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Why a Missouri School Speech Case Doesn’t Merit Supreme Court Review, and What Kind of School Speech Case Likely Will

Justia columnist and attorney Julie Hilden comments on a recent school speech case from Missouri in which twin brothers, both high-school juniors, created a blog that derogated fellow students in racist and sexist ways. Hilden argues that it’s no surprise that the brothers were suspended from their school and required to continue their studies elsewhere, given that the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Comm. Sch. Dist. allows students to be punished when substantial disruption foreseeably results from speech that they directed at their school. She also notes that it is unlikely that the U.S. Supreme Court would grant review in a case like this one, and describes the kind of school-speech case that might, conversely, be a good candidate for the Court’s review.

An Update on the National Popular Vote Movement and Other Election Reform As the 2012 Presidential Election Looms

Justia columnist and U.C., Davis law professor Vikram David Amar comments on developments relating to the National Popular Vote (NPV) movement and other election reform proposals. The essential idea of NPV is to get various states to sign an agreement requiring each signatory state to cast its electoral college votes not for the candidate who garnered a plurality of popular votes in that state, but rather for the candidate who won the most popular votes nationally. This system, with enough signatories, would ensure that the winner of the Presidential contest would always be the person who had won the largest number of votes from individual voters nationwide. It would thus solve the problem of candidates’ focusing almost exclusively on “battleground states” in their campaigns, and would ensure that each American’s vote truly had equal weight in presidential elections. The importance of the issue is underlined by the fact that Gore won more votes in 2000, but lost the election, and this year, Romney may do the same.

Governance by a Party With a Leadership That Has Been Taken Over by Sociopaths: The Fourth and Final Column Analyzing What Mitt Romney Would Do As President

Justia columnist, George Washington law professor, and economist Neil Buchanan argues that the GOP leadership’s current stances are—as Nicholas Kristof also characterized them recently in The New York Times—sociopathic. Buchanan cites examples including the position that illegal aliens should be made so miserable that they will “self-deport,” even though their children too will suffer; and the position that aid to America’s poor should be sharply curtailed, even though that, too, would harm innocent children, with even children’s nutrition programs on the list to be cut. Buchanan takes issue, too, with proposed Romney/Ryan programs that would, he argues, only intensify social inequality, including ones targeting healthcare for the elderly.

A Federal Appeals Court Invalidates a Military Commission Conviction: Paying the Price for Circumventing the Civilian Justice System

Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Michael Dorf comments on a recent decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, throwing out the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. Dorf chronicles Hamdan’s long legal journey, and the repercussions that it has had for U.S. law. Dorf also explains that while the most recent decision regarding Hamdan is narrow, it nevertheless carries symbolic significance, casting doubt on the Bush Administration’s and the Obama Administration’s respective, and similar, detainee policies.

Bachelors of Color Need Not Apply? Why a Federal Court Was Right to Hold That ABC Has a First Amendment Right to Choose Its Bachelor Contestants, but the Network Should Voluntarily Change Its Practices

Justia columnist and U. Washington law professor Anita Ramasastry comments on a recent court decision in which two African-American men challenged what they alleged was differential treatment in their auditions for the reality show The Bachelor. With neither The Bachelor nor its sister show, The Bachelorette, ever having had an African-American lead, the plaintiffs saw evidence of racial discrimination when the show, they allege, gave them shorter interviews than other would-be contestants received, and did not ultimately select them to join the show’s cast. Ramasastry explains why the plaintiffs lost in court: the First Amendment protects casting decisions, whether by dramas, comedies, or reality shows. She notes, though, that the lack of court relief here doesn't mean the men were wrong on the merits, but only that they will now need to find another avenue, such as protesting and/or continuing to speak out, in order to make their point.

Another Fine Mess: An Assessment of the Most Recent Supreme Court Oral Argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum

Justia guest columnist and Touro Law Center professor Rodger Citron comments on the recent Supreme Court argument in an important case centering on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). As Citron explains, the ATS, enacted by the first Congress in 1789, authorizes federal courts to hear “any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the laws of nations or a treaty of the United States.” But can the ATS be applied to conduct based outside the U.S.? As Citron explains, that is the issue that the conservative Justices brought up at oral argument. Citron predicts, however, that in the end the Court will not limit the ATS’s reach to conduct that occurs within the United States, but that the Court will affirm the lower court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ case.

The End of an Unjust Law: The Second Circuit Strikes Down DOMA and Sets the Stage for Supreme Court Review

Justia columnist and attorney David Kemp comments on the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage, for federal purposes, as being between a man and a woman. Kemp discusses why the Second Circuit held that the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause required the application of intermediate scrutiny. Kemp also notes that the Second Circuit was the first court facing this issue not to also analyze the issue using a lower level of scrutiny. In addition, he discusses a number of other cases decided by courts across the country, that have confronted the issue of what level of scrutiny is proper for classifications based on sexual orientation—and why such cases may well lead to eventual Supreme Court review.

How Mitt Romney Forgot His Legal Thinking at the Hofstra Debate

Justia columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean notes that Mitt Romney attended both law school and business school, and contends that Romney forgot to think like a lawyer at the recent Hofstra debate. Before commenting specifically on Romney, Dean addresses the controversy about whether lawyers think differently than other people. One position is that thinking like a lawyer is simply thinking clearly and critically; the other position is that thinking like a lawyer is a unique skill that only those who have learned that skill in law school possess, in part because lawyers are taught to follow past precedent, even if they think it is wrongly decided—which is not the case in other professions. Dean notes that lawyers must also meet the requirements of the bar, and follow the jurisdiction’s Rules of Professional Conduct. While Romney is an attorney, Dean argues, he is much more of a businessman, and Dean notes that GOP businessmen have, over history, fared poorly in the Oval Office, and cites both Herbert Hoover and George W. Bush as examples.

How Religious Bullies Have Recently Sought to Impose Their Views on Others, in Pakistan and Here in the U.S.

Justia columnist and Cardozo law professor Marci Hamilton comments on an incident in Pakistan in which a 14-year young woman was shot by the Taliban because she voiced her view that girls should be educated; and an incident here in the U.S. where the American Family Association—which is characterized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group—has essentially come out in favor of the bullying of homosexual children on Mix It Up at Lunch Day, which is meant to break up cliques, even if just for one day. Hamilton argues that the first incident shows the need for the international recognition of civil rights, and of the rule of law, and the second incident involves a particularly repellent form of homophobia that has no place in our public schools. Each incident is made all the worse, Hamilton suggests, because children are the victims. Hamilton reminds us, too, that we are fortunate here in the U.S. to have the benefit of the First Amendment's Establishment and Speech Clauses.

Binders for Women, Blinders for Romney

Justia columnist and Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman comments on the second presidential debate, and especially on Mitt Romney’s now-famous comment about “binders full of women,” which has now become an Internet meme. Grossman argues that the comment reveals Romney’s dated and uninformed view of women in the workplace. She also notes that Romney, while avoiding the question about pay inequity that led to the “binders” comment, revealed that he believes that the only workers who need flexible schedules are women, apparently due to the assumptions that all women have children, and that only women perform child care.

The Recent Supreme Court Affirmative Action Oral Argument Zeroes in on the Concept of “Critical Mass”

Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Michael Dorf explains the origin and meaning of the concept of having a “critical mass” of minority students in the affirmative action context, and the role that this concept played in a recent Supreme Court oral argument relating to affirmative action at the University of Texas. Without a critical mass of minority students, it has been argued, such students will feel isolated in class and on campus, and there may be little diversity within the group of minority students itself. For these reasons, the University of Texas gives such students a special “plus factor” in admissions. Dorf explains how both conservatives and liberals on the Court have come to place what he argues is excessive weight on the “critical mass” concept, when it comes to affirmative action in education. He also summarizes the conservative Justices’ critique of the concept, but contends that that critique is itself flawed.

When Your Daddy Is Not Really Your Daddy: A Man Successfully Sues His Ex-Wife for Paternity Fraud Damages

Justia columnist and Hofstra law professor Joanna Grossman discusses the law relating to paternity fraud—that is, to instances when women falsely claim that one man has fathered their child, when in fact, the child's father was another man. Grossman focuses on a Tennessee case that fits that very scenario. There, the man who was falsely led to believe that a child was his, and who consequently paid child support for that child, sued his ex-wife for damages, and won on his claim for intentional misrepresentation of paternity. As Grossman notes, a few other states take approaches similar to Tennessee's. Grossman also covers the approach that the Uniform Parenthood Act (UPA) takes to this issue.

Eroticized Violence and Corporal Punishment in Public Schools: A Controversy Over Males Spanking Female Students, and Its Implications

Justia guest columnist and Cornell Law Visiting Fellow Antonio Haynes comments on a recent controversy in which parents of two public school students did not object to their daughters undergoing corporal punishment (specifically, paddling), but did object to the punishment being carried out by men, rather than women. Haynes points out that, upon closer examination, the issue here is not actually about sex, but about sexual orientation; the parents assumed the males conducting the spankings were straight and thus thought that they might find performing the spankings erotic. Noting that corporal punishment in the schools has not been ruled by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional, and that 19 states still allow it, Haynes suggests that issues like who may administer a spanking tend to distract us from asking deeper questions such as why we still accept corporal punishment in our schools, and why—if we trust school officials to paddle students—we do not also trust them not to harbor erotic motives while doing so.

The Controversy Over a Teacher’s Criticism of a Student’s Romney/Ryan T-Shirt, and a Possible Solution for the Future

Justia columnist and attorney Julie Hilden comments on the recent controversy over a Philadelphia public school geometry teacher's deriding student Samantha Pawlucy for wearing a Romney/Ryan T-shirt. The incident blew up into a full-blown controversy, with Romney personally calling the girl and speaking with her parents. Hilden parallels the incident to the key 1969 Supreme Court student-speech case, Tinker v. Des Moines Ind. Comm. Sch. Dist., in which students near Pawlucy's age wore black armbands in school in order to protest the Vietnam War. Hilden also argues that Pawlucy’s is an easy case, and that she would have a much harder First Amendment case, had the incident occurred in a History or Social Studies class. Finally, Hilden questions whether this was a case of teacher/student bullying, and suggests that teachers and students alike should be required to learn basic school-speech First Amendment tenets.

Was Justice Scalia Right That Many Contentious Constitutional Issues Are “Easy” to Resolve?

Justia columnist and U.C., Davis law professor Vikram Amar takes strong issue with Justice Scalia’s recent remark that certain constitutional questions are “easy”—including questions relating to the constitutionality of the death penalty, laws restricting abortions, and limits on the rights of gays and lesbians to engage in homosexual activity. Amar argues that even if one uses Scalia’s own interpretive method of originalism, the answers to such constitutional questions are far less easy than Scalia claims them to be; and Amar cites a number of interesting examples to prove his case. Amar also contends that a full approach of originalism would go much further than the examples Scalia gives, would destroy important and basic contemporary Court precedents, and thus would seriously disrupt constitutional law as we know it. Finally, Amar contends that the counterarguments that Scalia might make to the objections that could be raised regarding his views would only get him into deeper trouble analytically.

Would I Lie to You? In the Debate and Elsewhere, Romney and Ryan Exploit the Manipulative Tactics of Car Salesmen (With Apologies to Car Salesmen)

Justia columnist, George Washington law professor, and economist Neil Buchanan comments on why President Obama was widely perceived as losing the first presidential debate. Buchanan, who himself has a long history as a debater and debate coach, contends that one important problem for Obama was that Romney frequently said things that were outright false, and yet, Obama could not call him a liar, for that would run afoul of Americans’ tendency to believe what other say, and their aversion to call a person on falsehoods, because it seems so rude to do so. Buchanan thus contends that Romney’s debate tactics preyed on Americans’ deep-seated tendency to believe the best of others—and argues that Ryan uses similar argumentative strategies as well. In the first debate, Buchanan notes, Obama opted not to say “You’re lying, Governor,” as some commentators thought he should have, in retrospect. That raises an interesting question: Will he do so in the next Presidential debate?

Is Cellphone Tracking Okay If There’s No Trespass? A Sixth Circuit Panel Says Yes: Part Two in a Two-Part Series of Columns

In Part Two in a two-part series of columns on an interesting set of Fourth Amendment issues, Justia columnist and Cornell law professor Sherry Colb continues to address the question whether law enforcement may constitutionally, without a warrant or probable cause, use global positioning technology to track a suspect’s whereabouts through his cellular phone. Specifically, here in Part Two, Colb considers the two possible ways in which the Supreme Court uses the phrase “reasonable expectations of privacy” in practice in Fourth Amendment cases. In the phrase, Colb notes, “reasonable” may mean “empirically realistic,” but it also may mean “morally justifiable.” Colb gives examples of Supreme Court and Sixth Circuit cases in which the phrase is used in these two different ways. In addition, she examines the exclusionary rule’s role here—noting that the rule, which forbids evidence from being admitted in court if it was obtained unconstitutionally, may in concrete cases seem to simply help out criminals, but at a more abstract theoretical level, protects us all from police misconduct. Colb also predicts that the Supreme Court will need to revisit these issues sooner, rather than later, to ensure that the law is clear.

Biometrics in the School Lunch Line: Why Parents Should Be Concerned About the Privacy Implications of This Trend

Justia columnist and U. Washington law professor Anita Ramasastry comments on the use of biometrics in school lunch lines and elsewhere in schools. More specifically, she notes, schools are using an infrared scanner that identifies children’s unique palm and hand vein patterns, and converts these patterns into an algorithm through which the child can be recognized quickly and uniquely by a hand scan. Ramasastry raises privacy concerns about this kind of scanning: Could it lead kids to see other compromises of their privacy as commonplace? Will the databases that contain the scans be used for other purposes—even when the kids become adults? Might law enforcement attempt to use the databases of the hand scans? And what about parents with religious objections to schools’ using the hand scans on their children? At the very least, Ramasastry suggests, the scanning system should be “opt in” and not “opt out,” so that parents can think carefully about allowing their children to become part of the scanning system, and thus part of the related database.

A Chicago Judge Rules in Favor of “Occupy Chicago” Protesters: Why He Made The Right First Amendment Call

Justia columnist and attorney Julie Hilden comments on an important recent First Amendment ruling by a Chicago judge, Thomas More Donnelly. Judge Donnelly ruled in favor of Occupy Chicago protesters who broke the 11:00 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew for Grant Park, and were consequently arrested. Significant in Judge Donnelly's decision were the Illinois Constitution’s especially broad right of assembly; the fact that, in 2008, Obama rally participants were allowed to break the curfew in Grant Park without suffering arrest or other consequences; and the poor treatment that the Occupy Chicago protesters had earlier endured from the Chicago police, before the Grant Park arrests. Hilden argues that Judge Donnelly was correct to rule for the protesters.

The First 2012 Presidential Debate: How the Incumbent Got Trapped

Justia columnist and former counsel to the president John Dean argues that Mitt Romney’s win in the first presidential debate will prove to be a Pyrrhic victory, which will also help the Democrats. Dean discusses presidential debates from their very beginning, with Kennedy versus Nixon in 1960, up to the present. In commenting on the first Obama/Romney debate, Dean describes the “incumbent’s trap,” which he defines as the ability of the challenger to force the incumbent to defend his record—for even a strong record can be criticized, and as Americans, we can be unrealistic about what we expect our presidents to accomplish while in office. Meanwhile, the challenger can promise voters the moon. Numerous incumbents, Dean notes, have fallen into this very trap, though in Clinton/Dole, Clinton managed to avoid it by dominating the debate. Dean then analyzes the Obama/Romney debate—arguing that it needed much more moderation and fewer open-ended topics. Ultimately, though, Dean contends that Obama’s loss there will have a silver lining: Post-debate, the Obama team can now correct the many instances where Romney stretched or outright ignored the truth, and Democratic voters will be reminded that an Obama win is far from a foregone conclusion.

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Vikram David Amar

Vikram David Amar is the Dean and Iwan Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Illinois... more

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Neil H. Buchanan

Neil H. Buchanan is an economist and legal scholar and a Professor of Law at The George... more

Sherry F. Colb
Sherry F. Colb

Sherry F. Colb is the C.S. Wong Professor of Law at Cornell University. Colb teaches courses in... more

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John Dean served as Counsel to the President of the United States from July 1970 to April 1973.... more

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Joanna L. Grossman is the Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in Women and Law at SMU Dedman School... more

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Petition to: To the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice – the Rt Hon David Gauke MP

For centuries marriage, based on the nation’s Christian heritage, has been the bedrock of society. Defined as the exclusive and monogamous union of one man and one woman for life, for their mutual support and encouragement, and for the bringing up of any children they might have, it was not to be undertaken lightly, and could be ended only by death, or as result of adultery. As Jesus said in Matthew 19:9 “… anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

The current proposals to remove any element of fault from divorce trivialises both the commitment to, and solemnity of, marriage. It destroys any idea of covenant, and risks making it from the outset a temporary contract that can be terminated at whim by either party, without agreement from the other side.

Moreover, the so-called removal of ‘blame’ cannot eliminate or lessen conflict. Divorce does not happen as result of apathy, and telling someone who’s been deeply wounded by a partner’s betrayal or desertion that in effect their feelings don’t matter, will only intensify feelings of bitterness and resentment.

The further argument that children will benefit from ‘quickie’ divorce without possibility of challenge, because of a lessening of parental conflict, is fallacious. Research proves that, where their parents are involved, there are negative developmental impacts for children from any kind of conflict, even where ‘silent’ ( It is, therefore, divorce itself that is the problem. The lack of stability arising from inherently ‘temporary’ relationships can only further adversely impact children.

For all these reasons we call on Government to reject entirely the introduction of no-fault divorce proceedings. We further call for measures to encourage couples to marry, and to strengthen the family.

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When debts become unmanageable, it is imperative a person takes action so they do not begin to feel like they are drowning in their debt. Avoiding action can end up leading to further problems because debt collectors can often become aggressive. It is especially important individuals do not ignore their mortgage holders or they could end up losing their home due to foreclosure. Thankfully, there is a way homeowners can avoid losing their homes and other secured property. When debt becomes impossible to deal with, debtors can find relief by hiring a chapter 13 bankruptcy attorney in St. Louis County, MO.

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Tom Bagshaw: Rebel Fairy Tales

Tom Bagshaw’s art hits like a dose of ether. Every painting a portrait of darkness behind the enchantment of a rebel fairy tale. The women, whether real or figments of Bagshaw’s imagination, are a combination of 17th century romanticism and underplayed sexuality. When I look at his paintings I see women who are commanding but feminine…a delicate girl in a beautiful dress with a knife in her shoe. Tom Bagshaw gives us the princess we wanted. The one who was sexy, smart, and mystifying. The kind of woman who didn’t need rescued but instead captured the prince.

Ara— I see a lot of fairy tale elements in your work. Is that purposeful?

Tom Bagshaw— Yes, I’m very much drawn to fairy tales, ghost stories, folklore, mythology etc. in various cultures so I generally try to work elements into my work.

Ara— Women are at the epicenter of almost every painting. What sort of women inspire your work?

Tom Bagshaw— Don’t really know how to answer this one. All sorts of women inspire my work, it’s nothing that I could really define but they all have a strength of character–either below the surface or very much in your face and it’s that which is often the inspiration for a new piece of work.

Ara— Are the women real subjects or figments of your imagination?

Tin Bagshaw— In order to produce works that are as realistic as possible, I use lots of references. That’s the starting point at the very least.

Ara— The women in your paintings are portrayed as strong. Did you grow up around strong women?

Tom Bagshaw— No, not really.

Ara— There is an element of darkness in your work. Even the eyes in most of the paintings are a bit haunting. What do you see when you look into the eyes of your subjects?

Tom Bagshaw— It’s that inner strength of character I think. I’ve never really been interested in portraying women as weak or the damsel in distress type stuff!

Ara— What are you trying to convey with the atmosphere in your paintings? For me, it feels like walking through a forest on a foggy night… exciting and a bit dangerous.

Tom Bagshaw— That’s probably one of the best descriptions that I’ve heard. It’s nice to hear how others interpret my work. Yeah, there’s certainly a feeling of underlying darkness in most of my pieces.

Ara— When did you create your first painting?

Tom Bagshaw— I don’t remember when I created my first traditional painting. I’ve been drawing and painting for as long as I remember. I created my first digital painting about 12 years ago…I think?

Ara–What inspires you?

Tom Bagshaw— That’s just way too difficult to answer. Anything can give rise to a spark of inspiration. It’s almost always there when you least expect it. I love looking at design, illustration, photography, nature, film, etc. but you can get a spark of inspiration from a cloud or a shadow just as easily as you can get inspiration from looking at an old master’s work.

Ara— How would you describe your work to someone who has never seen it?

Tom Bagshaw— Predominately– female portraiture, with a dark edge. I really don’t know. That’s left for better people than me to decide.

Ara— One painting that you wished you would have painted?

Tom Bagshaw— Probably Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.

Ara— Where has your work been exhibited and are there any recent exhibitions?

Tom Bagshaw–I’ve shown with some wonderful galleries areound the world including Corey Helford, Roq La Rue, Spoke Art, Bold Hype, Last Rites, Strychnin Gallery, London Miles, and Atomica. I have shows in the next few months at Flower Pepper Gallery, Dream Factory, Last Rites, 423 West, and Matrix fine art.

Ara— Best music to listen to while painting?

Tom Bagshaw— I generally prefer to work in silence but when I do have music on it’s pretty much always on shuffle.

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Music junkie, Atari 2600 bringer backer, word maker upper, loves to photograph and write about suburban decay. Ara grew up on a corner lot in small town Ohio. She began escaping the micro minds of the Midwest by listening to music, watching b films, and touring the cities in her mind. She wrote poetry on the back of algebra tests and asked Lou Reed to take her to prom. Two decades later she self published a full collection of poetry that one reader described as “a Tom Verlaine riff in every synapse”. She believes that we all have a gift, we just have to find it.

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What is voevent-parse?

A lightweight library for parsing, manipulating, and generating VOEvent XML packets, built atop lxml.objectify and compatible with Python 2 and 3.

voevent-parse provides convenience routines to take care of many common tasks, so that accessing those vital data elements is as simple as:

import voeventparse
with open(xml_filename, 'rb') as f:
    v = voeventparse.load(f)
print "AuthorIVORN:", v.Who.AuthorIVORN  #Prints e.g. ivo://nasa.gsfc.tan/gcn
v.Who.AuthorIVORN = 'ivo://i.heart.python/lxml' #Alters the XML value.

voevent-parse aims to make dealing with VOEvent packets easy, while remaining small, flexible, and stable enough to be suitable for use as a dependency in a range of larger projects. To achieve this, we add a user-friendly layer on top of lxml.objectify which attempts to hide the messy details of working with the sometimes lengthy VOEvent schema, and also take care of some rather obscure lxml namespace handling. However, since the objects created are just regular lxml classes, the user is free to utilise the full power of the lxml library when required.

voevent-parse is pip installable, try running:

pip install voevent-parse

Note that voevent-parse depends upon lxml, and pip will attempt to install lxml first if not already present. lxml may be installed as a system package if the version distributed with your package manager is sufficiently up-to-date (version >= 2.3). If you’re working with pip / virtualenv and not making use of system packages, then note that lxml has some prerequisites for compilation that can cause a standard pip install to fail with somewhat cryptic errors. On a typical Debian / Ubuntu machine you can satisfy those requirements using:

sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt-dev

Reference documentation can be found at, or generated directly from the repository using Sphinx.

Source, Issues, Development etc.

I intend to mark any updates by bumping the version number accordingly. That said, if you find yourself using voevent-parse in any serious context, do drop me an email so I can keep you informed of any updates or critical bugs.

Bug reports (or even better, pull requests) are welcomed. The source code and issue tracker may be found at

voevent-parse also has a suite of unit-tests which may be run in the usual manner, typically using nose from the repository root directory.

lxml.objectify ‘gotchas’

See also the tutorial, which includes a basic introduction to lxml.objectify.

The objectify library has a few syntactic quirks which can trip up new users. Firstly, you should be aware that the line actually returns an object that acts like a list of all the children of the root element with the name foo. What’s confusing is that objectify has syntactic sugar applied so that is a shortcut alias for the more explicit[0]. This can be very confusing to the uninitiated, since it overrides some attributes of the the actual element values. To get around this, you should be aware of the accessor to the text representation of the value; .text, e.g.:

import lxml.objectify
root = lxml.objectify.Element('root') = 'sometext' # Adds a child called 'foo' with value 'sometext'
print # 'sometext'
print len( #  1. Wait, what?
# The string value clearly does not have length==1,
# the list of children called 'foo' does.
print # 'sometext'
print len( # 8. Sanity prevails!

Another ‘gotcha’ is that creating multiple child elements of the same name is a bit unintuitive. Essentially, objectify works implicitly if each element has only one child:

from lxml import objectify, etree
simple_root = objectify.Element('simple_root')
simple_root.layer1 = None
simple_root.layer1.layer2 = 5
print etree.tostring(simple_root, pretty_print=True)

But if there are multiple children then each child must be explicitly declared as an lxml Element in order to co-exist with its siblings:

from lxml import objectify, etree
import math
siblings_root = objectify.Element('siblings')
siblings_root.bars = None
siblings_root.bars.append(objectify.Element('bar'))[0] = math.pi[1] = 42
print etree.tostring(siblings_root, pretty_print=True)

… which is another reason to use voevent-parse as a user-friendly interface for common operations.

For some more examples, you might also try:

See also

In order to receive VOEvent packets, you will require a utility capable of connecting to the VOEvent backbone. Two such tools are Comet and Dakota.

Associated utility routines

Depending on what you want to use your VOEvents for, you may be interested fourpiskytools, which provides a minimum working example of a broker / event-handler setup, and basic routines for submitting VOEvents to a broker for publication.

Experienced users may also want to take a look at fourpisky-core, which is much less easy-to-read but provides extensive examples of handling VOEvent data for real-time alerting purposes.

Further information

The 4PiSky project page at provides links to more information on using VOEvents for scientific work, and other VOEvent related tools.

If you make use of voevent-parse in work leading to a publication, we ask that you cite the ASCL entry.


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“God’s Created Man – Chapter Two”

          God, in creating His man, expresses specifically His purpose for the man was to bring forth vessels to have dominion over His creation. According to God’s purpose, we have this assurance from scripture in Col. 1:27 which states, “To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory”. But, not ending here, His desire is stated also in the prayer which Jesus prayed to the Father. John 17:20-22, “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which you gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:”

        This speaks that it is not just Christ in us, but that we may also be in Christ. Our place in Him is dependent upon sharing the priority of seeking for and doing the Father’s will. Being one in Him speaks to us of an order, a nature, which moves us to not do our own will, but to do the will of the Father only. Herein obedience to God is better for man than all his carnal ethic sacrifices. Sacrifices only speak of man’s willingness to live unto the religious systems of man instead of the Christ nature and His released order.

        In this we are given an understanding from God that He becomes the tabernacle in which mankind is to dwell. God’s tabernacle is a dwelling place, a habitation, which indicates that it is a dwelling place that contains the presence of Jehovah God Himself. This speaks of dwelling in the light of God called His Shekinah glory. A glory where the character of God is manifested as it reveals His presence. Psalms 15:1-3 tells us, “Lord, who may abide in your tabernacle? Who may dwell in your holy hill? He who walks uprightly, and works righteousness, and speaks the truth in his heart; He who does not backbite with his tongue, nor does evil to his neighbor, nor does he take up a reproach against his friend”. In meeting these requirements man must consider this truth. That these qualifications cannot be fulfilled from the energy nor talent of the carnal, fleshly nature of the fallen man. Therefore, man has the need for a savior and then to go through a change, a transformation.

        This transformation is being accomplished by allowing God to write a new nature within us, upon our hearts. This new nature causes the old corruptible nature to pass away by the in-grafting of God’s nature within the man. “Walking uprightly” as stated above speaks of a people who walk without blame before God. The “works of righteousness” speak of a people who once were as filthy rags but now only do the Father’s works. In “speaking the truth”, man has gained the experience of being made free because of knowing and becoming the truth which God is in us, a pure genuine relationship. 1 Cor. 3:16-17 shares this truth, “Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are”.

        How is it that one can defile the temple of God? A defiling takes place among the people through corrupting the temple by false teachings, by pride and stubbornness, by immorality and disobedience. Therefore, man is invited to come unto Christ and remain pure in God that He might be glorified. 1 Cor. 6:19-20, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s”.

        Know that the kingdom of God is a spiritual reality and is available to each person who receives and allows Jesus Christ to become his Savior and Lord. In the receiving of His kingly ruler-ship, He becomes King in man’s life and over man’s affairs. In giving our lives to Him our service and love remains faithful. Luke 17:21, “Nor will they say, See here! Or see there! For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you”. Man, with God within, is to never operate independently of God’s power and grace. Man is to come to the God given light and walk only in that light as given by the Holy Spirit.

        For this reason, to become God’s tabernacle of expression, we must awaken. When man’s salvation is consummated, man puts on the Lord Jesus Christ and submits to His lordship. Man can yield to God’s moral standards while living in constant fellowship with Him. Man is to depend upon God’s strength while making no provision for his own flesh. This means living a life-style that does nothing to foster fallen man’s sensual desires and appetites. Rom. 13:11-14, “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken out of sleep; for now, our salvation is nearer that when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts”.

        Now this word “provision” from the above scripture is the Greek word “PRONOIA” which has the meaning of “fore planning, foresight, forethought, premeditated plan, making preparation for, and providing for”. Therefore, if we are willing to come awake, God has left for us a promise that far exceeds only a desire to just know about Him. Eph. “Therefore He says: Awake, you who sleep [spiritual dead], arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light”.

        One of the principles of God, which He governs us by is, that with every promise and requirement spoken forth to His people, He empowers within the word received the ability and power to make it so. Therefore, when God speaks to us individuality or collectively, within that which He speaks is the power to bring it forth. In Matt. 5:48 God commands, “Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect”. This command is not something we can become by using our own strength, talent or ability. This fulfillment comes only as His strength enables the man to fulfill it through faith in God’s ability. This place of perfection is incorporated into our lives by the law of love that He imparts to those who love Him. This love for God is the road, the pathway of the over-comer. It is these saints that shall enter the high realms of being glorified. Who and what does it mean to overcome?

        Back to the book of Genesis the phrase “to subdue” has the same meaning as “to overcome”. This is that which God purposed for man at the time of creation. What then does God require of man when He speaks to us of the place of being glorified? This word “glorified” has the meaning of “to exalt to dignity in company with, the risen Christ”. Rom. 8:16-18 reveals, “The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him that we may also be glorified together. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”. An “heir” is one who has come to possess. The word denotes a joint participant, co-heir, the fellow heir, one who receives a lot from another.

        A question often asked is, “if this place of overcoming, perfection and becoming heirs is available to a people, why do we not see it manifested?” To this question we must declare, this way of life has always been available but remained a mystery because of the hardness of man’s hearts and the traditions of our forefathers. Many of these traditions have been brought about by the rejection of revealed truth for the sake of self-satisfaction. For this cause, a call from God continues to ring out as declared from Isa. 60:1-2 for a people to awaken, “Arise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you and shall be seen upon you”.

        This is a promise of restoration which brings hope to all who shall believe. Can the world, as we know it today, sink any lower into sin, suffering and willful wickedness? I think not, for the cup of iniquity is full and darkness is all around us as gross darkness consumes the minds of men. But according to Mark 9:23 we have this promise, “Jesus said to him, if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes”. Believers are those who have put their trust in God. They have faith in and are fully convinced that they can rely on God. Believers know that God can act and has the power to accomplish. Christ gives us the assurance that however powerless man’s efforts are to make things happen, God can demonstrate His dynamic power. This power can translate people from a world of carnality into God’s kingdom, a people who walk in and by the Holy Spirit, being obedient to Christ alone. In this, God’s created man does appear.

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Blake Rasmussen: Hello and welcome to the Magic Story Podcast, where we go behind the scenes with the people who create the worlds and characters of Magic: the Gathering. I’m Blake Rasmussen and I’ll be your host. I’m joined today, as I often am, by story guru Alison Luhrs.

Hey Alison!

Alison Luhrs: Hi Blake!

BR: How are you doing?

AL: I’m doing pretty good.

BR: You excited to talk about some tribes for the Commander product?

AL: Extraordinarily excited!

BR: Me too. So what we’re gonna do, dear listeners, is over the next five weeks we’re going to be talking about the tribes of the Commander release. Their stories, the legends, and the lore, and more.

AL: So those of you at home may be wondering “Hey! The last time that they did this sort of podcast, didn’t they say that they were going to do more story for with less gaps?” And you are correct, past Alison did say that. She did not know that current Alison would be- so the story team is kind of in a state of transition right now, with one of the key goals being “Don’t leave Alison sobbing from overwork under her desk.” And as awesome as it would be to have five stories in a row over the next couple weeks, unfortunately I really don’t want to die from writing four in a row like I did a couple weeks ago.

So, these podcasts are meant to be informative, we’re going to get you hyped about Commander, and we’re going to talk about each of the ones that will be introduced in these sets.

BR: And just because we’re podcasting doesn’t mean you’re not going to get story tidbits that you haven’t heard before. We’ll be talking about each of the Commander tribes as well as their legends, a little bit about the legends’ stories—what we know, what we don’t know—and maybe even a few things you’ve never heard before from Alison.

AL: Yup, all of that will be in here so listen up.

BR: So we’re going to start today with the toothiest tribe: vampires. Since Commander previews don’t start til next week, we aren’t going to spend a ton of time talking about specific cards, but we will talk about some of the characters you might see for the first time in C17.

We will get to that. Let’s just start, Alison, by talking about vampires kind of generally.

So in Magic, vampires aren’t the same across the Multiverse. So Zendikar vampires are different from Innistrad vampires are different from Sengir vampires. Can you talk a little bit about the different types of vampires in the Multiverse?

AL: Sure! So vampires vary depending on which plane you’re on. With a lot of our main creature types, they’re kinda different depending on what place in the Multiverse you’re looking at them at.

So Innistrad is home to some of the more meilleur vampires that you’ll think of if you think of vampires in pop culture. They have fangs, they look kind of pasty and they are quite mean. They’re the classical archetypal vampires that fit in very nicely with the horror-trope-heavy Innistrad. So all the vampires on Innistrad come from one sire, that’s Edgar Markov. He’s the grandfather of Sorin, everybody’s favorite wallflower. Yeah, you’re welcome.

BR: [laughs] Thanks Alison.

AL: But those vampires are regal, extremely fancy, and most recognizable by their eyes. They have black sclera, so that white part in your eyes is all black on Innistrad vampires. And gold, silver, or red irises in the middle. But heavy emphasis on the fancy.

On Dominaria, Sengir vampires are all descendants of Baron Sengir and Ulgrotha and can be found in Aerona and in the pits of the Cabal in Otaria. So these vampires are very monstrous nowadays, they’re looking pretty rough around the edges.

On Zendikar, we have even more rough around the edges. These vampires are not immortal but they do need to feed on blood. It doesn’t have to be sentient blood, sometimes they just feed on whatever critter is nearby. And long ago the Eldrazi warped them and adapted their anatomy for servitude, so they’ve got these hooks on them and easily pull them around by the shoulders. They physically look very different from other vampires.

Perhaps the most different looking vampire of all of them are the vampires of Tarkir. They’re the ones with the huge tongue and they look really, really spooky and scary.

Whereas on Kaladesh, their vampires aren’t really like any others. There’s a few aetherborn that are able to draw from the lifeforce of others, which kinda qualifies them as vampires. It’s a very rare skill and it allows them to gain a little more time on their lifetimes, but not too much. So no fangs for them,= since they don’t have mouths, but they do live off the lifeforce of others so it’s kind of an umbrella term vampire.

BR: Okay, so it sounds like there aren’t many like singularly defining characteristics about Magic vampires.

AL: I think the closest one would be that they gain something from someone else losing something, which is also the definition of life, like so . . . ? [laughs] But at its core, I think that’s what you can drill it down to, and then there’s a myriad of possibilities from there.

BR: Okay, so if that’s the main thrust of what makes a vampire in Magic, what are the mechanics that are typically associated with Magic vampires?

AL: So lifelink, again, is the most obvious one, draining life from others to gain it in oneself. Flying is also a thing. Depending on what brand of vampires from pop culture you roll with, sometimes they can fly and sometimes they can’t and it’s kind of the same with our vamps as well. Sometimes they’re able to magically lift themselves off the ground, sometimes they’re able to kind of just float up and you know have their parties three feet above the ground, and other times they’re just like terrestrial bound. But yeah, there’s obviously a couple other one-offs, but those are the two main mechanics for them.

BR: Okay, so what are some aspects of popular culture vampires that are found in Magic vampires?

AL: Definitely blood-draining, usually with sapient beings. So in pop culture, usually in order to be a vampire you have to drink the blood of humans. Sorry about that. There’s a couple of times where vampires in pop culture will get around that by drinking the blood of animals, but they’re wimps so uh . . . [laughs] Those really classic sort of trope sort of descriptors do apply to Magic vampires too. I can pretty firmly say that you will never a vampire in our world that owns an Audi and lives in the Pacific Northwest and dates human girls. But, you never know!

BR: Maybe some day.

AL: Maybe some day. Some day, some day.

BR: What about ones that are not, besides not living in the Pacific Northwest, what are some traits that Magic vampires don’t share with popular culture vampires?

AL: Usually, the aversion to holy relics is sometimes a thing? With Innistrad, there’s a couple of symbols that do keep away specific vampires, but for the most part that isn’t really a rule that applies across all vampires in Magic.

Aversion to silver is also sometimes a thing. It’s called out pretty specifically in Innistrad that certain deal with types of wood very well, like there are very specific sorts of wood, and I think that’s kind of how stakes and staking vampires came into Magic‘s lore.

Let’s see, seeing oneself in a mirror, I honestly can’t think of any time that one of our vamps has seen themselves in a mirror.

BR: I can’t think of anything, but I wouldn’t rule it out?

AL: Yeah, so whoever at home wants to yell at me, don’t. Just yell it out at the internet instead.  [laughs] But yeah, I think those are the kind of big ones.

BR: What about turning into a bat?

AL: Oh! Sometimes that is a thing. I remember there is one card that does transform literally into a bat, which I wish we did more often because it was always my favorite weird power for vampires. Like why a tiny bat? I don’t know. It’s kind of weird. Maybe it’s some deviation of them flying, but only like sometimes.

BR: Maybe!

AL: What if they turned into like fruit bats, that’d be kind of-

BR: Fruit bats, I’d be kind of entertained by a vampire turning into a snake because both of them are terrifying.

AL: Oh, you don’t like snakes?

BR: I hate snakes.

AL: Oh, I’m sorry.

BR: It’s a whole thing. I was listening to a podcast the other day that tried to ssssay that—that hissing was not on purpose there—that tried to say that if you understood how snakes moved that it’d clear some of the fear up? So they explained how snakes moved, to the best of science’s ability, and it did not help.

AL: Well I feel like with our lizard brains, there’s only so much you can tell it. Like “Hey brain, logically you shouldn’t be scared of this,” and your brain will just be like “No, idiot, this is terrifying.”

BR: Terrifying, want no part of it.

AL: Well I like snakes but we’re all allowed to have irrational fears and such.

BR: “Irrational?” These are terrifying.

AL: “Have you seen a snake?” [laughs]

BR: Anyway, so let’s go back to C17. So there are a ton of different types of vampires in Magic, what types will we be seeing in C17?

AL: We’ll be seeing a tour of vampires! Innistrad, Zendikar, there’s even a Tarkir vampire in there. It’s a pretty good spread. So if I get anymore specific than that I think that you guys will be able to guess which specific cards they are, so I’m not going to say anything else.

BR: Well, I’m gonna let you off the leash for one of them.

AL: Okay!

BR: So pick a cool character that we’re reintroducing in C17. Maybe one that we haven’t seen on a card before?

AL: Oooh.

BR: Maybe one that I’m leading the question to? And I already know what you’re going to say?

AL: Oh, I think you do! So one character that our fans have been asking for for forever and that we’ve been wanting to show on cards for forever is the one, the only, the grandfather of all grandfathers, Edgar Markov.

[Both cheer]

BR: So, tell us about Edgar Markov. What do we know about him already?

AL: So Edgar Markov was the first vampire of Innistrad. I actually wrote down his intro because it’s just so awesome.

“Thousands of years ago, he was an alchemist seeking immortality for himself and his grandson Sorin. Encouraged by a demon, Edgar performed a dark ritual, feeding on the blood of other beings, and was transformed into an immortal vampire. He shared the secret with his most loyal subjects, each of whom became a founder of one of Innistrad’s vampiric bloodlines.”

BR: So why did we pick Edgar Markov to highlight in C17?

AL: He is one of the cards our fans have been asking for for a really, really long time. Lorewise, he’s a really big deal, I mean he’s the granddaddy of Sorin, and he’s the papa of all vampires on Innistrad. That’s pretty badass!

But mostly, we just wanted to show this really classic figure in a really, really prominent light. And so, if you’d like, I’m not able to share what the card does, but I can assure you that his art is amazing and I brought his art description. Would you like to hear it?

BR: I would.

AL: Alright, so I clipped out the juciest bit for you. So, picture with your brain “This is a glamour shot of Edgar Markov, the progenitor of all vampires on Innistrad. He’s never been seen on cards before but he’s known as one of the most powerful characters on Innistrad. He is a tall imposing figure in his mid-forties with long white hair drawn back away from his face. His golden yellow eyes with black scleras. His expression is both cool and confident with an air of superiority. Think Hannibal Lecter.

“In this shot we see him standing straight with his arms held out to either side as his squires buckle him into red enameled plate armor with silver accents. See reference packet for armor style. Two other squires kneel before him, one with a two-headed sword raised towards Edgar and the other with a goblet of blood. We don’t have to see these squires in their entirety, but we need to see Edgar.”

BR: So I’m pretty sure that this podcast is gonna set a record for saying “scleras.”

AL: Scleras? I’ve never said it more than once in like a day before.

BR: We’re up to at least four.

AL: Do you have a count?

BR: I think that’s four? It’s super important.

AL: Yeah, I think you’re right, keep that tally. [laughs]

BR: So my question, after hearing that fantastic art description: We didn’t see Edgar on modern day Innistrad, so where—again, you can’t say what the card does yet—where’s the timeline for this snapshot that we’re seeing Edgar in on the card?

AL: To be entirely honest, I don’t know. I’m pretty sure this is before everything got all Eldrazified. There’s no hint of any sort of Emrakuliness, which is my new favorite word.

BR: Totally a word.

AL: In the art, this is Edgar at his height. Whether that height is two years ago or two thousand doesn’t matter. He’s an immortal, this is him powerful always. And I’m really excited for you guys to see both the card and the character himself.

BR: So, you sound pretty high on Edgar.

AL: I’m so hyped, so hyped on granddaddy Edgar.

BR: Would you say he’s your favorite Magic vampire?

AL: Hmm, no. I don’t think I would.

BR: Okay. Who would qualify there?

AL: Ah, I will always have a soft spot for Yahenni. Yahenni is technically like cardwise a vampire, but they’re an aetherborn so they are one of the races of Kaladesh that sprung from aether itself. They are just kind of like sentient living energy and they only have about two years before their lifespan just flatlines. And so they have a real passion for life and they want to go out and experience as much as possible. So Yahenni, in the Venn diagram of “vampires” and “self-tragic figures,” they’re that tiny little sliver in the middle. I loved writing their story, I loved being able to find a way to talk about the vampiric struggle of “How do I cope with staying alive by any means necessary, knowing the harm and feeling the harm I inflict on others?” That was really, really fun.

BR: Yeah, Yahenni was kind of one of those characters that was represented on the card, kind of cool, but really came to life—I’ll pay you a compliment now—through the stories you told.

AL: Oh, thank you!

BR: And I know the community was really, really high on Yahenni after that as well. So solid answer.

AL: Thanks! Yeah, Yahenni’s character themselves was very loosely based off my gran. She is tremendously British and really loves going out of her way to host parties and make sure everyone’s feeling fantastic.

BR: And suck the life from some of them every once in a while?

AL: Man, when she’s in a bad mood she does a lot of things . . . But yeah, it’s always been her passion for making other people happy and being happy in return. So I kinda put a little bit of her into Yahenni. I will never tell that because she won’t understand.

BR: Unless she listens to this podcast?

AL: You know, she might be right now.

BR: She could be a fan. No idea.

AL: Hi gran! I love you. I’ll give you a call later.

BR: Well, my favorite Magic vampire has gotta be Baron Sengir.

AL: Aw yeah! Tell me why! What are your feelings?

BR: I mean, if I’m being honest, it’s because it was during my formative years and it was just amazing.

AL: Awww.

BR: But it’s also, you know the Homelands story is really cool actually.

AL: it is! It is.

BR: You know Homelands gets a bad rap. It has some pretty fun cards in it, the story is really cool. Because it was one of those stories that almost had a Commander’y feel to it, because it had a lot of legends all fighting with each other and it had weird relationships. Baron had a grandmother-

AL: Really?

BR: Not technically, but there’s a grandmother Sengir—god and I’m not up on the lore on Grandmother Sengir entirely—but I believe she’s supposed to have been a former Planeswalker that went mad or something.

AL: Oh, I like that.

BR: I’m gonna get roasted online, it’s- just a million different ways.

AL: It’s totally fine! this is out of my expertise so by my account you’re fine.

BR: And he also had a daughter. The daughter of Sengir, her card was not very good, but the daughter of Sengir was Irini? I believe? And it wasn’t his actual daughter, it was I think a dwarf that he kidnapped as a child.

AL: Ah, who hasn’t done that?

BR: You know, that’s just standard evil vampire kind of things.

AL: “You know I could really go for just having some kiddos running around. Let’s go snag one!”

BR: It’s cliche at this point, get some dwarves. But yeah, he was very powerful and the art was amazing and he was a little bit of vampire tribal back in the day. So yeah, I definitely have to go with Baron Sengir.

AL: Aw, nice.

BR: And somebody on the internet can tell me all about his lore that I completely missed.

AL: Thanks, internet.

BR: So we’re not going to kill you with stories in this period, but if we were to kill you with stories and we made you write a vampire story, who would you most like to write one about?

AL: Ah, Olivia. Olivia Voldaren, like for day. Like probably just because she’s Yahenni without a conscience, but still. Eccentric bon vivants are like my bread and butter. So that’s kind of like my thing.

BR: Fancy clothes, party.

AL: Fancy people, parties, marginally caring about other people, yes. I’m in. That’s exactly what I’m here for.

An alternative, a bit less obvious for me, I think would be Sorin. He’s a complicated ass dude. He’s been around for a long time, he’s had his fingers in lots of different stories and lots of different parts of Magic lore, and I don’t think he’s going to be in that wall forever.

BR: No?

AL: No, I know. I think that’s a little bit heartbreaking, but Sorin won’t be stuck in a wall for forever, but he’s got good reasons to go all after somebody right now. Like what Nahiri did warrants one hell of a comeback, so I would love to go and write that story. That sounds like a blast.

BR: Next question: What non-vampire character do you think would make the best vampire?

AL: Oh . . . I can’t think of a character that could be a vampire without absolutely ruining that character. The best I could think of is someone dumb and unexpected, so my go to dumb and unexpected character for these kinds of questions is always Tibalt, god bless him.

BR: [laughs] Tibalt the vampire.

AL: Oh god, yeah, he would dig that. He would dig being a vampire in addition to being a demon.

BR: It would give him something to do.

AL: He’s so extra! Like yeah, exactly. He would love that.

BR: That is the perfect way to describe Tibalt. He is so extra.

AL: God, he is so extra.

BR: He’s there, he doesn’t really need to be.

AL: He just doesn’t really need to be there but you know what he’s just going to dress real fancy and, I don’t know, just show up and throw a rock at someone. But also be a vampire, yeah that sounds great. It will never happen.

BR: Maybe!

AL: Maybe! You never know. We should just throw-

BR: Tomorrow we’re going to see like twenty Tumblr posts that are all Tibalt as a vampire.

AL: Good! Hell yeah, the world needs more Tibalt fan art. I love that character, he gets so much trash but I love it.

BR: So that’s about all we have time for today. Before we go, are there any other fascinating vampire tidbits you can share?

AL: Yeah! So I pulled up some info on the Eldrazified vamps of Innistrad in Eldritch Moon and you know I was really struck by the Stromkirk vampires. So one of the lineages of vamps on Innistrad. And in the world guide that we write that we write from internally, it mentions that they gave themselves over to the Nephalian cults. Like they just handed their bodies over, and they were some of Innistrad’s first to be transformed to Emrakulified, awful half-monster people. I thought that was really interesting that they would just voluntarily be like “Okay! Let’s go for it! If this is gonna be our future then we might as well say like ‘Yup, sign me up!'”

BR: Like at least be first in the line if you’re going to be turned into an awful tentacle monster.

AL: Right! Right!

BR: Like you’ll get the best tentacle parts, I guess maybe?

AL: Maybe? And they’re the coastal cults so maybe they’ll have like cool fishclaws. Or some kind of little crab legs, who knows! But it was also never really clarified whether the process of transformation hurts or not? So you know, maybe it’s not so bad.

BR: Maybe!

AL: The entire town of Hanweir was okay with it so.

BR: The Gatewatch? They were just coming in, imposing their non-Emrakul ways without ever asking anyone.

AL: I could be bigger, I could have more limbs, I could have less spine.

BR: You could always have your horse with you.

AL: Yeah! That doesn’t sound so bad.

BR: Horses are great!

AL: Horses are great! I could be the horse.

[Both laugh]

BR: Well, thank you Alison!

AL: That went to a weird place.

BR: That went to a very strange place, but that’s okay!

AL: Podcast as one.

BR: Thank you, Alison-

AL: Thank you!

BR: for that injection of vampire knowledge, straight to the jugular.

AL: Oh, nice.

BR: There’s going to be a lot of puns in these.

AL: I’m into it, let’s do it.

BR: That’s all for today’s episode so we will be back next Wednesday to talk about the next tribe on our list: Wizards.

AL: Wizards!

BR: Which are not just for blue anymore . . .

AL: Whaaaaaaaat?

BR: We will see you then!


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Erin McNeil

Erin McNeil received her MFA in Photography and MA in Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Her masters work focused on the use of ruin imagery in videogames. She has presented papers both in the US and abroad. Her published work appears in the Journal of Games Criticism as well as the book, The Reflexive Photographer. She currently works as the Walker's Visual Arts Exhibitions Administrator.


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We started our third day at the Seljalandfoss and drove on a highland road until we were able to see and walk to the glacier of Eyjafjallajökull (the vulcano that errupted 2 years ago). I wanted to touch the ice but a river blocked the way. Further on we stoped by the Skogarfoss and Vik i Myrdal where I had to collect some sand for a friend of mine. We did a little hike in the afternoon wherew e had a great view on a glacier. But it was REALLY windy. About 70km/h and I almost got blown away, literally. Haha. Our day ended at Kirkjubaejarklaustur.

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In Memoriam: Filip Brkovic

The University is deeply saddened by the news of the death of Filip Brkovic, a recently completed PAIS PhD Student, who sadly passed away on Wednesday 27 January. Our thoughts are with his wife and their young son.

Professor Nick Vaughan-Williams and Jackie Smith of PAIS commented:

Filip passed his PhD viva in the week before Christmas, receiving high praise from his examiners for the high quality of his underlying argument and for the passion and eloquence with which he defended his thesis. He will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him. He was, above all, a genuinely good guy, a loyal friend on whom so many members of our PhD community relied to help them through their bad days. He was always the first person on hand with a pep talk to allow others to focus on the positive side of even the worst news. All of his friends within the Department will now need to channel this approach that came so naturally to Filip if they are to help each other to come to terms with his death.

In commemoration, Filip's colleagues intend to name an annual PhD Prize in honour of his memory.

If you knew Filip and are affected by this news please be aware of the range of University support available. The Student Support Services website gives more details about University Support Services, or you can contact them on 024 76 575570, ext 75570.


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WASP-166b, a Neptune-desert planet

WASP-166b, newly announced on arXiv, is a planet we’ve been following for a while. As we routinely do, we measure the mass of the planet from how much its gravity tugs the host star around, and we measure that from the Doppler shift of its spectrum. The “radial velocity” data for WASP-166, however, didn’t neatly fit the expected orbital motion (the fitted line in the figure), showing, in addition, deviations from the model.

It took us a while to understand this. One suggestion was that it was caused by a second planet also tugging the host star around. So we obtained more data, hoping to trace out the orbit of the second planet, only to find that that didn’t properly explain the data. Eventually we attributed the deviations to magnetic activity on the host star. If we plot the deviations as a function of time we obtain:

Faculae on our Sun

The green sinusoidal lines are at the 12-day period at which we think the star rotates, as judged from the width of the spectral lines (which tells us how fast the star rotates). This suggests that the radial velocity varies with the rotational period of the star, and thus that the deviations are caused by “faculae”, magnetically active patches on the surface of the star.

WASP-166b is a low-mass planet, only a tenth that of Jupiter and twice that of Neptune. It has a large radius, however, at 63% of that of Jupiter. Thus it is a bloated planet with a low surface gravity.

Such planets are rare, especially in short-period orbits around fairly hot stars, as is WASP-166b. Indeed the lack of such planets is called the “Neptune desert”.

The explanation is thought to involve irradiation, heat from the host star evaporating off the atmosphere of the planet. Jupiter-mass planets can resist this because they have a lot of mass and thus gravity to keep hold of the atmosphere. Similarly, smaller, compact planets can survive because they are rocky and denser. But, in the middle, gaseous Neptune-mass planets find it hard to survive when subjected to high irradiation.

Another notable fact about WASP-166b is that it transits a host star with a bright visual magnitude of V = 9.4. The combination of a fluffy atmosphere and bright host star make it one of the best targets for studying the atmosphere by “transmission spectroscopy”, as can be obtained when the planet is projected against the stellar disc during transit. The plot compares the expected atmospheric signal of WASP-166b to the other best targets already known.


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