It's been a while since I've updated this site. Too long.
With spring approaching, I've renewed my commitment to writing, because it's a commitment to ME. It's okay to step back and it can recharge you-even when all hope is lost.
It's not always that way.
Sometimes life changes, work and family pull us in so many directions that we never realize. We put writing off for a day, a week and then the guilt. We tell ourselves that we don't have time, we're tired. It's too much effort. We drop CPers, stop taking classes, let the writer association lapse.
Stop thinking of ourselves as a writer.
It's when we listen to those insidious voices-I'll never make it-the competition is stiff-I took this as far as I could-its just too HARD.
That's when the damage is done. The damage that we may never push through, the block.
And this is a block, make no mistake.
It may not be a block of ideas, a true "Writer's Block", but it's a block and one that is terrifying. Unexpected. Writing is solitary but this can make us feel isolated.
Sometimes it is the WIP. Sometimes. Just stayed too long. Usually, the rx is to put that aside and start something fresh.
Because what I'm talking about, goes way beyond hating the WIP, characters etc. And it's emotional, raw, in the gut-like being in a marriage you want out of. You just can't do it anymore.
Sound familiar? So you crawl out of the hole, it's scary. It's not pretty, but you climb.
During hiatus stay in touch with CPers. Keep one toe in.
Write on Sundays-sometimes if you felt like it.
One day, when the world comes crashing down turn to the oldest friend you know; writing.
You won't even have to apologize. No excuses to make, let it take you in, like it has so many times. Renew old connections, take classes, jump into a contest or two and it will be like you never left.
Writing is how I process the world, and my life. That's just it.
Open up the WIP; write. And edit and believe.
And it's HARD. Remember, yes the market is crowded, the slush is bursting but most people still don't do this. Most people you know, won't ever write a book, or finish a project. Yes, this is brass ring stuff. It's HARD.
Even after the darkest winter, the cherry blossoms will always come out again, my writing will always welcome me back. Let it welcome you. I won't stop being a writer. I'm old enough now to know I've been writing longer than not.
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Spring 1951: it is the fiery zenith of the Korean War, a war that the youthful US Army lieutenant Wesley Palm and his men thought that they had won… until the Chinese swept across the Yalu River.
Traveling with the million-man army bent on driving back the march of "American imperialism" is Jasmine Young, a Chinese surgeon who has volunteered herself into the war for unspoken, grave reasons. Through a chronicle of merciless battles, freezing winters, and the brutality and hypocrisy of human nature, the two will find themselves weaving through the twists and turns of fate and destiny. Though their love is forbidden, their passion and pursuit of liberty cannot be quenched.
Catherine Aerie, a graduate from the University of California, Irvine with a master degree in finance, grew up in China as the daughter of a Shanghai architect. She was inspired to write The Dance of the Spirits while researching a family member's role in the Korean War, deciding to revive an often neglected and overlooked setting in fiction and heighten the universality of resilient pursuit of love and liberty. Her debut novel was finished after about two years of research. She currently resides in southern California.
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As a writer of Asian fiction and Historical novels with a sweep-this one sounded close to my heart.
I've read some reviews which warned of heavy combat action and gruesome details of a little-known, not much discussed war. As war epics go, certainly this one-set against the sweep of the Korean War-stands out. Yes, it has combat scenes and all the vivid details one would expect in a novel set against the battlefield. But this is not an "Asian Band of Brothers", and if that's the take-away, it misses the mark.
One could make comparisons to Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, with a bit of Joy Luck Club thrown in. As the main character, Jasmine Young holds up the whole book. The novel opens with a window on the hero and the heroine as we are thrown into their lives mid-combat. Then, we are whisked away to Jasmine's past, her idyllic and pampered childhood in Shanghai on the eve of Revolution. Aerie pulls us closer, to see the inner workings of a family in torment, Jasmine's loving, though recalcitrant father who refuses to stay faithful, and brings a series of children he fathered by concubines into the house. This has disastrous effects on Jasmine's mother's self-esteem and will spin the family into far greater disaster and poignancy. I really felt for the mother here. She was not easy to love, or like for that matter. She's tough. She's not soft but there is a tragic sense of pity I felt with each one of the father's infidelities. Aerie makes me care about the mother, and without giving too much away, really feel for Jasmine's plight as she tries to cope with dark changes within the family. This is my favorite part of the book.
When Jasmine goes off to war to save her family from further disgrace in the post-Communist takeover of South China, we start getting the Zhivago feel again. From the homes taken over and sectioned off, to the hopelessness and dazed way Jasmine's father sleepwalks through his ruined world to the romance that blossoms mid-war between Jasmine and Wesley, an American officer at the Korean front. They grab hold of what they have, brief and shining, yet intensely real, perhaps felt all the more because of circumstances. Wesley offers Jasmine his whole soul, but "can make her no promises". And while there is a passionate, brief and heart-breaking love story, overall, the book ultimately makes the case for the life of the inner self versus the greater good sacrifice of Communism. The joys of having dreams, hopes and fears kept alive when the rest of the crazy world outside-the war and the Communist rigmarole is telling you not to; to get rid of your thinking problem as Jasmine is reprimanded again and again. This only serves to steel her heart and her spirit, to grab what is hers and hold true in a difficult, shifting landscape.
We need more books like this. We need to get back to the meaning in fiction. Luckily, this book has a great love story, and interesting time period and a beloved heroine. I loved it.
This entry was posted in Authors To Keep In Your Sights, History, Writing Life and tagged Historical Fiction, Story Structure; Writing the Novel.
If you're writing Historical Fiction you're most likely in love with the past. While writers adore research and taking notes, diving into costume templates and other delights, it's important to remember that unless you're writing a text book there's Story and there's History. Don't confuse the two.
Historical facts are like backstory. Their there to enhance, not overwhelm. A delicate hand is needed to spice up stories if we're going to transport readers to the world we are recreating. It's rich details, the little bit of this, and little bit of that we can use to enliven stories without dumping a lot of unnecessary, dry facts on top of readers who will turn away.
Because history to me is so enjoyable, when I approach a project in the early stages, I give myself a time limit to do research. It helps keep me centered on story, and prevents a trip far off field that will prevent me from actually writing the story and over-researching. In fact, I under-research. In the beginning. When I get into the draft, I leave blanks if I haven't read deeply enough and go back after my first draft is done to read more on the topic so I can flesh out the scene first. Always remember, story first. I typically limit my initial research to two weeks to a month, depending on scope and familiarity with subject matter. I watch documentaries, read primary and secondary sources and research costumes. I do not research technical aspects yet, such as weaponry and language. Once I start writing the draft, I review notes and let the story guide me. If something needs more research, I'll note and go back. The old Stephen King Cleveland trick. These things are usually things I want also to see in person. I'll watch a YouTube video first, then schedule an appointment with a local expert. That's it.
It's crucial not to get overwhelmed with details. If you've loaded your draft with too much detail or find your characters speechifying-teaching history-you've gone too far. History like backstory is a spice. While I want readers who enjoy that time period to be charmed and delighted, I know I've done my job when I've transported a reader who knew nothing about the era. Those are the ones you should be aiming at. Don't be afraid to use foreign words with elan, these are the things that bring your world to life.
If you don't know how to do it, try something like, "I wrapped the rich uchikake around my shoulders for warmth. It was always welcome to have padded kimono on a night like this." You've defined the item once, now be free to use the word again without having to define and the effect is seamless. The reader gets it.
How do you like to research? Do you dive in or do you do just enough to sprinkle the story?
This entry was posted in Writing Life and tagged Story Structure; Writing the Novel.
As a writer of Asian fiction, I am drawn to Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temple. I can't get enough of it. It's so mysterious and incredibly beautiful that I have multiple pictures in my home, writing space and office. It uplifts me. It makes me chillax and it reminds me how something great can be brought forth from ideas and stone.
But first, there was the jungle.
Angkor Wat is a Buddhist temple complex. The largest ever built in the word. It's a 12th century Khmer king's dream come to life. It's still standing. The temple broke from Shavism tradition and instead celebrated Vishnu, and there is a legend that holds construction happned in a single night by divine help.
The temple's gradual focus shifted from Hindu to Buddhism. This amazing place was abandoned over the years, as regimes came and went but never completely. And it had protection. The jungle prevented destructive encroachments. The vines and the snakes actually preserved the jewel inside.
Our drafts. Just like this magnificent temple, they are laid out scene by scene, page by page from nothing. They age. They take shape and they become overgrown. Time to prune.
The writing process can feel as if we are enveloping our beautiful words in a morass of vines. So we put the book away. The proverbial shut the drawer moment. Maybe we write something else because we grow bored. Can't sell it. Can't fix another scene. Can't face it.
But it's when the vines are at their worst tangle that we know some hidden jewel awaits us. Some books can't be fixed, and some are meant to teach.
If you can't get that story out of your head, if you followed a linear path, if each scene flows from outward progression, if you follow goal-motivation-conflict, it's all there. You just need to edit. Cut back. Combine scenes that don't work. Try cutting anything that's boring. Odds are cutting will save that book.
So, if you're still haunted by the book in the drawer, there is hope. Think of the temple in the jungle, because it's true. Greatness comes from drawing out the bits that excite and entertain us. Nothing great came from the easy path, if that were true we'd all be living in log cabins.
I'll take the temple and the jungle, please.
So I actually committed and made it through the Blog A-Z Challenge. To pat myself on the back, I've written two books but this was different. Blogging is different.
I had a lot of fun. I loved the camaraderie, meeting new peeps taking the challenge and seeing how they came up with inspiring content. I hope they'll still come around. I hope when the excitement wanes, they won't too. I will visit my new friends, and often.
The numbers shot up too. Nice. There were moments. After a few in the restaurant, I had to really pull myself to the Surface to get it done. Tax night? Yah, reason why the Ikebana Post was not getting much love, I was literally doing turbotax and the post at the same time. It wasn't my best, but I didn't want to quit. And hey, it was "I".
Some posts were surprisingly popular.
Cherry Blossom C. Kyoto K. Good eye candy. Everyone loves cherry blossoms.
Life of Oharu, okay that was X but it got good comments and it's a fantastic film.
This one was close to my heart.
The Real Madame Butterfly M.
Zelda in the Shadow Z.
I can see the value of blogging often. I feel energized. Great challenge with like-minded people. Wouldn't have missed it.
This entry was posted in Writing Life and tagged A to Z Challenge, Passion; Write; History, Story Structure; Writing the Novel.
I've always thought a duel biography of Zelda and Nora would be interesting. Both married literary giants, Fitzgerald and Joyce. Both were incredibly unhappy. But since this is the last night of the A-Z Blog Challenge, Zelda gets the honors. After all she was the original flapper.
Zelda goes down in history for being the model of Daisy Buchanan, in Great Gatsby. But she was a frustrated writer, largely misunderstood who suffered in the shadow of her husband. It's ironic that she was the quintessential It Girl, rebellious, hip and bohemian enough to break the rules of society yet she struggled with identity. It nearly destroyed her.
They had a difficult marriage. Unconventional, he, raging alcoholic who expected her to bask in greatness, she who suffered bouts of depression, commitment and suicide attempts. Hemingway did not like her. It was mutual. He thought she was crazy. She detested his "faux machismo". The marriage issues stemmed largely when Zelda was left at loose ends while Fitzgerald was deep in his manuscripts. She wanted what he had, but on her own terms.
One of the more bizarre attempts at carving her own way was her obsession to become a ballerina. At 27. She practiced all hours of the day. It's a bit like deciding to become an Olympic skier at age 32. She had a minor talent, and was invited to study in an Italian school. But she never went. She dropped the whole idea, just as it seemed she had got what she wanted. Or did she?
Zelda wanted to write. Can you imagine being married Fitzgerald, yet he never encouraged her, one suspects he was jealous and fearful of sharing the limelight. She was hospitalized in 1932, yet in that time she was able to complete an entire novel, Save Me The Last Waltz She sent it to her husband's editor, the great Maxwell Perkins. Fitzgerald exploded. He accused her of using intimate details of their marriage, yet he was more angry because she had beaten him to the punch; he was planning on using the same martial for Tender Is The Night, a novel that took him years while she banged Waltz out in six weeks. There was no pride, no encouragement. Her efforts, met with suspicion.
Fitzgerald forced her to edit out the scenes, though the novel was published by Scribner. Ah, connections. It wasn't a success, though today her writing has been described as more sensual and verbally rich. It is best remembered, as one woman's attempt to stop being a "backseat driver" in her husband's life. Fitzgerald called her a Third-Rate writer. This broke her heart and she was never the same. She made about $120. And that's why no pictures of him appear in this post.
This is about Zelda. Not F, or S. Those letters have been done. And I dedicate the blogs in this A-Z Challenge to her memory. Over and out. It's been fantastic.
This entry was posted in Writing Life and tagged A to Z Challenge, Story Structure; Writing the Novel.
I remember in college a professor suggested I work on a paper with another student. I knew the subject matter like the back of my hand, in fact I was passionate about it and could write it cold. 35 pages. I knew the other student didn't know half as much as I did. To prove it, she went to the library and checked out all the books. It didn't matter. I wasn't going to collaborate. I owned half of them anyway. I would go it alone. I got an A, while she got in the lower end of the alphabet I recall.
Writing is an intensely personal experience and sometimes we feel me vs. the rest. The way we see life is just so different. We need refuge away to make sense of the world around us. We need to write. Even if we don't enjoy it, it's just who we are.
That's why it's important to understand the journey we take is a long, lonely one and to most of our non-writer friends and family, it seems masochistic. A waste of time. Incomprehensible. But they don't see the inner flame inside that keeps shoveling coal into the furnace of despair and insecurity. They never had a dream. Some don't, you know. They've told me. Many people just never had a dream, and I don't mean to get all MLK but think about it, as hard as it is, and as windy and twisty and bumpy as this road is, you can say, you're living your dream. And you did it by yourself, because no one but you is going to sit down when the ice cream man rolls around, to tempt you with his treats. You're going to keep sitting down and getting the writing done. You're going to edit the work over and over. Because if it was easy you wouldn't do it. Because it's a dream. It's all yours and you did it alone.
Now go hit the keys.
It's just sometimes, I know that's the way I'm supposed to go….I say someday I will.
This entry was posted in Writing Life and tagged A to Z Challenge, Passion; Write; History.


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Purohita
Purohita literally means 'one who is engaged in rites that give their fruits here and hereafter'.
Right from the most ancient days, the sages had recognized the need for a king or a ruler to protect and control the society. Similarly they had also recognized the need for the king to be guided by a purohita,[1] not only in matters of religion but also in other fields like the dispensing of justice. Their philosophy behind statecraft was that only a balanced combination of the kingly and the priestly powers could guarantee the complete well-being of the State.
Qualities of Purohita[edit]
A king was to select a purohita endowed with the following qualities:
He should be a brāhmaṇa from a good family, possessing great learning, eloquence and pure character.
He must be a handsome person of middle age.
He should also be well-versed in the science of portents and the rites to be performed to offset the evil effects indicated by the portents.
His position was often hereditary, hence it is termed as 'kulapurohita'.[2]
His status was considered as even superior to that of the mantrins or the ministers.
If and when a king wanted to perform a Vedic sacrifice, the advice of the purohita was of supreme importance in selecting the ṛtivks.[3]
Duties of Purohita[edit]
Even in the modern days, the society very much depends on the purohita or the priest for the performance of religious rites whether at home or in temples or in public/social functions. Some of these rites are:
Performance of the sanskāras[4] like upanayāna,[5] vivāha[6] and śrāddha[7] all ceremonies connected with the temple worship
Religious rites like homa performed for the betterment of the society.
Though these ceremonies include Vedic mantras, they are based more on the āgamas and purāṇas.
↑ Purohita means a chaplain of the State.
↑ Incidentally, even the devas or the gods and the asuras or the demons are said to have had kulapurohitas. The names of Bṛhaspati and Śukrācārya are often mentioned in the Vedas and the purāṇas as the two kulapurohitas of these two races.
↑ Rtivks means the priests.
↑ Sanskāras means the sacraments.
↑ Upanayāna means the thread-ceremony.
↑ Vivāha means marriage.
↑ Śrāddha means obsequal ceremonies.
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"""
Code to analyse the consistent networks.
"""

import numpy as N
from . import network, chow_liu_trees
from collections import defaultdict

def aggregate_possible_regulations(meta_data, networks):
    "Aggregate the possible regulatory relationships in the networks."
    possible_regulations = N.empty((meta_data.G, meta_data.G), dtype=object)
    for net in networks:
        for g1 in xrange(meta_data.G):
            for g2 in xrange(meta_data.G):
                if None == possible_regulations[g1,g2]:
                    possible_regulations[g1,g2] = set()
                possible_regulations[g1,g2].add(net.J[g1,g2])
    return possible_regulations

def count_possible_regulations(meta_data, networks):
    "Count the possible regulatory relationships in the networks."
    possible_regulations = N.empty((meta_data.G, meta_data.G), dtype=object)
    for net in networks:
        for g1 in xrange(meta_data.G):
            for g2 in xrange(meta_data.G):
                if None == possible_regulations[g1,g2]:
                    possible_regulations[g1,g2] = defaultdict(int)
                possible_regulations[g1,g2][net.J[g1,g2]] += 1
    return possible_regulations

def aggregate_possible_thetas(meta_data, networks):
    "Aggregate the possible theta parameters."
    possible_thetas = N.empty((meta_data.G,), dtype=object)
    for net in networks:
        for g in xrange(meta_data.G):
            if None == possible_thetas[g]:
                possible_thetas[g] = set()
            possible_thetas[g].add(net.theta[g])
    return possible_thetas

def count_possible_thetas(meta_data, networks):
    "Count the possible theta parameters."
    possible_thetas = N.empty((meta_data.G,), dtype=object)
    for net in networks:
        for g in xrange(meta_data.G):
            if None == possible_thetas[g]:
                possible_thetas[g] = defaultdict(int)
            possible_thetas[g][net.theta[g]] += 1
    return possible_thetas

def aggregate_possible_inputs(meta_data, networks):
    "Aggregate the possible input parameters."
    possible_inputs = [set() for g in xrange(meta_data.G)]
    for net in networks:
        for g in xrange(meta_data.G):
            possible_inputs[g].add(net.input_parameters[g])
    return possible_inputs

def count_possible_inputs(meta_data, networks):
    "Count how often each possible input parameters occurs."
    input_counts = [defaultdict(int) for g in xrange(meta_data.G)]
    for net in networks:
        for g in xrange(meta_data.G):
            input_counts[g][net.input_parameters[g]] += 1
    return input_counts

def analyse_dependencies(networks):
    """
    Analyse the dependencies between pairs of network features.
    """
    if networks:
        networks_as_features = map(network.network_to_features, networks)
        n = len(networks_as_features[0])
        T = chow_liu_trees.build_chow_liu_tree(networks_as_features, n)
        edges = T.edges(data=True)
        edges.sort(key=lambda x:x[2]['weight'])
        return networks_as_features, T, edges

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Q: Can't call blockchain function using setInterval method When I call setInterval() invoking blockchain function (written in solidity) it does not call it.
In the following code checkconsensus() calls solidity function, and it is passed to setInterval() of JavaScript.

var func = checkconsensus;
var run = setInterval(func, 80000);

function checkconsensus(newscount, i, myVar) {
  var instance = contract.at(addr)
  var estimatedGas = 3000000;

  var txnObject = {
    from: web3.eth.coinbase,
    gas: estimatedGas
  }

  alert(instance) //it is printed
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  instance.returnallposval(newscount, txnObject, function(error, result) {
    if (!error)
      alert(result)
    else
      alert("error")
  })
}

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The beauty of poetry is that you can string beautiful words together and they make sense. Even if semantically they don't seem to make sense, the words have such an innate beauty that they bind together in a wonderful marriage.
There are certain words that I find beautiful. A poem can be words strung together in a nonsensical manner which distort themselves into a powerful image that speaks to many and one.
Incandescent bubbles, laser red leaves, magical mystical meadows, esoteric wonder, unimagined imaginings, air of nature, doorway to hearts and minds, trees walking away from summer, clouds horsing around.
Poetry to me is like producing random words that open your mind. It allows creativity of the soul, it gives a voice to its song, a melody to its rhythm, steps to its dance.
It's unending, unnerving, understanding, unapologetic, unavailing, under my skin.


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Icarus Lives - Scorched Reprise
Get ready to kick down the door and scream every last thing you have ever had into the void. Icarus Lives is releasing its new EP, Scorched Reprise, on April 22nd, and it is heavy, hard, and kicks ass.
Icarus Lives is a blend of Traditional metal mixed with various elements of melodic rock composed beautifully with lyrics of vulnerability and angst among the brutal carnage they blast through the amplifiers. Their first song off the EP Secret Keeper, accompanied by a music video on youtube, comes out of the gate swinging. Distorted palm muted chugs with a light electric melody while the double bass drums get your heart palpitating as soon as the song kicks in.
Aria Scarlett is the new frontwoman of Icarus, and her voice accompanies the vulgarity of screaming nicely with her ghastly, haunting howl she pulls over the muffled snarls of the demon behind her singing. Imagine Hades and Persephone were in a metal band, and she is singing her heart out, crying for something more, while the king of the dead behind her is pulling her back to where he knows she needs to be.
Each track kicks off hauntingly, but the beat, bass, and crash of an orchestra of destruction can make you do nothing more than bang your head and tap your foot. Tap your foot to the beat of beasts' redemption with Scorched Reprise. Feel the heat, the speed, and every inch of this metal first course because it only makes you want to have the rest or their new album in your hands.
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densities found at the cores of
neutron stars, quarks may not
be confined into well-defined hadrons.
If quarks are deconfined,
since the interaction between
quarks in the color antisymmetric channel is attractive, quarks near
their Fermi
surfaces will tend to form Cooper
pairs.   Because the temperature of
neutron stars is much smaller than the typical
pairing energy, if quark matter exists within neutron stars, it
must be in some color superconducting phase~\cite{reviews}.

At asymptotically large densities where the masses of the $u$, $d$ and $s$
quarks can all be neglected, quark matter exists in the CFL
phase~\cite{Alford:1998mk} in which quarks of all three colors and all three
flavors form Cooper pairs with
zero total momentum. The diquark condensate in the CFL phase
is antisymmetric in color indices,
driven by the attractive color interaction, and
antisymmetric in the spin indices. Thus it must be
antisymmetric in flavor indices,
implying that quarks of a given flavor can only pair with quarks of
the other two flavors. In the CFL phase,
all fermionic excitations are gapped, with a gap parameter $\Delta_0\sim 10-100$~MeV.

However, at densities relevant for neutron star phenomenology, meaning
quark chemical potentials at most $\mu\sim 500$ MeV, the strange quark mass $M_s$
cannot be neglected. In neutral unpaired quark matter in weak equilibrium, $M_s$ induces
splitting between the Fermi surfaces for quarks of different flavor, which
can be taken into account to lowest order in $M_s^2/\mu^2$
by treating the quarks as if they were massless but with chemical
potential splittings $\delta\mu_2\equiv (\mu_u-\mu_s)/2$ and
$\delta\mu_3\equiv (\mu_d -\mu_u)/2$ given
by $\delta\mu_2=\delta\mu_3\equiv \delta\mu = M_s^2/(8\mu)$.
Note that the splitting between unpaired Fermi surfaces increases
with decreasing density.
In the CFL phase, the Fermi momenta are {\it not} given by these optimal
values for unpaired quark matter; instead, the system pays a free energy price
$\propto \delta\mu^2 \mu^2$ to equalize all Fermi momenta and gains a pairing energy benefit
$\propto \Delta_0^2\mu^2$.   As a function of decreasing density, there
comes a point (at which $\delta\mu \approx \Delta_0/4$~\cite{Alford:2003fq}) when
the system can lower its energy by breaking pairs. Restricting the analysis to spatially homogeneous condensates,
the phase that results when CFL Cooper pairs start to break is the gapless CFL  (gCFL)
phase~\cite{Alford:2003fq}. However, this phase turns out to be
``magnetically unstable'' \cite{Casalbuoni:2004tb}, meaning that it is unstable to
the formation of counter-propagating currents. If $\Delta_0$ is small enough
that  CFL pairing cannot survive all the way down to
the $\mu$
at which quark matter is supplanted by nuclear matter, then
the true ground state of intermediate density quark matter
must have
a lower free energy than that of the unstable gCFL phase.

Crystalline color superconducting quark matter is a possible resolution
of the magnetic instability of the gCFL phase.
Crystalline color
superconductivity~\cite{Alford:2000ze,Bowers:2002xr,Mannarelli:2006fy,Rajagopal:2006ig}
is the QCD analogue of a form of non-BCS pairing
first considered by Larkin, Ovchinnikov, Fulde and Ferrell~\cite{LOFF} .
This phase may be the ground state of matter
in the intermediate density regime in which quark matter is favored
over nuclear matter but the Fermi surface separations $\propto M_s^2/\mu$
are large enough to disrupt CFL pairing.  In a crystalline color superconducting
phase,
quarks whose Fermi surfaces
are separated (as favored in the absence of pairing)
nevertheless pair. Unlike in conventional BCS
phases, the quarks in a pair do not have equal and opposite
momenta (meaning that the Cooper pairs have net momentum)
allowing both members in a pair to have momenta near their
respective, separated, Fermi surfaces.
Such phases do not suffer
from the magnetic instability~\cite{Ciminale:2006sm}.
A particular crystalline phase is specified by sets
of momentum vectors $\setq{I}{}$, meaning that
Cooper pairs with total momentum $2{\bf q}_I^a$ form
for each ${\bf q}_I^a \in \setq{I}{}$.
All the ${\bf q}_I^a$'s have the same magnitude
$q_I\equiv |{\bf q}_I^a |=\eta\delta\mu_I$, with
$\eta=1.1997$~\cite{Bowers:2002xr} and
$2\delta\mu_I$ the separation between the Fermi surfaces of quarks that pair.
The directions of the vectors in $\setq{I}{}$
must be determined to get structures with the smallest free energy.
In position space, the condensate is
\begin{equation}
\langle\psi_{i\alpha}C\gamma^5\psi_{j\beta}\rangle\propto
\sum_I\epsilon_{I\alpha\beta}\epsilon_{Iij}\Delta_I\sum_{{\bf q}_I^a\in \setq{I}{}}\exp({2i{\bf q}_I^a\cdot{\bf r}})\ .
\label{condensate}
\end{equation}
This is antisymmetric in color ($\alpha,\beta$), spin,
and flavor ($i,j$) (where ($1$, $2$, $3$) correspond to ($u$, $d$, $s$)
respectively) indices and is thus a generalization
of the CFL condensate to crystalline color superconductivity.
For simplicity, $\Delta_1$ is set to $0$, neglecting
$\langle ds \rangle$ pairing because the $d$ and $s$ Fermi
surfaces  are twice as far apart from each other as each is from
the intervening $u$ Fermi surface. Hence, $I$ can be taken to run over $2$ and $3$ only.
$\setq{2}{}$ and $\setq{3}{}$ define the crystal structures of the $\langle us \rangle$ and
$\langle ud \rangle$ condensates respectively.

We will analyze crystalline color superconductivity in an NJL model, which gives in the mean field
approximation an interaction term
\begin{equation}
{\cal L}_{\rm interaction}= \frac{1}{2} \bar{\psi}\Delta({\bf r})\bar{\psi}^T +
h.c.,
\label{meanfieldapprox}
\end{equation}
where the proportionality constant in Eq.~(\ref{condensate}) is conventionally
chosen so that,
\begin{equation}
\Delta({\bf r}) = (C\gamma^5)
\sum_I\epsilon_{I\alpha\beta}\epsilon_{Iij}\Delta_I\sum_{{\bf q}_I^a\in\setq{I}{}}\exp({2i{\bf q}_I^a\cdot{\bf r}})
\label{precisecondensate}\;.
\end{equation}

The authors of~\cite{Rajagopal:2006ig} calculated the free energy $\Omega$ of
several crystalline structures within the weak coupling ($\delta\mu, \Delta_0\ll \mu$)
and Ginzburg-Landau ($\Delta\ll\delta\mu,\Delta_0$)
approximations, and found qualitative features that make a structure
favorable. Two particular structures that possess these features, called CubeX
and 2Cube45z and described below, have a lower $\Omega$ than
any other crystal patterns that have been
analyzed. One or the other or both of these two is favored over unpaired quark matter and the
gapless CFL phase over the large range of densities given by~\cite{Rajagopal:2006ig}
\begin{equation}
2.9\Delta_0<\frac{M_s^2}{\mu}<10.4\Delta_0\;.
\end{equation}
For $\Delta_0=25$MeV and $M_s=250$MeV, the
window of densities over which one of these crystalline phases has
the lowest free energy of any color superconducting phase extends
from well below the $\mu$ at which nuclear matter supersedes quark
matter to well above the highest $\mu\sim 500$~MeV expected in the
cores of neutron stars. The robustness of these phases is partly due to
their having reasonably large
gap parameters $\Delta$, so large that the Ginzburg-Landau expansion parameter
$(\Delta/\delta\mu)^2$ can be around a tenth to a fourth meaning that this
approximation is at the edge of its validity.
Nevertheless,
their impressive robustness over a large range of
$\mu$ relevant for cores of neutron stars make it worth
considering the  phenomenological implications of their presence.
We also note that in the case of a simpler crystal pattern, for which
results have been obtained without making the Ginzburg-Landau
approximation, this approximation is conservative in that it always
underestimates both $\Delta$ and the condensation energy~\cite{Mannarelli:2006fy}.

In the CubeX crystal structure,
$\setq{2}{}$ and $\setq{3}{}$ each contain
four unit vectors, with
$\{{\bf \hat q_2}\} = \{({1}/{\sqrt{3}}) (\pm \sqrt{2},0,\pm1)\}$
and $\{{\bf \hat q_3}\} = \{({1}{\sqrt{3}}) (0,\pm\sqrt{2},\pm1)\}$.
In the 2Cube45z crystal structure
$\setq{2}{}$ and $\setq{3}{}$ each contain
eight unit vectors,
with $\{{\bf \hat q_2}\} = \{(1/\sqrt{3})(\pm 1,\pm 1,\pm 1)\}$  and
$\{{\bf \hat q_3}\} = \{(1/\sqrt{3})(\pm \sqrt{2},0,\pm 1)\}\cup\{(1/\sqrt{3})(0,\pm
\sqrt{2},\pm 1)\}$. For these structures, $\{{\bf \hat q_2}\}$ can be exchanged
with $\{{\bf \hat q_3}\}$ by rigid rotations, ensuring that there are electrically neutral
solutions of the gap equation with
$\Delta_2=\Delta_3=\Delta$~\cite{Rajagopal:2006ig}, a fact that we will
use in the next Section.

\section{Phonons}

The crystalline phases of color superconducting quark matter that we have
described in the previous Section are unique among all forms of dense matter
that may arise within neutron star cores in one respect: they are
rigid~\cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}.  They are not solids in the usual sense: the
quarks are not fixed in place at the vertices of some crystal structure.
Instead, these phases are in fact superfluid since the condensates all
spontaneously break the $U(1)_B$ symmetry corresponding to quark number.
The diquark condensate, although spatially inhomogeneous,
can carry supercurrents~\cite{Alford:2000ze,Mannarelli:2007bs}.
And yet, we shall see that crystalline color superconductors are rigid solids with
large shear moduli.  It is the
spatial modulation of the gap parameter that breaks translation invariance,
and it is this
pattern of modulation that is rigid.
This novel form of rigidity may sound tenuous
upon first hearing, but we shall present the effective Lagrangian that describes
the phonons in the CubeX and 2Cube45z crystalline phases, whose lowest order
coefficients have  been calculated in the NJL model that we are
employing~\cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}.  We shall then extract the shear moduli from
the phonon effective action, quantifying the rigidity and indicating the
presence of transverse phonons.

The shear moduli of a crystal may be extracted from the effective Lagrangian
that describes phonons in the crystal, namely space- and time-varying displacements
of the crystalline pattern~\cite{Casalbuoni:2002my}.
 In the present context, we introduce displacement fields
for
the $\langle ud \rangle$,
$\langle us \rangle$ and $\langle ds \rangle$  condensates
by making the replacement
\begin{equation}
\Delta_I \sum_{\q{I}{a}\in\setq{I}{}}e^{2i\q{I}{a}\cdot{\bf r}} \rightarrow
\Delta_I \sum_{\q{I}{a}\in\setq{I}{}}e^{2i\q{I}{a}\cdot({\bf r} - {\bf u}_I({\bf r}))}
\label{displacementfields}
\end{equation}
in (\ref{precisecondensate}).
One way to obtain the effective action describing the dynamics of the
displacement fields ${\bf u}_I({\bf r})$,
including both its form and the values of its coefficients
within the NJL model that we are employing, is to take the mean field NJL
interaction given by Eq.~(\ref{meanfieldapprox}), but with
(\ref{displacementfields}),
and integrate out the fermion fields. Since the gapless fermions do not
contribute to the shear modulus, one can integrate out the fermions completely
for this calculation. As an aside,
we mention that this is not true for the calculation of thermal or
transport properties, where the gapless fermions do contribute and indeed
may dominate, as is the case for the heat capacity~\cite{Casalbuoni:2003sa}
and neutrino
emissivity~\cite{Anglani:2006br}.

After integrating out the fermions, we obtain~\cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}
\begin{eqnarray}
S[{\bf u}]&=
\frac{1}{2}\intspace{x}\sum_I \kappa_I\nonumber
\times\Biggl[
  \left(
	\sum_{ {\bf q}_{I}^{a}\in\setq{I}{}}(\hat{q}_I^a)^m(\hat{q}_I^a)^n \right)
	(\partial_0 u_I^m)(\partial_0 u_I^n) \Biggr.\\
& & \Biggl.-\left(
\sum_{ {\bf q}_{I}^{a}\in\setq{I}{}}(\hat{q}_I^a)^m(\hat{q}_I^a)^v(\hat{q}_I^a)^n(\hat{q}_I^a)^w\right)
	(\partial_v u_I^m)(\partial_w u_I^n)
 \Biggr] \label{Seff4}\;
\end{eqnarray}
where $m$, $n$, $v$ and $w$ are spatial indices running over $x$, $y$ and $z$
and where we have defined
$ \kappa_I\equiv
\frac{2\mu^2|\Delta_I|^2\eta^2}{\pi^2(\eta^2-1)}$.  For
 $\Delta_1=0,\;\;\Delta_2=\Delta_3=\Delta$, and $\eta\simeq1.1997$,
$\kappa_2=\kappa_3\equiv\kappa\simeq 0.664\,\mu^2|\Delta^2|.$
$S[{\bf u}]$  is the low energy effective action for phonons in any crystalline color
superconducting phase, valid to second order in derivatives, to
second order in the gap parameters $\Delta_I$ and to second order in
the phonon fields ${\bf u}_I$.    Because we are interested in long wavelength,
small amplitude, phonon excitations, expanding to second order in derivatives
and in the phonon fields is satisfactory. The Ginzburg-Landau approximation is
an expansion in $(\Delta/\delta\mu)^2$, and so is not under quantitative control for
the most favorable phases, as we have discussed.
But, the main
requirement from glitch phenomenology for
the shear modulus is that it should be large, and
given that we find {\it much} larger values than those obtained for conventional
neutron star crusts, there is no great motivation to
go to higher
order to improve the precision. (A higher order calculation would include
couplings between the different ${\bf u}_I$, meaning they could no longer
be treated independently.)

According to the theory of elastic media~\cite{Landau:Elastic}, the  shear moduli can be extracted from  the phonon
effective action. Introducing the strain tensor
\begin{equation}
s_I^{mv}\equiv\frac{1}{2}\Bigl(\frac{\partial  u_I^m}{\partial
x^v}+\frac{\partial  u_I^v}{\partial x^m}\Bigr)\label{strain}\,,
\end{equation}
we then wish to compare the action (\ref{Seff4}) to
\begin{equation}
{S}[{\bf u}]= \frac{1}{2}\intspace{x}\Biggl(
	 \sum_I\sum_m \rho_I^m (\partial_0  u_I^m)(\partial_0  u_I^m)
	 -\sum_{I}\sum_{{mn}\atop{vw}}\lambda_I^{mvnw}
	 s_I^{mv}s_I^{nw}\Biggr)
\label{full action},
\end{equation}
which is the general form of the action quadratic in displacement fields
and which defines the elastic modulus tensor $\lambda_I^{mvnw}$.
In this case, the stress tensor
(in general the derivative of the potential energy with respect to $s_I^{mv}$) is given by
\begin{equation}
\sigma_I^{mv}
=
\lambda_I^{mvnw}s_I^{nw}\label{stress2}\; .
\end{equation}
The diagonal components of $\sigma$ are proportional to the
compression exerted on the system and are therefore related to  the
bulk  modulus of the crystalline color superconducting
quark matter. Since unpaired quark
matter  has a pressure $\sim \mu^4$, it gives a contribution to the
bulk modulus that  completely overwhelms the contribution from the
condensation into a crystalline phase, which is of order
$\mu^2\Delta^2$.  We shall therefore not calculate the
bulk modulus.  On the other hand, the response to shear
stress arises only because of the presence  of the crystalline condensate.
The shear modulus is defined as follows. Imagine exerting a
static external stress $\sigma_I$ having only an off-diagonal
component, meaning  $\sigma^{mv}_I\neq 0$ for a pair of space
directions $m\neq v$, and all the other components of $\sigma$ are
zero. The system will respond with a strain $s_I^{nw}$.
The shear modulus in the $mv$ plane is then
\begin{equation}
\nu_I^{mv} \equiv \frac{\sigma_I^{mv}}{2s_I^{mv}}
= \frac{1}{2}\lambda_I^{mvmv}
\label{defineshearmodulus}\;,
\end{equation}
where the indices $m$ and $v$ are not summed.
For a general quadratic potential
with $\sigma_I^{mv}$ given by (\ref{stress2}), $\nu_I^{mv}$ simplifies
partially but the full simplification given by the last equality in
(\ref{defineshearmodulus}) only arises for special cases in which
the only nonzero entries in $\lambda^{mvnw}$ with $m\neq v$ are
the $\lambda^{mvmv}$ entries, as is the case for all the crystal
structures that we consider.

For a given crystal structure, upon evaluating the sums in (\ref{Seff4}) and
then using the definition (\ref{strain}) to compare (\ref{Seff4}) to
(\ref{full action}), we can extract expressions for the $\lambda$ tensor
and thence for the shear moduli.
This analysis, described in detail in \cite{Mannarelli:2007bs},
shows that in the CubeX phase
\begin{equation}
\nu_2=\frac{16}{9}\kappa\left( \begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 0 & 1\\
0 & 0 & 0\\
1 & 0 & 0
\end{array}
\right)\,,\hspace{.3cm}  \nu_3=\frac{16}{9}\kappa\left(
\begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 0 & 0\\
0 & 0 & 1\\
0 & 1 & 0
\end{array}
\right)\label{nu2 and nu3}\;,
\end{equation}
while in the 2Cube45z phase
\begin{equation}
\nu_{2}=\frac{16}{9}\kappa\left( \begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 1 & 1\\
1 & 0 & 1\\
1 & 1 & 0
\end{array}
\right)\,,\ \
\nu_{3}=\frac{16}{9}\kappa\left( \begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 0 & 1\\
0 & 0 & 1\\
1 & 1 & 0
\end{array}
\right)\label{nu 2Cube45z}\;.
\end{equation}
We shall see in the next Section that it is relevant to check
that both these crystals have enough
nonzero entries in their shear moduli
$\nu_I$ that if there are rotational vortices are pinned within them,
a force seeking to
move such a vortex is opposed by the rigidity
of the crystal structure described
by one or more of the nonzero entries in the $\nu_I$.
This is demonstrated
in \cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}.

We see that all the nonzero shear moduli of both the CubeX and 2Cube45z
crystalline color superconducting phases turn out to take on the same value,
\begin{equation}
\nu_{\rm CQM} = \frac{16}{9}\kappa
=  1.18\, \mu^2 \Delta^2
=  2.47\, \frac{{\rm MeV}}{{\rm fm}^3}
\left(\frac{\Delta}{10~{\rm MeV}}\right)^2 \left(\frac{\mu}{400~\rm{MeV}}\right)^2,
\label{shearmodulus}
\end{equation}
where $\mu$ is expected to  lie between $350$ and $500$MeV and $\Delta$ may be
taken to lie  between $5$ and $25$MeV to obtain numerical estimates.

 From (\ref{shearmodulus}) we first of all see that the shear modulus
is in no way suppressed relative to the scale  $\mu^2\Delta^2$ that could have
been guessed on dimensional grounds.  And, second, we discover that
a quark matter core in a crystalline color superconducting phase is 20 to 1000
times more rigid than the crust of a conventional neutron
star~\cite{Strohmayer:1991}.
Finally,  one can extract the phonon dispersion relations from the effective
action~(\ref{Seff4}).
The transverse phonons, whose restoring force is provided by the shear
modulus turn out to have direction-dependent velocities that are
typically a substantial
fraction of the speed of light,
being given by $\sqrt{1/3}$ and $\sqrt{2/3}$
\cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}.
This is another way of seeing that this
superfluid phase of matter is rigid indeed.

\section{Rigid quark matter and pulsar glitches}

The existence of a rigid crystalline color superconducting core within
neutron stars may have a variety of observable consequences.
For example,
if some agency (like magnetic
fields not aligned with the rotation axis) could maintain the
rigid core in a shape that has a nonzero quadrupole moment, gravity
waves would be emitted.
The
LIGO non-detection of such gravity waves
from nearby neutron stars~\cite{Abbott:2007ce}
already limits the possibility that they have rigid cores
that are deformed to the maximum extent allowed by the shear
modulus (\ref{shearmodulus}),
upon assuming a range of breaking strains,
and this constraint will tighten as
LIGO continues to run~\cite{Haskell:2007sh}.
Perhaps the most exciting implication of a rigid core, however,
is the possibility that (some) pulsar
``glitches'' could originate deep within a neutron star, in its quark matter core.

A spinning neutron star observed
as a  pulsar gradually spins down as it loses rotational energy
to electromagnetic radiation.
But, every once in a while the angular velocity
at the crust of the star is observed to increase suddenly in a dramatic event called a
glitch.
The standard
explanation~\cite{Anderson:1975}
requires the presence of
a superfluid in some region of the star which also
features a rigid structure that
can pin the vortices in the rotating superfluid and that does not easily deform
when the vortices pinned to it are under tension.
As a spinning pulsar slowly loses angular momentum over years,
since the angular momentum of any
superfluid component of
the star is proportional to the density of vortices,
the vortices ``want'' to move apart.
However, if
some vortices are pinned to a rigid structure and so do not move,
after a time
this superfluid component of the star is spinning faster
than the rest of the star.  When the ``tension'' built up
in the array of pinned vortices
reaches a critical value, there
is a sudden ``avalanche'' in which vortices unpin, move outwards
reducing the angular momentum of the superfluid, {\it and then re-pin}.
As this superfluid suddenly loses angular momentum, the rest
of the star, including in particular the surface whose angular
velocity is observed, speeds up --- a glitch.
In the standard explanation of pulsar glitches, the necessary
conditions are met in the inner crust of a neutron star
which features a neutron superfluid coexisting with
a rigid array of positively
charged nuclei that may serve as vortex pinning sites.
In very recent work, Link has questioned whether this scenario
is viable
because once neutron vortices
are moving through the inner crust, as must happen during a glitch,
they  are so resistant to bending
that they  may never re-pin~\cite{LinkPrivateCommunication}.
Link concludes that we do not have an understanding
of any dynamics that could lead to the re-pinning of moving
vortices in the crust, and hence that we do not currently
understand the origin of glitches as a crustal phenomenon.

By virtue of being simultaneously superfluids
and rigid solids, the crystalline
phases of quark matter provide all the necessary conditions
to be the locus in which (some) pulsar glitches
originate.
Their shear moduli
(\ref{shearmodulus})
make them more than rigid enough for glitches to originate within them.
The crystalline phases are at the same time superfluid, and
it is reasonable to expect that the superfluid vortices
that result when a neutron star with such a core rotates
 have lower free energy if they are centered
along the intersections of the nodal planes of the underlying
crystal structure, i.e. along lines along which the condensate
already vanishes  in the absence of a rotational vortex.
A crude estimate of the pinning force on vortices
within crystalline color superconducting quark matter indicates
that it is sufficient~\cite{Mannarelli:2007bs}.
So, the basic requirements for superfluid vortices pinning to
a rigid structure are all present.
The central questions that remain to be addressed are
the explicit construction of vortices in the crystalline phase
and the calculation of their pinning force, as well
as the calculation of the timescale over which sudden changes in the
angular momentum of the core are communicated
to the (observed) surface, presumably via
the common electron fluid or via magnetic stresses.

Much theoretical work remains before the hypothesis
that pulsar glitches originate within a crystalline color superconducting
neutron star core is developed fully enough to allow it to
confront data on the magnitudes, relaxation
timescales, and repeat rates that characterize glitches.  Nevertheless,
this hypothesis offers one immediate advantage over the conventional
scenario that relied on vortex pinning in the neutron star crust.
It is impossible for a neutron
star anywhere within which rotational vortices
are pinned to precess on $\sim$ year time scales~\cite{Link:2006nc},
and yet there is now evidence that
several pulsars are precessing~\cite{Stairs:2000}.
Since {\it all} neutron stars have crusts, the precession
of any pulsar is inconsistent with the pinning of vortices
within the crust, a requirement in the standard explanation of
glitches.  On the other hand, perhaps not all neutron stars have crystalline
quark matter cores ---
for example, perhaps the lightest
neutron stars have nuclear matter cores.
Then, if vortices are never
pinned in the crust but are pinned within
a crystalline quark matter core,
those neutron stars that do have a crystalline quark matter core can glitch
but cannot precess while those that don't can precess but cannot glitch.

\begin{theacknowledgments}
The work of MM has been supported
by the ``Bruno Rossi" fellowship program.   This research
was supported in part by the Office of Nuclear Physics of the Office
of Science of the U.S.~DOE under grants
\#DE-AC02-05CH11231 and
\#DE-FG02-94ER40818 and LANS, LLC for the NNSA
of the DOE under contract \#DE-AC52-06NA25396.
\end{theacknowledgments}
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A fairly quiet week in the JavaFX world this week, but nevermind, I'm sure it's just because the majority of you are too busy working on your blog masterpieces for next week 🙂 Regardless, there are some very useful links in this weeks post, so have at it, and as always please do flick me an email (or twitter message) with any link you think is worthy of being included.
There's been a bit of a documentation refresh going on recently, with the JavaFX 1.3 API getting refreshed, and a JavaFX CSS reference document being made available at the same time. For more information check out my summary blog post.
I posted about caching in custom cells in JavaFX controls such as ListView and TreeView. This is (probably) a useful post for people creating custom cells.
Jim Clarke has blogged about his experimentation with JavaFX and WEBM on Linux.
Jan-Hendrik Kuperus has blogged the second part of his post on integrating JavaFX with regular Java.
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Expanding upon the protections found in the 6th Amendment, the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to "Equal Protection of the Law" for each citizen. These mandates obligate government to afford each citizen equal access to the courts and ensure each is provided equal standing before the law. Do we blindly believe the mandates of the 6th and 14th Amendments as we similarly embraced the fallacies of our youth? Is treatment equal when those who seek to prosecute a citizen possess far superior funding appropriations from government when juxtaposed against the systemic inadequate funding Public Defenders receive?
Like countless others, I embraced the lie of "Equal Protection." Since childhood many of us were taught our courts and criminal justice systems were fair for all, including the poor; the lie became known when I was snared by the vast overreach of law enforcement. It soon became clear the promise of "Equal Protection" was being flushed down the toilet upon seeing, first hand, how the lack of meaningful legal representation is seldom given to those who cannot afford to purchase it.
Most citizens facing felony charges lack the financial resources to ensure "Equal Protection" via retaining a reputable criminal defense attorney. Because of their economic shortcomings, the working-class poor have no option but to rely upon under-funded, understaffed and overworked Public Defender systems. This is the point where the scales of justice tip in favor of the state, away from the accused, as the lie is exposed.
From coast to coast the Public Defender system in the United States is in crisis. The crisis subverts the cornerstone of Democratic values when "Equal Protection" slides headlong into the bottomless abyss of being that lie, as found in the state of Missouri. On average, the Missouri Public Defender system allocates a paltry $356 per indigent client. Missouri resources limit the average time spent with a client to 8.7 hours for serious non-homicide cases. These staggering nuggets of data finds Missouri earning the dubious distinction of being ranked 49th out of 50 states for monetary allocations allotted to each Public Defender client and falling 11.3 hours shy of the minimum ABA recommended time per client (1).
A 2015 review of the Louisiana Public Defenders Board revealed that 85% of felony defendants in New Orleans used the services of the Public Defender due to their limited income status. The annual 2015 budget for the parish Public Defender was a third of what the local District Attorney's office received (2). The lie of equal treatment continues unabated in Louisiana.
If we dig further into the lie, a stark truth reveals that 94-97% of all criminal cases in the United States are adjudicated via plea-bargain (4). A vile collateral consequence of this practice is the lack of equal protection in the plea bargain process where an untold number of innocents have little choice but to accept a guilty plea (5). When considering the rate of conviction hovers around 95% for cases taken to trial, what choice does an indigent individual have? Either plead to a crime they did not commit or take a chance and go to trial with a poorly funded, understaffed Public Defender who may have invested a mere two or three hours in talking with the accused and wind up with far more prison time than what a plea bargain offer consisted of (6)? The result of the lie finds an estimated 100,000-240,000 innocents locked up in our prisons, as read in a recent Chicago Tribune editorial by the renowned author, and licensed attorney, John Grisham (7). The thoughts of Mr. Grisham are supported by various studies (8).
In conclusion, as our society scurries about chasing bobbles and other trivialities, how many people shall be ground into the dust by the "Equal Protection" fallacy? What if your son or daughter believes the lie only to discover the truth far too late as did one Ohio prisoner, Christina Williams, #W079027? Her belief in the lie yielded a tragic outcome of a life sentence when ample evidence to support her innocence was never presented by the Public Defenders appointed to defend Christina. Is it any wonder many in our nation view the Easter Bunny as having more substance and truth than found within the fallacy of "Equal Protection" within the 6th and 14th Amendments?


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The Millionaire's Wife: The True Story of a Real Estate Tycoon, his Beautiful Young Mistress, and a Marriage that Ended in Murder, by the author and journalist Cathy Scott, is a true crime account of the 1990 contract murder of George Kogan on an Upper East Side Manhattan street in broad daylight. The book was published for mass-market release by St. Martin's Press True Crime Library in March 2012.

Synopsis
Twenty years after George Kogan's murder, in July 2010, his estranged wife Barbara admitted to hiring a hit man to have her husband gunned down. She was sentenced to 12 to 36 years in prison.

The son of Holocaust survivors, 49-year-old George Kogan grew up in Puerto Rico before relocating to New York City, where he enjoyed success as an antiques and art dealer—until one morning in 1990 when Kogan was approached on the street by a gunman identified by the prosecution as Paul Prosano and killed in cold blood.

Just before the shooting,  Kogan had been on the way to his girlfriend's apartment. Mary-Louise Hawkins was 29 years old and had once worked as  Kogan's publicist.  Kogan and his wife Barbara became estranged, and his wife Barbara became bitter. Barbara and Kogan began negotiations for a divorce, part of which was to be $5,000 per week in alimony. A judge turned down her request.

Barbara, who stood to collect $4.3 million in life insurance, was immediately suspected in  Kogan's death. But it would take authorities nearly 20 years to uncover the link between her lawyer, Manuel Martinez, and the hitman. In 2008, Martinez was convicted for the murder of  Kogan. In 2010, Barbara pleaded guilty to grand larceny, conspiracy to commit murder, and murder in the first degree.

Reception
The book has remained on Amazon's Top 100 bestseller list in the category of true crime as well as murder and mayhem during its pre-release sales.

The Big Thrill in an April 2012 review of the book and interview with the author, wrote, "Thriller novelists get to make stuff up, but a true crime writer must work with the facts." The article explores "(Scott's) writing process with The Millionaire's Wife and how it compares to authors of thriller fiction."

In July 2011, the author appeared on the "Susan Murphy-Milano Show" to talk about the Kogan case. In June 2012, Investigation Discovery aired a documentary about the Kogan case in its Behind Mansion Walls series titled "The Killer Inside" that included an interview of the author.

The author covered the book in the Forbes.com blog "Crime, She Writes," writing that "the goal with The Millionaire's Wife was to tell it like it is and get to the bottom of the story."

The book was included in an NBC New York story in October 2013 about a juror in the trial of defendant Manuel Martinez.

Awards
The Millionaire's Wife placed No. 3 in the True Crime Zine reader's poll for the Top 10 Best True Crime Books of 2012.

Crime Magazine included it in its September 2012 "Book 'Em Vol. 36" issue. It also made Crime Magazine's Books of Note.

References

External links
 Publisher's book page
 The Big Thrill, interview of author/review, April 2012
 World News Network, "New true crime by Cathy Scott: money + madness = murder"

Books about New York City
Non-fiction books about murders in the United States
2012 non-fiction books
American biographies
St. Martin's Press books
Non-fiction crime books
Books by Cathy Scott
American non-fiction books

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Olmstead's Role in Community Integration for People with Disabilities Under Medicaid: 15 Years After the Supreme Court's Olmstead Decision
MaryBeth Musumeci and Henry Claypool
Published: Jun 18, 2014
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June 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's landmark civil rights decision in Olmstead v. L.C., finding that the unjustified institutionalization of people with disabilities is illegal discrimination.1 Although the Olmstead ruling is based on states' obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Medicaid program plays a key role in making the ADA's community integration mandate a reality. This is because Medicaid is the major source of financing for the long-term services and supports (LTSS) on which people with disabilities rely to live independently and safely in the community.
While many cases are resolved without involving the courts, during the last 15 years, the lower courts have had the opportunity to apply the Supreme Court's Olmstead holding in a number of contexts, resulting in decisions furthering the implementation of the ADA's community integration mandate. While some cases are brought by individual plaintiffs, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) also plays an active role in enforcing Olmstead. This issue brief examines the legacy of Olmstead, with an emphasis on legal case developments and policy trends emerging in the last five years, and highlights the important contributions of the Medicaid program to furthering and facilitating community integration for people with disabilities.2 This brief is not a review of state progress, but rather an examination of the role of the Court's Olmstead decision and its enforcement in providing a legal vehicle for individuals in institutions, and those at risk of institutionalization, to gain access to services to enable them to live in the community.
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Fun, Freedom, Fortune – All from Failure!
What a great day to be writing about failure! You see it is a day of great success as I am writing on a day that one of my dreams and goals has come true… 12 years in the making! But, yes, let's talk failure.
Failure is something many of us are afraid of. It shames us; it stunts us; it brings us down. It is one of the main reasons why a person doesn't do something they either want to or even know they should, because, they might have to use those words: "I failed." I hated feeling like a failure it scared me more than ghosts or that monster under the bed. The look on another person's face, when my perception was that they thought I failed, just made me want to crawl away, to be nothing.
Recently I had 11 hours in a car alone and it was spent listening to two great books; 'Non-Manipulative Selling: Building Sales Through Trust' by Tony Alessandra and Phillip Wexler, and 'Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is how you get there' by Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz. It was listening to these when I had one of those 'got hit on the head with a brick' moments. The feelings of failure are instilled in us as children. "Not your parents," you may be thinking, they told you; you could be a great success! No, it was in school. Look at our grading system: A, B, C, D and F!! How was the 'F' presented? Normally in red ink and the word, 'Fail' was written out or the letter 'F' was circled. Kids from across the room didn't need to see the word they just needed to see the color of the ink. We were taught that failing was definitely not the goal. However, what if it was?
If all the great inventors of the world stopped after trying or failing once, would you have all those gadgets you have now? Would you have Light? Telephone? Computers? Cars? We might be living in a different world today. However, the great news is, they didn't!! They kept failing until they got to the goal and even then kept going. Thomas Edison hired more scientist so he could fail faster, that is Genius! If he can fail proudly, why can't you?
What if we taught people, starting with our kids, that no attempt at something should be considered failing? When we attempt something and it doesn't work out, we just learned a couple of things; that it didn't work, and we need to try to do it a differently. I remember a story of my son in 8th grade. The class was having a hard time with a math formula, he rose his hand and explained to the teacher that doing it another way got them there. Light bulbs went off in the room; kids got it. You know what happened, the teacher held him after class and told him he was never to do that again. He came home not understanding and felt discouraged and afraid of sharing ideas. Now, what if she hadn't done this and thanked him instead? How do you think he would have felt? What about the kids who now understood how to get to the goal? They felt like they were failing until that moment! What if she had taken the attitude of one way isn't always the only way? Good news for our son, we encouraged him to continue to help, and he did so, just not her.
There are so many people out in the world who have great ideas, maybe even life changing ideas and then never act on them because they might have to tell people they failed. Is that you? Stop! Stop today being that person! Free yourself and say 'I can, I will, and failure isn't failing it is finding a new way a different way.It doesn't matter what it is in your life, just try! It alone is freeing!! One thing I love about one of my students, Steve Pollak of ComputerXpress, is that when he sees a challenge or has an idea, he then sees the goal or end results in his mind and loves working on the path to get there. He never looks at anything like a failure; everything is something that can be conquered, we just have to find the way. He was thinking about and formulating the Google car long before it was even being thought of years ago! He is blessed because he is not afraid of failing. That word doesn't exist in his wiring!
With a great Attitude and Belief that leads to Consistent Determination, your life will be filled with Fun, Freedom, and Fortune!
LOVE LOVE LOVE the tag line at the end!
YES, what a great blog!
If I would have listened to others I would still be working for someone else dream.
But I took the risk to fail, I did sometimes already, but the strength coming out of this situation gives you the power to believe in yourself and makes you stronger. To fail is a strength!


Online shopping has grown tremendously in recent years. The popularity of this method of purchasing over traditional shopping is seen in almost every country. According to a latest report that has been published on a well-known website it clearly mentions that more than 70% of the population worldwide prefers to purchase products online. Consumers are not very interested in going to the market for buying items and prefer to shop on internet.
The world of shopping has been revolutionized by World Wide Web. Today Organization, Retail outlets and Entrepreneurs are aware of the potential of growth that e-commerce offers hence want to be a part of this development. As a result various web-stores have come up which are offering distinct collection of items. People of all groups are choosing to buy products from internet because they can avail discounted offers which are difficult to find in shops.
E-commerce stores are opened round the clock hence it gives you flexibility to select your own timings to buy items. You can do the required purchasing without stepping out of your home or from any place. With online shopping you can buy your favorite products from any part of the globe in just click of mouse. Every web-store claims to give great deals but this is far from reality however, one can find it by little smartness.
Before you make a buying decision about an item always compare its features and price on other shopping portals as well. You can use Google for searching best discount sites and it will display the result matching your criteria. In the search you must include location to find web-stores that are offering local deals. There are various sites like Amazon & Ebay that are offering amazing deals, only you have to do is check their home page to find latest offers. Further, you can sign-up for newsletters on various forums from which you will get new schemes that are to available.
Promo codes are another way by which you can make extra savings on your much-liked items such as Laptops, Furniture, Shoes, Jewelry, Watches, Clothing, Kitchenware, Computer, Washing Machines, Perfumes, Curtains and Mattresses etc. By using coupon codes you can get more discounts on the ongoing offers. Active members on social media sites like Facebook, Dreamwidth, Vox and Tumblr do talk or discuss about new offers that are available on e-stores. Further, you can also find discount codes on these social networking portals.
Many times, we do want to send gifts to our near and dear ones but are unable to do so because of the geographical location. With various gifting portals that have come up you can choose to send the gifts to any country in quick time. Further, free shipment is another feature that is available for the customers which is missing in shops or shopping malls. Furthermore, you can easily find Clearance sale, Festival discounts and Hot UK deals by using exploring World Wide Web. Hotnewpricedeal is one such e-store where you can get wide gamut of products at very affordable prices. In little time, more than 20 million people have become its member as they follow ethical & fair business policy.
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Joel M.	Uncategorized	 January 1, 2004 7 Minutes
2003: Wha Happen?!?
Joel's 2003 Year In Review
I suppose I should start reviewing the year by breaking it down into categories. You know, for organizational purposes. And I suppose like all Year In Review essays, this one should begin with the obvious: Our ubiquitous President.
This year has been a very headstrong year for the Prez. He has seen a war waged, another country torn asunder by our unfathomable military might, the capture of a madman, the lack of support from our conceited European comrades, and the repeated threats from a piddling Asian nation with a reckless dictator at the helm. All the while, pleasing the press with zillions of funny quotes, enough to fill up a sequel to the book George W. Bushisms. "The trouble with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepeneur'" and "By dethroning Saddam we have not only freed the American people, but have made it safer for our own people." Anyhow, I still love him as a President, and considering that Howard Dean is the most prominent challenger in the upcoming election, no doubt Dubya will come out the victor once again.
Next up is my roundup of major catastrophes of the year. The spring and summer passed without so much as a massive earthquake or devastating hurricane. But in July a gargantuan super-cell thunderstorm shredded Northwest Ohio, reaching its peak fury while rushing through Bowling Green. A good chunk of one of the trees flanking the driveway to my house was torn off by winds reaching in excess of 90mph. The roof to the Moore Musical Arts center bit the dust, and a chunk of the Field House wall was blown in. The entire overhang at the Meijer Gas Station was blown away. Trees fell, houses were crushed, cars crumpled like tissue paper, and the city suffered a cumulative $147,000 worth of damage. Ouch. B.G. recovered though. The whole nation winced in August, when a power outage that began in my beloved Ohio rippled across eight states and put an estimated 50 million people out of power. I was in the midst of a Final Cut Pro class at the exact moment that the ripple tore through Bowling Green. Our computers flickered off and then auxiliary power took hold and we continued class. Gradually we began to notice the scope of the outage. Hurricane Isabel was the next big thing to beat us up and it turned parts of Maryland into an estuary.
Logically following my scatterbrained observations about catastrophes comes my critique of the popular culture. So far we saw gay tastes becoming very very very chic, even though gay lesbian bisexual and transsexual people comprise a very tiny fraction of our society, somehow they purport to have a far greater importance to the popular culture than anything else. Shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer as Folk, even Surprise By Design have flaunted the gay element. New shows that grew in popularity included The O.C., a drama about a poor kid living with rich kids in California. Alias had another smashing season, according to its fans. The Sopranos continued on… who cares. Six Feet Under and Carnivalé on HBO garnered more attention. CSI spawned half a dozen other spinoff shows. But I don't watch TV so I don't really care about all that crap. In music Norah Jones became the new front-running musician by winning five Grammys while groups like Fountains of Wayne, Switchfoot, Good Charlotte and The Ataris broke into the mainstream. Johnny Cash died and that was enough to cause a fountain of re-releasing, tributes and biopics to spurt forth. Barry White died and that was enough for a lot of people to go out and promptly listen to his soothing voice over and over and tell themselves that he wasn't dead… in fact he was still alive in binary on a silver disc and singing especially just for them. In films Chicago mopped up at the Academy Awards, winning Best Picture, while The Pianist made off with Best Director and Best Actor… a funny coincidence because Roman Polanski cannot get his award or he will be incarcerated on U.S. soil on charges of Statutory Rape. But everybody knew that already. The Two Towers was only nominated for 6 awards and it took home 2 of them… for technical achievements.
I will save up all of the rest of my movie opinions for Joel's Oscar Preview edition later on in a month or so.
Now here come the lists! First off I have the top 10 movies that I saw IN THE THEATER this year:
1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. Cidade de Deus (City of God)
3. Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away)
4. Adaptation.
5. School of Rock
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
7. X2: X-Men United
8. L'homme du tren (Man on the Train)
9. 28 Days Later
10. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Next up is the top 10 movies that I saw ON VIDEO/DVD/TELEVISION (for the first time) this year:
1. Braveheart
2. In The Bedroom
3. The Elephant Man
4. About Schmidt
5. Ed Wood
6. The Man Who Wasn't There
7. Braindead (Dead Alive)
8. Lost In la Mancha
9. GATTACA
10. Holes
Yeah so a few of those films are old I know and it probably comes as a shock to some of you that I had never seen them up to this year, but I swear on my honor that it was the very first time I'd seen these wonderful movies.
I'm also including the top 10 movies that I need to see in the next few weeks here so that my life can be complete:
1. The Last Samurai
2. Mystic River
3. Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
4. Big Fish
5. Lost In Translation
6. Bubba Ho-Tep
7. Love Actually
8. Girl With a Pearl Earring
9. Capturing the Friedmans
10. The Matrix Revolutions
Notice that Cold Mountain is not the list, even though there are a number of actors in it that I would enjoy seeing (Giovanni Ribisi, Brendan Gleeson, Natalie Portman) who don't have the big sappy roles that Jude Law and Nicole Kidman have.
Next up is (don't forget!) the top 10 fricken' worst movies that I saw this year anywhere, could have been in the theater, on video or DVD, and hopefully not on TV, because I don't watch TV so I don't care about all of that crap. The funny thing about crappy movies is that you can easily make fun of them. It is for this reason that I probably watched most of the movies on this list with Jeremy Cordy. Here goes:
1. Freddy Got Fingered (almost as bad as Dudley Do-Right)
2. Severed (A home movie starring Bono and some guy with make up on)
3. Coyote Ugly (lots of promiscuous sex)
4. Freddy Vs Jason (lots of naked girls and then two invincible monsters fighting each other forever and never winning or losing)
5. Saving Silverman (Jason Biggs is always funny in a stupid way… but the movie proved Neil Diamond lo be a moron)
6. Revolution (Al Pacino gave an intensely thankless performance in this movie about… painful accuracy paid to the revolutionary war recreation without any real thought given to a useful or entertaining story)
7. Scare Crow Slayer (a very entertaining story about a crazed living scarecrow)
8. Ravenous (Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle eat people in this movie… you should go rent it)
9. From Dusk Till Dawn (creative assets aside, I hated this movie)
10. Baby Watchers (I just had to find a way to put this on the list J)
Next up is the top 10 new bands that I have had the privilege of getting into this year. The criteria to be on this list doesn't necessarily mean that the band itself is new or that I hadn't heard of them before, just that I bought or otherwise obtained and got into music of theirs over the past calendar year. Here goes:
1. The Fire Theft
2. Kent
3. Folk Implosion
4. The Postal Service
5. Brian Eno
6. Luxury
7. Joe Christmas
8. Jets To Brazil
9. Radiohead
10. Hot Hot Heat
Next up is the top 10 songs for the year. I had to think long and hard about this one because there are so many songs that I freaking love. It has been a journey a year long to figure our which songs fit into the top 10, and there are quite a few omissions that I sadly had to make in order to get it down to 10, but nonetheless I feel good about this list. It is a good list. And here it is:
1. Heaven – THE FIRE THEFT
2. Saker Man Ser/Things She Said – KENT
3. One Part Lullaby – FOLK IMPLOSION
4. I Ruined It – JOE CHRISTMAS
5. Secret of the Easy Yoke – PEDRO THE LION
6. Johnny and Mary – THE NOTWIST
7. Black and White Film – THE GREAT FICTION
8. Brand New Colony – THE POSTAL SERVICE
9. Rocket Boy – JETS TO BRAZIL
10. An Ending (Ascent) – BRIAN ENO
Next up is the top 10 people who died this year. I rank these people according to the level of how much I will miss them, not on whatever the saps of the popular culture think. Here are the stiffs:
1. Mr. Rogers (I WILL miss this man and his tattooed arms indicating how many men he sniped in WWII)
2. Earl Hindman (Tim Allen's faceless neighbor Wilson on Home Improvement)
3. Johnny Cash (famous singing man with the deep throaty voice)
4. Katharine Hepburn (super mega famous actress from a bygone era)
5. Gregory Hines (famous dancing man)
6. Al Hirschfeld (famous New York caricaturist)
7. Bob Hope (famous entertainer of the U.S. and Allied troops through many wars)
8. Gregory Peck (To Kill A Mockingbird)
9. John Ritter (he played a former fat kid in IT)
10. Rod Roddy (famous voice announcer for 30 years on the infamous show The Price Is Right)
Well I suppose that about does it for Joel's 2003 Year In Review. Be on the lookout around January 17th for my Oscar blog entry, since that is the due date for the Academy voting ballots. Then on January 27th we'll see if I was right in who would get nominated. Then I'll make my predictions of who will win, and then we'll see if Joel really understands the twisted and labyrinthine awards process of Hollywood once and for all!
Goodbye, and Auld Lang Syne everybody! Happy New Year (in a bit) J


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"enable aexpr";
import chai, {expect} from 'src/external/chai.js';
import sinon from 'src/external/sinon-3.2.1.js';
import sinonChai from 'src/external/sinon-chai.js';
chai.use(sinonChai);

import select, { trackInstance } from 'active-group';

describe('Active Groups in JSX support', function() {
  it('list example', function() {
    class Person {
      constructor(name) {
        this.name = name;
        trackInstance.call(Person, this);
      }
      toString() { return this.name; }
    }

    let alex = new Person("Alex"),
        adam = new Person("Adam"),
        bernd = new Person("Bernd");
    let startLetter = "A";

    let personList = select(Person)
      .filter(p => p.name.startsWith(startLetter))
      .map(p =>
{p.name}
);

    let list =

First Element

      {...personList}

Last Element

;

    function labels() {
      return Array.from(list.querySelectorAll("li"))
        .map(i => i.innerHTML);
    }

    expect(labels()).to.have.length(4);
    expect(labels()[0]).to.equal("First Element");
    expect(labels()[1]).to.equal("Alex");
    expect(labels()[2]).to.equal("Adam");
    expect(labels()[3]).to.equal("Last Element");

    new Person("Alister");
    expect(labels()).to.have.length(5);
    expect(labels()[0]).to.equal("First Element");
    expect(labels()[1]).to.equal("Alex");
    expect(labels()[2]).to.equal("Adam");
    expect(labels()[3]).to.equal("Alister");
    expect(labels()[4]).to.equal("Last Element");

    adam.name = "Brian";
    expect(labels()).to.have.length(4);
    expect(labels()[0]).to.equal("First Element");
    expect(labels()[1]).to.equal("Alex");
    expect(labels()[2]).to.equal("Alister");
    expect(labels()[3]).to.equal("Last Element");

    startLetter = "B";
    // #TODO: this test assumes certain ordering for list items
    // However, this ordering depends on the iteration algorithm of aexpr sets per dependency
    expect(labels()).to.have.length(4);
    expect(labels()[0]).to.equal("First Element");
    expect(labels()[1]).to.equal("Brian");
    expect(labels()[2]).to.equal("Bernd");
    expect(labels()[3]).to.equal("Last Element");
  });
});