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a "vulnerable user" while driving in a "negligent" manner.
And third-degree negligent homicide is where a motorist kills another person while driving in a manner amounting to simple negligence.
Negligence and simple negligence. The difference between first, second, and third-degree negligent homicide can come down to whether the motorist drove with "simple negligence" or "negligence." A person acts with simple negligence by doing or failing to do something that the person should know poses a risk to others. The law assumes a person "should know" of a risk if a law-abiding person under like circumstances would have been aware of the risk. A person acts with negligence, on the other hand, by doing or failing to do something that the person should know poses a "substantial and unjustifiable" risk to others—the degree and nature of the risk being substantial enough so that the failure to perceive it amounts to a gross deviation from what a law-abiding person would have done under like circumstances.
Vulnerable users. "Vulnerable users" includes pedestrians lawfully on the street or public highway, road and emergency workers engaged in work on a street or public highway, persons on bicycles and mopeds, and persons in wheelchairs.
First-degree negligent homicide. First-degree negligent homicide is a class B felony. A conviction carries up to ten years in prison and a maximum $25,000 in fines.
Second-degree negligent homicide. Second-degree negligent homicide is a class C felony. Convicted motorists face up to five years in prison and a maximum $10,000 in fines.
Third-degree negligent homicide. Third-degree negligent homicide is a third-degree misdemeanor. A conviction is punishable by up to one year in jail and a maximum $2,000 in fines.
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A Community-Centered Approach to Data Sharing and Policy Change: Lessons for Advancing Health Equity
Center for Health Care Strategies Aug. 15, 2022 Comments
[Excerpt from report summary by CHCS, published August 2022 and authored by Liz Buck and Alissa Beers, Center for Health Care Strategies, and Waldo Mikels-Carrasco, Data Across Sectors for Health]
"Longstanding structural inequities, particularly those facing Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities, require public health, health care, and social service sectors to be more accountable in supporting community members in decisions that impact their health. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated complex health challenges that involve different public systems and directly impact communities. This includes, for example, the mental health needs of youth during and beyond the pandemic, health inequities for people involved in the justice system, and the health care needs of people experiencing homelessness, among others. Sharing data across sectors and state agencies is a critical first step to guide effective policy responses that encompass multiple systems and address consumer needs and preferences. As more states seek to advance health equity, community members with lived expertise can help inform data and policy strategies that impact their lives directly, such as behavioral health access, housing, homelessness, food insecurity, and criminal justice involvement.
Partnerships involving individuals with lived expertise along with state and local partners have the potential to address broader systemic policy issues more equitably and effectively at the state or local level than partnerships without community advisement. While historically states have not included community members in data-sharing efforts, feedback shared by people with lived expertise is a critical data point that can guide more equitable public policy.
Data Across Sectors for Health (DASH), together with the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) and with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is leading a national initiative, Learning and Action in Policies and Partnerships (LAPP), to test new ways to support community-based data-sharing efforts. The first cohort included six communities — in Arizona, Connecticut, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Washington, D.C., and Washington State — that sought to strengthen relationships between communities and state agencies to address health equity priorities via data-sharing efforts (see Exhibit 1). This brief shares lessons from these six pilot sites to help guide additional states and community-based organizations (CBOs) in enhancing community data-sharing capabilities and fostering relationships between state governments, CBOs, and community members with lived expertise.
In Connecticut, DataHaven, in partnership with the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut, conducted 20 focus groups comprised of members and affiliates of 10 Health Enhancement Communities and other local health improvement collaboratives across the state in addition to conducting surveys of more than 140 community members. These information-gathering activities sought to: (1) better understand participants' ability to access data, including specific data resources and general information sources; (2) identify and prioritize information needs; and (3) make suggestions for addressing identified needs, including resources, policies, and system solutions.
Through these efforts, community members identified six data access priorities:
Ensure availability of real-time local-level data that reflects demographic groups, such as minority populations or individuals with unique health and social needs;
Ensure availability of real-time local-level data that reflects each neighborhood, town, or community in the area;
Pool resources to link information from existing data sources (e.g., hospitals and community agencies);
Ensure that data sources are published more frequently (ideally in real-time);
Create a centralized infrastructure, designate state staff, and/or finance and train local level staff to help users access relevant information from myriad sources and agencies, assess its quality, and provide analytics; and
Collect stories and qualitative data to share alongside statistical data from agencies.
In Connecticut, the identification of community members' priorities directly informed the creation of a roadmap for addressing those needs. The roadmap outlines key state considerations for increasing community access to enhanced local-level data; increasing data sharing across state and local systems; training community-based staff on collecting, analyzing, and using data to better inform service provision; and planning and coordination among community-based and state agencies.
"Data-sharing partnerships among state government and community partners offer unique opportunities to advance health equity. These partnerships should be grounded in bringing individuals with lived expertise as key stakeholders in all aspects of data-sharing efforts. [...] The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly on BIPOC communities, have created a renewed urgency for the public health, health care, and social services sectors to be accountable to the longstanding health needs of individuals and communities. Empowering individuals with lived expertise to contribute to decisions related to data and policy decisions is a step closer to achieving health justice and racial equity.
Cross-sector state and community partnership initiatives, like the LAPP project, illustrate how data-sharing partnerships among state government and community partners represent unique opportunities to advance health, well-being, and equity. They demonstrate that these partnerships should engage individuals with lived expertise in all aspects of data-sharing efforts. Bringing individuals with lived expertise into these initiatives requires a rethinking of how government traditionally operates and calls for new processes, funding mechanisms, and partnerships. If done well, these coordinated partnerships across sectors and involving people with lived expertise will have the potential to more fully address the broader systemic issues that have created health inequities across communities."
https://www.chcs.org/resource/a-community-centered-approach-to-data-sharing-and-policy-change-lessons-for-advancing-health-equity/
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Patriots approaching significant decision on DT Malcom Brown
Ryan Wooden, All 22
New England Patriots defensive tackle Malcom Brown doesn't play the sort of role where his value is easily determined, which makes an upcoming decision on his fifth-year option incredibly intriguing.
The 6-foot-2, 319-pounder is a space eater who plugs gap, frees linebackers and (maybe) occasionally provides an interior push to drive the pocket back and make quarterbacks uncomfortable. It means he's unlikely to put up gaudy, eye-catching numbers, as evidenced by his 7.5 career sacks.
As a plugger, he's also not an every-down player, making evaluating his literal worth that much more difficult. Film analysis on a play-by-play basis is the best way of grading players like Brown's performances, but those are still imperfect measurements because the Pro Football Focus' of the world aren't privy to knowledge of the playcall.
They also can't account for the subtleties of individual position coaching and the gameplan. If Patriots defensive line coach Brendan Daly has him widening out a fraction because they saw something on film that indicated they could get a center or guard to reach and expose a gap for a blitzing linebacker and it doesn't work, that might work against Brown's grade because it isn't consistent with what they'd normally have him do.
That's not a knock on PFF, it's simply a reality of evaluating talent in a game where there's too much variable to ever truly account for. The only people who can truly know how important Brown is to the Patriots scheme is the coaching staff and front office, which makes his fifth-year option decision our first real chance to see what they think of him.
Bill Belichick doesn't traditionally keep people around out of a sense of obligation, even if Brown is a former first-round pick. So the fact that he's still with the organization and has had a steady role on the defensive line is a clear indicator that he's doing something right.
However, Belichick and his front office are also extremely cap conscious. Even if they like Brown within their system, they won't give him in excess of $7 million to play less than half of the defensive snaps if they don't think he's worth it.
PFF gives Brown an above average 80.6 grade in 2017 and ranks him 39th in the NFL among qualifying interior defenders. That's a pretty solid season for a player who is still just 23 years old, but, again, the Patriots are the only ones who really know and we'll get our best idea of his value this offseason.
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Practical pyromania: A review of The Flamer
Jenny Shank Aug. 6, 2012 From the print edition
The Flamer
Ben Rogers
257 pages, softcover: $14.
Aqueous Books, 2012.
Ben Rogers' engaging first novel, The Flamer, is the coming-of-age story of a young Nevada pyromaniac named Oby Brooks. Oby discovers his love for conflagrations when his father donates the family's dilapidated house to the Reno Fire Department to burn "for training purposes." The boy watches the fire, riveted: "A dragon was eating my house and I couldn't tear my eyes away."
The trajectory of Oby's life becomes even clearer once he steals some pure sodium from Mr. Weisgard, a scientist visiting his class. He smuggles it home, where it ignites his fireworks-packed closet. "That closet of yours," his dad fumes during the chaos, "it's like a munitions locker."
But there's no evil intent behind Oby's obsession -- he just likes to blow stuff up. Weisgard sentences Oby to kitchen duty while he tutors him in chemistry; Oby even wins several Boy Scout merit badges. As the boy's probation ends, Mr. Weisgard encourages him to nurture his interest in science and explosions. "Nevada's full of things that need blowing up," Mr. Weisgard observes, and helps Oby find a summer internship at a quarry. The author's talent for humor and characterization reach their height in the novel's quarry section, where a whole cast of colorful yet believable characters welcome Oby and initiate him into the secrets of their peculiar world.
Oby embodies the spirit of Nevada, given the state's tendency to ignite in spectacular forest fires, weapons tests and mining quarry blasts. And he has a strong, defiant affection for his home: "The prospect of ever moving away from Reno hit me like a body punch. … Maybe I was a high-altitude recipe. I might not rise anywhere else. Too much pressure."
Rogers writes with crisp precision about subjects as varied as science, the complex matters of the heart, and the Great Basin landscape. "The hills around Reno yellowed. The air turned hot and dry. Afternoon thunderstorms sent more lightning to the ground than rain. Brushfires flared up, blackening mountainsides. Atoms that had been sagebrush and pine trees were reincarnated as smoke."
The Flamer is a highly original and delightful debut by a writer who captures the quirks of this region with genuine love but without sentimental pieties.
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Ventricular system of the brain: parts, features and functions
The nervous system directs all the operations of our body. This is made up of several structures and other systems that interact with each other, allowing them to function properly.
Among these systems is the ventricular, which although at first glance simple performs a number of fundamental functions that directly influence the health of our brain.
Throughout this article we will deepen what the ventricular system is, commenting on its development throughout the formation of the nervous system, its functions and also certain diseases that may occur.
What is the ventricular system?
Formation of the ventricular system
Components of this system
1. Lateral ventricles (I and II V)
2. Third ventricle (III V)
3. Fourth ventricle (IV V)
Functions of the cerebral ventricular system
1. Production of CRL
2. The buoyancy of the brain
3. Preservation of the brain
4. Immunoprotection and physical protection
Diseases of the ventricular system
1. Hydrocephalus
2. Ventriculitis
4. Alzheimer's disease
5. Schizophrenia
In the brain we find gaps, chambers called ventricles, which are all called ventricular systems.. It is a system that could well be compared to pipes, a system made up of several cavity-shaped structures that connect to each other.
Although the ventricles are hollow and simple in appearance, these chambers actually perform fundamental functions for the nervous system, being the source of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord.
The ventricular system develops along with the rest of the central nervous system, facilitating the flow of CSF throughout the process. One of the first milestones in the development of this system occurs on the 26th day of embryonic development (4th week), when the differentiation of the optic ventricle begins. Later, evagination begins in the midline of the midbrain, which will later form the cerebral aqueduct or Silvio.
Around the 6th week, the development of the interventricular foramen begins, initiating the formation of the choroidal plexuses of the lateral ventricles. From this point on, the grooves and segmentation become a bit more visible to the naked eye. After a few more weeks, the medial and lateral ventricular eminence increases in size, causing the spherical shape of the more primitive lateral ventricle to become a C. The horns of the lateral ventricles begin to become more visible and form a small sac in the floor. diencephalic, which in the future will become the third ventricle.
In the 7th and 8th weeks, the end of the formation process of the ventricular system is reached. It is at this stage that the horns are definitively defined, the shape of the ventricles being formed almost definitively. The isthmic part is compressed by the cerebellum, which continues to grow, and many villi extend to the midline.
The ventricular system consists of four ventricles, which are connected to each other by various openings and channels. Below we will see in detail what are the parts:
The lateral ventricles are the first and second ventricles, being the largest chambers. They are located deep in both cerebral hemispheres and have an anterior horn that faces the frontal lobe and a posterior horn that faces the temporal lobe. These two ventricles are connected by the third ventricle through the interventricular port of Monro. Both are C-shaped and their volume increases over the years.
Inside each we find the choroidal plexuses. The walls and ceiling of both ventricles are made up of neural structures, which constitute the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes, as well as the nuclei of the base and the corpus callosum. We can identify the frontal shaft (frontal lobe), the ventricular body (frontal and parietal lobes), the occipital shaft (occipital lobe) and the temporal shaft (temporal lobe).
The third ventricle is a flat, thin cavity with a shape similar to that of a bird's head. It is a single cavity, smaller than the lateral and central ventricles. As mentioned, it connects to the lateral ventricles through the Monro orifices and to the rest of the ventricular system through the Silvio aqueduct.
Inside, we also find the choroidal plexuses, especially on the ceiling. The walls of this ventricle are formed by structures of the diencephalon, nuclei of the thalamus and hypothalamus. At the posterior end is the pineal gland, responsible for the production of melatonin, a hormone that regulates the cycles of sleep and wakefulness.
The fourth ventricle occupies a space that runs from the mesencephalic aqueduct to the central canal of the upper part of the spinal cord.
Its floor, that is to say the surface which constitutes the base of this cavity, is formed by the rhomboidal fossa and communicates with the central channel through the holes of Luschka and Magendie, parts of which leave the CSF towards the subarachnoid space. This cavity connects to the subarachnoid cisterns, which allow the CSF to reach the subarachnoid space.
If we travel inside the ventricles and reach the spinal cord, we will observe that the ventricles continue through the ependymal duct. This duct is a cavity that originates at the end of the fourth ventricle and passes through the spinal cord to the first vertebra in the lumbar region.
Although it may seem like a very simple system for the simple fact of being made up of cavities, the truth is that the cerebral ventricular system performs several very important tasks which are as follows.
As we mentioned earlier, the main function of the brain ventricles is to produce cerebrospinal fluid. Likewise, the ventricular system is not the only set of structures that make up this fluid, such as the subarachnoid space, but it should be noted that the ventricles are heavily involved in the manufacture of this fluid. This substance lubricates neural structures.
About 80% of CSF is synthesized in the choroidal plexuses, and is the product resulting from the filtration of the blood which passes through them. The total volume of this liquid in an adult individual is approximately 150 ml. It is constantly produced and absorbed at the rate of 0.3 ml per minute, so its total volume is completely renewed about 3 times a day.
CSF makes the brain float. This may not seem important at first, but it drastically decreases the relative weight of the brain, from about 1400 grams to about 50 grams. This means that our heads "don't weigh" that much.
Thanks to the fact that they produce CSF, the ventricles they help to maintain the internal homeostasis of the brain, keeping the intracranial pressure constant and adequate. In addition, the ventricular system helps eliminate waste, prevent infections and fatal damage to our brain.
It is very important to understand that the brain is an organ very sensitive to any chemical and physical changes within the skull, so an impaired ventricular system in which there is not enough (or too much) CSF can cause cognitive damage. , although indirectly.
As the last major function of the ventricular system, directly associated with its production of CSF, we have the fact that this fluid protects us from external agents, which could present an infectious risk to our brain.
In addition, the CSF is an effective shock absorber, softening the trauma of the brain in the event of an accident, although it should be noted that it is not 100% effective and there is always a risk of damage to the cortex. especially if the impact was very strong.
The ventricular system can suffer from various alterations and diseases, which not only condition the health of our brain but can also lead to problems for the whole body:
Hydrocephalus is caused by excessive production of CSF. As this disorder also increases, intracranial pressure increases, which can lead to brain damage such as atrophy, metabolic and cognitive disorders. In the worst case, hydrocephalus can lead to the death of the individual.
Ventriculitis is inflammation of the brain ventricles, which causes an increase in intracranial pressure and also impairs the flow of CSF. This medical condition can be accompanied by hydrocephalus, encephalitis, and inflammation of the brain.
Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges due to an infectious agent, usually fungi, viruses and bacteria. This inflammation causes an increase in intracranial pressure, making it difficult for CSF to flow and leading to various symptoms, mainly headache, nausea, fever, sensitivity to light and at worst cognitive impairment and even death.
In Alzheimer's disease occurs orn cognitive impairment caused by the death of neurons, a phenomenon that increases as the disease progresses. This causes a reduction in neuronal density, which causes the ventricles to grow larger and larger as they take up the space left by the loss of brain volume.
In recent years, the possible relationship between schizophrenia and alteration of the ventricular system has been increasingly investigated.. It is believed that people with this psychiatric disorder may tend to have a larger dimension in the cerebral ventricles, having greater ventricular dilation and significant cortical decrease.
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REC Solar Implements Solar Energy Solutions at More Than 100 California School Districts
June 18, 2019 | San Luis Obispo, CA for immediate release
Pleasanton Unified School District is the latest education sector customer to work with REC Solar to deploy onsite solar plus storage solutions
Installation illustrates Education market need to control peak demand and lower costs that is spurring 13 fold growth of energy storage market overall
REC Solar, a subsidinary of Duke Energy Renewables, which is a commercial business unit of Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK), has partnered with Pleasanton Unified School District (PUSD) in Pleasanton, California to utilize solar plus energy storage solutions that cut emissions and energy costs.
Pleasanton Unified, which is a public primary and secondary education school district located east of San Francisco, is the latest installation at more than 100 districts and schools where REC Solar has implemented clean energy generation and storage solutions.
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REC Solar will install 1 megawatt (MW) of solar carports and a 660 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery energy storage system at Pleasanton Unified's Amador Valley High School.. The investment is projected to save the district more than $2.2 million over the 25-year lifetime of the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA), which will be financed by Duke Energy Renewables.
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In her work with the Henry family, Iyanla witnessed countless examples of the breakdown between husband Dwight and wife Thelisha. Yet, there was one particularly revealing aspect of the couple's dynamic, she says, that was as subtle as it was disturbing. "The thing that I found very insidious in Dwight and Thelisha's relationship were the subtle, hostile and aggressive ways that they challenged one another," Iyanla says. "This happens in relationships when the men don't face consequences and when the women go numb. It's an act of violence that often goes unchecked."
As part of her effort to interrupt this pattern, Iyanla sat down with Dwight and Thelisha individually and as a couple. Alone with Iyanla in Part 1, Thelisha admitted that she wanted out of the marriage. However, during a later session with Dwight in Part 2, Thelisha backtracked. Iyanla says she isn't surprised by this wavering.
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""" Trait definitions related to the numpy library.
"""

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Imports:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

from __future__ import absolute_import

import warnings

from .trait_base import SequenceTypes
from .trait_errors import TraitError
from .trait_handlers import TraitType, OBJECT_IDENTITY_COMPARE
from .trait_types import Str, Any, Int as TInt, Float as TFloat

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Deferred imports from numpy:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ndarray = None
asarray = None

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  numpy dtype mapping:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

def dtype2trait ( dtype ):
    """ Get the corresponding trait for a numpy dtype.
    """

    import numpy

    if dtype.char in numpy.typecodes['Float']:
        return TFloat

    elif dtype.char in numpy.typecodes['AllInteger']:
        return TInt

    elif dtype.char[0] == 'S':
        return Str

    else:
        return Any

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  'AbstractArray' trait base class:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class AbstractArray ( TraitType ):
    """ Abstract base class for defining numpy-based arrays.
    """

    def __init__ ( self, dtype = None, shape = None, value = None,
                         coerce = False, typecode = None, **metadata ):
        """ Returns an AbstractArray trait.
        """
        global ndarray, asarray

        try:
            import numpy
        except ImportError:
            raise TraitError( "Using Array or CArray trait types requires the "
                              "numpy package to be installed." )

        from numpy import asarray, ndarray

        # Mark this as being an 'array' trait:
        metadata[ 'array' ] = True

        # Normally use object identity to detect array values changing:
        metadata.setdefault( 'comparison_mode', OBJECT_IDENTITY_COMPARE )

        if typecode is not None:
            warnings.warn( 'typecode is a deprecated argument; use dtype '
                           'instead', DeprecationWarning )

            if (dtype is not None) and (dtype != typecode):
                raise TraitError( 'Inconsistent usage of the dtype and '
                                  'typecode arguments; use dtype alone.' )
            else:
                dtype = typecode

        if dtype is not None:
            try:
                # Convert the argument into an actual numpy dtype object:
                dtype = numpy.dtype( dtype )
            except TypeError:
                raise TraitError( 'could not convert %r to a numpy dtype' %
                                  dtype )

        if shape is not None:
            if isinstance( shape, SequenceTypes ):
                for item in shape:
                    if ((item is None) or (type( item ) is int) or
                        (isinstance( item, SequenceTypes ) and
                         (len( item ) == 2) and
                         (type( item[0] ) is int) and (item[0] >= 0) and
                         ((item[1] is None) or ((type( item[1] ) is int) and
                           (item[0] <= item[1]))))):
                        continue

                    raise TraitError, "shape should be a list or tuple"
            else:
                raise TraitError, "shape should be a list or tuple"

        if value is None:
            value = self._default_for_dtype_and_shape( dtype, shape )

        self.dtype  = dtype
        self.shape  = shape
        self.coerce = coerce

        super( AbstractArray, self ).__init__( value, **metadata )

    def validate ( self, object, name, value ):
        """ Validates that the value is a valid array.
        """
        try:
            # Make sure the value is an array:
            type_value = type( value )
            if not isinstance( value, ndarray ):
                if not isinstance( value, SequenceTypes ):
                    self.error( object, name, value )
                if self.dtype is not None:
                    value = asarray( value, self.dtype )
                else:
                    value = asarray( value )

            # Make sure the array is of the right type:
            if ((self.dtype is not None) and
                (value.dtype != self.dtype)):
                if self.coerce:
                    value = value.astype( self.dtype )
                else:
                    # XXX: this also coerces.
                    value = asarray( value, self.dtype )

            # If no shape requirements, then return the value:
            trait_shape = self.shape
            if trait_shape is None:
                return value

            # Else make sure that the value's shape is compatible:
            value_shape = value.shape
            if len( trait_shape ) == len( value_shape ):
                for i, dim in enumerate( value_shape ):
                    item = trait_shape[i]
                    if item is not None:
                        if type( item ) is int:
                            if dim != item:
                                break
                        elif ((dim < item[0]) or
                              ((item[1] is not None) and (dim > item[1]))):
                            break
                else:
                    return value
        except:
            pass

        self.error( object, name, value )

    def info ( self ):
        """ Returns descriptive information about the trait.
        """
        dtype = shape = ''

        if self.shape is not None:
            shape = []
            for item in self.shape:
                if item is None:
                    item = '*'
                elif type( item ) is not int:
                    if item[1] is None:
                        item = '%d..' % item[0]
                    else:
                        item = '%d..%d' % item
                shape.append( item )
            shape = ' with shape %s' % ( tuple( shape ), )

        if self.dtype is not None:
            # FIXME: restore nicer descriptions of dtypes.
            dtype = ' of %s values' % self.dtype

        return 'an array%s%s' % ( dtype, shape )

    def create_editor ( self ):
        """ Returns the default UI editor for the trait.
        """
        editor = None

        auto_set = False
        if self.auto_set is None:
            auto_set = True
        enter_set = self.enter_set or False

        if self.shape is not None and len( self.shape ) == 2:
            from traitsui.api import ArrayEditor
            editor = ArrayEditor( auto_set=auto_set, enter_set=enter_set )
        else:
            from traitsui.api import TupleEditor

            if self.dtype is None:
                types = Any
            else:
                types = dtype2trait( self.dtype )
            editor = TupleEditor( types     = types,
                                  labels    = self.labels or [],
                                  cols      = self.cols or 1,
                                  auto_set  = auto_set,
                                  enter_set = enter_set  )
        return editor

    #-- Private Methods --------------------------------------------------------

    def get_default_value ( self ):
        """ Returns the default value constructor for the type (called from the
            trait factory.
        """
        return ( 7, ( self.copy_default_value,
                 ( self.validate( None, None, self.default_value ), ), None ) )

    def copy_default_value ( self, value ):
        """ Returns a copy of the default value (called from the C code on
            first reference to a trait with no current value).
        """
        return value.copy()

    def _default_for_dtype_and_shape ( self, dtype, shape ):
        """ Invent a suitable default value for a given dtype and shape. """
        from numpy import zeros

        if dtype is None:
            # Compatibility with the default of Traits 2.0
            dt = int
        else:
            dt = dtype
        if shape is None:
            value = zeros( ( 0, ), dt )
        else:
            size = []
            for item in shape:
                if item is None:
                    item = 1
                elif type( item ) in SequenceTypes:
                    # Given a (minimum-allowed-length, maximum-allowed_length)
                    # pair for a particular axis, use the minimum.
                    item = item[0]
                size.append( item )
            value = zeros( size, dt )
        return value

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  'Array' trait:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class Array ( AbstractArray ):
    """ Defines a trait whose value must be a numpy array.
    """

    def __init__ ( self, dtype = None, shape = None, value = None,
                   typecode = None, **metadata ):
        """ Returns an Array trait.

        Parameters
        ----------
        dtype : a numpy dtype (e.g., int32)
            The type of elements in the array; if omitted, no type-checking is
            performed on assigned values.
        shape : a tuple
            Describes the required shape of any assigned value. Wildcards and
            ranges are allowed. The value None within the *shape* tuple means
            that the corresponding dimension is not checked. (For example,
            ``shape=(None,3)`` means that the first dimension can be any size,
            but the second must be 3.) A two-element tuple within the *shape*
            tuple means that the dimension must be in the specified range. The
            second element can be None to indicate that there is no upper
            bound. (For example, ``shape=((3,5),(2,None))`` means that the
            first dimension must be in the range 3 to 5 (inclusive), and the
            second dimension must be at least 2.)
        value : numpy array
            A default value for the array.

        Default Value
        -------------
        *value* or ``zeros(min(shape))``, where ``min(shape)`` refers to the
        minimum shape allowed by the array. If *shape* is not specified, the
        minimum shape is (0,).

        Description
        -----------
        An Array trait allows only upcasting of assigned values that are
        already numpy arrays. It automatically casts tuples and lists of the
        right shape to the specified *dtype* (just like numpy's **array**
        does).
        """
        super( Array, self ).__init__( dtype, shape, value, False,
                                       typecode = typecode, **metadata )

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  'CArray' trait:
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class CArray ( AbstractArray ):
    """ Defines a trait whose value must be a numpy array, with casting
        allowed.
    """

    def __init__ ( self, dtype = None, shape = None, value = None,
                   typecode = None, **metadata ):
        """ Returns a CArray trait.

        Parameters
        ----------
        dtype : a numpy dtype (e.g., int32)
            The type of elements in the array.
        shape : a tuple
            Describes the required shape of any assigned value. Wildcards and
            ranges are allowed. The value None within the *shape* tuple means
            that the corresponding dimension is not checked. (For example,
            ``shape=(None,3)`` means that the first dimension can be any size,
            but the second must be 3.) A two-element tuple within the *shape*
            tuple means that the dimension must be in the specified range. The
            second element can be None to indicate that there is no upper
            bound. (For example, ``shape=((3,5),(2,None))`` means that the
            first dimension must be in the range 3 to 5 (inclusive), and the
            second dimension must be at least 2.)
        value : numpy array
            A default value for the array.

        Default Value
        -------------
        *value* or ``zeros(min(shape))``, where ``min(shape)`` refers to the
        minimum shape allowed by the array. If *shape* is not specified, the
        minimum shape is (0,).

        Description
        -----------
        The trait returned by CArray() is similar to that returned by Array(),
        except that it allows both upcasting and downcasting of assigned values
        that are already numpy arrays. It automatically casts tuples and
        lists of the right shape to the specified *dtype* (just like
        numpy's **array** does).
        """
        super( CArray, self ).__init__( dtype, shape, value, True,
                                        typecode = typecode, **metadata )

#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  'ArrayOrNone' trait
#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

class ArrayOrNone ( CArray ):
    """ A trait whose value may be either a NumPy array or None, with
        casting allowed.  The default is None.
    """
    def __init__ ( self, *args, **metadata ):
        # Normally use object identity to detect array values changing:
        metadata.setdefault( 'comparison_mode', OBJECT_IDENTITY_COMPARE )
        super( ArrayOrNone, self ).__init__( *args, **metadata )

    def validate (self, object, name, value ):
        if value is None:
            return value
        return super( ArrayOrNone, self ).validate( object, name, value )

    def get_default_value ( self ):
        dv = self.default_value
        if dv is None:
            return ( 0, dv )
        else:
            return ( 7, ( self.copy_default_value,
                          ( self.validate( None, None, dv ), ), None ) )

    def _default_for_dtype_and_shape ( self, dtype, shape ):
        # For ArrayOrNone, if no default is explicitly specified, we
        # always default to `None`.
        return None


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The coming season – Press Release
April 30, 2019 seniorsnooker Tour news Tour
This Press Release was sent out today
ROKiT World Seniors Snooker 2019/20 Calendar Announced
World Seniors Snooker has today announced its calendar of events for the 2019/20 ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Tour season.
Headlined by the recently-announced ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship which will be played at the Crucible Theatre this August, the season will include a minimum of six major ranking events to be held over the next 12 months.
As well as the World Seniors Championship, the ROKiT UK Seniors Championship won last season by Ireland's Ken Doherty will return to Hull's Bonus Arena from 24-25 October.
This will be followed by a return to the iconic Goffs venue in Ireland next January for the Seniors Irish Masters won this season by Jimmy White, prior to a new One Frame Challenge event at the historic St Georges Hall venue in Liverpool which will celebrate 50 years of the iconic Pot Black which was first held in 1969.
In April the circuit will head to Plymouth for another new event, the ROKiT Seniors British Open which will pay tribute to the ranking event than was held there from 1994-2000.
The final event of the season will be the ROKiT 6-Red World Seniors Snooker Championship, which will remain in Northern Ireland but move to a new location in Coleraine. As in 2018, the tournament will carry a £20,000 winner takes all prize and will be held from 5-6 June.
Tickets for next season's events in Hull, Liverpool and Plymouth go on sale tomorrow (1 May 2019).
Tickets are already on sale for the ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship in Sheffield in August.
All events include a VIP option to attend a champagne reception, to be attended by all legends who will be competing in that event.
Amateur qualifiers
Alongside our major ranking events there will also be new opportunities for our amateur qualifiers than ever before with tournaments to be held across the world.
Entries will open tomorrow for qualifiers across England, Belgium and Hong Kong, with tournaments also set to return to Canada and Beijing with further information to be revealed in due course. Players can enter events online here.
We are also delighted to reveal that we are working with the Oceania Billiards and Snooker Federation and the Australian Billiards and Snooker Association to place a qualifier in Australia, as well as the Pan American Billiards and Snooker Association to hold a qualifier in Brazil this season. The winner of both these qualifiers will travel to Sheffield to play in the 2020 ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship.
Provisional ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Tour Calendar – 2019/20
(Venues and dates subject to change)
JASON FRANCIS
CEO Events that Rok Ltd
Creator of SNOOKER LEGENDS
Chairman of the WORLD SENIORS SNOOKER TOUR
Shareholder in SightRight Cues Ltd
www.snookerlegends.co.uk
Enter now by clicking here https://www.snookerlegends.co.uk/worldseniors_registration.html
Important changes for the coming season
April 28, 2019 April 28, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info, Tour news Event, Tour
The following changes have been announced on social media by Jason Francis, chairman of WSS
Following consultation with the Players Commission the following recommendations have been made by them which I am largely happy to adopt.
1, Black Ball
For the World Championships and Uk Championships to begin with the respot will be removed with all matches to semi final being best of 5 and from semi finals best of 7. The conditions to allow this are as follows
a, Matches may begin at 9am
b, the competition must be played down to the quarters by end of play Saturday.
c, players should expect much longer days
d, a minimum third referee will be added and their hours scheduled in shifts as no one should be expect to officiate for 12 hours.
e, in order to fund and third referee and potentially another TD to help T BAG the entry fee for qualifiers we run will be increased to £60.
2, Prize Money For the qualifiers we run (predominantly Uk but some overseas) Prize money will be as follows
£700 winner
£400 runner up
£200 semi finals
£100 quarter finals
£100 High Break
3, Consideration for Saturday play will only be considered for players entering from outside the country where the event is being staged. Consideration does not mean a promise and players will need to confirm on entry they are available to play at any time during the tournament specified dates. I am happy to consider requests for Friday play but again this is a request and no promises can be made.
The commission is currently considering some other points.
We will announce the first set of qualifiers on Tuesday with entries opening Wednesday.
Crucible Memories – Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White
April 26, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info Event
Back to Canada for something very special !
And if you can't maker the trip … fear not you will still be able to watch it!
Indeed this what Snooker@TV announced via mail
Legends Snooker Coming to Canada!
Yesterday saw the news that Jimmy White and Stephen Hendry will be coming to Toronto in August on a "Crucible Memories" tour.
As well as a special dinner on the 23rd they will battle it out with local players as well as head to head with each other on the 24th and 25th August. To get tickets please :
Email : info@thecornerbank.ca
Call : (416) 757 2265
The event will be covered on www.snookertv.net which you can still sign up for an account for free and enjoy lots of content.
There was some more news this week revealed in an interview with Chairman Jason Francis who spoke to Eurosport about the news that the ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championships was coming to The Crucible in Sheffield on an initial 3 year deal.
Here is a link to his interview
Jason Ferguson Interview
Finally, we've added some great news images from a trip we made to the crucible in 2011 when a certain Kirk Stevens joined us, login at www.snookertv.net to enjoy
Jason's piece on Eurosport, promoting the WSS ROKiT World Championship at the Crucible
April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019 seniorsnooker Interview, Tour news Interview, Tour
This piece was presented on Eurosport yesterday during the MSI of the Lisowski v Carter match
2019 WSC: MSI of the Jack Lisowski – Allister Carter match (Session1, Eurosport)
Well done Jason and Eurosport!
No WSS players at the Crucible … except in the studios
April 24, 2019 seniorsnooker Uncategorized
Eventually none of Michael Judge, Ken Doherty or Jimmy White managed to qualify for the World Championship at the Crucible.
Michael's conqueror in the last round of the qualifiers, James Cahill, though made the healines on his Crucible débuts: he knocked out the World n°1, Ronnie O'Sullivan out of the tournament with a 10-8 win. Ok, Ronnie was unwell, but it still had to be done!
Ken Doherty is working for the BBC as commentator and pundit, whilst Jimmy White is in the Eurosport studio.
Michael Judge dares to dream …
April 15, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info, Player info Event, Player
Last Monday Michael Judge didn't even know that he would be playing in the World Championship 2019 qualifiers. He only was invited because Zhang Jankiang was denied his visa and had to withdraw.
We are one week later and now, he's won two matches, beating Peter Lines and Xiao Guodong, both in a deciding frame and he's going to play James Cahill in the last round for a possible place at the Crucible! James is an amateur as well, and this will be the first time ever that an amateur will play in the World Championship main event at the Crucible.
Here are all the results so far!
The other "Seniors" involved didn't – or don't – do badly!
Jimmy White and Ken Doherty both won their first match and will play their second round match today. Jimmy is facing Ali Carter, Ken play Scott Donaldson.
David Lilley lost to Eden Sharav in round one, but the match was close. The final score was 10-7.
Jonathan Bagley really struggled with the conditions – very unfamiliar ones for him – during the first session. He progressively improved, but taming a heavy scorer like Thepchaya Un-nooh isn't easy for anyone. The first session ended on as 8-1 score in favor of "Theppy". Jonathan did himself proud though: in the second session he battled in true gladiator style and took three frames. He lost by 10-4 eventually but with honors!
The WSS ROKiT Sheffield Masters 2019- Joe Johnson is the Master!
April 12, 2019 April 12, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info, Player info Event, Player
The tournament was played yesterday over two sessions.
In the afternoon we had three quarter final matches.
Before the session there was a meet and greet for the VIPs, and the opportunity to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Legend's presence at the crucible with a cake!
Stephen Hendry beat the defending Champion, Cliff Thorburn by 2-0. It wasn't perfect snooker, but played in great spirit and very entertaining.
Barry Pinches beat Ken Doherty by 2-0, in a fast paced high quality encounter.
Joe Johnson beat Jimmy White by 2-1 (black ball shoot-out). Both were playing well and it went to the wire!
John Parrot unfortunately had to withdraw, due to illness. Aaron Canavan, the Seniors World Champion got a bye!
In the evening session we had the semi finals and the Final.
Again it started with a meet and greet.
SF1: Barry Pinches beat Stephen Hendry by 2-0
SF2: Joe Johnson beat Aaron Canavan by 2-1
The Final: Joe Johnson beat Barry Pinches by 2-1
All three matches were quality and hard-fought. The Crucible fans responded with enthusiasm, but always respectful.
Stephen Hendry's endorsed game, "This is Pool/Snooker" was available to play at the Crucible.
The event charity of choice, Eden Dora Trust was present in the Crucible lobby and at the "Meet and Greet". It's a great cause, please support them if you can.
Here is the story in pictures
Congratulations Joe!
A very important announcement at the WSS ROKiT Masters 2019 Champion's Dinner
Ahead of the WSS ROKiT Masters 2019, the defending Champion, Cliff Thorburn hosted a Canadian themed dinner, designed by his wife, Barbara.
It had everything: great food, laugher, memories… Cliff Thorburn was duly honoured. Jason Ferguson, representing WPBSA, Mandy Fisher, representing WWS, Nigel Mawer representing WDBS were all present. There was an auction, a raffle, trick-shots …
And a very important announcement: The Crucible Theatre will host the WSS World Championship in the future, and this year event will take place mid August. WLBS and WDBS players will be invited in dedicated sessions. And the event will grow in the coming years featuring more players. Tomorrow's show will be the last "Snooker Legend" show at the Crucible and the tenth since it all started with Alex Higgins in 2010.
Here it is as posted on WPBSA Web Site
Crucible to Stage World Seniors Snooker Championship
With just ten days until the World Professional Snooker Championship hits Sheffield, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) has announced a new major annual snooker tournament that will see the game's icons go head to head for the ultimate World Seniors title.
The ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship is coming to the Crucible Theatre as part of a new partnership with Sheffield City Council to give the city a second major snooker event each year.
Legends such as Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White join a field of 20 players from 16 countries who will battle it out over four days to see who will lift the World Seniors Championship trophy.
Also for the very first time, within their four-day stay, a session will be dedicated to showcase the talents of the World Women's Snooker (WWS) Tour and the World Disability Billiards and Snooker (WDBS) Tour.
Jason Ferguson, Chairman of the WPBSA said: "It's great news to place the World Seniors Championship in the venue where our legends created their legacy.
"Being able to use the event to also showcase the talents of the women's and the disability tours sends an important message for our sport and also opens up the dream of playing in the Crucible Theatre for everyone."
The event takes place from 15-18 August at the Crucible Theatre Sheffield, home of the annual World Snooker Championship since 1977.
Paul Billington, Director of Culture and Environment at SCC, said: "We're delighted to bring a second major snooker event to Sheffield, the true home of the sport. Many of the legends who will take part in the ROKiT World Seniors Championship made their name in our iconic Crucible Theatre, where this new tournament will also take place.
"As well as the chance to watch legends from the men's game, this event showcases women's and disability snooker at the highest level opening up the game to a whole new audience.
"We look forward to welcoming snooker's elite and many visiting fans to Sheffield for what promises to be a thrilling showdown."
The competition will see 20 of snooker's best-loved personalities play over 12 sessions across four days. Tickets go on sale for all 12 sessions on Thursday 18 April.
Tickets to the women's and disability sessions can be purchased for just £1.47 with any full price World Seniors ticket.
Tickets will also be available for a VIP meet experience with senior players, that will be held on the final day.
All tickets will be available at http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
and the poster!
Meanwhile, remember, this is happening at the Crucible today!
Jonathan Bagley was playing yesterday at the World Championship 2019 Qualifiers at the English Institute of Sports. He was beaten 10-4 by Thepchaya Un-Nooh, but did himself proud. Jonathan really struggled at the start of the match in those unfamiliar conditions. He trailed 8-1 at the end of the first session, but the match had been closer than the score suggested especially after the MSI. This showed in the second session: "Theppy" needed only two frames, but Jonathan made him work for them, winning the first mine session by 3-1.
Another WSS player was at the table as well. Michael Judge beat former World Seniors Champion Peter Lines by 10-0, in a match that lasted over 10 hours and finished at nearly 3 am…
Play Stephen Hendry's "This is Snooker" at the Crucible !
April 9, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info, Player info Event, Player
Yes, you read it right! Here is the story:
Five days ago, VooFoo Studio announced "This Is Snooker" featuring snooker legend, Stephen Hendry. Here is the unedited press release:
Birmingham, United Kingdom – 4th April 2019. VooFoo Studios and publisher Double Eleven today announced This Is Snooker, a genre-defining cue sports simulation featuring seven-time world snooker champion, Stephen Hendry, will be coming soon to PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the Nintendo Switch™ console and Windows PC.
Former world number one for nine seasons, Hendry is widely regarded as one of snooker's greatest ever players. Stephen features in the game as both an AI opponent and expert mentor in a series of exclusive 'Cue Tips' videos designed to help improve your real-life and in-game snooker skills. Players will also be invited to play-through a series of arcade scenarios that challenge you to recreate defining moments in the snooker legend's record-breaking snooker career.
VooFoo Studios has worked meticulously with Hendry to recreate his unique characteristics and attacking style of play in-game and to enhance their ability to create totally believable cue-sport physics in a stunningly realistic simulation of one of the world's most exciting and competitive sports. Also featured in the game is world-renowned professional snooker and pool referee, Michaela Tabb, whose familiar voice brings authority and authenticity to the in-game referee.
"Working with one of the world's greatest ever snooker players has helped us create an incredibly realistic cue sports simulation" said Shaun Read, Game Director at VooFoo Studios. "We're very excited to have Stephen involved, his input has enabled us to really fine tune the game mechanics to make This Is Snooker by far the best cue sports simulation we've ever made."
Stephen Hendry commented: "I'm really proud to be involved in the development of such an ambitious recreation of snooker. I've been really impressed with just how realistic This Is Snooker is and the level of detail that has gone into making it look and feel so real."
This Is Snooker has been developed from the ground up using VooFoo Studios' completely revamped proprietary game and physics engine. "The unique new set of tools at our disposal has enabled us to do things we've never done before that will take the game and genre to a whole new level," stated Mark Williams, Technology Director at VooFoo Studios. "Our new engine has allowed us to create unrivalled levels of graphical fidelity and hyper-realistic, true-to-life ball physics, we're confident we've created the most technically advanced cue sports game ever made."
Published by Double Eleven and developed by cue sports masters Voofoo Studios, This Is Snooker will include the previously announced title This Is Pool and will be available as the This Is Snooker – Pool Deluxe Edition, in a content-packed, complete cue-sports experience. This Is Pool will also be available to purchase separately. Play every major type of cue sport in six painstakingly-detailed locations with full pool and snooker career modes, mini games, trick shots, practice mode and extensive local and online multiplayer modes in a truly immersive cue sports simulation.
This Is Snooker – Pool Deluxe Edition is coming soon to PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One, the Nintendo Switch™ console and Windows PC.
The good news is that if you are coming on Thursday to the WSS ROKiT Seniors Masters 2019, 'This Is Snooker "– featuring Stephen Hendry, will be playable at the Crucible when the doors open to the public and also during the intervals!
Here is the trailer!
Surely you can't miss that?
WSS ROKiT Tour players dare to dream about the Crucible
April 8, 2019 April 8, 2019 seniorsnooker Event info Event
Worldsnooker has today published the draw and format for the World Championship 2019 Qualifiers.
Five WSS players are involved in the event, and need to win three matches to earn a spot at the Crucible in less than two weeks time.
Jimmy White
Jimmy's first match will see him play Ross Bulman from Ireland, 17 years old and European Championship under 21 finalist. Ross is clearly a good prospect but will have to overcome a number of hurdles: he's not used to the professional environment, he may not be used to play on Star tables and, he's probably rarely played a multi-session match if ever, and, of course, he will be aware that he's playing a legend of the sport. It's certainly intimidating. For those reasons I make Jimmy a heavy favourite to win his first match in Sheffield. That match is scheduled on Friday 12 April, and Saturday 13 April 2019, at 2pm.
Here is Ross in action during the last European under-21 championship, against another good prospect, Julien Leclercq from Belgium:
Should Jimmy win this match, he will face the winner of Ali Carter v Paul Davison. That's a very hard one! If he gets through that, waiting for him is the man who will emerge from this group of four: Michael White, Andy Hicks, Yuan Sijun and John Astley.
David Lilley
David has been playing in everything: the WSS tour, the Challenge tour, and as a top up, in the Main Tour as well. His first opponent will be Eden Sharav and this match will be played to completion on April 11, 10 am and 7 pm. Should David win, he will be up against the winner of Ricky Walden and Alfie Burden. Then, wating for him could be Zhou Yuelong, Robin Hull, Liam Highfield or Hammad Miah.
Jonathan Bagley
Jonathan will need to brace himself for the fast and furious as he has been drawn against the Shoot Out 2019 champion, Thepchaya Un-Nooh. That match is scheduled fo Wednesday, April 10, 2019, 10 am and 7 pm. This means that Jonathan will probably miss the ROKiT WSS Masters Gala Dinner which is a shame, although "Theppy" is not known for detaining his opponents for unduly long times, win or lose! Jonathan may still be able to join us, to celebrate or to find solace in great company. To be honest, I don't rate Jonathan's chances too high. I'm afraid that Thepchaya might have too much potting power for him … well, for most actually. He's one I fancy to make it to the television stage at the Crucible. But should Jonathan survive the blitz, his next opponent would be Mark Joyce or Billy Joe Castle, with one of Billy O'Connor, Joe Swail, Jimmy Robertson (reigning European Masters champion) or Chen Feilong waiting next. Tell me about a tough group!
Igor Figueiredo
"El Tigre", the reigning Pan American Champion, is set to play Mark King first. That match will be played on Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April, 2pm. It's a clash of styles. Igor is flamboyant and, when on song a very heavy scorer, Mark King is a hard match player. I believe that Igor has a real chance here but he will have to work very hard for it and be patient too. Should he win Igor would play Lu Ning or Alan Taylor next. And, then, should he get past Lu or Alan, he may face another WSS player in ….
Ken Doherty
Ken's first match will be against Andy Lee. That match is scheduled on Saturday 13 April, 10 am and 7 pm. It is, in my opinion a very winnable match, and it would probably be enough for Ken to regain his professional status. However, Ken's next opponent would be either Scott Donaldson or Craig Steadman and both have shown very good form last week in Beijing, with Scott reaching the semi finals, whilst Craig sent the defending champion, Mark Selby, home.
Good luck guys!


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Robert Lowell: Wikis
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV
1 March 1917(1917-03-01)
12 September 1977 (aged 60)
Confessionalism
Jean Stafford (1940-1948)
Elizabeth Hardwick (1949-1970)
Caroline Blackwood (1970-1977)
Relative(s)
Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell
Elizabeth Bishop, John Crowe Ransom, Hart Crane, Allen Tate
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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.[1]
Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Boston Brahmin family that included the poets Amy Lowell and James Russell Lowell. His mother, Charlotte Winslow, was a descendant of William Samuel Johnson, a signer of the United States Constitution, Jonathan Edwards, the famed Calvinist theologian, Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan preacher and healer, Robert Livingston the Elder, Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and Mayflower passengers James Chilton and his daughter Mary Chilton.
He was at St. Mark's School, a prominent prep-school in Southborough, Massachusetts, before attending Harvard College for two years and transferring to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, to study under John Crowe Ransom.[2] He converted from Episcopalianism to Catholicism,[3] which influenced his first two books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lord Weary's Castle (1946). By the end of the forties, he left the Catholic Church. In 1950, Lowell was included in the influential anthology Mid-Century American Poets as one of the key literary figures of his generation. Among his contemporaries who also appeared in that book were Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Randall Jarrell, and John Ciardi, all poets who came into prominence in the 1940s. In the 1950s, Lowell taught in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
Lowell was a conscientious objector during World War II and served several months at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut. He would later write about his experience in prison in the poem "Memories of West Street and Lepke" from his book Life Studies.
In 1949, he was involved in Yaddo's share of the Red Scare when he attempted unsuccessfully to oust Yaddo's director Elizabeth Ames who was being questioned by the FBI for her alleged involvement with writer Agnes Smedley, who was being accused of spying for the Soviet Union.[4]
During the 1960s he was active in the civil rights movement and opposed the US involvement in Vietnam. His participation in the October 1967 peace march in Washington, DC, and his subsequent arrest are described in the early sections of Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night.
Lowell suffered with alcoholism and manic depression and was hospitalized many times throughout his life. He was married to novelist Jean Stafford from 1940 to 1948. In 1949 he married the writer Elizabeth Hardwick. In 1970 he left Elizabeth Hardwick for the British author Lady Caroline Blackwood. He spent many of his last years in England. Lowell died in 1977, having suffered a heart attack in a cab in New York City on his way to see Hardwick. He is buried in Stark Cemetery, Dunbarton, New Hampshire.
In 1962 Lowell's remains, as well as those within the cemetery entire, were moved from Winslow Road to the cemetery's present site on Mansion Road in Dunbarton, near where what is known as the mulberry field. This was due to the Army Corps of Engineers' erecting the Hopkinton-Everett Dam for flood control.
Lowell's Collected Poems, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter, was published in 2003, and The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, was published in 2005. These publications have led to a renewed interest in Lowell's writing.
He reached wide acclaim for his 1946 book, Lord Weary's Castle, which included ten poems slightly revised from his earlier Land of Unlikeness, and thirty new poems. Among the better known poems in the volume are "Mr Edwards and the Spider" and "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket." Lord Weary's Castle was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. Lowell's early poems are formal, ornate, and concerned with violence and theology; a typical example is the close of "The Quaker Graveyard" -- "You could cut the brackish winds with a knife / Here in Nantucket and cast up the time / When the Lord God formed man from the sea's slime / And breathed into his face the breath of life, / And the blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill. / The Lord survives the rainbow of His will."
The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951), a book that centered on its epic title poem, did not receive similar acclaim, but Lowell was able to revive his reputation with Life Studies (1959). The poems in this book were written in a mix of free and metered verse, with much more informal language than he used in his first two books. It marked both a big turning point in Lowell's career, and a turning point for American poetry in general. Because many of the poems documented details from Lowell's family life and personal problems, one critic, M.L. Rosenthal, labeled the book "confessional." For better or worse, this label stuck. Lowell's editor and friend Frank Bidart notes in his afterword to Lowell's Collected Poems, "Lowell is widely, perhaps indelibly associated with the term 'confessional,'" though Bidart questions the accuracy of this label.[5]
Lowell followed Life Studies with Imitations, a volume of loose translations of poems by classical and modern European poets, including Rilke, Montale, Baudelaire, Pasternak, and Rimbaud, for which he received the 1962 Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize.
His next book For the Union Dead, 1964, was also widely praised, particularly for its title poem, which invokes Allen Tate's "Ode to the Confederate Dead." In Near the Ocean, which followed a couple of years later, Lowell had returned to stanzaic forms. The best known poem in this volume, "Waking Early Sunday Morning," is written in eight-line stanzas borrowed from Andrew Marvell's poem "Upon Appleton House" and shows how politics began to enter Lowell's work around this time.
During 1967 and 1968 he experimented with a verse journal, published as Notebook, 1967-68. These fourteen-line poems loosely based on the sonnet form were reworked into three volumes. History deals with public history from antiquity onwards, and with modern poets Lowell had known; For Lizzie and Harriet describes the breakdown of his second marriage; and The Dolphin, which won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, includes poems about his marriage to Caroline Blackwood and their life in England.
A minor controversy erupted when he incorporated private letters from his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, into The Dolphin. He was particularly criticized for this by his friends Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Bishop.
Robert Lowell was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for 1947−1948 (a position now known as "Poet Laureate").
Land of Unlikeness (1944)
Lord Weary's Castle (1946)
The Mills of The Kavanaughs (1951)
Life Studies (1959)
Phaedra (translation) (1961)
Imitations (1961)
For the Union Dead (1964)
The Old Glory (1965)
Near the Ocean (1967)
The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire (1969)
Prometheus Bound (1969)
Notebook (1969) (Revised and Expanded Edition, 1970)
For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
History (1973)
The Dolphin (1973)
Selected Poems (1976) (Revised Edition, 1977)
Day by Day (1977)
The Oresteia of Aeschylus (1978)
Collected Poems (2003)
Selected Poems (2006) (Expanded Edition)
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano, with Saskia Hamilton (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2008)
^ "Poet Laureate Timeline: 1953-1960". Library of Congress. 2008. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html. Retrieved 2008-12-19.
^ Robert Lowell Poets of Cambridge, USA
^ Robert Lowell @ Poets.org
^ The Lowell Affair: Yaddo's Red Scare
^ Bidart, Frank, editor. "On Confessional Poetry." Robert Lowell Collected Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003.
Works by or about Robert Lowell in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Articles on Lowell at Modern American Poetry
Article on Lowell at Poets.org
Lowell's interview with The Paris Review
Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell
Literary Criticism on Robert Lowell
Helen Vendler audio interview on Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop podcast from The New York Review of Books
Dan Chiasson's Review of Words In Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
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From Wikiquote
Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.
Among his relatives were James Russell Lowell, Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell.
A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket--
The sea was still breaking violently and night
Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet,
When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. Light
Flashed from his matted head and marble feet,
He grappled at the net
With the coiled, hurdling muscles of his thighs:
The corpse was bloodless, a botch of reds and whites,
Its open, staring eyes
Were lustreless dead-lights
Or cabin-windows on a stranded hulk
Heavy with sand.
Poem: The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Once fishing was a rabbit's foot--
O wind blow cold, O wind blow hot,
Let suns stay in or suns step out:
Life danced a jig on the sperm-whale's spout--
The fisher's fluent and obscene
Catches kept his conscience clean.
Poem: The Drunken Fisherman
Categories: Author stubs | American poets | 1970s deaths
1982 Audio Interview with Ian Hamilton, author of the biography, Robert Lowell - RealAudio - Ian Hamilton Interviews with Don Swaim
Lowell's interview with The Paris Review - The Paris Review - The Art of Poetry No. 3
Robert Lowell bio and poetry. Part of a series of poets.
Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell - Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell. - book reviews | Insight on the News | Find Articles at BNET
"Robert Lowell" - Robert Lowell - TMBW: The They Might Be Giants Knowledge Base
"Memories of West Street and Lepke" - Memories of West Street and Lepke - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Robert Lowell @ Poets.org - Robert Lowell - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
traducciones de raul racedo: Robert Lowell
The poet Nicholas Christopher remembers Lowell as a teacher at Harvard - CRITICAL MASS: In Retrospect: Robert Lowell at Harvard, Fall 1969