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Book Review: Frankie’s Home Run: A Teenage Memoir about Compassion, Generosity, Courage, Kindness, Spirituality and Leadership
Get PDFTolkien’s Transformative Women: Art in Triptych (2024), by Annie Brust
Get PDFBook review, by Sara Brown, of Tolkien’s Transformative Women: Art in Triptych (2024), by Annie Brus
What Does It Mean to Talk about Tolkien and Diversity? A Look within and without the Legendarium
Get PDF“What Does It Mean to Talk about Tolkien and Diversity? A Look within and without the Legendarium” considers racial diversity by focusing on the structure of Tolkien’s universe, both how it is modelled on ancient and medieval concepts like the Great Chain of Being and the Declining Ages of Man, but also remakes those models. In addition, it considers responses to racial structures perceived in Tolkien’s work
The Royal Astronomer and the Astronomer Royal: Tar-Meneldur and Sir Harold Spencer Jones
Get PDFElsewhere I argued that there are parallels between Tar-Meneldur and the lives of several pre-20th century astronomer-nobles (Ulugh Beg, Johannes Hevelius, Wilhelm IV, Tycho Brahe, and James Ludovic Lindsay) and noted several real-world astronomical events that may have informed/motivated Tolkien’s development of Tar-Meneldur’s avocation, including political controversies concerning the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford and the Royal Observatories at Greenwich and Edinburgh. Since that publication I have continued to ponder Tolkien’s depiction of Tar-Meneldur as an astronomer (and king), and offer another possible source of inspiration for the royal astronomer in the form of the tenth Astronomer Royal, Sir Harold Spencer Jones
The Holy Thorn of Glastonbury and the Two Trees of Valinor
Get PDFAn old wooden church in Glastonbury rose on the site of the Abbey church taking its place after a fire burnt it. This old church is traditionally considered to have been the eldest church in England, founded by Joseph of Arimathea after landing upon the British shore. Such a legend, probably spread after the Norman Conquests by the Abbey monks who needed to fund the monastery, also relates that Joseph planted his staff upon the highest hill in Glastonbury, and the staff grew branches and roots, transforming into a wonderful thorn tree which, unlike common thorns, bloomed twice a year, once in May, as usual for the species, the other at Christmas. Even today the Crown receives a twig from the Glastonbury thorn each year at Christmas, connecting the plant with the heritage of the English Crown. Since it can be proven that Tolkien was aware of the legend, I propose to ponder the chances he might have been inspired therefrom in the conception of the White Tree of Gondor and all trees descending from the Two Trees of Valinor
Observations on a Dendroctonus simplex (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Outbreak in a Rangewide Tamarack (Larix laricina) Provenance Plantation in Michigan
Get PDFA tamarack [Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch] provenance plantation, consisting of 33 seed sources from the United States and Canada, was established in 1969 in southern Michigan (Kalamazoo County). About half of the trees were removed in fall 1984 when the stand was thinned, with the cut trees piled on the edge of the stand. The stand then experienced a severe ice storm in January 1985. The eastern larch beetle, Dendroctonus simplex LeConte, colonized the cut logs in 1985 and also infested many of the standing trees. By the end of 1986, over half the remaining trees had been killed by D. simplex, with six seed sources suffering no beetle-related tree mortality, twenty having 20-61% tree mortality, and seven having 67-100% mortality. Mean tree height and DBH were negatively related to the latitude of the seed source origin. However, no significant linear relationships were found between percent tree mortality in 1986 with either mean tree DBH or latitude of the seed-source origin, but there was a significant negative relationship with increasing ice-storm damage
Tolkien and the Relation between Sub-Creation and Reality (2023), edited by Guiseppe Pezzini and Eden O\u27Brien
Get PDFBook review, by John Wm. Houghton, of Tolkien and the Relation between Sub-Creation and Reality (2023), edited by Guiseppe Pezzini and Eden O\u27Brie
Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2023)
Get PDFBook review, by Ivano Sassanelli, of Tolkien: Uomo, Professore, Autore (2023
Open versus Laparoscopic Appendectomy: A Literature Review
Get PDFAppendectomy is the most common emergency abdominal surgery in the United States. Open appendectomy has been the standard procedure for decades, whereas laparoscopic appendectomy is a newer, less-invasive method of removing the appendix. This review intends to elucidate the similarities and differences between these two procedures as well as explore the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Socioeconomic factors, associated costs, preoperative imaging, operative time and methods, length of hospital stay, recovery time, and complications associated with open and laparoscopic appendectomy are discussed. Overall, laparoscopic appendectomy has shorter hospital stays and recovery times, requires less analgesics, and results in better postoperative outcomes. Although such an analysis/comparison involves several perspectives, a review of the available literature suggests that laparoscopic appendectomy is the operation of choice in most cases
Efficacy of tranexamic acid in nasopharyngeal hemorrhage; single center prospective study and literature review
Get PDFNasopharyngeal hemorrhage is one of the most common ear, nose, and throat (ENT) emergencies that present in a hospital or primary care clinic. While many cases of hemorrhage are self-limiting, in more severe cases medical intervention is necessary, either to cauterize the bleeding vessel or to pack the nose with various materials (thus involving specialized medical care and time, which implicitly lead to additional costs). In the case of the packaging, the medical treatment can in some cases be extremely painful and unpleasant. Tranexamic acid is an affordable, inexpensive, easy-to-use antifibrinolytic agent and with no notable side effects, as demonstrated by numerous studies related to most surgical fields. The aim of this paper is to provide an evidence-based approach to the use of tranexamic acid (TXA) in nasopharyngeal hemorrhages in our research center, comparing with the available literature on the subject, but presented in an updated form. As a conclusion, the combined use (intravenous and topical) of TXA may be a reasonable, safe and non-invasive option for hemodynamic stabilization of rhino-pharyngeal bleeding