We met at the car park at the far end of Glen Nevis at the back of ten and arranged gear and dogs and got going for 10.30. I must admit I was a little worried with my lack of fitness as I hadn't been out in around a month and in that time had eaten a whole heap of unhealthy food, but nothing like flinging yourself back in at the deep end. The walk up the gorge alongside the Water of Nevis was pleasant and the dogs were tearing about enjoying seeing eachother again.
Once over we walked upstream and called the dogs over where they could cross as the bank was too steep for them to follow below the wire bridge although it didn't stop Tarsuinn trying as he got nearly half way up the rocks. We passed the wee bothy and then came across the beautiful Steall Waterfall, it was tricky to cross and care should be taken here as rocks were slippy and water fast.
Once over this we came to the only boggy part of the day but we managed to hop over this and get on with the ascent.
Eric pointed out the route for the Aonachs for when I come to do these, it's good when you have a mate that's already done the hills you have to do Ahead we could see two guys climbing up the zig zags.
I started to struggle with the ascent, I kinda knew this would happen, I took frequent rests, my dog Roy found some human excrement and tissue just at the side of the path and tried to pick up the tissue , the smell was horrendous, we couldn't believe that someone would do this so close to the path, disgusting, Roy was called poo pace for the rest of the day. Once up I quickly touched the cairn of An Gearanach and we set off as two guys in front of us had stopped and we didn't want the dogs bothering them while they had lunch, plus Eric knew the route so thought it best we push to the next summit before we stopped, correct decision.
We came to An Garbhanach and took the path to the left avoiding the tip of the ridge, the route ahead all the way round the Ring of Steall could be seen, it looked a long way but looked great.
We pushed on to the second Munro and the two guys caught me on the ascent while I took a rest, I really felt I was struggling with the ascent but plodded on, soon I reached the summit which Eric had been joined on by the two guys. We all had a chat and then they took off while we ate some lunch.
We set off and soon caught up with the two guys and overtook them prior to the ascent up to Am Bodach, I had taken 2 litres of water with me today and was getting through it quickly, I had also finished my bottle of Lucozade a thirsty plodder today The mist was coming and going and it got dark all of a sudden, the threat of rain was in the air and it spat drops for a minute but soon the clouds parted and I made the top of the third Munro, having been overtaken by the two guys again, while Eric was ahead by a fair bit. We all sat at the top and spoke, they are about six weeks back from a trip in the Alps where they climbed Mont Blanc and also went to Italy to climb Grand Paradiso, wow, they hope to go to the Atlas Mountains next, all the best.
This was the last we saw of them as Eric upped the pace. Next we came across the small top of Sgurr an Lubhair and we met a couple there that were basking in the now lovely sunshine, we had a quick stop and continued over to the Devils ridge and negotiated this neatly, we used the path to the left or West of the ridge.
All that was left was the steep ascent to the highest Mountain of the day, Eric ahead shouted back to encourage me on and soon I staggered to the top to be greeted by his mutts and a guy and his dad. They kindly took our photo and we had a wee stop before the descent down the scree towards Glen Nevis.
We passed a few people coming up with huge packs, I reckon they were wild camping out on the ridge as they had tents etc in the packs.
You all seem to have got a very decent day though on first glance I thought you'd had a population explosion too.
Went up Sgur a Mhaim twiice in 24 hours in 1995 either because I ran out of camera film or because of flat batteries. First up from Glen Nevis and then down to a shop at Kinlochleven and back up. Glad I don't have the energy for that sort of thing now but a more conventional return to the Mamores would be good. Thanks for the reminder!
Nice one Matt, it's a good day out and well worth the effort, the views of the mountains around you from the Mamores are special, Scotland at its best.
litljortindan wrote: You all seem to have got a very decent day though on first glance I thought you'd had a population explosion too.
martin.h wrote: Nice one Matt, it's a good day out and well worth the effort, the views of the mountains around you from the Mamores are special, Scotland at its best.
Really enjoyed reading that and looking at the photies - great effort (by you and the dogs).
Gordie12 wrote: Really enjoyed reading that and looking at the photies - great effort (by you and the dogs).
What's the options for getting off the Ring of Steall if something goes wrong and/or if you feel you can't complete it?
I'm looking at my map, Stob Ban doesn't seem to be that massive a detour, can anybody put a estimated time on the walk based on their experience?


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Lyr Add: Wonderful World (parody about G W Bush)
Lyr Req: Wonderful World (from Sam Cooke) (42)
Req: Wonderful World (from Sam Cooke) (19)
Wesley S 08 Dec 00 - 04:10 PM
Troll 08 Dec 00 - 05:21 PM
Ebbie 08 Dec 00 - 05:54 PM
McGrath of Harlow 08 Dec 00 - 06:18 PM
Jim Dixon 08 Mar 02 - 09:30 AM
SharonA 08 Mar 02 - 09:43 AM
Blackcatter 08 Mar 02 - 10:05 AM
Lonesome EJ 08 Mar 02 - 12:44 PM
SharonA 08 Mar 02 - 02:13 PM
catspaw49 10 Mar 02 - 08:12 AM
kendall 10 Mar 02 - 08:17 AM
Naemanson 10 Mar 02 - 10:54 AM
Lonesome EJ 10 Mar 02 - 11:59 AM
Jim Dixon 10 Mar 02 - 01:38 PM
Little Hawk 10 Mar 02 - 01:55 PM
Blackcatter 10 Mar 02 - 05:55 PM
Naemanson 10 Mar 02 - 06:16 PM
Ebbie 14 Aug 09 - 08:47 PM
GUEST,HelenJ 15 Aug 09 - 04:59 AM
Bobert 15 Aug 09 - 07:01 AM
Subject: Lyr Add: WONDERFUL WORLD (parody about G W Bush)
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Dec 00 - 04:10 PM
This was sent to me by E-mail. I don't know the author. It's sung to the tune of Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World"
Don't know much about history,
don't know much foreign policy
Don't remember how I got through school,
But I'm sure I didn't break the rules
But what's it matter 'cause my granny says,
"Boy if you want to you can be the prez"
And what a wonderful world this will be.
Don't know much about the women's vote,
don't know much about the bill I wrote
Don't know much about the foreign vets,
I've never voted for them yet
But I do know if your dad tries hard,
he can get you in the National Guard,
and what a wonderful place that can be
Now I never claimed to be an "A" student,
but what's wrong with "C's"
And maybe by knowing the names of my cabinet,
I can win their love for me
Don't know much about air pollution,
don't know much about the Constitution
Don't know much about the economy,
it never much affected me
But there's one thing that I know for sure,
if the rich stay rich - the poor stay poor,
and what a wonderful world this can be.
Don't know much about the national debt,
I've never had to pay one yet
If we need to we can sell the states,
to the Japanese at discount rates
But I do know that if things go bad,
Dick and I can always call my dad,
and what a wonderful world this will be
Subject: RE: George Bush Jr's 'Wonderful World'
From: Troll
From: Ebbie
...and too true.
Ebbie
From: McGrath of Harlow
Here's an edited version of a projected inaugural speech by President Bush (from The Economist of London - a pretty Conservative publication, incidentally):
My Fellow Armenians. As I stand here today, I think we can agree that the past is over.
I want to bring America together. I don't believe a president should be choosing who are the right Ameriocans and who are the wrong Americans. All of us are together, white or wrong, black or right.
I say there's a cost to inaction. I haven't done the acrobatics, but it's probably around a trillion dollars.
I know you would rather be watching TV, and so would I, so I will draw to a confusion. My message is: I will get things done. I will inspire and untie.
Thank you and God help America.
hahahha, McGrath. Oh, woe...
Subject: Lyr Add: BUSH INAUGURAL THEME SONG (Joel Landy)
From: Jim Dixon
I started out trying to find the author of the above song, but I gave up because there are just too many copies on the Internet, and I don't want to take time to look at them all. I did, however, find this other version:
BUSH INAUGURAL THEME SONG
(Words, Joel Landy, 2000. Tune, Sam Cooke, "(What a) Wonderful World")
Don't know much about history.
Don't know much foreign policy.
I don't know the names of men I kill,
Or implications of the seats I fill.
But I do know who has paid my way.
For corporate interests and the NRA,
What a wonderful world this will be.
Don't know much about ecology.
Cutting trees has always worked for me.
And I don't know about the women's vote,
And I can't think of any bill I wrote.
But there's one thing that I know for sure:
If the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor,
I never claimed to be an A student,
But I don't have to be.
If you have deep pockets and sell nuclear rockets,
You're a friend of my family.
Don't know much about air pollution.
Don't know much about the Constitution.
Don't care much for solar energy.
There's nothing in it for my friends and me.
And if we can't find any on our soil,
We can go to war and get more oil,
Don't know much about the driving rules.
Don't know much about the public schools.
Don't know why the inner cities fail.
Why can't folks get dad to pay for Yale?
And if the issues causing you to lose
Are never covered in the evening news,
If you have a brother who's the Florida Governor,
The result's no mystery.
Don't know much about the national debt.
I never had to pay one off yet.
For special interests in the USA,
From: SharonA
Oh, that song! I thought this was going to be a parody of "What a Wonderful World" (the song Louis Armstrong sang, that was featured in the movie "Good Morning Vietnam").
I can hear it now: "I see oil of black..."
From: Blackcatter
And blood of red..."
Pretty soon they all will be dead. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
From: Lonesome EJ
Of course you all realize that, in the current climate, satirizing Bush is tantamount to treason?
Don't know much about the King of France
Or where the Secret Service put my pants
I never had a lot of luck in Oil
And reading bills I sign just seems like toil
But I know about the bottom line
And that "folksy touch" is mine all mine
And what a Wonderful World this should be
LEJ: Treason? Then the ensemble of Fox's "Mad TV" is about to hang!
How's this for treason?
The President is a stupid, war-mongering, racist fool who does not really understand the complexities of running a taco stand in Matemorros, let alone the U.S. of A.
As for everyone who started waving the flag on September 12th, they're the worst kind of patriot. I have been flying a flag every patriotic holiday since I grew up. My father did the same until he passed away. It sickens to me to see all the flags flying on people's cars - now many of them are starting to fall apart. They just don't get it.
Sorry for the rant.
pax yall
From: catspaw49
Aw boy BC, you goin' ta' hell son!!!!
I love the title of the new book out about Dumbya........"Ambling Into History".....
Spaw
How about his 30% tax on us? A tariff on imported steel so he can buy the electoral votes in the steel producing states. Economic or political?
From: Naemanson
When do the black Mariahs start to roll, picking up innocent people and carting them off?
Answer: They've started with the people who look and sound like they come from the Middle East. The only question now is when do they start to pick us up because we dare to question the government.
Blackcatter, I saw one of those ragged flags the other day. All I could think of was the penalty for BURNING the flag should be looked at again. When will they realize that burning the flag can be as patriotic as raising it. Questioning and flauting authority is an important act. You can cause as much damge to your country by staying silent as you can by spying for the enemy. And we have far too many silent people around us now.
Well, I was kidding. Does seem to have touched a nerve though, eh?
Naemanson: Right now, there is no penalty for burning the flag. The Supreme Court ruled that it was a legitimate form of political expression. Is this the decision that you think should be "looked at again"?
I don't think that's really what you meant.
From: Little Hawk
Conformity has always been a great danger...specially when it's conformity based on fear.
- LH
I'm sure Naemanson was meaning the continued attempts to make it illegal, including the work of some people who wish to run and "end around" the Supreme Court by passing a national amendment. I think that those people who are against flag burning as a protest are generally in favor of the disposal of a flag by burning.
Once again, it's intention, not action that bothers people.
I know there is no legal means to stop people from burning the flag. However it is frowned on by some people which is the reason for burning it. It gets the attention of the media. Unfortunately the act of burning the flag overshadows the message.
I work in a very conservative environment. When I bring up my concerns about the fascist bent of our current administration people ask me if I'd rather have terrorists on my doorstep. They have bought George's line that the world is full of enemies out to blow us all up. I would rather risk the terrorists than the Black Mariahs.
More confirmation about Dubya's wonderful world.
I am AGOG
"Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible's satanic agents of the Apocalypse.
"Honest. This isn't a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
"Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their "common faith" (Christianity) and told him: "Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East. ... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled. ... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins."
"This bizarre - seemingly deranged - episode happened while the White House was assembling its "coalition of the willing" to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush's call, and "wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs."
From: GUEST,HelenJ
Listen to Les Barker's "Advice to George Bush". The upshot of that speech was a refusal for him to enter the U.S. It really hit home - brilliant!
From: Bobert
Nevermind...
I thought this thread was the lyrics fir "I'm a Loser"...

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Xiao-Liang Qi (* 1983 in Kangping) ist ein chinesischer theoretischer Festkörperphysiker.

Leben und Wirken
Qi studierte ab 1999 an der Tsinghua-Universität mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 2003 und wurde am Institute for Advanced Study der Tsinhua Universität 2007 bei Zheng-Yu Weng promoviert. Als Post-Doktorand war er ab 2007 am SLAC und der Stanford University (bei Shou-Cheng Zhang) und 2009/10 an der University of California, Santa Barbara, und dem dortigen Station Q Forschungszentrum von Microsoft (bei Michael H. Freedman). 2009 wurde er Assistant Professor und 2014 Associate Professor an der Stanford University.

Er befasst sich mit Anwendung der Topologie in der Festkörperphysik (wo im Quantenhalleffekt und der Flussquantisierung von Supraleitern schon länger topologische Effekte bekannt sind) und neuartigen topologischen Materialien (Topologische Isolatoren, topologische Supraleiter). Dabei fand er mit Kollegen topologische Materialien fast in jeder Dimension (und nicht nur wie ursprünglich erwartet nur in zwei). Mit Taylor Hughes. und S. C. Zhang entwickelte er 2007 eine topologische Bandtheorie zur Klassifizierung topologischer Isolatoren und führte einen allgemeinen Algorithmus ein, mit dem topologische Isolatoren in Standard-Computerprogrammen zur Elektronenstrukturbestimmung gefunden werden konnten. Qi war mit Kollegen an der Vorhersage von topologischen Isolatoren in Sb2Se3,  Bi2Se3 und Bi2Te3 beteiligt, was eine Fülle von experimentellen Forschungsarbeiten zur Folge hatte. Er fand Verbindungen zu topologischen Phänomenen in der Quantenfeldtheorie (elektrisch-magnetische Dualitäten, magnetische Monopole, Axione und Theta-Vakuum, Extra-Dimensionen). Er sagte verschiedene magneto-elektrische Effekte und Fraktionalisierungs-Phänomene (Spin-Ladungs-Trennung, Ladungs-Fraktionalisierung) voraus und insbesondere, dass eine Ladung nahe der Oberfläche eines topologischen Isolators nicht nur wie üblich eine elektrische Bild-Ladung, sondern auch einen Bild-magnetischen Monopol induziert. Damit verallgemeinerte er auch die bereits bekannte Verbindung von elektrischer Polarisation zur Berry-Phase. Er forscht auch über topologische Supraleiter, hinter denen als kollektive Vielteilcheneffekte erzeugte Majorana-Teilchen stehen, mit möglichen Anwendungen auf fehlertolerante Quantencomputer.

Außerdem befasst er sich mit Quantenverschränkung in Vielteilchensystemen und dessen Zusammenspiel mit topologischen Anregungen in Festkörpern.

2014 erhielt er den Sackler-Preis für Physik und 2011 den Hermann Kümmel Preis in Vielteilchenphysik für Nachwuchswissenschaftler für seine Entwicklung einer topologischen Feldtheorie für topologische Isolatoren. Für 2016 erhielt er den New Horizons in Physics Prize. 2010 wurde er Sloan Fellow und 2011 Packard Fellow.

Schriften
mit Shou-Cheng Zhang: The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators, Physics Today, Januar 2010, Arxiv
mit Maissam Barkeshli: Topological Nematic States and Non-Abelian Lattice Dislocations, Phys. Rev. X 2, 031013 (2012)
mit Shou-Cheng Zhang: Topological insulators and superconductors, Rev. Mod. Phys., Band 83, 2011, S. 1057–1110
mit Hosho Katsura, Andreas W. W. Ludwig: General Relationship between the Entanglement Spectrum and the Edge State Spectrum of Topological Quantum States, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 108,  2012, S. 196402
Generic Wavefunction Description of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States and Fractional Topological Insulators, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 107, 2011, S. 126803
mit Hong Yao: Entanglement Entropy and Entanglement Spectrum of the Kitaev Model, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 105, 2010, S. 080501
mit Rundong Li, Jiadong Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang: Inducing a Magnetic Monopole with Topological Surface States, Xiao, Science, Band 323, 2009, S. 1184
mit Haijun Zhang, Chao-Xing Liu, Xi Dai, Zhong Fang, Shou-Cheng Zhang: Topological Insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with single Dirac cone on the surface, Nature Physics, Band 5, 2009, S. 438
mit Taylor L. Hughes, Shou-Cheng Zhang: Topological Field Theory of Time-Reversal Invariant Insulators, Phys. Rev. B 78, 2008, S. 195424
mit Taylor Hughes, Shou-Cheng Zhang: Fractional charge and quantized current in the quantum spin Hall state, Nature Physics, Band 4, 2008, S. 273–276
mit Shou-Cheng Zhang: Spin-Charge Separation in the Quantum Spin Hall State, Phys. Rev. Lett., Band 101, 2008, S. 086802

Weblinks
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Einzelnachweise

Geboren 1983
Physiker (21. Jahrhundert)
Hochschullehrer (Stanford University)
Chinese
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When it comes time to locate the best Perry AR drug rehab and alcohol rehab centers within your grasp, doctors and other health professionals will give you what is called a referral. You may receive one or two to choose from, but they are usually the most viable options of treatment for you to consider. When budget is of no concern, some people will look into treatment options both near and wide. Some drug and alcohol rehab centers in Arkansas are more private than others, offering certain luxuries that state officials cannot afford. There are numerous brochures and websites to scan when you are able to pay more for your treatment options. summer of 2013 may have set a record for Drug Rehab related deaths. Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers from Pasadena to West Los Angeles have had to watch bodies get loaded in Los Angeles County Corner's vans and wait for autopsy reports. This may seem alarming and it is in fact. The facilities themselves are not the only ones to blame for some of these deaths. For Example The State of California for years has taken a lax approach to enforcing regulations at Residential Programs that treat those addicted to substances or alcohol. The only real enforcement came about in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles because of a report of rampant Medicare fraud at Treatment facilities that were receiving compensation from state and county funded block grants.
Some Drug Rehab Centers like the ones in Perry Arkansas are very flexible, adaptable and have seen pretty much every kind of addict. You really want to find yourself or your loved one at one of these Perry centers as they will guarantee you the right treatment for you or your family member. An experienced drug detoxing clinic or center will know how to treat you or your family member. They won't treat the patient as a number or even a standard patient. They will treat you as your own person, and get you clean the way you want to be. Getting clean is one thing, but making you happy with the new you can be difficult and journey. A good Drug Rehab Center found in Perry AR will bury confidence in you, and the new person you are becoming, they will make you feel happy about yourself, and the fact that you are clean, like the old saying goes, "if you can't love yourself, you can't love another", this will no longer be an issue for you, with the right treatment.
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Newark Liberty International • a shoppers' guide ….
Newark may lack the tourist appeal of neighbouring New York, but residents of the Big Apple often give the city's conveniently located airport, Newark Liberty International, the thumbs up over the larger, better known New York JFK. Travellers rate Newark Liberty's excellent transport links • the airport is well connected by train through the Newark Airtrain and road via the New Jersey Turnpike • and often claim the airport is less busy than JFK, easier to navigate and switch flights at.The layout of Newark Liberty is certainly logical enough • there are three terminals (A, B and C) arranged in semi-circular fashion, and connected with the handy Airtrain, which runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and carries nearly 2 million people a year. Moreover, at least two of the three terminals offer a solid and varied selection of shops and restaurants • here is our guide to the best of what's on offer.
Terminal A is unusual for boasting a duty-free store run by a family-owned firm, EJE Travel Retail. It claims to offer price savings over the local market of anything from 10-50% and certainly stocks a good selection of liquor, including some high-end line such as Johnnie Walker Blue Label whisky, Ketel One vodka and Rémy Martin Louis XIII Cognac.
Cigarette brands sold include Camel, Marlboro, Embassy, Lucky Strike and Senior Service, and there is also a range of cigars from names such as Villiger, Davidoff and Montecristo. The selection of fragrances and cosmetics brands is extensive and too numerous to list here, but readers can browse the range, and enquire about specific prices and promotional offers at www.ejeretail.com.
Finding toys or gifts for children at airports can be a real struggle for time-poor, guilt-stricken parents, but happily Terminal A does boast a toy store, Creative Kidstuff (near entrance to Gates A30-39). It is a bright, colourful and award-winning outlet, piled full of fun, but educational toys about the natural world, as well as books, t-shirts and art materials.
Bookworms and newshounds will be happy to learn that Hudson News has multiple outlets in this terminal, while Papyrus is a handy outlet to visit if you need to pick up a birthday card for friends of family (near entrance to Gates A20-28). In the same location is Airport Wireless, your port of call should you need new headphones, a phone charger, memory cards and other mobile phone accessories (www.airportwireless.com).
A $325m modernisation programme is underway in this terminal, which will eventually see new ticket counters, better baggage screening, and a whole lot more retail stores. Hooray to that as the line up of stores in this part of the airport could do with a bit of a makeover.EJE Travel Retail runs the duty-free stores in this terminal too and has no fewer than four shops at Gates B40-47, B50-58, B60-68, and finally near the entrance to Gates B60-68.
Elsewhere, Hudson News has multiple stores throughout the terminal both airside and landside, while the InMotion Entertainment outlet at Gates B60-68 stocks a decent range of MP3 players, digital cameras, camcorders and computer games. For a browse to see what's on offer check out www.inmotionstores.com.
Ever wanted a President Barack Obama bobblehead, a 2011 Sarah Palin calendar or a Ronald Reagan commemorative t-shirt? Thought so, well just in case you change your mind, head to the America store near the entrance to Gates B40-47 for patriotic American clothing, jewellery, books, music and toys (see http://america-store.stores.yahoo.net/index.html for more details).
Terminal C is Continental's international gateway and a relatively new building, having opened an extension in 2001. It is now a three-level terminal with two levels for departures and boasts an excellent selection of over 45 shops and 36 restaurants, including fashion and accessories boutiques from the likes of Guess/Hugo Boss, Swatch, Lacoste, Coach and MAC.
Swiss travel-retailer Dufry runs the duty-free concession in this terminal and has three stores at Gates C74, C107 and C120 respectively. Other stores selling beauty products include both the ethically-minded Body Shop and the Provence-inspired L'Occitaine, which are located airside near the C-1 Checkpoint.
Gadget Express (near Gate C132), a family-run store, sells the usual range of consumer electronic accessories, but gets mixed reviews from frequent travellers in terms of price and customer service. BlackBerry users will be pleased to learn that a new BlackBerry store has just opened in the terminal, while a new one-stop electronics shop Bluwire 1 is set to open its doors later in the year.
For a better class of gift or souvenir we recommend the excellent Metropolitan Museum of Art Store near GateC120, which sells an attractive collection of books, wall art, sculptures, jewellery and home furnishings (see https://store.metmuseum.org ). Best-sellers under $30 include a Tiffany Peacock Feather ballpoint pen at $30, an Egyptian Collar t-shirt also at $30; an Aesop's Fable Pop-up Book at $27.99 and finally a Leonardo Da Vinci: Journal of Inventions Pop-Up Book at $24.95.


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Early Career Research Spotlight – David Ripley
By Nathan Eckstrand
The purpose of the early-career research spotlight is two-fold. First, the aim is to bring attention to an early-career APA member who is doing some interesting research. Second, the hope is to generate discussion about the spotlighted work. Feel free to ask our spotlighted researcher questions pertaining to the work discussed in the post. Comments must conform to our community guidelines and comment policy.
This installment of the early career research spotlight focuses in David Ripley, who works in the field of logic and language. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, a member of the UConn Logic Group and the Australasian Association for Logic, and an editor for the Australasian Journal of Logic and the Review of Symbolic Logic. A lot of his recent work has looked at how the field of symbolic logic can help us to understand the nature of truth, such as his papers "Comparing Sub-structural Theories of Truth" and "Reaching Transparent Truth". Ripley received his PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2009, and has since been employed at the Institut Jean Nicod at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Melbourne. You can find out more about his work at his website.
Nathan: Thanks for agreeing to talk, David. Much of your work focuses on paradoxes of various sorts. What draws you to thinking about paradoxes?
David: I've worked on both paradoxes involving truth and its relatives, like the liar paradox, and paradoxes involving vagueness. There are lots of ways to look at these paradoxes, and lots of puzzles generated by them, but the one I'm most interested in is this one: do our words mean what they seem to mean, and if so, how can this be?
Consider the liar paradox: using just a few basic principles involving truth and negation, we can generate a proof of any sentence you like from the mere existence of a sentence like 'This very sentence is not true'. Since sentences like that one clearly do exist, it's tempting to think that some of those basic principles about truth and negation can't really hold. The trouble is that these principles are so basic that they've often been taken to be necessary for 'true' and 'not' to mean what they seem to mean. (The issue with vagueness is parallel: again, we have arguments leading to unacceptable conclusions that work by way of principles seemingly guaranteed by the meanings of vague words.)
Here there's a choice point in the literature on these paradoxes: some people think that the principles involving truth are non-negotiable, and so adopt a non-obvious theory of negation, while other people think that the principles involving negation are non-negotiable, and so adopt a non-obvious theory of truth. There's lots of interesting material that's been developed in service of both kinds of approach. But either way you go, you end up ruling out a certain package deal: the package that says that truth and negation really do mean just what they appear to mean, and that this really does suffice for them to obey the basic principles involved in the paradoxical argument.
To hang on to this package, we need to locate the trouble elsewhere. Where I and others think it's located is not in the basic principles themselves, but in the way they get put together in the paradoxical arguments. This is, very roughly, what makes an approach substructural. There are more choice points here: just which aspect of the way they've been combined creates the problem? Much of my work focuses on these narrow questions. But my excitement attaches to the overall family here; I'm convinced that these substructural approaches are where the most exciting current work on paradoxes is happening. (Because of the current flourishing in this area, it can be tempting to think the idea itself is a new one; this would be a mistake, though. For example, `Fitch-style natural deduction', at least in Fitch's own development of it, had a substructural solution to paradox baked into it already in 1952.)
Nathan: In a number of papers and presentations, you've expressed a preference for "nontransitivity" over "noncontraction". Can you explain what these terms mean, and how they play into your work?
David: Sure! This gets to the narrower choice point I was talking about. Suppose we're willing to accept plausible-seeming principles involving truth, negation, vague predicates, or whatever, and that we want to block the paradoxical arguments by questioning how these principles come together. Then we need to think about the structural moves that these arguments involve.
One thing that turns out to matter a great deal is the number of times a premise in an argument can be appealed to. If we pay attention to how many times each premise in an argument is actually used, some striking patterns emerge. In particular, all the familiar paradoxical arguments involve assuming something once, but then drawing on that assumption multiple times. You can imagine a discipline that disallows this, that says if you only assume something once, you can only draw on that assumption once. It turns out that, properly executed, such a discipline can in fact block the paradoxical arguments. This kind of approach is called "noncontractive". ("Contraction" is the principle that allows multiple appeals to something that is only assumed once.)
A different kind of thing that also matters is the way arguments are chained together. We tend to think that if A entails B, and B entails C, then A must entail C. But strikingly enough, this is a principle that does no work at all in a lot of logical settings; while it happens to hold, nothing relies on it. (This is one way to read what are called "cut elimination" theorems.) And that means that there is room for logics that are very much like the familiar logics we know and love, but where this principle does not always hold. Since it's not bearing weight, we can change it without too many ramifications. It turns out that this can provide a different way to block the paradoxical arguments. This kind of approach is called "nontransitive".
To the extent that I have a settled view here, I think a particular kind of nontransitive approach is the way to go. But I'm fascinated by noncontractive approaches as well, and have tried to make my work useful to noncontractive projects even when I'm making trouble for them.
Nathan: You've also done some experiments, particularly on vagueness. How do you think these kinds of logical approaches fit together with experimental work?
David: When I started to become fascinated with these paradoxes, part of what drew me in was that there seemed to be no good response to them, no plausible story available about how language works. Over time, though, I became convinced of just the reverse: the trouble isn't having no good response, it's having too many good responses! There are lots of plausible stories about how language works that have been developed in response to paradoxes. The trouble is figuring out which of them, if any, are not only plausible but actually right. And this requires having some sense of how speakers actually use their language. That's where experiments can fruitfully come in, and where I've tried to bring them in.
On a more personal level, I think I'm drawn to logic and to experimental work for largely the same reason: they give me some kind of external check on my theorizing, some extra tool for finding out when I'm wrong. They also make for really rewarding experiences, for me mostly based around surprise. I'm much more frequently surprised by my own proofs or my own experiments than I am by my own arguments.
For example, I worked with Paul Egré and Vincent de Gardelle to run an experiment in which we looked at people's color judgments as we walked them through a "forced march" sorites. In one condition, we asked participants to judge whether each of a series of colors was blue, one at a time, as the colors slowly shifted from blue to green. In another, we asked them to judge the same series, but in the other order: from green to blue. Of course, people say the bluest colors are blue, and that the greenest colors aren't; no surprises there. We were interested in what effect the order of the series would have on when they switched from one answer to another.
Our expectation, which I still think was totally reasonable, was that they would be reluctant to change their answer from one color to the next. Since the difference between any two adjacent colors was so small, we figured they wouldn't change from one answer to the other until they felt they really had to. So we expected them to say the middle colors were blue if they were moving from blue to green, and to say that the middle colors were not blue if they were moving from green to blue. What we found, though, was the exact opposite. Our participants were eager to change, not reluctant. That's the kind of surprise that I find really rewarding, and for me both experimental work and logical work are full of that kind of thing.
Nathan: Since many philosophers throughout the discipline don't get directly involved in experimentation, it is fascinating to hear from someone who does that sort of work. How do you think this changes the character of your research compared to other philosophers? What about other scientists who conduct experiments?
David: I suppose I don't think it changes the character of my research much at all, actually. I think experimental work is totally continuous with the usual methods of philosophical logic in at least some areas, surely including vagueness, where much of my experimental work has focused. One way to see this is to look at the method of considering what we would or wouldn't say, or hold to be true, in various circumstances. This is a widespread and established methodology in the philosophical and logical literature on vagueness, and I think appropriately so: one of the key goals of this literature is to gain a clearer understanding of how our language actually works, and speaker responses are a prime source of data for an inquiry like this. But it is not only philosophical logicians who use vague language expertly; just about all speakers do. So I take much of the experimental data I've gathered on vagueness to be theoretically relevant in the same way that theorists' own self-reported judgments are. As a result, even if I weren't doing experiments in this area I think I'd be dealing with pretty much the same issues in pretty much the same ways.
Looking at experimental scientists more broadly, the main thing that stands out to me is how much better at experiments they are than me! Constructing and interpreting experiments is only part of what I do, and I only came to it partway through grad school. So I've got a lot less experience than even many philosophers, let alone experimentalists in other disciplines. I try to account for this by keeping things simple, and by collaborating with more experienced folks when I can.
Nathan: Talk about some of the real-world applications of your work. How can the research you're doing help society to develop in new and better ways?
David: One thing that's been drawing my attention for the past few years is conflation. I first came to it through my research on nontransitive logics: one way for A to entail B and B to entail C while A doesn't entail C is for B to conceal an equivocation. In fact, this is probably the most familiar way for something like this to happen. So conflation is a topic of some interest to me.
I've come to think that conflation forms an important component of at least some dogwhistling, in the political-discourse sense. The best-known theories of dogwhistling treat it as a kind of coded message, where only some members of the dogwhistling orator's audience can decode the hidden message. But I think these theories only fit some cases. For example, consider a hypothetical politician publicly questioning whether Barack Obama was born in the US; this is the kind of thing often picked out as an example of dogwhistling. But what's going on here?
In this kind of case, I think the best way to see what's happening is as both stoking and exploiting a particular kind of conflation in the politician's audience. A large number of white Americans conflate being American with being white and American. It's not that they use "American" as some kind of code for "white American"; it's that they at least sometimes neglect the difference between these categories. This particular conflation is a useful one for a wide range of politicians, who can play on it to various ends.
I'm currently working on research, then, into the way conflation plays into dogwhistling, supported by the Public Discourse Project here at UConn. My focus in this research is primarily on understanding just what's happening in these cases, but I certainly hope that such an improved understanding could help us devise strategies for effectively pushing back against dogwhistling in the public sphere.
Nathan: Your teaching contains a lot of courses on logic. What is the primary difficulty you have introducing students to the field of logic, and how do you work to overcome it?
David: My overall experience of logic is largely one of playful and expressive building; I see logic as a particularly wild and free medium to work in. The main difficulty I run into in teaching logic is in helping students see just how open logic really can be. The trouble is a predictable one, I think: they need examples to see what's going on at all, and any particular example of a logical system will be governed by very specific and nonnegotiable rules. It's easy for them to mistake the rules of whatever example system they're looking at for the boundaries of logic itself, and that's the mistake that breaks my heart; it often means they'll walk away thinking that logic is about dry obedience.
I try to push back against this tendency by approaching logic courses, particularly introductory logic courses, from a perspective that emphasizes breadth over depth. If you learn one thing, you might think that's everything. But if you learn, say, three things, then you're expecting there to be a fourth; you know you don't know everything. In practice, I still struggle with students seeing walls where there are none, but I think this at least helps to alleviate the problem.
This breadth-first approach also seems to prevent a problem that I take to be common in introductory logic courses. Many of these courses develop a strong divide between the students who "get it" and the students who "don't", and this is often reflected in the class grade distribution, which can go bactrian rather than dromedary. Designing a logic course that gives a more accurate sense of the breadth of the field allows different students to excel at different kinds of task, and in my experience brings grade distributions much more in line with the sort of thing we often get in philosophy.
Please feel free to ask David questions about his work in the comment thread.
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Thanks for this! I have a question about dogwhistling: do you have thoughts about how to discriminate experimentally between the "code" hypothesis vs. the conflation hypothesis? Thanks!
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Subjective observation of pace and patterns of use at the Irish Museum of Modern Art / The Royal Hospital Kilmainham has led to prototypes or micro solutions for generous uses of the museum building and grounds. An elasticated barrier creates and leaves space – maintaining a safe distance from which to peruse an artwork, or creating an accommodating support for a viewer to rock gently against.
Outside the main Museum reception a leaning table highlights the potential for the formal neo-classical geometry of the building to have accommodating edges.


This is no wizardry but the magic of engineering science, involving a method to map your DNA, invented by Professor Chris Toumazou, who heads the Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology at Imperial College in London.
Professor Toumazou has been designing innovative applications for microchips in the fields of genetics, healthcare, biology and electronics for several years; now he's brought them all together in a breakthrough invention that could change your life forever.
Toumazou is the genius behind the 'Sensium pad' – a device enabling doctors to monitor patients' vitals from a distance. He also designed the first cellphone that operated on both digital and analog signals.
The latest 'lab-on-a-chip' that Toumazou has invented, is a sequencing device on a USB stick that can perform a DNA test in less than 30 minutes, telling if a person is genetically predisposed to certain illnesses like Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease. This knowledge equips the consumer to incorporate changes in lifestyle, take precautionary measures and minimize future risks. It can also help to pinpoint which drugs an individual would respond to best, and set out a correct dosage.
The best thing about this product is privacy-protection. Since it's self-administered, consumers can, in the privacy of their homes, plug it into a desktop or laptop, and by giving a saliva swab get all the information they need, without the risk of it passing on. As it's not added to any database or server, effectively your past, present and future remains in your own hands.


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India has always been well known (since times immemorial) for its heritage and diversity in culture too. And festivals of South India is second to none when it comes to festivals. The credit of bringing families together on a timely basis goes to these festivals. Let's go ahead and take a good look at the seven most popular festivals of southern India.
It is the harvest festival of Kerala. And it isn't only folklore, it is very practical also. play. Onam is celebrated for 10 days and it starts on the same when the harvest season begins. Onam will be celebrated in the month of August or September.
Pongal celebrates harvest also. It mostly falls on 14th of January every year. Its basically a Tamil Nadu festival. Pongal is celebrated for a continuous four days – first day being Bhogi, second day being Surya Pongal, third being Kaanum Pongal and the fourth day is celebrated as Thiruvalluvar Day.
Hampi is usually celebrated in Karnataka in the month of November or December. Lord Ganesh will be given utmost importance in this festival. A procession including dance, drama, music, fireworks and puppet shows are the major attractions of this festival.
It shall be interesting to know that Dussehra is also known as Navarathri. It is celebrated for nine days with every three days celebrating Goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswathi and Durga Devi. This festival marks the victory of good over the evil. Cultural shows, music shows, torchlight processions are some of the highlights of Dussehra.
This festival celebrates Lord Muruga in Tamil Nadu. It is celebrated every year in Palani Dhandayudhapani temple. Muruga's staunch devotees pierce needles and hooks in different parts of their bodies and also walk on fire during Thai Poosam.
The Nehru Trophy Boat race takes place every year on the second Saturday of August. This boat race is said said to be the biggest ever snake boat race in the world history.
As a mark of respect to Lord Nataraja, dancers from all over India gather at the Chidambaram Temple and showcase their dancing skills to the fellow dancers. It is also attended by tourists all over the world.


If you are like me you probably hate to pack your luggage when you are getting ready to travel on a trip. People always tend to forget items or end up running out of room in their suitcase, which then causes you to have more than one piece of luggage. In today's travel world there are many airlines that require you to pay for your checked luggage and this can get pretty expensive especially if there is more than one person traveling at a time. Keep reading to learn some valuable luggage packing tips that will help to make your travel experience easier and more fun.
When you are trying to decide what colors you should pack for your trip you might find that solid colors are the best option. This is because solid colors can be mixed and matched easily. If you decide that you want to pack patterns be sure that you also pack something that can be worn with the patterns. Packing stripes, polka dots or any other pattern are sometimes hard to match up with other patterns and can leave you with a wardrobe that is not very versatile.
When you are traveling you should be sure that you keep all of your important documents together in one safe spot. These documents should include your passport, credit cards, driver's license as well as your money. It is also not recommended that you pack these items in your checked luggage. Often times checked luggage gets delayed, broken into or even worse lost. If you have these items in your checked baggage it is possible that they will turn up missing and then your trip would be ruined.
It is possible that you could travel for many days with just a couple changes of clothes. You can change the look of your outfits and dress them up or down by simply packing accessories to go along with them. Items such as scarves, jewelry, hats, sarongs, etc can be used and can give one outfit several different looks. Of course if you are traveling for several more days that you are packing clothes for you will want to be sure that you have a way to clean the clothing.
If you like to keep things neat and tidy you will want to pack several ziplock bags and maybe even a garbage bag. These bags can be used for dirty clothes and shoes. This will help you to keep your other clothing clean and tidy and will allow for you to keep the dirt from your shoes from getting all over everything in your luggage.
When you are traveling no one wants to have items come up lost for this reason many people put items in their carry on luggage that should probably be in their checked baggage. Here are a few items that should be in your carry on. It is important to have all of your travel documents with you as well as any medication that you cannot do without. Other items that should be in your carry on are things that you will want to have to keep you busy and from getting bored on the airplane such as a book, cell phone or even your computer. Any other items unless very valuable such as jewelry should be in your checked baggage.
Packing for a trip is never easy hopefully the tips above will make it easier to decide what to pack and how to pack it. You should remember that if you do forget something it is probably easy to get to a store so that you can purchase another.


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Mr. Pickles is an original animated series set in the small, old-fashioned world of Old Town that is slowly being taken over by the modern world. The series centers on the lives of the Goodman family and their innocent six-year-old son Tommy, whose best friend is the family's lovable Border Collie, Mr. Pickles. The two roam around Old Town together getting into classic adventures.
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Goodman(1981) proposed homogeneity and structures criterias in Associaton Models which allow to determine if certain rows or columns in a contingency table should be grouped. In later works, he showed the relations between canonicals scores and the one corresponding to an Association Models. Gilula (1986) developed grouping results suggested by the canonical scores in a contingency table under a RC Canonical Correlation Model. On the other hand, Correspondence Analysis can be seen like a reparametrization of Canonical Correlation Model by virtue of Goodman (1986) and Van der Heijden et al. (1994) result.
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<?php

namespace Fervo\Rollo;

class DiceExpressionParser
{
    protected $lexer;
    protected $parser;
    protected $compiler;
    protected $passes = [];

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->lexer = new Parser\Lexer();
        $this->parser = new Parser\Parser();
        $this->compiler = new Parser\Compiler();
        $this->passes[] = new Parser\OptimizationPasses\MergeCollectionPass();
        $this->passes[] = new Parser\OptimizationPasses\RemoveSingleCollectionPass();
    }

    public function parseExpression($expression)
    {
        $tokenStream = $this->lexer->tokenize($expression);
        $node = $this->parser->parse($tokenStream);
        $aDie = $this->compiler->compile($node);
        foreach ($this->passes as $pass) {
            $aDie = $pass->run($aDie);
        }

        return $aDie;
    }
}

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This latest track from Hull's up and coming post-punk powerhouse is just the song you need to get you feeling fired up. 'Dead People Are Easier To Love' feels as though 'Eric's Trip' by Sonic Youth has been pushed to absolute breaking point. The fact that it was written a mere matter of hours before being recorded only goes part way in explaining the sense of spontaneity and urgency found here. The tortured guitar tones and wild frantic vocals create just the most glorious chaos you could ask for. The rock solid bass line keeps the whole thing grounded, and the polished and stylish synths that weave their way through the song contrast wonderfully with all the anarchic elements in the foreground all vying for your attention. Post-punk has seen a real resurgence in recent years, and Vulgarians have provided us with one of the finer examples with their unbridled new single.