(Mitch Wertlieb) Robert Frost's life spanned most of the twentieth century, and some think he was one of the most original poets of that time. VPR is exploring Frost's life and work with Vermont Reads, an annual program sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council. This year people around the state are reading A Restless Spirit, The Story of Robert Frost by author Natalie Bober. I'm Mitch Wertlieb.
(Wertlieb) Until recently, if you asked someone what they knew about Robert Frost, they might describe seeing him on television, his white hair ruffled by the wind at JFK's inauguration. In New England, they might talk about seeing him at the post office or speaking at a local college. Or they might recall a poem of his they had learned in school. And to Middlebury professor of English John Elder, that's a good indication of Frost's legacy.
(Elder) "His poems are in fact, memorized by early elementary school students and it's a great thing that they are, beautiful on every level, but it's a good thing that they are but when you come back and look more closely with years of reading them, one sees that within an apparently simple and straightforward poem, are many complexities of tone and image, if one becomes interested in natural history there are many details that actually, not only give a beautiful nature touch, but also give a very specific ecosystem in a season, so I think his great gift is to be simple and colloquial and vivid, and at the same time to be philosophical and profound,"
(Schley) "There are poets like Carl Sandberg, or Edward Arlington Robinson, or Edgar Lee Masters, who were extremely popular in their day, like Frost was, but nobody reads them, or a handful of people reads them, whereas many people read Frost. Not only for edification, and the literary experience, but for plain old pleasure."
(Faggen) "This is an understanding of the way that language works, it's an understanding of language that few people have, it's an understanding of what one would call the power of ordinary language, and the ability of Frost to compress complexity, to have the clarity of depth and madness, in poetry that is tremendously memorable is just a remarkable feat, a remarkable talent."
(Bober) "The poet Joseph Brodsky said, if you want to meet Mr. Frost, then read his poetry, and I think just reading the poetry can have a tremendous, tremendous influence on young people some of it is so simple, and beautiful on the surface, and then the more they read it and the older the get, the more experience they bring to the poem, the more levels of meaning they can find in it. 24:15 But I also think that the message of refusing gently and firmly to conform is important. He knew he had to follow the dictates of his heart and his mind."
(Wertlieb) Frost's granddaughter Robin Fraser Hudnut thinks contemporary readers have much to gain by learning more about Frost and spending time with his poetry.
(Hudnut) "He has many things to say to a contemporary reader. To begin with I think it would be a person who is seeking to expand their horizon, seeking to become more alert, and that person couldn't but become more wide awake to – not only nature – but to life itself and the discovery of what it means to be a friend, a citizen, a person of wholeness. I think one becomes akin with what it means to be alive."
(Mitch) One young, avid reader has already acquired a taste for Frost. Great-great-granddaughter Isabella Frost Renner is twelve. When she visited the Robert Frost Stone House Museum this summer with her grandmother, she recalled how Frost came to write one of his most famous poems there – and she recited it from memory.
(Isabella) " I like seeing where he lived. I think it's funny that you can kind of picture him, like writing by candle-light, just you know freezing in the middle of New Hampshire, but he actually wrote it on a mid-June morning and just – it must be really hot out here in the middle of June and he's writing about snow and someone stopping in snowy woods. He wrote it in the back room – it's called the Stopping By Snowy Woods Room, and he said he was up all night thinking of what to write and then it was morning and he didn't want to wake the rest of his family so he went for a walk, and when he came back he just said it kind of came to me and I just wrote it all in one – just one little thing and then just made a few corrections and then it was done.
(Wertlieb) When considering Frost's genius – and his legacy – the poetry is what speaks to us most directly. And his poems can certainly be read entirely on their own. But Frost's life and work are so intertwined that learning about Frost the man can bring fresh insight to our reading of the poems.
In The Road Not Taken, Frost speaks to the paradox that life requires us to make many important choices and decisions without certain knowledge of the consequences – and hope for the best. In "A Restless Spirit," Natalie Bober relates this poem to a life-changing decision Frost made with the actual flip of a coin.
(Bober) "For several weeks the children had been hearing their mother and father talk about leaving Derry, about going someplace where it wouldn't matter if they were poor, and Papa could write poetry. They had heard John and Margaret Barlett's letters read aloud, begging them to visit them on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, the largest island off the west coast of North America. They knew that John and Margaret had been students of their father at Pinkerton Academy, and that they had married and gone to Vancouver to live. But their mother seemed to prefer England. "Let's go to England and live under thatch," they heard her say.
They were all gathered around the stove in the kitchen, keeping Elinor company as she ironed, when the subject came up again. As they debated between Canada and England, their father opted to join the Bartletts in the wild, nature beauty of Vancouver, with its mountains to climb and its beaches to walk. Suddenly though, he suggested they toss a coin. He took a nickel out of his pocket, said, "Heads, England, tails Vancouver." It was heads. The coin had chosen England. And in that moment, their future was decided"
(Wertlieb) Our thanks to Middlebury College special collections for permission to broadcast their recordings of Frost reading his own work. Special thanks also to The Robert Frost Stone House Museum, the Frost Estate, and The Vermont Humanities Council. Also Henry Holt — publishers of "A Restless Spirit, the Story of Robert Frost" and of Frost's poetry.
This week's VPR/Vermont Reads series was produced by Betty Smith and Melody Bodette. The Production engineers were Chris Albertine, Sam Sanders and Bob Merrill, with web production by Tim Johnson. Our Executive Producer is John Van Hoesen. For VPR News, I'm Mitch Wertlieb.
Inspired by his mother's innovative ideas about education, and to augment his meager income as a poet, Robert Frost turned to teaching. Author Natalie Bober observes, his methods were unconventional.


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The Rise and Fall of Trading Spaces, the Home Design Show That Ruled the World
Kate Dries
Sitting at home on a Saturday afternoon scrolling through television channels in the year 2015, it hardly seems as though home design shows could ever have been groundbreaking stuff; they've become so plentiful that they have a network devoted to them. But in the early 2000s, there was one home design show that changed the course of television and cultural history: Trading Spaces, on TLC. The success and failure of this program traces a line in its network's programming, from reality TV as aspirational basic education to the mild Duggar-filled monstrosity it is today.
Trading Spaces premiered 15 years ago today, on in October 13, 2000, and like many great shows to precede and follow it (ahem Shark Tank), the idea came from another show that had been successful overseas: in this case, the BBC's Changing Rooms. Its premise, like that of most programs created at the dawn of the reality television boom, was relatively simple. Two sets of people who knew each other would literally trade their spaces for two days, and with the help of a designer, a carpenter and a budget of $1,000, transform one room in the opposite's home.
This was the early days of TLC, when the network was still somewhat associated with its original brand as The Learning Channel, before it moved on entirely to programs with dramatic, personality-oriented premises. ("In the big noisy world of cable television, it has a mere gnat of a profile: The Mr. Peebles of cable networks, if you will," television critic Verne Gay wrote in Newsday in 1998.) In the '90s, their tagline became "Life Unscripted," and Trading Spaces fit nicely into that set-up: reality programs meant to mostly capture normal life, rather than exaggerate it. "TLC has morphed into the channel for people who are looking for a user's guide to everyday life," cable programmer Lynne Buening told Variety in 2002.
Trading Spaces was not an instantaneous success. When it first came on the air, as the New York Daily News reported in 2001, it was given less-than-stellar programming slots, airing in the late afternoon on the weekdays and in the morning on the weekends, bringing in roughly half a million viewers an episode. "That's nowhere near the ratings of such daytime giants as Oprah (7.1 million viewers per show) and Martha Stewart (1.7 million), and it's leagues behind Changing Rooms' 12 million viewers," they wrote.
But that quickly changed. In just a year or two, the show became the top cable program on Saturday nights, after being moved to an 8 p.m. slot, with the New York Times calling it "TLC's prime-time jewel." It boasted 9 million viewers an episode, and by January 2002, had produced at least one water-cooler moment: the now-infamous episode where homeowner Pam cries over the loss of her brick fireplace, which has been covered with a white wooden facade despite the fact that she and her husband had left behind instructions not to touch it.
"I'm going to have to leave the room," Pam says, of designer Doug Wilson's take.
"Boy, she's not happy. She's really not happy," her husband John says, as Pam is heard crying offscreen. "I don't know even where to start; I mean I see one piece of furniture that looks remotely the way I left it, and the rest of it is just so not us."
"Did you enjoy the experience?" asks host Paige Davis.
"It was wonderful," he responds. "This two minutes I would go through again, just for the experience."
"Pam's breakdown on the Jan. 19 episode was an Olympian moment in this homespun corner of reality television," the Times wrote.
"Oh my God, wasn't that incredible?' said Walter Curley, a 35-year-old record store employee in Albany. 'When my boss Sharon brought up the crying episode, we spent the next hour ignoring customers and talking about it."
Regret—or the threat of it—was a crucial figure in the show's background. As demonstrated in a description of the episode in Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes, a book published for uber-fans that came out after Season 3, the show's success seemed to be predicated on walking a careful line between relishing and regretting design mistakes. Mostly, producers wanted to get an extreme response:
A classic Reveal that must be seen to be believed! The denim living room homeowners are extremely disappointed with their room (the male homeowner surmises Doug's design as "I see a lot of firewood"), and the female homeowner leaves the room in tears while her microphone continues running. The episode has a somewhat happy ending, with the male homeowner noting that "at least the room isn't orthogonal [like one of Hildi's infamous designs]."
"It was a completely unexpected reaction," Frank Bielec, the designer who worked with Pam and John on their neighbor's home told the Times. "But it was totally honest. Now if you want reality, that was it."
That was reality then, at least. The next year, in a new article, the Times described show EP Stephen Schwartz boasting that Trading Spaces had "thousands of applicants a week from across the country begging to take part," noting that "they also have a long list of decorators wanting to become part of their regular teams."
"TLC's transition to its newer self has been a roaring success," the National Post of Canada wrote a year later. "It's the second-highest-rated cable network in the United States among the all-important 18- to 49-year-old demographic and its viewership grew 13% last year." Not only were ratings high, costs were low; an episode of the show, Variety reported, was less than $100,000 to make, versus that of an hour long scripted dramatic program, which started at a $1 million.
Trading Spaces was hardly the only successful home design program; during its heyday in the early 2000s, there were over 30 home design shows on television. What was so captivating about this one in particular? The National Post praised its twist on a "game-show format," taking the basic premise of cooking and home design shows that had gained popularity on bare-bones networks like PBS and raising the stakes. While public television made Julia Child famous by just filming her cooking, post-Y2K audiences required more, and Trading Spaces delivered it—along with a heaping reinforcement of the importance of the home for white middle-class Americans, and the relatively newfound ability for anyone to become famous through television quite quickly.
The rise of internet message boards likely helped Trading Spaces as well. A precursor to Twitter, fans gathered to discuss their favorite episodes on the web, going so far as to create drinking games for use during viewings, which were chock full of inside jokes about the cast and format, the ultimate compliment for a successful show. (Drink when: "Laurie says 'Ya'll are fabulous' 'Ya'll are the best' or 'Ya'll are fantastic.'" "Frank has sweatstains." "someone mentions Genevieve's bare feet." "Ty climbs into cabinetry." "a homeowner says "I have to put my foot down.")
Comments on the message boards mostly ranged from thoughts about room design to personal preferences about designers/carpenters Ty Pennington and Amy Wyn. (Pennington, particularly "hunky," would go on to find huge success hosting Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC.)
As the show made celebrities out of its cast, TLC began bringing in actual celebrities: 7th Heaven cast members showed up for an episode where Jessica Biel and Beverley Mitchell teamed up against George and Geoff Stults, as did Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks. The network launched several spinoffs, including Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls and Trading Spaces: Family. They forged relationships with Lowe's, who sponsored the program.
Throughout its growth, the show managed to capture a strange combination of feel-good and reveal, of down-home and gloss. While Season 1 was hosted by the perky Alex McLeod, the subsequent success of the show has been largely tied to Paige Davis, who took over in Season 2 and was even perkier than McLeod, if that's possible. With Davis at the helm, the show's crew of designers and carpenters—practically all of whom had some background in theater or performance—became stars, however briefly. They were celebrated in Trading Spaces: Behind the Scenes, which reads like a series of gushing magazine profiles, down to the way nearly everyone in the crew seemed stunned to find themselves suddenly successful, appearing regularly on TV.
But Davis would stay in show business, getting cast as Roxie Hart in Chicago on Broadway in 2004. She told the New York Times about her fear that her hosting days would prove incompatible with theater, imagining what people would say:
"Home-improvement host on Broadway." Her eyes rolled. "What's theater coming to?"
In the piece, Davis explained how, just a few short years earlier, she struggled to even get an audition for the host position on Trading Spaces. (Davis and her husband would later be featured on the TLC show A Wedding Story which launched in the late '90s, along with A Baby Story—foreshadowing the direction the network was moving.) But her star power became so undeniable that the Chicago producer compared Davis's inclusion to the much-lauded revamp of A Raisin in the Sun.
Casting Ms. Davis has meant a boon in ticket sales said Barry Weissler, co-producer of "Chicago." "She's doing for us what Puff Daddy did for 'Raisin in the Sun,'" said Mr. Weissler, who estimated sales have jumped 25 percent since Ms. Davis joined the cast in late June and is appearing through Aug. 8. "We're back to enjoying the same type of grosses we accomplished six or seven years ago."
But good things can't last forever, as Davis seemed to recognize. "My heart sinks to my stomach to think that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity," she said. So was Trading Spaces: as some viewers warned, the show was about to become a victim of its own success.
In January 2005, things changed. Davis was fired as host, and not replaced, with the show moving to a "host-less" format. In 2006, TLC changed their tagline from "Life Unscripted" to "Live and Learn." Adweek reported that this meant that the network would be talking "overly about learning" again, going as far with a new "Life Lessons" ad campaign that they started selling statuettes like "plasticized Precious Moments figurines" about the theme.
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''Live and Learn'' is the new tagline for Discovery's TLC network starting March 27. Network executives hope it conveys to viewers that the channel is now a place for adults in their 30's who are what the network refers to as "in transition'' — buying their first house, getting married or having children.
Investors and advertisers, meanwhile, can only hope that the network has taken its own slogan to heart as it tries to arrest a three-year plunge in its ratings.
The network's prime-time viewership had dropped from 1.2 million in 2003 to around 720,000 in 2005. They'd "pioneered the idea of big reality shows, but they don't have it to themselves anymore," media consultant Erica Gruen told the paper, harshly but honestly explaining that TLC had to "come up with better original ideas" than some of their competitors, who could rely on reruns of scripted programs to pad their schedules.
With their new slogan, they seemed to be leaning once again on the kind of basic aspirational "education" that Trading Spaces provided, but in reality, the show's wholesomeness was getting outpaced. David Abraham, TLC's new executive vice president and general manager, referred to as the "architect of TLC's makeover," told the Times that the show—once their shining glory—was "not at the center of our strategy for the future."
For the next few years, Trading Spaces chugged along, experimenting with new tactics that didn't quite seem to catch viewers the way their old format once had; many of their best-known cast members had departed the show as well.
In December 2007, they aired a "hipster edition" of the show shot in Philadelphia. After some prompting from friends Ryan and Aryon, who were part of the same Philadelphia art scene, artist Rose Luardo and her boyfriend at the time Thom applied to be on the show, mostly, Luardo says, for the experience—and to get a new couch for her new, not-yet-finished home. "Why was it hipster?" Luardo asks. "I guess it was hipster because... everybody was in the arts."
"If the entire room fucking sucks, at least I will have a piece of furniture in there and a goddamn couch to sit on," Luardo says of her thought process about going on Trading Spaces. "Oh my god, was I wrong."
Excerpts of the episode are on YouTube; in it, you can tell that Luardo and her friends are attempting to be funny. Thom wore a wig the whole episode, explaining that they "were playing with the convention of being on the show like that" for comedy's sake. You can also see that the show producers seemed to want to present them as less normal than they were.
"I guess my dream was, I'm gonna get a sofa. What they got me was lawn furniture," Luardo says, admitting that she was able to enjoy it eventually—adding, "but I put it outside."
She hadn't been an avid viewer of Trading Spaces before she applied to be on the show, but she was aware of its legacy as a show that featured "suburban, cookie-cutter houses" and people with a traditional feel. The producers seemed to want Luardo and her friends because they were different. But, as Luardo explains, many of their "shenanigans" were still cut, and although she got a gift card from the show (which she used to repaint her crazy-colored walls) and a free piece of furniture from the designer she worked with, the producers mainly seemed to want to provoke a reaction—both from the audience and from her.
Her experience seems to speak to a problem the show faced throughout its run, which may have grown in later years: a need to get ratings that drove dramatic, unwelcome makeovers. Part of that, Luardo speculates, is just the reality television process, which has become ever more brutal as the years have gone on. The landscape that existed when Trading Spaces launched had shifted by the time the show started to wind down.
A few months after the "Hipster edition" episode aired, TLC faced another revamp. In March 2008, they launched their slogan "Life. Surprises." and new shows that would ultimately turn them into the tabloid sensation people know now, like What Not to Wear, Say Yes to the Dress, Little People, Big World, LA Ink and, most notably John & Kate Plus 8. A few months prior, a "new team" running the network had announced they were bringing back Paige Davis as Trading Spaces host, as a "top priority was to return the channel's one-time tent-pole show to its former glory."
"I was initially freaked," Davis told the Chicago Tribune, "because I couldn't imagine how this turn of events would have happened. I would not have imagined anyone like TLC asking me back. When I found out it was all new people at TLC, then it made more sense."
"It had been expressed to me that the new people at TLC didn't believe that 'Trading Spaces' had really run its course, that it had been run into the ground. (They believed) that there'd be a way to restore it to its original fun and family entertainment and bounce and joy.
She added, "They wanted to give the fans another chance to see the show they actually loved, as opposed to the show it became."
That chance proved to be short-lived. A year later, Davis revealed the show had been cancelled, somewhat quietly, as network president Angela Shapiro-Mathes, who'd championed it, had left after only eight months on the job. Before the show was cancelled, TLC had attempted to, as Reality TV World noted, "bring 'an emotional hook to every angle' by having each episode feature two couples that had a less perfect relationship, such as divorced couples, dueling mothers-in-laws, workplace rivals and feuding neighbors." This focus on interpersonal relationships and emotion would be the driver behind the network's quest for ratings in the coming years, ultimately propelling into fame, fortune and then mild disaster, with shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and 17/18/19 Kids and Counting.
What the future holds for TLC and reality television is hardly comforting to those depressed by the state of programming today. The network has seemed hellbent on continuing to try to appropriately milk their current scandal-plagued stars for all their worth, despite the fact that they've gotten plenty of flack for that decision. If all of that negativity towards the channel is warranted is another story. In truth, they shifted strategies because the ratings spoke for themselves: the public was bored with what they were offering. They had to literally keep up with the Kardashians (that show premiered in 2007).
"Reality shows make me a little...it's like, I shouldn't be watching this, I shouldn't be allowed to watch this," Luardo says. "But it's interesting: This stuff exists in the world, which means people want it and are interested in it." Trading Spaces was the hottest thing for years, until it wasn't. People wanted more, and they got it.
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Buzz Aldrin, a former astronaut, announced on his 93rd birthday that he had wed his lifelong lover.
Aldrin disclosed that he and Dr. Anca Faur, 63, were married in a tiny, private ceremony. He and Neil Armstrong became the first to set foot on the moon.
A tweet from Aldrin's Twitter account stated, "On my 93rd birthday and the day I will also be recognized by Living Legends of Aviation, I am thrilled to announce that my lifelong girlfriend Dr. Anca Faur and I have married the marriage."
In a modest, private ceremony in Los Angeles, "we were joined in holy matrimony and are as excited as eloping teens."
The astronaut posted two images of himself and Faur, with the bride wearing a stunning gown and Adrien dressed nicely.
Aldrin was married three times before he wed Faur, and each of those marriages ended in divorce.
James, Janice, and Andrew are his three children from his first marriage to Joan Archer.
Aldrin and Archer were wed from 1954 until they applied for divorce in 1974.
Friends, colleagues, and fans all congratulated the happy couple.
"Congratulations Doctors Aldrin and Faur!" one person wrote.
"I send you lots of love, harmony, happiness, and joy! I'm so pleased for you, Buzz, and Anca.
"Congratulations, it is very incredible! Forever young," said a different.
a third party remarked: "Buzz, happy birthday and congrats on your nuptials.
"I'm ecstatic for you. As usual, you did it elegantly."
Aldrin piloted the Lunar Module Eagle on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and performed three spacewalks throughout the course of his career.
On July 20, 1969, he landed on the moon 19 minutes after Armstrong.
He is the lone survivor of the three astronauts that were part of the Apollo 11 mission.
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Civic journalism and why it matters
Posted October 12th, 2011 by Sharon Green in Future of Journalism
I attended a public lecture at City University, London yesterday to hear Heather Brooke speak about civic journalism and why we need it.
What is civic journalism?
Before we jump into the key points made at the discussion, I want to clearly define what civic journalism is. Civic journalism, at its heart, is a belief that journalism has an obligation to public life – an obligation that goes beyond just telling the news or unloading lots of facts, according to the Pew Centre for Civic Journalism. It follows the notion that journalism can help empower a community or disable it. Civic journalism provides the people with the information they need to function in a democratic society.
Democracy Place defines civic journalism as "an effort to reach out to the public more aggressively in the reporting process, to listen to how citizens frame their problems and what citizens see as solutions to those problems… and then to use that information to enrich news stories."
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Modern media is "morally bankrupt"
Heather Brooke opened the discussion on civic journalism and why it matters with this bold statement: "journalism is suffering an identity crisis." She's accused the modern media of being "morally bankrupt" and having lost touch with its core function of holding the powerful to account. "The ultimate moral bankruptcy of modern journalism is it's forgotten its core purpose of informing the public."
Journalism is one of the most important ways to change society and challenge power, noted Brooke. But she argued that "proper" journalism has been usurped by marketing, PR, and selling products, and journalists no longer look at courts, schools, and local councils – the very things that comprise civic life. "When profit becomes the main reason for journalism, journalism loses its public purpose," she said.
Brooke said there is a real lack of "challenging journalism" today, highlighting the lack of reporting of justice in courts, as an example. The Royal Courts used to have 25 dedicated reporters. Currently there are only 4, and 2 at the Old Bailey (Press Association). Today, journalists in court are often treated in low level disdain, said Brooke.
Brooke cited another example: The Guardian, unlike politicians, used court reports to analyse the people behind the UK riots. However, they found it extremely difficult to obtain information on people who were charged during the riots because the [court] clerks wouldn't allow access to court records. The Guardian eventually gained access to some of the datasets via the Ministry of Justice and cross-referenced addresses of those charged with riot locations. Prior to this, the court registers had never been requested before. Does this mean that the bureaucracy prevents journalists from holding power to account? It was discovered that police incidence reports, fire inspection reports, and parliament reports are still not public. Brooke questioned: why is this case? She expressed her outrage at this and asked how the UK media, who are supposedly aggressive, could not be asking these basic questions. "Journalists are meant to be finding out where power exists and challenging them with questions." Because of these factors, said Brooke, people don't feel like the media represents their interests anymore.
"If you really want to be a journalist, you have to invest in fighting for the information that's in the hands of the powerful. If the information was easy to get, everyone would have it." – Heather Brooke.
Brooke said the growth of new media, where everybody is now a journalist or can be a journalist, makes it hard for readers to know where to go to find a trustworthy and reliable news source. So how did we get to this state in journalism? "We treat journalism like any other business, like a widget in a factory… News is just not like that," answered Brooke. Readers now seek out news sources that have proved reliable and have stopped going to sources that have failed on this front. Brooke also noted that professional journalists, who are needed now more than ever, can differentiate themselves through their brand and their reputation to verify news. Only then can the public turn to media they know can be trusted. As a reminder, Brooke cited the tagline of The Uptake, a citizen-fuelled online news gathering organisation: Will journalism be done by you or to you?
Importantly, journalists will lead the way with change. We're seeing shifts in the way people are thinking about power. Brooke reminds us that as journalists, we need to remember our public purpose. "Journalists will lead the way if they stay close to the people. We need to remember the public," she said.
What are your thougths on the importance of civic journalism in today's society? Do we need it now, more than ever?
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Efes Pilsen 10 Forward
Height: 1.97 Born: 2 January, 1979 Nationality: Turkey
Totals 12 0 92:15 2 1/3 0/0 0/2 0 7 7 1 1 6 0 0 19 4 -14
Averages 12 0 7:41 0.2 33.3% 0% 0% 0 0.6 0.6 0.1 0.1 0.5 0 0 1.6 0.3 -1.2
21 at CSKA Moscow 10:45 1 3 1 -1
1 Totals 10:45 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 -1
Average 10:45 0 0% 0% 0% 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 -1
16 vs Cibona VIP 19:30 1 1 2 3 1 -3
17 at Panathinaikos 0:15
19 vs Panathinaikos 5:15 2 1/1 1 1 1 1 1
20 at Cibona VIP 20:15 0/1 2 2 1 2
Average 11:18 0.5 50% 0% 0% 0 1 1 0.3 0 0.8 0 0 1.5 0.3 -0.5
1 at AJ Milano 6:00 0/1 1 1 3 -3
3 at Olympiacos 3:00
5 vs Lietuvos Rytas 9:00 1 1 1 1 1
8 vs AJ Milano 5:30 1 1 2 2 -3
9 at Winterthur FC Barcelona 5:45 2 -2
12 at Lietuvos Rytas 6:45 0/2 1 2 1 -4
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7 Totals 36:15 0 0/1 0/0 0/2 0 3 3 0 0 3 0 0 10 2 -11
Average 5:10 0 0% 0% 0% 0 0.4 0.4 0 0 0.4 0 0 1.4 0.3 -1.6
This player is not ranked among the Top 25 in any category.
Index rating 12 Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. Partizan Belgrade 3/13/2008
Points 12 Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. Partizan Belgrade 3/13/2008
Offensive rebounds 2 Panathinaikos Athens vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 4/14/2005
Defensive rebounds 5 Panathinaikos Athens vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 4/14/2005
Total rebounds 7 Panathinaikos Athens vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 4/14/2005
Assists 4 Olympiacos Piraeus vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 1/17/2007
Steals 2 Estudiantes Madrid vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 12/23/2004
Blocks 1 Panathinaikos Athens vs. Anadolu Efes Istanbul 3/6/2008
Minutes 35 Anadolu Efes Istanbul vs. Partizan Belgrade 3/13/2008
Grew up with Afyon Cimentospor (Turkey) youth teams.
Signed for the 1995-96 season by Fenerbahce Istanbul.
Played there till the 2000-01 season.
Signed for the 2001-02 season by Ulker Sports Club Istanbul.
Played there also the 2002-03 championship.
Signed for the 2003-04 season by Besiktas Istanbul.
Signed for the 2004-05 season by Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Signed for the 2009-10 season by ITU Istanbul. TBL-2.
Signed for the 2010-11 season by Besiktas JK Istanbul.
Won the 2004-05 and 2008-09 Turkish National Championship with Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Won the 2003 Turkish National Cup with Ulker Sports Club Istanbul.
Won the 2006, 2007 and 2009 Turkish National Cup with Efes Pilsen Istanbul.
Won the 2002 President Cup with Ulker Sports Club Istanbul.
Has been member of the Turkish U-16, U-18 and U-22 National Team.
Played at the 1995 U-16 and 1996 U-18 European Championships.
Won the bronze medal at the 1998 European U-22 Championship.
Played at the 1997 World U-22 Championship.
2001-02 Ulker 11 29 2.6 5/13 38.5 4/6 66.7 7/14 50 13 3 8 0
2002-03 Ulker 1 0 0 0/0 0 0/0 0 0/0 0 0 0 0 0
2004-05 Efes Pilsen 21 49 2.3 13/24 54.2 5/17 29.4 8/13 61.5 22 7 13 1
2005-06 Efes Pilsen 12 2 0.2 1/3 33.3 0/0 0 0/2 0 7 1 1 0
2006-07 Efes Pilsen 18 29 1.6 6/16 37.5 4/17 23.5 5/9 55.6 29 9 9 1
2007-08 Efes Pilsen 15 22 1.5 4/10 40 3/5 60 5/8 62.5 11 3 4 1
Totals 78 131 1.7 29/66 43.9 16/45 35.6 25/46 54.3 82 23 35 3
2010-11 Besiktas Istanbul 5 14 2.8 2/3 66.7 3/8 37.5 1/2 50 8 3 8 1
Totals 5 14 2.8 2/3 66.7 3/8 37.5 1/2 50 8 3 8 1
Averages 5 14 2.8 2/3 66.7 3/8 37.5 1/2 50 1.6 0.6 1.6 0.2
1995/96 Fenerbahce 22 9 0.4 1/3 33.3 0/0 0/0 7/12 58.3 4 1 1 0
1996/97 Fenerbahce 29 65 2.2 23/36 63.9 2/5 40 13/25 52 28 13 16 3
1997/98 Fenerbahce 11 29 2.6 11/14 78.6 1/4 25 4/9 44.4 14 3 3 1
1998/99 Fenerbahce 25 120 4.8 29/63 46 14/36 38.9 24/33 72.7 53 15 20 4
1999/00 Fenerbahce 26 217 8.3 68/131 51.9 10/52 19.2 51/80 63.8 74 22 34 1
2000/01 Fenerbahce 24 116 4.8 33/64 51.6 11/39 28.2 17/34 50 50 20 17 3
2001/02 Ulker 29 124 4.3 29/47 61.7 16/35 45.7 18/40 45 46 20 22 0
2002/03 Ulker 16 52 3.3 13/25 52 6/18 33.3 8/12 66.7 19 3 18 0
2003/04 Besiktas 24 281 11.7 81/141 57.4 27/65 41.5 38/64 59.4 49 31 31 7
2004/05 Efes Pilsen 33 149 4.5 31/65 47.7 24/63 38.1 15/30 50 82 18 45 …
2005/06 Efes Pilsen 38 104 2.7 25/57 43.9 20/39 51.3 4/11 36.4 30 12 36 …
2006/07 Efes Pilsen 32 115 3.6 22/53 41.5 19/59 32.2 14/27 51.9 49 27 31 ...
2007/08 Efes Pilsen 34 167 4.9 31/51 60.8 30/57 52.6 15/28 53.6 64 16 24 7
2008/09 Efes Pilsen 1 0 0 0/1 0 0/1 0 0/0 0/0 0 0 0 0
2009/10 ITU 21 423 20.1 92/184 50 56/165 33.9 71/114 62.3 73 18 56 11


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This case study, examining the MailScanner project, has been written by Julian Field, University of Southampton.
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The MailScanner project has never had any official funding of any sort. I beg and borrow the facilities I need, and have the kind co-operation of my employer, the University of Southampton. I do the vast proportion of the work in my spare time, though my employers are happy for me to work on it when my workload permits.
Over the years, the University of Southampton's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia (IAM) Group has undertaken a number of short studies in systems and networks security on behalf of JISC's JCAS sub-committee. In 2000, they undertook an investigation into gateway-based anti-virus protection methods, detailing who was providing what and the cost implications of each product. As this project progressed, it became evident that anti-virus e-mail gateway products were both very expensive (for licences per host within the site) and were predominantly Windows-only. For example, for a university such as Southampton, with around 20,000 users, the costs, at the time, would have been in excess of £50,000 per annum in licence fees alone.
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However, after a short time, and in response to requests and suggestions from other people, it was obvious that support for additional virus scanners was much needed. So I rewrote it from scratch and produced version 2.0.
At that time spam was not really a problem, just viruses, so people who could not afford a commercial product tended towards MailScanner for purely financial reasons. It was being used by a couple of hundred sites, mostly within the UK, but also some .edu sites and various cash-strapped American government departments, such as the US urban development department and the US agricultural department. As news about MailScanner spread, uptake increased, most notably in France and the USA. New features were being requested and I added very simple spam detection through the use of blacklists, but it was rapidly outgrowing its architecture.
So, in late 2001, I began work on version 3.0. This took a month to write and had support for many other virus scanners but, more importantly, had far better spam detection due to the ability to plug in SpamAssassin. With version 3.0 MailScanner started to take off, and usage increased to several thousand sites. However, there was still little involvement with people outside: no-one contributed code (with the odd major exception—one university sent me a patch that was bigger than the whole of MailScanner itself!) and testing was purely ad hoc, done by a couple of big users who already had machine clusters dedicated to e-mail system testing and development. In addition, as more features were added to MailScanner, it gradually got slower and slower, so over the summer of 2003 I rewrote it from scratch yet again.
When version 4.0 was first launched in 2003 the project really started to take off. It was over three times faster than the previous version and out-performed everything else on the market. Interest grew rapidly; it started to be known in slightly wider circles and the rate of downloads grew consistently over the next two or three years. Testing improved, and there is now a dedicated team of users who do regular testing, ensuring that the new features and fixes haven't, in turn, caused any other problems. There have also been more code contributions, particularly from organisations like Vodafone Europe.
Around this time I was approached by a large cable company who were interested in implementing MailScanner. They wanted me to write a detailed training course for their system administrators that would be delivered over two or three days of training sessions. Unfortunately, the decision over whether or not to implement MailScanner was continually delayed and I realised that the time I had spent writing material was in danger of being wasted. It seemed to me that one possible solution to this was to sell it as a book. I went to various seminars and meetings with publishers such as O'Reilly, but was unhappy about how little money I was going to make out of it (5% of the shop retail price). So I went to CafePress, who were already selling T-shirts for me, and set up a book printing deal with them. This meant that I received a much larger share of the retail price. The book has sold nearly 1,000 copies to date.
In 2005 I was a finalist in two of the Reader Awards categories at the UK Linux & Open Source Awards: Best Linux/Open Source Project, and UK Individual Contribution to Linux/Open Source.
The MailScanner project has never had any official funding of any sort. Occasionally I have managed to get sponsorship from my employer and from Transtec, one of our major suppliers, but mostly I beg and borrow the facilities I need and do the vast majority of the work in my spare time. However, the University of Southampton is very supportive of my work on MailScanner and has provided me with a member of staff to help out with my normal duties. This gives me more time to spend on MailScanner than would otherwise be possible.
There are several people in Cambridge, Argentina, Spain and the USA, who have closely examined and audited every line of code in the project, and this auditing is very helpful. They have all suggested various improvements and, as they have all demonstrated a detailed knowledge of the code, their suggestions have been taken on board.
For the most part these people contribute on behalf of their institutions and they all have big MailScanner installations at their employers' sites. Tony Finch at Cambridge University has made significant contributions in the past, and the people in Argentina contributed the support for Zmailer, which is a high-speed (but relatively unknown) Mail Transfer Agent (MTA). They have also contributed bug reports and have taken the time to go through the code line by line. The Spanish group used to work for Vodafone Europe but have now moved to the USA. While working for Vodafone, they made a small number of very important contributions to the code and put a lot of effort into profiling MailScanner to try to make it even faster: they re-wrote ten particular lines of code and added 25% to the speed! This took them several weeks of full-time work, and is something I don't have time to do. Generally speaking, contribution levels tend to fluctuate and are usually related to what each participant needs MailScanner to do.
The American group is now called Fort Systems Ltd and they sell MailScanner as a commercial product that includes a much-improved version of MailWatch, and a Web-based configuration and administration package. Steve Freegard, the author of MailWatch, is one of their full-time employees.
I run MailScanner as a 'benevolent dictatorship', which, although very labour-intensive for me, leads to a package that is very reliable and has very few flaws. Whilst most open source projects allow access to Subversion or CVS archives to provide the latest version of the source code, I do not. I believe that this is dangerous as it would enable people to download code which is untested, and may potentially lose mail as a result. Losing mail is obviously unacceptable to users, so only I am able to release code to the general public, and only after it has been tested at least to the point where I am sure it cannot lose mail. After that point, I rely on users to do the majority of the functional testing.
Similarly, accepting contributions to the source from other people could affect the reliability of the software, as there may well be bugs and/or security vulnerabilities in the source code they supply. As MailScanner deals with e-mail, it is critical that it should maintain its reputation for being a reliable and safe package to use on a corporate e-mail system, so all code accepted from other people is closely inspected for security vulnerabilities and potential for attack and, as a result, is usually totally re-written in my own style.
Most decisions that affect the direction of the software are discussed amongst the users. If they want something, and there are enough of them to warrant the effort required, then I write it. At the time of writing, no-one has requested or suggested any major new features in a long time.
Apart from the book, there are three main sources of documentation: the wiki, the website and the automatically-generated documents. The wiki provides all sorts of sample set-ups and 'HowTo's contributed by the users. I don't write any of the content in the wiki, although I created the basic framework for it. The website contains some easy-to-follow installation guides for the various different MTAs supported, which is just enough to get people started. The automatically-generated documents are extracted from the lengthy textual comment above each configuration setting in the main MailScanner configuration file, which explains how to use each particular setting.
Since version 4.0 was released in 2003, I have released a new version at the start of almost every month. Recently, however, due to pressures at work, I have been issuing a new release every two months. I also produce beta test versions every few weeks—as and when new features are added and fixes implemented.
So far, I have not needed to give much thought to the future of the project. The model I have chosen for MailScanner is labour-intensive for me, but leads to a package that is very reliable and has very few flaws. I am settled in my current job and due to poor health, I am not likely to change jobs or find myself in a position where I don't have any time to spend on it. Also, MailScanner has matured now and the rate at which I need to add new features is very low. As far as I'm concerned it is a small project and needs to remain that way if I am going to be able to continue doing all of it.
If something were to happen to me, the most sensible course of action would be for Fort Systems to take over my role. They already know an enormous amount about it through their consulting business, and they employ Steve Freegard who knows MailScanner completely and could take over maintenance with no great problem.
an 'announcements' list, which has about one posting per month at most. Anyone who contacts me is encouraged to join that list.
a 'beta testers' list where I announce changes and new beta versions that I would like people to test. This is also fairly low-traffic, usually about two or three postings per day on average.
The main 'discussion' list is where most of the technical support is done. This is a very high traffic list, and now has an average of 60 postings per day. There is a small army of volunteers who answer technical queries and discussions as and when they have time. Every sensible question is answered by at least one person, and nothing is left unanswered. I try to post to the list as well in order to correct or clarify information.
Since 2006, when this document was written, MailScanner has reached version 4.84. The MailScanner book was updated in June 2007 and the software continues to be updated in line with its frequent release cycle.
MailScanner: a case study in sustainability by Julian Field, University of Southampton is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License .


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A dry and windy week ended with 4.4 mm of rain yesterday bringing joy to everyone. Water levels across the reserve have dropped to very low levels, so the soft, soaking rain is exactly what we have all been hoping for. Following on from Don Heyneke's incredible TWIP 354 and his references to change, this change in weather will bring the bush a fresh feel, with wonderful smells of petrichor (that great smell of wet soil after the first rains) and flushes of green as trees start to regrow their leaves.
The female cub of the Nkoveni female stares up into the tree above. Her mother had killed an impala and pulled it into a tree on the banks of a drainage line not far from the camp fence. Leopards will only feed one at a time on a kill thus when the mother went up to feed, the youngster stared up longingly. A small gap in the trees let just enough light through to catch the glow in the leopard cub's eye.
Having spotted three young giraffe calves left alone in the shade of some trees on an open crest, we figured the adults couldn't be too far off. After a few minutes, the adults came ambling back towards their youngsters. With excitement, this little one ran straight in for its mother's teats to nurse!
It's great to appreciate the little things out here. This tree squirrel was in the middle of a bushwillow bush, feeding off seeds that it was foraging from some of the dried pods. With some awkward balancing, I managed to find a gap amongst the branches to get a shot of this squirrel nibbling away!
Seeing one cheetah is rare enough. Seeing three at once is like celebrating your birthday, Christmas and Easter all in one day – it doesn't really happen that often.The mother cheetah and her two sub-adult youngsters made an appearance again this week. They were looking quite hungry and walked through a thicket, ready to chase any scrub hare, duiker or anything they flushed out the bush along the way. They used termite mounds and fallen trees as vantage points to scan ahead for potential prey or danger, as pictured here. A sudden gap in the clouds cast some light on the three of them at the opportune moment.
Having been left to fend for herself at a young age, it is great to see that the Tamboti young female is making kills of her own. Here she had taken advantage of the windy conditions and managed to capture and hoist a young impala into a very thick tree. This would block the view of vultures circling above, provide some shade and also stop hyenas from reaching the carcass. It also stopped us from getting clear pictures other than this small gap of her face as she stared down toward us.
Two lilac-breasted rollers perched next to each other on a branch in the Sand River. A common bird in the area, however an unusual sighting seeing two next to each other.
The Nhlanguleni female hisses at one of her cubs as it tries to play with her. They had been lying on the banks of a steep drainage line, with pretty much zero view of them. Patience paid off here as after some time, the three of them began to wake up, stretch and played with each right in the open. Moral of the story – spend that extra fifteen minutes waiting!
A large herd of Cape buffalo were seen passing through Londolozi this past week. Buffalo bulls will often trail behind a herd. In this case, two bulls became quite distracted in a confrontation with each other as the herd continued on their search for grass and water.
A Birmingham male lion yawns having had a long day of rest, waiting for the heat to pass after sunset. Large cats (lions, leopards and cheetah) all show ritualised behaviour of yawning before getting up and moving. With a spotlight from the side, his impressive mane and canines (reaching about 4-5 inches in length) are highlighted.
Elephants have quite a presence about them. The textures in their skin and soft look about their eyes give off a humbling feel when one is close enough to them. I have seen a few front on "half" portraits of elephant's faces, which I have found intriguing. This is my first attempt to try and emphasise an elephant's features by darkening the background and using a slight vignette.
We encountered this rhino bull on the banks of a dry riverbed as he walked along with intent on a territorial patrol. By dropping down into the ravine, we were able to sit quietly and watch as he walked past at eye-level.
Ranger Grant Rodewijk and guests drive on from a sighting of a Birmingham male lion that had started to settle in a clearing not far from the Sand River. This male had been searching for the Tsalala lioness who has been wandering the banks of the river.
Windy conditions have kicked up dust into the atmosphere, which creates incredible orange sunsets. Here a marabou stork settles in a dead tree for the night, silhouetted against the backdrop of a deep orange sky.
The Flat Rock male stares back towards where the Nkoveni female and her cub were lying close by. He had discovered the kill that the Nkoveni female had hoisted into a tree close to the camp fence (as mentioned in the first image of this post). We were fortunate to see all three leopards at the same time in this sighting.
Great pics this week Pete. Love the two buffalo locking horns and the elephant. We were fortunate to see the Senegal bush male a few weeks ago.
You know I love the cheetah picture. Thanks for that amazing sighting!
Amazing set of images this week, rivalling last week!! The two rollers and the Flat Rock male are sometthing special here!!
Wonderful pictures Pete, but I have to say my favorite is the limited view of the Tamboti female. Because of her positioning in the tree, this shot tells me a story, just what an image should do.
On another note, I noticed the shot of Grant's vehicle did not have the photo pods – not sure the proper name, but it's a post attached to the "hand rail" with a beanbag like pad attached to it. Are they not on all vehicles?
They go by different names according to who you ask. I personally like to refer to them as the "mushroom rests". We have them available for anybody that needs one but do not tend to leave them on as they can get in the way if someone is not interested in taking photographs.
The lion and Land Rover photo brought back many happy memories. Thank you!
A wonderful TWIP, Pete! Loved the image of 2thr two rollers especially and those cheetah are special to me! Hope Flat Rock's cubs will be safe as a new male pushes in, though!
Great shots Pete! The cheetah is the one animal we didn't get to see during our visit there last year and I love this shot of them … they're just stunning!
Pete you gave us much to feast our eyes upon this week! What an extraordinary images. It's just a reminder of the wonderful array of animals that live in Londolozi and how capable staff is when writing and taking photographs. All good images are appreciated, but I tend toward the unusual….like the mysterious view through the leaves of the Tamboti female (I'd like that one hanging on my wall), or the half face of the elephant. So glad the cheetah's are still rambling in and out of Londolozi and that the Birmingham male appears to be still seeking out the lone Tsalala female…..it might be her only way to find some kind of ultimate protection. I still worry for her.
BTW, I'm seriously thinking about getting a print of your image of the Tamboli female. How does one go about doing that? Thanks, Pete!
Thanks for your comments, Joanne.
I will get back to you soon regarding the purchase!
If you hover over the image of the Tamboti young female, you will see a shopping cart icon on the bottom right of the picture. Click this and then follow steps to make your purchase. You will need to be logged into your account to do this. If you have any problems please email me at content@londolozi.co.za.
Wow! Great pics. You sure had your camera and your artist's eye working for you on this series!
Wow! Love the stories that go with amazing moments frozen in time!
Pete: We loved your photos, especially the rhino and the two rollers. Memories of a week of fabulous and fascinating game drives.


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In mathematics and physics, super Minkowski space or Minkowski superspace is a supersymmetric extension of Minkowski space, sometimes used as the base manifold (or rather, supermanifold) for superfields. It is acted on by the  super Poincaré algebra.

Construction

Abstract construction
Abstractly, super Minkowski space is the space of (right) cosets within the Super Poincaré group of Lorentz group, that is,
.

This is analogous to the way ordinary Minkowski spacetime can be identified with the (right) cosets within the Poincaré group of the Lorentz group, that is,
.

The coset space is naturally affine, and the nilpotent, anti-commuting behavior of the fermionic directions arises naturally from the Clifford algebra associated with the Lorentz group.

Direct sum construction
For this section, the dimension of the Minkowski space under consideration is .

Super Minkowski space can be concretely realized as the direct sum of Minkowski space, which has coordinates , with 'spin space'. The dimension of 'spin space' depends on the number  of supercharges in the associated super Poincaré algebra to the super Minkowski space under consideration. In the simplest case, , the 'spin space' has 'spin coordinates'  with , where each component is a Grassmann number. In total this forms 4 spin coordinates.

The notation for  super Minkowski space is then .

There are theories which admit  supercharges. Such cases have extended supersymmetry. For such theories, super Minkowski space is labelled , with coordinates  with .

Definition

The underlying supermanifold of super Minkowski space is isomorphic to a super vector space given by the direct sum  of ordinary Minkowski spacetime in d dimensions (often taken to be 4) and a number  of real spinor representations of the Lorentz algebra. (When  this is slightly ambiguous because there are 2 different real spin representations, so one needs to replace  by a pair of integers , though some authors use a different convention and take  copies of both spin representations.)

However this construction is misleading for two reasons: first, super Minkowski space is really an affine space over a group rather than a group, or in other words it has no distinguished "origin", and second, the underlying supergroup of translations is not a super vector space but a nilpotent supergroup of nilpotent length 2.

This supergroup has the following Lie superalgebra. Suppose that  is Minkowski space (of dimension ), and  is a finite sum of irreducible real spinor representations for -dimensional Minkowski space.

Then there is an invariant, symmetric bilinear map . It is positive definite in the sense that, for any , the element  is in the closed positive cone of , and  if . This bilinear map is unique up to isomorphism.

The Lie superalgebra  has  as its even part, and  as its odd (fermionic) part. The invariant bilinear map  is extended to the whole superalgebra to define the (graded) Lie bracket , where the Lie bracket of anything in  with anything is zero.

The dimensions of the irreducible real spinor representation(s) for various dimensions d of spacetime are given a table below.
The table also displays the type of  reality structure for the spinor representation, and the type of  invariant bilinear form on the spinor representation.

The table repeats whenever the dimension increases by 8, except that the dimensions of the spin representations are multiplied by 16.

Notation

In the physics literature, a super Minkowski spacetime is often specified by giving the dimension  of the even, bosonic part (dimension of the spacetime), and the number of times  that each irreducible spinor representation occurs in the odd, fermionic part. This  is the number of supercharges in the associated super Poincaré algebra to the super Minkowski space.

In mathematics, Minkowski spacetime is sometimes specified in the form Mm|n or  where m is the dimension of the even part and n the dimension of the odd part. This is notation used for -graded vector spaces. The notation can be extended to include the signature of the underlying spacetime, often this is  if .

The relation is as follows: the integer  in the physics notation is the integer  in the mathematics notation, while the integer  in the mathematics notation is  times the integer  in the physics notation, where  is the dimension of (either of) the irreducible real spinor representation(s). For example, the  Minkowski spacetime is . A general expression is then
.

When , there are two different irreducible real spinor representations, and authors use various different conventions. Using earlier notation, if there are  copies of the one representation and  of the other, then defining , the earlier expression holds.

In physics the letter P  is used for a basis of the even bosonic part of the Lie superalgebra, and the letter Q is often used for a basis of the complexification of the odd fermionic part, so in particular the structure constants of the Lie superalgebra may be complex rather than real. Often the basis elements Q come in complex conjugate pairs, so the real subspace can be recovered as the fixed points of complex conjugation.

Signature (p,q)

The real dimension associated to the factor  or  can be found for generalized Minkowski space with dimension  and arbitrary signature . The earlier subtlety when  instead becomes a subtlety when . For the rest of this section, the signature refers to the difference .

The dimension depends on the reality structure on the spin representation. This is dependent on the signature  modulo 8, given by the table

The dimension also depends on . We can write  as either  or , where . We define the spin representation  to be the representation constructed using the exterior algebra of some vector space, as described here. The complex dimension of  is . If the signature is even, then this splits into two irreducible half-spin representations  and  of dimension , while if the signature is odd, then  is itself irreducible. When the signature is even, there is the extra subtlety that if the signature is a multiple of 4 then these half-spin representations are inequivalent, otherwise they are equivalent.

Then if the signature is odd,  counts the number of copies of the spin representation . If the signature is even and not a multiple of 4,  counts the number of copies of the half-spin representation. If the signature is a multiple of 4, then  counts the number of copies of each half-spin representation.

Then, if the reality structure is real, then the complex dimension becomes the real dimension. On the other hand if the reality structure is quaternionic or complex (hermitian), the real dimension is double the complex dimension.

The real dimension associated to  or  is summarized in the following table:

This allows the calculation of the dimension of superspace with underlying spacetime  with  supercharges, or  supercharges when the signature is a multiple of 4. The associated super vector space is  with  where appropriate.

Restrictions on dimensions and supercharges

Higher-spin theory

There is an upper bound on  (equal to  where appropriate). More straightforwardly there is an upper bound on the dimension of the spin space  where  is the dimension of the spin representation if the signature is odd, and the dimension of the half-spin representation if the signature is even. The bound is .

This bound arises as any theory with more than  supercharges automatically has fields with (absolute value of) spin greater than 2. More mathematically, any representation of the superalgebra contains fields with spin greater than 2. Theories that consider such fields are known as  higher-spin theories. On Minkowski space, there are no-go theorems which prohibit such theories from being interesting.

If one doesn't wish to consider such theories, this gives upper bounds on the dimension and on . For Lorentzian spaces (with signature ), the limit on dimension is . For generalized Minkowski spaces of arbitrary signature, the upper dimension depends sensitively on the signature, as detailed in an earlier section.

Supergravity

A large number of supercharges  also implies local supersymmetry. If supersymmetries are gauge symmetries of the theory, then since the supercharges can be used to generate translations, this implies infinitesimal translations are gauge symmetries of the theory. But these generate local diffeomorphisms, which is a signature of gravitational theories. So any theory with local supersymmetry is necessarily a supergravity theory.

The limit placed on massless representations is the highest spin field must have spin , which places a limit of  supercharges for theories without supergravity.

Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories

These are theories consisting of a gauge superfield partnered with a spinor superfield. This requires a matching of degrees of freedom. If we restrict this discussion to -dimensional Lorentzian space, the degrees of freedom of the gauge field is , while the degrees of freedom of a spinor is a power of 2, which can be worked out from information elsewhere in this article. This places restrictions on super Minkowski spaces which can support a supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. For example, for , only  or  support a Yang-Mills theory.

See also
 Superspace
 Super vector space
 Super-Poincaré algebra

References

Supersymmetry

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