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Epistemology and Kinds of Knowledge
This is a prolegomena to a discussion of the status of Mises’s human action axiom and praxeology. Mises is usually thought to have argued that the human action axiom had a “synthetic a priori” status. Whether that is credible is highly questionable.
But before a serious discussion of this issue, some comments about epistemology are necessary. Hence this post.
“Epistemology” is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. How do know truths? What kind of knowledge and truths are there?
Though it is a simplification, in essence there are four positions held since the late 18th century on the kinds of knowledge:
(1) The radical view of Willard Van Orman Quine that the analytic–synthetic distinction is a dogmatic myth;
(2) the empiricist view, associated with the logical positivists, that there are only two relevant distinctions:
(i) analytic/a priori, and
(ii) synthetic/a posteriori truth and propositions.
(3) the view of Immanuel Kant that recognises three distinctions:
(i) analytic a priori,
(ii) synthetic a posteriori, and
(iii) the synthetic a priori;
(4) the view of Saul Kripke that, as well as the analytic and synthetic, there are additional kinds of knowledge:
(i) contingent a priori;
(ii) necessary a posteriori.
In addition, the basic conceptual distinctions in the nature of propositions and truth can be given, as follows:
(1) analytic versus synthetic;
(2) a priori versus a posteriori; and
(3) necessary versus contingent.
The analytic versus synthetic distinction, formulated properly by Immanuel Kant, is usually taken to refer to propositions (or statements).
A statement that is true solely by virtue of the meaning or definition of the terms used is analytic, and it has logically necessary truth. This means that a denial of such a proposition would entail self-contradiction.
An older definition (used by Kant) is that a proposition whose predicate expresses ideas conceptually already contained (explicitly or implicitly) in the subject is analytic, such as the following propositions:
(1) All sad widows are sad.
(2) all red coloured things are red.
(3) all bachelors are unmarried.
(4) All (normal) bipeds are two-footed.
(5) All triangles have three sides.
In propositions (1) and (2) above, you can see that the idea expressed in the predicate is already explicitly verbally contained in the subject (or, strictly speaking, in the noun phrases that function as the subject). In propositions (3), (4), and (5), the predicate expresses an idea implicitly contained in the subject, which is to say that the subject already carries that idea in its implicit definition, as understood in a language or community of speakers.
Analytic propositions are true a priori (or prior to or without experience, experimentation, or empirical evidence) and are necessarily true (and their negation is impossible).
Such propositions are called analytic a priori.
Many such propositions can be regarded as tautologies and are non-informative, in the sense that they do not by themselves add new information to our knowledge of the world, because the knowledge in the predicate was already contained in the subject or deducible from it. Another way of saying this is that many are often trivial truths.
All propositions that are not true by virtue of the terms used are synthetic, and their negation is logically possible. Another way of saying this is that the predicate does not express an idea contained in the subject:
(1) Some widows are sad.
(2) Some swans are black.
(3) the earth’s sun contains hydrogen and helium.
Here the predicate is not obviously contained in the subject of the propositions, and the propositions are true a posteriori, or by means of experience, experimentation, or empirical evidence (although often this empirical verification has already been done by people before us). They have contingent, not necessary truth. Such propositions are called synthetic a posteriori.
But there is one more type of proposition proposed by philosophers and logicians, as we can see here (listed after the other two I have described above):
(1) analytic a priori;
(2) synthetic a posteriori, and
(3) synthetic a priori.
This is (3): the synthetic a priori proposition. Nevertheless, the existence of synthetic a priori propositions is debated.
Some proposed examples can be given:
(1) nothing is both green and red all over.
(2) all events are caused.
Are these, as Kant thought, synthetic a priori, in the sense that they are necessarily true but not analytic (that is, not vacuous)?
Consider the proposition that “all events are caused.” Supposedly, this is synthetic a priori and necessarily true. But modern quantum mechanics would appear to cast doubt on that idea (in its conventional sense) since it is believed by some scientists that certain quantum mechanical events can be uncaused. At the very least, there is genuine dispute and, ultimately, the proposition that “all events are caused” was arguably really just a synthetic a posteriori proposition, and never had necessary truth.
The logical positivists denied the existence of synthetic a priori knowledge, and argued only two real distinctions are useful and valid:
(i) analytic/a priori, and
(ii) synthetic/a posteriori.
By contrast, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) attacked this view in his famous article “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (1951; reprinted in Quine 1981), in which he argued that the analytic versus synthetic distinction does not exist. Although this paper was directed against the logical positivists, its thesis is equally damaging to apriorist rationalists, and in fact Quine was himself an empiricist.
Moreover, in Quine’s view, synthetic a priori do not exist either.
However, many think Quine’s critique is ultimately unconvincing (Grice and Strawson 1956), and that a strong case for the existence of analytic propositions can be made. I agree with this.
For example, Putnam argued that there is an analytic versus synthetic distinction but that it is ultimately a trivial one (Putnam 1962: 361). He also contended that there are a vast number of propositions that cannot be easily classified into either category (Putnam 1962: 364), and a better model is one with three classes:
(1) analytic
(2) synthetic
(3) various other kinds (Putnam 1962: 364).
Putnam (1962: 370) points out that modern science has revised the status of propositions which previous scientists or philosophers thought were a priori true as analytic statements, but which subsequently turned out to be synthetic statements which were false.
A fundamentally influential work was Saul Kripke’s Naming and Necessity (1980) (on Kripke, see Berger 2011; Sosa 2006; Burgess 2013; Hughes 2004). This advocated an even more complicated view. Kripke held that the notion of “necessity” as distinct from “contingency” must be metaphysical/ontological, whereas the “a priori” versus “a posteriori” distinction is epistemic (Scruton 1994: 162). The synthetic versus analytic distinction is semantic.
These concepts do not coincide, and Kripke presented arguments for additional types of knowledge, such as:
(i) the contingent a priori;
(ii) the necessary a posteriori.
Kripke also argued that identities are necessarily true, that names are “rigid designators,” and that some things have real essences (Scruton 1994: 164). This leads into the idea that “necessary a posteriori” truths exist: such as, for example, that the “morning star is the evening star” (namely, the planet Venus). On Kripke’s theory, that identity is necessary, but was discovered empirically: hence it is a “necessary a posteriori” proposition.
Another category is the “contingent a priori,” such as the idea that we know a priori that a metre rod is a meter long, but nevertheless “metre” could have been historically and scientifically defined at a different length (so it is therefore contingent).
But whether Kripke’s argument for “contingent a priori” propositions really succeeds is disputed (Scruton 1994: 165). At first glance, Kripke’s “contingent a priori” looks similar to Kant’s “synthetic a priori,” but on closer inspection there is an important difference. Kant’s “synthetic a priori” knowledge cannot be contingent, but Kripke’s “contingent a priori” can.
Though it is a subject for another post, the only epistemology capable of supporting Mises’s human action axiom, with its alleged “synthetic a priori” status, is really the Kantian theory of knowledge. But Kantian epistemology looks rather outdated in terms of the modern theory of knowledge.
Berger, Alan. (ed.). 2011. Saul Kripke. Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge.
Burgess, John P. 2013. Kripke. Polity, Cambridge.
Fodor, Jerry. “Water’s Water Everywhere” (review of Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity by Christopher Hughes)
Hughes, Christopher. 2004. Kripke: Names, Necessity and Identity. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
Kripke, Saul A. 1980. Naming and Necessity (rev. edn.). Blackwell, Oxford.
Putnam, H. 1962. “The Analytic and the Synthetic,” Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science 3: 358–397.
Quine, W. V. 1951. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” Philosophical Review 60: 20–43.
Quine, W. V. 1981. “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” in From a Logical Point of View. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 20–46.
Schwartz, Stephen P. 2012. A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: from Russell to Rawls. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester.
Scruton, R. 1994. Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey. Penguin Books, London.
Sosa, D. 2006. “Saul Kripke (1940– ),” in A. P. Martinich and D. Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Blackwell, Malden, Mass. and Oxford. 466–477.
1. Missed a key figure there, LK. But you're not the first. Another repression from our Anglophone friends.
1. Interesting post, and I am certainly keen to learn more about Johann Georg Hamann, given his close relationship to Kant and his role in translating Hume for German speakers.
Some quick reading in Gwen Griffith Dickson's Johann Georg Hamann's Relational Metacriticism (Berlin, 1995) shows that Hamann was skeptical about synthetic a priori knowledge (p. 290).
Dickson then quotes (n. 86, on p. 290) Irmgard-Maria Piske's Offenbarung, Sprache, Vernunft: zur Auseinandersetzung Hamanns mit Kant (Frankfurt am Main and New York, 1989, p. 162), to the effect that Hamann rejected synthetic a priori knowledge, because (in his view) it can't be grounded in "pure thinking," but must, like all empirical knowledge, be grounded in reality. Moreover, Hamann thought that apodictic certainty -- or epistemic necessity -- rests "only on a priori signs" (such as in mathematics).
Now this is all a perfectly reasonable empiricist position.
We get confirmation of this is on p. 291 when Dickson says that Hamann thought even geometry must be grounded in "the spatial, the empirical world of experience", and on p. 294 it is said that Hamann thought our knowledge of space and time arise "from our experience" and "senses".
My reading is hardly anything more than a smattering of course, but it appears that the epistemological views of Hamann -- at least in his critique of Kant -- can be fitted into the empiricist category:
Knowledge is either (1) a priori (and necessary only because it is analytic or mathematical), or (2) empirical (a posteriori).
At any rate, that is the sense I get.
2. This is a classic misreading of Hamann. It goes back to what I said about Berkeley in the original post. Hume just took over his position on particulars and universals and divorced it completely from his appeal to tradition, custom and belief. This is why people often think that Berkeley is an empiricist. Because he made an argument that, in retrospect (i.e. after Hume) looks empiricist. But his argument is very far from the empiricist argument which, remember, for Hume ends in skeptical nihilism (Berkeley was a Bishop!).
The reading of Hamann above is similar. He is not an empiricist because, as he recognises, empiricism falls apart into skepticism ("especially at the final close of a critical century when empiricism on both sides, struck blind, makes its own nakedness daily more suspect and ridiculous"). He has an a priori and that a priori is language. As I said, language is dominated by custom. And so if Reason is dominated by language then Reason is dominated by custom.
This is what some social constructivists, like Levi-Strauss and Lacan, argue too. Our language is generated through custom and is largely arbitrary and our Reason is then subject to this. Note that this is not Wittgenstein. For him we just need to purge language and make it conform to Reason. But these thinkers say that trying to do this will only end in a mess. (Something Wittgenstein, to his credit, realised in his later writings).
So, no. This is not empiricism. This is what some might consider a conservative argument that customs and traditions are primary and Reason is secondary. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79044 | CSS Buttons on Email Templates
Some prefer having a more prominent call to action button in their email templates. Please follow the instructions below to replace the "Book Now" link in your email templates with a "Book Now" button. Email templates can be found under Settings > Templates > Email
Note that this requires basic knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Example code and an illustration of the CSS Book Now button is located at the end of this support article.
Current Book Now link
Zoom: Current Book Now link
By default, many email templates will include a link to book now. This is created using the [PROPERTY_BOOKING_URL] merge tag.
How Guests see the default Book Now link
The renter will receive an email containing a "Book Now" text link as seen above.
Updating the merge tag
Zoom: Updating the merge tag
Replace the default [PROPERTY_BOOKING_URL] merge tag with the [PROPERTY_BOOKING_URL_SIMPLE] merge tag. The merge tag can be found in the editor dropdown box.
Email template - Source Mode
Zoom: Email template - Source Mode
To add a button using HTML and CSS, switch to the Source editor. See above.
Adding the HTML
Zoom: Adding the HTML
This new merge tag will generate the url to book the property. Add a hyperlink and button text.
Adding the CSS
Zoom: Adding the CSS
You can add inline CSS to style the button as you wish.
How the new button will look to guests
The emails that guests receive will now contain a "Book Now" button instead of the default Book Now hyperlink.
Complete code to insert the button shown
To insert a button styled exactly as in this example, you can use the following code:
<a href="[PROPERTY_BOOKING_URL_SIMPLE]" target="_blank"><span style="background: #1793db; color: #ffffff; padding: 10px 20px; border-radius: 4px;">Book Now</span></a>
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79074 | Introduction and Comparison to JAVA
In JAVA when you want to create a simple POJO class , you have to do a lot of ceremony, write getter/setter for all properties, write equal, toString and hashCode function. While the verbosity of it is good in some cases, writing and maintaining such unnecessarily huge classes is tough. Kotlin introduces Data class to tackle this problem and make the life of developer a little bit more easier.
Prerequisite of this tutorial is that you must have basic understanding of classes in Kotlin.
Below is a simple ‘MovieDetail’ class in JAVA with getters and setters for every field.
Data Class Magic!
Now below is the same class in Kotlin using Data class.
Unbelievable Right! To create a data class, you have to use the data keyboard and append in front of your class declaration. That is it!
Data class provides you with everything, getters, setters, hashCode, toString and equals functions. So all you have to do is create an instance and start using the functions.
Components is another way that Kotlin provides to access the class fields. Theses are set of functions with which you can access all the properties in the sequence they are defined. The syntax is very simple, the name “component” followed by the sequence number, componentX(), where X is the sequence number of property you want to access. So for this example:
• component1() will return the value stored in variable name.
• component2() will return the value stored in variable rating.
• component3() will return the value stored in variable director.
• component4() will return the value stored in variable releaseDate.
If you try to go above the sequence, e.g. component5() then the compiler will throw an error because there is no field with sequence number 5.
Destructuring in loops
In kotlin you can destructure individual objects when iterating over loops, so you wouldn’t need to access the fields by using the object each time (rather than writing you can directly use name).
Here you can see, inside the for loop, rather than writing a single name such as movie and then calling,, we directly destructured the fields by writing (name, rating, director, date). Remember, the fields can only be accessed in the order in which they were defined. So you cannot access rating before name, you would have to provide a variable for name and then will you be able to provide one for rating.
Read/Write Fields vs Read only Fields
This is not related to just Data classes, but also to normal class and variable definition, but I thought it might be good to cover it here.
When you define a field, you have two options while declaration, val or var. Here is a simple definition for both.
val (Read Only) – When you define a field using val, you essentially are saying that this field is read only and once its value is assigned it cannot be changed. In our MovieDetail example, we have defined the variable releaseDate using val, once the movie is released, there is no way its release date is going to change, so there is no point in giving the ability to change value once assigned.
var (Read/Write) – When you define a field using var, you essentially are saying that this field is readable as well as writeable, so a new value can be assigned to it at any point of time. In our MovieDetail example, we have defined the rating field using var, as more and more people watch the movie, the rating will change eventually, so we have provided the ability to change the value whenever required.
That is all there is to Data classes in Kotlin, hope you have enjoyed the article.
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Roi · January 30, 2018 at 12:20 pm
great article.
but the same class in Kotlin is:
data class MovieDetail(var name: String,
var rating: Int,
var director: String,
var releaseDate: Date)
Gurleen Sethi · January 30, 2018 at 12:58 pm
You can also use var for all you properties, I used val because it only makes sense to change rating after a movie object is created, though I know what you are trying to say, the Java class had getters as well as setters for all fields so do the same in Kotlin class by defining every field with var.
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Where's Quatar? The Qatar world cup and the death of spelling
By Alexandra Petri
Wait, Qatar's hosting World Cup 2022? Seriously?
All I know about Qatar is that most Americans don't know how to spell it or find it on a map. This doesn't narrow it down much. It could be anywhere but Canada. Then again, all I know about the World Cup itself is that it sounds like something Earth has to wear to the gym.
But my biggest problem is that, in light of this news, Quatar and Katar have been trending all over the place. This is embarrassing! I bet Noah Webster is rolling in his grave!
Google Trends are worse than WikiLeaks when it comes to revealing the holes in our understanding of the international world. The WikiLeaks were, by and large, correctly spelled and dignified in tone. Sure, they described Karzai as "an extremely weak man who did not listen to facts," but at least they didn't spell his name Carzy, or Quartzi, or something. Perhaps it would have been better if they had.
But the rest of us don't fare so well. Spelling is one of those skills -- like knowing where things are, whether we are compatible with potential mates, or what music we would like to hear next -- that we increasingly delegate to the array of benevolent machines constantly humming around us. Forget spelling quizzes! There's Autocorrect. Spelling bees are suffering the same fate as regular bees -- going quietly extinct, except for a few on television to sell us things. They're becoming an increasingly rarefied, trick-pony circuit rather than a common student experience, like square dancing and having to memorize state capitals. Who can blame us? These days, you can tell you've spelled something correctly because no thin colored line appears underneath it. (On a related note, I think The Thin Red Line would be a great name for a movie about America's spelling illiteracy.)
But this ignorance can be hilarious or disastrous. Witness, which documents cases where this reliance on Benevolent Machines to spell things correctly results in your accidentally telling your friends you hope to lick strangers' orifices or that you and Mom are going to "divorce" ("sorry, Disney") next weekend.
And it's a new modern ritual. Whenever anyone dies, or makes news, or takes World Cup 2022 from us, our first impulse seems to be to rush to the computer and hunt for a misspelled version of his, her, or its name. This wouldn't be noticeable, except that there are so many of us searching for these things all at once, and suddenly "Quatar" and "Leslie Nelson" wind up at the top of Google's search charts. I'm mortified!
It's one thing when an isolated individual doesn't know, say, whether Arizona borders Mexico -- and especially embarrassing when this is an elected official. But it's entirely different when millions of us rush to our computers and demonstrate a similarly appalling ignorance. Misspell me once in an isolated, private setting, shame on you. Misspell me millions of times, making Quatar one of today's most-searched terms, shame on everyone! And our school system!
It wasn't always like this. Bill Bryson noted in his work "The Mother Tongue" that "For the longest time people seemed emphatically indifferent to matters of consistency in spelling." There was a time when spelling could be fairly idiosyncratic, a matter of personal preference and flair. But that was centuries ago! Then Samuel Johnson came along with his dictionary, and Noah Webster came along with his, and along with these came the expectation that we were trying to communicate and it might make sense to use consistent sets of letters to express the same meaning. It took a while to wean people off their spelling idiosyncrasies. "It just looks naked without the second t and bonus e," they muttered, "And I miss throwing y's into my words at random."
Nowadays, there, but for the grace of Autocorrect, go we. Perhaps this won't ever emerge as a problem -- Spellcheck and Autocorrect will wrangle our words into some semblance of accuracy, and Google will know what we mean when we look for Quatar and Qooter. Spelling will be just another casualty of the information age -- when, because we can technically know everything at the touch of a key, we stop worrying about learning anything. "Those who don't learn history might be doomed to repeat it," we mutter, "but those who don't learn spelling have Autocorrect. Sure, it can be a problem if you're trying to look up a symptom -- "I have this bloody cough, but it keeps telling me about the World Cup!" -- but I'm sure we'll sort it out! Why worry?
But the small nervous part of me that constantly thinks things are like 1984 finds this trend alarming. Lose the word for a thing, and you lose the thought behind it. And the first step to losing the word is losing the spelling. And whoever said words can't hurt you never accidentally declared war on Guitar.
As a protest, I'm thinking of starting a travel company to bilk people who fail to spell the names of countries correctly. Visit Gum for a fraction of the cost of Guam, or stop by Singepore! Discount packages to imaginary places at peak times! I'll make a killing!
What do you say? Have you ever been to Quatar?
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OK, spelling it is hard enough, but how do you pronounce it?
I remember newscasters always pronounced it "gutter." But Wikipedia has 2 other possiblilities. (what's the damn red line doing under that last word?)
I say forget the "cat tar." My mind is still in the "gutter."
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So, I was reading this Deadspin comment thread and someone from DC, "Unsilent Majority," made a disparaging remark about the historical racism in one of America's greater cities (I won't mention which one). I defended this unmentioned city while taking a small poke at DC's current struggles with racism.
Then, some dude calling himself "Larry Bird Flu" had this to say:
"Anyone hear about the whole uproar about calling Prince George's County "PG County?" That PG is racist? That's ridunkulous."
This is news to me. I did a rudimentary Google/Wikipedia search and came up with nothing. So I turn to you, my faithful readers. Are there people out there who think abbreviating "Prince George's" is racist? If so, why? Any information you have on the subject would be enlightening. I am inclined to believe that such a belief would qualify as ridunkulous, but I'd like to have all the facts before making a final decision.
UPDATE: Ok. A few commenters sent me a link to The Washington Express Blog. They provide the following excerpt taken from The Washington Post:
"Going back at least 30 years, some county politicians have associated use of the abbreviation with disrespect and have worked to discourage it, even as some residents scratch their heads about the connection. The debate is a complex one, fraught with racial and class implications and compounded by sensitivities about where the county fits in among its more affluent suburban neighbors, including Montgomery and Fairfax counties."
I don't really see any claims of racism. It's little more than a public relations move. It's not really ridunkulous, just asinine.
1. I don't know whether or not there are racial overtones to it; but it is true that people in Prince Georges county hate it when the abbreviation is used. Some of it is probably racial, some of it is probably PR (because of the county's bad image as of late).
2. Of the many definitions in the Urban "Dick":
PG = Philipino Girl
PG = "Pussy Goatee" or "Prison Goatee" - A goatee trimmed to neatly and completely frame the mouth. Popular in prisons - when two cons are engaged in some hot face sex, it gives the visual effect of a woman's vagina and pubic hair.
Bill's furry black PG made him quite popular in the state prison.
Well that settles it. Even if PG is an innocent acronym, I will never utter those two letters together ever again even if it is just a "movie rating." There may be something more sinister going on here. Let us in on DC's inside racism.
3. That is vituperously redoculous!
--Malachy Malapropism
4. http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2006/05/name_game_pg_vs_prince_georges_1.php
5. http://www.readexpress.com/read_freeride/2006/05/
6. Just talked to a friend of mine from Prince Georges, and he basically said that the county has a bit of a complex, and the abbreviation is closely associated with high crime and poverty. So the leaders over there really don't like it, mainly for PR reasons (but race is always a factor).
7. lipstick on the pig
8. It could be interp as "pure ghetto"
I'm puttin' my money on that one.
9. Not quite sure why, but this reminds me of the outrage that some had in the wake of 9/11 when people would refer to the day as "9-11" or "9-1-1," as if it was disrespectful to call it anything other than "September eleventh."
10. Either way, calling PG County "PG County" is definitely a more pressing racial issue than anything that goes on in DC.
11. This is going to ruin Prince George's County's reputation for tourism.
I mean, every other weird place is going after tourism income. Beirut was big until just a few weeks ago. Now New Jersey (!) is running ads encouraging people to vacation in the "Garbage State."
Prince George's needs to come out w/ some iconic p.r. campaign--the P.G. equivalent to "I looooove New York!"
By the way, I'm vacationing this Christmas in beautiful West Baltimore.
West Baltimore: Where riots start.
12. or
Prince Georges... It's a riot!
13. "Visit PG County: 40's, Bitches, and Blunts!"
14. Rusty, here's a Post link that I found that mentions the whole "P.G." thing near the bottom of the article:
15. we lived for many years in silver spring and managed to leave just when it was getting slightly interesting. it was common for my neighbors and i to say we lived in 'Monkey County' as in the old 'Monkey Ward'...
gosh who knew my asian, hispanic and african american neighbors were so racist. being white i have no excuse. shame on me. luckily we haven't managed to come up with a racist nickname for our current maricopa county.
curiouser and curiouser.
16. PG or Prince Georges always has been, and always will be, the ugly step child in local counties. It will never change. Its a fact. Until some out of state senator renames it "Ronald Regan's Prince Georges County" you might as well get used to it. Then again even a name change wont help.
17. Uh, Nadine, I don't really get your point. "Monkey Ward" is horrifyingly racist if "Monkey" is referring to it's majority black population. Are you arguing it isn't?
18. Hell - I've lived here long enough that I remember PG County as a rural outpost populated by white rednecks (see "Heavy Metal Parking Lot"). People have been saying "PG Cownnie" for years, and there's nothing racist about it. Holy crap, we're searching high and low for offenses, here.
We'd better change those racist WPGC call letters ASAP, eh??
19. All the people I know from PG County call it PG County. Including black people. Shut up, politicians.
20. Hush, Nadine.
I think you're either hungover or really confused today.... Your post doesn't make any logical sense. It's almost like you're some celebrity arrested for DUI on the Pacific Coast Highway.
White people must be stronger than everyone else and are not allowed to be as racist? Should I just take my life to make up for past wrongs? Maybe I should let minorities sleep w/ my wife....
Everyone's racist. But we try our best to become enlightened beings.
(Where are the pics?)
21. Yeah, here we go again. They gotta find something racist in everything. It detracts from the issues really ARE race related.
This whole fucking thing only makes me want to call it "PG" County even more.
22. Okay, folks. Since the topic of this board has once again turned to racism, I’d like to throw a question out there. This is a serious question, and I’m looking for an unbiased view, and possibly some answers on something that has been troubling me for some time.
About two years ago I moved my family to an upper middle class suburb here in Northern Virginia; all brand new homes. Trouble began immediately. What is disturbing is that EVERY problem that has occurred in our neighborhood has involved blacks. I’m not exaggerating, and I’ve tried hard to find one incident involving a white child or family, and I have failed. The bully on the bus – a black kid. The vandals that have been caught spray painting, shooting out lights and tearing down signs – black kids. The kids at school who are always in trouble for picking on others – black kids. The group of kids caught breaking into the new homes and punching holes in the drywall, and dumping paint on the new carpet – black kids. The groups of hoodlums that hang out on the corners using foul language and generally creating a nuisance by refusing to get out of the road when cars pass – black kids. Most recently, we’ve had problems at our community pool. The kids that have finally been banned for belligerence toward the lifeguards, refusing to follow rules, etc – all black teens. The basketball court will probably have to close because of vandalism, drug paraphernalia found, and loud foul language heard in the vicinity of the playground. The ONLY kids to have ever been seen on the court – all black youths. And the constant dropping of the “N” bomb LOUDLY amongst themselves is especially disturbing. I don’t want my kid asking what that means someday in Wal-Mart for everyone to hear them.
My question is simple – WHY? None of the “normal” excuses apply here. These are all two parent households with the same income as my family. So there is no “lack of positive male role model”, or “underprivileged family” crap here. I just want to know why EVERY fucking problem we have encountered involves a black family. My eight year old son finally asked me yesterday why all of the kids getting into trouble are black. What the fuck am I supposed to tell him? I sure in the hell didn’t teach him this; he is learning from what he sees around him. The sad fact is that it is the truth. How can one teach their children to be open minded and objective when this is what they see around them, in an upper middle class neighborhood???????
So I would just like to know why this is the case. This is a serious question that I’d like some serious answers to.
23. Stop dropping the N bomb-
Could it be possible that when black kids act out, you just notice it more? I mean, I think everyone, when they see someone of a different race, registers it somehow. None of us are color blind. There are doubtlessly plenty of smart, well-behaved black children in your neighborhood, but you don't notice them because... why would you? And there must be little white brats around too. Maybe they get punished by some teachers less frequently than the black kids (I'd bet on this.)
As for why the black kids seem to be causing more trouble. I certainly can't answer this, but I suspect it stems from pretty long-reaching, ingrained issues, much like the reasons why there are many more black and Latino men in prison than white ones. Are you in a majority-white area? Could there be people who make the black kids feel different and unwelcome? Could they be reacting against that? I don't want to speak for any group of people, because I find that patronizing and condescending. I'm just trying to think of some ideas around your question, which I do find really interesting and worthwhile.
24. alanna,
Thanks. Yes, there are plenty of well-behaved black kids in our neighborhood, and believe me -- I do notice them. It's not that all of the blacks in my neighborhood are causing trouble, it's that all of the trouble makers seem to be the black kids.
Proportionately, whites far outnumber the blacks. But if you look at demographics of my area, it pretty much matches the surrounding area. As for the whites making the blacks feel unwelcome, I haven't seen it. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist though.
25. uh monkey ward refers to the now defunct store Montgomery Ward. as best i can tell it was a term used affectionately.
It was sort of the 30s-40s version of calling Target tar-ghey. It was never about the race of the people shopping in the store. Later i met people of the same age of other ethnicities who also called it "monkey ward".
those of us old enough to remember said store - which included most of my neighbors in Silver Spring - called Montgomery County "Monkey County" for the same reason.
i don't doubt that people COULD call Montgomery County "monkey county" because it "GASP" has black people in it - but that wasn't my intent. I was just commenting about another county nickname.
i'm guessing that in this instance offense about the whole monkey ward thing is an age thing.
see also
26. And yet, when some kid goes nuts and starts shooting up the school, it's always some white kid.
27. That's ridiculous beyond words. I lived in PG county from 2nd to 8th grades (six years, then, though it seemed longer), referring to it as PG County all the while, and never once thought of it as racist or demeaning.
28. Just scrolled down a bit more to see Nadine and Rusty's interchange. With all respect to Rusty: My family and I moved from PG County to Monkey County, where I've lived now for over 30 years. In fact, I now live in Monkey Village, between G'burg and Germantown (after stops in G'burg and Silver Spring).
The majority of the population in Montgomery Cty. is white, not black, so Rusty, may I submit you've misunderstood Nadine?
As for any reference to a "monkey ward," that's nothing I've ever heard of. I rarely heard the county referred to as "Monkey Cty", but Montgomery Village was and is frequently referred to as "Monkey Village." I took it then, and I still take it, as a stupid joke/play on words. Nothing hidden in it, other than childish behavior.
While I haven't taken a census, it seems the majority population in the Village is *not* black, so there aren't any racial undertones in that nickname, either. |
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This page gives some details on the status of YARP/ROS interoperation.
ROS/YARP compatibility work has proceeded as follows:
• Phase 1 - wire support
• Added the basic network protocols used by ROS (XML/RPC, TCPROS) to YARP.
• Added a code generator for converting .msg/.srv files to YARP serialization code.
• Phase 2 - name support
• Added support for the ROS name server (rosmaster/roscore) to YARP.
• Mapped YARP ports to closest analogue, hybrid node/topic pairs.
• Phase 3 - node support
• Add ROS-like nodes to YARP.
• Fully support ROS slave API so nodes written with YARP are indistinguishable on
• network form nodes written with ROS.
Setup: Compiling YARP to support ROS
You'll need to turn the following flags on in CMake before (re-)compiling YARP:
* CREATE_OPTIONAL_CARRIERS (for support of ROS wire protocols)
* CREATE_IDLS (for support of ROS .msg/.srv files)
Those flags in turn create extra options, and the following should be turned on:
* ENABLE_yarpcar_tcpros_carrier (the usual protocol for topics)
* ENABLE_yarpcar_rossrv_carrier (tcpros with minor tweaks for services)
* ENABLE_yarpcar_xmlrpc_carrier (used by ros nameserver and node interfaces)
* ENABLE_yarpidl_rosmsg (a program to convert .msg/.srv files into YARP-usable form)
At some point, all these will become available by default, but that is not yet the case.
Setup: directing YARP clients to use the ROS name-server
To start with, it is simplest to configure YARP clients to use the ROS name server. Stop any yarpserver process you may have, and do the following:
# optional - this avoids overwriting "normal" yarp configuration files
yarp namespace /ros
# find ROS name server, respecting ROS_MASTER_URI
yarp detect --ros --write
Just to describe in a little detail what happens here. YARP has a little configuration file (stored in the location reported by yarp conf) that lets all YARP-using programs know how to contact any name servers they need. For a ROS name server running on port 11311 (the default for ROS) on a machine with IP address, the configuration file should hold the following: 11311 ros
The "ros" tag tells the client what protocol to speak (if this is missing, a yarp-native protocol will be used by default). If the standard ROS_MASTER_URI environment variable is set correctly, then yarp detect --ros --write should prepare exactly this configuration for you.
One more step is desirable. ROS has its own type-system that depends on .msg/.srv files scattered around a ROS installation. To make those types available to YARP when needed, without having to have a working ROS installation on all machines, we can run a special "type server" on any one machine with a ROS installation:
# give access to ROS type info to ROS-less machines
yarpidl_rosmsg --name /typ@/yarpros
In fact, you can run this server on a machine *without* a ROS installation, and it will fall back on interrogating the http://docs.ros.org website for type information. This will work for types used in ROS packages documented on that site.
Trying things out: reading ROS topics
Let's start with a simple test reader:
yarp read /msg@/test_node
For someone familiar with ROS, the "/msg@/test_node" syntax can be read as "use a topic name of /msg, and a node name of /test_node". We can check that everything looks familiar with rosnode and rostopic:
$ rosnode list
$ rostopic info /msg
Type: unknown type
Publishers: None
* /test_node (... address ...)
As invoked, we didn't assign any particular type to the port/topic - this can be picked up from the sender. Try any of:
rostopic pub /msg std_msgs/String "hello yarp"
rostopic pub /msg turtlesim/Pose 0 5 10 15 20
And you should see the messages print out on yarp read's console.
Trying things out: publishing to ROS topics
Let's start a ROS program to print out strings:
$ rosrun roscpp_tutorials listener
This program subscribes to a topic called "/chatter". Let's publish something there from YARP:
$ yarp write /chatter@/yarp_writer
yarp: Port /yarp_writer active at tcp://
yarp: Port /chatter+@/yarp_writer active at tcp://
yarp: Sending output from /chatter+@/yarp_writer to /listener using tcpros
Once we type a message (here "hello?") and hit return, we should see it echoed on the listener's console:
[ INFO] [1386605949.838711935]: I heard: [hello?]
Under the hood, the yarp port has found the type of data expected (from the listener) and is matching what you enter with that type. If you try to send a number, you'll get a message like this:
yarp: Structure of message is unexpected (expected std_msgs/String)
(If you actually want to send a string that looks like an integer, just put it in quotes). In this case, the listener is expecting a message of type std_msgs/String.
Trying things out: using ROS services
Let's start a ROS service that adds two integers:
rosrun rospy_tutorials add_two_ints_server
This creates a service named /add_two_ints that expects two integers and gives back an integer. We can use it from yarp rpc, for example:
$ yarp rpc /add_two_ints
22 20
Response: 42
1 -10
Response: -9
This looks straightforward, but it relies critically on YARP being able to determine ROS types. If you were to shut down the yarpidl_rosmsg server, here is what you would see:
$ yarp rpc /add_two_ints
Do not know anything about type 'rospy_tutorials/AddTwoInts'
Could not connect to a type server to look up type 'rospy_tutorials/AddTwoInts'
With the type server running, YARP can make the needed translations. Let's try the opposite direction, setting up a ROS-style rpc server, for example this:
$ yarp rpcserver /add_two_ints@/my_int_server --type rospy_tutorials/AddTwoInts
Notice that we specify a node name for the server here, and also we give the type of data it expects and returns (ROS-style clients expect us to know that). Now from ROS we can do:
$ rosrun roscpp_tutorials add_two_ints_client 3 4
On the "yarp rpcserver" terminal we will now see:
Waiting for a message...
yarp: Receiving input from /add_two_ints_client to /add_two_ints-1@/my_int_server using tcpros
Message: 3 4
It is waiting for us to reply. We can type in whatever number we like ("7" if we are feeling constructive), and it will be reported on the "roscpp_tutorials" terminal:
[ INFO] [1386793386.003997149]: Sum: 7
Trying things out: from code
Please see "example/ros" in the YARP source code for full examples. For simple cases, we can just use YARP Bottles whose content matches ROS types. For example, to call a ROS service that adds two integers, we could do this (error checking abbreviated, see example/ros directory for full code):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <yarp/os/all.h>
using namespace yarp::os;
if (argc!=3) return 1; // expect two integer arguments
Network yarp;
RpcClient client;
if (!client.open("/add_two_ints@/yarp_add_int_client")) return 1;
Bottle msg, reply;
if (!client.write(msg,reply)) return 1;
printf("Got %d\n", reply.get(0).asInt());
return 0;
An example CMakeLists.txt file to compile this and link with YARP would be:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.7)
find_package(YARP REQUIRED)
add_executable(add_int_client_v1 add_int_client_v1.cpp)
target_link_libraries(add_int_client_v1 ${YARP_LIBRARIES})
On the ROS side we'd do:
rosrun rospy_tutorials add_two_ints_server
Then on the YARP side we can try it out (assume the above program is compiled as add_int_client_v1):
$ ./add_int_client_v1 4 6
yarp: Port /yarp_add_int_client active at tcp://
yarp: Port /add_two_ints+1@/yarp_add_int_client active at tcp://
Got 10
Now looking at the code, there are some things to note. We use an RpcClient. This is a regular yarp Port, configured for writing to a single target. Equivalently we could have used this:
Port client;
If we try to use a regular port without telling YARP how we'll be using it (by calling one of setRpcClient(), setRpcServer(), setWriteOnly(), setReadOnly()), YARP will complain because it won't know how to describe it to ROS. However, if you have a YARP-using program that you can't easily modify to add such a call, you can sneak the needed information into the port name.
ROS idea Call needed to specialize a Port/BufferedPort Or add this decoration before "@" in port name Pre-specialized class
Topic Subscriber port.setWriteOnly() - (none)
Topic Publisher port.setReadOnly() + (none)
Service port.setRpcServer() -1 yarp::os::RpcServer
Client port.setRpcClient() +1 yarp::os::RpcClient
For new code, it may be convenient to create ROS-like nodes explicitly rather than having names that bundles node and topic/service names together. YARP now has a yarp::os::Node class that can be used like this (modifying our example for adding two integers):
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <yarp/os/all.h>
using namespace yarp::os;
Network yarp;
Node node("/yarp_add_int_client");
RpcClient client;
if (!client.open("add_two_ints")) return 1; // names that omit leading "/" belong to node
Bottle msg, reply;
return 0;
Phase 3
Prerequisites - YARP configured with these flags turned on in CMake:
* ENABLE_yarpcar_tcpros_carrier
* ENABLE_yarpcar_rossrv_carrier
* ENABLE_yarpcar_xmlrpc_carrier
* ENABLE_yarpidl_rosmsg
YARP (master) has been extended to give ports slots for storing type information, data direction, and other properties that ROS cares about. Simple ports that transmit a fixed type of data in a particular direction (input or output) now look a lot more familiar to ROS. An equivalent of a ROS node has been added to YARP, rather than making every port a node as in Phase 2.
Nodes can be used in YARP in two ways. The first is a backwards-compatible way, relying on a new naming convention for ports (this way is implemented). The second uses a few new methods (this way is under development).
If a port name contains the "@" character, then that name is interpreted as a node-name and topic/service-name pair. For example:
yarp read /msg@/reader
will create a node called "/reader" that subscribes to a topic called "/msg". On a machine with ROS installed, you can check this with:
rosnode list
rosnode info /reader
rostopic list
rostopic info /msg
We could send a message to this port from ROS (assuming we are using a ROS nameserver) as follows:
rostopic pub /msg std_msgs/String "hello world"
yarp write /msg@/writer
will create a node called "/writer" that publishes to a topic called "/msg". For this to communicate with ROS programs, we'd also need to specify a type, for example:
yarp write /msg@/writer --type std_msgs/String
YARP has a direct understanding of a small number of ROS types, but for more it needs a "type server" to run on a computer with ROS installed. Run this (the "/typ" service name is important, the node name is not):
yarpidl_rosmsg --name /typ@/ros/type/server
The following demos should now work:
# DEMO: image stream from YARP to ROS
# Should see red line scrolling down image_view viewer
yarpdev --device test_grabber --name /test_grabber=/camera/image
rosrun image_view image_view image:=/camera/image
# DEMO: image stream from ROS to YARP
# I just wrote a quick program...
yarpview /whatever/the/image/topic/is@/yarpview
# DEMO: basic read/write
rosrun rospy_tutorials listener
yarp write /chatter@/ros/check/write --type std_msgs/String
# DEMO: basic write/read
rosrun rospy_tutorials talker
yarp read /chatter@/ros/check/read
# DEMO: manipulating turtle demo
rosrun turtlesim turtlesim_node
yarp read /turtle1/pose@/foo # should show a stream of poses
yarp rpc /turtle1/teleport_absolute # give x y theta e.g. "6.0 3.0 0.5"
yarp rpc /reset # hit enter to send a blank message and do reset
Possible examples for an API for when writing new code:
Node node("/producer");
Publisher<Vector> data("readings"); // "readings" acts as a topic name
// "data" is written to just like a BufferedPort
Node node("/consumer");
Subscriber<Vector> data("readings");
// "data" is read from like a BufferedPort
Phase 2
ROS vs roscore
"ROS" is a framework, aggregating a lot of stuff. The ROS middleware is called "roscore", and is just one part of ROS. It is the component of ROS most comparable to YARP. It will be referred to in the rest of this document as ROSCORE.
Using YARP and ROSCORE in the same program
There is no obstacle to using YARP and ROSCORE in the same program. Programs that use ROSCORE are in practice likely to be built using ROS's own build system, which is layered on CMake. Since YARP can be linked to like any regular library, and has good support for doing so from CMake, there is no problem integrating at this level. A frequent source of conflict between middleware can be in automatic code-generation steps (e.g. for generating functions/classes encoding message types). YARP has historically refrained from having such code-generation, specifically so that it remains "just a library" from the perspective of integration. YARP has been packaged as a library within the ROS package management system:
When using two types of middleware in one program, an importance concern is whether they can work together efficiently. For example, translation between data types could be complicated. This matters most for large objects such as images. YARP has deliberately designed large data types with an eye to this problem. For images, the YARP image type is structured to match the format of an "IplImage", a venerable format that has longe since been propagated to the popular OpenCV library. OpenCV is the image processing library adopted by ROS, and so YARP and ROS images share a common underlying format. This fact is used in this package (in fact the conversion here is a sub-optimal, containing an avoidable copy):
Note that the use of YARP and ROSCORE in the same program strongly implies use of the ROS build system. This has consequences. That program will be a lot less portable than if it used YARP alone (ROS developers concentrate on Ubuntu Linux) and will be less usable from frameworks that are incompatible with ROS.
Using YARP and ROSCORE on the same network
YARP and ROSCORE provide for inter-process communication. If they had compatible protocols, then programs using YARP and programs using ROSCORE could communicate with each other. For example, one use case for this would be to make the iCub robot (whose software is written with YARP) directly accessible from programs written using the ROS framework. More generally, a non-ROS-using program (e.g. on an unsupported OS or using an incompatible framework) could be made to communicate with ROS programs via YARP.
YARP has been deliberately designed with interoperability in mind, with a plugin system of "carriers" (network protocols) that allows for great variety in how logical data flow translates into network traffic. Some preliminary work has been done to add "carriers" for ROSCORE traffic into YARP. This is done *without* linking to ROS libraries, since doing so would reduce the portability of YARP.
The XML/RPC carrier
Administrative messages in ROSCORE are transmitted using XML/RPC. Specifically, this protocol is used by ROSCORE when communicating with the roscore "master" entity, and with "slave" entities associated with each node. These messages do not carry user data, but are essential to finding out how to reach named entities on the network, making and breaking connections, and other administrative tasks.
An "xmlrpc_carrier" plugin has been added to YARP. This means that all YARP "Ports" can now act as XML/RPC servers and clients.
YARP user data, when sent to or received from a carrier, is expressed in a logical format called the "Bottle" format, which can be thought of to a first approximation as an s-expression in Lisp -- nested lists containing sequences of primitives. This format is easy to map onto the XML model used by the "XmlRpc++" library, which is the XML parser used by ROS and by the xmlrpc_carrier plugin. Here is the mapping:
* XML/RPC integer <-> Bottle integer
* XML/RPC double (floating point number) <-> Bottle double (floating point number)
* XML/RPC string <-> Bottle string
* XML/RPC blobs <-> Bottle blobs
* XML/RPC array <-> Bottle list
* XML/RPC structure <-> Bottle list
XML/RPC structures are sets of key/value pairs. These are mapped to a list with the tag "dict" as the first element, followed by sublists with key->value mappings:
(dict (key1 val1) (key2 val2))
With some care, the mapping can be made exact, and means that no new types need to be added to YARP in order to conveniently represent data transfer to/from XML/RPC server/clients. So it is now easy to communicate from YARP to the roscore "master" and node "slaves"; it is also possible to have YARP ports pose as ROS "slaves" (or theoretically the "master").
For example, once this carrier is available, here is how YARP can be used from the commandline to look up the address of a ROSCORE entity called "/talker". We assume the roscore "master" server is running on the machine called "zimba", on port number 11311:
# for convenience, give the roscore master a name ("/roscore") in the YARP network
yarp name register /roscore tcp zimba 11311
# send a look-up message, following the master API
echo "lookupNode yarp_contact_id /talker" | yarp rpc xmlrpc://roscore
This result is printed:
1 "node api" "http://contact:37291/"
So we know that the entity "/talker" can be reached on the machine "contact" on port number 37291, speaking "http" (this means XML/RPC). We can in turn talk to that entity using XML/RPC to get information about it or to prod it into making connections.
The command-line operation above can be trivially converted to code. Such operations are not intended for end-users, it is given here just to show some detail of this aspect of interoperability.
The TCPROS carrier
User data transmitted between ROS programs is typically carried to the "TCPROS" protocol. This is much more efficient than XML/RPC. A carrier called tcpros_carrier has been added to YARP in order to speak this protocol. We deal here with transmitting user data as an uninterpreted binary blob from YARP to ROSCORE or from ROSCORE to YARP. The issue of how that data can be correctly interpreted on both sides needs to be separately addressed.
There are two very different kinds of data flow that may be happening across a TCPROS connection, from ROSCORE's perspective:
• "Service" data - essentially an RPC command/reply data flow initiated by a client, directed at a server.
• "Topic" data - a stream of data from one "publisher" to one "subscriber". Initiation of this stream is a little complicated.
We can use regular YARP ports to act as publishers, subscribers, service-servers and service-clients. The ROS notion of a "Topic" is addressed separately; in summary it just affects the initiation/termination of connections and doesn't materially affect what a carrier needs to do.
There is not much that a tcpros_carrier needs to do. Here's what it does:
• Produce/consume TCPROS headers (a list of "key=value" strings). The headers may need to include side information, such as the name of the ROS topic; such information is passed to the carrier using "carrier modifiers".
• We choose to produce/consume a small header on the YARP side of a connection, for compatibility with the Bottle format on that side. This header does not need to be transmitted, it is in effect "virtual". It could be eliminated, but has been convenient for testing.
As an example: suppose we want to use a ROS service that adds two 64-bit integers and gives back a 64-bit result. Here's how to do it from the command line: (we assume that the "/roscore" master has been registered in YARP as in the example earlier)
Maybe we should better explain that in this case we use separate nameservers and manually make ros resources visible to yarp.
echo "lookupNode dummy_caller_id /add_two_ints_server" | yarp rpc xmlrpc://roscore
[prints] 1 "node api" "http://contact:37291/"
yarp name register /add_two_ints_server tcp contact 37291
echo "requestTopic dummy /add_two_ints ((TCPROS))" | yarp rpc xmlrpc://add_two_ints_server
[prints] 1 "" (TCPROS contact 38265)
yarp name register /adder tcp contact 38265
echo "{ 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0}" | yarp rpc tcpros+service./add_two_ints://adder
# we get back { 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }, which is 8 + 2
The syntax tcpros+service./add_two_ints tells the yarp port to use the protocol tcpros and the that we talk to a service on node /add_two_ints.
As another example: suppose we wanted to receive messages from a ROS node called "/talker" that outputs messages on the "/chatter" topic. Let's start a simple YARP program to consume such messages:
yarp read /read # or make a program with an input port
Now to connect it up we would do something like:
echo "lookupNode dummy_id /talker" | yarp rpc xmlrpc://roscore
yarp name register /talker tcp contact 37291
echo "requestTopic dummy_id /chatter ((TCPROS))" | yarp rpc xmlrpc://talker
[prints] 1 "" (TCPROS contact 38265)
yarp name register /talker/chatter tcp contact 38265
yarp connect /read /talker/chatter tcpros+topic./chatter
The "yarp read" program should now show a stream of binary blobs rendered in text format, corresponding to the strings generated by "/talker".
How about sending messages to a ROS subscriber? It turns out the subscriber has to be convinced to initiate this connection, and will first need to talk to a "slave" node via XML/RPC. This can easily be achieved in YARP by a temporary port. See the example in the README.TXT bundled with the tcpros_carrier in YARP.
It is clear that connection initiation between YARP and ROS requires some orchestration. For the moment, the necessary logic has been bundled into a simple helper program called "yarpros", which currently has the following functionality:
yarpros roscore <hostname> <port number>
-- tell yarp how to reach the ros master
-- example: yarpros roscore 11311
yarpros import <name>
-- import a ROS name into YARP
-- example: yarpros import /talker
yarpros read <yarpname> <nodename> <topicname>
-- read to a YARP port from a ROS node's contribution to a topic
-- example: yarpros read /read /talker /chatter
yarpros write <yarpname> <nodename> <topicname>
-- write from a YARP port to a ROS node's subscription to a topic
-- example: yarpros write /write /listener /chatter
yarpros rpc <yarpname> <nodename> <servicename>
-- write/read from a YARP port to a ROS node's named service
-- example: yarpros rpc /rpc /add_two_ints_server /add_two_ints
Note that the connection initiation used so far is experimental, and just enough to get going. There are plenty of improvements to be made, such as telling the ROS master about what is going on rather than just working around it :-).
Image carrier
Images in YARP are generally transmitted across regular carriers, with no special treatment (other than using multicast when appropriate). It can be useful to have special carriers that transform images in some way, e.g. by compressing them. The "mjpeg_carrier" in YARP does this, for example. Matching a special purpose image carrier in YARP and ROS remains to be investigated, but there are in principle no obstacles to this. Image communication is treated separately in ROS, see:
Image translation to/from network representations by a custom carrier, if done with a little care, does not require copies of the image data to be made. So in principle this type of traffic should be efficient.
The ROSCORE notion of "topic", at first sight, looks like a big difference in abstraction between YARP and ROS. Luckily it is trivial to implement topics with yarp ports. A topic can be seen as a virtual port that connects all its source ports (publishers in ROS-speak) to all its destination ports (subscribers in ROS-speak). A small bit of logic has been added to the yarp name server in implement such virtual ports.
A larger issue is that the ROS "master" tracks a lot more information about the activity of each network entity than YARP's name server does. It remains to be investigated how much a "foreign" program needs to tell the ROS master about its activities in order to interoperate fully.
The YARP network data format is self-describing. Each messages contains sufficient type-tags to interpret that message without any other information. This is less efficient than factoring out type data. But in practice efficiency is mostly a concern when the message is large - and large messages usually contain large lists of homogeneous data, requiring just a few bytes of type data.
The ROSCORE network data format is self-deliminating (it contains its size) but is otherwise a binary blob. A type name is sent at the start of a connection. This means that interpreting messages in practice requires on IDL, with generated code, implying a special build system, implying a framework, implying lower portability of user code. But this approach is more efficient than including type information with each message.
ROSCORE's message types could be sent from or received by a YARP port with ease, if that program could make use of code generated by ROS utilities. With some hacks, it is possible to do this without using ROS's build system; this could potentially be better packaged. An alternative would be to independently implement a parser of ROS message/service definition files.
A subset of YARP message types of a fixed structure can be defined with a ROS definition file, and then read/written easily from ROSCORE-using programs.
In general, the type issue remains to be investigated. The challenges in making systematic solution shouldn't obscure the fact that specific solutions for needed connections can be easily solved *now*, with a little bit of manual effort.
YARP and ROS are used together in different scenarios. We illustrate them here to better clarify how they can be implemented.
Yarp and ROS store names in separate servers (yarpserver and roscore), information on the nameservers need to be visible to both systems.
1. YARP and ROS use roscore. This solution is good for ROS users but can have certain limitations because in yarp the yarpserver may need to perform certain operations (e.g. mcast) (is this still true?).
2. YARP and ROS use each its own nameserver. ROS uses only roscore. YARP registers names on both. At the moment this seems to be the better solutions for users, because it does not give users the feeling they are using a different system (or a subset of) (YARP users may not trust ROS and viceversa).
The basic logic is that YARP-using programs will "register everywhere and query anywhere":
• ROS will ignore yarpserver (since it knows nothing about it). So all non-YARP programs will be registered with roscore only.
• YARP-using programs will register with *both* yarpserver and roscore.
• YARP-using programs, when doing queries, with check with each nameserver in whatever order they are listed when you did "yarp namespace /n1 /n2". It will return the first valid response found.
• YARP subscribes to an existing ROS topic. YARP needs to know type information, via yarpidl_rosmsg produces a Portable object that can be connected to the topic.
• YARP publish to an existing ROS topic. YARP needs to know type information, again this goes through yarpidl_rosmsg and a dedicated Portable.
• ROS needs to talk to an existing YARP port. This is a little more tricky, we distinguish:
• Ports without replies
• Ports with replies |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79146 | Saturday, December 26, 2009
"Ashura" and the Anti-Buddhist Asuras
Compiled by Dharmachari (Wisdom Quarterly/Wikipedia) BUDDHIST COSMOLOGY
Celestial Asuras ("Titans") falling or descending from space
One may choose to see these things as unreal, only mythological. Nevertheless, it is important to understand our histories-mythologies because they are fueling very real conflicts in the world today -- American hegemony in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran (reminiscent of the Christian crusades), irrepressible Middle East tensions, deadly Indian border disputes, and so on. Where other traditions may only give lip service to the idea, Buddhism is in fact about peace.
December 27th marks the Muslim holiday Ashura, a day of peace to commemorate a great injustice. In Buddhist and Indian lore, the Asuras were a type of fallen deva, expelled from a relatively low celestial world (Tavatimsa, "the World of the Thirty Three") by Sakka. (Interestingly, suggesting that Asuras could not have been too different, Sakka is said to have married an Asuran princess). Whereas devas (ETs called deities) from the three space spheres immediately above the Earth plane had established contact with various human civilizations -- bringing literacy, technology, advanced masonry, as well as laws -- the Asuras were latecomers.
They are known as Titans, an angry, warlike alien race constantly battling with devas. In establishing contact in the vicinity of old Sumeria, their revelations led to the founding of Zoroastrianism. This religion holds that the supreme "God" is Ahura Mazda (Ahura = Asura). Since Sakka is a Buddhist (not only a constant companion of the Buddha but also a stream-winner, the first stage of enlightenment), it is sensible that his arch enemies would destroy the Dharma from the Near East to India.
What were once thriving centers of Buddhism and the frontiers of the Indian empire, the -- Bactria, Afghanistan/Pakistan (Gandhara) extending into Baluchestan (Persia/Iran/Iraq) or well into the Middle East. By the Buddha's time there were 16 great "countries" (Maha Janapadas), but there had been countless dominions (or "footholds of a tribe") before that.
The word ashura simply means "tenth" in Arabic. So the name of this remembrance day, literally translated, means "the tenth day" of Muharram. The day is indeed the tenth day of the month, although some Islamic scholars offer up different etymologies. In his book Ghuniyatut Talibin, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani writes that the Islamic scholars have a difference of opinion as to why this day is known as Ashura. Some scholars suggest that this day is the tenth most important day that God has blessed Muslims with.
Asuras (in Hinduism): The term Asura is linguistically related to the Ahuras of Zoroastrianism (an ancient religion in Persia/Iran). But in that religion it has a different meaning. For one, the term applies to a very specific set of divinities, only three in number (Ahura Mazda, Mithra, and Apam Napat). For another, there is no direct opposition between the Ahuras and the Daevas: It is said that the fundamental opposition in Zoroastrianism is not between groups of divinities [extraterrestrials], but between Asha "Truth" and Druj "Lie/Falsehood."
This Wikipedia tidbit might make sense if linguistics were the only measure. Theology shows a different side to the argument. It is evident from both Buddhist and Hindu sources that the Asuras are the nemeses of the devas (at least of the Tavatimsa realm). Since Sakka, king of the 33 Tavatimsa devas, is also the "king of kings," that is, chief of the Four Great Kings (catu maharajika devas), there is considerable animosity between Asuras and devas. Because Yakkhas (ogres or demons of another sort) and Nagas (powerful Reptilian rulers) also inhabit the base of Mt. Sumeru, the terrestrial plane, one imagines Asuras at odds with various groups.
The opposition between the Ahuras and Daevas is an expression of that opposition. The Ahuras, like all the other Yazatas or Arha [Arhatas, those regarded as worthy of honor] are defenders of Asha. The Daevas, on the other hand, are in the earliest texts divinities [estraterrestrials] who are to be rejected because they are misled by "the Lie" (see Daeva for details). This is a classic portrayal of the conflict between "principalities," as understood in JudeoChristian terms. (Indeed, most modern Christian dogma is derived from pre-Christian sources, namely, Mithraism and Zoroastrianism, themselves taken from older Mesopotamian and Sumerian sources, including the key elements of Jesus' story even if only historians know it).
Buddhist thangka section depicting Asuras and devas in a war in heaven
Aššur (also Ashur, Assur; written A-šur, also Aš-šùr,ܐܫܘܪ in Neo-Assyrian often shortened to Aš) was the head of the Assyrian pantheon. [Interestingly, Surya is the Sun God, a visitor from space claiming to hail from the sky or Sun, in Indian and Buddhist lore. Might Assurya derive from anti-Surya?]. His origins are unknown, but he is one of the Mesopotamian city gods, namely of the city Assur (pronounced Ashur), once the capital of the Old Assyrian kingdom. It might therefore be that he was a personification of the city itself or be a city named in his honor. From about 1300 BC priests attempted to replace Marduk with Ashur in Enuma Elish.
We propose that whatever temporal meaning has been ascribed to the day of Ashura, it is actually centered on the Titans (Asuras) being worshipped as arch angels. They have come to be regarded as "demons" from the Indian point of view (whereas the Middle East may regard devas as "devils"). The message they brought, indeed, does not differ radically from that of angels (Tavatimsa devas), except that it is the other side of the story: Before being "cast out" of heavenly Tavatimsa, Asuras were angels. Unlike Christian teachings, they were not tossed into perdition but onto Earth (the base of Mt. Sumeru). This might make them the Annunaki of the Sumerians, upon which advanced Middle Eastern cultures were predicated.
Buddhist cosmology is, of course, only regarded as mythological nowadays. Demons are a silly superstition, and the Annunaki is pure myth and science fiction. But doubtless these "mythologies" were based on something. The Buddha in countless sutras refers to these superordinate planes, their inhabitants, and their visits to Earth. The Buddha specified no fewer than 31 planes (categories) of existence. Most of these are deva (light being) and brahma (divinity) spheres.
But there are also beings who are less than devas in rank yet live in conditions superior to humans. The order of being starts at immaterial devas, brahmas, fine-material devas, sensuous sphere devas, Four Great Kings devas, gandhabbas, garudas, suparnas, kinnaras, kumbandhas, nagas, bhumi-devas (earthbound elementals), then Asuras, then humans.
Egyptian hieroglyphs similarly record contact with alien visitors from space ("heaven").
The supposition that a dichotomy between Ahuras/Asuras and Daevas/Devas already existed in Indo-Iranian times is not supportable from either the Indian or Iranian perspectives. Not only is such a dichotomy not evident in the earliest texts of either culture, neither the Rig Veda's Asuras nor the Gathas' Daevas are demons. The demonization of the Asuras in India and the demonization of the Daevas in Iran both took place "so late that the associated terms cannot be considered a feature of Indo-Iranian religious dialectology."
The idea of a prehistorical opposition between the Asuras/Devas, originally presented in the 19th century but popularized in the mid-20th century, had for some time already been largely rejected by Avesta scholars when a landmark publication (Hale, 1986) attracted considerable attention among Vedic scholars. Hale discussed, "as no one before him" (so Insler's review), the attestations of asura and its derivatives in chronological order of the Vedic texts, leading to new insights into how the Asuras came to be the demons that they are today and why the venerated Varuna, Mithra, Rudra, Agni, Aryaman, Pusan, and Parjanya are all Asuras without being demonic. Although Hale's work has raised further questions — such as how the later poets could have overlooked that the Rig Veda's Asuras are all exalted gods — the theory of a prehistoric opposition is today conclusively rejected.
Following Hale's discoveries, Thieme's earlier proposal of a single Indo-Iranian Asura began to gain widespread support. In general (particulars may vary), the idea runs as follows: Indo-Iranian Asura developed into Varuna in India and into Ahura Mazda in Iran. Those divinities closest related to that "Asura [who] rules over the [g]ods" (AV 1.10.1, cf. RV II.27.10) inherit the epithet, for instance, Rudra as Devam Asuram (V 42.11).
Iranian turmoil, of course, has little to do with traditional Middle Eastern celebrations and the true meaning of Ashura. The holiday coincides with 2009 political conflicts. But it is more than coincidental that the warlike Titans (Asuras) so influenced the cultures that commemorate it that they expelled all traces of Buddhism and established rule by force. Buddhists remain pacifists.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79149 | NoTube: bringing Web and TV closer together
The NoTube project was an EU funded project that ran from February 2009 to January 2012.
As NoTube began, its vision of bringing Web and TV closer together via shared data models and content across multiple devices was ambitious and visionary. As we close, it is noteworthy how much of the TV industry has caught up with this vision, at least in individual and closed new technologies and products. Yet the NoTube results are now more relevant than ever: TV platforms are proprietary, cross-device communication non-standardized. NoTube services could form the backbone for personalised TV applications where the user still controls their data. See this slideset for an overview of NoTube’s activity and results:
Especially these results have been used to create a set of NoTube showcases, on personalised news from RAI, personalised program guide and advertising from Stoneroos and Thomson, and personalised social TV and second screen sharing from the BBC.
Also NoTube closes with a number of Web based demonstrators of some of the technologies created in the project, including the N-Screen content recommendation and sharing, Beancounter social Web user profiling, and the NoTube services accessible via the NoTube portal.
There’s plenty more in NoTube including TV metadata mappings, LUpedia concept extraction service, automated advertisement insertion in video and much more than you can explore by looking at the Research topics, and Things to read – or just contact us to explore more how to benefit from NoTube’s results or collaborate with us on new projects!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79181 | Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Positive visualization
Alternative names: --
Objective: To get everyone in a positive mindset; to improve your game
Typical length of drill: 2-5 minutes
Materials needed: An open mind and good imagination
Skill level required: None
Description: This is an exercise that can be done on- or off- skates, and will be most beneficial if repeated at every practice for several weeks. I've usually done it after stretching, before everyone gets ready to start skating hard.
First, have all of you skaters sitting comfortably in front of you with their eyes closed. Then, tell them that for each statement that you say they should visualize themselves in first person completing the statement physically while they repeat it out loud.
Here is a list of some of the things that I have had skaters repeat after me at practices (these are just suggestions and you should definitely modify/add/customize to your own team's needs):
• I am a good skater
• I am a skilled skater
• I am an excellent skater
• I am a fast skater
• I am a really fluid jammer
• I am a really good blocker
• I am great at booty blocking
• No one gets past my booty
• No one can break through my walls
• I am the best blocker I can be
• I am amazing at holding the inside line
• I give hard hits
• I give well-placed and well-timed hits
• I am not afraid of getting hurt
• I am not afraid of getting hit
• I improve at every practice
• I never doubt my skills
• I support other skaters
• Other skaters support me
• I perform really well in front of an audience
• The audience does not distract me
• I respect my fellow skaters
• My fellow skaters respect me
• My team needs me
• We’re all in this together
• I am confident on my skates
• Every time I make a mistake I learn something new
• I am a strategic player
• I am great at playing roller derby
• I love roller derby!
Research has shown that "visualization can actually enhance performance to nearly the same extent as physical practice" (1). Like physical practice, a little bit here and there may do some good, but for the best result your skaters should make this a routine part of their training. This means doing it outside of practice as well, repeating to themselves the things that they wish to internalize, such as "I am a really fast skater" and "I give well-placed and well-timed hits". Here is an excellent basketball reference for how to make this exercise the most beneficial: "You need to visualize everything out of your eyes (in the 1st person). You have to be there at the free throw line feeling the basketball. Seeing the goal. Hearing the noise. As you shoot, you should FEEL the ball roll off your fingers. You should SEE the ball traveling through the air with perfect backspin. You should SEE your hands out in front of you with the perfect follow through. You should SEE your hands out in front of you holding the follow through as you HEAR & SEE the ball swish through the net." (2)
So if we apply this to say, jamming, you have to be there on the track, see that pack in front of you, visualize the space IN FRONT of the pack that you are going to occupy, feel your skates on the hardwood floor, see your own body move fluidly through all the holes, hear your quick feet on the track, physically possess the feeling of sprinting out of the pack. Skaters need to focus while they do this, really meditate on each thing that they are visualizing.
Additional notes: It's been a while since I ran this exercise at practices but I was reminded of it by a really great recent roller_girls Yahoo group -post covering exercises to practice focus and mindfulness, by Chrome Molly of the Southern Oregon Rollergirls. I highly recommend reading it!
Further reading and sources:
(No complicated academic journals here, just simple internet articles that any lay-person can understand, I promise!)
1. WHOA. I came to this blog today for a little inspiration for my practice tonight, only to find I've been quoted! How's that for a pick-me-up?!
2. This is great stuff. Gonna implement in our training sessions (The Bay Rollers, Byron Bay, Australia)
I think it is important to quote actual research journals, when you can. Generally, a lot of these 'simple internet sources' don't even bother to reference their sources, or paraphrase information in a poor way, so you can't always be sure where you're getting your info from.
4. Agreed. I am working on getting better in that area! |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79218 | Banks need Boundaries! Banken in die Schranken!
Banks need Boundaries!
If you like debt, you'll love money creation. This subject is not taught in schools (yet). We're supposed to think that there's so much debt because our governments lack discipline. However... is debt.
Banks create money when we borrow, use our credit cards, etc. This is the only way money is created and brought into circulation in the real economy.[1]
...for every dollar
there's one dollar of debt (euro, pound, etc.) get more money flowing,
we need more debt. That's today's system. The best we can do in a recession today, is to court the banks, hoping they'll lend more. But that was the problem to start with. Change the system!
...less debt means: less money!
If we try to pay off debt, the money disappears. In the life of Jane Normal, when she's paid off a debt, she can rejoice in having more money. But for the economy as whole, this means less money. Repaying a loan is the opposite of money creation.[2] The destruction of money.
Positive Money, Debt
From our blog:
3rd-world debt
Is the debt-crisis over? – No.
How to destroy money
Fun: Enter the Ostrich!
by Michael K for Banks need Boundaries!
1. Quantitative Easing and buying own government debt are ways in which we try to do this – but fail! For one simple reason: none of this matters to the daily business of real people. It can in fact even be said that it harms the real economy: stocks and other financial products shoot up in value (because that's the only place the recipients know how to invest it), leaving common savings accounts behind. It's classic more-of-same, German: Verschlimmbesserung. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
2. The word "repay" is misleading. German is better: Tilgung.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79229 | Friday, May 27, 2016
Foodie Friday: Banana Fries
I love fries. French fries, curly fries, boardwalk fries, pizza fries, mega fries, and sweet potato fries. Now I have a new set of fries on my foodie radar: Banana Fries. Yes, this is just as you'd expect, French fried slices of bananas.
This recipe I found on by Victoria M.H. When I tried it, I modified the recipe a little bit to fit my taste. This recipe calls for green, unripen bananas. These were chosen because they do not have the full banana flavor found in yellow bananas. I have tried this with yellow bananas and they come out more sweet than savory. As such, I tend to eat them like a dessert or sweet snack.
5 small unripen bananas
1 quart of olive oil
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp chili powder
salt to taste
Peel bananas like you would cut the skin away from a cucumber. Check out the How to Peel Green Bananas after the recipe if you need a visual.
Vertically slice the bananas into thin wedges or shoe string fry size.
Heat oil in a deep-fryer to 375 degrees F. If you don't have a deep fryer, heat oil over medium high heat in a deep welled, cast iron skillet (gives a better fry).
Place bananas slices into the hot oil and fry until golden brown. This should take between five to seven minutes.
In a small bowl, mix together pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and chili powder.
Remove from oil and place on paper towels and pat with paper towels to soak up the excess oil.
Place fries in a medium-sized mixing bowl. sprinkle seasoning mixture over fries and toss in bowl to ensure seasoning cover fries. If you need to add salt, add to suit your taste.
Serve immediately.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79248 | Tag: Back To School
Mark Twain facts
The Leftist habit of elevating theory over facts infects everything
Leftists’ elevating theory over facts destroys everything, whether climate issues or, as now know (and are thankful for), Hillary’s political campaign. Do you remember the old Rodney Dangerfield movie, Back To School? Dangerfield plays a self-made industrialist millionaire who follows his son to a fancy Ivy League school. Some of
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79263 | Black Eyed Child Appears at Staffordshire Beauty Spot Ahead of Halloween , Triggers Paranormal Investigation
After receiving complaints from a mother about the chilling sight of the Black Eyed Child at Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, paranormal investigator Lee Brickley has launched a detailed investigation into the case.
The unsettling sighting of the ghostly image has been reported ahead of Halloween which is just a month away generating fear among the locals, Paranormalcannock reported.
"Around 2 months ago my daughter and I were walking through Birches Valley (an area well known for it's spectral sightings) when we heard the screams of a young child. I couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl, but they definitely seemed in distress and sounded very close to us, so we instantly started running towards the noise," the mother with the pseudo name Mrs Kelly wrote in her email to Brickley.
"We couldn't find the child anywhere and so stopped to catch our breath, that's when I turned round and saw a girl stood behind me, no more than 10 years old, with her hands over her eyes," continued.
"She then put her arms down by her side and opened her eyes, which is when I saw they were completely black, no iris, no white, nothing. I jumped back and grabbed my daughter, when I looked again, the child was gone," her mail concluded.
Brickley, who runs a website for paranormal investigations, has claimed that nearly 30 years ago the scary child was spotted by one of his relatives at the same spot.
"In the summer of 1982, my auntie was 18 years old. She and her friends would often meet and "chill" (her word, not mine) on Cannock Chase in the evening time" the paranormal investigator wrote in his blog.
According to one of Brickley's Demonic Black-Eyed Children blog, demonic children are the brood of the upper-level evil forces.
Though they appear as normal humans, they are actually the purest forms of evil and extremely dangerous for humans as their power grows stronger when they appear tender aged, the paranormal investigator claims.
Meanwhile, Staffordshire locals have shared their feelings about the news on Twitter. Here are some reactions. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79287 | Jun 3, 2009
337. Philosophy for a change
Does Humor and poetry gel well? The previous post was a clear indication that humor and poetry are indeed a deadly combination. This post doesn't have humor in it. I am just taking a little break from my forte -"Humor".
When a friend of mine approached me and said,"Chriz! Why don't you write an article on your favorite subject-Psychology", I gave much thought to it and finally decided to write one article on the same. After ploughing my brain for a while, i decided to pen an article on Relationships.
I chose this topic because everyone could relate to it. Though the subject line indicates that it is a philosophical post, this article is embedded with psycho-Analytical statements.I would refrain from using technical language to make this post reader-friendly.
Disclaimer: The author was not drunk while typing this post.
Relationships are built on Trust. So to understand the term-"Relationship", one should exactly have a very clear idea about TRUST.
A couple ended their relationship after loving each other for more than ten years . When a common friend approached them and asked the reason behind they splitting up their answer was,"we have never understood each other and we don't trust each other any more". So It took 10 years for them to realize it?
Doesn't that sound Strange?
Why do people fall out of trust?
Can we conclude "Lack of Trust" as the reason behind relationship failures?
When such questions arise, we should test our own Senses. Yes! The Five Senses. We all know that the five senses are
1) Sense of Sight
2) Sense of Taste
3) Sense of Hearing
4) Sense of Touch
5) Sense of Smell
These five senses play a very major role in the decision making process of any human being. But can we Trust these five sensory inputs of our physical form? The answer is No. Our senses deceive us every minute.
1. Deception in sight
Place a stick in a bucket of water. It appears to have a bend,but we know that there is no bend in it.Yes our eyes deceive us.
2.Deception in Taste
Eat a bar of chocolate or anything sweet & then drink milk or coffee with sugar in it.Our tongue will say that there is no sugar in it.
3.Deception in Hearing
If we think that we can at least trust our ears, we are complete fools because our ears doesn't pick up millions of radio frequencies.
4. Deception in Touch
In a physics laboratory we would have done the experiment with hot & cold water.Take two containers of water, one hot & another cold. Place one hand inside hot water and the other hand inside cold water.After 2 minutes reverse your hands.The cold water will appear hot & hot cold.
5.Deception in Smell
You could even survive without a bath for one whole week. No one around you will know it if you spray perfume all over your body.
Yes our senses are the greatest deceivers
People often say that Trust can be built over a period of Time. But again we can never Trust Time. People often fall out of relationships not because of lack of trust, but because they never understand the value of relationships. Yes! Self realisation is needed to strengthen a relationship. You either have 100 percent Trust or No Trust. There is nothing in-between in Trust.
Note: Humor posts will continue. An exciting competition is coming up.
1. hi!thts a good one!ur right trust is the basic foundation of any relationship! n as time goes by, it only gets stronger!
2. how much do u analyse? :O really didnt think you were the type..
but jokes apart.. what you said is so true.. trust forms the foundation of a relationship if its not there, there cant be any relationship at all...
do pour form such posts too.. its a treat to read
3. hmm.. the last one point that you made was worth it.
People who break relationships just dont know the value of them....
cheers chrony..
that was a completely diff post than your usual humorous ones....
4. that was indeed a wonderful post Chriz... thought provoking..the concluding sentence said it all... Kudos to you man...
5. About the relationship you are bang on target... Trust is the base of a relationship... But lost me at lots of places...
ploughing your brain? - your new profile picture, shows no signs of having any brain... :P
I saw you buying heck load of perfumes the other day... should have guessed... I dint expect you to becoma a lab rat for your own experiments... a week? come on... LOL
6. Can easily compare with most of the present relationships, very true indeed as without trust the relationship just heads to dead end!! Its better to end one in the earlier stages rather than to call its not worth the trust after a loooong time, breaking hearts naturally!
7. "You either have 100 percent Trust or No Trust. There is nothing in-between in Trust." - this IS a cracker Chriz as was the post!!! Yes, there's no limbo or midway house in trust and as you say - with a tone of mockery if you may add - does it take people so much time to realise they have not understood each other???!!!
Yes, it all depends on how one values relationships and how one estimates oneself and the other in the context of the same.
I will go and on and on and on... but do not want the comment to be longer than this short but powerful post :P:P:P
8. Trust is important, but trust alone can not keep the relationship going..
There got to be compatibility between the persons in a relationships.. Trust can probably keep the relationship going but there are many other factors that could decide the strength of the relationship..
9. complete truth! :D
chriz, i luvd the deception in 5 senses! never thot about it before..
especially the deception in smell! its actually a gud idea :P
10. Well written. :)
11. You either have 100 percent Trust or No Trust !
thats the first lesson my very good friend taught me in love !! and its a good thing to remember :)
i really liked this post !!
12. :) hmm quite serious but humor leaks through somehow :P :P
Without trust no relationship is worth having.. and yes we shud value the relationship.. else trust can never be built :)
13. Nice post! Very intense and I agree completely. I like "there is nothing in-between in trust". Very wise Chriz. :D
14. haha.....Loved it..!!
Especially the 5 senses one....never thought of it before....Interesting..!
15. loved the 5 senses...and the deceptions.
self realization is very much important in every relationship..if i hadn't had that self realization then i wouldn't be here...it taught me to move on with my life when i got hurt in love...decided to write my take after reading ur post!
16. Funny one......
I got another couple in my blog....clarke and Lara......
17. Stumbled onto your blog from a certain "Supernut" post.
I really liked this post. Made a lot of sense.
Didn't get to see any red underwear (which is what I was fearing this site would be plastered with)...
Maybe if I read some of your earlier posts. Later... :)
18. Actually..tis science which decieves us..like the deception in sight is actually refraction of light..light deviates frm its path!..
2nd one..its got something to do with sweetbuds..whatever!
and our ears can't pick up radio frequencies because they aint designed for tht..dogs,bats etc pick up radiations..
Deception in touch is true..
and the deception in smell is js a freaky thing to do n means you're unhygienic :P
19. ok ..
but you got the deception in touch experiment wrong. after putting one hand in cold and the other in hot water .. we put both hands in water of normal temperature. so the cold hand will feel hot and the hot one will feel cold.
compitition !! wooohooo!!!
20. Chriz... I loved this post! I would advice you to get drunk quite often then.
There is nothing in-between trust, its either 100 percent Trust or No Trust... so very well said.
Loved this post! :)
21. Bro... I must say that it was a neat post :)
take care da... cheers...
22. to have such post frm ur side..is obviously diff ..
wonderful lines.:)
23. True..trust like honesty can't be diluted.It's the thing that can keep a relationship going.
It was a very different post,coming from you.Loved it ner'theless [:)]
24. did anyone say that you are too bad at philosophy...trust me now!
25. very educative posts. I dint know about those sense organs, how wrong i was. Thnaks for enlightening thee!!!!!!:)))
26. Good Chriz Nalla Post
I liked it
Unnai Arintha ellam unnaku Puriyum - Babaji
Honest one keep up
27. my o my....didnt know Calvin n Hobbes had that kinda effect on u...
but know what...it made sense...people fall out of relationships ...coz they dont know the value of it....!!!
Rightly said!
28. Indeed. Trust is the key to any relationship, and yes there is definitely no in-between trust! Made for a good read! :)
29. Awesome, awesome post Chriz! U should post stuff like this more often...Everybody has every emotion. Its just that some people pretend they don't have a certain emotion. Glad that u came out with this at the risk of sounding a bit more serious than usual!! W2G!
30. i completely loved it...
and yea,u either take d plunge and trust completely..or u just refrain...
no way between...
do write more of such stuff...
though,i have to say..u talk a lot of sense in a subtle way thru ur comedy....
31. completely loved your deception funds... its so very true...
32. I wonder if our beloved Chrony has fallen in love?? I mean humour goes out of the door only when you are in a relationship no?? btw still liked the post...
33. This is quite a change from your usual write-up.
I completely agree with what you said.
34. Thats a wonderful post chriz..loved it..never thought abt sense in that way :)
35. Correct. You cannot trust your wife to the extent of 60%. You cannot trust your father in law to the extent of 40.56% when he says he'd help you come out of a problem. Its either 100% or 0. It not even 0, its actually in the negative quadrant.
38. Adhu edho correct dha.. the question tat if it took 10 yrs to realize tat !?! They themselves wont hav any ans for it.. !Even I hav seen ppl like tat around me !!!
39. Chriz. I have to say I like this side of you also!
You raised some great points..
What is a relationship that has no trust? It is a complete train wreck waiting to happen!!
This is a great post!! I cannot wait to see your serious side once more! Now I am going to go and attempt to think!! lol
40. can i say something? i think u r better when you talk seriously. not that your jokes dont make us laugh but i have read almost all your inspirational posts ..they are AMAZING!
even in this post i liked your perspective on the senses.
41. Good to know you're not just Humor :-)
You're right about the fact that our senses deceive. It happens to all of us. After all we were created the same way.
What makes us different from others then? The capability to understand the difference between what is real and what is simply an illusion.
If one knows that difference, they'll forever prosper in all their relationships.
I would love see more of these posts.
42. wow!
deception of the senses has been proven very well!!
so u r a scientist too:) n i trust u....:-)
43. wow!!tht was a gr8 post on the most important ingredient to make a relationship work!!yes its trust thts the most important factor tht makes or breaks a relationship.
44. didn't expect this from u. In a good way. :)
I like the in b/w trust factor. Sounds convenient.
45. if u cant trust ur own senses then how can u trust sumone elses sensibilities....? tht calls for sum serious thinkin..i mean its so true...kinda depressin...but true..
46. I cant say that relationships break only because of lack of trust but yes for making a realtionship strong, trust is very much required.
47. i loved the way u summed it up... backing it up with theory of the five senses. think ur last sentence says it all. there is either 100% trust or none at all... there is no in-between. i guess the same goes for faith too...
48. great one dude... loved how ur analysis on the deceptions of the senses and on time...
and yup...correct as always as u r... nothing in between in trust...
49. Xactly, Chriz. To have trust, you first need to realise the value of a relationship.Let Renu be bygone, your future girl is in for a great romnantic life with you. :)
Great examples on getting deceived by senses. !
50. A very good post...an eye-opener for sure!
Our 5 main Senses may be limiting, but the 6th sense it what really counts :) INTUITION. ur Instincts r never wrong and it applies to a r'ship too. When ur in love with someone and trust them fully, u either know it 100% or not at all. Like u said, there r no in-betweens.
I liked the post alot. There's a great philosopher inside of that nutty Chriz. Not that I never knew that b4 ;-)
btw come n check out the tenors themselves in my current music video. They r just amazing!
d u think u can do this one (in a song vid) too for me? ;-)
51. Whoa.. that was truly insightful.. I have a friend who is having trust issues right now, and she was asking what could she trust.. and I was thinking hmm nothing.. cos even the truth can be deceptive. at times. and sometimes what we trust is not what really is.. I like your post, chriz.. it made me think..
52. Wow !!! beautifully put. Either you trust or you don't . There's no in between .... :)
Truly well put ...
53. thats a nice post chriz! very true..ppl do fall outta trust n relatioshipz wiout the foundation of trust juz crumple... liked de way u expressed it with actual examples n de like.. :)
54. A good post Chriz :) Trust and relationships... this topic runs so so deep!
A nice change, but we want the humor back soon :)
55. lovely chain of thoughts mate:)
ohh n am not joking:D
56. well said criz,
our senses deceive us and they do it more often then we know.
Yes partial trust thing doesn't work.
57. those examples..were superb :)
well though u took the funnier side..wat u tried to say is completely true...
I agree..completely wth wat u said abt trust in the last lines :)
58. Great post indeed. I agree either there is complete trust or nothing at all!!
59. Great analysis yaar, i completly, fully agree with you, but in some cases it just not the trust, its much more that that but the analysis sums it up,
great one again
60. Very un-chriz kinda post but very astute analysis.
61. You either have 100 percent Trust or No Trust ! How true... :)
Loved the post :)
Waiting for the competition...
62. i know m getting a bit demanding here... but was hoping to see a new post :)
63. good insight dude.
thats very true
64. Quite thought provoking I must say..
And looks like you have a hell lot of experience on using perfumes for a whole week instead of a bath.... :-D
65. Hey I go 100% with ur conclusion
its either u trust sum1 or u dont :)
hi5, chronic eluthalare :P
66. tats so true prason..a tear from my eye is sign to show hw i feel after readin it :-)..
67. So this was a surprise!!! A pleasant one at that. :)
I agree completely, it's either 100% or NO trust at all.
Very well brought out.
68. i agree...the in between situtaion dosent let last the r'ship much!!
pian in any case is unavoidable!!
great post..hats off!!
P.S. 'sorry for being irregular, missing ur blog'
69. Wonderfully put across Chriz!! :)
70. Ithulla palla matter involved maama... Niyum sariya than ba solikara...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79297 | Monday, March 26, 2012
Job Interview
I realized that the last 5 of 6 posts were about food. I promise this one is not about food!
I only have a day before my first adult job interview. Am I nervous? I'm more nervous about missing my flight than the actual interview. Although I will probably be super nervous the day of the interview. My flight leaves at 6:55 from the Dayton Airport which means I am planning on waking up at 4 in order to get dressed and be at the airport by 5:30/45. I guess another thing I'm nervous about is getting stuck in security. These are the things I worry about. I'm so weird.
My interview is in Charlotte, NC. I'm guessing that if I get the job I will be moved to Charlotte. No complaints. I'm actually excited to leave Cincinnati and start fresh. Plus, I'm completely looking forward to living by myself. Not that I don't pretty much live by myself now, but it will be nice to do whatever I want whenever I want and keep a nice clean apartment. :)
I spent last night studying up on possible interview questions and looking up information on US Airways. I've been through interviews before but not for something as important as this one. Not to mention I actually had to buy a suit. This was a complete nightmare. For one I couldn't find ANYONE to go with me. Second, I went to H&M because they had cheap suits, but none that went together so it was impossible to find a matching skirt and blazer. However, I finally settled on an outfit. The blazer is shinier than the skirt, but it's much better than the one I had before. My outfit:
What do you think? I'll try to get a picture of me wearing it, but I can't make any promises. Still not sure how I'm going to do my hair either. If it's humid than I can't wear it down because my hair poofs out in the slightest of humidity. We'll see though. By the way, I also had to buy those heels because I don't own heels and they were SUPER cheap at Payless, not to mention super comfortable. Hate on Payless all you want but with the amount I spent on the reset of the outfit I was not going to spend much on shoes.
Anyway, wish me luck! I'll definitely need it!
1. This looks cute. I like the skirt! I may have to go get one now that it is warmer outside. You are going to do great in your interview!!
2. I saw on Facebook you have an interview! I can't WAIT to hear how it went! I love that blazer- it's a way better "statement" than the typical suit thing while still being very profesh. I'm so excited for you!!! I'll be thinking of you today and wishing you the best :)
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Aragorn, son of Arathorn, raced down the halls of Mirkwood. Sweat soaked his clothes and plastered his dark hair to his face.
The normally lively halls were silent and he could fell the worry in the air, making it thick and it made it even harder to breath than it already was.
As he neared the doors of his friend Legolas’ room his heart sped up. The elf prince had been lost, captured my orcs, and it seemed all of Mirkwood had been searching for him. Which was probably true.
As he had crossed the courtyard he had noticed that the trees seemed to be covered with a dark mist, for as most knew, Legolas dearly loves the forest and it in turn loved him.
The young Ranger had been searching for his friend with his elven brothers when he had met up with a messanger from Mirkwood bearing knews that Legolas had been found. Aragorn had almost felt relief. But the feeling was as fleeting as a soft breeze stirring the window hangings on a summer’s day.
The messanger had told that Legolas was in critical condition and it was almost certain that he would not live, and if he did he would never be the same.
Aragorn had then headed full speed for the Halls of King Thranduil, desperate to be with is elven friend.
Now as he sped down the hall, memories came ruching back, visions of the young prince of Mirkwood. His face filled the young Ranger’s mind. The light that had filled the elf’s blue eyes as he grinned at his human friend. The wind tugging at his long golden locks and sending them into a frenzy around his face.
Now his voice filled Aragorn’s ears, speaking his elven name.
That had been the last time he had seen his friend before he had left for his home in Rivendell.
“Come and visit me soon Estel…”
Aragorn could remember that moment so clearly.
“I’ll wait for you…” The prince had spoken so quietly. A whisper meant for the rangers ears only.
“I’ll come back.” Now it was his voice. He had turned his horse towards the forest and with one last look at Legolas he vanished into the trees.
The vision faded from his mind but Legolas’ voice lingered.
“I’ll wait for you…”
Aragorn stumbled and fell against the wall. He stayed there, trying to catch his breath. It was all a blur after that, the news of the dissapearance, the frantic search, the felling of cold dread that had encased his heart. Now that feeling had increased tenfold.
He turned and leaned against the wall calming himself. It was no use, he was so scared.
So scared.
I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more
I lay dying
And I’m pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I’m dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
Legolas had stopped screaming long ago but Thranduil was sure that the sound was burned permanently into his memory.
The healers had long ago left. They could do no more for Legolas, his pain ran too deep for them to numb it.
The elven king shut his eyes as tears cascaded down his cheeks. He clung to his son’s pale hand as if he was clinging to the boy’s very life force.
So many tears had he shed they had burned permanent paths down his face. This was his child, this was his blood, they were his screams echoing throughout the chamber, the light was his. Everything Legolas felt he felt also.
At last he opened his eyes, only to be greated with the horrific sight of his son in so much pain.
When they had found him Thranduil’s heart had been crushed. The feeling of helplessness had overwhelmed him. The Legolas he had known was gone, in it’s place was an empty being. The kind and loving soul had been replaced by the utmost suffering.
Legolas’ body had been covered with blood, all of it his own. He lay face down in the dark, dirty cell, a crimson pool forming beneath him. His clothes had been so torn that there was barely nothing left of them and his shining golden hair had been slashed of at his ears and was tainted with blood.
Thranduil had ran to him and gathered the young elf in his arms, not careing about the blood that stained his tunic and cloak. So much blood.
Legolas’ blood.
Legolas lay in his bed, silently weeping. Coming back to himself Thranduil ran his hand down the side of his son’s face, careful not to disturb the healing cuts. There were so many.
“I-I’m s-sorry.”
He was so suprised to hear Legolas’ voices that he jerked. It was Legolas’ voice, yet it wasn’t. It was broken, weak, and soft. Not the voice he was used to hearing either speaking to him of anything and everything or raised in song.
“What?” He asked confused.
“I-I should ha-have fought har-harder…”
Thranduil leaned foreward. “No. No this was not your fault, you hear me, don’t blame yourself nin ion.” Tears fell from his eyes as he tried to comfort his tortured son. But it was as if Legolas had not heard him..
“I-I sh-should h-have. I’m s-sorry.”
“No…” Thranduil sobbed shaking his head. “No…”
“Th-they did things to me. I-I was s-so sc-scared.” It was true. The orcs had done terrible things to the young elf. He was sure that every possible torture device had been used. His blood had flowed so often that he had stopped trying to heal himself.
They had burned him, beat him, wipped him, cut him, poisoned him, and raped him. This they had done often. Legolas no longer felt, he was empty, broken, and so alone. No one could help his pain.
Bringing himself closer, Thranduil wrapped his strong arms around the young elf and helf him close. He could feel his son shaking as he wept, his tears soaking the king’s clothes much as his blood had when they had found him.
“I’m sorry…”
“Shhh, it’s all right Legolas. It’s all right my son.” He soothed. Of course he knew that all was not all right. But the words comforted him and he hoped that they could bring some light, however small, into Legolas’ dark and cold existance.
Legolas’ voice was so small, it reminded Thranduil of the small elfling that had been woken up by nightmares and had sought comfort in his father’s bed.
This only brought him more pain so he shut out those thoughts and focused all his love and comfort on the child in his arms.
His child.
His Greenleaf.
Thranduil’s fingers drifted through Legolas short hair once again lost in his own thoughts. He suddenly felt the young elf fall limply agianst him and he pulled back, fear filling his heart that his son had left him.
To his relief, breath still escaped from Legolas’ lips,shallow and raspy though it was.
There was a knock on the thick wooden door but the Elvenking did not rise or even acknowledge the small disturbance. The sound came again and with a sigh Thranduil relenquished his hold on Legolas, laying him back onto the bed and drawing the covers up onto the boys chest.
He crossed swiftly to the door and opened it finding himself faced with the young Ranger from Rivendell. He looked as if he had just been through fifty battles, and lost them all.
Aragorn looked desperately at the King but when he tried to speak his voice caught in his throat.
“Is-is Legolas…” he gasped.
Thranduil nodded gravely and stepped aside opening the door further. Aragorn slipped inside and his eyes drifted to the bed in which lay his friend.
Aragorn’s breath left him in one great rush and he felt as if someone had socked him in the stomach. He turned to gaze once more upon the Elvenking but the elf had silently slipped from the room and reluctantly closed the door and Aragorn could still hear him in the hall outside.
He stood motionless for a moment his gaze locked on Legolas still form on the bed. Then, as if in a dream he walked slowly to Legolas’ bedside, dropped to his knees beside it and grabbed the elf’s hand. It felt cold and clammy.
He tried to speak but the the sight of his friend stole his voice and threw it to the cold north wind. This was Legolas laying in front of him but somehow it was not Legolas. It was as if the real Legolas was still wandering around in the woods, his hand running over the tree trunks and his face lifted towards the bright sun.
As much as he wanted to believe that Aragorn knew that what was happening now was real and in his heart there burned the knowledge that would never leave him.
He had failed Legolas.
Legolas’ dark lashes flutered suddenly and slowly his eyes opened. As if he sensed the Ranger there beside him he turned his head to face the man.
Aragorn didn’t know whether he expected to see the Legolas he had always known in his friends once beautiful blue eyes but whatever he had expected it wasn’t what he saw.
Do you remember me
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side
Or will you forget me
I’m dying, praying, bleeding, and screaming
Am I too lost to be saved
Am I too lost?
Legolas’ eyes were dead. Robbed of the light that once filled them as the reflection of the moon fills the lake water at night. One look into those empty debths was all it took to send Aragorn to the brink of thears.
No. He had to be strong for his friend. Legolas had suffered more than he and there was no sign of tears in his eyes.
All at once the rangers voice seemed to vanish though he doubted he could find anything to say at this moment.
“Estel.” Legolas was looking directly into his eyes, but Aragorn was afraid to meet the elf’s gaze, afraid that Legolas would be looking at him with anger. Did the elf hate him for being too late? The ranger turned his eyes toward the window and pretended to be interested in what was out there.
“I don’t hate you Estel.” Like so many other times, Legolas seemed to be able to read his thoughts.
“Why shouldn’t you, I never arrived fast enough to save you from all that pain.” All the young ranger could do was feel sorry for what he hadn’t done.
A small shadow of a smile passed over Legolas’ split lips and he gave Aragorns hand a light squeeze. “Aragorn, there would have been no escaping the pain no matter what time you came. It was not your fault.”
Aragorn opened his mouth to respond but Legolas shook his head slowly.
“You can’t change the past Estel, you’re here now…” The young elf’s voice trailed away and his eyes closed.
“Legolas!” Aragorn was nearly shouting now. His friend couldn’t leave him now, not after everything.
The elf’s eyes opened again, but they were less clear, clouded with pain and agony. “I hurt Estel, and this is the kind that not even time can heal.”
Aragorn leaned closer until his face was so close to Legolas’ that his breath stirred the elven prince’s hair. “You must fight the darkness Legolas, you fought it thus far.”
A small sad sigh escaped Legolas’ lips. “I’m not who I was before Estel, nor can I ever go back.”
The young ranger jumped to his feet. letting Legolas’ hand drop back down to his side. At this motion the elf prince winced. “Please Legolas!” Aragorn was on the verge of losing control. “I’ve searched so long, fought so hard. You can’t let go.”
Legolas’ eyes clouded. “There’s so much pain Estel-”
“But you’ve gone through pain before.” Aragorn insisted.
“Aragorn,” Legolas forced the young human’s eyes on him,willing him to understand. “Not like this, never like this. I see only darkness.” Tears filled the young elf’s eyes. “I can’t live in eternal night.”
“But there can be light again.” Aragorn could not accept what his friend was saying to him. “There *will* be light.”
Legolas’ voice was so soft the ranger could barely hear it. “Not for me.” The elf closed his eyes again. “Never again.”
Anger welled up inside the Ranger, the orcs had destroyed his friend, they’d crushed the most delicate flower in life’s garden and burned it until there wwas nothing left but a chared stem which quickly dissolved into dust and was carried off in the wind.
Suddenly, Legolas’ eyes flew open, there was a strange light in them. One that Aragorn had never seen there before. It frightened the young man. Before he could do anything Legolas’ hand was wrapped around the hilt of the dagger in Aragorn’s belt and had pulled it from it’s sheath.
“No!” Aragorn cried as he stepped foreward to stay his friends hand. But the look in Legolas’ blue eyes froze him in mid-step. “No,” he whispered, disbelief evident on his face.
“I can’t live with the pain Estel, I know, deep in whatever is left of my soul that I will never live with what has been done to me.” The look in Legolas’ eyes was both determined and sad.
Aragorn shook his head. “Please Legolas… mellon nin… no.” He said this as if those very words would turn his friends mind.
“Know this Estel,” Legolas’ voice was strong as he said this, which belied all that he was feeling at the time. “I’ve never regretted being your friend and if I could change one thing, it would be that I could have had one more moment with you that day you left for Rivendell. When there was still light in my heart.”
The tears that Aragorn had fought so hard to keep in check fell from his eyes.
“Do not blame yourself for all this Estel, one day darkness will be detroyed forever in Middle-Earth and your destiny will be fulfilled. I’m just sorry I won’t be there to see it.”
“You could be.” Aragorn was still clinging to a very thin thread of hope.
At that moment their eyes met. Blue and silver locked and all at once Aragorn knew that it was for the last time. Gazing down upon his friends broken body he tried to convince himself of that fact, but his heart would not accept it.
The light in Legolas’ eyes burned brighter at that moment. His voice was sure as he spoke that words that would haunt Aragorn’s dreams for a long time to come.
“I want this.”
The dagger came down and pierced the immortal heart of the elven prince of Mirkwood. Not a sound escaped him for he felt no more pain. His body went limp and his eyes fell shut, giving the ranger one final look into their sapphire debts.
For a moment Aragorn stood there, tears cascading from his silver eyes, his mind refusing to take what had just taken place as true.
Legolas, his long-time friend was dead.
My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied Christ
My suicide
The door to the chamber opened and the King of Mirkwood entered, no emotion played across his noble features. He merely stood there. Gazing upon the body of his son and nothing else.
How long they stayed thus is hard to say but as they did, a strange wind blew through the forests of Mirkwood. Whispers ran through every leaf and flower and the sun seemed to grow a little dimmer. But it didn’t last, a feeling of rejoicing filled the air for the spirit that was finally free.
The spirit of Legolas Geenleaf, Son of Thranduil, Prince of Northern Mirkwood was free.
Finally free.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79328 | SharePoint Integration Reloaded – Part 1
Back in the day when CRM2011 was first in beta I blogged about the exciting SharePoint integration and how it works. This post is about the exciting new server side SharePoint integration that is now available as part of CRM2013 SP1 Online. There has already been some good posts on how to set up SharePoint sever-side Sync but in this series I'm going to explain how the server to server integration works in more detail and run through some scenarios of how it can be used for custom solutions. CRM List Component Integration Before CRM2013 SP1 was released the only option for SharePoint Integration was to use the CRM List Component. Each document location was surfaced on a record form record via an IFRAME that placed a SharePoint page inside the CRM page via the list component aspx page. This SharePoint page rendering the document library's default view with a CRM theme and provided the upload/download commands.
The CRM form page is displayed in the browser and including an IFRAME that requested the configured document library page from SharePoint. The IFRAME shows the SharePoint document library styled to look like CRM. This required the user to be independently authenticated with SharePoint. Using any of the actions in the page (New/Upload etc.) sends requests directly to SharePoint.
Changing Landscape This approach worked well but since the user was accessing SharePoint directly within the IFRAME they'd sometimes encounter authentication issues where they must be authenticated with SharePoint first and sometimes SharePoint needed to be configured to allow inclusion of content in IFRAMES. In addition to this the list component required a sandbox host to run but this feature is being phased out in SharePoint Online. Server to Server SharePoint Integration (S2S) With the introduction of CRM2013 SP1 a new type of integration has been developed that provides direct server to server integration between SharePoint and CRM thus removing the need for the user to be pre-authenticated with SharePoint on the client.
The Record page includes a standard sub grid that is populated using the CRM entity query object model. CRM converts a RetrieveMultiple request on the SharePoint Document entity into SharePoint CAML (Collaborative Application Markup Language) query and sends it to the SharePoint Web Services. The important part here is that this query is run in the context of the currently logged on user and so they only see the document that they have access to in SharePoint (more on how this works in part 2 of this series). Documents are rendered inside the CRM Form HTML as a standard sub grid in the same way that any other record might be displayed. Using the New/Upload command bar buttons sends a request to CRM by way of an Execute Request in the same way that any other command bar buttons might do. CRM uses the SharePoint Web Service API to execute the requests and refreshes the sub grid.
This server to server integration only works for CRM Online/SharePoint Online combinations that are in the same tenant due to the nature of the server to server authentication and can be turned on in the Document Management Settings using the 'Enable server-based SharePoint integration'. There is a note that states that sandboxed solutions will not be supported in the future for SharePoint online.
Differences between List Component and Server-to-Server Once S2S integration is enabled you'll see a similar view to the list component but it looks far more CRM2013 like. Apart from a slicker interface there are a few other differences: Folder Support The S2S sub grid doesn't support folders within the document library and so all documents are flattened down underneath the document location folder. The Location column does give you folder name which you can sort by to allow grouping by folder. Custom Views The great thing about having the documents queried by CRM is that you can create custom views of documents in the same way you would with any other entity in CRM. When using the list component the default view in SharePoint was rendered in the IFRAME meaning that to get new columns you had to have list customisation privileges on SharePoint such that all users would see the changes. With the new server to server integration you can select SharePoint columns to include in your own views and even add in your own filters using the CRM advance find interface. If you think about it – this is very cool! Item Actions The List Component was by nature very similar to the SharePoint list user interface and so it had more or less full support of actions that can be performed from SharePoint (with the exception of workflow operations). The server to server sub-grid provides all the main functions but with some options such as Alert Me, Send Short Cut, View History and Download a Copy being unavailable. The S2S integration gives the following command bar actions:
This is in comparison to the List Component actions that are as shown below.
Inline Dialogs With CRM2013's single page user experience any pop-out windows are supposed to be kept to a minimum. When using the list component operations (such as check-in/out) a new window would always pop out but with S2S integration an inline dialog shown instead. This really make it feel tightly integrated and slick.
Out of these differences, the lack of folder support is the only one that has had any significant effect on my solutions but actually can be seen as an advantage if using sub-folders to hold child entity documents. In this scenario all documents will be visible from the parent record's document view rather than rely on the user drilling down into each folder to see content. That's all for now but in the next article in this series I'll show you more of how this functionality works under the covers. Read Part 2 @ScottDurow
Polymorphic Workflow Activity Input Arguments
[Output("Document Location")] [ReferenceTarget("account")] public InArgument<EntityReference> EntityReference { get; set; }
This field can be used also to provide all the information we need to pass an Entity Reference. The sample I've provide is a simple Workflow Activity that accepts the Record Url and returns the Guid of the record as a string and the Entity Logical Name – this isn't much use on its own, but you'll be able to use the DynamicUrlParser.cs class in your own Workflow Activities.
[Input("Record Dynamic Url")] [RequiredArgument] public InArgument<string> RecordUrl { get; set; }
The DynamicUrlParser class can then be used as follows:
var entityReference = new DynamicUrlParser(RecordUrl.Get<string>(executionContext)); RecordGuid.Set(executionContext, entityReference.Id.ToString()); EntityLogicalName.Set(executionContext, entityReference.GetEntityLogicalName(service));
The full sample can be found in my MSDN Code Gallery. @ScottDurow
Creating a Contact Card List Web Resource with Images
Sparkle XRM provides a great way of creating grids and forms that look and work similar to Dynamics CRM but sometimes you need to create a responsive user interface that is a little different. Luckily there is a wealth of jQuery plugins out there that provide a great starting point. For this post I'm going to show you how to use FreeWall to create a dynamic grid layout of contact cards but the same approach would apply for any other plugin that isn't included in the core Sparkle XRM dependencies library. This sample creates an HTML web resource that lays out your contacts in a responsive grid that resizes depending on the size available.
Create the Script# Import Whenever we need to use an external library from Sparkle XRM, the external API must be defined as imported classes. For FreeWall we must import the jQuery plugin and the configuration options class. Notice that the [ScriptName("Object")] is used on the configuration options so that although our Script# class uses a strongly typed class, the JavaScript compiled uses an anonymous type so as not to create unnecessary class prototypes.
Create the View Model It is a good idea to start with the View Model since this defines all the functionality that the View must expose as well as communicating with the server. For this sample we have a simple view model that simply loads a list of contacts into a list so that FreeWall can be bound to it to display our contact cards. It also provides a function to get the Image Url of the contact and return a placeholder image if no image is defined. The contact image can be found by returning the attribute with logical name 'entityimage_url'
Include the library JS Once you've selected the library you want to use, you'll need to include it in your Crm Solution project under the js folder, and give it a UniqueName and Display Name similar to dev1_/js/freewall.js
Create the HTML View The HTML View should be added to the html folder and must contain the scaffolding to hook the jQuery library into and initialise the View code. The data binding is done using Knockout's built in templating engine using the 'template' binding.
Create the View Class The view class's job is to instantiate the View Model and initialise the binding.
Notice the OnAfterRender call back – this is called every time a new contact card is rendered because of the binding afterRender: Client.InlineSubGrids.Views.ContactCardView.onAfterRender in the HTML. If this is not done then the freewall grid will not layout until the window is resized. The result is a nice and responsive layout that optimises the fill the available space and has variable height blocks.
Multi Entity Search for CRM2013
I've just published an update to my Multi-Entity Search Solution (after being encouraged by my friend and fellow Dynamics CRM MVP Gus Gonzalez!). Features:
Search across multiple entities at once. Uses the same configuration as the mobile client 'Quick Find' (Settings->General ->Set Up Quick Find). This allows you to select which entities you would like to search across. Virtual Scrolling with new records loaded as you scroll rather than all loaded at once. Shows the primary entity image of returned records (if there is one) in the search results.
In the new version you'll find:
A search button added to the top navigation bar* rather than using a Command Bar button. Auto searching as you type the search term Mouse Wheel horizontal scrolling support
*Since there is no supported way of doing this, I've had to do a little DOM shenanigans to get this to work the way Gus wanted!
To try it out you'll need to install the following 2 managed solutions:
If you like this, you might also like to check out my Start Menu Navigation for CRM2013! @ScottDurow
Monitor, Monitor, Monitor
3) Client Latency & Bandwidth Monitoring Now that you've got the server-side under control you should also look at the client connectivity of your users. There is a special diagnostics hidden page that can be accessed by using a URL of the format: http://<YourCRMServerURL>/tools/diagnostics/diag.aspx As described by the implementation guide topic, "Microsoft Dynamics CRM is designed to work best over networks that have the following elements:
Bandwidth greater than 50 KB/sec Latency under 150 ms"
Part 1: X-Ray vision Part 2: Invisibility Part 3: Faster than a speeding bullet! Part 4: Ice Man
My top 3 fixes in CRM2013 SP1
There are great many new features shipped in CRM2013 SP1 but let's not forget there are some eagerly awaited fixes as well (as described by Since there has already been plenty of coverage of the new features, I thought I would pick out my top 3 fixes that I've been particularly waiting for…Queue up the charts count-down soundtrack!
In at Number 3: Matching Connection Roles Connections are a great way of providing users with an overview of a contact's involvement with all areas of your business. Right from within a contact record users can see the roles that the contact has across different record types such as accounts, cases, and opportunities. Roles are specified on each side of the connection and in many cases you need to have the same role on both sides. In CRM2011 this was possible but strangely with CRM2013 the same role could not be specified as the matching role with the issue being described by the KB article as "In Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013, users are unable to set a Matching Connection Role to the same Connection Role." Up until now the work around was to create a different role but with the same name but I've tested this in SP1 and I'm pleased to report that it now works the same as it did in CRM2011. New at Number 2: Importing solution fails when plugins attached to custom actions The addition of custom actions to CRM2013 was fantastic for creating custom server logic that is called from JavaScript. Unfortunately when you attached a plugin to a custom action message and imported a solution containing that plugin it would fail (See the Microsoft Connect article for this issue). I have held back from using this feature up until now due to the pain it created during deployments but now that it is fixed in SP1 I'm going to be making a lot more use of Custom Action plugins! UPDATE: Actually, the connect item for this issue is not entirely correct - this will be fixed in one of the next Update Rollups of CRM 2013 SP1 …and this Service Pack's Number 1 Fix is: "Found more than one RibbonDiff entity" This message is likely a very familiar message to anyone who has made customisations to the Ribbon with CRM2011 (as described by The message was shown when importing customisations and was usually down to there being more than one element in the ribbon xml that had been given the same ID. When CRM2013 was released the message started popping up far more frequently. Initially I was worried it was due to an issue with Ribbon Workbench but eventually I tracked it down to the fact that elements were being duplicated when a solution was exported from CRM2013. The Ribbon Workbench resolves duplicate IDs automatically so the issue only caused problems when transferring a solution between environments through an export/import but what was more confusing is that the issue would only happen on the second import. There is a line in the KB article for SP1 that describes the issue as: "When we import, the import logic creates two values for each entry within the RibbonDifBase. But When we export the application ribbon we do not have any check for this and we export 2 values directly from the DB to the XML. This if imported to a new org will create 4 values in the table RibbonDiffBase. If the solution is imported again to the same org causes an error" The Microsoft Connect item for this issue is still marked as active but I've tried to reproduce the issue in SP1 and so far so good! Well done Dynamics CRM Product team! Poptastic! @ScottDurow
And then there were seven!
If you've updated to the CRM2013 Spring '14 Wave (Service Pack 1) I think you'll agree that it contains some pretty awesome features. You can read a good roundup of the developer features in the SDK ( but have you noticed that there is a little less white space across the top of your forms? This is because the Command Bar now shows 7 rather than 5 buttons before buttons are added to the ellipses overflow.
It is worth noting that the number of buttons that are displayed before the overflow is not (yet?) configurable and nor can you revert back to displaying only 5 (pre SP1). That said, I really appreciate this little change that is a result of the product team listening to feedback from users. What's more it has no impact on the Ribbon Xml or Ribbon Workbench.
You might like to read more about the Command Bar in my post from way back when CRM2013 was first released. @ScottDurow
Create a command bar button for your custom activities
When creating a new custom activity entity you are presented with a great many checkboxes to choose from. One of these checkboxes is 'Display in Activities Menus' that will ensure that the activity type is included in the Activities Menu on records
The Custom Activities flyout menu is a dynamically generated menu so that if you load up an entity in the Ribbon Workbench and expand this button you won't see any menu items. This has been the subject for confusion for users who are trying to move this button out of the sub menu and put it on the main Command Bar as a short cut for uses. Since the menu is created dynamically at run time there is no button to customise and move. This post shows you how to create a custom activity button on the opportunity form. 1. Determine the Entity Type Code of your custom activity. Each custom entity has an Entity Type code. This integer value is different to the entity logical name and could be different on each organization you deploy your solution. We need to know this entity type code in order to create a new record of a specific entity type. To find the value, create a new record for your custom entity in Internet Explorer and press Ctrl-N (opens a new window with Url visible) and copy the URL. This should look something like: http://server/Org/main.aspx?etc=10005... You need to note the etc number for later. 2. Install Ribbon Workbench You'll need to install the Ribbon Workbench as described by 'Getting started with the Ribbon Workbench' 3. Create and open a solution containing the Opportunity Entity The Ribbon Workbench requires a solution to load that contains the entities that you wish to work on. Since we are adding the new button to the opportunity entity, add it to the solution – only add the entities you need to speed up the solution load/publish time. When you first open the Ribbon Workbench it will allow you to select your new solution. 4. Click on the 'Ribbon' tab and change drop down in the top right to 'Form' We need a template command to use and so we select the 'Ribbon' view rather than the Command Bar view so to locate the 'Task' button on the Form ribbon. 5. Select the 'Add' tab and then right click on the 'Task' button and select 'Customise Command' The Task button is located on the 'Add' tab. Using 'Customise Command' creates a copy of the add task command that we can change to reference our custom acitivty. 6. Expand the Commands node to see the customised command and select 'Mscrm.AddTaskToPrimaryRecord'.7. Rename the command to be something like 'Mscrm.AddCustomActivityToPrimaryRecord' By renaming the command we are creating a new command specifically for our new button, rather than customising the existing one. 8. Expand the Command and JavaScript command and change the Int value to be the Entity Type Code of your custom activity Remember that the entity type code is unique to your custom entity – but it could change between deployments.
1. Right click on the command and select 'Edit Display Rules' and Remove the 'HideOnCommandBar' rule Since the Task button only shows on the legacy ribbon, we need to change the command so it also shows on the command bar by removing this display rule.
2. Select the 'Command Bar' tab and drag a button onto the Form command bar
3. Set the Command to be your new custom command (e.g. Mscrm.AddCustomActivityToPrimaryRecord)
4. Set the image16 to be /imgs/ribbon/AddActivity16.png (or a custom image you have for your entity)
5. Expand the 'Display Rules' and set the 'IsCore' property to 'True' on each Display Rule.
6. Expand the 'Enable Rules' and set the 'IsCore' property to 'True' on each Enable Rule. By setting the 'IsCore' property to true, we only reference them rather than redefining them.
7. Publish your customisations
8. Test the new button on the opportunity form!
Fiddler2: The tool that gives you Superpowers – Part 4
Not using relative links in HTML webresources Loading scripts/images dynamically without using the cache key directory prefix Not using the $webresource: prefix in ribbon/sitemap xml.
HTTP/1.1 200 OKCache-Control: publicContent-Type: text/jscriptExpires: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:18:35 GMT
Once the web resource is downloaded on the client it is requested again until April 14 2015 unless a new version is published where CRM will request the file using a new cache key (the number between the Organization name and the WebResources directory). You can read more about this mechanism on my post about web resource caching. ETAG Cached files These resource are usually images and static JavaScript files that are assigned an ETAG value by the server. When the resource changes on the server it is assigned a different ETAG value. When the browser requests the file it sends the previous ETAG value if it hasn't been modified then the server responds with a 304 response meaning that the browser can use the local cached file. Files that use ETAG caching will show in grey in Fiddler with a response code of 304: During your web resource testing it is a good idea to crack open Fiddler and perform your unit tests – you should look for any non-304 requests for files that don't need to be downloaded every time they are needed. Another way to ensure that your servers are running cool as ice is to look at the request execution length. Occasionally code can be written that accidently returns much too much data than required - perhaps all attributes are included or a where criteria is missing. These issues don't always present themselves when working on a development system that responds to queries very quickly, but as soon as you deploy to a production system with many users and large datasets, you start to see slow performance. There are a number of ways you can test for this using Fiddler: Visualise Request Times The order in which your scripts, SOAP and REST requests are executed in can greatly affect the performance experienced by the user and so you can use Fiddler's Time line visualizer to see which requests are running is series and which are running in parallel. It also shows you the length of time the requests are taking to download so that you can identify the longest running requests and focus your optimisation efforts on those first.
Simulate Slow Networks If you know that your users will be using a slow network to access CRM or you would just like to see how the application responds when the requests start to take longer because of larger datasets you can tell fiddler to add an artificial delay into the responses. To do this you can use the built in Rules->Performance->Simulate Modem Speeds but this usually results in an unrealistically slow response time. If you are using Auto Responders you can right-click on the Rule and use set Latency – but this won't work for Organization Service/REST calls. The best way I've found is to use the Fiddler Script: 1) Select the 'Fiddler Script' Tab 2) Select 'OnBeforeRequest' in the 'Go to' drop down 3) Add the following line to the OnBeforeRequest event handler.
This will add a 50 millisecond delay for every kB requested from the server which assuming there was no time server time would result in ~160 kbps downloads. If you've not used Fiddler for your Dynamics CRM Development yet I hope these posts are enough to convince you that you should give it a try – I promise you'll never look back! @ScottDurow
Fiddler2: The tool that gives you Superpowers - Part 2
Here are the steps to add an auto responder: 1) Install Fiddler (if you've not already!) 2) Switch to the 'Auto Responders' tab and check the two checkboxes 'Enable automatic responses' and 'Unmatched requests pass-through'
3) To ensure that the browser requests a version of the web resource rather than a cached version from the server you'll need to clear the browser cache using the convenient 'Clear Cache' button on the tool bar. 4) You can ensure that no versions get subsequently cached by selecting Rules-> Performance-> Disable Caching. 5) You can now use 'Add Rule' to add an auto responder rule. Enter a regular expression to match the web resource name
then enter the file location of the corresponding webresource in your Visual Studio Developer Toolkit project. You are now good to go so that when you refresh your browser the version of your web resource will be loaded into the browser directly from your Visual Studio project. No need to publish a file to the server and affect other users. There is one caveat to this – If the script that you are debugging updates data then this approach is probably not a good idea until you are have fully tested the script in a non-production environment. Only once you have QAed and ready to deploy can be it be used against the production environment to check that the specific user's issue is fixed before you commit to deploying it to all users. Read the next post on how to be faster than a speeding bullet! @ScottDurow |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79365 | L'Wren Scott's Lula Bags
You may remember me profiling the fabulous L'Wren Scott a while back during my break down of the top 25 celebrity stylist list. For those of you who aren't familiar with the incredibly multi talented stylist, you should know she's one of the hardest working fashion mavens in town. When she isn't styling Hollywood's best, L'Wren manages to refocus her fashion genius into designing her very own line. (Oprah wore a L'Wren Scott dress on her series finale) Last season she introduced us to her mini pochette bags and now she is bringing us "Lula" her first full sized handbag. L'Wren shared with Style.com, "I didn't really base it around anything other than my mom's handbag that she always carried. She had this very structured bag that you always heard open and close when she was coming or going. That was a specific feeling for me." L'Wren's fabulous bags are available exclusively at Barneys, but before you toss on your stilettos to rush out and pick up the Lula bag you should know they retail from $2,300 to $20,500. Of course the large croc bag that L'Wren is carrying above is the one coming in at the extremely high $20,500 price. Below are pictures of L'Wren's Lula bags. Are you loving this design?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79373 | Home Remedy for Head Lice
Lice (“kuto”) is a small, wingless, flattened insect which produces irritating dermatitis on the scalp. There are ways how to prevent head lice like avoiding contact with people with lice or borrowing combs with an infected individual. But if you already have one, below are steps on getting rid of head lice.
Getting Rid of Head Lice
1. Shampoo hair with gugo ( Scientific name: Entada Phaseikaudes K Meer) bark or any commercial shampoo.
2. Immediately after the shampoo, comb hair with fine comb (“suyod”) to remove the live lice.
3. If possible, shampoo every day for one week and comb hair with fine comb twice a day.
4. To get rid of the nits (lice eggs), wet hair with hot vinegar for half an hour before the shampoo. Then, comb hair with fine comb thoroughly.
5. At bedtime, pound 1/2 cup of atis seeds. Mix it with 1/4 cup of oil. Apply thoroughly the oil-and-atis-seed mixture over the scalp and hair. Wrap the hair and head with a piece of clean cloth and leave it on overnight. Shampoo the next morning and comb hair with fine comb.
6. Do this treatment daily for 3-5 days or until all lice and nits are gone. Destroy or kill the lice and nits as soon as they are removed from the hair and head.
7. Always keep hair clean and well combed. Don’t use the comb of other persons. Don’t sleep with an individual infested with lice.
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Next time you are in Paris, why not go on a floating tour!Click for full image
Joachim Comments: 80s cyberpunk covers are generally bad but this one is a special kind of bad…
Published 1990
You might remember this from here!
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27 Responses to “Bad Voltage”
1. Claire Says:
What happened to that poor woman’s legs? And why is she out with Dexy and one of his Midnight Runners?
2. SI Says:
3. Phil Says:
It seems Neil Gaiman is practicing his tightrope skills with a couple of pals. On the streets of Blackpool.
4. SI Says:
Beneath the streets eh… They’re not even on the streets!
5. Elvraie Says:
High and low voltages are so last year! What you must have is bad voltage!
6. Tat Wood Says:
If I should die think only this of me
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is forever Nottingham’s Rock City in 1985
7. Rev Says:
Juxtaposition eh? Yawn.
8. Jeff Vader Says:
@Phil, @Tat:
I´d like to settle the locale discussion by pointing to the clearly visible Eiffel Tower in the background.
Obviously they´re in Vegas.
9. Jami Says:
♪ We’re off to see the Wizard! The wonderful Wizard of punk! ♪
10. THX 1138 Says:
Eat your heart out, David Blaine!
11. Bibliomancer Says:
Maglev boots by Jimmy Choo Choo.
12. fred Says:
Yes, a Rammstein cover of ‘Walking on Sunshine’ would totally work.
13. Tom Noir Says:
@fred: this needs to happen.
14. Tom Noir Says:
Another version of this book was previously featured on GSS here. I _think_ I prefer the ‘ghostbusters’ version but honestly it’s a toss up. Poor Jonathan Littel, his publishers must not have loved him very much.
15. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
‘Inside of us, we both know you belong with Voltage. You’re part of his work, the badness that keeps him going. If that gang leaves the ground and you’re not with them, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.’
‘But wought about ussss?’
‘We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you turned of noclip. We got it back last night.’
16. A.R.Yngve Says:
The blurb ought to read “tomorrow’s world ABOVE the streets…”
(They call me Captain Obvious!)
17. anon Says:
Bad Voltage sounds like a name of a band Superman would fight.
They look like one, too!
18. Jaouad Says:
That Eiffel Tower was drawn by somebody who very badly wanted to see one.
Also: I can see Dream and Death going for outfits like that, but Destiny should really know better.
19. Dead Stuff With Big Teeth Says:
@Claire: ‘Come on, I lean to loo rye ay…’
20. Claire Says:
@dead stuff. I guess these other young uns don’t remember the glory (and inexplicable lyrics) of the immortal Runners 😉
21. A.R.Yngve Says:
Visit Cyberpunk City, and see the wonders of tomorrow…
– See our new Ehfel Tower! Not as tall as the real Eiffel Tower, but almost as beautiful!
– See our Hover-Punks glide above the streets, throw bottles and urinate above doorways!
– Experience our uniquely polluted air — smells like nothing you’ve ever been sick from before!
22. Tat Wood Says:
@Claire, Dead Stuff: I spent most of the morning trying to think of a way to work in a reference to ‘Thankfully, Not Living in Yorkshire It Doesn’t Apply’. (American readers may wish to know that Kev’s safe sex anthem ‘Come On Eileen’ was their antepenultimate hit, not their first).
23. RachelJ Says:
@Claire. What happened to her legs, you ask? I refer you to the original version of the blurb: “They’re wired for speed, living high and crashing hard in tomorrow’s world beneath the streets.”
24. L.B. Says:
That would be a great title for a pif – ‘Bad voltage’ could be the sequel to ‘Powerful stuff’.
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Never has the Eiffel Tower looked less like the Eiffel Tower.
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@Alessandra: I disagree. Here, it looks like former Vice President Richard Cheney.
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The punks look like they’re dancing badly in midair. Not to mention the utterly trippy atmosphere.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79446 | את אידיוט גדול
Dear Alma,
I Did not have to answer your last Latter because I did not have too muck
time and besides it was so full of garbage. It is snowing for a change
and a rather dismal morning, so I'll tell you a thing or two.
Guess who...? Sept 1987 in living room with mother Lena
How can you possibly how I feel, when you are so tiekd up with
yourself, you live with youself, do nothing for anyone else, a simple
thing like sending a card to a grandmother who recently thought of you,
or how else would you be living off the fat of the land, so how in the
hell do you know how it feel when the last thing I do each night is
listen to the news at 11 P.M. so I hear the weather report, so I hear
what's happening in Maine, worse winter ever. In the morning, before
you open your eyes, I again hear the news and weather and most of the
news is fires the break out in the night with heating like you have.
If you had another mother who really couldn't cope, you would be
responsible for her being in McLeans, nut house. And I ask myself, why?
And time and again I have to come to the same conclusion; too God damn
lazy to move out of ruts. No I most certainly will not look for homes
for your cats, do it yourself.
You are right I really do not care about your relation with your
father and I should never even mention him. but you do have to admit
that you always played the game of playing one agaits the other, so
I haven't got out of the habit of thinking of you two, besides you are
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79448 | An Evolutionary Perspective of the p53 Network
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Keller 3-180
Joao Hespanha (University of California)
p53 is a tumor suppressor gene that is known to be a central hub of the DNA damage response network. It plays a critical role in guarding against cancer development and the loss of p53 function is involved in most human cancers.
In humans, p53 is part of a sophisticated network of proteins that mediate cell fate decisions such as the initiation of cell-cycle arrest, DNA repair, senescence and apoptosis. Aside from p53, this network includes the proteins MDM2, PTEN, and ARF among a host of other upstream, downstream and intermediate species involved in sensing, transduction and regulation.
In this talk we explore the evolutionary history of the p53 protein network. While homologs of the p53 gene seem to have been preserved over one billion years, this is not the case for the other proteins in the network; one can find organisms that express a p53 homolog together with different combinations of the remaining genes.
We use the evolutionary analysis as the starting point to partition the p53 network into independent modules and then attempt to infer the function of each module within the network. Our results show an evolutionary path towards networks with an increasingly complex structure of multi-stability, which we conjecture is associated with cell fate decisions.
Work done in collaboration with Hari Sivakumar and Stephen Proulx.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79464 | Monday, February 18, 2013
So I miss you. I can admit that.
I miss the friends that we were and the camaraderie we shared. I miss how we used to have each other's backs and protect each other's hearts. I miss that. I miss you.
But, a lot's happened. Valleys and gulfs between us, pushing each other away. Terrible words said.
It's not even just that. We're different people now, and the things that made us friends before... maybe we just don't have those things anymore. I've changed in some ways, you've changed in other ways... and neither of those ways are bad things, but they put us in places where probably friends are not something we'll be again.
I guess that's okay. I'm okay with that. Our lives are what they are, we are who we are. And I think it's okay to move on in our lives, but still occasionally think of the ones who were a part of our pasts. You are a part of me, a part of who I am now. So today, I will think of you, and hope good things for you, and yes.. I will miss you.
1. ...this makes me cry...I have someone like this in my life that I miss, who was my best friend. Thank you for giving words to what I feel in my soul for her...and possibly hope one day we can may never be the same...but it can be new.
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1. Of course you can, darling. I'm sorry I made you cry... ((hugs)) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79465 | Excuse me, Please, Thankyou.
I love being prim and proper through no fault of mine, i didn't rehearse it, i was raised to be it, to say thank you after every meal, to smile politely and listen to people talk, i don't really care about tasting the wine(or pretending to)before actually drinking at dinner tables and the whole formalities of life. Of seating up and holding your head up like some trader with a basket of yams balanced on her head.
I have prim and proper buried in the dept of me, that's why i cant be loud in public(probably why i'm such a talker in the comfort of home),that's why i smile politely and say "no thank you" even when i really want that last piece of fudge cake on the plate. That's why i protest politely when you want to pay for the groceries for me(sometimes o). That's why i say "its okay" when i really want to say "sod off mate", that's why i say "don't worry about it,i'll drop you off" when you go on and on about how late your driver or boyfriend is, when all i want to do is hurry home and crawl into bed, that's why i really invite you to eat with me when i really don't want you even having a taste of my spicy prawns, you saw how much i paid the delivery guy, you heard me calling in to order, go get yours.
Polite can be boring. You say thank yous and please and excuse me's even when you dont mean it.
I speak with an accent, i hear. its just my northern heritage, i've never lived anywhere else to get my tongue twisted, but how can i have an accent northern or wherever when i don't even speak hausa? They tell me i sound funny when i speak broken/pidgin english...."maybe you shouldn't bother speaking it".
"Whats funny about my broken english?" I ask. When they don't find answers to that question they just say
"its not polite". They mock me for not pronouncing names well. Is it polite to mock? Someone should tell them its not polite to mock. I cant tell them myself you see, because i'm too polite.
Polite is boring, that's why sometimes i love to let my hair down(my new hairdresser choped a chunk of my hair off, so really i mean this literally lol)
That's why when i walk out of debonairs sometimes i embarrass my friends, i ring the bell that says to ring if you had fun. i do this especially on days when there aren't any kids, i do it at night when responsible adults are politely having pizza. I ring it when my hair's down, and if its not loud enough i run back in and ring again...you see i think its not polite if the bell doesn't ring loud enough to disturb the peace. I'm impolite in a polite way.
i'm polite when i accept to go on a date with you. i'm polite cos i feel i owe it to you for being so nice. but then i don't show up for the date, i don't even call to cancel at the last minute except you call to ask if you're picking me up....you see, its polite to call and cancel, but i just don't care about polite some days, because my hairs down on that day. being a girl helps to be impolite.
i stand in front of the atm machine beside the one my friend is using and announce i'm a human atm to the next person who wants to use it, but i get polite and say "sorry" as i step aside, it doesn't matter that he enjoyed the show and wants to start a little chat up with me.
Or i hoot back at the thugs(agboros) or bus drivers when they catcall at me "ahhh, sister you fine" or make kissy noises when in traffic or walking through the market, i scream back at them "come marry me"...its not polite to keep quite when you're spoken too:)
Even when i insult...in my anger, i'm polite as i write that mail, there's "sorry to bother you but....."
Oh, sometimes at night(not anymore) i flash my head lamp bright and drive very close to the car in front so that the light bothers the person driving, its not polite... but polite is boring.
I'm sorry, but i love being polite.
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1. You do what at the atm??? lmao...
2. u chopped ur hair? seriously!
And i am here tryna grow mine to APL!
3. lol...yes please what do u do at the atm??
4. so what part of ur body will accept the ATM card? lol
polite is boring yes, but unfortunately it helps peace to reign.
5. ...and 'tis simply awesome.
6. Then i admire that in you...please take it as a rare virtue...
7. prim and proper or prime and proper?
8. @afrobabe..yes i did that...shocking!!1
@chayoma...i'm too faint hearted to actually chop more than my heart can take. so its not that bad, sort of a page boy kind of look. hopefully it'll grow soon.
@faboulo-la lol
@uzezi...what part of my body? uhmmm, i didnt think to think about that..lol
@rethots. thanx
@rita, thanks and i will
@anonymous...my bad,prim and proper.
9. wish i could say i had a polite bone in me
10. Well i guess i shall call you miss polite!
Oh i love Obiwon!
11. Oh, I can relate! I wish I cud yank out the polite wires in my head and be like you LOL!
Anyways, loved the post. Thank God for Blog Therapy :-)
12. u did that at the atm.nd my frnds tnk i'm mad. wow, u sound lyk u r mad fun when u let ur hair down. i likey. letn down one's hair can b ril crazy, i once climbed these 10-12 ft high bars in the faculty. i seriously felt like. so i did it. my frnds screamed. lol
i wish i cld b polite tho, i've found that i'm not, most times i can't help it. even when i think im being polite, my friends say no tnat wasnt polite, that was downright cold.
i don't care tho.
13. silly gal!...like my grand-dad will say, u sound like a fun chic though.all these places u describe...seem coded.i live in las gidi and iv not been to a lot of them.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79470 | Friday, April 1, 2016
A is for Air Guitar
Okay, so today I am going to talk about air guitars.
So I looked up "air guitar" in the Turley English Dictionary and it gave the following definition:
An imaginary guitar (instrument) played by Homo Stupidus, a subcategory of the male Homo Sapien species. Air guitar is commonly played by the Homo Stupidus during a mid-life crisis but it can also affect the pubescent male and the geriatric male of the species. The early-onset of airguitaritis (air-g-ti-tis) in the pubescent male usually leads to severe complications in adult life including rheumatism, earache, marriage breakdown and a reputation as a complete twat. Late diagnosis of airguitaritis usually leads to incarceration in a specialist mental health clinic.
Homo Stupidus wearing his standard Friday night attire. Sadly, the love-heart boxers do not attract females only other air-guitarists which can lead to worrying displays of male bonding.
Now, for all you ladies out there who have had the misfortune to marry a gentleman with an air guitar fetish let me give you my Top Ten Tips for dealing with this unwholesome situation:
1. Divorce your Homo Stupidus. (You know it makes sense.)
2. Have him incarcerated in an asylum on the grounds of mental instability and emotional abuse.
3 Jump up and down on his air guitar whilst singing "Beat it" by Michael Jackson.
4. Send a dubious brown package to Eric Clapton. It does not have to contain Semtex (which is preferable) but just the thought of blowing up Eric Clapton will make you feel a whole lot better.
5. Start performing imaginary cooking, imaginary housekeeping and imaginary ironing. Air-ironing
is particularly effective as a way to disarm the working Homo-Stupidus.
6. Ask your Homo Stupidus if he is also performing imaginary sex because you haven't had an orgasm since 1993.
7. Ask your Homo Stupidus is he would like his air-guitar restringing. If he says "Yes" mark that down in your little black book so your attorney can cite it as evidence in the divorce proceedings.
8. Write a kiss and tell article for The Daily Mail. "My Life Of Hell With A Man Who Preferred His Air Guitar Over Sex" will propel you to instant fame and fortune. You'll be commissioned for your autobiography, a film and make a whole stack of cash. If you're really clever and manage to get an imaginary wizard into your biography you will become even more famous.
9. Stick his head in the oven.
10. Put on your earmuffs and tell him he is not playing loud enough. While he performs even more wild air guitar manoeuvres video him and then post the clip on YouTube with the caption "Man Found Wandering In Borneo Jungle Seeks Mate". Also tweet the footage using the hash tags #fuckingbonkers #saveme
So there you have it. A is for air guitar - accompanied by some sound and ever thoughtful advice from Mrs T. See you tomorrow!
1. Very Nice Post...
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2. Bahahaha I needed this laugh, thank you.
But it did raise a serious question:
What if us ladies also find ourselves playing air guitar?
1. Welcome Dianna.
I am afraid there would be only one answer to your question -harikiri!
3. Hahahahaha! Loved this. We sing and dance to air guitars at my house! I loved #5. You are off to a good start.
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1. Paula, Paula, Paula...I am in shock! I thought you were a sensible lady!
4. Yeah but do your remedies work for someone having a mid life crisis with an ACTUAL guitar. The guitar I can cope with. It's the vocalising equivalent of air guitar playing that's the real issue. Great start Jane. Keep it up.
1. Hmm... that's given me something to contemplate, Wendy. I may have to come back to those points later!
5. Oh girlfriend, you should break out the "air microphone" and become a regular rock and roller. That should cool some of the guitar playing if he knows you are going to croon along. Cheers.
6. Hilarious article! Thank God I did NOT marry one.
7. Acoustic guitars normally have six strings of steel. The body of it is hollowed out so the guitarist can make loud sounds. Beginners often start with the acoustic because it is a great starting point and the electric guitar instrument is pretty basic. One a student has learned the basics on the acoustic, turning to other types, like the electric might be a good idea.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79471 | How to Change Instagram to Private 2019
How to Change Instagram to Private: So, you want to make your Instagram account private? Good move-- particularly if you upload content that you don't intend to be checked out by a specific individual or team of individuals that could go looking for you on Instagram.
How to Change Instagram to Private
Right here are the actions to obtaining it done, as discussed making use of the Instagram iPhone application.
The Android app need to look very comparable, with maybe some really little variations.
Make Your Instagram Account Private
Open the Instagram app and also let's get going.
- Touch the profile icon on the much right of the lower menu.
- Touch the gear symbol in the top-right corner of your profile to access your settings. Under the Account going regarding midway down your display, you'll see a choice labeled private Account with an on/off button.
- Tap the switch to make sure that it moves over to the shade blue.
You have actually effectively set your Instagram profile to private. (There's no need to conserve your setting adjustments.) As long as you that private Account option gets on, just the customers that are presently following you, plus any new customers you accept if they ask for to follow you, will have the ability to see your Instagram web content.
Note: If it's not your entire profile you wish to make private, but simply a couple of photos, you additionally have the alternative to conceal pick photos on your Instagram account. The option is in the picture menu.
Instagram Privacy
Here are a few of the most typical concerns individuals have regarding their Instagram Privacy:
- What happens if I tag a customer or add a hashtag to among my Instagram messages when my profile is set to profile? Can individuals still see it? Just the individuals who follow you will certainly have the ability to see it. Labeling other customers who don't follow you or putting a hashtag in the summary does not override the privacy of the blog post. It will not be visible to anybody else that does not follow you currently.
- Suppose I intend to share an Instagram message on other social media network sites when my profile is readied to private? If you determine to share a blog post to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr or an additional social media, it will be publicly easily accessible to deem a standalone message. Any individual viewing it will be able to click the Instagram permalink to view it in full, yet if they click your username to see your complete profile, they will not be able to see your various other material (unless they follow you already).
- If somebody determines to follow me while my profile is private, will they be able to see my blog posts? Not till you authorize them. When one customer faucets the Comply with switch on an individual whose profile is private, it only sends an adhere to request message. So if you get a follow demand from a person, they will not be able to see any of your web content till you by hand approve their request to follow you.
- Someone is following me, yet I don't desire them as a fan anymore. How do I get rid of them?To quit a person from following you, you can block their account. Simply browse to their profile, tap the three white circles in the leading right corner, as well as faucet Block Customer to remove them from your followers. (You could alternatively report them too.).
- Can I establish my profile to private by signing in to on the web? No. Instagram presently doesn't allow its customers access their privacy settings from the desktop computer or mobile internet. You can just do it from Instagram's official apple iphone or Android applications. You can, nevertheless, modify your profile details, alter your password and tailor your email registration settings using
- Exactly how often can I change backward and forward between public and private? There does not seem to be a restriction regarding just how usually you change your privacy settings on or off, so if you feel inclined to do it multiple times a day, it should not be an issue. Keep in mind that this could alter given that Instagram areas constraints on various other forms of activity.
- Will I lose followers if I make my profile private? No. You will not lose any one of the fans you currently have, and all will certainly have full access to everything you publish. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79490 | lost and found
it's been a hectic few days.
the kind where in the middle of finishing a down to the wire work deadline and hunting down the dead animal smell in your son's room (which turned out to be old pee in the art room trash can....ack! boys!), a sweet little lost puppy gets dropped off at your house in loo of the pound.
the timing is terrible...and our "under constant construction" house is no place for a dog...but those lost puppy eyes have a way of persuading.
and max is beside himself over his new friend.
there's something magnetic between a boy and a dog.
and these two have been rolling and running and nuzzling and fast friending.
max knows we're trying to find her her old home or a new one, but he decided to name her bailey/pup pup/kira/margret while she's vacationing.
for how long we're still not sure...
but having her has mixed things up in the best way around here...and we almost had forgotten about the pee incident upstairs.
1. i want to eat that strawberry! good luck with the dog... it looks pretty cute.
2. Aww! Did someone just leave her in your yard? Sadness. Love all the names!
And pee! Boys and their pee. I can not keep a bathroom fresh around here to save my life. Thankfully, no trashcan incidents. I might become a monster mom in that case. Eek!
3. Boys will pee anywhere and everywhere except the toilet! I'm having a giveaway on my blog. I'd love to have you stop by!
4. A car full of girls pulled up and asked if we were missing a dog...and if not would we take this little pit bull puppy. Matt is a sucker for pits and I am a sucker for puppies. Haha
she has no tags but painted nails. Oh dear. Fingers crossed we can get her home soon.
5. You should keep her. I believe that there are blessings in diguise. Maybe that's just what she is.
Plus, she can come have dates with Trip.
6. she is a pretty girl! our pup is still lost, but this gives me a some hope that maybe she was scooped up somewhere by another loving family. that's funny about the toenails, i only know one dog that gets their toe nails painted and she is rotten! ;)
what will yall name her?
7. Cute! You should see if she has one of those implantable id tags..that might help.
8. Oh Katie that dog is adorable. You're going to have a hard time pulling those two apart!
And I cracked up thinking about Max peeing in a trash can!! Oh noo!!
9. Yes definitely check her for a micro-chip, that's pretty common these days... Otherwise go old fashioned with lost/found posters on every telephone pole lol!!
She looks sweet and will be a big girl!! Much luck!
10. what a perfect, plump strawberry sitting there like a gift. love.
i harbor such fond memories of our childhood dog (casper)...perhaps bailey/pup pup/kira/margaret will decide to stay long term? :)
11. aw! max is probably in love with that dog. boy and dog, you are right... they go hand in hand.
i have a two-year-old daughter and a lab/mix/pound puppy. lucia talks to her like she is a sibling; it is pretty adorable.
blessings to you.
12. i'll have to stop by with a veggie lasagna and milkbones before this "vacation" is over :) |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79498 | The Necessity of Onboard Gas & Vapor Detectors
^ Onboard Gas & Vapor Detectors Avert Disasters aboard Ships – image Courtesy Nightman1965 at
Lest . . . Explosions & Deaths
December 29, 2011: Port of Fujairah, Dubai. Grayish smoke plumes clouded the sky above oil tanker MT Prem Divya as the air shuddered with the deafening blasts. The best place to be was somewhere else.
Two days earlier, the tanker had docked at the port for repairs. Investigations later zeroed in on the culprit that triggered the explosions: welding sparks. Three lost their lives. Bad experience. Sure. Sometimes, things get worse.
Texas was the scene of the worst industrial explosion in the United States on April 16, 1947 when French ship SS Grandcamp went up in violent flames while workers were loading ammonium nitrate fertilizer. The blast killed 600 and injured 3,500.
Then again, the shipping industry is migrating towards greener fuels such as LNG and LPG. LPG vapors are heavier than air and settle in the bilge area, the lowest in the ship. And, concentrations as low as one in seventy are explosive.
It only takes a spark to set off a fire. And there are countless such sparks waiting to ignite catastrophes. Fuels, oils, and cargoes release umpteen vapors, many of which are inflammable, or toxic, or both. Forewarned is forearmed, precisely why we need onboard gas and vapor detectors.
Vapor & Gas
Often used synonymously, there is a subtle difference between gas and vapor. Gas is any matter / substance at a temperature above its boiling point. In the context of normal pressure and normal operating conditions, a gas is any substance with a boiling point below 200C:
• weighing 14 times less than that of air, hydrogen is the lightest gas
• tungsten hexafluoride is the heaviest weighing 10 times as much as air
2 - Toxic GAs
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Vapor is the correct term to describe gaseous matter below its boiling point. Vapors are the gaseous state of a liquid or a solid. They are created by changes in temperature and pressure. Please note, the change in state occurs without boiling of the liquid or the solid.
The Hazards & The Offenders
Overdoses of almost all gases and vapors can be lethal simply because people in the vicinity breathe them. The hazards include:
• Explosion of flammable gases
• Poisoning by toxic gases
• Suffocation / Asphyxiation due to oxygen displacement
• Flammability Escalation on account of oxygen enrichment
Even harmless, non-reactive gases such as helium, argon, and nitrogen are dangerous because they displace oxygen and promote suffocation. If oxygen concentration drops below 6% (by volume), it causes suffocation. But above 21%, it facilitates fires and explosions.
Human nose cannot detect an increase in oxygen concentration in the local ambience. Oxygen forms 21% (by volume) of our atmosphere and any increase escalates the possibility of fires and explosions via auto ignition.
At the same time however any decrease in oxygen concentration is equally lethal, for it aggravates the risk of suffocation. Industries use liquid nitrogen in large quantities and its leakage can create acute oxygen deficiency in the local ambience.
Toxicity: LC50 stands for lethal concentration or the concentration of the gas/vapor in air which will kill 50% of laboratory animals (usually mice or rats) when inhaled for a specified time (generally 4 hours).
Toxicity Values of Gases
Gas Threshold Toxicity
Carbon dioxide 5,000ppm (parts per million)
Propane, Butane 1,000ppm
Acetone 500ppm
Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) 200ppm
Butanol 100ppm
n-Hexane, Toluene 50ppm
Acetonitrile 20ppm
Chlorobenzene 10ppm
Diethyl amine 5ppm 1ppm
Chlorine 500ppb (parts per billion)
Methyl Chloformate 200ppb
Chlorine dioxide 100ppb
Decaborane 50ppb
Phosgene 20ppb
Methylisocyanate 10ppb
MDI (Methyl-di-phenyl-di-isocyanate) 5ppb
Table Credit: Introduction to Gas Detection Systems at introduction-gds-fl-9046421-en.pdf
Gases with LC50 below 0.5gm/m3 are extremely toxic. These include:
• boron trichloride, boron triflouride;
• hydrogen cyanide, hydrogen phosphide, hydrogen sulphide, hydrogen arsenide, hydrogen fluoride;
• bromine, phosgene, diborane, ozone;
• nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide;
• fluorine, tungsten hexafluoride, and sulphur tetraflouride
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With LC50 values between 0.5gm/m3 and 2gm/m3, the following gases are moderately toxic:
• acetronitrile, ammonia;
• carbon monoxide, carbon disulphide, sulphur dioxide;
• chlorine, hydrogen chloride;
• benzene, dicyan, nitrogen triflouride;
• methanol and methyl bromide
Flammability: Gases with low Lower Explosion Limits (LEL) and vapors with low Flashpoints are more likely to explode:
• LEL is the least concentration (in volume%) of a gas or vapor in air at which it can create a fire or a flash in the presence of a source of ignition
Safety professionals often use LEL synonymously with Lower Flammable Limit (LFL). The LEL of most known flammable gases and vapors is between 0.5 and 15 (in volume%)
• Flashpoint of a volatile substance is the minimum temperature at which it vaporizes to a level above its LEL
Gases do not have a flashpoint, only flammable liquids do. This is because gases do not have a liquid phase under normal conditions
Flammable Vapors: LEL and Flashpoint
Vapor LEL (Volume %) Flashpoint (0C)
Acetone 2.5 < -20
Acrylonitrile 2.8 -5
Benzene 1.2 -11
n-Butanol 1.7 35
n-Butyl acetate 1.2 27
n-Butyl acrylate 1.2 37
Chlorobenzene 1.3 28
Cyclohexane 1.0 -18
Cyclopentane 1.4 -51
1.2-Dichloroethane (EDC) 6.2 13
Diethyl ether 1.7 -40
1.4-Dioxane 1.9 11
Epichlorohydrin 2.3 28
Ethanol 3.1 12
Ethyl acetate 2.0 -4
Ethyl benzene 1.0 23
n-Hexane 1.0 -22
Methanol 6.0 9
1-Methoxy-2-propanol 1.8 32
Methyl-ethyl- ketone (MEK) 1.5 -10
Methyl methacrylate 1.7 10
n-Nonane 0.7 31
n-Octane 0.8 12
n-Pentane 1.4 -40
i-Propanol (IPA) 2.0 12
Propylene oxide 1.9 -37
Styrene 1.0 32
Tetrahydrofurane (THF) 1.5 -20
Toluene 1.1 6
Xylene (isomer mix) 1.0 25
Flashpoint is a more comprehensive indicator of the explosivity of a flammable liquid because it is a combined measure of the volatility plus the LEL of the liquid.
Whether a liquid will vaporize to produce a concentration above its LEL depends on its vapor pressure that, in turn, depends on the temperature of the liquid.
Vapor Pressure is the pressure you have to exert on the surface of a liquid to prevent it from vaporizing. The greater the vapor pressure of a liquid, the greater is its tendency to vaporize. Vapor pressure increases with increasing temperature.
Flammable Gases: LEL
Gas LEL (Volume%)
Acetylene 2.3
Ammonia 15.4
1.3-Butadiene 1.4
i-Butane 1.5
n-Butane 1.4
n-Butene (Butylene) 1.2
Dimethyl ether 2.7
Ethene (Ethylene) 2.4
Ethylene oxide 2.6
Hydrogen 4.0
Methane 4.4
Methyl chloride 7.6
Propane 1.7
Propene (Propylene) 1.8
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The misogyny of the alt-Right.
datePosted on 12:37, May 22nd, 2019 by Pablo
Comments about Green MP Golriz Ghahraman by ACT MP David Seymour on a reactionary radio talk show, and the threats that followed and which the Police deemed serious enough to merit a security detail for her, got me to thinking about how grotesquely disturbed the Right is in its present form. Seymour, supposedly a Libertarian, calls Ghahraman an “menace to freedom” because she wants to tighten legislation on hate speech (which, unlike protected offensive speech involves the incitement to or support for violence against others). His smear is a deliberate incitement to the alt-Right extreme and an implicit call for censorship, an irony lost on him.
The radio host that he was talking to, Sean Plunket, is a man with serious issues when it comes to women. His track record on gender matters is wretched, so Seymour’s comments gave him room to vent more generally on the subject using Ms. Ghahraman as a foil. What is disturbing is that, as readers may know, violent extremists are surrounded by enablers and accomplices, that is, those who simply look the other way when perpetrators plan and prepare for violence or those who in one form or another, passively or actively help perpetrators in the lead up to the commission of acts of violence.
In that conversation Plunket played the role of enabler while Seymour moved from enabler to accomplice because his dog whistle did in fact, provoke the alt-Right scum to crawl out from under their keyboards in order to heap vicious, often violently sexualised misogynist abuse on the Green MP. Seymour has denied being responsible for the threats made against her, which is akin to Donald Trump saying that he has nothing to do with Russia or the rise in attacks by white supremacists since he took office.
That got me to thinking about a core belief structure of the alt-Right and their white supremacist kin: misogyny. Now, I am no psychologist, psychiatrist or psychotherapist, but one thing is pretty clear: this crowd hates women.
In the case of people like Seymour, it seems that this hatred is born of unrequited lust. Ms. Ghahraman is attractive, smart, and self-assured to the point of being “stroppy” (or as a senior male professor once said to my wife when assessing her suitability for an academic career, “precocious”). But she would never be seen in the company, much less succumb to the courting, of the likes of David Seymour because he is simply a loser who has risen above his proper station in life, one who’s social interaction skills are on a par with the greesy-palmed and pimply 14 year olds that inhabit private schools and believe Ann Rand is “hot.” Boys like these like to bully girls who deep down inside they really, really like but from whom they cannot attract a sideways glance. That is why they get mean. For his part, Plunket projects the image of a guy who has been through a bad divorce or two and/or who has been turned down more than few times in spite of his relative fame and wealth. He is pissed off with women in general, and particularly the mouthy ones who disagree with him yet get to make decisions that affect us all.
We should remember that the misogynist streak pervades the alt-Right, here and elsewhere. It has led to the rise of the so-called “Incel” (involuntarily celibate) culture that has produced several murders of women by blue-balled freaks who think that all of their frustrations and disappointments in life are due to the fact that women will not recognise their genius and consent to having sex with them. Some do not even care about consent but still cannot get laid. This leads them to believe that women are the root of all evil and responsible for the decline of traditional culture, at least when”traditional” refers to a patriarchical white male hierarchy calling the shots over everyone else and enjoying the benefits of their status as Alpha males. These are the type of people to whom Seymour was whistling and for whom Plunket provides a space in which to be safe and comfortable in their views.
If one looks at the common denominators amongst the alt-Right, neo-Nazis, Klansmen, white nationalists and assorted other denizens of forums like 8Chan and 4Chan (which, incidentally, as of yesterday are still viewable in NZ and which continue to have long threads about the “accelerant” characteristics of the Christchurch killer’s actions), there is more than racism, bigotry and xenophobia at play. There is also an unmistakable hatred of women and loathing of what they supposedly represent. Terms like “pussy,” “cuck” (as in cuckold), “wench,” “slut,” “bitch” etc. compete for space with homophobic slurs in the alt-Right discourse. In fact, I am surprised that Seymour and Plunket were able to control their urges to indulge in a few sexist slurs of their own with regard to the Green MP.
It is not just the alt-Right/white extremist extremes that voice such views. Perusal of the comments pages of supposedly Right-Centre blogs regularly turns up variations on misogynist themes in spite of attempts at “moderation,” and Plunket is not the only prominent media commentator who gets to indulge, even if in “wink-wink, nudge-nudge” fashion, a few jabs at females in order to make a point about weakness versus strength (which almost inevitably such opinionating comes down to).
Of course, many if not most women in positions of authority are the subject of misogynist attacks. Equivocators for Seymour like Paula Bennett (now calling for the names of the Parliamentary rapists apparently mentioned in the report on Parliament’s toxic work environment) will try to draw false equivalences by saying that they too were the subject of sexualised attacks, conveniently forgetting that people like Bennett are attacked because of their hypocrisy and nasty policy positions more so than being female per se, and are not in need of security protection an any event. Fellows like Seymour and Plunket will claim that they have (had) plenty of female friends and partners so they cannot possibly be misogynists. This omits one basic thing: the attacks on Ms. Ghahraman are based on who/what she is more so than anything that she does, so regardless of the marital status or physiology of the critic, such attacks are gendered at their core. Even Judith Collins knows that much.
The real issue is that deep inside the abuse of Ms. Ghahraman lies male insecurity–that of sexual rejection and a loss of masculinity. People like Seymour hate women like Ghahraman because they cannot have her and never will, which they fear is a public sign of weakness on their part. This frustrates them immensely, and because they have neither the intellect, looks or social skills to attract such women, that frustration has no place to go other than onanistic rage. Beneath the smirks and the boy’s banter is a deep abiding fear of not measuring up.
That, more than any ideological difference, is what is at play here. So the next time that you hear or read attacks on Ms. Ghahraman and women like her, take a moment to reflect on why, exactly, critics take issue with them. |
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There are more than 250 species of monkey in the world, ranging in size from the Pigmy Marmoset at 15 cm to the Mandril at almost a meter in height. There is still some confusion as to the definition of the monkey and ape and differing categorisations are used by different organisations.Monkeys have provided endless hours of fascination for guests on safari in Africa, what with their mischievous and at times almost human-like habits. They are certainly great entertainers but they can also be a nuisance when associating humans with food.Stories of monkeys becoming a problem around lodges and campsites in Africa are common with kitchens and tents been raided for food. Once a problem starts with monkeys in an area it is virtually impossible to stop as the trait is passed down with each generation.Possibly the most widespread Monkey in Africa is the Vervet Monkey, also learn more about the Samango Monkey
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Russian: a step back, then a step forward
Today, I thought I ordered a mushroom blini. The woman was confused when I first spoke, then seemed to know exactly what I was saying after I repeated myself. She then presented me with a salmon blini.
This made me sad and frustrated.
I was ordering a blini for lunch because I was attending a Russian Conversation Group meeting at that cafe. So, I swallowed my hopelessness and proceeded to converse with 3 other ladies about life, children, moving, living abroad etc for two hours almost entirely in Russian. I understood everything everyone else said, and I was able to participate about as hesitantly as simply (vocab-wise) as any of the other non-native speakers. The lady who organizes the meetings corrected my frequent errors, but they were mostly in using the wrong case, not using the wrong word or outlandish grammar. [btw - why is it when my brain knows EXACTLY how to say a word, what case it should be in and even remembers what the ending is for that case/gender/etc I still blurt out the wrong thing?]
The lady who organizes the meeting also explained what happened with my order. No, грибы (mushrooms) doesn't sound anything like лосось (salmon) but sure sounds a lot like рыбы (fish) especially when I inappropriately stressed the first syllable instead of the second. Whew!
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Nineteen years ago yesterday, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. Friday, August 13th, 1993.
Last year, I wrote about the memories of my diagnosis. I also wrote about getting cupcakes with my family to celebrate. And my mom shared her thoughts and memories.
This year, I planned on celebrating as well. But then Friday looked like this:
And Saturday looked like this:
It didn't matter how much I bolused, with multiple sets, syringes, and new insulin, those blood sugars would not budge for hours.
Saturday night, I had a bit of a meltdown. Enough already! I balled my eyes out, and called my mom. I hate this stupid disease! I don't want it anymore. I'm done!
My sugars are back down to earth now, but I was still dreading yesterday. I didn't want to celebrate, I didn't want to acknowledge my diaversary at all.
I was so very angry at diabetes, and wanted to ignore it. But someone (ahem, Sara) tweeted that it was my diaversary. And my twitter stream was flooded with well wishes and congratulations.
And you know what? It helped. It helped a lot. Because I knew these weren't empty wishes. They were sincere, from people who know exactly what it feels like. Who've felt the anger and frustration that I was feeling. People who get it. And that means a lot.
My mom also got me a diaversary card. Well, a congratulations card, since they don't make "happy diaversary" cards. And I went to dinner with Scott, Babs, Bob, and Charli. More people who get it.
So thank you, DOC, for reminding me what's important. That I am never alone. And that diabetes doesn't get to steal my joy.
1. I'm glad the day turned around for you, Jess! I'm going with "ninja carbs in the breakfast burritos" to explain away Saturday... :)
2. Darn right it doesn't get to steal your joy! Wonky blood sugars, who cares - you made it through 19 years with the D along for the ride! That's worth celebrating any old day. Happy Diaversary Jess!
3. Your post made me tear up, in a good way.
4. I forgot our diaveraries were so close. Mine is tomorrow. 16 years...means I've now lived with D twice as long as I did without it. Crazy. Glad your day turned out alright in the end! Welcome to another new year!
5. It's important to recognize being alive with diabetes. As morbid as that may sound. You deserve to celebrate no matter what.
6. Yay for the DOC! Always comes through when it's needed most, doesn't it?
And happy diaversary again. I'll be right behind you in December. :)
7. You are super brave. Congratulations for doing what you've had to do to stay alive for 19 years. I don't know where'd I be if I never would have met you!
8. So glad your day turned around...totally what the DOC is all about!
9. Reason number 6043 why I love the DOC! Happy Diaversary friend! I hope those mountains settle into nice rolling hills. Love you!
10. You live in Kansas where there are no mountains - well, except on your CGMS...
I'm so glad your day improved!
You have a great mom...
11. This post made me so happy!!!!! Congrats on 19 healthy years...here's to many, many, many more!!! CHEERS!
12. The DOC means never celebrating your diaversary alone ;)
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PhoneLink1 App
Project number: 167 (number in database).
Original project name: PhoneLink1 App.
Development type or programming language: Pascal.
Platform designed for/with: Mac.
Year of most recent major modification: 1990.
This Turbo Pascal program was created for the University's phone operators to give them quick access to information on any of the University's thousands of phones very quickly. I had to use a few low-level bit manipulation tricks to get it running fast on an LC. It also uses low-level Appletalk routines to send messages between computers
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79628 | The Kira Nichols Etsy Shop
Still ill, no crafts to share :(
To my dismay, I'm sicker still than yesterday. It's that kind of bug that not only leaves you feeling cruddy, but also uninspired and lazy. So I've got nothing crafty for you today. Instead an old photograph of my dad's cousin most likely taken in the 1950's. I want that outfit.
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MafiosaGrrl said...
ha! that is a great photo, must have been for a school play, maybe? thanks for your comment on my blog, I would love to share your pics on snapshot friday! my e-mail is Let me know the story behind them too, it'll be fun to have a guest blogger!
Feel better soon!
xoxo Jacquie
AlwaysInspired said...
Hope you feel better soon! I just got over some cruddy stuff too! I hate feeling uninspired! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79637 | The magic of the temples of Angkor are almost beyond imagination.
I met many people on my travels who have claimed to be “templed out” – tired of seeing one similar looking temple after another. I always ask them if they have been to Angkor, as the quality of temples here truly eclipses anything else I have seen or heard about. Angkor’s temples have been classically described as:
“…a rival to that of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo …grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome, and presents a sad contrast to the state of barbarism in which the nation is now plunged.” (Henri Mouhot)
The rediscovery of the temples was thanks in most part to western explorers who found many of the number deep within the jungles of the 18th century. Most had given themselves over to nature and took many years to be returned to glory, a task that is still ongoing. One temple was left in its original condition and this wondrous structure has multiple trees growing out of the roof!
Cambodia is a Buddhist country, one of the main Theravada Buddhism countries in the world. However, the Angkor temples were all at first constructed as Hindu sites (mainly worshiping Vishnu) and later converted to Buddhism when the empire faded. This means that the experience of walking around them is one of visiting an ancient and lost religion. All the Hindu art on the walls, and there is much, comes across as dead. This feeling was later thrown into sharp relief when visiting India, as there it is the other way around. There the Hindu’s have supplanted the Buddhists and it is Hinduism that is practiced and vibrant.
Mostly the walls depict religious teachings in the form of the Hindu epics. Vishnu has come to Earth a number of times in the guise of “Avatars” and the stories of these visits are one of the main forms of Hindu knowledge. Many walls tell the story of one such incarnation; Krishna, who fought in a large war and was a genius lover. Others tell the Hindu creation of the world story, which has demons and gods pulling a large snake wrapped around a mountain and churning the “Sea of Milk” to create life.
This film was one of the harder to turn into a Special Edition. A lot of the footage is shaky and nothing can fix that. However, I have done my best to fix the problems. I also totally recut the film to more smoothly transition. I also did the classic HD upgrade and colouring.
Hope you like it. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79640 | What’s In A Name?
He wanted to know when he would be a “Smith.” That’s how the conversation started, with Nicholas asking when he was going to be a “Smith” like the rest of us. William and I started having conversations about him adopting Nicholas before we even got married. We went back and forth mostly because we were under the false impression that N would lose his survivor’s benefits from Social Security if William adopted him. And then I got pregnant with Tobin and the conversations became more frequent and serious.
When we started talking with each other and Nicholas about what Tobin’s name would be, N was slightly confused about T’s last name. When it clicked for him that T’s last name would be the same as William’s and the same as part of mine, he asked, “When will I get to be a Smith?” We didn’t really have an answer for him.
We also hesitated to start the adoption process because of Mark’s father. No matter the logical reasons for the adoption, I worried that Grandpa would think we were trying to erase Mark’s status as N’s biological father.
Once we cleared up that N would not, in fact, lose his SS benefits, we started the process of adoption. It took a lot of resources (time, effort and financial) on our part. In fact, I was quite surprised by how much we had to do to get the adoption done (thank goodness we had a good lawyer!) It seems like William shouldn’t have to have another background check for the rest of his life since he’s now had both state and federal.
The most intimidating part of the process (besides the paperwork I’m now doing to get N’s name legally changed) was the home visit from the Social Worker. Before she did her home study, she sent us reference forms. We had to get references from both family and non-family members. Everyone had to fill out a four page form talking about what kind of parent William would be (the answer, of course, is that he would be a good one). We’re so grateful for the time our friends and family took to fill those out and get them back to the Social Worker. We prepped N for the Social Worker’s visit because we didn’t want him freaked out that a stranger came to our home and started asking a bunch of questions. It was an incredibly surreal couple of hours, having someone come in to your home for the sole purpose of judging you. I had to stop myself from saying, “Stop judging us!” because I thought it would be funny. But you shouldn’t use your time with the Social Worker as funny time. Except for N who had the Social Worker completely cracking up. Any time I feel bad about my parenting, I will read the Social Worker’s report. When someone who sees bad parenting and kids who have had bad parents everyday says that you are a good one? That’s good. Plus, it’s nice to have evidence for when the boys are teens and say that we’re bad parents.
The last major hurdle we had was telling Mark’s father. We left the task until the adoption was almost complete. There was no reason for keeping it so long except that I worried that he would be worried/sad/upset. And he was. And probably still is, but I’m hoping to work on that some more.
So, after months of work and conversation and worry and anticipation we went in front of a judge for 3 minutes and that was it. And then we took a picture and now he’s got “Smith” in his name.
Please allow me to introduce the Smith/Carr-Smith/Deer-Smith family (and our Judge). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79665 | The book The Progress Principe provides compelling evidence for the motivational impact of experiencing progress in meaningful work (read an introduction to the book here). The book shows how positive events on workdays contribute to a positive work experience and to a better performance. Workday events that positively impact experience and performance are the experience of progress in meaningful work, catalysts (events that directly help performance) and nourishers (interpersonal events that uplift people doing the work). Workday events that negatively impact experience are the experience of regress/setbacks, inhibitors (the opposite of catalysts) and toxins (the opposite of nourishers).
The book contains a figure which beautifully illustrates how the relative impact of these factors is:
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Friday, December 27, 2019
Using the L-to-L Drill to Beat a Chicken Wing (Video)
Ryan left a comment on yesterday's post with Annabel Rolley's extension drill. He wondered how a chicken wing would affect her drill, so this repost of an older (and very important) post about the L-to-L drill is a further look at how to deal with a chicken wing, as well as giving you another drill that can help improve extension through the shot. I'll add a few extra notes at the end of this post.
The late Jim Flick was well respected in the golf community. He was one of those teachers who seemed able to help almost anybody because he used such simple images to teach the basics.
In his book Jim Flick on Golf he gave a very simple explanation of how to use your hands and arms in a golf swing to create speed. I bet you've heard this explanation before but I'd also bet you didn't really understand it. Let's see if we can change that today. Here's how Jim put it in his book:
There are actually two pendulums at work. The first is formed by the hands and wrists cocking, uncocking, and recocking. The second is created by the forearms and upper arms swinging from the shoulder sockets.
My former colleague from Golf Digest school days Peter Kostis called them the first swing and the second swing. I think of them as two pendulums.
What permits the two pendulums to work together is the combination of the weight in club head, centrifugal force, the good old law of gravity -- and the golfer. These pendulums supply about 80 percent of the distance in your golf shot -- provided the swinging elements of your body drive the turning elements and not vice versa.
If your grip pressure is too tight, the weight at the end of the club is restricted from doing its job.
If you try consciously to turn your shoulders and shift your weight, you destroy the natural harmony of those two pendulums.
If you try to accelerate at impact and follow through, well, you know what happens there. [NOTE: This is a reference to an earlier section in the book. If you TRY to accelerate, you interfere with the natural motion and actually lose clubhead speed.]
But if your posture is good, and your grip pressure -- fingers secure, arms relaxed -- is correct, you give those two pendulums a chance to work in harmony. (p58-59)
Alright, the two pendulums are the one stretching from the clubhead to your hands, and the one from your wrists to your shoulder joints. Your wrist joins the two of them together, and act as the pivot point. When your wrists are fully cocked, the clubhead-to-hands-to-shoulder-joints stretch looks like an L shape.
No doubt you've heard of an 'L-to-L' swing. It's a common way to learn pitching technique. You swing your hands back to waist high (an L with the club shaft pointing straight up), then they straighten out as the clubhead hits the ball, and finally they form another L in the followthrough (again, with the shaft pointing straight up). Here's Mike Malaska, who worked closely with Jim, demonstrating how this works.
Please note that Mike isn't trying to drive his lower body when he does this. The club's motion pulls his upper body around, and then his upper body pulls his lower body around. As you gradually get out to a full swing you'll start to use your legs more, but it'll be a very natural leg drive -- you won't be thrashing at the ball. (Mike refers to this added drive late in the video when he mentions "using the ground.")
Let me anticipate a question here: When you do this drill at waist high, your wrists will cock as your hands slow down at waist high. When you make this move in a full swing, your wrists will cock as your hands slow down near the end of your swing. It's the change of direction that creates the wrist cock. Got it?
Okay, here's a bonus video with Malaska teaching you how to use the L-to-L drill to learn shot shaping. I bet A LOT of you will be working with this one!
Using the L-to-L drill will help your swing in so many ways, including improved balance, better footwork and weight shift, and eventually longer distance for less effort. This is a post you'll want to bookmark in your browser and come back to again and again.
Additional notes on 12/27/19:
Because the L-to-L drill uses a shorter swing than Annabel's drill, it's much easier to maintain the connection between upper arm and upper body during your swing, especially during the followthrough. If you try this drill with a glove or a club head cover held between them, as Annabel does in her drill, you'll find it's much easier to keep it from dropping out too early... and that will eliminate the chicken wing.
If you use Flick's image to explain Annabel's drill, you can say extension happens when the two pendulums form a straight line with each other, with the head of the club being as far away from your chest as you can get it. But using the L-to-L drill also makes it easier to keep 'soft arms' during the swing, which helps you create more clubhead speed because you don't tense up.
The great thing about the L-to-L drill -- and the reason that I keep recommending it in different posts -- is because it helps you improve so many aspects of your swing all at once, without having to focus on each of those aspects individually. Fixing a chicken wing is just one of them. But adding the head cover under your lead arm can improve this drill's efficiency at getting rid of that flaw.
Hope this helps, Ryan.
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Secret Warcraft Podcast #5
Remote Auction House, Pipeline of the Day, Darkmoon Faire Revisited
Return of the Podcast edition of Secret Warcraft, Jonathan Kenins is joined by new co-host Jeff Lineman, as we discuss Remote Auction House (which looks like a winner!) in Secret Warcraft Podcast Episode #5 (running time 42:40).
• Blizzard’s new Remote Auction House service
• Pipeline of the Day: Frozen and Runed Orbs
• Latest updates on Darkmoon Faire
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79716 | .Net Core
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You need the following components to complete this walkthrough:
• Visual Studio 2010.
• Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010.
All of the Silverlight software is available from the Silverlight download site.
To create a Silverlight project
1. Create a new Silverlight Application project named HelloSilverlight in Visual Basic or Visual C#. Clear the Host the Silverlight application in a new Web site check box. For more information, see How to: Create a New Silverlight Project.
2. Open Solution Explorer and notice that there are App.xaml and a MainPage.xaml files.
App.xaml allows you to specify resources and code that applies to the entire application. MainPage.xaml defines a page, similar to a page in a Web site.
3. In Solution Explorer, expand the MainPage.xaml node.
MainPage.xaml.vb or MainPage.xaml.cs is the code-behind file that you write your managed code. This model is similar to one used in ASP.NET.
4. If MainPage.xaml is not already open, double-click it in Solution Explorer.
In the center of Visual Studio, you should see a white rectangular area. This area is called Design view. You can drag controls from the Toolbox and position elements to create your layout.
Visual Studio provides several options and windows to visually create your application. This section shows you how to start customizing your application by setting the background color using the Properties window and XAML view.
To set the background color
1. Click the white rectangular area in Design view to select the Grid element.
By default, Silverlight projects include a Grid.
2. In the Properties window, find the Background property.
3. In the second column, click the down arrow to open the color picker.
1. Use the various controls to select a color.
Design view updates with the new color.
You can also set the background color manually in XAML view. XAML is an XML-based declarative language that you use to define your user interface (UI). For more information about XAML, see XAML Overview.
2. In XAML view, find the Grid element.
3. In the Grid start tag, change the Background color by typing another color.
As you type, you should see an IntelliSense window with a list of colors to choose. When you specify a color, Design view updates with the new color.
Grid allows you to create a table-type layout similar to a table in HTML. This section describes how to create a Grid layout.
To define the Grid layout
1. Make sure the Grid is still selected.
2. In the Properties window, find the ShowGridLines property.
3. In the second column, add a check mark to enable this property.
In XAML view, notice that that the ShowGridLines property for the Grid is set to True.
<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Beige" ShowGridLines="True">
This property specifies to add lines to identify rows and columns in the Grid. This is a useful debugging feature when you are creating Grid layouts.
4. Move your mouse pointer along the left or top edge of the Grid in Design view.
The left and top edges are called grid rails. Your mouse pointer changes to cross hairs and a horizontal or a vertical line appears.
5.Click the left grid rail to add a horizontal gridline
6.Drag the gridline so that it is about 45 units from the top.The position appears as a number in the grid rail
7.Add another horizontal gridline about 45 units from the bottom.
9.Press F5 or click the Start Debugging toolbar button to run the application.
has several controls to help you display data and get input from the user. This section describes how to add TextBlockTextBoxStackPanelCalendar, and Button controls to yourGrid layout.
To add controls
1. Open the Toolbox window if it is not already open.
Silverlight XAML controls in the Toolbox
2. From the Toolbox, drag a TextBlock control to the first row and first column of the Grid.
The following markup is added to XAML view.
<TextBlock Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,12,0,0"
Name="textBlock1" VerticalAlignment="Top" />
3. Drag another TextBlock control to the second row and first column.
4. Drag a TextBox control to the first row and second column.
5. Drag a StackPanel control to the second row and second column.
StackPanel is a useful control to stack elements vertically or horizontally. In the Grid cell below the TextBox, you will stack two controls vertically.
6. Right-click the StackPanel, click Reset Layout, and then click All.
The StackPanel fills the grid cell. The All command removes all of the absolute size and position settings.
7. Drag a Calendar control to within the StackPanel element.
When you add the Calendar control, notice that the tag name in XAML view is slightly different than the other controls. It is prefixed with sdk:. The Calendar control is not part of the core Silverlight controls and is implemented in a different assembly. The Calendar control is part of the Silverlight SDK. To use the Silverlight SDK controls, you must add an XML namespace and a reference to the assembly. When you drag a Silverlight SDK control to Design view or XAML view, an XML namespace is added automatically at the top of the MainPage.xaml file in the <UserControl> tag. As can be seen in the following markup, the sdk namespace uses a specific URI as described in Prefixes and Mappings for Silverlight Libraries.
<UserControl xmlns:sdk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/sdk"
For more information about the Silverlight SDK and the controls in the Silverlight SDK, see Silverlight Tools and Controls by Function.
8. Drag a TextBlock control just under the Calendar control, but within the StackPanel.
9. Drag a Button control to the third row and second column of the Grid.
10. Run the application.
You can type text in the TextBox, you can select dates in the Calendar, but the Button does not do anything because code has not been added yet.
Each control has events that enable you to respond to actions from the user. You create a method, called an event handler, to handle the event. To access controls and other elements programmatically, the elements have to be named. Previously in this walkthrough, you set the Name property for most of the controls you added to the application. This section describes how to create an event handler and add logic in the code-behind file.
To create an event handler
1. Select the Button.
2. At the top of the Properties window, click the Events tab.
All of the events for the Button are listed.
Events tab
3. Double-click the Click event.
A default event handler for the Button is created. MainPage.xaml.vb or MainPage.xaml.cs is opened and the cursor is positioned in the okButton_Click event handler.
4. Add the following code to the okButton_Click event handler.
private void okButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
string dateString;
if (cal1.SelectedDate == null)
dateString = "<date not selected>";
dateString = cal1.SelectedDate.ToString();
message1.Text = "Hi " + name1.Text + "\n" +
"Selected Date: " + dateString;
5.On the File menu, click Save All
6.Run the application
7.Type your name in the name box, select a date in the Calendar, and then click OK.
1. Your name and selected date are displayed. Dynamic layout in browsercd
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79720 | Saturday, July 16, 2011
Wild as We Want To Be
What started out as an innocent trip for post-dinner ice cream spiraled quickly downhill.
I should have seen it as the omen that it was when we loaded up Calvin in his boxer shorts, Ruby in hot pink spandex bike shorts and Silas with no shoes.
2 minutes into the trip, Ruby told a hiney joke. I could hear her in the back seat, reveling in Calvin's hysterical laughter. I could tell it was just a matter of time before she upped the ante. She upped it, alright. She started her joke and then dropped her tone to a loud whisper for "bottom". Homegirl has the market cornered on potty humor. And it's win-win for Calvin, who gets to belly-laugh and then immediately tattle.
Up in the front of our sexy mini van, Cory and I listened to Alanis Morisette, circa Jagged Little Pill. Took me right back. Took us both back. I wonder about Alanis - if she's happy in the world somewhere. I hope so, because I like her. Her Forgiven lyrics are pure genius.
A few minutes later, Calvin shouts from the back seat, "Ruby's pretending to smoke!" I say, "Ruby?" she responds, "I'm pretending to smoke! With this sucker stick!"
"We don't pretend to smoke, yada yada, put the sucker stick down."
Then Cory says to me, real quiet-like, "I always used to pretend to smoke." and I say, "Oh yeah, me too. We would secretly buy those candy cigarettes."
Candy cigarettes! Whose brilliant idea were those?
Ice cream went off mostly without a hitch.
Then I had to grab grape tomatoes at the grocery store and I'm just gonna put it out there: I bought a 4-pack of Wild Berry wine coolers. On sale.
Here's the thing about me and drinking: I do it, once in a while. I was raised with the mentality that if someone smoked or drank a beer, they were not going to Heaven. It probably wasn't worded exactly that way, but that's how I processed it.
So I never smoked (at least not for real) and I never drank. Ever. And I went about my merry way, thinking that people who did those things needed Jesus and being so proud of myself that I was strong enough to resist. And all the while, I could have been concerning myself with things like my own personal greed or selfishness or - duh - pride.
Then I grew up and I started to dig around for the truth about things and I started to love Jesus more and I started to have a margarita, once in a while.
I'm so controversial.
Back at the home-front, I picked beans and bedtime for Calvin and Ruby turned into running in the sprinkler just for the heck of it. No soup for you, bedtime! When it's 87 degrees at 8:30, you probably just need to run in the sprinkler one more time.
The evening of our undoing ended with two naked kids running willy nilly through the house, in hot pursuit of pajamas, to the tune of Ruby's newest song, involving a rocket potty, whatever that is.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79721 | Tuesday, September 4, 2012
One Stop Self-Esteem Boost
In high school I was generally ambivalent about my looks. I'd taken inventory. I wasn't thrilled, but it was futile to sweat it. I was all elbows and forehead, not a curve to be found. My hair was flat. I wasn't coordinated enough to roller-skate, whistle, or do a proper cartwheel, much less play a sport.
It was mostly alright with me.
But those days would come around, the ones where I'd feel certain that I was a hopeless case. I'd pray for a make-over. I'd sneak glances at the skinny alto over on the second riser and wish for her, uh, "curves". I'd pray that the phone would just ring, dangit.
And then I'd pull this puppy out and and magically, the situation didn't seem quite so bleak.
Have mercy, this poor 7th grader, with her shoulder-padded mock-neck (my mom's) and the Ogilvie home perm. My locket is backwards. If memory serves me, my mom let me spritz a little White Shoulders on for the occasion. (FYI, White Shoulders is not the boyfriend-magnet you might imagine...)
I practiced smiles in the mirror and this was the hands-down winner. If you want to copy-cat it, just roll your upper lip all the way under to bare your gums and stretch your cheeks back to expose your molars. (Not sure what to tell you about the missing eye-tooth.)
Maybe I'd never be the Homecoming Queen, but progress had been made.
Twenty-five years later, the picture still helps on a rough day, if I'm being honest. Also, it makes Cory snort and then very patronizingly say, "Oh, Honey..."
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79727 | Special Needs Student Resume 2014 Update
Thursday, July 24, 2014
I knew when I wrote my original Getting To Know You: Special Needs Student Resume post that I would need to revise it as the years went by, because our kids have this sneaky habit of growing up and changing on us.
So here we are again, staring down the start of a new school year. Most of us are have a shiny new pile of fears about how our kids will handle the transition to new schools, new teachers, new aids, new therapists, new classmates. Heck, I wasn't sure how mine would handle needing a new backpack (pause to thank the Powers That Be for Angry Birds Star Wars)!
Each year we face the daunting task of communicating who they are and what they need to new instructors, plus updating familiar staff on how their needs have changed. But we accept the challenge because we want everyone in their lives to understand what wonderful people they are, and what they need to thrive.
For our part, my older son is moving from his Gen Ed placement with a 1:1 to an outplacement at a school with a dedicated curriculum for autistic students, which we are both happy and sad about, for all the predictable reasons. And we're in EI transition planning with my younger son, which means moving him into the district in which my older son has been crashing and burning. So no worries there, right? He'll be getting his own version of this resume just in time for the dreaded 3rd birthday.
All of this is why I developed the special needs student resume. And why I decided to share it with all y'all. And since I get most folks would rather chew off their own arm than write a resume, why I also created a free template to make it faster and easier to make your own.
Go forth and advocate!
View and download a PDF of this 3 page sample special needs student resume (1st Grade)
View and download a PDF of a 2 page sample special needs student resume (Kindergarten)
Download a dotx Word template for creating a Special Needs Student Resume
I pinned this post to my Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder board.
"Introduce your Special Needs child to school staff with free student resume template by @ShesAlwaysWrite - http://bit.ly/1rdzCPd #Autism" Tweet this!
1. Thank you, pinned to my 2e Children board!
2. I hope you don't mind if I borrow this idea to create a resume or business card for my daughter. She does not have autism but has a condition called hydrocephalus. It get so tiring explaining the condition and it's "side effects" over and over again. This sure would save me time and frustration. Thanks!
1. Not at all! I shared this idea for any and all parents of special needs kids to adapt as necessary - I think we all share the frustration of needing to constantly re-explain their needs. The sample and template are a bit focused on autistic characteristics because that's all I know, but you can obviously change at will. I've actually been thinking of a longer term project to develop templates that address the specific needs a variety of challenges, so I appreciate your feedback!
If you're looking for something a little more compact to pass out, you might want to take a quick look at this postcard template I created for wandering awareness that includes a list of "symptoms." If you need something quick and simple to explain key challenges, it could easily be adapted to that. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79745 | SPAG Specifics: The Writer Will Do Something
Whenever I read the seemingly unkillable complaints about modern IF and its “uninteractivity,” I’m plagued with flashbacks to 1998. (Boy, I hated 1998. I had helmet hair.) 1998 was the year of Photopia, a near-universally acclaimed work of interactive fiction in which nothing you do will derail the crushing inevitability of the plot one inch, which is of course the point. Two years later came Rameses, a more brutal, polarizing sort of work, and its detractors delighted in pointing out that you can type WAIT dozens of times and let the narrative shuffle you listlessly through the motions without any intervention or initiative on your part — not that much could pierce through your inner defeated stubbornness. Which is, of course, also the point. To many of you I’m recapping oft-recapped history, surveying the long-dried battlefields of flame wars better off forgotten; and yet “uninteractivity’’ keeps appearing fresh, always an accusation of ineptitude and accidental failure, never deliberate or a deliberate point.
I was reminded of all this mess after reading Matthew S. Burns’ excruciatingly entertaining Twine piece The Writer Will Do Something. You’re employed by the AAA developer of ShatterGate, a Frankensteinally unwieldy shooter, as the lead writer of the latest sequel — a job you know you have no business doing. It isn’t imposter syndrome; you’ve neither played the previous games nor have any real intention to, and the current entry is a thicket of lore you can barely hack. You are as imposter as they come — and yet you’re no more an imposter than the rest of your team, a motley assortment of hopers, no-hopers, middle managers and babysitters talking and pacing through a morning meeting about the game’s inevitable prospects: “unambiguously catastrophic.” What follows are several hours of circling around cold opens, cinematic opens, Dark Souls, “visual quilts,” doodles on whiteboards, guns with swords on them – and absolutely no real progress.
Needless to say, most people with game dev experience are probably fighting off their own flashbacks, but you certainly don’t need that experience to appreciate the disaster. As someone who used to work on the production desk of newspapers, I felt a certain sad kinship with the poor harried audio tech who rushes in mid-meeting from Greenland – the nickname of the audio department, cold and distant: why can’t you tell <s>audio</s> copy about things that affect copy? (The audio tech, it should be noted, is female, which contributes to a certain subtext throughout the piece; while the PC’s gender is never mentioned, the way they’re continually talked over, around and past resonated with entirely too many stories from my female colleagues, not to mention myself.)
What The Writer Will Do Something isn’t, exactly, is fun. It’s funny, certainly – Burns is a good enough writer that it’s worth going through each path just to extract every last quip– and thoroughly polished, but it’s also an exercise in calculated frustration. None of your choices matter; the difference between a courageous action and a weaselly cop-out is entirely in the PC’s head. Keep your head down? Doesn’t matter. Stand up to your coworkers’ various haranguing? Doesn’t matter. Attempt the classic “fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, fuck you I’m out?” Nobody even pays attention. The story has three endings, all of which drop like (and are accompanied by) a horror-movie audio sting and none of which seem to have much correlation to anything you’ve said; I’ve gone through about a dozen times now and I’m still not convinced they’re not random. You quite literally cannot win. And it doesn’t take too much searching to find people’s complaints about this, which derail quite readily into complaints about Twine and interactivity in general.
Your first clue should be the overwhelming quality of the work, the snappiness of the writing, the polish of the design (I like to think it’s a little joke about the pecking order that the audio is particularly effective); this is not an amateur’s product. Your next clue, and really your last, should be the title: the writer will do something. Much like (again) Rameses, which devotes a significant portion of its runtime trapping the PC in a not-quite-two-sided conversation with his friend (“friend”) rhapsodizing about the free will the player consistently fails to have, Burns milks the game-dev arguments for every drop of comedy and dramatic irony and the choice-based medium itself for every drop of vicarious pain. Take one passage toward the middle of the game, after a couple protests have gone nowhere and after your boss delivers what sure looks like an ultimatum:
Your mind is a bright, glittery cascade of thoughts. Unfortunately, you’re not able to isolate or hold any single one of them. Everything in your head is water. Making a decision, in this room, has too many implications.
What follows is another choice point: three decisions, every implication and worry and possibility laid out in your head. The entire thing is over 500 words, and it’s rendered in text that scrolls faster than even the quickest reader can keep up with. As the prose goes on it gets steadily angrier, more earnest, closer to a grand statement – but you probably won’t get that far on your first playthrough, as before you can keep up, the screen advances to:
“I vote cold open,” says Shawn, before you can speak.
Mike nods. “Yep. Agreed. Cold open.”
Troy says, “Okay, done. Cold open. Next issue?”
(The final nail into the reader: everything in the story up to this point was about how sucky that cold open was. Wait, no, one more nail: the remainder of the story is… more discussion of the cold open. Ultimatum, my gunsword.)
It’s among the most maddening uses of macros I’ve encountered lately. It breaks most of the rules of player friendliness and accessibility and satisfaction that are endlessly hashed over in the plot; it undermines its own writing — the point of which is to get to be read, right? And yet it’s as much a setpiece as any elaborate puzzle or intricately designed object; it immerses the player totally and viscerally in a setting and feeling, in this case mind-searing bureaucratic frustration. In real life, that’d be, well, mind-searing; conveyed by fiction, it’s high praise.
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1. Senex
“…while the PC’s gender is never mentioned…”
There’s one sentence that sheds some light on the matter:
“Why did you ever want to make video games anyway? What adult would ever choose this life for herself?”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79764 | Jun 4, 2019: IR Photometric Repeatability (see ISR 2019-07)
Jan 25, 2019: Calibration of the WFC3-IR Count-rate Nonlinearity, Sub-percent Accuracy for a Factor of a Million in Flux (see ISR 2019-01, also see STAN)
Nov 8, 2018: Temporal and Spatial Variations in UVIS Photometry (see ISR 2018-16)
Jun 29, 2018: Color term transformations for UV filters (see ISR 2018-08, also see STAN)
Jun 15, 2017: An improved UVIS photometric calibration is now live in MAST . The image photometry reference table (IMPHTTAB=1681905hi_imp.fits) reverts back to the pre-2016 convention, where the PHOTFLAM values correspond to the infinite aperture. These new solutions and the chip-dependent throughput tables available via psynphot described in ISR 2016-07 are concordant. For more details, see ISR 2017-14
Current Photometric Calibration
WFC3/UVIS photometry is determined independently for each CCD based on data obtained between July 2009 and August 2015 for the three HST primary white dwarf standard stars, GD71, GD153 and G191B2B. Photometric quantities are computed using chip-dependent flat fields and filter-based encircled energy values for each filter+CCD.
Prior to February 2016, WFC3/UVIS photometric calibrations were based on a ‘monolithic field view’, following the ACS model. Flat fields were normalized to a single 100x100 pixel region on UVIS1. Encircled energy values for each filter were interpolated from the updated in-flight model (ISR 2009-38), and the inverse sensitivity values were computed by averaging results from the white dwarfs and the G-type standard stars.
WFC3/IR photometry has not changed since 2012.
Current estimates of the photometric uncertainties are:
UVIS: ~1% broad, 2% medium, 5-10% narrow, LP (1.3% statistical, 1.3% systematic)
IR: ~2% broad, 5-10% narrow (2% statistical, 2% systematic)
Spiral Galaxy M81
UVIS Photometric Calibration
UVIS Encircled Energy
IR Photometric Calibration
IR Encircled Energy
Frequently Asked Questions
Easiest: Retrieve the data from MAST to pick up the latest improvements. Less Easy: download the reference files from CRDS and reprocess the RAW files offline with a self consistent version of calwf3 and reference files.
Photometric Systems
The STmag and ABmag systems define an equivalent flux density for a source, corresponding to the flux density of a source of predefined spectral shape that would produce the observed count rate, and convert this equivalent flux to a magnitude. The conversion is chosen so that the magnitude in V corresponds roughly to that in the Johnson system.
In the STmag system, the flux density is expressed per unit wavelength, and the reference spectrum is flat in Fλ. An object with Fλ = 3.63 x 10-9 erg cm-2 s-1 Å-1 will have STmag=0 in every filter, and its zero point is 21.10.
STmag = -2.5 log Fλ -21.10
In the ABmag system, the flux density is expressed per unit frequency, and the reference spectrum is flat in Fν. Its zero point is 48.6.
ABmag = -2.5 log Fν - 48.6
ABmag = STmag - 5 log (PHOTPLAM) + 18.6921
where Fν is expressed in erg cm-2 s-1 Hz-1, and Fλ in erg cm-2 s-1 Å-1. An object with Fν = 3.63 x 10-20 erg cm-2 s-1 Hz-1 will have magnitude AB =0 in every filter.
Formally, the VEGAmag system is defined such that Vega (Alpha Lyra) by definition has magnitude 0 at all wavelengths. The magnitude of a star with flux F relative to Vega is
mvega= -2.5 log10 (F/Fvega)
where Fvega is the absolute CALSPEC flux of Vega; for photometry the fluxes must be averaged over the band pass. See Bohlin 2014 (AJ, 147,127, "Hubble Space Telescope CALSPEC Flux Standards: Sirius and Vega") for the equations that define the average flux.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79776 | Netweaver Gateway Development
how to implement Deep Insert in SAP backend OData service?
Deep Insert is used for creating an entity with deep data in an inlined we can send nested data to sap backend and we can update the data accordingly.For example Sales order and line item data.
In this tutorial we will create a flight in SCARR table and its corresponding flight schedules in SPFLI table using CREATE_DEEP_ENTITY method.We will use our flight service created in earlier tutorial.
1. Go to tcode SEGW .Now open our flight service and expand service artifacts node and find ****_DPC_EXT class and go to edit mode.Double click to open the class.
2. From inherited methods node find /IWBEP/IF_MGW_APPL_SRV_RUNTIME~CREATE_DEEP_ENTITY and right click and press redefine.
3. Paste below code inside CREATE_DEEP_ENTITY method.You must be familiar with the coding if you had a look at earlier tutorial.We create structure with inline data and assign incoming data to the structure.After that apply some logic and update the tables.
4. data lv_entityset_name type string.
data: begin of str_exp.
include type zcl_ztest_odata_01_mpc_ext=>ts_flight.
data: toflightschedules type zcl_ztest_odata_01_mpc_ext=>tt_flightschedule.
data: end of str_exp.
data: ls_deep like str_exp,
ls_schedule type zcl_ztest_odata_01_mpc=>ts_flightschedule.
data: wa_flight type scarr,
it_schedule type table of spfli.
lv_entityset_name = io_tech_request_context->get_entity_set_name( ).
case lv_entityset_name.
when 'FlightSet'.
io_data_provider->read_entry_data( importing es_data = ls_deep ).
wa_flight-carrid = ls_deep-carrid.
wa_flight-carrname = ls_deep-carrname.
wa_flight-currcode = ls_deep-currcode.
wa_flight-url = ls_deep-url.
loop at ls_deep-toflightschedules into ls_schedule.
append ls_schedule to it_schedule.
insert scarr from wa_flight.
if sy-subrc eq 0.
insert spfli from table it_schedule.
if sy-subrc eq 0.
copy_data_to_ref( exporting is_data = ls_deep
changing cr_data = er_deep_entity ).
5. Now we can test in gateway client( /IWFND/GW_CLIENT).Our service url look like this.http://<host>:<port>/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZTEST_ODATA_SRV_01/FlightSet('AC')?$expand=ToFlightSchedules.Press execute button.We will get output of flightschedules of flight with carrid AC.
6. Now press Use as Request button.Now we can see the details in left hand side.Now we will change the flight details to the details of the flight that has to be added to the backend.Iam changing it to details of flight with carrid AI.Change the url to http://<host>:<port>/sap/opu/odata/SAP/ZTEST_ODATA_SRV_01/FlightSet .Change the http method from get to post.and press execute button.If it was success you will see output like below screenshot.
Now you can check the tables SCARR and SPFLI.It will be updated with details of new flight AI.
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1. Its very helpfull thanks a lot :)
1. Thanks for the feedback.You are welcome.
2. Your work is not in vain. thank you very much.
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1. Hi Krzysztof,
Its is similar to create operation.Create opertaion.
The difference is only in the entry object.
sample code
onCreateDeep: function(oEvent) {
var oEntry = {
Carrid: "",
Carrname: "",
Currcode: "",
Url: "",
ToFlightSchedules: [{
Carrid: "",
Connid: "",
Countryfr: "",
Cityfrom: "",
Airpfrom: "",
Countryto: "",
Cityto: "",
Airpto: ""
var oModel = this.getView().getModel();
oModel.create("/FlightSet", oEntry, {
method: "POST",
success: function(data) {
error: function(e) {
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79796 | Sunday, August 3, 2008
Special Presentation: "The Day," A Novel From 12 Years Ago (Part 1)
So, while I was visiting my home, I was going through some old papers of mine, ranging from drawings to school report cards. Interestingly enough, I had no qualms getting rid of the report cards, certificates of achievement, and other things of that nature, but when it came to my crappy little drawings, I couldn't let go.
Well, one of the things I found in this pile of stuff was a printed manuscript of my very first attempt at a novel. Yes, well before I was actually publishing books, I was trying to make the great American novel. Truth be told, I actually remember (vaguely) writing this, sitting at my dad's computer, type-typing away at some blue-screened, DOS-based word editing program.
And I was nine at the time. I want to stress that before you read any more.
Well, I was so tickled by finding this that I decided to share it all with you. In the next four posts, I will be showing off my creation in its completion (which is to say, its nowhere-near-completion).
Marvel at my use of surnames like "Mrufoon"!
Laugh as I use jokes ripped, word-for-word, from The Simpsons!
Gasp at how minor characters literally throw themselves at certain death!
Cry at the fact that my main character's personalities are as fickle as a quark!
Now, I wanted to keep this as true to source material as possible. Meaning, it reads as though it were a terrible fan fiction. So, instead of transcribing the piece (which would have been painful in and of itself), I scanned it using Adobe's text-reading features. It's not perfect, but I tried to iron the mistakes. Unless, of course, the mistakes were supposed to be there. In which case, you can just imagine a giant "[sic]" at the end of each of these posts.
Remember, I was nine. Don't judge me.
And now, if you can keep from ripping out your eyes, enjoy!
The Day
By: Andrew D. Schnorr
On the rainy night of March 26,1979, a police officer had a strange feeling that something very bad was going to happen at the museum he was in. Something very bad did happen. And it happened without warning.
All of a sudden a red cloth the size of a human in the shape of a tube appeared out of nowhere. It turned into a man wearing a red cape, but he was not a superhero. He wore black, tight-fitting clothes (with the exception of his cape).He had razor sharp teeth. Half of his hair was shaped like spikes and the other half had a buzz cut. He had black and orange stripes painted across his face and his eyes glowed red. All the policemen stared at him in amazement, wonder, and horror. They all thought their heart had stopped beating, or skyrocketed to an extremely high beat. No earthy thing could have done that. And no earthly person could want that hairstyle.
"Time to grab the goodies,” he said in a regular human voice. Then he started breaking the glass cases, stealing small diamonds, and putting them into a large, leather bag. In not very long he had every diamond except for one and it was the biggest one. He looked very pleased that none of the policemen did not attack him but he did not look surprised. Just when he was about to break the glass case of the diamond the museum doors swung open and a bunch of policemen came running in. Two of them that were around 21 came in before the rest of them. When they almost got to him he threw two small leather bags on the floor. They quickly expanded into one big sand pile. Two huge hands made out of sand came out! It grabbed the two policemen, took them under the sand, and the sand shrunk and disappeared.
"I'm going to kill you!" A much older man yelled. He had a mad look on his face.
"Kill me? I...don’ You don't know who you’re dealing with. I am Mocknock, lord of all Econick. And you cannot defeat me." so said the man with the wild hairdo.
"OK Mr .Mocknock, the man who thinks he is so hot, C 'mon. Try me. I dare ya." the man said.
"Very well." Mocknock said. Something appeared out of nowhere; It looked like a titanium tube that was one foot long and two feet in diameter. It had a handle on one end and an opening on the other end. Inside the opening it was pitch black-"You chose your fate."
"And I chose it well!" the man yelled. He reached for his gun and was about to fire, but before he could Mocknock pushed a button on the handle of the thing and it sucked the gun inside of it!
"I see you are interested in my Suck-0-Matic," Mocknock said over the rumble of the vacuum-type tube. Then the man felt his feet move, but he was not moving them. He was being sucked into the Suck-0-Matic!
The man ran to the bathroom and shut the door behind him when he got inside, He locked the door and thought that he was safe, but then the door started rumbling, and popped out of its sockets! It flew into the Suck-0-Matic, and even though it was too big to get inside of it, it still went in and disappeared! The man stood in amazement for after the door disappeared the Suck-0-Matic devoured a seven foot tall lamp! And might I remind you the Suck-0-Matic tube was only one foot long!
But the man was not standing still anymore-He was being sucked up the Suck-0-Matic again! He held onto the doorframe to keep from getting sucked up. He held on as tight as he could. His shoes got sucked right off his feet! Then his socks, and then his ...
"All right! All right ! I give up. You have proven me wrong,” Mocknock said. The man calmed down. He let go of the doorframe. He still could not believe that he had beat this thing.
"Well.. ." he started to say, but before he could finish his sentence he heard only one single word.
"NOT!!!" Mocknock said. He quickly pushed the button on the handle of the Suck-0-Matic before the man could do anything about it. He was sucked into the Suck-0-Matic! Inside, it was like a slide that went nowhere.
"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!" the man screamed as he slid down the long slide. That was why everything that went into it disappeared. But the man did not worry about that now. He had his own problems.
"Well that is taken care of. I might as well finish the job,” Mocknock said. He squeezed the Suck-0-Matic so hard it began to shrink & shrink & shrink. Before long it had vanished. Then Mocknock headed for the big diamond again. But one policeman tried to stop him.
"Oh, no you don’t!” the policeman said as he jumped on Mocknock's back holding on by putting his arms around Mocknock's neck.
"Oh, yes I do ! " Mocknock said. Then he started changing in a way that no one could imagine. It looked like there was fire inside of him and that it was coming out of him. In a short while of time he looked like one big statue of hot coal.
"YEEOW!!!” the policeman yelled as he jumped off Mocknock's back. Mocknock headed for the case. He put his hand on the glass, and it went right through! Wherever he put his hand it melted the glass! He cooled off his body before he grabbed the diamond so it would not melt.
After Mocknock took the diamond he walked toward the wall. He grabbed both sides of his cape. A policeman ran at him, ready to ram Mocknock into the wall.
"Sorry, but I'm in a hurry." Mocknock said. He took his cape, whirled it around him, turned into the red tube of cloth, and disappeared. Instead of the policeman ramming Mocknock into the wall, he slammed into it himself.
The only thing that Mocknock did not know was that the two 21 year old cops that were dragged under the magic sand both had younger siblings. But they were not brothers themselves. And the older policeman who was sucked into the Suck-0-Matic was a father. The one policeman who jumped on Mocknock's back while he was becoming very hot knew what he had to do. He told 10 year old John Mrufoon, the son of the policeman who got sucked into the Suck-0-Matic, about his father's fate. He also told a 9 year old girl, Cindy Flaco, a sister of one of the 21 year old cops, about her brother's fate. And last but not least, a fairly dark skinned boy, 16 year old Zack Lecon, the brother of the other 21 year old, was told about his brother's fate.
All three of the kids had something in common. They were all going to have the biggest adventure they ever had.
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Anonymous said...
Ah, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers DOS. By what you described, it sounds like you were a WordStar user. However, Microsoft Word 6.0 had an option in which you could use a blue background with white font on the display. If your dad had Windows 3.0, 3.1 or 3.11 (Windows for Work Groups), it may have been that program.
It actually isn't too bad of a read, given the context that you wrote in when you were nine...Maybe you can tweak it up a bit in the future if you run out of ideas for novels.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79816 | Call it a win. Maybe.
Corpses of ogres littered the ground. No living ogre remained to trouble the elves, but no one doubted more would come in time. They could attend their own dead when they did. The village had been found and must be abandoned.
Gná’s hall was being occupied one last time, by the slain. The dead seated at the great table, cup and plate at hand. Fires sprang up from the other buildings. The hall would be the last set to burn. There would be nothing left of use to the next wave of invaders.
Jinsoku stood by Dave, watching helplessly as his small friend tried to pull off one last miracle. Had he time to think of it, Dave would surely have been amazed at the collection of elves lying or sitting about him. But he was oblivious to all but his current patient. He had his glove positioned over a chest wound and he punched buttons frantically.
“Initiate transfusion. Use my blood. I don’t care if it’s not a match, override, filter out any harmful elements.”
The glove started making a flat tone. Dave ripped it off and began CPR. He pumped at the elf’s chest. “One, two, three.” Then pressed his lips against hers, forcing air into her lungs. He did it again. Jinsoku could almost hear the litany in Dave’s mind. “One, two, three, breathe. One, two, three, breathe. One, two, three, breathe.”
Jinsoku watched for a bit, but finally pulled Dave away. “She’s gone, Gordon.”
“No.” Dave ripped away from his grasp.
“No, Gordon, her heart was pierced and she lost too much blood. Let her go.”
Dave turned to Jinsoku and beat him on the chest. Jinsoku was surprised at how much that hurt.
“Why did you bring me here?”
Jinsoku looked down, ashamed. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I thought you’d meet the queen, have a simple adventure or two, and then we would send you home. I never expected a war.
“But Gordon,” Jinsoku said, as he took Dave by the shoulders, “you couldn’t have saved her no matter what. You couldn’t have gotten to her any sooner and you couldn’t have made her wound any less serious. But you tried, that’s what’s important. You tried. And you did a lot of good here today. Better than I ever expected of you. You should be proud and if you carry anything away from here today, let it be pride.
“And now, Doctor, you need to get back to your patients.”
“Doctor?” Dave seemed perplexed.
Jinsoku whirled Dave about on his feet, facing the elves he’d rescued. “Fraid so, Dude. You’re probably the most powerful healer in the whole realm. Those injured in battle usually die. You’ve got ten or so patients that aren’t going to die, and most of them you would have saved, even if you didn’t have your toy scanner.”
Dave straightened. “You’re right. Outta my way. I have patients to attend to.”
Kid had a lot of confidence as long as he had someone to believe in him.
Hans had wandered off again, so Jinsoku left Dave to his patients and Za to destroying her home.
He found Hans seated on a log outside the palisade, almost watching as brush was being set up to torch it as well. He’d lost his sword and his robe was torn to ribbons. He was scratched and bleeding but had no serious wounds.
“Madison, are you all right?”
Hans glared at him. “What have you done to me, Hasaki?”
Jinsoku stopped short. He wasn’t expecting this reaction.
“What do you mean?” he asked.
“You’ve turned me into a killer. Those were people I killed today, Hasaki. They weren’t like you or me, but they weren’t monsters. No wolf men, no monster snakes, just, people. They had hopes and dreams of their own. They had wives, and children who are going to ask why daddy didn’t come home. And I killed them. I stabbed them and I cut them and beat them. I lost count. I saw the light go out in their eyes and shared the terror in their hearts as they died.”
Jinsoku sat next to him. “I taught you how to fight and survive a fight. It was kill or be killed and you lived through it. That you feel remorse is a good thing.
“You aren’t the killing machine, Madison. I am. I quit feeling sorry for my opponents long ago. I take some solace that I’ve never killed when I didn’t have to.”
Jinsoku took a deep breath. “War isn’t easy, my friend. It never should be. But we were defending and they were attacking. We had no choice. And in some twisted way, maybe they had none either. If there’s any sin, it belongs to whoever sent them here. Now let’s go back in. The enemy may still be about, and there’s no sense in taking chances.”
Copyright AndyOH! (Andrew F. Odendhal)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79827 | More than 500 nuclear power plants operate around the world. Close to 300 operate pressurized water reactors (PWRs), more than 100 are built with boiling-water reactors (BWRs), about 50 use gas-cooled reactors, and the rest are heavy-water reactors.
In addition a few fast breeder reactors are in operation. These reactors are built for better utilization of uranium fuel. The modern nuclear plant size varies from 100 to 1200 MW.
Pressurized Water Reactor
The general arrangement of a power plant with a PWR is shown in Fig. 59.8(A). The
Reactor heats the water from about 550 to about 650° F. High pressure, at about 2235 psi, prevents boiling.
Pressure is maintained by a pressurizer, and the water is circulated by a pump through a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger evaporates the feedwater and generates steam, which supplies a system similar to a conventional power plant.
The advantage of this two-loop system is the separation of the potentially radioactive reactor cooling fluid from the water-steam system. The reactor core consists of fuel and control rods. Grids hold both the control and fuel rods.
The fuel rods are inserted in the grid following a predetermined pattern. The fuel elements are Zircaloy-clad rods filled with UO 2 pellets. The control rods are made of silver (80%), cadmium (5%), and indium (15%) alloy protected by stainless steel.
The reactor operation is controlled by the position of the rods. In addition, control rods are used to shut down the reactor. The rods are released and fall in the core when emergency shutdown is required.
Cooling water enters the reactor from the bottom, flows through the core, and is heated by nuclear fission.
Boiling-Water Reactor
In the BWR shown in Fig. 59.8(B), the pressure is low, about 1000 psi. The nuclear reaction heats the water directly to evaporate it and produce wet steam at about 545°F.
The remaining water is recirculated and mixed with feedwater. The steam drives a turbine that typically rotates at 1800 rpm. The rest of the plant is similar to a conventional power plant.
A typical reactor arrangement is shown in Fig. 59.9. The figure shows all the major components of a reactor. The fuel and control rod assembly is located in the lower part.
The steam separators are above the core, and the steam dryers are at the top of the reactor. The reactor is enclosed by a concrete dome.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79828 | Phat & Fabulous - Week 1
Thank you to those of you who asked me how my 1st week went with WWOnline, tracking and exercising. Well, I started out tracking everything very well and then...we had that "going back to college" dinner where I stopped counting the glasses of sangria...and I didn't get back to it until Sunday.
I think the tracking is extrememly helpful and keeps you thinking before you open your mouth or reaching for junk. I also don't want to tell ya'll that I ate an entire day (or week) of calories/points in one sitting. Definitly helps me make better choices. Perhaps I should make better choices just because...it's a healthier choice...yet accountability & the fear of a few snickers works well too. LOL.
Even with my slacking off on tracking points...Drumroll...
I'm down 2.7 lbs. GO ME!!!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79834 | How To Read The Compact Universe
The Compact Universe
So you’re wondering how to read the series. I do have a handy page for that, but let’s lay it out here…
No Marigolds in the Promised LandBefore anything happens, there’s No Marigolds in the Promised Land. John Farno is a terraformer who was camping out in a rover the night the Gelt destroy Farigha, the first planet they invade. Only they leave the Mars-like world in ruins and wait almost a month to return. Meanwhile, Farno has to figure out how to survive when he’s literally the last human in the world, and the nearest human is 40 light years away.
Consider this Compact Universe #0. And it’s only available with a newsletter subscription.
“But what if I need another author newsletter like I need a hole in the head?”
Fear not. Because you can start with the Seeds of War Arc:
The Roots of War – Find out how it all began. From the Gelt’s point of view. Kai and Tishla run a colony of transported prisoners, but the climate destroys all their crops. Enter a mysterious man named Marq who comes bearing a root vegetable called a “potato.” Marq’s gift saves the colony for a while.
When potatoes fail, Marq and his Gelt associate Laral Jorl have a plan: Seems Marq’s species has two wayward colonies they’d like tamed. If Kai can tame them, he can have them. Kai agrees, only to learned this aliens called “hew-mans” aren’t rogue colonists. They’re the rightful land owners. Someone wants Kai’s Realm to go to war with a mysterious polity known as “The Compact.”
The Marilynists – Douglas Best has done something no one in the history of Jefivah, humanity’s oldest world outside Sol System, has ever done: Given it its own colonies. One in particular is called Marilyn, after the goddess of a Jefivan cult seeking credibility.
Only while clearing Marilyn of naval ordnance, seven clean fusion devices go missing, along with the ship carrying them. Best is on the hook for them, and the man who brokered the new colonies, the mysterious Mr. Luxhomme, is nowhere to be found. It’s only the cult to Marilyn Monroe who can save him from prison. But first, he has to agree to become their Prophet.
Gimme Shelter – JT Austin is the son of an admiral and a wealthy shipping heiress. And they’ve had enough with his running off, stealing money, and convincing women he’s much older than his fifteen years. So when they decide to send him to the venerable Virginia Military Institute, he runs away, hoping to make his fortune on Tian, the Compact’s wealthiest and most populated world. Instead, he winds up on Amargosa, under the suspicion of a local constable and warlord wannabe, in the eyes of a lusty farmer’s daughter…
And in the crosshairs of a coming alien invasion.
The Children of Amargosa
The Children of Amargosa – Childhood ends the night the sky explodes.
The Gelt have arrived on Amargosa, incinerating any human they find. JT Austin and Davra Andraste find themselves on separate journeys to find the resistance and take back the planet. Andraste will endure a nuclear blast, crawling through a tunnel, and fighting both Gelt and human alike to survive. JT and his girlfriend Lizzy find themselves drafted as soldiers into the resistance.
They meet up under the guidance of a legendary pilot most people know only as Suicide. It is fighting at along with Suicide that they discover the Gelt aren’t their biggest enemy. It’s actually a human warlord named Kray.
Broken Skies – Days after Amargosa falls, Admiral Quentin Austin leads an attack to take back the distant colony. It fails.
As he awaits trial, he’s assigned to find out about a mysterious company whose own parent company seems in the dark about. Called Juno, it was on Farigha before the Martian terraforming project was destroyed. It was on a colony called Gilead that is now not only in Gelt hands, but seems to have left the Gelt Realm as well. And Juno was on Amargosa in the weeks leading up to its fall.
Austin will travel from Earth to the wealthy Caliphate to the industrial hellscape that is Bromdar to find the truth. Eventually, it leads to the colony of Anacreon, where the Gelt tell him who the real enemy is.
Warped – Hideki Okada and Peter Lancaster have created warp drive only 500 years after Miguel Alcubierre said it was possible. Then they quit the Navy. But Okada finds himself drafted back to duty, as does his diminutive friend Lancaster. Together, they take the Compact’s first warp-powered warship, the Challenger, into combat.
Only the mission is something Okada just can’t live with. Especially having been born in Nagasaki. Even his Cybercommand overseer, O-3 Weiss, is suspicious. So do they carry out their mission of destruction? Or is something else going on?
Tishla – Kai’s widow Tishla accepts responsibility for the destruction of the world once known as GIlead. Now called Hanar, she uses her newly legitimized claim to offer the human survivors a choice: Build a new world with her and her people or, if they can’t accept that, kill her.
The humans take to the former concubine and begin the work of rebuilding. Only someone decides to shoot Tishla. And she’s not even the target.
Her unborn twins, upon whom her claim depends, are marked for murder.
Hell hath no fury like a mother on the warpath.
Second WaveSecond Wave – Book 2 of the Amargosa Trilogy
A fallen starship can turn the tide on Amargosa.
JT, Davra, Eric Yuwono, Connor Duffy, and Ellie Nardino accompany Suicide on a cross-country trek to reach a crashed starship, the Ban Ki-moon.
But they are menaced by Gelt soldiers, occasional Kray militia, and a pack of lycanths, wolf-like predators known for devouring livestock. Only these lycanths seem to be smarter than the usual scavengers.
Within their ranks, however, a greater danger lurks. Part of Suicide’s team includes five former Polygamy War criminals. For some, the old civil conflict never ended even if the cause is dead.
And a mysterious Gelt woman complicates things when JT takes her prisoner.
Coming in 2020: The Gathering Storm Arc: The AmortalsThe ExileFlight Blade, as well as Book 3 of the Amargosa Trilogy, Storming Amargosa. |
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1. Mircea Lungu, Adrian Kuhn, Tudor Gîrba, and Michele Lanza. Interactive Exploration of Semantic Clusters. In 3rd International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT 2005), p. 95—100, 2005. DOI PDF
Using visualization and exploration tools can be of great use for the understanding of a software system when only its source code is available. However, understanding a large software system by visualizing only its lower level artifacts (e.g., classes, methods) and the relations between them does not scale for industrial-size systems. To address the scalability issue, higher level hierarchical abstractions (e.g., package structure, clustered decompositions of the system) should be used together with relations between them that are usually aggregated from the lower level relations. In this paper, we present the concepts behind Softwarenaut, a tool aimed at exploring any kind of hierarchical decompositions of a system, and then we look at a specific exploration of a system. In the experiment, the hierarchical decomposition of the system is the result of applying a semantical clustering to group classes that use similar terms. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79844 | Hereditary Spherocytosis
Hereditary Spherocytosis is a rare inherited disorder, where the normally disc-shaped red blood cells become spherical. The rigid, misshapen red blood cell is trapped and destroyed in the person’s spleen, causing enlarged spleenHereditary Spherocytosis and anemia.
The anemia is generally mild, but can become more severe if an infection develops, when the Hereditary Spherocytosis is severe; anemia and jaundice can progress, the gallstones can form, and liver can enlarge. In young individuals, the hereditary spherocytosis can be mistaken for hepatitis.
Abnormalities of bone, such as extra toes and fingers, and a tower-shaped skull, may occur. Treatment for Hereditary Spherocytosis usually is not required, but severe anemia can require spleen removal. Such procedure does not correct red blood cell shape, but it reduces the number that is destroyed and thus corrects the anemia.
How Hereditary Spherocytosis Causes Anemia
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79888 | Writing Life
Welcome to my blog
Here you will find my blogs about writing and life.
By pauldodgson, Nov 4 2014 12:30PM
I am sitting in the café at Bristol Central library. I have just come down from the reference section to discover there has been a run on sandwiches and soup, so lunch is a flapjack and a cup of tea. I am wearing headphones and listening to BBC Radio 4 via my iPhone. There is a big row on The Archers as David and Ruth explain to the family the possibility of selling Brookfield farm. That’s appropriate, explains the announcer afterwards, as the Afternoon Drama is about home and what it means when you might lose it. Then the play begins and I hear my own words and my own voice in my ears while watching people smearing butter on teacakes. Then I close my eyes. This drama is very personal, telling the story of my childhood home and my mother getting older. I am in it too, playing myself in scenes and narrating the whole thing. It is better with my eyes closed.
I have had a lot of plays on the radio, but hearing them going out on air still gives me a thrill. I am listening to words I know intimately, words I have lingered over late at night, changed and changed back again. Then there was the recording; two days at the BBC in Cardiff with actors pretending to be my mum and dad. Right now, in my head, I am absolutely the centre of attention, but no-one else here knows or cares, which is much like being an only child, one of the themes of the play. Audience research tells me there are more than 800,000 listeners to the Afternoon Drama. That’s everyone at Glastonbury Festival nearly seven times over. Imagine all those people in one place. Yet in a country of over 64 million inhabitants, listeners are spread thinly among the population.
When my last play was broadcast I sat in the car by the Chew Valley Lake in North Somerset. I had my daughter with me and we both sat looking over the reed beds to the water and the Mendip Hills beyond. It felt like an occasion, something important, but I have another two theatre plays to deliver on Friday, which is why I am here, alone. I am certain that I am the only person listening to this play in the building right now. Everyone else is having meetings, reading books, drinking tea or keeping out of the rain. But here, between my ears, it feels like a first night as the play gathers pace and I know that there will be listeners spaced between the Scottish Highlands and The Scilly Isles. There might even be someone listening on the Internet in a far-flung corner of the world.
Then, forty-five minutes later it is over. There is no round of applause at the end, no standing ovation, not even the sensation of knowing you haven’t got it quite right as you observe a muted audience leaving a theatre. Instead, Moneybox begins on Radio 4. So I open my laptop, look at my phone and wait. At first there is nothing. Then I get a couple of jokey texts. Then friends start posting messages on Facebook. Then the emails start to arrive. There is something wonderful about this. Strangers so moved by what they have heard they look me up on the web, find an email address and actually write to say thank you. I have told an intimate story about myself and I get some lovely stories in return from listeners reminded of their own childhoods and homes. And the emails keep arriving, all evening and though the night too. And I know now there is at least one listener overseas. A lady thanked me for the play but said she had to listen to the end and that had made her very late for work… In New York City.
Home is available on iPlayer until 25th November.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79908 | The Tent of Meeting
Exodus 33
7 Moses took his tent and pitched it outside the camp, far from the camp, and k called it the tabernacle of meeting. And it came to pass that everyone who l sought the LORD went out to the tabernacle of meeting which was outside the camp. 8 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the tabernacle, that all the people rose, and each man stood m at his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the tabernacle. 9 And it came to pass, when Moses entered the tabernacle, that the pillar of cloud descended and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the LORD n talked with Moses. 10 All the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the tabernacle door, and all the people rose and o worshiped, each man in his tent door. 11 So p the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but q his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79915 | a special place in a special time
It may surprise you, but having an X-ray during pregnancy is generally considered safe. In most cases, the benefits of the X-ray outweigh the potential risks. When you have an abdominal X-ray during pregnancy, your developing baby is exposed to radiation. If the radiation causes changes in your baby's rapidly growing cells, it's possible that your baby could be at a slightly higher risk of birth defects or illnesses, such as leukemia, later in life. Generally, however, having an X-ray during pregnancy is thought to pose only the most remote risk to a developing baby. Most X-ray exams - including those of your arms, legs, head, teeth or chest - won't expose your reproductive organs or your baby to radiation. A leaded apron and collar also can be worn to block any scattered radiation.
If you need an X-ray, tell your care provider if you are or might be pregnant. Your care provider might be able to do an ultrasound instead of an X-ray. In addition, if you have a child who needs an X-ray exam, don't hold your child during the exam if you are or might be pregnant. Instead, ask another person to take your place.
If you had an X-ray exam before you knew you were pregnant, don't panic. Remember, the risk is very small. It's highly unlikely that you received enough radiation to cause any problems. If, however, you received a radiation treatment for a medical condition -such as radiation to treat cancer - the risks may be more significant. Share any concerns about radiation exposure with your care provider.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79918 | METAHAVEN: Version History at the London Institute of Contemporary Arts
A train rolls languidly through open plains, slowly bending out of the distance, following the rails arching right, curved easterly. There’s almost no movement. It’s a long lingering shot, patiently waiting for something to arrive: freight carried along the New Silk Road.
Eurasia (Questions on Happiness) plays on a 16-screen video grid stacked on a carpeted stage, opposite the banked steps of the main gallery inside London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts. There’s something of a derelict cinema or post-riot feel to Version History, the installation which houses art-design collective Metahaven’s latest film. Graphic murals of exposed brickwork, shattered glass, and crowd control barriers frame the screen, spreading across the ICA’s already bare, chipped plaster walls.
Comprised of Daniel van der Velden and Vinca Kruk, Metahaven has pursued its
multifaceted, research-driven practice for nearly 15 years. From early design work for former North Sea data-haven Sealand, and the playful merchandising of Wikileaks with leak-commemorating t-shirts, Metahaven’s output has incorporated graphic design, music videos, visual identities, essays, books, talks, policy initiatives, teaching and more. Their books have taken aim at nation-state branding (
Uncorporate Identity, 2010) and theorized a new subversive logic of representation, informational transparency and data activism (Black Transparency, 2015). Within a digitally maximalist and multilayered visual aesthetic, their work exposes and
critiques the political and technological infrastructures that shape the digital landscapes in which we increasingly spend our time.
Since 2015, the collective has been moving towards film as a primary medium. Their first feature-length, The Sprawl: Propaganda about Propaganda (2015), was a rich documentary video essay that mixed found footage, anime, graphics, and talking heads. The Sprawl explored the affective space of psy-ops, propaganda, and mass communications. In order to address the weaponization of the internet, it presented fake news within the context of the global computational megastructures out of which it emerges. Shown online as a randomly sequenced series of short, minute-long snippets, the film pulled together a host of random threads to mimic or reflect media at the height of the infowars – a world where conspiracy theories seemingly became the base unit of siloed reality.
Inspired by Benjamin H. Bratton’s The Stack, the concern with computational megastructures goes beyond the prevalence of screens and toward the undersides and unseen: the infrastructures, depots, transit routes – the physical remainders, and those left behind. Eurasia visits the town of Veles in Macedonia, made famous in 2016 when local teenagers began making money using Google AdSense running fake news sites inventing and promoting conspiracies that targeted the US election. If there’s a certain sympathy for the enterprising youth as victims and scapegoats of a system that rewards and reinforces their behaviors it’s because their condition reflects our own. At a turning point in the film, an Asian actor stands on a mountain of industrial slag outside Veles contemplating this world – a cypher for both ourselves and the Macedonian teens like a last man gazing upon an epistemologically war-torn landscape.
It is against this backdrop that Eurasia goes in search of the New Silk Road: Chinese premier Xi Jinping’s multi-billion dollar global trade infrastructure initiative to link East and West. Part autistic travelogue through the Urals and Macedonia, part AI-dreamscape, and part cinematic essay, the film winds along the crossroads of continents and civilizations within the broader context of awakening AI on a global computational scale. Found footage woven into this journey includes Italian comic-turned-populist Beppe Grillo telling jokes in the European Parliament, Eurasian ontologies by Russian far-right ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, and the tragi-comic figure of an impassioned Chinese entrepreneur lauding his company’s world changing creative innovations in the novelty plastic straw market. These disparate threads trace the outlines of the various worldviews etched into the ground with imaginary lines, fences, borders and tracks. Near its opening, the film visits a Russian monument styled like a miniature Eiffel Tower marking the line dividing Europe and Asia; an imaginary point where two worlds meet. They touch. In another scene, a golden coin imprinted with the same monument spins on a mirror, slowly rotating closer and closer to its reflection until they rest together as one.
Version History, a sister show to the collective’s first major museum survey EARTH, currently showing at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, also includes films Information Skies (2016) and Hometown (2018), as well as Digital Tarkovsky (2018), an essay on cinematic time given at Strelka Institute in Moscow and displayed slowly scrolling on vertical screens in the ICA canteen. The exhibition title Version History suggests the idea that old situations or ways of being can be stored and reverted to – like a backup. In one clip, Dutch politician Frans Timmermans bemoans the nationalism sweeping Europe as selling a future based on a past that never existed. In another, a citation from Durkheim muses that truth cannot be immutable because reality is not immutable, so truth itself must be changeable. As ICA chief curator Richard Birkett noted at the press preview, the name also implies an imperative: to version history yourself, own and construct, or rather re-construct, your own histories. It’s as if the victors of the future are rewriting the present to be their past – with the somewhat ominous implication that the post-truth infowars are only just beginning.
It is noteworthy that in establishing Black Transparency’s subversive logic of non-representation, Metahaven place an emphasis on the emotional component – the empathic. Their design is not solely about communicating an idea so much as about how it makes one feel. This concern also runs through their fictional films Information Skies and Hometown. These are less stories you’re told, than stories you feel. Abstracted, weaving across textural layers and narrative registers, they echo the emotive lives and self-conceptions of their characters as stories whose arc you intuit and read into the films. A continuum runs from Metahaven’s early graphic works through the operational and affective space of psy-ops. Their work could be read as an investigation into this space, its ever-changing rules, and the fantasy realities that structure it.
The collective’s textural play doesn’t only mix iPhone, found and cinematic film stocks sequentially one texture next to another, but also what the collective terms “interfacial ruins” – defunct digital elements that float over shots as if pulled from some obsolete visual interface. In Information Skies, together with Metahaven’s own anime animations, they signal sequences set in a VR dream world where the film’s central couple take refuge. In Eurasia, this interface improvisation includes sequences with reflective golden plates or CDs printed with unfamiliar geographic shapes that recall the generic loading sequences of an out-of-region DVD. In other interstitial moments, a gold ouroboros spins like a futuristic buffering icon or a golden YouTube timeline at the base of the screen, running backwards, scrubbing through time to a prior version or scene.
In many ways, more than any of the collective’s other films, Eurasia is a film about land. The earth, ground, soil, landscapes feature unfiltered, unencumbered by a frame, filter or interface. The camera lingers on its scene, indifferent to what is within its frame, nothing happening but the place. Train tracks curve past abandoned buildings, industrial wastelands pass into plains and rolling hills. In perhaps the film’s centerpiece, a series of long contemplative shots stretch out across the Russian plains toward the horizon and an immense dramatic sky above. Fade into a stunningly beautiful sun setting on the horizon with the golden fluffs of grass heads haloed in the shadows as booming, brooding drones reverberate. This Tarkovsky-inspired “longue durée,” over three minutes in length, produces a moment of stillness that soaks into the viewer. This is land as character – maybe even as the protagonist of the story. After the sun sets, a drone circles a static camera standing on a peak, two machines gazing into each others’ lenses.
If the eye is the window to the soul then what does a camera lens open onto? In this barren moment, emptied of man, Eurasia returns to a second nature. We cut to immersive CGI footage showing a war-torn steppe landscape so realistic as to be easily mistaken as filmed. Taken from a Ukrainian video game called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Shadow of Chernobyl), the clip shows a sci-fi fantasy soldier walking through the rendered space, picking up and carrying away a fallen comrade. This is an implicit Tarkovsky homage, according to Metahaven, his Stalker protagonist making a cameo appearance in their film. Through this Eurasia becomes the Zone, a site of extraterrestrial incursion forever mystically and magically transfigured by it. The rescue here juxtaposes with one of the first clips in the film, in which a Russian TV presenter decries the decadent eschatology of Lars von Trier, pathologically linked to Trier’s fear of flying. In contrast to almost all other storytellers of world-ending disaster, von Trier offers no savior, and no rescue. As such perhaps, for Metahaven, we are the Zone or Eurasia’s extraterrestrials, and the question is how is this site, this land, transfigured by our incursions and subsequent absence? The re-natured environment is virtual, awakened, alive – and the ultimate horizon of Eurasia opens out beyond east meets west.
This beating heart of the film is poetic. In between citations from Durkheim and Kissinger, the film flows through readings of poems by three Russian poets: “I know the truth” by Marina Tsvetaeva, “Silentium!” by Fyodor Tyutchev, and “Snow Lies” by Alexander Vvedensky. These emotional abstracts structure the film and open out space in between its elements to intuit a feeling, a mood. They carry us towards an emotional connection or empathic sensitivity for what it is like to be alive in there, and to inhabit this world. A recurrent device in the film sees a landscape shot slowly rotate, from horizontal to vertical. This losing of the horizon – or acquiring a “vorizon,” a vertical horizon at the disappearing perspectival edge(s) between objects — brings our last man face to face with the ground, with Eurasia.
This interface returns us to the film’s subtitle, Questions on Happiness. What are these questions that are never explicitly asked? Is Eurasia itself the question, that it is or could bring happiness? This would be Eurasia as a promise, as a land of spiritual reunification and reconciliation, with the oneness of the globe hidden within these steppes, Europe and Asia coming together. Yet the film never explicitly engages with happiness. There is a nostalgic, sentimental longing to it, a pervading sadness, even melancholy in the “longue durée” contemplative views of the steppes. Ultimately, perhaps Metahaven suggest that even happiness itself and the desire for it is a fantasy, and both the world itself, and any AI regurgitation of it will be bluntly indifferent to our dreams and fantasies.
Another reading entirely sees Eurasia as farce. The title sequence plays out over blooper-style found footage of young people falling through supermarket ceilings, warehouse shelving units toppling like dominos, and a tank tipping off the side of a ramp, scuttled like an upside-down beetle. Certainly Metahaven bring a self-reflexive humour to bear on their own work. Eurasia’s audio-visual climax is a stirring music video sequence comically sent up through being “played” on a computer keyboard taped to a shard of wood. A recurrent motif is a sculpted purple block which seems to represent the structural logic of society stored as a “version,” looking like a data ice crystal from a superhero’s fortress of solitude, but also suggesting the mystical profundity of 2001’s obelisks and the gravitas of an awards show totem. As intoned by Metahaven, “Eurasia” slides precariously into “erasure”. Each fantasy erases that which it supersedes, and we should be careful not to write ourselves out of the story. Like our all-too-earnest tragi-comic straw champion, perhaps the only remedy is to laugh.
William Alderwick: What was the original idea or thought behind Eurasia?
Metahaven: There were actually several starting points. One was that after two fiction films consisting of cinematic footage and animations (Information Skies and Hometown) we wanted to return to work which contained a documentary element – as in The Sprawl: Propaganda about Propaganda). We also wanted to bring humor and playfulness to this new work.
We were very interested in the New Silk Road, an economic and somehow also political infrastructure being created between China, Russia, Africa, and Europe. The New Silk Road (or Belt and Road Initiative as it’s officially called) is partially a new infrastructure, though one that is re-using or appropriating an existing one, and partially a geopolitical concept to do with the rise of China. We were also interested in the interplay between this idea, and the general political currents running through Europe right now, which seem to want to go back to a nation-state past that never properly existed. The disintegration of the common European post-war space runs in parallel with the advance of geopolitical currents away from the trans-Atlantic. At the same time, in Russia, a certain obsession with the East has always existed, and is on increasingly tense terms with the equally strong tendency that defines Russia as “European.” These unresolved threads form part of Eurasia, though not in a straightforward manner.
So how does the film relate back to The Sprawl: Propaganda about Propaganda?
Of course the work ended up being very different, but there are connections. For instance, there are elements of documentary or reporting featured, although not through talking heads as in The Sprawl. We were keen to stay away from talking heads as a voice and image of authority. They’re also linked in that they speak of an incredibly large structure. In The Sprawl this was the megastructure of technology and the Stack. In Eurasia it’s territory, or landmass. It became a much more absurd film and a much more poetic film than The Sprawl. The role of poetry was much bigger – the idea was that eventually the ability to make sense of things is lost.
There are moments of laugh out loud humor in the film – certainly with the character who is passionately talking about changing the world with novelty plastic drinking straws. Then there’s also something quite comic about the keytar music video sequence near the end. Was there a critique of yourself and your own aesthetic in there as well?
Absolutely – although the thing about the straws guy is that we actually take him very seriously! On some level, we see what he says about straws as similar to our take on graphic design. Like, what more can a straw do than be something to drink through? He talks about a surplus value that’s somehow in this object, while recognizing that the object is also, at the same time, quite insignificant. And the drinking straw lends itself also to becoming this metaphor for trees, pipeline, connectors, and infrastructure. It’s very visual. Like an icon, like pop culture. But it seems he’s almost projecting an entire universe into the question of a straw.
How is the New Silk Road changing the world?
It was important to us to try and find actual pieces of this New Silk Road. The scale of the infrastructure that’s being built is enormous, and there’s a lot of promotion. Going to the actual geographical borderline of Asia and Europe, we tried to see if there was actually anything there. There is a shot in the film of a train arriving with wood on it which we think is near the original route. But we also found that different parts of this infrastructure may not be completely in place. We think it’s already a kind of psychological operation. The idea itself is already extremely effective.
What are the questions on happiness in Eurasia’s subtitle?
There was a lot of debate about this subtitle. For us it is connected to one specific scene in which you see the steppes. This series of long shots of vast spaces and skies that slowly fade into each other. It’s an almost spiritual scene.
There’s a poem in this film, “Silentium” by Fyodor Tyutchev. It’s very lyrical. He talks about silence – and in a sense the Eurasian landmass appears as a thing that is so enormous that it silences. It becomes this pillow or blanket in which you land. That’s very much the scene in the steppes. Maybe there is some weird sense of that being an antidote to saturation or to the idea of bubbles, but it’s difficult to see this as the film going zen because clearly it cannot go there completely. It is something that only exists in the film because it contrasts with something else.
Is it a return to nature perhaps? Perhaps a nature that has become a sentient environment, a post-AI digital landscape?
AI nature – yeah! One thing that’s in this film is the notion that the reality AI produces does not explain itself to human beings. That’s something that it has in common with nature. It doesn’t want to proclaim, in our view at least, a return to a romantic idea of primitivism. But it returns to a sense of being in an environment that operates without a self-explanation, or it operates without bearing legitimacy on an underlying philosophical or ideological order.
I wanted to ask about the texture of the film, different stocks, cinematic, iPhone, or found footage as a visual method. How does this relate to its layering, not just sequentially one texture and another, but also with animations and interface elements?
Digital film is a patchwork of all possible textures. The short animations are the film that is fictionalizing itself. We have a fictional protagonist, Ilya, who is being re-fictionalized by dreaming activities he doesn’t do. He’s driving a motorcycle with his eyes closed. And that never happened. But we can imagine it and therefore it did happen – to some extent.
You started in graphic design and now produce artistic films, how do you see your role, artistically, creatively, given that you operate outside a traditional art context?
Ever since we started producing moving image works, which was in 2015, we have referred to ourselves as a collective, even though we’re just two people. It gestures to the collective nature of the productions and the relationships we build through them. We still produce design, and in addition to working in film and video we write, and produce installations and textile works.
We’re interested to see how the complexities of the now can be presented and narrated, but not in such a way that we end up at a conclusion and judgement of it – but rather, a feeling of it. Through this form of work — a combination of fiction, poetry, documentary, music, installation, environment, duration, image making, and storytelling, all mixed together — we hope to provide an insight for viewers so they might not judge, or at least postpone a their instinctive assessment.
Reading Black Transparency, it struck me that with your graphic work there was a real concern to connect emotionally with your audience through design. Is that what you’re talking about now? The affective space of propaganda? Certainly, with Hometown and Information Skies, they’re not films in which you are told a story, they’re films in which you feel a story.
We’re happy that you talk about “feeling a story.” We need to find out what that means, of course. We shot Hometown partially in Beirut. Lebanon has a power cut every day for three hours to recharge the power grid. Someone made an app so that you know when the power cut is scheduled. That person is not connected in any way to the people who organise the power cuts, so there is a sense of lurking chaos underneath reality. It’s a place of deep uncertainty, and the type of life that’s engendered by the certainty of the uncertainty is very close to what inspired the film.
The postponement of a judgement of a situation is itself an experience that can lead to new connections. And those are the connections that we wish to engender and those are also connections that have to do with poetry. That have to do with the narration of bonds between people, childhood, and also the irrational limits that every life has. Even the protagonists of Information Skies try to make the best of it within their means – which are largely VR related.
What can you tell us about the source for the 3D-rendered war video game footage in Eurasia?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Shadow of Chernobyl) is a Ukrainian first person shooter game. In these fragments, the guy lying on the ground is the protagonist from Tarkovsky’s Stalker making a brief cameo appearance. The point of the section was not the footage itself, but the seamless cut between our own footage and the game.
Do you think there was something qualitatively different about the time of the Trump campaign and the Brexit vote – that people could feel something in the air while being subjected to an intensive propaganda campaign?
The problem with platforms begins with the presumption of a human user. It begins with its non-confrontational and agreeable reduction of the world to bland human terms, with human-like avatars and seemingly positive words like “friend” or “follow.” Had platforms been more honest about their core competence – which is, organizing and stack economic operations by connecting addressable but not necessarily human entities – there wouldn’t have been all these problems, or at least, there might have been less of them. Platforms “humanized” before humans could “platformize” – before we could develop the necessary digital literacy to work through the cognitive challenges that they bring.
The problem with fake news is not that it’s fake but that the human user assumes that it is for them. That is, the human user assumes that the constitutive dimension of language, as in, defining real things in a real world, still applies when they are viewing fake news. If you think about it, this is a bit like an inverse Turing test. Instead of a computer probing to ascertain that they’re dealing with a human being, a human being is somehow trying to ascertain that they are not dealing with a computer – and for a computer, the constitutive weight of words like “European Union,” “immigration,” and “the NHS,” is and always was null and void.
The indifference of microchips and computational hardware and software to the constitutive meaning of words outside the operating system implies that there is more of this to come. Teaching “ethics” to an AI would, among other things, come down to constructing a learning process between the consequential weightlessness of words inside the AI’s brain and the constitutive meaning of these same words in the brains and realities of others, even if this meaning is itself also a fallacy of sorts, when you think about it.
The Berlin-based poet and translator Eugene Ostashevsky is adamant about the capacity of poetry to demonstrate the fallacy of the constitutive dimension of language (in his passionate defense of Russian poets such as Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky). In an interview in our recent book PSYOP (2018), Ostashevsky mentions Francois Rabelais, whose Gargantua and Pantagruel was widely read by kids in Russia, and Mikhail Bakhtin, a Russian literary philosopher, who developed the idea of heteroglossia – the idea that the novel is “the place where idiolects, sociolects, and even other languages collide.”
Is post-truth as a state something that is escapable? How do we respond to it? I think specifically my major question is how do you actually build collective activism and unity if you don’t have any epistemic shared ground?
The film hints at the idea that post-truth is a test of our cognitive bias. It’s a human approximation of what an AI would probably feel about their own condition. It would be nothing, it would not be empathetic to our cognitive flaws, which cause us to believe in fake reports, fake news, and so on. There’s one element of it that is a precursor to how AI could fundamentally twist our cognition. The things that make us believe a story are the parts of our cognition that can be easily messed with. It’s not enough to say we have to purge our media of anything that’s not true, or that’s not tested. There’s a question we need to ask ourselves about deep learning and pattern recognition, a reboot of what used to be called media literacy. We carry with us our old sense of cognition into an era that exposes how our language is fundamentally, constitutively empty. What we need is an evolution of cognition.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79922 | Eckhart Answers your Questions: Presence in Conversation
This is a great article. It is good to get a practical advise like this, so I wanted to keep it here, where I can easily find it in the future:
Eckhart Answers your Questions: Presence in Conversation
Question: How do I maintain a sense of presence when I’m in the company of another person? How do I bring presence into conversation?
Eckhart: It’s not easy. The moment you start talking, the two minds come together and so they strengthen each other. A flow starts, a stream of thought. A moment ago you were present, and then somebody starts talking. What applies here is the loss of space during the conversation. Both participants of the conversation have lost any sense of space. There are only the words, the mind, the verbalization, the stream of thinking that becomes sounds. They are taken over by that. It has its own momentum – almost a little entity, a stream, that doesn’t want to end.
Often, it generates emotions in the body. That strengthens it, amplifies it. If the mental stream triggers emotions, which it often does, especially when talking about other people, what they did, failed to do, did to you, did to others, criticisms, gossip, all kinds of emotional [things], the ego comes in. When you can criticize another, the ego feels a little bit stronger. By diminishing another, in the delusional system of the ego, you have enhanced your own self-image a little bit. Any criticism of another is a part of that energy stream. And then emotions come, and they amplify the thoughts. It’s the loss of space.
For you to regain space, without saying “I’m not talking anymore”, one thing is necessary for you – which is the realization that you’ve lost space. Without that, there’s nothing you can do – when you’re so taken over by a stream of thought, that you don’t even know you’ve been taken over by a stream of thought – there’s nothing you can do. “Forgive them, for they know not what they do”. They are unconscious. They are the stream of thought. And as the stream of thought, you don’t want it to end – because you don’t want your own end. Every entity wants to remain in form for as long as possible.
If there’s the slightest realization that you’ve lost [space], at that moment you have a choice. What is your choice? Your choice is to bring some presence, some space, into the stream of thought. But how do you do that?
It’s coming at you not only from within your own mind, but it’s coming at you from the other person too. The awareness is there, and it may only last three seconds, and then it’s gone again. So you have to use those two or three seconds, where you realize the loss of space, and do something in that space where you have some freedom to act. By a conscious choice, you take your attention out of thinking – but you have to anchor it somewhere else, otherwise it won’t work. So you choose your breath, or your body, or some other sense perception around you that you become aware of. When you are actually talking to another person, it’s probably easiest to either use your breath or your inner body.
Practice this beforehand, when conditions are easier, so that you can do it once it’s necessary. Go into your inner body, feel that your energy field is alive. And you’ll notice, you’re not thinking anymore. You can still listen. The amazing thing is that you can listen to another person, without thinking, easily, beautifully.
You are listening, but part of your attention is on your energy field – so you’ve taken attention away from your thoughts. There is a sense of aliveness in the background.
It’s ultimately formless; it’s already the doorway into the formless. Feel that while you sit there and listen, and you’ve stepped out of the stream of thinking. Then, the quality of the interaction immediately changes. The other person may not consciously notice what’s happening, and may carry on for a while. It also does not mean that you cannot respond anymore. But how you respond and the quality of your response changes, too. You are no longer contributing to the negative nature, which is often the case, in conversations.
A certain amount of stillness, then, will also be a part of the words that you speak. It’s so subtle that the other person probably will not notice it, consciously. So hang on to the inner body, let it be the anchor, and then you become present. If you lose it again, if the other person says something challenging, then after a little while you remember – and you go back into the inner body. That’s a powerful anchor, and then everything changes from there. It takes continuous practice.
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1. Hi Elena! Good post! It boils down to this: If you give your undivided attention to the person speaking; and when is your turn to speak you are also attentive so that you are speaking from your true mind, not your ego-mind, you are present.
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One of the most interesting clips included is a deleted scene featuring Tilda Swinton’s Ancient One in conversation with the Hulk about the Time Stone and how time travel works in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This scene presented a very different version of time travel than the finished film — to the point where if they hadn’t deleted it, it could have changed the MCU forever, and certainly narrowed down the possible explanations for the famous ending involving Steve Rogers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/79955 | Hillsong pastor Carl Lentz on Justin Bieber, church's stance on politics, social issues
Lentz spoke about his relationship with Bieber and his reaction to the events in Charlottesville.
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Pastor Carl Lentz is not your mama's preacher. He's a leather jacket wearing bike riding buff hip Ster who rolls with music's "A" list celebrities and sports superstars. He even baptized Justin Bieber. The hillside millennial church packs them in by the thousands every weekend to hear him spread the word in a way no one's ever heard. We say we're going to reach everyone from the faceless to the famous. Well amen. Please welcome author of the new book "Own the moment" pastor Carl Lentz. Before we get started you don't look like any pastor I've ever seen. Priests sort of dress like this when they're not in a collar. This is the way you dress normally? No I have a collar and a robe? I'm kidding. We have try to be ourselves. I've heard that before. You've heard that before? Yes, ma'am. You've got tattoos. Some are real. Some are sticker. How many do you have? Most have to do with my family, a couple, maybe ten or 12. Hillside is seen as this hip Progressive church that's drawn huge millennial crowds. Where do you stand on issues that young people are passionate about like gay marriage, abortion? How do you address those types of things? We're going to go right there? We'll go hard and come down. It's only an hour show. I think our job is to help people -- not necessarily to change what they think. To point them what god has said and what we believe the bible says. I grew up in a church system and I think people understand the discussion is limited. You get told a lot of views but you can't work it out. We believe the bible is clear. God is good he loves everybody and Jesus was here to set people free. Our fight in New York is to try to make sure everyone can get in and hear it. We've been told if you disagree you're disconnected. We don't believe that. Who told you that? I don't think anybody told me that. I think it's the cultural religious Normal if you and I disagree we're done and I don't believe that's the case. You feel the religious groups are putting that out? I do and other sides. I think people are so caught up in disunity on every front. In our church you have different races, faces and different background where people -- It's not a sin in your church to have abortion. We would figure out your story, your truth. We work through it. God's the judge. That's such a broad question to me. I'm going higher. I want to sit with somebody and say where you want to believe -- It's not an open and shut case with you? Some people would says. I'm trying to teach people about Jesus first. Before I'm picking and choosing what's sin in your life I like to know your name. We talk to other leaders whether politics an religion mix tot. You're not supposed to endorse any candidates from the pulpit. Do you do that? I don't want to get in trouble. We keep it straight laced. When people say keep politics off the pulpit I say how do you do that politics affects people. To not do that -- Where's the line where your infringe upon the separation of church and state? My dad's a lawyer. Dad if you want to text me I'm getting in hot water. I don't know. Jesus came to destroy the political Normal of the day. I think we're supposed to speak directly to politics and things that affect people. I'm going to preach what I feel is right. I don't want to argue with you -- I don't want to argue. If you endorse president trump from the pulpit you're infringing upon that law of the separation of church and state. First of all I didn't do that. I'm just saying that would be the line. In our church we wouldn't do that. That's what I'm driving at. In the black church politics has been -- has always been an instrumental part of the word. Preaching because it affects the black community, because it affects the church community. I grew up knowing that this is something that would be can discussed in the church. But you can't name a person to vote for because your tax exemption will go out the window. That's different. Let's be clear. One thing I want to commend you on you have been very vocal in support of black lives matter and against racism in this country. While many Christian leaders stayed silent after charlottesville you did not. You called out president trump on Twitter. I thought that was very brave. Did you worry about losing parishioners and did you get a lot of push back for that? Yeah. Yes and yes. It's my job I think -- you spoke briefly before about white privilege. I have a double issue with white privilege and preacher privilege. If you're white you have a platform others don't. If you're a preacher you now have people that are going to listen to you even more because they believe you're a religious figure. I have thought it was my job to speak what was obvious. When you look at some of the issues of race in our country, people are going are we serious? Of course this is an issue an of course this is wrong. You've can't look at charlottesville and say there's good people on both sides. No. We have an issue. Those things need to be said out loud upfront. We have racial problems. People are trying to act like this isn't real. Just part of the Normal logical majority in our country is saying we're not going to ignore this. We're going to at least talk about it. I believe it's my duty as a Christian people to say truth regardless whether people love it or hate it. We saw a lot of pictures when we first started you've got tons of celebrity friends. One particular we've seen you with a lot is Justin Bieber? Who's that? He was all over the headlines because he canceled part of a tour. You've been with him and on the ride kind of through his ups an downs. Can you tell us how he's doing? He's doing good. He's been famous for a long time. We've seen what fame can do to people in this culture. The fact he's as kind and humble as he is with his failure as much as his success. He's got his own stuff he's had to own publicly. If anyone judges him I say shudder at the thought if your life was on the front page at his age. We all got stuff. Yeah. I think he's doing well. He is who he is. He's a guy getting better day by day like all of us. What do you do for him? Two questions. Forget about this question. Let's ask this question. You've get flack for cozying up to celebrities. Only that people say I'm cozy up. They say you cozy up is that true? No I think that's what people say when they don't understand something. The only way you figure it out is if you intentionally try to find out for yourself. We don't cozy up to anyone. We love anybody. Celebrities need help like anyone else. Right. Sometimes more so. His new book "Own the moment" is coming out tomorrow. Guess what? Our entire audience is going
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From AJR, July/August 1999
It's a Wonderful Life
"This American Life," Ira Glass' innovative public radio program, is in the vanguard of a journalistic revolution.
By Marc Fisher
THIS IS A STORY ABOUT a radio show that is helping to spark a new approach to American journalism. A program on the radio. A program run out of three tiny rooms at a Chicago public station located in the shadow of an enormous Ferris wheel at the edge of a pier on Lake Michigan. A program that is, like most endeavors that inspire and challenge, something of a cult, a frenzied pursuit bursting out of a single, fertile mind.
"This American Life" is Ira Glass and his stories. Glass is a journalist who works on deadline--very, very close to deadline--but his stories are almost never about anything that happened yesterday or even this week. They are news stories, but they are not about the news. They are stories that are changing what we think stories are.
More than 800,000 people listen to "This American Life" each weekend on 332 public radio stations. Each show presents two, three, four or five stories vaguely related to a theme, such as Do-Gooders or Pray or Fiascoes or Poultry. There are performance pieces by comedians and essayists, memoirs by unknown voices and reported pieces by Glass, his three producers, several regular contributors and, most remarkably, by some of the country's top magazine and book writers.
The New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell on middle-class blacks in New York City and Toronto, Esquire's Michael Paterniti on a man who disappeared from the regular crowd at his local dog run, and other big-name writers, reading their own work or trying their hand at creating a reported piece for radio: authors Gay Talese and Tobias Wolff, The Atlantic's Ian Frazier. People who regularly command $10,000 to $20,000 for a magazine piece, working for public radio at a day rate of $200--just to be edited by, just to be closer to, Ira.
At a moment when the definition of news is up for grabs, "This American Life" is probing the boundaries: In Washington, when WAMU, one of the most listened-to public radio stations in the country, decided to add "This American Life" to its schedule, it put the show on at 6 p.m. Sundays, replacing NPR's "All Things Considered."
On a news-talk station, the new news was in, the old news silenced.
GLASS IS IN HOUR No. 3 of editing Paterniti's script for a reported piece on the dog run near his house. Glass sits in a dark studio, the script splayed out before him. Across the table sits producer Alix Spiegel, one of the three young women who commission, edit, write and report pieces for the show. For this conference call with Paterniti, who is at his parents' home in Connecticut, Glass and Spiegel wear headphones and speak into microphones, which means that in their conversation, they hear themselves as if they were on the radio, which means that they speak in that warm and affected and intimate and knowing and curious manner that is "This American Life."
Moments before this editing session began, Spiegel hurried into Glass' tiny, windowless office to announce, "It's worse," meaning that the rewrite Paterniti has e-mailed after an initial chat with Spiegel is not nearly the quality of his original draft.
Glass: "Worse?"
Spiegel: "It's much worse."
Glass: "We can put some of the old stuff back; let me see."
He closes the door, sits down with the script, props his feet up on the desk. In nine minutes, he makes four tiny jots in the margins. Suddenly, he jumps from his chair, steps over to Spiegel's cubicle, and says, "OK, I see the path."
Together, they bound down the hall to the studio. Glass says, "He should go back to putting the Jeff stuff where it was. He needs to actually make a point. OK, fire up the Batmobile."
Spiegel patches Paterniti into the conversation and the three of them begin a word-by-word dissection. Between sips of Diet Pepsi, Glass approaches the writer gingerly. "I think you should go back to the wording the way it was. Do you feel that, too?"
"Totally," Paterniti says. "Suddenly, it got sort of aimless."
As the conversation wends its way toward a new version, Glass occasionally speaks directly ("Make it feel like something's going to happen"), but more often edits elliptically ("What he's saying here is, this is, you know, this is, in fact, like, you know, he's saying, you could go right there").
Glass listens intently. Very intently. "Is that a dot-matrix printer there?"
"Huh?" Paterniti replies.
"It sounds like a dot-matrix printer in the room where you are."
It is.
Three hours after the edit began, the script is a tad longer, yet much tighter, and in places considerably more artful. The story now has a bit more foreshadowing, a better sense of movement, a clearer statement of meaning. And the script now sounds much more like, well, like Ira Glass.
All of which Paterniti resents not one bit. He has loved every minute of it.
"It's just the most original thing going on," the writer says, "this amazing exercise in aural storytelling, especially for people who grew up in the `Brady Bunch' times." Because of "This American Life," Paterniti says, "writing has become more vernacular. There's an attempt in a lot of what I'm reading now to be more conversational. There's this license now to show more abandon. NPR has loosened up. Even Time magazine is much more conversational, much more willing to be hip and cool."
THE THEORY BEHIND THIS story is that Glass, the spike-haired, baby-faced, adenoidal 40-year-old at the center of the "This American Life" cult, is a revolutionary. The radio part of the story is well told, well accepted: Glass is the boy wonder, a rumpled genius in the minuscule world of radio documentaries, a quizzical character who hides behind trademark oversized black plastic eyeglass frames and takes radio journalism to places it has not traveled before.
"This American Life" has been on the air for more than three-and-a-half years. It won a Peabody Award in its first year. In its second year it snared a $350,000, three-year grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting--more than double the money Glass had applied for. But while Glass quickly conquered the small world of public radio, persuading about 120 stations to pick up the program in its first year, what's happening now is even more remarkable: In ways small but clear, as inspiration if not direct model, TAL is at the vanguard of a shift in American journalism.
From the left, where corporate consolidation is seen as a villain that is homogenizing and softening a tradition of tough reporting, to the right, where the liberal elite is viewed as a force that is skewing and warping news coverage, the credibility of the media is waning. Bumper stickers shout "I Don't Believe The Media." In the disaffected heartland, magazines and Web sites such as Media Bypass and the Onion attract considerable audiences of consumers searching for something unfiltered. The Internet and a generation of nonreaders and surfers are changing the nature of the audience, creating the illusion that each citizen can and should play editor.
And now, slowly, the corporate media are responding to the challenge. George, the slick political magazine started by John F. Kennedy Jr., is disdained as a light failure by many inside the business, but it is typical of a new breed of publications that reject many of the basic forms of journalism: In many issues of George, as in the new front-of-the-book section of The New York Times Magazine, and as in the eclectic new magazine DoubleTake, there are few, if any, stories in the traditional sense. Instead, there are Q&As and transcripts of conversations and reprints of documents and extended quotations and mini-memoirs. The emphasis is on voices without narration, giving the new school of publications an unmoderated feeling, a nonlinear, nonhierarchical, unedited sensibility--just like "This American Life."
For many months, Glass introduced his show with a definition: TAL, he said, was "documentaries, monologues, overheard conversations, found tapes, anything we can think of" to illuminate a theme. Glass himself is a host who sounds as haphazard and un-anchorman as he looks. On "This American Life," Glass and everyone else can be heard doing what everyone else in the history of broadcasting has edited out: swallowing saliva, smacking their lips, sliding over syllables, giggling. What broadcasters usually discard to produce a smooth, authoritative sound is not only left in, but manipulated, highlighted, accented to add meaning, to be a signifier, to be part of the writing.
The intended effect is precisely what is produced: a sense of ease, informality and direct, unfiltered access. You are, the packaging tells you, experiencing something unpackaged, something raw. You are the ultimate arbiter of truth, because the sound is not polished, or, rather, it does not sound polished in the ways we know from TV and radio.
The effect is liberating. The listener somehow feels empowered: It's my show, to make of it what I will. And the effect is spreading: "NBC Nightly News" is now peppered with segments called "In His Own Words," in which the subject of the story, without benefit of narration, tells the tale. It's highly edited, of course, but the theory is that the viewer will not feel that.
TV has been milking the public desire for reality for some years now; witness the orgy of shows like "World's Scariest Car Chases," "America's Funniest Home Videos" and the mother of them all, Fox's "COPS." But what "This American Life" has brought to the table is the notion that reality can be presented without tabloid hype, that stories can be told in old-fashioned ways and then presented in a newfangled format--as pointedly different experiences, juxtaposed in a creative fashion, wrapped together by Glass' unthreatening but hip persona.
The search for a new voice has spread even to the most traditional of media, newspapers, some of which are pushing the limits of their own forms, redefining news in ways similar to TAL: At the New York Times and my own paper, the Washington Post, and at regional standouts such as the St. Petersburg Times, Baltimore Sun and Philadelphia Inquirer, editors and reporters are rediscovering old forms--serials, first-person accounts, experiential journalism, less pyramid writing and greater dedication to narrative. There's even the occasional adventure in fiction (clearly labeled, of course)--a staple of "This American Life."
As disenchantment with government reporting continues to grow, there are more stories about ordinary lives. In some places, quotes are getting longer and richer again, not quite back to 1970s lengths, but at least they're breaking out of the 1980s rut in which newspapers mimicked TV in every possible way--and paid the price for doing so.
Ira Glass didn't invent any of these forms. He generously credits the Readings section of Harper's magazine--a collection of short pieces, documents and photos culled from just about anywhere--for some of the ideas that spawned TAL. "What we do is pretty squarely in the tradition of long magazine feature writing," he says. But Glass has packaged these narratives in a way that is fresh and in tune with the times, a style that looks like random access but works from a clear and arch intelligence.
" `This American Life' at its best really combines the profound with the silly or fun," says Paul Tough, editor of Saturday Night, a Canadian monthly, and a former TAL senior editor. Tough got to know Glass when Tough was at Harper's in the early '90s and wanted to put monologues from Glass' interviews in the Readings section of the magazine. Between the Harper's approach and Glass' own fascination with the world of spoken-word performance artists, TAL evolved.
Now the show is inspiring others, says Tough, who is modeling his magazine's new front-of-the-book section, Canadian Letters, on the program: "It's people writing about the way things are where they live, eight pages of first-person journalism, by professionals, novelists, a former criminal, a mountain biker, a Serb protester."
Glass and other editors testing these waters say the times are just right for this sort of innovation: The post-Cold War lull in government news, America's affluence and the resulting freedom to ignore politics, and the illusion that local issues are secondary to the new online communities--all of this has made it easier for "This American Life's" deeply personal form of journalism to thrive.
Jorge Just, 23, a TAL intern, sought this job and this job only because Glass' show is one of the few that people his age take seriously: "My generation's been constantly fed this idea that we're jaded by media, and even if it's not really true, we come to believe it.... This show was the one thing that was different: It's just more...present."
Glass says TAL's aim is "to tell stories that help us empathize and help us feel less crazy and less separate. And just, you know, go straight to your heart." That's how he ends his stump speech, the one he makes to sell station managers on his show. When the speech ends, the music swells, because as good as his story is, as good as the show is, Glass knows a little music always helps. "Of course our sound is highly manipulated," he says. "It just doesn't sound it."
IRA GLASS IN A MINUTE: His father is an accountant and his mother a clinical psychologist. "They're money Jews, not book Jews," Glass says. "Growing up [in Baltimore], I knew no one who had read `Franny and Zooey,' no one in the subdivision." He did theater in high school. He was groomed to be a nice doctor. He hated science. He spent two years at Northwestern and two at Brown, where he studied semiotics. He hardly listened to radio as a child, but he wrote jokes and got his first radio work selling one-liners to a Baltimore shock jock. After his freshman year in college, he looked for work in TV, radio and advertising; when he found nothing, he volunteered to edit promotional announcements at National Public Radio. He worked that post into a real job and was soon working on documentaries. He spent the next 16 years at NPR as a producer and reporter, eventually making riveting long-form pieces such as a series based on a year spent in a Chicago high school.
GLASS ON A "THIS AMERICAN LIFE" MOMENT: "There is just something about the judgment of strangers. When the cashier in the record store examines your choice of CDs and gives you a look like, `You are so lame.' When the cute host or hostess in the restaurant seems to be rendering some judgment on you in some way as they walk you to your table.... Then there's the part of the story where I make some really big statement, like there's something about the kindness of strangers. Because you can't just have an anecdote. It's got to mean something."
SOME SHOWS: A 57-minute tale called "Twentieth-Century Man," the story of a preacher-in-training who becomes an actor, then a Beat writer, then a man in a gray flannel suit, then a hippie, then a born-again Christian--as told by one of his daughters. A half-hour documentary by Alix Spiegel on her journey to Colorado Springs, where she, a secular Jew, attempts to understand a group of evangelical Christians who spend their days praying for strangers. "Careful Who You Pretend To Be," a show about people pretending to be something they're not, such as a historical interpreter who plays a slave-owner and spends his days screaming at "slaves." "Do-Gooders," in which Glass travels to a poor Missouri town where a middle-class couple moves and tries to improve things--with very bad results.
WHO LISTENS: For the most part, your average public radio listeners--better educated than average; slightly more men than women; very few minorities; average age: 43. The show does best in places like Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, New York City, Portland, Oregon, and in college towns--your basic NPR America.
WHO PRODUCES THE SHOW: Unmarried, childless 20- and 30-somethings with impeccable smarts and hardly any radio experience except for immersion in the Church of Ira Glass.
WHAT'S IN GLASS' BLACK BAG: Books, magazines, videos, CDs, cassettes, radio scripts, "The Collected Works of Veronica Geng," "The Best of Chet Baker."
WHAT'S ON HIS BULLETIN BOARD: A phone message from Rolling Stone magazine asking for a list of his favorite Web sites. A letter from Warner Trade Paperbacks offering him $400,000 to write two books.
WHAT'S ON HIS DESK: His stump speech, a list of story ideas, a pile of papers about his pilot TV show, three copies of the new Rhino Records "This American Life" CD. (His desk chair wobbles. Badly.)
WHAT'S IN HIS HEAD: Worry, vision, a thousand stories, angst, fun, a determination to cross the line between high and low, between his semiotics-major academic inclinations and his boyish love of the extraordinary, between his Baltimore Jewish neuroses and the Midwestern base for his national ambitions.
WHAT HE'S SAYING: "I do leave a bit to be desired." He is talking about his voice, his persona, the character he has created for both the radio show and--equally important to the nation's public radio station managers, maybe even more important--the incredibly effective fundraising spots Glass produces, funny and even moving bits in which he does things like promise to deliver pizza to your door if only you will phone in a pledge.
"The voice of the host is the voice of the show. I think my character has to be a certain kind of person to make the stories go. What is he? He's not as irritable as I am, to start. Anybody who writes does a version of himself, only thinking a lot more. The character is me at my most interesting and curious, with a level of intensity that nobody could sustain.
"He's never really mean. He's better than me in every possible way. One of my failings as a performer is the manneredness--I'm trying to sound like I'm just talking."
WHAT VOGUE MAGAZINE CALLED HIS RADIO VOICE: "The aural embodiment of Sensitive Guy Who Is Friends with All the Girls."
HIS ACTUAL VOICE: There's a slight stutter, not a speech defect, but a verbal tic, a device. There aren't a lot of complete sentences. Many of the attempts, especially when he's in boss or editor mode, begin with the words "I feel like...," as in "Um, I feel like you're, um, like that word wants to be, well, you know, I feel like you have to play that pause, um, let that thought happen."
MOST PROFILES OF GLASS and "This American Life" focus almost obsessively on Glass' meticulous and absolute command over every tiny morsel of sound or silence on the program--how he stretches a pause, clips a word, adds a breath, insists on an intonation.
That is the heart of Glass' production method. But the heart of "This American Life" are the stories, and especially the reported pieces. The best shows take you someplace you've never been and make you see something you've always seen, but never noticed.
The show's weekly story meeting is a two-hour bull session, Glass and three producers yakking about, reveling in and dismissing stories, writers, entire realms of American life. Ideas are floated: Domino's Pizza sales shoot up during national tragedies (maybe), a person who advises churches on marketing themselves (only if it's about which theology sells, rather than how to be more family-friendly), a New York waiter who tries to sell actual garbage to customers by making it sound chic. ("That's very, very beautiful," Glass says.)
When one story strikes Glass as phony, he trashes it with a one-liner: "That's so Hydrox, man."
The weakest parts of the program are those that sound too self-obsessed, too indulgent, too much a product of our tell-all, look-at-me-I'm-a-victim society. For every couple of breathtaking tales of some cluttered alley of the nation's life, brought to life in captivating voices, there is a whining, pointless memoir by the likes of the show's resident cloying artiste, Sarah Vowell. There is a bit much of a rock aesthetic to a show that is essentially a jazz form--a highly controlled performance that sounds utterly improvised but is actually based on strict rules and firm tradition.
"We are so bombarded by manipulated narrative--every ad, every movie, every TV show," Glass contends. "So it's hard for people to get out from under that. So of course people are reading from their diaries in public. They want something real."
The real pours in daily at the studios of WBEZ, the Chicago station where Glass is based. This day's mail brings a large package from a New York man who has sent Glass the originals of his entire correspondence with his ex-wife, all their love letters, every scrap documenting the rise and fall of a marriage.
"Utterly banal, nothing new," Glass concludes after sifting through the packet. "It's hard to see what we'd do with it. Send it back."
Now Glass is looking to expand the franchise. There's a new CD of the show's greatest hits. He says he's doing Hollywood, meeting with network executives, talking about putting TAL on TV.
TV? How can that be? Can Glass' quirky, quiet manner translate to the big brash world of the tube? Could he succeed in a medium of four-second sound bites, a medium that Glass says "does not trust the power of narrative"?
"You can just feel the money on TV, the huge apparatus," Glass readily concedes, adding that, of course, he doesn't actually watch TV. "Whereas people hear the radio and it just sounds like a bunch of people talking. But I have an idea for a TV show that would be really, really good."
He proposes to do the same kind of stories he does on radio, using a tiny, handheld camera with no light, in the hopes that the camera will not alter events. Maybe the TV show will happen, maybe not. Glass professes not to care. "Opportunities are being offered to me, and I don't really see any reason to do anything but radio. But I don't want to wonder later what might have been."
Glass has not acted on most of the offers, in part because he loves the relative anonymity of radio. Radio, a fixture of our solitary commuter lives, operates more as a subculture than as the defining cultural force that television is. And if the proliferation of media on the Web, on cable and at the newsstand has undermined the sense that the country has one clear, common culture, that's OK with Glass. "When you have no one dominant thing," he says, "it's easier for a subculture like this show to exist."
Like many editors, Glass sometimes wonders whether he wouldn't be happier going back out on the street. But like many journalists, he's had his moments of thinking that perhaps there is nothing left to conquer. In the end, though, there are still enough moments out there: "I feel the stories in my heart. There's still a huge, undiscovered country." |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80024 | All STEAMed Up: Retirement Takes an Unexpected Turn to an Elementary School
At Eagle Elementary School, located in a suburban district in New York’s Capital Region, 12 fourth and fifth-graders are inventing. Two students are trying to work the bugs out of a miniature electronic sliding door. Another team is setting up the tiny equivalent of a washing machine drum. Still others are building a robotic fan.
Step Right Up: How to Feign Political Competence in Your 20s
In the Internet age, saying “I don’t know” about a political issue is considered socially unacceptable. After all, if we have all this information at our fingertips, the least we can do is a quick Google search. Like, really. It’s the least we can do. And the least is what most people do.
It’s hard to take a long look in the mirror and see blatant indecision staring back at you. So to avoid this self-reflection, there are ways to fake political knowledge. You know you don’t know anything about politics, but nobody else has to know that.
From the Fall 2016 The Greatest Show On Earth issue of California.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80027 | I look forward to reading his obituary.
I was looking at PoorQuentyn’s blog, and I just came across…THIS ask:
Randyll is the embodiment of “tough but fair,” with his gelding rapers and cutting off thieves’ fingers. Maidenpool is only safe because of him. Sam wasn’t fit to inherit so he sent him to the Wall, like daughters go to the sept. That’s the world.
The most charitable way to read this objection is that someone has neglected large chunks of the text. You notice how he does “justice” in Maidenpool but you don’t notice how he talks to Brienne? You remember his reasoning, in his terms, for sending Sam to the Wall but you don’t remember Sam talking about the way his father treated him? Really? The way Lord Tarly talks to Brienne is so fucking foul I don’t even want to quote it here. The way he treated his son Sam is up there in Tywin Lannister levels of child abuse. Hell, even Tywin let Tyrion reach adulthood before he started trying to kill him.
I co-sign every way that gotgifsandmusings answers the question. First:
But even ignoring his treatment of Sam for one minute (which trust me, I’ll be coming back to), Randyll’s treatment of Brienne betrays entirely what a biased, misogynistic, irrational toad he is. This isn’t just the rape apology either. His brain literally cannot allow a reality where a woman slew three outlaws. When Ser Hyle offers a mild defense of Brienne, Randyll fires him because that’s how pissed off this makes him. And apparently Brienne’s biggest crime is leaving her house, or something.
Then there’s the rape apology, which is so blatant and unfair that it earns him that middle name for me. Like, even for Westeros, it’s unfair. The gross hymen wager made by the knights in Renly’s camp was all Brienne’s fault, clearly. That’s just how men are, and she was acting like a camp follower! Has the man been reading Camille Paglia? And then of course there’s his “Go where you want and do as you will… but when you’re raped don’t look to me for justice. You will have earned it with your folly.” Yeah, wow, how Tough but Fair™. Really committed to doling that justice…unless it challenges his world-view.
That is the most Randyll Tarly Rape Apologism I will show on this blog. Second:
Even if it’s somehow justifiable to disinherit Sam (it’s not), the fucking kid wanted to be a maester. Problem solved right there. But no, Randyll “my fear of emasculation rivals Vic’s” Tarly couldn’t have a maester for a son. I mean, then he’d be reading, and getting ideas…it’s just not natural!
Finally, there’s the fucking abuse. Sam wasn’t martial so he took it upon himself to beat him into it. He chained Sam to a wall for merely suggesting he might enjoy a certain profession. And that super nice send-off to the Wall was more or less because he was sure that would kill him. He even told people that Sam was dead.
I would like to add that Randyll literally forced his son into the Watch by threatening to kill him. When you consider that he had the option of removing Sam from the line of succession by allowing him to become a maester, like Sam wanted, and which would not have put him nearly so much in harm’s way, that excuse of “that’s the world” becomes even more absurd.
I hope Dany feeds him to her dragons. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80050 | Stingrays are a family of fish, primarily composed of cartilage, that are closely related to sharks. They are characterized by their flattened bodies and long tails, which are sometimes equipped with a defensive spine. There are eight different families of stingrays: sixgill, deepwater, stingarees, round rays, whiptail, river, butterfly, and eagle rays. Read on to learn about the stingray.
Description of the Stingray
These fishes are dorsoventrally flattened, which means they are short and wide, almost as if someone sat on them. This body shape is specialized to their bottom-dwelling lifestyle, though there are a few species that live higher in the water column.
Their mouth is located on their ventral surface, or underneath their body. This is, again, a specialization that helps them easily capture creatures on the sea floor. Many species have a sharp spine, or stinger, at the base of their tails.
Interesting Facts About the Stingray
There are many different stingray species, and some have amazing and surprising adaptations. These fishes come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, learn more about the amazing diversity of stingrays below.
• Shocking Selection – A shocking 69 different species are capable of producing an electric discharge. Basically, they can shock you! This defense can range anywhere from 8 to 220 volts of power. They use this ability to stun prey, protect themselves from predators, or both.
• Whopping Wingspan – The largest stingray ever recorded measured in at over 13 ft. across! Aptly named the “giant freshwater stingray,” this species is believed to be the largest freshwater fish species in the world.
• Sensory Surprise – Just like their cousins, the sharks, stingrays have a special set of organs to help them hunt. They have a number of pores, called “electroreceptors,” which allow them to “see” the movements of other fish. This sense is used to hunt for prey instead of sight.
• Supersting – The venom found in some species’ stings was used for an unusual purpose in ancient Greece. Dentists actually extracted the venom and used it as an anesthetic to numb their patients.
Habitat of the Stingray
Most stingrays are benthic fishes, which means that they live on or near the bottom. A few species are found in the open ocean, but most hunt and search the bottom for prey. Different families inhabit different habitats. Some species live in freshwater environments like rivers, and other live only in salt water. They can be found anywhere from coral reefs to muddy riverbeds.
Distribution of the Stingray
Different species of stingrays have different home ranges. Some species are very cosmopolitan, and live in virtually every ocean worldwide. Other species have very specialized habitats, and live only in one small region or area. They are found in a wide variety of oceans and rivers across the world.
Diet of the Stingray
Most stingrays feed on small bottom-dwelling fish, clams, mussels, worms, crabs, lobsters, and other benthic organisms. Some freshwater species will even prey on insects! Most of the bottom-dwelling rays will feed using an ambush technique.
They sit on the bottom and wait for prey to approach and, once its close enough, they lift off the floor in a tent shape. This causes a suction effect and pulls the prey to their mouth. They use electrical sensors in their ampullae of Lorenzini to detect when prey approaches.
Stingray and Human Interaction
Stingrays very rarely attack humans, and the vast majority of injuries occur as self-defense. Especially with bottom-dwelling species, most stings occur when the fish is stepped on. In areas with high populations of stingrays it is advised to shuffle your feet while wading in the water to avoid stepping on the animals. Stings are very rarely fatal, but can require surgical removal if the barb breaks off in the skin.
Many different stingray species are utilized as food. They are most commonly eaten in Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia. Unfortunately, these creatures are also accidentally captured as bycatch in commercial fisheries. Some fishermen will also purposefully kill stingrays that prey on shellfish they are harvesting.
No species have been domesticated in any way.
Does the Stingray Make a Good Pet
Some species are kept as pets, but they require immensely large aquariums. This can be a huge monetary and time commitment, which makes them a generally poor pet.
Stingray Care
In a zoological setting, stingrays are provided with plenty of swimming space. Housing them in habitats with rounded corners helps prevent them from running into the sides of the aquarium. A number of species can be incredibly docile, and are commonly used in touch tank exhibits.
Animals that are handled frequently have their stingers clipped periodically. This is absolutely harmless, and quite similar to clipping a fingernail. It is also not uncommon for these fish to be trained using positive reinforcement to allow for physical examinations.
Behavior of the Stingray
Behavior varies widely based on species. Some species are entirely solitary and only interact with one another while breeding. Other species are more social, and aggregate in groups for socialization, feeding, or resting. Behavior times also vary by species. Some are diurnal and active during the day, others are crepuscular and active at dusk and dawn, and some are nocturnal and active at night.
Reproduction of the Stingray
Reproductive strategy varies greatly based on the species. Some reproduce in large gatherings while others mate opportunistically with whomever they happen upon. All species are ovoviviparous, which means that they develop the eggs within their bodies until they hatch, and give birth to live young. Some species can store sperm for long periods of time, and give birth in the absence of a male. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80064 | Easy Valentine’s Day DIY Centerpiece For Under $20
Valentine’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. I think I’ve been a hopeless romantic since like the age of 10 haha. That may be an exaggeration. But, seriously I’ve always been in love with “love”. Valentine’s Day is the perfect time for a hopeless romantic like myself. Sadly, this year my husband…
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80066 | Nicky Morgan vows to tackle ‘snobbery’ over apprenticeships
The Education Secretary has pledged to tackle “outdated snobbery” towards apprenticeships through the introduction of a new law requiring schools to allow access to apprentice providers and colleges.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80071 | Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2015
sigma.js, two years later
A presentation of the latest version of sigma.js
This talk will present how to solve some graph visualization use cases with sigma.js, an open JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing.
Sigma.js is an open JavaScript library dedicated to graph drawing. It can display some medium graphs (tens of thousands of nodes, hundreds of thousands of edges, under some conditions), using Canvas, WebGL or SVG. Its API has been designed to facilitate the development of Web applications highly customized renderings and interactions as well as the most simple use cases. This talk will show how sigma can solve in action some common use cases, such as: - static graph visualizations: typically a graph that has already been "mapped" and exported from Gephi - dynamic exploration: for instance a neighborhoods exploration of a large graph - customized rendering: for example to make the graphs being displayed with a specific graphic guidelines - customized interactions: to adapt the behaviours to specific UX needs
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Two Villains and an Egg
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It was an average evening for the crazed mallard and his rat partner in crime. Running through the streets of Saint Canard from the masked hero Darkwing Duck after another failed scheme. Megavolt looked behind him to see how far away their opponent was.
“Quacky he’s gaining on us!” Megavolt looked back in the direction he was running. Quackerjack had been running ahead, but now he was gone. “Where did he-” upon running past an alleyway, the rat got his answer.
Quackerjack grabbed Megavolt by his battery strap, slamming him into a building wall, covering his mouth. The two hid in the darkness and silently waited for Darkwing to drive by. After seeing the lights of the Ratcatcher disappear into the distance, Megavolt shoved Quackerjack back sighing in relief.
“That was way too close!” Quackerjack turned around as his partner walked over to pick up the bag of light bulbs he’d dropped. “I’ll say!” Quackerjack responded, “That fuddy-duddy almost completely ruined our fun!’’ his smile quickly disappeared, however when his partner turned around to give him an annoyed look.
“Well maybe we would’ve had more time if you hadn’t led Dorkwing right to us.” Quackerjack looked shocked before crossing his arms and furrowing his brow. “So you’re saying this is my fault?” “Well, you’re the one who decided it was a good idea to leave a trail for him so tonight would become a ‘game of tag’, so yes! Actually, I am!” Megavolt retorted, getting close to Quackerjack’s face. Quackerjack angrily stared down the rat before huffing and going to sit next to a trash can.
The electric villain watched as his crazed partner went and sat down to pout before sighing and going back to check on his bulby brethren. He heard Quackerjack start sniffling behind him and felt bad. Sure, they argued and fought, but he had never made Quacky cry!
“Listen, Quacky, I’m-” the rat started before the crazed mallard interrupted him “Megsy,”. Megavolt turned around to look at the Mallard, “Y-yea-” what he saw upon turning around stopped him mid sentence.
Quackerjack was holding an egg and crying, “I'm gonna be a mommy”. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80096 | Hills Mountains
MOUNTAINS? Are the high hills and mountains in Genesis 7 the same?
The original question was: In Genesis 7 God first refers to the high hills being covered, and then to the mountains being covered. Do high hills and mountains have the same meaning in this context? Answer by John Mackay The King James Version of Genesis 7:19-20 reads: Verse 19: And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon […]
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BIBLE: Did Jesus actually write any parts of the Bible?
Answer by John Mackay Jesus is among the few so called founders of a religion – who never left any books, biographies or personal memoirs behind. Not during His earthly lifetime, anyway. He was on this earth as a human for approximately 33 years, from his birth to his crucifixion and resurrection and for some […]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80117 | Arduino Due + BT Dongle
Source Code: USBHost-Due-BT.tar.bz2
The Arduino Due uses an Atmel SAM3X8E microcontroller, and is capable of functioning as a USB host. Well, sort of: The USB Host library supplied with the Arduino IDE is apparently still a work in progress, so that it isn’t possible to attach a Bluetooth dongle and make it function as a BT serial adapter.
A Beaglebone and an Arduino epoxied to an aluminum plate.
A Beaglebone and an Arduino epoxied to an aluminum plate.
My goal was to be able to use the Due as a wireless serial port, for a Beaglebone that I wanted to use for a CNC controller project. It took three days of poring through the source code in /Applications/, the SAM3X8E technical reference manual, the USB 2.0 specification, and the Bluetooth 4.0 Core Specification to learn several things:
• The Arduino USBHost library is definitely work in progress – the USB Host Shield 2.0 library created by Kristian Lauszus of TKJ Electronics was written to work with another family of microcontrollers used in Arduinos (the Atmega AVRs). It doesn’t yet enable full use of the Arduino Due’s ‘native’ USB On-The-Go interface as a host interface;
• There is enough Atmel-supplied support library code, bundled with the Arduino IDE, to extend Lauszus’ SPP (serial port profile) and BTD (Bluetooth Device) classes, if you were willing to hack at the code;
• The USB Host Shield library Arduino code, when compiled for the Arduino Due, only speaks to endpoint zero, the USB control endpoint. Trying to read from the ill-named Interrupt endpoint (it’s actually polled) results in a timeout because initialization calls to set up data structures for endpoint zero were not applied to other endpoints on the Bluetooth device.
So what I ended up doing was extracting just three classes from Lauszus’ code – the SPP, BTD, and USBHost classes – and thrashing at the sample code to eventually yield this:
The Bluetooth dongle is attached to an Arduino Due using a USB OTG Host Cable, which in turn is powered by an external 12V power supply.
The code here (USBHost-Due-BT.tar.bz2, .tar.bz2) replaces the USB Host library. You can use a sketch similar to the one below to experiment with the library code (you’ll modify the .cpp and .h files containing classes SPP, BTD, and USBHost to hack the code into shape).
void serialEventRun(void) {
if (Serial.available())
if (Serial1.available())
void serialEvent1() {
// Serial1 -> Host
while (Serial1.available()) {
void serialEvent() {
// Host -> Serial1
while (Serial.available()) {
USBHost usb;
BTD dongle(&usb,"Arduino Due","123456");
SPP spp(&dongle);
boolean firstMessage;
#define LED 13
#define RXLED 72
#define TXLED 73
void setup() {
firstMessage = true;
Serial.println("Arduino Due - Bluetooth SPP\r\n");
void loop() {
digitalWrite(TXLED,usb.getNakFlag() ? HIGH : LOW);
if(SerialBT.available()) {
if(firstMessage) {
firstMessage = false;
SerialBT.println(F("Hello from Arduino")); // Send welcome message
firstMessage = true;
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80119 | How To: Apply Newton's laws of motion to thrust force w/ NASA
Apply Newton's laws of motion to thrust force w/ NASA
Learn Newton's laws of motion from the utmost authority on aeronautics -- NASA aka National Aeronautics and Space Administration. See how Newton's laws apply to aircrafts from the powerhouse of space exploration. They talk about thrust force as applied to aviation.
This NASA video segment from "Flight Testing Newton's Laws" explores how Newton's second law applies to the thrust force on an airplane. Viewers watch an instructor at NASA's National Test Pilot School and learn that an airplane's engines work to change the horizontal momentum of the air surrounding the airplane. Viewers also learn that this change in momentum is accomplished through increased propeller speed, increased propeller diameter or increased air pressure in the jet engines. Onscreen formulas and calculations represent the forces mathematically. For example, in one part, the instructor uses Newton's second law to derive an equation to find the minimum rpm's needed to provide enough thrust to an airplane.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80122 | Posts tagged ‘dad’
The wheels on the bus…
The other day in the bus:
I had just picked up my son from kindergarten, the bus had stopped at a red light and bus stop, the light turned green, we moved on, however, one car in the lane next to us honked at the driver in front of them to get moving, my son turns over in the direction of the honking car and yells for the entire bus to hear: “Stop with Tutu, or I’ll set you on fire!”
What is the correct parental response to this?
A high five?
Asking him where he picked THAT up?
Turning on Rammstein – Benzin?
I don’t know whether to be a proud dad, or to be worried. I don’t even know how to feel about this. There’s a delighted joy, there’s pride, but also worry and a bit of shame. (The people on the bus heard, they laughed, but surely also judged.)
FYI, I went with laughter, imagining a high five, and then asking him where he picked it up. He claimed he taught it to himself, that he’ll take a candle and burn the car…
Take care, A.
Keeping the gate
… closed. Real tight!
(An experimental father blog post)
During my vacation I got to spend a lot of time with my son.
Alone, out in the wild, where people are.
Where mothers roam.
Running around in an urban area one day, a suburban the next, rural one on day three, zoo, aquarium, playgrounds.
Everywhere you go as a dad with your child, you meet them.
The Mothers.
Especially the “MOTHERS”(tm).
And everywhere you meet them, they give you a smile.
Nice. Isn’t it?
It isn’t.
It is no smile of joy, of friendliness, of kindness.
This the contemptuous, belittling smile of a person about to drown a puppy.
If women were treated this way in hardware-stores, feminists would (rightly) tear them to the ground.
Brick by brick.
With that one “smiling” glance they let you feel how superior they feel over you, how they see you as an intruder into their realm, their domain, their existence. How they despise your very presence there, and think, or feel, that everything you do is wrong, that you are wrong for even attempting to spend time with your child alone.
These women define themselves, and validate their entire existence, through the fact they squeezed a human being out their vaginal opening.
There is no place for you, for a father, a man, in that world, the realm of the mothers.
Maternal gate keeping.
It’s a thing:
》A father maybe plays with the kids under maternal supervision, is permitted to accompany the “MOTHER”(tm) and the kids to the playground. But, and this is the most important thing, a true mother never, ever, lets her children leave the house with the father unsupervised.
A father does not feel or think with/for his children like a mother, thus can’t take care of the child(ren) like the mother.《
All that is implied in that one smile they give you.
Dads! Rejoice.
For these women lead the most pitiful life imaginable. Once the kids are old enough to leave the nest, once the menopause has begun to haunt their bodies, ravaging their self-validation with the undeniable fact that birthing is forever off the table, they have but a shallow empty ghost of a reason to live. Whilst we have memories of time spent with our children, the husbands (or lifepartners) of these despicable women will have memories of them spending time with children under maternal supervision that was as strict like a prison visit.
Relax fellow dads.
Smile back, and put all the pity you feel for these old hags who have lost the reason to live due to aging, in that smile.
Give them the same pity, the same contempt and dispise they give you. Disrupt their self image, for they expect a shocked expression, a shy or hurt glance, shame in your eyes. If you hand them back what they dish out, they are disrupted.
Maybe, just maybe, you can draw a “MOTHER”(tm) back to the realm pf normal people, and make her a normal mother.
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Scripture Deuteronomy 6:4-5New International Version (NIV) 4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. John 16:5-15New International Version (NIV) 5 but now I a...
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80139 | One of Those Obvious Discussions I Get to Be Disappointed We Need to Have
Fight: Mikasa awakens ― Detail of frame from Attack on Titan episode 6, 'The World the Girl Saw: The Struggle for Trost, Part 2'.
“I’m really tired of looking at weird penises every time I want to make a dinosaur joke or see if my ex-boyfriend is alive. This is just a fairly regular thing many of us deal with on social media, particularly if we are women.”
Julieanne Smolinski
You know, guys, she’s not wrong. Pay attention.
And no, I really don’t care if it’s not you, or it’s not your friends. Sexual harassment is not a recent invention. We don’t get to blame it on the pernicious influence of this Twitter demon. Get it the fuck together, guys. Is this really the one thing we can’t figure out?
What’s that? We’re not lost? Don’t need to stop for directions? We know what we’re doing? Bullshit. Get it the fuck together.
No, really, think about it: We know what we’re doing and this is what we’re coming up with? That’s even worse.
You had to think about it, didn’t you? Seriously: Pay attention, and get it the fuck together.
Smolinski, Julieanne. “Twitter Has Become a Park Filled With Bats and Perverts”. New York. 1 March 2016.
A Small Collection of Depressing Thoughts
Detail of frame from 'Darker Than Black: Gemini of the Meteor' episode 4, "The Ark Adrift on the Lake …".
“But every now and then, when the irony is just too rich, we can also permit ourselves a moment to say, Oh, you felt too concerned for your safety to hold your little rape rally? That must be so hard for you.”
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Two questions insistently assert themselves:
A year ago, Roosh penned an essay in which he offered a modest proposal: “Make rape legal if done on private property. I propose that we make the violent taking of a woman not punishable by law when done off public grounds.” He went on to explain, “Let’s make rape legal. Less women will be raped because they won’t voluntarily drug themselves with booze and follow a strange man into a bedroom, and less men will be unfairly jailed for what was anything but a maniacal alley rape.” Somehow this didn’t quite make it to the Supreme Court. (Also, it’s “fewer.”) But in January, he announced an International Meetup Day On February 6, 2016, promising, “will be the start of regular meetups that serve men in a way that internet sites do not.”
The plan, proposed for “heterosexual, masculine men” to gather for “165 meetings in 43 countries,” featured a secret code question fellow manly men could ask to signal each other — “Do you know where I can find a pet shop?” They were then to proceed to the “final location,” where, ostensibly, all three of them would say stuff like, “Bitches, man, am I right?” in bro solidarity. But while Roosh insisted that “Tribal meetings will not tolerate the promotion of illegal actions and will not engage in violence,” he also did vow that “I will exact furious retribution upon anyone who challenges you in public on that date.”
The first question to mind is both obvious and obscure: Just what is the target market, here? That is to say, just how many men from forty-three countries does one expect to turn up to one of a hundred sixty-five sites to celebrate the glories of rape? To the one, it’s a glaring question. To the other is a question of what that population would signify. There is, after all, the bizarre discourse swirling ’round the proposition of rape culture, in which there are the factions one might imagine―that is, those who rape and those who would stop them―but also a curious mix of seeming righteous deviancy gone awry. Or, I don’t know, is that too flaccid a euphemism?
These usually posture themselves against some straw man indicting all men as raping lunatics; generally speaking they then set about proving whence comes that indictment, which in turn is themselves. Those familiar with #NotAllMen and #WhatAboutTheMen know the phenomenon; it is spectacularly stupid, yet somehow finds traction―to wit, one might argue that rape culture is a politically-correct invention of liberals and feminists to something something demonize all men which is why this video of a chimp raping a frog to death makes the point that there is no rape culture because it explains rape better as something we all have in common.
And if you followed that, well, right, you’ve probably already had practice. If, to the other, you’re stumbling through that as if I have just repeated some incoherent nonsense, and thus wonder why you should take it seriously, that would make you just about normal.
A Disappointing Discussion
Detail of 'Ampersand' by Barry Deutsch, 1 September 2010.
This is not none of my business:
And even though I wanted to reply, to put each of those scared little baby men in their place, I held my tongue, I privated my account, and I waited in my car outside Ralph’s daycare until my hands stopped shaking and my heart slowed down.
I did this because unlike these men, with online pseudonyms, it’s me online. My face, my name. And because I am afraid of retaliation, I had to hide on the Internet the same way I’d have to run and lock my front door if this man had said that to my face.
That. Is. Rape. Culture.
It’s a group of men who are so threatened by the existence of female opinion that it’s nothing to them to toss off a tweet like that. Because, can’t I take a joke? Because, why am I such a bitch when a man just wants me to smile? Because, what business do I have posting a *gasp* selfie and telling men how to treat me?
This exchange, in the big scheme of things, is nothing. Really, these people are nothing to me and I could just keep ignoring it and pretend it never happened and hope that they let me slide out of their part of the Internet and stay on the sunny side. I’ve watched my husband die in my arms so on the scale of Shit That Matters, a few tweets… don’t.
Even in the big picture of the cesspool that is Twitter (Jack, dude, get it under control), this is nothing. Women experience worse. Every day.
That’s why this matters.
And this is stupid.
No, not what Nora McInerny Purmort has to say. No, no … that’s not what’s stupid. That she or anyone else still needs to say it is what’s stupid.
And, yes, I get to be disappointed that we must have this discussion.
Detail of frame from Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 02, 'Girls'.
One note about the passing of time is that the ravages of age compel me to recall―
It’s one thing to have swallowed “the red pill” in a small town in which your pick-up artist (PUA) exploits are likely to become general knowledge, but it’s another thing entirely to be an “alpha” on the prowl who also writes a blog and does a podcast about his conquests — especially after they become general knowledge.
Protesters gather outside Waking Life Espresso in Asheville, North Carolina, in September 2015, denouncing misogyny and the sexually harassing, predatory assertion of the pickup artist after the coffee shop's owners, Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens, were revealed by a local blogger as PUAs who advocate and blog their ideas and behavior. (Uncredited photo via is precisely the situation that two PUAs — Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens — find themselves in after Ashevilleblog published an article (based on information gleaned from an anonymous blog) about the owners of Waking Life Espresso and the online accounts of their exploits at Holistic Game and a Twitter account by the same name.
It’s not surprising that the West Asheville community is protesting and boycotting the coffee shop — especially the female members of it, who learned on Twitter that they’re not human beings so much as “an endless supply of hot young pussy,” or that “there are no ‘special’ girls,” merely “cool ones and lame ones.” The lames ones, according to the Holistic Game blog, “could help themselves immensely by reading a few classic novels and working out a little [but] they get attention regardless, so the motivation to better themselves isn’t present.”
―that not so long ago the idea of a pickup artist was regarded somewhere between being hapless, charming, and forgivable to the one, and admirable to the other.
This is, in its turn, worth mentioning because in the twenty-first century American society seems especially prone to forgetfulness about matters historical. It is one thing to point out the obvious but esoteric Schwarzkopf cycleα, for instance; but quite another to see a decade like the eighties so forgotten―fashion is one thing, but it’s not just Republicans who forget Ronald Reagan’s presidency, or the fights over abortion or condoms or even marital rape.
The idea of the pickup artist is particularly reviled right now, and for reasons we might consider exceptionally obvious. But it seems strange, in the age of #NotAllMen and #JustNotMe, how many of my peers seem a bit cloudy on the issue of how important it was for guys to get laid―by a girl!―when we were younger. And it’s one thing to invoke ego defense, but, really, what drives such suppression? Can self-indictment really be so powerful? Because, I swear, they’re not all running from memories of evils committed. And just how many self-inflicted wounds, such as it is, could they possibly visit upon themselves? Deutsch-20141009-detailOr is it possible that we really have been wandering so catastrophically astray for so long without even knowing it? The proposition seems unrealistic for both magnitude and necessary complexity. Yet one point at least remains occulted: How can we possibly forget?
Still, though, the question of the pickup artist has to do with refinement and ritualization of so much masculine privilege and subordinate expectation breathing life into one of the darkest and most persistent corrosions of our human clay. And as purity cult roars its disdainful lament, we ought not wonder why this most superficial art of charlatanry also finds itself bearing the sort of scrutiny it simply cannot withstand. The pickup artist is a distillation of what hashtags of wounded masculine pride would hope to ward off.
This is an unfortunate truth: The days of the pickup artist will never be over. But this is a time in which the mythopoeic station of this lonely, notorious art can be uprooted and redefined according to what it actually is and does.
And, you know, it really is about time.
Image notes: Top ― Detail of frame from Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 02, “Girls”. Middle ― Protesters gather outside Waking Life Espresso in Asheville, North Carolina, in September 2015, denouncing misogyny and the sexually harassing, predatory assertion of the pickup artist after the coffee shop’s owners, Jared Rutledge and Jacob Owens, were revealed by a local blogger as PUAs who advocate and promote their ideas and behavior via social media. (Photo via Bottom ― Detail of cartoon by Barry Deutsch, 9 October 2014.
α The Schwarzkopf cycle is a superficial frame for viewing history, starting with the period between 1953-91. At the front end is Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr., who helped overthrow Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq; the latter is when his son, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., led American forces in Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein, whose influence and respectability depended in large part on the American response to the Iranian reaction to Shah Reza Palavi. Explicitly: From father to son, it was still the same mission. And we are, of course, still working to clean up that mess, today.
Kaufman, Scott Eric. “North Carolina coffee shop on the rocks after misogynistic owners outed as podcasting, blogging red-pill enthusiasts”. Salon. 22 September 2015.
A Balassius Ruby to … er .. Yeah, You Know, Never Mind
Detail of 'Bug Martini' by Adam Huber, 12 March 2015.These are the times that try the soul; a silence in the chest that stretches like an echo of its own nothingness through which we wander groping at the murk until at last there rises that next pulse of life.
We ask ourselves, “Do I really want to know?”
So it goes.
Don’t ask. Just click.
Huber, Adam. “Boob Noob”. Bug Martini. 12 March 2015. |
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