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A02442 Summary:
SPONSOR Lavine
Amd S440.10, CP L
Permits the court to grant post-conviction motions to vacate a judgment when
the issue raised upon such motion is ineffective assistance of counsel in
certain cases in which the court would otherwise be required to deny the
motion.Go to top
A02442 Actions:
BILL NO A02442 01/15/2013 referred to codes 01/08/2014 referred to codesGo to top
A02442 Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.Go to top
A02442 Memo:
BILL NUMBER:A2442 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in post-conviction motions This is one in a series of measures being introduced at the request of the Chief Administrative Judge upon the recommendation of his Advisory Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure. This measure would amend paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision two of section 440.10 of the Criminal Procedure Law to provide that ineffective assistance of counsel claims shall be exempt from the procedural bars to collateral review imposed by these two provisions of the post-conviction motion statute. Although CPL section 440.10(1)(h) allows generally for a defendant to challenge the constitutionality of his or her conviction on collateral review, subdivision two of the statute establishes a number of mandatory procedural bars to such claims. Specifically, pursuant to subdivision (2)(b) of section 440.10, the court must deny a motion to vacate a judgment under that section when "the judgment is, at the time of the motion, appealable or pending on appeal, and sufficient facts appear upon the record with respect to the ground or issue raised upon the motion to permit adequate review thereof upon such an appeal" CPL 440.10(2)(b). And, under CPL 440.10(2)(c),the court must deny such motion when; "although sufficient facts appear on the record of the proceedings underlying the judgment to have permitted, upon appeal from such judgment, adequate review of the ground or issue raised upon the motion, no such appellate review or determination occurred owing to the defendant's unjustifiable failure to take or effect an appeal during the prescribed period or to his unjustifiable failure to raise such ground or issue upon an appeal actually perfected by him." CPL 440.10(2)(c).{1} The underlying purpose of subdivisions 2(b) and 2(c) is to prevent a defendant from using section 440.10 of the CPL as a substitute for direct appeal. See, People v. Cook, 67 N.Y.2d 100 (1986). Many jurisdictions, including the federal system, have analogous procedural bars. According to the United States Supreme Court, such rules are intended "to conserve judicial resources and to respect the law's important interest in the finality of judgments." Massaro v. United States, 123 S. Ct. 1690 (2003). But, as the Supreme Court recognized in exempting ineffective assistance claims from the federal judiciary's similar procedural bar, requiring a criminal defendant to bring ineffective assistance claims on direct appeal "does not promote these objectives." Id. Applying the procedural bar to ineffective assistance claims creates a "risk that defendants will feel compelled to raise the issue before there has been an opportunity fully to develop the claim's factual predicate," and the issue will "be raised for the first time in a forum not best suited to assess those facts." Id. At 1694. As the Supreme Court further explained, "when [an ineffectiveness] claim is brought on direct appeal, appellate counsel and the court must proceed on a trial record that is not developed precisely for the purpose of litigating or preserving the claim and thus often incomplete or inadequate for this purpose." Id. The trial court is, "the forum best suited to developing the facts necessary to determining the adequacy of representation during an entire trial" Id. In addition, the collateral motion "often will be ruled upon by the judge who presided at trial, who should have an advantageous perspective for determining the effectiveness of counsel's conduct and whether any deficiencies were prejudicial" Id. The Supreme Court's reasons for exempting ineffective assistance claims from its equivalent procedural bar are equally applicable in New York's statutory scheme. New York courts already have emphasized that, in typical cases, ineffective assistance claims should be raised on collateral review. See, e.g., People v. Brown, 45 N.Y. 2d 852 (1978)("in the typical case, it would be better, and in some cases essential, than an appellate attack on the effectiveness of counsel be bottomed on an evidentiary exploration by collateral or post-conviction proceeding brought under CPL S440.10"). However, notwithstanding this seemingly broad language, it is far from unheard of for a court to deny the CPL 440.10 application on the premise that the trial record was adequate to permit raising the claim on appeal. See, e.g., People v. Duver, 294 A.D. 2d 594 (2d Dept., 2002); People v. Cardenas, 4 A.D. 2d 103 (2d Dept., 2004). Prohibiting a defendant from collaterally raising an ineffective assistance claim that potentially falls within the narrow class of directly appealable ineffectiveness claims imposes unnecessary burdens on defendants and on the judicial system. Importantly, it is often difficult for a defendant to predict whether a given court will categorize his or her ineffectiveness claim as cognizable on direct appeal. This creates a dilemma for a defendant who plans to press an ineffective assistance claim. If the defendant raises the claim on collateral review, there is a risk that the trial court will deny his or her claim under the mandatory procedural bars - the defendant then will only be able to raise the claim on direct appeal if the appellate court has agreed to delay the perfection of his or her appeal until the disposition of the 440.10 motion, and if the appellate court agrees with the trial court's determination that the claim is cognizable on appeal. If, on the other hand, the defendant raises the claim first on direct appeal, there is a risk that the appellate court will decide that the claim is not cognizable on direct appeal - in that situation, the defendant will have had to complete the entire appellate process before getting to raise a claim that could have obviated the need for an appeal in the first place. If the defendant raises the claim in both fora simultaneously, he or she runs the greatest risk of all - losing on procedural grounds in two courts without any adjudication of the merits of the claim. Following the lead of the federal system and the majority of other states, this measure would amend subdivision two of section 440.10 of the CPL to remove the existing bars to collateral review where the claim is the ineffective assistance of counsel. In so doing, it would encourage these claims to be brought in the preferable forum in the first instance, would help to eliminate the potential injustices to defendants outlined above, and would help to prevent unnecessary, or unduly delayed, appeals in these cases. EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediate upon enactment Legislative History: A8362 of 2005-06; A7599 passed in Assembly 6/21/07 and died in Senate. As A5170, passed in Assembly 5/26/09 and died in Senate. Passed in Assembly 3/23/10 Footnote: {1} The prohibition on collateral review established by these two provisions of section 440.10(2) currently includes ineffective assistance claims that are based on facts appearing in the trial record. See, e.g., People v. Allen, 285 A.D.2d 470 (2d Dept., 2001).Go to top
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2442 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 15, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in post-conviction motions THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 2 of section 440.10 2 of the criminal procedure law, paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 332 3 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as follows: 4 (b) The judgment is, at the time of the motion, appealable or pending 5 on appeal, and sufficient facts appear on the record with respect to the 6 ground or issue raised upon the motion to permit adequate review thereof 7 upon such an appeal UNLESS THE ISSUE RAISED UPON SUCH MOTION IS INEFFEC- 8 TIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL. This paragraph shall not apply to a motion 9 under paragraph (i) of subdivision one of this section; or 10 (c) Although sufficient facts appear on the record of the proceedings 11 underlying the judgment to have permitted, upon appeal from such judg- 12 ment, adequate review of the ground or issue raised upon the motion, no 13 such appellate review or determination occurred owing to the defendant's 14 unjustifiable failure to take or perfect an appeal during the prescribed 15 period or to his OR HER unjustifiable failure to raise such ground or 16 issue upon an appeal actually perfected by him OR HER UNLESS THE ISSUE 17 RAISED UPON SUCH MOTION IS INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL; or 18 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00347-01-3Go to top


text: DSpace Collection: http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/3674 2014-12-10T20:21:23Z 2014-12-10T20:21:23Z Hedonic pricing in property sales and property rent Chan, Tsz Kin (陳子健) Cheng, Chung Hon (鄭忠漢) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/337 2007-05-14T03:38:58Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Hedonic pricing in property sales and property rent Authors: Chan, Tsz Kin (陳子健); Cheng, Chung Hon (鄭忠漢) Abstract: This study applies the hedonic pricing model to Property Sales and Property Rent and the aim is to investigate whether the Property Sales and Property Rent are affected by different factors. Two log forms of hedonic pricing models, with the same set of independent variables, are applied to Property Sales and Property Rent. The quantitative variables in our dataset are "Gross Area" and "Building Age" of a property and the dummy variables are defined to represent different qualitative attributes of the property in order to test if the attributes are considered as significant factors of Sales and Rent. In conclusion, the positive common factors are "Gross Area", "Sea View" and "MTR/KCR". The three negative common factors are "Building Age", "No. of Flats in the Building" and "No. of Bus/Minibus Routes". On the other hand, the positive specific factor, for Sales is "High Level of Floor", while the two positive specific factors for Rent are "South Direction" and "No. of Band 1 Schools" in the district of the property. 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Charges on domestic waste Fong, Man Hang (方敏行) Li, Kam Fai (李錦暉) Li, Sze Ming (李斯銘) Leung, Ho Wing (梁浩榮) Wong, Chin Lun (王展麟) Zhang, Chia Ming (章嘉銘) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7114 2014-04-10T01:42:44Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Charges on domestic waste Authors: Fong, Man Hang (方敏行); Li, Kam Fai (李錦暉); Li, Sze Ming (李斯銘); Leung, Ho Wing (梁浩榮); Wong, Chin Lun (王展麟); Zhang, Chia Ming (章嘉銘) 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Stock evaluation Gan, Junyi (甘俊怡) Zhu, Jinshan (朱瑾珊) Zhang, Yue (張越) Shen, Zeda (沈澤達) Cheung, Hoi Kei (張凱琪) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7115 2014-04-15T03:58:56Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Stock evaluation Authors: Gan, Junyi (甘俊怡); Zhu, Jinshan (朱瑾珊); Zhang, Yue (張越); Shen, Zeda (沈澤達); Cheung, Hoi Kei (張凱琪) 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Stock valuation using discounted cash flow analysis Li, Wang (李望) Wang, Lier (王力尔) Wang, Yiyue (王一越) Wu, Ziyao (吳子瑶) Zha, Xinyi (查心怡) http://dspace.cityu.edu.hk:80/handle/2031/7116 2014-04-15T04:00:28Z 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Title: Stock valuation using discounted cash flow analysis Authors: Li, Wang (李望); Wang, Lier (王力尔); Wang, Yiyue (王一越); Wu, Ziyao (吳子瑶); Zha, Xinyi (查心怡) 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z

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What makes The Tiger's Wife so special is that it has nothing to do with the typical immigrant memoir or the thinly disguised autobiographical novel. Obreht, who was seven when she left Belgrade in 1992 with her mother and her grandparents to escape the wars in Yugoslavia, and who lived both in Cyprus and in Cairo before coming to the US, writes about events in her homeland that she did not experience firsthand and about a cast of fictional characters. Her novel takes place in an unnamed country in the Balkans, in towns and villages with names that cannot be found on any map and with geography so confusing that even a native of the region will have a hard time trying to guess where some of the key events are taking place. I imagine it's the kind of disorientation the Czechs experience reading Kafka's opaque allusions to their country in his novels and stories.
Yet it is clear that Obreht is writing about Yugoslavia before and after the wars in the 1990s, which split the country into seven independent states. Once the book is translated in her former homeland, I expect that readers there will be of two minds about her decision to withhold the names of ethnic groups, national leaders, and well-known war criminals whose actions were decisive in the conflict. It most likely struck her that this was material that requires a lot of background and explanation, which would clog the narrative and prevent her from writing the kind of novel she wanted. By obscuring the geography of the region and alluding to historical events only obliquely, The Tiger's Wife intentionally blurs the demarcation between the real and the imaginary. Poised between reality and myth, it uses two separate narrative techniques, that of the novel and that of the folktale, one immersed in historical time, the other sealed off from any particular time.
At its most concrete, the novel tells the story of a young woman doctor, Natalia Stefanović, who sets out with another woman doctor, Zóra, from the capital city of the nameless country on a volunteer mission to an orphanage over the border in a small seaside town on the coast, where they will inoculate children orphaned by paramilitaries in the recent war. She's informed by her grandmother, over the phone, that her beloved grandfather has died mysteriously in a clinic said to be not far from her destination.
How he ended up in such an unlikely place neither of them knows, though the granddaughter has suspected for some time that he was dying of cancer and that he had chosen not to tell his wife and family about it. A highly regarded doctor who served in the national army for many years and worked in a famous university hospital in what Obreht calls the City (unmistakably Belgrade), he was forced to retire early, with the rise of ethnic nationalism in the 1990s, since he continued to regard himself as a Yugoslav. "All his life," she says of her grandfather, "he had been part of the whole—not just part of it, but made up of it. He had been born here, educated there. His name spoke of one place, his accent of another." In other words, like millions of others, he found the country he identified with about to become extinct.
On the long drive to the coast with her friend Zóra, through what is now the country of their former enemies, Natalia is beset by memories of her grandfather, particularly of their ritual visits to the zoo when she was little, and the stories he told her about growing up as an orphan in a small, snowbound village tucked away in the mountains. In one of her earliest memories, the two of them are going to the zoo to see the tigers. The Belgrade zoo is in the old Turkish fortress on a hill overlooking the point where the River Sava flows into the Danube.
The grandfather tells his granddaughter that he once knew a girl who loved tigers so much that she almost became one herself, and little Natalia believes he's talking about her or telling her a fairy tale. Then something horrible happens: as they and a small group of people cluster around its cage, a tiger grabs and rips off the arm of a zookeeper who has been sweeping the area between the cage and the outer railing. This sudden, violent event, described in vivid, realistic detail, foreshadows one of the main storylines of the book, the tale of another tiger and a woman who secretly befriended him.
That other tiger escaped from the same zoo during the Nazi bombing of Belgrade in April 1941. Terrified by the planes flying overhead, the bombs falling, the sound of bears bellowing in other parts of the zoo, the tiger frantically paces his cage, finally gathers his strength, and slips out through a gap in the wall he has been eyeing for a long time. He is not the only escaped animal that day. "Years later," the narrator says,
they would write about wolves running down the street, a polar bear standing in the river. They would write about how flights of parrots were seen for weeks above the city, how a prominent engineer and his family lived an entire month off a zebra carcass.
People in the city must have seen him following the bombardment, Natalia speculates, but perhaps he was anything but a tiger to them, most likely just a momentary hallucination. He feeds on bodies of the dead from the bombing and scavenges what he can, eventually reaching the hills above the village, where the grandfather, then a young boy, had been taken in by the local midwife, after his own mother died in childbirth and his father from illness not long after. Driven by hunger, the tiger terrorizes the population while living and hunting in the nearby woods and making nightly visits to a smokehouse belonging to the local butcher, where he is befriended by the butcher's deaf-mute wife.
As Natalia's grandfather discovers, the young woman, who will eventually be known as "tiger's wife," and whose husband beats her regularly and brutally when he is drunk, feeds the tiger on the sly when the butcher drops off to sleep. One night the boy sneaks out of the house to spy on them and, hiding under a tarpaulin, encounters the tiger:
Something in the darkness moved, and the butcher's hooks, hanging in rows along the rafters, clinked against one another, and my grandfather knew that it was the tiger. The tiger was walking. He could not make out the individual footfalls, the great velvet paws landing, one in front of the other; just the overall sound of it, a soft, traveling thump. He tried to quiet his own breathing, but found that he couldn't. He was panting under the tarp and the tarp kept drawing in around him, rustling insanely, pointing him out. He could feel the tiger just beside him, through the wooden planks, the big, red heart clenching and unclenching under the ribs, the weight of it groaning through the floor.
There's plenty more to the story about the village and the tiger, much of it wonderful with its mix of the real and the fantastic. The grandfather, who had been given a small, battered copy of Kipling's The Jungle Book that helps him to identify the huge beast, is the one through whose eyes we see the unfolding of this tragic story. A child pretty much left to fend for himself, he is at that age when everything important about life has already been deeply felt but not yet understood. Like the mute woman and the tiger, he, too, is in a place where he does not belong.
Unlike Kipling's animal stories, this tale about the tiger is not for children. It takes place among people for whom wars and their accompanying savageries have been a constant reality over the centuries, and has a grim, pitiless quality without happy outcomes or stirring moral lessons. Someone once said that unlike a man in a store who explains to a child how a toy works, the folktale needs no such explanation. It only asks that we surrender to the story being told and take a journey into what are some of the darkest regions conceived by the human imagination.
Obreht's additional characters and subplots to the story of her grandfather and the tiger, which she elaborates over several chapters, are like a colorful tapestry hanging in some imaginary palace. Not all of it works, in my view. The lengthy digression on the youth of the husband of the deaf-mute woman, plus the life stories of the bear hunter who comes to the village to hunt the tiger and the local pharmacist with a secret life, although necessary to the plot, are too long and feel contrived at times.
For example, there is the story about the butcher Luka, who in his youth supposedly wanted to be a musician, and went to learn how to play the ancient one-string gusle in the streets of Sarobor—Mostar. There he fell in love with a Muslim girl, who didn't want anything to do with men and whom he didn't try to convince otherwise, since he had himself long realized that he didn't want anything to do with women. Nevertheless, their friendship grew "on song and philosophical debate, on stories and pointless arguments about poetry and history," we are told, until they began to plan their marriage and the young woman agreed to confine herself to the house as is the custom.
Luka dresses up each evening and drops by her house where he eats and drinks with her father, who deduces that an offer of marriage will soon be made and resigns himself that he will have a butcher as a son-in-law rather than a lesbian for a daughter. The two are about to marry, but then the girl begins to realize what she is in for and begins to change her mind, confining herself to bed, developing a fever, and eventually becoming seriously ill. Following visits by several doctors who can do nothing, a miracle worker appears from another part of the country and cures her, while she falls in love with him. The father, whose other daughter is a deaf-mute, in desperation dresses her in her sister's wedding clothes and offers her in place of the originally intended bride. The poor butcher doesn't discover the deceit until he lifts the veil in the ceremonial gesture of seeing his wife for the first time and looks at a complete stranger.


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One of the fascinating and attractive things about sake breweries are their (usually) much longer and storied histories than the wineries of the western world. While there are a few wineries that have been in existence for a few hundred years, there are many more sake breweries that have been doing their thing for many hundreds, some continuously operated by a single family.
Kamotsuru Shuzo may not be one of the oldest breweries in Japan, as it can only trace its history back to 1623, and really only began production under the Kamotsuru name in 1873, but it is one of the most respected.
The company's name, like so many in Japanese, benefits from a clever double meaning. Kamo is both a reference to a chain of mountains from which the brewery gets its water, and Kamo(su) is also the verb to make sake. The second half of the company's name, Tsuru, means "crane," a noble and very auspicious bird for the Japanese culture.
When it comes to kamosu, Kamotsuru represents an odd dichotomy between technological innovation and strict tradition. In many ways Kamotsuru can be considered one of the most pioneering sake breweries in Japan. They claim many firsts in the world of sake including being one of the first Japanese breweries to export sake to the United States in the year 1896. Don't ask me who might have been drinking sake in the U.S. at that time. Perhaps more notably, Kamotsuru brewery can claim to be the co-inventor of the modern rice polishing mill in 1898, along with another company. In 1905 were among the first breweries in Japan to produce ginjo class sakes, whose rice had been polished to at least 60% of its former mass, and in 1958 they claim to be the first brewery to produce a daiginjo class sake (made from rice polished to less than 50% of its former mass).
Today, despite such a history of innovation, a visitor to Kamotsuru might be struck by the seemingly traditional approach taken towards sake brewing. Kamotsuru still makes use of wood where many have switched to stainless steel, and continues many of the labor intensive manual processes of sake making that have been automated by other breweries. And, of course, the brewery insists on producing incredibly high quality sake, of which this sake, named "Sokaku" is their second most premium product, and the highest quality sake that they export to the United States.
Sokaku is a daiginjo sake. This means that the rice has been polished past the 50% point. In fact, as a mark of its premium quality, the rice used to make Sokaku has been polished to 38% of its former mass, a delicate and expensive feat, and one that the brewery feels makes for a more refined and delicate brew. It is made in the dead of winter in Hiroshima prefecture as the snow blows in cold from the sea of Japan.
While it's easy to buy sake by the label (many of them are quite attractive, and when you don't have any idea what they're saying -- I don't -- it can be an interesting aesthetic gamble) it's generally best to know what you're getting yourself into. However, it is worth noting that this sake rates pretty high up on the aesthetic scale. Anyone who could receive this individually gold boxed, hand tied, handmade-paper-labeled bottle and not be impressed probably isn't worth having as a friend anyway.
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Colorless in the glass, this sake has a nose of white flowers, dried orange rind, tropical fruits, and wet stones. In the mouth it is ever-so-smooth, with clear stony, rainwater and floral qualities wrapped in a slightly creamy, melted vanilla ice cream jacket with hints of wet cedar on the finish. The sake conveys a purity that marks the best daiginjo sakes along with a silky weight on the tongue that entices sipping again and again. World class.
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This sake seems like it would do beautifully with butter poached fish of any kind, but especially...butter fish! A nice filet, a splash of lemon and a glass of Sokaku could make any evening spectacular.
Overall Score: around 9.5
How Much?: $80
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June 2, 2014 | by Dan Piepenbring
We're delighted to announce that two of our contributors have won Pushcart Prizes: Ottessa Moshfegh, for "The Weirdos," a story from issue 206; and Susan Stewart for her poem "Pine," from issue 207. Both pieces are available online, and both will appear this November in Pushcart Prize XXXIX: Best of the Small Presses, an anthology of this year's winning writing.
Congratulations to Ottessa and Susan!
How Much Could Be Left Unsaid: An Interview with Jenny Offill
March 31, 2014 | by Matt Pieknik
Issue 207 of The Paris Review included Jenny Offill's story "Magic and Dread," an excerpt from her new novel, Dept. of Speculation, published earlier this year. James Wood called it "a novel that's wonderfully hard to encapsulate, because it faces in many directions at the same time, and glitters with different emotional colors." Offill is the author of the novel Last Things, and the coeditor, with Elissa Schappell, of two anthologies of essays. She has also written several children's books, including 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to Do Anymore, 11 Experiments That Failed, and Sparky! She teaches writing at Queens University, Brooklyn College, and Columbia University.
For the narrator of your novel, the wife, there's a lot of conjecture going on—guessing how to write a book, how to be in a marriage, how to raise a child, how to bear the time of writing a book. Do you consider writing to be a fundamentally speculative act?
One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done. That is why so many talented people stop writing. It's hard to tolerate this not-knowing. It's hard to tolerate feeling like an idiot or an imposter, and it gets harder as the years tick by.
But I would argue that this feeling of uncertainty is actually the best practice you could have for the other important things you will do in your life. No one ever masters falling in love or being a parent or losing someone close to him. And who would want to master such things, really? Wandering through the woods, looking for a sudden sunlit clearing, that's the most interesting part of it. Read More »
The Expression of Not-Knowing: An Interview with Kevin Prufer
March 7, 2014 | by Robyn Creswell
The Winter issue of The Paris Review includes Kevin Prufer's poem "How He Loved Them." Prufer is the author of six books of poetry and the editor of several anthologies. His latest collection, Churches, was published this week. He teaches at the University of Houston.
The poem stages a scene of terrible yet familiar violence—a car bomb explodes in front of a courthouse, killing a colonel and his two granddaughters. But the poem is less about the event than the aftermath. The explosion becomes a spectacle for bystanders, who record it on their smartphones. In what ways are poems like our devices—in thrall to spectacle, turning moments into eternities?
Turning moments into eternities was truly at the center of the poem for me—the idea of the afterlife, of divine translation. I imagined that the colonel, who acknowledges he has done terrible things, dies in a moment of inarticulable love for his granddaughters. Of course, he becomes spectacle for us, his death recorded and uploaded to the Internet, where we watch it over and over again. But, in another way, perhaps he has been redeemed, has been, himself, uploaded to a kind of heaven where his love is played out eternally. At least, that's how I like to think about him and the poem—about the moral, spiritual, digital complexities that can be packed into a single moment … a moment we, unknowing, watch play out on our computer screens.
The way this bomb works as "a divine translation" reminds me of another poem of yours, "A Minor Politician," from National Anthem. That poem is a posthumous monologue, delivered from the crypt. The speaker is an honorable pol, though he has served questionable goals. At the end of the poem, he sees God's hand, "like a bomb," reaching through the catacombs to "take my body from the tatters / and lift me through the shadows / to the trees." Are these cases of redemption through violence?
I think the same question is at play, yes. But the poems have very different contexts. When I wrote National Anthem, I was caught in a vortex during which all I could think about was classical—mostly Roman—history. I read about that to the exclusion of most other things. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were new and I was living in a small Missouri town very near an Air Force base, and heard echoes of Roman history everywhere. That ancient politician thinks he has been redeemed by God, by God's hand breaking through the ceiling. But really, it was time and forgetfulness that redeemed him—and one of our bombs breaking through his crypt two thousand years later, shedding light on him. Read More »
Fasten Your Seatbelts, It's Our Winter Issue
December 3, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
The flight attendant on the cover of 207 does not deceive you: this issue is a ride and a half. For your reading enjoyment we offer:
Geoff Dyer on the art of nonfiction—and why he hates that rubric:
I don't think a reasonable assessment of what I've been up to in the last however many years is possible if one accepts segregation. That refusal is part of what the books are about. I think of all them as, um, what's the word? … Ah, yes, books! I haven't subjected it to scientific analysis, but if you look at the proportion of made-up stuff in the so-called novels versus the proportion of made-up stuff in the others I would expect they're pretty much the same
Edward P. Jones on the art of fiction:
People say, Did you grow up thinking of yourself as this or that, blah blah blah. These middle-class or upper-class kids, maybe three or four times a week they'd have a doctor over, they'd have an engineer over, they'd have a writer over, and they'd get into a conversation with the writer and all of a sudden realize, Oh, I think I want to be a writer. That didn't happen to me. That doesn't happen to the rest of us.
Plus! The first installment of a novel by Rachel Cusk. New fiction from J. D. Daniels, Jenny Offill, Nell Freudenberger, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Lydia Davis, and the winner of the NPR Three-Minute Fiction Contest.
Plus, poems by Kevin Prufer, Susan Stewart, Hilda Hilst, Charlie Smith, Monica Youn, Sylvie Baumgartel, Emily Moore, and Linda Pastan.
And did we mention a portfolio of nudes by Chuck Close?
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CHARLOTTE -- One in 10 doctors in the United States lied to their patients in the past year, according to a study in the Journal of Health Affairs. More than 1,800 physicians nationwide were surveyed back in 2009 about their medical principles and ethics.
As a general practitioner at Blakeney Family Physicians, Dr. Benjamin Missick sees dozens of patients each day for a wide range of ailments. But he said at no time in his career has he ever lied to a patient, or known anyone who has.
"We take an oath and the oath is to take care of the patient," said Missick. "To go to bat for the patient, to be an advocate for them."
But according to a new survey in Health Affairs Journal this week, not everyone agrees on just how to do that. While the majority of the more than 1,800 doctors polled nationwide back in 2009 agreed physicians should keep their patients informed, roughly one in 10 admitted lying to their patients in the past year. About 20 percent said they didn't disclose a medical mistake for fear of being sued, and a little over half admitted they have put a positive spin on a patient's prognosis.
"I think you have to lay everything out on the table for the patient," said Missick.
As for medical mistakes, he says everyone makes mistakes.
"But when you're forthright with your patients when you have that relationship then there's nothing you need to worry about," said Missick.
As for whether the study will hurt healthcare providers, he said he doesn't think one study will have that power.
Missick recommends if you have to see a doctor, make a list of questions to insure your concerns are addressed. If you're still unclear, get a second opinion. And if you feel you're being lied to, find another physician.
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Series starts 2/20
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Hornets 100
(19-36, 10-20 away)
Cavaliers 105
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8:00 PM ET, February 20, 2013
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
Top Performers
NO: B. Roberts 17 Pts, 1 Reb, 1 Ast
Cle: K. Irving 35 Pts, 5 Reb, 7 Ast, 2 Stl
CLEVELAND -- Bright lights bring out the best in Kyrie Irving.
Coming off an impressive showing during All-Star weekend in Houston, Irving carried the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 105-100 win over the New Orleans Hornets on Wednesday night.
Irving scored 20 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter, including 11 in a row and 18 of 20, to help the Cavaliers break away from an 83-all tie in the final 4:23.
"In the fourth quarter especially when it's winning time, obviously I want to win and my teammates want to win," he said. "Luckily, some shots went in."
Cavaliers coach Byron Scott sensed something big was about to happen when he put Irving back into the game with 7:08 remaining.
"You can see it coming," Scott said. "He gets a little bit of a gleam in his eye. He hits one or two shots and just kind of gets going."
The Hornets were obviously impressed.
"Kyrie had a real good game," New Orleans coach Monty Williams said. "He got to the basket whenever he tried to, especially late."
"Kyrie really took the game over and put his team on his back," guard Austin Rivers said. "We did a bad job trying to be physical with him. We just let him walk in the lane and get buckets. You've got to take some hard fouls and make guys earn it at the line, and we didn't."
Irving's performance brought the crowd at Quicken Loans Arena to its feet during the final minutes and had Irving pumping his fist on several occasions.
The game featured two former No. 1 overall draft picks: Irving and Hornets center Anthony Davis. Irving made 13 of 22 shots and all seven of his free throws while having seven assists. Davis had 12 points and four rebounds.
The Cavaliers placed five players in double figures in breaking a three-game losing streak, but the night belonged to Irving. After his fall-away jumper gave Cleveland a two-point lead, he hit a 3-pointer from a couple of steps behind the arc to put the Cavaliers ahead 88-83 and prompt New Orleans to call a timeout. It didn't help. Irving was just getting going.
New Orleans missed again on its ensuing possession and Irving converted a layup between two defenders on a fast break for a 90-83 lead. He added another basket after driving the lane and two free throws.
Irving drew national attention with his performance over the weekend. He scored 15 points in his first All-Star game, won the 3-point contest and put up 32 points in the Rising Stars Challenge.
Dion Waiters scored 16 points for the Cavaliers while C.J. Miles added 11.
Rookie Brian Roberts led New Orleans with 17 points, tying a season high. Robin Lopez scored 15 points before fouling out, while Greivis Vasquez added 13.
Irving had his worst performance of the season in the final game before the break against San Antonio with six points on 2-of-15 shooting. He admitted before the game he was still catching up on his rest, but it didn't look that way with the game on the line.
"He was just kind of making shots everywhere," Scott said. "He made some great shots, did some great things and the crowd was fantastic."
"It stems off the trust that my teammates have in me and the coaching staff has in me," Irving said.
Cleveland played the finale of a seven-game homestand, which began with three wins. The Cavaliers then lost the last three games before the break.
New Orleans lost at home to Chicago on Tuesday and then made the trip to Cleveland for an unusual back-to-back set.
Hornets guard Eric Gordon didn't play for precautionary reasons as he continues to recover from knee surgery. He has yet to play on back-to-back nights on orders of the team's medical staff. Gordon, who is averaging 16.6 points, missed the final game before the All-Star break with a sprained right hand, but scored 20 points Tuesday in a 96-87 loss to Chicago.
Rivers started in Gordon's place and scored 11 points. Ryan Anderson, who leads New Orleans in scoring with a 16.9 average, was held to seven points.
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New Orleans F Al-Fasrouq Aminu had 10 rebounds in 36 minutes. ... Gordon has appeared in 19 games, but it's unclear when he'll be able to play on consecutive nights. "I wish that (policy) was over, but we don't see it ending anytime soon," Williams said. "For whatever reason, the doctors feel that's best for Eric. But he's healthy, so it's tough." ... Scott will attend funeral services for Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss on Thursday in Los Angeles. Scott played for the Lakers for 11 seasons and remained close to Buss over the years. "I'm trying to remember how great he was as a person and how great he was as an owner," Scott said. ... Assistant coach Paul Pressey will run Thursday's practice and Scott will return for Friday's session.
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Kyrie Irving scored 11 points on isolation plays Wednesday against the Hornets, six of which came in the fourth quarter, including the go-ahead basket with 4:23 left in the game. Irving leads the NBA in isolation points per game this season.[+]
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Today we get a better look at the upcoming Mexican Blanket Pack by Nike Sportswear, consisting of the Air Macropus Lite and the Air Baked Mid. The Air Macropus Lite comes in a purple suede colorway with mexican blanket details on the toe box. The Air Baked Mid comes in black suede and features the same patterns around the ankle and on the side-panel. Look out for a release of the pack this weekend at the Nike Harajuku flagship store. Via Shoesmaster.
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The Blanche Ames Gallery features over 100 of art exhibition space in two light-filled hallways within the UUCF building. The gallery's name was chosen because Blanche Ames (1878-1969) was an exceptional Unitarian, a leader who serves as an inspiration to us today. With her minutely observed drawings and etchings she illustrated her husband's 7-volume treatise on orchids. Ames' endeavors extended beyond art. She was a feminist, a leader in civic and charitable affairs, an inventor, an engineer, and an author. An extensive biographical sketch can be found by clicking on Blanche Ames.
The Gallery is open to the public on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and during 9-5 business hours Tuesday through Friday. Please call 301-473-7680 before visiting on weekdays to assure that the building is open. You may also visit by appointment at other times by calling that number, or via email to office@frederickuu dot org.
Artists working in any media that can be wall hung are invited to propose a show. For additional information on how to apply, go to Artists Application for the Blanche Ames Gallery. We schedule ten art shows each year, with an art reception on the first Sunday of each show. All shows last for one month except July and December, which are six-week shows. The Visual Arts Committee plans, schedules and executes all art exhibits at UUCF. The Blanche Ames Gallery email address is gallery@frederickuu dot org. Artists interested in showing their work are required to submit to the office at UUCF a completed application. Please download the Artists Application for the Blanche Ames Gallery
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|Cam Miller (continued from Dec. 2013)
|Jan. 26th - Feb. 23rd
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|July 6th - Aug. 17th
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|October 5th 12:30-2:00pm
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What are the most successful ways to manage defiant children at home and in the classroom? Surprisingly it's not the use of tough consequences. When you respond harshly to a defiant child, you are only fueling the defiant behavior. The more self-discipline you have to stay in control of your negative reactions, the less conflict you will have with defiant children.
If you want to inspire positive, lasting changes in kids, you must manage your own strong reactions, and respond in a calm, systematic way. Here are 5 proven tips for handling defiant children. They are detailed in my, 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child.
When encountering defiant children at home or in the classroom, use these five strategies to lower their defiance:
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Memorial Day just ended, but that doesn't mean the grills are cooling off anytime soon; in fact, L.A. Foodie and Beachwood BBQ and Brewing are firing up a sizzling event tomorrow evening! The gathering is called #GetPorked, and as you probably guessed, the night is going to be full of succulent swine. The event costs $40 and will run from 7-10 p.m., with the sit down dinner starting promptly at 8 p.m. The four courses are:
- Hickory smoked pork served with mustard sauce, Chowchow, and Texas toast.
- Oak smoked pork with spicy Jack Daniel's tomato sauce, tobacco onions, and grit cakes.
- Apple wood smoked pork. Dry rubbed with Beachwood rub, served with vinegar BBQ sauce and vinegar cole slaw on a pretzel bun.
- Pecan smoked pork with stone fruit BBQ sauce, served with a sweet potato pancake
That's just the beginning, however, as each course will be hand paired with a carefully selected Beachwood Brewing craft beer, chosen by the chef and brewer on the night of the event. Furthermore, there will be 4 desserts, provided by Mwokaji Cakery:
- Sponge cake with passion fruit filling, whipped frosting topped with fresh strawberries, blackberries, and mangoes.
- Red velvet bacon cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
- Dark chocolate verrines.
- Chocolate chip sprinkle cookies.
If that wasn't enough incentive, just take a look the gift bags every guest will receive: pork jerkey from KRAVE Jerky; full size bags of Popsalot gourmet popcorn; samples of rich and decadent TCHO Chocolates; $20 Uber gift cards; and Yelp can koozies.
But this isn't simply an excuse to indulge in food and free goodies, because #GetPorked will both satiate and educate. During dinner, L.A. Foodie's Ben & Drew will record a live LAFoodiePodcast about American BBQ styles and the best craft beers to pair them with. You'll get an insider's view from behind the curtain while Ben & Drew crack wise and engage in general jackassery with their special #GetPorked guests.
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This elegant white note is hand engraved with a calligraphic "thank you" in gold. Perfect for expressing your gratitude for everything from a gift to an act of kindness. Matching envelopes are lined in gold lustre.
Many business occasions and meetings call for a brief, personal note as a follow-up, or, perhaps, a congratulatory note needs to be sent. Correspondence cards meet these needs. The notes are handwritten, letting the recipient know that you cared enough to take the time to write a personal note. Your name is engraved at the top of your correspondence cards. Your company's name and address appears on the back flap of the envelope.


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All Saints Church at Monie, a single-story frame building facing southwest, with the gable oriented on a northwest/southeast axis, is five bays across by one room deep. The 1881 frame church is supported by a continuous common bond brick foundation, covered by a steeply pitched asphalt shingle roof. Each side of the rectangular church is sheathed uniformly with weatherboard siding. Two small brick stove stacks pierce the central roofline. The southwest (main) elevation is five bays across with a gabled entrance vestibule in the northwest bay. The adjacent four bays of the church are filled with paired Gothic arched windows. The church interior has a vaulted blue ceiling with a series of tie beams spanning the distance between the side walls. Each end is supported by a decorative Victorian brace. The walls are fitted with horizontal board wainscoting. The church furniture consists of blocks of Victorian pews to either side of a center aisle. The pew ends were executed in a simple S-curve with chamfered corners and a club-shaped finial. The altar rail consists of turned balusters and a simple molded handrail. The altar furniture consists of Victorian style chairs. Located northwest of the church is the cemetery with 18th, 19th, and 20th century burial sites and markers.
All Saints Church at Monie, built in 1881, is significant for its architecture as a remarkably well preserved example of a small, rural Gothic Revival church taken from the designs of Richard Upjohn, a prominent mid-19th century architect. Upjohn published a series of designs for rural churches, parsonages, and schools which were copied or adapted widely by many small parishes nationwide. This church is one of nine known examples of this type of religious building still remaining in Maryland. Many more are known to have been built although a complete inventory of those built has never been made. All Saints Church can be compared with Saint Paul's Episcopal Church (1851, National Register) in Hillsboro, Caroline County, and Saint Andrew's Church (1878, National Register) near Sudlersville, Queen Anne's County. Most striking of these Upjohn inspired churches is Saint Michael's Chapel (1854, National Register) in Reisterstown, Baltimore County. All Saints Church is one of the last of this group of nine structures built in the 19th century and is the only one to have horizontal siding. The interior of All Saints Church retains most of the original furnishings and decorative detailing. The building possesses a high degree of integrity of historic character.


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Topics included in VTT Graduate School in 2011
1. Life time reliability solutions
Modern manufacturing companies want to be able to manage the complete Life Cycle of their products i.e. they put a lot of effort in Product Life Cycle Engineering (PLCE) and Product Life Cycle Simulation (PLCS). From business point of view the use phase of products is of high interest i.e. manufacturing companies want to expand their responsibilities towards providing services for maintaining their products throughout their complete Life Cycle.
In order to be efficient and competitive these kinds of services are managed by following Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) strategy which in turn gives high demands for developing Predictive Health Monitoring (PHM) techniques. It is quite typical that modern production machinery has only a limited number of extremely critical components (e.g. bearings of a wind turbine), which are costly and difficult to monitor in such a way that reliable prognosis of their condition and need for maintenance can be made. In order to be effective the used PHM methods need to be automatic and very reliable. Through the penetration of new sensor types (such as based on MEMS) to the Condition Monitoring market and the rapid increase of processing power high potential for PHM exist assuming similar development of classification and modelling techniques (such as Fuzzy Logic (FL), Neural Networks (NN) and Data Mining (DM)) to manage the prognosis of wear and failure development. The potential provided by wireless communication and internet are natural elements in the growth of this kind of information (e-maintenance) scenario providing diagnosis services as a cloud service from the manufacturer. The aim of the PhD work is to carry out research for supporting the above defined scenario.
Principal ScientistErkki Jantunen
Student, Research Scientist Idriss El-Thalji
2. Foresight and innovation systems
The research on this position focuses on foresight of socio-technical transitions and the evolution of innovation practices and systems. Especially the following three aspects are emphasized: foresight (emerging technologies and applications, futures of markets and regulatory frameworks, regional foresight); innovation systems and innovation dynamics; and systemic socio-technical transformations. Due to the highly interdisciplinary nature of the research field, the background of the candidate could be in following academic fields: social sciences (e.g. sociology, political science, human geography), in economics and business studies, in humanities (e.g. cultural history, anthropology) or in engineering (e.g. industrial engineering and management, systems analysis).
The on-going research project focuses on the creation of expert-oriented foresight knowledge. The first objective is to explore the different aspects and dimensions of foresight knowledge through the lenses of knowledge management and innovation theories. Specific focus is set on social interpretations and embeddedness of foresight knowledge, and how this knowledge is translated into actions. The second objective is to create a systemic frame and categories to analyze the foresight knowledge. The project aims at constructing a conceptual model of foresight knowledge creation, and utilizes it to explain the connections between micro-level actions, such as the methods used in a foresight workshop or the type of presentation used, and macro-level phenomena, such as the implementation of strategy. The empirical analysis utilizes different materials from workshops and policy arenas. Empirical examples cover e.g. experimental foresight workshop practices, the building of common vision in companies and action research on systemic change in renewable energy.
Senior Scientist Toni Ahlqvist
Student, Research Engineer Mikko Dufva
3. Intelligent transport systems
The position deals with business models, value networks and market analysis of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). The aim is to boost time-to-market of both ITS products and services by finding the critical success factors of building functional value chains and understanding the market context. The work is an elemental part of VTT's innovation programme INTRANS. The programme generates new network business and targets to enhance collaboration within the ITS community in Finland as well as remove business barriers. Piloting of new services and concepts and exploiting existing innovations that support business will improve operational conditions, increase markets' efficiency and help to build multi-actor export concepts.
To successfully fulfil this position requires a combination of systems engineering, business economics and transportation engineering.
Principal Scientist Pekka Leviäkangas
Student, Research Scientist Zulkarnain
4. Intelligent wind turbine blade technology for arctic conditions
Currently numerical modelling and simulation of icing for wind turbines is applied to gain understanding in the adverse effects of harsh winter conditions on turbine performance and to develop measures to prevent or minimize that. One such measure is the installation of a rotor blade heating system. In combination with a smart control system for the heat supply, the system can prevent the ice build-up on the most critical parts of the rotor blades. In that way it helps to ensure continuous and efficient operation of the wind turbine, reduce the risks of ice throw and reduce the impact of ice loading on the structure and wind turbine components. With regard to the latter, further research is needed to be able to predict the ice loading, calculate the respective response from the blade and turbine structure, and analyse and quantify the effect of an active blade heating system. The research will be conducted using existing and to-be-developed computational models as well as well as measurement data from the field. A coupling is to be established between the models for ice accretion simulation and structural analysis in order to study the interaction between icing and ice induced blade dynamics. Results from this research can provide a scientific basis for the certification of wind turbines in cold climate.
Contact: Senior Scientist Jeroen Dillingh, Principal Scientist Hannele
Student, Research Scientist Ayabakan Saygin
5. Foam physics
Applications of foam are strategically important in many technological areas at VTT. Novel fibrous paper-like structures can be formed using foam as the material carrier phase instead of water. Solid foams are another active research topic with many industrial applications. Despite increasing technological importance, there has been rather little fundamental research in this area and more understanding of basic mechanisms related to fibre foam forming and stabilization is needed. The graduate student will be a part of a project group in a large research consortium with both academic and industrial partners.
The work concentrates on the fundamental questions related to foam rheology and dynamic interaction of water-based foams with solid particles and fibers. The work involves experimental laboratory and pilot-scale work, foam and material characterization, and modeling of the forming and stabilization dynamics together with final structure.
Principal Scientist Jukka Ketoja
Student, Research Scientist Ahmad Al-Qararah
6. Modelling assisted wear research
Wear and friction is today of great interest both in research and in the industry due to their considerable economical impact and influence on energy consumption and emissions. New advanced techniques are today available in material characterisation and experiments on micro and nanolevel as well as for advanced manufacturing methods for novel material solutions aiming at controlled wear. Computer modelling of material processing, microstructures, properties and performance is rapidly developing boosted by improved software tools and hardware capacity.
The aim of the research is to develop methods and techniques for advanced wear prediction and friction control in machines and devices. The studied materials are surface coatings and advanced powder metallurgical materials. The new VTT approach is to combine tribological laboratory measurements and material characterisation with material multiscale modelling and performance simulation, starting from process parameters and physical phenomena.
The position offers a possibility to join an international world leading research group on wear modelling and work with technical and scientific challenges in the international front end.
Research Professor Kenneth Holmberg
Student, Research Scientist Richard Waudby
7. Fibre based products
This position focuses in the conversion of fibre raw material into new fibrous structures and packaging materials by using conventional and emerging technologies. A central aim is to improve the formability of the material, i.e. the ability of material to undergo plastic deformation without damage. Formability cannot be significantly improved without definite modifications of the fibres and fibre network structure. Target is to improve the formability and performance of the paper-based materials in thermoforming processes such as deep-drawing.
The position requires understanding in the chemistry and structure of natural fibres, their processing into fibre-based structures, such as composites and paper board.
Principal Scientist Elias Retulainen
Student, Research Scientist Alexey Vishtal
8. Polymeric micro- and nanophotonic devices for chemical sensing
The objective of the research is connected to an EU-funded project that aims to develop a mass-producible disposable nano-photonic sensor chip for generic multi-parameter sensing applications with high sensitivity against selected analyte. Industrial demonstrators include air quality and pharmaceutical cleanliness as well as food safety. Conventional analytical techniques are usually expensive both in terms of personnel and equipment; in addition, one of the principal requirement is to perform screening tests without specialized infrastructure. Limitations of current sensors include large dimensions, sometimes limited sensitivity and inherent single-parameter measurement capability. Two nanophotonic based sensing methods, interferometric and Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS), are utilized for environmental and pharmaceutical applications. In the interferometric method, the reaction of analyte molecule(s) with the functionalized surface changes the effective refractive index of the system, and thus shifts the resonance peak of the optical circuit, that can be measured. In the Raman method, the sensor surface transforms the Raman scattering, which is simultaneously enhanced by the nano-structure. Besides the actual sensing, critical aspects in the integrated optical sensor circuits are the in and out coupling issues and integration with the read-out device.
Depending on the background and research interests of the applicant, the
actual research work can include following topics:
- micro- and nanofabrication of polymeric photonic devices,
- physical modeling of nanophotonic device structures and integrated optical circuits,
- optical characterization,
- developing a sensor interface with available read-out systems.
Research Professor Pentti Karioja
Student, Research Scientist Masuda Noriyuki
Additional information
Kristiina Poppius-Levlin
Principal Scientist, Head of VTT Graduate School
+358 20 722 7489
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