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Thoughts on the Summer Solstice – and Video of The Four Fathers' Set for the Virtual Stonehenge Free Festival
A lonely Stonehenge on the summer solstice 2020, and The Four Fathers playing a solstice set for the Virtual Stonehenge Free Festival.
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Normally, for the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, I write an article about Stonehenge, the ancient temple aligned on the solstices, discussing its long and contested history, and the crowds who have gathered there to celebrate the solstice sunrise. If this is of interest, then please feel free to check out my articles from 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
My fascination with Stonehenge dates back 37 years, to when I was a student and visited the Stonehenge Free Festival, in 1983, and subsequently in 1984 — visits that not only awakened in me an interest in ancient sacred sites, but also showed me the reality of an alternative lifestyle outside of the prevailing model of nuclear families in Margaret Thatcher's Britain.
The festival, which had started in 1974, had grown to become a huge autonomous gathering that occupied the fields opposite Stonehenge for the whole of the month of June — and which has been accurately described as "a working exercise in collective anarchy" — until its violent suppression in 1985, when a convoy of travellers making their way to Stonehenge to set up what would have been the 12th festival were ambushed by 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD, and were then violently "decommissioned", in one of the most shocking episodes of state brutality against unarmed men, women and children in modern British history, which has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield.
Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
It's 35 Years Since the Battle of the Beanfield; Where Do We Go Now?
Police swarming around the last bus to be violently "decommissioned" at the Battle of Beanfield, on June 1, 1985.
Today is the 35th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield; actually, a one-sided rout of heartbreaking brutality in a field in Wiltshire, when 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently "decommissioned" a convoy of 400 travellers trying to get to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival, a huge autonomous settlement, numbering tens of thousands of people, that occupied the fields by Stonehenge for the whole of the month of June, and that had become a target for violent suppression by Margaret Thatcher.
My book The Battle of the Beanfield, published to mark the 20th anniversary of the Battle of the Beanfield, is still in print, so please feel free to order a copy. Also available: Stonehenge: Celebration & Subversion, my counter-cultural history of Stonehenge.
Thatcher had spent 1984 crushing one group of citizens described as the "enemy within" — the miners — while also paving the way for the next "enemy within" to be crushed — the travellers, anarchists and environmental and anti-nuclear activists who made up the convoy attempting to get to Stonehenge when they were ambushed, and then crushed after they sought refuge in a bean field off the A303.
Elements of the convoy had been violently set upon by police in the summer of 1984, at Nostell Priory in Yorkshire, and in February 1985, activists and travellers who had established a settlement at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire (the second proposed site for cruise missiles after Greenham Common in Berkshire, the site of the famous women's peace camp) were evicted by the largest peacetime mobilisation of troops in modern British history, symbolically led by Thatcher's right-hand man and defence secretary, Michael Heseltine.
Coronavirus, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
Change the World! A Life in Activism: I Discuss Stonehenge, the Beanfield, Guantánamo and Environmental Protest with Alan Dearling
Andy Worthington calling for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay outside the White House, singing and playing guitar, and challenging the police and bailiffs on the day of the eviction of the Old Tidemill Wildlife Garden in Deptford.
At the start of the year, I was delighted to be asked by an old friend and colleague, Alan Dearling, the publisher of my second book, The Battle of the Beanfield, if I'd like to be interviewed about my history of activism for two publications he's involved with — the music and counter-culture magazine Gonzo Weekly and International Times, the online revival of the famous counter-cultural magazine of the '60s and '70s.
In February, after my time- and attention-consuming annual visit to the US to call for the closure of the prison at Guantánamo Bay on the anniversary of its opening, I found the time to give Alan's questions the attention they deserved, and the interview was finally published on the International Times website on March 21, just two days before the coronavirus lockdown began, changing all our lives, possibly forever. Last week, it was also published in Gonzo Weekly (#387/8, pp. 73-84), and I'm pleased to now be making it available to readers here on my website.
In a wide-ranging interview, Alan asked me about my involvement with the British counter-culture in the '80s and '90s, which eventually led to me writing my first two books, Stonehenge: Celebration & Subversion, and, as noted above, The Battle of the Beanfield. my work on behalf of the prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, which has dominated much of my life for the last 14 years, and my more recent work as a housing activist — with a brief mention also of my photo-journalism project, 'The State of London', and my music with The Four Fathers.
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"First They Came for the Travellers": Priti Patel's Chilling Attack on Britain's Travelling Communities
A composite image of the home secretary Priti Patel and a Gypsy caravan.
I've chosen my headline with care, in response to the news that the home secretary, Priti Patel, has launched a horrible attack on Britain's travelling community, suggesting that the police should be able to immediately confiscate the vehicle of "anyone whom they suspect to be trespassing on land with the purpose of residing on it", and announcing her intention to "test the appetite to go further" than any previous proposals for dealing with Gypsies and travellers.
As George Monbiot explained in an article for the Guardian on Wednesday, "Until successive Conservative governments began working on it, trespass was a civil and trivial matter. Now it is treated as a crime so serious that on mere suspicion you can lose your home." Monbiot added, "The government's proposal, criminalising the use of any place without planning permission for Roma and Travellers to stop, would extinguish the travelling life."
"First they came for the travellers" alludes to the famous poem by the German pastor Martin Niemöller with reference to the Nazis, which begins, "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a socialist", and continues with reference to trade unionists and Jews, and ending, "Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me."
Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK housing crisis, UK politics
The Significance of the High Court Ruling That the Police's London-Wide Ban on Extinction Rebellion Was "Unlawful"
Metropolitan Police officers and the Extinction Rebellion camp at Trafalgar Square, October 11, 2019 (Photo: Andy Worthington).
The news cycle seems so frenetic right now that stories barely get noticed before the media spotlight promiscuously turns to some other topic. A case in point, to my mind, is an important High Court ruling last week — that a decision taken by the Metropolitan Police last month, to impose a blanket ban across the whole of London prohibiting any assembly of more than two people linked to Extinction Rebellion's 'Autumn Uprising', under section 14 of the Public Order Act of 1986, was "unlawful."
The two High Court judges who issued the ruling — Mr. Justice Dingemans and Mr. Justice Chamberlain — said, as the Guardian described it, that "the Met had been wrong to define Extinction Rebellion's two-week long 'autumn uprising' as a single public assembly on which it could impose the order."
As Mr. Justice Dingemans stated in the ruling, "Separate gatherings, separated both in time and by many miles, even if coordinated under the umbrella of one body, are not a public assembly under the meaning of section 14(1) of the 1986 act." He added, "The XR autumn uprising intended to be held from 14 to 19 October was not therefore a public assembly … therefore the decision to impose the condition was unlawful because there was no power to impose it."
Environmental crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
This Summer Solstice, The Party's Over; Now It's Time to Save the Planet
The summer solstice 2019 at Stonehenge (Photo: Hannah McKay/Reuters).
Today is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and at Stonehenge, the astonishing Bronze Age temple on the downs in Wiltshire, around 10,000 people gathered to watch the solstice sun rise through the heart of the temple, on one of the relatively rare years that the dawn sky was clear. It's a contemporary celebration of the cycle of the seasons, but it also ties us to our mysterious ancestors, 4,000 years ago, who spent untold years transporting and shaping the vast sarsen stones that make up the temple's epic bulk, so that it aligned with the rising sun on this particularly significant day.
People seem to have been drawn to Stonehenge for the summer solstice for centuries, although many archaeologists have a different take on the monument's purpose, suggesting that it was not built to celebrate the summer solstice, but to celebrate the other end of this cosmic axis: the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, when, as the archeologist Aubrey Burl has suggested, our distant ancestors — whose lives, to quote Thomas Hobbes, were "nasty, brutish and short" — sought to reassure themselves that life would return from the dead world of winter.
Burl may be right, and much of the archaeological record supports his Hobbesian analogy. Life was indeed hard and short, but the romanticised view of our ancestors celebrating the summer solstice — rather than undertaking the building of stone circles and other extraordinary monuments to seek reassurance, in the depths of winter, that life would return to a dead world — has a powerful resonance for anyone who lived through, or has been influenced by the counter-cultural movements of the western world in the decades following the Second World War, and, in particular, the 1960s and 70s.
Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Environmental crisis, Extinction Rebellion, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
Video: The Battle of the Beanfield, Free Festivals and Traveller History with Andy Worthington on Bristol Community Radio
Last week I was in Bristol for a screening of 'Concrete Soldiers UK', the new documentary film about the cynical destruction of council estates, and residents' brave resistance to the destruction of their homes, which I narrate. The screening was at the People's Republic of Stoke Croft, a pioneering community space in a once-neglected area of Bristol that has now started to be devoured by the insatiable profiteers of the "regeneration" industry. My article about the screening is here, and a brief report about the screening is here, and while I was there I was also interviewed by Tony Gosling for Bristol Community Radio, which is based in the PRSC complex.
Tony and I have known each other for many years, through a shared interest in Britain's counter-culture, and it was great to take part in his politics show for the station as the author of two very relevant books, Stonehenge: Celebration & Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. Although we discussed the film, that interview has not yet been broadcast, because Tony's primary focus was on discussing the traveller community of the 1970s and 80s, the free festival scene, focused particularly on Stonehenge and Glastonbury, and the Battle of the Beanfield, on June 1, 1985, when, with Margaret Thatcher's blessing, 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD violently decommissioned the convoy of vehicles — containing men, women and children — that was en route to Stonehenge to establish what would have been the 12th annual Stonehenge Free Festival.
To discuss the above, Tony had also contacted Sean, a veteran traveller, who still lives in a vehicle, and still upholds the DiY values of that time. We had a wonderful discussion over 40 minutes, which Tony has put on YouTube, illustrated with traveller photos by Alan Lodge, and which I've cross-posted below. Read the rest of this entry »
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Thoughts on Stonehenge and the Summer Solstice 2018: Has the Dominant Materialism Killed Some Magic in the World?
So the sun shone this morning, and it looked like a lovely sunrise at Stonehenge on the summer solstice. According to the BBC, however, the number of attendees was just 9,500, considerably less than in some years since Managed Open Access to the great temple on Salisbury Plain was reintroduced in 2000, after 16 years in which access to Stonehenge on the summer solstice was prevented through the existence of a military-style exclusion zone.
In part, this was due to the solstice dawn taking place on a Thursday morning. Attendee numbers are highest when it falls on a weekend, but other factors may also have been involved. It now costs £15 to park a vehicle for the solstice — "£15 per car, live-in vehicle and non-commercial minibus (up to 19 seats)", as English Heritage describe it — and security has been ramped up in the last two years, primarily, it seems, because of the government's delight in keeping us in a perpetual state of fear — and racist fear, to boot — by pretending that every aspect of our lives is subject to a potential terrorist threat, even the summer solstice at Stonehenge.
"As with last year's event", the BBC explained, "Wiltshire Police confirmed it had stepped up security with armed police on patrol." Yes, that's right. Armed police at Stonehenge. What a horrible and unnecessary policy. Supt. Dave Minty, Wiltshire Police's overnight commander, conceding that there had been no trouble at all, and that "behaviour at the stones was 'brilliant', with no arrests made", nevertheless said of the security situation, "People seem to have adapted really well to the heightened level of security and they've been really patient with it." Read the rest of this entry »
Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
It's 33 Years Since the Battle of the Beanfield: Is It Now Ancient History, in a UK Obsessed with Housing Exploitation and Nationalist Isolation?
Please also note that my books The Battle of the Beanfield and Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion, dealing with the topics discussed in this article, are still in print and available to buy from me. And please also feel free to check out the music of my band The Four Fathers.
For anyone attuned to the currents of modern British history, today, June 1, has a baleful resonance.
33 years ago, on June 1, 1985, the full weight of the state — Margaret Thatcher's state — descended on a convoy of vehicles in a field in Wiltshire, in a one-sided confrontation in which around 420 travellers — New Age travellers, as they were sometimes referred to at the time — were attacked with serious and almost entirely unprovoked violence by 1,400 police from six counties and the MoD, armed with truncheons and riot shields.
The violence that took place that day was witnessed by few media outlets, most of which had been told to stay away, as the state prepared to deal with the latest "enemy within," so designated by Margaret Thatcher, drunk on power, who, over the previous year, had dealt a crippling blow to Britain's mining industry, and was now sending her paramilitarised police force out to Wiltshire to do the same to a small group of anarchists, self-styled modern gypsies, green activists and peace protestors.
The state's excuse for the violence of June 1, 1985 was that the convoy was travelling to Stonehenge to set up what would have been the 12th free festival in the fields opposite the ancient sun temple, and had ignored an injunction preventing them from doing so. Read the rest of this entry »
Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Brexit disaster, Stonehenge and civil liberties, UK politics
Summer Solstice 2017: Reflections on Free Festivals and the Pagan Year 33 Years After the Last Stonehenge Festival
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Back in 1983, as a 20-year old student, I had a life-changing experience when a friend of mine initiated a visit to the Stonehenge Free Festival, an anarchic experiment in leaderless living that occupied the fields opposite Stonehenge for the whole of June every year. The festival had grown from a small occupation in 1974, and by 1984 (when I visited again) became a monster — one with a darkness that reflected the darkness that gripped the whole of the UK that year, as Margaret Thatcher crushed the miners and, metaphorically, razed the country to the ground like a medieval conqueror.
I remember the 1983 festival with a great fondness — the elven people selling magic mushrooms from a barrel for next to nothing, the wailing of acid rock bands, the festivals' thoroughfares, like ancient tracks of baked earth, where the cries of "acid, speed, hot knives" rang though the sultry air. Off the beaten track, travellers set up impromptu cafes beside their colourfully-painted trucks and coaches, unaware that, just two years later, on June 1, 1985, some of those same vehicles would be violently decommissioned at the Battle of the Beanfield, when Thatcher, following her destruction of Britain's mining industry, set about destroying Britain's traveller community, which, during her tenure as Prime Minister, had grown as unemployment mushroomed, and life on the road seemed to provide an appealing alternative.
A festival circuit, running from May to October, had grown up with this new movement, with Stonehenge at its centre. Michael Eavis's Glastonbury Festival was also connected to it, as were numerous smaller festivals, as well as other events focused on environmental protest, especially against nuclear weapons and nuclear power. The travellers' most prominent manifestation, the Peace Convoy, had visited Greenham Common, site of the famous women's peace camp opposed to the establishment of US-owned and -controlled cruise missiles, in 1982, and in the summer of 1984 established a second peace camp at Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, the intended second cruise missile base after Greenham Common. Read the rest of this entry »


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To my knowledge, the T.S. Eliot prize shortlist has never included someone in Eliot's own circumstances — that is, an American-born poet living in the UK. Yet there are many of us out here, and many worth knowing more about.
I have therefore complied a list of Five Expat Poets to Watch in 2016.
Seek them out, enjoy their work, and raise a cup of tea to the special (poetic) relationship.


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" Western culture remains the dominant culture in Australian society.
Its worldview has shaped Australian society and is constantly in conflict with the cultural identity and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including that of women.
Recently, Australian Indigenous leaders have set out a blueprint for action in the Redfern Statement.
This blueprint acknowledges that Aboriginal people have provided viable, holistic solutions.
Without a change in leadership attitudes, governance and administration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women will continue to be disadvantaged, and their health will continue to suffer.
It is high time that Australian policymaking recognized the above issues and acted with integrity on the deficits because we will not have equality until Australia recognizes the impact of the political determinants of health as identified throughout this paper.
Australia will never be a whole, functioning society until institutionalised oppression ceases. "
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The role of government policy is to support its citizenry to thrive. By this measure, Australian policy is failing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and women are bearing the brunt of failed policy through seriously compromised health and wellbeing. "
In this analysis, Vanessa Lee from the University of Sydney applies a lens of political determinants of health to illuminate policy failure for Indigenous women and their communities, and calls for the government to be held accountable to the outcomes of generations of harmful policy.
This piece is drawn from an article that ran in the Journal of Public Health Policy in 2017.
Paternalism is compromising the health of Indigenous women
When it comes to Australian policy, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are not being supported. Rather, a long history of paternalistic government decisions created barriers towards Indigenous women achieving equivalent health and wellbeing measures when compared to non-Indigenous women.
The manifestation of colonisation has included a displacement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, a history of segregation and apartheid, and a breakdown of culture and cultural values through the impact of missionaries and government legislation, Acts and policies.
These political determinants of health breech human rights conventions, lack an evidence base, and are profoundly damaging across generations. Better policy could be and should be implemented but there appears to be a lack of political will.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women experience poorer health and reduced social and emotional wellbeing when compared to non-Indigenous women, and this is due to generational life circumstances. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women take a holistic world view that intrinsically connects family and culture with everything else that they connect with.
What this means is that Indigenous women have a cultural and family relationship with their social and economic world.
The breakdown in life circumstances are evident today across employment and education where 39 per cent of the Indigenous females were employed compared to 55 per cent of the non-Indigenous females; and 4.6 per cent overall of the Indigenous compared to 20 per cent of the non-Indigenous people have completed a bachelor degree or higher degree.[1]
Educational attainment and employment are intrinsically linked to economic opportunity, with higher levels of education reducing societal disadvantage. Failure to address these fundamental social determinants in early life contributes to life-long disadvantage.
When the British colonized Australia, they did so under a paternalistic ideology that remains evident today as Australian federal, state, territory and local governments continue to implement paternalistic policies. Paternalistic policies are those that restrict choices to individuals, ostensibly in their 'best interest' and without their consent.
The justification of such policies is often to change individuals' damaging behaviours; for example gambling, smoking, consumption of drugs and alcohol, or the reliance on welfare payments. Given the etymology of the word 'paternalism', it is little wonder that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have been the victims of extraordinarily high levels of sexism, domestic violence, marginalization, work-place lateral violence and racism.
Especially since the policies were developed and implemented from colonisation, with little or no evidence to support the need to change behaviours of the First Nations women of Australia. The response to the impact of these paternalistic policies has resulted in an increase in prevalence in pain and trauma based behaviours such as substance abuse.
Social determining factors
Social determinants of health are about "the cause of the cause." Poorer health outcomes are not narrowed to individual lifestyle choice or risky behaviour. Understanding the social determinants of health requires looking at the relationship between cause, social factors and health outcomes. Social factors are those societal factors that influence health throughout life and include housing, education, access to healthcare and family support.
The diagram below highlights an example of the circular relationship between the causes of the social factors and the social factors themselves across a person's life stages. The unborn Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander child of parents with high drug and/or alcohol intake, low income and low education will be born into an environment influenced at the macrosocial level by history, culture, discrimination and the political economy.
This first stage of inequality can manifest in increasing risky behaviours such as smoking, drinking, unhealthy eating, and lack of exercise or imprisonment. These behaviours have been associated with intellectual impairment that continues through all life stages.[ii] Quite often the continuous exposure to drugs and alcohol from adults becomes part of the child's assumption of the normality of risk-taking behaviour and the cycle continues.
Tragically, at times the child born into this situation may commit suicide. Indigenous young people are as much as five times more likely to commit suicide as their non-Indigenous peers. Or the child may end up in prison, and although Indigenous women make up 2% of the adult female population 2% of the adult female populationin Australia they make up 27 to 34% of the female prison population across jurisdictions (see also here). T
he imprisonment of women causes an upheaval in their lives and that of their families and for Indigenous women it also creates a breakdown in their world view and to all that is connected to their world view.
Diagram 1: Relationship between 'the cause' and life stages
Relationship between causes, social factors and life stages
Social and economic circumstances have a profound impact on individual experiences of inequity, yet within a neoliberal framework the individual is blamed for making poor choices. The government's failure to acknowledge or address the causes which shape the social factors that in turn underpin individual lifestyle "choices" reveals a disinterest in addressing the socio-structural causes of illness and health.
When governments invest long-term resources and time into understanding the socio-structural causes of illness and health, they will recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are constantly subjected to unnecessary inequalities that mitigate against making positive lifestyle choices for future generations.
Structured inequities within society are based on unequal distribution of power, wealth, income and status. A woman's ability to move up and down the class system is directly impacted by socioeconomic position or status – including education, employment and income.
This truth epitomizes the gross inequalities that continue to exist in Australian society. Inequities in health are heightened because social class not only includes education, employment and income but also differential access to power. Social class structures are characterized by factors including race, sex/gender, ethnicity, Indigeneity and religion. Fundamentally, it is structural issues of class and political disadvantage that place Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women close to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder.
Political determinants
From colonization of Australia until the present day, the policy decisions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made by National, State and Territory governments, churches and other institutions have had dire effects on Indigenous peoples' health and well-being. Inequitable policies contributed to inequalities in health resulting from unequal distribution of power and resources between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people.
The impact of policies which fail to take a holistic view on Indigenous population health reflects a political failure of the system with regard to the basic human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their good health and well-being.
Denial of a human right directly violates a person's right to self-determination. These rights should be protected by a covenant to which Australia is a signatory—The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) (The Covenant). It states that "all peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development" (Article 1 Section 1).
The level of Australia's commitment to this covenant became questionable with the implementation of The Northern Territory National Emergency Response (the Intervention) in 2007. This was a federal government action that ignored one of its own government-funded reports highlighting the critical importance of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the design and implementation of initiatives for their communities. In less than six months, following the politically motivated "Intervention" that was introduced just prior to an election, the Australian parliament introduced a complex legislative package consisting of five Bills, all 450 pages long and passed in parliament on the same day.
The bills were primarily associated with welfare reform. In 2008, a national emergency response by the Australian government took effect and was administered across all of the Northern Territory using the political rationale 'to protect Aboriginal children'. This appeared to be an excuse to further erode Indigenous self-determination rather than to address the safety of children; as one critic pointed out, "we have witnessed the abandonment of consultation with Indigenous people, diminishing use of available statistical and research evidence and increased marginalization of the experts – especially if their views diverge from national leadership." (p. 7)
The impact on health outcomes
Welfare data published in 2016 show that Indigenous children in the Northern Territory were being removed from families at 9.8 times more often than that of non-Indigenous children based on 'reforms' in the five new 'welfare reform' Bills.
The Northern Territory Indigenous death rates are still 2.3 times higher than those of non-Indigenous people, and Indigenous people experience assault victimization at six times the rate of non-Indigenous people (see here).
The 2014/2015 Social Survey found that fewer than half of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over were employed, and males were more than twice as likely as females to be working full time.
The deplorable outcomes of these politically motivated policies are most clearly illustrated by the understanding that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women between the ages of 20 and 24 years are four times more likely to commit suicide than are the other woman and between 70-60% of Indigenous women in prisons are due to them being victims of domestic violence.
Holding government accountable to policy outcomes
These outcomes demonstrate the political failure of Australian governments at national, state, territory and local levels to work with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the lack of integrity surrounding equitable policy administration, leadership and governance.
Many policies developed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders over a long period of time have contributed to the shameful inequity in Australian society between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. This level of inequity is even more dramatic with regard to Indigenous women.
The Covenant is neither the first Human Rights Charter that Australia has signed nor the first it has violated to the disadvantage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, their health and well-being (and of the entire Indigenous population). Australia played a key role as one of eight nations involved in developing the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, when Australian Dr HV Evatt was the President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Until a referendum allowed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to become citizens, there was scant regard to Article 2: "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status". The Australian government is disregarding its own stated ideals when it disregards the rights of Indigenous Australians.
The gap in health outcomes between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians is becoming more apparent, leading to calls for a new and more effective response. The effects of discriminative policies are now being exposed more often – thus, they become more visible. Non-Indigenous services account for 80 per cent of Indigenous expenditure, and there is a lack of transparency and clarity evaluating how these organizations address policies developed by government for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Fifty per cent of the Indigenous Australian population is under the age of 22and their health, as that of their elders, remains dire. Without understanding their cultural ways of doing and knowing and without working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in making policy decisions, there will be no progress in achieving health equality for this population group.
Major changes needed
Western culture remains the dominant culture in Australian society. Its worldview has shaped Australian society and is constantly in conflict with the cultural identity and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including that of women. Recently,
Australian Indigenous leaders have set out a blueprint for action in the Redfern Statement.
This blueprint acknowledges that Aboriginal people have provided viable, holistic solutions. Without a change in leadership attitudes, governance and administration, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women will continue to be disadvantaged, and their health will continue to suffer.
It is high time that Australian policymaking recognized the above issues and acted with integrity on the deficits because we will not have equality until Australia recognizes the impact of the political determinants of health as identified throughout this paper. Australia will never be a whole, functioning society until institutionalised oppression ceases.
[1] Burns, J., MacRae, A., Thomson, N., Anomie., Catto, M., Gray, C., Levitan, L., McLoughlin, N., Potter, C., Ride, K., Stumpers, S., Trzesinski, A. and Urquhart, B. (2013) Summary of Indigenous women's health. http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/population-groups/women/reviews/our-review.
[ii] Carson, B., Dunbar, T., Chenhall, R. and Bailie, R. (Eds.). (2007). Social determinants of indigenous health. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
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Masataka Yamaguchi

Email: yamaguchi[at]mi.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Education

2017 M.S. in Information Science and Technology (The University of Tokyo)

2015 B.S. in Engineering (The University of Tokyo)

Publications

[ICCV2019] Masataka Yamaguchi et al. Subspace Structure-Aware Spectral Clustering for Robust Subspace Clustering (acceptance rate: 25%).

[BMVC2019] Masataka Yamaguchi et al. Delving Deep into Least Square Regression Model for Subspace Clustering (acceptance rate: 28%).

[WASPAA2019] Yuma Koizumi, Shoichiro Saito, Masataka Yamaguchi, Shin Murata, Noboru Harada. Batch Uniformization for Minimizing Maximum Anomaly Score of DNN-based Anomaly Detection in Sounds (acceptance rate: 43%).

[ICASSP2019] Masataka Yamaguchi, Yuma Koizumi, Noboru Harada. AdaFlow: Domain-Adaptive Density Estimator with Application to Anomaly Detection and Unpaired Cross-Domain Translation (acceptance rate: 46%).

[ICCV2017] Masataka Yamaguchi, Kuniaki Saito, Yoshitaka Ushiku, Tatsuya Harada. Spatio-temporal Person Retrieval via Natural Language Queries (acceptance rate: 29%).

[ICCV2015] Yoshitaka Ushiku, Masataka Yamaguchi, Yusuke Mukuta, Tatsuya Harada. Common Subspace for Model and Similarity: Phrase Learning for Sentence Generation from Images (acceptance rate: 30%).

Misc.

[Award, ILSVRC'15] 3rd place for still image object detection with additional data in Imagenet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2015. [poster at ICCV'15 Workshop]

[Invited Talk] nVidia Deep Learning Day 2016, 2016/01/15. [slide]

[Tool] Paper title search

解説記事

画像/映像と言語の横断検索, 画像ラボ2019年2月号.

画像/映像と言語の横断検索, 映像情報メディア学会誌2018年9月号.

日経ビッグデータ2016年2月号.

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Young Oceans is a Christian art-rock recording project from Brooklyn, New York.  The project originated as a collective of artists affiliated with Trinity Grace Church in greater New York City recording songs by songwriter Eric Marshall. Songs originally written for church gatherings were recorded by members of the band and their producer Mike Beck.

Members
Current members
 Eric Marshall
 Mike Beck
 Mason Ingram
 Rob Ritchie
 Matt Basile
 Brian Sanders
 Kanene Pipkin
 Nicole Pietrini Ingram

Discography
Studio albums
 Young Oceans (April 3, 2012, Street Talk Media)
 Advent (Deluxe) (March 5, 2013, Street Talk Media)
 I Must Find You (September 30, 2014, Street Talk Media)
 Voices, Vol. I (April 8, 2016, Street Talk Media)
 Suddenly (Or The Nuclear Sunburst of the Truth Revealed) (October 20, 2017, Street Talk Media)
 Among the Ruins (Original Soundtrack - Live) (November 2019, Street Talk Media
 Songs of Christmas (December 2019, Street Talk Media)
 You Are Fullness 1 and 2 (late 2020)
 Subjects in Motion (late 2022)

EPs
 Advent (December 2, 2012, Street Talk Media)

References

External links
Official website

Musical groups from Brooklyn
2012 establishments in New York City
Musical groups established in 2012
American Christian rock groups
Alternative rock groups from New York (state)

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A historical marker is being publicly unveiled on Friday afternoon to remember a Spokane man's courageous actions more than 150 years ago.
Amos Bradley fought in the Civil War, and for his bravery he became the recipient of one of the first Congressional Medals of Honor ever awarded in the United States. Bradley later moved to Spokane in 1885, and lived here until his death in 1894. To honor the late Spokane veteran, a new historical marker is being dedicated in his memory at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
The monument was erected in part by the Fairmount Memorial Association. Faimount's VP of Operations David Ittner says that although Bradley already had a government marker on his grave, it's now time to give him a monument.
"He's the last Congressional award winner to not have a historic monument," at one of the Fairmount Memorial Association cemetery parks, Ittner says.
He says each year Fairmount picks a person to commemorate with a monument.
All of the historical markers, however, represent significant individuals who were important in the history or development of Spokane.
Bradley's is the twenty-third historical monument dedicated by the Fairmount Memorial Association, in cooperation with The Spokane Law Enforcement Museum and the SPD History Book Committee.
Though it happened a century and a half ago, Amos Bradley fought a hard fight to earn his modern honor.
Bradley enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a "landsman," a title given to those who'd never served in the Navy before. He was aboard a ship in the Union fleet, the USS Varuna, during an important battle on April 24, 1862, against Forts Jackson and St. Philip to gain control of New Orleans. During battle, the USS Varuna was struck by gunfire and rammed twice by a Confederate ship. Bradley was at the helm of the ship and was able to save himself and his shipmates by maneuvering close to the bank. The crew continued firing until they had to abandon ship before it sank. In the end, the Union Navy prevailed and held New Orleans throughout the rest of the war. Bradley's valiant efforts during this battle earned him the nation's highest honor. He served in the Navy for about three years before being discharged as a seaman.
Others chosen in the past to be honored by Fairmount's Historic Monument Program include Spokane's first female physician, Dr. Mary Latham, who served residents in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and Army Sgt. 1st Class Bruce A. Grandstaff, who lost his life fighting in the Vietnam War. Latham, Grandstaff and now Bradley are three of nine total people with historic gravesite markers at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
For more of the stories behind and the location of other historical markers at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Fairmount Memorial Park and Riverside Memorial Park, visit the Fairmount Memorial Association website.
The dedication ceremony for Amos Bradley is set for Friday, June 12, at 2 pm on the second level of the Greenwood Memorial Terrace.


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Q: How do I prove that this limit does not exist over complex field? $\lim_{z\rightarrow 0} z^2 \sin{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)}$ So, here's the problem. I'm trying to figure out the type of singularity at  $z=0$ to find a residue at the given point.
One of the possible approaches is find a limit of the function as $z$ tends to the singularity point, and based on the outcome, you could decide, whether it's a pole, an essential singularity or a removable singularity.
Based on Laurent's series, I expect this to be an essential singularity:
$f\left(z\right)=z-\frac{1}{6 z}+\frac{1}{120 z^3}-\frac{1}{5040 z^5}+\frac{1}{362880 z^7} + \frac{\left(-1\right)^{n}\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)^{2n-1}}{\left(2n+1\right)!}$,
since the series has infinitely many negative degree terms (i.e., the principal part of the Laurent series is an infinite sum). If that's so, the aforementioned limit has to be non-existent at $z=0$.
I tried to get an approach to the limit like this:
since $\left|\sin{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)}\right|\le 1$, we have $-1\le\sin{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)}\le1$. Multiplying by $z^2$ we get the following: $-z^2\le z^2\sin{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)}\le z^2$. Since both $z^2$ and $-z^2$ are equal to zero as z tends to $0$, so is the $z^2 \sin{\left(\frac{1}{z}\right)}$ according to the squeeze theorem.
So, actually the limit exists.
However, shortly after this I realised that this approach is of no use over complex field since there's no such thing as order for complex numbers, which is why my approach has nothing to do with the actual problem, and the whole thing was solved over reals.
So, I'm puzzled. How do I prove that this limit does not exist at all?

A: Let $z=x\in \mathbb{R}$.  Then, clearly
$$\lim_{z\to 0}z^2\sin(1/z)=\lim_{x\to 0}x^2\sin(1/x)=0$$
Now, let $z=iy$, $y\in \mathbb{R}$, $y>0$.  Then, clearly
$$\lim_{z\to 0}z^2\sin(1/z)=\lim_{y\to 0^+}y^2\sin(i/y)=i\lim_{y\to 0^+}y^2\sinh(1/y)=i\infty$$
Inasmuch as the two limits are unequal, the limit $\lim_{z\to 0}z^2\sin(1/z)$ fails to exist.

The Laurent series for $z^2\sin(1/z)$ is given by
$$z^2\sin(1/z)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^n z^{-(2n-1)}}{(2n+1)!}\tag1$$
The residue is equal to the coefficient on the term $z^{-1}$, which occurs in $(1)$ when $n=1$.  Hence, we see that
$$\text{Res}\left(z^2\sin\left(\frac1z\right),z=0\right)=-\frac16$$

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In its second edition of their seasonal Pop-Up Shop, Miaja Gallery is pleased to present 'Unwrapped' – a Christmas shopping experience, featuring French designed and made gifts, specially selected for the holiday season. The range on offer includes Maison Miaja's new home collection 'Porcelain', in collaboration with French linen artisans 'Un Rendez-Vous Francais'. Inspired by one of the most iconic minimalist painters of the 20th century – Piet Mondrian – the collection interweaves the classic minimalist lines and varying tones of blue, with a twist of the decorative designs found on traditional hand-painted blue and white porcelain. Other brands and artists have been carefully edited for selection by Isabelle Miaja (Founder of Miaja Design & Miaja Gallery) and Naomi Stahl (Gallery Director) to bring our clients the perfect Christmas gifts.


I need a text-based e-mail client so I found alpine since I used to use pine. There is some problem between c-client and alpine using the chappa flags. When I have alpine installed, it will not let me do an emerge world.
I start with a clean, updated system.
When I go to install alpine, it says the chappa flags are incorrect.
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=net-libs/c-client-2007f-r4[topal=,chappa=]".
I change it in /etc/portage/package.use as requested.
It will then install alpine.
Then, when I go to do the update world again, it gives an error that they need to be reversed.
I comment out the lines in /etc/portage/package.use and try again and it wants them reversed again.
Can you do an emerge world afterwards?
Emerging world hasn't been a problem.
ok, that was it. Both applications have to match. The emerge message was not clear to me.
I commented out the alpine package in /etc/portage/package.use and put +chappa on the c-client and it emerged world again.


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Home →Security →Why CEOs Are in the Dark About Cyber-Security
Why CEOs Are in the Dark About Cyber-Security
By Karen A. Frenkel | Posted 12-28-2015
Despite the growing threat of cyber-crime, support for cyber-security programs at the executive level is lacking, according to a recent survey.
CEOs Are Not Briefed Regularly on Cyber-Security
One-third of CEOs are still not regularly briefed on cyber-security issues and related business risks.
Management Does Not Regularly Receive Security Reports
43% of management teams do not regularly receive security status reports.
Detection Metrics Considered Effective
59% of respondents say threat detection metrics are the most effective for measuring security effectiveness, however, 79% still provide compliance and audit findings to their CEOs and other executives.
Security Awareness Varies According to Industry
Executive visibility into security program effectiveness depends on the industry in which they work: 72% of respondents in financial services and 70% in health care say they regularly provide executives with reports and metrics.
More on Industry Variation
Only 50% of respondents in manufacturing, hospitality, transportation and non-profit industries regularly provide reports and metrics to their executive teams.
Inadequate Budgets Hamper Security
75% of respondents cite budgeting issues as the primary barrier to improving cyber-security.
Lack of Expertise Is a Barrier
There is a growing cyber-security skills gap. 50% of respondents say lack of expertise is a primary barrier to cyber-security.
Endpoint and Privileged Account Security Are Top Priorities
Endpoint security and privileged account security are the top two organizational security priorities for 2016, according to respondents.
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A new study about the gap between executive awareness and enterprise security finds that the majority of IT security professionals believe CEOs make decisions with little regard to security. IT security pros also believe management teams are not regularly briefed on cyber-security issues. The survey, commissioned by cyber-security company CyberArk, was conducted by Dimensional Research and captured the opinions of 308 IT security professionals worldwide. The goal was to capture hard data on visibility and support for security programs at the executive level and determine which metrics are used to define security effectiveness. "Compliance does not equal security. It can lull a CEO into a state of complacency because all it demonstrates is the simple checking of a box without context for responsible levels of information protection," said John Worrall, chief marketing officer of CyberArk. "Security professionals are briefing executives on the wrong information. They need to arm their CEOs and executive teams with information that matters, such as threat detection risks versus compliance and system availability."
Karen A. Frenkel writes about technology and innovation and lives in New York City.


Informal Names: The Union, Uthaum Revolutionaries.
A futuristic war-zone is an understatement to the sheer beauty the torn environment lets off, even if blood still coats the walls of buildings all around the planet. Metal husks that were once giant war machines litter the countrysides like sea-weed on a beach, the shouts and screams of men and women once there are often heard, even if their bodies and spirits are long gone. The now de-militarized world has much to rebuild, and even more to mourn over.
Even with the near total destruction of the planet and its people, there are still areas left untouched by the war that ravaged the land not too long ago. The capital city of Uthaum, simply called Citadel, is a shining beacon of what the Union can do for the rest of the planet, and to show that they are very much in power over the men and women of this land, both politically and militarily. Though the vice of opression has lessened on the men and women of Uthaum thanks to the revolution, the new Union have strict regulations over the planet to ensure no Ex-Helkion Forces are ready to stage a coup to return the planet to Helkion control.
The less civilized areas of Uthaum are home to the planets wildlife, some of which were brought from the old Earth before it was engulfed in nuclear fire. Deer, bears, wolves, domesticated dogs, cats, and other land animals have adapted to their environment, which is quite similar in both climate and landscape to the Canadian Rockies and Shield region, allowing the multitude of animals to virtually be at "home" on the planet. They have, however, faced natural opposition from the planets native species, such as large flying beasts similar in size to a bear, and small snake-like water fish that pack a viral plague that spreads quickly, however dies out in a matter of hours. The humans have domesticated several of the planets native animals, yet the Humans (and some Helkion and Kahldorr) prefer dogs and cats.
Where the Union and the Valdorei may lack in, their Military more than makes up for it. After the War of the Valdorei, any weaponry and technology that the Helkions had was sent directly to the Union, blueprints and all. The Union, which was made up of mostly humans, was able to design their own armaments, ships, weaponry, and vehicles all from the blueprints and resources obtained from the Helkions. These design changes were crucial in which they would be able to suit Humans, Helkions, and Kahldorr specifically, allowing all three species to use, wear, and operate any of the weaponry, which in turn allowed any species to join the Union, even the Helkions (those who showed support for the Union's ideals).
Mechanical Vehicles such as the T-79C (shown below with a group of Union Jungle Patrol soldiers) are massed produced, the population of the 79C is nearly one for every two Military personnel. The mech has been made for any terrain and environment, two large .50 Cal rotating machine guns are positioned on the right of the walker, while a rotating missile launcher with automated reloading system is on the left. This beast of a machine likely turned the tide in the Valdorei war for the Humans.
The main infantry unit, often called "Valkyries" by the Valdorei, are mainly humans and Kahldorr, however some Helkions are accepted into front-line ground combat duty, however only males, as the Union is attempting to bolster the races population as quickly as possible. After much deliberation from all sides of the Union, most combat will be handled via combat squads and companies accompanied by one to seven mechanical support vehicles (MESV). Several engineers would also tag along, for repairs and maintenance of the vehicles.
The Union's top atmospheric fighter, the Heilrasser UU-3, was built in accordance to the National Union Charter of Rights and Liberties, which declared that all military fighters will be built on Uthaum, to bolster national pride and create jobs. The fighter, which has fold-able wings for faster, super sonic flight, contains multiple kinetic, chain-gun-like weaponry, on top of the several missile pods attached to the underside of the wings. Some select versions of the Heilrasser are able to carry a payload of three energetic bombs, usually used to wipe out a large area of personnel, yet keep the buildings intact. The cockpit is of course fitted for any of the Union's races.
On the other side of the front, the Aeonic Heiltrans T-5, is a heavily armoured aerial troop transport vehicle. The large ship, which lacks quite a bit of weaponry, makes up for it in defence and evasion tactics. It is equipped with only one rocket pod, and one nose machine gun, which is often used to clear out Landing Zones for the troops. Even though the Union has yet to perfect the art of aerial troop transport, the Heiltrans is the first big step towards a better and safer vehicle.
The second and most popular of the troop transports is the Aerospace Heilshriker V-55. The ship, capable of both atmospheric and outer-space transportation and combat. Opposed to the Heiltrans, the Heilshriker is virtually weapon-less, only having the fairly weak kinetic nose gun. It is far from what the Union wants as a transport, but it has worked so far. With the aid of the Kahldorrians, the ship is being mass produced, however some believe it will soon be phased out of commission for the more weapon-heavy Heiltrans. But for now, the Heilshriker is the favorite among Valkyries, only second to the VTOL.
The AUCS Viking, one of three Capital Ships, was made for the soul purpose of democratic missions. The large ship has multiple cargo holds and meeting rooms, and is basically a large floating apartment building. The ship can contain up to three thousand human troops at a time, not counting pilots and other personnel. The ships large size and rather odd shaping gives no advantage on the battlefield, however the ship is still equipped with its fair share of weaponry. Kenetic weapons are a must on the ship, however there have been reports of multiple energy weapons being loaded onto the ship, however this has never been confirmed or denied by the Union Military Representatives. Only time will tell if this beast is up to the task of defending a planet, both on the battlefield and diplomatically.
Updated with a fair ammount of content. Still very far from finishing. Any constructive criticism is more than welcome.


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Review: Rikki (Hart University #1) by Abigail Strom
Series: Hart University #1
Release date: September 22nd 2015
Ever since junior high and an ill-fated game of seven minutes in heaven, Rikki Eisendrath and Sam Payne have hated each others' guts. But when they end up at the same college—and the same dorm—they figure it's time to declare a truce.
They even become friends… sort of. But when Sam asks Rikki to model for his sculpting project, they start spending more time together—and her feelings for him get more complicated.
She tries to focus on the guy she's been crushing on instead. But Sam's the one she can't stop thinking about, even though their arguments are starting to heat up as much as the chemistry between them.
With antagonism and attraction this intense, there's bound to be an explosion. But when the dust settles, will Sam and Rikki be enemies, friends… or something more?
*Request was approved via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I loved this story. I loved how it played with my emotions and had me really invested in the characters, in spite of how frustrated they made me. Rikki and Sam had so much angst between them that it gave me the fireworks. They spent years oblivious and completely misunderstanding each other, and throughout the book I just wanted to shake some senses into them. There were moments that made me laugh, and there were moments that made me want to cry. Yeah, like I said, the emotions were definitely there.
I connected with Rikki in the sense that she liked holding on to control. I understood her character and felt like she was as realistic as an eighteen year old trying to figure out her life gets. I liked the family she came from, and I admired her determination and her drive to focus on her education and excel at everything. She was very intellectual, and I think the greatest thing about the story is that Rikki and Sam connected based on something they had in common: they were both very smart and always performed at their utmost best. And I loved that there wasn't an insta-love or constant gushing over one's appearance, but they were attracted to each other's minds. Their relationship wasn't the best at start, but after several years of competing in academics and misunderstanding their feelings for each other, I was happy when they realized there was no hate and decided to be friends in college. I felt like had they not done that, then they wouldn't have been able to spend more time learning about each other and developing clarity about their true feelings.
Sam was such a good person. He wasn't the typical model-like guy found in most YA books, and he wasn't a star athlete, but he was sort of a nerd with great qualities and the type of guy I swooned over because he was cute in his own way. He had to deal with loss and some other issues in his family, and it was so sad how he liked Rikki in secret all that time but believed she wasn't interested in him because of her silly crushing on the supposedly good-looking guys in school. It was funny how in the end, they both admitted to thinking the other wasn't interested and hence thought it was best to start pining over someone else. But their feelings were so strong that trying to be with someone else never worked out for either of them.
Gosh, there's so much I could go on about but I don't want to spoil it too much for anyone who hasn't read the story. All I can say is that you'll definitely feel like plucking your lashes out over the relationship between Rikki and Sam, and your emotions will be scattered from beginning to end. These characters didn't only go through high school completely oblivious and often in denial about each other, it continued to university. So you can only imagine how much their craziness will frustrate readers. Aside from the constant back and forth, there were juicy moments and some humor thrown in the mix to keep things interesting. The writing is great, and the pacing is quick. Not necessarily light, but this book will indeed make you feel things. I highly recommend.
Abigail Strom started writing stories at the age of seven and has never been able to stop. She lives in New England with her family, who are incredibly supportive of the hours she spends hunched over her computer.
www.abigailstrom.com
twitter.com/abigailstrom
Labels: abigail strom, College, Coming of Age, Contemporary, Drama, Family, glbt, hart university, New Adult, Reviews, rikki, Romance, Young Adult
I am so glad you loved this as much as I did. Oh yes, I found my self wanting to scream at them for not realizing how they felt for each other but it was well done!!
Shane @ItchingforBooks October 9, 2015 at 2:14 PM
Yes! Very well done! Glad you loved it too :)
Thanks for stopping by, Lily.
Melissas Eclectic Bookshelf October 9, 2015 at 3:22 PM
A romance that develops over the course of years? Sounds like that might be worth the angst!
Yeah, I don't know if I could feel that way about someone but keep it a secret for that long. I'd explode eventually and just tell them the truth :)
Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms October 11, 2015 at 7:43 AM
Yours is the second amazing review I've read for Rikki this week, Shane, and I think I really need to add it to my TBR. I love slow-moving romances, they're the best :)
Lexxie @ (un)Conventional Bookviews
Shane @ItchingforBooks October 11, 2015 at 11:03 AM
I really enjoyed it. Hope you will too :)


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(New York, New York--July 21, 2016) Sonic Union mixer Brian Goodheart teams up with director Robert Broadhurst to bring the edgy aesthetic of the Autumn/Winter 2016 collection for Adidas Y-3 to visceral life in an intense new campaign video from the Blackrose agency. The short film features models sporting Y-3 gear against an abandoned industrial backdrop, racing against the intrusive gaze of an omnipresent surveillance system. The wardrobe of oversize black hoods, chunky boots, skintight leggings and activewear, paired with a pulse-pounding soundtrack, brings to life the intersection of rave culture and the minimalism of modern urban youth style.
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Carnival Resumes Operations from Charleston
Celebrating aboard the Carnival Sunshine. (Photo courtesy of Carnival Cruise Line.)
Carnival Cruise Line resumed guest operations today from Charleston, S.C., with Carnival Sunshine. The ship departed today on a 4-day cruise to Nassau, Bahamas.
To commemorate the special day, the Carnival Sunshine team greeted their first guests on board with a special welcome conveying their excitement in resuming operations from Charleston. "We have been sailing from Charleston for 12 years, so we are excited to be back offering guests from all over the southeastern U.S. the opportunity to cruise from this beautiful, historic and charming community, all while providing support to the local economy," said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, in a press statement.
Carnival Sunshine is sailing year-round from Charleston, offering a variety of cruises to The Bahamas and the Caribbean.
With 19 ships already in guest operations and its remaining three U.S.-based ships scheduled to resume in March, Carnival continues to implement a rigorous set of public health protocols focused on the health, safety and well-being of its guests, crew and the communities it visits. All Carnival voyages are vaccinated cruises, all guests must show proof of a negative COVID test taken within 48 hours of boarding, masks are worn by all guests and crew in virtually all venues of the ship, as well as other enhanced health and safety measures that can be found on its Have Fun. Be Safe. page on carnival.com.
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Many people are well aware of the benefits that exercise and physical fitness can bring in helping to experience a normal, healthy pregnancy. But exercise in the prenatal and postnatal period must be approached with care.
As pregnancy progresses, the body undergoes a number of physical changes to cater for the growing baby. These physiological changes make good posture, cardiovascular health, and strength crucial to a healthy and comfortable pregnancy.
Pregnant women can participate in a number of our classes during the first and second trimester, including BodyBalance, Yoga, BodyPump and Aquafit. Our expert instructors can help give options and alternative exercises where necessary. Please ensure that you speak to your class instructor and advise them that you are pregnant.
If you are pregnant and are just starting to exercise, you should take it slowly and keep to low-intensity workouts. Pregnancy is not a time to achieve great improvements in fitness.
The postnatal body has also undergone dramatic, significant changes, and clients who have recently given birth must take care to only engage in exercises that take these changes into consideration.
We have four highly-qualified pre and post-natal trainers who are able to help our members with specialised training programmes and advice whilst they are pregnant or after giving birth.
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Papua New Guinea have won a second silver medal in weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games.
Dika Toua was unable to repeat her gold medal performance from four years ago, lifting a total of 182kg in the women's 53kg division, to finish 10kg adrift of India's Sanjita Chanu Khumukcham.
Papua New Guinea's Morea Baru has won the Pacific's first medal of the Commonwealth Games.
But the weightlifter said a silver medal on the Gold Coast fell below his expectations.
Baru lifted a combined total of 286kgs, two kilograms shy of the gold medallist Muhamad Bidin from Malaysia.
The 27-year-old fell short with a final attempt at 163kg in the clean and jerk, which would have put him back in front.
Pasifika TV brings coverage of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games to the Pacific.
The New Zealand government-funded Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) has secured the broadcasting rights for Pasifika TV to share coverage of the Gold Coast, Commonwealth Games 2018 (GC2018), with Pacific free-to air broadcasters in Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu.
It was a week of potently strong insect repellent, woven flax fans, and to put it bluntly - sweat.
At every island there was a visit to some sort of school and it was in these moments that Ms Ardern shone the most.
Papua New Guinea take on the two-time world champions, the West indies, tonight at the World Cup Cricket Qualifiers in Zimbabwe.
The Barramundis must win the match to have any hope of staying alive in the competition and eventual qualification for next year's World Cup, after consecutive defeats against the United Arab Emirates and Ireland.
New Zealand's prime minister has announced $US4.7 million ($NZ 6.5 million) in extra funding to boost employment and investment in small businesses in Samoa.
Jacinda Ardern is visiting Apia as part of her Pacific Missions trip which also includes legs in Tonga, Niue and the Cook Islands.


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Calipari: "It's kind of special to be back"
Drew Franklin03/23/17
When Kentucky and UCLA throw it up tomorrow night in the second South regional semifinal, John Calipari will be coaching his first game in FedExForum since March 14, 2009; his last home game as head coach at the University of Memphis. The boos he heard while taking the court in Thursday afternoon's open practice tell the story of how many Memphians feel about his return to the city, but for Calipari, Kentucky's trip to his former workplace is a great time to catch up with people from his past. "We met with friends last night. We had a reception, and a couple hundred people were there, and we got to really touch and feel and thank those people, and it was a special night," Calipari said, when asked about his return to town. "Ellen and I loved our time here, and it was a special time. I say this over and over again. This is not the kind of place where one person can do something. You have to all be together, and this community and the administration, the school just all came behind all of us, and it was a terrific ride. We loved our time here." "I understand some people were upset that I left," he continued. "I get that. I mean, and I accept that. It doesn't bother me. I know last night we had a couple hundred people in that room, and close to tears, all of us, because we enjoyed the ride together. You know, it's kind of special to be back. Been back many times, many, many times, but this is the first time coaching in this building since I left." There is one noticeable change to the arena since he was last here: the 2008 Final Four banner has been removed. He had already made the move to Lexington when the decision came down from the NCAA to have it pulled. To that, Calipari said, "There's nothing that can take away what that run was about for all of us, including the city. It was a special time. I mean, special kids. Antonio Anderson last night hit me, and Robert Dozier hit me, and I know Chris Douglas is -- it's unfortunate, but I'll tell you what, that was a great run." It was a great run, and Cal will try to continue another great run Friday night as he looks to make it 16 straight wins in FedExForum. He lost only two home games in his last three seasons with the Tigers and road a 15-game home win streak until his time with Memphis came to an end. Pick up where he left off Friday night?
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It's been a while since I've photographed here. A truly hidden gem within Dundalk Ireland. Apart from setting of the buildings it's grounds and motte, the views across the countryside and Dundalk town is stunning.


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Noopept is a Russian stimulant sometimes suggested for nootropics use as it may be more effective than piracetam or other -racetams, and its smaller doses make it more convenient & possibly safer. Following up on a pilot study, I ran a well-powered blind randomized self-experiment between September 2013 and August 2014 using doses of 12-60mg Noopept & pairs of 3-day blocks to investigate the impact of Noopept on self-ratings of daily functioning in addition to my existing supplementation regimen involving small-to-moderate doses of piracetam. A linear regression, which included other concurrent experiments as covariates & used multiple imputation for missing data, indicates a small benefit to the lower dose levels and harm from the highest 60mg dose level, but no dose nor Noopept as a whole was statistically-significant. It seems Noopept's effects are too subtle to easily notice if they exist, but if one uses it, one should probably avoid 60mg+.
Nootroo and Nootrobox are two San Francisco nootropics startups that launched last year. Their founders come from the tech scene and their products are squarely aimed at the tech crowd seeking the convenience of not having to build their own combinations. Each claims big-name Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors among their users, though neither will name them.
Despite some positive findings, a lot of studies find no effects of enhancers in healthy subjects. For instance, although some studies suggest moderate enhancing effects in well-rested subjects, modafinil mostly shows enhancing effects in cases of sleep deprivation. A recent study by Martha Farah and colleagues found that Adderall (mixed amphetamine salts) had only small effects on cognition but users believed that their performance was enhanced when compared to placebo.
I don't believe there's any need to control for training with repeated within-subject sampling, since there will be as many samples on both control and active days drawn from the later trained period as with the initial untrained period. But yes, my D5B scores seem to have plateaued pretty much and only very slowly increase; you can look at the stats file yourself.
"Smart Drugs" are chemical substances that enhance cognition and memory or facilitate learning. However, within this general umbrella of "things you can eat that make you smarter," there are many variations as far as methods of action within the body, perceptible (and measurable) effects, potential for use and abuse, and the spillover impact on the body's non-cognitive processes.
But there would also be significant downsides. Amphetamines are structurally similar to crystal meth – a potent, highly addictive recreational drug which has ruined countless lives and can be fatal. Both Adderall and Ritalin are known to be addictive, and there are already numerous reports of workers who struggled to give them up. There are also side effects, such as nervousness, anxiety, insomnia, stomach pains, and even hair loss, among others.
Supplements, medications, and coffee certainly might play a role in keeping our brains running smoothly at work or when we're trying to remember where we left our keys. But the long-term effects of basic lifestyle practices can't be ignored. "For good brain health across the life span, you should keep your brain active," Sahakian says. "There is good evidence for 'use it or lose it.'" She suggests brain-training apps to improve memory, as well as physical exercise. "You should ensure you have a healthy diet and not overeat. It is also important to have good-quality sleep. Finally, having a good work-life balance is important for well-being." Try these 8 ways to get smarter while you sleep.
(People aged <=18 shouldn't be using any of this except harmless stuff - where one may have nutritional deficits - like fish oil & vitamin D; melatonin may be especially useful, thanks to the effects of screwed-up school schedules & electronics use on teenagers' sleep. Changes in effects with age are real - amphetamines' stimulant effects and modafinil's histamine-like side-effects come to mind as examples.)
Factor analysis. The strategy: read in the data, drop unnecessary data, impute missing variables (data is too heterogeneous and collected starting at varying intervals to be clean), estimate how many factors would fit best, factor analyze, pick the ones which look like they match best my ideas of what productive is, extract per-day estimates, and finally regress LLLT usage on the selected factors to look for increases.
Those who have taken them swear they do work – though not in the way you might think. Back in 2015, a review of the evidence found that their impact on intelligence is "modest". But most people don't take them to improve their mental abilities. Instead, they take them to improve their mental energy and motivation to work. (Both drugs also come with serious risks and side effects – more on those later).
Adrafinil is Modafinil's predecessor, because the scientists tested it as a potential narcolepsy drug. It was first produced in 1974 and immediately showed potential as a wakefulness-promoting compound. Further research showed that Adrafinil is metabolized into its component parts in the liver, that is into inactive modafinil acid. Ultimately, Modafinil has been proclaimed the primary active compound in Adrafinil.
It is a known fact that cognitive decline is often linked to aging. It may not be as visible as skin aging, but the brain does in fact age. Often, cognitive decline is not noticeable because it could be as mild as forgetting names of people. However, research has shown that even in healthy adults, cognitive decline can start as early as in the late twenties or early thirties.
My first dose on 1 March 2017, at the recommended 0.5ml/1.5mg was miserable, as I felt like I had the flu and had to nap for several hours before I felt well again, requiring 6h to return to normal; after waiting a month, I tried again, but after a week of daily dosing in May, I noticed no benefits; I tried increasing to 3x1.5mg but this immediately caused another afternoon crash/nap on 18 May. So I scrapped my cytisine. Oh well.
Let's start with the basics of what smart drugs are and what they aren't. The field of cosmetic psychopharmacology is still in its infancy, but the use of smart drugs is primed to explode during our lifetimes, as researchers gain increasing understanding of which substances affect the brain and how they do so. For many people, the movie Limitless was a first glimpse into the possibility of "a pill that can make you smarter," and while that fiction is a long way from reality, the possibilities - in fact, present-day certainties visible in the daily news - are nevertheless extremely exciting.
Spaced repetition at midnight: 3.68. (Graphing preceding and following days: ▅▄▆▆▁▅▆▃▆▄█ ▄ ▂▄▄▅) DNB starting 12:55 AM: 30/34/41. Transcribed Sawaragi 2005, then took a walk. DNB starting 6:45 AM: 45/44/33. Decided to take a nap and then take half the armodafinil on awakening, before breakfast. I wound up oversleeping until noon (4:28); since it was so late, I took only half the armodafinil sublingually. I spent the afternoon learning how to do value of information calculations, and then carefully working through 8 or 9 examples for my various pages, which I published on Lesswrong. That was a useful little project. DNB starting 12:09 AM: 30/38/48. (To graph the preceding day and this night: ▇▂█▆▅▃▃▇▇▇▁▂▄ ▅▅▁▁▃▆) Nights: 9:13; 7:24; 9:13; 8:20; 8:31.
Hall, Irwin, Bowman, Frankenberger, & Jewett (2005)	Large public university undergraduates (N = 379)	13.7% (lifetime)	27%: use during finals week; 12%: use when party; 15.4%: use before tests; 14%: believe stimulants have a positive effect on academic achievement in the long run	M = 2.06 (SD = 1.19) purchased stimulants from other students; M = 2.81 (SD = 1.40) have been given stimulants by other studentsb
This would be a very time-consuming experiment. Any attempt to combine this with other experiments by ANOVA would probably push the end-date out by months, and one would start to be seriously concerned that changes caused by aging or environmental factors would contaminate the results. A 5-year experiment with 7-month intervals will probably eat up 5+ hours to prepare <12,000 pills (active & placebo); each switch and test of mental functioning will probably eat up another hour for 32 hours. (And what test maintains validity with no practice effects over 5 years? Dual n-back would be unusable because of improvements to WM over that period.) Add in an hour for analysis & writeup, that suggests >38 hours of work, and 38 \times 7.25 = 275.5. 12,000 pills is roughly $12.80 per thousand or $154; 120 potassium iodide pills is ~$9, so \frac{365.25}{120} \times 9 \times 5 = 137.
A quick search for drugs that make you smarter will lead you to the discovery of piracetam. Piracetam is the first synthetic smart drug of its kind. All other racetams derive from Piracetam. Some are far more potent, but they may also carry more side effects. Piracetam is an allosteric modulator of acetylcholine receptors. In other words, it enhances acetylcholine synthesis which boosts cognitive function.
More than once I have seen results indicating that high-IQ types benefit the least from random nootropics; nutritional deficits are the premier example, because high-IQ types almost by definition suffer from no major deficiencies like iodine. But a stimulant modafinil may be another such nootropic (see Cognitive effects of modafinil in student volunteers may depend on IQ, Randall et al 2005), which mentions:
Historically used to help people with epilepsy, piracetam is used in some cases of myoclonus, or muscle twitching. Its actual mechanism of action is unclear: It doesn't act exactly as a sedative or stimulant, but still influences cognitive function, and is believed to act on receptors for acetylcholine in the brain. Piracetam is used off-label as a 'smart drug' to help focus and concentration or sometimes as a way to allegedly boost your mood. Again, piracetam is a prescription-only drug - any supply to people without a prescription is illegal, and supplying it may result in a fine or prison sentence.
Federal law classifies most nootropics as dietary supplements, which means that the Food and Drug Administration does not regulate manufacturers' statements about their benefits (as the giant "This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease" disclaimer on the label indicates). And the types of claims that the feds do allow supplement companies to make are often vague and/or supported by less-than-compelling scientific evidence. "If you find a study that says that an ingredient caused neurons to fire on rat brain cells in a petri dish," says Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, "you can probably get away with saying that it 'enhances memory' or 'promotes brain health.'"
It may also be necessary to ask not just whether a drug enhances cognition, but in whom. Researchers at the University of Sussex have found that nicotine improved performance on memory tests in young adults who carried one variant of a particular gene but not in those with a different version. In addition, there are already hints that the smarter you are, the less smart drugs will do for you. One study found that modafinil improved performance in a group of students whose mean IQ was 106, but not in a group with an average of 115.
Maj. Jamie Schwandt, USAR, is a logistics officer and has served as an operations officer, planner and commander. He is certified as a Department of the Army Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, certified Red Team Member, and holds a doctorate from Kansas State University. This article represents his own personal views, which are not necessarily those of the Department of the Army.
A fancier method of imputation would be multiple imputation using, for example, the R library mice (Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations) (guide), which will try to impute all missing values in a way which mimicks the internal structure of the data and provide several possible datasets to give us an idea of what the underlying data might have looked like, so we can see how our estimates improve with no missingness & how much of the estimate is now due to the imputation:
Theanine can also be combined with caffeine as both of them work in synergy to increase memory, reaction time, mental endurance, and memory. The best part about Theanine is that it is one of the safest nootropics and is readily available in the form of capsules. A natural option would be to use an excellent green tea brand which constitutes of tea grown in the shade because then Theanine would be abundantly present in it.
Sounds too good to be true? Welcome to the world of 'Nootropics' popularly known as 'Smart Drugs' that can help boost your brain's power. Do you recall the scene from the movie Limitless, where Bradley Cooper's character uses a smart drug that makes him brilliant? Yes! The effect of Nootropics on your brain is such that the results come as a no-brainer.
There are also premade 'stacks' (or formulas) of cognitive enhancing superfoods, herbals or proteins, which pre-package several beneficial extracts for a greater impact. These types of cognitive enhancers are more 'subtle' than the pharmaceutical alternative with regards to effects, but they work all the same. In fact, for many people, they work better than smart drugs as they are gentler on the brain and produce fewer side-effects.
As mentioned earlier, cognitive control is needed not only for inhibiting actions, but also for shifting from one kind of action or mental set to another. The WCST taxes cognitive control by requiring the subject to shift from sorting cards by one dimension (e.g., shape) to another (e.g., color); failures of cognitive control in this task are manifest as perseverative errors in which subjects continue sorting by the previously successful dimension. Three studies included the WCST in their investigations of the effects of d-AMP on cognition (Fleming et al., 1995; Mattay et al., 1996, 2003), and none revealed overall effects of facilitation. However, Mattay et al. (2003) subdivided their subjects according to COMT genotype and found differences in both placebo performance and effects of the drug. Subjects who were homozygous for the val allele (associated with lower prefrontal dopamine activity) made more perseverative errors on placebo than other subjects and improved significantly with d-AMP. Subjects who were homozygous for the met allele performed best on placebo and made more errors on d-AMP.
Omega-3 fatty acids: DHA and EPA – two Cochrane Collaboration reviews on the use of supplemental omega-3 fatty acids for ADHD and learning disorders conclude that there is limited evidence of treatment benefits for either disorder.[42][43] Two other systematic reviews noted no cognition-enhancing effects in the general population or middle-aged and older adults.[44][45]
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