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Podcast 87: The Future of Meditation. An interview with Ariel Garten
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Today we're having an in-depth conversation with Ariel Garten, co-founder and CEO of Muse.
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2:17 What I knew I had to do to expand my influence and income.
6:35 How a family found freedom together.
8:16 Passing information and culture between generations.
10:14 Finding out essential self.
14:39 What meditation does for anxiety.
17:01 Using Muse as a hook to meet with doctors.
20:29 How to get investments for a product.
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The Future of Meditation An interview with Ariel Garten
This is the Practice of the Practice Podcast with Joe Sanok, Session 87. Welcome to the podcast. I am Joe Sanok, your host. What awesome day in Northern Michigan. It's a little bit chilly, but I'm looking out at the bay, and there's people walking through downtown. They've got on shorts and t-shirts, and yeah, as you may know, I live in a beach town in Northern Michigan, and I have this beautiful view of the water, and it's just awesome.You know, last week, I had a bit of a cold, and I still have a bit of a cold. It sounds worse than it is, but I've got my chai tea here. I feel like Oprah, like, "Get your chai on!" But I've got my chai tea, and I'm just hanging out doing this podcast; just did a batch of three weeks of my new podcast. That's 15 episodes of the How to Become a Consultant Podcast.
So that's actually going to be the resource I talk about a little bit. Hold on. I need to get a little bit of this in my throat. Gosh! That was so hot. So I just got this new water cooler. Instead of having bottled water and it has the hot thing, and I forgot how hot it is. Oh my gosh! That's a little bit better. Oh my gosh! I felt my throat freak out there for a second. I'm sure Ariel, who is my guest today, she's going to listen to this and be like, "Who is this heck?"
Anyway, what was I – oh, I was going to talk a little bit about the new podcast. So I don't have a sponsor today. We've got some sponsors coming up in the coming months, and they're going to be awesome. I can't wait to tell you about them. But this new podcast, the How to Become a Consultant Podcast, it is aimed at you; at people who have been listening to this podcast, who have been implementing it, whose private practice is just going amazing, and you're like, "Okay, what's my next level? What's my level up?"
What I knew I had to do to expand my influence and income
You know in 2012 when I launched Practice of the Practice, I knew that if I wanted to grow my influence and grow my income, I had to expand beyond just private practice. I mean, I didn't have to, but I knew that it would help me move forward quicker. So that's why I launched Practice of the Practice because I thought that the multiple-income streams was going to be a lot easier that way.
So I blogged about "How do you run a private practice", launched this podcast. In 2014, I committed to doing it weekly. We are on track to break 10,000 downloads this month. We're about to break 80,000 total downloads. I mean, it's just growing in an exponential rate every single month, and it's because you're telling people about it. I get like so many emails a day of people that are like just so excited about this podcast, and it's just such an honor. But it's all because I decided that I wanted to become a consultant beyond just doing private practice. And this new podcast, it's all about how to become a consultant. It's a five-day week podcast. I interview a consultant every single day. We go in-depth on how do you grow a specialty, how do you grow an audience, how do you grow an income, I have a wildcard I ask on Thursday. I just talk to them about whatever I want to talk about, and then Fridays, I take your questions; questions from the private Facebook group, questions from email, and questions that you leave for me on the SpeakPipe widget.
So it's just awesome. I now have like I think five weeks recorded. So week one is Pat Flynn. So a full week of Pat Flynn. Week two is John Lee Dumas, week three is Chris Ducker, week four is Pete Sanok, week five is Rick Mulready, and week six is Andy Crestodina, and then week seven is Miranda Palmer, and I have 20 weeks total already recorded interviews. So it's going to be a killer podcast. So please, go to becomeaconsultanttoday.com. You'll be able to sign up for the E-newsletter. That's the best way to get all of the kind of up to date information and where you'll get the private Facebook group invite. It's just going to be so dang awesome.
Well, today, I am so excited to introduce you to Ariel Garten. She is one of the cofounders of Muse. Many of you are using Muse in your private practice. All of the participants at the Most Awesome Conference were surprised with the Muse. We had Ben from Muse at the Most Awesome Conference, and they're just doing awesome, awesome stuff. Ariel, she's just such a unique person, and we're going to hear so much about her.
First, she's a psychotherapist. She's trained in neurolinguistic programming. She's a Canadian artist, scientist, and intellectual. She's done so much amazing work. She just got back from a TED Talk in India, and she lectures on interdisciplinary neuroscience topics such as the neuroscience of morals. She was on TVO's Big Ideas, which was a televised lecture series, the Neuroscience of Molecular Gastronomy, and all sorts of other stuff. But she's one of the co-creators of Muse, which is the best brain-sensing device available to the public that's medical grade. It's crazy-awesome. I use it with my clients all the time, especially teenagers love it because it connects to an app and you get real-time feedback on how active your brain is versus how centered and calm and focused it is, and she, Ariel, just gives you such a behind-the-scenes in this interview. It's just so awesome, and we just got along so well. I really enjoyed talking with her.
So without any further ado, I give you Ariel Garten.
Ariel Garten, welcome to the Practice of the Practice Podcast.
AG: Thank you, Joe. So I'm happy to be here.
Joe Sanok: Yeah. I'm so glad to have you on to talk about Muse, talk about your journey as a therapist, and just about the business, and so many things to talk about today. You're just getting back from India, and you had a bit of a stomach bug. Tell me about what you were doing in India.
How a family found freedom together
AG: In India, I was actually doing a TED Talk for TEDx women in Mumbai. It was a talk with my grandmother, my mother, and myself. My grandmother's a holocaust survivor. My mother is a phenomenal artist, and me, and the theme is Freedom. So for my grandmother, it's political freedom; for my mother it's artistic freedom, and for me, it's helping people find freedom in their own mind.
Joe Sanok: Wow! Well, tell me more about like how that came together, and that sounds fascinating to start there. Tell me more about your family doing a TED Talk together.
AG: Well, we have this kind of incredible cultural history that comes out of originally being holocaust survivors. So I always looked to my grandmother and the characteristics that she has; the characteristics of resilience, of the capability, the incredible attitude towards life that she has, and I said, "How did this happen? Where does it come from, and how does it pass on through the ages," and more importantly, learn from it and pass that along to other people. How do we – frankly, what is that essence of resilience and be able to share it and pass it along? That's what I did for so often with my own clients.
Joe Sanok: Wow, wow! Just a second ago, I heard some feedback. I don't know if your microphone changed locations or anything, but it changed on my side.
AG: My power cord pulled out and I pushed it back.
Joe Sanok: Okay, sweet. Well, can you just say the last maybe a little bit there, because I just don't want to miss any of that about how it affected your journey.
AG: No problem. I will start from the beginning, and I'm presuming you're editing this.
Joe Sanok: I don't usually edit, but I may edit this out. Well, we'll just roll with it.
AG: Awesome. So for me, I grew up in the context of a grandmother, and actually, all of my grandparents were holocaust survivors, and I looked at my grandmother and the incredible attitude that she has and the resilience and the ability to just go forward in every day with clarity and confidence and aplomb.
Passing information and culture between generations
And I said, "Where did this come from? How can we understand it? How can we understand how it passes on through the generations," and more importantly, how can we understand how to distill that and share that mentality with everybody so that we can all move so freely and confidently in the face of danger?
Joe Sanok: So for your mom, being raised by your grandma, you said she was an artist. Tell me how that maybe affected her as an artist, and then what you learned through her.
AG: So my mother came from the situation where she was born seven years after the war and you know, seven years after tremendous devastation, and her decision was to create beauty all around her and to liberate everything she could around her with beauty and with freedom. The artwork that she makes is incredibly joyous, incredibly filled with life. And for me, I always looked at that and said, "Wow! She can just create things out of nothing," like from this devastation comes all of this beauty and all of this experience that she makes for others.
And so my journey was then about taking that and saying, "Okay, well, I've learned that you can imagine anything you want and then create it," and for me, it ended up being to create Muse, create this tool that other people can then use to learn to free themselves. Now I recognize that I was successful because I was able to find freedom in my own mind.
Joe Sanok: Was that something that was a family value to find that freedom in your own mind, or did you have to kind of find it outside of your family? Like how did meditation help you do that?
AG: So I came to meditation really through psychotherapy. So my background is neuroscience, trained as a psychiatrist. I had my own therapy practice for eight years, which I just had to taper down because I'm now the CEO of a tech company and flying all over the world every week.
Joe Sanok: Right.
Finding out essential self
AG: So for me, I came to meditation through therapy. I was teaching my clients to silence during the critic. I was teaching them to come down to their essential selves and produce the negative stories in their mind to move away from the fictions that they've created to (indiscernible 00:10:22) moment. And then when I started to get deeper into meditation, I realized that's really what I have been doing with my clients that basic learning was something that meditation had really operationalized.
Joe Sanok: And it seems like Muse just really – it's like a game-changer in so many ways. It's like there just hasn't been this level of technology available to like the average person. It's always been in hospitals or in just really like – I mean, like hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of equipment. And like how does a psychotherapist that owns a private practice, I guess, even start to develop an idea like this and then say, "Yeah, I think I can create something like this that could go to the general public." Like I just can't even fathom how that transition happened for you.
AG: I found freedom in my own mind. So for myself, my family background is entrepreneurial, and the idea that you could create whatever you wanted to was just fundamental. It was part of my family culture and part of my own existence. And so I was really interested in the brain, hence studying neuroscience and becoming a therapist, and for me, I wanted to give people the experience of their own mind, and so we started doing things like making concerts where you could make music with your mind and ways that you could touch your own brain. And then I wanted to apply it in a way that was truly going to be meaningful and transformative. So it's fun to be able to control stuff with your mind, but it's not really that useful on a day-to-day basis.
And so then we came to meditation as a mechanism that really allows people to make change in their life to change habits, to reduce negative thinking and ruminations, to manage their own internal mental state. And so it was a great marriage to take this technology that I've been working on to let you see and touch your own brain and with an application that was really going to bring meaning to people's lives: meditation.
Joe Sanok: So take us through like what Muse actually does for people that aren't familiar with it. Like explain kind of what it is, what it does, and then I just had some questions about like how you got to the point of launching it.
AG: Sure. So Muse is a meditation tool. Muse makes meditation easy. It's a clinical-grade EEG with two sensors on the forehead and two behind the ears. It slips on just like a pair of glasses, tracks your brain activity in real-time, and sends it to your smartphone or tablet.
From there, it gives you real-time feedback to know when you're in a state of focused attention and when your mind has wandered. And building states of focused attention is the core of the meditation practice. Once you exercise your attention, you can then move it around the room, around your body, put it on additional objects, but training that initial attention is the core of it. And so with Muse, what you learn to do is get real-time feedback to know when you're in a state of focused attention and when your mind has wandered.
So in meditation, what you do is you place your attention on a neutral object, and your mind wanders. All our minds wander. They're supposed to. When it wanders, you're supposed to notice that it wanders and then bring it back, and then that act of bringing back your mind onto the object of neutral attention, that's kind of the work of meditation. That's going to the gym. With Muse, as soon as your mind starts to wander, you hear it immediately, and then you are immediately cued to bring it back.
So with traditional meditation, you might get in three, five, seven reps to the gym, seven times that you notice that it's wandered in your 30-minute sitting. With Muse, it could be 30 or 70 because you're cued so quickly to bring it back.
Joe Sanok: And talk a little bit about the app, because I mean, I know what it does, but how do people get those cues to bring it back.
AG: Sure. So the metaphor that we use is your mind is like the wind. So when you're thinking or ruminating, you're distracted, you hear it as windy. And as you come to a state of clear, focused attention, you quiet the winds. You can then choose how long a session you want to do. Beginners start as little as three minutes, and the application then tracks how you do. So it tracks how you do throughout the session. You can go back and see your progress. It also tracks how you do over time.
What meditation does for anxiety
So as therapists, we all know meditation is kind of a front line approach to anxiety, depression, and so many other things, and I would always tell my clients, "Hey, you should meditate," and they kind of look blankly at me – a book or come back the next week and not really know if they did it right.
Joe Sanok: Yeah.
AG: Now, with Muse, you just instead of saying you should meditate, you say, "Here, you should use this," and it walks them through everything they need to do. It teaches them exactly how to meditate, tell someone you're doing it right, tracks them, keeps them on progress, gives you the new tool to know that you've built compliance that your patient's actually have done it, real stats and graphs that you can talk about so it really makes tangible this internal experience of the mind in a way that becomes communicable to the therapist, and they're going their happy way.
Joe Sanok: I know. I've been using it in my private practice, actually in the sessions, to introduce people to the idea. And then if they want to go further, they can purchase their own or I can lend them. I have a few of them at this point. And it's been really great because like I have a teen girl that I'm working with, who has a lot of screen time, and we did Muse, and her mom expected that she was going to do terrible, she can never focus because she's always all over the place, but I think she got like 40% or 50% calm on her first time, and so then, we had this great tool to say, "Look. When she wants to, she can focus in on what she needs to focus in on," and then kind of teaching those skills within the actual session. For me, it's helped the clients feel like there's something really tangible on the session beyond just, "Let's sit and meditate for three minutes," but this is – it feels more like an activity that is kind of medical also.
AG: Yeah, that becomes also worth their time, like, "What did you do in therapy today?" "I was introduced to this thing that is tangible and that works and that I can communicate about it."
Using Muse as a hook to meet with doctors
Joe Sanok: Yeah, and I think for therapists, also, it's hard to just like say go to the media or to a radio station or to the paper and say, "Hey, we're doing therapy," like that's not really a big story, but like this is a really cool hook that I've used, where I talked to doctors' offices and say, "Hey, we're using this in our practice. We'd love to come demonstrate it to you, and we've done it with PTs, with OTs, with doctors, and they love it. And so for us, it's got us in the door into places that in the past, we haven't been able to say, 'Hey, can we you tell you about therapy,' because they know about therapy and there's nothing new, whereas this has been, for us, a really good hook to get into."
AG: Oh, that's a great idea. I hadn't even considered that. I know for us, it's very easy to get a meeting when you tell somebody like, "Hey, can I come on over and show you your own brain? I want to spend a few minutes with your own – (indiscernible 00:17:12) device where you're going to see what's going on in your mind." Everybody says yes.
Joe Sanok: And Ben, who came to the Most Awesome Conference from Muse, he was telling me about the open platform and some of the unique applications people have done with Muse. Do you want to just share some of those?
AG: Sure. So we have actually about four, seventy-five different research institutions who are currently using use. Mayo Clinic's currently running a study with cancer care patients using it to reduce stress prior to surgery and improve recovery times. We had an anorexia clinic in the U.S. who gives Muse to each and every one of the girls that comes into the clinic. It's just an effective part of their treatment. I just learned through the (indiscernible 00:17:56) Clinic in Sudbury who has Muses there, and now, people look forward to coming into their treatment, and it's reducing violence in the home. It's reducing their own (indiscernible 00:18:08) thoughts around the situation that they're in.
We also have people who are building applications on it. There's a group out there in Netherlands. It's built a beautiful game for kids of anxiety that teaches them to reduce their own activation through a beautiful video game. There's another game that's been built for kids with ADHD where they can drive cars and ships with their beta-theta ratio. Beta-theta is clinically and actually validated by a marker for ADHD and more and more.
Joe Sanok: Wow! So for those games for kids, are those already released, or are those still kind of in beta testing?
AG: Those are still in testing. The applications have been developed, and now, both of them are going through their clinical trials.
Joe Sanok: Sure, sure. Wow, like – I mean, I just think that this could become a tool that opens up so many different doors. Wow! So I want to go back a little bit. So when you have this idea, you free your mind, and you're like, "Yes. I can make this happen." Like what are some of the steps to going from owning a private practice to launching Muse, because so many therapists I've talked to have just really cool ideas, and I think they get stuck with like, "How do I implement this new product idea?" So are there any takeaways from your experience launching Muse that would apply to people that have these really cool ideas and want to take some action on it?
AG: Absolutely. The main one, and it sounds incredibly cheesy is that you can do it. So often, we put up these barriers on our own brain that we don't have the resources, we don't have everything that we need at the start, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and as soon as you move away those barriers, you can start to take action, and every step you take gets you closer to your goal.
How to get investments for a product
For me, we were lucky because there was a fantastic start of the ecosystem in Toronto that I was able to get into, and so they began to build the initial support around fund raising, go to market, et cetera. I had worked through my background as a neuroscientist. I had worked in a research lab with a precursor E.G. technology that I started the path of commercialization on and took some of the people from that lab to join my initial tech team and became my cofounders. And then as I continued to talk about the tool and what it could do, like galvanized support from all different directions, and have leveraged that support to building the product, getting investment, moving into manufacturing in China, hiring top tier staff from places like Blackberry, and then actually bringing a product to market that's now almost available in Best Buy.
Joe Sanok: Wow! Talk a little bit about the design side, because your whole – just the unboxing of the product is just beautiful, and like I think that's really important in regards to not just having a good product, but having a good kind of open experience. It seems like you guys put a lot of time and thought into making it just really easy to get started when you first get it. Can you talk a little bit about kind of the design development?
AG: Sure. So for us, it meant that the entire way through was that this had to be easy to use. Your grandmother had to be able to take a clinical-grade E.G. out of the box and use it in three minutes without calling your grandson. And it does. We have (indiscernible 00:21:27) users who use it out of the box.
Getting there was a lot of user testing, so certainly, your listeners will appreciate this. Being a psychotherapist means that you're really empathetic to your user and really able to put yourself in their shoes and anticipate any of the technological or difficulties of comprehension that they may have as they go through the process. So really being empathetic to our users combined with rigorous user testing, constantly putting it through the paces with three users every Wednesday, understanding where they had difficulties, changing the application or our introductory flow so that it became really, really easy to use.
Joe Sanok: Wow. So tell me a little bit about the Professionals Program, because when Ben was at the Most Awesome Conference, what we got – it was – what was great about what you guys did is, Muse gave every single person at the conference a Muse, and so we got to have this really fun Oprah moment where it was like, "You get one, you get one, you get one," and Ben talked a little bit about your Professionals Program because I think that you're just kind of at the tip of the iceberg as to the potential for Muse to help change private practices and obviously, other areas too. Tell us a little bit about the Professionals Program and maybe some opportunities that some of the therapists listening might have to collaborate with Muse.
AG: Sure. So first, I actually have to start by saying Ben said he had an amazing time at the Most Awesome Conference. That it was awesome.
Joe Sanok: Oh my gosh! He was incredible. Like we kicked off with this like networking team building thing that I led, and he was like in there talking to people, just getting to know them. It was like the perfect – like what you want someone that obviously is a sponsor to do and feel like they're a part of it and not just pitching their product. But he just got to know people, and like, "If I'm going to work with therapists, then I should probably know therapists," and Ben, you should replicate Ben for sure.
AG: Cloning is the next business.
Joe Sanok: Yeah. Well, clone his brainwaves, at least, you know?
AG: So our Professionals Program is great. It allows psychotherapists, clinicians, life coaches, meditation teachers to use Muse inside their practice, and at this point, we have hundreds of clinicians who are doing so. You're able to get a unit for yourself. At (indiscernible 00:23:45), we have loaner units. You can purchase at a big discount and then pass them along to your patients or your clients and use them inside of the therapy practice or giving to them to use outside of their practice itself in between the sessions that they have with you. It's also a nice reminder that you exist when they use something every day that is part of the practice that they have with you.
Joe Sanok: Yeah, yeah. I think there's so many applications of – it would really be up to the clinician as to how much or how little they wanted to use it. They could use it right in the session, they could loan them out, they could just give them as part of the intake. I think it would just add so much value to the private practice. So where do you think you guys are headed in regards to building professionals? Like I'm just thinking, like how could professionals help Muse, and how could Muse help professionals in regards to kind of finding a win-win with each other?
AG: So we have seen so many people helped by using Muse. I know that sounds like a commercial when I say it, but like constantly getting testimonials from people whose lives have fundamentally shifted and altered. So for me, the greatest help with the Professionals Program is getting people to use a tool that they can pass along to their clients that will help them. If we're not doing things that are helping people, there is absolutely no reason that any of us wake up in the morning.
Joe Sanok: Right, right.
AG: So there is lots of opportunities across multiple conditions. We also love to run pilot studies with people and do case studies so that together, we can validate the efficacy in a variety of different conditions. Autism, epilepsy, ADHD, I don't think we have anybody using it for – we probably have some bipolar patients. None for schizophrenia that I know of. But if anybody's interested both in just using it in their regular practice or in using it inside a case study, your clinical trial, I know we have a trial that's going to start with the UCSF with the Veterans Association and PTSD. We're always interested in being really able to take the science through its full course and validate the effects and understand exactly what parts of the program can be tweaked.
We also have content portals that we're building inside of it, so if you love creating content, there's an opportunity there for you to create customized content for your users.
Joe Sanok: Oh, wow! Oh my gosh! There's just – I have so many ideas. I'm an ideas person that has to like kind of rain it in sometimes. So there's just so many cool opportunities there.
So Ariel, if every counselor in the world were listening right now, just what would you want them to know?
AG: I'd want them to know that they have the capability to change people's lives each and every day, and that's already what they're doing, and that's why they wake up in the morning, and that's why it works and it's why we're all here.
So I'd love them to know that they're doing a fantastic job in the mission that we're all on this. It's really important to be in a noble one. And if we can allow people to find freedom in their own mind and reduce all of the internal struggle that exists for really no reason, for reasons of upbringing, of limiting beliefs, of thoughts that don't serve. If we can teach people how they can reduce that, we're all going to make an incredibly beautiful world. So thank you.
Joe Sanok: Yeah. Wow! Well, Ariel Garten – I'm sorry. I stumbled over my words there. I heard some feedback. So Ariel Garten from Muse, she's the CEO and cofounder. If you guys want to go to choosemuse.com, you can just watch the videos. You can learn more about it. Also, I'm going to have my unboxing video on the Practice of the Practice website. I'll give you those show notes in just a minute.
Ariel, thank you so much for taking time to be on the show today.
AG: Thank you, Joe. That was an honor to be here.
Joe Sanok: Yeah, yeah. Well, keep up the amazing work. I'm sure this is only the beginning. And if we can help you out, just let me know how we can.
AG: Thank you. Have a wonderful afternoon.
Joe Sanok: You too. Bye.
AG: Bye bye.
Joe Sanok: Something super cool that Muse is doing is they have this new Professionals Program. They want to give discounts to professionals while also getting their feedback on how to use Muse within a private practice. They have so many clinical studies going on. This is just such a great way for you to get involved from the ground level with something that really is going to revolutionize the way people are helped in regards to their brains.
So go to professionals.choosemuse.com to sign up for that Professionals Program. You'll be able to get a discount on ordering them. You can also choose to be an affiliate if you wanted to be able to get some money if people go through your affiliate link, all sorts of other things.
So again, I was talking at the top of the show about this brand new podcast I'm launching, and I so want you to be a part of that community even if you aren't ready right now to be a consultant. Just co-learn. You'll be able to apply so much to your private practice. I mean, it's just so applicable to anything that you're doing in private practice. Just go to becomeaconsultanttoday.com, and you can sign up for the E-newsletter there. I'm even going to be – and hardly anybody knows this, I'm going to be launching something called Consultant School, which is going to be this live course, E-course webinar, just this really cool thing that I'm going to be doing, and launching a semester. So if you're on the email list, you will get updates on Consultant School and get a personal invite to be able to be invited into Consultant School. So nobody – I don't think I've really spoken about that publicly except to just a handful of people privately, which wouldn't be publicly.
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ASME.org has a sample report you may use to format your report. The link also shows you how to format your figures. Some may be located in text; others may be located in an appendix section at the end of your report.
Formatting of the report will also carry weight to your final grade. Remember: Lab Report grades are subjective and don't always follow a concrete rubric. Do make sure to pay attention to your content as well as your grammar, punctuation, tense, and point of view.
Next page shows a Sample Cover Page to be attached in the front of the report being submitted.
The Abstract should be treated as a stand-alone document, which gives general statements on the experiments purpose, procedure, outcome, and why the reader should care.
Background information, end of the intro should flow to procedure.
– If you used a caliper during the experiment, discuss the tolerance of the caliper, and possibly reference a figure showing how the caliper was read.
– If you did analysis on a population of data, discuss the purpose of the analytical methods used and any information necessary to perform the analysis.
– If you performed circuit analysis discuss KVL, KCL, Ohm's Law, and any other pertinent theory or laws.
– All software and hardware used in the experiment needs to be discussed with emphasis on the most troublesome areas of the experiment.
– If you feel the need to explain what a word means when writing other sections of the report, then you should include that information in the intro instead.
The Experiment Methodology should be a step-by-step account of what you did to complete the entire lab experiment. The Experiment Methodology has no limit on length and needs to be detailed enough to allow the reader to complete the experiment AND get the same results that you did. At the same time, it shouldn't be so detailed that the reader doesn't want to read it. For the reports in this class your procedure should only need to be around 1½ pages. Do NOT rewrite the instructions in the lab manual. Write (in paragraph form) what you did in your own words. Make sure to include any issues you came across during the experiment with procedural steps on how you overcame these issues. Remember the entire report should be written in THIRD PERSON PASSIVE. Write the Procedure as what was done, not what someone else should do. You should reference Figures (pictures you took of the experiment setup) and Equations that are pertinent to the procedure of the experiment. For example, if you are giving the procedural steps on constructing a circuit, reference a Figure showing the circuit diagram or picture of the physical circuit. If you reference something in the procedure in needs to be pertinent, not fluff to expand the procedure. Do NOT reference Tables in the Procedure.
– Data Analysis must show the steps you took to arrive to your final results.
– Make sure you cover the analysis done to get to the end result.
– There is a difference between experiment methodology, and data analysis.
The topic I will be doing my research paper on is Modern Day Attacks Against Wireless Networks.


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August 5th, 2013	 | In the News
Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Survey reveals facts on Brooklyn's population
Brooklyn has a fairly stable population, not too young, not too old – but varying greatly in ethnic background.
One can reach these conclusions by reading reports from the Census Bureau's recently releasedAmerican Community Survey, which is now online. The survey is organized by congressional district(C.D.), of which Brooklyn has six.
Of these six, two are completely in Brooklyn – Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' 8th C.D. in the central and southeasten part of the borough and Rep. Yvette Clarke's 9th C.D., which stretches from Crown Heights south to Sheepshead Bay. Rep. Nydia Velazquez's 7th C.D. is mainly in western and northern Brooklyn, but has Manhattan's Lower East Side and a small area of Ridgewood, Queens.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler's 10th C.D. is mainly in Manhattan, but also includes the Brooklyn areas of Sunset Park, Borough Park and Bensonhurst. Rep. Michael Grimm's 11th C.D. is mainly in Staten Island, but also includes large parts of Bay Ridge, Bath Beach and Gravesend.
Finally, Rep. Carolyn Maloney's 12th C.D. is mainly in Manhattan and Queens, but also includes Greenpoint and East Williamsburg.
The survey breaks population down by race, ethnic group, ancestry, disability and mobility. It does not include data on employment or occupation – those are included in other surveys.
Judging by the results of the survey, most of Brooklyn is young (although not too young) or middle-aged. In all six districts, the three largest age ranges are 25 to 34 years, 35 to 44 years, and 45 to 54 years. Clearly, the days when many Brooklyn neighborhoods were filled overwhelmingly with seniors, with few young people moving in, are over.
As far as race is concerned, black is the largest category in Jeffries' and Clarke's districts, while white is the largest category in the other four. In four districts – Nadler's, Velazquez's, Grimm's and Maloney's – Asians are the second-largest group.
The survey also counts the number of people who identify as "Hispanic or Latino," but add that this category can be "of any race." The largest concentration of Latinos, 129,696, is found in Jeffries' 8th C.D. The smallest, 87,723, is found in Clarke's neighboring 9th C.D.
The true diversity of Brooklyn can be seen is in the "ancestry" portion of the data. For example, the three main ancestry groups in Maloney's district are Irish, Italian and Polish. Greenpoint, a traditional Polish-American and Polish immigrant stronghold, is part of her 12th C.D.
In Jeffries' 8th C.D., the largest ancestry group is West Indian, at 111,666, with all others far behind. The largest ancestry group in Clarke's 9th C.D. is also West Indian, at 172,547, followed by "Ukrainian" at 7,853. Clarke's district includes many areas with large numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and many of them are from the Ukraine.
The largest ancestry groups in the remaining three districts — Grimm's 11th C.D., Velazquez' 7th C.D. and Nadler's 10th C.D. – are Irish, Italian and Russian. "Russian" can include American Jews of Eastern European descent, most of whom came from the old Russian empire, or more recent immigrants of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras. Most likely, it includes both.
One of the last questions on the survey was whether the occupants had lived in the same house or apartment last year. In all districts, the majority said "yes."
The largest differences were found in Grimm's district, where, out of 724,434 people, only 659,881 had lived at the same address the previous year; and in Nadler's district, where, out of a total population of 716,172, 602,218 had lived at the same address the previous year.

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There is a lot that I will always remember about Devyn and Brad's wedding day. The quaint town of San Juan Capistrano, the beautiful venue at Franciscan Gardens, and the fiddler playing Irish folk songs. I will remember how happy and excited the couple's family and friends were for them. But most of all, I will always remember the way Devyn and Brad looked at each other. The smiles never left their faces.
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Subject: Fwd: [ee-doctorate] Oral Exam Announcement: Arka Majumdar
From: Arka Majumdar <arkam@stanford.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [ee-doctorate] Oral Exam Announcement: Arka Majumdar
Solid State Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots Coupled to Photonic Crystal
Arka Majumdar
(Advisor: Prof. Jelena Vuckovic)
Date: Monday, April 16 th , 2012; Time: 2pm (Refreshment starts at 1:45 pm)
Venue: Paul G. Allen ( CIS - X ) Auditorium
Quantum dots (QDs) coupled to optical cavities constitute a scalable, robust, on-chip,
semiconductor platform for probing fundamental cavity quantum electrodynamics. Very
strong interaction between light and matter can be achieved in this system as a result
of the field localization inside sub-cubic wavelength volumes leading to vacuum Rabi
frequencies in the range of 10s of GHz. Such strong light-matter interaction produces
an optical nonlinearity that is present even at single-photon level and is tunable at
a very fast time-scale. This enables one to go beyond fundamental CQED studies and to
employ such effects for building practical information processing devices. My PhD work
has focused on both fundamental physics of the coupled QD-nanocavity system, as well
as on several proof-of-principle devices for low-power optical information processing
based on this platform.
We have demonstrated the effects of photon blockade and photon-induced tunneling, which
confirm the quantum nature of the coupled dot-cavity system. Using these effects and
the photon correlation measurements of light transmitted through the dot-cavity system,
we identify the first and second order energy manifolds of the Jaynes-Cummings ladder
describing the strong coupling between the quantum dot and the cavity field, and propose
a new way to generate mutli-Fock states with high purity [1]. In addition, the interaction
of the quantum dot with its semiconductor environment gives rise to novel phenomena
unique to a solid state cavity QED system, namely phonon-mediated off-resonant dot-cavity
coupling. We have employed this effect to perform cavity-assisted resonant quantum dot
spectroscopy [2], which allows us to resolve frequency features far below the limit
of a conventional spectrometer. Finally, the applications of such a coupled dot-cavity
system in optical information processing including ultrafast, low power all-optical
switching and electro-optic modulation are explored. With the light-matter interactions
controlled at the most fundamental level, the nano-photonic devices we implemented on
this platform operate at extremely low control powers and could achieve switching speeds
potentially exceeding 10GHz [3].
1. Majumdar et. al., arXiv:1106.1926 (in press, PRA); arXiv:1111.6326 (in press, PRL)
2. Englund, Majumdar et.al., PRL, Vol 104, 073904 (2010); Majumdar et.al., PRB, 82,
045306, (2010); PRB 84, 085309 (2011); PRB 84, 085310 (2011); PRB 84, 195304 (2011);
arXiv:1111.7097; Rundquist, Majumdar et. al., APL 99, 251907 (2011).
3. Faraon, Majumdar et. al., PRL, Vol 104, 047402 (2010); Majumdar et. al., Optics Express,
Vol 18, pp. 3974-3984 (2010); Englund, Majumdar et. al., PRL, 108, 093604, (2012); Majumdar
et.al., PRA, 85, 033802, (2012).
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WASHINGTON (RNS) White evangelicals and Tea Party members are less likely to believe in evolution and climate change than most Americans, a finding that could pose a particular problem for Republican presidential hopefuls.
A new poll released Thursday (Sept. 22) also showed that a majority of Americans (57 percent) believes in evolution, and an even larger majority (69 percent) believes in climate change -- though many still disagree that the phenomenon is based on human activity.
But most Americans do not insist that their presidential candidates share their views on these issues, nor do they believe scientists have come to a consensus on them, according to the poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with Religion News Service.
Even though these issues aren't deal-breakers for most voters, they are "symbolically important for two groups that play an outsize role in Republican primary politics: white evangelical Protestants and members of the Tea Party," said Robert P. Jones, CEO of PRRI.
"Because evangelicals and Tea Party members hold views that are significantly different than the general population, the challenge for Republican candidates is to talk about these issues now in a way that will not hurt them later in the general election," Jones said.
The poll reveals an unusual political schism on climate change. Typically, Republicans come down on one side of a question, Democrats on the other, and independents in the middle, said Dan Cox, PRRI's research director.
"There is no reason for climate change to be a partisan issue," said Cox. "But the political leadership on the issue has led to a polarization of opinion, with Democrats and independents on one side and Republicans on the other."
Many Americans say they do not care much about a candidate's stance on either evolution or climate change: more than half (53 percent) say a belief or disbelief in evolution wouldn't affect their vote, and about as many say the same about a candidate who doesn't believe climate change is caused by human activity.
Only four in 10 evangelicals say a candidate's views on evolution would make no difference in their vote, and those who say they cared about a candidate's position say they would be less likely to vote for someone who believes in evolution. By contrast, Americans overall who cared about evolution say they'd be more likely to vote for a politician who believes in it.
A slight majority (51 percent) says a consensus of scientists believes in evolution, though evolution is overwhelmingly endorsed throughout the scientific community.
-- On stewardship of the earth, 57 percent say God wants humans to live responsibly with animals and plants. A sizable minority (36 percent), however, prefers the idea that "God gave human beings the right to use animals, plants and all the resources of the planet for human benefit."
-- Black Protestants are evenly divided on evolution, with 47 percent affirming it and 46 percent affirming creationism.
-- Though most Americans believe in evolution, they disagree on its driving force. Of those who believe in evolution, 30 percent say it's driven by natural selection or another natural process, compared to 22 percent who say a divine being guides it.


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2012 Evening Public Lectures
Speaker(s): Craig Gay, Darren Provost, Dave Diewert, Don Lewis, Ivan Satyavrata, Iwan Russell-Jones, James Houston, Jim Belcher, John Barclay, John Walton, Mariam Kamell, Marilyn McEntyre, Preston Manning, Rachel Hostetter-Smith, Ralph Wood, Rod Wilson, Susan Phillips
Length: 24h3min
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This is a special collection of all 2012 Evening Public Lectures given at Regent College. Lectures include:
Bringing Faith to Bear on the Public Issues of Our Time - Preston Manning
Surprised by Grace: The Overlooked Foundation of the Letter of James - Mariam Kamell
London Burning and the Post-Riot Debates - Jim Belcher
Human Origins in Light of Genesis 2 - John Walton
Reconsidering Christian Humanism and the Early Reformation - Darren Provost
Great Sporting Liturgies: Fields of Praise? - Iwan Russell-Jones
Technology and the Shaping of the Imagination - Craig Gay
Poetry, Protest, and Prayer - Marilyn McEntyre
Evangelicals and Jews Together: The Origins of Christian Zionism - Don Lewis
The Economics of Enough - Dave Diewert
Divining the Spirit in Contemporary Art - Rachel Hostetter Smith
Slumdogs and Millionaires: The Gospel and Social Engagement in India Today - Ivan Satyavrata
The Role of the Psalms in Transforming Seniors into Elders - James Houston
Shhhh! The Art of Listening in an Inattentive Culture - Susan Phillips
G.K. Chesterton: Rum, Romanis, and the Sacramental Imagination - Ralph Wood
Depression, Anger, And Gender - Rod Wilson
Because You're Worth it: Grace and Human Value - John Barclay
See All Audio by Craig Gay Darren Provost Dave Diewert Don Lewis Ivan Satyavrata Iwan Russell-Jones James Houston Jim Belcher John Barclay John Walton Mariam Kamell Marilyn McEntyre Preston Manning Rachel Hostetter-Smith Ralph Wood Rod Wilson Susan Phillips
Craig Gay is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Regent College. He also serves as the editor for Crux, a quarterly journal of Christian thought and opinion published by faculty and alumni of Regent College. He is author of Dialogue, Catalogue and Monologue, Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth, The Way of the (Modern) World, and With Liberty and Justice for Whom?. He has been published in Christian Scholar's Review, American Journal of Sociology, Crux, and Markets & Morality, and he is the co-editor (with C. Peter Molloy) of The Way of Truth in the Present Age.
Darren Provost is Assistant Professor of History, Coordinator for History at Trinity Western University.
David Diewert is a former professor of Biblical Languages at Regent College. He is now a sessional lecturer at Regent College where he teaches Biblical Greek and Hebrew as well as courses on Amos and other Old Testament book studies. Dr. Diewert lives on the eastside of Vancouver where he and his family live among and minister to the poor and marginalized of Vancouver.
Donald M. Lewis is Professor of Church History at Regent College and is the Secretary of the Anglican Studies Program. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of Lighten Their Darkness: The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860, The Future Shape of Anglican Ministry, and The Origins of Christian Zionism: Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland, as well as editor of Christianity Re-born: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the 20th Century and The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860.
Ivan Morris Satyavrata is President of Southern Asia Bible College in Bangalore, India, Executive Director of Euro-Asian Theological Association, and Chairman of the Asia Theological Association in India. He is an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God with a part-time ministry role in a 7,000-member congregation in Bangalore.
Dr. Iwan Russell-Jones is Eugene and Jan Peterson Associate Professor of Theology and the Arts, and the Head of the Christianity and the Arts Program at Regent College. He has over 25 years of experience as a producer and director for the BBC, in both television and radio, and is a founding co-editor of the Ship of Fools website. For four years, he taught at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where he set up a new department to explore the interaction between faith, media, and contemporary culture.
James M. Houston is Board of Governors' Professor of Spiritual Theology at Regent College. Previously, he was University Lecturer at Oxford University. He is author of I Believe in the Creator, In Search of Happiness, The Heart's Desire: A Guide to Personal Fulfillment, The Transforming Power of Prayer: Deepening Your Friendship with God., Joyful Exiles, and Letters of Faith Through the Seasons.
Jim Belcher is author of Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional and In Search of Deep Faith: A Pilgrimage Into the Beauty, Goodness and Heart of Christianity. He is also the former founding church planter and lead pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, California.
John Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University. He is author of many books, including Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews, Colossians and Philemon, and Obeying the Truth. A Study of Paul's Ethics in Galatians.
John Walton is Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College. Previously he served as a professor at Moody Bible Institute for twenty years. He is author of many books, including The Lost World of Scripture: Ancient Literary Culture and Biblical Authority, Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology, The Lost World of Genesis 1: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate, and Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament.
Mariam J. Kovalishyn (Kamell) is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Regent College after previously serving as Postdoctoral Fellow for three years. She is co-author (with Craig L. Blomberg and Clinton E. Arnold) of Zondervan's exegetical commentary on James.
Marilyn McEntyre is a writer and Professor of Medical Humanities at UC Davis and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She is author of many books, including What's in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, Patient Poets: Illness from Inside Out, and Teaching Literature and Medicine.
Preston Manning is a Senior Fellow of Regent College's Marketplace Institute. He was one of the principal founders of the Reform Party of Canada and the Canadian Alliance, serving as Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian Parliament from 1997-2000. He has spoken extensively on faith and politics.
Rachel Hostetter Smith is Professor of Art & Gilkison Chair of Art History at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, USA. She is also Project Director and Curator of Charis: Boundary Crossings, an international traveling exhibit of work by Asian and North American artists that explores the implications of Christian faith and artistic practice in a multicultural world.
Ralph C. Wood is University Professsor of Theology and Literature at Baylor University. There he has taught award-winning courses that are devoted to the relation of Christian faith to imaginitive literature. He is the author of The Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists., Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture, The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth and Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South.
Rod Wilson is former President and Professor of Counselling and Psychology at Regent College. He is the author of Counseling and Community and How Do I Help a Hurting Friend?, as well as the co-author of Exploring Your Anger and Helping Angry People.
Susan S. Phillips is Executive Director and Professor of Christianity and Sociology at New College Berkeley (an affiliate of the Graduate Theological Union in California). Susan is keenly interested in how engaging the caring practices will shape us spiritually. She is a certified spiritual director (Mercy Center, Burlingame, California) and has practised spiritual direction since the early 1990s. She edited (with Patricia Benner) The Crisis of Care and her most recent book is Candlelight: Illuminating the Art of Spiritual Direction.
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Genesis Through Ancient Eyes
Speaker: John Walton
Human Origins in Light of Genesis 2
Knowing God through Scripture
Origins Today: Genesis Through Ancient Eyes
Reading Genesis One With the Ancient Eye
Roundtable Discussion: History in the Ancient World & Us: Historiography in Relation to Ancient Conventions
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 4 січня: Журавльова Тетяна Миколаївна, радянська і російська актриса театру, кіно та естради, театральний педагог.
 7 січня: Інгрід Тулін, шведська акторка.
 14 січня: Ута Гаґен, американська акторка німецького походження.
 22 січня: Енн Міллер, американська акторка і танцівниця.
 28 січня: , американський актор.
 3 лютого: Осташевський Генріх Романович, український актор.
 25 лютого: Колошин Анатолій Олександрович, радянський режисер, оператор і сценарист документального кіно.
 2 березня: Мерседес МакКембрідж, американська акторка.
 6 березня: Френсіс Ді, американська акторка.
 7 березня: , американський актор.
 10 березня: Борислав Брондуков, український актор.
 15 березня: Рижов Іван Петрович, радянський російський актор театру та кіно.
 22 березня: Наталія Наум, українська акторка.
 28 березня: Петер Устінов, англійський актор, письменник.
 29 березня: Сімона Ренан, французька актриса театру, кіно і телебачення.
 15 квітня: Міцутеру Йокояма, японський манґака.
 20 квітня: Данилова Олександра Сергіївна, радянська і російська актриса театру та кіно.
 25 квітня: Валерій Сівач, український актор.
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 28 травня: , американська акторка, співачка.
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 27 травня: Микола Вінграновський, український письменник і кінематографіст.
 29 травня: Юхим Березін, український актор.
 5 червня: Рональд Рейган, американський актор і 40-й Президент США.
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 Дженніфер Нітч, німецька акторка.
 Михайло Рубінштейн, український сценарист.
 25 червня — Кочетков Афанасій Іванович, радянський і російський актор театру і кіно.
 1 липня: Марлон Брандо, американський актор.
 3 липня: Віктор Жовтий, український актор.
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 12 липня: Борис Калашников, український кіноінженер.
 19 липня: Зінаїда Дегтярова, українська акторка.
 21 липня: Джеррі Голдсміт, американський кінокомпозитор.
 22 липня:
 Костянтин Степанков, український актор.
 Саша Дістель, французький співак, гітарист, композитор, актор.
 23 липня: Серж Реджані, французький театральний та кіноактор, художник та співак італійського походження.
 26 липня: Сергій Лосєв, український режисер.
 31 липня: , американська акторка.
 6 серпня: Воронов Іван Дмитрович, радянський актор театру і кіно.
 8 серпня: Фей Рей, американська акторка.
 21 серпня: Віктор Авілов, російський актор, режисер.
 26 серпня: Лора Бреніген, американська співачка, акторка.
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 12 вересня: Лі де Мей, чеська порноакторка.
 18 вересня: Рум'янова Клара Михайлівна, радянська та російська актриса театру, кіно і радіо, співачка
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 Біллі Джейкобс, американський актор.
 Михайло Єршов, радянський кінорежисер і сценарист.
 3 жовтня: Джанет Лі, американська акторка.
 7 жовтня: Болотов Геннадій Георгійович, радянський і український актор театру, кіно та дубляжу, сценарист.

 10 жовтня: Крістофер Рів, американський актор.
 2 листопада: Тео ван Гог, голландський кінорежисер, продюсер та актор.
 7 листопада: Говард Кіл, американський актор та співак.
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 24 листопада: Грудинін Валентин Гурійович, російський радянський та український радянський актор театру і кіно.
 26 листопада: Філіп де Брока, французький кінорежисер.
 3 грудня:
 Робер Дері, французький актор, режисер і сценарист.
 Марія Перші, австрійська акторка.
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 Хорен Абрамян, вірменський актор.
 Муратов Раднер Зінятович, радянський актор
 19 грудня: Гельмут Грім, німецький актор театру і кіно.
 28 грудня: Сьюзен Зонтаґ, американська письменниця, кінокритик.

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Sean Fear's local by-election review
Nobody can win in West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is unusual in having evolved a multi-party system in local elections. This is unusual under first past the post elections, as there is pressure on the voters to choose between two alternatives, in order to provide one party with an overall majority.
Four out of five Metropolitan borough councils, Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees and Calderdale, are now under No Overall Control. What's more, there is little prospect of that changing in future elections. In addition to the three main parties, both the Greens, and the British National Party, with ten and eight councillors respectively, have substantial support in this part of the Country, and can expect to win additional seats in future elections. Making an overall majority even harder to obtain is the fact that Independent candidates also poll well here, holding sixteen council seats in these five boroughs. Local politicians, who are used to winning power outright, or losing it, must now get used to working in coalitions with parties with whom they may have little in common.
It is likely that West Yorkshire, with its support for parties outside of the mainstream, and its coalitions, represents a growing trend in this country. It was striking that last night, Independent candidates were able to defeat the Labour machine in the Blaenau Gwent by-elections. At the same time, in Bromley and Chislehurst, minor party candidates won sixteen per cent of the vote, and one of them, Nigel Farage of UKIP, even beat the Labour candidate into fourth place.
Last night's local by-elections produced nothing like the degree of excitement generated by the Parliamentary by-elections. However, there was a strong swing to the Liberal Democrats in Canterbury, and quite strong performances by the British National Party in four seats they were contesting for the first time.
Canterbury CC – Sturry South: C 474, Lib Dem 318, Lab 89, Ind 24. Con Hold.
East Staffordshire BC – Shobnall: Lab 581, C 441, BNP 291, Lib Dem 102. Labour hold.
Epsom and Ewell BC – Ruxley: Residents 313, C 292, Lab 152, Lib Dem 66, UKIP 42. Residents' Hold.
Lincoln CC – Moorland: C 640, Lab 569, BNP 254, Lib Dem 96, Ukip 46. Con Hold.
Tameside MBC – Denton South: Lab 900, C 346, BNP 316, Lib Dem 115, Green 47. Lab Hold.
Tameside MBC – Stalybridge North: Lab 773, C 427, BNP 283, Green 137, Lib Dem 75. Lab hold.
Wealden District – Uckfield DC: Lib Dem 381, C 211, Green 60. Lib Dem hold.
Sean Fear, a Tory activist, writes a regular column on local elections.
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Guest slot: RodCrosby's by-election trend analysis
History shows the challenge facing the Tories
RodCrosby has done an analysis of by-elections swings, and the Swing-Back to governments'since the War.
Using the Butler swing between Labour and Conservative, the Swing-Back is defined as the difference between the average swing to the Opposition in by-elections and the swing to the Opposition at the subsequent General Election.
So, for example the average Butler swing from Labour to the Tories in by-elections 2001-2005 was 7.9%. The swing the Tories obtained in the General Election was 3.1%. Thus the Swing-Back to Labour in 2005 was 4.8%. For John Major's last term the equivalent figures were 13.6% and 10.2% – a Swing-Back of 3.4% to the Tories.
The remarkable feature of this graph is that the Swing-Back to government has been highly consistent since at least 1974, irrespective of party in power, government term, parliament length, number of by-elections, turnout, and the relative strength of the Liberals in either by-elections or General Elections.
It has ranged between 3% and 5% with a very stable average of almost exactly 4%. It thus has all the appearance of an "Iron Law."
So, if we subtract 4% from the average by-election swing to the Tories by the end of this parliament, we might have an excellent prediction of the General Election swing to within plus or minus 1%.
In other words, it would seem that for the Tories to be on course for an overall majority – requiring a swing of about 7% at the next General Election – their by-election average swing would need to be of the order of 10%-12%, to allow for the historical expected 4% Swing-Back to Labour.
After Bromley (to be fair to the Tories we should ignore Blaenau), the average by-election swing currently stands at 3.9% – low by any standards.
The Swing-back rule implies that if Tony Blair went to the country tomorrow, we would expect – so far as the Labour and Tories are concerned – a near-exact re-run of 2005, within the range of a 1% swing either way. Depending on the boundaries and the operation of the electoral system, Labour would seem quite confident of a 4th term with the Tories not even competitive.
We are now into the second year of this parliament, and of course things may yet improve for the Tories.
But, assuming this parliament runs to a full term, the Tories really need to be recording swings sometime, someplace in the range of 15-20%+ to bring their average up to a level where they seriously threaten Labour for power.
Failing which, despite all the understandable hype and interest in the current Tory leader, historical precedent unswervingly suggests that he will barely dent the Labour majority in 2009…..
RodCrosby is a regular contributor to PB.C discussions
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…and YouGov brings more good news for the Lib Dems
New poll shows Ming's party continuing to recover
The second YouGov poll in the Daily Telegraph in a week has the following shares with comparisons on the poll published on Monday – CON 39 (nc): LAB 33 (+1): LD 18 (+1).
It really is rather odd that the paper feels it necessary to commission two polls from the same pollster in less than a week and then to publish it on the morning of the by-election news. What's the Telegraph up to?
Comparing this survey with the YouGov poll in May the Lib Dems are two points ahead reflecting a positive response, perhaps, to the more positive policy announcements that we have seen in recent weeks.
What's been surprising is how much coverage the party has been getting for it's annoucements on issues such tax links with green issues and the opposition to nuclear power. Normally the Lib Dems find it very hard getting noticed on policy matters. My understanding is that the Ming Campbell leadership has instituted big changes in this area of the party and the results are beginning to show.
After his Bromley bruising overnight there's some encouragement for David Cameron in the poll. To the "Who would make the best Prime Minister" question he polled 30% to Blair's 28%. According to the Telegraph Cameron is the first of five successive Tory leaders to achieve a higher rating than Labour on this point. Ming Campbell's figure of 6% compares with the 18% that Charles Kennedy was recording at the General Election.
So the Lib Dems seem to prosper in spite of what people are telling pollsters about their leader.
YouGov provides little comfort this morning for the Chancellor reinforcing what we have seen in other surveys from a range of pollsters that Labour will fare worse at the General Election under Brown.
A total of 16% in the sample said that Labour led by Brown would make them more likely to vote Labour against 22% who said it would them less likely. The respondents divided by 24-23 over whether Brown would do better than Blair.
As I have repeatedly said here Brown needs some better polling numbers on him personally before he can be absolutely certain of taking the leadership. In my judgement Labour will not elect some who is seen to be a loser.
I'm off on holiday. Just to note that I am going to France to watch the cycling for the next week and a bit and Philip Grant (Book Value) will be acting again as guest editor. He can be contacted here. Once again I am most grateful to Philip for standing in and giving me a break.
Great for Ming – Terrible for Tony and Dave
But will Blaenau and Bromley be dismissed as just by-elections?
By the tests set in my article just as the polls were closing the overnight by-elections brought terrible news for both Brown/Blair's Labour and David Cameron's Tories. They also showed that the Lib Dems are able to pack a huge punch in a Westminster by-election whichever party is defending.
The straight politics make Labour's results marginally, but only marginally, worse than the Tory performance in Bromley.
For Brown-Blair's party threw everything into winning back what was its biggest stronghold in Wales and had the benefit of two by-elections at the same time which meant it could spend massively. It will be interesting to see the expenses figure but the party campaign budget could have gone up to £200,000.
Failing to win back Peter Laws's Welsh Assembly seat has big implications for who has control in Cardiff.
There's no excuse for the Tory performance in Bromley. The only consolation on the evening is that they held on against a huge Lib Dem challenge but to see the majority reduced to a few hundred should light up panic signs throughout the party.
Everything about the Tory campaign was pathetic. All the polls showed that their biggest asset is David Cameron yet the local Tory party made only passing reference to their leader in the campaign literature. This followed the selection mess-up and you had a recipe for disaster which is indeed what happened.
In the Guardian a couple of days ago Ed Vaizey, one of Cameron's inner circle, complained about Lib Dem tactics. What did he expect – Mary Poppins?
Campaigns like this are a dirty, bruising, business. The Lib Dem strategy of finding a defect in their opponent and then repeat it time and time and time again is well known. That is how you achieve success. To deal with campaigns like this you cannot leave the fight in the hands of a local party. Maybe one of the consequences of Bromley will be a change in Tory rules?
So what about the Lib Dems? A great performance but the party has an enormous amount to live up to when it comes to by-elections and the danger is that Bromley will be dismissed by the Tory-Labour big party duopoly as just Ming's party doing what they are expected to do.
And the betting? – well, as I suggested, betting against Labour in Blaenau proved profitable and it's clear why Tories did not rush to take the apparently free money on Bromley.
And the pollsters? Less than two weeks ago NOP had Labour as clear winners for the Westminster seat at Blaenau. Polls have not got a good record at by-elections and this reinforced it. The poll also carried on that wonderful UK polling tradition of over-estimating Labour.
New YouGov poll. I've just noticed that there's a new survey in the Telegraph which I'll cover later in the day.
Who'll win the by-election spinning war?
Which party's done best in "expectation management"?
So the polls are about to close, the counts will soon be starting and most normal people will be off to bed without any thought about the events during the day in Gwent and South East London.
Now the big question is how the electoral health of the parties will look after the spinners have done their "explaining" and the radio and TV news teams have decided how to present what's happened. This is my summary.
Bad news for Labour will be failing to win back the Westminster seat in Blaneau Gwent. After huge effort and probably outspending their opponents many times over Labour desperately need a result.
Bad news for the Tories will be anything less than an emphatic victory in Bromley. A margin of 10% over whoever is in second place is needed at the minimum.
Bad news for the Lib Dems will be if the Tories are more than ten points ahead. They are the by-election Kings and there's an expectation of exceptional performances. With significant a Labour vote there for the squeezing they should be biting at the Tories' heels.
Bad news for Labour will be being reduced to a single figure vote share in Bromley. After all they were in second place only fourteen months ago. It will be even worse for Blair's party if they are reduced to fourth place.
Bad news for UKIP will be not making a significant indent into the main three parties. They've had the Heffer-effect and one of their best known and most effective campaigners as candidate. UKIP needs a good result.
Bad news for me will be if the Lib Dems win in Bromley because I've got no money on.
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Bromley – now the money goes on the Tories
It's now down to 0.06/1 that Bob Neil will do it for the Conservatives
After a long period when the only question about the Bromley betting was why punters were not rushing to pick up what was apparently free money on the Tories things have started to happen. The chart show the implied probability based on best betting prices on the Betfair betting exchange.
At 3.55pm the prices were CON 0.06/1: LD 11/1.
Will PB.C's competition entrants get the by-elections right?
"Labour by 1% in BG but heading for 4th place in Bromley"
Following the close of the PB.C by-election competition, the contest for the Westminster seat at Blaenau Gwent looks to be neck-and-neck.
By averaging out all the entries received we are able to state what the overall view of all those who took part is and it will be interesting to see if their collective wisdom is accurate. These are the figures.
Blaenau Gwent – Westminster: LAB 42.7: IND 41.6: LD 5.9: PC 5.13: CON 4.3
Blaenau Gwent – Cardiff: LAB 37.9: IND 47.6: LD 5.4: PC 4.9: CON 3.8
Bromley & Chislehurst: CON 51.2: LD 26.9: UKIP 10.4: LAB 8.9
So in the closest contest, to replace the late Peter Laws at Westminster, Labour are predicted to receive 42.7% of the vote, with independent candidate Dai Davies just behind on 41.6%. 45 entries predicted a Labour win while 36 plumped for Davies.
In the Welsh Assembly by-election his widow, Trish Law, is predicted to win fairly comfortably, and leads Labour by 47.6% to 37.9% on the average scores, and only five entries predicted Labour to win. In both the Blaenau Gwent elections, the other parties are well down into single figures.
Meanwhile in Bromley & Chislehurst, the Conservatives are predicted to romp home with an average prediction of 51.2%, well ahead of the Lib Dems on 26.9% – all but one entry fore-casted a win for the Conservatives.
If the PB.C predictions are right, then Labour are in for an embarassing night being forced into fourth place.
The betting markets on all three election have proved to be a flop attracting very little interest. The two biggest interests – the size of the Tory share in Bromley and whether Labour will be pushed into fourth place have not been part of any betting market.
There's been very little serious intent behind the betting on the Lib Dems and very few takers on the Tories where the 0.13/1 appears like free money.
Mike Smithson & Paul Maggs ("Double Carpet")
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i always thought life would be over at 30...: Ouch! That stings.
me: "i'm retiring your toothbrush to the trash can"
me: "i'm not very happy about it tho. but the hint has been taken"
skater boo: "i wasn't hinting at anything. i really didn't mean for it to go this way. it's best u move on though. i don't see any change in my schedule in the near future"
me: "no worries. i think it wouldn't have been so bad if i would have gotten to talk to you more than once in a months time. guess ill see ya around."
skater boo: "really sorry - hope you don't hate me!"
me (over compensating as always): "omg. don't be silly. i could never hate you."
me: "you don't hate me, do you"
ouch! there it is. the first time i have been dumped since separating from my soo-to-be-ex-husband. and quite honestly, it was a little shocking. didn't think it would go exactly like that. but, after putting up with what i have for the past 7 years, you kind of learn what you want and what you don't want. but, that is another story in itself.


We helped the local Edmonton charity by producing posters, t-shirts, and supported that with email marketing campaigns and pre-advertising the event on Facebook. We monitored their website traffic and managed blog postings to coincide with key dates.
On June 15, the day of the race, the weather was awesome and we think everyone enjoyed being in our beautiful River Valley on Father's Day. For 9 am on a Sunday, there were loads of creative costumes and participants really got into showing off their super skills. Walkers and runners completed a gentle meandering course that went from Louise McKinney Riverfront Park into Riverdale and back.
Great fun, great cause! So glad we helped! You can learn more about Inner City on their website.


Who Doesn't Look Good in Black And White?
You can never go wrong with a classic like a black and white look. To me, there is something fresh and minimalistic about the combo. For some black and white can be a snooze fest but I think there are so many ways to give the classic colors a nice spin even for the summer. Today's style post is one of my favorite black and white looks. I'm so obsessed with this faux suede laser-cut top!
I have collaborated with Sara Boo, an online Brazilian clothing brand. They are known worldwide and I love that their brand is inspired by Brazil's beauty and amazing culture. They have an amazing selection of tops, bottoms, and dresses. The pieces are unique and great quality. Brazil is on my travel bucket list so I hope this is a sign from the universe letting me know traveling to Brazil will happen soon! I will be sharing a few summer looks throughout the month so stay tuned for more of my collaboration.
I received this faux suede laser-cut top from Sara Boo and immediately fell in love. The details made the top stand out! I'm a sucker for a well-detailed top. I'm also glad I'm giving the off the shoulder trend a rest for a bit. I paired it with a white denim midi-length skirt and immediately saw myself going for a classic black and white look. I posted a teaser of this look on Instagram and so many people loved this top. I'm glad I'm not the only one that's a sucker for a laser-cut style top. SaraBoo has given my followers a discount! Yahh! 😉 Use code PATTY20 and get 20% off your order. Check out their site and let me know which pieces are your favorite.
Hope you guys enjoyed this post and stay tuned for more looks with Sara Boo. On another note, I hope you guys enjoyed your fourth of July weekend. Will you guys be catching any firework shows tomorrow?


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This is actually a full curriculum for studying through the book of Titus. Each week's materials include the teacher's lesson, outline handouts, and follow-up devotionals for the following Monday-Friday. The devotionals are being used in our Daily Online Bible Study. For more information about this program, please contact us.