaddy <email@example.com> writes:
>On Fri, 24 Mar 1995, Jack Davis wrote:
>> Alcoholism has been a huge problem for all Native American groups with
>> which I am familiar. Is there a genetic link? Maybe the fact that
>> Europeans have been consuming alcohol a lot longer than have Native
>> Americans who seem to not have had alcohol until the European colonization.
>> I suspect, therefore, that Euro-Americans have a bit more tolerance to
>> low-alcohol drinks than do natives, although purified alcohol has only
>> existed for what, 800 or 900 years, and now reeks havoc on us as well. At
>> some rituals I have witnessed in Mexico, the natives certainly did like to
>> get smashed. Prior to alcohol, drug consumption was a big activity. It
>> might not be genetic, it might just be a different attitude about how one
>> gets in touch with the gods.
>Then again it may be prevalent amongst native Americans due to their
>lower socio-economic status in general. Possibly the above reason was
>valid in the past but today higher alcoholic rates amongst natives is in
>my opinion a social factor rather than a religious one.
Please correct me if I'm way off base, but I understand that Asiatic/ Native
American populations lack or are slightly deficient in an alcohol processing
enzyme of some sort. It causes the alcohol to be processed differently in the
body, mainly by not processing it gradually as it is ingested but in a "lump
sum" once a tolerance boundary is broken.

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Get more from Jeff Nielson at his site: BullionBullsCanada.com
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08:20 Is Current Gold & Silver Rally false bull market?
11:05 Propaganda & Price Action: Jeff Calls it a Fake Rally
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15:05 NIRP (An Illegal Tax on Capital) & Gold Price
18:05 Businesses forced to Consume instead of Save & Invest
18:50 Denmark has the lowest Negative Rates caused tax pre-payments
20:20 What Makes Negative Interest Rates Illegal: 'Consideration'

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Engineers from the Airbus superjumbo project are due to touch down in Birmingham next week to help develop design expertise among the city's manufacturers.
American engineering software specialists, Dimensional Control Systems, is to hold a four day training event for the world-leading aircraft manufacturer at the Technology Innovation Centre.
The Millennium Pointbased event, which begins at March 14, will see Airbus engineers given detailed training in the use of the latest DCS virtual product design software.
DCS, a TIC technology partner, designs advanced 3D tolerance-modelling software.
This enables companies to reduce costs significantly, through the full and realistic simulation of an end-product, whilst still only at virtual design stage.
With the recent launch of the world's largest airliner, the A380, Airbus faces one of the most complex design and engineering challenges ever undertaken.
The latest DCS software is expected to be of help in the refinement of the many detail design aspects of the final aircraft.
In the UK, Airbus will manufacture wings for the A380 at its Broughton facility in North Wales. This is expected to create 650 extra jobs over the next two years, to meet expected demand for the new aircraft.
The alliance between TIC and the UK arm of DCS has seen the two organisations working together to introduce the 'Close-the-Loop' concept to manufacturing businesses of all types and sizes.
Using DCS Software, companies can accurately predict the relationship between the dimensions and tolerances of complex assemblies, as well as individual components. This enables engineers to 'closethe-loop' of their product knowledge before going into production.
Phil Moorcroft, director of DCS in the UK said: "Most cost overruns arise from reworking tooling and component problems not foreseen at digital mock-up stage. TIC's extensive involvement with manufacturing companies has enabled us to bring the competitive advantage of the 'Close-the-Loop' approach to a wide range of businesses."
Peter Rayson, TIC's head of design and process innovation, said: "We are delighted to host this event for our design partner DCS and their major client Airbus.
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Meanwhile Airbus parent company EADS yesterday reported it had met analysts targets with a 60 per cent increase in profits.
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Operating income, or earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), rose a similar 58 per cent to 2.4 billion euros (£1.6 billion).
EADS raised its 2005 EBIT guidance to more than 2.6 billion euros ( £ 1.8 billion), reflecting expectations that Airbus plane deliveries will rise to 350-360 from 320 last year.
Sales in 2004 grew five per cent to 31.76 billion euros (£22 billion) while its order book rose three per cent to 184 billion euros (£127 billion).
"The numbers are a little ahead of consensus," said aerospace analyst Steve East at CSFB.
EADS' biggest turnaround in 2004 was in its space business, which had EBIT of ten million euros after a loss of 400 million a year earlier on hefty restructuring charges. Airbus had EBIT of 1.922 billion euros, beating most forecasts.


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Plenty of bands fail to follow up a career-defining album. Fleetwood Mac decided to experiment on Tusk and ended up selling only a fraction of what Rumours did. Hootie and the Blowfish rushed out their second album, Fairweather Johnson, and cemented their legacy as a “one album wonder.” Smile, the Beach Boys’ attempt to follow up Pet Sounds, broke Brian Wilson and sent the band into a long decline.
But none of those records caused the band, itself, to break up. None of those records saw a band crack so completely and thoroughly from the pressure of following up one of the most popular and critically acclaimed albums of all time. None of those records caused a rift so wide and so seemingly irreparable that, when it came time to release the contractually obligated post-breakup greatest hits compilations or live albums, band members wouldn’t even be able to be in the same state as one another, let alone communicate without going through lawyers. None of those records poisoned the well so thoroughly that band members said they’d reunite when hell froze over.
None of those records were The Long Run.
In 1976, The Eagles were flying high. Hotel California had become one of the defining albums of its era, earning the band two Grammys and going on to outsell any album ever recorded by the Beatles, Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Madonna or Prince. Glenn Frey, Don Henley and Co. had long had a dream of being the biggest band in America. Now they were, and the world was their playground. They were A-List stars with tons of options available – as well as access to enough cocaine to make Tony Montana blush.
But under the surface, cracks were forming in their foundation. Bassist Randy Meisner quit, citing exhaustion, ill health and conflicts with Frey. According to the Eagles’ own documentary, History of the Eagles, guitarists Joe Walsh and Don Felder were feuding with band leaders and chief songwriters Frey and Henley, demanding greater roles in the band. The latter two were also on the outs, as escalating drug use, long-simmering conflicts and the pressure of following Hotel California tore the two apart.
Every minute I’m awake, even when I’m asleep, I’m worried about the next album and what’s going to be written on it and how it’s going to do and how it’s going to be accepted and how my peers are going to react and how we’re going to make it better than the last one and how the record company is on our case about hurry-up-we-didn’t-get-an-album-from-you-in-1978-and-it’s-not-going-to-look-good-on-our-stock-report-and-what-about-the-profit-sharing-planDon Henley, Interview with Rolling Stone, Nov. 29, 1979
The unrelenting pressure seemed to paralyze the band. When it came time for the Eagles to record The Long Run, they had a whole lot of nothing. They had set a high bar, promising a double album. Instead, they struggled to come up with enough songs for a single album, spending so much time and money that they eventually nicknamed this record “The Long One.”
Oftentimes, they tried to kickstart the creative process with some chemical aids. If you watch History of the Eagles, the part that covers The Long Run sessions contains several scenes of band members wiping their noses while rehearsing. At one point, you even hear someone in the background go: “This song has been brought to you by cocaine.”
When we first started snorting coke, it was like a writing tool. Do a couple bumps, kinda get started talking about stuff, get yourself going, and launch into some sort of idea for a song. But in the end, cocaine brought out the worst in everybody.Glenn Frey, History of the Eagles
The lack of inspiration shows. The first song recorded, “I Can’t Tell You Why,” was a mostly complete composition new bassist Timothy B. Schmit brought with him when he joined as Meisner’s replacement. Another album track was a cover of lead guitarist Walsh’s solo song, “In The City.”
The band was only able to cobble together another eight songs after those two that were, for all intents and purposes, composed outside of The Long Run sessions. Those eight songs are decidedly hit-or-miss. “Heartache Tonight” and the title track are among the better singles in the Eagles’ repertoire, while “Sad Cafe” is an underrated gem written about the Troubador, the L.A. club where Henley and Frey met. The nostalgia-tinged song is partly a rumination on the seeming randomness of success (“I don’t know why fortune smiles on some and lets the rest go free”). It’s also a wistful song about how young and idealistic the musicians at the club used to be before fame and fortune complicated things (“We thought we could change this world with words like ‘love’ and ‘freedom'”). Indeed, the lyrical content covers a lot of themes that Henley would explore in his subsequent solo career and the melancholy solo Felder plays at the end makes “Sad Cafe” really seem like the coda to the Eagles’ career.
But the rest of the album borders on the unlistenable. “Teenage Jail” is among the worst Eagles songs of all time, but don’t take it from me. “Glenn had only brought one song to the album so far, a number called ‘Teenage Jail,’ which was by far his worst writing effort and had a crazy, balls-to-wall guitar solo at the end of it,” Felder wrote in his autobiography, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001). “My solo was the result of a four-in-the-morning, whacked out, coked-out session, and to this day, I’m embarrassed to have played it. It just keeps lingering like a bad smell.”
“The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks” was inspired by a viewing of “Animal House.” “Disco Strangler” is a dated period piece about how much the members of the band hate disco. Maybe they were watching “Saturday Night Fever” when they wrote that one. The latter is an especially bizarre piece, as Henley seems to sing in a different time signature compared to the band, making the song impossible to dance to. That was probably the point, but it nevertheless makes for an uncomfortable and odd listening experience. Both songs, along with other album tracks “Those Shoes” and “King of Hollywood,” fit the definition of “filler,” and are completely forgettable.
We were down to our bare nerve endings in terms of stress. I think the whole band had been suffering from postpartum depression after Hotel, and now we were heavily pregnant again with the next baby, and the strain was showing… It would be fair to say, I think, that this became our least favorite album because it represented such a dark time personally. We were struggling to write, we were struggling with drug and alcohol abuse, and we were struggling with interpersonal relations and ego. The whole album had this dark cloud of dissension around it… Finally, we exhausted ourselves, exhausted our patience, and took so many drugs that nobody could see any further solutions except to finish what we had and walk away from it.Don Felder, Heaven and Hell: My Life in the Eagles (1974-2001)
Indeed, the Eagles walked away soon after The Long Run was released. While the album did well in the U.S., hitting #1 on the Billboard 200 and eventually going 7x platinum, it was clear that the band was broken. After the infamous “Long Night in Wrong Beach” where Felder and Frey threatened to go UFC on each other in the middle of their set, the Eagles took a 14-year vacation. They’d eventually reunite for the Hell Freezes Over album, but it was clear that they were now, purely, a nostalgia act — albeit a highly profitable one. They’re still a touring juggernaut today, as not even Glenn Frey’s death in 2016 could stop them. They simply plugged in another Frey (Deacon, Glenn’s son) as well as country superstar Vince Gill and kept on going.
While the Eagles were, ultimately, able to make it in the long run, it didn’t come without a tremendous cost. Then again, for a band that often cared more about the bottom line than anything else, I guess that counts as a success.


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Poker is one of the most popular card games around and for good reason. It’s not just a fun way to spend an evening with friends, but it also provides several benefits for people who play it regularly. From learning strategy and probability calculations to developing skills like focus and discipline, poker can help people improve their lives both on and off the table.
The game of poker is played in several betting intervals, or rounds. Each round begins when a player, designated by the rules of the particular poker variant being played, makes a bet. The players to his left must either call that bet by putting into the pot at least as many chips as the player who made the bet, or raise it.
Once the player has called or raised the bet he will reveal his cards to the rest of the players. The player with the best poker hand wins the pot.
The first step in becoming a successful poker player is understanding the game’s fundamentals. This includes knowing the value of each type of poker hand, how to assess the strength of a particular hand, and when it is appropriate to call a bet. In addition, it’s important to understand how to read your opponents, which requires analyzing their body language and facial expressions.
Another important skill to learn is how to manage risk. Poker is a game of chance, so even the most skilled players can lose money. However, learning to play the game with a clear head and avoiding emotional reactions can make all the difference in terms of making or losing money.
Poker can be a great way to teach kids the importance of money management and how to make wise financial decisions. It can also be a great way to develop a positive attitude towards failure, which is important for anyone who wants to succeed in life. For example, if a child is struggling in school or at work, poker can teach them to view these setbacks as opportunities for improvement rather than failure.
The biggest reason to learn poker is to enjoy it. Poker can be a very addictive game and it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of playing in a live tournament. In addition to being a lot of fun, poker can also help children develop important skills like attention span and patience. Additionally, it can also help them develop a healthy relationship with risk and teach them how to assess the value of a hand.

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The Ohio State University natural resource researchers recently replaced fish meal protein with cottonseed
meal protein in up to 100 percent of male and female rainbow trout's diet.
Lynette Boney Wrenn's Cinderella of the New South is a major contribution to Southern business history in general and to the history of cotton gins, oil mills, and cottonseed
oil refiners in particular.
exhibits the highest NSP, it is a by-product of seed cotton which is essentially a fibre crop.
The country's Finance Ministry, Economy Ministry and Justice Ministry, Uzpahtayog JSC, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regions and Tashkent city have been charged with working out a procedure for selling cottonseed
oil at a fixed price for socially vulnerable layers of the population.
For example, based on historical price data for cotton lint and cottonseed
for the period 1980-2016, payment rates under a cottonseed
program would have been at the maximum rate in almost two-thirds of those years.
The Pattoki Tehsil Administration had sealed these factories for manufacturing substandard cottonseed
cake, a few months back but the owners opened them after orders from the local court.
As my colleagues and I continue work on legislative measures that will set cotton producers up for future success, I am encouraged by the Appropriations Committees action to address the growing challenges related to cottonseed
and depressed prices in recent years.
The aim of scientists at New Mexico State University was to develop a protein concentrate and a technique for extracting isolate from glandless cottonseed
Some band intensities of FTIR spectra highly correlated with the chemical properties of cottonseed
oil such as IV, SV, PV, FFA and IP.
Groundnut/ Sesame/ Rice Bran/ Cottonseed
+ Mustard/ Rapeseed
The experiment was conducted to investigate the possibility of replacing cottonseed
cake (CSC) with rapeseed cake (RSC) and maize gluten feed 30% (MGF) as protein equivalent basis in Sahiwal calves fed maize silage as basal diet.
oil is one of the alternative oil resources because it contains large amounts of essential fatty acids to meet nutrients requirement when provided to pigs.
2], VFA and pH from several oilseed press cakes: cottonseed
(Gossypium hirsutum L.
cake (CSK) is largely available particularly in well known cotton growing countries such as China, India, U SA, Egypt etc.
The growers are cultivated traditionally which include rapeseed, mustard, sesame, cottonseed

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AbstractOne mechanism for the growth of ocean surface waves by wind is through a shear instability that was first described by Miles in 1957. A physical interpretation of this wind-wave instability is provided in terms of the interaction of the surface gravity wave with perturbations of vorticity within the critical layer—a near-singularity in the airflow where the background flow speed matches that of the surface gravity wave. This physical interpretation relies on the fact that the vertical velocity field is slowly varying across the critical layer, whereas both the displacement and vorticity fields vary rapidly. Realizing this allows for the construction of a physically intuitive description of the critical layer vorticity perturbations that may be approximated by a simple vortex sheet model, the essence of the wind-wave instability can then be captured through the interaction of the critical layer vorticity with the surface gravity wave. This simple model is then extended to account for vorticity perturbations in the airflow profile outside of the critical layer and is found to lead to an exact description of the linear stability problem that is also computationally efficient. The interpretation allows, in general, for the incorporation of sheared critical layers into the “wave interaction theory” that is commonly used to provide a physical description and rationalization of results in the stability of stratified shear flows.


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TUNIS, Tunisia, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A second Egyptian set fire to himself in Cairo Tuesday in an act officials suspect was prompted by the revolution in Tunisia.
Egyptian security officials said the latest victim set himself on fire outside the prime minister's office in the center of the Egyptian capital, The New York Times reported.
The man's medical condition, identity and motives were not immediately clear, the newspaper said.
In Tunisia more than a thousand protesters swarmed the city's main artery Tuesday taking aim at the newly formed unity government.
The protesters chanted "Citizens and martyrs, the government is still the same."
"Nothing has changed," said Mohamed Cherni, a teacher who said he had been tortured by the police force of ousted leader Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi told a radio interviewer the ministers he carried over from the old government "have clean hands and great competence."
"Today there is a new era of liberty which you can see on the television, in the street, a new spirit completely different from what prevailed in the past," he said.


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- Marvel's Spider-Man 2's key feature is uncompromised ray tracing across all performance settings on the PlayStation 5.
- Mike Fitzgerald from Insomniac revealed multiple framerate options for players, emphasizing that ray tracing remains constant in all modes.
- Spider-Man release eagerly await the game's release on October 20 to see if it indeed sets new standards for gaming.
Now that the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Final Fantasy 16, Diablo 4, Starfield, and Baldur's Gate 3, have each had their turns in the spotlight, it's now time for Sony's biggest first-party title of the year to become the center of attention.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which recently went viral because of Venom's 19-inch statue, is launching on October 20.
Ahead of its official release, PlayStation and Insomniac Games are ramping up the marketing machine and letting the developers cook, or so to speak. At the September 2023 State of Play showcase, Insomniac revealed, among the other things, saw them flex their technical prowess on the entire gaming industry.
With a little over a month to go before Peter Parker and Miles Morales swing by on the PlayStation 5, the follow-up is confirmed to set benchmarks that other titles are struggling to meet.
The standout feature that's grabbing attention? Uncompromised ray tracing across all graphical performance settings. Ray tracing, which brings more realistic rendering of reflections, lighting, and shadows to the game, promises to be an ever-present feature regardless of the player's performance preference.
Mike Fitzgerald, Insomniac's Director of Core Technology, elucidated during an IGN interview that the game will offer players multiple framerate options - 30, 40, and 60 frames per second. This gives players the option of exquisite image quality at 30fps or a silkier framerate at 60. And for those with 120Hz TVs? The 40fps option is your go-to.
As Fitzgerald proudly states, "There's no mode of this game that has the ray tracing turned off," attributing this success to Insomniac's familiarity with PlayStation 5's architecture after releasing three other titles on the platform. This sets the bar high for other titles coming after it: all gamers, regardless of their choice, will experience the visual experience that the developers intended for Marvel's Spider-Man 2. This focus on ensuring a unified, high-quality visual experience speaks volumes of Insomniac's dedication to its fan base.
Delving deeper into the game's technical specifics, Fitzgerald has spoken of a "robust temporal anti-aliasing solution," which can be scaled to align with the player's preference. This reinforces Insomniac's emphasis on granting players absolute control over their desired graphical configurations.
By ensuring that ray tracing is a constant, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is set to immerse players into a deeply realistic New York City, elevating the authenticity of the Spider-Man experience.
Unsurprisingly, the feedback on the recent revelation is resoundingly positive. Many applaud Insomniac for achieving a seemingly impossible task: offering both stunning graphics and smooth performance. In a way, Insomniac has become the new standard that all developers should aim for, or at least that's the consensus. It's argued that Insomniac has all but guaranteed that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will convince even more people to buy the best-selling PlayStation 5.
Beyond the technical details, what's hyping up Marvel's Spider-Man 2 further is its narrative depth. The follow-up delves into a darker side of Peter Parker, exploring the consequences of his symbiote infection and the differences between his gameplay and that of Miles Morales.
With this nuanced portrayal, Insomniac ensures that the game isn't just visually stunning but narratively compelling.
If it wasn't already a sure thing before, it is now. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will be a masterpiece. Insomniac had previously proved with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart that it can harness the power of the PlayStation 5. Two years later, it's topping itself. It's hard not to set high expectations for this new Spider-Man adventure, but Insomniac seems eager to welcome the challenge.
We'll find out on October 20 if Insomniac will indeed redefine gaming standards and set a higher bar for everyone else for the foreseeable future.

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Raymond Weil Hall of Famer.
Royston Tan Presented With The Exquisite Timepiece.
Gala Premiere Invite.
In conjunction with the release of Royston Tan's second feature film, 4:30, the Gala Premiere was held at Shaw House's Lido Cineplex on 22 June 2006.
Besides the Gala Premiere, another highlight of the evening was the presentation of an exquisite Raymond Weil Tango Chronograph Timepiece to Royston by Mr Tan Soo Khoon, Managing Director of Crystal Time Singapore, the sole distributor of Raymond Weil in Singapore.
To recognize Royston Tan's contribution & dedication to the local art scene, Raymond Weil, an avid supporter of Arts & Culture (especially of Music & Visual Arts) has inducted Royston Tan (Singapore) into the "Raymond Weil Hall Of Fame" by presenting a Raymond Weil Tango Sports Chronograph timepiece in a ceremony during a Cocktail Reception at 4:30's Gala Premiere on 22nd June 2006.
The exclusive timepiece was specially flown in for the ceremony and Royston will be the first in Singapore to own a Tango Sports Chronograph in Singapore, as the Tango Sports Chronograph is not in local retails stores yet.
Apart from Royston, some of the distinguished and talented celebrities who are in the Raymond Weil's Hall Of Fame includes: Charlize Theron, Janet Jackson and Il Divo.
*text courtesy of moviexclusive.com
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A Turkish court, on Saturday, ruled on arrests of 10 academics at Kocaeli University, increasing the already-high number of intellectuals taken under custody as part of an investigation into the Gulen Movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the July 15 coup attempt.
Police detained 21 academics on August 20. While 11 were released –four of them being on probation–, the remaining ten were arrested.
Turkey survived a military coup attempt on July 15 which killed some 240 people and wounded athousand others. While the government accuses the Gülen movement of masterminding the putsch, the movement has repeatedly repudiated such claims, condemning any intervention into democratically-elected administrations.
Some 82,000 people have been purged from state bodies, 40,000 detained and 20,000 arrested since the coup attempt. Arrestees included journalists, judges, prosecutors, police and military officers, academics, governors and even a comedian.


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Rare American & European Furniture, Fine Art to Pace Litchfield Online Auction
This Chippendale maple slant-lid desk, probably New Hampshire, circa second half 18th century, will be among the items up for sale in an online auction hosted by Litchfield County Auctions on June 30-July 14, 2010.
LITCHFIELD, Conn. – Seventeenth-century English furniture pieces deaccessioned from Connecticut College, as well as pewter, silver and vintage firefighters’ gear, will be among the 750 lots of rare American and European antiques and fine art will be sold June 30-July 14, 2010 in an Internet and catalog auction by Litchfield County Auctions.
Online bidding will be facilitated by iGavelAuctions.com. An exhibition will be open to the public at the Litchfield County Auctions gallery, located at 425 Bantam Road in Litchfield, from July 9-13, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A tag sale has also been scheduled. In addition, there will also be a free appraisal day at the gallery facility, on July 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The items from the Connecticut College collection had been on exhibition at The Henry Whitfield House in Guilford, Conn., and include rare 17th-century English furniture pieces. The sale will also feature The Collection of Rose and Stanley Rich of Fairfield, Conn. (mostly period furniture and decorations, plus pewter and silver) and a collection of rare vintage firemen’s gear.
Early English furniture pieces include a 17th-century English James I draw table with rectangular mitered top and draw-ends and scalloped apron; a 17th-century Charles I oak wainscot open armchair with later elements; a circa 1700 English William & Mary two-section oak court cupboard; and a Jacobean oak bench with molded edge plank seat, molded rails and turned legs.
Later English furniture pieces will feature a late 18th-century Regency mahogany slant-lid desk, English, opening to a divided interior with faux-front drawers; and a late-18th-century seven-piece George III mahogany breakfront bookcase with a central section and two wings.
American period furniture will be no less impressive. Examples include a late-18th-century Chippendale maple slant-lid desk, probably New Hampshire; an early 19th-century classical mahogany three-part dining table with rounded ends; a circa 1790-1810 Federal inlaid mahogany fold-over card table, possibly Philadelphia area; and a late-18th-century cherrywood Chippendale tall chest of drawers, probably New England or Pennsylvania, stamped “H. Ford.”
Fine art will be offered in abundance, much of it by noted, listed artists. Included will be several prints and posters by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (Fr., 1864-1901), such as the colored and monogrammed lithograph “Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, en Buste,” and the pencil-signed lithograph “Guy et Mealy, dans Paris qui Marche.” Both of the works are matted and framed.
Also for sale is a watercolor and pencil drawing by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), signed lower right by the artist.
Fans of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) will be delighted to learn that two watercolors by the iconic French artist will be offered. One, titled “Kneeling Nude,” is a watercolor and pencil drawing, pencil signed lower right by Rodin and matted and framed. The other, “Nude With Foot Resting on Chair,” is also a watercolor and pencil drawing, pencil signed lower right by Rodin.
Other important artwork will include an aquatint engraving after Karl Bodner (Swiss, 1809-1893), titled “Assiniboine Indians”; a barnyard scene with rooster and chickens by Walter Hunt (Br., 1861-1941); an oil on canvas by Reginald E.E. Arnold (1853-1938), titled “On the Ice – Holland”; and a work titled “Lille, Belgium Canal Scene,” by George Gregory (Br., 1849-1838).
Continuing in the category, also sold will be a Continental School oil on panel work titled “Still Life With Fruit and Flowers” (circa 18th or 19th century); a drypoint etching by Paul Cesar Helleu (Fr., 1859-1927), titled “Portrait of a Young Gazing Lady”; and an oil on canvas painting in a carved gilt wood frame by Karl Heller (Germ., 1849-1925), titled “River Landscape With Boats.”
American artists will be well-represented, too. Lots will include a pair of works attributed to Georges M. Bruestle (1872-1939), titled “Dog and Cow” and “Lake’s Edge” (both done in 1931 and both oil on cardboard); an American School oil on canvas titled “Lake Landscape With Boats”; and a James J. Audubon print of an American black wolf, hand-colored by J.T. Bowen (1845).
Other American artwork will include an oil on canvas figural rendering by Francis William Edmonds (N.Y., 1806-1863), titled A Sly Expression; an oil on canvas painting by Ogden Minton Pleissner (1905-1983), titled “Remembrance” (probably circa 1940-1945); and a 19th-century oil on canvas work by J.W. Nunns, titled “Landscape With Cows at a River” (1875).
An oil on canvas painting by Charles Henry Passey, titled “The Lane, Faldey, Surrey,” will be auctioned.
Bidders will be dazzled by the wide array of sterling silver. Featured will be a Tiffany & Co. gold vermeil flatware service for eight in the “Shell and Thread” pattern (American, circa 1905, 66 troy ounces); a partial Sheffield flatware set in the “Kings” pattern (1901-1902, 177.78 troy oz.); and a silver and parcel gilt beaker bearing the marks of Strassburg and dated 1612.
Additional sterling silver will include an early 20th century flatware service for 20 by the Manchester Silver Co. (224 troy oz.); a partial flatware service by Gorham in the “Versailles” pattern (late 19th century, 135 troy oz.); an assembled Dominick & Haff partial flatware set in the “King” pattern (161 troy oz.); and a Ball Black & Co. sterling hot water urn, early 20th century.
Bronze pieces will feature a group of five Grand Tour (19th century) obelisks/monuments, including Napoleon’s Column, Columna Traina, Obeliscus Flaminus, a Roman column and L’Arc de Triomphe; and a bronze work by Malvina Cornell Hoffman (1887-1966), titled “La Gavotte,” inscribed by the artist and with “Roman Bronze Works New York” inscribed on the base.
Pewter pieces from the Rich collection will include a late 18th or early 19th century beaker with the mark of Ebenezer Southmayd (Castleton, Vt., and Middletown, Conn.), tapering form with incised bands and molded foot; and an early 18th-century beaker with the marks of Robert Bonnynge (or Robert Bonning; Boston, Mass.), with a flaring rim and molded base.
The rare and unusual collection of 19th- and early 20th-century firefighters’ gear will be highlighted by a pressed-felt parade hat, made in the mid-19th century by the Bethol Company, plus a helmet, a bucket, framed documents and a parade torch. Also sold will be a Federal period eglomise banjo clock hand-crafted by Isaac Wyman of Boston, Mass.
For more information about this auction, call 860.567.4661, e-mail to email@example.com or visit the Litchfield County Auctions Web site.
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Biography/ Abstract: Dr Caroline Baylis-Green is an independent scholar and visiting lecturer at the University of Sussex. Caroline’s research primarily focusses on links between queer theory and long nineteenth-century women’s poetry and life writing. She was awarded her PhD in 2016 from Manchester Metropolitan University for her thesis ‘Queer Subjectivities, Closeting and Non-Normative Desire in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry and Life Writing. In this blog post Caroline examines the poetry of Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper (or Michael Field as they were collectively known), exploring the use of their pet dog as poetic muse and containing closet.
camp, closeting, poetry, sentimentality, queer
Katharine Harris Bradley (1846-1914) and Edith Emma Cooper (1862-1913) wrote together and published poetry and plays under the pseudonym Michael Field. Bradley and Cooper were aunt and niece; they embarked on a physical relationship from 1885 and lived together in Richmond from 1899. Michael Field’s poetry and extensive life writing arguably provide a unique resource for scholars interested in combining an analysis of queerness as non-normative and queerness understood in terms of same-sex sexual relations or gender non-conformity.
As Michael Field’s wider poetic oeuvre has been recovered, or rediscovered, contemporary academics have faced serious challenges in reading works that combine the uncomfortable bedfellows of worship, excessive sentiment, religion and eroticism. Much of this difficulty has centred on Field’s ‘dog-God’ poems Whym Chow: Flame of Love. This challenge has often produced ambivalent responses with Field scholars caught between acknowledging the intensity of the poems themselves and the extreme oddity that envelops them. Fin-de-Siecle researchers and Michael Field specialists Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo highlight this problematic dynamic in their introduction to the poems in their recent Broadview edition:
The question of the book’s ‘campness’ must be addressed if we are to consider Michael Field’s work seriously. Many of the poems not included here were left out because of their ludicrous sentimentality. Yet in the volume as a whole, there is a hint of self-awareness...[i]
Sentimentality represents a major challenge for twenty-first century academics working on nineteenth-century writing. The term itself is generally used in a highly pejorative way and with an accusatory tone. However, some contemporary researchers are attempting a rehabilitation of sentimental writing; exploring the changing reception of literature, which is considered emotive or too emotional, and its relationship to nineteenth-century women’s writing. Literary critic Peaches Henry outlines the landscape of negative attitudes to sentimental writing in contemporary criticism:
‘Modern critical assessments of ‘good’ literature tend to denigrate poetry which appeals to people’s emotion or invokes religion as sentimental…’[ii]
In certain quarters, sentimentality is still considered a poetic affliction. Dismissed and rendered ‘shameful’ in this manner, sentimentality has been relegated to literary margins. The basis for inclusion in current scholarship seems to be knowingness, or the lack of it, concerning excessive affect.
The tension between Bradley/Cooper/Field’s constant bids for critical recognition, their desire to retain a private poetics and an uncanny talent for choosing outmoded styles reaches its zenith in Whym Chow, as does the bifurcation of outwardly normative poetics and deeply subversive content. Even Frederick Roden (an academic specialist in nineteenth-century writing, religion and queer theory) who has produced some highly sensitive and complex readings of the Whym Chow poems occasionally struggles with this unresolved oddity or campness:
‘If these poems on a canine seem odd, it is nevertheless possible to find within them a complex theology of redemption and sacrifice. They also contain a sublimated lesbian sexuality. This Christian eroticism can be discovered without benefit of dog in Katharine’s volume Mystic Trees and Edith’s contemporary Poems of Adoration.’[iii]
‘Without benefit of dog’ amusingly suggests the difficulty in working with this oddity, and at the same time recognises its potential humour.Whym Chow is the queerest of Field’s works because of this combination of elegy/non-elegy, passionate worship, complex theology, eroticism and an alternative familial aesthetic, wrapped up within an awkward cloak or coat of delayed high Victorian sentiment.
Discussions of Whym Chow’s oddity also reflect a formal instability. While Whym Chow appears as a figure in Wild Honey and Various Thyme (an obvious sonnet sequence) Whym Chow: Flame of Love deconstructs sonnet form. The collection plays with ideas of the muse, poetic devotion, love and worship, to produce doubled and tripled, subject and object positions. Writing in her recent paper Sarah Kersh argues that, ‘Michael Field’s radical departure from the strict composition of the sonnet presses not only against the boundaries of the amatory poetic but also asks what counts as intimacy.’[iv] This departure from strict composition produces non-binary positions and queer spaces as the barriers between subject positions break down into a mess of bodies and fur. The doubled double of their lyric collection Long Ago becomes tripled in the trinity of Michael, Field, Chow, and Bradley, Cooper, Chow. In the poem ‘V. Trinity,’[v] Whym Chow emerges as both muse and proxy figure, melding Michael and Field together but also as a source of anxiety:
I did not love him for myself alone:
I loved him that he loved my dearest love.
O God, no blasphemy
It is to feel we loved in trinity, (1-4)
In this poem Whym Chow’s presence is gifted and used as a trope of domestic and sexual ownership, highlighted by the opening line of the second stanza, ‘So I possess this creature of Love’s flame,’ (10). The text explicitly marks Chow’s place as a central mechanism of exchange between the speaking voice and its ‘dearest love.’ (2) Whym Chow acts as a go-between, as a sign of marriage, and as a poetic sign, mirroring the triple aspect of the text, ‘O symbol of our perfect union, strange/ Unconscious Bearer of Love’s interchange.’ (17-18) Whym Chow as poetic figure offers a means of expressing explicit and non-explicit touch and desire. Chow provides a dual perspective where direct erotic touch is hidden and closeted from readers; avoiding potential censure, but known and acknowledged by the authors.
In poem, IX[vi] Whym Chow acts as a comforter assuaging the grief of the poetic voice’s loss of the absent object, ‘My loved one is away from me’ (1), and is a line that repeats and develops through the stanzas as both a kind of lullaby and a rhythmic chant. In touching Chow, the poetic I seeks union with the absent beloved through a process of extension, association and substitution, ‘For her we loved in absence and together,/ My feet, thine eager paws, questioning whether/The loved One would come back to us (11-13). Whym Chow acts as a stand in and proxy for the absent loved one is sharing gaze and sighs,
My loved One is away from me.
O Chow, no more we twain
My lovely fellow-lover, hear and see
And breathe for her again! (36-39)
Chow acts as a kind of queer life support breathing for, and in the place of, the absent loved one.
Whym Chow emphasises fetishized touch (direct and indirect), where the touching of a pet also offers simultaneous intimacy with another who has left a trace of their touch, or touched the same places. Michael Field cleverly find a way to convert prohibited touch into appropriate touch by using a canine trope in combination with existing homoerotic aspects of Catholic theology, and iconography, for example, the Trinity. As Mark Knight and Emma Mason suggest:
‘One of the most distinctive theological ideas informing Michael Field’s poetry is the Christian doctrine of the Trinity…Field found in the Trinity a thoroughly Christian way of thinking about love and the interrelatedness of living beings (human and non-human).’[vii]
These poems layer their sentimental coatings over human and animal bodies, offering a ‘pet closet’, which paradoxically aids the expression of sexual love and religious fervour. This pet closet also allows the possibility of proxy touch as a way of obviating Catholic guilt in the use of an intermediary figure. Chow dogs are known for being nervous and aggressive with outsiders/strangers; the touch that Whym Chow offers biographically and textually is only for his owners. Whym Chow stands guard protecting the inner sanctum of Michael Field’s poetics and relationship. Whym Chow acts a child and poetic offspring throughout the poems. This particular combination of intimacy and prohibition also appears in other unexpected fin-de-siècle spaces. Freud famously instructed American modernist poet H.D (Hilda Doolittle) not to touch his pet chow Yofi during analysis, ‘”Do not touch her…she snaps - she is very difficult with strangers,”’[viii] a request, which H.D wilfully ignores. Whym Chow: Flame of Love embodies an invitation into tactile poetics but also excludes unwanted approaches. As poem IX reiterates Whym Chow is guard dog, guardian angel and Holy Spirit, corporeal and incorporeal: ‘O Chow, my little Love, you watch above her; /Watch still beside me, be with me her Lover!’ (46-47). However, it also instructs the dog to join in the desiring of the poem’s muse, ‘be with me her lover’ can be read as be beside me, but also as if the desiring is being doubled and shared between the human and canine subjects. This shared desire is suggested throughout the poems, which often propose varying forms of triangulation
In XXIX, the themes of mortality, pain and absence threaten the transcendent trinity. Whym Chow becomes the last hope of salvation for the absent, suffering muse:
‘Nor die! Unless thy ruddy flambeau leaps,
Naught can assuage her grief,
No mortal nor immortal give relief (18-20)’
Chow becomes the only form of opiate available to alleviate grief and pain and is commanded to be present after (biographical) death. Poem XXIX attempts a resolution of Field’s pagan, classical and Christian motifs through the use of ‘Bacchic resin’ (8) and dog-God flame (I am the way, the truth and the light). The poetic voice offers training in supplication and obedience, instructing the dog comforter and family member, but also worships Chow as the keeper and sustainer of the flame-flambeau coat, ‘Light her, as with torch of fir,’ (fur) (5). These sentimental coatings prove their poetic worth elegiacally, offering a form of pet salvation, if not resurrection. Ultimately, I want to suggest that WhymChow’s oddity is precisely what makes it worthy of consideration by scholars interested in the links between closeting, sentimentality, camp and queer.
Henry, Peaches ‘The Sentimental Artistry of Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children,”’ Victorian Poetry 49.4 (2011), 1-15.
Kersh, Sarah ‘The Amatory Sonnet Tradition and Whym Chow: Flame of Love,’ Michael Field Centenary Conference Abstract 2014.
Knight, Mark and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Jackson, Sarah ‘Touching Freud’s Dog: H.D’s tactile poetics,’ Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 15.2, August 2010, 187-201.
Frederick, Roden, Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
Thain, Marion and Ana Parejo Vadillo, Michael Field: The Poet – Published and Manuscript Materials (Plymouth: Broadview Press, 2009).
[i] Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo, Michael Field: The Poet – Published and Manuscript Materials (Plymouth: Broadview Press 2009), p184.
[ii] Peaches Henry, ‘The Sentimental Artistry of Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of the Children,”’ Victorian Poetry 49.4 (2011), 1-15 (p.1).
[iii] Frederick Roden, Same-Sex Desire and Victorian Religious Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) p.205.
[iv] Sarah Kersh, ‘The Amatory Sonnet Tradition and Whym Chow: Flame of Love,’ Michael Field Centenary Conference Abstract 2014.
[v] Thain and Vadillo, p185.
[vi] Ibid. pp.188-189.
[vii] Mark Knight and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), p.197.
[viii] Sarah Jackson, ‘Touching Freud’s Dog: H.D’s tactile poetics,’ Angelaki Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 15.2, August 2010, 187-201 (p.187).
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Ceres has signed an agreement with Shell to deliver an MW scale solid oxide electrolyser (SOEC) demonstrator in 2023.
Shell and Ceres are building this partnership to utilise SOEC technology to deliver high-efficiency, low-cost green hydrogen; now widely viewed as a credible route to decarbonise hard-to-abate parts of the energy system that rely on fossil fuels today.
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Avigdor Lieberman's first speech since taking office, along with accusations by the moderate Palestinian president that the new Israeli government opposes peace, signaled tough times ahead for the Obama administration's regional diplomacy.
"Whoever thinks that concessions ... will achieve something is wrong. He will bring pressures and more wars," Lieberman said. "What we have to explain to the world is that the list of priorities must change."
The appointment of Lieberman, head of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beitenu, has raised international concerns because of his hard-line positions on peace and an election campaign that was widely seen as racist.
Lieberman's campaign proposal to strip the citizenship of people who do not pledge loyalty to the state and slogan that "only Lieberman understands Arabic" were viewed as thinly veiled swipes at Israel's Arab minority.
His speech at the Foreign Ministry only added to Palestinian trepidation over the new government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In his first term as prime minister a decade ago, Netanyahu took a tough line in peace talks and frequently clashed with his Palestinian counterparts.
Netanyahu, who took office Wednesday, has tried to portray a softer image this time around, saying he will seek a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. But he has not outlined how that deal might look, and conspicuously refused to accept the Palestinian demand for an independent state on lands occupied by Israel.
Middle East envoy Tony Blair on stressed Wednesday that Palestinian statehood remains the key to peace in the region and warned of the consequences if negotiations are not vigorously pursued.
"We face a situation of very great jeopardy for the peace process," he told reporters in Brussels. "We need a combination of strong political negotiations toward a two-state solution and major change on the ground."
Establishment of a Palestinian state was endorsed by former President George W. Bush and is a cornerstone of the Obama administration's Mideast policy.
U.S. officials did not comment directly on Lieberman's speech but the White House also emphasized the statehood issue.
"The President has said many times that we are committed to the establishment of a democratic Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace and security," said Mike Hammer, a spokesman for the National Security Council.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, speaking for the first time about the new Israeli government, urged the international community to put heavy pressure on Netanyahu.
"We want to tell the world that this man doesn't believe in peace and therefore we cannot deal with him," Abbas told an Arab summit in Qatar. His comments were reported by the official Palestinian news agency.
As Israel's face to the outside world, the brash, Moldovan-born Lieberman, who still speaks with a Russian accent, could have a difficult time changing minds about the government's intentions.
In his speech, Lieberman harshly criticized the U.S.-led peace talks launched by Bush in Annapolis, Maryland in 2007, saying the agreement has no bearing.
"Nobody ever authorized Annapolis," he said.
Instead, Lieberman said he would reluctantly accept an earlier peace plan known as the "road map."
The road map promoted a phased approach to peacemaking and never got off the ground as Israel and the Palestinians accused each other of failing to meet their obligations. The Annapolis process tried to get over this hump by jumping directly to all "final status" issues surrounding Palestinian independence.
"We will never agree to ... go straight to the final cause, which is negotiations for a final agreement. No. These concessions bring nothing," Lieberman said.
Officials in Netanyahu's office did not return messages seeking comment.
Lieberman spoke at a handover ceremony attended by his predecessor, Tzipi Livni, who was Israel's chief negotiator in the Annapolis talks. Livni grimaced throughout his speech, and at one time spoke up to disagree with him. Diplomats in the room shifted uncomfortably as he spoke.
"He came here with a clear political program and he now exposed what it was. This is what it's going to be," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
Lieberman has generated controversy for more than a decade in politics.
Last October, he said that Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, could "go to hell" because of his refusal to visit Israel. But in Wednesday's speech, he said Egypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace agreement with Israel, was an important ally.
"I would definitely like to visit Egypt and I would be happy for Egyptian leaders to visit here," he said.


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GREENVILLE – After a 16-year-old boy did not return home Friday night, emergency crews began to search Clifford Lake and the surrounding areas.
The Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office, Stanton Community Fire Department and Emergency Medical Crews responded to Clifford Lake in search of the boy just after 10 p.m. Friday.
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SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says it needs more information before it can approve a $20 million project to upgrade a dock in Superior's harbor that would be used to ship crude oil on the Great Lakes.
Elkhorn Industries wants to refurbish the dock as the industry tries to keep up with sending booming supplies of crude oil from Canada and North Dakota to the east for refinement. The DNR says Elkhorn Industries hasn't resolved full ownership of the lakefront property in Superior and other development issues.
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Ayatollah Khamenei planted two fruit saplings in Tehran on Wednesday to mark Tree Planting Day, and delivered a short speech calling for the protection of the environment, Tasnim News Agency reported.
Stressing the need to protect plants and warning against damages caused by disregard for Iran’s forests and grasslands, Ayatollah Khamenei stated, “The issue of trees and the protection of vegetation must become a value in the public culture.”
The Leader also hailed tree planting as a symbolic move highlighting the significance of trees and the natural environment.
Deploring damage done to trees in bosky areas in order to construct buildings, Ayatollah Khamenei underscored, “The organizations in charge must seriously stand against such measures and not permit them.”
The Leader also warned against planting harmful species of saplings in certain parts of the country for the purpose of combating desertification, calling on the relevant organizations to prevent such harmful approaches and to push for the protection of woodlands.
Ayatollah Khamenei further urged judicial bodies to do their utmost to prevent any harm to forests.


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The son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says his father will fight "until the last bullet" as violent clashes spread to the capital, Tripoli.
AP - Protesters and security forces battled in the center of Tripoli as anti-government unrest spread to the Libyan capital and Moammar Gadhafi’s son went on state television to proclaim that his father remained in charge with the army’s backing and would “fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet.”
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