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The Gamblers: a new thriller by Christoph Fischer
The talented and prolific Christoph Fischer, author of the Healer and the Luck of The Weissensteiners has a new thriller out: THE GAMBLERS is the story of Ben Andrews a shy accountant who becomes obsessed with numbers and luck. When he wins the Lottery and becomes rich overnight his life changes, but not necessarily in the ways he had thought.
Who can he trust, now that he's rich? How should Ben build his new life? Still frugal and determined not to waste his money unnecessarily he unexpectedly falls under the spell of a charismatic and seductive Russian poker player, named Mirco. They share a passion for gambling but this fascination remains ambiguous for Ben.
What follows for Ben becomes a gamble with trust, corruption and 'betting on the right horse'.
The book will be released Monday June 1st, but you can preorder your copy here.
Find the book on Amazon, on Goodreads, and on Facebook.
PRAISE FOR FISCHER'S THRILLER "THE HEALER" ON AMAZON:
- "Very Unforgettable Read"
- "One of the best-in-class books I've ever read in this sub-genre"
- "Touching thriller that raises many profound questions."
- "Multi-layered, multifaceted, expertly credible psychological thriller"
Praise for "IN SEARCH OF A REVOLUTION" on Amazon:
- "Excellent read. Cracking pace."
- "Christoph Fischer is a skilled and accomplished story teller"
- "Fischer does an excellent job in distilling the macro into the micro. This talent could be compared to Kazuo Ishiguro's gift of 'writing in the miniature' "
Christoph Fischer was born in Germany, near the Austrian border, as the son of a Sudeten-German father and a Bavarian mother. Not a full local in the eyes and ears of his peers he developed an ambiguous sense of belonging and home in Bavaria.
He moved to Hamburg in pursuit of his studies and to lead a life of literary indulgence. After a few years he moved on to the UK where he now lives in a small town in West Wales. He and his partner have three Labradoodles to complete their family.
Christoph worked for the British Film Institute, in Libraries, Museums and for an airline. 'The Luck of The Weissensteiners' was published in November 2012; 'Sebastian' in May 2013 and The Black Eagle Inn in October 2013. "Time To Let Go" , his first contemporary work was published in May 2014, and "Conditions" in October 2014. His medical thriller "The Healer" was released in January 2015 and his latest historical novel "In Search of a Revolution" in March 2015.
He has written several other novels which are in the later stages of editing and finalisation.
Website: http://www.christophfischerbooks.com/
Blog: http://writerchristophfischer.wordpress.com/
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A military thriller by two US Navy veterans that could be ripped from today's headlines
I vividly remember the day George W. Bush Junior announced the war in Iraq. I was pregnant and I didn't want to think about war. I wanted to think about life. I watched all those young soldiers be deployed and thought of their mothers. And then I thought about the Iraqi mothers and the children and the lives that are inevitably and shamelessly lost with every war.
And now I'm reading a thriller set after the Gulf War and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Written by David Bruns and J.R. Olson, both graduates of the US Naval Academy who share a combined 35 years of service in the US Navy, Weapons of Mass Deception explores the never answered question: were there really weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and if so, what happened to them?
Here's the blurb:
In 2003, the world watched as coalition forces toppled Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, then searched unsuccessfully for the weapons of mass destruction they were certain existed.
None were ever found, but they do exist. On the eve of the invasion, a handful of nuclear weapons was smuggled out of Iraq and hidden in the most unlikely of places: Iran.
Now, as the threat of WMDs fades into a late-night punch line, a shadowy Iranian faction waits for the perfect moment to unleash Saddam Hussein's nuclear legacy on the West.
Brendan McHugh, a Navy SEAL, meets a mysterious Iranian diplomat on a raid in Iraq.
His former girlfriend and FBI linguist discovers a link to Iran among a group of captured jihadis. And pulling it all together is a CIA analyst who can't forget about Saddam Hussein's WMDs, even if it costs him his career.
Co-author David Bruns is here today to tell us the inspiration behind the book. Welcome, David!
EEG: What was the inspiration behind the book?
DB: Weapons of Mass Deception is co-written with a fellow US Navy veteran and friend named, JR Olson. We also both happen to be US Naval Academy graduates, although we didn't know each other at the time. I got out of the Navy after six years, while JR served as a naval intelligence officer for twenty-one years before retiring and moving back to Minnesota.
About a year ago, we were asked to speak at the Minnesota chapter of the US Naval Academy Parents Association on what their children could expect from their time in the US Navy and a civilian career afterwards. After listening to my story of how I went from submarines to the private sector to writing full-time and JR's story as a CIA-trained case officer, one of the parents suggested we get together and write a book.
It turns out, JR is a big fan of the thriller genre and had always wanted to write a book. He had this great premise for a story that had to do with Saddam Hussein's missing WMDs...the rest is history.
We also decided to write a weekly blog series called Two Navy Guys and a Novel about the creative process of co-writing, the business decisions we made about publishing, and some of the more arcane details we learned along the way that didn't make it into the book.
EEG: Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign and what did you learn from it?
DB: We launched a Kickstarter campaign in March to build early awareness for the book as well as raise money to produce a really top-notch, limited edition hardback volume. The campaign was fully funded within a week and closed at 151% of goal. To see that many supporters respond to our pitch was a tremendous boost to our self-confidence (and our wallets)!
What did we learn? How much time do you have? I wrote a guest post for Freelancer's Union about the experience and may write a short non-fiction ebook about the process later this year. Bottom line is that crowd-funding is a ton of work. If you believe you can just slap together a Kickstarter page and people will throw money at you, your project will be among the 59% of Kickstarter campaigns that fail.
In many ways, planning a crowd-funding campaign is a great dress rehearsal for launching your book. The book blurb and cover art need to be completely locked down. You need to produce a video that tells your unique story and why people should give you money. Finally, you need to figure out how you're going to reward all these people with meaningful gifts and still make a profit. Like I said before, a lot of work.
EEG: Will there be a sequel and if so, can you give us a little sneak peek?
DB: We have a related short story planned for release in June, working title "Death of a Pawn." You might recall in the news a few months ago the mysterious death of Alberto Nisman, an Argentinean lawyer and Special Prosecutor for the 1994 car bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Nisman died of a gunshot wound to the head, just hours before was scheduled to testify on allegations that Iran was behind the 1994 bombing and Argentinean President Kirchner covered up that fact in exchange for an oil-for-grain deal between the two countries.
The Tri-Border Region of South America, where Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil meet, is a hotspot of Hezbollah activity. (If you need a reminder, Hezbollah is Lebanese militant group found and funded by Iran following the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon.) In Weapons of Mass Deception, one of the characters spends time in a sleeper cell in that part of the world at exactly the time when the Nisman "suicide" happened. It just seemed like most of the story was written for us.
EEG: That's cool. Best of luck, David, and congratulations!
For more information on Weapons of Mass Deception, visit davidbruns.com. The book is available on Amazon and other retailers and if you're like me, it's going to keep you up at night!
J.R. and David
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"Try it all and see how it turns out": author Patricia Josephine talks about her series, Path of Angels
Today my guest is fantasy and paranormal author Patricia Josephine who, contrary to most writers out there, claims that she
"never set out to become a writer. In fact, she never considered it an option during high school and college. She was all about art. On a whim, she wrote down a story bouncing in her head. That was the start of it and she hasn't regretted a moment."
Well, I'm glad that her Muse found her anyway, because her series Path of Angels is simply fantastic. You can already purchase Michael and Zadekiel, while the third book in the series, Jophiel, is due on June 9.
Welcome, Patricia!
EEG: So, Patricia, is it true that you never even dreamed of being a writer?
PJ: Well, writing wasn't on my bucket list. It wasn't even on the radar. I was all about art in high school, then later, cooking. My day job, I'm a cook in a deli/coffee/bakery currently. I always had story ideas. I'd use them to lull myself to sleep. Sometimes. There'd be nights, I'd lay awake most of the night, musing on various stories. It wasn't until I was bored one day that I decided to write the stories down. When I started my first young adult novel, Being Human (written under the pen name Patricia Lynne), it seemed like a story people would enjoy reading. I started looking into publishing. It exploded from there and now not writing is a very weird concept.
EEG: When did you start writing Path of Angels and what was the idea that inspired the series?
PJ: Path of Angels was something I wrote waaaaaay back in 2011, I think. It was after Being Human, but since they were short, I wasn't sure what to do with the series. Each part is about 20K words or 60ish pages. I honestly don't know what inspired the story. Usually, I can remember what triggered an idea, but nope, nada.
EEG: Do you listen to music when you write and if so, what genre?
PJ: No, I can't listen to music. It distracts me. Sometimes a song will inspire a scene, but chances are, it's not the story I'm working on and doesn't do me much good. I can, however, watch TV, but only certain shows that don't require much attention.
EEG: What's your favorite time of the day for writing?
PJ: I usually write in the afternoon or evening. I'm not a morning person, so that's just out of the question. Unless we are talking one in the morning, but by then I'm usually too tired to string a sentence together.
EEG: What is the best piece of advice you would give a new writer?
PJ: Find what works best for you. There is a lot of advice out there on how to write. The thing is, each writer is different. What works for someone, may not work for another. You have to try it all and see how it turns out. If it works, keep it. If it doesn't, discard it and don't feel guilty when someone says it's what they do.
EEG: I couldn't agree more! :-) Thanks so much for chatting with us today, Patricia!
Patricia lives with her husband in Michigan, hopes one day to have what will resemble a small petting zoo, has a fondness for dying her hair the colors of the rainbow, and an obsession with Doctor Who.
Here's how to find Patricia on line and get in touch with her:
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IWSG: what are your accomplishments this month?
This is a monthly event started by the awesome Alex J. Cavanaugh and organized by the Insecure Writer's Support Group. Click here to find out more about the group and sign up for the next event.
After a 1-month hiatus, I'm back for the monthly appointment with the IWSG group. What do I have to report this month? Let's just say that I'm excited and unnerved at the same time. I'm launching my first book in a YA new series, a book that I'm hoping with all my heart will take off. At the same time... it's my first attempt ever at a genre that yes, it is very popular, but also quite unforgiving.
Akaela is launching May 23 and I'm already having the jitters.
I've had some awesome feedback from my awesome beta-readers, but also some general comments that made me go back and completely rewrite the first 4 chapters. I think I fixed the issue now and once again I'm super grateful to my early readers.
Now back to writing. Book 2 awaits! :-)
What about you: big or small, what are your accomplishments this month? What goals have you set for yourself?
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Peruvian Teachers Make The Grade Despite Hostile Working Conditions
The country's best and brightest teachers celebrate what they're able to achieve under less-than-ideal conditions. Here, the government is the enemy.
Kids in Cusco, Peru
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LIMA — Did you know that the chanchito (woodlouse) you find in the garden, that little grey animal children play with by making ground paths and organizing races, is a crustacean? Like a lobster and not a bug? That it produces urea, which is a great fertilizer?
I confess that I just learned that, and not through the Internet. It was explained to us by a teacher from Callao, who was a finalist in the Teacher Who Leaves A Mark contest recently held in Lima. I also learned that there are rural schools in Peru that have a budget of just 800 soles ($284) a year. Despite this, the kids go to school happily and with an eagerness to learn. Furthermore, they use XO-1 computers (also known as "the $100 laptop") even if the teachers have to learn how to use them at the same time as the kids. Sometimes teachers pay for replacements out of their own pockets.
I've learned other things about Peruvian schools as well. For example, there is a school in Cajamarca being financed with somewhere between $37 and $65 through the leadership of its technology teacher. I've learned that the trees they have planted protect them from the wind and that the children haul water from a river several kilometers away to water them during the dry season.
I now know that, even though there are no food programs for secondary schools, a school in Ayacucho offers bread with avocado and peaches to 62 students. The kids have learned how to cultivate fruit trees for food and as also a way to combat soil erosion.
In a rural school in Apurímac, a 26-year-old teacher decided to take the kids outdoors to learn math. He took them to count the steps at an archeological site and to measure and calculate areas and perimeters. He also allows students to play in class with math software he designed himself. This approach has led to a two-point increase in his students' grade point average.
A teacher in Madre de Dios, where the kids are victims of illegal mining and violence, has started a radio program. She has created a space where the kids themselves talk about their problems. They are being taught how to be heard, and that they deserve to be.
It was seven years ago that the currency trading network Interbank began organizing the Teacher Who Leaves A Mark contest. Thanks to that, we've also learned about teachers who worked unceasingly to rebuild a school destroyed by a river. They didn't stop until they found 16 computers to be shared by 600 students in a poor area of Puno. Other teachers here constantly strive for safe infrastructure, qualified staffers and teaching equipment for children with special abilities who will eventually go into the labor market.
One group of teachers started a hostel and school for hundreds of orphan children in the Vraem area. There are those who, even though they have better opportunities, would rather stay in a village in Tumbes because they know that there is a greater need for them there than anywhere else.
No government support
Amid the passion with which the teachers present their projects and achievements, there is, however, one sour feeling they all share: disappointment about the lack of support from authorities. They smile with sadness when asked about the Ministry of Education. The truth is that most of these projects are not collaborations with the government. They exist, actually, in spite of it. Each project they manage to push forward is a victory against the broken system.
In Peru, education takes center stage when there are strikes, bad results in statewide tests, illegal fees or when teachers and directors commit abuses. There are very few occasions when education here is good news.
There were 25 finalists in this year's contest. They came from all regions of the country and were whittled from more than 4,000 applications. How many pages will the press dedicate to it, to them?
Public-private partnerships, which are being used in Peru mostly for bricks and mortar and other infrastructure, are in fashion with the government. But the human element is important too, and these 25 finalists deserve formal recognition from the state. They have undergone a very strict evaluation process, demonstrated their leadership and proven an absolute dedication to teaching. Maybe just this once, government officials could acknowledge that partnerships are meant for more than just asphalt.
Valentina Briceno-Strocchia
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⬇ STARTER
"Collateral benefit": Could Putin's launching a failed war make the world better?
Consider the inverse of "collateral damage." Envision Russia's defeat and the triumph of a democratic coalition offers reflection on the most weighty sense of costs and benefits.
The concept of collateral damage has developed in the course of so-called "asymmetrical" wars, fought between opponents considered unequal.
The U.S. drone which targeted rebel fighters in Afghanistan, and annihilated an entire family gathered for a wedding, appears to be the perfect example of collateral damage: a doubtful military gain, and a certain political cost. One might also consider the American bombing of Normandy towns around June 6, 1944 as collateral damage.
But is it possible to reverse the expression, and speak of "collateral benefits"? When applied to an armed conflict, the expression may seem shocking.
No one benefits from a war, which leaves in its trace a trail of dead, wounded and displaced people, destroyed cities or children brutally torn from their parents.
And yet the notion of "collateral benefits" is particularly applicable to the war that has been raging in Ukraine for almost a year.
There are the "benefits" that seem obvious and have already been the subject of many commentaries. And there are others, more indirect, but just as important, that deserve a more in-depth analysis.
Among the obvious benefits, is Putin's "feat" of getting unified, wealthy democracies to rally behind Ukraine. In trying to neutralize and even annex Ukraine, Putin unintentionally encouraged Sweden and Finland to join NATO while pushing Germany and Japan to reconsider their respective security policies on a fundamental level. And NATO itself has emerged, thanks to Russia, from its "brain-dead" state to gain, through its original mission, a new energy. The war has also allowed Ukrainians, through blood and tears, to crystallize their identity through real, on-the-ground victories, from the north to the south and the east of their country.
But it would certainly be simplistic to explain the current reluctance of Beijing and Belgrade to embark on a military adventure by the sole counter-example of the Russian experience. Can Xi Jinping's China fight on two fronts at once, against COVID-19 at home and against Taiwan, supported by its American ally, abroad? Can Serbia, which is looking more and more towards the European Union in the wake of Croatia's entry into the Eurozone, reconcile its global ambition with nationalist irredentism?
In both cases, the counter-example provided by the Russian experience in Ukraine helps to re-enforce the side of those who think that it is urgent to wait before choosing the path of war. We know how a war starts. We never know when it ends and in what state.
For the Balkans, the main factor that protects against recourse to war is neither Belgrade's hope of European integration nor the war in Ukraine, but the looming memories of the Balkan wars.
In order to understand the Balkans in 2023, it is probably appropriate to recall the Spain of the 1970s, the years before and after the death of General Franco. The title of Alain Resnais' 1966 film, The War is Over, foreshadowed the state of mind of the majority of Spaniards.
In the Balkans, the images of Ukraine awaken memories of the Srebrenica massacre for some, and of the NATO bombing of Belgrade for others. The psychoanalyst Boris Cyrulnik, who as a young child experienced the horrors of World War II, described in a radio interview the profoundly destabilizing impact of the images and sounds of the war in Ukraine on his own psyche. It was as if his past had suddenly resurfaced, disturbing him but also reinforcing his conviction that peace was a precious and rare commodity, to be preserved like a treasure — but not at the cost of betraying its values.
Beyond the notions of damage and benefits, there are areas of the world where it is safer to use the national of "collateral uncertainties." Thus it would be tempting to say that China in central Asia, and Turkey in the Caucasus will be the great beneficiaries of Russian military failures in Ukraine.
One could also think that, as Russia has demonstrated the gap between its ambitions and its means, the world will gradually return to a more classic bipolar confrontation between the only two major powers: the United States and China. Could the ultimate collateral benefit of Russia's unfortunate military advance in Ukraine be to clarify the international system in its new bipolarity?
Such a conclusion predicts, of course, that the Russian defeat "will go well" and will not be accompanied by jolts or perilous escalations. This is not 1917 or 1991. In 1917, the civil war led to the fall of the Tsarist regime and Russia's withdrawal from the First World War. But America's entry into the war on the side of the Allies more than made up for Russian failure.
In 1991, the USSR had only briefly survived the return of Europe, kidnapped into the realm of democracy. What will happen in 2023? It would be very optimistic to think that the main beneficiary of the war in Ukraine will be the Russian people themselves — who could finally freely choose their leaders.
— Dominique Moïsi / Les Echos
🎲 OUR WEEKLY NEWS QUIZ
What do you remember from the news this week?
1. What has angered Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a recent Stockholm protest?
2. Who was the latest U.S. politician to have confidential documents found at their place?
3. Which famed site did Peru close due to protests, leaving some 400 tourists stranded there?
4. Which pop icon sold the rights to their song catalog for a whopping $200 million? Madonna / Justin Bieber / Rihanna
[Answers at the bottom of this newsletter]
#⃣ TRENDING
To encourage Germany to finally supply Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv, Ukrainian stars, online influencers and private companies launched a cheeky #freetheleopards campaign by wearing leopard-print clothing. The trend, which quickly gained traction on Instagram and Facebook, carried on even after Berlin agreed to deliver the tanks, in a show of gratitude.
🎭 5 CULTURE THINGS TO KNOW
• U.S. returns to Italy $20-million worth of seized artifacts: Sixty ancient artifacts dating from the seventh century B.C. to the first century A.D., and worth $20 million, were returned from the United States to Italy. The items were seized by American officials over the past 14 months from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as private collections, after collecting evidence that the artworks had been illegally looted from Italian archeological sites.
• UNESCO designates Odessa as endangered World Heritage site: The historic center of the Ukrainian port city of Odessa has been inscribed in UNESCO's list of endangered World Heritage sites "to protect this city from greater destruction." Russia criticized the move from the United Nations cultural agency, saying it was "politically motivated."
• Everything Everywhere All At Once leads Oscars nominations: The nominees for the 95th annual Academy Awards were announced this week, with absurdist comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All At Oncesnatching 11 nominations, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front. Meanwhile, India's RRR scored a nomination in the original song category for its title track "Naatu Naatu" — a first for an Indian-made film.
• "World of Warcraft" game goes offline for Chinese players: Millions of gamers in China suddenly lost access to role-playing epic World of Warcraft and other popular video games, following a dispute between U.S. developper Blizzard and its local partner NetEase. Blizzard's games had been available in the country since 2008.
• London's Royal Opera House cuts ties with BP: The Royal Opera House announced it had severed its sponsorship relationship with oil giant BP after 33 years, following similar moves from the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Portrait Gallery in recent years to renounce funding from major fossil fuel producers. This leaves the British Museum and Science Museum isolated as two of the last major arts institutions in the UK still receiving funding from the firm.
🇷🇺 Wagner mercenaries and the risks of desertion
Tens of thousands of Russian prisoners convicted of the most brutal crimes have escaped from the frontlines after volunteering in exchange for freedom, and are seeking political asylum thanks to a "cleared" criminal record. Ukrainian journalist Anna Akage takes a closer look at the devious tactics of the Wagner group to hide the number of soldiers who have deserted or defected to Ukraine.
Read the full story: Wagner's MIA Convicts: Where Do Deserting Russian Mercenaries Go?
🏠⛔ Foreign buyers targeted by governments
Canada has become the most recent country to impose restrictions on non-residents buying real estate, arguing that wealthy investors from other countries are pricing out would-be local homeowners. But is singling out foreigners the best way to face a troubled housing market? This international roundup goes into the reasons behind this widespread phenomenon destined to protect struggling locals from wealthy foreign investors hungry for assets.
Read the full story: Why More Countries Are Banning Foreigners From Buying Real Estate
👪 What weighs on every parent
"As a father myself, I'm now better able to understand the pressures my own dad faced. It's helped me face my own internal demands to constantly be more productive and do better." In this essay about the pressures of parenthood, Argentinian Journalist Ignacio Pereyra delves into sensitive topics that virtually every parent knows, from work exhaustion to lack of time and comfort to financial struggles.
Read the full story: Parenthood And The Pressure Of Always Having To Be Doing Better
🐪 BRIGHT IDEA
Engineers at Soochow University in China have developed a fabric inspired by the humps of camelids, which could be extremely useful for firefighters in close proximity to flames. As the New Scientist reports, this is an "insulating fabric made of pockets filled with an aerogel, in which the gel is replaced by a gas surrounded by two layers of heat-resistant plastic polymers."
👗🙃 SMILE OF THE WEEK
Dutch luxury fashion house Viktor & Rolf turned haute couture upside down (quite literally) with its gravity-defying dresses, presented at the Spring-Summer 2023 show of the Paris Haute Couture Week.
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👉 OTHERWISE
Here's the latest Dottoré! piece from the notebook of Neapolitan psychiatrist and writer Mariateresa Fichele:
A newborn dies, a mother's blame
They say that childbirth is, and must necessarily be, the most beautiful thing in the world.
So beautiful that it justifies all the hardships a mother must endure, without complaining or expecting relief from the pain. So beautiful that after it has happened, you are not even allowed to rest because you have to keep the baby with you to breastfeed.
So beautiful that if, exhausted as you are, you fall asleep, and the child tragically dies in your arms, you wouldn't even notice it or be able to wake up. And once you open your eyes and they tell you that your child is no longer there, there comes the insinuation that maybe you fell asleep not just because you were exhausted by all the pain and sleep deprivation, but also perhaps you were under the influence of some substance.
They say that childbirth is, and must necessarily be, the most beautiful thing in the world. May those who say that be cursed.
➡ Read more from our Dottoré! series on Worldcrunch.com
⏩ LOOKING AHEAD
• U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to visit Israel and the West Bank next week for private meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
• Trade unions in France called for fresh protests and strikes starting from Jan. 31 to oppose the French government's controversial plan to hike the retirement age. The upcoming winter holidays could be affected as French ski resort workers are expected to join the movement.
• The Australian Open will conclude this weekend with the Women's and Men's Singles Finals as well as the Mixed and Men's Doubles Finals in Melbourne.
• Microsoft is removing Windows 10 Home and Pro downloads from sale — but worry not, Windows 10 will continue to be supported until its end of life in October 2025.
News quiz answers:
1. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was angered by images showing a Danish far-right extremist burning a copy of the Koran outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, calling it "a disgrace."
2. A dozen classified documents were found at the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence, who turned the records over to the FBI.
3. Peru's government has closed tourist access to the Machu Picchu site indefinitely "to protect tourists and citizens" amid ongoing protests demanding President Dina Boluarte's resignation.
4. American singer Justin Bieberhas sold the rights to his publishing and artist royalties from his song catalog to investment company Hipgnosis for a reported $200 million.
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Distance between cities Sibi, Balochistan, Pakistan and Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China on public roads is — km or miles. The distance between the points in the coordinates — 4969 km or 2981.4 miles. To overcome this distance at an average vehicle speed of 80 km / h require — 62.1 h. or 3726.8 minutes.
The length of this distance is about 12.4% of the total length of the equator. Airliner Airbus A380 will fly the distance in 5.5 h., and the train 71.0 h. (No high-speed train).


Hodgson was the 10th overall selection the 2008 draft by the Vancouver Canucks and was dealt to the Sabres 2012 alongside Alexander Sulzer exchange for Zack Kassian and – Graganni. Why would I prefer the older over Okung? Snubbed for a Combine invite and a career overachiever, has a to overcome his physical limitations on sheer .
But to look at WPA on even more micro level, Wainwright's WPA of 0 was better than the WPA of only one pitcher on the entire other than Wainwright. Furious about being ejected, Votto slammed his helmet to the and screamed Welke's face before being separated by another umpire and coaches. 's the opening series.
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VISWAMBHARAM Debate Club, named after Thuravur Viswambharan Mash (The Founder President of Vishwa Samvada Kendram, Kerala In 2001) VSK in collaboration with kochi international book fest conducted a debate competition for college students named on the topic Nationalism – Cultural? Constitutional? On 4th December 2017 at the main venue of KIBF. Students from various college from all over Kerala participated.
One team argument that it's only by the power of the Indian constitution that the unity is apart where untouchability is removed and 540 princely states joined together where as the other blames the flawed policy of nationalists by mentioning an incident at goa film festival where a handicapped person is not given any human considerations for not standing up while the national song sings.
They also point out the murder of journalist Narendra Dhabokkar,Gauri Lankesh and also questions the principle of Vasudhaiva Kudumbakam where it's not impliments and only in their speeches. Its simple that the Constitution's overall binding and compliance are of the whole of Hindu culture and aphorism which also emphasis the country on cultural unity argued the other team.
There are several instants such as Asoka pillar selects as national emblem,as the symbol of dharma emphasis the cultural heritage of the ancient India as Mauryan empire expands from Afghan to Karnataka. Even Gandhiji give importance to Rama rajyam concept as Sree Rama and Sreekrishna are charitors of Dharma.Muhammed Iqubal wrote "Sare jahanse acha hindustan hamara which embodied nationalism in it. No other country in the world allows as much as multidiamentional aspects for human values. These are some of the points to be heighliten and a heated debate takes place favoring and disagreeable opinion arises.
The function was inaugurated by Smt. Kanjana Viswambharam(W/o late Thuravoor Viswambharam Sir), Dr. U. Krishnakumar Director of Amrita School of Arts & Science presides the function, Journalist Kumar Chellapan was the moderator of the program, Script writer Sreekumar Arikutti and Sukesh Shenoy as judges.VSK Organising Secretary M.Subhash Krishnan and K Radhakrishnan KIBF Secretary also presides.
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February 25th, 2014 Thu T. Pham
2014 RSA Keynotes: Juniper, Microsoft & RSA on Security Today
I'm in sunny San Francisco, attending the ongoing 2014 RSA Conference, where all of the keynotes seem to center around the major elephant in the room - NSA surveillance, the industry, and public trust. Read on for a summary of my takeaways from a few of the talks this morning:
Redefining Identity in the Age of Intelligence-Driven Security
Speaker: Arthur W. Coviello, Keynote Speaker Executive Chairman, RSA
I came in at the tail end of this talk, but Arthur articulated what we all know to be true - as new technology emerges and gains popularity, we have to find new ways to ensure security is not only accessible to everyone, but designed to fit our needs. "Personal information has become the true currency of the digital age," he stated.
With cloud, social and mobile technology increasingly connecting our lives online (much like the Internet of Things), he's right in acknowledging that we've reached a breaking point when it comes to identity management and protecting our personal data.
"We don't need more security, we need better security," he insisted. With new technology comes the aggregation of tons of data - big data, as we're all fond of saying. While there will always be concerns about what kind of data is being collected, the data also informs us about users and how they're using new technology - which in turn, can inform us when it comes to security innovation.
Making security better can mean a lot of things. One is making it easier to implement - although people know what the right thing to do is, if it's not easy and seamless to work into our everyday lives, we don't do it. That includes IT professionals, administrators and others that run our operations and dictate what the security norms are in our society, more namely in organizations that control access to critical infrastructure and our online identities.
Conundrums in Cyberspace: Exploiting Security in the Name of, well, Security
Speaker: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft
Trust in technology has been badly undermined by public disclosures of widespread government surveillance programs. As the important public debate over the limits of government access to private data continues, customers, governments and others need to know where technology providers stand.
Scott Charney gave a talk more focused on how public trust in technology has been undermined and broken by the disclosures of the NSA's surveillance programs. With competing interests in society between citizens, the industry and the government's role and responsibility in securing those users, he talked about how security often gets overlooked.
"The city never fixes a pothole until it breaks an axle," he stated.
Scott went on to state that there was a need for governments to establish normative ways to investigate data breaches, as the growth and spread of data past domestic boundaries into a truly global society raises questions about how governments ensure data privacy.
He insisted that citizens must engage in the role of government when it comes to establishing data norms, but that industries lie somewhere in the middle, acknowledging the reality of those in the industry that have to make quick decisions about security in order to deliver to consumers and the government.
"You can choose to encrypt things or you can choose not to encrypt things - it makes the government's life easier, but there's a data privacy tradeoff," he said.
This again goes back to innovation vs. security, and the responsibility of vendors to deliver not only advanced technology to meet our data and Internet demands, but also to protect us by ensuring their products and services have been vetted by security vendors for any glaring vulnerabilities that could put them in danger.
Scott was careful to convey Microsoft's stance on no backdoors for governments, stating that they didn't care about the source or intention of malware, but that they were focused on information assurance only. If they were to cater to offensive technology, it would create a string of services for governments and industries to attack other countries.
They had never received orders for bulk data, he said, but if they were, for example, served orders to hand over data from their enterprise customers in the cloud, Microsoft would direct the government to deal with the organization to get the data directly, not through them.
The Next World War Will be Fought in Silicon Valley
Speaker: Nawaf Bitar, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Security Business Unit, Juniper Networks, Inc.
"Public trust is at an all-time low."
Nawaf's talk was heavily analogous and hard-hitting, comparing early advancements in the medical field to that of innovation in the information security industry.
He led with the reason for our lack of security innovation and integration, namely, apathy. He claimed that we're only moved to action when our real, not just stated, actions are at stake, defining real actions as the things that we actually care about, like when the safety of loved ones are threatened.
Nawaf even coined a hashtag, #firstworldoutrage, to define the way society pretends to care about things that don't truly touch us in the first world, including injustices like water outages or inhumane practices, claiming we substitute real care and action for "liking" a cause on Facebook.
Similarly, enacting actual security practices doesn't become an issue until it actually threatens something we feel close to and care about. He cited the Semmelweis Reflex as another way society holds back security; the tendency to reject new evidence or knowledge simply because it contradicts our established norms, beliefs or previous way of doing things.
The Semmelweis Reflex is named after an early Hungarian doctor, Ignaz Semmelweis, that discovered by washing our hands, we could greatly reduce the death rate of mothers that died during childbirth, simply because doctors didn't realize they were operating in an unsanitary way. Physicians in the 1800's rejected the notion on no real grounds, except that it was a novel idea that changed the way they worked.
The same goes for security innovation - by implementing simple security behavior and making it the norm, we could potentially greatly reduce our risk of a data breach or worse. The changing threat landscape can mean possible attacks on our power grids and threats to the intellectual property of companies, more often conducted by nations seeking to exploit weaknesses in the cybersecurity of other nations.
Ultimately, it's up to us to take action or passively wait for the next world war in Silicon Valley.
Remember, Duo Security is exhibiting and demoing at booth #2518, so stop by before the expo closes Thursday!
Rsac2014


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Obama: Health Care Probably Gonna Cost You Less Than Your Cell Phone Bill
In an interview tonight with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball, President Barack Obama pushed for immigration reform and touted the fixes to the flawed HealthCare.gov website needed to implement his ambitious health-care overhaul.
Talking to Matthews for about an hour before a live audience at American University in Washington, D.C., Obama urged the young people attending to log on to the website while acknowledging why they might be skeptical. "I understand why people would have been resistant to goin' on a website that wasn't workin' right" said Obama. "And fortunately, because of some very hard work, we've now got it to the point where for the vast majority of people, it's workin' well. And my message to young people is take a look for yourself."
The president went on to explain why he believed it was important for young people to have health-care insurance while plugging the relative affordability of the plans. Sounding like a pitchman, Obama said "It's probably gonna cost you less than your cellphone bill-or your cable bill, less than a hundred bucks."
The president also blamed Tea Partiers, who he referred to obliquely as "a faction in the House Republican Party," for the failure of efforts like immigration reform in Congress. Obama insisted a majority of the American people supported his efforts on the issue and viewed its prospects in the House positively. He told Matthews "I continue to be optimistic we'll get it done. And I think John Boehner is sincere about getting it done."
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lipa21 December 6, 2013 at 12:51 pm
another LIE – if you believe this I got a bridge to sell you
chaimz December 6, 2013 at 1:38 pm
Did he say "less than a hundred bucks period"? I really hope he said period because that will make it real.
I had surgery that cost over $150,000. It will take a lot of 'hundred bucks' to cover that. I had chemo that cost $14,000/session. It will take a lot of hundred bucks to cover that. He knows nothing about anything.
I guess the next thing to tackle will be those outrageous cell-phone bills that cost more than medical insurance.
American December 6, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Now why would Barry go on MSNBC? It has the lowest ratings from any cable station. Doesn't he want to reach the largest audience? This fraud is really getting on my nerves.
a couple of people helped
most people hurt
no one can afford it
obama does not care
its all an act
which is why we call it the affordable care act
RAM December 7, 2013 at 9:16 pm
Anyone still falling for his lies neewds a reality check fast.
Reb Yid December 7, 2013 at 10:14 pm
What he means is, he's gonna put so many taxes on your cellphone bill, it will indeed end up costing more than health insurance!
bubbymommy December 8, 2013 at 12:14 am
uh oh. Is my cell phone bill gonna cost that much?!! 🙁
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 Adolphe Guillet dit Tourangeau (1831–1894), Quebec notary and politician
 Amedeo Guillet (1909–2010), Italian Army officer
 Jean-Jacques Guillet (born 1946), French politician
 Léon Guillet (1873–1946), French metallurgist
 Louis Guillet (1788–1868), Quebec notary and politician
 George Guillet (1840–1926), Canadian politician
 Melissa Guillet (born 1975) is a poet, writer, and illustrator
 Pernette Du Guillet (c.1520–1545), French poet
 Valère Guillet (1796–1881), Quebec notary and politician

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The Statute of Subaltern Statues: Empowering the Decolonization of Academic Decolonization
By Guest Contributor Gray Black
By Gray Black
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece discussing the disassembling and rewiring of the white, cis-heterosexual "Great Man" histories advocated by Thomas Carlyle into "Intersectional Great Person" histories when combined with the intersectionality put forth by Kimberlé Crenshaw. While the exaltation of minoritized racial, ethnic, sexual, gender, ability, and cognitive figureheads is exciting for us Leftist historians and holds promise for equalizing the discipline, there are some axiological and teleological problems which may arise when associated with tokenism and inadvertent reinforcement of coloniality. We must ask ourselves if exalting subaltern greatness to the myopic (and nevertheless standard) notional greatness of Carlyle is, in fact, the best way to approach dismantling the stratification of the "other". Therefore, it is necessary to deconstruct how this discourse materializes for those involved and how to properly include the subaltern.
Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci created the portmanteau subaltern to shed light on those muzzled and marginalized by hegemonic forces. These forces are superpowers that control, divide, sequester and socioeconomically enchain aforementioned power-minority peoples. To restate, the ultimate goal of what I have deemed to be the "Intersectional Great Person" approach to history is to illuminate inequalities of minority groups but to simultaneously legitimize and empower them as worthy, equal, and great in their own right. Nonetheless, given Gramsci's definition of what it means to be subaltern, the moment the academy recognizes and hears a subaltern voice, they would, inevitably, no longer be considered subaltern for they have entered into a prevailing discourse in a way that is catered to dominate culture. By raising those residing in the understructure to the rafters of the superstructure, the essential importance of their identity and cultural work may be negated. This same phenomenon of neutralization remains pervasive in established liberal academia. Although broadmindedness in educational institutions pursues impartiality, it jeopardizes dismissing all the distinctions that are born from power structures.
Additionally, individuals crucial to subaltern histories could once again be paralleled to, or in the worst-case scenario, in competition with those established by dominate culture as great figures. Introducing Fanon's ideas from his book Black Skin, White Masks is especially useful when considering this dilemma. Fanon asserts that power exists in one space and is guarded by people who look a specific way. Ultimately, the only feasible way to "sit at their table", so to speak, is to prove to them that you are alike; the subaltern historical figure must substantiate their humanity and existential worthiness which are measured according to the imperial academy. Although this method might include more subaltern historical figures within the elitist academic domain, this process of recognition is founded upon inequality since the rigorous vetting and acceptance of paradigmatic "greatness" is a procedure through which all figureheads except those in dominant culture must enter. Fundamentally, based on this schema, the female, queer, disabled, neurodivergent, and racially/ethnically subaltern figure cannot be essentially equal, and, by proxy, nor can the masses. If we, as academics, deem a propagandistic pedestal as a platform of and for power, then decolonization cannot transpire; we would simply be re-envisioning a space that is inherently privileged without dismantling that privilege.
Parenthetically, this more abstract, value-rational inculcation of the subaltern into dominant greatness can be likened to internalized capitalism in subaltern spaces. All that is symbolically associated with Western, proto-industrial capital, such as meat, money, and merit, is mimicked and sought by those in the Global South. Once where predominately plant-based diets, provincialized bartering, and communitarianism predominated, there has been a mass transposition of violent eco-atomization, entrepreneurial industrialization, and hyper-individualism over imagined communities. While many in post-colonial nations reach for the branded idea of success, other native, indigenous, and globally minoritized people consider degrowth and ecosocialism to be a conduit for social and environmental benefits, but also for decolonization. In this sense, just as instrumental greatness must be deconstructed to enact true systemic, institutional, and social decoloniality, cerebral capital must be rejected for the purpose of academic degrowth and subaltern empowerment.
This proposition may also benefit from an analogy. Using the dismantling of Confederate statues across the United States, the difference between lifting up to a colonial preestablished level and showing an inclusive alternative can be exemplified. While effigies exalting Confederate generals and slave owners alike being torn down is one part of the decolonization process, many are being replaced with statues of antipodal figures such as Frederick Douglass and Maggie Walker. The common reactionary rhetoric touted by not-so-covert bigots is that history will be erased if these problematic icons are removed. Instead, monuments for minoritized indivdiuals not only retain the same historical legacy and chronology, but the historical narrative is publicly redirected from xenophobic sympathy to lionization of the minoritized.
While this representation is fantastic in itself and reclaims a historical physical and societal space without necessarily placing subaltern figures next to symbolic bastions of social hegemony and bigotry, even more poignant for the case for total academic decolonization are the creative origins of these newly represented historical figures. The recently raised statue of Harriet Tubman, a disabled Black woman who helped many slaves escape servitude in the American South, was designed by Alison Saar, a mixed-race artist. In Richmond, Virginia, the Black and queer artist, Kehinde Wiley, designed the three-stories-tall "Rumors of War" statue, depicting a Black man on horseback. This anti-Confederate statue was one of the catalysts for the former Confederate Capitol's memorial of Robert E. Lee to topple just a few months ago. This past year, a group of queer activists in New York City erected a guerilla bust of Martha P Johnson, a Black, trans, and disabled woman who was a keystone during the Stonewall Riots and who dedicated her life to LGBTQIA+ liberation. After an unkept two-year promise to erect a memorial for Johnson and other Stonewall activists, Eli Erlick, a culturally Jewish, trans activist who was indispensable in the statue's erection, averred to CNN that the NYC queer community would not "wait for the city to build statues" for them. Anarchistic minorities like Erlick teach all historians a critical lesson; while we wait for administrations and other academics to catch up, it is crucial for all teachers, most especially those whose identities exist outside of dominate culture, to relay self-established and inclusive oral histories and literature. For here, not only do these great subaltern historical figures unfetter you, as a teacher immured with a particular discriminatory system, but they inspire other subaltern children, young adults, and mature students who likely haven't seen their identities represented as respectfully and openly, if at all. When historical representative greatness is not offered by the establishment, it is our duty to represent ourselves.
Overall, in order to avoid further perpetuation of categorical imbalance, we must reconceptualize the pedestal of greatness not necessarily being built for power but as a tool to empower. While the requisite of hiring of more Black and Brown, indigenous, subaltern, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent people to teach history is an easily conceivable institutional solution, teaching self-directed curricula which is representative of those minorities already existing within the academy is an alternative solution to decolonization in the interim. Moreover, ideally, a global coalition of multicultural, diverse agents may be needed to help pick and choose inclusive curricula for those in dominant culture while those in proto-industrial nation-states accept (not permit) the autonomy of those in subaltern demographics, territories, and societies to choose their own distinctive, shared, and interconnected historical discourse. Furthermore, the implementation of the "Intersectional Great Person" historical narrative may entail obligatory explanations of power relations and inherent inequalities to take steps towards a global paradigm shift of other people and their intelligence and capabilities.
It is long overdue that the cherished accounts of heroes be reappropriated by subaltern societies, and for all those hailing from dominant societies to incorporate the stories of "great" minority voices into our studies. Like the subaltern statues monumentalizing across the world, we share our groundedness to the reality of the world, the weight of our burdens, and the resolute, concrete resolve to exist freely and equally. On decoloniality, we shall not crumble.
Gray Black is a human and non-human animal justice "world-maker" and an upcoming doctoral researcher. Their work uses Marxist-feminist political thought, analytic psychology, and psychodynamic perspectives to examine empathy, affect, minority mutuality, eco-socialism, and the intersections between speciesism and queerphobia. They have been published by Scotland's leading campaigning animal welfare charity, OneKind, as well as /Queer, the audio-visual platform which offers queer historiographies and analyses of global current events effecting gender and sexuality variant communities. Their critique of cis-heterosexist capitalism and animal consumption was featured in Queer + Trans Voices: Achieving Liberation Through Consistent Anti-Oppression.
Edited by Shuvatri Dasgupta
Featured Image: Statue of Harriet Tubman, New York. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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Spectral line
Title: Spectral line
Subject: Redshift, Electron, List of astronomy acronyms, Hydrogen line, Vector magnetograph
Collection: Emission Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy
Continuous spectrum
Emission lines
Absorption lines
Absorption lines for air, under indirect illumination, with the direct light source not visible, so that the gas is not directly between source and detector. Here, Fraunhofer lines in sunlight and Rayleigh scattering of this sunlight is the "source." This is the spectrum of a blue sky somewhat close to the horizon, pointing east at around 3 or 4 pm (i.e., Sun in the West) on a clear day.
A spectral line is a dark or bright line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum, resulting from emission or absorption of light in a narrow frequency range, compared with the nearby frequencies. Spectral lines are often used to identify atoms and molecules from their characteristic spectral lines. These "fingerprints" can be compared to the previously collected fingerprints of atoms and molecules,[1] and are thus used to identify the atomic and molecular components of stars and planets which would otherwise be impossible.
Types of line spectra 1
Nomenclature 2
Line broadening and shift 3
Broadening due to local effects 3.1
Natural broadening 3.1.1
Thermal Doppler broadening 3.1.2
Pressure broadening 3.1.3
Inhomogeneous broadening 3.1.4
Broadening due to non-local effects 3.2
Opacity broadening 3.2.1
Macroscopic Doppler broadening 3.2.2
Combined effects 3.3
Types of line spectra
Continuous spectrum of a incandescent lamp (mid) and discrete spectrum lines of a fluorescent lamp (bottom)
Spectral lines are the result of interaction between a quantum system (usually atoms, but sometimes molecules or atomic nuclei) and a single photon. When a photon has about the right amount of energy to allow a change in the energy state of the system (in the case of an atom this is usually an electron changing orbitals), the photon is absorbed. Then it will be spontaneously re-emitted, either in the same frequency as the original or in a cascade, where the sum of the energies of the photons emitted will be equal to the energy of the one absorbed (assuming the system returns to its original state).
A spectral line may be observed either as an emission line or an absorption line. Which type of line is observed depends on the type of material and its temperature relative to another emission source. An absorption line is produced when photons from a hot, broad spectrum source pass through a cold material. The intensity of light, over a narrow frequency range, is reduced due to absorption by the material and re-emission in random directions. By contrast, a bright, emission line is produced when photons from a hot material are detected in the presence of a broad spectrum from a cold source. The intensity of light, over a narrow frequency range, is increased due to emission by the material.
Spectral lines are highly atom-specific, and can be used to identify the chemical composition of any medium capable of letting light pass through it (typically gas is used). Several elements were discovered by spectroscopic means, such as helium, thallium, and cerium. Spectral lines also depend on the physical conditions of the gas, so they are widely used to determine the chemical composition of stars and other celestial bodies that cannot be analyzed by other means, as well as their physical conditions.
Mechanisms other than atom-photon interaction can produce spectral lines. Depending on the exact physical interaction (with molecules, single particles, etc.), the frequency of the involved photons will vary widely, and lines can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays.
Strong spectral lines in the visible part of the spectrum often have a unique Fraunhofer line designation, such as K for a line at 393.366 nm emerging from singly ionized Ca+, though some of the Fraunhofer "lines" are blends of multiple lines from several different species. In other cases the lines are designated according to the level of ionization by adding a Roman numeral to the designation of the chemical element, so that Ca+ also has the designation Ca II. Neutral atoms are denoted with the roman number I, singly ionized atoms with II, and so on, so that for example Fe IX (IX, roman 9) represents eight times ionized iron. More detailed designations usually include the line wavelength and may include a multiplet number (for atomic lines) or band designation (for molecular lines). Many spectral lines of atomic hydrogen also have designations within their respective series, such as the Lyman series or Balmer series.
Line broadening and shift
A spectral line extends over a range of frequencies, not a single frequency (i.e., it has a nonzero linewidth). In addition, its center may be shifted from its nominal central wavelength. There are several reasons for this broadening and shift. These reasons may be divided into two broad categories – broadening due to local conditions and broadening due to extended conditions. Broadening due to local conditions is due to effects which hold in a small region around the emitting element, usually small enough to assure local thermodynamic equilibrium. Broadening due to extended conditions may result from changes to the spectral distribution of the radiation as it traverses its path to the observer. It also may result from the combining of radiation from a number of regions which are far from each other.
Broadening due to local effects
Natural broadening
The uncertainty principle relates the lifetime of an excited state (due to the spontaneous radiative decay or the Auger process) with the uncertainty of its energy. A short lifetime will have a large energy uncertainty and a broad emission. This broadening effect results in an unshifted Lorentzian profile. The natural broadening can be experimentally altered only to the extent that decay rates can be artificially suppressed or enhanced.[2]
Thermal Doppler broadening
The atoms in a gas which are emitting radiation will have a distribution of velocities. Each photon emitted will be "red"- or "blue"-shifted by the Doppler effect depending on the velocity of the atom relative to the observer. The higher the temperature of the gas, the wider the distribution of velocities in the gas. Since the spectral line is a combination of all of the emitted radiation, the higher the temperature of the gas, the broader the spectral line emitted from that gas. This broadening effect is described by a Gaussian profile and there is no associated shift.
The presence of nearby particles will affect the radiation emitted by an individual particle. There are two limiting cases by which this occurs:
Impact pressure broadening or collisional broadening: The collision of other particles with the emitting particle interrupts the emission process, and by shortening the characteristic time for the process, increases the uncertainty in the energy emitted (as occurs in natural broadening).[3] The duration of the collision is much shorter than the lifetime of the emission process. This effect depends on both the density and the temperature of the gas. The broadening effect is described by a Lorentzian profile and there may be an associated shift.
Quasistatic pressure broadening: The presence of other particles shifts the energy levels in the emitting particle, thereby altering the frequency of the emitted radiation. The duration of the influence is much longer than the lifetime of the emission process. This effect depends on the density of the gas, but is rather insensitive to temperature. The form of the line profile is determined by the functional form of the perturbing force with respect to distance from the perturbing particle. There may also be a shift in the line center. The general expression for the lineshape resulting from quasistatic pressure broadening is a 4-parameter generalization of the Gaussian distribution known as a stable distribution.[4]
Pressure broadening may also be classified by the nature of the perturbing force as follows:
Linear Stark broadening occurs via the linear Stark effect, which results from the interaction of an emitter with an electric field, causing a shift in energy that is linear in the field strength. (\Delta E \sim 1/r^2)
Resonance broadening occurs when the perturbing particle is of the same type as the emitting particle, which introduces the possibility of an energy exchange process. (\Delta E \sim 1/r^3)
Quadratic Stark broadening occurs via the quadratic Stark effect, which results from the interaction of an emitter with an electric field, causing a shift in energy that is quadratic in the field strength. (\Delta E \sim 1/r^4)
Van der Waals broadening occurs when the emitting particle is being perturbed by van der Waals forces. For the quasistatic case, a van der Waals profile[note 1] is often useful in describing the profile. The energy shift as a function of distance is given in the wings by e.g. the Lennard-Jones potential. (\Delta E \sim 1/r^6)
Inhomogeneous broadening
Inhomogeneous broadening is a general term for broadening because some emitting particles are in a different local environment from others, and therefore emit at a different frequency. This term is used especially for solids, where surfaces, grain boundaries, and stoichiometry variations can create a variety of local environments for a given atom to occupy. In liquids, the effects of inhomogeneous broadening is sometimes reduced by a process called motional narrowing.
Broadening due to non-local effects
Certain types of broadening are the result of conditions over a large region of space rather than simply upon conditions that are local to the emitting particle.
Opacity broadening
Electromagnetic radiation emitted at a particular point in space can be reabsorbed as it travels through space. This absorption depends on wavelength. The line is broadened because the photons at the line wings have a smaller reabsorption probability than the photons at the line center. Indeed, the reabsorption near the line center may be so great as to cause a self reversal in which the intensity at the center of the line is less than in the wings. This process is also sometimes called self-absorption.
Macroscopic Doppler broadening
Radiation emitted by a moving source is subject to Doppler shift due to a finite line-of-sight velocity projection. If different parts of the emitting body have different velocities (along the line of sight), the resulting line will be broadened, with the line width proportional to the width of the velocity distribution. For example, radiation emitted from a distant rotating body, such as a star, will be broadened due to the line-of-sight variations in velocity on opposite sides of the star. The greater the rate of rotation, the broader the line. Another example is an imploding plasma shell in a Z-pinch.
Combined effects
Each of these mechanisms can act in isolation or in combination with others. Assuming each effect is independent, the observed line profile is a convolution of the line profiles of each mechanism. For example, a combination of the thermal Doppler broadening and the impact pressure broadening yields a Voigt profile.
However, the different line broadening mechanisms are not always independent. For example, the collisional effects and the motional Doppler shifts can act in a coherent manner, resulting under some conditions even in a collisional narrowing, known as the Dicke effect.
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Table of emission spectrum of gas discharge lamps
^ "van der Waals profile" appears as lowercase in almost all sources, such as: Statistical mechanics of the liquid surface by Clive Anthony Croxton, 1980, A Wiley-Interscience publication, ISBN 0-471-27663-4, ISBN 978-0-471-27663-0; and in Journal of technical physics, Volume 36, by Instytut Podstawowych Problemów Techniki (Polska Akademia Nauk), publisher: Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe., 1995,
^ Rothman, L.S.; Gordon, I.E.; Babikov, Y.; Barbe, A.; Chris Benner, D.; Bernath, P.F.; Birk, M.; Bizzocchi, L.; Boudon, V.; Brown, L.R.; Campargue, A.; Chance, K.; Cohen, E.A.; Coudert, L.H.; Devi, V.M.; Drouin, B.J.; Fayt, A.; Flaud, J.-M.; Gamache, R.R.; Harrison, J.J.; Hartmann, J.-M.; Hill, C.; Hodges, J.T.; Jacquemart, D.; Jolly, A.; Lamouroux, J.; Le Roy, R.J.; Li, G.; Long, D.A.; et al. (2013). "The HITRAN2012 molecular spectroscopic database". Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 130: 4–50.
^ For example, in the following article, decay was suppressed via a microwave cavity, thus reducing the natural broadening: Gabrielse, Gerald; H. Dehmelt (1985). "Observation of Inhibited Spontaneous Emission". Physical Review Letters 55 (1): 67–70.
^ "Collisional Broadening". Fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-02.
^ Peach, G. (1981). "Theory of the pressure broadening and shift of spectral lines". Advances in Physics 30 (3): 367–474.
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Griem, Hans R. (1974). Spectral Line Broadening by Plasmas. New York: Academic Press.
Griem, Hans R. (1964). Plasma Spectroscopy. New York: McGraw-Hill book Company.
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Personnel News: Danville, Gary
By Ballpark Digest Editors on January 13, 2020 in At the Ballpark, The Front Office
We have personnel news to report from the Danville Braves (Rookie; Appalachian League) and the Gary SouthShore RailCats (independent; American Association). (more…)
Personnel News: Clinton, Missoula
We have personnel news to report from the Clinton LumberKings (Low A; Midwest League) and the Missoula PaddleHeads (Rookie; Pioneer League). (more…)
David Cross Promoted to Rome Braves GM
By Ballpark Digest Editors on December 9, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, The Front Office
The Atlanta Braves have promoted David Cross, who will become general manager of the Rome Braves (Low A; Sally League) after years as general manager of the Danville Braves (Rookie; Appalachian League). Cross begin his new position with Rome in January. (more…)
New Danville Braves Logos Unveiled
By Ballpark Digest Editors on November 22, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, News
The Danville Braves (Rookie; Appalachian League) have unveiled new logos ahead of the 2020 season, including a new primary emblem and cap logos. (more…)
13 Inducted to Appalachian League Hall of Fame
By Ballpark Digest Editors on November 13, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, The Front Office
The Rookie-level Appalachian League has inducted 13 new members into its Hall of Fame, with League President Emeritus Lee Landers among the inductees. (more…)
Rocky Mountain Vibes to Host 2020 PBL/NWL All-Star Game
By Ballpark Digest Editors on November 5, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, News
The Rocky Mountain Vibes will host the 2020 Pioneer League vs. Northwest League All-Star Game, scheduled for the team's UCHealth Park on Tuesday, August 4. (more…)
Best Ballpark Improvement (Under $1M): Calfee Park Party Deck
By Zach Spedden on October 30, 2019 in Awards, Minor-League Baseball
The Pulaski Yankees (Rookie; Appalachian League) furthered their efforts to upgrade Motor Mile Field at Calfee Park this season with the addition of a new party deck, creating a popular destination and earning the Best Ballpark Improvement Under $1M Award citation in the annual Ballpark Digest awards. (more…)
Pulaski Yankees Cited with John H. Johnson President's Award
By Ballpark Digest Editors on October 23, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, The Front Office
The Pulaski Yankees (Rookie; Appalachian League) have received a high-profile honor from Minor League Baseball, winning the 46th annual John H. Johnson President's Award. The team will receive MiLB's top honor at the Baseball Winter Meetings Banquet on Sunday, Dec. 8, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. (more…)
2019 Appalachian League Executive Awards Unveiled
By Ballpark Digest Editors on September 10, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, News
The Rookie-level Appalachian League has unveiled its 2019 Executive Awards, as voted on by the league's front office executives. Five of the six awards include a nomination for Minor League Baseball national awards to be presented at the 2019 Baseball Winter Meetings in San Diego. (more…)
Ogden Raptors Set Single-Season Attendance Record
By Zach Spedden on September 6, 2019 in Attendance, Minor-League Baseball
The Ogden Raptors (Rookie; Pioneer League) achieved a milestone this season, posting a franchise single-season attendance record by welcoming 146,201 fans. (more…)
More Attendance Success for Pulaski Yankees
By Ballpark Digest Editors on August 28, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball
The Pulaski Yankees (Rookie; Appalachian League) have set a single-season franchise attendance record for the fifth straight season, while also setting a league single-season attendance record for the second consecutive year. (more…)
Johnson City Cardinals Set Single-Season Club Attendance Record
By Ballpark Digest Editors on August 22, 2019 in Attendance, Minor-League Baseball
The Johnson City Cardinals (Rookie; Appalachian League) have set a new franchise single-season attendance record, doing so for the fourth straight season. On August 21st, the Cardinals welcomed their 69,632nd fan to TVA Credit Union Ballpark for the contest against the Elizabethton Twins. (more…)
Rocky Mountain Vibes to Bury Time Capsule
By Ballpark Digest Editors on August 14, 2019 in Minor-League Baseball, News
At the conclusion of their inaugural season next month, the Rocky Mountain Vibes (Rookie; Pioneer League) will bury a time capsule under center field at UCHealth Park. This ceremony is intended to be a celebration of the completion of this first chapter of the new era of Colorado Springs professional baseball. (more…)


If successful at-home entrepreneurship was as comparatively straightforward as being someone else's exemplary employee, every company's superstar hired hands would inevitably jump ship and build thriving brands of their own. To the more realistic contrary, every intrepid entrepreneur whose financial freedom began with an ambitious cottage industry stands among countless defeated peers who realized only too late that they had dove into self-employment much too far over their heads to survive for long.
Forsake those fanciful daydreams of earning a living in constant comfort on Easy Street by camping out in pajamas on a couch all day. Those ambitions of never "working" another day in your life quickly yield to the reality of making hay while the sun shines without benevolent management handing over every resource needed to get things done. Suddenly, you alone are responsible for improving your own results. If a project goes sideways, a protracted staring contest with your nearest mirror may await you while scrutinizing exactly what went wrong. Without exception, enduringly productive entrepreneurs achieve long-lasting success through their unwavering commitments to resourcefulness, resilience and adaptability.
Those with the will ultimately find a way. Those without find excuses.
As 2017 fades into the sunset, the nascent days of 2018 afford every man, woman and child the same gift of 365 brand-new days teeming with possibilities. If you have ever harbored aspirations of seizing your professional destiny in your own two hands by choosing to build a business from the ground up while immersed in your domestic comfort zone, early January could be your golden moment to stop dreaming and start doing. Just make sure you ingrain the most effective habits possible during your home-based enterprise's infancy to avoid finding out the hard way why some people only work efficiently when sequestered in a wholly separate physical space from their creature comforts.
From a management perspective, you owe it to anyone who works alongside you as either a collaborator or subordinate to demonstrate your appreciation for their contributions by establishing clearly stated expectations and goals, extending support and assistance whenever necessary and leaving no doubt that you care about them as people. Reaching out deliberately to catch up with your remote co-workers can be as simple as scheduling weekly virtual lunch dates with collaborators and joining check-in conference calls just to catch up without talking shop. Your professional relationship should amount to much more than steady progress reports to throw ideas at the wall and refresh your objectives. Don't let the people who share your hustle become nothing but faceless Skype handles and email addresses.
What is the one stumbling block that fractures remote teams? Communication. Which single element develops the most fortified trust among collaborators? Communication. Make the most of every tool at your disposal to strengthen connections with your colleagues, but choose your channel based on the message you need to get across.
An old-fashioned phone call is ideal for real-time brainstorming or addressing complex problems individually. Video conferencing lends a personal touch that befits sharing difficult news or dissecting challenging subjects among several team members. Fire off an email to lay out critical data, project updates and tactical details. Above all, become comfortable communicating via each technology and jumping out ahead of matters whenever possible as the first one to broach a problem, question or concern directly.
The next time you have a moment, read up on the 'ROWE' efficiency approach developed by management gurus Carli Ressler and Jody Thompson. The acronym stands for 'Results Only Work Environments,' a notion of measuring productivity and performance strictly according to delivered results in order to hold workers accountable for their own effectiveness. ROWE requires the companies that adopt it to replace ambiguous expectations with distinctly defined communication and output criteria for every roleplayer. Once you bring your own strengths and shortcomings into the sharpest clarity possible, poorly elaborated objectives will cease to amplify problems as you adapt your routines in accordance. If you cannot manage yourself and uphold accountability for your own actions as it relates to the success or failure of your company, you have no business being your own boss.
Your home is now your workplace. By all means, make time for your friends, but separate your personal and professional mindsets by barring friends from stopping in during the day and setting aside a lunch break to meet somewhere and catch up. If someone does show up unexpectedly, politely and firmly inform them that this is not a good time before making a date to chat. Weekends are perfect for this. However, always also instruct surprise visitors to call ahead in the future to verify that your schedule is clear. As for family, consider taping a "red light" made of construction paper to your workspace door as a signal that you should not be disturbed and a "green light" confirming that the coast is clear. For perfect clarity, a yellow signal urges everyone to first ask if it happens to be a bad time before proceeding with an interruption.
A dedicated home office is not a "splurge" luxury outlay for a domestic entrepreneur. You are creating a space where you are thankful to spend the bulk of your day working, so furnishing it with special lighting, comfortable furniture, dedicated hardware for your occupational technology and plenty of bookshelves and storage cabinets signals a committed investment in your future. Being able to easily savor your surroundings will spark your inclination to linger amidst them as long as possible and promote increased spikes in productivity.
Along a similar line, don't forget to dress for the job you want. Unless you routinely describe your dream career as 'sleepwear comfort-tester,' devoting the start of each morning to grooming and dressing as you would for an office environment outside your home will ease your mind into a productivity-oriented groove by sending an unmistakably clear message to yourself and others around you: the grind comes first.
French literary Michel de Montaigne once wrote, "Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself." Posting fairly strict 'hours of operation' outside your door and tacking them on at the end of your voicemail message further deepens the notion that you are indeed doing business in your home. Once you establish your hours, adhere to them yourself as strictly as humanly possible. Avoid answering your door or home phone for anything less than urgent emergencies during business hours, and temptations to chat or step away from work evaporate almost entirely.
Of course, there will be occasions when you cannot sidestep leaving your desk. Even in those cases, scheduling dentist or doctor appointments either first thing in the morning or at the very end of your day minimizes impedance on your agenda. Better still, allow yourself the discretion to work outside your home occasionally. Packing up your laptop and spending a day working out of a nearby coffee shop both rejuvenates your mojo with a change of scenery and affords you some leisurely amusement without the seductive time-swamps of your everyday habitat. As a result, returning to a backdrop designed meticulously to optimize productivity feels even more refreshingly welcome the next day.
The fact you now earn a living without leaving your home doesn't definitively indicate you have achieved an appropriate work-life balance. Excessive attachment to your home office can actually make it easier for burnout to sneak up on you, specifically because far less physical space separates your personal and professional existences. You might want to set aside one day each week when you relax your embargo on interruptions and imbue your schedule with the flexibility to pause your day and see guests or depart completely from your workload for a brisk walk, meandering bike ride or a two-hour respite to catch a movie on Netflix. Creativity often thrives when you extricate your thoughts from a sticky problem long enough for a solution to coagulate from your jumbled thoughts at its own pace. After all, what good is all the flexibility that comes with being your own boss if you never use it?
One distraction to consciously avoid? The fridge. You would not be the first home-based entrepreneur to suddenly pack on 15 pounds upon realizing that immediate proximity to your favorite foods makes perpetual on-demand snacking a thing. Consider this an extension of the same discipline that spurs you to get things done, shun procrastination and clearly distinguish your office hours from your personal time.
Finally, here lies the most crucial, universal path to becoming an unstoppable juggernaut of domestic entrepreneurship: once you know what needs to be done, let nothing stop you from crossing it off your list by the end of the day. If you have to subdivide enormous undertakings into daily milestones, do it. Begin each day with both a personal to-do list and a plan to run the table. Eventually, something will fling you screaming from your routine, and that is when you turn from Plan A to the other 26 letters of the alphabet.
Power outage? Keep two or three rechargeable battery packs at full capacity. Internet on the fritz? Keep a messenger bag packed with supplies, grab your laptop and know the exact distance to the nearest Starbucks, as well as its hours. Bricked laptop? Invest in a tablet and Bluetooth keyboard. Upload every important document you compose or receive to a cloud-based storage service such as Google Drive or Dropbox, and download apps for each to your smartphone, tablet and laptop and desktop computers.
You have the power to work from anywhere. Embrace the notion that a satisfying career, to contort a phrase from classic Visa ads, can be everywhere you want to be.
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