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“The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald”
No full textIn this chapter, the author reflects on how he came to read William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald—whom he describes as the three kings. The author begins by recalling a few years ago reading in Exile's Return, Malcolm Cowley's book on the 1920s, the teenage correspondence between Cowley and Kenneth Burke. He admits that reading was his very problem in Mississippi. He also remembers the first time he read Fitzgerald's story “Absolution” and how he came to know who Faulkner was. According to the author, 1962 was the year he would first read Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and Hemingway. He read The Sun Also Rises, Absalom, Absalom!, and The Great Gatsby. He argues that Faulkner was the best of all three, and the very best of any American writing fiction this century. He concludes by discussing what he and his generation might have learned from the three writers.</p
A psychoanalytic concept illustrated: Will, must, may, can — revisiting the survival function of primitive omnipotence
No full textThe author explores the linear thread connecting the theory of Freud and Klein, in terms of the central significance of the duality of the life and death instinct and the capacity of the ego to tolerate contact with internal and external reality. Theoretical questions raised by later authors, informed by clinical work with children who have suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy, are then considered. Theoretical ideas are illustrated with reference to observational material of a little boy who suffered deprivation and trauma in infancy. He was first observed in the middle of his first year of life while he was living in foster care, and then later at the age of two years and three months, when he had been living with his adoptive parents for more than a year
Penthetria arizonensis Fitzgerald 2021, n. sp.
No full textPenthetria arizonensis Fitzgerald n. sp. (Figs. 7–8, 32, 52–53, Map 2) Type Material. Holotype: Male, point-pinned (USNM), USA, ARIZONA, Cochise Co., near Benson, 21 Sept. 1985, J. Jenkins coll. [white label] / HOLOTYPE, Penthetria arizonensis Fitzgerald [red label]. Terminalia dissected. Paratypes: USA: ARIZONA: Same data as HT, 3M (CSUC); Ramsey Cyn. 5200’, 15 mi S. Sierra Vista, Huachuca Mts. 12. VI.1967, R. F. Sternitzky, 2M (CNCI); Ramsey Cyn., 5000’, 15 mi S. Sierra Vista, Huachuca Mts., Malaise trap, Sternitzky, 3. VI.1967, 1M (CNCI), 4. VI.1967, 1M (CNCI); Santa Cruz Co., Duquesne Rd. at jct. FS4675, 17–30 Sept 2018, V-FIT, 31.3771°, -110.7593°, W.B. Warner, 4M (2 SFC, 2 ASUT); Cochise Co., Bisbee, 1429 Franklin St., 1585 m, A.S. Menke, MT, 31°24’23”N, 109°55’57”W, 28.ix–1.x.2012, 3M (SFC), 2–7.x.2012, 3M (SFC), 10–16.ix.2012, 6M, 1F (SFC), 16–24.ix.2012, 5M (SFC), 1M (BYUC). Additional Material examined. GUATEMALA: GUATEMALA: Puerta Parada, 1850 m, 7–14 IX 2013, J.C. Schuster, 1M (UVGC), 22–28 Aug 2015, 1M, 2F (SFC); COSTA RICA: SAN JOSÉ: San Pedro de Montes de Oca, 11.X.33, C.H. Ballou, on cabbage, C. R. No. 1872, 1M (USNM); MEXICO: CHIAPAS: 7200 ft., S. Crist. las Casas, 10 June 1969, Malaise Trap, 3M (CNCI); MEXICO CITY: D.F., Sept ’98, 2M (USNM); MICHOACAN: El Salto, 5 mi. W., X.9.1964, A.E. Michelbacher, 1M, 1F (in copula) (SFC); MORELOS: 6 mi E Cuernavaca, 12 Sept 1973, W.J. Hanson, B.A. Haws, 2M, 2F (NHMLA); Cuernavaca, 9-28-57, R. & K. Dreisbach, 1M (CNCI); PUEBLA [?]: Puebla Rd., km 63, x-2-57, Dreisbach, 4M (CNCI); SONORA: Alamos Rancho Acosta, MT in dry wash, tropical deciduous forest, 28.ix–3.x.2006, M.E. Irwin, 395 m, 27°01.57N, 108°55.37W, 1M (SFC); 27 km NE Alamos, Rancho Santa Barbara, La Posa de Encino Boludo, MT at isolated water hole in oak woodlands, 20–27.ix. 2008, 1242 m, M.E. Irwin & F.D. Parker, 27°06.27N, 108°43.86W, 1M (SFC); 37 km NE Alamos, Rancho santa Barbara, malaise, dry wash in oak-pine forest, 2–6.x.2006, M.E. Irwin, 1295 m, 27°06.60N, 108°43.91W, 1M (SFC); ZACATECAS: Rio Grande, X-18-68, G.E. Bohart, 1M (NHMLA). Description (based on specimens from Arizona, USA). Male (Fig. 32). Body length: approx. [5.0] mm. Head. Black. Compound eye holoptic, covering virtually all of dorsal and lateral surface of head, with lateral longitudinal step dividing upper and lower portion of eye. Eyes nearly bare, with some very minute, very sparse ommatrichia present.Antennae black, eight to nine flagellomeres with black setae. Flagellomeres wider than long except first and ultimate flagellomeres about as wide as long. Three ocelli on well-developed tubercle. Thorax matte dark brown to blackish with light brown highlights on humeral ridge and posterior portions of pleurae, sometimes with mesonotum dark brown with three broad black longitudinal stripes, the median stripe reaching the pronotum and the lateral stripes truncated anteriorly. Thorax largely bare except fine short dark hairs on mesonotum in broad dorsocentral rows and a few hairs anterolaterally. Scutellum bare or with a few sparse short fine dark hairs and middle of katepisternum and metepisternum with long dark hairs. Legs. Slender, entirely dark brownish-black with dense short dark appressed hairs. Hind femur slightly thickened (clavate) on apical third. Hind tibia slender elongate gradually thickened apically. Hind basitarsus robust to slightly swollen and sausage-shaped, about four times as long as wide. Wings. Arizona specimens ca. [5.0]–6.0 mm (n=7) and Mexican and Central American specimens slightly larger 7.0–8.0 mm (n=3), brown fumose, darker costally. Veins brown, pterostigma concolorous with membrane. Venation as in other members of the genus. Sc long, complete. R 2+3 elongate, subparallel to R 4+5, without basal appendix. CuA and CuP apically convergent, sometimes reaching wing edge independently (not meeting), sometimes meeting prior to wing edge forming a closed cell cua (Fig. 32). Abdomen. Dark brown to black. Terminalia (Figs. 7–8) dark brown to black. Tergite nine broader than long, posterior margin with shallow emargination reaching about one-third to slightly less than one-half the depth of sclerite. In dorsal view, gonocoxites dorsoapically without small apically rounded medially-projecting lobe just dorsal to gonostylar socket (as found in P. dolichopeza). In ventral view, posterior edge of medially fused gonocoxites + hypandrium with a broad shallow median cleft bounded by a pair of weakly (Fig. 8) to moderately (as in Fig. 20) developed lobes. In dorsal and ventral views, gonostylus stout, gently curved, apically broadly rounded or broad and culminating in a very obtuse point medially (in one paratype from Arizona point is more distinctive and in some Mexican and Central American specimens the apex of gonostylus slightly truncate due to a flat area between the median point and a minutely developed dorsoapical point). Paramere indistinguishable from P. heteroptera; in dorsal and ventral views fused parameres projecting from out of genital capsule, shiny brown heavily sclerotized dome-like, often with a small cleft apically. Divergent horn-like lobes of paramere present, but ventral and subapical in position and more confluent, with the dome-like contours of the paramere rather than strongly projecting caudally and ventrally as found in P. mexicana. Cerci fleshy, apically rounded with setae. Female. Similar to male. Body about 5.0 mm and wing 5.5–6.0 mm (n=2; Arizona). Eyes dichoptic. Antennae with unknown number of flagellomeres (Arizona female missing antennae). Female hind basitarsus slender elongate. Abdomen stout. Terminalia (Figs. 52–53): Tergite nine present as narrow, transverse strap, medially subdivided into two sclerites; more produced ventrolaterally. Tergite ten minute, nearly hyaline, longitudinally elongate, lying between bases of cerci. Cerci two-segmented, apical segment relatively short. Subgenital plate (= sternite eight) large, longitudinally subdivided, with posterior margin with a pair of broad lobes. Y-shaped genital fork present. In addition to genital fork, a minute pair of sclerites present between the posterior margin of the subgenital plate and the anterior margin of sternite ten. Sternite 10 present, posteriorly broadly rounded. Three rounded, sclerotized, capsule-like, spermathecae present. Diagnosis. Males of P. arizonensis can be distinguished from the very similar species P. heteroptera and P. mexicana by the gonostylus without an apical notch and apex of paramere broadly rounded (see detailed discussion and comparsion of these three species in “Remarks”). Remarks. Historically all specimens of Penthetria from the USA were considered to be P. heteroptera. However, specimens from southern Arizona (previously determined as P. heteroptera by various workers including the present author) represent a distinct species (P. arizonensis). Within the USA, allopatric populations of P. heteroptera (East of the Rocky Mountains) and P. arizonensis (southern AZ) are easily distinguished based on differences in the apex of the gonostylus; P. heteroptera has the apex of the gonostylus minutely truncate, the truncate portion often slightly notched (Figs. 16–20), with the anterodorsal side of the notch often produced into a small point, while the Arizona specimens studied all have the apex of the gonostylus broadly rounded or broadly rounded and culminating in an obtuse median point (Figs. 7–8). While these morphological differences and the correlated allopatric distribution seem to indicate two distinct species, the study of Mexican and Central American specimens attributed to P. arizonensis revealed variation in the apex of the gonostylus (the broadly rounded apex is sometimes very minutely truncate (as in Fig. 19), though never notched), which make these specimens, in some cases, indistinguishable from some specimens of P. heteroptera from the eastern USA that have only a very slight truncation and lack a notch. It is unclear whether the slightly truncate gonostylus in P. arizonensis is simply intraspecific variation or if there is some integration between the two species, but as no definitive specimens of P. heteroptera (gonostylus with an apical notch) have been studied from south of the USA (either in this study or by Hardy (1945)) and the fact that P. mexicana also sometimes has the gonostylus slightly apically truncate, the conclusion adopted here is that of intraspecific variation. Regardless of this inability to reliably distinguish some Mexican and Central American specimens from some eastern North American specimens, the two forms have been treated as distinct species; P. heteroptera east of the Rocky Mountains in USA and Canada and P. arizonensis from southern Arizona, USA to Central America. P. arizonensis likely represents the species identified by Hardy (1945) as P. nigerrima (Bellardi), which was originally described from Mexico (see “Unrecognized Species of Penthetria ” below). In addition to P. heteroptera, P. arizonensis is also very similar to P. mexicana, as they share the apically broadly rounded gonostylus which sometimes culminates in an obtuse median point or may be apically truncate. P. arizonensis is most easily distinguished from P. mexicana by the structure of the paramere; in P. mexicana the pair of divergent horn-like lobes (whale-tail-like structure) often appears apical (most posterior) when the paramere is in dorsal or ventral views (Figs. 24–26, 28), while in P. arizonensis the divergent lobes of the paramere do not appear apical when viewed ventrally or dorsally, are more ventral and subapical in position, and are more confluent with the dome-like contours of the paramere rather than strongly projecting caudally (Figs. 7–8). In some specimens of P. mexicana where the divergent lobes of the paramere are slightly less projecting (Fig. 28) or even slightly out of view from a strict dorsal view (Fig. 29), the apex of the paramere is slightly laterally compressed making it narrow and ridge/nubbin-like apically (Fig. 29), whereas the paramere of P. arizonensis is broadly rounded (Fig. 7) and often has a small groove apically (as in Figs. 16 & 20); the paramere of P. arizonensis is indistinguishable from that of P. heteroptera. Females of P. arizonensis are indistinguishable from females of P. heteroptera, P. mexicana and P. yakima, but they can be distinguished from P. appendicula and P. distincta, which have more slender posteromedian lobes on sternite eight and the second segment of the cerci more elongate (Figs. 46–48), and from P. neonigrita, which has a more strongly developed tergite nine (Fig. 54). Etymology. The specific epithet is taken from the type locality, Arizona, USA. Geographic & Seasonal Distribution. Southern Arizona, USA south to Central America (Map 2). Seasonal distribution summarized in Table 1.Published as part of Fitzgerald, Scott J., 2021, Penthetria Meigen (Diptera: Bibionidae): Revision of the New World species and world catalog, pp. 451-500 in Zootaxa 4926 (4) on pages 463-467, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/452951
Time Use, Daily Activities, and Health-Related Quality of Life of Irish Youth
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/30/2017
This large cross-sectional time-use study empirically examined, for the first time, the relationship between participation in daily activity and self-reported health-related quality of life for school-going youth in Ireland.
Primary Author and Speaker: Elizabeth Anne McKay
Contributing Authors: Anthony P. Fitzgerald, Ivan Perry</jats:p
Book Reviews
No full textCriminal Law and Punishment by P. J. Fitzgerald, reviewed by John V. Barry. The British Cabinet by John P. Mackintosh, reviewed by Colin Howard. Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law by J. W. C. Turner, reviewed by Colin Howard. An Enquiry into Criminal Guilt by Peter Brett, reviewed by Colin Howard. Cases and Materials in Constitutional and Administrative Law by Peter Brett, reviewed by Alex C. Castles and Colin Howard. An Introduction to the Civil Law by K. W. Ryan, reviewed by Horst K. Lucke. Strata Titles by A. F. Rath, P. J. Grimes and J. E. Moore, reviewed by W. A. N. Wells. Appellate Courts in the United States and England by Delmar Karlen, reviewed by I. A. Shearer
F. Scott Fitzgerald e The Great Gatsby : um encontro com o moderno
No full textThe author views the representativity of F. Scott Fitzgerald and of his work - particularly The Great Gatsby - as resulting from an encounter with modern times such they were viewed in the first decades of the 20th Century, and not simply as a projection of typically American values and myths
Asindulum flavidum Fitzgerald 2023, n. sp.
No full text<i>Asindulum flavidum</i> Fitzgerald n. sp. <p>Figs. 16–27, 85</p> <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: EFC52A58-8DA6-4557-9925-0BE75504D9FA</p> <p> <b>Type Material</b>. Holotype male (CNCI), pinned (Fig. 16): USA: FLORIDA: Wakulla Co., Ochlockonee State Pk., IV.30.1980, J.F. Burger. <b>Paratypes</b>: USA: FLORIDA: Gainesville, 25.IV.1952, G.S. Walley, 1m (CNCI); Gulf Hammock, 23.IV.1952, J. R. Vockeroth, 1m 1f on same pin (CNCI); GEORGIA: McIntosh Co., Sapelo Island, 17 May 1978, J. R. Powers, 1m (CASC).</p> <p> <b>Additional material examined</b> (see Comments). USA: NORTH CAROLINA: Cumberland Co., Fort Bragg, 6–13. VI.1967, J.D. Birchim, 1m (CASC); TEXAS: Erath Co., Happy Valley Estates, 32.164296, -98.287018, May 2023, R. Pfau, Malaise trap, 2m 1f, (SFC); same as previous except 5 June 2023, 1m (SFC).</p> <p> <b>Additional records</b> (the following CSCA specimens were determined by Peter Kerr based on photographs of the male terminalia sent by the author). USA: FLORIDA: Wakulla Co., Apalachicola NF, FS366, LLP oak savanna, N30º19.751’, W84º30.309’, Ant Heaven Trap, Malaise; 15–20 May 2005, Deans, Joshi, Murray coll., CSCA06 LOT 168, 3m (CSCA; CSCA _06X146); Wakulla Co., Apalachicola NF, FS366, LLP savanna, Malaise, N30º19.751’, W84º30.309’, 21–28 May 2005, Wetherby, Murray, CSCA08 L 213, 1m (CSCA; CSCA _13M992); Wakulla Co., Apalachicola NF, FS366, LLP savanna, Malaise, N30º19.751’, W84º30.309’, 21–28 May 2005, Wetherby, Murray, CSCA08 L213, 1f (CSCA; CSCA _22Q320).</p> <p> <b>Description</b>. Male. Body length ca. 7.0 mm (n = 1). Head, yellowish to light brown, area around ocelli black. Antennae with 14 brown, cylindrical flagellomeres plus a small, apical, rounded apicule; flagellomeres 2–13 broader than long, flagellomeres 1 and 14 longer than broad, all without distinct setae. Pedicel, scape, and base of basal flagellomere yellowish. Mouthparts as Fig. 17; yellowish and brown, long, terminating near apex of fore coxa. Palps brown, five-segmented. Three centrally-positioned ocelli in a line; median ocellus smaller. Mesonotum cream to yellowish with three broad light brown to brown stripes; lateral stripes anteriorly truncated and median stripe narrowly divided by a narrow darker stripe medially (stripes sometimes merged into a central brown area). Mesonotum with black appressed setae over most of surface except for a pair of bare (asetose) submedian stripes at least anteriorly. Thoracic pleura cream to yellowish; anepisternum, katepisternum, laterotergite, and mediotergite bare. Anterior spiracle without posterior setae. Legs yellowish, becoming slightly darker distally due to density of trichia. Tibial spurs 1:2:2 with inner spurs longer. Fore tibia with apical, triangular sensory area on anterior surface. Hind tibia with trichia irregularly arranged and short black setae in regular rows on all leg surfaces. Wing as Fig 18; ca. 5.0–6.0 mm (n = 4), hyaline to slightly brown fumose along wing edge at distal third. Veins brown, anterior and posterior forks and CuP with short, widely-spaced setae on upper surface, especially apically. Anterior veins with more densely-spaced setae except Sc, base Rs, and R 2+3 bare. CuP reaching wing margin. Abdomen yellowish with terminal segments darker; segments 1–4 yellowish with very narrow light brown posterior borders, remaining tergites either dark brown to black with lighter areas laterally or just darker versions of the preceding segments (light brown with dark brown posterior borders). Abdomen with black setae. Male terminalia as Figs. 19–24. Male tergite 9 posteriorly medially emarginate, posterolateral corners developed into a pair of broad, laterally-compressed, dorsally-hooked lobes. Ventrally, gonocoxites deeply and broadly medially emarginate with only a narrow strap connecting the two halves posteriorly. Lateral lobes of gonocoxites broad, rectangular, apically truncate, without dorsal process dorsomedially. Gonostylus talon-like, apically-hooked and acute, with some strong subapical setae. Sperm pump (possibly fused with parameres?) complex, large and anteriorly elongated, with apodemes reaching into abdominal segments 6–5; notable are two pairs of very long, more laterally-positioned apodemes (one pair more ventral, one pair more dorsal) and an ejaculatory apodeme which is very strongly laterally compressed. The posterior apex of the sperm pump is a pair of laterally flattened lobes that are dorsally connected, forming a U-shaped cradle.</p> <p>Female. As in male except: Body length ca. 8.0 mm (n = 1). Mesonotum not distinctly striped. Wing ca. 7.0 mm (n = 1) brown fumose along wing margin on distal third; darker anteroapically. Abdomen broader than male; expanding in width posteriorly to segments 4 and 5 then tapering again. Tergites mostly yellowish to light brown with brown posterior borders on tergites 1–3 and tergites 4+ brightest and with the least brown (Fig. 25). Segments beyond tergite 7 strongly telescoped internally. Female terminalia as Figs. 26–27. Cerci fleshy, setose, oval, pad-like. Sternite 10 broadly rounded to truncate posteriorly.</p> <p> <b>Etymology</b>. The species epithet is from the Latin <i>flavidus</i> (yellowish) for the predominant pale coloration of the more southern representatives of this species.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis</b>. Mouthparts of both sexes ending near apex of fore coxa, male tergite 9 with posterolateral corners developed into a pair of broad (narrow in <i>A. montanum</i>), laterally-compressed, dorsally-hooked lobes.</p> <p> <b>Comments</b>. There is significant abdominal color variation in this species described below as a “pale morph” and a “dark morph”. The pale morph (Florida and Georgia) has males with abdominal segments 1–4 yellowish and remaining tergites darker (Fig. 16); female (Fig. 25) with all tergites largely yellowish with brown posterior margins on tergites 1–3 (only one pale female studied so color variation undocumented). One male specimen examined from North Carolina with damaged terminalia (tergite 9 and apices of gonostyli missing) has the apically truncate lateral lobes of the gonocoxites typical of <i>A. flavidum</i> and is thus believed to represent this species. This specimen has the abdominal tergites mostly dark brown with only tergite 4 yellowish; a color pattern unknown from the few specimens examined from further south in Georgia and Florida. However, specimens from Texas with intact male terminalia were also of this darker color morph (all tergites brown except tergite 4 yellowish) which matches abdominal color of some specimens of <i>A. montanum</i>. Females of the darker color morph have abdominal tergites 1–3 brown and remainder yellowish. No morphological differences could be found between the darker and lighter color morphs and while they are considered to be conspecific, the type series is restricted to specimens of the paler form.</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> (Fig. 85). Southeastern USA; material was examined from North Carolina Georgia, Florida, and Texas.</p> <p> <b>Biology</b>. In the Cross Timbers and Prairies Ecological Region of Texas (https://tpwd.texas.gov/landwater/land/ habitats/cross_timbers/ecoregions/cross_timbers.phtml) this species has been collected along an intermittent stream with Cedar Elm (<i>Ulmus crassifolia</i> Nutt.) as the primary canopy tree and was observed visiting the flowers of Carolina Buckthorn (<i>Frangula caroliniana</i> (Walter) A. Gray) (R. Pfau, pers. comm. Aug. 2023 and iNaturalist observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/161738855).</p>Published as part of <i>Fitzgerald, Scott J., 2023, The Nearctic species of Asindulum Latreille and Macrorrhyncha Winnertz (Diptera: Keroplatidae), pp. 72-106 in Zootaxa 5351 (1)</i> on pages 80-82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5351.1.3, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8391146">http://zenodo.org/record/8391146</a>
Baseline characteristics of participants in the ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) study
No full textAbstract not availableJohn J. McNeil, Robyn L. Woods, Mark R. Nelson, Anne M. Murray, Christopher M. Reid, Brenda Kirpach, Elsdon Storey, Raj C. Shah, Rory S. Wolfe, Andrew M. Tonkin, Anne B. Newman, Jeff D. Williamson, Jessica E. Lockery, Karen L. Margolis, Michael E. Ernst, Walter P. Abhayaratna, Nigel Stocks, Sharyn M. Fitzgerald, Ruth E. Trevaks, Suzanne G. Orchard, Lawrence J. Beilin, Geoffrey A. Donnan, Peter Gibbs, Colin I. Johnston, and Richard H. Grimm, on behalf of the ASPREE Investigator Grou
A memória e o futuro : a escrita de F. Scott Fitzgerald e a América dos anos trinta
No full textIn the last few months there has been a considerable stream of translations and publishing of Fitzgerald's works in Portugal. In this article, the author focuses on some of Fitzgerald's writings of the late twenties and of the thirties; these were hard times for America, as they were for Fitzgerald himself. In his fiction, as well as in his autobiographical essays, Fitzgeral nevertheless proved to be well aware of the new era and to have strength to overcome the different sorts of problems which arose from it
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