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Author: Katherine Newey (University of Exeter)
Through a case study of Constance Beerbohm, this afterword reflects on the challenges of researching comparatively obscure women writers and artists through scattered and partial archival sources, and argues for the exercise of the historian’s sympathetic imagination in reconstructing the emotional labour of their lives.
Keywords: Beerbohm family, archives, women's writing, Victorian theatre
How to Cite: Newey, K. (2018) “Afterword”, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.(27). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.842
‘For we think back through our mothers if we are women’, wrote Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own (1929). Except that mothers are often invisible, unnamed — or covered by others’ names. Yet, as Jacky Bratton argues in her tracing of women’s work in London’s theatre industry in the nineteenth century, genealogy is women’s history.1 From the Restoration onwards, the work that women did in bearing, raising, educating, and inducting the next generation into the British theatre business was significant, both for the formation of the profession and as productive work in itself. The theatre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was nothing if not a family business, and the role of women as its producers and managers is slowly being revealed.2
In A Room of One’s Own, Woolf invents an imaginary woman — Judith Shakespeare — to trace a female history of creation and production. Since 1929 feminist historians have gradually replaced Woolf’s imagined woman with the many actual women writers, artists, thinkers, and activists whose work and worlds we have inherited. However, it is still interesting to use Woolf’s genealogical imaginings in A Room of One’s Own to reflect on the presence, or otherwise, of women’s lives in the archive. Woolf’s sketch of a female genealogy suggests anything but a formal or a material archive, rooms in which documents of people’s lives are held in organized readiness for scholars’ investigations. Judith Shakespeare did not exist, of course, and the thinness of provision for thinking, creating, producing women in Cambridge colleges in 1929 is sardonically and powerfully encapsulated in Woolf’s description of the prunes served at the women’s college dinner:
And if anyone complains that prunes, even when mitigated by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser’s heart and exuding a fluid such as might run in misers’ veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth for eighty years and yet not given to the poor, he should reflect that there are people whose charity embraces even the prune.3
Women’s bodily and mental cultivation is dependent on the stringy prune and charity, Woolf surmises, her anger masked by wit. Woolf’s famous argument for £500 a year and a room of one’s own is predicated on women’s historical lack of a room of their own, and a lack of money, agency, space, and privacy.
For Woolf, the ‘room’ is both material and symbolic — a space in which female autonomy can be exercised: autonomy which is intellectual, imaginative, and embodied. In other work, Woolf is painfully alive to the delicacy of surviving traces of women’s lives — the ‘orts, scraps and fragments’ of historical women writers,4 and the imagined lives of domestic women such as Clarissa Dalloway or Mrs Ramsay, artist women (Lily Briscoe), or activists such as Mary Datchet. The traces of these women’s lives are in their daily exchanges with intimate and domestic others, as well as in their documented writings and records. Woolf’s interest, even in historical women writers, is in the possibilities of imagining the processes of making art, and the consciousness of the woman artist. She is acutely aware of the barriers to full expression of that consciousness. In one of her most powerful and disturbing passages (if only for its violence and catastrophe), Woolf imagines the consequences of women’s full autonomy and freedom as artists:
The image that comes to my mind when I think of this girl is the image of a fisherman lying sunk in dreams on the verge of a deep lake with a rod held out over the water. She was letting her imagination sweep unchecked round every rock and cranny of the world that lies submerged in the depths of our unconscious being. […] Her imagination had […] sought the pools, the depths, the dark places where the largest fish slumber. And then there was a smash. There was an explosion. There was foam and confusion. The imagination had dashed itself against something hard. The girl was roused from her dream. She was indeed in a state of the most acute and difficult distress. To speak without figure she had thought of something, something about the body, about the passions which it was unfitting for her as a woman to say. […] She could write no more.5
In patriarchy, women’s bodies and women’s emotions are unspeakable, and stop the full development of the artist; in records and archives, women’s bodies — their productivity and reproductivity — disappear into family histories, and care for others. These brief reflections on Virginia Woolf’s approach to recovering and understanding the genealogy of women’s art and its making have been productive for me in thinking about the archival traces and silences of Constance Beerbohm (1856–1939). Beerbohm’s archival remains are multiple, both speaking volubly and not telling me enough. Just when I think I have done the work, found the sources, I lose my way in a jumble of materials. My encounters with writer and playwright Constance Beerbohm have felt like this. Her life and work can only be partially assembled from fragments of her own texts and her appearances in others’ lives and work.
In this short afterword to the articles of this issue of 19, I want to reflect on the challenges to the historian of women’s artistic work presented by my work on Constance Beerbohm and the particular challenges of her archival remains. I have written about Beerbohm elsewhere.6 Some of the documentary traces of Beerbohm’s private life and familial, domestic work are held in the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, because she was the half-sister of both Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree and Max Beerbohm. Beerbohm’s letters are preserved in that part of the Beerbohm-Tree archive which the Bristol Theatre Collection categorizes as the ‘Tree Family Archive’ as material recording ‘other family members’.7 Beerbohm’s voice and lived experience is both preserved and obscured by her more famous half-brothers. She did not marry, nor have children, so our ability to ‘think back’ through Constance Beerbohm is available only because she was a diligent, loyal, and devoted sister and aunt, rather than a mother. We still do not have an extensive language or frame of reference for the significance of these kinds of relationships; and the dynamics of unconventional families, and the ‘forgotten’ sisters within them, requiring us to rethink how we track influence and agency, is an abiding concern for the articles in this issue of 19.
Constance Beerbohm was at the centre of one of the most successful theatrical families of the final decades of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth centuries. Her half-brother Herbert Beerbohm-Tree was London’s leading actor-manager, after Henry Irving. Together with his wife, Maud Tree, Herbert produced and performed such sensations as Trilby — he is perhaps best remembered for introducing Svengali onto the London stage and into early film — as well as premiering Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance (1893) and introducing the New Drama of Maeterlinck and Ibsen to the mainstream West End theatre.8 Herbert built Her Majesty’s Theatre and ran it for over twenty-five years establishing his company at the centre of late-Victorian and Edwardian high culture. Constance Beerbohm’s younger half-brother, Max, was perhaps even more highly regarded than his elder half-brother as a writer, critic, and opinion maker, nominated the ‘incomparable Max’ by George Bernard Shaw in Our Theatres in the Nineties (1932).9 Constance Beerbohm was one of the hidden, domestic linchpins of this sprawling, multigenerational, dynamic family.
Her emotional and domestic labour helped keep her stepmother, brothers, sister-in-law, and nephews and nieces organized and cared for. Beerbohm was particularly helpful to Max at the start of his career: it was Beerbohm who used her magazine connections to show Max’s drawings to the editor of the Strand Magazine.10 Her daily support to her sister-in-law, Maud Tree, in managing both family and family business, appears to have been crucial. Beerbohm’s letter to Maud after what may have been a suicide attempt by Maud (and not the only attempt) is telling in her sharp rebuke: ‘How sad & how disapproving I felt to hear from Mamma 20 grains of anti pyrim you had taken. It’s wicked. You might really kill yourself — and what would Viola do? To say nothing of others.’11 The silence here is as much about Maud Tree’s strategies for coping with her husband’s lifelong infidelities — he died leaving a ‘second’ family of six children, including film director Carol Reed — father of Oliver Reed (ODNB). But that is another story, of another largely silenced woman, mistily discernible in Beerbohm’s correspondence with Maud, and her regular assurances to Maud that she is much loved and needed.
The documentary traces of Constance Beerbohm’s life and work are to be found in the Beerbohm Family Archive and in the pages of late nineteenth-century journals, now more quickly done through their numerous digitizations, but still requiring assiduous searching, and knowledge of the kind of writing Beerbohm undertook. She comments on it herself (to Maud) as trivial writing done for money:
I can’t get work except piffling paragraphs once in a while in the Evening News (nothing), after 8 years quite lucrative work at the ‘London Mail’.
Now for weeks I get not the vestige of a P O O. The stage is good, that you can play your age — if its [sic] 30, 40, or 50 — But in my sort of ladies maid journalism you have to know how to pretend to be youngish & get about.12
The letters are carefully preserved by professional archivists in labelled, catalogued boxes, as one might expect. But on opening the boxes, it is as if chaos descends. They scatter. They are not individually catalogued; and in fact, to do so would be almost impossible. The letters are rarely dated by Beerbohm and there is little internal evidence by which they can be dated. There are partial letters, torn pages, long letters which carry on over several separate documents, and levels of handwriting from the neat ‘lady’s hand’ to scrawls which one might surmise are the equivalent of telephone calls, in a city with three postal deliveries most days. Reading the letters through Woolf’s imagined young woman, allowing her consciousness to roam, the letters give me the sense of a passionate woman, active in mind and body, but constrained by sororal and daughterly duties, including the need to earn a family living to support her stepmother and other sisters. If Beerbohm’s reach and grasp were limited to ‘ladies maid journalism’ this was a result of her limited education (while Max went to Oxford), and her double duties as breadwinner and domestic manager and carer for her household, which comprised her stepmother (and her considerable debts), her sister Agnes and brother Max, and often her nieces and nephews, while Herbert and Maud toured.
Despite these hundreds of words, in letters written at speed, with urgency and feeling, there is a silence at the centre of this collection of remains of a life. Beerbohm was clearly not a silent woman, but her writing is inevitably shaped by gendered ideologies then, and historiographical frameworks now. Constance Beerbohm’s life remained largely domestic and private, and I am faced with an ethical question: how does a feminist historian engage with a voice which is so caught in what seem to us now to be harmful structures of femininity? How does a contemporary feminist historian write about these dutiful, painful female narratives without being presentist on the one hand or, on the other, uncritically historicist?
Tracking Constance Beerbohm through the archive — her brother’s archive, in fact — requires a different way of approaching one of the most interesting, but challenging, tasks for the historian: understanding and interpreting the negotiations of individuals with the constraints of the social structures within which they live. Using scattered evidence from a partial archive starts to reveal the kinds of agency Beerbohm had, and how she used her access to the considerable social and cultural capital of her family. For a feminist historian, this is an investigation into the opportunities for women in patriarchy to develop autonomous and realized selves, and the extent to which they were able to do so — or not. In considering the life and work of Constance Beerbohm, I find myself intrigued by how I deal with the ‘not’ of her life, which seems to dominate any sort of self-actualization. While I could seek and expand on traces of Beerbohm’s resistance to the role into which she was pushed — pushed by love and duty and care — to do so would be to look for validation of twenty-first century notions of women’s work and significance. In considering the case of Constance Beerbohm, I am more than ever convinced of the necessity of understanding the uncomfortable evidence of the archive, and honouring Beerbohm’s emotional labour, in spite of the pain (both mental and bodily) it caused her. To do this requires the exercise of a historical imagination which works through empathetic engagement with the recovered archival traces. Although a celibate, childless woman, Beerbohm mothered the Beerbohm family business, providing economic and emotional sustenance. This was the invisible but productive labour which lies at the centre of Beerbohm’s archival remains: silent, but perhaps retrievable by a historian allowing her ‘imagination [to] sweep unchecked round every rock and cranny of the world that lies submerged’ in the archive, if not the historian’s consciousness.
The articles in this collection offer variety and breadth in their empathetic reconstructions of women’s lives and work from archives which are often fragmentary and occluded. The particular constraints of women’s lives in the long nineteenth century explored in these articles mean that often there is no unitary archive — no ‘room of one’s own’ in which records are held and can be examined. These women’s lives and work need to be reassembled from scattered records. In these articles, scholars take their cues from objects, paintings, diaries, letters, public records, and lost manuscripts as well as those found. There is noise to be made from silence.

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Friday August 24, 2012
Carnegie Mellon head coach Rich Lackner's wife Cindy recently lost her 9 year battle with cancer. Please keep Coach Lackner and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
Pittsburgh Steelers: Amos Jones has been promoted to special teams coordinator, replacing Al Everest.
UConn: Former Central Missouri graduate assistant Luke Bengtson has joined the UConn staff in the same capacity as an offensive grad assistant.
Kentucky: Director of football administration David Armstrong has resigned. We understand that his responsibilities will be assumed by director of football operations Nolan Jones, and they will not be hiring a replacement at this time.
Hamilton College (D-III - NY): Ryan Anderson has been named offensive coordinator. Anderson spent the last two seasons as the offensive coordinator at Western New England University.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — On a night when the focus was on streaks, the Los Angeles Kings ended two of them while keeping the Philadelphia Flyers out of the record book.
Adrian Kempe jumped out of the penalty box and scored a key goal in the third period, Jonathan Quick made 36 saves and the Kings ended the Flyers' six-game winning streak with a 4-1 victory Monday.
Alec Martinez, Trevor Lewis and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the Kings, who had won eight straight before starting their four-game trip 0-2-1.
"We talked about it all (Sunday) and again today, about how important this game was," said Kings coach John Stevens, whose team moved two points ahead of idle Vegas atop the Pacific Division. "We played a really good, solid, team game."
Jakub Voracek scored a power-play goal and Brian Elliott stopped 21 shots for the Flyers, who were trying to tie an NHL record by becoming the first team since the 1966-67 Toronto Maple Leafs to immediately follow a 10-game winless streak with seven straight victories.
"I think we've played really good hockey over the past 10 days, two weeks," Voracek said. "We've just got to make sure we don't get stuck on losing. We have to find a way to win on Wednesday and hopefully start another streak."
With the Kings leading 2-1, Kempe finished serving a cross-checking penalty and scored his 11th goal on an odd-man rush at 4:48.
"It was a good opportunity," he said.
Toffoli scored his 16th with 4:29 left to put it away, with Nick Shore getting his second assist.
The Flyers had more chances — they held a 37-25 edge in shots — but couldn't convert against Quick in another twist to their topsy-turvy season.
"He was good tonight. He made a few big saves," Philadelphia center Sean Couturier said of Quick, who shut out the Flyers on Oct. 5. "It was tough finding those rebounds."
Elliott, the NHL's No. 2 star of the week after posting a 1.31 goals-against average in three victories, wasn't as sharp in his eighth straight start.
The Kings scored twice on their first seven shots. Martinez got his third directly off Torrey Mitchell's faceoff win over Scott Laughton, and Lewis beat Elliott short side to make it 2-0.
Voracek, who entered with an NHL-high 33 assists, picked up his eighth goal with 1:56 left in the first period after collecting Claude Giroux's deflected shot.
It was the sixth straight game in which the Kings, who have the NHL's top penalty kill, allowed a power-play goal.
But even though the Kings played the final two periods without defenseman Christian Folin (upper body), they killed off Philadelphia's five other power plays to sweep the season series and give Stevens a happy return to Philadelphia.
The first-year Kings coach guided the Flyers to the 2008 Eastern Conference final before being fired the following season.
"I think anytime you play one of your old clubs you have a little bit extra want going into the game," said Martinez, who played 27:43. "John has been unbelievable for us. He's come in here, stepped in and encouraged an environment that's very positive."
NOTES: Kings D Drew Doughty played a game-high 31:36. . Stevens tinkered with his lines, as Marian Gaborik saw time with the first line and Andy Andreoff and Jonny Brodzinski played on the fourth line ahead of Kyle Clifford and Jussi Jokinen. . Stevens called his time in Philadelphia "a great memory for my family." . Flyers D Shayne Gostisbehere missed much of the second period with an apparent injury before returning. "He played a good third period," coach Dave Hakstol said.
Kings: Home vs. Colorado on Thursday.
Flyers: Conclude a five-game homestand Wednesday vs. Detroit.
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More than 700 items are knitted at home each year by members of Rochester (N.Y.) Christian Reformed Church’s knitting ministry. Some of those creations go to community centers and health clinics, but many of them warm the heads and hands of students at John James Audubon School #33, the church’s neighborhood public school. It’s the largest in the district with 1,200 students who experience a high poverty rate. Concerned church members began a school relations program there two years ago. Now as many as 13 volunteers provide a Christian presence at the school daily.
Nancy Johnson, a retired teacher and Rochester CRC member who helped establish the volunteer program with a gym teacher at the school, said there has been great support from the congregation.
The congregation has established relationships with staff by donating extra holiday candy to be enjoyed on hectic days and sharing notes of encouragement with staff members in addition to providing school supplies and handmade knitted items for students.
“Every December when the knitters bring their work in to be bagged and distributed, we are all in awe. The stories of how the yarn arrived for this hat or that scarf are always amazing,” said Ann Michele Bouwmeester, leader of the knitting ministry.
In the school lunchroom, Rochester CRC volunteers bring in coloring pages for elementary students to complete after eating their lunches. The lunchroom staff welcomed this idea and see that it touches the lives of the students.
At the beginning of the 2018-2019 academic year, Rochester CRC invited school administrators to a worship service to report on how the collaborative effort has made a difference at the school. Administrators expressed thanks for the congregation’s prayers, encouragement, time, and resources.


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At the historic Stonewall Inn on Thursday, 16 November, the Matthew Shepard Foundation celebrated the kick-off to its 20th anniversary.
The Erase Hate benefit featured performances by drag queens and LGBTI musicians and comedians. All the songs performed that night were from 1998, the year Shepard died.
GSN spoke with Dennis and Judy Shepard, Matthew’s parents and the founders of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, about their son and the impact his story continues to make across the world.
The Laramie Project
The Laramie Project is probably one of the best-known works surrounding Shepard’s death. The play was based on real-life interviews with those who knew Shepard and those who lived in Laramie during the aftermath of Shepard’s murder.
‘[It’s] totally based on real interviews. It will be the truth forever,’ Judy says of the play.
This year, the Matthew Shepard Foundation partnered with the OnePULSE Foundation. The two groups plan to put on performances of The Laramie Project in Orlando next summer.
This collaboration came about when Orlando residents began reaching out to the newly-founded OnePULSE Foundation seeing the similarities between Matthew Shepard’s story and what happened at the Pulse nightclub last year.
‘Our community in Orlando is still grieving,’ says Earl Crittenden, the chairman of the board of the OnePULSE Foundation. ‘We’re so frustrated that we’re still having the same conversation as the Matthew Shepard Foundation, who helped bring [these issues] to the national stage.’
According to Judy and Dennis, The Laramie Project had a profound impact on all those who participated in its creation. And now, it’s becoming more mainstream, even being taught in middle school and high school classes.
Over the years, there have been rumors that Matthew Shepard wasn’t killed because he was gay, but rather because of some drug-related drama.
On this topic, Judy recalls the words of a professor of folk history at the University of Wyoming who said that people who live somewhere where something bad happened often try to rewrite history and change the story to make it more palatable.
‘It’s comical that this conspiracy theory lives on because it’s so easily debunked,’ Judy says of the rumors.
Still, the Shepards have a good sense of humor surrounding these hurtful claims.
‘Matthew’s actually alive and living in Vegas with Elvis,’ Dennis jokes.
Back in the summer, Dennis and Judy were meant to be speaking at the CIA about diversity and LGBTI rights, only to have their invitation rescinded last minute.
As far as Dennis and Judy know, the CIA disinvited them because they felt the Foundation would only focus on LGBTI issues and not diversity more generally. The Shepards found out about the event being cancelled via email only one week before they were meant to be speaking.
‘The work we do doesn’t really have a metric,’ Judy says of the impact The Matthew Shepard Foundation has had.
The Shepards still travel around the country, raising awareness about hate crimes and educating people on tolerance and the LGBTI community more generally.
Dennis, however, was very adamant about his wife’s contribution to the national dialogue about LGBTI rights.
‘Judy’s work got the first legislation passed,’ Dennis says. ‘And when the sky didn’t fall, the next domino was to get Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repealed. And when everyone survived that, the next step was gay marriage.’
‘[This was] all done because of Judy and her supporters getting that legislation passed.’
Though it’s only been a year under the Trump administration, the Shepards have already seen some setbacks.
According to Judy, every Obama-era thing that wasn’t an official law, like executive orders or suggested regulation, has been rescinded. This is not just for LGBTI people, but for all marginalized groups.
To combat this, Dennis and Judy are emphatic about getting younger generations more politically involved, even just on local and state levels.
‘This is no time to stop your activism,’ Dennis says. ‘We need it now more than ever.’
‘Stop being so complacent about what happens and get involved,’ Judy states.
‘Grassroots forces change,’ Dennis continues. ‘It’s gotta be done on the ground level. Young people are the key to change .’
‘It’s messy, it’s not fun, it’s hard work. But it’s necessary,’ Judy says.
And, indeed, it’s hard to disagree with that.
Learn more about what the Matthew Shepard Foundation is up to here.


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A new YouTube video has reimagined Metallica‘s ‘Master Of Puppets’ in 50 different styles – watch it below.
The new video is the brainchild of YouTuber and musician Anthony Vincent, who has recently brought us such delights as Radiohead’s ‘Creep’ in the style of Deftones and a jazz cover of Foo Fighters’ ‘Everlong’.
For the new version, ‘Master Of Puppets’ is recreated in the style of 50 different bands or genres, including Harry Styles, Daft Punk, The Weeknd, Linkin Park, Soundgarden and many, many more, including Vincent’s own cat.
Watch the 8-minute video below:
A huge number of artists have recently been covering Metallica, with 53 bands and musicians contributing covers of tracks from Metallica’s 1991 classic ‘The Black Album’ to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Reviewing ‘The Metallica Blacklist’, NME wrote: “This is a record that makes ‘DONDA’ look positively zippy. Inevitably, the record descends into a series of multi-band cover-offs, the listener acting as Caesar, deciding which ‘winning’ version should really have made the cut. Half the time you feel like you’re doing the compiler’s job for them.”
In terms of new Metallica music, drummer Lars Ulrich recently said that “there’s new music coming” from the band, but explained “there’s nothing cohesive” yet in terms of the follow-up to 2016’s ‘Hardwired… To Self-Destruct’.

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When you gleefully announce the title of your book, to be met with an immediate and very certain response of ‘I don’t like that’ … from someone you know, is fairly experienced in that department… it can make you sit back and think a smidge.
Now, should the person who said that be reading this, please know that I am recounting this tale with a smile on my face – the tears, upset and deep-seated self-hatred passed with my third gin – and in fact, you did me a favour.
The favour is that I love that title, I love it like a child. In my minds eye, I can see the book cover, the posters, the little photo of me holding my debut as the avatar on my twitter. The twitter account now seen by all the lovely new followers I have as a legitimate, published author. (My mind’s eye is as aspirational as myself) … That title is practically tattooed on my inner soul, so to hear that someone didn’t like it makes me sit back and reflect, because after all – a book title can make all the difference to the sales, particularly for a new author who has no history to rely on. It can inspire the cover design, it can hook a new reader, it can sum up the potential brand you want to develop as a writer. Future book titles may follow a similar theme… it’s vital.
Which is also why publishing houses can change the title the author has given to go with one they feel is stronger, better suits the market or the book. So is it worth me trying to come up with a better title? Are book titles so subjective that you can’t get it right for everyone, is it in fact not worth stressing about given that its likely to change were it ever picked up by a publisher… or an agent… or anyone remotely interested in supporting my aspiration to be a published writer… not to mention the fact that I have only just (about half an hour ago) finished the first, very skeletal draft.
For me, it is. Because it’s tangible. If my book has a title I believe in, it adds some much needed gravitas to my process. I am so depressingly neurotic about my writing that I actually feel that a good title is part way to my making a dent in my ridiculous dream. So, with that in mind, and to celebrate the fact that I have finished the first of what will undoubtedly be many, many drafts, I have decided to share it here. Ok, here goes – you have no idea how this makes me feel…
Glitter Red Shoes and Sky Blue Gingham.
There I said it. It’s out there. That is the title of my second book. Do you love it? Do you hate it? Do you wonder what on earth it’s about… but not in a good way? Should you be sufficiently inclined, let me know. If you are not sufficiently inclined, perhaps that is answer enough. Either way, I’m off to celebrate my very tiny milestone with a swim and a peppermint tea.
And to the person who told me they didn’t like the title, thank you. For me, directness (whether it is a word or not) is useful. Always.

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This has prompted a number of construction industry associations to join forces in developing standards for green building. The ICC 700 National Green Building Standard is the first residential green standard to receive recognition by the American National Standards Institute.
The new standard points to an industry-wide focus on simplifying processes for builders and homeowners to make and implement environmentally conscious decisions during the building or renovation process. However, industry standards aren’t aligning with regulations in place at the national, state or local government level.
Some areas of conflict include housing association specifications, local zoning requirements, and local building codes—not to mention the mountains of paperwork in some states that is necessary to validate green features so a homeowner can secure their tax credit or other cost benefit.


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Comic Book Review: House of Night #1
House of Night #1, Dark Horse ComicsWriters: P.C. Cast, Kristen Cast, Kent Dalian
Artwork: Joelle Jones, Karl Kerschl
Right from the get go I'm going to go on the record that I'm not a vampire fan. Don't get me wrong I not against them, I just don't elevate them above other supernatural creatures or "monsters". I watch True Blood regularly, I'm familiar with the Dracula and a few of his comic book incarnations, I have a surface familiarity with Anne Rice's Lestat character and some of those novels from my wife's library, and I've been forced to watch a couple of the Twilight movies (holy Moses, those movies are tough to stay awake through). Those for the most part make up my knowledge and exposure to vampires and their lore. So when I'm given a preview copy of House of Night by Dark Horse to review, being told its a vampire book based off a series of popular novels, I'm coming to the party with a set of expectations and honestly I'm not overly excited but I dive in anyway.
When I closed this first issue after reading it through, I had to read it again to get all the details and I wanted to know more about this world. P.C. Cast and her daughter Kristen Cast have created such a different and refreshingly original approach to vampires or "vampyre" as its spelled in the book that I wanted to read more from them. I can see now why their books have sold so well and been on the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Forgive me fans of this novel series, for my only exposure to this "world" is this comic book that I'm reviewing. The main character is young woman named Zoey Redbird. She's a high-school student who has recently been marked as a vampyre and as a result now has to attend a vampyre academy called the House of Night. Through the dialog between the characters much of the story preceding this issue, that I'm assuming was covered in the novels, is filled in for us comic book readers. So the comic book doesn't go with Zoey through her discovery of her true nature or her first days at the academy, this isn't an origin story by any means. We are dropped down into a story that is already in progress, which I'm fine with especially in the way its handled.
I'm sure some of the retread dialog between the characters at the beginning of the book might be causing some quick page turns for those familiar with the series, but for those of us who are new to this world its a welcome way to get us up to speed.
In this world vampyre's also have use of elemental magic and their blood drinking is done after receiving permission from their source. Both interesting takes on vampyres, its refreshing not to have vampyres depicted as haughty, blood suckers with superiority complexes. But I won't delve into all the storyline and variances in how these vampyres are depicted though, readers can enjoy that themselves. Overall what I found great about this book is the presence of a strong female protagonist, something that is very welcome and needed in comic books. There is a strong female lead in one of the sub-stories as well in this issue. While there is some good action in this book there is also a great deal of good character interaction and enough background information to hook in new readers such as myself.
If the comic book industry wants to appeal to a wider audience of readers and bring in more female readers without alienating male readership. This is the kind of book they need to keep bringing to the table. I enjoyed this thoroughly, its not often that I'm so pleasantly surprised by a book. Put aside your preconceptions about what a vampire book is supposed to be and enjoy the House of Night. Its available both in print and digitally.
4.5 out of 5 rating

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A new study shows how shifting patterns of humidity may bring about changes in the Arctic atmosphere. The study is from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
As temperatures rise and sea ice melts, scientists suspect that system feedback cycles may further speed up the warming process.
The new study compiled data from the 1950s through the present to examine the subtle changes in the Arctic atmosphere over time.
The study appeared in the October issue of EARTH Magazine.


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Residential Capital, the besieged mortgage unit of Ally Financial, filed for bankruptcy.
"The action by ResCap will enable Ally to achieve a permanent solution to its legacy mortgage risks and put these issues behind us," said Ally CEO Michael Carpenter. "This action, along with pursuing alternatives for the international businesses, will allow Ally to focus 100% of its energies on further strengthening its already leading U.S. auto finance and direct banking franchises."
Ally expects to take a $1.3 billion charge in the second quarter for the filing.
The parent bank said ResCap will continue servicing and originating home loans during the process.
In a separate announcement Monday, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NSM) a servicer based in Texas, paid $700 million to acquire $374 billion in mortgage servicing rights from ResCap. Included in the deal are $201 billion in primary servicing rights and $173 billion in subservicing contracts.
Ally executives said the prearranged plan will settle all existing and potential claims between Ally and ResCap along with actions from third parties.
Ally will make a $750 million cash injection into ResCap as part of the plan.
Ally made a stalking-horse bid on the entire mortgage unit of $1.6 billion or 45% of the unpaid principal on loans owned by ResCap. This bid will serve as a benchmark for companies looking to buy ResCap or its assets.
A $150 million financial facility will be created for the bankruptcy as well.
Investors holding at least a 25% stake in 290 mortgage-backed securities issued by ResCap gave support to the action as part of a settlement. These bonds, out of the 392 total from ResCap, have an original principal balance of $164 billon.
The company will also set up a $130 million mortgage repurchase reserve to buy back defaulted loans from investors. It will replace the reserve originally held at Ally.
The Treasury Department held a 74% stake in Ally before the filing. The bank said it paid back an additional $5.5 billion Monday, to reduce the taxpayer interest in the company by one-third. After completing the bankruptcy, Ally said it would pay back another third.
Timothy Massad, assistant secretary for financial stability at the Treasury, supported the action Monday.
"We believe that by addressing the legacy mortgage liabilities at ResCap, the action taken today will put taxpayers in a stronger position to maximize the value of their remaining investment in Ally," Massad said in a statement.


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Two people riding on a motorcycle were hospitalized after the driver swerved to avoid a groundhog, police said.
-- Two people were hospitalized Sunday after they were ejected from a motorcycle while trying to avoid a groundhog, police said.
Police responded to Route 70 and Crescent Drive around 11:20 a.m. and found the Harley Davidson motorcycle on its side with the driver, John Mura II, 56, of Toms River, and his passenger Marie Mura, on the ground, police said.
Cpl. Frank Palino determined that the pair was traveling west on Route 70 when John Mura swerved to avoid a groundhog that had run into the road, causing the bike to skid and fall over, police said. Both people on the bike were ejected.
John Mura was taken by helicopter to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune and Marie Mura was taken by ambulance to Community Medical Center in Toms River, police said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately available.

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Thane, Jul 10 (PTI) Rambhau Mhalgi was an institution in himself and an inspiration to legislators and parliamentarians, former Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik said at the closing ceremony of the renowned politician's birth centenary celebrations here on Saturday.
Naik, speaking on the occasion virtually, told the gathering that as per the wish of the former legislator and parliamentarian, the Rambhau Mhalgi Prabhodini, a research and leadership training institute, had grown into a highly accomplished facility since its establishment in 1982.
The function was presided over by Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Rajya Sabha MP and general secretary of the Prabhodini.
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The Newcastle fans in the Transfer Tavern have been reacting to an update via Sky Sports News that claims Newcastle United are confident of keeping Rafa Benitez in charge ahead of next season. Benitez had been heavily linked with the West Ham job as the Hammers’ board claimed they were very close to appointing a manager with experience in the Premier League and in Europe.
— Toon Transfer News (@toontransfer) May 17, 2018
Whilst Rafa Benitez is one of a number of managers who fits the bill, the Magpies were worrying that the Spaniard could be on his way out of St James Park seeing as his demands were unlikely to be met by Newcastle’s tyrant owner, Mike Ashley. The Sports Direct businessman has been told that if he is to keep Benitez on Tyneside then he needs to make funds available for the club to kick on from a mid-table side to a team pushing for Europe.
On the West Ham front, it looks like Manuel Pellegrini will be the next manager at The London Stadium, allowing out local Geordies to breathe a sigh of relief as they can prepare for life with Benitez at the helm for a third full season. The ex-Rea Madrid ad Liverpool manager will be looking to bolster his squad in the transfer window and with a relatively tight budget, he’ll need to be coy as he targets improvements on the squad that helped him to a 10th placed finish this season.
You can read our local Magpies’ verdict on Benitez here:
Hoping that this West Ham interest will force Cashleys hand into giving Rafa what he wants #Nufc
— Ben Robson (@RobboBen) May 17, 2018
Rafa is a gentleman unlike Ashley
— Antonio (@Antonio23441289) May 17, 2018
And they said that about rafagafa getin some transfer funds, God help us if rafagafa goes.
— Tony Kirkwood (@My4cherriepies) May 17, 2018
It’s Pardew to West Ham lads
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If this is the case they must have offered something close to what he wants
— sam johnson (@SamArmy94) May 17, 2018
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Here's What You Need to Know: Balancing the operational needs of the present with the technological needs of the future is a difficult equation to solve.
Congressional legislators rumbled with displeasure in December 2019 when the Office of Management and Budget released a memo proposing to early retire a dozen U.S. Navy ships in service and cut twelve more that are on order.
The vessels affected included operational Ticonderoga-class cruisers, littoral combat ships and San Antonio-class landing platform docks, as well as orders for new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, CHAMPS auxiliary ships, a Virginia-class submarine and a forthcoming FFG(X) frigate.
When combined with additional orders of newer ships, the OMB proposal leaves the Navy with three fewer ships than it started with, despite a (likely impossible) mandate to boost ship totals from 290 to 355 ships.
A companion article details the types of ships being cut, and the still vaguely-conceived successors the Navy sees stepping in to take their place. This piece will look at the political strategy that may underly the OMB proposal, and a peculiar bureaucratic problem which may be undermining the Navy’s modernization strategy.
Part of the difficulty facing the Navy budget, as that it wants to procure ten 2,000-ton LUSV drone warships as well as two smaller MUSV drone vessels with anti-submarine payloads, at a total cost of $3 billion.
In theory, robotic surface combatants could be much cheaper to build and operate than manned warships, could be employed more aggressively in areas threatened by anti-access/area denial weapons, and would allow the Navy to spread out its firepower more broadly without forcing it to stick humans on vulnerable ships like the LCS.
Above all, LUSVs could reduce the overwhelming operational burden placed on the Navy’s over-worked destroyers, cruisers, littoral combat ships, and planned-for frigates.
But the drone ships of its “Ghost Fleet” don’t officially count towards the total number of ships in service. That makes it seem like the Navy is shrinking more than is actually the case.
It’s also worth noting that some critics think the Navy is mistaken to commit itself so heavily to drone ships before they have been operationally tested. For example, maintaining unmanned vessels at sea could prove challenging without crew on hand to patch up breakdowns.
Thus in 2019, Congress pushed back against the Navy plans, requesting a slower roll-out to buy time for more operational testing. That has resulted in LUSV procurement being reduced to one instead of two ships per year.
Whether skepticism towards drone warships is justified or not, the Navy needs to change the way it counts ships if large drone ships are destined to play a major role in the mid-twenty-first-century fleet.
It’s worth noting that the Navy is also planning to deploy drone submarines to perform reconnaissance and eventually combat roles—both types designed for autonomous independent operations, and smaller large-diameter UUVs that would be launched from a manned submarine mothership.
“Cry for Help” Strategy?
The attempt to retire Truman earlier in 2019 may indicate a political strategy underlying the cuts proposed in the OMB memo. The Truman’s proposed retirement raised howls of outrage in Congress—leading to additional money begin appropriated not only to fund Truman’s mid-life overhaul, but for a block purchase of two new (and infamously troubled) Ford-class carriers.
Thus, some see the OMB’s proposed cuts as amounting to another fishing expedition (or more charitably, a “cry for help”) intended to shake down Congress for money lest ship-building programs popular with their constituents pay the price.
However, the Navy must contend with the reality that most analysts don’t expect the U.S. defense budget to increase significantly beyond current levels in the next few years. The sea warfare branch, therefore, has to place bets on how likely a conflict is to occur in the near term, how much of its current fleet it can pawn off prematurely, and how long it can afford to wait for next-generation vessels like the LSC, FFG(X) and SSN(X) to pick up the slack.
By process of elimination, we can also see which current ship-building programs are prioritized by the U.S. Navy: its Gerald Ford-class supercarriers, America-class light carrier/amphibious ships, and forthcoming Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.
The Columbia-class remains such a priority because they perform the critical role of providing the United States with nigh-unkillable sea-based nuclear deterrence. Furthermore, they must Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines as they begin to age out.
The emphasis on carrier construction also reflects that the Navy still centers its warfighting capabilities around the huge ships laden with jet fighters. Indeed, a large chunk of the Navy’s frigates, destroyers, cruiser sand submarines are dedicated solely to protecting carriers from attack.
Thus the budgeteers proved willing to cut an order for five highly capable destroyers rather than reduce planned carrier construction by a single ship. However, the Navy’s dedication to huge and expensive carriers may be myopic in an era when land-based anti-ship weapons are beginning to out-range the aircraft based on carriers.
Balancing the operational needs of the present with the technological needs of the future is a difficult equation to solve. But a healthy initial step towards solving it would be to count armed 2,000-ton vessels as “ships”, even if they don’t have humans onboard.
Sébastien Roblin writes on the technical, historical and political aspects of international security and conflict for publications including the The National Interest, NBC News, Forbes.com and War is Boring. He holds a Master’s degree from Georgetown University and served with the Peace Corps in China. You can follow his articles on Twitter.
This article first appeared in December 2019.
Image: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sawyer Haskins


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Lily Clarkfeld never wanted this life. She just wants to be a regular college student. In her dreams Lily is a nurse, has a family, and is safe. That's not much to ask.
But when she's forced to return to her childhood home because of her mother's illness, everything changes.
Instead of burying her head in books, Lily is torn between two motorcycle clubs. Venom, the ruthless president of Tarantulas MC, is not the kind of man to say please. He gets what he wants, and what he wants is Lily.
Then there is Asher. Lily's first love. Asher Thomas is bigger, stronger, and more damaged than Lily remembers. He never forgot about her and willing to do anything to get her back.
Who will win? Will Lily's story end in happiness? Or will everything come down around her in flames?
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When she's not writing, Elsa can probably be found chugging tea, listening to international music, and baking sweets. She enjoys sketching, painting, and photography, but writing will always be her first love.
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Loved this book. But it waz like 65pgs!!!! Why. Why. Why? Need d next book!
To me there wasn't enough character development and the plot was rushed. It would have been nice to know more about Asher and the other characters in the book. This was strictly only about Lily and she seemed childish. She was going home to take care of her dying mother but the mother was the one taking care of Lily, what little time she spent with her mother. All in all it was an okay read but not one I will be saving.
It was a good read, that I enjoyed. There were some parts that I felt needed a little bit more story line to it, but other than that I enjoyed it.


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Cancer Survival Guide is published by Humanix Books in February 2016. This book has 304 pages in English, ISBN-13 978-1630060145.
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22 August 2019
Keonjhar: Three elephants were killed and one critically injured after being hit by a truck on National Highway 20 near Balijodi under Ghatagaon Forest Range of Keonjhar district on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.
An elephant herd was crossing the road when the mishap occurred. On getting information, Forest Department officials reached the spot and initiated efforts for post-mortem of the deceased elephants and treatment of the injured.
Following the accident, the truck had also skidded off the road. Meanwhile, the vehicle has been seized and the truck driver and helper detained by the Forest Department officials.


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Zyvaunte loves pizza. It’s, by far, his favorite food. He likes listening to music on YouTube and Pandora, likes to read and loves watching Tyler Perry’s Madea movies. He describes himself as very active.
He hopes to one day travel to Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He has quite a list of things he plans to become in the future: a firefighter; basketball player and baseball player. He likes to play basketball, dance and have fun during recess. He admits homework can be a little bit challenging for him, but he works hard at it.
Asked to describe himself in three words, he chose resilient, funny and athletic.
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Well, Gegard Mousasi has called out Vitor Belfort yet again.
Since Vitor’s demolition at the hands of Chris Weidman recently Belfort has been quiet. Many believe that this was his last shot a UFC championship before he retires and he may be relegated to Michael Bisping status now and used as an established name in someone’s win column. Just fulfilling his contract and staying two fights out of the title picture. Gegard Mousasi is ready to being him out of hiding though.


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- DPD No1 Swimming Pool Testing Tablets
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DELIVERY: We aim to send all products out on a next working day service but all standard deliveries will be within 5 working days
RETURNS: This product can be returned in original packaging, suitable for resale, within 14 days from date of delivery.
DPD is an abbreviation of diethyl-p-phenylene diamine. DPD tablets react with pool water containing chlorine or bromine, colouring the water sample various shades of red. The deeper the colour the higher the concentration of sanitiser.
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Seven and a third fairies (from Pegleg Pete)
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- This attraction's queue actually is hidden below the railroad track.
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John Blackwell Project came together after the 2008 Buddy Rich Memorial Concert to create a stellar album with a truly unique and varied collection of innovative fusion tunes, the basic tracks for 4ever Jia were recorded at DrumChannel in Oxnard, California. The album's influences are drawn from Funk, Fusion and Jazz, something for everyone and some tunes that will have you singing in no time.
An incredible band consisting of four core talents: John (a world-class groove master and drummer with Prince, and many other top performers) Corey Bernhard (keys - you may have seen him on John's Master class Hudson DVD), Paul Pesco (guitar - Madonna, J-Lo, Hall & Oates, Mary J., Alicia Keyes and many others) and Will Lee (bass - everyone, and I mean everyone, but most know him from Dave Letterman). There are multiple guest musicians on the album including Charlie Singleton (Cameo), David Garfield, David Mann (Tower of Power), Luis Conte, Esperanza Spalding, Michael Landau and many others.
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1). A Labour Government will provide a cradle to grave integrated National Health and Care Service, free at the point of use and delivered solely by publicly funded and controlled service providers. The only criteria for service provision will be need, never cost. A Labour Government will provide healthcare “in the round” including physical, mental, emotional and preventative services with in a spirit of mutual cooperation between the service providers and their users.
In return service users will be expected to enter into the NHCS with a commitment to working as equal partners with providers, and commit to treating fellow partners in the system with respect and with every effort being made by all to further the best outcome no matter how challenging the circumstances.
2). Labour believes in providing free education for all for as long as they want it provided by the Government. The concept of expecting our young people to pay for a chance to contribute to Society as future workers will be ended. The Educational Maintenance Allowance will be restored and be universal. Grants at the living wage standard will available to all, regardless of parental income. Teachers and support staff will be well paid and held in high regard as they are the key to unlocking the latent potential that exists in all our young people. We will provide any necessary support for learners with specific needs including extra time, support and hardware.
In return, those availing these opportunities must commit to trying to be the best that they can be by attending classes whenever possible, and completing their course with due care and attention to detail. The EMA and grants must be allocated on a strict basis of evidence and good faith being shown.
3). An incoming Labour Government is welded to the aim of full employment and will seek to provide a secure and well paid jobs for all. In return we expect every person to take reasonable employment when it is offered. Job Seekers Allowance will eventually be abolished as an anachronism from times past. Instead workers will be expected to be either in employment or education unless they have medical exemption. Workers with medical needs will be supported to work for as long as they can via flexible workplace and hours arrangements. Too many workers are written off too soon. Medical exemption grants will be paid at the average salary rate.
4). Labour believes in world class housing for all. We commit to end the the boom and bust housing market. Houses are homes, not investment opportunities. As a quick response to the current crisis we will allow Councils to borrow against their assets but with a long term aim of providing the Cooperative Movement with the necessary start up funds to produce a stock high quality, carbon neutral homes for rent, part rent or buy.
We expect residents to reciprocate this intervention by central Government by forming local democratic groups caring for their environment and taking the time to ensure an environment conducive to a high standard of living for all.
5). Ethical business practice in the private sector must include a robust Living Wage, full trade union recognition and rigorous accounting.The more a company contributes to its local economy, the more tax breaks and investment will result. The Government will trust small business employers to deploy their own resources as they see fit. Labour will not rig the market in favour of anyone, no matter what their size. The market, where appropriate has a huge roll to play in the re booting of our economy.
6). Our democratic institutions are broken. Labour will begin the long process of fixing this by giving democracy to whom it belongs; the people. We call for an end to corrupt politics but reject the Marxist concept of democratic centralism. Our people will be trusted with the power, and engagement will evolve. Simple measures such as weekend voting are a beginning.
7). Full State pensions will be available from the age of 55 (50 in manual or physically demanding work). In return Labour proposes a contract until 65 which, (according to health needs) will liberate the experience and wisdom of older citizens via mentoring and community contribution. This massive commitment will be set up after a Royal Commission into older people, their skills and needs reports in the second half of the next Parliament. This will be subject to a referendum.
8). Our utilities, and transport system will be taken into public ownership but with full workplace democracy built on the Co Operative model of mutualisation. Vast behemoths such as the NHS will be broken up and liberated under local control. This will see the end to a Stalinist bureaucracy where daily routines are “done” to workers and service users alike. There will be an end to the One Size Fits all approach which has blighted our public services of late, and saw nationalised industry fail so badly in the 1970’s.
9). Labour promises to protect all of us in the UK without fear or favour via democratically controlled policing and a military which is fit for purpose as we enter the middle of this century. We expect our residents to respect the law and expect to face the full weight of it if they fail, but in a spirit where rehabilitation and punishment are on an equal footing.
10). The rights of all to live a full and enriched life will actually mean something under a Labour Government. We commit to full participation for women in society. In addition we will work tirelessly to redress the historic wrongs done to minority groups such as the LGBT community. There will be a narrowing of the wealth equality gap which does so much damage to social cohesion.


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Analysis of gene expression in filamentous cells of Candida albicans grown on agar plates
Keywords:Candida albicans, filamentation, RNA extraction, qRT-PCR, RNAseq
AbstractCandida albicans (C. albicans) is a commensal organism of the human gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. C. albicans is also a major human pathogen, causing disease ranging from cutaneous infections to lethal systemic disease. The ability of this fungus to switch between yeast and filamentous forms of growth has long been linked to its pathogenesis. Filamentation can be induced by a variety of distinct environmental cues and can occur in either liquid or solid media. While some evidence suggests that there are differences between filamentation in solid and liquid media, gene expression analysis of filamentation in C. albicans has focused strictly on cells grown in liquid media. We have developed a method for analyzing gene expression of filamentous cells grown on solid induction media at early stages of filamentation, establishing cell plating densities, ideal collection times, and collection techniques. We have also demonstrated the utility of the approach not only in qRT-PCR assays, but high-throughput RNAseq assays as well. These assays will allow for comparison studies of C. albicans filamentation initiation in solid and liquid media.
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The post below originally appeared in the spring edition of UNCG Research Magazine.
Environmental Health Science PhD student Austin Gray hails from Charleston, South Carolina, a harbor city nestled among three rivers. Considering his hometown’s relationship with water, it’s no coincidence it became his academic focus.
Gray started as pre-med at The Citadel, but when a work-study position put him in an aquatic toxicology lab, he was hooked.
“I saw that environmental health and human health are intertwined,” he says. “The importance of water quality amazed me.”
In Charleston, where seafood is central to the culture and floods are often possible, it was easy for him see the health consequences of contaminated water or a compromised aquatic environment.
While a master’s student at The Citadel, Gray researched aquatic estuarine areas, green products and microplastics – tiny plastic pieces that can threaten aquatic life. His lab’s research, shared through town meetings, even led to the banning of plastic bags by several South Carolina towns and beaches.
Gray came to UNC Greensboro to work with Morton Distinguished Professor Anne Hershey, whose scholarship on urban streams caught his interest. He wanted to design a project that examined stream ecology and pharmaceuticals.
“It was aquatic research, but with a completely different focus. I knew working with her would add to my skill set and allow me to become a better scientist.”
During his first year as a doctoral student, Gray received a UNCG O’Brien Award for Ecological Field Research to investigate antibiotics in urban streams of Greensboro. With a grant from UNCG’s Department of Biology, he also initiated work in North Buffalo Creek, near campus.
Subsequently, through Hershey’s lab and a fellowship from NC Sea Grant and the Water Resources Research Institute of the UNC System, Gray has conducted research investigating antibiotic pollution in North Carolina rural streams and drinking wells in three counties.
Gray contacted residents of Guilford, Randolph and Alamance counties to sample their drinking wells. He also sampled 17 streams in the Piedmont of North Carolina, looking at both human antibiotics, typically found in urban areas, and veterinary antibiotics, often found in rural areas and close to farmlands.
The project’s findings could be crucial, not only for determining the health of water environments but also in demonstrating just how widespread antibiotic pollution is throughout the Piedmont.
As Gray explains, if humans are exposed to trace amounts of antibiotics through drinking water, that can have adverse effects. One is that those exposed may become resistant to the antibiotic, rendering it ineffective in treating diseases and infections.
“There is also concern that antibiotics in the water can change microbial functions, which play key roles in the nitrogen cycle, carbon cycle and methane cycle,” Gray says.
Improper disposal of these products is what leads to their appearance in our water, and Gray has observed that instructions about responsible antibiotic disposal are not widely available.
He has been seeking to remedy that problem by sharing information at local community meetings, public schools, universities, outreach groups and conferences such as the Society for Freshwater Science and the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He hopes his research will influence both individual behavior and land use decisions.
“We do play a role in our environment’s health,” he says. “And there are steps we can take to protect it from antibiotic pollution.”
Story by Susan Kirby-Smith, University Communications


The Hoboken Historical Museum is hosting a family-friendly barbecue and and a chance to see the fireworks for July 4th at the 14th Street Pier.
Admission for the barbecue is $50, and kids are admitted free. It will include food -- hot dogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers -- and beverages. Organizers ask that attendees bring a side dish or dessert and lawn chairs.
Advance reservations for the barbecue are required. Participants can reserve their spots by calling 201-656-2240, stopping by the museum, or e-mailing the museum at firstname.lastname@example.org.