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What You Need to Know About APA’s Annual Meeting Platform

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article APA & MeetingsFull AccessWhat You Need to Know About APA’s Annual Meeting PlatformVernetta CopelandVernetta CopelandSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:2 Mar 2021https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2021.3.44AbstractBy now, you may have already participated in professional online meetings, but here’s a general description of what you can expect from the platform that APA will be using for its meeting.It is hard to believe that it’s been almost two years since APA held its last in-person Annual Meeting, but APA is excited to offer you a top-quality meeting online this year and create a communal event where members can learn from recognized experts and interact with each other. To host the meeting, APA has selected a meeting platform that is designed to give you an enjoyable engagement experience that is easy to navigate as you participate in scientific sessions, connect with exhibitors in the Virtual Exhibit Gallery, attend Product Theater Showcases, experience networking opportunities with colleagues, and compete for great prizes with “gamification.”As you can see in this issue of Psychiatric News, highlights of the meeting include the Opening Session, Convocation of Distinguished Fellows, a closing plenary session, and an exceptional lineup of expert speakers covering the depth and breadth of psychiatry and discussing issues that are vitally important to psychiatry today. About 10,000 attendees are expected to tune in from around the world.To get the most out of the online meeting, the first step to take is scheduling your time as if you were attending the Annual Meeting in person. You are balancing heavy work demands while meeting family obligations, so it’s helpful to plan your days in advance to take full advantage of the scientific program and exhibit events planned.Pre-Conference Expo DayA pre-conference expo day has been scheduled for Friday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. This day gives attendees an opportunity to become acclimated to the online platform and provides exclusive time for attendees to attend the Virtual Exhibit Gallery and meet with exhibitors about their latest products and services. There will also be a Product Theater Showcase with product and company presentations and the APA Publishing Bookstore.Throughout the meeting, attendees are encouraged to have quality engagement with exhibitors by scheduling informal meetings with them and participate in other exhibit events (like the Product Theater Showcases and sponsored events) to earn points to win daily prizes, including the grand prize of a Peloton bike. A leaderboard will track attendees’ progress in earning points throughout the meeting.How to Access the MeetingRegistrants will be sent a link to the meeting platform by April 26. The homepage for the site will lead you to the various meeting features, such as Sessions, Speakers, Exhibitors, Networking, and Poster Sessions.Profiles and SchedulesYour profile will be preconfigured based on your meeting registration data; you can then customize your profile by uploading a photo and modifying your networking settings. You can populate your “favorites list” of preferred speakers, sessions, posters, showcases, and exhibitors, as well as meetings you have scheduled with exhibitors.Session PageThere will be 135 scientific sessions offering 13.5 CME credits over the three-day meeting, with three sessions scheduled in each time block. The page for each session will include the speaker’s name, photo, session description, biographical information, and available materials for download. Sessions will be 90 minutes in length and include a live question-and-answer period.Exhibitor Listing/Search FeatureIf you are looking for a particular exhibitor or exhibit based on product category, use the search feature to filter through exhibitors. You will then be able to interact and engage with exhibitors through chat or video or leave a virtual business card with contact information.Exhibitor PageEach virtual exhibitor page will provide the following information based on the booth type: company name and logo, description, website links, contact information, social handles, content downloads, video content, and business card drop.NetworkingThe main networking page allows attendees to connect with fellow colleagues and exhibitors through video, voice, and chat.ChatbotFor many of you, an online meeting platform may be a new experience, and if you have questions or encounter difficulties, help is always available. Look for the chatbot on the various pages of the site for 24/7 support. The chatbot can answer over 93% of all event-related questions instantly.The online platform is your connection to all things Annual Meeting. Meeting information will be updated and expanded, so continue to visit the APA Annual Meeting website for information here. ■Vernetta Copeland is associate director of exhibits and sponsorship sales in APA’s Department of Meetings and Conventions. ISSUES NewArchived

Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image by Joshua Zeitz

Reviewed by: Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image by Joshua Zeitz Robert McColley (bio) Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image. By Joshua Zeitz. (New York: Viking, 2014. Pp. 400. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $17.00.) The author of this engaging book is quite interesting himself. Joshua Zeitz was born and currently lives in New Jersey. He earned a B.A. from Swarthmore and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown University and held teaching appointments at Harvard, Princeton, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He then had a career in politics, running unsuccessfully for one of New Jersey's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives while serving on the staff of Governor Jon Corzine. Next, he entered public relations with one of the state's most successful firms, the MWW Group. He frequently contributes to various magazines and journals and is active on the internet. This is his third book; each covers a distinctly different historical topic, requiring different research. Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern (2006) is, as the title suggests, about the Roaring Twenties. Then came White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics (2007). Next came Lincoln's Boys. In it Zeitz offers us a thoroughly researched account of the lives of John George Nicolay (1832–1901) and John Milton [End Page 732] Hay (1838–1905), private secretaries for Abraham Lincoln from his first presidential campaign until his death and, many years later, authors of the nearly definitive ten-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History (1890). John Taliaferro's similar but longer book, All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt (2013), contains more information about the literary achievements, upper-class friendships, and family affairs of Hay than Zeitz's book, while Zeitz offers more about the private life of Nicolay and, most important, the making of the Lincoln biography. The brilliant and genial Hay loved parties, from his youth in Pike County to his time spent as ambassador in the court of Queen Victoria in England, with significant years in between at Brown University; in New York City, where he wrote for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune; in Paris as a diplomat; and in the more mature Washington, D.C., of the Gilded Age, where his closest friend for several years, Henry Adams, was then also writing history. Hay's last years were spent back in Washington as secretary of state for Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt—an important final act of his professional career studied by Taliaferro but barely mentioned by Zeitz. Nicolay's idea of fun was roughing it in the Rocky Mountains. Though lacking university degrees, Nicolay was the more scholarly of the two friends, and he continued writing and publishing until his death. Hay married Clara Stone, the daughter of a Cleveland multimillionaire, and had four children; Nicolay, after a long engagement, married a blacksmith's daughter from Pittsfield named Therena Bates. Their daughter, Helen—a second child died in infancy—remained close to her parents as long as they lived, while pursuing a literary career of her own. Zeitz briefly mentions the accidental death of John Hay's son Adelbert at the age of twenty-four but does not mention that he had significantly served as consul in Pretoria, South Africa, during the Boer War. Zeitz and Taliaferro both offer interesting details about Lincoln's presidential campaign of 1860 as it developed in and was managed from Springfield, Illinois. During the Civil War, Hay or Nicolay might be away from Washington on special missions, but apart from reading about those missions the reader is not likely to learn anything more about Lincoln's management of the war from these books than one would from—to name a popular and readable example—Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (2005). The most original parts of Zeitz's book are his account of the two men's division of labor in researching and writing Lincoln's biography, the complicated negotiations for...

Odessa in fiamme: reflejos cinematográficos de la guerra en el Frente Oriental

Odessa in fiamme es la película ganadora del Gran Premio del Festival de Venecia en 1942. Censurada por los comunistas después de 1945 y recuperada de los archivos de Cinecittà en 2002, la película relata algunos episodios de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en el Frente Oriental: desde la invasión de Besarabia por el Ejército Rojo (1940) hasta su rescate y la caída de Odessa (1941). Si bien considerada como una expresión más de la política cultural totalitaria, Odessa in fiamme es una película de referencia en el debate sobre los reflejos de la guerra en las artes.

Great Games for Great Prizes: Afghanistan's Mineral Wealth and the Regional Security Complex

Afghanistan has long been a theatre for regional competition over influence and access to territory, particularly since the 19th century imperial campaigns of Russia and Britain. Part of today's 'game' is about natural resources and mining infrastructure, the 'prize' is secure, long-term access across Afghanistan and to its mineral wealth, and the principal 'competitors' include China, India and the USA. This paper describes features of the new 'game', identifies the actors that are investing in mining activities in and with Afghanistan, and traces the contours of the Regional Security Complex in which Afghanistan is both agent and subject.

Report of the 4th European Zebrafish Principal Investigator Meeting.

The European Zebrafish Principal Investigator Meeting (EZPM) is an ideal forum for group leaders using this fantastic animal model not only to discuss science but also to strengthen their interactions, to push forward technological advances, and to define guidelines for the use of this fish in research. The city of Lisbon (Portugal) was voted by the European group leaders to be the setting for the 4th EZPM, and the organizing committee, composed by Leonor Saúde (iMM Lisboa, PT), Susana Lopes (CEDOC, PT), Michael Orger (Champalimaud Foundation, PT), Rui Oliveira (ISPA, PT), and António Jacinto (CEDOC, PT), was very enthusiastic to organize a productive event. The 4th EZPM took place from March 15 to 19 at Pavilhão do Conhecimento, a Science Museum and Educational Center winner of The Great Prize FAD of Arquitecture 1999 and The Society for Environmental Graphic Design Award 2011. Over 5 days, 135 group leaders (89 men and 46 women) coming from 19 different European countries and also from the United States, Turkey, Israel, Chile, and Singapore presented and discussed their recent research achievements. In addition to the scientific oral and poster presentations, the group leaders gathered in very lively community sessions on morphants versus mutants (chaired by Didier Stainier, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, DE), funding issues (chaired by Uwe Strahle, KIT-ITG, DE), and gender equality (chaired by Corinne Houart, KCL, United Kingdom). One of the highlights of the 4th EZPM was the guided visit to Oceanário de Lisboa, an international award-winning place that celebrates life with a stunning display of living aquatic creatures.

On Prohibition

On Prohibition Robert Slayton (bio) Michael A. Lerner. Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. 351pp. Notes and index. $22.50. Lisa McGirr. The War on Alcohol: Prohibition and the Rise of the American State. New York: W. W. Norton, 2016. xxii + 330 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.95. Since its inception, Prohibition has been viewed within two distinct contexts. The first, original lens was that the era was a zany, wild time. Take a look at the introduction for the television show The Roaring 20s, broadcast from 1960 to 1962. Images show flappers and young men in stylish fur coats dancing the Charleston, speakeasies, a man drinking from a hip flask, and police firing tommy guns during an auto chase with bootleggers. Meanwhile, the theme song extols: “The wild and reckless, never boring, roaring . . . twenties.”1 Malcom Cowley wrote of the decade: “Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end,” or, as F. Scott Fitzgerald summed it up in “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” this was simply a decade focused on “what was fashionable and what was fun.”2 With the passage of the Twenty-First Amendment and then its ultimate repeal, the leading conception was equally simplistic: that Prohibition was a disaster, that it just did not work. There was little in the way of analysis of what it meant for U.S. society and history. The latest example of this approach was Daniel Okrent’s popular and widely reviewed (including an increasingly rare piece in the Sunday New York Times Book Review), Last Call (2010). At the outset, Okrent asks the reader, “How did a freedom-loving people decide to give up a private right that had been freely exercised by millions upon millions. . . . How the hell did it happen?” In answering this question, he provides some explanations (“a tax, a social revolution, and a war”) and a great many wonderful stories, such as: “It was absolutely impossible to get a drink in Detroit unless you walked at least ten feet and told the busy bartender what you wanted in a voice loud enough for him to hear you above the uproar.” In the end, however, it comes down to a sense that Prohibition simply collapsed. [End Page 478] Okrent bluntly concludes: “In almost every respect imaginable, Prohibition was a failure.”3 Two recent books have remedied this absence of analysis by providing major new interpretations of what Herbert Hoover labeled “The Noble Experiment.” Michael Lerner’s Dry Manhattan takes a look at Prohibition in New York City, using it as a test case to wring out the national implications of the movement to restrict alcohol. Lerner views the struggle to enforce the Volstead Act as one of the United States’ greatest examples of cultural/political wars, seeing it as a struggle over major issues. To Lerner, “Prohibition embodied a fourteen-year–long cultural conflict over the nature of American identity . . . and the political future of the country.” It became “the defining issue of the 1920s, one that measured the moral and political values of the nation . . . a key to understanding the cultural divides that separated Americans . . . as the United States was transformed by rapid economic growth and demographic changes” (p. 3). When New Yorkers rejected Prohibition, they instead “championed a style of political reform better suited to modern America,” leading to the New Deal in the next decade (p. 5). Even more, their opposition announced that city dwellers and immigrants from the recent Southern and Eastern European waves were Americans too, determined to take their place as citizens and as fundamental parts of the American mosaic. Prohibition was no simple story of ineptitude but “a debate about competing visions of American society” (p. 6). New York was actually seen as the great prize by the dry forces, its eventual vote for reform demonstrating the reform movement’s power and the strength of the tactics they had mastered. William Anderson, one of the Anti-Saloon League’s leading figures, made it his personal assignment to win over a state that seemed so unlikely a target. Making use of advocacy techniques and a legislature gerrymandered to give...

In Memoriam: Ernest Maréchal

AbstractIt is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of Professor Ernest Maréchal on 9 January 2016, at the age of eighty-four. Between 1993 and 2008, Ernest Maréchal was deeply involved in the activities of the IUPAC Polymer Division (formerly the Macromolecular Division) and of the Subcommittee on Polymer Terminology, and has led or contributed to six IUPAC Recommendations, amongst others on chemically modified polymers and source-based nomenclature. Ernest Maréchal was a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan, France), with a degree in Physics (Aggrégation). He received his Doctorate degree from the University of Paris in 1965, specializing in the chemistry of cationic polymerization and was immediately appointed full Professor at the University of Rouen. In 1976, he joined the University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (UPMC, Paris), where he developed research studies on the mechanisms of cationic polymerizations and polycondensations and on the chemical modification of polymers, establishing close relationships with the polymer industry. He was behind the discovery and development of thermoplastic elastomers, now commercialized by Arkema under the trade name Pebax. His last research works were devoted to pioneering studies on enzymatic catalysis in polymerizations (1989-2001). During his career, he acted as Head of the departments of physical chemistry (1978-1980) and macromolecular chemistry (1985-1992) at UPMC and as Head of the molecular and macromolecular physical chemistry branch of the National Committee for Research of CNRS (1983-1987). He authored or co-authored more than 300 research papers and has supervised more than 100 PhD studies. He was awarded many scientific prizes, including the Silver Medal of CNRS, the Pierre Sue Great Prize, and the Lavoisier Medal of the Société Chimique de France. Ernest was a great figure in polymer science, a leading scientist whom his numerous students will never forget, a man of culture, full of humour, and a warm and faithful friend who will be sorely missed.

HİLMİ YAVUZ’UN “TEN SONNET”Sİ ÜZERİNE BİR TAHLİL DENEMESİ

Hilmi Yavuz, the Republican era gives great importance sound and image in the poem is among the poets of Turkish poetry individualist. It is important use the modern tradition in a synthesis. In terms of content successfully utilize our ancient poetry poet, he has many elements in the poetry of Western poetry. Hilmi Yavuz's poetry and Yahya Kemal, Ahmet Hasim is possible see the effect. He benefited from opportunities in many poetry of Sufism, Sufi lexicon used very well. Ten Sonnet's of Hilmi Yavuz is a poem addressed the issue of exquisite manners. Sufi poets have explored their thoughts on this issue, using the format. You nave in poetry as in many cases the real issue the forefront is a matter of controlling the emotions. Blessing the people of the world conflict, it leads unhappiness. Love the blessing of the world in these poems, it is provided as threatening as a wolf. Keep it under control get rid of yummy, they need neutralize or kill him. Because the exquisite manners of achieving happiness in the end, although very difficult, and there are great prizes such as a perfect human being. Hilmi Yavuz put the issue of purification of the soul of mysticism with different sayings and images here. In the whole of the poem to love, snow, memory, mirror concept has been discussed in the fictional context. Hilmi Yavuz, the Sufi poetry in terms of content format, the way in terms of taking the West has created a successful synthesis using the suffix, which is a form of poetry. In this article, our goal Hilmi Yavuz Ten Sonnet's of the poem is trying examination in terms of content and form

THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FOLLOW-UP WITH ADVANCED LIGO AND VIRGO

We anticipate the first direct detections of gravitational waves (GWs) with Advanced LIGO and Virgo later this decade. Though this groundbreaking technical achievement will be its own reward, a still greater prize could be observations of compact binary mergers in both gravitational and electromagnetic channels simultaneously. During Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first two years of operation, 2015 through 2016, we expect the global GW detector array to improve in sensitivity and livetime and expand from two to three detectors. We model the detection rate and the sky localization accuracy for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers across this transition. We have analyzed a large, astrophysically motivated source population using real-time detection and sky localization codes and higher-latency parameter estimation codes that have been expressly built for operation in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo era. We show that for most BNS events the rapid sky localization, available about a minute after a detection, is as accurate as the full parameter estimation. We demonstrate that Advanced Virgo will play an important role in sky localization, even though it is anticipated to come online with only one-third as much sensitivity as the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find that the median 90% confidence region shrinks from ~500 square degrees in 2015 to ~200 square degrees in 2016. A few distinct scenarios for the first LIGO/Virgo detections emerge from our simulations.

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt by John Taliaferro (review)

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt by John Taliaferro (review)

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay from Lincoln to Roosevelt. By JohnTaliaferro. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 673 pp.

All the Great Prizes: The Life of John Hay from to Roosevelt. By John Taliaferro. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013. 673 pp. It is not clear whether or not the young John Hay, an office secretary busy with envelopes and ink working for Abraham Lincoln, longed for any greater political future. Fortune, though, would open a way for his unique brand of quiet ambition. His career in the White House would span a stunning 66 years and 10 presidents; he was a witness to great transformations of American life, from the Civil War to the Gilded Age to the United States' emergence as a superpower. He was acquainted with such luminaries as Mark Twain and Henry Adams, and contributed his own insights on the times as the author of several novels and hundreds of poems. Yet he was also instrumental in shaping those times with two monumental foreign policy achievements: the treaty ending the Spanish-American War and the Open Door Policy on China, both major contributions to the United States' role in geopolitics. His various roles in civil service were perhaps more critical to American foreign policy than any president of his day. John Taliaferro's new book, All the Great Prizes, is a lengthy but engaging record of the life and times of America's most illustrious civil servant. It is a beautifully researched account of the man, both professionally and personally, his formative experiences, and how his decisions shaped so much of modern America. Taliaferro describes the book as an attempt to allow [Hay] to speak for himself, in order that the brilliance of his life, the example of his life, and, what is more, the sheer poignancy of his life might at last be considered in full (13). Hay might have lived out his life in obscurity working at his uncle's law firm in Illinois were it not for his early acquaintance with Abraham Lincoln. The newly elected president invited Hay into his small nucleus of secretaries, living in close quarters baring every seam of their natures, as war and the affairs of the nation enveloped them, and they in turn endeavored to steer the nation's course (p. 40). It was no doubt that closeness to and a familiarity with his rhetorical power that enabled Hay to respond to the president's mail during the most intense days of the Civil War. Hay became a keen observer of the president's character--his dark melancholy, his poetic sense, and his devastating humor. But above all, Hay was a student of Lincoln's greatness. In Lincoln, he found a standard for all subsequent presidents, not to mention a view of the republic that served as Hay's political creed. Over Hay's public life, Lincoln would always be watching (p. 108). Though Hay's ties to opened every door in Washington, he always chose the State Department. He had many important experiences in European politics, which revealed his own country's uniqueness in the world. He was alarmed at the declining authority of the Austrian aristocracy, where tension between cosmopolitan liberal democracy and the paranoid upper classes indicated a dark future for Europe. Already he observed the desperation of monarchies and foresaw the volatility of rampant nationalism when backed by modern weaponry, Taliaferro writes. [T]he more he saw of the Old World's way of governance, the more he appreciated his own country's methods (p. 119). The possibility of an American century lay ahead. Leaders of the new generation, men like Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt, were certainly up to that task. …

Introduction

During most of the modern history of the expansion of Western Christendom, China, as the world’s most populous country, was the great prize. Although the results were disappointing, as the numbers of converts both Protestant and Catholic remained relatively small throughout the height of China missions in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the promise of China missions never diminished. Despite the pre-eminence of China in overall mission history, very little attention has been given to the role and influence of China missions beyond the borders of China proper either to the Chinese diaspora or to the wider mission community. This special issue is a first attempt to explore the impact of “China” in missions beyond China’s borders. For our purposes, China becomes both a place where tactics and vocabulary could be invented and tried, a sort of laboratory for mission methodology, and a place of the imagination where “muscular” Christianity could be displayed and tested, or where medical practices were adapted with global implications. In more recent times, China missions, not allowed on the mainland after 1950, have once again as they did in the nineteenth century, addressed the needs of the Chinese diaspora in Europe and America. The essays in this collection challenge scholars to reflect more broadly on the variety of intercultural encounters enabled by missionary work, and ask us to think of this history trans-nationally by going beyond the borders of single nations or mission fields to embrace a global perspective.

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. By Walter Johnson. (Cambridge, Mass., and London; Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. [x], 526. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-674-04555-2.) In this big, important, ambitious, and thought-provoking book, Walter Johnson argues that slavery, capitalism, and imperialism were entwined together in the nineteenth-century Mississippi River Valley. Once the United States acquired the Louisiana Purchase, prevailed on the federal government to use military power to impose their vision of white supremacy. The War of 1812, the Seminole War, the acquisition of Florida, and Indian removal were all of a piece and created conditions for the growth and spread of the Cotton Kingdom. Johnson limits most of his examples to Louisiana and Mississippi, but he implies the wider applicability of his ideas to the Deep South. Refreshingly, Johnson puts steamboats near the center of his narrative. Steam power emancipated the valley from its reliance on animal energy and allowed New Orleans to sit at the confluence of the global economy. Johnson argues convincingly that riverboats were more powerful--in both an economic and an energy sense--than the mills of New England. He also points out that steamers lagged behind only land and slaves for investment in the South. The result is that riverboats nurtured the Valley's capitalist development (p. 149). Some readers might quibble with Johnson's emphasis on the capitalistic nature of the South, but he effectively shows how southerners were sophisticated in their manipulation of the paper and credit economy. While the book spends much time describing the dark dreams of slaveholders, it does not neglect the lives of the slaves; and here Johnson provides countless examples of slavery's unstinting brutality. Enslaved Americans were deprived of sleep, beaten within inches of their lives, barely clothed, repeatedly raped, deliberately starved, and emotionally scarred from hearing others punished. There are numerous insights from the book, but to cite just one example, planters used food to control hungry slaves. As Johnson writes, slaveholders converted black hunger into white supremacy by withholding not only food but also shoes, blankets, and clothing in order to limit escape attempts (p. 187). Despite the odds against them, slaves did try to escape. They moved in an alternate geographic space that limited the power of the masters' visual landscape and enhanced the slaves' aural one. Johnson outlines a vision of an unstable South: slaves unexpectedly ran away; the price of cotton was volatile; steamboats could explode at any minute; the rate of importation kept climbing; factors shifted the bulk of risk onto planters. There were so many uncontrollable elements that planters, who compared themselves to gamblers, worked to shore up the shaky foundations of their society with geographic expansion and the ruthless enforcement of racial hierarchy. Many southern whites became obsessed with developing direct trade with Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. More and more of them came to believe that expansion was an easy fix to an economy that was overinvested in land, slaves, and steamboats. In their twisted universe, if Cuba, Nicaragua, and other countries could be absorbed into the South's commercial and political space, then the divergent interests of planters and merchants would be reconciled. John Quitman, Narciso Lopez, and William Walker personified this jingoistic impulse and sold a vision of the future not far from that of riverboat gamblers or land speculators. They became confidence men in their own right. One great prize was Cuba--the most important issue in the early 1850s--which feared would fall into England's lap (p. 15). Should that happen, abolition of slavery on the island would be next, and the South's trade through the Caribbean would be imperiled. …

Table of Contents

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Control Oil - Rule the World!

‘If you want to rule the world you need to control the oil. All the oil. Anywhere.’ Michel Collon, Monopoly Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia have more proven oil reserves than the rest of the world combined. This Black diamond (Crude Oil) is the world's most important commodity due to the development and dependence on energy of all humans in the world. The importance of Crude Oil to modern industrial society grew rapidly with the proliferation of automobiles in the early 1900s. But the turning point for Oil's importance was the First World War. By switching the British navy from coal to oil, British Secretary of the Navy Winston Churchill gave Britain and its allies a crucial advantage over their enemies. After the Allied victory, British foreign secretary Lord Curzon stated, 'The Allies floated to victory on a wave of oil'. After the war, oil production shifted from Texas, USA & the Caribbean basin to the Middle East, where vast oil reserves were discovered. The once allies - France, Britain, and the U.S. became competitors to have the greatest prize of the century. Britain emerged initially as the best-placed contender as it already had control of all of Iran's oil. The U.S. government worked hard to gain a foothold for U.S. oil companies in the region. The Second World War tipped the balance in the race for oil completely in the favor of the U.S. Europe was devastated and Germany was destroyed. France and Great Britain, the major imperial powers, emerged much weaker from the war, while the U.S. emerged relatively unscathed and controlling over half the world's industrial output. This helped the US claim the status of the dominant power in the West, while France and Britain became its junior partners in the past. Currently it is a fact that many of the world's leading oil producing countries are either politically unstable or are at serious odds with the U.S.A. In the past, a country's military was the sole arbiter of her strength, but today it is the economy that has become nearly as important and all industrial economies and militaries both run on oil and gas. The current world financial turmoil has created more insecurities than ever before. This paper focuses on the current geopolitical issues underlying the oil supply in the world. The US and China desire those resources to fuel their power plants, factories, automobiles, aircraft, and armored vehicles. Iran and Russia want the pipelines to go through their territory in order to claim transit fees and use the resources as political tools. The recent political development in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Yemen and other small Arab nations has given another twist to the old geo-politics in the region. This paper would analyze the factors that make and break international relations between countries with regard to oil supply. In this context, the focus of this paper would be to analyze the position of India vis-a-vis the changing scenario in the geopolitics of the world.Purpose – To analyze the factors that makes and break international relations between countries with regard to oil supply.Design/methodology/approach – Secondary data in the form of Literature review is to be studied.

Association Roundtable

Insights and advice from leaders of local and state biomedical associationsFred JaramilloPresident, Colorado Association of Biomedical Equipment TechniciansFirst of all, you need to have good and diversified classes/training for healthcare technology management professionals. You need to mix up training with professional development and technical training. Second, we encourage the members to bring their families to the symposium dinner. Members get to share their profession with their loved ones, and we give some great prizes to the kids. It is always fun to see a kid win a prize.Alison LauerPresident, North Carolina Biomedical AssociationWe offer classes/courses that will be beneficial to the technicians as well as the facilities where they work. We survey our attendees each year to ask them what they want, and then we do our best to offer the classes requested by the majority. We also try to keep the costs to attend as low as possible, as education budgets are one of the first to be reduced in a hospital. We have kept our attendee rates the same for the last three years. Lastly, we also incorporate one fun event.Gus SakisExecutive Chair, California Medical Instrumentation AssociationI believe the best way is provide top-notch sessions, networking opportunities, good food, fun things to do such as bowling, access to over 80 of our loyal and supportive corporate members/manufacturers and service providers, and provide all of it for FREE.

Rethinking the Humanities

Rethinking the Humanities Len Findlay (bio) In 1990 I secured a commitment from the discretionary fund of the then Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Vice-President Research at the University of Saskatchewan, Jack Manns. There were three key features of this arrangement for which I gained approval. The Humanities Research Unit I proposed to establish would not be located in a single college but would develop collaborative relations with several. It would report to the Office of the Vice-President Research. And it would be funded from the university's base budget. This arrangement allowed for a strategy of serving the traditional humanities community on campus while creating new collaborative communities on and off campus. Here was a way to advance the disciplinary and transdisciplinary agenda which Canadian universities were beginning to favour and to do so with some intellectual freedom and secure (if modest) resources. This was not the first attempt to "rethink" the humanities, nor has it been easy to keep this project going through various waves of institutional planning, prioritizing, branding, positioning, and forced migration from our long-term space in order to accommodate a Confucius Institute, but the Humanities Research Unit survives and prospers as a source of critique, debate, education, and learning on display and in progress, thanks to the co-direction provided by first Marie [End Page 1] Battiste (Aboriginal Education) and Lynne Bell (Art and Art History) and by a range of supportive colleagues, students, and staff. From the outset, unit programming emphasized three key themes: threats and impediments, academic value, and decolonizing education. As these themes (and their variations here) attest, humanities work is always pursued on challenging terrain but with intellectual resources predominantly but not exclusively text-based and well fitted to engaging with and illuminating questions of pressing importance for scholars, students, institutions, and citizens. Over the years, the unit has approached each of the events it has solely or co-operatively sponsored as one more moment in a continuous process of remaking and reviewing the case for the humanities in contemporary Canada. And at the heart of this endeavour remains my home discipline of English Studies. As a disciplinary formation, English uses its compositional or training component and the global status of English as "the" language of science and business to dominate French, Indigenous, and immigrant-heritage languages on campuses across the country where the profitable option is almost always the easiest sell. English still has numbers—of students and faculty—to its advantage relative to its sister disciplines, making for a positive budgetary presence and a sizeable political presence in areas of collegial governance. However, English as the humanities' champion is also the instrumentalists' greatest prize, the place into which almost all the humanities can be caused to retreat and gradually forego allegiance to their dark materials. A single omnibus department called Composition and Cultural Studies does not seem much of a stretch once omnibus budgeting arrives from Ottawa at a campus near you, if it is not there already. English represents hope and enhanced endangerment that comes with being one of the last dominoes standing in the current remaking of Canadian postsecondary institutions. How, then, does English live up to its role as a champion of the humanities in hard times, rather than serving as a conduit for further cynical compaction and immiseration of intellectual work? One answer to this question must surely be new forms of solidarity beyond the "narcissism of small differences" (Freud 199; see also Kolstø) and resource wars. And it is such a form of non-homogenizing, performative solidarity that this special issue seeks to model. [End Page 2] Caveat auctor! In 1963 in France, in the middle of the theory ferment that has been read both as liberating and as endangering literary studies via the activities of Foucault, Derrida, Cixous, Irigaray, et al., there occurred the Humanist Controversy (La Querelle de Humanisme) whose central figure was Louis Althusser. This controversy, like the current special issue of ESC, derived from someone bringing people together to address a broad issue with particular political and academic aims. When an invitation was extended by editor Erich Fromm to Althusser to contribute to a collection on...

Fatou, Julia, Montel, The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond by Michèle Audin

Fatou, Julia, Montel, The Great Prize of Mathematical Sciences of 1918, and Beyond by Michèle Audin

And the show went on: cultural life in Nazi-occupied Paris

In June 1940, Paris fell and the city's lights went out. The world's cultural capital had become the Nazis' greatest prize. Following its cultural tradition from the century before - having given birth to major artistic movements like Impressionism, Cubism and Surrealism - Paris remained home to the greatest artists, writers and composers, from Joyce to Picasso. After the invasion of France many artists fled and those still in Paris had to survive: Matisse kept out of view but Picasso could not avoid Nazi visitors. A few, like Beckett, joined the Resistance. Some were arrested and died in German hands. Others entertained the enemy. Maurice Chevalier and Edith Piaf sang, the dancing girls returned, the opera and theatres reopened, the movie cameras rolled, galleries sold paintings looted from Jewish families, pro-German writers and their rivals fought in print. Told through the experiences of renowned creative figures and witnesses of the times, And the Show Went On provides the authoritative account of how Paris's artistic world lived through the German Occupation. From the desperation of defeat to the heights of creativity this is a moving history of survival, collaboration and resistance.

Russia, FSU and the Circum-Arctic: ‘the final frontier’

Sixteen papers representing the petroleum geology of the Arctic, Russia and former Soviet Union were presented over the first day and a half of PGC VII. The region is huge, diverse and has generated a great deal of excitement and outside investment in the industry over the 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Arctic region in particular has significance as perhaps the last great frontier hydrocarbon province on Earth. The region is large, approximately 5000 km across a polar view north of the Arctic Circle (Fig. 1). Importantly, from an oil and gas exploration perspective, the Arctic Ocean has the most extensive continental shelf area of any ocean basin ( c . 50% of offshore area). Much of this sits in the broad Russian offshore Arctic in water depths of less than 50 m. There are numerous sedimentary basins in the Arctic, some well known, but most poorly understood. Art Grantz (United States Geological Survey) and colleagues estimated resources at 114×109 barrels of undiscovered oil and 2000×1012 standard cubic feet (SCF) of natural gas. If the estimates are correct, these hydrocarbons would account for more than a fifth of the world's undiscovered resources. This great prize, in a world of diminishing reserves, has recently brought territorial issues into focus between the five countries with claims in the Arctic Ocean (Russia, Norway, Denmark, Canada and the …