Sad Day Research Articles

Love in Grief

Love in Grief is a timestamped lyrical triptych depicting three distinct exchanges between four Black women, one of whom was dying. The Manhattan’s chart-setting single, "Kiss and Say Goodbye," which hailed number one on the Billboard R&B Chart in 1976, set the stage for this tribute. In the first stanza, called The Song, the author channels a message from her friend, Georgiana Pickett, through Winfred Lovett’s intro: “This has to be the saddest day of my life.” The interdimensional exchange between the author and Pickett, transmitted by radio frequencies, demonstrates a common tension in grief—wretched desperation that guts and immobilizes in conflict with a distressing fight to overcome the inevitable. In this stanza, the author frantically tries to get back to New York in time to see Pickett still breathing despite feeling the cavernous pain of loss. The first timestamp is logged. In the second stanza, the author captures the moment when she has to say goodbye to Pickett over the phone while on the runway of a taxiing plane. In this surrealist still, another sister-friend demonstrates how Black women often hold space for others in grief despite their pain. It is a cultural practice. In this case, a mutual sister-friend held space for the distant author. This scene captures love, loss, pain, sorrow, and bridging through space and time. It is named The Call, which records the second timestamp. The third lyrical moment, dubbed The Embrace, shuttles the reader from The Call’s distant hold to a three-dimensional embrace between the author and another sister-friend. After seeing the group that gathered at the hospital, the author beelined into the arms of a friend like a beacon, and she held her. This embrace became the glue that kept the author from collapsing under grief. The third timestamp is logged in this hug, and the triptych is complete. Love in Grief is dedicated to Lisa Yancey’s dear friend, Georgiana Pickett (December 15, 1968 - February 5, 2024), and the Black women who made these memories. The Song (Georgiana Pickett), The Call (Anna Glass), and The Embrace (Okwui Okpokwasili). Passage and metamorphosis thread throughout this tribute. Lynnette Kaid of "Kaid-N-Kolor" created the graphic art accompanying Love in Grief.

In memory of late professor Salah Ahmed Ibrahim.

Wednesday, the 28th of February 2024, was a sad day for pediatricians, pediatric patients and their families, friends, and acquaintances of the distinguished scientist Professor Salah Ahmed Ibrahim. On that sad day Sudan lost one of its great scientists in the areas of pediatrics and education. With his tragic departure, Prof. Salah left great sadness on everybody who knew him even for a short while in his rich life: as students in his innovative classes, or colleagues during his journey in universities, as patients seeking his great knowledge and experience, as a competent leader in education institutes, as a trusty friend who could provide valuable advice, as a commended mentor, or as a great human being.

Say their names: Resurgence in the collective attention toward Black victims of fatal police violence following the death of George Floyd.

The murder of George Floyd by police in May 2020 sparked international protests and brought unparalleled levels of attention to the Black Lives Matter movement. As we show, his death set record levels of activity and amplification on Twitter, prompted the saddest day in the platform's history, and caused his name to appear among the ten most frequently used phrases in a day, where he is the only individual to have ever received that level of attention who was not known to the public earlier that same week. Importantly, we find that the Black Lives Matter movement's rhetorical strategy to connect and repeat the names of past Black victims of police violence-foregrounding racial injustice as an ongoing pattern rather than a singular event-was exceptionally effective following George Floyd's death: attention given to him extended to over 185 prior Black victims, more than other past moments in the movement's history. We contextualize this rising tide of attention among 12 years of racial justice activism on Twitter, demonstrating how activists and allies have used attention and amplification as a recurring tactic to lift and memorialize the names of Black victims of police violence. Our results show how the Black Lives Matter movement uses social media to center past instances of police violence at an unprecedented scale and speed, while still advancing the racial justice movement's longstanding goal to "say their names."

Frederick Douglas Kelly Jr. (1934–2022)

Frederick Douglas Kelly Jr. (1934–2022) Wendy Pfeffer Douglas Kelly, the University of Wisconsin's Julian Harris Professor of Medieval French Emeritus, died on the morning of March 21, 2022 at the age of 87. In an email, Keith Busby described his late colleague as "one of the great medieval scholars of his generation." Kelly's research was devoted particularly to the topics of rhetoric and romance narrative of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Underlying all of his work is the notion that vernacular poetics were grounded in the Latin arts of poetry. Busby's encomium continued, "He was a great scholar and teacher and the best of men." Douglas received his BA, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Southern California (1956), his MA (1959) and Ph.D. (1962) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Once in Madison, he never left—he taught French, Italian, medieval Occitan, and Medieval Studies there for forty-three years, leaving teaching as professor emeritus. In an email, Julia Nephew, a former student, called Douglas "an inspiring and empathetic mentor." In a different email, Suzanne Hagedorn spoke of Douglas's "unfailingly gracious presence, his insightful comments on conference papers, his erudition and kindness." Among his many honors, we can list: Fellow of the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin; Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America; and senior fellow for the Netherland Institute for Advanced Study. Douglas was a recipient of two significant University of Wisconsin recognitions: the Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award and the Hilldale Award for the Humanities. The French branch of the Société internationale arthurienne awarded him its Prix Excalibur in 1995. Over the course of his career, Douglas received extramural grant funding from Phi Beta Kappa, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I knew him as a welcoming, warm, and humble individual, open to ideas from all sides, ever inquisitive. My last interaction with Douglas was in 2019, at Kalamazoo, where he regretted simply [End Page 277] that he was perhaps getting too old to participate as actively in the congress as he would have liked. Though Douglas was better known as an Old French scholar, Occitan literature did not escape his purview. He was a long-standing member of the Société Guilhem IX. He discussed Flamenca in his important book Medieval Imagination; considered Flamenca and Jaufre in "Exaggeration, Abrupt Conversion, and the Uses of Description"; included Raimon Vidal de Besalù in The Arts of Poetry and Prose; and examined fourteenth-century lyric poets At de Mons and Raimon de Cornet in "The Late Medieval Art of Poetry" and again in "Translatio Poetriae." He was also the man responsible for Occitan as an area editor for Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies. It is a sad day when a great scholar and a genuinely warm human being leaves our company. He will be missed. Wendy Pfeffer University of Louisville University of Pennsylvania OCCITAN-RELATED WORKS CITED Kelly, Douglas. The Arts of Poetry and Prose. Typologie des sources du Moyen Âge occidental 59. Turnhout: Brepols, 1991. Google Scholar ———. "Exaggeration, Abrupt Conversion, and the Uses of Description in Jaufre and Flamenca." In Studia occitanica in memoriam Paul Remy. Edited by Hans-Erich Keller et al. 2 vols. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1987. 2: 107–119. Google Scholar ———. "The Late Medieval Art of Poetry: The Evidence from At de Mons and Raimon de Cornet." In Études de langue et de littérature médiévales offertes à Peter T. Ricketts. Edited by Dominique Billy and Ann Buckley. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005. 681–692. Google Scholar ———. Medieval Imagination: Rhetoric and the Poetry of Courtly Love. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978. Google Scholar ———. "Translatio Poetriae: Occitan Apprenticeship from the Latin Classroom to the Vernacular Court." In Le Poetriae del medioevo latino: Modelli, fortuna, commenti. Edited by Gian Carlo Alessio and Domenico Losappio. Filologie medievali e moderne 15. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. 91–128. Google Scholar Copyright © 2023 Société Guilhem IX ...

Vefat Edenin Yakınları Tarafından Taziyeye Gelenlere Yemek ve İçecek İkramında Bulunulmasının Dini Açıdan Durumu

It is a law of Almighty Allah that every living thing will drink the sherbet of death. Death is not an extinction, but a gateway to an eternal life. Every separation is a cause of sadness for their relatives and loved ones. People naturally want to see their relatives and loved ones next to them on days of joy and sadness. The religion of Islam regards people as honorable. Just as the living thing is blessed, so is the dead. The responsibilities of a deceased believer over the remaining believers are determined by the responsibilities of equipment, takfin, prayer and burial. In addition, there is a responsibility to share the grief of the relatives of the deceased, to console them, and to offer condolences to alleviate their distress. The main aim is not to add to their troubles, but to alleviate their troubles. The Messenger of Allah recommended taking food to their homes to lighten the burden of their deceased relatives. Over time, these recommendations were abandoned in some areas, and instead of bringing food to the relatives of the deceased, the owners of the deceased prepared meals for those who came to offer condolences. Without exception, it was seen by scholars as an act contrary to the practice of the Messenger of Allah and accepted as makruh. If this food is made from the property of an orphan, it is haram to eat this food. In some hadiths from the Companions, it is accepted as niyaha for the relatives of the dead to prepare food for the condolences. Final action; In many narrations from the Messenger of Allah (pbuh), it is reported that he was cursed by Almighty Allah, inflicted a great torment in the hereafter, and is a tradition of ignorance. Some of the reasons that lead the dead owners to prepare food are as follows; expectation of goodness, fear of being accused, becoming a custom, abandoning the custom of bringing food to the dead, increasing the number of places of condolence, fear of embarrassment, etc. can be said. In order to prevent the custom of offering food to condolences by the dead owners, it seems essential to carry out the following activities: First of all, in a Muslim society, it is a duty of everyone who is responsible for this issue, so that the condolences do not expect to be offered food and drink at the condolence house. It should try to impose on the culture of the society that not giving food in condolences is not a bad behavior. One should know that the good of the deceased relative is not met by giving food to the guests. Making efforts to establish the awareness in the society that those who give food should be aware that what they are doing is not good, but on the contrary, that they are doing a deed that is considered religiously despised, and that the good of their deceased relative will only be realized by delivering them directly to the hands of the poor, not in this way. In the detached places opened for condolences, this should be taken into account during the construction phase so that the sections where the condolences can eat and the sections where the condolences sit is separate. Not coinciding with meal times to go to condolences. Condolences should be kept short so that condolence houses do not turn into chat houses. Only if the need for food and shelter cannot be met by neighbors and friends for first-degree relatives and other close relatives of the deceased who come from distant lands and cannot return immediately; Special funds for this issue within the body of non-governmental organizations, municipalities or other institutions and special venues should be made where necessary.

A tribute to Rudy Baum

It was a sad day for C&EN’s staff when we received the news of the passing of our former editor in chief Rudy Baum. The team is still working remotely, but I imagine that every one of us gasped in shock and took a slow, deep breath. I also imagine that those of us who had the honor of working with Rudy thought about our last interactions: “When did I last speak to him? Is it really more than x years since I last saw him?” And as the news sank in, we delved into our memory banks to celebrate the time Rudy was in our lives . Stories started pouring in—about Rudy’s travels for business or to dive with whale sharks, and personal tales that exemplify how he cared for and stood up for the people in his charge. One staff member spoke of the banter they always had

The Silence and the Silence Breakers of the Irish Civil War, 1922–2022

The Silence and the Silence Breakers of the Irish Civil War, 1922–2022 Síobhra Aiken (bio) The original timeline proposed for the Decade of Commemorations (2012–22) omitted the latter half of the Irish Civil War. The June 2022 centenary of the burning of the Public Record Office during the battle of the Four Courts was considered as a possible "capstone to the decade of centenaries."1 Following public criticism, however, the chronology of the "decade" was extended until 2023 to cover the final months of the Civil War. But this initial reluctance is highly revealing in terms of official attitudes toward the period of civil conflict. It speaks to a long-established tendency to shy away from the realities of Irish-on-Irish violence and particularly the contentious events of June 1922 to May 1923. The idea that the destruction of centuries of historical documents could offer a symbolic ending to the commemorations also reflects the long-standing characterization of the Irish Civil War as an absence within the historical narrative: memoirs mysteriously end with the truce of July 1921; statements in the Bureau of Military History (BMH) stop suddenly before the Civil War; history textbooks were characterized for decades by "oblivion after 1922."2 This type of socially validated silence is often a feature of the commemoration of war, mimicking perhaps the liturgical practices of mourning.3 But silence takes on even greater political significance in post–civil war society, as calls for amnesty in the name of the common good often translate into "amnesia" or "commanded forgetting" [End Page 260] (to use Paul Ricœur's term).4 From as early as Roman times, orator and historian Titus Labienus professed that "forgetting" was "the best defence against civil war."5 As David Armitage outlines, this connection between civil war and "historical amnesia" intensified from the late eighteenth century, as distinctions were drawn between the "blighting and collapse of the human spirit" associated with civil war and the "revelation and self-realization" offered by revolution.6 This celebrated fight for freedom versus traumatic civil-war binary is arguably the defining feature of the commemorative narrative of Ireland's revolutionary period. For example, when speaking in 1942, the Capuchin friar Fr. Aloysius Travers promised not to dwell on the "sad days of civil war and bitter strife," calling instead on his audience to "try to forget what is painful—let us remember what is heartening and inspiring."7 As Anne Dolan argues in her study of the "troubled" memory of the Free State side, the Irish Civil War produced "a will to forget, a retreat to a type of silence that erased all but the victory."8 This article is not just concerned with the silence, however. Rather, this article draws attention to the many voices that pushed against it. For just as there were objections in 2016 to the omission of the latter half of the Irish Civil War in state commemorations, so too the codes of silence surrounding the events of 1922–23—and, indeed, the many "unacknowledged" sites of civil war which characterized the revolutionary period more broadly—have been repeatedly contested over the past century.9 Fr. Travers's call to "try to forget" (my [End Page 261] emphasis) epitomizes what Guy Beiner refers to as the "paradox of intentional forgetting," a paradox that "effectively" ensures that the event supposedly condemned to oblivion "will be remembered in an obscure form."10 As historian Jay Winter observes in his consideration of twentieth-century postwar silence, "agents of silencing," who are "intent on keeping the lid on certain topics or words," nearly always have to contend with "memory agents" "equally dedicated to blowing the lid off."11 My earlier research in Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony, and the Irish Civil War (2022) investigated the silence-breaking projects of veterans of the conflict.12 This article widens the time frame of analysis by mapping the publication of popular civil-war narratives, decade by decade, from the 1920s to the present day. Despite the persistent belief, most recently expressed by R. F. Foster, that "creative literature inspired by the Civil War … remains scanty,"13 the supposed silence surrounding...

The Role Of Uzbek National Performance In The Music Art

In the article the role of our national percussion words formed on the basis of Uzbek musical performance art in IX-XII centuries in the cultural life of people at all stages of development from generation to generation for centuries, their joy, sometimes accompanying us in our sad days, reaching us in a perfected and perfected form, the necessary influence on the spiritual world of people with the sound of percussion instruments, their place in our modern cultural life.

The Opinions of Prospective Teachers on Using Folk Songs in Social Studies Teaching

The social studies course is one of the most appropriate courses for individuals to acquire social and cultural experiences and to have knowledge and experience in these subjects. The social studies course contains a lot of knowledge, skills, and values to enable the individual to know himself and gain a social identity. It is seen how a society expresses its feelings and emotions at different times, on sad or happy days through folk songs, which have an essential place among the literary products used in the course. This study, which aimed to determine the opinions of the prospective social studies teachers regarding the use of folk songs in social studies courses, was carried out with 16 prospective social studies teachers. In this study, a semi-structured interview form was used to collect data. Explanatory and inferential codes that emerged during the analysis were used to explain the qualitative data and relationships. In line with the data obtained, prospective teachers stated that they found the use of folk song-supported teaching activities in social studies teaching useful in ensuring permanence, drawing students' attention, and being fun. They also expressed that it has benefits such as giving an idea about our national culture, presenting values to students, increasing intelligibility, ensuring that traditions and customs are conveyed from generation to generation, and providing students with different perspectives.

Tongan Collective Mobilities: Familial Intergenerational Connections Before, During, and Post COVID‐19

Tongan Collective Mobilities: Familial Intergenerational Connections Before, During, and Post <scp>COVID</scp>‐19

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Professor Abbas Tariq

Like most of other countries, Covid-19 has hit us very hard and healthcare staff across the country has been on their toes right from the day one. In the ongoing fight many of our doctors, nurses and paramedical staff also contracted the disease and many of them even lost their lives. 16th June 2020 was the saddest day, when the medical community heard the tragic news of demise of their ever-smiling, beloved Professor Dr. Abbas Tariq after being hospitalized for five days.

Tribute to Professor Emeritus Frederick Hickling

Tribute to Professor Emeritus Frederick Hickling

Sheikh Abdulazeez Al-Samarrai is the son of SalimbinSun-AllahBinAlibinHasabAllahbin Neisan. He is a descendant of the Samarra-based Al Nesisan tribe. He’s a Hashemite Descendent

He was born to pious parents in Samarra in1914. He was raised by a family that is highly famed for piety, righteousness and interest in knowledge and good deeds. He attended smallnon-formal Quranic schools. He then moved on to a scholarly school run by Sheikh Ahmed Alrawi. He was awarded a license in Sharia education. Sheikh Abdulazeez has lived in a time characterized by special cultural social and political conditions. Sheikh Abdulazeez was born at the onset of World war I, a war which resulted in the British Occupation of Iraq and the end of the ottoman empire.This led to nationwide armed popular uprising which saw the installation of the Hashemite Monarchy when Faisal was installed as Iraq’sking.The sociopolitical scene remained turbulent until the coronation of Faisal II in 1953. This monarchy lasted until 1958, at which point the monarch was overthrown and a republic was proclaimed. Sheikh Abdulazeez has also lived in a time characterized by an erosion of the cultural life due to political instability especially when Iraq was under the British administration. The new Iraqi nation-state suffered from a fragile economy in its first years,and schools were predominantly attended by the students of the rich families, politicians, insiders and those with connections to the British. These schools were mostly managed by the Iraq-based foreign missions. Despite hunger and pverty, Iraqis continued to send their children to religious on-formal schools and mosques. Overtime,the number of schools increased, and eventually new universities were founded, such as Mosul University, Baghdad University, Mustansiriya University and Basrah University. Meanwhile, cultural and technological advancement continued,and man sent satellites to space. Sheikh Abdulazeez associated these events with the spiritual realities derived from the Quran and Prophetic Sunna, evidenced by Quranic Ayahs and Prophetic hadiths to make certain that Islam promotes knowledge instead of resisting it. It is important to note that Sheuk Abdulazeez also lived in a period dominated by religious ignorance. Despite that, values of generosity had remained solid among the community full of honest and sincere people. Sheikh Abdulazeez held an important position within the local community, sharing with them the pleasing and sad days, thus guiding them to the right path. Al-Samarrai had first wanted to move to Heet but was encouraged to settle in Fallujah, where he became a beacon of knowledge and morality. He served as a teacher and a preacher at Kadhum Basha Mosque, wrote books, and educated the local Fallujan community. The Sheikh’s dedication to the city of Fallujah contributed to the growth in student levels, and the number of students who became public servants, famous preachers, and university professors. This abstract is an outline of a larger paper where there will be broader details about Sheikh Abdulzazeez Al-Samarra’I, covering his scholarly trips, career, his Sheikhs, students, and his publications. &#x0D; Keywords: Not Available

Brexit - Consequences for the UK's Oral Health Workforce?

On Friday, 20 December 2019, after three and a half years of discussion the Parliament of the United Kingdom (UK) voted decisively that this country should leave the European Union (EU). For many of us this was a sad day. However, this political decision has been made and intensive negotiations will now take place between the UK and the EU's negotiating teams to agree the details for the UK's future relationship with the EU. It is still far from clear exactly what the consequences of the resulting deal will be for both parties. A number of previous articles and editorials have speculated on the possible consequences for health and oral health in the UK. Key areas include workforce, research and regulations for medicines and medical and dental equipment. This editorial will consider the implications for the UK's Oral healthcare workforce.

Victor Villanueva: Obituary

On the Loss of our Friend VictorVictor was much more than a colleague to me. He was a friend. On Tuesday, the 27th of August, a few days before he passed away, he was an examiner in the final defense of a master student. Although his state of health had already deteriorated to the point of no return, Victor had no intention of giving up on his responsibilities. With his noticeably slower and feeble gait, he reached the examination room a few minutes late. Despite excruciating headache and the fact that his increasing physical debilities were unable to keep up with his mental strength and optimism, he keenly sat through the exam and with genuine interest in the content of the research work presented, asked questions with zeal and excitement, and even proposed a few possible future applications of the work.Just after the exam was over, we all had to move to the main building to sign the official document. Victor struggled again to go up the stairs. By the time he reached the final stair, he was completely out of breath. He was less than a few meters away from the secretary´s office, but his fragile body needed rest. He looked at me, smiled feebly and sat down on a chair to catch his breath. “Give me a few moments Adnan. I shall soon be with you.” was all he could say. Shortly, he mustered up the last few atoms of his strength, and walked into the office to sign the documents. Despite seeing him so ill of health, I simply could not see it coming, not so soon at least. I could not foresee the tragic fact that his would only be the second funeral I would be attending after accompanying him a decade ago to bury his unborn son. Traveling on the wings of memory, I would later recall those sad days of early 2004. I was shell shocked when Victor’s loving son was being laid to rest when he passed away in his mother’s womb after seven months of conception. At that time, I was expecting my own son of the same age and I could not fathom how a father could survive this tragedy. Victor’s immense inner strength of will enabled him to survive this tremendous loss and his failing kidneys till his physical capacities finally surrendered to the indifferent and often cruel course of nature.Victor was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 1, 1970. Shortly afterwards, his family moved to Zamora, Michoacán, where he received elementary and high school education. Later he moved to Morelia and attended the University of Michoacan from where he received his bachelor degree in 1993. After carrying out his master at Metropolitan University (Iztapala) in Mexico City in 1995, he joined University of Guanajuato (Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico). There he obtained his doctoral degree under thetitle: Quantization of Gauge Systems on Riemannian Manifolds under the supervision of Prof. J. L. Lucio from University of Guanajuato and Prof. J. Govaerts from the Universite Catholique de Louvain-la Neuve, Belgium (1999). As a researcher, Victor had about 20 articles in international journals to his credit and more than a 100 citations. Though his academic achievements are numerous and earned him a respectable place in the national scientific community, I would not dwell on it more. I miss him as a friend.

“Sad day for the UK”: The linking of debates about settling refugee children in the UK with Brexit on an anti‐immigrant news website

AbstractThis article uniquely demonstrates how UK debates about supporting child refugees during the “refugee crisis” came to be used as support for leaving the European Union (EU). The research question “how did users of a news website respond to a report about the UK government's decision to allow child refugees into the UK?” is addressed with a rigorous discursive analysis of an internet discussion forum on the anti‐immigrant website MailOnline consisting of 2,014 unique posts, with a reach of 30 million viewers. Analysis demonstrated that (1) child refugees were presented as adults, (2) allowing in refugees was presented as a “burden” on taxpayers, (3) the decision was presented as opposed to the public's will, and (4) this was used as a warrant for leaving the EU. The significant implication of this analysis is that political attempts at associating the refugee crisis with the EU may have been successful in this context.

The key aspects and their meanings about ‘One Dupyo’ -Focus on the record of The Annals of the Choson Dynasty and the oral folktale-

This article was intended to compare the ‘One Dupyo’ in a historical record with his character in a fictional narrative which is based on history looking at the record of &#61440;The Annals of the Choson Dynasty&#61440; for ‘One Dupyo’ and the various stories to be introduced about ‘One Dupyo’. For this purpose, in the second chapter of this article, I organized how ‘One Dupyo’ was described in historical record reviewing the text of &#61440;The Annals of the Choson Dynasty&#61440; and the obituary of ‘One Dupyo’. Thus, although ‘One Dupyo’ has been trusted by kings, I could see that he was a man who received negative reviews from the other vassal. The excellent fearless vigor and cleverness which ‘One Dupyo’ had, it work as a merit for his success in the rebellion, but it was a hindrance to an official life. And in the third chapter, I suggested how ‘One Dupyo’ was shaped in the story on the basis of the oral folktale about ‘One Dupyo’. Also, I examined the ‘Silgi’ for ‘One Dupyo’ and the contents of historical novel in this discussion. Through this discussion, I could tell that the character of ‘One Dupyo’, who is being repeatedly produced in the data of the oral folktale, the historical novel, ‘Silgi’, is the hero who has to overcome difficulty. Especially, ‘One Dupyo’ in sad days of the absence of a powerful hero in Japanese occupation is shaped like an extraordinary hero. But, ‘One Dupyo’ in the oral folktale, his character is limited to those who advance to the government post and always on the road using his fearless vigor and cleverness. It also overlaps with historical evaluations. In that point, the main story of the ‘One Dupyo’ is the form of the oral folktale, the special title he had was to be glorified as a positive advantage according to the demands of the times, and to be criticized for its shortcomings.

Sixty years of spectroscopic research: a tribute to Professor Edward B. M. Steers

It was a very sad day when the unbelievable news reached us that Prof. Edward Steers of London Metropolitan University had passed away. He was a major figure in Glow Discharge Spectroscopy (GDS). This text is intended as a brief overview of Edward’s career in science, his activities in organizing meetings and research networks focused on GDS and the many-sided promotion of the field, including lecturing, his work with graduate students and post-docs, and the various research projects on which he collaborated with many colleagues throughout Europe. He was widely respected and admired for his keen scientific insight and encyclopedic knowledge and he was universally loved as a genuine and wonderful person.

The Saddest Day: Gene Leggett and the Origins of the Incompatible Clause

The Saddest Day: Gene Leggett and the Origins of the Incompatible Clause