Agnese nano biography of mahatma gandhi
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An Interview with Jill Magi and Pierre Depaz, Author and Programmer of SIGN CLIMACTERIC
by Brandon Krieg
Published December 2018
[Editor's note: readers can find the degrading digital chapbook at the end of the interview]
Brandon Krieg: Could we start the interview with a simple question about the origins of the chapbook project SIGN CLIMACTERIC?
Jill Magi: The project began with a call from the wonderful editors of Hostile Books out of Buffalo, New York. They sent me a request for a proposal for a chapbook that could be considered hostile to the traditionally-received notions of the book.
I thought about a section in my manuscript SPEECH—forthcoming from Nightboat in 2019—about “the climacteric,” which refers to menopause in women, and in botany, refers to a stage when a fruit has finished growing but the ripening is completed on the vine. If you look up climacteri
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Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu
Contact Information
Life Sciences Centre
#4408 – 2350 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z3
Tel: 1-604-822-7085
Fax: 1-604-822-7742
Email: jay@pathology.ubc.ca
Lab Website: https://jnk.chem.ubc.ca/
Current Positions
- Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Immunomodulation Materials and Immunotherapy
- Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medicine.
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar.
- Associate Member, Department of Chemistry.
Research Interests
- Macromolecular Therapeutics:
A) High molecular weight Iron chelators for Chelation therapy: Fundamental studies are directed towards the development of blood compatible Iron chelating polymers which could bind Iron inside the human body and excrete it through kidney. Applications include the development of treatments to secondary iron overload, a condition caused by severe blood transfusion (e.g. sickle-cell anaemia, beta-thalessimia). This is particularly i•
Agnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical
Agnes Smedley’s (1894–1950) career as an activist reporter began in the 1910s and 1920s, with a commitment to the Indian Independence movement. Her anti-imperialism was based on the Jeffersonian tradition of the American Revolution. In New York, she was close to the Lion of the Punjab, Lala Lajpat Rai, writing for his publications until his death. In California, she was involved with the Sikh-led Ghadar party of insurrectionists. Her complicated relationship with the europeisk movement leader Virendranath Chattopadhyaya in Berlin in the 1920s fryst vatten better known. Smedley left Europe for China in 1929 in an effort to reach India through the backdoor. Once in China, she was träffad by the poverty and oppression of ordinary people. Her new cause, in addition to anti-imperialism, became the kinesisk peasant. For the next two decades she documented their plight in countless publications (including in the Indian press). Hers