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Book review – Emma Dabiri – "What White People Can Do Next"
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Racing ahead to Book 12 of my 20 Books of Summer project, and it's starting to feel like I might actually do it, especially as I was originally planning to get to Book 14 by the end of this month and then the last six are novels. Anyway, I was going to review this short book alongside Wednesday's "Anti-Racist Ally", having lazily thought they were on similar topics. But no – although they're both about fighting racism, they take very, very different angles and approaches!
I bought this book on 1 April 2021, according to my note inside the front cover – I have a feeling I pre-ordered it when I spotted it. I loved Dabiri's "Don't Touch My Hair", which used both her experience growing up in Ireland looking very different to her community and her academic research on African civilisations to interrogate black hair (her TV programme was also very good but quite different. Here, she puts her extensive academic and discursive skills to powerful effect..
Emma Dabiri – "What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition"
We don't all have to look the same to identify common interests and perhaps unexpected affinities, to cultivate kinships that cut across divisions intended to weaken us in order to better exploit us. (p. 146)
Emma Dabiri is not keen on the concept of allyship. I think she feels it demeans both the ally, who could be seen as performing empty gestures and being patronising at worst, and the person having allyship imposed upon them, being pitied and still thought of as somehow beneath the ally. She wants to dismantle the concept of race, only invented in the 1600s when it became useful to divide and conquer poor black and white folk, and, while she accepts that some forms of what gets called allyship, such as personally calling out racism when we witness or or in corporate life, lobbying against black income disparity, can be useful, and she also exhorts us to read novels by global majority people to understand rounded experiences that are different from our own, not just race-centred "'anti racist books", she is all about dismantling capitalism, too.
This book (or essay as it's called on the back cover – it's 150 pages) is densely argued and almost dizzying. She says near the end that she wants to have made the reader think, and she certainly does. Like other books that take a more homogeneous view of what 'white' people should be doing, she tackles terms – but through the lens of looking at how by making us fight over terms (although she does state she doesn't like capitalising 'black' and 'white' and would rather put them in inverted commas to point out their invented nature; I am using the terms as she does here, out of respect and to offer an alternative) we are made to take our eye off the ball and prevented from joining together in real coalition.
She does the history thing, but in the context again of showing how 'race' is a created thing, used to divide people and subjugate those the ruling classes chose to subjugate. Then we're into Marxism, anti-capitalism and a hefty dose of environmentalism. She's scathing about social media and people acting performatively, but she acknowledges that there are people who have been defined as 'white' who do want to make change; she's also against 'white' people being shamed into doing 'nice' things out of duty. She is strong on how white privilege means different things to different people, and that instead of concentrating on this we should be building coalition between disparate groups, like people did in the Black Panther etc. movement in the US, and fighting for equality which lifts everyone, having the most powerful effect on those who are kept furthest down, usually Global Majority People and people of the Global South, but improving conditions for everyone as it goes.
Comparing capitalist society to a slave ship, where the European slavers were on the top deck and the enslaved Africans crammed in below in terrible conditions, she asks if this is where we truly want to be, and if our only aim is to pull ourselves or others up into the air:
It is not enough to make exploitative systems more 'inclusive'. Do we want to get on the top deck or do we want to destroy the goddam ship? (p. 73)
So as well as anti-capitalism in general, Dabiri encourages the reader to look into the Black Radical Tradition and knowledge and principles of historical African and Indigenous in general communities and civilisations, which might hold more of a key than European Enlightenment thought. Yes, I would have liked a reading list to handily pop up here.
Dabiri's stated aim is to make us think, and she does that alright. But she does leave us hanging a bit, too. Near the end of the book, having decried the divisiveness of modern identity politics, she claims:
It is here that we are stuck. Frankly, there's a huge gap in terms of what comes next. While we need to identify what to do, it's important not to fixate on an endpoint or a final destination; such thinking is part of the problem. Rather we should try to understand our lives as a dynamic flowing of positions. (p. 141)
There is some mention of joining groups that are not identity politics based, like Extinction Rebellion, and she's strong on how the concept of race has been continued to be used to keep people working against each other rather than for each other, but you're left at the end, unless I really didn't understand this book (which is entirely possible: she has an approachable and often very informal style but there's a lot to chew over in this work), without really knowing what steps to take to do all this dismantling of capitalism and saving the world from our environmental damage. So perhaps it asks more questions than it answers, and I need to look for the answers elsewhere.
This is Book 12 in my 20 Books of Summer project.
Book review – Sophie Williams – "Anti-Racist Ally"
Book 11 of my 20 Books of Summer project, and I'm celebrating Past Liz for her idea of slotting two short books in amongst the pile for this month (I'm putting my slow progress down to it all being made up of non-fiction, and reckon I'll catch up with the novels I have for next month. I have almost finished "What White People Can Do Next" and then I'm on to "Brit(ish) so should end the month with one hanging over from this month, again. That's fine!
I do not know when I bought this book! From its position on my TBR shelf, I'm guessing August 2020. Oops. I was going to review it alongside Emma Dabiri's "What White People Can Do Next" but having read most of that book, Dabiri takes exception to the use of the term ally and the concept of allyship, in her theoretically more deep and wide-ranging book (which has a different purpose, to be fair) so I'm splitting them up!
Sophie Williams – "Anti-Racist Ally: An Introduction to Action & Activism"
(August? 2020)
Read books about Black and brown people living, not just dying. Engage in content where they thrive, rather than just survive. Remembering the full and complex range of lives and emotions in marginalised people is humanising, and a lot of fun. (p. 119)
Williams is an Instagrammer and she takes that platform's strong design and succinct messages through to her small-format book. Each left-hand page gives a question, heading or objection, with the answer or message kept to one side of the facing page. This means it's easy to read, and easy to flick through to find the section you need.
Williams is pretty forthright and provocative – as she has every right to be. She decries speech rather than action and bandwagon-jumping. She says things which might make the reader uncomfortable – such as her assertion that we need to do uncomfortable things and put ourselves in uncomfortable situations in order to enact, rather than perform, allyship.
The book takes the traditional form of such pieces, providing terms and distinctions, then working through the idea that not being racist is the absolute baseline and not enough. Interestingly, she acknowledges her own change, both through the book when talking about how people can change, and in her discussion of the use of "womxn" which she used to use but not now it's been adopted by people who want to deny the full womanhood of trans and non-binary women. I've seen this elsewhere, and it's one example of the shifts in language we're seeing at the moment. OK, Dabiri would say this doesn't matter so much if it distracts from the need to dismantle capitalism, but we'll go there another day (how one's reading of one book affects one's view of the last one!).
Williams moves on to talk about what racism is, addressing objections such as "I don't see colour" and "I can't be racist because my best friend / postman is Black". She then looks at what true allyship is, and covers intersectionality well. She describes how racism evidences nowadays – less white sheets and more race pay gaps and institutional racism. This includes the use of Black people to provide emotional labour in rehashing their experiences of racism for a White audience. She has a UK and US perspective here which is useful, although acknowledges different issues are found in the two areas.
Then we get into the nuts and bolts of it – how to be an ally. Anxieties are covered first – including I don't want to make it all about me and I can't really do anything. I've certainly suffered from the latter one, as a lot of the books and resources I've found cover how to address inequalities in a workplace or community group, neither of which I'm really in. While then moving through from addressing issues within yourself, your close circles, your community, your workplace, institutions, brands and government, she has a theme that a) you have to make yourself uncomfortable sometimes and b) you use what platforms you've got. This inspired me personally to keep on reading and then writing about books centred on Black people's experience on here, my platform, even though they often don't get the engagement my other posts have (and even though I've always read and reviewed books by Global Majority Peoples; maybe just not so much non-fiction). She leaves room for celebrating and amplifying Black joy, asking White folk not to keep sharing images of pain and suffering that will re-traumatise our Black friends and contacts, something I don't do a lot, and certainly not explicit images, but I have done to an extent. We always need to keep learning!
At the end of the book, we have a book list and I was pleased to see I have read six, have a further three to read, and don't have six, some of which I've chosen not to read yet as they're US centric and I'm working on learning about UK stuff first.
A worthwhile little book with some good ideas that don't just revolve around the workplace.
Book review – Damian Le Bas – "The Stopping Places"
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Time for another of my 20 Books of Summer and I'm feeling like I'm making some progress now I'm on Book 10!
I bought this book in July 2020 from Oxfam Books – I blogged about a lot of incomings including this here. Funny story: This was when things opened up a bit more in England, and after my friend Trudie had said she had been in a few charity shops on the high street and they were all pretty safe, with hand sanitiser and screens, and feeling bereft of my usual pastime of cruising all the many shops nearby, I decided to venture to Oxfam Books, as I know I can always find something there. I chose two other books and I wasn't sure about this one. But wait – what should I do with it, having taken it off the shelf – having touched it?? I had heard that Waterstones had a trolley for such eventualities – no such thing here. So, readers, I bought it.
Damian Le Bas – "The Stopping Place: A Journey Through Gypsy Britain"
These are the stopping places, these fringes and in-between places. they are the places that nobody lives except Travellers – or nobody but those who share ancient connections with them: gamekeepers and poachers, scrap-metal men, horse-women, rangers and shepherds. They are the old nomad's haunts of the island. Many are smashed and build over; some – magically – are more or less just as they were in centuries long past. (p. 25)
Le Bas has always felt slightly on the edge of things – a (the term is his) fully Gypsy upbringing, living on a yard with his artist parents, but with mixed heritage somewhere in living memory and being blond and blue-eyed, not looking like a classic member of his community, and often challenged for that, before and during the writing of this book. He'd taken himself off to university, too, and was in the academic sociology and Gypsy Studies community as well as his own one, a travelling man with a footwell full of books. Increasingly pulled in one direction and the other, he decided to do a tour of the "Stopping Places" – traditional points where travelling Gypsies would pull in for a night or two to a long season, some to do with fairs and celebrations, some commemorations, many just a good place to stop by the road.
Having been through long journeys in East Sussex to sell flowers at one particular pitch, he starts off with his family's stopping places, and it's here that he finds the most emotional connection. But as he picks up information on others, movingly from a woman at a big conference who shyly produces a list she's written out for him, and travels from Kent to Cornwall, North Wales to Skye; he gets used to living in his Transit van, sometimes with his wife, Candis, sometimes alone, and, somewhere in the middle of his journey, moves it over from utilitarian to aesthetic, borrowing some richly decorated textiles from his mum's collection to make it into a colourful and exciting interior.
There's a lot of fascinating detail in the book, from an exploration of the tight and strong codes of hygiene and cleanliness (for example never using the same equipment to wash yourself and your washing up, not one known to most campers, I understand) to the similar codes of deference and hierarchy used when meeting strangers. There is also lots on the international community of Travellers / Gypsies and the differences between groups originating from different countries. Somehow, I had never grasped there were actual Travellers in the US, while I knew there were pleny of nomads as such. One thing that wasn't really explained was what "New Travellers" are – they were mentioned a few times but not explained, and I understand who the hippies are who have eschewed permanent homes for life on the road, but not this other group.
I loved how the book was both a sociological analysis and a good piece of travel and nature writing but also the narrative of a man growing into his identity, embracing life on the move and getting used to it, getting more chilled when he's seen as "other". The balance was really well done. Descriptions of encounters with other people were immediate and direct and the codes needed to keep on the right side of the menace and violence that sometimes threatened were put across clearly.
In a good Book Serendipity Moment, Django Reinhardt popped up in this book and Pete Paphides' "Broken Greek", on the same day!
Book review – David Olusoga – "Black and British"
I'm feeling like I'm struggling with my 20 Books of Summer project at the moment – this is Book 9 and I'm currently half-way through Book 10 but I should be further along than that. I was also disappointed not to get more reads of the Stormzy book I read and reviewed last, which I thought was smashing. But there we go – maybe people are catching up and haven't got to it yet, as I'm a little lagging with my blog reading.
Anyway, I bought this book back in June 2020 and blogged about it here – this is the third book I've finished from that batch of buys, and I am looking forward to picking off other books soon (I have also had epic BookPost recently but I'll tell you about that next weekend).
David Olusoga – "Black and British: A Forgotten Story"
Black British history can be read in the crumbling stones of the forty slave fortresses that are peppered along the coast of West Africa and in the old plantations and former slave markets of the lost British empire of North America. Its imprint can be read in stately homes, street names, statues and memorials across Britain and is intertwined with the cultural and economic histories of the nation. (p. xxi)
I bought this book because we'd watched and loved Olusoga's TV programme of the same name: this is not exactly the book of the TV programme, missing some things but able to add a lot more detail. The thing I did love about the programme was when he was able to pull together descendants of the Black Britons he found and gather them for the unveiling of a plaque commemorating that person's role and life. That aspect of the series is just mentioned in the Acknowledgements, and while there are a lot of images in the book, the plaques are not included, which is a shame. The gathering of descendants, where they could be found, also gave an immediate human interest whereas this is very much more a work of academic history.
That's the bad bit. But this is still an amazing book. Olusoga is able to stretch out and back and really go into history and contemporary sources. As such, he still talks about the Black Romans up at Hadrian's Wall and John Blanke, the 16th century royal trumpeter, but he spends most of the book describing in great detail Britain's role in the Transatlantic slave trade, and how being Black and British could very well involve being a freed slave placed in a village in Sierra Leone to get on with your life (he was very good here on how this project formed the start of the great African land-grab for Britain).
He does of course also cover the Black Georgians, often brought over as almost pets or slaves but then sometimes living independently, and Queen Victoria's god-daughter, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. The Black soldiers who fought for the Empire and/or Britain in the two world wars and the Windrush generation are also covered. He also has room to acknowledge the work and books that came before this book and caught his own historical imagination as a younger man. But slavery is the main focus of the book, and a forensic examination of how slavery ended.
We find the use of new techniques which piece together historical and genetic records, and interesting assertions, for example about the huge similarities between eighteenth and twenty-first century Britain. He's good on how abolitionism became a cause that many women espoused – and were permitted to espouse – and their strong role in the movement (although Black campaigners of the time have been whitewashed out of history). The ebb and flow of numbers of Black people living in the UK (reaching its low just before the First World War) is examined carefully and interestingly, with personal details and stories provided if they can be. There is a fascinating section of the reception of Black GIs during the Second World War. When he gets into the 1980s he has to move away from historical assertions, as they have just not been made yet, and rely on his own feelings of being under siege, but things gradually improving, with the introduction of Black History Month helping (hopefully) all parts of the population learn about people's heritage here.
The book ends with a call for more history to be uncovered and the explanation, which I've seen elsewhere, that the Black population of Britain is now of a majority African origin rather than from the Caribbean, with note needing to be taken of these citizens' stories. This book does take a bit of work and I am glad I had swathes of time to read it during my week off the week before last, but it rewards the effort.
Olusoga's Preface ends with a positive assertion:
… it is written in the firm belief that Britain is a nation capable of confronting all aspects of its past and becoming a better nation for doing so. (p. xxii)
I hope this is true: this book, and those which have subsequently built on his work and taken it forward will get into the hands of the right people, help to explain the long and varied history of Black and other global majority peoples in Britain and help to build tolerance and respect.
This is Book 9 in my 20 Books of Summer project.
Book review – Stormzy with Jude Yawson – "Rise Up: The #Merky Story so Far"
We're carrying on with 20 Books of Summer after a brief pause to review NetGalley books, and this is Book 8 in the project. I have already finished reading Book 9 and am part-way through Book 10 so I MIGHT do it still (I have two full-length and two short books from my July plans still to read, then eight novels for August). I bought this book in August 2020 and blogged about it here – I am pleased to say I read its companion "Slay in Your Lane" in October 2020 as it was the predecessor to "Loud Black Girls" which I had just won from NetGalley.
Stormzy, edited and co-written by Jude Yawson – "Rise Up: The #Merky Story so Far"
What's more, he was one of us. From the ends, Thornton Heath. Every success of his felt like a victory for all of us. (p. 4)
Stormzy is a grime music star, rapper and entrepreneur (he has his own record label, company and imprint within Penguin Books, on which this book has come out) who grew up on a council estate in Croydon, South London. He's a committed Christian who loves his mum, has high standards and will only accept the best from those around him: but he certainly appears to be a firm support to those who give their best. He also gives people opportunities: his co-writer, Jude Yawson, had not written a book before, but in my opinion he has put together a very good book.
Yawson explains early on that he conducted interviews with the main players – musicians, his manager, producers, PR people, brand people – and then decided to include the transcribed interviews pretty much as they came out (he doesn't: I'm a professional transcriber and I know what these would have sounded like. He does an excellent job of editing them so they're readable, fresh and interesting, but also clear and understandable). He doesn't sound in his introduction too certain of this as a method, so in the unlikely event that he reads this: yes, it's a great method and it's done really well. I'd say this is as good as the seminal book on Madness I worked on and read earlier this year.
The book was published in 2018 and obviously Stormzy has done a lot since then. But it's a great record of his early times and the way he gathered his crew of associates around him. After a list of contributors, we go from Preparation to Work, then Execution and Ambition. There's a lot about the way things were built carefully on knowledge and hard work which might surprise people, and a lot of hauling themselves out of poverty and risky situations to flourish and be creative. There's much satisfying detail about how playlists work in radio stations, how songs are put together and production work, and all the work behind this well-oiled machine. The aforementioned method of using the transcriptions almost "raw" means the voices are well-distinguished and lively, and it works really well as a chorus of voices, with Yawson providing links and summaries and Stormzy voicing his own experiences and his appreciation of those around him.
Mental health issues come into the book. Although Stormzy explains he had his mum and his faith to bring him through, and a self-belief that stood out from an early age, he also explains he had trouble coping when writing his first album, although he also castigates the NME for making him the literal poster-boy for depression in musicians, using his image without his permission. I also loved his take on social media:
There are some things you're not meant to know. You're not meant to know what some random person thinks about what you're wearing. This is why we have little white lies. This is why we have social niceties. We can't really handle the truth. (p. 193)
But of course he's forced to hear all sorts of random people's "truth" all the time and that must get very tiring.
A fascinating documentary of the start of something huge; a loyal team and a leader who appreciates them. I don't think you have to be into grime music or rapping to enjoy this book: it works as a portrait of people doing their best in often challenging circumstances, too.
Book review – Anne Tyler – "A Patchwork Planet"
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Well, suddenly I've read 14 books in my Anne Tyler 2021 project and I only have 9 to go – how did that happen? And I'm pleased to say that even though I remembered absolutely nothing about this one, I heartily enjoyed it!
If you're reading along with the project or just this one or whatever, please do share your thoughts in the comments at the bottom or add a link to your review on your blog or Goodreads, etc.. I'm adding links to these reviews plus all the reviews I am alerted to to the project page, so do pop there to see what other people have thought, too.
Anne Tyler – "A Patchwork Planet"
(01 September 1998)
Oh what makes some people more virtuous than others? Is it something they know from birth? Don't they ever feel that zingy, thrilling urge to smash the world to bits? (p. 21)
Narrated in the first person by Barnaby Gaitlin, the black sheep of a famous philanthropic family who has eschewed the family "business" to strike out on his own, and working for a very Anne Tyler-ish company which helps the mainly elderly with small errands and handyperson jobs, we find a man who hasn't really lost his way, but is living his truth, simply, but then finds himself getting involved with a much more conventional woman who he meets on a train. Well, he doesn't really meet her – he effectively stalks her (but only the once, so I didn't feel as uncomfortable with this one as with "Morgan's Passing") when he sees a mysterious stranger ask her to take a package to Philadelphia. He's going there himself, as the only two major things he has in his life are his vintage car and his daughter, Opal, now living with her mum and stepdad in the city.
Opal is one of those classic rather stolid Anne Tyler children, and other classic points are the sibling rivalry between Barnaby and his successful brother, and all the dilapidated houses his clients inhabit (there's even a sick room or two on a sunporch, which we have already encountered in "The Clock Winder". There's also the 'loser' in his leather jacket living in a rackety apartment, and as well as the slow-moving and conventional Sophia, a spiky and almost unattractive co-worker to whom Barnaby's heart might really belong. There's lots of wonderful observation of the relationships between parents and their adult children.
Like others of her novels, there are other stories she could have broken off to tell, like Barnaby's Aunt Eunice who ran off with a stage magician but came home when she realised she didn't know what to cook him for dinner. And there's a theme of things just happening and people being who they are – at one point, Barnaby says, "Maybe that was the secret, I thought. Let things come to you when they will, of their own accord. I went back to bed and slept like a baby" (p. 161). Interestingly, he becomes "a whole other person" when he gets together with Sophia – but does he want to be?
This book is dedicated to Tyler's late husband, and it has a melancholic air to it – lots of the clients of Barnaby's employer are elderly and widowed, or they pass away themselves during the course of the book. She's almost clinical, through Barnaby, in her dissection of the way they take on reorganising the house just before they pass away, and on the little details of elderly life, lines of pill bottles on windowsills and ageing pets. Although it's a hopeful book, I think, and full of kindness, this does stand out in it. The characters are less the organised and the disorganised we've found in other books and more the products of their histories and houses.
A lovely book with an open ending which I really did enjoy.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
Book review – Georgia Pritchett – "My Mess is a Bit of a Life"
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I hadn't actually heard of Georgia Pritchett but I was intrigued by the title and subtitle (I've had my own adventures in anxiety over the years and I think there's been a rise in it during the pandemic: this is a life that's been full of it since she could think), and realised as I read it that of course I've heard and laughed at many of her words before, as she's had a decades-long career as a comedy writer.
Georgia Pritchett – "My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety"
One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars. It's a beautiful moment.
That's a paragraph typical of this book: open, honest, funny, but with a punch of reality. We open the book with Pritchett sitting in a therapist's office, unable to open her mouth to explain what's wrong as a whole host of what she describes as moths, an alien, Godzilla (stamping all over her inner Tokyo) and a "Dark Overlord Beaver" are all fighting for space and supremacy inside her head. The therapist says "Why don't you try writing it down" and then we have the book, returning to this scene at the end.
We're then thrown into a headlong rush of memories and anxieties, arranged to work their way through her life from the time she can think to the time she's writing in the book, mainly short one or few-paragraph pieces with a heading and the odd sketch of a Dark Overlord Beaver, etc. It's quite disjointed, but you just sort of go with the flow, important comedy folk pop up as she finds her feet later on and she's great on what it's like being the only woman in the writing room. There's lots of dark stuff, so dark humour, as she contends with her precarious mental state, her marriage and her children, who have issues to contend with of their own. She also weaves in contemporary events, usually adding to her anxiety.
Because of the structure, I immediately thought, "What's this, I can't deal with this," but then got drawn in to "just one more bit, just one more bit" and then the book was over in a couple of hours. So it's obviously an engaging, funny, self-deprecating read, and it shows what a jumble of anxieties can live in just about anybody's head. There are tender moments and the odd gross one, it's unusual, but it works.
Thank you Faber & Faber for choosing me to read this book via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
One Book Serendipity with this one for Bookish Beck: you'd expect to find the 1981 New Cross Fire in David Olusoga's "Black and British" but perhaps not also in a book about a white woman and her anxious life. But she's in South London and there it it. Good to see it remembered and memorialised.
Book review – Bella Osborne – "The Promise of Summer"
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I was so pleased when Avon Books got in touch with me to offer me this book to read – they've sent me some corkers over the last couple of years and this was such a good read and perfect for the summer.
Bella Osborne – "The Promise of Summer"
(13 June 2021 – NetGalley)
We're introduced to flower shop owner Kim and her assistant Ruby. Kim lost her husband seven years ago and has built up her life again, Ruby's getting sick of dating, has lost her mum quite recently and is looking for alternative ways of making a family. They have their regular customers, Adrian, who buys his wife roses once a week, Dean, who relies on Ruby to write the cards for his fast-track romance bouquets and a selection of bridezillas and the like, and I really liked how the work of the florists was portrayed in detail.
When Ruby goes on a bit of a mission to London, she's derailed when her seat companion shares his plans to propose to his girlfriend … then leaves the ring on the train! Along with strait-laced Curtis across the aisle, Ruby embarks on a new mission, to reunite Lewis with his lost ring. They go to each other's meetings, with hilarious results, Ruby gets a new job and Curtis starts to unwind. Meanwhile, Kim gets a shock but also adopts a dog (which is done really well – a rescue dog with issues she has to patiently work on, another example of great research and responsibility on the part of Osborne) and Adrian and Dean both offer their little surprises, too.
I loved the relationship between Ruby and Curtis; he's obviously more than a little neurodivergent but is presented as a good, decent person with a lot of strong points (and his family gives Osborne an extra opportunity to add a little more diversity, which she does in an unforced way). I also loved that Kim isn't the youngest and has some menopausal moments but still gets her story, and the older women in a nursing home as well as an older man are also cherished and rounded characters.
A real feel-good novel with a twisty-turny plot that's expertly handled and characters you can root for, based in a real world where you have to do floristry admin and tidying up, where you have to work hard to get a dog's trust, and a person's.
This was the first Bella Osborne novel I've read and certainly won't be the last. Recommended for people who want a well-plotted and researched, fun summer read that you can rely on to do a good job.
Thank you to Avon Books UK for getting in touch to offer me a copy of this book to read via NetGalley in return for an honest review. The book is published on 22 July so not long to go – get pre-ordering now!
Book review – Natasha Lunn – "Conversations on Love"
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The first of my July NetGalley reads (I have one June one left to read, I'm not doing too badly, and several of the others are hopefully light novels. I haven't got a massive amount to say about this one, but here's my review …
Natasha Lunn – "Conversations on Love"
(20 April 2021 – NetGalley)
I requested and downloaded this one because I thought it was a book of essays: although it's called "Conversations …" and does mention that, there's a contributors list that includes Philippa Perry, Candice Carty-Williams and others.
Instead, it's a memoir by the author of her life and loves, her yearnings and mistakes, covering wanting to have a relationship, then wanting to have a baby, with some asides about friendship (friendship is covered more fully in the conversations) and loss (in her case, miscarriage and then difficulties conceiving, but discussed again more widely in the conversations). At salient points, she introduces a conversation about an aspect of love with one of the aforementioned experts.
What I liked: it definitely concentrated on the need not to expect one person in a romantic relationship to fulfil all of our needs and the need to have a wide pool of friends, work, even religion to love as well as that one person. Problems in friendships, the loss of friendships and the loss of friends are all dealt with which as much seriousness and respect as those around romantic relationships. I know friends/readers like Thomas Le will appreciate that aspect.
I didn't love the way the book was organised – there were three large sections but within those you sort of read on and on, oh, there's a conversation, then on it goes again. Then someone would be mentioned and you thought you were getting another conversation but it was just an aside. I also wasn't that thrilled to read so much detail about the author's life (which I do feel bad about: I just wasn't expecting the book to be about her as such) and what she learned from doing this conversation project over a number of years. It seems a bit heteronormative and White, though the latter is hard to prove without checking the bios of all the interviewees (not provided). Roxane Gay was in there but surely not providing all the diversity. There are lots of good points in the book – kindness is the most important aspect of a long marriage, how various aspects wax and wane, but it didn't feel that well-organised that you would retain this information.
What I loved: she thanked her transcriber in the acknowledgements! Always lovely to see.
Thank you to Penguin / Viking for choosing me to read this book through NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Book review – Johny Pitts – "Afropean"
It's time to review Book 7 in my 20 Books of Summer project. I am a bit behind but I have a week off this week and now I've got my annual blood test out of the way, and presumably while the hedge man is here later in the week, I should have lots of lovely time for reading. I bought this one off my wish list on a bit of a whim (the full story is here) and I've been looking forward to getting to read it. It's one of those lovely Penguins with the orange and white striped spine, too, with a great cover picture taken by the author, who is a photographer as well as a writer. .
I hope everyone else who is doing 20 Books of Summer/Winter is having fun with their books! How are you doing?
Johny Pitts – "Afropean: Notes from Black Europe"
in contemporary Europe it seemed to me that black people were either presented as uber-stylized retro hipster dandies in thick-rimmed glasses and a bit of kente cloth, or dangerous hooded ghetto-yoot. (p. 6)
Pitts grew up in a working-class, multicultural area of Sheffield and, bruised by an encounter with London life, he gathers his savings, moves back into his mum's for a bit and prepares to go on a trip to see whether he can find brotherhood and a sense of belonging in the "Afropean" communities across Europe. This descriptor was only relatively recently coined, and at first he thinks he's going to be visiting an elite group of musicians and artists who exist in glorious idiosyncracy as part of society but also apart from it; crucially people who have an identity as a European of African heritage rather than an immigrant. However, he soon realises that the people he really needs to talk to are the invisible, the indigent, the undocumented, the people who, as with GMP people in the UK, are "here because you were there" (i.e. they are people from former colonies who have come to the "mother country" through having citizenship and a connection, or have been called to come to fill a labour gap) but are not permitted to feel part of the majority populus. He has an epiphany when visiting the "Jungle" in Calais, being called to write about the people there by an inhabitant.
The author makes a conscious choice to avoid the academic in his work (although it's rigorously footnoted and referenced). Unlike more privileged travel writers, he goes out with his own budget and wanting to make a book, not a publisher's budget with a book deal set up (and the way this gets published is a lovely two-fingered salute to old-school-tie networks: he meets Caryl Phillips, whose "European Tribes" (which I now yearn to re-read) he is inspired by, and through him makes a train of connections that leads to publication with Penguin.
I read a lot of valuable academic research and sociological theory, but all too often this was gathering dust in universities, or preaching to the converted, written or cited more often by wealthy, educated white scholars than the people being written about and couched in a stand-offish, academic vernacular. Formal education is often driven by someone else's knowledge: who authorized it and shaped its rhetoric? Whose knowledge is it? Who has access to it? What about black Europe beyond the desk of a theorist, found in the equivocal and untidy lived experiences of its communities? Black Europe from the street up? (p. 5)
He's careful to name what he doesn't cover (the role of churches and Islam in supporting Black culture in Europe) and names his privilege in terms of being able to walk out of the "Jungle" (but still have to prove his identity to police) and bring able to wander freely late at night in sketchy places, unlike his female friends. He mentions how glad he is that there's "a new zeitgeist of intersectional black thought that is often led by feminism and queerness" (p. 132(He's frustrated that there are areas he isn't able to get to and encourages readers to submit their experiences to his website, Afropeans.com (there's some great stuff on there). He covers France (Paris and the South), Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia and Portugal and I have to say I'd have liked to see more than the small amount he writes about Spain, as I've always been concerned about the numbers of African people selling in markets in mainland and particularly Canary Islands Spain and would have liked to know more about them.
After an introduction and sociological exploration of working-class Sheffield, explaining Pitts' roots and experience (like Akala and Guvna B, he credits his escape from a path he could have gone down to his circumstances, in this case a strong and stable home, his mum supported by her White working-class family, his dad an African American entertainer who gave him some different life experiences), we're off round Europe, experiencing immigrants and second- and third-generation citizens, the undocumented and the documented, those living in precarity and secure middle-class folk. There are some very striking examples and he brings himself into the picture but not excessively, giving voice to his subjects (and subtly indicating their accents, which is incredibly well done). He makes it very clear how cultures that don't even use words for racism (social issues anyone?) are systematically racist and he honours different kinds of activism while noting the flaws that some of it has.
I stuck millions of post-it note tabs into this book but if I used them all, this review would be as long as the actual book! Suffice it to say, he makes visible the invisible world of the network of people who make Europe work; he takes himself off to estates and banlieux and tries to talk deeply to people. I learned about histories and legacies of colonialism I didn't know about (I had no idea about the Dutch in Suriname, for example, though I was more up on French colonialism) in this very human and warm, though at times provocative (he shares an interesting perspective that maybe Trump and Brexit are better for immigrant communities because "their position is clearer" and the blatant racism makes a space come available for people to politicise and organise).
And just to make it clear: this is no po-faced polemic. It's incredibly engaging and readable, and I kept wanting to read just one more section. Published in 2019, I'm not sure I've seen it on too many of the "Black Lives Matter" lists: it deserves to be known and read.
This was book number 7 in my 20 Books of Summer 2021!
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In October 2013 the ECRAD farm was ready for year ahead.
The plan is to have 3 harvests per year to create a sustainable food program to provide food and income.
It costs £900 alone in fertilizer for each harvest.
In March 2014, the first fruits can be seen of the good work put in by the ECRAD farm team.
Patrick joined ECRAD during 2013 and together with 2 farm workers looks after the ECRAD site and farm.
In the picture below, an area at the bottom of the site has been planted with sweet potato to diversify the crop.
In the background is the nursery space and outdoor kitchen, where the ECRAD orphans are fed each day.
Pray that this effort can be sustained and that the next harvests are as bountiful.


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Almáskeresztúr (vyslovováno [almáškerestúr], ) je malá vesnička v Maďarsku v župě Baranya, spadající pod okres Szigetvár. Nachází se asi 11 km severovýchodně od Szigetváru. V roce 2015 zde žilo 81 obyvatel, z nichž jsou (dle údajů z roku 2011) 94,7 % Maďaři, 9,2 % Němci a 2,6 % Chorvati.

Jedinou sousední vesnicí je Mozsgó.

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\section{\textbf{Introduction}}

Superconductivity is a phenomena occurring in certain materials when cooled
below some characteristic temperature called a critical temperature. In a
superconductor, the resistance drops suddenly to zero when the material is
cooled below its critical temperature. This phenomena was first discovered
by the dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, which received the Nobel
prize of physics in 1913 for discovering this phenomena and the related work
regarding liquefaction of helium [1]. There is another phenomena related to
superconductor called (Meissner effect), which is the expulsion of a
magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the
superconducting state. This phenomena was discovered in 1933 by Walther
Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld [2]. Although the microscopic theory of
superconductivity was developed by Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer (BCS
theory) in 1957 [3], other descriptions of the phenomena of the
superconductivity were developed [4-6].

Whereas ordinary superconductors usually have transition temperatures below
30 Kelvin, It is well known that some materials behave as superconductors at
unusually high critical temperatures and this materials called high
temperature superconductors or (HTS). The first HTS was discovered in 1986
by Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Muller, who were awarded the 1987 Nobel Prize
in Physics [7].

Although the standard BCS theory (weak-coupling electron--phonon
interaction) can explain all known low temperature superconductors and even
some high temperature superconductors, some of high temperature
superconductors cannot be explained by BCS theory and some physicist believe
that they obey a strong interaction.

In this paper, we find that if we use a unified statistics [8] instead
Fermi-Dirac statistics, then we can find a reasonable explanation of all
high temperature superconductivity phenomena using a standard BCS theory.

\section{\textbf{The model}}

We follow the derivation of Hamiltonian model using the mean field
approximation and Bogoliubov unitary transformation as in the reference [9],
where we can write the following relation,

\begin{equation}
\left\vert \Delta \right\vert =\left\vert V\right\vert \sum_{k}\frac
\left\vert \Delta \right\vert }{2\sqrt{(\epsilon (k)-\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}
\left[ f(-E_{K})-f(E_{K})\right] \text{,}
\end{equation}

where $f(E_{K})$ determined from the unified statistics as follow [8],

\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{1}{(1-p)f(E_{k})}+1\right) ^{1-p}\left( \frac{1}{pf(E_{k})
-1\right) ^{p}=e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{(\epsilon (k)-\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}
\text{.}
\end{equation}

\section{\textbf{BCS Theory ( }$p\rightarrow 1)$}

\begin{center}
\textbf{For }$p\rightarrow 1$\textbf{, we recover the usual BCS Theory.}
\end{center}

When $p\rightarrow 1,$we have the following usual form of the Fermi function
$f(E_{K})$,

\begin{equation}
f(E_{K})=\frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{(\epsilon -\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}
}}}\text{,}
\end{equation}

so, we have,

\begin{equation}
1=\left\vert V\right\vert \sum_{k}\int \frac{1}{2\sqrt{(\epsilon (k)-\mu
)^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}\left[ \frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{-\sqrt{(\epsilon (k)-\mu
)^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}-\frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{(\epsilon (k)-\mu
)^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}\right] \text{.}
\end{equation}

Replacing the summation by integration over the energy states, we have,

\begin{equation}
1=\left\vert V\right\vert \int_{\mu -\epsilon _{D}}^{\mu +\epsilon _{D}
\frac{N(0)d\epsilon }{2\sqrt{(\epsilon -\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}\left[ \frac{
}{1+e^{\dfrac{-\sqrt{(\epsilon -\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}-\frac{1}
1+e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{(\epsilon -\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}\right] \text{
}
\end{equation}

Let $\zeta =\epsilon -\mu ,$ then we have the master equation for BCS theory
as,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\epsilon _{D}}\dfrac{d\zeta
}{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}\left[ \frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{-\sqrt{\zeta
^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}-\frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta
^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}}\right] \text{.}
\end{equation}

\begin{center}
\textbf{Determine }$T_{C}$\textbf{.}
\end{center}

At $\Delta =0$, we have $T=T_{C}$, so we can write,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\epsilon _{D}}\dfrac{d\zeta
}{\zeta }\left[ \frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{-\zeta }{k_{B}T_{C}}}}-\frac{1}{1+e^
\dfrac{\zeta }{k_{B}T_{C}}}}\right] \text{.}
\end{equation}

Define $\dfrac{\zeta }{k_{B}T_{C}}=x$, we can write,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\dfrac{{\huge \epsilon }_{D
}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\dfrac{dx}{x}\phi (x)\text{,}
\end{equation}

where $\phi (x)=\left[ \dfrac{1}{1+e^{-x}}-\dfrac{1}{1+e^{x}}\right] $.

Using integration by parts we have,

\begin{equation}
\int_{0}^{\dfrac{{\Huge \epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\dfrac{dx}{x}\phi (x)
\left[ \phi (x)\ln x\right] _{0}^{\dfrac{{\huge \epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}
}-\int_{0}^{\dfrac{{\huge \epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\frac{d\phi (x)}{dx
\ln xdx\text{.}
\end{equation}

For a weak coupling limit, i.e. $\left\{ \frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert
N_{0}}\gtrdot \gtrdot 1,k_{B}T_{C}\lessdot \lessdot \epsilon _{D},\left\vert
\Delta _{0}\right\vert \lessdot \lessdot k_{B}T_{C}\right\} ,$we have,

\begin{eqnarray}
\left[ \phi (x)\ln x\right] _{0}^{\dfrac{{\huge \epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}
&=&\ln \frac{\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}\text{,} \\
\int_{0}^{\dfrac{{\huge \epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\dfrac{d\phi (x)}{dx}\ln
xdx &\approx &\int_{0}^{\infty }\frac{d\phi (x)}{dx}\ln xdx\approx -0,1256
\text{.}
\end{eqnarray}

So, we have

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\ln \left( 1,134\frac{\epsilon _{D}}
K_{B}T_{C}}\right) \text{.}
\end{equation}

We can rewrite the last equation to obtain the well known formula for
critical temperature for BCS Theory as,

\begin{equation}
T_{C}=\frac{1,134\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}}e^{\dfrac{-1}{\left\vert V\right\vert
N(0)}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

\begin{center}
\textbf{Determine }$\Delta _{0}.$
\end{center}

At $T=0$, we have $\Delta =\Delta _{0}$, so from the equation we have,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\epsilon _{D}}\dfrac{d\zeta
}{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta _{0}^{2}}}=\sinh ^{-1}\left( \frac{\epsilon _{D}}
\Delta _{0}}\right) \text{,}
\end{equation}

so we have,

\begin{equation}
\frac{\epsilon _{D}}{\Delta _{0}}=\sinh \left( \frac{1}{\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}\right) \text{.}
\end{equation}

Again, for a weak coupling limit, we have $\sinh \left( \frac{1}{\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}\right) \approx \frac{1}{2}e^{\dfrac{1}{\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}}$, so we can write the BCS formula of $\Delta _{0}$ as
follow,

\begin{equation}
\frac{\epsilon _{D}}{\Delta _{0}}=\frac{1}{2}e^{\frac{1}{\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

From equations (13) and (16), we arrive at the universal BCS formula,

\begin{equation}
\Delta _{0}=1.76K_{B}T_{C}\text{.}
\end{equation}

Using equations (16) and (17) in the master equation (6), we can plot the
universal curve $y=y(x)$, where $x=\dfrac{T}{T_{C}},y=\dfrac{\Delta }{\Delta
_{0}}$ as follow,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\dfrac{\sinh \frac{1}
\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}}{y}}\frac{dz}{\sqrt{z^{2}+1}}\left( \frac{1}
1+e^{\dfrac{-1.76y\sqrt{z^{2}+1}}{x}}}-\frac{1}{1+e^{\dfrac{1.76y\sqrt
z^{2}+1}}{x}}}\right) \text{.}
\end{equation}

\section{Anyon superconductivity}

From equations (1) and (2), we can write the general form of the master
equation for any value of $p$ as follow,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\dint\limits_{0}^{{\Huge \epsilon
_{D}}\frac{d\zeta }{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}\left[ \phi (\frac{1}
r(\zeta )})-\phi (r(\zeta ))\right] \text{,}
\end{equation}

where
\begin{equation}
r(\zeta )=e^{^{\dfrac{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{K_{B}T}}\text{,}}
\end{equation}

and $\phi (r)$ determined from the following equation,

\QTP{Body Math}
\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{1}{(1-p)\phi (r)}+1\right) ^{1-p}\left( \frac{1}{p\phi (r)
-1\right) ^{p}=r\text{.}
\end{equation}

\subsection{\textbf{Determine }$T_{C}$\textbf{\ for any value of }$p$}

At $\Delta =0$, we have $T=T_{C}$ and then from equations (19-21) we can
write,

\QTP{Body Math}
\begin{eqnarray}
\frac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)} &=&\dint\limits_{0}^{\dfrac{{\Huge
\epsilon }_{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\frac{dx}{x}\left[ \phi (\frac{1}{r(x)})-\phi
(r(x))\right] \text{,} \\
r(x) &=&e^{x},
\end{eqnarray}

and again, $\phi (r)$ determined from the equation (21).

\subsection{\textbf{Determine }$\Delta _{0}$ \textbf{for any value of }$p$}

At $T=0$, we have $\Delta =\Delta _{0}$ and from equation (20), we have
r=\infty $, so equation (21) takes the form,

\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{1}{(1-p)\phi (r)}+1\right) ^{1-p}\left( \frac{1}{p\phi (r)
-1\right) ^{p}=\infty \text{.}
\end{equation}

Then for any value of $p,$we have

\begin{equation}
\phi (r)=0\text{ at }T=0.
\end{equation}

Similarly, we can evaluate $\phi \left( \frac{1}{r}\right) $ by solving the
following equation,

\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{1}{(1-p)\phi \left( \dfrac{1}{r}\right) }+1\right) ^{1-p}\left(
\frac{1}{p\phi \left( \dfrac{1}{r}\right) }-1\right) ^{p}=\frac{1}{r}\text{.}
\end{equation}

So at $T=0,$ We have $r=\infty ,\dfrac{1}{r}=0$ and then equation (26) takes
the form,

\begin{equation}
\left( \frac{1}{(1-p)\phi \left( \dfrac{1}{r}\right) }+1\right) ^{1-p}\left(
\frac{1}{p\phi \left( \dfrac{1}{r}\right) }-1\right) ^{p}=0
\end{equation}

The solution of (26) (for positive $\phi (\frac{1}{r})$) takes the form,

\begin{equation}
\phi (\frac{1}{r})=\frac{1}{p}\text{ at }T=0\text{.}
\end{equation}

Using (25) and (28) in the master equation (19), we have at $T=0$ the
following equation,

\begin{equation}
\frac{p}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\dint\limits_{0}^{{\Huge \epsilon
_{D}}\frac{d\zeta }{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta _{0}^{2}}}=\sinh ^{-1}\dfrac
\epsilon _{D}}{\Delta _{0}}\text{,}
\end{equation}

or in the equivalent form,

\begin{equation}
\epsilon _{D}=\Delta _{0}\sinh \frac{p}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}\text{.}
\end{equation}

At weak coupling limit, from the equation (30), we have the following
universal relation for $\Delta _{0}$ at any value of $p$ as,

\begin{equation}
\Delta _{0}=2\epsilon _{D}\text{ }e^{\dfrac{-p}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)
}\text{.}
\end{equation}

In the next section, we will study some special cases of Anyon
superconductivity for some special values of $p$.

\bigskip

\section{Special cases of Anyon superconductivity}

\subsection{$p=\frac{1}{2}$ Anyon}

From the unified statistics (equation(2)), we can find the formula of
f(E_{k})$ as follow,

\begin{equation}
f(E_{k})=\frac{2}{\left( 1+e^{\dfrac{2\sqrt{(\epsilon -\mu )^{2}+\Delta ^{2}
}{k_{B}T}}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

So, after some calculations, we arrive at the master equation for the case
p=\frac{1}{2}$ as follow,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\epsilon _{D}}\dfrac
d\zeta }{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}\left[ \frac{1}{\left( 1+e^{\dfrac{-
\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}-\frac{1}
\left( 1+e^{\dfrac{2\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta ^{2}}}{k_{B}T}}\right) ^{\dfrac{
}{2}}}\right] \text{.}
\end{equation}

\begin{center}
Determine $T_{C}$
\end{center}

At $\Delta =0$, we have $T=T_{C}$, so from equations (32,33) we can write,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\dfrac{\epsilon _{D}}
K_{B}T_{C}}}\dfrac{dx}{x}\left[ \frac{1}{\left( 1+e^{-2x}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}
2}}}-\frac{1}{\left( 1+e^{2x}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}\right] \text{.}
\end{equation}

Define $\phi (x)=\left[ \dfrac{1}{\left( 1+e^{-2x}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}
\dfrac{1}{\left( 1+e^{2x}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}\right] $, we can calculate
the last integral as,

\begin{equation}
\int_{0}^{\dfrac{\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}}\dfrac{dx}{x}\phi (x)\approx
\left[ \phi (x)\ln x\right] _{0}^{\dfrac{\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}
}-\int_{0}^{\infty }dx\dfrac{d\phi (x)}{x}\ln x=\ln \dfrac{\epsilon _{D}}
K_{B}T_{C}}+0.4228=\ln \dfrac{1.535\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}T_{C}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

So,we can write the equation(34) as,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\ln \dfrac{1.535\epsilon _{D}}
K_{B}T_{C}}\text{,}
\end{equation}

or on the equivalent form,

\begin{equation}
T_{C}=\dfrac{1.535\epsilon _{D}}{K_{B}}e^{\dfrac{-1}{2\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

Comparing equation (37), the critical temperature for the Anyon case ($P
\frac{1}{2}$) and equation (13), the critical temperature for BCS theory (at
the same value of Debye energy) we have,

\begin{equation}
\frac{T_{C_{{\huge p=}\frac{1}{2}}}}{T_{C_{\text{BCS}}}}=1.35e^{\dfrac{1}
2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

So, for some weak coupling limit, say $\dfrac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0
}=5$, we have

\begin{equation}
T_{C_{{\huge p=}\frac{1}{2}}}\simeq 16,446T_{C_{\text{BCS}}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

So, if the critical temperature in the standard BSC is equal to $1$ Kelvin
(with $\dfrac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=5$), then using a unified
statistics with $P=\frac{1}{2}$, the critical temperature jumps to $16,446$
Kelvin.

Notice that although the weak coupling is the reason of why we cannot
explain some HTS using the standard BCS theory, in the Anyonic statistics
the critical temperature is increased whenever the coupling limit is
decreased!!

As an example, consider that we have more weak interaction (say $\dfrac{1}
\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=10$), then we have,

\begin{equation}
T_{C_{{\huge p=}\frac{1}{2}}}\simeq 201T_{C_{\text{BCS}}}!!
\end{equation}

So at the same condition, if the critical temperature in the standard BSC is
eual to $1$ Kelvin then for a weak coupling $\dfrac{1}{\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}=5$ we see that the critical temperature jumps to $16,446$
Kelvin and for more weak coupling $\dfrac{1}{\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)
=10 $ the critical temperature jumps to $201$ Kelvin!

\begin{center}
\textbf{Determine }$\Delta _{0}$
\end{center}

At $T=0$, we have $\Delta =\Delta _{0}$, so from the equation (29) we have,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\epsilon _{D}}\dfrac
d\zeta }{\sqrt{\zeta ^{2}+\Delta _{0}^{2}}}=\sinh ^{-1}\left( \frac{\epsilon
_{D}}{\Delta _{0}}\right) \text{ ,}
\end{equation}

so we have,

\begin{equation}
\Delta _{0}=2\epsilon _{D\text{ }}e^{\dfrac{-1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0
}}\text{..}
\end{equation}

From (24) and (28), we have

\begin{equation}
\Delta _{0}=1.3K_{B}T_{C}\text{.}
\end{equation}

Finally, we can plot the universal curve $y=y(x)$, where $x=\dfrac{T}{T_{C}
,y=\dfrac{\Delta }{\Delta _{0}}$ for $p=\frac{1}{2}$ as follow,

\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}=\int_{0}^{\dfrac{\sinh \frac{1}
2\left\vert V\right\vert N(0)}}{y}}\dfrac{dz}{\sqrt{z^{2}+1}}\left[ \frac{1}
\left( 1+e^{\dfrac{-2.6y\sqrt{z^{2}+1}}{x}}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}-\frac{1}
\left( 1+e^{\dfrac{2.6y\sqrt{z^{2}+1}}{x}}\right) ^{\dfrac{1}{2}}}\right]
\text{.}
\end{equation}

\subsection{$p=\frac{1}{3}$ Anyon superconductor}

For $p=\frac{1}{3}$, we can determine $\phi (r)$ from equation (21) as,

\begin{equation}
\phi (r)=\frac{3}{(2r^{3}+2\sqrt{r^{6}+r^{3}}+1)^{\dfrac{1}{3}}+(2r^{3}+
\sqrt{r^{6}+r^{3}}+1)^{\dfrac{-1}{3}}-1}\text{.}
\end{equation}

From equations (22-23) and after some calculations, we can find the formula
of $T_{C}$ for the Anyon $p=\frac{1}{3}$ as,

\begin{equation}
T_{C}=\frac{32.627}{K_{B}}\epsilon _{D}\text{ }e^{\dfrac{-1}{3\left\vert
V\right\vert N(0)}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

Also, from the general equation (31) we have,

\begin{equation}
\Delta _{0}=2\epsilon _{D}\text{ }e^{\dfrac{-1}{3\left\vert V\right\vert N(0
}}\text{.}
\end{equation}

\begin{conclusion}
In this paper, we calculated the critical temperature of some metals using
the standard BCS theory but assuming that the particles inside this metals
obey Anyonic statistics instead Fermi-Dirac statistics. We find that the
lower \ of the interaction we have, the greater of the critical temperature
which may be a reasonable explanation of some high temperature
superconductors which the standard BCS theory cannot explain it.

\begin{acknowledgement}
I want to thank E. Ahmad for his advice and very useful discussion.
\end{acknowledgement}
\end{conclusion}

\section{References}

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A Capitol Embarrassment: Booker and Gillibrand
Pandering, cheap stunts lower the status of an already-tottering institution.
By: Joe Schaeffer July 09, 2019 Articles, illegal immigration, Migrant caravan, Politics, Social Issues
We all know the United States Senate is far removed from the days when it was called "the world's greatest deliberative body" by former President James Buchanan in 1867. Careerism, pure Swamp corruption, and the blind pursuit of personal ambition have for decades diminished the stature of the once-formidable institution. That conceded, it still seems somewhat shocking to witness the depths of sheer mediocrity currently being plumbed by shameless Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
In Federalist Paper No. 62, James Madison described the need to have a senate embodied by persons of character, who were above the overheated fray of what we now call the 24-hour news cycle. "The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies to yield to the impulse of sudden and violent passions, and to be seduced by factious leaders into intemperate and pernicious resolutions," Madison wrote. You would be hard-pressed to find more spot-on examples of Madison's feared intemperate and pernicious political nature than what Booker and Gillibrand are flaunting on the campaign trail today.
Feeble Foibles
Booker, in a loathsome move that appears solely intended to garner attention, played the part of human trafficker on July 3, personally escorting five illegal aliens over our southern border. And, what's more, he's proud of it:
Today I crossed the US-Mexico border in El Paso with @fams2gether and @LasAmericasIAC to help five women present themselves for asylum. These are my observations. Please don't look away.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) July 3, 2019
The "please don't look away" phrasing deftly highlights the striking immaturity of this former Rhodes Scholar. It is the wording of a mind swayed not by profound thought or even strongly held personal belief but by the impulsive gratification of social media and reality TV. Booker has long given in to his "sudden passions," of course. When B-list actor Jussie Smollett pulled off his notorious hoax in January, Booker rushed to express his outrage and support well before any facts were clear.
Booker has also expressed a fondness for vulgarity that further obliterates any vestige of senatorial dignity on his part. Pandering on the issue of "gun violence," he told CNN in May that "We are not going to give 'thoughts and prayers,' which to me is just bullsh*t." Finding an opportunity to preen on race over a tweet Donald Trump, Jr. wrote about Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Booker again led with his foul mouth, commenting that Harris "doesn't have sh*t to prove."
Flimsy Flailing
Not to be outdone by her New Jersey colleague's boorishness, Gillibrand has been running perhaps the most lightweight and ineffectual campaign ever carried out by a senator in a presidential primary. Having apparently no moments of gravitas to point to after serving a full six-year term in the highest elective office in Congress, Gillibrand acts as if she is auditioning for a role in a sitcom rather than striving to be nominated by a major party for the White House. In April, the senator was seen dressing up with drag queens before they performed in Iowa.
Vana and the amazing queens at the Blazing Saddle in Des Moines invited me for a visit tonight before their show. I felt underdressed, so I brought a dress I picked up yesterday—turns out it fit me, but it fit Vana even better! Thank you for having me, ladies! pic.twitter.com/l0ISbENSwg
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) April 20, 2019
In June she took her gimmickry to a new level, offering a competition in which a random campaign donor would "win" a chance to down a whiskey with Kirsten!
And, of course, she was all-in on the Democrat stampede to support Smollett without taking so much as a moment to wonder whether his story was true or not. Instead, she immediately concluded that "This is a sickening and outrageous attack, and horribly, it's the latest of too many hate crimes against LGBTQ people and people of color. We are all responsible for condemning this behavior and every person who enables or normalizes it. Praying for Jussie and his family."
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At some point, the question must be asked whether running for president excuses such unabashed and unapologetically dimwitted behavior. Yes, the Democrats have some howlingly awful candidates in their 2020 field. But ultimately the joke is on all of us. For we live in a nation where the most mendacious and pedestrian personalities imaginable can scale the heights of representative democracy. What does it say about us as a people?
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Single Dad Attends Cosmetology School, Just For His 3 Year Old Daughter!
Here is your daily dose of ADORABLE! Greg Wickherst is a single Dad from Colorado who was faced with a conundrum upon splitting from his 3-year-old daughter's mother over a year ago. He did not have a clue how to do her hair!
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What's a father to do? Attend cosmetology classes, obviously. He "works as an admissions representative at the IntelliTec College, which luckily, has a cosmetology department. Last summer, Greg visited the department to ask students to help him out. 'In no time, I was able to do a simple braid, then a fishbone braid, and a French braid. I learned how to do a ponytail, then flip it through itself either under or over. I call that an inverted ponytail,' he said".
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"Saturday Night Live's" Pete Davidson confirmed Wednesday that he and singer Ariana Grande are engaged.
"The Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon joked with Davidson that he "didn't have to get engaged" to come on his show.
"But I did though, " Davidson responded.
Fallon then shook his hand to congratulate him.
Davidson and Grande had only been dating a few weeks, when rumors surfaced last week that the couple was engaged. Grande has yet to confirm the huge news.


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In this project that lasted 3 weeks we were asked to find a problem and find a solution to it through deep user research. The target audience of "Rolesnap" is people who appreciate cinema and t.v series. The user Scan the screen with his phone's camera and receive information about the character relevant to his viewing pace without any spoilers.
While viewing a long t.v or movie series, there may be times in which we forget a character that may be important to the plot. As of now, there is no application that offers an easy way to search for certain characters during the stream, without risking a "spoiler".
I created an application that implements augmented reality technologies to scan and identify characters in the user's series\movie in real time, and provide them with in depth, spoiler proof information, in addition to interactive features of the character.
At the beginning of the research I decided to make an "Google Forms" quiz with a few questions to get to know how popular is the problem. I posted the quiz in popular facebook groups like "The Geeks"/״Ahgikia" and over 120 people helped me with their answers.
From all the pepole who took the quiz I decided to focus on two personas that shares together the appreciation for cinema and t.v series. But first one is experience it as a daily job and the other as a daily hobby.
The map I made based on answers from the interviews I conducted with the personas. Examples of some of the questions:
- "Why do you think this app can be useful?"
- "Have you had any more questions about a character regardless of her identity and role while watching?"
- "Usually you encounter this problem, do you have anyone to turn to? If not, what are you doing?"
After the research I did, I realized that the app can contain additional content and not just the main function of the app to recognize a character. I added features that will be fun to use and help in deep familiarity with the character and help in remembering him for the long term while keeping flow short, clear and fun.
The similarity feature is made for connect the user to the character and made him curious about it, And the Quiz made help the user to remember the character's storyline.


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Kadarka är en blå druvsort från Ungern som på Balkan kallas Gamza. Intresset för Kadarka i Ungern sjönk under 1970- och 80-talet. Nedgången i intresse berodde bland annat på för stora skördeuttag vilket ger ointressanta viner. Rätt hanterad kan den dock ge ett fylligt vin med god tannin-halt. Idag har intresset ökat för de traditionella ungerska druvsorterna inklusive Kadarka. Traditionellt användes druvan för Bikaver – Tjurblodet både i Eger och Szekszárd.

Druvan förekommer också på Balkan såsom i Rumänien och Bulgarien men även i Österrike.

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Marie Visits the Come Alive Fest in Nashville
NASHVILLE — The 40 Days for Life's fall campaign in the Diocese of Nashville got a rocking boost on Sept. 24 with a festival of music that garnered support and commitment from a youthful audience. Produced and promoted by Mysterium Records, the live concert of eight Catholic musicians and rock bands was recorded for a CD that will help promote 40 Days for Life. (The CD will be released by Mysterium Records and made available to LifeTeen and through Ignatius Press.)
Jimmy Mitchell, 25, president of Mysterium Records and producer of the Love Come Alive Festival, was inspired to get more deeply involved in the pro-life movement because of 40 Days for Life.
Read more at the National Catholic Register.


Matt Critchley smashed 22 off the final over from Tim Bresnan to give Derbyshire Falcons a dramatic five-wicket win over Yorkshire Vikings with one ball to spare in the Vitality Blast game at a wet and blustery Chesterfield.
The Vikings were favourites going into the last over with the Falcons needing 19 to chase down 167 but Critchley hit two sixes and two fours to pull off a shock victory.
Billy Godleman played his part with an an unbeaten 71 and Ravi Rampaul took 4 for 19 to restrict the Vikings to 166 for 8 with David Willey top scoring with 55.
Rain had delayed the start by 35 minutes and Tom Kohler-Cadmore took 14 off the first three balls from Wayne Madsen but in the next over, he was brilliantly caught low down at cover by Matt Critchley.
After 10 overs, the Vikings were 91 for 2 and Willey launched Ravi Rampaul for a huge six into the trees on his way to a 37 ball 50 but the Falcons made a much-needed breakthrough in the 13th over when Williamson pulled Wahab Riaz to square leg.
Gary Ballance carved Riaz over cover for six but Willey miscued to mid off in the same over and Derbyshire's tight bowling was rewarded when Hughes bowled Ballance.
Bresnan drove Hughes for six but Jonathan Tattersall was bowled swinging at Viljoen and after a brief rain break, Bresnan was caught behind pulling Rampaul and Liam Plunkett lost his middle stump to the next ball.
The Falcons had done well to restrict The Vikings to 64 off the last nine overs and began the chase by taking 17 from the second over by Bresnan which included a six over long on from Billy Godleman.
But Azeem Rafiq had Calum MacLeod caught at deep midwicket in the fourth and in the next over, Madsen was run out for two after a mix-up with Godleman.
Anuj Dal ramped Plunkett for six but was lbw in Adil Rashid's first over and the game was in the balance with the Falcons needing 91 from the last 10.
Wilson drove Rashid for six but was stumped advancing at Rafiq in the 13th over and Rashid beat Viljoen's big swing with the last ball of the 15th.


11:42 IhrFussel sfan5, latency can make it look like a player using fly and noclip for 3+ minutes?
11:43 IhrFussel Then it must be a bot?
11:49 IhrFussel In case it was a new kind of bot...could it be linked to Shara's problem?
13:10 Megaf [11:42:16] <IhrFussel> sfan5, latency can make it look like a player using fly and noclip for 3+ minutes?
13:41 Megaf Foks, did we ever tested TCP instead of UDP?
16:15 Mr_Pardison I presume u mean the ones that look like mini travelnet boxes and not irl ones as it isn't quite time for them yet.
16:17 Mr_Pardison Would be happy to see those.
16:17 Mr_Pardison I'd keep them in glass jars and use them for lights if possible.
17:15 Sokomine was realtest moved in the forum to old mods or so?
17:20 Megaf Calinou: problem is, how would a sapling know when to grow?
17:23 red-001 Megaf, use static lighting?
17:47 IhrFussel Why is it that most servers run by kids (no offense) are a total clusterfrick?
17:49 Mr-Pardison because they don't know what they are doing.
18:45 Mr-Pardison oh most of them are seagull managers anyway.
19:00 benrob0329 Sokomine: colormachine 2.0?
19:37 Raven262 Sokomine, what is this machine made of? and do you accept nodeboxes?
19:50 Megaf does he speaks?
19:55 Raven262 Well, I'm currently making a nodebox machine.
19:55 Raven262 Currently doing textures, I'll send you a screenshot when I finish it.
20:45 Krock that's a "thing"
20:45 Raven262 Fixing some texture errors now.
21:05 Sokomine can you perhaps add more colors to the texture? or is it possible to apply colorization to models as well?
21:20 benrob0329 Sokomine: for what?
21:20 benrob0329 Your coloring machine?
21:21 benrob0329 Plaster, or paint?
21:21 benrob0329 Plaster isn't sprayed..
21:23 benrob0329 Like, drywall mud?
21:24 Megaf What is that?
21:25 benrob0329 So, you'd end up with a grey block?
21:55 Shara Player didn't even have interact.
21:56 Shara Fixer: Care to explain?
21:57 red-001 Shara, do you have anticheat enabled?
21:58 Shara red-001: Sorry, not buying that.
22:00 red-001 Shara, whats the issue with the player anyways?
22:01 red-001 Shara, what damage?
22:01 IhrFussel Like I said that movement is not humanlike...do you agree?
22:01 Shara You think mapgrpwth of +50% previous size in no time at all is normal?
22:02 red-001 Shara, I guess trying to reason with them didn't help did it?
22:02 Fixer jeez, what was the map size?
22:02 red-001 and they just get new ips after you ban them?
22:03 sfan5 Shara: I assume the problems you had with anticheat are the usual "player moved too fast; resetting" complaints, correct?
22:04 Fixer Jordach: what's inb4?
22:04 red-001 IhrFussel, for that player I assume?
22:04 sfan5 Shara: is there an issue open for that?
22:04 Fixer can you tell that players name?
22:05 Shara It needs levels. Or something.
22:05 Shara I want to use it, but everytime I turned it on I had problems.
22:06 red-001 IhrFussel, Shara no idea what version string thier client is claiming to be?
22:06 Shara red-001: os there anything that would catch that by routine?
22:08 Shara Red.. "that" being what?
22:14 Shara So instead of trying to push the blame on me, I'd just ask that, if anticheat would really solve it, maybe anticheat can be relaxed to the point where it's usable.
22:14 red-001 IhrFussel, do they auto rejoin if you kick them?
22:15 Shara Fixer: stop pushing it onto server owners.
22:17 IhrFussel Can we be 100% sure that such behavior cannot be caused by malicious CSMs?
22:18 red-001 is it a vps or a vpn?
22:19 Fixer just finish this https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/6219 "WIP: Server side movement #6219"
22:22 IhrFussel Guys the pos in the player file needs to be divided by 16 to get the actual last known coordinates correct?
22:22 sfan5 Shara: and it says exactly "... moved too fast; resetting position" ?
22:23 Shara Doesn't say anything.
22:23 Shara Could it simply be the extra underlying checks themselves doing too much then?
22:24 Shara I'm sure I duplicated on singleplayer too though... which makes "server is not powerful enough" unlikely.
22:32 Fixer this is perfect, how much players?


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One in three to go electric car for next car
TOPICS:Electric carNorwayNorway Todaynorwaytoday.no
Electric car charging. Photo: pixabay.com
Posted By: Gerard Taylor 20. June 2019
The proportion who are certain that they will go electric car for their next car has increased since 2017, but we are not in line with electric car policy according to NAF's road user barometer.
The survey, which addresses the Norwegians' attitudes and actions in
traffic, shows that 35% responded that they will choose an electric car
as their next vehicle. This is an increase from 28% two years ago NAF said in a press release.
Almost half of young people say that an electric car will be the next purchase.
Among those who have already gone from petrol and diesel cars, two out of three will continue with electric vehicle.
''Those who have taken the leap from petrol and diesel to electric cars
apparently do not find everyday life with electric cars difficult. And they have also noticed that there are many advantages to electric cars, especially when it comes to fuel costs'' said senior communication adviser, Nils Sødal of NAF.
But there are still many sitting on the fence, uncertain whether they will go for an electric car at the next car purchase. The survey revealed that 40% are uncertain, which is as many as in 2017.
This may indicate that we are not aiming for reaching the electric car policy according to NAF. Sødal believes that the number of uncertain consumers indicates that the predictability of the tax benefits must be maintained.
"It is too early to remove the electric car benefits now if we are to achieve the goal of zero emission cars by 2025" he said.
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The list below includes the cities that the US Post Office accepts for ZIP code 37315. The preferred city may not be the city in which the ZIP is located. The city for 37315 is usually the name of the main post office. When mailing your package or letter, always include the preferred or acceptable cities. Using any city in the list of unacceptable cities may result in delays.
ZIP code 37315 is located in southern Tennessee and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has an extremely large population density.
The people living in ZIP code 37315 are primarily white. The number of young adults is extremely large while the number of middle aged adults is extremely small. There are also an extremely large number of single adults and a small number of families. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 37315 ZIP code is extremely small compared to other areas of the country.
ZIP code 37315 has a small percentage of vacancies. The Census also indicates that there are one or more universities nearby.
The majority of household are rented. Homes in ZIP code 37315 were primarily built in the 1950s or the 1970s. Rentals in 37315 are most commonly 3+ bedrooms. The rent for 3+ bedrooms is normally $750-$999/month including utilities. Studio apartments are also common and rent for $300-$499/month. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 37315 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
ZIP 37315 is unusual in that "Bicycle, Walked, or Other Means" is the most frequent method of transportation to work instead of vehicles. 37315 is extremely friendly to pedestrians/cyclists and the percentage of people using these transportation methods to commute to work are among the highest in the country. Instead of a commute, a higher percentage of people in 37315 are able to work from home than most places in the nation. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. The commute in 37315 is that short for a higher percentage of workers than almost anywhere in the United States. Many commuters should consider themselves lucky that they don't have a longer commute. It is very uncommon, compared to the rest of the US, for employees to have to travel more than 45 minutes to their place of employment.
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Compared to other ZIPs, 37315 has a very small percentage of people that did not graduate high school. The area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
ZIP Code 37315 is in the Private. There are 2 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 37315.


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View our online catalog for current Adult Sports offerings and to register. The following is an overview of the Adult Sports we offer throughout the year.
Teams of two, of any gender combination, participate in 5-6 weeks of play and 1-2 weeks of playoffs/league tournament. Summer and fall and competitive and recreational leagues available. Leagues are played at Morehouse Park.
Golf League
Visit Brooktree Golf Course's website for information.
Six-week season with single elimination playoffs, played in early fall. Most games played at Morehouse Park and Fairgrounds Softball Complex.
The Owatonna Park and Recreation Department in cooperation with the Owatonna Slow Pitch Softball Association offers organized leagues in Men's and Co-Rec softball. Summer and fall leagues offered. Games are played at the Fairgrounds Softball Complex.
Men's, Women's and Co-Rec leagues available for those 15 or older (as of October 1). Players are not eligible if they are participating in high school or college level during the season of play. League is played in the winter. Games are played at various Owatonna schools.
Adult Athletic Policy
View the Adult Athletic Policy.
If you are interested in umpiring, call the Parks and Recreation Office at 507-444-4321 for more details.
Schedules/Standings
Schedules and standings can be found in CivicRec.