In 1992, , a 36-year-old Japanese tourist, was arrested on entry at Melbourne Airport, Australia, after [...] was found in her suitcase. She was later sentenced and served more than ten years in Melbourne prisons.
Chika Honda was invited on the trip by Mitsuo Katsuno, a frequent customer to the small restaurant in Omiya, Japan where she worked as a waitress. She was at the time also studying to become a make-up artist.
Honda had never been overseas before and did not speak any English. During her incarceration, she tried to commit [...] and also converted to Christianity. She also adopted an Australian-born kitten, Ai, whom she believes helped her survive her time in jail. Honda and Ai were released and deported to Japan in late 2002.
Zeta mesons (ζ mesons) are hypothetical mesons composed of a bottom quark and either an up (ζ ), down (ζ), strange (ζ <sub>S</sub>) or charm antiquark (ζ <sub>C</sub>). Because of the top quark's short lifetime, ζ mesons are not expected to be found in nature. The combination of a top quark and bottom antiquark is not a ζ meson, but rather bottonium. Each ζ meson has an antiparticle that is composed of a top antiquark and an up (ζ ), down (ζ ), strange (ζ <sub>S</sub>) or charm quark (ζ <sub>C</sub>) respectively.
History
The ζ meson is the only currently known subatomic particle to be discovered by amateur researchers. From 1982 to 1992, Roy P. Mackal (not to be confused with this man) was the building manager for the Argonne National Laboratory, and frequently filled in for the staff who called in sick. According to Mackal, during one of these instances in 1986, he collided two lithium atoms at 90% of light speed, producing not only the expected pions but the first known ζ meson. Other Argonne physicists, like Kevin Lawrence, disagree, however, claiming what Mackal saw was simply a smeared diagram of a normal beta pion. Since then, ζ mesons have been posited to make up anywhere from 0.5% to 0.7% of cosmic rays.
History
The ζ meson is the only currently known subatomic particle to be discovered by amateur researchers. From 1982 to 1992, Roy P. Mackal (not to be confused with this man) was the building manager for the Argonne National Laboratory, and frequently filled in for the staff who called in sick. According to Mackal, during one of these instances in 1986, he collided two lithium atoms at 90% of light speed, producing not only the expected pions but the first known ζ meson. Other Argonne physicists, like Kevin Lawrence, disagree, however, claiming what Mackal saw was simply a smeared diagram of a normal beta pion. Since then, ζ mesons have been posited to make up anywhere from 0.5% to 0.7% of cosmic rays.
Ben Pleasants (born August 6, 1940) in Weehauken, New Jersey is an American poet, playwright and literary historian, notable for being an associate of Charles Bukowski and Steve Richmond, two of the seminal figures in both the "Meat School" of poetry and in the small magazine "mimeograph revolution" of the 1960s. Bukowski helped both Pleasants and Richmond break into print when he recommended them to Worwmood Review in the mid-'60s.
Pleasants met and befriended Richmond in 1964 when both were students at U.C.L.A.. Pleasants was a graduate student in literature and Richmond was getting a law degree. He met Bukowski the following year.
Early Life
Pleasants was raised in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. He attended CW Post College from 1958 to 1960. There he met Jules Olitski, who taught him art and introduced him to the New York art scene. He graduated from Hofstra University with his B.A. in 1962, and supported himself teaching. He moved to California with his wife and daughter in 1963, to take a job at the University of California, San Diego, where he worked at the library. In the fall of 1964, he began graduate studies in English at U.C.L.A.
He worked for the Los Angeles Times, starting in 1967, where he worked the wire desk as a copy boy. He eventually reviewed books for the Times Book Review and began reviewing plays. He built up a reputation in Los Angeles and his reviews were also published by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Los Angeles Free Press and other newspapers and periodicals.
As a reviewer, Pleasants had tried to get reviews of Bukowski's work into print at the L.A. Times Book Review. In 1969, he finally got a review of Bukowski into the Times, when he reviewed the poetry collection The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. However, books were assigned the Book Review editor, minimizing Pleasants ability to prostelytize for his friend in print. He also reviewed Bukowski's prose collection Notes of a Dirty Old Man and Penguin Modern Poets 13, in which Bukowski was featured along with Harold Norse.
Pleasants worked for the L.A. Times up through 1984. He was fired from his job there after attempting to review Noam Chomsky's book, The Fateful Triangle. The book was reviewed by Pleasants in the Herald Examiner in 1984 with the help of the book editor, Digby Diehl. For thirty years Pleasants worked as a hospital teacher for the Carlson School of LAUSD. There he met his current wife, Paula Fay. Pleasants has a daughter, Alexandra Costa and two grandchildren, Victor and Martin Costa, who live in San Francisco. He is currently working for Malibu Magazine and The Persian Book Review.
Works
In the late 1960s, his first produced play The Gluttons, was staged by the actors showcase Company of Angels. It ran for one week. Other Works include the critical histories Visceral Bukowski: A Walk Through the Sniper Landscape of American Letters; Rexroth, Bukowski and the Politics of Literature; and the novel Spearmint Leaves. Plays include Contentious Minds: The Mary McCarthy/Lillian Hellman Affair; The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars; and Lenin in Love and Ghosts of Pumpkin Park."
Between 1978 and 1983 he conducted a series of interviews with John Fante, later collected by Beat Scene and 3:AM Magazine (Pleasants has also contributed a number of interviews and features for the latter). Publications written for include the L.A. Times, Herald-Examiner, L.A. Free Press, L.A. Vanguard, L.A. Reader, and Los Angeles Magazine. Pleasants is the author of two novels: Spearmint Leaves published in 2010 and The Victory of Defeat published in 2011. Both are available on Amazon and Kindle. A film on his play The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars' is available under the title "Making The Play." Pleasants has also published extensive interviews with the poet Steve Richmond on 3 AM Magazine. He continues to write to this day.
Pleasants met and befriended Richmond in 1964 when both were students at U.C.L.A.. Pleasants was a graduate student in literature and Richmond was getting a law degree. He met Bukowski the following year.
Early Life
Pleasants was raised in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. He attended CW Post College from 1958 to 1960. There he met Jules Olitski, who taught him art and introduced him to the New York art scene. He graduated from Hofstra University with his B.A. in 1962, and supported himself teaching. He moved to California with his wife and daughter in 1963, to take a job at the University of California, San Diego, where he worked at the library. In the fall of 1964, he began graduate studies in English at U.C.L.A.
He worked for the Los Angeles Times, starting in 1967, where he worked the wire desk as a copy boy. He eventually reviewed books for the Times Book Review and began reviewing plays. He built up a reputation in Los Angeles and his reviews were also published by the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Los Angeles Free Press and other newspapers and periodicals.
As a reviewer, Pleasants had tried to get reviews of Bukowski's work into print at the L.A. Times Book Review. In 1969, he finally got a review of Bukowski into the Times, when he reviewed the poetry collection The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills. However, books were assigned the Book Review editor, minimizing Pleasants ability to prostelytize for his friend in print. He also reviewed Bukowski's prose collection Notes of a Dirty Old Man and Penguin Modern Poets 13, in which Bukowski was featured along with Harold Norse.
Pleasants worked for the L.A. Times up through 1984. He was fired from his job there after attempting to review Noam Chomsky's book, The Fateful Triangle. The book was reviewed by Pleasants in the Herald Examiner in 1984 with the help of the book editor, Digby Diehl. For thirty years Pleasants worked as a hospital teacher for the Carlson School of LAUSD. There he met his current wife, Paula Fay. Pleasants has a daughter, Alexandra Costa and two grandchildren, Victor and Martin Costa, who live in San Francisco. He is currently working for Malibu Magazine and The Persian Book Review.
Works
In the late 1960s, his first produced play The Gluttons, was staged by the actors showcase Company of Angels. It ran for one week. Other Works include the critical histories Visceral Bukowski: A Walk Through the Sniper Landscape of American Letters; Rexroth, Bukowski and the Politics of Literature; and the novel Spearmint Leaves. Plays include Contentious Minds: The Mary McCarthy/Lillian Hellman Affair; The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars; and Lenin in Love and Ghosts of Pumpkin Park."
Between 1978 and 1983 he conducted a series of interviews with John Fante, later collected by Beat Scene and 3:AM Magazine (Pleasants has also contributed a number of interviews and features for the latter). Publications written for include the L.A. Times, Herald-Examiner, L.A. Free Press, L.A. Vanguard, L.A. Reader, and Los Angeles Magazine. Pleasants is the author of two novels: Spearmint Leaves published in 2010 and The Victory of Defeat published in 2011. Both are available on Amazon and Kindle. A film on his play The Hemingway/Dos Passos Wars' is available under the title "Making The Play." Pleasants has also published extensive interviews with the poet Steve Richmond on 3 AM Magazine. He continues to write to this day.
Matt Jelly is an activist and multi-disciplinary artist from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was a candidate in the Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2010 for the seat of Ward 2 Councillor and finished 2nd out of 20, with 18.72% (1434 votes). His activism focuses on municipal community issues in Hamilton. He has undertaken such projects as a mayoral campaign in 2003, By-Law Crawls in which he leads community members to sites of concern around the city with aim of creating awareness that will lead to positive changes and Garbage Crawls in which he organizes and leads volunteers to actually clean up the city. He was nominated for 2010 Royal Bank Hamilton Distinguished Citizen of the Year award.
Biography
He grew up west of downtown and graduated from Westdale Secondary School. It was during a civics class that Matt first debated an elected official: long-time Hamilton mayor Bob Morrow. The debate was over the Red Hill Creek Expressway, which Matt opposed. Matt attended Mohawk College, taking his first classes on 11 September 2001 but did not complete his studies. He walked and hitchhiked through Mexico for four months in 2003.
Art
His artistic work has included theater, painting and currently involves a vocals/electronica solo act. He has released two EPs: Appropriation EP and Unofficial EP. The Hamilton Music Awards' rated placed him runner-up in 2008 and second runner-up in 2009 for Poster Artist of the Year. His paintings have shown in galleries in Hamilton.
Professional Citizen
His 2003 mayoral campaign was unique in that it was not about winning votes. He opposed the Red Hill Creek Expressway, citing the plan's environmental drawbacks. Amalgamation and Red Hill were easily the two most prominent issues in the election. He was known for ending his campaign speeches with the line, "Don't vote for me, thank you and good night". His "Don't Vote For Me" campaign was massively successful in that more people did not vote for him than did vote for any other candidate.
As a community organizer he brings together volunteers for both By-Law Crawls, in which he leads community members to sites of concern around the city with aim of creating awareness that will lead to positive changes, and Garbage Crawls in which he organizes and leads volunteers to actually clean up the city. In July 2010, after discovering unsealed barrels of toxic waste in an abandoned building, he blew the whistle, obliging the municipal government to act. He was enshrined in a political cartoon in the Hamilton Spectator on July 28, 2010 in response.
He was a candidate in the Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2010 for the seat of Ward 2 Councillor and finished 2nd out of 20, with 18.72% (1434 votes). He was 173 votes short of Jason Farr.
Biography
He grew up west of downtown and graduated from Westdale Secondary School. It was during a civics class that Matt first debated an elected official: long-time Hamilton mayor Bob Morrow. The debate was over the Red Hill Creek Expressway, which Matt opposed. Matt attended Mohawk College, taking his first classes on 11 September 2001 but did not complete his studies. He walked and hitchhiked through Mexico for four months in 2003.
Art
His artistic work has included theater, painting and currently involves a vocals/electronica solo act. He has released two EPs: Appropriation EP and Unofficial EP. The Hamilton Music Awards' rated placed him runner-up in 2008 and second runner-up in 2009 for Poster Artist of the Year. His paintings have shown in galleries in Hamilton.
Professional Citizen
His 2003 mayoral campaign was unique in that it was not about winning votes. He opposed the Red Hill Creek Expressway, citing the plan's environmental drawbacks. Amalgamation and Red Hill were easily the two most prominent issues in the election. He was known for ending his campaign speeches with the line, "Don't vote for me, thank you and good night". His "Don't Vote For Me" campaign was massively successful in that more people did not vote for him than did vote for any other candidate.
As a community organizer he brings together volunteers for both By-Law Crawls, in which he leads community members to sites of concern around the city with aim of creating awareness that will lead to positive changes, and Garbage Crawls in which he organizes and leads volunteers to actually clean up the city. In July 2010, after discovering unsealed barrels of toxic waste in an abandoned building, he blew the whistle, obliging the municipal government to act. He was enshrined in a political cartoon in the Hamilton Spectator on July 28, 2010 in response.
He was a candidate in the Hamilton, Ontario municipal election, 2010 for the seat of Ward 2 Councillor and finished 2nd out of 20, with 18.72% (1434 votes). He was 173 votes short of Jason Farr.