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Sinitsina and Zhiganshin dance to confident lead in Junior short dance
By Tatjana Flade
Photo © Robin Ritoss
Victoria Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin of Russia perform the Cha Cha and Samba for their Short Dance.
The 2011-12 ISU Grand Prix Final and Junior Grand Prix Final of Figure Skating continued with the Junior Short Dance.
Victoria Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin of Russia danced to a confident lead, while teammates Anna Yanovskaya and Sergey Mozgov placed second ahead of Ukrainians Maria Nosulia and Evgen Kholoniuk. Russia's Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin finished fourth as Bukin fell on the twizzles.
Sinitsina and Zhiganshin were the surprise silver medalists in the Final last year. This year they won both their Junior Grand Prix events and were top favorites alongside Stepanova and Bukin.
Sinitsina and Zhigasnhin put out a lively and technically solid Cha Cha and Samba. The team from Moscow earned a level four for both Cha Cha Congelado sequences, as well as the twizzles and rotational lift. They scored 60.47 points, just short of their personal best of 61.74 points.
"For me, this was our second best performance of the season," said Sinitsina. "The [side by side] footwork wasn't perfect today. We would like to win the Final this year. This is something we have been working for."
The team lost one point for an extended lift.
"Yes, we held it too long and lost one point," Zhiganshin admitted.
Yanovskaia and Mozgov are pretty much in the same role as Sinitsina and Zhiganshin were last year. They only teamed up this spring and surprisingly qualified as the top third dance team in the Final. They train under the same coaches as Sinitsina and Zhiganshin.
Their Cha Cha and Samba contained level-four twizzles and a rotational lift, and they earned 56.22 points.
"We could have skated better and this performance wasn't our best," said Mozgov, "but overall we are pleased with our performance. Our other skates this season were better, but regarding our world ranking, this is our best result so far."
Like most teams, Nosulia and Kholoniuk chose a Cha Cha and Samba for their Short Dance. The Ukrainians were awarded a level four for the first Cha Cha sequence, the twizzles, and the lift to score 53.95 points.
"Of course we can skate better as there is never a limit to perfection and we would never say that we were perfect," Nosulia pointed out. "Tomorrow is my birthday and we we'll go out there ready to fight."
Kholoniuk revealed that health problems have been bothering the couple.
"I am suffering from a stomach upset," he said, "and Maria caught a cold."
Stepanova and Bukin were favored for another podium finish, however, they came in fourth as Bukin fell on the twizzles. The twizzles received no level. The Cha Cha sequences were strong and both a level four, while the side by side footwork garnered a level two. The current Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalists scored 52.48 points.
"I think I lost concentration," explained Bukin about the fall. "My skate lace felt loose. The program was going well until the fall."
"We didn't expect to be in the final last season," said, Stepanova, "but we sort of expected to be in the final this year and the goal was to give strong performances. The goal for the free dance is to skate well for ourselves."
USA's Alexandra Aldridge and Daniel Eaton performed the Cha Cha and Mambo and had a good start with their curve lift, however, the first part of the Cha Cha was somewhat wobbly. They came in fifth.
"It was not our best, that's for sure," said Aldridge. "We started off really strong. The lift was great and the first of pattern was pretty good, but then we had a stumble. Our choreography got a little sloppy, but we finished as strong as we could."
"We're going to reset our minds and get ready for the free dance," said Eaton. "We want to do what we are good at doing."
"The free dance is definitely our stronger program," added Aldridge. "We love doing the Irish dance and the crowd loves it. It's good that we have that to look forward to."
Ukrainians Anastasia Galyeta and Alexei Shumski came sixth (51.59 points).
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2011-12 Grand Prix FinalAnna Yanovskaya and Sergey MozgovMaria Nosulia and Evgen KholoniukVictoria Sinitsina and Ruslan Zhiganshin
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Magdalena Cecilia Colledge (28 November 1920 – 12 April 2008) was a British figure skater. She was the 1936 Olympic silver medalist, the 1937 World Champion, the 1937–1939 European Champion, and a six-time (1935–1939, 1946) British national champion. Colledge is credited as being the inventor of the camel spin along with its catchfoot variation and the layback spin. Although not named after her, she was one of the first skaters who transitioned from a layback spin to a one hand Biellmann spin in her free programs. She also invented the one-foot axel jump, known as the "Colledge."


Josef Halfer
DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST.
(Marbling). Halfer, Josef.
Budapest, Hungary: Im Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1885.
original embossed cloth
(ii), 202, (4) pages.
Price: $3,000.00 other currencies
Ein Praktisches Handbuch für Buchbinder und Buntpapierfabrikanten. Nach technisch-wissenschaftlichen grundlagen bearbeitet von Josef Halfer, Buchbinder in Budapest.
First edition of this seminal work on marbling by the Budapest based bookbinder and marbler Josef Halfer. This edition was first published without specimen papers; the second edition of 1891 had specimens. "The Halfer system is so important that marbling history is broken at this point, and referred to as pre-Halferian and post-Halferian marbling. The advantages of the Halfer system were two-fold: freed of the laborious preparation of colors, and with standardized colors, marblers could produce more work; and secondly, the use of carragheen size allowed finer detail in marbling" (Easton, Marbling, a history, pp. 78-9). See also R. Wolfe, Marbled Paper, 1990, pp. 124-30.
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Your Dog, title
Rose Droll , artist
I Need to Start a Garden, title
Haley Heynderickx , artist
Wide Awaaaake!, title
Parquet Courts , artist
Loner, title
Caroline Rose , artist
Iridescence , title
Brockhampton , artist
Little Dark Age, title
MGMT , artist
May Your Kindness Remain, title
Courtney Marie Andrews , artist
Tell Me How You Really Feel, title
Courtney Barnett , artist
Joy, title
Ty Segall and White Fence , artist
Staff Albums Of The Year 2018
Eliot Odgers (Rough Trade East)
1. Haley Heyndrickx - I Need To Start A Garden
Haley Heynderickx album I Need to Start a Garden is an intimate alternative folk album with haunting vocals, intricate broken guitar and lush production throughout. There is an incredible amount of depth in Haley's songwriting and production on her debut album. The moments of silence in her music are incredibly powerful, truly grabbing the listener. When I first discovered this album I instantly connected with it. I was also fortunate enough to see her live in a 100 person capacity and was blown away by her solo show - it was so silent you could hear a pin drop! If you haven't heard this album definitely check it out!!! (And go see her live as well!!)
2. White Denim - Performance
I had never heard of White Denim until this summer when Performance came out but was really glad to discover them as this album is quite simply banging! Full of catchy as hell melodies, funky T-Rex style guitar riffs, cool keyboard harmonies. The songs are really nicely arranged and stray away from conventional verse chorus pop structures but manage to maintain their instant catchiness. You'll be still singing these tunes months after you've heard them if you just give them a little time!
3. Rose Droll - Your Dog
Having only came out a couple of weeks ago Rose Droll's Your Dog instantly climbed to the top of my top ten. This album is the kind of album I was wanting back in January and to be honest If It had came out earlier there's a good chance this album would be my number one. It's experimental pop with elements of other genres such as hip-hop, and spoken word to name a few. The songs are really unique like nothing I've heard before but noticeably influenced by a lot of different genres and sounds.
4. Parquet Courts - Wide Awaaaake!
Parquet Courts new album Wide Awaaaake! Is their greatest effort to date. Definitely best mosh pit of the year! Well worth a listen.
5. Caroline Rose - Loner
This was one of the first albums I really loved this year. The album is full of catchy hooks and diverse instrumentation. You can hear a wide variety of influence on the album ranging from Kate Bush to Haim. A massive favourite to everyone here at Rough Trade East!
6. Brockhampton - Iridescence
Brockhampton exploded on to the hip-hop scene last year with their Saturation Trilogy (also well worth checking out). This year they released Iridescence a slightly more somber, darker album than the three albums that came before. Although, arguably not their best album, you can really hear that Kevin Abstract and co are perfecting their craft. Especially on a track like Tonya, where towards the end of the track the vocal harmonies are comparable to that of the harmonies in a track like God Only Knows by The Beach Boys.
7. MGMT - Little Dark Age
MGMT's Little Dark Age is an amalgamation of their three previous records, taking the great pop songwriting of their debut and combining it with the psychedelic/experimental elements of Congratulations and their self-titled third LP. Full of funky bass lines, epic synth's and great collaborators such as Connan Mockasin. This is MGMT at their best.
8. Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain
Now what can I say about this record? Courtney Marie Andrews' album May Your Kindness Remain is like a gateway drug but instead of drugs it's a gateway to country music. There isn't a single person I've shown the title song who didn't enjoy it, a lot of them originally laughing at the very thought of country music. In fact when I initially told my flat mate to listen to this song he apparently cried when hearing it for the first time. So yeah you really have to check this one out!
9. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel
Just like the collaborative record between Kurt and Courtney last year this album grew on me slowly, initially dismissing it. However, this album is a real grower and is one of those records where the more you listen to it the more you love the songs. Great effort Courtney!
10. Ty Segall & White Fence - Joy
Ty Segall & White Fence are back with Joy an album that is full of fun and weird experimentation. Definitely my favourite Ty Segall release of the year!


2021-December-11 blake
See, the thing is, The Amityville Horror had about one thing going for it: It was "based on a true story" during a glorious time when we still believed in Bigfoot and the Bermuda Triangle and Nessie and so forth. So it racked up a whopping $86M at the box office, finishing only behind—I'm not making this up—Kramer vs. Kramer, the #1 film of 1979 and the only film of the year to be a "blockbuster" (at the time defined as "a movie that breaks $100M at the box office"). It would beat out the first Star Trek movie, Rocky II, The Jerk, Apocalypse Now, and many other films that fit into that category broadly defined as "good".
The 1982 sequel dropped precipitously—about on a par with the Exorcist sequel—and then an attempt at 3D made it clear that there was no cash left to milk from this poor cow. But as we all know: Evil Never Dies and nothing is more evil than someone who owns a horror franchise, and five years after the 3D attempt, Barry Bernardi (who up till then had been mostly co-producing John Carpenter films) found himself really enjoying a book (I guess, this already sounds preposterous) called Amityville: The Evil Escapes. He sent it to Sandor Stern, who had written the first Amityville script asking him to write it and direct it, and Sandor said "Sure, but this book sucks, let me do my own thing."
So it wouldn't be until Amityville: The Next Generation until the book called Amityville: The Evil Escapes would actually be film.
Sandor's "own thing" turns out to be an evil lamp sent to Oceanside, CA—a lovely place for a haunting—where it kills assorted people in Jane Wyatt's life. Jane has just taken in her daughter Patty Duke and her three kids. On the other hand, who cares? This is a silly movie with some good actors who just aren't going to overcome the silliness, through no fault of their own.
Of course, Kevin, Bill and Mike cracking wise doesn't help. I mean, for taking it seriously. Good riffs here, and another gimcrack song from Kevin, a little Beach Boys-y number called "2000 Miles From Amityville".
The initial short is also pretty great: It's a work safety film that is obsessed with tomatoes-as-fruit and ends with our lecturer playing toreador with a forklift.
Hope we get to see more of these boys in the future.
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Feb 2018 7 3 3 1 13 7 8 10 1 3 1 1 0 1 59
Jan 2018 11 5 0 2 9 1 8 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 42
Dec 2017 5 7 1 3 17 2 6 5 3 0 0 0 1 1 51
Oct 2017 16 5 3 2 24 0 13 3 0 0 0 1 4 1 72
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Aug 2017 19 5 0 1 7 0 11 9 1 1 1 1 0 2 58
Jul 2017 20 7 1 2 8 1 8 5 1 2 0 1 0 1 57
May 2017 9 0 0 0 20 2 5 6 1 2 1 0 0 3 49
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Mar 2017 14 2 1 4 19 0 17 10 2 2 0 0 1 1 73
Feb 2017 19 5 0 2 17 2 3 10 0 0 0 0 2 1 61
Dec 2016 13 6 0 3 17 1 11 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 59
Nov 2016 15 4 0 1 15 1 19 5 0 0 0 1 4 1 66
Aug 2016 16 6 2 3 11 0 8 8 1 0 1 0 5 1 62
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Apr 2016 6 1 3 2 14 1 8 4 0 0 0 0 2 0 41
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Oct 2015 15 4 1 2 5 1 4 5 2 2 0 0 1 0 42
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Sep 2012 19 2 2 0 14 0 7 5 1 1 3 54
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Crime Type and ASB Charts for E33013083
In September 2011, Other Crime was divided into 6 categories - Drugs, Public Disorder & Weapons (which was later split further and so is not displayed here), Criminal Damage & Arson (CD&A), Theft - Shoplifting, Theft-Other and Other.
From May 2013, the following changes were made to the crime categories:
I) The violent crime category was renamed "violence and sexual offences"
2) A new category for "bicycle theft" was created which previously fell within "other theft"
3) A new category for "theft from the person" was created which previously fell within "other theft"
4) Public disorder and weapons were then split into two new categories; "public order" and "possession of weapons"
5) Both "other firearms offences" and "other knives offences" which were in "other crime" were moved into "possession of weapons".
Workzone crime league table
The league table below looks at the total crime for November 2021 that occurred in all Workzones within 1 miles of E33013083 and orders them by lowest total crime first.
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Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan
There was a time when the Mission: Impossible franchise appeared to be running a clear third behind James Bond and the Bourne films when it came to big budget, spy action-thrillers. But not anymore. With its sixth instalment, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, the franchise thumbs its nose at both the law of diminishing returns and questions about how long Tom Cruise can keep doing this to produce a rollicking picture which continues its upwards trajectory and easily trumps the most recent instalments in those other franchises. Continue reading →
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Review – Ready Player One (2018)
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Win Morisaki, Philip Zhao, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller
When introducing Ready Player One before its premiere at South by Southwest, director Steven Spielberg stated that in bringing Ernest Cline's 2011 novel to the screen he was trying to make a movie, not a film. The resulting work sees the legendary director back in a fun, crowd pleasing mode he hasn't played in for a long time, and in doing so the filmmaker who practically invented the modern blockbuster shows that he has still got it.
In the year 2045, people all over the world escape the mundanity of the real life by donning a headset and disappearing into the Oasis, a virtual universe in which you can do anything and be anyone. Before his death, the creator of the Oasis, James Halliday (Mark Rylance), devised a Willy Wonka-like scheme to find an heir. He built into the Oasis three hidden challenges. The first person to successfully complete the challenges and find Halliday's Easter Egg would inherit control of the Oasis. Continue reading →
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Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Starring: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Sean Harris, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Simon McBurney
Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Missions Force return in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the fifth film in a franchise which has now spanned 19 years. With a different director on each film, this instalment sees Chris McQuarrie at the helm. McQuarrie has previously worked with Tom Cruise on four occasions, including directing him in Jack Reacher and writing Edge of Tomorrow, and while he doesn't possess the same visual flair as some who have come before him, he is the first to be sole writer and director in the series.
The CIA wants to close down the IMF, believing it to be a reckless, unaccountable division. While Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is making ground gathering information about a mysterious criminal organisation called the Syndicate, CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin) isn't buying it, convinced the Syndicate is nothing more than a paranoid delusion of the IMF. As the IMF agents are called back in and reassigned Hunt stays out in the field determined to continue his mission. Wanted by the CIA and operating without the backing and protection of the American government, Hunt is dependent on his loyal former IMF pals Continue reading →
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Review – Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Director: J. J. Abrams
Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anton Yelchin, Peter Weller, Bruce Greenwood
In 2009, J.J. Abrams reboot of the Star Trek franchise wildly exceeded everyone's expectations, taking almost $400m at the worldwide box office, and establishing Abrams as the next big thing in blockbuster moviemaking. Almost immediately talk started about a sequel, and four years later we get Star Trek Into Darkness, a title seemingly in dire need of some punctuation (Seriously, doesn't Star Trek: Into Darkness just look more right).
This second instalment continues on from where the 2009 film left off, again acting as a sort of prequel to the original television series and subsequent films. After Star Fleet headquarters are attacked by terrorist John Harrison, Kirk and his crew are sent on a revenge mission to blast Harrison the smithereens. However Harrison is hiding out on Kronos, and their mission risks sparking an all-out war with the volatile Klingons, so Spock persuades Kirk instead to attempt to take Harrison prisoner and make him stand trial. They capture Harrison and bring him aboard the Enterprise unaware that there is more to him than they knew and that aboard the Enterprise is exactly where Harrison wanted to be (If only Kirk, Spock and the gang had seen The Dark Knight… or The Avengers… or Skyfall).
At the heart of Star Trek Into Darkness, as with the previous film, is the symbiotic relationship between Captain Kirk and Commander Spock. They are completely different from one another. One is impulsive and instinctual. The other is logical and calculated. Both frustrate the hell out of the other, but both are also dependent on the strengths of the other to make up for their own deficiencies. They are mutually dependent. While the first film told the story of how these two met each other and came to be a team, this film deals with how they came to truly respect one another and see the value of each other. Both Kirk and Spock at key moments in the film must force themselves to think and act like the other in order to tackle a situation. That Abrams is able to effectively keep human relationships at the centre of such a large scale sci-fi blockbuster is what separates him from contemporary blockbuster makers like Michael Bay (Really, did anyone care about the human characters in Transformers?) and leads to the inevitable comparisons with Spielberg.
Abrams strikes the perfect balance, respecting the established lore of the Star Trek universe without being constrained by it. He homages classic characters and story elements, but isn't afraid to take some creative liberties to freshen up the story. This may frustrate a hardcore Trekkie, but for the rest of us it gives the film a sense of newness and freshness. This combination of respect for existing lore with a willingness to take ownership bodes well for his next project, the seventh instalment in the Star Wars series.
In the Trekkie community the Star Trek franchise has one of the most devoted followings you will find. But rather than merely seeking to cater to the existing fan base, when Abrams set out to reboot the Star Trek franchise he looked to broaden its appeal and introduce these classic characters to a new audience. And again, Star Trek Into Darkness is big budget blockbuster filmmaking that will appeal to more than just the devoted Trekkies. It is a big movie, containing some top notch action sequences and terrific special effects, on par with anything you will find in blockbuster sci-fi cinema. Add to that a healthy smattering of humour, mostly courtesy of Simon Pegg who has a slightly larger role as Scotty, and you end up with a film that really is everything a great popcorn movie should be.
Rating – ★★★★
Review by Duncan McLean
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Our 2018 One City, One Story book, Rise of the Rocket Girls, is the riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. While Rise of the Rocket Girls is about the women who worked at JPL in the 1940s and 50s, we'll be having a facinating talk from a current JPL employee, Tracy Drain, a key part of development and mission operations, this Thursday, March 22 at 7pm at the Central Library. In celebration of our One City, One Story book and this exciting event, here are the stories of many amazing women in the aviation and aerospace fields who helped us reach the sky and the stars.
The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Spaceflight by Martha Ackmann
In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years.
For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America's space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests.
Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being derailed, the Mercury 13 went on to extraordinary achievement in their lives: Jerrie Cobb, who began flying when she was so small she had to sit on pillows to see out of the cockpit, dedicated her life to flying solo missions to the Amazon rain forest; Wally Funk, who talked her way into the Lovelace trials, went on to become one of the first female FAA investigators; Janey Hart, mother of eight and, at age forty, the oldest astronaut candidate, had the political savvy to steer the women through congressional hearings and later helped found the National Organization for Women.
A provocative tribute to these extraordinary women, The Mercury 13 is an unforgettable story of determination, resilience, and inextinguishable hope.
Amelia Earhart's Daughters: The Wild and Glorious Story of American Women Aviators from World War II to the Dawn of the Spaceage by Leslie Haynsworth and David Toomey
In 1942, with war raging on two fronts and military pilots in short supply, the U.S. Army Air Force enlisted a handful of skilled female aviators to deliver military planes from factories to air bases–expanding the successful program to include more than one thousand women. These superb pilots flew every aircraft in the U.S. Army Air Force–including B-26s when men were afraid to–logging more than six million miles in all kinds of weather. Yet when World War II ended, their wartime heroism was left unheralded.
In 1961, with the dawn of the space age, a handful of top female pilots took part in a new program termed "Women in Space." Subjected to the same rigorous tests as the Mercury astronauts, thirteen women–top-notch pilots–were admitted to the program. Once again women had reason to dream…that at least one of them would be the first of their sex in space. The matter went as far as Congress, where dramatic hearings included testimony from astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter. But their hopes were dashed. These skilled aviators had the "right stuff" at the wrong time, and again women were denied their place in history. This is their story, one of courage, ferocity, and patriotism.
Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation by Eileen F. Lebow
Amelia Earhart is, without a doubt, the world's most famous woman aviator, but she was not the first. Dozens of women pilots were in the vanguard of early aviation more than a decade before Amelia learned to fly an airplane. Before Amelia is the remarkable story of these women pioneer aviators who braved the skies during the first two decades.
While most books have only examined the women aviators of a single country, Eileen Lebow examines aviation in France, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. The story begins with Raymonde de Laroche, a French woman who became the first licensed female pilot in 1910. De Laroche, Lydia Zvereva, Melli Beese, Hilda Hewlett, Harriet Quimby, and the other women pilots profiled here rose above contemporary gender stereotypes and proved their ability to fly the temperamental heavier-than-air contraptions of the day.
Lebow provides descriptions of the dangers and challenges of early flight. Crashes and broken bones were common, and some of the pioneers lost their lives. But these women were adventurers at heart. In an era when women's professional options were severely limited and the mere sight of ladies wearing pants caused a sensation, these women succeeded as pilots, flight instructors, airplane designers, stunt performers, and promoters. This book fills a large void in the history of the first two decades of flight.
The Sound of Wings: The Life of Amelia Earhart by Mary S. Lovell
When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. In this definitive biography, Mary S. Lovell delivers a brilliantly researched account on Earhart's life using the original documents, letters, the logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries, and personal interviews with members of Amelia's family, friends and rival aviators. The Sound of Wings vividly captures the drama and mystery behind the most influential woman in The Golden Age of Flight from her tomboy days at the turn of the century and her early fascinations with flying, to the unique relationship she shared with G.P. Putnam, the flamboyant publisher and public relations agent who became both her husband and her business manager. It is a revealing biography of an uncommonly brave woman, and the man who both aided and took advantage of her dreams.
Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America's First Female Rocket Scientist by George D. Morgan
This is the extraordinary true story of America's first female rocket scientist. Told by her son, it describes Mary Sherman Morgan's crucial contribution to launching America's first satellite and the author's labyrinthine journey to uncover his mother's lost legacy–one buried deep under a lifetime of secrets political, technological, and personal.
In 1938, a young German rocket enthusiast named Wernher von Braun had dreams of building a rocket that could fly him to the moon. In Ray, North Dakota, a young farm girl named Mary Sherman was attending high school. In an age when girls rarely dreamed of a career in science, Mary wanted to be a chemist. A decade later the dreams of these two disparate individuals would coalesce in ways neither could have imagined.
World War II and the Cold War space race with the Russians changed the fates of both von Braun and Mary Sherman Morgan. When von Braun and other top engineers could not find a solution to the repeated failures that plagued the nascent US rocket program, North American Aviation, where Sherman Morgan then worked, was given the challenge. Recognizing her talent for chemistry, company management turned the assignment over to young Mary.
In the end, America succeeded in launching rockets into space, but only because of the joint efforts of the brilliant farm girl from North Dakota and the famous German scientist. While von Braun went on to become a high-profile figure in NASA's manned space flight, Mary Sherman Morgan and her contributions fell into obscurity–until now.
Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr
Sally Ride made history as the first American woman in space. A member of the first astronaut class to include women, she broke through a quarter-century of white male fighter jocks when NASA chose her for the seventh shuttle mission, cracking the celestial ceiling and inspiring generations of women.
After a second flight, Ride served on the panels investigating the Challenger explosion and the Columbia disintegration that killed all aboard. In both instances she faulted NASA's rush to meet mission deadlines and its organizational failures. She cofounded a company promoting science and education for children, especially girls.
Sherr also writes about Ride's scrupulously guarded personal life—she kept her sexual orientation private—with exclusive access to Ride's partner, her former husband, her family, and countless friends and colleagues. Sherr draws from Ride's diaries, files, and letters. This is a rich biography of a fascinating woman whose life intersected with revolutionary social and scientific changes in America. Sherr's revealing portrait is warm and admiring but unsparing. It makes this extraordinarily talented and bold woman, an inspiration to millions, come alive.
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space.
Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America's aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Suddenly, these overlooked math whizzes had a shot at jobs worthy of their skills, and they answered Uncle Sam's call, moving to Hampton, Virginia and the fascinating, high-energy world of the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.
Even as Virginia's Jim Crow laws required them to be segregated from their white counterparts, the women of Langley's all-black "West Computing" group helped America achieve one of the things it desired most: a decisive victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and complete domination of the heavens.
Starting in World War II and moving through to the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country's future.
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Profile Solutions (OTC: PSIQ) Names Medicinal Cannabis, Agriculture and Technology Expert Dr. Gerry Bedore to its Scientific Advisory Board
Breaking Biometric News: Profile Solutions (OTC: PSIQ) Names Medicinal Cannabis, Agriculture and Technology Expert Dr. Gerry Bedore to its Scientific Advisory Board
PSI to Develop Biometric Security Solutions for Cannabis Markets
FT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - April 27, 2015 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Profile Solutions, Inc. (OTC PK: PSIQ), a leading solution provider of access control and security systems is pleased to announce that Dr Gerry Bedore has joined the company as a consultant and member of its scientific advisory board.
Gerry Bedore is widely known as a thought leader in technology-enhanced learning models. He was a co-founder of Socrates Distance Learning Technology Group, and has published studies and books focused on online student success and completion rates. Gerry is recognized as having developed many of the most successful higher education online programs in the world. As a horticulturist for the State of Georgia, Dr. Bedore was recognized for his expertise in entomology and pathology in the care of plant life in the state. He has authored one book, co-authored two books, and has served as a research chair and committee member for more than 200 studies in education, psychology and business disciplines.
Dr. Bedore served in roles ranging from institutional President to Assistant Dean for Doctoral Programs. He is a member of the Cannabis Career Institute, is involved with cannabis agricultural development with Global Hemp Group, is serving in a leadership role for Cannabis State University, and is a U.S. disabled veteran.
Dr. Bedore currently serves in researching and consulting with people in need of help in understanding cannabinoids for medicinal purposes. Dr. Bedore is involved extensively within the medicinal cannabis community in areas related to strains, extractions, and the development of products for specific health challenges. Bedore will provide PSI with expertise in entering these markets to distribute legal industry related products.
Profile Solutions (PSI) is targeting the emerging cannabis market to provide the technology for physical access to secure areas, including access to buildings, doors, inventory, cash and personnel with this proprietary patented technology.
"I am excited to join the PSI team and look forward to helping the company reach their goals." stated Dr. Gerry Bedore. "I look forward to working closely with the management of PSI to develop additional solutions for the expanding Cannabis market." added Dr. Bedore.
"PSI is honored to have Dr. Gerry Bedore on our team." stated Dore Perler, CEO of Profile Solutions, Inc. "Dr. Bedore is a visionary, educator and leader in field of Cannabis education and information. His knowledge on the use, medical benefits and general business acumen will be very useful in the future of PSI." added Mr. Perler
Please see more information via its website http://www.profilesolutionsinc.com or http://www.PSI-Store.com or the Company's Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ProfileSolutionsInc.
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About Profile Solutions
Profile Solutions, Inc. (PSI) designs, manufactures and plans to sell security-based identification products and systems that will incorporate state-of-the-art security technology to verify a person's identity, or grant physical access. PSI has developed turnkey integrated applications that incorporate its proprietary Access-It hardware platform. We also plan to integrate our applications with biometric technology for additional security when required. PSI targets the law enforcement, cannabis industry and corporate America as our customer base. Please visit the company website at http://www.profilesolutionsinc.com, http://www.PSI-Store.com or the Company's Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/ProfileSolutionsInc.
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Biometric Company Profile Solutions, Inc (OTCPK: PSIQ) Files Annual Report to Regain Current Status on OTC Markets
Breaking Biometric News: Biometric Company Profile Solutions, Inc (OTCPK: PSIQ) Files Annual Report to Regain Current Status on OTC Markets
FT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - April 7, 2015 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Profile Solutions, Inc. (OTC PK:PSIQ), a leading solution provider of access control and security systems for the law enforcement and cannabis industry, announced today that it has completed and filed its 2014 Annual Report in order to regain its current information status on the OTC Pink Marketplace.
During this process, Profile has continued to move forward with its business development and funding activities. Profile intends to file its 2015 first quarter report on or before May 15, 2015.
Profile Solutions is targeting the emerging cannabis market to provide the company's proprietary biometric technology for physical access to secure areas, including access to buildings, doors, inventory, cash and personnel.
"We are very pleased to position the company to regain "current information" status on the OTC Markets Pink tier to provide disclosure to investors and we can now accelerate our business model." stated Dore Perler, CEO of Profile Solutions, Inc."
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Grindr publishes HOME, its first ever book with Berlin photographer Matt Lambert
On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed and 53 injured inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In the wake of this massacre, and for the first time ever, Grindr has published a book to help us all question where we find home and ourselves again.
HOME showcases the work of Berlin-based photographer and filmmaker Matt Lambert. Traveling through gay communities around the globe, he cast locals in New York, L.A., Paris, London, Toronto and Berlin over a span of six months. "Safe Spaces" are a cornerstone of our community and as Bruce Laruce reflects upon "how it used to be" in his foreword, Matt Lambert beautifully shows us "how it is now".
In each place, he used digital platforms and social media channels to cast for the "Home" project. Interestingly, many of his subjects came from small towns; their stories, in particular, touch upon the importance of digital culture in building a gay community, when there was no one else "like them" around.
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10 Best Medieval Games for PC
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Take a step back in time, and enjoy 10 of these best medieval games to play on your PC.
While medieval is in the title of this list, I'll admit that we've been slightly lenient. Isn't medieval just a feeling, a state of mind? No, it is an exact time in history, but for this list, we're not sticking to just the medieval ages.
We've picked games that fit into the spirit of the medieval genre via ye-olde city builder, Sword and Shield Fighter, or Survival RPG. Each selection won't necessarily be true to the textbooks, but it'll be fun and historical enough.
So, here are 10 of the best medieval games for time period and spirit.
If you found this list looking for an authentically grimy medieval experience then Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a cholera tinge trough with your name on it.
As chipper chop devouring blacksmith son Henry, you can join a resistance force fighting against invading human mercenaries to restore rightful King Wenceslas to the throne.
The true joy of Kingdom Come is in the little things. It provides a narrow focus of a period we can only dream about experiencing. Letting you brew potions, gather herbs, and even learn to read.
While most medieval games focus on wars and conquest, Kingdom Come offers an insight into what it was like to be a commoner in olden times. And while Henry certainly has it better than most, it's still an engaging rank, slightly better rags story, that's quite unlike anything else.
We all have an image of medieval sieges in our head, massive war machines, flinging rocks, smashing rules, and lobbying festering Peaks over enemy battlements and while rooted in truth real-life seizures for the most part weren't quite so dramatic.
Physics-based crumble them up for a siege, however, leads towards the more flamboyant side of destruction like a scaled-up version of the weapons you make at school out of pens and elastic bands.
While the result of the siege can often feel rather a slapstick there are very real forces at play here. You'll have to think about weight, momentum, and tensile strength if you want to build an engine that survives.
And if you don't, your monstrous creations often crumble long before you reach an enemy wall. Is it historically accurate? No, not always. But it does not make it any less enjoyable?
If you're scared of rats, look away now! A Plague Tale: Innocence is a journey across France, as a meteor tries to protect her brother from Inquisition Knights and swarms of the aforementioned vermin.
These grubby little creatures infest the shadows plaguing your life in the truest sense of the word. The country is overrun with sickness and war, meaning that all the pretty John's through nature you enjoy one moment will be followed by ruins landscapes, darkness, and always the rats.
It's a game that feels good just to inhabit, despite the rodent-based terror. For being one long escort mission with nothing more than rocks for combat, A Plague Tale: Innocence will keep you excited and scared of a rat-induced death throughout.
It's not easy being a king and nowhere is that more apparent than Yes, Your Grace. In this medieval-style world, monsters and arcane magic pose as much of a threat as dwindling resources and troublesome political ties.
Is marrying your daughter off to the highest bidder okay? If it means an army to protect your people. Do you help starving citizens, or keep your gold to pay for more troops to scout incoming dangers.
Is it okay to take from the bank for now only to leave you in debt later on? Each day you greet petitioners and offer your help or send them on their way. It's a careful balancing act of keeping people happy, keeping them safe, and keeping your daughters from hating you.
All easier said than done. So, your first Run-through might end and disaster, but you can just start all over again.
Lay down your guns and pick up sword, axe, or sphere as your new favorite multiplayer combat game takes place in medieval times.
Mordhau is a hectic battleground of front-line team fights and full-scale battle royals, all with historical melee weapons to wield and castles to pillage. You can step onto historical grounds as whichever fighting you want.
Staying back to pick off enemies with a bow, getting up close and personal with a short sword, or a little bit of both with a spiky evening star which sounds sort of romantic but it isn't.
You can even get hands-on with the best siege engines history has to offer, such as catapults or ballistics. Like any good online FPS, S standing for slasher here, you can team up with friends or go alone.
With helpful AI for some offline practice battles too, You may fight and you may die, but know that the soldiers will never take your freedom.
If you've ever walked along with the old medieval strengths of a town, you'll know that straight and organized building was not their thing and neither is it in Foundation.
Unlike your usual city builder, there are no grids to snap to or roads to follow. Instead, you create organically, filling in space as you go. This means your creativity is let loose.
Building unique settlements every time. It's not just you who contributes, villagers and workers follow the same routes placing houses as they want to. You work with your little AI friends.
There are lush trees to chop, and ripe berries to pick as you manage your resources to bring your medieval Lord fantasies to life. It's the perfect peaceful kingdom to rule over. With no invading armies to fight off, you'll always be in power.
When it comes to medieval, the first image that pops into your head is a sword, maybe even a knight on horseback. However, It's less likely that you'll see a tangled backstabbing court, full of petty squabbles, grand ambition, and intrigue.
This is partly because it's much easier to think of a sword, but political power plays are a huge element of being a medieval ruler and Crusader Kings 2 captures this perfectly.
The only thing that matters is the ascendancy of your house and you're encouraged to try all manner of inventive ways to preserve it. Scheming marriages, murder, and war are all there to help you claw your way to the top of this scrabbling heap.
It's a deeply engaging emergent narrative experience, full of stories of betrayal and Machiavellian scheming that will make time and Lannister look like Mr. Rogers.
So you know when earlier I implied Kingdom Come was the medievalist game on this list, this entry beats it.
But unlike Henry's rotting boots-on-the-ground experience, Medieval II gives you the scaled-up kingly version of life in that period. You'll be too busy worrying about rebellions, rival powers, and Crusades to relax and opulence.
But there's still a God likely in watching waves of foot soldiers wade into battle at your behest. It's a classic of the Total War Pantheon II.
Later games such as Three Kingdoms and Attila might be more malleable and rich, but there's something about Medieval II's clean relatable systems that makes this series a favorite.
Not only does the time period make it an essential pick, but it's still thrilling to learn about this tumultuous period and history while bothering your upstart neighbors.
In medieval times, the thing that finally pushed you off this mortal coil with less likely to be a grandiose battle with knights and kings and more likely a yellowing infected wound on a cold night.
Outward has that experience wrapped up with some magic and serves to you in this fantasy RPG. So it's not accurate to any place or time, but the survival mechanics give you a sense of living on the historical edge.
Similar to Kingdom Come, you're an ordinary person with nothing special to put down in the history books. But unlike our friend Henry the world of Outward is a little more mystical.
Monsters populate uncharted territory, magic is part of every day and the environment spans from gold route cities to purple grasslands. One of the best parts is that you don't have to go it alone.
Outward allows split-screen co-op so you can venture out and die of thirst with someone fight your side.
Out now in early access, Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord takes place 210 years before the previous game Warband.
The setting is Calradia: a fictional land with an empire analogous to our own Roman Empire. A ruling power in terminal decline. This makes it a time of conflict with burgeoning new powers and formerly repressed people all bustling to take advantage of the power vacuum. This is why it's so much fun.
As an upstart Lord, you can amass troops fight bandits and pledge fealty to local Lords or you can become a menace yourself. Kidnapping, reading, and robbing whenever the urge takes you.
It's a delightfully open-ended experience where your daily travails can range from simple sheep escorts to watching in horror, as enemy forces wipe out your army then drag you around as a hostage because nobody will pay your ransom.
So those were 10 of the best medieval games around, but certainly not the only ones. The Witcher 3 of medieval fantasy at some of its best. Anno 1404 is still an addictive city builder. The Assassin's Creed was also not mentioned anywhere on this list.
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The problems of a football train!
Since it was clear a couple of weeks ago that Glossop North End was going to Wembley again for the FA Vase extensive explorations of whether a football train could be provided have taken place by Adrian who organised the one in 2009 on behalf of the club.
As the final is on a Saturday this time it is very difficult to weave in an extra train to an already busy local service. This problem was compounded by West Coast Railways, who provided the charter stock for the train last time, being banned currently by Network Rail from running any excursions until May 15th due to a safety incident last month. Despite these issues Adrian explored every other possible option with alternative operators. Northern Rail and Glossop Line Manager Theo were kept in the loop throughout these discussions and were supportive. When it eventually became clear that a special would be unlikely to run into Glossop or Wembley Central, Adrian reluctantly decided that, as its appeal may prove limited not to proceed further with a charter train.
We hope this clarifies the significant amount of work undertaken by Adrian to try and get a football train!
For those travelling by scheduled services to London Euston on May 9th, London Overground provides a 30 minute service to Wembley Central from Euston taking around 22 minutes and London Midland provides a fast service at 4 minutes past the hour taking 9 minutes. Note Wembley Park station is scheduled not to be open due to engineering works. Please check the times of your connecting services carefully! Last trains Saturday evening to Glossop from Manchester Piccadilly are at 20.46, 21.46, 22.46 and 23.27.
We thank Adrian for his efforts and Northern and Theo for support.
And, of course, we wish Glossop North End sucess at Wembley!!


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Battery Banter 5: The Relevance (or Not) of Moore's Law
Concurrently with writing this series of blog posts, I have been reading Steve Levine's newly published book "The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World". The book is a bit of a mess, full of random jumps, wrong turns and dead ends. Perhaps that is appropriate, since it describes a battery development process that is full of random jumps, wrong turns and dead ends.
While the back cover blurb tells me that the book reads like a thriller, it is more like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale "The Dog That Didn't Bark". We have two questing groups of heroes: the public-sector Argonne National Laboratory battery guys and the plucky private-sector upstarts at Envia Systems. Yet the book peters out at the end, with both teams abjectly failing in their respective quests to find the super battery Holy Grail. Argonne's new version of nickel manganese cobalt batteries (NMC 2.0) suffers from chronic voltage fade (meaning that the performance of the battery slumps after repeated recharging cycles). Meanwhile, Envia's super battery is spectacularly flawed, based on a collapsing anode and dodgy intellectual property.
Despite the book being in need of a good edit, it is still full of interesting insights into the battery development process. In a chapter recounting conversations with Don Hillebrand, an old school auto expert working at Argonne, Levine makes this observation:
Unlike microchips, batteries don't adhere to a principle akin to Moore's law, the rule of thumb that the number of switches on a chip–semiconductor efficiency–doubles every eighteen months. Batteries were comparatively slow to advance. But that did not make electronics superior to electric cars.
Consumer electronics typically wear out and require replacement every two or three years. They lock up, go on the fritz, and generally degrade. They are fragile when jostled or dropped and are often cheaper to replace than repair. If battery manufacturers and carmakers produced such mediocrity, they would be run out of business, sued for billions and perhaps even go to prison if anything catastrophic occurred. Automobiles have to last at least a decade and start every time. Their performance had to remain roughly the same throughout. They had to be safe while moving–or crashing–at high speed.
At this point, I want to refer you back to the original 1965 article by Gordon Moore that ushered in Moore's Law entitled "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits." From this, we have the quintessential exponential chart, which delivers a straight line if you put the y-axis onto a logarithmic scale (click for larger image):
This is the world of Ray Kurzweil's singularity which I blogged on in a post a couple of years back called "Singularity or Collapse: Part 1 (For Ever Exponential?". As knowledge increases by powers of 10, virtually every challenge faced by mankind dissolves.
The problem here is with the rate of exponential growth. If battery capacity and solar efficiency were increasing by orders of magnitude (powers of 10) every few years, then climate change and energy resource depletion would be solved. But actually it is a bit more complicated than that: technological transformation is actually a combination of two variables: scientific progress and price. The electronics industry performed its magic on both these variables simultaneously. Further, the science was to a degree forgiving. The theoretical constraint governing the number of components that can be placed on a silicon wafer has only recently come into play.
For a solar cell, however, the constraint is visible on day one. In the UK, the average raw power of sunshine is 110 Watts per metre squared. Current solar panels are somewhere between 10% and 20% efficient. According to David MacKay in his wonderful treatise on all things energy Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air, the maximum theoretical efficiency is limited to 60% due to fundamental physical laws (here). Therefore, you will never achieve more than 66 Watts from your solar panel, so the ability to keep doubling is capped. At best, you will achieve an S curve effect from a technological perspective alone.
Of course, the second variable is price, In theory, once the solar PV panel reaches the top of the S curve above, the price could keep on falling even as efficiency stalls. So while your panels aren't getting any better, you could plausibly plaster the world with them if they were dirt cheap. But this is a different dynamic than that of silicon chips, which benefitted from going up an efficiency curve and down a cost curve both at the same time.
And this takes us back to batteries and an article at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists by Kurt Zenz House titled "The limits of energy storage technology". For this series of posts on batteries, I have been working in units of kilowatt-hours (kWh), but the Bulletin article works in units of megajoules (MJ). In case you want to follow my link to the Bulletin article, note that 3.6 MJ equals 1 kWh. Consequently, a top of the range Tesla has a battery capable of storing roughly 306 MJ (85 kWh), the Nissan Leaf 86 MJ (24 kWh) and the BMW i3 68 MJ (19 kWh).
Crucially, House points out that a kilogram of crude oil contains 50 MJ of potential chemical energy, equivalent to almost 14 kWh, not much less than the entire BMW i3 battery which weighs in at 230 kg. Of course, internal combustion engines aren't particularly efficient, so in a petrol engine only around 20% of the energy makes it from fuel to wheels (the rest is lost as heat); for an EV, this figure is around 90%. So our BMW has a battery capacity of 80 Watt-hours per kg (roughly 0.3 MJ), of which 72 Watt-hours gets to the wheels, while its conventional cousin translates 1 kg of petrol into perhaps 2,800 Watt-hours of motion–so 40 times better.
But what of the theoretical limits posed by battery chemistry as technology improves? House has this to say:
Due to the theoretical limits of lead-acid batteries, there has been serious work on other approaches such as lithium-ion batteries, which usually involve the oxidation and reduction of carbon and a transition metal such as cobalt. These batteries have already improved upon the energy density of lead-acid batteries by a factor of about 6 to around 0.5 mega-joules per kilogram–a great improvement. But as currently designed, they have a theoretical energy density limit of about 2 mega-joules per kilogram. And if research regarding the substitution of silicon for carbon in the anodes is realized in a practical way, then the theoretical limit on lithium-ion batteries might break 3 mega-joules per kilogram.
Therefore, the maximum theoretical potential of advanced lithium-ion batteries that haven't been demonstrated to work yet is still only about 6 percent of crude oil!
To restate the above numbers, 0.5 MJ equals roughly 140 Watt-hours, 2 MJ is 0.5 kWh and 3 MJ is about 0.8 kWh.
But what about some ultra-advanced lithium battery that uses lighter elements than cobalt and carbon? Without considering the practicality of building such a battery, we can look at the periodic table and pick out the lightest elements with multiple oxidations states that do form compounds. This thought experiment turns up compounds of hydrogen-scandium. Assuming that we could actually make such a battery, its theoretical limit would be around 5 mega-joules per kilogram.
And this brings us back to Ray Kurzweil's parable of the doubling lily pads in the lake:
A lake owner wants to stay at home to tend to the lake's fish and make certain that the lake itself will not become covered with lily pads, which are said to double their number every few days. Month after month, he patiently waits, yet only tiny patches of lily pads can be discerned, and they don't seem to be expanding in any noticeable way. With the lily pads covering less than 1 percent of the lake, the owner figures that it's safe to take a vacation and leaves with his family. When he returns a few weeks later, he's shocked to discover that the entire lake has become covered with the pads, and his fish have perished. By doubling their number every few days, the last seven doublings were sufficient to extend the pads' coverage to the entire lake. (Seven doublings extended their reach 128-fold.) This is the nature of exponential growth.
So how many doublings does it take to get us from your grandfather's 0.1 MJ per kg lead acid battery to an ultra-advanced theoretical lithium ion battery at 5 MJ? Answer: six. In this lake, the owner can not only take a few weeks vacation but a sabbatical for the whole year and not worry about his fish: the lily pads will still be safely confined to one corner. Gordon Moore's lake, however, will have witnessed around 30 doublings.
Technological efficiency, however, is only one of two variables that define a disruptive technology: the other one being cost as I mentioned above. In many ways, it is the cost variable that has been the key focus in the approach taken by Elon Musk's Tesla when it comes to the battery design. Indeed, the battery technology is relatively old school, using a nickel-cobalt-aluminium combination. This accounts for the battery's stunning 550 kg total weight. Preliminary reports on Tesla's Gigafactory for battery fabrication suggest it will principally be dominated by efficiency of design rather than cutting edge new battery chemistry. But with technological change only in first gear, it will be hard to achieve integrated circuit-style disruptive change. Cost cutting design can only go so far.
At this point, I will conclude this series of posts in fear that I have turned into the 'Battery Blog' (although I will return to batteries at a future date as they are so important). But I will finish with the famous 'rule of 72'. If you remember, divide 72 by a given growth rate to produce the approximate number of years to achieve a doubling. It works pretty well (click for larger image):
Tony Seba, Ray Kurzweil and other assorted techno-cornucopians achieve almost instant doublings by assuming growth rates in the high teens or better. Unfortunately, much science progresses in the low to mid single digits, so change is measured in decades–not years.
The distinction is important. Under the Kurzweil logic, we don't really need to tackle climate change or resource depletion because technology is on the case. Just go about your business as usual, tuck up your kids in bed at night, and scientific innovation will do the rest.
But unless Argonne Laboratory's battery guys and their peers step up the pace (which looks exceedingly difficult), electric vehicles will not replace conventional internal combustion engines for a couple of decades or more. That translates into no natural near-term carbon emission mitigation in the field of motor transport. And unless we get very lucky with climate sensitivity to CO2, that also means we will get a lot closer to exceedingly dangerous climate change.
Sorry, this also means that a 'do nothing' political position at both a national and personal level won't cut it when it comes to climate change.
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On February 14th, Lotte Entertainment posted a photo on its official Instagram and wrote: "Here's a Valentine's Day gift that's sweeter than chocolate! Book a seat for a stage greeting and see Jung Woo-sung and Kim Hyang-gi in real life".
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Meanwhile, the two first met 17 years ago while filming a bakery commercial together, and when Kim Hyang-gi was a child model. The two met for the second time for the movie Innocent Witness.
In Innocent Witness, Jung Woo-sung plays a lawyer who needs to find evidence to prove a murder suspect is innocent. And Kim Hyang-gi plays an autistic girl, who was the only witness of the incident.
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Muswell Hill Berlin Trip 2019
Below, I am publishing my Facebook diary for our wonderful Synagogue Berlin trip – look out for any announcements of future trips!
Day 1 of our Community trip to Berlin with Aubrey Hersh. First stop the Berlin Wall Museum. I am used to taking tours to Poland, where we see and memorialize where the Nazi exterminations mostly took place. But the orchestration happened here in Berlin. The walls I see in Poland are ghetto walls, to imprison a marked out population. Here, the wall was built by East German authorities to prevent its population from joining their brethren in West German effectively dividing between people of pretty much one ethnic group. We saw a stretch where 2 walls were laid, with a space in between.
The wall fell on Nov 9 and 10 1989 which was actually the date of Kristalnacht in 1938…which meant that the German govt could not commemorate the reunification on that date.
A section of the Berlin Wall
At the Berlin Wall Museum – our first stop
Berlin Stop 2. Bundestag, a quite brilliant combination of the late 19th century Reichstag facade and 4 towers (representing the 4 domains of United Germany of Saxony, Wurtemberg, Bavaria and Prussia) with a modern dome structure sitting above the modern day Bundestag. A circular path around the dome takes you up and an audio guide described the landmarks of Berlin. Great tour of what is a quite fascinating city with such deep cultural institutions.
What I realised is important to note is that Germany is a young democracy…it's first experiment was after WW1 with the Weimar Republic and this attempt could not quell the democratic dissenters after the Treaty of Versailles and had such an open system that there was little parliamentary stability. I am reading Yasha Mounk's book 'The People vs Democracy' where he goes to great lengths to explain how a democratic path is not an inevitable one and liberal democracy is decoupling into democracy without rights or reduced democracy which ensures rights for some.
Stop 3 of our Berlin trip yesterday evening was the Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Liebskind. The underground floor is designed as 3 corridors called 'axes' of Holocaust, Exile and Continuity. The corridors were sloped and at each corner was an empty space vertically spanning the four floors of the Musuem. Liebskind called these ' void voids'. A most post modern approach to memory offering the participant a chance to interpret and come with their understanding. Few exhibits. The concept of exile is usually connected to the idea of diaspora…here it relates to exile from Europe before the Holocaust. After all, Europe was the centre of Jewish life before the Shoah.
The basement floor of the Jewish museum – 3 corridors: Axis of Holocaust, Axis of Exile, Axis of Continuity.
Liebskind placed empty spaces or 'voids' in the corners of the museum.
Today was the second day of our 2 day Berlin trip. We visited the Bavarian quarter of Berlin where Jewish life was curtailed and restricted in WW2. But what was memorable today was visiting the old resort village of Wannsee, now part of Greater Berlin. At a villa here (picture attached), 12 educated men gathered to hear the directives of Reynhard Heydrich on the Final Solution of the Jewish people under German control. 12 men smoked cigars and drank cognac while toying with the fate of 11 million Jews. In the minutes of the meeting are listed 11 millions Jews left in Europe…including those of Britain.
These men heard how emigration had not worked and was too costly for the Reich…so now east and west needed to be combed of its Jews. Wannsee…a place we may never have known about….like Oswiecim, Chelmno, and others. Such a dark place. I have been to places of extermination in Poland, Lithuania and Latvia….but to be where the fate of so many people, my people, was decided, was so difficult. The villa today houses a great exhibit on the history of antisemitism leading up to the Holocaust and then a description of the meeting and why it happened.
The Wannsee Villa.
The stab in the back antisemitic meme
The lists of Jewish populations that could come under Nazi control – notice that Great Britain is on the list.
What a great trip to Berlin, lead by the amazing Aubrey Hersh and with a wonderful group of people. We finished off yesterday by viewing the beauty of the Shul in Oranienburg Strasse as well as that of the Brandenburg Gate….if the horses face you, you are in West Berlin….hope I got that one right. An intense 2 days of learning and experience. But so worth it. And massive thanks to Nomi at the US for planning.
A group picture at the Brandenberg Gate – if the horses on top face towards you, you are in West Berlin!
The dome bedecked roof of the Oranienbergstrasse Synagogue, centre of the Liberal community


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The Kinks facts for kids
Original line-up in 1965
vocals, guitar, keyboard Ray Davies (until 1996, founding member)
vocals, guitar Dave Davies (until 1996, founding member)
bass Jim Rodford (1978-1996)
keyboard Ian Gibbons (1979-1988, 1993-1996)
drums Bob Henrit (1984-1996)
bass Peter Quaife † (until 1969, founding member)
drums Mick Avory (until 1984, founding member)
The Kinks were an English rock band. They first became popular in the 1960s. The band had a lot of hits during the 1960s and 70s.The band was formed in 1964 by the brothers Ray and Dave Davies.
The Kinks are one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a wide range of genres, including rhythm and blues, British music hall, folk and country. Between the mid-1960s and early 1970s, the group released a lot of commercially and critically successful singles and LPs. The group reached a reputation for songs and concept albums which show English culture and lifestyle. Albums such as Face to Face, Something Else, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, Arthur, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround and Muswell Hillbillies, are considered among the most influential recordings of the period. The Kinks had five Top 10 singles on the US Billboard chart. Nine of their albums charted in the Top 40. In the UK, the group had seventeen Top 20 singles and five Top 10 albums.
In 1990 the original four members of the Kinks were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and in the UK Music Hall of Fame in November 2005.
Bandmembers
Active: Feb 1964–1996
Instruments: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica, keyboards
Release contributions: all Kinks releases
Ray Davies was a member of the original band formed in 1964.
Instruments: lead guitar, vocals
Dave Davies was a member of the original band formed in 1964.
Mick Avory
Instruments: drums and percussion
Release contributions: all Kinks releases from Kinks (1964) to Word of Mouth (1984)
Mick Avory was a member of the original band formed in 1964.
Active: Feb 1964–June 1966, Nov 1966–Mar 1969
Instruments: bass guitar, backup vocals
Release contributions: from Kinks (1964) to The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968)
Pete Quaife was a member of the original band formed in 1964.
Active: June–Nov 1966, Apr 1969–1976, 1978
Instruments: bass guitar, vocals
Release contributions: all releases from Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) to Misfits
Dalton briefly covered for Quaife in 1966 only to replace him full-time in 1969 after the latter quit.
John Gosling
Active: 1970–1978
Instruments: keyboards, vocals
Release contributions: all releases from Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (1970) to Misfits (1978)
The band expanded into a five piece in 1970.
Andy Pyle
Release contributions: Sleepwalker (1977) and Misfits (1978)
Andy Pyle replaced John Dalton after the latter quit the band in 1976, only in turn to be replaced by Dalton.
Gordon John Edwards
Active: 1978
Release contributions: none
Gordon John Edwards briefly toured with the band during 1978.
Release contributions: all releases from Low Budget (1979) to To the Bone (1996)
Jim Rodford stepped in when Dalton finally left the band in 1978
Ian Gibbons
Active: 1979–1989, 1993–1996
Instruments: keyboards, backup vocals
Release contributions: all releases from Give the People What They Want (1981) to To the Bone (1996), apart from Phobia (1993)
Ian Gibbons joined the band after the band recorded Low Budget.
Release contributions: all releases from Think Visual (1986) to To the Bone (1996)
Bob Henrit replaced Mick Avory in 1984 after Avory and Davies quarreled in the studio.
After Gibbons left the band Mark Haley toured with them.
Ray Davies plays a Fender acoustic, Dave Davies a prototype Gibson Flying V, on the Dutch TV programme Fenklup on 29 April 1967.
The Kinks farewell party was at the Clissold Arms, where they had first performed in 1960.
6 Denmark Terrace, the childhood home of the Davies brothers. The front room is where the family's frequent Saturday night parties were held.
Publicity photo taken during a Swedish tour in 1965
With the newly hired John Dalton in 1969. From left: Dave Davies, Ray Davies, Dalton, Mick Avory
The Kinks, ca. 1971. From left: John Gosling, Dave Davies, Mick Avory, John Dalton, Ray Davies (the band's line-up 1970–1976, 1978)
Ray Davies in character as Mr Flash, the anti-hero of the Preservation series
Ray Davies and backup singers, at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, 29 April 1977
Ray Davies in Brussels, 1985, as the group's popularity began to dwindle
Dave Davies at the Dakota Creek Roadhouse, 2002
Ray Davies performing in Ottawa, 2008
The Kinks Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.


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