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Taking the Shot: Filmmaker dodges bullets for drug war doc
Matthew Heineman embedded himself in blood-soaked territory for the visceral documentary Cartel Land
Corpses hanging from bridges. Severed heads tossed onto a dance floor. Mass graves. Kidnapping victims dismembered. Any one of these horrors from Mexico's hyper-violent drug war would be enough to convince most people to keep a very safe distance. But not Matthew Heineman.
The filmmaker put himself right in the middle of the bloodshed for his gripping Cartel Land, which documents the hideous mayhem and the rise of self-appointed self-defense groups on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
During the nearly nine months he shot the film Heineman witnessed gun battles, manhunts, clandestine meth lab operations and tense standoffs between the Mexican military and the so-called "Autodefensas" led by the charismatic Dr. Jose Mireles.
Cartel Land expands to Atlanta, Indianapolis, Austin, Santa Fe, Calgary and other cities on Friday after opening earlier this month in LA, New York, Denver, Houston and Toronto.
Nonfictionfilm.com spoke with Heineman about the risks he took to shoot the film, and what he hopes it will achieve.
[I] felt in danger at all times. I think it'd be crazy if I didn't.
--Director Matthew Heineman
Nonfictionfilm.com: Why were you willing to put yourself in harm's way for this project?
Matthew Heineman: I really believe deeply in this film and I felt a great duty to tell this story. I wanted to tell the story of what narco-violence does to everyday people and then the response of every day people rising up to fight back and then the ramifications of that.
NFF: Were there times when you felt your life was in danger?
MH: I think it felt in danger at all times. I think it'd be crazy if I didn't or I'd be inhuman. I'm not a war reporter. I've never been in situations like this before. So it's a frightening film to me.
Despite all the shootouts, the torture chambers, the meth labs, I think what scared me the most was an interview I did with a young woman who was kidnapped by the cartel whose husband was also kidnapped beside her and she witnessed him getting chopped up to pieces and then burned to death in front of her. To see this woman, to look into her eyes and see the deep hollowness and just think about human beings that would do that to other people-- that sort of stayed with me psychologically more so than anything.
When you're on the border you really do feel like you're in this lawless world, a world controlled by the cartels.
NFF: The main characters in your film are Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American ex-military guy who forms a group to patrol the Arizona side of the border, and Dr. Jose Mireles, a physician from Michoacán who founds the Autodefensas group to combat the narco-traffickers.
MH: These two men, the leaders of these two groups -- Nailer and El Doctor -- they're both 55 years old. They both believe that [their] government failed them. And they both "take the law into their own hands" to fight for what they believe in. But their circumstances are different and that's quite clear. The violence in Mexico is visceral, it's real -- 80,000 plus people killed since 2007, 20,000 people disappeared since 2007 -- whereas in Arizona the violence is more theoretical. It's a fear that these wars could seep their way across the border.
Members of the "Autodefensas" in Michoacán, Mexico, displaying their arms. The group sprang up in response to persistent drug cartel violence. Photo courtesy "Cartel Land a film by Matthew Heineman"
NFF: You were right in the middle of the action as bullets were flying back and forth.
MH: That's correct.
NFF: How did your family feel about that?
MH: I actually found that being behind the camera calmed me down in some of these situations, you know focusing on focusing, focusing on exposing and the craft of filmmaking allowed me to sort of be more calm in these very intense moments and these very intense situations. But my family-- my girlfriend was not particularly excited about me being down there.
Meth lab opertions at night in Michocán, Mexico. Photo courtesy "Cartel Land a film by Matthew Heineman"
NFF: Is there anything in particular you would like to see result from your film?
MH: One of the things that I'd love to do is, especially in America, show people there's a war that's out there, in the country just south of us and a country that we share so much history with and that we share a border with. We talk a lot about ISIS, we talk about all these extreme groups around the world but there's a war that's happening just south of us in our neighbor country and a war that's resulted in 80,000 people being killed, 20,000 people being disappeared, a war that we're connected to, a war in which we are consuming the drugs that are funding this war, that are the basis for the violence.
It's a complicated web of factors that contribute to why [the war] exists. But we are tied to it. And so I hope that the film shows that and shows [people] a war that they've never seen before. That's the goal.
The wizened face of Tim "Nailer" Foley, leader of a group that patrols the US-side of the Arizona-Mexico border. Photo courtesy "Cartel Land a film by Matthew Heineman"
We talk a lot about ISIS, we talk about all these extreme groups around the world but there's a war that's happening just south of us.
NFF: The recent escape of imprisoned drug lord "El Chapo" Guzmán has returned the issue of narco-violence to the headlines. It had more-or-less fallen off the radar in the US until Donald Trump alluded to it, in what many considered offensive terms. What did you make of Trump's comments? Were they off base?
MH: I don't know Donald Trump and I'd prefer not to talk about him.
NFF: Is there any value in Trump rekindling the issue of border security and by extension narco-violence? These are the preoccupations of Tim "Nailer" Foley.
MH: Again, I didn't make-- this is not a policy film. It's a film about what motivates men and women to take up arms. This is a film about living in a world where you can't trust the institutions that are there to protect you. This is not a policy film. This is a film taking this issue out of the headlines and putting you right in the middle of the action. I did not make a policy film.
Dr. Jose Mireles (holding mic), the leader of the Autodefensas movement. He was nearly killed in a suspicious plane crash, then later jailed on weapons and explosives charges. Photo courtesy "Cartel Land a film by Matthew Heineman"
NFF: Just about everyone in your film is morally ambiguous at some level. What do you think about what Nailer is doing and is he coming at it from the right place in your view?
MH: As he describes it himself he went down to the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants coming across our border and then he realized that the real enemy was the cartels. Five years ago there were two businesses-- there's drug smuggling and there's human smuggling. And they're two completely separate businesses, they operate on two separate trails. But now in the last couple of years... everything is controlled by the cartels. It's a scary change.
When you're on the border you really do feel like you're in this lawless world, a world controlled by the cartels and not necessarily American soil. You look up at the mountaintops and there's cartel scouts watching you. You can listen to them on the radio and hear them talking about you.
NFF: In the film we see the parallel rise of the Autodefensas, which at first seems like a promising grass-roots movement in Mexico aimed at taking back control of territory from the cartels. What happened to the movement?
MH: When I first set foot in Mexico I thought I was telling this very simple hero-villain story of guys in white shirts fighting against guys in black hats. And over time the lines between good and evil were becoming quite blurry. And that blurriness fascinates me. It was something that I almost became obsessed by. What was really happening? Where was the story going? Who were the good guys, who were the bad guys? In many ways the film wound up becoming the rise and fall of the autodefensas -- with El Doctor, the leader, as the protagonist. That fall was not anything that I could have ever dreamed of or scripted or imagined happening.
NFF: How did you get the access that you did? I would think a lot of the people down there -- whether in the Autodefensas or the cartels -- would not really like a guy with a camera around.
MH: Access is everything. I really didn't want to talk about this from the outside... I really wanted to get right in the middle of the action. For me, I've always found that once you get buy-in from leadership then you generally get access to whatever institution they're leading -- whether it's a hospital in the case of Escape Fire:The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare or a vigilante group in the case of Cartel Land. Once you get the buy-in of the Doctor and Nailer I generally have the buy-in of the respective groups. But also time. With the case of the Autodefensas a lot of [journalists] were there covering the story -- they came down for a day or two or three. It's really difficult to tell a story in that short amount of time -- a story as complicated as this. I couldn't do it. So I was able to spend almost nine months down there really developing these story lines, developing characters and in a way getting into the sort of intimate corners and scenes that I was able to get.
'We're the lucky ones, for now.' - #Cartelland. pic.twitter.com/eBAOSrhr2s
— CARTEL LAND (@cartellandmovie) July 14, 2015
#CartelLand is a REALLY fabulous documentary film. I highly recommend catching it while it's in theatres. @cartellandmovie @MattHeineman
— Erin Richards (@ErinRRichards) July 2, 2015
"Cartel Land is more than a documentary – it's a visionary masterpiece that could rival any Hollywood feature film." - Highsnobiety
— CARTEL LAND (@cartellandmovie) July 4, 2015


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Had to be at airport 2 hours before check in , Hated The self service Check in ! ended up having to find a Human to help get our Boarding cards printed !!! Then had to self serve weigh in Bags [Only 20kg] allowed put on your own luggage labels.. No one around to ask. Then to security and self scan the boarding cards !!! travelling is stressful enough without all this !!! Through security hand luggage/personal checks . and out into Heathrow airport ... Looked at what gate only to find the flight was Delayed 1 hour ! Food and drinks in airport are expensive best deal is to buy a sandwich /crisps or choc and drink £3.99 at Smiths .. When we finally got to Gate to board plane yet again self serve and my ticket wouldnt scan ! so had to wait for attendant .. really not happy at taking Humans out of the loop just doesnt help stressed travelers at all ,Flight to Leeds was Quick If you want a drink or food yo have to pay .. really good landing even though at Leeds it was very windy ..
BA is is old school, well it was, now it can't decide if it's Easy Jet, ie do you want a coffee then buy it. That's ok but they dont charge easy jet prices. Staff are ok , not super helpful or friendly, actually quite distant. No recognition for one world status, and next to no benefit for being a very frequent flyer.
Smooth flight, bad food and service!
Flight from Miami International to London Heathrow Terminal 3 on a 747 400. Sounded like a bone shaker on take off and landing. Smooth and relatively comfortable flight, food appalling and under cooked, service poor to say the least! Apart from being offered a glass of Champagne on boarding I wasn't offered any further liquid refreshment, no wine etc. BA really need to step up their game in this first class cabin, and purchase some new planes, far too many of the old 747s in their fleet!
Main issue with the trip was New Orleans airport. I had business class ticket so got through security pretty quick. For people travelling in economy, it took ages. Travelling on a long haul flight with BA, the airport is not up to it. Not only is there no business lounge, there are no decent restaurants or bars. There is a wine bar near the gate which has a small number of decent seats and only serves wine (no soft drinks) at around $18 for a glass.
The flight itself was fine, as I would expect with BA. The plane was a 787, seats were comfortable and the new mattress / duvet combination is definitely an improvement. The staff were friendly and helpful. I did not have the evening meal as I wanted to sleep but breakfast was very good.
I can recommend the flight but not the airport.
Not impressed by the companies failure to offer any co-operation with an important and first ever (westward) 'round the world' rubidium atom 'time dilation' experiment, but I doubt many prospective flyers will worry about that!
Security is decamped to each gate at Changi, which would have been ok had the staff not stood around for 20 minutes while the queue built up to 200ft (step off the travellator and walk back the way you came to join the end!) The queue was then still growing when boarding started! But that's an airport issue. BA staff were excellent.
Far more legroom and space than most on the A380, including for hand luggage. Excellent plane and cabin crew. All went perfectly until a problem unloading the baggage meant a long wait at the carousel.


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"Hi-De-Ho" is a song written, produced, and performed by American rock musician Jack White, featuring rapper and producer Q-Tip, former lead of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, who is also credited for writing the song. It is issued as the third single from White's fourth studio album Fear of the Dawn. It is based on and samples the scat phrase sung by Cab Calloway in the 1931 song, "Minnie the Moocher".

Background
White was first involved with Q-Tip when he brought him out to perform "That Black Bat Licorice" during a show at Madison Square Garden, then performed "Excursions" by A Tribe Called Quest on January 31, 2015.

The production of "Hi-De-Ho" began when White first heard it on the radio, and enjoyed it so much that he had the idea of sampling Calloway's scatting along with a drumbeat. He later invited Q-Tip to be part of the production.

Promotion and release
It was uploaded on White's YouTube channel and released on digital download and streaming on March 3, 2022. A limited edition 7-inch tri-color single paired with A-side, "Queen of the Bees" is available exclusively at Third Man Records Cass Corridor Detroit on April 9, 2022, to promote White's fifth studio album Entering Heaven Alive, released on July 22, along with his Supply Chain Issues Tour.

Personnel
 Jack White – vocals, drums, synthesizers, percussion, lead electric guitar, lead acoustic guitar
 Q-Tip – vocals, handclaps
 Olivia Jean – acoustic rhythm guitar, electric guitar

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2022 songs
2022 singles
Third Man Records singles
Song recordings produced by Jack White
Songs written by Jack White
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You're never more than a click or two away from another room or other friends in here. So the only way to hold onto anyone here is to love them more than anyone else. You can get promises and even chains and cages (which can be kind of fun, by the way) but the freedom and ease of meeting people in here makes it impossible to hold onto anyone that doesn't want to be held. So the trick is to make them WANT to be held.
So the question becomes what would make them want to stay. In real life stay together because they don't have many choices, because of kids, because of the expense of leaving or breaking up, because of the stigma of divorce, or because of their physical needs. Obviously none of these things are true in here. So how do you hold onto people who are constantly seeing supermodels wanting to spend time with them?
I think there's only one thing strong enough to hold, really hold someone here and that's LOVE! Emotions in here can be very intense (VERY intense) and none is stronger than Love. The only way you can keep anyone in here is to love them with all your heart and in every way. I've written posts about how to make someone feel loved and I'm sure you can figure out a few things of your own too.
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I don't think secrets or games really hold people, at least not for long.


Internet and timeshares drives me crazy.
So sorry I couldn't write a comprehensive blog post yesterday afternoon, but my Norton security is doing the same, as with our other timeshares. It blocks me using a non-secure WIFI. This means that I have to write everything on my smartphone, and it's hard checking information on products, and then getting back to writing.
If any of my reviews are not up to par this week, I promise that I will come back to them when I get home, and update them to look professional.
In the meantime some more photos of last night at the beach. Not a perfect sunset, but they are always different, and spectacular in their own way.
Sure you will come back beautifully tanned !!
I love the unusual ones.
Sure will. Although I live in Florida, I am in air conditioning most of the time.
Enjoy your week and worry about posting when you get home.
Beautiful pictures! I have been having issues with our internet company going up and down just about everyday! It gets to be quite frustrating at times!


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Q: The number of ideals in the quotient ring $\mathbb R[x]/\langle x^2-3x+2 \rangle$ Finding the number of ideals in the quotient ring $\mathbb R[x]/\langle x^2-3x+2 \rangle$.
Attempt: $R[x]/\langle x^2-3x+2 \rangle = \{f(x)+\langle x^2-3x+2 \rangle~~|~~f(x) \in R[x]\}$.
Since $(x^2-3x+2)=(x-1)(x-2)$ is a reducible polynomials, the members of $R[x]/\langle x^2-3x+2 \rangle) = f(1)$ or $f(2) $ are essentially real constants.
out of which only $\{0\}$ is an ideal as $a \cdot 0 = 0 \in \{0\}~~\forall~~a \in \mathbb R$
Is my attempt correct?
Thank you for your help.

A: Since the polynomial factors you have
$$\mathbb{R}[x]/(x^2-3x+2)\cong \mathbb{R}[x]/(x-2)\oplus \mathbb{R}[x]/(x-1)
\cong \mathbb{R}\oplus \mathbb{R}$$
So what are the ideals of $\mathbb{R}\oplus \mathbb{R}$ ?
Another way of thinking about it is you have a (reducible) variety defined by
$x^2-3x+2=0$, this variety has two points.

A: I didn't understand the argument, but I'm afraid the answer is wrong. The polynomial $x-1$ does not have any inverse in this quotient, so $(x-1)$ is another ideal, for example.
By the way, another way to approach this problem is by the Chinese remainder theorem. Since $(x^2-3x+2)=(x-1)\cdot(x-2)=(x-1)\cap(x-2)$, and $(x-1),(x-2)$ are co-prime, we have
$$\mathbb{R}[x]/(x^2-3x+2)\simeq\mathbb{R}[x]/(x-1)\times\mathbb{R}[x]/(x-2)\simeq\mathbb{R}\times\mathbb{R}.$$
That should simplify the task of finding all ideals.

A: I'm not sure what you mean by "$\mathbb R [x]/\langle x^2-3x +2 \rangle = f(1)$ or $f(2)$ are essentially real constants." Note that there are nonzero ideals in the quotient:
Hint. For any ring $R$ and any ideal $I$, there is a bijection between ideals of $R$ containing $I$ and ideals of $R/I$.

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There have been questions about the transition of OpenNTF to it's new structure, I will try to explain the background and intent of this new initiative.
I have been running this site alone for a couple of years now and although the site 'worked' for a lot of people, I had concerns about the continuity of the site. I felt that I needed feedback from 'the industry' since improving the Notes & Domino community and the market was the main reason for founding OpenNTF.
This led to the formation of the 'Advisory Board' in 2007, a board intended to provide feedback and advise on the direction OpenNTF should take.
Another issue was that as an independent entrepreneur I did not have the resources to improve the site and its content to the level I would like to see. Teaming-up with other organizations seemed the best way to provide these resources.
At the same time IBM was looking for a place to publish their example code, since the Sandbox was being shut down. They wanted exposure for their projects and participation of the Notes & Domino community to improve/extend their code examples.
Obviously OpenNTF was on their radar and they started publishing projects on OpenNTF, for example the composite application directory.
Steve and Niklas of IBM contacted me in December and proposed that we convert OpenNTF into a real non-profit organization. The new organization would be led by a committee and IBM would supply the resources for the conversion and a long overdue site update plus provide support for OpenNTF over a longer period.
They would not take over the site, the site would be run by the committee and IBM would get only one seat, the rest of the committee would consist of people/organizations from the community.
This was exactly what I was looking for, a site run by the community, with resources and guaranteed continuity.
And so it was agreed upon, a new OpenNTF for the Notes & Domino community, by the community with a little help from IBM.
I am convinced this is a good thing for OpenNTF, the community and IBM, but as with all changes there are some drawbacks.
Things like the employers approval for contributors and the Apache license requirement for new projects. There are good (legal) reasons for these formalities, but they will make it a lot harder for people to contribute.
We (the steering committee) are well aware of these issues and we will try to ease the pain as much as possible.
Constructive criticism is always welcome, but please give us a chance to get this new site up and running, before condemning the new alliance.
Although the committee is not currently accepting new members (we need to clear a lot of legal stuff before the alliance is formally founded), you can apply for membership in some time and have a say in any issues concerning the site and the alliance.


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Windows 10 Has Halved Data Collection: Privacy Watchdog
When Microsoft launched Windows 10, one of the major flashpoints of disagreement between the company and its users were Microsoft's Windows 10 data collection practices. The French data privacy watchdog CNIL (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés) later announced that it had begun an investigation into Microsoft's data collection practices and found them to be in violation of French law.
At the time, CNIL noted: "Seven online observations have been carried out between April and June 2016. On this occasion, several violations have been found and in particular: excessive collection of personal data, track of users' web-browsing without their consent and a lack of security and confidentiality of users' data."
CNIL has now closed its investigation into Microsoft's activity after updates to the Windows 10 operating system made major changes to how telemetry is collected at the "Basic" setting. Specifically:
The company has nearly reduced by half the volume of collected data within the "basic" level of its telemetry service which is capable of identifying the system's functional issues and solving them. It has restricted its collection to the sole data strictly necessary for maintaining the proper functioning of its operating system and applications, and for ensuring their security.
Users are now informed, through a clear and precise information, that an advertising ID is intended to track their web-browsing in order to offer them personalized advertising. Furthermore, the installation procedure of Windows 10 has been modified: users cannot complete this installation unless they have expressed their choice regarding activation or deactivation of the advertising ID. Moreover, they can reverse this choice at any time.
Microsoft has made other changes to its practices to bring Windows 10's overall level of data protection and user privacy practices in line with French law, and improved how it handles repeated attempts to log in with an incorrect PIN or multiple incorrect logins. It's not clear if every change CNIL documents was made to every version of Windows 10, but some of the noted updates are definitely in line with what Microsoft has said about its new telemetry collection practices.
Everyone who installs the Creators Update will be offered the option to change these settings.
Getting independent confirmation that the company now only collects the data it needs to solve specific problems is welcome. There are still going to be users with concerns on this topic, but Microsoft's more recent updates appear to significantly improve user privacy.
Microsoft is planning to add some significant GPU monitoring capability to the Fall Creators Update later this year, and the recent Creators Update improved the OS in some non-trivial ways as well.
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Museum guidebooks are a great way to provide more information about your site, its artefacts and its history, but it is still important to consider the intended audience. Unfortunately, some museum guidebook writers forget that their potential and intended readership is larger than the handful of people they might consider their peers. Great guidebooks are interesting, informative and easy to read. The guidebook we produced for Cardigan Castle is all of these.
We approached this guidebook project from a different angle. Instead of writing in the usual, chronological and data-heavy style, we decided to feature only the best Cardigan Castle's stories as concise, standalone tales. Each story occupies a double-page spread and is supported by an eye-catching image.
This is a great way to present the castle's history and heritage, providing historical facts and data woven into a story-telling style narrative. The gorgeous design work echoes the castle's branding and logo and was produced by Vickie at V23 Graphics.
Our guidebook for Cardigan Castle was a unique project. It needed to tell the castle's story, but be more eye catching and easy to read than a traditional guidebook. It also needed to be completed in time for a very strict and important deadline.
Tony and his team went beyond the call to duty to ensure the finished guide was not only beautiful and engaging, but also that it was here in time for the announcement of our winning the 2017 Restoration of the Year award on Channel 4's Great British Buildings. Their unique and innovative understanding of interpretation and storytelling has made the guidebook a great success.
Highly recommended, a pleasure to work with and on our speed-dial for future projects.


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Spirit of Ned alive among Galong centenary celebrations
Pre-dinner drinks on the Saturday evening of the Centenary Celebrations at St Clement's Retreat Centre at Galong. Picture: Len Regan.
THE SPIRIT of Ned Ryan was alive when almost 80 former Juvenists, spouses and Redemptorists gathered at Galong to celebrate the centenary of St Clement's earlier this year.
They came from the USA, New Zealand and almost every state of Australia as well as the ACT.
Mr Ryan was the Irish convict and later land-owner of what is now St Clement's Retreat Centre at Galong and was noted for his generous and abundant hospitality.
In fact, at one stage, he had one of his men prepare a sheep per day for visitors and travellers as there were so many to feed.
St Clement's was founded in 1918 as a secondary school, called a Juvenate, for teenagers and young men who aspired to become Redemptorists.
It officially closed in 1975 through lack of numbers.
There have been a number of reunions at St Clement's for former Juvenists and spouses.
They began in 1992 through the foresight of Fr Keith Teefey CSsR.
The level of conversation on the Friday evening, both in the dining room and afterwards, spoke volumes of the spirit of those who gathered.
Reminiscences, stories, laughter and renewed friendships were the order of the weekend.
Noted historian and writer, Fr Max Barrett CSsR, sent a Reverie of what Galong meant to so many and those who made it so.
One of the organisers, Louis Magee (Galong 1959-1963), unearthed the astonishing story of one of the earliest Juvenists.
He noted that St Clement's is the only educational establishment outside England which can boast of an alumnus who earned an Order of Lenin medal in WW2.
Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood was a New Zealander who, after leaving Galong, later joined the Royal Air Force and, as a Wing Commander, helped the Russians in their survival fight against the invading Germans. He died in an aircraft accident in 1950.
Former PM in attendance
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, Hon Tim Fischer, and his wife, Judy, came for the celebrations. Provincial Edmond Nixon CSsR welcomed all to the reunion and introduced Mr Fischer who was the guest speaker.
He spoke about various aspects of his life and his interests.
Members found it 'riveting and inspiring,' including his time in Rome as Australia's first resident Ambassador to the Vatican.
Entering the 'Castle' for the Reunion dinner on the Saturday evening was like entering a fairy land. The place was aglow with subdued lighting and candles on tables and window sills. Ned Ryan's face beamed down from the wall at the sumptuous meal. A former Juvenist later referred to the 'plenteous refection' of the weekend. Another organiser, Brian Daly, emceed the 'Crows' Concert afterwards.
This included communal singing from past musicals as well as former Juvenists reciting poetry or singing or playing music.
Former Juvenist and much later Provincial, Michael Gilbert, delivered a powerful and thought-provoking homily at the Centenary Reunion Mass on the Sunday.
After morning tea, participants said good-byes to renewed friends and made their way home. It had been a weekend of abundant grace and drew significant praise from those who attended.
Memorable weekend
According to Donatus Michalka, the reunion was amazing and memorable.
"It was a standout, by any reckoning," he said.
Peter Rutherford agreed saying it was a wonderful weekend.
The Masses, the dinner, the shared meals, the reminiscing, and the guest speaker were really great," he said.
"I enjoyed catching up with guys I hadn't seen for fifty years."
John Timbs also said the reunion was special.
"In the middle of last century we were boys there," he said.
"Chubby cheeked youths, now bejowled elders.
"I think I put on a kilo, thanks to mine host, Dominic – with whom there is plenteous refection."
Fr Nixon joined in the chorus saying every moment of the weekend was a retreat of the first order.
"It is what Galong is presently about," he said.
"So much grace abounding and it was paced so well.
"Tim Fischer's shotgun presentation brought its own witness to life and commitment."
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Dimocarpus is from the Greek, δις (dis), twice and καρπος (karpos), fruit, referring to the 2-lobed pistil; longan is from the Chinese, and means 'dragon's eye', the fruits of the tree being supposed to resemble them.
This is a handsome, erect, fast-growing evergreen tree with a round, many-branched crown, usually growing 9 – 14 m high, but capable of reaching heights of 25 m or more. It is a native of eastern Asia and the Philippines, where it is usually found in the understorey of primary forests in humid mountainous regions. The photographs are of a tree planted in the exotic fruits garden at Magnetic Island State School.
The trunk can be up to about 80 cm in diameter, with corky bark, The branches are long and thick, typically drooping.
The leaves are pinnately compound and alternate. There are 6 – 9 pairs of leaflets per leaf, oblong and blunt-tipped, with the upper surface wavy and a dark glossy green in colour.
The inflorescences are panicles at the end of the branches, 10 – 45 cm long, and widely branched. The individual flowers are small, have 5 – 6 sepals, and brownish yellow petals. Each flower has a 2-lobed pistil and 8 stamens. There are 3 flower types distributed along the panicle: staminate, pistillate and hermaphrodite, flowering in progression.
The fruits hang in drooping clusters; they are spherical, and about 2.5 cm in diameter. The surface is smooth to warty, and granular to the touch. The peel is tan-coloured, thin, and leathery with tiny hairs. The flesh is translucent; the seed is large and black, with a circular white spot at the base, giving the appearance of an eyeball. The flesh has a musky, sweet taste, rather like that of the lychee, although it is a drier sweetness, with a touch of sour.
Apart from being eaten fresh and raw, the fruit is often used in Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet-and-sour foods. It can be either fresh or dried, or sometimes canned in syrup. Dried longan is often used in Chinese cuisine, where it is believed to have an effect on relaxation.
Longan is used in traditional systems of medicine. The flesh of the fruit is used as a stomachic, febrifuge and vermifuge, and is regarded as an antidote to poison. A decoction of the dried flesh is taken as a tonic. The seeds are administered to counteract heavy sweating, and the pulverized kernel is used as a styptic. In Vietnam, the 'eye' of the longan seed is pressed against snakebites to absorb the venom. Despite the fact that this is ineffective, it is still so used today.
The seeds, because of their saponin content, are used as a shampoo. Both the seeds and the rinds of the fruits are burnt for fuel.
The timber is useful, but not readily available. The heartwood is reddish brown, and is not differentiated from the lighter-coloured sapwood. The wood is strong, tough, very hard, difficult to split. It is highly durable, and dries easily but slowly with little or no degradation. It is used for posts, for making agricultural implements, furniture, textile weaving stands and rifle butts, but is not highly valued for fuel.


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Australian Merino wool is an obvious choice of fibre for Technical Garments production in Bangladesh
The Woolmark Company is the global authority on Merino wool and owns the Woolmark logo, a quality assurance symbol applied to more than 5 billion products. The Woolmark brand represents a commitment between woolgrowers, brands and consumers to the authenticity and quality of the fibre. As a not-for-profit organization, Woolmark Company works alongside Australia's 60,000 woolgrowers to research, develop and certify Australian wool. 100% natural, renewable and biodegradable, Australian Merino wool is famous worldwide for its next-to-skin softness, strength, innate versatility, and technical benefits. Australian Merino wool's versatility extends from luxury fashion to high-performance activewear, accessories, homewares, and everything in between.
John Roberts, Managing Director, The Woolmark Company
John Roberts is the Managing Director of The Woolmark Company. John has in-depth knowledge of the key players throughout the industry from the farm gate to the fashion catwalk. Recently Team Textile Focus covered an interview with John Roberts regarding The Woolmark Company's Activities. The interview is drafted below for our readers.
TF: A brief on recent activities of The Woolmark Company?
John: Our role in the whole industry chain is to Connect, Educate, and Inspire. From woolgrowers, wool processors, and yarn and fabric manufacturers, to designers, brands as well as educational and research institutions, we work across the entire industry chain to provide a comprehensive understanding of the complete life cycle of wool.
This year we welcomed the return of a physical event for the International Woolmark Prize global final. Each of the seven finalists pushed the boundaries with Merino wool to inspire the industry with what this fibre can do. It not only celebrates the world's best-emerging design talent but connects them with key innovators across the supply chain.
The Woolmark Performance Challenge for tertiary students is the preeminent ideas platform for the sports and performance market, designed to facilitate innovative, environmentally considerate product solutions for the sports and performance market.
Our Woolmark Learning Centre continues to evolve, offering a variety of free, self-paced courses designed to educate and upskill anyone in the textile and fashion industry. Individuals and businesses in the textile trade will be particularly interested in the Science and Technology Program, which combines a series of introductory and advanced courses for textile science and engineering, fashion and textile design and/or textile manufacturing.
Finally, for the latest product and processing innovations in wool, head to woolmark.com to discover new applications of the fibre and reduced-impact processes and technologies.
TF: How do you see the overall textile industry after the pandemic?
John: For every industry, the COVID-19 pandemic brought a plethora of issues and challenges. It has profoundly changed the world and everyone has to respond. From supply chains coming to a standstill, to changes in consumer purchasing behaviour, increased consumer anxiety over climate change and a desire for complete transparency every brand, including ours, has been challenged to rethink its approach to business and best practices.
TF: What are the main strengths of Australian Wool?
John: Australia produces 90% of the world's Merino wool for fine apparel. It is also the world's largest exporter of non-mulesed wool. Through best-practice sustainable farming, 60,000+ Australian woolgrowers are able to protect and regenerate the land, care for the health and happiness of their sheep and prosper as family-run businesses.
100% natural, renewable and biodegradable, Australian Merino wool is the best in the world, offering a natural solution to the global apparel and footwear industry. No other fibre – natural or man-made – can rival wool's inherent technical properties and eco-credentials.
Wool is also the most reused and recycled fibre in the world. It is the only fibre with a well-established commercially viable recycling pathway of more than 200 years old in both an open and closed-loop system. This allows manufacturers and brands to diversify their offerings, in line with changing consumer demands and government policies.
TF: How do you see Bangladesh for Australian Wool?
John: Bangladesh is an extremely important emerging market for Australian wool and we see great potential here as the global textile market looks to diversify its supply chains. The capacity and skills in Bangladesh are well positioned for more wool production and we believe Bangladesh can strengthen its wool production support from The Woolmark Company. There is opportunity for Bangladesh to take on many facets of wool production from early-stage processing, spinning, knitting, weaving, and through to garment manufacturing. This also makes it a unique market as it can support the entire wool supply chain post-farmgate.
TF: How do you want to explore Australian Wool in Bangladesh?
John: We have already started to make inroads into Bangladesh and are identifying which knitters and sweater makers are using wool, or are wanting to, and we will continue to support these manufacturers with technical support and supply chain connectivity. We also want to explore the potential for early-stage processing in Bangladesh and are looking to connect with businesses who are interested in exploring this option with us. Currently, 80% of Australia's raw wool goes directly to China for early-stage processing and we want to elevate this pressure Bangladesh presents an ideal market to help support this goal.
TF: Any specific message from you for the industry?
John: As we see the textile industry in Bangladesh become more sophisticated and manufacture more complex and technical garments, Australian Merino wool is an obvious choice of fibre to work with. With so many opportunities ahead for our fibre, we should be optimistic. Wool's eco-credentials and unrivaled quality and versatility have it perfectly positioned to deliver what the world demands and it is an exciting time to be connecting with new manufacturing partners.
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MISSISSIPPI GODDAM: LYNCHING OF OTIS BYRD ADDS TO STATE'S 21ST CENTURY LIST
"EVERYBODY KNOWS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI GODDAM" — NINA SIMONE
Otis Byrd, lynched at Port Gibson, MS, 2015
Port Gibson, MS – The family of Otis Byrd, 54, found hanging by a white sheet from a tree 500 ft. from where he lived, weeks after he disappeared March 2, said they are planning to rally for justice for the riverboat worker March 23.
Byrd's nephew Lee Kendrick Byrd told the AP that police who initially investigated the scene told them his uncle's hands had been tied, but he had freed them and then tried to escape the noose.
Later reports from the police, the FBI and the Missouri Bureau of Investigation discounted that version. Even the head of the state NAACP has joined the authorities in calling for calm pending investigation, speculating that Byrd might have committed suicide.
But Byrd's family and friends disagree.
Tracy Wilson
"He tried to turn his life around. He was going to church every Sunday," his stepsister, Tracy Wilson told the AP. "Anybody could have done this. I just don't see him doing it to himself."
High school classmates Lora McDaniel and Anita Smith said "he always had a smile on his face. I just can't see him committing suicide," and "He was a quiet man. He didn't bother nobody. He had been out nine years and all of the sudden this happens to him? Impossible."
Byrd had served 25 years in the Mississippi prison system for "capital murder" in the killing of a white woman, convenience store owner Lucille Trim, in 1980 during a robbery. He was paroled in 2006. In Mississippi, the penalty for capital murder is either execution or life without parole. It is unclear why Byrd was allowed a sentence with parole, if he was actually guilty of the crime. Trim was the mother of retired U.S. Air Force Major General Martha Rainville.
Coroner's vehicle waits at Otis Byrd's home.
The allegation that Byrd may have committed suicide is gruesomely similar to three other cases in the Mississippi of the 21st century.
The U.S. Department of Justice previously found that three other Black men, and one Asian woman, found hung in Mississippi committed suicide. A fourth man was deliberately run over and killed by teen white racists. They were:
Roy Veal, Woodville, 2004
Nick Naylor, 2003, Porterville
Donna Gaio Dao, of Vietnamese descent, found hanging in Philadelphia, MS, from a very high oak tree in 2010
Roy Veal of Washington State in 2004, found hanging in Porterville, MS, where he was laying claim to his family's land;
Nick Naylor in 2003, found hanging by one of his dog's leashes in Porterville, MS after he took them for a walk in an area frequented by white hunters, and
James C. Anderson, Jackson, MS 2011
Raynard Johnson, 2000 Kokomo
Raynard Johnson, 17, of Kokomo, MS, found hanging by his own belt in 2000 after he and his friends dated white girls in the community.
James Craig Anderson, although not subjected to lynching by hanging, was attacked, beaten and deliberately run down and killed by three white teens, Darryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, and John Rice in 2011 in Jackson, MS. They had been assaulting Black residents of that city for some time.
They each pled guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of committing a hate crime. A U.S. District Judge sentenced Dedmon to 50 years and five years, with his federal sentence to run concurrently with his state sentence; John Aaron Rice to 18 ½ years and five years to be served concurrently; and Dylan Wade Butler to seven years and five years to be served concurrently.
Deryl Dedmon, Dylan Butler, John Rice, killers of James Craig Anderson in Jackson, MS, 2011
Where they are currently located is questionable.
The Mississippi Dept. of Corrections website says regarding Dedmon, "NOT APPLICABLE OTHER CUSTODY/AT LARGE," but he is not listed on the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website. Dylan Butler is listed in BOP files as "Not in BOP [Bureau of Prisons], release date unknown." John Rice is listed as "Not in BOP custody, release date 4/11/2028." Neither are listed on the state MDOC website.
Raynard Johnson's hanging in his front yard occasioned a national outcry, including marches led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson of Rainbow: PUSH. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno assured his family that the Justice Department would thoroughly investigate the case.
Raynard Johnsons mother Maria Johnson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Mable Till Mobley, mother of Emmett Till, lynched in 1955.
But the final verdict was the same in all the hanging cases. Authorities told families to be patient and wait for autopsy results and further investigation, which they have said in Byrd's case may take months, then declared they had committed suicide.
The likelihood of Black men committing suicide in the U.S. is extremely low. From 1999 through 2013, 70 percent of suicides were committed by white males, with only 5 percent by Black males, according to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control. Despite, or because of, the oppression endured in the Black community, many say they choose perseverance and life, not death by their own hand.
Oak Square plantation mansion, the largest in Port Gibson, invites guests for the night. Photo credit: Southern Living
Media reports have portrayed Port Gibson as a 90 percent Black town with a high poverty rate, discounting the likelihood that whites would have been involved in Byrd's death.
However, the New York Times reported in 2002 that Port Gibson also has "an entrenched population of whites, many of whom are related and have some historical connection to cotton."
In other words, they are often the descendants of plantation slaveholders. Many plantation mansions still stand in Port Gibson as an attraction to tourists, including the largest in the state, Oak Square. A main industry in the town is the processing of cottonseed oil.
In addition to these lynchings of the 21st Century, "between 1987 and 1993, twenty two (22) black men were found hanging in Mississippi jails. All of their deaths were declared to be suicides. All of us are aware of the history of blacks being lynched in Mississippi. Between 1882 and 1968 there were 539 blacks lynched in Mississippi. Their murders were not solved because law enforcement officials made no effort to bring their murderers to justice. In many cases law enforcement officials were complicit in the murders," writes Solomon C. Osborne in an online blog.
Below: the lynching of Nick Naylor in 2003.
BELOW: American Atrocity of Lynching African People, by Kenny Snodgrass
4 Responses to MISSISSIPPI GODDAM: LYNCHING OF OTIS BYRD ADDS TO STATE'S 21ST CENTURY LIST
MamaAfrica says:
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Every time I learn of another violent murder, for I believe this is, it makes me despair for anyone who belongs to any race other than white. As the U.S. becomes more tyrannical on it's own soil, the killing of people of colour is escalating. Death by cop is becoming heartbreakingly common.
People have to realise that they are being encouraged to distrust and hate each other because if they ever saw the bigger picture, that they need to unite against the REAL enemy and war mongers of the world, it would be THE Game changer of all time.
I am a white British woman and every story likes this stains my soul and fills me with shame. I force myself to read about this because my conscience compels me to.
What these cowardly racists do, is not done in any decent white persons name.
I am so sorry for your loss, both now and all those souls lost previously at the hands of the sub humans who commit these murders.
I have thought from the beginning that Mr. Byrd being found hanged, is a hate crime. I am white and I do not live down south. I hate people who are racist. What happened to Otis Byrd and all the others before him makes me very sad. How could he have hung himself? Why would a man climb 12 to 15 feet up a tree. He couldn't have jumped that high into the air to get. All of the accounts I've been hearing state there wasn't anything on the ground that he could have climbed on to get up there. He tied a bed sheet around a tree branch and around his neck. Blindfold his face and jumped to commit suicide. No one would go through all that trouble to kill their self. I can only pray that history doesn't repeat itself.
demetrius d beverly says:
The Mississippi we know will always be like this the coast has changed but the rest will never change.


Just wanted to send a quick note about parking. With our busy season starting to be in full bloom (pun intended) here at the Shop, and with our funky little neighborhood of Person Street getting more and more popular, this means we're seeing lots and lots of people who all need a place to park. And we have only been given two of these most precious spots. Our appointments are in fifteen/twenty/thirty minute intervals so normally this doesn't pose a problem as clients are in and out and appointments are staggered.
1) Hold back a few minutes and wait for someone to leave.
2) You are welcome to park anywhere on Person Street or surrounding side streets. They're free! Also, Retro Fitness has parking for 3 bucks. Make a day of it and explore our wonderful neighborhood!
3) After 1pm on Fridays you can park at the Draperies store next to the Wax Shop. After 5pm and on weekends you can park anywhere along our little row of stores unless you see a sign indicating otherwise.
*And remember to add a little extra travel time for parking during peak season and lunch and dinner rushes from the surrounding bars/restaurants.
And as we ask for your patience and flexibility, we also return the favor by understanding that life happens, some things are beyond our control, and we will do our darnedest to accommodate.


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Light and Complexity
Nonlinear Photonics and Theoretical Physics Laboratory
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" read many books for many years "
Our research ...
The Optimal Disorder for the Anderson Localization of Light
Many authors investigated the onset of light localization in the regime of strong-disorder.
But how much strong?
Determining how much strong the disorder has to be to give rise to localized states (in three-dimensions) is an extremely difficult enterprise, as it depends on the specific kind of sample that is considered. One has to demonstrate that an optimal region for localization exists, once a parameter that quantifies the strength of the disorder has been identified. This is a very tricky problem, even more tricky if one wants to be far from a perturbative regime as the case of weakly disordered Photonic Crystals, considered here and here.
In a recent article (http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.2555), authored by Silvia Gentilini, Andrea Fratalocchi and Claudio Conti, a specific case has been considered by resorting to parallel large-scale Finite Difference Time-Domain simulations. A molecular dynamics code has been used to generate some disorder realizations of a colloidal solution composed by spherical particles. By varying the filling fraction of the resulting sample, the response of the material to an ultra-wide band (Frequency Comb) optical excitation has been spectrally analyzed.
It has been shown that the maximum spectral delay of the various frequencies in the transmitted spectrum displays a sharp peak in correspondence of a narrow region in the filling fraction for high-index contrast particles (figure below, delay expressed in picoseconds); this also being the first ab-initio numerical investigation of a Frequency Comb in a disordered material. Such a result shows that an optimal disorder for light localization can be indeed identified even for completely randomized samples.
The Page Rank Equation
In a recent article in Europhysics Letters, authored by N. Perra, V. Zlatic, A. Chessa, C. Conti, D. Donato and G. Caldarelli an equation for the page-rank in the WWW and in several other kinds of networks has been derived. The equation strongly resembles other famous ones in physics, like the Schroedinger or the Helmotz equations, and it enables to make fascinating connections between theoretical physics and the science of scale-free networks. The arXiv version of this paper has been formerly commented in the New Scientist issue of August 2008.
The picture shows a localized solution of the Page Rank equation, corresponding to the formation of an HUB node.
Nonlinear light diffusion, ab-initio results
In this manuscript we report on the numerical simulation of ultra-short intense laser pulse propagating in a random medium.
Quantum X-waves
In quant-ph/0409130 and quant-ph/030906 I have reported on a paraxial theory of quantum X-waves and discussed their generation by nonlinear optical processes.
With Alessandro Ciattoni, we developed a general theory of Quantum X-waves and we have shown that classical X-waves may have different quantum counterparts (which share the classical expectation field profile) encoding different degree of entanglement. See arXiv:0704.0442.
A proposed experimental setup for generating the "progessive undistorted squeezed vacuum" (see quant-ph/0409130)
Matter X-waves
In Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 120404 (2004), Conti and Trillo investigate X-wave solutions for Bose Condensed gases.
More on Nonlinear X-waves
People coming from soliton theory (especially nonlinear optics) are used to associate self-localization to a nonlinear self-action. Actually, self-localized waves do even exist for linear systems, and, surprisingly, they have been mostly studied in recent years, AFTER solitons and bullets.
The typical argument against localized waves (to be intended as the linear waves) is that they carry infinite enegy. However, this holds true for many nonlinear waves, as for example dark solitons and vortices. Finite energy realizations of localized waves have been observed, as it has been for darks and vortices.
The situation is even more intricate when localized waves propagate in the presence of a nonlinear self-action. The result are the NONLINEAR X-WAVES. They aresolutions to 3D+1 nonlinear evolution equations carrying infinite energy and have been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. [see Conti C., Phys. Rev. E 70, 046613 (2004) and the book chapter NonlinearXwaves (.pdf, 1.2MB) in the book Localized Waves (ISBN 0-470-10885-1) for an introduction]
In other words:
1D nonlinear waves with infinite energy = dark solitons
2D nonlinear waves with infinite energy = vortex solitons
3D nonlinear waves with infinite energy = nonlinear X waves (or X solitons)
The world of nonlinear X waves is still mainly unexplored; not only it is fascinating because it deals with 3D waves, which have a counterpart in Bose Einstein condensates, but also because they are expected to play a role in ultrafast laser propagation. Indeed, contrary to light bullets, X-waves are sustained by normal dispersion, which is always the case in the relevant experiments.
Soliton experimental setup
This picture shows our experimental setup for observing optical spatial solitons. The microscope is used for imaging the light scattered from the top of the sample, which is illuminated by a laser beam through the input inverted microscope.
The ab-investigation of the 3D Anderson localization
In a recent paper in the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1690 ), Claudio Conti and Andrea Fratalocchi reported on the first ab-initio investigation in 3D and time-resolved of the Anderson localization of light in a colloid.
Femtosecond propagation in disordered matter
The theoretical analysis of ultra-fast laser propagation in disordered matter is enormously complicated by the need to account for a 3D enviroment (Anderson localization and related phenomena are indeed a trivial issue in reduced dimensionality), material dispersion, multiple-scattering processes, polidispersivity and many other phenomena.
Ab initio computation based on Finite Difference Time Domain codes is probably the most extensive approach to the problem.
In a recent article, Silvia Gentilini, Andrea Fratalocchi, and Claudio Conti have reported the first 3D simulations of 100fs laser pulses in a disordered medium by the MD-FDTD approach.
We reported a quantitave calculation of the light diffusion constant (in agreement with experiments from the literature) and also of the dynamics of the diffusion constant.
The figure below shows on the left panel (a) the edge of the trasmitted pulse in log scale (the gray area in the inset is the input pulse, the black line the trasmitted pulse); while on panel (b) the diffusivity constant versus the material filling factor (the inset is the dynamical diffusivity for two different particle diameters)
Thermodynamics of soliton gases
In a recent article in Physical Review Letters, in collaboration with Andrea Fratalocchi, Giancarlo Ruocco and Stefano Trillo, we have shown that within a purely integrable model solitons undergoes non canonical phase transitions. For the nonlinear Schroedinger equation, many solitons should behave as a gas of free particles. In this respect, phase transitions are not expected. However by employing non canonical phase-space measures, mutuated from the so-called thermostatistics of chaotic systems, it is possible to show that a suitably defined free energy undergoes a methamorphosis as the number of solitons grows.
A notable issue is that this mathematical circumstance has a clear physical signature, i.e. the development of a dispersive shock wave, which is the result of the cooperative evolution of the solitons. This theoretical result fixes a link between chaotic and integrable systems, which is fairly not trivial and can be experimentally tested. The experiments are now being performed in our group.
Random Lasers (intro)
In a nutshell, a random laser is the coherent emission from active stochastic resonators.
In a series of articles around 1966, a Russian scientist V. S. Letokhov, of the Lebedev Physics Institute in Dubna considered the generation of light in the interstellar medium. In the presence of scatterers, as for example dust particles, photons diffuse like neutrons and, if some mechanism (following Letokhov a "negative absorption") is able to increase their number, a sort of photonic reactor can be realized. At a threshold value for the amplification, a quantum generator of light, not properly a laser, is realized. Nowadays the process is known as RANDOM LASER.
The Letokhov's basic idea is that of a stochastic resonator: a scattering medium with a large number of modes (roughly, waves with different directions) which are strongly coupled and display radiation losses. If the number of modes is sufficiently large their overlapping resonances merge and the result is a nonresonant feedback sustaining a laser-like action; its properties are today largely investigated, while, in many respects, they are still unknown. There are several analogies with neutrons in a reactor.
Letokhov's analysis was not limited to the interstellar medium, but also included particles dispersed in a host medium able to amplify light, like a liquid dye. Indeed, the first demonstration of a random laser, in 1994, was done in the laboratory using such a kind of medium; since then the amount of related literature has grown steadily.
Examples of Random Lasers and Stochastic Resonators include granular systems, bio-logical tissue, nano-structured devices and many others.
Random Laser Experimental Setup
This is our experimental setup on random lasers.
The following picture (after arXiv:0809.1547 ) displays the random laser emission from a TiO2 colloidal dispersion averaged over 100 pump laser shots and versus the pump energy.
Enhanced Backscattering of Light
Fundamental thermodynamics at a mesoscopic level
If you have studied thermodynamics in your life, you probably had to face with adiabatic pistons and their applications, and you probably know that one driving force for this topic has been the development of steam engines. But what happens when the dimensions of an adiabatic piston shrink down to a mesoscopic level ?
Here mesoscopic does not mean quantum mechanics, but the regime in which the mass of the piston is comparable with that of the gas, which, incidentally, seems to correspond to the typical scales of biophysics and bridges classical mechanics and quantum mechanical length scales. Crosignani and Di Porto (and little help by me) have pointed out that in this regime the fluctuations of the piston position are comparable to the piston size. As Capek and Sheehan have outlined in their book "Challenges to the Second Law Thermodynamics," this result raises serious doubts about the validity of the second law in the mesoscopic regime. Indeed, if on one hand we are not discovering a perpetuum mobile (because we are dealing with fluctuations), on the other hand "the entropy variation associated with these displacements are at odd with a standard corollary of the second law, namely" [Capek, Sheean, ibid.]
A closed system in an equilibrium state, once an internal constraint is removed, eventually reaches a new equilibrium state characterized by a larger value of the entropy
As a result, one can imagine a thermodynamic cycle which has the net effect of extracting work for its thermal surroundings ().
The adiabatic piston problem is continuosly attracting the interest of various researchers involved in thermodynamics, since 1965, and its extension to the mesoscopic realm is likely to play a role in thermodynamics of life and modern nano- and micro-devices as MEMS and NEMS technologies.
In this paper, we have deepened our analysis of the piston problem by comparing the cases of a diathermal piston and that of an adiabatic piston. Notably enough there is a remarkable difference between them: the adiabatic piston undergoes much larger fluctuactions (by a factor given by the square root of the ratio between the piston mass and the gas molecule mass). See cond-mat/0611323.
The MD-FDTD technique (intro)
Theoretical modelling of light driven self-organization and nonlinear processes in soft-matter
A key in soft-matter is self-organization and supra-molecular structuring, controlling these mechanisms will provide a variety of possibilities in terms of applications and fundamental studies. In this respect nonlinear optical processes in soft-matter seem to open novel roads, on one hand for investigating novel physical phenomena, on the other to fine tune and control soft-matter.
Laser-driven self-organization strongly affects laser propagation, and this feedback effect has been only recently considered in a couple of papers by us, also including complex structured soft-materials. However, if these approaches fill the gap while considering electrostrictive mechanisms and the corresponding nonlinear optical response in structured soft-matter, on the other hand they are based on a continuous description of SM, which is not expected to be valid when the dimension of the beam is comparable to that of the particles. This is exactly the opposite limit with respect to the longitudinal optical binding of an array of particles, for which various theoretical models have been reported.
In this respect the current theoretical situations is as follows: there is the theory of solitons and modulational instability that describes trapping of many particles within a continuous model, then there is the theory of optical binding that describes trapping of an array of particles (eventually including some particle-particle interaction).
There is hence the need for a comprehensive theoretical approach that accounts for both of these two limits and is able to take into account the landscape of soft-matter due to the particle-particle interaction and the way it is affected by external fields. However, the numerical simulations of the various self-organization processes in soft-matter is enormously complicated by the need of taking into account a full 3D environment and nonlinear effects. In addition soft-materials are typically characterized by complicated shapes that role out standard multiple scattering approaches, like Mie theory.
The use of modern parallel computational resources has opened the possibility to novel multidisciplinary approaches committing together molecular dynamics, for simulating soft-matter complex behaviour, and Time Domain Finite Difference Parallel Techniques, for solving the electromagnetic field dynamics.
In a recent article some of us report on the first results on a fully-comprehensive ab-initio numerical analysis of laser propagation in a disordered medium.
A colloidal dispersion structure is obtained by a Molecular-Dynamics (MD) code, and a Maxwell's equations solver (FDTD) is used for the laser propagation. This approach has lead to the first ab-initio computation of the light diffusion constant, also including nonlinear effects, in quantitative agreement with experiments. By MD-FDTD it is possible to unveil, within a first-principle formulation, the interplay between the 3D structure of a complex material, its nonlinear response (eventually including light amplification) and the features of the transmitted laser pulses. By using this approach we are developing a comprehensive approach to the self-organization in the presence of an external field, while also including different particle-particle interaction potential and the feedback of the re-organization in the field dynamics.
C. Conti, G. Ruocco, S. Trillo "Optical Spatial Solitons in Soft Matter" Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 183902 (2005); C. Conti, N. Ghofraniha, G. Ruocco, S. Trillo "Laser beam filamentation in soft matter" Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 123903 (2006) References added by Claudio Conti
C. Conti, L. Angelani and G. Ruocco "Light diffusion and localization in three-dimensional nonlinear disordered media" Phys. Rev. A 75, 033812 (2007)
Random lasers and spin-glasses
There are two basic ingredients for complexity: randomness and nonlinearity. Random Lasers display both of them.
In order to assess the complexity of a given physical systems, one has to make reference to some paradimatic approaches; these typically furnish the basic ideas in a clear and well defined way. In the science of complexity, Spin Glass Theory is the most fundamental paradigm.
However Spin Glass Theory is an abstract and largely idealized approach to the thermodynamics and the dynamics of complex systems; a major difficulty is finding a specific physical system that is described by Spin Glass Theory within a reasonable accuracy. The common situation is that Spin Glass Theory only furnishes a qualitative description of the physical process.
Random Lasers seem to be an important exception. As detailed in two articles in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B, we derived a model for multimode Random Lasers that is based on Spin Glass Theory. This approach enables to predict mode-locking transitions of these devices and the fact that these are glassy transitions.
Ab-initio numerical simulations and experiments are now being performed to substantiate these theoretical predictions.
See also The phase diagram of random lasers
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Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C
Emiyu Ogawa, Hiromi Takenoya, Tsunenori Arai
物理情報工学科
Background: We investigated the binding of talaporfin sodium with albumin and its photocytotoxicity during temperature changes by measuring absorbance spectra. The targeted tissue temperature differs according to the procedure. The photocytotoxicity efficiency should be investigated quantitatively because efficiency changes arising from temperature changes are expected. Materials and methods: The temperature dependence of talaporfin sodium binding with human serum albumin (0-20 mg/mL), high-density lipoprotein (0-0.04 mg/mL), and low-density lipoprotein (0-0.14 mg/mL) was investigated at 17°C, 27°C, and 37°C by measurement of absorbance spectra. Cell lethality was measured using a water-soluble tetrazolium-8 assay at 2 h after the photosensitization reaction at 17°C and 37°C. Results: The binding ratios of talaporfin sodium with high-density lipoprotein decreased by 6.3%and those with low-density lipoprotein decreased by 12.8%when the temperature increased from 17°C to 37°C. Cell lethality increased significantly with a temperature rise from 17°C to 37°C at irradiation exposure of 20 and 40 J/cm2 and talaporfin sodium concentration of 20 μg/mL. Conclusions: From our in vitro data, we can predict that the change in photocytotoxicity efficiency would be negligible with a temperature decrease of <5°C from the body temperature in the case of photodynamic ablation with a short drug-light interval.
Photomedicine and Laser Surgery
https://doi.org/10.1089/pho.2015.4052
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Talaporfin Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Cytotoxicity Engineering & Materials Science 83%
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Sodium Engineering & Materials Science 57%
Proteins Engineering & Materials Science 51%
Blood Proteins Medicine & Life Sciences 50%
Lipoproteins Engineering & Materials Science 48%
Ogawa, E., Takenoya, H., & Arai, T. (2017). Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, 35(10), 555-559. https://doi.org/10.1089/pho.2015.4052
Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C. / Ogawa, Emiyu; Takenoya, Hiromi; Arai, Tsunenori.
In: Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, Vol. 35, No. 10, 01.10.2017, p. 555-559.
Ogawa, E, Takenoya, H & Arai, T 2017, 'Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C', Photomedicine and Laser Surgery, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 555-559. https://doi.org/10.1089/pho.2015.4052
Ogawa E, Takenoya H, Arai T. Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C. Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 2017 10月 1;35(10):555-559. doi: 10.1089/pho.2015.4052
Ogawa, Emiyu ; Takenoya, Hiromi ; Arai, Tsunenori. / Temperature Influence on Myocardial Cell Cytotoxicity of the Extracellular Photosensitization Reaction with Talaporfin Sodium and Serum Proteins at 17°-37°C. In: Photomedicine and Laser Surgery. 2017 ; Vol. 35, No. 10. pp. 555-559.
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In April, T.A. visited the Williamburg Bridge bicycle and pedestrian path with staff from the Eastern Paralyzed Veterans Association to determine whether its twenty-six metal bumps comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The new path opened in December 2002 and is used by 1,500 cyclists and pedestrians every day. Path users dislike the bumps because they are precarious and jarring to bicycle over, and dangerously slippery when wet.
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