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Peter M. Neumann OBE, 1940-2020
The College community was extremely sad to hear news of the death of Peter M. Neumann OBE, mathematician and Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College, on 18 December, at the age of 79.
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Peter had a very long association with the College, which he joined as an undergraduate to study mathematics in 1959. He was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Pure Mathematics at Queen's in 1964 and became a Tutorial Fellow in 1966 and Lecturer in the University in 1967. Upon his retirement in September 2008, he was elected to an Emeritus Fellowship.
He taught all branches of pure mathematics to undergraduates at Queen's and described himself as lecturing for the University 'to undergraduates and graduate students on anything of interest to myself and, I hope, to them.' Thirty-eight students completed doctorates under his supervision.
Peter gave great service to the College and held the positions of Dean of Degrees (1968-1973), Tutor for Admissions (1980-1986), Senior Tutor (1990-1995 and 2004-2008) and Secretary to the Queen's Association (2000-2008), as well as serving as a University Proctor (1987-1988). He always remained deeply committed to the College and its life, and he was much loved by Fellows, staff and students.
'Selflessness and generosity absolutely encapsulated Peter's whole relationship to the College, to the University, to Mathematics, and to people in general,' reflected Angus Bowie (Emeritus Fellow). 'He had an utter and humbling dedication to people's well-being, without a thought for the cost to himself. As Senior Fellow, as well as Senior Tutor, he had to bear a heavy load of hospitality in College, and how well he always did it. In the evenings when he presided Peter never failed to display a deep pleasure in entertaining our guests.'
'Peter was a defining influence on the character of the College – setting very high standards by example in engagement with students and his colleagues,' added Paul Madden (Fellow 1984-2004 and Provost 2008-2019). 'As tutors, we aspired to emulate the detailed attention and inspiration given to the maths students. He took on the major College Officerships and performed them brilliantly, and with apparent enthusiasm. In the Common Room, he knitted together the sense of community and shared purpose amongst the senior members by a constant, welcoming presence combined with a strong sense of intellectual pursuit. Sitting on external committees, I came to realise how much these qualities were recognised and revered by academics across the University. At a personal level, his friendship and the integrity of his dealings with me have formed a "golden thread" through my career in the College, and I am sure that many colleagues would share that sentiment.'
'On behalf of the whole College community, I would like to offer condolences to Sylvia and the rest of the family at this sad time,' said Claire Craig, Provost of Queen's. 'Peter was exceptional in many, many ways and, in particular, in the extent to which he won the respect and affection of Fellows, students and staff alike. I am sorry that, as a relative newcomer, I only met him a few times but, even in those limited exchanges, he conveyed the intellect, curiosity, concern for the College and the good humour that many others saw during his lifetime. The College is rightfully proud of its association with him, and grateful for all he brought to it.'
Peter was internationally known and greatly respected for his contributions to mathematics, its history, and to mathematical education. He achieved eminence in all three fields with works of lasting influence. In the history of mathematics, Peter's writings are characterised by enormous precision and meticulous attention to detail, qualities that he brought to all of his work. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in his comprehensive 2011 edition of the mathematical writings of the precocious and much-romanticised French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811-1832). Peter's was the first full English edition, carefully compiled from Parisian archive materials, opening up Galois's writings to a wider mathematical readership.
'Peter was a great champion of the study of the history of mathematics,' said Christopher Hollings (Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics). 'He served as president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and was the long-term organiser of "Research in Progress", the society's annual conference, usually held in Queen's, for research students in the history of mathematics. Peter's lifelong commitment to teaching also extended to the history of mathematics: he was a co-founder, along with his great friend and colleague Jackie Stedall (and others), of the Oxford Mathematical Institute's undergraduate module in the history of mathematics. Many young scholars in the history of mathematics (including me) have benefitted enormously from the sheer breadth of his knowledge, and from his encouragement, always warmly and generously given. The mathematical world has lost not only an eminent scholar but also the kindest of gentlemen.'
'There are a few people who make a truly outstanding contribution to their academic discipline and community,' said Jon Keating (Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy, The Queen's College; and President of the London Mathematical Society). 'There are also some whose personalities are universally admired and appreciated. Peter Neumann was unusual in falling squarely into both categories. He was an exceptionally distinguished scholar and researcher, in both Mathematics and the History of Mathematics, and he was also a famously inspirational teacher and mentor. His contributions to the mathematical community were extremely highly regarded: he had a significant impact at the London Mathematical Society, where he led in modernising the Society's publications and acted as Vice-President, and he was notably the first Chair of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, where he led on advancing the education of young people in mathematics at the national level. However, my abiding memory of Peter is that he was a deeply kind and generous man whose warmth made a lasting impression on everyone he met. He was widely liked and deeply respected, as popular as he was distinguished. He will be greatly missed by the mathematics community.'
Peter was the recipient of many accolades, including a DSc degree from Oxford in 1976, the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America in 1987, the Senior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society in 2003, and the David Crighton Medal jointly from the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and the London Mathematical Society in 2012. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2008, for services to education. The University of Oxford gave him a Lifetime Teaching Award in 2008.
In 1996, Peter was a member of the working party that set up the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT). He was the first Chairman of its Council, a position that he held until 2004. The early years of the UKMT were not altogether easy, as a group of people with different backgrounds came together to build a new organisation. It was thanks to Peter's commitment to enhancing the mathematical experience of talented young people, his acute mind, and his great charm and courtesy that the difficulties were overcome, and the foundations were laid for the successful institution that the UKMT is today. A highlight of Peter's chairmanship was the central role of the UKMT in organising the 2002 International Mathematical Olympiad, hosted in Glasgow, at short notice after the original host country had to withdraw.
From the UKMT's early days until his death, Peter was deeply and actively involved in every area of its different activities: from marking weekends, to residentials, to Mathematical Circles, to team challenges. Of particular interest to him was the poster challenge that made up part of the team challenge national finals: he valued and championed its emphasis on not only the exploration of the mathematical content, but on its effective and clear presentation and communication.
He was, and remains, much loved and respected by volunteers and staff across the whole spectrum of UKMT activity.
This sentiment is echoed across the Queen's community. As Richard Bruce Parkinson (Professor of Egyptology) said: 'So many acts of kindness (always shrewd) and introductions (always thoughtful) have influenced many lives and careers beyond mathematics and scholarship; so many people have said in the past weeks "I owe Peter so much" (I do). He took other people seriously, and he made a huge difference to them: we have all remembered individual acts across the decades ("he was the first Fellow who ever spoke to me"). He quietly championed the outsider, the diffident. When I was asked at a Stonewall training course to think of an inspiring role-model (alive, dead or fictional), I named Peter: he embodies for me all that is best and most human in the academic world, and always will.'
Since so many friends, colleagues and former students have wanted to share their memories and reflections, we have created an online tribute page to Peter Neumann here.
Peter's obituary, written by his son, David Neumann, has been published in The Guardian.
A private funeral will be held in the Chapel of The Queen's College on Monday 18 January 2021 at 11.30 am and a memorial will follow later in the year. The funeral will be open to family and invited friends only, but will be livestreamed for those unable to attend. Please contact the Provost's Secretary (sara.butler@queens.ox.ac.uk) for details. If you would like to make a donation in memory of Peter, his family have chosen two charities to support.
Many thanks to the following who helped with this article: Angus Bowie, Rosie Cretney, Christopher Hollings, Jon Keating, Richard Bruce Parkinson and Alan Slomson.


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We began in the Northland nearly five months ago and soon – almost predictably – we will finish in the Southland. If the South Island had seemed a tad empty, then the Southland is positively desolate. I liked it immensely.
The Southland has the second lowest population density in New Zealand after the West Coast. On our right was one of the most photographed places in all of New Zealand: the Fiordlands. Milford Sound. Doubtless Sound. Our trail, however lead through long and lonely valleys; dark and misty forests; wide and rolling farms; and the last of many mountains.
Two days after arriving in Queenstown, I called up taxi service after trail shuttle after tour bus to hear the same woeful tale: we're all full up or we're not going out there today. You see, there is a giant lake between Queenstown and the next trailhead. It looked like we'd be spending another day in Queenstown, waiting for a shuttle to the Mavora Lakes trailhead. Dad hurried back to the i-site to see if there were any rooms left in town and I stared purposefully (albeit not helpfully) at Lake Wakatipu.
Eighty kilometers long and deeper than sea level, the third largest lake in New Zealand is smack dab in the middle of Te Araroa. It's labeled a hazard zone and trampers must find one way or another around or across it. I voted for hiring one of the shark shaped submarines to leap and dive across the lake. But I was overruled.
From my vantage point on the wharf, I looked out over Lake Wakatipu at The Remarkables climbing into the clouds. Great rocky mountains with fairy tale spires, The Remarkables are just what they sound like. It's like sitting in a postcard.
Dad found me with some incredible news. Stephanie, the young American woman working at the i-site, hadn't been able to find any rooms in Queenstown for under $300.
She paused, "You don't really want to stay in Queenstown another night do you? You just want to get to the Mavora Lakes trail head?"
He confirmed.
"Alright, I'll drive you tomorrow morning."
Stephanie's two brothers are currently on the TA, so she was very kindly paying the trail magic forward on their behalf. The next morning, Stephanie pulled up in front of the YHA with none other than Peter and Reino in the car. The Dutch couple had apparently experienced the same trouble getting a trail shuttle as we had. We tossed our packs into the Subaru and set off for the last leg of our journey.
Pretty waterfall on the Mavora Lakes Greenstone Trail.
Don't eat these. You get high and then you die.
The Mavora Lakes are also known as Amon Hen.
There are two Mavora lakes, situated pleasantly beneath low, green mountains. The TA winds through beech forest and empty tussock valleys before reaching the North lake. Rain snapped and sprinkled on my hood and pack cover. Bright orange Fly agaric mushrooms popped a bit of color into the otherwise green and grey tableau.
We would soon need to resupply. The notes indicated we could either hitch left or right for groceries once we reached SH 94. A German couple in a trundling Britz campervan picked us up and took us left into Mossburn. The FourSquare was just up the street from where they dropped us.
Mossburn is a railway town, or at least it was. It was once the terminus for the Mossburn Branch railway and saw a boom during the construction of the Manapouri Power Station in the mid-20th century. But when the power station was completed, the railway eventually shutdown in 1982. Though on a major thoroughfare between Te Anau and Queenstown, it has the unmistakable flavor of a place abandoned by time. Shuttered windows and empty parking lots. Neon 'open' signs permanently unplugged.
It even lost its grocery store. The FourSquare was dusty and dark and had no doubt been closed for years. Mossburn was not a resupply location. We stood on the rainy roadside attempting to hitch to Te Anau, but dusk was on its way and we opted to bunker down for the night at the Mossburn Railway Hotel.
Two days later after a successful resupply in Te Anau, the Tracknet shuttle left us at the junction of SH 94 and the Takitimu Track.
Tattiana and Arnaud, two young French trampers, caught up with us shortly before we reached the Aparima Hut. We had just finished dinner when the rain came. It didn't leave again for another three days. Sloshing through moss and soggy undergrowth, it truly felt like summer had abandoned us for good. The sound of cows mooing in the distance echoed through the trees like brontosaurus songs. It was the only noise we heard, apart from intermittent chirps, in the dark forests.
Tattiana and Arnaud doing their chores.
Rain turned to wet snow on the Telford Tops and back to rain when we finally descended into the Mt. Linton Station near Ohai. David from Taylor's Lodge took us into the old coal-mining town for dinner and rest. David and his wife Monica are part of the growing support system on the TA and couldn't have been more appreciated in this long stretch of empty trail.
With our flight home quickly approaching, Dad and I decided to skip the Woodlaw and Island Bush tracks, roughly one day on the trail, and head directly into the Longwood. Monica had friends who lived on the dirt road up to the track and phoned ahead.
Before leaving for New Zealand, we had been told how overwhelming hospitable kiwis could be. And every word of it was an understatement. I have never experienced such unconditional kindness as I have here. Take Chris and Murray, Monica's friends, for example. Shortly after Monica dropped us off, Dad and I helped Chris and her son tag sheep. Later, Dad and Murray went for a drive around his deer farm. We shared a delicious dinner with wine and went to warm, dry beds. If anything, Te Araroa has taught me true kindness and generosity.
Murray Gill and Blue dropped us off at the Longwood Forest trailhead.
The next morning, Murray drove us up a rutted 4×4 track to the trailhead. In two days we would reach Riverton – our second to last stop before Bluff.
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Pamela mccullough April 15, 2015
I read your stories with such awe. I cannot thank you enough for sharing. I would think you are filled with a mixture of emotions: excitement about finishing your challenge, gratitude, and perhaps even sadness as you know this epic adventure will be a life long memory. How fortunate you are to have shared it with your father. God bless! Pamela
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Friday, December 17. 2010
"I pleja lejens..."
The first time I was exposed to the Pledge was in kindergarten. I had no idea what the words meant.
As this piece at Reason tells it, it was a late 19th Century response to large waves of immigration.
It's not really about a flag. It's about "the Republic for which it stands." It's a way of testifying that you agree to the American social contract. In other words, "I agree to this deal."
Kids cannot know what that deal is. It's quite a serious deal, really, because it can cost you your life, plenty of your property, and some of your freedom. It's freely given, too, if you're old enough to give it. You can always move somewhere else. Tom Friedman can move to China.
I don't care whether Rousseau's social contract theory is valid or not; it's an essential concept anyway because it makes it clear that a conscious choice of citizenship is meaningful and important - even if secular and not sacred.
Posted by The News Junkie in Our Essays, Politics, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 19:10 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
Uh, that "Republic, for which it stands" is dead.
When was the last time you heard a pol talk about our "Republic"?
..or anyone else for that matter?
#1 Kevin on 2010-12-17 19:26 (Reply)
R.A.H. put it quite succinctly in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
"And they signed. Thereby pledging "Their lives, their fortunes, and their Sacred Honor", which is a price that others have paid."
That's from memory, so forgive me if I missed a few words of it, but the sentiment is the same still, in some quarters.
#2 jefferson101 on 2010-12-17 20:01 (Reply)
I changed the words I say years ago. Upon reflection pledging allegiance to a flag or even the Republic was not what I really owed. So I changed "flag" to "Constitution" and "to the Republic that is governs..." It also aligned it with my oath as an officer to support and defend the Constitution.
While unlikely, the flag and even the Republic could become unaligned with the Constitution, i.e., my pledge and oath do not permit my allegiance to some nation or government that discarded the Constitution regardless of the flag it flies.
In reply to [ Top level ]#1: Kevin on 2010-12-17 19:26 #2: jefferson101 on 2010-12-17 20:01 #3: JKB on 2010-12-18 21:33


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Chapter Forty-Eight: Dangerous Beast
Because of the records in the Chu imperial palace, he was certain that the methods in the ninth hall were what he needed. His cultivation experience in Celestial Seal Sect allowed him to be able to record the method of the statue, but there was not much time left for him. He did not attempt to ponder and understand the meaning of any of the seal scripts or pictures, or consider if he would be able to combine this method in the future. He just used his fastest speed to record the method of the ninth hall into the crystal in his hand.
The passage of time had no meaning to a cultivator like him who forgot himself in his cultivation. When he finished carving the last seal script, he took a deep breath, and then swallowed the white crystal. After doing all this, he calmly calculated the time, and then in the next moment, he used his fastest speed to pass through several formation barriers and entered the final twelfth hall.
The moment he entered the twelfth hall, a formation under the statue seemed to resonate with the key he had. Then there was a hoarse sound from the bottom of the enormous statue, and the entire statue slowly moved to the side.
In all of the records of the past, after the death of the invincible grand master, his disciples fought each other. One of them stole the heads of the twelve shamans, and fought his way out of the main gate of the ancestral hall.
But this was just something to conceal the truth. That person just killed all of the guardians of the ancestral hall, and faked traces of fleeing through the front door. In reality, his true escape path was below the twelfth hall.
Now, as the hidden formation activated, and the key to the formation arrived here, the hidden passage once again appeared. Accompanied by a wave of damp wind, Bai Shanshui and Li Yunrui's figures appeared in front of him.
The mist that blew from the river was ordinary to the world, but to this ancestral hall, it was a strange energy they had never been in contact with before. When the moisture blew across the statues and the surrounding walls, the colors of the statue quickly dimmed slightly, and cracks appeared on the black crystal-like walls, with small pieces falling off.
When Su Qin had swallowed the crystal, it had created some damage, so he was in slight discomfort. He coughed softly, and looked at Bai Shanshui who was examining the hall like no one was present. He said directly, "You have to give me some time. I need to go to the seventh hall first."
"Why?" Bai Shanshui looked with interest at the statue, her eyes filled with appreciation and shock. She did not look at Su Qin, and said with a hint of scorn, "I have given you what you want, this is not within our transaction."
"This concerns my life." Su Qin looked at Bai Shanshui, his expression not changing as he said coolly, "Zheng Xiu has such orders which I must complete. Otherwise, when I leave the ancestral hall, she will not allow me a safe return to the Chu capital. If I will undoubtedly die after leaving this place, there is no meaning in me helping you here. However, if you say that this is not within our transaction, I can make two copies of the method of the seventh hall. One copy to Zheng Xiu to save my life, one for you. This way, even if she can use some of the contents of the method, with Ba Mountain Sword Field's abilities, once you get the method, you will find a way to defeat it."
"The methods of the twelve shamans use yin energy to the extreme. It is a pity to destroy all of it." Hearing Su Qin say this, Bai Shanshui smiled. "According to you, we do not lose anything."
Su Qin's eyebrows rose. He did not hesitate in giving the formation key to Bai Shanshui and said at the same time, "After I leave, destroy the twelve shamans."
For Bai Shanshui, Su Qin was not a good person, but he was just a dangerous infant beast at most. Also, she knew very well that the life and death of her and Li Yunrui did not have much to do with Su Qin right now. For a person like Su Qin, they cared more about how to climb up, and how far in the future, so they would not do too much now. So she did not worry that Su Qin would do anything so she gave a faint smile. "Yes."
Su Qin looked deeply at Bai Shanshui and inexplicably smiled.
At this time, Bai Shanshui was as rebellious as usual, especially proud in front of him. He knew that right now, he and Bai Shanshui were like a wild wolf and a phoenix. But the more it was a woman like this, the more attractive she was in his eyes. Looking at the proud and stunning Bai Shanshui, what he thought of was that one day, he would have such a woman kneel in front of him. Then he would be satisfied with such a position.
Only a small portion of the Qin young talents had entered the halls, and these people were only in the first three halls. Even if they wanted to view the later halls, they were blocked off by the formation. These young talents did not even know what was happening outside. They thought this was the arrangement of the ancestral hall, so they just quietly comprehended the statue in front of them.
Su Qin, Bai Shanshui and Li Yunrui easily entered the seventh hall. In the empty seventh hall, the enormous statue seemed to be gray all over, and the cold star energy dyed their bodies a strange glowing grey color. On the surface of this statue, the cold star energy and yin energy were strangely merged, forming irregular energy crystals that were like frost.
"It seems that you are more dangerous than I thought." Bai Shanshui frowned and said, look at Su Qin.
The energy crystal which formed in the air and then quickly disappeared like frost seemed to be irregular, and they kept on forming seal scripts which she did not recognize. This statue did not seem to have any special pictures, but Su Qin clearly saw seal essence from the frost, and started to quickly record it on a white crystal.
"If you have changed your mind, you still have time to kill me now," Su Qin said.
Bai Shanshui did not respond, and frowned slightly. It was not that Su Qin's words discomforted her, but the Yin energy in the hall was too dense, causing her to feel a great pressure. With each breath, she had to use a lot of vital energy to fend off the invasion from the yin energy.
"Now, the Qi emperor should have noticed that something is wrong," Li Yunrui said softly,"I wonder what he is feeling right now."
His voice was low, but carried unspeakable pleasure. He was Chu, and had once been the most trusted death warrior of the Chu emperor. He naturally was a cultivator loyal to the Chu. For a person like the Qi emperor whose betrayal led to the Chu dynasty's collapse, he naturally held great hate.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
I think it is a marvelous way to keep directors' interests and shareholders interests as closely aligned as possible, with both an upside and a downside component. Too often, people talk about interests being aligned when the directors get the upside and shareholders get the downside.
The 3 percent overall federal tax rate I would pay -- if a Berkshire dividend were to be tax free -- seems a bit light.
The policies that we're following are likely to lead to a weaker dollar over a long period of years. It's not a forecast for next week, or next month or even next year.
You have to learn to understand your partner, to be tolerant, sympathetic, encouraging. Those are skills that are not bad to have in life.
Warren, isn't it fair to say that if we did have an opinion, we wouldn't tell him?
Berkshire's board has fully discussed each of the three CEO candidates and has unanimously agreed on the person who should succeed me if a replacement were needed today. The directors know now - and will always know in the future - exactly what they will do when the need arises.
I've never seen a system as good as Coke has now.
Right now, the rest of the world owns $3 trillion US more of us than we own of them.
Now it's $200 billion. If we don't change the course, the rest of the world could own $15 trillion of us. That's pretty substantial. That's equal to the value of all American stock.
Despite the lack of precedent, a negative coupon security seemed possible in the present interest rate environment ... I asked Goldman Sachs to create such an instrument and they responded promptly with the innovative security being announced today.
An educational approach to money and investing struck me as a very good idea. People do form behavior habits very young on matters of money. I get calls every day from people who are in a financial hole.
The burden of paying Helpers may cause American equity investors, overall, to earn only 80 percent or so of what they would earn if they just sat still and listened to no one.
You need an outstanding manager - you can define that in many ways... but you are looking for the best player out there. We are looking for the best player in this kind of business in the world.
Eddie is a very smart guy, but putting Kmart and Sears together is a tough hand.
It's better to hang out with people better than you, ... Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
If you have a new son or grandson in 2006, name him Tony.
I am a bull on sterling versus the U.S. dollar.
People always should know better. People don't get - they don't get smarter about things that get as basic as greed.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
There's nothing inappropriate about having debt in America. It's what helped us grow over time. And it's when debt gets out of control that you worry.
Confidence is key. You're not going to put your money - you're not going to leave your money with me unless you're confident I'm going to give it back to you.
You can't stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you're smarter than he is and he's doing these things and he's getting rich.
The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.
I have an 800 [freephone] number now that I call if I get the urge to buy an airline stock. I call at two in the morning and I say: "My name is Warren and I'm an aeroholic." And then they talk me down.
When people talk about cash being king, it's not king if it just sits there and never does anything.
Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.
I don't need 15 houses. Owning real estate doesn't mean much to me. I don't like to think about things like that. I don't need 12 boats, or even the world's largest boat with a crew of 80. I'd have to take care of them, to worry about them. I get a lot more fun out of life without all the bells and whistles.
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On 10 October 2016, Stationers' Crown Woods Academy were delighted to welcome Titus Johnson, Vice President of Thomas Cook, to the Academy. Titus, a former pupil, attended the school over 30 years ago but now lives in Washington DC with his family.
Titus spent time with Year 11 and Sixth Form students, delivering a talk on his experiences and career since leaving. He admitted he didn't achieve very many qualifications but never stopped learning and grasped every opportunity that came his way, eventually gaining a Masters Degree 10 years ago. Titus has spent most of his career working in the airline industry, and was involved in the launch and early years' development of London City Airport. He is now in charge of the North America and Caribbean markets of Thomas Cook and travels to many parts of the world as part of his job.
Titus was very impressed with the school environment and facilities. He couldn't believe the lunch menu choices and took a photo of the restaurant to email to his brother, living in Australia, who is also a former student. Titus felt that students were given lots of opportunities and was impressed by the students, who he said, were well led and managed and obviously enjoying their lessons. He had lots of advice for students – be resilient; maintain a positive outlook; be kind to yourself and others; and above all to develop communication skills – both verbal and written which he felt was the real key to success.


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Q: Having trouble getting discord bot to respond to commands I am struggling with a discord bot command that I've been working on recently. I am trying to use randint in order to roll for different outcomes but the number stays the same when i use the variable
x = (random.randint(1,100))

@bot.command()
async def eightball(ctx):
await ctx.send(x)
if x == 1:
    await ctx.send ("Thats very lucky!:8ball")
else:
    if x in range(11,98):
        await ctx.send ("Shame on you! The :8ball: says.")
    else:
        if x == 100:
            await ctx.send ("That also happens to be very fortunate :8ball:")
        else:
            if x in range(2, 10):
                await ctx.send ("Closer and closer! the :8ball: gets!")
            else:
                if x == 99:
                    await ctx.send ("Oof, :8ball:")
                else:
                    if x == 1:
                        await ctx.send ("Wow, The :8ball: Is Impressed")`

A: You need to have your x be inside the command. In your code, you are only randomly generating x once. You need to do it everytime someone uses the command.
@bot.command()
async def eightball(ctx):
    x = random.randint(1,100)

    if x == 1:
        msg = "Thats very lucky! :8ball:"
    elif x in range(2, 10):
        msg = "Closer and closer! the :8ball: gets!"
    elif x in range(11, 98):
        msg = "Shame on you! The :8ball: says."
    elif x == 99:
        msg = "Oof, :8ball:"
    elif x == 100:
        msg = "That also happens to be very fortunate :8ball:"
    else:
        # can add else here if you wanted to
        # but we can't geenerated a number that ends up here so pointless
        # leaving for demo purposes
        pass
    await ctx.send(msg)

I've also simplified your logic a bit - rather than lots of indented if/else statements, we can use if/elif to check other conditions if the first one is true. This makes your code a bit neater and allows adding other conditions a lot easier. I've also ordered the statements in numerical order - makes it easier to read and parse the logic a bit better. Here's a tutorial on conditonal statements (if/else/elif). Here's another on "scope". The latter might help understand your x problem.
Could also use pattern matching but that's relatively new so best to stick to if/elif/else for now.

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To reignite the joy of childhood, learn to live on 'toddler time'
By Rhitu Chatterjee
Islenia Milien for NPR
Almost as soon as our son was born, we got these words of advice from friends and family with older kids. 'Try and enjoy every minute of it, because the days might feel long but the years will go by quickly.'
I took the advice to heart. I was in my 40s when I became a mom — time already felt precious. My pregnancy hadn't been easy. Serious complications in the third trimester had forced my son into the world six weeks before his due date. So, by the time we brought our tiny 4 pound 9 ounce preemie home, I was determined to enjoy every minute with him.
I wanted to remember each precious detail — his scent, the little animal sounds he made in the early weeks, the first time he rolled over and all the other early milestones. I hoped that by laying down these memories, I could slow down our time together, so the years wouldn't fly by quickly.
Thinking back, I did succeed somewhat, but only for brief moments.
For example, when he flashed his first voluntary smile at my husband and me, it felt as if the seconds expanded into minutes. I had the same experience the day he turned 2 months old, when we bathed him, weighed him, and heaved a collective sigh of relief because he was no longer the skin-and-bones-preemie, but a healthy, chubby baby. Then there was the time he first army-crawled, elbow by elbow, out of his nursery, months before he learned to do the real crawl.
And yet, now that he's nearly 3 years old, I look back and wonder: How did those months and years go by so quickly? How is my baby already a walking, talking, tantruming toddler, who tells stories and jokes? And on the days that he says things like "leave me alone," or "give me space," I can't help missing my sweet, cuddly baby.
The science behind sweet, in-the-moment 'baby-time'
Is there a scientific explanation, I wondered, for this shared experience of in-the-moment baby-time? And why is it that even when we parents do manage to make time slow down in the moment, the years still go by so fast?
It turns out, researchers say, it's because our brain's perception of time is fluid — determined by the kinds of experiences we have and how we experience things in the moment.
"We don't have a single perception of time," says Peter Tse, a neuroscientist at Dartmouth College. "We have a perception of time in the moment — perceptual time, you might call that. And then you have how you regard time by looking through your memories."
To make a lasting memory, pay attention
The brain perceives time based on how much information it is processing at any given moment, he adds, which in turn depends on how much attention we're paying to what we're doing and what's happening around us.
"If you're paying attention, you're actually processing more units of information per unit of objective time," says Tse. And that makes time feel subjectively longer.
This can happen when we are in a new place, absorbing all the little details around us. It can also happen when we're having an emotionally charged experience.
"So, if you're driving and you're skidding and about to hit the back of a car," he explains, "it seems to go in slow motion because suddenly your brain's processing tons of information and you're fully attentive."
The same applies to the pleasant, emotionally-engaging moments we share with our kids.
On a recent morning, while walking my son to his daycare, I noticed that the grass on the sidewalk and the field across the street were covered with the first frost of the winter.
I was so excited to show this to my son, that I forgot we were running late. We stopped so he could touch and feel the thin silvery layer of ice crystals on the grass and dried leaves beneath our feet. It was his first time encountering frost and he was awe-struck.
I don't remember how long we stood there as he picked up leaf after leaf, gently touching the frost with his fingers, watching it melt, asking questions. But I do remember that, for me, everything else zoomed out, and I felt as though time stood still.
"In these sorts of two-way interactions that we have with our children, they are very all-encompassing for us," says psychologist Ruth Ogden at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. "They are joyful moments — something that you treasure forever. And that means that when you're in them, you're not thinking about anything else."
So our brains are able to process a lot of information in those moments, making new memories. Even now, when I think back to that morning, I can clearly remember the tiny icy needles on individual leaves of grass, the tip of my son's index finger as the frost melted back into dew drops, and the awe in his eyes as he learned something new about the world around him.
But if parenting is full of these beautiful memory-making moments, why then, do our kids' childhoods seem to go by so quickly in retrospect?
That has to do with the less fun part of parenting, explains Ogden.
Mix up your routine
"Parenting is full of routine, it's full of organization. It's full of – for want of a better word — monotony."
Consider the routine of caring for a newborn. "You spend a lot of time in the house, you spend a lot of time trying to get them to go to sleep at the same time," she explains.
It's tedious, boring work that makes us parents operate in auto-pilot mode, because we've done it a hundred times before.
It's the type of work that doesn't make new memories, says Tse.
Even if we were to be attentive and present during every diaper change, he explains, our brains wouldn't file away a new memory for each diaper change, or every walk to the daycare, because it's not processing them as new events.
"In retrospect, they just seem to have either not happened or they get squished together with all the other similar events," he says. "So your sense of time retrospectively is compressed."
But there's a way to counter this, says Ogden, by focusing less on routines, and more on creating those "beautiful, incidental moments" with our children.
She herself has been trying to incorporate new and different activities with her kids.
"The more you break the day out with different activities or different things to do," she says, "then the more chance you've got of making these nice memories — the things that you're going to remember, the things that are going to help to stretch out your retrospective feelings on how the years passed."
As I think more about these past few years with our son, I realize that last year — 2022 — seemed to have lasted longer than the two years prior. And that's probably because we purposely broke away from some of our routines with him to have new experiences, and make new memories as a family.
We traveled more with him across the United States, as well as to India — our first time taking him to meet my family. My father, who lives in India, visited us for an extended period of time. So he could finally bond with this grandson and share in the joys of walking him to daycare and back. We went camping in Maryland over the summer — with my 79-year-old-father and our 2-year-old — an adventure we will remember for the rest of our lives.
And as I write down these precious memories, I also realize that it may be just as important to actively recall and share them with our son as he grows up and the years go by. Perhaps that's another way to slow down time — and remind us all that childhood doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.
This story is part of our periodic science series "Finding Time — a journey through the fourth dimension to learn what makes us tick."
Rhitu Chatterjee
Rhitu Chatterjee is a health correspondent with NPR, with a focus on mental health. In addition to writing about the latest developments in psychology and psychiatry, she reports on the prevalence of different mental illnesses and new developments in treatments.
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Destiny 2 microtransactions "allow us to fund creative efforts" like the Zero Hour mission
Destiny 2 is in line for a substantial reboot later this year on the Shadowkeep release date, and it'll be our first chance to see what Bungie has in mind now that it's taken the series independent. The ever-controversial Eververse store will still be a part of it, but exactly how much does a studio like Bungie rely on microtransactions for funding?
"As some folks have smartly pointed out, MTX is a big part of our business being a live game," director Luke Smith says in a lengthy breakdown of the state of Destiny 2. "I'm not going to say 'MTX funds the studio' or 'pays for projects like Shadowkeep' – it doesn't wholly fund either of those things. But it does help fund ongoing development of Destiny 2, and allows us to fund creative efforts we otherwise couldn't afford.
"For example: Whisper of the Worm's ornaments were successful enough that it paid [dev cost-wise] for the Zero Hour mission/rewards to be constructed (this shit matters!)."
Rob Adams, creative lead on both the Whisper and Zero Hour, told Game Informer earlier this year that Zero Hour was in development for about seven months, compared to four months for the Whisper, which also had a smaller development team.
It's not quite a one-to-one path of 'Whisper ornaments made this much money, so that pays for three months more development time,' but it does suggest that the scope of these projects can expand as a direct result of successful monetization.
Dustin Bailey Senior news writer
As an American, Dustin enjoys being asked to write about football and cockney rhyming slang. Besides PC gaming, he's a keen anime and wrestling fan.
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Just yesterday I was nearing the trailhead on one of my favorite training routes. As I rounded a curve there were three people standing over a guy on the ground. He was sitting and rubbing the top of his head. "I'm a good rider. This has never happened before." He was almost in tears, probably in pain as the police officer approached with the first aid bag. It looked like he didn't make the turn, caught his front wheel in the dirt, and flipped into a utility pole, head first.
He wasn't wearing a helmet. If you are reading this, you probably don't need an admonition to wear your helmet. There are many others who need to be aware of the risks of riding without one. This isn't the first time I've seen a person with a head injury as the result of failing to use a helmet on the trail.
There are too many riders who think that this kind of mishap is a long shot and they are willing to take the risk. I see all kinds of people in very fashionable head gear: colorful knit caps, baseball caps, and sweat bands. On most days my riding clothes don't even match, but at least I have my helmet.
Caution is needed to avoid interpreting this data in too much detail. First of all, it is a database of voluntarily submitted ride data. That means that it may not be representative of touring cyclists at large. Second, it seems to be skewed toward very long rides of a thousand miles or more, which may indicate that people who accomplish them feel that they are worth sharing. In contrast, someone who completes a 300 mile tour may not feel that it was enough of an achievement to share.
There are a number of interesting things about the data nevertheless. The age of the riders is reasonably evenly distributed between the ages of eighteen and sixty five. Under seventeen and over sixty five, the numbers fall off dramatically. The under seventeen people are probably less likely to travel on their own because they are still dependent on their parents. Over sixty five people may be reaching the age when they can no longer perform at the level necessary for a sustained tour. It may also mean that the people less than sixty five with a zeal for bicycle touring have not yet aged into the over sixty five group. In our society people are more able to remain active to a later age and the drop-off at 65 may change with time. Since I'm 69 years old myself, I'm hoping that my cycling career isn't ending anytime soon.
69% of the registered tours had one or two participants. 38% had just one person on the tour. That aligns with my personal experience on the trail. People travel in pairs or alone because it is difficult to find people who have a similar interest in bicycle touring and have the same physical abilities. You would think that large group rides would swamp those numbers, but less than 20% of the registered rides are organized, commercial rides that would have many more riders.
As a person who prefers tours that are one to two weeks in duration, I was surprised to see the large number of registered tours that far exceed two weeks. 51% of the tours had durations from 31 to 100 days. 41% were in my range of from two to thirty days. The remainder was almost evenly split along the edges. That correlates well with the tour distances: 59% in the 1001 to 5000 mile range and 39% from 101 to 1000 miles.
Gear weight was reported to fall within the range of 21 to 75 pounds 77% of the time. Another way to look at the data is that gear weight falls into the moderate range of 31 to 50 pounds 44% of the time, while light loads of one to thirty pounds were carried 30% of the time and heavy loads of over 51 pounds 25% of the time. This of course means that travelling for longer periods of time doesn't translate to the need to carry more gear.
The flat tire data seems to indicate that 32% of the tours experienced no flat tires based on the assumption that I correctly inferred the number of rides recorded in the registry. Of the 68% of the tours reporting flats, 43% were in the range of one to three flats and 57% of the tours reported four or more flats suggesting a correlation with trip duration. That means that you can expect to have a flat if you ride a tour of any appreciable duration.
There is no action that I would take and there is nothing that I would do differently based on this data. The interesting thing for me is that it supports my thinking on these topics except for one thing: I don't understand how so many people have the ability to take off on a bicycle tour for one to three months. I'm jealous.
This year the tour started on 20 September in Arlington, VA, and ended on 26 September in Pittsburgh, PA. I was impressed with the experienced director, mechanic, and staff from Adventure Cycling Association who made the ride interesting and a lot of fun. You can read more about the tour and my impressions of touring with ACA.


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Mannix season 2 (1968)
Mannix was completely reinvented for its 1968 second season. In season one Joe Mannix works for a huge high-tech detective agency that relies heavily on computers. Mannix is a loner by nature but working for Intertect means he's basically just an employee and is expected to be a team player. It's a clever setup with Mannix never being entirely happy at Intertect while at the same time he has to admit that having vast resources on which to rely can be very useful.
The Intertect stuff was dropped for the second season and Mannix became more or less a conventional private eye series, with Joe working as a lone wolf (apart from his faithful secretary Peggy). A conventional private eye series certainly, but it has to be said that it was also a very good one.
Some fans of the series prefer the more innovative feel of the first season whilst others prefer the straightforward smooth professionalism of the later seasons. I tend to fall into the former camp but I have to admit that season two is very very good.
One thing that was carried through from the first season was the pacing which was considerably faster than most 60s crime series.
Mike Connors is once again terrific. I do miss his verbal sparring with Joseph Campanella which was a highlight of the first season.
Once again Mannix is a private eye who gets himself into a lot of trouble. It's not a real Mannix episode unless Joe gets himself beaten up or shot. In some episodes he beaten up and shot. I wouldn't say that Mannix is more violent than earlier private eye series (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer back in the late 50s was incredibly violent) but it was unusual in the 60s to see the private eye hero on the receiving end so often.
The Silent Cry is a kidnapping story. There was a witness to the kidnapping. Or at least a witness to a telephone call in which the kidnapers discussed their plan. The only problem is that the witness is deaf. To the police it seems hopeless but Mannix is convinced that the deaf woman can provide the information to crack the case. A great episode with which to start the second season.
Comes Up Rose is also pretty good. An ex-cop hires Mannix to find his wife, who is an ex-prostitute. It could be that the ex-cop is really the one in trouble.
In To the Swiftest, Death Mannix takes up car racing. A fellow competitor is killed in a race. His wife thinks it was actually murder. A cleverly plotted episode.
A Copy of Murder takes Mannix to a small town in California. An author who was writing a book on a celebrated murder case has been murdered. Mannix has to find out who killed the writer but more importantly he also has to find the missing last chapter of the book which is almost certainly the key to both murders. A very good episode.
Edge of the Knife is an attempt to do a kidnaping story with an original twist and while it's a bit far-fetched it's an intriguing concept.
In Who Will Dig the Graves? a reclusive tycoon wants Mannix to find his wife who might be dead but then maybe she isn't. As so often Mannix finds that he hasn't been told the full story and finding out what is really going on might well be a matter of life or death. A reasonable episode.
In The Need of a Friend Mannix has to make amends for a serious mistake he made several years earlier. He was responsible for sending an innocent man to prison. Mannix wants to right the wrong but that's going to be a challenge. The man doesn't want help and maybe he's decided to right that wrong in his own way. Not one of the better episodes of this season.
Night Out of Time presents Mannix with a client who has no memory of anything that happened the night before, and during that night he may have committed a murder. Mannix has to be both psychologist and investigator. A good episode.
A View of Nowhere is a view of a murder. Mannix sees the murder from a helicopter but it seems that no-one was actually murdered. Mannix isn't buying that. An intricate plot that comes together quite nicely.
In Fear I To Fall Mannix gives evidence that is sufficiently damning to ensure a man's conviction but he's not at all sure the man was really guilty. It's another story in which Mannix relies mostly on a sheer bloody-minded refusal to admit defeat rather than any particular brilliance as a detective. But perseverance can be more important than brilliance.
Deathrun is great stuff. Mannix tries to help an old buddy who works as a fire ranger and spends most of his time in a remote fire lookout tower. His wife is concerned, but maybe she isn't his wife. The sheriff is not happy about Mannix's presence but why is he quite so hostile? Mannix is more than a little confused but he can't back out of this case now.
In A Pittance of Faith Mannix is hired to investigate the accidental death of a woman. He is hired in odd circumstances and then fired in even odder circumstances. But now he's convinced there is really something to investigate. Some nice plot twists here.
In Only Giants Can Play Mannix is drawn into what might be a genuine or a manufactured political scandal or a case of blackmail or something else entirely. A fine episode.
Shadow of a Man is one of several episodes in which Mannix's Korean War service plays an important plot role. A man tries to shoot Mannix but then claims to have no memory of having done so. Mannix is inclined to believe him but he has a strong feeling there's something here worth looking into. The key to the puzzle lies in the past, in events that took place during the Korean War. A very good episode.
The Girl Who Came in with the Tide starts with Mannix being asked to identify the body of a young woman. She might have been the woman he'd been hired to find. She isn't that woman but he does recognise her. It was an accidental death but something bothers Mannix. This girl had too many connections with too many suspicious people and suspicious events. It's a convoluted but gripping tale. Excellent stuff.
Death in a Minor Key is a rare misfire. Peggy is dating a jazz musician whose past has now caught up with him. Mannix has to go to a small southern town to find the key to unravel an old mystery. Too much preachiness, and too much obviousness.
End Game is another episode in which Mannix's service in the Korean Way plays a major role. One of the men with whom he served is playing a deadly and perverse game of murder and Mannix has to play as well, whether he likes it or not. And one false move will mean death. Exciting stuff.
All Around the Money Tree is a lighthearted romp of an episode. It all starts when Roger Bart appears at Mannix's window to tell him he's locked a man in the closet in his office and would Mannix kindly release him. Bart then disappears. And it seems that just about everybody wants to find him. It's something to do with a very big robbery in England. There are double-crosses piled upon double-crosses piled upon more double-crosses. It's all great fun.
Odds Against Donald Jordan starts as a missing persons case. His sister hires Mannix to find him. It seems that someone is definitely out to get Donald Jordan. It could his wife, his sister or his business partner - they're all lying about something. And Donald Jordan is lying as well. There are lots of red herrings and the ending is pleasingly unexpected. Good stuff.
Last Rites for Miss Emma puts Peggy at centre stage when she falls for a guy who was shot during a robbery. Mannix is investigating the robbery for an insurance company and Peggy's loyalties are about to be tested. An OK episode.
The Solid Gold Web is the story of a spoilt rich girl who meets a good-looking hoodlum and falls in love with him, as spoilt rich girls are wont to do. Then she finds out that he's not a nice guy. And then the hood dies, when he's hit by her car. So she cracks up. Her rich daddy wants Mannix to sort her out. No-one knows that she killed the hood so Mannix's job is to find out why she's cracked up. The resolution is pretty predictable but it's well-executed and the beach scene is very well done. Not a great episode.
Merry Go Round for Murder starts with Joe being offered a lot of money to protect a guy named Frank Devereaux for one night. Devereaux has a briefcase with him, containing a quarter of a million in cash which he swears is clean money. Joe is about to turn down the job when a couple of hoods try to kill Devereaux and snatch the money and in the process they kill Pete Neal, who works for the same casino at Vegas that Devereaux works at. Now Mannix is interested. There are lots more plot twists to come in this excellent episode.
To Catch a Rabbit opens with a burglary that leaves a man dead. But the police don't know about the burglary. They write it off as an accidental death. The man's wife hires Mannix to prove it was a murder. He finds the evidence for the burglary but the trouble is that he's still not convinced he knows the whole story. Meanwhile a Mexican named Carlos is charged with the murder. This is a somewhat disappointing end to the season - an overly preachy episode with plot subordinated to the social message.
Mannix is fast-paced and stylish and very polished. It has plenty of action and excitement and glamour, and lots of beautiful women. There's the occasional dash of humour. Production values are high and there's quite a bit of location shooting. It has a very likeable charismatic star. It has that terrific opening credits sequence with that great Lalo Schifrin theme tune. On the whole it's a fairly serious private eye series but it's serious without being grim or cynical and the emphasis is on entertainment. And it has something else that puts it ahead of the pack - extremely good scripts. I'm not sure what else you could ask for in a private eye series. It isn't deep or profound but as straightforward action-adventure television it's pretty close to perfect.
I'm not suggesting it's the best American P.I. series ever made but it has to be in the top five (along with the late 50s Mike Hammer, The Rockford Files, Magnum, P.I. and I have no idea what the fifth one would be).
It's easily obtainable on DVD and the transfers are pretty good. Mannix season two is very highly recommended. Aldo check out my season one and season three reviews.
Labels: 1960s, american tv, crime series, private eyes
Marty McKee 5 July 2019 at 07:41
Fifth one would be Harry O.
dfordoom 5 July 2019 at 18:40
Coincidentally I just bought season one of Harry O on DVD. I've only watched a couple of episodes so far but you may well be right!
Knight Rider season 2 (1983)
Hawaii Five-O season 2 (1969-70)
Johnny Staccato (1959) revisited