Skunk River Review Fall 2002, vol 14

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My Body to You

In the thirteen stories of My Body to You, thirteen women or girls pilot their own bodies through a shifting universe of lovers old and young, parents devoted and destructive, sisters of different sexes, children and adults living in the mysterious world of autism. All these characters share keen powers of observations and a heightened sensuality. In a wild variety of settings, they struggle to control—or dare to abandon themselves to—their intensely private passions. A woman in love with a gay man she calls Sister Kin attempts to escape the bonds of her own body. An eighteen-year-old virgin enters into a passionate affair with an older man who turns out to be a virgin of a different sort. A special education teacher in a school for aggressive teenagers finds herself attracted to another teacher, also female. An intelligent outcast girl bonds with her mindlessly seductive mother to form “one person.” Searle reveals other characters through inventive and often comic feats of narrative daring. A girl grows into womanhood during a single family dinner that spans twenty years. A middle-aged wife, once dubbed “The First Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” watches her former selves parade before her family in a lively evening of home movies. Two women—one recently divorced, the other a group home resident in love with The Who—join forces as they figure out “What to Do in an Emergency.” An old woman experiences both physical breakdown and spiritual breakdown in a supermarket\u27s vegetable department. A young woman is drawn into the emotional and sexual life of an autistic boy obsessed with the number 8. Each of these stories is written in a language that strives to match the intensity of Searle\u27s characters; each gives the reader an exceptionally intimate portrait of a unique female and the central, sensual mystery of her body.https://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_isfa/1022/thumbnail.jp

John Savage

U radu je realiziran laboratorijski model sustava upravljanja sinkronim strojem sa stalnim magnetima. Prilikom realizacije laboratorijskog modela koristiti se industrijski pretvarač frekvencije i napona Siemens Sinamics S120, programibilni logički kontroler (PLC) Siemens Simatic serije S7-300 i sinkroni stroj sa stalnim magnetima. PLC i pretvarač frekvencije i napona su povezani preko industrijske komunikacijske mreže PROFINET. Programskim paketom Starter konfiguriran je pretvarač i sinkroni motor sa stalnim magnetima, a pomoću TIA Portala izvršava se upravljanje cjelokupnim sustavom.For the realization of the laboratory model we used the Siemens Sinamics S120 industrial frequency and voltage inverter, Siemens Simatic S7-300 programmable logic controller (PLC) and a synchronous machine with permanent magnets. The PLC and the frequency and voltage inverter are connected via the PROFINET industrial communication network. Programming package Starter is used for configuration of inverter and synchronous machine drive with permanent magnets and TIA Portal is used for overall system management