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The Sarnoff Cardiovascular Research Fellowship is a program for US medical students that offers one year of monetary support and a lifetime of academic support for those medical students interested in cardiovascular research. Stanley Sarnoff established the fellowship for medical students in 1979 and it would serve as a prototype for later programs such as the American Heart Association Student Research Scholarship program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute NIH Research Scholars program, or cloisters program, which would not begin until 1984.

Stanley Sarnoff

Dr. Sarnoff, a graduate of Princeton University and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was a scientist, entrepreneur and scholar who early in his career served as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Harvard University School of Public Health. For a decade he was Chief of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Physiology at the National Heart Institute. He later founded Rodana Research Corporation and its successor, Survival Technology, Inc., a company today known as Meridian Medical Technologies, which manufactures medical devices. At Dr. Sarnoff's death in 1990, his will named The Sarnoff Foundation the principal beneficiary of his Estate, valued shortly after his death at nearly $30 million.

Goals of the fellowship

Sarnoff based the program on his experience with Myron Weisfeldt, a young medical student in his lab, from which he established a set of simple rules for the fellowship: the medical student would leave school for one year, work in the laboratory of a prominent cardiovascular scientist conducting his own research and participate as if he were an independent researcher. At the conclusion of his year, the student would report his findings to his mentors. As the fellowship grew, students would attend a yearly meeting and present their findings to their peers and to the Sarnoff Cardiovascular research community of mentors, advisors and past fellows. A major emphasis of these meetings was on Dr Sarnoff's question, "Did you have fun?"

Sarnoff wanted the fellows to be caught up in the joys of scientific research and discovery. The year was intended to expose students to the rewards of scientific research but it was more than that; it was a way to encourage the students to examine other ways of thinking, other career paths. No project was a failure if the experiment failed because failure opened the way to other findings. If the student learned something about himself and his choices then he had succeeded.

How the fellowship works
As a junior fellow, the student is given funding to conduct a year of cardiovascular research at a laboratory outside their home institution (which should be a medical school in the United States). This includes a stipend as well as funds for traveling to interview with laboratories across the country, for moving expenses, for health insurance and computer equipment, and for financial support to attend meetings and conferences.

The organization gives each junior fellow an established cardiovascular researcher
to be their mentor. Mentors help students select and integrate into an appropriate lab; they will also monitor the student's research experience during the fellowship year. After completion of the research year, the student becomes a Senior Fellow and is funded to
attend the Annual Scientific Meeting for the duration of their life. Career guidance and research mentorship continues to be available from the student's Sarnoff mentor,
the Sarnoff scientific board and the greater Sarnoff Community. Additional research funding through the Scholars Program is available to Senior Fellows.

Awardee Profile
Sarnoff Fellowships are awarded based upon the student's research interests and research proposal. Although many applicants have had a wide array of research experiences, the fellowship program is also interested in fostering students who have had none but who
are interested in cardiovascular research.

Over 300 fellows and 30 scholars have completed the program, many of whom choose to pursue academic research or to pursue their research within industry or business. It remains a small and tight knit community linked by the members' interest in cardiovascular research. Of those fellows who choose to practice medicine, the majority refer to their time as a Sarnoff Fellow as some of the most rewarding of their training and the alumni organization exists "with sincere thanks to Stanley Sarnoff for his unconditional gift."

Some Notable Alumni
 Myron Weisfeldt, MD (medical student who trained with Dr. Sarnoff; basis for establishment of Fellowship), Chair of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
 John McVicar, MD (1980-81 Sarnoff Fellow), Director of Liver Transplantation, University of California, Davis Medical Center.
 Richard D. White, MD (1980-81 Sarnoff Fellow), Chairman, Department of Radiology, Ohio State University.
 Thom Rooke, MD (1980-81 Sarnoff Fellow), Director, Gonda Vascular Center, Krehbiel Professor of Vascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic
 Richard Page, MD (1982-83 Sarnoff Fellow, 1987-1989 Sarnoff Scholar), Chair of Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. President-Elect of the Heart Rhythm Society.
 Baron Hamman, MD (1985-86 Sarnoff Fellow), Chairman of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor University Medical Center.
 Geoffrey Gurtner, MD (1987-88 Sarnoff Fellow, 2000-2002 Sarnoff Scholar), Johnson & Johnson Professor of Plastic Surgery, Associate Chairman for Research, Dept of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine.
 Leslie Cooper, MD (1988-89 Sarnoff Fellow), Chair, Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic-Florida. President of Myocarditis Foundation.
 Andy Plump, MD, PhD (1989-90 Sarnoff Fellow, 1998-2000 Sarnoff Scholar), Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company.
 Michael Wallace, MD, MPH (1990-91 Sarnoff Fellow), Vice Chairman of Medicine, Mayo Clinic.
 James Chang, MD (1991-92 Sarnoff Fellow). Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine.

See also

 List of medicine awards

External links
 Sarnoff Foundation

References

Medicine awards
1979 establishments in the United States

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Sexual Disorientation
Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies
Editor(s):
Kent L. Brintnall, Joseph A. Marchal, Stephen D. Moore
Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
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Each year, the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium (TTC) gathers together in Madison, New Jersey to hear from a superb ensemble of scholars whose work is at the cutting edge of religious studies. Moreover, each year, the conveners invite a theorist to serve as both respondent and participant. Sexual Disorientations is the published proceedings of the 14th annual meeting of the TTC held September 26–28, 2014 at Drew University. For the 2014 colloquium, the conveners chose the themes of affect and temporality, gestured toward the various "turns" in queer theory in the call for papers, and invited theorist Elizabeth Freeman as the year's respondent-participant. At the heart of the debate between various turns in queer theory are the political ramifications of legibility. That is, to be readable is to already be incorporated into that which decides already what and how you are—the script you think you have developed as being different, or indeed queer, is instead already marketable and commodifiable.
The authors in this volume are made up of a few graduate students (at the time), junior faculty, and tenured faculty in the fields of women's and gender studies, theology, philosophy, and performance studies. Each of the seventeen authors contend with this issue of legibility, I would argue, in two broad arenas: biblical interpretation and theological studies. This is an artificial division, but my goal in dividing the text in this way is to situate the kinds of questions each essayist is trying to answer, what is at stake in each of their answers, and the kinds of commitments their respective disciplines might necessitate. Given the limitations of a review style essay, I am forced to confine myself to few examples that exemplify the questions being asked in each arena.
With regard to the first category, the essays deal almost exclusively with the texts of the Christian scriptures, with two exceptions. Notably, all of the essays point to uneasy futurities. Brock Perry, for example, provides a queer reading of death in the Apocalypse of Peter, which acknowledges the eternal presence and persistence of the dead in the lives of the living. In offering a reading of Apocalypse of Peter, Perry points towards how queer temporalities demand an expansive understanding of canon. Jacqueline Hidalgo's essay likewise expands canonicity by examining Cherríe Moraga's essay entitled "Codex Xeri: El Momento Histórico" (in The Last Generation, South End Press, 1993). In her essay, Hidalgo argues Moraga's codex and use of the term "codex" shows how notions of "scripture" have always been consummate with colonization, and thus "codex" and "codices" allow for more expansive understandings of revelation for colonized peoples. Conversely, Joseph A. Marchal's essay on 1 Corinthians acknowledges how his essay might be read as passé inasmuch as he deals with feminist questions within a Pauline text. However supposedly outdated his essay might read, Marchal shows how the readings are important because they are failures that contain possibilities and glimpses of queer futurities. Other essays in this section include: Kent Brintnall's Edelmanian approach to Lot's wife; James N. Hoke's essay on chrononormativity and Paul's letter to the Romans; Maia Kotrosit's essay on barebacking, HIV, and the gospel of Mark; and Eric A. Thomas's queer Africana interpretation of Revelation's epilogue.
With regard to the theological essays in this volume, Mark D. Jordan's creative essay traces some of the difficulties of formulating a queer theology course. His essay is more like a strings of thoughts, each numbered and only thematically related to the other, compiled together into essay form as opposed to what might traditionally be expected from an academic conference or an academic essay. Lamenting how many times he has come to pad and paper to write up a course on queer theology only to come up empty-handed, Jordan points to the pioneering work of Marcella Althaus-Reid as a way of embracing a something, but not tightly enough to not embrace something else. Similarly, Karen Bray's essay on challenging neoliberalism offers ways that disorder and madness provide ways of dealing with political, economic, and theological over-determinations. Drawing on work in crip theory and radical political theology, Bray's essay argues that while the future might be disordered, it still requires a doing that is always engaged in undermining the ubiquity of neoliberalism. Juxtaposed to this, Laurel C. Schneider's essay points to how the antisocial turn in queer theory ultimately reinscribes some of the problems it seeks to overturn, namely regarding bodies, purity, and hope—all of which she argues find their way back into even the most radical theories. Other essays in this section include: Brandy Daniels critical engagement with Sarah Coakley; Linn Marie Tonstad's argument that radical thinking might already be usurped by neoliberalism; Ann Pellegrini's engagement with Freudian psychoanalysis and queer time; and Karmen MacKendrick's essay on God's extratemporality in St. Augustine and Edmond Jabès.
The volume also includes responses by Mary-Jane Rubenstein to Karmen MacKendrick, and Catherine Keller to Mark Jordan, immediately following their respective essays. As mentioned above, Elizabeth Freeman provides an afterword that serves as a response to the whole of the conference. For those unfamiliar with some of the nuances between "turns" in queer theories, the editors helpfully provide an introduction that not only situates the essays, but also serves to provide some of the necessary background information to understand some of the questions being asked in the chapters that follow it. In some cases, the essays might read as if they do not belong in a volume that seeks to map and trace trajectories of queer temporalities. However disparate a reading of Sexual Disorientations might be, I argue that this volume performs the underlying argument. Indeed, if queer temporalities are multiple, seem alien, or even ineffable, how does one go about cataloging all their possibilities? Therefore, while the essays may seem to lack a metanarrative, this is precisely their goal. Overall, Sexual Disorientations is a welcome edition and addition to the already burgeoning literature on affect, temporality, and queer studies in religion.
About the Reviewer(s):
Alejandro Stephano Escalante is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Date of Review:
Elizabeth Freeman is Professor of English at University of California, Davis.
Kent L. Brintnall is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Joseph A. Marchal is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Ball State University.
Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University.
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JAM Magazine Concert Reviews
Orlando, FL USA
Review by Brittany Fornof
Photos by Nick Masuda
Orlando Calling Festival
The Roots • The Sound Express • Andy Velo • Elizabeth Cook • Buddy Guy • Hindu Cowboys • Blake Shelton • The Ettes • Kid Rock • Bob Seger
Orlando Calls and the Music World Answers
Chicago is known for its rich history of blues artists and renowned for its crooks. New Orleans is famous for its holidays of excessive purple, green and gold alcoholism, and Orlando, Florida is associated with its family-friendly Mickey Mouse ears and gridlock five o'clock traffic, but not its music scene.
That is, until this year, when the inaugural Orlando Calling festival took place at the Citrus Bowl in the heart of the city Nov. 12 & 13. The festival featured some of the music world's most legendary artists, rising stars, and even local hopefuls. The weather, at its prime during the breezy Florida winter months, hovered around 70 degrees for the majority of the weekend, making it the perfect temperature for all festival-goers to enjoy.
With sets starting around noon on both days, the festival featured artists from Gavin DeGraw to Blake Shelton. Bands were divided into five stages: the Main Stage, the Authentic Stage, freecreditscore.com Stage, Festival Republic Stage, and the Art House. The Ettes and the Doobie Brothers graced the Main Stage during the early afternoon while crowd-favorite The Roots and blues legend Buddy Guy rejuvenated the weary crowd on the Authentic Stage later in the day. Saturday's set schedule featured many punk, alternative rock, and rock favorites, including: Los Lonely Boys, The Raconteurs, and Iron & Wine. Sunday's lineup catered to a different crowd. It featured performances by country artists like the Hindu Cowboys and Elizabeth Cook. Indie rock/alternative rock band The Killers headlined Saturday's show while heartland rock legend Bob Seger headlined Sunday's show and closed out the festival.
The two-day long event offered entertainment in-between the acts with local vendors selling albums, band t-shirts, light-up paraphernalia and an assortment of overpriced goods that only a tired and tipsy festival hippie would enjoy. While meandering through the grounds, concertgoers were treated to mini- performances by musicians such as rising country artist Andy Velo. They were provided with a variety of delectable meal options, created by vendors such as the local Orlando food truck sensation Big Wheel Provisions.
Orlando Calling proved to be a worthwhile experience for all who attended. However, the return of the festival is yet to be determined as rumors circulate regarding whether or not the event raked in enough money to justify a repetition. Perhaps, next time the festival's organizers should consider taking a more proactive stance in advertising the festival. Save for the few radio broadcasts that mentioned the inaugural Orlando event, few true promotional marketing tools were really employed to draw in a crowd. Instead, the concert relied heavily upon the individual promotional efforts of the bands featured at the festival.
For a city starving for a musical cultural experience, let's hope Orlando Calling returns next year. Otherwise, this year's concertgoers may have experienced a true once-in-a-lifetime event. You had better save your concert T's kids. They could be worth a thousand bucks one day.
The Roots Review:
Decked out in a combination of brightly colored shirts, black tops, leather jackets, and sunglasses in the middle of the night, The Roots gave their loyal fans exactly what they wanted: a memorable experience.
"Orlando! How y'all feeling out there?" shouted lead singer Black Thought. "Clap your hands to what we got going."
The band broke into the first verse of "The Fire."
"There's something in your eyes," rapped Black Thought as Captain Kirk Douglas and Owen Biddle raced their fingers across the strings of their instruments. The percussion provided by ?uestlove and F. Knuckles created the perfect backdrop to Black Thought's passionate performance.
Throughout their late night set, the band delivered an engaging performance to their enthusiastic fans, playing some of their biggest hits, including "Thought at Work," "How I Got Over," and "Here I Come."
The Sound Express:
One of the best surprise performances came from Orlando-based group The Sound Express. Lead singer Henry Black looks like he's barely old enough to pass as Justin Bieber, much less act as the front man for a big-city band. But this kid's got a voice that you just can't help but notice.
With a deep, heavy tone, Black sang the opening verse of "Tied," holding the neck of his bright orange guitar with a familiarity that couldn't be feigned. Bassist James Killgallon and drummer Anthony Manzo, in their matching fedoras, played with the skill of veteran musicians. Mellow guitarist Chris Robinson provided the perfect balance to the band's eccentricity as he silently strummed to the side, letting his guitar do the talking. The band's comfort level with their instruments, their music, and each other exuded across the stage and into the audience.
Heads up Orlando, this is the band you should be keeping your eye on.
Andy Velo Review:
Based out of Atlanta and originating from a small town called Suwanee, Andy Velo is every country girl's dream, every parent's nightmare, and the MVP musician under the Jim Beam Brand.
Performing since he was sixteen, this smooth-talking Southern boy is an artist to keep on the radar. In a matter of years, he could be the new Blake Shelton, and every girl in the South will hope to be his Miranda Lambert.
"We are most definitely a rock-drive band," said Velo. "We get compared a lot to the Jason Aldean band, but I want to take what Aldean has done and push it a little bit further."
Fans of his radio hit single "Southern Thing" can purchase Velo's new album next March. Although the band wrapped up their Florida tour with a final stop at the festival, fans can expect Velo to return to the Sunshine State once more for a New Year's show in Destin, Florida.
"Yes we love what we do, and it's an honor to be able to have this as a job. But without fans, it's pointless."
Elizabeth Cook review:
"Hey y'all," Elizabeth Cook spoke into the microphone with a thick country accent. "Wazzup? We are going to kick it here for you a little."
Dressed in a puffy white shirt and a pair of aviators, Cook was too pretty for her own good. She looked like an angel and sang like the devil with her petite voice contradicting nicely with her thick Southern drawl, which permeated every song. With her perfectly teased blonde hair and dolled-up face, she made blue grass look high class, but swore by her simple roots.
"I grew up in Florida...Sumter County - Hog county," she explained. "And I don't get a lot of opportunities to come back here."
Performing "El Camino" from her latest Welder record and "Times are Tough in Rock N' Roll" from her pleasantly-named Balls album, Cook showcased some of her older as well as several of her latest hits, including "Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman."
When an unexpected technical difficulty left Cook's guitar without an amp, the feisty artist had mouthful for the sound crew.
"Sorry, we were totally jamming," she teased the crew. "Bones is still going. Give it up for Bones."
When the problem persisted for a few minutes, Cook glanced to the side of the stage. "Do you technical people that are being employed here...do you have a plan?"
The sound crew began fiddling with her cords in response.
"Hey Bryan, can you bring me the champagne if I'm going to be here for awhile?" she said, rocking her empty cup to the side. "Because I'm empty!"
Buddy Guy Review:
Arguably the best musician to play on the Authentic Stage, six-time Grammy winner Buddy Guy performed for his loyal fans on Sunday afternoon.
With a no-words-necessary introduction, Buddy Guy reach out to the audience with both hands twisted in peace signs. Then, without uttering one single word, begins shredding on his guitar.
He was fantastic. With an animated look on his face, he jammed on his guitar, glancing around the stage with a look of wonder.
The man doesn't age. He's a legend. He's just as quick-witted and talented as he was twenty years ago.
"Nobody, nobody," Guy screeched, twitching his face in animation, "understands me but my guitar."
"Wait a minute," he said with a look of shock on his face. "Ya'll called me down here to play blues. Excuse me. Hold it one f**king minute."
With that, he faced the camera at the side of the stage and tore up his guitar as his supporting guitarist joined Guy in a duet. Facing each other, they had a conversation with their guitars. One wailed while the other moaned. Buddy Guy wobbled his knees in emphasis.
Walking back towards the center stage, Buddy Guy said, "Next time you call me, let me come in about twelve so that I can play all day."
For any concertgoer that may have doubted the 80-year old legend's ability to play heart-felt true blues, Buddy Guy dismissed their doubts with one simple comment, "I can play something so funky you can smell it."
Grinning he thrust his right hand in the air and shouted, "One leg was in the easy. One leg was in the west. And I was in the middle and I swear it was the best."
Hindu Cowboys Review:
Wearing an olive green velour cowboy hat, a pair of sunglass, and a red paisley shirt, lead singer of the Hindu Cowboys Joseph Martens looked as eccentric as his band's title was odd. Surveying the slightly sparse afternoon crowd, Martens said, "I want these 54 people to sound like 58. Okay, maybe 59."
"This is a true story about something that never happened," prefaced Martens as he began to croon, "When I went down to the Tennessee River..."
As the song ended, Martens looked out into the crowd.
"Who's got a cold beer?" Martens asked. "Just send it up here."
"We've got 62 people," one tipsy audience member yelled out.
"Great, we've got like 5 more people here," Martens responded with a laugh. "I'm sure this place will be full by midnight."
"This next song is kind of our first and last stab at doing country music," explained Martens. "Then we decided screw it. We are just going to do whatever the Hindu Cowboys do."
In a quick second, the band broke into "Southbound Train" before performing covers of "Sweet Emotion" and "Hey Now."
Although the band many only initially appeal to a niche market due to their eccentric country/rock musical style, the quality of their sound as a whole and their ability to perform cohesively in both large and small venues make them a group that shouldn't be overlooked by music scene novices.
Most of their songs sound like the intro to a Western film, but they are the best Western soundtrack groups east of the Mississippi River and south of the Georgia border.
Originating from the festival's very own Orlando, Florida, this group traveled all the way to their backyard to play on the Main Stage at the inaugural Orlando Calling.
"The first time I was ever in this stadium was to see the Rolling Stones," said Martens. "This was just an excuse to see Bob Seger. They had to get us to play in order to give us tickets."
Blake Shelton review:
As the most notable country artist performing at Orlando Calling, Blake Shelton delivered quite the homegrown performance to the country-hungry Central Florida audience, opening his set with his 2010 hit "All About Tonight."
"I'll tell you what," said Shelton. "I love Orlando because it's just close enough to the water that if we feel like hanging out we can take our chairs to some beach somewhere."
With his band behind him, Shelton broke into his third No. 1 hit "Some Beach" from the 2004 Blake Shelton's Barn & Grill album.
"I still think I fit in because y'all are freaking rednecks," he said laughing.
Breaking from his usual set, Shelton told the audience a story.
"I used to hang out by my dad and mom's room...when it was locked," Shelton admitted. "I don't want to know what they were doing in there, but all I could here was..."
"Play that funky music white boy," Shelton crooned, performing a short bit of the song before continuing with his story.
"I also used to hang outside my brother's door," reminisced Shelton. "I could tell by the music that he listened to that he really liked women."
"My blood runs cold," sang Shelton while strumming rapidly on his guitar. "My memory has just been sold. My angel is the centerfold,"
Shelton covered several verses of "Centerfold" before approaching the microphone once more, but this time, with a solemn expression.
"I'll be honest with y'all," Shelton said coldly. "When we were growing up, my sister and I never got along. One day, she was playing this one song: 'My Prerogrative.' So I knocked on her door and said, 'Can you turn that down? And what does that even mean?' She responded, 'It's none of your business and slammed the door.' So I yelled back, 'Hey, why don't you just kiss my country ass?'"
As his crowd of loyal fans cheered, Shelton and his band wrapped up their set with crowd-favorites "Kiss My Country Ass" and "Ol' Red."
"Now there is red-haired blue ticks all over the South," crooned Shelton. "Love got me in here and love got me out."
The Ettes review:
Wearing an all-black ensemble that perfectly complimented her black-haired bob, lead singer of The Ettes Coco Hames approached the microphone coyly. "Hello, hello. Check Mic 1-2." Tilting her head, she squinted into the audience and smiled before.
"Thank you guys very much," Coco Hames, facing the audience with her bright green band-access sticker slapped across her thigh. "We live in Nashville, Tennessee so we aren't from here. Thanks for coming out."
As the first band to open the Main Stage at the festival on Saturday, The Ettes warmed up the early afternoon crowd with some of their most well-known hits, including: "Dead and Gone" and "Take It with You."
"You think that you know what you know now...You say that you know what you got now...You know what you want but it's gone now," sang Hames.
Drummer Poni Silver drove the drum-heavy song "Red in Tooth and Claw" with her arms pounding down across her drum set as her body rocked into the motion of her foot hitting the pedal compulsively, while bassist Jem Cohen laid the foundation in "Excuse."
Before exiting the stage, Hames shared a story with the audience.
"You know the last time I was at the Citrus Bowl," said Hames with a knowing look into the crowd, " I chickened out from singing the national anthem. Right, Mom? I refused to pre-record it. Because that's how punk rock I am...with my acoustic guitar when I was 16."
Kid Rock Review:
The definition of Southern Rock with a definite Northern twist, Kid Rock has indeed created a style all his own. He is crude enough to qualify as a hip-hop artist, talented enough to be considered a mainstream musician, and just Detroit enough to be a rock-and-roll star. And for good measure, there's a bit of country swagger in him as well.
As the act preceding Rock and Roll Hall of Fame artist Bob Seger, Kid Rock put on a show that deserved headlining status. His set started with the playing of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." With the stage lights flashing red, the song played slowly on until the lyrics hit "Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit," and Kid Rock stomped onto the stage.
Kid Rock and his band played some of their most crude, crowd-riveting songs, such as "Devil Without a Cause," "Rock Bottom Blues," and the ever-so-raunchy "So Hott." However, the crowd-favorite of the night was the band's performance of "Forever."
"I make punk rock," shouted Kid Rock.
"And I mix it with the hip hop," chimed in DJ Paradime.
"I get you higher than a tree top," the crowd shouted. "You wanna roll with the Kid Rock!"
"I say we keep it old school for one more song," shouted Kid Rock before breaking into "Wasting Time" and the classic "Purple Sky."
Kid Rock's full set was supported by his vast band, featuring David McMurray on the saxophone, Larry Frantangelo on percussion, DJ Paradime on the timetables, Jason Krause on rhythm guitar, Marlon Young on lead guitar, Jimmy "Bones" Trombley on the keyboard, Aaron Julison on bass guitar, and Stefanie Eulinberg on the drums; and his vocal performance was complimented by Jessica Wagner and Shannon Curfman as back-up vocalists.
"People, thank you so much for coming tonight," Kid Rock said, waving his arm towards the audience and rushing off the stage. The lights went dim, and people and instruments shuffled offstage as the crowd began to disperse towards the exits.
Two minutes later, however, Kid Rock and his band returned to the stage for a performance of "Cowboy" and the ultimate weekend concert rock sing-a-long "God Bless Saturday."
As the lights dimmed, Kid Rock grabbed his guitar and began singing the first verse and melody of "I Put Your Picture Away" before being interrupted by a Beavis and Butthead clip. On the screen, the AC/DC and Metallica-shirt-wearing teenagers criticized Kid Rock's mellow song choice.
So in an effort to quiet his cartoon critics and appease the cheering crowd, Kid Rock and his band switched gears to play the quicker-paced "When You Love Someone," which was followed by the crowd-invigorating songs "Badwitdaba" and "Outstanding." The stage lights flickered around him in sync with the music as Kid Rock raced across the stage from side to side, interacting with the crowd.
As the song came to an end, the lights dimmed across the stage once more, and this time, a long curtain fell between the audience and the band.
A few minutes later, Kid Rock races back onto the stage with a big Michigan grin on his face. Dressed solely in white, a gospel-style choir lined up behind him on a set of risers.
"We aren't going yet Orlando," said Kid Rock. "You want to rock and roll, and we want to do one new one. We are going to have a revival."
Kid Rock led the band into the first verse of "Only God Knows Why."
"I get behind myself. I need to rewind myself," he cried out. "Looking for the payback listening for the playback."
"Only God knows why, why, why, why," the choir sang. "Only God...knows...why, why, why."
"People, thank you for spending your hard earned money to come see us perform here tonight," shouted Kid Rock. "Before I go, I want to know, no matter how much s*t they feed you in the news and all the things you read in the paper: Do you still believe in the greatest country in the world?
With that inquiry, Kid Rock sat at the piano as the stars and stripes lit up the screen behind him and began singing, "Born Free."
"Waitin' patiently for the sun to set," sang Kid Rock. "And when it's done believe that I will yell it from that mountain high. I was born free! I was booooooorn free. I was born free, born free. I will bow to shining seas. And celebrate God's grace on me!"
Bob Seger review:
When the organizers of Orlando Calling sat down to discuss who should headline the last night of the inaugural music festival, they must have created a list of one hundred names and then carefully narrowed it down to the best of the best. They didn't need someone controversial or someone with limited experience. They needed an artist with a broad fan base, with a rich history in the music industry. They needed someone who would appeal to a large audience-the young and old, poor and rich, sober and drunk alike. They needed a living legend. Luckily, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band were available.
Utilizing the full set stage, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet band spread their piano, trumpets and saxophones across the wide stage.
"Let's do a funky song," suggested Seger before breaking into "Roll Me Away" and a cover of "Tryin' to Live My Life Without You."
For many young Bob Seger fans, watching him perform his heartland rock ballad "Mainstreet," with the blue and purple lights flashing around his silhouette and into the crowdm was a once-in-a-life-time moment of blissful fulfillment.
However, the song that made the entire show worth seeing for most fans was "We've Got Tonight," a chart-topping hit single from the 1978 album, Stranger in Town. Sitting at the piano with supporting vocals by Shaun Murphy, Laura Creamer and Barbara Payton, Seger sang, "We've got tonight...who needs tomorrow? We've got tonight babe...Why don't you stay?" He also made sure to include the other classic cuts from the album, "Hollywood Nights" and "Old Time Rock & Roll."
Performing a mixture of original songs and classic Seger-style renditions throughout the set, Seger played several favorites from hisr 1976 album Live Bullet, such as their Side B hit "Travelin' Man" and a rendition of Ike & Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits." Seger also included his rendition of Little Richard's "Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey (Going Back to Birmingham)," leaving this music-hungry Orlando audience utterly pleased but barely satisfied.
After all, who could ever have enough Bob Seger in their life?
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Панчика (кит. 般闍迦) — якша и супруг Харити, от которого она, как говорят, стала матерью 500 детей.

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Согласно «Махавамсе», Панчика был главнокомандующим армией якшей Вайшраваны, и ему подчинялись ещё 27 генералов-якшей.

Панчика часто изображали держащим копье и мешок с драгоценностями или деньгами вместе с Харити в греко-буддийском искусстве Гандхары, где они изображали супружескую любовь после начала почитания Будды. Эти две фигуры «были очень популярны в Гандхаре во второй половине второго века, и их статуй достаточно много».

Иконография
Иногда он изображался с копьём, что также указывает на роль вождя якшей. Иконография Панчика позже была объединена с иконографией Вайшраваны.

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 Вайшравана
 Манибхадра

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Буддийский пантеон


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Hari Dhakal () is a Nepalese politician and member of Rastriya Swatantra Party. He was elected to the House of Representative in 2022 from Chitwan-1.

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Nepal MPs 2022–present
1983 births
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When she first started talking to us about the history of the Hundertwasser toilets I just thought she was a friendly bathroom attendant. But her knowledge was great. She began by telling us about Austrian born Internationally renown contemporary artist, architect and ecologist Fredrick Hundertwasser. He had designed the Toilet building in which we were presently washing our hands, and which is far more important than I had realized.
Christine added a detailed history of the building, telling us that local Bay of Islands College students prepared the ceramic tiles, the bricks were from a former Bank of New Zealand building, and the construction was completed by community volunteers.
And while you are in Kawakawa take note of the railroad track. Kawakawa is the only New Zealand town to have a track running through the centre of town. It's a remnant of the coal mining days.
***Visiting these toilets was one of the first stops on our around the top of the North island itinerary.
Have you been to the Hundertwasser Toilets? Would you be surprised to find a tour guide inside a toilet block?
Wow – that is some bathroom!! So cool that she was so knowledgeable about the history.
Hey, might as well be proud of what you do!
Great photos! The world needs more whimsy – and where better than the public toilet?
Found you through the A-Z challenge – loving your blog and now following you. You can check out my A-Z posts at http://earthdragonhealing.blogspot.com – if you visit please leave a comment so I know you were by.
Beautiful toilets! Betty White had a great line on Hot In Cleveland. She said, At my age, I dress for going to the bathroom." That pretty much sums up my life. BTW, where does Christine eat her lunch?
What a cool job! It's even better than being a Walmart greeter.
Those toilets are just too pretty to pee in.
Wow that's amazing. I think I went to Kawakawa, can't remember now, but I never heard of the toilets before.


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Le Hampshire Chronicle est un journal local basé à Winchester, dans le Hampshire, en Angleterre. Il appartient au groupe .

Avec sa première édition remontant au , il s'agit de l'un des plus anciens titres du pays.

Le journal a été fondé à Southampton par James Linden.

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Perez and Hartley penalised over pre-race pass
Driver Penalties
Force India's Sergio Perez and Toro Rosso's Brendon Hartley have fallen foul of the Bahrain stewards – for an overtake that happened before the race had even started!
Perez, 12th on the grid, was handed a 30-second post-race time penalty for overtaking Hartley, 11th, during the formation lap and making "no noticeable effort to allow car 28 to regain his position".
In turn, Hartley received an identical punishment, plus two penalty points on his Super License, for failing to repass Perez before the safety car line and then not pitting as required by the rules.
I'm just a bit sorry that we lost such a big opportunity today
Ironically, the pair then tangled on the opening lap (main image above), with their contact tipping Perez into a spin, which according to the Mexican "pretty much ruined" his race. Hartley, whose car was also damaged, was handed an in-race, 10-second stop-and-go penalty for causing the incident.
Seemingly inseparable, however, they went on take the chequered flag in 12th and 13th, with Perez just 0.027s ahead of the New Zealander. But with penalties applied they drop to the bottom of the race results in 16th and 17th.
"It was a massive opportunity today to score some big points and I knew the first lap was about not getting into an incident," said Perez. "But there was nothing I could do – Brendon just lost control of his car.
"Although I had massive damage on the rear floor, I recovered and nearly made it into the points but I'm just a bit sorry that we lost such a big opportunity today."
While Perez was left to watch team mate Esteban Ocon take Force India's first point of the season in tenth, Hartley witnessed Toro Rosso partner Pierre Gasly come home an amazing fourth to secure his maiden F1 points.
"An amazing day for Toro Rosso but a disappointing day for me," said Hartley. "I had a good start and first couple of corners but had a small contact with Perez in Turn 4.
"This not only damaged my front wing for the remainder of the race but I was also given a 10 second time penalty. We had the pace to be comfortably in the points without the penalty so it was a bit frustrating."
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I'm sooo tired at he moment. It's killing me. I was trying to work out if im not getting enough sleep or whether im getting ill. I had glandular fever in the first year and every so often (usually when i push myself too far, which i might have done recently) it returns. It means im not doing enough work and not able to concentrate on what's important. I keep spending all my time making lists of what to do and never really getting it done. Never mind! On a brighter note i got through to the final round of proceedings at Lloyds TSB (applying for a job in operations there) So lets hope I'm less tired for that.


I guess the influx of hipsters into Bay Ridge is bringing an increase in drug use.
cars double parking waiting for teens to get on and deal drugs are too common in Bay Ridge. especially 73 to Ovington AV on Narrows to 6 AV. Drug dealers are targeting Arab youth who dressed like gang members, and then these gang-like teen try to influence other Arab youth. It is all too common sight on streets and sidewalk. Their parents should also diligently monitors their kids as many of them roam like wild gang on the streets of 3 AV and 5 AV, without much respect to others.
no London Pine. Even before the hipsters bayridge had a history of drugs and greedos.
I've got so many calls into the 68 to report a drug dealer doing business on my block and even though they "know who he is" he's still dealing.
When does Marty want to start putting pressure on the police to put the dealers behind bars?
The Arab community in Bay Ridge will not be gentrified as other communities have been. On the contrary their culture thrives on economic turnarounds and shake-ups like gentrification. And this initiative to take out the trash is just a case of getting with the program. Old problem, nothing to do with hipsters, now it's time to gentrify, and spruce up the neighborhood. A no-brainier for Muslims, business as usual, hardly even a story.
It's not hipsters who are responsible for this.
After the recent crackdown on opiate prescriptions, a lot of vicodin addicts switched over to heroin. It's an epidemic in Long Island also. There was a good article in the New Yorker about this last month.
"Heroin in New York City, by the Numbers"
It's the Muslim youth that live near 69th and 5th that are dealing the illegal drugs.
What's wrong with a lifestyle choice if no one is getting hurt?
Taking drugs and driving is often observed in Bay Ridge, I am sure this "lifestyle choice" is harmless until someone get hit by a car while driving under drug dosage.
This is all covered in the 2014 breakthrough concept album "Another Kid from South Brooklyn" by local music sensation Alex Ritty.
Ritty's hit single "Ridge Get It (Bay Ridge)" is a no-holds-barred meditation about the trials and tribulations of local dope peddlers who have to contend with the Staten Island mafia amongst other sordid entities. Check it out on youtube today.
Lars, that is just the kind of crap nobody needs to check out.
The new Bay ridge Narc unit should check out the Narrows Botanical Gardens on Shore Rd, those guys that hang out there have been growing and selling weed out of that garden for years!!!
Bay Ridge has a NARC unit? I thought it was a NORC unit.
Drug dealing on 79th and 3rd by the massage parlor. No one does a thing to stop them.
When Bay Ridge was happening 15 years ago, it was because of drugs. Everybody was tooting. TNT (NYPD narcs) came around, and locked up some kiddies for 20 years. It became a ghost town. What is left...hookah bars, and 99¢ stores.


After reaching No. 13 in last week's AP poll, the University of Maryland men's basketball team drops to No. 21 in the latest AP poll and No. 24 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, released Jan. 28.
Tennessee (18-1) hold on to the top spot in both polls, followed by Duke (17-2) and Virginia (18-1).
After winning seven in a row, Maryland has dropped back-to-back games to fall to 16-5 on the season and 7-3 in Big Ten play. During the past week, the Terps lost to Michigan State, 69-55, on the road Jan. 21 and got beaten by Illinois, 78-67, at Madison Square Garden Jan. 26.
Against Michigan State, the Terps fell behind early, trailing by as many as 22 early in the second half. Sophomore center Bruno Fernando posted a double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds, but Maryland struggled when Fernando was on the bench. Freshman guard Anthony Wiggins added 15 points and six rebounds off the bench in the loss.
Against Illinois, the Terps committed 21 turnovers, including 15 in the second half, and the Illini took full advantage. Illinois outscored Maryland, 27-13, in points off turnovers. Maryland was also outscored, 23-6, in fast-break points as the Illini pushed the ball in transition to combat the Terps' size. Fernando had yet another double-double with 19 points and 10 rebounds, and junior guard Anthony Cowan added 18 points, five assists and four rebounds.
Up next, the Terps host Northwestern at Xfinity Center Jan. 29 before hitting the road to face Wisconsin Feb. 1.


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Ceratempis is een geslacht van insecten uit de familie van de dansvliegen (Empididae), die tot de orde tweevleugeligen (Diptera) behoort.

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C. longicornis Melander, 1928

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Albuquerque Beer Scene: Sam Gose Wild!
Things must be going pretty well at the Boston Beer Company. It may have something to do with those Samuel Adams commercials, thanks to which I can't hear "Who Do You Love" without thinking of their beer (and changing the station). They aren't just sitting around smelling hops and growing beards up there- they are experimenting with everyone's favorite styles: Sahti and Gose.
Norse Legend brings the rich Finnish tradition of Sahti to us. You gin lovers out there might be fans of this style: it is abound with juniper, but not in the way that had everybody crying over their allergies not too long ago. Norse Legend is aged on juniper berries and is 7% ABV.
Though German in style, I don't recommend drinking this beer out of a boot: Verloren is a 6% ABV beer in the Gose style (though 6% is higher in ABV than many of the Gose beers you will find at Albertsons. Gose uses a heavy proportion of wheat in the mix, along with coriander and...salt. No more need to keep that shaker in your purse, New Mexican ladies! Both of these styles are selling at the Kelly's on Wyoming for under $7.


We install many types of drainage including: Catch basins, trench drains and French drains to alleviate any potential drainage issues.
A Necessity! Often an overlooked or afterthought scope of work, drainage can determine the success of a project. With development comes the need to remove storm water efficiently from the site. Whether the runoff is diverted for other uses or just sent to the nearest outfall, proper drainage will result in a successful project.


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I started to embed subtitles in the videos in the Arabic channel to see if somehow we can reach the viewers that find our videos through their mobile phones. My guess is that the "Audience Retention"- a parameter in the Yoututbe video Statistics that tells which percentage of the viewers actually watched the video until the end or until a specific time in the video - would go up if we hardsub our videos. Why? Because the almost 40% of viewers that find the videos through their mobile phones, probably close them as soon as they see there are no subtitles.


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The sexiest actor alive 2021
Ed Westwick Sexiest Actor Alive
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And the Sexiest Man Alive 2021 is ... Ed Westwick
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Ed Westwick: New Album and 2021 World Tour?
Ed Westwick's Dog Recovering from Surgery
Is Ed Westwick secretly gay and hiding in the closet?
Ed Westwick, 33, has been dubbed "the Sexiest Actor Alive" by Glamour's magazine in its February 2021 issue out this week.
For the second year in a row 2020 and 2021
The magazine has released its annual list of the 100 men who made history hotter, and the honors go to exactly who you thought they would (if you keep up with celebrity news): Ed Westwick, the actor best known for his role on the television series Gossip Girl. For the second year in a row, our gorgeous hottie beat out some other equally hot men for the number one spot! And we can't say we disagree!
Twitter Frenzy
Within minutes of Ed Westwick being announced as this year's winner, it had become the top trending topic on Twitter:
"He is unquestionably handsome, he's been smartly building his career on more than his looks," wrote one fan.
"#Ed Westwick being named THE Sexiest Man Alive makes his girlfriend the luckiest Woman Alive?" joked another one.
The major upside of the award is that the English actor and musician will be getting plenty of press for the next few weeks. So what do you say? Do you think Ed Westwick is the Sexiest Actor Alive? And if not, who gets your vote?
Ed Westwick: Recent News
Gossip Girl Reunion? "Not Until 2022" The CW Said
Ed Westwick is Highest-Paid Actor in the World
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Discover your talent, prepare for the future!
Welcome to the webpage of the GSMS PhD Development Conference 2017!
On June 1 & 2 the 3rd edition of the GSMS PhD Development Conference will be held at the UMCG. The main theme of this conference is "Your Future Starts Today!". During this two day event we will focus on the future perspectives of healthcare. How can healthcare keep up with the changing society? How can PhD students prepare themselves for their future careers?
We offer you inspiring keynote lectures by among others Ronald van den Hoff (Founding father of Society 3.0) and Lucien Hordijk (De Correspondent). We also give you the opportunity to discover your talents and increase your capacities during the various workshop rounds on both days. Or maybe you have some novel ideas on how to improve healthcare in Groningen and create Blue Zones, then you might like to join the Healthy Aging Hackathon on the second day. We have something for everyone!
Early Bird registrations have opened, so register now and have first choice of workshops and guarantee your seat at the conference dinner on Thursday!
Check out the rest of the webpage for more information.
Looking forward to see you June 1&2!
Note that non-GSMS PhD students can also attend the conference! The topics that are covered during the two days apply to PhD students in general. So take this opportunity, and register here!


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Chaigneau Peak är en bergstopp i Antarktis. Den ligger i Västantarktis. Argentina, Chile och Storbritannien gör anspråk på området. Toppen på Chaigneau Peak är  meter över havet.

Terrängen runt Chaigneau Peak är huvudsakligen kuperad, men västerut är den platt. Havet är nära Chaigneau Peak västerut. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Mount Shackleton,  meter över havet,  kilometer öster om Chaigneau Peak. Trakten är glest befolkad. Närmaste befolkade plats är Vernadsky Station,  kilometer väster om Chaigneau Peak.

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A forensic scientist trainee fires an AK-47 assault rifle into the bullet recovery tank at a state forensics lab in Richmond, Va., on July 17, 2008. Photo: Steve Helber/APA forensic scientist trainee fires an AK-47 assault rifle into the bullet recovery tank at a state forensics lab in Richmond, Va., on July 17, 2008. Photo: Steve Helber/AP
Advocates Challenge Mysterious Justice Department Statement That Undercuts Forensic Science Reform
Democracy Forward and the Union of Concerned Scientists say the Trump-era statement is biased, inaccurate, and runs afoul of federal law.
August 8 2021, 11:00 a.m.
In the final days of the Trump administration, a curious press release appeared on the Justice Department's website announcing the publication of a statement in response to a nearly five-year-old report that critiqued a handful of forensic science practices.
The 2016 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, or PCAST, concluded that a number of forensic feature-comparison methods — including bite-mark, footwear, and firearms analysis — lacked scientific validity and reliability.
Forensic feature-comparison methods involve practitioners taking a piece of evidence and visually comparing it to an exemplar to determine if they match. An apparent bite mark found on a victim, for example, might be compared to the dentition of a suspect. The problem, the PCAST found, was that while these pattern-matching practices have been used as evidence for decades, they have little, if any, scientific underpinning. They haven't been empirically proven valid and lack meaningful error rates. The council concluded that some of these practices, like bite-mark analysis, should be abandoned, while others, like firearms analysis, should be subjected to further scientific scrutiny — and, if used as evidence in the interim, that judges and juries should be told of their limitations.
"Without appropriate estimates of accuracy," the report read, "an examiner's statement that two samples are similar — or even distinguishable — is scientifically meaningless: It has no probative value and considerable potential for prejudicial impact."
This did not go over well with many forensic practitioners and prosecutors, who were quick to criticize the report's conclusions. They argued that these forensic practices weren't suited to testing by traditional scientific methods, they'd been working just fine, and the criminal legal system would flounder without them.
But the PCAST caught the attention of others too. Defense attorneys and reform-minded forensic practitioners have long decried the fallibility of traditional forensic practices, which were developed by police, not scientists. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, roughly a quarter of the more than 2,800 wrongful convictions cataloged since 1989 involved false or misleading forensic evidence. Defense attorneys began to cite the PCAST report in efforts to block the introduction of certain forensic evidence in their criminal cases.
It was amid all this that on January 13, 2021, the Justice Department announced the publication of its belated official response to the PCAST. The unsigned statement blasted the report's conclusions as wrongheaded and incorrect, encouraging judges to reject them. To date, the department has indicated that it is sticking to this position.
Now, Democracy Forward and the Union of Concerned Scientists are asking the Justice Department to rescind the statement, which they say runs afoul of the federal Information Quality Act requirement that information disseminated by the government be accurate, reliable, and unbiased. "Retraction will ensure that rigorous and independent forensic science can appropriately inform legal decisions," the groups wrote in a letter, "without the confusion caused by the seemingly authoritative, but misleading, DOJ statement."
And, the groups say, lives may depend on the agency doing so. "When our government makes decisions that ignore the best available science, it can result in real harm," Jacob Carter, a senior scientist with the UCS Center for Science and Democracy, said in a press release. "One of the clearest examples is the way the use of dubious forensic evidence could put an innocent person in prison."
A toolmark examiner with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives demonstrates the ability to analyze bullet casings inside a mobile National Integrated Ballistic Information Network van on April 19, 2018, in Houston.
Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez /Houston Chronicle via AP
The Problem With Ballistic Evidence
The murder case against Scott Goodwin-Bey hinged on forensic evidence.
In 2015, Goodwin-Bey was charged with the shooting deaths of four people inside a room at the Economy Inn on the north side of Springfield, Missouri. Police said Goodwin-Bey believed that the four had been talking to the cops about his drug use.
On balance, the evidence against him was weak, and Goodwin-Bey maintained his innocence. There was an informant who was apparently in the motel room at the time of the killings, who claimed that he was not involved and instead threw suspicion onto Goodwin-Bey. And there was a gun that Goodwin-Bey allegedly gave to a convenience store clerk two weeks after the crime. The cops confiscated the gun and arrested Goodwin-Bey.
It was the gun that would make or break the state's case. At the motel, investigators had found 13 shell casings and 11 fired bullets, which were collected for analysis. The question was whether forensic examiners could connect the gun to the crime.
Firearms examination, a branch of "toolmark analysis," involves forensic practitioners taking spent bullets and shell casings and trying to match them to a suspected crime weapon.
There are two levels of inquiry. First, examiners look for so-called class characteristics, like whether the caliber of the bullet collected at the crime scene matches the caliber of the weapon. If the bullet is a .38, for example, and the gun is a .22, they can't be related because a weapon can't fire a bullet of a diameter larger than its barrel. Then there's rifling, the pattern carved into the gun's barrel during manufacturing, which spins a bullet when it's fired to increase accuracy (think of how a quarterback throws a football). The twist is oriented either right or left and comprised of raised and lowered portions of metal called lands and grooves. After a bullet is fired, it generally retains impressions of the rifling from the gun that fired it. So if the impressions on a bullet from a crime scene don't match the rifling on the suspected gun, you know that gun didn't fire those bullets.
Then things get more complicated. If a bullet and gun share class characteristics, firearms analysts will look for other similarities by using a comparison microscope, for example, to inspect a crime scene bullet and a bullet test-fired in the lab from the suspected gun. At this point they're looking for details they call "individual characteristics." Tiny imperfections in a gun barrel could leave impressions on both bullets, say, a scratch to the lands or other defects that examiners claim are unique to a particular weapon. If an examiner sees those things, they'll often declare a match.
"The peer community is almost exclusively law enforcement. It is not scientific."
In the Goodwin-Bey case, the state said the forensic examination matched his gun to the crime scene evidence. But the defense challenged this, citing the PCAST report. When it comes to individual characteristics, the report concluded, firearms analysis is neither scientifically valid nor reliable and lacks meaningful error rates — how often an examiner gets it wrong. The PCAST reported finding only one well-designed empirical study, which revealed an error rate that could be as high as 1 in 46.
State Circuit Judge Calvin Holden held a hearing to decide whether the evidence would be allowed. In December 2016, just weeks before Goodwin-Bey was slated to be tried, Holden ruled mostly in Goodwin-Bey's favor. "The problem with ballistic evidence is that it is all subjective. There have been no large scientific studies to determine an error rate. The peer community is almost exclusively law enforcement. It is not scientific," he wrote. "Toolmark identification is a very valuable investigative tool. However, that is where it should stay, in the area of law enforcement, not in the courts."
But he didn't toss the evidence altogether: Instead of declaring a match — for which Holden concluded there was no scientific support — the examiner could tell the jury that based on class characteristics, the gun could not be excluded as the murder weapon. "The court very reluctantly will allow the state's lab person to testify, but only to the point that this gun could not be eliminated as the source of the bullet," the judge wrote. Shortly thereafter, prosecutors dropped the murder charges against Goodwin-Bey.
The Scourge of Wrongful Conviction
The Goodwin-Bey case appears to have been the first in which a judge cited the conclusions of the PCAST report to block the state from using firearms evidence. In the intervening years, at least nine additional favorable rulings have curtailed the use of such evidence.
Maneka Sinha, an assistant professor of law at the University of Maryland, spent a decade with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. As head of the office's nationally known Forensic Practice Group, she worked on another case challenging the use of firearms analysis. The question was essentially the same as in the Goodwin-Bey case: Would the state be able to argue that forensics could match shell casings from a crime to a particular gun and put its defendant, Marquette Tibbs, at the scene? The defense team said no; at best, the state could say that the gun could not be excluded as the murder weapon. "Because there's not sufficient scientific support to go any further than that," Sinha told The Intercept. At a subsequent hearing, "the goal was to lay bare the flaws with … the discipline as a whole," she added. "And I think we did that."
In September 2019, Associate Judge Todd Edelman agreed. "Based largely on the inability of the published studies in the field to establish an error rate, the absence of an objective standard for identification, and the lack of acceptance of the discipline's foundational validity outside of the community of firearms and toolmark examiners," he wrote, the evidence must be limited to a conclusion that "the firearm cannot be excluded as the source of the casing."
The statement rejected the PCAST's conclusion that studies seeking to validate forensic practices should adhere to basic scientific principles.
The rulings continued into 2020. And then, in January 2021, the Justice Department statement popped up — in direct response to rulings that limited firearms evidence. "Formally addressing PCAST's incorrect claims has become increasingly important," it read, "as a number of recent federal and state court opinions have cited the report as support for limiting the admissibility of firearms/toolmarks evidence in criminal cases." The statement went on to make three assertions, none of which are grounded in science.
The most fundamental was that forensic matching practices don't belong to the field known as "metrology," the science of measurement. According to the Justice Department, metrology doesn't apply to methods like firearms analysis because practitioners don't really measure anything. Instead, they only use their eyes. "As their reflexive description makes clear, forensic pattern comparison methods compare the features/characteristics and overall patterns of a questioned sample to a known source," the statement asserted. "They do not measure them."
The statement also rejected as too stringent the PCAST's conclusions that studies seeking to validate forensic practices should adhere to a set of basic scientific principles and error rates should be established through well-designed black-box studies that test examiners' accuracy.
As the PCAST report riled up a section of the forensics community, so too did the Justice Department's response. Its point about metrology drew a stinging rebuke from Thomas D. Albright, director of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies' Vision Center Laboratory, which researches how the brain measures visual information.
In a piece published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Albright explained why the Justice Department's assertion was wrong. "This may seem like a semantic argument of little consequence, but I maintain that it reflects a longstanding and deep-seated misunderstanding within the forensic science community about how people make decisions," he wrote. The notion that patterns in forensics are not measured but only visually analyzed, he argued, is absurd. "To wit, biological senses employed by human observers measure and discriminate the physical properties of sensory stimuli by simple and well-established rules," he wrote. "This understanding encourages new ways of thinking about and improving the accuracy of forensic feature comparison thereby limiting the scourge of wrongful conviction."
To be fair, this isn't the first time that the Justice Department has looked sideways at the PCAST report. Not long after it was released, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the department would decline to adopt its recommendations. But there's a critical difference between what Lynch said and the January statement, according to Sinha. "There's no surprise to us that …. Lynch was not going to adopt the findings at the end of the day. This helps them get convictions," she said. "What she didn't go so far as to say was that what the PCAST has done is scientifically unsupportable. That it's bogus, and they've got it all wrong, which is effectively what this statement tries to do."
And the stakes are high, Sinha said. Where something like bite-mark evidence is rarely used, firearms evidence is all but ubiquitous. So rejecting the PCAST recommendations on shoring up forensic analysis in the field has real consequences.
The Justice Department's response, Sinha wrote in Slate, "was a smoke-and-mirrors attempt to use the credibility of the federal government to prop up the uncritical use of flawed forensic science that has contributed to hundreds of wrongful convictions."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrives to testify before a House Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 2018.
Photo: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP
Unsigned, Unattributed, Unverifiable
Even as Albright and others began to sound the alarm about the content of the Justice Department's statement, there remained an open question: Who wrote it? Oddly, the official statement had no author attached. But all signs point to one man: Ted Hunt.
Back when Barack Obama was president, there were a few hopeful indications that forensics reform might be in play. Not long after he was inaugurated, the National Academy of Sciences released its long-awaited study of forensics practices. A precursor to the PCAST report, it was equally unsparing in its assessment that, save for DNA analysis, "no forensic method has been rigorously shown to have the capacity to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between evidence and a particular individual or source."
In the wake of the NAS report, the Obama administration launched the National Commission on Forensic Science, a 32-member panel chosen from across disciplines, including science and law, to "enhance the practice and improve the reliability of forensic science." Although the group's work was plodding, incremental, and not entirely satisfying, it was at least moving toward something.
But with the election of President Donald Trump, all momentum ceased. Trump installed Sen. Jeff Sessions, a noted opponent of forensics reform, as attorney general. Sessions folded the commission and in its place named Hunt, a career prosecutor from Kansas City, Missouri, as the head of a mysterious Justice Department forensics working group that never seemed to get off the ground. Hunt had been on the commission; he was one of just two members to vote against a recommendation that forensic practitioners standardize the language they use in reporting their results and avoid language that might overstate or exaggerate their findings — the kind of language judges in the firearms cases barred.
In 2017, Hunt penned an article for the Fordham Law Review titled "A Short Response to the PCAST Report." It had much the same tone and hit some of the same notes as the Justice Department's official statement. So it wasn't as though people didn't have an idea that Hunt was behind the Trump administration's response to the PCAST report. But no one has been able to say for sure who is to blame. Hunt did not return a message requesting comment.
The statement has already been used in at least five criminal cases to sidestep judicial scrutiny of forensic firearms evidence.
The fact that the Justice Department's statement was anonymous is among a host of problems raised by the UCS and Democracy Forward, which on June 24 filed a 20-page letter asking the department to immediately pull the statement off its website while it conducts a thorough review and decides what should be done to correct it.
The demand draws on the Information Quality Act and the requirement that "influential information" that is "expected to have a genuinely clear and substantial impact at the national level" undergo peer review before release. Because the statement is "unsigned, unattributed, and unverifiable," according to the letter, "the public, and courts, are therefore prevented from confirming the expertise of any contributor or understanding the extent to which these opinions are shared by scientists."
"The possibility that it was in fact written by a lawyer with a prosecutorial agenda," the letter adds, "renders the statement susceptible to corruption."
Jessica Morton, senior counsel with Democracy Forward, says the Justice Department's statement is dangerous. "I think the potential damage is enormous. Whenever a statement is coming from the United States Department of Justice, it carries more weight than a statement coming from elsewhere," she said. "Once it becomes enshrined in precedent … scientific techniques that don't meet the standards to merit the name can become tools to continue incarcerating people, including people who may be innocent."
Where the PCAST was meant to encourage reform in forensic practices — reforms that, to date, have largely failed to materialize — the Justice Department's response was specifically intended to influence the courts to reject challenges to forensic evidence. The statement says as much in noting that it comes on the heels of firearms evidence rulings in cases like Goodwin-Bey and Tibbs. According to the advocates' letter, the agency's statement has already been used in at least five criminal cases across the country to sidestep judicial scrutiny of forensic firearms evidence.
"And the implication of that, I think, is that the DOJ thinks it's just fine that certain forensic techniques don't really hold up from a scientific perspective," said Samara Spence, another senior counsel with Democracy Forward. "And it implies that DOJ doesn't think that the validity of these techniques needs to be improved. It seems like an endorsement of the status quo in a vote against improving something that scientists have been saying is flawed for years."
The Information Quality Act gives the Justice Department 120 days from the filing of the letter to review and take action on the groups' request.
In an email to The Intercept, Dena Iverson, principal deputy director of the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs, said the position laid out in the statement remains the agency's stance. "The department's January statement provides a detailed explication of a position that has remained unchanged since publication of the PCAST report in 2016," she wrote. Iverson did not say who authored the statement.
The Justice Department's current position is in direct conflict with promises President Joe Biden made earlier this year. After he was inaugurated, the administration posted a lengthy memorandum for executive departments and agency heads titled "Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking." In the memo, Biden announced that his administration would make "evidence-based decisions guided by the best available science and data."
"Scientific findings should never be distorted or influenced by political considerations," Biden wrote.
Advocates say the administration's directives mean that the Justice Department's statement must be rescinded. "I mean, at a bare minimum it should be taken down," Sinha said. But it's been up for nearly eight months now, so she thinks more should be done to counteract the damage it's already done. "The right thing to do is replace it with a statement acknowledging the importance of the PCAST report and acknowledging a commitment to … scientific integrity," she said. "Apply that to criminal justice, once and for all."
Jordan Smith[email protected]theintercept.com@chronic_jordan


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The Movie-TV Connection Game (February 2018)
Take a break from the Winter Olympics and test your movie and TV knowledge!
What do Ava and Vanna have in common?
You will be given a pair or trio of films or performers. Your task is to find the common connection. It could be anything--two stars who acted in the same movie, two movies that share a common theme, etc. As always, don't answer all the questions so others can play, too. There is a single best answer for each question.
1. George Hamilton and Amy Irving.
2. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn (in addition to Charade).
3. Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger and Nightmare Alley.
4. Ava Gardner and Vanna White.
5. Charles Bronson and Mickey Rooney.
6. Robert Duvall and George Hamilton.
7. Warren Beatty and Charlton Heston.
8. Dial M for Murder and House of Wax.
9. James Mason and Walter Pidgeon.
10. Sherlock, Jr. and The Purple Rose of Cairo.
11. Tom Selleck and Chuck Connors.
12. Margaret Hamilton and Lou Ferrigno.
13. Tom Tryon and Jeff Bridges.
14. Diana Rigg and Marlene Dietrich.
15. Jean-Claude Killy and George Lazenby (sorta).
Posted by Rick29 at 7:27 PM
Labels: movie-tv connection quiz, rick29 (author)
Dick Schmuck February 21, 2018 at 7:39 PM
(Formerly known as Beelzabub)
#1 -They both played characters with superlative brain power: Hamilton in The Power and Irving The Fury?(DePalma anyway)
#2 - They both played angels Bishop's Wife and that Spielberg remake of A guy Named Joe
#8 this aint the answer you're looking for but aren't they both Warner Bros. releases?
Oh yeah -#10 - They both have characters that enter and/or leave the screen
Rick29 February 21, 2018 at 7:46 PM
Very good on #1 (BTW, I love THE POWER, though I know I'm in the minority). And right again on #2, with Audrey being angelic in ALWAYS. I don't know if both pics in #8 were from WB.
Mike Doran February 22, 2018 at 2:37 AM
Duvall quit Godfather Part III in a money squabble with Coppola; Hamilton replaced him in a last-minute rewrite.
Diana Rigg played Dietrich's part in a TV remake of Witness For The Prosecution.
Both from WB - and both in 3D.
Rick29 February 22, 2018 at 9:27 AM
Another interesting connection on #6 and you're right (naturally!) on #14.
Oh yeah - #10: They both have characters that enter and/or leave the screen
Well done! I still think SHERLOCK JR. was probably Keaton's best.
DKoren February 21, 2018 at 7:48 PM
5. Both guest-starred on Combat! (I don't think this is the answer you're looking for, but as a huge Combat! fan it was the first thing that popped in my head. LOL!)
Learning stuff like this is what I love about this game!
fandex February 21, 2018 at 8:39 PM
12. They both played green characters, Hamilton the Wicked Witch of the West, Ferrigno The Hulk.
I'm envious that you got this question...green with envy!
6. Both played country singers, Duvall in Tender Mercies, and Hamilton as Hank Williams in Your Cheatin Heart.
9. Both play submarine captains, Mason in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and Pidgeon in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Great job! One encountered a giant squid and the other a giant octopus!
Caftan Woman February 21, 2018 at 9:14 PM
#3. The leading lady of Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is the daughter of the leading man of Nightmare Alley.
#8. Two of my favourite movies...no, that's not it...two of my favourite 3D movies.
Caftan Woman February 22, 2018 at 9:15 AM
Thanks for not making it "smart alec".
Jerome Wilson February 22, 2018 at 10:37 AM
4. They both played the goddess Venus, Ava Gardner in One Touch of Venus and Vanna in The Goddess of Love.
7. They both played quarterbacks, Beatty in Heaven Can Wait and Heston in Number One.
Rick29 February 22, 2018 at 12:45 PM
Very impressive, especially Ava and Vanna since not many people know the latter's film.
Randy Monk February 22, 2018 at 1:06 PM
#5 They both played cornermen in boxing films. Bronson in Kid Galahad and Rooney in Requiem for a Heavyweight.
Ooh, that's very cool! But there's a less interesting connection, too.
#13. Both actors played extraterrestrials with human "spouses," Tryon in I Married a Monster from Outer Space and Bridges in Starman.
Alien "spouses"...I like that!
Only three questions still need answers: 5, 11 (pretty hard), and 15 (difficult, too).
Bill O February 22, 2018 at 8:07 PM
5. Played real life gangsters.
11. Used specially modified rifles - Quigley Down Under.
15.Skiing.
Show off :). Really well done, Bill!
15. Killy doubled Lazenby as Bond in the ski sequences.
That concludes this game. Thanks to everyone who played!
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Dali Wireless Presents an Innovative Approach to Meeting Growing Demand for Mobile Network Capacity
Proprietary cloud-based solution of Dali Wireless, built on more than 200 patents, allows mobile operators to adapt to current demand and future needs.
June 5, 2015 – Boca Raton, FL — Albert Lee, Chairman and CEO of Dali Wireless, observes during his interview with Corporate Review, "The existing mobile network was built to support voice transmissions, not the current and rapidly growing level of data and video usage." He adds, "The demand for mobile services places a major strain on the existing system, and the rapidly coming tsunami of increased uses is a source of great concern for the mobile industry." Tune in to watch the Dali Wireless segment airing on Bloomberg Television as sponsored programming on June 7, 2015 at 10:00am CDT. Check your local listings for airtimes.
Explaining the inspiration for his company, Lee notes, "The introduction of the iPhone marked the beginning of a migration of computing from desktops to smartphones and mobile devices. Our use of proprietary software solutions and a cloud model allows us to break the communications bottleneck many now experience.
This important capability is underlined by Co-Founder and CTO Professor Shawn Stapleton when he explains, "Our approach 'future-proofs' networks and allows operators the flexibility and scalability to reconfigure networks dynamically over time. It also facilitates providing flexible capacity when and where it is needed."
Founded in 2006, Dali Wireless in headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, and has R&D facilities in Vancouver, Canada.
The RF router developed by Dali Wireless is capable of providing mobile coverage wherever and whenever there is a need for wireless access on a 24/7 basis. The cloud-based, all digital software-controlled system received "Best of Tower and Small Summit" Award and the Emerging Tech Award E-Tech 2014, among other recognition.
Lee ended his comments by explaining, "Our real value comes from helping operators mine the "invisible gold" of their sliver of the communications spectrum, permitting more throughput and breaking the bottleneck that causes more than 60 percent of all Smartphone users to express dissatisfaction with their device's indoor performance."
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Analysts at the Inmarsat satellite venture executed a computational tour de force to determine where a missing Malaysia Airlines jet probably went, but mathematician John Zweck says the feat is simple enough to explain with a basketball, a hoop ... and an ant.
"The math involved is really just a little bit more than the trigonometry you'd have in high school," Zweck, a professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, told NBC News.
Don't worry: Zweck isn't popping a trig quiz on us. Instead, he's retracing the steps that the investigators at Inmarsat, Britain's Air Accidents Investigations Branch and the Boeing Co. took to narrow down the search area for the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 jet, which disappeared from radar screens on March 8.
All the investigators had to go on were signals from a transmitter on the Boeing 777 jet that sent hourly pings to an Inmarsat telecom satellite, hovering high over the Indian Ocean. They were able to glean two key sets of clues from those signals: the angular distance of the jet when each of the pings was sent, and the frequency of each ping.
The angular distance allowed Inmarsat to draw a series of arcs, to the north and to the south, indicating the range of possible locations when each ping was sent. "We know the times at which the airplane crossed those arcs," Zweck said. But the arcs stretch so far it'd be impossible to search the entire swath of ocean.
To narrow down the search area, Zweck took the plane's last known position, as of 2:11 a.m. local time, and then looked for straight-line routes that traced a great circle around the globe. That would be consistent with a scenario in which the crew — and perhaps the passengers as well — were incapacitated, leaving the plane to fly on autopilot until the fuel ran out.
North-south lines of longitude are examples of great circles. "However, in our case, instead of the great circles being lines of longitude through the North Pole, they are going through where the plane was thought to be at 2:11 a.m.," Zweck said.
If you're looking for a straight-line, great-circle route, it's possible to figure out the jet's path using only the satellite data. This is where the basketball comes in handy.
"You could take a basketball, and draw the arcs with a red pen on the basketball," Zweck said. "Then put the basketball in a hoop that fits snugly around the ball. Pin that basketball onto the rim at the place where the plane was at 2:11 a.m., and put another pin on the exact opposite point on the ball."
The rim of the hoop can now define any of the great circles that pass through the starting point.
That would produce a route that intersected all the pings at the right time to reflect a constant speed for the plane.
Inmarsat's analysts had an advantage over Zweck, in that they could estimate the speed of the plane by analyzing Doppler shifts in the frequency of the pings. "They knew how to calibrate their ruler," Zweck said. "I didn't, but I was able to infer it."
Zweck ended up with a speed estimate that was the same as Inmarsat's: 450 knots, or 518 mph.
"What I was able to do was reproduce Inmarsat's results," Zweck said. "But I didn't use a basketball and a rim. I used a computer and trigonometry."
There was one other problem to solve: The arcs could point to a northward flight just as easily as a southward flight. So which path did Flight 370 take? The key clue came from the pings' Doppler shift.
You can hear a Doppler shift in the whistle of a passing train: The pitch rises when the train is approaching you, and falls when it's chugging away from you. Similarly, the frequency of the jet's ping would be slightly higher if the plane is moving toward the satellite, and slightly lower if it's moving away.
To explain how this relates to the north vs. south question, Zweck metaphorically passes you the basketball once more. Imagine you're holding the ball in front of you at arm's length. The point in the very center of your vision is analogous to the point on Earth directly below the satellite.
"It makes all of us math majors around the world swell with pride."
"We know the plane started north of the satellite," Zweck said. "If you imagine that the plane was an ant on the basketball, the ant starts a little bit above the level of your eye. Now imagine that the ant is walking south, across the surface of the basketball. When the ant walks south along that straight line, it's getting just a little closer at first."
But when it crosses the plane of your vision, the ant starts receding. The jet would go through a similar, ever-so-slight advance and retreat as it crossed the equator and headed south.
That rate of movement, forward and back, was reflected in the pings' Doppler shift: first a slight rise in frequency, and then a fall. "They were able to tell by looking at the frequency of the signal that it was getting closer to the satellite, but then after a certain point, it's moving away," Zweck said.
That suggested that the plane took the southern route. If it had gone north, the Doppler data would have shown that the plane was consistently farther away from the satellite.
The forward-and-back Doppler shift was so subtle that Inmarsat's analysts had to double-check it by comparing data from other 777 jets that traveled similar routes. They also checked the data that the Malaysian jet sent back before it disappeared. "It all agreed," Zweck said.
For more of the technical nitty-gritty, check out this statement from Malaysia's acting transport minister, or Zweck's UT-Dallas website.
"It's an amazing bit of analysis, because the beginning of the path is so darn close to the equator," observed James Oberg, NBC News' space analyst. "It makes all of us math majors around the world swell with pride."
However, the only way to verify the analysis is to identify wreckage in the search area, an Alaska-sized stretch of the Indian Ocean about 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) southwest of Perth, Australia.
There have been some intriguing sightings of debris, gleaned from satellite imagery and aerial observations. Ships and aircraft from six countries — Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States — are combing the area. NASA says it's taking pictures of the southern search zone with its Terra and EO-1 satellites. But so far, Inmarsat's masterful theorem has yet to be proven.


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Q: Maximize entropy under Kulback-Leibler divergence I posed this question in math.stackexchange.com, but have not received any answer. I would like to try my luck here.
In this question, it is to solve
\begin{align}
\max_p &-\int dy\,p(y)\ln p(y) \\
0&=1-\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}p(y)dy\\
0&=1-\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}y^2p(y)dy\\
0&=c+\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{e^{-y^2/2}}{\sqrt{2\pi}}\ln p(y)\,dy
\end{align}
I can certainly apply the calculus of variation. However I would like to directly apply Jensen's inequality.
Here is my attempt at the solution. But I am not certain of the validity of the last inequality. Would someone please correct me?
\begin{align}
&\int dy\, p(y)\ln \frac1{p(y)}  \\
=& \int dy\,p\ln\frac{\exp\big(-\lambda_1y^2-\frac{\lambda_2}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{y^2}2}\frac{\ln p}{p}\big)}{p}+\lambda_1 \int dy\, y^2 p +\lambda_2 \int dy\,e^{-\frac{y^2}2}\ln p \quad \text{where} p:=p(y) \\
\le&\ \ln\int dy \exp\Big(-\lambda_1y^2-\frac{\lambda_2}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{y^2}2}\frac{\ln p}{p}\Big)+\lambda_1 \int dy\, y^2 p +\frac{\lambda_2}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int dy\,e^{-\frac{y^2}2}\ln p
\end{align}
where the last inequality comes from Jensen's inequality applied to $\ln$ which is convex. The equality is reached when and only when $p=p_1$ such that $\exp\big(-\lambda_1y^2-\frac{\lambda_2}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\frac{y^2}2}\frac{\ln p_1}{p_1}\big)=z(\lambda_1,\lambda_2)p_1$ for some positive function $z(\lambda_1,\lambda_2)$ so that
\begin{align}
\int dy\,p_1(y)&=1, \\
\int dy\,y^2p_1(y)&=1, \\
\int dy\,\frac1{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-y^2/2}p_1(y)&=-c.
\end{align}
We have
$$\int dy\, p_1\ln\frac1p_1=\ln z(\lambda_1,\lambda_2)+\lambda_1-\lambda_2c.$$
However, I am not sure if
$$\int dy\, p\ln\frac1p\le\int dy\, p_1\ln\frac1p_1,\quad\forall \text{ probability measure }p.$$

Now I think it may not be so easy. Jensen's inequality may only be applicable to when the constraint is linear to the probability distribution $p(y)$. But there may be a surprising solution.

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Students from St Margaret's Primary School and Dover Grammar School for girls have been hard at work creating paintings themed on The White Cliffs under the guidance of artist Joan Weston. The work produced in workshops at the schools is on display from 27th July to 10th August on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am – 4pm.
A further exhibition of work from Joan's adult White Cliffs Project Workshop will take place at the centre from 7 – 21st October – There is still the opportunity to tak part in one of Joan's workshops – please see www.joanweston.co.uk for more information on workshops and other places in which work from the project is being displayed.


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