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Watchdog Group Wants to Arm Iowa Property Taxpayers with Information
Iowans for Tax Relief launched ITR Local to help Iowans "start a conversation" with their local elected officials about their property tax bill.
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DES MOINES, Iowa – Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR) launched a searchable property tax database called ITR Local to help Iowans "start a conversation" with their elected city council member, county supervisor, and school board members about their property tax bill.
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ITR Vice President Chris Hagenow told The Iowa Torch that their complaint is coming a year too late when taxpayers receive their property tax bill.
"We want people to see that ahead of time because of the way property taxes are paid in Iowa," he said. "Property tax statements are going out right now so this issue is fresh in people's minds and if we can start that conversation now it makes it better down the road."
ITR identifies five property tax "pain points" and an action item in the state's 18-month property tax cycle.
This month, Iowans will receive their tax statements. Hagenow said property owners should turn it over to see the taxing authorities who created the bill, how much they taxed you, and how their budget grew from the previous year.
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A Look at the Iowa 3rd Congressional District Race Heading Into 2022 | be on September 31, 2021, when the first half of 2020's property taxes are due. With city and school board elections, taxpayers can take action to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with city and school district property taxes on November 2, 2021. County supervisor elections are on November 8, 2022.
ITR points out that local taxing authorities will create budgets from December 1, 2021, through February 28, 2022, and that is a great time for residents to weigh in on how much they are spending.
April 2023 will be the next time taxpayers receive their property assessment. Properties are assessed in odd-numbered years by the county assessor. They note that those assessments are just part of the formula used. Therefore, some taxpayers will see their property assessment increase, but their property tax bill stays the same.
ITR Local, Hagenow says, provides taxpayers with information. He said all of the information on the website is publicly available but difficult to find. For example, ITR Local gives taxpayers information about the enrollment or population of their school district, city, and county, along with how much that local tax authority has collected in tax revenue each year for the last ten years.
"(ITR Local) came from a whole lot of ideas and a whole lot of comments from folks that are wanting more information on what goes on at the local level. People regularly comment that they're frustrated with their property taxes, that they've gone up and not sharing where it all goes. Right. So this was an effort to try and get that information in one place, one easy-to-use location," he said.
It took months for ITR to pull all of the information together.
Not only does ITR Local provide information, but they also have a link to where Iowans can email their elected officials along with talking points to give them ideas on how to initiate the conversation about their property tax bill.
Hagenow said taxpayers must see how the enrollment/population and tax revenue numbers diverge.
Property tax rates are likely reasonable "if the growth and population and the growth in property tax receipts are very similar," he said.
"But when those charts and those trends diverge, you can easily see where there is much more money being spent. Or the money, the growth of spending is far outpacing the growth in population. And at that point, taxpayers should become concerned," Hagenow added.
Sometimes, however, tax revenue can spike due to the development of higher-end housing and other factors.
"We don't expect that everything is the same in every jurisdiction across Iowa, which is why we simply want Iowa taxpayers to have that conversation with their local officials," Hagenow told The Iowa Torch.
He said he has spoken with elected officials from across the state who explain how their finance works, and he believes they are doing a good job. Hagenow emphasized most elected officials who are doing an appropriate job welcome the conversation.
"The biggest goal we have, again, is to simply help property taxpayers have that conversation with their (elected) officials and gain that understanding," he stated.
With school districts in the Des Moines Metro, most have a gap.
In the last ten years, the Des Moines Community Schools saw their enrollment (plus inflation) increase 15.1 percent while their property tax revenue grew by 32.1 percent.
Bondurant-Farrar saw their enrollment (plus inflation) grow by 81.0 percent, while their property tax revenue grew by 97.2 percent.
Southeast Polk's enrollment and property tax growth has remained close over the last ten years, with their enrollment (plus inflation) growing by 26.1 percent and their property tax revenue growing by 27.4 percent.
West Des Moines Community Schools saw a 12.3 percent growth in enrollment and an 18.4 percent growth in property tax revenue in the last ten years. However, Waukee has a more significant gap with an 83.5 percent growth in enrollment of 83.5 percent and property tax revenue growing by 109.3 percent.
Among Des Moines Metro cities: Des Moines saw its population grow 21.7 percent (including inflation) while its property tax revenue rose 29.4 percent. Over the last ten years, Bondurant's population grew by 94.3 percent while their tax revenue increased by 125.3 percent. Clive saw a population increase of 28.4 percent and revenue growth of 37.3 percent over the last ten years. However, West Des Moines' property tax revenue (32.4 percent) didn't keep pace with its population growth (36.6 percent).
Comparing counties, Polk County saw its population increase by 30.6 percent (including inflation) and its property tax revenue grow by 45.7 percent. By contrast, Dallas County saw its property tax revenue (37.6 percent) trail its population growth (57.2 percent).
"Our system of government is a representative democracy. And in that works best when individual citizens have that relationship and have the ability to communicate those ideas with the people that are elected to represent them," Hagenow said. "You don't need to be angry about it, but start that conversation and build that relationship. That's the backbone of how our government works."
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Mummies' Night Out – Booze Soaked World
By: Lotta Dann
I went out with a bunch of girlfriends last night. A big group of us mummies hitting the town for dinner and a comedy show. Pretty unusual for me to be out and about in town – let alone on a Wednesday night! – but yes it definitely happened.
Walking through town I was gobsmacked by all the people getting amongst it in the bars & restaurants along the main strip. I was astounded at how many places were packed full of people boozing and smoking. It was a familiar scene, one that bought back strong memories. I have spent hours and hours sitting in bars drinking. The dim lights. The dusky smells. The inebriation. The camaraderie. I'm a social being, but to be fair it was probably mostly about the inebriation. Boy did I love getting boozed.
Until I didn't.
Something I Did, But Not Anymore…
I wasn't sad<|fim_middle|> 39. She stopped drinking only when her habit had reduced her to a sloppy, miserable mess and it became awfully apparent she had no control over her intake. She wrote her way sober with the help of an anonymous blog called 'Mrs. D Is Going Without', which started out small but slowly turned into something incredibly large and powerful. Her memoir 'Mrs. D Is Going Without' was published 3 years after she stopped drinking. Now happily sober, Lotta spends her days parenting and running a busy household, promoting recovery through her blogs and social media accounts, and managing the Living Sober NZ website. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband, three sons and a Labrador puppy. Lotta's new book 'Mrs. D Is Going Within' was published in June 2017. It charts how she developed nourishing and powerful habits to rebuild herself as a calm, grounded and emotionally robust individual after a life-time of drinking. | or nostalgic last night watching all the people supping their beers and wines. I didn't feel left out. I didn't even feel superior for being out of that stupid alcohol trap. I just felt neutral, like it was something I used to do but don't any more.
At our restaurant most of the other mummies had wine with dinner – one had a cocktail I think. One other woman and I ordered sparkling water. There's always a little moment when I feel slightly self-conscious as discussions are being had around the table about what to drink ("shall we split a bottle of sauvignon?" "I think I'll have a glass of red") but I know now that the awkwardness is just in my head and no-one else gives a toss if I'm drinking or not. And it will pass quickly. I just have to hang tough through that brief moment and the rest of the evening usually plays out smoothly.
The comedy show was good, but boy there were a lot of jokes about hangovers and drinking. Everyone laughed ("ah yes the three-day hangover!") and I did too. But I was hyper aware of alcohol being a regular topic amongst the jokes.
Overall the evening was fun but it really highlighted for me how counter-cultural it is to live sober. Alcohol is deeply entrenched into our worlds. It's everywhere all the bloody time as evidenced by my simple Wednesday night out (full bars en route to the restaurant, friends all drinking during the meal, comedy show with numerous mentions of booze). To move around this world as a sober person and never touch any alcohol ever is revolutionary.
Reframing Ourselves as Sober People
Frankly I think this makes us sober people all the more brave and amazing. Not only do we have to do a huge amount of inner work when we take alcohol away – getting used to living with raw emotions and un-inebriated brains 24/7 – we also have the mammoth task of re-framing ourselves as sober people in a booze soaked world.
In my early days as a non-drinker I felt so uncomfortable and odd moving around without my drunken skin. My whole identity had shifted, I felt awkward, conspicuous, foreign – like I'd grown a third eye or something ridiculous. I was a stranger to myself. Who was I without my beloved wines? Was I still chatty and fun? Was I interesting or deathly dull? I didn't feel chatty, fun or interesting. Mostly I just felt incredibly raw and vulnerable.
But I hung in there and slowly over time my new non-drinking persona became more comfortable. I got used to being the sober elephant in the room at family gatherings and parties (and started discovering not everyone was getting plastered every time they went out), I got used to the brief awkward moment at the beginning of meals when discussions were being had about what to drink, I got used to being a non-drinker.
I got comfortable being the real me – authentic me – with no alcohol in the way.
And so now on the odd occasions when I do go out into town and walk amongst the boozers or sit with my friends as they drink wine, I'm no longer that three-eyed monster feeling raw and vulnerable. I'm just me – chatty and fun – with no desire to muck up my newly discovered authenticity.
And I'm very happy with that.
Lotta Dann drank alcohol steadily and heavily from the age of 15 to the age of 39. She stopped drinking only when her habit had reduced her to a sloppy, miserable mess and it became awfully apparent she had no control over her intake. She wrote her way sober with the help of an anonymous blog called 'Mrs D Is Going Without', which started out small but slowly turned into something incredibly large and powerful. Her memoir 'Mrs D Is Going Without' was published 3 years after she stopped drinking. Now happily sober, Lotta spends her days parenting and running a busy household, promoting recovery through her blogs and social media accounts, and managing the Living Sober website. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand with her husband, three sons and a Labrador puppy.
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The makers of the Hofmann Power Weight brand of balancing weights will present various innovations and new products at this year's international tyre fair in Essen between 5 and 8 June (hall 1.0, stand 411). The theme at the Wegmann Automotive stand will be motor sports, a sector that's all about speed. Wegmann has chosen to go for a motor sport motif as it says its new products, which have been developed on the race track and optimised for the workshop, can be mounted extremely quickly and easily.
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In the past, Mr Reifler focused on helping the wealthy become richer, but he shifted his focus to the middle-class Americans. Brad has helped so many people and it is unlikely that this trait will stop in the future. | ler Trading Company was Brad's first business. In 2000, Refco, founded by Brad's grandfather, Ray E. Friedman acquired Reifler Trading Company.
Crunchbase revealed that Brad Reifler was the main star trader at Refco, an achievement that paved the way for him to be one of the best entrepreneurs in America. AT Refco, Brad Reifler was in charge of the sales and the implementation of foreign exchange, global derivatives and investment programs for the high-end clients.
Brad Reifler is a jack of all trades. He holds the director title at Sino Mercury Company. Previously, he was also a director at Foresight | 137 |
Financial markets this year have been a series of oscillations, each with its own sounds of discontent and euphoria. More<|fim_middle|> solid earnings. Even with the strength within the US markets there has been gyration while markets try to figure out the appropriate price of assets at this point in the cycle. For example, the utilities sector (normally quite sanguine) dropped almost 20% early in the year only to rally back about 10%. That's a lot of movement for historically the most "boring" stocks.
One of the biggest drivers of these adjustments is the world's benchmark bond market, US Treasurys. Even though the longer maturity bonds have been range bound most of the year, the shorter term rates continue to make levels not seen since for a decade or more. Even though interest rates are still low by the standards of the last half century, the change is significant. A mortgage rate moving from 3% to 4% represents a whopping one third more interest cost all things being equal.
As always, changes in the market present opportunities. The best way to add value is to stay in tune with the oscillations and be ready and able to adjust exposure when the right value comes your way. Rest assured, our eyes and ears are wide open in this dynamic environment! | or less, though, each emotional outlier has been put aside in favor of continued meandering.
At the broadest level in equity markets, the MSCI All Country World index, the picture is the most clear…or most muddy depending on perspective. This global index has returned about 2% year to date through July. That's about the partial year yield on a corporate bond – sounds kind of boring. To get there, though, the index has had six rallies of 5% or more and four drops of 5% or more.
This sort of gyration can lead some to think the markets are not rational at all. We happen to think this is a very healthy event. As part of this process, there is a separation being made (some of it slower than for others) in order to realign the price of risk in the markets. This comes on the heels of the last couple years where there was very little differentiation of risks.
Central bank attempts at global reflation have been a blunt instrument. Excess liquidity, in part, has fueled the appreciation of asset prices which in many cases had been indiscriminate and unsustainable. For example, the rise in US stocks had been almost lockstep with all the corners of the planet. Markets like Argentina, Poland and China were on the same trajectory along with the US until February of this year. Then, something happened, almost as if a switch got flipped. Suddenly differentiation started occurring. Some markets continued to rise, some stagnated and some declined significantly.
It appears an increased degree of risk has entered the system as global economic strength slowed a bit and the monetary policy winds started blowing a different direction. In the US, there has been continued strength in the economy as well as the tax cuts that have fueled | 355 |
Should You Pave Beyond Your Patio?
Upgrading your outdoor area will usually start with installing some sort of cover for your entertainment area. You can choose from patios and other forms of cover and you will usually have this paved underneath. This allows you to easily keep the area cleaning with sweeping, or with a pressure cleaner. It is also important to note that because an area is covered there may not be enough light to keep grass growing strongly.
While patios, pergolas and other outdoor covering are suited for<|fim_middle|> your pergola or patio) so that your outdoor area ties together. Also be careful not to choose too dark a paver if it will be exposed to the sun as they will heat up and be hard to walk on barefoot. Good luck with your outdoor renovations! | paving do you need to extend this beyond your covered area? The answer will be quite personal and usually depend on the look, style and usage you get from your outdoor area. Some people simple love lawns and so the thought of paving over all of it is simply not possible.
Paving under a covered area such as a patio, pergola or awning will make for a more even surface which is ideal for entertaining. It is best to have your outdoor covering installed first so that you do not have your paving damaged during construction. This is particularly important if you plan to use better paving such as slate, which can be marked, or sandstone that can be broken more easily.
If you do want to do away with your lawn area or have old pavers it is a good idea to install some pavings outside, around or leading to you outdoor area. You do not have to pave the entire area as you can place paths through high traffic areas instead. This means you can have the best of both worlds and retain soft grass for the kids to play on.
Adding a covered area for entertainment (and for play if you have children) will not only instantly improve your outdoor area but should also increase the value of your home. Even if you are thinking of selling up it is an easy way to quickly and cheaply renovate. Covered areas under pergolas, patios or verandas are perfect for setting up the BBQ with some chairs and a table for entertaining friends and family.
As mentioned, paving instead of grass areas can make it easier to maintain your backyard. While some may be proud of their lawn others will probably see mowing it as a chore. You can also take away unsightly 'tracks' through your lawn by creating paths with either pavers, concrete or pebbles. Taking care of your paved undercover area will usually involve a little sweeping but for best results you should use a surface cleaner and a pressure spray which uses much less water than a regular hose.
Paving beyond your under cover area is a highly personal choice and you need your entire yard to work together. Make sure you think about styles and colours (including that of | 432 |
Congratulations David J. Blaida, P.E, Vice President, Matrix Technologies
Matrix Technologies, Inc., a Manufacturing Process Design and Automation Engineering firm with its corporate office in Maumee, Ohio, is pleased to announce the following management position promotion: David J. Blaida, P.E. has been promoted to Vice President and has also been named to the Board of Directors for the corporation. Mr. Blaida has been with Matrix Technologies for over 21 years in various positions including Engineer, Group Leader, Department Manager and Director of Sales and Marketing.
"Since becoming a shareholder in Matrix Technologies in 2000, Dave has been instrumental in expanding the influence of Matrix Technologies with new and existing manufacturing customers in a variety of industries", said David Bishop, President of Matrix. In his new role, Mr. Blaida will become further involved in corporate management, while continuing to direct the<|fim_middle|>. has provided process design and automation services to the top manufacturers in the world. With over 180 employees and over $25 million in sales, Matrix has a tremendous breadth of process and automation expertise focused in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, biotech, glass, metals, and automotive industries – both nationally and internationally. | activities of the Sales and Marketing department. Mr. Blaida has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.
Since it was founded in 1980, Matrix Technologies, Inc | 53 |
Most of us tend to forget about our boilers and simply expect them to work when we need them. It's not until a problem occurs that we start taking notice. This can turn into a major inconvenience very quickly, especially during the winter.
If you're having any doubts about your boiler, keep a lookout for the following common problems.
In most circumstances leaking is due to broken internal components, most commonly the seal or pressure valve. If the leak is occurring around the pipes or tank, then it could be due to corrosion or poor installation. Leaks are best left to the professionals, especially if you have a gas boiler. Tampering could not only make things worse, but could be dangerous.
Banging is usually caused by kettling. This occurs when there is a buildup of limescale or corrosion debris causing water flow restriction and making hot water to turn into steam. Alternatively, your boiler may simply be old and need to be replaced.
If your pilot light goes out frequently a broken thermocouple could be stopping the gas flow. Before you try to troubleshoot problems, check other gas appliances in your home to ensure there's not an issue with your supplier. If everything else works okay, follow your model's instructions and try re-igniting the flame. External factors unrelated to your boiler<|fim_middle|> settings to ensure your radiators are turning on and off at the right time, and make sure the thermostat itself hasn't been knocked out of position. If neither of these fixes work, check for external factors that could be influencing the reading, such as a nearby heat source.
To check your boiler's pressure simply check the pressure gauge. If it is below "one" you may have a problem. This is commonly caused by water leaks and old pressure valves. If you feel confident enough you could try re-pressuring your system. Just make sure you follow the instructions accurately.
The condensate pipe carries acidic water caused by waste gas away from the boiler. Because this pipe often runs outside into an exterior drain it can be susceptible to freezing. To troubleshoot this problem simply check the pipe. Most boilers will have a warning notification if this happens, along with thawing tutorials in the instruction manual.
While some boiler problems are easy to solve, if you ever have doubts it's always best to call a professional. | , such as a draft, could also be the cause.
If only the bottom of your radiators are getting hot, you probably need to bleed them. This is a straightforward procedure that you can conduct yourself – visit Boilers Direct to find out how. Alternatively, you may need to adjust the valves in order to boost water flow. If neither of these techniques work there could be sludge buildup causing an obstruction.
An inaccurate thermostat may just be positioned in the wrong place or have the wrong settings. Check the schedule | 103 |
It's been a popular thing in recent days to rail against the church. Sometimes it's the church in general, and sometimes a particular local body is in view. I certainly regularly get an earful (usually second-hand)<|fim_middle|> church. In His grace He actually is using us for His glory in spite of our frailty. | of what is wrong at Lockport. It's a pretty easy list to put together; we are sometimes hypocritical, we have some people who talk too much, we aren't always fair, we aren't always friendly, we are too hard or too soft on sin (your choice), we are boring and outdated, we aren't just like we used to be, we sing too much new stuff, we sing too much old stuff, we don't care enough about the long-time members, we don't care enough about new members, and sometimes some of us are just plain obnoxious! In other words, the whole place is full of sinners! It's also a popular notion that God doesn't like organizations. We all know that having your name on a membership role does not make you spiritual, and many draw the (false) conclusion that the converse is true – that spirituality is to be found by avoiding the organized church.
They continue by pointing out the fact that Jesus died for the church; "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." (Eph 5:25-27 NIV) A good way to anger most men would be to rip on the bride they love deeply. The church is certainly not yet "holy and blameless" but Christ loves her so much that he has given his life for her purification. The church is often unfaithful to Him, but He still loves her, and if we love Him we will love her too!
I would add two other analogies from scripture. The church is not only Christ's bride, we are His body. In Romans 12:5 Paul says, "so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." He describes how we are to function together and then in verse ten adds, "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves." The church is Christ's physical presence in the world, and if His body is scarred or sick we should rush to it's aid rather than abandon it. The church is also the temple that He is building. "Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple." (1Corinthians 3:16-17 NIV). Later in chapter six, Paul refers to the individual believer's bodies as being temples of the Holy Spirit, but here he is referring to the church. (Note as well Matt. 6:18; Eph. 2:20-22, and 1Pet. 2:5) Perhaps it is not a good thing to abandon what Christ is building.
Should we just ignore the church's problems? No! Should we pretend that the pastor and people are perfect? Never! Should we just give up? Absolutely not! We should instead be involved in helping the bride look beautiful, binding up the wounds of the broken body, and working on the failing structure of the temple. We must do so because Christ loves the church! Please join your imperfect pastor in praying for Christ's | 709 |
It's nice to see Rick back in the forums and posting. He<|fim_middle|>!
Did you all go somewhere together or were you all hold captive? I'm seeing older members came back every other day. | was one of the earlier members, with an August 1st, 2007 join date. He also owns the distinction of being one of the few members who has called me. It happened during one of our few site outages.
If you don't know Rick aka up10ad, then this is a good time to say hello. If you know him, then you should join me in welcoming him back in the fold.
Ah up10ad Welcome back man! Glad to see you back round here again! Just in time for the new iPhone. This is gonna be a good one.
Welcome back Rick. Very happy to see this post and to hear you're back.
Welcome Back! You have start sharing photos and vids of the farm again.
Oh my oh my! I had no idea Rick was back. up10ad How have you been? I hope all is well with you. You have most definitely been missed and I sure hope you stick around for a long time to come.
Great to see you again, brother!
Welcome back Rick! You've been missed bro!
He also has the distinction of being one of my favorite forum members! Welcome back!
Welcome back. I don't know you but look forward to reading some of your posts.
Hola Ricardo! Helping to keep our average poster age at a respectable level... much appreciated | 276 |
The faculty of the<|fim_middle|> attempt to develop and improve a student's understanding of the business environment. Other organizations are honorary.
The IU Northwest ABSO maintains a close relationship with accounting and business students, alumni, faculty, and business professionals. Meetings include speakers from prominent businesses and accounting firms. Membership is open to all students.
Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma is the highest recognition a business student can receive in a baccalaureate or postbaccalaureate (master's) program at a school accredited by AACSB International. To be eligible for membership, the academic ranking of those being considered must place them in the upper 10 percent of the junior or senior class; or the upper 20 percent of the graduating master's class. | School of Business and Economics recognizes that student organizations may contribute greatly to the total development of all students. A number of student organizations exist at IU Northwest, and it is recommended that each student take advantage of extracurricular activities and opportunities provided by those organizations. Some organizations are purpose oriented and | 60 |
Skyline TerraExplorer Pro 7.1.0.3067
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Skyline Software Systems Inc. announced that it has released TerraExplorer for Desktop 7.1 as part of its robust suite of 3D geospatial mapping solutions<|fim_middle|> platform of applications, tools and services that enable the creation and dissemination of interactive, photo-realistic 3D environments. Skyline has built a "best of breed" set of tools that remain focused on the needs of its customers including flexibility, efficiency and robustness.
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https://uploadgig.com/file/download/1Aedd66de62c5636/ho9tl.Skyline.TerraExplorer.Pro.7.1.0.3067.rar | . This latest update contains enhancements and features that include improved integration with CityBuilder, more powerful analytics capabilities, and support for VR technology.
What's new in this release:
The new TerraExplorer release vastly expands its mesh layer capabilities to include greater integration of CityBuilder's 3DML classification tools, which eases incorporation of BIM data and enables quicker editing capabilities for building features and attribute classification. More powerful analytics include a new time swipe tool allowing users to easily see changes taking place over time, and the elevation difference tool highlights changes in elevation or volume. The new volume analysis tool helps speed up analysis of storm damage and debris removal, and the buffer tool allows users to quickly assess buffer/safety zones. VR support is also now available via integration with the Oculus Rift virtual reality system. This integration allows users full immersive experience within Skyline's actionable 3D environments providing new perspectives and advanced capabilities for data use.
About Skyline TerraExplorer Pro. TerraExplorerPro is a is a cutting-edge 3D GIS desktop viewer and creator that provides powerful, easy-to-use tools and a high resolution 3D environment in which to view, query, analyze, edit, present, and publish geospatial data. With TerraExplorer's robust and extensive capabilities, realistic 3D visualizations can be created by overlaying the terrain with unlimited data layers, 3D models, virtual objects and more.
A glimpse into Skyline's cutting-edge 3D geospatial visualization products, and their potential to transform the way your organization makes decisions, shares information, and manages its assets.
About Skyline Software Systems, Inc. Founded in 1997, Skyline Software Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of 3D earth visualization software and services. The company offers a comprehensive | 361 |
Wynwood Brings a Taste of Miami to Wicker Park
That opening and other morsels in dining news.
Photo: Courtesy of Wynwood
A pumpkin spice rum slushie? Sign me up – that's the signature offering at Wynwood, which just opened in Wicker Park. The 5,000 square-foot bar/restaurant, an homage to Miami's Wynwood<|fim_middle|> intrigued by Osteria del Mercato, a new permanent restaurant opening at Eataly in a few weeks. The idea: Diners can pick up fresh ingredients at various Eataly counters and take them to the chefs to be cooked. This sounds especially ideal for home cooks who aren't quite sure what to do with a new ingredient. | Walls, is covered in graffiti and serves a variety of frozen cocktails to help you forget it's 48 degrees outside. Its Cuban-inspired menu is shot through with South and Central American influences, including daily rotating empanada selections and arepas.
We are smack in the middle of Filipino Restaurant Week! Until October 21, a group of different Filipino and Filipino-inspired restaurants are running prix fixe menus. For a special bonus, dining at the restaurants gets you entered into a raffle, and there's a big list of prizes. The complete list of participating restaurants is online.
I've already gushed about Mindy Segal's beer floats and frozen hot chocolate at Revival Food Hall, and now there's a new place to get another amazing dessert: Shake Shack. A new location of Shake Shack opens in the Willis Tower today, and Segal has contributed a dessert that combines vanilla custard, a smoked chocolate cookie from Hot Chocolate, malt, and salted caramel sauce (yum). It's called the Coldspot, and it's available now.
Chef Paul Kahan of One Off Hospitality has come out with a new book. It's called Cooking for Good Times and focuses not on a restaurant (as with his previous Publican cookbook) but on low-stress cooking for big gatherings — though, a source told me off the record that it's effectively the Avec cookbook, and based on the previews, that seems accurate. If you love that restaurant, definitely buy this book.
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10 Country Artists to Watch in 2020
By Ellen Johnson | January 8, 2020 | 10:12am
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Have you ever heard of Harlan Howard? If you don't recognize the now-deceased songwriter's name, you've probably still heard his most famous quote about country music: It's just "three chords and the truth." That's obviously an overly simplified statement, but Howard was on to something there: Times may change, studios may get fancier and artists may experiment more, but country music will always be country music. It's the music where everyday life feels monumental, because it is. It's music that doesn't hide from reality. The country music community has plenty of strong ties that run deep, but it's also famously<|fim_middle|>2018By Paste Music StaffDecember 20, 2018 | 12:00pm
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The 35 Most Anticipated Albums of 2023 By Paste Staff January 24, 2023 | 11:36am | home to some toxic practices—like ignoring female artists on the radio. According to a 2019 study, only 11% of artists on the year-end airplay reports were women. That is a shameful statistic, and it's a systematic issue. So what can you do to support women country artists? Stream their music, buy their merchandise and go to their shows. A good place to start could be with some of the women on this list, who are all up-and-coming country artists with a lot to say. Here, we've selected 10 promising acts—both men and women—who have albums on the way or new music in the works in 2020. They all have a little bit of "truth" to share.
Listen to our Rising Country Artists of 2020 playlist on Spotify right here.
1. Aubrie Sellers
Who's the Nashville starlet who can cover Dwight Yoakam, jam with Steve Earle and sing her way right into your heart without skipping a beat? That's Aubrie Sellers, a Nashville singer/songwriter who's been around country music for more than a minute (since birth, actually—she's Lee Ann Womack's daughter), but 2020 is bound to be her take-off year. Her sophomore LP, Far From Home, is due out in February, and so far the singles have been very impressive. Her roots run deep, but Sellers isn't just another Music City wannabe: She's an honest storyteller with a singular personality. She can both float in on a cloud of love songs and crank out existential country-rock, like on album single "Worried Mind": "I can see people laughing and drinking / All I can think is they're not thinking / With a worried mind," she sings.
2. Caitlyn Smith
Following her 2018 debut Starfire, Caitlyn Smith is back with her Supernova (out March 13 on Monument Records). Like so many Nashville troubadours, Smith has made a great career out of writing for others—Dolly Parton, John Legend and Meghan Trainor, among them. But Smith shines the brightest when she's singing her own music, something that became abundantly clear on Starfire, which we named one of the best country albums of 2018. Supernova is Starfire's cool older sister—a little wiser, a little more world-weary (though no less hopeful) and wearing a little more eyeshadow.
3. Hailey Whitters
Hailey Whitters is one of the most exciting voices in country music now. The Iowa-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter released one of the best country songs of 2019 in "Ten Year Town," a gospel for the geographically-restrained. She has written songs for the likes of Alan Jackson and Martina McBride, but she has also done plenty of hustling outside of the industry: waiting tables and saving up money the good ol' fashioned way, enough to fund her next album all on her own. This year could be her well-deserved big break. Her clever songwriting shines through on songs like "Red Wine & Blue," "Heartland" and "Dream, Girl," and some of the industry's best (including Lori McKenna and Brandy Clark) collaborated with Whitters on her song "Loose Strings." Whitters is an intelligent, creative artist who's just about ready for her ship to come in. If you're smart, you'll join me and watch from the harbor when it does.
4. John Moreland
You probably already know John Moreland, the Oklahoma singer/songwriter who has been on the receiving end of considerable press buzz for the better part of five years now. This year, on Feb. 7, he'll release LP5, his—you guessed it—fifth full-length album. But while Moreland has been steadily gaining popularity over the last few years, it really feels like he may break out even bigger in 2020. For his new record, he recruited producer Matt Pence (Jason Isbell, The Breeders) to gussy up his mostly stripped-back sound, and the results have so far been striking. But his lyrics are just as straightforward and understandable as ever: On the techy "Harder Dreams," Moreland maps out the complicated desires of adulthood and the struggles of finding joy in a media-crowded landscape.
5. Lauren Morrow
Lauren Morrow mostly sings about home and the people who inhabit it. With a slate of singles under her belt about various characters (including her own mother "Viki Lynn" and "Barbara Jean"), it's only a matter of time before this Georgia native releases a full phone book's worth. Last August, she charmed a Portland audience at Pickathon with her down-home Southern tales and humongous smile. Whenever she drops her first full-length album (hopefully this year!), country audiences will fall in love with her wry rhymes and wisdom.
6. Letitia VanSant
Letitia VanSant is set to release her second solo album Circadian late next month, and her gentle singsong may strike you as sweet, but listen a little closer, and you'll realize she's spitting fire. The first song on the album, a recount of VanSant's survival of sexual assault, is literally called "You Can't Put My Fire Out," and its mandolin-boosted sonics harken back to the dusty days when The Civil Wars were controlling the Americana charts. But the main difference between The Civil Wars and VanSant is that she's a solo act, and rightfully so: Her voice is charismatic and fierce, and she doesn't need anyone else's help.
7. Rachel Wammack
It's no wonder Rachel Wammack's songs are so vivid and affecting—the rising country star has a degree in writing from The University of North Alabama, not far from her native Muscle Shoals. Her sweeping 2018 single "Damage" would be enough to get any heartbroken country fan's attention, and she followed it with an equally stunning 2019 track called "Something People Say." It seems like there may be more where those came from: Just last week, Wammack tweeted that new music is coming "soon." Her debut LP, perhaps? We can only hope. For now, you can cozy up to her warm slate of singles.
8. Tenille Arts
If you're after that massive country-pop radio sound but you're looking for a little more soul than what's currently on the airwaves, look no further than Tenille Arts (not to be confused with fellow country up-and-comer Tenille Townes, who is also incredible). Weirdly enough, the Canadian singer is the only artist to have performed on The Bachelor more than once (including Monday night's Season 24 premiere), but don't let her proximity to that romantic chaos scare you away. Her sophomore record, Love, Heartbreak & Everything In Between, is seemingly more about the "in between," at least based on the tracklist. She has songs about life's transient times, not just the highs and lows. But her love songs are great, too—they're sung from the perspective of someone who's been through a lot and thusly knows exactly what she wants.
9. Tiera
Alabama-born, Nashville-based country singer Tiera joins Hailey Whitters as one of 11 women chosen for CMT's 2020 Next Women roster. Both artists will join legend Tanya Tucker on the Next Women of Country Tour early this year, and Tiera is certainly not one to miss. It's unclear whether or not the 22-year-old has yet ordered her debut full-length album, but you can follow her on Instagram for new songs posted regularly. On her 2018 single "Wake Up Call," she spouts the lyric "I don't take orders from nobody but myself" right off the bat—confirming Tiera as another country artist who refuses to conform to the industry's more outdated aspects. If she has more fiery one-liners like that in her pocket, there's no telling what a full-length album might consist of. Chances are we'll find out soon enough.
10. William Prince
Not to be confused with a certain heir to the English monarchy, the husky-voiced Wiliam Prince seems destined to sit atop another throne: King of Canadian Country Music. The Winnipeg-based artist will follow his 2018 album Earthly Days with his Glassnote Records debut, Reliever, on Feb. 7. With a voice like Kris Kristofferson's and a heart like John Prine's, Prince is a modern Highwayman. He made a splash at last year's AmericanaFest and is sure to have a great year ahead of him. His recently-released song "The Spark" showcases his emotional breadth in terms of songwriting, as well as the comfortable warmth that spreads over all his music.
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"La La<|fim_middle|>00 million worldwide, still early in its international release. | Land" producer Fred Berger will produce Max Minghella's directorial debut, "Teen Spirit," alongside Brian Kavanaugh-Jones ("Midnight Special") under their Automatik banner. The movie is being unveiled to international buyers at the upcoming Berlin Film Market by Mister Smith Entertainment.
Currently in pre-production, "Teen Spirit," written and directed by Minghella, is "an emotional underdog story set in the world of pop-music, about growing up, dreaming big, and finding your voice," according to a statement.
Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot"), who developed the screenplay with Minghella, serves as executive producer.
Interscope Records, which is handling the chart-topping soundtrack on "La La Land," will co-produce with Automatik, and will release the official soundtrack featuring contemporary pop anthems.
Berger brings his musical team from "La La Land" to the project, including music producer Marius DeVries ("Moulin Rouge") and music supervisor Steven Gizicki, previously of Lucasfilm. Cinematographer Autumn Durald ("Palo Alto"), renowned for her work on music videos for Arcade Fire and Haim, will shoot the film.
Berger produced "La La Land," which recently garnered a historic seven Golden Globe wins and a record 14 Academy Award nominations, including a best picture nomination for Berger. The film has crossed $2 | 280 |
Lots of love for pets
Pet tag sales for Lights of Love at the Silver Lake Mall will benefit the Kootenai Humane Society.
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COEUR d'ALENE — Lights of Love will brighten the Silver Lake Mall this holiday season — and the lives of pets at the Kootenai Humane Society.
"Lights of Love is a lot of fun and a joyous time for all of us during the holiday season," said Vicky Nelson, KHS development director. "It warms your heart to see so many people remembering and honoring their beloved animals. And you are helping a homeless animal too while they wait to find a forever home."
Last year, Lights of Love brought in about $45,000. Now in its ninth year, KHS officials believe it will do even better.
The program is a way to honor or remember a loved pet this holiday season.
"It was an amazing fundraiser," Nelson said. "And each year gets bigger and better."
The Lights of Love trees were set up Friday at the mall and will remain there through Dec. 30.
Trees will be adorned with white lights memorializing<|fim_middle|> raised $5.3 million for a new shelter, which will be more than 20,000 square feet.
Tickets: kootenaihumane.org | pets that have died and red lights honoring the pets still with us. All lights are tagged with your pet's name and your last name.
Tags are $10.
Orders are already coming in and strands will go up starting today. The more tags sold, the more the trees will be filled.
Two tags last year had the names "Molly Ray" and "Bubba Ray," both with a handwritten message, "We miss you!! Mom and Dad."
"Your gift will help give our shelter animals a second chance at happy healthy lives filled with love," a KHS flyer says.
Nelson previously told The Press that the idea for Lights of Love came from a Nevada animal shelter that sold Christmas lights and decorated trees using those donations.
"We took it and said, 'You know, if you're going to buy a light, let's make it to where it's more personal,'" she said. "Every year we see a lot of the same ones come back. And people come and they try to find their tags."
The Silver Lake Mall has also created another fundraiser, "Miracles at the Mall," for KHS. They have three themed trees — outdoors, pets and home — on display filled with goodies, and tickets are $10 at Black Sheep. The drawing will be held at 2 p.m. on Dec. 11.
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Thanksgiving week gives us an opportunity to appreciate the many great people and experiences in our lives. Whether it's related to school, work, community, or home our lives are surrounded by greatness. As you're celebrating the week with family and friends, take advantage of the opportunities to provide a boost to your career planning.
Share them with<|fim_middle|> They may ask about your schoolwork, but they'll really want to hear about your extra-curricular activities. Share the accomplishments of the various clubs and organizations and your role in the various achievements. Don't be afraid to brag. Once you've shared them verbally, write them down. These talking points may be ideal for your resume.
It's quite possible you haven't looked at your resume in a while. Take a few minutes to review and revise your resume. Look to see where you need to add new accomplishments, change dates, and rewrite descriptions.
Between visits with friends and big games, we're busy reviewing resumes over the break. Send us your resume. We'll provide feedback, including suggested improvements and things to consider.
At Greek Ladders, we're thankful for the thousands of job-seekers and recruiters using our network to launch and advance careers. We're using this week to celebrate the many connections made through this network and how they're changing lives every day. We're realizing our ultimate goal of being a key catalyst in strong career connections between young job-seekers and outstanding employers.
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Answer "What do you do?" and "Tell me about you?"
Responses to these questions...because you will be asked repeatedly...will help you craft a compelling 30-second elevator pitch. You know, what you'll share with someone when you're riding up in an elevator when you're asked "Tell me about yourself?" It's very similar to what you'll say when you're asked to describe yourself in a group of people in a meeting.
Sure, you'll talk about school, life, and football, but there will be golden opportunities to talk about professions. Ask people the whys and hows of their careers. These conversations will likely segue toward your careers, possible job openings, references to other professional leaders, and possible career connections. Even if the people you're talking to are not in the field of your interest, they'll likely know people in our desired industry.
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The clock is ticking on Monty Brogan's freedom--in 24 hours he goes to prison for seven long years. Once a king of Manhattan, Monty is about to say goodbye to the life he knew--a life that opened doors in New York's swankiest clubs but also alienated him from the people closest to him. In his last day on the outside, Monty tries to reconnect with his father, who's never given up on his son, and gets together with his two closest friends from the old days, Jacob and Slaughtery. Also in the mix is his girlfriend, Naturelle, who (or might not) have been the one who tipped off the cops. Monty's not sure of much these days. But with time running out, there are a lot of choices to be made.
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A drug dealer has just 24 hours before he has to go to prison for seven years. This is the story of those hours and how he chooses to spend them.
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everywhere and on everything
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Everywhere and on everything, a project by Andrzej Przywara
Karla Black
Marieta Chirulescu
Edward Krasiński
Babette Mangolte
Susanne M. Winterling
Everywhere and on Everything is how Edward Krasiński (Poland, 1925-2004) described the nature of the gesture that he employed everywhere and in all his works from 1968 onwards. Blue scotch tape, nineteen millimeters wide, which he always stuck at the fixed height of 130 centimeters, became his way of clearly defining the horizon. Krasiński was rooted in the post-painterly abstraction tradition and tried to 'outsmart' painting in various ways, by disarming its different elements; but those were usually subtle gestures, mischievous rather than consistent.
The exhibition features one of his Interventions, an abstract three-dimensional painting that was created to produce an obstacle for the otherwise too-smoothly running strip of blue scotch tape. The other work that will be exhibited is a set of mirrors (Untitled, 2001), which allude to the idea of the painting as a window to the world. In this case it is mainly the portrait painting tradition, as indicated by the classic format of fifty by sixty centimeters. Viewers' faces are reflected in the mirrors. But the overlapping reflections create also a complex space in which the difference between reality and its illusion is blurred. The strip of blue scotch tape has been pulled into this game too. This installation was Edward Krasiński's last work.
Krasiński lived in Warsaw and located his studio on the top floor of an ordinary block of flats, the studio was opened to the public after his death. For the last fourteen years of his life the artist gradually turned it into an installation, retaining works returning from exhibitions and adding small interventions, thus transforming the space of the studio into a unique theatre of arrested events and frozen time.
In this exhibition the work of Babette Mangolte and Susanne M. Winterling are directly related to the study of Krasiński, and the two others have a relation with his work.
Babette Mangolte (France), a creative documentary filmmaker of contemporary performance and dance art presents for this exhibition a film made last year in the Krasiński's studio, which draws a line, to demonstrate the contrast between the internal atmosphere of the studio where everything is quiet, static and abroad where the movement of people, the noise of cars and buildings does not stop.
Susanne M. Winterling (Germany, 1970), who has visited and documented the place, refers to it in her series of works entitled Of Mice and Blood (for EK), 2009. In the show Untitled Forever (Embrace Space Projection) the blue scotch tape turns into a film tape decorated with jewelery, like the mousetraps that decorate the Krasinski studio, evoking filmic references: the trap of the viewfinder image and the film frame, represent the notion of randomly captured traces.
The sculptures of Karla Black (Scotland, 1972), are made of ephemeral, fragile materials. With the intention of removing the paint from the canvas and make it three-dimensional, colored paper the same size and create a horizon. Marieta Chirulescu (Romania, 1974), creates objects that look like paintings, on the surface even resembling - like Krasiński's Interventions - the constructivists' geometric compositions, but they are created uising a complex process of copying and reproduction during which more or less controlled errors occur, generating autonomous worlds where reflections of reality, chance and creation coexist. Reflecting, superimposing and covering produce an illusion of space and of presence.
Everywhere and on Everything is a tribute both to Edward Krasiński and to a way of thinking about exhibiting; one that allows for a free flow of associations, random revelations and brave gestures. In this way, the show tries to attune itself to a type of ephemeral and unusual artistic sensitivity which can manifest itself at various times and places.
Karla Black (Scotland 1972). She studied at the Glasgow School of Arts and the Stadelschule, Frankfurt. Her recent solo exhibitions took place in: Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2012), Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2012), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2010), Galerie Capitan Petzel, Berlin (2010), Migros Museum, Zurich (2009). She represented Scotland at the 54th Venice Biennale. Selected publications include: Karla Black. Ten Sculptures at the Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg from 24th June until 22nd August 2010; Karla Black, Scotland Venice 2011, The Fruitmarket Gallery 2011.
Marieta Chirulescu (born in 1974 in Romania, lives and works in Berlin). She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, Germany and University of Fine Arts in Budapest. Her recent solo exhibitions took place<|fim_middle|> London (2011), Kunstverein Nürnberg (2011), Galerie Micky Schubert (2010), Kunstahalle Basel (2010), Kunsthalle Mainz (2009). She participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: La preuve concrète, The Concrete Proof, Centre Europeen d'Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg (2009), Nothing to say and I am saying it, Kunstverein Freiburg e.V (2009), Malerei, Kohlenhof, Kunstverein Nuremberg (2005). Selected publications include: Marieta Chirulescu, Kunsthalle Basel, 26.09.-14.11.2010; Marieta Chirulescu, October 12 – November 19, 2011, Inside the White Cube.
Edward Krasiński (born in 1925 Łuck- today's Ukraine, died in 2004 in Warsaw). He studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (1940-1942), later the Academy of Fine Arts (1945-1948) in Cracow. In 1954 he moved to Warsaw. He made his debut in Galeria Krzysztofory in Cracow in 1965. He had numerous solo exhibitions in Galeria Foksal in Warsaw, among others as well in Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź (1991), Kunstahalle Basel (1996), Zachęta National Gallery, Warsaw (1997), Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin (2001) . His major retrospectives took place in Generali Foundation, Vienna in 2006 (entitleld Les mises en scène) and Bunkier Sztuki in Cracow in 2008 (entitled ABC). His works were presented at numerous group exhibitions such as Guggenheim International Exhibition. Sculpture from Twenty Nations (1966) and the Tokyo Biennale, Between Man and Matter (1970). Selected publications include: Edward Krasiński, Les mises en scène, ed. by Sabine Breitwieser, Vienna, 2006; Edward Krasiński, ed. by Lena Kiessler, Joanna Mytkowska, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warszawa, Klosterfelde, Berlin, Anton Kern, New York, 2001; Avant-garde in the Bloc, ed. by Gabriela Świtek, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, 2010.
Babette Mangolte (born in France, lives and works in New York). Her recent solo exhibition took place in: Gallery Broadway 1602, New York (2008). She participated in numerous film retrospectives such as ones in New York (2004) and Berlin (2000). She took part in many group shows, among others in: Mixed Use, curated by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2010), While Bodies Get Mirrored, Migrosmuseum, Zurich (2010), How to Look - installlation, Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010), 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2008). Selected publications include: Babette Mangolte, "Artforum", October 2010; Babette Mangolte in conversation with Elena Filipovic, "Afterall", nr 23, Spring 2010.
Susanne M. Winterling (born in 1970 in Germany, lives and work in Berlin and Oslo). Her recent shows took place in: Salzburger Kunstverein (2012), Salzburg, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2010), Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn ( 2010), Of Mice and Blood (for E.K.), Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin (2009). She participated in numerous group exhibitions, among others in: Von realer Gegenwart: Marcel Broodthaers heute, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2010), Little Theatre of Gestures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2009) and 5th Berlin Biennale 2008). Selected publications include: Susanne M. Winterling – Kunstpreis der Stadt Nordhorn 2010 at the Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn from October 2 to November 7 2010, Susanne M.Winterling," Artforum", April 2010.
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The Fancy Space People began when the unlikely duo of Germs drummer DON BOLLES and quirky solo chanteuse NO-RA KEYES started receiving communications from invisible entities claiming to be from "Fancy Space," asking them to present their leaders' (presumably) benevolent messages to the people of Earth, secreted within neo-classic rock tunes. Told that they were chosen not so much for any musical talent they might possess, but more because they would fit into the elaborate space outfits, Don and Nora, neither of whom had much going on at the time, readily agreed.
The aliens assured them that their proposed role didn't involve any such unsavory or strenuous activities as cattle mutilation or crop circle construction. All they had to do, they said, was play the music and wear the outfits. Said outfits ended up looking positively stellar, indeed, and the rock songs – or "audio hieroglyphs," as the<|fim_middle|> called them – turned out to be classically astute, yet surprisingly fresh and new sounding; fun, even! Soon, 6 other musical miscreants – X-Orb-X, Danny, Bri-On, Shonn, Saratonin and Paul Roessler (Screamers, Nina Hagen Band) – were recruited into the cult / band to play the other instruments and wear the remaining space suits; et voila: Fancy Space People was born.
That was 4 years ago – nowadays their often sold-out shows – the so-called Fancy Space Rituals – incorporate film, video, smoke, lights, crazy costumes and their uniquely derivative Pleiadian Power Pop to great effect, putting hundreds of bedazzled fans into ecstatic, dervish like states, complete with lots of spontaneous dancing and people singing along with their lighters in the air, at venues all over California, where the band live and record in a top-secret compound in an industrial area just south of Los Angeles. Their songs range from moody Mellotron space hymns to Glitter Rock stompers, Snow Pop to Psychedelic Prog Epics, 60s Girl Group to 70s Krautrock, and remind one of T Rex, Bowie, Abba, Sparks, and even Amon Duul II.
Already they have attracted such enthusiastic collaborators as BILLY CORGAN of the Smashing Pumpkins, MARS WILLIAMS from the Psychedelic Furs, and Belgian Synth Witch SHAZZULA NEBULA. Their eponymous debut vinyl EP was mixed and recorded by KERRY "STUDIO DOG" BROWN (Smashing Pumpkins, Kelley Deal, The Frogs) & KEVIN DIPPOLD (Smashing Pumpkins) and produced by DON BOLLES. It features the group's theme song, "Fancy Space People," which seems to advocate saving the Earth by eliminating the humans, "Pleiadian Youth," a song celebrating – and also warning against – the new exoteric invisible nation, and the hauntingly ethereal "Pyramids (Shoot Golden Rays)," a song that accompanies a popular Youtube video by No-Ra that looks a bit like a new-age sci-fi Kenneth Anger film.
Can a ridiculously attired Los Angeles Glitter rock space cult, channeling cryptic messages from Fancy Space really save the Earth and usher in a new Golden Age? Maybe yes; maybe no. But whatever the case, if you think you might enjoy a bunch of heroic bubble-glam pop anthems, delivered with an ass-kicking punk rock authority and an almost Crass-like dedication to an alien agenda, then a close encounter with Fancy Space People will, at very least, help to make the remainder of our planet's juggernaut into the abyss a whole lot more fun and entertaining for you than it otherwise might have been. | entities | 1 |
N<|fim_middle|> Swaraj, and has been made MTV India's official representative/presenter in the UK. He is responsible for music production, artist development and relations. | erm started his musical career on the decks at the Ministry of Sound in Birmingham as well as the fledgling Shaanti club nights before joining electro-punk band Charged. His energy on and off stage was seen throughout Europe and events such as Glastonbury on tours with Charged as well as tour DJ with Nation Records gaining him critical acclaim in NME, the Evening standard and Time Out.
A resident of Swaraj, Nerm rose through the ranks to headline act in the Swaraj roster, his sets developing and incorporating new collaborators and methods of performance at each turn.
While the seeds of the Shiva Soundsystem (which Nerm heads today)were sown here, Nerm toured around the world extensively with Swaraj, including territories from the US to India with press coverage that ranged from entire radio shows and extensive MTV coverage which culminated in a flurry of media attention, including the front cover of The Bombay Times.
Connections with fellow artists throughout this time solidified and the Shiva Soundsystem was born. With this new found energy more collaborators surfaced and avenues of musical exploration were delved into. The outcome has been the development of various "systems" that explore different styles of music while keeping to the cutting edge mentality.
Nerm is currently headline DJ for Shiva Soundsystem & | 264 |
Brands have always made videos. They used to be called TV commercials. But in the age of YouTube a new genre has emerged, where videos are created more for the internet than for TV, and where sharing and virality are key to success. Some of these videos start out as commercials, but some never run on TV at all. Lately some of these viral videos have started becoming really, really good. Not just good by the standards of a TV commercial, but actually good, with first-rate cinematography and storytelling.
One video on the list below (#14, made in Thailand) is so well done that Gawker said it "puts full-length Hollywood films to shame." This is all part of a wider trend in which corporate media is<|fim_middle|> one place.
Here are 15 viral marketing videos that generated huge amounts of traffic in 2013. I've ranked them by number of views on YouTube. They range from pranks, like the "Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise" (#4 on the list) video made to promote the movie Carrie and the Pepsi MAX "Test Drive" (#7), to tearjerkers like the Google "Reunion" video (#15). Of course there are lots of just plain goofy ones, like Kmart's "Ship My Pants" (#10) and GEICO's "Hump Day" (#11).
For what it's worth, if you only have time to view one video, I highly recommend "Giving," the video that ranked 14th, which was made by a telecommunications company in Thailand.
Which one do you like best? Are there others that aren't on the list but should be? Share your thoughts in the comments below. | getting better than traditional media.
I've written about several of these videos, including Google's "Reunion" video; the WestJet "Christmas Miracle"; the "Ode to Joy" video by Banco de Sabadell in Spain; and Casey Neistat's video in the Philippines where he gave away the promo budget for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
But I thought it might be fun to assemble a bunch of the best ones in | 90 |
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The panel will focus on the challenges higher education is faced with, and discuss what can be done to best prepare future students to become competent members of our changing society, and how universities therefore will need to transform themselves. | Angewandte Innovation Laboratory // How Shall We Study?
How will we work? How shall we study?
It is no longer a question of whether our present work structures will be confronted with radical transformation processes, we need to discuss how this transformation is taking place, and which consequences it will bring. Undisputedly, developments in the fields of automation, digitalization, artificial intelligence or further globalization will have a significant impact on labour: Human workers will particularly be needed for tasks that (at least for now) cannot be carried out automatically – requiring competencies like creativity, unorthodox thinking, innovative | 121 |
in an ambitious portrait project of the UK, self-taught artist carl lavia is creating immensely detailed illustrations of the island nation's 69 cities from an aerial point view. with the help of photographer lorna le bedonchel, the pair use ink and archival paper to produce each drawing, which appear like maps from<|fim_middle|>th museum and art gallery at the end of this month until january 2020. as well as continuing to explore the UK's cities, they hope to develop an app that will allow visitors to explore each drawing in an immersive 3D landscape. | a distance, but reveal a lightweight impressionist style on closer inspection.
in 2016 sketch artist lavia joined forces with photographer lorna le bredonchel to form the ambitious '69 cities of the UK' project. together they are documenting every single city within the UK through large-scale drawings. each artwork takes between 2-4 months to create and is placed on public display within its respective city.
lorna begins by forming a basic pencil 'scaffold' which carl then layers over with minimal guide lines using ink. forming a more defined skeleton of the city, the work is fleshed out over time by constant layering (and erasing of lines) to solidify the intricate city structures in black ink. lorna documents the process until the sketch is finished.
at first glance, the work looks like a traditional map, showing an aerial view of roads, bridges, streets, familiar buildings, monuments and well known landmarks. a closer inspection reveals a lightweight impressionist style, structures hovering and disintegrating, suggesting the process of creation, collapse and re-creation, mirroring the rhythm of the city itself, a complex network of lines tying and unravelling, an urban landscape in perpetual, dynamic transformation.
carl and lorna began their collaborative project in birmingham and have since documented the cities of manchester, edinburgh, dundee, stirling, and perth, scotland. exhibitions have so far been held at a number of significant locations including birmingham museum & art gallery, as well as the central libraries of manchester and edinburgh. the pair are currently working on the perth drawing that will be on display at the per | 341 |
It seems that no matter what you do, socks go into the laundry but never come out. Despite appearances, your drier isn't snacking on your footwear and there are a handful of things you can do to make sure you never lose another sock again.
If you don't want to lose socks in the wash, keep them together. Give them a safety buddy like you used to have when you'd go swimming at camp. The best way to ensure they stay in pairs is to pin them together. Safety pins and binder clips both work well, but if you haven't<|fim_middle|> first of all, folding socks together for washing is stupid, they won't get clean like that and they will take longer to dry, much longer if they're cotton or similar. Secondly and this solves all problems, buy a couple of stocking washing bags. You can get them cheap at any shopping centre, Bunnings has nice big ones that you can fit a lot in. This keeps them all together and they will dry in the bag solving the pain in the arse hanging issue. Problem solved.
I use Wizzpeg sock pegs. Aussie product. Come in different colours so I can differentiate between my socks and my sons' socks (they have similar shoe size to mine). Much more convenient than safety pins. But like any system, if it is not implemented it doesn't work. Hence, I have lots of socks, in pairs. Other family members including my wife have piles of unpaired socks.
Take them on a holiday with you and abandon them. | any to work with you can just roll the sleeve of one sock over the other like you would when folding. On the plus side this takes less time and requires no materials, but it doesn't hold the socks together as well and creates a thicker layer of fabric up top that will take longer to dry.
Sometimes socks get lost before and after they go into the laundry, but it just seems like the drier ate them for a snack. To avoid this problem, there are a couple of things you can do. First, keep a separate (smaller) basket for socks. This way they will not get lost in the tumble when you're bringing them to the wash, and you can combine them (using one of the methods described above) so they're in pairs throughout the entire process. If you have any pets, make sure this hamper is somewhere that they can't access.
To solve two problems, use a small mesh laundry bag as your sock-specific basket and just toss the laundry bag into the wash when it's full. Soapy water will get through the bag and the socks will get clean, but they won't get thrown off into another universe during the washing or drying phase. If you don't feel like buying a mesh bag (even though they cost next to nothing), just use a pillowcase you were going to wash anyway.
Sometimes you are going to lose a few socks no matter how hard you try to avoid the problem. The best thing you can do when this happens is create an orphanage for lost socks. When you find one solo, just store it in a separate place and eventually — or at least hopefully — it will be reunited with its lost brother or sister by the next laundry cycle.
This story has been updated from its original publication date.
- You put a bag in your sock drawer.
-Every time you have a orphaned sock, you put it in the bag.
It will come one day where you will have no matching socks to wear, then, and only then, you look in the bag of orphaned socks.
You WILL find a pair of matching socks in the bag.
Will NOT work in the first few months or so, and no checking the bag before you REALLY need a pair of socks.
It worked for me twice, thanks mum!
I got sick of this orphaned sock crap, so I gave up. I went and bought new socks. All the same.Yep... All my work socks are identical. doesn't matter now which ones end up where.
Yeah, but then they stretch, or later you buy a " similar but not quite the same" pair. Then it's REALLY hard to match socks back up.
I don't really mind if the colours don't match, what gets me is when the FIT doesn't match.
I live in a house with me and five children. I've given up on matching socks. We have a box of socks, all socks go into the box of socks. when you need socks you just grab two socks.....I no longer care if they match.......My mornings are so less stressful now.
Alternatively, you could spend less time worrying about your socks and spend and extra 5 minutes and few dollars once or twice a year stocking up on new socks and ditch all the odd socks. Mine generally go from my feet to the washing basket, and any that don't make it out of the machine show up in the next load and generally get reunited without too much effort anyway.
I just buy 6-10 pairs of identical socks, you can buy them in bunches of 3-5 pairs.
When one develops a hole in the toe I just throw it out.
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This is arguably the most endearing song from the Walt Disney fantasy musical Mary Poppins. Its message "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down", is related by the mysterious nanny (played by Julie Andrews) to her new charges.
The Sherman brothers were stuck trying to coming up with a catchy title and chorus for this song. "An Apple a Day" and "A Stitch in Time" was amongst the suggestions that were later rejected. The pair struggled to come up with something snappy for a fortnight until Robert Sherman's then-8-year-old son came home from school. He recalled: "I said, 'How was school?' He said, 'Great. We<|fim_middle|> whistling and it's so fun. It was one of the funnest things. I do love getting outside of my world and stepping into a challenge like that," she said. "Especially if it is like a whimsical, larger-than-life kind of thing."
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Legal pluralism and legal culture: Mapping the terrain
Sally Engle Merry
The concept of legal pluralism has proved enormously fruitful in challenging ideas about the centrality of state law and increasing awareness of the diversity of ways that individuals interact with the law. In exploring access to justice, it is essential to recognize<|fim_middle|> of legal spheres for everyday life in Gujarat and increases access to justice. This means that it has the potential to provide a new form of legal mobilization and to foster a different legal culture and legal consciousness.
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BT - Legal Pluralism and Development | the variety of forms of justice that individuals have available to them, the nature of each regime, the relations among them, and the variations in accessibility of each. However, in assessing the contribution of legal pluralism analysis to questions about access to justice, it is important to define the constituent units of legal pluralism carefully. The concepts of legal culture and legal consciousness are valuable frameworks for describing the distinct legal spheres within a legally plural field. Moreover, the concept of legal mobilization, along with its relationship to legal culture and legal consciousness, provides a dynamic way of understanding how legal pluralism affects access to justice in practice. Using these concepts, it is possible to ask, in what ways are legal spheres different? How does that difference affect the kinds of justice they deliver? How do these differences shape the extent to which individuals resort to each sphere? How do different patterns of mobilizing distinct legal spheres shape legal culture and legal consciousness? This chapter seeks to clarify some of these issues by unpacking the meanings of legal culture, legal consciousness, and legal mobilization and then showing how disentangling these concepts contributes to our understanding of legal pluralism. It then uses a case study to illustrate these concepts. The case study focuses on the nari adalat, a women's court developed in Gujarat in western India. Inspired by the Indian women's movement, human rights ideas, and the long-established village governance and judicial system of the panchayat, the nari adalat is a new legal forum embedded within other legal institutions. It expands the plurality of legal spheres for everyday life in Gujarat and increases access to justice. This means that it has the potential to provide a new form of legal mobilization and to foster a different legal culture and legal consciousness.
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The tower is more than 4 meters high, 13 meters wide, the walls are made of stone and sand mortar and are 2 meters thick. It housed firearms and a dozen men could stick it out during a fierce battle. The fortifications did not work because the English took Baillif in 1703.
The tower was built at the beginning of the year 1703, at the request of Governor Auget to protect the south the island from English attacks, at the tip of Peres north of the city of Basse-Terre near the river des Pères. It owes its name to the Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Labat (1663-1738) who participated in the founding of a religious mission on the site called "White Fathers" and took the lead in the construction of the defense towers of the 'island.
Today, it is located along the national road 2 connecting Basse-Terre to Pointe-Noire along the coast-under-the-wind.
The history of the municipality of Baillif begins more than two thousand years ago, with the installation of Amerindians along the rivers. There is still evidence of their presence through the engraved rocks of the Duplessis River in Saint Robert. The site of the Duplessis River gathers about twenty engraved rocks, decorated with 150 drawings. That of the Baillif River was discovered after the passage of Hurricane Maryline in September 1995.
The first Europeans living in Baillif were Dominican fathers who had arrived at the same time as the first inhabitants of Vieux-Habitants in 1636. On 26 January 1637, Lienard de l'Olive, who was in charge of leading the colonizing expedition in Guadeloupe, granted religious land from the rivers of the Fathers (formerly called Riviere des Fathers Jacobins) to Baillif.
One of Baillif's most famous characters is Father Jean-Baptiste Labat, a Dominican and military missionary. He arrived in Guadeloupe in 1691 and returned in 1703. He built the Tower of Father Labat, at the tip of the Fathers, who is today the last witness of the first fortified works of Guadeloupe made by Father Labat at the request of Governor Auget and who were to protect the south the island from English attacks. Erected in the early 18th century, the tower of Father Labat is over 4 meters high, 13 meters wide. Its stone and sand walls are 2 meters thick. The tower housed several guns with twelve pounds and carabiners) and a dozen men could stick to it. The fortification did not work because the English took Baillif by the back country, and not by the sea, in 1703.
Father Labat also planted, in defensive hedge, snowshoes. It is a variety of cactus forming dense bushes whose spines are real hooks. The passage of a person depolarizes the magnetic current of these plants and causes the ejection of the spines.
The parish of Saint Dominic was very coveted. In particular, the Baillif cove was an ideal natural site: the littoral plateau is shallow (50 m) and the water of the sea penetrates the cove without all of it being flooded. In addition, the subsoil is home to important sources of fresh water. To protect the site, the Dominicans set up the battery of Saint Dominique which is the oldest fortification of the region, well before those of Vieux Habitants and Capesterre. The Saint Georges battery, the La Madeleine battery, the Père Labat tower, the Pintade battery, the Saint Dominique battery, the Habitation Saint-Louis battery, the Bois Odette, … … all together constitute an effective defense system.
Father Labat was a visionary, interested in growing sugar cane. He had the idea of modernizing the distillation of alcohol with his still. It sets up, then, many distilleries, some ruins form the wealth and memory of the communal heritage.
Dominicans also build an aqueduct. It was destroyed by the General Council to build a sheet metal garage. In May 1802, the slaves carried their guns for 6 kilometers from Bellost, in order to force Richepance to go through the River of Peres to reach Matouba. They also made fires with "cannon wood" which, burning, makes a sound of cannon and made to believe that there is real gunfire. On the engraved rocks of Duplessis, we still see a ball stuck between two trees. All this shows the warrior soul of slaves, led by leaders | 1,008 |
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Part 1: 'We don't know who is manipulating whom'
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Part 3: Seeing revolution from the rooftops
Part 4: A walk through Cairo's revolutionary streets
Part 5: 'People have changed, the government hasn't'
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Zurich social worker Hamed Selim has been in Switzerland more than 20 years. He is a Swiss-Egyptian, but says he still feels more Egyptian than Swiss, despite having a Swiss wife and children who have grown up here. WRS's Tony Ganzer returned to Cairo with Selim, who takes us on a tour of his hometown as he surveys for himself how the revolution has changed it:
The senses can easily be overloaded in Cairo's Islamic quarter, and the bazaars of Khan El Khalili.<|fim_middle|>: Seeing revolution from the rooftops
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Copyright 2007-2020 AnthonyGanzer.com | Shopkeepers eagerly bark for customers for bright and colorful tapestries, fragrant spices and incense.
Before the revolution Hamed Selim says there were always illegal activities in parts of the market extending seemingly for miles. But now things have changed.
HAMED SELIM: "Yeah okay, I didn't see electro-shock before, you know, in the street."
TONY GANZER: "Stun guns and things like that?"
SELIM: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't see this, or these knives. Farther, before the revolution, if you walk with a knife in your pocket, and a police officer stop you, you are in a big problem until jail, you know? But now you see, they sell everything. You couldn't see it before."
GANZER: "Do you think that's good? Was that what the revolution was for?"
SELIM: "No, not at all. The revolution is not for such things. You know like, they would like to have, you know like, students should have a decent job. Or to see that we have hospitals, or we have good schools, or such things."
The many parts of Cairo were Selim's playground and education. He's proudly from downtown, but could find value in many of the city's corners. Even at the Swiss embassy, long before he thought of becoming Swiss.
SELIM: "The embassy: it's just side to side to my school, you know. And every day you pass by, you know, since I am 6 years old. You know like, 'Hi,' and try to play with the dog. And you try to steal the Birnen?"
GANZER: "Pears?"
SELIM: "Yeah, yeah from the trees in the garden from the other side, you know. It's really nice. I'd never think that I could go to Switz…it didn't come. It didn't come in my head."
Selim met his wife while she was on vacation in Cairo, which turned into his moving to Switzerland, working for a time for Caritas, for politicians. But these Egyptian streets remain a place of comfort.
SELIM: "It's called the old Islamic part, you know. Here you find a lot of mosques from the Mamaluk time, you know. And, yeah, they restored the whole area, it's really nice. Here you see behind you, these people who, yeah, make these souvenirs. It's really nice, you know. It's really peaceful, yes."
GANZER: "How do you think things have changed for this part of Cairo since the revolution?"
SELIM: "I think the people here [are] suffering, because people say because of revolution we don't have lots of tourists now. Yeah, they would like to have always this easy-coming money, you know. And I think the revolution did lots of things good, even for them. Because I expect it will be always [better], not as bad as in Mubarak time."
The area around Cairo makes up a mega-city, with a population of about 20 million people. 40 percent of those people live at or below the international poverty line.
Still, politics dominate conversations here in cafes, and in just about every taxi.
SELIM: "A lot of opinion floating around? No, only two. 'Revolution good' or 'bad," and we speak about both. Who says revolution is bad saying 'look around you, there is no police here, and there is this and that.' The people saying the revolution is good, you know like, they say, 'OK, we are patient. We are optimists.'"
Far from the markets, and far from inner-city politics, Hamed Selim still finds quiet at the feet of the pyramids. He lives not far from the Alps in Switzerland, but comes here for peace.
SELIM: "As I was a student, and as I was young, I came here around four times a week riding horses, sleeping here, eating in the desert making a grill, such things. That's a part of my life I really do love, you know. Lots of memories, you know. Wake up the stable guys at 5 o'clock in the morning and tell them, you know, like, 'Hey, I would like to have a horse now.' You know, and just riding, riding horses you know. Feeling, being free in the desert and the pyramids."
It is but a slight respite from the many unknowns in a still evolving revolutionary Cairo.
This story was part of a 2013 Edward Murrow award winning entry
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Q: Proof that automorphisms of unit disk are of the form $\lambda \dfrac{z-a}{\overline{a}z-1}$ I am trying to show that the most general Möbius map that sends the unit disk to the unit disk is $\lambda \dfrac{z-a}{\overline{a}z-1}$ where $|\lambda|=1$ and $|a|<1$. I have shown that the maps of this form are a subgroup of the set of Möbius maps, and that they are automorphisms of the unit disk. I want to show that there are no other maps which do this. The proof I have seen considers an arbitrary Möbius map $f(z)=\dfrac{az+b}{cz+d}$ and then composes this with the map $g(z)=\lambda\dfrac{z-f(0)}{\overline{f(0)}z-1}$, which supposedly takes us back since $g(f(0))=0$ and if we take an arbitrary point on the boundary of the unit circle we know that $f$ and $<|fim_middle|> points to determine a Möbius map?
A: Conceptually, the third degree of freedom is already used by the requirement that the map be an automorphism of the unit disk, so only two points are needed to specify a Möbius automorphism of the unit disk.
In terms of the proof itself, it may be easiest to apply the Schwarz lemma, which states (in one of its forms) that a function which maps the unit disk holomorphically onto itself and satisfies $f(0)=0$ must be a rotation.
| g$ will send it to the boundary, and then we can choose $\lambda$ to rotate it so that it goes back to its original position. So $g$ is the inverse of $f$ and since those maps form a group $f$ must be of that form too. I am not sure why considering two points is sufficient to know that $(g \circ f) (z)=z$ though. Don't we need three | 89 |
How we see ourselves plays an important part in what we think about ourselves; our self esteem. Some people are more concerned about this than others but even people who would normally not bother about the way they look can find their self esteem takes a fall when they are going through cancer treatment.
Lets face it, you'd have to be a pretty strong character to not worry about loosing your eye brows and eye lashes along with all your other body hair.
And its not only female patients who feel this way; many male cancer patients can find themselves uneasy with their new body image post cancer treatment.
Body image issues have often been ignored by the medical profession and<|fim_middle|> help improve the long-term quality of life for survivors.
Most cancer patients experience temporary treatment-related physical changes, like hair loss during chemo, or fluctuations in their weight. Others might have permanent changes, like surgical scars.
It seems that, temporary or permanent, these changes can negatively affect how you see your body. Even changes within your body that are not visible, like having a hysterectomy, can have just as negative an impact on your body image as external physical changes.
Often, when treatment has ended, close family expect you to somehow put it all behind you and move on. However, it can take time to adjust to and accept your post-cancer body, and it's important for us to do it at our own pace, until we feel comfortable with our body again..
Try and accept that your body has changed and that there may be new limitations on what you can and can't do.
Try and do gentle exercise as this will help not only your physical health but also your mental health.
Try not to compare yourself to other cancer patients or even other people in general. We are all different and all have bodies that will react to treatment in different ways.
Don't be hard on yourself either; you and your body have been through a lot so its going to take some time to get back on an even keel.
Pamper yourself occasionally; try and eat healthily and if you are having problems adjusting then don't be afraid to ask for help. There are support groups up and down the country and if you are really struggling then ask you GP to refer you to a counsellor so that you can talk about your issues. | patients have been left to pick up the pieces alone and try to get on with life as best they can but as more and more people are now surviving cancer, an increasing number of GPs, psychologists, and social workers are beginning to focus on body image issues to | 57 |
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\section{Introduction}
The intensive development of the gauge/ gravity correspondence has yielded useful toolkits for exploring non-perturbative regime of quantum field theories.
The gauge/gravity duality states that all the physics in a d-dimensional conformal gauge theory at strong coupling can be described in terms of a gravitational theory in a $(d+1)$-dimensional spacetime with certain asymptotics.
In particular,
the dynamics of the 4d $\mathcal{N} =4$ $SU(N)$ SYM in the strong coupling regime is equivalent to the dynamics of the classical IIB superstring theory on $AdS_{5}\times S^{5}$ in the weakly coupled regime.
This provides a dictionary between observables of the dual theories, which gives an opportunity to probe non-perturbative dynamics of gauge theories. An important class of observables includes various closed string configurations which energy spectrum can be related to anomalous dimensions of single-trace local operators in SYM.
Despite that computing the string spectrum even in asymptotically AdS backgrounds is an intricate problem, the integrability methods used within the holographic duality allowed to find and analyze many string configurations.
Addressing the important issues as strong coupling phenomena, it became of great interest to extend the holographic duality to the case of finite temperature, which generically has less symmetries and phenomenologically more appropriate. Thermal observables contain a lot of information on dynamics of the system, however, they seems to be difficult to compute.
The AdS/CFT correspondence allows to relate characteristics of black black holes in asymptotically AdS spacetimes to observables of strongly coupled quantum systems. The solutions are assumed to describe thermal states of the dual CFT with certain Hawking temperature. The use of AdS/CFT correspondence appears to be a powerful method to investigate the thermal states of CFT near conformal points. Indeed, the horizon is playing the role of a thermal background. This approach allows to include more dimensionless parameters in the theory making it very useful not only to collect important information for higher dimensional theory but also to study its holographic dual.
Particularly, the AdS black holes with spherical horizon are dual to the thermal ensemble of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM on $\mathbb{S}^{1}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$, while a planar AdS black brane is dual to finite-temperature $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM on $\mathbb{S}^{1}\times \mathbb{R}^{3}$\cite{Witten, Witten2}. An intriguing suggestion has been made in \cite{HHT}, namely to consider a 5d Kerr-AdS black hole with a non-zero angular momentum as a gravity dual to "a rotating Einstein universe" on $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$.
As a higher dimensional black hole the Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ black hole solution is characterized by two rotational parameters, related to the two parts of the angular momenta independently preserving. These parameters can be associated to the rotation in different planes. Note, that
Kerr-AdS black holes share with non-rotating AdS black holes a number of common interesting features including Hawking-Page phase transition, scaling of the free energy \cite{HReal} and found
its application in a holographic description of a rotating quark-gluon plasma
\cite{NAS}-\cite{GGU2021}. At high temperatures the conformal symmetry is restored, so this description seems to be viable.
Certain thermal holographic observables can be found considering string dynamics in the black hole backgrounds.
Circular closed strings in AdS black holes have been discussed in \cite{Petkou, Alishahiha:2002fi}. Instead of rotating strings in the pure AdS case, the strings in the black holes are orbiting in these backgrounds.
In particular, orbiting strings outside the 5d AdS-Schwarzschild black holes were interpreted as states of large spins in the dual thermal ensemble of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$. For the case of rotating AdS black holes the thermodynamical stability of closed string in the 5d Kerr-AdS black holes was studied with respect to angular momentum leakage to the black hole. A generalization of a pulsating string \cite{min,Engquist:2003, Dimov:2004,Smedback:2004} to the 5d AdS-Schwarzschild background was suggested in \cite{Alishahiha:2002fi}. Following the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization the energy of the string was computed, this energy can be associated with dispersion relations of the states in the $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM theory at finite temperature.
In this paper we study pulsating string configurations in the 5d Kerr-AdS black hole with equal rotational parameters. We construct a pulsating string solution in the black hole background.
We also compute the string energy reducing the string Nambu-Goto action to the mechanical Lagrangian and applying the Bohr-Sommerfeld analysis. The potential wells are related to the position of the outer black hole horizon and the boundary of the black hole spacetime. We derive the relation for the energy for the case of a small value of the rotational parameters.
In the case of vanishing rotation this relation for the energy comes to that one obtained earlier in the work \cite{Alishahiha:2002fi}. Note, that for the pure AdS case the energy of the string can be related to the anomalous dimensions of single trace operators in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM theory. In the black hole case we cannot establish this connection, since the notion of the anonymous dimension is defined in the conformal point. However, we can think on its relevance to the dispersion relations of the states in the thermal ensemble of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM theory on $\mathbb{S}^{1}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$.
We also perform a WKB approximation and obtain the Schr\"odinger equation on the reduced subspace $y=const$.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section ~\ref{Sect2} we give a review of the Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ black hole solution with equal rotational parameters.
Section~\ref{Sect3} is devoted to a pulsating string solutions.
In Section \ref{Sect31} we review a pulsating string solution in the background $AdS_{5}\times S^{5}$. Then we present a solution for a pulsating string in Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ in Section \ref{Sect32}.
In Section \ref{Sect4} we consider the Bohr-Sommerfeld analysis and the WKB approximation. Finally, in Section \ref{Sect5} we conclude. In appendices we collect a number of useful relations for our computations.
\newpage
\section{5d Kerr-AdS black hole geometry}\label{Sect2}
The 5d Kerr-AdS black hole solution was constructed in \cite{HHT} and describes a rotating black hole with an AdS asymptotic. The metric of the 5d Kerr-AdS black holes is characterized by two rotational parameters $a$, $b$, related to the Casimirs of $SU(2)\times SU(2)\simeq SO(4)$. In present paper we focus on the case of equal rotational parameters $a=b$.
The metric in the so-called AdS coordinates (static-at-infinity frame) can be represented as follows
\begin{eqnarray}\label{GLKA}
ds^{2}& =& -(1+ y^{2}\ell^{2})dT^{2} + y^{2}(d\Theta^{2} + \sin^{2}\Theta d\Phi^{2} + \cos^{2}\Theta d\Psi^{2}) \\
&+& \frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}(dT - a \sin^{2}\Theta d\Phi - a\cos^{2}\Theta d\Psi)^{2}
+\frac{y^{4}dy^{2}}{y^{4}(1 + y^{2}\ell^{2}) - \frac{2M}{\Xi^{2}}y^{2} + \frac{2Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}}},\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where
\begin{equation}
\Xi = 1 - a^{2}\ell^2,
\end{equation}
$M$ is the mass of the black hole, $a$ is a rotational parameter and we use the Hopf coordinates to parametrize the metric on the sphere with $ 0\leq\Theta \leq \frac{\pi}{2}$, $0\leq\Phi,\Psi\leq2\pi$. Like ordinary Kerr solutions Kerr-AdS black holes have inner and outer horizons. We consider, that
the holographic radial coordinate $y$ with values on the region $(y_{+}, +\infty)$, where $y_{+}$ is an outer horizon of the black hole and we reach an AdS-asymptotics as $y$ goes to $+\infty$.
The position of the outer horizon in these coordinates is defined by a largest root of the equation
\begin{equation}
y^{4}(1 + y^{2}\ell^{2}) - \frac{2M}{\Xi^{2}}y^{2} + \frac{2Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}} =0.
\end{equation}
Particularly, for the extremal 5d Kerr-AdS black hole the horizonn is given by
\begin{eqnarray}
y^{2} = \frac{1}{4\Xi}\left[4a^{2}\ell^{2} - 1 + \sqrt{1 + 8a^{2}\ell^{2}}\right].
\end{eqnarray}
From (\ref{GLKA}) it is easy to see that with $y \to \infty$ the 4d boundary of 5d Kerr-AdS black hole is 4d $R\times S^{3}$ \cite{HReal, Gibbons:2004ai}
\begin{eqnarray}
ds^{2} = - dT^{2} + d\Theta^{2} +\sin^{2} \Theta d\Phi^{2} + \cos^{2}\Theta d \Psi^{2},
\end{eqnarray}
The Hawking temperature of the Kerr-AdS black hole is given by
\begin{equation}\label{hawkT}
T_{H} = \frac{1}{2\pi}\left(\frac{2y_{+}(1+y^{2}_{+}\ell^2)}{(y^{2}_{+}+a^{2})} - \frac{1}{y_{+}}\right).
\end{equation}
The angular momentum and the angular velocity are given by
\begin{eqnarray}
J = \frac{\pi M a}{ \Xi^{3}}, \quad \Omega = \frac{a(1+ y^2_{+}\ell^2)}{y^{2}_{+}+a^{2}},
\end{eqnarray}
correspondingly.
Note, that there is a Hawking-Page phase transition in the Kerr-AdS black hole, and the rotation has an influence on it \cite{AGG2020}.
Taking $M =0$ in the 5d Kerr-AdS solution (\ref{GLKA}) we get the following form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Kerr-AdSab}
ds^{2}= - (1+ y^{2}\ell^{2})dT^{2} + y^{2}(d\Theta^{2} + \sin^{2}\Theta d\Phi^{2} + \cos^{2}\Theta d\Psi^{2})^{2}
+\frac{dy^{2}}{(1 + y^{2}\ell^{2})},
\end{eqnarray}
that is merely the global representation of the AdS metric.\\
The 5d Kerr-AdS black hole holographically is interpreted as a gravity dual of the 4d thermal $\mathcal{N} =4$ SYM theory on $\mathbb{R}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$ (a thermal ensemble of $\mathcal{N} =4$ SYM theory) at strong coupling \cite{HHT, HReal, Petkou, Alishahiha:2002fi}. The temperature of the theory is defined by the Hawking temperature (\ref{hawkT}). Comparing to the pure AdS case, the energy of the string in the black hole background can not be identified to the scaling dimension, which is defined near the conformal points. However, it is still possible to relate these strings to single gauge-invariant states, so the string analysis can be linked to the dispersion relations of the stationary states of the thermal $\mathcal{N} =4$ SYM theory \cite{Alishahiha:2002fi}.
\section{Pulsating strings in 5d Kerr-AdS background}
\label{Sect3}
In this section we will make a brief overview of the pulsating strings in the most supersymmetric example of AdS/CFT correspondence, namely $AdS_5\times S^5$. Next we apply this construction to obtain pulsating string solutions in 5d Kerr-AdS background.
\subsection{Pulsating strings in AdS/CFT correspondence}
\label{Sect31}
Pulsating strings were first introduced in \cite{min}
and further developments and generalizations have been proposed in \cite{Engquist:2003, Dimov:2004, Smedback:2004}. Since then a number of applications of pulsating strings in holographic systems appeared, see for instance \cite{Khan:2003sm,
Arutyunov:2003za, Kruczenski:2004cn, Bobev:2004id, Park:2005kt, deVega:1994yz, Chen:2008qq, Dimov:2009rd, Arnaudov:2010by, Arnaudov:2010dk, Beccaria:2010zn, Giardino:2011jy, Pradhan:2013sja, Pradhan:2014zqa}. In this section we give a brief review of the pulsating string method suggested in \cite{min}.
\indent The pulsating string is a circular string which is expanding and contracting while moving on $S^5$. The metric of $S^5$ and the relevant part of $AdS_5$ are given by
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\begin{equation}\label{1.1}
ds^2=R^2\left(\cos^2\theta d\Omega_3^2+d\theta^2+\sin^2\theta d\psi^2+
d\rho^2-{\rm{cosh}}^2\rho dt^2\right),
\end{equation}
%
where $R^2={\alpha}^\prime\sqrt{\lambda}$ with $\lambda$ the 't Hooft coupling. One can obtain the simplest pulsating string solution by identifying the target space time coordinate $t$ with the worldsheet
one, $t=\tau$, and setting $\psi=m\sigma$, which corresponds to a string stretched along $\psi$ direction. We also set the ansatz for $\theta=\theta(\tau)$ and $\rho=\rho(\tau)$. Hence, the Nambu-Goto action reduces to
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\begin{equation}\label{1.1a}
S=-m\sqrt{\lambda}\int dt \sin\theta \sqrt{{\rm{cosh}}^2\rho-\dot{\rho}^2 -\dot\theta^2}\,,
\end{equation}
%
where $\dot{\theta}=d\theta/d\tau$. In order to obtain the solution and the string spectrum it is useful to pass to Hamiltonian
formulation. For this purpose, after identifying the canonical momenta,
%
\begin{equation}
{\Pi _\rho }\; = \;\frac{{m\sqrt \lambda \;\sin \theta \;\dot \rho }}{{\sqrt {{{\cosh }^2}\rho - {{\dot \rho }^2} - {{\dot \theta }^2}} }},\qquad {\Pi _\theta }\; = \;\frac{{m\sqrt \lambda \;\sin \theta \;\dot \theta }}{{\sqrt {{{\cosh }^2}\rho - {{\dot \rho }^2} - {{\dot \theta }^2}} }},
\end{equation}
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we can write the Hamiltonian in the form \cite{min}:
%
\begin{equation}
H={\rm{cosh}}\rho\sqrt{\Pi_\rho^2+\Pi_\theta^2+m^2\lambda\sin^2\theta}.
\label{1.2}
\end{equation}
%
If the string is placed at the origin ($\rho=0$) of $AdS_5$ space, we
see that the squared Hamiltonian have a form similar to a point
particle. The last term in (\ref{1.2}) can be considered as a
perturbation. Therefore one can first find the wave function for a free particle
in the above geometry
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\begin{equation}\label{1.3}
- \frac{{\cosh \rho }}{{{{\sinh }^3}\rho }}\frac{d}{{d\rho }}\left( {\cosh \rho {{\sinh }^3}\rho \frac{d}{{d\rho }}\psi (\rho ,\theta )} \right) - \frac{{{{\cosh }^2}\rho }}{{\sin \theta {{\cos }^3}\theta }}\frac{d}{{d\theta }}\left( {\sin \theta {{\cos }^3}\theta \frac{d}{{d\theta }}\psi (\rho ,\theta )} \right) = {E^2}\psi (\rho ,\theta ).
\end{equation}
%
Standard separation of variables, $\psi (\rho ,\theta )=f(\rho)\, g(\theta)$, leads to
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\begin{equation}\label{eqTheta}
\frac{{1 }}{{g(\theta)\sin \theta {{\cos }^3}\theta }}\frac{d}{{d\theta }}\left( {\sin \theta {{\cos }^3}\theta \frac{d}{{d\theta }}g (\theta )} \right)=\alpha
\end{equation}
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and
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\begin{equation}\label{eqRho}
\frac{{\cosh \rho }}{{{{\sinh }^2}\rho }}\frac{d}{{d(\cosh\rho )}}\left( {\cosh \rho {{\sinh }^4}\rho \frac{d}{{d(\cosh\rho )}}f (\rho )} \right) + \alpha\,{{\cosh }^2}\rho\,f(\rho) + {E^2} f (\rho )=0,
\end{equation}
where $\alpha$ is the separation constant.
%
%
Equation (\ref{eqTheta}) reduces to
%
\begin{equation}
g''(\theta ) + (\cot \theta - 3\tan \theta )g'(\theta ) - \alpha g(\theta ) = 0.
\end{equation}
%
Its regular solution is proportional to a hypergeometric function,
%
\begin{equation}
g(\theta ) = {{\mkern 1mu} _2}{F_1}\left( {1 - \frac{{\sqrt {4 - \alpha } }}{2},\frac{1}{2}\left( {\sqrt {4 - \alpha } + 2} \right),2,{{\cos }^2}\theta } \right),
\end{equation}
which reduces to a polynomial if its series is truncated at some finite integer order $n$. This can be achieved if we set its first argument to be equal to $-n$, thus we find the separation constant $\alpha$:
%
\begin{equation}\label{eqSeparAlpha}
\alpha = - 4n(n + 2).
\end{equation}
However, due to the relation between the hypergeometric function and the Jacobi polynomials, we actually have
%
\begin{eqnarray}
_2{F_1}( - n,\tilde \alpha + \tilde \beta + 1 + n,\tilde \alpha + 1,z) = \frac{{n!}}{{{{(\tilde \alpha + 1)}_n}}}P_n^{(\tilde \alpha ,\tilde \beta )}(1 - 2z),
\end{eqnarray}
%
where, in our case $\tilde\alpha=1$, $\tilde\beta=0$ and $z=\cos\theta$. We can further transform the Jacobi polynomial to the standard spherical harmonics $P_{2n}(\cos\theta)$, i.e. $P_m^{(1 ,0 )}(1 - 2z)=c P_{m}(z)$ \cite{Braaksma_1968}, where $m=2n$ should be even. Thus the final polynomial solution of Eq. (\ref{eqTheta}) up to a normalization constant is
%
\begin{equation}
g(\theta ) = P_{2n}(\cos\theta).
\end{equation}
Let us take a look at the second equation (\ref{eqRho}). Changing the variable $\rho$ to $x=\cosh\rho >0 $, one finds
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\begin{equation}
x^2\,(x^2-1)\, f''(x) +(5x^2-1)\,x\,f'(x) +\left( \alpha\,x^2 + E^2 \right) \, f(x) =0.
\end{equation}
%
One can look for a simple polynomial solution of type $f(x)= c x^a$, where $a$ is some constant. This leads to
%
\begin{equation}
c{x^a}\left( {{x^2}\left( {{a^2} + 4a + \alpha } \right) - {a^2} + {E^2}} \right) = 0,
\end{equation}
%
which is satisfied only if
%
\begin{equation}
{a^2} + 4a = - \alpha ,\quad {E^2} - {a^2} = 0.
\end{equation}
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Substituting $\alpha$ from equation (\ref{eqSeparAlpha}) one finds $a=-2 n-4$ and the complete solution to Eq. (\ref{1.3}) becomes
%
\begin{equation}
{\Psi _{2n}}(\rho ,\theta ) = {(\cosh \rho )^{ - 2n - 4}}{\mkern 1mu} P_{2n}(\cos\theta),
\label{1.4}
\end{equation}
%
The energy levels are given by
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\begin{equation}\label{1.5}
E=\Delta=2n+4.
\end{equation}
According to holographic dictionary the energy on string side should correspond to the (anomalous) dimension of certain operator on field theory side. Thus, \eqref{1.5} is interpreted as the bare dimension of the field theory operator. The weak coupling on string theory side allows to expand \eqref{1.2} in $\lambda$ and obtain the first quantum corrections.
For highly excited states (large energies), one should
take large $n$, so we can approximate the spherical harmonics as
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\begin{equation}\label{1.6}
P_{2n}(\cos\theta)\approx \sqrt{\frac{4}{\pi}}\cos(2n\theta).
\end{equation}
%
The first order correction to the energy in perturbation theory now yields
%
\begin{equation}\label{1.7}
\delta E^2=\int\limits_0^{\pi/2}d\theta\,
\Psi_{2n}^\star(0,\theta)\,m^2\lambda \sin^2\theta\,
\Psi_{2n}(\theta)
=\frac{m^2 \lambda}{2}.
\end{equation}
%
Finally, the corrected energy levels yield
%
\begin{equation}
E = \sqrt {(2n + 4)^2 + \frac{{{m^2}\lambda }}{2}} .
\end{equation}
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Therefore, one can calculate the anomalous dimension of the corresponding YM operators\footnote{See \cite{min} for more
details.}
%
\begin{equation}
(\Delta-4)^2=4n^2+\delta E^2,
\end{equation}
%
or up to first order in $\lambda$:
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\begin{equation}\label{1.8}
\Delta - 4 = 2n\left( {1 + \frac{1}{2}{\mkern 1mu} \frac{{{m^2}\lambda }}{{{{(2n)}^2}}}} \right).
\end{equation}
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The $R$-charge is zero, but it can included by considering a pulsating string on $S^5$ whith center
of mass moving on $S^3$ subspace of $S^5$ \cite{Engquist:2003}. While, in the
previous example $S^3$ part of the metric was assumed trivial, now we
consider all the $S^3$ angles to depend on $\tau$ (only). The
corresponding Nambu-Goto action is then given by
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\begin{equation}\label{1.9}
S=-m\sqrt{\lambda}\int\,
dt\sin\theta\,\sqrt{1-\dot\theta^2-\cos^2\theta
g_{ij}\dot\phi^i\dot\phi^j },
\end{equation}
%
where $\phi_i$ are $S^3$ angles and $g_{ij}$ is the corresponding
$S^3$ metric. In this case the Hamiltonian is written by \cite{Engquist:2003}
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\begin{equation}\label{1.10}
H=\sqrt{\Pi_\theta^2+\frac{g^{ij}\Pi_i\Pi_j}{\cos^2\theta}
+m^2\lambda\sin^2\theta},
\end{equation}
%
where again the squared Hamiltonian looks like the point
particle one. The resubting potential has angular
dependence. Denoting the quantum number of $S^3$ and $S^5$ by $J$ and
$L$ correspondingly, one can write the Schr\"odinger equation as
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\begin{equation}\label{1.11}
-\frac{4}{\omega}\dfrac{d}{d\omega}\Psi(\omega)
+\frac{J(J+1)}{\omega}\Psi(\omega) = L(L+4) \Psi(\omega),
\end{equation}
%
where $\omega=\cos^2\theta$. The explicit solution is
%
\begin{equation}\label{1.12}
\Psi(\omega)=\frac{\sqrt{2(l+1)}}{(l-j)!}\,\frac{1}{\omega}\left(
\frac{d}{d\omega}\right)^{l-j}
\omega^{l+j}(1-\omega)^{l-j}
, \quad j=\frac{J}{2},\quad l=\frac{L}{2}.
\end{equation}
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The first order correction to the squared energy $\delta E^2$ in this case yields
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\begin{equation}\label{1.13}
\delta E^2={m^2\lambda\,\frac{2(l+1)^2-(j+1)^2-j^2}{(2l+1)(2l+3)}}.
\end{equation}
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The corrected energy (up to first order in $\lambda$) can be written in the form
%
\begin{equation}\label{1.14}
E
= \sqrt {L(L + 4)} + \frac{{ {m^2}\lambda (L - J)(J + L)}}{{4{L^2}\sqrt {L(L + 4)} }}+\mathcal{O}(\lambda^2).
\end{equation}
%
Finally, the anomalous dimension can also be calculated
%
\begin{equation}\label{1.15}
\gamma=\frac{m^2\lambda}{4L}\alpha(2-\alpha),
\end{equation}
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with $\alpha=1-J/L$.
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\subsection{Exact solution of pulsating string in 5d Kerr-AdS} \label{Sect32}
The purpose of this subsection is to obtain a pulsating string solutions in 5d Kerr-AdS background. To this end we will construct the Polyakov action and find appropriate solutions.
The starting point is the Polyakov string action in the conformal gauge is given by
\begin{equation}\label{actP}
S_{P} = - \frac{1}{4\pi \alpha'} \int d\tau d\sigma\{\sqrt{-h}h^{\alpha\beta}\partial_{\alpha}X^{M}\partial_{\beta}X^{N}G_{MN}\},
\end{equation}
where $h^{\alpha\beta} = \textrm{diag}(-1,1)$, $\alpha,\beta = 0,1$, $M,N=1,..,5$. \\
Using the notations in appendix A, Kerr-AdS string Lagrangian takes the following explicit form
\begin{align}\label{LagrangianP}
-4\pi\alpha'\mathcal{L}&=\,G_{TT}(T'^2-\dot{T}^2)+G_{yy}(y'^2-\dot{y}^2)+G_{\Theta\Theta}(\Theta'^2-\dot{\Theta}^2)\nonumber\\
&+G_{\Phi\Phi}(\Phi'^2-\dot{\Phi}^2)+G_{\Psi\Psi}(\Psi'^2-\dot{\Psi}^2)\nonumber\\
&+2G_{T\Phi}(T'\Phi'-\dot{T}\dot{\Phi})+2G_{T\Psi}(T'\Psi'-\dot{T}\dot{\Psi})+2G_{\Phi\Psi}(\Phi'\Psi'-\dot{\Phi}\dot{\Psi})\, ,
\end{align}
where we have used $ \,\dot{X}=\partial_{\tau} X \, $ and $\, X'=\partial_{\sigma} X\,$.\\
Beside the equations of motion (EoM) the solutions should also satisfy the Virasoro constraints.
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Vir1}
\textrm{Vir1:}\quad &&\sum_{M,N}G_{MN}\left(\partial_{\tau}X^{M}\partial_{\tau}X^{N} + \partial_{\sigma}X^{M}\partial_{\sigma}X^{N}\right)= 0,\\ \label{Vir2}
\textrm{Vir2:}\quad&&\sum_{M,N}G_{MN}\partial_{\tau}X^{M}\partial_{\sigma}X^{N} = 0.
\end{eqnarray}
\paragraph{Pulsating string configuration involving the holographic direction "y" . }
In view of our further considerations, we would like to obtain a classical pulsating string solution having dependence on the holographic direction "y". Through the following calculations we will show that such a solution exists.
In ansatz for the pulsating string configuration, involving the y-direction, which is consistent with the equations of motion is
\begin{equation}\label{y-ansatz}
T=\kappa\,\tau,\qquad y=y(\tau),\qquad \Theta=\Theta^*\,=\,const,\qquad \Phi=\,m_{\phi}\sigma,\qquad \Psi=\,m_{\psi} \sigma\,.
\end{equation}
The Polyakov string lagrangian takes the form
\begin{equation}\label{P-Lagrangian}
L_{P}\,\sim\,-G_{TT}\,\dot{T}^2 -G_{yy}\,\dot{y}^2 +G_{\Phi\Phi}\,m_{\phi}^2 +G_{\Psi\Psi}\,m_{\psi}^2 +2G_{\Phi\Psi}\,m_{\phi}\,m_{\psi}\,.
\end{equation}
Let's focus first on (\ref{Vir2}) (Vir2) more precisely. Substituting the string ansatz \eqref{y-ansatz} (Vir2) can be rewritten as
\begin{equation}
Vir2: \qquad \kappa\, \frac{2aM}{y^2 \Xi^3}\left(m_{\phi}\,\sin^2\Theta + m_{\psi}\, \cos^2\Theta \right) =0\,.
\end{equation}
Since $y$ is not a constant, this condition fixes $\,\Theta=\Theta^*\,$ as follows
\begin{equation}\label{Vir2 theta*}
m_{\phi}\,\sin^2\Theta^* + m_{\psi}\, \cos^2\Theta^* =0\,\Rightarrow\, \tan^2 \Theta^* = \,-\,\frac{m_{\psi}}{m_{\phi}}\,>\,0,\, \textrm{sign}(m_{\phi})\,\neq\,\textrm{sign}(m_{\psi})\,.
\end{equation}
Substituting the ansatz \eqref{y-ansatz} in \eqref{Vir1}, the (Vir1) gives us
\begin{equation}
G_{TT}\kappa^2 + G_{yy}\,\dot{y}^2 +y^2\,\left( m_{\phi}^2\,\sin^2\Theta + m_{\psi}^2\, \cos^2\Theta \right) + \frac{2a^2 M}{y^2 \Xi^3}\left(m_{\phi}\,\sin^2\Theta + m_{\psi}\, \cos^2\Theta \right)^2 \,=\,0\,.
\end{equation}
Taking into account (Vir2) \eqref{Vir2 theta*} it can be written as
\begin{equation}
G_{TT}\kappa^2 + G_{yy}\,\dot{y}^2 +y^2\,\left( m_{\phi}^2\,\sin^2\Theta^* + m_{\psi}^2\, \cos^2\Theta^* \right)\,=\,0\,.
\end{equation}
Explicitly
\begin{equation}
\frac{y^4}{\left( y^{4}(1+y^{2}\ell^{2})-\frac{2M}{\Xi^{2}}y^{2} + \frac{2Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}}\right) }\,\dot{y}^2 \,=\,\kappa\,\left( 1+ y^2 \ell^2 - \frac{2M}{y^2 \Xi^3} \right)- y^2\,K^2\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
K^2\,\equiv\, \left( m_{\phi}^2 + |m_{\phi}|\,|m_{\psi}| \right) \, \sin^2 \Theta^* \,.
\end{equation}
The above equation can be written as in the following form
\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{\dot{y}}{y^2}\right) ^2 \,=\, \left[ \kappa^2 \,\left(-\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,\frac{1}{y^4}+\frac{1}{y^2}+\ell^2\right) -K^2 \right] \,\left[ \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,\frac{1}{y^6} -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,\frac{1}{y^4}+\frac{1}{y^2}+\ell^2 \right]\,.
\end{equation}
It is a simple exercise to bring this equation to the form
\begin{equation}
\left[\frac{d}{d\tau} \left(\frac{1}{y}\right)\right]^2\,=\,\kappa^2\,\left( -\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,\frac{1}{y^4}+\frac{1}{y^2}+\ell^2 - \frac{K^2}{\kappa^2} \right)\, \left( \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,\frac{1}{y^6} -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,\frac{1}{y^4}+\frac{1}{y^2}+\ell^2 \right)\,\geq\,0\,.
\end{equation}
It is convenient to introduce the function $\,u(\tau)\,\equiv\, \frac{1}{y(\tau)}\,>0\,$. Thus one can write the equation
\begin{equation}
\dot{u}^2\,=\, \kappa^2\,\left( -\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,u^4+u^2+\ell^2 - \frac{K^2}{\kappa^2} \right)\, \left( \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,u^6 -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,u^4+u^2+\ell^2 \right)\,,
\end{equation}
or, equivalently
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{4}\left[\frac{d}{d\tau}u^2\right]^2\,=\, \kappa^2\,u^2\,\left( -\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,u^4+u^2+\ell^2 - \frac{K^2}{\kappa^2} \right)\, \left( \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,u^6 -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,u^4+u^2+\ell^2 \right)\,.
\end{equation}
Denoting $\, z(\tau)\,\equiv\,u^2(\tau)\,=\,\frac{1}{y^2(\tau)} \,>\,0\, $ , we can write the above equation in convenient form
\begin{equation}\label{equation z}
\dot{z}^2\,=\,4 \kappa^2\,z\,\left( -\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,z^2+z+\ell^2 - \frac{K^2}{\kappa^2} \right)\, \left( \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,z^3 -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,z^2+z+\ell^2 \right)\,\geq\,0\,.
\end{equation}
\footnote{Here to recall
\begin{equation}
K^2\,\equiv\, \left( m_{\phi}^2 + |m_{\phi}|\,|m_{\psi}| \right) \, \sin^2 \Theta^* \,.
\end{equation}
}
In terms of the new variable $\,z\,$ the holographic boundary is realized at $\,z=0\,$ . We can always impose appropriate conditions on the right-hand side of equation \eqref{equation z} that it has a periodic solution between the holographic boundary and the horizon of the black hole. The polynomial $\,\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3}\,z^3 -\frac{2M}{\Xi^2}\,z^2+z+\ell^2\,$, the expression in the last brackets, always has one negative root $\,z_{-}<0\,$ and let the other two are complex. Furthermore, provided that $\,\ell^2\,<\,\frac{K^2}{\kappa^2}\,$, the polynomial in the first brackets $\,-\frac{2M}{\Xi^3}\,z^2+z+\ell^2 - \frac{K^2}{\kappa^2}\,$ has two positive roots $\,0<z_1 < z_2 \,$, which are turning points. The ordinance has been fulfilled $\,z_{-} <0<z_1 <z(\tau) < z_2 < z_{horizon}$. Then, the equation \eqref{equation z} can be represented in the following schematically form
\begin{equation}
\dot{z}^2\,=\,\frac{8M \kappa^2}{\Xi^3}\,z\,(z-z_1)(z_2 -z)(z+|z_{-}|)\,P_2 (z),\qquad P_2 (z)=az^2+bz+c >0\,.
\end{equation}
Therefore, there exists a pulsating string cofiguration, expanding and contracting between the turning points $\,z_1\,$ and $\,z_2\,$.
\paragraph{Pulsating string configuration on the subspace $y=const$. }
In order to obtain pulsating string solutions on the subspace $y=const$ we
consider the following string ansatz ($\,\kappa > 0\, $):
\begin{equation}\label{ansatz}
T =\kappa \tau, \quad \Theta = \theta(\tau),\quad {\Phi = m_{\phi}\sigma +\phi(\tau),\quad \Psi = m_{\psi}\sigma + \psi(\tau)}, \quad y = const.
\end{equation}
Taking into account \eqref{ansatz} the string Lagrangian can be represented as
\begin{eqnarray}\label{lagrangianAnsatz}
\mathcal{L}_{P} &\sim& - \left( \kappa^{2} G_{TT} + \dot{\theta}^{2} G_{\Theta\Theta}
+\dot{\phi}^{2}G_{\Phi\Phi} +\dot{\psi}^{2} G_{\Psi\Psi} + 2 \kappa(\dot{\phi} G_{T\Phi} + \dot{\psi} G_{T\Psi}) +2 \dot{\phi}\dot{\psi} G_{\Phi\Psi}\right)\nonumber\\
& +& m_{\phi}^{2} G_{\Phi\Phi} +m_\psi^{2} G_{\Psi\Psi} +2 m_\phi m_{\psi} G_{\Phi\Psi}.
\end{eqnarray}
Let us list the relevant equations of motion (EoM). Since the ansatz \eqref{ansatz} is linear in worldsheet time $\,\tau\,$, the EoMs for all non-trivial 2d fields become actually equations with respect to $\,\sigma\,$ and all constants $\,A_T , \,\, A_{\phi},\,\, A_{\psi}\,$ below are the integration constants. The EoMs for $\,\Phi,\,\,\Psi\,$ and $\,T\,$ read off as follows
\begin{eqnarray}
\Phi:\quad &-&\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa +\left(\frac{y^{2}}{a}+\frac{2aM}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\sin^{2}\theta\right) \dot{\phi} + \frac{2Ma\cos^{2}\theta }{\Xi^{3}y^{2}}\dot{\psi} = \frac{A_{\phi}}{a\sin^{2}\theta},\\
\Psi:\quad &-&\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa +\left(\frac{y^{2}}{a}+\frac{2aM}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\cos^{2}\theta\right) \dot{\psi} + \frac{2Ma\sin^{2}\theta }{\Xi^{3}y^{2}}\dot{\phi} = \frac{A_{\psi}}{a\cos^{2}\theta},\\
T:\quad && \frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa -\frac{2aM}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}(\dot{\phi}\sin^{2}\theta + \dot{\psi} \cos^{2}\Theta) = A_{T}+ (1 + y^{2}l^{2})\kappa.
\end{eqnarray}
Correspondingly, the equation for $\,y\,$ has the form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{yeq2}
&& \kappa^{2}(2\ell^{2}y+ \frac{4M}{y^{3}\Xi^{3}}) - 2y \dot{\theta}^{2} - \frac{4\kappa}{y}\left(\frac{2Ma\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi}}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}} + \frac{2Ma\cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi}}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\right)\nonumber\\
&+&2y \left(\sin^{2}\theta m^{2}_{\phi} + m^{2}_{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta\right) - 2y(\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi}^{2}+ \cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi}^{2})\nonumber\\
&-& \frac{4Ma^{2}}{y^{3}\Xi^{3}}\Bigl(-\sin^{4}\theta\dot{\phi}^{2} - \cos^{4}\theta\dot{\psi}^{2} - 2\sin^2\theta\cos^2\theta\dot{\phi}\dot{\psi}\nonumber\\
&+&m^{2}_{\phi} \sin^{4}\theta + m^{2}_{\psi}\cos^{4}\theta+ 2m_{\phi}m_{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta\sin^{2}\theta\Bigr)=0.
\end{eqnarray}
The equation for $T$ gives the ratio
\begin{equation}\label{pconst1}
\dot{\phi}\sin^{2}\theta + \dot{\psi} \cos^{2}\theta = \frac{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}{2aM}\left(\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa - A_{T} - (1+y^{2}\ell^{2})\kappa\right).
\end{equation}
Combining the equations for $\Phi\,$, $\Psi\,$ and $T$ and after simple algebraic transformations we obtain the relevant equations for $\,\phi\,$ and $\,\psi\,$.
\begin{eqnarray}
T +\Phi: &-& (1 + y^{2}l^{2})\kappa + \frac{y^{2}}{a}\dot{\phi} = \frac{A_{\phi}}{a\sin^{2}\theta} + A_{T},\nonumber \\
\dot{\phi}&=&\frac{1}{y^{2}}\frac{A_{\phi}}{\sin^{2}\theta} +\frac{a}{y^{2}} \left(A_{T} + (1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\right),\label{eqphi1}\\
T+\Psi:&-& (1 + y^{2}l^{2})\kappa + \frac{y^{2}}{a}\dot{\psi} = \frac{A_{\psi}}{a\sin^{2}\theta} + A_{T},\nonumber\\
\dot{\psi}&=&\frac{1}{y^{2}}\frac{A_{\psi}}{\cos^{2}\theta} + \frac{a}{y^{2}}\left(A_{T} + (1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\right). \label{eqpsi1}
\end{eqnarray}
Putting the expressions \eqref{eqphi1} and \eqref{eqpsi1} into the equation for $T$ \eqref{pconst1} we obtain the relation betwen constants
\begin{equation}\label{relation T}
\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa -\left(A_{\phi} + A_{\psi}\right) \frac{2aM}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}} - (1 + \frac{2a^{2}M}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}) \left(A_{T} + (1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\right) =0.
\end{equation}
The equations for $\,\phi\,$ and $\,\psi\,$ can be rewriten in the form
\begin{eqnarray}
\dot{\phi}&=&\frac{A_{\phi}}{y^{2}\sin^{2}\theta} + P - \frac{1}{y^{2}}(A_{\phi} + A_{\psi}),\label{eq phi}\\
\dot{\psi}&=&\frac{A_{\psi}}{y^{2}\cos^{2}\theta} + P - \frac{1}{y^{2}}(A_{\phi} + A_{\psi}),\label{eq psi}
\end{eqnarray}
where the constant $P$ is given by
\begin{equation}\label{P}
P=\frac{1}{y^{2}}A_{\phi} +\frac{1}{y^{2}}A_{\psi} +\frac{a}{y^{2}} \left(A_{T} + (1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\right).
\end{equation}
From here we find
\begin{equation}\label{relation sin cos}
\dot{\phi}\sin^{2}\theta +\dot{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta= P, \quad A_{T} + (1 + y^{2} \ell^{2})\kappa = -\frac{2M(a(A_{\phi} + A_{\psi}) - \kappa y^{2})}{2a^{2}M + y^{4}\Xi^{3} }.
\end{equation}
Substituting (\ref{pconst1}) in (\ref{yeq2}) with $\frac{1}{y}$ factor we obtain the $y$-equation in the form
\begin{eqnarray}
&& \frac{\kappa^{2}}{y}\left(\ell^{2}y+ \frac{2M}{y^{3}\Xi^{3}}\right) - \dot{\theta}^{2} - \frac{2\kappa}{y^{2}}\left(\frac{2M\kappa}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}} - (A_{T} +(1+y^{2}\ell^{2})\kappa)\right)\nonumber\\
&+& \left(\sin^{2}\theta m^{2}_{\phi} + m^{2}_{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta\right) - (\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi}^{2}+ \cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi}^{2})\nonumber\\
&-&\frac{2Ma^{2}}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}\left(-(\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi} +\cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi})^{2} + (m_{\phi}\sin^{2}\theta + m_{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta)^{2}\right) =0.\label{eq y}
\end{eqnarray}
The first Virasoro constraint \eqref{Vir1} explicitly reads
\begin{eqnarray}\label{Vir1theta}
&& - \frac{\kappa^{2}}{y^{2}}\left(1 + y^{2}l^{2}-\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\right)- \frac{4aM}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}\kappa(\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi} + \cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi}) + \dot{\theta}^{2}\nonumber\\
&&+ (\sin^{2}\theta \dot{\phi}^{2} +\cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi}^{2}) + (\sin^{2}\theta m_{\phi}^{2}+\cos^{2}\theta m^{2}_{\psi}) \nonumber\\
&&+ 2\frac{Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}y^{4}}\left((\sin^{2}\theta\dot{\phi} + \cos^{2}\theta\dot{\psi})^{2} + (\sin^{2}\theta m_{\phi} + \cos^{2}\theta m_{\psi} )^{2} \right) = 0.
\end{eqnarray}
Remembering the equation for $\,y\,$ \eqref{eq y} and expression for the constant $\,P\,$ \eqref{P} and summing equations \eqref{eq y} and \eqref{Vir1theta} we obtain the constraint
\begin{eqnarray}\label{y+vir1}
-\frac{\kappa^{2}}{y^{2}} + 4\frac{\kappa^2M}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}} - 8\frac{aM}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}\kappa P +2 \left(m^{2}_{\phi}\sin^{2}\theta +m^{2}_{\psi}\cos^{2}\theta \right) + \frac{4Ma^{2}}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}P^{2} =0.
\end{eqnarray}
Since, $\,\theta\,$ is essentially time dependent (\ref{ansatz}), we are forward to impose the condition
\begin{equation}\label{condition m}
m^{2}_{\phi}\,=\,m^{2}_{\psi}\,\equiv\,m^2.
\end{equation}
With this choice the second Virasoro constraint \eqref{Vir2} give us the relation
\begin{equation}\label{Vir2 m}
\textrm{Vir2}:\qquad-\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}\kappa +(A_{\phi} + A_{\psi})(\frac{1}{a}+ \frac{2aM}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}) + (1 + \frac{2a^{2}M}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}) \left(A_{T} + (1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\right) =0.
\end{equation}
As a result, we find
\begin{equation}\label{condition A}
\frac{A_{\phi}+A_{\psi}}{a} =0, \quad A_{\phi}= -A_{\psi}\,\equiv\,A\,.
\end{equation}
Thus, the constant $P$ can be rewritten as
\begin{equation}\label{conditionP}
P = \frac{a}{y^{2}}(A_{T} + (1+y^2\ell^2)\kappa).
\end{equation}
Consequently, by virtue of the above relations between the constants and expression for the (Vir2) \eqref{Vir2 m} we can fix $\,A_T\,$
\begin{equation}\label{A_T fix}
A_T\,=\,\frac{2M\kappa\,y^2}{2a^{2}M +y^{4} \Xi^{3}}-(1 + y^2\ell^{2})\kappa\,, \qquad P = \frac{2aM\kappa}{2a^{2}M +y^{4} \Xi^{3}}.
\end{equation}
Having $m^{2}_{\phi}=m^2_{\psi} =m^2$ and with the assumptions $A_{\phi} =-A_{\psi}=A\,$, the equation for (Vir1) \eqref{Vir1theta} takes the form
\begin{equation}
\dot{\theta}^{2}- \frac{\kappa^{2}}{y^{2}}(1 + y^{2}l^{2}-\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}})-\frac{4aM}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}}\kappa P + (2\frac{Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}y^{4}}+1)(P^{2} + m^{2})
+ \frac{A^{2}}{y^4}\frac{1}{\sin^{2}\theta\cos^{2}\theta} = 0.
\end{equation}
Finally, plugging the expression for $P$ \eqref{conditionP} we obtain the following differential equation for $\,\theta\,$
\begin{equation}\label{thetaeqc}
\dot{\theta}^{2}+ \frac{A^{2}}{y^4}\frac{1}{\sin^{2}\theta\cos^{2}\theta} + \Upsilon =0,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\Upsilon = - \frac{\kappa^{2}}{y^{2}}(1 + y^{2}l^{2}-\frac{2M}{y^{2}\Xi^{3}})+ (2\frac{Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}y^{4}}+1)m^2-\frac{4a^2M^2\kappa^2}{y^{4}\Xi^{3}(2Ma^{2}+y^{4}\Xi^{3})}.
\end{equation}
At this point, it is convenient to introduce a new variable $u$
\begin{equation}
u(\tau) \equiv \sin^{2}\theta(\tau) >0, \quad 0<u< 1.
\end{equation}
Then we have
\begin{equation}\label{equUV}
\frac{\dot{u}^{2}}{2} + 2|\Upsilon|u^{2} - 2|\Upsilon|u+\frac{2A^{2}}{y^{4}}= 0,\qquad \Upsilon <0 .
\end{equation}
The equation (\ref{equUV}) can be written in the form
\begin{equation}
\frac{\dot{u}^{2}}{2} + V(u) = 0, \quad V(u) = 2|\Upsilon|u^{2} - 2|\Upsilon|u+\frac{2A^{2}}{y^{4}}.
\end{equation}
If $\frac{4A^{2}}{|\Upsilon|^2\,y^{4}}\,<1\,$ the potential $V(u)$ has two turning points $\, u_{1,2} = \frac{1}{2}\mp \frac{\sqrt{1-\frac{4A^{2}}{|\Upsilon|^2\,y^{4}}}}{2}\,$ symmetrical about the point of minimum of the potential $\,u=\dfrac{1}{2}\,$ and $\,V(u)\leq 0\,$, for $\,0<u_1 \leq\,u(\tau)\,\leq\,u_2<1\,$.
Therefore, the above equation
\begin{equation}
\dot{u}^{2} = - 4|\Upsilon|u^{2} + 4|\Upsilon| u - \frac{4A^{2}}{y^{4}}\equiv\,-2V(u) \geq 0
\end{equation}
has a periodic solution between turning points $\,u_{1,2}\,$. The periodic solution of the above equation is
\begin{equation}\label{puls solution}
u(\tau) = \frac{1}{2} + \sqrt{\frac{1}{4} - \frac{A^{2}}{|\Upsilon|y^{4}}}\sin(2\sqrt{|\Upsilon}|\tau).
\end{equation}
It is a pulsating string solution moving between the turning points.
\section{Energy spectrum}\label{Sect4}
In this section we will semi-classically quantize the pulsating string configuration in 5d Kerr-AdS geometry. We will calculate the corresponding energy spectra.
First, we will related a study of the string energy spectra to the Bohr-Sommerfeld problem. After this, we discuss the large energies (large quantum numbers) to find the first correction to the energy. Note, the energy spectra of the circular string in the AdS background is related to the anomalous dimensions of the CFT operators according to the AdS/CFT dictionary. However, for the case of the Kerr-AdS spacetime we cannot carry out this connection, but we are able to relate the energy spectra to the dispersion relations.
\subsection{Bohr-Sommerfeld analysis in 5d Kerr-AdS}\label{Sect41}
We consider a circular closed string in the 5d Kerr-AdS black hole (\ref{GLKA}). In this analysis the string dynamics is governed by the Nambu-Goto action reads as
\begin{equation}\label{SNGg}
S_{NG} = - \frac{1}{2 \pi \alpha'} \int d \tau d\sigma \sqrt{|h|},
\end{equation}
with
\begin{equation}\label{indm-h}
h_{\alpha\beta} = G_{MN}\partial_{\alpha}X^{M}\partial_{\beta}X^{N},\qquad X^{M} = (T,\Theta,\Phi, \Psi,y)\,.\end{equation}
For the embedding we choose
\begin{equation}\label{equatorial}
\tau=T, \quad \Phi = w\sigma , \quad y= y(\tau) \end{equation}
and focus on the case of the equatorial plane $\Theta =\frac{\pi}{2}$.
The components of the induced metric (\ref{indm-h}) take the form
\begin{eqnarray}
&&h_{\tau\tau}=G_{TT}+G_{yy}\dot{y}^2_{\tau}\nonumber\\
&&= -1 + \frac{2M}{(1-a^2\ell^2)^3y^2} - \ell^2y^2 + \frac{\dot{y}^2_{\tau}}{1+\frac{2Ma^2}{(1-a^2\ell^2)^3y^4} - \frac{2M}{(1-a^2\ell^2)^2y^2} +\ell^2y^2}, \\
&&h_{\sigma\sigma}= w^2 G_{\Phi\Phi}= w^2(y^2 + \frac{2Ma^2}{(1-a^2\ell^2)^3y^2}),\\
&& h_{\sigma\tau}=h_{\tau\sigma}= w G_{T\Phi}= -w \frac{2Ma}{y^2(1-a^2\ell^2)^3}.
\end{eqnarray}
Correspondingly, the expression for the determinant of the induced metric is
\begin{equation} \label{det:y_tau}
h= - w^{2} y^2\Bigr(1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4} - \frac{2M}{\Xi^2y^2} +\ell^2y^2 - \frac{\dot{y}_\tau^2}{1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4} - \frac{2M}{\Xi^2y^2}+\ell^2y^2}\Bigr(1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4}\Bigr)\Bigr).
\end{equation}
By virtue of (\ref{det:y_tau}) the NG action (\ref{SNGg}) is written down as
\begin{equation}
\label{NGyT}
S_{NG} = - \frac{1}{2\pi \alpha'} \int dT d\Phi \sqrt{w^2 y^2\left(f(y) - \frac{\dot{y}_\tau^2}{f(y)}\Bigr(1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4}\Bigr)\right)},
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}\label{blackFfunc}
f(y) = 1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4} - \frac{2M}{\Xi^2y^2} +\ell^2y^2.
\end{equation}
The canonical momentum corresponding to (\ref{NGyT}) is
\begin{equation}\label{canM}
\Pi = -\frac{w(1 + \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4})y\dot{y}^2_{\tau}}{\alpha' \sqrt{f^2 + \frac{(1 + 2Ma^2)}{\Xi^3y^4}\dot{y}^2_{\tau}}} =\frac{\partial L}{\partial\dot{y}_{\tau}}
\end{equation}
and the first integral related to (\ref{NGyT}) is given by
\begin{equation} \label{Ham}
H = \dot{y}_{\tau}\frac{\partial L}{\partial\dot{y}_{\tau}} - L = -\frac{wy f(y)}{\alpha'\sqrt{\Bigr(f(y)- \frac{(1 + \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4})\dot{y}_{\tau}^2}{f(y)}\Bigr)}}.
\end{equation}
It is convenient to pass to a new variable
\begin{equation}\label{xivar}
\xi = \int \frac{dy}{f(y)}\sqrt{1 + \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3 y^4}},\quad d \xi = \frac{dy}{f(y)}\sqrt{1 + \frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3 y^4}},\quad
\dot{\xi} = \frac{d \xi}{d \tau} = \frac{\dot{y}}{f(y)}\sqrt{1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3 y^4}}.
\end{equation}
In terms of the $\xi$-variable (\ref{xivar}) the string Lagrangian (\ref{NGyT}) significantly simplifies
\begin{equation}
L_s = \frac{1}{2\pi \alpha'} \sqrt{w^2 y^2 \left(f(y) - \frac{\dot{y}_\tau^2}{f(y)}\Bigr(1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3y^4}\Bigr)\right)} = \frac{w}{2\pi \alpha' }g(\xi)\sqrt{1-\dot{\xi}^2},
\end{equation}
where the function $g(\xi)$ is
\begin{equation}
g(\xi) = y\sqrt{f(y)}.
\end{equation}
The canonical momentum (\ref{canM}) reads
\begin{equation}
\Pi = \frac{\partial{L}}{\partial{\dot{\xi}}} = -\frac{wg(\xi)\dot{\xi}}{2\pi \alpha' \sqrt{1-\dot{\xi}^2}}.
\end{equation}
Obviously, the Hamiltonian of the system is given by
\begin{equation}
H = -\frac{w g(\xi)}{2\pi \alpha' \sqrt{1-\dot{\xi}^2}}= \sqrt{{\Pi}^2 + V}\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}\label{Potxi}
V = w^2\frac{g(\xi)^2}{4\pi^2 \alpha'^2}\,.
\end{equation}
The behaviour of the potential $V$ (\ref{Potxi}) is presented in Fig.~\ref{fig:Vya}. In Fig.~\ref{fig:Vya} {\bf a)} and {b)} we show the potential for the fixed mass of the black hole varying the rotational parameter, the case {\bf a)} corresponds to a small rotational parameter, while {b)} is for $a\in (0.5; 0.99)$. We recall that $a=1$ is a critical value of the rotational parameter for $\ell = 1$. In Fig.~\ref{fig:Vya} {\bf b)} we observe a jump of the potential for $a=0.99$.
\begin{figure}[t!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{Vyasmall.pdf}\,\includegraphics[width=1.5cm]{Vyasmalla.pdf}{\bf a}$\,$
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{Vyabig.pdf}\,\includegraphics[width=1.6cm]{Vyabiga.pdf}{\bf b}$\,$\\
$\,\,\,$\\
\includegraphics[width=6cm]{VyM.pdf}\,\includegraphics[width=2cm]{VyMM.pdf}{\bf c}$\,$
\caption{ The dependence of the potential $V$ on the radial coordinate $y$: {\bf a), b)} we keep fixed the mass $M$ and vary the rotational parameter $a$; {\bf c)} keep fixed the rotational parameter $a$ and change the mass $M$.}
\label{fig:Vya}
\end{figure}
The horizon of the black hole $y_{+}$ and the boundary of the background can be considered as potential wells. So we can perform
Bohr-Sommerfeld analysis for the quantization.
Then we have the following condition
\begin{equation}\label{BSconstr}
\left(n + \frac{1}{2}\right)\pi = \int^{\xi_{2}}_{\xi_{1}}d\xi \sqrt{E^2 - \left(\frac{w}{\alpha'}\right)^{2} g(\xi)^{2}},
\end{equation}
with the turning point $\xi_{1,2}$.
In terms of the holographic radial coordinate $y$ (\ref{BSconstr}) takes the form
\begin{eqnarray}\label{EInt}
\left(n+\frac{1}{2}\right)\pi& =& \int^{y_{1}}_{y_{+}}\frac{E dy}{f(y)\sqrt{1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3 y^4}}} \sqrt{1- \frac{w^2}{\alpha'^{2}E^{2}}f(y)} \nonumber \\
&=& E\int^{y_{1}}_{y_{+}}dy\left(\frac{1}{f(y)\sqrt{1+\frac{2Ma^{2}}{\Xi^{3}y^{4}}}} -\frac{1-\sqrt{1-\frac{1}{B^2}y^{2}f(y)}}{f(y)\sqrt{1+\frac{2Ma^2}{\Xi^3 y^4}}} \right),
\end{eqnarray}
where $B = \frac{E\alpha'}{w}$ and the function $f$ is defined in (\ref{blackFfunc}).
We are not able to calculate integrals (\ref{EInt}) exactly. However, supposing that the rotational parameter $a$ is small we can expand in series (\ref{EInt}), then we get
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\left(n+\frac{1}{2}\right)\pi= E\int^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}dy\left(\frac{ 1}{1-\frac{2M}{y^2} + \ell^2 y^2} - \frac{1- \sqrt{1-\frac{1}{B^{2}}y^2(1+\ell^2y^2 -\frac{2M}{y^2})}}{1-\frac{2M}{y^2} + \ell^2 y^2}\right)+\label{first term integral}\\
&& \int^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}dy\frac{M \sqrt{1-\frac{y^2}{B^2}h(y)} (y^2h(y)(2y^2 -3B^2) - 2B^{2}(2M -3y^4 \ell^2) -y^2(2M +\ell^2 +\ell^4 y^6))}{y^6 h(y)^2 (B^2-y^2h(y))}a^{2}, \nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
where we define
\begin{equation}\label{AdSSchwF}
h(y) = 1-\frac{2M}{y^2} + \ell^2 y^2,
\end{equation}
which is nothing but the blackenning function of the AdS-Schwarzschild black hole. The horizon $y_{H}$ is defined as a root of the equation $h(y)= 0$, i.e.
\begin{equation}\label{AdSSchwY}
y_{H} = \frac{1}{\ell} \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}\Bigr(1 + \sqrt{1+8M\ell^2}\Bigr)}.
\end{equation}
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It is worth to note that the quantities $h(y)$ (\ref{AdSSchwF}) and $y_{H}$ (\ref{AdSSchwY}) related to the non-rotating AdS black hole appear due to expanding around a small rotational parameter $a$.
Integrating the first term in the integral \eqref{first term integral} we get
\begin{eqnarray}\label{EnSpectBS}
E\int^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}dy\frac{ 1}{1-\frac{2M}{y^2} + \ell^2 y^2} = -E \frac{\sqrt{\sqrt{1+ 8\ell^2 M}-1}\tanh^{-1}\left(\frac{\sqrt{2}\ell y}{\sqrt{\sqrt{1+8\ell^2 M}-1}}\right)}{\ell\sqrt{2}\sqrt{1+8\ell^2 M}}\Big|^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}\\
+ E\frac{2\sqrt{M} \tan^{-1}\left(\frac{\sqrt{2}\ell y}{\sqrt{\sqrt{1+8\ell^2 M}+1}}\right)}{\sqrt{1+8\ell^2 M}\sqrt{\sqrt{1+8\ell^2 M}-1}}\Big|^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}.\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
In the case of large energies $B\cdot \ell \gg 1$ eq.(\ref{EnSpectBS}) can be approximated as follows
\begin{equation}\label{EnSpectBSapp}
\int^{\tilde{y}_{1}}_{y_{H}}dy\frac{ 1}{1-\frac{2M}{y^2} + \ell^2 y^2} \approx \frac{\pi}{2}\sqrt{\frac{1}{\sqrt{2 M}\ell^3}} -\sqrt{\frac{1}{B\ell^{3}}}.
\end{equation}
The second integral \eqref{first term integral} can be calculated easily in terms of a new variable $y = r\sqrt{B/\ell}$
\begin{eqnarray}
\int^{y_{1}}_{y_{H}} dy\frac{1- \sqrt{1- \frac{1}{B^2}\left(y^2 + \ell^2 y^4 - 2M\right)}}{1+ y^2 \ell^2 - \frac{2M}{y^2}} &\rightarrow& \sqrt{\frac{1}{\ell^3B}}\int^{1}_{0}\frac{dr}{r^2}(1 -\sqrt{1-r^4}) \nonumber\\\label{EnSpectBSapp2}
&=&\sqrt{\frac{1}{\ell^3 B}}\left(-1+\frac{(2\pi)^{3/2}}{\Gamma(\frac{1}{4})^2}\right).
\end{eqnarray}
Applying the same procedure to the third integral, we get
\begin{eqnarray}
&&\int^{y_{1}}_{y_{H}}dy\frac{M \sqrt{1-\frac{y^2}{B^2}h} (y^2 h(2y^2 -3B^2) - 2B^{2}(2M -3y^4 \ell^2) -y^2(2M +\ell^2 +\ell^4 y^6))}{y^6 h^2 (B^2-y^2h )}a^{2}\nonumber\\ &\rightarrow&
-\int^{1}_{0}dr \frac{\ell^{1/2}M(r^4-3)}{B^{3/2}r^{6}\sqrt{1- r^{4}}}a^{2} = -\frac{M\ell^{1/2}}{B^{3/2}}\left(\frac{3\sqrt{1-r^{4}}}{5r^{5}}+ \frac{4}{5r}{{\mkern 1mu} _2}{F_1}\left(-\frac{1}{4},\frac{1}{2}, \frac{3}{4},r^{4}\right)\right)a^{2}\Big|^{1}_{0} \nonumber \\\label{EnSpectBSapp3}
&&= -\frac{4M\sqrt{\pi}\ell^{1/2}\Gamma[\frac{3}{4}]}{5B^{3/2}\Gamma[\frac{1}{4}]}a^{2}+ \frac{7M\ell^{1/2}}{B^{3/2}}\frac{1}{\epsilon^{5}}a^{2}.
\end{eqnarray}
Combining together (\ref{EnSpectBSapp}), (\ref{EnSpectBSapp2}), (\ref{EnSpectBSapp3}) we get for Bohr-Sommerfeld quantisation condition (\ref{EInt})
\begin{equation}\label{EnwBS}
(n + \frac{1}{2})\pi \approx \frac{1}{\ell^{3/2}} \left(\frac{\pi}{2}\frac{E}{(\sqrt{2M})^{1/2}} - \frac{(2\pi)^{3/2}}{\Gamma(\frac{1}{4})^2} \frac{(w E)^{1/2}}{ (\alpha')^{1/2}} -\frac{4Mw^{3/2}\sqrt{\pi}\Gamma[\frac{3}{4}]}{5E^{1/2}\alpha'^{3/2}\Gamma[\frac{1}{4}]}a^{2}\right).
\end{equation}
In (\ref{EnwBS}) we can recognize the result for the energy from \cite{Alishahiha:2002fi} if one sends $a$ to $0$.
\subsection{WKB approximation}\label{Sect42}
\subsubsection{Derivation of the Hamiltonian}
As in the previous section the string dynamics is governed by the Nambu-Goto action (\ref{SNGg}) with the induced metric (\ref{indm-h}).
The first ingredient towards finding the spectrum is to make a pullback of the line element of the metric of 5d Kerr-AdS background \eqref{GLKA} to the subspace, where string dynamics takes place.
In this section one can consider more general ansatz than \eqref{ansatz} and \eqref{equatorial}, such as
\begin{align}\label{new ansatz}
&\Theta\equiv\,\xi_1=\xi_1(\tau)\,,\, y\equiv\,\xi_2=\xi_2(\tau)\,, \\
&T\equiv\,X_0=x_0(\tau)+m_0\sigma,\qquad x_0(\tau)=\kappa\tau, \qquad m_0=0\,,\\
&\Phi\equiv\,X_1=m_1\sigma+x_1(\tau)\,, \quad \Psi\equiv\,X_2=m_2\sigma+x_2(\tau)\,.
\end{align}
For convenience, we use the following notations of the Kerr-AdS metric \eqref{GLKA}
\begin{multline}\label{pulsMetric}
ds^2= G_{\Theta\Theta}d\Theta^2 + G_{yy}dy^2 +\\
+G_{TT} dT^2+ 2G_{T\Phi}dTd\Phi +2G_{T\Psi}dTd\Psi+ G_{\Phi\Phi}d\Phi^2 +G_{\Psi\Psi}d\Psi^2 + 2G_{\Phi\Psi}d\Phi\Psi=\\
=\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 g_{ij}d\xi_i d\xi_j\,
+\,\sum\limits_{k,p=0}^2 \hat{G}_{kp} dX_k dX_p \,,
\end{multline}
where the following quantities have been defined
\begin{equation}
\left( g_{ij} \right) =
\left(\begin{matrix}
G_{\Theta\Theta}& 0 \\
0 & G_{yy}
\end{matrix}\right)\,,\qquad i,j=1,2\,,
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
\left(\hat{G}_{k\textcolor{violet}{h}}\right)=\left(\begin{matrix}
G_{TT} & G_{T\Phi} & G_{T\Psi}\\
G_{T\Phi}& G_{\Phi\Phi} & G_{\Phi\Psi}\\
G_{T\Psi} & G_{\Phi\Psi} & G_{\Psi\Psi}
\end{matrix}\right)\,, \qquad k,p=0,1,2\,,
\end{equation}
and the submatrix
\begin{equation}
\left( \hat{g}_{kp} \right)=\left(\begin{matrix}
G_{\Phi\Phi} & G_{\Phi\Psi}\\
G_{\Phi\Psi} & G_{\Psi\Psi}
\end{matrix}\right)\,, \qquad k,p=1,2\,.
\end{equation}
For the inverse of $\left( \hat{g}_{kp} \right)$ matrix, we find
\begin{equation}
\left( \hat{g}^{kp} \right)=\left(\begin{matrix}
\frac{y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M \cos^2\Theta}{y^2 \sin^2\Theta\,(y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M )} & -\,\frac{2a^2 M}{y^2\,(y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M )}\\
-\,\frac{2a^2 M}{y^2\,(y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M )}& \frac{y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M \sin^2\Theta}{y^2 \cos^2\Theta\,(y^4\Xi^3+2a^2 M )}
\end{matrix}\right)\,, \qquad k,p=1,2\,.
\end{equation}
The components of the induced metric on the worldsheet:
\begin{multline}\label{ws-metric}
ds^2 _{ws}= \left(\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 g_{ij}\,\dot{\xi}_i\dot{\xi}_j + \sum\limits_{k,p=0}^2\hat{G}_{kp}\,\dot{x}_k\dot{x}_p \right) d\tau^2 + \left(\sum\limits_{k,p=0}^2\hat{G}_{kp}\,m_k m_p\right)\, d\sigma^2 +\\
+2\left(\sum\limits_{k,p=0}^2\hat{G}_{kp}\, m_k\dot{x}_p\right)\, d\tau d\sigma\,.
\end{multline}
The Nambu-Goto action \eqref{SNGg} with (\ref{indm-h}) becomes
\begin{multline} \label{NG-ws}
S_{NG}= -\,\dfrac{1}{\alpha^\prime }\int\, d\tau\,\sqrt{ \left(\sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{G}_{kp}\, m_k\dot{x}_p + \sum\limits_{k=1}^2 \hat{G}_{k0}\, m_k\, \kappa \right)^2+\,\,}\\
\overline{\,\,- \left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2\,\left(\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 g_{ij}\,\dot{\xi}_i\dot{\xi}_j + \sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{g}_{kp}\,\dot{x}_k\dot{x}_p + \hat{G}_{00}\,\kappa^2 +2\, \sum\limits_{k=1}^2\hat{G}_{0k}\,\kappa\dot{x}_k \right) \,\,} \,,
\end{multline}
where $1/\alpha ^ \prime =\sqrt{\lambda}$ is the 't Hooft coupling constant and
\begin{align}\label{A2}
\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 =
\sum\limits_{k,h=0} ^2 \hat{G}_{kh} m_k m_h =\sum\limits_{k,h=1} ^2 \hat{G}_{kh}(\xi_1,\xi_2) m_k m_h\equiv\sum\limits_{k,h=1} ^2 \hat{g}_{kh}(\xi_1,\xi_2) m_k m_h\,>\,0\,.
\end{align}
The problem reduces again to the dynamics of an effective point-particle with Lagrangian
\begin{multline} \label{NG-ws}
L_{eff}= -\,\sqrt{\lambda}\,\sqrt{ \left(\sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{g}_{kp}\, m_k\dot{x}_p + \sum\limits_{k=1}^2 \hat{G}_{k0}\, m_k\, \kappa \right)^2 - \left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2\,\left(\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 g_{ij}\,\dot{\xi}_i\dot{\xi}_j + \,\,\right. }\\
\overline{\left. \,\,+\sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{g}_{kp}\,\dot{x}_k\dot{x}_p + \hat{G}_{00}\,\kappa^2 +2\, \sum\limits_{k=1}^2\hat{G}_{0k}\,\kappa\dot{x}_k \right) \,\, } \,.
\end{multline}
For convenience we will use the shorthand notation
\begin{multline}
\sqrt{ \left(\sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{g}_{kp}\, m_k\dot{x}_p + \sum\limits_{k=1}^2 \hat{G}_{k0}\, m_k\, \kappa \right)^2 - \left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2\,\left(\sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 g_{ij}\,\dot{\xi}_i\dot{\xi}_j + \,\,\right. }\\
\overline{\left. \,\,+\sum\limits_{k,p=1}^2\hat{g}_{kp}\,\dot{x}_k\dot{x}_p + \hat{G}_{00}\,\kappa^2 +2\, \sum\limits_{k=1}^2\hat{G}_{0k}\,\kappa\dot{x}_k \right) \,\, }\,\equiv\, \sqrt{......\,\,} \,.
\end{multline}
As before, it is useful to consider the Hamiltonian formulation of the problem. To this end, we have to calculate the canonical momenta
\begin{align}\label{momenta}
\Pi_{\xi_i}&=\frac{\partial L_{eff}}{\partial \dot{\xi}_i} =\sqrt{\lambda} \,\dfrac{ \left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 g_{ij}\,\dot{\xi}_j } {\sqrt{......\,\,}} \,, \\
\Pi_{x_p}&=\frac{\partial L_{eff}}{\partial \dot{x}_p} =\sqrt{\lambda}\, \dfrac{ \,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \hat{g}_{pq}\, \dot{x}_q - (\hat{g}_{kq}\, m_k\dot{x}_q)\, \hat{g}_{pq}\, m_q +\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \hat{G}_{p0}\,\kappa -(\hat{G}_{k0}\, m_k\kappa)\, \hat{g}_{pq}\, m_q\,}
{\sqrt{......\,\,}}\,,
\end{align}
which also implies the constraint
\begin{equation}\label{constraintPi}
\sum\limits_{p=1}^2m_p\, \Pi_{x_p}=0.
\end{equation}
Applying a Legendre transformation, it is straightforward to find the (square of) the pulsating string Hamiltonian
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\begin{multline}\label{Ham^2}
H^2= \kappa^2 \, \left(\sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \Pi_{x_s}\right)^2 +\\
- \kappa^2 \,\left( \hat{G}_{00} + \sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \hat{G}_{s0} \right) \,\left\lbrace \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{\xi_i}\,g^{ij} \,\Pi_{\xi_j} + \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{x_i}\,\hat{g}^{ij} \,\Pi_{x_j} +\lambda\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \right\rbrace \,.
\end{multline}
The explicit expressions for the terms in the brackets are
\begin{equation}
\sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \Pi_{x_s}\,=\,-\, h_2(y)\,\left( \Pi_{x_1}+\Pi_{x_2} \right)
\end{equation}
and
\begin{equation}
\hat{G}_{00} + \sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \hat{G}_{s0} \,=\,-\,\frac{y^2 \Xi^3 -2aM\,h_1(y)\,h_2(y) }{h_1(y)\,y^2 \Xi^3}\,\equiv\,-\,K^2(y)\,,
\end{equation}\,
where
\begin{equation}
h_1(y)\,=\,\frac{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}{-2M + y^{2}(1+\ell^{2}y^{2})\Xi^{3}}\,, \qquad h_2(y)\,=\,\frac{2aM}{2a^{2}M + y^{4}\Xi^3}\,.
\end{equation}
The expression of $H^2$ can be conveniently written
\begin{equation}\label{Ham^2 2}
\frac{H^2}{\kappa^2}\,=\,K^2(y)\left\lbrace \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{\xi_i}\,g^{ij} \,\Pi_{\xi_j} + \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{x_i}\,\left[ \frac{h_2 ^2 (y)}{K^2(y)}\,\hat{\delta}^{ij} +\hat{g}^{ij} \right] \,\Pi_{x_j} +\lambda\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \right\rbrace \,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
\left(\hat{\delta}^{ij} \right)\,=\,\left(\begin{matrix}
1& 1 \\
1& 1
\end{matrix}\right)\,,\,\, i,j=1,2 \,.
\end{equation}
It should be noted here that the above Hamiltonian \eqref{Ham^2} can be considered as the effective Hamiltonian of an effective point-particle on the Kerr-AdS background. The last term
\begin{equation}
-\lambda\,\kappa^2\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \,\left( \hat{G}_{00} + \sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \hat{G}_{s0} \right)\,\equiv\, \lambda\,\kappa^2\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \,K^2(y)\,\equiv\,\lambda\,U(\Theta,\,y)\,,
\end{equation}
serves as an effective potential, which encodes the relevant dynamics of the strings.\\
In the context of the holographic correspondence, the potential is very small comparing to the kinetic part. Therefore, we can calculate quantum corrections to the energy by making use of the perturbation theory.
\subsubsection{Laplace-Beltrami operator and wave function}
The standard Laplace-Beltrami operator in global coordinates for 5d Kerr-AdS \eqref{GLKA} is
\begin{multline}
\bigtriangleup^{(5)}_{Kerr-AdS}\,=\,G^{TT}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial T^2}+2\,G^{T\Phi(\Psi)}\frac{\partial}{\partial T}\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial \Phi}+\frac{\partial}{\partial \Psi} \right) +G^{\Phi\Phi}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \Phi^2}+2\,G^{\Phi\Psi}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \Phi\partial\Psi}+G^{\Psi\Psi}\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \Psi^2}+\\
+\frac{1}{\sqrt{-\det G}}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial \Theta}\left(\sqrt{-\det G\,}\,G^{\Theta\Theta}\,\frac{\partial}{\<|fim_middle|>1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}\,\sqrt{1+4\hat{E}^2}\,;\, 1-2N\,;\,z \right] \,.
\end{multline}
Since the second term is singular at zero, we set $\,C_2 =0\,$, and the solution satisfying the boundary conditions is
\begin{equation}\label{solution}
F(z)=C\,z^N\,(1-z)^N\,{_2F_1}\left[ 2N +\frac{1}{2}+\frac{1}{2}\,\sqrt{1+4\hat{E}^2}\,,\, 2N +\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}\,\sqrt{1+4\hat{E}^2}\,;\, 1+2N\,;\,z \right]\,.
\end{equation}
In addition, we have to ensure that the solutions $F(\Theta)$ are square integrable with respect to the measure $\Theta$ (respectively $z$). The integrability condition leads to the following restriction on the parameters
\begin{equation}\label{quantE}
2N +\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{2}\,\sqrt{1+4\hat{E}^2}\,=\,-k\,,\qquad k\in\mathbb{N}\,.
\end{equation}
This requirement imposes energy quantization:
\begin{equation}\label{E^2}
E^2\,=\,\kappa^2\,\frac{K^2}{4y^2}\,\left[ (4N+1+k)^2 -1 \right].
\end{equation}
The condition \eqref{quantE}, converts the solution \eqref{solution} in terms of Jacobi ortogonal polynomials (in this case the solution of the equation can also be written directly in terms of Shifted Legendre polynomials)
\begin{equation}\label{Jacobi z}
F(z)=\,C\,z^{\alpha/2}\,(1-z)^{\beta/2}\,\dfrac{k!\,\Gamma(\alpha+1)}{\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)}P^{(\alpha,\beta)}_{k}(1-2z)\,,\qquad k\in\mathbb{N}\,,
\end{equation}
where $ \,\alpha=\beta\,=\,2N\equiv\,\frac{n^2}{2} \,,\,\, n\in\mathbb{Z}\,$.
It is more convenient to work in terms of $\,u \equiv\,1-2z\,,\,\,-1\leq\,u\,\leq\,1\,$
\begin{equation}\label{Jacobi u}
F_{k,n}(u)=\,C\,\left( \frac{1-u}{2} \right) ^{\alpha/2}\,\left( \frac{1-u}{2} \right) ^{\alpha/2}\,\dfrac{k!\,\Gamma(\alpha+1)}{\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)}P^{(\alpha,\beta)}_{k}(u)\,,\,\,-1\leq\,u\,\leq\,1\,\,.
\end{equation}
We find the normalized with respect to the measure
\begin{equation}\label{measure}
d\Omega =\,\sqrt{-\det G^{(4)}}\,d\Theta\,d\Phi\,d\Psi\,=\,-\,\sqrt{\frac{h_1\,h_2}{2 a M \Xi^3 \,y^2}}\,\,\frac{du}{4}\,d\Phi\,d\Psi
\end{equation}
wave function to be
\begin{equation}\label{wave f}
f_{k,n}(u)=\,\sqrt{\frac{(2\alpha+1+2k)\,k!\,\Gamma(2\alpha+1+k)}{2^{\alpha-1}\,
\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)\,\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)}} \,(1-u)^{\alpha/2}\,(1+u)^{\alpha/2}P^{(\alpha,\alpha)}_{k}(u)\,.
\end{equation}
Then, the total free wave functions have the form
\begin{align}\label{tot wave f}
f^{tot}_{k,n}(u,\,\Phi,\,\Psi)=\,&\sqrt{\frac{(2\alpha+1+2k)\,k!\,\Gamma(2\alpha+1+k)}{\,\omega(y)\,2^{\alpha-1}\,
\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)\,\Gamma(\alpha+1+k)}}\,\times\nonumber\\
&\times\,(1-u)^{\alpha/2}\,(1+u)^{\alpha/2}P^{(\alpha,\alpha)}_{k}(u)\,e^{in\Phi}\,e^{-in\Psi}\,.
\end{align}
The next step is to calculate perturbatively the corrections to the energy of the free ground states.
\paragraph{Leading correction to the energy}
Perurbatively, the first correction to the energy reads
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\begin{equation}\label{delta-E}
\delta E^2=\,\lambda\,\langle\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\vert\,U\,\vert\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\rangle
=\lambda \int\limits_{\!\!\!\!\!-1}^1\! \int\limits_0^{2\pi}\! \int\limits_0^{2\pi}\, \left| f^{tot}_{k,n}(u,\,\Phi,\,\Psi) \right|^2\,\, U(u,\,\Phi,\,\Psi)\,\, d\Omega(u,\, \Phi,\,\Psi) \,.
\end{equation}
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Let us remind the form of the potential function \eqref{potentialTheta}
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\begin{equation}\label{potential}
U(\Theta)\,=\,\kappa^2\,K^2\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \,=\,\kappa^2\,K^2\,\sum\limits_{k,h=1} ^2 \hat{g}_{kh}(y,\,\Theta) m_k m_h\,.
\end{equation}
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Since for $\,y=const\,$, the value of $\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2\,$ is also a constant, the potential is
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\begin{equation}\label{potential costant}
U\,=\,\kappa^2\,K^2 \,m^2\, \left( y^2 + \frac{2a^2 M}{y^2\Xi^3}\right)=const\,.
\end{equation}
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Using the scalar product \eqref{delta-E}, one can easily compute the first correction to the energy
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\begin{equation}\label{delta-E value}
\delta E^2=\,\lambda\,\langle\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\vert\,U\,\vert\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\rangle
=\,\lambda\,U\, \langle\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\vert\,f^{tot}_{k,n}\,\rangle\,=\,\lambda\,U\,=\, \kappa^2\,K^2 \,m^2\, \left( y^2 + \frac{2a^2 M}{y^2\Xi^3}\right) \,.
\end{equation}
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According to the standard holographic dictionary, the anomalous dimension of the corresponding dual operators are directly related to the corrections of the string energy. The interpretation of results from holographic point of view is not straightforward since the dual theory is at finite temperature. Nevertheless, near or at conformal point the expressions can be thought of as the dispersion relations of stationary states.\\
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\section{Conclusions} \label{Sect5}
In this paper, we have studied a class of pulsating string solutions in a 5d Kerr-AdS black holes.
The holographic dual for the Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ black hole is $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM on $\mathbb{S}^{1}\times \mathbb{S}^{3}$ at finite temperature (a thermal ensemble).
For simplicity we have focused on the Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ background
with equal rotating parameters in the static-at-infinity frame.
To find pulsating string solutions in Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ we have adopted an appropriate pulsating ansatz
for the circular string configuration. Considering the bosonic part of the string action in
conformal gauge, we have found the relevant equations of motion and Virasoro constraints.
The problem of finding periodic solutions imposes certain conditions even after the choice
of pulsating string ansatz. The restriction of the parameters leads to several non-trivial
cases, all of which have analytic solutions as combinations of trigonometric functions.
An important key point of pulsating strings is that they reduce the problem to the
(squared) Hamiltonian, which has the form of a point-particle Hamiltonian. It allows
clearly to distinguish an effective string potential, which, being multiplied by the coupling constant $\,\lambda\,$, is used later for perturbative expansion.
Obtaining the effective wave function for the problem, we used perturbation theory to obtain the corrections to the energy. The latter,
due to the AdS/CFT correspondence and under certain conditions, are related to the anomalous dimensions of operators
in the dual gauge theory.
In this paper we picked the asymptotically AdS black hole in five dimensions, Kerr-AdS, which possesses $SO(4)$ symmetry. If the space-time is only asymptotically anti-de Sitter it corresponds to UV conformal fixed points in the boundary theory. Compared to AdS case the IR behavior is expected to be quite different, with the horizon now playing the role of a thermal background.
The holographic interpretation of the space-time conserved quantities however is not unique. It essentially depends on the choice of the conformal structure of the asymptotic metric at the boundary. As we already mentioned in the bulk text, the notion of anomalous dimensions is well defined only in the vicinity of the conformal point. This makes the interpretation from holographic point of view somewhat complicated and subtle. One way to make sense of the expressions is to consider two-point function, or scalar bulk-to-bulk Green's functions and see its behavior when one of the insertions is approaching the boundary. Indeed, one can see the considerations near conformal point are quite reasonable, thus the expressions can be interpreted as dispersion relations of stationary states in the gauge theory side.
To the best of our knowledge, the obtained solutions are the first pulsating type solutions in Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ black holes.
Moreover, we have computed the energy of the pulsating string the Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ background following the Bohr-Sommerfeld analysis. We have found corrections related to the rotation and temperature of the black hole. At zero value of the rotational parameter the relation for the energy tends to be known from \cite{Alishahiha:2002fi}.
There are several interesting concrete questions, which could be addressed further. First of all, it would be interesting to identify the operators on the gauge theory side whose anomalous dimension correspond to the various contributions in the energy spectrum. Finally, one should consider that the exact one-loop correction contains potential contributions from the fermionic sector. However, this contribution is fairly complicated even in the case of unbroken supersymmetry. In the case of Kerr-AdS backgrounds, fermionic contribution is even more subtle question and remains to be done.
Thinking about more general picture of the Kerr-AdS/CFT correspondence, many issues remain to be investigated and understood. In this paper we made some approximations to find the corrections to the string energy. It will be also interesting to consider other holographic observables, i.e. thermal $n$-point correlation functions, in Kerr-$AdS_{5}$ background as it was done for non-rotating AdS black holes \cite{Kraus:2017kyl}-\cite{Karlsson:2021duj}. Particularly, to probe holographic four-point functions one needs to study a motion of a highly energetic particle in the 5d Kerr-AdS black hole \cite{Kulaxizi:2018dxo}-\cite{Kulaxizi:2019tkd}.
Kerr-AdS black holes are remarkable with that its wave equation allows separation of variables. The radial and angular equations are of Fuchsian type and analyzing structure of singularities can be reduced to Heun type. Thus, it is literally calling to apply method from integrable systems and Riemann-Hilbert problem. Indeed, the authors of \cite{Litvinov:2013sxa} have shown that the monodromy problem of the Heun equation is related to the connection problem for the Painleve VI and conformal blocks in 2d CFT, in particular Liouville field theory. Applying such an approach to scattering off black holes the authors of \cite{Novaes:2014lha} have found that for generic charges the problem can be reduced to the Painleve VI transcendent. Moreover, the accessory parameters are expressed through the charges.
For the 5d case of the Kerr-AdS black holes scalar perturbations it was shown that corrections to the extremal limit can be encoded in the monodromy parameters of the Painlevé V transcendent \cite{Amado:2017kao}-\cite{BarraganAmado:2021uyw}.
Pulsating strings approach also relates dispersion relations to conserved charges, as well as field theory characteristics. It would be very interesting to investigate how and why all these quatities are related. Is there any relation to Alday-Gaiotto-Tachikawa conjecture? Another direction is to look at information geometry of the theory and try to see what information is accumulated in it.
We hope to return to these issues in the near future.
\paragraph{Acknowledgements} \
\\
A.G., R.R. and H.D. would like to thank Alexey Isaev and Sergey Krivonos for insightful discussions. A.G. is also grateful to I.Ya. Aref'eva for useful discussions. H. D. would like also to thank T. Vetsov for discussions on various issues of holography. The work is partially supported by the Program "JINR– Bulgaria" at Bulgarian Nuclear
Regulatory Agency. This work was supported in part by BNSF H-28/5.
\newpage
| partial \Theta} \right)+ +\frac{1}{\sqrt{-\det G}}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\left(\sqrt{-\det G\,}\,G^{yy}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial y} \right)\,.
\end{multline}
In the notations of Appendix A (see \eqref{inverseG} and \eqref{detG}), we have
\begin{multline}\label{Laplace}
\bigtriangleup^{(5)}_{Kerr-AdS}\,=\,-h_1(y)\,\frac{\partial^2}{\partial T^2}-2\,h_1(y)\,h_2(y)\,\frac{\partial}{\partial T}\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial \Phi}+\frac{\partial}{\partial \Psi} \right) +\\
-\,\frac{1}{y^2}a\,h_2(y)\,\left(\frac{\partial}{\partial \Phi}+\frac{\partial}{\partial \Psi} \right)^2 + \frac{1}{y^2\sin^2\Theta} \,\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \Phi^2}+\frac{1}{y^2\cos^2\Theta} \,\frac{\partial^2}{\partial \Psi^2}+\\
+\frac{1}{y^2}\,\frac{1}{\sin(2\Theta)}\frac{\partial}{\partial \Theta}\left(\sin(2\Theta)\,\frac{\partial}{\partial \Theta} \right)+ \frac{1}{\sqrt{h(y)\,}}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\left(\sqrt{h(y)\,}\,G^{yy}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial y} \right)\,,
\end{multline}
where
\begin{equation}
h_1(y)\,=\,\frac{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}{-2M + y^{2}(1+\ell^{2}y^{2})\Xi^{3}}\,, \,\,h_2(y)\,=\,\frac{2aM}{2a^{2}M + y^{4}\Xi^3}.
\end{equation}
To obtain the wave function, we have to solve the equation
\begin{equation}\label{kernel}
\bigtriangleup^{(5)}_{Kerr-AdS}\,F(T,\,\Theta,\,y,\,\Phi,\,\Psi)\,=\,0\,,
\end{equation}
using separation of variables
\begin{equation}\label{separate}
F(T,\,\Theta,\,y,\,\Phi,\,\Psi)\,=\,e^{-i E\, T}\, e^{i n_1\Phi}\, e^{i n_2\Psi}\, f(\Theta,\,y)\,,\qquad n_1,\,n_2\, \in\mathbb{Z}\,.
\end{equation}
Substituting \eqref{separate} in to the equation \eqref{kernel}, we find the following partial differential equation for $\, f(\Theta,\,y)\,$
\begin{multline}\label{laplaceEquation}
E^2\,h_1(y)\,f-2h_1(y)h_2(y)\,E\,(n_1+n_2)\,f+\frac{1}{y^2}\,ah_2(y)\,(n_1+n_2)^2\,f+\\
-\frac{1}{y^2}\,\left( \frac{n_1^2}{\sin^2\Theta} +\frac{n_2^2}{\cos^2\Theta}\right) \,f +\frac{1}{y^2}\,\frac{1}{\sin(2\Theta)}\frac{\partial}{\partial \Theta}\left(\sin(2\Theta)\,\frac{\partial f}{\partial \Theta} \right)+\\
+ \frac{1}{\sqrt{h(y)\,}}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial y}\left(\sqrt{h(y)\,}\,G^{yy}\,\frac{\partial f}{\partial y} \right) \,=\,0\,.
\end{multline}
We can further separate the variables defining $\, f(\Theta,\,y)\,=\,f(\Theta)\,Y(y)\,$.
\subsubsection{Solving the Schr\"odinger equation on the reduced subspace $y=const$}
In the subsection (3.2), we obtain an explicit pulsating solution \eqref{puls solution} in the case for the string winding numbers satisfy $\,m_1^2=m_2^2\equiv\,m^2\,$ and $\,y=const\neq\,0\,$.\\
In this case, taking into account \eqref{constraintPi}, for the first term of the Hamiltonian \eqref{Ham^2}, we have
\begin{equation}
\left( \sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \Pi_{x_s}\right) ^2\,=\,h^2_2(y)\,\left( \Pi_{x_1}+\Pi_{x_2} \right)^2\,=\,0\,.
\end{equation}
Moreover, all functions of $y$ are constants and
\begin{equation}
\hat{G}_{00} + \sum\limits_{l,s=1}^2 \hat{G}_{0l}\,\hat{g}^{ls}\, \hat{G}_{s0} \,=\,-\frac{y^2 \Xi^3 -2aM\,h_1(y)\,h_2(y) }{h_1(y)\,y^2 \Xi^3}\,\equiv\,-K^2 =const\,,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
h_1\,=\,\frac{y^{2}\Xi^{3}}{-2M + y^{2}(1+\ell^{2}y^{2})\Xi^{3}}=const\,, \qquad h_2\,=\,\frac{2aM}{2a^{2}M + y^{4}\Xi^3}=const\,.
\end{equation}
Therefore, the square of the Hamiltonian \eqref{Ham^2} has the form
\begin{equation}\label{Ham3}
H^2=\,\kappa^2\,K^2\,\left\lbrace \Pi_{\Theta}\,g^{\Theta\Theta} \,\Pi_{\Theta} + \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{x_i}\,\hat{g}^{ij} \,\Pi_{x_j} +\lambda\,\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \right\rbrace \,.
\end{equation}
We observe that $H^2$ looks like a point-particle Hamiltonian, which seems to be characteristic feature for pulsating strings in holography. The last term,
\begin{equation}\label{potentialTheta}
\lambda\,\kappa^2\,K^2\left\|\vec{m}\right\|^2 \,\equiv\,\lambda\,U(\Theta)
\end{equation}
serves as an effective potential, which encodes the relevant dynamics of the strings.\\
In the context of Holographic correspondence, the potential is very small compared to the kinetic part. Therefore, we can calculate quantum corrections to the energy using perturbation theory.
\paragraph{Wave functions}
The kinetic term of the Hamiltonian \eqref{Ham3} can be considered as a three dimensional Laplace-Beltrami operator of the Kerr-AdS subspace with $y=const$
\begin{equation}
\vec{P}^2\,=\,\left\lbrace \Pi_{\Theta}\,g^{\Theta\Theta} \,\Pi_{\Theta} + \sum\limits_{i,j=1}^2 \Pi_{x_i}\,\hat{g}^{ij} \,\Pi_{x_j} \right\rbrace \,\,\longrightarrow \,\, \bigtriangleup^{(3)}_{Kerr-AdS}\,,
\end{equation}
which defines the eigen-functions of the Hamiltonian, satisfying the following Schr\"odinger equation
\begin{equation}\label{Schro}
\bigtriangleup^{(3)}_{Kerr-AdS}\,F\,=\,-\,\frac{E^2}{\kappa^2\,K^2}\,F\,.
\end{equation}
Comparing it with the equation \eqref{laplaceEquation}, we notice that it corresponds to taking $n_1=-n_2\equiv\,n\,,\,\, n\in\mathbb{Z}\,$. Thus, we can write the equation \eqref{Schro} in the form
\footnote{In this case, the solution of the below equation can be written directly in terms of Shifted Legendre polynomials, but below we will follow the more general procedure.}
\begin{equation}\label{equation}
\left\lbrace \frac{1}{y^2}\,\frac{1}{\sin\Theta\,\cos\Theta}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial\Theta}\left( \sin\Theta\,\cos\Theta\,\frac{\partial}{\partial\Theta}\right) -\frac{n^2}{y^2}\,\frac{1}{\sin^2\Theta\,\cos^2\Theta}+\frac{E^2}{\kappa^2\,K^2}\right\rbrace \,F(\Theta)\,=\,0\,.
\end{equation}
Since in this case the potential $\,\lambda\,U$ is a constant, the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation can be easily solved. The eigenvalue problem for the Hamilton (square of) operator is exactly solvable.\\
The last term in the equation \eqref{equation} is shifted with a constant and can be written as
\begin{equation}\label{Legendre}
\left\lbrace \frac{1}{\sin\theta}\,\frac{\partial}{\partial\theta}\left( \sin\theta\,\frac{\partial}{\partial\theta}\right) -\frac{n^2}{\sin^2\theta}+\frac{y^2\,(E_{full}^2 +\lambda\,U)}{4\,\kappa^2\,K^2}\right\rbrace \,F(\theta)\,=\,0\,,\qquad \theta\equiv\,2\Theta\,.
\end{equation}
As far as, we want square integrable eigenfunctions with a discrete spectrum, the solution of the above equation can be directly written in terms of Shifted Legendre polynomials
\begin{equation}
F(\theta)\,\sim\, P_n ^k (\cos\theta)\,, \,\, -k\,\leq\,n\,\leq\,k\,,\,\,k\in\mathbb{N}\,.
\end{equation}
The discrete spectrum is determined by
\begin{equation}
\frac{y^2\,(E_{full}^2 +\lambda\,U)}{4\,\kappa^2\,K^2}\,=\,k(k+1)\,.
\end{equation}
Below we will follow slightly more general procedure, which is also valid for non-constant potentials.\\
To this end it is convenient to define a new variable $z=\sin^2\Theta\,, \,\, 0\leq\,z\,\leq\,1\,$. Then the equation \eqref{equation} can be written as
\begin{equation}\label{eq_z}
\left\lbrace \frac{d^2}{dz^2} +\frac{(1-2z)}{z(1-z)} \,\frac{d}{dz} - \frac{N^2}{z^2(1-z)^2} + \frac{\hat{E}^2}{z(1-z)} \right\rbrace \,F(z)\,=\,0\,,
\end{equation}
where $\,N=\frac{n^2}{4}\,$ and $\,\hat{E}^2\,=\,\frac{y^2\,E^2}{\kappa^2\,K^2}\,$.\\
The general solution is the following linear combination
\begin{multline}
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ASIC has released guidance to assist promoters of financial products and services, as well as publishers of advertising for such promotions, in complying with their legal obligations to avoid making false or misleading statements or engaging in misleading or deceptive conduct.
How does it affect you?
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has signalled its intention to take an increasingly interventionist approach to the enforcement of laws prohibiting misleading statements and conduct in the promotion of financial products and services, including in the increasingly important online media.
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be consistent with information contained in any disclosure document when it draws attention to specific product features; and
not create unrealistic expectations about what a financial product or service can achieve.
The Regulatory Guide also says that, in addition to the content of an advertisement, promoters and publishers should consider the implications arising from the particular advertising medium they intend to use. For example, it may be inappropriate to use new media channels such as Twitter and Facebook to advertise financial products and financial advice services, if there is insufficient space to provide balanced information about the products and services in question. An advertisement may be misleading or deceptive if it is presented in a manner that is inappropriate for the chosen advertising medium.
ASIC approach to assessing whether promotion is misleading or deceptive
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a realistic impression of the cost of the product or financial service;
a clear and accurate description of the financial product, and a balanced and clear view of what it is likely to deliver, including balancing the nature of any headline claims made against the detailed content and the presentation of any qualifications or limitations applicable to the product or service;
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Regulatory Guide 234
ASIC recently released Regulatory Guide 234: Advertising Financial Products and Advice Services: Good Practice Guidance to provide practical assistance to the promoters of financial products and services, as well as the publishers of advertising for such promotions, in complying with their obligations not to make false or misleading statements or engage in misleading or deceptive conduct. The release of Regulatory Guide 234 is the culmination of an extensive consultation process.
ASIC has become increasingly concerned with ensuring that advertising conveys a clear, accurate and balanced message so as to avoid creating misleading or unrealistic expectations among consumers, and so recognising the importance of advertising in the financial decision-making process.
Who the guidance applies to
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Track listing
"Desesperadamente Sola"
"Super Enamorandome"
"Es El Amor"
"Aqui Sigues Estando Tu"
"Tu Amor Cayo Del Cielo"
"Como Cada Dia"
"Volveras a Mi"
"Tranquilo Nene"
"Sobredosis de Amor"
"<|fim_middle|> – trombone
Notes
External links
Anahi official website
Anahi Rocks USA fan club in the USA
2006 albums
Anahí albums | Primer Amor"
Personnel
Credits for Una Rebelde en Solitario:
Anahí – primary artist
Eduardo Arias – make-up
Tim Barnes – viola
Martin Bejerano – piano
Adolfo Pérez Butrón – photography
Ed Calle – arranger, saxophone
Javier Carrion – bass guitar, engineer
Jessica Chirino – vocals
Tony Concepcion – trumpet
Michael "Junno" Cosculluela – vocals
Estéfano – guitar (acoustic)
Scott Flavin – violin
Jim Hacker – trumpet
Alfredo Oliva – violin
Eduardo Paz – composer
Chris Rodriguez – vocals, keyboard programming
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First note that futures based on terrorist activities were to play a very small role in the market, or perhaps none at all. The main thrust of the market was to predict various quantities relating the the economic health and stability of countries in the middle east.
Yes, there are legitimate concerns about a completely uncontrolled terror futures market. But with strict investment limits, careful record keeping, proper audit trails, carefully crafted financial instruments, and possibly even restricted access to security-cleared personnel, there would have been little risk, and<|fim_middle|> the above link click on "Interactives" or "Futures Markets" on the left navigation panel.
The novelty of the sports markets on TradeSports, World Sports Exchanges, Cantor Index, other spread-betting sites, and other so-called "in-game" or "in-running" or "peer-to-peer" (P2P) sports betting sites, is that trades/bets can continue even after the game starts, right up until the final moment. So as information bearing on the outcome of the game is revealed -- points are scored, players are injured, penalties are called, etc. -- traders can react in real time. Prices reflect the traders' current collective sentiment on the likely outcome of the bet at any given moment.
A variety of play-money market games are cropping up on the Web. They operate like real markets, but no real money changes hands, thus side-stepping thorny legal and regulatory issues. Research shows that even market games can provide decent forecasts, sometimes outperforming experts or polls. It seems players care dearly about their fictitious portfolios, and the lure of funny money -- fueling community stature within the game, or sometimes convertible into very real prizes -- is enough to drive a form of informational efficiency and forecast accuracy in these games, if not as strong and well-tested as with their real-money brethren.
The Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX). Probably the most popular and well-known market game. Offers markets in movie box office results, actor market value, Oscars, Emmys, and more.
NewsFutures. A well-designed and fast growing market game covering anything that is newsworthy, including politics, current events, entertainment, and sports. There are also French and Hungarian versions of the site.
The Foresight Exchange (FX). The granddaddy of market games. With an old-school interface, this site, inspired by Robin Hanson's Idea Futures concept, is focused mainly (though certainly not exclusively) on events of scientific and technological import. FX is the only site with a mechanism for users to craft and contribute their own market contracts.
Copyright © 2004 David M. Pennock & Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. | great potential benefits. Yes, it may have failed. This was a research project -- an experiment -- and research sometimes fails. But it may also have succeeded in delivering superior information and superior forecasts about extremely important world events, something most can admit appear lacking using current methodologies.
The Policy Analysis Market (PAM), dubbed "Terror Futures" by congressional leaders and the media, was based on decades of research in economics and finance that markets provide accurate predictions: more accurate than most other forecasting tools we have. Markets offer a way to tap into the collective wisdom of a population. Markets don't care who is the loudest, who is the most aggressive, who is the most powerful, or who is the most persuasive; markets only care about accuracy. Those who have better information and can better predict the future win. Those with poor information or poor abilities to process information lose. In this way, the good information filters to the top, yielding forecasts that reflect about as good a vision of the future as can be found by any other means. This kind of cold indifference to personalities is often exactly what is needed to uncover the truth. The ability of markets to provide unbiased forecasts is not just speculation: it is borne out by countless scientific investigations of real markets, including options markets, futures markets, sports betting markets, and even market games where no real money changes hands.
PAM also could have provided a means for people and organizations to insure or hedge against major world events. Oil companies, for example, are very much exposed to the risk of instability in the middle east. A market like PAM would give them the opportunity to hedge those risks.
A major objection to PAM was that terrorists or their sympathizers could manipulate the market to divert attention from their true targets. This is possible, but the evidence from existing markets is that manipulation is very hard, because markets punish misinformation. Those attempting to artificially inflate some investment stand to lose significant sums of money, and may not even effect the market price if one or two smart other traders realize what is going on. In fact, there is evidence from the Iowa Electronic Market, a futures market in political elections, that a coordinated attempt to bid up the price of Pat Buchanan shares failed miserably, barely effecting prices, and causing all the recruited Buchanan supporters to lose their collective shirts.
A much more serious objection to PAM was that terrorists themselves might benefit by enacting the very thing they bet on, thus funding their next terrorist act. This threat was overblown, since the market would have limited investment to $100 or so. Terrorists looking for ways to profit on their actions would do much better to short sell airline stocks or oil stocks, or otherwise exploit existing markets that have effectively no limits on the amount that can be invested. There are plenty of ways to manipulate markets and commit fraud, including, say, perpetrating arson to collect on insurance. But because there are legitimate reasons for stocks and for insurance, we don't abolish them just because of the potential for fraud. We instead monitor for fraud and punish it severely when discovered. It is an unfortunate truth that we sometime resort to paying large sums of money to unsavory characters in order to capture other unsavory characters. It's true that PAM might have benefited some undesirable elements, and perhaps this is enough to shut it down in its original form. But their benefit would have been limited, and our benefit could have been great. Note that, contrary to reports, the government would not have directly paid anyone: any one trader's winnings would have come directly from some other trader's losses.
Then there is the moral issue: isn't it simply wrong to place bets on death and destruction? Well, if so, nearly everyone in the civilized world is guilty: we all bet on misfortune every day. When you purchase life, health, or property insurance, you are essentially betting that something bad will happen. Your insurance company is taking the other side of the bet. If nothing happens, the insurance company keeps your payment. If something terrible does happen -- you wreck your car, or require major surgery, for example -- you "win" the bet and the insurance company pays you your due. Of course you don't actually wish for tragedy to strike, but if it does, you want the peace of mind to know that you will receive monetary compensation. In fact, large building owners are now taking out terrorism insurance: in doing so, they are in effect betting on terror, albeit in a way that almost no one would object to.
I can understand the shock and outrage people felt when they first heard about PAM. Had I not known anything about the project, I likely would have reacted the same way. But knowing something of the other side, and seeing the incredible firestorm burn out of control so fast, with nearly all coverage and commentary coming in exceedingly one sided, was both frustrating and frightening to behold. It certainly makes me think twice about all those seemingly outrageous scandals I hear about that I otherwise know little about.
It's a shame that PAM -- and all the research programs surrounding it, most having nothing to do with terrorism -- were dismissed out of hand in a single day with little discussion and little investigation into their merits. The bottom line is that PAM, in some form, might have worked. I certainly hope that other academic and commercial projects investigating the predictive power of markets will proceed.
These lists are by no means exhaustive -- consider this section "under construction"
The proof of the forecasting power of markets is in the pudding. Beyond our standard financial derivatives markets (e.g., options and futures markets), here are some interesting real-money markets with a proven track record of predicting the outcome of a huge number of events spanning a wide variety of topics.
The Iowa Electronic Market (IEM). A not-for-profit market operated by the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business. Known for its political election markets, IEM also offers a markets on a few other topics, for example the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.
TradeSports. Offers markets on a wide range of topics, including sports, politics, and news.
Cantor Index. Cantor Index is a UK-based subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald. Cantor Index now owns the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX), and runs a real-money version of HSX's play-money market game. Many other so-called spread betting markets are run in the UK and elsewhere, allowing traders to bet real money on where various market indices are headed, or how sporting events will unfold.
The World Sports Exchange. Mainly limited to sporting events, but also offers markets in elections (e.g., the 2004 Democratic Nominee), the Oscars, American Idol, etc. The site is also a sportsbook. To get to the markets, from | 1,373 |
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), 1 in 5 U.S. cancer diagnoses is for a rare cancer. This is a tremendous proportion of cancers on which doctors have limited information, leaving patients and their families short of the support and treatment they need.
One of the hardest forms of cancer to diagnose is mesothelioma, a cancer caused exclusively by asbestos. Mesothelioma symptoms are easily mistaken for other cancers or illnesses and subsequently mistreated.
Advocacy organizations exist to help solve this problem. By funding and advocating for research, these organizations can better inform doctors on how to prevent, detect, treat, and perhaps even cure rare diseases. The following are key initiatives mesothelioma patients should be aware of.
ADAO is the largest organization dedicated to raising public awareness of asbestos-related<|fim_middle|> to build a healthier world. One way the organization strives to combat disease is by raising awareness of their causes. Its International Programme on Chemical Safety investigates asbestos-related diseases and promotes public health actions to eliminate them.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI), provided by the National Institutes of Health (of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). NCI provides up-to-date and easy-to-understand information on rare cancers (here is the mesothelioma page), databases of clinical trials, and a contact center for support.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a federal government agency that works to protect human health and the environment. The EPA's anti-asbestos initiatives achieved a partial ban several decades ago, but much work is still to be done to investigate and prohibit the toxic substance.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whose National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) department gathers critical data on mesothelioma and workplace exposure to asbestos.
The ultimate goal of most advocacy and research efforts is to work toward prevention and cure. However, mesothelioma is a complex and relatively recently discovered disease still in early stages of investigation. By participating in these organizations' programs, every mesothelioma patient can make a difference or find the support they deserve. | diseases, which account for up to 15,000 deaths every year but remain poorly understood. The organization's main goal is to prevent and treat these diseases through research, a global community of survivors, and advocacy for a global asbestos ban. Its annual conferences bring together medical and public health experts from all over the world.
Formerly known as MARF, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation is a nonprofit committed to ending mesothelioma. The organization advocates for research and educates patients and their families through its extensive resource library. MARF has so far generated $9.8 Million in grant funding to improve patients' treatment and survival, and $15.1 Million to fund severely lacking federal research.
NORD is a nonprofit organization focused on improving the lives of people with rare diseases. Its database contains abundant information on more than 1,200 conditions, including mesothelioma. NORD also provides programs and services such as the Patient Assistance Program, which helps patients obtain life-saving medications, and Rare Action Network, a community of patients interested in fundraising and networking.
The WHO, a member of the United Nations Development Group, works with governments and other international agencies | 242 |
I love to make homemade rolls. My family has basically made me the official roll-maker for holidays and parties. These World's Best Dinner Rolls have always been my go-to<|fim_middle|>/2 cup sugar….what's the difference? i thought all sugar was granulated? these rolls sound so yummy!
These ARE the most amazing rolls. So easy to make, rise so quickly, taste SO good! I thought, "This might make good cinnamon rolls." It does! Just roll it out, fill, roll and cut, let rise, bake 350 degrees for 18 minutes max, frost and enjoy!
Thank you so much for the "amazing" recipe!
Looks so delicious. Love these rolls. Never tried such type of rolls first time I will be making these rolls. I love baking and will definitely try this at home.
Cut the recipe in half. Took 1/2 of that & made 6 rolls. Took the other half, rolled out for cinnamon rolls (1/2 c brown sugar w/ 1.5 t of cinnamon) Brushed dough w/ melted butter, sprinkled sugar mix all over, rolled up, pinched seams, cut into 6 rolls. Followed remainder of directions. Put all 12 rolls in glass 9 x 13" greased pan – delicious!!! | recipe. I'll definitely still make them, but these Amazing Dinner Rolls are tied for the win.
Soft, buttery, and really amazing dinner rolls.
Pour the warm water in a medium bowl. Add the yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Stir. Set aside and allow mixture to foam and proof for 20 minutes.
Crack eggs into a separate mixing bowl, beat the eggs. Add room temperature butter and ½ cup sugar. Beat until combined.
Add 1 cup flour and salt. Mix.
Add milk and mix again.
Pour a little vegetable oil into a large gallon-size plastic bag, or grocery bag. Place dough into the bag. Twist end loosely and tuck under.
Let rise 45 minutes. Punch down, and let rise again for 45 minutes.
Divide dough in half. Roll each half into a large circle and cut 12 equal 'pie' pieces. Roll dough triangles from the wide end into a crescent shape. Place rolls on a greased baking sheet.
Cover rolls and let rise another 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
Bake rolls at 375° F. for 12 to 15 minutes, or until golden-brown. Remove from oven and brush tops with melted butter.
I mixed this all by hand. You could definitely do this in a stand-mixer, with dough hooks as well.
Wow, these rolls sure do look amazing! So light and fluffy, and perfect golden brown. yum!
These look amazing!! I've been loving making breads recently, and these rolls look like they'd be perfect slathered in butter.
What is the purpose of placing the dough into a plastic bag vs. placing in a greased bowl and covering?
Susan, great question! I wondered the same thing! 🙂 I did it as the recipe states, but I'm sure if they raise in a bowl the results would be the same.
I haven't tried any of your roll recipes yet, but all your dinner recipes are 5 star hits every time! I need a roll recipe for Thanksgiving…which do you recommend for the big day?
you say it needs 1 tsp granulated sugar and 1 | 447 |
Ex-Weather Underground Member Kathy Boudin Granted Parole
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After 22 years in jail, Boudin was granted parole yesterday. We talk to her son Chesa Boudin who was 14 months old when his parents were arrested; her attorney Leonard Weinglass; Jeff Jones, a founding member of the Weathermen and Norma Hill, who called for Boudin's release even though she was a victim in the 1981 bank heist that led to Boudin's arrest. We also play excerpts of the new documentary "Weather Underground." [Includes transcript]
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"When I walk out of the prison gate I will gently touch the air that surrounds me like a shawl. It is autumn and the leaves are floating in circles of reds, browns, and oranges. I am with my child in freedom, a reunion with my family and friends who have lived these decades with me."
These are the words of Kathy Boudin, a former member of the radical group the Weather Underground. She has served 22 years in prison for her role in a botched armed robbery in 1981 in which three men were killed.
She was granted parole in a surprise decision yesterday. She is 60 years old.
In the 1960s Boudin, daughter of civil rights attorney Leonard Boudin, joined the Weather Underground a radical group who were convinced that only militant action could end racism, inequality and the war in Vietnam.
They took responsibility for bombing two dozen public buildings, including the Pentagon, eventually landing on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
In 1981, Boudin was recruited by Black Liberation Army members to drive the getaway vehicle in an armored car heist in Rockland County, New York. The idea was to have white people drive the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck, to throw off pursuers.
A security guard was killed in the robbery at the Nanuet Mall. Their truck was later stopped at a roadblock and two police officers were gunned down by gunmen at the back of the truck. Boudin was unarmed and sitting in the passenger seat at the time. She was apprehended as she fled, pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery and was sentenced to 20 years to life.
Her son was just 14 months old at the time.
In prison, Boudin has served her time as a model inmate. She developed a program on parenting behind bars and helped write a handbook for inmates whose children are in foster care. She also earned a master's degree in adult education and literacy. In the late 1980s she helped design an AIDS support program that is now used as a model at prisons across the country.
Boudin has spent 22 years behind bars. She is expected to be freed from her New York state prison by late September.
Her possible release has been staunchly opposed by the families, friends and colleagues of the three men killed.
Boudin said she was terrified during the gun battle and aid there was no way "to pay the debt for my being involved or participating in the crime that destroyed families and destroyed men."
Leonard Weinglass, attorney representing Kathy Boudin.
Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin. He recently graduated from Yale University and received a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He was a baby when his parents were arrested and imprisoned. He was raised by Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, themselves former members of the Weather Underground.
Tape: * "Weather Underground,"* new documentary directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel
Jeff Jones, former member of the Weather Underground. He now works as the communications director for the Environmental Advocates of New York.
Norma Hill, she was dragged from her car at gunpoint during the 1981 robbery and testified for the prosecution in the ensuing trials, but later befriended Kathy Boudin while both were working with AIDS patients in prison.
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AMY GOODMAN: We're joined right now by her son, Chesa Boudin, who got the word on the road yesterday as he was driving across country. Welcome to Democracy Now! Chesa.
CHESA BOUDIN: Thank you very much.
AMY GOODMAN: So, what are your thoughts today?
CHESA BOUDIN: Well, it's an overwhelmingly happy day for all of us. And of course it's my birthday today which makes it all that much sweeter, and I certainly couldn't ask for a better birthday present than this.
AMY GOODMAN: Were you surprised by the ruling?
CHESA BOUDIN: To be honest I wasn't really sure what to expect. I knew that there was always a chance, you have to you have to have hope in these situations. But it is certainly, I wasn't optimistic going into it, that's for sure.
AMY GOODMAN: We're also joined in the studio by Leonard Weinglass. He has represented Kathy Boudin, what, for two decades now?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes. Likely over.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about actually what happened yesterday in this parole hearing?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Well, as you know attorneys are not permitted to be present at the parole hearing, so I'm getting it second hand. But from what I understand, she appeared before two parole board commissioners. The hearing lasted over an hour, about an hour and 15 minutes, and afterwards the parole commissioners huddled and decided that she should be released and informed Kathy of that decision.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about how this parole hearing was different than the one three months ago, different from the one in 2001.
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes. There seems to be a misperception that just three months ago the parole board denied her parole. Why is this parole board granting her parole now? The parole board that met three months ago met pursuant to a court order that set aside the 2001 parole decision. But what the board three months ago was considering was Kathy Boudin's status as of 2001. And so it was an anomalous situation, where there was an exceptional parole hearing, based on a court ordered parole hearing.
AMY GOODMAN: What has changed.
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Well, Kathy has changed. She's a 60-year-old woman. She has served her time admirably. To say she's a model prisoner is an understatement. Her situation at the crime was such that the judge who sentenced her deemed her role to be secondary and he clearly expressed himself that she should be released at the end of 20 years. So I think the feeling was, 22 years was certainly enough.
AMY GOODMAN: So, why did yesterday come as such a surprise then, as her attorney?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Well, to be honest with you, I was one of the few people who told Kathy that I thought she probably would be released. That was my feeling all along. Given all of the circumstances in her role as a prisoner.
AMY GOODMAN: Chesa, have you spoken to your mother?
CHESA BOUDIN: I have not been able to. I was in the car all day yesterday, driving across the country, and she's not allowed to call cell phones.
AMY GOODMAN: Leonard Weinglass, you've spoken with her?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: It would be more accurate to say I listened to her. She called me immediately after the decision and she was crying, she was with the chaplain at the prison, Sister Elaine. She was barely able to convey the sense, although I caught it right away, that the parole board had decided her released and she was joyous and crying and tearful and incoherent, and it wasn't a long conversation.
AMY GOODMAN: Jeff Jones is also on the line with us, a former member of the Weather Underground. Now works as communications director of Environmental Advocates of New York in Albany. You have long worked for the release of Kathy Boudin, can you describe your thoughts today?
JEFF JONES: Like Chesa, and Lenny, Amy, by the way, thank you for including me in this conversation, it's just a great morning, a morning of great joy for all of us who have believed that Kathy should get out of jail. I talked to her myself just a few minutes ago, and she really is a happy person and one of the things that's so exciting is how happy everyone is around her in the prison. It's really a place where people grasp for hope and they have some hope this morning. I also was able to talk last night to Chesa's father, David Gilbert in Attica. He heard about it listening to National Public Radio, and David also was extremely happy with this news. He's happy for Kathy and he's happy for Chesa.
AMY GOODMAN: Chesa, you have spent your life visiting between your father and your mother, now David Gilbert at Attica, and your mother at Bedford hills. You live in Chicago, you're going off as a Rhodes scholar to Britain in a month, graduated from Yale in May. Can you talk a little about your journey between your parents and your own growth.
CHESA BOUDIN: Well, it's hard to sum up all the ups and downs of having parents in prison. I think for me the main thing has been that I've been very lucky to have wonderful support network of family members and extended family. I grew up within a wonderful family, and actually had four parents instead of two. So, in that regard I was very lucky. And certainly, compared to most children with parents in prison, I've had a lot of opportunities. But it has been hard, especially when I was younger, you know, the stress of visiting my parents and of trying to maintain a relationship and build a relationship with them from the distance that incarceration creates. It was a challenge, and I was lucky to have all the support that I had along the way.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, you were raised by another family, friends of your parents, Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers, who themselves were former members of the weather underground.
CHESA BOUDIN: Correct. And, you know, growing up in a household where politics are important and where people think about those ideas has been a huge advantage to me, just growing up caring about the world I live in, as compared to a lot of families where politics are de-emphasized.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Chesa Boudin, son of Kathy Boudin. Also Jeff Jones on the line with us, former member of the Weather Underground and Leonard Weinglass, civil rights attorney. We're gonna break and then come back to this discussion. Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: Here on Democracy Now!, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman, as we talk about the case of Kathy Boudin in a surprise ruling for many, the parole board yesterday at Bedford Hills in New York state ruled — granted Kathy Boudin parole after 22 years in jail. In a minute we're going to play an excerpt of the film, "The Weather Underground" and a conversation that we had a little while ago about this new documentary. But right now we're going to play an excerpt from it about the bombing of a townhouse or an explosion, an accidental explosion, within a townhouse in Greenwich Village in New York that Kathy Boudin had escaped from about 12 years before the 1981 arrest. Leonard Weinglass, correct me if I'm wrong in setting the stage for this.
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes, no, that's correct, Amy.
AMY GOODMAN: This is an excerpt from "The Weather Underground" and some of the documentary footage of the time.
MARK RUDD: The townhouse was part of a small autonomous group in New York City that was being led by Terry Robbins.
BILL AYERS: Terry more than probably anyone else represented the view that it was too late for any kind of reconciliation inside this country and that the best that we could do was to bring about a catastrophic series of actions that would get the attention of the world.
MARK RUDD: the group that was led by Terry in that house on west 11th street was building a bomb. They had decided to set off the bomb at a noncommissioned officers dance at Fort Dix. The idea being that there are no innocent in this war of aggression.
INTERVIEWEE: What we wanted to do here was deliver the most horrific hit that the United States government had ever suffered on its territory. We wanted to light it up. Our slogan was bring the war home, and we really wanted to give the United States and the rest of the world a sense that this country was going to be completely unlivable if the United States continued in Vietnam, and that was the goal of this group.
TODD GITLIN: I think what has to be stared at is that they brought themselves, they were not brought, they brought themselves to that point, to the point of which they were ready to be mass murderers. This is mass murder we're talking about. They came to this conclusion which is the conclusion that was come to by all the great killers, whether Hitler or Stalin or Mao, that they have a grand project for the transformation and purification of the world. And in the face of that project, ordinary life is dispensable. They joined that tradition.
VOICE OVER: On March 6, 1970, as the Weatherman group on West 11th street put the final touches on the bomb there was a short circuit in the wiring and the device accidentally exploded.
NEWSCAST VOICE OVER: An expensive townhouse in Greenwich village was destroyed by three explosions which killed at least three people. The police still only know a part of the story. What they still have to find out is a good deal more about the extent of the bomb plot and the extent to which the student protesters of the 1960's have turned into more serious revolutionaries using far more lethal weapons. One body was identified as that of S.D.S. member Theodore Gold. A second dead man has not yet been identified. A third victim was identified as 28-year-old Diana Outin, a member of the S.D.S. Weatherman faction. She was the daughter of one of the richest men in the small town, Dwight, Illinois. When he heard the news of his daughter's death, James Outin, a local banker and former Republican member of the Illinois house, cut short a vacation in London and hurried home.
JAMES OUTIN: I've been asked how I would advise other parents and I have answered that I have no advice at all. I wouldn't know how to advise myself. I'm looking for guidelines myself from somebody else.
DAVID GILBERT: I was in Denver. We had a collective there. I heard something on the radio. We were actually driving to the mountains to do target practice. I heard something on the radio, and it was [static-like], about somebody Gold was killed in an explosion in New York City. Later I got a call saying that it had been our people. I would say that that is the one point in my life where I was overwhelmed by the heaviness of it. That was a really difficult loss.
INTERVIEWEE: When the townhouse went up, it was at that point that the F.B.I. knew that it was in a battle and that these were truly committed revolutionaries who planned on doing a lot more to achieve the violent overthrow of this government than just talking about it. These Weatherman people were actually randomly bombing and intended to kill people. At that point, pressure came all the way from the White House to catch these people. It was very, very high pressure.
BILL AYERS: When this explosion happened a group of us disappeared from sight and that was really the official beginning of what came to be called the Weather Underground.
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of the new film "The Weather Underground". Leonard Weinglass, as you hear this, Kathy came out of that building, where was she? How did she make it out?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes. That was a very tragic event. Actually Kathy who was suffering with Mononucleosis at the time was asleep in a bedroom on the top floor of the building. The bomb was being constructed in the basement. When the building was leveled she was simply able to walk out of the bedroom and onto the street. There was, as you can imagine, a massive investigation of this event. And at the conclusion, the District Attorney of New York, Mr. Morganthal wrote in a letter to Kathy Boudin's sentencing judge, that there was no evidence connecting Kathy Boudin to that bomb, and that she was never charged with constructing that bomb or having anything to do with it. As a matter of fact, she had to pass a polygraph given by the police related to the fact that she was never involved in any act in which anyone was injured. And so, we have the District Attorney, we have the polygraph and we have the physical setting all indicating, and it's always been accepted by law enforcement, that Kathy Boudin had nothing to do with that event.
AMY GOODMAN: But that's when she went underground after that?
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes. When she fled from the house she together with a number of people in the Weather Underground went underground and she stayed underground until the 1981 robbery.
AMY GOODMAN: We are speaking to Leonard Weinglass, Kathy Boudin's attorney for 22 years, also Jeff Jones on the line with us. Kathy Boudin's son, Chesa, who learned on the road yesterday as he was traveling cross-country that his mother had been granted parole. And now joining us on the telephone is Norma hill. She's actually at CNN studios, so we thank her for picking up her cell phone. Norma hill is one of the victims of the armored car heist. Norma, maybe you could tell us what happened to you the day that Kathy was arrested and your thoughts today.
NORMA HILL: Well, I was driving up Route 59 going home and I got stuck behind a U-haul truck, which became the truck that was filled with the six armed men. Kathy was a passenger in the truck and David was the driver. My car — after the shooting began and I saw Kathy alight from the car with her hands up, I did see the two police officers get shot and then one of the shooters saw me sitting in the car which was right next to the truck and he came over. He put a gun in my face and he pulled me out of the car, threw me on the ground and took off with the car with my mother in it. I picked myself up and ran after him begging of him to let my mother go, which my mom was able to undo the seatbelt, and she was pushed out of the car. After that, I spent the next three years testifying against Kathy and I am pleased that she has been released because I did reacquaint myself with Kathy ten years ago, when we were both working on an AIDS project. At that time, I was aware of all of the things that she had been doing in the prison system. And I began to rethink about, you know, my feelings toward her.
AMY GOODMAN: Can you explain that, it's very unusual. You ended up meeting her at Bedford Hills. Your brother had died of AIDS?
NORMA HILL: My brother was a Hemophaeliac that had died from AIDS, and so I became interested in AIDS issues. And when I went to Bedford hills, I wanted to unite the women with AIDS with the rest of the population, so I suggested that we make panels for the AIDS quilt. I required — I was required to get some volunteers and of course, Kathy was one of the people that volunteered to come and help with this project. And that was the first time that we reconnected after our ten years.
AMY GOODMAN: Did she recognize you as the person who had testified against her all of those years?
NORMA HILL: No, she did not.
AMY GOODMAN: Did you know it was her?
NORMA HILL: Yes, I knew it was her. And I was very nervous<|fim_middle|> in the Rockland community who stepped forward to support her after she had served her 20-year sentence and said they believed that she should be released as the judge had said. The possibility of bringing some reconciliation in that community is one of the unreported but wonderful things about this decision.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Jeff Jones, Chesa Boudin and Leonard Weinglass, thank you very much. You are listening to Democracy Now! When we come back a clip from our conversation about the film "Weather Underground." Stay with us.
AMY GOODMAN: You are listening to Democracy Now! That song is Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Home Sick Blues", and that's where the term Weather Underground comes from. The Students for Democratic Society divided in two. This after the invasion of Laos, the killing of four Kent State University students by the National Guard, the relentless violence of the Vietnam war. These were the U.S. government's actions 30 years ago. Many people felt peaceful protest was not stopping it. And so one group decided to meet violence with violence. They were called the Weather Underground. They broke off from S.D.S., they took responsibility for bombing two dozen public buildings including the Pentagon, eventually landing on the F.B.I.'s most wanted list. The new documentary "Weather Underground" tells the story of the militant anti-war group. It premiered in New York, and is premiering around the country now. Bob Dylan's song "Subterranean Homesick Blues" has the lyric "you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", which is where they got their name. In this excerpt of our conversation about the film, Juan Gonzales was with me, co-host of Democracy Now!, and we talked to Mark Rudd, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, about how he got into it.
MARK RUDD: Normally when I tell the story I start around 1965 when I'm 18 years old and a freshman at Columbia. I often speak to college and even high school history classes. They want to know what it was all about. So I have — I tell my story it starts in 1965. To summarize, in 1965, was the major escalation of war. The beginning of the escalation of war. Before 1965 had been advisors, after 1965, U.S. ground troops. So, it had reached that stage in 1965, and had gone from about 25,000 troops in Vietnam to half a million by the end of 1967. That was the period of my college — beginning of college. I came to Columbia and immediately found students who were protesting, and that was the group I wanted to be with, because I was — they were relevant. They were dealing with the real problems of the world. That long period, which seemed to us to be long, of protests, and of petitioning against the war, and of opposing Columbia's involvement in the war led eventually to confrontation, and eventually to a takeover at Columbia in 1968. That model of confrontation, which then drew in many more people, probably became our working model in our minds, that this was what was going to happen in this society as a whole. So, again to summarize, we developed a theory that, actually it had been developed by Che Guevara in Cuba, the Foco Theory, which is revolutionaries will begin arms struggle and the Compasinos of Latin America will join. And that was the model that we transposed into the United States. And that's what we felt we were doing.
AMY GOODMAN: Juan, you were a part of that struggle in Columbia. You were in the S.D.S. before you helped to found the Young Lords. You knew Mark Rudd back then.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I knew Mark well.
MARK RUDD: This is a great reunion.
JUAN GONZALEZ: We actually haven't seen each other in about 15 years. I think the last was 1988, maybe, around that time. It was folks like Mark and Dave Gilbert who's prominent in the film who actually was —- we were in the same class. Mark was actually a year behind us. But -—
AMY GOODMAN: David Gilbert, now in prison for life.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And Dave, who I always thought was the most brilliant college student I met when I was in college. He was able to challenge the professors in political science on virtually any subject, and always seemed to best the professors in the class and would frustrate them tremendously. But it was Dave and Mark and the other people who were the leaders of S. D.S. who initially recruited me during the 1968 student strike, to join S.D.S. , And, of course, I left to go start to organize the Young Lords right around the time that they got into the Weathermen direction of S.D.S. after the 1969 convention. So, yes, we go a long way back.
MARK RUDD: I might add that Dave Gilbert amazed shots of clip Dave Gilbert in prison, is in the movie.
JUAN GONZALEZ: And he looks remarkably well for all the years now that he spent in prison, and remarkably composed, and as I understand has become a major leader at Attica and well respected among all the prisoners there.
AMY GOODMAN: Sam green, you interviewed him there?
SAM GREEN: Yeah. I was struck by the same thing. He's a really intelligent, sweet guy and very sincere.
AMY GOODMAN: Well let's go to the second clip that we want to bring you today. I'm not sure if Dave is in this but we'll see. This is a clip from "The Weather Underground". It's directed by Sam Green and Bill Siegel.
MARK RUDD: Our country was murdering millions of people, actually the number is somewhere between three and five million people. This revelation was more than we could handle. We didn't know what to do about it. It was too great a fact. Every second of my life from 1965 to 1975 I was always aware that our country was attacking Vietnam. I could be up in the mountains. I'd be thinking about the war in Vietnam. I could be taking an acid trip and I'd be thinking about the war in Vietnam.
BILL AYERS: My brother was drafted. My brother was in the service. So it wasn't something that was abstract. It was something that was concrete and affected us personally and directly.
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NEXTFCC Head Michael Powell Backpedals & Announces Study on Local Media Ownership | and I was — I was really extremely nervous. However, I decided at that point that the healthiest thing to do would be for us to sit down and talk with one another and discuss the particular day that this issue took place. And that's what we did. I made an appointment through her lawyers and I sat down with her in the visiting room. And we spent about three hours talking about the day that the incident took place. And Kathy only wanted to know how it had affected me and how it had affected the other families and, of course, my involvement was not tragic to the extent that the rest of the people's were. However, from that day forward, I spent a great deal of time with Kathy Boudin and it was never a moment during that time that she did not express her remorse and she expressed it verbally, but I also think that she expressed it by the things that she did, by her actions in the prison system. And her day-to-day living was so exemplary and such an incredible example to anybody that's incarcerated. And I do believe that because of her, there are women now that are outside the prison system that will never go back. And I think it's in many cases due to the fact that Kathy helped them get an education and helped them get a feeling of self worth, which they have now taken outside of the prison and have passed along to their children. Instead of passing along the heritage of selling drugs, they are now pass along the heritage of an education. And I think that is the reason why Kathy Boudin deserved her parole yesterday and I think it was a wonderful decision.
AMY GOODMAN: I'm looking at a number of pieces, one of them in the "New York Times," relatives of victims not ready to forgive. Talking about the death of one of the police sergeants, Edward O'Grady. Have you been spending time with his family? Yesterday they put up a happy birthday sign, flowers on his grave.
NORMA HILL: No, I have not. The family — I believe that the family feels in their hearts that I have betrayed them. But in reality, I have not, because I felt as strongly about Kathy being put into prison when I stood in the courtroom 22 years ago as I feel today that she should be released. She's earned her parole. And that's what parole is all about. Parole is being offered to you as — not as a reward but certainly for lack of a better word, as a reward for good behavior. She was — her crime is past now, but she'll never forget it. She will live with it every day of her life. However it's time to move on, and time for Kathy to be able to move on and do the things that she does best in society. I feel confident that Kathy is going to live a very productive life. She's a quiet woman. She's not a woman that seeks publicity, and I think that when she is released from prison she will go about her business in her usual quiet manner.
AMY GOODMAN: Chesa, as you listen to Norma Hill what are your thoughts?
CHESA BOUDIN: Well, I'm actually not able to hear anything she is saying, so I'm afraid I can't comment on what she just said. I'm not hearing anything.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Norma Hill just described what happened to her on that day and said that she has come to know Kathy in Bedford Hills prison working with her on an AIDS project and that Kathy has expressed remorse repeatedly both verbally and otherwise to her. And supports her parole.
CHESA BOUDIN: I think my mom and her relationship with Norma are true testament to the human capacity for change, and how far my mom has come since that robbery.
AMY GOODMAN: What are your mother's plans when she gets out?
CHESA BOUDIN: Well, I think we have a lot of planning to do ahead of us in this situation. I never wanted to plan all the details out too far ahead of time because it's just asking to get let down. But I think the first step she's moving in with friends who are medical doctors in Brooklyn, and she will begin working in New York City and building a life for herself there. I'm still very anxious for her to actually get out, there won't be anything totally complete until she steps out of the prison gate and I can hug her for the first time in freedom.
AMY GOODMAN: Leonard Weinglass, when do you think she will get out? The parole board or state corrections people say some time before October 1st.
LEONARD WEINGLASS: Yes. I'm optimistic it will be much before October 1st. We're actually going to start working on that today.
AMY GOODMAN: You're quoted in the "New York Times" as saying in the next few days, possibly.
LEONARD WEINGLASS: I think that's the earliest assessment. Kathy submitted to the parole board a parole plan which set out employment offers which she's had here in New York City, as well as an offer of an apartment which Chesa just described. So her plan is already in place, and all that has to happen now is for the parole investigators to check up on the plan, to make sure she does have employment and to make sure she does have a place to live. I think that could be done in the very short period of time. So I'm still optimistic that it will be — I'm hoping the latest around Labor Day or shortly thereafter.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to break, and then we'll come back. We are speaking with Chesa Boudin who has just returned from a cross country trip, hearing his mother has been granted parole. Leonard Weinglass, Kathy Boudin's attorney. Jeff Jones, final comment. We're then going to go to excerpt, a longer excerpt of the film "Weather Underground."
JEFF JONES: Well, I've known Kathy since 1967 or 1968, when she was one of the great community organizers in S.D.S., and, in a sense, the townhouse segment is kind of unfortunate because it's such a tragic thing, and it's also so out of character for Kathy. And when she did finally find herself in prison these last 22 years, her tremendous skills at working with people, at helping people find direction, and make sense of their lives, is what created this great record of accomplishment that she had in prison. And I think that was a big part of what was recognized by the parole board. The other part of this, which hasn't been mentioned in today's program, is the wonderful and courageous people in Rockland County and | 1,383 |
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First Baptist Tulsa Summer Day Camp is not your ordinary day camp! We have a fun summer recreation program that will enrich your child physically, socially, mentally and spiritually. Day Camp is for children who have completed Kindergarten through 6th grade. Our weekly schedule includes, swimming, movies, arts and crafts,<|fim_middle|> arrival and departure through one of the computer terminals located on the counter, just inside our front doors. Our computer check in/out process makes this easy. Parents are allowed to pick up their child for lunch. The best days to take your child out are on the days we have afternoon activities scheduled for in the building. Campers must be signed out at the lobby desk before leaving the building for lunch.
Campers need to bring a lunch from home each day or purchase items from our concessions. Items available include, pizza pockets, corn dogs,burritos and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, as well as chips, pop and candy. Campers should bring non-perishable food, although some refrigeration is available. Microwaves are provided in the lunch-room for foods that need to be heated. Chocolate milk, milk and bottled water are provided at lunch. We also provide a morning and afternoon snack.
$35 per day (or $175 per week) you are only charged for the days your child/children attend. For families with more than one child attending camp will be discounted $10 for the second (and third, etc.) child for that week's tuition, if ALL children attend the full week!
Tuition is payable on the first day of camp your child attends each week. Parents should make payment in the lobby of the Student Center. Tuition includes expenses for everything the child does during camp except swim lessons and spending money for souvenirs or snacks that are not provided by the camp. For financial questions, please call (918) 594-5028.
Register online, a non-refundable $50 registration fee is due at sign-up. Additional paperwork and a schedule will be mailed upon receipt of the registration. Each camper will receive a Day Camp t-shirt and backpack on their first day of camp. Once registered, campers may attend any day the camp is open. For financial questions, please call (918) 594-5028 or email Katy Edmonson.
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The cost is $35/day, but do no worry if you miss a day, because we roll over payments. During the summer months campers are placed into groups according to gender and grade, each led by a summer staff counselor. A non-refundable $50 registration fee is due at sign-up. Additional paperwork and a schedule will be mailed upon receipt of the registration.
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We carefully select college-aged students and older who have proven to live a Christian lifestyle, who exhibit maturity, have a healthy love for working with children and show good leadership qualities. Staff are hired after filling out a background check and participate in a staff development orientation, which includes, CPR and first aid training, health and safety, risk management, child abuse prevention and age-group characteristics.
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July 10-14 campers participate in Vacation Bible School (VBS) at First Baptist from 9:00 am to 12:15 pm.
Campers should dress comfortably. Shorts, t-shirts and sneakers are recommended. Socks are strongly encouraged and are necessary for skating. Sandals and flip-flops are discouraged unless used specifically for swimming activities.
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The concept of compulsion is ubiquitous in scientific theorizing, professional practice, and lay understandings of addiction, and it forms the cornerstone of the disease view of addiction, including its latest version – the brain disease model of addiction. According to the disease view, it is because addictive behavior is compulsive rather than freely chosen that addicts should not be blamed and punished for their troublesome behavior. This logic is being increasingly transferred from addiction to psychoactive drugs to harmful and repetitive forms of gambling, shopping, Internet use, and other so-called behavioral addictions.
Given the centrality of the concept, it is a surprising fact that it is not at all clear what exactly compulsion is supposed to mean in relation to addiction. A review of the relevant literature soon reveals that different authors and different institutions mean different things by the term. Among the variety of definitions and characterizations, however, it is possible to identify three distinct meanings of compulsion with different implications for the attempt to understand addictive behavior (see Heather, 2017a).
"The term compulsion is imprecise, but at a minimum implies diminished ability to control drug use, even in the face of factors (e.g., illness, failure in life roles, loss of job, arrest) that should motivate cessation of drug use in a rational agent willing and able to exert control over behavior" (Hyman, 2007, p.9).
The idea here is that, because addictive behavior leads to degrees of harm that no-one would willingly inflict upon themselves, people should not be seen as choosing to behave in this way; they must be compelled to do so. It is also implied that it is despite knowing that repeated, persistent drug use causes them (and possibly others) harm that addicts continue to do it. As Hyman says, this is a minimal definition of compulsion because it makes no other assumptions and offers no other insights than what has been stated. To reiterate: repeated, persistent drug use causes harm; addicts know that it causes harm but continue to do it; no rational person would choose to behave that way; therefore, they must be compelled to do it.
Now, if that is all that is meant by compulsion in addiction, and one suspects that this is often the case, it must be recognized as a legitimate use of the word in this context. Unfortunately, it gets us nowhere for scientific purposes. This is because it is purely descriptive and offers no clue as to why addictive behavior is compulsive in the way described. This minimal definition is merely a restatement of the crucial puzzle of addiction that addicts repeatedly behave in ways they know are bad for them. The danger is of assuming, implicitly at least, that by calling such behavior compulsive something has been explained, that we have somehow gained a better understanding of addiction than we had before we called it compulsive. Of course, any "explanation" of this kind is circular. Why do addicts continue to use despite knowing it to be harmful? Because of compulsion. What do we mean by compulsion? The fact that addicts continue to use despite knowing it to be harmful.
There is also a conflation here of the concepts of compulsion and irrationality. Whether or not it is usefully called compulsive, the behavior described by Hyman is certainly irrational, both from the viewpoint of an outside observer and of the person in question. Unfortunately, human irrational behavior is not confined to what is conventionally called addiction. Ever since the preoccupation by ancient Greek philosophers with the concept of akrasia or "weakness of will" – the fact that all of us sometimes choose to act against our better judgment – we have been scratching our heads to try to figure out why this kind of irrationality occurs (Heather, 2017b). The fact of unwanted, self-destructive consequences of drug use is not inconsistent with assuming that addicts make choices. These choices need not be rational but it remains a mystery in need of explanation why addicts' irrational choices are so self-destructive. The minimal and commonly encountered definition of compulsion illustrated by Hyman confuses compulsion with irrationality. The conclusion is that, to be useful in trying to explain addiction, the concept of compulsion needs to refer to something more than the mere fact of irrational, self-harmful behavior.
There are uses of compulsion in the addiction literature that do qualify as attempted explanations and I shall discuss two broad categories of such uses here, which I call the strong and the weak versions of explanatory compulsion.
Aristotle compared compulsion in human behavior to someone being carried by a strong wind, that is when the cause of the behavior is in the external circumstances and the agent contributes nothing to it. It is in this sense of compulsion that behavior is "against the will." It is in the spirit of Aristotle's understanding to include as compulsion an internal state such as brain damage leading to someone behaving in ways she does not desire. The crucial point is that compulsion takes control of behavior away from the person's volitional, motivational states (see Stephens & Graham, 2009).
A modern version of Aristotle's wind that blows someone along against her will is "automaticity," a topic that has been studied by psychologists for the past 40 years. The basic idea is that human cognition is made up of two types of information processing – automatic and controlled. This has resulted in what is called the dual process theory of human cognition which assumes that observable behavior emerges from the interaction between automatic and controlled cognitive processes. Automatic processes are activated in the absence of ongoing control or attention, are based on highly repetitive learning experiences and characterize most daily activities. By contrast, controlled processes refer to behavior activated under the control and attention of the person.
The strong sense of compulsion refers to the idea that addictive behavior is the result of automatic processes over which the addict has no or little control. It is called "strong" because automatic processes are considered both necessary and sufficient for the occurrence of addictive behavior. A prime example of a theory of addiction along these lines is Everitt and Robbins' (2005) aberrant learning theory in which addiction is viewed as the culmination of a series of transitions from voluntary drug-taking, through habitual use, to compulsive use.
Following repeated self-administrations, the user comes to associate certain stimuli (people or settings associated with drug use, drug-using paraphernalia, etc.) with reward and these become conditioned reinforcers that maintain drug-seeking behavior. As a result, drug-seeking becomes largely "automatic" and is carried out independent of the user's conscious preferences and motivations. Although addictive behavior is not directly equated with procedural skills, like playing the piano or tying one's shoelace, it is stressed that there is a "constant re-initiation" of automatic behavior of this kind. Behavioral changes are accompanied by transitions at the neural level from control principally by the prefrontal cortex to control by the striatum; at the same time, there is a shift of control in the striatum from ventral to more dorsal regions.
Automaticity may certainly apply to acts of ongoing drug consumption. Alcohol addicts narrow their drinking to a restricted selection of places, times, and beverages; a smoker unthinkingly lights up a cigarette while one is already burning in an ashtray, and the rituals accompanying intravenous drug injection are well documented. If this were all addiction consisted of, then stereotyped and automatic might be appropriate descriptors.
However, it is an account of the drug-seeking, or of seeking opportunities for addictive behavior in general, that is essential to any satisfactory account of addiction. Ethnographic research shows that, while drug users' lives could be described as highly structured and narrowly focussed, owing mainly to the daily effort to obtain an expensive supply of drugs, the means by which this is accomplished are flexible and varied, even at times highly ingenious (see, e.g., Neale, 2002). People with addictions are certainly not helpless victims of automatic forces over which they have little or no control. The notion of automatic processes may well apply to the occurrence of urges and cravings in response to drug-related stimuli but such urges and cravings do not automatically lead to drug-seeking behavior and do not determine the form it takes.
Another problem for the strong version of compulsion is that it makes explaining relapse, i.e., the return to an unwanted behavior after a period of intentional cessation, difficult. It is commonly accepted that addiction is "a relapsing condition," i.e., it is relatively easy to make an initial change in addictive behavior but much more difficult to maintain that change over time. It can be argued that, without relapse, there would be no problem and no need for a special term like "addiction"; it is only because of the frequent occurrence of relapses that addictive behavior seems so hard to change and that a special term to describe this difficulty is needed. That being the case, any satisfactory theory of addiction must be able to provide a convincing account of relapse.
It is just about conceivable that relapses take the form of automatic behavior, without the conscious awareness or intention of the relapser; the existence of "absent-minded relapse" has been proposed but what evidence there is suggests that it is a relatively rare phenomenon (Catley et al., 2000). It seems most unlikely, in my view, that relapse normally occurs in this way rather than by conscious decision and intentional action to resume the behavior, for whatever reason. It is relevant that, in the most influential model of the relapse process, by the late G. Alan Marlatt and his colleagues (e.g., Marlatt & Donovan, 2007), relapse involves cognitive processes in which the resumption of use is due to outcome expectancies for the effects of the substance and to the "rule violation effect." Both these processes are available to conscious awareness and decision-making, albeit possibly subject to rationalisation and other forms of self-deception.
Perhaps the largest body of evidence against the strong version of compulsion is the veritable mountain of scientific reports showing that addictive behavior is operant behavior, i.e., it is shaped and maintained by its consequences. In other words, it is goal-directed, controlled and voluntary rather than automatic, involuntary behavior. A large number of laboratory experiments in the 1960s and 1970s showed clearly that drinking by the most chronic and severe alcohol addicts obeyed the same general laws that govern normal, goal-directed behavior of any kind (see Heather & Robertson, 1983, Chapter 3).
In the same vein, a demonstration of the ability of alternative reinforcers to modify cocaine use in experienced cocaine smokers was more recently carried out by Carl Hart and his colleagues (see Hart, 2013). Moreover, as shown by numerous controlled trials, the most effective way of changing addictive behavior for treatment purposes is contingency management (CM). Studies of CM programmes have reported remarkable success rates with physicians, airline pilots, and other professional groups but high rates of recovery have also been obtained among the less-privileged clientele.
In view of the large amount of evidence of different kinds against it, the verdict must be that the strong version is of little utility in the explanation of addictive behavior. Indeed, it is surprising that it was ever taken seriously as the cornerstone of an influential theory of addiction. This may reflect an alarming disconnect between the results of experimental studies of nonhuman animals in laboratory settings and the manifestation of addictive behavior among humans in the real world. The evidence on humans overwhelmingly suggests that addictive behavior is voluntary, controlled behavior at the time it is carried out.
On the other hand, there is no doubt that automatic processes do play a role in addictive behavior. As we have seen, ongoing drug consumption among long-standing addicts is often characterized by deeply-ingr<|fim_middle|> explanation of addiction in several ways. It seems to explain well some of the more puzzling aspects of addictive behaviour: the excessive preoccupation with the object of addiction; the fact that the behaviour is continued when the addict no longer gains much pleasure from it; and why relapse sometimes occurs after many years of abstinence. The idea of "drug wanting" can account for addicts' reports of feeling driven to continue drug use without being able to give reasons or understanding their motivation for doing so, together with a sense of painful bewilderment. Most directly relevant is that fact that addicts do experience and report intense desires for the effects of drugs or activities. For all these reasons, some variant of the motivational basis for compulsion seems far more plausible as an explanation than the strong, automatic version and to offer greater chances of theoretical progress.
On the debit side, incentive sensitization theory, and the weak version of compulsion in general, is still embarrassed by the evidence briefly summarised above that addictive behavior is operant behavior, particularly the demonstration of preferences by addicts for alternative reinforcers, including those that convey apparently quite small rewards, over drug consumption. All this evidence suggests that it is inaccurate to describe addictive behavior as compulsive in any sense at the time it is carried out. That being the case, is it possible to rescue the weak sense of compulsion as a way of explaining addictive behavior?
One such possibility arises from a conjecture by Robert Noggle of Central Michigan University. This begins with the idea of "ego depletion," developed by Roy Baumeister and his colleagues, according to which "willpower" is a limited resource that becomes depleted by use; we can resist the temptation for a while but not indefinitely (see, e.g., Baumeister, 2003). With regard to addiction, craving and urges persist long enough to deplete the addict's willpower, leading to relapse. Thus, drug cravings can be called irresistible but not in the obvious sense that they cannot be resisted at any one time; rather, the ability to resist is worn down and eventually fails.
What Noggle suggests is that the persistence of the desire to consume drugs is an important form of dysfunction in its own right and makes a significant contribution to what is called compulsivity. Thus, addiction involves dysfunction in a mechanism that normally prevents someone from being tempted to consume drugs "in situations where such consumption poses a grave, obvious, and imminent danger to things that they care about—things like their careers, their family, their health, their freedom, their self-respect" (Noggle, 2016, p. 218). When such desires occur in a non-addict, a "quashing mechanism" either blocks the formation of the motivation to consume or eliminates it soon after it emerges. In contrast to this, the addict's motivation to consume drugs persists even when it becomes obvious that consumption will lead to disastrous consequences.
Noggle's ideas are highly relevant to present considerations because they provide an account of compulsivity that concedes that addictive desires are not literally irresistible and that addictive behavior is voluntary at the time it is carried out, while at the same time postulating a mechanism by which relapse becomes more likely to occur over time. If validated by research, this sense of compulsion may have useful application to the understanding of addictive behavior.
Of the many meanings of compulsion to be found in the addiction literature, we were able to isolate three distinct meanings that I claim are those most worthy of close attention. We first encountered a "minimal" definition of compulsion which does qualify as a legitimate usage of the term in the ordinary language. However, this minimal definition seems to be merely a restatement of the central puzzle of addiction that some people repetitively behave in ways they know are bad for them. It does not get us any further in explaining this puzzle for scientific purposes just to label the behavior in question compulsive.
Of the two meanings of compulsion that do have potential explanatory value – the strong and weak versions – we saw first that the strong, "automaticity" version is flatly contradicted by several types of evidence. In addition to their involvement in ongoing consummatory behavior, automatic processes do undoubtedly play a role in addiction, including in relapse, but not in a simplistic way that views them as over-riding voluntary, controlled processes.
On the other hand, the weak, "motivational" version of compulsion does much better at surviving the test of empirical evidence on human addiction and, as represented by Robinson and Berridge's (1993) theory, seems able to explain several mysterious features of addictive behavior. However, it is still embarrassed by evidence showing that addictive behavior is voluntary at the time it is carried out. A way in which a motivational theory of compulsion in addiction can be modified to take account of this evidence has been suggested by Noggle (2016) and this deserves serious research attention.
The present review of theory and evidence on compulsion in addiction has not considered one other essential aspect of its chosen topic – the implications of "compulsion" for the public understanding of addiction and for the attempt to engender an informed and compassionate debate about how those we label "addicts" should be viewed and treated by society. This crucial agenda will have to await another occasion.
These findings are described in the article entitled, Is the concept of compulsion useful in the explanation or description of addictive behaviour and experience? recently published in the journal Addictive Behaviors Reports. This work was conducted by Nick Heather from Northumbria University.
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Noggle, R. (2016). Addiction, compulsion, and persistent temptation. Neuroethics, 9, 213-223.
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Stephens, G., & Graham, G. (2009). An addictive lesson: A case study in psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience. In M. Broome & L. Bortolotti (Eds.), Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 203-220 ). Oxford: Oxford University Press. | ained habits that can be termed automatic — of the same kind perhaps as habitually switching off a light when one leaves a room. But, in terms of a theoretical account of addiction, this is a relatively trivial matter; once one is aware of them, habits of this kind can be changed without great difficulty. More importantly, automatic processes result in cue-elicited craving, urges, attentional bias, automatic approach tendencies, implicit memory associations and cognition, and the inclusion of such processes is an indispensable part of the development of a modern, dual-process theory of addiction. The mistake is to imagine that these automatic processes necessarily override consciously-aware and controlled processes in the production of addictive behavior.
The weak version of compulsion in addiction refers to the effects of powerful desires, urges, cravings, or impulses, etc. The proposal is that such powerfully motivating feelings or sensations cause addicts compulsively to carry out addictive behavior against their wills. To distinguish it from the non-motivational, automatic kind of compulsion in the strong version, we can call the weak version simply '"motivational compulsion." It is dubbed "weak" because, although it may be necessary for addictive behavior to occur, it is not sufficient. It is not sufficient simply because addicts do occasionally resist such motivational forces and refrain from addictive behavior.
Since the beginnings of the disease concept in the early 19th century, temptations to consume substances have been described as "irresistible" or as "overpowering" any resistance the person might put up. An oft-cited passage in the addiction literature comes from Dr. Benjamin Rush, the "father" of American psychiatry, reporting the words of a patient: "Were a keg of rum in one corner of a room, and were a cannon constantly discharging balls between me and it, I could not refrain from passing before that cannon, in order to get at the rum" (Rush, 1812, p. 266). Other dramatic and lurid 19th-century anecdotes about "inebriety" could be quoted and similar tales continue to be part of the folk wisdom on addiction. Whether or not such anecdotes give an accurate and representative portrayal of the temptations associated with addictive behavior, we can ask how much the compulsion said to arise from them contributes to a scientific understanding.
A leading theory that uses this kind of compulsion to explain addictive behavior is Robinson and Berridge's (1993) incentive-sensitization theory. This theory begins with the observation that a common property of addictive drugs is the ability to increase dopamine transmission in the mesolimbic dopamine system of the brain, which is known to be involved in reward and motivation for natural reinforcers. The principal function of this system is to attribute "incentive salience" to the mental representation of certain kinds of stimuli or events, where incentive salience is the process that makes stimuli attractive and sought-after. Repeated drug use leads to incremental neuro-adaptations in this system, making it increasingly sensitized to drugs and drug-associated stimuli. Sensitization of incentive salience is, therefore, the mechanism that is hypothesized to transform ordinary desires for drug experiences into drug craving; it is also responsible for relapse to drug use, even after extended periods of abstinence and the cessation of withdrawal.
Essential to understanding the role that compulsion plays in Robinson and Berridge's theory is the distinction between "wanting" and "liking" drug experiences. Sensitization of incentive salience, described above, is called drug "wanting," but the changes in neural systems that go with it can occur independently of changes in other neural systems — for example, those accompanying the pleasurable effects of drugs. The latter is called drug "liking." In this way, incentive sensitization can produce compulsive drug-taking and -seeking even when the expectation of drug pleasure, or relief from the pain of withdrawal, is reduced and even when there are strong disincentives to drug use.
Note that incentive sensitization can occur outside the addict's awareness and might, therefore, be thought to be an automatic process, similar to those in Everitt and Robbins' theory. However, although often non-conscious, incentive sensitization is part of the person's motivational make-up and is not the product of learning and habit-formation. Incentive sensitization theory is rightly seen as representing the weak version of compulsion in addiction.
As the most sophisticated and evidence-based illustration of the weak version of compulsion, incentive sensitization theory is appealing as an | 935 |
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Obituary: Magdalena Sagarzazu of Canna and the Basque Country, the Keeper of the Flame
8 June 2020 8 June 2020
Magda Sagarzazu
By Fiona Mackenzie, Canna House Archivist
"My idea of an island as a child was a piece of land with palm trees! But I arrived to a beautiful real island. Canna House, the garden, the cats, the Steinway grand piano, books in every room on all topics- it had a great charm for me immediately".
So writes Magdalena (Magda) Sagarzazu, 'adoptive' Scot , of her first visit to the Isle of Canna in April 1962.
Even Magda herself was never quite sure when she first came to the island with her father, close friend of folklorist John Lorne Campbell, Saturnino Sagarzazu, and her sister Maria Carmen, but Canna House diaries and visitor books give us the exact date of their arrival – Sunday , April 29, 1962.
That fateful trip on Bruce Watt's boat<|fim_middle|> her memories of Marguerite's pithy stories and John's sense of fun, the pranks he played and the travels she had with them across the globe.
Her story of why there is a hole in the gate to Doirlinn now – to allow her little Cairn terrier Patxu, to have lovelorn conversations with the little seal who visited the shore every day.
The National Trust for Scotland were indeed fortunate to have in Magda, an employee who so selflessly devoted her life to the Isle of Canna and who has preserved for us and for future generations, the legacy of her friends, the Campbells.
Her work was recognised by the NTS in 2015 when she was presented with the George Waterston Memorial Award for an employee of exceptional integrity and commitment.
She was also recognised the following year by the Saltire Society as one of Scotland's Outstanding Women of the Year, alongside First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and author JK Rowling.
Magda also contributed to several learned publications including her paper on "Alexander Macdonald – Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, Bard of the Gaelic enlightenment " (Islands Book Trust 2013).
Magda had a long battle with health issues but retained to the end her sense of fun and sparkle to all.
My last conversation with her, my best friend, a few days ago, we talked of the Canna cuckoo returning to the trees in the Garden, the lambs in the fields, the new Beltie calves with their 'Oreo' tummies and the pink Rum sunsets returning for the summer.
Her heart remains on Canna, the island which she often said was her 'healing island, wrapping its arms around her'.
In my efforts to continue her work, I will keep her enduring friendship close and sit amongst the bluebells for her, every Spring.
Magda Sagarzazu passed away in San Sebastian, Wednesday June 3rd, 2020 with her husband Joaquin and family around her.
Her family in Scotland were unable to travel to be with her but hope to have a memorial in Scotland when travel restrictions ease.
Magdalena Sagarzazu. September 16th 1949 – June 3rd 2020.
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Magda came originally to Canna from the Basque country, aged 12, after the death of her mother in 1958.
That first visit lasted almost six months and was to become an annual trip for the family. The family lived in TighArd House, up above Canna House and Magda and her sister spent summers exploring every nook and cranny of the island's beaches and moors, fishing for lobsters and swimming on the Traigh Bhàin on the neighbouring island of Sanday.
She described her time on Canna as an "education itself. There was so much. It was a house of many languages – we would speak French at the table and with Margaret (Fay Shaw Campbell), until we learnt English.
That is why to this day (2018) I call her Marguerite- with Juan (John) we would speak Spanish and sometimes a little Basque, with my sister and father".
Magda and Joaquin
A multi-cultural, multi lingual environment which grew to include Gaelic and Gaelic song.
At that time she had little idea of how this culture would become the pivotal focus for her adult working life.
The library and the sound recordings of Canna House became part of her daily life when living on Canna and came to have such meaning for her that after training in administration and commerce in Spain, she decided to retrain as a teacher to enable her to spend long summer holidays on Canna, helping John with his literary work and cataloguing of the extensive collections.
When John died in 1996 in Italy, it was Magda and Maria Carmen who accompanied Margaret back to Canna to assist with the legalities of John's estate and sort out his considerable paper archives.
When Margaret decided to stay on Canna, Magda took the decision to give up her teaching job and move to Canna full time to continue John's work and be companion to Margaret , now aged 93.
Her work grew into that of Archivist and she was appointed thus by the National Trust for Scotland, to whom John had gifted the island in 1981.
She lived on in Canna House with Margaret until Margaret's death in 2004 and she then took up residence in the little white, iconically Hebridean cottage, "Doirlinn" , with the green gate looking out onto Canna Bay.
Over the years, that house became the focus of many soirees where the Gaelic, Basque, Spanish, Italian and English tongues could be heard in equal measure accompanying songs, darts matches, dancing and of course, "pintxos", that gastronomic Basque delight.
Spanish/Gaelic classes were the norm of a winter evening and Magda welcomed in any stray or stranded visitor to the island, offering hospitality, a glass of Cava and a warm smile to all.
Her welcoming nature and sense of fun became her signature 'default' and there is a not a man on earth who did not crumble when confronted by her twinkly eye and her 'preciosa' grin.
Magda's professional contribution not only to the heritage contained within Canna House, but also to Scotland and on into the wider world is immeasurable and she fiercely promoted and advocated the work of the Campbells across the world, increasing awareness in every letter, lecture, broadcast and newspaper article.
After John and Margaret died, Magda continued on with the archiving and cataloguing of the Campbells extensive paper archive of correspondence, manuscripts and research writings.
She answered the daily research enquiries which came from right across the world, from some of the most hallowed halls of learning including Harvard, Oxford and Dublin and established close relationships with many of the most learned and revered Chairs of Academia.
Her name became synonymous with Canna House. The work carried out by Magda is very likely the greatest contribution to worldwide recognition of Scottish cultural significance to be found anywhere.
Her friend over the years and executor of John Lorne Campbell, Professor Hugh Cheape, said of Magda: "Magda won the hearts of all of us who work or have worked in the area of our cultural heritage.
"She was keenly aware of the international significance and 'reach' of the life's work of the Campbells of Canna and she worked tirelessly and with great passion to preserve and propagate this. She knew the archives from end to end and worked under often difficult circumstances of isolation to refine them and bring them into a state fitted for the scholarship of the 21st century.
"We are lost for adequate words of thanks for her life's work in Canna".
Friends for years, in 2015, Magda took me under her wing as her little preciosa, her 'little bird' and guided me through the enormous, privileged task of becoming the first point of call for information on John and Margaret Campbell.
Magda had wanted to retire some years before she actually did but felt she needed to find someone who might understand and love the Collections, as they deserved to be loved.
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Point-of<|fim_middle|> back to the characters' close-ups to see their reactions.
An action started in one shot is completed in another, giving us the illustion that we are watching one complete action.
Action continues in the same relative direction between shots. This is also called the 180 degree rule.
Note: Please see Professor Tim Bell's third video to have a deeper understanding of this.
American films tend to objectify women.
Note: Please see Professor Tim Bell's fourth video to have a deeper understanding of this.
Diegetic: Coming inside the current shot
Non-diegetic: Coming from outside the current shot; not part of the actors' world; we can hear but people in the shot cannot hear
Some examples of Non-diegetic sount:
narrator's commentary
sound effects which is added for the dramatic effect
These examples come from here | -View (POV) Editing
Eyeline Matches
Match on Action
Screen direction
Diegetic vs. Non-diegetic
Note: Please see Professor Tim Bell's first video to have a deeper understanding of this.
Long shot: who whole body plus some above/below (but not too much)
Medium shot: from the waist up
Close-up (near) full frame of face or other object
Note: Please see Professor Tim Bell's second video to have a deeper understanding of this.
We start with a close-up of a character looking at something, followed by a shot of what they are looking at. Then we go back to their close-up to see their reactions.
Two valuable functions:
Gives us insight into what the character is thinking and feeling without resorting to voiceover.
Creates the illusion of seamlessness of time and space.
The illusion of a character looking at something in another shot, created through framing and editing
Difference between POV editing and eyeline matches
You can see eyeline matches as part of POV editing. The difference is that eyeline matches does not have the third component of POV editing, i.e., goting | 234 |
Q: Sample with replacement until x of any element is drawn I'm wondering if there's a<|fim_middle|> in a trial.
| mathematical way to find out how to sample from a set with replacement until x of any element is found.
For example, if urn has ball {a,b,c}, I want mean of draws until I get 3 of a, 3 of b, or 3 of c.
Thinking about it a bit, one way is to brute force it for every n draws: so for example, for 3 draws, you can get aaa, bbb, or ccc as a success, with aba, abb, abc, etc as failures.
This seems inelegant. Is there a closed form formula for the distribution/mean?
A: The event you have described follows negative binomial distribution.
Negative binomial distribution is the distribution of the number of trials to get certain number of successes.
Suppose, here we have 3 letters a, b and c and we want to get exactly 3 of a. Suppose, it is accomplished at rth trial. Then, at (r-1)th trial we will have 2 of a. The probability of that follows binomial distribution. The corresponding probability would be ${r-1}\choose{2}$ $(\frac{1}{3})^2 (\frac{2}{3})^{(r-3)}$ since $\frac{1}{3}$ is the probability of choosing a and $(\frac{2}{3})$ is the probability of choosing others at each trial.
Now, for the last trial, we have to multiply by the probability of choosing a to get ${r-1}\choose{2}$ $(\frac{1}{3})^3 (\frac{2}{3})^{(r-3)}$
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These are the games that don't work with PS4 Share Play
By Matt Hanson
But things may change
Some titles aren't playing ball
Sony had been hoping that its latest PlayStation 4 feature, Share Play, would work with all games, but at the moment there are a number of titles that currently block the service.
Share Play allows someone who owns a game to invite a friend who doesn't to watch them play. They can then hand over control to the friend, who can remotely play the game.
As long as both players have a PlayStation Plus subscription, the process should be straightforward. Whilst the majority of PS4 games work with Share Play, there are a number<|fim_middle|> blocking Share Play while others allow it, but some games might be patched later to support Share Play. This happened with Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, which now plays nicely with the feature.
Read everything you need to know about Share Play
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Managing Editor, Core Tech
Matt is TechRadar's Managing Editor for Core Tech, looking after computing and mobile technology. Having written for a number of publications such as PC Plus, PC Format, T3 and Linux Format, there's no aspect of technology that Matt isn't passionate about, especially computing and PC gaming. Ever since he got an Amiga A500+ for Christmas in 1991, he's loved using (and playing on) computers, and will talk endlessly about how The Secret of Monkey Island is the best game ever made.
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The Marvel movies timeline is about get much easier to follow | of big releases which have apparently blocked access to the service.
Which games don't work?
The team over at Eurogamer have helpfully researched the games that do and don't work with Share Play, and we now know the following 14 are no-gos.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warface
PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate
SteamWorld Dig
Wolfenstein: The New Order
It's not clear why some of the games are | 90 |
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Nicholas Theodore's research focuses on spinal cord injury—extending from the genetics of spine disorders to robotic tools to improve surgery.
Like many neurosurgeons, Nicholas Theodore says that it's the intriguing anatomy of the brain that drew him into the specialty. But, during his residency, the spine caught his interest and has held it ever since. Now the new director of the Johns<|fim_middle|> Hopkins Department of Neurosurgery. "He doesn't just take patients into surgery but really takes care of them."
Neurology and Neurosurgery, Spine, Spine Articles | Hopkins Neurosurgical Spine Program, Theodore adds that it's the incredible outcomes of spine surgery that have kept him fulfilled over decades of practice. For the patients he cares for, which include all ages with conditions including trauma, infections, fractures, herniated discs, degeneration and stenosis, he notes that spine surgery frequently has the possibility of completely resolving their complaints.
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It's also a subspecialty in which many of the encompassed conditions stand poised for a revolution in care. Much of Theodore's research focuses on spinal cord injury, a devastating problem that still largely remains an enigma. By gaining a better understanding of this mysterious condition, he and his colleagues are striving to improve outcomes.
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Theodore's research also extends from the genetics of spine disorders to robotic tools to improve surgeries. He's currently working on a robot that can precisely place screws in a patient's spine at the touch of a screen displaying their anatomy.
On a more operational level, Theodore is working to improve the field overall by improving patients' experiences. In his new role, he plans on working to streamline care at the Johns Hopkins Spine Center by coordinating it among multiple specialists who take care of spine patients. By making the center a "one-stop shop," he says, patients will receive better care while also saving time and effort.
"Dr. Theodore is not only a phenomenal physician and extraordinary surgeon; he's also wonderfully compassionate," says Henry Brem, director of the Johns | 443 |
SEDONA is a self-service web database program that allows faculty (or staff) to use the Internet to maintain their teaching, research, and service records. Once the database is fully populated with faculty records, administrators may use it to document accreditation information, facilitate pay-for-performance programs, and manage post-tenure reviews.
As faculty and administrators update the database from anywhere there is Internet access, reports are dynamically generated, instantly and automatically reflecting these additions and modifications.
Reporting and assessment have become a way of life in academia. Administrators are constantly examining data on a particular program or employee in order to aid in decision-making or to track progress. SEDONA was developed with this need in mind, offering fast and portable access to the basic informational elements relied upon by academic administrators. The SEDONA system relies upon faculty and staff to input data along a basic range of standard categories that are likely already being captured and tracked by an academic unit. This powerful management tool collects faculty research teaching and service records and aggregates them for reporting, evaluation, and assessment. Want to know the average number of refereed publications in your college by tenured faculty in a given department? Have the answer in seconds. What happened at the curriculum committee meeting on November 13, 1998 and who was part of the decision? Again, the answers are fast, accurate, and readily available.
SEDONA has been designed to function as a powerful, web-based management tool, designed specifically to serve the information needs of individual faculty, department chairs, deans, and even accreditation bodies, regarding faculty research, teaching, and service activities. The system is fast, stable, user-friendly, and surprisingly adaptable to organizational needs. With an affordable pricing schedule, this self-service application is positioned to fill a significant information management need among college administrators.
"I extract a lot of faculty data in order to comply with ongoing maintenance reports needs, university- level reporting, and our upcoming<|fim_middle|> schools can be found on the Member Schools page. | AACSB self study. After spending hundreds of hours developing and maintaining a number of EXCEL-based spreadsheets to tabulate research, workloads, and teaching, I discovered Sedona. Now I have all the data at my fingertips in a single database and can formulate specialized reports that were not before possible. In the first two months of use, its purchase price has been recovered many times over. I heartily recommend this product."
"SEDONA has been a wonderful addition to our college's assessment and continuous improvement systems. Faculty, department chairs, and staff have ready access to everything from meeting minutes to research productivity records, in addition to a range of semester and annual evaluation data. It has already made our assessment system much more dynamic and usable. We are preparing for the next AACSB maintenance visit and expect the SEDONA product to play a major role in our achieving a successful outcome."
In 1995, Jon Woodroof and Terry Ward, when they were both at Middle Tennessee State University, began discussions about a database management system that could be designed to track faculty research, service, and teaching activities. The original name was "Faculty Information Management System" (FIMS). Development of a prototype began in 1996. In 2000, a prototype of FIMS was presented at the Colloquium on Change in Accounting Education, held in Sedona, Arizona. After the conference, FIMS was changed to Sedona.
Also in 2000, the SEDONA web application was first piloted at the University of Northern Colorado (thanks to Dean Joe Alexander) and the University of Tennessee (thanks to Dean Jan Williams). In January of 2003, SEDONA became a commercial product, and the first licensed University was the University of Alabama - Birmingham. A big thanks goes to Frank Messina for his willingness to take on the risk associated with being the first adopter!
SEDONA is presently licensed by hundreds of colleges and universities, both in the United States and around the world. A list of these | 418 |
Corporations Have Plebes, Too. And You're Probably Going To Be One.
What they don't tell you about the transition...one veteran's (mis)adventures in the civilian world.
We've all been the new kid and had to pay our dues. That doesn't change in the private sector. What does change is one's tolerance for petty rites of initiation. And whether you choose to abide by such rites will have much to do with your success, or lack thereof, in an organization.
It could have been worse. I could have been the guy in the frog suit.
It was late-May in Orlando and about a thousand degrees on the golf course. My job was to drive a cart from hole to hole, so Freddy the Frog, seated next to me, could wave at the golfers. It was also my job to provide John, the guy wearing the Freddy costume, a sufficient supply of water and Gatorade to ward off heat exhaustion. Out on the golf course, riding around in a full-body, polyester frog suit provided the same benefit as wearing a snowmobile suit on a forced march through an Ecuadorian jungle.
Freddy was the mascot some Colonel had dreamt up for the Pentagon directorate he led. John and I worked for the public-sector consulting firm that provided various administrative support services to that directorate. Somehow, those services included John's and my trolling a Central Florida golf course to provide entertainment for the hundred or so midgrade officers who'd traveled there for the directorate's annual convention. The golf tournament was<|fim_middle|> the gate. Whereas my best military bosses had the confidence in both themselves and me to throw me right in the deep end, my civilian bosses have consistently put me in swim diapers, given me water wings, and threatened to take away my fudgesicle if I left the shallow end. Whatever you think of the metaphor, heed the message: You have to start over again as a civilian. You have to pay your dues. Whether you choose to or not is up to you.
As a new kid, you don't get to decide what's important. That's a difficult adjustment. In a resource-constrained, highly fluid, operational environment, a military leader knows how to figure out what is and is not important, focus fully on what is, and set aside the rest. That's how bombs get dropped, doors get kicked in, and bad guys get killed. CEOs, looking out across their organizations from on high, know they lack, and desperately need, exactly that sort of focused, decisive leadership. However, that doesn't mean managers farther down the org chart have arrived at the same conclusion. Try to ignore what you deem unimportant, especially when new to an organization, and there will be consequences. Even though you may be hard-wired to make such calls, in the eyes of the mid-level manager, your ability to do so is not a right, but a privilege to be earned.
While the headhunter provided me a convenient exit, I know that won't always be the case. Had this episode occurred a year later, with the country in the throes of The Great Recession, I would have been stuck. Or fired. Don't put yourself in a similar situation. Perform your due diligence. While you can't fully understand an organization until you're in it, there are numerous, common-sense things a person can do to make an informed judgement as to potential fit. I didn't do any of that, and I deserved to live with the consequences.
The author is a veteran who has had stints in various positions and industries in corporate. His advice to transitioning veterans: Lower your expectations.
tagPlaceholderTags: career, blog, 2015 | one of the marquee events, and the Colonel wanted Freddy everywhere, strutting and waving, inviting every possible photo op. And there were surprisingly many. I couldn't believe the number of people who wanted their picture taken with that frog. I was embarrassed for them.
I was 34 years old, a Naval Academy graduate, a former Naval Aviator, and a Harvard MBA. John was in his late-twenties, a Georgetown graduate, and had just been accepted to The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. One would be hard pressed to find two people more over-qualified for a given task. John had been with the consulting firm a year longer than I, and only because I was four inches taller and didn't fit into the frog suit were our roles not reversed. We endured the heat, frog suit, and absurdity of the whole affair, because a.) It was better than sitting behind a desk in the Pentagon, and b.) We were both only days away from leaving the firm. John was departing to enjoy some time off before starting medical school. I was leaving, because I'd had it. Recent events had led me to conclude driving Freddy the Frog around was not a one-off event. This was to be my lot in the organization.
For the record, I know what it is to pay one's dues. In my time in the Navy, I had played the role of recruit, plebe, pollywog, nugget, second pilot, FNG, and about a dozen other new-kid, bottom-of-the-pile bits that required I shut up, swallow my pride, and take a beating. I had scrubbed toilets, swabbed decks, and chipped paint. I had been made to wallow in a kiddie pool full of Crisco, paraded around in my underwear to the amusement of various audiences, and jogged the length of an Oahu beach in an under-sized Speedo and Tina Turner wig. I'd been arbitrarily given mind-numbingly boring jobs, devoid of any interest or challenge, which I never would have chosen for myself. I'd had to accept that in order to advance, I would have to pass through the Navy's mandatory wickets and wait my turn to be given an opportunity. I'd endured all this, because I believed deeply in the goodness of the organization, the tremendous quality of its people, and the nobility of the purpose they served. Plus, on many occasions, there may have been more than a little alcohol involved.
Given my distinguished body of work in this area, one may wonder why I was so put out to have to pay my dues this time around. It had to do with a conversation I'd overheard the week before. I had joined a conference call a couple minutes late. Not wanting to interrupt the discussion, I didn't bother announcing myself. As such, neither Jill, my immediate boss, nor Andrew, the overall lead for the engagement, knew I was listening. At the end of the call, Andrew asked Jill to remain on the line. He wanted to talk to her about me.
Jill and I had gotten along fairly well. I had done everything she'd asked of me and enjoyed a terrific rapport with each of our Pentagon clients, including a Deputy Assistant Secretary. That was good for her, good for me, and good for the firm. My duties weren't terribly strenuous, but I thought I'd done respectable work for Jill to that point. Andrew was the up-and-coming engagement manager with whom I'd been teamed to ensure my early experience with the firm was positive. He was considered one of the firm's best; definite partner material. Andrew wasn't a terrible guy, but I found him a touch self-important. Once, while running 30 minutes late for a meeting he had scheduled, he remarked, with notable satisfaction, "I don't mind having people wait on me."
While the others who'd been on the conference call checked off, I took a moment to weigh the risks of eavesdropping on a private conversation between my two superiors. On the one hand, if ever I were discovered to have been on the line, I'd most certainly be fired. On the other, I'd already had the rug pulled out from underneath me by a previous employer, and there had been immediate, negative financial consequences for my family and me. There was no way I was about to let that happen again. Thus, if my eavesdropping produced actionable intelligence on my future employment with the organization, it was a risk worth taking. So I did.
Andrew began, "So what is up with Dan?"
"I know!" Jill immediately replied.
He went on, "I mean, who does he think he is? He acts all important, because he spends all his time with Clark."
Mr. Clark was the aforementioned Deputy Assistant Secretary. He was a former Army Officer, and we'd hit it off immediately.
"Meanwhile, he hasn't done a thing with the virtual PMO."
The virtual PMO, or Project Management Office, was Andrew's brainchild. Most engagements required a dedicated, junior analyst to track project hours and expenses, prepare client billing, and perform other, low-level administrative tasks. In this case, the client had refused to pay for what it viewed as unnecessary overhead, so we had no junior analyst. The various duties were spread among the other consultants. Andrew wanted to build an online, shareable database to serve as a repository for hours and expenses, which would then be fed back to the central office for client billing. This would serve as his "virtual" project manager.
I thought the whole thing redundant and a complete waste of time. The firm already had a system that performed exactly the functions Andrew desired for his virtual PMO. He nonetheless wanted his own system and had decided I was to be its architect. And until it was up and running, I was also to assume the duties of the junior analyst. This had all shaken out my first week on the project, and I'd done only the minimum necessary to give the appearance I was making any progress. I thought my time was better spent doing quality work for clients.
Andrew continued, "He just refuses to step up and do what a new kid's supposed to do." He was pretty mad. It was clear his frustration with my apparent insubordination had been building for some time.
Jill was in complete agreement. In a sinister tone, she replied, "Well . . . we can fix that."
Andrew and Jill then decided that every petty, menial, mundane, entry-level task they could possibly come up with would be given to me. It was to be a test. Either I would get the message, check my huge ego, and fall in line, or I'd leave the firm. Preferably, they both agreed, I would do the latter.
When the call ended, I just sat there for a while, hands shaking, completely bewildered. I had never heard anyone talk that way about me. Never. Especially a boss. I couldn't have imagined a more appalling scenario. The partner who'd hired me, Andrew's boss, had said she was thrilled to have a former military officer and MBA join the firm. She'd said my intelligence, communication skills, and highly polished, professional demeanor would enable Andrew to put me in front of the firm's most important clients right away. She'd said my military background would give me credibility other consultants lacked. She'd said my experience working closely with senior officers would make me an immediate, high-demand asset. She'd said . . . She'd said . . . She'd said . . .
Andrew didn't subscribe to any of that. I was the new kid, and I was going to pay my dues. It was just that simple.
The call had taken place on a Friday afternoon. First thing Monday morning, Jill paid me a visit. She'd always been cordial with me. Not any more. She curtly dumped half dozen tasks in my lap and directed that I check in with her at various points throughout the day to inform her of my progress with them. The Run-Dan-Out-Of-The-Firm plan was in full effect.
Unbeknownst to Andrew and Jill, I was doing everything I could to ensure their plan's success. As far as I was concerned, there was nothing salvageable in this situation. Even if matters improved with Andrew and Jill, I'd lost all respect for them. Likewise, I'd lost all faith in the organization that had chosen to elevate such people to positions of leadership. I didn't believe in the work, and I could see all the promises I'd been made by the partner who'd hired me were completely empty. Thus, I'd already spoken to a headhunter and expected to have interviews lined up by the following week. In the mean time, I would happily accept my new tasks, report promptly and thoroughly on their completion, and dive eagerly into the virtual PMO. I would give every appearance I was a fully committed team player. I would be the model new kid, cheerfully paying my dues, just as Andrew wanted.
The headhunter moved even faster than I'd anticipated. I took a vacation day the following Monday to fly out for an interview. That Wednesday, I received an offer. Two days later, I was on the Orlando golf course, driving around Freddy the Frog. Rather than give Jill or Andrew the satisfaction of receiving my two weeks' notice, I instead called the partner who'd hired me to inform her I was leaving. Regardless of how or when they received the news, I'm sure Andrew and Jill were thrilled.
This was easily the most bizarre episode of my entire civilian transition experience. What did I take from it?
Dues paid in the military count for nothing in the private sector. Civilians don't understand or care about your foundational experiences or the skills and judgement you gained from them. Therefore, they are highly reluctant to give you any real responsibility right out of | 2,035 |
Rambling Moose: The Roof is Evil, and Must Die!
Strictly speaking, its already dead.
The roof in this case is a sheet of vinyl that is flapping around in the breeze normally. It is attached to my Jeep that I trundle to work in every day. Not the quietest of rides but there are benefits to having this particular car.
It is now more than 8 years old, and has just under 40,000 miles on it. I've had Jeep Wranglers since the mid 90s, and one before that in the 80s when they<|fim_middle|>'t convert that to metric, I won't even try!) is worth it on a day like that. They're a blast to drive and when you're in Florida with the right music (pick your own if you don't like mine) even being stuck in traffic can be fun. | were the old CJ7. CJs were a very different vehicle, but that is a different story.
When the weather is just so, and pretty much what everyone would tend to call perfect, I look up at the sky and gauge the conditions. Hands outstretched, eyes skyward, sensing the breezes on my hands and face, I step out from the building that I work in and lower my gaze to the dusty old Jeep sitting there waiting for it's turn to shine.
And that is when I usually utter my line: "The Roof Is Evil, and Must Die"!
I then take care in removing the vinyl top off of the car, stowing it as Chrysler intended, and then get in the car. You see, this particular day I'm writing about, Monday was as close to perfect for me as it gets. At 5pm, the birds were singing, the sun was shining, the breezes were light, and the temperature was a beautiful 75 Fahrenheit, or approximately 24 Celsius. I got in the car for a 10 mile drive home. Technically speaking my drive is just under that - 9.9 miles and is almost due North-South.
Never mind that, its beautiful out, I have a convertible car, and I know how to use it!
I turned on a trance set from Armin van Buuren, put on the mirrored sunglasses, and a giant smile on my face. All that expense of driving a vehicle that I get 18 miles to the gallon (I won | 315 |
<|fim_middle|>3R | Garth Brooks visits Riley's Child Life Zone
Space at children's hospital is 11th founded by singer's Teammates for Kids Foundation.
Garth Brooks visits Riley's Child Life Zone Space at children's hospital is 11th founded by singer's Teammates for Kids Foundation. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/1ybGx3R
Shari Rudavsky, shari.rudavsky@indystar.com Published 6:13 p.m. ET April 7, 2015 | Updated 7:20 p.m. ET April 7, 2015
Garth Brooks, Dallas Clark and new Child Life Zone at Riley
Country entertainer Garth Brooks, left, applauds after IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball drove him to the front of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. The two were joined by other celebrities, Riley Kids, families and staff for a parade and celebration. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball, left, drives country entertainer Garth Brooks to the front of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. The two were joined by other celebrities, Riley Kids, families and staff for a parade and celebration. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks leads other celebrities, including former Colts player Dallas Clark, and IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball on a parade through the halls of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks leads a parade through the halls of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. The halls were lined with Riley Kids, family and staff. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Bagpipes were played as celebrities and staff moved through the halls at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, during a parade for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks, from left, Colts quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, Riley Kid Chavier Powe, Riley president and CEO Jeff Sperring, IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball, and former Colts player Dallas Clark, cut the ribbon on the new Child Life Zone at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Memorabilia is seen in the new Child Life Zone at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks speaks during a press conference at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks poses with Child Life staff at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Former Colts player Dallas Clark, left, compares scars with Andrew Sheets, 11, from Anderson, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Celebrities greeted and signed autographs for Riley Kids, their families, and hospital staff. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks greets Riley Kids, families and staff at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Six-year-old Samuel Richhart, from New Haven, looks at his autographed cowboy hat at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Country entertainer Garth Brooks talked with the Riley Kid and signed his hat. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Former Colts player Dallas Clark, left, talks with Allyson Ricci, 16, from Fishers, and her family, including her sister Bailee Ricci, 18, behind her, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Celebrities greeted and signed autographs for Riley Kids, their families, and hospital staff. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Former Colts player Dallas Clark, center, meets AJ Carter-Harris, 13, from Indianapolis, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Celebrities greeted and signed autographs for Riley Kids, their families, and hospital staff. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Mia Berenyi, left, poses with her friend Roxy Cooper at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. This area in the new child life zone is named for Roxy, a Riley Kid. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks, left, greets Riley Kids, including Allyson Ricci, in wheelchair, their families and Riley staff at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Aryan Sparks, 8, from Indianapolis, makes hand prints on a special heat sensor chair in the new Child Life Zone at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks, right, signs the jacket of Nina McCarty 9, Indianapolis, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Brooks was joined by other celebrities in a parade to the new fun area for Riley Kids and families, where they celebrated and signed autographs. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks' autograph is now on the jacket of Nina McCarty 9, Indianapolis, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Brooks was joined by other celebrities in a parade to the new fun area for Riley Kids and families, where they celebrated and signed autographs. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Samuel Richhart, 6, from New Haven, stands close to his mother Trish Richhart, left, as he talks with country entertainer Garth Brooks, right, and gets an autograph at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Samuel Richhart, 6, from New Haven, watches as country entertainer Garth Brooks, right, gives him an autograph at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country entertainer Garth Brooks is all smiles as he holds one-month-old Gavin Thomas Bowling at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Gavin's mother, Ashley Bowling, not pictured, works in the hospital's NICU. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball, right, poses for a photo with Andrew Sheets, 11, from Anderson, at Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Tuesday, April 7, 2015, for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. Kelly Wilkinson/The Star
Country music star Garth Brooks leads a parade through the halls of Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health for the inauguration of the new Child Life Zone. The halls were lined with Riley Kids, family and staff Tuesday, April 7, 2015.(Photo: Kelly Wilkinson/The Star)Buy Photo
Riley's Child Life Zone on the first floor of the hospital is open to inpatients and outpatients.
Amenities include table games, video games, a kitchen and a recording studio.
The hat, that signature black 10-gallon hat, led the way. Patients and staff lined the hallways to watch the man beneath the hat, country music legend Garth Brooks, parade through Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health to the place he had helped make happen: the new Child Life Zone.
Everyone knows that children never want to spend time in the hospital. But when circumstances require that they do, spaces like Child Life Zones help make their stays more bearable.
That's why Brooks founded a charity, the Teammates for Kids Foundation, to bring Child Life Zones to as many children's hospitals across the country as possible.
Tuesday, Brooks visited Riley for the official ribbon-cutting of the 11th Child Life Zone that his organization has founded. At more than 4,000 square feet, it's the nation's largest such place.
"The Child Life Zone is a place in the hospital where no doctors or needles are allowed," Brooks said. "It's a place where a kid gets to be a kid."
Riley's Child Life Zone on the first floor of the hospital is open to inpatients and outpatients. It features a pool table, a foosball table and an air hockey table, as well as a Microsoft wall of Xbox video games. Microsoft store staff will visit once a week to spend time with patients and keep the system updated.
A custom-designed ambulance on one wall allows therapists to engage in medical play with their young patients. For instance, they can simulate the experience of traveling in an ambulance and can help them deal with any trauma associated with their treatment.
The center of the room is home to a kitchen and space for baking, doing crafts and more. Guest culinary experts and artists are expected to make appearances.
For Chavier Powe, 12, the Child Life Zone proved magical. At first, Chavier — who spent two months in the hospital after being injured in a car accident in November — refused to go.
But once she tried it, she went as often as she could.
"When I went there, I laughed and giggled because it was so amazing how the Child Life Zone was built and made for kids," the seventh-grader said.
Now she insists on stopping by each Friday when she goes for therapy to say hello.
Roxy's Recording Studio toward the rear of the space will let guests such as sports stars broadcast their visits into every patient's room. Riley kids also can record music.
A.J. Carter-Harris, 13, has been in the hospital more times to manage his sickle cell disease than he or his mother can recall. A few months ago, he and one of the child-life specialists recorded a song together — she was singing a country tune as he rapped over it.
They had planned to perform for Brooks on Tuesday, but pain had sidelined A.J. in a wheelchair.
Still, he and his mother, Tamara, waited in a long line of Riley patients and their families to meet Brooks, who was signing paper 10-gallon hats everyone had received.
The line to meet the country singer stretched out the door of the Child Life Zone and into the hallway. But Brooks took time to speak to each young patient he met.
And he promised not to leave until he met with every child in the line.
Call Star reporter Shari Rudavsky at (317) 444-6354. Follow her on Twitter: @srudavsky.
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Are you already noticing the rough, dry lips that sneak up on you this time every year? Have you learned to dread the winter months, knowing that no amount of paw paw ointment will stop your lips from cracking, chapping and peeling? Don't despair. You are in good company and there is a solution.
No matter how much you bundle up in winter, your lips are still exposed to the sun, wind, cold, and dry air. Because they have thin surface layers of skin, lips are more likely to dry out than the rest of your face. In fact, you lose up to 10 times more moisture through your lips than you do elsewhere on your face or body.
Licking your lips makes the chapping worse. The acids in saliva can irritate your compromised skin and, as it evaporates, dehydrates your lips even more.
Your lips need a protective shield to stay moist. Chapped skin heals better if you wear an emollient balm or ointment rather than a waxy stick treatment. The goal is to seal in moisture and to get extra hydration with beneficial oils. The barrier will help deep cracks to seal and splits from<|fim_middle|> you have healed, your lips should feel soft and natural.
Big, voluptuous lips might be fashionable with the Kardashian set, but they are not the outcome most women are looking for when they consider lip enhancement.
Instead, if you are thinking of treating yourself to dermal lip fillers this winter, think "moisture, convenience and symmetry". | getting irritated and infected. Choose a product with an SPF of at least 30 or higher if you are outdoors.
One of the biggest benefits of lip enhancement is also one of the least known. You see, the product we use to enhance your lips is "hydrophilic", meaning that it attracts and retains moisture. This hydrating property helps to relieve irritating dryness, leaving your lips with a soft, plump, natural feel that lasts around six months.
The one caveat is that you will need to drink lots of water, which is good for you anyway!
Of course, fillers can also improve the appearance of your lips by adding shape, structure and volume.
Do you hate leaving the house without your lip liner (and then worry about it bleeding into those fines lines around your mouth)? Cosmetic fillers will help to restore the youthful, defined lip border that tends to blur with age. The little fine horizontal lines will be smoothed out and your lipstick will glide on.
Finally, we all know that we are a little bit asymmetrical (as we remember every time we go shoe shopping). A little product adjustment can give your lips a beautiful symmetry that will enhance the balance of your face.
Injectable lip enhancement can be performed quickly, with little to no downtime. Before the injections, a topical or local numbing agent may be applied to ease discomfort. Sometimes, injections can be given before the treatment to completely numb the lips.
Following injection, we may apply ice to ease discomfort and to control swelling. You will notice a difference immediately and after | 312 |
Teachology specialises in education, producing high-level conferences and training that offer you a platform to meet new schools, colleges and academies, strengthen existing relationships, deepen your understanding of education, learn from your peers and hear from those at the cutting edge<|fim_middle|>.
We price our conferences aggressively and our pricing is designed to enable you to send as many of your team as you need to, and we continue to pass on any cost savings. | of the sector. We focus on the needs and expectations of our delegates with an emphasis on excellence, enabling us to create - and deliver - practitioner-led and in-depth content. Our events provide an interactive and dynamic environment where you can find solutions through debate, questioning and the sharing of best practice.
Teachology offers a fresh approach and we welcome and embrace change. We are determined to be the best for you. We are a young, high-energy, responsive, decisive organisation which always sets out to execute well and deliver beyond expectations | 106 |
The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy
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Fr. Adrian Fortescue
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The English classic on the historical development of the ancient Roman Mass is sometimes referred to as the "Tridentine Latin Mass". This is a high-quality hardback reprint of the 1930 printing, which though a newer impression from the original 1912 edition, in substance differs from the first only by the preface to<|fim_middle|> MASS: FEAST DAY OF THE HOLY CROSS - EXTRAORDINARY FORM
The Incredible Catholic Mass: An Explanation of the Mass | the second edition. As one can read in the Editor's Preface, this title was initially part of The Westminster Library collection, a series of "handbooks" that were compiled to assist priests and students in better understanding the various elements of their Catholic Faith, primarily in matters of theology. Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1874 - 1923), was an English Roman Catholic priest and scholar, a noted linguist and lecturer, a painter and calligrapher, an organist and composer of hymns, and an archaeologist and liturgical expert in both the Western and Eastern Rites. Recipient of the rarely bestowed ecclesiastical triple doctorate, friends and parishioners alike called him "the Doctor", in tribute to his genius and multitude of talents.
Subject Area: Liturgics
Reprint, Dust Jacket
Topic: Latin Mass
Subject: Religion & Spirituality
Title: The Mass: a Study of the Roman Liturgy
Author: Adrian Fortescue
Educational Level: Adult & Further Education
Publisher: Preserving Christian Publications
Type: Textbook
Age Range: 14-Up
Target Audience: Adult Education
Topic: Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy
The Incorruptibles: A Study of Incorruption in the Bodies of Various Saints
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Matt LaFleur explains decision to cut Kylin Hill: 'Being a member of the Green Bay Packers, it's a privilege'
The Green Bay Packers announced running back Kylin Hill and punter Amari Rodgers, both 2021 draft picks, were released this week following Sunday's overtime victory over the Cowboys.
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Lance's deep TD pass leads 49ers to 28-21 win vs. Packers
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Packers' special teams let down Love in 13-7 loss<|fim_middle|> a 24-3 lead that Virginia could not overcome. That's when Lawrence found Etienne for a final scoring throw to restore Clemson's momentum.
UVA trails #1 Clemson 24-10 at halftime
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Franks-to-Yeboah TD seals National's 27-24 Senior Bowl win
American Team quarterback Kellen Mond of Texas A&M (12) has his throw tipped by National Team offensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa of UCLA (92) during the first half of the NCAA Senior Bowl college football game in Mobile, Ala., Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)MOBILE, Ala. – Texas A&M's Kellen Mond was the Senior Bowl Most Valuable Player but two fellow Southeastern Conference Western Division products made the decisive big play. Fitzpatrick had six catches for 90 yards in the showcase game for senior and graduate NFL prospects, earning offensive player of the game honors. Obviously, kind of shaky at the beginning but it definitely shows a lot of poise to be able to bounce back."North Carolina running back Michael Carter also had a big game. Jamie Newman completed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Trevon Grimes with 49 seconds left for the American team after Franks and Yeboah made it a two-score game.
Sugar Bowl features Clemson-Ohio State CFP semifinal rematch
3 Ohio State (6-0, No. ... Clemson beat Ohio State 29-23 in a Fiesta Bowl CFP semifinal last season. ... All of Clemson's victories over Ohio State have come in bowl games, including the Orange Bowl at the end of the 2013 season and the 1978 Peach Bowl. ... Clemson is making its third Sugar Bowl appearance and is seeking its first Sugar Bowl win. ... Ohio State is making its sixth Sugar Bowl appearance and has won its last three, including a 42-35 triumph over Alabama in the first CFP semifinal on Jan. 1, 2015.
Hokies place two on All-ACC first team
(AP Photo/Nell Redmond)Greensboro, NC – Atlantic Coast Conference champion Clemson and fellow College Football Playoff selection Notre Dame lead the 2020 All-ACC Football Teams announced on Tuesday. Boston College, Miami, North Carolina and Pitt followed with seven selections each, and NC State had six. ACC leading rusher Michael Carter of North Carolina (1,245 yards/8.0 yards per carry) is the other first-team running back. Notre Dame tackle Liam Eichenberg, announced earlier Tuesday as the 2020 Jacobs Blocking Trophy winner, led the offensive line voting. Divine Deablo of Virginia Tech and Kyle Hamilton of Notre Dame were tabbed at the safety positions.
Lawrence, No. 4 Clemson rout No. 2 Notre Dame for ACC title
2 Notre Dame 34-10 on Saturday to win its sixth straight ACC title. "His ability to run really stresses your coverage calls," Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said. Clemson has won all nine games Lawrence has started by at least 18 points and their average margin of victory in those games is 33.6 points. "We are trending in the right direction and we are playing our best football," Lawrence said. Notre Dame: Notre Dame hopes to edge No.
QB Uiagalelei rallies No. 1 Clemson to 34-28 win over BC
Uiagalelei stepped in for Lawrence on Saturday and rallied the top-ranked Tigers to a 34-28 victory over Boston College after they fell behind by 18 points. "It's the same mindset that I had this week," Uiagalelei said. A jarring week for Clemson ended with its 28th straight win over league competition, 10th straight over the Eagles and 27th in a row at home. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney told his team at halftime, "Don't flinch.""It's been a long time since we've been down like this," he said. Boston College took advantage of the Clemson chaos early on with TDs on its first two series.
No. 1 Clemson wakes up late to beat Syracuse 47-21
Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) throws a pass during an NCAA college football game against Syracuse in Clemson, S.C., on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. 1 Clemson used a late boost to pull away to a 47-21 victory after Syracuse drew within a score at 27-21. Syracuse (1-5, 1-4), a 45-point underdog, rallied from 17-0 down to draw within a touchdown late in the third quarter before Clemson regained its footing. The Syracuse Orange couldn't finish this one off, however. There seemed no way Syracuse should be in position to scare the Tigers, yet it had its chances late.
Lawrence's 3 TDs lead No. 1 Clemson to 41-23 win vs Virginia
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2. Thinly slice the beef (across the grain). Place the beef strips in a medium bowl and add half the oil, tossing to coat using tongs.
3. To make the stir-fry sauce, place the oyster sauce, water, soy, maple and cornflour in a small bowl and mix with a fork to combine and dissolve.
4. Heat a large deep-sided non-stick frying pan or wok over high heat. Add the beef (it should sizzle straight away) and cook, stirring with tongs or a spatula, for 1-2 minutes or until browned all over. Using tongs, transfer the beef to a clean plate.
5. Heat the remaining oil in the pan. Add the broccoli and cook, stirring with a spatula, for 2 minutes. Add the peas and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds or until they're bright green.
6. Add the stir-fry sauce and noodles and toss to combine with tongs. Return the beef (and any juices) to the pan and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until everything is super hot. Remove the pan from the heat and add the spinach. Toss to combine (the spinach will wilt with the heat) and divide the stir-fry between bowls. Sprinkle with the cashews to serve.
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In its first month of operations, Literacy for the Illiterate opened a new bookstore and bought merchandise in the following order: (1) 220 units at $6 on January 1, (2) 490 units at $7 on January 8, and (3) 790 units at $8 on January 29.
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In this paper, we describe the HCI challenges associated with the novel domain of lifelogging for older users. The SenseCam is a passively capturing wearable camera, worn via a lanyard around the neck and used to create a personal lifelog or visual recording of the wearer's life, which generates information that may be very helpful as a human memory aid. Indeed, given that memory defects are more marked in the elderly, we believe that lifelogging browsing techniques which are considerate of the elderly are imperative. Thus, the challenge tackled in this work was to design and integrate the lifelogging activity supported<|fim_middle|> in such a way that can easily be learned and used by older people, enabling them to enhance and enrich their lives with the new technologies. This work provides design practitioners of future lifelogging interfaces early sight of the lessons we have learned in making lifelogging technologies accessible to elderly non-computing literate participants. | by new technologies | 3 |
Newton Faulkner: "Being able to trust my voice has made my guitar playing better"
By Thea de Gallier (Total Guitar) 2018-01-09T10:51:24.8Z Acoustic
Acoustic ace talks songwriting and gear behind Hit The Ground Running
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After 10 years of backing bands, co-writers and lavish production, Newton Faulkner is back with renewed confidence and this time, he's going it alone...
It's strange to hear an artist with a decade-long career behind him say he's only just found his niche, but for Newton Faulkner, his new album represents a renaissance born not from fancy production or following trends, but stripping things back to the core. This is the overarching theme on Newton's sixth album,<|fim_middle|> saying is that it's better on my own," he says. "I think what that comes down to in the end is communication."
During the live shows his new material will, says Newton, have a much more intimate quality.
"I'll have the ability to improvise and make up the set as a whole. I can completely adapt that if it's just me," he says.
"A gig I did recently was seated, so I built things up a bit slower. Other gigs were the polar opposite where I've gone for maximum noise. You can't do that with a band because people would look at you like, what the fuck are you doing?"
Stripping it down
Stripping things back hasn't only improved Faulkner's confidence in his own voice, but it's improved his technical ability.
"I found I could sing!" he laughs.
"I've been working on it solidly for years. My tone's been getting better, I've gained maybe an octave and a half. I don't know what's happened, but it's considerably better than it has been. Being able to trust my voice has made my playing better; it's more natural because I'm not trying to work too hard.
"I did some writing with a friend of mine who's a really serious backing vocalist called Kristin Hosein, and she's an equivalent level of nerdiness, but with vocals. When I tried to do some of the stuff she suggested, I was like, 'Shit, I can do all of this!'"
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Faulkner may have re-emerged with only his guitar as company, but that doesn't mean he's scaling down his live setup.
"I've got an electric Nick Benjamin with MIDI triggers on all the percussive points. That's got a separate output for the bottom two strings so I can run that through a bass amp with an octave pedal and make a huge amount of noise," he says gleefully.
"And a Pigtronix Infinity Looper and Roland PK-5; some of the stuff on them is locked to the click, so [the loops] are mathematically perfect. For the next tour I'm looking at having two different setups: one complicated all-feet-all-hands one to do stuff from earlier albums, then I'm also going to have a proper purist one," he explains, "one mic and one line coming out, just guitar and vocal."
Not only does 2017 mark 10 years since Faulkner released his debut, but it's also the year that he found himself musically, and discovered that sometimes, less really is more.
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The essence of his sound has always been him and his Nick Benjamin-built guitars - he now owns seven - but looking back over his previous albums, he realised that his vocals were unintentionally taking a back seat to production.
The songs that had lots of space and were very vocally-driven stood out to me
"This time, I just wanted to do what I was good at," he says. "If you listen to the album before, there are very few single vocals and everything is tracked at least three or four times. That's a sound that I like and it's Peter Gabriel-esque but it was kind of due to a lack of trust in my own voice."
From his home studio, and with a little tough love from his co-writer brother ("He told me to write on my own this time, because I'd forgotten how!") he began to build the foundations of Hit The Ground Running, writing songs that needed no production to carry them.
"The songs that had lots of space and were very vocally-driven stood out to me," he explains.
"Vocally, I've pushed myself further and in different directions than I've done on any of the albums. The biggest leap is trusting myself to carry songs as a singer and not rely on production and guitar playing."
Low-tuning fan Faulkner discovered that thicker strings enhanced his sound.
"I've increased my string gauges and it sounds great. I'm tuned very low; my sixth string is a C. I've got a baritone that's down in A, and at one point I was just using strings that you get over the counter and it was getting a bit rattly. We went up to 75s and its crazy string gauges; wound B-strings.
"The way that the pickup and the mic reacts to that is such a good sound. I now have a completely custom-gauge sets of strings which, to be honest, is a pain in the arse! I have to have a database for what strings are on what guitar, like an Excel spreadsheet."
Fans might be a little surprised to hear that, after years of touring and releasing albums, Faulkner felt unsure of himself. He admits that he was wary of trying to compete in such a saturated market.
"There was way too many male soul singers at one point and that kind of edged me away from that style of singing. I just didn't want to get involved in that; I didn't think I was a good enough singer to compete," he admits. It was his fans, though, that inspired him to do the very thing he was afraid of and go back to basics.
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are finishing your first year, or you are ironing your gown and trying on your cap, there are a few things to do before May 19th. So<|fim_middle|> advice is to make sure you have everyone's email because friendship takes work. Whether you have three years left or two weeks left, it is never too late to make memories. Show your gratitude to everyone around you. People love to see the impact they have made in your life, so share this over coffee or in a note. Sometimes we get too busy wishing away our lives. We start by wanting t to be tomorrow, then Friday, then summer, and before you know it, college is over. Take time to appreciate the community you are in and the people that care and love for you.
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Previous articleWhat does it mean to be a Christian Feminist? | many of our alumni reminisce on these times as bittersweet. They have pulled all-nighters before finals, hugged a good friend a little longer than normal, and closed their dorm door for the last time. Here is what a few have to say about the end.
Our professors really do a lot for us. Take a minute to meet with your favorite professors. Whether they helped you survive your freshman year or walked you through your thesis, thank them. Tell them how greatly they have impacted your life, and how much you appreciate them. Let them know how they have made you a better person and student. John Brittingham explained to me how we fall into a rhythm, and become comfortable in that. When we leave for summer or graduate, our rhythm changes. But, it will be okay because we will find a new rhythm.
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Thalamus
The thalamus is a midline paired symmetrical structure within the brain
The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals—only a few primitive invertebrates<|fim_middle|> and Sirtuin 1.- External links :...
. Expression of this hairy-like bHLH transcription factor
In molecular biology and genetics, a transcription factor is a protein that binds to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow of genetic information from DNA to mRNA...
, which represses Neurogenin but is required for Ascl1, is progressively lost from the caudal thalamus but maintained in the prethalamus and in the stripe of rostral thalamic cells. In addition, studies on chick and mice have shown that blocking the Shh pathway leads to absence of the rostral thalamus and substantial decrease of the caudal thalamus. The rostral thalamus will give rise to the reticular nucleus mainly whereby the caudal thalamus will form the relay thalamus and will be further subdivided in the thalamic nuclei.
Further reading: Building a bridal chamber: development of the thalamus. from Steffen Scholpp and Andrew Lumsden in Trends of Neuroscience 2010
In humans, a common genetic variation in the promotor region of the serotonin transporter
Serotonin transporter
The serotonin transporter is a monoamine transporter protein.This protein is an integral membrane protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin from synaptic spaces into presynaptic neurons. This transport of serotonin by the SERT protein terminates the action of serotonin and recycles it...
(the SERT-long and -short allele: 5-HTTLPR
5-HTTLPR
5-HTTLPR is a degenerate repeat polymorphic region in SLC6A4, the gene that codes for the serotonin transporter.Since the polymorphism was identified in the middle of the 1990s,...
) has been shown to affect the development of several regions of the thalamus in adults.
People who inherit two short allele
An allele is one of two or more forms of a gene or a genetic locus . "Allel" is an abbreviation of allelomorph. Sometimes, different alleles can result in different observable phenotypic traits, such as different pigmentation...
s (SERT-ss) have more neurons and a larger volume in the pulvinar and possibly the limbic regions of the thalamus. Enlargement of the thalamus provides an anatomical basis for why people who inherit two SERT-ss alleles are more vulnerable to major depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and suicide.
Primate basal ganglia system
The basal ganglia form a major brain system in all species of vertebrates, but the basal ganglia of primates have special features that justify a separate consideration. As in other vertebrates, the primate basal ganglia can be divided into striatal, pallidal, nigral, and subthalamic components...
List of regions in the human brain
Thalamus (non primate)
List of thalamic nuclei
Thalamic stimulator
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Thalamotomy
First introduced in the 1950s, thalamotomy is an invasive procedure, primarily effective for tremors such as those associated with Parkinson's Disease , where a selected portion of the thalamus is surgically destroyed...
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Thalamus | such as sponges, jellyfish, sea squirts and starfishes do not have one. It is located in the head, usually close to primary sensory apparatus such as vision, hearing,...
s of vertebrate
Vertebrate
Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates, with currently about 58,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds...
s, including humans. It is situated between the cerebral cortex
The cerebral cortex is a sheet of neural tissue that is outermost to the cerebrum of the mammalian brain. It plays a key role in memory, attention, perceptual awareness, thought, language, and consciousness. It is constituted of up to six horizontal layers, each of which has a different...
and midbrain, both in terms of location and neurological connections. Its function includes relaying sensation, spatial sense, and motor signals to the cerebral cortex, along with the regulation of consciousness, sleep, and alertness. The thalamus surrounds the third ventricle
Third ventricle
The third ventricle is one of four connected fluid-filled cavities comprising the ventricular system within the human brain. It is a median cleft between the two thalami, and is filled with cerebrospinal fluid ....
. It is the main product of the embryonic diencephalon
The diencephalon is the region of the vertebrate neural tube which gives rise to posterior forebrain structures. In development, the forebrain develops from the prosencephalon, the most anterior vesicle of the neural tube which later forms both the diencephalon and the...
Location and topography
The thalamus is the largest structure deriving from the embryonic diencephalon
, the posterior part of the forebrain situated between the midbrain and the cerebrum. Anatomically, the thalamus is perched on top of the brainstem, near the center of the brain, in a position to send nerve fibers out to the cerebral cortex in all directions. Derivatives of the diencephalon
also include also the dorsally-located epithalamus
Epithalamus
The epithalamus is a dorsal posterior segment of the diencephalon which includes the habenula, the stria medullaris and the pineal body...
(essentially the habenula
Habenula
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and annexes) and the perithalamus (prethalamus
Prethalamus
The prethalamus or subthalamus is part of the diencephalon and therefore part of the brain.Developmental biologists prefer the term prethalamus, as it can be genetically defined , whereas anatomists often use the expression subthalamus.The prethalamus is part of the mid-diencephalic territory...
formerly described as ventral thalamus) containing the zona incerta
Zona incerta
The zona incerta is a horizontally elongated region of gray matter cells in the subthalamus below the thalamus. Its connections project extensively over the brain from the cerebral cortex down into the spinal cord....
and the "reticulate nucleus" (not the reticular, term of confusion). Due to their different ontogenetic origins, the epithalamus and the perithalamus are formally distinguished from the thalamus proper.
In humans, the two halves of the thalamus are prominent bulb-shaped masses, about 5.7 cm in length, located obliquely (about 30°) and symmetrically on each side of the third ventricle.
The thalamus comprises a system of lamellae (made up of myelin
Myelin is a dielectric material that forms a layer, the myelin sheath, usually around only the axon of a neuron. It is essential for the proper functioning of the nervous system. Myelin is an outgrowth of a type of glial cell. The production of the myelin sheath is called myelination...
ated fibers
An axon is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that conducts electrical impulses away from the neuron's cell body or soma....
) separating different thalamic subparts. Other areas are defined by distinct clusters of neuron
A neuron is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information by electrical and chemical signaling. Chemical signaling occurs via synapses, specialized connections with other cells. Neurons connect to each other to form networks. Neurons are the core components of the nervous...
s, such as the periventricular gray, the intralaminar elements, the "nucleus limitans", and others. These latter structures, different in structure from the major part of the thalamus, have been grouped together into the allothalamus
Allothalamus
- Paramedian formation :This or periventricular formation lies along the wall of the third ventricle. In man where there is no or almost no adhesio interthalamica this is reduced to a thin layer medial to the medial nucleus. This lamina has no clear subdivisions and the formation may be seen as one...
as opposed to the isothalamus
Isothalamus
The isothalamus is a division used by some researchers in describing the thalamus.The isothalamus constitutes 90% or more of the thalamus, and despite the variety of functions it serves, follows a simple organizational scheme. The constituting neurons belong to two different neuronal genera. The...
. This distinction simplifies the global description of the thalamus.
See also List of thalamic nuclei.
Arterial supply
The thalamus derives its blood supply from four arteries including the polar artery(posterior communicating artery
Posterior communicating artery
In human anatomy, the posterior communicating artery is one of a pair of right-sided and left-sided blood vessels in the circle of Willis. It connects the three cerebral arteries of the same side. Anteriorly, it connects to the internal carotid artery prior the terminal bifurcation of the ICA...
), paramedian thalamic-subthalamic arteries, inferolateral (thalamogeniculate) arteries, and posterior (medial and lateral) choroidal arteries. These are all derived from the vertebrobasilar arterial system except the polar artery.
The thalamus has multiple functions. A helpful way to remember is to think of the thalamus as a switchboard of information. It is generally believed to act as a relay between a variety of subcortical areas and the cerebral cortex
. In particular, every sensory system (with the exception of the olfactory system
Olfactory system
The olfactory system is the sensory system used for olfaction, or the sense of smell. Most mammals and reptiles have two distinct parts to their olfactory system: a main olfactory system and an accessory olfactory system. The main olfactory system detects volatile, airborne substances, while the...
) includes a thalamic nucleus that receives sensory signals and sends them to the associated primary cortical area. For the visual system, for example, inputs from the retina
The vertebrate retina is a light-sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye. The optics of the eye create an image of the visual world on the retina, which serves much the same function as the film in a camera. Light striking the retina initiates a cascade of chemical and electrical...
are sent to the lateral geniculate nucleus
Lateral geniculate nucleus
The lateral geniculate nucleus is the primary relay center for visual information received from the retina of the eye. The LGN is found inside the thalamus of the brain....
of the thalamus, which in turn projects to the primary visual cortex (area V1) in the occipital lobe. The thalamus is believed to both process sensory information as well as relay it—each of the primary sensory relay areas receives strong "back projections" from the cerebral cortex.
Similarly the medial geniculate nucleus
Medial geniculate nucleus
The Medial Geniculate Nucleus or Medial Geniculate Body is part of the auditory thalamus and represents the thalamic relay between the inferior colliculus and the auditory cortex...
acts as a key auditory
The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing.- Outer ear :The folds of cartilage surrounding the ear canal are called the pinna...
relay between the inferior colliculus
Inferior colliculus
The inferior colliculus is the principal midbrain nucleus of the auditory pathway and receives input from several more peripheral brainstem nuclei in the auditory pathway, as well as inputs from the auditory cortex...
of the midbrain and the primary auditory cortex
Primary auditory cortex
The primary auditory cortex is the region of the brain that is responsible for the processing of auditory information. Corresponding roughly with Brodmann areas 41 and 42, it is located on the temporal lobe, and performs the basics of hearing—pitch and volume...
, and the ventral posterior nucleus
Ventral posterior nucleus
The ventral posterior nucleus is the somato-sensory relay nucleus in thalamus of the brain.-Input and output:The ventral posterior nucleus receives neuronal input from the medial lemniscus, spinal lemniscus, spinothalamic tracts, and trigeminothalamic tract...
is a key somatosensory relay, which sends touch and proprioceptive information to the primary somatosensory cortex.
The thalamus also plays an important role in regulating states of sleep
Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than...
and wakefulness. Thalamic nuclei have strong reciprocal connections with the cerebral cortex, forming thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits
Thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits
Thalamo-cortico-thalamic circuits consist of looped neural pathways that connect the thalamus to the cerebral cortex, and connect the cerebral cortex back to the thalamus. Some researchers propose that such circuits allow the brain to obtain data on its own activity, making self-awareness possible....
that are believed to be involved with consciousness
Consciousness is a term that refers to the relationship between the mind and the world with which it interacts. It has been defined as: subjectivity, awareness, the ability to experience or to feel, wakefulness, having a sense of selfhood, and the executive control system of the mind...
. The thalamus plays a major role in regulating arousal, the level of awareness, and activity. Damage to the thalamus can lead to permanent coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
Many different functions are linked to various regions of the thalamus. This is the case for many of the sensory systems (except for the olfactory system), such as the auditory
, somatic, visceral, gustatory and visual system
The visual system is the part of the central nervous system which enables organisms to process visual detail, as well as enabling several non-image forming photoresponse functions. It interprets information from visible light to build a representation of the surrounding world...
s where localized lesions provoke specific sensory deficits. A major role of the thalamus is devoted to "motor" systems. This has been and continues to be a subject of interest for investigators. VIm, the relay of cerebellar afferences, is the target of stereotactians particularly for the improvement of tremor
A tremor is an involuntary, somewhat rhythmic, muscle contraction and relaxation involving to-and-fro movements of one or more body parts. It is the most common of all involuntary movements and can affect the hands, arms, eyes, face, head, vocal folds, trunk, and legs. Most tremors occur in the...
. The role of the thalamus in the more anterior pallidal and nigral territories in the basal ganglia
The basal ganglia are a group of nuclei of varied origin in the brains of vertebrates that act as a cohesive functional unit. They are situated at the base of the forebrain and are strongly connected with the cerebral cortex, thalamus and other brain areas...
system disturbances is recognized but still poorly understood. The contribution of the thalamus to vestibular or to tectal functions is almost ignored. The thalamus has been thought of as a "relay" that simply forwards signals to the cerebral cortex. Newer research suggests that thalamic function is more selective.
A cerebrovascular accident (stroke
A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...
) can lead to the thalamic syndrome
Thalamic syndrome
Dejerine–Roussy syndrome or thalamic pain syndrome is a condition developed after a thalamic stroke, a stroke causing damage to the thalamus. This condition is not to be confused with "Roussy-Levy Syndrome", a genetic disorder. Ischemic strokes and Hemorrhagic strokes can cause lesioning in the...
, which involves a one-sided burning or aching sensation often accompanied by mood swings
Mood disorder is the term designating a group of diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders classification system where a disturbance in the person's mood is hypothesized to be the main underlying feature...
. Bilateral ischemia
In medicine, ischemia is a restriction in blood supply, generally due to factors in the blood vessels, with resultant damage or dysfunction of tissue. It may also be spelled ischaemia or ischæmia...
of the area supplied by the paramedian artery can cause serious problems including akinetic mutism
Akinetic mutism
Akinetic mutism is a medical term describing patients who tend neither to speak nor move . It is the result of severe frontal lobe injury in which the pattern of inhibitory control is one of increasing passivity and gradually decreasing speech and motion.An example of a cause of this disorder...
, and be accompanied by oculomotor problems. A related concept is thalamocortical dysrhythmia
Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia
Thalamocortical Dysrhythmia is a theoretical framework in which neuroscientists try to explain the positive and negative symptoms induced by neurological disorders like Parkinson's Disease, neurogenic pain, Tinnitus, Epilepsy as well as neuropsychiatric disorders like depression.In TCD the...
Korsakoff's syndrome
Korsakoff's syndrome is a neurological disorder caused by the lack of thiamine in the brain. Its onset is linked to chronic alcohol abuse and/or severe malnutrition...
stems from damage to the mammillary body
Mammillary body
The mammillary bodies are a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that, as part of the diencephalon form part of the limbic system. They are located at the ends of the anterior arches of the fornix...
, the mammillothalamic fasciculus or the thalamus.
Fatal familial insomnia
Fatal familial insomnia is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but can also develop spontaneously in patients with a non-inherited mutation variant called sporadic fatal insomnia...
is a hereditary prion
Prion
A prion is an infectious agent composed of protein in a misfolded form. This is in contrast to all other known infectious agents which must contain nucleic acids . The word prion, coined in 1982 by Stanley B. Prusiner, is a portmanteau derived from the words protein and infection...
disease in which degeneration of the thalamus occurs, causing the patient to gradually lose his ability to sleep and progressing to a state of total insomnia, which invariably leads to death.
The thalamic complex is composed of the perithalamus (or prethalamus, previously also known as ventral thalamus), the mid-diencephalic organiser (which forms later the zona limitans intrathalamica
Zona limitans intrathalamica
The zona limitans intrathalamica is a lineage-restriction compartment and primary developmental boundary in the vertebrate forebrain that serves as a signaling center and a restrictive border between the thalamus and the prethalamus...
(ZLI) ) and the thalamus (dorsal thalamus). The development of the thalamus can be subdivide into three steps
Early brain development
After neurulation
Neurulation is the stage of organogenesis in vertebrate embryos, during which the neural tube is transformed into the primitive structures that will later develop into the central nervous system....
the anlage of the prethalamus
and the thalamus is induced within the neural tube. Data from different vertebrate model organisms support a model in which the interaction between two transcription factors, Fez and Otx, are of decisive importance. Fez is expressed in the prethalamus, and functional experiments show that Fez is required for prethalamus formation. Posteriorly, Otx1 and Otx2 abut the expression domain of Fez and are required for proper development of the thalamus.
The formation of the mid-diencephalic organiser (MDO)
At the interface between the expression domains of Fez and Otx, the mid-diencephalic organizer (MDO, also called the ZLI organiser) is induced within the thalamic anlage. The MDO is the central signalling organizer in the thalamus. A lack of the organizer leads to the absence of the thalamus. The MDO matures from ventral to dorsal during development. Members of the SHH
SHH can refer to:* Summer Heights High, an Australian TV series* Sonic hedgehog, an important protein during vertebrate organogenesis* Students Helping Honduras, an international non-governmental organization operating in the U.S. and Honduras...
family and of the Wnt
Wnt signaling pathway
The Wnt signaling pathway is a network of proteins best known for their roles in embryogenesis and cancer, but also involved in normal physiological processes in adult animals.-Discovery:...
family are the main principal signals emitted by the MDO.
Besides its importance as signalling center, the organizer matures into the morphological structure of the zona limitans intrathalamica (ZLI)
Maturation and parcellation of the thalamus
After its induction, the MDO starts to orchestrate the development of the thalamic anlage by release of signalling molecules such as Shh
. In mice, the function of signaling at the MDO has not been addressed directly due to a complete absence of the diencephalon
in Shh mutants.
Studies in chicks have shown that Shh is both necessary and sufficient for thalamic gene induction.
In zebrafish, it was shown that the expression of two Shh genes, shh-a and shh-b (formerly described as twhh) mark the MDO territory, and that Shh signaling is sufficient for the molecular differentiation of both the prethalamus and the thalamus but is not required for their maintenance and Shh signaling from the MDO/alar plate is sufficient for the maturation of prethalamic and thalamic territory while ventral Shh signals are dispensable.
The exposure to Shh
leads to differentiation of thalamic neurons. SHH
signaling from the MDO induces a posterior-to-anterior wave of expression the proneural gene Neurogenin1
Neurogenins
Neurogenins are a family of bHLH transcription factors involved in specifying neuronal differentiation. They are related to Drosophila atonal.The neurogenins make up one of these atonal-related gene families...
in the major (caudal) part of the thalamus, and Ascl1 (formerly Mash1) in the remaining narrow stripe of rostral thalamic cells immediately adjacent to the MDO, and in the prethalamus
This zonation of proneural gene expression leads to the differentiation of glutamatergic relay neurons from the Neurogenin1+ precursors and of GABAergic inhibitory neurons from the Ascl1+ precursors. In fish, selection of these alternative neurotransmitter fates is controlled by the dynamic expression of Her6 the homolog of HES1
Transcription factor HES-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HES1 gene.-Interactions:HES1 has been shown to interact with TLE2 | 4,472 |
Check out Caite Zeliff's winning run from Kings and Queens of Corbet's 2018.
With the next edition of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's Kings and Queens of Corbet's right around the corner, we caught up with hometown hero and last year's Queen - skier Caite Zeliff. With lots of new faces in the lineup this year, she is sure to face some tough competition come contest day, but can she hold it together to come out on top yet again?
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TGR: Where'd it all get started for you, what led to the Corbet's Comp, and where are you planning on taking your career?
Caite Zeliff: I was born and raised in a ski town so a passion for skiing was pretty much inevitable. A good family friend got me into ski racing in 5th grade and the rest was history. I was able to ski race nationally and internationally at the FIS and nor am level before heading to the university of New Hampshire where I skied division 1 NCAA. I skied at UNH before moving to Jackson where I developed a fierce love for big airs and powder skiing. I have been competing in the free ride world qualifying tour for three years and absolutely love it! When rumors started swirling about the Corbet's comp I figured why the heck not? I emailed Jess Mcmillan and was lucky enough to get a spot and be a part of that special first comp. I find filming super attractive and hope to have my ski career move in that direction. As long as I am continuing to push my skiing to a higher level I am happy.
TGR: Do you think having a comp with both skiers and snowboarders is important these days, and why?
CZ: Of course! Simply because I think skiers and snowboarders play off of each other and push one another. I love skiing with snowboarders. The surfy style and the way a snowboarder can play with the mountain is amazing. We can both learn from each other and may as well take advantage of that<|fim_middle|> different varieties. This mountain pushes me to be a better skier every single day I ride it. And then there are the people. The people in this town are some of the most amazing, badass, kind, hardworking folks I have ever met. It's refreshing to have a community of like minded mountain people that understand the life I have chosen to live! | !
TGR: Who did you think was going to win last year and what was your favorite run?
CZ: I had no idea. With so many talented riders it was anyone's title for the taking!
TGR: What went through your mind when you found out that you won?
CZ: I was shocked and super proud. There were so many strong skiers and riders and I was just beyond excited to know I can hang with the best of them. I have so much respect for Jackson and it felt really good to be able to represent my town and lay down a line that my peers thought deserving of the crown.
What is special about Jackson Hole in your eyes?
CZ: The terrain and the community. I haven't found many other places in the world with the amount of amazing terrain of all | 165 |
Financial and programmatic spending on long-term supports and services are compelling indicators of the strength of a nation's investment in the inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in their communities. The State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Project analyzes nearly 40 years' worth of public financial investments in IDD services and supports, offering a comparative nationwide longitudinal look at financial and programmatic trends in institutional and community-based services for people with IDD in the US. This data reveals longitudinal impacts of federal and state fiscal policies on innovations in the support and services system in the states and nation. In this webinar preliminary FYs 2016-2017 results will be presented and emerging financial and programmatic trends in the current political climate will be discussed.
The presenter for this webinar is Amie Lulinski, PhD, FAAIDD, Project Manager, State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, University of Colorado. Amie has worked with and for individuals who have I/DD and their families since 1995 when she began her career as a Direct Support Professional. Since then, Amie has served in various roles in Illinois, Missouri, and<|fim_middle|> the United States. Amie joined the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities in September of 2017 where she now manages the State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Project. Amie earned a Master's degree in Disability and Human Development as well as a PhD in Disability Studies from University of Illinois at Chicago where has been appointed Adjunct Assistant Research Professor. | the Washington, DC metropolitan area ranging from Individual Service Coordinator to Director of Research and Evaluation at The Arc of | 21 |
Videographers in
We Looked at 94 Wedding Videographers serving Oakland and Picked the Top 13
Alex Pimentel
Blue Dolphin Productions
Cinematt Films
Emerald Gate Studios
Final Frame Studios
Justin Fone Productions
Kosta Petrakos Films
Life in Digital Films
My Photo Videography
Pure Devotion Wedding Events and Productions
Q Studios International
Special Events Videogrammarly
Studio MSV
Why These Wedding Videographers?
Our goal is to connect people with the best local experts. We scored wedding videographers on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analysed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best wedding videographers in Oakland, CA.
Match Up with the Right Wedding Videographer
Alex Pimentel is a bilingual photographer and videographer in San Leandro that specializes in weddings, quinceaneras, corporate events, and more. Alex works on-location or in studio and has a two-week turnaround time<|fim_middle|> in situations where family members who cannot make it to a wedding or other special event can be a part of the festivities by seeing things as they happen.
Alameda, CA (510) 509-8894
My Photo Videography is a Fremont business that offers photo and video serves for weddings, as well as family and child portraits. The business's photographer often makes use of picturesque nature locations and wide-angle lenses to capture the beauty of the moment in its entirety. To learn about wedding packages, availability, and pricing, customers can find direct contact information or fill out the contact form posted on the business's website.
Fremont, CA (415) 361-0486
Pure Devotion Wedding Events and Productions is a photography and videography business in Newark that uses years of artistic experience to create cinematic film productions of clients' weddings. The company utilizes creative angles to capture both candid and posed moments and professionally edits photographs to bring out the most vibrant colors of the scene whether they were shot in daytime or at night. Pure Devotion Wedding Events and Productions can help plan other aspects of the wedding day such as floral arrangements, decorations, lighting, and more. One reviewer said, "The pricing was very reasonable… We originally agreed on having two videographers... but Eric was generous enough to offer three videographers in total in order to capture more angles on our big day… Pure Devotion and their whole team worked seamlessly in the background on our wedding day -- they captured the moments without being intrusive."
Newark, CA (415) 866-3792
Q Studios International is a wedding videography business in Livermore combines elements of editorial and journalistic styles of photography and cinematography to create personalized videos that tell the story of the event as well as the story of the couple. Q Studios International, while up-to-date with industry trends, takes a more traditional approach to the filming process in that the studio's videographers shoot as much footage as possible using natural light. The business strives to capture the natural flow of an event in wedding films especially, sticking by the belief that the process of producing either film or photograph is "simply an art of observation."
Special Events Video in Richmond offers videography, editing, and production services for a range of purposes from Bat Mitzvahs and weddings to documentaries and recordings of theater performances. The business has been serving the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 20 years and is a member of the Bay Area Professional Videographers Association.
Richmond, CA (510) 526-7248
Studio MSV is a photography and cinema company in San Ramon that specializes in shooting and editing wedding videos as well as commercial projects. The studio's videographer draws from his experiences as an art director for multiple computer, arcade, and gaming console companies to create carefully edited, smooth, artful productions. Studio MSV is a part of the Wedding and Event Videographers Association. The business's work has been featured on Style Me Pretty, Junebug Weddings, in Southern Weddings Magazine, and other publications. A package that includes six hours of coverage starts at $2,800.
San Ramon, CA (925) 829-6787
Floral Designers in Oakland, CA | for photographs. His business also offers limousine rental services and packages that include extras such as custom-designed event invitations. Alex was a new reporter for the Brazilian System of Television Network and has worked for production companies such as Telemundo, Univision, Fox Channel 2 News, and other big names.
Blue Dolphin Productions in Oakland offers videography and film editing services in high-definition format for corporate promotional videos, seminar and training films, and event documentation. The business specializes in creating wedding videos from either single- or multiple-camera coverage that continues throughout the entire day. On average, wedding DVDs range from 45 to 60 minutes in length and include highlights of the event as well as interviews. Customers can contact Blue Dolphin Productions to receive a quote that will best fit their needs.
Cinematt Films is a videography business in San Francisco that specializes in corporate and wedding video productions. The company's founding videographer has more than 13 years of experiencing in telling the stories of others' wedding days and has been recognized in publications such as Today's Bride, Style me Pretty, and Wedding Chicks. Highlight videos, feature films, and engagement announcements are available for viewing on the business's website. Potential customers can contact Cinematt Films for a custom quote.
Emerald Gate Studios is a business in Castro Valley that offers photography and videography services for weddings, music videos, web series productions, commercial purposes, and more. The company's artistic director and film producer specializes in capturing the little moments that add up to tell a couple's story with an editing and production style that is effortlessly cinematic. The business also offers portrait photography of families, high school seniors, newborns, and professional headshots.
Castro Valley, CA (510) 857-6265
Final Frame Studios is a videography business in Oakland that offers video services for weddings and commercial purposes. Final Frame Studios captures documentary-style footage and promises complete coverage of every important moment of the wedding from the ceremony to speeches. The company offers wedding video packages starting at $2,495 with special prices and promotions available on its website for new customers. Final Frame Studios uses the Canon C300 Mark II to shoot all weddings. Because this piece of equipment is of such high quality, the company's photographer challenges clients to find another photographer who uses the same camera, offering a twenty dollar reward if they are successful.
Justin Fone Productions in San Francisco is a photography and videography studio that offers its services for everything from baby announcements to aerial photographs for real estate and tourism purposes. Justin Fone Productions specializes in weddings, corporate film production, lifestyle photography, and aerial photography and videography. The company uses Super eight-, 16- and 35-millimeter film as well as high-definition to shoot video, and has created products for brands like Apple, Adobe, General Motors, Louis Vuitton, and other companies. Justin Fone Productions has worked with clients like Britney Spears, Demi Lovato, and Seth Rogen, and has been featured in publications such as Brides, InStyle, and People, among others.
Kostas Petrakos Films is a video production company in San Carlos that offers photography and videography services for weddings, small businesses, authors, educational organizations, and other entities. The photography and videography business has experience in putting documentaries together of both events and the lives of individuals. The company also offers post-production service on an international level. Kostas Petrakos is a member of the Wedding and Event Videographers Association and the Bay Area Professional Videographers Association.
San Carlos, CA (650) 585-1015
Life in Digital Films is an Alameda videography business that specializes in weddings, other special events, and promotional video for small businesses. The company's website has a blog that contains not only past video and photo projects but other posts like business announcements and even some investigatory pieces that approach topics like the makeup myth that says foundation with SPF does not photograph well. Life in Digital Films has the Movi, a live feed camera which allows for live streaming | 843 |
Stack my car, please, my good robot
By Tim Logan<|fim_middle|> aren't as intense as they are at office buildings or shopping malls, meaning it's less likely that drivers will spend a long time waiting for their cars.
As for residents, well, they're getting used to the idea of trusting their car to the robots.
At The Boulevard, it has required explaining to would-be buyers, said Ricardo Rodriguez, who is leading sales at the downtown condo building. He pitches the parking garage as one of many on-demand amenities the building features.
"It's like having a valet, without a valet," he said.
And Jas Bhogal, who has built automated garages into two small condo buildings he has developed in Boston, said that based on his experience, it won't take long for drivers to appreciate the convenience.
"It's really effective," he said of the parking systems. "You request your car and it's there in 30 seconds. As more people get used to this, it'll get even more popular."
Tim Logan can be reached at tim.logan@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter at @bytimlogan. | Globe Staff,December 7, 2018, 9:27 p.m.
Automated garages, which can tightly stack cars, are coming to two Boston developments.(U-Tron)
Pull in off the street. Step out of your car. Let the robots take it from there.
That may become the routine for more drivers looking for a place to park in Boston, where two fully automated garages are in the works at new housing developments.
The Boulevard, a luxury condo building nearing completion on Broad Street downtown, will use a complex system of lifts, conveyors, and stackers to store vehicles in a 35-space underground garage. The 168-space garage at the 40 Rugg Road apartment complex in Allston — where work is just starting — will operate with a similar system.
When it's time to leave either building, drivers will signal for their car through an app. Within minutes, it will be back at the entryway, pointed toward the street for an easy departure.
"It'd remind you of a vending machine," said Jay Russo, vice president at The Michaels Organization, which is building the Allston project. "You dial up your number, and out comes the car."
The technology behind automated garages has existed for years. They are popular in parts of Asia and Europe, New York City, and San Francisco, but the concept has been slower to catch on in Boston.
A few small, high-end condo buildings have partially automated systems that stack or otherwise move cars around. But the two being built now are by far the biggest, and they'll likely be followed by others.
"We're working on several more opportunities in the Boston area, some still schematic, some closer to construction," said Yair Goldberg, executive vice president at U-Tron, a New Jersey-based company that's building the garage in Allston. "We've definitely seen a growth in interest from the Boston area."
The trend toward automated garages is about saving space and money. With property prices at a premium in Boston, builders are trying to squeeze projects into ever-smaller, odd-shaped, footprints. Traditional garages, with their ramps, elevators, and ventilation shafts, aren't suited for such complicated layouts, and take up too much space. Automated garages, which can stack cars just inches apart, reduce the square footage needed for parking by half to two-thirds, said Goldberg.
"When you eliminate all the turning radius and space to open doors and ramps and places for people to walk, you get a much more dense parking solution," he said. "It makes the whole process more efficient."
A screen grab from a video showing automated parking garages, which are coming to two Boston developments.(U-Tron)
U-Tron garages consist of an entryway the size of a two-car garage. Drivers pull in and leave their car, and a system of lifts and turntables then carries it to a space tucked onto a shelf or deck on one of several levels.
The high-tech systems are not necessarily cheaper to build. Most must be custom-designed and can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $100,000 per space, said Art Stadig, managing principal at the Boston office of parking consulting firm Walker Consultants. Most operators build in backup operating systems to prevent failure, and offer 24/7 support, though not on-site staffers.
A big advantage of the system is that it can eliminate the need to excavate for underground parking. Also, automated garages take up less above-ground space, meaning more square footage a developer can devote for housing or offices.
City rules require — and neighbors and residents often demand — parking in most larger residential buildings. But it's expensive. At 40 Rugg Road — in an area of Allston where the water table is just 8 feet below ground level — squeezing in an above-ground garage without sacrificing a lot of leasable square footage was the difference between the project breaking even and turning a profit, Russo said.
"The parking dictates the project," he said. "We had to look for a solution to get it in somehow."
Automated garages have had their share of problems, though. Like all technology, occasional glitches can wreak havoc.
In 2015, problems with the equipment at an automated garage in Miami resulted in cars smashed, furious residents, and huge lawsuits filed against the garage developer. In 2010, a worker died in an accident in an automated garage near Baltimore.
There also are tales of cars falling to their destruction, as well as long waits at peak times.
Those episodes have made developers wary, Stadig said, and slowed adoption of automatic parking in the United States. But as the technology keeps improving, he said, and more people choose to move to cities — while still owning a car — the concept is gaining appeal.
"It's really a function of what the marketplace demands," Stadig said. "We're building more complicated buildings on tighter sites, and I think architects and planners see this as a good solution for parking."
They work best for residential buildings, Goldberg said, where even busy times of day | 1,054 |
B: vegan oatmeal chai blueberry pancakes at jam- today these lost their draw for me. they just didn't taste good. not enough blueberries, and too doughy.
s: 2 ounces- shot of wheatgrass at jamba juice, they looked at me like no one ever orders this, peculiar!
L: vegan tempeh bbq wrap- blossoming lotus takeout from food fight, lucky me<|fim_middle|> stopped at jamba juice and eliot drank a tiny free smoothie that had mango, strawberries, orange sorbet and more!
tonight we're watching monsters inc. while daddy paints the town with comic book artists, i can't make this stuff up.
oh yeah, and as we step out of scapegoat eliot says, "mommy, i think i want to get a tattoo of a bird."
You should draw a bird on him! | ! i've been craving tempeh and this was alright, too many onions.
eliot and i went to rudy's today where i got a haircut while he played ms pac man! we also went to scapegoat, portland's vegan tattoo shop, where i browsed the books and eliot played rampage! before those two adventures we played in a toy store with a remote control car! and before that we | 86 |
We think differently in bad weather. It makes us less optimistic about the present and the future; it reduces voter turnout, specifically benefitting Republicans; it results in more pregnancies; and it reduces the number of traffic accidents. Less surprisingly, it may also make us more<|fim_middle|>ulate their tipping intensity based on social factors," Flynn said.
See our infographic charting how New Yorkers' tipping fluctuated during the inclement weather. | generous with tips for restaurant delivery.
That's not surprising: tips, after all, are meant to be an expression of appreciation for especially great service. On January 3rd, the day that Toribio remembers his delivery staff abandoning their bikes in the three inches of snow that blanketed Manhattan, the residents of 10020 rewarded delivery staff with a fourteen-per-cent increase in tips.
Lynn and other researchers were reluctant to try to explain the tipping variations from one Zip Code to the next. But they speculated: maybe people who order from restaurants located farther away feel compelled to give bigger tips, to make up for the greater distance travelled by the delivery person.
Greenberg and Sean Flynn, an economics professor at Scripps, worked together on the most thorough study of gratuities and weather, relying on receipts from when customers dined out at restaurants. The pair analyzed two years' worth of data, partly in an attempt to test the results of an earlier study, which suggested that tipping increases on sunny days. But they found no correlation between weather and tipping, only a strong correlation with the time of the year. "Tipping rates go way up during the holidays, especially right before Christmas, so people clearly mod | 248 |
Chief Operating Officer Chris Pearlman brings fans up to date on events and progress made off the pitch at Swansea City in today's matchday edition of Jack Magazine.
As most of you are now aware, we recently reached the parameters of an agreement with Swansea City Council and the Ospreys for the football club to take control of the Liberty Stadium.
We are currently in the process of finalising the paperwork on the arrangement. I've been asked many questions about the deal since the announcement, and thought this could be a good place to publicly address some of the most frequently asked and important questions:
Why is this important to the club?
We've been at a competitive disadvantage compared to other Premier League clubs because, under the previous stadium agreement, we have missed out on important revenue streams from the stadium that other teams who own their stadium enjoy. This includes sponsorship revenue (from stadium sponsorships), advertising revenue (from all signage seen in-stadium above the pitch), concession sales revenue, parking revenue, non-matchday catering revenue from conferences and meetings at the stadium and potentially naming rights revenue. If we can generate revenue from these areas, we will be able to reinvest it back into the playing squad, allowing us to stay more competitive on the pitch.
What are the parameters of the agreement?
The football club will pay the city council £300,000 per year in rent, along with 10 per cent of any naming<|fim_middle|> our expansion plans as we get further information. | rights revenue we are able to generate. As part of the deal we are also committing to fund two 3G pitches every five years in Swansea. The club is also responsible for stadium maintenance and expenses.
What if we are not in the Premier League?
If the club were to be relegated, we would not have to pass along any naming rights revenue to the city in years we were not in the Premier League and we would also be able to 'pause' investing in 3G pitches until we are back in the league. We hope to avoid this clause at all costs!
What are the club's plans for stadium expansion?
We are now taking a close look at stadium expansion. We play in the second smallest stadium in the Premier League, and we haven't raised ticket prices in five years, so our matchday revenues are near the bottom of the league. We've been in the very fortunate position of having sold out of our season ticket packages for a number of years in a row. We know there are a lot of fans who want season tickets but have been unable to buy them because of lack of availability. We also have heard from a number of current season ticket holders who have an interest in increasing the number of season tickets they buy to include seats for family members and friends. We are currently doing a detailed analysis of interest level in the community for both general seating as well as hospitality. A crucial element driving this decision will be the required investment levels and corresponding returns on that investment. We also recognise the league we play in will impact the number of tickets we sell each season. Put simply, we want to make sure we add the right number of seats, the right amount of hospitality, and to do it as cost effectively as possible. We should have this research completed over the next few months.
How will this impact supporters?
We also view the stadium expansion process as an opportunity to address the fan experience around our matches. Wider concourses, better and more diverse food and drink options, a more compelling fan zone, a supporter memorial garden and better internal circulation are examples of areas we are going to take a close look at. We recognise getting to and from the stadium is more difficult for some supporters than it should be, and that adding more seats will only make that process more challenging, so we are exploring many potential solutions to ease that burden. You may see a 'travel plan survey' in the coming weeks and we would be grateful for your feedback as part of it.
We will be certain to share updates about | 507 |
Do you know the main types of business insurance? If you own a small business with employees, it is vital you get the right full business insurance. Have a look at the main types of business insurance for small businesses.
For instance, if you're working as a tradesman, or have a home-based business, then you should consider having a tradesman insurance policy. This kind of business insurance typically covers a number of different risks and provides protection on different aspects of your business. You can tailor a tradesman insurance policy to suit the individual needs of your business, which is what makes insurance for tradesman policies so popular. However, if you own a small business with employees, for example, a care home, you may need to consider full business insurance.
Have a look at the main types of business insurance for small businesses.
All businesses need to have professional liability insurance – this kind of insurance is key to providing cover for your business. Also known as professional indemnity insurance, it gives you protection in events such as if your employees, services and products cause damage (alleged or not) to a third party such as businesses, customers and clients. It also covers the cost you may need to pay such as settling claims and legal fees you may be faced with.
Whilst not required by law, property insurance gives businesses protection against risks to their premises. Property insurance is given in two ways – named perils and open perils. Named perils are those that are listed on the insurance such as theft, burst pipes, flooding and fire, which are common and obvious causes of loss. Also known as an 'all-risk' policy, open perils are those that comprehensively cover everything, including earthquakes, war and acts of terrorism. Naturally, taking on this type of insurance will be more expensive than a named perils policy.
Mandatory for businesses, workers compensation insurance covers medical costs and wages lost when workers get injured on the job. This type of insurance comes in when businesses get sued by employees who are injured carrying out their professional duties. Common injuries include slipping on a wet surface, tripping, and injuries caused whilst lifting heavy equipment.
If you're a home-based business, homeowner's insurance is the most crucial insurance that you will need. It is very similar to property insurance and covers damage inside and outside the home. Homeowner's insurance also covers you for accidents and injuries that occur within the home.
Product liability insurance is a type of business insurance that protects you in the event of legal liability, arising from injuries caused by a product the business sells or supplies. It covers the cost of compensation claims that arise from injuries or property damage sustained from products the business has designed, manufactured, or sold.
Business interruption insurance is one of the most overlooked tradesman insurance policies, and this is due to the fact that it's not very well understood. Business owners tend to incorrectly believe that their other insurance policies will cover the effects of when<|fim_middle|> comes in.
Are you a tradesman or a small business needing professional business insurance? Have a look at Business Choice Direct, for business insurance at competitive prices. They simplify business insurance and understand how frustrating it can be for customers. Contact Business Choice Direct today.
Be the first to comment on "Main Types of Business Insurance For Small Businesses" | normal working operations are interrupted. Tradesmen insurance policies will cover the typical damages sustained, but they don't cover the financial losses incurred when there's a long-term interruption in your business. For example, if there is a flood, insurance policies will cover stock and equipment replacement, but they cannot cover revenue lost if a building needs two months to be habitable again. This is where business interruption insurance | 79 |
<|fim_middle|>ers | Vintage Style #42: Overalls: Uniform of the Counterculture
I found this little gem in Parade (January 2, 1972) which proclaims overalls as the counterculture's uniform. We'd certainly come a long way from the white gloves, pillbox hats and classy and bright Jackie Kennedy fashions from just a decade prior. I can't say this was for the better, but it was all a part of the movement....
How do fashion fads originate? No one knows for sure. Sometimes they result from the superb sales promotion and gimmick publicity of a high-pressure clothes designer.
More frequently in these days of nostalgia, some nonconformist rediscovers an old garment and adapts it to a fresh use.
Take bib overalls and work jackets which constitute the "now" look on college campuses and ski slopes across America.
For years these garments were on the decline and with good reason. Their prime wearers were farmers and rail¬roaders, two declining occupational groups.
But then about 18 months ago, an unknown college boy at Vail, Colo., unable to afford expensive and fashionable ski clothes, appeared on the slopes dressed in overalls, turtleneck sweater, and work jacket.
Soon, through word of mouth, other youngsters adopted the same outfit, only this time waterproofing their overalls.
Slopes to schools
The fad spread like a prairie fire from Vail to Aspen to Squaw and Sun Valleys and then to college and high school campuses throughout the country.
"I can tell you," says Jim Londerholm, director of public relations for the H. D. Lee Company of Shawnee Mission, Kans., "it was a welcome shot in the arm to the work garment business.
"We began manufacturing bib over-alls in a wide variety of prints and colors especially for the girls with bell bottoms. We coordinated them with a series of Western-style shirts. And they've really caught on. Now, we're even manufacturing bib overall hot pants, and the boutiques everywhere are stocking them."
Robert Billings of Oshkosh B'gosh, Wis., is similarly enthusiastic.
"For years," Billings points out, "Oshkosh B'gosh manufactured a standard line of work clothes. Including the old standby, bib overalls. But a few years ago we started to manufacture a new line of fashion slacks and jeans under The Guys' label. It now constitutes 40 percent of our total volume.
"Last year there was a sudden inter-est in the revival of the bib overall especially among young people, and it's developed into a definite trend. Coeds used to wear skirts and sweaters and loafers. Now many of them are wearing bib overalls."
According to Bud Johns of Levi Strauss, San Francisco, "The kids these days are specializing in the earthy, ecological look, the back-to-nature kick. It seems like a reaction against the Edwardian costumery. Bib overalls, multicolored jeans, work clothes of all kinds seem to provide their clothing mix. How long it will last, no one knows. But for them it makes good sense. Work clothes are reasonable, lasting and functional."
They are also, one might add, an ingredient of the counterculture manifestation of young people to devise, create, and rediscover their own way, do their own thing, carry their own bag.
Labels: 1972, counterculture, overalls, Parade, vintage style
There was a gorgeous girl a few years older than me in school. Her high school wardrobe rarely featured a bra, often included a Oui T-shirt, and sometimes some tight bib overalls that couldn't contain her plentiful breasts, so they'd pop out the sides. (She was wearing a T-shirt underneath, but still!) For some reason her nickname was Tush.
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Man, Tush sounds like a keeper. "Mom, dad, meet my new girlfriend, Tush."
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Students, skiers and workers of the world, unite!
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There was also a time in the late 80s-early 90s when people wore overalls with one strap hanging down.
To this day, I am puzzled at to why wearing both straps on one's backpack in college (1983 to 1987) made everyone think the wearer was a geek. I *hated* using only the one strap so as to not look like a geek. 30 years later, I'm still puzzled as to WHY using both straps was (and possibly still is) uncool.
Only Bananarama and rappers did the stupid 1 strap thing.
As for backpacks, you just look like a baby when you use both straps, like mommy got you dressed and put on your backpack for your first scout camp out. Using 1 strap says "yeah, I just slung this over my shoulder, but I'll need to take it off in a minute, so I can't waste energy trying to get my other arm into the other strap."
I remember - with regret - the 1970s "slob" and 1980s punk-rock looks. My older sister and her friends wore overalls for a time. Mom dressed me in slacks and collared shirts in 1970s grade school. Then, from seventh grade through graduation, everybody at my school wore jeans and tennis shoes, every day.
The one-strap backpack rule was iron-clad at my college in the late 80s. Then, around 1992, it simply disappeared. People in my college town went back to two-straps without a word said. Weird.
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Excerpt: The Spanish Craze
The following is an excerpt from The Spanish Craze: America's Fascination with the Spanish World, 1779-1939 (March 2019) by Richard L. Kagan.
The winter of 1899 was not an especially auspicious moment for any American tourist to visit Spain. Just a year earlier Americans and Spaniards had been shooting at and killing one another on Cuba's San Juan Hill. Fortunately that war ended in a matter of months, and in December 1898 the two countries signed a peace treaty en route to restoring the diplomatic relations that had been suspended at the start of the war the previous April. In the months that followed, relations between Madrid and Washington also improved to the point where regular steamship service, via Catalonia's Compañía Transatlántica, resumed between Barcelona, Cádiz, and New York.
Even so, resentments lingered. Spanish newspapers reporting on Central America and the ongoing insurrection against U.S. forces in the Philippines were quick to highlight "Agresión Yankee." Similarly, Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, published in 1899, pointedly reminded readers about the "inner core of cruelty" that all Spaniards shared.
None of this deterred America's most prominent sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, from visiting Spain in the fall of 1899. Two years earlier, at the apogee of his career, Saint-Gaudens had embarked from New York with his family for an extended European stay. His immediate destination was Paris, where years earlier he had enrolled as a student in the famed École des Beaux-Arts. But Saint-Gaudens was especially keen on visiting Spain, a country that two of his artist friends, William Merritt Chase and John Singer Sargent, had long urged him to see. Sargent even supplied him with a detailed itinerary listing the cities and the important monuments and museums he could not afford to miss.
The trip began in November, and as Saint-Gaudens later recalled, he was "traveling fast," although not fast enough to avoid lingering in a small mountain village in Aragon, to visit the El Escorial monastery, and to make stops at Burgos, Madrid, and Toledo before heading south to Andalucia. Once there he visited Muslim monuments in both Córdoba and Seville, and in Granada he even found the time to attend a bullfight. Most American travelers who witnessed a corrida reacted with a mixture of disgust and disdain, coupled with comments on the innate cruelty of the Spanish race. In contrast, when Saint-Gaudens reminisced about the event, he emphasized the artistry and dignity of the ritual unfolding before his eyes, together with the courage of everyone involved, including the bull.
The sculptor's positive reaction to Spain defies easy explanation. Other tourists who had visited the country generally found something to complain about—the quality of the food, the difficulty of travel, the lack of accommodations comparable in quality to those they encountered elsewhere in Europe. But in his Reminiscences Saint-Gaudens confessed that upon entering the country he was almost immediately stricken by the mysterious ailment known as "Spanish fever," which Sargent had previously warned him about. The malady was not to be found in any medical book, nor was it related to the killer "Spanish flu" that devastated so much of the world in the immediate aftermath of World War I. But its symptoms, among them a seemingly insatiable appetite for the art and culture of Spain, were real and occasionally morphed into hispanophilia, a related ailment, albeit one far more common in France and adding four years after his visit to Spain, freely admitted, "I have become insatiable about that fascinating land and my interest in it never flags."
Saint-Gaudens was far from the only American to be affected by this unusual ailment. As this book will explain, the Spanish fever—I will also refer to it as a craze—morph<|fim_middle|> and during the 1880s, thanks in large part to Wagner, a German repertoire dominated opera in New York and other cities.
Spain, by contrast, barely made a dent in America's elite culture, and Spanish, especially when compared to French, was rarely studied, let alone taught. At work here too were long-standing prejudices that belittled the value of Spanish culture. Archer Milton Huntington, future founder of New York's Hispanic Society of America, learned this lesson in 1891 after telling the prominent financier Morris Ketchum Jesup about his interest in Spain's literature and art. Jesup promptly rebuked the young man for wasting his time on a "dead and gone civilization."
Jesup's criticism neatly summarized the attitude of most upper-crust Americans toward Spain and Spaniards alike, but change was under way. As Kristin Hoganson has observed, in the course of the Gilded Age a rapidly expanding economy, together with the growth of foreign trade, brought new interest in foreign cultures most Americans knew little about.6 This new, more cosmopolitan spirit found different outlets, among them a growing demand for books and travelogues dealing with faraway lands, the formation of reading circles and travel clubs whose members embarked on imagined journeys abroad, together with attendance at illustrated travel lectures—those offered by John Stoddard in different cities are said to have attracted a public numbering in the millions. Stoddard's lectures did not necessarily focus solely on Spain—other topics included Germany and Russia, along with Egypt, China, and Japan—but his repertoire of talks often began with his "Travels in Sunny Spain."
Nor was Stoddard alone. Starting in the 1880s travel writers and their publishers provided readers with a steady stream of new books and articles touting the "romance" of Spain. Part of that romance was linked to Carmen, the gypsy featured in Bizet's famous opera, and also to La Carmencita, a Spanish flamenco dancer who, starting in 1890, delighted audiences in New York, Washington, Chicago, and other cities and whose whirls and kicks Thomas Alva Edison managed to capture in one of the first motion pictures ever filmed in the United States. Interest in Spain and its culture also derived from Chicago's immensely popular World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, which, in keeping with the four-hundredth anniversary of Columbus's momentous voyage, introduced millions of visitors to the historic links uniting Spain's history with that of the United States. Meanwhile the start of pan-Americanism, a movement emphasizing hemispheric unity, fomented new interest in the history and culture of Spanish-speaking countries south of the Rio Grande, especially Mexico. The tilt toward Spain momentarily ended with the onset of the Spanish-American War but resumed shortly thereafter. Within a few years the craze for Spain and its culture was hitting its stride.
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Previous Previous post: Women's History Month: From the Desk of Paula Whitacre | ed into an epidemic in the aftermath of the war of 1898, spreading rapidly across the vast expanse of the United States and infecting taste in numerous domains, especially in art and architecture but also in music, theater, cinema, and literature, along with fashion and, to a more limited degree, food. This fascination with Spain was virtually unprecedented. With the exception of popular music, in which the guitar and Spanish rhythms had long proved influential, throughout most of the nineteenth century the influence of Spanish culture in the United States was minimal at best. Well into the Gilded Age the chief markers of American taste and refinement, as Richard Bushman and Lawrence Levine have both observed, were customarily English or French. Italian culture had a place in both music and art, | 157 |
Permits have been filed for a two-story single-family house at 3420 Bedford Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn, and internationally renowned Robert A.M. Stern Architects will be designing the structure.
The 35-foot tall structure will yield 9,840 square feet. Two parking spaces will be included on site. The permits don't reveal many other details. There is one design element we can glean from the filing. There will be a double-height space covering 750 square feet between the first<|fim_middle|>, potentially for a grand staircase.
Meridian Capital is responsible for the development.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet for the existing structure. The estimated completion date has not been announced.
The architecture firm's most prominent and recent buildings include 30 Park Place, 250 West 81st Street, and 22o Central Park South.
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Team roper Jeff Busby<|fim_middle|> details, which can sometimes be overlooked by even the most well-intentioned nurses and technicians. Jeff made sure to ask lots of questions as he headed into various procedures, while Andrea maintained a spreadsheet of data with Jeff's medications, dosages, and other notes.
Also, Jeff didn't complain. Not through the surgeries, the radiation, the chemotherapy, the post-treatment scare; not any of it. Not only did he not complain, but he was—and remains—grateful.
According to Jeff, through all of it, he couldn't reason how God might be willing to bless him with healing if he couldn't advocate his faith in God's plan.
The challenges Jeff has faced and will continue to face as he learns to live with the aftermath of cancer treatment are not to be minimized. Even at 6.5 months cancer-free, Jeff was seeing a doctor no less than four times each week for check-ups and CT scans and unpleasant recovery therapies like electrical stimulation shock therapy to help him recover the ability to use his tongue as he did before. From start to finish, it is a process that requires a literal army, even when God is in on the fight, and there is research to prove it.
Jeff and Andrea's concentration on the initial 80-percent chance-of-survival was so focused that they had given scant consideration to the remaining 20 percent—the one in five patients who don't survive.
It's a fact that has Jeff and Andrea looking into ways to offer such support to other cancer patients. Jeff knows well the impact of the community around the patient, and is hoping to return the favor of the outstanding support system he was blessed with.
One day this past summer, when Jeff was feeling particularly thankful for Nurse Ratched, he and a trusted employee stopped in at the local florist and planned to have his and Andrea's home decorated for the holidays come November.
"My doctor said to me, keep planning," Jeff revealed. "Keep your plans for six months from now. Keep your plans for Christmas. Keep your plans for your next big vacation. Just keep planning.
And they did. During his treatments, Jeff had parked his dummy out on his back patio where he could see it.
His persistence paid off, too. Labor Day weekend, Jeff managed to enter in his first post-cancer jackpot in Kremmling, Colorado, as a 5-heeler, though he's taken to heading, too, lately.
"I was 6-point-something seconds with someone and actually got the saddle horn and got dallied," Jeff recounted.
The team took fast time for the whole jackpot, which lasted another two days. And though the jackpot was on the small side, the victory was sweet for Jeff, and hard-won, too.
Jeff didn't win anymore at that roping and his heat tolerance was minimal thanks to the effects of the radiation, but with one jackpot down and a check for fast time, he could focus on the USTRC Cinch National Finals in Oklahoma City, where he and Andrea would be entered together for the first time ever.
Andrea turns a steer at the USTRC's Cinch National Finals of Team Roping for her husband Jeff.
Prior to Jeff's diagnosis, Andrea was squarely focused on her barrel racing, but with the news came a fresh viewpoint.
But what did become significant to Andrea was cherishing her relationship with her husband, right from the household messes that used to drive her crazy to the roping arena, and it became her secret plan to learn how to rope and surprise Jeff with a new roping partner when he was ready to return to the arena.
The plan didn't work quite like she thought it would since being Jeff's primary caretaker required far more time and much less sleep than originally anticipated, but when Jeff started recovering, Andrea made good on her promise to learn how to dally.
The couple roped in Arizona and the WSTR Finale in Las Vegas, as well. Andrea's not quite ready to turn in her barrel horses, but she and Jeff seem to have zero intentions of letting any opportunities to enjoy life together pass them by.
And for Jeff, that's what this journey has truly been about: Receiving. | , 55, of Brock, Texas, spent his early years chopping weeds in cotton fields for $1 an hour. As an engineer in his garage some years later, he began what would become Av-DEC, a company that specializes in anti-corrosion aviation technologies and caters to the needs of individuals flying personal aircraft, businesses maintaining their commercial fleets, and even the U.S. military, which readily incorporated Av-DEC's well-tested products into its manufacturing process.
In addition to significant success in aerospace engineering, Busby, with his wife Andrea, owns and operates Busby Quarter Horses in Millsap, Texas, where they raise and train team roping and barrel horses, featuring their standing studs, Blazin Jetolena and Blazin Honor, as well as run cattle. Andrea's is a recognized named in the barrel racing arena and she was competing in San Antonio, not quite one year ago, when she got the news.
The Busbys went to work finding a dream team of doctors in Fort Worth. The type of cancer Jeff had—squamous cell carcinoma of the throat—was curable, but the treatment would be brutal. They were given an 80-percent chance of survival, and that's where they set their sights.
Andrea, who was a nurse prior to marrying Jeff, devoted herself to Jeff's care from the get-go—a decision that would earn her the endearing nickname of "Nurse Ratched" before too long.
To prepare for the 35 radiation treatments and six rounds of chemotherapy, surgeries were planned in March to remove all of Jeff's bottom teeth and some of his jaw, and to insert a feeding tube that would be necessary when the effects of the radiation would prevent Jeff from swallowing. And that was only the beginning.
Andrea's account of Jeff's battle includes minute details like which medications Jeff was on during which week of his therapy and how he reacted to each of those medications progressively. She was with him in their home, where they would return after their daily hospital visits, and she was with him for endless treatments and appointments. In his functioning hours, she would cater to his needs, like making him meals he could swallow and stomach, while, when he would crash, she would design inspiration boards to keep Jeff motivated, and call upon friends for much-needed advice and strength.
Jeff agrees, though his account of standing toe-to-toe with cancer is more big-picture. Often times, he doesn't actually recall many of his own harrowing moments until Andrea recounts the story back to him—a phenomenon that may simply be the result of being prescribed copious amounts of pain medications, or the hand of something much greater … or both.
Andrea, on the other hand, certainly worried about it, particularly when, after completing all of his treatments, Jeff was rushed to the emergency room for an infection that was developing at the site of his feeding tube insertion. The effects of the radiation and chemotherapy at this stage meant Jeff could barely tolerate swallowing or keeping much down, and that his resources for fighting off infections had been severely depleted. He was losing weight at a rapid pace and when he was finally released from the hospital some eight days later, he weighed a mere 149 lbs.
"Not the weight-loss plan you'd recommend for someone," Jeff joked.
Growing up in the Texas panhandle town of Slaton, near Lubbock, Jeff's brother-in-law introduced him to calf-roping, which his father allowed for the simple belief it would keep Jeff out of trouble. But after a few months of jumping off a horse that never really stopped and running down the rope to where a wild brahma-cross would come and meet him halfway, Jeff turned his attentions to team roping, and staying on his horse.
In college, with the aid of a professor who thought better of Jeff's ambitions to be a veterinarian, Jeff discovered the engineering lab. He rodeoed at South Plains Jr. College before pursuing his degree from Texas Tech, where he'd volunteer for the rodeos with no less than four mechanical pencils in his shirt pocket—a sure sign he'd be returning to the lab post-rodeo.
Following graduation, Jeff pursued his engineering career with Exxon, followed by General Dynamics, which landed him in Fort Worth, amidst myriad roping events and opportunities like the Coors Ropings, the Bud Light Ropings, and even the start-up of the USTRC. In 1992, Jeff was making $34,000 at General Dynamics when, in one month, he won $6,200 and a USTRC saddle from the Lazy E.
That kind of money was in line with Jeff's goals at the time: Two horses to rope on, five acres, and a few practice steers. But by the end of the year, Jeff's winning streak was long over and his dad's advice to rope for fun instead of money was beginning to make sense, particularly on paper. He put his mind to his professional work, and in 1997, began his aerospace engineering start-up, Av-DEC, a venture that has allowed him to meet those original goals, and more.
It's a belief that applies to both his business practices and his approach as a cancer patient. On a few occasions in the hospital, Jeff and Andrea each had to be staunch defenders of Jeff's well-being. Despite receiving what Jeff considers to be the best care, as they say, the devil is in the | 1,120 |
In this video, Pam Matson and several Leopold fellows will offer you a concise introduction to the six dimensions of leadership and to where we need to go next. Below the video, you will<|fim_middle|> of individual Leopold leaders. These dimensions are equally essential in the context of teams working together. Just as individuals learn new practices to employ these leadership dimensions, high-performing teams learn to use them and to harness their collective knowledge and wisdom.
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Know yourself. What do you care most about? What gives you energy? What is your intention?
Reflecting on why I want to help farmers while helping the environment has been really key to my work. I've seen how much our farm has meant to me, my husband and two sons, my parents, my sister and her family. When we're on the farm, everybody feels a deep sense of peace and connection. I'm driven to try to help preserve this agricultural way of life.
Try to figure out the system. Who are all the people and organizations that you need to talk with and work with to better understand the problem you're addressing and to help solve it?
I realized that science didn't have all the answers. Even if with the best natural science approaches, I would not get the right answers because I wasn't including people in my system. But I couldn't treat people like any other component of my model. People's decisions are complex. If I wanted to get the people right, I needed to do a lot more listening and a lot less talking.
How do you establish trusting relationships over time? How do you demonstrate commitment?
Use your existing networks to provide openings, introductions and opportunities.
How can you contribute to a shared vision of the work to be done, and then work to make that vision a reality?
When I arrived in Iraq, I promised myself I would not become one of the "one-hit wonders" who sweep in, full of Western wisdom and gadgets, only to rapidly swoop out. I formed a special bond with my Iraqi colleagues from the University of Basrah by confronting my ignorance about Iraq and asking my colleagues for help. I knew I had to find a way to make this connection lasting and meaningful.
How do you develop, from the bottom up, thoughtful plans that lead to credible, relevant solutions that will work in the long run, not just the short term?
We built a bond of friendship with the priests in Ethiopia. We showed them pictures from Google Earth of the shrinking forests —a strategy that prompted them to work together to conserve their remaining forests.
How can your collaborative action inspire ongoing leadership and transformation on the ground?
Reflecting back on my Leopold training, I feel it endowed me with superpowers: a set of skills that gave me the confidence and comfort to lead effective meetings that result in tangible outcomes. I learned to manage large interdisciplinary groups that can accomplish goals and deliver persuasive presentations that lead to action. None of these superpowers are really super. You don't need any poison spider or genetic modifications to obtain them, just need a clear understanding of the processes and a bit of practice.
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