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Taking you back to November with this Fall Mountain wedding in Asheville. Adam + Nellie chose an awesome location- a gorgeous Airbnb with an amazing view!

The driveway made the most perfect ceremony spot, surrounded by the colorful trees with the sun peaking through them. The reception was under a tent in the backyard, with a massive floral installation by Farm Girl Flowers and the most perfect garland down the center of the tables. It was a super chilly day, so guests huddled around the heaters in the tent and warmed up by dancing to the live music! Adam wrote Nelly a song and surprised her with a live performance, it was the sweetest thing!!

Today I’m so excited to blog Colin + Lauren’s wedding at Triple B Ranch in Rutherfordton, NC. They chose to have a super intimate wedding with their families, and spent the entire weekend together, celebrating. The day they chose to get married turned out to be dreary and rainy. It was hurricane season and one on its way to the coast, which means lots of rain for us in western North Carolina. The plan was for everything to be outside, in open air. But plans change, and they ended up having the most memorable wedding day in the cozy lodge. Complete with roaring fireplaces and fuzzy blankets.

Mike + Katie got married on one of the hottest days of the year in Greenville, SC. It was so hot it was nearly impossible to do photos outside, but that’s just sometimes the way it happens in the Carolinas, so we just rolled with it. The Old Cigar Warehouse has great AC tho, so we kept nice and cool inside! 🙂
They got married in a gorgeous Catholic Church in downtown, and it felt like a royal wedding, the music, the veil, just everything. Not that I actually know what a royal wedding would feel like, I’m just going by the ones I’ve watched on TV at 4 in the morning. 🙂
They had the sweetest speeches at their reception, followed by a liquid nitrogen ice cream bar, which, if I’m honest, was the coolest way to serve dessert I’ve ever seen.

Anthony + Melanie somehow chose the most gorgeous day to get married in the mountains of Asheville. They invited their closest family and friends to hike up Craggy Gardens with them and witness them committing their lives to each other. There was not a dry eye in the crowd, including my own, as they read their personal vows to each other. They were so beautiful, heartfelt and incredibly sweet. We hiked around the top of the mountain together as the sun started setting, and ended with the most beautiful pink light!

Ryan and Kelly’s chose to have their wedding at The Olivette in Asheville, NC, a gorgeous wedding venue location right on the French Broad River. It was forecasted to dump rain all day, and that’s basically what it did. Thankfully we had a few breaks here and there, and it ended up being the most perfect day. These two have such a strong connection and love for each other, it’s undeniable.

The rain didn’t stop them from having the best day of their lives, surrounded by their family and friends that are all so dear to them. Kelly’s dad passed away from cancer not long after her wedding, so these photos just mean a whole lot to them, and really became even more special to me. I am beyond honored to do what I do, capturing that Father/Daughter first dance will go down as one of my proudest moments as a photographer. I’ve never seen such emotion from a crowd during those dances. My heart breaks for their family for losing such a wonderful man. I only knew him for a day but his heart was so incredibly kind and I could feel the intense love from everyone for him. The way he looked at Kelly that day will forever be burned into my memory, He was so proud. I hope you can feel something from these photos, too.

Ryan + Kelly, thank you so much for trusting me to capture these moments for you. XOXO

I could say many words about this wedding day. If you need a little push in the direction of having a small wedding with close family and friends, look no further. Chris + Shannon chose The Ridge in Asheville, NC for their wedding venue. The ceremony was overlooking the gorgeous view of the mountains, with […]

The perfect, most adorable camp wedding at Kanuga in Hendersonville, NC. It was full of gorgeous flowers, vintage china and the coolest invitations. The guests stayed in 1920’s cabins at the camp and enjoyed the weekend sitting on rocking chairs and sipping coffee. Phil + Rachel chose the camp’s woodland chapel for their ceremony, but […]

Clay & Marissa’s wedding was about as close to perfection as it gets. The whole day had such a slow, chill vibe to it and yet it was so special. These two are obsessed with each other and have the sweetest connection. They chose Sunnyside Plantation in Murrells Inlet as their venue, on the South […]

It was the most gorgeous day in the mountains on NC the day Chris and Karina chose to get married. They are both from Florida and chose to have their wedding on a beautiful peice of property in Asheville! They rented a big house where most of their family and friends stayed and celebrated all […]

Are you recently engaged and need a little help when it comes to just STARTING the planning process? Dominique Bedrosian from Smash Events Inc. is here to give us 5 Tips on How to Start Planning Your Wedding Day!       1. Come up with your budget. Most couples are surprised how much things […]


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Erratum for “Writing History in the Digital Age”

I realized this morning that I had omitted an acknowledgment in my chapter for Writing History in the Digital Age. In the chapter, I noted that for some historians, there were places to write about methods and specifically mentioned archaeology as one of those fields. What I failed to mention was my debt to USF […]

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I hope your last week has gone well. My children have returned from college for winter break, my family has visited several beaches, and my university is in the middle of its winter closure. So a little time for reflection, and here is the first part, a bit personal: my writing on this blog that […]

Historiographical analysis generally includes at least two types of analysis among the six shown here: the intellectual history of the literature, the specific arguments about time and place, memes common in secondary sources, deeper models of social behavior, the tone taken towards a subject, and the philosophy and ethics of writing history.

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In my talk earlier this month at the Australia and New Zealand History of Education Society, I wanted to make the different strands of my argument clear, and after I framed the broader question of the talk, I formalized the way I often talk about historiography (mostly with graduate students). Historiography is one of the few […]

Short non-review of Helen Sword’s “Stylish Academic Writing”

Despite the recommendation of a friend, I will not purchase this book. Shortly into the first chapter of the sample I downloaded, I found the following constipation: The seeds for this book were sown [trite trope] when, [let’s interrupt this clause with] several years ago, I was invited to teach a course on higher education pedagogy […]

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My brain is hurting this afternoon, because someone decided to use a stacked bar chart for two figures in the brand-new Georgetown Center for Education and Workforce report on employment and salary data for different undergraduate degrees, written by Anthony Carnevale and Ban Cheah. Here is the chart on unemployment data for different clusters of […]

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Casey and Carlos

Releasing from Breathless Press on September 12th, 2014.

Casey hasn’t seen Carlos in four years, but a business trip brings the ex-lovers together, making them question whether the spark is still really there.

Blurb: Recently divorced, Casey has been longing for a man’s touch. So when business brings her back to Carlos, the one that got away, it has to be fate. The four years apart have only done him better, and all she can think about is having his arms, and body, wrapped around hers. But Carlos is not the same man he was four years ago, and Casey too is feeling the weight of too much time gone by. Can Casey help reignite his fire or has time left them behind?

Her breath caught as she followed him up the staircase, tucked to the far side of the house. Carlos had always been fit enough, but it looked like he’d taken up some new form of exercise in the past four years. He was beefier, yet still lean. His ass moved round and tight in front of her as they climbed the stairs. At the landing, he gestured in front of them.
“This is my studio, but it’s all yours for tonight.”
It was a rec room that took up the whole second floor, and far more standard male than the ground floor alluded to. Movie posters, gaming systems, books scattered on floors and coffee tables, and, off to one side, the trumpet, asleep in a bed of sheet music. In the corner there was an overstuffed couch just about as wide as she was long – it would be great to sleep on, even better if he could bend her over that armrest and fuck her until dinner was ready.
She cleared her throat, deciding adult friendships could be fun, even after four questionable years. “I thought I’d be sharing a bed with you?” She tried to keep her tone playful as she sauntered toward the couch. She tossed him a smile and she caught a glimpse of him looking very stricken. Shit. Too far. Things are too different now. Abort!
Maybe too much time had passed in general. Maybe he was courting a girl and wanted to take it slow with her. Maybe he no longer found her attractive, four years becoming the dagger in the heart. Maybe he’d become celibate, or found her life too normal and boring. There was a whole list of reasons why she shouldn’t make the first move.
“I was just joking,” she said after a moment, rolling her eyes. “Come on, lighten up.”
He exhaled slowly, looking down at the ground as his tongue found the corner of his mouth. “I know it was a joke, Case.”
“In case you forgot, we used to share a bed.” She looked at him pointedly, already horrified that the words were coming from her lips. What was the getting at? Who had authorized this dialogue?
He squeezed his eyes shut and laughed softly. “Oh, I remember.”

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During September 10th – September 17th, get Ember Leigh’s erotic romance novel ‘Jaded’ for half off at Breathless Press.

Ember Leigh has been writing erotic romance novels since she was far too young. A native of northern Ohio, she currently resides in South America with her Argentinean partner, a detail she uses to justify her Bachelor’s degree in Latin American Literature. In addition to romance novels, she also writes travel articles, maintains three blogs, and continually attempts to complete a mildly-gripping short story. In her free time, she practices Ashtanga yoga, travels the world, and eats lots of vegetables.

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Hiring Executives First

startup hiring - Hiring Executives First

Somewhere along the way, you and your co-founders will be faced with the need to hire your first employees.  Regardless of how much funding you have for salaries (versus equity compensation), one decision you’ll be faced with is how to level the roles – executive, mid-level, or entry level.  The trade-offs and guidance described in this article are valid until you have about 20 total employees and have no choice but to build out a team with employees at various levels.

The Benefits of Hiring Executives First

If the founding team doesn’t already have a lot of experience, that’s the biggest benefit of adding one or more executives first.  They’ve done lots of things, which means they’ve made lots of mistakes among their successes.  Avoiding common or rookie mistakes can be the different maker for survival.

Executives with years of experience know how companies should operate.  This covers their functional areas of expertise, for sure.  But it also covers cross-functional things like hiring & firing, strategy setting, management systems, culture development, and the like.  That’s pretty valuable.

Executives with years of experience have established networks.  And if their background overlaps your business plan (industry, product type, etc), their Rolodex could be really valuable.

Hiring some seasoned executives first sounds like the way to go, right?  Well, I wouldn’t have written this article if the decision were so easy.  Read on.

The Risks of Hiring Executives First

The more years an executive has under their belt and the larger the companies they’ve worked for recently, the more they’ve forgotten what it’s like to do low-level grunt work.  You know, the 90% of the work you need done in the early days when you’re trying to get a product built and launched so that you can acquire your first paying customers.  Even after starting to acquire customers, 80% of the work you need done fits into the category of grunt work done by individual contributors.

You’ll probably add to your hiring criteria that the executive must have worked for an early-stage startup.  That’s a good start.  But I can tell you from experience that the cells in their brain that host the memories of exactly what it’s like to work 80 hours per week scratching and clawing to the next round of funding get pushed to an inaccessible part of their brain until you hire them and they are suddenly resurrected.  Oops!

During your pre-hiring discussions, the executive candidate remembered all the exciting parts of running a startup, but not the stressful and super hard-working parts.

You’ll know exactly when this revelation occurs.  They will say something like this:

  • “You’re paying me too much to do entry-level grunt work”
  • “All of the time I’m spending on entry-level grunt work is preventing me from serving in my executive capacity”

Either of the above statements leads to a request to hire an entry-level employee or contractor.  But you don’t have that in the budget and are now faced with a dilemma that usually ends up with firing the executive and either finding a more suitable executive or taking a different approach.  I’ll cover each of these options next.

Side Note:  You might also be considering adding a corporate executive to your advisory board.  If so, first read my article titled “When Corporate Execs Advise Startups“.

Interview Questions

The decision to hire an executive for a given function before mid-level or entry-level employees is for you and your co-founders to make.  Hopefully, this article helps with that.  But if that’s what you decide, you’ll want to modify your typical interview to best identify any big risks or likely issues.  Consider discussing the topics below with your candidates:

  • Salary Expectations – Do they understand that you’re not going to pay them a $250,000 salary? In fact, you might only be able to pay them $5K per month (or less) in salary while making up the rest in equity.  This is the first opportunity to weed out executives that have forgotten what the scrappy, early-stage startup life is like.  (For more on this, read my article titled “Founder & Early Employee Compensation When You’re Cash Poor”)
  • What Excites Them – Why are they interested in working for an early-stage startup? Understand that their answer will be informed by the brain cells that are still active (the ones that remembered the exciting parts).  But you’re looking to see if they actually enjoy building a new function from the start so that it can have their fingerprints all over it (done exactly the way they want).
  • Grunt Work – Depending on how they answer the question about what excites them, make sure they understand that you don’t have any entry-level employees to actually get that done. They are going to have to do 100% of it.  Ask them to repeat that back to you 3 times with conviction and a smile on their face!
  • Their First Hire – Remind them that the budget is going to remain extremely tight until the first real round of funding. Then ask them how they will know when it’s justified to add another headcount under them.  Also ask them how long they can go at their current salary and without such additional resource.  If you like their answer, repeat it back to them and listen for the words “yes, that’s right”.
  • Authority – Especially if the executive candidate is considerably older than you, you want to have a discussion about who ultimately makes critical company-level decisions. You want an executive that brings differing views to your discussions and debates.  But they MUST respect the fact that you run the company and you are ultimately accountable to your board and investors – not them.

The alternatives to hiring seasoned executives is probably obvious.  You can hire entry-level employees with just a few years of experience or you can hire mid-level managers with 10-12 years of experience.  Actually, you can hire freelance contractors too, so I’ll add that to the consideration list.

Alternative 1:  Hire Entry-Level Employees First

Hiring entry-level employees is certainly helpful to the budget.  And since they candidates are likely early in their adult life and without a family or similar big obligations pulling on them, they can work as many hours per week as their passion drives.

The downside with this approach is the management oversight needed to direct, review, and sometimes redo their work.  If you have experience managing their function, this will be easier than if you don’t.  In other words, if you’ve never managed a marketing or sales employee, how are you going to know what they should be doing and whether they’re doing it well versus poorly?  This might be where your advisory board comes into play, but they can only help so much because they aren’t working for you full-time or even 5 hours per week.

Alternative 2:  Hire Mid-Level Employees First

You might give them a title like Senior Manager or Director, but they still have to start out as an individual contributor, just like described above for the executive hire.  And since they have prior experience managing people, you’ll want to use the modified interview approach suggested above to make sure they have the right expectations.

A benefit of mid-level employees with roughly 10 years of experience (hopefully including time in early stage startups) is their startup brain cells are still somewhat intact.  This reduces the risk of shock and surprise as they get dirt underneath their fingernails.  Additionally, the job they’re coming from probably involves them doing some levels of grunt work as compared to the true executive that delegates all grunt work to others.

Mid-level employees should be able to contribute at least some of the things first mentioned as benefits of hiring executives.  It’s just they won’t have as many data points to draw from, both successes and failures, and they won’t have developed as many superpowers as a seasoned executive.

One risk with this approach comes later, when you do decide you need a more seasoned executive over the function.  Your mid-level manager is almost certain to want (and maybe expect) a promotion to that position.  Maybe they’re ready for it, which is great.  But if you don’t see that possibility when you initially hire them and that conclusion persists, you’ll want to carefully message the likely future executive hire.  This dilemma is especially pronounced when first-time, inexperienced founders give themselves all “chief” titles like CEO, CTO, and COO and then hire someone with 10-12 years of experience, give them a “director” title, and later hire a VP or Sr VP above them.

Alternative 3:  Hire Freelancers First

I’m assuming that you’re using freelance contractors for some functions.  If not, it can be a great place to start for the functions you and your co-founders don’t already know well.  Freelancers can work as much or little as you can afford.  And they usually bring at least the experience of the mid-level employees described in this article.  They can get the function stood up and can operate it until you can afford to hire a full-time employee in their place, which puts you right back to the start of this article.

One downside to freelancers is they won’t work just for equity like some early employees might – at least, it’s extremely rare.

Freelancers usually setup systems and processes for a function the way they recommend.  It’s possible that you’ll later hire a mid-level employee or executive that disagrees and wants to replace it all.  But this risk also exists if you hire full-time employees to get a function started.  I mostly mention it so that you can ask the freelancer about the systems and processes they plan to setup and then double-check that with an advisor or another startup that’s further along than you.  Ripping and replacing those things can be costly, time-consuming, and very frustrating.

There is no right or wrong answer to these decisions.  I actually find a mix of decisions within a single startup, as they work their way to 20 employees.  In other words, after using various freelancers for a while, they hire an executive for a particular function, one or two mid-level managers for other functions, and several entry-level employees for others.  What’s most important is for you and your co-founders to make informed decisions about this for each role during the early days.

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Hyogo Prefecture with the capital city of Kobe is most famous for its beef, but it also has numerous museums, hot springs and notable universities. One of the top features is it has one of the top 3 best night views in Japan from the mountain at the edge of the city. Along with this there is the historical district "Ijinkan" comprised of western-style buildings which housed many foreign diplomats in the 19th and 20th century, and the majestic Himeji Castle.


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You are tired of doing the same old thing, every day. It feels like you are drifting, no real focus, no distinct purpose other than being a "Mom".

You love your kids more than anything, but you need to do something to challenge your brain and light that fire that you once had. You wonder when you lost that spark? Where did "I" go? Because this doesn't feel like me.

You need more. You need purpose.

I was once in your shoes, standing there uncomfortably empty, wondering what I was "missing". Why doesn't my life feel amazing?

So I went on a search to find what was truly important to me, what would light me up! Little did I know that it already existed inside me, I just had to uncover it and give it room to breathe & grow!

I discovered my Personal Core Values, and it was then that everything (and I do mean everything) changed!

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  • feel overwhelmed by "all the things" that you need to do
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  • are tired of making goals & resolutions and not getting anywhere
  • have a vague idea of what you want but aren't sure how to get there

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Ultimate is unique in so many ways. Considered an ‘almost sport’ by muggles, or that weird hobby by your family, it’s hard to imagine my life without it. To be honest, I don’t know if I’d even still be here.

For years, I’ve had self-confidence issues. When I was a teenager it was pretty terrible, but as I got older I learned to deal with it. And, by ‘deal with it’ I would essentially suppress it for as long as I could. This meant I’d have spells of being incredibly low, to the extent where I wouldn’t be able to function for weeks. But hey, I would always think it was better to let it all out in one giant spell once every year or two than have it affect me all the time. In hindsight, it was pretty poisonous. To put it into a simple, cliched metaphor, it can turn you into a ticking time-bomb.

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As Women’s Indoor Regionals approach, Lauren Bryant summarises the goals and aims discussed at the recent London Women’s University Ultimate meeting.

The Club and University representatives who gathered for the recent meeting.

Club or Country: It’s All About Training

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Tom ‘Mum’ Abrams gives us his opinion in the ongoing Club or Country debate.

Start with a basic premise: if we want to win we must train at least as much as the other contenders. Is this a fair statement? Well, unless we have better training methods or we have better athletes than the other teams or we started with better players, then the only way to improve the team is by training. Seeing as we don’t have any of these things in place in Britain, it follows that to achieve the level required to win world championships, we will have to train at least as often as the best teams in the world.

Tom Abrams getting up at last seasons Windmill Windup for Clapham

Club or Country: The Third Way

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Chris Baker provides another approach to the Club or Country debate…

Question. Is it better to send the most competitive team possible to EUC and WUGC as GB Open – even if this means a single club team – or is it better to put development first, and bring together players from clubs around the country, who would then trickle down their experience, improving the level of the sport across the board?

Chris (#77) celebrating with his team-mates after their victory at the European Championships in Frankfurt this year.

It’s a staple of long car journeys, airport lounges and GAIA tents the world over. And whatever the answer, it is usually coloured by team allegiances and past personal experiences.

However, one thing both sides seem to have in common is the idea that GB has a central role in the development of players and clubs – whether by sending back skills and ideas to club level, or by providing a greater challenge to one club in particular, seeking to put the UK on the map and dragging other UK clubs onwards and upwards by way of their increased quality as Tour opponents.

“….errm no, but I might try out for Mixed.”

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Sion ‘Brummie’ Scone gives some wise words to those considering the next GB senior cycle…

The application forms to run the GB squads are coming in, so I felt the need to write about some of my experiences. I was involved in running the GB Open trials in 2010, and GB World Games trials in 2012-13. Allow me, then, to share some of the things I’ve learned.

GB Open in the US in the previous rotation.

Club or Country: An Irish Perspective

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New contributor Brian ‘Boyler’ Boyle discusses Club or Country from an Irish perspective…
EUCR-S is happening in Nantes, France, this weekend and for the second year in a row, Ireland will only be represented by one club after two years previously of not being represented at all. Despite this, there is interest in Ireland next year not only to send an Open, Women’s and Mixed team to EUC, but also an Open and Women’s team to U23 Worlds. This begs a very important question that I think all Irish Ultimate players need to start asking themselves: why as a country are we willing to spend so much time, effort, and money to play for Ireland, when we are not willing to spend a fraction as much to play for our clubs?

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Josh CK looks at some concerns voiced about the 2014 UKU Regionals…

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    This year’s Regionals and Nationals were not without their share of controversy. Nationals was a formerly an event that looked very much like a final tour event, held in order to find a national champion on an annual basis as well as acting as qualifiers for the European championships. The regional qualification process for the Open division was debuted in 2010 to ‘a mostly positive response’. With a lighter 16 team knockout, the new Nationals also featured a permanent site in Southampton, featuring a show pitch with live streaming. With broad changes made with long-term plans in mind (increase in competition at Regionals and Nationals, the creation of ‘the UKU’s primary “showcase” event’*), a certain amount of adaptation is arguably to be expected. However, certain decisions (specifically in the London region) have both caused confusion and incited some strongly voiced concerns. Matt Dathan writes:
    Nationals comes on the back of a controversial Regionals this year, with Clapham given a bye at London qualifiers and only having to play two games to decide their seed. This meant they rocked up at 2pm in the afternoon to play their two games, in contrast to their eventual opponents, Ka-pow and Fire of London, who both had to turn up five hours earlier and play three games before playing a fresh Clapham team.


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Illiger, 1811

Colugos are gliding mammals in the order Dermoptera.

There are two living species, found in south-east Asia. They are also called 'flying lemurs', though they are not lemurs (all lemurs are in Madagascar). They can glide long distances, as they have a thin membrane stretched to the ends of the tail and each limb.

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Colugos live in the tropical rain forests of southeast Asia. Their diet includes leaves and young shoots. During the day they rest high in the trees, clinging to trunks or hiding in tree holes. At dusk they become active, gliding from trunk to trunk like sheets of paper blown on the wind. The young are carried clinging to the flight membrane.

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Colugos range from Burma, Indochina and southern Thailand to peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java. They also occur throughout Borneo. A second colugo species inhabits the southern Philippines.


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The AlphaGo AI that grabbed headlines last year after beating a master of the board game Go has just been trounced 100-0 by an updated version. And unlike its predecessor, the new system taught itself from first principles paving the way for AI that can think for itself.

When chess fell to AI in the 1990s, computer scientists looking for a new challenge turned to the millennia-old Chinese game Go, which despite its simpler rules has many more possible moves and often requires players to rely on instinct.

It was predicted it would be decades before an AI could beat a human master, but last year a program called AlphaGo developed by Google’s DeepMind subsidiary beat 18-time world champion Lee Sedol 4–1 in a series of matches in South Korea.

It was a watershed moment for AI research that showcased the power of the “reinforcement learning” approach championed by DeepMind. Not only did the system win, it also played some surprising yet highly effective moves that went against centuries of accumulated wisdom about how the game works.

Now, just a year later, DeepMind has unveiled a new version of the program called AlphaGo Zero in a paper in Nature that outperforms the version that beat Sedol on every metric. In just three days and 4.9 million training games, it reached the same level that took its predecessor several months and 30 million training games to achieve. It also did this on just four of Google’s tensor processing units—specialized chips for training neural networks—compared to 48 for AlphaGo.

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The most striking departure from the previous system is the simplicity of the inputs. AlphaGo learned the basics of Go by analyzing thousands of games between human players, before honing its skills by playing itself millions of times. In contrast, AlphaGo Zero started with nothing more than the rules of the game and learned entirely from playing games against itself starting with completely random moves.

The system’s design is not radically different from its predecessor or the later AlphaGo Master version that defeated a host of human experts, including world number one Ke Jie, which AlphaGo Zero surpassed after 40 days of training. Essentially it is a streamlining of the previous approach, enabled by a simplified architecture and more powerful algorithms.

AlphaGo features two separate neural networks. The first was trained to predict the probable best move first using the human data and then by playing itself, while the second network was trained to predict the winner of these self-play games. When it came to actually playing a game, these networks were combined with a search algorithm to drill down on the best move given the state of the game.

The first network would select the best possible moves and then the system would use a combination of the value network and “rollouts”—a series of quick simulated games to test out possible moves—to decide on a play.

The new system combines the two neural networks into a single one with many more layers of artificial neurons, which can be trained more efficiently. It also uses a much simpler search algorithm and does away with rollouts, instead relying on the higher-quality neural network to make predictions. Speaking to Nature, lead researcher David Silver likened this to asking an expert to make a prediction rather than relying on hundreds of average players to test moves out.

“It not only independently discovered known moves that have taken millennia for humans to develop, it created entirely new ones that are now redefining how Go is played.”

The fact that the researchers managed to dramatically increase performance while simplifying the system is particularly impressive, considering that many recent advances in machine learning have come from throwing more data or processors at problems. “It shows it’s the novel algorithms that count, not the computing power or the data,” Silver told the BBC.

There are the usual caveats that come with breakthroughs in AI, and in particular, reinforcement learning. The program had to play itself millions of times before it became a world-beater, many more games than a human Go player would require to reach expert level. Its achievements are also constrained to the highly ordered world of Go, which is a far cry from the messy and uncertain problems AI will eventually be asked to solve in real life.

Nevertheless, a computer that can play millions of games in a matter of days still learns immeasurably faster than a human, so this shouldn’t be seen as a major limitation. And while the transition is likely to be slow and faltering, researchers at DeepMind are already working on applying similar techniques to those at the heart of AlphaGo Zero to practical applications. In a blog post, DeepMind said the approach could hold promise in other structured problems like protein folding, reducing energy consumption, or material design.

But most importantly, the advance is the most potent demonstration so far that AI could go beyond human intelligence. In their paper, the researchers describe how when they tried training AlphaGo Zero on human games, it learned faster, but actually did worse in the long run. Left to its own devices, it not only independently discovered known moves that have taken millennia for humans to develop, it created entirely new ones that are now redefining how Go is played.

“We’ve actually removed the constraints of human knowledge and it’s able, therefore, to create knowledge itself from first principles, from a blank slate,” Silver told the BBC.

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Diana Whaley (ed.) 2009, ‘Arnórr jarlaskáld Þórðarson, Þorfinnsdrápa 19’ in Kari Ellen Gade (ed.), Poetry from the Kings’ Sagas 2: From c. 1035 to c. 1300. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 2. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 251-2.

Arnórr jarlaskáld ÞórðarsonÞorfinnsdrápa

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Ek em, síz ýtar hnekkðu
jarla sætt, es vættik,
— jǫfn fengusk hræ hrǫfnum —
hegju trauðr at segja.
Sleit fyr eyjar útan
allvaldr blôu tjaldi;
hafði hreggsvǫl dúfa
hrími fezk of líma.

Ek em trauðr at segja hegju, síz ýtar hnekkðu sætt jarla, es vættik; jǫfn hræ fengusk hrǫfnum. Allvaldr sleit blôu tjaldi fyr útan eyjar; hreggsvǫl dúfa hafði fezk hrími of líma.
‘I am loath to speak of events, since men thwarted the truce between the jarls, as I anticipated; from both sides alike flesh was found for ravens. The mighty ruler wore to shreds the dark awnings out beyond the islands; the snow-cold billow had fastened itself in frost about the mast.

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The st. is cited at the same curiously unsuitable point as sts 20 and 24 (see Context to st. 20).

The st. seems to open a sequence containing sts 19-22 about the battle off Rauðabjǫrg (probably Roberry) between Þorfinnr and his nephew Rǫgnvaldr; cf. also Arn Lv. — [5-8]: The helmingr is difficult to interpret, and its second couplet is almost certainly corrupt. Its content, detailed seafaring description, contrasts so sharply with that of the first helmingr that one might suspect that the two originally belonged to separate sts.

Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.

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Skj: Arnórr Þórðarson jarlaskáld, 5. Þórfinnsdrápa 19: AI, 347, BI, 320, Skald I, 162, NN §§834, 835; Flat 1860-8, II, 439, Orkn 1913-16, 130-1 n., ÍF 34, 122 n. 2 (ch. 56); Whaley 1998, 303-6.

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Celebrating the new generation of female skateboarders, adidas Skateboarding debuts the Superstar ADV by team riders and co-collaborators, Mariah Duran and Jenn Soto. Imagined in tandem by the longtime friends, Duran and Soto deliver complementing designs of custom graphics and unique detailing’s that offer a deeper look into the duo’s inspiring stories.

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Rosny: The Guthrie Family

Courtesy Forrest Guthrie Family and Mary Carolyn Mitton.

According to Mary Lou Guthrie: Forrest Guthrie is seated next to the tree. Louzanie is seated next to him. Forrest Jr. is seated next to Louzanie, in front of his mother Mary Frances. Next to Mary Frances is Mary Eliza, her first born. John Yancey Spencer is seated in the chair.

When this photo was copied in the 1990s, it was the property of Forrest Guthrie, III and persons in the photo were identified as follows by Forrest “Monk” Guthrie (1924-2011) and Elizabeth Jane “Tizzie” (Dunkum) Charlton Guthrie (d. 2013):

Forrest Guthrie; Louzanie Guthrie; Mary Frances “Dixie” (Spencer) Guthrie; Mary Eliza Guthrie;  Mary Frances (Spencer) Guthrie’s brother, John Yancey Spencer; and Mildred “Minnie” Walker Spencer.

The Guthries, however, were not specific as to which name went with which individual.

Mary Carolyn Mitton believes that the man in the chair is Forrest Guthrie (1899-1936) and that the woman seated closest to him is likely Mary Frances “Dixie” Spencer Guthrie (1875-1946).  The man seated by the tree is probably John Yancey Spencer (1866-1917).

Can a Slate River Ramblings reader identify precisely who’s who?

Corrected: 12/9/2019

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  1. Mary Lou Guthrie / Dec 16 2019 10:14 am

    Forrest Guthrie is seated next to the tree, Louzanie seated next to him, Forrest Jr seated next to Louzanie and in front of his mother Mary Frances, next to Mary Frances is Mary Eliza, her first born. John Yancey Spencer is seated in the chair. I don’t know the others.
    I am Mary Louzanie Guthrie, my father is Forrest Guthrie III, son of Forrest Guthrie Jr. and Forrest and Mary Frances raised my father after his father died when he was 12. I remember this picture hanging in the parlor at Rosny next to Forrest Sr. roll top desk ( time capsule) which held many fascinating things and as a child I went through it many times with this family picture next to me.

    I look forward to your “ramblings” and love learning something new with every reading.

    • Joanne Yeck / Dec 16 2019 10:29 am

      Many thanks joining us at Slate River Ramblings and for adding these details to the Guthrie family post.

  2. Patt Findley Freedman / Jul 14 2014 4:35 pm

    A look inside and outside of Rosny – Like to hear more about those papers found in the floorboards. Have you got a copy of the Bolling Family cookbook yet? Lee Stifter and I sent one to your in-laws. Patt

    C-VILLE Charlottesville’s news & arts weekly – Light hearted: An 1817 farmhouse……rted-an-1817-farmhouse-upgrades...

    Named after Rosny, an obscure French poet, the house was built by the Bolling family, direct descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.

    • Joanne Yeck / Jul 14 2014 7:48 pm

      Thank you, Patt. The photos are wonderful.

  3. mary louzanie guthrie / Jun 30 2014 2:23 pm

    forrest guthrie sr is seated on the tree root and mr. yancy is holding the twins born at rosny to edna oslin guthrie and forrest guthrie, jr.; their names are ann marie and colman guthrie. louzanie is the correct spelling of “zanie’s” given name.

    • mary louzanie guthrie / Jun 30 2014 2:42 pm

      please disregard my first response. i am incorrect. was looking at an old photo of mine. a much later vintage. in this photo the order is left to right:seated against the tree is forrest guthrie sr, louzanie “zanie” seated on the ground in front next to her father and seated next to her is forrest guthrie jr “bubba” also called “brother” behind him is mary “dixie” frances spencer guthrie, and standing next to her is mary eliza guthrie. mr yancy is in the chair andi don’t have the names of the the others but i know that these were their (zanie and mary eliza’s) cousins. there are quite a few photos of them in some of the old photos that were in the attic trunks( archives). which i am going through now.

      • Joanne Yeck / Jun 30 2014 4:21 pm

        Thanks for your comment. It’s great to have the Guthrie family identified. To reduce confusion, I have not posted your first response. Joanne

      • Julie Dixon / Jul 1 2014 6:29 am

        Mary Lou-
        If you come across any photos that include any part of the house, farm or landscape I’d love to get a copy of them- what treasures come from this attic!

      • Joanne Yeck / Jul 1 2014 6:32 am

        Julie, Many thanks for joining the conversation. Treasures from the attic is what Slate River Ramblings is all about! Joanne

    • Joanne Yeck / Jul 3 2014 7:16 am

      Mary Lou, I’ve corrected the spelling of Louzanie’s name in the original post. Thanks. Joanne

  4. Margaret Thomas / Jun 30 2014 10:55 am

    Generally, most local records show that the Bolling/Guthrie/Dixon house & plantation is spelling Rosny (without the e), although to confuse everyone, Rosny is located on Rosney Road (with the e.)

    Margaret Thomas

    • Joanne Yeck / Jun 30 2014 10:58 am

      Margaret, Many thanks for this comment. I will conform to the local majority! This reminds of Bellmont/Belmont. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet! Joanne

  5. Joanne Yeck / Jun 30 2014 9:30 am

    Kimberly, I’m getting keyed into that Spencer look. Strong, persistent gene pool! Joanne

  6. Kimberly / Jun 30 2014 9:28 am

    I certainly can’t tell you who is who, but the man by the tree has the “Spencer” look about him and the man in the chair most decidedly does not. 🙂

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Prof. Gehan Amaratunga is fond of quoting the Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke in his classes at Cambridge University: “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” In Prof. Amaratunga’s field of nanotechnology, however, little is littler than Burke could have ever conceived.

Prof. Amaratunga delivering the lecture on ‘Being Ingenious at the Nanoscale.’

A nanometre is 1 billionth or 0.000000001 of a metre, and at that scale the world is a different place, so different that it has allowed us to dream up wondrous things: cloaks woven of nanostructures that deceive the eye and create the illusion of invisibility, minuscule submarines that could swim through your veins to find and eliminate a cancer, or minute farmers that could assemble meat for your dinner and wool for your clothing without the need to harm a single animal.

“You start to make things smaller and smaller and you come to this scale and then you start to find a strange confluence of engineering, chemistry and physics because as things get smaller and smaller they start to behave in a different manner,” says Prof. Amaratunga, adding, “They start to exhibit new physical and chemical properties because the surface of what you’re making is actually more important than the bulk of what’s inside it and that opens up a whole new area of what is called nanoscience and nanotechnology.”

Before the week is done, Prof. Amaratunga will have delivered the IESL Ray Wijewardene Memorial Lecture 2012 on his chosen topic: ‘Being Ingenious at the Nanoscale.’ “Physicists and chemists predict what is possible. Engineers prove them wrong and do things which are ingenious with them, hence the title of my lecture,” he explains. He takes a moment to savour the very word, ‘Engineer,’ pointing out that it is derived from the Latin word ingeniare. “It means creator of things ingenious,” says Prof. Amaratunga, adding wryly, “In France they still call us ingénieur, whereas in English, in the anglicised form, that gets lost. People think it’s got something to do with engines.”

Prof. Amaratunga’s entry in Debrett’s People of Today, notes that his middle names are Anil and Joseph and that he is fond of Jazz, cricket, and vintage cars (back in the UK he has an Alfa Romeo Spider parked in his garage). It also outlines an exceedingly impressive career, punctuated with prizes and companies founded. Among the former are the RAE Research Award from the University of Cambridge, the IEE Prize from the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Overseas Secondment Award from Stanford University, with the most recent being the Silver Medal ‘for outstanding personal contributions to British Engineering’ courtesy the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007. Not incidentally, he is an inventor on 22 patents.

He has held academic and research positions at Southampton University, the University of Liverpool and Stanford University in California and is currently the Group Leader of the Electronics, Power and Energy Conversion (EPEC) Research Group at Cambridge University (from where he received his PhD in 1983). He is also a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. He has published over 450 research articles in journals and conference proceedings.

All these honours make for an impressive resume, especially when Prof. Amaratunga admits that when he left Sri Lanka as an 18-year-old to study electronic engineering in the U.K, he was making it up as he went along. “I didn’t have a career path planned, I just seemed to be good at it. I stayed in the academic system as a prisoner of academic success,” he adds laughing. He is currently on leave from Cambridge and will be in Sri Lanka till September 2013, having put his training and knowledge at the service of SLINTEC (Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology) as their Chief of Research and Technology. One of Tissa Vitharna’s advisors when the Minister of Scientific Affairs was first considering setting up a nanotechnology institute, Prof. Amaratunga says he wanted to see the project through. The initial concept was that the “institute would spearhead a new era of technology in Sri Lanka to enable us to think beyond the curve.”

However, this doesn’t quite mean marauding armies of nanomachines as yet. Instead the focus of the institute is far more pragmatic – “we have decided strategically that we should look at technology that can be applied to food, water, smart clothing for the apparel industry and nutraceuticals and minerals,” he explains.

SLINTEC recently formulated a fertilizer that was attached to nanoscale particles, allowing its slow release. Comparing them to drugs that humans ingest, Prof. Amaratunga explains that humans have to take a large dose to allow the body to ingest at least 10% – 20% of the drug – the rest is simply excreted, or in the case of plants, washed away into our rivers and oceans. A slow release fertilizer therefore makes more sense both economically and environmentally. Another project looks at water purification. Contaminants are a significant problem particularly where Sri Lankan households rely on groundwater. The presence of fluorides and heavy metals in the water as well as waterborne diseases can make it unsafe to drink.

“What may not be known by the lay public is that if you go to the west and you use a Brita water filter, it has a thing called activated carbon that is most likely sourced from Sri Lanka,” he says. Specially treated coconut shells act as filters, capturing both chemical compounds as well as biological agents. Why not find a way to produce them affordably for the local market? In yet another project, researchers are looking at the mineral ilmenite, so abundant on the beaches in the North Sri Lanka. Factories in other countries take this sand and produce valuable titanium for the aerospace industry, and Prof. Amaratunga would like to see some of that process completed here, adding value to what we export but simultaneously improving the manufacturing approach so that it is more sustainable and less energy intensive.

Thanks to a functioning Institute of Chemistry as well as the successes of the universities, Sri Lanka has a fine crop of chemists and Prof. Amaratunga believes we could leverage this to support the growth of nanotech here. “We are exploiting the benefits of that chemistry base to have nanotechnology that comes from chemistry synthesis rather than what we call top-down engineering,” he explains.

Back in Cambridge, his interests veer more toward energy and electronics. He has founded or co-founded four companies, including CamSemi and Enecsys. He says his particular interest has been in solid state electronics and how electronic devices can be shrunk ever further as in the microprocessors that power computers, mobile phones and the like. In fact, if you own a Nokia phone, there’s a good chance you’ll find a chip developed by CamSemi in it – the chip makes the mobile phone’s charger more efficient by controlling the conversion and eliminating the colossal wastage of power which was standard even five years ago.

His other interests include developing meta materials that can control the type of light that enters a solar cell and his work on super capacitors which are energy devices capable of storing and releasing energy at incredible rates. Today, he is particularly excited about solving the equipment related obstacles that get in the way of homeowners setting up small solar cell units – he’d like to see that become as affordable as buying a T.V.

As the lines continue to blur between science fiction and science fact, nanotechnology is among the most exciting fields to be working in, says Prof. Amaratunga. Like many engineers, he has “a missionary zeal to address problems of social significance through science and technology.” He also enjoys the freedom that working in both England and Sri Lanka has allowed him. With a foot in both countries, he freely admits that what he does is far from scientific research in its purest form, instead an engineer’s mandate is clear: it is to apply the best possible brains and human resources to the most urgent problems. It also allows for a neat division of his priorities: “I work on food and water in Sri Lanka and energy in England,” he says.

Published in the Sunday Times, Sri Lanka on 18 November, 2012. Words by Smriti Daniel. Pix by M.A Pushpakumara

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