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XMaS Scientist Experience
XMaS Scientist Experience 2019
XMaS Scientist Experience - deadline extension
Calling all Year 12 Female Physics Students!
Please send us your entry for this year's competition. The deadline has now been extended to Friday 8th March. All information and an entry form can be found
Science Gala in the news
This annual event held at the University of Warwick forms part of the outreach activities of XMaS. This year, it benefitted from a wider press coverage.
It featured in the Coventry Telegraph. Ally Caldecote, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean and Natacha Borrel also took part in the the Vic Minett show on BBC radio Coventry and Warwickshire to advertise the event on Tuesday 29th January.
Thank you for the winners of the 2017 and 2018 XMaS Scientist Experiences who looked after the XMaS stand on that busy evening!
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Since I started following a more health-conscious lifestyle I've had a lot of people ask me about how I got into it and where I get my recipes from. So I thought I'd share my foodspirations in the hope that they will enlighten, inform and inspire you as much as they have for me! I just want to point out too that absolutely none of these people advocate calorie-counting or extreme diets & cleanses. They're about eating what makes you feel healthy & happy, and let's face it, isn't that what everyone wants?!
I first came across Kris in January last year when her recipe book Crazy Sexy Kitchen had just topped the New York Times bestseller list. Kris developed an incurable Stage IV cancer in 2003 and was told she had a maximum of ten years to live. She produced the documentary Crazy Sexy Cancer as she went on a journey investigating alternative treatments and integrative approaches to healing. Last year she celebrated ten years of THRIVING with cancer which she attributes largely to a vegan diet of green juice and plant-empowered foods. Her videos and recipes are fantastic, and if you want more information on using food to transform your health, pick up a copy of her bestseller Crazy Sexy Diet. www.kriscarr.com
Honestly Healthy was the overnight cookbook success of last year, with celebby fans such as Victoria Beckham & Kelly Brook praising the indulgent, guilt-free recipes. The book introduces you to the Alkaline philosophy, which is about balancing the pH of your stomach from a largely acidic environment to a more neutral / alkaline one. This is a vegetarian book but the recipes are so delish you don't even notice the lack of meat, promise! The author Natasha Corrett also recommends you follow this style of eating only 80% of the time, leaving 20% for all the naughty extras you can't go without.
Whilst some of the ingredients in the book are slightly obscure, there are plenty of easy, comforting dishes that take minutes to make. I like the Jewelled Quinoa, Raw Green Curry with Courgette Noodles, and obviously the Chocolate Avocado Mousse! For more recipes visit www.honestlyhealthy.com.
Ooh, finally a health guru who says it's ok to eat meat! As long as it's organic, of course. Madeleine is a nutritional health coach and blogger who has pioneered the "clean eating" philosophy in the UK. Her clients include the Made in Chelsea babes Millie Mackintosh and Caggie Dunlop, and it seems as though the capital is going crazy for her healthy supper and yoga brunch clubs, held at Grace Belgravia in Mayfair.
It's common sense that eating whole, natural, unprocessed foods (preferably organic) is better for you. Why would you want any kind of chemical or additive in your body that you can't pronounce?! With Madeleine's healthy eating lifestyle, nothing is off limits. You can have fish & chips, pizza, bread, steak, chocolate, pancakes & even cocktails as long as you use clean ingredients that are as low as possible in gluten, sugar & dairy. Oh, and did I mention that she can also help you get glowing skin?! She has a cookbook out next year that's sure to fly off the shelves. www.madeleineshaw.com
If you've not heard of Deliciously Ella, all I can say is… Have you been living under a rock in 2014?! This girl is huge in the foodie blogosphere and has paved the way for plant-based eating as the UK's next big health trend. If you're on Instagram I implore you to follow Ella right now for delicious and simple recipe ideas (not to mention a whole load of kitchen envy – does anyone else's actually look that perfect?!) Ella discovered plant-based eating after suffering from the chronic condition Postural Tachycardia Syndrome. Fed up of being in pain, she researched alternative healing methods and discovered the #1 on this list, Kris Carr. Ella radically changed her diet overnight cutting out all meat, fish, gluten, dairy and refined sugar, which over time has radically improved her overall health. Her gorgeous website is www.deliciouslyella.com.
Despite not being as well known as the ladies above, Christy has been on the wellness scene for a long time. As a chartered psychologist, nutritional therapist and clinical hypnotherapist, her website TheFoodPsychologist.com is a brilliant resource for information on how food affects all aspects of your mind and body. I got to know Christy pretty well last year and she's so lovely and down to earth despite all her fancy qualifications! Christy had a tortured relationship with food growing up and she was unwell with bulimia, PCOS, chronic fatigue syndrome, endometriosis, IBS – to name but a few! After years of trying every kind of medication and alternative therapy going, Christy explored how she could heal herself with food. You only need to look at her now to see how well it worked!
Christy advocates going gluten, refined sugar and dairy free, and the recipes in her book Hot, Healthy, Happy are very easy and really tasty (my favourite is her Tomato Balsamic Baked Cod). She has tons of useful videos on her website and is based in Glasgow for consultations, though Londoners can usually catch her at the annual Be:Fit show.
The truth is that I get foodspiration from LOADS of people now, but these are the ladies who got me started. No doubt I'll do another post at some point with an updated list as there are so many other amazing health bloggers and foodies out there these days! It's great that there's such a bigger awareness of healthy food being enjoyable and seeing how holistic and integrative approaches are crossing over into the mainstream.
Here are some other great recipe books/websites that I dip in and out of for ideas:
– Hemsley + Hemsley: The Art of Eating Well
– The Hairy Bikers: Eat for Life cookbook (who doesn't love Si and Dave?!)
– Meals that Heal Inflammation by Julie Daniluk
– River Cottage Veg Everyday by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Feel free to share your foodspirations with me too in the comments below or by sending a tweet my way @ruthtewkkers.
Have a lovely week!


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I've been hosting here at Dreamhost going on a year now. Whenever I want to upload stuff to my site, I use SFTP…The speed (or lack thereof) hasn't really been a problem up until now as I was only uploading small files. But now, I am starting to upload larger files, and I notice that I cannot get more than 50 kb/s upload speed. I have tried it on two different networks, one being a 5000/1000 down/up cable modem, and the other being a full DS3. I was just wondering if this was the norm here? Or if I should bother support about it…haha. Thanks.
Slow ftp uploads
I'm assuming that you mean 50 KB/sec (bytes, not bits, right?).
I get around 80-120 KB/sec at around a 100 ms latency (or 600-960 kbs). My raw dreamhost speed tests are 5 kbs down, 4 kbs up. My raw connection here at work is 100 mbs symmetric, though I mostly don't see more than 25-30 of that - dunno if it's load or the proxy.
I have seen several people post with some concern about their 50 KB/s upload speeds.
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I interviewed Pamela Wilson of Big Brand System to learn the essentials of branding and marketing for bloggers. Skeptical? I was too. But I got fast results from Pamela's advice.
Watch this interview to learn:
- the key to building a brand without wasting money;
- how to go from brand zero to brand hero :- );
- researching the "look and feel" your audience really wants;
- the one design element you should invest in now.
Pamela and I did a lot of name dropping in this interview. Here are examples of blogs with great branding:
Want more Pamela? Read her writing on branding and marketing around the web:
- Website Wow Techniques: 5 Ways to Spice Up Your Boring Site
- Does Your Site Hold Up to the Window Shopping Test
- Uncover Your Brand Personality in 10 Minutes or Less
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The Site is Being updated... and yeah it takes time... maybe weeks depending on my free time.
Miniature Version of Amigurumi Character...
My Default Version that can be manipulated into variety of characters.
-Default Simple hands are like the baby monkey, simple and plumpy
-Default Human Hands are like the ones on goku and ganesha like fist.
-Default Legs and Continue part of Tummy are also ganesha and goku parts.
(Chibi moon was made with the "Default Legs" with extra rows of sc in all and modifications, as the hand and the Lady type body pattern will be updated later but it was exagurated a little bigger then default size)
(Dragon Ball Goku Spiky Hair is made of several cones sewed on, i stitched on about 6 cones of (3 magic ring, non stop repeats of sc, inc).)
(The cute fury thingy is made from the exact same pattern of the monkey head with fur instead of dark yarn with duck legs which havent been updated yet and may not as its too complicated to explain in words)
( Baby monkey, i use the same "Default Legs" and stopped at row 5, i add in 2 rows of "sc in all"... then i sewed the body up. the body "Plain Baby Body" ... err should be a normal sphere where the maximum circumferences is made of 25 to 30 sc. add in couple rows and walla...)
The Patterns are below...
Default Human Hand
Default Legs
Default Lady Leg
Note : InnerGarment will be updated in couple of weeks... will be adding adding default head too,..
Now you should have The Body Ready to be sewed... The head is the only one left, which im not sure whether to make a default version or not, as... The head is the most important part in my view... and which give the characteristic too.
The monkey Head below... Okay the redo version is better as the stitches are even and its cuter... after all both the pants monkey and the baby monkey are made with this head idea after all.
I feel like a mouse for doing things little by little with my free time... well at least its fun and inspiring :D


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Posts Tagged 'politics'
Blog Action Day
Well, long time no post. I hope all my readers are well.
So, apparently today is something called "Blog Action Day", and this year the topic of interest is anthropogenic forcing of the climate system, and mitigating the potential thereof.
So, OK, I thought I'll write a blog post about it. The day is supposed to be about action, as the name suggests, so let's talk about specific actions, with a view towards making a significant mitigation, in a realistic way, of Australia's anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.
Australia's brown coal (lignite) fired electricity generators have by far the highest specific carbon dioxide emissions intensity per unit of electrical energy generated, since they're burning relatively high moisture brown coal. They are the most concentrated point contributors to the anthropogenic GHG output. Therefore, these are the "low-hanging fruit" – a very valuable target to look at first and foremost if we want to make the greatest realistic mitigation of the country's carbon dioxide emissions in a practical way, followed by black coal-fired generators.
Australia's total net greenhouse gas emissions in 2006 were 549.9 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent.
If we look at the three main sets of lignite-fired generators in the Latrobe valley in Victoria, they represent a very concentrated point source of CO2 output, so they're a very good case to focus on specifically.
In 2006, Hazelwood generated 11.6 TWh of electrical energy, and 16,149,398 tonnes of carbon dioxide to atmosphere.
In 2006, Loy Yang A generated 15.994 TWh of electrical energy sent out to the grid and 19,326,812 tonnes of carbon dioxide to atmosphere.
I'll exclude Loy Yang B from this list for the moment, since its numbers are eluding me.
In 2006, the Yallourn power station generated 10.392 TWh of electrical energy sent out to the grid and 14,680,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide to atmosphere.
If you look at the the total contribution of just those three brown-coal-fired plants combined, you're looking at 9.12 percent of Australia's total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. If you replace those with clean technology that can deliver an equivalent electricity output, you get a 9.12 percent reduction in Australia's CO2 emissions. (When you include Loy Yang B, I think it's approximately 11-12%.)
That's not a bad target for Australia to implement for the relatively short term for a real reduction in CO2 emissions. It can actually be done, if the real political will exists to do it.
Now, I'm not interested in this "100% renewable energy by 2020" business from the extremist any-excuse-for-a-protest Socialist Alternative set, because it is nonsense.
Replacing all the coal-fired and gas-fired generators in this country inside 10 years (and presumably only using wind turbines and solar cells, not nuclear energy of course since it doesn't fit their para-religious ideology)? That's complete bullshit, of course, because in the real world it cannot be done.
There's a difference between setting a challenging target and setting a nonsense target. Unless you're only trying to implement a political bullshit stunt instead of actually trying to hit your targets.
Of course, you don't just close down the coal-fired generators. You've actually got to build their clean replacements first. So what do you use that can realistically replace a coal-fired power station? Nuclear power, of course.
Now, again, to be realistic, we probably can't build LFTR/MSR, PBMR/HTGR, IFR/PRISM or any kind of nuclear fusion based generation capacity on a large scale to generate grid-connected energy right now. That's not to say that pilot-scale research and development on those very cool technologies shouldn't continue, but right now, getting more nuclear energy on the grid means advanced light water reactors – or maybe heavy water CANDU-type things, or conventional sodium-cooled fast reactors maybe. The most practical thing for serious deployment in the relatively short term is advanced LWR technology. In the slightly longer term, there is certainly a place to be encouraging both Gen. IV and fusion.
To get the same amount of energy as the total output from those coal plants, as above, which we're talking about replacing, we need 4.56 GW of installed nuclear capacity, assuming a 95% capacity factor.
With 4 x 1154 MWe Westinghouse AP1000s, with a 95% capacity factor, you've got 4.62 GW, which is a little more than what's needed.
You can easily have four nuclear power reactors integrated into one nuclear power plant.
Now, how much does it cost?
On March 27, 2008, South Carolina Electric & Gas applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a COL to build two AP1000s at the Virgil nuclear power plant in South Carolina. On May 27, 2008, SCE&G and Santee Cooper announced an engineering, procurement, and construction contract had been reached with Westinghouse. Costs are estimated to be approximately $9.8 billion for both AP1000 units, plus transmission facility and financing costs.
That gives you an idea of how much a nuclear power plant costs today, in the current financial environment, in the current regulatory environment.
If we double that figure of USD$9.8 billion, it's AUD $21.4 billion. There will be some saving since we're considering building four reactors at one plant, not two independent two-reactor plants.
How much that saving will be, quantitatively, I don't really know. If the cost is reduced by 30%, we're looking at 15 billion Australian dollars.
How long would it take? If the real political will exists to do it, 10 years is heaps of time. We could probably do even more in that timeframe if we really, really wanted to. AP1000 construction takes 36 months from first concrete poured to fuel load, if you ignore any political protest rubbish.
This is really just a base-line relatively achievable "base case". After this decade, of course, the rate of nuclear power deployment – and related GHG emissions mitigation – could foreseeably accelerate.
What about the uranium input? About 600 tonnes of natural uranium per year total, for all four reactors. Australia's present production, off the top of my head, is something like 10,000-11,000 tonnes. Australia's present uranium production can very, very easily provide for Australia's total electricity production even without expansion of uranium production – again, considering the inefficient once-through use of low-enriched uranium in conventional LWRs.
What about the so-called "waste"?
Roughly 80-85 tonnes of used uranium fuel per year. 96% of that is unchanged uranium, so that 76.8 tonnes of uranium can be seperated and re-used. It's just uranium, so it's not going to hurt you.
The remaining 3200 kg is made up of the valuable, interesting and unique byproduct materials from a nuclear reactor – unique resources with all kinds of different technological applications, which aren't all radioactive, which you cannot get anywhere else.
Anyway, that's one scenario which I happen to think has a lot of merit.
Maybe you don't agree – but if you don't agree, I'd love to see you elucidate an alternative scenario which can deliver the equivalent greenhouse gas emissions mitigation – shown to be accurate in a quantitative way – within a comparable timeframe and within a comparable cost.
It will not be inexpensive, and it will not happen overnight – but I have yet to see any scenario which can honestly do the same job faster and cheaper, when some real quantitative analysis is applied.
Burning money with solar power in Victoria. Again.
It has been announced this week that the Victorian Government will promote renewable energy by spending $100 million to establish a new regional solar power station, subject to the Federal Government matching its commitment.
Premier John Brumby will announce both initiatives today, focusing on the plan for a 330-gigawatt hours per year solar plant with the capacity to power the equivalent of 50,000 homes.
All right. More kumbaya and rainbows and sunshine courtesy of Brumby.
This proposed new solar power station will supposedly generate 330 gigawatt-hours of electrical energy per year. (The Age article originally mentioned a "330 gigawatt" plant, but they later caught the egregious mistake and edited it.)
How much energy is that?
In 2006, Loy Yang unit A in Victoria generated 15,995 GWh of electrical energy, sent to the grid.
(In doing so, it emitted 19,314,994 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, and a whole lot of other environmentally and aetiologically nasty, dangerous, toxic waste, such as fly ash, SO2 and NO2, as well.) That's just one example of one of the coal-fired generators, of course.
Therefore, this proposed solar power station is generating about 1.88 percent of that one single coal-fired generating station.
How much will this plant cost? We don't know. The article doesn't say, nor does Brumby's original press release. We don't know how much it costs, and I doubt Brumby knows, either.
…promote renewable energy by spending $100 million to establish a new regional solar power station, subject to the Federal Government matching its commitment.
OK… we know that it costs at least $200 million. There is actually a convenient benchmark which we can use to make an estimate of how much the whole project will actually cost, and that is the $420 million solar energy installation planned by Solar Systems for northwestern Victoria. This is another expensive solar energy project that the Victorian government just loves to talk about as a poster child for their clean, green ways.
The Solar Systems project, with 154 MW of nameplate capacity, will generate 270 GWh per annum, and will cost 420 million dollars. If we assume that the newly proposed 330 GWh/annum installation might cost about the same, for a given amount of capacity, then we can expect that it will cost 513 million dollars.
To replace Loy Yang A, to have the equivalent amount of energy generation, you'd need 49 such installations of this size, at a cost of approximately 25 billion dollars to construct.
If you build a modern* nuclear power plant, with two 1100 MWe reactors operating with a 90% capacity factor, the plant will generate about 17,356 GWh per annum. That is, such a plant will replace Loy Yang A's output about 1.09 times over; it's more than sufficient.
How much does it cost, to build such a nuclear power plant?
Go on, consider an exaggerated, extra-conservative cost estimate from your local greenies. 9 billion dollars? 12 billion? 14 billion? 15 billion?
In every case, even with the most pessimistic cost estimates for nuclear power, it's far, far cheaper than solar, assuming that you're actually capable of counting kilowatt-hours.
(* Modern, but not bleeding edge. We'll consider the presently available modern Generation III LWRs such as Westinghouse AP1000 that are available immediately, not Generation IV fast spectrum reactors, liquid fluoride reactors, or things like that, just to be a little conservative about it.)
Brumby's press release says that they aim to have the plant operating by 2015. So, they aim to have the plant operating within six years.
Six years? To think that opponents of nuclear energy say that it takes too long to deploy.
If it takes six years to build, and you need 49 of them to replace one coal-fired station, well, would it take 294 years for them to accomplish that goal? Well, perhaps I'm being a tiny bit mendacious. You never know, perhaps they could achieve faster deployment constructing them in parallel, and maybe it would only take 200 years, or 150 years. Maybe.
Six years is in fact sufficient time to construct a nuclear power plant, if you're serious about doing it and don't allow it to be delayed. All the nuclear units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear generating station in Japan were each constructed in timescales of between three and five years; Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Unit 2 and Unit 5 both commenced construction in 1985, and both were completed by the end of 1990, within 5 years. Obviously the Japanese operators failed to see any relevance what so ever of a certain ill-fated Soviet graphite pile to their operations.
Even if you want to talk about conservative, drawn out timescales for the construction of new nuclear power in Australia, say, 10 years maybe, it's still a far, far faster option, for a given amount of energy delivered, than solar or wind.
Nuclear power and terrorist proliferation of nuclear weapons
Is the plutonium that is potentially formed within certain types of fuels in nuclear fission power reactors really suitable for the construction of nuclear weapons? How accessible and usable is such plutonium for such a purpose? How hard would it be to construct a nuclear weapon employing such material? Could terrorists steal nuclear fuel from a nuclear power reactor and construct a working nuclear explosive device, practice?
What characteristics would such a device have? Given the terrible power of nuclear weapons, and the very real threat of terrorists who would love nothing more than to wield such power, these are perhaps important questions to consider.
I assert that, no, there is no real threat here that is anywhere near as plausible in the real world as it is sometimes beaten up to be. Can terrorists steal nuclear fuel, and build a nuclear weapon? No. I don't think so.
I mainly just wrote this because (i) I just wanted to get this off my chest, and it's good to have a go at the unrealistic nonsense that gets bandied about without any real factual evidence to back it up, and (ii) because I found the Kessler paper interesting.
This little piece of writing of mine owes a lot to the always entertaining and scientifically interesting posts of NNadir, especially this one, and this one, where I was pointed to the interesting publications of Kessler and colleagues. Love your work, NNadir 🙂
My little essay is here (PDF format).
Pointing out of typos, peer review, comments, grammatical suggestions and other interesting discussion and feedback is appreciated.
(I know the sentence is too long in the last paragraph on page 5, and there's a typo on the first line of page 13. Those are fixed in the CVS. 🙂 )
I hope you find it enjoyable, interesting and/or useful.
The Australian Government's domestic solar PV subsidy…
The federal government has recently announced it will scrap the unpopular means test for the federal subsidy for domestic solar PV arrays, which restricted the rebate to households earning less than $100,000.
The size of the rebate was, formerly, $8 per watt of installed nameplate capacity, up to a maximum of $8000. The rebate will now be smaller; $5/W, up to a maximum of $7500.
Sounds good, right? But it's horrendously expensive – the government is in effect paying $5/W for the cheapest, nastiest polycrystalline silicon PVs on the market.
There are scores of companies jumping on the bandwagon to sell these little 1-1.5 kW rooftop PV systems, advertising and promoting and installing them – because they're making a fortune from the increase in business resulting from the subsidy.
The government rebate does not cover the full cost of such a system – therefore, in order to get as much interest as possible, the vendors are trying to keep the costs of such systems as low as absolutely possible, so that the cost that the customer pays is as small as possible. Therefore, all such systems are exclusively cheap, inefficient, basic polysilicon devices. After all, an advanced solar-concentrating collector with a high-efficiency CdTe cell or stacked heterojunction cell or sliver cell or whatever does not attract any higher subsidy than the basic polycrystalline Si device.
Advocates such as the Australian Greens say that such a scheme "supports the solar industry" – but all it does is supports the environmentally-damaging low-cost manufacturing of polycrystalline silicon in China, and doesn't support innovation in advanced PV technology or anything like that.
What if the same amount of subsidy might be better spent elsewhere? Here's a hypothetical idea to think about.
1. Go and find a suburb or a city or a community which has about 31,000 households. I'm certain there are 31,000 households in this country who support what I'm about to elucidate.
2. Get each household to put up AUD $1200 or so, temporarily.
3. Take that 25 million US dollars and purchase a 25 MWe Hyperion Power Module, or something similar.
4. At 25 MWe divided between 31,000 households, that's a little over 25 GJ per year, which is a little more than Australia's present average household electricity consumption. This doesn't just generate a fraction of your household electricity needs – it generates 100% of it, and there will be no more electricity bills.
5. That corresponds to a nameplate capacity of 807 watts per household. Since the government hands out a subsidy of $5/W for solar photovoltaics with a 20% capacity factor, they should hand out $22.50/W for nuclear energy with a 90% capacity factor, right?
6. Collect your $18,157.50 rebate from the government. Less the $1200 investment, that's $16,957.50 immediate profit in your pocket. This is exactly the same rate of payment per energy produced that presently exists in the form of the PV subsidy.
7. Go to the pub. Got to stimulate that economy, you know.
I wonder how many ordinary Australian households would support nuclear energy if you paid them $17,000 for doing so?
To replace one Loy Yang type coal-fired power station* with solar cells, we would need 6,082,342 homes equipped with 1.5 kW solar photovoltaic arrays.
With an $7500 rebate for each one, that would cost the government 45.6 billion dollars per each large coal-fired power station.
* (Loy Yang generated 15,995 GWh in 2006.)
Solar photovoltaics typically have a capacity factor of about 20%, and we'll suppose the panels have a lifetime of, say, 30 years.
Therefore, this scheme costs the government 9.5 cents per kWh generated.
If the government purchases nuclear power plants, they will cost, say, 10 billion dollars (let's be conservative) for a nuclear power plant with two 1100 MW nuclear power reactors which will operate with a 90% capacity factor and a lifetime of 50 years. The capital cost of plant dominates the overall cost of nuclear energy.
Therefore, the nuclear power plants would cost the government 1.15 cents per kWh – 12% percent of the cost of the solar rebate scheme. That's the government's rebate alone – without the rest of the price of these systems.
All this solar rebate is is another mendacious political enterprise involving renewable energy which can't be scaled up, which hands out free money to the public, makes a bunch of money for the solar panel vendors (including many dangerous fossil fuel vendors such as British Petroleum), and mendaciously makes the government look like they're actively getting the country running on clean energy.
ASIDE: I'm going to start cross-posting some blog content on the Daily Kos. I think it's a nice site to engage with many, many readers – many of whom perhaps aren't already so convinced of the virtue of nuclear energy – so, there's plenty of engaging, active discussion, and the opportunity to maybe convince some people – even if that's just a few people it's still a very positive thing.
Thought for the day.
Of all the G20 nations, there are only a few without nuclear power. There is only one nation among the G20 which has no nuclear power reactors, and has no active interest in implementing them.
Barack Obama, nuclear energy and Yucca Mountain.
Putting aside, for now, rhetoric like "OMG Obama will kill nuclear energy", one of the only "anti-nuclear" positions that president-elect Obama has actually made overtly clear on the issue of nuclear energy is that he is opposed to the opening / licensing of the geological repository for radioactive waste disposal at Yucca Mountain.
However, it should be realized that "No Yucca Mountain facility" is not saying "No to nuclear energy".
I really don't think a Yucca Mountain style geological disposal facility is a prerequisite for the continuation or the expansion of nuclear energy in the United States for the foreseeable future.
Nuclear energy works just fine at present with no Yucca Mountain, and it will continue to work in future, even without Yucca Mountain going ahead.
If Obama's position on Yucca Mountain causes the government, the nuclear energy industry, and the public to pause for a moment, step back, and ask if branding all that used fuel containing uranium, plutonium and other useful, valuable material as "waste" and sending it to geological disposal at Yucca Mountain is really a sensible proposal, then I really don't think that's a bad thing.
In fact, if Obama was to back efficient utilisation of these nuclear materials as the alternative to disposal at Yucca Mountain, then I wouldn't expect to see a great deal of opposition to such a plan, from nuclear-literate parties, at all.
The used nuclear fuel removed from a conventional LEU-fueled light-water reactor is about 25 tonnes per gigawatt per year – the equivalent of less than two 15-tonne dry storage casks per reactor per year – something that is clearly not difficult to deal with.
If the uranium and plutonium comprising 97% of the nuclear fuel is recovered and re-used, and the remaining 3%* is put into dry storage casks, then just one storage cask provides enough capacity to store the material for one reactor for twenty years. Of course, of that 3% of fission product material, half the fission products aren't even radioactive at all, or they have extremely short half-lives. Many fission products, both radioactive and not radioactive, are valuable, exotic and useful materials, with specialised, useful and interesting applications. The assumption that all such fission products would be treated as "waste" is, therefore, especially pessimistic.
* (You can account for the minor actinides (Np, Am, Cm, Cf) in either category. They constitute a very small amount of mass either way. Such actinides, like Pu and U, can be fissioned in a nuclear reactor as sources of energy, and like many fission products, they can also be used for specialised technological and scientific applications, such as the production of 238Pu from 237Np, and the use of Cf and Am:Be as neutron sources.)
Still, it seems a real shame to waste all that money that we've already spent on YM if it's not going to be used. I'm not sure off the top of my head how far underground the tunnels at Yucca Mountain are, but perhaps it could be used as a deep underground laboratory, or something, just as the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is?
Still, there are approximately 50,000 tonnes of used nuclear fuel already in the United States, the result of the last 50 years of nuclear energy. Opponents of nuclear energy are quick to point that out, but under a scenario similar to that elucidated above, with the separation of easily usable plutonium and uranium, the significantly radioactive fission product materials only constitute 1500 tonnes, or 100 DSCs worth. Until a geological repository is built, or those fission products are put to productive uses, that's only one additional storage cask that need be stored at every power reactor in the country.
In the foreseeable future, with no Yucca Mountain, dealing with nuclear byproduct materials, storing them safely and securely on site, is not impractical, and it's not intractable, and it's not unsafe. There is nothing here which impedes or prevents a revival of nuclear energy generation.
Of course, under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, the government will have to compensate nuclear utilities for the costs of this storage. No, this does not mean handing out government money to nuclear utilities – it means giving the Nuclear Waste Fund money that is supposed to go to Yucca Mountain back to the nuclear utilities in order to pay for the management of the existing 50,000 tonnes (approx.) of used fuel (and/or processing thereof), and more importantly, it ought to mean not requiring nuclear utilities to pay any more money – more correctly, not requiring nuclear electricity customers to pay any more money – for the Nuclear Waste Fund, until we know that a geological repository for radioactive waste is going ahead. Otherwise, what exactly are they paying for?
ScienceDebate 2008: Presidential candidate's answers to the science questions facing America
The presidential candidates provide their responses to the most important science questions facing the United States.
Unfortunately, they have not yet posted Senator McCain's responses yet, hopefully they do so at some point in the near future. So, at the moment, all they're really presenting are Obama's responses to the questions. It still makes for interesting reading, though.
Interestingly, although not specifically asked about nuclear energy at all, Obama specifically mentions "A new generation of nuclear electric technologies" as one of his policy goals. Such bipartisan support, even to a slight degree, is a promising sign.


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Taxiwaala Closing CollectionsDecember 18, 2018 11:34
Young actor Vijay Devarakonda is unstoppable at the Tollywood box-office. The actor scored a massive hit with Geetha Govindam and is back with his next film titled Taxiwaala. Rahul Sankrityan directed this action thriller and Priyanka Jawalkar played the heroine. The film has been leaked online before the film's release and the makers have been left shattered with the happenings.
However Taxiwaala opened with a bang and it raked massive numbers across the globe in the final run. The makers invested Rs 5 crores including the promotions and the film collected a theatrical share of Rs 21.30 crores in its final run. UV Creations and GA2 Pictures are the producers. Here are the closing collections of Taxiwaala:
Nizam: Rs 7.70 Cr
Ceeded: Rs 1.65 Cr
Vizag: Rs 1.85 Cr
Guntur: Rs 1.15 Cr
East: Rs 0.95 Cr
West: Rs 0.80 Cr
Krishna: Rs 1.15 Cr
Nellore: Rs 0.45 Cr
AP and Telangana: Rs 15.70 Cr
Rest of India: Rs 2.60 Cr
Rest of World: Rs 3 Cr
Total Worldwide: Rs 21.30 Cr


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"And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me." Luke 12:13
Our family's been reading the gospel of Luke lately, moving kind of slowly because we stop a lot to draw attention to things we think our kids might be in a position to benefit from grappling with.
Like: tonight we got to the verse above, where someone asks Jesus to get involved in an inheritance dispute (which, at the time, would have been covered under religious law and therefore a reasonable thing to ask Jesus about). This felt like the kind of passage that would probably go over the kids' heads if we just read it, but that they might be able to relate to if we slowed down.
"What's an inheritance?" I asked.
They had no idea, so I explained that they'll get our stuff when we die. Simple enough.
I turned to Kira to get it to the next step of relatability. "Let's say that after Mama and I die," I said, "Elijah tells you he gets the upstairs of this house--because his room used to be there--and you get the downstairs, because your room used to be there. What do you think of that?"
This would mean, Nicole pointed out, that Kira would get the laundry room while Elijah would get the kitchen.
Kira grasped the significance of this. "That's not fair!" she said.
I figured that would be enough to help Kira sympathize with the man in the story. She'd see why he wanted Jesus to intervene on his behalf. "So let's say you went to Jesus and told him about the problem," I said. "What would he tell you to do?"
Kira didn't even hesitate. "He would tell us to work it out," she said.
Those of you who know this story know that is, in essence, what Jesus said. He refused to get involved, and taught about the underlying dangers of envy instead of offering a ruling. Kira was right--I had just hoped to surprise her with Jesus' teachings the same way the people at the time were so often surprised by him. The same way that I, as an adult who has heard stories of Jesus countless times, continue to be surprised by him.
But a ruined lesson plan isn't a ruined lesson. Maybe I could learn something from Kira and something about Kira from the exchange. "How did you know that?" I asked.
"Because I know Jesus," she said.


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Posts Tagged 'Swedenborg'
PROGRAMME: HIDDEN SOURCES: Western Esoteric Influence on the Arts
Update on the Second annual CCWE one day conference.
Date: Saturday, 11th October 2008, 9.30am – 5.00pm
Venue: The Unitarian Church building, Emanuel Road, Cambridge, Emmanuel Road, CB1 1JW
For all enquiries plus registration please contact Dr Sophia Wellbeloved at
Chaired by
Andrew James Brown
Whilst studying the philosophy of the Enlightenment at Oxford AJB became aware that many of the period's philosophers drew upon western esoteric traditions. That many ideas now central to secular liberal democracies led him to explore, in particular, the work of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) and his contribution to ideas of universal salvation and religious toleration.
The influence of Western Esotericism in Literature, Music and Esoteric Geometry is examined by the following presenters:
Western Esotericism and the Arts.
This address will trace the hidden course and some of the sources of the stream of "esoteric" thought and imagery which flows, so often unnoticed through western arts, and in particular will look at literature. The line of esoteric insight and understanding which passes through Boehme to Swedenborg, to Blake and from Blake through to Yeats and so into the "mainstream" of high modernist literature is well known. Less well known is the way renaissance revivals of hermetic learning pass down through Milton, to later poets and especially Coleridge, who was familiar in the original languages of almost the entire Corpus Hermeticum and was also reading and critiquing the German mystical writers and Swedenborg. Indeed it was through Swedenborgian circles that the meeting between Coleridge and Blake was arranged, a hugely significant event which is completely ignored by mainstream literary history. I will suggest in this paper that there is a line to be traced from Coleridge to many "mainstream" nineteenth and and twentieth century writers.
Perhaps the most unlikely literary group to be formed and informed by esoterica, the Oxford Inklings, the group of creative Christian apologists centred around CS Lewis which included Tolkien, Charles Williams and Owen Barfield. He will show that the works of this latter group depend very strongly for their shape and meaning on astrological structure and also on a mysticism of primal sound and harmony. Specifically we will look at how esoteric tradition from the Order of the Golden Dawn passes through Charles Williams to Lewis, whilst at the same time Owen Barfield, a devotee of Rudolph Stiener, is able to persuade Lewis, through the thought of Coleridge, of the creative and truth-bearing powers of imagination.
We will explore the way in which Tolkien's concept of mytho-poeia affects both his own and Lewis' writings and finally at the way in which these many themes are harmoniously linked in Tolkien's work especially the Silmarillion, whose initial images of creation can be traced back via Georgio's mystical "Harmonia Mundi" to the earliest orphic traditions. At present the Inklings are pigeonholed as "conservative Christians" and often used as blunt weapons in the conflicts between conservative Christianity and both secularism on the one hand .and non Christian spirituality on the other. My contention is that the rediscovery and defence of Christian mysticism in the works of these writers involves a recovery of just those esoteric and mystical elements which could make Christianity a harmonious participant in our contemporary spiritual awakening and not, as some would have it, a fearful forbidder.
MALCOLM GUITE was born in Nigeria and raised in Africa and Canada, Malcolm Guite is a poet and singer-songwriter living in Cambridge, where he also works as a priest and academic. He has published two collections of poetry; Saying the Names 2002 and The Magic Apple Tree 2004 and has also published poems in Radix, The Mars Hill Review, Crux, Second Spring and the Ambler. He has played in rock'n' roll band The Crocodiles, trad jazz outfit Ecu-Jazz, and is currently front man for Cambridge rockers Mystery Train. He has collaborated with Kevin Flanagan on jazz-poetry and also the oratorio The Ten Thousand Things for which he wrote the libretto. His CD The Green Man is out on Cambridge Riffs and iTunes. http://www.malcolmguite.com
Some Publications:
What Do Christians Believe? Granta 2006, (Dutch Edition 2007, Greek Edition 2007, American Edition 2008), part of Granta's new series on different faith-systems: What Do We Believe?.
In preparation for Ashgate: Faith Hope and Poetry to be published in their series Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts.
'Poetry, Playfulness and Truth…' a chapter on the theology of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest in Faithful Performances; Enacting Christian Tradition ed. Trevor Hart and Stephen Guthrie Ashgate 2007.
Contributions on Numbers and Exodus in Reflections for Daily Prayer; Lent to Pentecost Church House Publishing 2008.
Six poems in Live Simply Canterbury Press 2008
His poems have been published in Radix, Second Spring, Mars Hill Review, Crux, Poetry on the Lake and The Ambler.
Robert Fludd (1574-1637). Utriusque cosmi maioris
scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque
technica histori. Oppenheim, 1619
from Giovanni Battista Della Porta's 1586 treatise De Humana Physiognomia.
CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER looks at the:
Photography has, since its announcement to the world in 1839, wielded a deep psychological power over those photographed and for those in possession of photographs. This power stems from the fact that rather than the image being a simulacrum – a sketch – the photograph is perceived to be the very image of the sitter, their reflected shade. Nature, in the photograph, does indeed seem to record nature.
The apparent veracity of the photographic image in these contexts lent it an unprecedented (and often unquestioned) credibility. The camera's ability to accurately reproduce the world on a two-dimensional surface stood as proof that the manner in which a subject was recorded was definitive and unquestionable. Despite its shrunken, monotone and two-dimensional appearance, the photograph was held in a position of unparalleled importance as a piece of factual evidence.
In the nineteenth century the ability of the camera to take (as opposed to make) a likeness was quickly matched with the developing concepts of likeness as a measure of the inner man. T. H. Huxley suggested that by understanding and measuring every aspect of the physical exterior of the body something of the inner man and his history might be revealed. If knowledge could be gleaned from looking then it followed that such measurement and documentation would lead to understanding. As a device of moralising and comparison the photograph was unsurpassed – for as it was so closely linked to reality belief followed. But the origins of this belief in a physiognomic reading were derived from an esoteric knowledge that had been in existence since antiquity. Indeed Johan Casper Lavater stresses in his seminal physiognomic text (Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe (1775-1778)) the likeness as a derivation of the mark of the creator, a mystical connection to a higher ideal that through moral degradation leads to visual 'types'.
My paper touches upon the journey from this esoteric connectivity to a mystical ideal through to its (dark) culmination in the search for a (mystical) purity of race and type in the comparative photography of German scientist and eugenicist Hans F. K. Gunther (author of The Racial Elements of European History (1927)).
I will use images as illustrations of this historical examination of the divine geometry – for e.g. illustrations to Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi, Della Porta's De Humana Physiognomia, Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy,some examples of anthropometric photographs and photographic illustrations from Hans F. K. Gunther's The Racial Elements of European Culture and as a comparison one or two examples of the photographic project undertaken by the German photographer August Sander in his Man of the Twentieth Century.
Christopher Webster writes:
'I was born in England in 1965. In 1982, when I was 16, my family moved to South Africa. In 1989 I graduated from art school in South Africa. After teaching and practising as an artist in the Johannesburg area for several years, I returned to the UK and lived for a year in London. In 1996 I was appointed lecturer in fine art at Aberystwyth University's School of Art. In 2006 I completed my PhD in Fine Art. I continue to live in west Wales where I teach, write and work as an artist.'
Giorgio De Chirico – 1888-1978
The ballet Le Bal was one of the last productions staged by the Ballets Russes. One month after it opened in London, Sergei Diaghilev was dead. But its initial opening on May 9, 1929 in Monte Carlo and subsequent runs in Paris and London were met with high acclaim. With sets designed by Giorgio De Chirico, the scenario by the Russian dancer and librettist Boris Kochno was based on a story by the Romantic poet Vladimir Sologub in which a young man falls in love with a masked woman at a masquerade ball. This paper will explore esoteric aspects of De Chirico's scenography and examine relationships between his costume and stage designs and the esoteric iconography of his paintings. In these works, the "masque" of reality includes allusions to columns, temples and architectural elements that connote the damaged, or deconstructed "inner" structural integrity of art and society.
Giovanna Constantini
Giovanna Costantini holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in the History of Art. An NEH award recipient, her academic appointments have included professorships at the State University of New York and the University of Michigan, with Visiting Scholar residencies at the American Academy in Rome. Her research centers on esotericism in the art of the early twentieth century, with special emphasis on De Chirico, the Parisian avant-garde and Surrealism, as well as modernist interpretations of the tarot and the shadow theatre. Her reviews of art historical texts and exhibition catalogues have appeared in The Art Book (Blackwell). An active member of ESSWE and ASE, she has delivered papers on
esotericism in art at conferences in den Hague (The Netherlands), Davis (CA), Tübingen (Germany) and Charleston (SC). Other papers on art have been presented at the Tisch School of the Arts (NYU) in New York and College Art Association conferences in Seattle (WA), Chicago (IL) and San Antonio (TX).
In the field of music we are fortunate to have with us Laurence Wuidar (F.N.R.S.) Docteur en musicologie de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is looking at:
ESOTERIC TRADITION WITHIN 16th and 17th CENTURIES MUSICAL CIRCLES
It is well know that esotericism may be a starting point for musical compositions, such as the works composed for the Masonic loges. It is also well know that esotericism may be the secret key to decipher a musical score, such as the too famous Bach-numerology topic. It is much less known that a lot of composers and musicians were also alchemists, astrologers or magicians.
The purpose of this paper is to analyse various esoteric activities of some sixteenth and seventeenth century composers and musicians, mainly in Italy, where the Inquisition was forever prone to censure them. The esoteric expression of a humanistic encyclopaedism reveals how the figure of the composer was not imaginable per se. Thus we distort history by regarding them only as composers or musical theoreticians. Only by breaking down the wall between the disciplines can we reconstitute the visage of musicians, such as Claudio Monteverdi, Lodovico Zacconi, Pier Francesco Valentini, Theodato Osio or Guido Trasuntino. The interest and the activities (teachings, writings and experiments) of these musicians for the sciences and arts, such as astrology or alchemy, tell us how their knowledge was a multidiscipline one. It also tells us how the musical process of composition has, in fact, synergies with such arts and sciences. That is 'quintessentially' true if we look at the enigmatic canons, the hidden message they veil to the profane and reveal to the initiated, as well as the manner they were resolved after a process of ora, labora & invenies (to quote the motto we find in the Mutus liber, in the Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae of Heinrich Khunrath and in many other enigmatic canons). The composers were the custodians of secret rules, whether astrological, musical or alchemical, they taught to a small number of disciples. Thus their musical activities can not be completely understood if we are not first aware of their esoteric activities.
Laurence Wuidar
Docteur en Philosophie & Lettres – Musicologie (ULB, 2007) avec une thèse intitulée Musique et hermétisme après le concile de Trente : Astrologie et canons énigmes (« Thèse Européenne » défendue en français, italien, anglais), détentrice d'un DEA en Histoire de l'Art (ULB, 2003), agrégée de l'enseignement supérieur (ULB, 2003), licenciée en musicologie (ULB, 2002), candidate en droit (FUSL, 1998), Laurence Wuidar est actuellement chercheur au FNRS et suit les cours du Master de la Scuola di Paleografia & Diplomatica de l'Archivio Segreto Vaticano après avoir exercé des mandats de recherches au Warburg Institute (University of London, Research Fellow, Frances A. Yates Fellowship 2006-2007), à l'Université de Bologne (Università di Bologna, Collegio dei Fiamminghi, Fondation Jean Jacobs 2004-2005), à l'Université de Cambridge (Cambridge University, Fondation Wiener-Anspach, Gonville & Caius College, Research Fellow, 2004) et avoir obtenu une bourse de recherche de l'Institut Historique Belge à Rome (Rome, Academia Belgica, 2003-2004). Du 14 au 18 avril 2008, elle a organisé à l'Academia Belgica de Rome le colloque international "Musique et ésotérisme", qui a rassemblé une trentaine de conférenciers venus de treize pays.
Philosophie des formes musicales cryptées et énigmatiques, histoire de l'astrologie dans ses rapports avec l'histoire de la musique aux Temps Modernes, étude comparée de la littérature emblématique et de la musique jusqu'au 18ème siècle, démonologie et musique dans la Renaissance italienne.
Publications Monographies
– Canons énigmes et hiéroglyphes musicaux dans l'Italie du 17è siècle. De la cryptographie hermétique à l'herméneutique sacrée chez Pierre Francesco Valentini, Romano Micheli et Lodovico Zacconi, Bruxelles, Peter Lang, à paraître (prévu : fin septembre 2008.
– Musique et astrologie après le concile de Trente, Turnhout, Brepols, à paraître (prévu : août 2008.
– Musique et emblèmes : miroirs symboliques et imaginaires sonores (1531-1750), présenté au concours de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 2008.
– « L'interdetto della conoscenza: segreti celesti e arcani musicali nel Cinque e Seicento », Bruniana & Campanella, à paraître.
– « Egyptian Wisdom and Christian Faith in Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Italy. Hieroglyphics in Art and Music », Jale Erzen (éd.), XVIIth International Congress of Aesthetics, Aesthetics Bridging Cultures, Ankara, 9-13/07/2007, à paraître.
– « La Flûte en noir et blanc : la mise en scène de William Kentridge à la Monnaie », en collaboration avec Valérie Dufour (ULB), à paraître.
– « Bibite cantores. De l'ivresse des cantori aux déboires du Bach-Pokal » en collaboration avec Walter Corten (ULB), volume d'hommage à Henri Vanhulst, à paraître.
– « Virgilio Mazzocchi: cantate pour la visite du cardinal Francesco Barberini au Collegio Romano », en collaboration avec Annick Delfosse (ULg), Revue liégeoise de musicologie, à paraître.
– « Un musicista astrologo nell'Italia del Seicento : Padre Lodovico Zacconi », Intersezioni, Rivista di storia delle idee, 2008, p. 5-28.
– « Démons sonores dans l'Italie du XVIème siècle. De la possession diabolique chantante aux remèdes musicaux contre les esprits malins », De Musica, n° XII, 2008, Internet, .
– « Les Geroglifici Musicali du Padre Zacconi », Revue Belge de Musicologie, 2007, p. 61-87.
– « Musique et démonologie de Jean Bodin à Pier Francesco Valentini», Studi Musicali, 36/1, 2007, p. 65-95.
– « Les œuvres astrologiques de Padre Lodovico Zacconi (1555-1627) face à la censure ecclésiastique », Bulletin de l'Institut Historique Belge à Rome, 2005, 138-159.
– « Magie démoniaque et allégorie de l'ouïe : le canon musical dans les vanités de Breughel, Natali et Van Lear», Annales d'histoire de l'Art, 2005, p. 89-108.
– « De l'emblème au canon, étude iconographique et essai herméneutique de Kircher à Bach », Imago Musicae, 2004-2005, p. 263-287.
– « Pier Francesco Valentini Romano, théories musicaux-astronomiques, jeu d'astrologie et énigmes musicales dans la Rome du XVIIème siècle », Bulletin de l'Institut Historique Belge à Rome, 2004, p. 375-403.
– « Liszt et Fétis : 40 ans d'échanges multiples », Quaderni dell'Istituto Liszt, 2004, p. 137-174.
Actes de colloques & dictionnaire
– « Images religieuses en musique de la Renaissance à Bach et l'Italie Baroque», in Agnès Guiderdoni & Ralph Dekoninck (éd.), actes du colloque Emblemata Sacra. Rhétorique et herméneutique du discours sacré dans la littérature en images, Universiteit Leuven & Université Catholique de Louvain, 27-29 janvier 2005, Turnhout, Brepols, collection « Imago Figurata », p. 441-451.
– « Imbrication d'image, de texte et de musique dans un corpus de prières énigmatiques à la Vierge », in Catriona MacLeod (éd.), actes du colloque Seventh International Conference on Word & Image, University of Pennsylvania, 23-27 septembre 2005, Amsterdam, Edition Redopi, à paraître.
– Thierry Levaux (éd.), Dictionnaire des compositeurs belges, « Ivan Cayron », « Dimitri Coppe », « Jean-Luc Fafchamps »…, Lasne, Art in Belgium, 2005.
– Music and Esotericism, Brill (Aries, monographie), à paraître.
– Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire : Prins (Jacomien) & Teeuwen (Mariken) (éd.), Harmonisch labyrint. De muziek van de kosmos in de westerse wereld, Hilversum, 2007.
Julia Cleave will explore the geometry of Tobias and the Angel
A Florentine Renaissance painting of Tobias and the Angel portrays a transformative encounter between human and divine. The story, taken from the Apocrypha, may be read as an initiatic adventure involving trials by water and fire. By a miracle of imaginative composition, the artist has condensed this narrative into a single captivating image. While its richness of detail and beauty of form make an immediate appeal to the senses, its talismanic power derives more subtly from an interplay of hermetic symbolism, drawing on alchemy and astrology, and a remarkable matrix of Platonic geometries.
It has recently been established that Leonardo, as an apprentice in Verrocchio's workshop, also had a hand in the painting. More unexpectedly, details in the picture (which has been on display in the National Gallery since the 1860s), together with stories of angels and demons taken from the Apocryphal Books of Tobit and Enoch, seem to have provided inspiration for Conan Doyle's first-ever Sherlock Holmes story.
Julia Cleave (MA Oxon, MA Essex) is a member of the Academic Board of the Temenos Academy. As an independent scholar, she is currently conducting research into the encoding of the hermetic traditions in Renaissance and Seventeenth-century art and literature, including evidence for proto-masonic symbolism and ritual practice. In 2003 her proposal for a doctoral thesis on sacred geometry and the mystery traditions in the works of Nicolas Poussin was accepted by the School of Traditional Arts at the Prince of Wales Institute of Architecture. She has given lectures at the History of Astrology Seminar, the Theosophical Society, the School of Economic Science, the Jupiter Trust and the Temenos Academy. http://www.temenosacademy.org/
Publications include:
A review of Friend to Mankind – Marsilio Ficino 1433-99 ed. Michael Shepherd in Temenos Academic Review 4 (Spring 2001)
Ficino's Approach to Astrology as Reflected in Book VII of his Letters
Culture and Cosmos Volume 7 Number 2 (Autumn/Winter 2003)
Burlesquing the Brotherhood (Paper given at the 6th International Conference at the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre).
The Canonbury Papers Vol. 4: Seeking the Light – Freemasonry and Initiation (2007)
Of Hiram and Aymon – the Evolution of the Legend of the Third Degree
Transactions of the Manchester Association for Masonic Research Vol XCVIII [98] [2008].
Sherry L. Ackerman, Ph.D of College of the Siskiyous, in Northern California, USA will present:
She provides textual analyses from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass that demonstrate Carroll's "masterful job of concealing" both Gnostic and Neoplatonic themes in both books. A concomitant phenomenological interpretation of historically re-contextualized biographical data further supports the argument. The gradual progression from Platonic idealism, via the earlier Cambridge Platonists and Thomas Taylor, toward nineteenth century theosophy and spiritualism is traced as it pertains to the theme. Her paper draws substantively from Chapter V of her, Behind the Looking Glass, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2008, which purports that Lewis Carroll intentionally obscured esoteric allegory in his Alice books.
An article from Theosophy, dated March 5, 1939, asks "how many realize that no initiated philosopher had the right to reveal his knowledge clearly, but was obliged by the law of the sanctuary to conceal the truth under the veil of allegory or symbol?" Roger Bacon, centuries earlier, in Wisdom of Keeping Secrets (c.1260), had similarly written, "a man is crazy who writes a secret unless he conceals it from a crowd and leaves it so that it can be understood only by effort of the studious and wise." Lewis Carroll was not a crazy man–and this author argues that he did a masterful job of concealing his secrets from the crowd.
SHERRY L. ACKERMAN, Ph D, is Professor of Philosophy at College of the Siskiyous, in Northern California, USA. As an active scholar with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, she has authored numerous papers and journal articles. Her interest in Western Esotericism began as an undergraduate philosophy student and has continued to be a foundational element throughout her professional writing and teaching. She is equally as passionate about Lewis Carroll. _Behind the Looking Glass_ , Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008 – is the culmination of many years of Carrollian scholarship that she gleefully describes as "a long time down the Rabbit Hole".
Dressage in the Fourth Dimension, (Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Xenophon Press, 1997), ISBN: 0-933316-10-0: This book concludes that humanity's alienation from nature can no longer be ignored. Pointing to the enormity and immediacy of the crisis, the book deconstructs fundamental contemporary cultural assumptions pertinent to mankind's relationship to nature.
Dressage in the Fourth Dimension, Second Edition, Novato, California: New World Library, November 2008, ISBN: 978-1577316237. Foreword by Linda Kohanov (The Tao of Equus, Riding Between the Worlds, New World Library; 2001, 2003). Artwork by Jane Pincus (Our Bodies, Ourselves, Touchstone, 1976).
Behind the Looking Glass.(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2008, ISBN: 9781847184863: A definitive study of the Alice and Sylvie and Bruno books, via a philosophical examination of Lewis Carroll's literary position in relationship to the British nineteenth century Neoplatonic/Occult Revival.
The Psyche Project: Aperspectivity and the Ego. International Jean Gebser Society Conference; University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI. October 18-21, 2007.
Toward an Integral Perspective: Re-collecting Ancient Initiatory Cultures. 2007 ReConnext Conference; Shastao Institute of Practical Philosophy; Stewart Mineral Springs, Weed, CA. July 20-22, 2007.
The Looking Glass: Identifying Neoplatonic Influences on Victorian Literature. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies session at the American Academy of Religion Meeting. San Diego, CA: November 17-20, 2007.
[Alice readers can also find John's Tufail's 'Caroll's Philosophy: Language and Contingency in Alice in Wonderland', post on CCWE Internet Publications page]
Frank Albo is a researcher and teacher from the University of Winnipeg, in Manitoba, Canada, who is well known for his discoveries and writings about the Manitoba Legislature. His research has led to the findings and interpretations of numerous occult/masonic symbols and figures inside the Manitoba Legislative Building. He is currently engaged in doctoral research at Cambridge University.
He introduces us to the Vesica Piscis
This paper posits that the sudden appearance of vesica piscis in the nineteenth century was due to the advent of non-Euclidean geometry. Non-Euclidean geometry threatened traditional views of geometric truth and it was met with vehement resistance from English Freemasons who endorse a geometric theology resting on the infallibility of Euclid. Masonic pundits championed the re-apotheosis of geometry which they indelibly linked to the vesica piscis and its formulation in medieval architecture. Their theories influenced nineteenth century ideas of harmony and proportion promulgated by British architects C.R. Cockerell and F.B. Bond.
1. The Vesica Piscis – Dürer's brainchild
The term vesica piscis, derives from the Latin translation of Dürer's practical manual of geometric theory, Underweysung der Messung mit dem Zirckel und Richtscheyt (1525).
2. Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945) – necromancer of GlastonburyBond was an architect, Freemason, and numerologist who claimed that the vesica piscis was latent in the plan of Lady Chapel in Glastonbury. His theories of architecture were influenced by Cockerell.
3. Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863) – evangelist of the vesica piscis. The nineteenth century professor of architecture responsible for vivifying the popular mystique of the vesica piscis as a formula of exemplary proportion handed down from the Freemasons.
4. Thomas Kerrich (1748-1863) – evangelist of the vesica piscesKerrich argued that the visica piscis had informed the proportions of nineteen churches. His studies published I a popular antiquarian journal impacted Cockerell's theories of medieval design.
5. Cockerell's Rules of Design – from Freemasonry to Cesariano
Cockerell presents his tripartite rules of design for ideal beauty and proportions in architecture, which he credits to the Vitruvian commentator, Cesare Cesariano, and the medieval Freemasons.
6. The Unseating of Euclid – nineteenth century innovation of non-Euclidean geometry
The emergence of non-Euclidean geometry in the nineteenth century challenged the universality of Euclid and spawned a proliferation of Masonic texts on the sacrality of the vesica piscis.
7. Re-apotheosis of Geometry in Victorian Britain – Freemasonry's geometric theology
The Masonic idea that geometry is an exclusive and secret science handed down by God to Euclid and the architect of Solomon's Temple. In Freemasonry, geometry is a touchstone of divine power.
8. Cockerell's unwitting legacy – the vesica piscis and the Church of Scientology
From the geometric mysteries of the vesica piscis sparked off by Cockerell's studies of medieval proportions to an aerial signpost marking the sacred writings of the Church of Scientology.
James Eisner, tenor baritone, will accompany himself on the lute and guitar, singing a set of esoterically influenced songs which will include:
John Donne
Pelham Humphrey (1647-1674)/John Donne (1572-1631)
John Dowland (1562-1626)
F. Schubert (1797-1828)/J. W. Goethe (1749-1832)
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)/Traditional Irish melody
first giving a brief account of the inter-relation of lyric and musical structure.
James was born in Sheffield but spent his early years in New Jersey, USA. He now lives in Cambridge UK, and has sung with various groups including Trecento, Otto Voci, The Cavalli Choir, Queen's College Choir, The Cambridge Taverner Choir and the New Cambridge Singers, and until recently directed the Orwell Singers and the London-based Czech choir 'Hlahol London'.
Simon Jenner
Will look at the esoteric connections which bring together some of the writers and composers of early twentieth century music, focusing on Constant Lambert
and Anthony Powell.
Jenner's doctoral research looked at Oxford poetry of the 1940s, he writes for Poetry Review, PNR, The Tablet, Music on the Web and the British Music Society, is the recipient of many awards and bursaries, his collection of poems 'About Bloody Time' was published in 2007. He is Director of Survivors' Poetry, and editor of Waterloo Press (see http://www.waterloopress.co.uk)
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Gurdjieff, Astrology and Beelzebub's Tales, Solar Bound, 2002,
Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts, Routledge, 2003, See links.
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is the minister of the Memorial Church (Unitarian), Cambridge and is one of the chaplains to the University, Anglia Ruskin University and Cambridge Regional College. His research interests centre on liberal Christianity, its self identity and relationships with other faith traditions. He is also a musician and has recently contributed entries on Unitarian hymnody to The New Julian Dictionary of Hymnody (ed. J. R.Watson, Canterbury Press/Eerdmans, forthcoming 2007), SEE LINKS.
is Professor of Philosophy at College of the Siskiyous, in Northern California, USA. As an active scholar with the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies, she has authored numerous papers and journal articles. Her interest in Western Esotericism began as an undergraduate philosophy student and has continued to be a foundational element throughout her professional writing and teaching. She is fervent about philosophical relevancy and, in her teaching, guides students away from the twin dangers of abstract reason and uncontrolled irrationality. In following Nietzsche, she participates in phenomenological psychology and actively experiments with her life. In 2008, she published:
· Behind the Looking Glass.(Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) which is a definitive study of the Alice and Sylvie and Bruno books, via a philosophical examination of Lewis Carrolls literary position in relationship to the British nineteenth century Neoplatonic/Occult Revival.
· Dressage in the Fourth Dimension, Second Edition, (Novato, California: New World Library, 2008) which draws on such diverse sources as sacred geometry, ancient Western and Eastern philosophies, and esoteric spirituality in an attempt to suggest methods for healing humanity's alienation from nature.
is Professor of Western Esotericism and Director of the Centre for the Study of Esotericism, University of Exeter. Current areas of supervision include Hermeticism; Rosicrucianism; Swedenborg; Theosophy and Modern Art; Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy; contemporary Gnostic movements. Publications include: Helena Blavatsky (2004); Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason (2002). As General Editor of Western Esoteric Masters (North Atlantic: Berkeley) he has edited Rudolf Steiner (2004), John Dee (2003), Emanuel Swedenborg (2003), Jacob Boehme (2001 ), Robert Fludd (2001), SEE LINKS.
Dr. Lee Irwin is Chair of the Religious Studies Department at the College of Charleston. He has studied world religions intensively, with an emphasis on Native American religions, Western Esotericism, Hermeticism, Contemporary Spirituality, and Transpersonal Theory — particularly around themes connected to dreams and visions. He is also the Vice President of the Association for the Study of Esotericism (www.aseweb.org/), and a member of the Advisory Board for the Sophia Institute (www.studiophoebepemberhouse.com/studio.html) where he gives frequent presentations and for the Institute for Dreams Studies (www.dreamswork.us/) where he also present regularly. He is also an Associate Editor and a contributor to Elixir: The Journal of Consciousness, Conscience, and Culture (www.sufiorder.net/sufi-mall/elixir/index.html) and a member of the Editorial Board of Esoterica: The Journal of Western Esotericism (http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/). His books include: The Dream Seekers, Visionary Worlds, Awakening to Spirit, The Gnostic Tarot, and The Alchemy of Soul (forthcoming, spring 2007), SEE LINKS.
Daren Kemp is editor of the Journal of Alternative Spiritualities and New Age Studies (www.ASANAS.org.uk) with Marion Bowman (Open University). He is the editor of Handbook of New Age with James R Lewis, and author of New Age: A Guide and The Christaquarians. Dr Kemp lectures widely, including recently at the London School of Economics and Edinburgh University, and by invitation in Tokyo and Hungary. His academic interests focus on alternative spiritual movements, anomalous experiences, and their interaction with mainstream society, especially law and business. Daren is also qualified as a solicitor and chartered company secretary.
is a Lecturer in History and Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He is the author of 'Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain 1850-1914' and 'United We Stand. A History of Britain's Trade Unions'.
He edits the History and Policy website http://www.historyandpolicy.org developing a network of historians interested in interacting with public life. His main research interests are in the history of trade unionism, popular radicalism and counterculture; and he has recently started a new project on the history of British counterculture since 1945. This will require a transdisciplinary approach, taking in literature and psychiatry/psychotherapy for a start, beginning as it does with the early careers of Alexander Trocchi and R. D. Laing.
He is currently in the final stages of a book on shipyard workers and social relations in Britain, 1870-1950. This aims to reconnect economic, social and political history by dealing with the organisation of work, the relations between leaders and members within a major craft union, and the role of that union in Labour Party politics.
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From Banana Republic to Ann Taylor and Coach, this spot sells "gently used" high-end duds from dozens of brands. Whether you want to buy a nice designer purse or you are searching for something specific, such as maternity wear, this store has what you need.
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Lisa S. and Marie Zhuge (诸葛紫岐) attended the Fall/Winter 2012 presentation of Versace held at Pacific Place in Admiralty, Hong Kong on May 4, 2012.
Model, Lisa S. (Lisa Selesner) wore a stunning modified grey plunge-neck gown with embellishments from Versace Spring/Summer 2012.
Marie Zhuge (诸葛紫岐) was my best dressed at the event in a printed dress from the same collection. Her lovely look was accessorized with a pair of gold sandals and bright red watch which matches her lips.
While Lisa S. had the figure for the dress, I just adore the outfit on Marie Zhuge (诸葛紫岐). Great accessories and incredibly cute on her.


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So it's been a couple of weeks since Christmas was here, but my nephew Timmy didn't get to make it for Christmas because he was under the weather.
When Taelor woke up today it was my plan to let him know the good news of us moving away from where we live at the moment. It had been on my mind all Christmas that in the new year, we would be starting afresh. Fortunately, this week was the perfect time for it.
It wasn't long after I shared the news, Timmy came over.
It was lovely to see him, and so we decided to take the time to exchange gifts with him. Taelor sat down with him watching him unpack them.
He got a train set, a game system with a TV and video games with all sorts of accessories. He also got a sleeping bag.
After Timmy got his presents, we went to the stables so that Taelor could get his gift from Timmy. it was a horse! How amazingly generous of him!
Taelor swiped the gift card and soon he had a brand new shiny horse *grins*
He's not yet named it, but in our new home, I'll be making sure he has a place to ride and play with him.
When we did leave the stables, I quickly took Taelor to the land we'll be moving to….
It's right next to a certain orphanage *wink wink*. I'll disclose more later, but VERY happy times ahead!
After he had seen it, we went back home for our last night. He was feeling a little sad…he really hates saying good bye to places, but he's gotten very brave lately. He held it together very well, but I insisted he sleep in my room that way I could cuddle him all night and he'd not have to worry about it by himself.
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Avance Media, CELBMD Africa and partners, just released the list of 50 Most Influential Young Cameroonians 2016 nominees.
The Most Influential Young Cameroonians initiative is an annual Awards and ranking scheme for young Cameroon Achievers between 15-40 years, spearheaded by Avance Media a social enterprise and CELBMD Africa in partnership with various Organisations.
The initiative is intended to disclose the true and genuine potentials of young people who are earnest to turn around the fortunes of Cameroon's economy and whose works are at par with their impacts.
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The outcome of this ranking was after consultations with various local partner organisations, public nominations and in-depth research backed strictly based by their universal Criteria listed below.
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