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If you cast your mind back to 2016 you may (or may not) recall Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis: a substantial volume, comprising thirty-two chapters in 754 pages of text, together with twenty-six pages of preliminaries, seventy-seven pages of bibliography, and forty-one pages of indices. Prudent readers should be cautious when handling a blockbuster volume on this scale; the risk of dropping one and a half kilos of scholarly text on one's foot is not to be treated with careless abandon. There is, then, something to be said in favour of less demanding but more accessible starting points for the exploration of the Nonnian landscape. For most readers, Robert Shorrock's The Challenge of Epic. Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca (2001) and The Myth of Paganism. Nonnus, Dionysus and the World of Late Antiquity (2011) would provide a more readily accessible resource. Admittedly, accessible guidance is not easy to find when it has been swamped by a tsunami of impressive editorial scholarship: for example, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Nonnus of Panopolis in Context; Camille Geisz, A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca. Storytelling in Late Antique Epic; Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll's Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II. Poetry, Religion, and Society; and Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska's Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III. Old Questions and New Perspectives. As for Nonnus’ Paraphrase of John's Gospel, I confess that I have barely had time to glance at it in its entirety. Perhaps I should have been paying more selective attention to Nonnus, and less to everything else.

Our Thoughts and Prayers

Our Thoughts and Prayers Cacayo (bio) To the 20+ children a day who are victims of gun violence in the United States of América. Now I lay me A Boy asks his older sister to buy him a gun. She says no. The Boy buys rifle slings, a military carrier vest, and optics . . . down to sleep The Boy posts about buying a gun and being a school shooter . . . I pray the Lord The Boy buys online 60 capacity magazines and posts a 10-day countdown . . . my soul to keep, The Boy becomes a Man: he buys two high-capacity rifles and over 2000 rounds of ammo . . . watch and guard me The Man texts that he will kill his grandmother and shoot up the Elementary School . . . through the night, The Gunman posts: I just shot my grandma in her head. Ima go shoot up a elementary school rn. [End Page 160] and wake me with The Gunman arrives at the School, shoots at two bystanders . . . Teachers call 911. the morning light. Police see the Gunman enter the School . . . (It's 11:33 a.m.) Almighty God, The Gunman fires over 200 rounds. radiant with light, Police enter the school as the Gunman continues to shoot . . . cast your goodness Gunman fires 16 more rounds in a classroom. to shine upon me. Police announce that Gunman is contained . . . .Gunman fires 11 more rounds. Most wonderful Lord, More Police enter the School . . . creator of all things, Police post that students and staff are safe in the School . . . hold your truth Gunman fires another round. More Police arrive . . . to shield me. Parents beg to enter the School. [End Page 161] Angel de mi guarda Police discuss what to do . . . oh mi dulce compañía A Student calls from a classroom. Twice. She whispers: multiple students are dead. no me desampares Police look for a master key . . . ni de noche ni de día Students call 911 again. They whisper: Children and a teacher are dead. hasta que me entregues More Police arrive . . . en los brazos Students call 911 again. They whisper: 8 or 9 students are alive. de Jesús Police Chief tries master key on another door . . . y de María Onlookers beg for action. Parents try to break the windows. Con tus alas me persigno Another Student inside calls 911. A Classmate whispers to him: hang up. The Gunman fires 4 rounds. y me abrazo de la Cruz Medics set up triage . . . Police search for a master key . . . [End Page 162] y en mi corazón me llevo A Student from a classroom calls again. She is told to wait . . . quietly . . . (It is 12:36 p.m.) al dulcísimo Jesús. [End Page 163] Cacayo St. Mary's College of Maryland Cacayo CACAYO (JOSÉ R. BALLESTEROS) is a Professor of International Languages and Cultures at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Beyond multiple publications in anthologies and journals, he authored the poetry collection Love Dust (Izote Press, 2014); and co-authored the Spanish letters textbook Voces de España (Cengage, 2014). Cacayo is the editor of Bolivian and Ecuadorian poetry for the Library of Congress' Handbook of Latin American Studies and is the founder and editor of the bilingual literary Press Zozobra Publishing. Copyright © 2022 South Central Review

The AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2021 is Coming!

The AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo 2021 is Coming!

The Vagaries of the In-Between: Labor Citizenship in the Persian Gulf

There is no precise English equivalent to this Hindustani proverb. A rolling stone gathers no moss, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between a rock and a hard place, torn between two masters—none of these really fit. The dhobi ka kuta is the dog who figuratively and literally runs every day between two places, two obligations, and two choices. Does he stay behind to guard the master's house or does he guard his master as he washes clothes by the river? There will be a trade-off either way. The phrase does not conjure up vagabond restlessness or nomadic liberation. It evokes the anxiety of rootlessness, and the lack of certainty about choice and loyalty. It is about the doubt cast your way for not picking one thing over the other. It is about being stuck in the vagaries of the in-between.

Cast Your Vote for SSIT Members-at-Large [President's Message

Cast Your Vote for SSIT Members-at-Large [President's Message

Meet the candidates for ALA president: Cast your vote in the election this spring

Meet the candidates for ALA president: Cast your vote in the election this spring

Cast Your Vote in Society Elections

CSA NewsVolume 63, Issue 2 p. 21-21 Membership Cast Your Vote in Society Elections First published: 15 February 2018 https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2018.63.0217Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume63, Issue2February 2018Pages 21-21 RelatedInformation

Ultrasound

Ultrasound George David Clark (bio) Henry Thomas Clark, 10/7/14 I. Your Picture We've framed an ultrasound of you and Peter holding hands (or almost) in the womb, your moon-bright arms crossed in a black balloon with week, and weights, and heights in millimeters penciled on the side. We say it's good that he, at least, was with you when you died, that unlike us you'll never know the why of being lonely or what naked falsehood feels like in one's mind. You see, it's false [End Page 350] to say your death was somehow grace. It's grace that spared Cain's life and later gave Eve other sons, despite creation's wastes and faults. I wish you could have known love's aftertastes. I wish you'd had a chance to hate your brother. II. Your Mirror I wish you'd had a chance to hate your brother's charming smile, how it would softly chafe your teeth; his eyes, the way they'd misbehave above your cheeks; his tongue might bait your stutter. Nights, in the mirror you'd have seen your lovers kiss his lips, and mornings as you'd shave you'd nick yourself and wonder who forgave you when the face you shared caused him to suffer. [End Page 351] No. No childhood scars will make it clearer which you are. We'll have a future tense for Peter, while you're left at one night less than one night old, my son without a likeness, whom I can't hold or half-behold, condensed to shadows in the nursery's lightless mirror. III. Your Shadows The shadows in the nursery's lifeless mirror owe their nights to no one; you were gone before the lights could pin those umbras on. If now they gather here in tangles sheerer than a nest of nylon hose, yet nearer flesh than atmosphere, they must be drawn as I am by the dimmed lamp's denouement— [End Page 352] this stupid wish your guise might still cohere or that some phantom wisp could throw its shade and let the smallest sliver of you loom against the wall. Instead, daybreak exhumes this catch of shadows till they've all been weighed and matched to furniture. My shape has stayed to cast your name into the empty room. IV: Your Room I cast your name into the empty room and make the place more empty still: the chair's clean seat adopts a misanthropic air that mocks the bureau's sympathetic bloom. I watch the wooden crib as it's consumed by morning, bar by bar, till crying downstairs [End Page 353] lets me know how far this solitary staring has erased me in the gloom. Your healthy twin is hungry, tired, parched, and wet, or simply needing to be held, and yet I still don't move. I feel compelled to tell the room it's missing you, to mark the vacuum with a few more decibels of Henry, Henry, Henry Thomas Clark. V: Your Names My Henry, Henry, Henry Thomas Clark: your name's an ingot— if I even think it after midnight in the bedroom's dark the kiln my mind is fires to sing it out of shape, to turn its sounds to trinkets [End Page 354] or just melt it down to question marks so I can ladle up that pink and drink it till my ears drown and the dreaming starts. Your sister's "Gemma- Lemon" in her fruit pajamas, Georgie-Boy's my little buddy, and Pete these days is simply "the recruit." Beneath my desk you'd be "my understudy," "Huffy Hank" in tears, or "Huckleputty" sweetly teething on your mom's Bluetooth. VI: Your Urn Tonight Pete's teething on your mom's Bluetooth. He found the scissors to derange his hair. We've left the gate down and he's on the stairs, or else he's scrambled up the dollhouse roof. [End Page 355] The crumpled books and cracker crumbs are proof he's loose … disordered blocks, a toppled chair. … Some days he's absolutely everywhere until I wish him gone...

Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand

Like Priceless Treasures Sinking in The Sand Bernice Mbadugha (bio) After "America" by Claude McKay Like priceless treasures sinking in the sandTender infant in arms. Wide-eyed in schoolBunsen burner, basketball, doo wop bandMale to man. You cast your stakes in earth's poolToe dips, hard hurls, at times a perfect diveYou unlocked granite walls with calm and graceGales raged like giants—love-spurred: you surviveSun eclipsed rain. Rays of joy cleansed your faceTilting like corn or birth, you sculpted plansIn the vale of your mind. Hoisted black arms—Your grit mustered respect from peers and fansYou worked your craft like forebears worked their farmsYet, yet, yet, someone cut you down so cold—We, who live, shall not bolt, sit still, nor fold. [End Page 92] Bernice Mbadugha BERNICE MBADUGHA's poems appeared or are forthcoming in Drumvoices Revue, The Bread Loaf Journal, and several anthologies, most recently It'll Come Like the Rain Fallin'-A Tribute to Sonia Sanchez. Mbadugha earned an MA in English from Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. Previously, she received a BA in Comparative Culture from University of California, Irvine. She attended Rutgers-New Brunswick Writers' Conferences, Writing in Place in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Mbadugha taught high school English at a Psychiatric and Behavioral Health hospital in New Jersey, where she lives with her Ridgeback Billie. Copyright © 2021 Johns Hopkins University Press

Classic Project: Nokia 6110 Mobile Phone

If you ever wanted proof of how fast technology evolves, cast your mind back to the most popular mobile phone of 20 years ago. Back in December 1997, when Nokia launched its classic 6110 - the 6110 Navigator was a decade later - mobile phones were neither the portable computers that they are today, nor were they ubiquitous. Yet they were approaching the norm, finding their way into the hands of the business community at which the 6110 handset was originally targeted. With its five hours talk-time, one-touch voicemail button and preloaded 'Snake' game, it was perfectly pitched at the turn-of-the-millennium market.

Cast Your Vote in Society Elections

CSA NewsVolume 62, Issue 2 p. 22-22 Membership Cast Your Vote in Society Elections First published: 13 February 2017 https://doi.org/10.2134/csa2017.62.0218Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume62, Issue2February 2017Pages 22-22 RelatedInformation

Celebrating 50 years of the British Journal of Hospital Medicine

Celebrating 50 years of the <i>British Journal of Hospital Medicine</i>

IEEE Signal Processing: Cast Your Vote

IEEE Signal Processing: Cast Your Vote

Key trends in information security

If you cast your mind back 10 or 20 years, the word ‘hack' did not carry half the threat and malice it does today. For many, it conjures up images of Y2K and computer failures en masse; but for the wider population, it would have meant very little. Today, it's the phrase that strikes terror into the hearts of even the least tech-savvy individuals. With entire business infrastructures, personal details and financial data now living online, it's not just the NASAs of the world who are at risk.

‘Cast your net widely’: three steps to expanding and refining your problem before action learning application

This paper reflects upon a three-step process to expand the problem definition in the early stages of an action learning project. The process created a community-powered problem-solving approach within the action learning context. The simple three steps expanded upon in the paper create independence, dependence, and inter-dependence to aid the interaction of an action learning team as they uncovered the problem. The author recounts how his action learning project created steps of independence that captured divergent thoughts from throughout the organization; dependence that merged thoughts across the diverse group; and inter-dependence that built system thinking focused on horizontal impact across the organization. Readers can replicate the steps in future action learning projects to define the root cause problems before chasing the symptoms toward solutions. Project leaders who do not caste their nets widely during the problem definition stage may find their team solving the easy-to-catch symptoms.

Optimistic future for sea urchins

When you cast your seed into the open, you'd better be sure that the conditions will be ideal to ensure the success of the next generation. And that approach seems to have served sea urchins perfectly well: that was until now. As global sea temperatures rise and the oceans begin to acidify, the tiny gametes that sea urchins entrust to the waves are under increasing risk. Monique Binet from CSISO, Australia, and an international team of collaborators say, ‘Under near-future scenarios of ocean acidification, the swimming behaviour of marine invertebrate sperm is altered’. Sperm use a pH gradient (from low to high pH) to activate the energy-supplying mitochondria that power the gametes when released into the ocean, so the team decided to test how future climate scenarios might affect the membrane potential of mitochondria that produce ATP, and how individual swimming performance is affected by acidification.After collecting Centrostephanus rodgersii sea urchins from the rocky shoreline of Sydney's North Harbour and transporting them back to the lab at Macquarie, the team encouraged the sea urchins to release sperm ready to test the effects of environmental acidification. Next, they exposed the fresh sperm to seawater from one of three scenarios –current ocean pH, –0.3 pH units below current ocean pH (the projected coastal water conditions in 2100) and –0.5 pH units below current ocean pH (the projected coastal water conditions in 2300) – before adding JC-1 stain to the sperm, which fluoresces green when the mitochondrial membrane potential is low, but produces orange/green fluorescence when the membrane potential is high. Then, after allowing 15 min for the stain to penetrate the sperm, the team set the gametes a swimming test – they filmed the sperm in a drop of seawater under a microscope – to find out how well they performed and recorded the ratio of green to orange/green fluorescence in order to measure the membrane potential of the sperm mitochondria in all three environmental scenarios.Not surprisingly, the sperm mitochondria became increasingly unhappy as the pH dropped, with the membrane potential falling up to 42% at –0.3 pH units, and plunging by as much as 55% in the 2300 pH scenario. However, the –0.3 pH unit reduction did not appear to impact the sperm swimming speed adversely – sperm swam even faster than under present day conditions – but the performance of the –0.5 pH unit sperm suffered as their swim speed plummeted. Although the sperm were not equally affected by the adverse conditions; there were large variations in swimming speed in both of the future climate conditions.So, even though the sperms’ mitochondria were impaired, and Binet and her colleagues point out that the sperm are currently near their pH tolerance tipping point, the team is optimistic about the future of C. rodgersii sea urchins. Explaining that lower mitochondrial activity will allow the sperm to eke out their meagre energy reserves for longer and extend their longevity, the team says, ‘Increased sperm longevity increases fertilisation success when sperm–egg encounter rates remain high over prolonged periods’. And they also suggest that the broad range of sperm responses may provide the sea urchins with an opportunity to side-step their apparently bleak future. The team says, ‘Substantial inter-individual variation in responses of sperm swimming to ocean acidification may increase the scope for selection of resilient phenotypes, which, if heritable, could provide a basis for adaptation to future ocean acidification’.

Cast Your Vote in Society Elections

Cast Your Vote in Society Elections

The Race Is On: Cast Your Vote for the Top Ten Greatest Works of Materials Fiction

The Race Is On: Cast Your Vote for the Top Ten Greatest Works of Materials Fiction

Some Darker Sides of Digitization; or, Disappearing Data, Doubtful Descriptions, and Other Deformations of Print

In Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and Forms of Print (2009), Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland, quoting Anne R. Kenney, write of the 'fast fires' of digital obsolescence (163). It is not only disappearing data that constitute a dark side of digitization, however. Its bleaker aspects are also represented in doubtful descriptions of works by booksellers on electronic catalogues and in deformed--and sometimes stolen--digitized editions of works originally published in printed forms. In this article I shall both explore these darker sides of digitization and suggest ways in which they might be mitigated. My four case studies derive from my experiences with Centre Editing Early Canadian Texts (CEECT), an enterprise that endured almost thirty years at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and with a collection of articles that I am assembling a volume on role played by London publisher named Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, then Richard Bentley, and then Richard Bentley and Son in shaping images of Great Britain's colonies through works that it issued from late 1820s to mid-1890s. CASE STUDY NO. 1: CEECT AND COMPUTERS In April 2013 issue of University Affairs, magazine that is published ten times a year by Association of and Colleges of Canada, and that is advertised on its website as Voice of Canada's Universities (http://www.aucc.ca), there is an article by Suzanne Bowness entitled Parsing Humanities: Everything You Wanted to Know about Digital Humanities. It begins with following reminiscence: If you're old enough to remember a time before Internet, cast your ears back to this sound: ... ding*ding*ding. That's right. That's irritating ... ring of an old-fashioned modem connecting your computer to Internet ... Now, imagine yourself back in era when that sound was a novelty, particularly in quiet halls of an English or history department, where loudest ambient noise up to that point may have been quiet swish of pages turning. Or perhaps a pencil scraping lightly at their margins. If you were that reader, hearing that ding first time, ... You might have heard birth of a new discipline called digital humanities. (Bowness 14) This article, as well as WordStar Was King, a chapter in Dennis Baron's A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and Digital Revolution (2009) that reviews dramatic changes in computer technologies in last half century, reminded me that CEECT too was a pioneer in this field. The reason is that from time steering committee started to meet in fall of 1979, concept of producing our texts by using computers moved quickly from a remote possibility to a definite reality. When we made this decision, however, there was no Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) that provided consistent and apparently universal ways to mark up text. Although we tried, there was no satisfactory way to digitize texts by scanning them into a computer. And notion of electronic editions, which has dominated so much recent literature about scholarly editing, had not been imagined. What we meant by editing by computer in late 1970s and early 1980s, in fact, had itself largely to be invented. Invent and acquire hardware, languages, and software, therefore, we did. In CEECT: Progress, Procedures, and Problems, example, an article published in Papers of Bibliographical Society of Canada in 1987, I explained that we used computer for thirty-two in course of preparing CEECT editions, and that we had seventy programs that were especially written to run these processes (Edwards 20). Because computer technology developed so quickly, we never did market our programs as office at Carleton concerned with such business matters once suggested. And as years went on, we abandoned our mainframe CP-6 and our WANGs personal computers and laptops, and we moved from backing up and storing data on magnetic tapes and various sizes of discs to transferring our files to USBs and to sending them over Internet to e-mail accounts and to various clouds in cyberspace. …

Candidates announced for Board of Governors election [Society News

Herein are the position statements and biographies of the slate of candidates to lead the IEEE Communications Society. Your vote is very important to the individual candidates and to ComSoc as a whole. Ballots will be e-mailed or mailed to all ComSoc members on 30 May 2014. We encourage your careful consideration as you cast your vote for the future success of the Society. The election ends 25 July 2014. In addition to the President-Elect slate, each ballot will contain three slates for our Members-at-Large position: a) one composed of 6 candidates from NA/LA (the Americas), b) one composed of 3 candidates from EMEA, and c) one composed of 3 candidates from AP regions. All voting members may select up to 2 from the NA/LA slate, up to 1 from the EMEA slate, and up to 1 from the AP slate. The top 2 vote-getters from the NA/LA slate, the top vote-getter from the EMEA slate, and the top vote-getter from the AP slate will serve for a three-year term on the Board of Governors starting 1 January 2015.