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One of the main questions I get asked when I tell people what I do is "How do you fit it all in?" Normally I either give them a blasé half-truth, or I try to explain the actual answer. In both cases I'm usually met with confusion or disbelief.
A few years ago I used to do a weekly round-up on this blog, which I revived last year when I was ill so my friends would have a way of checking I was still alive without me having to answer lots of messages. Yesterday I was thinking about this, and I realised it might be a good idea to continue this theme while answering the "How do you fit it all in?" question, because then I'd have somewhere to direct people who ask it.
So, here goes. This is what I did with my week, and how I fitted it all in.
I'd taken the previous week off work, so I got up at 6.15 to give myself a headstart on the backlog I knew would be waiting for me. I was struck by how much I prefer working for my own company than for someone else's. When I worked in an ad agency, I had to commute into work and I'd be met by an inbox 1500+ emails strong after a week away. On Monday my commute involved climbing the stairs from my bedroom, and then walking down the hallway into the kitchen, which is temporarily housing my home office while I'm renovating my flat. I only had 150 emails, which was still more than I'd like, but much better than 1500.
On Sunday I'd been feeling refreshed and revitalised after my week off, but on Monday my body decided to twist its insides into knots and give me a fun combination of horrific cramps, stabbing pains and feeling like I was going to pass out. Normally when that happens I decide to take a sick day, but I couldn't really do that following an entire week off, so I decided to soldier on through it. Luckily the London heatwave hadn't started yet, so I strapped some hot water bottles around me, downed some codeine and tried to ignore the pain as much as possible.
I spent the morning catching up on emails, queueing up content and looking over stuff for my clients, checking in on how things had gone during my week off. Happily everything was fine, because I have a wonderful team of freelancers who do most of the actual work.
At midday I walked around West London running errands, despite feeling like I was about to collapse the whole time. Happily I didn't, although the people at my business mailbox did ask if I needed to sit down for a while. I declined, just wanting to get back to a space that included a selection of hot water bottles and a giant box of hospital-grade painkillers.
When I got home about two hours later I did some business admin – Monday is the day I deal with the thrilling side of business, like accounts and administration – and then I had a few client calls in the early evening.
By the time I hung up at 7 I wasn't sure I could stay upright much longer, so I made myself a cup of hot, sweet tea, piled myself under some blankets and hot water bottles, and read Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan. It was good.
I went to bed early, hoping that sleep would help the twisting insides problem. It did, although I woke up in the middle of the night with an inspiration that I scrawled on my hand so I wouldn't forget it. The following morning I found it mirror-written on the duvet.
On Tuesday I happily woke up feeling less dead. I'd allowed myself a lie-in, so I got up at 8.15 and immediately started working. Normally I potter around for an hour or so before work, but I still had some post-holiday backlog stuff to do. I did a bunch of work for a client, mainly content management, then I sorted out some work for my freelancers.
I caught up with all the blogs I follow via Feedly – this is where I get a lot of my inspiration from, both for this blog and for clients' websites.
Tuesday afternoons are always booked up with a weekly appointment, so I went to that and then came home and wrote articles for a few hours.
All day while I was working, I was listening to the songs we're currently learning in choir. We have a concert in June, which seems far away until you realise it's almost the end of April. We're singing Vivaldi – the "other Gloria":
I finished work at 5 and spent a couple of hours trying to get the tricky timing right on these songs. Then I headed to rehearsal. That went on until 9.30, so there was no time for swimming in the evening. Instead I came home, read a bit of Tubing by K.C. McKeagney before deciding it wasn't worth my time, and went to sleep instead.
On Wednesdays I try not to drink too much caffeine in the mornings, because I have my weekly driving lesson in the afternoons. Unfortunately I often fail at this: I spent a month weaning myself back onto caffeine after the Angry Organ Implosion of last year, and now I kind of wish I hadn't. Coffee has been such a huge part of my identity for so long though that it felt weird not drinking it, like I'd lost a part of myself.
In the morning I repotted some plants, then I started work just before nine and worked until midday, at which point I took a break for lunch. Over lunch I read a couple of academic papers.
Wednesday afternoons are my designated learning time. At the moment that mainly means driving lessons and trying to teach myself to sight read music. The driving's going OK; the sight reading not so much. I learn much better when I have a teacher, because I hate disappointing other people but I don't mind disappointing myself. Anyway, I did some driving and then some singing, and then I came home and got in the bath, because I still wasn't feeling great. I read Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge. Predictably, it was very good.
I went to bed at 5.30pm because sometimes I'm incredibly cool like that.
When you tell people you work for yourself, they inevitably think that means you can just bunk off work whenever you want and decide not to do anything for a day. That's not actually true: you need a huge amount of discipline to keep yourself in check and hit all your deadlines, otherwise you don't make rent and you end up having to go back to an office job *shudder*.
Thursday was very hot. I don't like hot. I opened all my windows and sat in the coldest room directly in front of what little breeze there was.
In the morning I worked on my clients' projects, checked my emails and did some necessary admin. I stopped that just after midday and went over my plan for the next book I'm writing. I think it's looking pretty solid. I also asked for feedback on Twitter and made a note of the things people said. The acknowledgements section in this book is going to be lengthy.
As you'll know if you read this blog regularly, I review books on here. Generally I don't get paid for that, I just do it in exchange for the book itself. Sometimes, however, I'll review a book on a client's website, and normally I do get paid for those. I was sent a book about setting up a business in Hong Kong, which I'm going to review on an expat website, so that was on my list to read on Thursday.
Although you do need discipline as a freelancer, it is true that you can have some flexibility. You just have to know when it's OK to take time off and when it's not. So when my friend sent me a message on Thursday so say she was taking the rest of the afternoon off and did I want to join her on her roof terrace, I said yes. I took the book with me.
I read half the book on the journey to her house, and half on the way back. In case you haven't worked this out, I'm a very quick reader.
We were joined on her rooftop by one of our other friends later in the afternoon, and we sat there drinking champagne and watching the sun go down.
I woke up a teensy bit hungover. It was still very hot outside. I did a minimal amount of client-related work in the morning, then I decided the best way of cooling down would be to sit in a cold bath for the rest of the day, so I did that. Whilst in the bath I read some books: The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan (which I put down after a few chapters); We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler; Blacklands by Belinda Bauer; and Blood Harvest by Sharon Bolton.
I got into bed before 6pm and read Cast Iron by Peter May. I'd been hoping I'd fall asleep while I was reading it, but I didn't, so once I'd finished it I continued binge-watching Friends on Netflix. I woke up on Saturday morning next to a dark computer screen with books strewn all around me.
As you can see, my bed is currently surrounded by boxes, because I'm renovating my flat. That's what I did on Saturday.
Refusing to be put off by the hot weather, I spent Saturday stripping stuff and making decisions about heating. When it's warm outside it's easy to be like, "Oh I don't need great heating options even though I only have single glazing now that I've removed the internal windows" but it's important to remember what it's like in winter, when the boiler breaks and it takes the heating engineer several days to come and fix it.
Decisions made and paper stripped – I've so nearly finished stripping all the wallpaper! – I spent the rest of the day vegging out in front of Netflix.
I spent the morning making food for the upcoming week: one large leafy salad; one potato salad which turned into mashed potato because I put the potatoes on to boil and then forgot about them; some dressing to go with the salad; and a few filler bits for wraps.
During my week of renovating I'd accidentally defrosted the freezer and ruined all the food, so at 1pm a van arrived with a load of food to restock. At least I won't need to defrost the freezer again for a while.
The BFF showed up at 3pm – she works for herself too, and she'd been at work all morning. She dragged me outside to have a picnic on the green in the sun, which despite my grumbling I actually loved. Once we'd baked our skin for a couple of hours we went to the garden centre so I could stock up on plants, and then we went for dinner and then she went home. I was planning to get up at 6 on Monday to go swimming, so I went to bed early with Friends again and ended my week on a nice relaxing note.
And that, my friends, is how I fit it all in.


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Glögg! (Pronounced glooog).
I am now convinced there is nothing tastier than a cup of warm glogg (ie: mulled wine with spices), on a cold winters day. In Stockholm an alcohol free version is given away on the streets. What a treat to warm your frosty fingers and noses! The best thing, there is no one-way to make glögg. Aside from the staples: wine, cinnamon, cardamom, almonds, raisons, orange peels, and sugar, glögg allows you the freedom to don your chef hat and concoct a creative version perfectly fit to your own taste. I have quizzed Swedes and scoured recipes: some add brandy, others vodka or aquavit, and if you're my moma, diluting with water is key. Interestingly, in the 1890's glögg became very popular throughout northern European nations, used as a "health potion" to cure various winter related ailments.
Since returning home I have been experimenting with glögg recipes, trying to find that perfect taste. After accidentally straining the first batch straight down the kitchen drain, (cue jet lag tears of exhaustion), a cringe worthy vodka batch that surely puts hair on your chest, and a few other concoctions involving ginger ale, I have found my favorite version! If you have a cheap bottle of wine kicking around your liquor cupboard, I assure you, it is up for the glogg challenge!
Glögg Basics:
- 1 ltr inexpensive dry red wine
- 50ml inexpensive brandy
- 8 cinnamon sticks broken in half
- 1 1/2 tsp cardamom seeds - Most recipes call for cardamom seed pods. If you can find them, use about 10. Lack of selection at the Yorkton grocery store had me substituting with dried cardamom - avoid at all costs! It is just not the same.
- 15-20 whole cloves
- 1 orange peel
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 cup blanched almonds
- 1/2 cup sugar
Mix all ingredients together over low heat. Do not let the concoction come to a boil. Let simmer for 45 minutes. If your house starts smelling like Christmas and you are anxious to dive in, strain it, adding the almonds and raisins back into the mugs, and serve! Other varieties include letting the wine mull for 4-5 hours, or even overnight, it is all up to you! If you're an aquavit or port fan, feel free to experiment adding different things to the mix.
In this subarctic Saskatchewan winter, glögg is quickly becoming a post-cross country ski tradition... can you blame us?
Cheers and Happy Holidays!

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text: LUCIUSwith ALPENGLOW Thursday, October 24, 2013 at 8:00pm$12.00 advance$14.00door18+7th St Entry Info TabsDetailsLucius just performed at The Current, click here to hear their session. "… the best band you may not have heard yet." [Rolling Stone] Lucius' debut album Wildewoman is out October 15 on Mom+Pop. It's available for pre-order here: http://po.st/wildewoman Every preorder will receive: a lollipop all vinyl pre-orders will be signed by the band an immediate download of the album track "Tempest" the full digital download of Wildewoman on release day (Oct. 15) Entry into our weekly prize drawings (featuring prizes including the band making a video for you, a postcard from the road, personalized drawing, etc.) Full list of prizes and contest rules: http://lucius.kungfustore.com/pages/wildewoman_contest_rules PerformersPerformer: LUCIUS WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERMOM + POPFronted by the enchanting Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, Lucius has drawn acclaim for powerful songs showcasing taut hooks, along with their mesmerizing stage presence and bold visual aesthetics. The New York Times described Wolfe and Laessig's vocals as being "especially gorgeous," while Rolling Stone says Lucius is "powerful enough to knock you over." Talented multi-instrumentalists Peter Lalish and Dan Molad round out the group. Read more about LUCIUS Special GuestsSpecial Guests: ALPENGLOW WEBSITEFACEBOOKTWITTERBANDCAMPAlpenglow began in a small Vermont town when founding members Peter Coccoma, Graeme Daubert, Elori Kramer, and Kenneth Root shared songs in an old stone mill. Over the next two years, after adding bassist Colin Weeks, Alpenglow transformed original songs rooted in the folk tradition into a collection of finely crafted arrangements that are sprawling, moody, and wholly their own. Read more about ALPENGLOW


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Most readers are probably familiar with Colorado author John Gierach. He has become one of angling's most popular writers, in the years following the 1986 publication of his best known book Trout Bum (Pruett Publishing).
Gierach earned special affection from many bamboo rod fly fishers 1997, when he published Fishing Bamboo (Lyons Press). Since fiberglass and, later, graphite became standard rod-making materials, bamboo has become a niche material. Still, there are many contemporary makers of bamboo rods. And there are many older rods, having been produced for well over one hundred years now, in circulation. I sometime use some older rods myself.
Gierach recently published a new short essay on bamboo rods in the business news magazine Bloomberg. The essays is titled "The Quasi-Religious, Damn-Near-Irrational Appeal of Bamboo Fishing Rods" (August 8, 2019). You can find the article, accompanied by pictures of fine contemporary rods, here.
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Gierach on the almost religious devotion to bambooAugust 13, 2019
Most readers are probably familiar with Colorado author John Gierach. He has become one of angling's most popular writers, in the years following the 1986 publication of his best known book Trout Bum (Pruett Publishing).
SummerAugust 7, 2019
I'll write a proper post again soon. It has been a busy season.
Following are pictures from the Dalmatian Coast, Dublin, Montana, and the Colville Indian Reservation.
LocalJune 4, 2019
As lovely as old English-made Hardy reels are, I find myself more interested in tackle made closer to home these days. This means tackle made in Pacific Canada and the Northwest United States.
Pictured here are two beautiful fly reels from British Columbia, a Peetz (with art by Jason Henry Hunt, Kwakiutl) and an Islander IR.
Missoula's Paul BunyanOctober 8, 2018
Today's Missoulian, the local newspaper of Missoula, Montana, features an article on legendary Montana fly fishing figure Norman Means, aka "Paul Bunyan." Means is probably most widely known as the creator of the "Bunyan Bug" fly, fished in Norman Macleans' A River runs Through It. The article, by Kim Briggeman, is based upon the many mentions of Means in various editions of the Missoulian published during the last century.
For instance, Briggeman offers this quote from a 1928 article: "Norman is a believer in the use of Western Montana products. He makes all his own fishing tackle, and turns out a few fly rods for his friends. These rods have life and endurance, and they are peculiarly adapted to Montana streams because their maker puts them together knowing exactly the kind of water they will be used in."
It's a great article, for those interested in Montana's early and often enigmatic fly tiers. Read it here: "Missoula Rewound: Bunyan fished, Means danced through the heart of the 20th Century."
Ed Shenk, East and WestAugust 31, 2018
Last weekend, I visited a few small streams with my dog and a favorite rod. The rod is my 5'2″ 4 wt glass rod built by the legendary angler, author, and fly tier Ed Shenk. I bought the rod when I lived in Central Pennsylvania, and I have not used it much since returning to the West. Last week, I found that it was well-suited to some of the little streams that hold native cutthroat trout near my home. Of course, while fishing, I got the thinking about Pennsylvania, the short rods that Shenk favors, the body of angling literature produced by Shenk and his Pennsylvania peers, and more.
Since then, I have noticed that the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association will be honoring Shenk during their annual fund-raising dinner this year. They will be honoring the late Lefty Kreh as well. If you are in the area, you might consider attending in order to help support the PFFMA preserve the legacies of Shenk, Vincent Marinaro, Charlie Fox, and so many other famous anglers from the region.
Halford's FliesAugust 9, 2018
I was just looking through a few personal pictures of antiquarian angling books, hoping to find some lost files I need for a publication. I did not find them, but I did come across these pictures I took of the deluxe edition of Frederick Halford's 1897 Dry Fly Entomology (London: John Bale & Sons for Vinton & Co.,). I am sharing a few pages, below. The flies on the plates are actual flies attached directly to the pages.
John Betts' handwritten LegacyJune 8, 2018
John Betts of Colorado has authored several, beautiful books devoted to angling topics. His 1980 publication, Synthetic Flies, first brought him wide attention. Even Sports Illustrated highlighted the fly tying innovations represented in Synthetic Flies. In 1981, SI published an article on Betts, authored by Robert Boyle, titled "Gotcha! Hook, Line, and Lingerie" Since then, Betts has written about making split wood fly rods (note, bamboo, used in split cane rods, is a grass), hand-building fly reels, and more.
What I admire most about Betts' work is that his creativity extends beyond the topics of his books to the creation of the books themselves. He hand writes, rather than types, and personally illustrates each book. Moreover, the meanings of his words run much, much deeper than subjects at hand. Indeed, he writes poetically about tackle construction and other matters. In recent years, Betts has worked with editor and publisher Michael Hackney, of Reel Lines Press and The Eclectic Angler (and initially in association with The Whitefish Press), to make his books–old and new–available. I purchased a copy of the latest Betts book, Patterns.
Hackney writes of Betts' texts, on the Reel Lines Press web page, that "each book is a work of art unto itself." This is certainly true of this newest book. The content, writing, drawing, and paintings are wonderful. It is soft covered, and only 200 copies will be produced. Even if you do not need a new fly tying book, which (on the surface) is primarily what Patterns is, you owe it to yourself to examine a Betts book. No doubt, he has already written about a topic that will appeal to you.
Fly Fishing RoyaltyMay 24, 2018
It is well-known that fly fishing has a place in the traditions of Britain's Royal Family. This is, in part, due to fact that tackle manufacturer Hardy has long publicized their Royal Warrants. Hardy, which dates back to 1872, has held four warrants from British Royal Family members over the years. Currently, it holds a warrant from Charles, Prince of Wales, who is now one of only three Royal Family members who can issue them. Anyone who uses Hardy tackle is familiar with the emblem of this warrant, below. Hardy also uses a castle logo, though this has to do with their being based in the Northumberland town of Alnwick and their proximity to the famous Alnwick castle.
Lately, many eyes have been focused upon Britain's Royal family, due to the marriage of Prince Harry to American Meghan Markle. Personally, I have little interest in such things, as what some might call a salaried proletariat and despiser of celebrity culture, but I do obviously have an interest in fly fishing history. Here, then, I share a bit of information about the current princes' interest in the activity.
At this link to the photography of Leslie Donald, you can view some great pictures of Prince Charles teaching his son Harry to cast. In one photograph, Harry has clearly hooked his father with a fly. Any fly fishing parent, royal or not, can relate to this.
It turns out, though, that the 'official companion' to Princes William and Harry (and personal assistant to Charles) also had a hand in boys' angling education. Below, you can see this woman, Alexandra Shân 'Tiggy' Pettifers (formerly Legge-Bourke) wading across the River Dee in Wales with the two boys. Tiggy has described her love of fishing with the Royal Family and practicing other field sports. In fact, after leaving royal service, she became a fly fishing guide. She now runs a bed and breakfast, featuring trout and salmon fishing on the River Usk, in Wales, called Ty'r Chanter. She was born to a rather high-class family herself, and the B&B is located near her family estate, Glanusk Park. She is also a fund-raiser for the Atlantic Salmon Trust, which is dedicated to the preservation of wild Atlantic salmon. She seems to focus her attention, as a guide, on teaching kids and women to fly fish.
A Legend PassesApril 18, 2018
I wrote previously about Dr. Dan Klein, in my 'Art, Friendship, and Dan Klein's Flies' post of 2016. Dr. Klein was a legendary Montana fly tyer and the father of my oldest friend. His tying fame extended well beyond the banks of his beloved Henry's Fork. Essays about him even appeared in Esquire Magazine and, more recently, in Joe Beelart's book, "Howells: The Bamboo Fly Rods & Fly Fishing History of Gary H. Howells" (Whitefish Press).
Sadly, Dr. Klein has passed. His obituary, written by his loving daughter, Janet, appeared in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle today. Those who read it, will see that Dr. Klein lived a full and admirable life, and that fly fishing featured heavily.
One of these days ….March 3, 2018
One of these days, in the middle of a salmon fly hatch, I'm going to try out one of Norman Means' famous "Bunyan Bugs." If they worked almost 100 years ago, they should work now.


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Frazier History Museum
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Overcorrected steering tied to fatal crash / Driver attempted twice to bring rig under control
Tuesday, December 21, 1999
The driver of a Chesterfield County fire-rescue truck that crashed Saturday, killing a volunteer firefighter, apparently overcorrected his steering twice in an attempt to bring the 40,000-pound rig under control after it dropped into a ditch off Old Buckingham Road.
Police yesterday still were trying to determine what caused the truck, en route to a residential gas-leak emergency, to veer off the shoulderless, two-lane road, which winds through several subdivisions. "There's been questions as to speed and things like that, but it's all still under investigation," Chesterfield police Lt. Tom Holloway said yesterday.
Bradley McNeer, 22, died in the crash. Volunteer District Chief Brian Barfield, who was driving, suffered head and leg injuries but has been released from the hospital. County police and fire officials released these details yesterday about how they believe the crash occurred: Rescue unit No. 49, with Barfield and McNeer aboard, was among seven fire trucks dispatched about 7:40 p.m. to investigate a gas leak inside a home in Old Buckingham Forest. Because such calls can be potentially volatile, the fire units were dispatched as a "priority one" emergency with lights and sirens. "The fact that it was reported to be inside the structure" made the call more serious, said Chesterfield Deputy Fire Chief Paul Mauger. "Without being theatrical, we have a potential bomb ready to go off. We've had those where it's actually leveled homes."
As unit No. 49 was traveling west in the 12400 block of Old Buckingham Road, the rig veered off the right side of the road and struck a culvert, Mauger said. At that point, Barfield attempted to guide the truck back onto the roadway, but he overcorrected and the rig veered into the eastbound lane, Holloway said. With the truck heading toward two oncoming cars, a Lexus and a Volkswagen, those drivers tried to veer to their right and out of the path of the truck, Holloway said. The driver of the Lexus couldn't get over far enough, and the firetruck sideswiped the vehicle.
The driver of the Volkswagen, behind the Lexus, avoided the firetruck but the vehicle "sustained some damage when it went off the road," Holloway said. "They tried to get over onto what is pretty much a nonexistent shoulder," Holloway said. Neither of those drivers was injured.
Meanwhile Barfield, still struggling to bring the firetruck under control, apparently tried to steer it back into the westbound lane. But "it appears . . . he takes it too far, runs off the right side of the road [and] strikes a tree," Holloway said. The firefighters aboard the other fire units that responded to the gas leak were unaware of the crash.
The emergency involved a leak from a gas stove, Mauger said. "The piping had become separated in the wall. It was a significant call."
McNeer, who joined the Chesterfield County Fire Department as a volunteer in February, is the first county firefighter to die in the line of duty. Chesterfield has about 350 career, or paid, firefighters, and about 100 volunteer firefighters.
© 1999, Richmond Newspapers Inc.


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Directed by Wes Ball and stars Dylan O'Brien as Thomas who's finds himself in a climactic battle against evil corporation trying to find cure for this terrible decease known as The Flare.
When it comes to the Maze Runner movies, out of all young adult adaptations we have seen of recent years, this is probably been one of the most consistently fine franchises. There is not a awful entry and considerably better than other YA movies like Mortal Instruments, Percy Jackson, or even Twilight.
This movie has great talented people behind the camera and in front of the camera.
With Maze Runner: The Death Cure, Dylan O'Brien continues to impress us. He is one of the young actors that we would love to see in great movies. He was very seriously injured during the making of this movie doing a stunt. It was a life-threatening and making the whole production shut down.
But there is plenty to like i this film. But it takes quite a bit of time to tell a very simple story. Gratefully there is a lot of really well action scenes an good enough performances.
Wes Ball has shown himself to be a good director especially with whelming convincing the actions sequences. He made his trilogy. How many times these YA adaptations has a director come in made the first film and got two sequels in a row. Even a giant franchise like The Hunger Games got two directors.
In the end the story was not all there.
Maze Runner The Death Cure rating: 6.5/10
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Dr Lionel London (Cardiff University)
31/05/2017, 08:45
Invited talk
Slightly perturbed dissipative systems display characteristic solutions that are not quite normal modes. Nevertheless, these quasi-normal modes encode valuable information about the underlying physics, as well as the nature of the preceding perturbation. In the case of black holes, this means that quasinormal modes may tell us not only about the source spacetime, but also about that...
Dr Carlos Filipe Da Silva Costa (INPE)
31/05/2017, 09:20
Contributed talk
In General Relativity, the Quasi Normal Modes (QNM) from a perturbed Kerr Black Hole (BH) are the superimposition of damped sinusoids. These modes are completely defined by the final black hole parameters, mass and spin. For the current generation of the ground based detectors, the gravitational waves associated with the QNM are weak and hence the extraction of single QNMs is...
Dr Collin Capano (Albert Einstein Institute)
31/05/2017, 09:35
Contributed talk
The distribution of the component spins of binary black holes is one of the most astrophysically interesting results that could be produced by gravitational-wave detectors in the coming years. Unfortunately, the component spins are also one of the most difficult parameters to infer from gravitational waves. Better measurements are obtained of the "effective spin" and "effective precession"...
Dr Chandra Kant Mishra (IIT Madras)
31/05/2017, 09:50
Contributed talk
Compact objects such as neutron stars or black holes or those of more exotic origin, by the virtue of their spin incur deformations that can be characterised in terms of the spin-induced quadrupole and other higher order moments. The magnitude of these deformations depends on the specific nature of compact objects in question. If the compact object is a Kerr black hole, its quadrupole moment...
Dr Sebastian Khan (AEI Hannover)
31/05/2017, 10:05
Contributed talk
The interpretation of gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries relies on accurate source models which are used in complex data analysis techniques. State-of-the-art models used in LIGO analyses make a number of assumptions that may severely limit their accuracy for systems with, e.g., asymmetric masses or large misaligned spin magnitudes that cause precession. In this talk I...
36. A new method for incorporating precession and higher-order modes in searches for compact binaries
Dr Joshua Willis (Abilene Christian University)
31/05/2017, 10:20
Contributed talk
Advanced LIGO's current matched-filter searches for binary mergers model only the dominant mode of binaries whose orbital angular momentum is aligned with the total angular momentum. Some models of binary formation predict a population of systems where these simplifying assumptions will not hold, and so a search that includes them may be necessary to discriminate between these models. In this...
50. How do black hole binaries form ? Studying stellar evolution with gravitational wave observations
Dr Irina Dvorkin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)
31/05/2017, 11:05
Invited talk
The recent detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO demonstrates the existence of binary black holes that merge within the age of the Universe. Moreover, the first LIGO event originated from the merger of black holes more massive than previously observed in X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. Future observations with LIGO and VIRGO will probe the mass and spin distributions of black holes...
Dr Felix Mirabel (CEA-France & CONICET-Argentina)
31/05/2017, 11:40
Contributed talk
I will present the current theoretical models and the multiple strands of observational evidence for the formation of binary stellar black holes, the first sources of gravitational waves detected by LIGO. It is believed that stellar black holes (BHs) can be formed in two different ways: Either a massive star collapses directly into a BH without a supernova (SN) explosion, or an explosion...
Dr Letizia Sammut (Monash University)
31/05/2017, 11:55
Contributed talk
Following the first Advanced LIGO detection, several studies investigated the possibility that GW150914 was of primordial origin and could provide evidence that stellar-mass black holes form part of dark matter. The support for the primordial hypothesis is extremely circumstantial. However, these studies raise an interesting question: how can one confirm or refute the primordial hypothesis for...
Dr Chunglee Kim (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI))
31/05/2017, 12:10
Contributed talk
The first GW source that is confirmed by the advanced LIGO is a binary black hole (BBH). In coming years, advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo will find more BBHs. In this work, we investigate dynamically formed BBHs in core-collapsed globular clusters using direct N-body simulations. We assume two types of BH mass functions: two-component mass function and a continuous mass function (adapted from...
Dr Chad Hanna (Penn State)
01/06/2017, 16:30
Invited talk
The first direct detection of gravitational waves originated from a binary black hole coalescence during advanced LIGO's first observing run in September 2015. A subsequent confirmed detection in December of the same year established the birth of gravitational wave astronomy and the expectation that binary black hole mergers will be frequently observed with ground-based gravitational...
Dr Christopher Berry (University of Birmingham)
01/06/2017, 17:05
Contributed talk
Gravitational-wave observations allow us to infer black hole spins. We will review spin measurements from current LIGO observations of binary black holes. The orientations of the spins are a tracer of the formation mechanism. While spin measurements from individual systems have large uncertainties, more information can be gained by combining the population of results. We show how a...
Ms Miriam Cabero Mueller (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)
01/06/2017, 17:20
Contributed talk
Observations of gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences provide an opportunity for testing the black hole area increase law, also known as the area theorem. For loud enough signals, the inspiral (ringdown) part of the waveform provides a measurement of the initial (final) parameters of the black holes. We explore how to perform such measurements with Advanced LIGO in order...
Prof. Tjonnie Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
01/06/2017, 17:35
Contributed talk
Gravitational lensing phenomena are widespread in electromagnetic astrophysics, and in principle may also be uncovered with gravitational waves. We examine gravitational wave events in the limit of geometric optics, where we expect to see multiple signals from the same event with different arrival times and amplitudes, and wave optics, where we expect to see effects such as interference and...