Golden Boy Research Articles

Potensi Bunga Anggrek Cymbidium Golden Boy sebagai Sumber Antioksidan dan Aplikasinya pada Flower Leather

Orchid flowers are believed to be an antioxidant source, however, the antioxidant activity of the Cymbidium Golden Boy (CGB) orchid has not been identified. The antioxidant potential can be applied to flower leather products, and a main reason behind the idea is the valorization of agricultural waste. The aim of this research is to study phenol content and antioxidant capacity of ethanol extracts of CGB orchid petals. Additionally, this study aimed to determine the best formulation for flower leather products with a combination of carrageenan and gum arabic based on organoleptic acceptance. This research was conducted by extracting CGB orchid flowers using ethanol, and total phenol and antioxidant activity of the extracts were determined. Moreover, the flower leather products were mad from CGB orchid flowers as the raw material, accroding to a Factorial Randomized Block Design using two factors as follows: carrageenan concentration (0, 0.3, 0.5, and 0.7%) and gum arabic concentration (0.9, 1.2, and 1.5%). Flower leather samples were analyzed for moisture content, tensile strength, total dissolved solid, color intensity, and sensory. The ethanol extract of CGB orchid flowers showed antioxidant capacity up to 23.88 ppm and high phenolic content which is equal to 15.32 mg GAE/g. The differences between carrageenan and arabic gum concentration showed significant effect on water content and dissolve solid, but they did not affect on tensile strength and color intensity. The best treatment of flower leather according to panelist evaluation was those prepared from carrageenan 0.5% and arabic gum 0.9%, reaching tensile strength 4.86 N, brightness level (L) 40.1, (a+) +5.7, (+b) 23.7, water content 19.18%, aroma score 3.76 (slight flowery), taste 4.84 (pleasant), and texture 4.56 (approaching chewiness).

Morphophysiological responses and tolerance of various sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata) hybrids to shade stress

Abstract. Utari VF, Chozin MA, Hapsari DP, Ritonga AW. 2023. Morphophysiological responses and tolerance of various sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata) hybrids to shade stress. Biodiversitas 24: 4438-4447. Expanding lands for cultivating sweet corn (Zea mays convar. saccharata) is a strategy to increase its production. Yet, the available lands for sweet corn extensification might be those with existing tree stands with some extent of shading. Planting sweet corn under tree stands affects its growth and productivity since there is a reduction in light intensity, but some superior varieties might tolerate such stress. This study aimed to determine the growth, yield, and shade-tolerance levels of several sweet corn genotypes under shade stress. The experiment adopted a randomized complete block design consisting of two factors, namely shading (i.e. control or 0% shade and 50% shade) and sweet corn genotype (16 genotypes). The observed parameters included morphological traits (plant height, leaf number, leaf length, leaf width, and stem diameter), physiological traits (stomatal density and trichome density), yield attributes (cob weight with husks, cob weight without husks, cob length, cob diameter, and total soluble solid), and stress tolerance index (STI). The tested genotypes responded differently to shading. In general, 50% shade significantly reduced cob production, with an average decrease of more than 50% compared to the control. Commercial varieties, namely Exotic (G13), Talenta (G14), Paragon (G15), and Golden Boy (G16), had relatively higher STI values compared to the hybrids. Among the hybrids, the highest STI values were observed for genotypes resulting from the crosses SM7-8 × SM12-2 (G11) and SM11-6 × SM12-2 (G12). The results of this study recommend that commercial varieties can be cultivated under tree stands or low light intensity and can be used to develop high-yielding shade-tolerant sweet corn varieties.

Identification of Morpho-Physiological and Yield Traits of Sweet Corn Hybrids at Various Shade Levels

The selection of shade-tolerant sweet corn under intercropping conditions is necessary to provide adaptive superior cultivars for agroforestry systems. Until recently, there have not been many reports of superior varieties of sweet corn tolerant to low light. This study aimed to determine the differences in the morphological, physiological and production responses of 25 hybrid sweet corn genotypes to low light intensity. This study used a nested design with three replications. The factors tested were the shade level (0%, 25%, 50% and 75%) and the genotype of hybrid corn. The results showed that most of the hybrid corn genotypes tested showed an increase in production at 25% shade, while at 50% and 75% shade, they showed a decrease in production. Based on relative production at 25% shade, the genotypes can be split into three groups: sensitive, moderate and tolerant. The tolerant genotype including F1 T8-2A x SM12-2 (G6); Exotic (G13); Talenta (G15); Golden boy (G16); F1 SM12-2 x T9-2 (G20) provided the highest increase in morpho-physiological characters and yields compared to the moderate and sensitive. In all genotype groups, morphological variables (number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and relative growth rate), physiological variables (stomata conductance, photosynthetic rate, and total dissolved solids (TDS)), and yield variables (length, diameter, number, weight and unhusked weight of ears) were significantly higher in the no-shade than in the shaded conditions. These findings can be used as a basis for sweet corn planting recommendations under shade condition areas such as in agroforestry systems.

Inventarisasi Dan Analisis Jenis Anggrek (Orchidaceae) Di Kampung Nambo, Desa Batukarut, Kecamatan Arjasari, Kabupaten Bandung

Orchid is a plant from the Orchidaceae family which is known for the beauty and beauty of its flowers. In Indonesia, there are various species of orchids spread across large islands such as Java and Sumatra. Therefore, orchids have a lot of richness with morphological differences in them. Because of its beauty, orchids are often used as ornamental plants to beautify the yard. Observations were made in the yard of the house in the Nambo Village area, Batukarut Village, Arjasari District, Bandung Regency to classify ornamental orchid plants and differentiate them based on their morphological characteristics. The results obtained were found to be 5 species of orchids from different genera where there were morphological differences between one another. The species is Vanda sp. (Vanda Orchid), Cymbidium Golden Boy. (Boat Orchid), Phalaenopsis amabilis (Moon Orchid), Dendrobium caesar and Arachnis flos-aeris (Scorpion Orchid).

Is Hydrogen the Future Golden Boy of Maritime Transportation?

Abstract This article tries to see if hydrogen can represent the future of marine transportation. This article presents all types of hydrogen and ways in which it can be produced. Major ship-owners companies’ policy regarding use of hydrogen for ship propulsion is presented as well as how the P&I Clubs view the problem. The conclusion presents the arguments and drawbacks of this issue. In this paper, the author analyzes the hydrogen alternative as a source of energy for maritime transportation.

What Color is a Golden Boy? The Glorification and Disparagement of Male Superstar Athletes in Sports Illustrated

This study examined media representations of male superstar athletes over more than three decades. Some journalists portrayed their subjects as smart, physically attractive young men at the top of their games. Other writers emphasized their flaws and told stories of tarnished heroes. Based on an analysis of 140 references to sports stars in Sports Illustrated magazine articles, the results showed that favorable and unfavorable framing of athletes depended on their race/ethnicity, the dominance of their sport, and the historical context in which they played. Compared to white sports stars, racial minority athletes were more often portrayed with unfavorable frames, such as unintelligent, immoral, or lacking charm. Athletes from lesser-known sports were also more likely to be described with unfavorable frames than athletes from the four most dominant sports in the US (football, basketball, baseball, and hockey). Both favorable and unfavorable frames were more common in articles published in the most recent period (2013–2021) than in earlier decades (1987–2012), signaling an increasing interest among journalists in the personal qualities of sports stars. The study provides new empirical and theoretical insight on the relationships between three social antecedents—racism, hegemonic sport culture, and technological change—and the framing of superstar athletes.

Golden Boy

Golden Boy Lily Meyer (bio) The tomato sat in a bowl of its own on the counter. "Look at him," my dad crowed. "Golden Boy." Golden Boy was fat and streaky, with rich orange veins running down his red sides. His stem gave off the faint, bitter smell of sun-cooked dirt. He had no wormholes, no soft spots, not one pucker or bruise. The chipmunks hadn't touched him. He was misshapen, but most heirlooms are. "Nice tomato," I said. "Nice?" Dad scooped Golden Boy from the bowl, cradling him to his chest. My dad's knuckles were swollen with arthritis. When I last saw him, eighteen months ago, his joints had recently started aching. Now his whole body seemed stooped. "Naomi thinks you're nice," he told the tomato. "Not perfect. Not blue-ribbon quality. Nice." "Blue ribbon?" I asked, dropping my backpack on the spotless, sandless kitchen floor. The marble countertop gleamed. Copper pots sparkled over the range. I smelled bleach and lemons, and I wondered who did the cleaning. Surely my father hadn't learned, at sixty-eight, to dust and scrub. [End Page 219] He lifted his chin. "What's wrong with a blue ribbon?" "Nothing." I kept my voice light. "Are you entering an ag show?" The answer, I knew, was no, though my father could clean up at the Truro Fair. He gardens with the zeal he once reserved for finance. In addition to heirloom tomatoes—Striped Caverns, Black Russians, Great Whites—he grows zucchini, pattypan squash, and both Japanese and Italian eggplants. He has blackberries and blueberries, which he protects from marauding birds with reflective tape and netting, and a brambly patch of raspberries that stay sour and greenish until the end of July. He has a peach tree and a stunted Braeburn apple that was here when he bought the house in 2001. He grows the Simon & Garfunkel herbs, plus basil, chives, cilantro, and some ailing lemongrass. All this, within fifty feet of the front door. The property extends further, but my father, these days, does not. He stroked Golden Boy, looking hurt. Out the window, a whale-watching boat cut a neat line across Cape Cod Bay, and I felt a brief and total longing to be on it. To be anywhere but my father's gigantic beach house, once my favorite place on Earth. In penance, I said, "It's a perfect tomato." "Thank you." "Do we get to eat it?" "Your brother brought a beautiful burrata from the city. I was thinking caprese for lunch." My brother was on the back deck, snoring gently. A water glass sweated next to his lounger. His legs were profoundly tan. Rather than wake him, I leaned on the railing and compared the view to the one I remembered. In five years, not much had changed. The bay rolled and glittered before me. Seabirds hunted overhead, and squirrels and chipmunks rustled in the scrub pines. The neighbors' wind chimes rang in the distance. The breeze carried all the right beach smells: hot driftwood, dried seaweed, dead fish. [End Page 220] I heard Caleb stirring. "Naomi?" As I turned, he clambered upright. "Nome! You came!" "You asked me to." He wrapped his arms around me, then picked me up—my giant baby brother—to whirl me in the air. "I did." He set me down, grinning, and I relaxed into his side. Already I felt less sorry to be here. Under even the worst circumstances, time with Caleb was a treat. I reached up to ruffle the remains of his Wall Street-short curls. Four years in banking had stripped him of scruffiness, though he retained the white goal-collision scar on his forehead and the spray of blackheads on the bridge of his nose. The sun beamed down on his white smile. At twenty-six, he was thoroughly handsome. Jewish-looking, even more than Dad or me. "How was the trip?" he asked. "Fine. Easy." I was lying, but not completely. The travel itself—a three-hour flight from Kansas City, then a two-hour drive down the arm of Cape Cod—had been smooth. Fast, even, for a summer Saturday. I...

Scanning and three-dimensional-printing using computed tomography of the "Golden Boy" mummy.

Ancient Egyptian mummies represent an opportunity to learn more about the health, beliefs, and skills of humans in antiquity. A fully wrapped mummy, from a Late Ptolemaic cemetery (c.332-30 BC) in Edfu, Egypt, has been stored, unexamined, at the Cairo Egyptian Museum since 1916. We hypothesized that scanning and 3D-printing the mummy using Computed Tomography (CT) could help in documenting and promoting its public display. CT enabled non-invasive digital unwrapping and revealed a well-preserved mummy. Biological sex could be determined from the presence of male genitalia; epiphyseal fusion and tooth eruption indicated an approximate age at death of 14-15 years. The deceased had healthy teeth and bones without evidence of poor nutrition or disease. CT detected a high-quality mummification process that included brain removal through an iatrogenic defect of the cribriform plate and viscera removal via a left lower-abdominal incision. The heart remained in the chest as a spiritual symbol. Resin was poured into the emptied cranial and torso cavities, and linen packs were placed inside the torso. The Mummy's external ornamentation includes a gilded head mask, a pectoral cartonnage, and a pair of sandals. CT identified 49 amulets inside the mummy and between the wrappings, arranged in three columns. The amulets have 21 different shapes, including Udjat, scarabs, Ajet, Djed-pillar, Tyt, Placenta, Double-Plume, and Right-angle. CT densities indicated that 30 (61%) amulets were metal (likely gold), and the other amulets were made of faience, stones, or fired clay. The embalmers placed amulets to protect and provide vitality for the body for the afterlife. A gold tongue amulet was placed inside the mouth to ensure the deceased could speak in the afterlife. A Two-finger amulet was placed beside the penis to protect the embalming incision. 3D-printing enabled the tactile and visual study of a heart scarab found inside the thoracic cavity. Findings from this study suggest that ancient Egyptians valued their children and provided them with ritual treatment. State-of-the-art techniques such as CT and 3D printing provided valuable insights and supported the museum display of the mummy, nicknamed "The Golden Boy."

Introduction of Dr Mannikam Suthanthiran as Recipient of the Medawar Prize for 2022.

Introduction of Dr Mannikam Suthanthiran as Recipient of the Medawar Prize for 2022.

Diving Lessons

Diving Lessons

Effects of inoculated mycorrhizal fungi and non-mycorrhizal beneficial micro-organisms on plant traits, nutrient uptake and root-associated fungal community composition of the Cymbidium hybridum in greenhouse.

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of beneficial micro-organisms on the growth, nutrient accumulation and root-associated fungal species composition of pot orchids grown in the greenhouse. A greenhouse pot experiment was conducted to investigate the beneficial effects of a mycorrhizal fungus, Epulorhiza repens isolate ML01, an endophytic fungus, Umbelopsis nana isolate ZH3A-3 and a mixed commercial inoculum Rem, alone or in combination. Nested PCR assays showed that both isolates ML01 and ZH3A-3 can successfully establish in inoculated soil. All the inoculants significantly increased the plant total dry weight of Cymbidium hybridum 'Golden Boy', whereas only co-inoculation with the endophytic fungus ZH3A-3 and the Rem enhanced the fresh weight and height of host plants. The mycorrhizal fungus positively affected P, K, Ca, Mg content in shoots and Zn content in roots, while the endophytic fungus improved N, P, Ca accumulation in shoots and roots. Co-inoculation with the Rem and ML01 improved root to shoot translocation of Fe and Zn. In addition, inoculation with ZH3A-3, ML01+Rem and ZH3A-3+Rem decreased the relative frequency of Fusarium sp. on orchid roots. Trichoderma sp. were isolated from the roots treated with ML01, ML01+Rem and ZH3A-3+Rem. Both mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi had the potential to create favourable microflora in the orchid roots and stimulate the growth of transplanted plantlets under greenhouse condition. The newly isolated endophytic strain ZH3A-3 showed significant application value in orchid production.

Marginality and Liminality in Tara Sullivan’s Golden Boy

Abstract In Tara Sullivan’s Golden Boy, the protagonist Habo is a young adult with albinism who struggles and eventually succeeds in navigating his multiple marginal spaces before eventually finding his position in society. Employing Victor Turner’s concept of liminality, I adopt a postcolonial lens to scrutinize in greater depth than literary critics have so far revealed the positive aspects of the marginal space occupied by Habo in virtue of the layered complexity of his social geography. Because his whole society is located in the global South, this disabled young adult faces a variety of marginalisations. Rather than an end point, the multiple margins traversed by Habo become for him a liminal space. Margins serve as a threshold for this teenager to discover and establish his position in his society. I deviate from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s theorising about disability as a social construct, since her analysis overlooks the brute fact that Habo’s albinism is a disability which constitutes a constant life threat. The disambiguation of marginality and liminality argued here is particularly important to maintain when critiquing narratives that depict the life experience of protagonists overcoming the very real-world challenges encountered at the margins of the global economic order.

If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley

Reviewed by: If These Wings Could Fly by Kyrie McCauley Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor McCauley, Kyrie If These Wings Could Fly. Tegen/HarperCollins, 2020 [400p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-288502-9 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-288504-3 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 7-10 In the aftermath of Leighton’s father’s rages, there’s little proof of his anger: the house somehow heals itself, restoring damaged walls and broken doors, and her mother simply doesn’t acknowledge anything has happened at all. With only a year of high school left, Leighton wants to keep her head down and find a way to get her and her younger sisters out of the house, but her focus is disrupted by Liam, the school’s charming golden boy who is surprisingly level headed and kind. Meanwhile, people are growing increasingly tense as an ever-growing murder of crows invades the town, and when confusion turns to hostility, Leighton finds herself confronting violence and complicity in her neighbors and friends. McCauley offers just a touch of magical realism here, layering a painfully honest exploration of domestic violence with a subtle eeriness that reinforces the constant presence of Leighton’s powerlessness. Her narration is elegant and thoughtful, and often brutally honest about the complexity of toxic families: “Evil is easy to hate, but broken . . . broken can love and be loved.” The discussions between her and Liam about race and gender (Liam is Black) feel a little bit more purposive and stridently certain, but this is still a refreshing portrayal of two teens who negotiate their own challenges while acknowledging those of others. Ultimately her father is held accountable, but Leighton is well aware of the lasting marks his abuse will leave behind, for both herself and her sisters: “When the legacy is anger, the inheritance is fear.” Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller

Reviewed by: Redemption Prep by Samuel Miller Alaine Martaus Miller, Samuel Redemption Prep. Tegen/HarperCollins, 2020 [416p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-266203-3 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-266205-7 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 9-12 Emma Donahue has vanished from Redemption Prep, an elite boarding school isolated in the forest of Utah. Now three teens with connections to the missing girl will work together to find her: Neesha, the overachieving roommate; Aiden, the golden boy basketball star; and Evan, the chess prodigy who’s taken to following Emma around. Meanwhile the school, already rule-bound and shrouded in mystery, employs its own in-house detective, tasked less with finding Emma and more with obscuring what everyone thinks they know. Threats of violence and the slow revelation of long-buried secrets only make Emma’s classmates more determined to find her, though, as it becomes clear there’s more to her disappearance than a personal breakdown. Readers looking for a unique take on the isolated-house mystery, with a bizarre setting and a cast of unstable characters, will enjoy losing themselves in this strange yet compelling tale of drugs, power, and the future of the human race. Flashbacks, journal entries, interviews, and narrated chapters split between the three main characters to create layered complexity and leave the reader room to piece together the real story. Characterization plays intriguingly with stereotypes, especially as characters struggle against the burden of family pressures and the curse of being gifted. The people and the mystery that binds them will draw readers in and keep them turning pages, and a lack of clear resolution at the novel’s end leaves room for possible sequels. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Mexico’s Place-Names and Road-Names as Psycholinguistic Evidence in the Search for Al Dorado

The paper explores the socio-cultural practice of place naming and road naming, using Conceptual Metaphor Theory as a framework to deconstruct the ‘Place Names’ and ‘Road Names’ of two important Spanish Missions that were part of North Mexico’s main routes in Nueva Hispania: the Santa Maria Valenciana of the Port of Saint Antoinette of the Bear, West Texas Bexar, now partly in New Mexico, and the Mission San Xavier de Baca, in Tuboc, Southern Tucson, Arizona. Conceptual metaphor theory and linguistic anthropology are combined for the theoretical grounding and data acquisition methods, forming conceptual metaphor mappings for the framework for a modern-day search for Al’Dorado. Gibbs (1994) and Lakoff & Johnson, (1999) research provide the theoretical foundations for this search for “the Lost City of Gold”. The assumptions of the cognitive mechanism of language will require establishing the conceptual mappings between the abstract place names from the ‘Royal Road’, the Camino Real and the ‘Rio Grande River-Route’. The physical source domain is the geographical and historical structures along the Roads and Missions that connect the Baja (lower) and Nuevo (upper) Camino Real. The study moves across New Mexico and Arizona, as they connect with a Spanish Moorish Mission, called the La Jornada. The Stations on the Cross(ing) along the Horn of Plenty may contain the material culture artifacts to establish a physical source domain, where the historical Lost City of Gold an are more than abstract legends, but may have come from the traveling caravans from Vispania along the Royal Road. The paper focuses on the Sandbar of Doyle, where the Sultan of Zandibar Santo Tovar, (Duval, Doyle) built an ancient Al Medina, or Alameda, the ‘City in the Middle’. The Chico Tovar as the architect and builder of Las Cruces New Mexico. The word Al’ Dorado translates into a Proper Noun, ‘the Golden Boy’, -n. the adored; but it also translates as ‘the Golden (Dorar- the Hardened Dome) City’-n creating with allusion and ellipsis in the ambiguity of finding Al-Dorado. Gibbs, (1994) and Lakoff & Johnson, (1999) research on conceptual metaphor theory can be used to as a framework to explore the social cultural practice of naming, and continue the search for Al’ Dorado. Two main coherent relations will appear in the language linking the Proper Names and Place Name: Hermigues, or Alfonso Hermigues of the Santa Cruz de los Reyes, with those who became Ordenes de San Fernando y San Hermenegildo. This was Herman’s Guild, Hermileone, and they controlled the dispatches along the Camino Real with the ‘Armados de la Camino Real’ (‘The Armed of the Camino Real’) who were ‘military or nobility’ hiding as ‘clergy’. They became the conversos at the Fall of the Moors in Muslim Spain. The Black Berry Cabeza de Baca caravans give us the ‘Moro’ Spanish Moors and here is are allusions to the Color and Herald of Black Salazars of Xavior The Chico Tovar, whose name is also ‘Zaed Bivar’ in New Spain, now part of New Mexico and Arizona.

Henry Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El

Henry Schuhl: The Wayward Rabbi of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El Richard F. Selcer (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution The only known picture of Henry Schuhl is a pen-and-ink engraving that appeared in the New York Herald at the time of his disappearance in 1898. It shows a handsome, distinguished-looking gentleman with strong features highlighted by a big walrus mustache. It is impossible to say what he looked like earlier, but by this date he did not wear the traditional full beard of most rabbis. Source: Boston Post, Nov. 26, 1898. [End Page 396] The name Henry Schuhl was in newspapers all over the country between 1881 and 1898, but today he is scarcely remembered. A history of Dallas’s Temple Emanu-El devotes less than four pages to his troubled tenure, making vague reference to a “rupture” in the congregation that was “shortly healed.”1 He was the golden boy of Cincinnati’s Jewish community, then he came to Dallas and turned the staid Temple Emanu-El on its ear. During his lifetime he was a religious seeker, a politician, a labor leader, a con man, and a fugitive from justice in addition to being a distinguished rabbi. He caused one of the great religious scandals of the nineteenth century, earning him comparisons to a notable contemporary, the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, the famed Brooklyn clergyman. In August 1881, Henry Schuhl stepped off a train in Dallas to start his tenure as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, considered by some at the time to be “the largest, wealthiest, and most important Hebrew society in Texas.” Five years later he was on a train out of town, leaving in disgrace amid accusations of adultery, “licentiousness,” embezzlement, and swindling. But he proved F. Scott Fitzgerald wrong by going on to a second act—and more—before his life was through. Constantly on the move and on the make, Henry’s story is an extreme version of the quintessential nineteenth-century [End Page 397] immigrant experience in America, full of self-invention and new beginnings.2 Henri Schuhl was born December 6, 1846, in France, probably in the border region of Alsace-Lorraine, an area claimed by both France and Germany, which would explain why he spoke fluent German and French. After immigrating to the United States, he Anglicized his given name to “Henry.” His wife, Brunette Nathan, was born in France on September 11, 1847. They were married on November 20, 1868, and moved to America together. They settled in New York City first, then moved to Montreal, where they lived for a short time. In 1870, they were living in California where their first child was born, a daughter they named Florette. They had three more children between 1872 and 1877, Aaron, Palmyra, and Caroline. In 1878, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where the Mound Street Temple hired Henry to lead singing and congregational prayers as chazzan (cantor). It was a prestigious position, equivalent to being deputy rabbi, and as a graduate of “the leading university” of Paris Henry was well-equipped for his duties. He was a dynamic public speaker who reportedly “possessed the sublime gift of oratory” to go along with his scholarly credentials. Still, he was not an ordained rabbi. The position of chazzan did not pay very well, especially for a person described by the American Israelite, the national Jewish publication out of Cincinnati, as a “gentleman of culture and refinement” who was supporting a family of six. Apparently, the job did not occupy “sufficient of his time,” either, because in 1880 he became “city agent” for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia. If Henry was good at anything, it was selling—especially himself.3 His detour into the insurance business did not last long, however, and in 1881 he arrived in Dallas to begin a new life at Temple Emanu-El. One scholar characterizes nineteenth-century Texas as one of the last “corners” of the historic Jewish diaspora. Dallas was one of seven Jewish congregations in the state in 1881. Although the town was struggling at this date, it still represented a golden opportunity...

The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows

Reviewed by: The Best of Iggy by Annie Barrows Kate Quealy-Gainer, Assistant Editor Barrows, Annie The Best of Iggy; illus. by Sam Ricks. Putnam, 2020 [144p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-9848-1330-5 $13.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-9848-1331-2 $8.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 2-4 The actions of nine-year-old Iggy usually fall into one of three categories: things he says he wishes as he hadn't done but really just wishes he hadn't got caught doing; things he wishes he hadn't done the way he did them; and things that he genuinely wishes he had not done. Getting golden boy Jeremy to jump off the roof of his shed falls into that first category, and making himself up with Mom's makeup and Dad's shaving cream is in line with the second; scaring the heck out of his favorite teacher by jokingly attacking her with a desk is a third-category action, though, which he feels pretty terrible about and needs to figure out how to make amends for. The lovable screwup is an old but perennially appealing trope, and Iggy is a prime example, clueless to how his actions might affect others, frustratingly lacking in foresight but also oddly admirable in his carefree spirit. Barrows' framing is fresh and particularly helpful for early readers, as the direct address from the third-person narrator serves double duty as a wink-and-nod kind of humor and, more significantly, as scaffolding that guides youngsters through the reading experience. Lists, repetition, callbacks to previous events, and Ricks' cartoony black and white art together build on developing literacy skills, and the book ends with an enthusiastic congratulations on finishing a twenty-chapter book. Young readers, especially those with a passion for mischief, will hope there are more chapters of Iggy's exploits to come. [End Page 157] Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

The Sukari Neoproterozoic granitoids, Eastern Desert, Egypt: Petrological and structural implications

The Sukari granitoid pluton is situated in the southern central Eastern Desert of Egypt and is considered as one of the best examples of the gold–bearing granites in the Arabian Nubian Shield (ANS). It consists of coarse– to medium–grained alkali–feldspar granite, syenogranite and monzogranite intruded the volcano–sedimentary sequences and metagabbro–diorite complex. Geochemically, these granitoids are metaluminous to peraluminous in character. They are characterized by positive Rb, K, Zr and Pb and negative Ba, Sr, P, Nb and Ti anomalies and exhibit similar trace element patterns. Moreover, they show pronounced LREE–enriched patterns and negative Eu anomalies that indicate plagioclase fractionation. The studied rocks are typical of within plate granites generated in tensional environment. They belong to ferroan/A–type granites, particularly A2–type suggesting post-collisional setting. Their high SiO2, Al2O3 and low MgO contents along with the low Ce/Pb ratios reflect derivation from melting crustal source.The major structures of the Sukari area encompass Akbar Wahid, Golden Boy, Buthinae and Kaolinitic Faults. The area is characterized by NNE-NE trending shear zone and WNW-EW stress orientation. The mineralized structures contain quartz veins trending mostly EW, NS and NNW; joints with NS, EW, NNE and NNW trends; faults with NNW, NNE, NS and EW trends; and breccia with NNW trend. The kinematic indicators are represented by mylonites, quartz fish and augen structures. Mineralization in Sukari area found as quartz veins, stockworks and brecciated veins.

REVIEW: RICHARD SHUSTERMAN, THE ADVENTURES OF THE MAN IN GOLD. PATHS BETWEEN ART AND LIFE

When Richard Shusterman burst on the academic scene some decades ago he quickly became the golden boy of aesthetics. Now in his late sixties he is hardly a boy anymore, but possibly a golden oldie. Nevertheless, he is still prone to boyish pranks as can be seen in parts of his new book, The Adventures of the Man in Gold. Paths between Art and Life.

The Touchstone of Memory: My Parents, Oberlin College, and the Second World War

The Touchstone of Memory: My Parents, Oberlin College, and the Second World War Dominique H. Vasseur (bio) These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certainly except the past—were always with me. —Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited I In most respects my parents were fairly typical people, who led lives typical for their time. Yet, when I tell others how they met and eventually married, the response is always “you need to write about this—it’s fascinating,” and so this is the story of my parents. I never knew my father, Jacques Henri Vasseur. I was simply too young, only a little over two years old, when he died at age thirty-three from cancer. One of my earliest memories of him is a photograph in my French grandmother’s apartment in Paris. In it he is dressed as a French sailor looking young, innocent almost, but intelligent, thoughtful, and yet curiously detached or distant (Fig. 1). My grandmother idolized him. He was her one and only child, her blue-eyed, fair-haired golden boy, and it was clear to me from an early age on that in her eyes no finer man had ever lived. Years after my mother, Mary Vasseur, returned from France to the U.S. following my father’s death, she did not, as I remember, often speak of him, except to say “he loved you and he would be proud of you today.” His tragic and early death had to be painful for her to recall. Or perhaps I did not ask her enough about him; I suppose it was painful for me as well. I do remember being embarrassed that I did not have a father [End Page 237] like all the other neighborhood children in Springfield, Ohio, where we lived. That circumstance, among other things including my French name, contributed to my feeling different and apart from others. Yet I always wanted to know more about my father, as that knowledge seemed a key to understanding who I was or might become. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Jacques Vasseur in French naval uniform, ca. 1937. Despite his absence in our day-to-day lives, my father was nevertheless present in small, unspoken ways. My mother kept a photograph in her bedroom of him wearing a plaid Pendleton [End Page 238] wool shirt that she took to him when she went to visit in 1948. There were also mementoes from the Second World War, which were kept in a metal Craven A cigarette box. My father preferred Craven A cigarettes—incidentally Charles de Gaulle’s favorite brand—while he was in England with the Free French Forces. Every now and then, I would open the box and inspect the contents, which included military uniform patches, an enameled Cross of Lorraine pin, and a ring made from worthless aluminum French francs. As I had no real understanding of the war these totemic relics seemed highly mysterious. Whenever though we went to visit my French grandmother in Paris, my father became more real through her vivid memories. Her 18th arrondissement apartment had not changed since my father lived there with her in the 1930s and after the war. I remember being very upset, but not showing it, when my grandmother had her apartment redecorated in the 1980s, as if the new wallpaper itself was a barrier or insult to my father’s memory. My mother, Mary Burmeister (Fig. 2), was born on April 29, 1921, in Springfield, Ohio, a small once-prosperous city between Columbus and Dayton known for International Harvester Corporation and Crowell Collier Publishing Company. Her father, Frederick William Burmeister, was a senior salesman for Robbins & Myers Fan Company and her mother, née Ruth Heileman, had been a nurse in the early years of the twentieth century, graduating in the first nursing school class in Springfield.1 The Burmeisters had come to the U.S. in the 1890s from the region of Alsace-Lorraine, then a part of the Second German Empire, settling first in Cincinnati but later moving to Springfield, which had a large German-American community. The Heilemans, it seems, came to the...