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Women in Engineering: New Role Models in Emergent Sciences and Technologies
"Women's Ways of Knowing," by Mary Field Belenky et al. (Basic Books, 1986, 1997), captured the challenges women face not just at home, but in classroom settings, and importantly, suggested how educators can help women develop their authentic voices if they emphasize connection over separation, and collaboration over debate.
Fast forward to the American Association of University Women's most recent study, "Why so few? Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics." The AAUW study observes that 30 years ago there were 13 boys for every girl who scored above 700 on the SAT math exam. Today, that ratio has shrunk to about 3:1.
The U.S. Department of Labor projects that by 2018, nine out of the 10 fastest-growing occupations will require scientific or mathematical preparation. This workforce trend provides a useful segue for asking American colleges and universities: How can we get more women interested in studying science, engineering, and technologies? Some say active recruiting, eliminating gender stereotypes, providing mentors, and increasing female faculty members are a good start.
We know that there is a strong correlation between increased women engineering faculty and increased likelihood of female students majoring in a scientific or technical field. Women engineers and scientists now need to be given a meaningful opportunity to become more directly connected with female faculty and more significantly involved in hands-on research under the watchful guidance of female academic mentors.
In engineering, female faculty leaders can serve as living examples in recruiting women and sharing their special science and engineering learning experience. From this perspective, Wentworth Institute of Technology (Mass.) is a somewhat unique best practices institution. As the first female president to lead Wentworth, Zorica Pantic has been a positive change agent, academic leader, and champion for recruiting and mentoring women engineering students.
Pantic suggests one solution is getting female students involved in science at an early age. "I decided on my career early in life. So, I think it is very important to have role models," she explains. "That's why we want to go to high schools and even middle schools, and talk to girls and show them examples of women in science and engineering and other disciplines. One of the hallmarks of a Wentworth education is the development and application of a technical skill in a real world setting."
Beyond this impressive enrollment growth rate, Wentworth has developed several highly effective specific learning and career shadowing experiences.
? Women at Wentworth brings together alumnae, students, faculty, staff, and friends in the areas of design, engineering, construction, technology, and management to make contacts, exchange ideas, and strengthen bonds.
? Wentworth's annual Women's Leadership Conference is a daylong conference where female students can hear from women leaders in their specific field and attend workshops where educational experiences are provided to ensure success in all aspects of life. The event aims to create community and camaraderie among the women of Wentworth.
? Women's Overnight program has been an effective recruiting tool by demonstrating the accomplishments of Wentworth's female students and the opportunities that are open to them.
? The Woman to Woman Program provides a social and informational forum for female students to meet other students, faculty, and staff members, share their experiences, and develop mentor relationships.
? Massachusetts Girls Collaborative is an outreach effort to stimulate women students to explore future careers in the emergent fields of life sciences.
For more than a century, Wentworth has been educating its students in technical disciplines through hands-on learning, real-world problem solving, classroom instruction and practical work experience. Each year, more and more Wentworth women earn degrees in science, engineering, and technology.
Part industry expert and insider, part women's engineering student mentor and part faculty leader, Pantic has painted an empowering pathway for inspiring future women engineering scholars. As a role model for future female leaders and engineers, she embodies the technical, scientific, professional, and interpersonal skills important to success.
James Martin and James E. Samels, Future Shock columnists, are authors of Turnaround: Leading Stressed Colleges and Universities to Excellence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Martin is a professor at Mount Ida College (Mass.) and Samels is president and CEO of The Education Alliance.


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Homeschool Day: Winter Light
Winter Light
Thursday, January 18, 2018 - 9 am-2 pm
Ages: 6-15
Fee: $45/$35 members
Gary John Gresl's installation, The Body Farm at Lynden, considers the ephemerality of the materials he uses to make his assemblage sculptures and, by extension, the works themselves. We will visit these shrine-like works with the artist to observe the effect of the winter climate on the installation. In the studio and workshop, we will use found objects to make our own hibernal installations. We'll make candles in the studio and use hand tools in the shop to fashion wooden candelabra.
Registration deadline for all Homeschool Days is one week prior. Space is limited, please register early.
Dress appropriately for the weather; much time will be spent outdoors in all seasons.
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Ukraine 'worst abuser of intellectual property rights'
US authorities have named Ukraine as the country with the worst record on protecting intellectual property.
A report by the US Trade Representative says Kiev had failed to fight internet piracy and the use of illegal software.
Such software was even being used by government agencies, it adds. Ukraine has been warned it could lose trade benefits if it fails to act.
The report also raises grave concerns about the alleged misappropriation of trade secrets in China.
This is threat to both US companies and national security, it adds.
In the USTR's annual 2013 Special 301 Special Report, Ukraine is, uniquely, dubbed a "Priority Foreign Country" - the USTR's rarely used, bottom-tier judgement of how countries around the world are protecting US patents, copyrights and other forms of intellectual property rights (IPR).
"I regret that the government of Ukraine has earned the first new Priority Foreign Country designation in 11 years due to its severely deteriorating climate for IPR protection and market access, and call upon that government to reverse recent backsliding and swiftly resolve the problems identified today," said acting US Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis in a statement.
"Rogue" groups with links to the Ukrainian government collect music royalties, falsely claiming they are authorised to do so, the report says. There is no remedial action by the government, which itself is a leading user of unauthorised software, it adds.
'Systematic infiltration'
An IPR "action plan" agreed with Kiev in 2010, the report says, has done little to reverse the deteriorating situation.
"Ukraine has become perceived as a safe haven for online piracy enterprises serving other markets," it notes.
Ukraine's designation as a Priority Foreign Country enables Washington to pursue sanctions under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act - either directly or through the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
US media companies welcomed the move.
Meanwhile, China remains among 10 USTR-identified countries given the second-tier ranking of "Priority Watch List" for what the report says is its poor enforcement of intellectual property rights and the "growing problem of misappropriation of trade secrets".
Studies, it adds, "have further indicated that actors affiliated with the Chinese military and Chinese government have systematically infiltrated the computer systems of over 100 US companies and stolen hundreds of terabytes of data, including all forms of trade secrets, such as proprietary technology, manufacturing processes, and confidential business information".
The other Priority Watch List countries named by the USTR are Algeria, Argentina, Chile, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand and Venezuela.


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Welcome to The George at Nunney
The George at Nunney is a 17th century coaching Inn situated in the village of Nunney, near Frome & Longleat Safari Park in Somerset. The Inn has an excellent reputation for its cosy rooms, delicious food and a friendly service. We pride ourselves on our relaxing atmosphere combining period features with contemporary lighting and decor. Our bar, lounge, restaurant and 10 bedrooms have all been recently renovated with modern touches adding to your experience. Our beautiful night-lit walled garden and waterside terrace provide drinking or dining 'alfresco' at any time of the year (weather permitting!)


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MTH 192: Calculus II
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This is a second semester college calculus course of one variable. Topics include applications of integration, integration techniques, L'Hospital's Rule, improper integrals, infinite series, parametric equations and polar coordinates. A graphing calculator is required. See the time schedule for current brand and model.
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Travel Changes Lives
I often write about the intrinsic benefits of traveling: How lives can be changed forever by the sole act of visiting a new country or culture, how discovering a new place is also an act of self-discovery, how travel can be so inspiring, it literally transforms us.
I say and write these words so often that it can become mechanical, and I have to remind myself, as a traveler, the transformation that occurs is genuine. The changes are perhaps not so tangible that you find yourself unrecognizable – in fact, sometimes they are so deep-rooted that they might go unnoticed.
But they are very real.
If I could benchmark my worldview throughout my life, I would find that I thought much differently about the world when I was younger than the way I think about the world now. Everyone would, right?
But, travel has molded my perceptions in ways that they never could have been otherwise.
Did you know there are places in Southern France where the toilets are just holes in the ground? I discovered this when I was nine on my first international trip with my family. Sure, I remember the Eiffel Tower. Sure, I vaguely remember Notre Dame. And yes, I think I remember seeing my first Monet at the Musee D'Orsay.
But I definitely remember those hole-in-the-ground toilets.
As silly as it sounds, it is the little experiences like these that change our small worldviews. I was forever connected with a memory of another place that was unlike anything I had been used to. As children, these connections begin to reframe us.
And yes, travel can cause discomfort. We can be suddenly awakened to the fact that we are incredibly small and unimportant. And our place within the world can become challenged.
And sometimes we feel very spoiled.
But this uneasiness is just our mind's way of telling us that it's changing. And these transformations could never occur without taking us out of the safety net of our home surroundings.
And then we start to see the world differently. We begin to feel grateful. We begin to realize there is no us and them– that really, people are people anywhere in the world. That a country's GDP doesn't necessarily correlate to its people's levels of happiness.
We discover life is not just about how much money we earn or how many things we own. That what we see and learn and experience is what truly defines us. And the more connections we create – the bigger our mind grows.
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Two Weeks Old
I am very content and sweet.
I love my mama. (and she loves me)
I love to look around my new home and listen to my brothers and sisters.
I LOVE to eat.
I don't like to have my diaper changed, I cry even though mama uses warm wipes.
I like it even less when mama has to change my clothes and give me Burt's Bee's lotion because my skin is really dry.
I sleep well at night, usually two long stretches, I sleep with mama and daddy, bundled in my pink blanket. I sleep best when my arms are bundled snug in my blanket.
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On a track with the perfectly ridiculous title "Retarded Fren," Radiohead gentlemen Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood have hooked up with a somewhat unlikely collaborator, masked indie-rap hero DOOM. On the track, DOOM kicks his trademark slurry free-associative wordplay over wobbly bass-music subs and jittery strings that sound like they jumped straight from Greenwood's There Will Be Blood score. Listen to it below.
"Retarded Fren" is the first track from Lex Records' 10th anniversary compilation Complex. The label plans to post a new track every Monday for the next 10 weeks.


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Northstar Commercial Partners Revitalizes and Sells Denver Industrial Facility
June 16, 2015
DENVER, Colo., June 16, 2015 - Northstar Commercial Partners is pleased to announce the successful sale of 1201 West Mansfield Avenue, an industrial building located in Denver's thriving Englewood area.
The building sold for $9,721,500 and serves as a warehouse and distribution space, currently leased by several tenants including Ouray Sportswear, Christian Brothers Moving & Storage, Hands-On Labs, and Digital Precision Imaging.
"We're delighted with the sale of 1201 Mansfield," Brian Watson, Founder & CEO for Northstar said.
"After initially acquiring this building vacant in 2007, we completed a full-scale renovation of the entire property. We've now held 100% occupancy at the asset with some truly wonderful tenants for the last several years."
When Northstar purchased the 50-year-old building, it diligently worked to rehabilitate the distressed commercial facility. These $5 million in renovations and tenant improvements for the building included: new HVAC systems, ADA compliance standards, high efficiency lighting, new switch gear, new service panels circuiting, epoxy flooring, and creation of new office space.
"I have full confidence that the new owners will only continue to foster further growth and opportunity at this attractive Englewood facility, that creates many jobs for the local community," Watson concluded.
RC Myles, Managing Director at DTZ involved in the purchase, noted the mutual benefit of the sale as well as optimism for the future:
"I think the sale of 1201 Mansfield is a great conclusion to a concerted effort by Northstar Commercial Partners to execute on a vacant purchase, rehabilitation, and repurposing of this asset," Myles said.
"The quality renovation allowed for several successful business to operate over the last several years."
Northstar's goal has always been to benefit the community through the creation and revitalization of good and attractive working environments that empower people, providing them the opportunities they need to succeed.
About Northstar Commercial Partners
Founded in 2000 by Brian Watson, Northstar Commercial Partners is a privately held commercial real estate investment company headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Northstar acquires and operates attractive commercial real estate opportunities throughout the United States and orchestrates all aspects of the investment from initial concept through to completion.
Northstar has purchased assets from a multitude of Fortune 500 companies including, but not limited to: Shell Oil Co., GE, Columbia House, Ball Corporation, Loomis, Cargill and a national portfolio of real estate from The Benjamin Moore Paint Co., in addition to many individual assets from other owners, lenders and companies.
To learn more about Northstar's positive community impacts, or to contact them to build a strategic partnership for real estate, please visit www.NorthstarCP.com or www.BrianWatson.com.


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We're not sure if Sarah Jessica Parker is starting a new trend, if her tailor is on vacation or if she's simply moonlighting as a New York City bike messenger. What we do know, though, is she's really committed to her new way of wearing pants: pegged in interesting manners.
Lately, every time she's stepped out in a pair of jeans, she's cuffed 'em creatively. Let's examine the myriad ways one can peg…
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When Parker folded up the hems of her printed MiH skinnies (photo at far left) and her gray pair (far right), we were on board. Hey, we hate bunching the bottoms of our jeans into booties as much as the next girl. Plus, it's a cute way to make the cold-weather combo of boots and pants feel a little more late-summer/early-fall-appropriate.
But it was Parker's other cuffing attempts that had us scratching our heads. What are we supposed to think when she goes out in Michael Stars drawstring pants (second from left) and rolls up one of the loose legs way higher than the other? That she's channeling 98° circa 1999?
We were equally confused by her folding up the bottoms of her bootcut jeans (center photo). And we don't even have words for the situation going on in the photo second from the right. Actually, we do have words, but our mothers told us that if we don't have anything nice to say, we shouldn't say anything at all.
So we'll let you say it. What do you think of SJP's pegging and cuffing?
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Police: Roswell man attacked woman with BBQ chicken
Police: Roswell man attacked woman with BBQ chicken
Criminal charges are pending for a Roswell man accused of throwing barbecued chicken at a woman during an argument.
Roswell police were called in because of a domestic dispute in the 1600 block of South Kansas on Sunday night.
Police said a 28-year-old woman and a 24-year-old man were fighting. The man head-butted the woman, and she attempted to leave the home, according to police.
Police said that as she was leaving, the man threw a pan of grease and a barbecued chicken at her car. He also threw a bucket of water at her, according to police.
When the officer arrived at the home, the man was not there. He will face charges of battery against a household member.


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Vintage Mannequins: Strangely Beautiful Dress Forms
To some they may be sort of creepy (a friend was reminded of The Silence of the Lambs) but to me vintage mannequins are beautifully sculptural and add instant character to a room. These headless, limbless figures, also known as dress forms, are simple dummies used to give the tailor a three-dimensional feedback while a garment is being sewed.
Apart from being a conversation starter, mannequins can also be quite practical. Obviously the crafty sewer will appreciate dress forms for their intended purpose. But these whimsical statuettes can also be used for hanging jewelry, hats or scarves. They can also be used as cork boards, as in Image 7.
• 1 Apartment Therapy.
• 2 You can buy vintage mannequins from this English site. These are decoupaged with vintage Paris maps. Corset Laced Mannequins.
• 3 New dress forms for sale at PB Teen. $199.
• 4 Here, the mannequin is used to hold necklaces and flowers. Little French Nest.
• 5 The unadorned black mannequin nicely contrasts with the whitewashed look of this room on Country Living.
• 6 One thing I love about the mannequin in this room is how it helps fill out very high ceilings. Little Bits of Lovely.
• 7 Here the mannequin is used as a hat stand and a cork board for post-it notes and other papers. Apartment Therapy.
• 8 Modern Kiddo. A vintage mannequin found on Craiglist; once used as a dress form for a fashion student/seamstress.
• 9 A (very) pricey antique mannequin from the 1890s in France. Briggs House Antiques on 1stDibs.
• 10 Isn't this one just lovely? If I ever buy a vintage mannequin I want one like this. A Perfect Gray.


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Hi, i had this problem start earlier where my monitor turns on for about two seconds but then just comes up with a black screen. The light stays green and if i turn it on and off the picture comes back for two seconds before going off again. I have tried the monitor on another computer, but i'm getting the same issue.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? I read somewhere it could be the capacitor's on one of the boards, but when i took it apart they looked normal.
EDIT: i should also say i think that i saw the screen flickering earlier this morning, I cant be completely sure though as i wasnt at my desk at the time and only saw it in the corner of my eye.
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Welcome to the Vermont Human Rights Commission
The mission of the Vermont Human Rights Commission is to promote full civil and human rights in Vermont.
The Commission protects people from unlawful discrimination in housing, state government employment, and public accommodations. A place of public accommodation is any establishment, such as a school, restaurant, office, or store that offers facilities, goods or services to the general public.
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The Vermont Human Rights Commission handles cases of all kinds of discrimination
This map depicts our three categories of cases for cases handled in fiscal year 2016.
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- People treat each other with dignity and respect
- Communities promote equality, fairness, understanding and acceptance of all
- Citizens act effectively to end discrimination.
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Learning Away is learning how brilliant residentials can improve young people's engagement with their learning, and how this engagement can be sustained beyond the trip to lead to improved achievement in the longer term.
Brilliant residentials aim to foster a deep motivation for learning. We found that, through these residentials, engaged learners don't just 'behave' – they take responsibility for their learning, choose to bring energy to it and have a commitment to learning that extends beyond school.
Learning Away has been exploring the impact of residentials on the quality of learner engagement and learning achievement in three areas:
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Lyoto Machida Knockout Kick Ends Randy Couture Fight (Video)
UFC legend Randy Couture ran into a problem on Saturday night. That problem was his opponent's foot. Unlike when he fought and destroyed James "Lights Out" Toney last summer, Couture was matched up with a legit MMA fighter at UFC 129 and paid the price. The boot to the face that Lyoto Machida put on Couture was slightly less impressive than Anderson Silva's knockout kick against Vitor Belfort, only because it wasn't nearly as disguised. Nevertheless, it was still pretty sick. Check out the Randy Couture vs. Lyoto Machida fight video. The kick is around the 7:30 mark. Enjoy the Karate Kid voice overs until this video inevitably gets pulled and we have to find another.


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These immature students should be ashamed of themselves.
Occupy Penn State Update: Smoking column on this sordid mess by David Steele.
Update: Expel these students and prosecute them, too. You got the vid, PSU.
And people complain about UMass students? I don't think a news van has ever been rolled over. Those clowns are lucky they didn't have it land on someone, it has gotta weigh a couple tons...
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Last week I noticed other pills between my girlfriends prescribed medicines (klonopin, adderal) that seem a bit out of the ordinairy.
These other pills were: Oxicodone, Zanax, Methadon and Carisoprodol.
Recently her behaviour changed radically (insensitive) and she has rashes and is scratching herself to bleed now and then. Since I know her she has insomnia, hardly eats, always carries little bags with (sweet) food, drewls from her mouth and goes to toilet often and for longer periods.
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1. Re: What is the main different on Intel I350 & Intel ET2mark_h_@intel Mar 22, 2012 1:47 PM (in response to kelvinyasu)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Either quad port adapter is suitable for iSCSI, but in a side-by-side comparison, you will notice some advantages to the specifications of the Intel® Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T4. The Intel Ethernet I350 server adapters are the newest, premium gigabit adapters offered by Intel. The Intel® Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter was the best Intel Ethernet gigabit adapter for storage when it was launched, but the technology used is older and the power consumption will be higher.
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A San Francisco elementary school teacher is spending her summer in Madagascar.
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — A San Francisco elementary school teacher is spending her summer in Madagascar studying one of the most critically endangered primates in the world, hoping to bring her experience in the rain forest into the classroom this fall. Dierdre Fitzgerald is studying lemurs.
"There are 51 species of lemurs that live in this country, and all of them are facing a huge threat from slash and burn agriculture," said Fitzgerald.
Thanks to a $5,000 grant from the nonprofit organization "Fund for Teachers," Fitzgerald is in the midst of a scientific expedition looking specifically into the silky Sifaka lemurs' eating habits.
Fitzgerald is taking photos and video while in Madagascar to show her third-grade students at Tenderloin Elementary in the hopes of vividly illustrating some pretty lofty themes.
"It's very difficult to have 8-year-olds understand some of these concepts of bio-diversity and adaptation, and the kinds of situations that animals face in their ecosystems," said Fitzgerald.
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On January 30, 1945, 121 members of the 6th Ranger Battalion and 286 Filipino guerrillas are seen setting out on a 30 mile trek behind Japanese lines, to free Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians from a Japanese camp near Cabanatuan City, in the Philippines, during World War 2. They stretch out in a long, informal column as they traverse low flat lands and ford a wide shallow river. The men carry weapons and supplies (some on their heads) as they move along, almost like a Safari. Scene shifts to rescued prisoner, Major Emil P. Reed, U.s. Army Medical Corps,26th Cavalry. He was the senior officer among prisoners at the Cabanatuan prison camp number 1. He recounts being told by the Japanese Commandant that commencing January 7th, they were free at their own risk, but also assured them they would not be molested by the Japanese if they stayed within their regular camp area. Sergeant Samuel E. Goldy, Signal Corps, also speaks a few words about that period when Japanese were departing. Next the camera records the Rangers and Filipino guerillas returning with the approximately 500 freed POWs. Some Filipino women and children watch them return. At one point, the cadre climb aboard army trucks and continue their journey in a convoy. The POWs climb down from their trucks at the 92nd Evacuation Hospital, in Guimba, Luzon. Some take pleasure is simply lying down on the grass at the site. Many gather around hospital staff handing out packages of treats, including cigarettes, candy and the like. A couple of them express pleasure as they smoke cigarettes. Two frail and injured are seen hobbling with canes. Some appear seriously malnourished. A group are seen trying on new clothes. A British prisoner, Sergeant Robert Bell, Manchester Regiment, British Army, speaks of his experience. He was taken prisoner in Singapore and sent to Thailand where he worked to build a railway for the Japanese. Many prisoners died there from disease and malnutrition. He was one of a small number who survived after being on a Japanese ship with other prisoners when it was sunk by American dive bombers. Sergeant Walter Ring, of San Roque, Luzon, is seated, relaxed on a chair, as he recounts his experiences. Two young Filipino boys sit on the grass at his feet. He reaches to one, whom he says is his son Louis and to the other, his son Sam. His captivity began on Bataan in 1942. Finally, after rest and rehabilitation, the former POWs are seen heading away from the battle fronts to be transported back to the U.S.A.
United States prisoners after being released from a Japanese prison camp at Cabanatuan in the Philippines during World War II. 511 Allied prisoners after being liberated from the Japanese prison camp. Soldiers get off a truck. Liberated soldiers share their experiences of the life at Japanese prison camps. Sergeant Robert speaks that he was taken prisoner in Singapore. He says that a number of prisoners lost their lives due to diphtheria, cholera and other diseases. He was taken to Thailand and brought back to Singapore from where the prisoners went aboard a Japanese ship. Majority of the prisoners lost their lives after the Japanese ship was sunk due to American air attack near Luzon. Then he was taken to the Cabanatuan prison camp. Another liberated prisoner Sergeant Samuel Goldy expresses gladness on being released by the Americans after 3 years of imprisonment.
Families at harbor waiting for the troop transport ships. United States soldiers and liberated prisoners of war on ship. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and harbor in background with Coit Tower atop Telegraph Hill. Troop ships arrive and crowd cheers. Japanese soldiers bonzai cheer and Japanese forces bomb and take control of Corregidor. Japanese planes bombing. Ambulance carries wounded. United States soldier loses his arm during a Japanese aerial attack on Corregidor. General Wainwright surrendering in Corregidor in May 1942. United States flag lowered by Japanese and Japanese flag is hoisted. Wreckage of bombed U.S. facilites. Japanese propaganda film showing care for wounded American soldiers on hospital beds. Prisoners eat food. Wounded American soldiers walk with crutches on the grounds of the prison camp. Bataan Death March of the emaciated prisoners. American military prisoners at Cabanatuan labor and sleep on open air bunks. Scene of U.S. Army training early in World War 2 with troops in a field setting a machine gun emplacement to fire at rolling trucks relabeled as "Tank". Japanese propaganda newsreels showing Japanese military success in Philippines and Japanese forces in the Aleutian Islands. Aerial view formation of U.S. Army Air Force B-25 bombers in the sky. Aerial side view of American bomber aircraft and bombs away view. Navy bombing from ships. General MacArthur returns to Philippines and wades ashore. Philippine guerrillas and U.S. troops in battle to retake Philippines. U.S. prisoners of war liberated and freed and at 92nd Evacuation Hospital Cebu. Released prisoners on ships to America. WAC women hand out mail. Soldiers write telegram wires announcing arrival. Ship docks in San Francisco. Prisoners reunite with happy families and crowds on streets cheer their arrival. Soldiers and civilians walk on Market Street in San Francisco. Welcome home parade for San Francisco soldiers during WWII. Soldiers waving from buses in parade. Soldier in front of Marina Junior High School, 3500 Fillmore Street. One armed, disabled soldier with parents views photo album.
U.S. prisoners of war being escorted back to American lines, by Rangers of the U.S. Army 6th Battalion, Alamo Scouts, and Filipino guerrillas, after being freed from the Japanese prison at Cabanatuan, Philippines, in a daring raid behind Japanese lines, during World War 2. The rescuers stand with the freed prisoners. Some released prisoners march along and some prisoners ride in carabao carts. Trees in the area. Thatched huts in the background. Local women and children watch the liberated prisoners.
American prisoners of war in Cabanatuan, Philippines. Exterior of a building. The liberated prisoners await hospital treatment. They stand near a military vehicle. They discuss amongst themselves. A man suffering from beri-beri disease smokes. The prisoners drink water from a hand pump. They stand in a line to take their meals. Men seated at tables write on a paper. They take out cartons of hidden Red Cross supplies. They take out the food packets and eat food.
Wreckage in Cabanatuan, Philippines. Exterior of a destroyed building. Men walk outside the building. Interior of the building. Trees in the area.


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my year 7 science class Was studying the particle theory of matter and changes of state and I decided to try a prac from Helix magazine. It was something that I'd never done before, but it sounded like fun, and basically involved students placing water in a syringe, capping the end of the syringe with their finger and pulling the plunger back and forth to change the pressure. Small bubbles form and the water boils. Bubbles appear in the water for two reasons. The first reason is that tap water has air dissolved in it. This air comes out of solution when you pull the syringe out. These air bubbles, however, will tend not to go back into solution as you let the plunger slowly return to where you started. The second reason is that when you pull on the plunger a partial vacuum is created; as you increase the volume inside the syringe you decrease the pressure on the water. When you decrease the pressure, the liquid water turns to water vapour and the water boils, even though it's not hot. Boiling water in a syringe promised to introduce interesting scientific concepts and an exciting, hands-on approach for my class. I could see all sorts of applications and connections the students would make during and because of this activity: boiling, pressure, density, changes of state, bubbles and vacuums. It would be brilliant! Unfortunately, I was in my own vacuous educational world when I entered the class- room. It amazes me how, time after time, teachers and students can appear to be at cross purposes because under the pressure to teach, adults forget to experience the wonder and changes that are important to children. The students entered the room with pic- tures of syringes on the data show. A head- ing ran through the slide to drum up excite- ment: 'Boiling water in a syringe.' I had some high educational expectations and plans to discuss boiling, changes of state and all the rest, and stood there with an open box of new syringes on the front counter. The questions began as the students entered the room. 'What are we doing today, Mrs T?' 'Are we going to boil water in a syringe?' 'Do we get to use syringes?' 'Cool. Where are the needles? Did you have to take them all out or did they come like that?' 'What are we doing today?' 'Do we take one of these to our tables?' 'What are we going to do with the syringes?' 'Mrs Turek, I have to leave in 10 minutes for a saxophone lesson.' It felt as though they were swarming all over me. It felt like that extra I had with the Year 1 class last week. They were all over me just like that. They were really excited about the syringes. I knew they'd like this prac. 'Remember to put your name down on the list if you have a music lesson this period. Now, everyone, let's sit down so that we can get started.' With an excited crowd in front of me, I decided to get the syringes out sooner rather than later and so handed out one between two. Give them five minutes or so to have a play with them and then we'll get into the activity, I told myself. I went through the safety issues, explain- ing that the syringes were without needles, were new and that they should never touch or play with a syringe if they found one. What I forgot to mention was no water fights. That could come back to bite me, I thought, but I'll tackle that when Tim tries it. It will be Tim who tries it first, I just know it. The students started talking excitedly as I passed out the syringes to the first group. 'I found a syringe once when we went to St Kilda beach when my cousins were visiting.' 'Remember in Grade 5 when we were on the Clean Up Australia day? They found heaps of syringes then.' 'Can you get blood out of your arm if you just suck the skin so hard it breaks?' 'You can get AIDS if you touch a syringe.' 'My sister has one of those for her baby medicine.' 'Cool.' There was a popping sound. 'Can I keep the syringe?' There was another popping sound. 'How did you do that?' 'Ouch! That really hurts your finger. Try this!' 'Can I have one?' 'I'll do it first. You did the test tube prac first!' 'Can I have one?' The noise level in the room was increasing as I handed out the syringes. They weren't pushing and shoving, but they were pretty keen to get their hands on the syringe. Jessica entered the classroom with an ice pack on her wrist –but told me it was okay. Had I marked her as absent? That reminded me of the time, which prompted a mental note: start the activity at 12:50pm or else there won't be enough time to finish the prac. The natives were restless. Tom and Matt were fighting over a syringe. What was I thinking? I had a whole box, but my col- league Louise would probably want to do this prac too, I thought to myself. I knew I should have ordered two boxes. I'd need to go over budget, and capital expenditure looking into practice 37
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The French philosopher Rene Descartes lived from March 31, 1596 through February 11, 1650. Rene Descartes also worked in other fields besides philosophy, including science, mathematics, and writing. Much of later Western philosophy responds to the work of Rene Descartes, which people have studied ever since the days of Rene Descartes. In face, many people refer to Rene Descartes as the "Father of Modern Mathematics" and the "Father of Modern Philosophy." In addition to his influence on philosophy, Rene Descartes also influenced mathematics, so much that the Cartesian coordinate system took its name from him. (His name is Renatus Cartesius in Latin.) Descartes also played a key role in the Scientific Revolution.
Rene Descartes often contrasted his opinions and philosophical ideas with the ideas of previous philosophers and thinkers. In the beginning part of the Passions of the Soul, Descartes even says that he intends to write on the topic "as if no one had written on these matters before." Several parts of his philosophy have precedents in philosophies such as late Aristotelianism and in philosophers such as St. Augustine.
In his natural philosophy, Rene Descartes disagrees with the Schools on two significant points. For one, Descartes rejected the analysis of corporeal substance into form and matter. Secondly, Descartes rejected any appeal to both natural and divine ends in explaining natural phenomena. In his theology, Descartes maintained the absolute freedom of god's (alleged) choice to create the universe.
Rene Descartes significantly contributed to 17th century continental rationalism, which philosophers such as Leibniz and Spinoza later advocated, and empiricist philosophers such as Locke, Hobbes, Hume, and Berkeley opposed. Together, Descartes, Leibniz, and Spinoza also greatly contributed to science. Descartes invented Cartesian coordinate system and also he founded analytic geometry, which geometry and algebra, a crucial part of the invention of analysis and calculus.
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Advancing Basic Science for Humanity
A Conversation with Charles M. Vest: Moderator, 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum
(Originally published August, 2010)
THE 2010 KAVLI PRIZE SCIENCE FORUM will bring together some of the most influential science policy figures in the world to discuss "The Role of International Cooperation in Science." (Read more about the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum.) Moderating the event will be Charles M. Vest, former president of MIT and now president of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
Charles M. Vest
Charles M. Vest is President of the National Academy of Engineering and President Emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As president of MIT, he was active in science, technology, and innovation policy; building partnerships among academia, government and industry; and championing open, global scientific communication, travel, and the sharing of intellectual resources. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology by US President George W. Bush. Continue
In an interview ahead of the inaugural forum, Vest discusses the goals of this year's Forum and why international cooperation gets to the heart of some of the most basic issues facing the world's growing network of scientists. "In isolation, even great scientists don't produce really great science." He also provides insight into his own views on the struggle to balance international cooperation and competition in science, the most promising areas for cooperation, and the challenges and roadblocks ahead. "It is in everyone's best interest if science proceeds cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively by engaging more people around the world."
A Conversation with Charles M. Vest - August 2, 2010
THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: Let's start with the topic of international cooperation in science, and why it is to be the centerpiece of the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum?
CHARLES M. VEST: Historically, science has always been an international undertaking, and cooperation was generally easy to come by in a somewhat simpler world when science was focused entirely on fundamental questions that did not necessarily have near-term consequences and economic importance. Today, I think there are two reasons, in particular, why we should explore international cooperation in science. First is that many undertakings are simply too large and expensive, especially in terms of experimental infrastructure, for any one country or any one institution to take on. Second and more fundamentally important is that science today must help our world face some of the really large challenges – challenges associated with skyrocketing population, climate change, energy, sustainability, food, health care, and security. By definition, these challenges require different perspectives and actions from different parts of the world; and they are things that we truly need to solve jointly.
TKF: Climate change sounds like it will be part of the program, if only because it is the subject of John Holdren's address. What other topics --population, global hunger, disease, sustainability and so forth – will you also raise?
CV: I believe that the two keynote speakers will bring up the two key dimensions. First, Dr. Holdren will be addressing climate change, which is in some ways the ultimate global challenge, and, secondly, Dr. Ernst-Ludwig Winnaker will be talking about issues around funding and organization of science. So I think we'll set up the discussion well. But through the questions I pose, I will encourage the panel to address some of these other challenges as well as climate change.
TKF: Where do you think you will find consensus at the Forum, and where do you think you will see the most difference of opinion that might be irreconcilable?
CV: This is only guesswork, obviously, but I think there will be consensus in principle that the community has to work together to face these big challenges and to do large-scale science. Where it may break down is around issues of funding, possibly around issues of intellectual property, and possibly around the question of whether the desires of scientists to undertake global approaches will be pursued by their own governments and businesses that have to assist in this cooperation.
TKF: On the question of funding in particular, what kind of disagreements are out there now and might come up at the Forum?
CV: Every country today seems to be consciously setting some degree of priorities for science funding. But I don't know whether these priorities will be congruent with each other around the world. In the clearly "hot" areas today -- the edges of biology research, new fields like synthetic biology and so forth -- there will probably be a lot of agreement. But whether they will agree in sufficient detail to promote joint programs, I don't know.
TKF: It sounds like this is about priorities – funding priorities – and that the science community may have a different sense of the priorities from those of governments and the private funding sources.
CV: That's correct. It's always a possibility, because one of the fundamental challenges of science policy in any society is that the governments want an understanding of what the ultimate application of the work is and how it will benefit the society they are charged with supporting. However, particularly in fundamental areas of inquiry, science is really driven by the passion, curiosity and intellectual commitment of individuals. Frankly, particularly in the upcoming generation, policy and passion don't always coincide with each other.
TKF: And this is a very relevant topic to the Kavli Prize Science Forum because The Kavli Foundation's focus is on basic science, on pioneering science essentially. The Foundation sees part of its mission as that of filling the gap often left by government or other private funding.
CV: Absolutely. That is the beauty of the mission of the Foundation as Fred [Kavli] has conceived it from Day One. It is to find some of the very best people and very best groups in the world and support them to do what they, not somebody else, think is important. But the second part of the foundation's work is evident in this Forum. Through a variety of mechanisms, the Foundation seeks to enhance communication among scientists around the world. The more we stay in open communication, the more that basic mission will be supported. The beauty of what Fred is accomplishing is letting people follow their dreams and their informed scientific intuitions on what they think is important.
TKF: Are you satisfied by the satisfied by the state of international cooperation today, or do you see areas for improvement?
CV: A couple of things are happening simultaneously. The first is very good news for humankind: the investment in research and the quality of higher education in science and engineering around the world are increasing and becoming much more uniformly distributed. There are going to be many more players, many more people well supported across North America, across Asia, and across Europe. That's the good news. And we are all increasingly integrated through the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. But we also see a different driving force, national pride. Each country, each region, each university wants to be the best. This sets up a competition that sometimes rejects cooperation. I think this tension between competition and cooperation in a world in which the investment in science is increasingly more uniform than it was just 20 or 30 years ago is really a key theme of our time and one of the things I hope will be explored in this Forum.
TKF: In what research areas do you think cooperation today falls short?
CV: It's difficult to point to a specific research area, but for example one certainly can see that China is very rapidly developing its own space program, including putting human beings in space at a time that activity is getting less emphasis in the U.S. I don't see a lot of cooperation in areas like that.
Here's another example of how cooperation may be falling short, especially compared to the past. Back in the 90s, when the World Wide Web was first developing as a concept, MIT decided to make an offer to attract Tim Berners-Lee, who as you know literally invented the Web -- one person, one idea – to come from Europe to the U.S. and to be housed at MIT to work on the formation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). W3C would maintain Web standards and protocols, and attract the necessary funding from around the world. We went over and we talked to the European Commission in Brussels, and they were very enthused about this. They not only encouraged Tim to move to MIT with their blessing, they sent a substantial amount of funding along to help start the project. And here in the U.S. we had help from the Department of Defense and from the White House. The whole thing was done on a global basis -- no profit-making motive, no intellectual properties coming out -- just doing something good on a globally cooperative basis. I'm suspicious that if we were starting to do something like that in 2010, it would be infinitely more difficult.
TKF: Why is that?
CV: I'm not sure Europe would say, "Great, we'll send him to the to the U.S., and by the way here's some start-up funding." I'm not sure we would now be able to establish the Web as kind a public good, with no profit-making motives. I just think that the tone would be more bureaucratic less cooperative. I hope I'm not overly pessimistic. But that example is in the back of my mind.
TKF: Why would the tone have changed?
CV: I think today there would be big debates in both Europe and the U.S. as to whether this belonged in the private sector or to the government. I think today most people capable of working on such a project would want to get at least some of it into the profit-making domain, and I just don't know whether people would have cooperated as easily. It's nothing I can prove, just an intuition.
TKF: If there has been a real shift in attitude toward less cooperation, as you suggest, will it get in the way of research on the global challenges you mentioned earlier?
CV: I think that's very likely and it is something about which we can elicit views from this panel. But, I also think there are counter forces to this – for example, we learned through the experience with SARS and H1N1 flu, that open global scientific communication is absolutely essential. I think we learned lessons about such health-related science that will lead to increased global cooperation. But in the case of scientific and engineering research on important technologies and markets, I'm not quite so sure.
TKF: But wouldn't the logic of global environmental issues such as climate change lead people towards greater cooperation?
CV: The logic leads to that. Whether that will be the reality, I don't know. But that's one reason I'm glad that climate change is the topic that Dr. Holdren has chosen for his address. It will be interesting to hear what other people say about in response. And of course we do have examples like the work of the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change). But the way this issue is viewed politically in different counties, as you know, is quite varied. We've seen foot-dragging to this point in the United States, and places like China have been really clear up front about how they think developing nations' responsibilities differ from those of highly developed nations. Sustainability concepts have been taken seriously in Europe for a long time and they are much more deeply ingrained than in other nations. I think this is a great area [for examination at the Forum] – where the three big areas of Asia, Europe and the U.S. and North America have tended to look at it very differently. I hope we can get a little discussion of that going.
TKF: What about the benefits of cooperation that go beyond simply meeting costs or pooling resources just to get things done? How might cooperation change the nature of the science or the attitudes of scientists in a positive way?
CV: The key here is truly open and enthusiastic scientific communication. The more people with differing perspectives who work and interact on a problem, the higher the likelihood that innovative new approaches will emerge. The openness of communication, particularly making use of the Web and Internet in real time, is one of the big pluses of what's going on in science and technology today.
TKF: What do you see in the way of benefits beyond science? To give one example, scientists themselves have been described as a sort of avenue of communication between cultures, between nations; they sometimes can have contacts maybe even diplomats can't have.
CV: Historically the open culture of science has been enormously important – for instance in the people-to-people dialogue and background channels during the Cold War. Such dialog and interchange will continue to be very, very important. I think this is one of the glories of science culture. But let me give you a slightly bigger picture. Governments support science in general because they believe that, in due course, it's going to improve quality of life and benefit their societies when knowledge becomes applied and technology leads to commercial products and services or military devices. That's the primary reason most governments support science. It may not be the primary reason young people go into science, but, at the end of the day, governments are looking for results and advantages. But I think it is in everyone's best interest if science proceeds cooperatively, efficiently, and effectively by engaging more people around the world. It's in the United States' best interest, it's in Norway's best interest, and it's in Singapore's best interest for the sea of scientific knowledge and cooperation to rise. All ships then rise together. I think at the end of the day that's a very basic message.
TKF: How would you describe the right balance between cooperation and competition?
CV: I would like to see cooperation be by far the larger component. I also would like it to be enabled and enhanced by continuing – or let me say, by sustaining and enhancing – global scientific communication in the first order, and secondly by actual people-to-people collaboration and cooperation. At the same time, I note that China, for example, is driving very hard because they believe they should have several of the world's great universities; I think this kind of competitive spirit is good and productive in the end. We need both competition and cooperation. But if you could have only one, it should be cooperation. I do think competition and the spirit of national pride and so forth can be exerted in a positive way. But if it degenerates into, "We don't want you to know our secrets, we're going to do things ourselves, we're going to be the best in the world," that is bad. This was proven by the experience of the Soviet Union that in isolation even great scientists don't produce really great science.
TKF: To sum up that point, you're saying that competition in the context of openness is a good thing. Everyone trying to burnish their reputations by producing the best science, but it is science that is shared.
CV: Yes. That summarizes it very nicely.


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Dealing with Joe Lieberman will be "tricky," said Michael Tomasky in Britain's The Guardian. The former Democrat, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, "crossed a line you don't cross in politics," without repurcussions, when he endorsed Republican John McCain. Senate Majority leader Harry Reid is considering stripping Lieberman of his Homeland Security Committee chairmanship—"can you blame him?"
In a word, yes, said the New York Post in an editorial. Expelling Lieberman—who still votes with Democrats on everything except the war on terror—"would be an act of mean-spiritedness that runs sharply counter to the kind of bipartisanship upon which Obama campaigned." And it was Lieberman's vote that gave Democrats their razor-thin majority for the last two years, so dumping him now "would be a tad ungracious."
No, said Jane Hamsher in The Daily Beast, it was ungracious for Lieberman to deliver a "sanctimonious rebuke" of Bill Clinton on the Senate floor. It was ungracious for him to promise not to attack the Democratic ticket, then "deride Obama" at the Republican convention as unqualified to be president. It's common sense to strip a guy like that of the subpoena power that comes with chairmanship, so he can't use it to be "a thorn in Obama's side for the next four years."


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Soap & Glory Makeup HaulSunday, January 22, 2017
Over the last couple of weeks, I decluttered my makeup collection a lot; throwing away all of the empties and the things that had gone bad and giving certain items I was ever using to friends and family. Then, I wrote a list of all the things I really need and thus had to repurchase and made a conscious effort to find cruelty free products. Here are all of the things I bought from Soap and Glory:
Starting with lips, I got two of their Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Sticks; one in the shade Pink Punch, which is this lovely bright berry colour, and the other one in the shade Pink-A-Boo, which is a lot lighter and more sheer. I was quite surprised by their scent, for usually I hate strongly scented lip products. As for those two, however, I really enjoy it. I haven't tried them out properly yet, so I will have to let you know.
After ages of using the same brow pencil, I thought it was time to try a new one. I picked up the Archery Pen in the shade Dark Chocolate. I love how thin the applicator is, as it makes drawing on realistic looking hairs fairly easy. Also, every brow pen that has a spooly coming with it, has already won in my eyes.
I am about to run out of the powder I am using at the moment, so I got the One Heck Of A Blot Translucent one as a back up. I heard so many great things about this, which makes me really excited to finally try it out.
The last thing I got is one of their Multi Colour Blush Bricks in the shade Peach Party. I always used to swirl together a bit of Benefit's Dandelion, Rockateur and Coralista for the perfect blush mixture. This one product from Soap and Glory, however, does it all (plus it's cruelty free) . Its peachy pink shimmer looks so flattering. I feel like it would suit many different skin colours and types.


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Absolutely. Unfortunately due to lack of tools and all the robot engineers around here, alot of the right parts are not available locally. Plus I move around too much right now with the way the tech market is so I'd rather have something that I can also have fun with portably. Not to knock those who got the G-5400 or better. Nothing wrong with that equipment. But I like the homebrew aspect of the hobby as much as I like the COTS availability of parts/gear. Too bad I came around about 20 years too late for Heathkit otherwise I'd be buying stock in them! hihi... But it's important even to the newer/younger potential hams that things like satellite communication can be done with style on a budget and even a little edgy to give them hope that one day they can own a 30 element EME array or have a 30 meter dish in their backyard on a appropriate az/el mount. Start small, think big. I got the right gear that has been missing the right antenna setup. But that's changing sooner than later... See you on the birds! de Don (KL7EET) Tony VK5ZAI wrote: > Hi Guys, > Seems a lot of talk about rotators lately, have you thought about > building up your own, I did this around 15 years ago and the system has > never been switched off apart from twice when moving QTH and the > occasional service, greasing etc. My present QTH is 300 yds from the > Southern Ocean and we get some almighty winds in the winter but it keeps > on going. It's driven by 2 windshield wiper motors and constructed of > parts that can generally be scrounged from vehicle and machinery junk > yards etc. You will require a small welder to put it together and access > to a lathe but really there's no great precision required in it's > construction. I've described it's construction on my web site listed > below. hopefully it will be of interest to some of you. > > -- Don Fanning http://00100100.net Email Fortune: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. _______________________________________________ Sent via email@example.com. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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Today, for a change, I'm posting an interview that I held with Joanna Hall, to celebrate the release of her new book, Art of Forgetting: Nomad, the sequel to the Art of Forgetting: Rider, (currently free on amazon kindle!!!)
1. Okay,well, tell us a little about yourself.
I'm thirtysomething and I live in Bristol with my boyfriend and our lazy-crazy greyhound. I like movies, music, reading, writing and CAKE. I've written a bunch of novels and a collection of short stories and, with my friend Roz Clarke, I've co-edited two Fantasy and SF anthologies, Colinthology, and Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion. In my spare time I'm the chair of BristolCon, and in my spare-spare time I like to sleep, occasionally…
2. Now tell us about your latest book.
My latest book, The Art of Forgetting: Nomad is the second volume in a duology published by Kristell Ink (The first part, Rider, was released in June 2013). It follows the story of Rhodri, a foundling boy with a unique, perfect memory who joins a cavalry unit to look for his missing father, only to discover his father isn't the man he always believed he was. By the time the second book starts, Rhodri has betrayed his comrades to protect a stranger, and is on the run across the vast steppes of Atrath. He's just beginning to build a new life for himself when he's forced into a war against his friends and his country, all to protect his new family.
3. You've set all of your novels in the same world. What are the good and bad points about using the same universe for your writing? Do you think you will create somewhere else, eventually?
One of the good things is that you can get really into the world building – you spend a lot of time in that world and you get to know it really well, so going back to it and writing another novel is like slipping on a comfy pair of slippers. Alongside the stories of the characters is the ongoing history of the world, and that has an impact on books further down the line. It means I can play as well, bring back old characters and places for cameo appearances or cross-reference little things from other books. It's fun!
The other thing is, it's a big world, and as I've gone on I've been able to explore more of it. Nomad is the first book set almost entirely in Atrath, which is very different both geographically and culturally to the lands of the west. Spark and Carousel is city-based, and I could get right into the nitty-gritty of writing a story set in a medieval city. In the book I've just finished, "The Summer Goddess", I got to explore the islands around the eastern sea.
I don't think I've run out of stories in this world yet, but I would like to do something fresh, and I've got a couple of ideas for books set in entirely different worlds, and even on other planets. So yes, I'm definitely going to create somewhere else. I'd like to do what Anne McCaffrey did, and have a main series set in one world that I can keep coming back to, and other stories set in other worlds.
4. You're rather mean to your characters, what is the appeal? Why do you think writers are often so cruel to their characters, sometimes needlessly? Do you ever feel bad about it?
I'm not George RR Martin I feel bad for the people who ring me up and say "I can't believe you did THAT to THEM!" But at the same time a) devising horrible inventive torture for characters is fun, and b) if nothing horrible happened to anyone it would be a pretty boring book. I have sometimes been told by my beta readers to rein it in a bit when I've done something particularly nasty…
5. What is your favourite part of writing, and your least favourite? What's your favourite thing about being a writer?
My favourite part of writing is just sitting there making stuff up and writing it down, and turning my blobby mass of thoughts into a proper story. First and second drafts, especially, when the book really starts to take shape. I really enjoy that. By the fifth / sixth / seventeenth edit, when all I'm doing is taking commas out and putting them back in and I'm sick to death of reading the same book, that's when it's not so enjoyable…
I have lots of favourite things about being a writer – the moment when you get to hold the finished book for the first time, meeting people who have read it and enjoyed it, signing books, chatting to readers, it's all good…
6. There's been a lot of articles recently about the position of women as writers and readers of spec fic. You're a female writer, with a female publisher, do you feel like women are unfairly treated in the fantasy and sci-fi genre, as writers, and as readers? Why do you think this is? Do you think it will ever change? Do you think it's connected with the abuse that you've received for writing gay characters and for the general lack of racial and disabled characters in fantasy and sci fi?
That's a lot of questions, and it's a complicated thing to unravel without writing an essay… I think the lack or representation of women in SF and F is really deep-rooted – it goes right back to the way we bring up girls (and boys). I can only talk about SF and F publishers, and my figures are so-so, but in general women are less inclined to put themselves forward, so they submit less stuff to publishers, so less stuff by women gets published and even less breaks through to the mainstream, which re-enforces the perception that SFF is a "boys club".
Then it comes down to marketing, where women are more likely to be marketed as Urban Fantasy or Paranormal Romance and tucked away in the black cover-bare chest section of the bookstore. Or YA – I'm a big fan of YA but I have found in chatting to people that they assume because I'm a woman under forty what I write is either Paranormal Romance or YA, because girls don't write that icky fighting bloody stuff… So there's a problem of perception there, which is reinforced by skewed marketing, and what you end up with is under-representation by book sellers and female authors being ghettoised on the shelves, which leads to lower sales because people can't find the books they want to read by women in, for example, Waterstones, which then leads to Waterstones not ordering books by women because "books by women don't sell." It's a vicious circle. And I know Amazon is a Multinational Conglomerate of Pure Evil, but at least on Amazon the playing field is slightly more level. You don't have to fight to get women on the promotional tables at Amazon, because all their tables are virtual and as big as the sky…
I think everyone – publishers and marketing depts, and bricks-and-mortar booksellers, as well as authors and fans, needs to do more to raise awareness of women writers. By buying and reading and reviewing their books and making a big fuss to both the booksellers and the publishers, we can change this for the better, a little. But it's a big fight and it needs to start in the classroom, by encouraging girls to be proud of their abilities and to put themselves forward fearlessly. By the time we get to the book stores it's too late.
I don't think it's necessarily connected with the abuse I got for writing gay characters (I wouldn't call it "abuse", it was more like monkeys throwing poo from the peanut gallery. I certainly didn't feel abused by it) – I think they're two slightly different issues. There is an under-representation of ethnic minority, disabled characters, and characters of alternate sexuality in SFF. Again, some of that may come down to marketing – the whitewashing of book covers and film adaptations, for example, is very frustrating, especially if you're the author and your protests against it are unheard. But I think we're all so much more aware of it now – organisations like the Bi Writers Association, Lambda and Disability in Kidlit are all working to raise awareness. So things are getting better on that score. But as I said to someone in an interview when I'd been asked about my "bravery" in writing bisexual characters for the fourteenth time – It's 2014 – why is it even still an issue that people are getting steamed up over, that some characters are gay / disabled / non-white? If we're writing about other worlds, or other planets, the idea that everyone in the world is white and heterosexual with two arms and two legs is just nonsense…
7. What would you say was your biggest influence in your writing life? Who do you most admire?
I would say my mum and my uncle were the biggest influences in my writing fantasy and SF, because they were both big SFF fans and they let me raid their bookshelves from an impressionable age, and it was there I discovered Asimov and Clarke and Eddings and Julian May and all kinds of other fun things to read. We would go to the library every month and I read my way through the SFF section and discovered Terry Pratchett and David Gemmell and Anne McCaffrey. It's hard to maintain awed admiration for authors when you've been to conventions and seeing them drunk But I do admire my friend Stephanie Burgis, who has put up with CFS and raised two lovely boys and written a brilliant series of novels at the same time. And Emma Newman, who I hope won't mind me saying suffers from crippling anxiety but still manages to come out and do readings and appearances looking so dazzling that you'd never know, while I would be hiding under the duvet gibbering. Both brave ladies, and wonderful writers
8. You run Bristol Con. You created it too. Tell us a little about it? And give us a little behind the stage gossip, what's the hardest, easiest, and bestest bits about running a convention?
BristolCon is the most fun you can have in a room with 300 of your mates We started five (six?) years ago with about fifty people, and Alastair Reynolds and Paul Cornell were guests of honour, and now it's grown to become one of the biggest non-commercial conventions in the country outside of Eastercon and FantasyCon. It's a great day, we have dealers, a large art show, panel talks, a notoriously difficult quiz, and this year we have a room set aside for gaming in the evening. Everyone is very friendly and even though it's hard work and quite stressful and exhausting, especially in the last few weeks, the feedback is lovely and everyone seems to have a great time. (It's www.bristolcon.org, if you want to have a look – we also run a monthly Fringe event of readings by SF and F authors in the pub, where they do a very fine Hunter's Chicken…)
9. What's next for you?
The Art of Forgetting: Nomad comes out on May 24th and there will be a launch at Forbidden Planet in Bristol – yay! After that I'm going to have a bit of a breather – I've just finished The Summer Goddess so I'm giving my brain a little bit of a recharge before I start something new. And Roz and I are already planning our next anthology, Into The West, but that's still in the very early stages. I do have a few half-formed half-baked ideas, will have to see which one sticks!
10. Where can we find you on the internet?
BLOG – www.hierath.co.uk
AMAZON AUTHOR PAGEs - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Joanne-Hall/e/B00EZWH5NE
TWITTER – @hierath77
FACEBOOK - www.facebook.com/Hierath77
KRISTELL INK - http://kristell-ink.com/


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