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TWO MORE EVENTS START AT W.S.O.P. (Update)
Poker's most prestigious tournament continues to pack 'em in
27 survivors from a starting pack of 3,144 gathered Tuesday for the third and hopefully last day of event 34: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em, with Michael Souza leading the hunt for the bracelet and the $488,283 that this competition awards the winner. Souza started the day comfortably ahead of nearest rival Rob Verspui as the only other player above the 600 000 chip mark.
Mark Schmid had a 200 000 chip lead on Trevor Vanderveen, Justin Cohen, Robbie Verspui, Benjamin Volpe, Andrew Rudnik and Jonathan Clancy as the last 7 players fought it out Tuesday evening Vegas time, with the first four players all holding over a million chips apiece at the start of level 27.
The second day of event 35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Six-Handed commenced Tuesday with 105 players surviving an initial first day field of 507, and notable names like Vanessa Selbst (chip leader), Eric Lindgren, Shaun Deeb, Mike "timex" McDonald, and Gregory Brooks still very much in contention, along with David "Devilfish" Ulliott, Joe Hachem, Brian Rast, Layne Flack, Andy Seth, Jeff Lisandro, Jason Mercier, Chance Kornuth, and the always exciting Tom Dwan.
There's a good reward of $548,095 attached to this new event, together with a coveted WSOP bracelet.
By level 18 on Tuesday evening the field was down to 21 players with the top ten chip counts held (in order) by Gregory Brooks (725,000), Erick Lindgren (500,000), Vanessa Selbst (485,000), Joseph Ressler (435,000), Tom Dwan (400,000), Michael McDonald (380,000), Jared Bleznick (340,000) Steven Merrifield (320,000) Jason Mercier (315,000) and Peter Jetten (315 000).
Clearly there is a lot more action in store in this event.
Event 36: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em launched Tuesday with a field lower than that achieved last year; only 1,734 signed up for the 2011 competition, nevertheless creating a major prize pool of $3.94 million.
The registration list showed an eclectic mix of amateurs, celebrities and professional players that included Ludovic Lacay, Shannon Shorr, Jeff Williams, Scott Montgomery, Jordan Young, Beth Shak, Brad Garrett, Vivek Rajkumar, Lars Bonding, Eric Baldwin, David Pham, Andre Akkari, Alex Gomes, La Sengphet, Erica Schoenberg, Jason Somerville, Dan Fleyshman, Joe Cada, and Jonathan Duhamel.
Playing into Tuesday night the field was down to 490 at level 9, with Chance Kornuth holding a 25 000 chip lead over his closest adversary but many ace players still in the running.
Event 37: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship also kicked off Tuesday with a star-studded entry field of 240 (one player less than signed up for the event last year) generating a prize pool of $2.25 million.
This competition is the final mixed game championship of the 2011 Series, attracting many pros anxious to show off their skills in a range of games as well as earn some money and a bracelet.
Late evening Tuesday Vegas time saw the action reach level 6 with Eugene Katchalov leading on 64,000, with Jimmy Fricke and Andrew Barber biting his heels on 63,000 apiece, and a slew of top players still in a remaining field of 238.
CAESAR'S CEO SPEAKS UP FOR ONLINE POKER LEGALISATION
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Achieving wide coverage that included major newspapers, CNN Money, Fortune magazine and Associated Press articles this week was an op-ed article written by Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman, supporting the idea of legalised online poker in the USA through the federal rather than individual state route.
The piece was prompted by the recent enforcement actions against major online poker sites (see previous InfoPowa reports), which Loveman sees as an opportunity for the United States to fully
legalise and regulate the $6 billion industry...but the tone of the article suggests that he's focused particularly on internet poker.
"Only federal legislation can clear up the current ambiguities in U.S. law and crack down on other online gambling like sports betting and casino games," Loveman wrote.
Loveman appears to share the controversial US Department of Justice view that internet poker is expressly illegal in the United States, asserting: "Online poker is currently illegal in the U.S. and, as a result, the $6 billion industry has developed overseas, catering to the wishes of millions of Americans playing from their homes in Ohio, California, Mississippi and every other state. That's crazy."
But the land gambling executive points out that legal actions against PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker won't change whether millions of Americans want to play online poker.
"Instead, the question is this: Should we seize the moment to legalize online poker, permit a safe and legitimate industry in the U.S., and bring these jobs and revenues home?" Loveman wrote.
"Unequivocally, the answer is yes."
Associated Press noted that Caesars has long espoused the need to regulate and tax online gambling, and that Loveman's comments are the first public statements about the indictments from the company that owns the World Series of Poker.
In his piece, Loveman compares the current US market enforcement moves to alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, saying adults are being hamstrung by a law keeping them from activities they consider appropriate.
"Business is being diverted from legitimate, respected companies that employ thousands of people to fly-by-night, underground (and in this case, foreign) operations," Loveman said in his article, titled "Online Poker - Legalize It."
"Just like Prohibition, consumers lose all of the protections that come with a government-regulated onshore business. And millions of otherwise law-abiding adult Americans are hamstrung by a law they disrespect and consider to be a barrier to a perfectly appropriate activity," he warns.
Loveman claims that the latest Department of Justice actions have created a unique opportunity to "...bring thousands of jobs home to America, to generate revenues that benefit Americans rather than foreign companies and to bring clarity to the current ambiguous set of federal laws."
And he recommends: "We should seize the moment."
He adds: "The question we face isn't "will there be online poker?" Millions of Americans have already answered that question through their regular play, and the latest indictments won't change that. In fact, less than 24 hours after the three poker sites were closed, other foreign operators began filling the void."
Turning to the mechanics of regulation, Loveman emphasises the need for a federal solution, saying: "Unfortunately, however well-intentioned it may be, state level legislation will not adequately address the problems that currently exist.
"The goals of legislation are simple: let Americans play online poker in the privacy of their homes, and create jobs and revenues here in America. Only federal legislation can accomplish that, by creating a well-regulated system of online poker. And only federal legislation can clear up the current ambiguities in U.S. law and crack down on other online gambling like sports betting and casino games."
Loveman goes on to detail the generally accepted requirements for sound regulation, covering fair gaming, problem gambling and under-age precautions, financial probity, measures to guard against criminal involvement, money laundering and cheating, and shielding the privacy of players.
"In short, this bill should recognize the reality of the world we live in....And it should acknowledge that as a game of skill, poker deserves to be treated differently than other forms of gambling," Loveman opines.
He optimistically concludes: "One day, we'll look back at 2011 and laugh at the folly of a ban on Internet poker -- just like we now think about Prohibition. The sooner that day comes, the better."
POKER TV SHOWS PULLED (Update)
Another side effect on 'those' indictments
Among the many sad aftershocks of the US federal indictments against executives of leading online poker companies is a report that two popular poker television shows, the "PokerStars Big Game" and the "PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge," have both been pulled from Fox TV.
Early reports indicate that the cancellation was agreed by both Pokerstars and Fox following the unsealing of the federal indictments last Friday.
The Pokerstars Big Game was hosted by Amanda Leatherman and featured many of the top pros on the international poker scene.
It is not yet known whether the next series of the show will be prepared and presented elsewhere.
In the Pokerstars Million Dollar Challenge, celebrities and online qualified players faced off in four heads up matches of NLHE. Those players who won against their celebrity opponents went on to play professional poker players on the Pokerstars roster - again highly respected names on the international poker circuit.
Winners of this second round then faced Daniel 'Kid Poker' Negreanu heads-up for a chance at $1 million.
ESPN announced earlier this week that it has canned the PokerStars-sponsored "Inside Deal" show, although it appears that another sponsor has been found for future issues of the program.
More bad news is that the indictments and reduction in US activity has reportedly resulted in lower prize pool guarantees on Sunday's tourneys by the leading internet poker companies - some slashed by almost fifty percent.
Poker News Daily reports that PokerStars cut the guaranteed prize pool of its Sunday Million by $500 000 to $1 million, and chopped its Sunday Warm-Up down by a third to $500 000. The guarantee on the Sunday 500 was reduced to $250 000 and the Sunday Second Chance was cut to $125 000.
The impact of the US situation was felt in lower entry fields, although the guarantees were all passed.
For example, 6 475 players entered for the Sunday Million, a significant drop from the previous week's 8 200.
At Full Tilt Poker the guarantee on the first event in the XX FTOPS sank from $3 million to $1 million, but almost 7 000 players still entered for the event. The Sunday Brawl also suffered, with its guarantee slashed by half, and the Sunday Mulligan was cut from $200 000 to $50 000.
UB.com, also involved in the indictment debacle, cut its $200 000 guaranteed tourney to $75 000, a number that was just topped by player buy-ins of $87 000.
It appears that the indicted companies were the only ones to reduce guarantees; reports indicate that Party Poker, Titan Poker and Bodog maintained the values of Sunday competitions.
The independent online poker monitor Pokerscout has been keeping a careful watch on traffic developments since the indictments were publicised last Friday, and according to its latest assessment on April 18 the global online poker market shrank by 23 percent in the wake of Black Friday.
The site informs that PokerStars traffic is 25 percent down; Full Tilt Poker 48 percent and the Cereus Network 39 percent.
Non-indicted but US-facing networks that have benefitted from the decline of the three main operators include Merge - up 23 percent; Bodog - up 26 percent; Cake - up 19 percent and the small Everleaf network, up 8 percent.
Non-US facing sites in Europe also saw improved traffic, with Party Poker rising by 9 percent; iPoker Network up 4 percent, PKR up 21 percent and 888 Poker up 5 percent. Ongame reported no change.
On a lighter note, one of the 11 persons indicted, Chad Elie has something to take his mind off his troubles.
Shortly after he was released on bail, the news surfaced that he had celebrated his release by marrying former Playboy Playmate Destiny Davis in Las Vegas.
Elie was one of the first of the indicted managers to be arrested and stands accused of facilitating financial transactions and other banking and financially oriented offences.
Federal officials claim that Elie and others worked with the poker companies to disguise money received from US gamblers "as payments to hundreds of non-existent online merchants purporting to sell merchandise such as jewellery and golf balls". He faces up to 30 years in jail on charges of bank fraud.
POKER FOR THE TROOPS
Top aces to head to the war zones
The USO, which provides volunteer celebrity entertainers for shows in war zones where US troops are active, has assembled an all-star poker team to teach the grunts how to play successfully and enjoy the excitement and entertainment of the game.
Posts on Twitter from the organisation advised this week that Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed have all volunteered their services for the USO's inaugural poker tour.
More details will be released soon.
WYNN EXPLAINS CHANGE OF HEART IN POKERSTARS DEAL (Update)
"I had only misconceptions...." says erstwhile online poker opponent.
Steve Wynn, the owner of Wynn Resorts and a central figure in that company's recently announced partnership deal with online gambling giant Pokerstars (see previous InfoPowa reports), has expanded on his change of heart from being an opponent of online poker to a supporter of the industry.
Speaking to Nathan Vardi of Forbes Magazine this week, Wynn said that he previously had only misconceptions about online poker.
"I thought it would be difficult to regulate, and if the Internet people got in trouble it would bring the wrath of the government down on us in the live gaming community out here in Las Vegas. I didn't see the business opportunity, I just saw problems, he said."
Then he was approached by the Democratic Party Nevada Senator Harry Reid, Wynn recalls.
"Harry Reid called me and said, 'Steve, there are millions of people playing poker, and it's as American as apple pie. I want my office to look into this and see if we can regulate it.'
"Harry and I have been friends for 40-odd years, we ran marathons together. . . . And I got contacted by the people at PokerStars, who asked, 'Why are you not interested in this? Take a minute and learn the truth about this.'
"That began my exposure to that company and that business and what they do, and I have to tell you I was shocked."
Wynn explained that he had had no idea on a number of aspects of online poker, such as Pokerstars being highly regulated in Europe, employing 1 300 highly skilled people with an average salary is $110,000.
"One of my concerns was about young people playing," said Wynn. "It turns out they have more control about young people playing than we do."
Wynn went on to rationalise the Pokerstars argument regarding the legality of online poker in the United States, namely that the Justice Department opinion is untested in the courts, and that at state level there have been rulings that poker is a game more of skill than of chance.
"I say there is a bit of sophistry here clearly," Wynn told the Forbes writer. "What difference does it make what PokerStars or the Justice Department says? The point is millions of people are playing poker, and they are going to continue to play poker legally or illegally."
Wynn makes the surprising admission that he is not a technophobe, preferring to rely on his staff when it comes to computer and internet issues.
The land gambling mogul gives an interesting insight into his dealings with Pokerstars founder and owner Isai Scheinberg, who explained his motivation for a partnership by saying that Pokerstars had a multitude of American customers, and the company therefore wanted to "do it right".
Scheinberg apparently told Wynn: "I don't want to look over my shoulder at this point of my life."
Wynn responded by emphasising that he would only take his company into a putative online gambling venture if it was legalised at federal level, and if it was a 50-50 deal.
"I know that as a nonbeliever I was convinced by the logic of the argument," Wynn said. "And when I learn something and change my mind I may have the naive notion that other people might be enlightened by the facts themselves."
But he ended on a cautionary note, warning that his conversion "...doesn't mean I am right, especially in Washington."
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Hundreds of miles from Nepal, trapped in the immeasurable sands of the Gobi desert with a prying old man and his miserable grump of a camel. Despite the situation, Johannan felt a deep sense of gratitude budding within him, but the old man and his camel seemed to be quite the characters.
The stranger pushed hard to find out who Johannan was looking for, digging hard with questions that made Johannan feel outpourings of guilt.
The old man was right about one thing, though: he did save Johannan's life. The unbounded blaze of the atmosphere around Johannan became cold and small. He felt like he had no choice but to tell him everything. As soon as the old man heard what Johannan was searching for, he laughed so hard he nearly fell off his camel. The camel released a series of grunts that would have led you to believe he was laughing too. This was the reaction Johannan was trying to avoid.
Johannan's gaze dropped to the ground. He felt ashamed and very silly. He didn't care what the stranger thought; he was still going to continue his search. The old man would probably think he was extremely stupid if he continued, though.
As Johannan heard the man say "wedding," a vision of Ayushi appeared in his mind. It was the same one that had driven him into the desert to search for the spirit. He saw her sitting on the ground next to him. The whole village threw flowers over them; they were cheering and dancing. A red veil with golden patterns covered her head, and he could faintly see her image underneath. The drums were loud, and the children ran around with colourful strings. There was a mild smell of sweet oils and food being prepared. He turned to her and lifted the veil from over her head, his friends cheering him on. Her smile grew as she saw her young husband looking handsome in the fine clothes Mama had proudly made. But, the greatest thing of all was that his beloved Ayushi could see. Mama cried with tears of joy. She was finally proud of her boy.
He chucked another two water skins at Johannan, knocking the air out of his chest. "Here!" Johannan caught them before they dropped.
The camel grunted and began to move in the opposite direction. "The pup tells me to take care. I'm the one that found him on the ground half dead with no water, and I'm the one he tells to take care," Johannan overheard him say.
"Don't worry about me, I will find him," Johannan said, waving goodbye.
Johannan continued on his journey to the cold mountains of Altun Shan. He was always weary of mountains because of the rumours of them being used as a strategic point for bandits to steal and to abduct travellers. It bothered him that at any moment the ruthless mountain bandits could ambush him. His eyes were under stress from being wide-open and staying alert for anything out of the ordinary. He kept moving, trying to maintain a low profile in the treacherous mountains of Altun Shan. He must get to Yumen.
Yumen was the beginning of the Gobi desert. The atmosphere was silent with no sign of life. Could a spirit really be living out here?
It had been months since Johannan had left his home, and he travelled hundreds of miles through forests, rivers, and villages to come here. The real challenge was to keep believing. His feet plunged into the cracked clusters of sand and mud beneath him. The sky was a vacant blue, and the land spared a few shades of brown. That was all he could see. He couldn't imagine a Great Spirit living out here in such a barren place, but he also knew things were never as they seemed.
The light from the sun charged the ground with a scorching heat. He felt the acidic burn from bulbs of salty sweat that had gathered on his forehead and trickled into his eyes. He held a long rope behind him, just dragging along the earth in a straight line to make sure he wasn't walking around in endless circles.
He smiled. From the top of the hills, you could see the entire village and the pillars of smoke billowing from the clay ovens. You could hear the gushing sounds of the river and Comet, the goat, bleating away with the others.
"Don't tell her that, or there will be none left," said Ayushi.
Johannan tittered, "Hold still." He fixed the flower just above her ear. "There." Johannan stood back up and admired her beauty. If only she could see her reflection in the waters of the village.
He broke the moment with a loud snicker.
"What is it?" Ayushi responded, with an unsure smile.
Ayushi laughed at Johannan's tone fading with worry and she went straight into her impression of an angry Mama chasing Johannan around.
The two of them laughed, and Johannan had to stop to catch his breath.
Johannan still couldn't distinguish a difference in the scenery from a full day of travelling in the desert, but nothing was going to stop him. He wondered how Ayushi would respond when her eyes were finally opened and she saw him for the first time. The entire village would be astounded. He pictured everyone congratulating him on his success, gathering to listen to his stories. He knew Mama Jala would be happy. Finally he would have done something good to make the old woman proud.
Time was going by, and after days of travelling, his enthusiasm to find the Great Spirit outweighed his supply of water. There was no way Johannan could make it back alive—there was not enough water to last him the journey back. Even if he could go back, the thought of going back empty-handed after putting Ayushi through so much grief only made him think about how many times Mama was going to hit him for leaving to begin with. She'd never let him out of her sight again. And every time he made a mistake, she'd bring it up how he deserted Ayushi to chase some silly fantasy.
She had a strange way of viewing things and making you regret your mistakes by bringing up the past. He could only imagine the laughter of Raman, Ketan, and Nanda overhearing her plans of what she was going to do to him when he returned.
The soft sand beneath his blistered feet was a relief. The stubborn scenery was beginning to surrender, hundreds of golden, unblemished pyramids of sand scattered from east to west. There still wasn't a sound to be heard for miles, not even a bird in sight. Johannan almost felt like he was the only man on earth or, much worse, the only living thing. He compared the differences in the plains behind him. The cracked, brittle grounds just behind him made it seem like his journey had just begun.
Taking a glance at his waist, he saw the three shrivelled water skins. He had wrung them out completely for traces of water that may still be sitting inside. There was one full one left, as precious as life itself. I have to make this one last, he vowed to himself.
He came to a wobbling stop, using the back of his hand to wipe his glistening forehead. I know there is truth in that song the fisherman spoke of. The Great Spirit must be here, but where is he? Surely he knows I'm out here searching for him? Perhaps he's hiding, watching me from afar, waiting for me to die of thirst. After all, there's no reason for him to care that I'm out here. He seems to be quite the heartless kind if he's not testing me.
He stared deep into the scenery and frowned. What was the point? Why search so hard? It's all the same dammed thing. It's always the same thing, nothing's changed. If Mama were here, she'd say I'm a wandering fool.
"Show yourself! I know that you can hear me!" The desert mocked him by throwing his words back. He fell to his knees and a tear freed itself and slid down his face. He used up his very last bit of strength, and he wasn't even that far into the collection of sandy pyramids.
Johannan unceasingly pressed on for another two days. His water had run out, and he began to feel faint. He staggered with each step. The cracking skin on his lips pained him when he opened his mouth to breathe. He felt nauseous, like something was hitting him in the stomach.
Am I finally going to die? Is this the end? He questioned himself as he took one more step forward, joggled, and collapsed face down. His body rolled and slid down one of the steep hills.


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Focused and defocused retinal images with Bessel and axicon pupil functions
Gerald Westheimer
Division of Neurobiology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (gwestheimer@berkeley.edu)
Gerald Westheimer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4757-5090
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•https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.37.000108
Gerald Westheimer, "Focused and defocused retinal images with Bessel and axicon pupil functions," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 37, 108-114 (2020)
Optics of the Eye
Beam shaping
Phase modulation
Spatial light modulators
Visual optics
Original Manuscript: August 27, 2019
Revised Manuscript: October 24, 2019
Manuscript Accepted: November 21, 2019
Retinal image light distributions in a standard optical model of a diffraction-limited eye with round pupils are presented for several patterns of amplitude and phase modulation of the light admitted into the eye. Of special interest are circularly symmetrical configurations of truncated Bessel amplitude transmission functions, and of light subjected to axicon deviation. It is shown by several examples that this kind of beam shaping allows generation of retinal imagery, which can be more robust to defocus while maintaining minimal image degradation, and it points to situations of two separate zones simultaneously in sharp focus, several diopters apart.
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Fig. 1. Cross-sectional profile of Bessel beam ${J_o}(r)$ showing the first few lobes. Solid line: amplitude of a true Bessel beam. Dotted line: transmissivity of an opacity conforming to a Bessel function with the same parameter. The first few zeros occur at 2.4, 5.5. 8.6, 11.8 … Inset: face-on appearance of a Bessel intensity function.
Fig. 2. Rays as deviated by a purely prismatic axicon with apical angle $\chi $. All rays are deviated towards (or away from) the axis though an angle $\delta =(n - 1).\chi$. At a distance $r^{\prime}$ from the axis, the optical path between the incident plane and the point of interception by the receiving plane is changed by a phase factor ${2}\pi \delta .r^{\prime}/\lambda $.
Fig. 3. Retinal imagery with Bessel beam illumination. In each panel, top: amplitude distribution radially across the eye's 2 mm radius entrance pupil; (below) cross section of the retinal illuminance through the center of the circularly symmetrical point-spread function in a range of image planes in ½ diopter steps from 2.5 D myopic to 2.5 D hyperopic defocus.
Fig. 4. Retinal image with small-angle axicon pupil modulation. Top: path difference phase deviations from sphericity of the wavefront admitted into the eye's pupil (phase deviations) and (bottom) cross section of retinal illuminance through the center of the point-spread function in a range of image planes in ½ diopter steps from 2.5 D myopic to 2.5 D hyperopic defocus in three conditions. Left: normal viewing, in focus. Middle: with a coaxial axicon, deviating angle 0.3 milliradians, in or near the eye's entrance pupil; phase increases linearly with radial distance in the pupil. Right: normal viewing with 1D defocus, when there is a quadratic phase deviation of the wavefront. Comparison with equivalent panels in Fig. 3 shows that the effect of a small-angle axicon in or near the pupil is akin to changing focus.
Fig. 5. Axicon with larger deviating angle placed in or near the eye's entrance pupil ${E^\prime}$ deviates meridional sheets of rays away from Gaussian focus ${O^\prime}$ to peripheral locations, forming a ring image. Solid lines: axicon imagery; dotted lines: normal path of light from lens to retina.
Fig. 6. Rays from a parallel beam traced through a purely prismatic axicon $A$. When the pupil of a viewing eye is placed at $P$, deviated beams from all half-meridians around the clock fill the pupil, all participating in the generation of the interference pattern that is admitted into the eye's pupil. There is a zone in the axicon's image space in which the cross-sectional light distribution is that of a Bessel or quasi-Bessel beam [6].
Fig. 7. Retinal image in an actual eye (data from Artal [9]). Left: cross-section of point-spread function through its center; right: optical transfer function. Two conditions: solid lines, normal in-focus viewing; dashed lines, within 1.5 diopter defocus with truncated Bessel function pupil modulation (normalized). The figure shows the expected effect of suitable pupil transmission modulation functions on ocular imagery in a real eye.
Fig. 8. Left: light distributions in the retinal image of an edge in focus (middle of the seven ogives) and in three equally spaced states of defocus both in the myopic and hyperopic directions. Solid lines: normal viewing—plane wavefront; dashed lines: with a pupil admittance of the form of a truncated Bessel beam. The latter condition gives an image in two separate states of defocus that is almost as sharp as that in the in-focus condition with normal viewing. Right: a measure of image degradation—the reciprocal of the edge gradient at the middle of the ogive light distribution of a sharp target edge as seen on the left of the figure—as a function of state of focus for both normal viewing (solid curve) and Bessel beam imagery (dashed curve). The graph tellingly illustrates the dual-focus property of this type of Bessel beam.
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Pope Francis on The Joy of Love Tour Guide by Dr Julie Hanlon Rubio
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"Pope Francis's recent text, The Joy of Love, is one of the most significant and inspirational church documents ever published on marriage and family. Yet reading such documents can often be a daunting prospect for ordinary Catholics. Julie Hanlon Rubio provides an immensely helpful 'readers guide' to assist ordinary Catholics in recognizing the pope's many remarkable insights on marriage and family life. Her extensive theological background, and engaging writing style, coupled with the helpful discussion questions/ suggestions for prayer, make this an excellent resource for the training of those engaged in pastoral care to families/married couples, and a wide range of parish discussion groups."
—Richard Gaillardetz is the Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College
"In Reading, Praying, Living Pope Francis's The Joy of Love, Dr. Julie Hanlon Rubio walks readers through Amoris Laetitia. Like an excellent tour guide, she points out what is important about this apostolic exhortation by providing the history behind it and the relevance of it for people's lives today. The result of following Dr. Rubio through the text is a rich appreciation of the pope's vision of love in the family. It is a journey I would highly recommend for everyone."
—Jason King Professor and Chair of Theology, Saint Vincent College Editor, The Journal of Moral Theology
Reading, Praying, Living Pope Francis's The Joy of Love
A Faith Formation Guide
Julie Hanlon Rubio
LITURGICAL PRESS Collegeville, Minnesota http://www.litpress.org
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Introduction: Front Story and Back Story 7
Assessing: Where Are We? 17
1 "In the Light of the Word": A Biblical Vision 19
2 Experiences and Challenges: Family Life Today 24
Seeking Wisdom: What Is Marriage? 33
3 Beginning with the Gaze of Christ: Looking Again at Tradition 35
4 Looking In at Couples: Love in Marriage 41
5 Looking Outward with Couples: Love Made Fruitful 50
Applying: How Can We Accompany Those in Imperfect Situations? 59
6 Can the Church Be a Field Hospital for Families? 61
7 Can the Church Help Parents Raise Their Children Well? 71
8 The Tough Issues: Accompanying, Discerning, and Integrating Weakness 79
Conclusion: Why Get Married? Why Stay Married? A Spirituality for Marriage and Family 88
For Further Reading 96
Front Story and Back Story
Though it has been the subject of no small amount of controversy among church leaders and theologians since its release in spring 2016, the most important thing to know about Amoris Laetitia(The Joy of Love) is that it is a letter written by Pope Francis to give hope to Christian married couples. Generally, papal documents have a reputation for being a little on the dry side, but Pope Francis's trademark down-to-earth style comes through in this letter, especially when he addresses married people directly. This guide will walk you through the "back story"—the theological controversies, so that you will understand why theologian fans celebrate the mercy and compassion permeating this letter, while theologian critics worry that it fails to assert Catholic moral norms in strong enough terms. But it will also highlight the "front story"—the core message the pope wants to pass on to Christians around the world, with the hope that they will reflect on it and let it shape their lives.
So, first, some back story. In 2014, Pope Francis stunned the world by calling a synod on the family. The instrument of the synod was created by Pope Paul VI near the close of Vatican II (the historic council of bishops that met in Rome from 1962 to 1965) to provide a formal mechanism by which future popes could continue to consult the world's bishops on pressing issues. Since 1965 there have been approximately fifteen general synods. The pope sets the agenda for the synods and selects bishops from around the world to advise him. This time, bishops gathered in Rome in the fall of 2014 and again in 2015 to discuss how the church could better speak and minister to modern families.
Before the bishops descended upon Rome, they were directed by the Vatican to survey people in their dioceses.1 One might think that surveying Catholics is unnecessary. After all, if Catholic teaching is not going to change, what is the point of asking people what they think about it? But bishops around the world were told to ask people what they knew about Catholic teaching, what they thought about it, and what they wanted from the church. Though some of the questions provided by the Vatican were weighed down by technical theological language, many were well designed to reach out to a diverse group of Catholic laypeople, many of whom feel alienated or abandoned. Many bishops adapted these questions for use in electronic and paper surveys or focus groups in their dioceses. Catholics interviewed in the media were almost uniformly positive in their reaction to the survey, stressing that whether official teachings changed or not, they were happy that someone noticed existing dissonance, spoke frankly about it, and asked for their opinions about how to move forward.
In the summer of 2014, results were sent to Rome, and bishops who met in working groups on various topics studied the surveys. Along with the expected disconnect (with some variety by region) on Catholic teachings on issues such as contraception, premarital sex, cohabitation, divorce, and same-sex marriage, they found a lack of understanding of the rationale behind those teachings, a need for better pastoral care for families, and a desire to make parishes more welcoming—even for those who may be at odds with official Catholic teaching on sex and marriage. Though a strong level of disagreement on moral norms was undeniable, it seemed that the most urgent requests from the pews were for a new tone, more mercy and compassion, and better pastoral support.
The working documents produced by the synods in 2014 and 2015 showed that the bishops heard Catholics speaking about their hopes and desires for the church. Though some feared the questionnaires would be ignored, the preparatory and final documents produced by the 2014 and 2015 synods all suggest that the bishops of the world were listening to lay Catholics and talking about how best to respond. For example, the 2014 preparatory document notes that parents are "distressed" when their children can receive sacraments but they, due to their "irregular" situation, cannot, and acknowledges that many faithful Catholics do not see a significant difference between contraception and natural family planning.2 All synod reports make frequent use of the word "accompaniment" to describe how the church should walk with, listen to, and respect people, a hallmark of Pope Francis's preaching and teaching to which people all over the world are responding with enthusiasm.
The synod documents also made advances in using more "down-to-earth" language to describe marriage. The 2014 preparatory document acknowledged the limits of natural law language that is more typically used in Catholic teaching and articulated a need to move beyond abstract sacramental terms that most Catholics find to be a less-than-perfect lens through which to see their own marriages, though it offered only brief glimpses of what might replace this. In the 2014 midterm report, more relatable language was used, even to describe the relationships of same-sex partners who "practice mutual, self-sacrificial love that is worthy of admiration," though this language was subsequently withdrawn in favor of more guarded words about "receiving" those with "homosexual tendencies . . . with respect and sensitivity."3
Despite its limitations, the synod on the family was a watershed moment for Catholics. Many felt more welcomed, respected, and understood. They responded to the offers of mercy and inclusion. It seemed that church leaders were following Pope Francis's lead, trying to see "the good amid the weeds" in people's lives and desiring to "throw the doors of the church wide open."4 Yet, the synod documents have no real authority in the life of the church. They are part of the ongoing Catholic conversation on marriage and family, but it is up to the pope to take the insights of the synod and bring them into the realm of official Catholic teaching.
Thus, it was important that, at the close of the synod, Pope Francis chose to issue his own document, Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love, hereafter "AL"). This document is an apostolic exhortation (like Francis's Evangelii Gaudium, The Joy of the Gospel) rather than an encyclical (like Laudato Sì, On Care for Our Common Home). Generally speaking, encyclicals have a wider intended audience ("all people of goodwill") and higher authority than exhortations, which are primarily directed to Catholics. Still, all official papal documents contain various levels of Catholic teaching, from observations about cultural change, to moral exhortation, to expressions of long-standing Catholic doctrine. Catholics are committed to approaching this whole body of work with respect and a desire to be better formed as Disciples of Christ. Since the last papal encyclical on marriage (Casti Connubii, On Christian Marriage) was issued in 1930, it seems safe to say that AL should be regarded as the most up-to-date synthesis of authoritative Catholic teaching on marriage and family, and the best source for today's Catholics seeking inspiration on how to live up to the demands of Catholic, sacramental marriage.
Reading a papal document can be like reading a catechism, a theology book, a spirituality guide, or a committee document all at once. Some passages explain Catholic teaching in a very basic way. Others are more speculative, as the pope makes an argument by, for instance, applying an old concept to a new problem, drawing on secular sciences to understand new phenomena, or employing poetry in order to get at the depth of a human reality that religious people have been trying to understand forever. Some passages are genuinely beautiful, and could be inspirations for prayer or pondering. Others are quite technical, and seem to be there in order to satisfy the concerns of particular influential groups. Especially in AL, the pope often quotes from the synod documentsI discussed above or speaks to the concerns of different factions of bishops who argued behind closed doors during the synods. During the synods, he encouraged frank discussion and called the bishops to keep talking through their disagreements.5 In AL his goal is to show that while the concerns of all were heard, the church must choose a way forward, and that way is one of welcome, accompaniment, and mercy. Still, Pope Francis chooses a way that opens doors rather than closes them.
The very beginning of the document reveals the pope's concerns. A contrast with Pope John Paul II's 1981 apostolic exhortation, Familiaris Consortio (On the Family [FC]), also written after a synod on the family, is helpful.6 Unlike John Paul II, who addresses himself to bishops, clergy, and "the faithful," Pope Francis notes that he writes especially to "Christian married couples." Instead of addressing a broad social problem ("the role of the Christian family in the modern world"), he identifies an opportunity to speak "on love in the family." Rather than beginning with the idea that the family is in crisis (FC 1), Francis opens with the common experience of the joy of love (AL 1). He remembers the synod as a vibrant "process" involving learning, debate, and discussion (AL 2), thereby giving his official blessing to ongoing, lively conversation within the church. Finally, he chooses not to invoke his authority to settle all the controversies that arose during the synod. On the contrary, he asserts that he will not try to answer all questions, but will share with married couples the wisdom of the tradition as it relates to contemporary realities, while accepting a certain level of diversity among Catholics (AL 3).
The "back story" to the introduction to AL includes all that the bishops learned from the pre-synod surveys: the church's failure to communicate essential wisdom about marriage in terms ordinary people would understand and find inspiring, an excess of judgment that drives people away, a too-narrow focus on moral claims that are no longer credible, a longing for a church that respects and walks with people. With all of this in mind, Pope Francis announces a new tone and a substantive shift from controversial rules to the positive aspects of what it means to live and love in a Christian family. This becomes the "front story" of his document on marriage. This guide is designed to help you work through AL by providing necessary context (or "back story"), highlighting key points ("front story"), suggesting directions for prayer, and providing questions about how to live out the Christian vision of marriage and family. It assumes no background knowledge and can be used by individuals, groups, or classes. As you go, it will be helpful to keep the following key themes in mind. Though not addressed chronologically, they come up repeatedly and constitute the "take-away" of the document. Look for them as you read and note how they provide the scaffolding on which the rest of the exhortation is built.
1. Intimacy and passion are good in themselves and worth cultivating for life.
Let no one say that for Catholics sex and marriage are only for procreation. Pope Francis spends most of his time and energy talking about love, intimacy, and passion. The Christian tradition has many thinkers who had a hard time seeing this core of marriage. Saint Augustine, for instance, famously identified the three goods of marriage as offspring, (sexual) fidelity, and the sacramental bond that tied spouses to each other for life. Love did not make the list, and sex was at best a necessary evil that kept spouses from the greater evils of promiscuity and might, if they were lucky, produce children who would grow up to become vowed celibates. Francis improves upon this tradition by focusing on a passionate love that is deserving of attention and cultivation for a lifetime.
2. Christians accompany people who experience brokenness or failure in marriage.
Our role is not to judge but to support. We do this individually and as a church. Francis recognizes that many people are doing the best they can but are often unable to keep their marriages together or treat family members as they deserve to be treated. He urges us to approach failure with mercy and acceptance, and affirms the church's trust in adult Christians who make decisions in good conscience. In providing less judgment and more accompaniment, the church holds on to the demanding ideal but recognizes the frailty of human beings and respects their ability to make their own decisions.
3. Social forces make marriage difficult to sustain.
The pope thinks about marriage in a global context and takes note of realities that impede the living out of the ideal: poverty, migration, incarceration, racism, exploitation, trafficking, etc. In the United States, sociologists refer to two marriage cultures, distinguishing the well educated and financially comfortable (who marry more often and divorce less frequently) from the less educated and more financially challenged (who marry less often and divorce more frequently).7 Marriage is easier to initiate and sustain for those who are more privileged in life. Being "pro-marriage" means caring about social issues, too. In Catholic social thought, as Pope Francis says, "everything is connected," which means that caring about family means caring about the forces that make it difficult for families to thrive.8
4. Married life is imperfect.
Previous Catholic teaching could be alienating when it spoke of married love using words or analogies that seemed totally divorced from real-life relationships. To correct this, Pope Francis identifies common problems that frequently distort married love (i.e. domination, infidelity, abuse, and neglect). Though he repeats traditional claims about married love echoing the trinitarian love of God, he is quick to say that no one married couple ever loves this perfectly, and should not be expected to!
5. Love is fruitful.
The primary emphasis on intimate love does not rule out a broader conception of love. The claim here isn't simply that an "end" or purpose of sex is procreation (that's the natural law language we're trying to improve upon!) but that married love in its essence points beyond itself to more. If cultural ideals of romance are communicated in stories of young adults who meet and fall for "the one" with whom they want to spend every moment of every day forever, the Christian ideal is more expansive. Love between two people naturally spills over, most often in children, but also in shared projects, a welcoming home, and a life lived together in service to others. For Christians, the point is not to "focus on the family" but to find a spouse to love and to partner with in acting for justice in the world.
These five themes comprise the "front story" of The Joy of Love. Keep them in mind as you read, and remember that they constitute the core of the document, and are much more important than ongoing "back story" battles over rules and norms. To be sure, the document does not ignore rules and norms and I'll draw attention to points where the pope makes normative claims. However, there is much more to the moral life, and to married life in particular, than rules. For instance, knowing Catholic norms on contraception and abortion is important, but that still leaves a lot to be said about what it means to parent well, and most of that cannot be expressed in rules. Similarly, knowing that adultery is immoral is just the beginning of thinking about what it means to be faithful to one's spouse on a daily basis. Most of AL is devoted to ordinary family life and the daily struggle of trying to love family members well. All people who live that life are familiar with its many challenges. If you read AL looking for wisdom for those kinds of challenges, and if you're lucky enough to be reading it with others who bring wisdom born of life experience of their own, you won't be disappointed.
How does one begin to talk about family? In most of Catholic social teaching, whether the subject is economics, the environment, or war, writers begin by summarizing, with the help of scholars in the physical and social sciences, what is going on or by describing what is sometimes called "the situation." Theologians, bishops, and popes take on "the responsibility of reading the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel" (Gaudium et Spes 4). In the documents of Catholic social teaching, there is room for the church to learn from the world and develop in its understanding of what it means to be a good person in the world (GS 44). However, in Catholic sexual ethics, whether the subject is contraception, same-sex marriage, or extramarital sex, it is more common for popes to begin by reviewing Catholic teaching, establishing universal principles to be applied to any new situation, and there is less attention to secular movements from which the church may need to learn.
Marriage and family concerns occupy a unique place between social ethics and sexual ethics. Many official documents belonging to the body of Catholic social teaching devote some attention to family, envisioning families as having a crucial role in sustaining good societies. Family is a part of Catholic social teaching.
However, family is also a part of Catholic sexual ethics. If you go to the website of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for instance, a list of documents related to marriage and family includes Humanae Vitae (1968), the famous encyclical that reaffirmed official Catholic teaching on contraception, along with other documents focusing primarily on sex. As many contemporary scholars have noted, though common values run through all of Catholic moral theology, the method (or approach) can differ depending on whether the issues in question are social or sexual.
So what does Francis do here? Respecting the unique position of family in Catholic thought, he has two starting points: the Catholic tradition (chap. 1) and the situation (chap. 2). And, even within these chapters, he moves back and forth between ideal and reality. Instead of choosing to begin from above (with the tradition) or from below (with the situation), in AL he maintains a dialogical posture that is very much in keeping with his posture as pope. Pope Francis seems to be always out in the world, is willing to talk with anyone, has a special concern for those who have been left out, and consistently focuses on the heart of the gospel message. He is a pope devoted to dialogue. This dialogical starting point, which has allowed Pope Francis to be both approachable and prophetic, is the method and genius of AL.
1 "In the Light of the Word"
A Biblical Vision
Begetting and raising children . . . mirrors God's creative work. —AL 29
Pope Francis opens this section by giving readers a distinctive lens for approaching the Bible. Instead of looking to the Bible for rules about marriage and family (i.e. "What does the Bible say about x?"), they should pay attention to the stories and, above all, to the mosaic that is created when we read those stories together. The Bible, he claims, from its first page to its last, "is full of families, births, love stories and family crises" (AL 8). Francis begins with a traditional image from Psalm 128 (a man, his wife who is like "a fruitful vine," and his children who are like "olive shoots" [AL 8]) in order to paint a vibrant picture of a family gathered at table and to establish an anchor for this section. But pay attention to how this image is complicated as the pope weaves the different biblical stories into a colorful tapestry.
Note how he begins by stressing fruitfulness (AL 8, 11, 14). Of course, not all married couples have children. Still, even today, most couples bring children with them into marriage or desire biological or adopted children. However, even in Catholic theology, which requires openness to children for a legitimate marriage, couples who cannot have biological children due to age or infertility are understood to have just as sacramental a marriage as any other couple. All married couples are seen as fruitful because their love is not insular; it begins with the two of them and goes beyond them.1 Just as fecundity or creativity is fundamental to who God is, it is an essential quality of marriage, whether children are involved or not.
Yet, recall that fruitfulness is but one of the five major themes of AL. Passionate, faithful love (theme number one) is given more attention and developed more fully in the document. Remember, in Catholic theology, children are important to marriage, but marriage is not all about children. The passionate love of the spouses for each other constitutes the core of marriage, the essence without which marriage cannot exist. Marriage reflects the reality of God: as God is loving, so too are husbands and wives loving. Pope Francis links the creation stories of Genesis 1 and 2 with two biblical texts that are much less commonly utilized in papal documents: the Song of Songs, which celebrates passionate sexual love, and Psalm 63, which includes the provocative phrase "My soul clings to you" (AL 12–13). Pope Francis uses these texts to paint a picture of sexual, emotional, and free self-giving in marriage. Unlike many Christian thinkers in the past who were so worried about the potential selfishness of sexual love that they failed to celebrate it, Pope Francis gives eros its due.
Notice how the document then moves to the home, describing it as a place of formation, or, in the words of Gaudium et Spes, "a school for human enrichment."2 Lest this sound like something anyone claiming "traditional values" might say, the pope makes sure to cite the biblical source for this vision of the home: the earliest Christian communities that met not in church buildings, but in the homes of their members (AL 15). Our knowledge of this early tradition is sketchy, but, building on the available sources, we can imagine that when adults (men and women, free and slave) and children left the religions of their families, converted to Christianity, and made the choice to attend Christian rituals, they were making a pretty serious choice, one that sometimes put them at odds with their family members (Matt 10:34-36). And we can also imagine that these rituals of remembrance were formative of the moral commitments of these early Christians, who often embraced radical positions.3This is the tradition the pope draws upon in order to make a moral claim about families. Christian homes should be places where character is formed, where adults and children are prepared to take the ethos of the New Testament into the world (AL 16–17).
What is that biblical ethos? Pope Francis does not limit his discussion to "family values," because the biblical ethos is much broader and deeper than this. Instead, as in all of his ethical teaching, the pope focuses on the core message. He lifts up Jesus' selfless love and highlights male and female images of God's tenderness as the cornerstones of a biblical family ethics. He notes that a close reading of Jesus' parables shows a concern with the anxieties and tensions of families (often in the face of sickness, abandonment, or death [AL 21]). Finally, he briefly mentions the parts of the gospel that sit uncomfortably with a focus on family: Jesus' many puzzling sayings that call family ties into question.4
How can we hold this radical strain of our tradition together with all the passages that lift up family? The pope suggests that Jesus is pointing us to "other, deeper bonds" (AL 18). Some scholars would want to go further here and claim that Jesus calls his followers to reconsider the prominence of family ties, and place greater hope in the community of Christian believers.5 At the very least, the biblical ethos of AL includes a recognition that discipleship is the primary call of every Christian and a view of family as one kind of community in which it is possible to live out that call.
Pope Francis helpfully calls attention to the presence of, shall we say, problems in the families portrayed in the Bible. There is no way to talk about "the biblical family" without acknowledging biblical family sins such as adultery, rape, murder, abuse, betrayal, and domination (AL 19–20). Along with these personal sins that cause pain in families, the pope notes that what the Catholic tradition calls structural or social sin (like poverty, unemployment, and environmental destruction) also hurts families (23–26). The biblical vision of the family might begin with the happy parents and loving children, but it does not deny the reality that families are the locus of much pain in life, because of the persistence of personal and social sin. Pope Francis presents a colorful and complicated mosaic of the biblical family in this first chapter, yet he insists on this analogy: families are "icons" or images of God. If this image still seems overly ideal, the pope asks us to focus on the holy family—not the overly idealized images you might see in art museums, but the reality. When Jesus came into the world, the holy family was a refugee family living in an occupied territory (AL 30). And of course we know that the holy family did not exactly follow the traditional script. Mary found herself pregnant while betrothed, Joseph stood by her but tradition suggests he died before Jesus reached adulthood, Mary spent most of her life as a single mother, and Jesus never married. The Bible, the pope is saying, does not give us an impossible ideal but rather assures us that, whatever our circumstances, the love we share in families can give us the best hints we have on earth of how much God loves every human being.
Suggestions for Prayer
1. Are there experiences in your own family that could be pondered or taken to heart as Mary pondered her own family situation in light of God's work in her life (AL 30)?
2. Can you imagine Jesus, who spoke in his parables of the anguish of parents, spouses, and siblings, comforting you and others in your family in your struggles (AL 21–22)?
1. What structural sins do you see harming families in your community?
2. Does it make sense to think that family life can tell us something about the nature of God? If so, can you think of a particular experience that made this clear to you? Can family life also raise profoundly troubling questions about God?
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John Hamilton of Sundrum, a few miles north east of Alloway, was a merchant and agricultural improver. He acquired the estate of Sundrum from Lord Cathcart about 1750, and married Lillias, sister of Hugh Montgomerie of Coilsfield, who later became 12th Earl of Eglinton. He was appointed 'Oversman' or referee in William Burnes's dispute with his landlord David M'Lure. Hamilton decided that of the £775 claimed by M'Lure, £543 was offset by credits for improvements made by Burns, part payments on rent, and other matters.


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Vikky Alexander is often introduced as a sleeper Pictures Generation artist, though she never seamlessly fit into that mostly male circle. Active in New York in the early 1980s, Alexander appropriated commercial photography, her work blowing up cropped images of actresses and models from magazine campaigns. "Entertainment" (1983), for example, juxtaposes four enlarged images from a fashion spread: a cropped leg that appears conspicuously as big as the model's nearby arm, a heavily made-up woman looking over her shoulder, and a pair of feet mirroring each other, creating a wide tunnel. Above these images, the word "entertainment" is writ large and points to the role of the passive female body as a consumable site of pleasure within these images.
While Alexander showed with Pictures artists in venues such as The Barbican, Dia Art Foundation, ICP, Kunsthalle Bern, White Columns, and the Whitney Museum, she was a decade younger than most involved in the movement. Further marking her apart from her peers, she came to New York fresh from university at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, bypassing the American conceptual schools that many Pictures artists attended. Like Pictures artists such as Jack Goldstein and Troy Brauntuch, Alexander collaged mass media imagery within her own practice. Yet perhaps uniquely, her work highlighted the relationship between the viewer's body and the framed photograph. Brazenly elevating a fashion ad to the nobility of a masterpiece is her work "Pieta" (1981), which takes its name from the Michelangelo sculpture that depicts Jesus on the lap of Mary after his crucifixion. Alexander's version, a gender reversal of the classical sculpture, blows up a fashion campaign featuring a coiffed blonde male model looking down at a woman in a soft embrace. The image is framed within a black, figure-sized matt and a sheet of highly reflective Plexiglas. Walking up to the work, the viewer notices their reflection, superimposing their own everyday image with that of the "ideal" model. Similarly, "Ecstasy" (1982) references the baroque marble sculpture "The Ecstasy of St. Theresa" (1647-52) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and as such features repeating images of a seemingly orgasmic Isabella Rosselini. Characteristically, Alexander framed these successive images in a long rectangular formation with highly reflective Plexiglas covering a black matt. The repeated imagery and historical reference signifies a continuum; in knowing contrast with the distinctiveness of its format, it calls upon an archetype that recurs ad inifinitum throughout time.
Also visible in these works due to the extreme enlargement of their source material is the images' photo grain, highlighting the materiality of the analog photograph as a medium. Alexander was erstwhile deeply invested in the ongoing debate about the legitimacy of photography as a fine art medium capable of creating conceptual, rather than solely documentarian, meaning. Perhaps more telling than her association with Pictures is Alexander's allegiance to a movement of feminist appropriation artists that comparatively has not been as forcefully narrativized. In addition to Alexander, this often-overlooked canon includes Sherrie Levine, Dara Birnbaum, Barbara Kruger and Martha Rosler, among others, all of whom have highlighted the jarring fracture between the lived experience of the female body and its idealized presentation in the media as a point of focus for photography amid its ongoing reimagining as a fine art medium.
Alexander's feminism is a reflective one that quietly explicates the power of framing devices in the representation of women. Her works "Portage Glacier" (1983) and "Yosemite" (1982) splice images of models into sublime natural landscapes sourced from calendars. "Portage Glacier" features a monochromatic image of a woman's face flanked by an arctic landscape, while "Yosemite" inserts a glamor shot of a big-haired model zipping up her coat between two images of a mountainous forest canon. Convening idealized images of both women and majestic landscapes suggests that the sublime power of such beauty is one that cultures the world over have felt the need to protect, sometimes as a legitimization of violence.
Though Alexander's work touches on incredibly thorny subject matter, it also calls on a nuanced sense of humor. Her work "Sleep" (1983), a reference to Michelangelo's sculpture "The Night," features two women posing as if they're sleeping, though in reality the models appear again heavily made-up and politely orgasmic—anything but actually unconscious. Sleep, after all, is the only living state in which we are unable to perform gender and class codes, temporarily suspending this performance along with bodily awareness. Alexander's signature black matting again prompts the viewer to consider their physicality in relation to the absurd expectation of being both sexually available and asleep. While the media has rapidly evolved in the decades since this series was created, Alexander's fundamental queries remain extraordinarily relevant: how am I reflected in the media, and how does the media reflect back upon me?
Vikky Alexander (b. 1959, Victoria, Canada) is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Her practice has been presented in venues including White Columns, New Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Dia Art Foundation, Seattle Art Museum, Kunsthalle Bern, International Center of Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Cooper Cole Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Barbican Art Gallery, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum, amongst others. Her works are included in the collections of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, National Gallery of Canada, and the Deste Foundation, among others. She lives and works in Montreal, Canada.


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Questlove wears statement t-shirt with a special message for Kanye West
The legendary drummer thought about quitting Twitter.
Questlove is representative of many, many Kanye West fans in the wake of the rapper's self-declaration of love for Donald Trump, with the Roots drummer even going as far as to consider leaving Twitter once and for all.
Instead, at a Roots gig Friday night (April 27), the Philadelphia native chose to make a statement in the physical world, donning a t-shirt featuring a slogan inspired both by West's Life of Pablo tour merch design and his famous comment about George W. Bush, during which he claimed the then-president "doesn't care about Black people."
The shirt, which reads "Kanye West Doesn't Care About Black People," further adds to the ongoing dialogue this week, with many fans feeling confused, angry and overall alienated by Yeezy's unrelenting vocal support of the current president.
Earlier in the week, Questlove shared with BuzzFeed that he almost had to leave Twitter as a result of West's recent remarks (and MAGA hat-wearing selfie).
"Him embracing a president that embraces white supremacy and…I don't know," he said, reacting to West's recent antics. "I can't. Twitter is losing their mind. For the first time yesterday, I thought I was done, and I went to sleep before midnight. I don't like what I'm seeing."
Take a look at Questlove's latest statement, below.
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Boosie calls out Donald Trump's death penalty stance for drug dealers
By Shanique Yates
Donald Trump demands death penalty for drug dealers in reelection speech


Government agencies faced with limited resources are leaning toward approaches such as cloud computing and going green, according to the results of a new study released by CompTIA, a non-profit information technology trade association.
The study surveyed 542 information technology decision-makers and influencers employed in federal, state and local government organizations in the fourth quarter of 2009.
The survey found that one in three government IT professionals expect to implement a social networking initiative in the next 12 months, independent of any stimulus funds their agency may receive.
In addition, the cost savings and environmental benefits associated with green IT increasingly are factors that enter into the IT purchase equation, particularly at the federal and state level, Herbert said. Roughly three in four government IT buyers expect to implement a power management solution or more energy efficient technology over the next year, the survey found.
The most significant challenges government organizations face with regard to the purchase and/or implementation of IT products and initiatives concern budgets and resources, the study found. Reduced budget and lack of resources was cited as a challenge by 62 percent of federal respondents, 63 percent of state respondents and 65 percent of local or municipal respondents.
While there are many similar struggles, federal, state and local agencies also have some differences. At the federal level, keeping up with the rapidly changing technology landscape is a top concern, cited by 58 percent, compared with 41 percent of those representing local governments. In contrast, state governments express greater concern over the need to upgrade outdated IT systems and improve interoperability. Local governments have the greatest need for enhancing the technical skill sets of their employees -- 52 percent cited that as a challenge; 46 percent of federal and state government respondents did so.
CompTIA's Government IT Spending Plans study is available for free for member companies. It can be accessed at http://www.comptia.org/research.aspx or by contacting research@comptia.org.


This presentation focuses on our research on developing a revolutionary collective intelligence platform for global collaboration in genomics-based translational research. This platform integrates some key technology development such as cloud computing, social network, next generation sequencing, multi-tenancy database, distributed file system, semantic web and high performance bioinformatics algorithms. The research and development of this technology will address the key issues in collective knowledge discovery and management in the scientific research community.
Besides in house sequencing with Illumina technology, the Erasmus MC utilizes next generation sequencing technology from Complete Genomics Inc to identify genetic variations associated with human disease at higher resolution and greater sensitivity than previously possible. The technology is a powerful tool for the diagnosis of genetic diseases (e.g. congenital malformations) as well as for the understanding cancer genesis and patient stratification. Next generation sequencing will play a role diagnostics, in understanding of complex diseases and in the future genome variations will be studies in the relation to differences in treatment response. Current next generation sequencing studies face limitations due to the depth of sequencing coverage and thus the accuracy of SNV detection which can have a high error rate. The Bioinformatics team of the Erasmus MC has built a human variome database and applications to facilitate the analysis of variants across samples (human diploid genomes). This reference can be utilized for prioritizing disease causative single nucleotide variants in genetic screens and cancer studies and to identify natural variations which are not yet described. It can also be envisaged that such a human variome database initiated in a research environment forms the basis for a clinical solution necessary for every medical center that plans to use next generation sequencing for diagnostics. Our database solution uses industry standards, guarantees privacy and will facilitate classifications of variants like benign, likely benign, pathogenic, likely pathogenic across a genome side-by-side to variants of (still) unknown significance. We will describe various analysis workflows, filters and annotation sources used and present selected examples.
Drug discovery and development scientists are challenged to make fast and accurate decisions based on available facts from multiple structured and unstructured data sources. Ariadne's Pathway Studio software provides an easy, practical solution with rapid and accurate text extraction and data integration from both multiple data sources, efficiently connecting different phases of R&D. Several applications will be discussed.
The mass-action law based median-effect equation is obtained via mathematical induction and deduction from over 300 equations. Its algorithm, along with its experimental design and computer simulation, allow the reduced requirement of data points for small size experimentation and yet yields useful bioinformatics. The scope of the median-effect equation encompasses single entities to multiple entities and covers 1st order to higher order dynamics, and it yields mathematical forms for four basic equations in biochemistry and biophysics. Thus, the median-effect principle enables the integration for quantitative, efficient bio-research, low cost biomedical investigations and drug discoveries and drug development. Its vast utilities points to a mass-action law based econo-green biomedical research.
Knowledge of the structure of proteins bound to known or potential ligands is crucial for drug design. Often the 3D structure of the protein is available in some conformation, but binding the ligand of interest may involve a large scale conformational change which is difficult to predict with existing methods. We describe how to generate alternate conformations of proteins that move by hinge bending, the largest class of motions. We use the method to predict the conformational change required for drug and small ligand binding for several well studied proteins.
Beyond reducing costs by eliminating redundancy and easing data integration, a common vocabulary infrastructure will enable us to find information relevant to a particular patient based on associated data and patient attributes. Toward these ends, the W3C Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS IG) promotes the use of shared vocabularies and best practices by creating translational and personalized medicine demonstrations that facilitates interoperability and bridge the data of multiple disciplines, from patient to drug therapy.
The Open PHACTS consortium, funded by the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative, aims to reduce the barriers to drug discovery by applying semantic web technologies to available data resources, creating an Open Pharmacological Space. The 22 partner consortium links: chemists with computer technologists; 8 pharmaceutical companies with bio IT companies and universities; and public data sets with commercial ones. The approach uses agile development techniques and linked data and ontologies methods from the semantic web.
InSilico DB is a new web-based tool for fast collaborative curation and export of public genome-wide assays. InSilico DB provides the largest available collection of expert-verified genome-wide content with 105,603 assays from NCBI's GEO repository. Extensive GenePattern (GUI) and R/Bioconductor (Command-line) export integration enhances collaboration between biomedical researchers and biostatisticians.
As sequencing and other DNA based technologies moves closer to the clinic the public interest in the techniques increase. Reproducibility and application of scientific results will become essential. I'll show how openness in these areas can be used to influence the public. There will be several hands on examples from inside and outside Sanger.
An Open Data resource (ChEMBL - www.ebi.ac.uk/chembl) of bioactivity data will be presented. It contains in excess of 750,000 compound records, and over 3,000,000 abstracted bioactivity end-points. These can be data-mined to discover general rules of successful drugs, and used in a wide array of specific ways to support lead discovery and optimization. We will discuss recent enhancements to the resource include REST web services, and RDF forms of the data.


It's Thursday, time for the Huescar market. After a late start, due in no small part to overdoing the alcohol on Wednesday night, I set off for the market in brilliant sunshine. Hardly a cloud in the sky.
Not as many people as usual out today but it's early summer so I guess most of the summer home folks won't be here yet, though I did stop and chat with three sets of friends while walking through the market. I picked up essentials for lunch and headed off, determined not to m iss the opportunity for a spot of sunbathing and still struggling to get used to the sandals having worn thick soled boots for the last several months.
It's still a little cool inside but outside at lunchtime the temperature was up to 26c. Came in to check the mail to find that Dell have at last put up my first blog entry – and interview. Here's the Dell blog. Put down a little more weedkiller as some of the larger weeds that I'd failed to pull out by hand were sitting looking stubborn – let's see how they manage against concentrated Pathclear!
And that's that, really, can't do much until Maureen turns up with the bits I need for my remote temperature monitoring project… which I'm hoping to leave here, working. All that's left to do this afternoon is a little more sun-collecting! As usual, click on any photo to enlarge.
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Q: $.ajax().fail() not working $.ajax().done() is I had this question regarding deferreds yesterday which was answered by @yury-tarabanko. The .done() call works perfectly. I'm now cleaning things up and adding a .fail() response. I've tried turning the server off and changing the URL to simulate a failed call but both don't seem to fire the .fail(). I'm just getting a failed "GET" message in the console.
function getStoreCounts() {
    var campaignID = $("input[title='Campaign ID']").val();
    var storeLists = $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        dataType: "jsonp",
        url: "https://storeLists/apiIndex?callback=?&campaign_code=" + campaignID.toString(),
    }),
    storeCount = storeLists.then(function(data) {
            var counting = $.map(data,function(storeList) {
            $.extend(storeList,{stores:''});
            var getCount = $.ajax({
                type: "GET",
                dataType: "jsonp",
                url: "https://storeLists/apiStoreCount?callback=?&list_id=" + storeList.id.toString(),
            });

            return getCount.then(function(count) {
                storeList.stores = count;
            });

        });
        return $.when.apply($,counting).then(function() {
            return data;
        });
    });
    storeCount.done(function(data) {
        $.each(data,function(i,tierCount) {
            $("input[title='Tier "+tierCount.name+" Kit Count']").val(tierCount.stores.toString());
        });
    }).fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
        console.log("foo");
        console.log(textStatus + ': ' + errorThrown);
    });
}

Edit with Console shot of what I'm getting when the webservice is turned off. I'm not getting anything after the GET fails, no console logging of the error, not even the "foo".

A: Seems to be working just fine.  What results are you getting and what results are you expecting?