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OMIGAWD! Someone actually wanted to know about me! Well, here you go:

Full Name: Peter Robert Berg

For Short: Pete

EMail Address: courier@spectra.net

Where I Live: Owego, NY, USA

Age: 13

Birthday: July, 26, 1985

Years Programming: 3

How I Started Programming: When I was nine, I found a book called Inventing Your Own Computer Games by Fred D'Ignazzio. I read it, and wanted to start programming right away, but didn't know how to get into BASIC! (You see, the book was made in 1983, and it said when you turned on the computer, you would automatically be in BASIC.) I had windows, and I couldn't get into BASIC. A year and a half later, I was at a little kid's birthday party. Another kid and I went on to their really crappy PC-2, and found GW-BASIC. I was ecstatic! I ran to my house (half a block away), and came back with the orange-covered book. I typed in the first program called "Guess The Number". It had about 15 lines, and all the program did was have you pick a random number between 1 and 20. I was hooked. Later that night, at home, I got out our old 386 laptop, and searched the hard drive. I found GW-BASIC, and QBASIC. First, I logged onto GW-BASIC, but there was a bug in the program-it wouldn't let me run the programs! I tried QBASIC, and it worked perfectly. I typed in all 10(?) programs in that book, and started making my own. I didn't know a lot of commands, but I started making a text adventure called Area 51. I spent tons of time on it, and I didn't realize that it sucked. A year later, I started 7th grade computer class, and we had to make simple programs in QBASIC, similar to the ones that I had been making at home. One day, while talking to a fellow student about QBASIC, I said that I was mad, because I didn't have QBASIC on my Pentium computer. He said you can get it off of QBASIC.COM for free. I visited QBASIC.COM, and discovered the QBASIC COMMUNITY!

Hobbies: Surfing the 'net, Camping, HTML programming, and of course, QBASIC Programming!

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

to read list

I'm not always someone who has a clear list in my mind of what books to read next, and that means I don't tend to have piles of books waiting around to be read, like lots of bloggers that I read seem to do. This is great for not having unread-book-guilt, but terrible when I finish one book and have no idea what to read next. The panic! Happily, at the moment I do happen to have a large reading list lined up, and I'm a little bit excited about it. Now I can rush through trying to finish them all and put off having to worry about where my next book's coming from for a little while. So I thought I would share my current TBR list with you:

I borrowed a few from my friend (the lovely Georgia), which I have started on:

On Literature by Umberto Eco
I just finished this- really enjoyed the change of pace (it's non-fiction essays, I usually read fiction). Had some nice arguments with him about reviewing and symbolism and felt very inspired to read a lot more classics (for the intertextuality mostly).

Essays  by George Orwell
More essays! I think I am in a non-fictiony mood at the moment so looking forward to these

Love by Angela Carter
Borrowed to fill in my '70s decade for my Century of Books reading project, so should be blogging about this one. I've just started it and it looks like this will be an interesting read...

King, Queen, Knave by Vladimir Nabokov
Haven't read any Nabokov, despite hearing wonderful things about his writing, and have no great desire to read Lolita. This should be good!

With the announcement of the Booker prize shortlist this year I had the vague idea that I have every year of trying to read all the shortlisted books, preferably before the winner is announced. This year might be the year? I've already read Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (and I really love this series of hers) and I went to my library website to see what was available. I now have holds on:
Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil
Umbrella by Will Self
Just have to track down The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng, Swimming Home by Deborah Levy and The Lighthouse by Alison Moore.

I also put a hold on the latest Tana French Dublin Murder Squad book, Broken Harbour, a little while ago. There's a bit of a queue for that though so I'm not sure when I'll get to it. No matter! Plenty to keep me occupied in the meantime.

And I also noticed that there is a new Kate Griffin out, so that will go on the list, and I thought I might try some Pushkin, because I have always been intrigued by him but never read anything at all. But those might have to wait a while.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

1960s - Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is one of those books that people have been recommending to me forever, and yet the title has always put me off actually reading it. That and the fact that I have always kind of mixed it together with Catch-22 (which I have also never read) in my mind. But in the spirit of this Century of Books challenge I thought needing a '60s book to read was  the perfect opportunity to put my misconceptions behind me and actually see what this book is all about.

In short, this book is all about the life of Billy Pilgrim- traveller in time- and sort of revolves around his experience of WWII and, in particular, the bombing of Dresden. The book proceeds in a linear way through Billy's war experiences, but these are inter-cut with his travels to a range of different moments in his life, sometimes for a brief impressionistic moment and sometimes for longer, from his time in hospital to his time as an alien abductee on the planet Trafalmadore. The time and space travel can be read as fact, or as products of the war-shattered mind of Billy, who has after all read a lot of bad science fiction. Or at least that's how I read it. The time travel and encounters with an alien culture prompt musings on the nature of time and fate, which might be read as Billy trying to make sense of his wartime experiences.

The character of Billy Pilgrim almost seems to run on rails, fated to end up where he does, accepting of all events that come his way, a sort of fool, an innocent caught up in an incomprehensible situation. This really picks up on the book's subtitle, The Children's Crusade, but it's a ludicrous sort of innocence- at the climax of the book Billy emerges into the bombed landscape of Dresden wearing a number of cast-offs from a POW camp production of Cinderella, including silver boots and a sort of toga. He doesn't seem to give any thought to it, though people around him are amused by his appearance. His reaction to the aftermath of the bombing is similarly wide-eyed- it's described as 'like the surface of the moon' and Billy Pilgrim spends one of the happiest moments of his life asleep in a wagon drawn by a donkey in the desolate ruins of the town.

The effect of all this is what makes it a powerful anti-war book. It's devoid of heroism or scenes of military prowess- Billy Pilgrim goes into the war unarmed (he is trained as a Chaplain's assistant) and is captured by a rag-tag bunch of soldiers. War in this book is ridiculous, it is horrible but not tragic, because there is romance in tragedy. Instead it is a farce, and the idea of justified war is undermined by the centre-piece of the story- the destruction of the entire city of Dresden. It's not that the Nazi's are portrayed positively, the corpse candles for instance are a sharp reminder of how bad it was, it's just that the war is not a positive thing.

It's an interesting scenario, I don't think that the Dresden bombing is something that I really knew or thought about until I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Johnathan Safran Foer (which I loved). The descriptions in that book are more horrifying because it is not avoiding the tragic, the images of liquid fire, the idea of large-scale death came through so strongly in that book that Slaughterhouse Five seemed flat by comparison. Recently I read Above Suspicion by Helen McInnes, a spy novel written during the early years of WWII and set in the lead up to the outbreak of war. That book was heavily shadowed by the idea of appeasement, and expressed a sort of moral disgust at not acting against Germany earlier. Obviously it's written in wartime, but it's hard to read it and see how you could not go to war- after all, not only was Nazi Germany an awful regime, it was also actively invading other countries. But then you read books like Slaughterhouse Five, and remember Dresden (and Hiroshima and Nagasaki) and wonder how anyone can get through a war with their conscience intact?

Tuesday, September 04, 2012

1950s- The End of the Affair (1951)

I was already late writing up this one, and then I found that the draft of the post I'd been writing has disappeared, so that is partly my excuse for such a long blog silence. I have run so far behind schedule on this project but I haven't given up, in fact I'm already reading my 1960s book. Hopefully I will post on that in a more timely fashion! But I digress, back to The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, and hopefully I haven't forgotten too much of it...

I haven't read any Graham Greene before, but when I noticed this book in the bookshop while looking for something completely different (The Door in the Air by Margaret Mahy, but that's another story) and realised it was written in the '50s it seemed like the perfect time to start. When I started reading the book my feelings of serendipity diminished somewhat. It wasn't what I felt like reading, it was too ironic feeling, too much emotional distance, the kind of book that makes me want to start grumbling that all contemporary literature is the same- all infidelity and unsympathetic characters. The 1950s was clearly not long enough ago to escape this.

I tend to feel that such a reaction reflects badly on me rather than the book, and means that either I need to take a bit of a break from the genre or read something exceptional that makes sense of the genre again. It bodes ill for writing book reviews. But! The story does not end there. I kept reading and eventually the book turned around for me. I was reading along, grumbling at how unbelievable the love between two characters often seems in books that are centered around being in love, and thinking about manic pixie dream girls, and generally not getting along with the central character, when Sarah's diary started, and everything just made much more sense to me. Then the story moved into the tragic, and I thought it was the better for it.

Short digression for a plot summary: Maurice runs into Henry in the park, and is reminded of his ended affair with Henry's wife, Sarah, which ended when a bomb fell on his house and Sarah inexplicably left him. This reminder reawakens his obsession, and he set about trying to understand what happened, and following Sarah's movements by hiring a private detective to follow her, and eventually to steal her diary. And I don't think it's too much of a spoiler (though look away if you want) to say that Sarah ends up dying- Maurice attends the funeral and then falls into a strange sort-of friendship with Henry, who is rather a pathetic figure.

It's funny reviewing books by your reactions to them rather than what they are trying to do, but then it's not easy to do anything else. Maurice introduces his story by saying "this is a record of hate far more than of love", and yet what I want is a story of love, and it is for the parts of it that made sense of the book as a love story that I particularly liked it. Sarah's diary did that for me, because she was able to express love, because through her voice I understood how Maurice could be loveable. Maurice, on the other hand, is clouded by pain  and insecurity and obsession. He goes on from the sentence I quoted before to say "... and if I come to say anything in favour of Henry and Sarah I can be trusted: I am writing against the bias because it is my professional pride to prefer the near truth, even to the expression of my near hate." But to the reader, or to this reader anyway, this sentence only underlines how much he cannot be trusted, his hate is complicated by his love. The way the love affair plays out seems very real, and really underlines this complication- the obsession and the insecurity and the tedium of it. But for me, the tedium and the negativity of the affair only made sense once I could see the love.

The book goes on to talk more about the relationship between love and hate, not only in terms of the relationship between Maurice and Sarah but also in terms of their relationship with God. Both start out as confirmed atheists, but have to confront what they actually believe over the course of the book. Whether they believe in God, and what they believe about God, turns out to be the destructive force in their affair.

Towards the end the tone changed again, from the tragic to the more everyday, and it lost me a little bit again. But it seems unfair to try to make a book that is trying to undermine in some way the idea of a grand love affair into a grand love affair. It's just that with the loss of Sarah, just when I had come to find her so important, I lost interest a bit.

So a lot to think about there, clearly! All in all I really enjoyed this book, despite feeling less than excited by it to begin with, and maybe I will look up some more Greene in future. In the meanwhile I'll be reading Slaughterhouse Five and hopefully this blog will not be neglected for so long again!


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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Project Runway casting: Your chance to.... and get so sick of the industry that you quit. Or make yourself look an egomaniac incapable of working for/with or for that matter against people. Nevertheless still one of my fav reality TV shows as it actually involves a maximum of talent and a minimum of scripted scenarios, other than the challenges of course.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Severely Belated 2010 Business Roundup

To keep it short, sweet and to the point:
- 34% business increase from 2009
- 6th year of growth in a row
- new notable clients include: Nicole miller, Badgley Mischka, Reem Acra, Vivienne Tam, Nel n'Co,, Bjorn Borg, Showroom Seven (Seventh House PR) and Duffy (DZ Group),
- 2011 marks 10th year in business

Champagne s'il-vous-plait. Good news only and not much of a change from previous years. Let's hope that this pot-holed economy is keeping us inventive and on our toes.


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Kelv, thank you for your time and wishing you the best with your project! (Project link at end of interview)

Here are the 10:

1. What got you interested in designing a deck of playing cards?
I think there are certain products that every designer (secretly) wants to have a go at, every product designer wants to create a lamp, and a chair – every transport designer wants to design the perfect 2 seater sports car, and every graphic designer wants to nail the ideal poster print and deck of cards. If you’re interested in layout and design heritage then Cards are a mine of fashion and technology and style over hundreds of years.

2. What was your inspiration for this deck?
Our inspiration for the CMYK Playing Cards was to apply an anti-design ethos to the traditional deck of cards; we’d seen a lot of super oranate/detailed illustrated packs and we wanted to strip everything back with a simple functional approach.

3. Why Kickstarter?
We actually had a batch of CMYK Playing Cards made 2 years ago as our first product; but most of them were sent out to press and blogs to create some media attention around our other ranges. After the success of our first project on KS (the Sugar Skull Spoon) we wanted to pitch the CMYK Playing Cards to fund a full production run.

4. Do you have any other interesting hobbies or maybe a fun story about an experience involving your deck?
I am terrible at poker. A friend of mine works as a croupier in a Casino here in London and tried to teach me for HOURS how to play. I thought it would improve the design if I had some experience, but I don’t seem to have the cognitive capacity for it. I’ve spent probably 4 hours watching YouTube tutorials but it’s just too hard. Luckily they work great for Solitairre too.

5. What is one thing you wouldn’t do without?
In life? I guess my top three are air, water, and sandwiches. But I’d also struggle to do anything without coffee and punk rock music. Both things are pretty much vital to my attitude and approach to design, and the latter pretty much brought me up as a teenager. If you’re threatening to take them away then that makes me upset.

6. What’s the best tidbit of advice you’ve ever been given?
In life? ‘Do unto others..’ is something I try to live my life by, I think if everyone tried to as well the world would be a much better place. There’s a reason this saying was known as the Golden Law.

In Graphics? ‘CHECK THE OVERPRINT’ is something screamed into me at University, and I have only forgotten one time. Which giant consequences I don’t want to talk about..

7. What advice would you give to other aspiring deck creators/artists?

8. Do you have an online presence where we can view your work?

9. Is there anything else you’d like to say?
I’d like to say thank you to everyone who has ever liked something from Hundred Million enough to buy it. We try to only make products we would buy ourselves. Which sometimes results in insular niche products like the CMYK Playing Cards. It’s not a mass market product, but maybe that adds to the appeal from the people who ‘get it’. It makes me feel warm inside to know people are pleased by things that come from my brain. I can’t play guitar so releasing gifts and products is as close as I will ever get to writing an EP.

10. And finally, I would like to give you this opportunity to share three to five images and tell us a little about each.
I’ve included some images of the CMYK Playing Cards, they’re pretty self explanatory, and the product works best when seen and not heard.

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Thursday, January 1, 2009

Leonard Barras

If you found this blog while searching for Leonard Barras, he will need no introduction from me. If you do not know of him, his obituary in The Guardian will tell you something about the man and his work.
They describe him as "Beachcomber meets Flann O'Brien" and others have compared him to Ivor Cutler and Spike Milligan. I'd say there are also similarities to Peter Tinniswood and N.F. Simpson.

During the 1980s and 1990s, BBC Radio 4 made several broadcasts of Barras reading his own stories. I taped a number of them and here they are. There is the odd bit of intereference but overall I think the quality is fair. At any rate, as far as I know, none of Barras's readings are commercially available at present, so I think they are better than nothing. If anybody out there can add to the collection, please leave a comment or e-mail me direct at the address given in my profile.

Certain Vicissitudes

Very Likely (three episodes) -
Love in a Windy Place
Nothing Like Flute Practice
Third Time and Still Unlucky

Further up the Tyne in a Flummox (four episodes)
Last Night, Ah Yesternight & Not the Food of Love
A Number of Mean Things & The Case of Many Legs
Ambition's Debt & A Sanctified Artefact
A Hanging Matter & Her Voice Was Ever Soft

Even Further up the Tyne in a Flummox (four episodes)
Much Persuasion & Rhubarb, A Conservative View
Find Truth for Yourself & The Turnip in the Night
Worms Have Eaten Them & Quite Unlike A Singing Bird
Laid on with a Trowel & Everything but Vertigo

Eva and Adamson (three of four episodes)
Not Another Oven Glove & Loping through the Slush
All Circumstances are Grey in the Dark & Words without Songs
Lampooned with Love & Nothing To Do with a Hereford Bull
missing episode:
Battle of Bursitis & Achieving the Unintelligible
The recordings I have are a mixture from the first broadcasts and repeats. Somehow, I managed to miss the fourth episode both times.

Quintessentially Flummoxed (four episodes)
Days of Reflection & Relatively Absolute
Suffering is Permanent & Vibrating in the Memory
Only Stars Above You & After Me In Vain
Such Love as Spirits Feel & After the Flood

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UPDATE. Please see post of 3 August 2009 for additional episodes.
UPDATE. Dead links removed. Please see post of 16 June 2015 for links to the complete collection of recordings

Outa_Spaceman said...

I had started to believe I'd imagined these radio broadcasts...
Thanks for making them available...

Peter said...

There's another set of four - called 'Flummoxed Four Times'. Peter

Phil said...

Just when I thought the end was in sight! Yes, I've done a Google search and I see it was broadcast in 1989.

jmhb3 said...

The phrase in that peerless Newcastle accent, "...whose house was built on decayed vegetable matter that one day would come home to roost" will live with me forever. From, I think, "Up the Tyne in a Flummox" - possibly 1984.

Phil said...

Thanks jmhb3. If it's Up the Tyne in a Flummox, then it is in one the episodes I am still looking for.

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for posting these. Leonard Barras is a great, largely unsung hero of British comic prose and a unique talent. I think the reason he's not better known is that he didn't want to be, and it's hard to argue with that. Hearing him read his own stories is always such a treat. Only Ivor Cutler and Vivian Stanshall are in the same league of surreal comic invention. If I remember rightly, the original broadcasts were only ever available by writing to Barras himself, who would send out cassette tapes. I'm guessing this means that the BBC only held the rights to broadcast but not to release as recordings, so thanks again for making them available. I have them on my ipod and every once in a while find myself flummoxed in between The Incredible String Band and The Screaming Blue Messiahs.


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This Week in Web – PHP Needs X, Python IDEs, Firefox5, jQuery Mobile, Python Games

This Week in Web – PHP Needs X, Python IDEs, Firefox5, jQuery Mobile, Python Games

Firefox 5 Released

Mozilla have released Firefox 5.0 final. Some of the biggest changes are support for CSS animations, the addition of the do not track header and better HTML5 support. A list of features and changes that developers may find relevant can be found here. If you were a user of the Firefox 4 beta versions, Firefox should update to version 5 in the background. Otherwise you can download Firefox 5 from the downloads page.

jQuery Mobile Beta 1

The jQuery Mobile team is happy to announce the release of Beta 1. We’re proud of the refinements we’ve made to make jQuery Mobile faster, extensible and more compatible over the last 12 weeks and look forward to having more frequent releases as we work up to 1.0 in late summer. We’re planning on releasing a second Beta in about a month that will begin decoupling our code so you can include only the components you need, add greater extensibility to support dynamic JS-driven sites, and bring even broader device support.

Note that jQuery Mobile 1.0 will require jQuery core 1.6 as a baseline. Going forward, we’ll be supporting the two latest major versions of core but we’re starting with a cleaner baseline for launch.

Read a full list of features and changes here

Bejeweled Blitz Clone in Python

Al Sweigart, author of Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python has written a Bewjewled clone named Gemgem. It is powered by PyGame and is around 540 lines of commented code. It is available to download here [zip]. The Invent With Python blog is a great resource for those wanting to learn Python and PyGame. Sweigart has posted many games on it and continues to keep it updated.

PHP Needs X

The recent PHP Fork has lead to alot of discussion regarding the direction the PHP language is taking toward the future. Other dynamic languages such as Python, Lua and Ruby have been quick to add new features after consulting and discussing them with the community. PHP on the other hand has almost been the exact opposite, with PHP core developers making the majority of decisions themselves with little to no communication with the PHP user base. The folks over at have created a web application that allows people to submit and vote on suggestions for the PHP language. Hopefully this will make clear to the PHP core developers exactly what the community would like to see in future versions of PHP.

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Sunday, May 31, 2015

Leon Lederman. Sold His Nobel Prize Medal

i find that it is sad that he had to resort to this.

Retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman is now 92 years old and facing serious health problems and memory loss. So he took to an online auction and sold his 1988 Nobel prize for his co-discovery of subatomic particle called the muon neutrino to cover his costs. The price of Nobel fame online? $765,002.

It had been only a few years ago that I mentioned about his efforts on the streets of Chicago to educate the public about physics. I wish more could have done to help him to not have him sell his medal.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Wheeler's "Delayed Choice" Experiment Done With Single Atoms

Looks like we now have the first "Delayed Choice" experiment done with single atoms, this one with single He atoms.

Indeed, the results of both Truscott and Aspect's experiments shows that a particle's wave or particle nature is most likely undefined until a measurement is made. The other less likely option would be that of backward causation – that the particle somehow has information from the future – but this involves sending a message faster than light, which is forbidden by the rules of relativity.

There are now many experiments that support QM's non-realism and quantum contextuality. This latest experiment adds to the body of evidence.

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

CERN Courier has a rather informative article on the start-up of NSLS II and its capabilities. It certainly is the newest "from scratch" light source facility (rather than just an upgrade of an existing facility).

I hope they save some parts of the original NSLS and commemorate it with some sort of a marker. After more than 30 years of service, that facility certainly was worth every penny spent on it.

Thursday, May 21, 2015

What Is Really "Real" In Quantum Physics

This is an excellent article from this week's Nature. It gives you a summary of some of the outstanding issues in Quantum Physics that are actively being looked into. Many of these things are fundamental questions of the interpretation of quantum physics, and it is being done not simply via a philosophical discussion, but via experimental investigation. I do not know how long this article will be available to the public, so read it now quickly.

One of the best part about this article is that it clearly defines some of the philosophical terminologies in term of how they are perceived in physics. You get to understand the meanings of "psi-epistemic models" and "psi-ontic models", and the differences between them and how they can be distinguished in experiments.

But this is where the debate gets stuck. Which of quantum theory's many interpretations — if any — is correct? That is a tough question to answer experimentally, because the differences between the models are subtle: to be viable, they have to predict essentially the same quantum phenomena as the very successful Copenhagen interpretation. Andrew White, a physicist at the University of Queensland, says that for most of his 20-year career in quantum technologies “the problem was like a giant smooth mountain with no footholds, no way to attack it”.

That changed in 2011, with the publication of a theorem about quantum measurements that seemed to rule out the wavefunction-as-ignorance models. On closer inspection, however, the theorem turned out to leave enough wiggle room for them to survive. Nonetheless, it inspired physicists to think seriously about ways to settle the debate by actually testing the reality of the wavefunction. Maroney had already devised an experiment that should work in principle, and he and others soon found ways to make it work in practice. The experiment was carried out last year by Fedrizzi, White and others.
There is even a discussion on devising a test for Pilot wave model after the astounding demonstration of the concept using simple classical wave experiment.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Review of Leonard Mlodinow's "Upright Tinkers"

This is a review of physicist's Leonard Mlodinow's new book "Upright Tinkers: : The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos."

In it, he debunks the myths about famous scientists and how major discoveries and ideas came about.

With it, he hopes to correct the record on a number of counts. For instance, in order to hash out his theory of evolution, Darwin spent years post-Galapagos shifting through research and churning out nearly 700 pages on barnacles before his big idea began to emerge. Rather than divine inspiration, Mlodinow says, achieving real innovation takes true grit, and a willingness to court failure, a lesson we’d all be wise to heed.

“People use science in their daily lives all the time whether or not its what we think of as ‘science,’” he continues. “Data comes in that you have to understand. Life’s not simple. It require patience to solve problems, and I think science can teach you that if you know what it really is.”

Scientists would agree. Recently, psychologist Angela Duckworth has begun overturning fundamental conventional wisdom about the role intelligence plays in our life trajectories with research illustrating that, no matter the arena, it’s often not the smartest kids in the room who become the most successful; it’s the most determined ones.

As I've said many times on here, there is a lot of value in learning science, even for non-scientists, IF there is a conscious effort to reveal and convey the process of analytic, systematic thinking. We all live in a world where we try to find correlations among many things, and then try to figure out the cause-and-effect. This is the only way we make sense of our surrounding, and how we acquire knowledge of things. Science allows us to teach this skill to students, and letting them be aware of how we consider something to be valid.

This is what is sadly lacking today, especially in the world of politics and social policies.

Record Number of Authors In Physics Paper

I don't know why this has been making the news reports a lot since last week. I suppose it must be a landmark even or something.

The latest paper on the Higgs is making the news, not for its results, but for setting the record for the largest number of authors on a paper, 5154 of them.

Only the first nine pages in the 33-page article, published on 14 May in Physical Review Letters, describe the research itself — including references. The other 24 pages list the authors and their institutions.

The article is the first joint paper from the two teams that operate ATLAS and CMS, two massive detectors at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics lab near Geneva, Switzerland. Each team is a sprawling collaboration involving researchers from dozens of institutions and countries.

And oh yeah, they reduced the uncertainty in the Higgs mass to 0.25%, but who cares about that!

This is neither interesting nor surprising to me. The number of collaborators in each of the ATLAS and CMS detector is already huge by themselves. So when they pool together their results and analysis, it isn't surprising that this happens.

Call me silly, but what I was more surprised with, and it is more unexpected, is that the research article itself is "nine pages". I thought PRL always limits its papers to only 4 pages!

BTW, this paper is available for free under the Creative Commons License, you may read it for yourself.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Electron Pairing Without Superconductivity

The interesting news from last week is the publication in Nature of the confirmation of the presence of electron pairs in STO, but without superconductivity.

This is significant because this has always been a possibility, i.e. where the electrons pair up but do not form any long range order or become a condensate. This phenomenon was hinted at in the cuprate superconductors especially in the underdoped regime where experiments such as tunneling and ARPES have shown the presence of a gap, called the pseudogap, above the critical temperature Tc. Whether this pseudogap is the precursor to the electrons having long-range order and condenses below Tc, or whether these electrons are actually competing with those that do, is still a highly debated question.

My guess is that this paper will be a significant piece of information to that puzzle.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Quark Gluon Plasma

The quark-gluon plasma (or fluid) that was observed at RHIC several years ago, is back in focus in this Don Lincoln's video.

So where do I get that t-shirt that he was wearing? :)

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

The Birth of Soft Condensed Matter Physics

This is a very nice article to introduce to you the field of Soft Condensed Matter Physics as a way to celebrate the life of physicist Sam Edwards, who passed away recently.

Thursday, May 07, 2015

Teacher Arrested After Burning Message On Kids Arms Using Tesla Coil

I read this, and I don't know what to make of this. It appears that the parents who filed the complaint against this teacher are making a bigger deal out of it than the students themselves.

Samuel Dufner thought he'd liven up a science class at South Salem High School in Oregon. So, as the Associated Press reports, he explained to the kids last Thursday that a Tesla coil could actually burn a mark on their skin.

And it was a "I Love Mom" message too, because Mother's Day is coming up. Awww.....

But obviously, a parent didn't think it was that warm and fuzzy, because the parent filed a complaint and the teacher was arrested for "criminal mistreatment". Still, the report indicated that no charges has been filed.

The kids thought it was fun, and it didn't hurt. Were any animals or human being harmed in this experiment?

Wednesday, May 06, 2015

The Physics Of Tesla Home Battery

Elon Musk is at it again.

Rhett Allain has a nice article giving you some of the background physics you need to evaluate the effectiveness of the new Tesla's Powerwall home battery unit.

I would get this if it can be sustained for a full day with a single, full charge. So now I have to figure out how much my computers, entertainment system, freezer, refrigerators, and my central air system need! :)

Monday, May 04, 2015

Particle Accelerators - Current And Future Applications

Another example of where accelerators have wide-ranging applications outside of just high energy physics experiments.

Friday, May 01, 2015

The Difference Between Cats And Dogs

I'm sure many of you have noticed this, but have you sat down and really analyze it? Or maybe in my case, over-analyzing it?

A bunch of friends and I were sitting around and just talk (y'know, the stuff you do face-to-face and doesn't involve moving your fingers over a virtual keyboard). Of course, the conversation went over various topics of politics, the economy, etc...etc. At some point, it inevitably meandered into science, and physics in particular, since everyone there knew I am a physicist. It was when we got to that point that I noticed how the nature of the conversation changed.

We were comfortable with just talking when we were discussing politics, etc. But when we got to physics, we had to bring out several sheets of paper and started to either do sketches, or in my case, having to write simple, basic equations and numbers. This shouldn't be surprising because sketching something in physics is often the simplest and most direct way to demonstrate or explain something. We physicists, engineers, and other scientists tend to grab almost anything we can get (napkins, crumpled papers, etc.) when we sit and talk about what we do. Even in school, the way different subjects are taught can be evident. I remember being in a literature class where the instructor barely wrote anything on the board. This is unheard of in a math, physics, etc. class where it is not uncommon for the instructor to need several boards, or had to erase the one board over and over again throughout an entire class session.

I can't help thinking that, among other things, this signifies clearly the differences between one type of discipline versus another. While certain the field of economics, politics, etc. have more exact components, it is interesting that we all find that we can simply just talk verbally about it to get out point across... or can we? On the other hand, a STEM subject often requires illustrations, rudimentary calculations, etc. when we discuss things. I certainly find it significantly easier with a pen and paper to illustrate various topics that are being discussed.

So that led me to consider why that is so. Is it because there's a lot more "ambiguity" when we discuss politics and economics and other social matters? Are they more qualitative in nature? Is the discussion of STEM subject more well-defined and more quantitative? One example I have is the a topic of discussion that we had about politics and the issue of cutting taxes. This is a popular topic when there is an election coming. It takes no knowledge of anything to say that one wants to cut taxes. Yet, the issue of "by how much" and "how did you arrive at that figure" very seldom enters into any form of public discussion. It is as of the public is either incapable of understanding the details of such issue, or they don't have the patience to pay attention into such boring stuff.

We all want to pay less taxes! Who wouldn't? But we also depend on many services provided by various parts of the government, be it local or federal. One should not just say one is going to cut taxes, because frankly, saying just that, to me, is idiotic! One can cut it by $1 and that would have been a tax cut. Rather, I want to hear answers to : (1) by how much are you going to cut such-and-such taxes (2) how did you come up with that number (3) what were your assumptions that you used to arrive at that number (i.e. you must have made some estimates on what it would cost to provide the necessary services, and how much revenue you'd exact to make in that fiscal year)? etc.. etc. In other words, there are PLENTY of details that has to be revealed beyond just saying that you want to cut taxes. Otherwise, that statement is really empty and meaningless, and might even be totally irrelevant.

But this is usually missing from many political discussions, and it may even be something that the public simply don't care to hear, especially if they can be seduced by just sound bites. A lot of discussion in this area are often simply statements made without a lot of justification, and even if there were, they were mainly anecdotes. To me, this is why discussion on such topics can often be done verbally, because they are mainly "abstract", qualitative ideas (i.e. what goes up, must come down) without diving into the details (i.e. when and where it comes down).

But then you could turn around and ask me "But ZapperZ, isn't this how science articles and news are also done? I seldom seen pictures or number to explain the science that is being reported."

That is true, but that is because scientists and science writers (who are often not scientists themselves) have learned to communicate more effectively with the public, i.e. we can't bore then with the details and the numbers if we want to get their attention. Instead, we have to use bells and whistles, and we must be perky and superficial. But in my case, I find that being superficial and qualitative were sufficient in my discussion on political and social matters, but it wasn't sufficient when I had to answer a question on why centrifugal force is a "fictitious force". In fact, I had to get up from my chair and had to illustrate certain things by acting it to be able to get the message across. I didn't have to do anything close to that to discuss the latest local election in my area.

So maybe there is an inherent differences in these two board areas that can't be changed or eliminated, very much like dogs and cats. But I've seen dogs and cats get along very well and learn from each other. And certainly while those in STEM areas are learning how to communicate better to the public, and those in politics, economics, and social science are applying more quantitative aspects to their studies, are the public aware of such differences and how they could learn from it to look internally on how they analyze and conclude something? Have they looked at the differences between dogs and cats deeply enough beyond just the superficial level?

I don't know.


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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Sunday morning breakfast with Skylar

Good morning everyone! Here I am sitting in my Bumbo chair on the dining room table ready to have breakfast with my Momma. Do you like my new Disney Princess jammies? Momma & Daddy got them fer me yesterday at Wal Mart.

Doesn't breakfast look super-yummy-delicious this morning? Momma made me granola and apples cereal. It's one of my most favortist things to eat! Yummm!

Big girls like me take real big bites like this off the spoon. MMmmmm this is SO good!

Food doesn't taste nearly as good unless you're wearing a bunch of it on your face like this.

Okay, I ate my cereal and had my bath. Now I am dressed and I gots my Dodie. I'm ready to go to Lowe's now, Momma!

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Easter pics and a warm spring day outside

Skylar and Momma had our very own photo shoot one night and took pictures of her in eight different dresses while Daddy took a nap in her big girl bed. I guess he got bored watching us play dress up.

I decided on these first two pictures as her Easter pics and finally got all her cards mailed out this morning. Isn't my baby girl a beauty?

Skylar in her swing being pushed by our friend Roger.

She looks like she's concentrating doesn't she?

My little shnookems fell asleep in her swing!

Skylar absolutely LOVES being outdoors.

She was relaxing in her Bumbo chair...sittin' atop the dining room table while we ate the burgers and hot dogs and homemade potato salad and beans that I made for Tara's birthday dinner. Afterwards we ate the Heath Bar cheesecake that I made from scratch. I totally forgot to take a picture of it for my collection. Oh well.....guess I'll just have to make another one. =)

Here was my not-so-happy princess in her new Johnny Jumpa-Doodle thing. I know....that's not the name of it really but that's what I like to call it.

She sat in her space car in the backyard just off the deck watching Daddy pull weeds and plant vegetables in his garden.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Six-months-old on 3/7/09!

Watching t.v. from Momma's chair Friday night before we went away for the weekend.

In the car in the driveway getting ready to take off on our drive to Dave and Christine's house in Chickamauga for cousin Renata's baby shower. Daddy rigged up her dvd player on the back of the passenger seat and she watched The Backyardigans all the way there. Well, except for those brief moments when she was "resting her eyes."

We stopped at a truck stop just before getting on the interstate so the dogs could pee. Skylar stretched out in the back and got her panties changed. She kicked and talked the whole time with wide eyes...watching all the activity going on in the parking lot.

At the party sitting outside on Daddy's that little pouty face.

At Grammy & Peepaws house waiting to eat her breakfast of peaches and rice cereal. Yum!

After breakfast she played in her space car while Momma, Grammy and Peepaw looked on.

We decided to let Daddy go back to bed and we went with Grammy and Peepaw for a drive to Murphy, North Carolina to go to Wal Mart. Until they open the new Blairsville store this fall that's where Grammy has to go to do her Wal Mart shopping.

After we came back from North Carolina we picked up Daddy and we all went to Cobb's Mill for lunch. The name of the restaurant is actually Antonietta's now but we still refer to it by it's previous name. It's a family-run restaurant with great food. Momma forgot to bring Skylar a bottle so Grammy ordered her some mashed potatoes which she totally objected to. She kept spitting them out I'm guessing because of the texture. She continued to have a fit so after we ate our salads we got them to box up our lunches and we took them home so the princess could have her bottle.

When we got back home to our house Daddy hung up her new swing on the back porch before he had to go to work. She absolutely LOVES the swing and has spent many hours in it over the last three days. I can see we'll be spending a lot of time outside this summer!


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America’s food supply depends heavily on corn, far more than most people realize. All that corn is hurting our health and our environment.

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    well, I don’t want to rewrite my smart-alik remark NOW (your just talking out your hate for certain vegitables out on poor ol’ corn, you broccoli-zuccini-eggplant-raw-tomatoe-asparagus-and-lord-knows-what-else-hater)
    but I think your error message should say “damnit bitch, fill out the form right, or I’ll pop a cap in your ass!”
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    as well as reflect the quality of our character immediatly

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Sometimes You Need a Redo

Remember Ravi?  Cute Cardigan, in garter stitch, 3/4 sleeves, shaped hem?  Well, Ravi is no more.  I love the look of the design and there are no problems with the pattern, I just wasn't wanting to work on it.  When that happens, I know its time to take a serious look at the project, because something is bugging me.  With Ravi, I was afraid it wouldn't work for my wardrobe.

The suggested yarn for the pattern is Socks That Rock Mediumweight which I was using.  It's a sport weight yarn but because it's designed for socks, it has a lot of twist and is a very dense yarn.  I wasn't quite through my first skein of it yet, but the part I had knitted just felt heavy.  This was exacerbated  with the garter stitch - garter stitch compresses in the vertical direction and it's not a flat fabric - it has horizontal ridges.  It almost works like something corrugated and will trap body heat accordingly.  I could tell that with the density of the yarn and the texture of the garter stitch, this would be one warm sweater.  I love warm sweaters and yes, there are times when you can wear warm sweaters in Texas.  I don't see much use for warm sweaters with 3/4 length sleeves though. If I need a warm sweater, I want long sleeves.  I know I could have knit long sleeves, but the 3/4 length sleeves just seemed perfect for Ravi.  I didn't want to change that.  So once I admitted all this to myself, it was off to the frog pond with Ravi.  I might try again at some point with a less dense yarn, but for now, I'm moving on.
I've already chosen and started a new pattern with the yarn and this will be much more suited to what I can wear here.  I'll give you a peek of the new project later this week.  Oh, and I mentioned spinning over the weekend in Friday's post.  Max was unfortunately in full Wrecking Ball mode over the weekend so I chose not to spin - thought it was safer for everyone involved.  Maybe sometime this week I can get out the wheel.  He's got to sleep sometime (other than at night, which he still does, all night long, under the covers, sideways).

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Yep, sometimes the yarn and pattern just don't sing together.

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Anonymous Amy said...

Perhaps you could re-work the body as stockinette instead? Then it wouldn't be so heavy and the 3/4 sleeves would be OK.

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Blogger Michelle said...

I got my Ravi body totally done, tried it on and found the same issues with the yarn and garter stitch and the fabric being too thick. It's back in cakes but I have a new pattern already printed out. I think Ravi would be better in stockinette and might try it again sometime.

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Modalu launch new ‘Pippa’ bags for Autumn – limited edition

Modalu’s very popular Bristol bag, which has since been re-named as the ‘Pippa’, is now back on sale for a limited amount of time. The bag has been redesigned for autumn and comes in three new colours: black crock, oak and chilli. The bag surged in popularity after Pippa was spotted carrying it outside the Goring […]

Spotted: Pippa out shopping

One of our readers couldn’t believe her eyes when she spotted Pippa shopping recently: Hollie saw Pippa in ‘Les Petites‘ on the day she wore her leopard print Whistles shift dress. According to Hollie, Pippa purchased a coral coloured jacket from the shop (I bet we’ll see this on Pippa soon!). Hollie managed to snap […]

Pippa Middleton watches Tennis at Queen’s

As we reported an hour ago on our Facebook page, Pippa was spotted out today wearing a white crochet dress, denim jacket, L.K. Bennett handbag and aviator sunglasses. Before heading over to watch the AEGON Tennis Championships at the exclusive member’s only Queen’s club, Pippa was snapped indulging in a bit of shopping in Chelsea, […]

Sporty Pippa competes in Blenheim Triathlon again:

Athletic Pippa comleted a sprint at the annual GE Blenheim Palace Triathlon today.  One tweeter was lucky enough to spot Pippa at the race: She was photographed wearing in a grey vest, pink and grey shorts, pink trainers and wearing her Gucci sunglasses on top of her head. Click here to see the photos of […]

What would you look like with Pippa’s hair?

InStyle magazine have a neat little tool that allows you to upload a photo of yourself so you can “try on” Pippa Middleton’s hairstyle. You can also try other celebrity hairstyles, including Kate Middleton’s everyday hairstyle and her curled hair and tiara from the Royal wedding. (and before you ask, no that’s no me on […]

You WILL be able to buy the Modalu ‘Pippa’ bag after June 5th:

Modalu have confirmed that although they’re only taking pre-orders on the Modalu Bristol / Pippa handbag until June 5th, they WILL be retocking the bag on the website later in the year. The bag will remain in Modalu’s collection for seasons to come, and they have confirmed that they will be updating the bag in […]

Pippa at the French Open (Roland Garros)

Pippa Middleton was spotted out in Paris, France today watching the French Open (Roland Garros) with three friends. She was pictured watching Rafael Nadal winning against Ivan Ljubicic, then Robin Soderling vs Gilles Simon on the centre court. The French Open 2011 is the second tennis Grand Slam of the year played on a clay […]

Pippa’s popularity trouncing Kate’s?

Last week over 60 different stories were printed about party planner Pippa, who found herself in the public eye after her role as Maid of Honour to sister Kate last month.  Kate’s coverage in the media has fallen significantly, whilst Pippa’s has soared. This is unsurprising as officials from Clarence House have asked that Kate […]

Pippa Middleton’s Style beats Cheryl Coles’

Fashion fans looking to copy Pippa Middleton’s style have been actively searching celebrity trend website “MyCelebrityFashion.co.uk“, knocking Cheryl Cole from the top spot in the charts.   Cheryl Cole, who was the previous holder of the number one spot, has now dropped to fifth place below Pippa, Sam Faiers from TOWIE, Frankie from the Saturdays […]

Bridal party makeup secrets:

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics released a statement earlier this month stating that they are “proud to confirm that Bobbi Brown Cosmetics makeup artist Hannah Martin provided makeup artistry assistance to members of the bridal party for the Royal Wedding”. They are not releasing further details about who applied Kate and Pippa’s makeup, or what products were […]

Going GaGa for Pippa Middleton

Superstar Lady GaGa this week confessed to MTV that she’s a fan of Pippa’s, claiming that Kate’s younger sister “oozed style” when she wore the now infamous Alexander McQueen dress at the Royal Wedding last month. Pippa’s fanbase grew considerably last month after she stepped out wearing the white cowl-necked gown displaying her pert derriere. […]

Pippa Middleton’s bronzed bod sparks fake tan sales

Debenhams have told the Daily Mail today that fake tan sales boosted 219 per cent the day after the Royal Wedding last month, sharing that we shouldn’t underestimate the impact that Kate and Pippa will have on the beauty industry. The phones have been hectic for in-store tanning experts at Debenhams from Pippa admirers who […]

Pippa Middleton underwear pics removed after family complain

This week a number of US online magazines and newspapers posted pictures of Pippa in her underwear, dancing with an unknown male. The pictures showed Pippa wearing a purple bra and white skirt. The outfit is similar to that worn on a beach, and shows nothing that you wouldn’t expect from a student party. The […]

Brides-to-be request Pippa’s dress for their big day

Eager brides-to-be are calling designers worldwide asking when they can buy a copy of Pippa’s bridesmaid dress for their own big day.  But, as the Daily Mail reports, it is the brides who want to wear Pippa’s dress up the aisle – not the bridesmaids! Designers believe that this is the first time a bridesmaid’s […]

What will Pippa do next? The bets are on…

Pippa has become so popular that now bookies are offering fans the chance to make (or lose!) some cash by betting on her next move. The novelty “What will Pippa do next” market includes odds of: 1/2 to feature in FHM’s top 100 Sexiest Women list, 2/1 to appear on the cover of Vogue, 3/1 […]

Pippa Middleton and Harry … Potter?

Rumour is that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has taken a liking to Pippa after watching her perform her Maid of Honour duties at the Royal Wedding last weekend. According to Showbizspy.com, one of Radcliffe’s pals said: “Dan has an eye for the ladies and who could not notice Pippa on that wedding day? … […]

Pippa Middleton’s dress copied and on display

The Daily Mail are reporting that hours after the Royal Wedding, a replica of Pippa Middleton’s bridesmaid dress was created and put on display. In Sydney the team of seamstresses recreated the Alexander McQueen gown in just a matter of hours.  Pippa’s replica dress was then put on display at the Queen Victoria building in […]

Pippa Middleton’s arse more searched for than her dress!

Today, Malcolm Coles wrote a blog post explaining that people in Britain are searching for the phrase “Pippa Middleton arse” at 72% of the volume of those looking for “Pippa Middleton dress.”  The data was collected from the Google Insights tool. According to Coles, interest in Pippa’s dress has peaked but searches for her ‘arse’ […]

Pippa Middleton arrives at Westminster Abbey

Here’s a lovely video of Pippa Middleton (and Kate’s other attendants) arriving at Westminster Abbey.  If you missed the Royal Wedding you can watch this video to see what all of the ‘fuss’ is about:  watch Pippa sashay down the aisle in her figure hugging bridesmaid dress.   If you did manage to watch the […]

Pippa Middleton bridesmaid dress:

Pippa Middleton was chief bridesmaid for Sister Kate at the Royal Wedding back in April. Her spectacular bridesmaid dress was designed by Sarah Burton at Alexander McQueen. The dress was described on the official Royal Wedding website as “heavy, ivory satin-based crepe with a cowl front.” It shares some similar lace detailing with Kate Middleton’s […]


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An ode to the bladder (first post is the sweetest)

Looking at the shop today, I was overwhelmed by a sudden urge to go to the toilet.. but the toilet is still not fit for usage. Speaking of the toilet, it really irks me. Wonder what the previous tenant did with the toilet, can't even do my business there in sweet serenity. Whatever, gotta clean it up man.

What a way to start a blog entry, I was told. Pitstop cafe, a place of respite from the hard day's work, a place of cheap and chic fun from semesters of never ending projects and essay. Too free? I was being questioned.Copy cat? I was being sneered at... No common sense? I was being chided. looking at the shop again, montages of what happened for the past months seemed to emerge from the empty paint bottles and splashes itself on the wall as a collage of events all reanacted at the same time in front of my mind's eyes.

At this moment... I really need to go to the toilet.....

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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

MOJO483~Birthday in Purple

 First, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to HSS for choosing my Valentine Card as an Artist pick.   It's so exciting to add their badge to my blog.

Now onto the card for today.  I was inspired again by the sketch challenge at: Mojo Monday and this time I stuck to the design as closely as possible.

My last post/entry I went a bit abstract I suppose if that's what you want to call it, I challenged the challenge.. lol~ you can see that at: Summer Day or just scroll down my blog.    Now for this card,
I used stampin up stamps from the Gorgeous Grunge, and Mixed Bunch sets.  I also used the coordinating punch  for the bunch (haha) set.  I embossed the background with a pretty petal design and used my Happy Birthday die from Lawn Fawn, I cut it down so it would fit there, and left off the "to you" part.  It's a Great die.   I then added some sparkle twine to spruce it up a bit and match the center brad.  I just got my butterfly punch, so of course excitement took over and  I had to add that to the card too, with a little pearl.. NO it's not real, but it does look nice, eh?   So there you have it.  I would love to know which card you like better.
Also wanted to post a picture of my little guy.  He cracks me up.  Even though he has a toy line up behind him, he's got that sweet little look on his face as if to say..but I want you to play with me.   Don't look at the carpet.. To which I'm sure all eyes are now gazed upon.. well be warned, there is a nice layer of fur that has taken up residence there.  I could vacuum it 4x a day and still not make much progress.   Good thing we have such a small home.
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  1. Such a pretty card. That medallion image is so lovely. Thanks for joining us for Mojo Monday!

  2. Your card looks great and HP is so cute!

  3. I love purple - great job as usual. I like the embossing folder you used. Makes me feel like spring is coming instaed of a foot of snow!

  4. Great colors! Love the pretty bloom that takes center stage here. Thanks for joining us at Mojo Monday!

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Carolyn Forché Reads at Babson: February 8

The 2012 Charles D. and Marjorie J. Thompson Visiting Poet is Carolyn Forché.

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Forché's books of poetry include: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). [Photo credit: Emma Dodge Hanson]

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Polymotu precursors: Pathi (Maprao Kathi) Island in Thailand

Polymotu concept is to use geographical and reproductive isolation to conserve and reproduce varieties of plants and trees. When a small isolated place is planted all with the same variety, the plants conserved there breed only within the same variety, and certified seed and seednuts can be produced at the lower cost. These isolated places can be small islands or small valleys; they can also be located in flat mainland, with landscaping designed to create pollen barriers.
There is, at least, one modern example of an island which was recently devoted to the conservation and use of a unique coconut variety,. This is a great success story, because it is a profitable business and it could also lead to a major improvement of this coconut variety. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.
Makapuno is an economically important coconut variety. Instead of coconut water, this coconut contains a soft, white jelly-like mass which is considered a delicacy. Makapuno is preserved in heavy sugar syrup and bottled for local consumption and export. In the Philippines alone, the domestic market needs 4 million kg of the highly-priced Makapuno meat annually. Less than 3% of that demand is being met. Makapuno coconuts are sold for at least 5 times the price of an ordinary coconut.
Growing Makapuno is unlike growing ordinary coconut trees. In each coconut bunch produced by such a palm, 15 to 20 % of the fruits only are Makapuno, the remaining are normal coconuts. Makapuno coconuts do not germinate because the abnormal jelly-like kernel does not support the growth and development of the embryo (Mujer et al., 1984). So the only way to reproduce a Makapuno coconut was to germinate a normal coconut from a Makapuno palm ; and not all these germinated coconuts will give Makapuno palms.
The coconut embryo culture technology was developed in the Philippines in the 1960s. Using in vitro culture, Dr. Emerita de Guzman rescued the first embryo from a non-germinating Makapuno coconut. Dr. Erlinda P. Rillo and her team did further research and exploited this technique to develop a Makapuno-based industry in the Philippines (Rillo & Paloma, 1992 ; Areza-Ubaldo & al., 2003).oo
The opportunity to create a Makapuno Island in Thailand was seized 25 years ago, when the Thai government built the huge Srinakharin dam at Kanchanaburi. The hills were submerged and their peaks turned into more than 100 islands. All the coconut trees in one island were destroyed. Then the island was planted with Makapuno embryos rescued by using in vitro culture. In order to get a large amount of embryos, the Makapuno seednuts were collected from whole Thailand. Researchers paid 50 Bath for each Makapuno nut. Then, they split the nuts, took the embryos, and sell the remaining half Makapuno nuts each at 50 Bath in the Bangkok markets (Thai way, never miss a business). Not all the collected Makapuno nuts were the big round fruits typical from the Thailand tall varieties. A few dwarf palms were producing
On the way to Makapuno Island
Makapuno coconuts not typical to the Thailand Tall. About 20000 coconuts were bought. 8000 good embryos were obtained and cultivated in vitro. 2000 plantlets were obtained, then transferred and planted in the Island.
The island is located near the Burmese border, at about 200 km North-West from Bangkok (Latitude: 14°54'32.34"N; longitude:  98°31'29.40"E). No stray coconut pollen can reach the island of the because of the distance across the water barrier and pf absence of coconut palm on the closest land. All the marketing of the island was based on the fact that its coconuts never germinate, because they are 100 percent Makapuno.

Makapuno Palms
Departure to Makapuno Island
On the 25th November 2009, Thanks to Thai researchers and the Department of Agriculture of Thailand, we had the great opportunity to visit the Pathi or Makapuno Island. It takes about 20 minutes to reach the island using a small boat.
When arriving, the island looks like any nice traditional Thai coconut plantation, except for one detail: no forgotten germinated seednuts are growing on the ground. Many fruit species are growing there. Some of the coconut palms are heavy producers; the average production seems to be 80 to 100 coconuts per palm per year. Nobody can imagine that these coconut palms were grown in glass tubes.
One of the best Makapuno palms
Dr Narong Chomchalow, President of the Thailand Network for the Conservation and Enhancement of Landraces of Cultivated Plants (TNCEL), gave us the following information about Makapuno in Thailand: "There are two main types of Makapuno in Thailand. One is called Kathi Khao Chao (non-glutinous) - the meat is rather hard, borne on the fruit which is not fully mature or those newly harvested fruits. If the palm is planted on fertile land, the fruit has thicker meat than when the palm is planted in infertile land. Its general characteristics are as follow: light (non-viscous) water, thin meat, rather hard and not as fluffy as the other type (see later); it is used in food processing such as boiled in syrup, blend, or make into ice cream.oo The second type is called Kathi Khao Niao (glutinous) - derived from fruits which are picked when fully mature, i.e. remaining on the tree for a longer period, or has been stored for a long time before opening. Its general characteristics are as follow: viscous water, thick meat, soft and more fluffy than Kathi Khao Chao.oo It is popularly consumed fresh. If the fruit is kept for a longer period, the meat disintegrates with rancid odor. Sometimes all the meat disappeared.
Dr Narong Chomchalow, Dr.Uthai Charanasri and a worker

Kathi Khao Niao (glutinous)
This is known as dumb coconut or Duean Kin (meaning Moon Eats), probably the same as those which are called eaten by the devil or eaten by the moon in other countries."
It seems that it exists a type of Makapuno in the Philippines that does not exist in Thailand. This type is called ‘Type 3’ by the Filipinos; when the fruit is 10-11 month old, the cavity of the nut is already almost fully filled with meat. In Makapuno island in Thailand, we observed an overmature fruit with the cavity almost filled with meat, but this is not the same. In Thailand, it occurs only for overmature fruits while in the Philippines, this can be encountered on younger fruits.
Another island on the same lake was designed for producing oil palm seeds. As this island is completely isolated from any other pollen source, there is no need to bag the inflorescences for producing seedlings. This generates subsequent economy of manpower. We made the observation that producing of both Makapuno coconut and Oil palm seeds production could be conducted on the same island.
Kathi Khao Chao (non-glutinous)
A few years back, the Makapuno Island Company received a complaint from one of their customers that one of their 100-percent guaranteed Makapuno fruits germinated. The owner investigated and upon opening the fruit, it turned out to be Makapuno. As the evolutionary process is continually unfolding, one individual Makapuno was somehow able to develop enzymes to digest and metabolize the endosperm, thereby enabling germination. This began a search for the mother tree that bore this very unusual and attractive germinating Makapuno fruit. This palm was found and its progeny planted.oo
Arrival at Makapuno Island
Dr Somchai Watanayothin, Coconut Breeder at the Horticulture Research Institute of Thailand, added the following information: "During the year 2000, the owner of Makapuno Island in Thong pa-phumi District, found out the mother palm that produced Makapuno fruits germinated. He harvested Makapuno nuts and raised them in the nursery. After three months he have got 5 seedlings but two of them grew up. The other three seedlings dead. He brought two Makapuno seedlings to plant in Palm oil Island, at about 30 minutes of Makapuno by a rapid speed boat. Now they are six years old but they have not yet bared fruits. That is a history of the new strain of germinating Makapuno in Thailand.” Makapuno Island could lead to a great and unexpected improvement of the Makapuno variety.
So, we can assert that the precursor of the Polymotu concept is a Thai researcher; the reason why Drs Somchai Watanayothin and Uthai Charanasri were searching for geographical and reproductive isolation of palms was more specific than ours; it was linked to the special habit of the Makapuno coconut variety. This was also made on the Thai way, directly as a profitable business: up to now I am not sure that Thai researchers really realize the huge conservation value of what they did.
Anyway the Polymotu concept can be seen as a generalization of the pioneer work of Drs Uthai Charanasri, Somchai Watanayothin and Narong Chomchallow.

Srinakharin lake, at departure from Makapuno Island


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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Kent and East Sussex Railway, Tenterden.

Earlier in the year, we had a lovely day out at Bodiam Castle, East Sussex, but, instead of driving to the castle we drove to Tenterden and travelled to the Castle on the Kent and East Sussex Railway, which was a lovely experience.

The engine is called ‘Norwegian’

Looking ‘round the bend’ at a train coming the other way.

We all wanted the train we travelled in to be pulled by a steam engine, so we carefully checked the timetable and arrived in time to catch the first steam train to Bodiam, passing through Rolvenden and Northiam. We picked a beautiful, sunny day for our trip, and loved the hour or so journey through the beautiful countryside of Kent and East Sussex.

Leaving Rolvenden.

Beautiful countryside all along the route Smile

The carriage we travelled in was lovely, and very comfortable, we could all remember carriages similar to these when we were young.

Approaching a level crossing, looking forwards…

and backwards. Another passenger had the same idea as me Smile

I think I spent the whole journey leaning out of the window, taking photos, and getting whiffs of the unique smell that only comes from a steam train. I also got some smuts from the smoke, but that didn’t worry me one bit!

Steam!! Smile

As we approached Bodiam Station we could see the Castle, which is a ten minute walk from the Station. I will do a separate blog on the castle very soon.

Bodiam Castle, more about this beautiful place in my next blog.

The engine reversing into the station for the return journey to Tenterden.

Back in Tenterden.

Farewell Norwegian, thank you for a wonderful journey Open-mouthed smile

Saturday, 5 September 2015

Westminster Abbey, The Chapter House.

The vaulted ceiling, and the central pillar.

Westminster Abbey is one of England’s most famous buildings, but until earlier this year I had never been there. There is so much history attached to the building that I will not even attempt to repeat any of it here.

Part of the front facade, the bottom section was covered in scaffolding.

View across the Cloisters.

Needless to say we had a fantastic time walking round the building, there is just so much to see and to take in, I have finally seen the tomb of The Unknown Soldier, which commands respect from every visitor, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of so many men from the two World Wars. Many famous people have memorials in the Abbey, of special interest to me were the memorials to Elizabeth 1 and Mary Queen of Scots.

Looking towards The Cloister

Wonderful ceilings

Having spent a long time in the main part of the Abbey we then went into the Cloisters and from there to the Chapter House. Once outside the main Abbey building photography is allowed, and when I saw the Chapter House I was so pleased to be able to take photos there.

The entrance to the Cloister House.

The Chapter House is an octagonal building dating from around 1250. It was originally used as a meeting and prayer room for the Benedictine monks, and has been used by The King’s Great Council and a store room for government records. The stained glass windows date from the Victorian era, they beautifully enhance this wonderful space.

Part of one of the beautiful stained glass windows.

Carvings above the entrance.

Medieval tiles.

The building is just beautiful, all around the walls are Medieval paintings, a few of which are shown here, the detail in each painting is amazing, and each painting tells its own story.

One of the walls, showing the paintings.

Some of the beautiful Medieval wall paintings.

Close up sections from the painting above, such amazing detail.

The Pyx Chamber.

We had a wonderful day out, I can’t finish this blog without adding a photo of Big Ben

which is almost next door to the Abbey Smile