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Google develops an AI that can learn both chess and Pac-Man
BY Mojgan	January 9, 2021	Google ، Technology	3 views
The first major conquest of artificial intelligence was chess. The game has a dizzying number of possible combinations, but it was relatively tractable because it was structured by a set of clear rules. An algorithm could always have perfect knowledge of the state of the game and know every possible move that both it and its opponent could make. The state of the game could be evaluated just by looking at the board.
But many other games aren't that simple. If you take something like Pac-Man, then figuring out the ideal move would involve considering the shape of the maze, the location of the ghosts, the location of any additional areas to clear, the availability of power-ups, etc., and the best plan can end up in disaster if Blinky or Clyde makes an unexpected move. We've developed AIs that can tackle these games, too, but they have had to take a very different approach to the ones that conquered chess and Go.
At least until now. Today, however, Google's DeepMind division published a paper describing the structure of an AI that can tackle both chess and Atari classics.
Reinforcing trees
The algorithms that have worked on games like chess and Go do their planning using a tree-based approach, in which they simply look ahead to all the branches that stem from different actions in the present. This approach is computationally expensive, and the algorithms rely on knowing the rules of the game, which allows them to project the current game status forward into possible future game states.
Other games have required algorithms that don't really care about the state of the game. Instead, the algorithms simply evaluate what they "see"—typically, something like the position of pixels on a screen for an arcade game—and choose an action based on that. There's no internal model of the state of the game, and the training process largely involves figuring out what response is appropriate given that information. There have been some attempts to model a game state based on inputs like the pixel information, but they've not done as well as the successful algorithms that just respond to what's on-screen.
The new system, which DeepMind is calling MuZero, is based in part on DeepMind's work with the AlphaZero AI, which taught itself to master rule-based games like chess and Go. But MuZero also adds a new twist that makes it substantially more flexible.
That twist is called "model-based reinforcement learning." In a system that uses this approach, the software uses what it can see of a game to build an internal model of the game state. Critically, that state isn't prestructured based on any understanding of the game—the AI is able to have a lot of flexibility regarding what information is or is not included in it. The reinforcement learning part of things refers to the training process, which allows the AI to learn how to recognize when the model it's using is both accurate and contains the information it needs to make decisions.
The model it creates is used to make a number of predictions. These include the best possible move given the current state and the state of the game as a result of the move. Critically, the prediction it makes is based on its internal model of game states—not the actual visual representation of the game, such as the location of chess pieces. The prediction itself is made based on past experience, which is also subject to training.
Finally, the value of the move is evaluated using the algorithms predictions of any immediate rewards gained from that move (the point value of a piece taken in chess, for example) and the final state of the game, such as the win or lose outcome of chess. These can involve the same searches down trees of potential game states done by earlier chess algorithms, but in this case, the trees consist of the AI's own internal game models.
If that's confusing, you can also think of it this way: MuZero runs three evaluations in parallel. One (the policy process) chooses the next move given the current model of the game state. A second predicts the new state that results, and any immediate rewards from the difference. And a third considers past experience to inform the policy decision. Each of these is the product of training, which focuses on minimizing the errors between these predictions and what actually happens in-game.
Top that!
Obviously, the folks at DeepMind would not have a paper in Nature if this didn't work. MuZero took just under a million games against its predecessor AlphaZero in order to reach a similar level of performance in chess or shogi. For Go, it surpassed AlphaZero after only a half-million games. In all three of those cases, MuZero can be considered far superior to any human player.
But MuZero also excelled at a panel of Atari games, something that had previously required a completely different AI approach. Compared to the previous best algorithm, which doesn't use an internal model at all, MuZero had a higher mean and median score in 42 out of the 57 games tested. So, while there are still some circumstances where it lags behind, it's now made model-based AI's competitive in these games, while maintaining its ability to handle rule-based games like chess and Go.
Overall, this is an impressive achievement and an indication of how AIs are growing in sophistication. A few years back, training AIs at just one task, like recognizing a cat in photos, was an accomplishment. But now, we're able to train multiple aspects of an AI at the same time—here, the algorithm that created the model, the one that chose the move, and the one that predicted future rewards were all trained simultaneously.
Partly, that's the product of the availability of greater processing power, that makes playing millions of games of chess possible. But partly it's a recognition that this is what we need to do if an AI is ever going to be flexible enough to master multiple, distantly related tasks.
Nature, 2020. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03051-4 (About DOIs).
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UK advocacy group reports Palestinian judo team for celebrating anti-Israel judoka
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine withdrew from a match to avoid fighting an Israeli opponent.
Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine (blue) competing in 2021, prior to his ban. Credit: International Judo Federation.
(December 21, 2021 / JNS) UK Lawyers for Israel has reported the Palestinian Judo Federation and its chairman to the International Judo Federation's (IJF) Disciplinary Committee for honoring an athlete who refused to fight an Israeli opponent.
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine withdrew from a match to avoid fighting an Israeli opponent. As a result of his decision, the IJF issued him and his coach with a 10-year ban from participating in judo activities or competitions. Noutine later announced his retirement from judo and accused the IJF of collaborating with "Zionist terrorism."
According to Palestinian reports seen by UKLFI, Jihad Uweida, chairman of the Palestinian Judo Federation chairman and secretary-general of the National Committee Against Normalization in Sports, contacted Nourine and told him that the Palestinian organization and the Palestinian embassy in Algeria would organize a ceremony to honor him.
UKLFI said on Monday that it sent a letter to the IJF, explaining that Uweida's remarks go against the federation's Code of Ethics, its rules prohibiting discrimination and the Olympic Charter.
"When the IJF banned Fethi Nourine for 10 years for his boycott of Israel, this was in keeping with IJF's role as an exemplar in fighting boycotts and discrimination," said UKLFI director Sam Gree. "The attitude of Mr. Uweida and the Palestinian Judo Federation is a challenge to the decision of the IJF and in direct confrontation to the message intended by it. We have asked the IJF to refer Mr. Uweida and the Palestinian Judo Authority to the Disciplinary Committee under the IJF Disciplinary Code."
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Nourine also pulled out of the 2019 World Judo Championships in Tokyo to avoid competition with an Israeli athlete.
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Once upon a time I ran like the wind blew and cycled with drive and determination, laughing in the face of a stiff offshore headwind and all the snowbird traffic. I swam hard and graceful and mostly at the ripe hour of 5 a.m. I was enthusiastic, passionate and in love with all three triathlon sports, both combined and separate.
And then I got pregnant. On one very unforgettable day in week six of my pregnancy the hormones took over like a bossy drill sergeant and all hell broke loose.
Oh don't get me wrong, I still run to the bathroom (swiftly!) approximately 15 times a day. I also find myself – more often then I'd like to admit – running down the aisles at Publix looking for their freshly baked calypso cookies. I love you calypso cookies!
But my training is for the most part on hold. Since, motion sickness rears its ugly head whenever I move off the couch too quickly, cycling is a no-go. And as far as swimming goes….well….the world isn't going to see me in a bathing suit for about a year. You're welcome, world.
But while you won't get to see me in a bathing suit, I am going to share everything else—or, well, just about everything else—with you as I transition from triathlete to triple-wide in the next nine months. (And try to stay at least reasonably fit along the way).
Here's what you need to know about me. I am a 35-year-old living in Fort Myers Beach with the love of my life. My husband Scott is the male version of me and we have all the right things in common to have a very fun, active, healthy and joyful life. We share a passion for adventure, a love for sports, an obsession with good beer (sigh, how I miss you, beer) and, of course, the desire to have a family. We're both transplants from New England, but we've lived here for three years and we hope Southwest Florida will be our home for a very long time.
Our happy family is anxiously awaiting baby #2!
Like most endurance athletes, I treat my body like a piece of equipment that I need to keep finely tuned, not only for performance (races and training) but also for overall health. I am an organic, perimeter grocery shopper, even ordering proteins from an all-grass-fed, organic farm in the Midwest when I cannot find the same quality locally. I follow a mostly no-grains and no-sugar diet, but with the occasional cheat of the above-mentioned beer and wings. And by occasional I mean weekly; I mean, a girl's gotta live a little!
For the first half of my last pregnancy (yes, that's 20 weeks) all I could stomach was McDonald's, pizza, bread and other such carbs. And I am not talking about an occasional McFlurry craving here and there. All that I could manage to put in my mouth was McDonald's french-fries and the occasional cheeseburger. Obviously that does not fit into my above-mentioned eating plan. I can't comment on the pizza but I have abstained from McD's so far in this pregnancy. I am also eating a lot of fruit and have even been able to stomach a salad or two. I really hope the changes in needs do not last 20 weeks again and I hope if it does, that I can muster up some energy to at least go for walks on the beach. After all, we live on a gorgeous beach!
Please come along and follow me as I transition from the person I described above into the science project I am turning into more and more each day. I promise to be real. I hope to be humorous. I'll strive to speak to both men and women. I will share the ups and downs of having the world's most amazing privilege—growing a beautiful new life.
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As it's well-known to all, medical industry has very strict regulations in production. It is connected with people's health and safety, thus quality guarantee is essentially important during production. As a result, the inspection process becomes an indispensable part of product quality. There are different kinds of inspection methods, manual and machinery. With the development of technology, machine vision inspection system have gradually recognized by medical industry. It has been widely used in medical pharmaceuticals to improve production efficiency, enhance quality and ensure consumer safety.
In the pharmaceutical industry, the filling of medicines is usually carried out at high speed, and the stoppers must be accurately covered after the filling process. The stopper must put onto the correct position of the bottleneck to ensure a qualified seal. This step is very important and can directly affect the quality of the vial and the safety of the drug. Machine vision can be used to detect whether the stopper position is correct, whether it is tight, and whether there is a defect.
In the pharmaceutical industry, drugs are finally required to be packed in boxes with instructions for the drug. Through the machine vision system, it is possible to detect if the instructions in the package are missing or not.
Due to the strict regulations of the pharmaceutical industry, the quality of pharmaceutical packaging is becoming more and more standard. When the medicine particles are packed into the blister, it is necessary to check whether the medicine particles in the blister are intact and meet the requirements. Through machine vision, you can quickly detect the integrity of the drug inside, whether there are defects such as damage.
In addition to the above cases, there are still many applications of machine vision inspection technology in the pharmaceutical industry, such as the detection of unqualified capsule size, the filling liquid level detection of liquid preparations, the detection of impurities and cap quality in bottles, the labeling of pharmaceutical products, etc. Applying machine vision technology can solve the problem of low efficiency and high cost of manual detection, and effectively guarantee product quality to a safer extend, it also has a positive effect on improving corporate reputation.


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This £10m development for Goodman occupies the gateway site at Gloucester Business Park and has a total floor area of 82,500 square feet. The largest of the three buildings was fitted out for the Gloucestershire NHS PCT as part of the main contract, the remaining two were completed to category A for fit out by tenants.
All three buildings are fully air conditioned and the development achieved a BREEAM rating of Very Good.


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Pinoy Penman 3.0
The continuing chronicles of Jose Dalisay Jr., aka Butch Dalisay, a Filipino collector of old fountain pens, disused PowerBooks, '50s Hamiltons, creaky cameras and typewriters, VW spare parts, poker bad beats, and desktop lint.
Tag Archives: PILF
Penman No. 358: A Feast for Book Lovers (2)
Posted on June 17, 2019 by penmanila
Penman for Monday, June 17, 2019
LAST SATURDAY, at the 10thPhilippine International Literary Festival sponsored by the National Book Development Board, I joined a panel discussion on "Advanced and Antiquarian Book Collecting," and since most of you weren't there to hear me and my fellow panelists Anthony John Balisi and Francis Ong, I'd like to share part of what I said.
As most of my readers know, I've long been a collector of fountain pens, especially vintage ones going back to the early 20thcentury. I still have a couple of hundred pens in the collection, which I've begun trimming down for the inevitable day when our only daughter will have to deal with all the junk her weird papa left behind. Well, she's going to have to deal with a lot more than pens, because over the past few years or so, I've also begun to amass collections of midcentury paintings, typewriters, and, yes, old books.
I'll talk about those other afflictions some other time—although I'm sure you see a pattern somewhere there. To focus on book collecting, let's start with the basic proposition that people buy books to read, usually for education or entertainment. That's how all book collectors begin: as readers who enjoy the word on the page. But collectors are excited by more than what books contain or mean; they enjoy the book itself as a cultural artifact (and yes, as a tradeable commodity), as a physical manifestation of ideas, and as a work of art and technology in itself.
Book publishing has a long and fascinating history, and important books—like the Gutenberg Bible (1455), our own Doctrina Christiana (1593), and Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere (1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891)—are much sought after. Because of the sheer number of books published since Gutenberg, collectors tend to focus on specific areas like art, religion, history, geography, cooking, horticulture, and such.
I'm not even going to pretend that I've read or can read many of the books in my library; some are in languages like Latin or old French and Spanish, and while I can guess at some meanings with the help of a dictionary, I'd be better off with a readily available translation. So why do I buy and keep these books? Why even go for, say, first editions when cheap copies of modern editions abound?
It's because I feel like I'm saving many of these books from oblivion, and that it's important for future generations to see and appreciate these texts in their original state. In fact, many items in my collection began as props for teaching; you can't imagine how surprised and thrilled my literature students are when I show them an actual copy of The Gentleman's Magazine from 1773 when we discuss what the early colonists in America must have been reading, or a 1935 issue of The Prairie Schooner where a story by Manuel Arguilla titled "Midsummer" appeared. It's what I've been calling "the materiality of literature," its occurrence as a phenomenon as physical and as necessary as the Internet and satellite TV today. Like I told a historian-friend who couldn't figure out why I was obsessed with finding original texts of easily accessible books, "The object is the object."
Most of my books these days come from eBay, which gives me access to a global trove of books, many of them obscure and unappreciated where they are. I've gotten choice books from as far as Portugal and Guatemala this way. But some of my most remarkable finds have been local pickups—like books signed by Amado V. Hernandez and Atang de la Rama, delivered to me in Intramuros by a seller on a bicycle, or a signed first edition of Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart, which I bought in Jollibee Philcoa.
For show-and-tell last Saturday, I was happy to share some of these best finds:
An Abridgement of the Notable Works of Polidore Vergil by Thomas Langley. Published in London in 1551, it's the oldest volume in my collection—found, of all places, in olx.ph, and picked up by me from its seller in Cubao one dark Christmas Eve. (And how does a 470-year-old English book of essays end up in Cubao? Via Paris, where the seller's mother worked as an OFW, and was gifted by her client with the book.)
El Filibusterismo by Jose Rizal, in the second edition published by Chofre in Manila in 1900. Another local pickup, found online.
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan, another copy of the 1946 first edition, second printing, gifted to me by Greg Brillantes to replace the copy I gave my daughter as a wedding present.
Without Seeing the Dawn by Stevan Javellana, a 1947 first edition, signed by its first owner Zoilo Galang, our first Filipino novelist in English, found in Megamall.
Doctrina Christiana, a facsimile edition published by the Library of Congress in 1947, very soon after this oldest of Philippine books joined the LOC collection, my copy signed by its donor and benefactor, Lessing J. Rosenwald, found on eBay.
Filipino Attempts at Literature in English, a one-of-its-kind compilation put together by a young Leopoldo Yabes in the 1930s, who gifted it to poet Jimmy Abad, who passed it on to me for restoration. (This book, like many others, will be bequeathed to the University of the Philippines.)
If these precious books survive me—and they will—then my mad chase for them will make final and total sense.
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Penman No. 357: A Feast for Book Lovers
IF YOU love books—whether as a reader, writer, or collector of them—you have to put this on your calendar: June 15, Saturday, 1 pm, Great Eastern Hotel, Quezon Avenue. That's when I join a panel of fellow bibliophiles to talk about "Advanced and Antiquarian Book Collecting" at the 10thPhilippine International Literary Festival sponsored by the National Book Development Board.
It was actually at my suggestion that this panel was put together, when the NBDB solicited panel proposals a few months back. I asked Anthony "Tuni" John Balisi and Francis Ong, two prominent members of our online Filipiniana Book Collectors Club (FBCC), to sit on the panel with me, and happily they agreed.
There are, of course, far more accomplished, knowledgeable, and comprehensive book collectors out there—the formidable tandems of Mario Feir and Steven Feldman and of Jonathan Best and John Silva come to mind, as well as the likes of Jimmy Laya and Ambeth Ocampo—and we hope they can join us to share their experiences and insights. But for the purposes of the panel, we wanted to keep things on a strictly amateur and fun level, to focus on the joy and the excitement of acquiring desirable books that remain fairly accessible to new and middling enthusiasts like us.
You'd think that book collecting—especially in this digital age—would be a pastime for old fogies who never really made the transition to e-books and who still write notes with a fountain pen or a typewriter (two of my other collecting passions), but you'd be surprised by the number of young people, male and female alike, looking for and selling books on FBCC and other online sites. Perhaps, as with pens and typewriters, it's a romantic gesture, a tip of the hat to a less troublous past. But the fact is that a lot of book collecting now happens online, putting to rest the notion that these old guys (and gals) can't key in a URL or do a Google search to find a signed first edition of Carlos Bulosan's America Is in the Heart if their lives depended on it.
As my rationale for the panel put it, books are an invaluable resource as repositories of knowledge, experience, and analysis. In the Philippines, they have figured prominently in our history both as keepers of the national memory and as instigators of change, even of revolution. Collecting and preserving our most important book is a mission and passion shared by advanced collectors who complement the efforts of libraries and other institutions to ensure that the best and most significant books of the past and present can be bequeathed to the future.
Our panel's focus will be on Filipiniana, particularly history, literature, art, and religion. Through this session, we seek to engage the Filipino public in book collecting both as a hobby and as a means of preserving and promoting the value of books as cultural artifacts and keepers of the national memory. The discussion can also include where and how we source rare books, how to restore and conserve them, and the book market. The session should result in a greater public awareness of the value of books as cultural artifacts and of book collecting as a specialized art in itself.
I'm going to save the better and more detailed parts of this discussion for my talk at the PILF—and for this column next Monday—but let me just say, as a teaser, that we will be bringing some of our most interesting acquisitions to the event, for show and tell. (Aside from Filipiniana, I plan on exhibiting some of my oldest books, including one in English from 1551, and manuscripts from the 1500s and 1600s.)
And we'd just be a morsel in a veritable feast for the book lover at the PILF, which this year is devoted to the theme of "Gunitâ: a pursuit of memory"—which means, according to the NBDB, "making a mark in the age of forgetting by remembering our roots and fostering new voices through our literature. Gunitâ is the ability to remember. We are at a time when forgetting is common and we are chasing after our memories and history so that it is not forgotten." Keynoting the festival will be National Artist Resil Mojares—one writer I deeply admire for the lucidity of his scholarship—whose talk will be followed by a plenary discussion that will also include Miguel Syjuco, Lualhati Abreu, and Joel Salud.
You can view the full PILF program here: tinyurl.com/program10thPILF. Entry to the festival is free, but you have to pre-register for it for Day 1 at tinyurl.com/10thPILFDay1and for Day 2 at tinyurl.com/10thPILFDay2.
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Penman No. 378: My Retirement Library
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Penman No. 376: The Other Pepe
Penman No. 375: Delightful Turkey
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Family & Me
Pinoys
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Pen Collectors of America
Philippine Watch Club
PhilMUG
The Fountain Pen Board
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A familiar sound for readers of the Mail on Sunday is the deafening cymbal-clash of Peter Hitchens colliding with reality. This last Sunday offered a particular highlight, which, although there is undoubted wisdom in leaving him alone to figuratively wander the 21stcentury in his dressing gown shouting at clouds, cannot pass without comment.
Undeterred by the fact that there was a wealth of evidence before the court which he, as somebody who was not in court for the duration of the trial, has neither seen nor heard, Mr Hitchens, armed with a fistful of second-hand newspaper reports of snippets of the case, assured readers that he, the clear-sighted rationalist, can see the case for what it is: "a tragedy twisted into a bogus 'terror plot'".
The premise of his thesis, as he expanded in a further blogpost on Monday, appears to be twofold. Firstly, it is "absurd" for anyone to claim that Mair was a "rational, coherent political actor", as his actions "predictably achieved more or less the exact opposite of what he supposedly intended – and he would have grasped this in a second had he been in a normal state of mind".
We can deal with the first argument swiftly: irrationality and mental ill health are two discrete concepts. The former may be a symptom of a latter, but they are not necessarily linked. Most of the people who cross the threshold of the criminal courts are irrational. I've prosecuted more burglars than I can count who, despite their extensive experience, have still failed to process that climbing through a broken window is likely to result in your blood being left at the scene. The number of young men who, disqualified from driving and flagged down by the police, decide not to cut their losses and take their dues but instead to lead the police on a merry 90mph pursuit through residential areas and red lights before, inevitably, being caught, adding dangerous driving to the charge sheet – irrational? Tick. Incoherent? Tick. Achieving the exact opposite of what they supposedly intended? Tick. Colloquially they might be said to, in Hitchens' words, be "roaming along the outer frontiers of sanity", but mentally ill? That's something different.
Well this is only suspicious and puzzling if you don't understand the first thing about how a defendant's mental health is relevant in criminal proceedings. And it is regrettable that, given how frequently Mr Hitchens finds novel ways to be wrong about the criminal law, he did not think to ask anybody involved in criminal justice for their insight. Had he done so, he may have been told something along the following lines.
Now the headline with all of these is that any such reported obtained by the defence attracts legal privilege. This means that the defence do not have to show anybody else – the court or the prosecution – the contents of the report if they do not wish to. So if a psychiatric report does not help the defence case, there will usually be no point in serving it. Many, many psychiatric reports are prepared for court cases every day and ultimately not relied upon. Often, the conclusion will be, "The Defendant suffers from psychiatric or psychological disorders, namely X, Y and Z, but not to the extent that any of the legal defences apply". Sometimes, worse still, the report will be positively harmful to the defence. "The Defendant expressed no remorse and in my view presents a significant risk of serious harm to the public" is the last thing you want the court to read if you are trying to do the best for your client in mitigation. But, and I will repeat this, the fact that mental health issues were not "discussed before the jury" does not mean that all relevant mental health issues were not considered and dealt with appropriately.
Now we do not know why Mair's lawyer did not rely on medical evidence. But we do know, because the defence barrister told the court at a pre-trial hearing, that Mair had been subject to an assessment.
Mistakes happen, of course. Negligence happens. Lawyers and judges are far from infallible. We see awful cases on appeal where the courts and/or defence representatives failed to appreciate the significance of a defendant's mental health. But there is absolutely nothing to suggest that this is what happened in Mair's case; to the contrary, his highly experienced lawyers indicated to the court that mental health had been considered and was not, for reasons that they do not have to state openly, going to be relevant to the issues the jury had to decide. Nor, from the sentencing remarks, was there any mental health issue relevant to mitigation. You'll note that Hitchens does not suggest in respect of which legal issue – fitness to plead, a defence (and which one) or mitigation – the evidence of mental ill health ought to have been adduced. He just vaguely asserts that it should have been "discussed before the jury", without deigning to tell us to what end.
Hitchens' hang-up appears to stem from the false presumption that because an issue wasn't raised before the jury, it wasn't considered. That is wrong. No such deduction can safely be made. If Hitchens has spoken to those involved in the case, or has somehow seen Mair's medical records or psychiatric reports, he may be onto something. Without any of those, it is nothing more than a conspiracy theory, and, given the imputation that Mair's lawyers have been professionally negligent in service of a government agenda, a potentially libellous one at that.
Quite why Hitchens is so wedded to a thick black line that does not exist – attempting to separate mental ill health and terrorism into mutually exclusive camps – is also a mystery. Why he cannot accept the proposition that a person can be mentally unwell whilst still capable of committing deliberate and knowing acts of political carnage is as baffling as his determination to cast Mair as a victim of a state fit-up. The whole argument, as with so much of what Hitchens writes, is achingly bizarre. By the time you've finished deconstructing it, you almost forget why you started. Like the time he mistook the origins of the term "county lines" and got himself in a week-long tantrum, his thinking on this issue betrays a millefeuille of irrationality, incoherence and counterproductive reasoning. Hitchens has a term for that, but I expect he would not take kindly to it being applied to him.
The assault on Jack Grealish – is 14 weeks' imprisonment the right sentence?
I fired off a quick thread last night offering my rough take on yesterday's conviction and sentence of Paul Mitchell, the Birmingham City supporter who ran onto the pitch during Sunday's match between Birmingham and Aston Villa and assaulted Villa footballer Jack Grealish. Below are my provisional thoughts.
Paul Mitchell was charged with battery, contrary to s39 Criminal Justice Act 1988. He was also charged with an offence of encroaching onto a football pitch (presumably s4 Football Offences Act 1991). He pleaded guilty to both offences at his first appearance today before Birmingham Magistrates' Court, the offences having been committed yesterday. A good live account of today's court proceedings can be found here.
Why was the case dealt with so quickly?
Many people have remarked on how quickly this case was processed – barely 24 hours between offence and sentence. But this is not unusual where a defendant is arrested, charged with a summary offence (one that can only be tried at the magistrates' court) and refused police bail. The police have the power to charge this type of battery without needing the Crown Prosecution Service to authorise the charge (see the Director's Guidance on Charging), so the process is quicker. A defendant charged and kept in police custody will be produced at the magistrates' court the next day. If a defendant pleads guilty, the court will usually require a Pre-Sentence Report to be prepared by the Probation Service, to make recommendations as to how best deal with the offender. It's now common for this to be done the same day. Given that the offence was captured from multiple angles by high-definition television cameras, there was little choice but to plead guilty.
What about the sentence? How did the court arrive at 14 weeks?
Mr Mitchell received 14 weeks' imprisonment, as well as a 10-year football banning order. He was ordered to pay £100 in compensation to Mr Grealish, £135 in prosecution costs and a mandatory £150 Victim Surcharge.
The maximum sentence for battery is 6 months' imprisonment. (If injury had been caused, it would likely be charged as causing actual bodily harm, which carries a maximum sentence of 5 years). The maximum sentence for going onto the playing area is a fine.
A defendant who pleads guilty at the earliest opportunity – i.e. at his first appearance – is entitled to one third off his sentence. That applies to all defendants, even where, as in this case, the evidence is overwhelming.
This means that the maximum sentence the magistrates could have passed was 17 weeks.
14 weeks is therefore almost as high as they could go.
Looking at the Guidelines, in order to reach this sentence, the magistrates must have put this case in Category 1. This requires a finding of "Greater Harm" and "Higher Culpability". On its face, it's not easy to see how they did this (and without full sentencing remarks, we are somewhat in the dark).
There was no injury, and it was a single blow (rather than a sustained or repeated attack), so the only possible feature of Greater Harm was the particular vulnerability of the victim. It might be argued that as a man going about his job surrounded by tens of thousands of excitable spectators and relatively limited security, Mr Grealish qualifies as particularly vulnerable, although it's a bit of a stretch.
Similarly, the features of "Higher Culpability" don't immediately recommend themselves. Arguably there was an intention to cause greater harm than was in fact caused, but a single blow without a weapon makes this a tricky argument. Significant premeditation? Doesn't look like it, unless Mitchell had told others in advance of his plans. Again, we may be left trying to characterise Mr Grealish as vulnerable to get this box ticked.
As for the other aggravating and mitigating features, there hasn't been a lot of detail provided. The location and timing of the offence are aggravating features (the victim's place of work in front of a national audience). We don't know what the Pre-Sentence Report said about Mr Mitchell's personal circumstances. We know that he had previous convictions for non-violent offences, but it's not clear what they were and how relevant they were (whether, for example, they related to football). We know that his solicitor expressed remorse on his behalf, and that Mr Mitchell was a father of one with a second child on the way. How these were all balanced is unclear without knowing the magistrates' full reasons.
I'm loath to draw any firm conclusions without knowing the magistrates' reasoning, but on its face, it looks as if there would have had to be a fair bit of creative interpretation to get Mr Mitchell into Category 1 and towards the top end.
There is an alternative explanation. The magistrates made clear the need for deterrent sentencing for this kind of offence, and it may be that they held that, even though the offence would ordinarily fall within Category 2 or 3, the circumstances were such that it was in the interests of justice to move outside the category range on the Guideline and into Category 1. This, I'd guess, would be how they would justify the sentence.
The potential for widespread public disorder, as others have pointed out, may well have been a factor which the court treated as seriously aggravating. Context is everything. Those saying "he wouldn't have got this for a punch in the street" miss the point. This wasn't the street. It was a deliberate assault involving trespass onto a playing area, calculated to hurt and humiliate a man lawfully going about his job in front of a stadium of thousands and a television audience of millions. I have little doubt that Mr Mitchell has been treated particularly severely because this was a high profile assault; but he deliberately chose to make it high profile. He selected the location and the occasion. Those are aggravating features.
As ever, this whole exercise involves a fair bit of guesswork, because our justice system still struggles to do basic things such as providing a copy of the sentencing remarks in cases of enormous public interest. But that's my rough take. A stiff sentence, but probably justifiable.
How does this compare to other cases of football spectator violence?
It is difficult and somewhat artificial to compare sentences, but one I'll mention (because I've commented on it before) is the racially aggravated assault on Raheem Sterling. While taking place outside the training ground rather than on the football pitch, this offence involved a much more serious assault, with repeated kicking (characterised by the Guidelines as using a weapon) which caused bruising, and the use of racist language. The offender was sentenced to 16 weeks' imprisonment (the maximum sentence for racially aggravated battery is 2 years). I wrote at the time that I thought this sentence, based on the reported facts, was lenient, and this case arguably casts it into even starker relief.
I have today written a piece for the i newspaper on the jury system, after the excellent series published this week on life as a juror, The Trial: Secrets of Jury Service. My thoughts can be found here.
The Guardian is currently running a brilliant series on the effect of the legal aid cuts turbo-charged by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012. Owen Bowcott and Amelia Hill have put together an in-depth investigation drawing on case studies and interviews to demonstrate the dire impact upon access to justice.
One such interview, should you be interested, was with me, and can be found here.


Carl Wayne Andersen, son of Einar and Gracia (Overturf) Andersen, was born on February 15, 1939, at his home in rural Edgar. On December 17, 2014, he peacefully passed away, surrounded by family, at his home inSutton. Services were 1:30 p.m., Monday, December 22, 2014, at the Federated Church in Sutton, NE, with Rev. Scharleen Cross and Rev. Harry Cross officiating. Interment following at the Ong Cemetery in Ong, NE. Visitation was Sunday, from 1 – 8 p.m., with the family present from 4 – 6 p.m., at Sutton Memorial Chapel in Sutton, NE. Memorial contributions may be directed to the family to be designated at a later date. Condolences may be left at www.suttonmemorial.com. Carl graduated from Sutton High School in 1956. In 1962, he graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with an Electrical Engineering degree. He accepted a positionwith North American Rockwell Company in Los Angeles, California, where he worked on the command modules of the Mercury, Gemini, and ApolloSpacecraft Programs. He had the honor of having coffee with Neil Armstrong. Wanting to return to his Midwest roots, Carl accepted a position in 1968 as a Design Engineer with Raven Industriesand moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. On December 19, 1970, he married Karen Miller of Gettysburg, South Dakota. While in Sioux Falls, Carl eventually started his own construction company, building houses and apartments. After seven years of city life, Carl and Karen chose to leave their jobs behind and relocate their family to the homestead where his life began. He wantedhis family to learn the value of rural, family-oriented life. He built a home for his family and several others in the community while growing the farming operation he took over from his parents. Carl was an outdoorsman and an avid hunter. He enjoyed water skiing, trap shooting, camping and fishing. He was skilled at building guns. He was concerned about conservation and was an active member of the Rain Water Basin Joint Venture board. He lobbied in Washington, DC, in support of conservation efforts. He was exceptionally well read and was particularly interested in history and family heritage. You could often hearhim say, "You can always tell a Dane but you can't tell him much". He loved the smells of frying bacon, wet dogs, and wood smoke and frequently said they would make the most desirablecandle scents, to the dismay of his wife. His biggest love was spending time with family. He suffered with pain from cancer, Parkinson's, and shingles for six years, but said none of thatcompared to the pain of losing his daughter, Jennifer. Left to treasure his memory are his children, Scot Andersen and wife, Stacy, of Albuquerque,New Mexico; Kristi Andersen of Sutton, Nebraska; Joshua Andersen and wife, Teryl, of Edgar, Nebraska; his grandchildren, Felicia Andersen, Heather Andersen, Holly Mora and husband, Brian, Mallory Carl, Shannon Carl, Gavin Andersen, Leif Andersen, Ingelise Andersen, Elsa Andersen and Grethe Andersen; sister,Donna Williams and husband, Don; niece, Cindy Williams; nephews, Randall Williams and wife, Penny, and Brad Williams and wife, Barb, and many other family members and friends. Carl was preceded in death by his nephew, Barton Williams and his parents, Einar and Gracia Andersen.


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Interactions of Polyproline II Helix Peptides with Iron(III) Oxide
Charles N. Loney, Case Western Reserve University
Cheyan Xu, Case Western Reserve University
Ashley Graybill, Case Western Reserve University
10.1002/slct.201901817
ChemistrySelect
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U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Catalysis Science Program;
Interactions of a peptide with polyproline II helical secondary structure with maghemite (iron(III) oxide, Fe2O3) surfaces were characterized using a variety of surface techniques. A quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation was used to measure the hydrated mass and thickness (92 ± 29 ng/cm2 and 0.89 ± 0.27 nm, respectively) of a layer which formed after a sensor coated with Fe2O3 was exposed to the peptide in aqueous solution. The analysis revealed that the peptide formed a stable thin layer on the sensor. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy of the monolayer were employed to study the relationship between the metal and the peptide. Finally, Fe2O3 nanoparticles were incubated with the peptide, and analysis of the settling and particle size revealed that the presence of the peptide reduced the occurrence of large aggregates in solution.
This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley's version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: C. N. Loney, S. I. Perez Bakovic, C. Xu, A. Graybill, L. F. Greenlee, J. N. Renner, Interactions of Polyproline II Helix Peptides with Iron(III) Oxide, ChemistrySelect 2019, 4, 6784, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.201901817
Loney, Charles N.; Xu, Cheyan; Graybill, Ashley; and Renner, Julie N., "Interactions of Polyproline II Helix Peptides with Iron(III) Oxide" (2019). Faculty Scholarship. 62.


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By John Johnson, Newser Staff
Posted Jul 7, 2016 10:44 AM CDT
Demonstrators chant as they block Summit Avenue in front of the governor's residence in St. Paul, Minn., early Thursday. (Jeff Wheeler/Star Tribune via AP)
The mother of the driver shot to death by a Minnesota police officer tells CNN that she had given her son simple advice if ever stopped by police: "Comply, comply, comply." But even though 32-year-old Philando Castile was doing just that, says his girlfriend, he ended up being shot fatally. Her son's crime was being "black in the wrong place," says Victoria Castile. The officer who made the traffic stop shot Castile five times, says girlfriend Diamond Reynolds, who was in the car at the time with her 4-year-old daughter. "We had our hands in the air," says Reynolds, who filmed the aftermath of the shooting and posted it on Facebook. (The graphic video can be seen here.) Reynolds spoke to reporters Thursday, report the AP and CNN.
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Q: How to display a number from a register or a var in 8086 how do i print a number from a var or a register?
this is my code so far:
i would like to print the number that is saved in centimeters or AX in the array where is says " = X cm " thanks.
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    .MODEL SMALL
    .STACK 100h
    .DATA
InputMessage DB 'Enter height in feed inches (e.g. 6.2):',13,10,'$'
ResultStr DB 13,10,'X Feet X Inch = X cm','$'
Multiply_Word DW 3048
Multiply_Word1 DW 254
Divide_Word DW 100
Divide_Ten_Word DW 10
centimeters DW 0

.CODE
ProgStart:
     MOV AX,@DATA     ; print
     MOV DS,AX
     MOV AH,9
     MOV DX,OFFSET InputMessage
     INT 21h
     MOV AH,1    ; klita
     INT 21h
     MOV ResultStr[2],AL
     SUB AL,'0'
     MOV AH,0
     MUL Multiply_Word
     DIV Divide_Word
     ADD centimeters,AX
     MOV AH,1
     INT 21h
     MOV ResultStr[9],AL
     SUB AL,'0'
     MOV AH,0
     MUL Multiply_Word1
     DIV Divide_Word
     ADD centimeters,AX
     MOV AX,centimeters
     ;;;
     MOV AH,9
     MOV DX,OFFSET ResultStr
     INT 21h
     ;;;
     MOV AH,4Ch
     INT 21h
END ProgStart


The primary purpose of LID (Low Impact Development) is to prevent harm to streams, lakes, wetlands, and other natural aquatic systems from nonpoint source pollution. LID is typically applied at the parcel and subdivision scale and emphasizes conservation and use of on-site natural features integrated with engineered, small-scale hydrologic controls to more closely mimic pre-development hydrology. Ideally, LID is a component of a community's development ordinances and is applied throughout a watershed.
This is a completely different approach than conventional stormwater management, which treats stormwater as a by-product for disposal using costly end-of-pipe technologies.
LID techniques address precipitation first as a water resource. Many of the LID techniques focus on capturing stormwater for irrigation use on a site (retention or detention). This not only supports landscaping, but helps recharge groundwater. Other techniques slow and filter stormwater so that when it enters a stream or river, it does not carry with it the high concentrations of urban pollution that degrade the river or lake's water quality.
LID Integrated Management Practices (IMPs) are often small, cost-effective landscape features located at the lot level. IMPs can be developed using open space, rooftops, streetscapes, parking lots, sidewalks, and medians. They can be applied equally well to new development, urban retrofits, and redevelopment / revitalization projects. The most common IMPs you may be familiar with are rainwater harvesting (rain barrels and cisterns), bioretention (bioswales and rain gardens), permeable pavement, green roofs, green parking lots, and streamside buffers.
A streamside buffer of undisturbed native vegetation helps to slow the flow of stormwater, as well as remove nonpoint source pollutants that degrade streams, rivers, and lakes.
Permeable paving allows water to infiltrate a parking lot rather than run off. A granular base helps to filter pollutants such as grease and oil.
This surface performs well for passenger vehicle uses (but not heavy trucks) and stands up to frequent snow removal in winter.
Porous concrete looks very much like regular concrete, but allows almost 100 percent of the water that falls on it to pass through.
In addition to capturing stormwater, a green roof reduces the building's power consumption because it keeps the roof cooler and provides excellent insulation. In this photo of a green roof taken in late winter, note the combination of filter medium (small pebbles) as well as plants.
Editor's Note: take a look at the largest green roof in the world (at 450,000 square feet, in this report I filed, When Rouge Turned Green.
The bioswale shown below absorbs stormwater runoff from the adjacent parking lot. Note the curb cuts on the right that allow stormwater to flow into the bioswale.
This "green street" in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania (seen on the right) includes bioswales and permeable paving.
Rain gardens mimic the natural system to reduce stormwater runoff. In the photo below, stormwater used to flow from the adjacent building's roof to the downspout to the combined sewer.
Editor's Note: see also these two videos on constructing rain gardens.
You may be tempted to lift the practices we just highlighted in their generic form and apply them to your location. We don't recommend this, because you may not be selecting the most applicable Integrated Management Practices for your specific watershed conditions. For example, LID practices must be sized and applied differently in Michigan, Florida, and Arizona because the climate and hydrology of these locations are very different. When it comes to LID, one size does NOT fit all.
LID is also not a solution for dealing with floodwaters from catastrophic storms. No single system, LID or traditional, can be affordably built or operated to withstand extreme events. The most flood-resilient communities will have a combination of LID and traditional gray infrastructure, both carefully planned and located to work in combination to address the community's and the watershed's hydrology.
LID techniques generally work best for precipitation events that do not exceed 1.5 inches in 24 hours. In most localities, this volume of precipitation characterizes 75 percent or more of the annual rainfall, making LID highly effective at capturing and managing the flow from most rainfall events.
We recommend that your first step in developing LID standards for your community is getting technical assistance in conducting a watershed analysis, a water budget and hydrographs for your watershed. These data will then be the basis for your LID program. In addition to helping ensure the appropriate IMPs, these detailed hydrologic studies will help to measure the benefits of Low Impact Development and document your community's LID success.
In our next installment, we will examine the costs and benefits of LID according to U.S. case studies.
For access to the Segedys' other articles for the PlannersWeb and Planning Commissioners Journal.
Stormwater runoff: water from any kind of precipitation event (rain, snow, or ice) that flows or drains off of a given property.
Watershed: the area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes to the same place. See illustration on right.
Hydrology: the properties, distribution, circulation, movement, and effects of water, especially in relation to land.
Pre-development hydrology: hydrology of a site as it existed prior to its conversion from its naturally-vegetated, undeveloped conditions to any type of built environment.
Nonpoint source pollution: Unlike pollution from industrial and sewage treatment plants, nonpoint source pollution comes from many diffuse sources. It is caused by rainfall or snowmelt moving over and through the ground.
Watershed analysis: a comprehensive overview of key physical conditions and trends in the watershed, including but not limited to land uses; slope and topography; conditions of streambanks, wetlands, and floodplains; percent impervious cover; flood stages; water quality; and other criteria.
Water budget: a mathematical analysis of the flow of water in and out of a system over time.
Hydrograph: a graphic representation of the volume and timing of rainfall runoff at a particular location in a watershed.


There are many things that a homeowner must do in order to prepare their home for the winter. One thing that could be quite easy to overlook is the winterization of a sprinkler system. In fact, failing to winterize a sprinkler system before the first freeze is a fairly common problem. It may seem like a minor issue, but the results can be disastrous.
Winterizing a sprinkler system is not as easy as it may seem. There is a process that must be followed in order to shut the system down properly. Simply draining or releasing the water from the system is not enough. If even the smallest amount of water is left in the pipes, the pipes will very likely expand and crack, leading to a very wet and swampy lawn, a very high water bill, and possibly water damage in your home.
Another issue can occur if there is any residue water left in the backflow assembly, which can typically be located in or under your house. If the backflow freezes, the entire assembly can be damaged, this could lead to a pricey replacement.
If Paramount installed your Sprinkler System, we can winterize it! Call us today to get on the schedule!


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Cambridge MP says Transport Committee plans for Pavement Parking are the way forward for Cambridge
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner has called for the Government to adopt proposals from Parliament's Transport Committee, as residents in Cambridge are up in arms about poor parking in the city. As a member of the Transport Select Committee, he was one of the MPs behind the recent report on pavement parking, taking evidence from a range of organisations, and visiting areas with particular problems.
The Committee's report, released this week, recommends a much simpler system than the current expensive and cumbersome Traffic Regulation Order process. In London, parking on the pavement has been banned for over 40 years, and organisations such as Guide Dogs have been pressing for a national ban.
Daniel Zeichner MP says "When I knock on doors in Cambridge, people raise parking with me as much as they raise Brexit. It's a frustrating problem that really grinds people's gears in the city. I hear from families with pushchairs who can't use the pavements due to inconsiderate parking, and wheelchair users who can be obstructed completely by pavement parking. The Transport Select Committee has advocated the end of pavement parking in our latest report, so that people with access issues can still safely navigate our streets."
"The Government has been dragging its feet on this issue for years. In 2015 I led for Labour on a Bill to stop Pavement Parking which was never made law as the Tory MP who put it forward withdrew it. Four years later, the Government still haven't acted to sort out this problem despite promising to return to it. They haven't even published a response to their consultation on ending pavement parking, which closed in 2015. They have simply kicked the issue into the long grass – which isn't good enough for people who currently can't use our pavements safely."


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Plant breeders who have produced new varieties of plants can protect their new variety using Plant Breeders' Rights (PBRs). In some countries, these are known as Plant Variety Rights.
Applications for PBRs in the UK are filed with the Plant Variety Rights Office of the UK's Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA). They provide information on their website regarding the requirements and processes for applying for a UK PBR.
Applications are filed via the UPOV PRISMA system. We are listed agents in the PRISMA system and would be happy to assist you with filing or maintaining your application.
Following the exit of the UK from the European Union, a UK contact address is required for new UK applications. A UK address will also be required in due course for all UK PBRs. We are able to act as a UK address for service for overseas applicants and rights holders.
Plant Variety Rights in the EU are now separate to those in the UK, and can be applied for via the Community Plant Variety Office.
Community Plant Variety Rights (CPVRs) ceased to have effect in the UK at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020. For most CPVRs which were in force at that time, equivalent UK PBRs have been created. A list of the newly created UK PBRs is available here. For CPVRs and applications for which a transferred right has not been created, it is possible to file a new UK application. If filed before 30 June 2021, these new UK applications can claim the priority date of the corresponding CPVR and make use of the EU DUS testing.
National List
Some varieties of plants must be added to the UK's National List to be marketed in the UK. A list of varieties that require listing in the UK can be found along with other information on the National List here.
For plant varieties requiring National Listing for marketing in the UK, an application can be filed separately or alongside a PBR application via UPOV PRISMA.
For more information or assistance with your Plant Breeders Rights or National Listing, please contact Matthew Ridley (mridley@boult.com) or Frances Baxter (fbaxter@boult.com).


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Stainless steel, often associated with large-scale constructions, is also widely used in the medical sector, forming part of a variety of items from disability aids to surgical instruments. A particularly important use of the metal is in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), one of the most technologically-advanced medical imaging tools in existence.
There are around 25,000 MRI systems currently functioning around the world, enabling medical staff to provide life-saving diagnoses to patients. The first MRI image was produced by Herman Carr in 1952, though the process only created a one-dimensional image and had other deep flaws. Its relevance and importance was, however, instantly recognised and MRI was continually developed until, in 2003, Paul Lauterbur and Sir Peter Mansfield received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on refining and optimising MRI techniques.
The process delivers unrivalled images of the soft tissues of the body, which include the brain, heart and muscles. It provides excellent contrast between these tissues and a full 3D image is created that allows physicians to examine in detail any abnormalities such as tumours. Perhaps the most important benefit of MRI as opposed to traditional Computed Tomography (CT) scans and X-rays is that the patient is not subjected to any ionising radiation. This is particularly useful if the patient has to undergo a series of scans that would otherwise expose their body to potentially harmful levels of this radiation.
At the core of every MRI system is an incredibly powerful magnet that heavily relies on the austenitic stainless steel used in its fabrication. The magnet can create magnetic fields up to 300,000 times more powerful than that of the Earth, aligning cells and assisting with the creation of the 3D image. Stainless steel is used partly for its resistance to corrosion that is desirable in medical environments and partly because its ductility is effective at the ultra-low temperatures of up to -269°C that are required. Its non-magnetic qualities also make it the perfect structural material for the consistent delivery of essential MRI technology.
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Hailing from Wexford, Ireland, Alan Donnelly is a skilled singer-songwriter fusing psychedelic-rock with indie-rock. We speak with him about his latest EP Session One, musical inspiration and discovering new music.
What can you tell us about your EP Session One?
Session One is my first EP as a solo artist and is made up of four tracks from my upcoming album The Shadows. The whole EP was recorded and produced in a shed during the lockdown and serves as a cross-section of the types of sounds you can expect from the album. I have been mulling over recording these tracks for so long and now just felt like the right time.
Do you have a favourite track and why that track?
For me, I think 'Rain' would be my favourite from the EP. It is a very personal track to me and deals with a key moment in my own childhood. It is very raw both lyrically and vocally and I think that feeling comes across well, particularly in the crescendo. There's a lot going on in terms of instrumentation and because of this it was a great song to record and produce, I really enjoyed working on it.
If you could change anything about the EP what would it be?
I would like to have spent more time on it, I'm like that though, I could tinker with something forever, never really feel like it is done. There's always something you could go at but really I am very happy with it overall I have to say. I always like music with that rougher edge, feels more authentic to me. It can be hard to stop trying to improve things and because of this that rough edge can go. You can almost polish a track too much it's just hard to realise when this is happening. For this EP I really wanted to focus on the 'feel' of the tracks and I think it's there for the most part.
What inspires you to make music?
Music is really an outlet, a way to express myself and give a piece of myself to the world. Now whether the world actually ever wants to hear me is a different thing but it's out there for whenever people are ready. I can find inspiration in anything really. This particular album deals a lot with moments of my own life so it's very personal, but I also love writing characters or compositions that deal with broader subjects or emotions.
What were the pros and cons of recording during lockdown?
The pros really are that I could afford the time to record the EP I suppose; that and having my kids and my partner around more. It's always amazing to have more time with the family, so good to have that time to just be together.
The cons? Well, the lockdown was a very hard time for me and my family for personal reasons so having a lockdown that restricted movement preventing me from being where I needed to be only really served to make things extremely difficult, to be honest. Thankfully, I had my family around otherwise I don't know if I could have coped with everything.
Use two sentences to describe your sound.
A fusion of dark lyrics and haunting fairytale-like melodies mixed with some tongue-in-cheek humour and pop elements to lighten things where needed!
What do you think is the best way to discover new music nowadays?
It's funny really, with some many options available to find music you'd think it would be a breeze finding "good stuff". I know that's totally subjective and it is harder to find "good stuff" than before. There was a period where the internet was amazing for music, but it's kind of left the hands of the people and control of things has gone to the bigwigs all over again. You have to dig beneath the surface to find what you might actually like, not what has been suggested or marketed towards you.
Do you have any future plans?
As I was saying earlier I plan to finish the rest of the album. It will continue in the vein of the EP and including those four tracks, I should have between ten and twelve tracks. I may put together a single before then just to keep things ticking but ya, the album is really the next big thing on the agenda. After that I'd hope, pandemic permitting, to wrangle a band together and do a few gigs. Oh, and one more thing if there's time… world domination!
Do you have a message for our readers?
Support the creatives behind online magazines like Nexus Music Blog. It is so hard for artists to get their music out there these days so it's great to have blogs like this that give artists like myself a platform. Also, support the artists, listen to tunes, spread the word and help get the artists out to bigger audiences: this will only work to ensure that you get more music from them in the future. Lastly, go listen to Session One!
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Great music and wise words, go on the world domination 🙂
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