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Edgar Allan Poe - An Appreciation
this interesting overview of Poe's works comes from an introduction to an early collection of his poetry
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
Of "never--never more!"
THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell
as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting
place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in
American letters. And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of
Poe's genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this
additional verse, from the "Haunted Palace":
And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling ever more,
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty
Was but to sing,
In voices of surpassing beauty,
The wit and wisdom of their king.
Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painful
circumstances at Baltimore, October 7, 1849, his whole literary
career of scarcely fifteen years a pitiful struggle for mere
subsistence, his memory malignantly misrepresented by his earliest
biographer, Griswold, how completely has truth at last routed
falsehood and how magnificently has Poe come into his own, For "The
Raven," first published in 1845, and, within a few months, read,
recited and parodied wherever the English language was spoken, the
half-starved poet received $10! Less than a year later his brother
poet, N. P. Willis, issued this touching appeal to the admirers of
genius on behalf of the neglected author, his dying wife and her
devoted mother, then living under very straitened circumstances in a
little cottage at Fordham, N. Y.:
"Here is one of the finest scholars, one of the most original men of
genius, and one of the most industrious of the literary profession of
our country, whose temporary suspension of labor, from bodily
illness, drops him immediately to a level with the common objects of
public charity. There is no intermediate stopping-place, no
respectful shelter, where, with the delicacy due to genius and
culture, be might secure aid, till, with returning health, he would
resume his labors, and his unmortified sense of independence."
And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master
who had given to it such tales of conjuring charm, of witchery and
mystery as "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "Ligea; such
fascinating hoaxes as "The Unparalleled Adventure of Hans Pfaall,"
"MSS. Found in a Bottle," "A Descent Into a Maelstrom" and "The
Balloon Hoax"; such tales of conscience as "William Wilson," "The
Black Cat" and "The Tell-tale Heart," wherein the retributions of
remorse are portrayed with an awful fidelity; such tales of natural
beauty as "The Island of the Fay" and "The Domain of Arnheim"; such
marvellous studies in ratiocination as the "Gold-bug," "The Murders
in the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter" and "The Mystery of Marie
Roget," the latter, a recital of fact, demonstrating the author's
wonderful capability of correctly analyzing the mysteries of the
human mind; such tales of illusion and banter as "The Premature
Burial" and "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether"; such bits
of extravaganza as "The Devil in the Belfry" and "The Angel of the
Odd"; such tales of adventure as "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon
Pym"; such papers of keen criticism and review as won for Poe the
enthusiastic admiration of Charles Dickens, although they made him
many enemies among the over-puffed minor American writers so
mercilessly exposed by him; such poems of beauty and melody as "The
Bells," "The Haunted Palace," "Tamerlane," "The City in the Sea" and
"The Raven." What delight for the jaded senses of the reader is this
enchanted domain of wonder-pieces! What an atmosphere of beauty,
music, color! What resources of imagination, construction, analysis
and absolute art! One might almost sympathize with Sarah Helen
Whitman, who, confessing to a half faith in the old superstition of
the significance of anagrams, found, in the transposed letters of
Edgar Poe's name, the words "a God-peer." His mind, she says, was
indeed a "Haunted Palace," echoing to the footfalls of angels and
demons.
"No man," Poe himself wrote, "has recorded, no man has dared to
record, the wonders of his inner life."
In these twentieth century days -of lavish recognition-artistic,
popular and material-of genius, what rewards might not a Poe claim!
Edgar's father, a son of General David Poe, the American
revolutionary patriot and friend of Lafayette, had married Mrs.
Hopkins, an English actress, and, the match meeting with parental
disapproval, had himself taken to the stage as a profession.
Notwithstanding Mrs. Poe's beauty and talent the young couple had a
sorry struggle for existence. When Edgar, at the age of two years,
was orphaned, the family was in the utmost destitution. Apparently
the future poet was to be cast upon the world homeless and
friendless. But fate decreed that a few glimmers of sunshine were to
illumine his life, for the little fellow was adopted by John Allan, a
wealthy merchant of Richmond, Va. A brother and sister, the remaining
children, were cared for by others.
In his new home Edgar found all the luxury and advantages money could
provide. He was petted, spoiled and shown off to strangers. In Mrs.
Allan he found all the affection a childless wife could bestow. Mr.
Allan took much pride in the captivating, precocious lad. At the age
of five the boy recited, with fine effect, passages of English poetry
to the visitors at the Allan house.
From his eighth to his thirteenth year he attended the Manor House
school, at Stoke-Newington, a suburb of London. It was the Rev. Dr.
Bransby, head of the school, whom Poe so quaintly portrayed in
"William Wilson." Returning to Richmond in 1820 Edgar was sent to the
school of Professor Joseph H. Clarke. He proved an apt pupil. Years
afterward Professor Clarke thus wrote:
"While the other boys wrote mere mechanical verses, Poe wrote genuine
poetry; the boy was a born poet. As a scholar he was ambitious to
excel. He was remarkable for self-respect, without haughtiness. He
had a sensitive and tender heart and would do anything for a friend.
His nature was entirely free from selfishness."
At the age of seventeen Poe entered the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville. He left that institution after one session. Official
records prove that he was not expelled. On the contrary, he gained a
creditable record as a student, although it is admitted that he
contracted debts and had "an ungovernable passion for card-playing."
These debts may have led to his quarrel with Mr. Allan which
eventually compelled him to make his own way in the world.
Early in 1827 Poe made his first literary venture. He induced Calvin
Thomas, a poor and youthful printer, to publish a small volume of his
verses under the title "Tamerlane and Other Poems." In 1829 we find
Poe in Baltimore with another manuscript volume of verses, which was
soon published. Its title was "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Other Poems."
Neither of these ventures seems to have attracted much attention.
Soon after Mrs. Allan's death, which occurred in 1829, Poe, through
the aid of Mr. Allan, secured admission to the United States Military
Academy at West Point. Any glamour which may have attached to cadet
life in Poe's eyes was speedily lost, for discipline at West Point
was never so severe nor were the accommodations ever so poor. Poe's
bent was more and more toward literature. Life at the academy daily
became increasingly distasteful. Soon he began to purposely neglect
his studies and to disregard his duties, his aim being to secure his
dismissal from the United States service. In this he succeeded. On
March 7, 1831, Poe found himself free. Mr. Allan's second marriage
had thrown the lad on his own resources. His literary career was to
Poe's first genuine victory was won in 1833, when .he was the
successful competitor for a prize of $100 offered by a Baltimore
periodical for the best prose story. "A MSS. Found in a Bottle" was
the winning tale. Poe had submitted six stories in a volume. "Our
only difficulty," says Mr. Latrobe, one of the judges, "was in
selecting from the rich contents of the volume."
During the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with
various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Philadelphia and New
York. He was faithful, punctual, industrious, thorough. N. P. Willis,
who for some time employed Poe as critic and sub-editor on the
"Evening Mirror," wrote thus:
"With the highest admiration for Poe's genius, and a willingness to
let it alone for more than ordinary irregularity, we were led by
common report to expect a very capricious attention to his duties,
and occasionally a scene of violence and difficulty. Time went on,
however, and he was invariably punctual and industrious. We saw but
one presentiment of the man-a quiet, patient, industrious and most
gentlemanly person.
"We heard, from one who knew him well (what should be stated in all
mention of his lamentable irregularities), that with a single glass
of wine his whole nature was reversed, the demon became 'uppermost,
and, though none of the usual signs of in
Poe's first genuine victory was won in 1833, when he was the
gentlemanly person;
of wine his whole nature was reversed, the demon became uppermost,
and, though none of the usual signs of intoxication were visible, his
will was palpably insane. In this reversed character, we repeat, it
was never our chance to meet him."
On September 22, 1835, Poe married his cousin, Virginia Clemm, in
Baltimore. She had barely turned thirteen years, Poe himself was but
twentysix. He then was a resident of Richmond and a regular
contributor to the "Southern Literary Messenger." It was not until a
year later that the bride and her widowed mother followed him thither.
Poe's devotion to his cbild-wife was one of the most beautiful
features of his life. Many of his famous poetic productions were
inspired by her beauty and charm. Consumption had marked her for its
victim, and the constant efforts of husband and mother were to secure
for her all the comfort and happiness their slender means permitted.
Virginia died January 30, 1847, when but twenty-five years of age. A
friend of the family pictures the death-bed scene-mother and husband
trying to impart warmth to her by chafing her hands and her feet,
while her pet cat was suffered to nestle upon her bosom for the sake
of added warmth.
These verses from "Annabel Lee," written by Poe in 1849, the last
year of his life, tell of his sorrow at the loss of his child-wife:
I was a child and _she_ was a child,
In a kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with _a _love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago;
In this kingdom by the sea.
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea,
Poe was connected at various times and in various capacities with the
"Southern Literary Messenger" in Richmond, Va.; "Graham's Magazine"
and the "Gentleman's Magazine" in Philadelphia.; the "Evening
Mirror," the "Broadway journal," and "Godey's Lady's Book" in New
York. Everywhere Poe's life was one of unremitting toil. No tales and
poems were ever produced at a greater cost of brain and spirit.
Poe's initial salary with the "Southern Literary Messenger," to which
he contributed the first drafts of a number of his best-known tales,
was $10 a week! Two years later his salary was but $600 a year. Even
in 1844, when his literary reputation was established securely, he
wrote to a friend expressing his pleasure because a magazine to which
he was to contribute had agreed to pay him $20 monthly for two pages
of criticism.
Those were discouraging times in American literature, but Poe never
lost faith. He was finally to triumph wherever pre-eminent talents
win admirers. His genius has had no better description than in this
stanza from William Winter's poem, read at the dedication exercises
of the Actors' Monument to Poe, May 4, 1885, in New York:
He was the voice of beauty and of woe,
Passion and mystery and the dread unknown;
Pure as the mountains of perpetual snow,
Cold as the icy winds that round them moan,
Dark as the eaves wherein earth's thunders groan,
Wild as the tempests of the upper sky,
Sweet as the faint, far-off celestial tone of angel
whispers, fluttering from on high,
And tender as love's tear when youth and beauty die.
In the two and a half score years that have elapsed since Poe's death
he has come fully into his own. For a while Griswold's malignant
misrepresentations colored the public estimate of Poe as man and as
writer. But, thanks to J. H. Ingram, W. F. Gill, Eugene Didier, Sarah
Helen Whitman and others these scandals have been dispelled and Poe
is seen as he actually was-not as a man without failings, it is true,
but as the finest and most original genius in American letters. As
the years go on his fame increases. His works have been translated
into many foreign languages. His is a household name in France and
England-in fact, the latter nation has often uttered the reproach
that Poe's own country has been slow to appreciate him. But that
reproach, if it ever was warranted, certainly is untrue.
W. H. R.
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Ours is installed and monitored by ADT.
I'm really after a stand-alone system to supplement my existing wired alarm rather than a replacement monitored service as I won't be in an area where I can use my mobile phone. I just need it to alert a neighbour if anything happens.
Could you not use a speech dialler connected to your land line?
I'm specifically after a stand-alone unit that uses either Wi-Fi or a SIM card.
Presumably your happy with your existing alarm arrangements.
I would be concerned that a "standalone alarm and dialler" would not be of the quality you may have with the existing alarm and type of dialler as above.
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I'm guessing nobody uses these systems then. I'd hoped holiday home or stable owners may have considered them.
I would still go for a quality speech dialer rather than a cheaper unbranded stand alone additional system.
If the strobe on your home alarm is a problem, it could be powered by the alarm trigger (as would the speech dialer) by moving just one cable in the panel, then it stops flashing when the bell/siren stops.
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The SD-1 relies on a connection to a wired telephone line to make the call, rather than using a mobile network or wifi. The GSM version from Menvier is about twice the price.
I have a Yale smart home alarm that connects up to the internet. It texts me, emails me and notifies me via the Yale app.
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Thanks. I'd looked at the Yale but last time I was away for a similar time my BT hub must've locked up and I was blind for 10 days. This time is worse because I'm in parts of Asia that don't have public Wi-Fi and I can't use the Three at Home so I need cheap idiot proof for my mate.


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A comet on express delivery from the Oort cloud of rock and ice that surrounds our Solar System makes a close approach of Mars this weekend. Martian satellites are already hunkering down against the potential onslaught of debris. Comet C/2013 A1, aka Siding Spring, shown as the reddish central object in four snapshots by NASA's NEOWISE mission in July 2014. Credit: NASA/JPL On Sunday October 19th, comet C/2013 A1, familiarly known as comet Siding Spring, will fly within 87,000 miles of the Martian surface and NASA is determined not to miss the show. Check out their slick animation of how the close encounter will go down. The closest approach distance is tiny on astronomical scales — roughly equal to 1/3 the distance between us and the Moon.
Podcast Repost: Game of Thrones Weather
For this week's podcast, we've dug up an old podcast that we published last year (originally published July 24, 2013). For those that missed it, the podcast covered the physics behind a world like Westeros: the setting for the hit HBO show Game of Thrones. Westeros has highly variable seasons that come at differing times, most notably the impending winter (it's coming!). We spoke with an astrophysicist to see if there could be exoplanets that exhibit similar seasons to this fictional world. Enjoy!
Robot Sand Snakes
If you had no arms and no legs, just how would you propose to climb up a hill? Slither straight up like a snake? Ah, but what if the hill were made of sand? Physicists have unlocked the mystery by studying the mesmerizing motion of sidewinder rattlesnakes on sandy inclines and successfully mimicking this motion in a robot snake nicknamed 'Elizabeth'. The robot snake developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University climbs a tree. With modifications inspired by the wave motion in sidewinder snakes, this robot is now able to navigate sloping sand as well. Credit: Carnegie Mellon University. Courtesy of John Toon.
Massive Study Shows How Languages Change
Originally published : Sep 30 2014 - 7:00pm, Inside Science News Service By : Joel N. Shurkin, Contributor ( Inside Science )-- More than 100 years ago, the playwright Oscar Wilde had one of his British characters say that England and America "have everything in common nowadays except, of course, language." It turns out, according to linguists, he was almost right. But lately, the two languages are getting closer. Languages change over time -- some faster than others. Some reflect changes in the world around them, according to a new paper published by The Royal Society in London. There are universal and historical factors at work, and languages change at varying rates, the scientists found. The researchers used the Google Books Ngram corpus to monitor word and phrase usage in the past five centuries in eight languages. They drew from 8 million books – roughly 6 percent of all the books ever published, according to Google's own estimates. The books were scanned into a da
A Quantum Walk Toward Artificial Intelligence
From the cover of Robot Visions by Isaac Asimo v Your Android phone (or iPhone, if that's how you roll) is an impressive machine, with computing speeds and storage capacities thousands of times those of desktop PCs from only years ago. If Moore's Law holds up, your smart watch may outshine today's phones the way today's phones eclipse old PCs. But no matter how powerful these machines become, they may never develop true intelligence if we continue to rely on conventional computing technology. According to the authors of a paper published in the journal Physical Review X last July, however, adding a dash of quantum mechanics could do the trick.
Finding Resolution in Astronomy and Biology
You may have caught a glance of yesterday's Nobel Prize in chemistry — the science community was awash with the news. Three scientists won the award for pushing the limits of microscope resolution far beyond what was ever thought possible. But you may not know that one of the winners, American physicist Eric Betzig, has continued to push the boundaries of biological imaging by incorporating elements from astronomy. The Very Large Telescope in Chile using a laser guide star. Credit: Yuri Beletsky (ESO) via Wikimedia Commons
Podcast: The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
This week on the Physics Central Podcast , I'm talking with science writer Simon Singh , about his latest book, T he Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets . In it, Singh reveals that one of America's favorite cartoon families has been infiltrated by mathematics for the last 25 years. From the very start of the show in the late 80's, multiple members of The Simpsons writing staff have held advanced degrees in math, science and engineering. Listen to the podcast to hear how one of the writers for The Simpsons wrote a computer program to find near-miss solutions to Fermat's Last Theorem , and planted it in the background of an episode. Or how the writing staff contacted a pi expert at NASA, in order to learn the 40,000th digit of everyone's favorite constant (the answer also appeared in an episode of the show). And while many people are surprised to learn about the presence of mathematics and The Simpsons , there are fans who have been aware of the connection for
3 Scientists Share Chemistry Nobel Prize For Nanoworld Microscopy
The 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to an American neuroscientist, a German biochemist and an American chemist "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy." Image credit: Fabian Göttfert, Christian Wurm via Wikimedia Commons The prize goes jointly to Eric Betzig, from the Howard Hughes Medical Center in Ashburn, Virginia, Stefan W. Hell, from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, in Göttingen, Germany, and William E. Moerner, from Stanford University in Stanford, California.
2014 Chemistry Prize for Optical Physics Advance
William Moerne r (Stanford), Stefan Hell (Max Planck Institute) and Eric Betzig (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) have won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy". Wow, physicists win the Chemistry Nobel Prize again! The last time this happened was scant 3 years ago when Dan Shechtman won the 2011 Chemistry Nobel for his discovery of quasicrystals . Including the three physicists who won the Physics Prize yesterday , that's six physicists who have become Laureates this year. And (not to rub it in) zero chemists. Don't worry chemists, you have a few more chances - provided a chemist picks up the Literature Nobel tomorrow, a Peace Prize Friday, or the Economics Prize on Monday. Good luck!
Set Your Alarms: Total Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow Morning
Rise and shine early tomorrow morning to catch the last total lunar eclipse of 2014. The Moon will be visible from nearly all of North America as it passes through the shadow of the Earth and 'blushes' red in the early hours of October 8th. Animation credit: Tomreun Viewers in the western United States and Canada will be able to witness all 59 minutes of eclipse totality, when the moon is fully-contained within the shadow of the Earth. On the eastern side of North America, the partial and total eclipse phases will be visible just as the Moon is setting in the west tomorrow morning, starting at 5:15AM Eastern Time, according to NASA .
Three Scientists Share Physics Nobel Prize For Blue LEDs
The 2014 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to two Japanese citizens and one U.S. citizen, all born in Japan, "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources." The prize goes jointly to Isamu Akasaki of Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, Hiroshi Amano of Nagoya University in Japan, and Shuji Nakamura of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Starting in the 1990s they produced blue LEDs, an energy-efficient, environmentally friendly source of blue light, which could be mixed with LEDs of other colors to produce what the eye sees as white light.
Watch the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics Announcment Live
For those of you up in time, here's the live webcast of the 2014 Physics Nobel Prize announcement. Just click play below to see who won this year! While many predicted last year's Nobel Prize for the Higgs boson, this year's award seems to be a little more up in the air. There's plenty of discoveries worthy of the prize, but only one person or group can win. You're welcome.
The Initial Conditions of a Pendulum
Hello readers! I would like to introduce myself as the new APS science writing intern, starting work this gloriously sunny and autumnal day in College Park. I have just landed back in the States after completing my PhD in astrophysics at the University of Cambridge across the pond. In the week since I've been back in the US, it's been bizarre to experience culture shock in my home country. The cars are so big and the people are so friendly! Please excuse any future 'British-isms' in my posts - I'll do my best to keep the references to 'aluminium' and 'maths' to an absolute minimum.
Fermi Bubbles: Remodelling the Milky Way
Image courtesy NASA. If someone asked you what the galaxy looks like from afar, you might tell them it's a spiral. You'd be half-right. If you thought to include dark matter in your answer, you might say that it's a disk or a cloud, but you still wouldn't get full credit. Don't feel bad, though—there's more to the Milky Way's structure than meets the eye, and much of it was completely impossible for us to see up until very recently. When data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, launched in 2008, was analyzed, researchers were startled by an unexpected feature: two tremendous, bubble-like clouds of plasma stretching perpendicular to the galactic plane, which seem to originate in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's nucleus. The gamma rays shimmering from these bubbles tell us that the particles in them are extremely energetic, and explain why we hadn't seen them until so recently; the earth's atmosphere filters out most of the light they cast. Their
Podcast: September Physics News Roundup
School has started and Halloween's just around the corner: that mean's it's time for our September news podcast! First up: do you know how old your water is? New research shows that some of the water on Earth predates the birth of the sun ( paper here ; story in Nature News here ). Second story: researchers have detected the faint signal from neutrinos born in the heart of the sun ( paper here ; story in Scientific American here ). And finally, a spintronic flashlight ( paper here ; story in Physics World here ) demonstrates new possibilities for future electronics. Listen to the podcast to learn more!


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Fan Spotlight: A Fans Review Of Episode 3.02
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Today we want to spotlight a fan's review of 'Teen Wolf' Episode 3.02. We so often read professional critics' reviews of our favorite shows, but it's not that often that 'real' viewers and fans have the opportunity to express their thoughts. We'd like to thank FaeryQueen07 again for sending us her review to post on the site. As with all reviews, this one is chock full of spoilers, so if you haven't seen the most recent episode, I advise you to do so now (over at MTV.com) and then come back. That said…
Oh Teen Wolf. Had I expected that I would be explaining what condoms are to my nine-year-old…I still would have let her watch Chaos Rising.
Let me take a moment here to say, Dylan, way to be the cherry-popping KING. Seriously. I mean, do producers, directors and casting agents know their shit or what? Oh, you need the perfect guy to devirginize someone? Dylan O'Brien. He's is the one. No freaking joke.
I would also like to say that I love scenes with Stiles and Peter. It is my personal *cough* headcanon that if Peter had a human son, he'd have been a lot like Stiles, which is why Peter a) "tolerates" Stiles more than he does others, b) he didn't just kill Stiles when he pretty much killed every other human who got in his way. You can't convince me otherwise. I may or may not have an entire series written that is firmly entrenched in this belief. Their on-screen chemistry is wonderful and if anyone could get Peter to play nice (though not be nice), it's Stiles. Stiles is all the things Peter admires in a person: fiercely loyal, determined, smart and clever. He's immature at times, sure, but he has his head screwed on a lot more than other kids his age. He's that little bit of humanity that can't exist inside Peter.
Stiles and Derek – I have been avoiding spoilers like no one's business, which means I haven't been on Twitter at all, but I have seen a couple of the remarks from Dylan about Stiles and Derek not having a lot of scenes together. So far, they've had a number of scenes together and there lots of flirting. Punching someone's hand is totally flirting. It's like pulling pigtails, but for the emotionally constipated over the age of twelve. #trufax
Over all, I thought Chaos Rising was pretty good, but again, it seems like they're trying to cram a lot of information into each episode. You have twenty-four, you guys. Slow the eff down. I want details, people. I want you to set up the scene and make me feel something. So far, I'm just confused and I feel like the character introductions are rushed.
That critique aside, sitting out any episode of Teen Wolf is just not an option. I remember when MTV first announced the series. I was so put off by the very idea (hello, Sixteen and Pregnant and refused to watch it. Then, late one night, I stumbled upon a reference to the show and was like, 'Fine, I will give these f$%ckers one shot.' The series premiere was nothing special, not really, but Jesus Christ was I hooked. I mainlined the entire first season in two nights (yes, my work suffered, but #worthit) and then thought I would absolutely die waiting for season two. I didn't, but it was a close thing.
What flaws there are in the show (rushed storylines, sparse details) are made up by the clever writing and the characters. Tyler Hoechlin's 'Derek Hale Frowny Face of Doom' is a thing to send you rushing to the kitchen, determined to force a smile upon him through the strength of baked goods. More than that, though, is the chemistry between the actors that bleeds over. They are each of them a force to be reckoned with.
Last season saw Ms. Morrell (whom I will forever refer to Kendra, the Vampire Slayer, in my head) as something of an ally to Scott and Stiles. This season, her loyalties are in question. Does Deaton suspect? Is Ms. Morrell supposed to play both sides? The ending of the episode was abrupt, more so than I would have preferred, and while I am not all that intrigued by the new surviving Hale family member, I am looking forward as to the effect her presence will have on Derek.
And Danny got hit on by one of the twins! I mean, obviously this isn't good (poor dude has such crap taste in guys, omg), but that makes Danny a big part of the plot and Teen Wolf needs more of its Danny M?healani (as taken from the TW wikia), because he is a much-needed strong representation for the LGBTQ youth. His sexuality has already been defined by himself, without the pressure of fandom, though I should like to remind everyone out there: you are more than any single aspect of yourself. Who you love, how you express yourself, what you enjoy—those do not define you. They just help shape you. And Danny…well, let's not even beat around the bush. Danny is very well shaped.
Overall, if I were to rate Chaos Rising out of a five-star possibility, I would have to give it 3.5 stars. In comparison, I would give Tattoo a rating of 4 stars for the character depth shown. I look forward to what Fireflies has to bring us.
If you would like to submit an episode review to be posted on our site, you can send it to thoechlinnet@gmail.com
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Recently I've been interested in doing equestrian photography, simply because I find equestrian culture fascinating and see stories in the simplest objects. Both the stories and the culture are vibrant and rich in color and texture. They hold an intensity that only comes with competitive sport. I appreciate that the images naturally hold a vintage look that is neither contrived nor cliche because of the inherent character and history of the tools of the trade. Worn leather, powerful animals, and bits of metal come together to create something intricate, full of nerve, sweat, and grace. Equestrian sports are unlike any other. Typically, competition is solely between people, but involving animals introduced an element of unpredictability and even greater precision. The rider must maintain control both of herself and her horse, which while highly trained, can still be unpredictable.
A good friend of my wife's, Katelyn Gibbs, has been riding since she was a child and agreed to let me come out and photograph her while she trained. Another good friend of my wife, an accomplished rider herself, Katie Kearney, also come to the shoot to help out. I was hoping for a bright sunny morning, but instead we got a very overcast sky; Some of the shots that I had been planning to get had to be scrapped, at least for now.
Photographically the hardest part was cheating on my aperture as much as possible so I could keep my iso down. I settled on f4.5 which was a little wide for capturing jumps since the subject is from the rider's eyes to the eyes of the horse, but given my distance to the subjects, I think it was good enough. Shutter was at 1/1000th at iso 1600. Morning light and clouds are not my greatest friends, but the results were still quite stunning.
With such diffused light, the images were not as rich in contrast as I would have liked, so I had to do a lot of dodging and burning in post to darken the background and bring out the folds and shadows of the horse's skin.
This is one of my favorite images that I've taken. It's authentic and spontaneous. Plus I love the composition.
The most important lesson to take away from this shoot is to make your mistakes work for you. With the shot below I didn't give my autofucus the right conditions to be able to lock on. But while editing I thought I'd try to make it a more artistic, "old timey" photo by adding a lot of fill light and increasing the film grain. Sure, it's not great, but it made a photo that was otherwise worthless a little more palatable and showed a different side of a jump, if a blurry one.
In this next photo, I completely missed the framing with half of the horse's face missing. I was about to pass it over when I thought I'd try a 1:1 crop of the image and cut out half of Katelyn's face as well. It worked. I think it turned into one of the most impactful images I took. It's very different. I'm sure some of you will hate it, but I think it captures the unpredictability of the sport and its volatile yet graceful nature perfectly. I'm sure there's also some metaphors here to but I don't know enough about the sport to call them out.
The barn is my favorite place on a farm. It's the back stage to the show, much more intimate, without the pressures of the ring.
My only regret is that I didn't try any motion blur, but since this shoot was for me to be able to get my feet wet, I guess I shouldn't be too picky.
For those wondering I shot these with a Canon 5D Mark 3, 7D, 70-200mm 2.8 IS, and 24-70mm 2.8.


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En la mitología griega, Abarbarea (griego antiguo: Ἀβαρβαρέα) era un náyade (ninfa) y una de los antepasados de la fundación de Tiro, junto con Callirroe y Drósera. Estas ninfas estuvieron unidas a los hombres que surgían de la tierra (en mitología esto es llamado autóctono) por el dios Eros, quién se enfadó por su castidad, narrado por Nono de Panópolis, en una oda dirigida al dios Dioniso. No confundir con Abarbarea, mujer de Bucolión.

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 Nonnus De Panopolis, Dionysiaca trad. por William Denham Rouse, Loeb Biblioteca Clásica, Cambridge, Harvard, 1940.  Versión en línea en Topos Proyecto de Texto.

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In the Geochemistry analysis group, we passionately care about climate change, geohazards and power security. Thirty-5 years ago, Berkeley Lab's Earth & Environmental Sciences Space (EESA) scientist Patrick Dobson started his career as a graduate student by conducting field mapping, amassing fluid samples, and studying the ropes from local scientists on the Los Azufres geothermal subject in Michoacán, Mexico.
This complete and rigorous course provides relevant preparation for pursuing a PhD in Geochemistry by incorporating a lab-primarily based analysis dissertation. The MSc in Geochemistry is a comprehensive and rigorous course that combines obligatory and non-compulsory taught modules, area work, short courses, and a research dissertation.
The job of answering this question fell to Kenneth Farley, a mission scientist on the Mars 2020 rover mission and a professor of geochemistry at California Institute of Expertise. Low-temperature geochemistry at Illinois focuses on reactions that happen near the Earth's surface, significantly in groundwater.
Geochemistry generally considerations the research of the distribution and cycling of parts in the crust of the earth. Masters-level training in Geochemistry would supply a suitable platform for a career in materials science outdoors of earth and environmental sciences specifically.
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MC10 Announces the Use of BioStamp nPoint® in Phase III Study of Huntington Disease
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MC10, Inc., the developer of BioStamp nPoint®, an end-to-end system for physiological data collection and analytics, announced today that the BioStamp nPoint system will be utilized to collect and assess movement activity data in a new Phase III study evaluating a potential treatment for chorea associated with Huntington disease, a hereditary neurodegenerative disease. The study is sponsored by Neurocrine Biosciences and conducted in collaboration with the Huntington Study Group.
In a subset of 50 study participants, BioStamp nPoint will track activity, sleep and posture, and investigate exploratory measurements of gait disturbances and truncal chorea, which are involuntary movement symptoms of Huntington disease. The use of BioStamp nPoint to collect objective measures of Huntington disease represents a potential shift from the currently used subjective measures, including the Unified Huntington Disease Rating Scale (UHDRS) and other survey-based assessments.
MC10 has been collecting and analyzing important data in neurological diseases for years. These efforts have led to numerous publications, including many from collaborations with academic institutions, to expand the central nervous system (CNS) applicability of the physiological data provided by the system. The results of MC10's ongoing academic collaborations will be instrumental in future developments of disease-specific endpoints and overall understanding of CNS diseases.
"We are excited about the continued use of our system in CNS studies, especially in partnership with Neurocrine Biosciences, a leader in advancing the treatment of movement disorders," said Arthur Combs M.D., Chief Medical Officer of MC10. "Huntington disease impacts various aspects of a person's life, and the ability to collect objective data on activity, sleep, posture, and involuntary movements on a 24-7 basis promises to provide new context to improve our overall understanding of the disease and associated symptoms and help advance treatment options."
Dr. Combs spoke on the impact of continuous, real-world data collection at the Huntington Study Group's Annual Meeting on November 8 in Sacramento.
About MC10
MC10 is a privately held company focused on improving human health through digital solutions. The company combines conformal BioStamp sensors with clinical analytics to unlock novel insights from physiological data collected from the home or in clinical settings. Our flagship product, BioStamp nPoint, is marketed into the clinical research community. MC10 is headquartered in Lexington, MA. Visit MC10 online at mc10inc.com or follow us on LinkedIn.
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As part of Anti-Bullying Week 2018, Cinemagic have launched "Time to Stand," a short film tackling bullying and racism which will be shown in a special screening to schools from Urban Village areas at the Odyssey Cinema Belfast.
The "Time to Stand" film aims to help young people tackle racism and bullying and has been informed by members of the Racial Equality Subgroup. The Subgroup is convened by The Executive Office (TEO) and functions as a strong voice within local government on issues specifically affecting minority ethnic people, migrants and race relations.
"Time to Stand" has been produced by Cinemagic with support from the Urban Villages Initiative, which is a headline action of the Together: Building a United Community (T:BUC) strategy. The Urban Villages Initiative is led by TEO and is designed to support good relations and develop thriving places in areas of Belfast and Derry~Londonderry with a history of deprivation and community tension.
"Northern Ireland Anti-Bullying Forum (NIABF) is delighted to include this exceptional short film as part of our resource pack for Anti-Bullying Week 2018. We have created a number of workshop plans and presentations, supporting teachers and youth workers to explore the themes raised in the story among the children and young people they work with.
Linsey Farrell, Director of the Urban Villages Initiative commented, "The Time to Stand short film is a fantastic resource for schools and youth organisations to help facilitate discussions around Respect, which is the theme of Anti-Bullying Week 2018.


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EMMYS: Fox Nixes Alec Baldwin Joke About News Corp Phone-Hacking Scandal In Opening Bit; Baldwin Walks, Replaced By Leonard Nimoy
UPDATE: Alec Baldwin confirmed our story via Twitter. "Fox did kill my NewsCorp hacking joke," he wrote. "Which sucks bc I think it would have made them look better. A little."
EXCLUSIVE: The opening video for tonight's Primetime Emmy Awards on News Corp-owned Fox was supposed to feature 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin playing a fictional president of television. But after a joke about News Corp topper Rupert Murdoch and the ongoing UK phone-hacking scandal involving his media empire was cut from the pretaped bit, Baldwin pulled out. He was replaced at the last minute by Star Trek veteran Leonard Nimoy, who re-did the skit sans the News Corp joke. Baldwin vaguely referenced the incident in a Sept. 17 tweet. "I did a short Emmy pretape a few days ago. Now they tell me News Corp may cut the funniest line." Sources say that Baldwin worked with the writers who penned the script for the skit. He taped it, but after hearing that the Murdoch joke was being cut, he told the network that he prefers if the bit with him doesn't air at all.
A person close to Baldwin said that the actor's main issue was not the subject matter of the nixed line but that the editing was done after the taping of what he believed was a cohesive bit, and Baldwin was concerned that such a cut could affect the pace and flow of the whole skit.
When I reached out to Fox for comment, they said they made the decision not because the joke involved Murdoch but because they take the phone-hacking allegations very seriously and did not want to be seen as making light of them. Word is that the decision for the cut was made at Fox level, and there is some discrepancy over when exactly it was made, before or after the Baldwin bit was filmed. One way or another, the skit was filmed from the original script with the phone-hacking line intact.
Baldwin, a nominee in the lead actor in a comedy series category for a fifth straight year, is not attending the Emmy ceremony as he had previously committed to be at Tony Bennett's birthday bash in New York tonight. The pretaped Emmy open hails from Dakota Pictures, the company that also did the Oscar-opening film this year featuring hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco invading scenes from the best-picture nominated films.
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iPhone models, starting with the iPhone 5S, include a sensor on the Home button that can be used as a fingerprint reader. This allows you to perform certain options on the device, such as unlocking, by simply placing your finger or thumb on the sensor.
But this feature may not work well for everyone, or it might work too well and unlock your device when you did not want to. So if you have decided that you no longer wish to use the Touch ID as an option to unlock your iPhone, then you can follow our guide in this article so that the only way to unlock your device is with a passcode.
The steps in this article will turn off the Touch ID option for unlocking your iPhone. You will still be able to use Touch ID for Apple ID and for the iTunes Store if you wish. However, you can also turn those options off on the same menu. Once the Touch ID is turned off, your device will only be able to be unlocked with a passcode, if you have one set. If a passcode is not set, then you will be able to access the device simply by swiping to the right on the lock screen.
Tap the Touch ID & Passcode option.
Enter the device passcode, if one is set.
Tap the button to the right of iPhone Unlock in the Use Touch ID For section. The option is turned off when the button is in the left position, and there is no green shading around the button. The Touch ID is turned off in the picture below.
Are you having issues with the battery life or cellular data usage on your iPhone? Learn how to turn off background app refresh on you iPhone to potentially help with both of those problems.


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Joel Cox (born April 2, 1942) is an American film editor. He is best known for collaborating with Clint Eastwood in over 30 films.

Life and career
Cox has been working in film since appearing as a baby in Random Harvest (1942). He started in the mailroom at Warner Bros. in 1961. Rudi Fehr, a well-known editor and executive at Warner Bros., made Cox an apprentice editor about 3 years later. As was common in the era, Cox worked as an uncredited assistant for several years. His first credit as an assistant editor was for The Rain People, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Barry Malkin. His first credit as the editor was for Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which was directed by Dick Richards and co-edited by the veteran editor Walter A. Thompson. Cox had just finished working as Thompson's assistant on Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), which was also directed by Richards. Cox worked on two more of Richards' films, March or Die (1977 - as assistant editor) and Death Valley (1982).

Cox has had a notable collaboration with Clint Eastwood that commenced with the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales, for which Cox was Ferris Webster's assistant. Cox and Webster were co-editors on The Gauntlet (1977) and on several more of Eastwood's subsequent films. Starting with Sudden Impact (1983), Cox became Eastwood's principal editor. Cox has been quoted as saying that, over their 30-year partnership, Eastwood has re-cut only a single scene that Cox put together. Gary D. Roach, who worked as Cox's assistant from the mid-1990s, became Cox's co-editor on Eastwood's films with Letters from Iwo Jima (2006). Cox's long streak editing each of Eastwood's films ended with Sully, which was edited by another of his former assistants, Blu Murray.

In addition to his career in the film industry, since 2000 Cox and his family have owned and managed a vineyard and winery near Paso Robles, California.

Cox won the 1992 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for Unforgiven. He has been elected as a member of the American Cinema Editors. On November 25, 2008, Clint Eastwood presented Cox the first Ignacy Paderewski Lifetime Achievement Award, which is named in honor of the piano virtuoso who called Paso Robles home, at the first Paso Robles Digital Film Festival. He received a nomination for the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Editing for Changeling and for the 2015 Academy Award for Best Film Editing for American Sniper.

Filmography

The 2008 Paso Robles Digital Film Festival provides a full filmography of Joel Cox as part of his Lifetime Achievement Award.

Editor

Assistant editor

Sound department

Self

Awards

See also
List of film director and editor collaborations. Clint Eastwood and Cox have had one of the longest and most prolific collaborations in film history.

References

Further reading
 Chang's book includes an interview with Cox.

External links

  at The Hollywood Reporter

American Cinema Editors
American film editors
Best Film Editing Academy Award winners
Living people
1942 births
People from Los Angeles


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NewsPress ReleasesTrustees enhance public accountability through new Monitoring Board, complete first part of Constitution Review
Trustees enhance public accountability through new Monitoring Board, complete first part of Constitution Review
The Trustees of the IASC Foundation, the oversight body of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), today announced important amendments to the organisation's Constitution, as well as a summary of other agreements reached at the Trustees' meeting in New Delhi, India, on 15 and 16 January 2009.
Significant enhancement to the organisation's public accountability by establishing a link to a Monitoring Board of public authorities
IASB to be expanded from 14 to 16 members by 2012, with criteria added to ensure geographical diversity
Enhanced liaison with investor groups
Constitutional changes directly address G20 recommendations
Free availability of core standards through the public website.
In 2007 the Trustees conducted a strategic review of the IASC Foundation, which included discussions with relevant public authorities. This review addressed the issue of public accountability and the composition, geographical diversity and the size of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). There was extensive public consultation, including round-table discussionsthroughout 2008 on the proposals emerging from the strategic review. These proposals were exposed for public comment in July 2008. Over 70 responses from organisations and individuals were received, and these generally supported the proposal on public accountability.
Establishing a link to public authorities
The constitutional changes represent significant enhancements to existing governance arrangements. Underpinning the organisation's structure is the internationally accepted principle that global accounting standards should be developed by an independent IASB. The IASB reaches conclusions following a transparent and open due process that considers the views of all stakeholders. An independent and geographically diverse body of Trustees oversees the IASB. Under the constitutional changes, the Trustees themselves will be publically accountable to a Monitoring Board of public authorities.
This basic approach to the architecture of governance is similar to that in place in many national jurisdictions for accounting standard-setters. The consultation process revealed strong and consistent support among investors and other stakeholders on the need to maintain, within agreed due process, the independence of the IASB's decision-making. At the same time, stakeholders understood the need to establish a formal linkage to public authorities, where none was previously defined, and strongly encouraged the organisation's efforts to enhance its public accountability. All the Monitoring Board members also supported the independence of the IASB's decision-making within the new governance framework.
The Monitoring Board will comprise the relevant leaders from the Emerging Markets and Technical Committees of the International Organization of Securities Commission (IOSCO), the European Commission, the Japan Financial Services Agency (FSA), and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision will sit as a formal observer at Monitoring Board meetings.
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The Trustees also approved a constitutional change that will expand the IASB to 16 members and provides guidelines regarding geographical diversity. The criteria for IASB membership remains that the 'main qualifications shall be professional competence and practical experience'. At the same time, in order to ensure a broad international basis by July 2012, there will normally be four members from the Asia/Oceania region; four members from Europe; four members from North America; one member from Africa; one member from South America; and two members appointed from any area, subject to maintaining overall geographical balance.
Concerted effort to liaise more closely with investor groups
The Trustees recognise that the investor community is a key stakeholder in the organisation, but that standard-setting bodies have commonly experienced difficulty in achieving a sufficiently close engagement with investors. To complement the existing contact with investors, there will be regular liaison with the wide range of investor groups now to be represented in the reconstituted Standards Advisory Council(SAC). The IASC Foundation will announce the membership of the reconstituted SAC shortly.
The constitutional changes—the link to public authorities and the new guidelines for IASB membership—directly address the recommendations made by the G20 last November on public accountability and membership of the standard-setting board. The other recommendations related to the standards have all now been separately actioned by the IASB. A comprehensive summary and a recent Trustees' letter discussing the organisation's response to the G20 conclusions are available from the public website.
Free availability of standards through the public website
Separately from the constitutional issues, the Trustees, responding to many public requests, agreed that the IASB's standards, but not the accompanying documents such as the basis for conclusions or implementation guidance, should become available free of charge through the IASB's website.
Commenting on the constitutional amendments, Gerrit Zalm, Chairman of the Trustees and former deputy prime minister and finance minister of the Netherlands, said:
The Trustees have responded positively on the questions of public accountability and IASB membership. We recognise the need for change in the emerging global framework of standard-setting. The IASB as an independent standard-setter and the Trustees as the oversight body are strengthened by the enhanced governance provided by the link to public authorities through the Monitoring Board. The new arrangements ensure the independence of the IASB within a broader oversight and monitoring system.
View the Appendix describing the Conclusions of the meeting of the IASC Foundation Trustees [pdf]
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\section{ Introduction}
The polygamma function $\psi^{(k)}(z)$ ought to be given more attention. Following K.S. K\"{o}lbig's suggestion \cite{Kol96, Ido12}, we focus on the special values z=${1\over4}$ and z=${3\over4}$ and obtain another truly remarkable result - a new redefinition for the Dirichlet beta function for positive integer arguments.

Building on previous work that was based on finding simple methods for deriving the special values of the Riemann zeta function for small integer arguments \cite{Ido12}, we show for the first time how to derive some special values (constants) of the Dirichlet beta function and the even-indexed Euler numbers using either the polygamma $\psi^{(k)}(z)$ or the cotangent function.

Our results show new relations between the Riemann zeta, Euler numbers, and the Dirichlet beta functions in a way never seen before.

\subsection{New definition for the Dirichlet beta function}
The well-known Dirichlet beta function is defined as
\begin{equation}
\beta(s)=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} {(-1)^{k-1}\over{(2k-1)^s}} = 1-{1 \over {3^s}}+{1 \over {5^s}}-{1 \over {7^s}}+\dots
\end{equation}
; $Re(s)>0$. We wish to demonstrate how the Dirichlet beta function $\beta(s)$ is closely related to the well-known Riemann zeta function
\begin{equation}
\zeta(s)= 1+{1 \over {2^s}}+{1 \over {3^s}}+{1 \over {4^s}}+\dots
\end{equation}
We illustrated in a previous work \cite{Ido12} how the Riemann zeta function may be defined as
\begin{equation}\label{zeta}
\zeta(s)= (-1)^s.{{( \psi^{(s-1)}({1\over4})+\psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^s.(2^s-1)}}.{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}
\end{equation}
for any positive integer argument s, where the polygamma function $\psi^{(s-1)}(x)$ is defined as
\begin{equation}
\psi^{(s-1)}(x) = {d^{s-1}\over{dx^{s-1}}}\psi(x) = {d^{s}\over{dx^{s}}}\ln \Gamma(x).
\end{equation}
Further manipulation of the polygamma function reveals that the Dirichlet beta function may be represented as
\begin{equation}\label{beta}
\beta(s)= (-1)^{s}({{( \psi^{(s-1)}({1\over4})-\psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^s.2^s}}){1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} {(-1)^{k-1}\over{(2k-1)^s}}.
\end{equation}

\subsection{Derivation of a new definition for the Dirichlet beta function}
From the results in $\ref{zeta}$ we infer that
\begin{equation}\label{Oddzeta}
{{2^s-1}\over{2^s}}\zeta(s)= (-1)^s.{{( \psi^{(s-1)}({1\over4})+\psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^s.2^s}}.{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}
=\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} {1\over{(2k-1)^s}}
\end{equation}
Relating $\ref{beta}$ to $\ref{Oddzeta}$ the following relation emerges:
\begin{equation}\label{beta2}
\beta(s)= {{2^s-1}\over{2^s}}\zeta(s)-2\sum_{k=1}^{\infty} {1\over{(4k-1)^s}} ={{2^s-1}\over{2^s}}\zeta(s)-{{2}\over{2^s.2^s}}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty} {1\over{(k+{3\over4})^s}}
\end{equation}
Therefore,
\begin{equation}\label{beta3}
\beta(s)= {{2^s-1}\over{2^s}}\zeta(s)-(-1)^s{{2}\over{2^s.2^s}}{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}{{ \psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4})}}.
\end{equation}
Hence, the result in \ref{beta} is inferred from the polygamma relation
\begin{equation}\label{beta4}
\beta(s)= {{2^s-1}\over{2^s}}(-1)^s{{( \psi^{(s-1)}({1\over4})+\psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^s.(2^s-1)}}{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}-(-1)^s{{2}\over{2^s.2^s}}{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}{{ \psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4})}}
\end{equation}
that is obtained after instant substitution.

\subsection{Derivation of new definitions for the Riemann zeta function}
From equation \ref{beta3}, variant definitions for the Riemann zeta function may be derived (in terms of the Dirichlet beta function), i.e.
\begin{equation}\label{beta3}
\zeta(s)={{2^s}\over{2^s-1}}\beta(s)+(-1)^s{{2}\over{2^s(2^s-1)}}{1 \over{\Gamma(s)}}{{ \psi^{(s-1)}({3\over4})}}.
\end{equation}
This implies that for even integer arguments,
\begin{equation}\label{beta3}
\zeta(2s)={{2^{2s}}\over{2^{2s}-1}}\beta(2s)+{{2}\over{2^{2s}(2^{2s}-1)}}{1 \over{\Gamma(2s)}}{{ \psi^{(2s-1)}({3\over4})}},
\end{equation}
and for odd integer arguments \footnote{It is the author's original view that such dual-nature implicit in Riemann zeta (re)definitions ought to be given more attention if we are ever going to find exact expressions for $\zeta(2s+1)$ in terms of other well-known mathematical constants. \copyright 2012 Michael Idowu.},
\begin{equation}\label{beta3}
\zeta(2s+1)={{2^{2s+1}}\over{2^{2s+1}-1}}\beta(2s+1)-{{2}\over{2^{2s+1}(2^{2s+1}-1)}}{1 \over{\Gamma(2s+1)}}{{ \psi^{(2s)}({3\over4})}}
\end{equation}, where $s>0$ is a positive integer number.

\section{Elegant Expression for the Dirichlet beta function}
The reflection relation
\begin{equation}
(-1)^{s-1} \psi^{(s-1)}({1-z})-\psi^{(s-1)}({z}) = \pi{d^{(s-1)}\over{dz^{(s-1)}}}cot(\pi z)
\end{equation}
may be used to provide alternative definition for the Dirichlet beta function, i.e.
\begin{equation}\label{zetaCot}
- \psi^{(2s-1)}({1-z})-\psi^{(2s-1)}({z}) = \pi{d^{(2s-1)}\over{dz^{(2s-1)}}}cot(\pi z)
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}\label{betaCot}
 \psi^{(2s)}({1-z})-\psi^{(2s)}({z}) = \pi{d^{(2s)}\over{dz^{(2s)}}}cot(\pi z)
\end{equation}
As mentioned in a previous work \cite{Ido12}, an equation such as \ref{zetaCot} is useful for composing the actual values of the Riemann zeta function for even integer arguments. Since equation \ref{betaCot} is more consistent with our new definition of $\beta(s)$ provided in \ref{beta}, we employ the relation in \ref{betaCot} to compose the actual values of $\beta{2s+1}$.

In other words, expressing (or composing) the exact values of $\beta(2s+1)$ is a simple as composing the values of $\zeta(2s)$ as demonstrated in our previous work \cite{Ido12}.  Also it might be worth mentioning that finding exact expressions for $\beta(2s)$ is as hard as finding expressions for $\zeta(2s+1)$ as indicated in by K.S. K\"{o}lbig in his paper \cite{Kol96}many years ago.

To demonstrate the usefulness of the relation specified in \ref{betaCot}, we employ the equivalent relation
\begin{equation}
{2^{2s+1}(2^{2s+1})\Gamma(2s+1)}\beta(2s+1) = \pi {d^{(2s)}\over{dz^{(2s)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}
\end{equation}
and derive some well-known constants associated with $\beta(2s+1)$, e.g. the actual values of $\beta(1),\beta(3), \beta(5), \beta(7).$

\subsection{Representation of some special constants of the Dirichlet beta function}
Some well-known constants of $\beta(s)$ may be calculated as follows:
\[
\beta(1)= (-1)^1.{{( \psi({1\over4})-\psi({3\over4}))}\over{2^1.(2^1).\Gamma(1)}} = {\pi \over 4};
\]
\[
\beta(2)= (-1)^2.{{( \psi^{'}({1\over4})-\psi^{'}({3\over4}))}\over{2^2.(2^2).\Gamma(2)}} = G ,
\]
where G represents the Catalan's constant $\approx 0.915965594177$;
\[
\beta(3)= (-1)^3.{{( \psi^{''}({1\over4})-\psi^{''}({3\over4}))}\over{2^3.(2^3).\Gamma(3)}} \approx 0.968946146259;
\]
\[
\beta(4)= (-1)^4.{{( \psi^{'''}({1\over4})-\psi^{'''}({3\over4}))}\over{2^4.(2^4).\Gamma(4)}} \approx 0.98894455174;
\]
\[
\beta(5)= (-1)^5.{{( \psi^{''''}({1\over4})-\psi^{''''}({3\over4}))}\over{2^5.(2^5).\Gamma(5)}} \approx 0.996157828077;
\]

\subsection{General formula for the Dirichlet beta function for odd integers}\label{betaSect}
Using the formula
\begin{equation}\label{betaF}
\beta(2s+1) ={{ \pi {d^{(2s)}\over{dz^{(2s)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{2s+1}(2^{2s+1})\Gamma(2s+1)}} },
\end{equation}
we derive
\small
\[
\beta(1) ={{ \pi cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{1}(2^{1})\Gamma(1)}} } = {{\bf{1}}\pi \over {{2(2^{1})\Gamma(1)}}},
\]
\[
\beta(3) ={{ \pi {d^{(2)}\over{dz^{(2)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{3}(2^{3})\Gamma(3)}} } =
{{ \pi (2\pi^2)cot(\pi z)(cot(\pi z)^2+1) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{3}(2^{3})\Gamma(3)}} } = { {2\pi^3(1)(1+1)}\over
                        {{2^{3}(2^{3})\Gamma(3)}} } = {{\bf{1}}\pi^3 \over {{2(2^{3})\Gamma(3)}}},
\]
\[
\beta(5) ={{ \pi {d^{(4)}\over{dz^{(4)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{5}(2^{5})\Gamma(5)}} } =
{{ \pi ((16\pi^4)(1)(1+1)^2+(8\pi^4)(1)^3(1+1)) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{5}(2^{5})\Gamma(5)}} } = { {(64+16)\pi^5}\over
                        {{2^{5}(2^{5})\Gamma(5)}} } = {{\bf{5}}\pi^5 \over {{2(2^{5})\Gamma(5)}}},
\]
\[
\beta(7) ={{ \pi {d^{(6)}\over{dz^{(6)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{7}(2^{7})\Gamma(7)}} } =
{{ \pi (272\pi^6.1.(1+1)^3+32\pi^6.1^5(1+1)+416\pi^6.1^3(1+1)^2) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{7}(2^{7})\Gamma(7)}} } = { {\bf{61}\pi^7}\over
                        {{2(2^{7})\Gamma(7)}} }.
\]

\normalsize

\subsection{General formula for the even-indexed Euler numbers}
Due to the emergence of the Euler numbers observed in section \ref{betaSect}, we boldly guess and confirm that the next value to be derived is:
\[
\beta(9) = { {\mid {\bf{E_8}} \mid\pi^9}\over {{2(2^{9})\Gamma(9)}} } ={ {\bf{1385}\pi^9}\over {{2(2^{9})\Gamma(9)}} },
\]where ${E_8}$ is the related Euler number for the observed pattern.
Isn't this last derivation elegant? Even more elegant is the following bolder guess that the general formula for all even-indexed Euler numbers is
\begin{equation}
E_{2s} =  {{(2^{2s+1})\Gamma(2s+1)\beta(2s+1)}\over{(\pi i)^{2s+1}}}.2i
\end{equation}

\section{Summary of Main Results}
To summarise the results obtained so far
\begin{equation}\label{zetaF}
\zeta(2s) = (-1)^{2s}({{( \psi^{(2s-1)}({1\over4})+\psi^{(2s-1)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^{2s}(2^{2s}-1)}}){1 \over{\Gamma(2s)}} = {{ \pi {d^{(2s-1)}\over{dz^{(2s-1)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{2s}(2^{2s}-1)\Gamma(2s)}} }
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}\label{betaF}
\beta(2s+1) =(-1)^{2s+1}({{( \psi^{(2s)}({1\over4})-\psi^{(2s)}({3\over4}))}\over{2^{2s+1}(2^{2s+1})}}){1 \over{\Gamma(2s+1)}}={{ \pi {d^{(2s)}\over{dz^{(2s)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over
                        {{2^{2s+1}(2^{2s+1})\Gamma(2s+1)}} },
\end{equation}

\begin{equation}\label{EulerF}
 E_{2s} =(-1)^{2s+1}({{( \psi^{(2s)}({1\over4})-\psi^{(2s)}({3\over4}))}\over{(2\pi i)^{2s+1}}}).2i = {{ \pi {d^{(2s)}\over{dz^{(2s)}}}cot(\pi z) \mid{_{z\rightarrow{1\over4}}}} \over {(2\pi i)^{2s+1}}}.2i
\end{equation}

These new reformulations enable a new conceptualisation of the various close relations between the Euler numbers, Dirichlet beta function, and Riemann zeta function for positive integer numbers.

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