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Topical Research Meetings on Physics: Quantum technologies: taking concepts through to implementations
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It is now recognised worldwide that new Quantum Technologies (QT), based on quantum rather than classical laws and underpinned by Quantum Information (QI) research, have real potential for commercial development and impact. QT have been recognised by EPSRC as a Grand Challenge and QI research has been identified as a UK strength, to be grown in the new EPSRC Portfolio.
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K Banaszek (University of Warsaw, Poland)
J Dowling (Louisiana State University, USA)
J Hwang (Imperial College London, UK)
A Kuhn (University of Oxford, UK)
L Molenkamp (University of Würzburg, Germany)
J G Rarity (University of Bristol, UK)
C F Roos (Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria)
R Renner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
A Wallraff (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
P Zoller (Univeristy of Innsbruck, Austria)
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Professor Ian Walmsley (University of Oxford, UK)
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The thing about Ivy is that we asked for her to come. And she waited for permission.
Twelve months after our second daughter was born, I had not yet experienced the return of my menstrual cycle….but, I sensed, in one crazy, weird moment on a drive home from a weekend of camping, that I was pregnant. I didn't tell Jeremy and instead drove to Walmart where I unceremoniously bought and used a pregnancy test in the store bathroom, immediately gleaning a positive result.
It was a strange sensation; I didn't have a desire for more children right then and felt that two was enough. No menstrual cycle meant I was clueless how pregnant I could be. And It was odd that I had suspected pregnancy without any physical clues, for I didn't have any symptoms other than this very sudden intuitive lightbulb turning on and alerting me.
But, I felt peaceful.
That baby never came to Earth. 8 weeks passed and then so did the little one, in my bathroom, without anyone beside me, without me waking anyone, in the middle of the night. A few hours of self-chosen solitary time allowing my body and baby to work together the way they decided it best. I didn't know what miscarriage would or could look like and I prepared little for it; but instinct took over as it always does when undisturbed and the early hours of the morning in a dark space of home felt like the perfect time and place to hunker down and birth.
Such a bizarre, raw, but powerful evening of loss.
I cried for two days, I drank wine with a friend, I felt my body bleed and I came out the other side. It was a superficial healing. I felt peace but it was not whole; I grieved, but not for the soul who had decided now was not the time: now I grieved the family of 5.
Two months later, I rather surprisingly found myself pregnant again. It should not have been a shock but yet it was for we were thinking to avoid this and only a week later, my second miscarriage occurred. This time there was a feeling of anger. Questioning. And wondering, now, if a family of 3 children was to be my destiny or not. Why were they so adamantly beginning life just to leave on such speedy terms? It bugged me, niggled like background chatter in a movie theatre.
We enjoyed a beautiful Christmas, a relaxed and informal time with just 4 of us and then a fun new year full of friends but as January 2012 rolled around, I felt the immediate need to cleanse. Dry January, the infamous month of no alcohol, turned into a mission to be of the highest vibration that I could be. I felt within that my inner light was to be a beacon for something bigger.
Jeremy and I sat, one night, by lamplight, with tea in our hands and began to talk about the babies who had slipped in and then slipped out. I cried. I cried so much. Months of unconscious stifling now surrendering in front of the living room fireplace. I wanted another baby it seemed, I became acutely aware of this that evening and that it was because I had experienced the presence of this third little baby who wanted to come but didn't feel ready quite yet. Jeremy wavered; he suggested we wait a year. I didn't see why. My heart heaved. I felt this baby close. Palpable.
And somehow, for I did nothing but let my truth show, he sat opposite me in our dimly lit living room that evening and he agreed. He apologized for my hurt and he agreed that a baby should come.
The first and only time we have ever consciously decided to try and make a baby.
And that night, she came.
Less than two weeks later, I took the third pregnancy test in 5 months, and for the third time it was positive. There was not a feeling, for even a minute, that this baby was going to leave again. I felt it in my very essence, I knew this child had joined us when it sensed all parties were truly willing.
This baby was Strawberry, christened by Isabella who found it fascinating that her new sibling was the size of this fruit on the day that she learned a new life was inside of me.
I felt a masculinity to this child as the months progressed; I began doula training and felt hardy and supple and strong. I attended births into my 36th week, feeling the very real sensations of subtle contractions within my own womb as my belly sat close and synced to that of the labouring mothers.
I lifted weights and continued cross fit classes and felt no need whatsoever to place a protective bubble around my blossoming self.
I felt lithe but large; muscular arms but ripe and firm and fabulous bellied.
One evening I sat visiting with my friend Debbie, a shaman who I love like family. She was communicating with this child and told me that it was teasing her and playing games. That the baby, when asked if it was male or female, would hide its face behind its hands and reveal itself first as a boy and then as a girl, grinning the whole time.
'This child is going to be a clown. A joker. It will entertain you all.'
I envisioned a cheeky little boy. I truly began to feel that this baby was male, such strength that I felt, such a motivation to work and thrive in daily life, as I knew it. It should have excited me more, the idea of a boy, but it did not. I simply felt blessed to be busy and beautifully big.
Summer turned to Autumn, the autumn equinox passed and the day of the baby's due date approached. I was given the guess date of 23rd September, 4 whole days before Strawberry's eldest sister would turn 7. I had never seen past 39 weeks and though I was counting contractions and laying awake doing so until midnight for the final nights of that week. Each night I rocked a little in bed through the surges that would wash over my body and wring out my lower belly but no baby came and when the 40 week mark arrived, I was tired and I sobbed.
Doula or not, understanding of the journey or not, I could not be happy on this day. I spent the day doing a little yoga, cleaning things that already sparkled and crying. Feeling irritated. Pissed off at the sweet, progressive, magical prodromal labour that has a woman lying in the murkiness of limbo. Yelling down the phone to Jeremy who was tied up late with work every night for at least another 2 days, and demanding that he come home. He could not win this argument for I was in the midst of the process. I was sitting in the labyrinth, taking steps at last on the spiralling path inward that leads to the loot. I was moving out of reality and into the periphery of laborland.
On Tuesday 25th September, I gave in.
I woke early, breakfasted. I visited my friend Brandi and drank hot, strong, sweet tea. I moved backwards and forwards between feeling hot and cold, the efforts of a late September sun and occasional big white clouds.
My midwife visited me.
I didn't even care any more. I was a heap of flesh and bones, beating hearts and head in the heavens, my feet barely felt like they touched the earth.
I walked with Esmee to the shop and stopped here and there, my body heaving and pelvis heavy.
The girls and I bathed, Jeremy still at work and when they went to bed and I lay upon my covers, exhaustion took over. Jeremy walked in the door at 9:30pm, hugged me and said simple words that shifted everything: 'the shutdown at work is done, I'm home, have this baby anytime you like.'
Sweet permission. Somehow, it was needed.
I slipped into the most blissful sleep that I ever recall having in my whole, entire life so far.
And at 5:30am , darkness outside my window, I woke with a start. There were still gifts to be wrapped for Isabella's birthday the next day and it had to be done now. I crept down to the kitchen, ate some cereal, laid gifts and gift wrap out on the table and began to transform it into a pile of beautiful, sparkly presents.
My tummy seized, gently but noticeably, and I shrugged a little to myself and wondered….
Bows, ribbon, sticky tape…
I swayed my hips a little and noticed that too. Another hardening of the belly and those familiar low cramps similar to what I and experienced the last week. Only a little deeper…a little more depth to the ache.
'Time this' my mind said. And so I found my Phone. It was 6:15am and I believed that baby was asking for my attention. Subtle as these sensations were, they were not usually there in the morning and it was odd to me. It warranted attention.
I crept upstairs and told Jeremy to stay in bed, to not get up for work, that I felt a little off. He encouraged me call Taina my midwife and tell her this and so I did. She asked that I just plod along, maybe get some more sleep and call back later. Jeremy was perturbed by this having witnessed the birth of our first two daughter occur inunder three and two hours. I was happy to continue wrapping but 'no Jeremy, don't go to work', I knew I wanted him close.
Downstairs again, I found my hand scurrying under mounds of discarded ribbons and gift wrap to find my phone and contraction timer over and over again.
Hips swayed still, knees a little bent.
Upstairs at 6:45am, gifts all done and asking Jeremy to get the girls up for school and preschool.
With that commotion, I felt a tremendous heave downward, a nausea wipe over me and I held onto the wall. The silhouettes of girls with masses of curls stood in my doorway and then they approached me, asking for cuddles. I simply couldn't. To my side, Jeremy was asking if he should call the midwife back and I could not answer with any conviction; how could I? How could I answer mundane questions when my whole self was going within? I said no. He ignored me.
He called our midwife and he ran the bath and as I waited for the tub to fill, I breathed long and deep and rocked as I braided Isabella's hair and watched us both in the mirror, my fingers working methodically. Rhythm. Always rhythm.
The girls left the house at 7:20am and I was in the tub.
The house was silent. Jeremy knelt to my left and did not say a word. Sweet silence and hands off; it was all I ever wanted in the birth journey.
The midwife remained on the highway, delayed by Rush hour traffic
My hands closed into fists and I placed them either side of my lower back, against the outer edge of my hip bones and I lay upon them, enjoying the pressure of my knuckles in this creaking, widening area.
I sank my body into the water, submerging myself I reclined until I was almost horizontal- the freshly-trained, rather linear doula in me chimed in for a moment, 'laying on your back is not conducive to a successful labor' and I ignore her swiftly. Really, in birth, there's no place for ridiculous intellectual concepts that counteract the mama's gut and I knew it.
There was the realization that I was making sounds which didn't seem to sound like me and that my bottom was heavy. So heavy.
Jeremy spoke somewhere down the hallway to the midwife on the phone: 'she's pushing.'
Back to my side he came and I continued with the low, unearthly but very earthly soundsThe soft glow of pre-dawn through my bathroom window, the silence of the house, my body sunken beneath the water in my own home, Jeremy kneeling to the side of me with his head resting upon his arms, nobody saying a word, I was absolutely in the realm of Delta. I was hyperaware of everything but the only things I had to be aware of was myself, our baby and the man who created the baby with me, consciously. This was a moment in time that will be with me forever. The power and wild energy that flows between two people who have made life together and the space around them is magnificent when it remains untouched. As a birth keeper this was my biggest lesson; Protect the bubble. Hold the edges. But stay back as much as possible and let the inner circle be. They are crafting magic that belongs to only them.
A few minutes later, the front door below us clicked open softly and gentle but swift steps came upon the stairs.
My water bag released with a sudden jerk and I felt, in that exact moment, the head of this child slip right to the edge and begin to move out.No hands on me, or inside of me or near me. Only mine.
One contraction and the head emerged, my hands upon it, feeling baldness.
Taina placed down her bag : 'when you decide to have a baby, you really decide to have a baby!' She smiled. Gloves on, she stood in front of me in the dark bathroom.
Just Taina, Jeremy And I and this child in a hurry
Head of the baby now fully birthed, and a cord unlooped from its neck by deft midwife hands.
Sitting up a little with the next wave of sensation, the baby twisted its shoulder out, and in one swoosh of water into water, the baby came to everybody with the golden sunlight of dawn seeping through windows. Slippery body, torso, legs, arms, squishy nose, pouty lips, grey-pink skin and a smooth scalp, all on my belly, all on my chest, skin to skin and the sudden-ness of it all snapping me back from the ethers. Water around us. Creating our safe and ethereal landing spot.
The bathroom was quiet. A thick, heady, magnificent space of a holy time. I cupped the tiny buttocks, held the baby's back and pressed the sweet flesh of this child to me. And felt between the legs of the child upon my chest.
'Boy or girl you think?' I asked the two birth guardians of the room.
I don't recall an answer. But I giggled as I provided the truth.
'A girl!'
We laughed and loved and gasped, for we were shocked.
Isabella had been out of the house for 25 minutes when she returned to the bathroom where I had been braiding her hair that moment before she left…she ran in and looked down at the baby girl, still attached to me by cord, and for the first time in her life witnessed the rawness of birth.
'Her name is Ivy.' I said. 'Ivy Clara May.'
And Isabella announced that Ivy Clara May was the best one-day-early birthday present that she could ever have wished for her 7th birthday.
By the time I was in bed it was 8:15am, the sun was up, breakfast was ready and Esmee was being taken care of by friends.
The house was quiet and cosy and autumnal and fresh with life.
She had been born, the little trickster who rushed onto Earth in just over an hour with a squished and bruised face, marked from such a fast entrance. The little girl who arrived with a mighty vehemence but yet required permission to enter from the start of conception to the finale of birth. The little one who had remained steadfast in her decision to join us Earthside despite the two previous losses ( I don't believe that Ivy is the same soul who entered before), who had proved to me that not only could I release a baby through miscarriage at home, without assistance, I could bring a baby full term and birth her safely that way too. I needed nobody, It was merely my choice to invite someone into it. My husband knew it too; it cemented our trust in birth like nothing else in the world, so far.
My dad named her Bam Bam when she was a year old and it fits her so, a tiny bite of dynamite in a determined, comical body.
She teaches us humour, agility, compassion and charisma. She embodies trust and faith.
She is beautiful beyond words.
She is Ivy.


text: Here is a cute profile of Michael Urie and Becky Newton, the pitch-perfect comedic team who play Marc St. James and Amanda Tanen on my absolute favorite television show, "Ugly Betty." From immigration, to transgender rights, to growing up gay, to health care woes, "Ugly Betty" is one of the most progressive shows on TV. And you can watch it all for free online! I'm thinking of writing a whole piece about the show's politics. Wonder if any editor would be interested in that….


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The new J&M cartoon today is an homage to Kurt Vonnegut, who said (among many other things) "If God were alive today he'd have to be an Atheist" .. IMO a great author, Humanist and all-round cool-guy.
Not so much a train of thought, more a replacement bus service of godless waffle, jokes and memes with a snifter of wine and craft-beer related stuff on the side..
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
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Queuing up?
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
The religious method
American politics these days, perhaps most politics, i.e. using the "religious method" of knowing stuff.
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Blinkered leaders
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Fixated on the wrong things
Looks like the people in Texas have had to re-organise their weather maps to accommodate the new levels of rainfall experienced around Houston over the last few days, this should be worrying for Governments and those that they represent around the world. But, as usual in Human affairs, we seem to be more fixated (via our media) on things like who won the fight at the weekend or sabre waving because an infantile dictator fired a rocket into the sea. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
Monday, August 28, 2017
I discovered this little beauty lurking in the undergrowth at the house we were staying in France last week. We were all perplexed about what species of spider it could be, no one having seen anything like it before. Turns out that it's a Wasp Spider (for obvious reasons) and lives in North African and Southern/Central Europe, it's also sometimes seen in the Southern parts of the UK. As our planet warms though it would seem likely that the range of this species will spread as higher average temperatures move Northwards.
The other noticeable critters that lived around the house were hornets, these large wasp-like creatures seemed to perform regular hunting raids at dusk (you could set your watch by it) when it sounded rather reminiscent of a squadron of Lancaster bombers flying in. Quite intimidating for the mammals eating cheese and drinking wine a few meters away, but after a few visits it became clear that these beasties weren't in the slightest interested in us, however, all the other moths and bugs gathering around the lights seemed to be just the ticket for a light "hornet-supper".
The other noticeable critters that lived around the house were hornets, these large wasp-like creatures seemed to perform regular hunting raids at dusk (you could set your watch by it) when it sounded rather reminiscent of a squadron of Lancaster bombers flying in. Quite intimidating for the mammals eating cheese and drinking wine a few meters away, but after a few visits it became clear that these beasties weren't in the slightest interested in us, however, all the other moths and bugs gathering around the lights seemed to be just the ticket for a light "hornet-supper".
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Special pleading
Special pleading as cartooned by J&M this week is something that almost all religious people I've ever met seem happy to do to varying degrees. Having strongly held beliefs based on "faith" rather than reason is almost guaranteed to lead to division and conflict, it's an obvious problem since there's no reliable mechanism to discover which side represents the truth!
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French wine
Delightful wine discovery in France on Thursday evening, we went out for a meal with the friends we were staying with and I chose a wild-card from Corbieres I had never tried this before and had never thought that region particularly memorable but this wine was a real cracker. Very young and grippy, the tannin's particularly mouth puckering but the raw fruit, dense texture and purple colour of the wine utterly compelling with the regional French cuisine. Will need to see if I can find some for sale, it was not an expensive wine, only around 18 Euro's in the restaurant, so I expect this would be between 8 and 10 pounds a bottle retail here in the UK. Just goes to show, occasionally you have speculate to accumulate!
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One of my favourite things in the whole world. Just back from a few days holiday with friends near Toulouse in France, I'm pleased to report that despite Brexit the weather, wine and cheese remain up to standard, although, for cheese aficionados out there the orange one nearest the camera is in fact Dutch and not French, I guess you can't have everything :) The wine pictured is from Bordeaux, Chateau Cantemerle and was outstanding for a relatively poor vintage (2012) I reckon this one would benefit from another 5 years in the bottle. Since there were a few of us present we quickly dispatched the claret and moved onto something much more local to where we were staying.
Probably one of the best examples of Madiran today; Chateau Montus, highly grippy, tannic red wine with a core of black fruits made from Tannat grapes and perhaps a little Cabernet or Merlot. The wine has certainly seen a lot of oak and is really "big" flavour-wise, nothing subtle here, suggesting that perhaps a little longer is required for things to mellow out in the bottle a bit. Very good now however, if you like this kind of punchy "Malbec'esc" style with food and good friends.
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Tuesday titter
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My favourite eclipse picture from yesterday; it show the usual progression of the moon across the face of the Sun but if you look closely you can also see the ISS (International Space Station) contrasted against the yellow background. An amazing picture, the ISS is 200 miles away, the moon 200,000 and the Sun 9 million, a lesson in perspective.
Monday, August 21, 2017
American Eclipse
Very envious of our American cousins today; total solar eclipse travelling smack bang across the middle of their continent, I still haven't seen one (apart from behind UK clouds!) yet. Next total eclipse over the UK will be 2090 so I reckon I'll need to get on a plane if I want to see one before I kick the bucket!
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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Saturday smile II
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Saturday smile
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Friday, August 18, 2017
Friday smirk
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Un-Scholarly scholars
Here's a joke, the hopelessly abused term "Islamic scholar"
Unfortunately hucksters like the one pictured above continue to influence and pollute the minds of young people in the Islamic world (a quick search on YouTube will illustrate my point).
Predictably, the thuggish and theocratic regime of Saudi Arabia has given this scam artist awards and citizenship, I assume because of his support for their particular brand of mythology. For the rest of humanity it's perfectly obvious that his true calling is no more than the usual meme-making survival strategy of all religions, with a specialism in the most despicable part, i.e. "lying to children". All of this adulation for someone who has an outstanding arrest warrant in his native land of India. I guess in some religious circles this kind of talent and the behaviour it engenders is considered de rigeur?
Predictably, the thuggish and theocratic regime of Saudi Arabia has given this scam artist awards and citizenship, I assume because of his support for their particular brand of mythology. For the rest of humanity it's perfectly obvious that his true calling is no more than the usual meme-making survival strategy of all religions, with a specialism in the most despicable part, i.e. "lying to children". All of this adulation for someone who has an outstanding arrest warrant in his native land of India. I guess in some religious circles this kind of talent and the behaviour it engenders is considered de rigeur?
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Friday philosophy
The insightful XKCD beautifully illuminating human psychology with stick figures (as usual) It's an interesting point, many people that don't have a scientific bent or simply aren't interested in it, often think that science is cold, boring and above all else it's constituents lack emotion; in my experience this couldn't be further from the truth. Most science practitioners and fans I've ever known are by far the most energetic, inquisitive and imaginative people I've had the pleasure of knowing. Of course it's never wise to generalise (but I will) on the other side of the house quite a few of the so called "artsy" people I've known have been lovely in their own ways too but (frankly) a little self-obsessed. Even so, truth be told, it wouldn't be any fun if we were all the same would it..
When the fat lady sings (i.e. biologically) we share many more similarities than we have differences regardless of any cultural or environmental influences, it's a shame a majority of people (still) feel it necessary to invent concepts like religions, race, class, nationalism etc. that continue to violently divide us.
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Nice little cartoon illustrating the problem with intolerance and why it should be resisted at all costs. A topic highly relevant to the current "fake moral-equivalence" and "is it OK to punch a Nazi" predicament we find playing out in Charlottesville, USA and elsewhere in the world.
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New cartoon from the excellent J&M ; this time it's talking about the retarding effect of religions on people, the way in which being enslaved to ancient ideas is problematic and leads to the fragmentation of societies and almost inevitable conflict. Of course religion isn't the only reason that societies fracture, sometimes it's pure tribalism, despotism or simply squabbles over resources, but who has the biggest and best imaginary friend is probably the most prevalent and certainly the least worthy reason.
I was watching a programme on TV last night about the events surrounding partition in India in 1947, it's a subject I know little about as it's not really taught as history here or even discussed much. It was incredible to learn that roughly a million people lost their lives simply because of their religious differences as nearly 15 million people scrambled across newly created borders to escape sectarian violence. The idea of the program was to follow the stories of a handful of UK born people of Indian heritage who wanted to discover what happened to their own families at that time, each person was either Hindu, Muslim or Sikh.
The stories were pretty much identical, what were fairly harmonious societies in different parts of the country, where people of different religions lived side by side and got on, disintegrated into mob violence and genocide along purely religious lines. It's interesting to note that pretty much all other factors were identical, i.e. wealth, biology, language, geography etc. the people that were slaughtering each other were effectively the same, apart from, the mythology that they were indoctrinated with as children. If you ever wanted an example of why religion combined with stultifying ignorance is bad for human beings then the partition of India is an excellent case-study. Some of the people who witnessed events first-hand were interviewed, quite incredibly the response of many was simply to shrug and say "it was God's will". There's not much hope for humanity when vast numbers of people remain enslaved to fantasy like this, the saddest thing is that the stupidity of insisting that morality and ethics should be eternally locked onto ancient myths continues to this day in both India and Pakistan.
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Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Been following the news from the USA with increasing alarm over the last week or so. It seems that not only have many Americans forgotten what those with humanist morality on their side were fighting for in their civil war, but also what their grand-parents fought and died for in Europe just 75 odd years ago.
As someone once said, "those that cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it". Comparing lard-arsed, gun-toting, gas-guzzling racist slobs with those that oppose them is ridiculous, it's like demonizing fire-fighters for making burning buildings wet! False equivalence is fast becoming the butt-covering (and you need a lot of it to cover those butts!) mantra of the right, let's hope Americans who have read more than just one book gain the political ascendancy again very soon.
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
I posted about the Google memo scandal a few days ago, the backlash has started, many anti-Google posters and notices have sprung up around Silicon valley, free speech is a potent force against injustice and stupidity. You can certainly understand why the powerful of the day, whether it be religions, governments or companies, hate it so much.
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Not bitter
Whilst in London yesterday I couldn't resist dropping into a craft beer bar (Charlotte Street) to have a look at what was on. I only had time for a swift pint so picked something I wouldn't normally choose. A sour beer from a brewery down in Sussex. The beer was called "Saison l'ete" or Summer Saison and the brewery called "Burning Sky". Saison beers are essentially ales or pale ales that have a particular kind of bacteria added to them during fermentation that essentially turns them sour, it's not a lemon kind of sour more a yogurt kind of sour (I'm not doing it justice) it's quite a complex set of flavours and I can imagine not to everyone's taste. I must say I wasn't overly impressed to begin with but like a lot of things in this life, after a few sips it was growing on me, after a whole pint I could have easily drank another. Unfortunately I didn't have time as my Son was eager to visit a shop on Percy Street that specialized in fancy sneakers, it was an impressive shop but what blew me away was that quite a lot of the shoes on display there were priced at over £1,000 pounds, yes you read that right, a thousand quid! Apparently the leading shoe companies like Nike, Adidas etc. release limited edition shoes that are often endorsed by rappers and other celebrities, these small batches become highly sought after and are collected by enthusiasts, such a diverse and multi-layered world we live in, I learn something new every day!
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Up the smoke
Spent a great day in London with the family yesterday, visited the museums, big lunch, shopping and to cap it all we watched Dunkirk at the IMAX in Leicester square. WOW what a movie, really enjoyed it, gripping from start to finish (even though we all know the ending!) very cleverly put together, overlapping of timelines and observations from different characters' perspectives; the Supermarine Spitfires were magnificent. Thoroughly recommended if you get a chance to see it on the big screen!
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Thursday, August 10, 2017
Foolish senses
So here's an optical illusion that had me going for a while.. if you stare at this seemingly straightforward set of square "door-panel" patterns for long enough you eventually start to see circles! It's true! The trick is to stare at the horizontal divides between the squares - spooky..
Next we have some wonky blue lines with patterns in them.. or so you think. But look at this image from the side and you realise that the blue lines are in fact parallel! NO WAY! It's amazing how easily our senses are fooled.
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Don't be evil (unless it's PC)
Last week it emerged that a Google engineer had sent an email around (representing his personal opinion) discussing the differences between men and women, exploring the fact that even today the majority of engineering jobs in Silicon valley are occupied by males rather than females. The memo was basically sent as a set of counter arguments to some of the gender diversity policies being implemented within the company and pointed out some of the differences between the sexes and surmised that (most) women just don't want to do the same kinds of jobs as men. The email was jumped on by the "PC/Feminist brigade" and the author derided and hounded via social media. We learn this week that Google have ended up actually firing him (WTF!)
There are lot's of problems with this story, the more you look into it, the more it stinks. Having read the document in full, I conclude that it's a thoughtful, well-researched opinion piece that in no way promotes or advocates sexism. It's not just me that thinks that, many social commentators have chipped in and supported the engineer and his right to free-speech. The bottom line is that he got the science right, men are indeed different from women (no shit Sherlock!) and tend to have different interests, goals and methods, HOWEVER, this isn't the same thing as discrimination.
Basically Google just fired someone for telling the truth!
It's a screwed up world when feminists can hound someone like this for an opinion that essentially concurs with scientific truth, and yet remain silent on cases of real sexism. You don't hear people screaming sexism about the fact that only 3% of garbage collectors working at Google are female and yet the mainstream (left/liberal) media constantly moans about the fact that there aren't enough Technology company CEO's who are female. Then we have the third world, coincidentally the BBC ran a story just today about a change in the law in Nepal, the Government there have finally made it illegal to banish menstruating Women to huts at the outskirts of the village! I don't see much feminist condemnation of real sexism like that in mainstream or social-media outlets.
We can all see the problem with this picture, call it "culture" or call it "religion" and sexism seems to get a free pass however when you challenge irrational feminist ideology with actual "facts" then all hell breaks loose. What this engineer should have done is to claim that his (factual) opinions were his deeply felt religious beliefs and none of these feminazis would have gone within a mile of it.
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Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Bird in a bag
J&M covering the little known advantages of Islamic feminism..
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Balding in Lyme
My Son and I strolling down the high-street in Lyme Regis a couple of weekends ago; two bothersome things... a) pretty soon he'll be as tall as me and b) definite bald spot appearing on the back of the old bonce! (no wonder those mosquitoes had a field day the other evening..!)
BTW. If there was a league table of the most "English" towns then Lyme must surely be in the premiership?
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Bloodsuckers part II
The picture above shows a group of Malaysian atheists enjoying a recent get-together in KL to celebrate their activities, such as, raising money for disaster victims in the Philippines. Looks harmless enough (actually it looks like a nice group of people) but apparently the Malaysian Government have taken a very different view. The thought police within that state have become suspicious that some of the people in this group may have been Muslims, and if that's true then they must be punished.
In theory, Malaysia has freedom of religion, but there are different rules for Muslims and it's very difficult for people of that faith to de-convert to Atheism (or any other religion), like the mosquitoes in my previous post, it would seem that once the Malaysian version of Islam has it's blood-sucking mouth parts stuck into you then it's difficult to escape without them extracting their pound of flesh. All of this because a handful of Atheists wanted to hangout together and enjoy some like-minded company.
It seems hard to believe that this kind of thing goes on in the 21st century; I guess Malaysia is another country that I have to cross off my list, shame, I really love the (regular) people and the food from that region. Atheists in the (free) world will need to watch out for these guys now, hopefully the international media attention will go some way to helping their cause and ensuring they don't "disappear" into the Malaysian legal system for the crime of "thinking differently".
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Monday, August 07, 2017
Spent a lovely evening celebrating the birthday of two good friends last Saturday, the gazebo assembled without a hitch and the wine flowed, but unfortunately so did our blood! The venue for the event featured a large pond that looked great on the postcard, but was a bit on the "swampy" side. This meant that as soon as dusk fell the mosquito hoards descended en-mass, it was impossible to avoid them. I'm sitting in the office today and my scalp feels like a pin-cushion, I even think I was bitten through my (long sleeved) shirt, having several very itchy lumps up and down both arms!
It's really fascinating (and somewhat annoying) to consider how evolution has sculpted these insects to prey on us mammals, providing them with all the equipment and anaesthetic chemicals necessary to inject hypodermic mouth-parts through our skin into the capillaries beneath, extract blood, insert bacteria and then fly off with us being aware of a thing (until the next day of course!) This kind of biological complexity is often cited by our creationist brothers and sisters as evidence for their particular "god", of course since Darwin, any thinking person knows this to be bunkum but if you think about it, the existence of such fiendishly efficient bacteria spreading creatures begs a somewhat more challenging question for them...
Why would an all-loving God create a planet and a biosphere just for Human beings then put disease spreading biting insects in it too?
Sounds more like evidence for the absence of such a being to me, regardless, the genetic drift of such critters seems quite sufficient to explain the lumps on my head this morning for me, God or no God, praise the Lord but pass the "Deet"!!
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Sunday, August 06, 2017
Past it
Watching the Athletics last night, sad to see Usain Bolt just losing out to Justin Gatlin in the 100 m final, is this the end of an era we ask?
Still, even if Bolt never wins another race, his performances will remain legendary. The list above shows the fastest 100 m runs in history with the athletes who have been caught taking drugs crossed out, says it all really; I doubt if I'll see another like him in my lifetime.
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Friday, August 04, 2017
That Friday feeling...
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Whilst on the subject of climate change, here's average temperature data organised by country over time; as you can see the trend over this period (1900-2016) is for significant warming. Someone should sit down and explain this to US and UK politicians who stubbornly hold onto the parochial view that a) there is no significant climate change and b) even if there is it's not man made.
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Thursday, August 03, 2017
Phew, what a scorcher
We love to moan about the weather here in the UK, this last couple of weeks has been particularly poor in terms of rain (rather than sunshine) but if we zoom out a bit and look at averages world-wide we see a somewhat different picture. This chart shows the number of record-breaking (temperature-wise) years there's been in recent decades (going back to the 1880's) as anyone can see the frequency of records for the hottest average temperatures is becoming worse (i.e. hotter) and more frequent the closer we get to the current day.
Sometimes I do worry about the future well-being of my children and grandchildren (as I'm sure most people do), issues around ISIS and North Korea fade into insignificance if these trend continue, climate change should be (by far) the biggest source of concern for thinking people today.
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Happy with your wash?
You would have thought that being the recipients of a "special" message from the creator of the universe and the promise of eternal bliss that they'd be as happy as Larry, but apparently not, many don't seem content until YOU believe it too!
The Christian lady in the photo above is an NHS worker who was recently disciplined for using her position to proselytize her religion to colleagues. She denied the charge and claimed "religious discrimination", which as we know, is often a reaction that religious people have to not getting their own way. This feeling of indignation is based on hundreds of years of privilege and positive discrimination in this land, which many believe should continue, "this is a Christian country after all" you hear them claim. The complainant in this case claimed harassment and bullying, ultimately an industrial tribunal found Victoria Wasteney (above) guilty of gross misconduct, suspending her for 9 months. Many patients at the Trust where she worked are vulnerable people with mental health conditions and several work colleagues expressed concerns about Wasteney's behaviour and that of her church.
Of course, many people (including me) are quite happy to discuss and debate religious topics at work, just as we would political, sport, music or indeed any other field of interest that might come up. But I've never come across anyone who exploited their position to proselytize or harass (either for or against). When you occupy a position of seniority care and humility is required, however, I believe that if challenged, anyone should feel free to offer robust arguments for or against the various theistic positions. In my experience, most religious people (arguing for) find this approach difficult to deal with, they often seem totally unaware of the depth and breadth of the arguments against their position and are surprised, if not slightly shocked, when exposed to them in a coherent way. Whilst I would never try to convince someone to change their conviction (especially at work), I wouldn't hesitate (if invited) to make the strength of the atheistic/rational position clear, if nothing else I find it helps engender respect for the ideas if not the people that hold them, something religious people don't seen to get much from their books and churches.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2017
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Cardinal Men's Varsity Eight Qualifies For Petite Final At IRA National Championship Regatta
June 1, 2001
In one of the toughest semifinal heats in recent history, the un-ranked Stanford varsity eight finished behind No. 2 Princeton, No. 4 Northeastern, No. 6 Washington and No. 7 Penn and No. 9 Wisconsin in racing at the IRA National Championship on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, NJ, June 1.
After a strong first 500 the outmatched Cardinal fell off the pace and were unable to challenge for a qualifying berth in the grand final of the varsity challenge cup. Stanford will race in the petite final on Saturday for the No 6 through No. 12 national ranking.
Stanford's men's open four qualified for the grand final in Thursday's heat and will race for a Top Six finish on Saturday.
ResultsJune 1, 2001IRA National Championships2000 meters on the Cooper River in Cherry Hill, NJ
Men's Varsity EightSemi 11 California 5:57.432 Brown 6:01.773 Cornell 6:03.054 Oregon St. 6:06.655 Dartmouth 6:07.046 Dowling 6:16.99
Semi 21 Princeton 5:50.742 Northeastern 5:53.693 Washington 5:54.424 Wisconsin 5:57.225 Penn 5:57.626 Stanford 6:12.51
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For years, we have been subjected to an avalanche of stories revealing just how deeply corruption is entrenched in our society.
Many of them — a wedding extravaganza, a Louis Vuitton bag full of cash, a demand to put someone's son in a sports team — would seem better suited to a magical realist novel than to a newspaper.
But we're hardly the first society to have to confront this. A politician in Brazil was found to have $55-million in cash in his home and there are stories from Mexico, India, Italy and many other countries that would fit just as well in Ngugi wa'Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow as any vignette from our own fantastical cornucopia of high-end corruption.
Corruption often leads to pervasive cynicism about politicians and the state. In many societies, it has been going on for so long that people have become jaded and don't expect anything better from the political class. But, in some countries, pervasive corruption has opened up a route to power for rightwing demagogues claiming that they'll end the rot. The most pressing example of this is in Brazil.
In South Africa, where the ANC has at times successfully substituted itself for the nation, and politics often takes on messianic tones, there is frequently a bitter sense of betrayal.
This is often central to accounts of the post-colony. In The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon excoriates the corruption of the political class in newly independent states. In novels such as Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Ayi Kwa Armah's The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born, there is an overwhelming and visceral sense of rot.
The ANC's attempt to present Cyril Ramaphosa as being at the head of the forces opposed to corruption has gone some distance towards renewing the party's credibility. But some support has been permanently lost and there are still people who explicitly seek to legitimise the forces that had cohered around Jacob Zuma as emancipatory
The moves typically used in this game are well known. They include pointing to enduring white wealth, talking up radical ideas without acting on them and claiming that corruption is not limited to the state.
It is, of course, true that corruption is generalised and can be found everywhere, from corporations to universities, churches and non-governmental organisations. Although it is imperative that it is exposed and opposed everywhere, and although there are significantly powerful organisations outside of the state that should be subject to investigation, the state does have a particularly powerful standing in a society and influence on it.
South Africa has a rich history of political aspirations and practices that exceed the state and electoral democracy, including ideas and practical experiments of various kinds that were generated within powerful popular movements and that are now part of what Rosa Luxemburg called "the mental sediment" of living memory.
In the 1980s, the idea that "the people shall govern" was often understood to refer to direct participation in decision-making within communities and institutions rather than simply a conception of democracy limited to representation through elections to Parliament.
There were powerful forces within the trade union movement that looked to a future in which industrial work would be organised under worker control rather than nationalisation under the authority of a managerial class.
Much of this was displaced, in terms of thought and action, by the encounter between the profound statism of the ANC returning from exile and the global hegemony of the form of liberalism that, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union, sought to normalise a restricted conception of democracy.
Today, the unthinking representation of every form of protest by impoverished black people as a "service delivery protest" creates the impression that popular politics is solely a matter of issuing a set of demands to the state. But the reality is that it is not unusual for protest to be about organisation and struggles unrelated to "delivery". In some cities, popular strivings and struggles are doing far more to win access to urban land outside the strictures of the market than the state is.
Nonetheless, the state remains an extraordinarily powerful instrument. It can do everything from perpetrating the Marikana massacre to making access to treatment for those living with HIV available to millions. It can also enable or block people's own strivings to realise progress. For this reason, and because the state is widely understood to be the primary instrument of democratic authority, what happens in the state is a matter of huge importance for society.
But, although the state determines much of the terrain on which we all build our lives, the weight of its power is generally felt most intensely by people who do not have access to the wealth that can enable access to private housing, education, healthcare, security, pensions, legal representation and so on. For most people, there is a direct correlation between the amount of money that they have and the degree to which their life is shaped by the state.
It is, therefore, unsurprising that the characterisation of the state, and the political class, in terms of gangsterism was heard in the organising emerging from the most impoverished parts of our society long before the middle classes began to grasp the extent of the rot.
Well before the Guptas hosted their wedding at Sun City, impoverished people were finding that access to things such as documents, housing and jobs was being systemically mediated by exploitative, and at times even sadistic, representatives of the state and the ruling party.
Of course impoverished people often use corruption to their advantage. It can be a mechanism to enable certain forms of inclusion. For instance, the general trajectory of an urban land occupation is that, once land has been secured, the next step is to access electricity, water and sometimes sanitation.
This can be achieved via explicitly informal means or it can be attained with a strategically useful veneer of formality by bribing municipal officials to install services.
But when a housing budget is spent without any houses being built, when they are built so badly that they are less habitable than shacks, or when they are allocated only to party members and people who pay bribes, corruption can, and most often does, compound exclusion.
Similarly, the collapse of institutions such as state hospitals and schools has a social cost that is largely paid in suffering by the most vulnerable people in our society.
Those who try to use the evidence of corporate corruption as mitigation for state corruption disregard the effect it has on the lives of the people who most require the state to work for them. The same is true of the demagogues, now ranged across numerous organisations, some as vociferous as they are tiny, who point to white wealth to argue that state corruption is emancipatory.
The simple moralism that, without context, presents the evidently corrupt as simply evil and their accusers as simply virtuous is not adequate to understand why, in political terms, corruption, although not a popular form of populism, nonetheless sustains a popular constituency.
To understand this, we must understand that corruption can be a matter of strategy as well as virtue. Antonio Gramsci argued that "between consent and force stands corruption (which is characteristic of certain situations when it is hard to exercise the hegemonic function, and when the use of force is too risky)".
He was examining corruption as a tool to sustain the authority of a ruling bloc when its credibility, and therefore authority to rule, is being called into question.
We know this well from our own history. The apartheid state used corruption to try to build consent for its authority among elites in the Bantustan and tricameral systems.
But corruption can also be a way for excluded people, who lack the certification, wealth or networks to access opportunity through formal systems, to make their way ahead. In South Africa, it has enabled the enrichment of a counter-elite, who, in terms of their social origins, can often claim to represent, or at least be proximate to, an excluded majority.
This is not the case with, say, the Watsons or the Guptas, but it is true of others who have benefited from similar practices on a smaller scale and at a more local level.
For many people, the new order has sustained their exclusion but corruption enables them to use their relationships and personal histories to attain social progress. They do, therefore, experience it as a route to a certain kind of personal emancipation. For others around them it may be entirely rational to see a similar route to progress as their best option for advancement.
Of course, the propaganda that presents corrupt forms of accumulation as advancing the excluded majority is at best a comforting delusion and at worst an outright lie. The corruption of the state overwhelmingly functions to worsen the situation of the majority and is frequently a direct cause of terrible and avoidable suffering.
But attempts to achieve collective social and political investment in the integrity of the state and other institutions are unlikely to succeed if the state, and other institutions, continue to sustain rather than undo systemic exclusion.
Richard Pithouse is an associate professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research


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NYT Bestselling author Aaron Hodges has a whole mess of books out there in the fantasy and sci-fi universe, and he's just dropped another that EFFers should certainly lap up.
Daughter of Fate is the first book in a new series he's begun called The Knights of Alana, and it's caught my attention for one particular reason – there's a character arc here that I am pretty damned sure I'm going to love. I'll underline it below:
When Knights attack the temple of Skystead, seventeen-year-old Pela is the only one to escape. Her mother and the other villagers are taken, accused of worshiping the False Gods. They will pay the ultimate price – unless Pela can rescue them.
Pela has never left the safety of her town, let alone touched a sword. What chance does she have against the ruthless Knights of Alana? She's not a hero.
But she knows one.
Her uncle Devon was a mighty warrior once, in times when magic filled the world. Age has withered his strength and he retired long ago, but maybe he will answer the call of family.
Can Pela convince him to stand against the darkness one last time?
There is just SO much that can be done with a grizzled old warrior picking up the sword again (does he use a sword?) and I can't wait to find out how Hodges approaches Devon in this story. Certainly Pela sounds like an interesting character as well, but I am a sucker for this particuar trope.
Anyhow, go read it, and don't spoil it for me – it's on my TBR now, and should be on yours. At the time of this writing it's on sale for 99c on Amazon, so by all means, snatch it up.
Sean Hinn is the author of The Days of Ash and Fury and founder of Epic Fantasy Fanatics.


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This project involved constructing a 100m long by 3m wide concrete slab and retaining wall in close proximity to an existing rail line and overhead powerlines at the Westland Milk Factory in Hokitika. The work was being done because the factory was designing a new train for picking up / dropping off of milk products and required a new pad to match the design of the train.
The project also involved the installation of 4 new yard sumps, 2 new manholes. Laying 99m of Ø150mm stainless steel trade waste pipe and 12m of 50mm stainless steel pipe. A 100m long concrete retaining wall was built along the back of the pad and 100m of nib kerb was hand boxed along the front.


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A Dream Deferred
Words & Images © Brendan McInerney. Team New York No. 1.
The work that is presented here is very much a product of collaboration. It is a product of the time and consideration afforded to me by the people pictures more so than any effort of my own. For this collaboration, I invited each person pictured here to my apartment in Rockaway Park. We talked for a little, sat down for an interview and then took some portraits. I had hoped to get a better understanding of each person which I could demonstrate in a photograph. Each discussion was unique, touching on themes or ideas that each person had condensed since arriving in the United States. What surprised me, however, was the common thread woven throughout all the interviews.
A more honest theme for this project might be 'bureaucracy' or 'deferral.' As Hany Hawasly said, "I think… maybe this doesn't silence you but [being an immigrant] will slow you down very much before you're capable of feeling grounded enough to have an opinion and to express it." I wanted this idea to come across in the way the quotes are displayed. I transcribed portions of the interviews in my own handwriting and superimposed them on pages from I-129 and I-485 forms provided by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to people trying to obtain a visa or a green card.
Bureaucratic forms often appear to be plain, blank and therefore nonpolitical but this could not be further from the truth. USCIS has made calculated and intentional changes to these forms to make them harder to understand and more difficult to complete. These parts are intended to encourage greater understanding and wider discussion of the immigrant experience in the United States, among myself, my collaborators and anyone so kind as to take time to read these words and look at these images.


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I shot this photograph in response to my spoken word poem to explore the feeling of judgement through social norms. My poem expresses the competition between peers due to the high standards that society depicts. The poem states, ''Why is life treated like one big race? It's a disgrace, that our intelligence is determined by a letter, our attractiveness by a number.'' This shows that there is a constant, unnecessary feeling of competition solely due to the social norms which state that an individual's status is solely influenced by an individual's weight and grades.
I chose to shoot candles of different shapes, and sizes, some being lit, and some not. This reflects how people are meant to differ from one another. In addition, my picture expresses the beauty of fire despite its ability to harm. Just like fire, although people may be beautiful on the outside, they can still hurt you. Similarly, people considered ''ugly'' on the outside, are capable of having the most beautiful inner qualities. To shoot these candles, I grouped them all together and lit the majority but left a few un-lit. I then shot from directly above the candles. In photoshop I made the burning candles slightly brighter. While shooting, I had a slight issue with getting enough light in so that the candles would be the proper exposure. After adjusting the aperture and shutter speed, I found a good balance.