Michael Ansara, well known for playing Klingon commander Kang on “Star Trek”, has passed away at his home in Calabasas, California due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Ansara’s friend and former publicist, Michael B. Druxman, confirmed to EW, “Michael and I have been friends since 1968. He was my best friend. He ...
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The personal essay is more than a diary entry for the masses. You probably don?t want people to read your journal as is, but chances are, having a literary magazine say that they want to publish your feelings, opinions, and observations sounds pretty darn good. The trick is to move past the egocentric style of a journal entry to create a narrative tale others can relate to. Here are four tips that we have found successful in getting editors to say, ?Yes!? to your submission.
Brevity and precision. In these modern days, people have a tough time focusing their attention for too long. We get involved with something and then a TV show comes on, or you get sidetracked by a message on your computer, or?you have a wicked hangnail that needs to be picked. Your personal essay should be under 3,500 words?and we state this adamantly. This is, apparently, the absolute most attention that the modern human can give to a piece of writing (man, we?re lazy sometimes). Though you may want to ramble on about conflict in the Middle East, or your addiction to gummy bears, it is better to establish your goal and get to it quickly. The shorter the work, the more focused your presentation. Thus, the better you keep the readers? interest. Now, put down that gummy bear.
Get with it! The world is one big, constant story. Tap into it. Stay fresh with current events, and give us your take on them. Personal essays that take on popular news stories are especially interesting. We spend a lot of time listening to broadcast journalists in the world telling us their opinions; don?t you think it?s time for yours to be heard, in your own voice?
Fresh insight. We all have our own train of thought, our own analysis. The personal essay is great because you can lend your perspective to others. Readers can agree or disagree, but either way they are learning something new about themselves. That?s a great feeling for both the writer and reader. So, dive into what you?re writing about. Analyze every nook and cranny of it, and give us your fresh take. There?s almost nothing more satisfying than reading new insights because they can change our perceptions, which can change us. But don?t hypnotize us?and don?t preach at us.
Don?t be too self-involved. Remember: Yes, you are writing this for yourself, but you?re also writing it for others to relate to and to find a common ground. Don?t just delve deeper into your life?s specificities. Think about those friends who just seem to always talk about themselves and about what happened in their day, and about their kids, and their job, and their?blah, blah, blah. Do you sit in anticipation of hearing about those people?s stories? I?m going to guess no (unless you?re Oprah and getting paid to). So why would anyone want to invest in your essay if you?re spewing out personal information and readers have absolutely no way of relating? They wouldn?t. Involve all of us, and we will read with vigor and excitement!
Now, go submit, submit, submit. Find literary magazines that are partial to what you?re writing about, or to your style. Practice these tips and hone your voice. People will want to read what you have to say. We?re all a bunch of walking opinions. As long as those opinions and stories are presented in a relatable way, there will always be a market for them. Writer?s Relief has seen this work time and time again.
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CHICAGO (AP) ? Falling televisions sent nearly 200,000 U.S. children to the emergency room over 20 years and the injury rate has climbed substantially for these sometimes deadly accidents, a study found.
Doctors and safety experts say better awareness is needed about the dangers ? especially the risks of putting heavier, older model TV sets on top of dressers and other furniture young children may try to climb on.
Most injuries are in kids under 5; head and neck injuries including concussions are the most common.
"This is a problem that is increasing at an alarming rate," said lead author Dr. Gary Smith, a pediatric emergency specialist and president of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance in Columbus, Ohio.
Smith said it is unclear from the data what type of TV sets are involved in the accidents or whether older, heavier models are the most common culprit.
The study was published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
In 2011, 12,300 children nationwide got ER treatment for TV-related injuries, compared with 5,455 in 1990. The injury rate nearly doubled, from 0.85 injuries per 10,000 children aged 17 and younger in 1990 to 1.66 per 10,000 in 2011, the study found.
The researchers examined national ER data on non-fatal television-related injuries to kids from 1990-2011. In many cases, the set had been placed on a dresser and the child used open drawers as stairs to climb up and reach the TV, toppling it.
Over those two decades, 215 children died from these injuries, government data show, and news reports indicate that since January 2012, at least six young children have been killed nationwide by falling TVs.
Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission, said as flat screen TVs have become more popular, many families move heavier old TVs to bedrooms, placing them on dressers or other unsteady furniture not designed to hold them.
The commission urges parents to anchor furniture to the wall or floor with brackets or other specially designed tethers. TVs also should be anchored to sturdy surfaces, the commission recommends.
Contact: Dr. Damien Fordham damien.fordham@adelaide.edu.au 61-477-303-470 University of Adelaide
Climate change could drive the Iberian lynx ? the world's most threatened cat to extinction within 50 years, despite substantial ongoing conservation efforts, a new international study has found.
Published today in Nature Climate Change, the research team says the impact of climate change must be incorporated in strategies to reintroduce the Iberian lynx to new habitats if the species is to be saved.
"We show that climate change could lead to a rapid and severe decrease in lynx abundance in coming decades, and probably lead to its extinction in the wild within 50 years," says lead author Dr Damien Fordham, from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute. "Current management efforts could be futile if they don't take into account the combined effects of climate change, land use and prey abundance on population dynamics of the Iberian lynx."
The Iberian lynx is the world's most endangered cat species, with only an estimated 250 individuals surviving in the wild. Recent declines have been associated with sharp regional reductions in the abundance of its main prey, the European rabbit. Only two Iberian lynx populations persist in the wild compared with nine in the 1990s.
Over 90 million has been spent since 1994 to try and save the species, mainly through habitat management, reduction of destructive human activity and, more recently, reintroducing the lynx into suitable areas where they have lived in recent history.
Although there is evidence that lynx numbers have increased in the last ten years in response to intensive management, this study warns that the ongoing conservation strategies could buy just a few decades before the species goes extinct. This study is the most comprehensive conservation-management model yet developed of the effects of climate change on a predator and its prey.
"Models used to investigate how climate change will affect biodiversity have so far been unable to capture the dynamic and complex feedbacks of species interactions," says Dr Miguel Arajo, senior author and Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. "By developing new forecasting methods, we have managed, for the first time, to simulate demographic responses of lynx to spatial patterns of rabbit abundance conditioned by disease, climate change, and land use modification."
CSIC researcher at the Doana Biological Station in Seville, Dr Alejandro Rodrguez, says: "Habitat in the south-west of the Iberian Peninsula, where the two existing populations of lynx persist, is most likely to be inhospitable to lynx by the middle of this century." Current reintroduction plans are targeting the south of Spain and Portugal but survival of the species in the long term may require higher latitude and higher altitude regions on the Iberian Peninsula.
"That the numbers of Iberian lynx are currently increasing suggests that intensive management of habitat and rabbit populations have worked as effective short-term conservation strategies, but small population size means that the species is still threatened and susceptible to future population declines," says Professor Barry Brook, Chair of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide. "This means that the species is extremely vulnerable to shifts in habitat quality or to changes in the abundance of their rabbit prey due to climate change."
The researchers say climate-change-informed decisions should be a common part of conservation practice.
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Climate change could drive the Iberian lynx ? the world's most threatened cat to extinction within 50 years, despite substantial ongoing conservation efforts, a new international study has found.
Published today in Nature Climate Change, the research team says the impact of climate change must be incorporated in strategies to reintroduce the Iberian lynx to new habitats if the species is to be saved.
"We show that climate change could lead to a rapid and severe decrease in lynx abundance in coming decades, and probably lead to its extinction in the wild within 50 years," says lead author Dr Damien Fordham, from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute. "Current management efforts could be futile if they don't take into account the combined effects of climate change, land use and prey abundance on population dynamics of the Iberian lynx."
The Iberian lynx is the world's most endangered cat species, with only an estimated 250 individuals surviving in the wild. Recent declines have been associated with sharp regional reductions in the abundance of its main prey, the European rabbit. Only two Iberian lynx populations persist in the wild compared with nine in the 1990s.
Over 90 million has been spent since 1994 to try and save the species, mainly through habitat management, reduction of destructive human activity and, more recently, reintroducing the lynx into suitable areas where they have lived in recent history.
Although there is evidence that lynx numbers have increased in the last ten years in response to intensive management, this study warns that the ongoing conservation strategies could buy just a few decades before the species goes extinct. This study is the most comprehensive conservation-management model yet developed of the effects of climate change on a predator and its prey.
"Models used to investigate how climate change will affect biodiversity have so far been unable to capture the dynamic and complex feedbacks of species interactions," says Dr Miguel Arajo, senior author and Spanish Research Council (CSIC) Senior Researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid. "By developing new forecasting methods, we have managed, for the first time, to simulate demographic responses of lynx to spatial patterns of rabbit abundance conditioned by disease, climate change, and land use modification."
CSIC researcher at the Doana Biological Station in Seville, Dr Alejandro Rodrguez, says: "Habitat in the south-west of the Iberian Peninsula, where the two existing populations of lynx persist, is most likely to be inhospitable to lynx by the middle of this century." Current reintroduction plans are targeting the south of Spain and Portugal but survival of the species in the long term may require higher latitude and higher altitude regions on the Iberian Peninsula.
"That the numbers of Iberian lynx are currently increasing suggests that intensive management of habitat and rabbit populations have worked as effective short-term conservation strategies, but small population size means that the species is still threatened and susceptible to future population declines," says Professor Barry Brook, Chair of Climate Science at the University of Adelaide. "This means that the species is extremely vulnerable to shifts in habitat quality or to changes in the abundance of their rabbit prey due to climate change."
The researchers say climate-change-informed decisions should be a common part of conservation practice.
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Media Contact:
Dr Damien Fordham
Postdoctoral Fellow
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
The University of Adelaide
Phone: +61 8313 6711
Mobile: +61 477 303 470
damien.fordham@adelaide.edu.au
Robyn Mills
Media and Communications Officer
The University of Adelaide
Phone: +61 8 8313 6341
Mobile: +61 410 689 084 robyn.mills@adelaide.edu.au
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Michael Ansara, well known for playing Klingon commander Kang on “Star Trek”, has passed away at his home in Calabasas, California due to complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 91. Ansara’s friend and former publicist, Michael B. Druxman, confirmed to EW, “Michael and I have been friends since 1968. He was my best friend. He ...
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