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Guest Blog – Jan Carson
May 28, 2014 ~ danielseery
I'm lucky to have the very talented Jan Carson as a guest contributor to the blog this week.
Jan, a writer from Belfast, has published short stories, written for the stage and her debut novel Malcolm Orange Disappears is due for release in June –
'After moving into an elderly community called Chalet 13, Malcolm Orange finds himself covered in tiny, rapidly expanding holes. He comes to the conclusion that he is literally disappearing so Malcolm sets out on a quest to find the antidote before he disappears completely.'
I can't wait to give the book a read! And if you want to find out more about Jan and her writing you can check out her blog – http://jancarsonwrites.wordpress.com/ or if you want a little taster without having to click too far just read on as Jan Carson talks about…
The American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, (in a fantastic essay written in response to the inane questions people ask at literary readings), once claimed, that he'd reached the point in his writing career where the strongest influence upon his work was his own writing. Whilst I understand exactly what Franzen meant and am learning with each fresh writing project that my own quirks, affectations and small obsessions have an enormous impact on my stories, I'm still a relatively young writer, still open to outside influence, still malleable enough to be swayed, just a little, by the last amazing book I've read. My first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears has just been published by Liberties Press and as I make the inevitable, and rather exciting, round of readings and interviews, I'm finding myself repeatedly asked who my literary influences have been. Answering this question is always a treat for it gives me an opportunity to flick through the library in my mind and recall some of the books which have most inspired and challenged me in my journey as a writer. While there are dozens of names and dust jackets which instantly spring to mind I'd like to focus upon three very different writers and the things they've taught me over the last twenty or so years.
Without a really good storyline…a novel is just a really long piece of description.
My first literary infatuation was with Agatha Christie. It began in 1988 and is still going strong; last year's onscreen death of Hercule Poirot reduced me to a blubbering wreck and prompted a rather sombre wake in our living room. As a child I was a reading protégé, chastised for reading too fast and too "carelessly." By the winter of my ninth year I'd exhausted the local library's children's section and was sneaking adult books home, sandwiched between stacks of Nancy Drews and Babysitters' Clubs. Mercifully, crime fiction struck me as more appealing than the bare-chested men and voluptuous women who adorned the Mills and Boons dominating the back wall of our local library. From Christie I learnt about the importance of plot. Without a really good storyline, a hook sharp enough to catch the most weary of readers, a novel is just a really long piece of description. Even now, some of Christie's best novels give me chills as the subtle twists and punchy plotlines keep me surprised and captivated by books I've read many many times before. There's more to Agatha Christie than plots, however. Her characters, odd and cantankerous though they often are, are genuinely likeable. Without an interfering Marple or haughty Poirot, I doubt if her work would be enjoying such remarkable longevity. Readers need memorable characters: heroes they can root for and villains capable of inspiring a good, satisfying disgust, nuanced characters like M. Poirot who irritate and fascinate and demand the reader's attention. Characters and plot have always gone hand in hand in most everything I've ever written.
I cut my writing teeth on Raymond Carver. Just six months into my first fledgling attempts at short stories, a good friend bought me a copy of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love and it had an enormous impact on how I approach writing. After feeling completely inadequate for several weeks, (Carver writes with such cool ease, reading his stories proved a little intimidating for a beginner writer with aspirations), I returned to the stories and began to pick them apart, looking for clues as to why they were so compelling. Carver's volatile relationship with his editor, Gordon Lish is much documented and there is definitely a sparse and concise use of language which typifies much of Carver's writing and points to the necessity of wise and ruthless editing. However, it was his dialogue which first grabbed me. His characters are raw and real and incredibly believable. They have rich and often troubled inner lives but Carver is not a flowery or over emotional writer. He uses dialogue masterfully to reveal how his characters are feeling and who they most essentially are and yet this dialogue never once trips into the cinematic. It is often brief, always believable and occasionally confessional. If I could write dialogue with even half the insight which Carver has written dialogue I could retire a happy writer. For now I am learning how to listen to the way people actually speak rather than write the way I want them to speak. Therein lies the difference between decent dialogue and wonderful dialogue.
Brautigan taught me…it was perfectly acceptable to take a metaphor and push it to the absolute limits
Finally there was Richard Brautigan. To be very honest I wish someone had pointed me in the direction of Brautigan a little earlier. I was four years into my writing, hearing things like, "I like your stories but I don't really know what they are," when someone gave me a copy of Trout Fishing in America for a plane ride down the West Coast of America. It was as if the lights came on all at once and suddenly. I've never been so happy to realise I was not being particularly original in my writing. Brautigan reassured me like no writer before or since. There are parts of his work which are just a little too experimental for me; a little too beat and faddy. However, discovering Brautigan taught me that I was on a path that others had walked before; that it was perfectly acceptable to take a metaphor and push it to the absolute limits of its potential; to view language as a malleable entity; to have fun with my writing. Brautigan offered me a green light to be myself. The Abortion remains one of my favourite novels, Revenge of the Lawn, one of my favourite short story collections. I think I would have shrunk back into my writing years ago if it wasn't for that battered copy of Trout Fishing and for this I am truly grateful.
Writer's Bio
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts development officer currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a BA in English Literature from Queen's University Belfast and an MLitt. In Theology and Contemporary Culture from St. Andrew's University, Scotland. Jan has had short stories published in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, has had two of her plays produced for the Belfast stage and is a current recipient of the Arts Council NI's Artist's Career Enhancement Bursary. Her first novel, "Malcolm Orange Disappears" will be published by Liberties Press, Dublin on June 2nd 2014.
Interview with a songwriter
Formed in 2001, with 3 albums to date, the current line-up for A Lazarus soul could be described as an Indie super-group. The rhythm section is made up of bassist Anton Hegarty (formerly of Future Kings of Spain) and drummer Julie Bienvenu (Drawing Circles/ Time the Revelator), with the energetic Joe Chester on guitar (The Waterboys/ 10 Speed Racer) while lyricist and vocalist Brian Brannigan is the heart and driving force of the act.
For me there is something deeply sincere about the music of A Lazarus Soul. It is not spurred on by ego or pretentiousness but by a love of the craft and a need to give voice to a section of society that is so often misrepresented in the media. Touching lyrics and soulful melodies, the band were described by Zeitgeist as "Truly one of Dublin's best kept secrets".
Recently, I was lucky enough to track down the lead singer of this talented outfit and get him to open up about his musical influences and all things songwriting related…
Brian Brannigan
We found comfort here in this graveyard of burnt out cars
We fell asleep each night to a handbrake wheel-spin lullaby
(Graveyard of burnt out cars)
How and why did you become a songwriter?
I was listening to music from a very early age. Apparently I knew all the words to the songs on the radio at 5 years of age and I used to sing down the lane from my house for money. I bought my first 7" in 79 when my brother dragged me from the clutches of parents bringing me to mass and instead brought me to the Dandelion Market. It was Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel and this started a weekly tradition of me going to town for vinyl.
However, I only starting writing around 17 years of age. I went for an audition for my first band and when I was leaving they said I also had to write the lyrics. When I protested that I couldn't write, they said
"you have to be better than the last fella"
And that was it for me.
What other artists inspire you?
My first real inspiration were English bands like The Smiths and Joy Division. They had a huge impact on my style of writing. When I started out, Ireland wasn't exotic enough for me so I used to write about situations or places I really knew nothing about. I started hanging out in the International bar in the 90's and Damien Dempsey encouraged me to start looking closer to home for my muse. I took his advice and became much more focused in my writing. Other Irish artists like Cathal Coughlan and Brian Mooney from Idiots were very inspirational to me also. In recent years, songwriters like Bill Callahan, Mark Linkous & Vic Chesnutt. I would rate the latter as some of the greatest lyricists of our generation.
Tell me about how you go about writing a song
Sometimes I just sing random melodies and record them on my phone. When I get an idea for lyrics, I go back through the tunes and find one that's decent. I sometimes build up tunes using a drum machine, keyboards and a sequencer. You always get a great feeling when a decent tune is in it's infancy and that's the buzz I'm always chasing when I write. Once I know I'm on to something I go for long walks to come up with words. I walked marathons for this latest record.
A street became a row of houses, a home became a building
A neighbourhood lost its appeal, the day that Harry left for England
A silent handshake signaled the end of thirteen years
And what had took a lifetime to secure
Just took a day to disappear
(The day Harry left )
You've worked with many other talented musicians and songwriters over the years. Is there any one of these which stand out?
Yes, I've been blessed to work with incredibly talented people down through the years and the current line-up of A Lazarus Soul just blow me away. I rarely give any direction on an arrangement and they seem to understand just what a song needs. Julie has the most unorthodox style of drumming and this leads the tunes into wonderful places. Anton has been the musical foundation for A Lazarus Soul for over a decade now. Joe Chester is the most talented musician I've ever worked with. His production and musical knowledge is extraordinary. He has produced/ played on all the records and his input is invaluable.
I notice that place and youth are some of the themes in your work. What other themes inspire your songs?
Social politics are a huge inspiration for writing. I like to think of songwriting in the old tradition of a song being a record of local events, a way of passing down stories from your area, mirroring what it was like to live in a particular time. Similarly I prefer the old tradition of someone doing a party piece or singing impromptu at a house or wedding to the very unnatural setting of a staged performance. Those community performances are closer to my heart.
I used to play here on these consecrated grounds
When I was younger
I kissed a girl here and whoever would have thought,
That this would be the very spot he would be found
(Star of David)
What advice do you have for anyone thinking of getting into this area?
Leave yourself time to develop and don't be in any rush to release. Be honest with your writing and make music for the love of it which I think is the best way to connect with people. I find walking alone, the best way to write words. I lost my IPod a couple of years back and wrote an album in a few months. I didn't realise what a distraction it was and how much it was blocking out ideas. I think it's important not to force yourself to write either but when you're in the mood make the most of it.
I spent the last 2 years writing our new record and the past year recording it. We're putting some finishes touches to the mixes this week so hopefully we'll have it out by the end of the summer. We went back to my old secondary school in Finglas to record it which is closing after 50 years on May 31st. I was asked by the Principle to pen a song and sing it at the closing ceremony for the school. So that will be a proud but sad moment for me.
A Lazarus Soul Discography
Alazarussoulrecord (2001)
Graveyard of Burnt Out Cars (2007)
Through the Window of the Sunshine Room (2011)
My article from Irish Times from Mon Apr 28th
May 8, 2014 ~ danielseery
The ISPCA is running a novel campaign at the moment in an effort to raise awareness about animal welfare, appropriately named My Dog Ate It . A €2 donation will entitle a pupil to one free pass on a piece of their homework (excluding important course work). Interested schools can apply online or contact the ISPCA directly to receive a pack with everything needed to take part. Money raised will help rehabilitate abused and neglected animals in the ISPCA's care.
At the moment, my wife and I are debating whether to bring an animal into our house. I would like to say that we have plenty of time to come to a decision on the matter, but there are other factors influencing the outcome. You see, my daughter has recently taken a rock as a pet. It's hard and lumpy, as most rocks are, but it differs slightly in that it goes by the name "Mog". She showed it to a friend in school, but this classmate doesn't share my daughter's belief that rocks can be kept as pets. They have since fallen out over the matter.
It's not the first time the concept of a pet has come up in my house. Whenever something with fur or scales appears on the television, without fail, one of my daughters will ask, "Can we get one?"
I try to avoid the obvious excuses for not getting a pet, namely the mess and the excessive hair and the smell because, let's be honest, I don't want them thinking that these are good enough reasons to get rid of me when they hit their teens.
But I do point out that taking care of a pet requires work, patience and plenty of time.
"Dogs are not just for Christmas," I said once.
"Emm," my youngest daughter said, folding her arms and raising an eyebrow. "We're getting a turkey for Christmas, Daddy. Remember?"
I'm still not sure if she thought we were getting a living turkey that year or whether she believed I was planning to eat a dog for Christmas lunch.
My wife recently commented on how the local rescue centres are always looking for people to adopt animals. I have looked at the ISPCA's website, and it is easy to see how someone could warm to the idea. There is page after page of photographs of possible adoptees, various breeds, different characters, all abandoned or neglected, and most better able to strike a pose than I.
There are also the benefits of owning a pet to consider, especially for kids. Interaction can help teach compassion, respect and responsibility.
Sometimes they can even inspire confidence. I remember, growing up in Ballymun, there were a few small groups of youths who owned and cared for horses, shaggy old nags that loitered on random green spaces in the town.
"Eat and breathe those animals," I overheard a neighbour say once. "Sure, they'd be nothing without their horses."
Back then, I paid little mind to the statement, but now I think about those kids sometimes and I understand what my neighbour was getting at: that these lads would feel they were worth nothing if they didn't have those horses.
Pets of my childhood
I never had a horse. But I did have a dog that acted like a cat. And my father drove a truck that resembled a tortoise. I don't think that falls under the category of "pet" but I loved that truck so much I practically used it as a character in my debut novel.
A friend of mine, Alan, had a goldfish. One evening, Alan's sister approached us, slumped shoulders, a frown and the news that the family fish had just passed away. About an hour later, Alan appeared and gleefully informed everyone that goldfish have "black guts".
I'm not sure what happened with Alan and the fish in the hour after the animal's death, and I'm not sure I want to know.
Smell Mullins and the bee
Although the ISPCA is turning the "my dog ate it" excuse into a positive, I still can't help but be reminded of a lad from my old street whenever I hear it, a lad who was never shy about making up a story. This youth went by the nickname "Smell Mullins", not because of any aroma-related problems, but because his nose naturally pointed toward the heavens, as if he was always trying to catch some foreign scent.
He was a boy who was constantly in the company of questions, and these questions generally followed the same pattern: (a) What are you doing? (b) Why are you doing it? (c) Can I have a shot when you're finished?
Smell informed us once how he liked to keep bees as pets, claiming that he would lie in wait for them in the park, a collection of flowers beside him. And when a bee would land close enough, he would lasso it with a piece of thread.
Of course, nobody ever saw him walking around the place with a bee on a miniature lead, so the general consensus was that he was making the whole thing up.
Then, a few weeks ago, I was watching a documentary called Wild China , and in one scene, natives of a forest in China were luring hornets with a dead insect and then placing a tiny noose around the nearest hornet so that it would lead them to its nest.
The similarity between Smell's story and the actions of these Chinese natives was too much to ignore. And this got me thinking: if Smell was telling the truth about the bees, then what else was he telling the truth about?
He told us once that he saw Mr T picking his nose outside Dunne Stores in the Ilac Centre. And he claimed that he had a trial for Manchester United under-10s.
I can't help but wonder if a record of Smell Mullins's dribbling skills is locked away somewhere in the Manchester United vaults. He also told us he was going to be the first person to breakdance on the moon. All I can say is: keep watching the skies.
Daniel Seery is currently a non-pet- owner and author of the novel A Model Partner. Contact the ISPCA on ispca.ie, 043-3325035 (extension 3), fundraising@ispca.ie


Where do I learn about Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards or IRACDA?
What other California universities have IRACDA-funded programs?
UPLIFT is an acronym for "UCLA Postdocs' Longitudinal Investment in Faculty Training." It is UCLA's unique blend of teacher training that includes courses, seminars and workshops combined with career preparation and mentored research in a UCLA PI's lab along with a formal, mentored teaching experience at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA). UPLIFT is funded primarily by the new UCLA IRACDA grant of which Drs. Michael Carey and Tracy Johnson are PIs at UCLA, while Dr. Katrina Yamazaki is the teaching coordinator at our partner institution CSULA.
What is the goal of UPLIFT?
A major goal of the program is to produce a workforce in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with a strong commitment to teaching diverse undergraduates, particularly at institutions that have a history of training underrepresented students. Another goal is to foster research interactions and collaborations between the institutions partnering in the program.
What does the UPLIFT training at UCLA involve?
The purpose of the IRACDA program is to train a diverse group of postdocs in college level teaching and research to fulfill national workforce needs in STEM. Therefore, effective training in teaching and research as well as career development are essential.
UCLA is a member of the CIRTL (Center for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning) network: (http://www.cirtl.net/), whose online seminars are integral components of our training curriculum. UPLIFT scholars will be awarded CIRTL certificates, documenting their achievements at multiple stages during the four-year program.
Importantly, in addition to preparing UPLIFT scholars for teaching at the college or university level, this elite educational experience supports the research of UPLIFT scholars through strong and consistent faculty mentoring.
Specific information about the teaching, research, and career training for UPLIFT can be found on our Training Requirements page.
What does the mentored teaching experience at CSULA involve?
UPLIFT scholars will engage in a mentored teaching experience at CSULA while conducting research with their faculty mentors at UCLA. How does this breakdown by year?
Typically, year 1 of the fellowship involves nearly full time research in your faculty mentor's lab at UCLA. You will begin training in teaching by participating in CIRTL@UCLA courses and CEILS workshops.
In year 2 of the program, you will continue CIRTL@UCLA and CEILS training, observe either a biochemistry, biology, or physiology course at CSULA in the fall or spring semester, and give two-weeks worth of lectures under the mentorship of one of three CSULA faculty. You are expected to travel to CSULA once per week, interacting with and assisting your CSULA teaching mentor at various times during the semester. In addition, you will collaborate with other UPLIFT scholars to facilitate a weekly undergraduate journal club at CSULA during the fall term. UPLIFT scholars rotate weeks in which they teach the journal club (schedule TBA by year).
In year 3, you will present half of the lectures of a full semester course at CSULA under the mentorship of the same CSULA faculty member from year 2. Now equipped with CIRTL/CEILS training, you are expected to incorporate innovative pedagogical techniques into your lectures as well as conduct a Teaching-as-Research project in which you will assess the techniques you try in the classroom. On days that the lectures are occurring, you will be expected to spend up to half a day at CSULA as you will be needed for office hours and other administrative tasks associated with teaching your course. Most current courses that UPLIFT scholars will co-teach are scheduled to meet only two days per week although some are offered three days per week. Fellows will know their teaching assignments well in advance of the term they are teaching so research and other activities can be planned accordingly.
In year 4 of UPLIFT, you will spend the vast majority of your time in your UCLA research lab finishing up your projects and publications. You may still participate in the CEILS and CIRTL activities, with the option to present your Teaching-as-Research project conducted during year 3, earning your CIRTL Scholar level certification. Importantly, you should begin looking for job opportunities.
When do fellows perform research?
Year 1 is mainly research. Teacher training also begins in year 1 but requires only a modest amount of time to perform online training and attend the weekly learning community meetings.
In years 2 and 3, you are expected to perform research at UCLA on days when you are not at CSULA. You are also expected to be at UCLA to perform research either before or after CSULA classes and office hours. Learning how to properly manage your time and fulfill both research and teaching obligations is an essential skill for becoming a successful professor and is a major objective of the IRACDA program. You should enroll in time management seminars at the UCLA Career Center as advertised on UCLA's Career Hub and the CIRTL@UCLA Career Zone.
Year 4 of the program is dedicated to research and preparing job applications.
Overall, while funded by IRACDA, 75% of every UPLIFT scholars effort over the course of 4 years is dedicated to research and the other 25% to training and teaching.
The UPLIFT program is suited to prospective or current postdocs with less than 1.5 years of postdoctoral experience (calculate this timeframe based on the prospective start date for an IRACDA fellowship), who are US citizens or permanent residents, whose career goal involves teaching at a college or university, and who demonstrate a commitment to diversifying the workforce by teaching and mentoring underrepresented students in the biomedical sciences.
If you are on the fence about an academic career or are strongly contemplating a career in industry, this program may not be the right fit for you due to the level of commitment required to complete all aspects of the training curriculum and the teaching practicum, and in meeting IRACDA program objectives.
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We encourage you to participate in UCLA's CIRTL program and in CEILS activities. This training will prepare you for college and university teaching, whether you are part of UPLIFT or not. Completion of CIRTL training requirements would qualify you as CIRTL associates, practitioners, or scholars, depending on how far you progress during your postdoc.
Please email uplift@ceils.ucla.edu for further details about this option. Our campus CIRTL coordinator will work with you to identify teaching experiences on UCLA's campus to help you earn your CIRTL certification.
UPLIFT is intended to be a 4-year program where your UCLA research mentor funds you for the first year and IRACDA funds years 2-4.
Specifically, your UCLA faculty mentor will pay your first year salary and benefits. For postdocs who have already begun their postdoctoral appointment and are within at least 9 months but less than 2 years of their initial postdoctoral appointment start date, your mentor will have already met their obligation and you will be likely be placed on IRACDA funding immediately.
In years 2-4, your research mentor will make up the small difference between IRACDA allocation and your full salary/benefits as a UCLA postdoc. Note that the UPLIFT funding will be re-considered each year and you will be funded only if you have successfully met the program obligations as assessed by the UPLIFT leadership in consultation with research and teaching faculty mentors.
If I am an UPLIFT mentor, what should I expect from my UPLIF scholar and what are my obligations?
UPLIFT Research Mentors: Your major obligation is to fund the first year of the scholar's postdoctoral appointment from your research grants or other non-federal funds. In years 2-4, your obligation is to make up the difference between the IRACDA funding and the UCLA postdoctoral salary/benefits level using non-federal funds.
You should expect high quality research from your UPLIFT scholar. However, all mentors should also be familiar with the training and teaching commitments of the scholars. IRACDA objectives are different than T32 training grants. T32 grants provide primarily one or two years of funding for research. The UPLIFT program, as it currently stands, will provide up to three years of salary/benefit support. Applicants to this program will have already decided that teaching is their passion and a central component of their academic career objectives. As mentors, we expect quite a bit of research from postdoctoral level scientists, but we understand that our goal is also to provide our trainees with skills that allow them to successfully transition into the workforce. UPLIFT gives each postdoc valuable skills that will benefit them when applying for academic positions with teaching as a significant component of the job description.
There will be some time dedicated to teacher training and career seminars. Occasionally, such training will conflict with group meetings or research seminars. UPLIFT will attempt to minimize such conflicts but an understanding of UPLIFT objectives and flexibility by the mentor is essential. Additionally, during the teaching practicum at CSULA, postdocs will be missing from lab one day per week for one semester in year 2 and a second semester in year 3. The fellows will be instructed in time management by a CSULA faculty member who completed the IRACDA program at UCSD and managed to publish multiple papers in their field during their postdoctoral appointments. We will work with CSULA faculty teaching the courses to ensure that there is some flexibility so fellows can best meet their research obligations during their teaching practicum. This balance works very well at UCSF, UCSD and Stanford, who host IRACDA-funded programs and have established cultures compatible with IRACDA's objectives.
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Scholarships are readily available for students attending the Carl Sandburg College.
Danielle Williams, coordinator of Alumni and Scholarships of Carl Sandburg College Foundation Office, explained that students must be enrolled at the college before they can apply for scholarships that the college provides. The Carl Sandburg College website has information on all of the scholarships available.


April is Autism Awareness Month and Holly wanted to help others understand what she goes through so held a special school assembly. Holly says she did it to answer questions her fellow students may have about the way she reacts to them. Students at the school say they admired her bravery.


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La gare de La Rocade est une gare ferroviaire française de la ligne de Bastia à Ajaccio (voie unique à écartement métrique), située sur le territoire de la commune de Furiani, dans le département de la Haute-Corse et la Collectivité territoriale de Corse (CTC).

C'est une halte des Chemins de fer de la Corse (CFC), du « secteur périurbain de Bastia », desservie éventuellement, par des trains « grande ligne ». Arrêt facultatif (AF), il faut signaler sa présence au conducteur pour qu'il y ait un arrêt du train.

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à sept mètres d'altitude, la halte de La Rocade est située au point kilométrique (PK) ... de la ligne de Bastia à Ajaccio (voie unique à écartement métrique), entre les gares de la Polyclinique (AF) et de Furiani.

Elle dispose d'un quai court.

Histoire

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Halte CFC, c'est un point d'arrêt non géré (PANG) à accès libre. Elle dispose d'un petit quai latéral avec abri. C'est un arrêt facultatif (AF) : le train ne s'arrête que si la demande a été faite au conducteur.

Dessertes
La Rocade est desservie (éventuellement : arrêt facultatif (AF)) par des trains CFC « grande ligne » de la relation Bastia - Corte. C'est également une halte du « Secteur périurbain de Bastia » desservie par des trains CFC de la relation Bastia - Casamozza.

Intermodalité
Le stationnement des véhicules est difficile à proximité. Elle est située à moins de  de l'entrée du Stade Armand-Cesari (dit aussi stade de Furiani).

Projet

Dans le cadre de l'aménagement de la section périurbaine de Bastia à Casamozza, la collectivité territoriale de Corse a approuvé en  le principe de la suppression et de la destruction de la halte de La Rocade du fait de la faible distance qui la sépare de la gare de Furiani qui doit être réaménagée.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Chemins de fer de la Corse (CFC)
 Liste de gares de France
 Ligne de Bastia à Ajaccio

Lien externe
 Site cf-corse.fr situation de la gare de La Rocade sur le réseau

Gare en Corse
Ligne de Bastia à Ajaccio

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Q: Pass a timeout to angular bootstrap Modal I'm trying to pass a timeout to a bootstrap modal in Angular JS, in order to show a couple of buttons and cancel that timeout if one of them is clicked
The scenario of what I'm trying to do: I have a sessión that expires in 3 minutes, so in 1.5 minutes I show that modal to the user prompting if he wants to extend the session, if he clicks "Ok", I cancel the timeout and call a function that reset the notification again.
If i try to pass it using the resolve that comes with the Modal, the modal launches just when the Timeout ends, (i guess this might be since it's a promise)
This doesn't has to be the solution but it's what i came up with, if anyone else has a better way or practice, I'll appreciate if you can share
Here is the plunker to see it
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angular.module('app', ['ui.bootstrap'])
.controller('Main', MainCtrl);

MainCtrl.$inject = ['$modal', '$timeout'];
function MainCtrl($modal,$timeout) {
  var vm = this;

  vm.callModal = callModal;
  /*vm.people = [
    'Fred',
    'Jim',
    'Bob'
  ];*/
  vm.time = $timeout(function() { // Timeout
    alert("timeout ended");
  }, 10000);

  function callModal() {
    $modal.open({
      templateUrl: 'modal.html',
      controller: ['$modalInstance', 'time', ModalCtrl],
      controllerAs: 'vm',
      resolve: {
        time: function () { return vm.time; }
      }
    });
  }
}

function ModalCtrl($modalInstance, time) {
  var vm = this;

  console.log(time);

}

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    <button type="button" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" ng-click="vm.callModal()">Call modal</button>

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    <button class="btn" ng-click="$close()">Cancel</button>

A: So you want to close the modal from outside.
Check this fork.
You have to setup the modal instance in your controller and close it after the timeout.
  vm.time = $timeout(function() { // Timeout
    alert("timeout ended");
    if(vm.modal)
      vm.modal.dismiss('cancel')
  }, 10000);

  function callModal() {
    vm.modal = $modal.open({
      templateUrl: 'modal.html',
      controller: ['$modalInstance', ModalCtrl],
      controllerAs: 'vm'
    });
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Have been sad to miss the organizing this yr due to work, moving, illness, etc, but I will most assuredly be there the day of the event.
#MayDay (May 1st) is International Workers Day!! It is a day to celebrate the victories of those who fought for 8-hour work day, minimum wage, and against child labor, gross exploitation, etc. It is also a day to steel ourselves for the work ahead. And there is so much work to do.


It mainly leverages the official Xero Java SDK. The configuration of the SDK is done via CUBA's application properties.
You can add the repositories also using Studio repositories configuration dialog: edit Project Properties, then click the button in the Repository field.
A video tutorial about how to configure the Xero SDK in order to integrate it with a CUBA application.


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Brittany Blogs
First Impressions on Outriders
On April 6, 2021 May 9, 2021 By Brittany
Admittedly, I didn't know anything about this game going in. I kept hearing the name, but knew nothing about it except that people were calling it a potential "Destiny killer". I play Destiny. A lot. Not as much as I used to, but I'm still on it. Seeing as it was free on Game Pass, we decided to give it a shot. I'm not very far into the game, but I am sharing how I've felt playing it so far.
First thought: HOLY. CUT SCENES. There are so many cut scenes that the first time I launched the game, I didn't even feel like I really played anything. Cut scene after cut scene… I didn't want to skip anything because I wanted to know what world I was getting into, but it started getting to the point where I was bored. Not to mention, some of the moments made me laugh when they shouldn't have, like this wonderful scream and facial expression:
Once you get through the initial story setup, the cut scenes don't stop. There are literally cut scenes that last for 2 seconds to show you opening a door and then it immediately transitions into a loading screen. So. Many. Pointless. Cut scenes.
The gameplay has been alright, but it gets better the more you unlock powers and abilities. I personally am not a fan of third-person style gaming, but I'm working through it. Something that stands out to me is the AI feels kind of all over the place. For example, snipers do not miss. They are perpetually staring down the scope and hit you hard any time you stand up to try and engage. And because your character takes so long to get oriented and aim, you take huge hits to your health and immediately have to duck down with nothing to show for it. I also feel like there are enemies that randomly appear that are complete bullet sponges and the difficulty scaling with these enemies feels off. Even with your insane powers, it feels like you barely make a dent in them and you're running to restock ammo a lot.
I also don't feel like the controls operate in the way you'd expect them to sometimes. I find myself trying to execute moves or take cover and my character is just doing whatever she feels like instead. Also, you can't jump. And sometimes I'm on a ledge and want to jump down, but my character won't, so I have to go back and walk down the stairs like a dork.
That being said, I have been playing cooperatively (which is also a pain to set up and randomly disconnects in the middle of playing) and having a second person doesn't always mean it is easier. It does, however, let you watch how your powers can work together to make some cool combat moments like this one:
I'm still in the very early stages of the game and I am going to keep playing to see where it goes. This game is very new and to me, feels buggy in a lot of ways. I see a lot of areas that can be improved and fine-tuned for better gameplay, but overall, the introduction of these unique abilities is intriguing enough to me that I'm going to push through and see how it evolves. For being free on Game Pass, why not? Give it a shot and let me know if you have a similar experience.
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On this day, Story Telling
On this day in history 5th April
Born on this Day 5th April
1588 Thomas Hobbes
1827 Joseph Lister
1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne
1901 Spencer Tracy
1908 Bette Davis
1912 John Le Mesurier
1919 Gregory Peck
1922 Tom Finney
1929 Sir Nigel Hawthorne
1935 Peter Grant
1937 Colin Powell
1941 Dave Swarbrick
1945 Tommy Smith
1946 Jane Asher
1950 Agnetha Faltskog
1955 Janice Long
1964 Steve Beaton
1981 Bob 'The Bear' Hite
1983 Danny Rapp
1994 Kurt Cobain
1958 American rocker Charlie Grace began his second tour in the UK.
1969 The first International Country Music Festival was held at Wembley and featured Tammy Wynette, George Jones and Conway Twitty.
1902 20 people were killed and over 200 injured when the stand at Ibrox Park in Glasgow collapsed during an England versus Scotland match.
1904 The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England.
1988 Alan Shearer made his English Football league debut, for Southampton against Arsenal, and scored a hat trick
1993 Manchester United increased the pressure at the top of the Premier League by beating Norwich 3-1.
People & Showbiz
1895 The trial of Oscar Wilde began at the Old Bailey for alleged offences arising from his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquess of Queensbury.
1960 'Ben Hur' won a record 10 Oscars
456 St. Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop.
1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
1621 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain.
1843 Queen Victoria proclaimed Hong Kong to be a British crown colony.
1874 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead.
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
1976 James Callaghan defeated Michael Foot in the final ballot for the leadership of the Labour Party to succeed Harold Wilson as Prime Minister.
1982 The British fleet set sail from Portsmouth for the Falklands after the invasion of the islands by the Argentinians.
1995 4 factory workers from the West Midlands won £11.1 million in the National lottery. They all left their £180 a week jobs at the factory.
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This afternoon I bought four of these beautiful pinapples ( Ananas cosmosus) at the 'tamu' or local jungle produce market. The Malay word for pineapple is 'nenas'. One fruit like the above costs RM 1-2 only, each one weighing between 1-2kilos. I bought them to make fresh juice to break my fast today.


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Winton's Children
Nicholas Winton
Nicholas Winton was born on 19 May 1909 and died on 1st July 2015 aged 106. He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia during the 9 months before war broke out in 1939. The story became known to the public in 1988 when it featured on That's Life, a BBC TV programme hosted by Esther Rantzen. In 2003 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for Services to Humanity for this work.
Nicky with some of the rescued "Children" at the Czech Embassy 2009
Memorial Trust
The Sir Nicholas Winton Memorial Trust was set up on 29th October 2018 to hold the historic and more recent documents, photographs, artefacts and memorabilia of Sir Nicholas Winton. Its aim is to conserve the archive for the future to enable its use for educational and research purposes in order to promote Nicholas Winton's legacy and principles. Current trustees are all members of Sir Nicholas' family, who believed that these documents and artefacts had historic value and needed to be preserved intact for future generations. They are: Barbara Winton (daughter), Stephen Watson (son-in-law), Laurence Watson (grandson), Holly Watson (granddaughter).
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I'm about to fly to Vienna where I'll be attending a conference on Emergent Quantum Mechanics. I'm not entirely sure why I was invited to this event, but I suspect it's got something to do with me being one of the three people on the planet who like superdeterministic hidden variables theories, more commonly known as "conspiracy theories".
Leaving aside some loopholes that are about to be closed, tests of Bell's theorem rule out local hidden variables theories. But any theorem is only as good as the assumptions that go into it, and one of these assumptions is that the experimenter can freely chose the detector settings. As you know, I don't believe in free will, so I have an issue with this. You can see though why theories in which this assumption does not hold are known as "conspiracy theories". While they are not strictly speaking ruled out, it seems that the universe must be deliberately mean to prevent the experimentalists from doing what they want, and this option is thus often not taken seriously.
But really, this is a very misleading interpretation of superdeterminism. All that superdeterminism means is that a state cannot be prepared independently of the detector settings. That's non-local of course, but it's non-local in a soft way, in the sense that it's a correlation but doesn't necessarily imply a 'spooky' action at a distance because the backwards lightcones of the detector and state (in a reasonable universe) intersect anyway.
That having been said, you might like or not like superdeterministic hidden variables theories, the real question is if there is some way to test if that's how nature works, because one can't use Bell's theorem here. After some failed attempts, I finally came up with a possible test that is almost model-independent, and it was published in my paper "Testing super-deterministic hidden variables theories".
I actually wrote this paper in the hospital when I was pregnant. The nurses kept asking me if I'm writing a book. They were quite disappointed to be drowned in elaborations on the foundations of quantum mechanics rather than hearing a vampire story. In any case, in the expectation that the readers on this blog are somewhat more sympathetic to the question whether the universe is fundamentally deterministic or not, here a brief summary of the idea.
The central difference between standard quantum mechanics and superdeterministic hidden variables theories is that in the former case two identically prepared states can give two different measurement outcomes, while in the latter case that's not possible. Unfortunately, "identically prepared" includes the hidden variables and it's difficult to identically prepare something that you can't measure. That is after all the reason why it looks indeterministic.
However, rather than trying to prepare identical states we can try to make repeated measurements on the same state. For that, take two non-commuting variables (for example the spin or polarization in two different directions) and measure them alternately. In standard quantum mechanics the measurement outcomes will be non-correlated. In a superdeterministric hidden variables theory, they'll be correlated - provided you can make a case that the hidden variables don't change in between the measurements. The figure below shows an example for an experimental setup.
it can be significantly longer than in standard quantum mechanics.
The provision that the hidden variables don't change is the reason why the test is only 'almost' model independent, because I made the assumptions that the hidden variables are due to the environment (the experimental setup) down to the relevant scales of the interactions taking place. This means basically if you make the system small and cool and measure quickly enough you have a chance to see the correlation between subsequent measurements. I made some estimates (see paper) and it seems possible with today's technology to make this test.
Apparently there was a longer discussion with Schrödinger following this proposal, which could be summarized with saying that the experiment cannot test generic superdeterminism, but only certain types as I already said above. If you think about it for a moment, you can never rule out generic superdeterminism anyway, so why even bother.
Update: Slides of my talk are here.
Hope you have a great time in Vienna a city long known as a gathering place for profound and extraordinary thinkers. I've had a peek at the pdf of the agenda listing the chairs and speakers and this turns out to be again one of those times I wish I was just a fly on the wall. All the days have such a stellar lineup yet besides Saturday when you talk the Sunday sessions with the Bohmians I would find most interesting. On Sunday perhaps you could ask Aephraim Steinberg what he thinks about the chances of your experiment being run in the near future. Actually in a way that would be a funny question, as if what you propose to being true is so it's either destined to be run or not.
"Leaving aside some loopholes that are about to be closed, tests of Bell's theorem rule out local hidden variables theories."
Give us an executive summary on what you think about Joy Christian's "disproof of Bell's theorem".
Once cliche which really is true: the best Wienerschnitzel can be found in Vienna. Definitely worth eating if you are a carnivore or omnivore.
I think it's misleading to think about the assumption in Bell's theorem as the free will of the experimenter. After all, most likely that experimenter is just a physical system herself, and we can regard the announcement of her choice of measurement itself as a measurement on *her*.
If one takes this idea seriously, one finds that there are Bell-type theorems in scenarios which have several sources, and in which the independence between source and measurement setting is replaced by the independence of the sources. In fact, the need for having several measurement choices available disappears completely: it's enough for each "party" to conduct the same measurement in each run of the experiment, and quantum theory is still at odds with LHV theories.
I am also intrigued by your proposal to test a class of super-deterministic HVTs. As you may have noticed, such an experiment could also serve as a high-precision test of quantum theory! The reason is the possible joint distributions P(A,B,A') that you can obtain in quantum theory with projective measurements are highly restricted. For example, if you consider two-outcome measurements only and look at the subset of those events in which A<>A', then the two outcomes of B occur equally often. This is true no matter what two-outcome observable B actually is!
Vienna also has a cheap (at least compared to Frankfurt; Stockholm used to be cheap but I don't know how it is now) weekly pass for public transportation (which covers an area and population much larger than Frankfurt).
I hope you get some good feedback on your idea and, if it is vetted, that the test is actually done, and more than once. I'm not a scientist, but I do think that the foundations of quantum mechanics are some of the most important science we have done and that those foundations must be probed as deeply as we can go.
I don't think "freely chosen" means the same thing in experiments as it does in philosophy.
I think in experiments it means that the theory would hold if the experiments were performed with certified random settings. And I think that science has, so far, made this a fundamental requirement for theories.
I think in philosophy it means many things. Many think that the kind of randomness in the paragraph above is required for human free choice. But arguably, human free choice is compatible with determinism. In this view freedom means that nobody is forcing or fooling you into making your choice, not even your own body and unconscious, you are being really rational.
Anyway, I think your thought is a good one and, again, I hope that it will be tested.
Yes! This. Quasi local delay would show super GR determism too A brillant thought or experiment that grounds QM bottom up intelligibly in useful info locality. SUPERDUPER hidden. Or not!
" in the former case two identically prepared states can give two different measurement outcomes, while in the latter case that's not possible. Unfortunately, "identically prepared" includes the hidden variables and it's difficult to identically prepare something that you can't measure. Construct a large quantum calculation with spins as the qubits (e.g., implanted nitrogen centers in diamond). The outcome is determined either way. Consider the two cases' contrasted noise spectra.
A C_60 molecular beam multiple slit diffracts, C_60 appearing on the other side, even in the summed sparse case of single molecules arriving. A D_3-trishomocubane molecule has six indistinguishable homochiral centers of eleven skeletal carbon atoms. Rigid skeleton. If a molecular beam of enantiomerically pure molecules multiple slit diffracts, is the other side chiral or racemic, even versus odd number of slits?
@Bee: no, I won't be in Vienna, I just learned about this conference from your post! But if you happen to take a look at the papers/slides and have any questions, I'll be happy to discuss by email.
It would be educational to hear, roughly step by step, the path one must navigate between having an idea for an experiment and actually having it performed.
@ Don Foster (It's a cecropia moth.) Experimental physics requires infrastructure and fineness of its weave. You must convince a disbelieving somebody else - and its business plan, and administrators whispering "resource embezzlement"- to support it. Novel = risk ("no").
Discovering proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) used a block of paraffin and an impressive Helmholz pair of electromagnets, among other stuff. It was carefully calculated, planned, executed, and...NOTHING. Two guys diddled, extrapolated, and agonized for hours, for days. Nothing at all. At the very end, one of guys shouted an expletive and violently spun the magnets' rheostat dial. The soft iron cores were saturated. The extra current increased the field as the two of them watched the signal crawl across an oscilloscope. Turn it down and the signal marched back.
Hire experimentalists you would never hire. The universe requires a good swift kick to transition. After that, send in accountants (and fire the guy who damaged the rheostat).
One thing that would be worth researching is if there is an internal mechanistic structure within all fermions that accounts for changes in kinetic energy during acceleration. That is, is it just a given or can it be like an electric motor that increases [decreases] its angular momentum during acceleration[decelleration].
It there was/is such a mechanism then it would pretty neatly account for entanglement. If any increase/decrease in J was inhibited during acceleration/ deceleration then the resulting field disturbance would be a quantum wormhole. In other word, if a particle does not change its kinetic energy during acceleration then the quantum field must instead be molded along that path to the constant energy of that particle. It would look (and be) a wormhole in all respects because the energy used for acceleration would be used to organize the field along a linear path.
"It would be educational to hear, roughly step by step, the path one must navigate between having an idea for an experiment and actually having it performed."
Well, that is surprising. So many having come so far it would seem there would be some kind of guidebook.
Perhaps advertising --maybe a good PR firm would help, some trendy commercials during soccer games.
Or you could take to wearing a sandwich board around at conferences; have a petition for folks to sign.
Of course, since it's a conspiracy, you may need to find a more subversive route.
In any case, a heartfelt viel glück!
As far as superdeterminism goes, I still fail to understand how can one claim that it isn't a conspiracy-type theory? I understand that Bell's theorem does not hold in this setting, but wouldn't it be more natural for a deterministic universe to actually behave like one, and not violate Bell's inequalities to begin with?
As for the experiment to test the superdeterministic behavior, I admire the idea, it looks promising, and I really hope you can get someone to perform the actual experiment. But I don't quite follow how can that experiment test for superdeterminism, even a subclass of it. Namely, if superdeterminism is true, than any result you get from that experiment is a consequence of the past correlations between the apparatus and the non-free will of the experimenter setting it up.
In short, if all experiments are assumed to be a priori biased for some result, you cannot trust them. And if you cannot trust experiments, science is impossible.
I'd really appreciate if you could help me understand better how superdeterminism can be considered a reasonable point of view, in the above sense.
Bee, I think you might be leaving out a significant distinction when talking about the "inertia" of a repeatable experiment. (My description not yours.) Energy is always required to both measure and prepare experiments. In the case of non-local experiments there is a significant difference in the preparation energy input between bosons (photons, not W and Z and gluons)and fermions.
For instance, in the case of long distance non-local correlations, like photons traveling through fiber optics, very little if any energy is required in the act of separation of the two photons from one initial photon. The photons remain correlated because the fiber optic cable inhibits environmental friction that would destroy the correlation. Without the fiber cable the photon correlation will be destroyed immediately upon measurement. That is the measurement will be correlated but any later correlation is destroyed. The key in both situations is that there is not energy put into the acceleration of the photons away from each other because photons have zero rest mass.
On the other hand two fermions that have been together and had a "local" sharing of opposite spin, but which have then been separated through acceleration, will have energy input within that path of separation. That is because fermions have internal mass and require energy to separate them. But if you correlate them as you accelerate them away from each other then it seems to me it is the same as saying you are holding that spin state relationship constant. Again, it might be possible to think of this as holding the absolute spin of both opposite spinning fermions constant.
This would be different from the normal concept of just holding the "relationship" of spin between the two fermions constant. If spin normally changes during acceleration, as I suspect it does, then the energy involved in accelerating the fermions apart would instead create a somewhat stable micro wormhole between the two.
You might have more luck creating a repeatable entanglement experiment with fermions, at least in this respect. But you would probably have to put substantial energy into creating these separation wormholes before the entanglement effects become measureably stable.
"Without the fiber cable the photon correlation will be destroyed immediately upon measurement."
Actually I meant that the fiber optic cable just preserves the correlation longer. Any kind of photon entanglement will be immediately destroyed after measurement.
I should add that in both fermions and photons different measurements of spin orientation would devolve entirely to the measurement apparatus and local conditions where it is located. They would be correlated between two particles but could not be predicted beforehand and could not be predicted in a later measurement and would not be correlated.
In the case of a somewhat stable micro wormhole between fermions you still could not predict the spin orientation beforehand as it would depend on the measuring apparatus and local conditions. But it might be reasonable to predict within a certain statistical error what the spin orientation would be during the second measurement of the two particles based on the first measurement.
In short, if superdeterminism is true, the knowledge one obtains by performing experiments cannot be trusted. I am not saying that one cannot learn, but that the quality of what has been learned is a priori not trustworthy. If the initial conditions are such that nature is fooling us into thinking that Bell's inequalities are violated (whereas they actually are not, given that universe is deterministic), then there might also be other things we claim to know about nature that are also wrong, because our non-free will makes biased experiments.
Given that, it seems to me that superdeterminism naturally leads one to solipsism, and the denial of any knowledge about the external world (i.e. nature). I don't see how can that be a feasible starting point for doing any science.
I usually imagine superdeterminism as the execution of a computer algorithm, where initial data is built-in and cannot be changed. A "person" is a data structure inside the algorithm, experiencing virtual reality. But the algorithm can be such that this "reality" can have arbitrary laws of physics, even inconsistencies and paradoxes, whereas the "person" is rigged (through initial data) to never observe any paradoxes, and instead thinks that the external world is consistent and well-behaved (contrary to objective reality of that world). The "knowledge" that this person accumulates is not real knowledge about their reality, but only a convenient set of prejudices, creating an illusion that they observe a self-consistent external "world" with certain properties.
If one assumes superdeterminism in the real world, there is no difference between the quality of "real-world" knowledge we obtain through experiments, and the set of prejudices that the virtual person has about their virtual reality. They are both biased and not trustworthy. So I don't see how can one do science in such a setup?
"I usually imagine superdeterminism as the execution of a computer algorithm, where initial data is built-in and cannot be changed"
That's determinism. You're missing the essential point of superdeterminism which is spatial correlations.
"the knowledge one obtains by performing experiments cannot be trusted"
That's nonsense of course, as any viable superdeterministic theory must reproduced standard QM in the appropriate limits (typically when averaged over hidden variables). And besides this my paper points out an additional knowledge gain outside the already tested limits.
Keep in mind, Bee, a "conspiracy theory" is a mental model for sorting out the truth. It is like the proverbial finger pointing at the moon. Don't obsess over the finger. It is the moon you should be looking at.
I think it is good to see such discussion once more about a possible deeper layer of determinism (or not). It cannot hurt to concoct new forms of experiment and test them.
The one thought I would plant as a seed, which seems not much discussed, is the idea of Psi itself as a hidden variable.
At first blush, this will seem a little foolish. However, that is because people are used to the idea that Psi describes the probability of finding point-like particles here or there.
If you think that way then you probably should not be even worrying with the topic of this post. You presumably know it is misguided.
However, if you think the Copenhagen interpretation may be misguided then you are entitled to think of Psi as the state, which is the hidden layer of determinism, but that it is not directly observable.
You can develop a theory along these lines (I did one in 1995), but I am sure there are others.
I mention this because much of the contemporary discussion seems to be a bit stuck in a rut.
People reject Copenhagen but they want point particles.
It seems to me, that if you know the history of quantum physics, this half-way position is untenable.
If Psi is hidden then it must determine something that is not hidden but which is not deterministic.
In my 1995 paper I made a suggestion.
It may not be the only one possible.
Psi (the wavefunction) may be a bit too abstract for those of us who are not mathematicians. (I googled you.) I think what mathematicians do is extremely important, especially in physics. But I think its important to always remember that math a is tool for calculating results rather than physical reality. For instance, vector angular momentum is always perpendicular to the spin plane. I doubt that anyone would argue that physical angular momentum effects that are visible are all within the spin plane. However the cross product of forces with the vector angular momentum predicts the torque magnitude and direction. Its always important to differentiate the math used to predict things from the physical object.
What I'm saying is that entanglement (to me) involves a physical effect than can be visualized just like physical angular momentum. But it cannot alone be used to make predictions and calculate stuff. You need psi for that. But personally I don't think that psi is a real thing but instead is an abstraction of a real thing that is just useful for making mathematical predictions.
I believe angular momentum in subatomic particles is real and physical and there is a reason that two fermions that are entangled act like a boson. The reason is that two fermions that are entangled have their two spin planes held parallel. This is not normal behavior for a fermion. Normally the spin plane of fermions have a torque induced when a force is applied to them that will tend to bring the spin plane in a direction parallel with the direction of the force.
I think what is happening is that in the instant of separation all the force is applied when the spin planes of the two particles are parallel and entwined. Since the energy of acceleration does not have time (it happens instanteously) to torque them into a position with the spin plane parallel to the force separating them that force is instead used to organize the quantum field to the constant kinetic energy of each individual photon or fermion.
What seems to me to be happening is that people are being confused by the decay of this quantum wormhole caused by measurement. Since the wormhole only has energy input at the point of location of the initial local sharing of spin there is no way there is enough energy to make that micro wormhole stable. Measurement entails energy and just like a tiny dust devil you step into the very act of stepping into it destroys it. Psi just is a useful tool for descrbing this mathematically but it does not get close to what is a physical deterministic effect.
"I doubt that anyone would argue that physical angular momentum effects that are visible are all within the spin plane."
That may not have been clear. What I meant was that all angular momentum effects that are visible are within the spin plane and most people, even mathematicians, would probably not argue with that.
I have been fond of the idea of a sub quantum theory for a long while, but I wonder what is your motivation for rejecting the Everettian reading ?
It seems that a lot of people have adopted it after David Wallace and the rest of the "Oxford Everettians" claimed the preferred basis problem and Born Rule problem solved.
Then you're stuck not only with Bell's inequalities, but more generally with the whole quantum picture of reality. So, I think you have to assume that Bob has made a decision not out of free will, but by some predetermined correlation. Gerard T Hooft in sci am intervju.
I couldn't post everything I want to say (it's too long). So I'll just post the abstract, together with a link to my short article (for those who are interested).
Beginning with the Moon's reflection in water, that reflection is then compared to physicist David Bohm's holographic universe and holographic brain, and merged with Albert Einstein's three universes in one cosmos. This results in Professor Max Tegmark's hypothesis of mathematical formulas creating reality, and the maths is converted into the physical reality of an infinite, steady-state universe made up of finite, "bubble" or "pocket" subuniverses that originate with big bangs (we live in one of these, and the conversion is achieved via "digital" string theory). It's concluded early on that all these subuniverses contain a 5th-dimensional hyperspace that allows time travel into the past, and a webpage by Dr Adam Riess (2011 Nobel prize in physics) is used to show how this hyperspace results in dark energy and dark matter. Along the way; Einstein's Unified Field is justified (with Professor Penrose's error being exposed), gravity is referred to as a repulsive force that causes attraction by pushing a falling apple to the ground (Isaac Newton's mathematical description remains intact), dark matter's role as the scaffold for normal matter is interpreted via fractal geometry, and the four forces are accounted for in a new way. The article is presented in the readable style of plain English, leaving the mathematics and scientific language to the above-mentioned scientists. I wonder if the Large Hadron Collider can achieve sufficiently high energies to observe phenomena that will give some support to the existence of another dimension, and therefore of the other concepts in this article.
Back in the 1970s there was a lot of excitement about the wonders of the new RSA and other related public key cryptography systems, but then a friend of mine simply asked "Yes, you can encrypt wonderfully if you have a set of large prime numbers, but where did you get your prime numbers?" Reading this post and thinking about superdeterminism I keep hearing his voice asking, "Where do you get your entangled particles? Where do you get them into your detector? How do you decide how to set your detector?"
No, I'm accusing the NSA or anything, but in quantum physics, as with cryptography, a certain paranoia is in order.
Interesting experiment! I hope someone carries it out.
I also don't agree with Zeilinger's objections to superdeterminism. Nothing about superdeterminism implies we can't trust our experiments. At best, it merely implies a hard limit on the scope of what is knowable about reality because the number and types of experiments are predetermined.
Of course, we never had any guarantee about knowing all of reality anyway.
"One of three people on the planet...", make that four. I'm all in! My "method" of investigation relies heavily on the notion of common history, and the fact that human mind is 100% a function of physical matter. Therefore, one basic premise of mine is that all that can ever happen in our universe is to be regarded as physical events as responding to momentary context. Putting the details and equations aside for a moment, we can then contemplate next question; if physical events on a Planck scale are automatic responses to the operators momentary context, what principle governs this response? Since the evolution of cosmos seems to be non-random on the macro scale, we must find a guiding principle able to explain our empirical observations. Without such an underlying principle, a superdeterministic model may be in trouble.
It so happens that I have a few ideas regarding what is determined and why, but I have realized that such ideas are best kept to oneself, because no one seems to like them. Religious people have their opinion ready made by scriptures, and they always end up in reference to an imagined agent, a prime mover of actual existence. I refute that, so no-go there. Thanks to Sabine's post, I now realize why the few scientists I've been big-headed enough to approach have all treated me as spam. They all refuse to give up free will.
I'll have to accept that being a superdeterminist, rejecting divine intervention and regarding human mind to be a matter of physics will inevitably make everyone put a foil hat on my head. If that be the case, I'll wear it proudly.
In response to Sandro Magi - If we reject free will, absolute knowledge is indeed possible. Thing is, it will unfold as a result of evolutionary processes proceeding as we speak, but there is no one "doing" it. The experiments are not "ours" to carry out. The theories are not "constructed" by us. If superdeterminism is true, which it is, then the whole process of gaining knowledge is out of Control. So is any interpretation of quantum mechanics. Accepting superdeterminism is very hard, even if you believe it to be a fact. The hard part is realizing no one chooses to accept or refute superdeterminism. You must lose your self completly to "get it", but if you do, reality appears extremely simple and understandable.
What is the viscosity of space-time?


Bhopal may need to brace for a heavy dose of polarisation if RSS has its way in the selection of a challenger for Digvijaya Singh in the Lok Sabha elections. Hardliners Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and Union Minister and former chief minister Uma Bharti are among the candidates being considered. The BJP has been dithering over the issue since Digvijaya Singh entered the fray three weeks ago.
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PSU Field Hockey visits Keene State in LEC Tournament
Panthers look to oust rival Owls in first round game
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – The Plymouth State University field hockey team travels to rival Keene State College for the opening round of the Little East Conference (LEC) Tournament Tuesday (Nov. 5) at 6:30 p.m.
The Panthers (8-9, 6-6 LEC) are back in the postseason for the 18th time in 20 seasons under the direction of head coach Bonnie Lord. PSU will enter the tournament as the seventh seed, while Keene State (13-7, 10-2 LEC) captured the second seed.
Though Keene State has posted an 8-1 record in head-to-head competition with the Panthers in tournament play, Plymouth State will enter the contest with confidence after besting the Owls in a thrilling, 3-2 decision at the New Hampton School back on Oct. 1. The Panthers jumped out to a 3-0 lead behind goals from senior Kylie Ham (Wayland, Mass.) and sophomores Jess Mezquita (Atkinson, N.H.) and Mariah Luscher (Holderness, N.H.), then survived a furious second half rally with junior goalkeeper Jess Distler (Brookfield, N.H.) making several outstanding saves to preserve the win.
Plymouth State is making its 19th appearance since the tournament's inception in 1998. The Panthers have the second-most tournament wins with a 21-15 mark in tournament action, and are tied for the second-most tournament titles with three. The two teams most recently met in postseason play in the semifinal round of the 2017 tournament, when KSC held off Plymouth State by a 5-3 margin.
Keene State has had success against everyone in the postseason tournament, leading all LEC schools with 13 titles and an impressive 45-7 record in tournament play. The Owls have been crowned the tournament champion each of the last six seasons.
The winner of tomorrow's contest will advance to face the winner of third-seeded WestConn and sixth-seeded Salem State on Thursday (Nov. 7).
The full LEC Tournament bracket can be found on the conference's website, www.littleeast.com.
Tue, 11/05 | Field Hockey at Keene State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 11/02 | Field Hockey vs. Westfield State W, 3-0 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Mon, 10/28 | Field Hockey at St. Joseph's (Maine) L, 1-0 (Final - OT) RC | BX
Sat, 10/26 | Field Hockey vs. Worcester State L, 4-0 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 10/19 | Field Hockey at Bridgewater State W, 3-2 (Final) RC | BX


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