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November, somewhere in the Alberta Rocky Mountains
Rachel Malone shivered as she eased up the handle on the small airtight stove. She added another log to keep the fire going, leaving the door wide open as she hauled over a chair from the tiny kitchen area so she could sit in front of the inferno. The fire crackled with delight at the extra fuel, flames licking their way up the sides of the wood like orange and yellow fingers.
She dragged the photo album off the table behind her and plopped it into her lap, taking a deep breath for courage.
The cutout in the creamy white cover showed her and Gary smiling at each other, brilliant sunshine surrounding them—man, she remembered exactly how she’d felt at that moment. Giddy and excited, and so full of dreams for the future. So sure she was head-over-heels in love.
Rachel unlatched the front cover and pulled out the eight-by-ten, admiring the outfit she wore, the tan linen showing off her dark shoulder-length hair to perfection. “Damn, I looked good.”
She flung the picture into the fire, the heat instantly taking effect as the paper ignited, their faces melting into oblivion.
She turned her attention back to the album as she flipped it open to deal with the first official page. One after the other she peeled out the pictures, her voice echoing in the quiet of the small room as she talked to herself. “Of course I’d love to go out for dinner to this fancy restaurant. Of course I’d like to try that appetizer, if you insist. Gag.”
Raw oysters. She shuddered before contributing another picture to the bonfire blazing ever hotter before her.
She paused in the middle of removing the reminders of her past six months and the whirlwind romance she’d shared with Gary Ricardo. Stared at the photo in her fingers without seeing it.
Whirlwind was accurate, romance though? Definitely not the correct word, not considering that here she was, five months after saying I do knowing I don’t would’ve been a far better choice. Pictures from their month of dating, shots from their July honeymoon in Tahiti—all torn from the album to be sacrificed to the fire along with the charred remains of her heart.
A snicker escaped. “Melodramatic, much?” she chastised herself.
She rose and went to the window. The cold seeping through the pane cooled her flushed forehead as she eased closer to the glass and peered into the growing twilight.
Melodrama wasn’t how she typically dealt with things. Nothing about her relationship with Gary had been typical, though. Maybe she should’ve known better, but at the same time he had fooled her enough that when she found evidence he was cheating on her, the blow had struck straight through the heart.
Outside the cabin the late-November weather had turned ugly. She pressed her palms to the window, watching as huge snowflakes twirled downward only to be shoved aside with each new gust of wind. Already a foot of the white stuff had accumulated on top of her car. It was a good thing she wasn’t planning on going anywhere for a while.
Nope. She was there in the wilderness for her own private lick your woundsretreat, and she had a good five days before anyone expected her back in Rocky Mountain House. She needed to put her screwup of a relationship behind her so she could move forward into something far better.
Only as the temperature dropped further, and the snow continued to fall, Rachel worried she might have bitten off more than she could chew. Snow had piled up on the path between her and the outhouse, a thick blanket covered the wood stack, and the cold increased, creeping through the log walls.
In the interest of saving herself from having to venture outside for more wood in the middle of the night, she pulled on her boots and heavy winter parka, and slipped out the backdoor. It was a cold and miserable job, but far better than running out of fuel.
A sudden tug at her neck caught her by surprise, and she froze in the middle of lowering her load. Somehow her necklace had worked loose from under her layers and become tangled around the rough bark. Rachel moved carefully to free it—that necklace was one of her only mementos from her grandmother, and she’d hate to break it.
She desperately needed to keep all the good memories she had intact, thank you very much.
Rachel looped the golden chain over a nail by the built-in bookshelf then returned to her task. One armload after another, she carried wood to beside the stove, stomping the snow off her feet at the door the best she could on every trip until her pile was so tall it teetered.
She went outside again for one last chance to use the facilities. The wind roared in her ears, and the door to the cabin slammed shut, torn from her grasp. Ice crystals wedged their way past her hood and scored her cheeks like microscopic razor blades.
Rachel shuffled through the knee-deep snow and up the steps to the outhouse. The howling wind cut off as she jerked the door closed and stood in the small enclosure, her flashlight as pathetic as a single candle attempting to illuminate an entire pitch-black football field.
Sure, I can nab you a friend’s hunting cabin for a getaway. It’s not fancy, but the price is right.
Right then she was cursing her tight-pocketed decision to take up her friend Connie’s offer. Instead of freezing her tushie to the seat of an outhouse, she could have been off at some spa in Banff, getting herself pampered from head to toe…
The reality of her nearly empty bank account knocked the spa fantasy into the crapper damn fast. Because of Gary, this rustic palace was all she could afford.
So be it. She wasn’t going to weep over the jerk, or over how stupid she’d been. Not anymore. She was, however, going to make herself an enormous hot chocolate the instant she got back in the cabin, and if at least half the cup was liquid kick-in-the-pants, who was around to give her hell?
Rachel opened the outhouse door cautiously, bracing it against the wind. Already her footprints in the snow had filled in, barely visible in the dim light from the flashlight.
She was hurrying toward shelter when a light broke over the hill not ten feet to her left. She twisted on the spot in surprise, her heart rate rocketing as she lifted her light and peered through the driving snow. A dark shape loomed closer, and she shuffled forward, momentarily spooked as she considered who on earth was coming to such a remote place at this time of night.
Single woman, alone in the woods—lordy, she was about to become a victim of the killer with a hooked knife for a hand.
Every horror-story cliché she’d ever heard raced into her brain. She stepped off the path and tripped, the flashlight falling from her hand as she landed on her butt. A cloud of snow puffed around her before being driven away by the icy wind. Now the only light was the one shining in her eyes.
It had taken far too short a time, and already the stranger loomed over her, the extra-extra-large-size black-fur-trimmed parka turning him into a massive bearlike creature. One with a shotgun in his hand.
Her imagination was working way overtime, and she hadn’t started drinking yet. She scrambled backward, fleeing from danger, and a noise escaped her, something between a warning and a cry of fear.
“Hey, it’s okay. I won’t hurt you.”
Rachel fought to place the voice as the light blinding her lowered to the ground. She blinked to clear her vision, the intruder flipped back his hood, and the familiar features of Lee Coleman came into sight.
Relief flooded in along with the realization her jeans were soaking wet and her hands were going numb even in her thick mittens. “Lee. What are you doing here?”
He peered closer, shock followed hard by confusion as his expression folded into a frown.
“Rachel?” He swooped forward and caught her hand, effortlessly pulling her to her feet. “What the heck are you doing sitting in the snow when it’s so damn cold?”
“Making snow angels,” she shot back. “You scared me.”
“I’m sorry. I didn’t expect to meet anyone outside.” He squatted before her, handing up her flashlight before brushing snow from her pants. “I figured everyone would be hiding out by the fire.”
Yeah, well, she wasn’t about to explain about the outhouse. Rachel wiggled uncomfortably, both from the throbbing in her hands as she banged them together to knock the snow from her gloves, and the fact Lee was brushing her butt.
His touch was impersonal. Casual, in fact, but it still caused weird sensations in her stomach. “Just leave it. I’m fine.”
He rose, towering over her. “Get inside the cabin.”
Her back stiffened at the order even though she knew it was a sensible one. Her days of meekly following orders from any man were over.
“What are you doing here?” she demanded again. It was a matter of principle not to escape into the cabin in spite of the shivers setting in.
Lee stepped past her, catching her mittened hand at the last second and dragging her with him. “We’re not holding a long hi, how are you? discussion outside. It’s cold as hell, and you’re not dressed for the weather.”
Just what she needed, another bossy man in her life. Not. Still, he was right. It made no sense to stand outside suffering when he had the door open and all the hot air was escaping.
“Thanks.” She put as much sarcasm into her comment as possible, not surprised to hear him chuckle in response.
“This is going to be one interesting evening.” The softly spoken words escaped him as she followed him into the one-room cabin.
She sighed. This? Exactly what she’d tried to avoid by heading into the wilderness. With one swoop, she was reminded all over what a fool she’d been. Lee knew everything—well, maybe not everything, but she was pretty sure he knew she’d been cheated on, and that before the ink was dry on her wedding certificate.
Sometimes fate had a crappy sense of humour.
Lee’s feet were freezing, and his thighs ached from trudging through the deep snow. The scent of gunpowder clung to him like redneck perfume from when he’d been forced to use the shotgun to put down an injured cow earlier in the day. His fingers were a mess from his attempts at jury-rigging the motor of his skidoo in subzero temperatures.
He felt as if he’d just been handed a winning lottery ticket.
Heck, Santa could forget about bringing any presents next month, because he’d already gotten the one thing he wanted the most in the whole entire world.
Time with Rachel.
He placed the gun on the rack over the door then eased the backpack off his shoulders, dropping it to the floor before shedding his snow-covered jacket. Never in a million years could he have imagined this situation. “Looks like I have to crash your party. The storm’s getting worse, and my skidoo broke about half a mile from here.”
“Really?” Rachel slid back to the window and peered into the darkness before facing him, big brown eyes wide with worry. “Aren’t you supposed to stay with the sled if you break down?”
“Not when nobody’s going to come looking for you, and not when you can smell wood smoke on the air.” He tilted his head toward her. “Get out of your wet things. I’ll brush the snow off my stuff so I don’t soak the room.”
She hurried to follow his instructions, cheeks flashing to pink. Lee turned his back and deliberately ignored the shuffling noises that followed, but there was no way to turn off the instant response of his body. Not when images of her getting partially naked a few feet behind him popped into his brain.
It had been a hell of a year for both of them, although Rachel probably wouldn’t appreciate Lee linking them like that. And while he’d hated witnessing her world fall apart, she’d definitely had a far worse time of it than him.
From happily-in-love to thrown-under-the-bus, Rachel had dealt with way more than any woman should have to. Lee had been forced to watch from the sidelines, powerless to do anything to ease her pain. Their two situations were in no way comparable, but for him wanting to be with her and make it all better.
He now understood what his cousins meant when they’d sworn watching their partners deal with pain hurt far more than being thrashed themselves. Since the summer he’d seen the light fade from Rachel’s eyes, and he wanted to kill the bastard who’d torn away her joy.
But that was a discussion for some time when he wasn’t shivering, his clothes sticking to his skin like icy bandages.
He opened the top of his backpack and pulled out the sweatshirt and pants he carried with his emergency supplies. Steady silence echoed from her direction. Looked as if it was up to him to make this less awkward.
“I went out to check the herd,” he offered. Simple. Safe conversation. “A tree fell over in the high winds this morning and took down one of the fence lines. The dumb cattle decided exploring was a good idea even with a storm coming.”
“Did you find your…cows?”
Her voice wavered on the last word, coincidentally said the moment he stripped his shirt off over his head. Lee chose to ignore the implied connection that merely the sight of his naked torso was enough to affect her. Still facing away, he knocked the moisture from his hair with the shirt before dropping it onto a nearby chair. He pulled on his dry sweatshirt as he gave a partial answer. “Some. Got them into one of our shelters and locked them in—they’ll be safe from the storm until my brothers set them loose.”
He glanced over his shoulder. Rachel stood in front of the fire, her hands extended toward the flames dancing behind the glass. He wondered if he should warn her then realized he was too cold to play games. He dropped into the chair at the table, pulling off his boots with a groan of satisfaction. Snow escaped to lie in small piles around his thick wool socks.
“Do you want something hot to drink?” she asked.
“Hell, yeah.” He waited until she’d walked past him, grabbing the kettle from the counter to return to the wood stove. Once she was busy and facing away from him, he shoved off his pants and boxers, pointedly not looking her direction as he replaced them with the dry pair of sweatpants.
Even with how cold he was, if she’d been watching, she would’ve gotten an eyeful of exactly how being in the same room with her affected him.
Rachel Malone. Ever since she’d come to town and started work at the café, he’d had his eye on her. So had a lot of other guys, but Lee was positive he had more to offer her than the rest of them.
Only every time he asked her out, she’d turned him down. Politely teasing he didn’t want to date someone as old as her.
There might be a few years between them, but he didn’t give a damn. Maybe some guys took longer to grow up. Lee had pretty much always known what his goals were, and from everything he’d seen about Rachel, he thought they would be just about perfect together.
It was hard to prove when he never got a chance.
He grabbed his wet things and joined her by the fire. “Let me hang these up so they’re out of our way.”
She shifted to the side, but there wasn’t much room. He leaned forward to drape his pants over a hook behind the stove. The move brushed him against her, tormenting him even more than the scent of apple-blossom off her skin.
“Aren’t your feet freezing?” she asked, eyeing the wet footprints he’d left, moisture soaking through the wool.
“I’ve got extra socks. I didn’t want to put them on yet and get them wet.” He reached past her again, grabbing the broom leaning against the wall. “Sit down. I’ll clean around you. By the time the water boils, we’ll both be warmed up.”
It looked as if she would protest before crawling onto the chair. “There’s not a lot of wiggle room in the cabin, is there?”
He swept the loose snow toward the door, moving quickly before it melted into wet puddles. “Sam Carver lived here with his wife and son for a couple of years.”
“You’re kidding me. Three people, in this space?”
“They moved out before their kid was school-aged, but yeah. We take personal space for granted.”
Rachel had propped her feet up on the chair so he could sweep underfoot. As he worked, she reached to tidy a pile of papers and albums on the table that he hadn’t noticed until now.
So many questions he wanted to ask. What was she doing here? How long had she been back in Rocky Mountain House?
Was she back in Rocky for good?
He didn’t bother dumping the snow outside. Opening the door would let cold air in, and even though the wood supply inside was massive, there was no use in wasting the heat they had. He put away the broom and pulled the other chair next to hers, right in front of the fire.
Rachel cleared her throat. “I have food, if you want something to eat.”
“Thanks—maybe in a bit. You taking a holiday?” Lee asked as he pulled on a dry pair of woolen socks, a sigh of relief escaping. It had been damn cold wandering through the trees trying to find a passable route to the shelter.
“Sort of. Yeah.” She paused, then the words came out in a rush. “I didn’t think I would see anyone.”
Lee picked up a half-burnt picture off the ground from beside his feet, lifting it in the air. The edges had turned ash, but the center showed her smiling face. Little white flowers tucked into her hair, what was unmistakably a wedding gown riding low on her shoulders.
Suddenly her being alone in the middle of the wilderness made sense. He glanced at her, checking to see if she had noticed his discovery. Rachel returned his questioning look, her breathing so steady she had to be concentrating on it.
He’d interrupted something important to her. “I’m sorry.”
She swallowed hard. “Me too.”
Rachel pulled the photo from his fingers and tossed it on the kindling pile.
A strange sensation buzzed through him. Maybe he hadn’t planned on being there while she got out the pain in her system from her failed marriage, but there was nowhere he’d rather be. It was a chance to give to her. To support her.
It was a chance to prove they belonged together, even if it meant risking being shot down again.
He spoke softly, like he would with a skittish animal. Staying as safe as possible as he changed topics. “Some food sounds good, but more importantly, do you want me to grab the bottle of whiskey I have in my pack?”
Her expression turned amused. “Whiskey’s part of your standard-issue supplies when you’re out searching after cows?”
The kettle on the stove went from bubbling to whistling. Rachel slipped on an oven mitt and moved to the table, hoisting a package of hot-chocolate mix in the air. “Here’s my first contribution to our evening. Go get yours.”
Brushing past her once again teased all his senses, but this time, instead of fighting his desires, he let hope steal over him.
He hadn’t gone out this morning looking for this opportunity, but no way would he allow it to slip from his fingers.
As the snow continued to fall, and the wind howled outside, screeching through the trees, Lee found the bottle of whiskey in his pack and brought it to the table. He stood behind her, pausing to soak in her nearness. In being there—in being right where he needed to be for however long they ended up trapped together.
As long as she didn’t deny him again, this could turn out to be one hell of an adventure.Return to Rocky Mountain Retreat

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Mixing and mingling of mafic and felsic magmas along the Neo-Tethys continental margin, Sanandaj-Sirjan zone, NW Iran: A case study from the Alvand pluton
Ghalamghash, Jalil; Mirnejad, Hassan; Rashid, Hamideh
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The Alvand pluton in northwest Iran consists of gabbro and granite units. Along the interface between granite and gabbro, numerous mafic enclaves (ME) are concentrated. This interface is marked by a variety of hybridization and mingling fabrics/textures including lobate/ellipsoid ME with chilled margins, back-veining granite, feldspar megacrysts in ME, and crenulated margins in enclaves. The chemical composition of the ME (SiO2 = 45.04-52.07 wt%) has more affinity towards gabbro (SiO2 = 45.01-46.00 wt%) than granite (SiO2 = 71.62-75.18 wt%), indicating that the ME are the result of mingling of the gabbroic melt with a granitic magma. Diffusion reactions as the source of the ME are ruled out because the abundances of immobile elements such as Ni and Cr (37-144 ppm and 60-316 ppm) in the ME differ from those of the gabbro (446-518 ppm and 977-1297 ppm). Therefore, it is possible that mixing of gabbroic and granitic melts, although to a minimal extent, was also involved in the genesis of the ME. Geochemical features of gabbro such as high Ni and Cr abundances suggest that it crystallized from a primary mantle-derived magma. In contrast, the peraluminous character of the granite and the presence of sedimentary and micaceous enclaves reflect a crustal origin for this rock type. Because the ME are found mainly around the contact between granite and gabbro, they likely formed at the place of final emplacement when granitic magma intruded the still unsolidified gabbro. At this stage, mingling and minor mixing processes led to the formation of melts similar to those of the ME. Such melts rose rapidly through a viscous granitic magma and chilled against it to form the ME scattered in the granite.

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To the Editor.
—I am presently preparing a paper on giant cell arteritis and read with interest an article by Stanley A. Uriu, MD, and Robert D. Reinecke, MD, in the November 1973 issue of the Archives titled "Temporal arteritis, steroid therapy, and pulmonary emboli" (90:355, 1973).These authors suggested that the treatment of this disease with high dose steroids may have a relationship to the pulmonary emboli supposedly verified in these cases. I cannot refute their theory, but I would like to suggest that these two patients may have had a vasculitis of the pulmonary arteries causing these symptoms, which are identical to pulmonary emboli seen in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).I have recently observed such a case. I was initially quite confident with results of lung scans and clinical laboratory evidence that the patient indeed had multiple recurrent pulmonary emboli. She had been receiving anticoagulation therapy,
Brentlinger DC. Temporal Arteritis and Pulmonary Emboli. Arch Ophthalmol. 1975;93(12):1372. doi:10.1001/archopht.1975.01010020994013
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Kentucky House votes to amend informed consent law
The Kentucky House has voted to amend the state's informed consent law to allow real-time video consultations between doctors and women at least 24 hours before an abortion.
The version passing the House on Thursday evening incorporates telemedicine into the politically charged issue. It offers the option of either face-to-face meetings in person or by video.
Kentucky law has required women to meet with a doctor since 1998 before an abortion. But since then, many doctors have discussed the procedure with women on the phone.
The House version would do away with the phone-call option.
The Republican-led Senate wants to require patients to meet with doctors in person at least 24 hours before an abortion. That version passed the Senate by a wide margin.


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If you’re lucky, you’re one of the people who enjoys the process of writing, of crafting your thoughts against the background of what other illustrious thinkers have done before you, and of course, remembering to give them full credit where it is due. One of the most important ways to do that is through the bibliography found at the end of your work. However, before marching forward into that task it is best to have a clear understanding of what a bibliography is exactly, and what it isn’t, as there is nothing more frustrating than handing in a great work only to get docked on technicalities of presentation, important as they are.
Bibliography? References? Works Cited?
There are a few ways that you will be able to determine which of these closely-related but critically-different styles of citation you will need. Keeping it short and to the point, make sure you read any related instructions carefully. Either those instructions will specifically name one of the above three styles, or, it will name a specific referencing format, such as MLA, APA, Chicago, or Harvard, each of which has its own rule book about which style to use, and exactly how to format it. Make sure you are clear on this in advance, as getting it wrong and losing marks can be a real drag after pouring your heart and soul in the content itself!
A Proper Bibliography
If your instructions identify MLA as the citation style to use, then you will be using a bibliography. What is a bibliography compared to say, a Works Cited or References page? Well, we’re glad you asked. The primary difference between these styles is that a bibliography, and only a bibliography includes all the materials you may have used, or relied on at some point in the process of forming your ideas and writing them down. In contrast, the other styles only require that you record the reference for anything you have quoted or referenced directly in the text.
What’s the difference? Simple. In order to write about the magic of astrophysics you might read everything that Stephen Hawkins ever wrote, however, when it comes to what you write, you may only decide to reference data from one or two, and/or you may only directly quote one or two of these materials. In a Works Cited or References page you will only record the ones you used directly, and not the books you may have read to inspire you along the way, if it isn’t used directly in the text. A bibliography however, is a record of everything you may have used not only to write the paper but to inspired the ideas that led you there, whether or not it appears in the text itself.
In order to format a bibliography you will need to have a point of reference, such as a copy of the MLA handbook. However, this too is not automatic, and requires caution. Find out precisely which version of the MLA handbook an instructor wants you to use, as the subtle differences between one and another can mean the difference between getting it right and getting it wrong!
The truth is, citations and referencing are some of the most tedious parts of writing an essay or dissertation, but they still must be done precisely correct, or all your other hard work will suffer as a result! The best tip? Write your bibliography in full when you are ready to start, but before you begin the paper itself. You’ll feel great when you reach the end and realize that the most boring part is already done! Good luck.

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(WJHL) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s Executive Order 54 grants mayors in 89 counties to authority to issue COVID-19 mask requirements, however, local officials aren’t sure about issuing orders just yet.
Many health officials believe the best way to slow the surging numbers of coronavirus is by requiring people to wear masks or face coverings.
Greene County has been under a public health state of emergency due to coronavirus, but Mayor Kevin Morrison says many factors would have to be considered when having a mask mandate in the county.
“I feel very comfortable in saying to the general public particularly for government facilities if you do not have a mask on then your not coming in,” Morrison said. “But not so much in telling you that you have to have a mask on when you leave your house.”
After a county department head and their spouse tested positive for COVID-19, masks became a requirement to enter the courthouse and for some Greene County employees.
“We certainly are requiring now or have directed all of our employees that have direct contact or interaction with the public for any transaction to wear a mask,” Morrison explained.
He says he’s not sure if enforcing a county-wide mask mandate is practical, especially when it comes to people who can’t wear masks because of health reasons.
“If there’s a mask mandate and you see a person that’s not wearing a mask, do they fall into one of those categories for instance? So enforcement of something like that is very problematic,” Morrison said.
Carter County Mayor Rusty Barnett said they are encouraging people to wear a mask and social distance, but they are not looking at implementing a mask mandate for the county.
Washington County, TN Mayor Joe Grandy says he’s looking at making it mandatory to wear masks when going into government buildings but not for the whole county.
“We can issue a mandate for masks but there is no enforcement mechanism,” said Grandy.
He’s been in contact with other mayors around the Tri-Cities to see what they can do as a group to help stop the spread of the virus.
“Mayor Venable and I have had multiple conversations and we were talking about different ways we could go forward with this mask issue and one of the things were working on now is rolling out a campaign in the next few days that will encourage people to wear masks,” said Mayor Grandy.
The governor’s executive order states that the six counties within Tennessee that have there own local health departments, like Sullivan County, can issue mask mandates on there own as well if they feel it is necessary.


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Monday, May 21, 2012
May 21-25, 2012: Nominees Needed for a National Big Read
[With the spring semester entirely over and my long-awaited sabbatical commencing, I’m using this week to work on various ongoing and new projects, about which I’m sure you’ll hear more in this space. One of those projects could also use your input, though, so I wanted to feature a week-long blog post to ask for that input!]
At next spring’s Northeast MLA (NEMLA) conference, which will take place in Boston from March 21-24, 2013, I’ll be chairing a roundtable discussion on the following topic:
“For those of us who care about making American literature more public, more connected to all Americans and their experiences, identities, and perspectives, the NEA’s Big Read program represents a great model for such efforts. Since its pilot project in 2006, The Big Read has brought a number of great, complex, vital works of American literature to local communities and schools, getting lots of Americans reading and engaging with those works in the process. Yet the program is explicitly local, with different communities reading different books—there are both practical and philosophical arguments in support of that local element, but it does leave room for a more genuinely shared, national engagement with American literature.
In this roundtable session, I’ll take nominations for a nationwide Big Read—books (in any genre) that should be read and engaged with by all Americans. We’ll talk not only about why, about what makes these works so vital and broadly significant, but about the effects, of what in our public conversations, narratives, communities, identities, histories, and stories would change if we read these books as a nation. We’ll also take suggestions and ideas from the audience.
This conversation can help us not only further define American literature and culture, as we collectively understand them, but also envision our own roles and purposes as public scholars of American literature and identity. And since I’m an advisor for the in-development American Writers Museum, I’ll also bring these ideas to that institution, to help shape how it reflects our most shared and significant literary works.”
If you want to be part of the roundtable, feel free to email (email@example.com) me a brief abstract by September 30th. But in any case I’d love to hear your nominations for a national Big Read text right here in comments, or in the Forum, or more informally by email. I promise to bring ‘em to the discussion and the American Writers Museum too!
Thanks, more this weekend,
PS. You know what to do!
5/21 Memory Day nominee: Robert Creeley, the dense, challenging, experimental, and very important late 20th and early 21st century American poet, essayist, and scholar who helped change the face of poetry and higher education in America.(Check the Memory Day Calendar each day for the 5/22 through 5/25 nominees!)


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Launch Party for Darienite Tessa Wegert’s Debut Novel ‘Death in the Family’
February 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmFree
Barrett Bookstore invites you to the store for the launch party of Darien resident Tessa Wegert’s debut novel, “Death in the Family,” at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 18.
— an announcement from Barrett Bookstore at 6 Corbin Dr.
About Tessa Wegert
From her website:
Tessa Wegert is a Canadian expat, journalist, and former digital media strategist. Her business and marketing articles have appeared in such publications as Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, and The Economist.
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, Tessa lived in British Columbia, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Mainz, Germany before her family settled near the border of Vermont in Lennoxville, Quebec. She attended Concordia University in Montreal, where she studied Communications.
After several years of working in digital advertising and as a freelance tech and business reporter, Tessa met her husband and immigrated to the U.S. Over the next four years she lived in four different states and eventually arrived in Chicago. It was there that she began the slow transition from reporting to writing fiction.
During this time, Tessa won first place in the Crime category of the Eighth Annual Writer’s Digest Magazine Popular Fiction Awards for her short story Moms’ Night Out, which was inspired by a real-life evening in Avondale that involved three mothers and wedding-crashing but – happily – no murders.
Tessa has visited the Thousand Islands, where Death in the Family is set, every summer for the past sixteen years, and continues to be captivated by its unique atmosphere. She currently lives in Connecticut with her husband and children, where she studies dance and martial arts and is at work on her next novel.
About ‘Death in the Family’
Thirteen months ago, former NYPD detective Shana Merchant barely survived being abducted by a serial killer. Now hoping to leave grisly murder cases behind, she’s taken a job in her fiancé’s sleepy hometown in the Thousand Islands region of Upstate New York.
But as a nor’easter bears down on her new territory, Shana and fellow investigator Tim Wellington receive a call about a man missing on a private island.
Shana and Tim travel to the isolated island owned by the wealthy Sinclair family to question the witnesses. They arrive to find blood on the scene and a house full of Sinclair family and friends on edge.
While Tim guesses they’re dealing with a runaway case, Shana is convinced that they have a murder on their hands. As the gale intensifies outside, she starts conducting interviews and discovers the Sinclairs and their guests are crawling with dark and dangerous secrets.
Trapped on the island by the raging storm with only Tim whose reliability is thrown into question, the increasingly restless suspects, and her own trauma-fueled flashbacks for company, Shana will have to trust the one person her abduction destroyed her faith in — herself.
But time is ticking down, because if Shana’s right, a killer is in their midst and as the pressure mounts, so do the odds that they’ll strike again.
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It was only a few months ago that a blogger calling himself Tyler Durden and writing for “Zero Hedge” started to call attention to a Wall Street electronic trading technique called “high frequency trading.” Now Senator Charles Schumer has called for a high-frequency technique called “flash trading” to be banned by the SEC.
The mainstream complaint about the technique is that it give high-frequency traders an unfair advantage akin to front-running. Others fear that it could be creating a systemic instability in prices as various high-frequency traders attempt to out do each other by jumping ahead of order bids with ever faster trading.
Here’s how the NYT describes flash trading.
When buy or sell orders are submitted to marketplaces like Nasdaq, they are sometimes flashed to a collection of high-frequency traders for just 30 milliseconds — 0.03 seconds — before they are routed to everyone else. In that half-second, fast-moving computer software can gain valuable insights regarding growing or declining demand in certain stocks, and can trade ahead of other market participants, pushing prices up or down.
Although anyone can gain access to flash orders by paying a fee, they are useful only to traders who have computers powerful enough to act on the data within milliseconds. In recent years, some of the largest financial companies, including Goldman Sachs, have earned enormous profits with such computers, which are very expensive and often housed right next to the machines that power the marketplaces themselves.
Schumer says that he may introduce legislation if the SEC doesn’t ban the practice, according to the New York Times.
“The hallmark of our markets are that they are open and above board and the little guy has as much of a chance as the big guy,” Mr. Schumer said in an interview with the Times. “This takes a dagger to the heart of that concept.”
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Best in the Valley
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Recently had surgery for rotator cuff repair.. I am very pleased with my results, Dr Mullen takes time to answer any questions and his support staff is great.. Hopefully I won't have to see him again but if I ever have any hip, knee or shoulder issues he'll be the one I'll want to do any future surgeries.
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Best doctor in the East Valley. 6 weeks out and I am not using walker or cane !! Dancing up a storm. Pain level 1-2, at times. I know in a couple of months it will be 0 . Terrific knowledge and bedside manner - and sense of humor. Staff wonderful !! Take this rating from an RN that only goes to the best doctors. I thank Dr. Mullen for getting rid of my arthritic knee pain, that I have been suffering from for 5 years. Why did I wait so long !!! !!
A review by a patient that verified they have visited Dr. Daniel J Mullen - Posted on November 1st, 2017
Recently had total knee replacement. Would definitely recommend. The whole process was efficient, professional and friendly by Dr. Mullen and his entire staff.
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Dr. and staff care about each patient, Dr. Mullen takes the time to answer all questions, EXCELLENT surgeon, provides outstanding follow-up care, great bedside manner, nice office
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Self-verified patient of Dr. Daniel J Mullen - Posted on July 21st, 2016
Dr. Mullen is is very straightforward and tells you like it is; however, he is totally lacking in the art of being tactful. In response to my complaint, he said I was just getting old. He showed no empathy and was very callous in his approach. I left his office almost in tears. I appreciate his honesty but his totally tasteless and tactless approach doesn't suit me. I'm sure he is a well qualified doctor although I don't have experience in that area because I definitely will not be going back.
A review by a patient that verified they have visited Dr. Daniel J Mullen - Posted on July 13th, 2016
Every aspect of my time with Dr. Mullen and his staff has been wonderful. He is an outstanding surgeon and especially concerned with each and every patient! His attention to specific details to avoid infection and facilitate recovery really works. I would recommend him to everyone. After all the years of dealing with outrageous knee pain, I wish I had had the courage to get both knees replaced sooner--it's like a "new lease on life". I know folks use that phrase often, but it truly is applicable.
Waste of Time
Self-verified patient of Dr. Daniel J Mullen - Posted on June 3rd, 2016
The xray tech was terribly cold and callous about my pain.Dr. Mullen comes in the room, told me I have knock knees and that as I get older I'd experience problems and pain. He said I'm not a candidate for surgery, said "good luck" and started to walk out. I asked him about injections or anything to help with pain relief and he just said "ask your pain clinic" and he left. Never suggested an MRI or anything else. If this guy can't make money on you by cutting you opened you're not worth his time.
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After much research on the internet, I chose Dr. Daniel Mullen to do Reverse Shoulder Replacement. This was done 3 weeks ago. No complaints, and heading on to PT, and continuing to improve.
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dr mullen and all staff were very professinol, on the ball, kind and caring.it was an exceptional experience. I will refer him to all !!!!
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Dr. Mullin is arrogant and rude!! He had a huge negative impact on my medical issue. He caused me prolonged pain due to his failure to listen and show compassion. He also cost me extra money out of my pocket. I was in serious pain but he made me feel like I had some kind of problem. He told me I had phantom pain and walked out of the office!!! I went to another COMPETENT doctor who listened and she immediately discovered exactly what was wrong and fixed it! Please do yourself a favor and avoid Dr. Mullin
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2017 Winner & 2018 Scale Up WinnerSeeing is believing: Using smartphone camera data
The Inspire Challenge is an initiative to challenge partners, universities, and others to use CGIAR data to create innovative pilot projects that will scale. We look for novel approaches that democratize data-driven insights to inform local, national, regional, and global policies and applications in agriculture and food security in real time; helping people–especially smallholder farmers and producers–to lead happier and healthier lives.
This proposal was selected as a 2017 winner, with the team receiving 100,000 USD to put their ideas into practice. The team won the Scale Up award the following year, receiving an additional USD 250,000 for their outstanding ability to demonstrate the project’s proven viability and potential for impact.
Seeing is believing: Using smartphone camera data
Agricultural risk management solutions such as insurance and advisories offer a variety of benefits to smallholder farmers: improved management practices, productivity, and profitability. However, such services have historically lacked personalized advice and insurance that could enhance these benefits for smallholder farmers; until recent technological advances, collecting and processing real-time, plot-level information on crop health and growth has been associated with limited capacity and high costs.
Leveraging recent advances in smartphone ownership and data collection, the “Seeing is Believing” project aims to deliver personalized agricultural advice and insurance services to smallholder farmers across several sites in India. The project’s dedicated smartphone application uses farmers’ own smartphone pictures of visible crop characteristics—“eyes on the ground”—to optimize agronomic decision-making and claims settlement.
Through the app, farmers submit geotagged, time-stamped pictures of insured sites from sowing to harvest. In response, they receive timely and relevant agriculture advisories and improved insurance claims settlements.
In the first phase, the project found that real-time crop data obtained from smartphone pictures can empower data-driven farming through three channels:
- Experts can target messages towards a farmer’s individual situation, raising the value and timeliness of the advice.
- The tangibility of pictures can increase ownership and take-up of the advice as well as the insurance product.
- Insurers’ increased access to monitoring data allows them to provide recommendations that minimize risk, thus lowering expected insurance payouts.
In the second phase, the project will test alternative models for scaling, target a retail product for commercial crops, bundle with credit to enable financial opportunities for smallholder farmers, and integrate into CABi’s flagship program PlantWise—a service that provides pest and disease management advisories to members of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs).
The project also has potential to shed light on whether there is a business case for insurance providers to deliver advisories. Pending the bundling of the project’s insurance product, provided in partnership with HFDC Ergo General Insurance, with the project’s advisory product, the team will test whether bundling improves risk management by reducing expected insurance payouts and thus reducing insurance premiums.
CABI is co-leading the project, and the local partner for activities in Tamil Nadu. CABI oversees the development and implementation of remote advisories in Tamil Nadu, building on the knowledge and infrastructure available through its flagship program PlantWise.
Dvara Trust, through its incubations Dvara KGFS, a provider of microfinance loans, and Dvara E-Registry, a fintech start-up that focuses on innovative solutions for the agricultural sector, is the local partner for activities in Odisha. Dvara Trust is responsible for the development and implementation of picture-based credit and remote advisories, in partnership with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) in Odisha.
Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA) is the local partner for Haryana. This research institute is responsible for the development and implementation of picture-based advisories, the distribution of picture-based insurance, and the data collection that feeds into the rigorous impact evaluation of the advisory and insurance services.
HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, Limited is an insurance provider in India. A significant player in the national crop insurance scheme (PMFBY), HDFC is a major scaling partner for the project and is underwriting the picture-based insurance products offered to farmers as part of the project.
IFPRI is the overall project lead and responsible for the insurance product design as well as the evaluation of the remote advisories and picture-based financial services in each of the three states.
Step by step
The project was one of five winners of the Inspire Challenge 2017 and was awarded US$100K at the inaugural annual convention of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, 19-22 September 2017.
Training local experts in picture-based advisory messages
The project trained four local agronomists in interpreting the images and sending out advisories based on cues visible in pictures taken by farmers from sowing to harvest on their insured plots.
The project developed an online platform, linked to an improved version of the smartphone application WheatCam, where the trained agronomists could review individual farmers’ pictures and push remote picture-based advisory (PBA) messages directly through the app to the farmer’s phone.
Piloting the service in 200 villages
The project piloted and tested the service through a cluster randomized trial with 200 villages in Haryana and Punjab, India. Villages were randomly assigned to one of three interventions:
- farmers in 50 villages received conventional interactive voice response (IVR) and SMS messages (control group)
- farmers in 75 villages received personalized, picture-based advisory (PBA) messages (PBA treatment)
- farmers in the remaining 75 villages received picture-based insurance (PBI) coverage on top of the IVR, SMS, and PBA messages (PBA + PBI treatment)
Assessing the results
The project broadcasted IVR and SMS messages to a total of 32,237 wheat producers. Results show that the advisory messages increased knowledge on best agricultural practices by 78% and revealed strong complementarities between PBA and PBI.
Engagement in the PBA service — measured as the number of pictures submitted and farmers’ satisfaction — was significantly higher when bundled with PBI, and while willingness to pay for PBA alone was negligible, respondents were willing to pay an extra 8.7% of the insurance premium when PBA was embedded in the PBI product.
Finally, greenness indices derived from the crop imagery predicted the onset of growth stages during which crops are more vulnerable to weather risk, thereby outperforming satellite vegetation indices. Project partner BKC WeatherSys was able to train a convolutional neural network that predicts crop damage with higher accuracy than BKC’s existing agronomic software (using crop models, weather data, and satellite imagery) to provide advisories.
Towards smart weather index-based insurance products
With funding from the UK Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), and the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) the project was able to deepen its collaboration with HDFC.
HDFC, IFPRI, and Manchester University are using ground pictures, satellite imagery, weather data, and crop models to design smart weather index-based insurance products. These products will be implemented and evaluated rigorously through a four-year impact assessment in the Northern Indian state of Haryana.
HDFC will roll out PBI products in 2018 for a range of crops (wheat, paddy, tomatoes, and potatoes) in four districts in Haryana, and the project is engaging closely with the Haryana Departments of Agriculture and Horticulture for implementing these products in their state-wide programs in subsequent years.
Given the observed complementarities with PBA, the project proposes linking HDFC to advisory service providers that can help HDFC harness big data for crop damage prediction and remote advisory provision.
HDFC and IFPRI entered high-level conversations with the Odisha and Tamil Nadu state governments, and the project was approached by ACRE Africa and Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) to implement PBI complemented with remote advisory services in Eastern Africa. Resource mobilization to expand into Eastern Africa is currently well underway, with two major proposals under review.
US$250K scale-up grant
The project was the Inspire Challenge Scale Up Winner 2018 and was awarded US$250K at the second annual convention of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, 3-5 October 2018.
Journal article published
The team published a paper titled, “Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach” in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
Highlights from the article include:
- Smartphone repeat imagery quantifies important phenological stages of winter wheat.
- Small scale phenology or disturbances are not captured by satellite remote sensing.
- Using smartphone imagery can improve crop modeling and insurance for small farmers.
Second journal article published
The team published a paper titled, “The feasibility of picture-based insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance,” in Development Engineering: The Journal of Engineering in Economic Development.
The paper analyzes the feasibility of PBI as a low-cost tool to improve coverage. A pilot implementation in the rice-wheat belt of India speaks to PBI being a feasible and valuable innovation to reduce downside basis risk in index insurance:
- Nearly two-thirds of trained farmers took at least four pictures (roughly one per growth stage), which was considered sufficient for loss assessment.
- Severe damage was visible from smartphone pictures in 71% of affected sites, and this was a significant improvement over alternative index-based products, which identified severe damage in at most 34% of affected sites.
Testing alternative scaling models
During the monsoon (Kharif) season, the team will test three alternative scaling models:
- A commercial, retail approach for horticultural crops in Haryana State
- Linking with a digital crop registry for credit in Odisha State with Dvara Trust
- Linking with CABI’s PlantWise program and its partners in Tamil Nadu
New app updates are expected to improve the user experience. Updates include an improved interface, customization for the different project sites, and gamification to motivate increased participation.
In Haryana, a system called “KisanCoins” provides incentives for farmers to reach certain milestones. Various forms of participation on the app earn farmers coins which they can then trade for rewards. A public leaderboard allows farmers to track their performance against others.
Data collection in Kenya is ongoing for two new projects:
- With funding from the IDRC-ACIAR Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) Phase II, the team will develop, implement, and evaluate picture-based insurance and advisory services for different crops in Kenya.
- With funding from the Netherlands – CGIAR research program for seed systems development (NWO-WOTRO), the team will analyze the cost-effectiveness of utilizing such innovations in agricultural risk management from a seed systems perspective.
Stay tuned for more updates!
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Tridonic opens London demonstration suite
Tridonic, which specialises in LED drivers for lighting, has opened a demonstration suite in the Business Design Centre, Islington. The facility will enable Tridonic to meet the many consultants and end users located in central London who would otherwise need to travel to the company’s UK headquarters in Basingstoke.
Over the past year, Tridonic has been leading the thinking around light as the backbone of the Internet of Things (IoT) and how this approach is going to impact on the design and use of buildings in the future.
Tridonic’s OEMs can use the room, which seats up to a dozen people, for their own meetings and presentations. The facility enables Tridonic to demonstrate its net4more solution, PoE (power over Ethernet) and wireless Internet of Light offering.


By Don Morgan
It's a raging debate for some in San Antonio--balancing economics versus the preservation of what may be seen as historic sites.
An expert on historic preservation will be in town Tuesday to discuss the economics of adaptive use and historic preservation. Officials said Don Rypkema's lecture is expected to cover a lot of ground.
"He speaks a lot on the impacts of adaptive reuse and historic preservation from an economic standpoint in terms of job creation....overall economic impact in the community in terms of heritage tourism" said Shannon Miller with the City's Office of Historic Preservation, adding Rypkema is really seen as an authority on the subject.
"He is really a world-renowned expert... he has written a book....that is widely used around the country and really the world" Miller said.
However, many remain unhappy with the City's approach to historic preservation, seeing money as the bottom line.
"With historic preservation the money goes directly in to people's pockets--not in to buying products or getting new materials" said Susana Segura with the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center.
Rypkema's lecture will take place at 6 PM Tuesday--at 231 East Houston Street.


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Sad but true, chᴇᴀting is not something rare in relationships. Although men and women may have different reasons to chᴇᴀt, the consequences are no different. Both of them get h*rt.
There are various types of chᴇᴀting, either simple or complicated. A number of reasons why men and women chᴇᴀt have been studies by psychologists with different theories behind them. The chᴇᴀters seem to be simply considered a nasty or horrible person, but psychology put forward far more profound factors that may lie under the matters than that. The following part dives into the psychology behind chᴇᴀting.
PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND CHᴇᴀTING
It can be difficult to understand chᴇᴀters, particularly when the one who has been chᴇᴀted on is you. Sufferers have the tendency to get caught in self-blaming, where they ask themselves if their partner chᴇᴀts due to something, they did wrong. In fact, one can never make another chᴇᴀt. Instead, chᴇᴀting is a choice that is personally made by a personal as a result of their own underlying problems.
On the word of clinical psychologist Joshua Klapow, Ph.D., those who chᴇᴀt mostly have more than one reason. There is a collection of psychological patterns that cause chᴇᴀting. These patterns are hardly ever related to the one who is chᴇᴀted on.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Robin Haight suggests that chᴇᴀters are the people who are in search of their satisfactory partner but fails to do so, thus they end up chᴇᴀting. It’s not chᴇᴀting that they really want, it’s something else that they’re looking for. “It can get complicated,” says Dr. Haight.
Although the chᴇᴀters’ psychological background is complicated, there are some surface reasons that are easier to understand as to why men and women chᴇᴀt. The next section talks about 15 of these reasons.
REASONS MEN AND WOMEN CHᴇᴀT
1. THE RELATIONSHIP lacks COMMUNICATION.
If a relationship doesn’t have enough communication, it may become extremely frustrating. One or both individuals in a relationship tend to feel disregarded and insignificant without open and honest communication. And if this goes on for a long time, chᴇᴀting is likely to happen.
It can be said that the chᴇᴀter is expressing themselves by chᴇᴀting that is caused by the absence of communication in a relationship. They look for other ways to do it as they feel that it is difficult to do with their partner. Some people decide to use dr*gs or alc*h*l. Others decide to chᴇᴀt. Either way is devastating to a relationship.
2. THEY want to PUNISH THEIR PARTNER.
In response to their partner’s chᴇᴀting or other mistakes, some people chᴇᴀt as a way they punish their partner. Either as a revenge or a penalty, it is obvious that the chᴇᴀting is the way the chᴇᴀter expresses their anger with their partner.
It is sometimes much more satisfying to punish their partner secretly instead of doing it in person. The chᴇᴀter feels better, with chᴇᴀting, because of the idea of secret betrayal. But it’s not necessarily the infidelity itself that the chᴇᴀter enjoys, it’s the sense of power and control that they like.
3. THEY FEEL unAPPRECIATEd by THEIR PARTNER
Chᴇᴀting is totally a personal option. No one is forced to chᴇᴀt by anybody else. Still, the way a person may influence their decisions.
Keep in mind that it is phrased as “think they are being treated”. Maybe a person is not being mistreated, yet they, for some reasons, feel like they are. There can be a lack of communication and passion, or even mental instability, which causes them to feel like that.
The point is they feel that they are not appreciated enough, or perhaps they even think they are invisible in the relationship, which can motivate them to chᴇᴀt for the reason that they just want to feel wanted or needed.
4. THEY WANT but DON’T KNOW HOW TO BREAK UP.
Not knowing how to end a relationship is one of the noticeable reasons why men and women. They are no longer enjoy their current relationship but can’t find a way to tell their partner. Neither do they want to h*rt the other nor do they want to be the villain. They probably just don’t want to look like a failure to others.
A person can easily turn into a chᴇᴀter due to not being open about their feelings. In this case, they may not even attempt too much to conceal the fact that they chᴇᴀt. They possibly wish to be exposed so they’ll have the chance to end the relationship. Sometimes that is easier than talks.
5. The PASSION in THE RELATIONSHIP decreases.
The disappearance of passion from the relationship is another big reason why men and women chᴇᴀt. It doesn’t necessarily mean they no longer care about their partner. The relationship may have simply grown tedious or unexciting, even though they still deeply in love with their partner, and they just don’t know how to fix it.
Love only, sometimes, isn’t enough to maintain a long-term relationship. It requires passion, as well. It is a must to maintain a good connection and a strong s*xual desire. Without it, the romantic needs aren’t being met, then the relationship will break down.
6. THE PERSON HAS PROBLEMS with COMMITMENT.
Chᴇᴀting can be caused by issues in several different ways. First one, which is also the most obvious is that they’re afraid or unwilling to commit. Chᴇᴀting is basically their way of refusing commitment.
Looking from another direction, people have different way to define commitment. They often blame the misunderstanding on miscommunication. One person can consider this stage of the relationship as monogamy whereas the other may disagree to commit to the relationship at that point. The best way to avoid this trouble is suitable communication.
7. THEY FEEL LONELY.
People act unusual due to loneliness, which possibly results from a lack of communication or inadequate attention from their partner. Humans are always in search of meaningful relationships as we aren’t meant to be lonely. Friendships help, but it’s essential to have interactive romantic relationships, as well.
The chᴇᴀter may feel energized in the beginning. Yet, they’re often end up feeling even more tangled and lonely than ever after those first feelings of revitalization fade. In the end, they didn’t get the attention that they really need from their partner, which can turn them into even more frequent chᴇᴀter in an effort to fill the emptiness.
8. their NEEDS AREN’T BEING MET.
Some couples have different needs, which is why they just aren’t a perfect match for each other. Of course, they may have mutual affection, but one of them or sometimes both people are unable to or fail to meet the other’s needs.
There are several ways to explain this. Two people can have different emotional desires, different s*x needs, different ways to define a relationship, different spiritual beliefs, or different demands for how much quality time they have with their loved one. Chᴇᴀting may occur when specific needs aren’t being satisfied.
9. SOME PEOPLE HAVE AN UNCOMMONLY HIGH S*X DRIVE.
Some people just simply unable to control their s*xual desires. In those cases, they chᴇᴀt because they just need to have a lot of s*x. There are not necessarily any problems with their relationship, that their needs aren’t being satisfied, that they’re insecure, or anything else on this list.
This incontrollable s*xual desire is identified as hyper s*xuality. The person will need to look for professional support if they have this behavior, as it is a mental disorder. Most of the time, the person may hide this behavior of theirs if possible because they feel embarrassed. Hopefully, before their relationship is destroyed, they will be able to reach the help they need.
10. THEY HAVE LOW EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE.
The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to properly control and express your emotions as well as handle interpersonal relationships well. Some people just lack this ability, or they may be quite bad at it. In other words, they just lack necessary self-understanding to maintain a relationship.
A person who is unable to express what they really need is also a result of low emotional intelligence. This led to the fact that their partner is unable to understand, either. Then, the person ends up chᴇᴀting as a result of not being good at communicating.
11. THEY CHᴇᴀT IN AN EFFORT TO SAVE THE RELATIONSHIP.
Although it can seem the wrong way round, some people use chᴇᴀting as a way to protect their relationship. This hardly ever helps, but they somehow think it will. This typically happens when their needs aren’t being satisfied, but the chᴇᴀter doesn’t want to ruin the relationship.
They defense themselves that they can live without specific needs fulfilled by their partner if they find some other way to meet those needs. It seems almost reasonable except that the chᴇᴀter has to live a double life and the relationship they fought so hard to keep can be ruined once their partner discovers their secrets.
12. THEY MAY CONSIDER CHᴇᴀTING as not a BIG DEAL.
People have different ways to define chᴇᴀting, just like they do with commitment. One can consider flirting chᴇᴀting whereas the other might think it’s harmless. One can think that having s*x without affection is not chᴇᴀting, but the other may consider it a serious violation.
This is another problem with miscommunication. It’s essential that couples talk over the idea of chᴇᴀting early in the relationship, although most people don’t want to. It goes the same as how they should deliver their own opinions on commitment or any other part of the relationship. Chᴇᴀting can be prevented by making sure you and your partner are on the same page through proper communication (or signpost that your partner has no intention to be faithful).
13. THE CHᴇᴀTER HAS LOW SELF-ESTEEM.
You may think that it is strange how low self-esteem could be a reason for a person to chᴇᴀt, but it’s not as strange as it seems. People who lack self-confidence can try to find as many partners as they so that they can validate themselves. Rather than trying to add notches to their belts, it’s more likely that they don’t feel like being loved by the person they’re in a relationship with.
They begin searching for attention elsewhere as lack of self-confidence begin to surface and they feel less and less treasured. The similar problem will occur in their following relationship, which leads to a cruel cycle of chᴇᴀting for they by no means fix their low self-esteem.
14. THE CHANCE PRESENTS ITSELF.
Some people have extremely little determination. It is more likely that they’d take the chance when the opportunity to chᴇᴀt without being caught appears itself. There may even nothing wrong with their relationship. They simply can’t refrain from it.
These people are most likely to feel awfully embarrassed afterward and may even turn out confessing with their partner out of guilt. Yet, this doesn’t mean there wasn’t any motivating factor. The opportunity in addition to any of the reasons for chᴇᴀting above could be enough to push the person over the fence.
15. THE CHᴇᴀTER IS A NARCISSIST.
The chᴇᴀter is most likely to ignore how their chᴇᴀting makes their partner feel if they are narcissists. They may actually excuse the chᴇᴀting. In worse cases, the narcissist may even prove their partner that it’s the partner’s fault.
Narcissists are so ruthless that they may not even try to conceal their chᴇᴀtings very well. They are unable to bear in mind their partner’s feelings. The chᴇᴀting is perhaps the smallest of fears about the relationship if the chᴇᴀter is a narcissist.
FINAL THOUGHTS ON REASONS for PEOPLE to CHᴇᴀT
There are numerous reasons for people to chᴇᴀt, even more than what is on the list above. There are almost always some psychological motivating elements behind chᴇᴀting. It can sometimes be a mental or emotional issue (hyper s*xuality or narcissist for example).
However, it isn’t right whatever the reason is. No one deserves to be in a relationship with somebody who will always be disloyal. The problems that cause a person to chᴇᴀt may probably be fixed, but they must be eager to put effort into it and the faith must be reestablished in the relationship. Psychologists all agree that although it can be difficult to mend the damage, it’s not impossible.

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Pulse shaping resolves a key challenge of laser fabrication of active single crystal architecture in glass
Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University, DMR 0906763
Femtosecond laser is a unique tool for fabricating 3D single crystal architecture in a glass, but the process has been marred by the fact that the local temperature profile, hence the shape of the crystal varies with the depth in glass. Now the researchers at Lehigh University together with collaborators at Kyoto University have made significant progress in overcoming this challenge, as shown in figures. They shaped laser pulses to account for aberration introduced as the laser beam traversed deep into glass. Such pulse shaping is an important first step for producing consistent crystal growth conditions for 3D micro-optics.
Fig. 2: Inverse pole figure (IPF) electron diffraction maps show a single crystal orientation for each line. The secondary electron images (SEI) reveal a 'fine structure‘, which is currently under investigation.
Probing the state of laser fabricated single crystal architecture in glassHimanshuJain, Lehigh University, DMR 0906763
Laser heating of glass offers high spatial selectivity, which can be exploited to create ferroelectric single-crystal architecture within glass. However, in order to become viable for active functionality, the characteristics of the crystal need to be better understood. Scanning confocal Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy, and combined excitation emission spectroscopy (CEES) measurements have given a most detailed insight about the state of an erbium doped LaBGeO5 crystal sample within the glass of same composition – see Figures 1 and 2. These results also provide guidance for optimizing the fabrication process.
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The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 658 out of 1,189 passed the various grades of the written phase of the MARINE ENGINEER OFFICERS LICENSURE EXAMINATIONS given by the Board for Marine Engineer Officers in Manila this September 2011.
The members of the Board for Marine Engineer Officers are Engr. Miguel O. Marasigan, Officer-in-Charge; Engr. Victoriano A. Alojado, Engr. Ferdinand R. Pascua and Engr. Eldefonso G. Uba, Members.
The results were released after four (4) days from the last day of examinations.
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Pizza is the world’s favorite meal, snack and … food emoji of 2017, according to data released by Twitter Wednesday morning.
The second and third most commonly tweeted food emoji this year are the chocolate bar and the cookie, respectively. (Because no slice can satisfy completely without some kind of sweet finish.)
Rounding out the list of the top most popular gastronomic icons on the social media platform are all the essential junk and take-out foods New Yorkers rely on: the burger (4), vanilla ice cream cone (5), doughnut (6), taco (7), (Swiss) cheese wedge (8), fries (9) and sushi (10).
Absent from that list, but slated for imminent debut on iOS after the June release of version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard are such critical additions as the pretzel (a boon for all New York City tourists and Auntie Anne’s employees), the dumpling (a must on all your Manhattan, Flushing and Sunset Park Chinatown visits) and the sandwich (the office drone’s standard lunch).
In spite of that progress, we at amNewYork believe that too many food pictographs remain out of thumb’s reach. How many times have we typed the word “bagel,” only to be disappointed no image substitute materializes? What will it take to convince the masters of the Unicode universe to introduce a bag of chips emoji, or a pizza slice with a face. (Why should a pile of poo get human features, but not our favorite form of sustenance?)