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Alexis Wright interview
No full textCoincidentally tonight, as governments continue to grapple with the on-going social crisis in Aboriginal communities, Indigenous author Alexis Wright has just been announced as the winner of the Miles Franklin Award, Australia's most prestigious literary prize, for her second novel Carpentaria. An Indigenous member of the Waanyi nation of Queensland's far north, and long-time activist on Aboriginal affairs, Alexis Wright's sweeping, poetic book explores the rich mythology, chequered history and present day drama of her Gulf country homeland, and was praised by judges as the standout in a highly competitive field, which included dual Booker Prize winner, Peter Carey
A brief conversation with Alexis Wright
No full textAn interview with the author Alexis Wright is presented. When asked about her interest in books, she explains that she is reading a series of natural history books. She also comments on her interest in travel and the process of writing another novel. The challenges of the writing process are also explored
Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event
No full textIn Part 1 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Alexis Castellanos, an author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and a panelist at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).
Sebastian structured this specific episode on Alexis Castellanos’ Isla to Island, a wordless graphic novel grounded by her personal family history and the history of Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan). By analyzing such a historic event through the medium of fiction, Sebastian argued that this is one of the most unique Knights HistoryCast episodes of all time. Naturally, their conversation expanded to what she talked about during her panel presentation in Panel One, Day 1 of the event that featured “internationally renowned scholars that discussed the political, historical, and cultural legacy of Operación Pedro Pan (1960-1962).” (https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/)
To purchase Isla to Island (strongly recommend), check out: https://islatoisland.com/.
To find out more about Alexis and her professional work, check out her website at https://alexiscastellanos.com/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1034/thumbnail.jp
THE MYSTIC ROAD : SELECTED POEMS - ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
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Alexis karpouzos (born on April 09, 1967) is a philosopher, author, spiritual master and pioneer of higher consciousness. He is author of several books on philosophy, metaphysics, spirituality, modern science. His most famous books are: ‘’Universal consciousness’’, ‘’non-duality’’, ‘’An ocean of souls’’, ‘’Beyond the heaven’’. Alexis Karpouzos is also a recording artist. He has recorded two music albums and twenty-four singles songs. He has also appeared in two documentary films, television and radio productions. He is the pioneer of the post-ontology consciousness and the wisdom of universal wholeness. The global language of poetry of Alexis Karpouzos, by following the paths of wisdom, is a vehicle for transmitting human knowledge and values, history, ancient traditions, and links with nature. It transmits the human values and worldly knowledge that are essential for opening ourselves to the Other. Poetic creation, therefore, forges very strong links between humans -it transcends beyond languages, beliefs and cultures. Each poem appears in its original form, in a vibrant celebration of life, diversity, language, and the enduring power of poetry. At a time when the Humanities are under threat, this book offers a defense of poetry within the context of growing interest in mindfulness in spirituality, in consciousness, in art, in education.</p
InSAR characterization of the displacements related to the lava flows at Piton de la Fournaise
No full textDepuis 2003, le service d’observation OI2 (Observatoire InSAR de l’Océan Indien), composante du Service National des Observations en Volcanologie (SNOV) analyse les déplacements du sol causés par l’activité volcanique du Piton de la Fournaise en utilisant des données InSAR (Interférométrie Radar à Synthèse d’Ouverture). Un des résultats majeurs est l’identification lors de l’éruption de 2007 d’un déplacement horizontal de plus de 1.4 m de l’ensemble du Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise vers la mer. Des résultats plus récents ont montré que ce glissement continuait entre 2009 et 2014 avec une décroissance de la vitesse des déplacements. Il a aussi été montré qu’à ce déplacement de grande longueur d’onde se superposent des déplacements plus localisés dus à la contraction thermo-mécanique des coulées de lave et à la flexion du substratum sous le poids de ces coulées. Il est donc difficile de caractériser précisément et indépendamment ces deux composantes des déplacements affectant le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Le principal objectif de cette thèse est de caractériser les déplacements associés aux coulées de lave pour supprimer la contribution des coulées des observations et isoler les signaux qui sont seulement liés à des signaux de grande longueur d’onde. Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, nous avons dû développer des algorithmes permettant de contourner précisément les coulées, d’estimer leur surface et leur volume avec les incertitudes associées. Ces algorithmes exploitent les données de cohérence interférométrique dans une approche probabiliste itérative. Ils sont maintenant utilisés en routine dans le cadre du service OI2 pour fournir aussi rapidement que possible à l’Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, des cartes des coulées. L’étude des coulées de lave mises en place entre 2014 et 2018 montre que la contraction thermo-mécanique de la coulée et la flexion du substratum dépendent à la fois de la durée écoulée depuis la mise en place, de l’épaisseur de la coulée, de la pente locale et éventuellement de la structure interne de la coulée (présence de tunnels de lave). Un an après la mise en place, les déplacements verticaux et horizontaux peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres par an. Ces déplacements diminuent ensuite de façon exponentielle avec le temps. Nous avons cherché à modéliser les déplacements verticaux en fonction de l’épaisseur des coulées. Nos résultats montrent que ces déplacements pourraient contribuer jusqu’à 80% des déplacements mesurés sur le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Les déplacements du substratum observés sur le pourtour des coulées apportent des contraintes sur la rhéologie de la partie la plus superficielle de ce substratum. Cette rhéologie apparaît fortement variable au sein de l’Enclos Fouqué révélant une forte dépendance à l’histoire des dépôts successifs accumulés en chaque endroit. Un substratum se comportant de façon poroélastique dans sa partie la plus superficielle (∼ 100 m) permet néanmoins d’expliquer de façon relativement satisfaisante les observations.Since 2003, the observation national service for the volcanology (SNOV) OI2 have been analyzing the ground surface displacements due to the volcanic eruptions at Piton de la Fournaise using the Interferometry by Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). One of major results is the observation of Eastern seaward flank sliding during the 2007 eruption (around 1.4 m of horizontal displacements). More recent results demonstrated that this sliding continued between 2009 and 2014 with a decreasing of displacement rates. However, this signal is combined with the displacements caused by the lava flows, (thermo-mechanical compaction, substratum flexure under the lava-flow weight), and the signal deconvolution is complex. Consequently, the thesis objective is to characterize these displacements to remove the contribution of lava flows from our observations. Therefore, we should only observe the signals related to the internal volcanic processes. To characterize the lava flows, we have to estimate their displacements, their locations, their surface areas and thicknesses. From the InSAR coherence data, the developped algorithms enable us to extract the lava-flow outlines and estimate the surface area value of the lava flow with the associated uncertainties. They use an iterative and probabilistical approach. These algorithms are now used during effusive crisis at Piton de la Fournaise and are become a product within OI2. The vertical-displacements evolutions of the October 2010 lava flow spanning from mid-2011 to mid-2015 follow an exponential decreasing form with rates of 10’s milimetre per year. Over the same period, the horizontal displacements are negligeable. The results about the displacement rates for lava flows emplaced between 2014 and 2018 show that these displacements are caused by the thermo-mechanical compaction, the substratum flexure, the slope and the lava field structures (as lava tunnels). One year after the emplacement of the lava flow, the vertical displacement rates can reach some 10’s centimetre per year and these values are similar for the horizontal displacements. Modelling of vertical displacements has been made using the lava thicknesses as input parameter. The preliminar results show that the flank sliding amplitude must be reduced of around 80%, (10 mm.yr-1 ) and its location is different from that of the post-2007 period. Finally, the displacements outside lava flows allow a characterization of the substratum rheology. This last one appears variable. Our models estimate that the poroelasticity, with a rheological constrast, (about 100 m-deep), is a possibility to represent the rheology of susbtratum. Ultimately, the precise substratum characterization from the co-eruptive displacements will enable us to better constrain the geometry of magmatic intrusion
Alexis to the Rescue
No full textThe author’s purpose of this children’s story is to document our culture, to add examples of real Louisiana stories for young children. This story can be classified as a personal narrative fiction story, written in a stream of consciousness from the author. The grade level that is most appropriate is 3rd to 5th grade. The overall tone of the author through the story is hopeful
COSMOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND PHYSICS: ALEXIS KARPOUZOS
No full textIf physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially holistic, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago. It is interesting to follow the evolution of Western science along its spiral path, starting from the mystical philosophies of the early Greeks, rising and unfolding in an impressive development of intellectual thought that increasingly turned away from its mystical origins to develop a world view which is in sharp contrast to that of the Far East In its most recent stages, Western science is finally overcoming this view and coming back to those of the early Greek and the Eastern philosophies. This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism. The parallels to modem physics appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching , or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plotinus, African-American philosophy, the eastern negative theology, in the Sufism of lbn Arabi, in the holistic spirit of Giordano Bruno and Meister Eckhart, in monadology of Leibniz, in the Absolute Idea of Hegel and Shelling, e.t.
All ancient spiritual traditions suggest that the world is a unity and the multiplicity is only apparent. Modern science claims that the visible world of matter and the multiplicity is only apparent, the reality is unseen and invisible. Since different roads the mysticism and the rationalism lead to the same view, the view of the open totality of the world. The mystical insight of spirituality and the rational mind of science leading to the open thought, the wisdom of life. The spiritual experience of oneness conduces to the same insight as reasoning through science. Both convey the insight of fundamental interconnection between ourselves, other people, other forms of life, the biosphere and, ultimately, the universe. Science and spirituality, far from being mutually exclusive and conflicting elements, are complementary partners in the search for the path that can enable humanity to recover its oneness with the world. Science demonstrates the urgent and objective need for it; and spirituality testifies to its inherent value and supreme desirability. We can reason to our oneness in the world, and we can experience our oneness with the world. The time has come to do both, for they are complementary and mutually reinforcing.
Presents a revolutionary new paradigm of Cosmic Thought that bridges the divide between science and spirituality. Discloses the ramifications of non-localized consciousness and how the physical world and spiritual experience are two aspects of the same Cosmos. What scientists are now finding at the outermost frontiers of every field is overturning all the basic premises concerning the nature of matter and reality.The essays on this book are the notes from the international e – learning courses that were given by the philosopher, and author Alexis Karpouzos during the winter of 2014. Students studying in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris took part in the courses, which were held by the educational and cultural center "Alexis karpouzos community", located in Athens
Caractérisation des déplacements liés aux coulées de lave au Piton de la Fournaise à partir de données InSAR
No full textSince 2003, the observation national service for the volcanology (SNOV) OI2 have been analyzing the ground surface displacements due to the volcanic eruptions at Piton de la Fournaise using the Interferometry by Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). One of major results is the observation of Eastern seaward flank sliding during the 2007 eruption (around 1.4 m of horizontal displacements). More recent results demonstrated that this sliding continued between 2009 and 2014 with a decreasing of displacement rates. However, this signal is combined with the displacements caused by the lava flows, (thermo-mechanical compaction, substratum flexure under the lava-flow weight), and the signal deconvolution is complex. Consequently, the thesis objective is to characterize these displacements to remove the contribution of lava flows from our observations. Therefore, we should only observe the signals related to the internal volcanic processes. To characterize the lava flows, we have to estimate their displacements, their locations, their surface areas and thicknesses. From the InSAR coherence data, the developped algorithms enable us to extract the lava-flow outlines and estimate the surface area value of the lava flow with the associated uncertainties. They use an iterative and probabilistical approach. These algorithms are now used during effusive crisis at Piton de la Fournaise and are become a product within OI2. The vertical-displacements evolutions of the October 2010 lava flow spanning from mid-2011 to mid-2015 follow an exponential decreasing form with rates of 10’s milimetre per year. Over the same period, the horizontal displacements are negligeable. The results about the displacement rates for lava flows emplaced between 2014 and 2018 show that these displacements are caused by the thermo-mechanical compaction, the substratum flexure, the slope and the lava field structures (as lava tunnels). One year after the emplacement of the lava flow, the vertical displacement rates can reach some 10’s centimetre per year and these values are similar for the horizontal displacements. Modelling of vertical displacements has been made using the lava thicknesses as input parameter. The preliminar results show that the flank sliding amplitude must be reduced of around 80%, (10 mm.yr-1 ) and its location is different from that of the post-2007 period. Finally, the displacements outside lava flows allow a characterization of the substratum rheology. This last one appears variable. Our models estimate that the poroelasticity, with a rheological constrast, (about 100 m-deep), is a possibility to represent the rheology of susbtratum. Ultimately, the precise substratum characterization from the co-eruptive displacements will enable us to better constrain the geometry of magmatic intrusion.Depuis 2003, le service d’observation OI2 (Observatoire InSAR de l’Océan Indien), composante du Service National des Observations en Volcanologie (SNOV) analyse les déplacements du sol causés par l’activité volcanique du Piton de la Fournaise en utilisant des données InSAR (Interférométrie Radar à Synthèse d’Ouverture). Un des résultats majeurs est l’identification lors de l’éruption de 2007 d’un déplacement horizontal de plus de 1.4 m de l’ensemble du Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise vers la mer. Des résultats plus récents ont montré que ce glissement continuait entre 2009 et 2014 avec une décroissance de la vitesse des déplacements. Il a aussi été montré qu’à ce déplacement de grande longueur d’onde se superposent des déplacements plus localisés dus à la contraction thermo-mécanique des coulées de lave et à la flexion du substratum sous le poids de ces coulées. Il est donc difficile de caractériser précisément et indépendamment ces deux composantes des déplacements affectant le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Le principal objectif de cette thèse est de caractériser les déplacements associés aux coulées de lave pour supprimer la contribution des coulées des observations et isoler les signaux qui sont seulement liés à des signaux de grande longueur d’onde. Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, nous avons dû développer des algorithmes permettant de contourner précisément les coulées, d’estimer leur surface et leur volume avec les incertitudes associées. Ces algorithmes exploitent les données de cohérence interférométrique dans une approche probabiliste itérative. Ils sont maintenant utilisés en routine dans le cadre du service OI2 pour fournir aussi rapidement que possible à l’Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, des cartes des coulées. L’étude des coulées de lave mises en place entre 2014 et 2018 montre que la contraction thermo-mécanique de la coulée et la flexion du substratum dépendent à la fois de la durée écoulée depuis la mise en place, de l’épaisseur de la coulée, de la pente locale et éventuellement de la structure interne de la coulée (présence de tunnels de lave). Un an après la mise en place, les déplacements verticaux et horizontaux peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres par an. Ces déplacements diminuent ensuite de façon exponentielle avec le temps. Nous avons cherché à modéliser les déplacements verticaux en fonction de l’épaisseur des coulées. Nos résultats montrent que ces déplacements pourraient contribuer jusqu’à 80% des déplacements mesurés sur le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Les déplacements du substratum observés sur le pourtour des coulées apportent des contraintes sur la rhéologie de la partie la plus superficielle de ce substratum. Cette rhéologie apparaît fortement variable au sein de l’Enclos Fouqué révélant une forte dépendance à l’histoire des dépôts successifs accumulés en chaque endroit. Un substratum se comportant de façon poroélastique dans sa partie la plus superficielle (∼ 100 m) permet néanmoins d’expliquer de façon relativement satisfaisante les observations
#991 Alexis Carrel: Thoughts on Living.
No full textParticipants include: Rev. Joseph T. Durkin, S.J., Professor of History, Georgetown University, and author of Hope for Our Times and Alexis Carrel on Man and Society Theodore Malinin, M.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Research Pathology, Georgetown University School of Medicine Lt. Vernon Perry, MSC, USN, Head, Tissue Culture Divsion, Tissue Bank Department, National Medical Cente
Caractérisation des déplacements liés aux coulées de lave au Piton de la Fournaise à partir de données InSAR
No full textSince 2003, the observation national service for the volcanology (SNOV) OI2 have been analyzing the ground surface displacements due to the volcanic eruptions at Piton de la Fournaise using the Interferometry by Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR). One of major results is the observation of Eastern seaward flank sliding during the 2007 eruption (around 1.4 m of horizontal displacements). More recent results demonstrated that this sliding continued between 2009 and 2014 with a decreasing of displacement rates. However, this signal is combined with the displacements caused by the lava flows, (thermo-mechanical compaction, substratum flexure under the lava-flow weight), and the signal deconvolution is complex. Consequently, the thesis objective is to characterize these displacements to remove the contribution of lava flows from our observations. Therefore, we should only observe the signals related to the internal volcanic processes. To characterize the lava flows, we have to estimate their displacements, their locations, their surface areas and thicknesses. From the InSAR coherence data, the developped algorithms enable us to extract the lava-flow outlines and estimate the surface area value of the lava flow with the associated uncertainties. They use an iterative and probabilistical approach. These algorithms are now used during effusive crisis at Piton de la Fournaise and are become a product within OI2. The vertical-displacements evolutions of the October 2010 lava flow spanning from mid-2011 to mid-2015 follow an exponential decreasing form with rates of 10’s milimetre per year. Over the same period, the horizontal displacements are negligeable. The results about the displacement rates for lava flows emplaced between 2014 and 2018 show that these displacements are caused by the thermo-mechanical compaction, the substratum flexure, the slope and the lava field structures (as lava tunnels). One year after the emplacement of the lava flow, the vertical displacement rates can reach some 10’s centimetre per year and these values are similar for the horizontal displacements. Modelling of vertical displacements has been made using the lava thicknesses as input parameter. The preliminar results show that the flank sliding amplitude must be reduced of around 80%, (10 mm.yr-1 ) and its location is different from that of the post-2007 period. Finally, the displacements outside lava flows allow a characterization of the substratum rheology. This last one appears variable. Our models estimate that the poroelasticity, with a rheological constrast, (about 100 m-deep), is a possibility to represent the rheology of susbtratum. Ultimately, the precise substratum characterization from the co-eruptive displacements will enable us to better constrain the geometry of magmatic intrusion.Depuis 2003, le service d’observation OI2 (Observatoire InSAR de l’Océan Indien), composante du Service National des Observations en Volcanologie (SNOV) analyse les déplacements du sol causés par l’activité volcanique du Piton de la Fournaise en utilisant des données InSAR (Interférométrie Radar à Synthèse d’Ouverture). Un des résultats majeurs est l’identification lors de l’éruption de 2007 d’un déplacement horizontal de plus de 1.4 m de l’ensemble du Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise vers la mer. Des résultats plus récents ont montré que ce glissement continuait entre 2009 et 2014 avec une décroissance de la vitesse des déplacements. Il a aussi été montré qu’à ce déplacement de grande longueur d’onde se superposent des déplacements plus localisés dus à la contraction thermo-mécanique des coulées de lave et à la flexion du substratum sous le poids de ces coulées. Il est donc difficile de caractériser précisément et indépendamment ces deux composantes des déplacements affectant le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Le principal objectif de cette thèse est de caractériser les déplacements associés aux coulées de lave pour supprimer la contribution des coulées des observations et isoler les signaux qui sont seulement liés à des signaux de grande longueur d’onde. Afin d’atteindre cet objectif, nous avons dû développer des algorithmes permettant de contourner précisément les coulées, d’estimer leur surface et leur volume avec les incertitudes associées. Ces algorithmes exploitent les données de cohérence interférométrique dans une approche probabiliste itérative. Ils sont maintenant utilisés en routine dans le cadre du service OI2 pour fournir aussi rapidement que possible à l’Observatoire Volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise, des cartes des coulées. L’étude des coulées de lave mises en place entre 2014 et 2018 montre que la contraction thermo-mécanique de la coulée et la flexion du substratum dépendent à la fois de la durée écoulée depuis la mise en place, de l’épaisseur de la coulée, de la pente locale et éventuellement de la structure interne de la coulée (présence de tunnels de lave). Un an après la mise en place, les déplacements verticaux et horizontaux peuvent atteindre plusieurs dizaines de centimètres par an. Ces déplacements diminuent ensuite de façon exponentielle avec le temps. Nous avons cherché à modéliser les déplacements verticaux en fonction de l’épaisseur des coulées. Nos résultats montrent que ces déplacements pourraient contribuer jusqu’à 80% des déplacements mesurés sur le Flanc Est du Piton de la Fournaise. Les déplacements du substratum observés sur le pourtour des coulées apportent des contraintes sur la rhéologie de la partie la plus superficielle de ce substratum. Cette rhéologie apparaît fortement variable au sein de l’Enclos Fouqué révélant une forte dépendance à l’histoire des dépôts successifs accumulés en chaque endroit. Un substratum se comportant de façon poroélastique dans sa partie la plus superficielle (∼ 100 m) permet néanmoins d’expliquer de façon relativement satisfaisante les observations
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