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Although Studiomaster are famous for high-powered amplifier and speaker systems, some of your applications may require smaller solutions.Hence the PAS range comprising 8" and 6" two way powered (active) and...> See more product detail
Although Studiomaster are famous for high-powered amplifier and speaker systems, some of your applications may require smaller solutions.
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|Black is not a color, white is-no wait-black is a color, not white. Something we can all disagree upon. This month's Third Thursday, Walk on White BLACK ON WHITE show will be featuring various artists and their use of these two extreme "colors" along with other less controversial ones.
The ultimate contrast, BLACK is formal and elegant, evil and sadistic, good luck or bad luck depending on what place in the world it is viewed. WHITE on the other hand is formal and elegant, virginal and symbolic, good or bad luck depending on what place in the world it is viewed. The black sheep in the family might actually wear a white hat if the others have a heart of darkness.


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Why wait for fairies? The enchantments start early in the Washington Ballet's "Cinderella." Take the decor: With simple white furniture placed against a starlit night sky and slender birch trees stretching upward where there should be walls, our heroine's home has a refreshing, surreal look. It's Scandinavian chic with a little poetic ruggedness, and it throws the splendid dancing into bright relief.
Top-notch design elements, wicked humor from start to finish and many fine waltzes make this a stylish and entertaining production. Two hours zip by in a whirl of petticoats and moonlight, entwined with a strong thread of slapstick, thanks to the brilliantly quarrelsome stepsisters danced in drag by Luis R. Torres and Zachary Hackstock.
This ballet, which opened Thursday at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater and continues through Sunday evening, is buckets of fun — a good thing, because, you know, there's no suspense here. The characters are thin, the ever-after happiness is foretold. With his gift for humor, Septime Webre, the Washington Ballet artistic director who unveiled this version of the fairy tale a decade ago, has deftly focused on the lighter aspects of the story. There's little mistreatment of the titular waif, no grotesqueness among the guests at the ball. Even the stepsisters are just stumble-footed buffoons rather than evildoers.
What gives the ballet its crisp, contemporary edge is the high-low aesthetic Webre devised — moments of sentimental elegance alongside rakish shtick. The aesthetic is enhanced by James Kronzer's black-and-white scenery, the fun colors of Judanna Lynn's costumes and Tony Tucci's animated lighting.
Torres and Hackstock are a devastating pair, slamming into doorways and flinging themselves at the prince with the timing and reactions of ace vaudevillians. You imagine these doltish would-be-seductresses have plastered their bedrooms with posters of Carmen Miranda. If they can't come close to her charm, at least they've copied her over-the-top lipstick and headgear.
On Thursday, they put the audience in a laughing mood from the start, and it never let up. By the time we got to the ball, all they had to do was step onstage and the house came down. When they started bumping into courtiers and swallowing up the poor jester in their skirts, there was hysteria in the seats.
Faced with this enthusiasm, the stars of the story have to be careful. You don't want the tone bouncing all over the place. Maki Onuki's Cinderella was just right: not too weepy, not too mystical, just a dear, sweet young woman with sparkling technique swept along on a lovely journey. Jared Nelson was supremely well suited to the role of her prince, quite believably awed by her thrilling series of turns at the ball, in which each perfect spin was like a pearl loosed from a chain. That finesse is no gift from a fairy godmother, but evidence of Onuki's hard work and rare athleticism.
She is quite a special dancer, but what's missing among her impressive mechanical strengths is softness and phrasing. There was an abruptness in her pas de deux with Nelson, a skimping on the small transition steps that are so critical to a complete picture of harmony.
Still, Onuki's performance, like this ballet as a whole, had a fresh feel. The youthfulness of the cast had something to do with it: Like most of the full-length ballets that the chamber-size Washington Ballet performs, this production is filled out with the junior Studio Company and youngsters from the Washington School of Ballet.
The Prokofiev music is taped. But either I'm getting used to that — sigh — or someone has figured out how to make a recording work decently with the Eisenhower's sound system, for the usual harshness was absent.
will be performed by the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, with cast changes, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. About two hours.
Tickets $32-$125. 202-467-4600. www.washingtonballet.org or www.kennedy-center.org.


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Thursday, May 15, 2014
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Business Reality: The initial Commercial Cooperation Agreement (CCA) indicated the intentions of the acquirer to control the target as clearly as daylight. For instance few of the clauses in the earlier agreement meant that:
- The areas of cooperation listed in the agreement were not subject to the approval of the Target
- Restrictions on Target entering into specified global frequent flyer programs
- Acquirer had the right to recommend suitable candidates for senior management positions
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- Acquirer held the right to take lead in negotiations on aircraft and engine purchases
- Acquirer had prepared a detailed Governance Procedure to be adopted by Target
After the amendments sought by the regulator the Acquirer had a change of heart and chose to play second fiddle to the Target!
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1. The CCI was confronted with a new corporate maneuver. A smaller inter-connected transaction preceding the acquisition was consummated and remained undisclosed. The transaction related to the sale of certain landing/take-off slots of Jet at the London Heathrow Airport to Etihad. The CCI apprehended that the transactions in fact camouflaged a financial implication that indicated circumventing the regulatory threshold on the sly. To plug this loophole, the CCI amended its Combination Regulations. The test whether a transaction should be subjected to pre-merger scrutiny was modified to focus on "substantive business rationale" or the "economic linkages"
2. The definition of control was modified to reflect the actual effect of influencing the decisions rather than just number of directors.
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I know this has been discussed several times before, but I never caught it back then. What are your favorite seasons ranked best to worst? Mine would be...
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Feathering, oil on canvas, 9"x12". Sold.
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Lovely Janet,
This piece is absolutely breathtaking – please, please tell the story behind it!
Joyfully Yours
Thea x x x
Hi Thea,
There really isn't much of a story to tell. I had been wanting to paint another feather dress for sometime, then the concept of the cat and the feathers just kind of emerged as I was painting it. It basically took on a life of its own!
this is just a delightful composition Janet (nice name by the way!)
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Reflections on outness 2: a game of you
For that cross-stitch sampler is undeniably, unequivocally from one place: Alsace, the region of France my mother comes from. The motifs, the use of red thread on white cloth, the costumes worn by the two figures are found on hundreds of such similar wedding gifts made throughout Alsace over the centuries. My brother and sister each have one. My aunt herself had one. And she would have learnt how to do this from her mother and aunts, who would have learnt it from their mother and aunts.
My aunt always claimed she had no creativity: she just researched and reproduced Alsatian motifs from books and museum exhibits. And yet in this, she must have created. For as much as this object is undeniably, clearly Alsatian, yet in another I am almost certain there are no two like it. In the simple, radical gesture of putting two male figures in the center, my aunt changed the pattern. In doing so, she did two things: reaffirmed my identity as an Alsatian man, and expanded the iconography, and indeed to some entire scope of Alsatian identity. She argued, through this, that traditions could be expanded, that identities were compatible.
A similar thing happened at the London wedding we held a few months after our wedding in West Virginia for those friends and family who couldn't make it to America. That wedding was held in my old church. The church my siblings and I were all confirmed in. The church on whose council my mother sits. It is an old church, with a complex history: founded by French protestants (Huguenots) fleeing persecution under Louis the XIVth four hundred and fifty years ago, it has survived in London's Soho, serving a complex community of recent French expats, and old Huguenots families tied together primarily by a shared history. It is not exactly the most active, or radical of churches.
After a debate, the church agreed to celebrate our marriage. It was a full wedding ceremony. And, suddenly, our gay marriage was also, well, the marriage in my family's church, with all the trappings and politics that entails. As I joked, I am the only one my mother's three children to have had a good French protestant wedding. And it was true. Even as it was also an expansion of what a good French protestant wedding can be.
There is a lot of discussion at every Pride about identity, and assimilation, and passing. Much of it is important, and sad. And some of it reflects false dichotomies. There is no a priori reason that traditional identities of culture, religion, and family cannot be expanded to include new identities of gender, and sexuality. Yet that requires a transformation, an expansion of the old culture. And that comes through the willingness of individuals to expand their definitions, to invent new iconographies and languages and symbols, to say "You are gay, and you belong, and you are welcome".
Identities are complex things. We all have many, and they exist in tension. But, as I have known since someone first asked me "which are you more, French or English?" those tensions derive primarily from the boundary policing of identity by others. My aunt's cross stitch sampler is a reminder we always have the power to go another way: not to police the borders of identity and community, but to open them with gifts of welcome.
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Reflections on outness 1: ten years
I told my mother first. It is not a path I recommend if it can be avoided. But coming out narratives are personal, and shaped by factor beyond the sexuality of the individuals involved. My own family history had made secrets a dangerous, toxic, poisonous thing. If I wanted to be able to rebuild from this, I could not keep this a secret from her. Not once I'd decided to act on it. And meeting a boy will suddenly make the insurmountable seem inevitable.
It was not an easy conversation... and it did not end for many many years. It was mostly, other than on a few fateful occasions, had in things unsaid. Silences on the phone. Requests made in passing. Awkwardly formal lunches. It was not, by any outside standards, a difficult coming out. But it required finding a language to speak about things we had never spoken about. And it coincided, I think, with an emancipation of mine. I could not put my life on hold forever, on so many fronts. Eventually, sooner perhaps than either of us expected, she caught up with me. And, as is her wont, has more than kept pace. She has broken down doors for me and my husband now. How little I thought, in that awkward, tense, angry conversation ten years ago, when so much was not said, that might be the case.
It is a difficult balance, working with people who you love who are coming to terms with something they have never really bothered to think about. You come, the son, the brother, the friend, that they think they know so well, and you tell them that you are not what they have assumed. And yet, on the other hand, you remind them, over and over and over, that you are who they know. To comfort them yes, but also because it is true. I was the classic good gay boy: I built a defence from my goodness. My good grades, my kindness, the fact I didn't get in trouble. But those things pre dated my emergent sexual anxiety. They were there to be used as weapons and defences and bargaining chips once the revelation of my differentness came, but those were exapted functions.
To me, coming out was not a clean break with my previous self. Psychologically, it was a long and complex process, rooted in a complex relationship with men, women, and masculinity. You cannot be raised with two very different concepts of masculinity and femininity (the French and the British) and not interrogate those concepts and what they mean, how they function, how they affect you as a person. And my father's abandonment of us in my early teens did not simplify matters. And so to this day, that brief version of me who existed from 2001 to 2006, who called himself "straight, but took a while to get there", I consider authentic and valid. He was doing the best he could with a psychology that was complex, in an environment that demanded simplicity. An environment that reduced attraction to sex.
A few months after I came out, I moved to America. To this day I do not know if the two events are linked. Was my burgeoning awareness of my differentness a hidden motive behind my resolve to leave? Did the realisation I was leaving precipitate an awakening, a coming to terms? All I know is that I have never felt so lost and rootless as a person as I did my first year in America, despite the intellectual satisfaction of grad school. I remember writing that I felt like a mist, less and less certain of what I was or who I was. In the end, I rooted myself again not through a new found identity, but through a project of going through all my papers and scraps of life since high school and scrapbooking my own life. Rebuilding the continuity I felt I had broken by being different, and by leaving.
I am fortunate now. That break is barely visible. All the friends and family I knew before I came out are fully woven into the new life, mingling with the new ones. My out self, my closeted self, my not gay self, almost seamlessly woven together again. If there is perhaps a slight unevenness in the tapestry, where things had to be woven together after the fact to hide a tear, well, no one notices.
Wednesday, 26 April 2017
A mes compatriotes alsaciens qui votent FN
Je connais une petite fille qui, à cinq ans, a été obligé par sa maitresse de classe maternelles à se tenir dans la cour d'école devant tout le monde. Cette même maîtresse lui a ensuite dis, à elle et ses camarades comme elle, qu'ils étaient responsables d'un massacre commis quelques années auparavant.*
Je connais une petite fille à laquelle on a interdit de parler la langue de sa grand mère et de ses parents avec ses camarades dans la cour d'école. Elle s'en est tiré, mais beaucoup des enfants de sa génération n'en ont jamais pu parler à leurs grands-parents, faute de maîtrise de cette langue.
Je connais une jeune fille qui a appris à effacer le gros accent de son pays, car il lui faisait tord dans sa carrière.
Je connais une jeune femme qui, lorsqu'elle appelait le rectorat à Paris, entendait toujours malmener son nom. Jamais d'excuse par ailleurs, car "ce n'était pas français, un nom comme ça".
Je connais une femme qui a été soupçonnée toute sa vie, et toute sa carrière au service de l'état, de ne pas être assez française. À cause d'où elle venait, mais surtout, parce qu'elle refusait de ne pas en venir.
Cette fillette, cette fille, cette femme, c'est mère, née dans le bas Rhin en 1944. Ma mère, qui parle le dialecte, dont le nom de jeune fille est inévitablement germanique, qui aime la musique allemande autant que la littérature française.
L'histoire de ma mère, c'est l'histoire de tout Alsaciens né entre 1918 et 1950. C'est l'histoire de tout une génération qu'on a soupçonné à cause de leur accent, de leur nom, de leur dialecte, de leur religion (trop protestant, trop fier du régime concordataire) de ne pas être assez français. Ça vous dit quelque chose?
Les gens, comme Marine Le Pen et son parti, qui prétendent pouvoir définir ce que sont la France et les Français, ne serons jamais les amis de l'Alsace, avec son gros accent, sa cuisine bizarre, ses noms imprononçable comme Breuschwickersheim ou Hammerschwir. Et j'ose suggéré même que les Alsaciens devraient être solidaire avec tous les Français ou pas encore français que l'on réprouve parce qu'ils ne ressemblent pas assez à ceux représentés dans une histoire de France de 1950. Les Français d'origine turques, les Français d'origine algérienne, les Français d'origine malienne, ainsi que les Français gay, lesbiennes, et transgenres, luttent pour ce pour quoi ma mère a luttée, et ce pour quoi moi, franco-alsaco-britannique homosexuel je lutte aussi: le droit d'être reconnu Français à part entière sans abandonner qui je suis, le droit d'être français et de parler "wie der Schnawwel-ne gewochsn isch".
Je pourrais rappeler d'autre faits: qu'un tiers des Alsaciens travaillent outre Rhin. Ou que le petit village où ont habité mon arrière grand mère, ma grand mère et ma tante fut entièrement rasé en 1918 lors de la bataille du col de la Schlucht, et que la génération de mes grands parents se sont toujours attendu à ce que cela se répète. Si ça n'a pas eu lieu, si l'Alsace a cessé être terre de convoitise identitaire, si, enfin, le monde lui a foutu la paix, c'est à cause de l'Europe, que rejette maintenant Marine Le Pen.
La définition étroite de ce que c'est qu'être français a toujours fait tord à l'Alsace, et à la France. Défiez là en renonçant au front national, et en embrassant l'ouverture et l'espoir de quelques chose de nouveau.
*Le massacre, c'est Oradour sur Glane.
Friday, 21 April 2017
Independence and maturity
It wasn't quite the Dream Job, but it had many attributes of it. I thought I did well in the interview. In fact, based on feedback, I'm pretty sure I did do well in the interview. But someone else did better, or had funding, or was a better fit. I'm a postdoc for another year.
I was disappointed not to get the job, but not crushed. Even getting a drink to drown my sorrows felt perfunctory, unnecessary. I was OK. And I realised, that, more and more, when it comes to my career, that equanimity about where I've been, where I am, and where I'm going has come to dominate.
When I finished my PhD, then spent a year unemployed, and then started my postdoc, I was all Sturm und Drang about my career. I oscillated between being terrified I'd never make it, angry I hadn't published more, frustrated at people's failure to recognise my amazing capabilities, irritated at advice that seemed cruel, glib and out of touch. And while I still think there are problems for graduate students and postdocs, that internalization of the problems is gone. The clear, tangible work I have done over the past three and a half years in the wonderful lab I've had the good fortune to do my postdoc in has eliminated much of the bad feelings from the end of my PhD. What has replaced them is a certain degree of confidence I didn't have before, one that is rooted in a certain equanimity about my career and my future. I'm good at what I do, and I've had a blast doing it. I hope I'll get to do it for longer, but if I don't... Well it was a good innings.
Associated with this disappearance of the violent emotions with which I started this postdoc has been a quiet maturation of other skills. We recently had a change of staff in the lab which means I am now the second most senior person here. And, somewhat to my surprise, I found I've stepped up to the plate of managing people with more confidence and willingness then I thought I would. I don't have to remind myself to check in with the new trainees and discuss plans for data collection, I'm just ... doing it.
With my PI, we've reached a stage that is intellectually exciting. She's no longer primarily in the business of training me, we're now collaborators, bouncing ideas off each other about new analyses and projects. The projects are in some ways more collaborative, and yet in others I am more independent then ever: if we decide a certain paper is mine, then she trusts me to carry the project. I'm currently in charge of helping our graduate student write his first paper for publication. It's been a great learning experience, in part because I've discovered how much I now know about the arcana of publication and manuscript preparation.Of course, the independence isn't there in my own grants yet (but maybe, NIH gods permitting, by years end?), but I can feel a shift in how I approach my work, and in how other people in the lab and the university respond to me. The trick here, one that she and I both acknowledge, is to recognize this dangerously fun dynamic is a sign I should plan to leave, not that I should stay.
Perhaps the word that best describes my mindset about what I do and why I do it now is maturity (yes, you can laugh. I'm 33, i have a lot more maturing to do I'm sure). Part of that is also the recognition that unlike my 20s, I cannot make my career the entire center of my being quite like I did in graduate school (even as I take on more responsibility). I have a husband who is making his own major career decisions. I have a mother who will not be young forever. I will not be young forever.
There will always be choices, there will always be jobs I do not get. But wherever I go from here, there are almost no regrets to be had about what I've done on the way here, either professionally, or personally. And that knowledge is I think the source of my current mindset. And it is a good place to be.
And with that, I am signing off for two weeks. My husband and I are taking our long delayed honeymoon to Spain. Some things should not be put off forever.
Monday, 13 March 2017
Hosting the Moirai
My mother's mother was born in 1900. She died six months after my birth. My mother was the youngest of all her cousins (on her father's side, she had six aunts and uncles, so there were many cousins). And I, born 83 years after my grandmother, am the youngest of her grandchildren. My eldest cousin is more than 20 years older than me. My mother's cousins (those she was still close with) were grandparent aged to me. I saw them once a year, and though our relationship was pleasant, it was never close. They were part of the holidays. And besides, when they got together with their youngest cousin, they talked of family mostly long dead, and memories long past. I learnt a lot from them about how the world had changed, and about my history, but mostly through listening to the stories they told each other.
My aunt was different. She never missed a birthday or Christmas to call us. None of us would consider going to Paris without visiting her. My mother and she did not have the easiest relationship, but they have never waivered in the affection they have shown each other's children. Perhaps sometimes, that was easier than speaking directly.
I miss my aunt dearly. And beyond her, with her passing I have lost the closest thing I ever had to a physical home in France, her holiday house in the Alsatian Vosges mountains, to which my mother always had a key. Now that I will no longer take the train to her little Paris suburb for dinner or lunch when I visit that city, it will become a little less friendly to me. I am thankful my husband got to meet her twice. I am thankful she adored him (despite the language barrier). I am thankful for the beautiful cross stitch sample she made for us, despite cancer and chemo and caring for her husband as dementia and ill health weakened him. She survived him by less than six months.
But as hard as loosing my aunt is for me, for my mother the sense of loneliness is vast. In the past years so many of her old friends have become weak and frail, have started one by one to take their leave of us. When they started weakening, my mother, who has the energy and physical fitness of a woman twenty years younger then she is, was irritated at them for not going on walks with her anymore, for no longer staying up until 2am to talk. Now she understands; she is resigned; and talks with her old friends, though more important, no longer bring levity and joy to her. She returns from trips to France drained, and needs time with her younger friends, her children and grandchildren to regain her energy.
With the loss of my aunt, only one person, a friend from Kindergarten, is left who remembers my mother's childhood. And the first five years (which for my mother were defining to her life story) are now remembered only by her. She has entered a period where, increasingly, more and more of her life can be confirmed by no one. And, as my brother points out, there is now almost no one left with whom she can speak the dialect her own grandmother (born in 1870) taught her. Strands are being cut, and my mother feels it.
Of late, she has begun to speak more of her own passing. Not in a morbid way, but in a pragmatic way. She is counting down. She knows she can no longer count on an endless bounty of more time. She senses both the urgency of doing what can still be done, and the knowledge that less is possible. In part, this is because of what is happening around her. In part, and I know my mother enough to know this, it is because of what she has read. She is preparing herself, training herself for a new phase of life. I know this because the same thought that is animating her has returned to me: the French philosopher Montaigne's famous aphorism:
"que philosopher, c'est apprendre a mourir"
"Doing philosophy, is learning to die"
To which I would add, it is also learning that others die.
With my aunt's passing, and my mother's words and stories, a new presence enters my life: the Moirai, the three sisters of Greek mythology. In the past, they have visited suddenly, and departed. But now I see they are here to stay. They are in my house, and it does not do to deny the Gods. Clotho is spinning thread more slowly, and Lachesis casts a more judicious eye on how much she draws out. And Atropos, having just used her scissors, has put them down. But they hang from her belt, always within hand's reach.
The Moirai are here, and their presence is a warning, but also a gift, in the manner of Greek gods. They are here to tell me I can no longer ignore them, and I must act accordingly in what I do.
Sunday, 29 January 2017
I am not a "good immigrant"
I am an immigrant to the US. For reasons of history and geography and luck of birth, I am a fortunate immigrant. I am not routinely stopped at the border. I have never had extra burdens placed on me to get either my visa or my green card. But I have never once re-entered the US without some trepidation since I first got my F1 student visa. After yesterday, that trepidation is increased.
As the events at airports around the country have reminded people overnight, in the US it is the border agency that has final say about who can and cannot enter the country. The visa you spent money and time obtaining (every time I had to get my visa renewed or issued was a day off work, and I was fortunate that I lived in London) is only part of the evidence. It is the person at the desk at immigration, at the end of the line labelled "aliens", who has final say.
One of the criteria by which a border agent can deny you entry is if they have a suspicion you carry any of a certain number of infectious diseases. When I first moved to America, HIV/AIDS was on that list. Border protection need no proof you have the disease, a suspicion is sufficient. As a gay man, you see where I'm going with this. Yes, guidebooks and immigration manuals warned me that "looking too gay" could, feasibly, get my entry denied.
When I left America at the end of my Ph.D., leaving my then partner of four years behind, I could not return to America based on that relationship. DOMA was still in force. So I found a job. Luckily, as an academic, visas for jobs are easier to come by. But the easiest one (the J1) is a non immigrant visa with a firm requirement you leave the country after two years for at least a further year. It is difficult to get an exemption from that. The H1-B (skilled workers) visa doesn't have that limitation. But some universities will not sponsor postdocs for H1-Bs, and they cost PIs money. I was lucky, I got one. But even the H1-B has catches. It is non transferable, tied to your employment, and unlike the F1 visa has no grace period: as soon as your employment ends, your H1-B expires and you are automatically residing in the country illegally. Yes, that is correct. If you're on a H1-B and you get fired, you can technically be reported for overstaying your visa that evening. This is why H1-B visa holders tend to be quiet about problems at work.
Through good fortune, a progressive presidential administration, and a liberal supreme court, I became eligible for a spousal green card while on my H1-B. None of those things were guaranteed. Under the Bush Administration, they would have been unthinkable. Under a Trump administration? Well, we can guess how likely anything that makes immigration easier will be at this point. But even then, the green card is not guaranteed (unlike what my in laws thought). It costs $1500 to apply, and the process is complex, opaque, and open ended. I was hugely fortunate in that we had extensive documentation of our relationship, and a very friendly interviewer for the final interview in Cleveland. Will that still be likely in the coming years? Will be guidance be issued? If the so called "first amendment defense act" passes, same sex couples may end up in limbo when faced with unhelpful UCSIS employees. And it may not even take that much to suddenly make spousal green cards much harder to obtain. And mine must be renewed in two years. In the UK, for example, Teresa May now only allows British citizen to bring a non EU foreign born spouse into the country if they are earning above a certain threshold. Nothing is safe in the pursuit of reducing immigration.
So, no. I don't feel safe or OK after yesterday, despite being from the "right" sort of country, having the "right" skin colour, and being among "the best and brightest". Regardless of claims to the contrary, I know my supposed usefulness to people like May and Trump is secondary to the political capital they get from being "tough on immigration". If you doubt it, watch May's willingness to bargain with the life of my mother, who has lived in the UK legally for 40 years, but has the misfortune of being a French citizen after Brexit.
To be an immigrant, even a fortunate immigrant, is, if you keep your eyes even slightly open, to know you live at the good will of your host nation. And when that good will appears to be running short, no one, not even "good immigrants", is safe. It was not so long ago that the very permanent resident status I have now was explicitly denied to me by federal law. It is not so long ago my sexuality would make me suspect at the border. And, as a former H1-B holder paid out of a federal grant, "American Jobs for American People" is a chilling phrase. Permanent residency is usually treated much like citizenship for job eligibility purposes. Now, with this administration, I begin to wonder how safe that is.
People's lives were ruined yesterday, make no mistake. Some people will die as a direct consequence of that decision. But every green card or visa holder in the country woke up this morning, and wondered just how much the little bits of card we carry in our wallets are worth, and what might have them become as worthless as those held by Iranian, Syrian, Iraqi, Libyan, Sudanese, Yemeni, and Somali citizens who called America home.
I am an immigrant, I am angry, and I am more afraid than I was before.
* I'm aware that as of today, Priebus has claimed to walk that back. But I'll believe it when I see it.
Sunday, 22 January 2017
And Whither then? I cannot say
So, eventually, restless, I resolved to start writing about something, anything. It is a small outlet. I am not so presumptuous as to think any of these private thoughts are actually unique or insightful. Yet I wished to return something. And I needed an outlet for those disquisitions and diatribes I would compose in my head at two in the morning, distilling a day's worth of information overload.
In many ways, this blog surprised me. It lasted longer than I thought. It wandered more then I thought. One constant was remains that I cannot predict which posts will resonate and which won't. I guess I still don't know my audience. Some posts I considered very niche have gone far. Some of the posts of which I remain proudest linger unloved.
From the beginning, this blog has been tied to my twitter presence. And in light of what has happened with the world lately, my twitter presence has dwindled. I have had to preserve myself, control my engagement. Initially, I felt guilty, like I was abandoning the fight. But I've made my peace now. I can fight better if I can control my energy. And leaving twitter lets me do that.
I had learnt that lesson earlier with this blog. I realised reasonably soon that posts that were reactions to what was going on on twitter were not always my best. And so I started deliberately not writing blog posts in response to twitter issues. Or entwining them with thoughts I had for a long time. So my blog remained slightly esoteric, detached, the results, I hope, of my idiosyncratic observation of world. After all, I'd staked a claim in the lineage of Montaigne, and I decided to stay there.
But now that I have withdrawn from twitter, can the blog exist separately? In one sense, no. Traffic to my blog is almost entirely from twitter. Without my twitter presence, my readership will dwindle. But in another sense, yes. I am proud of this blog. I find I am attached to some of this writing. That I want to be associated with it. It has been suggested to me more than once that I should take it down as a junior academic, and I have found I cannot, no, I do not want to do it. There are things here that I feel are of value.
On the other hand, no one can deny I've been writing less here of lately. Why? In part, because when it comes to our current unpleasantness, I don't know that anything I have to say is of any value. I've become self conscious in the sea of verbiage of broadly varying quality that has accompanied the turbulence of these months. Does my writing help? Does my voice improve? Or is it yet more half baked, superficially convincing ramblings of an over educated person with an exaggerated sense of his own intellect and importance?
All this to say, I have not written much of late. But the more I think of it, the more I want to write here again. Perhaps write less, perhaps write better, but I cannot leave this place, not yet.
So, if you still know it exists, watch this space. Because here, still, my voice will be heard.


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California Internet Voting Task Force Report (2000) (full-text).
Overview Edit
In January 2000, the California Internet Voting Task Force released its report on the feasibility of using the Internet to conduct California elections. The report concluded that Internet voting would allow increased access to the voting process for millions of potential voters who did not currently participate in California elections. The Task Force, however, did not recommend immediately implementation of Internet voting in California. The report stated that technological threats to the security, integrity and secrecy of Internet voting were significant, and that the danger of potential attacks on home and office computers, though preventable, were considerable. The Task Force concluded the best approach was one that was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. It recommended implementing Internet voting in four stages.
The first stage called for Internet voting in supervised polling locations. This stage would allow the voter to use an Internet voting machine instead of a paper ballot, though the voter would be required to vote from their home precinct. Election officials would be responsible for providing secure Internet access. This first stage would not offer the convenience of remote internet voting, but would allow the integrity of the voting and tabulation technology to be verified through the Internet voting machines.
The second stage would be similar to the first stage, but voters would not be required to cast their ballot at their home precinct. Voters could cast their ballots using any Internet voting machine within their county. This stage would allow voters the convenience of casting their ballots on Election Day even if they are unable to visit their home polling place. Voting locations would not be limited to traditional polling locations, and would include places like malls, office buildings, and schools.
The third stage would permit voters to cast their ballots at any number of unsupervised Internet voting machines. The Internet voting machines would have to be secured from tampering and have access to nearby technical assistance. This stage would allow the convenience of voting around the clock and in advance of Election Day. Since election officials would not be present at this stage to verify the identity of voters, an electronic authentication ("PIN") would be required.
The fourth an final stage would allow voters to engage in remote internet voting. Voters would use a county-provided authentication method to verify their identity and cast their ballot from virtually any computer with Internet access. This authentication process would have to provide at least the same level of security as the existing voting process in California.
The Task Force concluded that, though possible, it was not practical or fiscally feasible to develop a remote internet voting system that would completely replace the paper process used for voter registration and voting. The Task Force stated that the opportunity to cast Internet ballots must be accessible to all potential voters, which included low income voters whose only access to the Internet would be through public access terminals. In short, the goal of Internet voting was to provide increased access to voting locations, resulting in greater participation in the democratic process. The voting process, however, required an extremely high level of security to maintain the integrity of the democratic system.


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Jin-Emon Hanafusa profile
|Full name
|Jin-Emon Hanafusa
|Unknown; 47 when the game takes place
|157 cm (approx. 5' 2")
|73 kg (161 lbs)
|Rear Guard of Oniwabanshu
|Drinking at dinnertime, bonsai
|Caterpillars, ghosts
|Crucifix Spear Arts of Life and Death (活殺十字槍, Kassatsu Jūji Yari), a jūmonji spear
|Fighting style
|Ancient Spear Arts of Life and Death (活殺古式槍術, Kassatsu Koshiki Sōjutsu)
Jin-Emon Hanafusa (花房 迅衛門, Hanafusa Jin'emon) is a character who appears only in Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage. He is voiced by Hikaru Hanada.
He is a veteran samurai loyal to the shogunate. During his years of service, he befriends Seishiro and Tohma's father and Jushiro Sakaki. Along with Seishiro, he goes on a secret mission to end the rebellions of the Three Blades of Dominion. He is also assigned the task of retrieving the rogue Jushiro. Unlike his partner, he is sympathetic to his lesser ranked peers that are stationed at Ritenkyo and tries his best to moralize them with a promise to return home.
Jin-emon meets Jushiro in his ending and they duel. He loses but takes care to warn his friend of the shogunate's pursuers. He prepares to die though Saya treats his wounds shortly afterwards. He humorously gets a nosebleed when she flirts with him (an anime caricature of arousal).
Old-fashioned and rigorous warrior who stays loyal to his duty at all times. Since he spent his whole life away from the opposite sex, Jin-Emon is very nervous around women.
- Multiple Attacks: Jin-Emon can deliver several slashes at once.
Fighting StyleEdit
Jin-Emon's fighting style relies on keeping his enemy at a distance. He is a mid ranged combatant who works well by punishing his enemies' mistakes. His weapon's length allows players to play various poking games with their opponents.
- Shogunate - Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage
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Long-term follow-up of a high- and a low-intensity smoking cessation intervention in a dental setting– a randomized trial
Health behavior, health promotion and society
Achieving lifelong tobacco abstinence is an important public health goal. Most studies use 1-year follow-ups, but little is known about how good these are as proxies for long-term and life-long abstinence. Also, intervention intensity is an important issue for development of efficient and cost-effective cessation treatment protocols.
The study aims were to assess the long-term effectiveness of a high- and a low-intensity treatment (HIT and LIT) for smoking cessation and to analyze to what extent 12-month abstinence predicted long-term abstinence.
300 smokers attending dental or general health care were randomly assigned to HIT or LIT at the public dental clinic. Main outcome measures were self-reported point prevalence, continuous abstinence (≥6 months), and sustained abstinence. The study was a follow-up after 5–8 years of a previously performed 12-month follow-up, both by postal questionnaires.
Response rate was 85% (n=241) of those still alive and living in Sweden. Abstinence rates were 8% higher in both programs at the long-term than at the 12-month follow-up. The difference of 7% between HIT and LIT had not change, being 31% vs. 24% for point prevalence and 26% vs. 19% for 6-month continuous abstinence, respectively. Significantly more participants in HIT (12%) than in LIT (5%) had been sustained abstinent (p=0.03). Logistic regression analyses showed that abstinence at 12-month follow-up was a strong predictor for abstinence at long-term follow-up.
Abstinence at 12-month follow-up is a good predictor for long-term abstinence. The difference in outcome between HIT and LIT for smoking cessation remains at least 5–8 years after the intervention.
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Tobacco use causes nearly six million deaths globally every year
There is a vast literature on and strong evidence for the effectiveness of tobacco control programs
The international literature indicates that 6-12% of smokers trying to quit are abstinent 12 months later if no support is available
Even though Sweden has succeeded in reducing the prevalence of tobacco smoking, smokeless tobacco (snus) use is relatively common. Currently, 1.6 million Swedes (21% 2011) use tobacco every day, with great differences existing between different socioeconomic groups
The primary aim of the present study was to assess the long-term effectiveness of a high- and a low-intensity treatment for smoking cessation and the secondary aim was to analyze predictors for long-term abstinence. The basis for the present study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) consisting of two programs of different intensity with a previous follow-up after 12 months
This study was a long-term follow-up of a previously reported study
The long-term follow-up was performed 5–8 years after the planned smoking cessation dates. We developed a questionnaire with 13 questions, of which all were validated questions and eleven were previously used in the baseline and the 12-month questionnaires
Before sending the questionnaires, the national population register was checked for deaths and emigration. The questionnaire was posted to the participants together with a cover letter and an informed consent form. Participants were asked to return the answered questionnaire and signed consent form in the enclosed prepaid envelope. Those still not answering after two written reminders were contacted and interviewed by telephone by a dental hygienist.
The original study, as well as the long-term follow-up, was approved by the ethical committee at Uppsala University (Dnr:Ups 02–457, Dnr: 2010/172).
Treatment protocols
In the original study
Information on possible benefits of NRT was included with both programs, but the participants received no recommendation regarding its use or not. At the first meeting, a smoking cessation date was fixed for all participants in both groups. The participants were informed that they would be followed-up. Both programs were free of charge.
Questionnaire and outcome measures
Additional file 1: Figure S1
Classification of predictor and outcome variables used in the present study.
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We used the "intention-to-treat" approach where all participants were included in the analyses according to the program they were randomized to. When measuring abstinence at follow-up, non-responders to the follow-up questionnaire were treated as smokers. However, we also analysed responder-only abstinence. For six individuals who did not reply to the baseline questionnaire, we only had information about their gender and which program they were randomized to, thus they could not be used in the analyses of background variables.
Chi-square test and Fisher´s exact test were used for comparisons between HIT and LIT for categorical variables and Mann–Whitney U-test for continuous variables. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was used to test change in number of smoked cigarettes at baseline and at long-term follow-up in still smokers. Logistic regression analysis was performed to calculate odds ratios (ORs) with a 95% confidence interval for the three different outcome measures. We first made univariable analyses of all relevant independent variables. As the purpose was to obtain a predictive model, statistical significant variables at p<0.2 in the univariable analyses at baseline and at 12-month follow-up, plus program and gender, were included in the multivariable analyses. The multivariable analyses were performed with forward and backward stepwise likelihood ratio test (LR), to detect potential collinearity that could disturb the analyses, with 5% for inclusion and 5% for exclusion. Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness of fit test was used for testing the overall fit of the logistic regression model
Of the original 300 smokers, twelve had died and four had emigrated, leaving 284 possible individuals to contact for the long-term follow-up. Of these, 178 (63%) returned an answered questionnaire and thirteen returned an unanswered questionnaire but often with a comment which, in five cases, included information of their actual smoking status. By means of telephone calls to those 93 participants who had not returned the questionnaire, an additional 63 answers were retrieved, giving a total percentage of answers of 85% (241/284), 86% in HIT and 84% in LIT. Women constituted 81% of the respondents. The study´s flowchart is presented in Figure
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Flowchart of the study
Flowchart of the study. (Through returned unanswered questionnaires with comments, information about smoking status at long-term follow-up was given for one in HIT (who was smokefree) and four in LIT (one was smoke-free). That is the reason for N3=284 while the sum of the lower boxes is 282).
The median follow-up time was 6.2 (q1 5.9; q3 6.7) years (HIT median 6.1, q1 5.8; q3 6.7, LIT median 6.3, q1 6.0; q3 6.8, p=0.135). It was measured from the planned cessation date until the date when the questionnaire was completed or the telephone interview was performed.
Abstinence/outcome, length of abstinence/time to first stop
Point prevalence was 31% in HIT and 24% in LIT, and 6-month continuous abstinence 26% in HIT and 19% in LIT. These differences in abstinence rates between the programs were not statistically significant. However, when analyzing the proportion of participants who had maintained sustained abstinence, there was a significant difference in favor of HIT: 12% vs. 5% (p=0.030). The differences in quit rates between HIT and LIT and the p-values were almost the same in ITT- and in responder-only analyses (Table
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Outcomes for HIT and LIT at 12-month and at long-term (5–8 ys) follow-up
Outcomes for HIT and LIT at 12-month and at long-term (5–8 ys) follow-up. (PP=point prevalence abstinence, CA=6-month continuous abstinence, SA = sustained abstinence).
The mean number of smoke-free days immediately before the long-term follow up was 1317 (SD 942) in HIT and 1194 (SD 894) in LIT (not significant). However, the number of days from baseline assessment to first quit was significantly shorter in HIT (median 185) than in LIT (median 502) (p=0.025).
Amount of cigarettes
The number of smoked cigarettes per week decreased from baseline (median=105, interquartile range=70) to long-term follow-up (median=84, interquartile range=49) in still smokers with median=14, interquartile range=40; p<0.001. This reduction was significantly higher in HIT than in LIT (p=0.042).
Other support
About two-thirds of the participants stated that they had had access to other support, mainly social (from family, friends, and workmates). Abstinence rates were significantly higher among those with other support than among those without, regarding point prevalence 36% vs. 21% (p=0.017) and 6-month continuous abstinence 29% vs. 16% (p=0.034). However, 10% had maintained sustained abstinence, both among those with and without other support.
Access to other support was equal in both programs, but in LIT there were significantly higher abstinence rates among those with other support than among those without. Point prevalence was 33% vs. 12% (p=0.025) and 6-month continuous abstinence 27% vs. 9% (p=0.040).
Gender differences
Women had higher, although non-significant, abstinence rates than men at the long-term follow-up. Point prevalence was 30% among women and 17% among men (p=0.051), and 6-month continuous abstinence 24% among women and 15% among men (p=0.171). The difference between women and men was larger at the long-term than at the 12-month follow-up. Access to other support was significantly higher among women (73%) than among men (53%) (p=0.015).
When analyzing gender differences in HIT and LIT separately, the only significant difference was that, in HIT, more women than men had access to other support (p=0.003).
Twenty-two percent of all participants had used pharmaceuticals for smoking cessation (NRT, Zyban®, Champix®) during the week before the long-term follow-up, compared with 16% at the 12-month assessment (NRT) and 8% at baseline (NRT), with similar proportions in both programs.
Since the program-start, 24% had used NRT ≥5 weeks, 30% <5 weeks, and 47% had not used it at all, with similar proportions in HIT and LIT. The effect of NRT-use on abstinence did not differ significantly between HIT and LIT (Additional file
Additional file 2: Table S1
Outcome at long-term follow-up in HIT and LIT according to NRT use between baseline and long-term follow-up.
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Outcome at long-term follow-up according to NRT use controlled for program (logistic regression analysis).
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Eight percent used snus during the week before the long-term follow-up, compared with 6% at the 12-month assessment and 7% at baseline. There were slightly higher proportions in HIT than in LIT at all assessments, but not statistically significant.
Still trying
Of the participants responding to the follow-up and who were still smoking, 63% (105/166) were actually trying to quit at that time or intended to make a new attempt within the following six months, with no significant differences between the programs.
Logistic regression analyses
In the multivariable analyses, we adjusted for significant confounders up to the 12-month follow-up, plus program and gender and the results are presented in Table
Additional file 4: Table S3
Univariable logistic regression analyses for point prevalence abstinence at long-term follow-up.
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Additional file 5: Table S4
Univariable logistic regression analyses for 6-month continuous abstinence at long-term follow-up.
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Additional file 6: Table S5
Univariable logistic regression analyses for sustained abstinence.
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Transitions between smoking statuses from 12-month to long-term follow-up
At 12-month follow-up the participants were in one of three smoking statuses: smokers, point prevalent but <6 months abstinent or 6-month continuous abstinent. Here we describe the transition between smoking statuses from 12-month to long-term follow-up for these three statuses. Among those who were
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Transitions between smoking statuses from 12-month to long-term (5-8ys) follow-up.
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At the long-term follow-up 5–8 years after the planned smoking cessation date, 27% of the participants were abstinent. Point prevalence was 31% in HIT and 24% in LIT, of which 26% and 19%, respectively, was 6-month continuous abstinence. Sustained abstinence was maintained by 12% in HIT and 7% in LIT (p=0.03). The 7% difference in abstinence rates between HIT and LIT remained unchanged over time and may be considered clinically significant because of the very large health gains that accrue from stopping smoking and which are attached to cost-savings
Returning to our question in the introduction: how good are 1-year follow-ups as proxies for long-term and life-long abstinence? Other studies report that, among 12-month abstainers, 60-70% remains abstinent for at least eight years
As far as we know, there is a lack of non-pharmacological clinical studies with long-term follow-up and, consequently, it is difficult to compare abstinence rates. A cessation program in a specialist clinic in Sweden, with an average of 10 treatment sessions and NRT as a recommended part of the program, shows 40% abstinence after 5–7 years, of which 18% is continuous abstinence
In Sweden, 85-90% of the adult inhabitants regularly visit the dental care
The majority of smokers quit and relapse a number of times before they achieve sustained abstinence
In the present study, abstinence at the 12-month follow-up was a very strong predictor of abstinence at the long-term follow-up, with ORs between 13.53 and 18.70 in the multivariable logistic regression analyses. Program was the only significant predictor of maintaining sustained abstinence, with an OR of 2.67 for HIT vs. LIT. Among common reported predictors for successful quitting
Women had higher, however not statistically significant, quitting rates than men in the present study. One explanation can be that
We did not find any strong support for the positive long-term effect of
The role of
The still smokers had reduced their
Strengths of the present study are: i) the randomized controlled trial-design, ii) the long-term follow-up period, and iii) the high response rate. Limitations are: i) the lack of chemical validation of abstinence and ii) the risk of memory bias. However, self-reports are considered accurate in most smoking cessation studies
Abstinence at 12-month follow-up is a good predictor for long-term abstinence. The difference in outcome between HIT and LIT for smoking cessation, although non-significant except for sustained abstinence, remained relatively constant and in favour of HIT for at least 5–8 years after the intervention.
A 12-month follow-up may be a sufficient end-point for assessment of smoking cessation programs with fixed quit dates. Also, which the present and the prior study suggests
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors´ contributions
EN: construction and validation of outcome measures, data collection and analysis, manuscript preparation, JÖ: statistical consultation, manuscript preparation, ÅT: study design, manuscript preparation, PT: study design, manuscript preparation, ARH: study design, construction and validation of outcome measures, data analysis, manuscript preparation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This work was supported by grants from the Västmanland County Council, Sweden.
We wish to thank the dental hygienists Ann-Cathrine Engström-Stangfors, Lena Storholm and Agneta Wedelstam for the practical work with the smoking cessation support in the original study and Ann-Cathrine Engström-Stangfors for the telephone interviews at the long-term follow-up.
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