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Vampires? Oh My! - Interview With Robert M. Place
by Bonnie Cehovet
His personal landscape includes Buddha, Saints, Angels ... and now Vampires! Who might this very eclectic person be? None other than internationally known Tarot author, artist, and lecturer Robert M. Place! His body of work includes The Alchemical Tarot, Tarot of the Saints, The Angels Tarot, The Buddha Tarot and the highly regarded book The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination.
On April 27, in conjunction with the Rhinebeckian Institute in Rhinebeck, NY, Place will be presenting a a two-hour lecture on vampires and the Tarot. The following day, April 28, Place will be presenting a one-day workshop on Alchemy and the Tarot.
I have always held a sense of wonder about the work that Robert Place does. Many years ago I did a project where I contacted Tarot artists and asked them to work with me on a survey. I was amazed - to a person, each artist freely shared their thoughts with me. Robert Place was a part of that amazing group. Every contact that I have had with him has been the same - he is respectful of himself, his work, and those that he works with.
I am very pleased that he agreed to talk about his upcoming presentations, and turn the podium over to him!
BC: Bob, first of all I want to thank you for taking the time to do this interview. How on earth did Vampires come into the radar screen of the Tarot world?
RP: Thanks Bonnie.
I actually developed the idea for the "Vampire Tarot" right after I finished "The Alchemical Tarot", in 1995. My partner on the book for "The Alchemical Tarot", Rosemary Ellen Guiley, had written a book on vampires and people who believed that they are turning into vampires, called "Vampires Among Us". At that time, she was working on another book, an encyclopedia about vampires, and she asked me to do an illustration for it. That illustration eventually became the Lovers card for my deck.
I had always been a fan of vampire films since I was a kid but when I saw the television movie version of Dracula that aired in 1974, produced by Dan Curtis, and staring Jack Palance as the Count, I became fascinated with the story in a new way. This film added more of the historic background about Dracula that had been dug up at that time by historians McNally and Florescu, who wrote "In Search of Dracula". And, instead of Dracula being presented as just a monster, the film introduced the theme of reincarnation and had Dracula looking for the reincarnation of his lost love. After that, I read Stoker's "Dracula" for the first time. I also read "In Search of Dracula" and I went to New York to the revival of the play with Frank Langella in 1978. Once I had a VCR, I began to collect vampire movies.
After, I read Rosemary's books and her source material that she lent me, I began to appreciate the fascination people, particularly women had with the vampire. I started to see the mythological connections to ancient moon gods and thanks to some of my wife's dreams I began to see the vampire as an Animus figure. This is when I saw that the vampire could be a theme that would harmonize with the Tarot.
Many people try to pigeonhole me as a creator of religious Tarots but that is only one aspect of my work. I see my work as an exploration of the archetypal structure and symbolism in the Tarot. And, I see it as a door into the Western Mystical traditions. I am not interested in religion but in spirituality and mysticism. When I did the "Tarot of the Saints", many people assumed that I was Catholic and when I did the "Buddha Tarot" many people assumed that I was a Buddhist. Now with the "Vampire Tarot" many of those people will wonder what I am. But all of these themes are related to me in that they all speak of the mystical quest.
BC: Can you talk a little bit about the mythological background of the Vampire, and how the Vampire relates to the Tarot trumps?
RP: First of all, the vampires we find in legends and folk tradition may be the initial inspiration for the vampires that first appeared in literature in the 1700s but they have little in common. The literary vampire is an esthetic creation of the romantic poets and has little to do with his country cousin. The romantic vampire is more influenced by the gods of mythology and metaphors for sex and power. In fact. many of the characteristics that Stoker gave to Dracula, such as the lack of a reflection or the ability to turn into a bat, are based on legends of the Devil instead of Vampires. It is interesting that in the Tarot's Devil card we can see that the Devil has bat wings but there are no folk connections between vampires and bats except for one minor Romanian belief that a bat flying over a grave, among other animals, can cause the deceased to become a vampire.
My deck is based on the literary vampire, particular Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's biographer, Barbara Belford, definitely believes that Stoker was familiar with the Tarot and based many of the characters in Dracula on Tarot trumps. Besides this I feel that one of the main inspirations for his story came from the Grail Legend and as I have pointed out in my books the Grail influenced the Tarot as well. The Tarot trumps contain an allegory about the search for immortality and the purification of the soul and these are the same themes we find in Dracula.
BC: What connection does the Vampire myth have to the alchemical search for what we know as the philosopher's stone?
RP: Well, having become involved with vampires right after I was working on "The Alchemical Tarot", I saw that the vampire's quest for red blood that would bring him eternal life was similar to the alchemists quest for the philosopher's stone, which was described as a red liquid that could prolong life indefinitely. I also saw that the alchemical quest which leads through a death and a rebirth is similar to the experience Mina has in Dracula. Mina becomes one with Dracula when he forces her to drink his blood but in the end his death becomes her rebirth.
BC: Get ready for this one, folks! What connection might there between "Dracula" author Bram Stoker, Tarot artist Pamela Coleman Smith, and the Golden Dawn?
RP: Pamela Coleman Smith was one of Stoker's closest friends from the time she was 10 years old, and went to live with the actress Ellen Terry, until Stokers death in 1912 . When she was 10 her mother died and she went to live with Ellen Terry, who was one of the most famous actresses in England. Ellen worked at the Lyceum Theater in London and Stoker was the manager. Pamela began working on sets and acting in bit parts. So, she came to be a good friend of Stoker's. She actually illustrated his last novel, "The Lair of the White Worm". But, it wasn't Pamela who introduced Stoker to the Golden Dawn. He had other friends who were founding members such as Florence Farr and John W. Brodie-Innes.
BC: Changing gears, and moving into the world of alchemy, in what manner is the esoteric symbolism of alchemy interchangeable with the symbols contained within the Tarot trumps?
RP: The alchemical quest for the philosophers stone is one in which the alchemists starts with a piece of ordinary matter, "the stone rejected by the builder," something valuable that is underappreciated, like the Fool or the Magician, and puts it through a series of processes that can be related to the symbolism of the series of trumps. In this quest, the material is killed and revived in a more spiritual form and the gross substances attached to it, symbolized by the Devil, are washed away and purified like the actions of the nude on the Star card. The outcome is one where the spirit that is normally trapped in matter, known as the Anima Mundi or Soul of the World, is set free. This is what is symbolized by the World card, which is remarkably similar to alchemical illustrations of the philosopher's stone.
BC: Is Tarot then actually a part of this spiritual quest?
RP: All of my work is based on that belief. I feel that the Tarot with its four minor suits that relate to the fourfold world and the mystical journey illustrated on the fifth suit contains an archetypal mystical structure. It is a mandala broken into separate parts but still evident because of the symbolic relationships between the cards. Further, the archetypal journey illustrated in the fifth suit is the hero's journey, the quest for enlightenment.
BC: How does this relate to the creation of the "Alchemical Tarot"?
RP: "The Alchemical Tarot" was something that developed out of a flash of insight that happened in seconds but took seven years to put into physical form. I was looking at a picture of an alchemical engraving of the philosopher's stone and I realized that the symbolism of the image was interchangeable with symbols on the Tarot World and it opened my mind up to a flood of intuitive insight. It gave me a great respect for the power of these images but being a realistic person I took the time to do the research to verify what I had seen and to illustrate it in detail. The result was "The Alchemical Tarot". At the time, it felt like "The Alchemical Tarot" wanted to be created and it just chose me.
BC: How does the symbolism of numbers act as a vehicle to access alchemical concepts?
RP: Many of the alchemical concepts that became a standard part of alchemy right up to the present either originated or were codified by the Pythagoreans. For example the Pythagorean philosopher Empedocles is credited with the origin of the theory of the four elements. As many people know, the Pythagoreans were also concerned with the symbolism of numbers and this is reflected in alchemy as well. One approach I uses to explain alchemical concepts is to relate them to the series of numbers. One is for the Prima Materia, two is for the dualities, red and white, masculine and feminine, sun and moon, fixed and volatile, etc.
BC: Bob, what final words do you have for our readers?
RP: I feel that the history and the spiritual symbolism of the Tarot are not just curiosities that are extra or unnecessary when doing a reading. Having a real understanding of the history and symbolism in the Tarot helps one to connect with the images on a deeper level beyond projection or wish fulfilment. It allows one to actually converse with one's inner guide, who we may call the Higher Self. The Higher Self is archetypal and speaks through symbols. The Higher Self has been communicating with our ancestors for thousands of years and we can benefit from their insights.
I drool when I see work like this being talked about! Hopefully at some point in time Bob will place this in written form so that we all have access to it. I will definitely be first in line to buy it!
Bio: Robert M. Place
Robert M. Place is an internationally known visionary artist and illustrator, whose award winning works, in painting, sculpture, and jewelry, have been displayed in galleries and museums in America, Europe, and Japan and graced the covers and pages of numerous books and publications. He is the designer, illustrator, and co-author, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley, of: "The Alchemical Tarot" and "The Angels Tarot", which are both published by HarperCollins and have received international acclaim particularly for their skillful and illuminating graphics. He is the designer, illustrator, and author of "The Tarot of the Saints" and "The Buddha Tarot". And, he is the author of "The Tarot: History, Symbolism, and Divination", which Booklist has said, "may be the best book ever written on that deck of cards decorated with mysterious images called the tarot." He is currently working on the "Vampire Tarot", which will be published by St. Martins Press in 2007.
Robert is recognized as an expert on Western Mysticism, the history of the Tarot, and as a gifted teacher of divination. He has taught and lectured at the New York Open Center, Omega Institute, The New York Tarot School, and the World Tarot Congress. He and his work have appeared on Discovery, The Learning Channel, and A&E. He has been a guest on numerous radio shows including The Woodstock Roundtable on WDST-FM, People are Talking on WKZE-FM , and Mystic Musings on KKUP FM.
For more information, visit http://thealchemicalegg.com.
© Bonnie Cehovet
Bonnie Cehovet is Certified Tarot Grand Master, a professional Tarot reader with over ten years experience, a Reiki Master/Teacher and a writer. Bonnie has served in various capacities with the American Tarot Association, is co-founder of the World Tarot Network, and Vice President (as well as Director of Certification) for the American Board For Tarot Certification. She has had articles appear in the 2004 and 2005 Llewellyn Tarot Reader.
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SWOCA is a member-owned consortium of school districts and one of the largest Information Technology Centers (ITC) in Ohio. We serve 43 public and community school districts located in seven counties in Southwest Ohio that educate over 140,000 students each day. We also provide services to non-public schools and offer complete IT solutions for local governments.
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Re: Ragdoll Princes & Junkyard Queens
Does anyone know the origins of this song? My 6 year old son loves this song (listens to it on repeat endlessly) and I would love to be able to tell him about the back story.
Re: Re: Ragdoll Princes & Junkyard Queens
Apparently, it's about both Woody Guthrie and her friend David. (My knowledge of any back story is very superficial...)


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Today marks a key milestone in the evolution of MAX Remote Management as the leading IT Service Management (ITSM) platform for managed service providers and IT professionals. If you're a MAX customer, you've been part of an exciting journey, and it's only the beginning!
MAX Remote Management is currently the largest ITSM platform with more than 15,000 customers worldwide. It's used by tens of thousands of engineers to manage hundreds of thousands of networks and millions of endpoints. And it processes billions of emails and terabytes of data each month. What a foundation for data-driven automation! You've already heard about LOGICcards, which is how we're using this data to enable you to deliver IT services in a smarter and more efficient way.
But there's much more ahead. For over a year now, we've been making a major investment to re-architect our software infrastructure to ultimately deliver real-time device communication at scale. This will make for an infinitely more responsive platform that scales to more than a 100 million devices, and that allows you to deliver much more proactive service for your clients.
This real-time architecture is a platform for the future, and today, we're taking the first major step. We have just released a new Windows agent (v10) that allows you to start taking advantage of real-time capabilities. This first release is all about faster actions in the dashboard. Here's what that means:
• Actions related to Checks and Tasks take place in real-time.
• Deploying user-defined scripts takes just a few minutes instead of waiting two check cycles to see results.
• Checks added or edited will be applied and run immediately, uploading real-time results to the dashboard.
• Running a Task manually in the dashboard happens in real-time.
• 24x7 Check frequency can now be set to 5, 15, 30, 60 and 120 minutes for Servers and Workstations.
• New graphical charts within the "More Information" dialogue.
Keep in mind that's only the first release – we'll continue improving our real-time architecture over the coming months.
How will a real-time architecture help you over time?
• Drive more service revenue – The reality is that 15-minute intervals are no longer acceptable. Your customers expect more. Greater responsiveness is your key to more service revenue.
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At home, I love to relax in my garden – but much as I might like the idea of being a keen gardener, maintaining and improving my garden, for years being a business owner meant I forever seemed "too busy" to actually do any gardening.
Thus my garden grew overgrown and wild, and every day I'd come home and instead of relaxing in my garden – I'd look at the increasingly overgrown garden and instead get stressed out as to how it was getting more and more out of control.
I know the garden needs to be worked on and worked on regularly, and I should be the one doing that work.
Then, a revelation occurred. A friend suggested a local gardener to me who worked for a very reasonable rate. The gardener came round once per week and within a few weeks, had tamed the garden into something that didn't resemble the Brazilian Rain Forest. By that summer I had a lovely garden I could relax in again. Something else happened. Instead of beating myself up over the fact that I "should" have been doing the gardening myself, I came to realize that I only had so many hours in the day and right now, my focus was not on being a gardener.
With that lesson in mind, it's interesting how many times I see Small Business IT owners who try to do everything in their business themselves. They man the Helpdesk, they do their own marketing, they handle the billing, they look after the administration, they compile the financial reports, and much, much more besides. Much more than they can fit into a standard working day, and typically, much more than they can fit into an extended working day and weekend too.
Even more interestingly, when I speak to SMB IT owners and ask them why they do all these jobs, the answer is very rarely "because I enjoy it". It's typically because when they started out the job needed doing and they were the only one available to do it.
It never occurs to them to ask for help.
Moving on, when I ask these same SMB IT business owners what their plans are for the business, the answer they invariably give is "growth". They want to win more clients, take on new staff and increase their profits.
When I ask them what is getting in the way of achieving these growth goals, the answer is nearly always the same – "lack of time".
You can see where this heading can't you?
The goal is to grow the business, and the only person who can achieve that is the business owner.
The business owner can't spend the time growing the business because he is spending too much time doing a load of jobs he feels he should be doing.
As a SMB IT business owner, if I said to you that you needed to make a choice between concentrating on the tasks that really enable you to grow your business, or continuing to do the tasks that you felt you "should" be doing but in reality could easily be delegated or outsourced – which would you choose?
If you answered anything other than the growth tasks, chances are you're not actually committed to growth at all, because deep down you know that continuing to do the same jobs you've always done is something you're comfortable with.
As the holiday season approaches us, take the time out to sit back and reflect upon the various roles you undertake within your business. How much administration do you do? Do you spend all your time answering the telephone? Are you continuously researching technical issues?
Then think about how you might outsource just one of those tasks to somebody else in the New Year.
Then when you return to the office in the January, make the very first job you do organizing for somebody else to take over that role. Hire a part-time book-keeper, or an administrative assistant. Start working with a Virtual Personal Assistant, or begin working with a Call Answering Service.
If you think you can't afford to outsource these jobs, consider how much you charge yourself out per hour., $50, $100, $150? Whatever it is, the people you outsource this work to will charge a lot less, and they'll probably do the job a lot quicker too. You can spend the time you've saved on these jobs to instead do chargeable work, and make a tidy profit to boot.
If you think that somebody else can't do that job as well as you, then I've a horrible truth for you to digest. Not only can they do the job as well as you, they'll actually do it *better* than you.
It doesn't matter what stage of your business growth you're at – sooner or later you need to understand that you can't do everything yourself. The sooner you accept that fact and start concentrating on the really important tasks, the faster you're likely to be successful.
Richard Tubb is an IT Business Consultant who works with ambitious IT companies who want to grow their businesses in a scalable and sustainable way.
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PALM SPRINGS – Off Lease Only will face a vehicle storage crisis if the Village of Palm Springs refuses to allow the reputable dealer to renew its use of a vacant lot for parking overflow cars.
As a result, Off Lease Only owner Mark Fischer is requesting employees and customers rally at Palm Springs Village Hall at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 10th, in a show of support. The overflow lot is located at 3475 Second Ave. North.
"We need to show the impact and that we can't afford to build a new dealership while cutting our business in half," said Fischer, whose Lake Worth dealership is located nearby at 3531 Lake Worth Road.
Off Lease Only is appealing its case to the Village's Land Development Board. The Board's director last September denied Off Lease Only's request to continue using the overflow lot. Off Lease Only has used the lot since 2010. In 2012, Village officials granted Off Lease Only a 2-year temporary land use permit. That land use permit expired in November 2014.
Fischer said he has tried to be a good neighbor and isn't asking for anything new.
"I worked hard to clean up this blighted property, which was previously used by homeless people, drug addicts and prostitutes," Fischer said. "It helped us expand our business and that meant hiring more people onto our team. We have had no violations from the city either. Our only need is to continue using this lot until our new facility is completed."
Off Lease Only needs the continued use of the vacant lot because plans for its huge new dealership at 1200 S. Congress Ave. are progressing more slowly than expected.
The used car dealership sells about 1,000 cars a month in Lake Worth, employs more than 400 people and generates more than $500 million in annual sales. With stores also in Miami and Orlando, Off Lease Only pumps an estimated $30 million in tax revenue into the local economy.
Without the overflow lot, Fischer can't sell as many cars because he can't store as many cars. The trickle-down effect could affect employees, which is something Fischer doesn't want to happen.
Off Lease Only attorney Christina Bilenki believes a Florida law, passed last year, gives Off Lease Only the right to continue its usage.
The law, known as the "Legislative Extension," allows for an automatic extension in cases of development or permitting. The Palm Springs official who denied the extension said the "Legislative Extension" did not apply because Off Lease Only's temporary use permit did not include development of the land.
Off Lease Only claims that it made numerous property improvements that could be classified as development.
In order to qualify for the temporary use permit in 2012, Off Lease Only was issued permits for clearing land, spreading shell rock, installing a chain link fence, removing sheds and installing an irrigation system. Off Lease Only also submitted a site plan for landscaping and subsequently planted numerous trees, Bilenki noted.
The Village's municipal code defines "development order" as any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate. The "Legislative Extension" applies to any government-issued development order or building permit that expires between Jan. 1, 2014 and Jan.1, 2016. As such, the Legislative Extension should apply, Bilenki stated.
"Off Lease Only made numerous improvements to the lot," she said.
Please join the Off Lease Only team to show your support at the following address:
|Land Development Board Meeting
|Palm Springs Village Hall, 226 Cypress Lane
|6:30 p.m., February 10th
Stop in to one of Off Lease Only four locations and drive home your next beautiful used car today!


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Rounders blueprint launched
The GAA have launched a new strategic plan for the game of rounders, which aims to treble the number of people playing the game by 2016.
Laois is currently one of the most active county's in Ireland for rounders, with three clubs - The Heath, Killenard and Clonaslee-St Manman's - currently playing the game. Only Dublin with four clubs, can boast more.
Rounders is one of the four official GAA sports, but it's popularity remains low by comparison. The strategic plan has set out a blueprint to grow the sport, and it will receive the full backing of the GAA.
Any new club formed will receive support from the GAA, as well as equipment. There are currenty 21 clubs, with roughly 600 players registered, and it is hoped to have 2000 players registered by 2016. Schools will also be targeted, and it is hoped the game will be played in up to 250 schools in three years time.
The plan was launched last week by GAA President Liam O'Neill, who said. "This is a fantastic opportunity to provide a boost to the great game of Rounders and I congratulate everyone who has been involved in bringing the project to this stage.
"However today is the real start as opposed to the end of this initiative. I have said consistently since the start of my tenure that the future for our games lies in broadening their appeal to all members of the family and there is no better code to facilitate this than Rounders. Everyone can play this game.
"We are working hard to bring all of our codes closer together and this plan will help us deliver that goal."
Laois has a long history of rounders, while it also enjoys some success currently. The Heath are the reigning senior ladies All-Ireland champions, as are the club's mixed team, while the senior mens team were beaten in the All-Ireland final this year also.
The game is primarily played in the midlands and Leinster, with only two clubs in Ulster, two in Connaught, and one in Munster. It is hoped that the new plan can help the game to grow throughout the country.


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Established in 1972 by Gerda Lerner, the Sarah Lawrence College Master of Arts Program in Women's History was the country's first graduate degree program in women's history. The program immerses students in a combination of historical studies, feminist theory, and gender studies, drawing upon and actively supporting an ongoing legacy of activism regarding social and political concerns related to women and gender.
The close relationship that Women's History students develop with their faculty is one of the unique aspects of our program. In addition to required coursework, students are able to expand their intellectual interests by developing individualized research projects while working in close consultation with our illustrious Women's History faculty members.
Because our graduate students develop the ability to analyze material in new ways and develop arguments that are relevant to a number of fields, our MA degree prepares students for careers in all walks of life. Our alums have gone on to become: lawyers, writers, high school teachers, archivists, public historians, museum professionals, theater professionals, entrepreneurs, activists, psychiatrists, and founders of and staffers at NGOs. They are also respected women's historians.
Program Highlights
- The Master of Arts in Women's History program introduces students to the rapidly expanding literature in women's history, feminist theory, and gender studies; trains them in historical research and interpretation; and encourages them to combine scholarship with activism both within and beyond the College.
- Each year, the program sponsors a Women's History Month Conference
- Advanced undergraduates at Sarah Lawrence may apply to this program and, if admitted, may begin working toward the MA during their senior year.
- Through a partnership with Pace University Law School, Sarah Lawrence offers a joint degree in women's history and law.
Program Requirements
A total of 48 course credits (24 credits per year) are required for an MA in Women's History. The majority of credits are earned in seminars in which students undertake conference work (independent research) in close consultation with professors.
- Research Seminar (10 credits)
- Visions/Revisions: Issues in the History of Women and Gender (10 credits)
- History Colloquium (4 credits)
- Research Methods Workshop (noncredit)
- Thesis Seminar (10 credits)
- Independent study with thesis adviser (2 credits)
- Master's Thesis (12 credits)
Typical Course of Study
Two-Year Program
While most students will follow the program outlined below, other arrangements may be available depending on a student's previous academic experience and individual needs. At the discretion of program faculty, students may be awarded transfer credits for graduate courses completed elsewhere.
Research seminars vary from year to year. Visions/Revisions, History Colloquium, and the Thesis Seminar are offered annually.
Year 1
- Visions/Revisions: Issues in Women's History (10 credits)
- Research seminar (10 credits)
- History Colloquium (4 credits)
- Research Methods Workshop (noncredit)
Year 2
- Thesis Seminar (10 credits)
- Independent study with thesis adviser (2 credits)
- Master's Thesis (12 credits)
Joint Degree in Women's History and Law
In cooperation with Pace University, Sarah Lawrence College offers a joint degree in Women's History and Law.
By earning two degrees, students gain a broader context for thinking and writing about women's issues and the educational foundation to advocate for women in more diverse ways and from a position of greater authority.
Master's Thesis
MA students complete a master's thesis during the second year of the program. The thesis must: be well written; be based on primary research along with relevant secondary literature; present an original argument grounded in historical evidence; and demonstrate the author's analytical skill and methodological rigor.
Sample Part-Time Tracks
Three-Year Track
Year 1
- Visions/Revisions
- Research Methods
Year 2
- Research Seminar
- History Colloquium
Year 3
- Thesis Seminar
Four-Year Track
Year 1
- Visions/Revisions
Year 2
- Research Seminar
- Research Methods
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09 May, 2011, 12:30 BST
MARLBOROUGH, Massachusetts, May 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- -- Data Presented at Heart Rhythm 2011 Show Durable Pulmonary Vein Isolation of 86% --
CardioFocus, Inc., developer of the HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System for the transcatheter treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (AF), announced its technology enables a Pulmonary Vein (PV) acute isolation rate of nearly 99%, with approximately 86% of PVs remaining persistently isolated after three months. Additional research also suggests that 65% of patients achieve durable freedom from AF after a single procedure.
New clinical results supporting the safety and efficacy of the HeartLight System were presented at Heart Rhythm 2011, the Heart Rhythm Society's 32nd Annual Scientific Sessions, in San Francisco, CA. The presentations included data from both a 200-patient international, multicenter clinical experience with the CardioFocus device (15 sites across four countries) and from a unique study that employed intracardiac diagnostic remapping on 56 paroxysmal AF patients, whether or not they were symptomatic, to determine the rate of persistent PV isolation.
"These recent clinical experiences support the promise of the HeartLight technology to help patients achieve lasting freedom from paroxysmal AF," commented Stephen Sagon, President and CEO of CardioFocus, Inc. "As shown by the robust data across multiple clinical centers, our proprietary technology, including endoscopic visualization, a compliant balloon catheter and the delivery of light energy, is helping to enhance the reproducibility and efficacy of atrial fibrillation ablation."
In the 200-patient study, titled "Pulmonary Vein Isolation Using the Visually-Guided Laser Balloon: The First 200-Patient Multicenter Clinical Experience" and presented on May 6th, researchers reported nearly 99% of all PVs were isolated following the HeartLight ablation procedure. Of the 107 patients that reached at least 6 months follow-up, 65% remained free from AF after a single ablation procedure. The procedure also demonstrated low complication rates including freedom from strokes, PV stenosis or atrial esophageal fistulae.
"A historical concern with catheter ablation therapy for paroxysmal AF is the inability to create durable lesions in a single procedure to adequately isolate the pulmonary veins," said investigator Prof. Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD, of Krankenhaus St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany. "This study demonstrates that a higher-than-average rate of PV isolation can be reproducibly achieved across multiple sites with a visually-guided laser balloon catheter."
The remapping study, presented on May 4th and titled "Persistent Pulmonary Vein Isolation Using the Visually-Guided Laser Balloon: Results of a Multicenter PV Remapping Study," revealed that 86% of all PVs were persistently isolated at three months. The study included 56 paroxysmal AF patients who underwent initial ablation with the HeartLight catheter at three centers. After three months nearly all patients were remapped (52), regardless of symptoms, to determine the incidence of persistent PV isolation.
"This data is significant because diagnostic remapping to check PV isolation in asymptomatic patients is rarely attempted. In this case it has enabled us to clearly confirm quality outcomes, demonstrating that the visually-guided laser balloon catheter can achieve persistent, long-lasting PV isolation in patients with paroxysmal AF," said investigator Petr Neuzil, MD, of Na Homolce Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic.
About CardioFocus, Inc.
CardioFocus, Inc. is a medical device manufacturer dedicated to advancing ablation treatment for cardiac disorders such as atrial fibrillation (AF). Its novel HeartLight(TM) Ablation System incorporates a catheter containing both a micro-endoscope and light energy fibers to give physicians the capacity to see within the heart, and for the first time, visually direct the application of laser energy to achieve durable pulmonary vein isolation.
The HeartLight Endoscopic Ablation System received CE Mark in 2009 for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, and is commercially available at key institutions throughout Europe. The device is investigational in the U.S., with a pivotal study expected to commence in 2011. CardioFocus is headquartered in Marlborough, MA. For more information on the company and its technology, please visit http://www.CardioFocus.com.
The scientific information discussed in this news release is preliminary and investigative. The CardioFocus Endoscopic Ablation System is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and no conclusions can or should be drawn regarding the safety or effectiveness of the system. Only FDA can determine whether the product candidates are safe and effective for the use(s) being investigated. Healthcare professionals should refer to/rely upon FDA-approved labeling for the products, and not the information discussed in this news release.
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Prior The Rapper and the Sportscaster: The Rapper and the Sportscaster Down In the Dumps Karin found herself naked laying on the ground. The men got out of the Limo and stood around her laughing and joking. One after another they aimed a steady stream of piss on her.
It was cold and Karin was shivering. Naked she was unable to move. The Limo drove off slowly down the alley. It was cold and she was wet covered in piss, unable to move. Lying there what seemed forever she heard men walking down the alley. Please help me. Help me. They stopped to look. Oh thank you, Thank you. Wait. What are you doing to me.
Karin passed out as she was picked up and tossed into a shopping cart. She was in and out of consciousness as the cart banged down the alley. Man you don't know what kinda trash you gonna find nowadays. Boys gonna like this. Yea goona keep entertained tonite, that for sure. Ain't had no white pussy for some time. Well this looks like a good piece to me. Passed out but coming to Karin felt the heat of the fire.
Looking around she could see crates and boxes and men sitting around the fire. She felt the cock inside her. She felt pain all over. Looking down she saw her hands were tied to crate with old rusted wire. She looked to see an old men, shaggy, unkempt looking at her, smiling with few teeth.
The man had a glowing metal bar in the fire. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh. She felt the hot metal bar pressing against her tit. Smoke and the smell of burning flesh.
Don't fuckin kill her till I get my turn. Looky, see she come to again. Wait till we all done, I'll be shoving it up her ass. Then You'll be hearing some screaming. She could see the smiling faces around her. Men in old clothes and rags. She felt the cock inside her as she was shoved up against the crate. The bar was back in the fire. The wire bit into her wrists. The men sitting around were laughing, drinking, watching waiting their turn.
She could feel the cock inside her pounding away. The men sitting around were laughing, drinking, watching waiting their turn. ========================================================= The alley was in an old forgotten part of the city. Brick buildings once the home of the industrial center were now just hulks, used for storage or abandoned.
The undercurrent of the city subsisted here. THIS WAS AN URBAN JUNGLE Karin found herself captive in this place she would never have visited. She should be getting ready for the big game where she would be doing the sideline commentary. Instead she found herself dumped by a Black raptster whom she had disrespected, into the local cesspool. She was naked, tied to an old pallet and being fucked by a bum. Through the smoke she cold see homeless all around her.
The dirty bum with old clothes kept up a steady fuck. It was a dirty back alley in a dirty part of town. Man we got ourselves a real piece here.
Yea. one person's trash is anothers treasure. Man you got that right. Hey, you gonna take all night, we got lots of guys waiting here.
The drunken homeless bastards were waiting their turn. Smoked filled the air. Karin felt the rain of piss on her face as one of the drunks pissed on her face. She tried to turn her head but he just aimed at her face. Everyone was laughing joking.
There was a party atmosphere. Fueled by booze and drugs the men were in a party mood. Suddenly the group scattered, moving away from Karin.
Even the bum screwing her jumped out of the way. The general riff-raff moved away to the darker corners of the alley. The cause of their behavior was "The Boys." They were about a dozen of worst inhabitants of this jungle.
They owned this part of town Looking down at Karin they cracked a rare smile. So what do we have here. You bums been holding out on us. Cut her loose, let's take a look.
That's no way to treat a Lady.
Karin was cut loose, and struggled to her feet. Thank You. Thank You. She was sobbing. Her ordeal was over. Little did she know that these were the dirty dozen of the back alley.
They included killers, sex offenders, sadists. They ruled the back alley with vengence and no one would cross them. When they heard Karin thank them they laughed. Karin was too happy to understand her situation. I need something to wear and help me get out of here. Ok, sure, get the Lady some clothes.
AHHHH, What are you doingNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Karin felt a rope around her neck. A thick heavy rope pulled tight. StoPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. Two men held her arms out as they were tied to a heavy 4 x 4. Arms were fastened at the wrists, elbows and shoulders with the beam on her neck. Karin looked around terrified. Naked, tied to the beam and Rped around the neck, she was in the terrible alley. She sunk to her knees. What are you doing? Let me go. Please don't do this. I can't take anymore. Naked, confused, terrified the captive could hardly realize what lie ahead.
The men around her were rough looking, some were big, others wirey. Looking at them leering she began to fathom her predicament. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. The rope pulled her forward, she stumble to her feet, unsteady form the weight of the beam and her injuries.
Where are you taking me. Stop. You can't do this. STOPPPP. Keep Walking Bitchor we will drag our ASS. They kept walking pulling her along by her neck through the dark alleys.
She stumbled with no shoes and the weight of the beam. The rope kept pulling on her neck. He feet were raw from walking on the rough pavement. She tried to stop. One of the men grabbed her head and yelled into her face. KEEP MOVING OR WE WILL WHIP YOUR ASS AND DRAG YOU The lowlife scum watched her go by.
They laughed. I'd hate to e be her. They shook their heads knowing what the Boys could do. The naked bitch was led by the neck through the alleys until they reached an old abandoned warehouse. Abandoned but a home for The Boys. The Boys were not bums but lived in this backwater as homeless since they could not find a legal place to live that was not too near an exempted place. Others had moved here after they were run out of their places when neighbors found out about their records.
The warehouse was old and dirty. There were heavy beams and old pieces of equipment strewn around as well as junk everywhere. The Boys had cots and beds around a makeshift fireplace they had made against a wall. Being night there was little light except that from the fire. It was this hell that Karin had been brought to. An Urban Jungle. She knelt on the cold dirty floor with the weight of the beam on her neck.
Shivering, trembling, helpless she knelt waiting her fate. To be Continued.


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Health and safety officials have criticised Wimbledon for blaming them for the decision to close Murray Mount on Monday.
The giant screen in front of the slope was turned off during a spell of rain on Monday due to fears that fans could slip and hurt themselves. But Judith Hackitt, the chair of the Health and Safety Executive, said the much-criticised decision was wrongly presented to the public as one forced by health and safety laws.
Mrs Hackitt wrote to Wimbledon and the Lawn Tennis Association: "I was particularly disappointed to discover that [you] chose to explain the decision to ban spectators from Murray Mount as being 'on health and safety grounds'.
"There is nothing in health and safety legislation which prohibits the continued broadcasting of Centre Court action to the crowds on the hill during the rain. Health and safety is concerned with the proportionate management of real risks caused by work, not attempting to eliminate every minor risk from every moment of people's lives.
"People have been walking up and down wet, grassy slopes for years without catastrophic consequences. If the LTA was concerned about people slipping and suing for their injuries, the message should have made clear the decision was 'on insurance grounds'."
The letter concluded: "Health and safety excuses are becoming as much a feature of the British sporting calendar as the rain. You will understand that, while we can do nothing about the weather, we will not let the excuses pass unchallenged."
On Monday, a Wimbledon spokesman insisted the policy would remain, saying: "Even if the rain stops, we won't turn the big screen back on – that's it, I'm afraid. It's regrettable but wise in view of the circumstances." On Wednesday, though, the screen stayed on despite further showers.
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Scottsdale Auto Extravaganza 2015:
Barrett-Jackson Auction
1,599 lots
$131.9 million
RM Auctions
114 lots
$ 63.7 million
Gooding & Company Auction
114 lots
$ 51.5 million
Bonhams Auction
73 lots
$24.8 million
Russo & Steele Auction
414 lots
$17.2 million
Silver Auctions
218 lots
$3.5 million
Well, the pundits are calling it a "plateau" in the values of classic, luxury and exotic cars. They are saying this in general terms. But, let's be specific here – 2,532 cars sold at an average price of $115,729. Both numbers up -- 10% and 8% respectively. Gross sales were up 18% at $292 million for the week for all five auctions. Take out the impact of Ron Pratte's Collection "exit stage left" (or rather, right at Barrett-Jackson), the numbers are still up 4% and almost $10 million. One heck of a plateau with one heck of a lot of buyers. Remember, if the closing bids were $292 million, there was well over $500 million in play, if you include the under bidder.
It is true that prices did vary, depending on model, marquee, and money. Ferrari's were dominant with the top price being $9.6 million. As of Friday, horses (Ferrari's) and Bulls (Lamborghini's) controlled the top 9 spots and number 10 respectively. Only after Pratte and some very, very special "Marques" did the top 10 include an American special (the GM Futureliner) a concept (Pontiac Bonneville Motorama Concept Car and a Cobra (Super Snake). Post war exotic sports and muscle cars were dominant. Other categories languished with a few significant exceptions. All in all, lots of car, lots of money.
The duPont REGISTRYTM was present in several venues. Our "partnership display" at Barrett-Jackson was jammed all week, as was the entire site. It was quite extraordinary, really, and a tribute to superior organization and execution. Hats off to the entire Barrett-Jackson team.
On Friday night, we all took a break at the duPont REGISTRY/LIVE "Auction After-Party". Almost 800 auto-enthusiasts filled the pool-deck at the fabulous W Hotel in downtown Scottsdale. The "W" is a popular spot and a typical cool Scottsdale evening was warmed by spirits and music. We were particularly delighted to entertain two special guests, in addition to our very best advertising partners and readers. Actress, Sharon Stone stopped by with family and friends. She had been at Barrett-Jackson earlier helping to auction off a special car. And, NASCAR driver, Jeff Gordon, a regular auction week attendee, was there as well. Two very different celebrities; both gracious and charming, and duPont REGISTRYTM enthusiasts.
As mentioned earlier, our display was full of enthusiasts. It was all due to Starwood Motors, RTW Motoring, Argo, Ronald McDonald House, Z Clip, Goldin Auctions, and Sky Hawk Binoculars -- delightful folks, every one of them, and excellent representatives of our brand of media.
One final note: Large and extraordinary auctions always have a car or two (or more) that appeal to even the most ideo-centric and/or eccentric interests. My first ride was a 1964 Pontiac GTO Convertible, 4-barrel, V-8, Hurst shifter, wooden steering wheel – a true muscle car. At auction was a 1964 Pontiac GTO convertible tripower V-8, Hurst, wooden wheel. Fully restored. Only difference was color. Tempted, I bid a few times. Hammer price: $300,000 US – WOW! Nostalgia has its price!
Boca Raton Concours d'Elegance (www.bocaratonconcours.com) February 22; Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance (www.ameliaislandconcours.org) March 15; and Barrett-Jackson Palm Beach (www.barrett-jackson.com) April 17-19 are just around the corner. I hope to see you there!
Happy Motoring,
Thomas L. duPont
P.S. Further proof that it was quite a plateau, was the startling lack of European, Asian, Russian and Middle-Eastern buyers. 2,532 cars is a lot to absorb without the usual impact of free-flowing oil profits and an undervalued dollar. There is serious benefit to the low cost of fuel and the growing U.S. economy. God Bless the U.S.A.
P.S.S. Driving privileges included the use of a 2015 Infinity QX70. It's an unbelievable ride for the cross-over/SUV class; right-size, well engineered. All in all, consider the QX70 a highly recommended set of wheels with all the buttons, bells, lights that all the high-tech drivers need. Thanks to PageOne Automotive for taking care of my needs with this top of the line vehicle.
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'The Reading Strategies Book': An Interview With Jennifer Serravallo
It's that time of year again, and I will be alternating between publishing thematic collections of past posts and sharing interviews with authors of recent books I consider important and useful to us educators. New questions will begin in September.
This post in the second in my authors series, and I'm lucky to have been able to interview Jennifer Serravallo, author of The Reading Strategies Book.
Jennifer Serravallo (@jserravallo) is the author of over ten books on reading assessment and instruction including the new best-selling The Reading Strategies Book as well as the two-time award winning Independent Reading Assessment series. She was a a NYC elementary teacher and later a senior staff developer at Columbia University's Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Vassar College and Teachers College. Learn more or follow her blog.
LF: First things first -- what is a "reading strategy" and why is it important? How is a "reading strategy" related to the kind of close reading encouraged by the Common Core State Standards?
Jennifer Serravallo:
You're wise to ask, because the term "strategies" is used differently. To me, strategies are "deliberate, effortful, intentional and purposeful actions a reader takes to accomplish a specific task or skill" (Serravallo 2010, 11-12). A reading strategy is step-by-step, a procedure or recipe. Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible.
There are many strategies for any skill imaginable--from teaching readers to infer about character traits (yes, I consider inference a "skill"), to decoding challenging texts, to reading with fluency, to having more fruitful conversations with their peers. There are strategies one could teach a student for closely reading a text. For example: "Notice objects that tend to repeat across a text, then think about what abstract idea or concept the concrete object may represent." "Close reading" is not a strategy in and of itself, so for teachers who are trying to teach students to closely read, strategies are essential.
But here's another important point about strategies - just as we offer strategies to students as ways for them to become independent while practicing a skill, we want them to eventually outgrow those strategies, too. Once the reader becomes skilled, the process, the strategy, becomes automatic and something to which the reader no longer needs to give conscious attention. Once the need for conscious use of a strategy fades away it will likely only resurface during times of real difficulty. The objective, therefore, is not that readers can do the steps of the strategy, rather that the strategy helps them be more skilled-- to understand the text better, to decode with higher accuracy, to read with greater fluency. Put another way, strategies are a means to an end, not an end unto themselves (Duke 2014; Keene 2008). The strategy is a temporary scaffold, and like any scaffolding, there needs to be a plan for how it's removed.
LF: You share three hundred strategies, all accompanied with very helpful visuals of student examples. Can you share a couple of your favorite examples of strategies for us with nonfiction text?
Jennifer Serravallo:
It's a somewhat hard question to answer because my favorites would change depending on the age level of the child and the text level the child is reading. This is why I've annotated each strategy with a recommended level range, to help teachers find the ones that will work best with students. But I'll go ahead and share a few that might help people think about the reading of nonfiction and the teaching of nonfiction a bit differently.
When a lot of kids read nonfiction, they're wowed by the cool, zinger facts. And often times, these random facts will not help children to create an overall understanding of the text. I believe it's crucial for kids to be able to understand how the text fits together, to synthesize all the information, and come up with a "main idea." On lower-level, "considerate" texts (to use an Alfreida Heibert term), the main idea is often obvious. The author often will state the main idea in a heading or topic sentence. However, as texts get harder, readers need to do thinking work to figure out the main idea. One my favorite strategies is to teach children to: "Read the text. Think about the what of the text (the topic). Then, to think so what about it to come with the author's angle, slant or idea about the topic."
Another favorite is to talk to kids and teachers about text features. Many teachers are in the practice of having children notice the features and name or label them ("That's a graph! That's a caption!") But there's so much important information in the features and students need to learn to really read the features and connect what the feature is teaching to the information in the rest of the text. Here's how I'd say it as a strategy that I'd share with kids: "Read the main text. Think about what you learned. Look closely at the text feature. Think about what it's teaching you. Think about what from the feature is repeated information (because it's also in the text) and what is new information (additional to what is in the text)."
LF: Same question, but now I'd like you to share your favorites for use with fiction...
Jennifer Serravallo:
Same answer about having a hard time choosing, because my favorite for one student may not be a favorite for another!
I love teaching children to think deeply about characters because I think it helps them to better understand the people in their world, too. Here's one I'd use with higher level 4th grade through middle school students: "Notice if the character's external actions are in or out of sync with the character's internal thinking. Consider what this says about the kind of person the character is, and what the character is really thinking or feeling. Ask yourself, "Who is this character, to others? Who does this character want to be?"
I also think it's exciting to challenge even the littlest kids to think about what the point of the story might be, to consider what lesson they can take away from the books they read. When teachers start doing this, I find it helps kids have better conversations about their books, and often will even affect the way kids write their own stories (not telling everything about their day, but instead selecting ideas for stories with a purpose!) Here's a fun strategy to teach little ones to talk back to the characters in their books, which ends up teaching them how to infer lessons: Notice how the characters treat each other, especially in spots where their behavior is surprising. What would you tell the character to do? Give advice by saying, "You should . . ." The advice you give can be a lesson you take away from the story.
LF: Could you share a couple of strategies that you think would be particularly new to many of us teachers?
Jennifer Serravallo:
There are two chapters, each with about 25 strategies, that I think will be pretty new for most teachers. One chapter is on Emergent Reading - helping readers to "read" before they are doing any decoding or can recognize words. I shaped this chapter largely after the work of Elizabeth Sulzby and a brilliant new book, I Am Reading, by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover. Here's one example from that chapter, which I imagine can be used when children are reading a book that's been read to them several times before (and is therefore familiar) or even a story that has clear pictures that hasn't been read to them before (in which case they'd be creating the story with the pictures as a support and with their sense of story as a guide): "On every page, try to sound like a storyteller. You can look carefully at the picture to say what the character is doing and what the character is saying."
The other chapter that might be pique teachers' interest is a chapter on engagement. I am convinced by the research of Richard Allington and many others who have shown time and again that kids get to be better readers....by reading! It makes logical sense to me that teachers should keep an eye out for whether kids are engaged, and then teach specific strategies to support their stamina, volume, book choice, and ability to focus. Here's one from that chapter: "One way to increase the amount of time you read with focus is to set a time goal for yourself. Use a personal quiet timer and set it for a certain amount of time. When the timer goes off, have the break you need (get up, stretch, let your mind wander for a moment). Then, reset the timer and get back into your reading."
LF: There was a pretty high-profile debate between the late Grant Wiggins and Daniel Willingham about the importance of reading strategies, with Willingham questioning the value of spending much time teaching them explicitly. I tend to side with Wiggins, and also believe that the use of reading strategies has as much to do with encouraging student engagement as it does with comprehension. I'd be interested in hearing your "take" on this discussion.
Jennifer Serravallo:
It'll come as no surprise that I believe that strategies are critically important!
First, I think they may be using a different definition of strategy that I am, maybe considering terms like "inferring" and "synthesizing" and "visualizing" to be strategies, where I'd consider those skills. Also, I have a broader view of strategies with topics such as engagement, decoding, and fluency being broken down into steps. For example, I doubt even those critical of strategies would argue that a strategy such as this one, to support decoding, could be really helpful to many early first-grade readers: "Use your finger to cover up the common ending you see (for example, -ing, -ed, -er). Read the first part of the word that's not covered. Then, put the ending back on and read the whole word."
Reading strategies are the "how to" that mentor kids into skills they don't yet have automatic. In order to help them read a lot, to read widely, and to enjoy their reading, they have to be good at it!
One last point on this topic - I think we have to be careful not to just teach strategies for the sake of teaching strategies. (I'd re-cite Duke (2014) and Keane (2008) here: Strategies are a means to an end, not an end unto themselves.) My view is that teachers need to choose strategies that are appropriate for each reader, which means they have valuable formative assessment from which to make the decisions, they have discussed with the child a focused goal that the strategies connect to so children understand why and when the strategy would help, and teachers keep in mind the difficulty level of the text the child is reading so that the strategies can be immediately applied and repeatedly practiced.
LF: Is there anything I haven't asked about that you'd like to share?
Jennifer Serravallo:
I'd like to mention that the strategies I've included in the book are really meant to help everyone and anyone - from teachers who are reading workshop-inclined like myself, to those who teach with a reading anthology, to those who use a whole-text novel approach. I see strategies as extremely flexible and portable, so they transcend the varieties of different reading block structures and materials. This is about equipping kids with clear ways to access the texts they read, which you can do any time reading instruction is happening.
LF: Thanks, Jennifer!


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The classical view of a black hole is that it is an object so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape its pull. In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forth his idea that black holes are not technically black—they emit radiation and evaporate over time. Hawking radiation was assumed to be described by ideal black body radiation, and this assumption allowed for the derivation of the temperature and entropy of a black hole. But we don't actually know how black a black hole is or, in more scientific terms, what are the bounds of the effects of greybody terms in a black hole's radiation spectrum?
In a paper set to be published in an upcoming edition of Physical Review Letters a pair of New Zealand mathematicians, Petarpa Boonserm and Matt Viser, attempt to put realistic bounds on the magnitude of these greybody terms. Previous attempts to solve this problem, according to the authors, have used "various approximations that move one away from the physically most important regions of parameter space." Basically, that means, in the authors' view, that past efforts have relied on assumptions that have moved the solutions away from important real world cases.
The duo attempt to rigorously solve for bounds on the transmission probabilities for waves moving through the region of space outside of a Schwarzschild black hole—Schwarzschild black holes are the simplest type, one that is described as a spherically symmetric body with no charge or angular momentum. The pair derived upper and lower bounds for various cases and came up with closed-form analytical expressions that are functions of the radiation frequency and mass of the black hole alone.
An important point to note here is that the work wasn't an attempt to get an ultimate answer regarding black holes; rather, the pair attempt to use assumptions that don't make the work easy, but rather those that keep the results closer to reality. This put a direct answer out of reach, but did allow them to identify limits to how large or small these effects should be.
An interesting side effect of the resulting greybody terms in the radiation spectrum is that certain objects will "bounce" off a black hole. As is typical in the physical world, this oddity, which goes against common sense, is confined to the quantum world. If you throw your iPod into a black hole, it's gone for good. However, if you have a quantum object with the appropriate energy, it can have a non-zero probability of bouncing off due to these greybody terms. High energy quantum objects will have a near zero bounce but this work suggests that, at low energies, the bounce has the potential to be quite large. Yet another phenomenon to add to the long list of oddities that exist in the quantum world.
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I had such a good day until I got there
I found out early that there's a slot
for my Christmas poem at church on Sunday
I had no hope, at this late date
I just wrote it the other day
and then today it took me just 15 minutes to edit it
from 5 minutes down to the max of four
a Christmas miracle
it is about self-love and Redemption
and lately I've had both
I went to the computer repair store
and found it will probably be cheaper than I thought
to replace my laptop keyboard
a writer with a keyboard that doesn't work
I went to the grocery store where I work
After two weeks on sick leave
And no way to know when I will return
and was treated like a returning hero
a friend invited me to a party
the store manager gave me a backrub
apparently she's not mad at me
for complaining about stuff four weeks ago
and then I went there
My storage locker
probably should not have gone why did I go
I thought I might/would find
my voice-to-text software
I think it could be so helpful
to me with a busted wrist
not only did I not find it
but I found so much that I didn't want
a legacy of loss and loneliness an archaeological dig
so many layers of my past
why do I still have that
where did that come from
what is that
I remember how messed up I was when I got that
I quickly ran out of Courage
the presence of my friend Laura my designated driver for today helped a lot
kept me whole
but did not keep me happy
did not keep me optimistic
did not keep me liking myself why does the past
have so much power to trash a happy Here and Now?
how do I stop the cycle from continuing?
how do I get the crap out of that Locker?
I will not ever return there alone
I will not look into that morass without someone at my side who loves me
who believes in me
who knows me as I am now whole and complete
not a prisoner of the past
I will write this poem
I will turn this chaos into art
I will trust you my reader to extend to me compassion
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Remembering Prince…In Heels
April 22, 2016 in News by Administrator
The world lost a great icon yesterday April 21, a man of mystery and immeasurable impact on the world of entertainment and fashion. The artist known as Prince died prematurely at the age of 57, who will forever be in our memories as one of the greatest who did it best…rocking some of the best crafted shoes on and of stage! And yes, most of them were actually heels! Now that's one man that some women can't even hold a candle to. When it comes to music and fashion…no one else did it better than him. He was a great inspiration for many young and old around the world. He will surely be missed. We celebrate his very short but well lived life with some of the images featured below. Prince, we thank you so much for all you have done for all of us musically and in fashion. RIP brother.


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As regular readers will know, I'm going through a bit of a declutter at the moment. I'm trying to make space for other things in the house and I have a considerable list of books that I'm willing to give away, providing you can cover the cost of the postage! When I mentioned last night on my Facebook Page that I may have some books to give away I never expected to get such a big response!
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text: Multi award-winning artist and songwriter Zach Williams is bringing his fall headline tour, "The Rescue Story Tour" in concert to your area. The Rescue Story Tour will feature music from Zach along with special guest artist Josh Baldwin of Bethel Music. Williams is excited to share "Rescue Story" live on the road, along with more songs from the new album as well as from his GRAMMY®-winning debut album Chain Breaker and GRAMMY-nominated album, Survivor: Live From Harding Prison.


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So it's started, with eight days to go of the January window, it's finally started;
The first bids for Colombian striker Alfredo Morelos are being weighed up, and Steven Gerrard has similarly admitted (and denied) he's for sale.
The 22-year old forward has been subject to intense speculation about his future since essentially the first January after he signed in 2017, and he's never denied he sees his future elsewhere.
But with Nice set to lose star hitman Mario Balotelli to fellow Ligue 1 giants Marseille or English giants West Ham inside hours, Arsenal legend Patrick Vieira, now manager at the Velodrome, has reportedly packaged together a starting bid for Morelos said to be in the region of £8M.
This will be knocked back out of hand, we would assume, but manager Steven Gerrard has gently accepted Morelos will go if the price is right.
He said:
"At the moment in this window, Alfredo won't be going anywhere. But every one of our players has got a price, I'm not naive enough to sit here and say they haven't. But none of my players will be going out the door, certainly in this window, so anyone who is preparing a bid or thinking of a bid will be wasting their time."
We must admit this is a pretty strange statement – while saying Morelos is not for sale he's admitting he effectively is. While saying he's not leaving this window he says only 'at this moment'. Making any consistent semantic sense of this can be left to smarter writers than yours truly, but the poignant giveaway is that despite the scattered defiant tone, the submissive concession that Morelos has a price like anyone else pretty much suggests that if Vieira, or any other manager, makes a fat bid for the ex-HJK man, Rangers won't be in a position to reject.
£8M clearly won't be enough in this market, especially given the eminently wealthy French top flight, and if Vieira is serious about securing Morelos it'll take around double that for Rangers to be interested we'd imagine.
We'll see if this is yet more tabloid talk or if there's a genuine interest coming from the continent.


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Here are some stunning pictures of a massive 10,000-square-foot Noyac mansion that caught fire around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Firefighters from almost all the local departments fought the blaze for three hours, and they were continuing to pour water on the house as of 2:35 p.m., according to a representative from the Sag Harbor Fire Department, who also noted that the floors had collapsed inside. He noted that East Hampton, Amagansett, North Sea, Bridgehampton, Southampton and Springs fire departments were all assisting in the effort to stop the fire.
Smoke poured from the home, located at 60 Fourteen Hills Court, and could be seen from the air on the North Fork and from North Haven. An assessment of damage to the $6 million property was not immediately available on Tuesday afternoon.
All photos courtesy of Jeff Cully, East End Fine Arts Services (EEFAS.com).


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The upper St Lawrence River Travel Guide
East of Kingston, Hwy-401 and the calmer, prettier Hwy-2 follow the northern shore of the St Lawrence River, whose island-studded waters were tricky going until the 1950s when the US and Canadian governments created the St Lawrence Seaway. An extraordinarily ambitious project, the Seaway extends 3790km inland from the Atlantic by means of lakes, rivers and locks to the west end of Lake Superior. Fifteen locks were installed on the St Lawrence River alone, each big enough to handle massive ocean-going freighters, while a string of dams harnessed the river's hydroelectric potential. But it all came at a price: the Seaway necessitated the relocation of many riverside towns, a process which one local newspaper bewailed with the headline "once again another patch of Ontario is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of progress". There were long-term environmental costs, too, with the ships transporting species previously unknown here on their hulls and in their bilge. What's more, the Seaway has been something of a flop, its decline directly related to the move towards road and air.
Leaving Kingston, Hwy-2 begins by cutting across rolling farmland and offering fleeting views of the region's scenic highlight, the Thousand Islands, a confetti of lightly forested granite islands poking out of the river for the 80km between Kingston and Brockville. The islands are best seen on a cruise, available at most riverside towns, including Kingston, though those from Gananoque are generally rated the best. Among the towns dotting the river, Brockville and tiny Prescott are the most enjoyable, but still most people pass on by with Ottawa, just 175km from Kingston, the most obvious target. The most scenic part of the drive is along the Thousand Islands Parkway, a 40km stretch of Hwy-2 beginning just to the east of Gananoque, where the road is shadowed by a combined cycle- and footpath.
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