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All new Tory Party: only investment bankers, Lloyds brokers, and management consultants need apply
Posted on November 12, 2009 by brightonpoliticsblogger
There has been an unprecedented response to yesterday's blog regarding the Conservative shortlist for Brighton Pavilion. This blog was accused of taking 'cheap shots' at the six prospective candidates. I promise not to take any cheap shots at them in this post. I'll leave them to do that themselves, by quoting from their own blogs or those that will have their blessing.
Charlotte Vere is the 'Chairman-elect' (sic) of the Conservative Women's Organisation. On the CWO's website is a report of the launch of the Richmond Park CWO which was, you will be relieved to hear "a resounding success". The report says "With 30 ladies in attendance and after a sumptuous buffet lunch, the group heard from the Association Chairman, Cllr Pamela Fleming, who organised the lunch, then from the Chairman-elect, Charlotte Vere. Lady Annabel Goldsmith has agreed to become President of the CWO Committee".
Scott Digby has made the most impressive start, having launched his own website he appears to have the most professional campaign. Well, why not. He is a management consultant. "One of my clients is the Conservative Party where I act as their Commercial Director, managing their procurement processes, suppliers and the commercial side of the conference activity". He has already engaged with this blog, providing a robbust and amusing response to last night's blog which commented (took a cheap shot, actually) at him changing his name from Scott Seaman-Digby to plain Scott Digby. He signed his comment "Scott Whatever-you-wish-to-call-him".
Mary Weale is joint MD of Lloyd's Insurance Brokers, and clearly a candidate in search of a constituency having been included on the Hammersmith shortlist. In 2004 she was beaten by Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former foreign secretary, when trying to become candidate in in Kensington. After that selection meeting one of the younger members of the association, Paula-Ann Hawkins said she was impressed by the youthful Ms Weale. "The average age in there was about 70. You could say Mary has youth on her side and she is so good she has time to get another seat. You could say that he [Sir Malcolm] had age on his side tonight," Ms Hawkins said.
Last night I reported that Anna Firth has been described as "a leading campaigner" for better early years education. However, she started off her career in the City where she worked as investment banker for two years before changing to become a Barrister. She was called to the Bar in 1991 and specialised in medical negligence law (although it is unclear whether she represented victims or insurance companies).
Douglas Chirnside, as reported last night, is a TV producer. Does anyone know what else he has produced other than "Sex and Shopping"? (That is a cheap shot, BPB).
Finally, there is local Tory Boy, Andrew Wealls. Well not that local., having moved to Hove in the last couple of years from London. "Andrew Wealls worked in the investment management industry for almost 20 years, most recently at Barclays Global Investors where he gained experience in portfolio management, client relationship development and business planning and management".
Investment bankers, an insurance broker, a barrister, a management consultant, and a lady who does scrumptuous lunches (while not forgetting Sex and Shopping) – this is David Cameron's new Conservative Party, opening up the selection process to all comers. Thank goodness it doesn't look like the old Tory Party that was made up of investment bankers, Lloyds brokers, and management consultants. Nice one, David!
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Andrew Wealls, Anna Firth, Annabel Goldsmith, Brighton Pavilion, Charlotte Vere, Conservative Women's Organisation, David Cameron, Douglas Chirnside, Malcolm Rifkind, Mary Weale, Pamela Fleming, Paula-Ann Hawkins, Scott Digby, Scott Seaman-Digby, Sex and Shopping |	8 Comments »
Brighton Pavilion shortlist reveals Tory class divide and prejudice
The Conservative Party has announced a shortlist of six candidates for the General Election campaign in Brighton Pavilion. And in so doing it has revealed what a class-divided Party it is.
First there is Scott Digby (or is it Scott Seaman-Digby?), the national Tory commercial director. Why would he possibly have wanted to drop the Seaman from his surname. It hasn't held him back when becoming Leader of the Conservative Group on the London Borough of Hillingdon. Then we have fellow London Tory councillor, insurance broker Mary Weale, who represents the good folk in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
No 3 is Charlotte Vere, a former finance director, now chief executive of Big White Wall, a charity for those with mental health problems. She is joined by Anna Firth, who has been described as "a leading campaigner" for better early years education, and by Douglas Chirnside, a TV producer. There was a TV producer called Douglas Chirnside (a common name amongst TV producers, I am sure) whose finest work was a series called "Sex and Shopping".
Finally, there is someone from Brighton (you remember Brighton? This election is for a Brighton seat!). Andrew Wealls was the Tory candidate who was beaten by Alex Phillips in Goldsmid in a by-election in July. I know Andrew and like him. He is a decent, hard-working chap. If selected he could put in good effort, but is hardly going to set the campaign on fire, especially against Nancy Platts and Caroline Lucas.
More interesting is the absence of Mary Mears and Maria Caulfield, two very strong female candidates, well-known and well-respected. Either could out-flank Nancy and Caroline, not least on the Council estates in Brighton Pavilion. Their omission from the shortlist is evidence of the deep class division that runs through the local Conservative Party. This division exists on the City Council where Mary Mears (Open Market) defeated Geoffrey Theobald (Brighton College) for the post of Tory Leader and, consequently, Leader of the Council.
From my point of view, the omission of Mary and Maria is great news as their selection would have almost guaranteed a Tory gain. The Conservative Association, led by the hapless Carol Ramsden, has handed Nancy and Caroline a head start, first by selecting Dr David Bull who then stood down, and now possibly Scott Seaman-Digby-Weale-Vere-Chirnside-Firth IV of the Royal London Borough of Uppity Class, as its candidate.
It may yet be a straight fight between Nancy and Caroline. Bring it on.
Filed under: Politics | Tagged: Alex Phillips, Andrew Wealls, Anna Firth, Big White Wall, Brighton Pavilion, Carol Ramsden, Caroline Lucas, Charlotte Vere, Conservative, David Bull, Douglas Chirnside, Geoffrey Theobald, Goldsmid, Maria Caulfield, Mary Mears, Mary Weale, Nancy Platts, Scott Digby, Scott Seaman-Digby, Sex and Shopping |	14 Comments »


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Found this online, thought it was good info. Lets add to it, know a lot of 4x100 stuff is missing, contribute!
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Figured I would add this since I have a set sitting in the garage right now. Saturn alloys are 4x100, but 15x6 not 14 (14's were steelies). Unfortunately they are also et50, so they won't fit our cars without a massive spacer. May work on an ix though.
do you know the range of years that are 4x100?
The S-series was in it's entirety, 91-02.
Oh and so was the Subaru Justy I had, now that I think of it. Not that anyone wants a 13x5.5 lol.
the S-Series Saturn is already on the list. What are the years for the Justy?
Yeah I know they were, just wanted to correct the size. 15x6 not 14x6.
Justy, umm I honestly can't remember. I want to say something like 87-93.
Edit:Damn I was pretty close 87-94.
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What I packed. The Google Nexus 7 was for navigation.
I brought a raincoat cos weather has been wet lately and a brolly would be useless on bike.
Patrick and his kids. Pat is one of the Singapore Urban Sketchers.
Old weighing machine. Still works! Just insert a 10c coin!
We didn't get to sketch the neighbourhood of Wessex Estate because of the rain (we were stuck for 5 hours at Colbar!). That means we need to go back!


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Ukraine: scrap export-import in H1 2016
In January-June Ukraine exported 233.37 thousand tons of scrap worth $40.99 million, down by 68.4% and 77.5% YoY respectively. According to the customs statistics, provided by the State Fiscal Service, in June scrap exports totaled 26.78 thousand tons, with 112.57 thousand tons in May and 82.47 thousand tons in April, while in Q1 exports were…
Ukraine: EMSS to sell castings to Russia
Energomashspetsstal will produce bottom plate, upper shoe, punch and ring castings with the total weight of 230 tons for AEM-tekhnologii (Russia). "The billets for die tooling will be mechanically treated at EMSS. According to the agreement, the products will be supplied in November-December", said the company in its statement. (Ukrainian metal)
Ukraine: metal revenues down in H1 2016
Ukrainian ferrous metal export, Ukrainian ferrous metal importBy admin 07.07.2016 Leave a comment
In January-June metal companies exported $3346.98 million worth of ferrous metals, down by 22.1% YoY. According to the customs statistics of the State Fiscal Service, ferrous metals accounted for 20.13% of the total export revenues down from 23.14% in January-June 2015. In June Ukraine exported $634.66 million worth of ferrous metals. Imports in H1 2016…
Ukraine: Economy ministry denying giving licenses to export coal from LNR
The Ministry of economical development and trade denies the information about granting licenses to export anthracite coal to a company registered in the Lugansk People's Republic. "Some mass media have published information that Ukraine exports anthracite coal from uncontrolled territories with the consent of the ministry. This information is contrary to the facts", said the…
Ukraine: UGOK sinter output up in June 2016
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In June Yuzhniy Mining and Processing Works produced 884.2 thousand tons of concentrate, down by 10.6% YoY. According to the company statement, sinter output in June went up by 15.4% YoY, to 165.6 thousand tons. In January-June UGOK produced 5406 thousand tons of concentrate and 922 thousand tons of sinter, down by 5.3% and up…
Ukraine: Mariupol Ilyich to invest 230 million UAH into converter modernization
In September Mariupol Ilyich Iron and Steel Works will start an overhaul of its converter No. 2. In particular, it will include the modernization of the gas-purifying system. The overhaul will cost over 230 million UAH. The project is a part of the Mariupol environmental program for 2012-2020. It was presented in April. As the…
Metals of Ukraine & Russia: scrap (grade 2a), May 2016
Month Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, FCA, $1/UAH25.166* min max April 168 175 May 195 208 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16 according to the National Bank of Ukraine and the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. (Ukrainian Metal)
Ukraine: Evraz DMZ to increase steel and pig iron output
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In May Evraz Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works produced 98.2 thousand tons of pig iron and 97 thousand tons of steel. The management also sees the prospects of increasing output YoY, but refuses to give a certain number. The steel-smelting rise will increase the Evraz DMZ demand in scrap. "Our inner scrap procurement allows us…
Ukraine: DMK output down in H1 2016
In January-June Dneprovsky Iron and Steel Works produced 1.02 million tons of rolled metal, down by 15.6% YoY. According to a company representative, steel smelting dropped by 13.8%, to 1.02 million tons, while pig iron output decreased by 8.1%, to 1.04 million tons, all YoY. In June DMK produced 132 thousand tons of rolled metal,…
Ukraine: AMKR ordered to hire fired conscripts
In 2015 ArcelorMittal Kriviy Rih fired several dozens of employees, summoned to serve in the army. According to the Ukrainian legislation, such conscripts retain their work place and receive average monthly salary. And they cannot be fired according to the Labor Codex. Some of the conscripts filed a suitcase as the company refused to employ…
Metals of Ukraine & Russia: square billets (ordinary steel), May 2016
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Month Ukrainian market, $/t, without VAT, EXW, $1/UAH25.166* Export, Ukraine, $/t, FOB Black sea ports Export, Russia, $/t, FOB Black sea ports min max min max min max April 206 278 375 425 375 425 May 206 370 340 365 340 370 * – Ukrainian Hrivna and Russian Rouble exchange rates are as of 31.05.16…
Russia: NSMMZ renamed NLMK Ural
NSMMZ (Nizhniye Sergi), a key company in NLMK group's long products division which operates from three production sites in Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, has been renamed NLMK Ural. The company adopted a new charter and registered the change of name with the Inspectorate of the Tax Service of Russia #30 for Sverdlovsk region. The…
Ukraine: June 2016 results for ATO zone works
Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, Alchevskkoks, Donetsk Iron and Steel Works, Donetskkoks, Yasinkovskiy By-Product Coke Plant, Yenakievo Coke Plant, Yenakievo Iron and Steel WorksBy admin 06.07.2016 Leave a comment
June proved to be extremely unlucky for Ukrainian metal companies mostly because of the railroad strike. Steel smelting dropped by 19% MoM, to 1.87 million tons, pig iron output decreased by 20.5% MoM, to 1.79 million tons. Average daily steel output in June totaled 62.4 thousand tons as opposed to 73.2 thousand tons in May.…
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Youth Climate Strike US co-leader Isra Hirsi. © Adam Iverson | Photo from Greenpeace International.
Isra Hirsi just turned 16 years old. To celebrate, she came home from school and spent three hours on conference calls.
Isra, a student at South High School in Minneapolis, is one of thousands of students around the world planning a massive Youth Climate Strike for March 15. With a few weeks to go, there are already strikes planned for 47 countries and almost all 50 states. Isra is one of three organizers who are bringing the movement — inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg's weekly climate strikes — to the United States.
I caught up with Isra to talk about her work as a student organizer and why she's done waiting for adults to save her generation from the climate crisis.
You're not exactly new at this. How did you get started in organizing?
Well, I've been going to protests since I was in first grade.
But I started getting more involved in my freshman year of high school, so last year. I joined my school's "green team" and from there I started organizing on my own. I joined a coalition of youth organizations called MN Can't Wait, which is a whole bunch of Minnesota youth organizations, and that's how I've been involved in climate activism.
Was there a moment when you realized that environmental activism was something you wanted to be a part of?
The crisis in Flint, Michigan in 2014 flipped the switch for me. I remember being in middle school seeing on TV that kids were getting lead poisoning not that far away from me, in communities that looked like mine. I just thought it was horrible.
Now here we have the Line 3 pipeline, and I've been doing a lot of Line 3 work. All of these things are happening right around me so I know I can do something about it.
How did you get involved in the student strike movement?
Now there's Haven from Denver, Alexandria Villasenor from New York City, and me co-leading the national strike.
guess who announced the first statewide green new deal?! we did!
What do your teachers and your parents think about you striking?
My teachers don't actually know. I don't talk to them much about activism. They probably have no clue what I do, just that I miss school a lot. My parents are pretty supportive, they just wish I didn't spend so much time on calls.
From Greta to your co-organizers here in the US, this is a movement led almost entirely by young women. What does that mean to you?
It's kind of random! I didn't even recognize it happening until I saw a Buzzfeed articleabout it and I thought about how weird it was that we hadn't noticed. But it really is mostly young women.
In a sense, it makes what we're doing more powerful. We have so many women leading, which isn't "supposed" to happen, and we have all these women of color working together and I think it's super cool.
Multiple studies have shown that young people, on average, care more about climate change than older generations. Why do you think that is?
I've lived with climate change my entire life. People older than me haven't.
We see things happening around the world and we've gotten so accustomed to it, but we know we don't want to live like that anymore. We have that much more of a sense of urgency and we recognize the need to do something as soon as possible.
This movement is completely led by young people. We are here and we're never going to back down. This one strike is not the endgame. We're not going to shut up. Adults — if you feel uncomfortable now, you're going to feel uncomfortable for a while.
Speaking of adults, what are they getting wrong about the student strike movement?
Oh my god. Striking does not mean we're skipping school for leisure! I'm not, like, skipping school and going shopping. The reason we're skipping school is to ask for drastic change.
I've heard some adults say that walkouts or school strikes are only a way for students to get out of class and be truants. But in all honesty, we're out here trying to make real change. We're risking our education so that we can see real change.
You basically have a full time job organizing this strike on top of being a high school student. What does that make life like for you?
Um, really really stressful! Every day I come home from school and check my calendar and there are like, four calls lined up for the night. Our Youth Climate Strike US email account gets like, 40 emails a day. I'm in something like seven Slack groups and responding to texts all day. I don't really have a social life; my social life is the eight hours that I'm in school.
I guess knowing that people are actually listening to me, even if it's not politicians yet, is what makes it worth it. Young people are getting fired up and getting organized.
What would you say to other teens who want to get involved in climate activism but don't know where to start?
The climate strikes are a great way to start! You could also join your school's green team, or if your school doesn't have one, start one. For me the green team has been a really cool way to get involved with school, and from there my city and my state. That's how I got started with climate activism.
Last question. Let's say you've got 15 minutes alone in a room with the next president of the United States. What are you going to ask them to do on day one in office?
One, be a champion of the actual Green New Deal. Do something to make that real. Two, start focusing on solutions that can put us back on track to stopping climate change.
We need someone who is going to do something. I want the next president to not just recognize that climate change is real, but also speak to people in Congress about how we can change everything we've been doing on climate change.
We can't have a president who just says they support the Green New Deal without explaining what that means — because it's only a resolution right now — and we can't just let them saythey care about climate change and then move on. They have to consistently focus on doing things to fix the problem.
Are you a student inspired by the Youth Climate Strike movement or an adult who wants to support? Get involved in the US strikes here or in your country here.


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Owing to both papal and canonical disapproval, beards have been underrepresented in the Latin church. Whereas Orthodox hierarchs have long been barbate and bushy, Latin clerics have typically preferred naked cheeks and smooth chins. The Catholic Encyclopedia offers some background for this bias, but it's fun to consider a period when this prejudice was sorely tested.
By my reading of things, it all starts with the papal election of 1455. The conclave had whittled down its options, and one of the finalists was a Greek cardinal named Basilios Bessarion (1403-1472). Though he had abandoned the eastern church, he retained the Orthodox habit of wearing his beard long and full.
At one point in the final deliberations a French cardinal jumped to his feet and implored his fellow cardinals to reject Bessarion. "Shall we give a Greek pope to the Latin Church?" he started. "Shall we make a neophyte the supreme head? Bessarion has not yet shaven his beard. . . ." That Jesus and the apostles likely had beards must not have occurred to him. Said Bessarion's opponent in so many words, We can do better.
In his place, the conclave elected the beardless Callixtus III. Born Alfons de Borja, the Italians knew this Spanish cardinal as Alonzo Borgia. The Borgias are sometimes considered Europe's first crime family. While Callixtus' reputation was faultless, his nephew later became pope and is primarily remembered for his many illegitimate children and general corruption — though he did possess a pristinely hairless chin.
More than even the papacy, Bessarion's beard might have also cost him his life. Remaining active in church affairs following the conclave, he suffered another embarrassment while on embassy to France. During a meeting with Louis XI, the king took a disliking to him and yanked his beard while saying that Greeks are partial to their barbarism — surely the kind of pun that garnered chuckles from the court. For his part, Bessarion was so humiliated by the indignity that he died on the way home.
But poor Bessarion was just a man before his time!
About fifty years after the conclave Pope Julius II (1443-1513) stopped shaving for a couple of years to mourn the wartime loss of a city. The habit skipped a couple of popes but Clement VII (1478-1534) also let one grow when Rome was sacked in 1527 by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
Some criticized Pope Clement for his beard, which he maintained until he died. But to his defense swung the humanist Pierio Valeriano who penned Pro Sacerdotum Barbis, which as the title of the tract suggests is about priests and their beards. If your Latin is any good, you can read it here. My Latin isn't, and so I rely instead on the summary provided by Kenneth Gouwens in Remembering the Renaissance:
Tellingly, the Pro sacerdotum barbis locates the causes of Rome's sufferings in the "feminine" delicacies of the Roman clergy, which had provoked the wrath of God and threatened to do so again. Because of the excesses, God "commanded that our goods be taken from us, that our rather sumptuous houses be either brought down or burned, and that the many delights of our too-wanton minds be plucked away from us." The wearing of beards, then, signifies the effort to reform the "effeminacy" into which the clergy had slipped. (p. 151)
Charles V, after all, had a beard.
Valeriano's treatise did the job. The beard was back from exile — but only for a while. Portraits of popes from Clement VII to Urban VIII (1568-1644) feature full beards, some quite bushy and bristly. The preferred style shrank to a narrow goatee and mustache with Innocent X (1574-1655) and stayed that way until Innocent XII (1615-1700) took the fashion with him to the grave. No pope has worn a beard since.
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A beard does show a full commitment to a cause. There's no hiding or "taking days off" your ministry. It's an interesting insight.
Hadn't thought of that.
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The Coptic and Greek Orthodox Popes of Alexandria both have beards. Why cut your face up every morning when you do not have to?
Amen. There was actually a discussion around this when Pope Francis was elected because of the few Eastern Catholic cardinals (sort of like the situation with Bessarion). The London Telegraph highlighted one guy in particular they were certain was out. Moran Mor Baselios Cardinal Cleemis, Catholicos of the Syro-Malankarese, has a wonderful beard — and probably no future hopes of becoming pope in the next conclave.
All of the earliest "Popes" (Bishops) back when they were still Orthodox (before 1054) would surely have had beards…
Oh, and I'll also just leave this here too:
"How womanly it is for one who is a man to comb himself and shave himself with a razor, for the sake of fine effect, and to arrange his hair at the mirror, shave his cheeks, pluck hairs out of them, and smooth them!…
For God wished women to be smooth and to rejoice in their locks alone growing spontaneously, as a horse in his mane. But He adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him as an attribute of manhood, with a hairy chest–a sign of strength and rule."
+ Clement of Alexandria, 2.275
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Candace Young. Monday, June 24th, His full name is Nicholas Christian Newman. Newman was in a fraternity with a young man named Gabriel Bingham, who his half-brother, Adam, later impersonated following his death. Nick Newman married Sharon Collins after being accused of killing her former boyfriend, Matt Clark, who had raped her.
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Nicholas Newman is the second child of powerful business tycoon Victor Newman and socialite Nikki Newman. He has a older sister, Victoria , a younger half-sister Abby , and two half-brothers, Dylan and Adam. Nick grew up with his mother and stepfather, Jack Abbott. Both Victor and Jack made an impact on his life. At the age of 10, Nick was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland and returned a teenager in Nick started a relationship with Amy Wilson , a girl who would do anything to have him but he fell in love with Sharon Collins.
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- A patient's religious affinity didn't matter. People came from all over the world. Russian, Germans and Chinese were coming to visit the healer.
Bolat Tagabai has been keeping secrets of Yrgyzbai for 16 years. He updates a collection of a library of the museum complex. The rare exhibits, stones and objects of everyday life of nomads were brought from ancient sites like Otyrar and Sauran.
- I've come here for the first time. Every year we pass through this site, but only today I have been lucky to learn these precious things to us, to the Kazakh people. First of all, the museum is of interest to me. I really like this place and it has very interesting relics.
According to the modernization of public consciousness program, the roads to memorial will be built, electricity will be provided, and a parking zone will be created in a neighborhood. Most importantly, the scientists will find new artifacts related to the name of Yyrgyzbai.
- Legends about sacred places will be assembled which means the scientists will conduct research among the population, particularly, among the aksakals. Legends associated with these holy places will be collected.
In total, more than 20 historical monuments of Eastern Kazakhstan will enter the republican map of sacred places. Facilities of spiritual and cultural heritage will receive passports and will be entered into the electronic base of the country's main tourist routes.


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La  du Tour d'Italie 1999 s'est déroulée le 18 mai dans la région Calabre. Le parcours de 186 kilomètres reliait Vibo Valentia, dans la province éponyme à Terme Luigiane, dans celle de Cosenza. Elle a été remportée par le Français Laurent Jalabert de la formation espagnole ONCE.

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Author: dabloom
Matula Thoughts Feb 2, 2018
Gaps, stories, & authenticity
(Above: MIA this February)
Minding the gap. February is a gap month, adjusting for the tiny discrepancy between solar years and calendar years by an awkward change that lengthens the month once every 4 years. The next 29-day adjustment will happen in 2020.
Missing this month is the full moon like that which happened two days ago and coincided with a super moon, a blue moon, a blood moon, and a total lunar eclipse (the picture above was taken last year). Full moons usually happen monthly, sometimes even twice a month, with the second of the full moons called a "blue moon," although having no blueness whatsoever. The super moon refers to the optical effect of the moon being "super close" to the Earth. The blood coloring relates to lighting effects from the lunar eclipse.
Given lunar periodicity of 29.53 days, February is the only month in which a full moon gap can happen. This last occurred in 1999 and will happen next in 2037. A similar gap occurs in occasional Februarys with the new moon, as last in 2014 and next in 2033. [Macdonald. J. Brit. Astron. Assoc. Dec 1998. p. 324.]
February, in the Midwest, also provides a gap between the celebratory early days of winter and the promise of spring rejuvenation in March or April, before May contingent perhaps on today's groundhog forecasts from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. If you are in Punxsutawney today and travel east along Interstate 80 near the interface between Pennsylvania and New Jersey you will encounter another type of gap, the Delaware Water Gap, where the Delaware River cuts through a ridge of the Appalachian Mountains.
Last summer I passed through a second geological gap after being stuck in traffic in the Rockies along with cars, trucks, and Greyhound buses backed west of an accident on Interstate 70 (below).
I had been returning from a continuing medical education course that Quentin Clemens, Brent Hollenbeck, and Jeff Montgomery had organized conveniently close to excellent fly fishing opportunities that would be warmly relished this cold month. This summer, by the way, will likely be a gap year for their course, but with encouragement they might reprise it in 2019, the year Michigan Urology begins its Centennial celebration.
The specific phrase, mind the gap, came into play exactly fifty years ago, in 1968, when London Underground leadership automated and standardized the warnings that drivers and local station attendants had been giving to passengers regarding the gaps between the station platforms and train doors. Because the gaps were sometimes dangerously large, an automated short announcement was planned with digital technology. The AEG Telefunken Company supplied the equipment and sound engineer Peter Lodge recorded test phrases intended to read later by an actor. After the actor demanded royalties, the thrifty London Underground deemed Lodge's own test readings of "Mind the gap" and "Stand clear of the doors please" good enough and ultimately implemented them in stations in 1969.
Minding the gap is a useful metaphor for medical professionals and residency trainees. The gap between conjecture and truth is the workplace of the health sciences and the rapid advances of knowledge and technology create new inevitable gaps. Additionally, complex systems, health care economics, and divided loyalties create tensions that force ethical and moral challenges. An editorial in JAMA by Donald Berwick last year highlighted some of the moral choices confronting today's doctors, explaining that the gaps between choices come in three tiers, personal, organizational, or societal. [Berwick. JAMA. 318: 2081, 2017.]
London Underground dates back to 1854 when the Metropolitan Railway gained permission to build a subterranean system and began to evaluate digging methods in test tunnels, but it wasn't until January, 1863 that it opened the world's first underground railway, which ran between Paddington and Farringdon Stations. Steam locomotives hauled wooden gas-lighted carriages. A second line, The District Line, between Kensington and Westminster, opened in December, 1868. The first underground lines were trenches that were "cut and covered," in a manner like the setting of the Terra Cotta Army of Qin Shi Huang 2100 years earlier. Newer methodology of deeper bored circular tunnels, avoiding the need to involve surface property owners, began with electric locomotives on the City and South London Railway between King William Street and Stockwell in 1890. The deep tube system expanded and by the time of the "Mind the gap" recorded announcements, the London Underground map had become one of the iconic graphics of the 20th century. Some versions of the map noted the distances involved, vertically and horizontally, for the more egregious gaps.
[Wikipedia. The left side shows the 1933 Beck map and the right side the Underground map as it appeared in 2012.]
The Darkest Hour, a new film about the gap between England's meager armed forces in 1940 and Hitler's military advance in Europe shows a fanciful scene where Churchill takes the Underground to Westminster one day seeking to understand the "will of the people." His imagined conversation with the working people on the train bolsters his courage to resist rather than capitulate to the overwhelming and imminent threat. Churchill goes on to deliver his first galvanizing wartime speech. In the film two political opponents grouse: "What just happened?" one asks as parliament erupts in patriotic cheers. "He [Churchill] mobilized the English language," comes the reply, "and sent it into battle." Creative devices of the cinema notwithstanding, it's hard to imagine what today's world would be like without Winston Churchill's leadership in that precarious year.
Fictional views of the world help us understand it more accurately and deal with it more effectively. When fiction artfully imagines facts and relationships and renders them in coherent stories with enough historical fidelity and realism the past, present, or even the future become clearer. The Darkest Hour did this effectively for those dark days of 1940, when England found itself unprepared for a re-armed and hostile Germany. Although the Underground scene was fiction, it gave substance to the reality that Churchill was able to tap into the will of the English people, understanding that their values, hopes, and dreams were quite distinct from the views of the rarified aristocracy that surrounded him and had ruefully shaped English policy until that moment. Churchill, like his peers and advisors, had limited contact with ordinary, working people, but he had enough sense of them to gain an imagined understanding of their aggregate intent on the choice between surrender or fight. Furthermore, his inspiring speeches at the right moments tilted the scale further against appeasement and surrender. While the Underground scene might make historians grumble, the fictional device artfully illuminated Churchill's likely state of mind.
The 1993 film, Groundhog Day, offered more outlandish fiction, giving an imaginative spin to the Punxsutawney myth. A successful musical version premiered in London at the Old Vic in 2016. This story is a fiction about a fiction. Yet, who hasn't wished for moments like Bill Murray's Groundhog Day where time repeats itself, offering us another chance, or like "a glitch in The Matrix," and as Yogi Berra is reputed to have said: "Déjà vu all over again."
Our species, Homo sapiens, is not only defined by its stories, but stories shaped our emergence from the earlier members of our genus Homo, if you accept a Darwinian point of view. Allen Lichter, former UMMS Dean, sent me a book recently that elegantly consolidates our specific human story. Aptly named Sapiens and written by historian Yuval Harari, the account tells how our genus, Homo, evolved 2.5 million years ago from an earlier and now-extinct genus of great apes in East Africa and set out to see and change the rest of the world. Some kindred species, Homo neanderthalensis, evolved in western Eurasia of the Ice Age while others, Homo erectus appeared in Eastern Asia and survived for 2 million years. Homo soloensis evolved on the island of Java, Homo floresiensis on Flores, and Homo denisova in Siberia were also members of our category of biologic classification, the genus. Evolution also continued in East Africa with other competing species in our genus: Homo rudolfensis and Homo ergaster, along with us, Homo sapiens.
Harari gives reasonable evidence that storytelling was central to the emergence and dissemination of Homo sapiens, who eventually replaced all the other species of the Homo genus, although collecting bits of their DNA along the way. All hominoid species existed in communal groups that must have depended on some form of verbal communication, but Harari indicates the language skills of H. sapiens were superior and in time gave total competitive advantage to our species of humans: "The ability to create an imagined reality out of words enabled large numbers of strangers to cooperate effectively." [Harari p. 32]
The earliest storytelling logically was a matter of gossiping and rumors related to clan folk, hunting, competing clans, predators, seasons, and climate. Storytelling expanded, perhaps around campfires, into durable tales of myth, history, and fantasy. Without the advantage of scientific thought and verifiable information early story tellers undoubtedly relegated competing some clans to barbarian enemies. Some of these may legitimately been other human species, although as opposed to traditional ideas that different species could not breed, evidence is clear that successful interspecies mingling occurred in the last 100,000 years before the other human species became extinct.
For the last 10,000 years Homo sapiens has been the sole human species. Historical ideas of polygenesis have been effectively debunked – there is only one human kind, although 7 billion of us have myriad ethnic origins, ideas, experiences, hopes, and dreams. Diversity is an uncontestable true fact, and equity and inclusion are mandatory to our survival as a species. John Kennedy once was reported to have said: "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." [Commencement Address at American University, Washington, DC. June 10, 1963]
Today's world is cosmopolitan in fact and by necessity.
Today, February 2, has interesting links to the past. Notably, in 1887 in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, Groundhog Day began on this day. February 2 in 1901 was the day of Queen Victoria's funeral. My grandfather recalled that he watched part of it from a rooftop in London, guessing that he was around seven years of age at the time. On this day in 1922, the book Ulysses by James Joyce was published, resetting the line between pornography and "acceptable" literature. In 1925, on February 2, dog sled relays carrying life-saving diphtheria antitoxin reached Nome, Alaska when all other access was impossible. This superhuman feat, a half-century later, inspired the Iditarod Race. Balto, the most celebrated of the original relay dogs, is immortalized in a statue in New York's Central Park and his remains, preserved by taxidermy, are at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
These curious bits of information are facts that can be authenticated, for the most part. The late Don Coffey used to tell his students to learn to distinguish facts and true facts. What he intended with that admonishment was the recognition of authenticity in the pursuit of truth, authenticity being a state of worthiness of acceptance or belief by conforming to true fact.
Facts (and data) have some degree of relativity as Coffey knew well, they may change as new information is gained. Truth is something greater than fact, a higher degree perhaps of accuracy or authenticity. Something authentic is genuine, factual, truthful, or honest. As fanciful as the idea that a groundhog could predict the remaining length of winter or the notion that someone could be trapped in a repetitive time cycle, there is something authentic in the human aspiration to find easy ways to forecast the future (much like ancient uroscopists) or to have a chance to repeat a day in one's life to achieve a better outcome.
Human nature seeks truth and its embodiment in personal conduct, integrity, is the basis of successful social interaction. The line between authenticity and inauthenticity can be difficult to discern and it can change. As we become informed that facts we had previously taken for "true" are found to be inaccurate, we are playing the intellectual game of science. More generally, this is the game of life as Homo sapiens. New information – observations in life – reasonably cause us to reset beliefs and values. It is no moral lapse or inauthenticity to discard facts when better facts are discovered based on new information, rather this is the natural human arbitration of the world.
Inauthenticity is another matter, being usually deliberate deception with antonyms that include counterfeit, inaccuracy, infidelity, deception, exaggeration, erroneousness, falseness, miscalculation. For a physician, nurse, PA, MA, researcher, other health care worker, or patient, the presumption of absolute authenticity is the basis of daily transactions. This is no less true for a historian, English professor, geologist, or physicist. Yet facts and stories are likely to have different interpretations or aspects to them. We arbitrate "truth" through collaboration with knowledgeable peers, or other sources of information. Such calibration is the nature of the scientific process, but it is more generally at the heart of all the social and intellectual interactions of human civilization.
A storyteller's success is a matter of telling an authentic story. The story may be fact or fiction, but in either instance, the ability to make it ring true to a discerning ear is the hallmark of success. A successful factual writer, such as a journalist, will collect facts and study relationships in order to weave them coherently and artfully. The writer must strip away non-essential information or information perceived as inaccurate or misleading to create a story that is clear, accurate, and authentic to the reader.
The distinction between authenticity and inauthenticity is more complex for the writer of fiction, the value of which is to entertain and inform. Good fiction is authentic when it creates a story that rings true to readers in terms of realistic dialogue, details both relevant and accurate, and narrative that is clear. In the best instances, good fiction not only illuminates reality, but it distills it to capture and enhance its essence.
Churchill's language. Years ago, when the Society for Pediatric Urology was held in New York City and Bernie Churchill was president of the group, a well-known Winston Churchill authority and impersonator, James Humes, appeared as the surprise dinner speaker. When Humes described Churchill's approach to speechwriting, the ideas resonated enough to write them down. Curiously, I've been unable to verify these in anything I've read of Churchill since then, so I can't promise them as "true facts." Nonetheless, they ring true to me:
Start strong
One theme
Paint a picture
End with emotion
In his own writings, Humes himself is the source of some good quotes.
The art of communication is the language of leadership.
Every time you have to speak you are auditioning for leadership.
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
If you want to explore Churchill and Humes further, a book Humes wrote in 2001, Eisenhower and Churchill: The Partnership That Saved the World, is well worthwhile.
The Tet Offensive began fifty years ago and should be recalled for many reasons, but none less than it offers important lessons in leadership. Last year on these pages we told some of the story of Larry Hawkins, a young man from Detroit, who was one of the thousands injured during the Tet Offensive and how he came to the Ann Arbor Veterans Hospital paraplegic and deteriorating from urosepsis due to a neuropathic bladder. Jack Lapides saved his life by performing a vesicostomy, that also gave Larry personal independence. Larry went on to become a lawyer and influential public servant in Florida. After a distinguished career that included advocacy for the rights of the handicapped, Larry passed away a year ago and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery last summer. We had come to know of Larry through the efforts of his sister in contacting us for stomal supplies, that were becoming harder and harder to obtain for the Lapides vesicostomy, an operation that was life-saving in its day, but has been largely replaced by other management techniques.
Fifty years ago, in January 1968, when the combined forces of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam launched surprise attacks on dozens of cities, towns, and hamlets throughout South Vietnam, the tide of the war began to shift. My professional education had begun amidst the Vietnam War, when we still had a national military draft, but my service was deferred via the Berry Plan until I completed my training. By then the draft and war had ended, but my service was still mandated and I was assigned to Walter Reed Army Hospital.
For the next few decades the collective American consciousness wanted to forget Vietnam and its many lessons, something that was easy to do for most people whose bodies, minds, and families had escaped the war's sequelae. Nevertheless, occasional great memoirs gained public attention, including the Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Robert McNamara's book In Retrospect. That latent period passed with the recent Ken Burns encapsulation, The Vietnam War. These books should be required reading for every American citizen. Continuing with the de facto "movie review theme" this month, we call attention to The Post, a current film that combines fact and fiction to tell an important and authentic story about The Washington Post and The Pentagon Papers.
Leadership. A much older book recently came to public attention as a favorite of General F. John Kelly, Chief of Staff for the President. The General, by C.S. Forester is described as the classic example of leadership during WWI, but its lessons transcend any era. Written as fiction in 1936, its authenticity made it a best-seller and it tells the timeless tale of leaders who fail by fighting this year's war with the tools and tactics of the last decade's war. This book impressed Churchill, as well as Hitler according to Forester. Kelly singles The General out as an example of the importance of what he calls "Professional Reading," a necessity for anyone aspiring to competence in their work. An article in Foreign Policy quotes Kelly:
"When I came back in the Marine Corps as an officer — close to my first days as a second lieutenant — I ran into a fellow named Capt. Ed Wells, a Harvard-educated, upper-crust guy. That first day I knew him he started talking to me about professional reading and how the real professionals read and study their professions. A doctor who doesn't read peer articles and stay attuned to the developments in his field is not the kind of doctor you would want to go to, and the same is true for officers in the Marine Corps. He got me going on reading, specifically focused on military things, and I just never stopped. When I read a new book I wrote a notation in the front of the book what billet I was in, the date I finished reading it, and where in the world I was…
I've read this book [The General] every time I got promoted just to remind myself of the effect. I've noted where I was when I finished reading it the last time, then when I read it again I will try to remember what it meant to me as a major and, depending on as you get older and higher in rank, it's a different book every time you read it. When a lieutenant reads that book it's different from when a lieutenant general reads it. And I think the same is true for every book. So it's just kind of a fun thing I've done over the years and with this book in particular just to remind me of the critical importance of thinking." [Ricks. Foreign Policy. April, 2017. Reprinted, by permission, from Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.) and R. Manning Ancell, The Leader's Bookshelf (Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, © 2017).]
The Greyhound bus line company. Travelling through the Delaware Water Gap this winter on Interstate 80 or stalled in traffic last summer on Interstate 70 along a cut through the Dakota Hogback west of Denver I saw a number of the ubiquitous Greyhound buses. Greyhound is as synonymous for intercity travel in North America as the Underground is for intracity transportation in the United Kingdom. Greyhound's first route traces back to 1914 in Hibbing, Minnesota when Carl Eric Wickman, a failing Hupmobile car salesman, used his last remaining 7-passenger vehicle to transport iron ore workers from Hibbing to the town of Alice, known for its saloons, at 15 cents per passenger. The next year Wickman teamed up with Ralph Bogan who had a transport service between Hibbing and Duluth. The newly named Mesaba Transportation Company had a positive margin of $8000 that first year. Through mergers and acquisitions of networks, Mesaba grew.
The Greyhound name appeared informally on the inaugural run of a segment from Superior, Wisconsin to Wausau, Wisconsin when the local operator of the affiliated Blue Goose Line run, Ed Stone, saw a reflection of his bus as it passed by a shop window and the moving image reminded him of a greyhound dog. Stone later applied the name to his entire network. By 1927 the entire Wickman system was transcontinental and by 1930 it had consolidated 100 bus lines into the Motor Transit Company, that was soon rebranded the Greyhound Corporation. In 2007 Greyhound became a subsidiary of the British FirstGroup transportation company, although Greyhound itself remains based in Dallas. While most large metropolitan subway systems have consolidated into public utilities the interurban bus lines have remained private.
The Bus depot in Ann Arbor serviced interurban bus lines including Blue Goose, Greyhound, and Shortway from a little building (above) until September, 1940 when it was replaced by a state-of the-art facility with 62 seats, a telegraph booth, a ticket office, a baggage room, and a 12-seat lunch counter.
Over the years, as Greyhound became the dominant carrier, the art deco building lost its luster through a number of renovations until 2014 when it was taken down to build the Marriott Residence Inn. The historically attuned developer, First Martin Corporation, retained the façade (below) and encapsulated the story of the bus station on the lovely visual displays, seen above.
It's been a challenging winter, but spring is not far away.


Hey guys, this is my new group story with my friend Mukend! So make sure you guys comment, rate and check out Mukend's stories, she's a great writer! Hope you guys enjoy! Your name is Mayflower Link (May) and you're friends are Fred, Seamus, Neville, and Dean . Your parents disappeared when you were a baby and left you in the care of Seamus's parents. A Gryffindor and in 5th year, while George and Fred are in 6th. You despise George but what happens when fate turns your hate to love?
I sighed, hitching the strap of my duffel bag higher up my shoulder, and switching the handle of my luggage to my other hand. I looked behind me and saw Seamus was about 50ft behind me. "Seamus! Hurry up!" I yelled over the noise of people talking into cell phones and feet running to catch up to their train.
"I'm coming! Why are you in a rush anyways?" Seamus asked curiously, rushing to catch up. "I want to find a compartment with you Fred,Dean and Neville." I answered before looking up to see the brick wall, Platform 9 3/4, leading towards the 'Hogwarts Express'. Seamus stood beside me, his hands on his knees, panting. "You ready?" I asked cheerfully, smiling. He looked up and smiled back, before standing up straight. "Totally." He replied before grabbing my hand as we both stepped through the wall.
"Fred!" I screamed running towards him, jumping into his open arms. "May! I missed you!" Fred said happily, hugging me. I laughed gleefully, before Fred let go of me, and tugged me and Seamus towards his compartment. Inside I saw Neville, Dean and George all sitting down chatting about what they did this summer. But they all looked up in unison when I walked in, "May!" they chorused smiling. "Hey guys!" I said sitting down pulling Fred and Seamus down with me. "How was your summer?" George asked intently. I stared at Seamus, smiling. "It was fun. All summer me and Seamus either practiced Quidditch, went swimming, or ate food!" I said. The boys laughed and Seamus nodded.
"Anything from the trolley?" A old woman cried, pushing a cart of treats down the aisle. I stood up and opened the door to the compartment and waved my hand. The woman saw me and smiled, before pushing the cart towards me.
"I'll have a chocolate frog." I said, handing her 4 Sickle's. She nodded her head and kept on rolling her cart. I turned around and went back inside the compartment and opened my chocolate frog carefully. It jumped out and landed on George's head, causing me to laugh. He rolled his eyes upwards and clamped a hand on his head, attempting to catch the frog, but it nimbly jumped out right into my lap. I grabbed it with one hand while taking out the card from inside. I raised my hand and saw a picture of Dumbledore smiling before it evaporated into thin air. I took a bite of my chocolate frog and stood up to change into my robes.
As Dumbledore began to welcome the first years and all the rest of us back to Hogwarts, me, Seamus, Fred, George decided to just dig into our food. As I chewed my chicken I saw that George was avoiding my gaze. I glanced at him curiously as I reached for my tea. Yes, tea. As I took a sip George looked up and a devilish grin grew on his face. Uh oh I thought as I put the drink down. I swallowed the drink and found that it tasted different, had a hint of some kind of fruit, but I couldn't put a finger as to what it was.
Soon after I drank all my tea, my head started pounding. I got up, stumbling, and excused myself. Seamus stood up too, worried, but I waved him away. I told him I needed to go to the bathroom and he abruptly sat back down. I walked out, trying to look normal, but as soon as I heard the doors shut behind me I slid down a wall holding my stomach. I felt horrible, my head was hurting, my stomach was rumbling, I was sweating, and everything was getting blurrier and blurrier. I fell onto my side and blinked slowly, trying to clear my mind. Everything became fuzzy, and as I blinked one more time, I was surronded by darkness.
Awesome job! What happens next?
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OSA Publishing > Optics Express > Volume 19 > Issue 8 > Page 7112
James Leger, Editor-in-Chief
Low loss silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared
Goran Z. Mashanovich, Milan M. Milošević, Milos Nedeljkovic, Nathan Owens, Boqian Xiong, Ee Jin Teo, and Youfang Hu
Goran Z. Mashanovich,1,* Milan M. Milošević,1 Milos Nedeljkovic,1 Nathan Owens,1 Boqian Xiong,2 Ee Jin Teo,2 and Youfang Hu1
1Advanced Technology Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
2Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 3 Research Link, Singapore 117602, Singapore
*Corresponding author: g.mashanovich@surrey.ac.uk
G Mashanovich
M Milošević
M Nedeljkovic
N Owens
B Xiong
E Teo
Y Hu
Issue 8,
•https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.007112
Goran Z. Mashanovich, Milan M. Milošević, Milos Nedeljkovic, Nathan Owens, Boqian Xiong, Ee Jin Teo, and Youfang Hu, "Low loss silicon waveguides for the mid-infrared," Opt. Express 19, 7112-7119 (2011)
Integrated Optics
Polarization control
Polarization maintaining fibers
Single mode fibers
Thermal infrared imaging
Infrared (130.3060)
Integrated optics devices (130.3120)
Original Manuscript: February 17, 2011
Revised Manuscript: March 17, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: March 21, 2011
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) has been used as a platform for near-infrared photonic devices for more than twenty years. Longer wavelengths, however, may be problematic for SOI due to higher absorption loss in silicon dioxide. In this paper we report propagation loss measurements for the longest wavelength used so far on SOI platform. We show that propagation losses of 0.6-0.7 dB/cm can be achieved at a wavelength of 3.39 µm. We also report propagation loss measurements for silicon on porous silicon (SiPSi) waveguides at the same wavelength.
©2011 Optical Society of America
Low propagation loss silicon-on-sapphire waveguides for the mid-infrared
Fangxin Li, Stuart D. Jackson, Christian Grillet, Eric Magi, Darren Hudson, Steven J. Madden, Yashodhan Moghe, Christopher O'Brien, Andrew Read, Steven G. Duvall, Peter Atanackovic, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and David J. Moss
Mid-infrared silicon photonic waveguides and devices [Invited]
Yi Zou, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Chi-Jui Chung, Xiaochuan Xu, and Ray T. Chen
Photon. Res. 6(4) 254-276 (2018)
Graded SiGe waveguides with broadband low-loss propagation in the mid infrared
J. M. Ramirez, Q. Liu, V. Vakarin, J. Frigerio, A. Ballabio, X. Le Roux, D. Bouville, L. Vivien, G. Isella, and D. Marris-Morini
Opt. Express 26(2) 870-877 (2018)
Silicon photonic platforms for mid-infrared applications [Invited]
Ting Hu, Bowei Dong, Xianshu Luo, Tsung-Yang Liow, Junfeng Song, Chengkuo Lee, and Guo-Qiang Lo
Nonlinear optical response of low loss silicon germanium waveguides in the mid-infrared
L. Carletti, P. Ma, Y. Yu, B. Luther-Davies, D. Hudson, C. Monat, R. Orobtchouk, S. Madden, D. J. Moss, M. Brun, S. Ortiz, P. Labeye, S. Nicoletti, and C. Grillet
Opt. Express 23(7) 8261-8271 (2015)
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R. Soref, "Towards silicon-based longwave integrated optoelectronics (LIO)," Proc. SPIE 6898, 689809, 689809-13 (2008).
R. Soref, "Mid-infrared photonics in silicon and germanium," Nat. Photonics 4(8), 495–497 (2010).
R. A. Soref, S. J. Emelett, and W. R. Buchwald, "Silicon waveguided components for the long-wave infrared region," J. Opt. A 8, 840–848 (2006).
X. Liu, J. B. Driscoll, J. I. Dadap, R. M. Osgood, Y. A. Vlasov, and M. J. Green, "Mid-infrared pulse dynamics in Si nanophotonic wires near the two-photon absorption edge", in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optic, Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper CFR5. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=CLEO-2009-CFR5
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Fig. 1 Cross section of a Si on porous Si waveguide fabricated by proton beam irradiation over a large area [23].
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Fig. 2 Experimental setup used for measurements.
Fig. 3 Relatively high propagation losses of 4.6 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip A), 4.5 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip B), 4.5 ± 0.3 dB/cm (chip C) were measured for SOI samples with 1 µm BOX.
Fig. 4 Lower propagation losses of 2.4 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip 1), 2.0 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip 2), and 1.9 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip 3) were measured for SOI samples with 2 µm BOX.
Fig. 5 SOI samples with 2 µm BOX that had around 2 dB/cm propagation loss before oxidation showed significantly lower losses after oxidation: 0.6 ± 0.2 dB/cm (chip 1), 0.7 ± 0.1 dB/cm (chip 2).
Fig. 6 Propagation loss was similar for both TE and TM input polarizations.
Fig. 7 Propagation loss for unoxidised 4 × 2 μm SiPSi waveguide fabricated by the direct write method was 5.6 ± 0.2 dB/cm.
Fig. 8 Propagation loss for oxidized 4 × 2 μm SiPSi waveguides fabricated by large area implantation: a) 2.1 ± 0.2 dB/cm at 1.55 µm, and b) 3.9 ± 0.2 dB/cm at 3.39 µm.


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package io.gravitee.repository.elasticsearch.analytics.query;

import java.util.Iterator;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;

import io.gravitee.repository.analytics.AnalyticsException;
import io.gravitee.repository.analytics.query.Query;
import io.gravitee.repository.analytics.query.groupby.GroupByQuery;
import io.gravitee.repository.analytics.query.groupby.GroupByResponse;
import io.gravitee.repository.elasticsearch.model.elasticsearch.ESSearchResponse;
import io.gravitee.repository.exceptions.TechnicalException;

/**
 * Command used to handle GroupByQuery.
 *
 * @author Guillaume Waignier
 * @author Sebastien Devaux
 * @author Guillaume Gillon
 *
 */
public class GroupByQueryCommand extends AstractElasticsearchQueryCommand<GroupByResponse> {

	/**
	 * Logger.
	 */
	private final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GroupByQueryCommand.class);

	private final static String TEMPLATE = "groupBy.ftl";

	@Override
	public Class<? extends Query<GroupByResponse>> getSupportedQuery() {
		return GroupByQuery.class;
	}

	@Override
	public GroupByResponse executeQuery(Query<GroupByResponse> query) throws AnalyticsException {
		final GroupByQuery groupByQuery = (GroupByQuery) query;

		final String request = this.createQuery(TEMPLATE, query);

		try {
			final Long from = groupByQuery.timeRange().range().from();
			final Long to = groupByQuery.timeRange().range().to();

			final ESSearchResponse result = this.elasticsearchComponent.search(this.elasticsearchIndexUtil.getIndexName(from, to), ES_TYPE_METRICS, request);
			return this.toGroupByResponse(result);
		} catch (TechnicalException e) {
			logger.error("Impossible to perform GroupByQuery", e);
			throw new AnalyticsException("Impossible to perform GroupByQuery", e);
		}
	}

	private GroupByResponse toGroupByResponse(final ESSearchResponse response) {
		final GroupByResponse groupByresponse = new GroupByResponse();

		if (response.getAggregations() == null) {
			return groupByresponse;
		}

		final String aggregationName = response.getAggregations().keySet().iterator().next();
		final io.gravitee.repository.elasticsearch.model.elasticsearch.Aggregation aggregation = response
				.getAggregations().get(aggregationName);

		final String fieldName = aggregationName.substring(aggregationName.indexOf('_') + 1);

		groupByresponse.setField(fieldName);

		if (aggregationName.endsWith("_range")) {

			for (final JsonNode bucket : aggregation.getBuckets()) {

				final String keyAsString = bucket.get("key").asText();
				final long docCount = bucket.get("doc_count").asLong();
				GroupByResponse.Bucket value = new GroupByResponse.Bucket(keyAsString, docCount);
				groupByresponse.values().add(value);
			}

		} else if (aggregationName.startsWith("by_")) {

			for (final JsonNode bucket : aggregation.getBuckets()) {
				final JsonNode subAggragation = this.getFirstSubAggregation(bucket);

				if (subAggragation != null) {
					final JsonNode aggValue = subAggragation.get("value");
					if (aggValue.isNumber()) {
						final String keyAsString = bucket.get("key").asText();
						GroupByResponse.Bucket value = new GroupByResponse.Bucket(keyAsString, aggValue.asLong());
						groupByresponse.values().add(value);
					}

				} else {
					final String keyAsString = bucket.get("key").asText();
					final long docCount = bucket.get("doc_count").asLong();
					final GroupByResponse.Bucket value = new GroupByResponse.Bucket(keyAsString, docCount);
					groupByresponse.values().add(value);
				}
			}
		}
		return groupByresponse;

	}

	private JsonNode getFirstSubAggregation(JsonNode bucket) {

		for (final Iterator<String> it = bucket.fieldNames(); it.hasNext();) {
			final String fieldName = it.next();
			if (fieldName.startsWith("by_") || fieldName.startsWith("avg_") || fieldName.startsWith("min_")
					|| fieldName.startsWith("max_"))
				return bucket.get(fieldName);
		}
		return null;
	}
}

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Fall and it`s gorgeous colors but also with its colder weather. Im probably a summer child cause I'm cold a lot but layers on layers with big scarfs definitely saves me during the cold months!
Love the ones from Acne Studios in earthy colors but I would also like to find a big scarf in pop up color or an awesome pattern, so on a search, any recommendations?


The Global Alliance on Inequality is undertaking a week of campaign to end inequality in the world.This is coming on the back of the world economic forum which is currently ongoing in Davos.
Speaking at the official launch of the week campaign Mr George Osei Bimpong who is the project coordinator hinted that the Davos forum seeks to bring global leaders and elites to tackle the widening inequality gap between the rich and the poor across the world.
According to him, despite the remarkable economic growth rates since the return to democracy in the 1990s, income inequality has been growing steadily for a number of years in Ghana.
The Ghana chapter of the Global Fight Inequality Alliance, locally known as the CSOs platform on SDGs 10,seeks to work with others within this week and beyond, to put the spotlight on inequalities and proffer actions to end inequality in order to lift more people out of poverty,sustain economic growth and maintain social cohesion.
Mr Osei Bimpong noted that the report which was launched last year by Oxfam tittled 'Building a More Equal Ghana' has revealed that a minority political and wealthy elites are capturing an ever-greater share of the benefits of growth and undermining the fight against poverty.
He reiterated to the fact that it's worthy of note that various socio-economic groups fall victim to widening inequality.
Which includes women and girls are among those who pay the greatest price for inequality in Ghana.
Mr Osei Bimpong laments that wicked politians always ensure that government policy works in their favour which accumulated in corruption and mismanagement is rife with estimated GHS 5.9billion(US dollars 1.5billion)of public money reportedly misused between 2012-14.


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