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This invention relates to a method and system for automated location dependent probabilistic tropical cyclone forecast, whereas data records of tropical cyclone events are generated and location dependent probability values for specific weather conditions associated with the tropical cyclone are determined. In particular, the invention relates all kind of tropical cyclones as e.g. hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms.
Each year, tropical cyclones (also referred to as hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms etc.) cause severe damage in various parts of the world. The occurrence of such weather events is difficult, if not impossible, to predict over the long term. Even the path, or track, of an existing storm can be difficult to predict over a period of hours or days. In particular, the given examples in this document address hurricanes, whereas typhoons and tropical storms etc. can be treated in the same manner. Hurricanes is the most severe category of the meteorological phenomenon known as the "tropical cyclone." Hurricanes, as all tropical cyclones, include a pre-existing weather disturbance, warm tropical oceans, moisture, and relatively light winds aloft. If the right conditions persist long enough, they can combine to produce the violent winds, incredible waves, torrential rains, and floods we associate with this phenomenon. So, the formation of a tropical cyclone and its growth into e.g. a hurricane requires: 1) a pre-existing weather disturbance; 2) ocean temperatures at least 26� C. to a depth of about 45 m; and 3) winds that are relatively light throughout the depth of the atmosphere (low wind shear). Typically, tropical storms and hurricanes weaken when their sources of heat and moisture are cut off (such as happens when they move over land) or when they encounter strong wind shear. However, a weakening hurricane can reintensify if it moves into a more favorable region. The remnants of a landfalling hurricane can still cause considerable damage. Each year, an average of ten tropical storms develop over the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico. Many of these remain over the ocean. Six of these storms become hurricanes each year. In an average 3-year period, roughly five hurricanes strike e.g. the United States coastline, killing approximately 50 to 100 people anywhere from Texas to Maine. Of these, two are typically major hurricanes (winds greater than 110 mph). As mentioned a hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, which is a generic term for a low pressure system that generally forms in the tropics. The cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms and, in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth's surface. Tropical cyclones can be classified as follows: (i) Tropical Depression: An organized system of clouds and thunderstorms with a defined surface circulation and maximum sustained winds (Sustained winds are defined as a 1-minute average wind measured at about 10 meters above the surface) of 33 kt or less (1 knot=1 nautical mile per hour or 1.15 statute miles per hour); (ii) Tropical Storm: An organized system of strong thunderstorms with a defined surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of 34-63 kt; (iii) Hurricane: An intense tropical weather system of strong thunderstorms with a well-defined surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of 64 kt or higher. Hurricanes are categorized according to the strength of their winds using the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. A Category 1 storm has the lowest wind speeds, while a Category 5 hurricane has the strongest. These are relative terms, because lower category storms can sometimes inflict greater damage than higher category storms, depending on where they strike and the particular hazards they bring. In fact, tropical storms can also produce significant damage and loss of life, mainly due to flooding. Normally, when the winds from these storms reach 34 kt, the cyclone is given a name. It should be mentioned, that the category of the storm does not necessarily relate directly to the damage it will inflict. Lower category storms (and even tropical storms) can cause substantial damage depending on what other weather features they interact with, where they strike, and how slow they move.
As mentioned the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (SS-Scale) defines hurricane strength by categories. A Category 1 storm is the weakest hurricane (winds 64-82 kt); a Category 5 hurricane is the strongest (winds greater than 135 kt). Relating to the caused damage, it can be said, that typically Category 1 storms with winds between 64-82 kt can cause normally no real damage to building structures. Damages are primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery, and trees. There can be also, some coastal flooding and minor pier damage. Category 2 storms with winds between 83-95 kt can cause normally some roofing material, door, and window damage. There can also be considerable damage to vegetation, mobile homes, etc. or flooding damages piers and small craft in unprotected moorings may break their moorings. Category 3 storms with winds between 96-113 kt can cause normally some structural damage to small residences and utility buildings, with a minor amount of curtainwall failures. Mobile homes are destroyed. Also, flooding near the coast destroys smaller structures with larger structures damaged by floating debris. Terrain may be flooded well inland. Category 4 storms with winds between 114-135 kt can cause normally more extensive curtainwall failures with some complete roof structure failure on small residences. There can be also major erosion of beach areas. Terrain may be flooded well inland. Finally Category 5 storms with winds between 135+ kt can cause normally complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings. There can be some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. Flooding causes major damage to lower floors of all structures near the shoreline. Massive evacuation of residential areas may be required.
Nevertheless, insurance companies and other entities need to develop ways of assessing the risks associated with such weather events, and factoring that knowledge into the pricing of insurance products and the magnitudes and frequencies of damages to expect over time. Information is available for use in this regard in the form of historical data on storms which have occurred through the years. Approximately 80 such storms occur worldwide each year. Data are collected on many of these storms, including positional data for the storm path or "track," wind speeds, barometric pressures, and other factors. Such storms are best documented in the North Atlantic (i.e., the portion of the Atlantic Ocean north of the equator), where reliable data for more than 100 years of activity are available. Approximately 10 storms occur in the North Atlantic region on an annual basis. Historical data are also available for cyclones occurring in the Northwest Pacific, where approximately 26 storms occur each year. Suitable data for these Pacific storms are available only for the last approximately 50 years. Less data are available for storms in other regions.
Using all available historical data, information relating to a few hundred storms is available for review by researchers and scientists. Such information is useful in assessing risks associated with storm damages in the subject areas. However, given the unpredictable nature of storm behaviour, and the number of factors influencing such behaviours, the available data set of historical storms is relatively small from a probabilistic viewpoint. Given that this data set will grow by only a relatively few storms per year, a problem exists with regard to performing statistical analysis relating to the possibility of a storm occurring at a particular location.
One manner in which this problem can be addressed is by generation of simulated or "alternative" storms, and using data from such "storms" to expand the data set available from historical records. This approach can result in the availability of thousands, or even tens or hundreds of thousands, of additional storms from which to create data sets large enough to perform reliable statistical analyses. The subject invention is directed to various embodiments involving uses of method, a system and a computer program product for generating such expanded probabilistic data sets.
Therefore it should be pointed out that, besides the method according to the invention, the present invention also relates to a system and a computer program product for carrying out this method.
In particular the objects are achieved through the invention in that for automated location dependent tropical cyclone forecast data records of weather events are generated and location dependent probability values for specific weather conditions associated with the tropical cyclone are determined; whereas data records representative of an historical track of a weather event are assigned to a year of occurrence of said weather event and are saved on a memory module of a calculating unit, said data records including a plurality of points representative of geographical positions and/or intensity of the event along the historical track; whereas a plurality of new data records representative of alternative tracks are generated for each historical track by means of a MonteCarlo-module, wherein points of said new data records are generated from said points along the historical track by a dependent sampling process; whereas a grid over a geographical area of interest is established by means of the calculation unit, said area including at least a portion of the plurality of historical tracks, and a intensity climatology for selected cells in the grid is generated, based upon the intensity data associated with at least some of the plurality of points along the historical tracks located within said selected grid cells; whereas for each of said alternative tracks one or more new intensity data are generated by means of a second MonteCarlo-module, wherein the one or more new intensity data of the new data records of said alternative tracks are generated from the intensity data associated with at least some of the plurality of points along the historical tracks by a MonteCarlo sampling process; whereas a distribution for a definable time period of the data records of the historical tracks is generates by means of a scaling table classifying the weather events by intensity and/or year of occurrence, and said distribution of said historical tracks are reproduced by a filtering module within the new or cumulated data records according to their assigned year; and whereas a wind field of each data record is generated based on a definable wind field profile, and a probability is assigned by a interpolation-module to each point in said grid, giving the probability of the occurrence of a specific wind strength at a given geographical location and time. As basis for the scaling table the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale can for example be used. The first and second MonteCarlo-module as well as the interpolation-module can be realized by hardware and/or software.
One embodiment of the invention comprises a method for generating a probabilistic data set relating to a weather event, such as a tropical cyclone, or hurricane, typhoon, or tropical storm. This embodiment of the method includes the steps of inputting data representative of an historical track of a weather event and generating data representative of a plurality of alternative tracks based on the historical track. The data points representative of the alternative tracks are generated from respective points along the historical track by a dependent sampling process. In certain embodiments, the dependent sampling process is a directed random walk process.
In one embodiment, the step of generating data representative of alternative tracks based on the historical track comprises the steps of generating a series of random tuples (xr,yr) for a historical point (x,y) of the historical track, calculating a sum of random deviations (x′,y′) of the random tuples along the historical track, and adding the sum of random deviations (x′,y′) to the historical point (x,y) of the historical track to produce alternative points along the alternative tracks.
The data representative of the historical track(s) include a plurality of points representative of geographical positions along the historical track(s). The generated data representative of a plurality of alternative tracks includes a plurality of alternative points representative of geographical positions along the alternative tracks. In one embodiment, at least some of the plurality of alternative tracks associated with a particular historical track have starting points that differ from a starting point of the historical track upon which the alternative tracks are based. The data representative of the historical track may comprise longitude and latitude data to define a location of each of a plurality of points.
In certain embodiments of the method, the step of inputting data representative of an historical track includes the step of inputting at least one of: longitude and latitude of a plurality of points representative of the historical track; an azimuth angle for at least some of the points along the historical track; celerity for at least some of the points along the historical track; a rate of change of azimuth angle for at least some of the points along the historical track; and a rate of change of celerity for at least some of the points along the historical track. Alternatively, the latter values (azimuth, celerity, and rates of change of azimuth and celerity) may be calculated from longitude and latitude data recorded at periodic time intervals.
Some embodiments of the subject method further comprise the step of selecting a subset of the data representative of the alternative tracks for use in the probabilistic data set. In these or other embodiments, the step of generating data representative of alternative tracks includes the step of limiting a variance of the alternative points from a respective historical point in accordance with one or more physical laws.
In certain embodiments of the subject method, the step of inputting data representative of a track of an historical weather event includes inputting data representative of an intensity of the event. The data representative of intensity may comprise atmospheric pressure data associated with at least some of the plurality of points along the historical track. The atmospheric pressure data defines an historical pressure profile of the historical track. The atmospheric pressure data may include an absolute pressure and a derivative of (or change in) absolute pressure with respect to time. In certain embodiments, the atmospheric pressure data includes one or more pressure distributions. In some embodiments of the subject method, the step of inputting data includes inputting data representative of a plurality of historical tracks, and the step of establishing a grid over a geographical area of interest including at least a portion of the plurality of tracks. These embodiments may further comprise the step of establishing a pressure climatology for selected cells in the grid, based upon the atmospheric pressure data associated with at least some of the plurality of points along the historical tracks located within the selected grid cells. The pressure climatology for the selected cells may be a pressure distribution function. The pressure climatology for a selected cell in the grid may be established from the atmospheric data associated with the selected cell and/or the atmospheric pressure data associated with one or more cells adjacent the selected cell (i.e., one or more neighboring cell). In certain embodiments, the pressure climatology for a selected cell is established from a weighted averaging of pressure data associated with the selected cell and pressure data associated with one or more neighboring cell.
In certain embodiments, each cell in the grid is assigned a land/sea value. In these embodiments, pressure data associated with an adjacent cell is used to establish the pressure climatology of the selected cell only if the adjacent and the selected cell have the same land/sea value.
Certain embodiments of the subject method comprise the additional step of generating one or more alternative pressure profiles for one or more of the historical tracks using the pressure climatology for the selected cells in the grid. In addition, one or more pressure profiles may be generated for one or more of the alternative tracks. One or more alternative pressure profiles may also be generated for one or more of the alternative tracks using the pressure climatology for the selected cells of the grid. In some embodiments, at least one of the alternative pressure profiles for the historical tracks, the pressure profiles for the alternative tracks, and the alternative pressure profiles for the alternative tracks are modified based, at least in part, on the historical pressure profile along the historical track of the associated weather event.
In certain embodiments of the invention, the step of inputting data includes inputting data representative of a plurality of historical tracks and inputting data representative of atmospheric pressure associated with at least some of the plurality of points along the historical tracks. The atmospheric data defines historical pressure profiles of the historical tracks. In these embodiments, the step of generating data includes generating a plurality of alternative tracks for more than one of the historical tracks. Further, these embodiments include at least one of the following steps: a) generating one or more alternative pressure profiles for one or more of the historical tracks; b) generating one or more pressure profiles for one or more of the alternative tracks; and c) generating one or more alternative pressure profiles for one or more of the alternative tracks. These or other embodiments of the subject method may further comprise the step of extracting a subset of data from the data representative of the historical tracks, the alternative tracks, and the pressure profiles, based on climatological conditions for a selected time period.
Additional features and advantages will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the following detailed description of illustrative embodiments exemplifying the best mode of carrying out the method as presently perceived.
The present disclosure will be described hereafter with reference to the attached drawings which are given as non-limiting examples only, in which:
Following production of the alternative storm tracks, a plurality of alternative pressure evolutions are produced for the historical and alternative tracks. This step is represented in
After reading the raw data and, if necessary, calculating pressures, additional calculations are performed to determine celerity, azimuth angles and Saffir-Simpson classes. These calculations are represented in the flow chart of
The last operation in the step of inputting historical data relates to the addition of "on-land" flags. When a storm moves from a position over water to a position over land (or vice versa), substantial pressure changes are observed. Accordingly, landfall and land leave points are determined and entered into the data for use in subsequent steps of the process. This operation is represented in the embodiment of
Following this operation, minimum pressures based on the sea surface temperature (SST) climatology are added. That is, for each location in the grid, the lowest pressure associated with the highest SST ever observed in that particular location is entered. This value acts as a "floor" for alternative pressure values associated with each location in the grid that may be selected (as discussed in additional detail below) in connection with alternative pressure evolutions for the historical and/or alternative storm tracks. This operation is represented by block 42 in the embodiment of
After addition of minimum pressures, the pressure climatology is smoothed. The goals of the smoothing process include one or more of the following: to obtain full coverage of the area of interest; to smooth variations in the distributions of pressures and pressure derivatives from one grid to its neighboring grids; to smooth variations in distributions of minimums, maximums and means of the absolute pressures and pressure derivatives; and to obtain the same number of "observations" at each grid location. This smoothing process leads to a more consistent set of pressure related values for the area of interest to be used in a sampling process to be described further below. In the particular embodiment being described, the quantities to be smoothed are not scaler quantities (such as, a mean pressure quantity at each location), but rather are pressure-related distributions for each location. Accordingly, the smoothing process is relatively more complex.
In order to achieve the goals stated above, one embodiment of the subject method follows the approach set forth below. Other approaches may be used, and some may very well be comparable to, or even preferred over, this approach. The approach is as follows:
The number of valid observations at each location is determined. In this embodiment, up to 260 observations for each location may be entered. Some locations may have this many observations (or more) while other locations may have fewer or none. All non-valid data are replaced. The distinction between valid observations and non-valid observations is based upon the fact that pressure values below 800 hPa are impossible, and thus not valid. After all valid observations are entered for each location, the subject method loops through the data location, applying the following procedure at each location (referred to as the "center location"):
1) Obtain all valid observations for the center location and all neighboring locations (i.e., all grid cells surrounding the "center" cell) having the same land/sea value. That is, if the center location is a sea location, only neighboring locations that are also sea locations are considered. If the center location is a land location, only neighboring locations that are also land locations are considered. Thus, land and sea observations are not mixed in the smoothing process.
2) Construct the pressure distribution file for all points. The center location observations are more heavily weighted, for example, by counting them twice. Depending on the number of neighboring locations having the same land/sea values and the number of valid observations at each location, an arbitrary number of observations for this particular pressure distribution file is obtained.
3) Use a cubic spline to interpolate the pressure distribution function to a standard number of observations (for example, 100 observations for each location).
The above approach will produce a data set having a standard number (for example, 100) of pressure and pressure derivative observations at each grid cell which is not separated by more than 1 degree from an original cell. By iteration, one can in theory fill all gaps existing in the area of interest.
The above-described approach accomplishes the goals set forth previously. Locations in which historical observations are not available within the area of interest are "filled in," and variations across the area of interest are smoothed. However, sharp pressure gradients which occur at land/sea transition locations are maintained.
The pressure climatology smoothing operation is represented in
Following generation of the alternative tracks, the embodiment of the method illustrated in
In addition to generating an APE for each historical track, it is desirable to generate an APE for each alternative track associated with each historical track. Accordingly, after generation of an APE for the first historical track, the method of this embodiment associates each alternative track generated from the selected historical track with the original pressure evolution of the historical track. This operation is represented in
An "adjustment" made to the data for the selected storms relates to the previously discussed "on-land" flags. Since pressures increase rapidly when a storm moves from over water to over land, pressure data associated with the alternative tracks are adjusted to reflect this phenomena. This operation is represented by block 72 in the flow chart of
The final step in the overall methodology illustrated by the flow chart of
As previously noted, the alternative storm tracks are generated by a dependent sampling technique.
x = 0 1 2 y = 0 1 1
Corresponding points of an alternative track, represented by line 102, are produced by generating a series of random tuples (xr,yr) for each point of the historical track, then calculating the cumulative sum (x′,y′) of these random numbers along the track (i.e., summing up random deviations along the track), and then adding these accumulated random deviations (x′, y′) to the historical track (x,y). The resulting points define the alternative track. In the example of
xr = 1 0 −1 yr = 0 0 1
The cumulative sums along the alternative track are:
x′ = 1 1 + 0 = 1 1 + (−1) = 0 y′ = 0 0 + 0 = 0 0 + 1 = 1
Finally, the points on the generated track (line 102) are obtained as follows:
x + x′ = 0 + 1 = 1 1 + 1 = 2 2 + 0 = 2 y + y′ = 0 + 0 = 0 1 + 0 = 1 1 + 1 = 2
There are different ways to generate the random numbers, either by independently sampling from a normal or uniform distribution, or by a dependent sampling technique (such as, a directed random walk). Using the latter, a subsequent point can only deviate to a certain degree from a previous point. As will be illustrated in additional detail below, a dependent sampling technique (particularly, a directed random walk) generates more realistic alternative storm tracks.
The sampling process by which the alternative pressure evolutions (APEs) are produced will now be described. As discussed above in connection with
One manner of producing an alternative pressure evolution for a selected track may be referred to as the "minimum" method. In this method, the location (latitude and longitude) of the absolute pressure minimum in the selected track is identified. A new pressure value is then selected according to a pressure distribution function at that location. The selection may be based on a random choice. Once the new minimum value is chosen, all other pressure values along the selected track are adjusted accordingly, leaving only the first and last values unchanged. This results in an alternative pressure evolution which mirrors the shape of the selected track, but in which the absolute values of the pressures will vary at each location (except for the very first and very last locations along the track). Landfall and landleave locations may also be identified to assure that appropriate values are set in the alternative pressure evolutions at these locations.
Another method by which alternative pressure evolutions may be generated can be described as the "percentile" method. This method is based on pressure differences over time (dp/dt), along with information from the historical track. The steps for computing a pressure evolution for an alternative track are as follows:
a) At time t=0 along the alternative track, the pressure value p(0) is set equal to the pressure value of the historical storm at time t=0.
b) At time t=1, the pressure value along the alternative track is determined by first determining the percentile of the pressure change along the historical track between times t=0 and t=1. This value is located on the pressure distribution curve for the historical track at location x=1. The percentile is varied by a certain amount, and a pressure change value corresponding to the varied percentile is located in the pressure distribution for location x=1 of the alternative track. The pressure value at time t=1 in the alternative track is then equal to the pressure at time t=0 plus the value located in the alternative track pressure distribution.
c) The above steps are repeated for time t=2, with reference back to the values determined at time t=1.
The percentile is preferably varied according to a uniform distribution. Variance is preferably approximately plus/minus 15%. A second alternative pressure evolution may be created by starting from the last time step and following the same procedure working in reverse to time t=0. A third alternative pressure evolution may be determined by taking a weighted average of the first and second pressure evolutions, giving more weight to the first near the beginning of the track and more weight to the second near the track's end. It will be appreciated by those of skill in the art that other variations may be similarly determined to produce additional pressure evolutions.
The process of generating alternative pressure evolutions is repeated for each of the historical tracks inputted in the initial step, and for each of the alternative tracks generated from each of the historical tracks. Thus, if there are N alternative tracks generated for each historical track, and if there are M APEs generated for each of the historical and alternative tracks, a total of (N+1)�M "artificial" storms are generated for each historical storm for which data are available That is, each track (whether it is a historical or an alternative one) is associated with M hypothetical pressure evolutions.
The choice of alternative pressures for each point of the historical pressure evolution is subject to some constraints. For example, the alternative pressure value chosen for a particular point will not exceed pressure values that have never been observed at that particular point, or those that have been determined using the extension of the climatology based on the SST. Furthermore, if in the historical pressure evolution, an unusual pressure variation occurs at a particular location, then similarly unusual variations may be selected for the APEs at that location. Pressure variations which are not possible in nature, or would be extremely unlikely to occur at a given location, are also avoided. The pressure distributions developed in connection with the establishment of the pressure climatology discussed in connection with
Although the present disclosure has been described with reference to particular means, materials and embodiments, from the foregoing description, one skilled in the art can easily ascertain the essential characteristics of the present disclosure and various changes and modifications may be made to adapt the various uses and characteristics without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as set forth in the following claims.
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Here's the old stuff for historical interest...
I'm a PythonAnywhere developer. We're not massive web2py experts (yet?) but I've managed to get web2py up and running like this:
First download and unpack web2py:
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You will also need to comment out the last two lines in wsgi.py, where we have the default hello world web.py application...
Thanks to Juan Martinez for his instructions on this part, which you can view here: http://web2py.pythonanywhere.com/
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A recent Gallup Poll found that fewer men identify as pro-choice today than they did in 2008. The sexism that's feeding the anti-choice side and why we need men to support women's reproductive rights.
In deciding to air a Focus on the Family ad during the Super Bowl, CBS executives have effectively outed themselves as anti-choice and anti-woman.
Today, the Limited-Service Pregnancy Disclaimers Bill was signed into Baltimore law. The bill ensures that women who enter Baltimore area Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) hoping to find access to birth control, information about a potential pregnancy, or referrals to abortion providers will be immediately informed if those services are not available.
The dispute between Randall Terry and Troy Newman sheds light on the way that activism can satisfy a person's hunger for attention and influence—how it can become a power trip.


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Healthy Halloween Treats
Booger Balls
1¼ cups pecans
10 dried dates, pitted
2 tablespoons cacao powder (unsweetened)
pinch of sea salt (regular salt OK to use)
Green food coloring
Put pecans into a food processor and chop for 15-30 seconds or until nuts are in tiny pieces, but not powder. Add the dates, food coloring and the cacao powder and blend another 15-30 seconds. Roll into balls and serve. Makes 12-18 pieces
Chocolate Covered Apples Jack o' lanterns
4 apples
1 cup dark-chocolate baking discs or chips
Parchment paper
Remove the apple stems and insert the sticks into the top of the apples. Melt a cup of dark chocolate baking discs or chips in a double boiler (or just insert metal bowl into a pot of boiling water). When the chocolate has melted, slowly rotate each apple until all sides are covered in chocolate. Place on a tray lined with parchment or wax paper and set in the fridge to cool.
Once cooled, take a tooth pick and carve out a jack o'lantern face into the apple.


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Auditor praises Vt. action on tax districtsMay 20,2013MONTPELIER Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer is praising lawmakers for passing legislation to clean up glitches in the states so-called tax increment financing program.
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Srinagar AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday sought action against BJP legislators who attacked an independent legislator in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly for hosting a beef party, reports said. Owaisi said the thrashing of Engineer Rashid and the attempt on his life in t ... More
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Jammu Mobile internet services were snapped in Jammu region on Thursday as authorities feared misuse of social media after tension gripped Udhampur district over recovery of carcasses of three cows. Police said the mobile internet services have been cut in the region to prev ... More
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Jammu Jammu An army soldier was Thursday arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The accused, Haq Nawaz, who is deployed with 6 Engineers Regiment and presently posted in Kashmir, was on leave when he barged into the hou ... More
New Delhi New Delhi The clash that broke out between two groups of prisoners in the high-security Tihar Jail left two undertrials dead and six others injured, police said Thursday. The three inmates of high-security ward of Jail number 1 of Tihar--Ishwar, Vijay and Shadab wer ... More
Srinagar As the opposition pressed for its demand to extend the proceedings of the assembly so discuss important bills including beef bill, the speaker adjourned the house until tomorrow. Er Rashid who was assaulted in the morning by BJP MLAs and whose beef bill was scheduled f ... More
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Psychedelia in the Movies, Part 1
My latest piece for the Psypress UK Journal – the first installment of a two-parter – explores the roots of psychedelic movies, their rise in the 1960s and the spread of their various influences thereafter, including psychedelia in comedy, sci-fi and horror, cartoons and reality benders. In particular 'trip sequences' in films such as The Trip, Easy Rider and Altered States are analysed at length, alongside other psychedelically-tinged scenes in films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Yellow Submarine.
Whilst verbal descriptions convey much, I felt it would be useful to back up the article with some clips of the actual scenes under discussion, so here is a selection of suitable elements to peruse in conjunction with the piece. They follow the same order as in the text. Psypress UK 2015 Vol IV also contains illuminating essays from Peter Sjostedt-H, Nathan Horowitz and Ido Hartogsohn. To purchase a copy please visit the Psypress Shop.
The Trip (1967). This trailer gives a good flavour of the kitschy pop art treatment of the subject back in its heyday, with much reliance on flicker and strobing effects. It will blow your mind!
Easy Rider (1969). The Mardi Gras cemetery acid trip borrows from the grammar of The Trip, but moves it into darker, edgier spaces with fast cutting and vertiginous camera moves conjuring an atmosphere of chaos.
Burroughs at Breaking Convention
I attended the recent Breaking Convention at Greenwich University and gave a talk entitled 'Beat Writers and the Psychedelic Movement', which covered the story of how the major Beat figures – William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy – preempted and were later inducted into 1960s psychedelia by Timothy Leary. It gave me the opportunity to again explore in detail the fascinating facts of Burroughs' early involvement with ayahuasca – previously covered in William Burroughs: Ayahuasca Tourist and The Soundless Hum – which in the context of the conference and the current huge interest in ayahuasca were most pertinent.
At Breaking Convention there were many talks relating to use of the vine, covering ayahuasca in group therapy, tools for navigating its altered states, the current wave of tourism versus tradition, soma and ayahuasca; and also the related areas of tryptamine plant mythos, the pineal portal, the ontology of entities in the DMT realm and what it's like to be a machine elf. In fact the whole ayahuasca/DMT/pineal gland nexus is the hottest area in the current psychedelic zeitgeist.
And good old Bill Burroughs was there first – a fact that other speakers and participants picked up on as well as myself. Luke Goaman-Dodson gave an illuminating talk on the parallels between Burroughs and Terence McKenna as ayahuasca psychonauts, comparing McKenna's thoughts on the syntactical nature of reality with Burroughs's cut-up technique, an area that touches on both post-structuralism and chaos magic – the notion that the world is made of words and that reality can be manipulated through them. Burroughs developed his cut-up technique into form of magic using recording devices and used it effectively; once he attacked the Moka Bar in Soho, where he'd received rudeness and bad service, and after several sessions the business began to collapse and eventually closed down.
The transgressive nature of Burroughs' activities – the 'literary outlaw', drug addict and gun nut – cropped up in Alan Piper's excellent presentation on psychedelics as a key tool for alterity in the twentieth century avant garde. Burroughs' writings in The Yage Letters and Junkie were juxtaposed with some excellent photos of the older writer in a three-piece suit, pistol in hand of course! Alan posed the question of whether psychedelics would lose their transformative powers if they become officially sanctioned, commodified and safely marketed – a route that Burroughs never traveled in his art and life.
And Burroughs' hand could also be seen in the area of the convention's installations, in particular with regard to hypnagogic light machines. Burroughs explored flicker-effect altered consciousness with his collaborators Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, who designed and built a 'Dreamachine' – a cardboard cylinder containing slits, with a light bulb inside, rotating on a record deck so that it would flash at the correct rhythm to induce hallucinations.
Dr Dirk Proeckl and Dr Engelbert Winkler discussed their Lucia No.3 Light Machine, a very high tech variant where a pulsing whirring light is aimed at the subject's face, with closed eyes, to induce psychedelic displays of colours and shapes, out-of-body feelings and deep relaxation. But retailing at £16,000, it resides at the high end of one's pocket also!
More in keeping with the original concept, digital artist Luciana Haill displayed dreamachines augmented with EEG installation. Subjects sit with closed eyes and monitored brainwaves, listening to sounds on headphones, in order to create an interactive participatory artwork. Luciana is also involved in the academic side of brainwave research; she is a Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University's Department of Informatics and has written a paper on 'Dreamachines and Electroencephalographic Signals in Art'. Mr Burroughs and Mr Gysin would have definitely approved!
Also at Breaking Convention, Muswell Hill Press launched its anthology of the best of PsypressUK writing – Out of the Shadows – covering subjects such as the use of psychedelics in medicine and psychotherapy, archetypal psychology and spiritual awakenings, creative surges in literature, myth and visionary art, and philosophical theory to ayahuasca healing. It features top psychedelic commentators such as Stanislav Grof, Rick Strassman, Ben Sessa, Rob Dickins, Tim Read, Maria Pap, Sam Gandy, Andy Roberts, Dave King, Henrik Dahl, Jack Hunter and David Luke, and an interview with activist Casey William Hardison. It also contains my article 'Beats on Acid', which provided the original basis for my Breaking Convention talk.
In the words of Dr David Luke:
Florid as psychosis, poetic as the elements, insightful as meditation and intellectual as the noosphere: PsyPressUK is a ragtaglledy mag loaded with psychedelic word mongery from far-flung medicine bags and the academy's finest pharmacographers, and this anthology assembles the best of those essays in one book. Not just writing on drugs, but writing about drugs, with the light fully switched on.
Copies are available from the Psypress Shop.
The Soundless Hum: Psychonautic Underpinnings of William Burroughs' Naked Lunch
This article was originally published in the Psychedelic Press UK print journal 2013 Vol.2 and is now up on the Psypress site.
Mostly everyone has heard of William Burroughs' drug-inspired masterpiece Naked Lunch, but far fewer have actually read it from cover to cover and fewer still have properly understood what Burroughs is doing in its pages.
Often dismissed as incomprehensible, pornographic and, due to its lack of formal narrative structure, unfilmable, Naked Lunch was nevertheless tackled on celluloid by David Cronenberg in 1991, resulting in a movie that is only minimally representative of the book and tends to deepen its mystery rather than clarify it. Reinventing from scratch and substituting his own authorship, Cronenberg 'sampled' Burroughs' life and work in order to produce a body-horror pastiche that owes as much to the Ted Morgan biography and the novels Exterminator and Junkie as Naked Lunch itself. But for many people that film stands for what Naked Lunch is about.
Another common misconception is that Naked Lunch is about 'the horrors of addiction,' a description more suited to Burroughs' autobiographical first novel Junkie. By the time of Naked Lunch, he'd moved on considerably from depicting anything so mundane or literal as that. What Naked Lunch represents is the fruit of a pharmo-picaresque creative journey that was partly inspired by opiate addiction but that rapidly expanded to encompass the visions of majoun, peyote and most particularly ayahuasca or yagé, whose psychonautic propensity underscores much of the grotesque, lurid phantasmagoria for which the novel is famous… Read more on Psypress UK
My in-depth review of Barry Miles' biography of William Burroughs is included in the new issue of the Psypress magazine. More information at the Psypress Shop.
The Endless Fascination of William Burroughs
Having already penned two articles for the PsypressUK journal involving William Burroughs – 'The Soundless Hum' (2013 Vol.2) and 'Beats On Acid' (2014 Vol.3) – I now have a third coming out in the next issue, which this time is an in-depth review of Barry Miles' new biography William S. Burroughs – A Life. And it won't end there, for I also have another review to write of John Long's Drugs and the "Beats". I might even get around to commencing the extended study of his fictional oeuvre that I've had in mind for many years.
Ever since I first read and re-read Naked Lunch at around the age of nineteen, I've been endlessly fascinated by Burroughs, which is why I keep writing about him – there always seems something additional to say, other facets of the life and work to explore. The new Barry Miles biography has thrown up yet more aspects and weird and amusing anecdotes to complement those existing, so I couldn't resist putting together yet another Burroughs piece that presents the most prominent and intriguing in the form of a list of ten, some familiar some not so.
Having been involved in spirit possession, exorcism, mirror-gazing and some weird cut-up magic involving cameras and tape recorders, Burroughs was as big on the occult as he was on drugs. And his eclectic taste in drugs took him from the visionary secrets of yagé in South America, to Eukodol in Tangier – in his opinion the best and most habit-forming junk ever. He was, of course, a legendary 'gun nut', and despite killing his wife in an insane drunken game of 'William Tell', his fetishistic regard for weapons never abated. On a more positive note, he was a friend of Paul McCartney in the 1960s, and his namesake grandfather invented the first adding machine, spawning a billion-dollar empire. What wasn't William Burroughs into? Answers to that question, when posed on a message board were: 'women' and 'gun safety'. Very true!
Read my piece 'Ten Amazing Facts About William Burroughs' on Medium.
OCD & Schrödinger's Cat
This is the first of several pieces I've lined up for the Medium site, which will have a wider remit than the film-and-lit focus of this blog, covering issues such as psychology and psychotherapy, self-help and advice, social media and promotion, and whatever else may come to mind.
I got the idea for this piece whilst browsing articles on quantum mechanics and thinking about the paradoxical nature of much in everyday life…
I have a friend whom I shall call Brian who suffers from obsessive-checking syndrome. He will stare at a water tap or an electrical switch for minutes on end and then break away, only to return and repeat the exercise. He will slam his front door and then press it once, twice, three, four times and then break away, only to return and repeat the exercise. He will do circuits of his parked car, pulling on the door handles whilst angling his head to look and make sure the interior lights are off, and then break away… Yeah, yeah, you get the idea.
To someone witnessing this behaviour – and Brian's neighbours have sometimes wryly commented on the floorshow – it appears ludicrous, comical and potty. Anyone might check something once, twice or even three times just to make sure, but after that it's axiomatic that the situation is in an okay state. When I watch Brian I have to suppress a chuckle, and I remain perpetually amused and a little awestruck as I shake my head in pity, even though I've seen the show hundreds of times before. The trouble is, I suffer from obsessive-checking syndrome myself – though not nearly so badly as Brian. No, no, not as bad as that, no way! And anyhow, it's different when it's you doing it.
Why do you keep on checking when you can see, obviously, that the tap or switch is off or the door is locked?
Yes, you know the tap is off. You don't doubt that the tap is off. What you doubt is that you've properly perceived that the tap is off. And in consequence, if there is a possibility that your perception may be faulty, then there is also a possibility that the tap may not be off after all. That is why you constantly check – not to check that the tap is off, but to convince yourself that your senses are working correctly. And as you're using your senses to monitor your senses, an element of double bind and infinite regression is inevitable. You just have to continue until you can make that leap of faith and be convinced and truncate the checking. Once you do reach that point you know you can remember the fact later for support, if and when doubts start to recur when you're away from base. For some it's harder than for others.
But why go through all that palaver? Why don't you just accept the tap is off and leave it at that?
Well, if that were possible there wouldn't be a problem – there wouldn't be such a thing as OCD and we wouldn't be having this conversation. The same is true for depression – if you could just 'snap out of it' or 'pull yourself together', every depressive would do that and depression would become a forgotten illness in about two seconds flat. But of course it doesn't work like that… Read more on Medium
To Soar Angelic Even Higher – Psypress UK Latest Issue & Crowdfunder
The 2014 Volume 3 issue of the acclaimed Psychedelic Press journal is out now, and it contains my extended article 'Beats on Acid', about what happened when the original hipsters encountered the new 1960s era of tripping. Allen Ginsberg took mushrooms, declared himself 'the Messiah', and plotted with Timothy Leary to turn on the world. Meanwhile Neal Cassady passed the Acid Test with Ken Kesey and drove the legendary bus 'Furthur' off into the sunset and immortality. But for Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, the transition wasn't that simple…
Interest in and information about ayahuasca has expanded exponentially in recent years, and the Psypress journal is the place to find out the latest. Author and workshop coordinator Ross Heaven asks the question 'What is Ayahuasca Tourism?' and whilst painting a very eye-opening picture of the current Amazonian ayahuasca scene, he concludes there is no definitive answer, with perhaps more pluses than minuses to the so-called 'Western invasion'. Nathan D. Horowitz gets down to business with a florid and lyrical Ecuadorian ayahuasca trip account, which sustains vivid narrative intensity. And on a related note, Andrew R. Gallimore gets inside the DMT-influenced brain and shows how altered neurology engenders a more fluid model of reality.
In the more academic realms, James W. Jesso explores the parallels between Sufism and psilocybin as a spiritual tool, and John Glynn looks at the literature of the chemistry of psychotomimetic drugs, relating it to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and also psychedelic therapy. In other articles, Roger Green gives a detailed analysis of Aldous Huxley's entheogenically utopian novel Island, and Mike Jay considers the lotos-eaters of myth and antiquity. And finally editor Robert Dickins meditates on the ego and ego-loss in psychedelic experience, touching on Freudian theory and the works of Huxley again, but mainly on Alan Watts and his seminal piece of trip-lit The Joyous Cosmology. To obtain a copy of the journal, click here.
The range, depth and variation of the subjects explored, plus the obvious expertise of the authors makes for a lively and didactic read; and again the journal shows that the hundred-page digest format – a volume to hold in your hands – cannot be beaten in many ways, and ideally compliments the keyboard-and-screen experience of the internet. The journal has been going for two years now, and Rob plans to make it bi-monthly and also obtain new computer equipment, redesign the Psypress website and publish more books to expand the existing collection.
To this end Rob has launched a crowdfunder appeal with the aim of raising £5,250. As I write, £725 or 13% of the target has been reached and I urge you to contribute and spread the word around and get Psypress up to the next level. Rob has worked tirelessly over the past five years to build this portal of psychedelic information, and his achievement to date is most impressive. He says:
The Psychedelic Press aims at two things: 1) To be a public forum for psychedelic and curious culture, and 2) to raise awareness about the therapeutic, medical, and cultural significance of psychoactive plants and chemicals, through the publication of a range of media.
There are various gifts on offer in exchange for donations, such as copies of the journal, subscriptions, copies of Andy Roberts' excellent book Albion Dreaming: A Popular History of LSD in Britain, Psypress T-shirts and original artwork, depending on the level of donation. I have donated and I eagerly await the arrival of my T-shirt! More information here.


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- "These leaves have been altered through generations of horticulture to produce the perfect silkworm food."
This item is needed for the quest Where Silk Comes From, given by Silkmaster Tsai at the Silken Fields in the Valley of the Four Winds.
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