Lucky Star Research Articles

Born under a lucky star?

This paper suggests that people can learn to behave in a way which makes them persistently unlucky or lucky. Learning from one's own experience, as it reinforces a few lucky or unlucky outcomes in early periods, will lead them to repeatedly make choices that lead to lucky or unlucky outcomes. In this situation, people have reasonably learned to behave as they do and their behavior is consistent with their experience. The lucky ones were not “born under a lucky star”; they learned to be lucky.

Effect of feeding regimes on growth and survival of Clarias gariepinus larvae: replacement of Artemia by a commercial feed

TheAfrican cat¢sh, Clarias gariepinus (Burchell1822) is one of the most important species currently being farmed. Clarias gariepinus is a native species of tropical and subtropical fresh waters. It has been widely farmed in heated waters outside its natural range (Hecht & Appelbaum 1987), mainly in intensive culture in recirculating systems. The rapid growth even at high density, ability to breathe air and to withstand poor water quality and low food requirement make C. gariepinus an excellent ¢sh for aquaculture. In recirculating systems, larval rearing is the bottleneck in C. gariepinus production (Verreth 1994), although great progress has been made on the development of larval diets (Hecht, Ollermann & Verheust 1996). Larvae of African cat¢sh are generally weaned with natural food organisms that seem to be a prerequisite for the early larval rearing, and Artemia is often described as a reference diet in larval nutrition studies. Using natural food is costly, time consuming and not always available for the ¢sh breeder. Production of live food also needs adapted structures. Recently, an alternative to Artemia live food was developed for the marine hatchery market. This new generation of starter feed is described as more digestible, metabolizable and with better formulation (Gemma micro s , Skretting, commercial prospectus). The objective of the present investigation was to assess the possibility to replace partially or totally live food (Artemia nauplii) by a commercial arti¢cial food. Larvae of C. gariepinus were obtained by arti¢cial reproduction with captive breeders reared in the Aquaculture Research and Education Centre of the University of Lie' ge. Larvae were reared in 50-L aquaria in a recirculating system at 28.0 0.1 1C, pH57.6 0.2, with constant aeration (O255 0.8 ppm) and renewal rate (0.5 Lmin ). Concentrations of total ammonia and nitrites were 0.68 0.26 and 0.22 0.26mgL . The experiment was conducted in two phases: during the ¢rst 13 days post ¢rst feeding (feeding begin 48 h post hatching), larvae were fed with or without A. nauplii andwith diierent feed (six feeding regimes in duplicate, Table 1) at 500 ¢sh/50-L aquaria. Two commercial larval feed were used: ‘Gemma micro s ’ Skretting (particles size 150^300 mm), a marine larval feed or ‘Lucky Star s ’ (particles size 150^300 mm), a freshwater larval feed. Compositions are presented in Table 2. Fish were fed ad libitum six times a day from 09:00 to 17:00 hours.When necessary, excess feed was removed from the aquaria at the end of the day. In the second phase, from D13 to D32, larvae weaned with the diierent regimes were reared at 200 ¢sh/50-L aquaria and fed with the same feed (Lucky Star s , particles size 300^500 mm) to evaluate the eiect of ¢rst feeding regimes on growth and survival after the weaning period. At the end of each phase, biomass was measured and 50 ¢sh were individually weighed. Speci¢c growth rate SGR, food conversion ratio FCR and survival rate were calculated according to the formula: SGR5100 (lnW2 lnW1) (t2 t1) whereW2 andW1 are mean body weight (g) at day t2 and t1, FCR5C (¢nal biomass initial biomass) 1 where C is total food Aquaculture Research, 2010, 1^4 doi:10.1111/j.1365-2109.2010.02709.x

Quality of working life research: II. Personal quality of life

Our viability and vigor in general derives from our state of well-being and life as a whole. Some peop le are harmonious. They thrive and prosper and have the energy to solv e all the problems they encounter. These people are ready and willing to communicate and they are alert and attentive to lif e. They represent resources to be drawn upon. Often they are very valuable to themselves—they love life and they are shown respect and appreciation. Human beings who communicate great joy in life and a reserve of strength are those who easily rise to th e occasion and quickly adapt to getting on with oth er people. Quality of life is something inside you and it accompanies you wherever you go. Many people think that it is a matter of chance whether there is quality of life and surplus energy. Some people are born un der a lucky star, they say, while others had a bad start. By chance some humans have better genes and by nature they are the chosen few, the beautiful, the talented and the marvelous, whi le the rest of us must accept the twists of nature and accept being plain, a bit boring not possessed of the most brilliant minds. But no. Huma n beings are to a much greater extent the masters of their good or bad lives. Quality of life implies that you know and accept yourself. Thi s is not as simple as it may sound. But you can shape the good life yourself.

The “Futurings” of Hong Kong

Trepidation comes in two guises when venturing into space and time of an Other. First is that never arrives at where thinks oneself to be (among few, Edward Said made this clear some time ago in Orientalism when he exposed discovery of East as an invention and export of West); second, that might unwittingly offend very people to whom wishes to show respect. For me, Hong Kong was a port of entry into China as a history, thinking, and culture. As such, no matter what learns, there is an overwhelming sense of just how little knows, just how much there is to know, how much has been forgotten, AND how little those things that are of great value are valued. Against this setting, Hong Kong epitomizes a geography and history of ambiguity, richness and terror, limitation and potentiality. These figures are not binaries but unified opposites (a relation understandable through Chinese concept of Yin-yangD). Ambitiously, I want to evoke Hong Kong's potentiality as both and global. In so doing, I want to position readers outside Hong Kong as actively engaged with this communication of thinking. To that small, but very significant, design community in Hong Kong, hopefully will provide a new perspective on familiar issues of practical value. To do this is, to use an Australian term, a big ask for all concerned. However, there are lessons for all of us in this communication. This is because we still are lodged in an inadequate kind of thinking that makes clear dis-tinctions between the local and the global, while we need to think glocally (in spite of this inelegant term sticking in our craw).2 This then is a glocal communication about Hong Kong and about design thought otherwise-which will be seen at end of essay when ancient Chinese structurally inscribed modes of design will be shown to have much to teach future of designing otherwise. Although now touted as a material expression of system of China's one nation, two systems philosophy, new ideology has not displaced old Hong Kong images and habits. The place of course is of most image-saturated cities in world. The fact that it now is a Special Administrative Region makes little difference to such cultural perceptions. Like London, New York, or Sydney, Hong Kong has been made instantly recognizable to itself and elsewhere because it has televisual presence. Its image is constituted by an amalgam of stereotypical figures: Star Ferry crossing 1 The complexity of Yin-yang is discussed at length and in various ways in David L. Hall and Roger T. Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (New York: Suny, 1987). 2 As is often case, theory trails events. Glocal products have been around for a long time, and long before globalization hit airwaves. Certainly, from 1 920s, way in which General Motors not only retained badging of car companies they bought up around world, but also retained and played nationalist rhetoric associated with badge is example of this. This history is evident in Australian example of Holden Motor Company. Staying with car industry, more sophisticated late-modern examples of this currently are evident in China, where increasingly locally coded product is glocalised by a design strategy that uses global automotive companies, design teams, components to create cars with which to build a massive car market and to cater for desires, perceptions, budgets, and conditionsthe Lucky Star car is example of this. The project was marketed (so promotional materials tell us) to synthesize a whole range of plural and sometimes contradictory messages to demonstrate: advanced global car technology and components; best of Chinese wisdom, and needs of people; inspiration from nature; high style; comfort; a wide range of different models; economy and reliability; and greenness. The design team for car included Porsche engineering, Fiat, Renault, and Mitsubishi; and it has been produced by Shenzhen Tint Dragonfly Industrial Company with mature foreign components such as engine and chassis.

Snails

FICTION Snails Jay Solka THE OLD MAN, JAMES PASCAL M. FITCH, WAS CARVING A SNAIL. As he worked, his gnarled hands, in spite of being a little shaky, moved with dexterity. He cut a microscopic star in the little ball on the end of the snail's left feeler. This feeler hung down, to the left, while the other one rose slightly to the right and up, and the snail's head was turned curiously, just like his own. Fitch scratched the spiral shell with the tip of his knife, making a series of concentric grooves. Then he looked at his work from a distance, took his knife again, and just below the feelers, cut out a smile. Later in the morning, Fitch drove his taxicab to the Lime Hill train station. Some train enthusiasts had repaired the old scenic railroad not too long ago, after forty years of abandonment, and many tourists came this way. From there, they would take a taxi to Rocky Knob, with its one street, one hotel, and one French restaurant, and then hike to the nearby Organ Falls. The road from Rocky Knob to Lime Hill was a fifteen-mile stretch through the woods. The humdrum of the passing trees was broken only twice, by a huge gully through the middle of which ran a very unattractive, fairly deep and quiet creek. Right where the woods ended, and before Lime Hill began, there used to be a gas station, but now it was just a barren square of concrete. Drivers from the Lucky Star Taxi and Limousine Service (there were five of them) often pulled into the spot to have a smoke and chat. When Fitch got there, Barnett was standing by his car. Fitch hit the brakes, and his orange painted '86 Crown Vic jerkily came to the curb. Barnett turned. He was only fifty-six now, and he was strong—his cropped head gave him the look of a retired platoon sergeant. Leaning against the hot fender of his car, dressed in a worn-out poncho, he grinned sourly. Barnett had chronic heartburn, but it was much more than that, really—anchored deeply into the flesh of some ancient sin. It was a part of a family curse, which made the Barnett men fine carpenters but sloppy lovers, and drove away their wives, who couldn't stand being neglected for a dead tree. 71 Fitch opened the door, dropped his bony leg on the pavement, and took his rickety glasses off, putting them in the glove compartment. He touched his pockets, turned off the engine, and stepped over to Barnett. "I ain't never seen such a curious thing ever since I was born," said Fitch, as he squinted around to make sure nobody was listening. He had a scratchy, strong voice. Barnett shrank back, and his grin turned even more sour. He looked at Fitch's checkered cap. It must have lived on the old man's head for the last forty years, at least since Pamela Jean had passes away. "I stumbled on it in the meadow," said Fitch. He dripped his gnarled fingers into his overalls. "Extraordinary wood!" Barnett bent over at the waist, like a mannequin with hinges, his spine straight like a broomstick, and looked at the wooden snail in Fitch's hand. "I'll say, just a regular piece of figured sugar maple. I've seen enough of that curly timber to build a good-sized city." "A regular piece of figured sugar maple?" huffed Fitch. "Pshait! This here piece of regular figured maple has more curls than that degenerated brain of yours. I ain't never seen such a quality wood, and I've been in the curly timber business since before you was born. If you had any knowledge of the curly timber business at all, you'd know that this is the most extraordinary burl in the world." Barnett stopped grinning, but you would've had to know him for awhile to realize that, because his lips were still in that crooked position. "It don't mean nothing," he said. "Oh, yeah! It surely does. Timber like this don't grow just anywhere...

Lessons from a lucky star

Lessons from a lucky star

The Madonna connection: representational politics, subcultural identities, and cultural theory

Introduction - connections/intersections, Cathy Schwichtenberg. Part 1 Out of bounds - reading race and Madonna's audiences: a sacred monster in her prime - audience construction of Madonna as low-other, Laurie Schulze et al Madonna T/races - music videos through the prism of colour, Thomas K. Nakayama and Lisa N. Penaloza images of race and religion in Madonna's video Like a Prayer - prayer and praise, Ronald B. Scott. Part 2 The sapphic insurgent - Madonna and gay culture: embodying subaltern memory - kinesthesia and the problematics of race and gender, Cindy Patton justify our love - Madonna and the politics of queer sex, Lisa Henderson Madonna's postmodern feminism - bringing the margins back to the centre, C. Schwichtenberg. Part 3 Gender trouble - Madonna poses the feminist question: Madonna politics - perversion, repression or subversion? or masks and/as mastery/master-y, E. Ann Kaplan feminist politics and postmodern seductions - Madonna and the struggle for political articulation, Roseann M. Mandzuik seduction, control and the search for authenticity - Madonna's truth or dare, E. Deidre Pribram don't go for second sex, baby!, Melanie Morton. Part 4 The political economy of postmodernism - Madonna as star-commodity: metatextual girl - patriarchy-postmodernism-power-money-Madonna, David Tezlaff Material Girl - the effacements of postmodern culture, Susan Bordo the distance between me and you - Madonna and celestial navigation or (You Can be My LUCKY STAR), Greg Seigworth.

Marion B. Sulzberger, M.D.

I was born in 1895 in New York City under a lucky star. In the early 1850s , as a penniless teenager, my father had come from Germany to the United States and built up the third largest pork and beef packing company in the world. He was patient and kind. My mother was an educated, loving Southern gentlewoman. In our home at 21 East 67th Street, there were many children and three governesses-one German, one French, and one English. From earliest childhood, I learned three languages. In a New York private school , I was taught in the classic tradition. For a year and a half during my early teens, I attended Pennsylvania Military College. The rigorous drilling and the paddling by the upper class men further hardened my naturally tough body-including my posterior. Near the end of my freshman year, I left Harvard-at a suggestion from the college, with which I heartily agreed . I was 17. I worked my way around the world. My lucky stars kept me from dying of heat exhaustion as a coal trimmer; from being thrown, dragged, and killed by unbroken horses and mules or from perishing of thirst in the Australian desert; from dying of peritonitis during attacks of appendicitis on a sheep station hundreds of miles from the nearest doctor; from starving to death or freezing when I had to sleep in Sydney's Domain Park during the bitter winter. When I returned, I became a naval aviator in World War I, holding International Seaplane License No. 74 and U.S. Naval Aviator's Certificate No. 728. The appellation safe would be most inappropriate for the rickety, underpowered, wooden and canvas planes r flew far out to sea on convoys and patrols.

The Misguiding Star

Just because a man blames his bad luck on an ill-fated star, or because he ascribes his good fortune to a lucky star under which he was born, it does not follow that he believes in astrology. He may be simply indulging in metaphor. Similarly, because millions read their horoscopes in the daily newspaper, it cannot be assumed that all of them put their faith in astral omens. Some may be only amusing themselves. Nevertheless, to a large number of those who faithfully follow the syndicated astrology columns or consult professional astrologers, stellar guidance means more than dictates of common sense, science, or religion. With these devotees in mind, 186 leading scientists, including 18 Nobel laureates, have recently published 1 a statement denouncing astrology as a pseudoscience that deludes and misguides. There is nothing surprising about this statement. If anything, it is long overdue. What remains somewhat of a mystery

The Tragedy of the "Lucky Star Locust" House

Yü-k'ou Village is located thirty li south of Ch'in hsien in Shansi Province. In this village lives an old shepherd named Liu Erh-mo. A "five-good" commune member, he is sixty-seven years old this year. Starting at age seven, he has already worked as a shepherd for sixty years. People, concerned about him, have advised him to retire, but he is unwilling to do so. Every day he drives his flock of sheep to pasture, and the sounds of the song "The Communist Party Is Our Benefactor" fill the mountain fastness. Every time people hear him sing the song, they say in admiration, "That poor wretch is getting younger and younger."

Seizure and Search of the “Lucky Star” (Jurisdiction -- Offshore Broadcasting)

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