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A new department comes to life in Arts & Sciences.
In late 2003, professor and sociologist Mark Rank walked up to a podium amidst applause. The George Warren Brown School of Social Work had just honored Rank with an endowed professorship named after Herbert Hadley, a Washington University chancellor back in the 1920s who had also served as Missouri’s governor. Friends and colleagues gathered at the ceremony to congratulate Rank on becoming the new Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare, and also to hear him speak about his forthcoming book: One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All.
“I could have so easily missed it,” Steve Fazzari recollects more than 10 years later. Fazzari, professor of economics and now chair of the newly reestablished Department of Sociology in Arts & Sciences, looks back at this event as the first step in a long, somewhat winding path that led him to his latest leadership role. Rank, who serves as associate chair of the new department, agrees that it was an important moment.
The two professors had been casual friends since arriving on campus some twenty years earlier, in 1982 and 1985, respectively. They were a similar age and both grew up in Wisconsin. Their phone numbers, oddly enough, were just one digit apart. They had offices in connected buildings – Fazzari with economics, Rank with the original sociology department, which formally closed in 1991. They would bump into each other and chat. But it wasn’t until Rank’s talk about One Nation, Underprivileged that they began paying close attention to one another’s work.
At the time of Rank’s installation as an endowed professor, Fazzari felt like he was at something of a professional crossroads. He was even considering an offer from an outside institution. The dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at that time, Ed Macias, encouraged him to look for new challenges within the university rather than feeling he had to go elsewhere. Rank’s installation presentation in some ways helped Fazzari find that new direction. In the talk, Rank discussed his findings about how poverty affects all Americans, not just those experiencing financial hardship. He talked about how poverty stems from economic structures and governmental policies, rather than individual failings.
“I was just really impressed and attracted to those ideas,” Fazzari says. “For a variety of reasons I was thinking about inequality in my own work, and it just became this sort of serendipitous stepping stone to more conversations. We found this synergy of interests.”
He and Rank went on to spend hours discussing inequality in the United States, especially as Rank shaped his 2014 book Chasing the American Dream: Understanding What Shapes Our Fortunes. These conversations led to a grant-funded, co-taught course on the American dream designed to bring perspectives from social work and economics together. Today, Fazzari is considered a leading scholar on the relationship between rising income inequality and macroeconomic trends in the United States.
“This was all directly related to the creation of the sociology department, or at least my role in that project,” Fazzari says. “Just seeing how these things were so central to American society and were not being fully reflected in traditional economics, for example, and probably in other places in the institution as well. I saw this as something that would be good for the university, which has been very good to me.”
Much has been written – and speculated – about how a dwindling program, departmental tensions, and competing institutional priorities led to the eventual disbanding of the first sociology department in 1991. Some former professors have pointed to the tumultuous late 1960s as the beginning of the end. Issues the department faced at that time included, most dramatically, a physical altercation between the former chair and a graduate student. In the following decades, many key faculty left for positions elsewhere. Eventually, administration came to the difficult conclusion that it was not financially feasible to rebuild the sociology department to a stature consistent with an ambitious university. In April 1989, a phased closure was announced.
In more recent years, the university has recognized sociology as a noticeable gap in course offerings, as psychology professor Henry “Roddy” Roediger noted in Student Life:
“About 10 to 12 years ago, some undergraduates came to me after some horrific murders and said, ‘We’d really like to take a course on the criminal mind, and there doesn’t seem to be anything like that in psychology.’ I said to them, ‘Well, the way academics divide things up, criminology is usually considered part of sociology, and that is normally where such courses would be taught.’ There is a huge swath of intellectual material that we don’t have in Arts & Sciences because we do not have a sociology department.”
This academic gap particularly troubled Barbara Schaal, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. A renowned evolutionary biologist, Schaal serves on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) under President Obama. She also recently became president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which publishes the prestigious journal Science. This broad experience and perspective solidified Schaal’s strong conviction that the world’s complex problems must be approached from multiple angles and disciplines. Sociology, like other social sciences, brings unique and necessary insights to national and global issues. She envisioned sociology’s return as a priority for the future of Arts & Sciences.
In fall 2013, she presented a case for the department’s return to the Academic Planning Committee (APC), which advises the dean on major directions in Arts & Sciences. She also formed an advisory committee, chaired by Roediger, to gauge campus-wide interest in the idea. In March 2014, she announced her intention to form the department. “Reestablishing our sociology department will enhance our ability to educate our students and conduct world-class research in areas that are central to the critical social issues of our time,” she said.
Recognizing the value of sociology on campus was the first of many steps in the department-building process. Then came the complicated question of what came next.
Initially, Schaal and her advisors considered what Fazzari refers to as the “big bang model.” Arts & Sciences could hire a distinguished sociologist to lead the fledgling department. With this approach, a new chair would shape sociology at Washington University by attracting new faculty members and helping to decide the future direction of research and curriculum.
Though in some ways the most obvious direction, this approach presented several potential challenges. Any professor with the prestige and expertise necessary for the “big bang” model to be successful would already be attached to a highly ranked academic institution. Drawing him or her to a new situation would take substantial resources, a significant amount of time, or both. The new chair would also likely require assurances that he or she could hire new faculty members right away – a further up-front drain on resources. Even if expense were not an issue, the reverberations of the ‘big bang’ across campus would be hard to predict. Bringing in a large group of hires all at once could work out well, but there would also be some risk involved.
With these concerns in mind, Schaal began to consider a more organic approach to building sociology. What about recruiting a bit more slowly, which would be more in line with the financial constraints that are realistic these days? What about building a department, but not all at once?
The organic model presented its own issues. Leading such an effort requires both commitment and patience, without the immediate gratification of an unlimited hiring budget. A person with existing experience and connections at Washington University seemed like the best choice to hold the process together and guide the department through its earliest phase, but there was one obvious problem. Without an existing sociology department, there were no sociologists within Arts & Sciences to lead the charge.
“After one of these meetings, I thought ‘hmm, maybe I could do that,” Fazzari recalls, “and just about the first thing I did was go to Mark’s office.”
Though he was drawn to the role, Fazzari initially thought it was “probably crazy” to lead a department with only limited knowledge of the subject matter. “I was thinking maybe I could do this, but I mean, I don’t know the discipline. Mark and I have taught this course together; we’re friends; I’ve read his work. But I really have a very limited knowledge of what could truly be described as sociology.”
Rank encouraged Fazzari to move past these doubts and pursue the job. Fazzari also checked with Roediger, who encouraged him to consider offering his services as the initial chair. At this point Fazzari had successfully chaired the economics department for six years. This background – along with Rank’s disciplinary expertise and Roediger’s experience building up a highly regarded psychology department – formed a triangle of leadership that felt right to everyone involved, including Dean Schaal. She offered Fazzari the chairmanship just as he was leaving on a trip to Australia and New Zealand during a sabbatical year. Before boarding his plane, he dashed off some memos with initial ideas. Upon his return, it was time to officially start building sociology.
Building a new department from scratch would be a challenge for any academic discipline, but this may be particularly true for sociology – a field that encompasses a dizzying number of subtopics and potential angles. Some of these branches can be glimpsed by perusing the list of current working groups within the American Sociological Association. Dozens of ‘sections’ cover topics like the environment, human rights, sexuality, inequality, labor, crime, and aging. Across these seemingly dissimilar areas of inquiry, an overarching focus on society and social behavior brings topics under a common framework.
“The sociological perspective is trying to understand certain behaviors and actions within the context of the larger society,” Rank explains.
“For example, there are a number of sociologists that might be interested in the family, or criminology, or organizations. The field itself is very broad, but it’s putting this lens of understanding on these particular areas.”
Broadly thinking about economic class, a core topic within sociology, provides an example of this approach. What does it mean to be rich, poor, middle class, or working class? The answers to these questions are for the most part defined by society. The same can be said for questions relating to race or gender. What does it really mean to be a woman in the United States in the 21st century?
“Societies aren’t just a bunch of random individuals,” Fazzari adds. “There’s interplay between the individual and the broader social context."
As recruitment started in earnest and decisions had to be made regarding the future direction of the department, teams of advisors became increasingly important. Doug Massey, a renowned sociologist from Princeton, led an 8-person external advisory committee. A 12-person internal committee, including members from across the humanities and social sciences, led the search process. Chaired by Roediger and Fazzari, this group began the time-consuming search for a team of outstanding sociologists to be Washington University’s first recruits.
With the help of these advisory committees – and with Fazzari and Rank’s own interests and research as a backdrop – the leaders of the effort decided that the new department should at least in part focus on issues of inequality. This decision was made in the spring and summer of 2014. Then in August, with the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the ensuing unrest, the value and need for discussions about race and inequality on campus became even more apparent.
Though particularly relevant today, issues around inequality have been essential to sociology since the start of the discipline. “If you think about Marx and Durkheim and Weber, some of the leading sociologists in the 19th and early 20th century, they were concerned about the issues of social class and social inequality,” Rank explains. “It’s a core area, and it makes a lot of sense in today’s world to focus on that. We’re more and more concerned with rising inequality, particularly in the United States. So it’s an area that I think fits really well with what’s going on and also what the discipline has been focusing on for a really long time.”
In addition to thinking about which subsets of sociology would be the best fit for Washington University, the leadership team had to consider things like research methods. The university as a whole has an increased focus on ‘big data,’ for example. How would sociology fit into this picture?
Traditional sociological research often relies on quantitative data gathered from the census, surveys, or other sources. In these types of studies, sociologists glean statistics and other numerical information from a random sample of a population. In other types of studies, sociologists instead focus on qualitative information gathered from in-depth interviews and community engagement. Though learning from numbers (quantitative research) in many ways differs from learning from descriptions of social experiences (qualitative research), Fazzari and Rank believe it’s outdated and misguided to pit the two approaches against one another.
“Twenty to thirty years ago there seemed to be more conflict between these methods, whereas younger people are seeing them as more complementary,” says Fazzari. Rank, who has undertaken both types of research in his own work, fully agrees with this view. With the advice and support of the external advisory committee, the faculty search committee sought out candidates that brought a variety of methods to the table.
Over time, the various committees began to understand the type of people and scholarship they hoped to bring to campus. But at least initially, Fazzari had concerns about whether promising scholars would choose to move to Washington University, which did not yet have known sociology colleagues with whom to interact and collaborate. Administrative and logistical details around the search process, like advertising, evaluation, and campus visits, kept the team more than busy. But it was really this basic question that kept Fazzari up at night. Would outstanding sociologists want to take a chance on something new?
As the recruitment process ramped up, these concerns dissipated fairly quickly. A number of the most promising candidates expressed strong interest in the opportunity to shape the direction of a new department. These final candidates included three accomplished sociologists, all still relatively early in their careers – Adia Harvey Wingfield, David Cunningham, and Jake Rosenfeld. These three scholars all accepted offers to join Arts & Sciences in fall 2015.
“The idea of starting a department from scratch at such an excellent place is pretty close to unprecedented," says David Cunningham. "If you look back at departments that have been especially influential in terms of innovating and making a contribution to the field, they’ve often grown in periods of pressing social issues and social conflict. They’ve been able to speak to those issues in immediate ways. So the new department at Washington University represents an important opportunity that is also coming at a particularly crucial time.”
Adia Harvey Wingfield has a similar view. “The challenge of building a new department from the ground up at a top university is pretty much unheard of,” she says. “It’s exciting to be involved with the prospect of figuring out with my new colleagues what we want to focus on, what specializations we want to emphasize, how we want to structure a major, a minor, and a PhD program. We all want to work to make this one of the top departments in the sociology field.”
Incoming associate professor Jake Rosenfeld shares the rest of the team’s enthusiasm. “I couldn't be more thrilled to join Professors Wingfield, Cunningham, and Fazzari in the new department,” he says. “What's wonderful about the opportunity is the strong backing of so many at Washington University for our efforts, along with sociologists across the nation, who want to see the effort succeed - and want to see the new department thrive.”
To start, each of the new faculty members will begin teaching undergraduate classes in his or her core areas of interest. Over time, they will build toward a fuller curriculum – first a minor, then a major, and eventually a PhD program. Following the organic model first envisioned in 2013, recruiting is projected to continue through 2019. Partnerships with the Brown School and the Institute for Public Health, as well as programs in Arts & Sciences like Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, African and African-American Studies, and American Culture Studies, are already being considered.
Eventually, Fazzari and Rank will hand over leadership to the new generation of sociologists on campus. But for the time being, Fazzari is thrilled to put his 33 years of experience at Washington University toward such a unique and transformative goal. “To be using those hours and that work for this purpose is incredibly rewarding,” Fazzari says. “It’s demanding, but also gratifying.”
Research interests | Wingfield specializes in research that examines the ways that intersections of race, gender, and class affect social processes at work. In particular, she is an expert on the workplace experiences of minority workers in predominantly white professional settings, and specifically on black male professionals in occupations where they are in the minority.
Latest book | No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work (Temple University Press, 2012)
Former institution | Georgia State University
Course to be taught in fall 2015 | Social Theory
Initially, what direction would you like to see the department take?
I think my new colleagues and I are similar in that we focus on different issues of racial stratification. Our research areas and our strengths complement each other in that way, and I’d like to see the department focus on these issues of stratification in contemporary society. The department could help students and faculty think through more of these questions about what inequality looks like and how it’s manifested, particularly in a modern society that is often labeled post-racial or colorblind.
What are you most excited to share with students in your "Social Theory" class?
Often I find that students have preconceived notions about theory. They think it’s going to be boring and that it will be completely divorced from their everyday lives. I really like the challenge of exposing students to people they may have only heard of in passing, as well as people and ideas they’ve never encountered before. In my theory classes we cover Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. But I also try to expose students to more contemporary theorists - people like Patricia Hill Collins and her ideas on black feminist thought, and Arlie Hochschild and her ideas about emotional labor, which I think are very valuable as we become more of a service-oriented economy. These are the type of things that students really tend to latch on to. They see how real and vibrant this material really is. Theory has such resonance for our everyday experiences as social beings.
Research interests | Cunningham’s current research focuses on the scope, organization, and legacy of racial contention. His past work centers on the Ku Klux Klan, in particular the complex roles that the klan played in various communities throughout the 1960s and the enduring impacts of KKK activity on contemporary voting patterns and crime rates.
Latest book | Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Former institution | Brandeis University
Course to be taught in fall 2015 | Order and Change in Society
In your recent book Klansville, USA, how was your approach as a sociologist different than if you had researched the KKK as a historian or through some other discipline, like American Culture Studies?
One thing that sociologists do is conceive of cases like the KKK as instances of broader related phenomena. In Klansville, USA, I engaged with a longstanding body of theory about how social and racial conflict can be based in patterns of competition between groups. If those bodies see themselves in competition for resources, the identities that can strengthen social boundaries between groups solidify, and you tend to see contention over those resources. So my approach was to apply that theoretical framework as a lens to understand the klan and the environment around which the KKK was able to build a following.
Can you briefly describe your course "Order and Change in Society"? What types of social systems and networks might you discuss?
This course is not conceived as a typical introductory sociology class, which traditionally seeks to provide students with an overview of various core sociological sub-fields. Instead, "Order and Change" examines foundational processes that reproduce the social order but also create possibilities for social change. It’s organized around a set of theoretical approaches that provide this foundation, which we then apply to a wide range of topics - from how status is navigated at cocktail parties, in elite boarding schools, and on public buses; to how social networks can help us get jobs while also shaping our vulnerability to health risks; to the impacts of contemporary policing policies. The ultimate goal of the course is to introduce a set of tools that students can apply to almost any trend or case of interest.
Research interests | Rosenfeld’s research and teaching focus on the political and economic determinants of inequality in the United States and other advanced democracies. His recent scholarship shows in detail the consequences of labor’s decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened support for immigrants’ economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African-Americans.
Latest book | What Unions No Longer Do (Harvard University Press, 2014)
Former institution | University of Washington (Seattle)
Course to be taught in fall 2015 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
How did your training as a sociologist help you understand interpret material for your latest book, What Unions No Longer Do?
One aspect of the book that I'm pretty proud of is its expressly interdisciplinary character - it draws on and (one hopes!) speaks to scholarship in sociology, history, economics, and political science. That said, being trained as a sociologist I think led me to ask certain questions that scholars in other disciplines may overlook. To provide just one example, a rich literature in sociology on immigration and economic assimilation among recent arrivals inspired me to look at both the history and current patterns of unionization among recent arrivals to the U.S.
What are you most excited to share with students in your course "Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"?
Given all the international attention to recent events in the St. Louis region, in my upcoming course we will definitely address Ferguson and its aftermath. Before doing so, however, it's important that students have a firm grounding in the sociology of race and ethnicity. So we'll begin by reading works by Rogers Brubaker and others on how race/ethnic groups get defined in the first place. We'll also delve into the history of race - and racial oppression - in the U.S., by reading recent sociology that covers what's remained similar and what's changed regarding racial stratification in this country. A young sociologist at Berkeley, Cybelle Fox, has done some wonderful work on this topic. The course, I should add, is still very much in development, so I expect many of the details will change as we approach the fall semester!
Originally published in June 2015 for the Ampersand: Alumni Edition. For more stories and updates from Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, visit our news and events page or subscribe to the Ampersand weekly newsletter.


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„Our rally is against the conflict of interests of the businessman and prime minister Babis. He should either get rid of his Agrofert [agricultural] holding and media groups belonging to him or resign from the post of the prime minister“,
“As the prime minister of Israel I shall aspire and act to turn this rally into an official rally shared by all of Israeli society,” said Gantz, who was asked in October to form the next government, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned his mandate to President Reuven Rivlin. “I want this square to be balanced, for all the streams to find their place in it and to sincerely mourn this debased murder.”
„What has been happening in the past few days must be stopped,“ Gantz said. „It’s unacceptable that while we are talking about [forming] a government to rehabilitate diplomacy, to back the Israel Defense Forces, to empower the law enforcement institutions and safeguard a free press, Netanyahu, who is in charge of all these systems, is spreading blatant messages against them.“
Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz met on Thursday with the leaders of the Joint List, an alliance of four Arab-majority parties, as part of his effort to form a governing coalition after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to do so.
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced on Tuesday that he was headed to the Baabda Palace to submit his cabinet’s resignation to President Michel Aoun „after having reached a dead-end, and sensing the need for a positive shock.”
Yair Lapid, the No. 2 on the Kahol Lavan roster, said at the party meeting that a government can’t be created in the space of 48 hours, and that all Netanyahu had to agree to was to be second in the rotation – i.e., to agree that Gantz serve as prime minister first, then Netanyahu. But what Netanyahu wants is a third election, Lapid said.
“That’s what his lawyers suggested to him, that’s what he needs because of the indictments,” Lapid said.
According to reports in the Hebrew media, Gantz could offer Netanyahu a “compromise deal” that would force him to choose between including his religious allies in the coalition, and being prime minister first in any rotation deal.
However the Government could table a vote of no confidence against itself, which only requires a plurality to pass.
If this passes Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn, or any other party leader, would have 14 days to form an alternative Government.
Only if these efforts failed would there be a general election.
The political whirlwind and the desire to avoid another election might cause Gantz to forget the reason his party won 33 Knesset seats and became the largest political party in Israel, namely that the people are sick and tired of Netanyahu. They are sick not only of the abundant criminal accusations now under review at a hearing, but also of his corrupt and cynical politics, which have put his personal survival above any other value, and in the name of which he has pitted parts of Israeli society against each other.
Even if he is indicted, Mr Netanyahu intends to stay on as prime minister. The law does not require him to step down until a final conviction.
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A No10 source said today: „If the question is ‚is he going to stop talking about the Surrender Bill‘ the answer is ‚absolutely no he’s not‘.“
Yes, this initiative of yours, Mr. President, is very grave indeed! You are dividing the country on an ethnic basis, you are placing one people above another, one public above another, one group above another, when your job is to say loud and clear: They are all my sons. And for this you do not have a mandate. You do not have a mandate to divide the country between Jews and Arabs. You do not have a mandate to exclude a fifth of the population.
Not only did the court declare the prime minister’s action unlawful, it also declared the order itself, which Queen Elizabeth II issued at Mr. Johnson’s request, “unlawful, void, and of no effect.” The request, said the court’s president, Baroness Brenda Hale, might as well have been a “blank sheet of paper.”
Stephen Tierney, a professor of constitutional theory at Edinburgh University, said it was “astonishing” that the court had ruled decisively that it “can review something as fundamental as that, done by Her Majesty, as unlawful.”
What that means is that prorogation can be limited by statute and the courts would enforce that statute. I doubt anyone disputes that. What it does not mean, yet what has happened, is that in the absence of such a statute, the ‘Supreme’ Court can step in and invent one. So lawyers and judges have, step by step, decided to give themselves more and more power.
No one expected them to do what they did today. No one expected it to be unanimous – which perhaps hurts the most.
Less than a week after his impressive electoral achievement, the head of the largest Knesset faction, Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz, conceded his right to be the first to try and form a coalition government. The explanation given by “party sources” for this concession is that Gantz prefers to wait for Netanyahu to try first and fail.
Regrettably, this lame excuse is unconvincing. This move looks like a capitulation without a fight, an admission that the right wing’s long-standing tactic of delegitimizing parties representing Arab society succeeded.
At the Labour conference Jeremy Corbyn has taken to the stage.
He says the supreme court judgment demonstrates Boris Johnson’s contempt for parliament.
He says he will write to the Speaker demanding an urgent recall of parliament.
He says a Labour government would want to be held to account. It would not bypass democracy.
And he says Boris Johnson should “in the historic words, consider his position”.
That means he thinks Johnson should resign.
– The Supreme Court handed down landmark judgment at 10.30am today
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Announcing the result, Lady Hale said: „The court is bound to conclude, therefore, that the decision to advise Her Majesty to prorogue Parliament was unlawful because it had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification.“
Netanyahu getting a first nod from the president would land a harsh blow on the center-left’s morale, which could facilitate Netanyahu’s plan to divide the party from within. The nightmarish vision of Netanyahu settling back in the driver’s seat and recklessly pushing the gas pedal to reach his target would make a mockery of his clear-cut defeat in last Tuesday’s election. While Gantz and his colleagues rejoice over sucker Netanyahu supposedly falling into their well-laid trap, their supporters will see them as naive novices who could soon add insult to injury by reneging on their main pledge not to participate in his coalition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (R) as President Reuven Rivlin looks on, at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, on September 23, 2019.
Mr. Ashkenazi and Meir Dagan, who was the head of the Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, at the time, would later say that this was an attempt at “stealing a war,” Ms. Dayan reported, because in their view such an order required a decision of the full cabinet, not the smaller group in the meeting, who were then known as the forum of seven.
Both Mr. Ashkenazi, who is now retired, and Mr. Dagan, who stepped down after the meeting, have become vocal critics of plans for a unilateral Israeli attack on Iran, and of Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Barak’s aggressive approach.
Diskin’s remarks followed a furore over comments made on Wednesday by Israel’s serving military chief, Benny Gantz, which starkly contrasted with Netanyahu’s rhetoric on Iran. Gantz said he did not believe the Iranian leadership was prepared to „go the extra mile“ to acquire nuclear weapons because it was „composed of very rational people“ who understood the consequences.
The Israeli military chief described the Iranian government as “rational” in interviews published Wednesday and said he did not believe it would build a nuclear bomb, appearing to put some distance between himself and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
“I believe he would be making an enormous mistake, and I don’t think he will want to go the extra mile,” the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, told the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Balad announces it won’t back Gantz, leaving Kahol Lavan with 54 recommendations, while 55 lawmakers said they would recommend Netanyahu ■ Rivlin summons Gantz, Netanyahu for meeting after consultations
September 22, 2019
By the end of Sunday’s consultations, former IDF chief Benny Gantz secured more recommendations than Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily fired back at the Arab Joint List for recommending rival Benny Gantz to be the next prime minister, insisting if given the mandate he would work to form a „broad national unity government.“
Israel’s Arab parties on Sunday broke longstanding precedent by endorsing former IDF chief Benny Gantz for prime minister after last week’s hard-fought elections.
The Israeli government has done everything in its power to reject those of us who are Arab Palestinian citizens, but our influence has only grown. We will be the cornerstone of democracy.
Rare move by Joint List in bid to ‚end the Netanyahu era‘ could give Kahol Lavan leader first chance at forming coalition ■ Lieberman: ‚Joint List members are enemies‘
All eyes are on Yisrael Beiteinu’s Avigdor Lieberman and the Joint List, comprised of four Arab-majority parties, in order to gauge Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz’s chances at unseating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Neither parties have announced officially whether they would recommend Gantz to the president, and are expected to make their decisions public later Sunday.
In 1992, Knesset members from Hadash and the United Arab List backed Yitzhak Rabin, who wasn’t their cup of tea, as prime minister. This eventually led to the allocation of significant funds for the benefit of the Arab community – without mentioning the mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO, and the Oslo Accords.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will begin consultations on Sunday to decide who should form the next government following this week’s general elections, a statement from his office said.
Gantz responded to Netanyahu’s request by saying he would only lead a „liberal“ coalition, a statement which excluded the ultra-Orthodox political bloc on whom Netanyahu has relied throughout his tenure.
Moshe Yaalon, another Blue and White leader, added that the party would not enter into a coalition led by Netanyahu because of the corruption charges against him.
Trump said he had not spoken to Netanyahu, a man he has described as a close friend. He then noted that the election is close while playing down Netanyahu’s importance to the alliance between the United States and Israel.
“Our relations are with Israel, so we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters traveling with him in California.
Parliamentarian Aymen Odeh told Army Radio Wednesday morning he would consider supporting Netanyahu’s chief political rival as official results trickling in continued to solidify a strong showing for the coalition of Arab parties.
The chairman of the Joint List of Arab parties, Ayman Odeh, said Wednesday that he may recommend Blue and White leader Benny Gantz as the next prime minister when he meets with President Reuven Rivlin.
Gantz has already reached out to him, Odeh said, adding that “on Wednesday afternoon, we will decide which path to take.”
David Cameron was so confident about winning the EU referendum vote for Remain that he boasted to fellow EU leaders that he was a “lucky” prime minister who knew “how to win”. The shock of losing the vote, and his career as prime minister, caused Mr Cameron to become “hugely depressed”, he has disclosed, in a fascinating account of how and why he inadvertently set Britain on course for Brexit.
They discussed their two countries’ close working relationship and the Vice President’s visit to Ireland this week, with the Prime Minister reaffirming the UK’s commitment to the Good Friday Agreement.
BORIS Johnson tonight demanded a snap general election after rebel MPs pulled off an extraordinary coup to allow a block on Brexit until next year plunging Westminster into outright chaos.
Twenty one Conservative MPs – including NINE ex-Cabinet ministers – were sacked minutes after siding with Labour to seize control of Parliament’s agenda from 3pm tomorrow.
Israel’s military went on a propaganda offensive against Iran and Hezbollah using social media to drastically increase tensions with neighboring Lebanon hours after Benjamin Netanyahu warned the nation’s enemies, in Arabic, to „watch it.“
The Israeli prime minister was on the campaign trail ahead of elections scheduled for September 17. But the barrage of agitprop by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) represented a dramatic shift towards a warning of outright war.
„This aggressive pretentiousness has no purpose other than political gain, and I do not retract my words,“ he added, saying that „it is not coincidental that he made his statement by the side of Moshe Feiglin. I accuse him of possibly drawing us into war for political gain.“
„It’s unquestionably pure politics and Prime Minister Netanyahu does it unstoppably.
This makes it clear that the Government is working within the legal stipulations set by Dominic Grieve’s political chicanery, and is responding in kind. So there is nothing unconstitutional or improper here. And if the Commons does not like the move, then it is free to pass a motion of no confidence in the Government. As long as a majority of MPs have confidence in the Government, but disapprove of its Brexit policy, they cannot complain about any legal and constitutional means the Government employs to achieve its objectives.
TORY MPs who vote to block a No Deal next week will be sacked from the party, we can reveal.
No10 will bar Remainer rebels from standing at the next general election.

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G-DRAGON and TAEYANGof BIGBANG, dropped a new surprise single on November 21st (KST), entitled “GOOD BOY”. The track immediately went #1 on all 10 real-time music charts in Korea and the music video has already attracted more than 2.5 million YouTube views within 24 hours of its release. G-DRAGON and TAEYANG, the only Korean male solo acts to appear on the Billboard 200, collaborate together for this new single. The upbeat, hip-hop infused EDM track was written and produced by G-DRAGON along with THE FLIPTONESand FREEDO. THE FLIPTONES have previously worked on TAEYANG’s solo track “STAY WITH ME” which featured G-DRAGON as well as with BRITNEY SPEARS,JASON DERULO and SANTANA. Prior to BIGBANG’s debut, G-DRAGON and TAEYANGwere both trainees at YG ENTERTAINMENT and were long-anticipated to be a duo act. This release not only displays their long-standing friendship but also their creative synergy developed from over 14 years of working together. G-DRAGON and TAEYANG will both be appearing at Asia’s biggest music award show the MAMA Awards (Mnet Asian Music Awards) on December 3rd in Hong Kong. The MAMA awards have previously featured performances by guest artists such as STEVIE WONDER, WILL.I.AM, SNOOP DOGG and DR. DRE.


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As a guest of Mariners Resort, you'll find an outdoor pool, a spa tub, a sauna, and a fitness center. Tour/ticket assistance, barbecue grills, and a garden are also featured at the luxury Mariners Resort. Self parking is free. This 4.5-star Sunshine Coast apartment is smoke free.
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Mariners Resort offers 14 accommodations with washers/dryers and DVD players. Rooms open to furnished balconies. These individually decorated and furnished accommodations have separate living rooms and include desks. Accommodations at this 4.5-star apartment have kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers, stovetops, microwaves, and cookware/dishes/utensils. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations with deep soaking bathtubs, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Guests can surf the web using the complimentary wireless Internet access. Flat-screen televisions come with cable channels. Additionally, rooms include coffee/tea makers and irons/ironing boards. Housekeeping is provided on a limited basis.
An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
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Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
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US tests missile defence system on civil aircraft
BAE Systems is to test a missile defence system for use on passenger aircraft under a $29m contract with the US Department of Homeland Security
The company will install its Jeteye aircraft missile defence system on up to three American Airlines aircraft as part of the DHS's counter-man-portable air defence system (MANPADS) programme. BAE Systems will evaluate the system's compatibility with daily passenger airline operations and maintenance.
There will be no testing of the Jeteye system's missile-defeating capability, as that testing was done at US government test ranges during an earlier phase of the programme.
"From the beginning, we actively engaged with US cargo and passenger carriers to commercialise our technology to meet the needs of the airlines," said Burt Keirstead, director of commercial aircraft programs for BAE Systems. "We're confident that the passenger-aircraft phase of the programme will provide valuable data for DHS's findings, providing critical, fact-based information to the airline industry and policy-makers."
The Jeteye system is based on BAE Systems' existing directable infrared countermeasures technology, used to protect military aircraft.
The US counter-MANPADS programme is designed to commercialise proven military technology and gauge its suitability for protecting commercial aircraft by evaluating its performance, impact on aerodynamic drag, weight, reliability, maintainability and system cost.
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The Abuja-Kaduna train service will only resume after security measures have been installed to forestall future recurrences of train attacks in the country.
The security measures will include short and long term plans to secure train services across the country, with the short term taking effect by the end of October.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Sambo while briefing Journalists in Abuja on the release of the remaining 23 victims of the March 28, 2022 Abuja-Kaduna train attack .
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We’re at the end of 2015 for now. As the years progressed, cricket kept evolving along with it. The game started bringing out new innovations, new rules and along with all these positive activities, controversies followed suit. Even controversies evolved throughout the years.
Now, controversy’s field of the boundary was pushed far beyond from the times when two players fighting were considered as the biggest controversies. Incidents involving other important people like officials, groundsmen or even the pitches for that matter, were dragged into the arguments. For example, Indian management lodged a complaint against home umpire Vineet Kulkarni for putting down as much as 4 decisions during the India-South Africa limited over series which the home team ultimately lost. Had the decisions been given otherwise, India would had been in control of the matches, which record books now show South Africa winning the same.
With the increasing amount and variety of controversy day by day, we look at the Top 10 controversies of 2015 –
10. Yasir’s ‘Dope Shope’ not appreciated by ICC
Pakistan’s bowling sensation Yasir Shah failed the dope test, conducted on 13th November 2015, by the International Cricket Council (ICC). “Shah has been charged with an anti-doping rule violation on a sample he provided in an in-competition test,” an ICC statement announced. “The test, conducted on 13 November 2015, was found to contain the presence of chlortalidone, a Prohibited Substance which appears in Section 5 of the World Anti-Doping Agency list (in the category of Specified Substances).” The leg-spinner was going strong in replacing Saeed Ajmal since the bowler’s action was reported and has failed to regain his wicket-taking ability with the new one. Shah took 12 wickets in Pakistan’s 2-0 win against Australia last year before playing a key role in this year’s 2-1 Test series win in Sri Lanka with 24 wickets. Shah has so far taken 76 wickets in 12 Tests and became the fastest to complete 50 wickets in nine Tests — a record for Pakistan. He could face a possible ban of two to four years. The latest doping fails also include wicket-keeper batsman for Sri Lanka – Kusal Perera, where he was tested positive during the Test, which was conducted just before his team played their 1st Test against New Zealand, this month.
9. Politics before Ind-Pak series
Politics got the better of cricket when India-Pakistan’ series got cancelled due to political tensions between the countries. Boards of both countries had agreed to play on a neutral venue of Sri Lanka during the last phases of December 2015, just before India’s tour of Australia in January 2016. With Pakistani Prime Minister’s nod under the belt, it was all upon Indian Prime Minister from whom a go-ahead remained due. Disappointing the cricket fans. Modi failed to provide the nod, reasoning sensitive political issues and hence the much awaited Indo-Pak series came to an end before it even started. PCB would incur a huge financial loss of around USD 85 million as they failed to recover the amount given to broadcasters for their rights.
8. Pitch enters the controversy scene
India won the 3rd Test against South Africa in Nagpur by ending the match within 3 days. Massive cracks on the surface meant life was about to be difficult for the batsmen batting second and it didn’t disappoint. Indian spinners took all 20 wickets of a South African batsman in the low-scoring tie. ICC rated the Nagpur pitch as “poor” and also issued a warning to avoid coming up with such dry and turning pitches. Batting legend Sunil Gavaskar stated that it would be “virtually impossible” to bat for the team batting second.
7. Gambhir-Manoj in wrestling mood
Indian discards Gautam Gambhir and Manoj Tiwary were involved in an on-field spat during their group stage between Delhi and Bengal in their Vijay Hazare Trophy encounter. Gambhir had an angry exchange of words, more specifically to Gambhir saying: “Shaam ko mil tujhe maroonga” (Meet me in the evening, I’ll hit you). And Tiwary retorted, saying: “Shaam kya abhi bahar chal” (Why to wait till the evening, let go outside now). Gambhir, with his fists raised, charged towards Tiwary, who was also not ready to back down. The Delhi captain did not pay heed to umpire’s attempts at pacifying him and tried to get him out of the way. Both were left with a warning by the governing body. More recently, media hyped up a scene where Gambhir didn’t shake hands with Dhoni by mistake, during the quarterfinals of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The left-hander soon rubbished all rumors by posting a pic on Twitter which shows both World-Cup winning players shaking hands as soon as the last wicket fell and Delhi won the match against Jharkhand.
6. 160kmph? Medium-fast bowlers got it
New Zealand speedster Neil Wagner was reported to have clocked over a 160kmph delivery in the 1st Test against Sri Lanka at Dunedin. Averaging at 135-140kmph, broadcasters showed that Wagner had bowled a delivery at a speed that very few have been able to achieve. On confirming with officials, they stated that a low-flying bird had hampered their technology of measuring speed and hence was just a technical glitch. Another Medium-Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood might had also bowled the fastest bowl in cricketing history when his ball was clocked at 164kmph. The Boxing Day Test against West Indies surprised everyone with this incidence. Later reports from officials confirmed that a low-moving projective – possibly a seagull had to be attributed for the incorrect speed.
5. Stokes Obstructs the field!
Ben Stokes has become just the sixth batsman, and first England player, to be given out obstructing the field in a one-day international. The incident occurred in the 26th over of England’s chase at Lord’s when Stokes reacted to a shy at the stumps by the bowler, Mitchell Starc, by sticking out a glove as he spun away from the throw. Obstructing the throw which could had possibly turned out to be a direct hit, Stokes was declared out by the on-field umpires on the cause of obstructing the field. Stokes was later reported saying “I didn’t put my hand there willfully, it was purely out of human reaction to protect myself. But the decision was made, there’s nothing I can do but it wasn’t willful whatsoever,” Stokes said.
4. DRS can’t be trusted blindly
Adelaide witnessed history when the first Day and Night Test match was in progress between Australia and New Zealand. The visitors looked firmly in the driving seat. New Zealand were convinced Lyon was out when his sweep-shot sent the ball looping into the slips and the spinner himself started walking back to the Adelaide Oval dressing room when the ‘Hot Spot’ technology revealed the mark on his bat. Nigel Llong saw it differently and analyzed angle after angle and replay after replay for five minutes. While the ‘Snicko’ technology gave no hint of a nick, Llong dismissed the other evidence out of hand, remarking in his exchanges with the umpires on the field that the mark on Lyon’s bat “could have come from anywhere.” At the time, the Australians were on the ropes at 8 for 118, but the match turned on its head after Llong’s contentious call, with Lyon and his batting partner Peter Nevill plundering the bowlers. Ultimately Australia snatched the victory from Australia and won the historic first Test under lights.
3. Umpires’ decisions may have lost Bangladesh in World Cup quarter finals
Outrage from the entire Bangladesh continued to flow as the fans were upset on the umpiring decisions taken. The square leg umpires Aleem Dar became the center of controversy when he signaled a no-ball for the ball being above waist-height when Rohit Sharma got caught in the deep. Ultimately, Bangladesh lost their momentum and Sharma got to his maiden World Cup ton and India won the match. Former Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, who was on commentary at that time, said: “that should have been a wicket. The ball was under the waist”. International Cricket Council (ICC) president Mustafa Kamal, a Bangladeshi, also joined the protest against the Pakistan umpire saying “If needed, I will resign from the ICC. Speaking as a fan, it appears to me that it (ICC) has become Indian Cricket Council. There needs to be an investigation. A result was forced on us today,” he told a private TV channel.
2. Mohammed Aamir’s comeback and inclusion to national squad
Having served his five-year ban for getting involved in a spot-fixing, Aamir was included in the 26-man conditioning camp to be held in Lahore ahead of the World T20. This could be the key moment leading to Amir’s integration to the national side. He has been active in domestic cricket and his performance has been top-class. His latest stint with Chittagong Vikings in the Bangladesh Premier League has been very successful, finishing the tournament by bagging the leading wicket-taker for his franchise. Mohammed Hafeez and Pakistan captain Azhar Ali avoided the camp sessions for the first two days due to the scandal-hit player’s presence but after meetings with PCB Chairman resumed their training.
1. CSK and RR banned for 2 years
After getting caught in match-fixing scandals during their IPL matches, Supreme Court’s RM Lodha committee has suspended India Cements and Jaipur IPL, owners for Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals teams, for two years. The committee has also taken out Gurunath Meiyappan, a former team official of Super Kings, and Raj Kundra, a former Royals co-owner, from any involvement in cricket matches for life. To replace them, a Pune and Kochi franchise have already been formed where the former two teams’ 5 players each have been distributed to both new teams via IPL Draft system. The remaining players advance to be bought by any of the all eight teams in IPL Auction, going to be held at February 2016.


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Riot Games presents the release notes for version 1.6: Legends of Runeterra Spiritual Flourish, which is updated with card balancing and more news.
Legends of Runeterra, the card title from Riot Games, is updated to version 1.6: Spiritual Flourish. We already have the official patch notes, so below we offer you a summary with the most important changes in cards, as well as detailing what the new board will be like and the first “store deck package” offered by the title.
Patch 1.6 Recap: Runeterra Spirit Blossom
“During the LoR design and balancing processes, our goal is to allow players to dictate the metagame, which is why we want to offer them a wide variety of tools with which to adapt and solve new challenges,” they assure from Riot Games. Furthermore, they add that while it is true that they are seeing an adequate diversity of decks, some popular archetypes (such as Ionia’s Avoidance and Control decks, Heimerdinger’s and Noxus’ aggressive ones) have proven to be more powerful than they should have been, therefore they should be nerfed a bit.
Version 1.6 comes hand in hand with the Spiritual Blossom Festival, a “month-long themed experience” that includes a new lab, an event pass, special quests, and loads of cosmetic items. Therefore, we can confirm that Runeterra has its first special season pass for this event.
Legends of Runeterra: Champion Card Updates
- “Circumvention is a pretty decisive keyword, and that Heimerdinger could access it with three mana was leading to frustrating gaming experiences when used over and over again. Also, he was speeding up Heimer’s decks too much and allowing him to achieve too little of an interactive condition too often. We have adjusted several of Heimer’s turrets so that their ability to create Threat with Circumvention will appear later and thus encourage the casting of more expensive spells. ”
- “Overall, we are quite satisfied with the results of the Braum update from version 1.4. Along with the changes to Anivia, we believe we have managed to bring more viable champions to Freljord and improve the overall level of the region. Of course, we went a bit overboard in giving power to Braum, because we wanted his update to be an improvement and to leave ourselves room to adjust it if it was too powerful. In particular, the changes to Braum’s basic power led to very dominant confrontations and improved it in general terms, so we are going to reduce his power to 0 again (and reduce it to level 2) to make it more difficult for him to get hold of the control of the games ”.
Huevonivia (Anivia Egg Form)
- “Anivia and Freljord are doing much better since their 1.4 changes, but as with Braum, we want to implement a tracking tweak to balance the game over the long term. Now that playing it costs less, copy-based strategies Anivia’s are easier to execute. We want to balance this facet by making it more fragile and offering more opportunities to counter it, especially in the case of slow decks that need to get rid of it. “
Legends of Runeterra: Adepts and Spell card updates
On the other hand, other Adepts and Spells cards also have a number of changes. Specifically, these are the following:
- Relentless pursuit: his Speed goes from “Fast” to “Slow”.
- Bookmaker: Its cost drops from 3 to 2 and its life goes from 1 to 2.
- Basilisk Rider: Its power decreases from 5 to 4.
- Crimson Disciple: ANCIENT TEXT: When I survive the damage, it deals 2 damage to the enemy nexus. NEW TEXT: When I survive damage, it deals 1 damage to the enemy nexus.
- Legion Grenadier: LIFE: 1 → 2. OLD TEXT: Last Breath: Deals 2 damage to the enemy nexus. NEW TEXT: Last Breath: Deals 1 damage to the enemy nexus.
- Flash of Lucidity: COST: 3 → 4.
- Sink Dredger: COST: 2 → 3. OLD TEXT: To play this card, discard 1. NEW TEXT: To play this card, discard 1 and draw 1.
- Mocosa Zaunita: OLD TEXT: Last breath: Draw 1. To play this card, discard 1. NEW TEXT: To play this card, discard 1 and draw 1.
- Shadow Slayer: POWER: 2 → 1.
- Steel Tempest: COST: 3 → 2.
- River Shaper: LIFE: 1 → 2.
- Ionia’s Will: COST: 4 → 5.
- Golden Narwhal: COST: 3 → 2. LIFE: 4 → 3.
- Hunting Fleet: COST: 5 → 4. POWER: 7 → 6. LIFE: 7 → 6.
Customization with a new board and new deck packages
In addition to all of the above, a good number of new cosmetic items are added that we will find in the path of rewards and in the event pass of the spiritual Blossom in addition to this version also brings to the store a new board inspired by the festival. This is the first epic board, Festival Shrine, that immerses us in the world of spiritual Blossoming with interactive elements. It costs 1290 coins.
We’re also getting the first deck pack to the store, Insatiable Plunderers: “Overwhelm your opponent with this ready-to-play Assault deck, which you’ll find in the store for 1,962 coins (price will be adjusted based on copies of the cards you have in your collection) ”, details its official description.
Following a spiritual fox brings salvation. Losing yourself leads to eternal obsession. These magical creatures pursue their own and strange ends, and there is nothing they like more than involving mortals in their games. pic.twitter.com/eOBDDMI8FA
– Legends of Runeterra ES (@RuneterraES) July 22, 2020

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A germanium disk on which silver nanoparticles have been deposited by galvanic displacement is shown to be an inexpensive substrate for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The preparation, which is based on spontaneous reduction of silver cations at the surface of a germanium disk, is quick and requires nothing more than a Petri dish. The SERS enhancement of silver and gold substrates prepared in this way was measured using benzenethiol and was compared to enhancement of Klarite®, a commercially available gold-coated nanoengineered SERS substrate. The enhancement provided by electrolessly deposited metals was found to be superior over Klarite® and the reproducibility was generally below 15%. Furthermore, unlike the case for nanoengineered substrates, germanium disks can be polished and reused.
Vol. 4, Iss. 6 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Przemysław R. Brejna, Peter R. Griffiths, and Jyisy Yang, "Nanostructural Silver and Gold Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Measurements Prepared by Galvanic Displacement on Germanium Disks," Appl. Spectrosc. 63, 396-400 (2009)


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Small aliquot and single grain IRSL and post-IR IRSL dating of fluvial and alluvial sediments from the Pativilca valley, Peru
2014 (English)In: Quaternary Geochronology, ISSN 1871-1014, Vol. 22, 163-174 p.Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) and post-IR IRSL are applied to small aliquots and single grains to determine the equivalent dose (De) of eleven alluvial and fluvial sediment samples collected in the Pativilca valley, Central Peru at ca. 10 S latitude. Small aliquot De distributions are rather symmetric and display over-dispersion values between 15 and 46%. Small aliquot g-values range between 4 and 8% per decade for the IRSL and 1 and 2% per decade for the post-IR IRSL signal. The single grain De distributions are highly over-dispersed with some of them skewed to higher doses, implying partial bleaching; this is especially true for the post-IR IRSL Measurements of a modern analog reveal that residuals due to partial bleaching are present in both the IRSL as well as the post-IR IRSL signal. The g-values of individual grains exhibit a wide range with high individual uncertainties and might contribute significantly to the spread of the single grain De values, at least for the IRSL data. Electron Microprobe Analysis performed on single grains reveal that a varying K-content can be excluded as the origin of over-dispersion. Final ages for the different approaches are calculated using the Central Age Model and the Minimum Age Model (NAM). The samples are grouped into well-beached, potentially well-bleached and partially bleached according to the evaluation of the single grain distributions and the agreement of age estimates between methods. The application of the MAM to the single grain data resulted in consistent age estimates for both the fading corrected IRSL and the post-IR IRSL ages, and suggests that both approaches are suitable for dating these samples.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2014. Vol. 22, 163-174 p.
K-rich feldspar, IRSL, Post-IR IRSL, Small aliquots, Single grains, Over-dispersion, Minimum age model, K-content, Fading
Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
IdentifiersURN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-106314DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2013.12.004ISI: 000337851600018OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-106314DiVA: diva2:736181

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I used to use twitter quite a bit, but now it’s run by a hard-right weirdo who wants to defeat the “woke mind virus” and pays awful people including Andrew Tate large amounts of money to use the platform now known as X, it’s untenable. If you’re part of an organisation that still uses X as a primary mouthpiece, please do something about that – it’s a terrible reflection on you. You’re forcing people to log in to a toxic website just to stay up-to-date with your news or access your customer service. A lot of big and small organisations, including the EU Commmission, the BBC, and of course Then Try This are building a mastodon presence, which is great.
Anyway, I’ve been really enjoying Mastodon/fediverse for a while now and my experience has been really great, and getting better all the time. For sure there are downsides, but the federated (i.e., kind of e-mail-like) model is like a return to the old-style Internet and feels like home. You can find me at: post.lurk.org/@yaxu.
If you don’t already have a mastodon account, just like with choosing an e-mail host, there are a lot of servers to choose from. The post.lurk.org server I’m on is not accepting new users currently, but you can follow me from just about any other server. It’s can be nice to join a smaller, well maintained server with a local community that you can immediately engage with (you can usually see a timeline of posts local to the server separately from the people you’re following). Here’s a few servers which some of the people I follow use:
- assemblag.es – “for people interested in thinking creatively and critically about technology, in the broadest sense”
- sonomu.club – “for musicians, sound-artists, producers of any kind of aural noise, songwriters, bedroom producers, sonic manglers and algorave livecoders”
- ravenation.club – “instance for all the ravers in the universe. Anyone who listens to electronic music (or not) is welcome.”
- fosstodon.org – “open to anyone who is interested in technology; particularly free & open source software”
- hci.social – “for Human-computer Interaction researchers and practitioners”
- hachyderm.io – “a safe space, LGBTQIA+ and BLM, primarily comprised of tech industry professionals world wide”
- mastodon.art – “all things creative, all on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. NO AI OR NFTs ALLOWED.”
- tldr.nettime.org – “an instance for artists, researchers, and activists interested in exploring the intersections of technology, culture, and politics”
You can also join one of the really big instances like https://mastodon.social/
If you join one, but decide to move to another, you can take your followers etc with you, so it’s not a decision for life. Be sure to introduce yourself with a post adding an #introduction tag.
I’ve been rewriting Tidal again for a while but resisting actually using it, mostly out of a weird sense of delayed gratification.. Ideas expressed as code can get fixed once they become instrumentalised in a end-user interface..
But I’m finally starting to get a feel for Tidal 2.0. It’ll have two sides to it, the existing cycle-oriented pattern transformations, and a new realm of beat-oriented transformations. I wasn’t sure how both could be contained in the same interface, but just by renaming a function from
beatMode, I can start to get a feel for it. Here’s a tech test (not intended to sound nice!):
In ‘beat mode’, most things will look the same, but act differently. E.g. when you reverse a pattern in beatmode, the whole sequence gets reversed, rather than every cycle reversed independently. Even the mini-notation works, but becomes beat-oriented.
There’s a lot of reworking that’s gone into this. There’s now a Signal type which is like the old Pattern type, as well as a new Sequence type. Both Signals and Sequences are instances of a new Pattern typeclass. The nice thing is that the Signal and Sequences definitions are becoming mostly concerned with how to align and combine things of their type, most of the pattern operations can then be defined in terms of the more abstract Pattern typeclass.
This is only just starting to work, and already it’s fun to play with beatMode with its very strong polymetric affordance. It reminds me of early days of Tidal, when it was only beat-oriented. I love polymeter, and although the mininotation has always made it fairly easy to play with, it feels good to be able to do that outside of the mininotation without having to calculate ratios by hand.
Really though the payoffs for all this work are still to come. Coming up with a nice code interface for doing Carnatic-style addition/subtraction/manipulation of beats fluidly, following Aravind’s work. Also exciting are the possibilities of formalising alignment of sequences before combining them – I’ve been feeling my way around alignment of patterns for a while, including some prototyping in Strudel, and the possibilities feel limitless at the moment..
Of course beat representation is normally the very first thing you would implement in a music tech, using lists/2d arrays etc. It’s fun though to push against the usual grid-based approach, which tends towards score-like representations that are very much geared towards recording/transcribing, and not manipulating or indeed live coding with.. I continue to feel that staff notation, piano roll and all those DAW music interfaces that have flowed from them have really limited music, wherever they dominate. Lets see how it goes.
“Live Coding: A User’s Manual is the first comprehensive introduction to the practice and a broader cultural commentary on the potential for live coding to open up deeper questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. This multiauthored book—by artists and musicians, software designers, and researchers—provides a practice-focused account of the origins, aspirations, and evolution of live coding, including expositions from a wide range of live coding practitioners. In a more conceptual register, the authors consider liveness, temporality, and knowledge in relation to live coding, alongside speculating on the practice’s future forms.”
A book written over a period of many years, together with the lovely Alan Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox and Thor Magnusson, and many more contributors. Read it here!
Here’s a nice interview I did with lovely fellow Sheffield-resident Benjamin Tassie, for his Future Classical show on Resonance FM. It was a fun chat and the 64th episode, you should definitely check out all the others – so many good people!
Kate Sicchio and I had a nice chat about our interest in patterns as part of this year’s International Conference on Live Interfaces, organised by Adriana Sa. I really enjoyed this format, the informal nature of it somehow got a bit deeper as an interdisciplinary exchange than a usual overloaded powerpoint-style conference talk.

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Dope sick. The intense fear of this all-consuming affliction drives many users to continue seeking out their opiate of choice long past that initial desire to quit. Many describe the misery of dope sickness by simply saying, “It made me wish for a death button instead.” Precipitated withdrawal from poorly timed antagonists makes the nausea even worse. But thanks to advances in addiction neuroscience and pharmacology, detoxing from opiates doesn’t have to make you dope sick.
Normal Withdrawal vs. Precipitated Withdrawal
What exactly pushes a normal withdrawal into a precipitated withdrawal? First, we need to understand what precipitate actually means.
So precipitated withdrawal means that the body throws itself into withdrawal much quicker than normal. Several factors can trigger precipitated withdrawal from opiates. The most common culprits are detox taper drugs administered too quickly, such as:
But pharmacologists designed these drugs to have the opposite effect; that is, they mitigate withdrawal symptoms rather than exacerbate them.
The catch: they only work properly when individuals accurately report their last use. Clinical detox programs systematically monitor withdrawal symptoms to ensure tapers medications are administered at the proper time and at the proper dosage. This circumvents precipitated withdrawal and makes the process as comfortable as possible. So how to detox programs assess taper schedules, exactly?
COWS: Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale
Although pain acts as a real physical sensation controlled by neurological pain receptors, there’s no objective way to measure it. But proper detox requires an assessment of symptoms to avoid precipitated withdrawal (which make the pain worse). So psychiatrists developed the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) to pinpoint what each individual case requires in terms of detox.
Each addiction treatment center is different, but they follow the same general COWS guidelines. Along with recording vitals every half hour, our detox clinical staff rates the following symptoms on a relative 0-5 scale twice a day:
Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (0-5)
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- Excessive Sweating
- Pupil Size
- Bone or Joint Aches (If Client was having pain previously, only the additional component attributed to opiates withdrawal is scored)
- Runny Nose or Tearing (Not Accounted for by Cold Symptoms or Allergies)
- Tremor Observation of Outstretched Hands
- Yawning Observation During Assessment
- Anxiety or Irritability
- Gooseflesh Skin
- Gastrointestinal upset
Total COWS Score
- 0 to 5 – Absent or Minimal Withdrawal
- 5 to 12 – Mild Withdrawal
- 13 to 24 – Moderate Withdrawal
- 25 to 36 – Moderately Severe Withdrawal
- 36 & Above – Severe Withdrawal
Hippocampus Overdrive: Chaotic Thoughts
When it comes to detoxing off addictive substances, opiates inspire the most fearful anxiety of all the withdrawals. Although it’s not as dangerous as alcohol and benzo withdrawal (which can actually kill you), dope sickness presents the most miserable physical symptoms. So it’s understandable that many prescription opiate and heroin addicts divert back to using despite the best intentions. Why is this, exactly?
We look to the hippocampus for answers. As the brain’s center of memory and emotion, the hippocampus goes into overdrive when dope sickness sets in. Chaotic thoughts envelop our best intentions to get clean.
Dr. Alyssa Cohen, Psy.D.
New Start Executive Director
“We see it all the time. People desperately want to get off the Oxy, Vicodin, heroin, or whatever it is, but they are so scared of the withdrawals that they don’t even try. Understandably so. Opiate withdrawals are some of the worst. It takes a lot of courage to face that fear and decide that the benefits of recovery outweigh the initial discomfort of withdrawals. Most people don’t understand that in detox, withdrawals aren’t nearly as bad as they are if you try to quit cold turkey. That’s why we use the COWS scale. It determines what strength of detox meds clients need, when they should be administered. We never really see precipitated withdrawals in detox because we don’t give clients detox meds while they’re still high.”
It takes trained and licensed clinicians to identify that sweet spot; that is, when they are sober enough for an antagonist, but aren’t yet in the pains of withdrawal. If you’d like to learn more about detox antagonists and precipitated withdrawal, our addiction counselors are available 24/7 to discuss treatment options: 855-737-7363


October 26, 2009 · 1:14 pm
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is frosty and beaming, once again, after more than a year of repairs and testing that followed the eruptive escape of liquid helium into the tunnel that houses the massive supercollider. The device has now been chilled to 1.9°K (-271°C), making it colder than deep space (2.7°K); and low-energy ions have already been beamed part way around the 27 km ring in anticipation of some high-energy collisions in about a month.
UPDATE: November 18, 2009 — After being taken off-line last month by a mere breadcrumb dropped by a passing bird, the world’s most expensive machine prepares to power up again. BBC news link.
More background on how the device works (BBC)
Related: Why the LHC won’t help us find the “god particle”
June 8, 2009 · 3:07 am
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, was designed to create the same sort of high energy conditions that were present during the so-called “Big Bang”. Among the mysteries that Team LHC hopes to unravel: Revealing the nature of the theoretical substances known as “Dark Energy” and “Dark Matter”; confirming the existence of the Higgs Boson (or “god particle”) as predicted by the Standard Model of quantum mechanics; and determining which, if any, of the current Grand Unification Theories is correct.
With respect to the Higgs Boson (the quantum particle thought to be responsible for giving atoms their mass) as well as with much respect to Dr. Higgs, I have a problem with the concept of a quantum “god particle”. My objection has little to do with the sacrilege of the name (offered by Leon Lederman in his 1993 popular science book), but rather the notion that one particular subatomic component can be responsible for all the mass of the unity to which it belongs.
There are two absolute states of unity in the universe: the atom (chiefly represented by hydrogen) which will endure indefinitely if sequestered from the transformative traumas of fission and fusion; and the universe itself (which has reportedly been around for a very, very long time). In between these absolutes exist myriad aggregations of matter displaying varying degrees of unity, mass, homogeneity and permanence: from planets, comets, stars and galaxies, to the seeming singularity of “black holes” — but each of these is simply echoic of our atomic and universal archetypes.
From everything I’ve read (never having had the pleasure of meeting the man) Peter Higgs seems to be a learned, conscientious physicist and a bona fide gentleman. This does not, however, vaccinate him against ever having a bad idea.
So, it has to be said: The mass of the atom comes from the functional structure of the atom itself, not from a theoretical subatomic particle. Simply put, the atom is the “god particle” — and so is the Universe.
Keep up to date on LHC activities at CERN.
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Tagged as boson, CERN, cosmology, Energy, god particle, Higgs, LHC, mass, physics, quantum, unity


text: Separate introductions or post-introduction evolutionary processes in invasive species may generate multiple genotypes or varying ploidies that differ in their response (phenotype) to a range of environments. Increased ploidy is predicted to be positively correlated with phenotypic plasticity, but support for this relationship is mixed. Positive response to sediment N or P enrichment varies between species but may contribute to invasiveness if a species (or genotype) has greater plasticity to increased resource availability. The way in which genetic variation and associated phenotypic plasticity between introduced plant populations determines response to N or P is unknown for most invaders but could be important in explaining variability in the spread and subsequent impacts by invaders with multiple introduced lineages. We conducted a common garden experiment, in which ten populations (diploid and triploid cytotypes) of the Eurasian invasive plant, Butomus umbellatus were grown under varying N-P nutrient levels (4, 40, 200, 400 mg/L N; 0.4, 4, 40 mg/L P). We measured reaction norms for biomass accumulation, vegetative reproduction, nutrient allocation. Diploid populations produced, on average, 300% more aboveground biomass and 250% more reproductive biomass at high [N] and 200% more aboveground biomass and 250% more reproductive biomass across [P]. In contrast, triploid plants produced 30% and 150% more underground biomass than diploid plants, in response to N and P, respectively. Tissue chemistry in response to N or P was similar between cytotypes for C, N, P C:N was consistently lower in triploid plants regardless of nutrient treatment. Diploid plants outperformed triploid plants at all [P] and all but the lowest [N] in biomass measures except underground biomass, a feature which may contribute to the successful invasion of the triploid cytotype in the US Pacific Northwest.

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