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GRAND PRIZE WINNING ENTRY, COLLEGE CATEGORY
“In this subtle and imaginative story, Dri Chiu Tattersfield explores questions of identity, family, foreignness and the body. The writing is nuanced and careful and emotionally grounded, evoking a sense of place and depth of feeling. This is an accomplished work by a promising voice.” -Shawna Yang Ryan and Charles Yu, co-judges of the 2021 Betty L. Yu & Jin C. Yu Creative Writing Prizes.
The day my body started disappearing began with a phone call.
My supervisor shot me a dirty look as I knocked my elbow against our just-settled sediment samples, turning each test tube into a thunderstorm of silt.
“Mei, I’m at the lab,” I sighed. Didn’t most 17-year-olds just text?
“Nice to hear your voice too, sis.”
“I’m not — never mind.” I bit my lip.
“What?” Mei groaned. “Li, what do you want me to say? ‘My dearest sibling’? I’m just speaking naturally.”
I exhaled. “Why’d you call?”
“Dude, you gotta come home. I think Mom is like, depressed or something. She hardly even speaks anymore! Dad’s just writing it off as usual, so he’s no help.”
Mei and I had always ignored the fissures in our family by throwing ourselves into school activities: science for me, softball for her. It never occurred to me that the structure might crack. “Maybe she should go to therapy,” I suggested.
“Now you’re the crazy one,” Mei replied. “Mom and Dad think that’s for white people.” I rolled my eyes, but she was right. It had taken several awkward interventions from roommates for me to unlearn the idea that mental health was only for “emotionally confused Americans.”
“Come on, you deal with this better than me,” Mei continued. “And maybe just seeing you home will shake her out of it.”
I thought about Mom’s many silences: her disapproving glare when she caught Mei sneaking out, her pursed lips when I shaved my head. Her downcast eyes when Dad interrupted her over and over. I imagined the silences getting longer and longer until one day becoming permanent; my stomach sank.
“Okay, I’ll take the bus to Garibaldi tomorrow. But only for the weekend, got it?” A tiny town on the Oregon coast, Garibaldi is only four hours away from the University of Washington, but I constantly found excuses to avoid going home: a prestigious talk invitation, a conference I needed for networking, fieldwork that was only possible on Christmas, you know, geologically. My girlfriend Maria didn’t even miss her family’s weekly Scrabble night when she broke her leg. I told my therapist the only similarity between our parents is that they don’t understand mayonnaise — the final barrier in the great obstacle course of American assimilation. —
Sleep usually comes quickly when Maria stays over, but that night I couldn’t un-tense, my skin wrinkling and tightening over and over. I concentrated on the rise and fall of Maria’s slow breathing, trying to ignore my body. Instead, I mapped out Maria’s: the soft curve of her shoulder, the ellipse of her hip, the axis of her spine. Her body a home mine had never been.
Outside my window, the moon surfaced through the thick Pacific Northwest clouds. Gibbous is my favorite phase: asymmetrical and unsure, unlike the others’ perfectionist geometries. I traced the moonlight across my room, through my arm, onto Maria’s waist— through my arm? I closed my eyes and concentrated on the feeling of Maria’s skin on mine, then looked again. The smooth skin of her stomach shone in the moonlight, as if my arm wasn’t there. I turned away, feeling unsettled. Was school stress getting to me?
I imagined my body turning into light, spreading out into everything and nothing, and I drifted off to sleep.
As the Greyhound rolled into the bus stop, I took in all the ways Garibaldi had changed: Tina’s Fish & Chips repainted their sign from green to blue. A tanned older woman in an “oreGUNian” sweatshirt spat on the sidewalk, expanding the crusted mosaic of tobacco stains. Across the street, rust crept up the iron gates guarding empty vacation homes and AirBnBs; their front doors opened directly to the beach, but the street-facing side needed protection. We called them the bubble wrap—if a tsunami ever hit, the houses along the shoreline would go first.
Besides our shared disdain for the vacationers, the two halves of the Garibaldi shared no overlap. The white families had been here for generations, running seafood restaurants in the summer and sending fish to Portland the rest of the year. The Asian families came more recently and were here for the clams. Tillamook Bay was the richest shellfish habitat in the state, and every morning at low tide we waded in, digging clams out of the popping mud until the sea returned. My parents initially tried to make friends with the fishermen, but Confederate flag stickers began appearing on pickup trucks soon after they moved in, and they took note.
That’s the explanation I offered friends when they asked why I went home so rarely: it’s a small town. A really small town. They had nodded knowingly, imagining GOD HATES GAYS signs in crumbling front yards. It’s the explanation I gave myself, too.
The sound of sneakers slapping pavement announced Mei flying down the hill. “SORRY I’M LATE, I WAS ON TIKTOK!” she hollered.
“No worries, you didn’t have to come pick me up,” I replied. “How’s Mom?”
Mei pouted. “How are you, Mei? I’m great, thanks for asking!” she said in a high voice, moving her hands like puppets. In sixth grade, she got the part of Townsperson #3 in the school’s production of Beauty and the Beast, and claims to have been forever changed. I used to be fluent in distinguishing her real emotions from theatrics, but now I wasn’t totally sure. “Okay, sorry. How are you doing?”
“Your sister that you’ve only seen once in the last year is doing great,” she replied, pouting. “Anyway, Mom’s on a walk. It’s all she does these days. They get longer every week.” We trudged up the hill, slicing through a cross-section of Garibaldi: the restaurant owners’ condos with ocean views, the fishermens’ mobile homes, then finally our house tucked into the woods.
“Remember ol’ Big G?” Mei asked, pointing at the massive letter cradled by the adjacent hillside.
“How could I forget omniscient G?” I laughed.
Mei nodded somberly. “Good, you’re still under its protection. Don’t worry, okay?” She grinned and skipped ahead. Remembering last night, I glanced at my arm, but it was fully visible.
Dad greeted us in a tan polo shirt covered in stains, studying me under the wall of his eyebrows. Even while sorting clams, he never wore T-shirts. “Hello. Yes. You’re visiting.” “Yeah, um, I finally got a free weekend,” I replied.
“You’re on track for the dissertation?” he asked. It sounded more like a statement than a question. Before I responded, he patted me on the back. “Good. I have to go back to the clams. Glad you’re home. Come help, Mei,” he stated, and they disappeared into the garage.
I wandered through the rooms of the house. Mei’s softball trophies flanked the TV. A faded Mother’s Day card hung on the fridge, signed Li Feng in neat cursive and M E I in scrawled crayon. I noticed for the first time that there were no photos of my parents.
I headed up to my old room and sank into the bed, dropping my backpack on the floor. It had been the guest room since I left for college, but I could still see the tiny holes in the wall where my decorations were once pinned. I closed my eyes and visualized them: the Strokes poster in the corner, prom photos with Nisha, a calligraphy print from a gift shop in Portland’s Chinatown. When I brought it home Dad frowned and said the characters were inaccurate, but I still put it up. I couldn’t read them anyway, so why did it matter?
Feeling warm, I turned to the window and realized it probably hadn’t been opened in months. It refused to budge. I reluctantly changed into shorts, which usually either make my hips too visible or fall so far down I look like a preteen Boy Scout; my compromise was extra-small soccer shorts. I tried to avoid looking in the closet mirror, but caught it in my peripheral vision and—
My left leg was gone.
I blinked hard, but still didn’t see anything. I could still feel the polyester against my skin, the weight of my foot on the floor. I ran my hands up and down my calves, and they were definitely there. But not visible. I tore off my shorts. Starting at the top of my thigh, my leg gradually faded until it was completely transparent at my knee and below. I tried bending my knee and it felt normal; I dropped my foot to the floor and heard a thud.
“Li, Mom’s home, let’s go downstairs!” Mei called.
I pressed my forehead against my knee and stared at the gradient between leg and not-leg, hyperventilating.
“Come on, girl! What’s taking you so long?”
I visualized my calves in the blank space they once occupied.
“Li! Isn’t this what you came home for?” Mei’s voice sounded far away.
“Just give me a minute.” She stomped down the stairs.
I called Maria but it went to voicemail. think i’m having a panic attack, I texted. body feeling weird, disconnected?
“Li, dinnertime!” Dad yelled from downstairs.
I took a long breath and did the thing I knew how to do best: ignore my body. I pulled on long pants and stumbled downstairs.
“Hello, Li,” Mom said as I shoved myself into a seat. Her soft voice pulled me into the present: the sturdy oak tabletop, the aroma of rice wine and ginger emanating from the steel soup pot. I looked for clues in her face as to how she was doing. Her cheeks were slightly gray, like a photo that had faded in the sun, but her expression was serene.
“We’re very proud of Li,” Dad proclaimed, not looking at anyone in particular. Mei nodded, scrolling through Instagram under the table.
Mom smiled. “What are you working on now?”
“Well, we’re looking at travertine deposits, a kind of limestone, near the Columbia River Basin, because the palynological record —like, the particles— can indicate climate changes over—”
“Our daughter is so smart,” Dad interrupted. “And she uses all her smarts to study rocks, of all things! But we are still proud.”
My body tensed. I was used to my parents misgendering me over the phone, but I had forgotten how it felt in person; each word crawled under my skin. Mei could barely handle not calling me her sister, and only referred to me as “they” when I reminded her to. After twenty-five years, how could my parents see me as anything but their daughter?
On the other hand, that daughter was simply no longer there. Years before I stopped coming home, I threw out most of my makeup and stopped referring to myself with feminine language. Yet for Christmas, Mom still sent me nail polish, and Mei constantly asked when I would grow my hair back out. Who were they seeing when they looked at me? —
“Li, help your mom with the dishes, will you?” Dad called over his shoulder as he ambled toward the living room. I ducked under the table and cautiously checked my leg: still invisible. Could other people see—not see—or was it just in my head? In whispers around town, and out loud on the internet, I had heard enough times that I was delusional. I rolled down my pants.
While Mom scrubbed the pans, I fell into the muscle memory of loading the dishwasher. Her hands followed a rhythm, as if she was playing a percussion instrument. “How have you been, Mom?” I ventured.
I needed to be more specific. “How are you and Dad?”
Just when I began to worry I had broached a bad topic, she looked up and smiled absently. “You know, we got married when I was your age. 25.”
I thought about the instability of my life—working irregular hours, living off my measly graduate stipend. Maria and I were just getting serious enough that we could move in together, but I didn’t know where I would get a postdoc next year, if I got one at all. Settling down still felt like a horizon, never getting any closer.
“Did you feel ready?” I asked.
She arched an eyebrow. I’d never asked her such a personal question.
“Well. I had no idea what I wanted back then.” She wrung out the sponge and started filling the rice pot to soak. “But it felt good to make a decision. How about you, do you have a boyfriend?”
“Yeah, do you have a boyfriend?” Mei cackled, draped over the sofa. She had met Maria over FaceTime, and wouldn’t actually tell my parents about her —probably— but for some reason loved getting right to the edge.
“No, too busy,” I mumbled.
Mom nodded. “Your work is complicated. Very stressful. You should visit more often, to relax.”
Mei snorted. I focused intently on finding the most economical arrangement of plates in the dishwasher.
“You were always a tomboy, but you’ll find someone,” Mom murmured. For a long time I thought I was attracted to men because I would stare at them — their square jawlines, their broad shoulders, the way their bodies so casually spread out into space. On
the subway, in coffeeshops, across the street. Then I realized my straight friends didn’t really focus on the same things.
“Girl, what?” Sarah had laughed, swinging her head down from the top bunk in our freshman triple. “The way he slouches?”
I was the most jealous of taking off your shirt in public. God, to be able to just sling your shirt over your shoulder when the sun gets too hot, to feel the breeze envelop your entire torso— seeing my labmates shirtless last summer when we collected sediment samples on Mt. Hood was the first time I seriously considered top surgery.
Insurance wouldn’t cover it though — I checked. Even if it did, I was still on my parents’ plan, so Periareolar Top Surgery would be emblazoned on their annual summary, standing out as if it said ALIEN ABDUCTION in capital letters. How would I explain that?
“Good night, Li,” Mom called as she drifted into my parents’ bedroom. Through the open door, Dad was reading A History of Mushroom Gathering in Southern China. “Yo, wanna watch Avatar the Last Airbender? I’m on season 2,” Mei asked. “How many times have you rewatched that now, five?” I laughed. Then I saw a text from Maria: call when you’re free! i’m here. “I gotta call Maria. Have fun, though.” We had met kneeling in dirt. The University of Washington Vegetable Farm held volunteer hours each Saturday, and Maria and I were the only two that kept coming back. For a few weeks, we pulled weeds in silence, but I couldn’t stop watching her hands: careful and fluid, in conversation with the soil. When the pomegranate tree swelled with flowers, I picked one and walked over without thinking. “Here,” I presented, a question.
In the guest room, her round face blinked onto my phone screen. “What’s going on, are you okay?” Maria asked.
“I need to ask you a question.” I took off my pants and pointed the camera at my legs. “What do you see?”
Maria laughed. “Has walking up the hill buffed up your muscles already?” “So my legs look normal to you,” I said slowly. I wasn’t sure whether that was a relief. I explained what happened that afternoon as best I could, eyeing the door.
“Want me to come pick you up?” she offered. “I could be there in the morning.” I imagined explaining the scene to my parents: yes, my bus ticket is for tomorrow, no, I’m leaving now, no reason in particular, yes, this is just a friend, goodbye.
“I think I’ll be okay.”
After assurances that my body felt physically fine, never better, Maria relented. “Try not to focus on it too much, okay? We’ll figure it out when you get back.” Her face was open and sure, and I felt sure too.
The morning opened gently. I crawled out of bed and surveyed my body in the mirror feeling strangely calm, like an auditor making a routine inspection. My limbs faded in and out of my reflection with each blink: left hand, right arm, both calves. The velocity made me dizzy. Tectonic plates shift 0.6 inches a year, and sedimentary rocks form over millennia. I think I wanted to study earth processes because their stability comforted me; I could handle their rates of change. I looked down, and my thighs were invisible.
Could this have been going on for weeks? When Mei broke my bathroom mirror on her last visit after insisting on indoor baseball practice, I just swept up the shards and never thought to replace it. Reaching for a sports bra, I thought about all the times I’ve wished my chest would disappear. Sports bras flatten my chest, but the pressure of fabric against skin is also a constant reminder that my chest has something to flatten. Wearing no bra means I don’t feel my chest at all, which means I can forget it exists if I close my eyes and forget that people around me also have eyes. I choose the sports bra about three times a week; I gave all my other bras to Mei. Would it be easier if I just couldn’t see my body at all?
Walking down the stairs, I saw Mom lacing up her running shoes. “Are you going on a walk? Wait for me!” I called out.
She put on a sunhat with a small ribbon, and then set one of Mei’s baseball caps on my head. “Don’t want to get dark,” she said quietly.
I followed her out the door and down the hill, surprised at my difficulty keeping up. She moved like a hummingbird in quick strides, occasionally pausing to examine flowers and other plants.
“Where are we going?” I asked. She glanced back and smiled.
I caught up to her and tried to ask how she was doing again, but she gazed intently at the pattern of moss on a tree and didn’t respond. Mom waved to Mrs. Tran in her garden, tending to green onions, and Mr. Chang in his yard scrubbing a rusty clamming rake. As we approached the ocean, she sped up and looked down. I caught the eye of Mr. Wilson, my old math teacher, but he didn’t recognize me.
The vacation homes’ dwindling size and increasingly faded paint indicated that the beach on the other side was transitioning to tidal flats. I knew where we were going. A narrow path opened between two houses and we slipped through. The pier, a long arm reaching into the ocean, introduced itself in English: Open 5am-10pm. Fish cleaning station limited to one group at a time. There was no path down to the water through the barnacle-crusted rocks, but there was a sign, in Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese: 20 clams per recreational permit, 200 per commercial permit. Scrawled in black marker at the top, in English, GO AWAY. “Why did you and Dad move here?” I asked.
“To sell clams,” Mom replied.
“I know, but why not stay in Portland?”
The sea stacks offshore rose out of the water like fists. In college I learned they form when waves erode a chunk of rock until it separates from the landmass; I tried to visualize the land that once connected them to the shore.
“Your father missed the ocean. He grew up in a fishing town in Yilan. He worked hard so he could move to an American city, but when he got there he wasn’t happy.” My parents rarely talked about Portland, and never talked about Taiwan. “But didn’t you grow up in Taipei? Do you miss living in a city?”
“City life isn’t so special,” Mom replied. I studied her face for traces of nostalgia, but couldn’t be sure. “Do you like Seattle more than here?” she asked.
Leaving Garibaldi had been my central goal since middle school; it kept me up through each all-nighter, drove each college application. “I’m happy,” I nodded.
Back at the top of the hill, we stopped on the sidewalk and gazed at the town together.
“The thing I like about cities is that they’re always changing. Garibaldi stays the same.” “It’s changed since we moved here,” Mom shrugged.
I turned to face the house. “Home feels the same to me.”
“Hmm.” Mom paused. “I repainted the stairs last week. Dad’s been spraying fungicide on the moss, although this spring it grew back. And we replaced the house number plaque in January.”
In fieldwork I learned to use space to study time, still landscapes becoming lively dancers through layers of rock and shapes of sand grains. I thought about how easy it was for me to view a granite cliff as dynamic, and how hard it was to view home as anything but static. Did Mom, Dad, and Mei see me in the same way?
“What else has changed?” I asked as we walked inside.
“You never used to ask these kinds of questions,” Mom replied, smiling. She sunk into the sofa and checked her Minnie Mouse watch, a Disneyland souvenir from ten years ago. “Can you and Mei make lunch? I drove into Portland yesterday and went to 99 Ranch Market.” Some things do stay the same.
“Meeeeeeeiiii! We gotta cook!” I yelled.
I knew she would take at least ten minutes to come down, so I started exploring the fridge. The introduction to Blue Planet floated in from the living room and I grinned, remembering rewatching episodes with Mom over and over in high school. I obsessed over the reef structures, while Mom loved the crowding schools of fish; our interests formed a symbiotic whole, like coral polyps and algae.
Absentmindedly, I sorted the produce on the counter, grouping them by leaf shape and stem thickness. I knew these were traditional Chinese vegetables, but fragments of characters swirled in my mind, just out of reach. The kitchen was a botanical exhibit by the time Mei arrived, every surface awash with green.
“You’re so weird,” she said, laughing. “Not everything is a science experiment, you know.” I pouted and swept the vegetal taxonomy aside. We began the methodical dance of creating a meal, Mei chopping vegetables, me preparing the rice. “My hands are sore, dude. Your turn,” she whined.
I glanced at the blank space that should have been my right arm, and then the glinting edge of the knife in her hands. “Um.” I pause. “Do I have to?”
Mei scowled. “Lazy-ass,” she hissed, but she let it go.
As the vegetables sizzled in soy sauce, I turned to Mei. “What were you worried about with Mom again?” I whispered. “She doesn’t seem that bad.”
“I mean, she’s not like, dying or anything,” Mei whispered back. “But she’s getting more and more distant.”
I frowned. “You made it sound really serious when you called,” I replied, moving the pan off the heat. “I dropped my weekend plans to come home. I’ve been trying to talk to Mom, but besides being a little out of it she seems fine.”
Mei laughed. “What plans do you have besides reading papers or whatever?” She reached behind me to take four bowls from the cabinet. “I’m just worried about her, okay? I thought seeing you would be good for her. And it’s probably good for you to get out of your tiny apartment.”
I crossed my arms. “Are you worried about Mom, or about me?”
I heard Dad’s lumbering footsteps. “Do I smell lunch?” he called out.
“What’s wrong with wanting my sister to visit? You basically ditched us after you left for college. What’s so terrible about coming home?” Mei demanded. Didn’t she hear our parents coming?
“I don’t—” I started. I took a breath. “I just don’t feel… seen here.”
“What does that mean?” Dad asked, walking into the kitchen with Mom.
“Um.” My tongue felt too big for my mouth. “I guess I don’t really feel like you see who I am? So I don’t feel like myself here.”
“What do you mean? You’re our daughter. We see you as our daughter.”
I buried my face in my hands.
“Well, how can we see you, if we never see you?” Mei demanded. Lungs felt too big for my ribcage.
“I just don’t feel super comfortable at home, okay? I don’t know how to explain!” My voice cracked.
“That’s not so unusual,” Mom said quietly. We turned and faced her. “Feeling uncomfortable at home.”
Dad furrowed his eyebrows. The silence felt solid, as if the air had changed phases of matter. “I think what Mom means is that we work hard to provide for you, everyone is healthy, and that’s what matters,” he declared. “So. Let’s eat.”
My breath caught in my throat. “Sorry, I have to go,” I forced out as I ran up the stairs and locked the guest room door. My clothes felt like they were shrinking into my body so I
wrestled them off. In my underwear, I sunk down to the floor and hung my head in my knees, and then I realized —
I couldn’t see my body at all.
I looked down and saw only the floor. I stumbled to the mirror and saw only the room behind me. No gradient, no blinking in and out, just blank space. I was not there. A knock on the door. A voice that sounded like it came from underwater. “Li? Can you come out?” Or maybe I was underwater.
“Li, come to the garage, okay?” Soft footsteps receding.
I closed my eyes and stood up, propelled by an unfamiliar force. Numb, I pulled on my pajamas and stumbled downstairs. I ignored Dad and Mei’s bewildered stares and entered the garage.
Mom was sitting on a low stool above a large bucket of clams.
“These are from this morning. I haven’t sorted and cleaned them yet. Will you help me?” She pointed to a second stool and three empty buckets. I slowly sat down. “Do you still know how?” she asked.
I shook my head, but I reached into the bucket and my hands remembered: ridged cockles, smooth littlenecks, oval softshells. I gently placed a littleneck clam in the first bucket, keeping my eyes fixed on the swaying trees outside the open garage door.
The bucket gradually emptied, until my fingers scraped the gritty bottom. “I’m feeling really strange today,” I said.
“I know,” Mom replied. “This is what I do when I’m feeling strange.” She filled the bucket of softshells with water and began to scrub them with her hands. She pointed at the remaining buckets and I filled the first one cautiously, avoiding looking at my arms. “Don’t worry about thinking. Just feel the clams,” Mom said.
Eyes closed, I picked a small clam and pushed my thumb along its ridges, concentrating on the rough shell against my skin. I thought back to this morning and opened my eyes. Water sloshed seemingly on its own, as if the bucket were a rough sea. Is this what it meant to not have a body? I thought back to all the times I had wanted it to disappear, the times I had wanted to disappear because my body was too soft, round in the wrong places, incongruous with an ideal that I could never even fully visualize. But this emptiness was more terrifying than I could have imagined, like free-falling in darkness with nothing to hold onto. If my body was not here, then where was I?
I want to be here. I want to be here. I want to be here.
I wanted my body to be here.
I felt wetness on my cheeks and I realized I was crying.
Mom stood up and placed her hand on my shoulder, and we watched the afternoon sunlight inch across the garage floor.
“Mei asked me to come visit because she was worried about you,” I said after a few minutes. “She said you’ve been getting quieter and more distant.”
“Oh?” Mom said, pausing. “Don’t worry about me. Now that Mei’s growing up, I finally have some alone time.”
“What did you mean when you said you weren’t comfortable at home?”
“I—” Mom hesitated. “Well, when Dad and I first moved here, we worked so hard we had no time to think about anything else. I’m just now realizing that I don’t feel like myself. But I’m not sure what to do differently. We’ve settled into such a routine.”
I thought about lithification: the process by which sediment compacts under pressure and becomes solid rock. I’d never learned a term for a reverse process.
Mom turned to me. “What did you mean, about not feeling seen?”
“Do you feel like we know you?” I asked.
“Of course,” she replied. “We’re family.”
“But do you feel like we know all of you?
“I don’t think anyone can know all of you,” she said slowly. “But that’s just how it is.” She frowned slightly.
“People can know a lot,” I insisted. I thought about how easy I felt with Maria, how we moved like gravity was at half-strength. How time felt like a garden we grew together, full of both intention and surprise. I thought about how close and distant I felt with Mei. “Wouldn’t it be better if all knew each other more fully?”
Mom tilted her head. “Well, what do you want us to know?”
I inhaled sharply, and then faltered. I raised my arm and looked through it at the distant sea stacks along the shoreline.
“Do you ever sometimes,” I took a breath. “Not even see yourself?”
Dri grew up in Taipei, Taiwan and now lives in Portland, OR. They write stories, make video games (at hellodri.itch.io), and are constantly finding more elaborate ways to make instant noodles. He studied physics and philosophy at Claremont McKenna, and is interested in farming, education and community-based science.
From Dri: Lithification and Other Processes has been over a year in the making – I started it in a fiction writing workshop with Professor Kevin Moffett in March 2020 and it kept me company into quarantine & more. I started with certain assumptions about what kind of story this would be, but along with the protagonist Li, my assumptions took on new shapes as the story progressed. Writing is communal! I couldn’t have written this without my writing comrades Laleh Ahmad and Toluwani Roberts, and of course, my family; 謝謝!

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Last year, adidas Skateboarding dropped the Aloha Super to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its partnership with Mark Gonzales. The silhouette is a hybrid design, building on the adiStar, the sneaker that Gonz wore while skating in Brunswick, Germany outside of a museum in 1998.
Seen here is the latest edition of the sneaker, which honors Gonz’s famed 1991 appearance in the Video Days skate clip, at the Wallenberg spot in San Francisco.
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Stripper tells of night with Ben
by NICOLE LAMPERT, Daily Mail
A stripper has told how she cavorted with Ben Affleck in the night of fun which cost him his engagement to Jennifer Lopez.
Tammy Morris said she frolicked with the 30-year-old actor and three other lapdancers after he picked them up in an exotic nightclub.
"It's a night I'll never forget and I'm sure one he'll want to forget," said Miss Morris, 29.
"He had this little boy look on his face."
Twice- divorced Miss Lopez dumped the star of Pearl Harbor and called off their wedding after the "humiliating" revelations.
Just a week before, he spent more than a million dollars on the singer-turned-actress's 33rd birthday, splashing out on a Rolls-Royce, diamond ring and a surprise party.
Miss Morris also told how Affleck gave the strippers large tips and told them: "Keep this just between us."
She said he came into Brandi's Exotic Nightclub in Vancouver, where he is making a film, and met a group of friends, the actor Christian Slater, his wife Ryan and actress Tara Reid.
Affleck then went into a private booth with four dancers, including Miss Morris, where she said he kissed her while "his hands were moving all over my body".
He did the same with another dancer called Felicia in scenes which were being watched by security staff on a monitor.
Miss Morris told the National Enquirer magazine how Slater then invited them all back to his house where Affleck continued their night of fun.
"One of the girls removed his shirt," she said.
"His hands were all over two girls at the same time."
Affleck and Miss Lopez later had a series of heated phone calls but have not been seen together since the allegations emerged.
Miss Lopez, who is also working in Canada in the city of Winnipeg, has taken off her engagement ring and told friends the romance is over.
"It's over. He's made me a laughing stock," she told one.
Her family have also told her that if the wedding does take place, they will not attend.
Some friends believe the couple could still marry later this year, however.
"I spoke with Jennifer and she was crying throughout the conversation," said one.
"This must be killing her but she'll get past it. There'll be a wedding."
Miss Lopez's ex-husband Cris Judd, 33, is far from sympathetic.
The dancer, who was still married to Miss Lopez when she started her romance with Affleck, told a friend: "Jen is getting back what she gave.
"It's bad karma coming back at her. She's getting a taste of her own medicine.
"I hate to see her hurt, but I was devastated when I found out about her and Ben, and now she knows how it feels.
"It's payback time for Jennifer and I guess, in a way, she is getting what she deserves."
Judd was given a £9million divorce settlement in January at the end of the couple's eight-month marriage.
Miss Lopez's first marriage to Cuban waiter Ojani Noa lasted only a year.
She then had a volatile two-year relationship with rap artist Puff Daddy before meeting Judd.
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Food safety and market access for peppercorn in Southeast Asia
Peppercorn is a key agricultural crop accounting for 20% of Vietnam’s gross domestic product and is a rising industry in Laos and Cambodia. However, non-compliance with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards (SPS) at the smallholder farmer level is threatening exports to high-value international markets due to concerns over food safety.
CABI and its partners aim to tackle these SPS issues and improve the quality and traceability in the production, post-harvest, processing, and peppercorn trade by identifying, developing and disseminating good agricultural and hygiene practices (GAP and GHP) that focus on peppercorn production in villages. By improving standards within these areas, the project will inevitably secure market access and enhance the peppercorn value chain.
Helping to achieve sustainable agriculture in Myanmar
The agriculture sector in Myanmar is predominantly dominated by rice. It is a key commodity for domestic food security as well as a generator for export income, and in the future could have the potential to become a global rice supplier. However, Myanmar is susceptible to crop losses from pests, disease and insecticide misuse. CABI is working with scientists in Myanmar to promote green agriculture practices.
Worldwide, over 500 million smallholder farmers provide food for two-thirds of the earth’s growing population. Achieving a zero hunger world by 2030 depends on increasing the productivity of these smallholder farmers – but their crops face a significant threat. Yearly, an estimated 40% of crops grown worldwide are lost to pests. If we could reduce crop losses by just 1%, we could potentially feed millions more people. The lack of access to timely, appropriate and actionable extension advice makes it a fundamental challenge for farmers to get the right information at the right time to reduce crop losses.
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Jail is needed for more Judges, especially in Connecticut
Ex-Judge Gets Four Years for Indecent ExposureBy MURRAY EVANS, AP
BRISTOW, Okla. (Aug. 8) - Former Oklahoma judge Donald Thompson was sent to prison for four years Friday for exposing himself by using a sexual device while presiding over jury trials.
Special Judge C. Allen McCall also ordered that Thompson, 59, pay a $40,000 fine. Thompson was convicted on June 29 on four felony courts of indecent exposure for incidents that took place in his court room in Creek County.
McCall denied motions by Thompson's attorneys to either suspend the sentence or to let Thompson serve prison time on the four counts concurrently, which would have meant Thompson would serve only one year of prison time.
"This is not just a one-time incident, this is a continuing series of offenses," McCall said during the sentencing hearing.
McCall, who usually sits on the bench in Comanche County, said he did not believe the accusations against Thompson were fabricated, as Thompson had claimed.
"People who are out to get a judge find an opponent. They don't concoct a story, especially one this bizarre," McCall said.
Thompson showed no reaction when he was sentenced. McCall denied a defense motion that Thompson be allowed to remain free pending an appeal, despite assurances from Thompson's wife, Paula, and older brother, Jim Thompson of Bristow, that Donald Thompson was not a flight threat. Jim Thompson said his brother was "someone you're proud to walk down the street with."
Donald Thompson was allowed a brief visit with family members before being placed in handcuffs and taken to the state Correction Department's Lexington Assessment and Reception Center.
Thompson served as a state legislator and spent almost 23 years on the bench before he retired in 2004. His former court reporter, Lisa Foster, testified at his trial that she saw Thompson expose himself during trials at least 15 times between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors said he used a device known as a penis pump during four trials between 2002 and 2003.
Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified that the penis pump was given to him as a joke by a longtime hunting and fishing buddy.
"It wasn't something I was hiding," he said.
He said he may have absentmindedly squeezed the pump's handle during court cases but never used it to masturbate.
Foster told authorities that she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it but would listen for it.
Police built a case against the judge after a police officer testifying in a 2003 murder trial saw a piece of plastic tubing disappear under Thompson's robe. During a lunch break, officers took photographs of the pump under the desk.
Investigators later checked the carpet, Thompson's robes and the chair behind the bench and found semen, according to court records.
Prosecutor Richard Smothermon said McCall handed down a proper sentence.
"I thought the judge did the right thing," Smothermon said. "He treated this defendant the same as every other defendant in Oklahoma.
"Any sex crime is a serious crime. People with sexual deviances are a danger to society."
Defense attorney Clark Brewster said there were grounds for appeal.
"There was repeated, persistent error throughout the trial," he said.
He said Thompson should have been freed pending appeal.
"If this guy is denied bail, then who ever gets bail?" he asked.
Brewster said he'll ask the state Court of Criminal Appeals early next week to overturn McCall's decision not to allow Thompson to remain free during the appeals process. Thompson's attorneys have 10 days to file notice of an appeal of the verdict with that court and 30 days to file the actual appeal.
The office of state Attorney General Drew Edmondson would handle any appeal, said Smothermon, the district attorney for Pottawatomie and Lincoln counties, who was specially appointed to prosecute the case.
A presentencing report prepared by Carmelia Brossett, a senior probation officer for the state Department of Corrections, said Thompson refused to undergo psychosexual testing and that "Thompson's denial of the offense would likely present difficulty, if not inability for treatment providers to provide meaningful and beneficial sex-offender treatment."
Brossett recommended Thompson serve a prison term of an unspecified length. The jury that convicted Thompson recommended that he sentenced to a year in jail for each of the four felonies.
In the presentencing report, Foster said that in her 15 years of working with Thompson, she could not recall him ever changing a jury's verdict.
"He voiced to me on more than one occasion that 12 people's opinions were better than one," she said in the report. "He always sentenced in accordance with the jury's verdict. I believe he should be held to his own standard. I believe that this jury wanted Don Thompson to serve four years in the state penitentiary, and I agree


Pilot Shows Off Crazy Talent, Landing Aircraft After Landing Gear Failure
As a passenger in an airplane, it would be tough to keep your cool under crazy ...
As a passenger in an airplane, it would be tough to keep your cool under crazy conditions. It’s tough to even imagine the feeling that would come over us if something like a landing gear were to fail. Now, just imagine that crazy feeling except you’re the one behind the controls, responsible for that airplane making it to the ground.
For one pilot who was flying near Phoenix, Arizona, last month, exactly that terrifying situation would come to life. For the small aircraft, a failed landing gear would create an interesting scenario where the pilot had to use some information from deep in the handbook to pull out quite the landing.
Luckily, without the tire or the landing gear, the plane would be able to make a smooth landing on its belly at Goodyear Airport. The pilot was accompanied by one other person and both were able to exit the aircraft unhurt.
Emergency crews would wait on the ground for the folks in the plane but they likely didn’t need to hop to action. There are about 100 different scenarios that could have gone wrong here but thankfully, the pilot seemed to be incredibly skilled and had a stroke of luck on his side given the situation.
The video below gives us the opportunity to watch as the airplane comes in and attempts this landing. The pilot expertly manages to lay the plane down to get it to slide across the runway. Being able to touch down is just the first part of the nerve-racking situation. Instead, the more nerve-racking part, at least if you ask us, is making sure that the plane stays upright. It looks like those wings could end up turning it sideways and potentially rolling it over at any time but fortunately, none of that would come to life.


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At a loose end in Auckland this weekend and need ideas for a trip out? Why not take to the water? Here are three Auckland harbour cruises which are great ways to spend a day without straying too far from New Zealand’s largest city.
Auckland Harbour Cruises
Have a leisurely lunch at a vineyard
Waiheke Island is only a thirty-five minute ferry ride from Auckland’s CBD and ferries run an hourly service at weekends. Approaching the island, you’ll arrive in a scenic cove where private yachts and cruisers bob on the waters of this sheltered harbour. Once there, you are a world away from the big city bustle on this tranquil island packed full of beautiful beaches perfect for enjoying the warm, dry microclimate. It’s this microclimate, plus decent soil, of course, that allows the island’s many vines to flourish.
Vineyards abound, many offering enticing restaurants and breathtaking views back to the city. With nineteen to choose from, there’ll be no difficulty finding one that suits: the Mudbrick Vineyard, Goldwater Estate and Te Whau Vineyard are popular choices. If you can drag yourself away, the island is also home to a thriving artistic community. End your visit at one of the many art galleries to find a souvenir of your day.
Explore historic Devonport
A shorter ferry ride, just ten minutes from Auckland, takes you to Devonport, crammed full of heritage buildings and boutique shopping. Begin at the fascinating naval museum, housed in a nineteenth century submarine mining station. Permanent exhibitions explain the history of the Navy’s contribution to New Zealand, focusing on the core values of commitment, courage and comradeship.
Devonport is also blessed with world-class views. Make sure you admire the volcanic cones of Mount Victoria, offering spectacular views over the Auckland area, especially at sunset. If you’d rather stroll on level ground, the many art galleries, cafes and shops that Devonport has to offer are bound to delight – check out the handmade chocolate shoes at Devonport Chocolates on Wynyard Street, the eclectic range of jewellery on offer at Mother’s Cupboard on Victoria Road or Nord, the only Swedish-owned gift and homeware store in the country. Take stock of your packages over a coffee and a cake at the Devonport Stone Oven Bakery on Clarence Street before heading back to the city.
Cruise the Hauraki Gulf
If you need to sit back and relax, then opt for a cruise around the Hauraki Gulf rather than a ferry trip. There are a range of cruises available, from wildlife spotting to fishing excursions. On the Auckland Whale and Dolphin safari which departs from Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour, you’re promised a 90% chance of sighting dolphins and a 70% chance of seeing whales such as Bryde’s whales and orcas. If you don’t get lucky on your first cruise, you’ll be offered a second free of charge.
If adventure’s more your thing, then why not try your hand at sailing an authentic America’s Cup yacht, used for racing in the world’s most prestigious and best known sailing regatta? Don’t worry if you have no previous experience as full instruction is given. As you steer, you’ll learn the techniques and tactics needed to slice through the water with a backdrop of the City of Sails itself.

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IN THE HEART OF BATTERSEA
Remarkable transport links mean the whole of London is on your doorstep – the Uber Boat by Thames Clippers is just a minute away and Clapham Junction is close by too – opening up a uniquely calm commute.
INTO THE CITY. AND BEYOND.
Travel times taken from Google Maps and tfl.gov.uk.
A LEISURELY PACE
Enjoy a relaxed brunch, followed by a quiet stroll by the river or in leafy Battersea Park. Weekends are effortless, whether you’re hosting friends and family or keeping it simple.
Markets. Cafés. Restaurants. Bars. Boutiques. Whenever you want to up the tempo, London’s vibrant culture is ready for you. With Clapham, Chelsea, Northcote Road, Wandsworth and St John’s Hill all close by, there’s always something to explore and experience.

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During a local fair, a young under age 16 year old girl gets drunk, despite being cautioned that she was too young by her stepfather of two years. The stepfather, and the girl's boyfriend, on leave ...
The first episode of a series is always difficult in trying to introduce the main characters and what the series is about. This episode spends a day with Dr Dangerfield with a number of incidents he ...
A video magazine providing information, interviews and articles on Hong Kong cinema. Features on Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat and Wilson Tong. Hong Kong film fan Jonathan Ross also enthuses about the films he likes. Also includes the full-length film Kung Fu The Head Crusher.
In this second attempt to base a series on the long-running comic strip, Blondie is a stay-at-home mother to Cookie and Alexander. Husband Dagwood toils in an office where his boss Mr. ... See full summary »
Two brothers, Alex and Louis Thomas, open a small restaurant in New Jersey with their mother, Rita. On their opening night, Louis sleeps with the daughter of a notorious and very ruthless ... See full summary »
Dangerfield was a classic series, one of the old school of TV series that relies on a strong story and cast rather than a crash bang wallop of special effects. As well as launching the careers of two of British TV's sexiest soap doctors (Namely Lisa Faulkner - Dr Vitoria Merrick - Holby City and Tamzin Malleson - Dr Kate Brady - A&E) Dangerfield brought us the life of a Police surgeon Paul Dangerfield. His wife had been killed in a car crash and he was struggling to cope with the task of dealing with two teenagers Marty & Al (played initially by Sean Maguire & Lisa Faulkner). Everyone could relate to someone in this and the first series saw Al's boyfriend die in a tragic hiking accident and Marty struggle to find himself - and a job!
At the end of series one both Maguire and Faulkner quit leaving the producers the unenviable task of finding replacements! Faulkner's raw sex appeal had made her a favourite with male audiences and most male teenagers had every reason to relate to Maguires inspired portrayal of the sensitive and intense Marty. The casting of Tamzin Malleson as Al was inspired, in a complete contrast to Faulkner, Malleson had the beauty of the classic English rose, and a totally different style, so the charactor changed out of all recognition coping with being a single mother trying to strike out on her own. Maguire proved more difficult to replace the producers turning to former BluePeter presenter Tim Vincent who though had the looks lacked Maguire's charismatic style and in comparison was perhaps a little wooden, but still managed to turn in a credible performance. Nigel Le Vaillant quit in 1997 leaving the show in the capable hands of Nigel Havers. His charactor didnt have the teenage children or the emotional problems of his predecessor making the show dependant on its Police storylines rather than its previously disfunctional family orientated plots! Havers did a great job, but something was missing - namely Al and Marty who for this viewer made the series so memorable.
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Turkish credit crunch concern stops bank raising rates – investor
The possibility of a credit crunch in Turkey is limiting the central bank’s ability to raise interest rates and halt a decline in the lira, said Alberto Gallo, a portfolio manager at Algebris Investments.
“If the central bank starts hiking rates to defend the currency there is a risk that you have a domestic credit crunch because of all the leverage that has been accumulated,” Gallo, who runs a bond and credit fund, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television, adding that non-performing loans have been growing as lending surged.
Turkish bank loans have been expanding at almost 20 percent annually, reaching an all-time high in March, amid government stimulus measures for the economy, which have included more than $50 billion in loan guarantees. At the same time, the lira has slumped to record lows against the dollar, hurting spending power and making it harder for companies and consumers to repay foreign currency debt. Turkish corporates have more than $220 billion in foreign borrowing that they must service.
Gallo said the willingness of the central bank to raise rates is also lacking because Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to boost short-term growth to get re-elected, which means keeping interest rates low and pushing the nation’s banks to lend more to consumers and households.
“So, when you have a very short-term focused mindset in an environment of a stronger dollar and high interest rates in the domestic market it (the lira) is going to get weaker,” Gallo said, adding that he was still short Turkish lira.
While the lira and local debt has been selling off, the investment manager said he was concerned about the price of foreign currency debt of banks and corporates, which was still trading at low yields despite the economic instability in the country.
“If you look at hard currency debt, that’s still trading in the range of 200 basis points, 250 basis points, which is among the tightest in the emerging market universe and in Europe,” he said. “Turkey was very often regarded as a country that would join the EU, that would be going towards investment grade, developed status markets, and it’s not.
“Banks and corporates have a lot of hard currency debt which they may not be able to pay.”
The lira slumped to a fresh record low of 4.49 per dollar on Wednesday. The currency is also weakening amid a general sell-off in emerging markets, which is targeting countries with high inflation and current account deficits such as Turkey in particular. Turkey's inflation rate stood at 10.9 percent in April, more than three times the average in emerging markets. The current account deficit exceeds 6 percent of gross domestic product because of a recent surge in imports.


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Nene in Igbo means “look”
As the title entails, she is looking, but at what?
Perhaps at her past? reminiscing what she could have done differently.
Or perhaps at her future, which she’s scared of moving into. She’s not a risk-taker.
Therefore she decides to take a pause, breath and look before she leaps.
It sparks consciousness, being aware of the fact that the future may not be bright as she thought.


Analysis and Geometry Group, FMIPA ITB is organizing a one day seminar on Dynamics and Bifurcations. This event will take place on: 27th of September 2014, at LabTek III, Institut Teknologi Bandung.
13:00 – 14:00 Wim van Horssen, Department of Applied Mathematics, TU Delft, the Netherlands.
On the oscillations of elastic structures: Modelling and mathematical analysis
In this lecture we will discuss two mathematical models describing vibrations of elastic structures. In the first model we will consider the rain-wind induced oscillations of a cable of a cable-stayed bridge. In the second model we will study the transversal vibrations of an elevator cable. Both models will be discussed in detail, and it will be shown how elementary and advanced mathematical methods in the field of (ordinary and partial) differential equations and in the field of difference equations can be used to compute resonances and autoresonances in the elastic structures.
14:00-14:45 Alexander A. Iskandar, Physics of Magnetism and Photonic Group, Bandung Institute of Technology.
Dynamic Optical Response of Metal Nano Particle – Semiconductor Quantum Dot Hybrid
The optical response of a nano heterodimer comprising a semiconductor quantum dot (SQD) and a metallic nanoparticle (MNP) has been found to produce a nonlinear coupling between the dipole moment of the SQD and the surface plasmon field of the MNP. This nonlinear interaction gives rise to a characteristics S-shaped variation of SQD population difference versus the input light intensity that shows bistability behavior of the system.
14:45-15:30 Eric Harjanto, Analysis and Geometry Group, Bandung Institute of Technology.
Title: On a Predator-Prey Type of Systems with Group Defense Mechanism and Seasonal Variation.
15:30-16:15 J.M. Tuwankotta , Analysis and Geometry Group, Bandung Institute of Technology.
Title: Two-dimensional Maps Derived from A Double-Discrete sine-Gordon Equation.


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Dental syringes are mainly utilized during operative dentistry procedures to administer an anesthetic solution and other products (such as dental fillings, impression materials, and drugs) to a patient. These syringes are made up of metallic or plastic materials.
North America and Europe are major contributors to the growth of the dental syringes market due to the rising geriatric population (aged 65 years and above) in the region, rising number of accidental dental injuries, and increasing number of cosmetic dental procedures (that require dental reconstruction and related surgeries).
The Asia-Pacific region is expected to be the new revenue-generating market for players engaged in offering dental syringes. Rising awareness among healthcare professionals related to needlestick injuries, ongoing government initiatives to modernize & expand healthcare infrastructure, continuous reduction in product prices (owing to increasingly localized manufacturing and strengthening of distribution networks by prominent manufacturers), and the presence of a large patient population for target diseases (coupled with rapidly growing geriatric population, especially in Japan and China) are expected to drive the growth of the dental syringes market in the Asia-Pacific region.
On the basis of product, the dental syringes market is categorized into three segments, namely, non-disposable syringes, disposable syringes, and safety syringes. The non-disposable syringes segment is expected to dominate the dental syringes market in 2016 mainly due to the growing number of endodontic & periodontic procedures across the globe, significant adoption of non-disposable syringes among dental professionals for administering anesthesia, and greater affordability of these products due to their reusable nature.
Based on type, the market is segmented into two segments, namely, aspirating syringes, and non-aspirating syringes. The aspirating syringes segment is expected to dominate the market during the forecast period. The prominent market position of the aspirating syringes segment can be primarily attributed to the procedural benefits offered by aspirating syringes over conventional syringes (such as easy syringe handling, minimal operational stress, and better operational control), and longer shelf life of metallic syringes (as compared to conventional plastic syringes).
On the basis of material, the market is segmented into metallic and plastic-based dental syringes. Metallic syringes are expected to dominate the dental syringes market during the study period owing to their advantages (such as long shelf life, reusability, and nonreactive nature) and significant adoption of metallic syringes among dentists.
During 2013 to 2016, key players such as 3M Company (U.S.), Septodont (U.S.), DENTSPLY International Inc. (U.S.), and Vista Dental Products (U.S.) adopted strategies such as product launches, mergers and acquisitions, and expansions. For instance, in October 2016, Vista Dental Products launched a Dripless Syringe (featured as anti-drip technology, greatly reducing the risk of bleach stains, damage to skin, eyes, and oral mucosa) that enables healthcare professionals to quickly identify NaOCl. Moreover, in October 2014, 3M Company launched Filtek Bulk Fill Posterior Restorative. This product helps doctors to perform faster and easier procedures without compromising patient care.

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Yamaha-mounted challenger ninth at the fifth round of Supercross.
Australian Aaron Tanti put in an impressive performance during Saturday night’s fifth round of Monster Energy Supercross in Oakland, storming to a career-best top 10 in the 250SX West category.
The Yamaha-mounted contender has continually progressed in his first American supercross campaign, with Oakland marking his best outing from five appearances.
Qualifying in 14th, the New South Welshman went onto transfer directly to the main event by finishing seventh in the opening 250SX heat race, granting him 13th gate-pick for the 16-lap final. It was a strong encounter for Tanti, who eventually charged his way to ninth across the finish line.
Fellow Australian Jay Wilson (Yamaha) also continued his string of respectable results, claiming 16th inside the RingCentral Coliseum. Compatriot Luke Clout (Penrite Honda Racing) was another Australian to earn a season-best result of fifth, while Joel Wightman (Honda) missed out on a transfer spot in the premier class after finishing ninth in the 450SX lCQ.
Monster Energy Supercross heads to Petco Park in San Diego this Saturday night for round six of the 17-stop series.

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The ATO has released its final ruling on non-arm’s-length expenditure (NALE) inside an SMSF and has retained its position expenditure categorised manner can have a sufficient nexus to all of the ordinary and/or statutory income derived by the fund.
The regulator released Law Companion Ruling (LCR) 2021/2 this week, which states in section 19 “a fund may incur expenditure that does not specifically relate to a particular amount being derived by the fund but still has a sufficient nexus more generally to all income derived by the fund”.
The LCR also stated NALE incurred to acquire an asset would also have a sufficient nexus to income derived by the fund and this would include any capital gains realised on disposal of the asset, even where a trustee has refinanced any borrowings and shifted them to an arm’s-length basis.
This position was altered in the case where a super fund incurs NALE of a recurrent nature, that was not related to the acquisition of an asset, in one income year, but does not incur that cost in a later year, with section 21 of the LCR stating the nexus to the ordinary or statutory income would only apply during the relevant income year.
In response to the release of the final ruling, the SMSF Association has called on the government and Treasury to review the NALE rules, claiming they could have unintended punitive consequences.
Association deputy chief executive and director of policy and education Peter Burgess, speaking during the industry body’s Technical Summit, said: “The industry has lost the battle to convince the ATO that a general expense cannot have a direct link to income of a fund.
“Whether we agree with that view or not, the consequences of having all the income taxed as non-arm’s-length income (NALI) because the fund did not receive a general expense at arm’s-length terms is very severe and disproportionate. The only way to address this issue is to push for a law change.”
Burgess acknowledged the final ruling provided greater clarity around when an expense would be considered non-arm’s length and provided more examples of what constitutes acting in a trust capacity or individual capacity.
“If an SMSF incurs an expense on arm’s-length terms for all the services it receives, then these NALE rules would have no application. There is one exception and that is where the trustee is providing services and they are doing that in their capacity as a trustee,” he said.
“This is important for clients providing services to their own fund to know whether they are performing that service in their capacity as a trustee or an individual.”
He pointed out the ruling will allow SMSF members to provide services to their fund using their own business skills and experience without having to charge the fund for that service.
“For example, a financial planner who has an SMSF can use their skills and knowledge in formulating an investment strategy for their fund and this service can be provided to their fund without charge,” he said.
“Even if they use their business assets in a minor or infrequent way, it will still not be classified as a service they need to charge their SMSF for.
“But the ruling does draw the line at services that can only be provided if the SMSF member holds a particular licence or qualification, or the service is covered by an insurance policy relating to their business.
“In these instances, the SMSF member is required to charge their fund an arm’s-length fee for the service provided or risk some or all of the fund’s income being taxed as NALI.”''

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In the minds of many people in Florida and across the nation, estate planning is about as glamorous as doing taxes. In order to pass on wealth to the next generation or designated beneficiaries, most people need more than wills in today’s legal climate.
First, people should seek out an estate planning attorney with a history of satisfied clients and a track record of success. In addition to a will, clients will need a living will and should implement a revocable trust in order to speed up the probate process. The client will also need to designate someone with power of attorney.
Second, individuals will need to determine all of their assets, possibly with the help of a financial planner. This includes a review of designated beneficiaries. Third, the person will need to think about their long-term goals as they assign wealth to their heirs. In addition to amounts, they might want to look at setting up a trust, especially for a younger person who may not have the ability to handle the money. For charitable donations, a financial adviser can work with an attorney in order to devise a specific strategy.
Fourth, the person will need to consider the tax implications. Estates valued at up to $5.25 million, or twice that amount for married couples, don’t pay federal estate taxes as of 2013. Amounts over that threshold are taxed at 40 percent, so a financial adviser can help plan for that liability. Fifth, review the plan regularly to make any needed changes. In addition to major life events, people should plan periodic reviews according to a schedule they determine with their financial planner and attorney.
Estate planning can be critical to the future of a person’s heirs. An estate planning lawyer might be able to help clients with the legal process.
Source: Northwest Herald, “Five steps to take in devising an estate plan“, Patrick S. O’Connor, July 06, 2013


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Cleanliness and hygiene has under no circumstances appeared of larger problem than it is now. So must the men and women creating confident hospitals are cost-free of germs be getting more of a voice?
On 26 March, Chicago stopped for a instant of gratitude amidst the increasing coronavirus disaster. Persons took to their balconies, porches and rooftops cheering and ringing bells in the darkish winter season night time.
The applause was for the health care workers, initially responders and provider-market staff on the frontlines of the pandemic who had been jeopardizing their lives every working day to preserve people today from the virus wreaking havoc close to the earth.
But for healthcare facility cleaner Candice Martinez, 39, the recognition of nurses and physicians has left her experience vacant. “It is disappointing to me that us ‘lower amount employees’ aren’t receiving any type of recognition for what we are executing.”
As an Environmental Solutions Employee (EVS) at Northwestern Memorial Medical center, Ms Martinez is accountable for cleaning the rooms though people are in hospital or after they are discharged or moved. And in the midst of a pandemic outlined by the need to have for cleanliness – it can make perception that the folks cleaning the pretty hospitals where coronavirus victims fight for existence are of utmost great importance.
Ms Martinez is 1 of the countless numbers of crucial staff members in the metropolis who still have to go to perform even with the crisis. And one of the 12,571 situations of Covid-19 discovered in Chicago.
“When I acquired sick I was definitely frightened. I have asthma so I have respiration troubles and my lungs are presently compromised.”
She is one particular of approximately 33,000 healthcare facility services personnel in Chicago, according to a University of Illinois 2018 review, which claims they make on average amongst $26,000-31,000 a calendar year.
“The complete edifice of the hospital procedure rests on the people who clean up, clean and give cafeteria companies,” Dr Robert Bruno, who performed the 2018 analyze, told the BBC.
But regardless of their great importance, Ms Martinez says that service staff are generally the very last to discover about new protocols and processes in the medical center – as may perhaps have been the situation with coronavirus.
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“At the commencing of this pandemic we started out boosting the alarm bells since hospitals had been putting in place do the job designs but our workers weren’t being trained on them,” suggests Anne Igoe, VP of Hospitals for Support Staff members Worldwide Union (SEIU).
Staff like Ms Martinez are “past on the listing,” she suggests. “Men and women overlook them. When coronavirus started out in Chicago, nurses and medical doctors ended up invited to the early morning huddles on new protocols, and that info wasn’t always finding to EVS workers,” Ms Igoe explained.
Ms Martinez’s main duty is cleaning rooms soon after females give delivery, function that rewards her with $14.58 (£11.71) for every hour.
“We cleanse and sanitise the room,” she claims. “We pull trash and clean higher-contact spots like gentle switches and doorknobs.”
It can be risky business in the course of this pandemic – the virus looks to endure on challenging surfaces like door handles for days, and some recommend it is really possible it can even survive on clothes and in linens.
Ms Martinez, like many other EVS personnel, depends on time beyond regulation to spend her expenses, which can suggest setting up at 07:00 and ending at practically midnight. On these marathon shifts she is effective at a selection of wards, and she suspects she contracted the virus when a client home was improperly labelled or a indicator cautioning that workers don individual protecting machines (PPE) was taken down as well before long.
“When I begun emotion lousy a few of weeks ago I had a short while ago accomplished extra time in the portion of the healthcare facility where by there was coronavirus. I know that men and women who had been on shift at the identical time on the very same ground are out unwell now as well.”
She commenced emotion feverish in the middle of a 12-hour Sunday shift, and then she did some thing she seldom does – she remaining operate early.
1st arrived the problems, then the fever, so she identified as the Covid hotline and got an appointment for a take a look at the subsequent day. With a higher fever and a cough, Ms Martinez boarded a bus and then a coach for the hour-prolonged journey from her Brighton Park neighbourhood to the testing centre downtown.
Two times later, she gained news that she experienced tested good for Covid-19.
Ms Martinez is white but two-thirds of hospital services workers are not. The struggle to shield these minimal-wage cleaners signifies a broader problem, simply because the virus has disproportionately struck the city’s minority communities.
“Chicago’s hospitals are being held up, propped up and supported by our most susceptible, minimal-wage, very low-educated, most-overworked staff who are disproportionately people today of colour,” suggests Dr Bruno.
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The challenge for workers like Ms Martinez, he adds, is the lack of adaptability that comes with getting a reduced-wage worker which signifies they have no preference but to return to the area they contracted the virus.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital spokesperson Christopher King instructed the BBC: “The wellness and basic safety of our employees, physicians, and sufferers is our highest precedence. Due to the fact the outbreak of Covid-19, we have absent to extraordinary lengths to sustain an environment that protects every person.”
Whilst it is not possible to know just where or how Ms Martinez contracted coronavirus, the clinic has agreed to fork out her workers’ compensation.
Ms Igoe of the union described the predicament for at-possibility hospital provider workers as chaotic and inconsistent.
“Some EVS employees are named right away and told they cleaned a area that experienced a Covid-positive client, and some are just despatched an email which can be problematic if they will not examine it for days because they really don’t have a computer at household.”
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Several hospitals are seeking to limit exposure from contaminated patients, suggests Ms Igoe. “Nurses are bringing up much more food stuff trays and modifying some linens. Housekeeping’s major role is cleansing the rooms just after the patients have left.”
But these kinds of attempts could have occur too late for personnel like Ms Martinez, who suggests the clinic has questioned her to occur back again to function three days soon after her signs and symptoms subside.
Following more than a 7 days off operate, she stated she is experience significantly improved and is grateful for the sick depart delivered by her employer, but she’s not quite prepared to go back to perform.
“It really is going to adjust my solution when I go back. I probably would not be performing additional time for a long-time because I will not want to be in unique areas of the medical center.”
And by not performing additional time, that signifies she can anticipate a lower paycheque.
Times later on, Ms Martinez had returned to do the job, but she fears she could capture it once again.


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The medieval castle of Häme is located on the coast of lake Vanajavesi. It was originally located on an island.
The castle's age is disputed. Traditionally the construction of the castle has been connected to the legendary Second Swedish Crusade which would date the castle in the mid-13th century. However, there are no finds from the castle that can be firmly dated to a period earlier than 1320s. Also the contents of the crusade legend have been seriously contested. An earlier fortification from about 1300 only some 20 kilometres away in Hakoinen also makes a 14th century dating for Häme Castle more probable. Only one castle ("Tauestahus") is listed in Tavastia in a royal document from 1308. Also, the Russian Novgorod Chronicle only mentions one castle during their plundering of Tavastia in 1311, its description matching well with the castle in Hakoinen.
The construction of Häme castle probably started after the Novgorod invasion. The first castle was made of gray stone, and later bricks were used.
The castle lost military importance by the end of the 16th century. Its defensive systems were upgraded in the 18th century with bastions around the castle. The castle became a prison in the 19th century and served as such until 1953, when massive restoration work started. The castle has been a museum since 1988. Facilities can also be rented for private events.
Eketorp is an Iron Age fort in southeastern Öland, which was extensively reconstructed and enlarged in the Middle Ages. Throughout the ages the fortification has served a variety of somewhat differing uses: from defensive ringfort, to medieval safe haven and thence a cavalry garrison. In the 20th century it was further reconstructed to become a heavily visited tourist site and a location for re-enactment of medieval battles. Eketorp is the only one of the 19 known prehistoric fortifications on Öland that has been completely excavated, yielding a total of over 24,000 individual artifacts. The entirety of southern Öland has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Eketorp fortification is often referred to as Eketorp Castle.
The indigenous peoples of the Iron Age constructed the original fortification about 400 AD, a period known to have engendered contact between Öland natives with Romans and other Europeans. The ringfort in that era is thought to have been a gathering place for religious ceremonies and also a place of refuge for the local agricultural community when an outside enemy appeared. The circular design was believed to be chosen because the terrain is so level that attack from any side was equally likely. The original diameter of this circular stone fortification was about 57 metres. In the next century the stone was moved outward to construct a new circular structure of about 80 metres in diameter. At this juncture there were known to be about fifty individual cells or small structures within the fort as a whole. Some of these cells were in the center of the fortified ring, and some were actually built into the wall itself.
In the late 600s AD the ringfort was mysteriously abandoned, and it remained unused until the early 11th century. This 11th century work generally built upon the earlier fort, except that stone interior cells were replaced with timber structures, and a second outer defensive wall was erected.
Presently the fort is used as a tourist site for visitors to Öland to experience a medieval fortification for this region. A museum within the castle walls displays a few of the large number of artefacts retrieved by the National Heritage Board during the major decade long excavation ending in 1974. Inside the fort visitors are greeted by actors in medieval costumes who assume the roles of period artisans and merchants who might have lived there nine centuries earlier. There are also re-enactment scenes of skirmishes and other dramatic events of daily life from the Middle Ages.
Eketorp lies a few kilometers west of Route 136. There is an ample unpaved parking area situated approximately two kilometers west of the paved Öland perimeter highway. There is also a gift shop on site. During peak summer visitation, there are guided tours available. Visitors are assessed an admission charge.


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If you are having a stressful day, a quick and easy way to de-stress is to look at the green. Look out your window or go for a walk. If you can't get to the green outside, look at pictures of a forest or other soothing green shades. Breaking up your pattern during the day will help you be more productive and feel more calm.
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Are there any LGBT characters in Doctor Who
While LGBTQ+ representation in front of the camera may have been light in earlier years, we have queer creatives to thank for shaping the classic TV show. – Top News 20 January, 2022, Pop culture guru David Ferguson is back with a look at the queer history of that BBC sci-fi TV staple – Doctor Who. In the recent Doctor Who New Year’s special, Eve Of The Daleks, it was revealed that female companion Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gil) has romantic feelings for Jodie Whitaker’s Thirteenth Doctor.
This was a bit of a revelation as it hadn’t been really been hinted at before, with viewers seeing her feelings as more of a friendship. Although looking back at the previous season again, the feelings can be seen as romantic. Anyway, the reveal of a new queer character in Doctor Who got me thinking about previous representation as well as the contribution of queer people both behind the scenes and on camera.
(Note: there are books, comics and audio plays too but let’s stick to TV for brevity’s sake!) You may be surprised to know that these contributions started at the very beginning. The director of the first serial The Unearthly Child (1963), Waris Hussein, is gay.
I only became aware of this fact while watching a dramatisation of the William Hartnell era, An Adventure In Space And Time (2013). Hussein would go on to direct most of the fourth serial Marco Polo (1964). The earliest openly gay creator who had a big influence on the show was John Nathan-Turner who was the producer from Season 18 of the original series until that series was cancelled – a period of ten years.
In The John Nathan-Turner Memoirs: Volume 2, he revealed that he received backlash from British tabloids for his habit of hiring openly gay actors. This included Matthew Waterhouse who played Doctor Who companion, Adric. Greg Austin and Jordan Renzo in Class Though there were no openly gay characters during this time, we did get some interesting scenes from the Fifth Doctor’s (Peter Davidson) companion Turlough (Mark Strickson). Strickson later commented that, not knowing what to do with him, the writers would often have the villains capture or lock him up, leading to Turlough ending up in various “states of bondage”.
In the BBC Wales era, the biggest influence has obviously been Russell T Davies. Davies had been working for years to get the BBC to bring the show back. His era added the first non-heterosexual companion, the pansexual Captain Jack Harkness (played by queer actor John Barrowman). Harkness’ sexuality was further explored in the more adult spin-off Torchwood,
One of that series’ focus was his relationship with Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd). The second series saw a subplot featuring his old male lover, John Hart (James Marsters). Another spin-off, The Sarah Jane Adventures, a show aimed at a younger audience, was to have introduced a gay character but the show ended before it could happen. Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie After becoming showrunner, Steven Moffatt introduced a number of gay characters. Most notable in the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) era were Victorian-era lesbian married couple Madame Vastra (Neve Macintosh) and Jenny Flint (Catrin Stewart).
- In 2016, another spin-off, Class, featured a gay romance between central characters Charlie Smith (Greg Austin) and Matteusz Andrzejewski (Jordan Renzo).
- I particularly enjoyed this series as it portrayed their teenage romance in a believable way.
- It lasted only one series but was continued in audio form.
The Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) era saw the debut of the first openly gay full-time companion, Bill Potts (a personal favourite) played by bisexual actress Pearl Mackie. Her sexuality was fully established in her debut episode, The Pilot (2017). The Moffatt and Chris Chibnall (the current showrunner) eras also saw a variety of queer supporting characters.
- As for the future, we have two specials to come featuring Jodi Whitaker so we will see what happens with the relationship that inspired this piece.
- Chris Chibnall’s replacement as showrunner? The returning Russell T. Davies.
- Who is putting money on Ollie Alexander as the first queer actor to play The Doctor? You can check out more of David Ferguson’s pop culture musings here,
© 2022 GCN (Gay Community News). All rights reserved.
Who does the doctor love most
Truly, madly, deeply – Doomsday (2006) To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor’s life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he’d travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
Are Clara and the doctor in love?
Their Date For Christmas – It’s a shame that Clara and the Doctor didn’t become a real couple, as their fake date at Christmas was a laughably cute moment. In this episode, she convinced him to pose as her boyfriend to her family, which he was happy to do. Unfortunately, the Doctor’s holographic clothes could only be seen by Clara, meaning her family thought he was standing undressed.


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Background: Activation of the NF-kappaB transcription factor has been previously demonstrated in two androgen receptor negative prostate cancer cell lines. We wished to extend this work to additional prostate cancer cells and to characterize the mechanisms responsible for constitutive NF-kappaB activation.
Methods: Electrophoretic mobility shift assays were performed to measure NF-kappaB DNA-binding activity in prostate cancer cell lines, and immunohistochemistry was performed to detect nuclear localization of NF-kappaB in prostate cancer tissues. Western blot analysis was used to study the status of IkappaBalpha. Transient transfection assays were employed to characterize the contributions of IkappaB kinase (IKK), MAPK kinase kinases (MAPKKKs), androgen receptor (AR), and tyrosine phosphorylation to the constitutive activation of NF-kappaB in the prostate cancer cell lines.
Results: Constitutive NF-kappaB activity was observed in AR-negative cell lines as well as in the prostate cancer patient samples, but was not present in AR positive cells. A "super-repressor" IkappaBalpha, as well as dominant negative forms of IKKbeta and NF-kappaB-inducing kinase (NIK), and tyrosine kinase inhibition were able to suppress NF-kappaB activity in the cells with constitutive activation.
Conclusions: The constitutive activation of NF-kappaB observed in prostate cancer cells is likely due to a signal transduction pathway involving tyrosine kinases, NIK, and IKK activation.
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