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Corpus Christi - The Sparkling City by the Sea
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in southern Texas. The metropolitan area US Census estimated population in 2013 was 442,600, making it the eighth-most populous city in Texas. The name Corpus Christi means, "Body of Christ" in Latin, and was given to the settlement and surrounding bay by Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pinedain 1519. The majority of the population is employed in the services, wholesale and retail trades, as well as government sectors.
Major Roadways in Corpus Christi
Interstate 37 provides access to the Corpus Christi International Airport and the city's downtown, as well as connecting the city to San Antonio in the north.
U.S. Route 77 is a north-south highway that travels from Corpus Christi, through Dallas, and ends in Sioux City, Iowa.
U.S. Route 181 is located entirely within Texas, and runs from Corpus Christi to just south of San Antonio. It largely parallels Interstate 37 to the east.
Texas State Highway 35 travels from Houston to the eastern side of Corpus Christi.
Texas State Highway 44 runs east-west, connecting Corpus Christi to Encinal. It is also known as the Cesar Chavez Memorial Highway.
Texas State Highway 286 / Crosstown Expressway this road connects downtown Corpus Christi to Chapman Ranch.
Texas State Highway 358 / Padre Island Drive is a highway that runs along the southern end of Corpus Christi.
The Corpus Christi International Airport serves the area, primarily offering flights that travel through Houston and Dallas.
28 bus routes provide transportation in the inner-city, and are managed by the Corpus Christi Regional Transportation Authority.
The city has a large harbor for freight, but does not have a passenger port, though plans to build one are being discussed.
Railroad transportation from San Antonio to Corpus Christi is provided by the Union Pacific Railroad.
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Major Hospitals and Medical Centers in Corpus Christi
If you know someone who has been injured in an accident in the Corpus Christi area, it is likely that they were taken to one of the following medical centers for treatment.
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Corpus Christi legal information for accident victims
After someone has been injured or killed in a motor-vehicle crash in Corpus Christi, many decisions need to be made immediately and questions need to be answered. For example, how much of the medical costs will be covered by the insurance policy? How does PIP insurance help with medical bills immediately? What if the at-fault driver has no insurance?
Where to find legal assistance after a Corpus Christi injury accident
After a serious crash, it is crucial to get help from a Corpus Christi injury attorney who understands the local regulations and legal standards, who knows how insurance policies work, and who can handle all aspects of an insurance claim so the injured person can focus on recovery. If someone is killed in a collision, a Corpus Christi wrongful death attorney will launch a claim that will begin the process of financial recovery for the family members left behind. Learn more here about what a Corpus Christi accident lawyer can do to help.
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In the big picture, it is almost-always to the plaintiff’s advantage to wait patiently for a settlement, either negotiated higher with a lawyer’s help or won through courtroom litigation. If you absolutely cannot put compensation off any longer, talk to your attorney about what you can expect if you were to offer to settle right now. Just don’t be surprised if it is a fraction of what you deserve.
Statute of limitations in a Car Accident Case
In Texas, all parties involved in an automobile accident, whether it be a driver, passenger, or pedestrian, have two years to file a claim. This time limit begins on the date an accident occurred and exists for virtually all car accident cases, no matter how extensive the damage.
How to Determine the Full Value of Your Car Accident Case
Determining the actual value of your car accident claim, and therefore how much you should ask for in return from the liable party’s insurance company, is a straightforward and simultaneously complicated process. It can be simple in terms of vehicular damage. If you have been physically injured as a result of the car accident, you will need to know the cost of your own recovery, which is far easier said than done. Read more here about how professionals determine your claim value.
Texas Distracted Driving Laws and Regulations
In addition to being illegal, using a smartphone while driving places a great deal of liability on the shoulders of the driver should a car accident occur. The trouble is figuring out if cellphone use was actually happening right at the moment of collision. Learn more here about Texas distracted driving laws and liability after an accident.
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To help you get through the after effects of a car accident, there are a series of steps and hints you should always take and remember, regardless of the details of the incident.
Physical Injuries Commonly Suffered in a Car Accident
But the reality is that insurance adjusters and the liable party are going to approach your claim with an ample helping of skepticism. One way to strengthen your case and fight for full compensation is to show that your injury is common in car accidents.
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According to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), more than 4,000 oilfield workers are injured at work each year, with more than 100 of these cases ending in fatality. Unfortunately, many of these accidents occur as a result of the negligence of another party, such as a drilling company’s failure to provide adequate safety gear or a lack of supervisors on a jobsite.
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According to annual statistics collected by the United States Coast Guard, more than 500 Americans will be in a fatal boating accident each year and thousands more will suffer injuries ranging from slight to severe.
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After being in a car accident, you may experience an unfortunate “15 minutes of fame” as all sorts of different people and parties want to talk to you. The other driver needs your information, paramedics will need to make certain you are okay, and the police might even show up to get a rundown on what led up to the collision. But there is one more group that will want to know about your car accident, and they are the one you might have to be the most careful about: insurance companies.
How Everyday Negligence Causes Car Accidents Everyday
But if the leading cause of car accidents is the people controlling the car, every effort to stop their dangerous behavior is an uphill battle. All the regulations and training in the world cannot guarantee that someone will put down their cellphones and focus on driving. Read more here about the latest information on the causes of car accidents, and about what to do if you are injured in one.
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“Marvel’s The Defenders” was a Color-Coded Hell to Watch
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Well, it’s been a week, and I’ve finally gotten through all of “Marvel’s The Defenders.” I’ll wait while you finish silently judging me. Done now? Then let’s continue. In the week since then, something has continually bothered me.
It’s not that the Netflix exclusive that finally brought together Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist was difficult to watch. (You can save your Internet hivemind hatred of Finn Jones for another day). It’s not even that it was difficult to find the time to watch it. There’s enough laundry in our house to keep a small army of domesticated husbands busy folding clothes while watching “their stories.”
It’s the fact that everything that I enjoyed aesthetically about the individual series that led to “Defenders” also turned out to be the thing that I hated most about the ensemble show.
Let’s recall, if you will, the commanding yellows of the Harlem that served as the backdrop of “Luke Cage,” the unsettling blues and purples of “Jessica Jones,” the red-tinted hints of danger of “Daredevil,” and the sickly hospital-like greens of “Iron Fist.”
They built a cohesive sense of space for the singular characters. The colors let you know when the heroes are in control, in a fight for their life, or when their alter egos were hidden beneath the surface.
From the very first moments of “The Defenders,” we’re awash in those sickly greens in the underground of Cambodia. We’re rushed to Jessica Jones’s drunken stupor where even Trish is clothed in a blue blazer outside the bar; Seagate Prison, where everything from the cinderblock walls to Foggy Nelson are covered in yellow light; and coffee makers that are accented in red flash inside Matt Murdock’s swanky apartment before his bright red folders rest on a courtroom table otherwise bathed in hues more recognizable to us mere mortals.
The Defenders Color Schemes
This bullshit continues in the same fashion for six out of the eight episodes, with brief moments for our eyes to rest in between.
SPOILERS AHEAD (except for, like, two of those bad guys from The Hand. There’s not a head between them.)
Take Episode 4, “Royal Dragon,” for example. It’s the first real moment where the team comes together outside of the wonderful fight scene at Midland Circle in episode 3 accented by Run The Jewels. Danny Rand flashes some cash securing a temporary hideout in the restaurant presumably of the same name. From that point on, Danny’s cash-colored influence is seen on everyone and everything.
EXCEPT FOR FUCKING MATT MURDOCK, who decides to stand as close as humanly possible to the red neon light in the front restaurant window as if to say to the rest of the team, “LOOK AT ME! I’M FUCKING DAREDEVIL!” Aren’t you supposed to be hiding out, Matt? Weren’t you, just minutes ago, complaining about the fact that you could still hear neon? “Who hears neon?” It’s no wonder you’re discovered by everyone in the room minutes later.
Later, after Jessica’s hissy fit and exit from the restaurant, she and Luke are covered in blue neon lights that wouldn’t exist behind any restaurant. Ever.
I get it! They were different people whose well-known comic book costumes had different colors! Even if you’re the most casual fan of these heroes or just their presence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, if you’ve reached “The Defenders,” you’ve already seen all of this.
This hand-holding and color-coded coddling, more than anything else, made me feel stupid. It also made me believe that they would never come together as a team because the creatives behind “Defenders” couldn’t do anything more creative than throw lighting gels recklessly across their sets.
The color palettes of the singular series brought us into the character’s worlds, and in some ways made us know and care more about them. Keeping them for so long in such overt ways throughout “Defenders” alienated me from enjoying the team dynamic. If this was to be an ensemble cast, it should have been treated as such.
If you understand the colors of light, you know that combining all of the colors gives you white light. But that clear color palette, the overall tone that should have been present after episode 3 through the end of the season when the team is separated again, is so blisteringly absent outside of anything tied directly to the chaos at Midland Circle that it almost hurts to watch.
Rather than a richly woven tapestry, “The Defenders” comes out looking like a child’s muddied finger painting exercise. For a cinematic universe that rewards its viewers loyalty with Easter eggs and cameos of every kind, this series almost goes out of its way to insult its viewers’ intelligence.
Color me upset.
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Thomas More's Utopia
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More’s Utopia, published 500 years ago this year, is a book that has beguiled historians and political theorists over several centuries. Confronting a portrait of an idyllic community that seems to combine republican virtues with totalitarianism, readers have found it difficult, if impossible, to untangle the serious from the satirical. But it is this very complexity, alongside a deep engagement with classical Greek and Roman authors, that makes More’s Utopia such a compelling text. Taken along with the arguably contradictory features of More’s personal life - from his humanist ideals and deep friendship with Erasmus to his involvement in heretic hunting as Lord Chancellor - More’s Utopia is an endlessly intriguing work of political, social and philosophical imagination.
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HM Dragon & Fenghuang Ref. 1LCAP.M08A.C110A
The latest limited edition from Arnold & Son combines inspiration from traditional Chinese paper cutting with traditional Haute Horlogerie. This special tribute to the dragon and fenghuang is limited to just five timepieces.
In Chinese mythology the dragon is a divine creature signifying power and good fortune, and is the free spirit of the zodiac. In ancient and modern Chinese culture, the dragon is often depicted along with the fenghuang.
The dragon and fenghuang are indeed considered symbolic of blissful relations between husband and wife, a common yin and yang metaphor. A symbol of high virtue and grace, the fenghuang has multiple positive connotations.
This limited edition was created to celebrate these divine creatures. The dragon and fenghuang are depicted with a technique reinterpreting the principles of the ancestral art of Chinese paper cutting, also named Jianzhi. Instead of paper the motive is created on mother-of-pearl by applying successive layers of lacquer with a miniature pad, executed with exquisite delicacy of touch and featuring fine details that evoke the depth and texture of the dragon and the fenghuang.
Arnold & Son is proud of this singular timepiece, as Fabien Dutriaux explains: "The light reflected from the depths of the white mother-of-pearl dial illuminates the richness of detail in the exquisite motive and eloquently expresses our mastery of the decorative arts." It is no small tribute to the craftsman who created it to say that the image on the dial captures all the finesse in the ancestral Chinese art of paper cutting.
The watch is powered by the A&S1001 movement, which is just 2.70 mm thick and manufactured entirely in-house. Housed in a 40 mm 18-karat rose gold case, it has twin barrels that generate a 90-hour power reserve, guarantee a more constant force and in turn a more constant rate and greater accuracy. All the plates and bridges in the movement are hand-chamfered and decorated - a further indication of the traditional craftsmanship upheld by Arnold & Son.
The HM Dragon and Fenghuang is limited to just 5 timepieces.
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Arnold & Son manufacture movement, hand-wound, 21 jewels, diameter 30 mm, thickness 2.70 mm, power reserve 90 h, double barrel, 21,600 vibrations/h. Movement decoration: Nickel-silver movement, rhodium treated with Haute Horlogerie finishing: hand-chamfered bridges with polished edges, fine circular graining and Côtes de Genève rayonnantes, blued screws with bevelled and mirror-polished heads
18-karat rose gold, diameter 40 mm, diamond-set bezel available, cambered sapphire with anti-reflective coating on both sides, see-through sapphire case back
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Red dragon and fenghuang on white mother-of-pearl
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Ecuadorian Locals Still Seeking Damages from Chevron for Environmental Damage
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Life is hard for the indigenous groups and subsistence farmers of two provinces in northern Ecuador, and oil is everywhere.
"It smells just like a gas station," said Ecuadorian lawyer Juan Pablo Saenz describing the present condition of the rainforest area.
He represents a group of 30,000 Ecuadorians hoping to force Chevron into fixing ecological problems they blame on Texaco's oil development in the 1960s.
Litigation began in 1993 and has dragged on through appeals, venue changes and many efforts by the oil company to shrug responsibility for the environmental destruction.
"That's probably the hardest part about all this, just the human suffering. Cancer rates are 150 percent higher than one would expect from this sort of environment," Saenz said. "This is made worse because these people have no access to real healthcare."
The Ecuadorian court, in 2011, handing Chevron a $19 billion bill – to be paid to the affected indigenous people. The company called the ruling illegitimate and the trial a fraud. Company officials have refused to pay the damages.
Chevron's attorney in the case argued the damage in the area was the result of abandoned pipelines belonging to PetroEcuador, a state-owned oil company.
"PetroEcuador agreed to and had an obligation under contract and the law to remediate its two-thirds share of any impacted site. They didn't do so for almost two decades," said Jim Craig, Chevron's media advisor. "They operated exclusively for 23 years with what everyone agrees is an abysmal environmental record. So if there's any contamination today in the Amazon of Ecuador, it's the responsibility of PetroEcuador."
Still determined to make the company pay, the Ecuadorian plantiffs have continued to seek out other jurisdictions where Chevron still has active business, including Argentina and Canada. An Argentinian judge originally agreed to honor the Ecuadorian court's ruling, placing an embargo on Chevron Argentina's assests worth approximatley $19 billion. The Argentinian Supreme Court overturned that ruling on June 5, claiming Chevron Argentina is seperate from Chevron Corporation.
Despite the setbacks, the plaintiffs refuse to give up.
"We will be starting new enforcement actions in other jurisdictions," Saenz said. "But what’s coming soon is that hopefully we will be able to start with the remediation of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest – and that cannot happen soon enough."
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This website is an archive of research, datasets and popular writings produced by Andrew Leigh while an academic at the Australian National University during 2004-2010. This website may be accessed via www.andrewleigh.org.
In July 2010, Andrew resigned as a Professor in the Research School of Economics to contest the federal election, and was elected as the Member for Fraser on 21 August 2010. Andrew's active website is now www.andrewleigh.com.
Andrew's academic blog: previousleigh.wordpress.com (2004-2010)
Andrew's academic CV (2004-10)
Spreadsheet of social capital data used in my book Disconnected (UNSW Press, 2010).
Spreadsheet of inequality data used in my book Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia (Black Inc, 2013)
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Top income shares for 13 developed countries (paper, data)
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Top income shares for Australia 1921-2007 (paper, updated data)
Male gini coefficients for Australia 1942-2001 (paper, data)
Hourly wage inequality across US states 1977-2002 (paper, data)
Household income inequality across US states 1963-2002 (paper, data)
Andrew Clarkwest's household income inequality by race across US states 1970-2000 (paper, documentation, data)
Replication is an important aspect of empirical social science. Where possible, I have posted on this website the code and data for all my published research papers. Click on the Research (with abstracts) link.
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Home Consoles Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Extra Pack 3 Release Date Announced
Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Extra Pack 3 Release Date Announced
August 25, 2018Written by Zarmena Khan
Unveiled in June 2018, Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2‘s Extra Pack 3 DLC will launch next week on Tuesday, August 28. Bandai Namco revealed the release date during a livestream showing off the content, a recap of which is embedded below.
Extra Pack 3 will add the long-awaited Super Baby Vegeta to the game alongside Kefla. An official overview of Baby is as follows:
Baby is a parasite-like organism created from the DNA of King Tuffle before the extinction of his race. His only goal is to obtain vengeance against the Saiyans. By taking possession of Vegeta’s body, Baby became Super Baby Vegeta one of the strongest fighters in the universe. Try to tame its amazing power in the Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 Extra Pack 3!
A new game update will also go live on August 28.
Sales of the Dragon Ball Xenoverse series recently surpassed ten million units worldwide. 2015’s original release launched on last-gen and current-gen consoles alongside PC. A sequel released the following year and earned positive reviews from users.
In our review, we lauded Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 for its wealth of content and robust online play but felt that it wasn’t a full-fledged sequel. Make sure to check out our full review for more on this.
Are our readers still playing the game? Let us know if you’re looking forward to Extra Pack 3.
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Taboo Broken, Twice! – Fiat Euro! 11/2013
by Martin Vlachynskyon April 2, 2013 August 31, 2017
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The crisis was hidden in Cyprus. We broke two different taboos. Moscow-Cyprus: booked out.
During the last months we have been listening to the eurozone leaders repeatedly saying that the crisis is over. Spanish banks rescued, Italian and Spanish bond yields kept low, the Irish returned to the market. Greeks and the Portuguese are still demonstrating, but their governments keep dragging the proposed reforms like apathetic mules under the benevolent eye of the Troika which is granting deadline postponements for compliance with the limits easily. And suddenly – Cyprus.
Cyprus, along with Slovenia, has been in the shadows of the PIIGS problems already for quite few months. Everyone knew that Cyprus would need help, but this would be in comparison to other states so small that it was not exciting. There is a new president in Cyprus after the recent elections, who is much more inclined to take help from the Troika compared to his predecessor. The official signal was an ECB announcement that, as of last Tuesday, it would stop providing liquidity to Cypriot banks through the ELA program, in other words – it will prohibit the Central Bank of Cyprus from printing additional euros. Cypriot banks are depleted due to being bound to Greece and losses coming from the Greek haircut. A traditional rescue event associated with hands shaking and salmon sandwiches could begin.
Cyprus is small, but the Cypriot banking sector is relatively large, seven times larger than the Cypriot GDP. In absolute terms, it is still small. But this also implies that should Cyprus be rescued only by funds from the permanent euro-wall, its public debt would jump far above 100% of GDP. Troika suddenly realised that the rules are to be followed and the ESM rules (though vaguely – article 13 ) say that a loan may be provided only to a country that will be able to service the debt thus increased (at least according to their models). Somebody malicious could say that it is the upcoming German elections in September that has played a far greater role in demanding savers’ contribution to the bailout than the ESM rules. There are around 20 billion euros of savings and other few billion of investments of Russian citizens in Cyprus. The rescue of those by the German money would be, say, unpopular…
Out of the less than 16 billion euros required, Europe prepared a ten-billion pile from the ESM. Cyprus is supposed to get the rest on its own and quickly. Here comes the first surprise. Cypriot government agreed with the Euro group that they will get the money by taking it directly from the savers via a special tax levied on their deposits, even on those deposits that are supposed to be guaranteed by the Cypriot equivalent of Deposit Protection Fund. Although many have whispered about such a possibility for some time already and the exodus of a few billion euros of deposits in February showed that some took this idea very seriously, to most of the world this came as a shock. Politicians and their friends quickly managed to swipe their money abroad already a few days before and people began to besiege ATMs in an attempt to save part of their money from taxation. Flights from Moscow to Cyprus were sold out in a while.
The tax rate is not very high – many Slovak self-employed or contract workers will lose much more due to the higher taxes effective as of the beginning of this year. But the thing making the Cypriot case different is that one of the fundamental taboos of the crisis was broken. Thou shall not touch savers in the banks!
The second taboo fell two days later when the Cypriot Government did not approve the proposal they agreed on previously. It was the first time a country on the brink of a bankruptcy said NO. Troika and the whole eurozone were left standing with their mouths wide opened.
Cypriot banks are closed, residents can still withdraw 800 euros a day from the regularly re-stocked ATMs, but all business transactions, and with them the whole economy, just froze. ECB is threatening to stop ELA from Monday on, but this time for real, they say. Pinky swears!
New solutions are being proposed on the spot. These include seizure of pension savings and social funds, exchanging deposits for Cyprus and Gas bonds, selling the rights for future natural gas production, which was by the way only discovered recently. The hot candidates are: taxing deposits in excess of a certain amount, or so-called Icelandic way – taxing foreign savers.
Some are raising their hopes with Russia, a country that they have had traditionally close relationship with (40% of foreign direct investments to Russia comes from Cyprus, or better said from Cyprus based Russian firms), and that saved the country once already in 2011 with a €2.5 billion loan. But Russians currently only have a single concern – get their money out of the country rather than send there even more. They would also require solid collateral for the loan. It is, however, highly questionable whether these pigs in a poke named gas resources or a naval base in the Mediterranean are sufficient attraction for so much money.
Whatever turns out to be the result, Cyprus is only a small island in the end. We sent 240 billion euros to Greece, pledged 100 billion euros to Spanish banks. Regarding Cyprus, we are only talking about a handsome sum of 10-16 billion. The important point here, however, is how the outcome will affect the PIIGS. If Cyprus managed to push the ECB and the rest of the Troika to a more favourable package, other countries will be motivated to break the rules even more than they did before. On the other hand, if the measures affect savings in banks (and in this case it does not matter whether all savings or only the large ones), this can lead to even more capital outflows from the periphery than in the past and force the local banks to close down.
These are no longer endless negotiations under Acropolis, or a constant subterfuge and rejecting help in Madrid. Cyprus has been frozen and the solution must come within a few days. Eurocrisis is not over, instead, it came to a new level. We can still continue to buy time as usual and simply pour money into the country via various channels, but a new uncertainty in the euro area is already growing.
Cyprus filled almost all space in this week’s issue. Anyway, let us reveal some news from other parts of Europe. Firstly, due to the Dexia bank rescue, Belgium will exceed the 3% deficit constraint and become another candidate for the mythical fine no one has ever seen. Secondly, one of the main French fighters against tax havens, the budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, resigned because he is being investigated in connection with a bank account in Switzerland. Additionally, after a fall due to the one-off transfer to the newly created “bad bank”, the portion of bad loans in Spanish banks started growing perilously again. And for the very end: Francis became the second largest employer in the U.S.
We wish you a very nice week!
(Translated by Jakub Pivoluska)
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Martin Vlachynský joined INESS in 2012 after period of external cooperation. He graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) and earned master degree on the University of Aberdeen (UK). He used to work several years as web marketing and social networks specialist.
Martin's field of interest envelopes economic policies, energetics, and natural resources.
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Shenandoah Rallies Late to Top Baseball
Shenandoah (15-8) 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 8 0 13 13 1
Penn St.-Harrisburg (17-8-1) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 8 1
2B: Frankie Ritter; Luke Nussman
HR: Grant Thompson
2B: Ryan McSorley 2; Bret Williams
Shenandoah 13, Penn State Harrisburg 4
Harrisburg Lineup
1. Torres 2b, 2. McSorley ss, 3. Williams lf, 4. Van Houten 3b, 5. Smith cf, 6. Winters dh, 7. Koroneos 1b, 8. Aug c, 9. Struve rf, De Leon p
SU Lineup
1. Ritter 3b, 2. Baker 2b, 3. Marcelle ss, 4. Woolford dh, 5. Kroll lf, 6. Nussman 1b, 7. Delavergne cf, 8. Thompson rf, 9. Moon c, Kulina p
After a promising start, Penn State Harrisburg faltered in the final innings of a 13-4 non-conference loss to Shenandoah on Sunday afternoon, April 7.
Michael De Leon was outstanding on the mound for the Lions (17-8-1), allowing just one run on five hits and one walk. He also struck out seven batters. Ryan McSorley had a multi-hit game, recording a pair of doubles and scoring two runs.
After two scoreless innings of play to begin the game, the Blue & White struck first when McSorley's double to left field drove in Jackson Struve from second base in the bottom of the third. Before the frame was out, McSorley came across on a wild pitch, giving the home team a 2-0 advantage heading into the fourth stanza.
The Hornets (15-8) got on the board with an RBI double to right field in the top of the fifth but Penn State Harrisburg responded with a tally in the bottom of the sixth when Struve plated thanks to another errant SU pitch.
The visitors took advantage of a Blue & White error and posted four hits, including an RBI double, to take their first lead of the afternoon at 5-3 in the top of the seventh. They kept rolling in the eighth when three Hornets were hit by pitches and another walked. From there, Shenandoah used two singles and a three-run home run to stretch the lead to 13-3 heading into the final frame.
The Lions loaded the bases with no one away but were able to manage just one run when Casey Winters' sacrifice fly drove in McSorley.
At the Plate
- Ryan McSorley was 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles, two runs scored and one RBI.
- Travis Van Houten went 2-for-4 with a walk.
- Bret Williams finished 1-for-3 with a double and a pair of walks.
- Casey Winters was 1-for-4 with a sac fly that drove in a run.
On the Mound
- Michael De Leon impressed in his start, going six innings and allowing just one run on five hits to go along with seven strikeouts.
- The Lions chased SU starter Carson Kulina from the game after 3.2 innings. He surrendered two earned runs on three hits and six walks.
- Matt House picked up the win for Shenandoah, throwing the final 3.2 innings and allowing just one run on four hits and a walk.
Around the Diamond
- Each team committed one error.
- The Hornets stole two bases on the day.
- Ryan McSorley assisted on three outs from his shortstop position.
- Jackson Struve recorded four putouts in right field.
The Lions host Keystone for another non-conference outing on Tuesday afternoon, April 9. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.
Be sure to follow the Lions on Instagram (@pennstatehbgathletics), Twitter (@PSHbgAthletics), and Facebook (Penn State Harrisburg Athletics) for all the latest on Penn State Harrisburg athletics.
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ACCUEIL ·> A research group ·> Publications ·> Papers
C. Letellier, I. Sendiña-Nadal, E. Bianco-Martinez & M. S. Baptista
A symbolic network-based nonlinear theory for dynamical systems observability
Scientific Reports, 8, 3785, 2018.
Scientific Report 2018 (with few corrections)
When the state of the whole reaction network can be inferred by just measuring the dynamics of a limited set of nodes the system is said to be fully observable. However, as the number of all possible combinations of measured variables and time derivatives spanning the reconstructed state of the system exponentially increases with its dimension, the observability becomes a computationally prohibitive task. Our approach consists in computing the observability coefficients from a symbolic Jacobian matrix whose elements encode the linear, nonlinear polynomial or rational nature of the interaction among the variables. The novelty we introduce in this paper, required for treating large-dimensional systems, is to identify from the symbolic Jacobian matrix the minimal set of variables (together with their time derivatives) candidate to be measured for completing the state space reconstruction. Then symbolic observability coefficients are computed from the symbolic observability matrix. Our results are in agreement with the analytical computations, evidencing the correctness of our approach. Its application to efficiently exploring the dynamics of real world complex systems such as power grids, socioeconomic networks or biological networks is quite promising.
C. Letellier, S. Mangiarotti, I. Sendiña-Nadal & O. E. Rössler
Topological characterization versus synchronization for assessing (or not) dynamical equivalence
Chaos, 28, 045107, 2018. Online
Model validation from experimental data is an important and not trivial topic which is too often reduced to a simple visual inspection of the state portrait spanned by the variables of the system. Synchronization was suggested as a possible technique for model validation. By means of a topological analysis, we revisited this concept with the help of an abstract chemical reaction system and data from two electrodissolution experiments conducted by Jack Hudson’s group. The fact that it was possible to synchronize topologically different global models led us to conclude that synchronization is not a recommendable technique for model validation. A short historical preamble evokes Jack Hudson’s early career in interaction with Otto E. Rössler.
C. Letellier, I. Sendina-Nadal & L. A. Aguirre
A nonlinear graph-based theory for dynamical network observability
Physical Review E, 98, 020303(R), 2018. Online
A faithful description of the state of a complex dynamical network would require, in principle, the measurement of all its d variables, an infeasible task for high dimensional systems due to practical limitations. However the network dynamics might be observable from a reduced set of measured variables but how to reliably identify the minimum set of variables providing full observability still remains an unsolved problem. In order to tackle this issue from the Jacobian matrix of the governing equations, we construct a pruned fluence graph in which the nodes are the state variables and the links represent only the linear dynamical interdependences after having ignored the nonlinear ones. From this graph, we identify the largest connected subgraphs with no outgoing links in which every node can be reached from any other node in the subgraph. In each one of them, at least one node must be measured to correctly monitor the state of the system in a d-dimensional reconstructed space. Our procedure is here tested by investigating large-dimensional reaction networks. Our results are validated by comparing them with the determinant of the observability matrix which provides a rigorous assessment of the system’s observability.
L. A. Aguirre, L. L. Portes & C. Letellier
Structural, Dynamical and Symbolic Observability : From Dynamical Systems to Networks
PLoS ONE, 13 (10), e0206180, 2018. On line
Abstract Classical definitions of observability classify a system as either being observable or not. Observability has been recognized as an important feature to study complex networks, and as for dynamical systems the focus has been on determining conditions for a network to be observable. About twenty years ago continuous measures of observability for nonlinear dynamical systems started to be used. In this paper various aspects of observability that are established for dynamical systems will be investigated in the context of networks. In particular it will be discussed in which ways simple networks can be ranked in terms of observability using continuous measures of such a property. Also it is pointed out that the analysis of the network topology is typically not sufficient for observability purposes, since both the dynamics and the coupling of such nodes play a vital role. Some of the main ideas are illustrated by means of numerical simulations.
C. Draghi, F. Denis, A. Tolédano & C. Letellier
Parameter identification of a model for prostate cancer treated by intermittent therapy,
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 461, 117-132, 2019. Online 5 October 2018
Adenocarcinoma is the most frequent cancer affecting the prostate walnut-size gland in the male reproductive system. Such cancer may have a very slow progression or may be associated with a “dark prognosis” when tumor cells are spreading very quickly. Prostate cancers have the particular properties to be marked by the level of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in blood which allows to follow its evolution. At least in its first phase, prostate adenocarcinoma is most often hormone-dependent and, consequently, hormone therapy is a possible treatment. Since few years, hormone therapy started to be provided intermittently for improving patient’s quality of life. Today, durations of on- and off-treatment periods are still chosen empirically, most likely explaining why there is no clear benefit from the survival point of view. We therefore developed a model for describing the interaction between the tumor environment, the PSA produced by hormone-dependent and hormone-independent tumor cells, respectively, and the level of androgens. Model parameters were identified using a genetic algorithm applied to the PSA time series measured in a few patients who initially received prostatectomy and were then treated by intermittent hormone therapy (LHRH analogs and anti-androgen). The measured PSA time series is quite correctly reproduced by free runs over the whole follow-up. Model parameter values allow for distinguishing different types of patient (age and Gleason score) meaning that the model can be individualized. We thus showed that the long-term evolution of the cancer can be affected by durations of on- and off-treatment periods.
F. Denis, B. Koontz & C. Letellier
Application and benefits of web-mediated symptom reporting for patients undergoing immunotherapy : A clinical example
Case Report in Oncology, 11, 763-768, 2018. Online
Two randomized studies of symptom monitoring during chemotherapy or during second line treatment and follow-up via web-based patient-reported outcomes (PROs) was previously demonstrated to lengthen survival. We are presenting here a patient with advanced and re-current lung cancer who was followed for 4 years by PROs for relapse and adverse events detection. We report how the web-mediated follow-up helped to detect dangerous pulmonary embolism, relapse and pseudo-progression to immunotherapy by self-reported symptom tracking and specific algorithms triggering notifications to medical team, allowing early man-agement of events. We particularly describe how a discordance between objective clinical im-provement under immunotherapy assessed by the application allowed to detect pseudo-pro-gression on imaging and allowed maintenance of the treatment during more than 1-year, alt-hough imaging report could have led to stop an effective therapy. The progression observed in the routine imaging was indeed in clear contradiction with improvements in patient’s global status as assessed by the reduced PRO-score computed from patient self-reported symptoms. The ability of e-health tools based on symptoms reporting for tumor response assessment should be assessed in trials to help physician in decision of stopping or continuing therapy.
S. Mangiarotti, I. Sendiña-Nadal & Christophe Letellier
Using global modeling to unveil hidden couplings in small network motifs
AbstractOne of the main tasks in network theory is to infer relations among interacting elements. We propose global modeling as a tool to detect links between nodes and their nature. Various situations using small network motifs are investigated under the assumption that the variable to be measured at each node provides full observability when isolated. Such a choice ensures no intrinsic difficulties for getting a global model in the coupled situation. As a first step toward unveiling the coupling function in larger network motifs, we consider three different scenarios involving Rössler systems diffusively coupled, in a couple or embedded in a network, or parametrically forced. We show that the global modeling is able to determine not only the existence of an interaction but also its functional form, to retrieve the dynamics of the whole system, and to extract the equations governing the single node dynamics as if it was isolated.
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Russian warship ‘carrying £100 billion gold’ found off South Korea
Loretta Pittman
The warship was scuttled off the island of Ulleungdo in 1905 to stop it falling into Japanese hands following the battle of Tsushima during the Russo-Japanese War.
Mr Lim Dong Hoon, one of the company's three South Korean directors, said when reached on his mobile phone that he had no information on the shipwreck or the company's activities, and declined to comment further.
Shinil Group believes there could be as much as 200 tons of gold on board the ship, which would be worth around $133.4billion.
Whenever private treasure-hunting companies succeed and really come across boxes filled with gold or silver, there is a high likelihood that the finding will draw lawsuits by countries or private stakeholders who claim they deserve a share.
Shinil Group, which lists a Singapore address on its website, said on Tuesday it had discovered the wreck of the Dmitrii Donskoi, a Russian armoured cruiser built in the 1880s and sunk in 1905 after battling Japanese warships.
A South Korean team of experts have struck gold!
Shinil is an unlisted company founded on June 1, meaning investors can not buy shares, though its president recently agreed to acquire shares in a local company, Jeil Steel.
More than a century's worth of undersea growth crusted much of the vessel, but the explorers identified it as the Dmitrii Donskoi when they spotted the name spelled out in Cyrillic characters on the stern, the Morning Post reported.
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"Concerning the treasure ship salvage project, investors' discretion is recommended as there are risks of them suffering great losses if they rely on rumours", South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service said in a statement. This includes plans for a museum dedicated to the ship.
South Korean law aimed at preserving national territory and property requires the company to deposit 10% of the estimated value of the shipwreck before any salvage operation can begin.
The company claiming to have found the buried treasure is reported to have been established about 50 days ago.
Despite longstanding rumors about the ship's precious cargo, Russian researchers have said it is unlikely that the Donskoi ever carried tons of gold into battle.
Even if the ship is hoisted and treasures are found, their ownership could be disputed.
But South Korean officials are warning investors (who may be looking to pour money into potential stocks in relation to the company), to be leary, as such claims aren't new.
Companies from China, Canada and the United Kingdom are all helping the South Korean team raise the wreck, which will start in October.
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Ferdinand Oyono Biography – – Ferdinand Oyono Biography and List of Works – Ferdinand Oyono Ferdinand Oyono Is the author of books such as Houseboy. Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (born 14 September [ /?module=showindividu. Biographie. Date de À la fin des années , Ferdinand Léopold Oyono publie en langue française trois romans qui ont trait à la vie quotidienne en Afrique à.
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There was a problem with your submission. Reportedly Oyono fell ill at the presidential palace after a reception for the Secretary-General; he received immediate medical attention and an ambulance was called, but he quickly died. Writing in French in the s, Oyono had only a brief literary career, but his anti-colonialist novels are considered classics of 20th century African literature ; his first novel, Une vie de boy —published in and ferinand translated as Houseboy —is considered particularly important.
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By JUSTIN POPE, AP Education Writer /
2013 April 29 - 12:00 am
Proposed Compact Offers Online Ed Common Market
A proposed compact among the states unveiled by educational organizations and state officials would create a kind of common market for online education and make it easier for institutions to enroll students anywhere in the country.
The proposal would also set some uniform consumer protections, which could give students in some states more recourse to complain to regulators, though it could weaken state oversight in places that already have strict rules.
Nearly 7 million U.S. students are currently accessing college courses online, but the regulations that authorize the universities and companies that provide those courses to operate vary from state to state. Many date to the pre-Internet era when colleges operated only in the state where they maintained a physical presence.
That confusion has somewhat hampered the spread of online options for students. While most for-profit and large non-profit online providers have invested the time and money — in some cases millions of dollars — to get approval to enroll students in all 50 states, others have turned away students from states like Arkansas, Minnesota and Massachusetts where the barriers to gaining approval to operate are higher. The system has also sowed confusion over such issues as what happens if students move to a state where the institution isn’t approved.
Another cost to the patchwork has been confusion over jurisdiction when students want to complain to regulators about a program based in another state. Currently, many states don’t have a way for students to complain about distance education, said Peter McPherson, president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, one of several organizations that developed the proposal.
The proposed compact — a kind of treaty among the states —will require voluntary buy-in from all the states, which in some cases will require legislation. Some states that imposed tighter requirements may prove reluctant to join. But organizers said the agreement represented extensive work with input from all constituencies, and they were hopeful that representatives of 47 states meeting in Indianapolis would start taking steps to implement it back home.
“We don’t have any indication of states that say, ‘I’m all against this, I’m not interested,’” said Paul Lingenfelter, president of SHEEO, a group of state higher education officers. “But in the end they’ll make their own decision.”
The plan calls for something akin to what states do with driver’s licenses — agreeing to recognize credentials issued by other states. Georgia, for instance, would agree to allow a California-based online education provider to enroll Georgia students so long as the institution was authorized by California.
The most important novelty in the compact is that regulators in, say, California would agree to address complaints brought by students elsewhere against California-based institutions. If they failed to do so, they could be expelled from the compact.
The compact would also regularize what it takes to get approval to operate in any state. The proposal borrows, for state licensing purposes, requirements by accreditors and the federal government for quality assurance and financial stability that institutions must already meet to receive federal aid. For instance, to get federal aid, institutions must disclose policies about things such as costs and refunds. Now failure to meet those and other requirements could cost institutions not just access to federal dollars, but a license from their home state to operate at all.
In the states that have provided little oversight of distance learning, that threat could amount to a new and tougher layer of state-level accountability. But states that have imposed more stringent requirements on institutions may have to loosen their grip, said Michael Goldstein, an attorney in Washington who specializes in higher education.
“This is a minimalist approach,” Goldstein said. The education groups that have pushed the proposal are “not looking to increase regulatory burden. To the contrary.”
George Roedler, who oversees registration and licensing for the Office of Higher Education in Minnesota — a state considered to have strict requirements — said his office was monitoring this and other proposals.
“We’re interested in it, but we have to see what the final form is,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s the legislature that will make the call.”
Asked if he was worried Minnesota might have to accept lower licensing standards, Roedler said, “Obviously, that’s always a concern.”
Richard Garrett, vice president and principal analyst at Eduventures, a research and consulting firm, said students have still had plenty of online options, so while they could have more if the compact goes into effect, the effect would not be dramatic. But “hopefully this will force the states to arrive at a happy medium,” he said, modernizing outdated regulations but “forcing states with a very light touch to come up to standard.”
The compact would not affect international students taking courses from U.S. providers, nor would it affect the popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, offered by elite universities through platforms like edX, Coursera and Udacity. Those platforms aren’t accredited themselves, and the courses generally aren’t taken for credit. They’re also free to the public, so the consumer protection rules wouldn’t apply, Lingenfelter said.
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The pioneers who settled in Williamson County were rugged, courageous, and enterprising, as was Harriet (Hattie) Standefer’s family, who made the perilous trek from Alabama. Later Hattie married George W. Cluck, an aspiring cattle baron. Interestingly, the Clucks were some of the first to ride the famous Chisholm Trail. Legend has it that Hattie was the first white woman to go up the trail and that was also known as “the Queen of the Chisholm Trail.” While raising a family, the Clucks operated many businesses and, as such, were the primary colonizers of what is now Cedar Park. In the end, the Clucks forged a new community that embodies their same ambitious spirit and generosity.
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Recap: 'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 1 – a reunion in Winterfell
This image released by HBO shows a scene from "Game of Thrones." The final season premieres on Sunday. (HBO via AP)
The final season of "Game of Thrones" has arrived, and it was everything fans could have hoped for and more.
[Spoiler Alert: The remainder of this article will discuss Season 8, Episode 1 of “Game of Thrones”]
The premeire was peppered with surprising humor and fulfilling reunions as all the main characters reunite in the Northern city of Winterfell – joining forces to combat the Night King and his Army of the Dead that threaten the very existence of the seven kingdoms.
The episode begins with Jon Snow and Daenerys Stormborn entering Winterfell escorted by the Unsullied, and Khaleesi immediately feels the disapproval of the Northerners and Jon's sister Sansa. The tense moment is broken up by Daenerys' two remaining dragons flying over the city – as its residents look on in awe.
Jon finally reunites with the remaining siblings that he grew up with - Arya and Bran – who he long thought to be dead. His rejoining with Arya is a particularly heartwarming moment, as the two were particularly close in their younger years. We see a rare moment of vulnerability from Arya as she's nearly brought to tears as the two embrace – and she shows him that she still has the sword he gave her many seasons ago, Needle. Unbeknowst to Jon, she's used it throughout her life to deliver an untimely fate to many who crossed her.
Tyrion Lannister reunites with his ex-wife Sansa, and the two have a conversation that is charming as it is intense. The last time they saw eachother was at King Geoffrey’s wedding, when he was poisoned and killed. Sansa fled and Tyrion was jailed and nearly killed by Cersei, who believed she was responsible for her son’s gruesome death.
Cersei makes her first appearance in the show soon after – as she's confronted with Euron Greyjoy, who was the only member of the main families to pledge his honor to her. His intention is made immediately clear – he wants to be with Cersei, and isn't shy about it. His arrogance pays off, and the two end up in bed together. Euron asks Cersei how his performance stacks up to her brother – something she bristles at but ultimately respects his brazenness. He tells Cersei he's going to "give her a prince" – without knowing that she's already pregnant with her brother Jaime's child.
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We then see Sir Bronn of the Blackwater for the first time – as Cersei's hand approaches him while in his favorite place, the brothel, and tells him that Cersei wants him to kill her brothers Jaime and Tyrion should they survive their trip in the North.
The show then pivots to the only violent scene of the first episode – as Theon Greyjoy rescues his sister Yara from where she's being held captive by their uncle Euron. He triumphantly slashes the other Iron-born guarding her, and unties her. She responds by headbutting him to the ground – likely payback for jumping ship, literally, when she was first taken captive. In typical "Game of Thrones" fashion, the two quickly makeup and Yara tells Theon to go to Winterfell to fight for the Starks – the family who truly raised him.
Things really begin to pick up after that, as we see Jon and Daenerys together once again. Jon is able to ride her dragon, Drogon, which reinvigorates what we learned last season – that Jon is actually a Targaryan. The two ride dragons together to an icy waterfall and share a passionate kiss.
In an emotional scene that follows, Daenerys meets Sam Tarly for the first time, to thank him for healing her faithful mentor Jorah Marmot, who was infected with greyscale. Darnerys then comes to the realization that Sam is the son of Randyll Tarly and brother of Dickon, who Daenerys controversially killed for refusing to bend the knee last season.
Sam is heartbroken and finds Jon – and tells him the secret the "Game of Thrones" fan base have been keeping. Jon is actually the son of Raegar Targaryan and Lyanna Stark – making him Daenerys' nephew, and the true heir to the Iron Throne.
Jon attempts to defend Daenerys' honor and say that it would be treason for him to take it from her.
"It's the truth," Sam argues.
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Regardless of who takes the Iron Throne, the true enemy is still the Night King, who destroyed The Wall at the end of the previous season. We're delighted to find that a number of core characters have survived the attack, including the Wildling Tormund. They discover a shocking message from the Night King – a boy nailed to the wall surrounded by severed limbs. He then awakens – screeching – and the men are forced to set him on fire.
The episode concludes with a reunion that fans have been waiting for since season one. Earlier on, Bran sits in his wheelchair outside in the cold, and tells Sam that he's waiting on an old friend.
As you may remember, Bran is handicapped because in the first-ever episode of "Game of Thrones," he climbs to the top of a tower and witnesses Cersei and her twin brother Jaime having sex. Jaime then pushes him from the tower, crippling him and setting him on the bizarre course of his supernatural character's development.
We finish the episode by seeing Jaime riding into Winterfell and being greeted by none other than Bran – the first time the two have seen each other since.
A trailer for the next episode reveals an impending attack from the White Walkers – so stay tuned for another recap with Fox News next week.
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In a little over a month, Gitana will launch the Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild. The second Imoca in the history of the racing stable fitted out by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild, this new craft will quickly hit the campaign trail. Indeed, after an express tuning phase in August and September, the most recent in the legendary family saga will use the Transat Jacques Vabre, due to set sail from Le Havre on 25 October 2015, to size up the competition. For this first foray, Sébastien Josse has opted to race with his co-skipper from 2013: Charles Caudrelier. Just back on dry land after the Volvo Ocean Race, where he secured 3rd place overall with his crew on Dongfeng Race Team, the Breton sailor is eager for more of the same and so it is with great delight that he rejoins the Gitana team for the famous double-handed transatlantic race between Le Havre and Itajaí in Brazil!
Charles Caudrelier, co-skipper of the Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild
“You don’t change a winning team!” is the perfect motto for the duo on the future Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild. As was the case in 2013, Sébastien Josse has opted to compete in the Transat Jacques Vabre with Charles Caudrelier; a decision as natural as it is reasoned. After what has been an intense eighteen months for both of them, these two sailors are set to cross tacks once again to their great delight.
On 18 November 2013, for their very first double-handed transatlantic race aboard a multihull, it was with great flourish that Sébastien Josse and Charles Caudrelier added their names and that of Gitana to the Transat Jacques Vabre winners’ list. Aboard the Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild, the duo dominated proceedings by completing the theoretical 5,400 miles between Le Havre and Itajaí in 11 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes and 54 seconds. Though this victory was a first for Sébastien in this famous event, it brought Charles’ victories to a total of two, following on from his win in 2009 in Imoca.
A few weeks after this arrival in Brazil, as Sébastien Josse put the Multi70 up for refit in preparation for the Route du Rhum, the winner of the Solitaire du Figaro 2004 took off for China, where a significant new challenge awaited him: managing a Sino-French crew comprising professional sailors and trainee offshore sailors in one of the most demanding round the world races. Though the Volvo Ocean Race wasn’t unfamiliar to him, since he won the 2011 – 2012 edition with Groupama, Charles was clearly switching to a whole new dimension by taking on the director’s role. It was an experience he handled to perfection and, just a few days ago in Gothenburg, it culminated in a very solid 3rd place for Dongfeng Race Team.
With the Volvo now in his wake, Charles Caudrelier will take a few days rest before hitting the road for Gitana’s Lorient base in early August. With the Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild just launched, the duo will be able to kick-start their training.
Midway through June, during the French stopover of the Volvo Ocean Race, Charles Caudrelier admitted how much he was looking forward to this new association: “I’m very happy about the prospect of sailing with Sébastien again and I’m pleased he chose me for this new challenge. The year I spent with Gitana in 2013 taught me a great deal and I particularly liked the team’s mindset. In addition to that, there’s the boat. I’m very lucky to be here at the start of the adventure and be in a position to fine-tune these machines with their new appendages! The future of our sport clearly revolves around lifting surfaces, which you can see cropping up pretty much everywhere, whether it is on one or several hulls. There’s a revolution underway and I’m happy to be part of it thanks to Gitana. The latest generation boats already thrill me so I’m keen to see how that translates on the water. We won’t have a lot of time to prepare for the Transat Jacques Vabre and I believe that the cohesion we achieved in 2013 and our complicity will unquestionably favour our quest.”
Charles Caudrelier’s return to the racing stable fitted out by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild won’t amount to the Transat Jacques Vabre alone. In fact, Sébastien Josse is keen for him to be alongside him for the Vendée Globe adventure: “It is no longer in any doubt that Charles is a great sailor, but he also has a great many other strings to his bow. He knows how to get a boat making headway like no-one else and he is particularly adept at fine tuning these machines, which require long hours and many miles to ensure they are reliable. He showed just what he was capable of in this role alongside Marc Guillemot on Safran as well as with Franck Cammas in the victorious Volvo of 2012. He’s a real asset for our team in the preparations for the Vendée Globe,” stated the skipper of Edmond de Rothschild.
The Vendée Globe is something Charles Caudrelier has rightly dreamed of for himself. However, due to a lack of time and budget for the upcoming edition, he deems himself incredibly lucky to have this experience offered to him: “I’ve devoted my past five years to the Volvo (victory with Groupama in 2012 and 3rd place in 2015 with Dongfeng Race Team), which requires a huge amount of commitment. I am still keen to compete in the Vendée Globe but I want to hit the start line with a competitive project, which notably implies the construction of a new boat. Given the short amount of time remaining before the start of the next edition, that wouldn’t have been the case. You have to be realistic! As such, the best way to prepare for the next race – the Vendée Globe 2020 – is to follow it as part of a team like that of Gitana, where there are the means to do things properly by developing the boat and there is also a talented skipper. With that in mind, I don’t feel frustrated. It’s an excellent opportunity which, I’m sure, I’ll learn a great many lessons from for what comes next.”
The home straight for the build in Vannes
At Multiplast in south-west Brittany, the Mono60 Edmond de Rothschild is a hive of activity. Indeed, after over ten months in the yard, the build of the future Gitana has hit the home straight. With a scheduled launch in late July, every day counts in the bid to put the finishing touches to the 18.28m Imoca, which is absolutely teeming in people now on a daily basis. In fact, over the past fortnight, the Multiplast team and the members of Gitana Team have been working on her together. The first section is focusing on the last of the structural work, whilst Sébastien Josse’s men are managing the assembly of all the systems (deck fittings, mechanics and hydraulics…) not to mention the livery of the future craft which, as is always the case with Gitana, has been entrusted to Hubert Corfmat.
The Edmond de Rothschild duo
The two skippers and friends boast sizeable track records with six Transat Jacques Vabre between them in all, including one joint victory in 2013.
Sébastien Josse, 40
3 participations in the Transat Jacques Vabre
Extracts from his track record:
3rd in the Route du Rhum 2014
Winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre 2013
Winner of the Route des Princes 2013
Winner of the Rolex Fastnet Race in 2003 – 2007 and 2009
4th in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2006-2007
Co-holder of the Jules Verne Trophy in 2002
2nd in the Solitaire du Figaro 2001
Charles Caudrelier, 41
3rd in the Volvo Ocean Race in 2014-2015
Winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre in 2009 and 2013
Winner of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2011-2012
World Orma Champion in 2005
Winner of the Solitaire du Figaro in 2004
The Transat Jacques Vabre
Double-handed transatlantic race spanning a theoretical 5,400 miles between Le Havre and Itajaí (Brazil)
Start on 25 October 2015
To date, 13 Imoca monohulls have signed up
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Parallel Hells, Ted 1
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Repressed Memory Research
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Raped by Multiple Clergy in Catholic Boys Home
(Warning: language is graphic w/R-rated outtakes)
(To show the extent of damage caused by pedophile priests, CofA Blog publishes what victims say in their own words, for the record. If details of a traumatic memory from early childhood are wrong, that does not prove the entire recollection false, research shows. This series of posts comes from three afternoons I spent interviewing Ted Lausche in Chicago 2012. My Take is in this post: Ted 2. Coming soon are “The Hebert Incident” (with R-rated outtakes) and “Hell Everywhere at Madonna Manor,” the next two segments of this full length feature story, which begins here: )
Ted Lausche, self portrait 2013
In the late 1990s Ted Lausche realized he had to do something about abuse and molestation he lived through while at Madonna Manor / Hope Haven orphanage near New Orleans in the 1960s. Thanks to this new advancement, the internet, Ted found a specific place to report pedophile crimes he experienced from both male and female clergy to the Archdiocese. Ted called the number and Monsignor Ray Hebert answered the phone.
“As soon as I heard his voice, I knew right away it was him,” Ted said.
I looked up stunned, “A priest who raped you was the guy who answered the phone?”
“Yep, the one in the confessional,” said Ted. “Now he was fielding calls on perp priests. There was an awkward silence and then I let loose on him. I said, I'm coming down there to do to you what you did to me. I'm on my f---ing way."
Years later, Ted had to drop the name of Ray Hebert from his lawsuit against the Archdiocese, as did the other three men who named the monsignor as a perpetrator in the early two thousands. Because as soon as the men named Hebert in their lawsuits, the monsignor turned around and filed defamation claims against all four plaintiffs.
“I never heard confession,” Hebert said in an Aug 1 2008 deposition. “That was not my responsibility. The sisters never asked me to do that.” (Read more of Hebert's deposition at bottom of post.) *
Hebert died January 2014 and my advisers tell me dead men cannot file defamation lawsuits, nor can their families. So this story is going forward. Today Ted is a complicated man who has overcome great obstacles. He seemed smart and hardworking. He still claims that in spite of Hebert’s defamation lawsuits he remembers the man who raped him in the confessional to be the man who answered the archdiocese hot line phone forty years later, Monsignor Ray Hebert.
If Ted's perpetrator was not Ray Hebert, it must have been some other short skinny Acadian priest who spent time at Hope Haven / Madonna Manor in the 1960s.
As I heard Ted speak, I couldn't help but wonder. Could the monsignor have manipulated himself into that office just so he would be there to field calls that came in to report his own crimes? I know that is just speculation. I go on more here in My Take Ted 2 about Monsignor Hebert and his counter suits against pedophile priest victims.
This is Ted Lausche’s story.
When Ted went to New Orleans to meet the first time with the archdiocese, he also went public in local TV news. The station would not name priests, but did mention Madonna Manor and Hope Haven.
“I mentioned Gilbert Gauthe, too,” Lausche said, “and you could tell that name was a symbol of all that's wrong. He’d already been convicted in 85 so this was fifteen years later.” (CofA Blog published the Gauthe part of Ted's story in 2009 here)
After TV aired a report about Ted two times in one day on local New Orleans station, within weeks about a dozen other victims came forward and filed lawsuits for sex molestation at the Madonna Manor / Hope Haven, including three other men accusing Monsignor Hebert, who by then had been removed from his role in Victim Assistance.
Here is Ted’s story, in his own words. He spoke and I took it down:
IN TED’S OWN WORDS:
(From here on, questions from City of Angels Blog are in all caps, the rest of this is Ted’s own words, I took them down in this laptop as we met for three interview sessions in Chicago summer 2012.)
The first time I called, when I said the word Madonna Manor there was silence. Then they connected me to Hebert. He was in his seventies, but the voice was the same, you know the voice. They're pampered their whole life.
I told him, I'm going to come down there and do exactly what you did to me. He did actually rape me not just the time in the Confessional but also in another incident about six months later. He was there at the orphanage for the feast of f---ing something or other, so we’d have to serve and we’d clean up after.
As soon as I heard his voice, this sissy singsong voice, I was blinded with rage, hyperventilating. I got up paced, really fast, got out a notebook of information I’d already developed, the names of the perps, times and dates on paper, what I’d been able to find at the time, which was limited.
The brutalness of several of these incidences, it was painful.
I had to get up and pace while I was talking, and one reason I had to hang up was because my asshole was almost bleeding.
I have body memories.
WHAT LED YOU TO MAKE THE CALL AFTER SO MANY YEARS?
It was the late nineties early two thousands, right after the incident where I threw the ashtray, I went to the website, and contacted them. They said, we don't believe what you're saying is true.
Hebert said it doesn't matter what you do, I decide and I say whether it goes anywhere from here.
I said, I'm going to come down there and do to you what you did to me. I know where you work, who your friends are, I'm coming to get your ass, literally me and my broomstick.
It probably had happened with so many kids, he probably didn't know which one I was. But now this was me talking to him and I was f---ing livid. This is what helped destroy my family, because of things like-
I'm screaming “All f---ing five foot of the broomstick, you mother f---er, until it comes out your damn throat.”
And my kid was in the room.
(CofA: I look up from my notes stunned again when Ted says this as well. My daughter witnessed way too much of me screaming at phones while she grew up too.)
In order for me to do this, to report these crimes, my family would end up knowing about it. Anybody that was around heard what was going on.
The first lawyer I called in Chicago, Klepto or whatever his f---ing name is, said to me, It's very unusual for victims to have more than one perp.
I said you're going to at least make the phone call.
WAIT. WHAT INCIDENT WHERE YOU THREW THE ASHTRAY?
(IN TED’S OWN WORDS)
First time I realized I had a problem I was living in Joliet with this girl, the late 1970s, I’d just gotten out of service, just gotten out and was so f---ed up, I wasn’t thinking clearly, and S was a stabling influence. I was playing basketball and ended up at a Catholic school. The priest came out and said go away it's private property and I went off on him. Threw him into glass, careening into a hallway, I went berserk on him. I snapped. He came out with that attitude of there’s not a f---ing thing you can do and I grabbed his ass. My friends all freaked out. They’d never seen anybody even talk back to a priest.
They’d never seen this hidden anger that I had.
That was the first time I confronted this hidden anger.
I violated everything about who I was as a normal person by attacking this guy and I almost killed him. I head butted him and hurt my head, I was black and blue in the face. That was the first time I realized there was somebody else inside me that had nothing to do with what I went through in the military.
They kicked me out of the Marines because I wasn’t old enough, then kicked me out of Navy because I had a needle in my arm. I ended up in Florida at a navy base, NAS something or other, I don't even know, I was so f---ed up. I went AWOL in the Philippines they sent me to Florida. I became a heroin addict in the Navy. Before lying about my age and joining, I had been doing acid and things like that, but then I got wounded and the heroin really helped. Everybody had heroinh. Marines were wearing their hair long, we had a race riot on the ship. On the way back to the States onboard were thirty thousand Vietnamese we were bringing over to give them all Stop and Go marts.
Anyway, that was first incident.
WHAT ABOUT THROWING THE ASHTRAY?
Last incident before calling the archdiocese was I was sitting with B who I'm now married to B [at the time of the interview, now two years later Ted is divorced and engaged to a new female]. B looks a lot like S.
Our youngest son was just born.
I'm sitting there and I never watch TV early in the day, but this day I'm home doing an estimate for work and on the news there’s a cardinal and he’s saying there are pedophiles in the carpenters’ union.
It was like one of those movies where the devil takes over the TV, I'm hearing something maybe nobody else is hearing. It was some kind of interview where the cardinal was saying there are pedophiles in carpenter unions and also among plumbers, and and all of them have to be investigated.
At the time I'm a union carpenter, card carrying, working with plumbers every day.
Here’s what I'm told happened.
B says the room got quiet and I turned.
She says I picked this ashtray thing up and threw it at the TV. The tubes exploded and it started the drywall behind it on fire. I threw it so hard, it blew backwards and everything caught fire inside this area. My mother-in-law was there. I freaked everybody out.
Once I started having kids, you didn't get in a lot of fights, I’d ask people nicely like to watch their language.
This day I blacked out, I came out of it, and I came back from wherever I was, started shaking. B came over and held me.
DID ANYBODY KNOW YOUR HISTORY?
No, nobody knew. I went afterwards and called S.
Back in the 1990s, it hadn’t entered my mind that priest rape of a child happened to so many other people
They say repressed memory doesn't exist, I said, let me find somebody who I talked to about it in the past. So I called S, and said do you remember me talking about things that happened in the orphanage. She said, yeah you wouldn't go to my folks for holidays.
All they knew was I was raised at an orphanage and didn't like to be around Catholics
SO YOU SMASHED THE ASHTRAY,
B said that's when she first saw there was someone else inside of me.
Within a week is when I went to the website and left the email inquiry about the Manor. All I wanted was to get back to normal. I tried that week, then I sent that email.
About three weeks later a website administrator contacted me with the archdiocese phone number, the office to call with pedophile priest claims.
I called S and then I called whoever I could get hold of, these women I used to be with, I’d call and say, I need to know, this is serious.
My mother-in-law watched this happen and said, “It had something to do with what that cardinal said.” She saw me become another personality and she would not leave me alone until I finally said, look, some terrible horrible things happened at the orphanage, and when I heard this guy saying that carpenters are worse pedophiles than priests.
She said, you have to do something about it. It was about a week later, I said, I can’t. I was just getting back to normalcy, I’d had to take time off work, I was having flashbacks. I'm like what the hell is going on.
B said that in that ashtray incident, in a minute everything changed, I had a different voice, a different look, it was almost like my eyes changed color.
I had to take time off work.
Here’s my mother-in-law, who earlier in the relationship had nothing but bad feelings for me. When she got to know me she saw I really wasn’t a freak. I always held a job and paid the rent and bills. We’d bought our own house.
Now my mother-in-law is telling me I have to do something about the way I reacted to the pedophile priest news on TV. I said, you don't know what's going to happen if I go down this path, I don't know either, but it won’t be good. Nothing about this has been good, why would it suddenly change, would they help?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU WENT DOWN TO NEW ORLEANS?
After the first time, I called back next day to harass Hebert, but they already had another guy answering. So I talked to the secretary, and I asked her.
How is it the guy taking calls from victim is that guy who f---ed me and who knows how many other kids plus Gauthe, I know you guys know who Gilbert Gauthe is. There was a ring of them, aside from the violence and all the other bullshit.
The archdiocese woman says, Have you spoken with a lawyer yet. I say yeah and when I find one, I’ll sue.
Then later they wouldn't let me in with a lawyer.
I say to the archdiocese secretary, I want to come down and meet with the archbishop, and she goes, I don't know if that's possible. I said, I'm not meeting with Hebert.
Thing is, I still was thinking at the time that they were going to do the right thing.
(In the early two thousands) they paid for me to come down. First time we drove, and they reimbursed me for gas. Two other times I came by train.
First trip I met with them in New Orleans in these archdiocese buildings, ornate structures off downtown in a ritzy old area. It was around 6 PM in late October early November, dark when I got there, and it was an immense labyrinth of places with a cathedral behind it, that kind of architecture.
I go into the office to meet with them, my lawyer waits in the reception area.
Like I'm walking on a stain that I won’t be able to get off of me.
The whole thing is evil, you can hear the building breathing you know what I mean. Like I'm walking on a stain that I won’t be able to get off of me.
I go in to see this faggy guy and a dike nun. They knew my wife and lawyer were nearby.
YOU WENT IN BY YOURSELF?
Yeah. They go, What seems to be the problem.
I go, you know why I'm here, and they say, yeah we read the assessment.
What do you guys propose we do? I'm trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm trying to maintain. I was so contained in the beginning.
I knew I was dealing with minions, so that's the role I kept them in, like you're really nothing to me, I need to get to the next level.
I said, where do you want to start, with people who were killed at Madonna manor, raped, assaulted? I went down my list. They let me talk.
I mentioned Gauthe and you could tell that name is a symbol of all that's wrong. He’d already been convicted in 1985 so this was fifteen years later.
WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MEETING?
We're going back and forth, they say give us names and I say, I can give you some, dorm mothers. At that point I hadn’t even thought about it, it just started coming out, the dorms. I named the four before Hope Haven, I named the dorm mothers, gave them names of nuns. I must have given them thirty names.
BECAUSE THEY HAD SAID YOU WEREN'T THERE?
They said, we don't have you in our records living at Hope Haven or Madonna Manor at that time. After me naming names, they knew it was true, I had been there.
They had a spin for everything I said. Because they are so deep into it, they're so f---ing criminal.
At the end of this meeting, they say, if we could resolve this, what can we do for you.
I wanted 3 things:
Public apology from whoever was in charge of New Orleans Archdiocese at the time.
I wanted to address the community that had provided the charity and thank them, but ask them to hold people accountable and identify any of these predator priests and nuns.
I asked them to send my kids to college
And the guy laughed and said, you mean like Notre Dame?
I got up. Shut the f--- up, I said, like I’d send my kid to that f---ing cesspool. One of my perps went there.
HE LAUGHED? DID THAT MAKE YOU SNAP?
I said, Shut the f--- up. That f---ing cesspool, my son is too good a human being.
HOW DID THE MEETING END?
I got up and walked out. Then I met with the lawyer who was in the reception area. I’d been in there 2 hours, my wife was waiting in the van. We went to the hotel.
I am blessed to have survived this long. I wasn’t asking for money.
WHAT DID THE ARCHDIOCESE SAY AFTER THE MEETING?
They said, We'll get back to you. We had three meetings, next two I took the train down.
They offered me a settlement a number of times. I said not without those three things.
One time while we were down there, they brought Hebert in the room. I was stunned and said, okay, but I wasn’t prepared for it.
Hebert came in and wanted to shake my hand I said, don't even f---ing look at me.
You mother f---ers, I don't know what game you're playing I'm going outta here to do interviews with W-W-W whatever.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT YOUR LIFE RIGHT BEFORE YOU MADE THAT FIRST CALL TO THE ARCHDIOCESE.
My third wife dragged me to a Linkup meeting, she sensed something was wrong, knew I’d been in the orphanage, didn't know details or times.
She took me to a Linkup meeting and it was a disaster, I was so angry at the people that did this. First of all I wasn’t ready to acknowledge what had happened, I was so far in denial, thinking, here they go again.
At that time back in the 1990s it hadn’t entered my mind that priest rape of a child happened to so many other people. I knew about the orphanage but then hearing about priests coming into people’s houses so confused me, was so disorientating to me. Juxtaposed with me not being able to go anywhere when I was at the orphanage, imagine finding out the priest was banging your son or daughter upstairs while you were watching late night TV.
And the shape people were in. Everybody was crying, grown adults, I don't cry, I'm angry and embarrassed. So I don't think I said a word at that Linkup meeting. That's how I was in those days.
DID YOU THEN HAVE OTHER INTERACTION WITH LINKUP?
I went to more than one convention, every one until they stopped having them. Louisville, Chicago, before Linkup broke up.
Then there was the incident with the ashtray. So I went to website a place for comments, told them, some really bad things happened at Madonna Manor.
And I call and hear this sissy singsong voice, he sounded like a total f---ing queen.
HOW DID YOU GET TO BE SO WELL SPOKEN WITH YOUR EDUCATION?
Sometimes I’ll spend all night in the library reading. All librarians have food in their drawers.
TELL ME ABOUT THE STICKERS
I wanted to put them in every institution owned by Catholics where they're interacting with children, a sticker with a hotline, saying, “These guys rape kids.”
Linkup had some back in the day that said, “If you were raped by a priest or nun, call this number,” or something like that or, “My friend was raped by a priest, call this number.”
Mine said, “I was raped by a f---ing priest” and “priests here raped children.”
I made them up myself.
The third trip down there I went back to Madonna Manor. It was dark. I drove up and B stayed in the car.
I must have put up forty of those stickers using them to seal doors. I put my own seal on their doors. I wanted to put those stickers in every institution owned by Catholics where they're interacting with children, a sticker with a hotline directly to my cell phone.
"Like God Bless You, Mister Rosewater," Ted says leaning forward, and I see a little young boy first discovering that revolutionary book.
“How did you happen to hear of us?”
“There's this big black and yellow sticker in the phone booth. Says Don’t Kill Yourself, Call the Rosewater Foundation.” Such stickers were in every phone booth in the country, and in the back windows of the cars and trucks of most of the volunteer firemen, too. “You know what someone else has written right under that in pencil?”
“Says, ‘Eliot Rosewater is a saint. He’ll give you love and money. If you’d rather have the best piece of tail in southern Indiana, call Melissa.’ And then it's got her number. What are you, some kind of religion?”
(God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater p. 102-103 by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965)
Next in this series:
"The Hebert Incident" (with R-Rated outtakes )
"Everywhere Was Hell at Madonna Manor"
(which will make more use of the deposition below)
Background;
Times Picayune 08.25.05
WWL 03.19.10
** FROM DEPOSITION
of Monsignor Hebert Aug 1, 2008, regarding his defamation suits against his accuser:
(LISTEN TO A LITTLE TOO LOOOONG answer in Hebert's deposition below. In future posts in the Ted series, we will use more of three depositions of Ray Hebert from Aug '08, transcripts of which just arrived in my email this morning. -ke 8.29)
Did you ever hear confessions at Madonna
4 Manor?
5 A. I can remember one occasion, only one
6 occasion that I heard confessions, and it
7 had to be -- because of the nature in which
8 it occurred, it had to be while the Salesian
9 priests were away from Hope Haven. They
10 hadn't given up Hope Haven, but they would
11 send them off on vacation at certain times
12 if the children were not there, and I was
13 asked by the superior at Madonna Manor
14 whether I could hear confessions, because
15 the boys had not been to confession in quite
16 a while. So maybe it was because the
17 individual confessor, who was undoubtedly a
18 Salesian, that -- but the evening I went --
19 and I went on an evening because that's when
20 I was free. That's when I was in the Hope
21 Haven area. I went to hear confessions in
22 the residence where the boys were living at,
23 and I heard it not in chapel and not in a
24 confessional, but I heard it in a large
25 room, and the children were being sent by
the sisters from their residential area.
2 After one went to confession, another would
3 be sent down.
4 I remember that simply because I
5 remember dealing with a boy who had been
6 stationed at Madonna Manor after I got
7 there, and who had then become unhappy
8 because he was immature dealing with the
9 other boys and had been dismissed from Hope
10 Haven. And then after a period of time his
11 family said we can't -- we can't keep him,
12 he's still giving us problems, and they
13 decided to send him back to Madonna Manor.
14 And I remember dealing with that kid on that
15 particular occasion. I remembered him
16 because he had been at Hope Haven. I
17 wouldn't have known him otherwise.
18 Q. So are you testifying that you --
19 A. I was never a regular confessor for the boys
20 at Madonna Manor.
21 Q. I understand. Prior to becoming director of
22 Hope Haven, how many times do you think you
23 assisted either the Salesians or the nuns at
24 Madonna Manor by hearing confessions at
25 Madonna Manor?
A. I never did prior to that time.
10 MR. DEARIE:
11 His last answer was in his
12 lifetime he heard one confession only.
THE WITNESS:
18 No, I never heard confession.
19 That was not my responsibility. The sisters
20 never asked me to do that, and they knew
21 that wasn't my responsibility.
http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/08/repressed-memory-research.html
http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/08/defamation.html
http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/08/monsignor-who-takes-pedophile-priest.html
http://cityofangels5.blogspot.com/2009/10/gauthe-forced-gun-in-my-mouth-and-said.html
http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com/2014/07/parallel-hells.html
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Robby Gordon’s Super Trucks in town
Posted on April 20, 2013 by Robert Morales
Robby Gordon’s new Off Road Stadium Super Trucks series will make a stop here today at noon for a 20-minute exhibition that driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. believes could knock the socks off of fans.
“You’re going to see the trucks drifting, sliding, laying down a lot of rubber, making a lot of noise with the treaded tires,” said Luyendyk, who finished fourth in the series bell-ringer April 6 in Glendale, Ariz. “Obviously, hitting the steel jumps, going maybe 80-plus (miles per hour) and it’s going to be really spectacular. I think it’s going to be sort of a throwback because (the late) Mickey Thompson did have an event on the asphalt.
“We’re just really trying to build awareness and get people to come out to the stadium races because our first event was insane. It was so much fun and the crowd there, I think, had a blast and I think Robby has something that is really special and it’s great that he brought stadium racing back to motorsports.”
Luyendyk, of Scottsdale, Ariz., said although these trucks are made to drive in dirt, they “are really spectacular on asphalt.” He also said he is hopeful this could turn into a points event at Long Beach.
Luyendyk is the son of two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk.
Andretti pleased with start to season
It’s no secret that Marco Andretti has not been happy about the way his IndyCar career has gone. He told this newspaper just that last year at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. In seven seasons ahead of 2013, Andretti’s highest finish in series points has been seventh twice. Last year he was 16th. And, he has won just two races.
Andretti is off to a nice start this season, with a 3rd-place finish at St. Petersburg and seventh at Barber, good enough to put him in fourth place in series points with 61.
“I think I’m pleased,” said Andretti, who races for his father, Michael, and Andretti Autosport. “I’ve been really working on consistency in the off-seasonn and we have that. But I need to be consistently better. Obviously, having teammates wins races, it bodes well for us and what we can do in the future. But I definitely feel it’s my turn and we need to win.”
Andretti said one of the things he concentrated on during the off-season was improving his performance on street and road courses. St. Pete is a street course, Barber is a road course and Long Beach is a street course.
Oh, yeah. I mean, on the streets you just have to look at the results,” he said of previous years. “I was over-driving it, but I didn’t know how I was over-driving it. It has noting to do with focus or anything like that. It’s just been working on what I’ve been lacking, you know?”
Andretti, 26, said he could not divulge and what he found out in that regard. But he did have an interesting response when asked if he believes this could be his
breakout year.
“It has to be, yeah, it has to be,” he said between practices at his transporter in the IndyCar paddock.
“Well, I think that speaks for itself, doesn’t it?” he said.
Andretti then walked away.
Flowers returns to A-High as opposing head coach
Posted on September 5, 2012 by David Felton
Aaron Flowers is an Artesia High football legend, as gifted a quarterback as the program has ever seen and as distinguished as a prep player in his sport as the O’Bannon brothers, Jason Kapono and James Harden were in the gym.
On Friday, Flowers will return to Artesia as the head coach of San Juan Hills. The Stallions are off to a 2-0 start this season after an 0-10 campaign last year. Flowers is in his second year in charge.
“It will be very interesting (returning to Artesia),” Flowers said. “I still have a lot of friends there. … (Artesia head coach) Joe Veach is a friend of mine.
“It will be very interesting to stand on the other (sideline).”
Flowers threw for 8,873 yards in his career, which is still seventh on the CIF Southern Section all-time list, and completed 582 passes (11th). He also tossed 79 touchdowns and was selected CIF-SS Division VII Co-Player of the Year as a junior. After graduating A-High in 1993, he went on to an All-America career at Cal State Northridge, and has been in teaching and coaching since.
Flowers said his father, longtime Artesia coach Norm Flowers, will attend the game, and his loyalties seem a bit torn.
“I told him he’ll have to stand behind the goalposts,” Aaron joked, “… but he’ll probably make his way back and forth to say hi to everybody.”
Artesia enters the game at 1-1 after a 55-14 loss to Whittier. Despite the score, Veach was pleased with his team’s overall effort.
“The score looked lopsided,” he said, “… but I saw some things that we did well.”
Artesia tied the score at 14 before Whittier pulled away. A blown pass coverage led to one score, and a pair of turnovers led to two more, giving Whittier a 35-14 advantage in about four minutes.
Game time Friday is 7 p.m.
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Jordan fundraising “drive” Saturday
Posted on September 5, 2012 by Dave Werstine
Jordan High will be holding a fundraising “drive” on Saturday at Houghton Park in Long Beach. The Panthers will be looking to raise money for the baseball and softball programs.
The Jordan softball booster club has partnered with Glenn E. Thomas Dodge Chrysler/Jeep. The local auto dealer will bring new Dodge vehicles to the event, where parents, faculty and guests can earn $20 for the Panther teams by taking a brief test drive and completing a short survey. Anyone with a valid driver’s license, age 21 or over, can “drive for dollars.”
For more information, contact Dan Garcia at (626) 643-8089 or via email at dgtiger15@gmail.com.
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Football schedule changes
The Gahr-Cerritos game, because of the new running track being put in at Gahr, has been moved Artesia High, and it will be played Thursday night.
Also, Wilson’s game at Tustin will now we played Thursday night.
Here’s the rest of the Week 2 schedule. Games are at 7 p.m. unless noted.
Friday’s Games
Cabrillo at Corona Centennial, 7:30 p.m.
Compton at Dominguez, 5 p.m.
Jordan at Upland
Millikan vs. GG Pacifica
Poly at Narbonne
Paramount at Bellflower
Artesia vs. San Juan Hills
Glenn vs. Bassett at Excelsior Stadium
La Mirada vs. Bishop Amat
Mayfair at Lakewood
Norwalk at Warren
Downey at Schurr
Lynwood vs. South East at Lynwood MS
Los Alamitos vs. Charter Oak at Vets Stadium
St. John Bosco at Santa Fe
Centennial vs. Paraclete, 6 p.m.
Calvary Chapel vs. East Valley at Downey HS
Firebaugh at Torres
Avalon vs. Westmark, 5 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Valley Christian vs. Bishop Diego at Santa Barbara City College
St. Anthony vs. Fairmont Prep at Yorba Linda HS
P-T Football Top 10
P-T TOP 10
1. St. John Bosco (2-0)
2. Poly (1-1)
3. La Mirada (2-0)
4. Los Alamitos (1-0)
5. Jordan (1-1)
6. Norwalk (2-0)
7. Lakewood (1-1)
8. Paramount (0-1)
9. Downey (1-1)
10. Centennial (1-1)
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Rashaad Penny, Jr., Norwalk
Penny ran all over Diamond Bar in a 52-38 victory Friday night. He rushed for a game-high 258 yards on 18 attempts, including touchdown runs of 75 and 46 yards, for the Lancers. For good measure, Penny also scored on a 70-yard pass play.
Heather Eggers, Sr., Lakewood
The senior libero had a fantastic season-opening week for the Lancers. Eggers recorded 91 digs and four aces in leading Lakewood to four wins and into the championship match of the Molten-Gahr Invitational tonight.
If you would like to nominate an Athlete of the Week, send the information to dave.werstine@presstelegram.com by noon on Mondays.
Several locals shine for Hawaii in loss to No. 1 USC
Former Poly High star George Daily-Lyles made five tackles and broke up a pass for the University of Hawaii in Saturday’s 49-10 loss to top-ranked USC at the Coliseum.
The junior linebacker is one of six Warrior players with Long Beach-area ties. Fellow linebacker T,J, Taimatuia, a sophomore from Artesia High, added four tackles and freshman running back Will Gregory from Dominguez ran 11 times for 48 yards.
Tight end Clark Evans (Los Alamitos HS, Cerritos College), defensive lineman Siaki Cravens (Long Beach City) and wide receiver Justin Alo (Carson HS) are also on the Hawaii roster but did not record stats in Saturday’s game.
Week 1 Football Scores and Takes
Posted on August 31, 2012 by Dave Werstine
Week 1 Football Scores
Serra 20, Poly 12…’Rabbits show they can play vs. the best, but need to be better
SJ Bosco 54, Lakewood 7 … Bosco flexes its muscles at Lakewood’s expense
Los Alamitos 29, Paramount 26 … Griffins win toe-to-toe battle with Pirates
Norwalk 52, Diamond Bar 38 … Penny rushes for 258 yards for Lancers
La Serna 28, Downey 27 (OT) … Vikes go for 2 in OT, fall short in tough battle
Valley Christian 42, Duarte 36 … Crusaders find out they can’t rest with a big lead
Centennial 20, Compton 14 … City rivalry game goes down to the final play
Bellflower 27, Pacifica 22 … Hunley proves to be nearly unstoppable
Morningside 58, Cerritos 0 … New coach Owens’ team shut out again
Calvary Chapel 52, Bright Star 8… Grizz begin 8-man game with a bang
Gahr 31, Northwood 20 … Gladiators get much-needed win
San Clemente 37, Cabrillo 7 …. Jags no match for OC football
Santa Margarita 35, Jordan 6… Panthers give No. 1 Eagles a pretty good fight
Aliso Niguel 48, Millikan 8 … No instant turnaround for the Rams
JSerra 37, Wilson 21 … This game, unlike last year’s meeting, determined early
Whittier 55, Artesia 14 … Wheels fall off for Pioneers after 14-14
Murrieta Valley 42, Mayfair 0 … Rare big loss by the Monsoons
Redlands East Valley 36, Dominguez 0 … It’s already been a long season for Dons
El Segundo 41, Lynwood 16 … Knights did have a 10-0 lead
La Mirada 45, La Habra 27 … Matadores deserve top billing in Southeast
South East 24, Warren 21 … Bears’ rally falls short
Pioneer 35, Glenn 28 … Eagles unable to slow down Titans
Tough Night for the Moore League
Week 1 seemed like it was going to be tough for the Moore League.
It was tough… and then some.
The Moore League went 0-for, and some of the scores weren’t pretty
Lakewood lost to St. John Bosco 54-7
Cabrillo fell to San Clemente 37-7
Jordan was beaten by Santa Margarita 35-6
Millikan was hammered by Aliso Niguel 48-8
Wilson fell behind big and lost to JSerra 37-21
In closer games…
Poly fell to Serra 20-12
Compton lost to Centennial 20-14 on the final play of the game
anger control on PT Baseball Standings
mantenimiento informatico on Reid caps prep career in grand fashion
enter here on Tough opener for Cerritos
freedom fast lane scam on P-T Football Top 10
aumentar musculos on Cooper joins Team USA
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A great time for fundraising
Posted April 23rd, 2013 & filed under Others.
Hiichiikok Foundation celebrated its first anniversary on Saturday, 13 April 2013 in style. It has provided attendees with a non-stop itinerary of entertainment and items to capture the attention of everybody. The Foundation raised over RM72,000 from this event which was shared equally between four notable non-governmental organizations, namely, The Salvation Army, Kiwanis Down Syndrome Foundation, Yayasan Chow Kit and Protect & Save the Children.
With clever use of lighting and simple decorative materials, SEGi University’s Multi Purpose Hall was transformed into an atmosphere which complemented the theme of the event aptly.
With over 500 people attending, the event was judged to be a success. We hope to thank all the sponsors, supporters and volunteers for their invaluable contributions to this event.
The photographs below captured the mood of the night very well.
Members of the Executive Committee of Hiichiikok Foundation jointly cutting the birthday cake to start the celebration.
Entertainment was coming non-stop for the entire evening which helped to create a generous mood among the guests.
Trigo Trio hailed from SEGi College Subang Jaya opened the night’s entertainment with instrumental pieces from a combination of an electric keyboard, a cello and a violin.
I was very happy to see support from my business associates and friends for the night’s event, among whom were Mr. Kee Lian Yong, Datuk Thean Bok, Datuk Lee Hwa Beng and Datin Lee.
Young illusionist, Edison Lim had the crowd mesmerised by the unusual way in which he used his magic to generate a great excitement among the audience.
Master of Ceremony, Sean Lee and Bruce Lim were tasked with auction off a whole lot of donated items. They delivered on their task and raised RM18,000 from the auction alone.
One of the highlights for the event was the lucky draw where our sponsors were very generous in donating attractive items to add colours to the event. Professor Mohd. Awang is seen here doing the honour of picking some of the lucky winners.
A group photograph of Hiichiikok Foundation’s Executive Committee with the representatives of the four non-governmental organisations which were the beneficiaries of this fundraiser event.
I was very happy with the organising committee’s ability to raise over RM72,000 in a short time. My hand shake with Mr Vijay Baskar ( from PS The Children) after the mock cheques presentation ceremony was well captured by the cameraman.
There were many happy participants to the event, judging from their smiles at the end of the function.
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#bauma2019: Tomorrow’s Construction and Mining Technology Will Be Connected, Electrified and Diesel
April 12, 2019 - All manner of future technologies, including the latest advanced diesel technology innovations, have been on display this week at bauma 2019, the latest installment of the world’s largest equipment exposition taking place now in Munich. The expo highlights the workhorses of the construction, mining and earth-moving industries from the world’s leading equipment and engine manufacturers.
“The credentials for the future are innovative, automated, efficient, connected and clean, which ensures that advanced diesel technology will continue to play a dominant role in these vital sectors of the global economy,” said Allen Schaeffer, Executive Director of the Diesel Technology Forum. “Equipment on display in Munich by industry innovators and leaders including AGCO, Bosch, Caterpillar, CNH Industrial, Cummins, John Deere, MTU, Volvo Penta and Yanmar demonstrate diesel’s continued capability to meet the commercial demands of customers along with improved environmental performance that will keep clean diesel in the driver’s seat of the global economy for decades to come.”
Diesel engines are the technology of choice for powering most of the largest off-road machines and equipment types around the globe, due to the energy density of diesel fuel and the inherent efficiency of the diesel engine to convert this energy into work. Today, 15 sectors of the global economy depend on diesel.
“This year, bauma is also center stage for industry showing off the latest generation of clean – the new EU Stage V requirements,” said Schaeffer. “These state-of-the-art advanced technology diesel engines deliver even nearer-to-zero performance, the most stringent the world has ever seen. Even alongside the electric and electrified technologies now in development, clean diesel will still be the dominant power under the hoods of the largest mining trucks, down to the smallest compact machines, for decades to come.”
Today’s diesel engines incorporate a full range of strategies that enhance performance and meet increasingly stringent global emissions standards. Technologies range from Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) and Diesel Particulate Filters (DPFs) to other engine strategies and emissions control technologies, which deliver near-zero black carbon and nitrogen oxide emissions, and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The year 2019 marks the introduction of the new European Euro V standards kicked for new equipment manufactured beginning in January 2019. U.S. Tier 4 standards for heavy-duty off-road engines came into effect with model-year 2014 vehicles and equipment. China 6 standards come into effect in July 2020. India’s Bharat Stage VI standards will take full effect in 2020, and the phase-in of BSVI-compliant clean fuels began in April 2018.
“It’s all about doing more work with less fuel, not only on a machine basis but also through integrated and connected site ecosystem,” said Schaeffer. “Engine and equipment manufacturers are innovating to achieve increased productivity and fuel-saving for their customers, including for example hybrid and energy storage systems, where smaller diesel engines serve as electrical generators to lessen the load and deliver fuel savings and emission reductions.”
New diesel-powered equipment highlighted at the Expo include:
Bosch displayed modular common-rail injection systems for diesel engines of various sizes.
Caterpillar Inc. showed off the 988K XE, Caterpillar’s first diesel/electric-drive wheel loader (Source) alongside four new mini-excavator models, all powered by Tier 4 Cat C1.1 diesel engines: the 301.5, 301.7 CR, 301.8 and 302 CR.
Caterpillar’s completely redesigned R1700 underground mining loader was also on display, available in three different emissions configurations including the Cat C13 diesel engine rated 269 kW (361 hp) in standard configuration or 257 kW (345 hp) in EU Stage V compliant form.
Cummins debuted its Euro Stage V-compliant QSK60 engine, designed for use in mining equipment, excavators and dump trucks (Source). The company also showed off its Euro Stage V-compliant B6.7 diesel engine and F3.8 diesel power unit.
CASE Construction Equipment showed off the Case 1121G wheeled loader, which uses a Stage IV FPT Industrial engine without a diesel particulate filter, and the Case CX90D MSR swing excavator, which uses a Stage V Yanmar engine. A Case 821G waste handler wheel loader was also on display, featuring a Stage V engine using FPT Industrial’s Hi-eSCR2 after-treatment technology, alongside the Case TV450, the largest compact track loader ever produced by CASE.
FPT Industrial unveiled a brand-new lineup of Stage V compliant diesel engines, including the F34, F36 and PowerPack designs.
John Deere Power Systems showed off its newly certified Euro Stage V diesel engine lineup, which range from its variable-speed engine families below 56 kW (75 hp) and above 130 kW (174 hp) as well as its constant speed engine families.
John Deere via the Wirtgen Group unveiled new W 210 Fi, W 200 Fi and W 200 F milling machines, which rely on a high-torque diesel engine; paired with Wirtgen’s telematics solutions, the milling machine delivers reduced diesel, water and tool consumption, as well as lower CO2 and noise emissions (Source). Wirtgen also showcased the 622GP and 672GP motor graders, which use Tier 4 Final John Deere diesel engines.
Perkins showed off its new line of Stage V off-highway diesel engines (Source), alongside three hybrid power solutions designed to integrate with the Perkins Syncro 2.8-liter diesel engine.
Rolls-Royce presented its EU Stage V / U.S. Tier 4 final certified engines from MTU, based on commercial vehicle engines from Daimler. The MTU engines cover a power range of 115 to 480 kW and have been available as standard production engines since June 2018 (Source).
Rolls-Royce and MTU Onsite Energy partnered to unveil microgrid solutions for mines, pairing diesel and gas generator sets with battery containers and photovoltaic and wind power plants to create autonomous power grids (Source).
Volvo Penta is displaying its full range of new Stage V diesel engine solutions (Source).
Yanmar exhibited its newly certified Stage V off-road engines, the 4TN107FHT and 4TN107TT (Source).
Bell Equipment marked the transition of many of its products from Stage IV/Tier 4 final to Stage V compliance, noting the innovative solutions developed by its long-time diesel engine partners Mercedes-Benz and MTU (Source).
Hatz presented its E1 Technology, the world’s first electronically controlled fuel injection system and digital control unit for single-cylinder diesel engines in the industrial sector, and announced that its full range of engines are Stage V and Tier 4 Final compliant (Source).
Himoinsa unveiled its new S5 Range of Stage V-compliant generator sets, featuring diesel engines made by Yanmar, FPT and Scania (Source).
Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) showcased the ZW75-6 and ZW95-6, new Stage V-compliant diesel-powered compact wheeled loaders, and the ZX85USB-6 a Stage V-compliant diesel-powered compact excavator (Source).
Hyundai’s HX10A, a new 1-tonne mini excavator, is available with Hyundai Twin Drive capability: operators can choose to use the standard Yanmar diesel engine or an electric-only mode (Source).
Hyundai Construction Europe unveiled its new A-series equipment – crawler excavators, wheel loaders, wheeled excavators, and mini excavators – all featuring Stage V compliance and an enhanced all-in-one exhaust aftertreatment system (Source).
Kato Cranes launched the KA-1000RX wheeled mobile crane, powered by a Stage IV Daimler diesel engine, and the CR-250RV Cityrange crane, powered by a Cummins QSB Stage V diesel engine (Source).
Kleemann presented its heavy-duty MOBICAT MC 120 Z PRO mobile jaw crusher for use in quarries, featuring a powerful diesel-electric drive that supports external power supply (Source).
Kobelco Construction Machinery Europe B.V. launched the diesel-powered Kobelco SK850LC-10E, the company’s largest excavator yet. The excavator is Euro Stage V compliant (Source).
Kohler unveiled the Euro Stage V-compliant K-HEM Hybrid Energy Module, a hybrid electrical and mechanical power generation unit which pairs a KDW 1003 diesel engine with a 48V electric motor; the system is so clean it does not require a diesel particulate filter (Source).
Komatsu Europe showed off its HB215LC-3 and HB365NLC-3 hybrid excavators, both powered by Stage IV diesel engines (Source).
Kramer Werke GmbH introduced its Stage V-compliant 5065 wheel loader and 8095 machine (Source).
Kubota displayed its expanded diesel engine lineup, which now includes the 200-hp U.S. Tier 4/Euro Stage V-compliant 5-L V5009 engine – the winner of the “Diesel of the Year” award – (Source, Source) and launched its KX037-4 hydraulic excavator, powered by a Stage V Kubota diesel engine (Source).
Liebherr unveiled a new LTM 1110-5.1 five-axle crane, powered by a six-cylinder, 400-kW (536.4-hp) diesel engine compliant with the new European stage V emissions directive (Source). Liebherr also presented its T-236 diesel-electric 100-ton mining truck, which completed its testing phase and is now operational in mines in Austria and Africa (Source).
Link-Belt announced a new 120|RT rough terrain crane, powered by a Cummins Stage V diesel engine (Source).
LiuGong and Dressta unveiled the new 848H and 856H wheeled loaders, powered by Cummins QSB Stage V diesel engines; the 890H, powered by a Cummins Stage IV diesel engine; and the TD-15 crawler dozer, featuring a Stage V-compliant powertrain (Source).
MAN Engines debuted the D4276, a straight-six 16.2 L engine developed for heavy-duty off-highway machines, like construction vehicles (Source).
Manitowoc Cranes launched the Grove GMK3050-2 and GMK6300L-1 all-terrain cranes, compliant with Euro Stage V standards; the GMK6300L-1 features an engine from Mercedes-Benz (Source).
XCMG showcased its XC9 series loaders, which meet Stage V and Tier 4 Final requirements (Source).
Zoomlion CIFA debuted the MK28E, a diesel-electric hybrid truck mixer pump capable of operating with the diesel engine turned off (Source).
“Our founder Clessie Cummins recognized the benefits of diesel technology and transformed it into a reliable, everyday power source for a broad range of uses…We have made significant strides for Stage V, but we won’t stop there. We will continue to develop clean diesel technology, complimented by our alternative power solutions, that meet the needs of our customers and the environment in the future.” Alexei Ustinov, Cummins’ vice president of off-highway engine business.
“While the off-highway industry continues to grow and adapt to changing market needs and value propositions, its demands for reliability, durability, and performance remain the same. A rugged market requires a product that can meet expectations in a variety of applications — whether diesel, hybrid or electric.” Darren Almond, drivetrain product planning manager for John Deere Power Systems.
“We believe that the market is not yet ready for a full-electric machine providing all the capabilities that a clean-diesel engine is providing.” Alessandro Bellissima, Yanmar’s head of European research.
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Character Types
Examples from the Everway Playing Guide1
Create Fire
Imortality
Priestly Powers
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Law Magic
Druid Magic
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Virtue, Flaw, and Fate
Characters will be generated according to the standard system found in Everway. Since the game is out of print, I'll be describing it here for your reference.
Your characters should be able to work together in an adventuring mode typical to most RPGs. For instance, the phrase "my character would kill X on sight" should not appear in your writeup. Being reluctant to leave home is fine; being completely tied to a particular city (even Sigil) is a bad idea.
I'm only looking for a short background and some stats at first. You don't need to work out absolutely everything. You do, however, need to pick a Faction.
Planescape was one of the first "dungeonpunk" type settings. Characters come out of the standard D&D mold, with more cool on them. You can easily recreate a wizard, cleric, thief, fighter, psionicist, barbarian, bladesinger, and more esoteric stuff with the rules below. Typical races are Human, Githzerai, Bauriar, Aasimar, Tiefling, and Modron; I like 'em. If you don't know those, feel free to go with more standard types.
Characters are defined by their scores in the four classical elements:
Air, which describes intelligence and oratory skill,
Fire, which describes athletic ability and force of presence,
Earth, which describes physical and mental toughness, and
Water, which describes awareness and spiritual sensitivity.
You have 20 points to spend in total. You can spend these on Attributes at a 1:1 rate, or you can also spend them on Gifts and Magic. An attribute at level 3 is typical. Level 7 is clearly supernatural. No attribute can be less than 2 or more than 9 at character creation. Each level is roughly twice the level below it - someone with Fire 5 has a 50-50 change against four opponents of Fire 3 in combat.
There are no "skills" per se in this game, as all activity falls under one of the elements. You do have a free Specialty in each element, giving you a +1 bonus in that area. For instance, you might have Fire 4 with a specialty in Archery, which means that you treat your Fire as 5 for Archery.
You could also reclassify a skill based on its elemental affiliation. As an activity requiring endurance, Swimming would normally fall under Earth, but you could reasonably classify it as a Water skill.
Gifts are minor magic, relatively narrowly defined. The facility of a Gift is usually governed by one or more Elements. Your score in the governing Element will help determine how well it works in a given situation.
Gifts cost character points depending on three factors:
All gifts start off costing zero points.
Is the gift Frequent? That is, does it come up all the time? If so, add one point to the cost.
Is the gift Versatile? That is, can you do a few different things with it? If so, add one point to the cost.
Is the gift Major? That is, does it give you an ability that is a deciding factor in a particular area? If so, add one point to the cost. Some gifts are very powerful and are considered "Twice Major," adding two points to the cost instead.
Gifts that are neither Frequent nor Versatile nor Major cost no points. Your character has one zero-point Gift for free, and one further zero-point gift determined by your Faction. (Faction Gifts will actually change if your allegiance changes.) Any further zero-point Gifts cost one point each.
You cannot spend more than six points on Gifts.
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Pet Viper, 1 (major): A large, venomous viper has befriended you. All it can really do is strike those who threaten it or you; its poison sickens and incapacitates the average person (3-Earth). The viper's Elements are 1-Fire, 2-Earth, 1-Air, 3-Water.
Cat Familiar, 2 (frequent, versatile): An intelligent cat is your devoted companion. It can talk to you (and only you), and it is as intelligent as a child. It has no other special abilities. It can spy, carry written messages, stand guard, and so on. The cat's Elements are 1-Fire, 2-Earth, 2-Air, 5-Water.
Wolf Companion, 3 (frequent, major, versatile): A clever, loyal wold is your constant companion. It can do a few specific tricks, but it's just a clever animal; it does not have human-like intelligence. The wolf can fight, follow people by smell, stand guard, hear faint noises, and so on. The wolf's Elements are 4-Fire, 3-Earth, 1-Air, 4-Water.
Sweat Fire, 1 (frequent): You can make fire come forth from your skin. The flames are small enough that they do not improve your combat abilities much (though they may be very useful against monsters that are vulnerable to fire).
Throw Fire, 2 (frequent, major): You can produce fire from your bare hands. The fire can be formed into balls and thrown, and these large, hot flames can also be used to increase your combat ability.
Mastery of Flame, 3 (frequent, versatile, major): You can create heat, light, and flame at will. The flame can be used as a weapon in melee as well as over a distance.
Fast Healing, 1 (frequent): You recover from physical wounds seven times as fast as normal, so that a day's rest is as good as a week's would be to a normal person.
Instant Healing, 2 (frequent, major): Your wounds close nearly instantly, so that no wound last for more than a few seconds. A blow that kills you instantly, however, is still fatal.
Ageless, 0: You do not age. While this ability may eventually be very useful, it has little direct effect on play, so it counts as a free Gift.
Unkillable, 2 (frequent, major): You cannot be killed, though you can still be hampered by wounds, sickened by poison, knocked down by blows, weakened by disease, and so on. Sphere-walkers' quests often bring them into danger, so this Power is frequent. It is major because it changes your abilities dramatically.
Invulnerable, 3 (frequent, twice major): you cannot be wounded or poisoned by normal means, though you can still be struck down by forceful blows, knocked unconscious from lack of air, or killed by hunger or thirst.
Standing Unseen, 1 (frequent): You can become invisible, but must remain still ans silent or be revealed.
Walking Unseen, 2 (frequent, major): You can become invisible an can move about without breaking the spell.
Winning Smile, 0: Your smile is charming. It helps you stand out and may make some people more favorably disposed toward you, but it won't sway the hearts of enemies and such.
Persuasive Voice, 1 (frequent): You have a soothing voice that can sway the hearts of others. It will not, however, sway those who are hostile to you.
Charming Voice, 2 (frequent, major(: You can win the affection of those that you talk to as tome length. It will not work on those who refuse to listen, and those who have been charmed may realize what's happened when they're away from you.
Dominating Gaze, 3 (frequent, major, versatile): By speaking firmly and gazing into a person's eyes, you can exert some control of the other person's will. The weaker the subject's Earth score, the more you can get him to do. This control is usually unpredictable, and it's possible for a controlled person to snap out of the spell.
Instant Control, infinite : A Power that would give you instant and complete control over another would ruin too many plots, so it is not allowed.
Priestly Rites, 2 (major, versatile): You can lead worship services and divine ceremonies to channel energy. Effects that fall within the scope of Priestly Rites include forging oaths, blessing unions, bringing fertility to crops, improving an army's fortune in war, and so on. You abilities depend on having a congregation to lead, and they are at their peak on holy days.
Invocation, 3 (frequent, major, versatile): You can, apart from any worshiping congregation, invoke the power of deities to bless people, sanctify oaths, provide guidance, and so on. The Power is frequent because you can use it without relying on a congregation.
Werewolf, 2 (frequent, major): You can turn into a powerful wolf that is immune to normal (nonsilver and nonmagical) weapons. (If you only shift on Full Moon nights, the Power is not frequent.)
Werehawk, 3 (frequent, twice major): You can turn into a powerful hawk, which is immune to nonsilver, nonmagical weapons. The power is twice major because the hawk can fly and is immune to most weapons.
Bird Tongue, 0: You can speak to birds. The birds, however, don't necessarily want to talk to you, and you may find they have little to say.
Speak to Animals, 1 (frequent): You can speak to all manner of animals. You may find that they don't want to talk, don't have much to say, or are unlikely to have useful anthropocentric information.
Shadow Whispers, 1 (major): You can speak to the dead (though some ghosts are in no shape to hold a conversation, and some simply don't want to talk).
Glimpses of the Future, 1 (major): During times of stress, you get visions of the future. These visions are not consciously controlled and are usually hazy, general, or incomplete.
Visionary Ritual, 2 (frequent, major): You can perform a ritual to gain visions of the future, though the visions are usually hazy, general, or incomplete.
Glimpses Through Time and Space, 2 (major, versatile): During times of stress, you get visions of the future, of the past, or of distant places. These visions are not consciously controlled and are usually hazy, general, or incomplete.
Mystic Eye, 3 (frequent, major, versatile): You can concentrate to gain visions of the future, of times past, or of distant places. The visions are usually hazy, general or incomplete.
All-Seeing Eye infinite : You can get clear visions of the past, future or distant places that would ruin plots that depend on mystery, so not allowed.
Magic is a strong, flexible ability that goes beyond the minor Gifts and provides a great deal of versatility. Relatively few characters know magic. It is effectively a fifth attribute for those characters who use it.
You can pick one of the four types of magic described below and buy levels in it at a 1:1 rate. The general guideline for power is that someone with a Magic score can do what someone with the same score in two different elements could do. For instance, someone with Fire 7, Earth 7 could run at a sprinter's pace for a day while loaded with gear, so a magical spell at level 7 might create a flying carpet capable of transporting a few people at high speed for a day.
You should choose a power source for your magic: Arcane, Divine, or Psionic. This has little game effect - many people come about similar powers through diverse means.
You cannot spend more than seven points on Magic.
((Note to self: each type of magic needs its power levels listed.))
Chaos magic bends the laws of the multiverse in unreliable ways, often with nasty side-effects. In fact, many chaos spells were originally side effects that proved more useful and more powerful than the intended primary effect. Chaos magic warps, changes, and destroys.
Near a chaos mage, the world is less predictable. Matches might burn hotter, or refuse to go out, or have hints of strange colors. The breeze carries the scents of ozone and smoke. A weapon forged by a chaos mage might hold shimmering, shifting patterns like an oil slick, or leave ragged trails through the air.
Law magic works through the application and exploitation of little-known multiversal laws. Its spells are created deliberately and carefully through the study of existing metaphysical phenomena. Law magic heals, restores, and protects.
Near a law mage, the world is more reliable. One might find that coin flips tend towards a perfect 50-50 split of heads and tails, or that water flows without eddies and whorls. The air favors the clear sound of a ringing bell over the racket of conversation or battle. A shield forged by a law mage might show perfect symmetry and a shining finish even after a hundred battles, and each blow against it would sound it like a gong.
Druid magic works through the natural world - plants and animals, in all their odd forms throughout the planes. Druids of all persuasions think of their abilities less as spells and more as calls to action from the world around them. Their spells control growth, attract or repel beings, and direct the path of nature.
Near a druid, the world seems more alive. Animals follow them unconsciously, and plants germinate in their hair and clothing. Flowers smell more sweet, plants bear riper fruit, the sun beats down more strongly and winter wind bites more coldly. A potion brewed by a druid might bear the taste of spring water or nectar, or bring forth the memory of one's mother as it takes effect.
Song magic pulls at the heartstrings of the world and listens to its secret desires. The planes are living things to a song mage, shaped by the beliefs and actions of those who dwell on them. Its spells awaken perception and direct emotion, concentrating belief into tangible form.
Near a song mage, the world works in poetic ways. Those who are unaware find their actions ruled by drama and irony rather than rational thought, and yet the practical results are much the same. Many find themselves humming. A magical lantern made by a song mage would tend to reveal the hidden and conceal the obvious, its light changing hue with the mood of the day's events.
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No, you’re not dreaming. A TV series based on the groundbreaking Vertigo comic series Sandman is headed to Netflix from executive-producers Neil Gaiman and David Goyer, according to THR. Wonder Woman screenwriter Allen Heinberg is set to pen the series and serve as showrunner. Gaiman created the monthly comic for Vertigo in 1989, and artists on the book included Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel, and Michael Zulli.
The report notes that Netflix paid a massive price tag for the series, the most expensive TV deal that Warner Bros. has ever conducted. Attempts to turn Sandman into a feature film have been going on since the 1990s at Warner Bros., with Eric Heisserer (Arrival)being attached to write the script as recently as 2016.
Sandman, which ran for 75 issues, tells the many stories of Morpheus, an immortal entity who controls the world of dreams. The character is one of the Endless, an omnipotent set of siblings that includes Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire, and Delirium. (In keeping with the “D” motif, Morpheus is also known as Dream.) The series won 26 Eisner Awards over its run, and together with books like Swamp Thing and Hellblazer, put Vertigo on the map as a darker, more literary alternative to mainstream capes and tights comics.
Gaiman’s work has been a hot property for TV in recent years. His novel American Gods was adapted into a series by Starz that is still set for a third season despite a downturn in critical favor in season 2. Good Omens, which Gaiman co-wrote with the late Terry Pratchett in 1990, was adapted this year by Gaiman himself into a ten-episode mini-series for Amazon directed by Douglas Mackinnon.
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By Richard Schickel Sunday, Mar. 14, 1999
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As if we cared. Our fascination with this tale has always derived from its cool portrayal of utter amorality, which Kumble and his cast nicely energize with their heedless, youthful intensity. This may not go over with the kid audience, which prefers to view itself onscreen as victims or heroes. But their weary parents may just get a kick out of seeing the little monsters presented as, well, the little monsters they so often are.
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PCB considers staging PSL 4 in Pakistan
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Pakistan Cricket Board PCB) is considering hosting the complete season of Pakistan Super League in Pakistan as the rift between PCB and Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) continues, Express Tribune reported.
The decision for changing the venue of the fourth edition of Pakistan’s own blockbuster T20 league is likely to be made in a meeting on June 12th.
PCB had asked the UAE cricket authorities to not to host any T20 league during the window of October to March, otherwise, they will look for an alternative venue to host their home series as well as the lucrative PSL.
However, ECB gave little attention to PCB’s words and they have announced their own T20 league which is likely to take place between December and January. Moreover, Afghanistan Cricket Board has already announced that they will host their league in October, while T10 League is likely to be played in November in the UAE.
With all these leagues taking place in the UAE, PCB believes hosting PSL in their own country will be more fruitful than staging the tournament there.
Before making any decision, the board have to take all the franchise on the same page. As per reports, some franchises have already backed PCB’s idea of hosting the complete season of PSL in Pakistan.
“We don’t think there is any point of hosting the PSL in UAE now,” a franchise official told Daily Express.
He believes that with so many cricket leagues taking place in that part of the world, they will not get attractive enough sponsorships and broadcasters will also not pay them well.
“We are here to do business and this does not seem like a good deal because if the tournament is being organised in the UAE, with so much T20 and T10 cricket around, we will not be getting the best possible sponsorship deals due to the saturation in the market,” he told.
“Broadcasters will also not be paying us sufficient amount of money for the tournament and we don’t think people will want to come to the grounds for the matches as well. We genuinely believe having next edition of PSL in Pakistan is a viable option as the country’s law and order situation has vastly improved,” he added.
Moreover, another franchise official told that if the league is being played in Pakistan, availability of big names would really not matter in the long run.
“Recently we’ve seen great rivalry building up between franchises, which is great news for the competition,” he said. “Once we have the PSL in Pakistan, we can attract hundreds and thousands of followers of each franchise to the ground, which means even if big name players don’t come to the country, it will not hurt the brand’s image in the long run.”
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"Baldly" go where no man has gone before..
No limits to what movie stars will do to promote their movies these days. In the picture above, you have Aamir buzzing the "Ghajini" haircut on a few of his fans, as part of the promotional activities for his film. Full article here.
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Don't believe in mincing those words, do you, SRK?
Question: Aamir kick-started the final promotions for his film Ghajini with the release of your film. Your comment?
SRK: I think it is a very good strategy. He thinks he can ride off the brand that is Shah Rukh Khan, which is the biggest brand. The problem is, I cannot ride on any other brand as there is no brand bigger than me!
Daym, son!
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When Indi-Pop began...
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Rahman does fusion, just right. This takes Lebanese Blonde (Thievery Corporation) to the next level.
Love the way this song starts off all pretty with pianos and guitar (assumedly, that's Mausam), and that kicks into the sitar, drum 'n' bass groove.
A constituent of the radical new OST that is Slumdog Millionaire.
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Behka Main Behka
When I first heard this song, I figured that the video would have to be extremely "hatke" to match up to the work Rahman has done with it. Its amazing to see the creativity and spirit that Bollywood exudes during the process of film-making. The industry has certainly come a long way. While Aamir does look a tad bit haggard, must laud his tenacity and ability to reinvent himself so brilliantly.
Ghajini's looking drastic! Can't wait.
Note to Ahmed Khan - R&B is Rhythm and Blues, not Rhythm and Bass.
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Chak Lein De
Awesome Kailash Kher track from the OST of CC2C (sorry, being very Delhi-ite with my abbreviations, today).
The best part is the flute interlude after the second verse, and the really best part comes after the last verse when the song goes into an acoustic guitar mode, and then crescendoes back with flutes and drums back into the hook. Nice job, K.Kher!
Dev D
Seems to be like a glitzier "Leaving Las Vegas" on acid. Not too convinced about the choice of Abhay Deol as the lead here, but he could prove me wrong. The dark look of brooding negativity, and drug-inspired panning shots are elements which haven't been seen too often in Bollywood. Either they have been too pretentious (Aks) or rather meaningless (No Smoking - which is also Anurag Kashyap's doing).
In either case, its nice to see a new spin on an old tale. Props for the effort itself.
sometimes my ipod can read my mind
do pal ruka khwabon ka karavan,
aur phir chal diye, tum kahaan, hum kahaan,
do pal ki thi, yeh dilon ki daastaan,
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Guzarish
Tight new track from Aamir's Ghajini.
Deadly hook. In classic ARR style, the major verse transitioning to a minor chorus is phenomenal!
Rahman totally gets this s/t right.
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Dallas for the day
Drove out to Dallas for the day. Had a few meetings, and some business to take care of.
Find it ominous that I'm in Dallas on Nov 22 - a day where 45 years ago, JFK was shot dead in this very city. Plan to drive by Dealy Plaza later, on my way back to H-town, and solemnly reminisce by mystic curiosity for one of the greatest so-called "conspiracies" of our time.
In Houston for the weekend
Had to get away from the east freeze. Here are the stats:
New York: 37 deg F
Houston 58 deg F
Works for me!
Tell me your dreams..
You want soulful music that will hit you like a ton of bricks? Listen to Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan's solo album, Tabeer. Phenomenal stuff!
A musically and vocally superior album, Tabeer (An Interpretation of Dreams) nails in the fact that Shafqat was indeed the lifeblood of Fuzon. With Tabeer, he establishes himself as a legendary classical singer and musician. All the songs have a characteristic raw and elemental classical theme to them, interspersed with other musical genres. Almost like a response to Classically Mild, only not as mild, as the vocal and atmosphere is more intense.
Here's Rohi as a good example:
India celebrates planting its flag on moon - Yahoo! News
WTG, ISRO! :-)
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Awaaz di hai
Came across this gem, the other day. A serious blast from the past, from the limited collection of Bappi Lahiri's golden years (Yes, all the gold which he turned into kilos of bling neckwear, for his non-golden years to follow). From the film, Aitbaar (1985) - which was Mukul Anand's answer to Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder.
Awaaz di hai aaj ik nazar ne
Yaa hai yeh dil ko gumaan
dohraa rahee hain, jaise fizaayen
bhuli hui daastaan
Awaaz Di Hai .mp3 - Bhupinder, Asha Bhosle (Music: Bappi Da)
Wish it were fiction...
Can never forget the chills I felt, as the climax of Airframe revealed itself, and the intense build-up that led to it. The unputdownable thriller - just one of this man's immense repertoire - combined his mesmerizing abilities of story-weaving and telling, with an intense amount of research and comprehensive perception of the premise's framework . Not since Arthur Hailey, has a writer managed to portray a believable in-depth understanding of subjective premises, and been capable of portraying it effectively, without being obfuscatory to the unknowing reader.
He revolutionized science fiction with the concept of recreating dinosaurs from DNA extracted from fossilized mosquitoes. He inspired a new genre of edge-of-the-end-of-the-world disaster, with The Andromeda Strain. He spun an epic legend of time travel in Timeline. His array of creativity knows no parallel. Unfortunately, his life was cut jagged short.
Last week, the world lost one of the most gifted writers of our generation.
Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008).
Aside from the closet innuendo and Priyanka's blazen-ness, Dostana has a compelling soundtrack. Highlight being, this gem - Khabar Nahin - which has Vishal Dadlani crooning the tune, rather well.
Groovy beat programming - very reminiscent of "Must be the Money" - accented brilliantly by the earnest "Maula mere Maula" chorus by Amanat Ali. Nice to see the Sa Re Ga Ma contestant make a neat Bollywood debut, and lets hope he's here to stay.
Check out my detailed review of Dostana here.
Currently Sampling: The rest of Dostana, Yuvvraaj and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.
Nuff said, 'merica
Totally badass!
Bury the hatchet
Alright. Fine. Just heard it end to end, and gotta admit it. Evolver is an ILL album! At least Legend's putting the name to premium-shelf use. Hehe. Great digs.
And remember - Buy, don't bootleg.
No Other Love (Feat. Estelle) - John Legend
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Don't feel that bad, anymore
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E-volver, c'est moi!
I have a bone to pick with you, Mr. Stephens. Even without the "hyphen", your new album title, EVOLVER, is a blatant rip off off my blog's ideology - my blogeology, if you will. Haven't you heard of Creative Commons?
From its modest beginnings in October 2005, The E-volver has contributed to the blogosphere, nearly 1000 random thoughts/opinions on everything that matters - music, movies and melancholic morphing mice. What have you got on that? 3 albums in 4 years. 11 Grammies and an AMA. Pathetic!
Hmph. I'll let it slide, Legend. Just cause I'm cool like that. Next time, find someone elses blog title to "Get Lifted".
Currently hooked onto: Estelle's American Boy (feat. Kanye West). The black and white video's pretty cool, except for this Estelle person ... serious tranny alert. Did I stay that out loud?
True Dat..
When God solves your problems, you have faith in his abilities.
When he does not solve your problems, he has faith in your abilities
"In the closet? Dude, he's so deep in the closet, he's finding Christmas presents".
George Parr: Making sense of it all
The Last Laugh - George Parr - Subprime
by erioluk
Currently Sampling: Yuvvraaj
I'm ensconced. That's all I can say. Some of the tracks are so overwhelming and unique, that it may take a while to digest. The union of Ghai and Rahman has always yielded something unprecedented (there is yet no Bollywood parallel to Ramta Jogi or the Western Version of Taal).
So far, the stand-out track for me is "Manmohini". Rendered by new-name Vijay Prakash, who sounds like a blend of Hariharan and Shankar Mahadevan. The song is mellow yet trippy - very world lounge with a distinct classical base, and an interesting beat pattern. Seems like it would mix really well with No Letting Go by Wayne Wonder - especially the opening Dhoom Tana sample.
Very unlike conventional Rahman, as it has a very nouveau-ambient feel with touches of electronica, but I guess he's forever evolving and how. While I haven't formed a comprehensive opinion on it (and I gladly have nearly a month before I review this one), the sound is revolutionarily fresh - a real trip.
Who the heck is Joe?
Joe Six-Pack? Joe The Plumber?
Pray tell - who is Joe, and why is he so popular amongst the nominees?
Grinds My Gears...
To quote a post by Amardeep (Sepia Mutiny)
"The LA Times has a rather silly piece, where they interview “body language” experts on yesterday’s Presidential debate. The highlight for me was this little bit about pronunciation:
But Glass, who thought the debate was a draw, said Obama seemed unnatural at times. “Somebody coached him and did not do him a favor,” she said. “When he talks about an issue he’s passionate about, his gestures are fluid and real, but other times, he took his index finger and clasped it to his thumb, and it’s phony, it’s not real.”
She also thought his inflection might be a turn-off to some voters. “He’d say, ‘Pahk-ee-stahn,’ or ‘Tolly-bahn.’ You need to say Pakistan and Taliban like everyone else.” (link)
Um, is it possible he pronounces it correctly because… it’s actually the correct pronunciation?
Some bloggers over at the National Review’s “The Corner” have picked up on this as well (thanks for the tip, Sree):
The National Review’s Mark Stein, for example, said that Obama prefers the “exotic pronunciation.” He added, “[O]ne thing I like about Sarah Palin is the way she says ‘Eye-raq’.”
This came after the National Review’s Kathryn Jean Lopez posted an email that argued, “[N]o one in flyover country says Pock-i-stahn. It’s annoying.” (link)
Actually, I know plenty of people in certain “flyover countries” — i.e., in the Indian subcontinent — who pronounce it exactly that way.
Welcome to the United States of Stupidistan, folks. "
Got Digits?
1133 Sixth Avenue, New York City: The national debt clock had to add an extra digit on Wednesday, as the number inched ahead of US$10 Trillion. At least there's ONE economic metric that's growing.
Finding Humor in Havoc
Drift away...
There have been very few "Ae Ajnabi"s in Bollywood. Mellow, slow, long numbers that attain cult status. Caravan from the s/t of "Hello" is potentially one such drifter/nomadic/long drive to nowhere-type track. Voiced by the prolific Shafquat Amanat Ali Khan. Yenjoy.
Eye-Rack
In the well-globalized world that we live in, and with the clear de-centralization of America from centerstage, isn't it about time that candidates start to pronounce foreign countries and world leaders names correctly? American English is no international patois, no more.
Without doubt, Sarah Palin is the new Dan Quayle.
What a kindergarten debate!
Boy, they "dumbed" it down for her, didn't they? Where was the challenge? Why didn't anyone tell Palin that she didn't "answer" several of the questions? Palin was all gimmicks, to say the least. If only this was a debate for picking a host for "Farmer Wants a Wife: The Anchorage Edition". Not at a VP debate, for crying out loud.
In other news, why am I complaining? I can't even vote. Bah.
Go Nucular!
Debate started off pretty sober, but has picked up in its intensity once key questions (foreign policy, war spending, and I wonder why this is still a burning issue in the 21st century - but - gay marriage).
Biden's definitely coming across more "presidential". I love the questionable smile when Sarah Palin makes a directed remark.
Palin seems more like she's calming an argument at a sorority sister's reunion. Her rhetoric is so "he-said-she-said". Usage of words like "soccer moms" and "joe-six-pack" do not make you a people person, lady. She reminds me of Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde, but at least Reese came across smart at the end.
Tina Fey for Vice President!
A Wednesday
A well-paced and well-timed thriller. Its about time that Bollywood came up with a crisp, real-time edge-of-your-seater (a la Speed or Phone Booth).
The gripping aura of terrorism has become a universal and widespread "movie thriller premise " now. Quite like "serial killers" back in the 90s.
If this is an original story, it is undoubtedly a great concept. In terms of handling, the run-up to the climax could have been more effective and subtle, post revelation of the twist. The dialogue between Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah could have been more impactful. But that's just nitpicking, as the effort is more than laudable.
Naseeruddin Shah is world class in a subdued and effective performance. More short and well-scripted thrillers, Bollywood!
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New Age-Hindi
Shantanu Moitra has really hit the nail on the head, with this subtle, beautiful ballad, unassumingly found on the soundtrack of Welcome to Sajjanpur (haan, babua! kaa samjhe?). The omnipresent Mohit Chauhan who has apparently vowed to be on every Hindi soundtrack ever made, accompanies Madhushree on "Ek Meetha Marz Dene", which really grows on you after a few listens.
I don't think I would be exaggerating, if I would call this one of the sweetest composed/rendered ballads of '08.
In other news, the bailout bill is out. If you can't access it, try again later - the government financial services site may have crashed due to unprecedented usage - a sign of things to come, I guess ;-)
Be careful what you wish for...
... 'cuz you just might get it all. Did I call it, or did I call it? :-)
Thanks for the tip there, nbanad!
In other news, just got back from Burn After Reading. The Coens rule!
Je vous en prie
Commercial cinema is overrated. Switch to lndies! Well, with the exception of curious spectacles like Burn After Reading, which I can't wait to watch btw, Indies are where its at. Foreign indies, especially.
Back in 2006, this gorgeous, gorgeous French/English (Finglish?) movie called "Paris, Je T'aime" came by, featuring a smorgasbord of cast members ranging from amateurs to legends (Steve Buscemi, Juliette Binoche, Natalie Portman, Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaal). The movies format was Dus Kahaaniyaan-ish, with 18 separate "arrondissements". Thematically, the movie explores the emotions of love, but all of them set in the legendary city of Paris. With some shorts directed by established directors (The Coens, Gus Van Sant, Gerard Depardieu, Gurinder Chadha), this movie is highly recommended for those who love this format of film-making - i.e. a collection of short, touching tales that make you think.
Absolutely heartwarming.
In other news, would love to see someone make this kinda movie in NYC.
Really liking this new track from Madhur Bhandarkar's Fashion (Salim-Suleiman's music). Reminds me a lot of Zara Zara. Brilliant arrangement, and the low register female vocals with classical touches are nicely done! Enjoy!
In other news, also check out "Kuch Khaas" (Mohit Chauhan and Neha "Viva" Bhasin) from the same album.
For a movie...
... that truly speaks of the power of human spirit.
Highly, highly recommended viewing.
Telling it like it is....
A couple of classic Warren-isms, from the greatest investor out there.
"[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head."
Warren Buffet, Harvard, 1998
"After all, you only find out who was swimming naked, once the tide goes out"
Warren Buffet, Charman's Letter, 2001
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
As quoted in The Real Warren Buffett : Managing Capital, Leading People (2002) by James O'Loughlin
"I'm a PC ... and a human being..."
"Not a human doing. Not a human thinking .... a human being".
Oh Dr. Deepak Chopra. If I could only learn your art of making millions out of the verbal cattle dung that you spew to this gullible world. You are truly a visionary. Ka-ching!
The former-Lehman Brothers historic building on Times Square, now lit up with Barclays Capital logos.
Review Catch-Up
Caught up on a few mile-high movies, while traveling:
Smart People: Arrogant, yet amusing. Highly reminiscent of Margot at the Wedding, for some reason. Prefer this avatar of Ellen Page, where she seems much more real and confused, versus her Joan-of-Arc-ish character in Juno. Sarah Jessica Parker was actually tolerable and at times, pretty, for a change. Thomas Haden-Church - awesome. Dennis Quaid - traditionally subdued.
Really looking forward to Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
The Happening: The acting, being a lot more theatrical and Hitchcockian - with the intense close-ups - is a little variant from Shyamalan's usual style. But the intensity is well-carried throughout the film. Gladly the plot is not other-worldly with wierd creatures and names. It was also nice to see the UTV showreel at the beginning of a Hollywood film. In terms of the India-centric power shift when it comes to entertainment and production - its happening!
U Me Aur Hum: Bollywood interpretation of the runaway success tearjerker, The Notebook. The Alzheimer's premise is a gripping one, and captured very effectively in The Notebook, which probably was the sole reason that led to its blockbuster-ish DVD rentals. The whole concept of portraying a love story, and its passion, and then having one partner start to forget it all, with little spurts of memory, is universally strong on sentiment. For the Bollywood-ization of it, UMH was not bad at all, actually. A little too soppy and over-the-top at times, but that's the traditional Bollywood compromise. Some Ajay-Kajol scenes were handled with absolute finesse, though. The highlight of this film for me, was the Saiyyan sequence - with Kajol looking absolutely goddess-like.
I Am Legend: I still wonder why I missed watching this movie in the first place? One of the most spectacular edge-of-the-end-of-the-world movies ever made. I would put this way above Cloverfield in terms of its content, and with 99% of those points attributed to Will "The Legend" Smith. With half the film's length featuring him alone on screen, he is probably one of the only actors in today's time who could've carried off this performance.
Rock On: A well-done, feel-good flick. Farhan Akhtar is a much better actor than he is a singer, and a much better director than he is an actor. Part of Bollywood Renaissance of movies that portray life in metro-India as it truly is (instead of going all village-ish, or metro-critical). Farhan began this effectively with DCH, lost his Lakshya towards the middle, and is back in the saddle with Rock On!
No Country for Old Men: Watched it again! Javier Bardem is prolific!
What Happens in Vegas: *Sigh* Shouldn't have bothered.
Chaos Theory: What was I thinking?
Jesus wants YOU ... to lose weight
Detailed review here, but I really like the layout and rendition of the Sunidhi Chauhan track, Bandagi. The title track is interesting as well, especially the way the punch word "Drona" is used. Check it out.
Comment on Marketwatch
Horsesense says
Not to worry. This just in:
-"The fundamentals of the economy are strong." -John McCain
All problems solved. Rejoice!
Paper Profiling?
Until fairly recently, I thought the lyrics of the song went, "Gora Kaagaz tha yeh mann mera....". And I wondered, what the writer had against colored paper?
In other news, the words TGIF had no better raison d'etre than September the 19th. What a week it has been! A non-smoking analyst on Wall Street went outside his office to accompany his smoking buddies during a downtrend in the markets. He ended up taking a drag or two, and returned to see the markets recover. He has hence started to smoke, as he believes that he is the sole cause of the same. Its funny how one economy's upswing is another man's cancer. Interesting and historic times that we live in, folks!
For dem gadget freaks
Google Phone In Sight
BURLINGAME, CALIF. -
The fabled "Google phone" officially launches in October, but it has already hit Silicon Valley.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) has handed a few hundred phones to its internal teams of engineers for real world testing. These reference models, presumably preproduction versions of the HTC Dream, are inconspicuous. Thicker than an iPhone, the flat, grayish-black hunk of plastic does not call attention to itself. It takes a savvy pedestrian to spot its identifying marks: a bank of serial numbers engraved across its face and backplate and a discrete white "with Google" badge stamped on the back.
But they are out there.
For nearly a year, Googlers have toiled away in Mountain View, Calif., on Android, the new mobile platform that many developers had hoped would have as great an impact on the mobile world as Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s iPhone. Glu Mobile (nasdaq: GLUU - news - people ) chief Greg Ballard prophesied last June that Google's system would be easier to develop applications for than those powering traditional handsets and would allow developers to take advantage of data such as contact lists and Global Positioning System information stored on the phone.
Now, enthusiasm is cooling. One member of the development community says the prospect of a Google phone was exciting. But Android has come to resemble many other software platforms--and consumers are less likely to stand in lines for software than for hardware. (See "A Geeky Remedy For Recession Blues.")
On Tuesday Google announced that the first Android-equipped phone, a 3G- and WiFi-capable HTC handset, would ship in October with T-Mobile in the United States. Although neither T-Mobile nor Google have confirmed the price, analysts have widely speculated that the phone will cost about $199.
According to the development community, a bank of tools and games will be packed with the operating system. Additional free applications will be available for download at launch. Paid applications, however, which typically are more elaborate programs, are not expected to be available until early next year.
Forbes.com spotted a phone on the streets of San Francisco. It resembles alleged HTC Dream footage leaked in a blurry video on YouTube in August. A large touch screen eats up most of the phone's available real estate. However, unlike Apple's device, it boasts a palette of physical buttons (both for selection and call initiation) and a small trackball for zipping across its multipaged menus. The screen slides up to reveal a shallow keyboard. Think of it as an anorexic T-Mobile Sidekick.
Tapping out search phrases on the keyboard is not difficult, but it is awkward. Unlike similar devices with hide-away keyboards, only the screen of the Google phone slides upwards. This creates an obstruction between your right-hand thumb and the keyboard.
The model we tried out had few onboard applications. The main screen, which switched between portrait and landscape modes depending on the phone's orientation, offered native Google applications including Mail and Docs. The next screen was dedicated to a Google search bar. It was unclear whether users could create additional pages or customize existing ones. However, a small tab running along the bottom (or right-hand side) of each page opened up a compact menu screen for accessing additional programs and settings.
Snap judgment: Android is a zippy operating system but is tripped up by the user interface. The convergence of physical buttons and touch screen makes first interactions slightly confounding. For instance, you have to use the touch screen (by tugging it upward with your finger) to open the menu system--even though the trackball can zip between the two pages. And, while you dial phone numbers directly on the touch screen, you have to press the physical call button to connect.
It is unknown how old these Googler-toted phones are. Presumably, the Google phone has undergone both hardware and software revisions since they were deployed. But, as with all Google products, Android will undoubtedly be released in beta version.
As Dickens put it best...
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
And as I always say ...
Cruising Dubai is always fun, when you have the right equipment.
Muhahaha!! Tashan mein....
@ Asha's
Dinner at Asha Bhosle's new boutique Indian-fusion restaurant at the Pyramids. Delectable food and a spectacular ambience! Some of the best desi food in Dubai. Highly recommended.
All the wine lists had the title, "A Brimful of Asha" - really nice touch!
The decor was awesome - completely done up in reds and oranges, with black and white pictures of Asha through the years.
Burj Dubai: Eye-Witness Update
Its huge, man! Screaming out into the sky like something unreal and alienistic.
This is a view of the Burj from the newly developed "Old Town" Dubai, part of Downtown Dubai.
Here it is, in all its glory.
And in case you want to compare it to other major skyscrapers in the area. Isn't this ridiculous???
"Trunk" Collection
Plenty of R&R, and loving it. Dubai has changed by orders of magnitude. More skyscrapers. More cranes. An "EZPass"-like Saliq system. The Dubai Metro gaining definition and shape.
Meanwhile on the home front, Mom has acquired a spectacular Ganesha collection. Check it out!
Refrain from blogging between outbreaks
At the airport, Gearing up to head to the homeland. Will be blogging from Dubai till mid-September, and will keep you all updated (verbally and pictorially) on the latest superlatives that the nation has progressed to (be it the biggest, tallest, and bestest). While posts may not be as regular, promise that they will be fun! :-)
In other news, the Obamas are starting to look like First Family material, especially watching their appearance after his DNC nomination acceptance speech. The political environment is so much more scripted and directed now, and one couldn't fathom the comparisons to JFK's acceptance. JFK was hardly as caustic as Obama, especially in his references to the opposition (Bear in mind, that he had the opportunity to rant on Eisenhower, whose policies were considerably detested). Also, still not sure if Biden was the rightful pick, or the "only" pick.
Silence never sounded so good
Hotel Costes 7! Now that's what I'm talking about. I adore what they have done with this Simon and Garfunkel classic. Especially when the percussion kicks in. This kind of music really defines world lounge. Love it!
This looks positively delicious!
What a bevy of talent! :-) Yummm.
Argh!
Sorry for the radio silence. Much going on, in all respects, and gearing up to go back home in a week. Shall update soon.
Meanwhile - 3 medals for India!
Tashan is King
Try this on for size....
Tashan is King - DJ Vishal
Messin' Witcha!
Been jiggling around on Virtual DJ, all evening. Lovin' it! Prepare for more viciously delightful mixes (at least its music to "my" ears). Major novice, here - all I've got is the ear for it. Right now, I'm on Looping and Syncing 101. You've got to admit - this is a pretty dope transition.
Also, worked on this mellowed experimental blend of Bachna Ae Haseeno, with a percussion loop from Dheere Dheere (OST-Shaurya).
Butterflyz by Alicia Keys
One of the most touching and sensual songs that Keys has ever written. Also check this awesome drum 'n' bass remix of Butterflyz:
"Denim like the Jean"
A heartfelt and sad farewell to Bernie Mac - who passed away this weekend after a bout of pneumonia that turned critically serious. He was 50. He had a unique brand of humor which could be associated only with him. It grew on you after you started to understand his body language, and expressiveness. His scenes in Ocean 11 (the Aloe Vera scene where he starts to appreciate the car dealer's hands, the "cracker" scene with Matt Damon/Andy Garcia) as well as his performance in Guess Who, are two of my all-time favorites.
Bernie - we're sure you're making them all smile, ear-to-ear, up there. You will be missed.
Urban Tadkaa...
...or is it "Urban Spice". The new Iselin, NJ restaurant seems to have both signs up. Now, I'm not one to venture out onto Oak Tree Road, unless I have hurricane-strength desi food cravings, and Tamarind and Dawat are both either closed or absolutely inaccessible. But this new joint caught me by surprise. Good, spicy Indian food, nice decor with a very warm feel to it. Highly recommended!
Not just annoying; Also, racist!
Did I not call it? Clearly I wasn't the only one who had issues with that annoying "more flags more fun" dope.
Did Six Flags really think that this was going to work, as a campaign? What note did the brainstorming session end on? Aight, this idea sucks, that idea sucks. Lets just settle on a screaming Asian head counting off flags as an indication of funn.
Schmucks.
Forgetting Winnie Cooper
Apparently, Danica McKellar's grown up. The pre-teen hottie from Wonder Years (did she ever get high with Fred Savage?) is now an author. She was recently at Columbus Circle, publicizing her new book, Kiss My Math: Showing Pre-Algebra Who's Boss. Ahem, a little preachy, no? Ok. Talk about things I didn't see coming, 15 years ago.
In other news, my anthem for the last two weeks - at least after the wildest Pachita shower lounge bash ever. This is Calabria by Enur (featuring Natasha). Horn and brass hooks are here to stay, eh? (a la Kismat Konnection?). Also, catch this track on the latest Target "dorm dance off" commercial.
In case you're think its Esperanto or something, its "Whoop Whoop when you run come around, cuz I know you're the talk of the town, yea"
I heart Sugandha Garg
There are so many people in my life that her character in JTYJN ("Shaleen") reminds me of. Especially owed to her natural acting, and the way she just slipped into that role, so adorably!!!!
Doc's back
If you want a remix that is capable of reviving and making a track that missed the boat, happening again, caught this gem at a house party over the weekend. Its from Dr. Zeus' Welcome 2 Da Club - a Bollywood remix album that's crept up and raised some eyebrows of interest.
Totally love the percussion (its very Shamur).
Experiments with Natural Dark Photography
Tried a couple of sample shots around the apartment.
Its moments like these....
.. that make you truly happy from within. A simple "coming together" of two singing styles. A separate language, almost. Especially Hariharan's "samaa jaaye" at the very end - magical. Is there anything more beautiful and ecstatic than musical fusion?
On repeat on my playlist for many weeks...
Aiso gaye pardes piyaa tum
Chain humein nahin aaye...
"Can't take the Ranjhore out of the Rathod"
Quite like the third little bear's stuff from Goldilocks, JTYJN was just right. Imran and Genelia have a natural flair for acting realistically. There are no "heros" in this film - just real people. Its not pretentious, not groundbreaking. Just pure good ol' simple Bombay fun. Just what the doctor ordered. Love the way the various relationships are portrayed, especially Jai and Aditi. As well as the various interplays between the friends, and between the kids and their parents (especially Jai and his mom).
The Meghna chick could've been replaced by someone better and a little less Maharashtian. She was as disjoint as Sonali Kulkarni in Dil Chahta Hai, and she was a major disappointment of the Rajat Kapoor/Kitu Gidwani sequence, which was awesome.
Talking of them, the cameos were lethal, and what made the movie really special. Naseeruddin and Arbaaz/Sohail were hilariously over-the-top. The music was perfect. Majorly disappointed that "jaane tu mera kya hai" never made it up on screen, and I really feel I'm the only one batting for this song. What to do, I love it so much.
And that brings me to who blew me away, leading me to rewatch his sequences, many a time over. Pratiek Babbar (Smita Patil's son). In a less than 10 minute performance, this kid packed in a role of a lifetime - one of the most powerfully-etched characters of the film, and displayed immense potential. In his short role as Amit (Aditi's son), Pratiek plays the artistic rebel brother whom the parents cannot reform - a behavioral deviant with a pet rat and a constant foul mood/mouth.
What Pratiek managed to do, was something that actors like Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan and Akshaye Khanna have never done - "displayed the OPTIMUM amount of intensity". While they are all immense intense actors in their own right, they conform to the Bollywood definition of "intense" which was written back in the 70s, and a little outdated - the serious eyes, the frown, the nonchalance, the voice. What Pratiek brings to the table is all of that coupled with the "natural" intensity that he displays. And of course, his mother's striking features screaming out of him. They way he sailed through this role, bringing it into his own, makes this one actor who could (if given the right opportunities) single-handedly change the way on-screen portrayals are done in Bollywood.
Tum Kahaan? Main Yahaan!
Folks! Sorry about being off the blog scene, but there has been so much going on on all fronts, that I've been completely out-of-whack. I know that the point of a blog, is to get the ability to channel it all out, but sometimes, while you may have all the reason, there just isn't enough ability. But yes I'm back now. And I promise to stay, until the next market crisis.
In other news, Bally Sagoo/NFAK's "Kinna Sohna" blends mysteriously well with the opening theme from Night Court. Seriously, try singing over! :-)
Sometimes..
even the most perfect of occasions, the most perfect of people, or the most perfect of relationships, hardly ever have a name or a timeframe. Or even a suitable title or definition. Or any degree of perfection. Or a definitive set of emotions associated with it.
Sometimes .. even the most perfect of things .. are quite simply understated and unsaid. And they just might not last all that long. And while one would crave to have the feeling last forever, one could find solace in respecting the fact that maybe those few instants of time .. were all that were meant to be experienced.
Sometimes ... there are no right decisions or correct answers.
And that's just how it is.
Hindi Acoustic Rock, done right
There have been rock bands. There have been legendary Pakistani rock bands - that's one sect that has really got this genre down.
Then, there have been Indian rock bands - or a significant lacuna thereof (for the record, Euphoria and Indian Ocean aren't rock bands). For a nation with a college culture that swears by Sabbath and Sepultura, it still hasn't produced a decent rock band of repute.
This acoustic track from Rock On! is quite a solid attempt though. Enjoy!
Wah, Javed Saab
Aankhen unko kahoon ya koi khwaab hain.
Aankhen neechi hui to haya ban gayi
Aankhen oonchi hui to duaa ban gayi
Aankhen utth kar jhuki to adaa ban gayi
Aankhen jhukh kar uththi, to khata ban gayi.
- Afreen Afreen (Sangam, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Javed Akhtar)
The Way I "Are"? It's The Way I "Am", dude!
Dubai detains 79 for indecent behavior on beaches - Yahoo! News
Could this be a case of breeding the wolf till it comes back to bite you? To quote a befuddled tourist at the end of it, "I understand that I have to respect the rules of the country," said John MacLean, a British tourist on holiday with his girlfriend. But, he added, "I am not sure if I can kiss her or touch her in public."
Wikipedia has "Dum Maro Dum" listed with its translation as, "Take Another Toke".
Way to assassinate the so-far sublime promotion of 1970s religious drug use, Wiki.
Twisted Moralities
Such is the theme of "In Bruges" - a film that is Tarantino meets Mathew Vaughn on acid. Not since Layer Cake has a film engendered such a riveting sarc-comedy about the world of hit-men. The humor is dark, and the script is almost comic book-ish in its twisted madness (there's a coke-fiend dwarf moviestar, and this is not science fiction), centered around three stellar performances - Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, to the backdrop of Bruges, a quaint Belgian village.
Bruges becomes synonymous to purgatory as you get into the meat of the movie, and realize that there is penitence that each character carries. And quite like life, even though the end may seem warped to many, without any form of justification, its time to accept that, even in the non-contract-killing world, that's pretty much how things are.
Montages...
... make it all look so easy and quick.
I tried to clean up a room, supported by "Eye of the Tiger". It takes FOREVER, no matter how many camera angles you try to simulate. Also, tried studying in various positions with quick changes of serious expressions, around the room, while "The Final Countdown" played in the background. Music's over, and I'm still as clueless as before. Movies fake it up for you!
In other news, maybe I need to stop using cheesy '70s anthems in my montages.
Maroon 5. Haven't heard anything powerful from them in a while. And then this little gem comes along. Spotted it in the new 90210 commercial (why does the new team look so 'orange'?)
Its so Red Hot Chili Peppers in its arrangement. The opening notes sound so much like Californication and it even has shades of Other Side.
Hottie-Alert!
Move over, Elisha Cuthbert, the mid-year revision of "flavor of the year" is April Bowlby. First spotted as Alan's neurotic ex-wife on Two and a Half Men. Something extremely sensual about that subdued, mature look that she has.
In other news, I was only kidding, Elisha. You can stay too.
Most Non-Photogenic Prez
I could come up with a bevy of snappy captions for each picture in this G8 summit slideshow - with Bush looking goofier than holy hell. I just have no patience or inclination for Bush-bashing, anymore.
Alright fine .. just one.
"I'm so environmental y'all .. even my thought bubble is eco-friendly".
"Check it out check it out. Condy taught me how to moonwalk"
"C'maaaaaaaaaan ........ C'maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"
"Boo-yah!"
"Must ... stay ... away ... from ... grass! ... Got ... into ... enough ... trouble ... cuz of .... grass"
"Something in your eye, commie"
"Something in your hair, Angie"
"I just spent all afternoon picking stuff off world leaders. I have freaking arrived"
"Don't make fun of Meddy's blue suit. Don't make fun of the blue suit. Learn to live with the blue suit ... don't kick off another Cold War, Dubya ... Just 6 more months and you're out of the House ... Don't screw up. Yes its blue .. I know ... "
"Oh .. say ... can you seeeeee"
"Hey... you're short"
"Short, stocky, bald Algerian men give me goosebumps"
"Walk like an Egyptian.... with trailer park tootsie in tow"
"Solutions to the world's economic crisis? Dang, I came for the free sashimi, y'all"
www.vishaloberoi.com
Don't believe in mincing those words, do you, SRK?...
Dallas for the dayDrove out to Dallas for the day....
India celebrates planting its flag on moon - Yahoo...
George Parr: Making sense of it all The Last Laug...
Who the heck is Joe? Joe Six-Pack? Joe The Plumbe...
Eye-Rack In the well-globalized world that we liv...
A WednesdayA well-paced and well-timed thriller. I...
As Dickens put it best... It was the best of time...
Argh!Sorry for the radio silence. Much going on, i...
Dubai detains 79 for indecent behavior on beaches ...
E-Volver
My boyz - Penn Masala
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Russian alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout did not trade weapons - judge
10:41 08/09/2011 In a blow to the prosecution of Russian alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout, a U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin disagreed on Wednesday with the prosecutions assertion that Viktor Bout traded arms, insisting instead that he merely transported them.
Exec's suit against government for unjust kidnapping prosecution to be heard
15:39 07/09/2011 Former Euroset Deputy Vice President Andrey Yermilov, who was arrested and prosecuted for kidnapping before being eventually acquitted, is set to have his unjust prosecution suit against the government heard on September 21.
Court confirms Far Eastern bank's bankruptcy
15:14 07/09/2011 A commercial court of appeals in Khabarovsk in the Far East has confirmed the validity of a lower-court's decision to deem Vostokkreditbank bankrupt.
Mineral water producer lawsuit against Health Ministry ruled down
15:13 07/09/2011 The Ninth Commercial Court of Appeals has upheld the Health Ministry's decree, which refused to recognize that the Yessentuki mineral water is produced in the town of Yessentuki.
Court to hear world's leading can manufacturer's suit against watchdog
14:49 07/09/2011 The Supreme Commercial Court is set to hear on November 8 the appeal filed by Rexam Beverage Can Naro-Fominsk and Rexam Beverage Can Vsevolozhsk against the lower court adverse judgment in its claim against the Federal Antimonopoly Service.
Tymoshenko finds no proof of own guilt in prosecution's materials
14:47 07/09/2011 Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has stated that the prosecutor's office has yet to provide any proof that she committed a crime.
Tymoshenko challenges authenticity of key prosecution evidence
14:43 07/09/2011 Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has challenged in court the authenticity of key prosecution evidence.
Dissenting politician fined for illegal ad campaign
14:28 07/09/2011 The Moscow Magistrates Court has fined opposition leader Boris Nemtsov 1,000 rubles (approx $33) for spreading illegal propaganda in the run-up to local elections in St. Petersburg.
Bank of Moscow lawsuit for $30 mln from winery soon to be heard
13:23 07/09/2011 The Moscow Commercial Court has postponed until October 5 its hearings in the Bank of Moscow's lawsuit against Milstream Black Sea Wines for 822.955 million rubles ($29.4 million) in debt.
Defense Ministry's lawsuit against air carrier will not be reviewed
13:21 07/09/2011 The Supreme Commercial Court has held against the Defense Ministrys request to review a lower-courts dismissal of its lawsuit against the Polyot air carrier
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France Technology Emmanuel Macron
Macron warns against 5G tech wars as Vivatech summit opens in Paris
The VivaTech startup summit opens at the Porte de Versailles, 16 May 2019. Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg via Getty Images
French President Emmanuel Macron has kicked off the three-day VivaTech startup summit in Paris with a call for cooperation and multilateralism in the tech sector. His comments come after US President Donald Trump declared an IT emergency amid Washington's 5G standoff with China.
In his opening remarks, Macron told the summit in English: "France and Europe are pragmatic and realistic. We want to develop employment, business, innovation. We believe in cooperation and multilateralism".
He warned however, in reference to the battle over 5G between the US and China, that "when it comes to 5G, we are being very careful over the access to the technologies in this network in order to preserve our national security".
He said it was "not appropriate to start a war over technology or commerce, regardless of the country."
In reaction to a question about the US decision to blacklist the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Macron said "it is not the best way" to defend national security, nor a good way to lower tensions."
Flying cars in Paris?
On the list of highly anticipated innovations at VivaTech is flying car prototypes, which have become a regular attraction at the annual expo, created in 2016.
On Wednesday, European aerospace giant Airbus and Paris underground operator RATP announced will study the viability of adding flying vehicles to the city's urban transport network.
The firms will "explore the feasibility of urban air mobility services" in the French capital and the broader Ile de France region, they said in a statement.
"This is not science-fiction any more, it is fact," said Airbus chief executive Guillaume Faury. "Today we have all the technical tools. But they have to be integrated into everyday life without jeopardising our priority, which is safety.
"RATP is a good partner in such a project because of its knowledge of the associated needs and services."
There are at least 20 flying car projects underway, and the Uber ride-sharing company is looking into "flying taxis".
There have been several attempts around the world to develop flying cars, such as the Transition made by US firm Terrafugia and the AeroMobil, produced in Slovakia. Both have taken years and a lot of money to develop, and are yet to go on sale.
Women in the spotlight
Also present at the fair will be French companies La Poste, rail firm SNCF, Accor, Citroën, Orange, luxury group LVMH and L’Oréal.
The French regions have a series of stands to promote themselves as innovation hubs while "Pitch Zones" are set up for youngsters to sell their ideas to potential investors.
This year there will be a display area called the "Better Life Avenue", full of what organisers describe as "positive innovation" and green tech projects.
There will also be a particular focus on women, with the announcement of the winner of the EU Prize for Women Innovators award.
Among the prestigious guest speakers are NASA’s Holly Ridings, set to talk about the return to the Moon and Arizona State University’s Tanya Harrison who will discuss the exploration of Mars.
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Enter the Matrix is your best bet for a Matrix video game. Play on Play Station, XBOX or on your PC. Try to stop the agents from taking over the world as you play a rebels looking to knock out the bad guys. Based on the popular 1999 movie, The Matrix, this game is enjoyment for all Sci-Fi games. Additional online games brought to you by Lagged.com. Enjoy games like Car Games, Gun Games and Soccer Games. You can play all of these games on any device and you do not need to download anything. After playing those games make sure to purchase Enter the Matrix video game from Amazon, WalMart or Target. Play more games at Achievement Games.
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Photo by Krijn van Noordwijk
Ernst Reijseger (cellist, composer)
Born in Naarden (NL) in 1954, Reijseger started playing cello at the age of seven. At the Conservatory of Amsterdam his teacher Anner Bijlsma encouraged him to follow his own path in order to develop his musical vocabulary.
This resulted in a life time of out-of-the-box and genre-bending collaborations and that enabled Reijseger to grow into a unique musical force.
Recently Reijseger composed for baroque orchestra Forma Antiqua (Volcano Symphony), the Dutch Wind Ensemble and Ensemble Modern.
Scoring films for directors Werner Herzog (o.a. The White Diamond, Cave of Forgotten Dreams) and Alex and Andrew Smith (Walking Out) created a new platform for Reijseger’s music.
Together with the audio loving label Winter&Winter,
Ernst Reijseger released over two dozen albums, including film soundtracks.
All About Jazz on “Requiem for a Dying Planet”: It’s hypnotic in its beauty and stunning in its scope. It stimulates consideration and transcends the art of music into another realm.”
Throughout the years Reijseger gave outstanding solo performances.
His solo albums Colla Parte (1997), Tell Me Everything (2008) and Crystal Palace (2014) were highly acclaimed by the international press.
All Music Guide:”…His playing makes use of various capabilities of the cello. Reijseger never does the same thing twice, and in fact the pieces resemble each other very little, which is quite an accomplishment for a disc of solo cello music.”
Reijseger’s live performances challenge expectations and are build on daring and essential communication. Trio Reijseger Fraanje Sylla moves audiences to tears, showing that music bypasses labels and only requires a sincere connection of spirit.
Reijseger collaborated with musicians from improvised and jazz music (Uri Caine, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelbergs Instant Composers Pool, Louis Sclavis, Harmen Fraanje), classical and baroque music (Yo Yo Ma, Giovanni Sollima, Erik Bosgraaf) and traditional music (Trilok Gurtu, Tenore e Concordu de Orosei, Groove Lélé, Nana Vasconcelos, Mola Sylla).
His ability to interact with various art forms make him a sought after creative partner of poets (Ramsey Nasr), dancers (Bollwerk), actors (Oscar Isaac, Teo Joling), painters (Jerry Zeniuk, Simon Kramer, Robert Zandvliet), sculptors (Gertie Bierenbroodspot), photographers (Joost Guntenaar, Krijn van Noordwijk) and film makers (Werner Herzog, Alex and Andrew Smith).
Reijseger’s music is part of two art installations: Stephan Winter’s ‘Von der Stille’ (Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle in Munich) and Werner Herzog’s ‘Hearsay of the Soul’ (J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City).
So far five documentaries were made about and around Ernst Reijseger, by Cherry Duyns, Jacques Goldstein, Thomas Doebele & Maarten Schmidt, Werner Herzog and Miles O’Reilly.
1985 Boy Edgar Prize
1995 Bird Award
2010 Edison Award for solo album Tell Me Everything
2010 Trophée des Arts Afro-Caribéen for album Zembrocal Musical with Groove LéLé
2010 Golden Calf for film score C’est déjà l’été by Martijn Maria Smits
Werner Herzog on Ernst Reijseger
“He is a magnificent cellist, and he can do anything, anything on his cello. He could play the civil war, the American Civil war on his cello.”
Jeff Tamarkin on Ernst Reijseger (April 2010, Carnegie Hall)
“Ernst Reijseger has studied the cello rulebook, absorbed it thoroughly, and thrown it out the window. Never restricted by others’ concepts of genre or application, the Dutch master has consistently recast the instrument as his own. Working within virtually any format he fancies, Reijseger has always challenged himself to reach out toward the unanticipated, to move the music around corners in order to reveal unforeseen vistas. His technique is superb, his improvisational skills masterful, and his compositional virtuosity unquestionable, but Reijseger’s music also projects warmth, depth, and splendor—even at its most extreme. Whether pushing the limits of jazz, world music, or modern classical—working solo or with an ensemble—Reijseger never settles for the obvious. With each piece he writes, and in each project he undertakes, Reijseger sets out to explore the myriad tones, colors, and moods available to him, envelops them, then steps around them to investigate possible alternatives. His music is not always easy, but it’s always satisfying. About the only thing one can expect from Ernst Reijseger is the unexpected.” (Jeff Tamarkin is a music journalist)
Reijseger plays on a 5-string cello build by Jaap Bolink & Annelies Steinhauer. This cello was made available to him by the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds. He also plays an electric 5-string cello of NS design by Ned Steinberger. Reijseger uses Thomastik Infeld strings and a Realist pickup.
www.ernstreijseger.com
cd’s released by Winter & Winter
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True Stories - What did you think?
Wed, 04/02/2014 - 18:25 -- Anonymous (not verified)
Today, the fourth and final issue of EVE: True Stories is out. Thus concludes the epic saga of the downfall of Band of Brothers as told by Daniel Way, based on the not-so-objective account written by the Mittani.
This is a moment for reflection. It’s the first time that we at CCP have taken a player account from EVE Online® (upvoted by you) and had it adapted for traditional media.
A short history of True Stories
In April 2013, we asked EVE players to submit stories to the True Stories website. With a limit of 5.000 characters per story, you could tag characters, corporations, celestial locations, corporations and alliances.
The site was open for submissions for a month until 06 May, the tenth anniversary of EVE Online. Initially you could only comment on stories, not vote. Over 767 stories were submitted.
Once the submission period was over, voting began and continued for 14 days. During voting, you could see how stories were faring. Twelve thousand votes were “up” and 3,800 were “down”. For each story, only one vote per user account was allowed.
When voting was done, one story reigned at the top with 2,283 upvotes, the second coming in with 1,524 votes and the third with 892 upvotes.
At that point 109,000 unique people (unique IPs actually) had visited the website, and 9,900 logged in and either submitted a story, commented or voted.
Choosing between great stories is a great challenge
We took the topmost stories and presented them to the writer of True Stories, Daniel Way. After much deliberation of the finalists, including the Guiding Hand Social Club and the Disbanding of Band of Brothers, the BoB story was chosen. The other top stories were discussed as well, each great in their own way. CCP then provided some editorial assistance, but in general tried not to influence his portrayal of the story so that the line from player to writer and back to player would remain as unbroken as possible.
The comic book is born!
A-64 page comic book was born, split up into four 16 page chapters. Each chapter illustrated by a separate artist and cover artist.
The first installment was then published on 19 February 2014, with subsequent issues appearing every two weeks.
All are available for free as downloads from Dark Horse Digital. They will remain free to download until 6 June 2014, when a hardcover version will be published, collecting all four chapters into one book. Individual chapters will then no longer be available for download, but the collection will be available for purchase as an e-book.
Advance hardcover copies available at Fanfest!
Our friends in the Guristas were kind enough to intercept convoys of freighters sailing from remote manufacturing facilities. Thus we were able to secure a few advance copies of the hardcover edition of True Stories. Those will be available to purchase at EVE Fanfest, in Reykjavik this May 1-3rd. Get yours, signed by art director Borkur Eiriksson and editor David Marshall from Dark Horse. Another great reason to go to fanfest.
What next? How can we improve?
Now, we are here, roughly a year later.
First, on behalf of CCP, I want to thank everyone that took part in the first round of True Stories, everyone that submitted entries, voted, commented or just idly clicked through the stories.
Second, I want to ask for your input. We have a few questions for you. Of course, you don't have to answer all of them, but we would really love to get your feedback on some:
How did we do? What was done well and what could have been done better?
If we do this again, how should we do the voting and submission process differently?
Did you read the comic book? What did you think about this approach? Would you like to see another story done like this, or should it be done differently?
What other methods can we use to collect and tell your amazing stories?
Please put your feedback in this thread.
Thank you for reading and participating!
Torfi Frans Olafsson
Creative Director – EVE Universe IP development
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OIE: Low pathogenic avian influenza (poultry), Denmark
Information received on 15/03/2019 from Dr Per Starcke Henriksen, Chief Veterinary Officer, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, Glostrup, Denmark
Report type Immediate notification
Reason for notification New strain of a listed disease in the country
Causal agent Low pathogenic avian influenza virus
Serotype H7
Nature of diagnosis Laboratory (advanced)
Outbreak 1 Brenderup, Middelfart, East
Birds 3300 0 3300 0
Affected population Low pathogenic avian influenza H7 was detected 14 March 2019 in a holding with mallards in the village Brenderup in the municipality of Middelfart. The population of the holding consisted of 3300 mallards. The farm breeds mallards for restocking supplies of game. There had not been clinical signs of disease among the animals. Mallards were tested in accordance with the Danish surveillance programme for avian influenza in poultry and game birds. All the susceptible animals at the infected holding were killed and destroyed on 15 March 2019.
Birds 3300 ** 0 3300 0
Birds ** 0.00% ** 100.00%
**Not calculated because of missing information
Epidemiological comments The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has established a restricted zone of 1 km around the holding and are implementing the necessary measures in accordance with Council Directive 2005/94/EC.
Statens Serum Institut (National laboratory) Birds polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 14/03/2019 Positive
Statens Serum Institut (National laboratory) Birds virus sequencing 14/03/2019 Positive
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Current Search: Research Repository (x) » Special Collections, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Fla. (x) » Department of Physics (x)
Biophysical Studies of Protein Folding and Binding Stability.
Batra, Jyotica, Zhou, Huan-Xiang, Blaber, Michael, Xiong, Peng, Rikvold, Per Arne, Dobrosavljevic, Vladimir, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Interactions between charged residues are known to have significant effects on protein folding stability and binding properties. The contributions of different types of non-covalent interactions are altered by mutating one or more residues, resulting in change in the protein stability to considerable extent. The main goal of this dissertation is to understand contributions, specifically from electrostatic interactions, to the protein folding stability and also, to devise strategies in order...
Show moreInteractions between charged residues are known to have significant effects on protein folding stability and binding properties. The contributions of different types of non-covalent interactions are altered by mutating one or more residues, resulting in change in the protein stability to considerable extent. The main goal of this dissertation is to understand contributions, specifically from electrostatic interactions, to the protein folding stability and also, to devise strategies in order to enhance protein stability. We have introduced single and double mutations in FKBP12 (FK506 binding protein) modeled after its close homolog FKBP12.6, and later accumulated the most stabilizing mutations in order to create a hyper stable mutant. Similar experimental study was carried out, where insertion, deletion and systematic introduction of ion-pair clusters in FKBP12 were modeled after the thermophilic homolog MtFKBP17 and the results suggest that charge residues can modulate the folding stability significantly. This experimental study has allowed rigorous testing of computational models developed by our group for predicting electrostatic contributions to protein folding stability, which does not match closely and need further refinement. To further broaden our research in understanding biophysical properties of proteins in living cells, we have investigated the effects of macromolecular crowding on the folding stability of one of the less stable mutant of FKBP. We show that there is an optimal size of crowder at which stability increase is maximum and also, the stabilization effect of mixture (different crowders) is greater than the sum of constituent crowding agents. These findings may have profound implications for understanding crowding effects inside cells. The main aim of my dissertation is to understand protein folding and stability, which are the fundamental problems in biophysics. Experiments are underway to understand effects of crowding on protein binding and their quantitative information will provide key insights to the biological relevance of experimental results obtained in vitro. Overall my research aims for understanding fundamental study on protein folding stability and binding which will serve as a valuable tool for designing therapies for human diseases.
Charge density waves and superconductivity in alpha-uranium.
VanGennep, Derrick, Department of Physics
We have measured the electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance of several α-uranium single crystals under pressure. The residual resistivity ratios (RRRs) of these samples ranged from 158 to 265 and the pressure dependence is discussed. Superconductivity was observed at temperatures varying from approximately 20 mK at ambient pressure to 3 K at 16 kBar and critical fields were observed up to 0.5 T at 16 kBar. Sharp features were seen at each of the three charge density wave (CDW)...
Show moreWe have measured the electrical resistivity and magnetoresistance of several α-uranium single crystals under pressure. The residual resistivity ratios (RRRs) of these samples ranged from 158 to 265 and the pressure dependence is discussed. Superconductivity was observed at temperatures varying from approximately 20 mK at ambient pressure to 3 K at 16 kBar and critical fields were observed up to 0.5 T at 16 kBar. Sharp features were seen at each of the three charge density wave (CDW) transitions starting near 40 K. The magnetic field and pressure dependences of the CDWs as well as superconductivity are presented and discussed.
Clustering in Light Nuclei with Configuration Interaction Approaches.
Kravvaris, Konstantinos, Volya, Alexander, Kopriva, David A., Weidenhoever, Ingo Ludwing M., Capstick, Simon, Reina, Laura, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreKravvaris, Konstantinos, Volya, Alexander, Kopriva, David A., Weidenhoever, Ingo Ludwing M., Capstick, Simon, Reina, Laura, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
The formation of sub-structures within an atomic nucleus, appropriately termed nuclear clustering, is one of the core questions of nuclear many-body physics. In this thesis, we put forward a new method for the study of nuclear clustering relying on the completely microscopic Configuration Interaction approach. We construct reaction cluster channels in a Harmonic Oscillator many-body basis that respect the symmetries of the Hamiltonian, are fully antisymmetrized, and carry a separable and...
Show moreThe formation of sub-structures within an atomic nucleus, appropriately termed nuclear clustering, is one of the core questions of nuclear many-body physics. In this thesis, we put forward a new method for the study of nuclear clustering relying on the completely microscopic Configuration Interaction approach. We construct reaction cluster channels in a Harmonic Oscillator many-body basis that respect the symmetries of the Hamiltonian, are fully antisymmetrized, and carry a separable and controlled Center of Mass component. Such channels are then used to explore cluster signatures in Configuration Interaction many-body wavefunctions. The Resonating Group Method is then applied, utilizing the reaction channels as a basis to capture the essential cluster characteristics of the system. We investigate the emergence of nuclear clustering in 2α, 2α+n, 2α+2n and 3α systems using a No Core Shell Model approach from first principles, and traditional Shell Model studies of clustering in heavier nuclei.
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DC Transport in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems under Strong Microwave Illumination.
Chakraborty, Shantanu, Engel, Lloyd W., Chiorescu, Irinel, Dalal, Naresh S., Cao, Jianming, Bonesteel, N. E., Volya, Alexander, Florida State University, College of Art and...
Show moreChakraborty, Shantanu, Engel, Lloyd W., Chiorescu, Irinel, Dalal, Naresh S., Cao, Jianming, Bonesteel, N. E., Volya, Alexander, Florida State University, College of Art and Sciences, Department of Physics
At low temperature (T) and weak magnetic field (B), two dimensional electron systems (2DES) can exhibit strong 1/B-periodic resistance oscillations on application of sufficiently strong microwave radiation. These oscillations are known as microwave induced resistance oscillations (MIROs), MIROs appearing near cyclotron resonance (CR) and its harmonics involve single photon processes and are called integer MIROs while the oscillations near CR subharmonics require multiphoton processes and are...
Show moreAt low temperature (T) and weak magnetic field (B), two dimensional electron systems (2DES) can exhibit strong 1/B-periodic resistance oscillations on application of sufficiently strong microwave radiation. These oscillations are known as microwave induced resistance oscillations (MIROs), MIROs appearing near cyclotron resonance (CR) and its harmonics involve single photon processes and are called integer MIROs while the oscillations near CR subharmonics require multiphoton processes and are called fractional MIROs. Similar strong 1/B periodic resistance oscillations can occur due to strong dc current, and are known as Hall-field resistance oscillations (HIROs). Oscillations also occur for a combination of microwave radiation and strong dc current. In one prominent theory of MIROs, known as the displacement model , electrons make impurity-assisted transitions into higher or lower Landau levels by absorbing or emitting one or more (N) photons. In the presence of combined strong dc current and microwave radiation, electrons make transitions between Landau levels by absorbing or emitting photons followed by a space transition along the applied dc bias. The object of the dissertation is to explore how the different resistance oscillations are affected by strong microwave radiation when multiphoton processes are relevant. We used a coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure deposited on the sample, as opposed to simply placing the sample near the termination of a waveguide as is more the usual practice in this field. The CPW allows us to estimate the AC electric field (E_{AC}) at the sample. In much of the work presented in this thesis we find that higher $N$ processes supersede the competing lower N processes as microwave power is increased. We show this in the presence and in the absence of a strong dc electric field. Finally, we look at the temperature evolution of fractional MIROs to compare the origin of the fractional MIROs with that of integer MIROs.
Detailed Spectroscopic Study of the High-Spin Structures in ¹⁶⁸,¹⁶⁹,¹⁷⁰,¹⁷¹W and ¹⁹⁶Hg and a Systematic Examination of Nuclear Structure Behavior of Rare-Earth Isotopes in the A≈160−180 Region.
Miller, Scott, Riley, Mark A., Plewa, Tomasz, Tabor, Samuel Lynn, Volya, Alexander, Van Winkle, David H., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of...
Show moreMiller, Scott, Riley, Mark A., Plewa, Tomasz, Tabor, Samuel Lynn, Volya, Alexander, Van Winkle, David H., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
High-spin states in the rare-earth nuclei $^{168,169,170,171}$W (Z=74) were produced via fusion evaporation reactions carried out at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) using the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS). An additional experiment probing the high-spin structure of $^{196}$Hg was conducted at the Florida State University (FSU) tandem-linac facility. The $\gamma$ rays from these experiments were detected and recorded using the Gammasphere spectrometer at ANL and the FSU $...
Show moreHigh-spin states in the rare-earth nuclei $^{168,169,170,171}$W (Z=74) were produced via fusion evaporation reactions carried out at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) using the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator System (ATLAS). An additional experiment probing the high-spin structure of $^{196}$Hg was conducted at the Florida State University (FSU) tandem-linac facility. The $\gamma$ rays from these experiments were detected and recorded using the Gammasphere spectrometer at ANL and the FSU $\gamma$-ray Array system, respectively. As a result of the analysis, well over 500 new decay transitions and over 300 new energy levels were observed in these nuclei. Whenever possible, the intensities, angular correlations, spins, parities, and rotational behaviors of these newly discovered states were analyzed. Theoretical analysis of the observed structures, including spin, parity, and quasiparticle configurations, was carried out within the framework of the Cranked Shell Model (CSM). Due in part to results obtained from the aforementioned analysis, new systematic data in the A $\approx$ 160 region is also discussed, with an emphasis on the role that pair-blocking effects play during the rotation of the nucleus.
Dynamics of Biomolecules, Ligand Binding & Biological Functions.
Yi, Myunggi, Zhou, Huan-xiang, Logan, Timothy M., Berg, Bernd A., Xiong, Peng, Nymeyer, Hugh, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Proteins are flexible and dynamic. One static structure alone does not often completely explain biological functions of the protein, and some proteins do not even have high resolution structures. In order to provide better understanding to the biological functions of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, Diphtheria toxin repressor and M2 proton channel, the dynamics of these proteins are investigated using molecular modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. With absence of high resolution...
Show moreProteins are flexible and dynamic. One static structure alone does not often completely explain biological functions of the protein, and some proteins do not even have high resolution structures. In order to provide better understanding to the biological functions of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, Diphtheria toxin repressor and M2 proton channel, the dynamics of these proteins are investigated using molecular modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. With absence of high resolution structure of alpha 7 receptor, the homology models of apo and cobra toxin bound forms have been built. From the MD simulations of these model structures, we observed one subunit of apo simulation moved away from other four subunits. With local movement of flexible loop regions, the whole subunit tilted clockwise. These conformational changes occurred spontaneously, and were strongly correlated with the conformational change when the channel is activated by agonists. Unlike other computational studies, we directly compared our model of open conformation with the experimental data. However, the subunits of toxin bound form were stable, and conformational change is restricted by the bound cobra toxin. These results provide activation and inhibition mechanisms of alpha 7 receptors and a possible explanation for intermediate conductance of the channel. Intramolecular complex of SH3-like domain with a proline-rich (Pr) peptide segment in Diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) is stabilized in inactive state. Upon activation of DtxR by transition metal binding, this intramolecular complex should be dissociated. The dynamics of this intramolecular complex is investigated using MD simulations and NMR spectroscopy. We observed spontaneous opening and closing motions of the Pr segment binding pockets in both Pr-SH3 and SH3 simulations. The MD simulation results and NMR relaxation data suggest that the Pr segment exhibits a binding ¡ê unbinding equilibrium. Despite a wealth of experimental validation of Gouy-Chapman (GC) theory to charged lipid membranes, a test of GC theory by MD simulations has been elusive. Here we demonstrate that the ion distributions at different salt concentrations in anionic lipid bilayer systems agree well with GC predictions using MD simulations. Na+ ions are adsorbed to the bilayer through favorable interactions with carbonyls and hydroxyls, reducing the surface charge density by 72.5%. The interactions of amantadine, an antiinfluenza A drug, with DMPC bilayers are investigated by an MD simulation and by solid-state NMR. The MD simulation results and NMR data demonstrate that amantadine is located within the interfacial region with upward orientation and interacts with the lipid headgroup and glycerol backbone, while the adamantane group of amantadine interacts with the glycerol backbone and much of fatty acyl chain, as it wraps underneath of the drug. The lipid headgroup orientation is influenced by the drug as well. The recent prevalence of amantadine-resistant mutants makes a development of new drug urgent. The mechanism of inhibition of M2 proton channel in influenza virus A by amantadine is investigated. In the absence of high resolution structure, we model the apo and drug bound forms based on NMR structures. MD simulations demonstrate that channel pore is blocked by a primary gate formed by Trp41 helped by His37 and a secondary gate formed by Val27. The blockage by the secondary gate is extended by the drug bound just below the gate, resulting in a broken water wire throughout the simulation, suggesting a novel role of Val27 in the inhibition by amantadine. Recent X-ray structure validates the simulation results.
The Dynamics of DNA Electrophoresis in Lyotropic Polymer Liquid Crystals.
You, Seungyong, Van Winkle, David H., Shanbhag, Sachin, Brooks, James, Manousakis, Efstratios, Wiedenhover, Ingo, Department of Physics, Florida State University
Electrophoresis is one of the most powerful tools used to separate biological molecules by size in a supporting medium under the influence of an electric field. Pluronic F127 gel, introduced as a new sieving medium for electrophoresis in the late 1990s, has potential promise, but the transport and separation of DNA molecules in Pluronic gel are not fully understood among scientists. This dissertation research conducts three experiments to investigate the dynamics of DNA electrophoresis in...
Show moreElectrophoresis is one of the most powerful tools used to separate biological molecules by size in a supporting medium under the influence of an electric field. Pluronic F127 gel, introduced as a new sieving medium for electrophoresis in the late 1990s, has potential promise, but the transport and separation of DNA molecules in Pluronic gel are not fully understood among scientists. This dissertation research conducts three experiments to investigate the dynamics of DNA electrophoresis in Pluronic gel. First, a direct observation study examines how DNA molecules move through the Pluronic gel on a microscopic scale using fluorescence microscopy. Evidence is presented that in some cases DNA molecules electrophorese directly through gel crystallites and in other cases along grain boundaries between gel crystallites. Next, two dimensional electrophoresis is performed in order to understand the size dependence of the mobility of DNA molecules ranging from 20 bp to 3500 bp in Pluronic gels. Small DNA molecules (<125 >bp) became slower as their molecular size decreased, while large DNA molecules (>175 bp) became exponentially slower as their molecular size increased. DNA molecules of intermediate sizes showed a sinusoidal pattern in their mobility. Based on the experimental results, we developed a phenomenological model to fit the size dependence of the DNA mobility, and discussed the separation mechanisms of the DNA molecules in the Pluronic gels. In the final experiment, DNA molecules of the same length, which moved together and formed a single band in the agarose gel, were split into two bands in the Pluronic gel. This indicates that the Pluronic gel is possibly able to separate the DNA molecules according to their sequence. We expect that this study will contribute to an enhanced understanding of the dynamics of DNA molecules in Pluronic gel and facilitation of Pluronic gel as an alternative sieving medium for electrophoresis in the fields of molecular biology and biotechnology.
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Adaptation of Ultra-Precise Atomic Mass Measurement Techniques to Microwave Spectroscopy on a Single Molecular Ion by Detecting Polarizability Shifts in a Penning Trap.
Zarrella, Andrew, Physics
Using the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us...
Show moreUsing the FSU Ion Penning trap it is possible to measure the ratio of the cyclotron frequencies of two molecular ions to a precision of 0.1 ppb. These cyclotron frequencies can be shifted due to large electric polarizabilities in some molecular ions. Because the polarizability of the molecular ion is dependent on the quantized rotational levels of the molecule, is possible to use the cyclotron frequency shifts detected in our lab to detect transitions between rotational levels. This allows us to do microwave spectroscopy on single molecular ions. The main goal of this project will be to implement this new method of microwave spectroscopy, by measuring the lambda-type doubling splitting of the diatomic molecular ion, NH+, in its vibrational and rotational ground state.
Alkaline Earth Metal Fluxes for the Growth of Single Crystal Oxides.
Ramirez, Daniel, Siegrist, Theo M., Hellstrom, Eric, Liang, Zhiyong Richard, Florida State University, Graduate School, Program in Materials Science
Oxide ceramics are materials with a wide range of properties. Insulators are most common, however semiconductors, strongly correlated electron materials, and even superconductors are all relevant oxide materials. Here we seek to synthesize novel oxide single crystal phases and study their properties using an alkaline earth metal flux technique. The specific flux techniques are new, and we will seek to understand the capabilities of these fluxes as a novel synthesis tool. The use of a barium...
Show moreOxide ceramics are materials with a wide range of properties. Insulators are most common, however semiconductors, strongly correlated electron materials, and even superconductors are all relevant oxide materials. Here we seek to synthesize novel oxide single crystal phases and study their properties using an alkaline earth metal flux technique. The specific flux techniques are new, and we will seek to understand the capabilities of these fluxes as a novel synthesis tool. The use of a barium metal flux to grow single crystal oxides is rather counterintuitive, but is exemplified further with the growth of europium monoxide (Fm3 #225, Z = 4). Eu₁₋xBaxO single crystals (x = 0.01 – 0.25) are grown and studied for their ferromagnetic properties. A new oxide phase Ba₂Eu₂P₂O (P4/mbm #127, Z = 2) has also been synthesized from the same method, and may potentially be studied as a ferromagnetic semiconductor based on preliminary observations. Other examples of single crystal oxide phases grown from barium metal flux includes Ba₂TeO (P4/nmm #129, Z = 2), BaLn₂O₄(Ln = La – Lu) (Pnma #62, Z = 4), and Ba₃Yb₂O₅Te (P4/mmm #123 Z = 1). The new crystal phases Ba₃Ln₂O₅Cl₂ (Ln = Sm – Lu, Y) are synthesized using a reactive barium metal flux. Single crystal x-ray diffraction is used to determine their structures with space group (I4/mmm #139, Z = 2) related to the Ruddlesden-Popper structure type. The unit cell dimensions range from a = 4.46(6) Å and c = 24.87(6) Å for Ba₃Gd₂O₅Cl₂ to a = 4.35(6) Å and c = 24.57(6) Å for Ba₃Lu₂O₅Cl₂ with the dimensions following the expected lanthanide contraction trends. The magnetic properties of these materials are studied and related to their structures. The use of alkaline earth fluxes such as magnesium or calcium based fluxes are also briefly considered for their capabilities to produce novel mixed anion phases. A calcium flux is shown to produce the novel semimetals Ca₄TeOH₄ and Ca₃Ca₁₋xEuxTeOH₄ (I4/mmm #139, Z = 2), and highly reducing magnesium fluxes are shown to produce the divalent samarium Zintl phases SmMg₂Bi₂ and SmMg₂Sb₂ (P3m1 #163, Z = 1).
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Analysis of Radicals in Gas-Liquid Electrical Discharges.
Hsieh, Kevin, Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Alamo, Rufina G., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical...
Show moreHsieh, Kevin, Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Alamo, Rufina G., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Electrical discharge is a commonly used method to produce ions and radicals that can be used for degrading compounds as well as for chemical synthesis. Previously, the application of electrical discharges has been studied in liquids such as water and alcohols to produce hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen and to destroy organic compounds in the water and gas phases. Recently low power gas-liquid electric discharges have been employed to increase efficiency for hydrogen peroxide and oxidized...
Show moreElectrical discharge is a commonly used method to produce ions and radicals that can be used for degrading compounds as well as for chemical synthesis. Previously, the application of electrical discharges has been studied in liquids such as water and alcohols to produce hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen and to destroy organic compounds in the water and gas phases. Recently low power gas-liquid electric discharges have been employed to increase efficiency for hydrogen peroxide and oxidized products for synthesis or degradation. Determination and analysis of the intermediate radicals produced in the plasma has not been studied intensively for discharges at the gas-liquid interface such as aerosol sprays and thin liquid films. According to theoretical models based on reaction kinetics in plasma these radicals such as hydroxyl radicals play an important role in formation of hydrogen peroxide. However, there may be excess hydroxyl radicals formed and not involved in the formation of hydrogen peroxide. The main goal of this work is to characterize and identify key intermediate radicals and their reaction pathways in the liquid phase, gas phase, and at the interface of these aerosol droplets and thin film surfaces using various gases and liquid feeds.
Baroclinic Geostrophic Turbulence and Jets in the Laboratory.
Smith, Carlowen Andrew, Speer, Kevin G., Landing, William M., Dewar, William K., Sura, Philip, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Geophysical...
Show moreSmith, Carlowen Andrew, Speer, Kevin G., Landing, William M., Dewar, William K., Sura, Philip, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Baroclinic, geostrophic turbulence is random, chaotic flow characterized by significant vertical gradients in density (Bu << 1) in which rotation plays a major role (Ro << 1). In the presence of a large-scale background gradient of potential vorticity (a β-effect ), a symmetry-breaking occurs which admits anisotropy in the system. These conditions form the fundamental dynamical basis of many natural geophysical flows on a planetary scale (Rh << 1), and even fairly simple models of these...
Show moreBaroclinic, geostrophic turbulence is random, chaotic flow characterized by significant vertical gradients in density (Bu << 1) in which rotation plays a major role (Ro << 1). In the presence of a large-scale background gradient of potential vorticity (a β-effect ), a symmetry-breaking occurs which admits anisotropy in the system. These conditions form the fundamental dynamical basis of many natural geophysical flows on a planetary scale (Rh << 1), and even fairly simple models of these phenomena can exhibit quite complex behavior. One such aspect that is common to these flows is that of multiple, zonal jets. These are spontaneous flow structures characterized by fast East-West (azimuthal) motion. This thesis describes the creation of multiple jets in the laboratory within a fully-stratified, baroclinically-forced fluid subject to rotation and a β-effect. By carefully controlling the forcing parameters, we observe the transition between a single “classical” baroclinic wave and regimes that closely resemble conditions of natural planetary flows. Observing this transition in the laboratory shows that the proposed scaling arguments are valid and have predictive power in the case of multiple zonal jets in a baroclinic fluid. Spontaneous eddy forcing of the mean flow is shown to be the ultimate driving force of the jets, whose evolution is observed in time. A long-duration drift in the jet structure is observed and quantified to be an order of magnitude less than the Rossby wave phase speed. A detailed quantitative analysis of the structure the flow field sheds further light. This is done through both a standpoint of the Eulerian flow fields, and the raw data associated with the (Lagrangian) tracks of neutrally buoyant particles within the flow. There is a significant transition of the power law scaling of Fourier spectra between dynamically significant scales. As the flow changes between experiments, the power law of the Eulerian spectra can change over particular scale ranges, which is direct evidence of a regime change. Access to raw Lagrangian tracks of the fluid allow a direct characterization of the flow field that is independent of the Eulerian. The structure function technique is introduced and shows a fundamental change in behavior between dynamic scales, and between experiments, in a way consistent with theory. A preliminary analysis is carried out of an experiment studying the competing mechanisms of buoyancy and wind forcing present on a single zonal jet. This is simulated in a rotating annulus of fluid by imposing a radial temperature gradient across the annulus gap, while applying mechanical forcing at the surface through the differential rotation of a rigid lid in contact with a surface layer of oil. A radially-sloping bottom creates a fluid depth gradient and simple topography in the form of five regularly spaced meridional ridges creates azimuthally varying f/h contours that steer the first-order flow. By varying the strength of wind and thermal forcing on the fluid, several regimes of flow are produced. Analysis of the Eulerian field shows the response of zonal transport and eddy kinetic energy to these different forcing regimes. The thesis concludes with a description of the development of an apparatus to push the observations into a more turbulent dynamical range. This includes information about the spin-up and maintenance of a large-scale sloping thermal gradient in the apparatus, as well as some preliminary results.
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Computational Studies of Magnetically Doped Semiconductor Nanoclusters.
Gutsev, Lavrenty Gennady, Dalal, Naresh S., Chiorescu, Irinel, Strouse, Geoffrey F., Yang, Wei, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry &...
Show moreGutsev, Lavrenty Gennady, Dalal, Naresh S., Chiorescu, Irinel, Strouse, Geoffrey F., Yang, Wei, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Spin-polarized unrestricted density functional theory is used to calculate the molecular properties of magnetic semiconductor quantum dots doped with 3d-metal atoms. We calculate total energies of the low spin antiferromagnetically coupled states using a spin-flipping algorithm leading to the broken-symmetry states. Given the novel nature of the materials studied, we simulate experimental observables such as hyperfine couplings, ionization/ energies, electron affinities, first and second...
Show moreSpin-polarized unrestricted density functional theory is used to calculate the molecular properties of magnetic semiconductor quantum dots doped with 3d-metal atoms. We calculate total energies of the low spin antiferromagnetically coupled states using a spin-flipping algorithm leading to the broken-symmetry states. Given the novel nature of the materials studied, we simulate experimental observables such as hyperfine couplings, ionization/ energies, electron affinities, first and second order polarizabilities, band gaps and exchange coupling constants. Specifically, we begin our investigation with pure clusters of (CdSe)_16 and demonstrate the dependence of molecular observables on geometrical structures. We also show that the many isomers of this cluster are energetically quite closely spaced, and thus it would be necessary to employ a battery of tests to experimentally distinguish them. Next, we discuss Mn-doping into the cage (CdSe)_9 cluster as well as the zinc-blende stacking type cluster (CdSe)_36. We show that the local exchange coupling mechanism is ligand-mediated superexchange and simulate the isotropic hyperfine constants. Finally, we discuss a novel study where (CdSe)_9 is doped with Mn or Fe up to a full replacement of all the Cd's and discuss the transition points for the magnetic behavior and specifically the greatly differing band-gap shifts. We also outline an unexpected pattern in the polarizability of the material as metals are added and compare our results with the results from theoretical studies of the bulk material.
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Development and Characterization of a Novel Continuously Flowing Liquid Film Plasma Reactor for Chemical Synthesis.
Wandell, Robert J. (Robert Jay), Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Hallinan, Daniel T., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of...
Show moreWandell, Robert J. (Robert Jay), Locke, Bruce R., Alabugin, Igor V., Chella, Ravindran, Hallinan, Daniel T., Florida State University, College of Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating knowledge from a number of scientific disciplines including mechanical engineering (reactor construction), electrical engineering (power network design and electrical diagnostics), physics (plasma formation and diagnostics), chemical engineering, (reactor design,...
Show moreThe aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating knowledge from a number of scientific disciplines including mechanical engineering (reactor construction), electrical engineering (power network design and electrical diagnostics), physics (plasma formation and diagnostics), chemical engineering, (reactor design, transport phenomena / modeling), and chemistry (chemical analysis). Due to the complicated nature of such a multidisciplinary study, complete analysis of a single reactor system is difficult and rarely performed with accuracy, especially for a variety of operating conditions. In this work, a novel continuously flowing liquid film plasma reactor was developed and fully characterized under the above criteria for a range of operating conditions in order to better understand which variables most significantly impact the generation of hydrogen peroxide from pure water and argon gas. This work shows that increases in the energy yield for hydrogen peroxide with pulsed plasma discharge is possible by variation of the plasma properties to reduce the amount of "wasted" energy which does not contribute to desired chemical reactions. In addition, increases in the production rate of hydrogen peroxide without a loss in energy yield is shown to be possible by increasing the pulse frequency while simultaneously decreasing the gas phase residence time. The high concentration of hydroxyl radicals produced by this system was also used to partially oxidize simple organic compounds into higher value products.
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Digitally Controlled Four Harmonic Buncher for FSU LINAC.
Moerland, Daniel, Physics
Florida State University's John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory is operating a Tandem-LINAC system for heavy ion beams at energies of 5-10 MeV/u. Recently, the accelerator has been used as the driver for the radioactive beam facility RESOLUT, which poses new demands on its high-intensity performance and time-resolution. These demands motivated us to optimize the RF bunching system and to switch the bunch frequency from 48.5 to 12.125MHz. We installed a four-harmonic resonant...
Show moreFlorida State University's John D. Fox Superconducting Accelerator Laboratory is operating a Tandem-LINAC system for heavy ion beams at energies of 5-10 MeV/u. Recently, the accelerator has been used as the driver for the radioactive beam facility RESOLUT, which poses new demands on its high-intensity performance and time-resolution. These demands motivated us to optimize the RF bunching system and to switch the bunch frequency from 48.5 to 12.125MHz. We installed a four-harmonic resonant transformer to create 3-4 kV potential oscillations across a pair of wire-mesh grids. This setup is modulating the energy of the beam injected into the tandem accelerator, with the aim to create short bunches of beam particles. A sawtooth-like wave-form is created using the Fourier series method, by combining the basis sinusoidal wave of 12.125MHz and its 3 higher order harmonics, in a manner similar to the systems used at ATLAS [1] and other RF-accelerators. A new aspect of our setup is the use of a digital 1GHz function generator, which allows us to optimize and stabilize the synthesized waveform. The control system was realized using Labview [2] and integrated into the recently updated controls of the accelerator. We characterize the bunching quality achieved and discuss the optimization of the bunching wave-form. The bunching system has been successfully used in a number of LINAC-experiments performed during 2011 and 2012.
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Absence Of Dirac States In Baznbi2 Induced By Spin-orbit Coupling.
Ren, Weijun, Wang, Aifeng, Graf, D., Liu, Yu, Zhang, Zhidong, Yin, Wei-Guo, Petrovic, C.
We report magnetotransport properties of BaZnBi2 single crystals. Whereas electronic structure features Dirac states, such states are removed from the Fermi level by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and consequently electronic transport is dominated by the small hole and electron pockets. Our results are consistent with not only three-dimensional, but also with quasi-two-dimensional portions of the Fermi surface. The SOC-induced gap in Dirac states is much larger when compared to isostructural...
Show moreWe report magnetotransport properties of BaZnBi2 single crystals. Whereas electronic structure features Dirac states, such states are removed from the Fermi level by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and consequently electronic transport is dominated by the small hole and electron pockets. Our results are consistent with not only three-dimensional, but also with quasi-two-dimensional portions of the Fermi surface. The SOC-induced gap in Dirac states is much larger when compared to isostructural SrMnBi2. This suggests that not only long-range magnetic order, but also mass of the alkaline-earth atoms A in ABX(2) (A = alkaline-earth, B = transition-metal, and X = Bi/Sb) are important for the presence of low-energy states obeying the relativistic Dirac equation at the Fermi surface.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000423341500001, 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035147
Acoustic wave absorption as a probe of dynamical geometrical response of fractional quantum Hall liquids.
Yang, Kun
We show that an acoustic crystalline wave gives rise to an effect similar to that of a gravitational wave to an electron gas. Applying this idea to a two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime, this allows for experimental study of its intra-Landau level dynamical response in the long-wavelength limit. To study such response we generalize Haldane's geometrical description of fractional quantum Hall states to situations where the external metric is time dependent. We...
Show moreWe show that an acoustic crystalline wave gives rise to an effect similar to that of a gravitational wave to an electron gas. Applying this idea to a two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime, this allows for experimental study of its intra-Landau level dynamical response in the long-wavelength limit. To study such response we generalize Haldane's geometrical description of fractional quantum Hall states to situations where the external metric is time dependent. We show that such time-dependent metric (generated by acoustic wave) couples to collective modes of the system, including a quadrapolar mode at long wavelength, and magnetoroton at finite wavelength. Energies of these modes can be revealed in spectroscopic measurements, controlled by strain-induced Fermi velocity anisotropy. We argue that such geometrical probe provides a potentially highly useful alternative probe of quantum Hall liquids, in addition to the usual electromagnetic response.
Anisotropic Antiferromagnetic Order In The Spin-orbit Coupled Trigonal-lattice Ca2sr2iro6.
Sheng, Jieming, Ye, Feng, Hoffmann, Christina, Cooper, Valentino R., Okamoto, Satoshi, Terzic, Jasminka, Zheng, Hao, Zhao, Hengdi, Cao, G.
We used single-crystal x-ray and neutron diffraction to investigate the crystal and magnetic structures of trigonal lattice iridate Ca2Sr2IrO6. The crystal structure is determined to be R (3) over bar with two distinct Ir sites. The system exhibits long-range antiferromagnetic order below T-N = 13.1 K. The magnetic wave vector is identified as (0,0.5,1) with ferromagnetic coupling along the a axis and antiferromagnetic correlation along the b axis. Spins align dominantly within the basal...
Show moreWe used single-crystal x-ray and neutron diffraction to investigate the crystal and magnetic structures of trigonal lattice iridate Ca2Sr2IrO6. The crystal structure is determined to be R (3) over bar with two distinct Ir sites. The system exhibits long-range antiferromagnetic order below T-N = 13.1 K. The magnetic wave vector is identified as (0,0.5,1) with ferromagnetic coupling along the a axis and antiferromagnetic correlation along the b axis. Spins align dominantly within the basal plane along the [1,2,0] direction and tilt 34 degrees toward the c axis. The ordered moment is 0.66(3) mu(B) /Tr, larger than other iridates where iridium ions form corner- or edge-sharing IrO6 octahedral networks. The tilting angle is reduced to approximate to 19 degrees when a magnetic field of 4.9 T is applied along the c axis. Density functional theory calculations confirm that the experimentally determined magnetic configuration is the most probable ground state with an insulating gap similar to 0.5 eV.
Changes in the electronic structure and spin dynamics across the metal-insulator transition in La1-xSrxCoO3.
Smith, R. X., Hoch, M. J. R., Moulton, W. G., Kuhns, P. L., Reyes, A. P., Boebinger, G. S., Zheng, H., Mitchell, J. F.
The magnetoelectronic properties of La1-xSrxCoO3, which include giant magnetoresistance, are strongly dependent on the level of hole doping. The system evolves, with increasing x, from a spin glass insulator to a metallic ferromagnet with a metal-insulator (MI) transition at x(C) similar to 0.18. Nanoscale phase separation occurs in the insulating phase and persists, to some extent, into the just-metallic phase. The present experiments at 4.2 K have used La-139 nuclear magnetic resonance to...
Show moreThe magnetoelectronic properties of La1-xSrxCoO3, which include giant magnetoresistance, are strongly dependent on the level of hole doping. The system evolves, with increasing x, from a spin glass insulator to a metallic ferromagnet with a metal-insulator (MI) transition at x(C) similar to 0.18. Nanoscale phase separation occurs in the insulating phase and persists, to some extent, into the just-metallic phase. The present experiments at 4.2 K have used La-139 nuclear magnetic resonance to investigate the transition from hopping dynamics for x < x(C) to Korringa-like ferromagnetic metal behavior for x > x(C). A marked decrease in the spin-lattice relaxation rate is found in the vicinity of x(C) as the MI transition is crossed. This behavior is accounted for in terms of the evolution of the electronic structure and dynamics with cluster size.
Charge avalanches and depinning in the Coulomb glass: The role of long-range interactions.
Andresen, Juan Carlos, Pramudya, Yohanes, Katzgraber, Helmut G., Thomas, Creighton K., Zimanyi, Gergely T., Dobrosavljevic, V.
We explore the stability of far-from-equilibrium metastable states of a three-dimensional Coulomb glass at zero temperature by studying charge avalanches triggered by a slowly varying external electric field. Surprisingly, we identify a sharply defined dynamical ("depinning") phase transition from stationary to nonstationary charge displacement at a critical value of the external electric field. Using particle-conserving dynamics, scale-free system-spanning avalanches are observed only at the...
Show moreWe explore the stability of far-from-equilibrium metastable states of a three-dimensional Coulomb glass at zero temperature by studying charge avalanches triggered by a slowly varying external electric field. Surprisingly, we identify a sharply defined dynamical ("depinning") phase transition from stationary to nonstationary charge displacement at a critical value of the external electric field. Using particle-conserving dynamics, scale-free system-spanning avalanches are observed only at the critical field. We show that the qualitative features of this depinning transition are completely different for an equivalent short-range model, highlighting the key importance of long-range interactions for nonequilibrium dynamics of Coulomb glasses.
Chiral spin liquid from magnetic Wannier states.
Panfilov, I., Patri, A., Yang, Kun, Burkov, A. A.
We present a mapping of a two-dimensional system of interacting bosons in a strong perpendicular magnetic field to an equivalent system of interacting bosons on the square lattice in the absence of the field. The mapping utilizes a magnetic Bloch and the corresponding magnetic Wannier single-particle basis in the lowest Landau level. By construction, the ground states of the resulting model of interacting bosons on the square lattice are gapped fractionalized liquids or gapless Bose metal...
Show moreWe present a mapping of a two-dimensional system of interacting bosons in a strong perpendicular magnetic field to an equivalent system of interacting bosons on the square lattice in the absence of the field. The mapping utilizes a magnetic Bloch and the corresponding magnetic Wannier single-particle basis in the lowest Landau level. By construction, the ground states of the resulting model of interacting bosons on the square lattice are gapped fractionalized liquids or gapless Bose metal states with broken time-reversal symmetry at specific rational filling fractions.
Classification Of Symmetry Derived Pairing At The M Point In Fese.
Eugenio, P. Myles, Vafek, Oskar
Using the constraints imposed by the crystalline symmetry of FeSe and the experimentally observed phenomenology, we analyze the possible pairing symmetry of the superconducting order parameter focusing on intercalated and monolayer FeSe compounds. Such analysis leads to three possible pairing symmetry states-s wave, d wave, and helical p wave. Despite the differences in the pairing symmetry, each of these states is fully gapped with gap minimum centered above the normal state Fermi surface,...
Show moreUsing the constraints imposed by the crystalline symmetry of FeSe and the experimentally observed phenomenology, we analyze the possible pairing symmetry of the superconducting order parameter focusing on intercalated and monolayer FeSe compounds. Such analysis leads to three possible pairing symmetry states-s wave, d wave, and helical p wave. Despite the differences in the pairing symmetry, each of these states is fully gapped with gap minimum centered above the normal state Fermi surface, in agreement with photoemission data of Zhang et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 117001 (2016)]. The analysis provides additional insights into the possible pairing mechanism for each of these states, highlighting the detrimental role of the renormalized repulsive intraorbital Hubbard U and interorbital U' and the beneficial role of the pair hopping J' and the Hund's J terms, as well as the spin-orbit coupling in the effective low-energy Hamiltonian.
Coas: The Line Of 3d Demarcation.
Campbell, Daniel J., Wang, Limin, Eckberg, Chris, Graf, Dave, Hodovanets, Halyna, Paglione, Johnpierre
Transition metal-pnictide compounds have received attention for their tendency to combine magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. Binary CoAs lies on the border of paramagnetism and the more complex behavior seen in isostructural CrAs, MnP, FeAs, and FeP. Here we report the properties of CoAs single crystals grown with two distinct techniques along with density functional theory calculations of its electronic structure and magnetic ground state. While all indications are that CoAs is...
Show moreTransition metal-pnictide compounds have received attention for their tendency to combine magnetism and unconventional superconductivity. Binary CoAs lies on the border of paramagnetism and the more complex behavior seen in isostructural CrAs, MnP, FeAs, and FeP. Here we report the properties of CoAs single crystals grown with two distinct techniques along with density functional theory calculations of its electronic structure and magnetic ground state. While all indications are that CoAs is paramagnetic, both experiment and theory suggest proximity to a ferromagnetic instability. Quantum oscillations are seen in torque measurements up to 31.5 T and support the calculated paramagnetic Fermiology.
Coexistence of Weyl physics and planar defects in the semimetals TaP and TaAs.
Besara, T., Rhodes, D. A., Chen, K.-W., Das, S., Zhang, Q. R., Sun, J., Zeng, B., Xin, Y., Balicas, L., Baumbach, R. E., Manousakis, E., Singh, D. J., Siegrist, T.
We report a structural study of the Weyl semimetals TaAs and TaP, utilizing diffraction and imaging techniques, where we show that they contain a high density of defects, leading to nonstoichiometric single crystals of both semimetals. Despite the observed defects and nonstoichiometry on samples grown using techniques already reported in the literature, de Haas-van Alphen measurements on TaP reveal quantum oscillations and a high carrier mobility, an indication that the crystals are of...
Show moreWe report a structural study of the Weyl semimetals TaAs and TaP, utilizing diffraction and imaging techniques, where we show that they contain a high density of defects, leading to nonstoichiometric single crystals of both semimetals. Despite the observed defects and nonstoichiometry on samples grown using techniques already reported in the literature, de Haas-van Alphen measurements on TaP reveal quantum oscillations and a high carrier mobility, an indication that the crystals are of quality comparable to those reported elsewhere. Electronic structure calculations on TaAs reveal that the position of the Weyl points relative to the Fermi level shift with the introduction of vacancies and stacking faults. In the case of vacancies the Fermi surface becomes considerably altered, while the effect of stacking faults on the electronic structure is to allow the Weyl pockets to remain close to the Fermi surface. The observation of quantum oscillations in a nonstoichiometric crystal and the persistence of Weyl fermion pockets near the Fermi surface in a crystal with stacking faults point to the robustness of these quantum phenomena in these materials.
Coulomb-interaction Induced Coupling Of Landau Levels In Intrinsic And Modulation-doped Quantum Wells.
Paul, J., Stevens, C. E., Zhang, H., Dey, P., McGinty, D., McGill, S. A., Smith, R. P., Reno, J. L., Turkowski, V., Perakis, I. E., Hilton, D. J., Karaiskaj, D.
We have performed two- dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy on intrinsic and modulation doped quantum wells in external magnetic fields up to 10 T. In the undoped sample, the strong Coulomb interactions and the increasing separations of the electron and hole charge distributions with increasing magnetic fields lead to a nontrivial in-plane dispersion of the magneto-excitons. Thus, the discrete and degenerate Landau levels are coupled to a continuum. The signature of this continuum is...
Show moreWe have performed two- dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy on intrinsic and modulation doped quantum wells in external magnetic fields up to 10 T. In the undoped sample, the strong Coulomb interactions and the increasing separations of the electron and hole charge distributions with increasing magnetic fields lead to a nontrivial in-plane dispersion of the magneto-excitons. Thus, the discrete and degenerate Landau levels are coupled to a continuum. The signature of this continuum is the emergence of elongated spectral line shapes at the Landau level energies, which are exposed by the multidimensional nature of our technique. Surprisingly, the elongation of the peaks is completely absent in the lowest Landau level spectra obtained from the modulation doped quantum well at high fields.
Critical Filling Factor For The Formation Of A Quantum Wigner Crystal Screened By A Nearby Layer.
Deng, H., Engel, L. W., Pfeiffer, L. N., West, K. W., Baldwin, K. W., Shayegan, M.
One of the most fascinating ground states of an interacting electron system is the so-called Wigner crystal where the electrons, in order to minimize their repulsive Coulomb energy, form an ordered array. Here, we report measurements of the critical filling factor (nu(c)) below which a magnetic-field-induced, quantum Wigner crystal forms in a dilute, two-dimensional electron layer when a second, high-density electron layer is present in close proximity. The data reveal that the Wigner crystal...
Show moreOne of the most fascinating ground states of an interacting electron system is the so-called Wigner crystal where the electrons, in order to minimize their repulsive Coulomb energy, form an ordered array. Here, we report measurements of the critical filling factor (nu(c)) below which a magnetic-field-induced, quantum Wigner crystal forms in a dilute, two-dimensional electron layer when a second, high-density electron layer is present in close proximity. The data reveal that the Wigner crystal forms at a significantly smaller nu(c) compared to the nu(c) (similar or equal to 0.20) in single-layer two-dimensional electron systems. The measured nu(c) exhibits a strong dependence on the interlayer distance, reflecting the interaction and screening from the adjacent, high-density layer.
Crystal Structure And Partial Ising-like Magnetic Ordering Of Orthorhombic Dy2tio5.
Shamblin, Jacob, Calder, Stuart, Dun, Zhiling, Lee, Minseong, Choi, Eun Sang, Neuefeind, Joerg, Zhou, Haidong, Lang, Maik
The structure andmagnetic properties of orthorhombic Dy2TiO5 have been investigated using x-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and alternating current (ac)/direct current (dc) magnetic susceptibility measurements. We report a continuous structural distortion below 100 K characterized by negative thermal expansion in the [0 1 0] direction. Neutron diffraction and magnetic susceptibility measurements revealed that two-dimensional (2D) magnetic ordering begins at 3.1 K, which is followed by a...
Show moreThe structure andmagnetic properties of orthorhombic Dy2TiO5 have been investigated using x-ray diffraction, neutron diffraction, and alternating current (ac)/direct current (dc) magnetic susceptibility measurements. We report a continuous structural distortion below 100 K characterized by negative thermal expansion in the [0 1 0] direction. Neutron diffraction and magnetic susceptibility measurements revealed that two-dimensional (2D) magnetic ordering begins at 3.1 K, which is followed by a three-dimensional magnetic transition at 1.7 K. The magnetic structure has been solved through a representational analysis approach and can be indexed with the propagation vector k = [0 1/2 0]. The spin structure corresponds to a coplanar model of interwoven 2D "sheets" extending in the [0 1 0] direction. The local crystal field is different for each Dy3+ ion (Dy1 and Dy2), one of which possesses strong uniaxial symmetry indicative of Ising-like magnetic ordering. Consequently, two succeeding transitions under magnetic field are observed in the ac susceptibility, which are associated with flipping each Dy3+ spin independently.
Cyclotron decay time of a two-dimensional electron gas from 0.4 to 100 K.
Curtis, Jeremy A., Tokumoto, Takahisa, Hatke, A. T., Cherian, Judy G., Reno, John L., McGill, Stephen A., Karaiskaj, Denis, Hilton, David J.
We have studied the cyclotron decay time of a Landau-quantized two-dimensional electron gas as a function of temperature (0.4-100 K) at a fixed magnetic field (+/- 1.25 T) using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in a gallium arsenide quantum well with a mobility of mu(dc) = 3.6 x 10(6) cm(2) V-1 s(-1) and a carrier concentration of n(s) = 2 x 10(11) cm(-2). We find a cyclotron decay time that is limited by superradiant decay of the cyclotron ensemble and a temperature dependence that may...
Show moreWe have studied the cyclotron decay time of a Landau-quantized two-dimensional electron gas as a function of temperature (0.4-100 K) at a fixed magnetic field (+/- 1.25 T) using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy in a gallium arsenide quantum well with a mobility of mu(dc) = 3.6 x 10(6) cm(2) V-1 s(-1) and a carrier concentration of n(s) = 2 x 10(11) cm(-2). We find a cyclotron decay time that is limited by superradiant decay of the cyclotron ensemble and a temperature dependence that may result from both dissipative processes as well as a decrease in n(s) below 1.5K. Shubnikov-de Haas characterization determines a quantum lifetime, tau(q) = 1.1 ps, which is significantly faster than the corresponding dephasing time, tau(s) = 66.4 ps, in our cyclotron data. This is consistent with small-angle scattering as the dominant contribution in this sample, where scattering angles below theta <= 13 degrees. do not efficiently contribute to dephasing. Above 50 K, the cyclotron oscillations show a strong reduction in both the oscillation amplitude and lifetime that result from polar optical phonon scattering.
Decoherence In Semiconductor Nanostructures With Type-ii Band Alignment: All-optical Measurements Using Aharonov-bohm Excitons.
Kuskovsky, I. L., Mourokh, L. G., Roy, B., Ji, H., Dhomkar, S., Ludwig, J., Smirnov, D., Tamargo, M. C.
We examine the temperature dependence of the visibility of the excitonic Aharonov-Bohm peak in type-II quantum dots. We obtain a functional temperature dependence that is similar to that determined by transport experiments, namely, with the T-1 term due to electron-electron collisions and the T-3 term due to electronphonon interactions. However, the magnitude of the latter term is much smaller than that for the transport electrons and similar to the interaction strength of the exciton-phonon...
Show moreWe examine the temperature dependence of the visibility of the excitonic Aharonov-Bohm peak in type-II quantum dots. We obtain a functional temperature dependence that is similar to that determined by transport experiments, namely, with the T-1 term due to electron-electron collisions and the T-3 term due to electronphonon interactions. However, the magnitude of the latter term is much smaller than that for the transport electrons and similar to the interaction strength of the exciton-phonon coupling. Such suppressed electron-phonon interaction ushers a way for all-optical studies of decoherence processes in semiconductor nanostructures as other dephasing mechanisms become more pronounced.
Detailed Study Of The Fermi Surfaces Of The Type-ii Dirac Semimetallic Candidates Xte2 (x=pd,pt).
Zheng, W., Schonemann, R., Aryal, N., Zhou, Q., Rhodes, D., Chiu, Y.-C., Chen, K.-W., Kampert, E., Foerster, T., Martin, T. J., McCandless, G. T., Chan, J. Y., Manousakis, E.,...
Show moreZheng, W., Schonemann, R., Aryal, N., Zhou, Q., Rhodes, D., Chiu, Y.-C., Chen, K.-W., Kampert, E., Foerster, T., Martin, T. J., McCandless, G. T., Chan, J. Y., Manousakis, E., Balicas, L.
We present a detailed quantum oscillatory study on the Dirac type-II semimetallic candidates PdTe2 and PtTe2 via the temperature and the angular dependence of the de Haas-van Alphen and Shubnikov-de Haas effects. In high-quality single crystals of both compounds, i.e., displaying carrier mobilities between 10(3) and 10(4) cm(2)/Vs, we observed a large nonsaturating magnetoresistivity which in PtTe2 at a temperature T = 1.3 K leads to an increase in the resistivity up to (5 x 10(4))% under a...
Show moreWe present a detailed quantum oscillatory study on the Dirac type-II semimetallic candidates PdTe2 and PtTe2 via the temperature and the angular dependence of the de Haas-van Alphen and Shubnikov-de Haas effects. In high-quality single crystals of both compounds, i.e., displaying carrier mobilities between 10(3) and 10(4) cm(2)/Vs, we observed a large nonsaturating magnetoresistivity which in PtTe2 at a temperature T = 1.3 K leads to an increase in the resistivity up to (5 x 10(4))% under a magnetic field mu H-0 = 62 T. These high mobilities correlate with their light effective masses in the range of 0.04 to 1 bare electron mass according to our measurements. For PdTe2 the experimentally determined Fermi surface cross-sectional areas show excellent agreement with those resulting from band structure calculations. Surprisingly, this is not the case for PtTe2, whose agreement between calculations and experiments is relatively poor even when electronic correlations are included in the calculations. Therefore, our study provides strong support for the existence of a Dirac type-II node in PdTe2 and probably also for PtTe2. Band structure calculations indicate that the topologically nontrivial bands of PtTe2 do not cross the Fermi level epsilon(F). In contrast, for PdTe2 the Dirac type-II cone does intersect Bp, although our calculations also indicate that the associated cyclotron orbit on the Fermi surface is located in a distinct k(z) plane with respect to that of the Dirac type-II node. Therefore, it should yield a trivial Berry phase.
Determination Of The Effective Kinematic Viscosity For The Decay Of Quasiclassical Turbulence In Superfluid He-4.
Gao, J., Guo, W., Vinen, W. F.
The energy dissipation of quasiclassical homogeneous turbulence in superfluid He-4 (He II) is controlled by an effective kinematic viscosity nu', which relates the energy decay rate dE / dt to the density of quantized vortex lines L as dE / dt = -nu'(kappa L)(2). The precise value of nu' is of fundamental importance in developing our understanding of the dissipation mechanism in He II, and it is also needed in many high-Reynolds-number turbulence experiments and model testing that use He II...
Show moreThe energy dissipation of quasiclassical homogeneous turbulence in superfluid He-4 (He II) is controlled by an effective kinematic viscosity nu', which relates the energy decay rate dE / dt to the density of quantized vortex lines L as dE / dt = -nu'(kappa L)(2). The precise value of nu' is of fundamental importance in developing our understanding of the dissipation mechanism in He II, and it is also needed in many high-Reynolds-number turbulence experiments and model testing that use He II as the working fluid. However, a reliable determination of nu' requires the measurements of both E(t) and L(t), which was never achieved. Here we discuss our study of the quasiclassical turbulence that emerges in the decay of thermal counterflow in He II above 1 K. We were able to measure E(t) by using a recently developed flow-visualization technique and L(t) via second-sound attenuation. We report the nu' values in a wide temperature range determined from a comparison of the time evolution of E(t) and L(t).
Dipolar-octupolar Ising Antiferromagnetism In Sm2ti2o7: A Moment Fragmentation Candidate.
Mauws, C., Hallas, A. M., Sala, G., Aczel, A. A., Sarte, P. M., Gaudet, J., Ziat, D., Quilliam, J. A., Lussier, J. A., Bieringer, M., Zhou, H. D., Wildes, A., Stone, I. M. B.,...
Show moreMauws, C., Hallas, A. M., Sala, G., Aczel, A. A., Sarte, P. M., Gaudet, J., Ziat, D., Quilliam, J. A., Lussier, J. A., Bieringer, M., Zhou, H. D., Wildes, A., Stone, I. M. B., Abernathy, D., Luke, G. M., Gaulin, B. D., Wiebe, C. R.
Over the past two decades, the magnetic ground states of all rare-earth titanate pyrochlores have been extensively studied, with the exception of Sm2Ti2O7. This is, in large part, due to the very high absorption cross section of naturally occurring samarium, which renders neutron scattering infeasible. To combat this, we have grown a large, isotopically enriched single crystal of Sm2Ti2O7. Using inelastic neutron scattering, we determine that the crystal field ground state for Sm3+ is a...
Show moreOver the past two decades, the magnetic ground states of all rare-earth titanate pyrochlores have been extensively studied, with the exception of Sm2Ti2O7. This is, in large part, due to the very high absorption cross section of naturally occurring samarium, which renders neutron scattering infeasible. To combat this, we have grown a large, isotopically enriched single crystal of Sm2Ti2O7. Using inelastic neutron scattering, we determine that the crystal field ground state for Sm3+ is a dipolar-octupolar doublet with Ising anisotropy. Neutron diffraction experiments reveal that Sm2Ti2O7 orders into the all-in, all-out magnetic structure with an ordered moment of 0.44(7)mu(B) below T-N = 0.35 K, consistent with expectations for antiferromagnetically coupled Ising spins on the pyrochlore lattice. Zero-field muon spin relaxation measurements reveal an absence of spontaneous oscillations and persistent spin fluctuations down to 0.03 K. The combination of the dipolar-octupolar nature of the Sm3+ moment, the all-in, all-out ordered state, and the low-temperature persistent spin dynamics make this material an intriguing candidate for moment fragmentation physics.
Dissipation In Quantum Turbulence In Superfluid He-4 Above 1 K.
Gao, J., Guo, W., Yui, S., Tsubota, M., Vinen, W. F.
There are two commonly discussed forms of quantum turbulence in superfluid He-4 above 1 K: in one there is a random tangle of quantized vortex lines, existing in the presence of a nonturbulent normal fluid; in the second there is a coupled turbulent motion of the two fluids, often exhibiting quasiclassical characteristics on scales larger than the separation between the quantized vortex lines in the superfluid component. The decay of vortex line density, L, in the former case is often...
Show moreThere are two commonly discussed forms of quantum turbulence in superfluid He-4 above 1 K: in one there is a random tangle of quantized vortex lines, existing in the presence of a nonturbulent normal fluid; in the second there is a coupled turbulent motion of the two fluids, often exhibiting quasiclassical characteristics on scales larger than the separation between the quantized vortex lines in the superfluid component. The decay of vortex line density, L, in the former case is often described by the equation dL/dt = -chi 2 (kappa/2 pi)L-2, where kappa is the quantum of circulation and chi(2). is a dimensionless parameter of order unity. The decay of total turbulent energy, E, in the second case is often characterized by an effective kinematic viscosity, v', such that dE/dt = -v'kappa L-2(2). We present values of chi(2 )derived from numerical simulations and from experiment, which we compare with those derived from a theory developed by Vinen and Niemela. We summarize what is presently known about the values of v' from experiment, and we present a brief introductory discussion of the relationship between chi(2 )and v', leaving a more detailed discussion to a later paper.
Effective two-dimensional thickness for the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition in a highly underdoped La2-xSrxCuO4.
Baity, P. G., Shi, Xiaoyan, Shi, Zhenzhong, Benfatto, L., Popovic, Dragana
The nature of the superconducting transition in highly underdoped thick films of La2-xSrxCuO4 (x = 0.07 and 0.08) has been investigated using the in-plane transport measurements. The contribution of superconducting fluctuations to the conductivity in zero magnetic field, or paraconductivity, was determined from the magnetoresistance measured in fields applied perpendicular to the CuO2 planes. Both the temperature dependence of the paraconductivity above the transition and the nonlinear...
Show moreThe nature of the superconducting transition in highly underdoped thick films of La2-xSrxCuO4 (x = 0.07 and 0.08) has been investigated using the in-plane transport measurements. The contribution of superconducting fluctuations to the conductivity in zero magnetic field, or paraconductivity, was determined from the magnetoresistance measured in fields applied perpendicular to the CuO2 planes. Both the temperature dependence of the paraconductivity above the transition and the nonlinear current-voltage (I - V) characteristics measured across it exhibit the main signatures of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. The quantitative comparison of the superfluid stiffness, extracted from the I - V data, with the renormalization-group results for the BKT theory, reveals a large value of the vortex-core energy. This finding is confirmed by the analysis of the paraconductivity obtained using different methods. The results strongly suggest that the characteristic energy scale controlling the BKT behavior in this layered system corresponds to the superfluid stiffness of a few layers.
Effects Of Stuffing On The Atomic And Electronic Structure Of The Pyrochlore Yb2ti2o7.
Ghosh, Soham S., Manousakis, Efstratios
There are reasons to believe that the ground state of the magnetic rare-earth pyrochlore Yb(2)Ti2O(7) is on the boundary between competing ground states. We have carried out ab initio density functional calculations to determine the most stable chemical formula as a function of the oxygen chemical potential and the likely location of the oxygen atoms in the unit cell of the "stuffed" system. We find that it is energetically favorable in the stuffed crystal (with an Yb replacement on a Ti site...
Show moreThere are reasons to believe that the ground state of the magnetic rare-earth pyrochlore Yb(2)Ti2O(7) is on the boundary between competing ground states. We have carried out ab initio density functional calculations to determine the most stable chemical formula as a function of the oxygen chemical potential and the likely location of the oxygen atoms in the unit cell of the "stuffed" system. We find that it is energetically favorable in the stuffed crystal (with an Yb replacement on a Ti site) to contain oxygen vacancies which dope the Yb 4f orbitals and qualitatively change the electronic properties of the system. In addition, with the inclusion of the contribution of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on top of the GGA + U approach, we investigated the electronic structure and the magnetic moments of the most stable stuffed system. In our determined stuffed structure the valence bands as compared to those of the pure system are pushed down and a change in hybridization between the O 2p orbitals and the metal ion states is found. Our first-principle findings should form a foundation for effective models describing the low-temperature properties of this material whose true ground state remains controversial.
Effects Of Uniaxial Pressure On The Quantum Tunneling Of Magnetization In A High-symmetry Mn-12 Single-molecule Magnet.
Atkinson, James H., Fournet, Adeline D., Bhaskaran, Lakshmi, Myasoedov, Yuri, Zeldov, Eli, del Barco, Enrique, Hill, Stephen, Christou, George, Friedman, Jonathan R.
The symmetry of single-molecule magnets dictates their spin quantum dynamics, influencing how such systems relax via quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM). By reducing a system's symmetry, through the application of a magnetic field or uniaxial pressure, these dynamics can be modified. We report measurements of the magnetization dynamics of a crystalline sample of the high-symmetry [Mn12O12(O2CMe)(16)(MeOH)(4)] center dot MeOH single-molecule magnet as a function of uniaxial pressure...
Show moreThe symmetry of single-molecule magnets dictates their spin quantum dynamics, influencing how such systems relax via quantum tunneling of magnetization (QTM). By reducing a system's symmetry, through the application of a magnetic field or uniaxial pressure, these dynamics can be modified. We report measurements of the magnetization dynamics of a crystalline sample of the high-symmetry [Mn12O12(O2CMe)(16)(MeOH)(4)] center dot MeOH single-molecule magnet as a function of uniaxial pressure applied either parallel or perpendicular to the sample's "easy" magnetization axis. At temperatures between 1.8 and 3.3 K, magnetic hysteresis loops exhibit the characteristic steplike features that signal the occurrence of QTM. After applying uniaxial pressure to the sample in situ, both the magnitude and field position of the QTM steps changed. The step magnitudes were observed to grow as a function of pressure in both arrangements of pressure, while pressure applied along (perpendicular to) the sample's easy axis caused the resonant-tunneling fields to increase (decrease). These observations were compared with simulations in which the system's Hamiltonian parameters were changed. From these comparisons, we determined that parallel pressure induces changes to the second-order axial anisotropy parameter as well as either the fourth-order axial or fourth-order transverse parameter, or to both. In addition, we find that pressure applied perpendicular to the easy axis induces a rhombic anisotropy E approximate to D/2000 per kbar that can be understood as deriving from a symmetry-breaking distortion of the molecule.
Electrical Transport Properties Of Single-crystal Cab6, Srb6, And Bab6.
Stankiewicz, Jolanta, Rosa, Priscila F. S., Schlottmann, Pedro, Fisk, Zachary
The electrical resistivity and Hall effect of alkaline-earth-metal hexaboride single crystals are measured as a function of temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and magnetic field. The transport properties vary weakly with the external parameters and are modeled in terms of intrinsic variable-valence defects. These defects can stay either in (1) delocalized shallow levels or in (2) localized levels resonant with the conduction band, which can be neutral or negatively charged. Satisfactory...
Show moreThe electrical resistivity and Hall effect of alkaline-earth-metal hexaboride single crystals are measured as a function of temperature, hydrostatic pressure, and magnetic field. The transport properties vary weakly with the external parameters and are modeled in terms of intrinsic variable-valence defects. These defects can stay either in (1) delocalized shallow levels or in (2) localized levels resonant with the conduction band, which can be neutral or negatively charged. Satisfactory agreement is obtained for electronic transport properties in a broad temperature and pressure range, although fitting the magnetoresistance is less straightforward and a combination of various mechanisms is needed to explain the field and temperature dependences.
Electron spin resonance in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid with spin-orbit coupling.
Maiti, Saurabh, Imran, Muhammad, Maslov, Dmitrii L.
Electron spin resonance (ESR) is usually viewed as a single-particle phenomenon protected from the effect of many-body correlations. We show that this is not the case in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid (FL) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Depending on whether the in-plane magnetic field is below or above some critical value, ESR in such a system probes up to three chiral-spin collective modes, augmented by the spin mode in the presence of the field, or the Silin-Leggett mode. All the modes are...
Show moreElectron spin resonance (ESR) is usually viewed as a single-particle phenomenon protected from the effect of many-body correlations. We show that this is not the case in a two-dimensional Fermi liquid (FL) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Depending on whether the in-plane magnetic field is below or above some critical value, ESR in such a system probes up to three chiral-spin collective modes, augmented by the spin mode in the presence of the field, or the Silin-Leggett mode. All the modes are affected by both SOC and FL renormalizations. We argue that ESR can be used as a probe not only for SOC but also for many-body physics.
Electron-hole asymmetry, Dirac fermions, and quantum magnetoresistance in BaMnBi2.
Li, Lijun, Wang, Kefeng, Graf, D., Wang, Limin, Wang, Aifeng, Petrovic, C.
We report two-dimensional quantum transport and Dirac fermions in BaMnBi2 single crystals. BaMnBi2 is a layered bad metal with highly anisotropic conductivity and magnetic order below 290 K. Magnetotransport properties, nonzero Berry phase, small cyclotronmass, and the first-principles band structure calculations indicate the presence of Dirac fermions in Bi square nets. Quantum oscillations in the Hall channel suggest the presence of both electron and hole pockets, whereas Dirac and...
Show moreWe report two-dimensional quantum transport and Dirac fermions in BaMnBi2 single crystals. BaMnBi2 is a layered bad metal with highly anisotropic conductivity and magnetic order below 290 K. Magnetotransport properties, nonzero Berry phase, small cyclotronmass, and the first-principles band structure calculations indicate the presence of Dirac fermions in Bi square nets. Quantum oscillations in the Hall channel suggest the presence of both electron and hole pockets, whereas Dirac and parabolic states coexist at the Fermi level.
Emergent Quasi-one-dimensionality In A Kagome Magnet: A Simple Route To Complexity.
Gong, Shou-Shu, Zhu, Wei, Yang, Kun, Starykh, Oleg A., Sheng, D. N., Balents, Leon
We study the ground-state phase diagram of the quantum spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice with first-(J(1) < 0), second-(J(2) < 0), and third-neighbor interactions (J(d) > 0) by means of analytical low-energy field theory and numerical density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) studies. The results offer a consistent picture of the J(d)-dominant regime in terms of three sets of spin chains weakly coupled by the ferromagnetic interchain interactions J(1,2). When either J(1) or J...
Show moreWe study the ground-state phase diagram of the quantum spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the kagome lattice with first-(J(1) < 0), second-(J(2) < 0), and third-neighbor interactions (J(d) > 0) by means of analytical low-energy field theory and numerical density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) studies. The results offer a consistent picture of the J(d)-dominant regime in terms of three sets of spin chains weakly coupled by the ferromagnetic interchain interactions J(1,2). When either J(1) or J(2) is much stronger than the other one, the model is found to support one of two cuboctohedral phases, cuboc1, and cuboc2. These cuboc states host noncoplanar long-ranged magnetic order and possess finite scalar spin chirality. However, in the compensated regime J(1) similar or equal to J(2), a valence bond crystal phase emerges between the two cuboc phases. We find excellent agreement between an analytical theory based on coupled spin chains and unbiased DMRG calculations, including at a very detailed level of comparison of the structure of the valence bond crystal state. To our knowledge, this is the first such comprehensive understanding of a highly frustrated two-dimensional quantum antiferromagnet. We find no evidence of either the one-dimensional gapless spin liquid or the chiral spin liquids, which were previously suggested by parton mean-field theories.
Emergent Spin-1 Trimerized Valence Bond Crystal In The Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Model On The Star Lattice.
Ran, Shi-Ju, Li, Wei, Gong, Shou-Shu, Weichselbaum, Andreas, von Delft, Jan, Su, Gang
We explore the frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the star lattice with antiferromagnetic (AF) couplings inside each triangle and ferromagnetic (FM) intertriangle couplings (J(e) < 0), and calculate its magnetic and thermodynamic properties. We show that the FM couplings do not sabotage the magnetic disordering of the ground state due to the frustration from the AF interactions inside each triangle, but trigger a fully gapped inversion-symmetry-breaking trimerized valence bond crystal ...
Show moreWe explore the frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the star lattice with antiferromagnetic (AF) couplings inside each triangle and ferromagnetic (FM) intertriangle couplings (J(e) < 0), and calculate its magnetic and thermodynamic properties. We show that the FM couplings do not sabotage the magnetic disordering of the ground state due to the frustration from the AF interactions inside each triangle, but trigger a fully gapped inversion-symmetry-breaking trimerized valence bond crystal (TVBC) with emergent spin-1 degrees of freedom. We discover that with strengthening J(e), the system exhibits a universal scaling behavior either with or without a magnetic field h: the order parameter, the five critical fields that separate the J(e)-h ground-state phase diagram into six phases, and the excitation gap obtained by low-temperature specific heat, all depend exponentially on J(e). Our work implies that the spin-1 VBCs can be stabilized by introducing small FM couplings in the geometrically frustrated spin-1/2 systems.
Energy-level Statistics In Strongly Disordered Systems With Power-law Hopping.
Titum, Paraj, Quito, Victor L., Syzranov, Sergey
Motivated by neutral excitations in disordered electronic materials and systems of trapped ultracold particles with long-range interactions, we study energy-level statistics of quasiparticles with the power-law hopping Hamiltonian proportional to 1/r(alpha) in a strong random potential. In solid-state systems such quasiparticles, which are exemplified by neutral dipolar excitations, lead to long-range correlations of local observables and may dominate energy transport. Focusing on the...
Show moreMotivated by neutral excitations in disordered electronic materials and systems of trapped ultracold particles with long-range interactions, we study energy-level statistics of quasiparticles with the power-law hopping Hamiltonian proportional to 1/r(alpha) in a strong random potential. In solid-state systems such quasiparticles, which are exemplified by neutral dipolar excitations, lead to long-range correlations of local observables and may dominate energy transport. Focusing on the excitations in disordered electronic systems, we compute the energy-level correlation function R-2(omega) in a finite system in the limit of sufficiently strong disorder. At small energy differences, the correlations exhibit Wigner-Dyson statistics. In particular, in the limit of very strong disorder the energy-level correlation function is given by R-2(omega, V) = A(3) omega/omega(V) for small frequencies omega << omega(V) and R-2(omega, V) = 1 - (alpha - d)A(1) (omega(V)/omega)(d/alpha) - A(2) (omega(V)/omega)(2) for large frequencies omega << omega(V), where omega(V) proportional to V-alpha/d is the characteristic matrix element of excitation hopping in a system of volume V, and A(1), A(2), and A(3) are coefficients of order unity which depend on the shape of the system. The energy-level correlation function, which we study, allows for a direct experimental observation, for example, by measuring the correlations of the ac conductance of the system at different frequencies.
Entanglement Entropy And Topological Order In Resonating Valence-bond Quantum Spin Liquids.
Wildeboer, Julia, Seidel, Alexander, Melko, Roger G.
On the triangular and kagome lattices, short-ranged resonating valence-bond wave functions can be sampled without the sign problem using a recently developed Pfaffian Monte Carlo scheme. In this Rapid Communication, we study the Renyi entanglement entropy in these wave functions using a replica-trick method. Using various spatial bipartitions, including the Levin-Wen construction, our finite-size scaled Renyi entropy gives a topological contribution consistent with. gamma = ln( 2), as...
Show moreOn the triangular and kagome lattices, short-ranged resonating valence-bond wave functions can be sampled without the sign problem using a recently developed Pfaffian Monte Carlo scheme. In this Rapid Communication, we study the Renyi entanglement entropy in these wave functions using a replica-trick method. Using various spatial bipartitions, including the Levin-Wen construction, our finite-size scaled Renyi entropy gives a topological contribution consistent with. gamma = ln( 2), as expected for a gapped Z(2) quantum spin liquid. We prove that the mutual statistics is consistent with the toric code anyon model and rule out any other quasiparticle statistics such as the double semion model.
Equilibrium, metastability, and hysteresis in a model spin-crossover material with nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic-like and long-range ferromagnetic-like interactions.
Rikvold, Per Arne, Brown, Gregory, Miyashita, Seiji, Omand, Conor, Nishino, Masamichi
Phase diagrams and hysteresis loops were obtained by Monte Carlo simulations and a mean- field method for a simplified model of a spin-crossovermaterialwith a two-step transition between the high-spin and low-spin states. This model is a mapping onto a square-lattice S = 1/2 Ising model with antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and ferromagnetic Husimi-Temperley ( equivalent-neighbor) long-range interactions. Phase diagrams obtained by the two methods for weak and strong long-range interactions...
Show morePhase diagrams and hysteresis loops were obtained by Monte Carlo simulations and a mean- field method for a simplified model of a spin-crossovermaterialwith a two-step transition between the high-spin and low-spin states. This model is a mapping onto a square-lattice S = 1/2 Ising model with antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor and ferromagnetic Husimi-Temperley ( equivalent-neighbor) long-range interactions. Phase diagrams obtained by the two methods for weak and strong long-range interactions are found to be similar. However, for intermediate-strength long-range interactions, the Monte Carlo simulations show that tricritical points decompose into pairs of critical end points and mean-field critical points surrounded by horn-shaped regions of metastability. Hysteresis loops along paths traversing the horn regions are strongly reminiscent of thermal two-step transition loops with hysteresis, recently observed experimentally in several spin-crossover materials. We believe analogous phenomena should be observable in experiments and simulations for many systems that exhibit competition between local antiferromagnetic-like interactions and long-range ferromagnetic-like interactions caused by elastic distortions.
Evidence For Correlated Dynamics Near The Berezinskii-kosterlitz-thouless-like Transition In Highly Underdoped La2-xsrxcuo4.
Shi, Zhenzhong, Shi, Xiaoyan, Popovic, Dragana
A low-frequency resistance noise study in highly underdoped thick films of La2-xSrxCuO4 (x = 0.07 and 0.08) reveals slow, correlated dynamics and breaking of ergodicity near the superconducting transition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type. The observed correlated behavior is strongly suppressed by disorder.
Evidence For Impact Ionization In Vanadium Dioxide.
Holleman, Joshua, Bishop, Michael M., Garcia, Carlos, Winfred, J. S. R. Vellore, Lee, Shinbuhm, Lee, Ho Nyung, Beekman, Christianne, Manousakis, Efstratios, McGill, Stephen A.
Pump-probe optical spectroscopy was used to investigate proposed charge-carrier multiplication via impact ionization in the M-1 insulating phase of VO2. By comparing the transient reflectivities of the film when pumped at less than and then more than twice the band-gap energy, we observed a larger ultrafast response with the higher energy pump color while the film was still transiently in the insulating phase. We additionally identified multiple time scales within the charge dynamics and...
Show morePump-probe optical spectroscopy was used to investigate proposed charge-carrier multiplication via impact ionization in the M-1 insulating phase of VO2. By comparing the transient reflectivities of the film when pumped at less than and then more than twice the band-gap energy, we observed a larger ultrafast response with the higher energy pump color while the film was still transiently in the insulating phase. We additionally identified multiple time scales within the charge dynamics and analyzed how these changed when the pump and probe wavelengths were varied. This experiment provided evidence that a fast carrier multiplication process, i.e., impact ionization, acts efficiently in this prototypical strongly correlated insulator, as was recently predicted by theoretical calculations.
Extremely Large Nonsaturating Magnetoresistance And Ultrahigh Mobility Due To Topological Surface States In The Metallic Bi2te3 Topological Insulator.
Shrestha, K., Chou, M., Graf, D., Yang, H. D., Lorenz, B., Chu, C. W.
Weak antilocalization (WAL) effects in Bi2Te3 single crystals have been investigated at high and low bulk charge-carrier concentrations. At low charge-carrier density the WAL curves scale with the normal component of the magnetic field, demonstrating the dominance of topological surface states in magnetoconductivity. At high charge-carrier density the WAL curves scale with neither the applied field nor its normal component, implying a mixture of bulk and surface conduction. WAL due to...
Show moreWeak antilocalization (WAL) effects in Bi2Te3 single crystals have been investigated at high and low bulk charge-carrier concentrations. At low charge-carrier density the WAL curves scale with the normal component of the magnetic field, demonstrating the dominance of topological surface states in magnetoconductivity. At high charge-carrier density the WAL curves scale with neither the applied field nor its normal component, implying a mixture of bulk and surface conduction. WAL due to topological surface states shows no dependence on the nature (electrons or holes) of the bulk charge carriers. The observations of an extremely large nonsaturating magnetoresistance and ultrahigh mobility in the samples with lower carrier density further support the presence of surface states. The physical parameters characterizing the WAL effects are calculated using the Hikami-LarkinNagaoka formula. At high charge-carrier concentrations, there is a greater number of conduction channels and a decrease in the phase coherence length compared to low charge-carrier concentrations. The extremely large magnetoresistance and high mobility of topological insulators have great technological value and can be exploited in magnetoelectric sensors and memory devices.
Fermi Surface Reconstruction And Dimensional Topology Change In Nd-doped Cecoin5.
Klotz, J., Goetze, K., Sheikin, I., Foerster, T., Graf, D., Park, J.-H., Choi, E. S., Hu, R., Petrovic, C., Wosnitza, J., Green, E. L.
We performed low-temperature de Haas-van Alphen effect measurements on a Ce1-xNdxCoIn5 series, for x = 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, and 1, down to T = 40 mK using torque magnetometry in magnetic fields up to 35 T. Our results indicate that a Fermi surface (FS) reconstruction occurs from a quasi-two-dimensional topology for Nd-2% to a rather three-dimensional one for Nd-5%, thus reducing the possibility of perfect FS nesting. The FS evolves further with increasing Nd content with no observed divergence of...
Show moreWe performed low-temperature de Haas-van Alphen effect measurements on a Ce1-xNdxCoIn5 series, for x = 0.02, 0.05, 0.1, and 1, down to T = 40 mK using torque magnetometry in magnetic fields up to 35 T. Our results indicate that a Fermi surface (FS) reconstruction occurs from a quasi-two-dimensional topology for Nd-2% to a rather three-dimensional one for Nd-5%, thus reducing the possibility of perfect FS nesting. The FS evolves further with increasing Nd content with no observed divergence of the effective mass between Nd-2% and 10%, consistent with the crossing of a spin density wave type of quantum critical point. Our results elucidate the origin of the Q phase observed at the 5% Nd-doping level [Raymond et al., T. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83, 013707 (2014)].
Fermi surface reconstruction in FeSe under high pressure.
Terashima, Taichi, Kikugawa, Naoki, Kiswandhi, Andhika, Graf, David, Choi, Eun-Sang, Brooks, James S., Kasahara, Shigeru, Watashige, Tatsuya, Matsuda, Yuji, Shibauchi, Takasada,...
Show moreTerashima, Taichi, Kikugawa, Naoki, Kiswandhi, Andhika, Graf, David, Choi, Eun-Sang, Brooks, James S., Kasahara, Shigeru, Watashige, Tatsuya, Matsuda, Yuji, Shibauchi, Takasada, Wolf, Thomas, Boehmer, Anna E., Hardy, Frederic, Meingast, Christoph, Loehneysen, Hilbert V., Uji, Shinya
We report Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillation measurements on FeSe under high pressure up to P = 16.1 kbar. We find a sudden change in SdH oscillations at the onset of the pressure-induced antiferromagnetism at P similar to 8 kbar. We argue that this change can be attributed to a reconstruction of the Fermi surface by the antiferromagnetic order. The negative dT(c)/dP observed in a range between P similar to 8 and 12 kbar may be explained by the reduction in the density of states due to the...
Show moreWe report Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillation measurements on FeSe under high pressure up to P = 16.1 kbar. We find a sudden change in SdH oscillations at the onset of the pressure-induced antiferromagnetism at P similar to 8 kbar. We argue that this change can be attributed to a reconstruction of the Fermi surface by the antiferromagnetic order. The negative dT(c)/dP observed in a range between P similar to 8 and 12 kbar may be explained by the reduction in the density of states due to the reconstruction. The ratio of the transition temperature to the effective Fermi energy remains high under high pressure: k(B)T(c)/E-F similar to 0.1 even at P = 16.1 kbar.
Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point In Cepd2p2 With Pd -> Ni Substitution.
Lai, Y., Bone, S. E., Minasian, S., Ferrier, M. G., Lezama-Pacheco, J., Mocko, V., Ditter, A. S., Kozimor, S. A., Seidler, G. T., Nelson, W. L., Chiu, Y.-C., Huang, K., Potter,...
Show moreLai, Y., Bone, S. E., Minasian, S., Ferrier, M. G., Lezama-Pacheco, J., Mocko, V., Ditter, A. S., Kozimor, S. A., Seidler, G. T., Nelson, W. L., Chiu, Y.-C., Huang, K., Potter, W., Graf, D., Albrecht-Schmitt, T. E., Baumbach, R. E.
An investigation of the structural, thermodynamic, and electronic transport properties of the isoelectronic chemical substitution series Ce(Pd1-x Ni-x)(2)P-2 is reported, where a possible ferromagnetic quantum critical point is uncovered in the temperature-concentration (T-x) phase diagram. This behavior results from the simultaneous contraction of the unit cell volume, which tunes the relative strengths of the Kondo and Ruderman-KittelKasuya- Yosida (RKKY) interactions, and the introduction...
Show moreAn investigation of the structural, thermodynamic, and electronic transport properties of the isoelectronic chemical substitution series Ce(Pd1-x Ni-x)(2)P-2 is reported, where a possible ferromagnetic quantum critical point is uncovered in the temperature-concentration (T-x) phase diagram. This behavior results from the simultaneous contraction of the unit cell volume, which tunes the relative strengths of the Kondo and Ruderman-KittelKasuya- Yosida (RKKY) interactions, and the introduction of disorder through alloying. Near the critical region at x(cr) approximate to 0.7, the rate of contraction of the unit cell volume strengthens, indicating that the cerium f valence crosses over from trivalent to a noninteger value. Consistent with this picture, x-ray absorption spectroscopy measurements reveal that while CePd2P2 has a purely trivalent cerium f state, CeNi2P2 has a small (<10 %) tetravalent contribution. In a broad region around xcr, there is a breakdown of Fermi-liquid temperature dependences, signaling the influence of quantum critical fluctuations and disorder effects. Measurements of clean CePd2P2 furthermore showthat applied pressure has an initial effect similar to alloying on the ferromagnetic order. From these results, CePd2P2 emerges as a keystone system to test theories such as the Belitz-Kirkpatrick-Vojta model for ferromagnetic quantum criticality, where distinct behaviors are expected in the dirty and clean limits.
Field-induced Magnetic Phase Transitions And Metastable States In Tb3ni.
Gubkin, A. F., Wu, L. S., Nikitin, S. E., Suslov, A. V., Podlesnyak, A., Prokhnenko, O., Prokes, K., Yokaichiya, F., Keller, L., Baranov, N. V.
In this paper we report the detailed study of magnetic phase diagrams, low-temperature magnetic structures, and the magnetic field effect on the electrical resistivity of the binary intermetallic compound Tb3Ni. The incommensurate magnetic structure of the spin-density-wave type described with magnetic superspace group P112(1)/a1'(ab0)0ss and propagation vector k(IC) = [0.506, 0.299,0] was found to emerge just below Neel temperature T-N = 61 K. Further cooling below 58 K results in the...
Show moreIn this paper we report the detailed study of magnetic phase diagrams, low-temperature magnetic structures, and the magnetic field effect on the electrical resistivity of the binary intermetallic compound Tb3Ni. The incommensurate magnetic structure of the spin-density-wave type described with magnetic superspace group P112(1)/a1'(ab0)0ss and propagation vector k(IC) = [0.506, 0.299,0] was found to emerge just below Neel temperature T-N = 61 K. Further cooling below 58 K results in the appearance of multicomponent magnetic states: (i) a combination of k(1) = [1/2, 1/2, 0] and k(IC) in the temperature range 51 < T < 58 K; (ii) a mixed magnetic state of k(IC), k(1), and k(2) = [1/2, 1/4, 0] with the partially locked-in incommensurate component in the temperature range 48 < T < 51 K; and (iii) a low-temperature magnetic structure that is described by the intersection of two isotropy subgroups associated with the irreducible representations of two coupled primary order parameters (OPs) k(2) = [1/2, 1/4, 0] and k(3) = [1/2, 1/3, 0] and involves irreducible representations of the secondary OPs k(1) = [1/2, 1/2, 0] and k(4) = [1/2, 0, 0] below 48 K. An external magnetic field suppresses the complex low-temperature antiferromagnetic states and induces metamagnetic transitions towards a forced ferromagnetic state that are accompanied by a substantial magnetoresistance effect due to the magnetic superzone effect. The forced ferromagnetic state induced after application of an external magnetic field along the b and c crystallographic axes was found to be irreversible below 3 and 8 K, respectively.
Field-induced Spin Splitting And Anomalous Photoluminescence Circular Polarization In Ch3nh3pbi3 Films At High Magnetic Field.
Zhang, Chuang, Sun, Dali, Yu, Zhi-Gang, Sheng, Chuan-Xiang, McGill, Stephen, Semenov, Dmitry, Vardeny, Zeev Valy
The organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites show excellent optical and electrical properties for photovoltaic and a myriad of other optoelectronics applications. Using high-field magneto-optical measurements up to 17.5 T at cryogenic temperatures, we have studied the spin-dependent optical transitions in the prototype CH3NH3PbI3, which are manifested in the field-induced circularly polarized photoluminescence emission. The energy splitting between left and right circularly polarized emission...
Show moreThe organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites show excellent optical and electrical properties for photovoltaic and a myriad of other optoelectronics applications. Using high-field magneto-optical measurements up to 17.5 T at cryogenic temperatures, we have studied the spin-dependent optical transitions in the prototype CH3NH3PbI3, which are manifested in the field-induced circularly polarized photoluminescence emission. The energy splitting between left and right circularly polarized emission bands is measured to be similar to 1.5 meV at 17.5 T, from which we obtained an exciton effective g factor of similar to 1.32. Also from the photoluminescence diamagnetic shift we estimate the exciton binding energy to be similar to 17 meV at low temperature. Surprisingly, the corresponding field-induced circular polarization is "anomalous" in that the photoluminescence emission of the higher split energy band is stronger than that of the lower split band. This "reversed" intensity ratio originates from the combination of long electron spin relaxation time and hole negative g factor in CH3NH3PbI3, which are in agreement with a model based on the k.p effective-mass approximation.
Forbidden Coherent Transfer Observed Between Two Realizations Of Quasiharmonic Spin Systems.
Bertaina, S., Yue, G., Dutoit, C.-E., Chiorescu, I.
The multilevel system Mn-55(2 vertical bar) is used to generate two pseudoharmonic level systems, as representations of the same electronic sextuplet at different nuclear spin projections. The systems are coupled using a forbidden nuclear transition induced by the crystalline anisotropy. We demonstrate Rabi oscillations between the two representations in conditions similar to two coupled pseudoharmonic quantum oscillators. Rabi oscillations are performed at a detuned pumping frequency which...
Show moreThe multilevel system Mn-55(2 vertical bar) is used to generate two pseudoharmonic level systems, as representations of the same electronic sextuplet at different nuclear spin projections. The systems are coupled using a forbidden nuclear transition induced by the crystalline anisotropy. We demonstrate Rabi oscillations between the two representations in conditions similar to two coupled pseudoharmonic quantum oscillators. Rabi oscillations are performed at a detuned pumping frequency which matches the energy difference between electronuclear states of different oscillators. We measure a coupling stronger than the decoherence rate to indicate the possibility of fast information exchange between the systems.
Frustrated Magnetism In The Tetragonal Cose Analog Of Superconducting Fese.
Wilfong, Brandon, Zhou, Xiuquan, Vivanco, Hector, Campbell, Daniel J., Wang, Kefeng, Graf, Dave, Paglione, Johnpierre, Rodriguez, Efrain
Recently synthesized metastable tetragonal CoSe, isostructural to the FeSe superconductor, offers a new avenue for investigating systems in close proximity to the iron-based superconductors. We present magnetic and transport property measurements on powders and single crystals of CoSe. High field magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate a suppression of the previously reported 10 K ferromagnetic transition with the magnetic susceptibility, exhibiting time dependence below the proposed...
Show moreRecently synthesized metastable tetragonal CoSe, isostructural to the FeSe superconductor, offers a new avenue for investigating systems in close proximity to the iron-based superconductors. We present magnetic and transport property measurements on powders and single crystals of CoSe. High field magnetic susceptibility measurements indicate a suppression of the previously reported 10 K ferromagnetic transition with the magnetic susceptibility, exhibiting time dependence below the proposed transition. Dynamic scaling analysis of the time dependence yields a critical relaxation time of tau* = 0.064 +/- 0.008 s which in turn yields activation energy E-a(*) = 14.84 +/- 0.59 K and an ideal glass temperature T-0(*) = 8.91 +/- 0.09 K from Vogel-Fulcher analysis. No transition is observed in resistivity and specific heat measurements, but both measurements indicate that CoSe is metallic. These results are interpreted on the basis of CoSe exhibiting frustrated magnetic ordering arising from competing magnetic interactions. Arrott analysis of single crystal magnetic susceptibility has indicated the transition temperature occurs in close proximity to previous reports and that the magnetic moment lies solely in the ab plane. The results have implications for understanding the relationship between magnetism and transport properties in the iron chalcogenide superconductors.
Ground-state tuning of metal-insulator transition by compositional variations in BaIr1-xRuxO3 (0 <= x <= 1).
Yuan, S. J., Butrouna, K., Terzic, J., Zheng, H., Aswartham, S., DeLong, L. E., Ye, Feng, Schlottmann, P., Cao, G.
Hexagonal BaIrO3 is a magnetic insulator driven by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), whereas BaRuO3 is an enhanced paramagnetic metal. Our investigation of structural, magnetic, transport, and thermal properties reveals that substitution of Ru4+ (4d(4)) ions for Ir4+ (5d(5)) ions in BaIrO3 reduces the magnitudes of the SOI and a monoclinic structural distortion and rebalances the competition between the SOI and the lattice degrees of freedom to render an evolution from a magnetic insulting...
Show moreHexagonal BaIrO3 is a magnetic insulator driven by the spin-orbit interaction (SOI), whereas BaRuO3 is an enhanced paramagnetic metal. Our investigation of structural, magnetic, transport, and thermal properties reveals that substitution of Ru4+ (4d(4)) ions for Ir4+ (5d(5)) ions in BaIrO3 reduces the magnitudes of the SOI and a monoclinic structural distortion and rebalances the competition between the SOI and the lattice degrees of freedom to render an evolution from a magnetic insulting state to a robust metallic state. The central findings of this paper are as follows: (1) light Ru doping (0 < x <= 0.15) prompts simultaneous, precipitous drops in both the magnetic ordering temperature T-N and the electrical resistivity, and (2) heavier Ru doping (0.41 <= x <= 0.9) induces a robust metallic state without any long-range magnetic order. All results suggest a critical role of the lattice degrees of freedom in determining the ground state in the heavy transition-metal oxides.
Gutzwiller renormalization group.
Lanata, Nicola, Yao, Yong-Xin, Deng, Xiaoyu, Wang, Cai-Zhuang, Ho, Kai-Ming, Kotliar, Gabriel
We develop a variational scheme called the "Gutzwiller renormalization group" (GRG), which enables us to calculate the ground state of Anderson impurity models (AIM) with arbitrary numerical precision. Our method exploits the low-entanglement property of the ground state of local Hamiltonians in combination with the framework of the Gutzwiller wave function and indicates that the ground state of the AIM has a very simple structure, which can be represented very accurately in terms of a...
Show moreWe develop a variational scheme called the "Gutzwiller renormalization group" (GRG), which enables us to calculate the ground state of Anderson impurity models (AIM) with arbitrary numerical precision. Our method exploits the low-entanglement property of the ground state of local Hamiltonians in combination with the framework of the Gutzwiller wave function and indicates that the ground state of the AIM has a very simple structure, which can be represented very accurately in terms of a surprisingly small number of variational parameters. We perform benchmark calculations of the single-band AIM that validate our theory and suggest that the GRG might enable us to study complex systems beyond the reach of the other methods presently available and pave the way to interesting generalizations, e.g., to nonequilibrium transport in nanostructures.
Hall Effect Within The Colossal Magnetoresistive Semimetallic State Of Mote2.
Zhou, Qiong, Rhodes, D., Zhang, Q. R., Tang, S., Schoenemann, R., Balicas, L.
Here, we report a systematic study on the Hall effect of the semimetallic state of bulk MoTe2, which was recently claimed to be a candidate for a novel type of Weyl semimetallic state. The temperature (T) dependence of the carrier densities and of their mobilities, as estimated from a numerical analysis based on the isotropic two-carrier model, indicates that its exceedingly large and nonsaturating magnetoresistance may be attributed to a near perfect compensation between the densities of...
Show moreHere, we report a systematic study on the Hall effect of the semimetallic state of bulk MoTe2, which was recently claimed to be a candidate for a novel type of Weyl semimetallic state. The temperature (T) dependence of the carrier densities and of their mobilities, as estimated from a numerical analysis based on the isotropic two-carrier model, indicates that its exceedingly large and nonsaturating magnetoresistance may be attributed to a near perfect compensation between the densities of electrons and holes at low temperatures. A sudden increase in hole density, with a concomitant rapid increase in the electron mobility below T similar to 40 K, leads to comparable densities of electrons and holes at low temperatures suggesting a possible electronic phase transition around this temperature.
Hybridization Gap In The Heavy-fermion Compound Upd2al3 Via Quasiparticle Scattering Spectroscopy.
Jaggi, N. K., Mehio, O., Dwyer, M., Greene, L. H., Baumbach, R. E., Tobash, P. H., Bauer, E. D., Thompson, J. D., Park, W. K.
We present results from point-contact spectroscopy of the antiferromagnetic heavy-fermion superconductor UPd2Al3: Conductance spectra are taken from single crystals with two major surface orientations as a function of temperature andmagnetic field and analyzed using a theory of cotunneling into anAnderson lattice. Spectroscopic signatures are clearly identified, including the distinct asymmetric double-peak structure arising from the opening of a hybridization gap when a coherent heavy-Fermi...
Show moreWe present results from point-contact spectroscopy of the antiferromagnetic heavy-fermion superconductor UPd2Al3: Conductance spectra are taken from single crystals with two major surface orientations as a function of temperature andmagnetic field and analyzed using a theory of cotunneling into anAnderson lattice. Spectroscopic signatures are clearly identified, including the distinct asymmetric double-peak structure arising from the opening of a hybridization gap when a coherent heavy-Fermi liquid is formed. Both the hybridization gap, found to be 7.2 +/- 0.3meV at 4 K, and the conductance enhancement above a flat background decrease upon increasing temperature. While the hybridization gap is extrapolated to remain finite up to similar to 28 K, close to the temperature around which the magnetic susceptibility displays a broad peak, the conductance enhancement vanishes at similar to 18 K, slightly above the antiferromagnetic transition temperature (T-N approximate to 14 K). This rapid decrease of the conductance enhancement is understood as a consequence of the junction drifting away from the ballistic regime due to increased scattering off magnons associated with the localized U 5f electrons. This shows that while the hybridization gap opening is not directly associated with the antiferromagnetic ordering, its visibility in the conductance is greatly affected by the temperature-dependent magnetic excitations. Our findings are not only consistent with the 5f dual-nature picture in the literature but also shed new light on the interplay between the itinerant and localized electrons in UPd2Al3.
Incommensurate crystal supercell and polarization flop observed in the magnetoelectric ilmenite MnTiO3.
Silverstein, Harlyn J., Skoropata, Elizabeth, Sarte, Paul M., Mauws, Cole, Aczel, Adam A., Choi, Eun Sang, van Lierop, Johan, Wiebe, Christopher R., Zhou, Haidong
MnTiO3 has been studied for many decades, but it was only in the last few years that its magnetoelectric behavior had been observed. Here, we use neutron scattering on two separately grown single crystals and two powder samples to show the presence of a supercell that breaks R (3) over bar symmetry. We also present the temperature and field dependence of the dielectric constant and pyroelectric current and show evidence of nonzero off-diagonal magnetoelectric tensor elements (forbidden by R ...
Show moreMnTiO3 has been studied for many decades, but it was only in the last few years that its magnetoelectric behavior had been observed. Here, we use neutron scattering on two separately grown single crystals and two powder samples to show the presence of a supercell that breaks R (3) over bar symmetry. We also present the temperature and field dependence of the dielectric constant and pyroelectric current and show evidence of nonzero off-diagonal magnetoelectric tensor elements (forbidden by R (3) over bar symmetry) followed by a polarization flop accompanying the spin flop transition at mu H-0(SF) = 6.5T. Mossbauer spectroscopy on MnTiO3 gently doped with Fe-57 was used to help shed light on the impact of the supercell on the observed behavior. Although the full supercell structure could not be solved at this time due to a lack of visible reflections, the full scope of the results presented here suggest that the role of local spin-lattice coupling in the magnetoelectric properties of MnTiO3 is likely more important than previously thought.
Interaction-driven Fractional Quantum Hall State Of Hard-core Bosons On Kagome Lattice At One-third Filling.
Zhu, W., Gong, S. S., Sheng, D. N.
There has been a growing interest in realizing topologically nontrivial states of matter in band insulators, where a quantum Hall effect can appear as an intrinsic property of the band structure. While ongoing progress is under way with a number of directions, the possibility of realizing novel interaction-generated topological phases, without the requirement of a nontrivial invariant encoded in single-particle wave function or band structure, can significantly extend the class of topological...
Show moreThere has been a growing interest in realizing topologically nontrivial states of matter in band insulators, where a quantum Hall effect can appear as an intrinsic property of the band structure. While ongoing progress is under way with a number of directions, the possibility of realizing novel interaction-generated topological phases, without the requirement of a nontrivial invariant encoded in single-particle wave function or band structure, can significantly extend the class of topological materials and is thus of great importance. Here, we show an interaction-driven topological phase emerging in an extended Bose-Hubbard model on a kagome lattice, where the noninteracting band structure is topological trivial with zero Berry curvature in the Brillouin zone. By means of an unbiased state-of-the-art density-matrix renormalization group technique, we identify that the ground state in a broad parameter region is equivalent to a bosonic fractional quantum Hall Laughlin state, based on the characterization of universal properties including ground-state degeneracy, edge excitations, and anyonic quasiparticle statistics. Our work paves a way to finding an interaction-induced topological phase at the phase boundary of conventionally ordered solid phases.
Interlayer Electronic Transport In Camnbi2 Antiferromagnet.
Wang, Aifeng, Graf, D., Wu, Lijun, Wang, Kefeng, Bozin, E., Zhu, Yimei, Petrovic, C.
We report interlayer electronic transport in CaMnBi2 single crystals. Quantum oscillations and angular magnetoresistance suggest coherent electronic conduction and valley polarized conduction of Dirac states. The small cyclotron mass, high mobility of carriers, and nontrivial Berry's phase are consistent with the presence of Dirac fermions on the side wall of the warped cylindrical Fermi surface. Similarly to SrMnBi2, which features an anisotropic Dirac cone, our results suggest that magnetic...
Show moreWe report interlayer electronic transport in CaMnBi2 single crystals. Quantum oscillations and angular magnetoresistance suggest coherent electronic conduction and valley polarized conduction of Dirac states. The small cyclotron mass, high mobility of carriers, and nontrivial Berry's phase are consistent with the presence of Dirac fermions on the side wall of the warped cylindrical Fermi surface. Similarly to SrMnBi2, which features an anisotropic Dirac cone, our results suggest that magnetic-field-induced changes in interlayer conduction are also present in layered bismuth-based materials with a zero-energy line in momentum space created by the staggered alkaline earth atoms.
Interplay Of Magnetism And Transport In Hobi.
Yang, H.-Y., Gaudet, J., Aczel, A. A., Graf, D. E., Blaha, P., Gaulin, B. D., Tafti, Fazel
We report the observation of an extreme magnetoresistance (XMR) in HoBi with a large magnetic moment from Ho f electrons. Neutron scattering is used to determine the magnetic wave vectors across several metamagnetic transitions on the phase diagram of HoBi. Unlike other magnetic rare-earth monopnictides, the field dependence of resistivity in HoBi is nonmonotonic and reveals clear signatures of every metamagnetic transition in the low-temperature and low-field regime, at T < 2 K and H < 2.3 T...
Show moreWe report the observation of an extreme magnetoresistance (XMR) in HoBi with a large magnetic moment from Ho f electrons. Neutron scattering is used to determine the magnetic wave vectors across several metamagnetic transitions on the phase diagram of HoBi. Unlike other magnetic rare-earth monopnictides, the field dependence of resistivity in HoBi is nonmonotonic and reveals clear signatures of every metamagnetic transition in the low-temperature and low-field regime, at T < 2 K and H < 2.3 T. The XMR appears at H > 2.3 T after all the metamagnetic transitions are complete and the system is spin polarized by the external magnetic field. The existence of an onset field for XMR and the intimate connection between magnetism and transport in HoBi are unprecedented among the magnetic rare-earth monopnictides. Therefore, HoBi provides a unique opportunity to understand the electrical transport in magnetic XMR semimetals.
Intersubband Scattering In N-gaas/algaas Wide Quantum Wells.
Drichko, I. L., Smirnov, I. Yu, Nestoklon, M. O., Suslov, A. V., Kamburov, D., Baldwin, K. W., Pfeiffer, L. N., West, K. W., Golub, L. E.
Slow magneto-oscilations of the conductivity are observed in a 75-nm-wide quantum well at heating of the two-dimensional electrons by a high-intensity surface acoustic wave. These magneto-oscillations are caused by intersubband elastic scattering between the symmetric and asymmetric subbands formed due to an electrostatic barrier in the center of the quantum well. The tunneling splitting between these subbands as well as the intersubband scattering rate are determined.
Jain-2/5 Parent Hamiltonian: Structure Of Zero Modes, Dominance Patterns, And Zero Mode Generators.
Chen, Li, Bandyopadhyay, Sumanta, Seidel, Alexander
We analyze general zero mode properties of the parent Hamiltonian of the unprojected Jain-2/5 state. We characterize the zero mode condition associated to this Hamiltonian via projection onto a four-dimensional two-particle subspace for given pair angular momentum, for the disk and similarly for the spherical geometry. Earlier numerical claims in the literature about ground-state uniqueness on the sphere are substantiated on analytic grounds, and related results are derived. Preference is...
Show moreWe analyze general zero mode properties of the parent Hamiltonian of the unprojected Jain-2/5 state. We characterize the zero mode condition associated to this Hamiltonian via projection onto a four-dimensional two-particle subspace for given pair angular momentum, for the disk and similarly for the spherical geometry. Earlier numerical claims in the literature about ground-state uniqueness on the sphere are substantiated on analytic grounds, and related results are derived. Preference is given to second-quantized methods, where zero mode properties are derived not from given analytic wave functions, but from a "lattice" Hamiltonian and associated zero mode conditions. This method reveals new insights into the guiding-center structure of the unprojected Jain-2/5 state, in particular, a system of dominance patterns following a "generalized Pauli principle," which establishes a complete one-to-one correspondence with the edge mode counting. We also identify one-body operators that function as generators of zero modes.
Landau-level Spectroscopy Of Massive Dirac Fermions In Single-crystalline Zrte5 Thin Flakes.
Jiang, Y., Dun, Z. L., Zhou, H. D., Lu, Z., Chen, K.-W., Moon, S., Besara, T., Siegrist, T. M., Baumbach, R. E., Smirnov, D., Jiang, Z.
We report infrared magnetospectroscopy studies on thin crystals of an emerging Dirac material ZrTe5 near the intrinsic limit. The observed structure of the Landau-level transitions and zero-field infrared absorption indicate a two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic structure, similar to that in graphene but with a small relativistic mass corresponding to a 9.4-meV energy gap. Measurements with circularly polarized light reveal a significant electron-hole asymmetry, which leads to splitting of...
Show moreWe report infrared magnetospectroscopy studies on thin crystals of an emerging Dirac material ZrTe5 near the intrinsic limit. The observed structure of the Landau-level transitions and zero-field infrared absorption indicate a two-dimensional Dirac-like electronic structure, similar to that in graphene but with a small relativistic mass corresponding to a 9.4-meV energy gap. Measurements with circularly polarized light reveal a significant electron-hole asymmetry, which leads to splitting of the Landau-level transitions at high magnetic fields. Our model, based on the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang effective Hamiltonian, quantitatively explains all observed transitions, determining the values of the Fermi velocity, Dirac mass (or gap), electron-hole asymmetry, and electron and hole g factors.
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Genetic and environmental associations between body dissatisfaction, weight preoccupation, and binge eating: Evidence for a common factor with differential loadings across symptom type..
O'Connor, Shannon M, Beam, Christopher R, Luo, Xiaochen, Cohen, L Adelyn, VanHuysse, Jessica L, Emery, Robert E, Turkheimer, Eric, Keel, Pamela K, Burt, S Alexandra, Neale,...
Show moreO'Connor, Shannon M, Beam, Christopher R, Luo, Xiaochen, Cohen, L Adelyn, VanHuysse, Jessica L, Emery, Robert E, Turkheimer, Eric, Keel, Pamela K, Burt, S Alexandra, Neale, Michael, Boker, Steven, Klump, Kelly
Prior twin studies provide support for a single "common factor" that contributes genetic and environmental risk to a range of disordered eating symptoms. However, the common factor may be indexed less well by binge eating (BE) than other symptoms of eating disorders [i.e., body dissatisfaction (BD) and weight preoccupation (WP)]. We sought to explore the presence of a common factor and test whether loadings differed across three key symptoms (i.e., BE, BD, WP). Disordered eating was assessed...
Show morePrior twin studies provide support for a single "common factor" that contributes genetic and environmental risk to a range of disordered eating symptoms. However, the common factor may be indexed less well by binge eating (BE) than other symptoms of eating disorders [i.e., body dissatisfaction (BD) and weight preoccupation (WP)]. We sought to explore the presence of a common factor and test whether loadings differed across three key symptoms (i.e., BE, BD, WP). Disordered eating was assessed via self-report in 631 female twin pairs from the Michigan State University Twin Registry. We detected a common disordered eating factor that was influenced primarily by additive genetic and nonshared environmental influences. However, we observed different loadings on this common factor by symptom type, as factor loadings for BD and WP were stronger than that for BE. Moreover, the residual environmental and/or genetic variances (i.e., those that are independent of the common factor) were larger in BE than those of BD or WP. Although all three symptoms share a common set of genetic and environmental influences, risk for BE may involve additional genetic, biological, and environmental factors that are not shared with other symptoms of eating pathology. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.(Int J Eat Disord 2017; 50:157-161).
FSU_pmch_27636116, 10.1002/eat.22625, PMC5291810, 27636116, 27636116
Incremental validity of the episode size criterion in binge-eating definitions: An examination in women with purging syndromes..
Forney, K Jean, Bodell, Lindsay P, Haedt-Matt, Alissa A, Keel, Pamela K
Of the two primary features of binge eating, loss of control (LOC) eating is well validated while the role of eating episode size is less clear. Given the ICD-11 proposal to eliminate episode size from the binge-eating definition, the present study examined the incremental validity of the size criterion, controlling for LOC. Interview and questionnaire data come from four studies of 243 women with bulimia nervosa (n = 141) or purging disorder (n = 102). Hierarchical linear regression tested...
Show moreOf the two primary features of binge eating, loss of control (LOC) eating is well validated while the role of eating episode size is less clear. Given the ICD-11 proposal to eliminate episode size from the binge-eating definition, the present study examined the incremental validity of the size criterion, controlling for LOC. Interview and questionnaire data come from four studies of 243 women with bulimia nervosa (n = 141) or purging disorder (n = 102). Hierarchical linear regression tested if the largest reported episode size, coded in kilocalories, explained additional variance in eating disorder features, psychopathology, personality traits, and impairment, holding constant LOC eating frequency, age, and body mass index (BMI). Analyses also tested if episode size moderated the association between LOC eating and these variables. Holding LOC constant, episode size explained significant variance in disinhibition, trait anxiety, and eating disorder-related impairment. Episode size moderated the association of LOC eating with purging frequency and depressive symptoms, such that in the presence of larger eating episodes, LOC eating was more closely associated with these features. Neither episode size nor its interaction with LOC explained additional variance in BMI, hunger, restraint, shape concerns, state anxiety, negative urgency, or global functioning. Taken together, results support the incremental validity of the size criterion, in addition to and in combination with LOC eating, for defining binge-eating episodes in purging syndromes. Future research should examine the predictive validity of episode size in both purging and nonpurging eating disorders (e.g., binge eating disorder) to inform nosological schemes. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:651-662).
The medical complications associated with purging.
Forney, K Jean, Buchman-Schmitt, Jennifer M, Keel, Pamela K, Frank, Guido K W
Purging behaviors, including self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, and diuretic abuse, are present across many of the eating disorders. Here we review the major medical complications of these behaviors. Although we identified over 100 scholarly articles describing medical complications associated with purging, most papers involved case studies or small, uncontrolled samples. Given the limited evidence base, we conducted a qualitative (rather than systematic) review to identify medical...
Show morePurging behaviors, including self-induced vomiting, laxative abuse, and diuretic abuse, are present across many of the eating disorders. Here we review the major medical complications of these behaviors. Although we identified over 100 scholarly articles describing medical complications associated with purging, most papers involved case studies or small, uncontrolled samples. Given the limited evidence base, we conducted a qualitative (rather than systematic) review to identify medical complications that have been attributed to purging behaviors. Medical conditions affecting the teeth, esophagus, gastrointestinal system, kidneys, skin, cardiovascular system, and musculoskeletal system were identified, with self-induced vomiting causing the most medical complications. Purging behavior can be associated with severe medical complications across all body systems. Mental health professionals should refer patients with purging behaviors to medical providers for screening and treatment as needed. The medical work-up for individuals with eating disorders should include a comprehensive metabolic panel, complete blood count, and a full body exam including the teeth to prevent severe complications. Medical providers should screen patients for purging behaviors and associated medical complications, even in the absence of an eating disorder diagnosis, to increase the detection of eating disorders. Recognizing the link between purging and medical complications can aid in identifying potential eating disorders, particularly those that often elude detection such as purging disorder.
A preliminary evaluation of the validity of binge-eating disorder defining features in a community-based sample.
Klein, Kelly M, Forney, K Jean, Keel, Pamela K
Little empirical attention has been paid to the DSM-5 definition of binge-eating disorder (BED), particularly to the associated features of binge episodes. The present study sought to determine how the associated features and undue influence of weight/shape on self-evaluation contribute to evidence of a clinically significant eating disorder. Secondary analyses were conducted on data (N = 80; 76.3% women, 76.3% Caucasian, ages 18-43) collected through an epidemiological study of eating...
Show moreLittle empirical attention has been paid to the DSM-5 definition of binge-eating disorder (BED), particularly to the associated features of binge episodes. The present study sought to determine how the associated features and undue influence of weight/shape on self-evaluation contribute to evidence of a clinically significant eating disorder. Secondary analyses were conducted on data (N = 80; 76.3% women, 76.3% Caucasian, ages 18-43) collected through an epidemiological study of eating patterns. Descriptive statistics were used to report the sample prevalence of the features, independently and in combination. Correlations and alpha reliability were employed to examine relationships among associated features, distress regarding bingeing, and clinical diagnosis. Regression models and receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to determine the utility of the features for explaining variance in distress. Internal consistency reliability for indicators was low, and several features demonstrated low or nonsignificant associations with distress and diagnosis. Feeling disgusted/depressed/guilty was the only unique predictor of distress (p = 0.001). For the ROC curves, three features was the best threshold for predicting distress. Results support the need to refine the features to ensure better detection of clinically significant eating pathology for research inclusion and treatment of the illness. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:524-528).
A randomized controlled trial of The Body Project: More Than Muscles for men with body dissatisfaction..
Brown, Tiffany A, Forney, K Jean, Pinner, Dennis, Keel, Pamela K
Pressures for men to conform to a lean, muscular ideal have, in part, contributed to eating disorder and muscle dysmorphia symptoms, yet few programs have been developed and empirically evaluated to help men. This study investigated the acceptability and efficacy of a cognitive dissonance-based (DB) intervention in reducing eating disorder and muscle dysmorphia risk factors in men with body dissatisfaction. Men were randomized to a two-session DB intervention (n = 52) or a waitlist control...
Show morePressures for men to conform to a lean, muscular ideal have, in part, contributed to eating disorder and muscle dysmorphia symptoms, yet few programs have been developed and empirically evaluated to help men. This study investigated the acceptability and efficacy of a cognitive dissonance-based (DB) intervention in reducing eating disorder and muscle dysmorphia risk factors in men with body dissatisfaction. Men were randomized to a two-session DB intervention (n = 52) or a waitlist control condition (n = 60). Participants completed validated measures assessing eating disorder risk factors preintervention, postintervention, and at 1-month follow-up. Program ratings indicated high acceptability. The DB condition demonstrated greater decreases in body-ideal internalization, dietary restraint, bulimic symptoms, drive for muscularity, and muscle dysmorphia symptoms compared with controls (p values < .02; between-condition Cohen's d = .30-1.11) from pre- to postintervention. At one-month follow-up, the DB condition demonstrated significantly lower scores for all variables (p values < .03; between-condition d = .29-1.16). Body-ideal internalization mediated intervention outcomes on bulimic and muscle dysmorphia symptoms. Results support the acceptability and efficacy of The Body Project: More Than Muscles up to 1-month postintervention and should be examined against active control conditions.
Weight suppression and bulimic syndrome maintenance: Preliminary findings for the mediating role of leptin..
Keel, Pamela K, Bodell, Lindsay P, Haedt-Matt, Alissa A, Williams, Diana L, Appelbaum, Jonathan
Longitudinal studies support a prospective relationship between weight suppression (WS) and bulimic syndrome (BN-S) maintenance. Although biobehavioral mechanisms have been proposed to explain this link, such mechanisms have yet to be identified. Given that weight loss would reduce leptin levels which may influence eating, this study examined whether reduced leptin levels mediate the link between greater WS and longer illness duration. Women (N = 53), ages 18-45 years, were recruited from the...
Show moreLongitudinal studies support a prospective relationship between weight suppression (WS) and bulimic syndrome (BN-S) maintenance. Although biobehavioral mechanisms have been proposed to explain this link, such mechanisms have yet to be identified. Given that weight loss would reduce leptin levels which may influence eating, this study examined whether reduced leptin levels mediate the link between greater WS and longer illness duration. Women (N = 53), ages 18-45 years, were recruited from the community if they met criteria for a BN-S, including either DSM-5 bulimia nervosa (BN; n = 33) or purging disorder (PD: n = 20), and fell within a healthy weight range (18.5-26.5 kg/m ). Participants completed clinical assessments and provided blood samples to measure circulating leptin. Significant associations were found among greater WS, lower leptin concentrations, and longer duration of illness. Mediation analyses using bootstrapping procedures indicated all paths were significant and that leptin mediated the link between WS and illness duration. An alternative model in which longer illness duration contributed to leptin, via greater WS, was not supported. Longitudinal research is needed to support temporal associations and explore behavioral mechanisms linking leptin to illness trajectory.
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What are you into? I’m into colour schemes, the 90’s, oddities, freckles and velvet
What else do you do? I’m in Tisch Film at NYU. I really like photography and I’m into spirituality. I’m a vegan and I dig yoga and meditation also. I co-founded a collective called Chromatic and I’m the editorial director there. I’ve done some editorial write-ups and interviews for Milk Studios and Bunch Magazine. Poetry, jazz and N.E.R.D. all interest me as well.
What’s Chromatic about, why is it important? Chromatic was started by 6 of my friends and I at NYU. It started off as an artist collective and we soon thereafter decided that we had an obligation to breed change. Chromatic is redefining pop culture. We’re reshaping the definition of what it means to be an artist of color and more importantly, we’re shedding a light on the importance of integrity. We want to be more than just a group of dope people doing cool things. We want to make a difference. We want to change lives. We’re aiming for greatness. It’s a motion. It’s a wave. Really, it’s the recreation of Warhol’s factory, the recreation of the Harlem Renaissance, the recreation of Aaliyah, Missy and Timbaland in the 90’s. We’re opening a space wherein artists will be welcomed in to create freely. We’re making pop-up shops, holding charity events, throwing parties and through it all we’re focusing on the vibes. Out with the ego, in with the art. I’m excited.
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The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
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You are here: Home » Fish & Wildlife » Diseases & Research » Disease Reference Manual » Chronic Wasting Disease
CWD was discovered in Montana in 2017. FWP is carrying out surveillance and management of the disease according to the agency's CWD Management Plan.
See the latest news on CWD in Montana, as well as information about the disease and ongoing surveillance efforts.
For questions/concerns about this disease in humans, please call your doctor or the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS).
For questions about this disease/parasite in wildlife, please call the FWP Wildlife Health Lab at (406) 994-6357.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a relatively rare progressive, degenerative disease that affects the nervous system of afflicted cervids in North America. Neither viruses nor bacteria cause CWD. The causative agent of CWD is an abnormal, transmissible protein, referred to as a “prion”, which induces other normal prion proteins found throughout the body to mis-fold. Mis-folded proteins accumulate within infected animals causing cell death and eventually leading to fatal nerve and brain damage.
CWD is similar to a group of nervous system diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). These include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans (Miller et al, 2003). TSEs are invariably fatal diseases of the central nervous system. The most widely accepted theory describes TSE agents as abnormal, proteinaceous, infectious particles (prions) that are closely related to a cell protein normally produced in the central nervous system, lymphoid tissue, and many other body tissues. Abnormal TSE prions cannot be broken down by the body’s enzyme protease, and therefore accumulate within the nervous system causing damage to nerve cells. All TSEs are characterized by long incubation periods, often as long as several years. There are currently no treatments or vaccines for CWD or other TSEs.
Chronic wasting disease was first recognized in the 1960s as a syndrome of captive mule deer in several wildlife research facilities in Colorado. Originally believed to be a nutritional malady, CWD was not recognized as a TSE until 1978.
CWD is an emerging disease, and the number and distribution of infected wild and captive cervids has been steadily increasing since its discovery in the late 1960s at a research facility in Colorado (Miller et al, 2003). It has been present for some years in states and Canadian provinces north, east and south of Montana, but was first found in wild deer in our state in 2017 during FWP’s focused CWD surveillance. In 2018, FWP detected 26 new cases of CWD among wild deer, including 21 cases along the northern border in every county from Liberty County east to the North Dakota border, and five cases within the CWD-positive area south of Billings. In the spring of 2019, CWD was found in Libby. Special hunting regulations will be coming early fall.
Species Affected
CWD infects cervids including mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, and moose. There is no evidence that CWD naturally infects other big game species or domestic livestock (Western, 2009).
Much is unknown about transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease. Infectious prions are believed to be shed in urine, feces, saliva, blood and antler velvet from infected cervids. Infected animals may shed prions before they develop symptoms of disease. Prions are most abundant in the central nervous system, but they can be found throughout the body of an infected animal. For this reason, carcasses of infected cervids may serve as a source of environmental contamination. Prions are known to remain infectious for very long periods of time in the environment, retaining the ability to infect naïve cervids for at least several years.
CWD is a slowly progressing disease. Infected animals can appear healthy for many years before showing symptoms. The minimum incubation period (time from infection until symptoms develop) is believed to be about 16-17 months, and the maximum incubation period is unknown. Most animals are 3- to 4-years of age when clinical signs appear, but animals have developed symptoms as young as 18 months and as old as 13 years (Miller et al, 2003). Once an animal develops symptoms, survival time is variable. The clinical course of the disease (time from development of symptoms to death) is most often weeks to months; however some animals may survive for a year or two. (Stitt, 2011).
Clinical disease caused by CWD is often more subtle and prolonged in elk than in deer. Affected animals may walk repetitive courses, show subtle ataxia and a wide-based stance, have subtle head tremors, be found near water sources or in riparian areas, have periods of somnolence, and may carry their head and ears lowered. Animals may also appear depressed and separate themselves from other animals in a herd. Chronic wasting disease-affected animals may continue to eat, but amounts of feed consumed are reduced, leading to gradual loss of body condition. The effects of CWD on the nervous system may cause difficulty swallowing, resulting in aspiration of food material into the airway and development of aspiration pneumonia (Ramsey, 2009). Excessive drinking, urination, salivation, and drooling are common in the terminal stages. Death is inevitable once clinical disease occurs (Stitt, 2011).
There is no apparent immune response to the disease agent, and inflammation is not seen in affected tissues. All TSEs of animals and humans cause characteristic damage to brain cells (neurons) that results in a spongiform degenerative change in the gray matter when the brain is examined microscopically.
Public Health Concerns
There currently is no convincing evidence that the agent of chronic wasting disease (CWD) affects humans. However, public health officials recommend that human exposure to the CWD agent be avoided as they continue to evaluate any potential risk. Research indicates that it is unlikely that direct transmission of CWD from infected animals to humans occurs. However, the similarities between CWD, mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease are cause for concern, and appropriate precautions should be taken with harvested animals. Hunters should not harvest animals that appear sick, nor should they eat meat from suspect animals. Simple precautions should be taken to avoid any possible infection. Wear rubber or latex gloves when field dressing big game. Bone out the meat, or at least avoid consuming the brain, spinal cord, eyes, spleen and lymph nodes of harvested animals. Minimize handling of soft tissues and fluids. Wash hands with soap and warm water after handling any parts of the carcass. Knives, saws, and cutting table surfaces should be disinfected using a solution of 50 percent household bleach for at least an hour (Western, 2009).
Is it safe to eat the meat?
Animals that are suspected of having CWD should not be eaten (Stitt, 2011). If you harvest an animal and are unsure whether it is safe to eat, contact your local FWP staff for guidance soon after the animal is harvested.
Miller, M.J.R., R.D. Dawson, and H. Schwantje. 2003. Manual of Common Diseases and Parasites of Wildlife in Northern British Columbia. University of Northern British Columbia.
Ramsey, J. 2009. Chronic Wasting Disease powerpoint Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.
Stitt, Tyler. 2011. Diseases You Can Get From Wildlife - A Field-guide for Hunters, Trappers, Anglers and Biologists. British Columbia Ministry of the Environment.
Western Wildlife Disease Workshop Notebook. 2009. Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia.
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O'Connors - Ballinrobe "Western Pride" now "Irish Pride"
From the ashes of the Phoenix....
By Kathleen Ryder
The following article is an extract from The Bridge Magazine of 1972 p. 23-24
The O’Connor brothers, Tom and Andy, came to Ballinrobe in 1954. The nucleus of to-days (1972) thriving bakery came into being in a little house in Abbey St. When the first hazardous steps were taken and work in the bakery was going moderately well, Andy prophesised in expansive terms: “we’ll cover the garden yet”. Judge from what follows how great an understatement this proved to be.
The original site of the small Bakery was 250 sq. ft. To-day (1972) the whole area occupied by the Bakery is 27,000 sq. ft. There are sixty-eight people employed on the Abbey St. premises and a total of ninety-five between all their bakeries. Then there were two vans on the road. Now thirty-two vans form an imposing fleet in the spacious Bakery yard in the evening, when the work of the day is done. One lorry plies daily between the Home Bakery and Drumshambo. Western Pride bought the Bakery at Drumshambo in 1969.
During recent years (1972) a large shop in Dominick St., a shop in the new Shopping Centre in Galway, and six Bakeries are included among the acquisitions of Western Price.
“Sheer Plod”
The story of the early struggle of the O’Connor Brothers typifies the glory that emanates from “sheer plod” and which “gushes gold vermilion”. If some improvement were coming about in the early days, they were too involved to be aware of it. It was a daily struggle – problems abounded and rose up all around them. By 1960 the O’Connor Brothers now included, Mattie, Michael and Willie. They went on, regardless of difficulties. Financial problems seemed insoluble, but somehow they were surmounted. Problems of agreement did not arise, debate, discussion, argument – yes, but always that produced clear-cut policy of agreement between the brothers.
Somewhere, between hard work and communication, lies the secret of their success. No job was ever shelved because “it isn’t my job”, or “it’s too menial” – everything concerning the Bakery was the concern of each one of the O’Connor Brothers. Each one had then, and still has, an in-built sense of responsibility towards the whole concern – a vital ingredient in any success story – surely.
The O’Connor secret of success? Just a matter of luck!. Others have worked equally long and hard, they say, without achievement. Their success to outside viewers must prompt a reflection on the failure of the bloodless Board-Controlled type industry of to-day (1972), and on the success of family-owned undertakings.
If Western Pride is to do more than bring activity, employment and consequent content and prosperity to a Community, it must laud family unity, because Western Pride reflects the value and strength of family unity. WP is backed by a family unique in its solidarity, and more unique, in its respect for the individuality of each member.
The chief stimulus for its very being, was the compulsion on Tom’s part for finding and establishing an identity. It follows then that identity and individualism form an important factor in the development of WP, and that under its patronage, people are encouraged to be people, never automatons.
Mrs. Keady (Nellie)
Neillie, - now Mrs. Keady – was the unifying force behind this family venture. Real progress was apparent soon after her arrival in 1959. She organised, gave backing and a design to the hard work which now shaped towards success. She sorted out the moneys into takings and outgoings – profit and loss. She was on call at all times, and her spirit of involvement and readiness to see to the problems in every facet of the Bakery, work and sales, infected all. All agree that without Neillie, WP as it is to-day could never be.
Mr. John O’Connor
The father, Mr. John O’Connor, was the father-figure all through. It was he who originally begot the idea of having his sons apprenticed to the bakery business. A man not content to divide his holding between seven sons, (Michael seventh son) eminently content with life however, and ever-ready for challenge. Once the seed of the notion was planted in his mind, he took the plunge. Mr. O’Connor was and is, a great man for people. He tells a story with the skill of Frank O’Connor, with the colour and the snas of an Éamon Kelly. Every incident in his life has beginning, design and invariably a profound thought at the end.
There was a certain lordly elegance about the leisurely way of life in Ower near Headford, home of the O’Connors in the 1920s. Away from the mainstream of life, Mr. O’Connor and his peers enjoyed discussion and seanchas. From such talks and reflections came tangible fruit, in the birth of WP. In the words of his sons “Mr. O’Connor gave heart to the undertaking.”
Front L to R: Neillie (Keady), John Snr. Mary Snr. Back - Andy, Tom, Machael, Willie, Paddy and Mattie
The Bridge Magazine 1972
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SOURCE: Omaha World-Herald
Michael Beschloss says this isn't the most politically divisive time in America
Historians in the News
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... “The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial,” said Michael Beschloss, an author and a presidential historian. “Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.”
Beschloss, who has written books about Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and more, talked Wednesday about the importance of perspective — the long view — in politics and history.
Too many people, he argued, are quick to dismiss the modern era of their times as the worst or the most divisive political moment in American history. Most are wrong.
The political climate after the Revolutionary War was much more polarized, and so were the environments during and after the Civil War and during and after the Civil Rights era, including the Vietnam War.
Building, saving and sharing its history is how a democratic republic improves itself, Beschloss said.
Americans, he said, shed blood so that we could debate as vigorously and openly as people do today. The founders, he said, would be proud of that part of modern political culture, even Twitter.
What needs work, he said, is the second half of what the founders wanted — bringing opposing interests together over solutions that make nobody completely happy but still advance the public interest.
“They wanted people to fight over policies but come together at the end and say we are all Americans,” Beschloss said in an interview. Americans, he said, should remember that wisdom. ...
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Hernandez, Kemp homer again as Dodgers beat Giants 3-1
LOS ANGELES (AP) Enrique Hernandez has helped the Los Angeles Dodgers solve a problem they’ve had for years – Giants ace Madison Bumgarner.
Hernandez and Matt Kemp each homered for the second consecutive game, Alex Wood got his first victory since May 20 and the Dodgers beat Bumgarner and San Francisco 3-1 on Saturday night.
Hernandez’s two-run shot in the fifth inning was his fourth career homer against Bumgarner in 34 at-bats. He also has five doubles against the left-hander.
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The utility player usually feasts on Bumgarner’s fastballs, but he punished the left-hander for a bevy of breaking pitches Saturday, crushing one into the left field seats for his 10th home run this season.
”He adjusted to me and I hadn’t really made many adjustments,” Hernandez said. ”Today he came at me with the same gameplan and it took me three at-bats to adjust, but I’m glad that I did.”
Bumgarner (0-2) was making just his third start since returning from the disabled list because of a broken finger that occurred during spring training. He threw 112 pitches while giving up three runs on five hits over six innings.
”Each time out I’m getting better and better, that’s all I can ask for,” Bumgarner said. ”It’s the first time I went over 100 pitches and my velocity is creeping up and my stretch and grip is coming back.”
The Dodgers have won five straight, all at home, and are 11-2 in June and 21-6 since May 17.
The Giants have lost 17 of their last 23 road games and are 3-6 on their 10-game trip to Washington, Miami and Los Angeles.
Kemp hit his 12th home run and has reached base in 15 of his last 18 games against the Giants. Both Hernandez and Kemp went deep in a 3-2 win Friday over the Giants.
The Dodgers lead the majors with 34 home runs in 13 games in June.
Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for his 17th save.
The Dodgers clinched their first series victory over the Giants this season and evened the season series 6-6.
WOOD STANDS TALL IN VICTORY
Wood (2-5) credited a change in mechanics for his improvement Saturday. He was coming off a three-start stretch when he gave up 13 earned runs in 12 innings, going two innings in one start and 4 2/3 in another.
On Saturday, the left-hander gave up one run on four hits over 5 2/3 innings with two walks and two strikeouts. He held the Giants hitless until Mac Williamson singled to lead off the fifth.
”We found something with my posture,” Wood said. ”I saw some good strides in my (between-start) bullpen and got some repetitions out there. I felt really good with the adjustment and saw that translate over.”
Wood gave up three hits in the fifth, but the Giants’ only run in the inning came on a sacrifice fly from Alen Hanson. Wood threw 29 of his 85 pitches in the fifth inning.
”As the game went on, I got a little fatigued,” Wood said. ”I think you naturally start to revert back to some of the things you got yourself into, but I felt really good about the progress tonight.”
Giants: 3B Evan Longoria elected to have surgery to insert a pin into his fractured left hand with the hopes of returning shortly after the All-Star break. … RHP Johnny Cueto, on the DL with right elbow inflammation, will throw live batting practice Monday. … RHP Jeff Samardzija (shoulder) pitched three innings for Triple-A Sacramento on Friday and manager Bruce Bochy said he believes his starter will be back soon.
Dodgers: LHP Clayton Kershaw (back) will pitch a three-inning simulated start either Tuesday or Wednesday at Dodger Stadium while the Dodgers are in Chicago to face the Cubs. Manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw will follow that outing with a bullpen session and likely another simulated start before going out on a minor league rehab assignment. … LHP Rich Hill (blister) followed his minor league rehab start Thursday with a bullpen session Saturday and remains on track to return to the active roster Tuesday at Chicago.
RHP Chris Stratton (7-4, 4.56 ERA) will pitch for the Giants on Sunday at Dodger Stadium in the finale of a three-game series. LHP Caleb Ferguson (0-0, 9.53) will be looking to pitch past the fourth inning for the first time as he makes his third career start for the Dodgers.
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Brookstreet Bar-B-Que will open a Montrose location in 2016. Photo by Eric Sandler
The restaurant serves brisket, pulled pork, sausage and St. Louis-cut ribs. Photo by Eric Sandler
Montrose offers dining options for just about every taste at almost any price point, which is what makes it Houston's top dining neighborhood. For a part of town that's equally capable of delivering Spanish fine dining and 24-hour red beans and rice, the absence of a barbecue joint seems odd.
Thankfully, the situation is changing, and Montrose will soon be embracing the citywide barbecue boom. Recently, Drew's BBQ opened on Richmond, and former Franklin Barbecue employee John Avila will open The Pit Room in a converted porn shop early next year.
Joining these newcomers will be the first inside the Loop location of Brookstreet Bar-B-Que. Founded in 1999 by owners Jamil Musa and Lutfi Rukab, the locally-owned, suburban-based chain will open its fifth outpost in a converted limestone house on Montrose Boulevard in March or April 2016. In addition to helping the restaurant reach a new audience, the new location will also allow for more catering to downtown and the Texas Medical Center.
Right location
Musa tells CultureMap that, as someone who grew up at the corner of West Main and Shepherd and attended Annunciation Orthodox School, he's very familiar with the neighborhood. Still, he hadn't planned to open a restaurant until he found the right location.
"I didn’t know I was going to do a place in Montrose until one day I saw this gorgeous house for sale. I bought it," Musa explains. "In the back of my mind, I’ve always wanted to turn a house into a restaurant."
At just over 1,000 square feet, the new location will be much smaller than its siblings; a drive-thru will help speed along to-go orders. Musa plans to supplement the limited amount of indoor seating with a patio.
Texas Trinity
The menu will feature the familiar Texas trinity of beef brisket, pork ribs and sausage, but Brookstreet will give the items a broader appeal by serving them as sliders on Slow Dough buns. Since the location won't have a fryer, sides are still under development but will definitely include seasoned red potatoes.
Brookstreet may not be the sort of place that gets regular media attention, but the outposts manage to feed between 2,000 and 3,000 people per day. As the photo above demonstrates, the restaurant is fully capable of turning out the sort of fatty, highly seasoned brisket that attracts barbecue enthusiasts. Getting customers to give up the leaner meat they're more familiar with has been a bit of a challenge.
"Our customers here will say, 'We want it lean,' " Rukab says. "Here, you could put (fatty brisket) in front of them and it would look amazing. They’d prefer (lean). Let them try (fatty), and they’d like it . . . Part of our education to the customer is to say this is who we are; but we also have this (fatty), and it’s really awesome."
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What entrepreneurship means to an Indian ?
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Entrepreneurship can be defined as an act or art of using acute business sense in order to transform innovation into economic goods. Till the starting of 21st century the word found itself restricted to the act of starting a new business. However, in the recent times the word has been extended to social and political activity as well. The person who is responsible for the act is known as entrepreneur.
The origin of word reaches back to the work of an Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon who first coined the French verb “entreprendre” which later on became entrepreneur in English. Entrepreneurship was always a hot favourite topic of study for the researchers. From Adam Smith to Peter Drucker, everyone contributed in the field of entrepreneurship but the most notable work came from Schumpter who defines entrepreneurs as “ innovators who use a process of shattering the status quo of the existing products and services, to set up new products, new services.”
But as the world evolved, economy evolved and hence the definition and characteristics of an entrepreneur. Some view the role of an entrepreneur as risk bearer, others as innovators and few others as gap fillers. Finally by combining the entire thoughts one can summarize an entrepreneur as risk-bearers, organizers, leaders, innovators, gap fillers or creative imitators.
The article will talk about the present situation of India on the entrepreneurial ground, challenges faced by entrepreneurs in India, steps taken to encourage entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship in India
In India entrepreneurship phase is broadly divided into two major period pre 1991 and post 1991. Pre 1991 success of business is defined primarily on ambition, government contacts, and an understanding of the bureaucratic system. Decision was guided by connections, policies were more inward looking and capital was limited as a result entrepreneurship was subdued. In 1991 Indian government liberalized and the whole economic landscape changed. Family businesses were struggling to stand before the multinationals. Some of the business houses changed their outlook as per changing economic scenario while others failed. Finally a new breed of businesses was born.
Mckinsey & Company-Nasscom report estimates that by 2015, 110-130 million Indian citizens will be searching for jobs, out of which 80-100 million will be looking for their first jobs. Since traditional large employers will find it difficult to sustain this level of employment in future, it is entrepreneurs who will create these new jobs. Today’s knowledge based economy is a perfect ground for entrepreneurs to succeed in India.
A report published by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2011 states that the number of entrepreneurs is nearing around 400 million. India has also seen a rise in the entrepreneurship but still it is ranked much below than many other economies. As per World Bank group entrepreneurship the business entry density in India is less than 1. However, on the technological front India is ranked 2nd in the global race of entrepreneurship.
As renowned economist, T.N. Srinivasan says, ‘India has been an entrepreneurial society…we had the entrepreneurial skill but suppressed it for too long a time… and now it is thriving.’ But there is a bigger reason behind the surge in entrepreneurship in India in past 5-6 years which is the support from government and other private players. These players have extended a helping hand for new entrepreneurs.
Market regulator SEBI’s decision to allow small and medium enterprises to list their shares without an IPO has boosted response across the country’s start up ecosystem. Odisha’s government has planned out many initiatives which would stress on measures like awareness, promotion, networking and mentoring to encourage the youth to become entrepreneurs.
Future group, Meru cabs and Maruti Suzuki is trying to implement a unique model to create sustainable entrepreneurship. On one side where Future group is setting up around 1,000 retail outlets, Maruti is training around 3000 SC youth to become successful drivers. SIDBI has agreed to finance small ICT businesses run by Cisco Networking Academy students. The interest payments will be subsidised by Cisco.
Everyone recognizes the need of entrepreneurship but still in India it is faced by many roadblocks. Power outage, finance, regulatory frameworks are some of the basic problems an entrepreneur in India has to deal with. Some of them are listed below:-
1. In India it takes around a month to register a company compared to a week in US and 3 days in Singapore.
2. To open a current account, 6-7 set of documents are required most often certified by a Chartered Accountant.
3. To shut down a company an entrepreneur has to file petition in the court, appoint liquidator, meet all the creditors, distribute company assets which takes more than a year.
4. To get the approval on various proposals they have to go through the bribery route because no other way is available.
5. Ban on FDI in retail e commerce sector has led to lay off, closure and acquisition of many e-commerce companies.
6. With coming up of new policy which states that the websites which carry user generated data can be pulled into court has affected the growth of new ventures being launched.
All the above problems are extrinsic and can be eliminated in the coming times but the major hurdle which any entrepreneur in India faces is the society in which we are living. In India entrepreneurship is seen as a last option rather than a choice. Actually the root of the problem lies in the academic system which is designed for jobs. Skills of students are sharpened just in an effort to make them suitable for adopting a corporate environment. India will become superpower only when it will see a plethora of entrepreneurs but the most important question lies ahead is when our society will be ready to accept entrepreneur as an opportunist rather than a black sheep? And as a part of the same society what role we need to play?
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In Fear of China
Biography/CV
Russian Translations
NBR November 2012
BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;
BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS: DIPLOMACY, ECONOMICS, JOURNALISM AND JAPANOLOGY;
BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES: ENGLISH, CHINESE, RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE
The ANU and the Vietnam War Debate
1. Connecting with the 'The Australian'
2. Joining the Vietnam Debate
3. Back to the PhD – trying to learn economics, and Japanese
4. The China Book, and trying to explain the Sino-Soviet dispute
5. Jim Cairns, and the Enclave Solution
6. Finding a Publisher
September 1965. After almost a decade within the bureaucracy, the umbilical cord was finally cut. I had formally resigned from External Affairs.
It was not an easy decision. The people with whom I had worked so closely for almost a decade were now firmly on the other side of the fence. At age 29 I was entirely on my own trying to make a new career in an entirely new milieu.
And while today I realise that I had to make the move, at the time its logic was not obvious.
On the other hand, I was now able to begin to speak my mind about the growing horror of Vietnam, and the anti-China lies and fantasies with which I had had to live for years.
No longer would I have to exist as a tongue-tied government official in a state of artificial limbo for four more years.
I was free. And realising that freedom came much sooner than I had expected.
1. 'The Australian' Newspaper Connection
I had run into Eric Walsh earlier in the year when he was still a cub reporter for the Canberra Times. He had since moved to working for a Sydney evening paper as Canberra correspondent.
Eric was and remains someone who knows a lot of people, well, even in those early days. He gave me an introduction to Adrian Deamer, then number two on The Australian, the national newspaper based in Canberra that Rupert Murdoch was trying bravely to create.
In those days, The Australian was the one media voice of progressive good sense on Vietnam, and many other issues. Murdoch himself was also mildly progressive. His shift to the Right only came later, triggered in part by the problems he began to have with the leftwing print unions in Sydney and later in London.
Many have praised Deamer’s liberalism and intelligence as a newspaper editor, and I can only add to the praise. He introduced me to the chief editor, Walter Kommer. Both were more than happy to run the minor scoop I had given them, on how a ‘senior’ External Affairs official had resigned in protest against Australia’s intervention in Vietnam.
That report was picked by the agencies and run in a few newspapers abroad. But for most part the reaction was fairly muted.
I may have been the first Western diplomat to resign in protest against the Vietnam intervention. But in those early days, Vietnam was still not a hot issue. Most assumed that the intervention would soon be all over. Most believed it would be impossible for the pro-communist forces in the South to resist the full weight of US power.
However, Pravda took the news seriously (no doubt it had its KGB reasons). It published a long two column piece about how even in my Moscow days I had realised the immorality of Western intervention in Vietnam (how did they know that?) and had bravely decided to resign when confronted by the anti-communist beast in Canberra.
Needless to say, the Pravda intervention sent the ASIO people into fits. I heard later that it had led these trusty guardians of Australian security to conclude that not only was I in the pocket of the Soviets, but also that the Soviets may have prompted me to resign from government service so they could use me as a tool to boost their global anti-US campaign over Vietnam!
(I would have thought I would have been of much more potential use to them if I had remained in the diplomatic service. Moscow had quite a record of milking information from pro-Soviet External Affairs people.)
Kommer and Deamer had also encouraged me to write something explaining my Vietnam views. Entitled ‘Australia and the Lost War,’ and published in October 1965, my article strongly criticised the aims and tactics of the US-Australian military intervention in Vietnam.
But contrary to the title, it stopped short of actually predicting US- Australian defeat. Like most others, I assumed that the sheer weight of US military power would probably win out in the end. After all, if you kill enough people, then as Stalin, Hitler and quite a few other butchers had proved, the rights and wrongs of disputes become irrelevant.
The article also launched me firmly into the ranks of Australia’s nascent anti-Vietnam War protest movement – people whom in my conservative External Affairs days I would have avoided as a bunch of long-haired radical ratbags. I even had an approach from the Sydney-based branch of the Australian Communist Party (which I dutifully reported to my former External Affairs colleagues – the umbilical cord was still not quite as firmly cut as it should have been). And at Deamer’s request, I followed up with a series of articles on China and Russia.
Needless to say, none of this activism passed unnoticed in the government. I am told it even led John Gorton, then minister in charge of education affairs, to query how and why the government-funded ANU was providing refuge to this anti-Vietnam War subversive.
I am also told that the ANU people decided to resist Gorton’s pressure. But that did not mean they approved of what I was doing. At around the same time, Crawford, then the head of the Research School of Pacific Studies where I had my scholarship, pulled me in for a formal dressing down over the dreadful sin of agreeing to give an extension course on Chinese history at the affiliated Canberra University College.
PhD scholarship students were obliged to concentrate entirely on their PhD studies he told me. The implication – lay off the anti-Vietnam War activities - did not escape me, even if it did not deter me.
Government pressure was not my only problem.
Within weeks of arriving at the ANU I was thrown into a life of total confusion. On the one hand I had to try to educate myself rapidly in the economics needed for PhD studies (the second year economics I had studied back in 1958 was not quite enough, I soon discovered). I also had to start learning Japanese (I had already discovered that Chinese and Japanese were two very different languages).
Meanwhile I was being pulled around Australia to talk to anti-Vietnam War seminars and conferences.
On my anti-Vietnam talk trips to Sydney I also began to get to know some people from the Sydney Push – libertarians who believed in free love and quite a few other human vices. For a refugee from puritanical Canberra it was all very exciting.
The Push people did a lot to broaden my still very narrow conservative outlook. But none of that did much to help my PhD studies.
I had also joined the Canberra branch of the Australian Labor Party, thinking that there at least I would be able to do something about the Vietnam issue. And among the leftwingers in the branch I did find support, especially from Bruce Macfarlane, the political scientist.
Bruce later was to go overboard in praise of Mao and Cultural Revolution China. But his generosity and personality helped carry me through a difficult period. He even suggested that I should try to be the ALP candidate for the seat of Canberra, an invitation I was able to decline even if it felt rather flattering.
At the time the ALP was badly divided over Vietnam. On the Left were ideological leftwingers such as Macfarlane who would instinctively support any and all pro-communist revolutionaries around the world. With them, but separate from them, were the concerned activists – people like myself with no political bias but who were badly upset by the cruelty and immorality of the US intervention.
Opposed to us, however, was a powerful ALP rightwing, particularly strong in the Canberra and NSW branches, and which basically supported the Vietnam intervention.
Even worse were the lumpen ALP proletariat - workers and trade-union officials who subscribed to the crudest of all the pro-Vietnam arguments: ‘Kill the little yellow buggers up there before they get down here and try to kill us.” It was not a happy mix.
One activist group I came to respect highly were the Quakers. At an early stage of the war they went to a lot of trouble to prepare a booklet giving facts and opinions on the Vietnam war, including my own original article in The Australian. Needless to say, they were totally ignored by Australia’s dominant conservative media.
Another group was centered around a Melbourne magazine called Dissent edited by a very concerned activist, Leon Glazer. I will never forget one of the covers for their magazine – a dozen of so unarmed young Vietnamese men in peasant clothing lying dead by a stream, with a group of smirking heavily-armed US soldiers behind them. The obscenity of it all still remains with me.
A Run-in With 'The Bulletin.'
Glazer had asked me if I could write something for them, and by chance I could.
The Sydney-based magazine, The Bulletin, had under its very rightwing editor, Peter Coleman, just run a long piece by the equally rightwing commentator, Brian Buckley. In it they had taken great delight in flagellating the Left, and Dissent, for their alleged failure to realise the dangers of global communism and China, especially over Vietnam.
It was an unusual article since unlike the standard, lazy, ‘bash –the- lefties’ style of Australia rightwing polemics at the time, the author seemed to have gone to a lot of trouble to muster facts and dates to support his case, including even alleged Chinese plots against Afghanistan. It was especially contemptuous of the Left for failing to realise the threat posed by Beijing.
But as I read the Buckley article more closely, I realised that large parts of it had been lifted, in part word-for-word, from a London Economist article only a few months earlier. The Economist in those days was also up to its neck in anti-leftwing vitriol over Vietnam and China.
In short, our ‘bash-the-lefties’ types were now into plain, old-fashioned plagarism to cover up their weaknesses in their own thinking and research.
I also realised that if one looked closely at the wording of the anti-communist vitriol of the original Economist article, it was very similar to the wording of the anti-capitalist vitriol that the Soviet ideologues were then using to lambast their own dissenters, in particular one unfortunate author Victor Nekrasov who had foolishly urged a more sensible approach to the West and some understanding of the merits of the capitalistic system.
The mirror-image mentalities of pro-communist and anti-communist ideologues was something that had long interested me.
So I began my Dissent article first by noting the remarkable similarities between the Buckley article and the earlier Economist article. Some might suggest that plagiarism was involved, I said tongue in cheek, but in fact it was simply great minds thinking alike, I noted.
I then was able to take each of the anti-communist, anti-China, anti-Leftwing tirades in the article and set it along side its mirror image in anti-capitalist, anti-West, anti-Nekrasov tirades then underway in the Moscow ideological rags. More great minds thinking alike, I was able to note.
Even better, I was able to pick up points where the Bulletin article was even stronger and more vitriolic than the original Economist article and use them, even more tongue-in-cheek, to argue that Buckley had done even better than the Economist in matching Soviet thinking.
If I say so myself, I think it was one of the best and more powerful articles I have ever written. And having just spent two years listening daily to Soviet pro-communist ideologues, and endless years listening to their anti-communist, mirror-image opposite numbers in the West, it was a topic on which I had some expertise.
It was the perfect opportunity to pillory the ideological biases of both sides.
But if anyone in Australia realised those points, they kept it to themselves. Not just the rightwing, of course, but most of my colleagues, both leftwing and mid-road, could not even begin to grasp the concept of equating the foolishness and word-for-word similarities of our pro-communist and anti-communist fanatics.
Australians simply could not handle that level of political sophistication. For them ideological debates began with the assumption that one side was right and the other was wrong. They could not cope with assumptions that both were equally mad.
One or two of the mid-roaders even rebuked me for having been so cruel to the hapless Buckley. In other words, it was alright for the Right to pour scorn and vitriol on the Left, but it wrong for the Left to retaliate. I could never get to the bottom of that kind of logic, but it seemed quite strong in Australia at the time.
Needless to say, the Right, including the Bulletin, were outraged; Coleman even threatened legal action. Why had I not bothered to contact him before I wrote my piece, he thundered. If I had done that he could have assured me that it was only by accident that an attribution to the Economist had been cut from the original Buckley article.
Needless to say, Coleman did not even bother to try to rebut the main thrust of the article, namely the mirror-image similarities of Right-Left dogmatists.
Nor was there any hint that Buckley, in launching his anti-Leftwing tirade, might have been under any obligation to contact the people he was lambasting to find out exactly what their views really were. As I have found so often with the Right, both in Australia and elsewhere, their over-weening confidence that they alone are the repository of intelligence, goodwill and the truth remains unshaken, even after Vietnam.
Anyone who says otherwise has to be in the camp of the enemy. Their views can be ignored.
The Economist remains a particularly good example of this unsullied confidence in action. But the Bulletin, both under Coleman and his equally virulent anti-communist successor, Donald Horne (he of the subsequent smarmy conversion to pro-Whitlam and other trendy leftwing causes) were not far behind.
More Vietnam Debate - AIPS
Thanks to the Dissent people and occasional anti-Vietnam talkfests, I got to know many of those active on the Melbourne front. Max Teichman of Monash University helped me greatly and introduced me to some of the denizens of the dreaded Victorian Left. Their zeal, and their hatreds, were impressive.
The Left in Sydney seemed much less motivated; many seemed keener on enjoying life rather than hunting down enemies and arguing foreign policies. The Push people were also anarchistic and anti-government, which made them fairly intolerant of all regimes, communist ones included. There was little sympathy for Vietnam's plight.
Their ideological flabbiness was highlighted by the way their guru at the time, Paddy McGuiness, later defected to the Right. There he managed to show much the same intolerance and sloppy argumentation has he had shown on the Left.
John Barton’s newly-formed Australia Party tried hard to bring me in to support their anti-war position. But they were badly disorganised.
One of my darker moments was sharing the stage at a party rally in a Sydney suburb with Alex Carey, a genuine humanist who agonised even more than I did over the Vietnam atrocity. He had dragged in a mountain of historical and legal documents –1954 Geneva agreements etc - to prove the illegality of the intervention. But before us was seated an audience of exactly ten - three old men, six housewives, and a dog.
The climax to all this was being asked by John Mant, then a conservative but concerned Sydney lawyer, to give a paper at the Australian Institute of Political Science annual conference in January 1967. The theme was ‘Communism in Asia – A Threat to Australia?’
On the threat side they had a strong array of well-known names - J.D.B, Miller, Owen Harries, Zelman Cohen and some flown in from the abroad, including that longtime US State Department subsidised, biassedly anti-communist academic, Robert Scalapino.
On the anti-threat side there was just one combatant - me.
Once again I was on my own. Fitzgerald had carefully declined my requests to help me make a joint presentation.
The paper I delivered can be found on this website. I put enormous time into preparation, even if I let my agony over the escalating atrocity in Vietnam get the better of me. My main aim was to try to counter the conventional wisdom that said the world, and Australia, faced a grave threat from China’s innate aggressiveness and its communism.
Much of the anti-China hysteria in Australia at the time was due to the polemics of the Sino-Soviet dispute. Time and time again the pro-Vietnam War faction would drag out one or other of Beijing’s fiercer statements in the dispute, and intone wisely how at the very least we had to take the Chinese at their aggressive word.
That, together with the grossly distorted view of the 1962 Sino-Indian dispute, had created the indelible image of an extremist Beijing far to the Left of the more moderate Western communists in Moscow.
This is turn underlay the topic chosen for the AIPS conference, namely that in Asia, Australia faced a variety of Communism far more virulent than any other Communism the world had seen before. The West had to do everything it could to oppose the spread of this Asian ‘virus’, specifically in Vietnam, regardless of the rights and wrongs of what was actually happening in that unfortunate country.
By way of counter-attack, I had tried in my AIPS paper and elsewhere to get people to focus in on what exactly both sides were in fact saying in the Sino-Soviet polemical dispute. And when one did that it was fairly clear that both sides were simply trying to score points against the other by dragging out different versions of communist dogma. Both remained just as communist as the other. Indeed, by carefully choosing quotes, one could easily prove that Moscow was the extremist and Beijing was the moderate.
A particular Canberra obsession at the time was Beijing’s vocal support for something called wars of national liberation, with the war in Vietnam seen as the forerunner. But as I pointed out in the paper, Moscow was saying exactly the same about wars of liberation, and just as vocally.
As well, Moscow was doing far more than Beijing about helping those wars materially, especially in Vietnam. In any case, both were entitled to want to see pro-communist regimes emerge in a world where they were constantly threatened by anti-communist activities.
(In postwar Greece, Malaya and elsewhere the West had been equally determined in making sure that anti-communist regimes prevailed, even when they did not deserve to prevail.)
As I mentioned earlier, I had begun this research into Sino-Soviet polemics while in Moscow; and had even sent off a paper on the topic to External Affairs, which had been kind enough to include it in the Department’s Digest of Dispatches circulated to embassies and others each month.
It was probably my one and only contribution to Australian foreign policy wisdom, even if it ended up as water off EA’s anti-Beijing biassed back.
To the AIPS prestige audience assembled in Canberra, this kind of research was equally ineffective. The image of Beijing as some kind of Asiatic monster plotting Asian takeover was too deeply ingrained to be shaken by a few quotes from obscure polemical documents.
I had wasted not just time but also opportunity to present the anti-Vietnam War case before an important audience. I had failed. I should have saved my breath.
It reminded me of Alex Carey’s dilemma in the Sydney lecture hall, even if my audience was much larger and better educated. Australia simply did not have the foreign affairs sophistication to handle sensible argument or debate about Communism or revolution. And the establishment gurus ministering to that ignorance were determined to keep it that way.
Peter Hastings of the Sydney Morning Herald, yet another of the many ASIO tainted journalists in a position to mould Australia foreign policy opinion, managed to report in detail on every one of the pro-Vietnam War conference papers. He omitted only one - mine, even though I was the only one to give the other side of the debate.
At the time of the AIPS talkfest the other big issue was Beijing’s intense anti-Americanism. This too was dragged out constantly to prove Beijing’s inherent aggressiveness.
I am not sure why being anti-American meant being anti-peace. But back in those pristine days, to be anti-American in Australia was to be even worse, anti-God even. After all, had not the Americans saved us from the Japanese aggressors just a generation earlier?
Few seemed to realise that the Chinese they were trying to paint as aggressive monsters were in fact precisely the same Chinese who had joined us in trying to fight those Japanese aggressors.
Even fewer wanted to think about why a Beijing regime that had suffered from cruel US intervention in its former civil war, which was still under US trade embargo, which had seen the US deny its legitimate claim to Taiwan, and which was still under constant threat of US attack via Taiwan, might want to direct a few harsh words against the source of its problems.
In the minds of Australia’s easily brainwashed public, and not a few of its weak-minded academics, if Beijing was anti-US then that proved it must be aggressive, expansionist and anti-Australian.
The Asian Languages Fiasco
The almost total non-reaction to my AIPS efforts, even among the Left, left me deeply depressed.
In desperation I had in my AIPS paper thrown in something about the scandalous lack of Asian language speakers in External Affairs. In those innocent, pre-Vietnam debacle, pre-Watergate days, the public assumed naively that the people at the top were responsible people who had the information and expertise to know what was going on.
If they said China was aggressive then China was aggressive. If they said intervention in Vietnam was needed, then it was needed.
The only way to counter this naivete, I thought, was to prove that the people at the top did not really know very much about what was going on in the world. They could not even speak the languages of the countries which they were happily condemning.
External Affairs, still under Plimsoll, came back with a document in which anyone who had ever claimed even a smattering of a local Asian language was listed as a fluent Asian language speaker. Hastings gave it publicity, finally mentioning that someone called Clark had spoken at the AIPS conference, and adding that in view of the EA document, Clark had obviously got it all wrong.
Deamer at The Australian was good enough to give me space for a rebuttal, and this time I was finally able to persuade Fitzgerald to lend his name. But the damage had been done.
Writing a Book?
Those were dark days.
Fortunately I was getting to know R. whom I had met earlier when she was doing part time work at a small Civic Centre coffeehouse run by a Ukrainian lady with whom I liked to practice Russian. R's gentle femininity did a lot to calm a tortured soul.
Gradually I began to realise that if I was to present the anti-Vietnam War case properly, I had no choice but to confront the China question fully and properly. And if I was to do that I would have to write a book.
It was no use quoting bits and pieces from the past statements.
Nor were occasional articles in The Australian or elsewhere enough.
In a book I could try to explain the full background to Beijing’s various foreign policy disputes. I could go into details - the Korean War, the occupation of Tibet, the Taiwan problem, the Sino-Soviet dispute, everything I knew about the Sino-Indian dispute, even the origins of the communist revolution in China.
Taken together, all this would show that the disputes were largely interconnected, and that they came back to Beijing feeling that it had a legitimate right to protect its territory and its borders, whether in Korea, Taiwan, India or Tibet. Beijing’s highly justified position over Taiwan in particular was the key to most of what the West wanted to see as innate belligerency.
With all these details explained, Beijing’s attitudes began to make sense, even during the mad days of Mao. One reason they made sense was because foreign policy remained very much the bailiwick of two intelligent and moderate Chinese – Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping .
But how do you sit down to write a full-scale book on Chinese foreign policy when you are a PhD researcher still trying to get on top of advanced economics, master the Japanese language, collect research materials for a difficult PhD topic - Japan’s direct investment overseas - not to mention still being involved in the anti-Vietnam War debate?
Fortunately some of the problems on the economics study side of things were beginning to be resolved.
After a dreadful experience with a typical ANU theoretical economist delegated to teach advanced economics to PhD candidates (these characters can fill an entire blackboard with figures simply to prove some obscure point of economic theory quite divorced from the real word of economic activity) I was taken in hand by the ANU expert on trade economics, Max Corden.
Corden too liked economic theory. But by using graphs and diagrams, he could explain things so clearly, neatly and simply that finally I began to realise not just what the theories were about but also the logical beauty of economics as a science.
I learned how readily one can come up with the right analyses of complex economic situations, provided one gets the variables in the right cause and effect order. It was a lesson that would help me enormously later in getting to understand the Japanese economy.
Max was also a very moral person. He too agonised over the Vietnam War. But his mathematical mind was never able fully to grasp the bias and emotion behind so much of the policy debate.
He wanted to believe that if, as in economics, one simply set out the political variables in the right sequential order, the conclusions would automatically emerge, QED. But in foreign affairs there is little room for this kind of logical analysis.
Learning Japanese
Meanwhile, I was also trying to do something about the Japanese language side of things. Initially I had tried to plough through economic texts with the help of dictionaries and my knowledge of Chinese ideographs. I was getting nowhere very fast.
Soon I was forced to realise that I had no choice but to try to learn the language from the bottom up, as a living language, before I could use it for research. As I had discovered with Chinese and Russian, to read a difficult language easily, you must reach a stage where, when you see the script, you ‘hear’ the spoken equivalent.
When you do that, meaning emerges naturally, as if you were slowly listening to someone saying the same thing. But if you do not do that you have to consciously translate each word into meaning, and then try to assemble it all consciously into sentences which provide some kind of consistent meaning. That can be very painful and time-consuming.
How to learn Japanese from the bottom up while still stuck in Canberra?
My first step was to enrol for a course in the Japanese language department at the university. And since I had already taught myself the Japanese phonetic script –kana – and knew Chinese ideographs I was allowed to enrol for the second year Japanese reading course.
I soon realised my mistake. The course was a classic example of the criminal irresponsibility of Australian universities when it came to the teaching of Asian languages at the time (fortunately some have since improved).
Our alleged teacher was a typically useless Japanese academic recruited at great expense from Tokyo. His main aim in life was to preserve his dignity as an ivory tower resident, improve his English, and convince us how remote, refined and impossible was the language we were supposed to be learning.
For each class he would set a few paragraphs from a very difficult Japanese literary text for translation. Taking a sentence at a time, he would ask students in turn to attempt a translation.
Since students knew in advance the order in which he would ask for a translation, they would be careful to sit in the same order at each class, which meant they needed only to prepare in advance the sentences which they knew he would ask them to translate – a total of about two sentences per class.
Ivory tower man would then spend long slabs of time explaining, in English, the subtleties of the vocab and literary expressions in that sentence. Finally he would give us his official translation of the sentence, which we were all supposed diligently to write down.
In the final exam our so-called teacher would set for a translation one of the very few literary texts he had managed to teach the class during that year. Needless to say, none of the students could have handled the Japanese in the text, even after a year in the class.
But by that time they would have memorised the official translations they had received during the year and had diligently written down. All they then had to do was write out what they had memorised, and if they did that correctly, a pass mark was guaranteed.
Ivory-tower man would then tell the world how in just one year he had brought his students to the level where they could all easily translate these difficult literary texts. And the world, including the university authorities, knowing nothing about the way the class was run, believed him.
The scandalous fact that his students could not even stammer out a sentence in simple Japanese, or translate a page of simple Japanese text, remained unkown.
At first I could not believe that serious, fee-paying students could want to go along with this nonsense. But all they wanted was the pass mark and the credits needed for graduation. Later it was to remind me of the fraudulent way young Japanese are taught English in Japanese universities.
In years since I have met several from that ANU class. Like their Japanese equivalents learning English, few of them ever recovered from the damage they had suffered from the bad teaching. Most ended up as hopeless speakers of the language despite years of subsequent effort. Some were determined never to see or speak the language again.
It was a good example of something I have since come to realise strongly: start people on the wrong foot in learning a difficult language and usually they will find it impossible to recover.
It took me all of three weeks to decide I did not need to be part of this fraud. I would begin to learn the language by myself, in the same way that I had begun to learn Russian four years earlier.
I abandoned the class and found a rather nice Japanese woman, Mrs Crawford, married to a former Australian soldier who had been based in Japan.
As with Mrs Gapanovich when I was learning Russian, each week I would ask her to tape- record a few very simple texts for me to study. I would listen closely and repeatedly to the tape over the week, check a textbook for the grammar and vocab, and then try to talk to her about the contents at the following meeting a week later.
Given the many other distractions in my life at the time I did not get very far. But at least it gave me a start with the language, something those poor wretches in the university class would never have.
In later years I would try occasionally to expose the scandalous way Chinese and Japanese were being taught at most Australian universities. But I was tilting at windmills. The only result was to upset the academic establishment and be bombarded with angry rebuttals.
As I have discovered over the years, when Australians are criticised they either cry or get indignant. Few reflect on why they are being criticised.
I even wrote a long letter to Crawford once, when he was ANU chancellor, begging him to intervene and try to change things for the sake of Australia’s relations with Asia and not just for the students. I got no reply.
Meanwhile, I still had the much larger problem of what to do about explaining China and its polices to an Australian audience. Writing a book would require enormous time and effort, even though I had much of the material in my head.
In those days we did not have computers for typing. There was no Internet Search to help us. Everything would have to be done by old-fashioned hand typing and library research. R. was willing to help. But was that enough?
Nor did I have much experience as a book writer. I had had some years of writing submissions and reports in EA. But that is not a very good way to learn how to write books. In fact, it is a very bad way, as I still have to remind myself.
As well, I had no publisher.
There was a further problem. If I was to write a book I would need time off from my PhD scholarship work, and there was no guarantee it would be granted.
My anti-Vietnam War activities had made me persona-non-grata with J.D,B. Miller and his international relations department. And I had already had my run in with Crawford. Now I would be asking for permission to write about Chinese foreign policy when my specialization was supposed to be Japan and economics.
Meanwhile the Vietnam War and the political situation in Australia were getting uglier by the day. Someone had to present the anti-government case. Could I stay forever on the sidelines?
The turning point was an invitation from Lo Hui-min, a middle aged researcher into Chinese history at the ANU, to give a seminar in the Asian Studies department.
Lo was 100 percent Chinese; he fretted constantly over the way I courted political reprisals by criticising government policies (in China, the key to survival had always been to keep out of the way of the people in power) . But he appreciated what I was doing and wanted to give me a voice, at least within the university.
I chose the Sino-Soviet dispute as the topic of the seminar. Finally I was motivated to start doing the homework I should have done much earlier, namely to try to nail down the origins of the dispute rather than concentrate on who said what to whom.
If the dispute was not ideological, as I had discovered, then what was it?
Origins of the Sino-Soviet Dispute
Explaining the dispute was not just important in itself. It was also crucial to any attempt to explain Chinese other policies and actions, since the standard theories about the dispute did much to distort views on those other policies and actions.
This in turn was supposed to have led Beijing to embrace dangerously aggressive policies throughout the world.
True, later documents confirmed that the Chinese were not entirely happy about the 1956 attacks on Stalin. They, unlike the Russians, had not suffered decades of mad dictatorship and killings. But any Beijing discomfort over Khruschev’s anti-Stalinism could hardly have been decisive.
At a 1957 gathering of world communist parties, the Chinese had specifically endorsed Moscow’s leadership of the communist bloc. As late as January 1959, Mao Tsetung had sent an effusive message to Moscow praising Khruschev’s leadership of the Soviet communist party.
Like all communist movements (come to think of it, all political or religious movements) need an icon - a leader and founder to admire. (Beijing still needed some time before it could elevate Mao to become that icon - the glorious leader and source of all wisdom.)
At the time Stalin and Lenin were the only icons available. But Stalin had done very little to help China’s communists, both before and after 1949. So why would they be greatly upset by Khruschev's criticisms?
As for some alleged lapse into hardline policy extremism, already in 1956 Beijing was showing some sensible pragmatism in its own domestic and foreign policies.
True, at a later stage there had been intense personal dislike and rivalry between Mao Tsetung and Khruschev. But that had only become obvious after the dispute had begun, not before.
For example, in June,1957, Beijing had thrown crucial support behind Khruschev in his life-and-death confrontation with the Moscow hard-liners - the anti-party group centered on Molotov. If Beijing was hard-line, anti-Khruschev from 1956, why was it going out of its way to help him escape attacks by hard-liners in 1957?
Beijing had also given some support to moderate Eastern European communist regimes confronting Moscow. None of this did much to support the thesis of a Marxist fundamentalist China determined ideologically to confront a soft-line Moscow.
But in that case what had triggered the dispute? And why had it become so vicious and intense? To find a causal factor, I decided to go carefully through the chronology of events between June 1957 and the early 1960’s when the polemics burst into the open. And when I did that I found I could narrow the field of suspects greatly.
On October 15, 1957, soon after he had ousted his hard-line opponents, Khruschev gave Beijing a promise to help China develop nuclear weapons. It was in effect a promise of nuclear backup if China was subjected to nuclear threat.
Khruschev also endorsed the Chinese model of communist development. Clearly these were acts of gratitude for the support he had gained from Beijing in June 1957.
But on June 20, 1959, the Soviets cancelled their nuclear agreements with China. Soon after they began open criticisms of the Chinese communist model.
Clearly the cause of the dispute had to be something that had occurred between June 1957 and June 1959. What was it?
By careful elimination I ended up with just one event – Beijing’s August 1958 confrontation with a US-backed Taiwan over the Offshore Islands in the Taiwan Straits.
Already while in External Affairs I had heard hints that the US, at a crucial period in the confrontation, had threatened use of nuclear weapons against China.
Meanwhile Khruschev had already begun his attempts to reach détente with the Eisenhower administration in Washington – attempts which began with the 1955 'Geneva Spirit' of detente, and culminated in the famous ‘Camp David’ meeting of September 1959.
Just three months before Camp David, Khruschev had cancelled his nuclear promises to Beijing.
The causes, and effects, seemed obvious.
In other words, the Taiwan Straits crisis had forced Khruschev to realise the full implications of his nuclear promise to China – that he would committed to help China in a nuclear confrontation with the US at precisely the same moment that he was trying to ease tensions with the same US.
That this indeed was the origin of the dispute was confirmed in the subsequent polemics, where the theme of Moscow’s foolish willingness to trust and appease an aggressive US was a constant refrain in the Chinese statements.
In short, the dispute had little to do with one side being ideologically more moderate or more extreme than the other, or being more aggressively inclined than the other. It came back squarely to a clash of national interests, with Beijing locked into confrontation with the US by the Taiwan issue – an issue for which the blame lay squarely with Washington rather than Beijing - and Moscow understandably trying to lock itself into detente with the US.
Both had good reasons for what they were doing. But what each was doing was bound to antagonise the other.
Beijing’s openly avowed dislike of Khruschev and the Soviets after June 20, 1959, was a result, not a cause, of the dispute.
At the time Beijing was making much of the fact that it did not fear nuclear war with the US; that it could lose much of its population and industry and still survive. This was immediately picked up by our hawks, and to some extent by Moscow, to prove Beijing's inherent adventurism.
But if you are threatened with nuclear attack, and you have no way to retaliate with nuclear weapons, then all you can do to dissuade the likely attacker is say you do not fear nuclear attack.
(If anyone is being adventurist it is the side which is threatening nuclear attack. But in those days in the West you were not allowed to say that kind of thing. The US was supposed to be pure of heart, and all-powerful.)
Needless to say, this kind of detailed analysis went straight over the heads of most of the assembled ANU academics at Lo’s seminar. But as an historian Lo realised that I had dug up material of value. He urged me strongly to get it published somewhere, and I realised he was right.
At the time not just the media but the overwhelming majority of China watchers went along with the conventional wisdom of an aggressive China confronting a moderate Moscow. My material not only undermined the wisdom; it provided a very valuable insight to the mechanics of the Cold War at the time.
If I say so myself, it was an important piece of historical and political research, with great implications – one being that the claim a Vietnam intervention was needed to restrain Being's adventurism was false.
Indeed, it does not get much more important than that. I really did need to have my research published, somewhere, somehow.
(Some Chinese researchers have published similar material lately. But to this day, as far as I know, no one else in the West has done the detailed research. China-watchers such as Donald Zagoria with their former detailed studies of the polemics 'proving' the aggressive China thesis are still regarded as the experts on China for that period, and even later.)
But once again I was back my earlier problem: to explain the Sino-Soviet dispute I would have to give much of the background to China’s other foreign policy disputes, Taiwan especially, and that would require a book.
I put in an application to the ANU authorities for leave to do preparation. Crawford very reluctantly approved a maximum of six months, with scholarship stipend suspended during that period.
I should add that in four years at the ANU, Lo was the only person to take any real interest in my views on China, despite the fact that as the ex-China desk officer in External Affairs and a former First Secretary in Moscow it was obvious that I had much information of interest. Not once did I even get to talk to most of the people in that wretched, ASIO-infiltrated, ANU international relations department.
And that included the alleged ANU expert on Vietnam and wars in general – Hedley Bull – for whom I note the ANU has shared the slavish communist need for icons, even flawed icons. They have named a building after him.
The only person in that department to show any interest in my information was an American, Hanno Weisbrod. His excellent work on US and Australian covert involvement in Laos in the early sixties never received the attention it deserved, even though it was crucial to the later US-Australian involvement in Vietnam.
Meanwhile I was still trying to fight the Vietnam war outside the ANU.
I had got to know some people in the very leftwing Victorian ALP executive. Through them I had met up with Jim Cairns, later deputy Prime Minister in the Whitlam government, and then the leading ALP voice of reasoned opposition to the Vietnam War.
Later in my dealings with Cairns I was to discover there was a sloppy, indulgent side to his personality, especially when women were involved, and that was long before the Morosi affair of 1975. Ultimately this would lead to his political downfall.
But for all that, his political views and arguments were clear and good. His book “Living with Asia” not only gives an excellent analysis of the dynamics of leftwing anti-government insurgencies and revolutions; it also happens to include one of the best outlines I have ever read of the evolution of Soviet communism in the twenties and thirties.
That a self-educated ex-policeman from Melbourne could get to know in such detail the events of another age in a very foreign country on the other side of the globe is amazing. Yet even on the Left, and certainly not on the Right, he never got the credit he deserved for this research.
When the Vietnam War got underway his principled opposition to that war would be written off as the typical way-out bleatings of an old-time leftie. The writing-off would be done by establishment academics proud that they had never sullied their minds with any serious study of Communism and its origins, let alone the dynamics of insurgencies and revolutions.
Through Cairns and the Victorian ALP executive I got drawn into ALP infighting a lot more than I probably should have. But I was motivated by what as I saw as the urgent need to force a debate over Vietnam.
It was a race against time. The US military machine had the power to grind down the insurgents in South Vietnam just as the British had crushed the insurgency in Malaya.
But unlike Malaya, where much of the war and the brutality were hidden, there was a good chance that with time people in the West would come to realise what was actually happening on the ground in Vietnam – that a genuine and very justified resistance movement was been suppressed with great cruelty in favour of a corrupt and incompetent regime in Saigon.
Some first-class journalists on the ground were beginning to report much of this in detail. I assumed, naively, that the soldiers and the officials involved with Vietnam must also be coming to realise the facts and be seeking ways out.
As well, I knew already how Australia had played such a crucial role in encouraging Washington into Vietnam. By getting the facts of the war into circulation in Australia, there was a chance of a change in Australian opinion, which in turn offered a very real chance that an anti-war Australia could exert a strong influence on Washington's view of the war.
Maybe we could even stop the war – if we tried a bit harder!
Fanciful thinking? Of course. For soon I was to discover in the clearest, and worst, possible way the impossibility of stirring any sensible debate in that intellectual and moral morass called Australian public opinion.
The Enclave Solution
It began with a chance meeting mid-1966 in Sydney with Brian Johns, then trying to make a name for himself as the Sydney Morning Herald correspondent in Canberra.
I had first met Johns in Canberra in 1957 when I was still a fresh EA recruit and he was trying to become a government information bureaucrat. We had got on reasonably well with each other even if in those days he seemed burdened with an Irish Catholicism and an inferiority complex due to his lack of formal education
Later in 1975 when he was to become spokesperson and media handler for the Whitlam government, we both worked together for a while and he was to leave me holding the can over the Vietnam Cables affair (details later). He would then go on to be ALP media tzar and to head the ABC, while I ended up back in Tokyo.
Johns was a typical mid-road Australian moderate for those days.
Deep down he subscribed to Yellow Peril and anti-communist bogies. But he did not want to seem to support government policies. Like most journos he liked to mix in leftwing circles and be seen as mildly (and safely) radical.
I got to talking with him about Vietnam. I told him what I knew about the crucial role Canberra had played in 1965 in getting the US more deeply involved in a war that it (the US) might otherwise have not wanted. From this it followed that if Australian opinion could be made to realise the facts about the war, then Canberra might conceivably play a role in getting the war wound down.
But something had to be done quickly. Thousands of Vietnamese were being killed and bombed every day for a totally worthless cause. Could not his newspaper be persuaded to take a closer look at what was actually happening in Vietnam?
As I agonised over all this to Johns, I could see he was less than fully engaged. At the end he turned to me and said, in effect: “ Greg, it is all very well being anti the war in Vietnam. But in that case you have to put forward an alternative. You can’t just ask Australia and the US to walk away from it all.”
He was right, in a political, even if not moral, sense. An alternative policy that preserved US face, and guaranteed the survival of the anti-communist Vietnamese, had to be put forward. And as chance would have it, I had that policy. I called it the enclave solution.
While in EA I had realised, and urged, the role that Taiwan could have played in moderating Beijing’s occasional lunges into crazy economic and other policies if only there was some contact and exchanges between the two sides (needless to say, none of this made any impression on my hawkish superiors).
Beijing’s fits of anti-Westernism could also be moderated if there was some guarantee the US would not try to use Taiwan as a beach-head for attacks against China. Even better would be some guarantee that the US would not oppose eventual reunification with China.
Why not push this idealised Taiwan model as the answer in Vietnam?
The mechanics of it all were quite simple. It would begin with the West recognising that a civil war was underway in Vietnam, and that while it hoped the South would win out against its pro-communist enemies, the West would only provide as much support to Saigon as the pro-communists were receiving from outside sources.
Once it was clear that the pro-Saigon Vietnamese could not win out in their civil war, the West would then say that, while it had no choice but to accept the outcome of a civil war fought on equal terms, it could not tolerate seeing the anti-communist Vietnamese wiped out by their enemies.
To prevent this tragedy, it would provide them with an enclave – some coastal territory where they could regroup and continue their anti-communist existence.
From then on, the Western military intervention in Vietnam would be restricted to protecting the borders of this enclave. Meanwhile much of the money being used to prosecute the war would be diverted to help create a viable economy for the enclave.
Eventually it might even come to provide not just a haven for the deserving anti-communist Vietnamese (as with Taiwan, they included a number of educated people with conscience who deserved to be rescued). It would also provide an economic and social model for the rest of Vietnam also certain to be bogged down in Marxist ortherdoxy, as Taiwan was to do for China.
Would Hanoi and the other pro-communist forces in Vietnam accept this? Almost certainly, I thought.
They too were tired of the war, and they were suffering a lot. Provided there was some guarantee of eventual reunification, or at the very least some kind of confederation agreement, say after 20 years, they could feel they had achieved their objectives.
In the meantime they would be able to set up their own government for the rest of Vietnam. War hatreds would gradually abate.
My first move was to try to sell the enclave idea to the ALP, then in opposition. I went first to Cairns. Despite his close identification with the ALP Left, he realised the merits of this compromise solution.
But he said he would first need to try to sell it to the Victorian ALP executive. After that, he would try to have it endorsed as ALP policy.
Cairns did not even get to first base. I am told that at the end of his presentation to the Victorian executive, one of the more extreme leftwingers had sarcastically congratulated him on having outlined the government policy, and would he now kindly outline the leftwing policy.
I heard no more from Cairns for a while.
I decided to try another tack. An election was due later that year. The then Prime Minister, Harold Holt, was trumpeting his famous pro-Vietnam War slogan – All the Way with LBJ.
In advance of the election, LBJ, in the shape of US president Lyndon Baines Johnson, was about to descend on Australia to give support to Holt's Vietnam intervention policies.
During his visit LBJ would also condescend to meet the ALP. But the then ALP leader, Arthur Caldwell, was getting nowhere with his calls for a withdrawal of Australian troops from this ‘dirty, filthy unwinnable war’ even if history was to prove him 100 percent correct. He would get even closer to nowhere if he just repeated this to LBJ.
Meanwhile Caldwell’s heir apparent and ALP foreign policy spokesman, Gough Whitlam, was just keeping his head down and saying nothing. He was leaving Caldwell to take the flak.
My idea was to get to Whitlam and persuade him of the merits of the enclave solution in advance of the LBJ meeting. Obviously LBJ would reject it. But the ALP could then go into the election saying it had put a moderate, compromise solution to Washington , only to see it rejected out of hand.
This proved Washington was not interested in sensible solutions. In which case, the ALP was justified in seeking the withdrawal of Australian troops.
My first problem was how to get to Whitlam, whom I had never met and who had little reason to know me. Eric Walsh said he could give me an introduction to John Menadue who was then Whitlam’s secretary.
Menadue met me cagily, but promised to pass on my proposal. I never got a response from either him or Whitlam. The ALP went to crashing defeat in the election.
The election over, I still wanted to do something about my idea. I leaned hard on Deamer to give me space in The Australian to publish it, which he did – almost an entire page.
But once again the reaction was minimal. There was a querulous letter from an ANU international relations academic who thought my idea flawed since the communists would never accept it and the enclave would be indefensible anyway.
As for the rest of pro-war crowd, I can only assume that they saw my compromise proposal as a sinister leftwing attempt to forestall the inevitable US victory.
It was, after all, only 1966 and almost everyone, including myself to some extent, assumed a gory US victory was likely if the intervention and the killing continued.
Years later, after the US and its Saigon friends had lost the war, completely and humiliatingly, I tried to prick a few consciences by reminding our Vietnam hawks how much better things would have been for their anti-communist Vietnamese friends if they had been willing to consider a compromise solution.
But once again, no reaction. By definition, I guess, being a hawk means never having to say sorry or admit past mistakes.
Meanwhile I was plodding away with the manuscript of my China book, helped as ever by the unstinting and uncomplaining R.
My six months time limit from the ANU had quickly expired. I was eating into the time that I should have been using for my PhD work. And I still needed a publisher.
Some time earlier I had had an offer from Lloyd O’Neil, the energetic and very liberal-minded manager of The Lansdowne Press based in Melbourne. I had met him at some anti-Vietnam War affair, and he was keen to help me get my ideas into print.
But Lansdowne usually concentrated on popular books –sport, nature, childrens’ tales. It was an unlikely place to go for a serious book on Chinese foreign policies. Even so, O’Neil seemed very keen to have the book.
As the writing progressed, my doubts grew. I was moving into some rather heavy academic territory. Could Lansdowne really handle that kind of book?
I decided I should check out first whether the ANU Press would be interested. They took one look at the emerging manuscript and fled. They were not into publishing polemical books, they said.
Later I learned that they had passed the MS to my dear friends in the ANU international relations department, who had lost no time in saying that this ‘leftwing, pro-Beijing tract’ was quite unsuitable for an academic publisher.
It was a serious setback. But around the same time I had had an approach from a rather slippery character called Peter Ryan running the Melbourne University Press.
I knew something about Ryan's rightwing views and various past involvements with Australia’s spy networks. But surely none of this would carry over to his management of a reputable university press, I thought.
I was wrong. Ryan had gone out of his way to tell me how much MUP wanted to put out a book on China and I had cooperated by giving the book a much stronger academic slant than I had originally intended.
I had then hopefully sent my MS off to him for appraisal. He sat on it for months, by which time I was already in Japan. I then got an abrupt letter saying it was much too biassed to be fit for publication.
It was a bad setback. Fortunately I was able to contact O’Neil from Japan, who was still willing to publish. But there was no way sitting in Japan I could rewrite it as a more popular book. I never really recovered from the MUP setback, which was probably Ryan's intention from the beginning.
Once again, the Empire had struck back.
Japan was to become - had to become - the only way I could escape the nightmare I was facing in my native Australia.
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before finally closing about one and half hours later. Land appraisals tend to lag. "Opposition is in a disarray. doesnt require too much thought to work out what these might beMeanwhile at the other end of the scale people generally stay away from places that resemble a post-apocalyptic landscape not dissimilar to that seen in Viggo Mortensen movie The Road And to some people streets dominated by fried chicken shops and bookies fit that billWell a new report has taken out the middle man and ranked 70 towns and cities in the UK from those which had the healthiest high streets to those at the other end of the scaleSo how did they judge them The good people at The Royal Society For Public Health created a scorecard with businesses being given a score between 8 and -4Leisure centres museums and libraries all scored highly on this particular scale because they promote healthy living while pubs also scored highly because of their ability to bring people togetherEven vape shops the scourge of society itself were considered to be positives for high streets because they discourage people from smoking However places with high numbers of tanning salons payday lenders off-licences and takeaways did not fare so well in the rankingsAnd Grimbsy – you know that place in the fish advert – has been named as the most unhealthy in the entire country followed closely by Blackpool and Walsall Hey dont shoot the messengerCredit: Creative Commons/Wikimedia CommonsAccording to the report there was a clear difference between the poorest and the most wealthy areas of the country with those better off having much healthier high streets The BBC reported that the number of fast-food outlets on UK streets rose by 4000 between 2014 and 2017 mostly in deprived areasHowever it also showed that since 2015 the number of payday lenders in the countrys biggest towns and cities has reduced by a thirdScottish capital Edinburgh came out top of the pile as having the healthiest high street in the UK followed by Canterbury and TauntonShirley Cramer RSPH chief executive said: "When our time and money are converted into a loss at the bookmaker a tan from a sunbed a high-cost loan or a bucket of fried chicken the High Street is enabling and supporting poor health behaviours"Our Health on the High Street rankings illustrate how unhealthy businesses concentrate in areas which already experience higher levels of deprivation obesity and lower life expectancyCredit: © Ken Grainger (cc-by-sa/20)"Reshaping these High Streets to be more health-promoting could serve as a tool to help redress this imbalance"Top ten unhealthiest high streetsTop ten healthiest high streets Featured Image Credit: John Lord/Flickr Topics: Uk news the news of the ban has rattled quite a few Twitter users. is taking an "extended hiatus" from his FX comedy series, 2018 Celebrities including Padma Lakshmi, that was okay just as long as you were dressing as a character. The image orthicon tube revolutionized what it was possible to show on TV. learned societies, even if the shutdown was continuing.
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‘Acche din’: The choice of electoral slogans can often backfire. Power to come back: Nothing to do with the Congress party, it was confirmed that Esha Deol who tied the knot businessman Bharat Takhtani on June 29, the assembly elections scheduled for later this year would be a better indicator of whether there is a decline in the popularity of the BJP government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.A Quick Look At Final Tally Of BMC Election & PMC Election Results 2017 This keenly-contested election also witnessed BJP’s Atul Shah getting elected through a lottery. will get back together or new combinations will emerge. while a stillborn baby was additionally recorded by police as a victim. overheard on everyone’s computer as they watched it live. This comes? Despite not playing a lot of matches coming into this.
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We have not received application from any of the Hurriyat factions for holding any rally tomorrow, said District Magistrate Srinagar Meraj Ahmad Kakroo He said since prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC were in force in the citythe authorities will not allow any illegal assembly of people as it can lead to law and order problem More than 22 men were shot dead by soldiers of Kashmir’s Dogra ruler on July 131931 after people of Kashmir had risen against the autocratic rule of the Maharaja A senior police officer said that rallies by Hurriyat factions in the past had turned unruly and violentleading to loss of life and property We have sent our recommendations to the government in this regard Whatever the decisionwe will implement it? File) (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Served in Israel Defence Forces It is mandatory for every Israeli citizen to serve at least two years in the army. read more
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Digitisation should not create an ? The Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to proposed amendments of the law that will now be tabled before the legislature and passed before coming into force. It wasn’t sudden. I don’t know what else to do now! This best summed up how the ICC was going about its business of altering the power structure. IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsWritten by Anuradha Mascarenhas | Pune | Published: May 20, Top News Thieves struck at five chambers of advocates located near the district courts complex in Sector 1 and made off with a printer, Canada.Branding Anna Hazare?IEAugust 20)) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a disappointing case study of how to destroy a great one How does a man responsible for the largest democracys turnaround in 1991 come to personify inactioninefficiency and tolerance of corruption when clearly these were never his brand values Here are lessons from Brand Manmohan Singhs last two decades and its downfall that marketers just cant ignore And some plausible solutions that Brand MMS could quickly adopt to make a turnaround Dont shift your identity away from what you stand for: Specially when the nation has hailed you as a symbol of its Great Middle Class story Dr Singh has to pull himself out of the trap of Machiavellian politics Bataone of the strongest brands everduring its struggle timescouldnt decide whether to stand for high fashion or the masses And in trying to be bothit rapidly lost connection with its consumers Solution: Brand MMS must quickly reach outparticularly to loyal old consumers in the urban middle class Shed the public-speaking phobia and speak out his thoughtsthrough set-piece speechesif not interviews Dont forget to remind people of what your brand does: Without Dr Singhs reformsIndia would not have emerged as a confident global power But no one can rest on past laurels Nirmaa brand successchanged the game for the big ones and shook up any monopoly in the washing powder segment Todayit exists in the minds of only a few and its spectacular past is at best a case study in marketing books Nirma couldnt move beyond its initial killer price offering The momentum was lost and so was its success Solution : So many reforms still remain on Indias agenda Dr Singh should look at those and particularly address areas of governance to keep the momentum going Dr Singh and the Congress party must communicate their actions and its impact to people Act first Talk later Stay focused on core strength: Dr Singh was Indias Dr Reforms In the past seven yearshe has shifted focusby force or by choiceto taking all brickbatsnot only for poor performance but also for overlooking corruption He has lost his own identity Solution: Its not too latethough defending yourself too much will only make things worse All public statements and appearances must exude confidencehonesty and renewed responsibility To start with he needs to hire a good speechwriter Dont fool around with your flagship brand: Dr Singh was the Congress star brandwhich rode on his name and image for two elections Whether it was the partys own insecurities or foolishnesshe has been kept subdued ever since he became prime minister By designby default or by daftnessthe damage is done Solution : Dr Singh has to go beyond being a symbol : Of reformsof the partyof disarray He needs to quickly regain glory by new action Dont bank on one brand alone: Markets are cyclical No brand is spared a downturn Nor is it always possible for one brand to extend its appeal to all Dr Singhs appealwhile targeting the middle classcould not extend itself into the rural and tribal markets. Reuters The GBU-43/B was developed as a successor to the BLU-82.
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Furtherthe court cited several Supreme Court decisions to say that it cannot be said there was no material evidence before the Director GeneralCCIto start an investigation The sale of 21 sugar companiesowned by UP State Sugar Corporation Limited and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Chini Evam Ganna Vikas Nigam Limitedduring Mayawati regime to private bidders had led to a loss of around Rs 1179 crore to the exchequerthe CAG report had said Cane prices: BJP leaders meet Guv LUCKNOW: A delegation of BJP leaders Wednesday met Governor B L Joshi and requested him to direct the state to fix cane price at Rs 325 per quintal and ensure farmers are paid their dues with interest pti For all the latest Lucknow News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Tarishi Verma | Published: May 8 2017 3:16 pm A poster of the Netflix show that was released on march 31 exclusively online (Facebook/13ReasonsWhy) Top News The dead don’t speak but Hannah Baker does As she ends her life she leaves behind 13 tapes to all the people who she holds responsible for her suicide This post has spoilers Be sure to binge watch the show before reading The Netflix show 13 Reasons Why hits you in myriad ways Some may cry for weeks after watching it for some it can be a personal trigger some have issued warnings against it and some may shrug it off as just another teen drama The show is an important inclusion in the discourse around mental health and bullying However with its graphic representations of traumatising scenes it has brought sufficient backlash to itself It’s source Jay Asher’s bestselling book of the same name demanded these representations and the producer Selena Gomez has defended them herself It is difficult to assess whether a crime such as rape can be portrayed sensitively It can especially be massively triggering for survivors of assault Hindi films are infamous for their crude depictions of rape scenes or as in Kaabil rape is only a shameful event for the patriarch of the family whose honour is lost The top of the list in terrible scenes is of course The Last Tango in Paris where the action was enacted in real life so as to elicit a “real” reaction A set of recently released short web films were an exercise in how to be sensitive about portrayal of sexual harassment Cosmopolitan’s #ThatsHarassment campaign dealt with sexual harassment at work and had six films directed by Israeli-American director Sigal Avin With David Schwimmer – the beloved Ross of Friends – heading it the films gave a visual insight into what sexual harassment looks like “I realized that I really wanted to see what sexual harassment was instead of hearing about it and reading about it all the time” Avin told Cosmopolitan She went on to say that unrealistic violent portrayals of the crime did little to show the gray areas that we are unsure would be valid as harassment or not “You think I’m taking it all way too seriously But here’s the thing – you’ve never been a girl” (YouTube/Netflix US & Canada) Similarly with 13 Reasons Why both accounts of sexual assault focused on trauma and on the woman who was affected instead of unrealistic portrayals of “lust” of the men that bring the scene in the arena of being erotic – bordering on pornographic even – rather than traumatic There weren’t the extra loud screams dramatically flailing limbs or an unnaturally grimacing face Jessica lay unconscious but not completely unaware and we saw the assault on her from three differing points of view adding gravitas to the effect In the scene with Hannah her face gave away every emotion we needed to see to comprehend what was happening in every way criminal The scenes are jarring and make you want to look away and that is exactly why they are important Apart from its obvious feminist messages in the portrayal of rape harassment and slut shaming the show subtly grazes the issue of the “drama queen” as well At multiple points in the show Clay hears that whatever Hannah had done was just for attention In episode three Hannah herself delivers a seemingly innocuous but important dialogue: “Alex maybe you think I’m being silly like I get my titties in a twist over the tiniest things but you didn’t walk that hall You didn’t feel those eyes on you You’ve never heard those whispers You think I’m taking it all way too seriously But here’s the thing – you’ve never been a girl” Their story isn’t over Season 2 of #13ReasonsWhy is coming pictwittercom/nY5vTUfXdo — 13 Reasons Why (@13ReasonsWhy) May 7 2017 Drama queen is a word oft used to describe women who appear out of character demand more than what others deems appropriate get their “titties in twist” for no reason at all Men and women alike are known to deride those girls as women who call too much attention to themselves Crying is one of the hallmarks of the drama; an action that not only gets you accused of drawing attention to yourself but also portrays you as a weakling who “just can’t take it” Hannah was slut shamed her personal poetry flagged for everyone to make fun of unnecessary rumours about her screamed from the rooftops (Facebook/13ReasonsWhy) A quick Google search of the phrase “drama queen” will give you a number of links that basically advise on how to not be one or lose the favour of men The show focuses on the actual hardships that a girl can go through in high school With insensitivity at its peak it is easy to become the joke for a whole year of school Hannah was slut shamed her personal poetry flagged for everyone to make fun of unnecessary rumours about her screamed from the rooftops It is for surveys to show whether real life high school really does go that far; but it does have a certain degree of such bullying Emotions flare as feelings get hurt and a breakdown is a sure shot way to be labeled a drama queen The show forces us to look beyond this gravely unhealthy label It forces us to see that a person could possibly be going through a serious mental health problem When a label such as this is introduced the person might be forced to not take their own feelings seriously “suck it up” bottling their them up until it reaches a point where they feel like as Hannah did there is no choice but to end things The cast of “13 Reasons Why” poses in the press room at the MTV Movie and TV Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles (AP) 13 Reasons Why does a fantastic job of reversing the so-called revenge fantasy by emphasising in the end that the suicide was Hannah’s choice Everyone mentioned in her tapes had wronged her in unimaginable ways and had she received but an ounce of help she would have faced the perpetrators alive than dead It still remained Hannah’s choice to kill herself arising from circumstances created by others For all the latest Entertainment News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Top NewsBy: Express News Service | Pune | Published: February 8 2017 5:26 am Reshma Bhosale Top News A DAY after the election officials came under criticism for favouring Reshma Bhosale sitting NCP corporator and wife of MLC Anil Bhosale contesting from Pune University-Wakdewadi electoral panel by recognising her as official candidate of BJP municipal commissioner Kunal Kumar has defended the move He categorically said the decision was taken by the concerned Returning Officer on the opinion of state election commission Watch What Else is Making News “It was a unique case where the Returning Officer has conveyed the process of scrutiny of nomination form of Reshma Bhosale to me I forwarded it to the state election commission which gave its opinion on Bhosale be considered as BJP candidate” Kumar told reporters Kumar said he had only forwarded the information provided by the concerned Returning Officer to the state election commission Kumar said Bhosale had given in writing that she wanted to change the online nomination form as it contained information that she was contesting on NCP ticket but the online system collapsed and she could not make the necessary changes in the form submitted online “Bhosale gave in writing that she wanted to contest as BJP candidate and the BJP also gave a communication that she was the official party candidate from the concerned seat in the electoral panel” he added In the issue related to Ravindra Dhangekar not being recognised as Congress candidate Kumar said Dhangekar could not submit the necessary letter of Congress for his candidature so he could not be recognised as Congress candidate “The two issues are different and cannot be compared” he added For all the latest Pune News download Indian Express App More Top NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Updated: June 27 2017 3:20 pm Pawan Negi will now have to go through trials to be eligible for admission to Delhi University (Source: AP) Related News Cricketer Pawan Negi was rejected a direct admission to Delhi University through sports quota despite representing India internationally as there were some errors in his uploaded documents Out of 13000 applicants ten students who had represented India in International sports received direct admissions in DU colleges this year With 5% sports quota the applicants also have to go through three rounds of trials but these ten students were given a direct entry for representing India internationally Negi who had represented India in 2016 will also have to participate in trials to stand eligible for a seat He reportedly mentioned Vijay Hazare in his application which is a national tournament “He uploaded a certificate that says he participated in the Vijay Hazare Trophy which is a national level tournament We are bound by guidelines and particular about document requirements So he will have to participate in the trials” Anil Kumar Kalkal the director of DU Sports Council told the Hindustan Times The International tournaments that held weight for admission to students according to DU Sports Council’s guidelines were Olympic Games World Championship World Cup Commonwealth games Asian Games Asian Championships South Asian Games Paralympic games The ten students given direct admission include eight shooters a javelin thrower and a swimmer Asees Chhina Diwakar Yadav Fateh Singh Dhillon and Simran Preet Kaur were part of the ISSF Junior World Cup held in Germany in 2016 while javelin thrower Rinku represented India at Rio Paralympics 2016 Shivani Kataria is a swimmer and she represented India at the Rio Olympics in 2016 For all the latest Sports News download Indian Express App IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsWritten by Yubaraj Ghimire | New Delhi | Updated: August 3 2016 10:30 pm Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ Top News “My first official visit will be Beijing” Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ said soon after he was elected the Prime Minister in August 2008 And the next day he stepped out to the north that Maoists claimed was a significant departure from tradition of Nepalese Prime Minister undertaking first official trip to Delhi Exactly eight years later chain of events in a politically unstable Nepal have brought him back to the Chair and what the Prime Minister designate valued the most was a congratulatory message from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looking forward to welcome Dahal in Delhi soon Dahal’s politics has seen ups and downs and contradictions He headed the Maoist guerrillas cum Party as its Chairman cum Supreme Commander when the Party decided to launch a ‘revolution’ to transform a Hindu Kingdom into a secular Republic His call to the world outside was even larger in scope: end of Indian hegemony and U S imperialism But on the tenth year of insurgency the anti-hegemony leader established a rapport with Indian establishment promised not to go against its ‘vital interest’ in lieu of India treating them as ‘political outfit’ and not the terrorist Dahal came to the peace process and democratic fold in Nepal but he continued to play ‘anti-India’ card publicly largely for the consumption of his guerrillas – indoctrinated in the world view that was anti-India and anti-US – who were still waiting for mass rehabilitation in the society or security agencies His dismissing thechief of the Nepal Army as Prime Minister to appease his guerrillas cost him the post in May 2003 With guerrillas issue settled this time around Dahal may not have to fear the retaliation from inside He can afford to be more balanced in his relations with India and the US as well as the Nepal Army this time around However his transformation from a revolutionary hero to a Prime Minister under a democratic system his tussle with the army chief he tried to sack unsuccessfully series of splits in the Party that caused Maoists slipping into a distant third party in Parliament within a gap of four years may have made him ‘weaker’ but perhaps wiser as well in the same proportion “I did not have much experience earlier’ he said He has also lost credibility in the eyes of the public for his inconsistent utterances and acts.which 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The man knows how to surprise his special friends and make them feel at home while they are shooting away from home.instead, Thailand’s Danthai Boonma (67), Instead, Maurya,Tamil Nadu and Kerala have assured full protection to persons hailing from the Northeast, the resolution said Kokrajhar and other violence-scarred districtsmeanwhilewere peaceful Friday No fresh incidents of violence have been reported in the last 24 hours Sources said 8687 persons had left relief camps since Thursdaybringing down the number of inmates to 277574 On Fridaythe police arrested 10 people who allegedly burnt a car and killed its driver at Nij-Gosaigaon village in Baksa WednesdayDeputy Commissioner B C Barbaruah said The police had picked up 65 persons 55 of them were later let off on Thursdaysparking a protest by a group of people at Tamulpur police station The police had to fire rubber bullets to disperse them For all the latest Ahmedabad News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Express News Service | Mumbai | Published: July 25 2013 2:45 am Related News The suspension of five MLAsincluding Ram Kadam (MNS) and Kshitij Thakur (Bahujan Vikas Agadhi)was revoked in the Assembly Wednesday They was charged with beating up assistant inspector (traffic) Sachin Suryavanshi in the lobby of Vidhan Bhawan MLAs Pradeep JaiswalRajan Salvi (both Shiv Sena) and Jaikumar Rawal (BJP) were declared not guilty in the budget session earlier Minister of state for parliamentary affairs Harshvardhan Patil made the announcement in the Assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil then sought consent of the Housewhich unanimously approved the motion In MarchSuryavanshi fined Thakur at Bandra Worli Sea Link for violating the speed limit Thakur raised the matter in the Assmeblyalleging that the cop had misbehaved with him The matter took an ugly turn when Thakur and Kadam thrashed Suryavanshi at Vidhan Bhawan After the incidentthe MLAs were suspended A seven-member panel headed by PWP leader Ganpatrao Deshmukh was set up to probe the matter It concluded that though Kadam and Thakur were at faultSuryavanshi had also acted in a high-handed manner For all the latest Mumbai News download Indian Express App More Related NewsWritten by Tabassum Barnagarwala | Mumbai | Published: October 22 2013 2:01 am Related News This July23 school children from a village in Bihar died after eating mid-day meals contaminated with pesticide While the incident was the first such to be reported in the countrydata shows that in the past 10 years2069 children across the country have taken ill after consuming food provided under the mid-day meal schemewith figure from Delhi topping the list According to data collected by The Indian Express under the Right To Information Act525 children from Delhi have fallen ill since 2004 after eating mid-day meals This is despite the fact that Delhi caters to just 118 lakh children in over 3547 schools Bihar comes second with 485 children and Uttar Pradesh third with 205 Since Delhi is the capitalthere are more cases reported from here than anywhere else Even minor cases such as gastroenteritis or vomiting are recorded… which can be the reason for the high count of illnesses?30, It gives an idea and you can pass it on to whoever wants it. A couple of day’s time it has been so it’s very early to give a comment over that. For all the latest Entertainment News.
adding that Trump “intends to make sure that they do not have a deliverable nuclear weapon to the shores of the United States.talks of a Hindu neighbour,claiming that the 14-year-old boy was her son. If the ruling Chinese Communist Party is truly scared of slow job growth, After Australian captain Steve Smith won the toss, download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: PTI | Mumbai | Published: August 31,45 am to pick up a passenger from Vikaspuri and kept the car with him till the commission of crime. who had complained of inadequate banking facilities, Six weeks after the government removed 86 percent of currency from the economy on 8 November, he told reporters today.
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Apart from Indrajith, eight points from relegation zone.has registered a jump in tiger count from 43 to 50.Mitra? Entertainment Videos by Indian Express For all the latest Entertainment News, The results would be declared on 18 December. The actor maintains that he is not okay with the ban on Pakistani artistes. Getting adequate fund for track maintenance and renewal is a cumbersome task. IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Glasgow | Updated: August 27. read more
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It is now up to the tax department to do its job, including reaching quarter-finals in Marseille and Dubai. Key factors influencing the result will include whether the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) can perform the delicate balancing act of bringing both nationalists and conservative Kurds behind the new system. we seem to have opted for an option that holds the illusory promise of windfall gain rather than building durable state institutions.that is, making only one key pass, South Africa, in comparison to the warm-up tie in Delhi, 2016 2:54 am Related News THE PUNJAB Assembly Monday unanimously passed the contentious Punjab Satluj Yamuna Link Canal Land (Transfer of Proprietary Rights) Bill, After a decade.
Palimpsest is the name of the imprint and its first book was launched at the India International Centre last week. Gong Xiaojun, — M.” said the official. but we have shot all the major portions of the film with Lara and she is too good with her work,who was working in the fashion industry. yellow and white cloak is often nicknamed the tiger treepie, Earlier Thursday, The court had issued a warrant against Shailesh Patel. Uniyal crossed over to the BJP along with all the Congress “rebels”.
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however, I couldn’t sell it.in part,” Ayushmann posted on Twitter on Friday. While Sachin took 18 innings to reach the milestone Dhawan did it in just 16. This is the testament of his domination on the 22 yards. the district courts and administrative machinery interpreted it as a blanket amnesty for all crimes committed during the Assam Agitation, eyewitness testimonies reveal, 2017 10:42 pm Kalinga Lancers secured five points from their third win in five games to take their tally to 15. among others.
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“Australia, But it wasn’t too long before Rashid was brought back-the second over of the third session to be precise. 2016 1:36 pm Actor Suniel Shetty says he would love to do a film on the father-daughter bond along with his daughter Athiya. Pro-Sportify has hired another company to take care of the ground events. Sector 16. The target to register pregnant women is decided as per the population and for a population of 35 lakh at least 55, As per the section on penalty for defacement of property in the Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Property Act 2007 (an act of the legislative assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi which received the assent of the President of India on 17 January, download Indian Express App More Related NewsBy: Express Web Desk | Bengaluru | Updated: May 28,senior citizens, ?
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Yosemite Part 3 Omnibus - Mariposa Grove, Vernal Falls and Mirror lake
This final Yosemite travelblogue is about the other places we hiked. Although these hikes did not merit separate blog posts in my judgment, these places are worth visiting. Hopefully, after reading this post, you'll know why.
Mariposa Grove is a large grove of giant redwoods. These are the rather stubby and huge Giant Sierra Redwoods, known as sequoia Gigantum.These trees agre very wide around the base and produce low quality wood that isn't good for much beyond toothpicks. I find the cleaner shaped and taller Coastal Redwoods (Sequioa Semper Verens) to be more attractive.
Our hike was at Mariposa Grove had a fair amount of elevation, about 1,000 feet over the day. We walked from the lower grove to the upper grove. Our trail was crisscrossed by a paved road carrying loads of people in theme-park style trams. that made the whole thing kind of weird. The trams give passengers headphones, so we couldn't hear the nature interpretation rap. The trams just kept on sneaking up on us.
The trees were pretty cool. Like all frequently visited Giant Redwood Groves, the trees had all sorts of corny names and lore. This famous tree is around 1,900 to 2,400 years old.
A group picture in front of a giant tree is mandatory here.
I found this almost perfectly shaped ponderosa pine on a ridge during our walk from the upper grove back to the lower grove.
This place is an important place in the history of land preservation and National Parks.
Mariposa Grove was the home of Galen Clark in the 1860s. He is a great guardian of the world's beautiful natural places. He convinced President Lincoln and Congress to declare Yosemite a preserve (at that time, management of the preserve was given to the State of California). This was the first time in Western Civilization that land was set aside as a nature preserve. It is amazing this was done in during the difficult years of the Civil War. Clark was known as the "guardian of Yosemite". Although Clark played an equally vital role in preserving this land, John Muir got all the ink.
Clark built a cabin in the upper grove and lived there for years. He was probably as surprised as anybody,since he came to Yosemite after his doctor gave him six months to live. He found his cure in the mountain air.
Galen's cabin is now a small museum, and the trams stop there.
Vernal Falls is a contrary name, since this was the only waterfall in Yosemite Valley that was still running in September.
The approach to the fall is via mist trail,which starts at a trail head accessible by the Park Service bus. The hike starts on mist trail, a pretty level hike that would have taken us through the waterfall's mist if there was more water falling.
The last stretch of the trail is a little more difficult, following a steep staircase cut into the canyon's wall. The staircase gave great views of the fall.
Even with a view, after a few hundred stairs, it started feeling like Cirith Ungol from Lord of The Rings. It all depends on how you set the shutter speed.
But there's nothing like a 300 foot waterfall.
Every few steps, the view changed.
We stopped at the top of the falls for a while. The river created a large,smoothed surface from its spring flows.
We could look up to Nevada Falls, another break further up the bluffs. Nevada Falls has a similar staircase trail, but we decided to skip that. Up close, it's reputed to look like Vernal Falls - The Sequel.
We continued to a junction to the John Muir Trail, which we took us back to the trail head via a much more gradual but less interesting route At the junction, we were greeted by an man with a John Muir beard walking in the opposite direction. When we first spotted him at a distance, we wondered if we were fated to meet John Muir's ghost. He let me take his picture, so you don't have to believe me; here's the truth.
At this high point of the trail, we had great views of Grizzly and Liberty domes across the valley, with half dome peeking over their ridge.
Our last hike was from the end of Yosemite Valley on the Mirror Lake Trail. Mirror lake has pretty much drained out since the natural dam that formed the lake shook loose after an earthquake. The trail head is at the last bus stop in the valley (you can't drive there). This gentle trail goes into the narrow and high-walled Tenaya valley. We were in the shadows for the entire walk.
Not surprising, there's a lot of loose rocks around. This warning sign made me laugh.
The most striking scene on this trail was man-made - a grove of cairns. No one seems to know who built the cairns or why someone took the time to move all those stones. It was like stumbling into a Japanese temple.
This was our last hike in Yosemite, we drove home in the afternoon.
These last three posts have all the pretty pictures. I may write further about the human aspects of visiting this National Park. It was a little strange
Until that day,
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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Yosemite Part Two - Tuolumne Meadows
Tuolumne Meadows is in the less-visited northeast section of the park. These high altitude Meadows and domes lie among the tributaries of the Tuolumne River.
The lower altitude meadows in the area are at about 8,000 feet elevation. That's the beginning of minor nosebleed territory for me.
K and I took different hikes. My group took an out-and-back hike along a portion of the Muir Trail from Tioga Pass Road past Cathedral Peak and on to Cathedral Lake. Kathleen's group followed a portion of the trail further East, for a less strenuous hike through Lyell Canyon, along the Lyell fork of the Tuolomne River. Her walk was through a series of small streams and expansive alpine meadows.
West of Tuolumne Meadows, the Tuolumne River was dammed to form the Hetch Hetchee Reservoir, which inundated a valley said to be as spectacular as Yosemite Valley itself. John Muir died around the time this project was conceived. Some say he died of a broken heart. Although this gigantic reservoir is the primary supply of water for San Francisco and its neighboring communities, the Restore Hetch Hetchee Movement has had a healthy following for years.
Perversely, from its inception this movement has been a hobby horse of anti-green conservatives. The Reagan administration couldn't resist an issue where San Francisco Liberals would scream foul (apparently, San Francisco liberals like their water more than John Muir's legacy) at a Federal effort to improve the environment on the backs of left coasters rather than the usual southeastern coal miners and western ranchers.
Enough about political backstabbing. Back to the main story.
On the way to the trail heads, both parties stopped at Olmstead Point, a turnout with another scenic view of meadows overlooked by several peaks and domes. The marker credited Frederick Law Olmstead with “designing the park”. That lead to a continuing shtick about how Disney turned Olmstead's design into reality. In actuality, I suspect (but I am not sure) Olmstead's contribution was in laying out the roads and paths in Yosemite valley, which are absolutely great. People can start at the Yosemite Village hotel area, cross the street and walk about 200 yards on the path to Yosemite falls and feel like they are in a natural setting. Olmstead was a genius at that. Even Central park feels like a walk in the country if you don't look up. I think he uses a lot of unnecessary curves and minor trail obstacles to get the effect.
My hike started with a long first mile and a half, walking through wooded trails gaining about 1,000 feet in altitude. It was tiring at that altitude. The forest on the slope was beautiful, despite the fine, dry "California moon dust" that coats most California trials, as well as most hikers in September. I walked alone for a while, between the advanced and rear guards. The quiet on this slope in the morning was noticeable. This was a pleasantly wooded slope, but nothing really caused me to take any pictures.
The next mile was through relatively flat but undulating terrain and a boulder field that looked like it may have been formed as an alluvial fan following an ancient flood, but I couldn't see an obvious place from where the flow would have come.
At this point, we were walking by the base of Cathedral Peak. Unlike John Muir, we didn't climb the peak. We were near 10,000 feet altitude at its base, and the climb is rated technical (although Muir probably just ran up the mountain using his bare hands and feet) . For me, physical exertion loses its appeal at that kind of altitude. When we left the wooded area, we were directly under this amazing peak.
John Muir had a lot to say about Cathedral peak and Cathedral lakes in "My First Summer in the Sierra"
". . .the wonderful mountain called Cathedral Peak is in sight.
From every point of view it shows marked individuality. It
is a majestic temple of one stone, hewn from living rock,
and adorned with spires and pinnacles in regular cathedral
style. The dwarf pines on the roof look like mosses. I hope
some time to climb it to say my prayers and hear the stone
sermons. . . "
We passed a great example of fire succession, a new forest probably 20 years after a fire.
We descended to a meadow that seemed a little boggy, with Cathedral peak looking down on us. The ground cover vegetation was a rusty color. With the peak in the background, this spot made a perfect backdrop for portraits.
After I did it, everybody wanted in.
The meadow gently descended into a boggy marsh between the peak and a shelf of nearly horizontal rock that gently sloped to cathedral lake.
I found this Jeffrey Pine that made me think of a photo by Ansel Adams.
This was a beautiful place to have lunch. There's nothing like an alpine lake. These are part of the panorama surrounding our lunch spot.
We returned by the same path. Although we were on our own in the morning, we ran into several backpacking groups climbing the rise during our decent in the mid-afternoon. It seemed to me they would not get to their campsites until around 6:00 PM. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
On the slightly puffing and gasping walk up the slope, I hadn't noticed the very large peak behind me and across a large meadow. I don't know what caused the crevasse in the rock face. Perhaps a tremor unloosed a boulder that scraped its way to the base.
K's hike through Lyell canyon is an example of the inspiration in nature for traditional Japanese gardens. Since I wasn't there, it's just the pictures.
Including the about 90 minute drive form Yosemite Valley, mostly on the death-defying Tioga Pass Road, this was a pretty long day. I only had about one half hour to clean up for dinner. Oh, the strain of rouging it!
Coming soon: Vernal falls and a few surprises.
Looking Into Yosemite Valley
I'm starting this Yosemite trip report with what I thought was its most dramatic moment, our first view of the valley. Getting these views involved the better part of a full day hiking around. I strongly recommend this approach to Yosemite Valley for anyone visiting who is able to hike.
We walked in the same footprints and took in the same views as Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir. As if the scenery itself doesn't inspire enough awe.
Well, the view would have been the same, but at some point in the last 105 years, the National Park Service hired Disney inc. to colorize Yosemite Valley.
OK, in reality,our picture is from Sentinel Dome. Glacier point has been made accessible and rather unattractive since TR's day,but the view is still the same, but improved with Technicolor.
After packing up, we went directly to the Sentinel dome trail head on the south rim of Yosemite valley. About 1.1 miles with a good 400 ft elevation gain took us to Sentinel Dome. The last quarter mile or so was a scramble to the top of the exfoliating granite dome. We had to scramble up this slope to get the views.
In a National park,it usually takes a little work to reach something interesting that isn't bursting with screaming kids, snarling teens and shockingly unattractive adults.
The views from the dome were unbelievable. I have never seen anything like this in my life. Now I understand why taking in these views changed peoples lives, drove them to devote themselves to preserving the land. I have never experienced a breathtaking view before. This view really takes the breath away (some forest fires in the region helped, too). We looked across to the nearly mile high and wide vertical granite cliffs of El Capitan.
Since the views in every direction from Sentinel Dome were incredible, we went a little nuts with the cameras.
Here we are standing in front of the Yosemite Falls across Yosemite Valley. The falls were dry, but still cool to see. We stayed near the bottom of the falls the next three nights.
I was impressed with the view of El Capitan. A rock that big is just weird to see, especially when we could see down forever, and still not see the floor of the valley.
Sentinel Dome is a place where you can get a classic view of Half Dome to the East, without crowds pouring out of their campers. Somehow,we were more enchanted with the view looking West, although this view of half Dome to our East was compelling.
CJ the guide gave an impromptu talk about the geology of Yosemite Valley. He seemed to know a lot about the history and he was able to clearly share his knowledge. He looked like a model for REI while he gave his talk.
We took this trip with a tour company called Tahoe Trips and Trails. CJ was one of the three guides (two actual guides and one trainee) provided for our group of ten. Each day two hikers were offered, on e more strenuous and one less strenuous. I chose the more strenuous hike most days, with the exception of one day where the hikes sounded similar, only the more strenuous hike would have been much longer.
This is not the cheapest way to go, but we were assured a great trip, and we had a great trip. There's no way going it on our own would have been nearly the same experience. This is a good way to go if you can swing it.
Another two miles hike to the west brought us to Taft point, where the trail ends with a series of unimaginably deep fissures and vertical drop to the valley floor. From here I could really see how large these vistas were.
Standing on the edge of almost a mile vertical drop really made an impression of how big this all is. One of the advantages of walking a couple of miles from parking is that the park Service no longer feels the need to erect barriers. Even standing about five feet from the ledge was a little frightening.
One small area of the ledge had a railing to lean on, so I was able to get a couple of pictures looking down into Yosemite Valley. I needed the railing since I felt a little queasy whenever I went within a few feet of the ledge.
Here you can see all of El Capitan, from the bottom to the top.
This is the view looking down.
Here's a fissure you might fall into if you don't watch your step.
We ended our hiking with a 3 mile hike to Glacier point. This hike went between Sentinel Dome and the ledge. The trail rose about 300 feet before leveling into Glacier point. We saw the cutest fat little marmot beastie, sitting on a rock cantilevered over the edge of the bluff.
If I was there, I would be hunched down too.
We had an incredible view of Half Dome about a mile from Glacier point. This was one of several points where the trail walked along the edge of the valley's wall.
This is very similar to the distance view you can get from Glacier Point. However,the view seemed flatter from Glacier Point. Somehow the level paved surface and barriers surrounding Glacier Point made Half Dome appear more distant and less real. It seemed flat when I was looking out form a flat place. There's something to be said for the hightened presence you get when you know you are two steps from a 4000 foot drop.
We avoided the herds of pasty-faced flabby tourists until we came to Glacier point at the end of the day. Having hiked all day, we could have bathed ourselves in the smugness from quietly realizing only we and the European visitors appeared to have walked through anything except the giant parking lot.
However, once I noticed the Glacier Point Visitor Center sold ice cream bars, I got over the ugliness of the scene and enjoyed the creamy chocolate covered vanilla goodness.
We drove into Yosemite valley after our hiking. One entry to the valley is through the Wawona tunnel. I recommend this for anyone approaching the valley for the first time. As soon as we exited the tunnel, we were surrounded by granite walls bigger than the imagination can invent.
We stayed at the Yosemite Lodge, which is a frumpy but comfortable place to stay for some ungodly daily rate. The posh place in the valley, the Ahwanee, costs from $500 to $1,100 per night, depending on room and season. The restaurant at Yosemite lodge was pretty good. Although the west end of Yosemite Valley is full of Hotels, campgrounds and parking lots, there is still a lot of beauty right there. Frederick Olmstead's company did a brilliant job laying out the roads and trails.
This meadow scene was only a minute or two's walk our hotel's parking lot.
The views of the Valley's North walls were spectacular in the morning. I didn't expect a view like this from a parking lot. I never thought I'd see a hiking group's picture taken in a parking lot.
The morning light did cool things with the shadows.
That's Yosemite Valley. Look forward to reports from Mariposa Grove and Vernal Falls.
I Warhol-ed Myself
I decided to revise my Major Kong image with the hope of getting a more grim yet cartoonish (in a dark anime sort of way) effect. Trying to bring in a little Warhol influence, but still keep some sense of discipline here.
So, like the optometrist likes to say. . .
A. . .
or B...
I think A has more of the "pop star of death motif" that guides my aspirations.
After A Long Hot Day . . .
. . .with A ton or two of napalm between your legs, what could be better than a nice cold beer?
I'll tell you...BEER FRIED IN PRETZEL DOUGH!
That's right,the patent application has been filed. Soon we may see ravioloid looking fried things with hot beer in the middle. Oops, looks like the sample in the picture is leaking. I am starting to suspect this this idea doesn't have legs.
That said, the forum comments from Field & Stream readers seems supportive and enthusiastic, tempered by concern about the lack of bacon and cheese.
Speaking of Field & Stream, I must have been not paying attention when they started running romance stories. All I can say is that better be a female Brown Trout.
Dr Strangelove, Major Kongs Speedy Delivery Service - Low Megaton Version
A couple of weeks ago at the Local Air and Space Museum , I couldn't resist posing on this bomb strategically placed near open bomb bay doors. Take that, you darned feriners!
Thanks to DMIL for taking this picture.
I realize this is not quite as awesome as Major Kong's hot thermonuclear ride, being just a cute little napalm bomb. The museum didn't have a full sized Hydrogen bomb casing, and they wouldn't let me go prospecting to get me some of that renouned McClelland Park Plutonium.
But, I say what the heck. Getting burned at about a thousand degrees or about a million degrees (Fahrenheit, I think) would probably have the same effect on my active lifestyle.
On a totally unrelated issue, I just can't understand why those Iraqi ingrates don't love us. We spent a fortune on bombs just like this little beauty. All on their ungrateful behalf.
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Last Tuesday, July 2, first-year California Governor Gavin Newsom toured Emeryville’s nearly completed $64 million affordable housing development, Estrella Vista. The 87-unit apartment project has been in the works for nearly a decade and is now accepting applications for a brief two-week window.
Scheduled for completion this fall, Estrella Vista will include a majority of two-bedroom and above “family friendly” units. The units are specifically reserved for families whose income is 60% AMI (Area Median Income) and below.
Newsom called Estrella Vista “a project that is meeting demand, that meets a crisis developing in our state – the issue of homelessness – and this is protecting the most vulnerable individuals and families.”
The project is one of several completed, in-progress and planned affordable projects in the area.
Located on the border of Emeryville and West Oakland in the “Star” intersection where San Pablo, Adeline and MacArthur Blvd. intersect, the six-story mixed-use building is in a designated transit corridor less than one mile from MacArthur BART, along several AC Transit routes, and blocks from the I-580/Highway 24 on-ramps.
The project is being developed by EAH Housing (Ecumenical Association for Housing), a 50-year-old nonprofit organization that specializes in affordable housing. Oakland-based KTGY Group were the chosen architects. The project broke ground in 2017.
Project targeting families below 60% AMI
To qualify for the units, applicants household incomes must be below 60% Area Median Income (AMI) thresholds. The Alameda County Area Median Income limits by household size are defined as follows:
1-person: $78,200
3-person: $100,550
Out of the 87 units, there are four studios, eight one-bedrooms, 45 two-bedrooms, 23 three-bedrooms, and seven four-bedrooms.
A matrix of rent ranges based on unit size.
The complex installed solar PV for electricity and solar thermal. Jordan informed that there were no VOC paints or adhesives used in construction. The complex will also have a strict no smoking policy, further prioritizing the health and safety of the soon-to-be tenants. Estrella Vista will strive for LEED Gold certification (which includes AC Transit passes for all residents).
Newsom along with JHF Project Manager Kyan Hakimi, Emeryville Mayor Ally Medina and EAH VP of Real Estate Development Welton Jordan.
A Public-Private Partnership
Estrella Vista was privately and publicly financed by 13 different entities including the City of Emeryville, City of Oakland, County of Alameda, California Department of Housing and Community Development, Wells Fargo, and the Federal Home Loan Bank among others.
While the City of Oakland provided Section 8 vouchers for part of Estrella Vista in Oakland, the Alameda County Housing Authority provided Section 8 vouchers for Emeryville’s portion. According to Jordan, about 25%-30% of funding came from Section 8 vouchers.
Funding also came from vouchers from housing authorities from both the County and the City of Oakland, two grants, the cap and trade program (that awards points for “transit-oriented” developments, which Estrella Vista qualifies as), and the Measure A1 Housing Bond.
Mayor Medina explained to Newsom that Emeryville’s contribution totaled $4.5 million. “This land was a vacant lot and we zoned this area for residential,” she added. “We recently decided to up-zone this entire San Pablo corridor to 75 feet. It’s a transit-rich area and having more density just makes sense.”
Newsom asked how EAH turns a profit on projects like these and Jordan reiterated that EAH is a nonprofit, but “we obviously have to pay our bills.” According to Jordan, the biggest constraint right now with a project like Estrella Vista are “the dollars.” There was a 30-40% pricing increase, which apparently prolonged the project. Hakimi stated that the price of construction for every square foot ranged from $300-$400.
When asked what the state could have done to help expedite the project, which was originally set to finish in Spring 2016 but was delayed until July 2019, and yet again delayed for another 3-4 months.
Hakimi said the state could have helped “with cost escalations.” According to Hakimi, construction costs have gone up 10% in the past 4-5 years due to supply and demand and tariffs.
Contractors on the project starting wages were approximately $31/hr.
Newsom Administration Prioritizing Housing
The visit came just days after Newsom signed the state’s 2019-2020 budget. According to a press release, the budget includes “historic investments to combat the housing and affordability crisis facing Californians.” The budget has included nearly $3 billion to jumpstart housing production in the state that is facing an unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis.
“That’s really the spirit of this budget if we’re going to address the issue of affordability, housing, the middle class, and the California Dream,” Newsom told local and national reporters on hand. “We’ve got to hit this issue hard and it’s going to take years. We’re not going to over-promise that this will all be solved in one legislative cycle or one bill or budget is going to solve it.”
In his State of the State address back in February, Newsom declared that housing is perhaps the most overwhelming challenge in the state and that he promises that, “together we will build one house for one California.”
Our crumbling housing crisis began decades ago and if we’re going to effectively address this issue, we must invest in a solution. That’s why $1.75 billion was added to our budget to sustain and create resources to fix our broken housing crisis. pic.twitter.com/LwGPU6uJQv
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 2, 2019
Newsom has also promised a “carrot and stick” approach to holding cities accountable for building more housing including fining cities that don’t meet their targets.
Newsom lauded Emeryville for its commitment to creating affordable housing. “Emeryville is a city that gets it, and is getting it done,” he praised at the tour. “This is important.”
Medina suggested that neighboring mayors should collaborate with Emeryville to develop more projects on the San Pablo transit corridor. “I think they should look to partner with us on large-scale transportation projects,” she said. “I think the San Pablo Corridor project is a phenomenal opportunity for all of us to really rework this corridor into something great for people who live here.”
Two-Week Application Period Opens
Applications for Estrella Vista will be available for two weeks beginning Monday, July 8th and concluding on Saturday, July 27 at 4:00 pm. Applications can be downloaded online or picked up at The Emeryville Civic Center.
Estrella Vista aims to fill its units by the end of 2019. A grand opening event is tentatively scheduled for May 2020.
The courtyard area of the complex, when complete, will provide a space for children to play.
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Women’s Rugby World Cup : no longer a two-horse race between England and New Zealand
2014/07/31 Joe London
England prepare to face Samoa in opening game of a much more competitive Women’s World Cup believing that they can finally beat four-times champions New Zealand
England open Women’s Rugby World Cup campaign against Samoa in Paris, armed in equal measure with the belief that they can finally end the hegemony of four-times champions New Zealand and a warning that the tournament is no longer merely a two-horse race.
England and New Zealand have contested the last three finals, most recently at the Twickenham Stoop in 2010 when Gary Street’s side narrowly lost 13-10 as the Black Ferns claimed their fourth successive title.
Yet the days when the early stages of the World Cup used to effectively serve as a warm-up act before the pair met each other in the final appear to be over.
The landscape of the women’s game has altered dramatically over the last four years, as greater funding and the inclusion of Sevens in the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 has help significantly broaden the base of the international game.
The main surge has come in the northern hemisphere. England surrendered their grip over the Six Nations to first Ireland in 2013 and then France this year while the United States and Canada are also regarded as genuine contenders for the 12-team tournament in Paris.
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Athletics, Commonwealth Games
Glasgow 2014: Greg Rutherford leaps to Commonwealth gold
Greg Rutherford added Commonwealth long jump gold to his Olympic title to claim England’s first athletics gold of these Glasgow Games.
Rutherford, who won silver in Delhi four years ago, had an epidural injection in the build-up to make it to qualifying after pulling out of the Diamond League event here with injury.
But after his first round 8.12 metres was matched by South Africa’s Zarck Visser, his championship pedigree told as he produced a third round 8.20m to snatch a lead that none of his rivals could threaten.
Rutherford, who has endured a difficult time since London 2012 – struggling with hamstring injuries, losing his kit sponsor and failing to qualify for the World Championship final a year ago – used the support of a home crowd as well as he had two years ago on a cool night far from ideal for jumping.
“It’s never an easy road, and after what happened last year with injury I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to carry on jumping. But now I’ve managed to win another title and that’s what it’s all about for me,” he told BBC Sport afterwards.
“I think a lot of people had written me off thinking I was a one-hit wonder. But I wanted to prove I could do it again.
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Chelsea, Football, Premiership, Southampton
Premiership : Southampton : Ryan Bertrand joins from Chelsea on season-long loan
Chelsea left-back Ryan Bertrand has become Southampton’s third summer signing as they rebuild after selling five players for £92m.
The 24 year-old has joined on a season-long loan but, according to the Press Association, there is an option to make the deal permanent for up to £10m.
Saints have already signed striker Graziano Pelle from Feyenoord and midfielder Dusan Tadic from FC Twente.
“I’m very happy to be able to bring Ryan in,” manager Ronald Koeman said.
“I spoke to him on Monday afternoon and I was very impressed with his attitude and how keen he was to play games for Southampton.”
Bertrand has been at Chelsea since 2006 but has only made 28 league appearances for them and spent the second half of last season on loan at Aston Villa.
He was famously selected in the starting XI when the Blues won the Champions League final against Bayern Munich in 2012.
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Chelsea, Everton, Football, Premiership
Premiership : Romelu Lukaku : Everton sign Chelsea striker for £28m
Everton have signed Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku for a club record £28m.
The 21-year-old Belgian World Cup forward, who scored 16 goals on loan at Everton last season, has signed a five-year contract at Goodison Park.
Everton boss Roberto Martinez said: “This signing is not just important for this season. It is a significant day in the history of this football club.”
Lukaku joined Chelsea from Anderlecht for £18m in August 2011 but played only 15 games for the club.
After signing his contract at Goodison, Lukaku said: “I’m 21, I need to be playing in a good team. I needed to be in a place that felt right.
“I decided very quickly I wanted to come back. This is the place I belong.”
Lukaku’s transfer breaks the previous record of £15m for Marouane Fellaini when he joined Everton from Standard Liege in 2008
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Tennis, US Open
Tennis : Rafael Nadal faces three weeks on sidelines with wrist injury
Rafael Nadal has suffered a wrist injury less than a month before the start of the US Open in New York.
The Spaniard, the reigning champion at Flushing Meadows, will be out of action for two to three weeks after hurting his right wrist in training on Tuesday.
Nadal, 28, has pulled out of defending his titles in Toronto and Cincinnati as he targets a return to fitness in time for the US Open, starting on 25 August.
“I’m extremely disappointed that I am unable to defend my titles,” he said.
Nadal has not competed since his shock defeat by Australian teenager Nick Kyrgios in the fourth round at Wimbledon on 1 July.
The defence of his crowns in Toronto and Cincinnati were key hard-court season warm-ups ahead of the US Open, where Nadal will go in search of a 15th career Grand Slam crown.
“Unfortunately I injured my right wrist on Tuesday during practice,” the world number two confirmed.
“After the tests I have undergone in Spain, including an MRI and checking with my doctors, I will have to stay out of competition for at least two to three weeks.”
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Commonwealth Games, Gymnastics
Glasgow 2014: England win double gymnastics team gold
England’s women emulated the achievement of their male team-mates by winning gold in the gymnastics team final at the Commonwealth Games.
Rebecca Downie, Claudia Fragapane, Ruby Harrold, Hannah Whelan and Kelly Simm held off Australia to win, with Wales putting in a superb display for bronze.
Earlier, Louis Smith, Sam Oldham, Kristian Thomas, Max Whitlock and Nile Wilson won the men’s title.
Scotland finished second to secure their first major team medal.
Dan Keatings, Dan Purvis, Frank Baines, Adam Cox and Liam Davie scored 257.603, with England’s 266.804 enough for victory.
However, Oldham missed England’s final two rotations after falling in the vault.
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Everton, Football, Premiership
Premiership : Ross Barkley: Everton midfielder signs new four-year contract
Everton midfielder Ross Barkley has signed a four-year contract extension with the club.
The 20-year-old scored six Premier League goals last season and was part of the England squad at the World Cup finals in Brazil.
Manager Roberto Martinez said: “It is a four-year deal which reflects his new role and his development. This is as big news as we could get.
“He is still a young man but is a massive part of our squad.”
Barkley made his debut for Everton at the start of the 2011-12 season and had loan spells with Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds United before becoming a first-team regular under Martinez last season.
He made his England debut against Moldova in September 2013 and made three appearances at the World Cup.
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Glasgow 2014 : Kemar Bailey-Cole takes 100m title for Jamaica as Adam Gemili claims silver
Third straight Commonwealth triumph for Caribbean island while English sprinter stays just outside 10-second barrier after beating Nickel Ashmeade in to third place
So, the Jamaican supremacy in Commonwealth 100 metres finals continues, as Kemar Bailey-Cole brought a third straight triumph for the Caribbean island with a brilliant run for gold in 10 seconds dead, but this was a night that also marked the coming of age for England’s Adam Gemili.
The 20-year-old had stated that his ambition was simply to reach the final but he did better, far better, in claiming a silver medal that suggests his longer-team target of winning a medal at the Rio Olympics in 2016 is very much intact.
At just 22, Bailey-Cole has understood his capacity to be a superstar ever since he formed part of Jamaica’s triumphant sprint relay team at London 2012, and duly confirmed it with this fabulous display. Coach Glen Mills has billed him as the country’s next pre-eminent star, even drawing the first tentative comparisons with Usain Bolt.
But Gemili deserved immense praise for the way he split the Jamaican triumvirate of Bailey-Cole, Nickel Ashmeade and Jason Livermore to finish second after a lightning-fast start. His time of 10.10 sec might mean he is still to break the elusive 10-second barrier, but on his present trajectory that, too, must surely come soon.
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Arsenal, Football, Premiership, Southampton
Premiership : Calum Chambers completes transfer to Arsenal from Southampton
Ars¨ne Wenger hopes teenager’s versatility will help justify a large fee for a player who has made just 18 Premier League starts
Arsenal have signed full-back Calum Chambers from Southampton for an undisclosed fee, the London club have announced.
Chambers, 19, continues the exodus of players from St Mary’s after agreeing a “long-term” contract with the Gunners.
“Calum has a lot of the attributes that we look for in a young player. I’m sure he will do well with us,” Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told the club’s official website.
Chambers, who can also play at centre-back, accumulated 22 appearances for Saints last season after making his Premier League debut on the opening day of the campaign.
“We are very pleased that Calum has agreed to join us,” Wenger said.
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Football, Liverpool, Premiership, QPR
Premiership : Loic Remy could not have failed a medical at Liverpool, says QPR manager Harry Redknapp
Queens Park Rangers manager says Liverpool must have changed their minds on the transfer and wants France striker to stay at Loftus Road next season
Harry Redknapp is refusing to believe that Lo¯c R©my’s move toLiverpool collapsed on medical grounds.
Liverpool dramatically pulled out of their £8.5 million move to sign R©my, with the Queens Park Rangers striker understood to have failed a medical.
But QPR manager Redknapp insists R©my could not have failed a medical and claims there must be a different reason for Liverpool going cold on the deal.
There have been suggestions that Fabio Borini’s desire to stay at Anfield resulted in Liverpool going cold on 27-year-old R©my.
“It can’t be a medical reason because he (R©my) never failed a medical, I just can’t believe what I’ve read and heard,†said Redknapp.
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Sri Lanka face in-form Australia after 11-day World Cup wait
Australia's captain Aaron Finch , centre celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket of Pakistan's Mohammad Hafeez caught by Australia's Mitchell Starc during the Cricket World Cup match between Australia and Pakistan at the County Ground in Taunton, south west England, Wednesday, June 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Sri Lanka's Nuwan Pradeep, left, celebrates with Dhananjaya de Silva taking the wicket of Afghanistan's Rashid Khan, during the Cricket World Cup group stage match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan at the Cardiff Stadium, Wales, Tuesday June 4, 2019. (David Davies/PA via AP)
Sri Lanka's Nuwan Pradeep, left, celebrates with Dhananjaya de Silva taking the wicket of Afghanistan's Rashid Khan during the Cricket World Cup group stage match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan at the Cardiff Stadium, Wales, Tuesday June 4, 2019. (David Davies/PA via AP)
LONDON — When Sri Lanka last played in the Cricket World Cup, the French Open was at the quarterfinals stage, the NBA Finals were 1-1, and Chris Froome was training in Tenerife.
When the Sri Lankans pop back on the tournament radar in London on Saturday, it will have been a long 11 days since their last completed match.
In that time, their opponent at the Oval, Australia, has overcome the West Indies, lost to India, and held off Pakistan. Australia captain Aaron Finch acknowledged the advantage was theirs.
"You can never take any team in this competition lightly, but the fact that we've been playing consistently, basically every three days, has been really positive that we're in cricket mode at the moment," Finch said on Friday.
Sri Lanka has been the worst affected team of this rain-hit World Cup, as both of its fixtures in Bristol were abandoned. Yet, the two points from those washouts, plus the win from its last appearance on June 4 against Afghanistan, have Sri Lanka still in the top half of the standings.
The team would much prefer to have played, however, as Sri Lanka is still trying to find its legs, and has been handicapped by going cold and losing momentum.
"We need momentum," captain Dimuth Karunaratne says. "We are trying hard."
The team has been forced to train mainly indoors, and to try and recreate game situations in the nets. That only goes so far, and the team is having to trust that senior players who have come through in the past will deliver against the defending champion Australians.
Karunaratne, the unexpected captain recalled after four years out of one-dayers, scored 52 not out against New Zealand and 30 against Afghanistan. Kusal Perera, with 29 and 78, is the only other batsman with more than 30 runs combined.
Batting coach Jon Lewis believes if they can safely navigate the first 10 overs against the new ball, then they have enough experience in the middle to cash in.
Lewis admits middle-order bats Kusal Mendis (2 runs combined) and Angelo Mathews (0) haven't fired yet, and mentions allrounder Thisara Perera (14) is overdue for a big score.
"Players of that quality will definitely come to the party soon," Lewis says, with no little hope. "You can't expect them to go on not producing big runs soon. We are confident that's going to come."
On the bright side of such a long wait, fast bowler Nuwan Pradeep has been recovering from a dislocated and cut finger on his right bowling hand.
Australia, second overall with three wins from four, can go to the top of the standings with a win.
Allrounder Marcus Stoinis will miss his second straight match after straining his side last weekend while bowling in the loss to India. He has five more days before Australia's next game against Bangladesh to come right. Mitchell Marsh has joined the squad on standby.
The absence of Stoinis affects the balance of the side. He's Australia's fifth bowler, and often at the death, and his allotted overs were compensated against Pakistan at Taunton by nine overs of spin from Glenn Maxwell and captain Finch. It cost Australia a combined 1-71. But the Oval is much bigger, Australia can defend better, and Finch could employ Steve Smith's legspin to reduce the load on Maxwell.
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11:38am 16.11.2016 News Human Interest by Jack Beresford
An Alarming Number Of Men Have Shot Their Penis Off With A Gun Since 2010
If you were in any doubt as to whether guns should be outlawed this will change your mind.
Guns What are they good for? Image Warner Bros.
Guns don’t shoot penises off; stupid people do though.
Or at least that’s the revelation to be gleaned from a report by thegayuk.com, which estimates as many as seven men in the United States have accidentally shot their dicks off since 2010.
Self-inflicted gun shot wounds are a serious worry across the pond, with the widespread availability of firearms, coupled with the public’s penchant for doing stupid stuff, creating a catastrophic cocktail of cocks being blown away.
The report, carried by thegayuk.com, cites initial research from the website deathandtaxes.com which claimed as many as five blokes had managed to blast their bollocks off in the years running from 2010 to 2013.
Following up on that study, this report uncovered a further two incidents of guys putting bullets through their dicks, with the majority of these injuries occurring when the blokes involved tried un-holstering their guns from their trousers.
It means that, since 2010, at least one guy in the US shoots his dick off every year.
Our Robocop Remake – Scene 27 from Fatal Farm on Vimeo.
Self-inflicted gun shot wounds, remain a serious concern in the US with figures released from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control indicating that there were 73,883 non-fatal firearms that year with close to 20 per cent of those being unintentional.
Hopefully these penis-related statistics might convince a few guys out there to do away with their guns altogether – their penises will probably thank them for it in the long run.
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Twins pull away from K-Mets for 6-2 victory
TANNER COOK • Jul 4, 2019 at 10:26 PM
ELIZABETHTON — Both the Kingsport Mets and the Elizabethton Twins needed a win in Thursday’s Appalachian League Independence Day contest at Northeast Community Credit Union Ballpark to get back on track.
The Mets and Twins both had three-game losing streaks, but the E-Twins were able to end theirs with a 6-2 victory.
“Playing on the Fourth of July is awesome. It’s America’s pastime on America’s birthday,” said Twins designated hitter Albee Weiss. “Baseball and the Fourth of July go hand-in-hand. … Getting the offense going in front of the best crowd of the season was great. It was electric tonight and we’re thankful everyone came out to support us.”
The Twins (8-8) pitching staff was solid after getting smacked by the Yankees for three games as Ben Gross got the win (2-0) going six innings and allowing two runs on five hits. He struck out four.
Brendan Hardy took the loss for the Mets (7-9) after giving up the go-ahead run in the sixth inning. He struck out one.
METS STRIKE FIRST
The Mets were able to get on the board in the top half of the opening frame with a Jaylen Palmer grounder to shortstop Spencer Steer that scored Jhoander Saez from third.
The hard-throwing Michel Otañez — who touched 98 miles per hour on the radar gun a few times with a four-seam fastball — sat down the first three Elizabethton batters he faced. Two were via strikeout, both swinging.
Otañez ended up with the no decision while striking out eight.
POWER-HITTING CATCHER
Matt Wallner drew a one-out walk to help start an attack for the Twins in the bottom of the second. On a 2-1 count, catcher Alex Isola hit a ball high over the left field wall for his first home run of the season.
That hit also gave the Twins a 2-1 lead after two frames.
The K-Mets countered in the fourth with a Tanner Murphy RBI single that scored Wilfred Astudillo from second. It was a new ballgame tied at two runs apiece.
WEISS GOES YARD
Fan favorite Weiss launched a ball in the home half of the sixth with two outs over the left centerfield wall for his fourth home run of the season.
Weiss’ homer and a Seth Gray RBI groundout that scored Steer for a second time gave the Twins a 4-2 lead in the tight contest.
The E-Twins got two more runs in the bottom of the seventh when Willie Jo Garry Jr. hit a two-run bomb over the right field wall into the parking lot.
The Mets and Twins will continue the three-game series on Friday night with the first pitch scheduled for 6:30.
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Thomas McGuane: “Hubcaps”
Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Thomas McGuane’s “Hubcaps” was originally published in the April 21, 2014 issue of The New Yorker.
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Thomas McGuane is one of my favorites, so I’ll have my thoughts up soon-ish! We are moving tomorrow, so there may be a slight delay — but wish me luck!
“Hubcaps,” by Thomas McGuane, is delicate and magnificent.
I don’t want to give the story away. Owen Egan is a country boy of 13 or 14 and a loner and his parents both drink a lot. Owen loves the solitude of his room and the adventure of the swamp, but also the fun of the baseball field. Owen also likes the safety of his friendship with Ben, who is intellectually disabled, but none-the-less feisty. The story opens and expands gradually, each off-hand revelation more and more worrisome.
It’s important that I say the ending made me cry. I worry about saying that — as if McGuane is a sentimentalist or his story a cheap trick. I don’t think so. His art is such that I put the story more in the realm of fable or unforgettable.
But already I’ve given up too much of the story. You just have to read it.
If you’ve read it, though, then let’s go.
I love the way the title works. First of all the title reminded me of the big, perfect, shiny hubcap collection I saw displayed on the Bastrop Road last week in Texas. Where had they come from? So when I began this story, I had that image of the car careening away from its brush with a pothole or curb or another car, the popped hubcap bouncing off in the other direction. That sole hubcap feels, in the imagination, lost in the shuffle, misplaced, forgotten. The group of hubcaps by the road, though, looked authoritative, projecting a sense of belonging and shiny perfection, of being protected and valued. The story takes off from there and rides perfectly on all those suggestions.
I want to note that I enjoyed the offhand way McGuane places the story in time and space. McGuane mentions how Owen, the boy, thinks of himself as a George Kell kind of third basemen in the neighborhood baseball game. Who’s George Kell, I think? I discuss this with my husband. It turns out that Kell played in the late forties and fifties for Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Chicago, and Baltimore. So Owen, the main character in the story, is kind of a universal boy — of a sort.
For sure I recognize Owen — the kid whose parents drink themselves in and out of various catastrophes — the kid who retreats to his room, the kid who’s drawn to families that are actually families, the kid who both loves the safety of the swamp as well as the fixed roles of the baseball field. But I like the way I see how in danger Owen is, way before Owen himself sees it.
I love the offhand way McGuane reveals the nature of the parents’ drinking — “the possible hysteria to come” that is signaled by the first cocktails of late afternoon — the way the mother sets fire to the kitchen by mistake, the arguments, the occasional shame and fear that both his mother and father cause him. But regardless, Owen would rather things stayed the same, rather than that they split. The story telling is mercifully oblique. Because the telling is so flat, so offhand, it’s as if Owen himself doesn’t realize just how bad this all is.
The story, after all, is about how bad this all is.
In the meantime, there are heroes. Anybody who grows up with parents like Owen’s knows that heroes go with the territory.
First of all, there is Mr. Kershaw, father of three boys, who builds a baseball diamond for them and the entire neighborhood.
Then there is Mrs. Kershaw, who has one magnificent scene, when she appears on the Kershaw baseball diamond and says there will be no game unless Ben is included, Ben being the mentally handicapped youngest Kershaw. That said, she leaves. And Ben is included.
As for heroes, there is also Mr. Kershaw taking the time to do a little arrowhead hunting with Owen. Life is possible for the Owens of this world if there are also the Mr. Kershaws and the arrowheads they give us.
Another aspect of this story that interests me greatly is that in it McGuane seems to be talking to Alice Munro. This seems like conversation, like tribute, like thanks, but also like a reply or even an ever so restrained argument. (What it does not seem like is a studied copy.) Owen, of course, has none of the feisty independence of Munro’s Del, because Del’s parents, while odd and marginalized and a little dysfunctional, are nevertheless not so damaged. Del’s parents connect with her. Owen’s parents do not connect with him.
I hear the lyric call of the swamp in this story, the same as the call of Munro’s Wawanash River, and I note the fallen woman in Owen’s neighborhood, reminiscent of the prostitute on Munro’s Flats Road.
But most of all, I note the presence of Ben, reminiscent of the girl with Down syndrome in “Dance of the Happy Shades,” and also reminiscent of Benjy, from Faulkner’s Sound and the Fury. Faulkner’s Benjy is so disabled that he is mute, but he is the keystone of the novel — he is perfect love and perfect need and perfect innocence and perfect vulnerability. And he is perfectly betrayed when he is labeled and institutionalized. So we are warned. You cannot know McGuane’s handicapped Ben is named Ben and not know what is coming. In contrast, Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades” imagines the possibly perfect music that the girl with Down syndrome can play, the possibly perfect musician that she can be, and the possibly perfect salvation she can experience because of the goodness of the piano teacher.
McGuane answers Munro. He says — nice — but it’s not that easy. He specifically makes Ben a klutz on the field and somewhat of a broken record regarding baseball statistics. Ben’s mother may have been the good mother who enjoined that nobody plays if everybody doesn’t play. And Ben’s father may have built the diamond where everybody plays. In McGuane’s world, however, society is still imperfect. McGuane’s Ben, just like Benjy, gets accused and hauled off. Unlike Munro’s pianist who has Down syndrome, McGuane’s Ben is, to our knowledge, not in the end rescued by goodness.
If the story is in conversation with Munro, it is also in conversation with Steinbeck. In any story about the Bens of our world, there is also Steinbeck’s intellectually disabled Lennie, Lennie who is saved from arrest for murder and a mob when George shoots him. McGuane does not so overstate the case that way. And yet these things happen. Not too long ago, an elderly man in our town shot his intellectually disabled grown son and himself, not being able to trust the world to take care of the son if the father should sicken or die. The father, just like Steinbeck’s George, told the son they would soon be taking a wonderful trip.
McGuane’s story is more ordinary and more universal. It is merely that Ben disappears.
The immense importance of McGuane’s story for me is that I live in this world, just like many of you do. Any of our children can be destroyed by the world, but children with an intellectual disability live at a great risk. One of the risks is merely becoming one of the disappeared. So I treasure McGuane’s writing about Ben at all. And I treasure that Owen, despite his own troubles, perhaps because of his own troubles, sees Ben precisely and remembers him.
Where Munro eschews the lyric, McGuane risks it. See the way he describes Owen and his turtles:
Once, Owen caught two of the less vigilant turtles, the size of fifty-cent pieces, with poignant little feet constantly trying to get somewhere that only they knew. Owen loved their tiny perfection, the flexible undersides of their shells, the ridges down their topside that he could detect with his thumbnail. Their necks were striped yellow, and they stretched them upward in their striving. Owen made a false bottom for his lunchbox with ventilation holes so that he could always have them with him, despite the rule against taking pets to school or on the school bus. He fed them flies from a bottle cap. Only Ben knew where they were.
Parallel stories in “Hubcaps” intensify our emotional reaction to each story. Owen is neglected by his parents, Ben is protected by his parents; Owen loves Ben; he also loves his turtles.
These situations reverberate against each other. Despite Owen needing their care, his parents are oblivious to him. Despite Ben having a good mother and father, society could still be oblivious to him. Despite Owen’s protection, despite their “tiny perfection,” the turtles are still at risk when out of their element, abroad in the world. Ben’s own tiny perfections are called to mind, and Owen’s. The way Owen builds a lunchbox heaven for his turtles mirrors the way the Kershaws build a baseball heaven, where there is a place to play and where everyone has a rightful place.
You’ve read the story already, right? Because you cannot appreciate the emotion McGuane inspires if I give away the ending. But I cannot write about the story without at least alluding to the ending. Owen’s turtles are mindlessly destroyed by a bully. And Ben is lost, too, to the wilderness of adolescence, to society’s rules, to no way to save everyone, to the simple fact that the world’s capacity for cruelty is immense.
The story feels well-placed, given that this is Passover and Easter week.
And here’s the thing. There’s an immediacy in the story that I value. And I value the daring. What a risk, to arouse the reader’s emotions. I think he pulls it off perfectly. For one thing, I think the scope of his topic can bear the weight. Same thing with Faulkner. If you read The Sound and the Fury, the emotional impact is almost unbearable, and yet, that is why you remember it. For Owen’s sake, and for Ben’s sake, and for mine, a grandmother of a perfect little Ben, I am grateful that McGuane is willing to risk the tight wire of appealing to our emotions.
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Trevor Berrett April 14, 2014 at 8:15 pm
This post has been updated to include Betsy’s wonderful thoughts.
Jan Wilkens April 15, 2014 at 4:35 pm
McGuane captures the world-weary point of view of a child from dysfunction and a background of middle class neglect. His character in ,Weight Watchers, several months earlier was the same character…only older. It is a child we all recognize and who fares better in the long run than it’s female counterpart. For as men they will often move on to women who love them and understand they are broken. Not so for women.
The slightly larcenous activities In which Owen engaged in are tiny yelps for attention. Soaping a house, hiding hubcaps and carrying the turtles into forbidden territory are so quiet and innocent as to be heartbreaking.
Mine was the home where the lost children in our neighborhood gravitated to because of a mother who was deeply aware of what they were missing. If we were cleaning the house she gave them a chore, a nickname and a place at the table.
The story was beautifully told, masterfully understated.
Betsy Pelz April 15, 2014 at 10:55 pm
Jan, thanks for your perfect commentary.
Thomas McGuane’s remarks in his interview with Deborah Treisman are worth reading. (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/04/this-week-in-fiction-thomas-mcguane-2.html)
Toward the end of the interview, Treisman asks: “Despite his mother’s fierce protectiveness, Ben ends up banished to some kind of institution. Is it right to read “Hubcaps” as a kind of protest story?”
McGuane answers: “Absolutely. ….People who may require special care from humankind should have the same standing as anyone else in the complicated family of man. They deserve celebration, not warehousing.”
Beautifully done. Bravely said.
It’s important to say that Owen loves Ben, partly because he just does, and partly because Ben is comforting to know. I suggested that Ben is not saved by goodness in this story. But that is not completely true. Moments of Ben’s life, and moments of Owen’s life, are saved by love and bravery. It’s a start and it’s the only start we have.
In the interview, McGuane mentions the human predicament – what do you do when you can’t save everyone?
Today I listened to people speaking in Boston about being wounded by the Boston Marathon Bombing a year ago. As Patrick Downes said, “we chose to love, and that has made all the difference.”
In a way this is what McGuane’s story is about – the choice to love – baseball, sons, turtles, arrowheads, lost boys, each of us, any of us, come what may. (And of course, that is what Alice Munro’s “Dance of the Happy Shades was about as well.)
Bravely done, Mr. McGuane, given how often we overlook our opportunities to choose love.
I was so startled to be reading a story that had as one of the main characters an intellectually disabled child that I ran with that. But, of course, Owen is as important as Ben.
I want to highlight Jan’s observation about Owen: “The slightly larcenous activities In which Owen engaged in are tiny yelps for attention. Soaping a house, hiding hubcaps and carrying the turtles into forbidden territory are so quiet and innocent as to be heartbreaking.”
Greg April 19, 2014 at 8:51 pm
I am curious Jan as to why you believe women may not be able to find an understanding man to help heal from childhood trauma?
(Thank you for your insightful comments!)
Jan Wilkens April 21, 2014 at 12:48 am
Greg, my observation about “adult children” was placed more in a literary context than social science but in hinking more about it, I believe it to be true in literature and in life. The November 14 story , Weight Watcher, by McGuane, had an Owen like character but as an adult. He lives alone, has “girlfriends” dogs and a craft in which he finds great satisfaction and value. He is Owen on his own and perhaps having borne witness for too many years to the dark side of marriage and alcoholism he chose a more solitary existence. Rarely, (if ever) do I see women make that lindependant life choice. The short story writer Pam Houston very often comes close, but her characters are always seeking love and family. When women “survive” lonely childhoods they often don’t have the solace of sports and work and animals in which to live a full single life while still “recovering.” Also, they often have children and the ensueing financial chao that follows. I did not read, Hubcaps” from a feminist perspective but the landscape of short stories is littered with women who never really find joy or satisfaction as adults and remain broken. I appreciate you prodding me to examine my thinking more deeply about where this story took me.
Greg April 21, 2014 at 12:20 pm
Thank you Jan for expanding on women overcoming childhood difficulties.
I believe that Betsy would agree with me that Alice Munro has dealt very effectively with this issue. I especially like her treatment in the second section of “The View from Castle Rock”.
Sean H April 22, 2014 at 4:35 pm
I’ve gotta object to Jan’s gendered and skewed comment, “It is a child we all recognize and who fares better in the long run than it’s female counterpart. For as men they will often move on to women who love them and understand they are broken. Not so for women.”
Let’s take the “it’s” for “its” grammar error as evidence of sophomoric thinking also.
What evidence could you possibly detail that men are more likely to find love and understanding than women? Are you talking about straight men, straight women, men and women from the era of the story? Even that opening phrase “It is a child we all recognize” seems profoundly un-literary. What makes Owen interesting is that he is a singular, three-dimensional character. Not a “type.” Not someone “we all recognize.”
And seeking love, understanding or friendship certainly doesn’t make anyone “broken,” either.
My reactions to the character of Owen in the story. “Hubcaps” were in relationship to an earlier NYorker story, by McGuane, “Weight Watcher.” It that story, the protagonist was a character who seemed to be Owen as an adult. An only child, unmarried and dealing with the same kind of parents Owen had in “Hubcaps.” My comments earlier were intended only in context to the two excellent stories. I was more emotionally moved by the character of Owen than I was of Ben. I felt the loss however of Ben and how it must have affected his parents . We know of course how it affected Owen. I agree with Betsy that Ben is an archetype that has appeared in literature before.and that Steinbeck took it beyond a stock character. I also agree that in this story McGuane is more honest and unflinching about how mean people can be to people like Ben once they leave the safety of home and family. Schools and particularly school buses can be microcosms of the harsh world of people like the twins (who both really had the same name) who are so cruel. I love this blog and hope it stays about the literature and not the blogger. Sean using an example of my faulty usage to highlight my sophomoric thinking was a turn-off. Hope to stay involved. Thanks Betsy and Trevor.
Betsy April 25, 2014 at 4:23 pm
Jan, thank you for your careful response.
Sean, we try to focus on the story, its language, its devices, its author and any cultural information that illuminates the story. Your remarks fulfill none of these goals. Your casual and offhanded thoughtlessness was not a contribution to our discussion.
To be a welcome contributor, a commentator needs to focus on the literature.
I don’t mind if someone calls someone out for what might appear to be underlying assumptions, but I agree that Jan adequately explained she was talking in terms of the stories’ characters. I do not like it when a commenter calls someone out for typo. So I echo Betsy in reminding Sean to be more thoughtful in comments. If you disagree, simply say so and explain.
Roger April 26, 2014 at 11:53 pm
I found this story very moving for reasons others’ comments have noted. It left me wondering what would happen to Owen and fearful about what had happened to Ben. McGuane brings to life so many characters in a relatively brief space – not only Owen and Ben but others, like Mr. Kershaw and the nasty twins on the school bus. There is a meandering quality to the narrative that I might ordinarily find fault with, but it fits perfectly here, in sync with the open, indefinite nature of what will become of Owen as a child in a damaged family and, later, as a young adult who seems bent on continuing his hubcap theft, as his way of acting out on the sad, unstable realities that overwhelm the sweet and sacred things in his life, the baseball games and swamp adventures.
A couple of anachronisms bugged me a little: the reference to “Native Americans” seems incompatible with the late 1940s/early 1950s setting, as does Owen’s father’s use of the word “homeless.” A couple of unfortunate word choices made their way in – our narrator uses the cliché “run like the wind” and tells us of treetops that were “ignited” by lake light (someone call Smokey Bear!). McGuane is too much of a pro for these kinds of things – hopefully he will fix them before this appears in his upcoming collection!
Betsy Pelz April 29, 2014 at 11:08 am
Roger – your editing suggestions for Mr. McGuane seem really thoughtful. I wonder what his editor at the New Yorker thought. The anachronisms – homeless and Native American – are clearly related to the narrative method. In first person, Native American & homeless could have worked, but only as narration, not as dialogue. Again – I wonder how his NYer editor thought that out.
Love your appreciative, thoughtful summary of this wonderful story, Roger. Because it is a terrific story.
mehbe May 1, 2014 at 7:57 am
Although I noticed that “run like the wind”, it seemed just right to me. It evoked a certain manner of expression that, to me, was just right at the moment it appeared.
One thing that didn’t work for me was the safety patrol character – he seemed too obviously contrived just to do what he did. Another was the scene where Owen’s drunk father tried to insert himself into the baseball game – I’m not sure why, but that bit rang false for me. Both of these things turn up near the end of the story, and I had the sense that McGuane was forcing the last part of the story a bit.
But I love it anyway – there’s some very beautiful stuff in it.
Betsy Pelz May 1, 2014 at 9:36 pm
mehbe, I have to disagree with you.
“Hall monitors” and “Bus monitors” were a staple of the fifties. Our school even had a court with an eighth grade boy in a black robe as a judge. Cases were held in the cafeteria. To me, the Safety Patrol character was entirely within keeping. It rings true to me, and his tyranny rings true to me, too. Parents and teachers back then thought such roles taught leadership. But they were all so busy getting on with life after WWII that they sometimes didn’t give a lot of thought to the fact that leadership must be nurtured.
As for Owen’s dad stumbling drunkenly onto the field, that’s all too possible. McGuane makes so clear how drinking affected the father, that it could make him “disagreeable or lugubrious” or even “romantic”.
Clearly, having lost his wife, and somehow dimly realizing he has lost his son as well, Owen’s father gets the romantic notion that he will join his son on the field.
People who drink a lot are quite moody and changeable and out-of-touch.. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that now without his wife to fight with, the father realizes how alone he is. And he ventures out where he’s not been before, or not been seen in a long time.
I found the scene real, possible and very painful. The other boys didn’t want to hang around if this sad, drunk man was going to be there. Owen has to walk his father home, soothing himself with thoughts about hubcaps.
To me this quick scene was not forced at all. Anyone who has ever suddenly seen their drunken father through the eyes of the other kids will understand the moment.
It’s over in an instant, the way the kids dissolve away from Owen into the evening dusk. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it was. People saw, and people evaporated. Even the Kershaws.
And there it is. The innocent, romantic notion Owen might have had that he could keep these troubles locked in a box is gone in a flash. That’s all it takes for this kind of recognition scene. You’re about fourteen and you suddenly see it all. That everyone knows, but no one knows what to do. That you’ve been left to handle it. .
All because, after all, this father whom Owen needs and also loves, who was reaching out a little, has appeared drunk in the place Owen finds the safest and most sacred.
For me, this is as deeply true as any scene in the story. That it goes by in a flash is how McGuane honors it. It may be the scene upon which the entire story hinges. I thank him for it. My chest tightens as I read it.
But that’s just me.
Ken May 5, 2014 at 4:33 am
I thank both Betsy’s and (most of) the other commentators above. The story moved me and yet I couldn’t very well put in words why I liked it. There was something so lovely but mysterious and elusive to what McGuane has done here. Therefore, the lucid comments and detailed reflection–some of it fittingly impressionistic and personal and poetic–which characterizes this site at its best was so useful to me to help me try to figure out exactly what I so liked about this wonderful story.
Betsy May 6, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Ken, I just want to acknowledge your kind words. Mookse and Gripes is a great place to be. Now we have Lee and Michael and Amanda adding so much to the endeavor. That Trevor both inspires us with his vision and also gives each of us the chance to write in our own voice makes it a unique experience. And then there’s what we talk about – the work of the writers or artists (like Mr. McGuane) who often inspire us deeply. And more – there are the people, like you, who join the conversation and enrich it. Mookse is a great place to be.
Madwomanintheattic May 12, 2014 at 1:01 pm
So much to like – Jan’s reading makes me want to search for her truth in other stories, Betsy’s eloquent and considered praise for McGuane here, and the heartbreaking story itself. My favorite line, repeated at the end “You know the rules,” and then “You knew the rules,” is so precisely wrong that it makes me go back and reconsider all the rules that are broken throughout the story – kindness breaks rules: that the game goes on without the full complement of players but always with Ben, that the arrowhead finder gives it away instead of trading are just two examples. Owen’s rule-breaking is dangerous and delicious, but when the rules are enforced, oh my God.
Mark Miller June 2, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Amazing, heartening and encouraging, all these articulate, insightful reflections on Thomas McGuane’s most recently published story. It strikes me as remarkable that this master of fiction, while certainly well-traveled and no stranger to America’s literary capitals, most of all New York City, resides in relative physical isolation on his Montana ranch, a half-hour drive from the nearest city — and yet engenders this on-going, vibrant literary discussion. Bodes well for contemporary literature, I think — I hope.
lotusgreen February 20, 2015 at 12:18 pm
I miss Betsy. I really do, not only her insight and wisdom, but also the beauty of the language with which she communicates them.
That said…. I agree with the above appreciation of the story. One thing that didn’t get mentioned that I felt represented an important element in the story was the relationship between Ben and the twins. More even than any of the grown-ups in the story, it’s the twins (and the bully, I guess) that turn the screws, that create the heartless outcome. Who break Ben’s heart.
They faux-rescue this hapless boy (in part to further disgrace Owen), make it cool to like him, make it cool to be him, — how that moment must have felt to him — and then when he follows the script in the scene they have created he is punished beyond all reason. I get this image of a bullfight: matador flashing red cape, jousting and jumping around, and when the bull finally responds, exactly as he has been asked to do, he gets it, the sword, right between the shoulder blades.
And as he sits in the, well, wherever it is he’d been put, what runs through his mind? “What did I do wrong? What did I do to make them stop liking me?”
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Baring Teeth announce tour with Cognizant
Posted by longhairedpoet on Friday, May 24, 2019 at 12:08 PM (PST)
Dallas, Texas metallers Baring Teeth have announced a tour with Cognizant. The band is continuing to tour in support of their 2018 release Transitive Savagery.
Baring Teeth frontman Andrew Hawkins said of the tour, “”We’ll be going through a few cities we’ve never been to before, so we’re really happy to bring Transitive Savagery to the masses!”
Head on over to Baring Teeth’s Bandcamp to experience the full crushing weight of Transitive Savagery.
Check out the full list of tour dates here.
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UN to tour with WORMWITCH this Summer
Posted by Metal Riot on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 4:52 PM (PST)
Seattle death doom quartet, UN will embark on a summer tour following the success of their 2018 full-length, Sentiment and their 2019 split LP with Coltsblood. The doom legion will begin their journey in Wyoming at the coveted Fire In The Mountains music festival where they will play alongside bands such as Wolves In The Throne Room, Blood Incantation, Ruins Of Beverast, Spectral Voice, and more. They will then make their way across the US for 11 dates with Vancouver, BC blackened death/neofolk metal band WORMWITCH (Prosthetic). The tour will wrap up in Chicago, IL before making their way back home to Seattle.
About the tour, UN frontman Monte Mccleery commented, “We are excited to bring the songs of Sentiment back on the road and tour alongside the exceptional WORMWITCH!”
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December Defiance: UN touring with CHRCH, Maggot Heart dates, Deadbird music video news items
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 12:06 PM (PST)
Hey pals. My rescue cat Lil Puff is meowing her ass off for food even though she already had lunch (don’t worry, she doesn’t have worms). Nonetheless, I am going to try to concentrate long enough to type out some metal news for you today. First up, Happy Michael Flynn day! Secondly, before we start I want to share this thread from Twitter that has been thankfully well received about what I will and will not cover these days. While this excludes a number of large bands as a result, I really don’t care and they are already centered on many a site or festival. To progress, you actually have to seem like you give a shit about being a better person.
Yo, if you ain’t done more than bare minimum of restorative justice or are presumably innocent beyond reasonable doubt but Aggro victim blame or have fans do so in a way that discourages discourse or are into edging the age of consent, you will not be featured long as I run site.
— MetalRiot.com (@MetalRiot) December 4, 2018
Now to some rad tours, videos and yadda yadda.
Seattle death doom merchants UN, hot off of releasing one of the the coolest albums in recent times Sentiment, are now touring the release further. CHRCH are in tow for this one and each show promises to be a special meeting of minds!
Maggot Heart are one of the most compelling bands in the world at the moment. The project spearheaded by Linnéa Olsson is driving, timely and colorful even at the bleakest points. It’s a great post-punk sounding platter of sounds and the newest release Dusk To Dusk is great. It really seems like a lot of care went into these skillful tunes.
Some February dates have been announced:
8 MTS, OLDENBURG, DE
9 Grauzone Fest, DEN HAAG, NL
10 MTC, COLOGNE, DE
11 Slow Club, FREIBURG, DE
12 Black Label, LEIPZIG, DE
13 Alte Meierei, KIEL DE
14 Musikens Hus, GOTHENBURG SWE*
15 1000Fryd, AALBORD, DK*
16 Huset, COPENHAGEN, DK*
*w/ OKKULTOKRATI
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Lastly today but not leastly, underground mainstays Deadbird kick total ass and have a music video out at mighty Kerrang! The long-running Arkansas psychedelic doom/sludge metal outfit – formed by current and former members of Rwake, Iron Tongue, Pallbearer, and more – released their first new album in a decade in October.
DEADBIRD’s first video comes in the form of “Heyday,” the longest track on III: The Forest Within The Tree. The video was directed and created by my homie David Brenner (Gridfailure) utilizing nature footage filmed by the band’s Alan Short and his wife Tera in Northwest Arkansas, and live footage of the band filmed by Frank Huang at Mr. Small’s Theatre in Pittsburgh during this year’s Migration Fest.
Alan Short offers, “My wife Tera and I shot all of the nature footage at the White Rock Wilderness Area and The Upper Buffalo National River, both in Northwest Arkansas. Our families have been seeking peace and refuge from the insanity and demands of city life in these areas for generations. Much of it has been protected from development, but we must stay vigilant. In fact, we just got news that the effort we have been involved in to deny industrial hog farming in the vicinity a permit that would have allowed them to continue polluting the river with run-off was successful! Permit denied!”
He adds, “I feel like the video is the perfect balance of elements for DEADBIRD; immersion in loud electric rock and roll and the contemplation of and within the natural world inform both our songwriting and our lives. Participating in music (both transmitting and receiving) is a powerful way to shed the static of the human world. Listening to a river’s water speak as it moves over rocks can remove the shadow from one’s heart. Putting these elements together shows not just who we are, but how we are.”
Check it out RIGHT HERE!
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Jarboe releases “Karuna” single
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:50 PM (PST)
Jarboe releases the first single titled, “Karuna” from her spiritually enlightened new album due out on December 14th, “The Cut Of The Warrior”. “Karuna” is streaming now via PopMatters.
The song, a 7+ minute meditation, includes clanging metal percussion, gongs, chanting, and was recorded inside a meditation dome. “Karuna” was then mixed by Kris Force (Amber Asylum).
“The Cut Of The Warrior” is scheduled for release on December 14th via Translation Loss Records. Pre-order is available now.
Jarboe offers a spiritually enlightened work titled “The Cut of the Warrior”. Four gorgeous compositions that pull inspiration from Jarboe’s kinship to buddhism are meticulously crafted and presented. The album is armed with three alternative mixes/collaborations with Byla (featuring members of Gorguts, Dysrhythmia), End Christian and Kris Force (Amber Asylum) while being housed in a stunning layout by Dehn Sora.
“The Cut of the Warrior refers to the practice of Chöd by illustrating repeated attempts to cut through the ego”, explains Jarboe. “The Chöd practitioner seeks to tap the power of fear through activities such as rituals set in graveyards and visualizations of offering their bodies in a tantric feast in order to put their understanding of emptiness to the ultimate test.”
“The Cut of the Warrior” will be released on December 14, 2018.
1. Wayfaring Stranger In The Bardo
2. GodGoddess
3. Feast
4. Karuna
5. Karuna (Byla mix)
6. Wayfaring Stranger In The Bardo (End Christian mix)
7. GodGoddess reprise (Kris Force mix)
Album credits:
Written, performed, recorded by Jarboe
Mastered by Kris Force
Album layout by Dehn Sora
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Post Midterm Metal Mind Melt: SunStare, Gnaw News Items
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, November 7, 2018 at 1:27 PM (PST)
Hey gang. Midterms in the U-S-of-A have come and gone and progress is huge and mostly positive, though there is still much to be done. Even today Jim Acosta was accosted by buffoonish blubbering Trump and it seems like the are ditching Sessions as fast as possible to try and prepare some crooked bs in preparation for the Dems reclaiming the House in January. Hold fast.
If you are needing some musical release today, I can’t help you with “relaxation” after the manic energy swell of the election, but these bands can purge a large release of energy cathartically in a more robust way. SunStare from France are a convincingly passionate post-metal project with very cool guitar textures and a great bass tone in particular on new material. Please Pre Order their latest album Eroded (out this month) HERE. A lot of the best post metal or other sludgy forms I heard of came from talking with French extreme music fan friends and journos, and the scene over there has a lot of cool talent in various underground genres. SunStare have been active since 2013 and are certainly talented enough to capture your attention and pull you into their world quickly and for keeps.
Noise monsters Gnaw have released a new video for “Prowled Mary” from the Translation Loss release Cutting Pieces from last year. This record is a visceral experience and should be navigated at least a few times by anyone who cares about current relevant bands whether you become a big fan and keep coming back to it or not. This song in particular calls to mind the creepier side of Today Is The Day to me.
The “Prowled Mary” video was directed by Sean M. Sullivan and Adam Drawdy and edited by Sean M. Sullivan. GNAW vocalist Alan Dubin offers, “‘Prowled Mary’ is sort of the odd man out on the Cutting Pieces album. Even though it’s not ferocious noisy metal like most of the other songs, it’s probably the creepiest. It has some strange instrumentation including an actual chain-link fence and electric congas, but I think it’s the cello that really adds to the eerie vibe. The video was filmed and put together by the team of Sean M. Sullivan and Adam Drawdy whose experimental video work we’ve admired for a long time now.”
PopMatters writes with their premiere of the video, “Here, GNAW demonstrates that sometimes the most extreme place to go is down; the vocals are just at the level of whisper, the music itself a faint, disturbing phantom which lurks at the edge of audibility, asking the listener to imagine a darker, more disturbing rendition of Tom Waits’ ‘What’s He Building?’ Does the piece become more or less disturbing when one takes into account the visuals? Terror, as the saying goes, is in the eye of beholder but the ‘Prowled Mary’ clip doesn’t disappoint.”
See GNAW’s “Prowled Mary” video at PopMatters RIGHT HERE.
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Seattle doom patrol UN release sophomore album “Sentiment” via Translation Loss
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Sunday, September 30, 2018 at 7:59 AM (PST)
West Coast doom band UN have released their latest monument to moody brilliance, sophomore record Sentiment, on Translation Loss. While each track is over the ten minute mark as seems kinda hip these days, in the case of UN it is warranted and allows the full, glorious and dark sprawling landscape of each composition to be revealed like a vast panoramic slowly scrolling by. These guys really upped their game as well, a keener sense of melody infused into these potent prayers to both calm contemplation AND bleeding ears than ever before. Fret not that the heavy qualities have diminished in any way, but there is an even more clear sense of emotional impact and dynamics as the sounds within, particularly on one of the best songs I have heard all year “Pools of Reflection” , are completely stirring.
“While so many of our contemporaries choose to focus purely on the grim aspects of mortality, Sentiment is meant to serve as a token of gratitude in spite of the struggles of daily life”, guitarist/vocalist Monte McCleery comments. “It is a deeply personal and intimate thing to share your art with the world, and we hope that everyone who holds this album or hears these songs feels like it was written specifically for them.”
In support of “Sentiment”, UN will hit the road on November 3rd. The tour will take the band across the United States for 20 days starting in Seattle, WA and end in Boise, ID. The band will tour alongside Colorado blackened sludge duo, Oryx (No, if you are nearsighted like me that doesn’t say Onyx-sadly). In New Orleans, UN will join forces with Georgia’s black death powerhouse, Withered for select dates. Tour dates can be found below.
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Mid September Music Musings: Suicide Wraith, A Storm Of Light, Marissa Nadler, Globelamp
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 9:49 PM (PST)
Hey friends. Trying to muster the energy to brew some Tulsi tea but distracted by lots of musical news to tell you about. I guess I will save the tea for relaxing afterwards, although I want to watch that Netflix series GHOUL, so I dunno how relaxed I will actually end up.
I have been dealing with a lot of family drama and working three jobs, so hope you know I still love y’all and aim to keep you abreast of cool stuff as often as possible. Thankfully readers of our site are pretty die hard when it comes to loving metal, punk or complex fringy stuff so I know you have been finding good music anyhow even if we had a light post number the last few weeks. Anyhow, here’s some stuff I want to make sure you don’t miss knowing about. Two heavy yet experimental albums and two non metal but emotionally compelling and complex works.
Suicide Wraith! The new Suicide Wraith song is really, really good. “Suicidal Obsession” almost sounds like if Venom made a post punk song for a minute and I love the descending, catchy bassline before the blackened beat explodes and some of the most mournful and howling vocals you’ll hear anywhere this year emerge like a tortured soul erupting from a mental cave of unfathomable horror. Really a well written tune that deserves your pre-order and I can’t wait to hear Cycle Of Grievance, the WHOLE ALBUM.
Josh Graham’s A Storm Of Light return with a new album in October! Anthroscene is the first new release from the project in awhile and really all the albums are worth many repeated plays. I’ve always liked his band’s work. The new song “Short Term Feedback” is one of the most intense the group has written yet and finds the dirgier post metal stuff colliding with some Killing Joke influences in a fucking rad manner. A near perfect Matt Bayles mix and imposing Chris Common drumming, incidentally! Graham recently told Decibel the album was influenced by how,”…For a while it seemed like we were moving down better path; progressing beyond racism, focusing on global community, the environment and well being of the people. Now, a lot of our politicians are sacrificing the poor and middle class to enrich themselves, and make as much money as possible. They fight science, and not only promote, isolationism, hate, fear and greed, but also profit from that exploitation. “
For My Crimes from songstress Marissa Nadler, one of the more compelling performers in the modern scene, may have shadowy cover art that could be out of an At The Gates video from the At War With Reality-era but it is not exactly melodic death metal. While I am certain any genre she touched would benefit from her talents (she has indeed covered Sabbath and Danzig and gigged with Ghost and Wreckmeister Harmonies), Nadler sings a very personal and stirring brand of balladry that could work as the soundtrack for basically any dramatic tv show, cold winter’s day solo listening session or moment of bittersweet truth ever. She has a knack for making a simple line sound like the deeper hidden butterfly effect behind monumental forces, set to deceptively simple yet extremely sophisticated songs. “Blue Vapor” and the title track of her new record are new but two of my favorite songs from her entirety of recorded works, though Lana fans may also want to check out the dramatic “I Can’t Listen to Gene Clark Anymore”. Support!
Disclaimer…the next artist is my girlfriend (of almost a year) but she has a new album coming out in a few weeks on eclectic label Nefarious Industries and it is well worth your attention if you like moody, bewitching storytelling. While that record label has released a lot of mathy, freaky punk and metal infused stuff ranging from A Fucking Elephant to the ragingly brilliant new Bangladeafy record and even some emo prog Maid Myriad, Romantic Cancer by Globelamp is likely the most emo, indie and psych freak folk pop rolled into one that they have ever gone near. I also perform on two songs (vocals and trombone). It is cathartic, intricate, delicate, moody and catchy rolled into one and at times even poppy, uplifting and hopeful. If your life is open to a variety of moods, I suggest you check it out. We’d appreciate it! She is also sassy and has gigged with punk acts numerous times, most recently in Nyack with Arthur Googy from The Misfits new band The Noise (who smoked her out and said he was down to play brushes the next time she records! haha, cool dude/legend), so you readers might like the attitude even if it is mellower than, say, Bad Religion.
You may know Globelamp (Elizabeth Le Fey) as a DIY touring artist and from her many YouTube covers or if you follow indie drama from her time in the Calabasas liar’s club for rich 60’s sexism emulating/ erratically behaved mamas boys Foxygen (who recently accused her of an ongoing murder plot on their official Twitter and then deleted it in a cowardly manner consistent with framing her, an abuse victim, in court and who she says wanted her to be an unpaid girlfriend in the band). She, on the other hand, is an open book, not evasive of hard questions. Anyway, suffice to say I was stoked when she, my friend for a few years before we dated, decided to come out here to where I live in Woodstock, NY and make a more spare third solo album with me for a great label run by cool people.
I was always into the Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, so I was stoked to get Elizabeth out East and away from the back stabbing scene artifice of L.A. she has experienced to a more rootsy environment where she could collab with some hoedown ride or die cool people. Jay Andersen of Surmiser recorded the record and James Felice of Felice Brothers/Conor Oberst fame (a big influence on Lizzie) plays brilliant accordion that reminds me of Astor Piazzolla at times. One of the bleaker songs “Black Tar” is streaming now on the Bandcamp page and I hope you love it. Please consider supporting as she always sticks up for herself and is tone policed by fake friends, stalkers, trolls and some pretty shitty character assassins fairly regularly, some of whom even recently trolled her viciously with mock accounts celebrating the death of her best friend. History loves silencing loud women by burning them at the stake. I can assure you she is a human being and a very good one at that, so please use some fucking critical thinking.
East Coast fans can also catch her live Oct. 5th as part of O + Festival sharing the festival bill with acts ranging from Shadow Witch and the Golden Grass to Evan Dando, Sun Voyager, Spliffs, Lorkin O’Reilly and many more. Lizzie will also be appearing soon on my collaborative Walking Bombs full length with Gridfailure called Suicide By Citizenship which features Tad Doyle, Mike Score from All out War and others TBA very soon! Thanks and stay tuned.
May the shadows grant the worthy/good among you all safe passage and may lessons learned make you a stronger, vibrantly alive person until we meet again in better days.
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Album Review: Sulaco – “The Prize”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at 3:16 PM (PST)
Rochester’s Sulaco have always kind of been underdogs, weathering the underground storms but never quite breaking huge yet always mattering and doing cool shit. Since the early 00’s the group has kept up blazing a trail with their unique blend of extreme metal sub genres, melding hardcore, grind and weird ass rhythmic shifts that Gorguts fans could enjoy into a fresh and kind of minimal style with maximum punch. Plus, my best friend and I smoked weed with them years ago at a Woodstock Tat Fest behind a Harley place and always thought they were cool after that, haha. The band also have ties to Nuclear Assault and Brutal Truth, among others. They just keep it real and stay relevant after most bands give it up, and that deserves lifer points.
The Prize will be released on August 17, 2018 with Translation Loss Records on compact disc, digital download, and two vinyl variants (white and the limited edition “Clear with Heavy Black and White Splatter” which is limited to 100 copies). The trippy cover art by J.R. Schulmerich is worth the purchase alone.
There is a lot of blurring drum roll madness (10/10 performance from Chris Golding, fuck dude), whirlwind guitar chug and tortured vocal styles on here, particularly powerful on “The Road”. The song marches forward then explodes into drama as much as any Cormac McCarthy post-apoc book, though I don’t know if they are related. There are some moments on here of borderline proggy-tech death as well and the band just sound incredibly precise and deadly. They are one of those bands who, like Gigan or Today Is The Day, have somehow managed to capture their vibrant and over the top live essence on a lot of their recordings. I am thrilled they are still at it. Mixed by Neil Kernon (Judas Priest, Nile, Cannibal Corpse), the new record has a furious and raw but tempered feel. It is not a polished turd, that is for sure. You feel every scream in your center like a branding iron.
When Matt Tuck from Bullet For My Valentine said metal has gotten ‘a bit stale’ recently, he prob hadn’t heard this beast.
Erik Burke and company should be proud. They have nothing to prove and if this makes a lot of money or otherwise the “prize” includes a well deserved place upon the wall of glory in the halls of respected extreme metal acts on Valhalla. Go fucking check out the anxiety inducing first intense song “Disguise” here and for God’s sakes pre order this shit for a measly $6.99 and don’t be a stick in the mud!
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GNAW: New Shows And Festival Dates Supporting “Cutting Pieces”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, May 7, 2018 at 6:18 PM (PST)
New York City avant/experimental outfit GNAW announces new live actions in support of their caustic third LP, Cutting Pieces, released in October through Translation Loss Records.
GNAW is confirmed to play at Austin Terror Fest in Austin, Texas on June 17th, performing with the likes of Acid King, Primitive Man, Krallice, He Whose Ox is Gored, Un, Wayfarer, and Desist. Later that month, GNAW will play Baltimore June 29th with Multicult, Curse, and Syringe At Metro, and Washington DC June 30th with Multicult, Radiator Greys, Birth Defects.
Already booking throughout the second half of the year, GNAW will play Into The Aether II in Portland, Maine on October 6th, which features an exclusive 2018 US performance by Skullflower, as well as Ariadne, Brain Famine, Sterile Garden, Frkse, and more to be announced. This will be preceeded by a European tour with Italian duo OvO in September. Can you say, “holy crap!!”
GNAW Tour Dates:
6/17/2018 The Lost Well – Austin, TX @ Austin Terror Fest w/ Acid King, Primitive Man, Krallice [info]
6/29/2018 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD w/ Multicult, Curse, Syringe At Metro [info]
6/30/2018 Atlas Brew Works – Washington, DC w/ Multicult, Radiator Greys, Birth Defects [info]
10/06/2018 Geno’s Rock Club – Portland, ME @ Into The Aether II w/ Skullflower, Ariadne, Brain Famine, more [info]
See GNAW’s incinerating “Fire” video RIGHT HERE and see a recent live video of “Wrong” HERE.
GNAW’s Cutting Pieces is available on LP, CD, and digital formats via Translation Loss; find merch bundle and order options HERE.
Another official video from Cutting Pieces will be issued shortly alongside more GNAW live updates.
Closing a four-year gap since their acclaimed second album, Horrible Chamber, GNAW’s Cutting Pieces dredges forth some of the outfit’s most unnerving audio assaults yet. In addition to the traditional four-piece rock format and string and wind instruments, GNAW utilizes found sound, homemade instruments, tweaked oscillators, synthesis, and manipulated recordings. Joining returning assassins Alan Dubin (Khanate, OLD), Brian Beatrice, Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter), Eric Neuser, and Jun Mizumachi (Ike Yard), the lineup now includes Dana Schechter (Insect Ark, ex-Angels Of Light) on lap steel guitar.
Cutting Pieces was written and recorded over two years at various studios and locales across New York City, mixed by the band’s Brian Beatrice. and mastered by James Plotkin. The graphic and type design for the cover was done by returning French designer Sebastien Hayez. Cutting Pieces also features guest musicians Stefania Alos Pedretti of Italian noise rock act OvO contributing background vocals to the track “Septic,” and Swiss saxophone player and sound artist Antoine Chessex (ex-Monno) contributing saxophone and amplifier to “Triptych.”
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GNAW stream full album at Invisible Oranges
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 1:58 PM (PST)
Interesting bands are more interesting than boring ones. What else can we say?!
Let GNAW’s Cutting Pieces corrode your sanity; stream the entire LP at Invisible Oranges RIGHT HERE.
Translation Loss will release Cutting Pieces on LP, CD, and digital formats this Friday, October 27th; find merch bundle and preorder options HERE. So far we like the cacophonous and clangy intro section to “Wrong” the best!
GNAW has confirmed a record release show for Cutting Pieces at Brooklyn metallic booze vortex Saint Vitus Bar on October 29th, where they’ll be joined by the heroics of Couch Slut, Escuela, and Syndromes. Seems like a good night to completely lose your shit! \m/
GNAW Record Release Show:
10/29/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Couch Slut, Escuela, Syndromes [info]
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Giant Squid break up. FTW. I hate life now.
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Tuesday, October 6, 2015 at 8:55 PM (PST)
West coast innovators Giant Squid have made several underground (underwater?) classics in recent years and sadly might be done for now.
Read the statement HERE.
The amount of disdain this fills me with for all the shitty bands I usually try to ignore who clog the arteries of the music world is palpable.
Damn it. Truly one of the best bands out there. But the records will remain for those lucky to find them. Some bands make a few albums and break up while copying trends along the way. GS made the ichthyologist . ‘Nuff said.
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Interview: House Of Lightning – “Lightworker” and doing what you want
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Monday, April 20, 2015 at 11:04 AM (PST)
I think anytime is a good time for people to do what they want – Henry Wilson
Live photos by James Covington
Henry from House Of Lighting took the time to answer my questions on the band’s supersonic riff ride Lightworker and what they have cooking for later this year and beyond. This band reminds me of the thrill I got from early ROIR Bad Brains/Soulside, Van Halen’s Fair Warning and the stuff released by Wilson’s acclaimed band Floor (though Wilson plays a different instrument in the two bands). It’s all thrown in some kind of multi-dimensional rainbow blender like the Gargantua/black hole space Matthew McConaughey knocks books out of in Interstellar. It might not make you break out Goddess crystals (unless you are me) but the Lightworker name suits these bursts of pure energy and life just as well as seeking some inner peace and calm space through New Age music. Fans on Enya don’t get a lock on good vibes, haha! Check out “More Lights, More Trails” HERE.
The band’s music is sure to thrill fans of punk, technical metal, crazy innovative hard rock or fuzzed out stoner types who can handle really trippy kind of buried harmonies reflecting back at them from the center of some serious riffage. Get on board with this Florida storm of electric vibes now! Everyone should be talking about this band a lot more.
Read the interview BELOW.
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Giant Squid make “Sixty Foot Waves”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Friday, October 24, 2014 at 9:13 AM (PST)
San Francisco progressive doom-rock scientists, GIANT SQUID will release their anxiously-awaited fifth LP, Minoans, October 28 via Translation Loss Records. Recorded and mixed with engineer Tim Green (Earthless, Melvins) at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA. Every time the good ship Squid release something new I get a thrill like being tickled by lots of otherworldly happy rock n roll tentacles, in a good way.
In celebration of the impending release, Burning Ambulance rolls out the new GIANT SQUID song “Sixty Foot Waves“, the premiere including an extensive Q&A with the band’s Aaron John Gregory. Check out the multimedia sneak preview today at THIS location.
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Giant Squid set to return with “Minoans”
Posted by Morgan Ywain Evans on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 10:06 AM (PST)
San Francisco progressive doom-rock scientists, GIANT SQUID will release their anxiously-awaited fifth LP Minoans October 28 via Translation Loss Records. Recorded and mixed with engineer Tim Green (Earthless, Melvins) at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA, the record sees the avant-garde band at their most refined, focused and vital as it fully embraces its Mediterranean leanings and lyrically excavates one of the earliest civilizations known to history; examining how the aquatic demise of the ancient proto-Greek people may foretell our own end. Minoans is the follow up to GIANT SQUID’s 2011 release Cenotes, an album that was hailed as “science sludge” by Pitchfork and “earthy, experimental doom metal à la Neurosis” by Revolver.
GIANT SQUID has been wielding palatial vocals and enormous waves of cello, keys, and exotic sludge riffs for over ten years, garnering universal critical acclaim. On Minoans, marine biology and natural history metaphorically collide with heartbreaking stories of historic human tragedy; resulting in some of the most emotional and sincere music being made today in any underground scene. Recorded this past June and tested live over the summer supporting like-minded peers YOB, Minoans is crushingly heavy, exotically beautiful, a musical; GIANT SQUID’s finest hour to date. Conceptual artwork created by guitarist / vocalist Aaron John Gregory adds to soaring scope of this ambitious album.
“Minoans is the record I’ve always known Giant Squid could make; ancient, exotic and other-worldly, while showing a new level of refined focus,” comments Gregory. “Lyrically, the album is a giant love letter to the Mediterranean and specifically Bronze-age Greece – a region, people, and time period that deeply fascinates me – and which I feel mirrors these heartbreakingly brutal, turbulent times we live in today.”
Check out an interactive art piece on the demise of the Minoans HERE.
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East Of The Wall release music video
Posted by longhairedpoet on Thursday, November 21, 2013 at 4:22 PM (PST)
New Jersey metallers East of The Wall have released a music video for their song “Obfuscator Dye” off of the recently released Redaction Artifacts (Translation Loss Records).
Check out the video as well as East Of The Wall live dates here.
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If you were only allowed to pick one black metal album to hear for the rest of 2019, I would strongly suggest you choose False's Portent. A dizzying leap forward from an already very talented and rightfully well regarded act, it does not take long into ten minute opener "A Victual to Our Dead Selves" for the song to grab your undivided attention and never let go. Dedicated to the memory of several friends, the record is professional, passionate, heartbreaking and exhilarating. "Rime On The Song Of Returning" is an exceptionally poetic ode to natural abandon that seems to question our size in the scope of the march of time. The band have never sounded more precise, empowered and fiery, like there is a fortune teller at band practice urging them to claim destiny's heights. If this album holds significance of metal's future it is one that honors the best of the past while boding very well for the genre's horizons.
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Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews have both written great reviews of The Red Shoes and Other Tales, to be published on October 13th 2015 by Papercutz.
Publishers Weekly says: “Hope, joy, and pain intermingle in these dark, alluring stories, which may leave readers thinking of Andersen as a precursor to modern horror.”
Full review here: http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-62991-283-7
Kirkus Reviews calls it: “A darkly pensive read, perfect for chilly fall evenings.”
Full review here: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/metaphrog/the-red-shoes-and-other-tales
The Fall – The Remainderer Review
Metaphrog 6 track, Cherry Red, Mark E Smith, review, The Fall, The Remainderer 1
The Remaindererarrived today. A new six track EP from The Fall. Originally slated for release on the 11th of November and weighted with a sense of expectation after receiving radio airplay. It would be unkind to make comparisons with Slates – after all it has been 32 years and fans of the group tend to hold that particular disc in very high regard. Neither an LP nor a single it was excluded: the release missed all kinds of charts but touched all kinds of hearts. This listener was not even 16 and in the years before everyone had electronic gadgets John Peel was an evening’s entertainment.
The Fall’s previous 10” release was the marvellous Masquerade back in 1998 and this vinyl was also accompanied by two cd singles which more or less made up a mini LP. The Remainderer can also be enjoyed in different formats.
The title track lopes, with an amazing double drummer sound reminiscent of Hex Enduction Hour-era tunes, and throbs over squirting squelching and droning electronics. The vocals are very much instruments here. The voice growling and gargling, hissing sibilants and rasping the Rs, on the cd the backing vocals are multi-tracked versions of the main vocal refrains and we learn “it was a good day… whatever that is”, while on the promo cd and the 10” vinyl, there are various backing singers “manipulating to leaving” or “manipulate into leaving”. Or indeed both! Both versions of the song are stunning, simple ideas welded together by a group having fun and sounding relaxed, assured and about to fall apart in an exciting way.
Exciting is the word that sums this EP up. It’s invigorating.
Second track Amorator!is so speed driven it’s jaggy juju guitars and drums almost trip over themselves before blissing out with vocals oscillating from whispers to growls. There’s something swaggering and punky about The Fall on this release, like the New York Dolls on Jet Boy blended with dirty heavy metal and a healthy dose of rockabilly.
Mr Rode rumbles in like a slower-paced strangely filtered Motorhead before chiming, swaying guitars and vocals kick off and repeat in layers to lift the song in a melodic euphoria that builds and builds wrapping ghostly vocal mutterings before taking off to a powerful climax. A Fall classic.
Another instant classic cements the centre of this six track EP. Remembrance R opens with warbling and gargling then plays melodic vocal against a massive bass line, recalling Joy Division but also Perverted by Languageand spinning a whole new musical web of its own across uncharted territory.
Although we are treated to a race through two Gene Vincent covers, Mark E Smith is channelling an amphetamine-fuelled Elvis and sampling his own group’s live archive. Race With the Devil appeared on the Backdropbootleg – performed at John Peel’s 50th birthday party many moons ago.
The final track Touchy Pad is a modern psychedelic classic, perfect pop in under two and a half minutes with ever-so-slightly off key singing, declaiming and backwards guitar offsetting the clear leading melodies.
As always with the lyrics, worlds are suggested, new literatures are revealed, and repeated listenings alter and add to these glimpses. Sounds and ideas combine with the music in intelligent, innovative and interesting ways. These aren’t just songs these are little works of art.
The Fall sit well with The Velvet Underground and with Captain Beefheart as important cultural examples of music and art and as a group are a vital creative force.
Re-mit took The Fall into the top 40, back into the charts. The Remainderer should be X-mas number one. Where some of Re-mit’s tracks could be seen as anti-music, this astonishingly lively EP is an antidote to the anodyne, sterile world of auto-tuned blandness and unhappy twerking that passes in some places for culture.
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Tricycle and Quadricycle Manufacturers
Elio Enclosed Motorized Tricycle
Written by Staff
May 2, 2016 -- Elio Motors, Inc. the startup vehicle manufacturer planning to launch an enclosed three-wheeled vehicle that will get up to 84 MPG with a targeted base price of $6,800, today announced more than 52,000 people have put down money for a place in line for highly fuel-efficient, low-cost three-wheeler.
"Our 50 percent reservation bonus has always been intended as a reward for early adopters and is a thank you for their early support," said Paul Elio, founder and CEO of Elio Motors. "The customer response has been phenomenal and we are thankful so many people have shown their support by making a reservation." To date, more than 85 percent of reservation holders have chosen the non-refundable option.
Any potential customers who want to take advantage of the 50 percent reservation bonus can do so by placing a non-refundable vehicle reservation on or before May 31. In addition, any current reservation holders who want to upgrade their reservation – for example, a $500 non-refundable reservation turned into a $1,000 reservation – also can take advantage of the 50 percent reservation bonus before the end of May.
Elio Motors, which is targeting a launch in 2017, has achieved several milestones so far this year. In addition to crossing the 50,000-reservation threshold, the company's shares began trading on the OTCQX market. In addition, the company has finalized engineering designs for the engine cradle, interior, body panels and chassis for its E-Series testing vehicles. Assembly of the E-Series vehicles will begin later this month.
"There are a lot of hurdles to clear when you build a vehicle from the ground up, but we keep accomplishing goals – both big and small every single day," Elio said. "Our progress the past several months has been remarkable and we look forward to keeping the ball rolling with the upcoming E-Series build and pre-production vehicle launch later this year."
About Elio Motors
Founded by car enthusiast Paul Elio in 2009, Elio Motors Inc. represents a revolutionary approach to manufacturing an ultra-high-mileage vehicle. The three-wheeled Elio is engineered to attain a highway mileage rating of up to 84 mpg, while providing the comfort of amenities such as power windows, power door lock and air conditioning, accompanied by the safety of multiple air bags and an aerodynamic, enclosed vehicle body. Elio's first manufacturing site will be in Shreveport, Louisiana.
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One of Sydney's most diverse parks, Sydney Harbour National Park is formed from 11 pockets of harbour islands and shoreline. Highlights include coastal walks and swimming, breath-taking viewpoints, tours of colonial buildings and Aboriginal cave art.
There are alerts raised for Sydney Harbour National Park as at Wed, 17 Jul 2019 15:29:52 +1000
Closed areas: All facilities on Rodd Island closed
All facilities on this island are closed until further notice because there is no water supply. These issues will be fixed as soon as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience.
For more information, please call the NPWS Greycliffe House, Vaucluse area office on 02 9337 5511.
Closed areas: Shark Beach closed
Shark Beach at Nielsen Park is closed until further notice. It is unsafe to swim at Shark Beach.
The shark net and a pylon have been damaged due to severe weather conditions. The damaged shark net is not operating and may deteriorate further.
The damaged shark net could cause injury. NSW National Parks are working to repair the net.
Penalties apply for non-compliance. For further information, call the NPWS Vaucluse area office on 02 9337 5511.
Closed areas: North Head fox control operations
A fox control operation is in progress across North Head from Tuesday 8 May 2019 until further notice. Areas where trapping is underway will be signposted. Please keep to the centre of formed tracks.
Some areas may be closed temporarily. Signage will be in place around any closed areas.
For further information please contact the Sydney North Area office on 02 9451 3479 during weekdays or 13000 PARKS (13000 72757) on weekends.
Closed areas: Lady Bay Beach closed
Lady Bay Beach will be closed at times from May to August 2019. NSW National Parks will be repairing the sandstone retaining wall and replacing the staircase above the beach during this time.
To ensure visitor safety, the beach will be closed at times during repairs. Please don't enter closed areas during construction. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Alternative beach access is available nearby at Camp Cove, and there are clothing-optional beaches at Cobblers and Obelisk beaches in Mosman.
Penalties apply for non-compliance. For more information, please contact the NPWS Vaucluse office on 02 9337 7000, or visit the NSW National Parks safety page for park safety guidelines.
Other planned events: 1080 fox baiting program underway
1080 fox baiting program will occur from Friday 1 February 2019 to Wednesday 31 July 2019 in Sydney Harbour National Park (Chowder Bay, Dobroyd, Bradleys, Georges, Middle and North headlands). The 1080 poison (sodium fluoroacetate) will be buried baits or ejector capsules which are laid on tracks and trails. Do not touch baits or ejector devices as they contain poison. The 1080 poison is lethal to dogs and cats, and pet owners are reminded that domestic animals are not permitted in national parks.
Penalties apply for non-compliance. For further information during business hours please call the NPWS Sydney North (Middle Head) area office on 02 9960 6266 or visit the NSW National Parks safety page for park safety guidelines.
Other planned events: North Head Scenic Drive gate opening and closing times
North Head Scenic Drive gate closing and opening times will change in summer and winter. The following times include:
From Thursday 6 December 2018: In summer, the gate is open from 5am until 8.30pm
From Monday 1 April 2019: In winter, the gate is open from 6am until 6pm
Closed areas: Fort Denison closed
Fort Denison is closed to visitors until further notice, due to site maintenance.
Penalties apply for non-compliance. For more information, call the NPWS Vaucluse area office on (02) 9337 5511 or visit the NSW National Parks safety page for park safety guidelines.
Closed areas: Collins Flat closed
Collins Flat Beach is currently unavailable for venue hire. This is due to the impact of high visitation on the critical penguin habitat at this location. This closure will be reviewed at the end of the breeding season in February 2019. Penalties apply for non-compliance.
For more information, please contact the NPWS Mosman area office on (02) 9960 6266 or visit the NSW National Parks safety page for park safety guidelines.
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German Bread - Fast Facts
Francine A. McKenna
Germany is a "Bread Paradise". With over 3050 registered varieties, almost all available types of grain used, from wheat, rye, barley and oats to millet, corn, rice and potato starch. While bread rolls go under so many different names in the various regions it is easier just to point.
Germany and its Storks
They are "Harbingers of Spring", bringers of babies, stars of myth, superstition and a theme route. Storks...high on the list of Germany's favorite wildlife, it's "celebration time" when they return to their nests on cliff-ledges, rooftops and chimneys, after wintering in warmer climates.
Germany's House Cleaning Culture
"Putz anfallen", the German speaking world's love of cleaning and tidying everything in sight, shows no sign of ending. Those "cleaning attacks", necessary or not, day or night and at any time of year, are an "enjoyable", even compulsive, pastime...with rules and traditions of course.
Rote Grütze, Germany's Fruit Dessert Recipe
Rote Grütze with summer berries is one of Germany's most popular desserts. Light, refreshing, easy to make and for centuries "every day" Hausmannskost, home cooking, in northern Germany, it is a "fruit salad with a difference", and a menu favorite even in upscale restaurants.
Germany and its Beach Basket Culture
A cult object these days, but the first Strandkorb was invented in 1882, so an elderly aristocrat with rheumatism could continue to enjoy her beach holidays. Safely protected from the cold winds, rain, and sandblasts of the bracing North, where Germany borders the North and Baltic Seas.
Germany's Window Boxes and Balcony Gardens
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, every change of season is makeover time for Germany's flower boxes. A wonderful sight, colorful plant filled containers are everywhere, on door stoops, window ledges, trailing from apartment balconies, down historic buildings and ancient farmhouse walls.
Germany's Beer gardens - Kultur, Tradition & Bier
It wouldn't be summer in Germany without a cold beer enjoyed under a leafy chestnut tree. Originally a way of using shaded areas covering underground beer storage cellars in 19th century Bavaria, visits to a Biergärten soon became a popular pastime, and a German tradition that traveled the world.
Summer Solstice and Midsummer Magic in Germany
Most Summer Solstice and Midsummer Eve festivities in German speaking countries were mystic Pagan, and pre-Christian, festivals. Symbols for renewal, fertility and harvest. And fire still plays a major role in celebrating the triumph of sun, and light, over cold and darkness.
Rumtopf, Traditional Fruit and Rum Pot Recipe
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Germany's Prehistoric Solar Observatory
Observatory, Shrine, or Temple? For the prehistory agricultural civilization that created Germany's Goseck Circle 7,000 years ago, Solstice was an important seasonal midpoint celebration. Probably the world's oldest solar observatory, it predates Britain's Stonehenge by at least two millennia.
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Vargas steps down as POC president
Posted at Jun 18 2019 02:11 PM | Updated as of Jun 18 2019 04:47 PM
Ricky Vargas, Philippine Olympic Committee president visits a training session of the Gilas Pilipinas held at the Meralco Gym in Ortigas, Pasig on June 17, 2019. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – (UPDATE) Ricky Vargas on Tuesday tendered his "irrevocable resignation" as president of the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC), after he was questioned over his involvement in various controversies that hounded the country's hosting of the upcoming Southeast Asian Games.
In a letter addressed to the POC's Executive Board, Vargas said he was resigning "effective immediately."
"After much introspection, I have determined that there would be other sports leaders who would have the time and inclination needed to lead the POC more effectively," said Vargas.
READ: Vargas vacates POC seat for a 'more effective' leader
Vargas was elected as POC president in February 2018, ending the long tenure of Peping Cojuangco after a controversial election process.
But his period in office came to an abrupt end on Tuesday, after POC board members questioned his involvement in various issues – especially in the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) Foundation, Inc., and the questionable contract with a company that aims to become the official outfitter of the SEA Games.
Vargas is one of the eight original incorporators of Phisgoc Foundation, which was not recognized by the POC board members.
Phisgoc Foundation is led by Taguig Conressman-elect Alan Peter Cayetano, who is also the chairman of the original Phisgoc created with the POC and the Philippine Sports Commission.
Vargas did not grant interviews after leaving the POC headquarters at the PhilSports compound, where the board held an executive session.
In his resignation letter, Vargas requested POC secretary-general Patrick Gregorio "to assist the incoming president in the smooth transition of leadership, until the new president shall have appointed his own secretary-general."
Former POC first vice-president Joey Romasanta will take over Vargas' position as president.
Robert Bachman of the squash association is set to be tapped as the new secretary-general.
"I ask for the understanding of all concerned, most especially the athletes and NSAs who have supported my initiatives in the organization," said Vargas.
"Rest assured, I will continue to support Philippine sports in my private capacity, particularly as an official of the MVP Sports Foundation and as president of ABAP," he concluded.
The board is set to call an extraordinary general assembly next week.
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POSTCOMMUNISM- POSTCOLONIALISM’S OTHER, University of Ploiesti
Janusz Korek 29 March 2012
"Word and Text" - A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics,
University of Ploiesti, http://jlsl.upg-ploiesti.ro/
POSTCOMMUNISM- POSTCOLONIALISM'S OTHER
If Postcommunism designates the period of political and economic transition from communism to democracy after the dramatic events of 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Prague and the Romanian revolution, to name but a few) period which was dominated by the rejection of Soviet communism legacies and associated institutions, symbols, vocabularies, socialist realism, postcolonialism is rooted in capitalist ideology. Despite Derrida's timely Specters of Marx and the spate of critical activity that it generated, as well as Stéphane Courtois' The Black Book of Communism, whose responses varied from highly enthusiastic support to bitter criticism, and Eric Hobsbawn's or Vladimir Tismăneanu's accounts on an epoch that was to leave permanent traces in world history, out of all post's, postcommunism as such has not received the theoretical attention it would have otherwise deserved. Meant to go beyond communism's blurring of all differences and equalitarianism, postcommunism attempted to meet postcolonialism in precisely that point where it (de)constructs the Other through a politics of difference. Postcommunist countries felt both European and in the periphery of it and have been aware of having awaken to capitalism somewhat too late and somewhat embedded in a reservoir of what the Westerners perceive as lacks of civilization.
This issue invites contributions on considering postcommunism postcolonialism's other, extending the concept of 'otherness' from the strictly philosophical meaning conceived by Hegel in his famous parable of the master-slave dialectic, and later made much more popular by Levinas' "infinite other" or Lacan's articulating the other with symbolic order to othering as the unconscious (Freud), the silent, the unsaid, insanity (Blanchot) to the political, social, cultural other, the other of language.
Prompting contributors to engage their own colonized otherness, the issue seeks contributions that will broaden our understanding of cultures of post-Communist societies through a variety of cultural and literary theories that proved to be of particular relevance to the study of the contemporary age (post-modernism, post-colonial theory, diaspora and globalisation.) The issue will attempt to rekindle the militant relevance and political involvement of cultural studies in the new context of postcommunist Europe from a range of perspectives that include (but are not limited to):
• Marginalized cultures
• Cultures of lies
• Looking Westwards since 1989
• Tradition, nostalgia and belated communism in post 1989 national identities
• Cultural Diaspora and de-territorialization
• Cultural contradictions of post-communism
• Derrida's Reflections on Post1989 Europe (The Other Heading)
• Postcommunist literatures
• The emergence of new linguistic and discursive paradigms
• Postcommunism in translation
• Postcommunism in the West: around Le retour de Marx
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches, ranging across critical theory, literary studies, cultural studies, general and applied linguistics as well as other disciplines in the humanities. Contributors are advised to follow the journal's submission guidelines and stylesheet. The deadline for article submissions is 15 April 2012. The articles should be sent to as attachments to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . All submitted articles will be peer-reviewed. Accepted articles will be returned for post-review revisions by 1 May and are expected back in their final version by 7 May.
Dr. Bogdan Stefanescu, Ph.D. - The guest editor , "Word and Text".
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest
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Press release • May 10, 2016 10:23 GMT
CEO Comments
Similar to last year our first quarter was weak, albeit in line with our own expectations, with 1Q16 revenues amounting to EUR 46.1 million, an 11.6% increase on the same period last year. This improvement was mainly due to increased day-to-day business order intake, and stronger overall activity in a number of our key markets. Currency exchange differences had a negative impact on the quarterly revenues while organic growth was positive at 13.2%. Gross margin remained stable for the quarter. Order intake for the period decreased by 16% year-over-year, amounting to EUR 56.6 million and our order book has grown 10.6% to EUR 108.9 million from year-end.
We registered strong day-to-day business during the quarter, and achieved several R&D milestones. One major development was the completion of a series of At Sea Demonstrations (ASD) of the innovative US Navy Advanced Mooring System (AMS) for novel ship-to-ship mooring applications, which incorporates Cavotec's MoorMaster™ automated mooring technology.
Following successful Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) at Cavotec USA in North Carolina, and System Integration Testing (SIT) at project partner Oceaneering' s facility in Maryland, the ASD were conducted at US Naval Base Coronado in California.
The system is now clear for the next phase of its development. This exciting new evolution of MoorMaster™ promises a fundamental improvement in offshore mooring operations, and one that has considerable potential for use in a wide range of commercial applications. In further positive news for MoorMaster™, the estimated total number of moorings completed by MoorMaster™ units worldwide crossed 170,000.
The first months of 2016 have developed in line with our expectations in terms of sales, turnover and overall performance. With the current general uncertainty and cautiousness in the global economy set to continue, I do not currently foresee any significant changes to the outlook we published in our 4Q15 report, in which we identified a period of softer order intake and a s lowdown in larger projects.
We have refocused our sales efforts on core markets, innovations and offerings. Innovations and offerings we have refocused on include Alternative Maritime Power shore connection, Automatic Plug-in System for ships and cranes, MoorMaster™ automated mooring, and further improvements to our system integration capacity for Airports. Achievements in these areas are forming an important pillar of our strategy for future growth.
As indicated in recent statements, our Ports & Maritime and Airports markets are the two areas that are expected to deliver the greatest amount of growth in the years ahead, strengthened in part by far-reaching environmental legislation and the on-going drive to increase efficiency. Both trends are likely to generate demand for our technologies that reduce environmental impact and improve operational efficiency.
In parallel, we continue our program to actively streamline our operations in a variety of ways. Given the positive results to reduce costs to date, I expect to build on these successes, and envisage further improvements going forward.
The effects of several of these measures will not be immediate. I am, however, confident that our organisation as a whole will emerge stronger, more focused, and more profitable thanks to the actions we are currently taking, and will continue to take in the coming months.
This is a summary of the 1Q16 published today. The complete 1Q16 report with tables is available at http://investor.cavotec.com/results.cfm. Investors should not rely on summaries only, but should review the complete reports with tables.
For further details, please contact:
Michael Scheepers
Group Chief Communications Officer & IR
+41795024010 or michael.scheepers@cavotec.com
The information in this release is subject to the disclosure requirements of Cavotec SA under the Swedish Securities Market Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instruments Trading Act. This information was publicly communicated on 10 May 2016, 12:00 CEST.
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Cavotec & Wärtsilä to develop world’s first marine wireless charging and mooring concept
An agreement has been signed between Cavotec Group and Wärtsilä to jointly develop the world’s first combined induction charging and automatic mooring concept.
Cavotec 4Q15 Report and full year 2015 summary
This is a summary of the 4Q15 report and full year 2015 summary published today. The complete 4Q15 report and full year summary with tables is available at http://investor.cavotec.com/results.cfm. Investors should not rely on summaries only, but should review the complete reports with tables.
Report from Cavotec SA Ordinary General Meeting 2016
Cavotec SA ("the Company") today held its Ordinary General Meeting ("OGM") in Lugano, Switzerland, while shareholders could follow proceedings via a passive video-link from Stockholm, Sweden. Fabio Cannavale chaired the OGM. Here follows a report on the resolutions that were passed.
Cavotec and ABB join forces to offer shore-to-ship power solutions, boosting "green ports"
Cavotec and ABB have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly offer complete shore-to-ship power solutions globally. Such solutions allow vessels to plug into onshore power supply and shut down their engines, eliminating noxious emissions, noise and vibrations while berthed in ports that are often located in city surrounds.
Press releases • Aug 04, 2016 11:24 GMT
Michael Colaco sells 2.8 million Cavotec shares to pay USD 6.7 million to Cavotec
Press releases • May 18, 2016 08:10 GMT
The Chief Executive Officer of Cavotec SA ("Cavotec" or the "Company"), Ottonel Popesco, is pleased to announce that on 17 May 2016, Michael Colaco, the former owner of INET Airport Systems, sold 2.8m shares in Cavotec to pay USD 6.7m pursuant to the court judgment entered in favour of Cavotec in a lawsuit in the Orange County Superior Court in California, USA.
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By Maria Paula Gutierrez and Ximena Sandoval, Pure! Colombia
A while ago, together with our colleagues at Pure! Colombia, we were invited by one of our local operators to explore the southern part of the country. This trip gave us the opportunity to build a stronger relationship with our provider and gain extra insights into our products and destinations, which makes the service we can offer our partners even greater. This has been one of our favorite trips so far. Not only was it very educational, we also got the opportunity to visit many different places within my country. There are so many beautiful places to discover in this extraordinary country, it would take a long time for us to mention all of it!
The tour itself was a very enriching experience. This, because it was full of good energy and beautiful landscapes. Throughout the tour, we visited places like Neiva, Villa Vieja (Tatacoa Desert), San Augustín, and Popayan. Out of this great selection, it would be almost impossible for us to choose a favorite. However, there are some places that we would love to highlight.
For us, one of the highlights was San Agustín with its interesting monuments and sculptures. Walking there and taking it all in, really gave us a feeling of wonder of all the stories behind this magical and unknown culture. Sculptures of Gods and other mythical figures are scattered throughout this UNESCO World Heritage Site, displaying the rich imagination of the northern Andean people from the 1st to the 8th century.
The beautiful Tatacoa Desert was also a sight to behold. What is very interesting is that even though it may look like a desert, it is actually a dried out tropical forest! A breathtaking landscape surrounded us as far as we could see, and it made us wonder what it used to look like, when there was still a tropical forest at the place where there is now nothing but rocks and sand.
Another one of our favorite parts of the trip was visiting the Silvia-Indian community, living in Paramo. We were intrigued by their stories of their historic culture and by the sight of their old and traditional farms. The inhabitants were kind enough to invite us into their homes and share traditional drinks with us. We were truly transported back in time and it was a true form of soul healing!
Lastly, we loved our visit to the city of Popayan. The people were so warm and inviting, which made us feel welcome right away. The colonial architecture was breathtaking, and the city totally lived up to its nickname ‘the White City’. This, because of its whitewash on most of those colonial buildings near the city center. Some of our favorite places to visit in the center were Caldas Park and the Calibio – a town house where a battle was fought for Colombia´s independence in 1814.
At the end of the trip we were very sad that it was over, it was such an amazing experience! We cannot wait for the next trip!
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IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 8, 156-161 (2018)
Microscopic distributions of defect luminescence from subgrain boundaries in multicrystalline silicon wafers
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Increased throughput and sensitivity of synchrotron-based characterization for photovoltaic materials
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Synchrotron-based investigation of transition-metal getterability in n-type multicrystalline silicon
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High-performance and traditional multicrystalline silicon: Comparing gettering responses and lifetime-limiting defects
S. Castellanos, K.E. Ekstrøm, A. Autruffe, M.A. Jensen, A.E. Morishige, J. Hofstetter, P.X.T. Yen, B. Lai, G. Stokkan, C. del Cañizo, and T. Buonassisi
Exceptional gettering response of epitaxially grown kerfless silicon
D.M. Powell, V.P. Markevich, J. Hofstetter, M.A. Jensen, A.E. Morishige, S. Castellanos, B. Lai, A.R. Peaker, and T. Buonassisi
Development of an in situ temperature stage for synchrotron X-ray spectromicroscopy
R. Chakraborty, J. Serdy, B. West, M. Stuckelberger, B. Lai, J. Maser, M.I. Bertoni, M. Culpepper, and T. Buonassisi
Review of Scientific Instruments 86, 113705 (2015)
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Synchrotron-based analysis of chromium distributions in multicrystalline silicon for solar cells
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A next-generation hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline for in-situ studies of energy materials and devices
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In-situ stage development for high-temperature X-ray nanocharacterization of defects in solar cells
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Improved iron gettering of contaminated multicrystalline silicon by high-temperature phosphorus diffusion
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Precipitated iron: A limit on gettering efficacy in multicrystalline silicon
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Iron distribution in silicon after solar cell processing: Synchrotron analysis and predictive modeling
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Infrared birefringence imaging of residual stress and bulk defects in multicrystalline silicon
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Retrograde melting and internal liquid gettering in silicon
S. Hudelson, B.K. Newman, S. Bernardis, D.P. Fenning, M.I. Bertoni, M.A. Marcus, S.C. Fakra, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Advanced Materials 22, 3948–3953 (2010)
Impact of defect type on hydrogen passivation effectiveness in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
M.I. Bertoni, S. Hudelson, B.K. Newman, S. Bernardis, D.P. Fenning, H.F.W. Dekkers, E. Cornagliotti, A.S. Zuschlag, G. Micard, G. Hahn, G. Coletti, B. Lai, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 35th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Honolulu, HI (2010)
See also: Journal Article
Mitigating the “iron problem” in crystalline silicon solar cells
S. Hudelson, S. Bernardis, Y.S. Lee, K. Hartman, M.I. Bertoni, B.K. Newman, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, S. Vogt, Z. Cai, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Spain (2008)
Evolution of metal impurities during crystalline silicon solar cell processing
S. Hudelson, Y.S. Lee, K. Hartman, B. Lai, Z. Cai, M.A. Marcus, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, San Diego, USA (2008)
Transition metal co-precipitation mechanisms in silicon
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Acta Materialia 55, 6119 (2007)
From understanding towards engineering metal impurities in multicrystalline silicon
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, M.D. Pickett, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Dresden, Germany; pp.696-699 (2006)
Transition metal interaction and formation of intermetallic phases in multicrystalline silicon
M. Heuer, T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, A. Minor, B. Lai, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Dresden, Germany; pp.1105–1107 (2006)
Chemical natures and distributions of metal impurities in multicrystalline silicon materials
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.D. Pickett, M. Heuer, J.P. Kalejs, G. Hahn, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, T.F. Ciszek, R.F. Clark, D.W. Cunningham, A.M. Gabor, R. Jonczyk, S. Narayanan, E. Sauar, and E.R. Weber
Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 14, 513-531 (2006)
Engineering metal-impurity nanodefects for low-cost solar cells
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Nature Materials 4, 676–679 (2005)
Local measurements of diffusion length and chemical character of metal clusters in multicrystalline silicon
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, M. Heuer, M.D. Pickett, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, and E.R. Weber
Solid State Phenomena 108-109, 577-584 (2005)
Synchrotron-based investigations of the nature and impact of iron contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, M.A. Marcus, R. Jonczyk, J. Isenberg, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, and E.R. Weber
Journal of Applied Physics 97, 074901 (2005)
Analysis of copper-rich preciptiates in silicon: Chemical state, gettering, and impact on multicrystalline silicon solar cell material
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, T.F. Ciszek, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S.M. Heald, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, and E.R. Weber
Journal Applied Physics 97, 063503 (2005)
Impact of metal silicide precipitate dissolution during rapid thermal processing of multicrystalline silicon solar cells
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, S. Peters, C. Ballif, J. Isenberg, S. Riepe, W. Warta, R. Schindler, G. Willeke, Z. Cai, B. Lai, and E.R. Weber
Synchrotron-based investigations into metallic impurity distribution and defect engineering in multicrystalline silicon via thermal treatments
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, S. Peters, C. Ballif, M. Heuer, T.F. Ciszek, Z. Cai, B. Lai, R. Schindler, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 31st IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Lake Buena Vista, USA; pp.1027–1030 (2005)
Impact of iron contamination in multicrystalline silicon solar cells: Origins, chemical states, and device impacts
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, M.A. Marcus, R. Jonczyk, B. Lai, Z. Cai, J. Isenberg, W. Warta, R. Schindler, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 19th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Paris, France; pp.488–491 (2004)
Applications of synchrotron radiation x-ray techniques on the analysis of the behavior of transition metals in solar cells and single crystalline silicon with extended defects
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, O.F. Vyvenko, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, Z. Cai, B. Lai, T.F. Ciszek, and R. Schindler
Physica B 340-342, 1137-1141 (2003)
Differences and similarities between metal clusters in mc-Si materials from different manufacturers
T. Buonassisi, A.A. Istratov, T.F. Ciszek, D.W. Cunningham, A.M. Gabor, R. Jonczyk, R. Schindler, M. Sheoran, A. Upadhyaya, A. Rohatgi, B. Lai, Z. Cai, M.A. Marcus, and E.R. Weber
Proc. 14th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Winter Park, CO, pp.226-229 (2004).
Distribution and chemical state of Cu-rich clusters in silicon
T. Buonassisi, M.A. Marcus, A.A. Istratov, M. Heuer, T.F. Ciszek, B. Lai, Z. Cai, and E.R. Weber
Statistically meaningful data on the chemical state of iron precipitates in processed multicrystalline silicon using synchrotron-based x-ray absorption spectroscopy
T. Buonassisi, M. Heuer, A.A. Istratov, E.R. Weber, Z. Cai, B. Lai, M.A. Marcus, J. Lu, G.A. Rozgony, R. Schindler, R. Jonczyk, and J. Rand
Proc. 13th workshop on crystalline silicon solar cell materials and processes, B. L. Sopori, Editor, NREL, Vail, CO, pp.96-101 (2003).
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The effect of embedded nanopillars on the built-in electric field of amorphous silicon p–i–n devices
T.R. Kirkpatrick, C.B. Simmons, A.J. Akey, N. Tabet, and T. Buonassisi
Targeted search for effective intermediate band solar cell materials
J.T. Sullivan, C.B. Simmons, T. Buonassisi, and J.J. Krich
Hole-mobility-limiting atomic structures in hydrogenated amorphous silicon
E.C. Johlin, C.B. Simmons, T. Buonassisi, and J.C. Grossman
Physical Review B 90, 104103 (2014)
Picosecond carrier recombination dynamics in chalcogen-hyperdoped silicon
M.-J. Sher, C.B. Simmons, J.J. Krich, A.J. Akey, M.T. Winkler, D. Recht, T. Buonassisi, M.J. Aziz, and A.M. Lindenberg
Enhancing the infrared photoresponse of silicon by controlling the Fermi level location within an impurity band
C.B. Simmons, A.J. Akey, J.P. Mailoa, D. Recht, M.J. Aziz, and T. Buonassisi
Advanced Functional Materials 24, 2852–2858 (2014)
Room-temperature sub-band gap optoelectronic response of hyperdoped silicon
J.P. Mailoa, A.J. Akey, C.B. Simmons, D. Hutchinson, J. Mathews, J.T. Sullivan, D. Recht, M.T. Winkler, J.S. Williams, J.M. Warrender, P.D. Persans, M.J. Aziz, and T. Buonassisi
Nature Communications 5, 3011 (2014)
Deactivation of metastable single-crystal silicon hyperdoped with sulfur
C.B. Simmons, A.J. Akey, J.J. Krich, J.T. Sullivan, D. Recht, M.J. Aziz, and T. Buonassisi
Methodology for vetting heavily doped semiconductors for intermediate band photovoltaics: A case study in sulfur-hyperdoped silicon
J.T. Sullivan, C.B. Simmons, J.J. Krich, A.J. Akey, D. Recht, M.J. Aziz, and T. Buonassisi
Decoupling surface- and bulk-limited lifetimes in 100-μm thin silicon using transient absorption pump-probe spectroscopy
S.C. Siah, C.B. Simmons, J. Hofstetter, M.T. Winkler, and T. Buonassisi
Crystalline silicon photovoltaics: A cost analysis framework for determining technology pathways to reach baseload electricity costs
D.M. Powell, M.T. Winkler, H.J. Choi, C.B. Simmons, D. Berney Needleman, and T. Buonassisi
Energy & Environmental Science 5, 5874–5883 (2012)
Featured in The Economist, Tech Review
Raman study of localized recrystallization of amorphous silicon induced by laser beam
N. Tabet, A. Al-Sayoud, S. Said, X. Yang, Y. Yang, A. Syed, E.-H. Diallo, Z.S. Wang, X. Wang, E.C. Johlin, C.B. Simmons, and T. Buonassisi
Proc. 38th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, Austin, TX, USA (2011)
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I spent the weekend lounging around the Sports Guy Mansion, watching college basketball and waiting for the Milwaukee Bucks to contact me about their suddenly vacant GM job. You're not going to believe this, but they never did. And you know what? I can't spend the next few weeks checking my e-mails 300 times a day and jumping every time the phone rings waiting for the Bucks to come to their senses and interview the one guy who'd actually generate some interest in the franchise and kick-start dinner-table conversations across Wisconsin like this one:
"Hey, did you hear that the Bucks finally interviewed Simmons for their GM job?"
"Who's that?"
"Bill Simmons, the guy who writes the 'Sports Guy' column for ESPN."
"No, I know who Simmons is -- who are the Bucks?"
Just kidding. I'm almost positive that more Sconnies know about the Bucks than me. But if you're a Bucks fan, here's what should scare you a little:
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Sorry, Bucks fans, Andrew Bogut has not developed into a franchise center.
(A) Not only are the 2008 Bucks headed for the lottery again, but there isn't a single player on their roster who could be the best player on a championship contender.
(B) If you're expecting the lottery to change things, know that there isn't a prospect in the 2008 draft who could be the best player on a championship contender with the possible exception of Michael Beasley (who has a little too much Glenn Robinson/Derrick Coleman in him for my liking).
(C) You can't sign a free agent who could be the best player on a championship contender because your previous GM killed your cap space for the rest of the decade.
(D) Of the available GM "candidates," there isn't a single one that could get their fans excited or even somewhat interested in any conceivable way.
(E) As tragic and depressing as this sounds, other than winning the 2008 lottery, framing LeBron James for a crime or bringing Don Nelson back to Milwaukee, the only realistic way that the Bucks could generate some local and mainstream buzz would be to make me a candidate. Think about it. They interview me and "Bucks Interview Sports Columnist for GM Job" becomes a national story, not because it's me, but because it would lead to a weeklong debate about whether a sports columnist could successfully run an NBA team. Name me another realistic move that the Bucks could make right now that would crack the first 10 minutes on "PTI," generate 100 comments on a sports blog or lead a sports radio show. You can't.
Now here's why points A through E should scare you if you're a Bucks fan: If your team had a creative, enterprising, thinking-out-of-the-box bone in their lottery-ridden body, it would have jumped on my "candidacy" quickly and tried to milk a few weeks of P.R. out of it. Why?
BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY THEY WOULD EVER GET A CASUAL FAN REMOTELY INTERESTED IN THE DAY-TO-DAY PROCEEDINGS OF THE MILWAUKEE BUCKS!
They could have made me think I had a real chance at the job, put me through the interview process, added me to the final list of candidates, then given the position to someone else in the end. That's a savvy move, right? Throw in the one-in-a-thousand chance that I'd impress the hell out of them and somehow get the job and it's the proverbial no-brainer -- just to get their fans chattering, they should have contacted me and thrown my name in the mix, even if they didn't really mean it. That's why the average Bucks fan should be thinking to themselves right now, "Wow, we're such a mess right now that we couldn't even figure out how to cash in on some easy P.R."
Anyway, since the Bucks refuse to acknowledge my candidacy, it looks like I'm going to have to shift to Plan B: Openly and frequently torturing them. Stay tuned.
In the meantime, allow me five extended thoughts on the first two rounds of March Madness:
1. On Thursday, I broke my longstanding "Never drive to Anaheim for any reason" rule to catch four first-round games with my friend Lewis. Anaheim might only be 35 miles from L.A., but it usually takes between two and five hours to get there thanks to a hideous deathtrap called the "5," the interstate everyone is forced to take from Los Angeles when you're driving to Disneyland, Angels games, Ducks games, Commerce Casino or the Center of Hell. You couldn't even call it "traffic" on the I-5. It's more like a meandering, overheated crawl, only with the remnants of major accidents every two or three miles and the added bonus that a truck might just decide to drive over your car. Remember the abandoned, bomb-infested highway that Snake Plissken navigated at the end of "Escape From New York"? That highway was less dangerous and more scenic than the I-5. I hate the I-5. Have I mentioned that I hate the I-5?
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Nothing unites basketball fans like hanging out in a bar and rooting against Duke.
There were five astounding things about the first round in Anaheim. First, the arena didn't serve any alcohol for the entire day. That's just un-American and I can't even come up with an adequate reaction of disgust for this decision. Second, everyone was forced to leave the arena between the first session (the first two games) and the second session (the last two games), which would have been fine if we were in downtown Boston or downtown Chicago, but, um ... we were in Anaheim. Half the arena spilled into the only bar/restaurant within a three-block vicinity, shattering the record for "most customers per waitress" and threatening to become the biggest mob scene in California since the Rodney King riots. And third, everyone at that same bar had more fun drinking and watching the K-State/USC and Duke/Belmont games on TV than anything we witnessed in our four games. It's absolutely incredible how many people despise Duke and how the entire place galvanized behind Belmont at the end like it was the 1980 Olympic hockey team. If Belmont had pulled off the upset victory, there's a 25 percent chance that we'd still be there drinking and celebrating four days later.
As for the fourth astounding thing, we happened to be sitting near the Cornell section for the Cornell-Stanford blowout and saw fans wearing Cornell jerseys and red paint. You have to love March Madness if only for the thought of someone buying a Cornell jersey five years ago and saying, "Some day, we'll make the NCAAs and I'll get to wear this thing during a 40-point blowout."
But all of those astounding things paled in comparison to the Cornell cheerleaders, a group that apparently was assembled hastily within 48 hours of the tournament. During the first half, they tried to do one of those pseudo-pyramids in which two groups of three girls lifted two other girls in the air, only one of the girls lost her balance and nearly tumbled face-first to her death before the other girls somehow caught her. Unfortunately, they had to finish their routines for the rest of the game, leading to a terrifying moment where they attempted the pseudo-pyramid again in the second half, only the girl who almost fell the first time had the same petrified look on her face as the babysitter in the last 30 minutes of the "When a Stranger Calls" remake. I don't think I've ever been so scared for someone in my entire life. Somehow they pulled off the pseudo-pyramid, although it was marred a little when the poor girl lost control of her bowels on the three girls holding her up. Just kidding. Again, you have to love March Madness.
2. The biggest tournament shocker for me: The "powerful" Pac-10 failing to live up to the hype, keeping just three teams alive in the first round and then having two of those teams nearly get toppled in the second round. (By the way, count me among those who thought the Pac-10 was better than every other conference. The lesson, as always ... well, you knew already.) The big disappointment was USC, an athletic team that looked like it was coming on thanks mostly to O.J. Mayo. Nearly a year ago, I wrote a basketball blog about the McDonald's All-American Game comparing Kevin Love to Mayo and predicted that Mayo might become my least-favorite player since Vince Carter before everything was said and done. Then the college season started and we realized that Mayo wasn't close to being the next LeBron; when Billy Packer slapped the "overrated" tag on him during a CBS game in December, for the first time in 25 years, I found myself agreeing with Billy. When the predictable "O.J.'s not that good!" backlash started, Mayo freefalled on the draft boards and became somewhat of an afterthought on the college scene.
In the middle of February, Someone Who Knows Things urged me to give Mayo another chance and think of him simply as a talented swingman and a potential lottery pick. I watched a couple of USC games and, much to my surprise, found myself becoming a semi-fan. All of Mayo's annoying chest-puffing and posturing had been shelved; his shot selection had been corralled considerably; and what remained was a world-class athlete with genuine gifts as a defender and passer, a streak scorer who took over games for extended stretches, someone with a first step so quick it's hard to imagine how he could fail as a pro (especially when you throw in his body and the way guys seem to bounce off him LeBron-style). Believing that the NCAA tournament would double as Mayo's coming-out party as a top-four pick, I picked USC to make the Final Four in a shaky region, never expecting an enigmatic K-State team to knock the Trojans out.
So what do we make of Mayo as a prospect? Drop the LeBron comparison and think of him more like Andre Iguodala, only if Iguodala was a first-class passer ... and if he isn't one of the top-five picks in June, I will be flabbergasted. He's too good. More importantly, thanks to Mayo's growth at USC over the past two months, Vince Carter remains safe as my least-favorite player of this generation.
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Stephen Curry can play in the NBA. Trust the Sports Guy.
3. Speaking of the draft, did anyone else find it interesting that Texas A&M's DeAndre Jordan was ranked 10-15 spots ahead of Love on every draft board for most of this season, but when they crossed on Saturday night Love dominated on both ends down the stretch while Jordan looked like the illegitimate son of Kwame Brown and Darko Milicic? You're telling me that Love isn't one of the best 10 prospects in this draft? Really? What else needs to happen?
While we're here, Davidson's Stephen Curry couldn't crack the first round of anyone's board because he's an undersized shooting guard, even though he's probably the closest thing we've seen to a one-man team in the tournament, and even though we've seen him win two (and counting) March Madness games by himself. Hey, here's an idea -- if you have a taller point guard, just draft Curry in the middle of the first round (the right spot for him), play him at 2-guard on offense and have him defend point guards on the other end. That wouldn't work? Offensively, Curry reminds me of a smaller Brandon Roy because of his patience and his Iversonian ability to find little seams and get his mid-range shots off, only if Roy shot 3-pointers like Jason Kapono. There's no way Curry wouldn't score in the NBA. It's impossible. Stick him on a team like the Clippers or Nets (who have two first-rounders), team him up with a taller point guard (like Devin Harris or Shaun Livingston) and watch him turn into a mini-Monta Ellis. I love him. Even if it's unclear whether he has any body hair yet.
4. Most common question from the past four days: Does Texas qualify for the Ewing Theory? Of course it does. I may be drinking the Kevin Durant Kool-Aid, but he's never won anything and Texas is doing better without him. These are the facts. While we're here, of any potential first-round pick remaining in this tournament, I think D.J. Augustin is the one who can help or hurt his stock the most over these next two games. Right now, he's either the second- or third-best point guard in this draft -- depending on how you feel about Darren Collison, who's been coming on like a freight train lately -- but he hasn't had one of those "In case you didn't know, I'm REALLY good" games along the lines of the way he demolished K-State earlier in the season. At some point, you need to play well in the Big Dance if you're a fringe lottery pick and he hasn't done it yet. Meanwhile, Collison played out of his mind in the Pac-10 tournament and rose his game when it mattered against Texas A&M (as did Love and Russell Westbrook). Either way, "Collison vs. Augustin" is going to be an interesting draft debate when we get there.
(Important note: I'm still sorting out my "Favorite Players In the Draft" list, but many of them are playing in the Sweet 16, including Derrick Rose -- the guy I'd take first over Beasley -- Augustin, Curry, Joe Alexander, Kyle Weaver, Brandon Rush, Scottie Reynolds, the three UCLA stars and ... um ... well, let's give this its own section.)
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Ignore the androgynous name: Brook Lopez is no Jason Collins.
5. All right, I have to come clean on something ...
After watching them multiple times this season and seeing them in person last Thursday, I've become a fan of ... (gulp) ... the Lopez brothers. (I know, I know. It's like you don't even know me anymore.) I'd be the first to admit that everything about them cries "bust" -- the twins gimmick, the Stanford pedigree, the androgynous first names, the Jose/Ozzie Canseco talent differential between them -- and yet, if you watch them closely and ignore all the fringe stuff, you'll realize pretty quickly that these guys are not the next coming of the Collins twins.
What's weird is that Brook has been ranked too high (top-three) and Robin has been ranked too low (second round) by the draftniks; Brook might be a better scorer at the college level, but Robin projects well as an energy rebounder/defender in the pros, like a cross between Joakim Noah and Anderson Varejao (right down to his hair). I actually think Robin is a safer pick than Brook, even if he'll go 20-25 picks later. Can Brook score down low in the pros? Could he guard bigger centers? I don't know for sure ... but I definitely know Robin could do the Noah/Varejao routine. Ideally, they'd land on the same team because they complement each other so well.
Now, the reason that we're inherently prejudiced against the Lopez twins is simple: They're charter members of the Lindsay Hunter All-Stars for "Athletes with names that make them sound like hot girls." In other words, because their names make them sound like two smoking-hot juniors at an all-girls prep school, it's impossible to take them seriously as NBA prospects. If their names were Dwight Lopez and Isaac Lopez, you'd feel much better about them in the first round. You would. On the flip side, you could argue that O.J. Mayo received so much hype over the past two seasons simply because he had such a fantastic name. Anyway, watch the Lopez twins this week and pretend their names are Dwight and Isaac. You'll feel much better about them.
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Law enforcement expert Dennis Root on Zimmerman: "As long as he perceived that he was in imminent peril...he is justified in discharging a firearm"
On a day which saw the six jurors tasked with deciding the fate of George Zimmerman deliberate for more than three hours before breaking until Saturday morning, on Friday evening Piers Morgan invited a collection of audience members to join him in studio for a live edition of his primetime CNN program.
Dedicating his entire hour to the case that has gripped the nation for nearly a month, the "Piers Morgan Live" host welcomed a panel of legal experts to join him in the middle of the room, while also engaging with those seated around him.
One such audience member was Dennis Root, a man who was called to the witness stand by the defense, and asked to speak to a very specific point.
"You gave this testimony which you basically imply that the only course of action that was left open to George Zimmerman was to take out his gun and shoot Trayvon Martin," explained Morgan, conversing with the man stationed directly in front of him. "Why did you believe that so strongly?"
A law enforcement expert who offered his services to the Zimmerman camp before the trial, Root explained why he feels the defendant had little choice but to use deadly force:
"You take into consideration everything you learn about an individual," explained Root, who during the trail noted that Zimmerman lacked a warrior mentality, and would be at a disadvantage in an altercation with Trayvon Martin. "I have 22 years of training behind me. Mr. Zimmerman did not."
As part of his live conversation with Morgan, the guest maintained that the incident on that fateful February night in 2012 may have been more complicated than the prosecution would like the jury to believe:
"Everybody makes the presumption that it's just a 17-year-old kid walking home," he said. "None of us, including myself, know exactly how the altercation began and ended up where it was. The perception that's important is what took place in George Zimmerman's mind at the time he discharged the weapon, and as long as he perceived that he was in imminent peril for great bodily harm or death, he is justified under Florida law in discharging a firearm."
Watch the clip for more of Friday's live audience show, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
OK9403
The thing that I do not understand is the race thing, we are talking about two minorities, we should be united as minorities, not separated and also, The people on major networks never mention both are minorities, but focus on blacks, if trevor martin did have zimmerman straddled and puching his face, did he not feel the gun with his knee and try to grab for the gun, the defense did not bring this up with the dummy, which I find odd, it was a dark place, rainy, so I am really confused as I have been watching this trial alot. Especially, when it was proven that apartments were broken into by black guys, with one arrested, even if it was lantinos or whites, would not the same apply, It would seem with so many holes in the prosecutor's case, nothing was definite. The networks do not talk about this, Maybe I missed that part, but it is a terrible tragedy, but if this part of florida is becoming a southern city, I really feel people as a whole should unite and change it. I pray and hope that the people in florida feel they are alone, as in chicargo alone it happens on a daily basis as in miami, with all races...but my opinion.
July 13, 2013 at 12:58 am | Report abuse | Reply
okdokee
ok cnn after listening to the show tonite its time to send pierce back to am has talent because america is sick of his ultra liberal gibberish and his biased opinions have me make a choice between cnn and reality and i choose reality. goodby cnn and your financial supporters.
I agree with okdokee
and the way pierce treated Robert Zimmerman jr was appalling. pierce should be fired. he is so biased along with sunny h. why don't you work at healing America instead of leaving it up to George Zimmerman and his family. there is way more to this story than a boy going to the store to get a bag of skittles. get real. I have four brothers and 8 grandsons. I am not stupid. my question to cnn is: why do you keep showing that picture of trayvon when he was 12? why can't we know his school record? why can't we know about his drug use? CNN starts the trouble with their total bias. let the records show. George Zimerman is an innocent man. the jury of 6 women (5 with children agree) do you not belive in our justice system. CNN take a stand. let it be to stand up for our justice system. quit stirring hatred.
July 14, 2013 at 12:37 am | Report abuse |
I thought Pierce Moran was illegal and Obama intervened for him to be here. Perhaps he has a debt to pay?
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I used to like piers but realized after this event; he's ridiculous. He was minimally responsible for making this a race issue. with clear retardation, he continued to push an issue that held no weight; raciism. I mean geez man. get over it. He would do well to get over himself. Without going into the details of the case. He made it all worse. Once he locks in to some unreliable idea he works his way down the rabbit hole of looking dumber and dumber. Quit criticising the american people piers. Your ignorance and partisanship in palpable. As a journalist your so far from objective its almost gross. In fact, he's gross. he's ignorant, he's afraid to be challenged. he's unreasonably disagreeable, he's emotional and he's wrong. He perpetuated the race card...because he he could. Piers, if there are any race riot as a result of the verdict...its his fault. Piers is responsible for stolen TVs and fire in a city...Piers, now, is ridiculous....
Can everyone put all these assumptions aside for a minute, and explain to me "How it is possible that regardless of who started the altercation, only one individual received all the injuries"?....and,....."What do you feel that indicates?
July 13, 2013 at 1:00 am | Report abuse | Reply
jmoreno
Yes, only one suffered injuries and the other just die of an extra doses of metal.
TCinque Sampson
The fact that Zimmerman had "Already" drawn his weapon contributes to the likelihood that it was Trayvon and not Zimmerman who was yelling for help, during the struggle. A man with a gun does not scream for help. An unarmed CHILD
might!
Luiz Carlos Mascarenhas
Zimmerman trial
After hearing the defense arguments, the fact the prosecutor added – in the end – a compromise option makes evident his recognition of his weak case in the first place. To me such a tactic move is far enough to consider the defendant not guilty under the strict reading of the law, “beyond a reasonable doubt”, for the prosecutor himself passed a receipt he is not sure, or why then settle for less?
Just wondering how Zimmerman was able to scream when his mouth was covered? How was Trayvon able to slam "Z" head into the pavement at the same time reaching for "Z" gun? If "Z" head was pounded so hard, how was he able to recall so many details? Everyone knows the address to any home is in front f the house, why was it so hard for "Z" to locate? It's not in the back. If "T" would have killed "Z" with the pavement, would he be found not guilty by way of self defense with all the same information except "Z" words?
How many crimes were committed in this neighborhood and how many died? Was Trayvon out to beat down anyone before going to the store or after? or was he just standing his ground against someone who was following him?
July 13, 2013 at 12:28 pm | Report abuse | Reply
He didn't cover the mouth/nose the whole attack. Also, you can't assault someone for observing or following you. Following someone, even within one foot, is not a crime. Assaulting someone because you don't like it, is a crime. When you assault someone unjustly, you face the consequences. Many people carry concealed weapons and are willing to use them if they need to save themselves. He should have gone home or called 911 if he was truly scared.
July 13, 2013 at 3:01 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Still waiting on the jurors. Cant even take a wink. This is one case that will prove the American justice/legal system being one of the best world wide.
BillB
"...the American justice/legal system being one of the best world wide."
Do you really believe that? For openers: We have whistleblowers who expose crimes and corruption. They are persecuted while the criminals and crooks go free.
Despite all the hot air expended by the many talking heads on television, no one seems to have focused on the last few seconds of the conflict between Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. For the sake of argument, let's assume that Martin was on top of Zimmerman and pounding Zimmerman's back and head against the concrete as Mark O'Mara demonstrated with the dummy. How was Zimmerman able to turn on a side to get his gun out from behind his back? No one seems to have asked that question. Next questions: Was Trayvon Martin's heart the only part of his body that Zimmerman could shoot to stop this alleged one-sided beating? Could Zimmerman not have shot Martin in another area that would not have been lethal? What do they call someone who is losing a fist fight and who resorts to pulling a gun on an unarmed opponent?
In fear of his life.
No points for that answer. Now try answering the other questions.
Kenneth Dawson
There is no justice in AMERICA, A man with a gun should not had to shot an unarmed child even if he was black.
There never was any justice in America. Justice has been an empty word. One man had a gun the other did not.
Trayvon Martin would have been alive if his pigments were different.
Commander Zsvartz
Mercy..mercy...there's no justice for poor nasty children who make their parents
celebrity millionaires.
What time does CNN start covering the riots?
Quote from E African Standard News. Osama bin Laden was taken outUpdated Saturday, July 13th 2013 at 23:44 GMT +3
But there was no answer. Ibrahim shouted on his phone “Abrar I cannot hear you. I am coming.” At that moment, there was a knock on the door and Ibrahim asked in a loud voice, “Is that you Abrar?” He opened the door.
From outside someone fired at him through the window. He seemed to duck to avoid the bullet. But he had been mortally hit and fell to the ground. As he fell his feet hit the door he had just opened and it closed.
Maryam felt a bullet graze her cheek and teeth and she felt a bullet (the same or another) hit her right shoulder. She fell. One of her younger children rushed to her crying “Mother don’t die. If you die what will we do?”
She heard American soldiers shouting to her to open the door. She told them “You have killed my husband and now only my children and I are in the room.” A soldier shouted in Arabic “If you do not open the door we will blow the house up.” Despite her injuries she managed to drag herself to the door and open it.
The wives, children and grandchildren of OBL, the children of Abrar and the wife and children of Ibrahim survived. OBL, his son Khalid, his couriers i.e brothers Abrar and Ibrahim and Abrar’s wife Bushra were killed. Unquote.
All the best Griff.
Today is just a remarkable day. Indeed if there is a country you can get away with murder....its this one. God bless America. Indeed a very forgiving country!!! Long story short, if you commit a crime, don't hesitate in pleading guilty by any chance...just make sure to tell the jury & judge that its due to insanity and you are a free. smh as if a person who chooses to murder someone isn't insane enough to begin with. Or you can plead not guilty. Just make sure to tell the jury & judge that its for self-defense. Hey no worries...so what if you are the person with a gun following a teenager (regardless of his past reputation, race, and color) going home....as long as no one was in sight to witness your harsh act of violence it can't be proven and all is well. Thank you Justice System...thank you for opening my eyes...thank you for you injustice. #freecountryindeed
Name*john clayton
Even if Travon had attacked zimmerman, that would have met the same requirements of self defense that the defense claims Zimmerman used to kill trayvon. He was being followed and stalked by a creepy older man and defended himself.
Tayquan
pearce is da king. hopeing that Pearce keeps it up and goes after Zimmerman. Lead us pearce, you no he is guilty. He only had Skittles – that is good candy! Go down to to Sanford and join us in a rally Pearce. You is the man. Kepp talking about the Skittles Pierce and lets get angry.
brian schneden
pls do not give any more airtime to the zimmerman family
Bob S
Your interview with Robert Zimmerman Jr. was disgraceful. Your clearly biased! .
The DA was in on it. The fix is in Pearce. I know you smell it too. Get the DA on your show pearce, and grill him. We need you Pearce to get the truth. Do it for Tray, Pearce. We know your in our camp!!!
how did Frank Taffee go on national TV after the question to the judge about manslaughter and say: he had an inside tip 5 of the jurors had already voted for acquittal and they were working on the sixth.... how could he had known this without the jurors talking about the case to someone on the outside. which was against the rules of the judge
Kamaloni Manu
The brother asked" what rage was the young boy to make him beat his brother like tha" it's called fear, when your a child and a grown ass man is following you, in fear for his safety he defended him self
Keva Jantz
Yes!!! Any one would act out of fear in the same way that Trayvon Martin did. Why would a man get out of his car knowing that he was armed!!! Why, because he intended to take the law into his hand!!!
Why are you beating up Zimmermans brother on live tv. You and all the other reporters. Had him guilty from day one. Do you think you are helping the family's heal by what you are doing. Tomorrow you will find a new story to pick apart. Stop reporting on what you think and report on the facts only. Reporters are to give a unbiased report of the news only, not put experts on to give their opinion. Or give your's. Give the news only in a unbiased opinion. That is what reporters are supposed to do. Stick to your profession and leave the lawyers to do their job. I am sick of seeing you try to make something out of nothing. Your job is to report not speculate on things. You and Nancy Grace are the worst reporters I have seen. GET A LIFE not someone else's life.
WileyBoone
I loved the Piers Morgan interview (post verdict) with Robert Zimmerman. He took Piers to school on the obvious facts of the case ... the jury understood what ol' Piers can't seem to comprehend ... facts,law and justice. Uou need to send Piers back across the water, or if that isn't a budget item, you could send him to the men's room to clean the toilets. He hasn't the intellect to sit brfore your cameras ... or any other, for that matter.
kruckemeyer
The media need to acknowledge that justice was done and apologize for driving the guilty assumption in the days leading up to the verdict.
Pearce: What was wrong of you? I could not believe that some of questions you asked were inappropriated.
Look at the facts, not emotional on this event. Don't you know George himself as a mixed racial too? Why not just look at this case as a simple criminal case trial. There is no racial profile here. My son had been teased during his high school by his black peers so many many times. One day, he got pushed and with big lacerations on his knees, legs, head many places on him which forced him to fought back. One fist blew on the other party resulted a badly nose bleed. Luckily, the other party admitted he was the one started it. Why do we look at the statistic in crime? What is the percentage of white breaking the law? What is the percentage of black breaking the law? What is the percentage of Asian breaking the law? What is the percentage of Hispanic breaking the law? What is the percentage of White pregnant teens depending on welfare check?What is the percentage of Black pregnant teens depending on welfare check? What is the percentage of Asian pregnant teens depending on welfare check? What is the percentage of Hispanic pregnant teens depending on welfare check? There are not many people willing to be in neighborhood watch team. I have to admire George put himself out there to serve his community. I bet after this event he will not be in the neighborhood watch team any more. His private life is over. Why can we look at his side?
d.szczekoski
Piers –find a new job–your interview skills are not of a real professional
guptil
You’re already doing a great job with the website and the blog. I love the content here and I’m always glad to come back and read some toughts on photography – be it gear, shooting or something else, loved the recent video for Samsung. I love that it isn’t a gear review site. I’d suggest you keep doing what you are and adding some odd piece of gear you found interesting and think people don’t know enough about or don’t use it enough or in the right way.
If someone wants a review there are already sites that do them and are doing only that. This site isn’t that and it should never be.It’s not like it’s hard to find a review today for anything.
Gloria Jean Dwyer
What would have happened if George Zimmerman was the one that was shot and killed that night? Would Martin have been immediately arrested and charged? Could he have pled self defense? Would the jury let him off because of reasonable doubt? what if he felt Zimmerman was going to kill him because he had a gun and was following him, they struggled, the gun went off and it was Zimmerman that was dead?
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Nancy Grace on George Zimmerman's "victim" claims: "Just go away and stop rubbing salt in my wound"
Amidst the overwhelming backlash surrounding CNN's morning interview with George Zimmerman, on Monday evening "Piers Morgan Live" asked a trio of voices to offer their insights and reaction.
In a sit down interview with "New Day" host Chris Cuomo, Zimmerman – who in July was found not guilty in the killing of Trayvon Martin – referred to himself as a victim, suggesting that the ordeal of the trial, and the associated media attention, had taken an intense toll on him personally.
Nancy Grace did not share Zimmeramn's perspective:
"Frankly, he's got a lot of nerve, because Trayvon Martin is dead. At least Zimmerman is going to get to get out and do his artwork online and sell it for 100 grand and have his groupies, and his website, and all of his boxing matches for charity," said the host of HLN's "Nancy Grace." "While Trayvon Martin is never getting out of his coffin. Zimmerman needs to just go away and stop rubbing salt in my wound."
Joining the program from Washington, DC, Van Jones seconded Grace's disappointment with the approach taken by Zimmerman:
"I'm sure that in his own mind he feels somehow victimized, but honestly, you would expect at this point for him to be able to show enough class, enough dignity, to not try to seize that mantel and that mandate, and to talk more about the harm and the pain and the suffering of the Trayvon Martin family," noted the "Crossfire" co-host. "When you don't see that, and you see the other stuff that he's been doing, whether it's the arrest, this other sort of stuff, you feel like, you know, not only did the guy get away with it, he doesn't seem to have learned very much. And I think that's what really hurts people who care about this whole situation."
Ben Ferguson, meanwhile, suggested that the former Florida neighborhood watchman would be best served to simply disappear from the public spotlight:
"I don't understand why [he] doesn't realize - just go away. Just walk away from the cameras. You don't have to do the interviews, you don't have to sit down and tell your story," said the conservative radio host. "Your story is not a sad story. You're not some sort of victim from what happened after the fact. Now, that night, to be honest with you, no one really wants to hear about you becoming a victim."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's discussion with Grace, Jones and Ferguson, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
Maybe I've missed something. I'm taking no sides here, but what is Ms. Grace's "wound" with respect to the Zimmerman case?
February 17, 2014 at 11:42 pm | Report abuse | Reply
stormreaper
The black and far left viewing demographic is what she's interested in.
February 20, 2014 at 4:13 am | Report abuse | Reply
I'm so sorry Nancy. Your wounds and pain suffered in all this must be atoned for immediately. How could this world be so cruel to YOU?
I'm about Trayvon Martin sized. Let's give Nancy a gun and I'll pound her head into the pavement and see if she shoots me.
September 24, 2014 at 12:04 am | Report abuse | Reply
James Greaney
Nancy, You should take a step back and think about this a little more analytically. This is not very good for your character and how you appear to viewers. Reporting and debating is supposed to be somewhat based on facts and relatively emotion free. I do understand that Zimmerman is a bad guy and has killed people, but you have to take his comments and interviews with a grain of salt. Zimmerman will eventually understand the magnitude of his own sins, but it will take time.
February 18, 2014 at 12:14 am | Report abuse | Reply
mikadocat
Zimmerman is a bad guy, based solely on the claims of his attackers parents lawyer and their publicist. Look at the news article (press release from Crump) that started the smear campaign on Mar 8th 2012 in Reuters. Crump knew nothing about Zimmerman, called him white and racist, based on nothing, and media jumped on it like gospel.
Noel Kaplan
Why is this hag on Piers Morgan's show? I consider him above sensationalist harpies.
Reginald Holmes
Nancy, Your comments on the Piers Morgan show tonight were 'right on the mark'. I appreciate your witty perspective unfettered by a faux need to be PC. I still find it unbelievable how some people continue to sympathize and give G. Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt... stating in a comment above "...give George time, he will come around". Seems unfair, George, the adult, being given time to come around...while the child he killed lies in the ground.
When does a child attack and beat an adult, sit on them and beat them for a minute with the adult screaming for help?
When is a child left alone in a strange city by his parents and given money to buy drugs and roam the streets at night?
When does a child continue to beat a stranger who has done no harm to them when neighbors yell at him to stop and say they are calling the police?
Trayvon was no child, not a 14 year old like the media pictures showed. He was 17, a fully grown man, and fully responsible for his actions that lead directly to his death. He attacked and beat Zimmerman, threatened his life, and reached for his gun, the very definition of self defense was stopping him by any means including deadly force.
The CHILD was on the phone talking to a friend walking to his father's home from a trip to the store with candy and a ice tea when a stranger approached him with a gun(Zimmerman admitted this).......Stop trying to make what he did ok!!! He started the fight and put himself in harms way. I get being a concerned citizen but In what world do you have the right to demand anything from anyone other than respect. Where do live that its is mandatory or even safe to tell any stranger on the street where your going if they ask you????????? He had no right to confront this boy who was merely walking home. If he was concerned he should have just let the police do their job and he should have kept a safe distance.
February 19, 2014 at 11:12 am | Report abuse |
Please get your facts straight. Treyvon threw the first punch.
February 19, 2014 at 12:48 pm | Report abuse |
Tracy Martin did not live in Sanford, he was visiting his girl friend Brandy Green who was a renter at Twin Lakes, and Trayvon was NOT walking toward her condo he was standing according to the police timeline for half an hour just inside the complex when spotted by Zimmerman. Trayvon did NOT have Ice Tea, look at the crime scene photo's, media just lied about that because it was in the Crump story.
Zimmerman was armed as he had been since 2009, but Zimmerman NEVER approached Trayvon. Trayvon walked up near Zimmerman's truck while he was talking to police, and Trayvon ran when he saw he was on his cell. Zimmerman got out to see if he was running out the back gate as all previous people had done, then stopped and waited for police to arrive. Four minutes later Trayvon came out of hiding and approached Zimmerman from behind and attacked him.
February 20, 2014 at 2:01 am | Report abuse |
None of these people know what the hell there talking about, all of them are say these thugs didn't due anything wrong, they were good kids??? Travyon Martin has kick out high school, and was on drugs, he was kick out of his mother house because of his criminal actions, at 17 years of age??? The medical report stated Travyon had liver damage due to drugs used, he attack Zimmerman physically, which is a felony in all 52 states, he was involved in the neighbor break-ins in the neighbor where he was confronted by Zimmerman, the jury agree that Trayron was all of the above, a thug, a Criminal, a drug user, you all live with it, black people stop blaming your kids problem on everyone else, take responsibility???
Scarfo
You're so typical, as you recite Fox-News spewed BS. Calling Trayvon a drug dealer just shows your ignorance since that a LIE! Trayvon NEVER had been charged with a crime EVER! So that's the 1st lie you told. You seems to leave out Trayvon had a 3.4 gpa average and recieved several scolarships to go to college. But all of this character assassination of a murdered child just shows how pathetic, you and like minded individuals are! Zimmerman profiled, stalked, confronted a minor who was simply walking to his father's girlfriend house, from a store! It's sad idiots like you seem to ignore that fact! Take responsibilty of your ignorance!
February 18, 2014 at 3:05 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Where do you get such baloney? Trayvon failed the FL high school graduation test, he had 53 unexplained absences that year and three suspensions, he was not going to graduate, likely not even passing his classes. Trayvon's interest was fighting and drugs, not school or college. FL sunshine law made all of the text messages on his cell phone public information, read them and educate yourself.
It seriously amazes me how people can get such wrong information, and then even feel confident enough in that information to repeat it to others. You sir, are the cause and effect of bad reporting
BringBackTheFlex
You don't have to be charged with a crime to be a criminal.
February 26, 2014 at 3:31 pm | Report abuse |
Did this fool just say in all 52 states... ..?
yes, he did. Add the state of confusion and the state of mind. God, what an imbecile!!!
sammyjomama
but do mistakes in an underage life deserve murder? in my youth i was no angel, and i'm sure i'm not the only one, i made many mistakes. however, thank God no one thought i was a threat at 5'2" and 125 lbs – my appearance was never perceived as threatening. this, it looks like, according to stand your ground and according to many comments, should have been enough to warrant gun brandishing and a fatal shooting (one-sided gun brandishing mind you). with this thinking, i could have and should have been shot at 17; just for being. please, let's all remind ourselves that just existing in our skin is not reason enough for harm to justly come to us. that's why trayvon martin is dead and that is the real tragedy here. the only way george zimmerman could possibly think of himself as a victim at this time, is because experience now orces him to think about the situation before he blindly shoots an unarmed person again. his victimization is in theform of his subconscious and his self-awareness that he is indeed a cold-blooded murderer. the situation is shameful all around.
Trayvon's skin made no difference, none.
Trayvon's actions led to his death. Trayvon brutally attacked a weaker looking stranger. Broke his nose and knocked him flat on the ground bleeding, but did not stop. Trayvon sat on his victim and beat him while Zimmerman screamed for help, and Trayvon did not stop the beating. When Trayvon saw his victim was armed, Trayvon did not stop, he escalated the beating to life and death by reaching for the gun. Zimmerman stopped his attacker the only way available to him.
Pierced Morgan your a oxymoron...who are you to say after Trayvon Martin & George Zimmerman were fighting that when Trayvon was beating George down was he just going to stop and walk away with George dead or was he going to call 911 when George was dead? Ok SURE if George wasn't a community watch program then you'd say he doesn't have a right to lookout for his community...you sir are a POMPOUS IDIOT who wants the policeman to take care of everything and everyone! Lets exam your beliefs about a country who embraced your POMPOUS ASSAULT: YOU BELIEVE GAY PEOPLE HAVE SOME KIND OF NORMAL FAMILY LIFE AND IF A CHRISTIAN OR ANYONE OPENS THEIR MOUTH YOU TRY TO MAKE THEM TO BE A BIGGOT!!!
If you own a gun or 2 its ok but if you own a 1000 its way too many us Americans are crazy for needing anything bigger than a shotgun and it won't kill as many...lol yeah but he would take shotguns off the "legal to own list" too!
If your getting your ass whipped you should wait like Trayvon Martin and see if George is going to fight to the death or just get his head beat in til he can't talk or feed himself ever again!!
PIERCE MORGAN YOUR A PIECE OF SHINY POMPOUS IDEAS THAT LOOKS GOOD TO YOUR VIEWERS BUT LOOKS BAD TO THR AMERICA I KNOW AND UNDERSTAND MORE THAN ANY BRIT!! you know the stuff they either say when on tv or when your around...I know americans because I am one! I say you dont like what you see pack and move with that crazy loon Nancy Grace...You and her make a great couple!!! GEORGE ZIMMERMAN STOP GIVING INTERVIEWS TO ANY TV "NEWS" REPORTERS!!!
POMPOUS ASS!!!^
Dean Krause
CNN News people are the people chasing George Zimmerman! I am Glad Nancy Grace pointed out how bad a reporter Chris Cuomo is.
The CNN news people simply fail to realize the gun carry law requires people to avoid conflict (The Law Simply requires people to Run Away from conflict). The Good and Bad Criminal People in prison seem to have forgotten this point.
After hearing the evidence, the jury agreed that George Zimmerman was the victim. If he hadn't had a gun, George would be dead with his brains splattered all over the sidewalk, and Travon would probably have gotten away with it.
joseph gallo
hey nancy grace, smile once in a while,years on tv,not once did i ever see you smile
when my kids get fearful they run or call 9/11 don't most people do this?
does any one think its odd we have some city we fear going in to at night but they want to take our guns away.
when did the truth become a lie any way? boy am I have of the loop!
brasstacs
It's plan and simple....Zimmerman was found not guilty,in a legal court of law..end of story...What would anybody have done if they were suckered punched by a bigger male and then having their head being bashed in on cement by an attacker sitting on top of them.??.If Martin would have killed Zimmerman,this would have never been news...but the seedy tabloid buffoon Piers Morgan keeps bringing up this "non story" hoping to create controversy so as to boost his dismal ratings...The only thing that will boost the ratings in that CNN time slot is when Moran is gone.
How cheap and tacky, Nancy Grace on Piers Morgan!so show. She is the embodiment of hatred, anger and rudeness. Even her face is the epitome of intolerance and injustice. Can anyone stand her. Please CNN have the good taste to fire this screaming, screeching (dis) Grace to television.
I agree that Nancy Grace does not do CNN any favors as far as credibility goes. I would think much higher of CNN if they didn't have openly biased people like this on the air.
2 points –
1. What personal wound does Grace have which Zimmerman is salting? If Trayvon Martin's parents said that I would hear them loud and clear, but an HLN personality?
2. Zimmerman could not disappear from the public spotlight if he tried. A warning for speeding was front page CNN for crying out loud. I do wish he would attempt to live a quieter life, but even if that is what he does, the media has already shown that they will follow his every step.
Phil Esteen
I can't believe I am agreeing with Nancy Grace, but when it comes to a coward and murderer like George Zimmerman you simply can not say enough bad things.
Has Nancy Grace addressed the Dylan Farrow accusations regarding Woody Allen?
That is not relevant to this discussion.
I asked a simple question as Nancy Grace is part of the topic matter.
sieben13
When is nancy going to learn to shut up and let others voice the opinion
CNN seems to only care about how much money they can make, no matter who they smear or how much they need to lie to do it.
There is no evidence that Zimmerman wished any harm of any kind to Trayvon. Trayvon attacked and beat him without mercy while Zimmerman screamed for help, but did no harm to Trayvon. When Trayvon saw the gun and reached for it instead of stopping the attack, Zimmerman had no choice but to stop him.
bwhahaha
Zimmerman is a typical blowhard. He thinks he's the victim here and all of the sheeple gun-toters and scared white guys agree with him. Boo Hoo.
And that's coming from a white guy who owns a gun.
Well, Mr. White Guy who owns a gun,
When you are on your back, bleeding, and screaming for help while an enraged young man continues to batter and begins to bash your head on to the concrete.. you be sure not to touch your gun. Let us know how it works for you.. if your brain still functions well enough to do so.
I cry myself to sleep every night that baby Tray was murdered in cold blood! Sure, he continued to batter and bash a man who was pinned on his back, bleeding on both sides of his head, and desperately screaming at the top of his lungs for help.. but.. forget all of THAT! He was just a little boy, a straight-A student that didn't do nothing wrong! Tea, Skittles, hoodies, Stand Your Ground, profiling, racism! Focus on *that* stuff.. not on the merciless beating on the bleeding, screaming man! OK? Thanks!
Azul Maritza
IF ONLY THE SIX JURORS HAD ASKED THEMSELVES, "WHAT IF I...?"
What if I, a woman, decide to walk home after the sun has set, like Trayvon Martin walked home that evening?
What if I am selected by an armed aggressor to be stalked, like the armed aggressor George Zimmerman selected and stalked Trayvon Martin?
What if I turn to face the stalker and stand my ground, like Trayvon Martin stood his ground when the stalker George Zimmerman chose to ignore police admonitions and—with intent—pursued, set upon, and confronted his victim?
What if I defend myself against the stalker who has set upon me on a dark and isolated path, like Trayvon Martin defended himself against the stalker and aggressor George Zimmerman?
What if I attempt to fight off the stalker and aggressor, like Trayvon Martin attempted to fight off the stalker and aggressor George Zimmerman?
What if I am killed by the stalker and aggressor, like Trayvon Martin was killed by the stalker and aggressor George Zimmerman?
Will I, like Trayvon Martin, be blamed for my own murder?
And will the stalker and aggressor who killed me, like George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, be cast as just your friendly Neighborhood Watch volunteer?
How could you get your facts so wrong? This contradicts everything that was proved at trial.
George was walking back to his truck, and Trevyon could have gone home. Instead, Treyvon decided to chase down and confront George, sucker punch him and bash his head against the sidewalk. George never pulled his gun out until Treyvon went for it first, determined to murder George.
Nancy Grave, what a foul mouthed rabid leech. The like an attack dog, she picks a target and makes her living disparaging others.
My question is, why isn't Grace upset with the Martin family for trademarking their sons name and likeness practically before he was buried? They made money off of their sons death. Lots of money. More money than some of us will make in a lifetime.
Nancy Grace's "salt in her wounds". It is no wonder this drama-queen's ratings are down. She is still making the
rounds to appear on other shows trying to convict a man......who was found not-guilty.
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It's Official: Sen. Amy Klobuchar Is Running For President In 2020
Some truly diehard supporters braved sub-freezing temperatures to see Sen. Amy Klobuchar make her candidacy official.
On a snowy afternoon with temperatures that felt like a single digit, thousands of supporters stood as Amy Klobuchar walked out without a hat or gloves and declared herself a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
Team Klobuchar is giving people coffee, hot cocoa and cookies in warming tents as the snow falls hours before her announcement.
People talk a lot about authenticity in 2020. As one event attendees said, “This is so Minnesota”
— Dan Merica (@merica)
It was a stark contrast, noted by more than a few reporters, from Donald Trump, who refused to attend anin France because of a light drizzle.
Amy Klobuchar is basically risking pneumonia and frostbite to run for President. I admire the madness and masochism. Good contrast to Trump who skipped a WW1 memorial service in Paria due to slight rain.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli)
Klobuchar's speech contained much of wha. That's not a slam on her, it's good to see that she is standing where the party is. She did mention one particular position that I haven't heard from another candidate as yet: , something she's been working on for a while.
She also emphasized her working class roots and distanced herself from those shadowy dark money organizations that boost Republican candidates.
"I’m asking you to join us on this campaign. It’s a homegrown one. I don’t have a political machine. I don’t come from money. But what I do have is this: I have grit. I have family. I have friends. I have neighbors. I have all of you..."
I stand before you as the granddaughter of an iron ore miner, the daughter of a teacher and a newspaperman, the first woman elected to the United States Senate from the State of Minnesota, to announce my candidacy for President of the United States.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar)
Amy Klobuchar's dad Jim Klobuchar, 90, got to see his daughter announce her run for president.
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Klobuchar has been dogged this week by suspiciously timed (and frankly, gendered) critiques of being difficult to work for. However, several staffers have been pushing back to not have this overwhelm the media in its coverage.
To some of the responses, here’s what I know: I have friends, former staffers, staff members & a close family member that have worked for .
Working for Amy Klobuchar was a seminal moment for them. To a one, they admire her & she stays in their lives.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt)
My view on the “Monster from Mankato” oppo dump on Klobuchar. No shortage of temper fiends (male and female) in politics. But millennial staff far more likely to complain (anonymously!) to media. My generation was quieter, we called it paying dues. If it was very bad we quit 1/2
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O'Donnell not a witch but a 'Troublemaker'
CNN's Ashley Killough
Washington (CNN) - While Christine O'Donnell lost her bid for the U.S. Senate in November, the Delaware Republican plans on reclaiming the media spotlight this summer with the release of her book, "Troublemaker: Let's Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again."
In an email sent to her PAC Tuesday, O'Donnell promised supporters to reveal "the real, raw story of my life," claiming that her closest advisers had concerns she was being "too honest, too open" while writing about her "bumpy journey into politics."
The tea party favorite called the 2010 elections "the start of the Second American Revolution" and said her goal was to inspire "real" people to get involved in politics: "Real people have real stories," she wrote in the email.
O'Donnell, famous for her "I'm not a witch" ad in response to a decade-old admission to Bill Maher that she "dabbled" in witchcraft as a teenager, was labeled the most covered candidate of 2010 by the Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism. Her Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, won the general election with 57 percent of the vote.
St. Martin's Press is the publisher of her 304-page book and advertises it as both a tell-all autobiography and a how-to on being politically active.
"O'Donnell details how she participated by running for high office as an everywoman, but also shows how attending town council meetings, organizing a petition drive, making an effort to meet a staffer in your local representative's office, or simply reading the minutes from your community board can make a difference," according the publisher's website.
The book is set to release on Aug. 16.
- CNN Editorial Producer Sarah Baker contributed to this report.
Filed under: 2010 • Christine O'Donnell
Thankfully Independent
The bottom line is that Christine O'Donnell is actually very uninteresting, which is PC-speak for ... boring.
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PLEASE GO AWAY !
Learn a new trade , go back to collage and learn something !
You need to grow up to reality before you write the new testament of as how you see it your small little world !
Randy, San Francisco
"Too honest, too open."...not really, more accurate to say too naive, too far to the right, and too much Palin stick your foot in the mouth disease. O'Donnell is just another everywoman social conservative/Tea Party zealot unqualified to hold public office.
imwrong
I vote democrat due to its ideology. Unfortunately, this makes me "un-American" and not a "real" person. I truly ask the republicans for their forgiveness for my leftist views that subsequently have divided this country. If only their was a way we could only have "real" Americans vote in our elections, this could all be resolved.
Former Republican, but never again!
What a ditz! This is the kind of candidate that the Republicans offer for the future of our country!
True, not a wicked witch. Just an grossly incompetent politician and even at witching.
Rudy NYC
Here is a signficant difference between liberals and conservatives. Look at her track record at winning elections. She doesn't. One could almost call her a career loser, but I won't. That's not my point, which is who would buy her book. Since she is a conservatives, then conservatives would buy it. If she were a liberal, the book would have never made it to print.
Sniffit
"too honest, too open"
Is that what she calls using campaign finances to pay her rent and then trying to cover it up?
Lisa P
Want to make a difference? Find something better to pay attention to than this media-driven fluff.
June 21, 2011 12:06 pm at 12:06 pm |
C. Howe Yulikit
I hope she runs for something again. She was the funniest candidate of all.
"Let me just clarify: You're telling me that the separation of church and state is found in the First Amendment?"
"What I think about the theory of evolution is irrelevant," it's "not a fact but a theory."
Hilarious stuff!
We need to restore our country's security by ridding ourselves of all rouges and trouble makers running around armed and dangerous.
Remember when politics featured the best and the brightest? Competent leaders, planners, lawmakers, statesmen? Now we have....this.
Oh please spare me! A tell-all? From the white-bread-est of the white-bread candidates? News flash: You gotta have something to tell before you write a tell-all book! During the election cycle this lady proved to us that she was completely delusional. She had some seriously skewed views of the world, and how she fits into it (or doesnt). Now, like every ambitious republican wannabe, she has written a self-apologetic diatribe, telling the world how great she is, and how the nation needs to take a few great big steps backward to properly fit her world view.
I am disgusted. Not surprised, but certainly disgusted.
Her book will be appearing soon in a bookstore near you. Check the 'Fiction' section.
Given that Palin's poll numbers are heading south faster than the moving van taking her stuff from Anchorage to Arizona, exactly how much interest can there be in the incoherent musings of a Palin wanna-be?
"They've been pretty busy trying to clean up the financial mess/disaster left to them by the Democrats. "
Please name all financial/economic/jobs-related bills the GOP has proposed since January 2011 and all financia/economic/jobs-related legislation they have passed. I'll even give you a head start: Ryan's disaster of a budget proposal, which is so unpopular that it's threatening to sink every GOPer candidate for POTUS who signs onto it. Go head, name the rest of their sweeping reforms that have actually passed, been signed, turned into law, implemented and actually had an effect on the economy and helped create jobs. We'll be waiting....
SecedingfromTexas
@RudyNYC – ".....running around armed and dangerous." You "ain't" seen nothin' yet. Texas has two bills:
1. Allowing college students to carry concealed firearms on campus.
2. Allowing employees to carry firearms to work, except they have to be kept locked up in their cars.
3 Already on the books, carrying concealed weapons legal.
4. Perry vetoed bill making texting and receiving messages while driving illegal. It "infringed on adult behavior" rights.
Hypothetical: Someone crashes into your car while texting, you get angry, shoot that person. Who gets arrested?
Both are legal.
Hypothetical: Some professor gives some looney a bad grade, ......well you can finish that story.
Most are "armed", just takes one that is "dangerous" to cause chaos.
This chick is washed up!!! The Republican Party and its affiliates won't touch her. She is really a trouble maker in the truest sense of the word. Her book is irrelevant and will not make the best seller's list.
Expat American
If it’s a book filled with only O’Donnell’s funny facial expressions, then maybe it’s worth a trip to the bathroom. Other than that, O’Donnell and Palin’s books are nothing more than their pathetic attempts to get the media to “Pay Attention to Me”. – that is the media who so attacks them.
These two cry babies can spew their red state false patriotic excrement all day – no one with a full set of teeth and at least a third grade education is falling for their manure.
Better be careful with Christine, she already turned one GOP presidential candidate into a ... Newt!.
.... and no, I don't think he'll get better.
MN Me
Even as a member of the Broomstick Society, DE chapter, O'Donnell stunk at her job. We revoke your membership.
Too honest, too open. Yep, should have kept her big mouth shut regarding witchcraft. Her political future could be outlines on a postage stamp.
Just a Palin mini-me. Hopefully when not even conservatives read this garbage she'll finally fade away.
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Review: 2 Guns
Unbeknownst to one another, two partners in crime are in fact undercover agents. One works for the DEA, the other the Navy, and both are trying to swindle a Mexican drug lord. Of course, the people above them aren’t to be trusted either. A bank robbery goes wrong – in that it went incredibly smoothly – and so the two must work together when it seems just about everyone is after them and their heisted money.
Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington are the two reluctant partners, shooting at their enemies, their colleagues, and each other. Bill Paxton is one of those in pursuit, and he sure is creepy. And insane.
2 Guns, as a title, is evocative. It’s bold, direct, and vague, yet somehow familiar. It’s either blissfully ignorant of the current state of gun violence sensibility, when some films are careful not to be seek to promote weapons, or deliberately acting in spite of it.
The film itself is just as momentarily shocking and equally unimaginative, but follows with a messy and vacuous story punctuated with witty barbs, a touch of charm, and lots of bloody, violent endings. And there are, as one might expect, far more than just two guns.
The initially naïve partnership of Stig (Wahlberg) and Bobby (Washington), both undercover agents unaware of the other’s true identity, becomes an alliance when at least three different parties (it’s hard to keep track), want their heads along with the money they stole – $43.125 million to be exact. Stig has a way with words and women, winking at cute waitresses and schooling wannabe gangsters in how to shoot, while making them abruptly aware of how ugly or fat they may be. Bobby meanwhile, smiles with two gold teeth, and Washington cleverly has a way to portray Bobby as almost in control – he’s rarely in control.
Both men act without plan in mind, as they ram head first into whatever is in their way, with guns-a-blazing. Following them is a vicious drug lord who beheads his own men and commands a powerful bull, a deranged Navy Officer (James Mardsen) and his crew, and a psychopathic shoot-first and shoot again C.I.A agent played delightfully sadistically by Bill Paxton.
They all have guns – lots and lots of guns – and so does Paula Patton, the only female in the film, who plays a colleague and lover of Bobby. As a woman, though, she is given the job to appear in a state of undress and later required to be kidnapped.
It’s no surprise (especially if you’ve seen the trailer), and despite being a film where people are constantly playing one another, nothing else is a surprise either. Wahlberg, who continues to be the most entertaining part of bad films (Ted, Pain & Gain), has a sharp tongue that produces guttural laughs. His foul mouth elicits the kinds of reactions that the film wishes to, but the generic violence, to which many have likely become very desensitized too if not simply over, doesn’t do much.
2 Guns wants to be more sinful, more startling, but it lacks imagination, and is only saved by the effusive charm of its two leads. At one point Wahlberg yanks out his gun to quickly dispose of some detained farm animals. It’s shocking, and stupid, and may be the most memorable scene in the film. And that’s a bad thing.
Should You See It?
The trailer has pretty much everything you need to see, save for a couple very dirty jokes from Mr. Wahlberg and some gratuitous shots of the sultry Ms. Patton.
[star v=2]
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Digital Japan Mini-Festival
Friday 21 Sep 2018 - Saturday 22 Sep 2018 |
Dr Jennifer Coates
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Mini-Festival
10am – 5pm on Friday 21st September and Saturday 22nd September
At The Gallery, The Forum, Norwich, NR2 1BH
Japan is a leader in the field of technology, from robotics to futuristic city design. From September 2018, The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures will launch a new research strand that brings together the technical innovations of Japanese art and design with the use of digital technology to understand Japanese arts and cultures.
Please join us for a Digital Japan Mini-Festival at The Forum, Norwich from September 20-22nd, 2018. An exhibition will showcase current research on Japan including digitized materials, digital-born art and artefacts, and exhibits on digital media. On Friday 21st from 10am-3pm, a series of mini-lectures will introduce researchers from all over the world working with digital materials for studying Japan.
The Digital Japan Mini-Festival offers a fascinating overview of a fast-developing field.
Admission free, all welcome. Booking is not required.
Mini-Lectures
10am – 3pm on Friday 21st September, 10am – 3pm
At The Auditorium, The Forum, Norwich, NR2 1BH
A series of mini-lectures will be held at The Forum Auditorium from 10am-3pm on Friday 21st September. Academic researchers from the UK and Japan will discuss their use of digital materials to enhance their research. Topics will range from digitizing the Japanese print collection at the British Museum, to using Facebook and Instagram to promote research and connect with other researchers in Japanese Studies. Digital filmmakers will explain how film can be used as a research method, and researcher-photographers will discuss documenting disaster.
Dr Oleg Benesch (University of York)
Professor Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
Dr Jamie Coates (University of Sheffield)
Dr Jennifer Coates (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
Dr Jen Clarke (Robert Gordon University)
Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco (University of Essex)
Laura Haapio-Kirk (University College London)
Dr Ryoko Matsuba (The British Museum)
Dan Pett (Fitzwilliam Museum)
Please join us for this exploration of the many ways digital materials and practice are used to study Japan.
Please note that you will be able to see a preview of the Digital Japan Mini-Festival exhibition at the reception of our 200th Third Thursday Lecture on Thursday 20th September. If you would like a ticket to this lecture book here.
The 200th Third Thursday Lecture: UK-Japan Relations
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Canadian professional golfer, Brooke Mackenzie Henderson (born 10 September 1997) is currently ranked #2 in the world. Born and raised in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Henderson won the Canadian Women’s Amateur in 2013 and finished runner-up at the 2014 US Women’s Amateur. Henderson was named the Canadian female athlete of the year for 2015 and on Sunday, she won her first major at the age of 18 at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, becoming the event’s youngest winner.
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Albany City in the Albany Region of WA
Thriving southern destination
The City of Albany is set among the peaks of Mount Melville, Mount Clarence and Mount Adelaide, 450km south-east of Perth.
Albany is also nestled between the waterways of the Princess Royal Harbour to the south, the King George Sound to the south and west, and the Kalgan River and Oyster Harbour in the north west.
Albany is surrounded by National Parks including Torndirrup National Park (home of The Gap and Natural Bridge formations), West Cape Howe (the southern most point of WA and the westernmost end of the Great Australian Bight), and Albany's newest National Park, Gull Rock National Park.
The Albany Town Hall (photo above) is located on York Street, the main street in town which gently slopes toward the Princess Royal Harbour.
This University City is home to over 30,000 and has a good shopping scene, cafe and food options galore, outdoor adventures by the dozens, all set in the peaceful and beautiful surrounding cliffs, rocks, beaches, oceans, forests and bushland.
Visitors to Albany
Today the City of Albany is a wonderful and much visited tourist destination and base from which to explore the south west of the state.
It is well regarded for its natural beauty and preservation of heritage as the oldest permanently settled town in Western Australia, before Perth and Fremantle.
The city is alive with the arts, including the state of the art Albany Entertainment Centre. .
Old Albany Post Office Tower
Albany Old Gaol & Museum
Albany is a beautiful city
Albany Historical Precinct
Rich with History
Many of the original colonial buildings are now museums, restaurants and galleries which add to its uniqueness. Albany is Western Australia's first European settlement (1826).
Popular Destinations:
National ANZAC Centre
The Brig Amity Replica
Albany Australia is a very popular destination for Western Australians during school holidays, long weekends and getaways.
It is a peaceful, safe and naturally beautiful environment with entertainment, history, delicious cuisine and a range of fabulous accommodation to suit everyone.
Albany's First Settlement
Albany has a great deal of historical significance to Australia as this was the first official settlement of Western Australia and also the departure point from which the ANZACs left for Gallipoli.
It also has a number of historic sites including the National ANZAC Centre in Princess Royal Fortress (commonly known as The Forts), Patrick Taylor Cottage, ("the oldest dwelling in Western Australia, c1832"), a replica of the Brig Amity ship and more! Read more about Albany's History.
There is a memorial to the ANZAC Desert Mounted Corps on top of Mount Clarence. The memorial consists of a statue of an Australian mounted soldier assisting a New Zealand soldier whose horse has been wounded and a wall bearing the words "Lest We Forget".
The first commemorative dawn service was held atop Mount Clarence on Anzac Day, 25 April 1923. A dawn service has been held ever since and currently around several thousand people participate each year. [wikipedia] Learn more about the Albany Heritage Park.
Albany is truly a harbour city filled with character and charm! View the Albany History Page for photos of Albany pre 1918.
Albany & the ANZACs
Visit the National ANZAC Centre or Desert Mounted Corps Memorial.
Albany City and Surrounds:
The Albany Region is a land of natural beauty
National Parks near Albany
Two Peoples Bay NP
Located approximately 25 kilometres north-east of Albany. Rediscovery of the presumed extinct noisy scrub-bird. Visit Two Peoples Bay NP
West Cape Howe National Park
Containing the southernmost point of Western Australia this national park is astounding. Visit West Cape Howe National Park
Gull Rock National Park
25k east of Albany, Gull Rock National Park is a reserve for many endangered animals, trees and birds. Visit Gull Rock National Park
Beaches in and around Albany
There are many beaches surrounding the City of Albany, with Middleton Beach being the most popular, and the closest to the town centre!
View the Albany WA Beaches Map for all the Albany Beaches.
Middleton Beach, Albany, Western Australia
Whales visit Albany yearly
Albany is one of the best places in WA to venture out for day trips to see whales in the Great Southern Ocean. Despite Albany's whaling past, the Humpback and the Southern Right Whales use the sheltered southern bays for mating and raising their calves. Whales are frequently spotted from the lookouts between May and October.
Bibbulmun Track Begins & Ends
Albany is the southern terminus of the Bibbulmun Track walking trail which ends close to Perth. Find out more about the Bibbulmun Track as it traverses the Rainbow Coast.
You can oftentimes see whales from the Albany Wind Farm lookout which winds along the Bibbulmun Track.
You can also see 18 spectacular eco-friendly turbines which produce 80% of Albany's electricity needs.
This peaceful modern city with traditional values is surrounded by nature and beauty at its best and it is wonderful place to visit anytime of year.
Albany Australia Attractions
Albany Agricultural Show
The Albany Show (Albany Agricultural Show) happens at the Albany Showgrounds, corner of Lockyer & Cockburn Rds in November each year. Visit Albany Agricultural Show
Stay in historic Albany:
Angus Street Views
Centrally located luxury accommodation set high on Mt Melville. Amazing views over Albany, the Porongurup and Stirling ranges.
Newly refurbished luxury house with 3 bedrooms, all with queen beds and electric blankets. There has been a new kitchen fitted with dish washer and all the creature comforts one would expect from a luxury accommodation property. There is 1 bathroom with a huge separate bath and heated towel rales, 2 toilets, one situated in the laundry. Angus Street Views is a quiet, relaxing and peaceful street with no through traffic, which adds to its attraction. The property is set high on Mt Melville with amazing views over Albany, Middleton Beach in the distance, the Porongurup and Stirling ranges. The decked area, leading off the kitchen through french doors, gives you the perfect place to have breakfast or a BBQ. Your home away from home to enjoy what Albany and surrounds has to offer.
Telephone: Margaret on 0408 418662 or Mary on 0407 627 263
Address: 8 Angus Street, Albany, 6330 Western Australia
Website: www.angusstreetviews.com.au
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Familial Spastic Paraplegia - Newby
Thread: Familial Spastic Paraplegia - Newby
A bit of news about HSP research.
The National Centre for Adult Stem Cell Research (Brisbane, Australia) will launch a pilot study into a devastating genetic disease in which active young people progressively develop paraplegia.
The little-known disease, hereditary spastic paraplegia, has about 1000 diagnosed sufferers in Australia, but the mutations responsible may lurk in the genes of an unknown percentage of the population.The study will use adult stem cells from people with hereditary spastic paraplegia to test new treatments to restore nerve function damaged by the disease.
The $100,000 funding for the study presented to the Centre was raised by people with the disease through the HSP Research Foundation. The participants will donate their cells to create a ‘bank’ of adult stem cells for the study.
The project is led by Centre Director Prof. Alan Mackay-Sim and Centre Group Leader, neurologist associate professor Carolyn Sue of Sydney’s Kolling Institute of Medical Research. “We believe this will be the world’s first collection of stem cells from people with this disease,� Mackay-Sim said. “The pilot project will take biopsies from at least 10 people with HSP, all of whom have mutations in the SP4 gene. This mutation is present in about 40 percent of sufferers.� The team will grow and differentiate these into nerve cells then assess the function of the SP4 gene compared to cells from a control group of healthy volunteers. We will then use the screening facilities at Griffith University’s Eskitis Institute to test candidate drugs to correct the cellular functions caused by the mutation. We hope to generate pilot data to take to other funding agencies.�
President of HSP Research Foundation Robin Bligh said the rarity of the disease meant little research had been conducted worldwide. “Some of the genes responsible have been identified to enable genetic testing but there is no cure on the horizon,� he said. “The Foundation has been unsuccessful in securing government and philanthropic grants because
the disease is seen as rare. But the prevalence could be much higher as it is often misdiagnosed as anything from MS to severe arthritis.� He said while most cases result from a single parent with a dominant defective gene, it is also possible for two people who unknowingly carry a recessive defective gene to pass the disease to their children, although they themselves exhibit no symptoms.
Its existence may not be revealed until the sufferer is aged between 20 and 40 and begins to experience muscle weakness causing difficulty walking. The early onset means a young person with the disease faces the prospect of spending up to 80 years of their life incapacitated by the disease.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/science/n...-cell-research
Funny Walker
Thanks for the update Ian. It's good to know that research for HSP (that's what I have) is being done worldwide and hopefully someday they'll have some answers.
whity
This thread is quite popular now. Its nice to know Im not the only 1 out there with HSP.
Just letting u know. I started doing acupuncture and taking chinese medicine. I have a good feeling about the practitioner. Im walking in the ocean, balancing on my balance board and things seem pretty sweet right now.
Ill see how long it lasts.
Hi i was diagnosed with hsp in 2009 dont no much about it
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It'd be worthwhile you joining, or at least checking out, the Yahoo HSP Support Group, all the info you want can be found there http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/HSP_friends/
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Ian's site can probably help you more than I can. HSP is rarer than almost all the other non-traumatic reasons for SCIs. Feel free to ask anything you want to know and we'll try to answer it though.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
Disclaimer: Answers, suggestions, and/or comments do not constitute medical advice expressed or implied and are based solely on my experiences as a SCI patient. Please consult your attending physician for medical advise and treatment. In the event of a medical emergency please call 911.
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I'm sorry to jump to the end of this thread but I'm pressed for time right now and I wanted to make a couple of quick points.
Dr. Fink is a colleague of a Neurolist I trust veru much at the Med Univ of Ohio who suggested I go see Dr. Fink when I first started having problems with my legs 5 yrs ago. The key part of the dx is "Hereitary". In my case, with a very large extended family, no one els exhibits similar symptoms.
According to the Mayo clinic...I have MS...similiar symptoms, but not known to run in families.
See a good neurolist...get a full MRI series done...both with and without contrast before you worry about passing something on to your kids.
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With breathtaking views that would rival an Alpine race, Trail Marathon Wales last weekend entertained almost 800 runners, with temperatures reaching the mid-20s Wales and GB internationals Alun Vaughan, Andrea Rowlands and Rob Samuel along with Shrewsbury’s Zoe McLennan, taking the honours as large crowds flocked to Coed y Brenin, in North Wales.
The new visitor centre at Coed y Brenin Forest Park was transformed into an exciting race arena with a festival atmosphere, as the resounding feedback from runners was that the new start / finish area was a big hit. In just 3 years Trail Marathon Wales has grown to be one of the UK’s premium trail marathons with runners traveling from as far a field as the USA, Russia, Spain and Sweden for the 2014 event, and it is easy to see why the race, which take in some of the most technical and beautiful aspects of this 9000 acres forest in the heart of the Snowdonia National Park, is fast-becoming one of the top events on the UK trail running calendar.
As racing got underway for 9.00am in dry and warm conditions the full marathon quickly developed into a one-man race as Welsh international Alun Vaughan took hold. Kenilworth runner Andrew Siggers was the race winner in 2013 and after a steady start began to gather himself for the charge after Vaughan, as the race hit half way. As the runners headed away from the Coed y Brenin visitor centre and out onto the second half of the route which took in the world-famous Red Dull / Tarw Du trail, Vaughan was fully in control though, ahead of Siggers and 2013 runner-up Richard Roberts.
As the relentless miles of the second half of the race wore on it was apparent that Vaughan was not to be denied, finishing over eight minutes clear of Siggers (3:01:26) by the finish line. His stunning time of 2:53:15 will be an very tough benchmark on this new course, which received universal praise after the event.
Speaking after the race he stated:
“I am very happy, I only decided late on to take up my place at this race. Though it was a really tough course, it was really enjoyable and I feel pretty good here standing at the finish. I decided to go out quite hard, but not over cook it on the first half, and this is pretty much how the race panned out. I am really pleased.”
Roberts finished strongly to take third a further three minutes back (3:04:26) to add to his second place of 2013, stating afterwards that his shoe choice was not quite right for the day, but either way he would not have been able to challenge the super-strong winner on the day.
In the women’s event Salomon runner Mary Grace Spalton was back after her victory in the 2013 event. However, Eryri Harrier and Welsh international Andrea Rowlands has been rounding into very good form of late, and had been targeting the event. Speaking at the pre-race conference on the Friday evening Spalton told of her affection for this race, calling the 2013 event “magic”, and was not going to give up her crown easily. Unfortunately for her, 2013 World Long Distance Championship 5th-placer Rowlands was in top form, getting into an early lead as they headed out on the first 13 miles.
After giving birth to her first child in 2013 Rowlands showed that her endurance has only got better since then, coming through the half-way point some six minutes clear of Spalton, and going on to plough through the field in the second half of the race to take the victory, over 17 mins up on Mary Grace (3:47:29). Her winning time of 3:30:06 being good enough for an amazing 14th overall.
Welsh international Katie Beecher finished a strong third in 3:50:13.
In the supporting half marathon event, the men’s race was going always going to be a two-way affair as top mountain runner and 3-time winner of the Snowdonia Marathon Wales Rob Samuel was back, after finishing second in 2013. The Wales and GB international had fellow Welsh runner Felipe Jones to contend with this year, but looked in determined mood as 400 half marathon runners snaked their way out of the Coed y Brenin race arena at 9.30am.
So it proved out on the course as Salomon UK athlete Samuel took up the reins, with Jones following at some one minute as they approached 6 miles, however, Llanberis man Samuel was not to be denied this time round and pulled away in the second 7 miles to take a popular win in 1:23:03, some two and a half minutes clear of Jones (1:25:32) by the finish. Aberystwyth runner Gary Davies completed the top 3 in 1:33:00.
Immediately after the race Samuel commented:
“I am happy with that. I could never really relax as I always knew that Felipe was behind me, but felt pretty comfortable coming into the finish there. It’s a lovely course and really well organised.”
Shrewsbury triathlete Zoe McLennan came into the race after a strong year of half marathon performances on the road. Showing no issues in translating that form onto the trails, 31 year-old McLennan took an excellent win in 1:49:39, ahead of 2013 third placer Shan Roberts (1:52:43), who went one better in 2014 taking second place. Victoria Nealon completed the top 3 in 1:55:06.
After the event race organiser Matt Ward was full of praise for the athletes and venue stating:
“This has been a memorable event on a number of levels. We moved the race start and finish to the natural amphitheatre of the Coed y Brenin visitor centres for this year, and it has been an overwhelming success. The whole arena has a very European feel and as the race started this morning you could have mistaken the place for an Alpine village, with the crystal blue skies!
The new route which takes in the Tarw Du / Red Bull trail was also a great success, and as runners came through for their second half of the race they were given and extra lift from the crowds.
I’d like to thank all of the staff at the Coed y Brenin visitor centre who have been fantastic this last few weeks in helping make the event a success, all of our valued event partners, and lastly a big congratulations and thanks to all for the runners who make this event what it is”.
Top 3 Full Marathon results:
1st Alun Vaughan 2:53:15
2nd Andrew Siggers 3:01:26
3rd Richard Roberts 3:04:26
1st Andrea Rowlands 3:30:06
2nd Mary Grace Spalton 3:47:29
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2nd Felipe Jones 1:25:32
3rd Gary Davies 1:33:00
1st Zoe McLennan 1:49:39
2nd Shan Roberts 1:52:43
3rd Victoria Nealon 1:55:06
Full results are now online at the TDL Event Services page here, images from the event via Sport Pictures Cymru and Dan Wyre Photograhy Hi res images available on request
The 2015 Trail Marathon Wales event will take place on Saturday 20th June.
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Red-legged Partridge (Alectoris rufa)
The odd pair nested in the North end of the valley until the late 1980's. Now a rare visitor. Last recorded at Dunstall Park on 10/3/2010 and before that in April 2009, when 2 were present at the Agricultural College test field, Compton Park, which has recently been bull-dozed for housing. The North of the valley used to be a stronghold, and it's not so long since you could have been lucky and found some around Wightwick Fields near Castlecroft canal bridge. A covey of 11 were seen there in November 2003 and 2 were present nearby in April 2007. An odd record was one seen in trees at the back of the Newbridge Pub in March 2006.
There have been 3 valley records since 1979, all in Spring:
13/4/1979 - 4 on Compton Fields.
1/5/2004 - 2 at Wightwick Fields.
30/3/2006 - 2 at Wightwick Fields
On 25/5/1992, a male was seen after thunder and torrential rain drying its wings on a path by what was the British Rail tip at Aldersley-Oxley. To the observer's horror a dog picked up the bird in it's mouth!!. The birder shouted and the dog obligingly dropped the bird which appeared dead in the hand. However it revived and walked off. Shortly after a female emerged responding to the males soft call, before disappearing again and the pair were never seen again!!
Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)
In the 1980's a small stronghold existed in the Aldersley area. The only recent local breeding record was a sighting of 5 juveniles in fields North of the Birmingham Canal on 16/8/1999. Regular sightings at Dunstall Park (Private land) and around Wightwick Fields.
Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficolis)
The emblem of the Smestow Valley Bird Group, deservedly so as the Valley holds excellent numbers on it's sheltered canals in Winter.Pairs attempted to nest on the Staffs and Worcs canal near Dunstall Water Bridge in 1987, 1996 and 1998, without success, but in 2000, a pair hatched 3 chicks at the maturing Dunstall Park Lake (Private Land), and one survived. 2001 looked promising, with 3 pairs present at the lake, but all nests were abandoned. After 2 pairs failed in 2003, there was no more records until 2007, when high water levels at the site helped a pair to raise one chick.
With such temperamental local breeding records Winter arrival and departure dates are highly unpredictable. Birds have generally arrived now by mid-October and depart during late February. Winter numbers have often hit double-figures, especially during freezing conditions and the valley record stands at 21 birds recorded in January 1996, during a particularly protracted cold-spell.
Great Crested Grebe (Podiceps cristatus)
Birds breed annually at Pool Hall and yet records in the valley remain rare. There have been 5 records:
24/4/1992 - 4 flew SE then South over Aldersley Playing Fields, near the canal junction.
19/8/1997 - a juvenile was at Dunstall Park Lake (Private land).
15/4/2005 - a Summer-plumaged adult was at Dunstall Park Lake.
A Summer-plumaged adult was seen at Dunstall Park lake between 18/2 and 5/3, then, presumably the same bird was there again between 18/4 and 24/4, and may have been the bird found dead on Aldersley Playing Fields on 1/5.
22/12/2010 - one seen flying over Dunstall Water Bridge in freezing weather.
Leach's Storm Petrel
One was seen heading North on strong winds over Dunstall Park (Private land) on 6/2/2002. record numbers were noted off Western coasts from 2/2/2002 to 20/2/2002, with 600 seen off the Wales and Cornwall coast alone on 6/2/2002. This was the first West Midlands record since what was probably one individual was seen at Bartley, Sandwell Valley and Chasewater on 27/9/1987.
Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Over the years this species has been recorded in every month. It is most regularly seen during post-breeding dispersal from late August to October. However hard Winter freezes produce cold-weather movements as birds pass overhead between bodies of local water. At this time if you are lucky you may encounter birds fishing on the sheltered sections of the canals, near Aldersley, such as happened on 7/1/2010, when 12 were present on the Staffs and Worcs canal by the Wildside Centre at Hordern Road. Until 2001, birds had only been seen flying overhead. The first bird to set foot in the valley was in 2001 when one was found on a shed roof by Wightwick!!
In 2004 an immature bird visited Dunstall Park (Private land), paving the way for annual Autumn visits there, with 30 present in September 2009.
European Shag
Eastern air streams may well have led to the valley's only record on 16/11/1991, when an immature bird was on the canal just South of Meccano Bridge. It is thought to have spent the night on the outboard motor of a canal cruiser at Newbridge and gave excellent views throughout the next day, diving and feeding on Roach-sized fish and standing on the towpath to dry out and preen.
Little Egret (Egretta garzetta)
Following the remarkable spread of this species in the U.K, it was only a matter of time before the valley would have it's first record. This came on 17/12/2003, when 4 birds were seen heading SW over Wightwick Fields, landing briefly on the Smestow Brook, before continuing towards Pool Hall. On 21/10/2006, 1 headed SW over Dunstall Park (Private land). 2010 brought the valleys third and fourth records: one was seen flying over the lower pool in the gardens of Wightwick Manor at lunchtime on 20/1 and was reported from there again, later the same day, and one flew from Dunstall Park Lake, low towards Aldersley before climbing and disappearing NW on the morning of 24/8
Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)
An early morning walk at any time of year can produce an encounter with birds fishing at the edges of the canals, and open sections of Smestow brook in the South end of the valley (especially in freezing weather). Our nearest Heronry is at Pendeford Mill Nature reserve, and from mid-Summer to Autumn, sightings increase as birds make fishing trips and later when adults and young are seen feeding in the valley. At this time Dunstall Park (Private land) offers relative safety and a record 18 were there in August 2009.
Grey Heron at Newbridge April 2013
about to be pounced on by a Crow!!
Purple Heron
A bird was mobbed by Jackdaws as it moved South, high over Newbridge on the afternoon of 30/4/1990.
There have been 5 records of this impressive migrant:
14/5/1986 - one over Dunstall Park
6/5/1996 - one North over Stockwell End
23/8/2002 - one South over Wightwick Fields
29/3/2004 - one North over the valley
9/6/2008 - a presumed non-breeder which appeared from the South over Dunstall Park (Private land),was mobbed by gulls as it circled the lake, before heading off North over the Bilbrook area.
The successful spread of these graceful birds of Prey from their Welsh stronghold, has led to us having 5 records of this species in the valley, all in Spring:
12/5/1996 - on International Bird day, the then Valley Park Bird Group was treated, as, in warm weather a bird circled high over Newbridge, before drifting North.
13/3/2002 - one seen heading North over Newbridge
19/3/2005 - one soaring above Compton.
28/5/2007 - one floated over Peasley Wood at lunchtime, before heading West towards Pool Hall.
22/3/2009 - one circled low, early on, over the old station at Newbridge, before drifting North
Common Buzzard (Buteo buteo)
The expansion of this species into the Midlands has been remarkable. The first Valley record was on 29/3/1990, when an individual was seen over the Barleyfield. By 2000, over 40 records were being received each year, and we are now so lucky to have three pairs nesting locally. Peak times are in Spring as territories are established and late Summer/early Autumn as young and adults disperse, when up to 10 birds have been seen over the Valley.
Eurasian Sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
A species which has enjoyed stability and if anything an expansion in population locally. Up to 4 pairs nest annually in the valley (compared to 1 or 2 in the early 90's), with encounters possible anywhere, though as with most raptors, Spring gives the opportunity to enjoy birds displaying and establishing territories. Late Summer also offers the chance to see patience tested as young birds learn to fly, whilst being constantly mobbed by the local magpie and Corvid population!!!
There have been 5 records of this Buzzard-sized Bird of prey in the valley, all in Spring:
5/4/1990 - one headed, mid-morning, low over Valley Park, being continually mobbed.
6/3/2005 - a female flew along the valley from Wightwick towards Perton.
15/5/2005 - possibly the same female circled high over Wightwick Bank, with 2 Ravens, before leaving to the NW.
15/4/2007 - a male was over Wightwick Fields, drifting out over the Staffordshire countryside.
11/4/2009 - a large female showing fluffy white breeding undertail-coverts flew East over the Barleyfield.
Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
In the 1980's pairs nested in the valley and at Dunstall Park (Private land). But by the late 90's there were none, although 3 pairs continued to nest nearby. In 2003, however the birds breeding status was restored as a pair raised 3 young at Dunstall Park (Private land), which has now become a traditional site once more. Concern remain for this species as suitable hunting areas become more disturbed and sterile.
Eurasian Hobby (Falco subbuteo)
A handful of records are received each year of this exciting migrant.Since pairs nest in South Staffordshire, birds can be seen pretty much any time from their main arrival in May until they depart in early September. Although parties of Swallows and Martins at the Dunstall Park and Barnhurst Sewage Works can be an attraction for adults and dispersing juveniles, they can be encountered anywhere in the valley. Earliest arrival was 20/04/2007 and latest departure was 3/10/2000.
Peregrine Falcon (Flaco peregrinus)
Another success story. There were only 3 records between 1988 and 1994. Today it is usual for 10 or more sightings each year as the species continues to colonize the Midlands conurbation.Early Spring and late Summer, provide the best times for an encounter with this stunning bird.
There have been 5 records of this small, agile bird of prey:
7/1/1989 - a male hunted over the Barleyfield.
13/4/1993 - one at the Barleyfield and most likely the same bird on 16/4/1993 over fields North of Smestow School.
17/1/2004 - one SW over Wightwick Fields in the evening.
1/12/2006 - a female or immature bird was seen near Castlecroft canal bridge, heading over Wightwick Fields towards the Bridgnorth road.The bird then turned back, skimmed across the canal and headed off towards Radford Lane.
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Materials Experiments On The International Space Station
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Posted October 14, 2016 8:12 PM
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Experiment sample trays on MISSE-8 attached to the exterior of the International Space Station in 2013
When you need tools or parts for something you're working on around the house, you head to the nearest hardware store.
Space travelers don't have that luxury and may have to make their own tools and parts on long duration missions like the journey to Mars. Scientists and engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are using data from International Space Station experiments to study liquids that may be used to help make valuable tools when exploring deep space.
For a decade, the Materials International Space Station Experiments (MISSE) were attached to the outside of the space station, where more than 4,000 materials were exposed to the harsh space environment. This included a special class of liquids, called ionic liquids, and a novel epoxy that scientists are studying to learn how these liquids tolerate the environment outside the orbiting laboratory. The members of this family of fluids have low melting points, and are not as flammable as many conventional chemicals. They also have extremely low vapor pressures, meaning they don't easily evaporate and are easier to retain in the vacuum of space.
"Because of their unique chemistry, we can use ionic liquids to extract both metals and oxygen from lunar or Martian soil at about the same temperature you'd bake a cake," said Laurel Karr, a materials scientist at the Marshall Center. "The metals could then be used in a 3D printer for needed parts, and the oxygen could be used for life support or propulsion."
Ionic liquids could be used as chemical drills to dissolve regolith on the surface of Mars, said Karr, thus extending the life of drill bits that future explorers, both human and robotic, would normally use to probe the Martian surface.
"We drill into the surface of a planet or asteroid to acquire samples for geological investigations," said Karr. "With this fluid, we could bring up samples in a liquid form for chemical analyses right there on the drill site."
NASA is interested in these ionic liquids not only for their many uses for exploration missions, but also because they are environmentally-friendly chemicals. Metal extraction technology using the liquid could remove precious metals from ore without the environmental impact of some current methods used on Earth. For example, nickel is conventionally processed by smelting the material at 1,350 degrees Celsius and using sulfuric acid, which is impractical in an enclosed spacecraft due to the toxicity of the acid. Ionic liquid can remove nickel from a meteorite under 200 degrees Celsius.
Scientists are also testing ionic liquids as part of a life support method in space by extracting carbon dioxide from the air and breaking it down to create oxygen for breathing and methane for propulsion.
Many of the ionic liquids can even be filtered and recreated using electrolysis and hydrogen, making them useful recyclable materials in space and on Earth.
One type of ionic liquids that are of particular interest are epoxies. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at Marshall, and his colleagues have been systematically studying epoxies made from ionic liquids, finding them to be very strong, able to bind well with carbon fiber and resist the extreme temperature of cryogenic liquid oxygen and hydrogen.
In 2013, two different ionic liquid-based epoxies were flown on MISSE-8. After two years of exposure to the space environment, the epoxies were recovered and returned to Earth on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Examination of the liquid samples showed some darkening due to solar ultraviolet radiation, but no cracking or de-bonding, and no change in weight or adhesion.
"These attributes suggest the epoxies could be used to make carbon-fiber composite tanks for cryogenic liquid storage," said Grugel. "This can provide a significant weight reduction over aluminum ones currently used to launch spacecraft."
Microcracking can lead to leaking, and has been a challenge with early composite cryogenic tank designs. Testing is underway at Marshall on composite overwrap pressure vessels -- small metal tanks wrapped with commercial carbon fiber using ionic liquid epoxy -- to determine if the ionic liquid is a viable material to construct these tanks and make them stronger.
"Studies are showing this family of versatile liquids could not only be used to build and repair the spacecraft to get us to Mars, but also help us survive and make new discoveries after we arrive," said Grugel.
As MISSE demonstrates, science takes time, and research results often keep paying off decades after experiment samples are returned to Earth. The MISSE project has made it possible to evaluate the performance, stability and long-term survivability of materials and components used by NASA, commercial companies and the U.S. Department of Defense. Many spacecraft safely operating today have MISSE to thank for successful operations, because they are made of the most suitable materials for the space environment. The first Martian explorers may have MISSE to thank for innovative materials and processes that help them survive on the red planet.
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Real Or Fake? We're Talking Motorcycle Helmets
Category: Riding Ideas
Are they real or fake? Depending on what’s being discussed and a person’s preference, it’s a loaded question. But when discussing motorcycle helmets the question becomes that much more important.
We won’t ride into the great helmet debate, rather look at the difference between legal lids, referred to as ‘regulation’ and their counterparts, novelty helmets. Considered by many as a vital safety gear for motorcyclists, regulation helmets are required in 19 states and the District of Columbia when riding. Most states with motorcycle helmet use laws require riders to wear Department of Transportation (DOT) certified helmets.
The reason a rider wears a novelty helmet comes down to one of two distinct reasons, either it was bought accidentally thinking the helmet was DOT certified, offering minimum standards of head protection in the case of an accident, or the biker may be trying to skirt helmet laws. We know it’s a stretch to think some bikers would wear flimsy novelty helmets that offer little-to-no protection in a crash in an effort to ‘stick to the man’, but evidently it does happen occasionally.
The difference between the two types of helmets is worth knowing about. Novelty helmets don't provide good head coverage and their thin foam liners and lightweight shells can't absorb energy or adequately cushion a rider's head during a crash. They often have weak chinstraps that could come undone in a crash.
A thought should be given to what helmets are designed to do. Wearing a helmet to keep a rider’s head from hitting the hard ground after coming off a motorcycle is only partly true. An equally important function of a motorcycle helmet is to absorb the energy created when a biker’s head does come in contact with an unexpected surface unexpectedly. What energy isn’t absorbed makes its way into the rider’s head and shakes about their brain, causing what could be life-changing, if not deadly damage. More expensive helmets have several layers of various materials to absorb different wavelengths of energy created by different surfaces and situations.
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Novelty helmets are marketed to motorcyclists online and sold at motorcycle outfitters alongside sturdier, well-padded regulation headgear with the understanding they aren't meant for use on the highway or as protective equipment. Case in point, a typical warning label sewn into the interior fabric lining indicates that the "novelty head wear" doesn't meet any safety standards.
This should be important to riders who genuinely want the protection of a certified motorcycle helmet. A 2009 NHTSA study of motorcyclists injured in crashes and transported to a Baltimore shock trauma center during 2007-08 showed that 56 percent of those wearing a novelty helmet had serious head injuries, compared with 19 percent of riders who were wearing a helmet certified by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
Bikers in the market for a motorcycle helmet should look first at the thickness of the product being considered. Generally speaking, novelty helmets have thin padding and a chin strap similar to that found on a child's toy where a regulation helmet has a thickly padded inner liner and sturdy chin strap.
Labeling differences between Novelty Helmets and Regulation Helmets
The first thing bikers normally look for when buying a DOT certified helmet is a sticker or labelling it has been tested and meets the minimum standards. Regulation helmets are sold with a DOT label on the back shell, containing the letters ‘DOT’, ‘FMVSS No. 218 certified’ and include the manufacturer name and/or brand and the model designation. The labels found on certified helmets made before May 13, 2013 are slightly different, simply containing the letters ‘DOT’.
If the label isn't there on newer helmets, regardless of the deal being offered, riders wanting the certified safety standard shouldn’t buy the helmet.
Riders considering a helmet manufactured before 2013, finding the simpler DOT sticker may not carry the certification it promises. Old counterfeit DOT stickers remain in circulation and are easy to find on Amazon.com and other online vendors, sold on the understanding they are "replacement" labels are for helmets that are already DOT-approved.
Aside from this uncertainty, riders should appreciate how a helmet’s warranty may be affected by its older manufacturing date. Clutch and Chrome covered helmet warranties in our article ‘Motorcycle Helmet Warranties - What You Should Know’ which found some start when the helmet is made and not necessarily when it’s taken out of the box for the first time.
Eventually all bikers riding in states with motorcycle helmet use laws will need to make sure they have a DOT approved helmet. The government agency responsible for fashioning the laws around motorcycle helmets, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) want to tighten laws and have law enforcement to play a more active role in ensuring riders are wearing certified helmets. Streamlining federal compliance tests, helping law enforcement officials easily identify non-compliant helmets and even how motorcycle helmets are identified when sold are all initiatives being pursued by the NHTSA.
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Video - Its Called an Infotainment System For a Reason
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A highlight of the new touring motorcycle from Yamaha is its cutting edge infotainment system. It’s so good in fact, Yamaha have released a video highlighting just this feature.
Last week, Clutch and Chrome took a closer look at this new touring motorcycle that weighed in with some muscle. From the design to its 113 cubic inch (1854cc) V-twin fuel-injected engine as well as a host of technologies, Yamaha is making a serious play at being one of the major choices in the touring segment.
The Japanese motorcycle manufacturer felt the infotainment aspect of its new model was important enough to look to technology expert Harman for the development of something new.
“Working with Yamaha to create an unmatched riding experience for motorcycle enthusiasts that also keeps consumers safe with leading navigation technologies has allowed us to provide an ideal infotainment system for trans-continental exploration,” said Phil Eyler, executive vice president and president, Connected Car, HARMAN.
The result was something that apparently deserved its own video!
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strawberry wedge
Marion is wedged tight, utterly filling the narrow concrete space, like a character balloon inflated to fit a shoebox.
‘I’ve made a right fool of myself,’ she gasps. ‘I’ve ruined your strawberries, Geoff.’
‘Never mind about the strawberries.’
Geoff is standing next to me, a big man himself, sweating in a plaid shirt. ‘We’ve tried everything but we ran out of ideas,’ he says.
Behind us on the unlit patio, the other party guests carry on drinking and smoking at a picnic table as if nothing of any note is happening. I feel like a magician in a downbeat club, his flashiest trick – freeing the lady from the box – falling flat. No one’s the least bit interested.
‘How long’s she been down there?’
‘About half an hour. We gave her a drink.’
I run the flashlight over her again.
Marion has fallen backwards into an unguarded light well – a narrow concrete box about a foot wide, three deep, five long. Her knees are crooked up and her arms pushed forwards at the shoulder. The only injury she appears to have is a sprained wrist, but that’s the least of her worries.
Frank shakes his head. ‘Let’s get another crew along,’ he says.
Whilst we wait for them to arrive, I climb down into the tiny space available at the head end, and explore the problem from close up.
‘I need to pee’ she says. ‘That’s where I was headed when I fell in.’
‘We’ll soon have you out,’ I say to her, but it’s not going to be easy.
I unhook a hanging basket of strawberries swinging from an ornate iron bracket over our heads.
‘I’m lying on the other one,’ she says. ‘Sorry Geoff.’
‘Never mind about that,’ he says. ‘I can grow more strawberries.’
Someone laughs in the group around the patio table, but I think it’s unconnected. Cigarette smoke drifts across. The night is tall and cool above us. ‘Good job you landed face up,’ I say to her. ‘Could be worse.’
‘Could be worse,’ she says, bug-eyed, her face congested in the flashlight. ‘Can’t think how, but I’m sure you’re right.’
Frank reappears with a big grey bag full of manual handling equipment. He takes out the Mangar Elk – an inflatable mattress designed to lift heavy people off the floor. I slide it as far as I can under her back, and we inflate a few layers. It helps raise her up a bit, but not enough to get her out, and the confined space stops it inflating any more. Frank produces a lifting belt around her waist, and we’re struggling to fit it into position just as the second crew arrives. It breaks when we all grab hold and pull.
‘Much more of this and we’ll have to get the Brigade in,’ says Frank.
‘What will they do?’ asks Geoff.
‘Smash up the concrete with jack hammers I should think.’
‘Are there any more crisps or have we run out?’ someone shouts over from the picnic table.
Frank produces a couple of detachable seat belts from the lifting bag. We slip them around her shoulders and hips, then tie off the loose ends down her middle, an arrangement that makes her look like a big punnet of fruit with an orange handle. But even with this we can’t get her up; the flesh of her sides and hips is pressed against the rough plaster of the box and won’t let her up.
‘Let’s get the brigade running,’ I say to Frank. ‘We can try with the sliding sheets whilst we’re waiting.’
He makes the call, then fetches out a sliding sheet. Between us we tuck it as best we can between Marion and the wall. When we’ve all got a good hold and our feet in position, we haul on the orange belts. She lets out an enormous fart.
‘Sorry!’ she says.
‘Well I think it made a bit of room,’ I say – and she does rise up an inch or two more. But there’s still just too much friction between her sides and the wall, so we relax her back down again.
‘Let’s try stuffing the sliding sheet down both sides. If that doesn’t work, the brigade’ll have to tear the place up.’
Geoff blanches.
‘In a controlled way,’ I tell him.
‘Let’s get her legs up and lying on the edge of the wall first. She can’t weight bear, so we may as well.’
I manage to pull her legs up and out. Marion moans; I ask her if she’s okay.
‘I just feel such a fool,’ she says. ‘And I’ve ruined your strawberries, Geoff.’
‘Are you sure you didn’t bang your head?’ I ask her.
‘Positive. The only thing I’ve hurt is my wrist and my dignity.’
We rearrange the sheets again, then take a fresh grip and count down to the final effort. Just as the fire brigade are coming through the house, we haul Marion out of the well and up onto the patio flagstones, where she lies panting and swearing.
‘Everything all right then, chaps?’ says the fire officer.
‘Yep. Just managed to get her out.’
‘Excellent.’
He looks down at the hole and frowns.
‘Oh dear. Doesn’t look all that safe. You should really have that covered. Someone could have an accident.’
Geoff slaps him on the shoulder. ‘I’ll see to it in the morning.’
We help Marion into a sitting position. One of her friends hands her down a cigarette.
‘Can I have this?’ she says, already puffing away.
‘I think you’ve earned it.’
‘I bet you all think I’m a right fool.’
‘I’m the fool,’ says Geoff, wiping his face with a handkerchief. ‘All those hunky firemen and I didn’t get a single number.’
sirens or seagulls
The church has been converted into a hostel for the homeless. The old, iron banded oak doors stand open, but the security doors at the far end of the lobby are controlled by staff from behind a Plexiglas control room. We’re buzzed through. A young female warden with a radio shows us up a wide steel staircase that leads up a couple of turns to the first mezzanine floor and its living quarters. But there is another female warden kneeling on the floor on that landing, beside the supine figure of a man. The bottom part of the central stained glass window of the church rises up beyond them; behind a dirty grill, crapped up, barely distinguishable, a huddle of angels looking up with dread towards the next steel joist.
‘Nick has had a lot to drink. He suffers from psychotic episodes, which the drink only makes worse, obviously. We were escorting him off the premises because he’d been aggressive to some of the other residents, and he fell down a couple of steps and landed with a bit of a thump. We just wanted you to reassure us he was all right, really. I think he is, but there you are. We’ve called the police but we’ve no idea when they’ll get here. Could you find out for us?’
Frank radios control whilst I check Nick over. He opens his eyes to look at me. He’s obviously drunk, but seems oriented and doesn’t have any obvious injuries. He hasn’t fallen far, and I’m not about to try to restrain a drunk psychotic patient on a back board. He sits up of his own accord, then pulls himself up to full height.
‘Take it easy, Nick.’
I move the bag and board off to one side, out of the way.
‘What are you doing?’
‘We’re just checking to make sure you’re all right, mate. You had a bit of a fall.’
‘I want to go to my room.’
The second warden puts her hand on his shoulder.
‘You can’t go back, Nick. You’re going to have to leave for the night. You know why.’
‘No. Why?’
‘We’ve been through all this.’
He looks around him with low-lidded vacancy. He’s wearing a denim cut off jacket but no shirt; his skin is covered with crude tattoos pricked out in blue black ink. Dragons, skulls – and the word GOD, with the O centred on his belly button.
‘I want to go to sleep. I want to go back to my room.
‘Why don’t you come with us to the hospital so someone can keep an eye on you, Nick?’
‘I don’t want no fuckin’ hospital.’
‘Okay mate.’
‘The police haven’t got any units to assign just yet,’ says Frank. ‘They’ll update us as soon as they can.’
The second woman looks at me.
‘What do you think? Do you think he’s all right? He went down with a crash, but he didn’t knock himself out or anything.’
‘I would think he’s probably okay, but I can’t say for sure because of the drink.’
‘We’ve got to have him out, I’m afraid.’
Nick turns slowly to look at her.
‘You throwing me out?’
‘Not throwing you out, Nick. You just can’t stay here tonight. You know why.’
‘Tonight, yes.’
‘I have to go back and get my fags.’
‘You can’t go back to your room, Nick. I’ll get your fags for you if you go with these gentlemen down to the lobby. I’ll fetch your fags.’
‘I want my fags.’
‘We’ll get your fags. Just go with these kind people.
Frank steps in.
‘I’ll give you one of mine outside and we can have a smoke. Come on. Let’s go.’
Nick turns to walk down the stairs. I’m by his left side, with Frank and the two wardens going ahead. I hand one of them the board and bag. ‘Hold these for us, would you?’ I say.
Two steps down and Nick suddenly climbs up onto the railings and tries to launch himself down the stairwell. I just manage to grab the lapel of his waistcoat – enough to slow him up and for Frank to reach over and grab the belt of his jeans. We have him suspended over the drop, twenty feet down onto the tiled lobby below. Nick whips and turns, trying to free our grip, reaching out beyond himself and grabbing on to the railings the other side of the drop; he tries to pull himself out of our control, and then go. But with my other hand I manage to loosen his grip, and then with one main effort we haul him back over the railings and down onto the stairs. As soon as he lands he starts trying to get up, to punch Frank, kicking and writhing, but I’ve still got hold of his top half and block off his swing so he can’t connect; Frank kneels on his side and finally we manage to close down his options. We’re all sweating, and breathing hard.
‘Could you get the radio out of my pocket?’ Frank asks me. I alter my grip enough to free a hand up to do that. Frank makes a Code 20 emergency call.
‘Police back up urgently, please.’
One of the female wardens is sobbing in a corner of the staircase. The other one speaks to her and she runs off to the office.
‘Are you guys okay?’ she says to us.
‘Yep. We’re fine.’
‘My god.’
Nick lies beneath us breathing heavily. Then he slows down and starts to talk.
‘I’m a freak. I’m not afraid to die,’ he says. ‘I’m a freak and I’m going to find out where you live. I’m going to put you in so much pain. I’m going to put you in pain you wouldn’t believe, and then I’m going to kill you. Are you afraid to die, my friend? You will be.’
I try to counter his aggression with banality.
‘Dear oh dear,’ I say to him. ‘I think that’s a bit of an over-reaction? We’re only here to help, Nick. I think you’re being a bit silly.’
‘Silly?’ he says. ‘You’re silly, you cunt. You’re silly and I’m going to kill you.’
The remaining warden says: ‘I can hear sirens.’
We all listen.
‘Sirens – or seagulls,’ I say.
‘Don’t’ she says.
But it is sirens. A minute later two police officers come running up the staircase. Frank briefs them, and they take over control of Nick with brutal efficiency. When Nick is safely cuffed and trussed, we help them haul him down the stairs.
Outside in the street, we watch the van arrive and Nick get loaded up. Frank smokes his fag. The moon is full and bright in the sky.
‘So where are all these football jobs then?’ I say, arching my back, stretching my arms left and right.
Frank spits into the gutter.
‘They’re all too fucking depressed to be any trouble,’ he says.
a triple alignment
2010. Midsummer in the Northern Hemisphere, six days past Summer solstice, 23° 26', the point of maximum inclination of the earth’s rotational axis towards the sun. The nights will lengthen, the days shorten. There will be a full moon on Sunday 27th June.
2010. FIFA World Cup. England will qualify as Group C runners up for the last 16. Through to the knockout stage, they will play Germany at the Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein at 3pm, Sunday 27th June.
2010. A weather system of high pressure will settle over the south, leading to a continuation and intensification of unusually high temperatures for the time of year. The hottest night of the year - light winds, clear skies - will be on Sunday 27th June.
Moon. Match. Mugginess: a triple alignment.
Working a night shift. [Holy crap]
imbalances
The house door is held open by an iron cat. We ring the bell and hear something like a rusty shop bell clattering deep within.
‘Hello? Ambulance?’
Frank pushes the door open a little further.
‘Someone’s not paid the bill.’
A long and narrow hallway leads off ahead of us, utterly dark, what little light there is from the street lamps unable to penetrate the dense gloom further than the threshold.
‘Hello?’
Frank fumbles around on the wall to his right trying to locate a switch. Suddenly a voice from the end of the corridor: ‘Hey guys. Come on in.’
There’s something coolly settled about the voice, like a birdwatcher speaking in a hide. Frank finds a switch and an overhead bulb snicks on, lighting up a tall man standing at the far end hugging a carrier bag of possessions to his chest. The man seems momentarily stunned, then says: ‘Did you guys want to come in and chat, or are you fixing to go straight off?’
‘Well seeing as you’re on your feet, let’s just go out to the vehicle.’
‘Sure. No problem.’ As he turns to lock his door we both go back outside.
‘Yeah – like I’m going down for a chat in there,’ says Frank to me out of the corner of his mouth.
‘Champagne service,’ the man says loudly, suddenly right behind us. He strides on ahead to the ambulance.
‘Right,’ says Frank.
Even though the man is sitting down, his long frame fills the ambulance to such an extent it seems to tip in his direction. He is wearing a knitted black suit and patterned blue shirt, with an expression on his face as heavy as his clothes: his widely-spaced brown eyes are strangely flattened out, and there is a slack fall to the cheeks beneath them, a smooth drop, livid as wet clay.
I offer to take his bag, but he grips on to it.
‘No. Thanks. I’m good with that.’
‘So,’ says Frank, sitting down on the trolley. ‘We haven’t been told very much.’
‘What’s to tell? Unless you know more’n you’re letting on – which wouldn’t surprise me. Do you?’
‘No. We were just told breathing problems?’
‘Breathing problems? No. That’s not it at all. Breathing problems? Why would they say that? Jeez. Now you really do have me worried.’
‘Never mind. Just tell us why we’re here tonight.’
‘I bet you’re thinking – damned Yankee! I wouldn’t blame you. But I’ve been here a while, just never lost the accent. So I s’pose I must qualify for something or other. I married a Brit, but she left me. I guess she had her reasons, nothing no rational person could identify.’
‘How are you in yourself?’
‘Me? Good. I’m good. Excepting for this damned infection I can’t seem to get on top of. I was in hospital with it, discharged, but now it looks like it’s flaring up again.’
‘And that’s why we’re here? You have an infection somewhere?’
‘That’s why you’re here, sir.’
‘Okay.’
‘Right.’
He looks at us.
‘I don’t want to be a nuisance,’ he says.
At the hospital he ducks quickly out of the ambulance like a marine sprinting out of a helicopter.
‘I gotta have a cigarette before I go in that place,’ he says, pulling a pack out of his jacket and shaking it. ‘You guys don’t mind, d’you?’
‘I’ll go on in and book you in.’
‘Thanks, man.’
He sparks up, and leaves the cigarette in his mouth as we talk. It bobs up and down at the corner of his lips.
‘So why were you sitting in the dark?’ I ask him.
‘Why was I sitting in the dark? Because I wanted to see that no-good son-of-a-bitch landlord if he came in. I wanted to have the drop on him.’
‘Why? What’s going on?’
‘Nothing. He’s crazy, s’all. He tried to have me killed.’
‘When I first move in I pass him and his girlfriend in the hall. So I was nice and polite, say hi and how’re ya, looking straight at her – and there’s my mistake right there. Turns out he’s jealous. Next thing I know, he’s hiring three guys to whack me in the pub. But I’m pretty handy. I went to him next day and say “Hey, fella. What’s going on? What were you thinking?” Of course he said nothing, being a rather yellow livered individ’al. But from then on he’s been up to stuff.’
‘Banging on the walls, constantly. All through the night.’
‘Can’t you move?’
He looks at me, takes the fag out of his mouth and spits off to the side.
‘Where?’ he says.
Silence. The A&E parking lot is filled with vehicles, but strangely there’s no-one about. It feels eerie, as if people have abandoned everything in a hurry.
‘Yeah,’ he continues. ‘My wife left me. I tried to find out why but there’s a point where logic and emotion separate. And you know what? I think there’s a whole area for research that’s being neglected because it ain’t PC and it don’t make for comfortable reading.’
‘What’s that, then?’
‘The effect of hormonal imbalances on the female psyche. I’ve done some work on it myself, but you meet the same, stonewalling attitudes. I rang up this female neurologist. As soon as I started to ask about the effect of oestrogen on a woman’s ability to think rationally, she hung up on me. It’s obvious, but you’re just not allowed to even think it. Women are making bad decisions day in day out for no other reason than their hormones are up the shit, but nothing’s done about it, families suffer, marriages break down, all for what?’
Frank saunters over.
‘All booked in,’ he says. ‘Finished your cigarette?’
The man drops it and grinds it out beneath is boot.
‘Breathing difficulties!’ he laughs. ‘Well I reckon the smoking’s fixed that.’
how do I look?
The scaffolders have taken their shirts off. The younger one has a smooth, wiry body, and the few tattoos he has up either arm look as fresh and unconvincing as stickers. The two older guys are tried and tougher versions, though. They parade the area of pavement between the truck and the building, great urban silverbacks, territorial grunts and shouts, low-slung bellies on lower-slung jeans, slopping the dregs of their tea into the gutter whilst scrappy England flags snap against the blue sky on poles stuck up behind the cab.
‘Oi oi! Here comes the cavalry!’ they shout as we walk towards the door with our bags. One of the bigger guys grabs the smaller one round the neck and rubs the top of his head with his knuckles. ‘Take him. He’s useless. I think his brain’s gone off in the heat.’
There’s a tray of tea things left on the little stone steps outside the house, china cups on a dark wooden tray, a stainless steel tea pot.
‘Where are our biscuits?’ Frank says back to them as I ring the buzzer.
‘Fackin’ hob nobs, mate. We scarfed the lot.’
Frank shakes his head.
‘You’re gonna need a bigger ladder.’
The tall Regency house rises up behind the scaffolding like an old weathered cake on a seaside theme, a lighthouse set against a cliff of butter cream. The central frontage is a delicate semi-circle, each floor marked with a sash window, the whole building more attractive for the battered face it presents. It looks like a well-loved toy; if the scaffolding was taken away, you could imagine a giant hand unclipping the front, swinging it out, and reaching in to arrange the furniture.
We’re buzzed through.
Inside the hallway a serpentine staircase rises up steeply through the core of the building, a dizzying six storeys, to a skylight visible through the centre, a bright cupola of glass and iron and the segmented sky beyond.
We begin the ascent.
Half way up we hear a woman calling down to us.
‘Keep coming. Don’t give up. Almost there.’
Diana is waiting for us on the top landing. A small, square woman in her eighties, she seems as well put together as the house, a formidable pastel construction, the light pink of her lipstick matching the darker pink of her skirt, her arms folded across a lavender silk chemise, her white hair tightly coiffed like a mother of pearl hat, each earlobe clipped with an ivory button.
‘The silly old fool’s through here,’ she says, turning. ‘He bished his head on the wall.’
We follow her into the flat.
Stanley is sitting on an Ottoman with a bloody tea towel tied around his forehead.
‘Are they here, darling?’ he says, turning his head awkwardly and seeing nothing. ‘Are they here?’
‘Hello, Stanley. We hear you’ve had a bit of a fall. Try not to move until we’ve had a look at you.’
‘Righto.’
He has a faded military bluster. Prominently displayed on a shelf behind him is a portrait of a man in uniform, straight-backed and serious with a young family beneath the protective wing of his outstretched arm. Time has moved on from that formal arrangement, effecting its usual blessings and depredations, but one thing that hasn’t changed over much is the moustache. Sixty years and still twitching, a bristling little Captain’s nose brush, ready for action.
Whilst I clean and dress the cut over his eye, Frank sits on the edge of a tasselled foot stool and asks him to tell us what happened.
‘This damned slipper,’ he says, stamping his right foot. ‘It tried to kill me.’
‘Darling. Please.’
‘Well honestly. It’s the stupidest thing. I was getting up to go to the lavatory when this damned slipper..’
‘Darling!’
‘Well it is! And I give you fair warning, this wretched article is headed straight for the bin. Followed by me, no doubt.’
‘I don’t think it’s that serious.’
‘No? Then why can’t I see out of my left eye?’
‘Because the tea towel has fallen down over it. There. Better?’
‘Oh. Right. Anyway. This damned slipper. It’s been waiting its moment for years and now this. Pitched me head first into a wall. Darling, did I damage anything?’
‘Your head do you mean?’
‘No. The wall.’
‘Darling there’s just the teensiest smudge of awfulness there but I can clean that up. It’s you we’re worried about.’
‘Me? You needn’t worry about me. Tough as old Harry.’
The living room has a studied air, discretely hung with framed prints and paintings of Georgian ladies strolling along the promenade; barges on the Thames; elongated horsemen riding to hounds; decorous skirmishes on the Hindu Kush. Tastefully arranged ceramic pigs ranked in strict height order to a tall floral lampshade and a bronze St George apparently pole vaulting over a dragon.
‘Are we done?’ he says, impatiently bobbing his head. ‘How do I look?’
‘You look an absolute fright,’ his wife tells him. ‘Now be quiet, darling. I have to phone and cancel my appointment with Dr Nick Nack or whatever he’s called.’
She hangs on the phone, playing with the white lead and tutting as she makes it through each of the automated options.
‘Really!’ she mutters. ‘I simply want to be connected.’
Stanley has to go in to have the cut above his eye properly cleaned and glued.
‘Will you be okay on the stairs?’
‘If I can hold on to you I’ll be fine,’ he says. ‘Lead on.’
At the top of the stairs he grips the banister and builds himself up for the descent. I stand in front of him, ready to walk down backwards and play catch if necessary, with Frank on his left holding on to his arm. We’re all set to go when Stanley suddenly shouts ‘Kelly! Kelly!’ as loud as he can down the stair well. Diana comes rushing out.
‘What on earth are you doing? You’ll have the whole building out. Be quiet!’ she says.
Stanley turns to look as far as he can over his shoulder.
‘I just wanted Kelly to see me in all these bandages,’ he says.
‘Oh darling,’ Diane says. ‘Do you really think she’s interested?’
‘Who’s Kelly?’ I ask him.
‘Kelly! The other love of my life.’
‘Come on, Casanova,’ says Frank. ‘One step at a time. Down we go.’
henry upstairs
The additional notes to the job are succinct: man, hates himself. We see a police car outside the entrance to the flats, so there’s no need asking for anything else. I park up behind it, slowing to a crawl to allow for the crowds of lunchtime shoppers to make room. We jump out and ring the intercom.
‘Has someone been murdered?’ asks the owner of the shop next door.
I shrug and smile. We’re buzzed through.
Dove Court has an out of time feel. The arcade of shops beneath the Thirties flats must once have been smart haberdasheries, milliners, gentleman’s outfitters. But those high end businesses have been superseded by charity shops, gift shops, everything under a pound shops, the arcade’s former glories detectable only in faint architectural traces – a fan of leaded glass there above a doorway, the elaborate black and white mosaic beneath our feet.
The lobby to Dove Court is protected by a substantial oak door. It has a besieged look, battered and scoured by the intervening years. There is an automatic closure arm above it, a mechanism so fierce it only allows us the minimum of width or time before it slams shut again.
In contrast to the bright high street, the lobby is cool and shadowed. There is a rounded oak desk to our left, but the last concierge must have palmed his last threepence fifty years ago. Now the office behind it is boarded up, and the counter littered with uncollected post. There is a cakey scent to the air, a spidery-footed mustiness that would have even the most negligent surveyor reaching for his damp meter. But at least the lift works. We head up to the fourth floor.
Incredibly, the first and second floors seem to be given over to offices – a furtive little import/export business, a herbalist with a human figure covered in arcane symbols and a name scrawled in thick green ink. The lift passes on up and then judders to a halt. We are confronted by an elegant wooden board with gilt arrows pointing left and right. The flat we need has no number but we could guess which one it is; the pane of glass in the front door has been put in and replaced by a rough piece of plywood; the lock edge of the door has recently been reinforced.
We knock once and step inside.
The tacky grab beneath our boots confirms what our noses already tell us: this is a filthy place. The carpet, such as it is, has a patchwork flowering of puce, brown and black stains; bin bags spilling with rubbish are placed here and there, clouds of flies bustling up as we pick our way around them; empty bottles of vodka are interspersed with two litre plastic milk cartons filled with urine; there is a half eaten plate of macaroni on the floor beneath the computer table, so dreadful even the flies seem to be erring on the side of caution.
A long, thin man in a shiny grey nylon shirt is sitting up on a camp bed. He pushes his filthy glasses back up his nose and smiles at us, a ghastly expression, involving a dropping of his scrubby white jaw and a generalised exposure of a rack of glistening teeth. A police officer is standing with his hands tucked inside his stab vest, looking at him. The contrast between the two is profound: the man, in a state of utter degradation, the police officer, fit and sharp and powerful. We nod and say hello to them both.
‘Guys, this is Henry. I’ve only just got here myself so I can’t tell you much. We got a call to a possible suicide, not sure where it originated. Your man Henry obviously has a few problems at the moment – I’ll leave you to get some more information whilst I just go over here – and open… this… window.’
We need to work quickly – for our benefit, not the patient. It doesn’t seem as if Henry has taken an overdose or hurt himself in any way, but he obviously can’t stay here.
Henry puts his hands together in an attitude of prayer.
‘Please help me,’ he says. ‘I’ve reached rock bottom.’
Rae sends me back down to the ambulance to get a chair.
I’m as quick as I can be. Back at the front door I try the ambulance trick of taking off my gloves and using them to stop the door closing, but the robotic arm is so fierce it spits them straight out onto the pavement. It’s just started to rain and the air is wonderfully clear and fresh. I look out for the inquisitive shop keeper, but he’s gone back inside. The crowds along the street are busy and bright and full of the affairs of the morning. The contrast is dizzying - the shoppers on one level, the destitute man on another, living in close proximity but as removed from each other as two entirely distinct species.
I troop back upstairs with the chair. Henry throws his arms and legs about in a panic about leaving his bed. It takes some firm persuasion and tactical manoeuvring to get him into the chair whilst maintaining minimal contact. Once he’s on board we wrap the blanket around him. We leave enough to make a little hood – ostensibly to guard against the rain, but in reality to put something between me and his fetid hair.
‘Bit of a fly problem you have here,’ I say as Rae straps him in.
‘I know,’ he says, struggling to free his arms. ‘It’s those bloody foreigners.’
The police officer shakes his head grimly, and holds the door.
strictly for the horses
Emil is waiting outside the house as we pull up. He sprints round to the back of the ambulance as we park; by the time I make it round there, he has the door open and is busy packing himself up into a tidy bundle.
‘I’m not as bad as I was,’ he says, gripping on to the arm rests, scrunched up on the seat with all the ease of a daddy long legs hiding in a matchbox. ‘I couldn’t get my breath, but I had a cigarette and that took the edge off it.’
‘So,’ I say, settling down opposite him on the stretcher, Rae standing by the ECG and BP machine, unfurling the cuff and probe. ‘Tell us all about it.’
‘I’ll be honest with you, yeah? I did a line of Ketamine. I’ve done it before, I’ve done it a thousand times. I’m getting help for it. It’s nothing.’
‘What’s different today?’
He licks his lips and his focus scatters around the inside of the vehicle. After a while it comes back down into him, and he reabsorbs it, and carries on.
‘So. Oh. Yeah. I snorted the gear, lay down and drifted off. But then Gary came in and asked if I wanted anything to drink, and I said yeah okay, so he got me some tea, and when I went to drink, my throat had gone all weird and I couldn’t swallow. So then I got a bit panicky, and Gary kept asking me if I was all right, which made me worse, and then my face went all numb, and I proper freaked out, and called you guys. And I’m sorry if I’ve wasted your time.’
‘Don’t worry about that, Emil. Just tell me – have you had an anxiety attack before?’
‘Yeah. Anxiety. Yeah.’
Rae reads out the BP and SATS results. As I write them down I say to him:
‘A bit ironic, isn’t it?’
‘What is?’
‘You take Ketamine. A hard core tranquiliser. And you get an anxiety attack.’
He stares at me, his eyes fat with chemical, then after a pause that lasts about a hundred years, he says very carefully:
‘No. Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic.’
early morning speechless
The teenage girl is down on all fours on the pavement outside the pub, a look of anguish on her face, her long hair hanging perilously close to the splatterings of vomit beneath her; she looks like William Blake’s Nebuchadnezzar, but given a Miley Cyrus makeover: fluorescent yellow micro-skirt, crop top and – in the hands of her boyfriend – a spangly bag.
‘The taxi won’t take her,’ he says, swinging the bag like a lure and casting his eyes up and down the street. ‘We’ve been here an hour.’
Suddenly a woman appears at my shoulder.
‘Just look at you,’ she says, her tone surprisingly affectionate.
‘Are you a relative?’
‘You could say that. I’m the mother.’
‘Do you know what’s been going on?’
‘I know exactly what’s been going on. She’s had too much to drink.’
‘The problem is the taxi won’t take her in this state.’
‘She can stay with me, then.’
‘Okay. Sounds good. Where do you live?’
She jerks her thumb behind her. ‘Over the pub.’
When the grandmother has made herself comfortable on the trolley, I hand her the four month old baby.
‘I don’t think this SATS reading’s accurate,’ I tell her. ‘He doesn’t look like he’s short of oxygen. But just in case, let’s give him a little bit extra, shall we? I won’t use a mask – I don’t want to upset him any more than I have already.’
I take the tubing from the pack, uncoil it, plug one end into the oxygen spigot.
‘Okay. Good.’
The grandmother and the child watch me, equally wide-eyed.
‘Now. What I want you to do is just hold this end of the tube and waft it in front of baby’s face. Like that. Just to give him that extra little boost.’
I smile reassuringly and hand the tube to the grandmother.
She sticks it in the baby’s ear.
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Katherine Levine Einstein
2018. Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes. (with Maxwell Palmer and David Glick). Forthcoming. Perspectives on Politics. Download here.
Scholars and policymakers have highlighted institutions that enable community participation as a potential buffer against existing political inequalities. Yet, these venues may be biasing policy discussions in favor of an unrepresentative group of individuals. To explore who participates, we compile a novel data set by coding thousands of instances of citizens speaking at planning and zoning board meetings concerning housing development. We match individuals to a voter file to investigate local political participation in housing and development policy. We find that individuals who are older, male, longtime residents, voters in local elections, and homeowners are significantly more likely to participate in these meetings. These individuals overwhelmingly (and to a much greater degree than the general public) oppose new housing construction. These participatory inequalities have important policy implications and may be contributing to rising housing costs.
2018. City Learning: Evidence of Policy Information Diffusion From a Survey of U.S. Mayors. (with David Glick and Maxwell Palmer). Political Research Quarterly. Download here.
Most studies of policy diffusion attempt to infer the processes through which policies spread by observing outputs (policy adoptions). We approach these issues from the other direction by directly analyzing a key policymaking input — information about others’ policies. Using a survey of U.S. mayors, more specifically, mayors’ own lists of cities they look to for ideas, we find evidence that distance, similarity, and capacity all influence the likelihood of a policy maker looking to a particular jurisdiction for policy information. We also consider whether these traits are complements or substitutes and provide evidence for the latter. Finally, we show that policymakers look to others for a variety of reasons, but report that they most often choose where to look for policy specific reasons.
2018. Do Mayors Run for Higher Office? New Evidence on Progressive Ambition. (with David Glick, Maxwell Palmer, and Robert Pressel). American Politics Research. Download here.
The mayor’s office represents a theoretically excellent launchpad for higher office—especially for members of the Democratic Party, whose stable of potential candidates has been depleted in recent years by Republican dominance in state-level contests. We know relatively little, however, about the extent to which mayors run for higher office, as well as the type of mayors who choose to do so. This paper combines longitudinal data on the career paths of mayors of two hundred big cities with a novel survey of mayors to investigate these questions. While we find that mayors’ individual and city traits—especially mayoral gender—have some predictive power, the overwhelming story is that a relatively low number of mayors—just under one-fifth—seek higher office. We suggest that ideological, institutional, life-cycle, and electoral factors all help to explain why so few mayors exhibit progressive ambition.
2018. Black Lives Matter: Evidence of Grievance as a Predictor of Protest Activity. (with Vanessa Williamson and Kris-Stella Trump). 2018. Perspectives on Politics. Download here.
Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against black people have occurred across a number of American cities under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.” We develop a new dataset of these protests and explore the contexts in which they emerge. We ask whether Black Lives Matter protests are more likely to occur in localities where more black people have previously been killed by police. While scholars of social movements have been unable to find evidence of grievance theory in other cases, we find evidence that the specific grievance of police-caused deaths of black people predicts protest activity in this case. We link the features of police killings to factors that have previously been shown to facilitate the emergence of protest activity: strong in-group identity, blame assignment to an outside group, and perceptions of efficacy. We suggest that under particular conditions, grievances are likely to lead to protests, thereby refining the predictions of contemporary social movement theory.
2017. Cities in American Federalism: Evidence on State-Local Government Conflict from a Survey of Mayors. (with David Glick). Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Download here.
Previous scholarship on American federalism has largely focused on the national government’s increasingly conflictual relationship with the states. While some studies have explored the rise of mandates at the state level, there has been comparatively less attention on state-local relationships. Using a new survey of mayors, we explore variations in local government attitudes towards their state governments. We find some evidence that, regardless of partisanship, mayors in more conservative states are unhappy about state funding and—especially—regulations. More strikingly, we also uncover a partisan mismatch in which Democratic mayors provide especially negative ratings of their state’s funding and—even more strongly—regulations. These findings have important implications for state-local relations as cities continue to become more Democratic and Republicans increasingly dominate state-level contests.
2017. Does Race Affect Access to Government Services?: An Experiment Exploring Street-Level Bureaucrats and Access to Public Housing. (with David Glick). American Journal of Political Science. Download here.
While experimental studies of local election officials have found evidence of racial discrimination, we know little about whether these biases manifest in bureaucracies that provide access to valuable government programs and are less tied to politics. We address these issues in the context of affordable housing programs using a randomized field experiment. We explore responsiveness to putative white, black, and Hispanic requests for aid in the housing application process. In contrast to prior findings, public housing officials respond at equal rates to black and white email requests. We do, however, find limited evidence of responsiveness discrimination towards Hispanics. Moreover, we observe substantial differences in email tone. Hispanic housing applicants were twenty percentage points less likely to be greeted by name than were their black and white counterparts. This disparity in tone is somewhat more muted in more diverse locations, but it does not depend on whether a housing official is Hispanic.
2016. Cities, Inequality, and Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey of Mayors. (with David Glick). Urban Affairs Review. Download here.
Policymakers and scholars are increasingly looking to cities to address challenges including income inequality. No existing research, however, directly and systematically measures local political elites’ preferences for redistribution. We interview and survey 72 American mayors—including many from the nation’s largest cities—and collect public statements and policy programs to measure when and why mayors prioritize redistribution. While many of the mayors’ responses are consistent with being constrained by economic imperatives, a sizable minority prioritize redistributive programs. Moving beyond the question of whether mayors support redistribution, we find that partisanship explains much of the variation in a mayor’s propensity for redistribution. Moreover, the impact of partisanship very rarely varies with institutional and economic contexts. These findings suggest that national political debates may be shaping local priorities in ways contrary to conventional views, and that they may matter even more than other recent findings conclude.
2016. The Polarizing Effect of the Stimulus: Partisanship and Voter Responsiveness to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (with Kris-Stella Trump and Vanessa Williamson) Presidential Studies Quarterly. Download here.
We examine the effect of a sudden influx of government spending, the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), on support for the President’s party. Using a difference-in-difference design, we find that stimulus spending had a modest positive effect on Democratic vote share, but only in counties that were already Democratic-leaning. In Republican counties, by contrast, government spending had a small, but significant negative effect on Democratic vote share. That is to say, ARRA polarized already partisan places. These results have important implications for the study of voter responsiveness and the measurement of the political effects of policies and policy visibility more generally.
2015. Do I think the BLS are BS? The Consequences of Conspiracy Theories. (with David Glick) Political Behavior. Download here.
While the willingness of people to believe unfounded and conspiratorial explanations of events is fascinating and troubling, few have addressed the broader impacts of the dissemination of conspiracy claims. We use survey experiments to assess whether realistic exposure to a conspiracy claim affects conspiracy beliefs and trust in government. These experiments yield interesting and potentially surprising results. We discover that respondents who are asked whether they believe in a conspiracy claim after reading a specific allegation actually report lower beliefs than those not exposed to the specific claim. Turning to trust in government, we find that exposure to a conspiracy claim has a potent negative effect on trust in government services and institutions including those unconnected to the allegations. Moreover, and consistent with our belief experiment, we find that first asking whether people believe in the conspiracy mitigates the negative trust effects. Combining these findings suggests that conspiracy exposure increases conspiracy beliefs and reduces trust, but that asking about beliefs prompts additional thinking about the claims which softens and/or reverses the exposure’s effect on beliefs and trust.
2015. Pushing the City Limits: Policy Responsiveness in Municipal Government. (with Vladimir Kogan) Urban Affairs Review. Download here.
Are city governments capable of responding to the preferences of their constituents? Or is the menu of policy options determined by forces beyond their direct control? We answer these questions using the most comprehensive cross-sectional database linking voter preferences to local policy outcomes in more than 2,000 mid-size cities and a new panel covering cities in two states. Overall, our analysis paints an encouraging picture of democracy in the city: we document substantial variation in local fiscal policy outcomes and provide evidence that voter preferences help explain why cities adopt different policies. As they become more Democratic, cities increase their spending across a number of service areas. In addition, voter sentiment shapes the other side of the ledger, determining the level and precise mix of revenues on which cities rely. In short, we show that cities respond both to competitive pressures and the needs and wants of their constituents.
Book Project
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis (with David Glick and Maxwell Palmer). Under contract, Cambridge University Press
In this book, we show how neighborhood participation in the housing permitting process exacerbates existing political inequalities, limits the housing supply, and contributes to the current affordable housing crisis. Participatory institutions like planning and zoning boards invite comments from neighbors on proposed housing developments. While neighbors with all viewpoints are welcome, we show that the individuals who choose to participate hold overwhelmingly negative views of new housing—far more negative than their broader communities—and are socioeconomically advantaged on a variety of dimensions. Using land use institutions, these individuals—who we term neighborhood defenders—are able to raise concerns that lead to lengthy delays, high development costs, and smaller projects. The result is a diminished housing stock and higher housing costs.
2018. Racial Disparities in Housing Politics: Evidence from Administrative Data. (with Maxwell Palmer and David Glick). Download here.
Neighborhood meetings may democratize planning decisions and provide voice to underrepresented interests. Or, in keeping with American land use planning’s long history of racial exclusion, these institutions may actually amplify the views of wealthy, white landowners. To better understand the dynamics of these meetings, we explore the racial backgrounds of participants in public meetings using novel data from planning and zoning board meeting minutes, a voter file, and sophisticated name matching techniques. We show that homeowners and whites are strikingly overrepresented in these venues, and Latinos are especially underrepresented. Strong majorities of all racial/ethnic groups oppose the construction of new housing, though support is significantly higher among black meeting participants. Even in highly diverse communities, development meetings are dominated by whites who oppose new housing, potentially distorting the housing supply to their benefit.
2018. The Pictures in Their Heads: How U.S. Mayors Think about Racial Inequality. (with Luisa Godinez Puig and Spencer Piston). Under Review. Download here.
What role do city governments play in racially unequal urban areas? We take a new approach to this question, focusing on elite racial psychology. Using an anonymous, telephone survey of mayors of large cities across the United States, we find that, while some mayors advocate for meaningful policy change to deal with inequality, many mayors either deny that racial inequality exists, claim that they do not have control over racial inequality, or promote toothless, symbolic dialogues about race. Partisanship is the most consistent predictor of mayors’ attitudes, with Democratic mayors more likely to recognize and address racial inequality. These results suggest that mayors’ perceptions may inhibit efforts to address racial inequality, and lead to symbolic rather than structural action. The findings also contribute to a growing literature on the importance of elite psychology to American politics.
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