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Netanyahu in Russia to meet Putin ahead of polls
(Moscow) – Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Russia, hoping to burnish his image as an international statesman, despite Moscow's condemnation of the Israeli Prime Minister's pre-election pledge to annex part of the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu is campaigning to maintain his status as Israel's longest-serving prime minister at next Tuesday´s general election.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin stopped short of a full endorsement of his visitor´s political ambition, saying only that Russia is "not indifferent as to which people come into the Israeli parliament" because it regards Soviet-born Israelis as "compatriots".
"We hope that these will be responsible politicians who in any case will keep everything that was achieved in bilateral relations in recent times, and will keep developing relations with us," Putin told Netanyahu during their meeting at the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi
"Thanks largely to your efforts our relations have reached a new level in terms of security and military cooperation. We know how important this is given the continuing threat of international terrorism," added Putin, who announced he had accepted an invitation to visit Israel in January to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
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Jaxx & Lolo – A Friendship Show – Frigid Festival
FRIGID Festival Presents
Jaxx & Lolo – A Friendship Show
Written and performed by Lauren O'Brien
Directed by Christine Renee Miller
Saturday Feb 22nd at 8:20pm
Friday Feb 28th 6:50pm
Monday March 2nd at 7:10pm
Thursday March 5th at 10:30pm
Saturday March 7th at 6:40pm
Tickets can be purchased online at:
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Jaxx & Lolo: A Friendship Endures As the Will to Live Wanes
Lauren O'Brien's poetic solo work, Jaxx & Lolo – A Friendship Show, is inspired by the author's real-life outsider friendship with punk-poet, Jackie Sheeler. Jaxx & Lolo brings the audience along on a surreal and harrowing journey as Lolo battles the threat of Jaxx's suicide. The story is told through dialogue, poetry, song and flashbacks – which give context to their shared history. **Theatergoers should be aware that Jaxx & Lolo deals with delicate, and for some, triggering subject matters.
"Jaxx & Lolo is maybe a little Fleabag, and a little The Bell Jar," says O'Brien. "This work is my way of turning poison into medicine. I experienced heartbreaking loss in the past couple of years, as well as a serious accident. I want to create something beautiful, honest – sometimes even funny – out of that trauma. And, of course I'm thrilled that I get to do that with my director, Christine Renee Miller."Lauren O'Brien has been a lifelong artist and activist. She began writing poetry, performing and organizing marches for animal rights as a child. After studying acting at Syracuse University, she began her professional career on tours and in regional theatre, performing roles in To Kill A Mockingbird (Mayella), Angels in America (Harper), A Wrinkle in Time (Mrs. Whatsit) and The Odyssey (Athena), among other works. As an original member of director Polina Klimovitskaya's avant-garde theatre troupe, Terra Incognita, Lauren credits Klimovitskaya's "psycho-physical" method as influential in her evolution as an artist.
After joining Marc Godwin and singer Janice Robinson in the band P.A.O. as its poet and lyricist, she assembled her own band and began playing New York clubs where she developed the material for her debut recording, Inconsequential Dream. She has since recorded an EP, Panic, as well as a punk-cabaret album, The Devil's Girlfriend, which she expanded into a theatrical show, touring it throughout Germany. Lauren has toured extensively in the United States, Canada and Europe and has performed at NYC's CMJ, Howl! Fest, and MEANY Fest, among others. She is a two-time recipient of New Century Music Awards.
"Lauren O'Brien takes her fans from the spoken word onto a circus ride through never-never land, then kicks their rocknroll asses all over town. If you hang out with her after the show, who knows where you'll end up."
—David Tanner, RocknRoll Scene
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Christine Renee Milleris an actor, writer, director, and teacher. Her first acting role was as a guest star playing the mean girl on Sister, Sister – one of America's most popular TV shows of the late '90s. She was soon starring on other hit shows including Party of Five, Moesha and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and even experienced the fast-paced world of soap operas on General Hospital. During the early 2000s, she began directing and dove headfirst into a production of Fiddler on the Roof in the small college town of Hamilton, New York.
After her first experience directing, she caught that bug and moved to New York City. It is in NY where she wrote and performed her first solo show, Baby Cow, at FringeNYC. This led her to carve out a niche in the solo world, not only as a performer, but as the go-to director for solo shows. She has personally fostered over 60 shows as a teacher of the craft. Her newest solo show, the NYIT nominated, Such Nice Shoes, has had several runs at the beautiful and prestigious white box space at TheaterLab in NYC. In addition to the stage, she can be seen on BULL (CBS), in the dark comedy, Search Party (HBO Max), recurring as the snarky M.E. on Blue Bloods (CBS) and recurring on the soon-to-be released drama, For Life (ABC). For more details please visit: www.ChristineRMiller.com
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FRIGID is an open and uncensored theatre festival that gives artists an opportunity to let their ingenuity thrive in a venue that values freedom of expression and artistic determination. In true support of our Indie Theater Community, 100% of box office proceeds will go directly to the artists whose work is being presented. FRIGID is here to chill out the New York independent theatre scene's ideas of what a theatre festival can be!
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Davis v. Peel Condominium Corporation No. 22  O.J. No. 2594 is a recent decision of the Superior Court of Justice about owners' meetings, especially voting rights and the role of the chair. It was an application by an owner alleging the chair of the meeting improperly allowed 12 proxies to be used to remove the board of directors. Without the 12 votes, the requisition to remove the directors would have failed.
Nothing in the statute confers the authority to make that decision upon the manager or the lawyer for the corporation. While, as a matter of procedural efficiency, the lawyer and the manager may assist in the meeting registration process, that does not confer authority upon them to make final determinations. Where there is a challenge to the preliminary determination that a proxy is ineligible (or, for that matter, is considered to be eligible), in the absence of any other specified mechanism, that decision should be made by the chair of the meeting.
The case emphasizes the significant influence a chair can have at a meeting. While the court held that a person is not an improper chair simply because he/she has an interest in the outcome, it would seem to me to be more appropriate to select or elect a chair (assuming the by-laws permit such) that is not interested in the outcome of any vote to be taken at the meeting. For instance, if a director is seeking re-election at the meeting it may be more appropriate for another director to chair.
As a final note, I should mention that one of the reasons the chair allowed the 12 proxies to be used was the condominium's poor record-keeping. While the condominium argued the owners were in arrears, the chair found there was no evidence to establish the records were accurate. In fact, several of the owners paid their arrears when registering for the meeting or brought bank records showing payments were made in advance of the meeting.
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The goal of finding a treatment for concussion may be one step closer due to a new study being launched by University of Miami researchers. As part of a $16 million research grant from Scythian Biosciences, researchers at the university's The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and Miller School of Medicine will begin studying whether a simple pill could someday be a solution to the growing concussion epidemic.
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from neurology, neurological surgery and otolaryngology will embark on this five-year study to address the effects of combining CBD (a cannabinoid derivative of hemp), and an NMDA antagonist for the treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. Researchers believe the combination could reduce post-injury brain cell inflammation, headache, pain and other symptoms associated with concussion.
Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and disability in the United States, contributing to about 30 percent of all injury deaths and impacting approximately two million children and teenagers annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There have been some 345,000 diagnosed cases among U.S. Armed Forces members since 2000, and professional and amateur football and hockey players, as well as other athletes, continue to be plagued at alarming rates. Most of these individuals face short-term effects such as headaches and dizziness, while others are at increased risk for longer-term chronic medical problems, including disorders of attention, memory, anxiety, depression and dementia.
While the prevalence of TBI, which includes concussion, is on the rise, research and treatment options are still very much in the early stages. The partnership between the University of Miami and the Canada-based Scythian Biosciences aims to propel this research and potential treatment forward by using two classes of drugs in a combination that scientists believe will reduce brain inflammation and the immune response. Researchers hypothesize that this unique CBD and NMDA antagonist compound will impact the CB2 and NMDA cell receptors, reversing the effects of concussion through a reduction of immune response decreasing brain inflammation.
This project will require close collaboration between the pre-clinical and clinical investigators, and will be completed in three phases.
In years one and two of the study, researchers will begin pre-clinical studies evaluating several rodent models of TBI. In parallel, nine proposed outcome fields, which include cognitive, behavioral, psychosocial, sleep, pain, sensorimotor, cardiovascular, inflammatory biomarkers, as well as neuroimaging studies, will be reviewed and evaluated. During this time the research team will address any shortcomings in methodology. Once data comes back conclusive, they will enter year two and phase two of the study.
Phase two will involve a small human pilot study, likely administering the compounds in pill form to a control group and two groups of TBI patients, acute and chronic. Researchers will use the nine outcome measures listed above to evaluate the drug's efficacy. Once completed, data will be analyzed and any safety concerns will be addressed.
The study will be led by Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., research professor of neurological surgery, director of the KIDZ Neuroscience Center at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis and director of the concussion program at University of Miami Health System Sports Medicine.
"Dr. Hotz is the ideal principal investigator for this important study because she has been at the forefront of TBI and concussion research, and has already developed a national model countywide concussion program along with a comprehensive assessment and treatment program," said Barth Green, M.D., chairman of The Miami Project and professor of neurological surgery.
Scythian Biosciences said choosing to partner with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and fund the $16 million research was an easy decision because of UM's reputation as the nation's leading neuroscience center with expertise in TBI and concussion research.
The UM and Scythian research study is kicking off with pre-clinical work directed by Dietrich, Hoffer and Helen Bramlett, Ph.D., professor of neurological surgery. Translational and clinical research will be directed by Bonnie Levin, Ph.D., director of neuropsychology and professor of neurology, and a team of neuro-outcome experts.


Moon phase on 26 January 2004 Monday is Waxing Crescent, 5 days young Moon is in Aries.
Waxing Crescent is the lunar phase on 26 January 2004, Monday . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 24% and growing larger. The 5 days young Moon is in ♈ Aries.
Previous main lunar phase is the New Moon before 4 days on 21 January 2004 at 21:05.
Moon is passing about ∠5° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1827" and ∠1949".
Next Full Moon is the Snow Moon of February 2004 after 10 days on 6 February 2004 at 08:47.
The Moon is 5 days young. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the beginning to the first part of current synodic month. This is lunation 50 of Meeus index or 1003 from Brown series.
6 days after point of perigee on 19 January 2004 at 19:25 in ♐ Sagittarius. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 5 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 31 January 2004 at 14:00 in ♊ Gemini.
Moon is 392 403 km (243 828 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 5 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 404 807 km (251 535 mi).
9 days after its descending node on 16 January 2004 at 21:08 in ♏ Scorpio, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 3 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 29 January 2004 at 22:07 in ♉ Taurus.
23 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♉ Taurus, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
6 days after previous South standstill on 20 January 2004 at 06:17 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-27.072°. Next 7 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠27.131° in the next northern standstill on 3 February 2004 at 04:10 in ♋ Cancer.
After 10 days on 6 February 2004 at 08:47 in ♌ Leo, the Moon will be in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Wrigleyville Classic: Illini Rout Northwestern In Classic Style
By Al Yellon@bleedcubbieblue Nov 20, 2010, 8:00pm CST
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I love Wrigley Field and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I think everyone here knows that, and also should know that although I do love the ballpark, that's not my primary focus as a Cubs fan... it's winning the World Series, just as everyone else's here is.
But when the Cubs, Northwestern, Illinois and the Big Ten put on a spectacle as entertaining as today's 48-27 blowout by the Illini over the Wildcats, it shows off Wrigley to a national audience as the terrific place it is -- notwithstanding the rule changes forced yesterday by the Big Ten because the field was squeezed into an almost-too-small space.
For those of you who cried, "travesty", "joke" or "disaster" yesterday when the rule changes were announced, I say: kwitcherbitchin. Playing every offensive series facing the west end zone had absolutely no impact on the flow of the game. The officials seemed briefly confused the very first time they had to reposition the ball, but after that it all went smoothly. The east end zone actually did come into play when NU's Brian Peters returned an interception that way 59 yards for a touchdown. No players, brick walls or thick pads were harmed in the making of that score.
There was plenty of action at that end of the field, too -- most of it from the Illini's Mikel Leshoure, who set a school record with 330 yards rushing, which is also a Wrigley Field all-time record that is now likely never to be broken. Northwestern figured to struggle a little with redshirt freshman QB Evan Watkins replacing the injured Dan Persa, who walked on crutches to midfield for the coin toss. Watkins was shaky at first but played all right overall -- it's just that the Wildcats forgot how to play defense, allowing the most points they'd given up all year.
Figure this out. NU upsets 13th-ranked Iowa last week while Illinois is losing at home to a 1-9 Minnesota team... and then the Illini just blast Northwestern. It was entertaining and an enjoyable, fun game to watch, even if the result wasn't what I would have wanted as a Wildcat fan.
The spectacle was the real reason for the enjoyable day. Everyone wanted to create a bowl-game, party atmosphere and they succeeded, closing off Sheffield for food and drink and the Northwestern band, cheerleaders and dancers performing at the corner of Waveland and Sheffield.
Inside, the Blackhawks' Jim Cornelison did his usual stirring rendition of the National Anthem, but when the "seventh-inning stretch" -- oddly, done at the end of the first quarter instead of the more logical third -- was botched, fans dressed in both orange and purple booed. The crowd of 41,058 -- about 1,500 above the "official" listed capacity of 39,600 for the game -- was about two-thirds purple, though there was a large pocket of orange in the left-field corner, part of which was the Illini band, the rest apparently a large Illinois student section. By game's end, most of the purple-clad had departed early, leaving the Illinois fans to yell, "I-L-L", "I-N-I" with each other in victory.
And that's the point. Wrigley Field has nearly 100 years of history and has hosted many non-baseball events, more in recent years as the Cubs look for other sources of revenue. To those who say it doesn't matter if we keep it because the Cubs have never won a World Series, I say this.
The Cubs have won six National League pennants there -- and those do matter -- and played in six postseasons in the divisional play era. Should it have been more? Yes, of course. But you cannot deny that history, nor the history made there by great players dating back to Babe Ruth. Americans are too quick to tear down historic buildings for no particular reason. Wrigley Field is part of our national culture and heritage. Does it need renovation and modernizing? Yes, it does, and there is a reasonable argument to be made against asking for public funding for that in these economic times. I understand that and the timing of last week's request by the Ricketts family for such funding was questionable at best.
But tear it down? No. Fix it up, and when the Cubs win the World Series there -- and they will -- it will be that much sweeter, to add that kind of history to its nearly century of stories. I have now attended sports events in Wrigley Field in every calendar month except December and February, but the one I really want -- we all really want -- will happen soon, some October.
Here's what the scoreboard looked like at halftime of today's game:
Click on photo to open a larger version in a new browser window. Photo by Al Yellon
Today in Cubs history: The time Fergie Jenkins was almost claimed by the White Sox Yes, that's right. Pull up a chair, this is a good story.


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Privacy & Data Security Law
Photo Illustration: Jonathan Hurtarte/Bloomberg Law; Photos: Getty Images
Crypto Hack Lawsuits Rise as Theft Victims Try Untested Claims
By Skye Witley
Jan. 3, 2023, 10:05 AM
2022 saw high mark of litigation, but viability is uncertain
Crypto exchanges, wallets, phone service providers targeted
Lawsuits against cryptocurrency exchanges, digital wallet providers, and mobile service companies following cyberattacks reached a new high in 2022, as hacking victims increasingly test unproven legal claims to recoup their crypto losses.
At least 50 individual lawsuits and proposed class actions have been brought since 2017 by victims—and occasionally companies—against entities they blame for failing to protect their crypto assets from hackers, a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal court dockets found. Fewer than 10 suits were being filed annually before the total jumped to 17 in 2021 and rose to 20 in 2022, the data show.
The cases against businesses like Apple Inc., Coinbase Inc., Gemini Trust Co. LLC, and AT&T Inc. claim losses ranging from as low as $4,600 to as high as $55 million—though roughly half allege crypto losses above $400,000.
The increase in litigation parallels the growing adoption of crypto amid rising cybersecurity threats. However, the success of such suits remains unclear due to a lack of precedential merits rulings, as well as obstacles like mandatory arbitration clauses that can keep those disputes out of court, attorneys and law professors said.
The majority of the lawsuits analyzed by Bloomberg Law fall into two categories: those targeting crypto trading exchanges and virtual wallet providers, alleging security measures failed to protect user accounts; and those accusing cellular providers of indirectly allowing hackers to access crypto accounts. A handful of cases also seek to learn the identities of the hackers.
Despite viability questions, the lawsuits still carry weight, said Moin Yahya, a law professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta.
"Notwithstanding that some of these cases will not see any recovery for the victims of hacking, there is still value in having these being brought," Yahya said.
"As these cases get resolved by the courts, what will emerge is a clearer legal standard for what duties of care these various companies—whether it is the crypto exchanges or telecommunications companies that allow access to the exchanges—will owe their customers and users."
Federal courts were the battleground for 94% of cryptocurrency-focused litigation in all areas, according to an empirical study by Yahya and University of Alberta Juris Doctor candidate Nicole Pecharsky recently published in the Southern Methodist University Science and Technology Law Review. The roughly 300 crypto-related cases filed from 2020 to 2022 that they identified included 18 addressing hacking—likely lower than Bloomberg Law's findings due to limitations in his docket search platform, Yahya said.
In the Crosshairs
More than half of the lawsuits (28) in Bloomberg Law's analysis were filed against mobile service providers—primarily T-Mobile Inc. and AT&T Inc. Complaints claimed the carriers were responsible for the "SIM-swap attacks" that allowed hackers to steal cryptocurrency.
A SIM-swap attack occurs when cybercriminals commandeer an individual's cell phone number and transfer it to a new SIM card. Hackers often accomplish this by gaining access to a mobile carrier's systems through phishing attacks that lure its employees into unknowingly installing malware, according to the FBI.
"Once hackers have control over the victim's phone number, they can immediately use that control to access and take complete control of the victim's personal online accounts, such as email and banking accounts, through exploiting password reset links and codes sent via text message to the now-hacker-controlled-phone or the two-factor authentication processes associated with the victim's digital accounts," one complaint filed against T-Mobile said.
SIM-swap attacks are an "industry-wide concern" among mobile service providers, a T-Mobile representative told Bloomberg Law in an emailed statement.
"T-Mobile invests heavily in measures designed to keep our customers safe," the company's representative wrote.
"Fraudulent SIM swaps are a form of theft committed by sophisticated criminals," a representative for AT&T said in an emailed comment. "We have security measures in place to help defeat them, and we work closely with law enforcement, our industry and consumers to help prevent this type of crime."
The 28 SIM-swap cases reviewed by Bloomberg Law claimed a median loss of approximately $418,000 million in cryptocurrency, compared to a $200,000 approximate median reported in all other varieties of crypto-hacking litigation.
About 79% of the SIM-swap litigation analyzed was filed in 2021 and 2022, and the threat of such attacks is rising, according to the FBI.
Cryptocurrency trading exchanges and virtual wallets, which allow consumers to store their digital assets, collectively rank second on the list of litigation targets following a hack. Lawsuits against them account for 13 of the cases in the review.
Plaintiffs in these cases suffered direct hacks of their accounts or wallets and chose to directly sue the associated service provider.
"They'll go where they think they have a greater chance of success," Clifford Histed, a financial regulatory and litigation defense attorney at K&L Gates LLP, said of plaintiffs.
Six legal actions in the analysis were brought against "John Doe" defendants by a company or individual attempting to identify exactly who stole their cryptocurrency.
Filing lawsuits against unidentified persons allows for civil discovery actions, including court-approved depositions and subpoenas that can help a plaintiff identify and assign blame later down the road, Histed said.
Three cases Bloomberg Law analyzed included suits filed against third-party companies that stored the plaintiff's crypto account information stolen by hackers. The complaints accused them of failing to protect data that later led to the theft of cryptocurrency.
Common Claims & Outcomes
Accusations of common-law negligence were included in 39 of the 50 cases analyzed by Bloomberg Law. The claim was likely popular in the crypto-hacking context because it's a fundamental theory widely understood and used in the courts, Histed said, adding that it is also perceived as having a lower standard of proof.
The most frequently cited federal statute was the Federal Communications Act, which regulates telephone communications. The claim was referenced in all but six of the SIM-swap suits.
Litigation not pertaining to SIM-swap attacks most commonly included claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The statute provides the legal basis for arguing that digital data is protected property, University of Alberta professor Yahya said.
Roughly a third of the 50 lawsuits stemming from cryptocurrency hacks remain active today, and all of the closed cases ended before producing substantive merits rulings.
About one-third of suits targeting companies, including T-Mobile and Coinbase, have been stymied by mandatory arbitration provisions in plaintiffs' user agreements.
Arbitration provisions, which require dispute resolution outside of the judicial system, aren't necessarily consumer friendly, said financial attorney Richard Borden of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC. A losing plaintiff could, for example, end up having to pay the winner's attorneys' fees, he said.
Other cases were dismissed voluntarily or on procedural grounds (14), and a handful of disputes ended in settlements (6).
Litigation Viability
The novelty of legal issues raised by crypto-hacking and the absence of any major rulings so far could fuel more action in the courts until regulators or policymakers step in, said Jiaying Jiang, a law professor at the University of Florida.
"The impact of unclear guidance definitely will raise more cases," Jiang said, though she cautioned that the volume of cases may also be market dependent.
While the number of crypto-hacking cases rose year over year from 2017 to 2022, it could fall in 2023 as the crypto market continues the nosedive highlighted by the implosion of exchange platform FTX Trading Ltd., attorneys and law professors said. The surge of new market participants will likely slow if cryptocurrency remains unstable, thereby reducing the pool of potential hacking victims, they said.
"That doesn't necessarily mean that the rate of attack, the risk of attack is down," said Michael Burshteyn, a cryptocurrency defense litigator at Morrison & Foerster LLP. "I think the risk of attack is continuously going to go up and has been. But you know, when the market fluctuates, you're going to have a weird effect where the numbers actually look smaller."
Litigation over hacked cryptocurrency also has a high bar of entry for individual consumers, Burshteyn said. Lawsuits are expensive, take a long time, and don't guarantee full financial recovery, he said.
"What it boils down to is: Be really mindful as a consumer, as a participant in crypto, of your own security," Burshteyn said.
Note: This story was derived from a keyword-search analysis of Bloomberg Law's federal court docket system and only tallies primary defendants in each case.
To contact the reporter on this story: Skye Witley at switley@bloombergindustry.com
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OKLAHOMA CITY, May 3, 2018 - Love's Travel Stops (Love's) is now serving Customers in Randlett, Oklahoma, at its newest travel stop location. The store, located on U.S. Highway 70 (Interstate 44, Exit 5) opened this morning and brings 30 new jobs to Cotton County.
"We're always excited to open a new location in Oklahoma," said Tom Love, founder and executive chairman of Love's. "Randlett is in the perfect location to serve professional drivers and other Customers as they travel in and out of Oklahoma."
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Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Founded in 1964, Love's has more than 450 locations in 41 states. Love's provides professional truck drivers and motorists with 24-hour access to clean and safe places to purchase gasoline, diesel fuel, travel items, electronics, snacks and more, as well as a selection of restaurant offerings. On-site Love's Truck Tire Care centers offer roadside assistance, tire care and light mechanical services for professional truck drivers. Showers, CAT scales and other services for professional truck drivers are also available. Love's, which remains family-owned and operated, employs more than 21,000 people. To learn more, visit www.loves.com.


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The primary focus of the purchased operations is mobile crane services in central Sweden, with a 20-strong crane fleet in the 10-300 tonne lift capacity range.
"The acquisition of Norrlandskranar AB is yet another step in the strategic development of Havator in which the goal is a well-functioning network of depots within Sweden. Norrlandskranar AB, which has a good reputation and long experience within the industry, fits in well with this strategic construction. The position of Havator in Central Sweden will be strengthened even more through the acquisition resulting in even better possibilities for fulfilling the needs of our customers in a more effective manner. The industry is becoming more complex and more and more is required of the supplier making this kind of structuring absolutely necessary. With a greater base in Central Sweden, the possibility for good availability, better security, more effective customer solutions increases, benefiting both Havator and its customers", says Peter Nilsson, director of operations Sweden.
Havator Group is a business with operations that involve crane services, special and heavy transport, section assembly and harbour crane operations. Previously, it had crane operations at Uppsala, Sundsvall and Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Other Havator crane operations in Sweden are in Nyköping, Norrköping, Motala, Gothenburg, Stenungsund as well as in Umeå, Skellefteå, Piteå, Luleå, Kalix and Kiruna.


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April 29–May 1
A collaboration with high school art teachers, principals, and artists in the northern Berkshires, MASS MoCA's 10th annual Teen Invitational brings local students' and instructors' work to the public for one long weekend—and one fun party. Catch the best of our young local talent on view in the main galleries from April 29 through May 1 (and celebrate it Friday night with a rollicking awards ceremony and student-curated live music). Cheering allowed.
All visitors over the age of 12 must show proof of a full COVID-19 vaccination (accompanied by a photo ID for those over 18). Read our COVID-19 FAQ here.
By purchasing a ticket or RSVPing to join MASS MoCA's visitors, staff, and artists on the museum campus, you agree to follow a Courtesy Code, detailed here. Our full COVID FAQ is here.
The 2022 MASS MoCA Teen Invitational is supported by an anonymous donor; Lee Bank Foundation; and the SEE Fund, a fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
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A Lolitigation Lament: Nabokov on Censorship and Solidarity
10 Famous Creators' Secret Obsessions and Little-Known Talents
Happy Birthday, Nabokov: A BBC Documentary on Lolita and Life
The Story of a Cover Girl: Leading Designers and Illustrators Reimagine Nabokov's Lolita
"Love itself is not selfish, devouring or cruel, but in human beings it suffers a terrible coexistence with those qualities."
"I am a slave of images," Vladimir Nabokov declared through his character John Krug, the brilliant philosopher in Bend Sinister. In fact, the author himself — a man of notoriously strong opinions — was both a slave of images himself and an exacting master seeking to enslave them. He famously instructed publishers on how to — and how not to — cover his 1955 masterpiece Lolita, one of literary history's most controversial classics:
I want pure colors, melting clouds, accurately drawn details, a sunburst above a receding road with the light reflected in furrows and ruts, after rain. And no girls. … Who would be capable of creating a romantic, delicately drawn, non-Freudian and non-juvenile, picture for LOLITA (a dissolving remoteness, a soft American landscape, a nostalgic highway—that sort of thing)? There is one subject which I am emphatically opposed to: any kind of representation of a little girl.
He eventually rescinded his dictum, but it endures as emblematic of Lolita's demanding complexity and the strain it places on any attempt to synthesize that conflicting intricacy in a static image. That's precisely what Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl (public library) addresses through a magnificent collection of concept covers for the Nabokov classic, which editors John Bertram and Yuri Leving describe as planted "firmly in the public consciousness, but more often for its misunderstood subject than for its masterful and dazzling prose," by eighty of the world's most celebrated graphic designers and illustrators, including such favorites as Paula Scher, Jessica Hische, and Debbie Millman. Featuring a number of essays on the novel's cover history, its evolving pop culture interpretations, and the challenging art of cover design, the book presents the most exhaustive and dimensional topography of Lolita's cultural landscape examined through the lens of design and visual communication.
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Linn Olofsdotter
In the preface, celebrated author and Guggenheim Fellow Mary Gaitskill reflects on the appalling blurb Vintage printed on what's considered the most successful Lolita cover of all time — "The only convincing love story of the century," taken from a review by Vanity Fair's Gregor von Rezzori — and reflects on the chronically misunderstood dualities at the heart of the Nabokov classic:
Lolita is not about love, because love is always mutual; Lolita is about obsession, which is never, ever love, and Nabokov himself was so disappointed that people did not understand this and take away the right message… For how could anyone call this feeding frenzy of selfishness, devouring, and destruction "love"?
How vigorously Henry Miller would nod in agreement. But Gaitskill goes on to demonstrate that no one-dimensional interpretation is better than any other, for Lolita is above all about our contradictory multiplicity of selves:
Lolita is about obsession and narcissistic appetite, misogyny and contemptuous rejection, not only of women, but of humanity itself. And yet. It is also about love; if it were not, the book would not be so heart-stoppingly beautiful.
Purity of feeling must live and breathe in the impure gardens of our confused, compromised, corrupt, and broken hearts. Love itself is not selfish, devouring or cruel, but in human beings it suffers a terrible coexistence with those qualities. . . . In most people, this contradiction will never take the florid form it takes in Humbert Humbert. But such impossible, infernal combinations are there in all of us, and we know it. That Lolita renders this human condition at such an extreme, so truthfully, and yes, as von Rezorri says, convincingly, is the book's most shocking quality. It is why it will never be forgotten. It is also why no one will ever succeed in describing it fully on a book jacket. But how wonderful that so many have tried.
And try they did. Given no conceptual constraints and liberated from the marketing burden of using the cover as an actual sales tool, the eighty designers — ranging from in-house talent from major publishing houses to notable freelancers — brought to the subject uncommon freedom of thought and bravery of interpretation, with graphics spanning from the unabashedly provocative to the brilliantly subtle. Some intentionally violated Nabokov's "no girls" injunction, others winked at it irreverently and assaulted it obliquely, while others still paid full heed and went with the expressly metaphorical. (Though, as John Gall thoughtfully admonishes in one of the chapters, "the land of metaphor is filled with furrows and ruts and roads going off into the distance.")
Ellen Lupton
In the introduction, aptly titled "Colorful Misunderstandings, Graphic Misinterpretations," John Bertram and Yuri Leving consider what it is about both the intricacies of cover design in general and the challenge of the Nabokov classic in particular that rendered Lolita so near-impossible to capture visually:
The book cover is also paratextual material that has the potential to influence the reading of a text: It may distort or illuminate, editorialize, and even invent subjects and situations that do not exist in the text.
Taken as a whole, the gallery acts as a kind of barometer: a series of likely stories and hypotheses, each of which may be tested by the reader's own criteria. No single cover stands out as definitive or can be taken as representative; rather, the images and the essays are intended to work in concert instead of providing a unified response. Ultimately, it remains for informed readers to determine how well the designs satisfy the criteria they themselves bring to the book.
The Heads of State
Jessica Hische
In one of the essays, the inimitable Alice Twemlow, founder and chair of the MFA in Design Criticism at New York's School of Visual Arts, offers a taxonomy of the four main classes of designs: Those employing objects, spelling out Lolita's name "as if rebuilding her into a whole from the banal accoutrements of her daily life"; the ones focusing on Humbert's worldview and the experience of obsession; those primarily based on mood, constructing a foreboding sense of "Humbert's looming homburg-hat-wearing presence, always in the peripheral vision of Lolita's life"; and the strictly typographic ones, which embrace Nabokov's pure prose and, most frequently, Humbert's opening salvo, "his love letter to language and to Lolita in her kaleidoscopically glimpsed facets."
Debbie Millman
Andy Pressman
Henry Sene Yee
Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl is a rare gem at the intersection of lust for literature and lust for design, and a superb addition to these art and design projects inspired by literary classics.
Images courtesy of John Bertram
https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/08/09/lolita-the-story-of-a-cover-girl/
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They were all among the Seventy, and are all mentioned by St Paul in his Epistles. Herodion was a kinsman of Paul's: 'Salute Herodion my kinsman', he writes to the Romans (16:11). Herodion suffered greatly at the hands of the Jews as Bishop of Neoparthia; he was beaten about the head, stoned on the mouth and stabbed in the legs. When they had left him for dead, St Herodion arose and continued to serve the apostles. He helped the Apostle Peter in Rome, and was beheaded along with many other Christians on the same day that Peter was crucified. St Agabus had a spirit of prophecy. Two of his prophecies are recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. First, he prophesied a great famine throughout the world, which came to pass in the time of Claudius Caesar (Acts 11:28). The second was when he met the Apostle Paul in Caesarea. Paul was on his way to Jerusalem, and Agabus took Paul's girdle and bound himself hand and foot, saying: 'Thus saith the Holy Spirit: so shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle' (21:11). St Rufus was Bishop of Thebes in Greece. The Apostle Paul mentions him also: 'Salute Rufus, chosen in the Lord' (Rom. 16:13). St Asyncritus (Rom. 16:14) was Bishop of Hyrcania in Asia, St Phlegon, who is mentioned in the same place as St Rufus, was bishop in the Thracian city of Marathon. St Hermas, mentioned with the others, was bishop in Dalmatia. All these, with bee-like industry, spread the Gospel, suffering greatly for the love of Christ. They all went to the eternal Kingdom of their beloved Christ.
He was adorned with zeal in the building and repairing of churches and with great courage in opposing tyrannical princes. Thirteen days before his death, St Theodosius appeared to him and predicted his imminent departure to the other world. He entered into rest in 1156.
A great zealot for the Orthodox faith, he wrote an epistle against the Nestorian heresy at the time of the Third Ecumenical Council. He entered peacefully into rest in 432.
The Holy Martyr John the Shipmaster (Naukleros) suffered a psychological sickness. One time, when he was found in an unconscious state, the Turks made over him the rite of conversion to their religion. Coming to his senses, the saint angrily threw from his head the symbol of Islam – the turban. He bitterly bewailed the indignity that had occurred and continued to live as a Christian. The Turks then threw the martyr into prison. Neither lecturings, nor beatings, nor threats could bend the will of the saint, and he repeatedly replied: "I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and I refuse your faith". After many torments they burnt the martyr in the city of Koe on 8 April 1669.


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Through scholarly inquiry, artistic creation, and community engagement, the Division of Arts and Humanities cultivates a rich artistic and intellectual community that fosters a respect for diversity and encourages lifelong learning. Students learn to engage critical and creative thinking skills as tools for reflection, expression, and engagement. General education courses for non-majors provide an introduction to creative and critical inquiry and include survey courses as well as courses in creative application and short-term education abroad.
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Johnson Art Center 211
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B.A. in Art History
B.A. in Art Education (K-12 licensure)
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Minor in Film & New Media
B.A. in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing
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Film & New Media
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Teacher Education Licensure in German Education (Secondary Education; additional coursework required)
Teacher Education Licensure in History Education (Secondary Education; additional course work required)
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B.M. in Music Education (K-12 licensure in Instrumental/General and Choral/General)
B.A. in Music with an Emphasis in Music Performance
B.A. in Music with an Emphasis in Music Theatre
B.A. in Music with an Emphasis in Piano Pedagogy
B.M. in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano
M.M. in Music Theatre Vocal Pedagogy
Minor in Interfaith Studies
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Teacher Education Licensure in Theatre (K-12 licensure; Secondary Education Minor; additional course work requried)
B.A. in Theatre Performance
B.A. in Technical Direction
B.A. in Theatrical Costume Design
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Contributions to the General Education Curriculum
Students seeking to satisfy distribution requirements toward their Carthage degree will find regular offerings of courses with the HUM and FAR designation to meet their general education requirement. These courses are designed to engage students intellectually and creatively in particular areas of the arts and humanities by introducing students to aesthetic activity as an essential dimension of the human condition, of human cultures, and of their own capacities and callings.
Courses fulfilling the HUM and FAR designation generally fall into two categories:
Survey courses designed to cultivate appreciation of the arts and humanities by exposing students to a significant body of literature or area of creative activity within its cultural context.
Application courses designed to engage students in the direct experience of aesthetic and creative work.
Information on specific general education courses can be found on their department websites.
Experiential Learning Opportunities
Experiential learning is a core component of a Carthage education and each department in the division supports a range of opportunities. From field placements to internships, performance tours, and excavations, students in the Division of Arts and Humanities engage in experiential learning. Local, regional, and international partnerships provide opportunities for students to translate theory into practice.
A flagship program for the College is the Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE). Students who earn a SURE grant are competitively selected to conduct research and creative projects with faculty mentors. Students present their research and creative projects at conferences and events around the world.
Co-curricular and Extracurricular Learning Opportunities
Students in the Division of Arts and Humanities develop strong relationships with their faculty mentors, largely through co-curricular and extracurricular learning opportunities. From studio to classroom, students and faculty engage in collaborative projects that help prepare them to be engaged, informed citizens. More than 2,000 students participate in music ensembles, art clubs, theatre productions, poetry readings, and historical enactments.
From lecture series to our New Play Initiative, the Division provides opportunities for students and the community to gather together to engage with the critical questions and creative ideas of our past, present, and future. Our music concerts showcase the creative work of students and faculty alongside world-class invited guest artists. The H. F. Johnson Gallery of Art brings established and innovative artists to the Carthage campus, and the annual Graphic Design and Art Department "Art Walk" showcases the work of our emerging student artists and designers.


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You sink into your most comfortable chair, pick up your tablet and find your favorite social media site. It might be Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram. It doesn't really matter. You're a pro on every one. But let's stop right there. What if you aren't so slick on social media. What if something has kept you from diving in. What if you really don't know how to behave there. It's time to learn from the social media experts.
"What is social media? It's the language that people speak today, said Katie Duke, practicing ER Nurse and blogger for Scrubs Magazine. But we all aren't speaking the language, or if we are, we could be communicating better. Those who are still very new to social media could use some advice. Enter the experts: Duke; Lee Aase, director of social media at Mayo Clinic; Kati Kleber, an RN and blogger; and Brittney Wilson, who's the Nerdy Nurse, an RN and blogger. These four social media pros recently participated in a live video chat on YouTube about how to behave on social media.
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Are you ready to rock the social media world with an amazing post? If so, just remember this before you post: "You're not going to please everybody. What you can do is be true to yourself," Duke said. Check back next month for more social media tips.
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Homeowners reach out to Contact7 after neighborhood plagued with multiple power outages
Longest outage lasted upwards of 20 hours
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Bainer said the inside of their house was 83 degrees Wednesday night, but they have a finished basement, so they were able to stay somewhat cool.
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Bainer said her husband is a printer who works at home.
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I've heard of people having to throw out pounds and pounds of breast milk," homeowner Kimberly Corban said.
"We've got four kiddos and two dogs at home," she said. "We were aware of the heat and were told to turn the thermostats up, and then the power started going out, and it stayed out. We had outage after outage without information, without any real cause."
When asked what she thinks is causing the power outage, Corban replied, "I think there's a huge infrastructure issue. I think it is shameful that we weren't aware of this when they started building houses here and selling them to everyone."
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Corban said, so far, the power has remained on Friday evening, but she has bags packed "in case we need to send the kids somewhere else for the night."


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Stuart Phillip Pegg  (born 1932) is an Australian burns specialist.  He is credited with developing and providing life saving treatment for critically ill burns patients.

Career
After graduating Brisbane Grammar School in 1950, Pegg studied at the University of Queensland.  He graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honours in 1956.

Pegg commenced his medical career by interring at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1957 before serving as the medical superintendent at Julia Creek from 1958 to 1961.

It was during his time at Julia Creek where he first became interested in the treatment of burns after encountering a severely-burnt house fire victim. Despite contacting some of the state's most senior specialists for advice, they couldn't offer Pegg any sufficient guidance.  Although the patient died, the case prompted Pegg to advocate for better ways to treat burns.

From 1962 to 1964, he worked as the surgical registrar at the Princess Alexandra Hospital before spending time at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in England. Beginning in June 1967, Pegg started working at the Royal Brisbane Hospital initially as a surgical supervisor and then as the director of surgery.

In 1974, Pegg was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to visit burns centres across the world to research how to improve treatment of burns patients in Australia.

After lobbying for better facilities, an adult burns centre was established at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in 1977, of which he was appointed the director. It was relocated to another building in 2003, and reopened as the Professor Stuart Pegg Adult Burns Centre in his honour.

A burns unit at the Royal Children's Hospital was established in 1986 before it was transferred to the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in 2014. In 2017, the unit was named the Pegg Leditschke Children's Burns Centre in recognition of Pegg and fellow burns surgeon Associate Professor Fred Leditscheke.

From 1990 to 1998, Pegg served as the vice-president of the International Society for Burn Injuries.

In 1994, he was recruited to become an associate professor of burn surgery at the University of Queensland. He was promoted to professor in 1996. Pegg became an emeritus professor at the University of Queensland in 2001 where he taught burns surgery methods to students over a five-year period.

In 2006, Pegg earned a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Queensland and retired the same year.

One of Pegg's most notable patients was Jandamarra O'Shane, a seven-year-old Aboriginal boy who was doused in petrol and set alight while playing at his Cairns primary school in 1996.

Speaking about Pegg in a 2017 interview, O'Shane stated: "He always had this presence when he walked in. It was always understood he was the guy who's calling the shots and making everything happen for me. He's a warrior in his own way, I'd like to say. Certain people have that quality about them. The feeling you'd get when he walked in through the doors most mornings, it was like: 'Cool, I'm happy'. Things that he's done throughout his life, it's really had an effect on us, his patients. He was probably the perfect person for the job... I think about kids I was in hospital with. I wasn't the one who got burnt the worst. I saw others struggling worse than I was. That's really difficult. I just think about him being in the position that he had to work on those kids every day. Mentally, having to see that every day, I wouldn't be able to do it."

Military
Pegg was as a captain in the United States Army Reserve in 1957.  From 1981 to 1987, Pegg served as a major in the Australian Army Reserve.

Recognition
In the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, Pegg was made a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition to his service to medicine, particularly as the vice-president of the International Burns Society and as director of the burns units at the Royal Brisbane and the Royal Children's Hospital.

In 2018, Pegg received the Vice-Chancellor's Alumni Excellence Award from the University of Queensland.

Pegg was named as a Queensland Great in 2022.

References

1932 births
Queensland Greats
Australian surgeons
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Queensland
United States Army reservists
Members of the Order of Australia
University of Queensland Mayne Medical School alumni
20th-century Australian medical doctors

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\section{Introduction}
Graphene has been proposed for use in many applications, ranging from solar cells \cite{Wang2008} to photon detectors \cite{Vora2011,Yan2011,Betz2012a,Fong2012a}. The low heat capacity \cite{Fong2012a} of graphene makes it an appealing candidate for detecting low energy photons. In particular, a detector of far-IR terahertz (THz) photons is of great interest for both laboratory experiments \cite{Schmutt} and astronomical studies in space-based observatories \cite{Karasik}. Transition edge sensors (TESs) using the superconducting transition of titanium (Ti) have been proposed as a detector for photons in the far-IR \cite{Karasik2005}. These TES detectors have achieved single-photon sensitivity in the near- and mid-IR \cite{Lita2008,Karasik}. Quantum capacitance\cite{Stone2012} and kinetic inductance \cite{Day2003,mkid} detectors are also emerging as candidates for detecting single THz photons.

Unlike a transition edge sensor biased on its superconducting transition, the resistance of graphene is not significantly temperature dependent for the conditions where it is most promising for photon detection. An alternate readout mechanism must be employed. We have previously modeled the use of Johnson noise to measure the absorption of THz photons in graphene \cite{McKitterick2013}. This method of reading out the electron temperature introduces an additional source of noise \cite{Dicke1946}, Eq.~\ref{eq:dicke} below, that must be considered when evaluating detector performance. To determine the sensitivity of the graphene detector, the change in temperature due to an incident THz photon, $\Delta T$, must be compared to the uncertainty in the temperature measurement, $\delta T$.

There are two dominant contributions to the temperature uncertainty: intrinsic temperature fluctuations due to the exchange of energy (e.g., phonons, photons, hot electrons) between the graphene and its environment($\delta T_\mathrm{intr}$) \cite{Mather1984} and apparent temperature fluctuations due to the inaccuracy of the Johnson noise-readout ($\delta T_\mathrm{readout}$). These sources of noise add in quadrature and are presented below:\\
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:intr}\delta T_\mathrm{intr}\approx\sqrt{\frac{k_\mathrm{B}(T^2+T_0^2)}{2C}}
\end{equation}
\end{minipage
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:dicke}\delta T_\mathrm{readout}=\frac{T_\mathrm{a}+T}{\sqrt{B\tau}}.
\end{equation}
\end{minipage}
Here, $T$ denotes the electron temperature, $T_0$ is the substrate temperature, $C$ is the heat capacity, $T_\mathrm{a}$ is the noise temperature of the amplifier, $B$ is the measurement bandwidth, and $\tau$ is the time interval over which the temperature is being averaged. With a smaller thermal conductance, the thermal relaxation time of the system is increased, allowing the noise due to the readout to be reduced by averaging for a longer time. For graphene to be a practical detector, it is critical to achieve very low values of thermal conductance.

There are additional constraints on the device. Graphene samples need to be fabricated with a very low heat capacity and used at a low bath temperature ($T_\mathrm{0}\sim 100$~mK) in order to realize the necessary sensitivity to detect single THz photons. Operating with this low heat capacity, however, means that an incident THz photon will cause a temperature rise that is significantly larger than the equilibrium temperature of the bath ($T\gg T_\mathrm{0}$) so the standard equilibrium formula for Eq.~\ref{eq:intr} that takes $T=T_0$ is no longer valid. In this case, where $T\gg T_0$, the temperature used to calculate the noise of the system for a particular averaging interval is taken to be the average electron temperature over that interval, $T=T_\mathrm{avg}$.

By using previously measured values for thermal conductance \cite{Betz2012} and heat capacity \cite{Fong2012a}, and extrapolating to lower temperatures, we performed calculations to determine the ideal operating conditions for a graphene detector. We find that best detection of single photons occurs for parameters such that $T_\mathrm{avg}\gg T_0 $. An approximate upper bound on heat capacity of $2\times 10^{-22}$~J/K at 100~mK is necessary to achieve good performance in detecting single THz photons \cite{McKitterick2013}. This value of heat capacity corresponds to a 4~$\mu\mathrm{m}^2$ flake of graphene with a carrier density of $n=10^{12}~\mathrm{cm}^{-2}$. In Fig.~\ref{fig:hista}, we present histograms of theoretical photon counts of single 1~THz photons for a hypothetical graphene detector with these characteristics; this shows the ensemble behavior

In Fig.~\ref{fig:hista}, the histogram on the right represents the relative probability of reading out a certain change in temperature, $\Delta T_\mathrm{det}$, when a 1~THz photon arrives at the detector. Similarly, the histogram at the left represents the relative probability of observing an apparent change in temperature when no photons are absorbed in the averaging interval. If this detector had no noise, these histograms would resemble delta functions and be centered either at the average temperature change due to the arrival of a photon, or at zero detected temperature change. The broadening of the histograms is due to the contributions of the noise outlined in Eqs.~\ref{eq:intr} and \ref{eq:dicke}.

The detection peak for single-photon events is well-separated from the histogram of counts when no photons arrive at the detector. Using the calculated thermal relaxation time of $\tau=0.5~\mu$s and setting a threshold on the minimum change in electron temperature detected, $\Delta T_\mathrm{det}$, of 200~mK, one can limit the dark (zero-photon) counts to the background count rate, taken to be 1000 photons per second \cite{Karasik2011a}, without losing many single-photon events. This is an effective photon counter. With a cold, tunable frequency pre-filter, this graphene photon-counting detector could provide THz spectroscopy at the single-photon level \cite{Karasik2005}.

\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=.48\columnwidth]{hist-oldmod.eps}
 \caption{(Color online) Normalized histograms for photon counts using a previously reported thermal conductance \cite{Betz2012} scaled to 100~mK and a heat capacity of $2\times 10^{-22}~$J/K at 100~mK. The amplifier used for these calculations is described in McKitterick et al. \cite{McKitterick2013}.}
\label{fig:hista}
\end{wrapfigure}

In order to determine whether the parameters assumed are valid, it is necessary to measure how the thermal conductance behaves at low bath temperatures. We assume there are three cooling pathways for the hot electrons: coupling to phonon modes ($G_\mathrm{el-ph}$), emission of microwave photons ($G_\mathrm{photon}$) \cite{Schmidt2004}, and out-diffusion of hot electrons ($G_\mathrm{diff}$), yielding a total thermal conductance of $G_\mathrm{tot}=G_\mathrm{el-ph}+G_\mathrm{photon}+G_\mathrm{diff}$.

To achieve the low value of thermal conductance that is necessary for THz photon detection, the cooling pathway due to hot electrons diffusing out the leads needs to be suppressed and the electron-phonon coupling must be very weak at low temperatures. Superconducting contacts have been proposed to virtually eliminate $G_\mathrm{diff}$ at low temperatures, as demonstrated for lead (Pb) contacts \cite{Borzenets2011}. However, Pb is unsuitable for the applications proposed herein due to its formation of a thick oxide barrier. Effective confinement of electrons in graphene by other large-gap superconductors has not previously been reported.

Theoretical predictions for the electron-phonon coupling suggest a power law form for the electron-phonon cooling, $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\propto T^p$, with $p$ equal to 2, 3, or 4 \cite{Song2011,Chen2012,Tse2009}. Previous measurements of electron-phonon thermal conductance at cryogenic temperatures have yielded inconsistent results. Two groups \cite{Fong2012a,Betz2012} have found $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\propto T^3,$ above 2~K but their extracted values for electron-phonon coupling strength differ by over two orders of magnitude. Other studies have observed a $T^2$ dependence for electron-phonon thermal conductance from 10 to 300 ~K \cite{graham2012photocurrent,Betz2012a} and 100~mK to 700~mK \cite{Borzenets2012}.

In this article, we present preliminary measurements on graphene fabricated on silicon dioxide (SiO$_2$) that aim to provide a better understanding of $G_\mathrm{el-ph}$ and establish the capability of superconducting contacts on graphene to block $G_\mathrm{diff}$.

\section{Methods}
\begin{figure}[]\sidecaption
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=.6\columnwidth]{RvsT.eps}
 \caption{(Color online) (A) dV/dI as a function of temperature measured with a $1~\mu$A AC bias. Above 10~K, the resistance is primarily due to the NbN leads. (B) Schematic of graphene device (not to scale). A gate voltage is used to tune the carrier density and Ti is used as an adhesion layer for the NbN. (C) Optical micrograph of NbN lead structure. The spacing between the leads is approximately 1$~\mu$m.}
\label{fig:gsamp}
\end{figure}
The graphene samples used in this study are fabricated at Stony Brook University, where graphene is exfoliated onto a silicon substrate (15-20~$\Omega\cdot$cm at 300~K) with a 500~nm thick layer of SiO$_2$. Niobium nitride (NbN) leads are deposited on the graphene flake with a Ti adhesion layer. A thin layer of Pd is deposited between the Ti and NbN to reduce interaction between the two layers during deposition. The sample presented here has a NbN transition temperature of approximately 10~K with graphene dimensions $10\times 4~\mathrm{\mu m}$ ($10\times 1~\mathrm{\mu m}$ between leads). This transition is due to the superconducting resistance change of the NbN leads.

The samples are mounted in a vacuum can that is cooled to approximately 2~K in a pumped liquid helium cryostat. Measurements of thermal conductance are performed by heating up the electrons with a DC current and using the microwave readout shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:tcon}A to measure the emitted Johnson noise.
The Johnson noise is rectified using a diode to present a DC voltage to a digital multimeter. To convert this voltage to the electron temperature, we set $V_\mathrm{DC}=0$ so $T=T_0$ and increase the temperature of the graphene sample using a resistive heater and record the resulting linear change in voltage read out by our diode.

Using this calibration, we find the electron temperature as a function of the DC heating power due to an applied current. We then use the electron temperature to determine the thermal conductance, $G=\frac{dP}{dT}.$
We present this in Fig.~\ref{fig:tcon}B along with the calculated value for $G_\mathrm{diff}$ using the sample resistance to determine $G_\mathrm{diff}$.
\section{Discussion}
For large values of electron temperature, adding a power law term to $G_\mathrm{diff}$ describes the thermal conductance fairly well and yields a power of 2 for the fit parameter $p$. This is consistent with recent theory \cite{Song2011} predicting that disorder-assisted scattering, described as supercollisions, can dominate the electron-phonon cooling, which results in a $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\propto T^2$. The disorder-assisted scattering theory predicts a crossover temperature, $T_*$, below which $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\propto T^3$. In that article, the authors expect $T_*\gtrsim 10$~K for typical carrier densities. For our data, the large contribution of $G_\mathrm{diff}$ below approximately 8~K overrides the contribution of electron-phonon cooling at these temperatures, preventing the extraction of $T_*$.
\begin{figure}[]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{eTemp-h2.eps}
 \caption{(Color online) (A) Schematic of experimental setup for Johnson-noise measurements. LP and BP stand for low-pass and band-pass respectively. (B) Calculated thermal conductance from measured electron temperature. $G_\mathrm{diff}=\frac{12\mathcal{L}T}{R}$ is calculated from the measured electron temperature and device resistance. $\mathcal{L}=2.44\times 10^{-8}~\mathrm{W\Omega K^{-2}}$ is the Lorentz number and $R$ is the electrical resistance \cite{Prober1993}. Here $G_\mathrm{diff}$ is computed assuming non-superconducting contacts.}
\label{fig:tcon}
\end{figure}

At temperatures lower than 5~K, this fit ceases to accurately describe the measured thermal conductance. We believe that the significant drop of the measured $G$ below the fit line is the result of the superconducting contacts blocking the hot electrons from diffusing out of the graphene.
\begin{figure}[]
 \centering
 \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{hist-new.eps}
 \caption{(Color online) (A) Estimated electron-phonon contribution to thermal conductance, assuming $T_*=10$~K and an effective area of $4~\mathrm{\mu m}$. $G_\mathrm{rad}$ is calculated using a coupled bandwidth of 150~MHz. (B) Normalized histograms for photon counts using the thermal conductance from (A) and a heat capacity of $2\times 10^{-22}~$J/K at 100~mK. The dashed line indicates a threshold $\Delta T_\mathrm{det}$ which would have few dark counts, but would count approximately $85\%$ of the single-photon events.}
\label{fig:hist-new}
\end{figure}

For the purposes of THz detection, we now consider a similar graphene flake to the one measured in Figs.~\ref{fig:tcon} and \ref{fig:hist-new}, but with an area ten times smaller, corresponding to the optimal heat capacity found in previous calculations \cite{McKitterick2013}. At 100~mK,  a device with these dimensions may permit a Josephson current \cite{Borzenets2012}. That would not be desirable, due to the excess noise at finite DC voltages needed to read out the noise. In order to couple to the device, it may be necessary to use superconductor-insulator-graphene (SIG) contacts with a thin tunnel barrier to suppress the Josephson current. For Johnson-noise readout at microwave frequencies, the finite impedance of the tunnel barriers would be short circuited by the tunnel junction capacitance. The device would be impedance matched to the readout circuit.

To evaluate the performance at 100~mK, we made several assumptions about the behavior of the thermal conductance below 1~K. First, we assume that $G_\mathrm{diff}\rightarrow 0$ for $T<1$~K so that $G=G_\mathrm{el-ph}+G_\mathrm{photon}$, where $G_\mathrm{photon}=k_\mathrm{B}B$ and $B$ is the coupled bandwidth to an impedance-matched load. We assume that $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\propto T^3$ below 10~K; this is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:hist-new}. From these assumptions, the cooling power due to electron-phonon coupling is given by $P_\mathrm{el-ph}=\frac{A}{4T_*}(T^4-T_0^4)$. We can then use the heat flow equation to calculate the temperature of the electrons as a function of time after absorbing a THz photon at 100~mK, as outlined \cite{McKitterick2013}. From the calculation of electron temperature as a function of time, we determine the rms apparent temperature fluctuations, $\delta T$. The expected histograms of 1~THz photon counts are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:hist-new}.

This detector would have a sufficient resolving power to count single 1~THz photons. By setting a threshold $\Delta T_\mathrm{det} = 300$~mK, this detector would be limit the dark counts to the background count rate (taken to be 1000 photons per second \cite{Karasik2011a}) while still recording approximately $85\%$ of single-photon events. With a well matched antenna, this detector would achieve a single-photon detection efficiency for 1~THz photons much greater than any device reported so far \cite{Komiyama}.

There are still open questions about the cooling of hot electrons in graphene. Previous measurements above 1~K are not in agreement. Also, it is not clear what area of the graphene contributes to the electron-phonon thermal conductance. At high temperatures, $G_\mathrm{el-ph}\gg G_\mathrm{diff}$, and the effective area should be much smaller than the total area. At low temperatures, a larger area may contribute. Finally, the effect of the substrate on electron-phonon cooling is still not well understood. These questions define the goals for future studies.

\section{Conclusions}
The measurements we present here are consistent with graphene being a good single-photon THz detector. To really evaluate the effectiveness of this type of detector, measurements need to be made down to the base temperature of 100~mK. Such measurements would serve both to provide a better understanding of the electron-phonon cooling and would demonstrate the capability of superconducting contacts to effectively confine hot electrons. Both of these goals are critical to the design of a graphene THz photon detector.

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