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New Re-Os molybdenite dates from two lode gold deposits of the Tintina Gold Belt, Alaska, provide direct timing constraints for sulfide and gold mineralization. In other cases, several decades may be required before a balance between force and resistance is reached. Landscape stability, which depends on the relationship of the distribution of energy to the material landscape, has been reestablished in some basins in the Central City area. Threshold values of erosive force were surpassed in response to changes in general basin vegetation cover, valley floor vegetation, channel slope, width, and roughness. ![]() ![]() The spatial distribution of energy and force has been substantially altered by human activities. before settlement to 8 dynes during the mining period. ![]() Arroyos and gullies developed on many valley floors as responses to increases in channel tractive force from 1 dyne. Central City is typical of mountain mining towns with clearly defined periods of discovery and settlement, bonanza, investment, development, and, finally, decline. 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Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls "British Press Being So Horrible" After Her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar Win: "Totally Overwhelming" ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Similarly, his essentially gothic bent, when applied to an ongoing crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic, can yield statements that whiff faintly of cabbage. This is a promising direction, but I missed Sedaris’s personal connection to the topics of guns and school shootings in an essay about those topics. Some of the pieces in Happy-Go-Lucky seem transitional, as if Sedaris, having already secured his place as a chronicler of dysfunctional families and oddball enthusiasms, is casting his net wider by taking on societal issues. We also get the only truly offensive thing, to my knowledge, that Sedaris has ever written. We get a seeming resolution to Sedaris and his father’s lifelong grudge match when Lou tells David, 'You won.' We get vivid moments featuring Lou’s will and Tiffany’s accusations of sexual abuse Sedaris confesses to offering to pay for a 24-year-old store clerk to have his teeth fixed, and to long ago initiating a bizarre intergenerational family moment while wearing underpants that he’d cut the back out of. However, in addition to being consistently funny, it contains some festive Sedaris occasions for all those who celebrate. has fewer of these beautifully crafted jewel boxes than Calypso did. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “As a statement on the reclamation of history by those who have been oppressed by the likes of Kipling for so many centuries, and continue to be to this day, we replaced his words with those of the legendary Maya Angelou, a black female poet and civil rights activist.” Students replaced Kipling’s poem with Angelou’s “ Still I Rise.” Well-known as author of the racist poem 'The White Man’s Burden,' and a plethora of other work that sought to legitimate the British Empire’s presence in India and de-humanize people of color, it is deeply inappropriate to promote the work of Kipling in our SU, which is named after prominent South African anti-Apartheid activist, Steve Biko.” “We, as an exec team, believe that Kipling stands for the opposite of liberation, empowerment, and human rights - the things that we, as an SU, stand for. ![]() Sara Khan, the student union’s liberation and access officer, posted the following statement on Facebook about the decision to paint over it: “A failure to consult students during the process of adding art to the newly renovated SU building resulted in Rudyard Kipling’s work being painted on the first floor last week. ![]() ![]() ![]() I try, and almost uniformly fail, to convince thin people that I do not mind the word fat – that I strongly prefer it to kid-glove euphemisms like “curvy” or “fluffy” or stigmatizing medical terms like “obese.” "The hurt doesn’t come in naming our bodies for what they are – it comes in the harm that is visited upon us for being visibly fat." And, even with the best of intentions, they create powerful sense memories for children who dare to say the unspeakable name of bodies like mine. ![]() In so doing, they redact fat bodies from their children’s worldview. When children observe plainly that my body is fat, their straight-size parents reliably make a scene, sharply disciplining them, insisting fat means pain, and that fat bodies are not to be seen, discussed, observed, or embraced. When I refer to my own body as fat, I’m met with a knee-jerk, syrupy insistence that you’re not fat! ![]() ![]() ![]() In interviews and essays, Westerfeld has also taken issue with the increasing interest in policing teens’ whereabouts and behavior, specifically as parents’ ability (or potential ability) to track teens through their phones, cars, and even dental implants have made headlines. In the 10 years prior to Uglies’ publication, cosmetic procedures on patients younger than 18 increased dramatically, from around 14,000 procedures in 1996 to 333,000 procedures in 2005. Today, medical associations differentiate between plastic surgery (which is reconstructive and corrects impairments like cleft palates or traumatic injuries) and cosmetic surgery (which is elective and includes procedures like breast augmentation, facelifts, and liposuction) it’s cosmetic surgery that Westerfeld takes issue with in Uglies. ![]() Though people have been repairing bodies for millennia, elective surgery wasn’t much of a possibility until the mid to late 19th century, thanks to the development of anesthesia and antibiotics. ![]() The earliest mention of what would be considered plastic surgery today appears in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, a medical text dating to between 30 B.C. The Uglies series was inspired by the increasing availability of plastic surgery (especially for young people), as well as the increase in surveillance that Westerfeld sees young people experiencing. ![]() |