#Georgi Gardiner

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So when Darcy went to fix the Lydia/Wickham situation, he first tried to get Lydia to return home, only bribing Wickham into marrying her when she wouldn't. This is sensible by modern standards, but we know from everyone else's reactions Lydia *failing* marrying Wickham would bring the Bennet family shame. Darcy knows this, and doubt he planned to leave the situation as is. So how did he originally plan to fix it?

I think Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy was gonna channel his inner Emma Woodhouse (didn't have to dig far, they're very similar people) and play matchmaker. In my headcannon Darcy checked his "Possible Husbands for Georgie" list against his "People who owe me Gargantuan favours" list and offer whoever came up money to marry Lydia.

Now, he would want to spare the Bennets of as much of the scandal as possible, and wouldn't want to take the merit in front of Lizzie, so all would most likely happen discreetly through Mr. Gardiner, while Lydia was in London, and she would move to her husbands immediatly after.

However, I wanna propose a different scenario: Lydia returns to Meryton. Scandal ensues, the Bennets are disgraced. Then, within two weeks, a random well-off man shows up intent on courting Lydia and *only* Lydia. He heeds nobodys warnings and gives no explanations. Lydia loves it. Every other mum in Meryton is furious. The Bennets are confused and paranoid. Imagine the drama. The intrige. The million questions still unawnsered long after Lydia eventually gets married and leaves. Bingley marries Jane (cause of course Darcy still told him he'd been wrong to pull them apart, and Bingley would) and Darcy's still somewhat around. Maybe him and Lizzie get together, maybe not, but every time the topic comes up he gets all sheepish and awkward and she gets suspicious and it's a thing. It's their new dynamic.

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Book Reads

Vineland - Pynchon, Thomas

Prophet - Blaché, Sin & Helen Macdonald

And the Ass Saw the Angel - Cave, Nick

Lou Reed: The King of New York - Hermes, Will 

The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1) - Pratchett, Terry

Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative - Kleon, Austin 

Sonic Life: A Memoir - Moore, Thurston

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) - Jemisin, N.K. 

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law - Roach, Mary

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too - Sun, Jonny

The Night Masquerade (Binti, #3) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Home (Binti, #2) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti: Sacred Fire (Binti, #1.5) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Binti (Binti, #1) - Okorafor, Nnedi 

Black Paradox - Ito, Junji

David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) - Wilcken, Hugo

Faith, Hope and Carnage - Cave, Nick

The Sirens of Titan - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth - Aslan, Reza

Smashed - Ito, Junji

Time Shelter - Gospodinov, Georgi

Brian Eno's Another Green World (33 1/3) - Dayal, Geeta

Armageddon in Retrospect - Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Neverwhere (London Below, #1) - Gaiman, Neil 

The Committed (The Sympathizer #2) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Into the Great Wide Open - Canty, Kevin 

Mongrels - Jones, Stephen Graham 

DisneyWar - Stewart, James B.

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Roach, Mary

The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin, Ursula K.

My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (33 1/3) - McGonigal, Mike 

Suttree - McCarthy, Cormac

Life's Work: A Memoir - Milch, David

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - Schwab, V.E.

Against the Day - Pynchon, Thomas

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood - Ryan, Maureen 

Bruce Springsteen's Born in the USA (33 1/3) - Himes, Geoffrey

La Moustache - Carrère, Emmanuel

Janelle Monáe’s The ArchAndroid (33 1/3) - Favreau, Alyssa 

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea - Pinsker, Sarah 

The Man Without a Shadow - Oates, Joyce Carol

The City & the City - Miéville, China 

Mem - Morrow, Bethany C. 

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Harari, Yuval Noah

Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs (33 1/3) - Eidelstein, Eric

Gutshot - Gray, Amelia 

The Price of Time (Watch What You Wish For #1) - Tigner, Tim 

The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever - Sepinwall, Alan 

Just Kids - Smith, Patti 

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir - Hindman, Jessica Chiccehitto 

Flicker - Roszak, Theodore

Tinderbox: HBO's Ruthless Pursuit of New Frontiers - Miller, James Andrew 

Flashback - Simmons, Dan

Flaming Lips' Zaireeka (33 1/3) - Richardson, Mark 

The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer #1) - Nguyen, Viet Thanh 

Pavement's Wowee Zowee (33 1/3) - Charles, Bryan

Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) - Gibson, William

Invisible Cities - Calvino, Italo

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #2) - Jones, Stephen Graham 

The Wes Anderson Collection - Seitz, Matt Zoller

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Dick, Philip K.

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The Nineties - Klosterman, Chuck

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Zevin, Gabrielle 

Wanderlust: An Eccentric Explorer, an Epic Journey, a Lost Age - Mitenbuler, Reid

A Heart That Works - Delaney, Rob 

Imago (Xenogenesis, #3) - Butler, Octavia E.

Cryptonomicon (Crypto, #1) - Stephenson, Neal 

Blacktop Wasteland - Cosby, S.A. 

Pearl Jam's Vs. (33 1/3) - Brownlee, Clint

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Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3) - Ott, Chris

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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer - Stephenson, Neal 

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[virginbutstillahoe]

i'm so sorry but you KNOW georgiana was the one to plot the gardiners strategy at pemberly. darcy is way too self conscious and self-pitying to actually make any plans (i know because i am him) he was just laying on the couch dramatically being like "she was HERE in my HOUSE and i RUINED IT" and my girl georgie was like "shut UP and just go ask her uncle to go fishing jesus"

[affectiondeficitdisorder]

This Is Not A Love Object: A Philosopher Looks at Love and Limerence

I’ve been writing about love addiction for, oh, 12 or 13 years now. Most of the time, people just thought I was crazy. I interviewed psychiatrist Dr. Reef Karim for the 2011 book Love Addict: Sex, Romance and Other Dangerous Drugs. He told me, "If I went to an American Psychiatric Association conference and said, ‘Doctors, today we're going to talk about love addiction,’ a third of the room would start laughing.”

Well, he and I had the last laugh in 2014 when psychiatrist Dr. Vineeth John stood up at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association and said, "What might be the criteria for love addiction and its destructive and dysfunctional behaviors?”

Okay, we didn’t actually laugh. Being right about a debilitating and potentially fatal behavioral addiction isn’t that all damn funny… although sometimes it helps to look at it that way.

So now there have been more than 700 peer-reviewed scientific studies about the neurological, behavioral and emotional aspects of love addiction. As of today, we can add “philosophical” to the list, as University of Tennessee Professor of Philosophy Dr. Georgi Gardiner has written We Forge the Conditions of Love -  Linguistic Luck: Essays in Anti-Luck Semantics (eds. Carlos Montemayor & Abrol Fairweather.)

Guess what? I’m footnoted!

“As you know,” Dr. Gardiner told me, “there aren't many scholarly articles about limerence, and this is the first philosophy essay about limerence.” She does write about other aspects of love than limerence — aka infatuation, my favorite drug — but I’m all about what she has to say about this one. And she says it using very big words.

One of her main points is that how we verbalize or frame our ideas of romantic love can change how we experience it. “Self-ascribing love can change emotions, attitudes, and values,” is now she puts it. “Self-ascriptions of love are affected by the person’s conception of love.

“A person’s whose conception of limerence is shaped by discourse that emphasises addiction science, neurochemical pathways, or behavioural conditioning might accordingly conceive of limerence as primarily an addiction.” That would be me. My discourse about limerence is that is can be addictive, particularly to people who are genetically and environmentally predisposed to addiction.

“The addiction is to thought patterns, rather than external drugs or behaviours like cocaine or gambling,” she writes. “They might thus understand limerence as contiguous with non-romantic cognitive or attentional addictions, such as maladaptive daydreaming, compulsive rumination, cognitive stimming, mental perseveration, and compulsive suicidal, violent, argumentative, or sexual ideation.”

“The addiction,” she continues, “is not to interacting with the person. It is to thinking about them.” 

I agree. We are rarely in love with a person so much as we are to the feeling of being in love with that person. And thinking about them re-stimulates that feeling. It’s as if thinking about a drink actually gave you a buzz.… and no matter how hard you tried, you couldn’t stop thinking about it, even if you wanted to.

“Two features of this mental activity are emphasised: Incessance—the thoughts are constant — and lack of cognitive control. Therapeutic manuals bluntly deny limerents can intentionally stop thinking about the limerent object. [Dorothy] Tennov writes, ‘In summary, limerent fantasy is, most of all, intrusive and inescapable. It seems not to be something you do, but something that happens.’ Forum posts continually cast suicide as the only escape.”

The thing is, “limerence — not love — is a monomaniacal attentional phenomenon.” In other words, that thing that feels like this-is-my-soulmate-I-must-be-with-them-or-I-will-die-are-they-thinking-about-me-I-have-to-check-their-Instagram… that ain’t love. That is a “monomaniacal attentional phenomenon.”

“Limerence—like many addictions—ultimately arises from unmet needs: The need for romantic companionship or to feel desirable, which corresponds to romantic limerence. The need for approval, especially from authority figures, which commonly underwrites limerence for teachers and bosses. And the need for emotional processing, leading to limerence for therapists and alterous limerence.

“In the resulting conceptual nexus, perhaps love is—at least in its most ideal instantiations—a way to bond, connect, and structure a life. The addiction described by the discourse is not to interacting with the person. It is to thinking about them. Limerence is a way to think.”

So if I have this right — and my degree is in World Literature, not Philosophy, so bear with me — Dr. Gardiner is in our corner. Addictive love isn’t a way of loving; it is a way of thinking. And we do it because we are trying to fill that existential hole every addict and alcoholic talks about. So maybe if we talk about it differently, we will start to experience it differently. I assume this is what she means by “linguistic luck.” The reality we inhabit depends on the way we frame our reality. Changing the way we talk about our thinking… can change the way we think. Which, for some of us, is a worthwhile goal.

So thanks for the reframing, Dr, Gardiner. Plus, I like being a scholarly footnote. A scholarly footnote who cusses.

[cerulean-devil]

couldn’t help myself, have a tma pride and prejudice au

from left to right: 

Olive Banks as Miss Bingley 

Daisy as Mr Hurst

Basira as Mrs Hurst

Gerry Keay as Colonel Fitzwilliam 

Georgie as Mr Bingley

The Admiral as Georgiana Darcy

Jon as Mr Darcy

Martin as Elizabeth 

Melanie as Jane 

Annabelle Cane as Lydia 

Tim as Mr Gardiner

Sasha as Mrs Gardiner

Micheal as Mr Collins

BONUS! 

Mr Spider as Mr Wickham

Gertrude as Lady Catherine

Peter Lukas as Mr Bennet

Elias as Mrs Bennet

Helen as Charlotte Lucas  

[cecilyneville]

the spanish princess ep 4!

“it’s like ripping off a bandaid,” i tell myself, “just gotta do it.” [proceeds to skip over like half the scenes]

every week i thank god that i’m not the one who pays for the stan subscription and am therefore watching this garbage for free

episode description is like “as meg jeopardizes everything for love”, i think u mean “as meg jeopardizes everything for some bombass douglas dick”

(ok no i think margaret actually did love angus, particularly as she often cited “he loves me not” in her letters as a reason she wished to divorce him. also i think she thought she had to ally with a powerful house regardless of what consequences it may bring. and on her deathbed when she asked that her son might look kindly upon angus - this may have been a bid to protect margaret douglas but at the same time it’s very possible that, as her life was drawing to a close, she looked back on her many feuds with angus and regretted them.) 

anyway enough meg chat, onto the show!

ugh the bird cage is back fuck me

wait wasn’t arthur plantagenet viscount lisle? or was he given that title later on? speaking of which, there’s a figure you never see in historical fiction, which is such a shame

charlotte hope’s horny acting is so cringe 

i wish we’d gotten to see margaret and angus’ wedding!

“angus will not rule with me” hmmm historical margaret thought otherwise lol

how is this so much more interesting than anything that happens in the english court

so, in ep 2 meg calls angus “angus douglas” and now catherine says “archibald douglas, the earl of angus”? boy i hope somebody got fired for that blunder

i feel like the guy who plays wolsey is taking inspiration from mark gatiss’ stephen gardiner (in wolf hall) and if so, i admire him very much

oh...ok. i see what they’re doing. they’re going to have howard ride to the border under catherine’s instructions and he’s going to bring meg back. so basically, we’re eschewing all the fun stuff in scotland for catherine’s dumb diplomacy

“that halfwit in a kilt” THEY’RE NOT WEARING KILTS YOU CLOD, KILTS WEREN’T EVEN INVENTED, WHO WROTE THIS EPISODE

“your sister’s sons must take the throne” uhhh james v is already on the throne, literally no one is disputing that, not even albany

i feel like they should have introduced anne hastings alongside bessie in the first ep (unless they did and i missed it, it’s possible)

once again, ch’s horny acting is super cringe

WAIT MEG AND ANGUS ARE LITERALLY HIDING OUT IN A PANTRY I WANT TO DIE THIS IS THE DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN

“that is my son, our future king, you raise your voice to” HE IS LITERALLY THE CROWNED KING OF SCOTLAND WTF, WHO WROTE THIS

meg calling herself sovereign when she is regent and called herself that earlier this episode...

like i don’t expect them to but the tsp writers have no idea how queenship works, in any of its forms

lina & oviedo’s babies are so cute 🥰🥰🥰

lina telling catherine that she is the light is deeply hilarious when lina is the most luminous presence on this show

catherine mentioning joanna offhandedly (in a negative sense) while doing nothing for her...

catherine constantly interfering in mary and meg’s lives and calling herself their sister, whilst doing nothing at all for joanna (yes i am aware that irl catherine wasn’t able to do so, but in tsp!verse where it’s all about ~sisterhood~ this makes no sense)

margaret and georgie both deserve so much better than this...maybe i should actually write that margaret biopic screenplay lol

so...margaret douglas doesn’t exist in this universe or???

“i will never trust again” [spongebob voice, after henry stewart shows up] a few moments later...

not going to comment on how this show has catherine heavily pregnant fighting in war but doesn’t have meg heavily pregnant fleeing across the border on horseback

i should know better than to expect historical lines from this show but they had the perfect opportunity for henry to say “done like a scot” and then they DIDN’T

i love that there’s no time for midwives but plenty of time to alert henry and summon lina & maggie

catherine standing and walking 0.5 seconds after giving birth

“thank you for your efforts” LOOOOOL

[kill bill sirens]

i’m assuming lina is going to testify against catherine in the last ep of the series and i truly cannot wait

emma frost said let thomas howard say fuck

this episode would have been far better if they’d included louis’ death and juxtaposed mary eloping with brandon with meg eloping with angus, and the diplomatic crises that follow, but then i guess there would be less time for catherine clenching her neck and that could not happen

who wrote this episode, i hope they never write for television again

[underworld-melon]

Yuri on ice Pride and Prejudice au

Yuuri is Mr. Darcy.

yuuri being awkward flailing bad at communication while viktor tries his best and thinks..that asshole, he is such a player is my whole life.

like, viktor prolly thought that in cannon a lil reg eros he is like the playboy leaves the maiden(not subtle, Vi)

so what if he thinks something yuuri says to phichit after he rejects a woman (note: yuuri doesn't even know he is rejecting her) sends viktor into rage

and he is like how liz was in P&P-  angry and stuff while, yuuri is like.. holy shit, that silver haired guy from that ball who sneered at me is so hot and witty and charming, omg (aka Darcy)

(I would have stopped here but discord enabled me so... now, imma put everyone from yoi into this )

Who is mr. bingley, you ask?

it is that Masumi guy who is in the show for half a second with chris

chris is Jane.

The sick Jane scene?

well, chris is doing well with masumi so when he feels a bit sick, he is like... *bats eyelashes* masumi, take care of me, please and like any smitten guy, he does

victor is 100 per cent on board with this tactic

the only reason he runs off there is because yurio is a concerned lil tiger and refuses to admit it

yakov and Lilia are Mr and Mrs bennet and are just as dysfunctional as the original couple, albeit in different ways.

phichit is the twin of mr. bingley because I need him with yuuri but can’t pair him with chris.

the gardiners are minako and ciao ciao and they are like the ones in the story, more of the parents the bennet siblings need.

Micky is Mr Collins and sara is lady Catherine.

JJ is now lydia and Isabella is wickham. The elopement happens and in hindsight is hilarious. 

Emil is Charlotte Lucas, however, where in P&P, Charlotte is interested in a comfortable home, emil is very into micky, so that's a ride. 

Georgiana Darcy is ji guanghong and leo de la iglesia is an heir to a place and does side commentary with his "friend" ji. 

catherine bennet (kitty) is yurio, and is the same combination of charming and violently concerned as in the show and otabek is leo's friend who enables yurio.

Mary bennet is seung gil lee (ends up with phichit ) their story, btw, is amazing.

(by this we are done with the main cast of P&P but since we still have yoi left...)

Minami is yuuri's student in....something idek, dance? swords?

yuuko is the maid who tells viktor of yuuri

morooka hosts viktor at his house/talks to him somewhere in between (like the whole yuuri isn’t maybe as bad as u think thing but more miscomunication happens so it doesn’t help.) 

georgi is the person in town everyone suspects is a witch but keeps quiet about

Mila is a pianist at all the balls and plays scandalous music

yuuko's husband is the gardener.

their kids are.. kids

makka is makka and vicchan is vicchan.

they have their own love story that is very cute

Mari is yuuri's older sister who has an in with very powerful people (everyone is terrified).

kolya plisetsky is the old guy next door who somehow always lives with viktor's family (because of yurio.)

I have cast everyone. 

* insert evil laugh *

If anyone is interested to write for this au/ collab with me to write for this au, pls tell me cuz I need this in my life.

[solemnxrequiem]

I haven't felt this inspired to write something since 2014

Alright, I can finally put some thoughts down somewhere besides the notepad at work (under a Read More for couuurtesy).

Alright. Modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in Yuri!!! on Ice world. I saw there were a couple P&P AUs on AO3, but I thought I needed to take a crack at it. NOT COMPLETE, I’m just spit-balling and need to hold myself accountable.  

This story would (will? will I actually follow through??) follow P&P’s plotline and NOT YoI’s plotline. I’m gonna try to fit in as many *important* moments as I can from the anime, but only as they fit into the story as a whole. That said, some of the relationships inherent in P&P will have to be adjusted to better reflect the cast of characters at my disposal. When I say that Mr Collins is Celestino and Phichit is Charlotte, it is NOT because I ship those characters, but because, going by the story, it makes sense with Yuuri (Elizabeth) saying no to Celestino (Mr. Collins) being his coach while Phichit (Charlotte) goes with him and continues skating under him. Ja feel? The same goes for the other relationships that might strike people as odd. Just because the corresponding characters are together in Jane’s work doesn’t mean they are in this AU. 

Characters: Who’s who, in no particular order

Yuuri Katsuki - Elizabeth Bennet

Victor Nikiforov - Mr. (Fitzwilliam) Darcy

Chris Giacometti - Mr. (Charles) Bingley

Phichit Chulanont - Charlotte Lucas

Toshiya & Hiroko Katsuki - Mr & Mrs Bennet

(Here, with the sisters in the novel, I could go a plethora of ways and interpretations. Here’s what I’m going with for now:)

Minako Okukawa - Jane Bennet

Mari Katsuki - Mary Bennet

Minami Kenjirou - Kitty Bennet

Otabek Altin - Lydia Bennet

(BEAR WITH ME, OKAY, these are also subject to change as the story develops)

JJ Leroy - Caroline Bingley

Yuri Plisetsky - Georgiana Darcy

Takeshi Nishigori - Mr. Gardiner

Yuko Nishigori - Mrs. Gardiner

(The triplets do exist in this universe, I understand the Gardiners do not have any children, it’s fine, don’t worry about it)

Lilia Baranovskaya - Mr. Wickham 

(B E A R   W I TH   M E)

Yakov Feltsman - Lady Catherine DeBourgh

Georgi Popovich - Ann DeBourgh

Mila Babicheva - Col. Fitzwilliam 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man, in possession of many gold medals, must be in want of a protegee. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his most recent World Championship, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of his competitors and the press, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their circle; or, otherwise, to none but himself.

When Yuuri Katsuki first meets living legend Victor Nikiforov, he thinks him rude and conceited, while Victor struggles to hold back his growing attraction, kindled from a night he can’t believe anyone could forget and spurred on by Yuuri’s own unassuming grace on the ice. 

[onecornerface]

doubt and belief on MeToo and rape accusations

thoughtful thoughts on the epistemology of doubt and belief in the MeToo era, by Georgi Gardiner (i’ve only skimmed it so far):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1aqzrsq308x5lhh/Gardiner_Doubt%20and%20Disagreement%20in%20the%20MeToo%20Era_2020_July.docx?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR35TqjDjo9vdhpZbiek5ZC6ghiyanyrluMAu-zRf3Xc59JCfvib1IFD9nk

[petnews2day]

Cats boosted by return of Garing

New Post has been published on https://petnews2day.com/cat-news/cats-boosted-by-return-of-garing/

Cats boosted by return of Garing

LESS than a month after giving birth to her first child, Renee Garing has been confirmed as recommencing her AFLW career.

The 33-year-old is one of 22 players announced by Geelong as being locked for next season, which is due to start in late August.

“We are all delighted for Renee and Tony on the safe arrival of little Parker,” AFLW boss Brett Johnson said.

“We’re committed to providing our players support before and post the birth of a child and flexible pathways to return to play from parental leave.

‘We look forward to welcoming Renee back and working together on whatever path she chooses.

 “Amid the expansion, we’re proud to have a really strong core of players re-commit to the Cats and the trajectory that this team is on, including all threeextraordinary mums on our AFLW playing list, whose dedication inspires us all.”

Garing will be one of two mums on the list, with Kate Darby earning another contract after solid performances as the replacement player for Garing.

Geelong farewelled eight active and two inactive players in the recent sign and trade period.

Sophie Van De Heuvel (Essendon), Stephanie Williams (Richmond), Phoebe McWilliams (Carlton), Jordan Ivey (Melbourne), Olivia Barber (Collingwood), and the inactive Millie Brown (Western Bulldogs) were all traded.

Rene Caris, Madisen Maguire and Carly Remmos were delisted, while the inactive Denby Taylor has retired.

The Cats welcomed Demons duo Jackie Parry and Shelley Scott as part of the Ivey deal, former Geelong Falcon Ingrid Houtsma arrived in exchange for Williams, while Mikayla Bowen’s come across from West Coast.

Geelong will take picks 33, 42, 56, 67 and 85 to the AFLW Draft on June 29.

GEELONG AFLW RETURNING PLAYERS

Meghan McDonald (c), Nina Morrison, Julia Crockett-Grills, Georgie Rankin, Maddy Keryk, Chantel Emonson, Amy McDonald, Darcy Moloney, Kate Darby, Renee Garing, Olivia Fuller, Chloe Scheer, Georgia Clarke, Laura Gardiner, Zali Friswell, Rebecca Webster, Rachel Kearns, Maddy McMahon, Claudia Gunjaca, Annabel Johnson, Gabbi Featherston, Georgie Prespakis

  Image: Geelong AFLW midfielder Renee Garing. (Sports Media Image/Marcel Berens)

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[tpolp]

When the pandemic pushed professional activities online, “we organized the ‘talks’ of conferences, but neglected the conversation,” writes Georgi Gardiner, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Tennessee. Professor Gardiner has...

[historybehindassassinscreed]

In Game:

Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator who was credited with inventing the first practical telephone. He was on friendly terms with Henry Green, who nicknamed him, "Aleck".

In 1868, Green introduced the twin Assassins Jacob and Evie Frye to Bell, who brought to him a broken grappling hook pistol acquired from Rexford Kaylock. Bell modified the mechanism so it could be attached to the Assassin Gauntlet as a rope launcher. In return, Evie volunteered to assist Bell in mending broken fuses atop the Elizabeth Tower for the telegraph line being set up against the Starrick Telegraph Company. While traveling to the Palace of Westminster, she also suggested to Bell that the phonetic telegraph he desired to invent could be renamed as the telephone. After the new fuses were installed, Bell created a formula for smoke bombs to be used by the Assassins. Returning to his workshop, Bell showed Jacob the first messages of his invention and was able to procure a second rope launcher for him.

Much later, Bell installed a dart mechanism in Jacob and Evie's gauntlets, allowing them to fire darts containing a hallucinogenic serum, which would turn into gas form upon contact with heat. The twins further assisted him by recovering cable lines taken by the Blighters in the College Wharf and informed him of a poison shipment from Starrick.

Starrick then offered Bell a huge amount of money to coax him to his side. Bell inadvertently refused; aware of what the Blighters were capable of, he created voltaic bombs, should he use it to stun assailants if the need arose. He offered prototypes and protective insulators to the Frye twins, hoping that they would test it for him to get the right formula. The opportunity came as the infuriated Blighters arrived. As Bell delayed the enemy gang with his talk, the twins tested the voltaic bombs on them.

Together with the twins, they headed to the telegraph station to prevent Starrick from spreading false information to the city and show them the truth regarding the Templars' operations. Bell destroyed three telegraph machines to cripple Starrick's plans.

In Real Life:

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3rd, 1847 to  Professor Alexander Melville Bell, a phonetician Eliza Grace (née Symonds). He had two brothers: Melville James Bell  and Edward Charles Bell, both of whom would die of tuberculosis.

As a child, Bell displayed a natural curiosity about his world, resulting in gathering botanical specimens as well as experimenting even at an early age. He also showed a sensitive nature and a talent for art, poetry, and music that was encouraged by his mother. His best friend was Ben Herdman, a neighbor whose family operated a flour mill, the scene of many forays. Young Bell asked what needed to be done at the mill. He was told wheat had to be dehusked through a laborious process and at the age of 12, Bell built a homemade device that combined rotating paddles with sets of nail brushes, creating a simple dehusking machine that was put into operation and used steadily for a number of years. In return, Ben's father John Herdman gave both boys the run of a small workshop in which to "invent".

As a young child, Bell, like his brothers, received his early schooling at home from his father. At an early age, he was enrolled at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland, which he left at the age of 15, having completed only the first four forms. His school record was undistinguished, marked by absenteeism and lackluster grades. His main interest remained in the sciences, especially biology.  He attended the University of Edinburgh around age eighteen or nineteen; joining his older brother Melville who had enrolled there the previous year. In 1868, not long before he departed for Canada with his family, Bell completed his matriculation exams and was accepted for admission to University College London.

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It was around this time that he started to experiment with sound, particularly with speech. He helped his father in Visible Speech demonstrations and lectures, which brought Bell to Susanna E. Hull's private school for the deaf in South Kensington, London. His first two pupils were deaf-mute girls who made remarkable progress under his tutelage.

After the death of one of his brothers, the Bell family moved to Canada, where he set up a workshop and continued his experiments with sound and electricity.  He also modified a melodeon (a type of pump organ) so that it could transmit its music electrically over a distance.

Bell's father was invited by Sarah Fuller, principal of the Boston School for Deaf Mutes (which continues today as the public Horace Mann School for the Deaf), in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to introduce the Visible Speech System by providing training for Fuller's instructors, but he declined the post in favor of his son. Travelling to Boston in April 1871, Bell proved successful in training the school's instructors. He was subsequently asked to repeat the program at the American Asylum for Deaf-mutes in Hartford, Connecticut, and the Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Several influential people of the time, including Bell, viewed deafness as something that should be eradicated, and also believed that with resources and effort, they could teach the deaf to speak and avoid the use of sign language, thus enabling their integration within the wider society from which many were often being excluded. Owing to his efforts to suppress the teaching of sign language, Bell is often viewed negatively by those embracing Deaf culture.

Bell became professor of Vocal Physiology and Elocution at the Boston University School of Oratory. During this period, he alternated between Boston and Brantford, spending summers in his Canadian home. At Boston University, Bell was "swept up" by the excitement engendered by the many scientists and inventors residing in the city. He continued his research in sound and endeavored to find a way to transmit musical notes and articulate speech, but although absorbed by his experiments, he found it difficult to devote enough time to experimentation. Deciding to give up his lucrative private Boston practice, Bell retained only two students, six-year-old "Georgie" Sanders, deaf from birth, and 15-year-old Mabel Hubbard.

By 1874, Bell's initial work on the harmonic telegraph had entered a formative stage, with progress made both at his new Boston "laboratory" (a rented facility) and at his family home in Canada a big success. While working that summer in Brantford, Bell experimented with a "phonautograph", a pen-like machine that could draw shapes of sound waves on smoked glass by tracing their vibrations. Bell thought it might be possible to generate undulating electrical currents that corresponded to sound waves.

In 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario, George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a patent in the U.S. only after they received word from Britain (Britain would issue patents only for discoveries not previously patented elsewhere).

Meanwhile, Elisha Gray was also experimenting with acoustic telegraphy and thought of a way to transmit speech using a water transmitter. On February 14, 1876, Gray filed a caveat with the U.S. Patent Office for a telephone design that used a water transmitter. That same morning, Bell's lawyer filed Bell's application with the patent office. There is considerable debate about who arrived first and Gray later challenged the primacy of Bell's patent. Bell was in Boston on February 14th and did not arrive in Washington until February 26th.

Bell's patent 174,465, was issued to Bell on March 7, 1876, by the U.S. Patent Office. Bell returned to Boston the same day and the next day resumed work, drawing in his notebook a diagram similar to that in Gray's patent caveat.

On March 10th, 1876, three days after his patent was issued, Bell succeeded in getting his telephone to work, using a liquid transmitter similar to Gray's design. Vibration of the diaphragm caused a needle to vibrate in the water, varying the electrical resistance in the circuit.

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Although Bell was, and still is, accused of stealing the telephone from Gray, Bell used Gray's water transmitter design only after Bell's patent had been granted, and only as a proof of concept scientific experiment, to prove to his own satisfaction that intelligible "articulate speech" (Bell's words) could be electrically transmitted. After March 1876, Bell focused on improving the electromagnetic telephone and never used Gray's liquid transmitter in public demonstrations or commercial use.

After the invention of the telephone, Bell also invented the photophone (which he believed to be his greatest achievement), an early version of a metal detector, and made contributions to hydrofoils and aeronautics.

Bell died of complications arising from diabetes on August 2nd, 1922, at his private estate in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, at age 75. He was buried atop Beinn Bhreagh mountain, on his estate where he had resided increasingly for the last 35 years of his life, overlooking Bras d'Or Lake. He was survived by his wife Mabel (his former student), his two daughters, Elsie May and Marian, and nine of his grandchildren.

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http://www.pbs.org/transistor/album1/addlbios/bellag.html

https://www.biography.com/people/alexander-graham-bell-9205497

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Graham-Bell

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/alexander-graham-bell

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/handbook-of-social-justice-in-education-william-ayers/1101520561/2677219688381?st=PLA&sid=BNB_DRS_Marketplace+Shopping+Textbooks_00000000&2sid=Google_&sourceId=PLGoP20452&k_clickid=3x20452

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Georgie Gardner Wiki, Bio, Age, Husband, Twitter, Instagram, Today Show

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Georgie Gardner Wiki, Georgie Gardner Bio

Georgie Gardner Wiki: Georgie Gardner (born 1 June 1970) is an Australian journalist and television personality.

Gardner is currently a co-host of the Nine Network’s breakfast program Today and the narrator of the reality television series Married at First Sight Australia.

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Things I Would Love From Pride and Prejudice Fics

As I do every once in a while, I’ve fallen back into reading Pride and Prejudice fic. (For whatever reason P&P is the fandom that I always go back to (you’d think it’d be Harry Potter, but let’s be honest, I never wander away from HP).) And it’s brought up a few things that have bothered me about the plethora of stories I’ve read for this fandom. Read on for complaining

Less censure for Lydia 

not from her parents or sisters, from the authors

I have seen way too many authors blame Lydia for her downfall

seriously she’s a fifteen year old girl with little to no guidance, give her a break

Elizabeth Bennet and Georgianna Darcy being a pairing

why is this not a thing that exists?

On that note, more Georgie and Lizzy friendship

there’s usually a healthy dose of it, but you can never have enough sisterly bonding, even in the Jane Austen Fandom

Less making Darcy misunderstood

yes, he is an asshole for the majority of the first half of the book

no, he’s not just socially awkward

he might be a little naturally reserved, but he’s of a social standing where he would have had the training on being in society

he could do it if he put the effort in

see his behaviour with Mr and Mrs Gardiner 

Less making Miss Bingley an absolute witch

it is undeniable that she doesn’t like Elizabeth

but her goal is to make Mr Darcy like her

and she doesn’t usually betray her worst side to Elizabeth

she’s catty sure, but not evil

and she does back off when they actually get married

fics where she goes out of her way to sabotage Lizzy after they’re married are fairly riddiculous (not to mention that she’d have no hope anyways considering that divorces are all but unheard of at this point in history)

one of my favourite fics involved the two of them coming to a truce many years later

More chatty Jane

it says when Mr Bingley first makes his reappearance that she is less chatty than usual

surely this implies that she’s not just this shy wallflower, standing around looking pretty

please give me happy, chatty Jane

More Mrs Bennet sincerely loving her children

okay so she is over the top and doesn’t always realized when what she’s saying is going to hurt someone

but she does love her daughters, you cannot deny that

I love all fics where the characters realize that--that her rush to get them all married is because she really worries about them and wants to make sure they’ll have everything they need 

Please, please don’t have Mr Darcy ask for Mr Bennet’s blessing before he asks Elizabeth in a modern fic

he doesn’t even do it in the book

why on earth would he do it in 2012?

why why why why why why why

grant Elizabeth some freaking respect and get her answer first

after all, we are well aware that she has opinions on the subject

Don’t forget the Lucas sons!

this point is tiny in significance, but still

the Lucases have at least a couple of sons

one of the younger ones makes claims about how much wine he would drink if he were as rich as Mr Darcy and Mrs Bennet tells him he would be drinking way too much and she’d take away his wine

 the older boys were super happy when Charlotte married Mr Collins, because then they wouldn’t have to worry about her after their parents died

Mr Collins is tall and only about twenty-five years old

this point is ridiculously nit-picky, but the movies always cast him as short and balding and obnoxious

I mean, he is obnoxious, but he is supposed to be tall

Please don’t switch around character’s lines

in fairness this bugs me in any adaptation, whether it’s Hermione getting Ron’s lines in the Harry Potter movies, or Mr Darcy getting Elizabeth’s lines in the Lady Catherine confrontation 

I’m willing to forgive this one by making the assumption that it’s the sign of a more novice author, but it would be better if lines actually suiting the individual characters were used

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April 20 in Music History

1594 Birth of composer Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern.

1705 Birth of composer Balthasar Schmid.

1725 Birth of composer Johann Friedrich Kloffler.

1748 Birth of composer Georg Michael Telemann.

1748 Birth of composer Guillaume Albert Teniers.

1759 Funeral of German-English composer George F. Handel who was buried in Westminster Abbey, London. 1761 Birth of composer Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier.

1763 Birth of English soprano Anna Maria Crouch in London. 

1843 FP of Balfe's "Le Puits d'amour" in Paris.

1846 US Premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the newly formed New York Philharmonic.

1858 Birth of composer Auguste Chapuis.

1864 Birth of Italian concertina virtuoso Giulio Regondi. 1866 Birth of composer Victor Hollaender.

1869 Death of German composer Karl Loewe at age 72, in Kiel.

1870 Birth of composer Simeon Roncal.

1881 Birth of Russian composer and professor Nikolai Miaskovsky. 1881 Birth of Dutch conductor and pianist Sem Dresden in Amsterdam.  1884 Birth of American pianist Ruth Deyo in Poughkeepsie, NY. 

1887 Birth of Italian bass Virgilio Lazzari in Assisi, Italy.

1900 Birth of composer Fred Raymond.

1902 Birth of composer Vesselin Stoyanov.

1903 Birth of German baritone Josef Herrmann in Darmstadt. 

1904 Birth of Ukrainian tenor Georgi Nelepp in Bobruiky, Ukraine. 

1904 FP of Erlanger's "Le Fils de l'étoile" in Paris.

1910 FP of Ravel's Ma Mere l'oye in four hand version by two young girls, in Paris. 1918 Death of tenor Alexander Girardi. 

1924 Birth of German composer and conductor Gerhard Samuel.

1925 Birth of American composer Richard Hoffman.

1925 Birth of French pianist Henri Renaud.

1926 Death of American baritone Oscar Saenger.

1927 Birth of Italian baritone Enzo Sordello in Macerata. 

1934 Birth of French baritone Claude Cales in Villeneuve. 

1935 Birth of American composer Ran Blake.

1936 Birth of English organist and conductor Christopher Robinson. 1941 Birth of Canadian tenor Paul Frey in Heidelberg, Ontario.

1943 Birth of English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

1945 Death of tenor Emil Olsovsky.

1950 Death of French tenor Paul Franz. 

1952 Birth of American composer Robert Kyr.

1959 Death of Canadian tenor Edward Johnson.

1967 Death of American soprano Anna Fitziu. 1967 Death of baritone David Allen.

1970 Death of Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Thorborg.  1974 FP of Jacob Druckman's Lamia by Labnay Sym. 1976 Death of Canadian soprano Flora Nielsen. 

1979 FP of George Perle's Concertino for Piano, Winds, and Timpani. Morey Ritt and the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, conducted by Ralph Shapey.

1980 Death of Austrian soprano Hilde Konetzni.

1982 Death of Austrian tenor Rudolf Christ. 

1986 At the age of 92, Vladimir Horowitz returns to his native country after 60 years to give piano recital at Moscow Conservatory.

1988 Death of baritone Frederick Sharp. 

2001 FP of Richard Danielpour's String Quartet. American String Quartet in Kansas City, MO.