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he Lomography Diana Mini is the cutest little camera I ever saw. It's plastic, it has two aperture settings (f/8 and f/11), and there's only one shutter speed (about 100th of a second). You focus by setting a plastic dial on the front of the lens assembly. It's a plastic toy, and it works! Best of all, it makes square pictures on 35mm film. That's highly unusual. In fact, I can't think of any other 35mm camera that does that.
Upon revisiting the Diana Mini after a long time (this article is from a couple years ago), I find it a refreshing break from "serious" photography. But maybe it could be "serious" if you're an artist. No one says your art has to be sharp as a Carl Zeiss lens. The only thing that kept me away from the Mini for a while was a stuck shutter, which it appears I've fixed with some powdered graphite. I had taken the camera half apart before I realized the repair was that simple. I've put a lot of rolls through that Mini, and it's still working.
Anyway, the square pictures are tons of fun, and film gives that nice mellow tonality that digital still doesn't offer after all these years. Looking at this gallery again, I'm already nostalgic. I think I'm going to bring out the Mini this spring and shoot some Velvia 100. It's all about fun... don't take yourself too seriously with this camera.
Then again, taking yourself too seriously is kind of tough when the camera is teensy and made of blue plastic.
Then One Day, A Mysterious Pair of Boots
Agfa Precisa 100
The Leica crowd seem to look at all this with a sort of amusement. To them, Lomography is a bunch of hipsters photographing each other in oversized plastic sunglasses. But really, ask yourself this.
Can your Leica make real cows look like scale models in a diorama? Yeah, I thought not.
Toy Farm Scene With Toy Cow
Superia 100
This camera can alter reality. I bet yours can't do that. So don't get all Leica-snobbed out on me, m'kay?
You know, I wasn't even into toy cameras. But then I saw the photos. I don't know what it is. These pictures are not quite like anything else.
Is That Even Real?
Superia 100
The surreal look of these pictures is a function of the plastic meniscus lens and its short focal length (28mm). Wide-angle distortion, vignetting, and occasional center overexposure... the Diana Mini has it all. It also takes square pictures. What more could you ask for?
A David Pearce Kind of Sunset
Fuji Superia 100
One thing that's nice about the Mini is that it takes 35mm film, whereas the Holga takes 120. Although I prefer 120 for its higher resolution, 35mm can be developed at the one-hour photo. So get a Mini and start takin' pictures with film. Tell these fat CEO's you don't need no steenking digital.
If you ever get stuck in a rainstorm, just make sure you dry the Mini out thoroughly. Don't heat it. Just put it in a dry place where it can air out (metal springs and moisture don't go well together), and you'll be good to go for next time. No electronics to short out!
Fuji Superia 100
The Diana Mini also does half-frame pictures. I like the square ones better, but half-frame pictures are cool because you can fit 48 pictures on a roll of 24, or 72 pictures on a roll of 36. Just be sure you don't try to switch the frame size partway through a roll. Either do a whole roll of square or a whole roll of half-frame.
By the way, another review points out that the Diana Mini is not the most robust camera. Although it does have some metal parts, there are a lot of plastic parts that could be brittle. I don't know what kind of plastic it is, but I can tell it's not something to roughhouse around with. Obviously, don't get dirt on the lens either, because you can't just use your shirt tail to clean it. (Not that you should do that with any camera!)
Just know the camera's limitations and you should be OK. I have run dozens of rolls of film through my Mini and it's still working without a hitch.
If you have a moderate amount of fine-motor skill, I don't think you'll have too much difficulty with this camera. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I did once or twice have a film jam in the Mini, and the way to fix it was to go into a totally darkened room and open the back. Advance the film with the back off. Then, put the back on again in the dark room. Make sure the back goes on properly, and don't forget to engage the locking lever. It could take a couple frames to get everything back on track, but go easy on it and it should smooth out again. Don't torque it; remember it's made of plastic.
The Mini has a bulb setting. That means you don't have to use it only during the day. This is a huge area of artistic possibility. 200 or 400 film is what I use for night shots. A typical street scene at night with streetlights is going to be 4 to 5 seconds on the "Sunny" setting (f/11) with 200 film. If the streets are bright, try 2 or 3 seconds.
If you're using 100 film you'll need to go 8 seconds, or put it on "cloudy"(f/8) and go 4 to 5 seconds. For night shots, obviously, bring a tripod. It is better to hold the shutter open and then use the lens cap to start and end the picture. You didn't lose your lens cap, right?
Kodak Gold 200
Make sure you don't leave it set on "bulb" for the daytime. I did that once with my Holga. Ever since then, I put a piece of tape on the switch.
If you shoot slide film in the Diana Mini, there's the option to cross process it (C-41). A lot of slide films will give a bluish or greenish hue when cross-processed. Astia 100 will give a red-magenta hue, but it's hard to find in 35mm. Velvia 100 will give reddish-purple hues when xpro'd. Of course there's also the legendary saturation when you process Velvia through regular E-6 the way it was meant to be. This requires sending it out to a lab that does E6, since one-hour photos don't have the capability.
You can buy Velvia online here. It's where I get mine. If you use any of the links to buy your stuff, it really helps me out.
Not every lab will do cross processing. You could ask ahead of time, or you could just hand them the film and not say anything. Some one-hour photo places won't do it if asked, because a lot of them seem to think it ruins the photo chems. It doesn't. That's an old wives tale, unless you do huge amounts of cross-processing without changing the chems. One-hour photo labs change them every night anyway, I'm pretty sure. Or at least they should.
This next picture was taken with cross-processed Agfa Precisa 100 (the newer stuff, not the old). It goes more green than blue.
Here you can really see the classic "Lomo" effect. This is not a photoshop filter, either. (I am pretty sure this was a Noritsu film scanner, by the way.) Photo labs tend to scan pictures with very high contrast, sometimes too much; this picture would look a lot better if I scanned it myself.
Agfa Precisa 100 (Xpro)
By the way, many people ask how to get the really high saturation with the Diana Mini. Slide film has the highest saturation, especially if you underexpose it a bit. The Diana Mini has only f/8 and f/11, so it's very easy to have that happen. Cross-processed slide film can have even higher saturation plus more contrast.
The easiest way to get saturation, though, is check the scan settings. They can make all the difference. Most scanner software has a saturation control. Some have color technology that corrects for the film's base color and restores fading.
One more thing. There is a Diana Mini deluxe kit that comes with a flash. It's the same flash they make for the Diana F+. It is good for taking pictures of fairly close objects (3 to 6 feet away). If they're a bit farther away, I use the "cloudy" aperture. Or, there's always 400 film. It's impossible to predict what to use for every situation. Better to try a roll or three and get it right.
That's part of the fun. Happy Thanksgiving...
Superia 100
If you're looking for strobist-quality portraits or Leica-sharp images, look elsewhere. The Diana Mini is what it is... a plastic toy "Lomo" camera that takes unique-looking pictures. I have used quite a few different cameras, and I keep picking up the Mini again and again.
Agfa Precisa 100
The Diana Mini is a lot of fun, and I highly recommend it. You can buy it online through this link. If you're looking for the one that comes with the flash, you can get it here. If you use any of these links to buy your gear, it helps support this site.
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BECK index / Contents / Index to Gospel Passages
Luke 10:1-37
After these things the Lord appointed seventy-two others,
and sent them two by two ahead of him
into every city and place where he intended to go.
And he said to them, "The harvest is large,
but the workers are few;
therefore ask that the Lord of the harvest
put workers into his harvest.
Go; look, I send you as lambs in the middle of wolves.
"Do not carry a purse, nor a bag, nor sandals;
and do not greet anyone along the way.
And in whatever house you enter,
say first, 'Peace to this house.'
And if there is a son of peace there,
your peace shall rest upon it;
and if not, it shall return to you.
And stay in the same house, eating and drinking with them;
for the worker is worthy of one's pay.
Do not move from house to house.
"And in whatever town you enter and they welcome you,
eat what they put before you, and heal the sick in it,
and tell them, 'The sovereignty of God has come near you.'
And in whatever town you enter
and they do not welcome you,
going out into its streets say,
'Even the dust clinging to our feet from your town
we wipe off to you;
yet know this: that the sovereignty of God has come near.'
I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom
on that day than for that town.
"Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you Bethsaida!
for if the powerful deeds happening among you
had happened in Tyre and Sidon,
long ago they would have repented
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Yet it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
You will go down to Hades.
"Whoever listens to you listens to me,
and whoever rejects you rejects me;
and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."
And the seventy-two returned with joy
And he said to them,
"I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Look, I have given you the authority
to tread on serpents and scorpions,
and on all the power of the enemy,
and nothing will harm you at all.
Yet do not rejoice in this that the spirits submit to you,
but rejoice that your names have been recorded in heaven."
In the same hour he was overjoyed by the Holy Spirit
and said, "I acknowledge you,
Father, Lord of heaven and earth,
because you hid these things from the wise and intelligent,
and revealed them to infants;
yes, Father, for this was pleasing before you.
Everything was given over to me by my Father,
and no one knows who the son is except the Father,
and who the Father is except the son
and to whomever the son chooses to reveal him."
And turning to the disciples privately he said,
"Blessed are the eyes seeing what you see.
For I tell you that many prophets and kings wished
to see what you see and did not see it,
And look, a certain lawyer stood up testing him
saying, "Teacher, by doing what may I obtain eternal life?"
And he said to him, "What has been written in the law?
How do you read it?"
And answering he said, "Love the Lord your God
from your whole heart and with your whole soul
and with your whole strength and with your whole mind,
and your neighbor as yourself."
And he said to him, "You answer correctly;
do this and you will live."
But wishing to justify himself he said to Jesus,
"And who is my neighbor?"
Taking him up Jesus said,
"A certain person was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
and he fell in among robbers,
who both stripping him and beating him
went away leaving him half dead.
And by coincidence a certain priest
was going down on that road,
and seeing him he passed by on the opposite side.
And likewise also a Levite coming upon the place
and seeing passed by on the opposite side.
"And a certain Samaritan traveling
came upon him and seeing was compassionate,
and approaching he bound up his wounds
pouring on oil and wine,
and putting him on his own pack-animal
he brought him to an inn and took care of him.
And on the next day taking out two days' wages
he gave it to the innkeeper and said, 'Take care of him,
and whatever you spend in addition
I on my return will pay back to you.'
"Which of these three seems to you to have been a neighbor
to the one falling in among the robbers?"
And he said, "The one who demonstrated mercy with him."
And Jesus said to him, "Go, and you do likewise."
Luke 10:1-37
55. Loving the Neighbor Synthesis 55 * Interpretation 55
56. On Prayer Harmony 56 * Synthesis 56 * Interpretation 56
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My Org Brain
Wouldn’t you like to have your own minimal concept-mapping system in emacs? I would!
The Premise
I am a huge fan of Org Mode. My ramblings about it in my Spacemacs posts are testimonial to this fact. Do have a read through them if you haven’t already.
Org Mode centralizes notes as its “first-class citizen” (so to speak). Hence, all functionality in org mode is built on top of notes. For example, org mode headlines can be made into TODOs and have a clock attached to them, or have a deadline attached to them or have tags associated to them and so on. This is all good when you want to brain-storm on a project idea and list out resources and tasks pertinent to that project. To this end org mode works perfectly and seamlessly. But after a certain point integrating all your ideas together into a cohesive unit that you can reference easily and navigate around is not possible in a linear outline fashion that org mode provides you with. You need a way to visualize a map of all objects of importance to you clearly.
The Principle
The basic idea is to be able to create relations between the items in your head in a hierarchial manner. Hence, there is a parent-child relation made between the objects under consideration. In an outline (like the one org mode provides us with) each object can have only one parent, that is, every sub-heading can comme under only a single heading. It turns out you can fix this issue.
In org mode you can assign IDs and properties to headings. Thus you can link a sub-heading to two or more headings using this ID (which can be unique to all the orgfiles you have). You can create this id using the following syntax
* Heading
:ID: <your-custom-id>
You can generate this custom id using M-x org-id-get-create.
Now you can store the link using C-c l and link it around your orgfiles.
But in this system you will still be viewing your ideas in a linear structure like an outline even though you have created a non-linear relation. This is where org-brain comes in.
The Payoff
The package org-brain written by Erik Sjöstrand or Kungsgeten is what comes in handy here. If you are using emacs just install it from elpa with M-x package-install org-brain RET and see the official repository for additional details regarding config and init (with use-package).
If you want to use use-package (you should), put the following in your ~/.emacs file
(use-package org-brain
:ensure t
(setq org-brain-path "/path/to/brain/folder")
(setq org-id-track-globally t)
(setq org-id-locations-file "~/.emacs.d/.org-id-locations"))
Now you can get started with org-brain and setup your own brain. Again look through the official repository for help.
If you want to use the default keybindings that the official package proides, make sure your editing style is emacs. Else, add the following to the :init section
(with-eval-after-load 'evil
(evil-set-initial-state 'org-brain-visualize-mode 'emacs))
If you want see and use my setup for org-brain and run through my tutorial head over to my repository org-brain-layer (EDIT deprecated) for more help. Until next time
Moriturus te Saluto!
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One ball dropped after another
June 10, 2008|By JEAN MARBELLA
Throughout a court proceeding to determine his fate yesterday, Kevin Johns mostly looked bored. He rolled his head around, tipped it back either to nod off or stare at the ceiling, and at least once turned around to check the clock behind him.
It was 11:20 a.m., and the judge was more than an hour into a litany about Johns' life and how it had come to this - at 25, on trial for his third homicide - and he was nowhere near finished with the remarks he wanted to make before announcing his verdict.
But was it boring? Well, to borrow a technique from Harford Circuit Judge Emory A. Plitt Jr. himself, whose 38-page transcript of those remarks came with 19 footnotes referencing sources that ranged from trial exhibits to Webster's, I will include a definition of boring: "To make weary by being dull, repetitive, or tedious."
Repetitive, for sure: The retelling of Johns's life was one ball dropped after another, one opportunity missed after another, one cry for help ignored after another.
Repeatedly, there were warnings of the danger he posed to himself or others that would go unheeded. Endlessly, there were diagnoses of mental illnesses - in one nine-year period, Plitt counted 10 psychiatrists and six psychologists who identified 14 disorders and prescribed 10 different medications - that would result in only fleeting or discontinued treatment.
Plitt found Johns guilty but not criminally responsible yesterday - Maryland's version of the insanity defense - in the 2005 murder of a fellow inmate, Philip Parker Jr., while aboard a prison bus. But his pre-verdict remarks had the effect of also putting the Division of Correction on trial, and while he stopped short of pronouncing it guilty as well, he certainly offered up quite an indictment.
"It seems to me that the death of Mr. Parker could have been avoided," Plitt said in part, during a section of his remarks that he titled "A preventable tragedy." Not to be confused with another section, titled "Unanswered questions."
Where to begin? Johns' family is a start: an utterly hopeless accumulation of pathologies that surely doomed him from the start. Johns was born to an alcoholic, drug-abusing mother and raised in a lead-poisoned atmosphere. The depressing outlines of his childhood can basically be summarized in a single sentence from Plitt's remarks: "At one time or another, every adult in the household abused all of the children." Schoolteachers and social workers - whom Plitt singled out for their "valiant attempts" to try to help this poor child - were rebuffed at seemingly every turn by his mother.
On and on went Plitt's dispassionate and yet devastating retelling of Johns' life: He was removed from his home but apparently abused in a foster home. He was sent to juvenile institutions, and received treatment and medication for his serious mental illnesses, but once he managed to get his GED, he was, in Plitt's words, put out on the street.
With nowhere to go, and no fixed address, any chance of treatment or medications went out the window. Soon he would become the problem of the criminal justice system: First he killed an uncle who had abused him as a child; then, while serving a sentence for that, he killed a cellmate. And through it all, Johns continued to display the same mental disorders that he had since childhood - the same homicidal and suicidal tendencies, the same inappropriate and violent behaviors, the same hallucinations and voices, the same mood cycles.
Boring, really, to hear the same alphabet soup of his disorders over and over again: ADHD, FAS, ASPD, ETC., ETC. They began to blur during Plitt's statement, merging with the various prison facilities that he would tour through: MRDCC, MCTC, MCAC, MCI-H, ETC., ETC.
And yet, at a certain point, prison officials decided to discontinue Johns' meds - a truly baffling decision given that he had been prescribed psychotropic drugs since the age of 9. Prison personnel suspected Johns of "malingering" - in essence, faking it - which, if he was, surely warrants some kind of acting award for lifetime achievement.
"I've never seen a more complete record of a psychiatric disorder that the 5,000 pages submitted to court," Johns' lawyer, Harry J. Trainor, told reporters outside the courthouse. "It's a remarkable history."
It is. Particularly the part right before he killed Parker, a time of increasingly disturbing behavior that alarmed doctors and fellow inmates alike and prompted several orders - some followed by the universally understood STAT - for treatment that he never got.
A referral order for a psychiatric evaluation? Plitt quotes a notation from his file: "Psychiatry did not follow up." A psychiatrist's order that he be transferred to Patuxent Institution for an emergency evaluation? "That was not done," Plitt states.
Until, that is, Parker was killed. Then, after Johns pleaded not criminally responsible, he was referred to Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center to be evaluated. After a lifetime of repeated diagnoses of serious psychiatric illness, two doctors there concluded that he did not have a mental disorder at the time of the crime that would render him unable to understand the criminality of his act.
They might have time to re-evaluate their evaluation: Over the objection of prosecutors, Plitt committed Johns to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for institutional in-patient care - in other words, to Perkins.
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Apparatjik is a transdisciplinary working collective founded in 2008 by four world-renowned musicians: Guy Berryman (London), Jonas Bjerre (Copenhagen), Magne Furuholmen (Oslo), and Martin Terefe (London). Apparatjik functions as an experimental platform and collaborates with a pool of artists, media technicians, and designers, as well as scientists such as Astrophysics Professor Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and curator and Associate Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Head of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.
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Mail Scripting: Part Deux #
Now that I have determined what the best (i.e. fastest) way to get Perl talking to AppleScript it is, it's time to actually get some data out of it. My first attempt was very simplistic: have a handler export all the data that I needed as a string (in this specific example, we're getting the list of mailboxes, but a similar approach can work for getting any sort of data out of the script):
on «event MailGMbx»
set output to ""
tell application "Mail"
repeat with i from 1 to mailboxCount
set output to name of item i of allMailboxes & "\n"
end repeat
end tell
return output
end «event MailGMbx»
This handler can be invoked with Mac::OSA::Simple's call method, and the result can be extracted by using Perl's split command. Some benchmarking revealed that this had reasonable performance for this particular case (there never are too many mailboxes), but that it degraded severely when dealing with more data. For example, getting a list of all the subjects, senders, dates, etc. of a mailbox with ~1000 messages took around 10 seconds. I initially thought that this was due to poor string handling in AppleScript (much in the same way that the String class in Java isn't meant for repeated appends, leaving that the string building tasks instead to StringBuffer). However, even not doing any appends in the loop (simply setting output to the current value) had similar behavior, performance-wise.
Since Mac::OSA::Simple's call function can handle lists as result values, I tried returning the name of every mailbox directly instead. Much to my surprise(or perhaps not - doing the iterations at a lower level was bound to be faster), that worked much better. In the mailbox case, the string building way took an average of 0.115 seconds per handler invocation, whereas returning a list directly took 0.0472 seconds. In even more demanding situations, such as the above-mentioned mailbox headers case, it was an order of magnitude faster.
Deviating a bit from the above, I also attempted a different method altogether. In my Googling yesterday, I came across Mac::Glue, an alternative way of bridging the Perl-AppleScript (or more correctly Perl-AppleEvents) gap. The module very cleverly loads the scripting dictionaries of applications, and creates a bit of glue code that allows interaction with AppleEvent objects directly from Perl, as described in this article. Thus there is no need to have an external script that is invoked from Perl; everything can be done from The One True Language. For example, the above mailbox-extracting case would be done as follows:
my @mailboxes = ();
my @mailboxesAE = $mailApp->prop("mailboxes")->get;
my $i = 0;
for my $mailboxAE (@mailboxesAE)
my $mailboxRef = {id => $i++,
name => $mailboxAE->prop("name")->get};
push(@mailboxes, $mailboxRef);
return @mailboxes;
However, it turns out that, despite the greater ease of use (and flexibility) that Mac::Glue allows, it's not going to be feasible to use it in my project, for two reasons. The first is that performance seems to be much worse; the above code runs at 1.97 seconds per call, an order of magnitude slower than even the string based method above. More importantly, it also has memory leak issues, with the above example losing ~2 megabytes per call (there were 52 mailboxes in the list). Since I will be using this from within a daemon process that has a long lifespan, this would not be acceptable.
The developer's journal has the answer as to why this is the case. Mac OS X changed the way data could be extracted out of AppleEvent descriptors (AEDescs). Rather than simply getting a handle to the descriptor's data portion, one must now allocate some memory and request that the data be copied there (with the original being out of reach). Mac::Glue, having started life as a Mac OS 9-era MacPerl module, does not fully take this into account yet. That is, it does the copying necessary, but it never disposes of the data once the Perl object goes out of scope or is otherwise garbage collected. Until this is fixed, this module is of limited use to me.
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If you haven’t yet heard of the Tabata Protocol, you’re probably still working out for hours on end at the gym. Am I right? The Tabata Protocol cuts through all that noise. In as little as 4 minutes, you can burn fat and sculpt muscle to give you the athletic body you desire. And this isn’t just a sweet dream. The Tabata Protocol has the science to back it up.
What exactly is the Tabata Protocol?
Tabata Protocol
Izumi Tabata in the lab with an athlete.
In 1996, researcher and professor Izumi Tabata created the Tabata Protocol at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Japan. Seeking to increase the body’s aerobic and anaerobic capacity, Tabata and his research team began a series of tests with the Japanese speed skating team. Head coach Mr. Irisawa Koichi wanted Tabata to test the effectiveness of his training, which included short bursts of maximum energy followed by a short rest.
With his researchers, Tabata tested subjects with a simple protocol: 10 minutes of warm-up followed by 8 rounds of 20 seconds maximum effort followed by 10 seconds of rest. The entire workout is 4 minutes. Maximum effort is at 170% of VO2 max, which is the highest amount of oxygen the body can consume and use for energy. This level of intensity is crucial to the effectiveness of this method of training.
The results, perhaps surprisingly, are huge. After a 4 minute session, the calories burned were that of a 60 minute moderate jog. Not to mention that after several weeks of this training, the speed skaters also reported increased aerobic and anaerobic endurance. And though not officially a part of the study, Tabata also found that this method increased the calorie burn and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) for up to 12 hours after working out.
Interestingly, in 1997 Tabata concluded that a similar method was not nearly as effective, reinforcing the specifics of the 20-10 protocol. (He tried 30 second bursts of work at 200 VO2 max with 2 minutes of rest.)
Tabata Intensity
This form of training, even at a mere 4 minutes, is not for the faint of heart. Get prepared to sweat and to barely catch your breath in the 10 second rest, which doesn’t begin to suffice as rest. You must sustain over the 4 minutes your absolute maximum effort despite your entire body screaming at you to stop. By the end your legs will feel like wet noodles and you’ll likely collapse for a solid few minutes. But then you’re done, and you have 1,336 minutes left in your day to do all the other important things in life. Imagine all that time you’d save not driving to the gym and wasting away hours.
Tabata Protocol Circuit
Perform each exercise with maximum effort during the 20-second bursts, and recover during the 10-second rest periods. Repeat each of the following exercises one time for a total of 4 minutes. You can also pick one exercise to complete for the 8 rounds.
EXERCISE 1: Cockroach
EXERCISE 2: Rotating Jump Lunge
EXERCISE 3: Sprawl and Jump
EXERCISE 4: Weighted Wood Chop
EXERCISE 5: Frog Jump
Drop into a squat, then jump in the air with the knees tucked up. Repeat quickly.
EXERCISE 6: Single Leg Burpee
Start in the push-up position. Jump in with one leg, and then jump up, bringing the opposite knee toward the chest. Repeat on the other side. If this is too difficult, perform the burpees with both legs.
EXERCISE 7: Single Arm Kick Through
Start in a push-up position. Shift your body weight toward the right arm, and then kick to the left with the right leg. Alternate the movement on your left and right sides quickly.
For a less-advanced version, keep both hands on the ground and alternate knees to the chest rapidly, similar to a mountain climber.
EXERCISE 8: Crab Lunge
Start in a deep squat and lean back into a crab-walk position. Take a small weight (2.5-5 lbs.) in one hand, using the other to balance on the floor. Swing the weight back over your head, adopting the crab position. Alternate sides and repeat quickly.
Additional Resources:
Izumi Tabata at Ritsumeikan University
Body Building’s The Real Tabata
Men’s Health’s The Unbelievable 4 Minute Workout
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/* $OpenBSD: bf_ofb64.c,v 1.4 2014/06/12 15:49:28 deraadt Exp $ */ /* Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young ([email protected]) * All rights reserved. * * This package is an SSL implementation written * by Eric Young ([email protected]). * The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL. * * This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as * the following conditions are aheared to. The following conditions * apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, * lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation * included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms * except that the holder is Tim Hudson ([email protected]). * * Copyright remains Eric Young's, and as such any Copyright notices in * the code are not to be removed. * If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution * as the author of the parts of the library used. * This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or * in documentation (online or textual) provided with the package. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software * must display the following acknowledgement: * "This product includes cryptographic software written by * Eric Young ([email protected])" * The word 'cryptographic' can be left out if the rouines from the library * being used are not cryptographic related :-). * 4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from * the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledgement: * "This product includes software written by Tim Hudson ([email protected])" * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * * The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or * derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be * copied and put under another distribution licence * [including the GNU Public Licence.] */ #include #include "bf_locl.h" /* The input and output encrypted as though 64bit ofb mode is being * used. The extra state information to record how much of the * 64bit block we have used is contained in *num; */ void BF_ofb64_encrypt(const unsigned char *in, unsigned char *out, long length, const BF_KEY *schedule, unsigned char *ivec, int *num) { BF_LONG v0,v1,t; int n= *num; long l=length; unsigned char d[8]; char *dp; BF_LONG ti[2]; unsigned char *iv; int save=0; iv=(unsigned char *)ivec; n2l(iv,v0); n2l(iv,v1); ti[0]=v0; ti[1]=v1; dp=(char *)d; l2n(v0,dp); l2n(v1,dp); while (l--) { if (n == 0) { BF_encrypt((BF_LONG *)ti,schedule); dp=(char *)d; t=ti[0]; l2n(t,dp); t=ti[1]; l2n(t,dp); save++; } *(out++)= *(in++)^d[n]; n=(n+1)&0x07; } if (save) { v0=ti[0]; v1=ti[1]; iv=(unsigned char *)ivec; l2n(v0,iv); l2n(v1,iv); } t=v0=v1=ti[0]=ti[1]=0; *num=n; }
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Insects in mid-winter
Still pretty mild for January - mild enough for these insects to be active:
An unidentified fly feeding on winter flowering sweet box (Sarcococca confusa) this afternoon, carrying a lot of pollen on its hairy body. The books say that sweet box is highly scented - but not to me, I can't smell it. Maybe it's similar to the ability to smell Freesias - some can, some can't. Sweet box certainly attracts flies, though.
Owl midges, about 3mm. long, on the surface of rainwater in a bucket in the garden. They are breeding in vast numbers in the compost bin during this mild weather - every time I open the lid swarms fly out and are fatally attracted to the water. For more on owl midges click here and here and here .
A booklouse (psocid), less than 2mm. long, living in a bag of walnuts (imported from France) that we stored in our conservatory. For more about this unusual but very common little insect click here
1. I was surprised yesterday when I had a large wasp in the kitchen. Don't ever remember seeing one in January before.
2. I guess it must have been a queen that had been coaxed out of hibernation. One decided to spend the winter in a finger of my gardening gloves once - a very painful discovery!
3. Think I ate two "fly's" yesterday, walked through a large group of them swaming round the hedges leading to the park. Took me a little by surprise, the sun was out so it was quite warm out of the wind...
1. Bad luck Amanda! I believe it's an occupational hazard for joggers too...
4. Phil
I am probably wrong but is the first fly not a small one of these?
Hard to tell from your pic but I understand they limit their size growth when food is in short supply and I have seen several very small ones in the last few weeks.
1. Hi David, I think you're right - I suspected as much from the general features but the markings made me doubtful - but the food issue explains it - thanks!
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Thursday, 28 February 2013
Sea of Love.
We all need a trip to the sea. I go pretty often as that is where my Sailor boyfriend lives. ( He's not actually a Sailor).
But this time it was different, as we had the keys to our very own Cottage by the Sea. We lived next to the fire, next to the sea and best of all, next to each other.
As it turned out, we did far more outdoor element braving activities than I had planned for. I had packed for posing next to the sea, not for hiking alongside it. Although I never dress like it, I love spending time outdoors in physical activities. I refused to give in to 'practical' and my Bettie Page dress & I conquered the 60mph Sheringham winds. My ass froze, my Keds gave me mega blisters but my faux bangs stayed in and I came out the otherside without resorting to the waterproof trousers and was rewarded Fish and Chips at the end of it all.
Our Roles soon became established...
Man: Fire Starter & Photographer
Woman: Head Chef. Alas, no photo evidence!
Rock Climbing and Road Cycling.
Outfit deets...
Left: Pants- Tara Starlet, Turtleneck- American Apparel, Necklace- Luxulite, Shoes- Keds
Middle: Dress- Bettie Page, Boots- Miss L Fire
Right: Dungarees- Tara Starlet, Cardigan- Hopkinsons, Boyfriends bed socks!
Love as always, Lucille xx
1. I wish I dressed that fabulously when I go away - I'm afraid I'm a wellies and waterproof jacket type when the elements are against me. Red lippy always a concession though!
P x
2. Just found your blog! You are so adorable! And I am jealous of your fabulous Miss L Fire shoes! Definitely following :)
3. Oh how I loved these pictures. You looked fabulous! Good for you for not sacrificing fashion for comfort, but I feel bad that your feet hurt and you froze!! :) When I get my roots done the next time I am going to bring my computer and show her your pics and ask her to style my hair like yours. If it turns out well I'll send you a pic!!
4. You both look fab and like you had a great time! Love your outfit choices, and of course your hair :)
5. Sounds like an amazing weekend. You look stunning in all these photos!
<3 Melissa
6. Fabulous - I love the seaside in the winter. And seaside fish and chips too, obviously! x
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All posts by Carsten
Our GIS is too small
Very nice paper by Mark Gahegan. Here’s the abstract:
Cards Against Humanity’s Pulse of the Nation →
R for Data Science →
AI for Earth Grant from Microsoft
I have been awarded a grant from Microsoft as part of its AI for Earth program. The grant will be used to develop high-resolution spatialized population projections, which will take population projections from the shared socioeconomic pathways and use a geosimulation approach to distribute the projected populations on a map. The resulting maps can then be used to assess the number of people who will be directly affected by climate change.
I am among the first grant recipients of AI for Earth, first launched in July 2017. The grant process was a competitive and selective process and was awarded in recognition of the potential of the work and power of AI to accelerate progress. To date, Microsoft has distributed more than 35 grants to qualifying researchers and organizations around the world. Microsoft just announced their intent to put $50 million over 5 years into the program, enabling grant-making and educational trainings possible at a much larger scale.
New Paper: A Geoprivacy Manifesto
I have a new paper out in Transactions in GIS, together with Grant McKenzie. A Geoprivacy Manifesto has taken us quite a while to write, the initial idea came up after our workshop on Geoprivacy at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2014 (!), so I’m really glad this one is finally out. Here’s the abstract:
As location-enabled technologies are becoming ubiquitous, our location is being shared with an ever-growing number of external services. Issues revolving around location privacy—or geoprivacy—therefore concern the vast majority of the population, largely without knowing how the underlying technologies work and what can be inferred from an individual’s location (especially if recorded over longer periods of time). Research, on the other hand, has largely treated this topic from isolated standpoints, most prominently from the technological and ethical points of view. This article therefore reflects upon the current state of geoprivacy from a broader perspective. It integrates technological, ethical, legal, and educational aspects and clarifies how they interact and shape how we deal with the corresponding technology, both individually and as a society. It does so in the form of a manifesto, consisting of 21 theses that summarize the main arguments made in the article. These theses argue that location information is different from other kinds of personal information and, in combination, show why geoprivacy (and privacy in general) needs to be protected and should not become a mere illusion. The fictional couple of Jane and Tom is used as a running example to illustrate how common it has become to share our location information, and how it can be used—both for good and for worse.
[DOI:10.1111/tgis.12305 / Preprint PDF]
GeoNotebook →
GeoNotebook is an application that provides client/server environment with interactive visualization and analysis capabilities using Jupyter, GeoJS and other open source tools.
I use Jupyter notebooks all the time when I write Python code, so I definitely need to give GeoNotebook a shot.
New paper out in Transactions in GIS: Extracting central places from the link structure in Wikipedia
• Carsten Keßler (2017) Extracting Central Places from the Link Structure in Wikipedia. Transactions in GIS 21(3):488–502.
The published version is available from the TGIS website, a preprint PDF is available right here. I’ll also present this at the ESRI User Conference in San Diego next month.
While we’re at it: IJGIS has also published a brief book review online that I wrote about Glen Hart and Catherine Dolbear’s Linked data: a geographic perspective.
The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric →
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Alain L. LockeThe Biography of a Philosopher$
Leonard Harris and Charles Molesworth
Print publication date: 2008
Print ISBN-13: 9780226317762
Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: February 2013
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226317809.001.0001
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Alain L. Locke
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Alain L. Locke's personal growth would vex and enrich him, as the long maturation preceding his Howard University appointment continued, though deepened in tone and substance. The 1920s were to be one of the most storied of American decades, and for Locke they were to unveil some of his most resounding triumphs. His ability to conceive of “colossal” projects persisted, driving him energetically to increase his learning, use his skills, and shape his sense of worth and purpose. It was in the emotional aftermath of his mother's death that Locke prepared his first will. Never physically robust, he may have acted out of both grief and premonition. In any case, he named Helen Irvin Grossley as his executrix; she had been a supervisor in the Camden schools where she and Mary Locke formed a fast friendship.
Keywords: Alain L. Locke, Howard University, Helen Irvin Grossley, Camden schools, Mary Locke
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Zee or Zed? The Question of Conflicting English Dialects
The English language is a multinational, multicultural language spanning centuries of war, colonialism and great social reform, and is now seen by many as the modern language of business. The question that inspired this article, is why an English-speaking nation like Ireland has acquired a superiority complex over other English-speaking countries (America in particular), that has potentially fuelled into our racist/discriminative culture. Regardless, our main concern should be whether English can still be considered a homogenous language and if not, can particular English dialects be considered superior to others? Unfortunately, this opens up a vast array of further questioning. Take Canada as the first example, it is evident throughout history that Canadian-English has tried to remain as ‘English’ as possible but has also had great influence from American dialect after the Civil War. Can this Canadian dialect be considered English, or only technically ‘English’? And if so; can it even be defined as its own language?
For the purpose of this article let us call into question the American-English, Irish-English and Canadian-English dialects of the original language. A large majority of these questions can centre around colonialism, for example, the American dialect. During the colonisation of the Americas, a large majority of the Northern America was colonised by the British, with a considerable proportion of America’s current citizens descending from countries such as Ireland (35,523,082), Africa (41,284,752), France (9,136,092), Italy (17,558,598), Germany (49,206,934), Denmark (4,810,511), Poland (9,739,653) and England (26,923,091). This is noteworthy as the Americas remained under British rule until the American Revolution. Thus, the dominant language became English, therefore the ancestors of current American citizens were either English speaking colonists or natives, compelled to learn the language.
Throughout the years of colonisation, the English language has changed considerably. For example, we no longer speak the language of William Shakespeare or Geoffrey Chaucer, but these dialects or versions of English are still considered ‘English’. Due to the evolution of the language, other countries such as Ireland and England have established the derogatory opinion that Americans don’t speak English, they speak ‘American’. America is recognised today as an English-speaking nation, much like Ireland, demonstrating that languages have evolved and diverged over the years. For example, given that the state of New York was a former Dutch colony it was inevitable that this language would have a lasting effect on the English spoken there today. Lasting colloquialisms still seen today are phrases such as ‘she was madder than a wet hen’ in the south, referring to a farming technique used to calm down a hormonal hen temporarily. Other phrases being ‘he’s schnookered’, used in the Midwest to describe someone who is heavily intoxicated, however, this phrase can also be found in Ireland, but meaning ‘he’s in trouble’.
The Irish-English dialect isn’t the English that Britain uses today either. For example, the term scallion is only used in a handful of countries around the world, including Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Korea, whereas others refer to it as spring onion or even shallot. Another example of influence on our own dialect is Irish colloquialisms and the resurgence of the Irish language in 1893 by Douglas Hyde, founder of Conradh na Gaeilge. During the Irish revival between the 1890’s and 1920’s, many old Irish traditions were assimilated back into Irish society and culture. Due to people like Lady Augusta Gregory, Irish myth and lore was no longer a thing of the past but now a pivotal role in literature and education, even to this day students still learn about Oisín i dTír na nÓg, for their Leaving Certificate. The increase in enthusiasm around this resurgence of lost aspects of Irish culture caused a widespread recognition towards Irish phrases. Some common Irish phrases that are associated solely with Ireland are ‘craic’, ‘scéal’, and pronunciation in some regions like Cork and Kerry changing these even further.
Having spoken on the effect of one country’s influence on the English language and it’s dialectic evolution, let us now become philosophers and try to wrap our minds around the effect of the cultural mixing pot and the cultural melting pot on the language. For countries such as America and Australia, who had influence from several cultures and languages including Aboriginal languages, English etc., and hence have become cultural mixing bowls of all these countries. Australia had over 250 different Aborigine language groups in 1788, combined with English, Irish, Chinese, Dutch and Indian influences. However, when we speak of the effect of culture on the language and its evolution, it cannot be ignored that ethnicity, skin colour, and gender set the tone for history, up to (and including) the modern era. Evidently, the effect that even a handful of foreign cultures and their languages have had on the country’s current Australian-English dialect is massive.
To finish off this point on cultural melting pots and mixing bowls, I leave us with something to boggle the mind. If we try to explain to ourselves the effect of Polish immigrants in Ireland who’s second language is Irish, raising children in Ireland with both polish and their polish influenced English, educated in Irish schools learning the Irish-English dialect, with the added effect of their Irish-Polish accents. Can we then categorise the dialect of these children? Ergo, we must consider that, while English is not a homogenous language, its competing form and variations must still be considered ‘English’.
English is a complex language with multiple dialects, but the original purpose of the article was to determine why we as an Irish nation, of multiple cultures, feel as though our Irish-English dialect is superior to the American-English dialect. Is it an easy solution to say that it is part of our slightly discriminative culture? Or is it a more deeply rooted answer, in which we have combined our language and the English language to create our own personal, distinctive language in order to find acceptance in the irreversible effect of our colonisation?
By Kathryn MacRedmond – Features Writer
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In the New Entry dialog box, enter the new buddy's nickname and the server(s) he uses.
Optionally, you can include first/last name, and email.
To add a buddy icon (or "buddy picture"), drag an image file from the Finder to the Buddy Icon box. JPEG, GIF, and TIFF formats are supported, and possibly others. Make sure the image is square, otherwise it will be stretched when displayed.
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Multiple Web Services
Hi Bob,
I’m wondering if it is (or might be in the future) possible to send data to multiple web services?
For my EmonTXs, I have EmonHub configured to log to both (for cloud data backup), and a local emoncms (for normal graphing). I’m also rather curious about InfluxDB - I saw the IoTaWatt config for it, but I’m not sure I want to commit my data to just there (for the moment)!
Maybe something that needs to wait for asynchronous logging?
P.S. Love the device, thanks for all the hard work!
It’s definitely possible, but you guessed it, need to get the asynch HTTP working so it doesn’t slow the sampling down. The plan now is to allow any number of external servers, and to expand to include stuff like MQTT as well. I’m hoping to get the async HTTP into the code over the next few weeks, and then see the demand.
There are a few influxDB users now, and I guess it’s working fine. I don’t have a test instance right now.
From my perspective, what you have with the TX going to the Pi and then on to Emoncms is the same thing as using the IoTaWatt with Emoncms. The IoTaWatt keeps all of the data local and will serve it up on the local LAN or via a VPN or Port forwarding portal from the internet.
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Very early on that day she had retreated to her clearing. Almost completely surrounded by high thorny bushes it was her own place, impossible for an adult to get into and hard for a child unless they knew the way. Leaves high above shaded the falling sunlight green and here she sat, hugging her legs, with her head resting on her knees and trying not to cry. Alone was such a hollow sounding word but it perfectly described the feeling in her chest. She always knew she was alone, in the same way that she knew her name was Tiasal, but on occasions like today, however, it expanded until it was an almost physical presence. A bubble of silence and isolation, growing until she felt she could nearly burst with the pressure. Of course there was always Inkyrius and Elan and Haley and the rest but they weren’t hers, not really, and they had other people that needed them. On days like today she missed her parents fiercely and hated them in equal measure for leaving her alone.
Dark eyes watched her from a high branch. Blackwing knew the pain and loneliness she would be feeling today as he felt some of it himself. He fluttered down, landing in front of her huddled form, and waited until she looked up at him.
“I know you’re missing your parents and your feeling a bit left out today but, well, I guess I'm just trying to say I know what you’re going through. I miss Vaarsuvius like Hell but I know, one day, we’ll get her back. Just remember there are people here that love you, even if they forget to show it sometimes.”
Raising a shaking hand she wiped the tears from her eyes and offered a tentative smile.
“Thanks Blackwing,” she whispered. “Happy Valentine’s Day to you too.”
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TV award
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Elevator passageway crossword
In our website you will find Elevator passageway crossword. Crosswords With Friends is divided into many categories named by each weekday. Our team is working each day in solving and sharing the answers for this game as soon as possible with you.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
At the End, Art
As my dad would say, at the moment I barely have time to wipe my arse (good old dad) so there will be no full-on blog this week.
Instead, and with Stitches due to appear in Fear and Trembling in a few weeks, I decided to share this poem with you that no one wants. It's too long!
Size, apparently, matters...with poems.
I have a few more smaller pieces out there and also some appearing in Bandersnatch publications (such as Ezra Pound. Cover on the right there) but I still don't see myself as a poet. Still more Sherie's forte than mine. Anyhoo, here it is. I hope you enjoy it. It's free. Quit bitchin'.
At the End, Art
Glass doors wide to swallow thee
to a house of pain and surgery.
Of faces carved of stress and worry
with teary eyes and noses runny.
Through the masses, approach the keeper,
take the elevator and go down deeper,
within the bowels of this medical devil,
head for the show on the basement level.
At door B12 your footstep fades.
He studies you through Rayban shades.
Flash the ticket, the mountain smiles
showing you through in brutish style
into a room wide and filled with glamour,
the stench of money, fall of the hammer.
“Sold!” a man cries to the gathered art fans
of financial kings with orange tans,
filthy popstars, corrupted law.
“Next lot is number 104.”
All eyes turn to yonder door
at the sound of wheels across tiled floor.
Women garbed in rubber shoes
white outfits and tabards blue,
push a frame next to the stand.
The opening bid is at five grand.
Lot 104? You consult the guide.
A highway smash by a Spencer Hyde.
Last October, he didn’t think,
took the car after too much drink
and lost control, a leg, an arm
and several quarts near Hanlon’s farm.
To the hospital, Hyde was rushed
on a gurney, the doors were pushed
open into the emergency room
and as the clock hit noon he met his doom.
On the bed sheet, his life’s blood poured,
and after framing, Lot 104.
A crimson stain on stark, white linen,
brought inside by laundry women.
On this sheet is where he died,
the stain what’s left of Spencer Hyde.
An Irish singer, money to burn,
raises his paddle and takes his turn.
“Going once, twice, sold!” cries the auctioneer,
Lot 104 to the winning bidder,
who grins contently, displaying his passion
to hang in secret in his Dublin mansion.
Lot 312 is wheeled out next,
to excited whispers and craning necks.
Suspended and taut, this colourful canvas
tells the story of pain and madness.
Drugs ran the life of Jo McBride,
that was until her suicide.
Bugs on walls. Bugs on skin.
To deal with her invasion within:
an extra hit to send away,
and if that failed, she’d make them pay
using a knife snatched from her kitchen,
she’d carve them from her porcelain skin.
On her canvas, her last outline
of blood and vomit and lime urine.
Her death so painful, long and slow,
a perfect prize for this here show,
and soon it’s sold and whisked away,
another few grand for the doctors’ pay.
A waiter circles serving wine.
You take a glass to pass the time
and wet your throat. The time is near,
glance at the guide and wipe a tear.
This sheet is blank, Lot 401,
of Cancer victim Lou Leyton.
You know the story, through and through,
of the award winning actress Lou.
A shining star of stage and screen,
made her fortune in her teens
till tumour stole her later years.
The doctor confirmed her greatest fears
that she would no longer play a part
but at her passing, she left her art
onto the sheet. It looks so plain,
no pattern, nor mark, mere ghost of pain.
The bidding starts, you bide your time.
The cost hits seven, then eight, at nine
raise your hand, enter the fray,
throw in your hat, agree to play.
A fat man winks, the price goes higher.
You grit your teeth at the potential buyer.
Hand up once more, you stake your claim,
yet fat man follows and does the same.
The war plays out, pendulum swinging,
and at fifty grand, your heart starts singing.
Your enemy’s out, he knows he’s done.
You’re the proud owner of Lot 401.
At 1am, you step outside.
The contract’s done, the cheque’s been signed.
Breathing easy, first time in weeks,
since the orderly’s words had leaked
and told you of the special show,
whom to see and where to go.
Your darling Lou, your loving wife.
You had her love, you’d shared her life
and in your hands her missing part,
her last moment, her final art.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
Now with old, badly-written free fiction!
Got a message today: Where is your blog for this week? Your blog is one of the more interesting blogs I read ;).
To which I replied: nothing interesting enough has happened to warrant a blog this week.
Thanks, Jeanna, but the statement still stands. Nothing interesting has really happened this week. The boring aspects of my life (housework, reading - which I love but it's pretty boring to watch - and the never-endin', form-fillin', reference-seekin', document-certifyin', wheeler-dealin' visa bullshit whoooo!) have taken over. The things I wanted to talk about are still a bit hush hush from various editors... So there you go.
Nothing to report.
At all.
No. Yes. A little. I decided that now would be a convenient time, what with all this craziness about novels coming out this year with German versions and all this madness, to take a minute, grab a can of Bundy (and I would have no idea what that is 18 months ago), and take a walk down my writer's memory lane. That's the reason I have that old picture up there, back when I had the long hair and my own writing office back in the UK.
Back in the good (pfft!) old days.
I have enough published short stories for a decent sized collection (and there may be developments in the next few months on that...if the editor still wants to go ahead with it), even with the stories that get lost over the years, both published and trunked.
I love the notes at the back of an anthology, and hope I can do that with each of my short stories. But what about these beloved lost stories? What were they about, and where did they appear? Indulge me in my reminiscing...
Hopefully, we can see that my story ideas improved over the seven years I've been writing, and for you readers that like a little more gravy on your meat...how's this: a posting of one my oldest stories UNEDITED. Yup. you can see how truly awful I was! I do love this story, as it was my first paid gig, but it needs a severe clean up should it ever see the printed page again!
Anyway, the stories. Ah, memories...
THREESOME - A guy isn't satisfying his girlfriend, and she's organised a threesome with a guy she met at the gym. He's against the idea, but goes along with it because, after all, he loves her, right? His flatmate Hellin is against the idea, and puts some very murderous suggestions in his head...
While this fella is hammering his partner, our protag decides to hammer him. Literally.
This story was the first short story I ever wrote after finishing my school years. After a few months of floating around, it was picked up for the anthology BLEED MY HEART ROMANTIC. It had a great cover (I can't find it anymore on Google) but it sadly never came into existence. Thus is the publishing world of a then newbie writer.
THE WHORE AND SICKLE INN - Now a place for pints and gossip in SAMHANE and a section of my website (!), this old inn was the scene for murder back in 2003, as a barman sinking in debt resorts to murder of the landlady to ease his financial worries.
I believe the character was still working in the W&S Inn when SAMHANE came about, but he was much nicer...and thankfully for the plot, more informative!
This story was never picked up for publishing, and I don't blame them. It was shit.
MY ROOTS - Completely overhauled for a 10k rewrite for the Decimate anthology for Wild Child Publishing (the anthology had lots of great stories but sold like hot cakes...in the Sahara) the original had a similar but simpler concept.
A plant breaks free from its mindless existence and tries to be human, eventually finding love with the owner of the garden from which it sprung. There's just one thing spoiling his dream: her husband.
A prime example that sometimes, if rarely, the remake can be better.
GORGE ON GEORGE - Originally titled Long Pig Pie, this was my first venture into horror-humour, starring a couple of cannibalistic old age pensioners. It was a bit like the I.T Crowd episode Moss and the German (but was written earlier with gore!). This was snapped up by the same editor that wanted THREESOME to be in an anthology called GORE-MET CUISINE and again, this folded.
CHUCKLES THE CLOWN - One of my favourites as we get yet more future SAMHANE characters slugging it out, this time with our favourite Pedo-clown abducting Detective Mill's grandson on a summer's day. Looking back, there was nothing clever about this one. Just cheap shocks.
But then cheap shocks are good every so often, right?
HIGH STAKES - A legit publication in NIGHT TO DAWN #8, but sadly lost somewhere down the line. Vampires play poker with an expected mother, with endless riches and security against her unborn fetus. Wasn't too bad this one, actually. Better then it sounds!
HE WALKS IN THE SNOW - My attempt at a literary piece. Did it work? Well it didn't sell. Did the editors not get it? Or was it simply rubbish? Yeah, yeah, I know...
A fairytale set in the Black Forest of turn of the century Germany, and loosely based on a Canterbury Tale by Chaucer (oooh, get me!), this follows a brother and sister and their father's stern warning not to play outside when the snows come, or they will see Death himself. Guess what happens next?
I wish I still had this one actually.
90% PERSPIRATION, 10% MUTILATION - Set in a gym, all that worked off sweat is pissed off and starts to attack the customers, blob style. No surprises, didn't sell.
DO YOU WANT THE MONEY, MR EVANS? - Quite bizarre as the poor landlord Mr Evans finds himself locked in a nightmare cycle with an axe murder (that turns out to be him) and a giant spider (which also turns out to be him. I said it was bizarre, right?).
This was the top rated story for 14 days at the writing group I was part of at the time, which made me quite proud, yet it never sold. Still, helped me get through the angst with my landlord I was going through...
INNER BEAUTY - In Victorian times, a man breaks into a cyrpt and rapes a corpse.
I'm hanging my head in shame right now.
SLAY BELLS - A Christmas story. surprisingly.
Two young thieves break into the wrong house after conning an elderly lady that they're carol singers that need the toilet. All I can remember is something twitching in a jar, the old woman breaking her neck and the boys eyes getting replaced by lumps of coal courtesy of a psychotic skeletal Santa Claus as the finale. Merry Christmas.
Thankfully, that's all the stories that were lost, and looking back, maybe that was a good thing?
Here (with the original artwork, which I still adore, despite the artist spelling hamburger wrong on the window) is the copied and pasted first paying story I ever wrote. UNEDITED. Expect many eye rolling moments.
What's this? Multiple punctuation marks!?
Oh crap!
Anyway, to my loyal legion of readers, I hope you both enjoy it.
Enjoy it with
The smell of bleach, salt and cooking fat hit Joanne the moment she opened the large glass door to Kelly’s Kitchen. She had always wondered who Kelly was, an actual cook that had opened her own chain of fast food restaurants? Or merely a kindly figurehead created by the franchise for a friendlier image? Either way, Kelly’s Kitchen was all over the country, selling burgers, fried chicken, fries and all the other junk foods to that the other chains sold.
Joanne mentally corrected herself. It wasn’t junk food, just good food made fast. It was one of the corporate slogans that she regularly told her merry band of employees, even though she didn’t believe it herself.
She weaved her way through the dining area, a large tiled room with wall-to-wall windows, circular tables, and booths around the outside. Lavishly exaggerated photographs of the restaurant’s menu items covered the walls with inch thick burgers and fries that were all long, golden and perfectly straight.
She could have negotiated her way around the tables blindfolded; she’d done this journey many times over the last few years.
Entering the kitchen area, she punched in the key code to turn off the alarm system. The small LCD display showed the time to be just after seven in the morning.
She didn’t have much time; the morning crew would be here within minutes.
Joanne hurried through the kitchen and into the large stockroom at the back. She pulled the light cord and the single bulb blinked into life.
The stockroom was around half the size of the kitchen, but had plenty of room for the floor to ceiling shelves. One half of the stockroom contained packaging – burger boxes, cartons for fries, cups, napkins, straws and so on. What Joanne was looking for lay in between the milkshake syrup and packets of dehydrated onion on the food side of the room.
The burger relish.
She struggled to pull the white plastic tub, which was the size of a bin and quite heavy, out from the bottom shelf and far out enough to pop the flat lid free. The relish lay inside, thick and red, with chopped onion and pepper suspended in its viscosity.
Joanne fumbled, trying to open her bag with trembling hands. After a few attempts, she managed to undo the clasp and withdraw a small glass jar from the depths of the bag. She held this up to her eyes, watching the powdered green herb tumbling over itself as she turned the jar.
She couldn’t believe this might be the answer to her problems. What did the old man say? Three pinches?
Joanne unscrewed the top, but in the instant that the golden lid came off the jar, her quivering hands lost its purchase on the glass. The jar fell from her grip, and with a small, thick splash, landed upturned in the relish.
Joanne watched in wide eyed horror as the red sauce entered the jar, filling it completely. Its contents were swept out into the goop and were quickly swallowed up, sinking into the relish.
Joanne snapped out of her shock as she saw the jar to start to sink. She quickly plunged her hand into the container and plucked the jar out.
A single bubble popped on the surface of the sauce.
She wondered what to do. Money was tight and she couldn’t afford to throw out an entire tub of relish. Besides, maybe this was for the best. If three pinches were all she needed, an entire jar would guarantee results, surely! The fact that people were going to eat an unknown herb did cross her mind briefly, but if this didn’t work, the restaurant would be out of business any way.
She dropped the sodden jar into her bag in panic as she heard a shout from the restaurant – someone had arrived. The lid was forced untidily back onto the white container, and using her body for leverage, she pushed it back onto the low shelf. Grabbing a napkin to wipe the sticky relish from her fingers, Joanne headed for the door.
She expected a busy day at Kelly’s Kitchen.
Stu rushed across the empty car park, determined not be late again. He was on the verge of promotion to deputy manager, if only he could arrive on time! He swept his long black fringe out of his eyes. He could see the lights were on inside the restaurant, and some of the other workers were starting their morning duties. Candy was giving the floor a quick sweep and Joanne, the manager, was taking the chairs from the tables. He couldn’t see Michelle yet, but it was only a matter of time. He’d swapped his day off with Dave just so he could work with her. He didn’t have a chance with her, and didn’t lie to himself about this fact. That’s what it was, a fact. What would a goddess like Michelle want with a skinny, shaggy haired scruff like him?
He was so lost in his thoughts of tardiness and towards work and lust for Michelle, that he didn’t notice the car that slowly rolled up behind him. He released a cry of surprise when the car horn blared out, a very painful blast, especially so early in the morning. Trying to get his heartbeat and breathing back to normal after the jolt, he turned to see who was so rude to beep him so early.
It was a black convertible VW Golf, a poser’s car Stu had always thought, and in this case he was spot on.
Powers rolled down the window, his grin wide.
“Scared you, eh Pies?!”
Pies. Stu hated that nickname. It was a twist on his surname, Piez. Damn my French heritage, he cursed to himself.
Powers swung the car into a space close to the doors of Kelly’s Kitchen, killed the engine, and clambered out. He looked out of place in his green Kelly’s uniform, with his footballer physique square jaw and cropped hair. He didn’t have to work at the restaurant; in fact he found it demeaning. But rich Mr. Powers wanted his son to learn the meaning of a pound, his method being to get him a job at Kelly’s, and buy him a flash car. Go figure, thought Stu.
He hated Powers, and his stupid car.
“Ready for another day of doing fuck all, Pies?”
“If there’s work to be done, I’ll do it. Unlike some, I’m not afraid of getting my hands dirty, Powers.”
“Dad says this place is going down the toilet. There are not enough people in this shit hole of a town to bring enough in. I think that Joannes’s going to crack!”
Stu frowned.
“Shut up, Powers.”
They entered through the glass door into the eating area.
There she was, a forbidden deity, beauty personified.
Michelle was checking the money in one of the tills, her long brunette hair flowing around her neck and shoulders, before resting atop a chest that strained against the uniform’s material. On hearing the door open, she looked up from the bags of coins and smiled.
Stu smiled back.
“Hey cutie, you still on for tonight?” shouted Powers from behind him.
“Sure!” Her sweet, delicate voice replied. “What time?”
“The Power will pick you up at eight, babe.”
Third person? What a wanker, thought Stu.
Joanne came out of the kitchen beside the prepared food chutes and around the counter. She looked even more agitated than normal. Her eyes darted around and she was talking to herself.
“Right team!” she suddenly called. “Shop meeting!”
With a shared groan, the workers moved to a large booth on the far side of the restaurant. Candy leaned her brush against a table to join them. She twirled a blonde ponytail with a finger as she chewed her gum with her mouth open. Stu had always considered this to be a filthy habit.
“Right guys,” started Joanne when the team had finally settled, “as we are all finally here, I can start dishing out the jobs. I want you all to be prepared for a busy day.”
“A busy day!” snorted Powers.
“Look, I know that things have been dead around here lately, but things are going to change,” her eyes swept over all gathered around the table, “they have to.”
“Yeah,” continued Powers, “but what’s so special about today?”
“I just have a feeling…” Joanne’s eyes fell to the table for a few seconds, while she was deep in thought. When she looked up, it was at Stu.
“I’ll need you until the end, Stuart. What with Dave being off,” she turned to Powers, “you too.”
“Aw! Joanne! C’mon!” he moaned like a stroppy toddler. “I have a date with Michelle!”
“Tough, Francis.”
The rest giggled as Powers’ face screwed up in frustration. Only Joanne could get away with using his first name.
“Right then, Michelle on till. Candy, the drive through. Stuart, I want you on the grill. Francis…”
He winced.
“…fryers. I’ll be doing the cleaning and generally floating around. Come on guys! Let’s make it a good day! And remember, we don’t make junk food-“
“Just good food, made fast,” they all finished, half-heartedly.
“Stuart! Keep your hormones in check and stop gawping at Michelle! Get to work!”
His face quickly turned a deep shade of pink, and Stu quickly left the table and headed for the kitchen.
The day began just like any other. They each started at their stations and served the occasional customer. All that was available was the breakfast menu until half past ten. Candy got a few customers at the drive through window, mostly employees of the Belvedere Corporation on County Road, who were on their way to work. Stu found it easygoing to prepare the few ‘Kelly’s egg and bacon Supremes’ and ‘Kelly pancakes’. Powers looked bored. There wasn’t much demand for fries, apple pies and ‘Krunchy Kelly Chicken’ in the morning.
The breakfast things were put away at the half ten change over just as the restaurant’s first sit in customer had ordered a ‘Kelly’s Hunger Buster’ – two burger patties with cheese, bacon and full dressing.
Stu threw a couple of frozen burgers on the grill and prepared the buns with lettuce, onion, and a generous scoop of burger relish.
The serving dish had been empty, and he’d nearly strained his back carrying the white relish container from the stockroom.
By the time the burgers had browned nicely, Powers had the fries and bacon ready and Michelle had poured a coke that was waiting on the counter. The meal was quickly and efficiently put together and handed to Michelle through the ‘food ready’ hatch.
As soon as it was on the tray, the customer, a tall elderly man in a brown coat, took it over to a table and sat down. He took a big bite of his burger, and started to chew. After his jaw had gone up and down a few times, the man stopped, and for a moment peered into the exposed innards of the burger. He took another big bite before he swallowed, taking half of the burger into his mouth.
“Jeez,” said Powers, who had also been watching, “he must be starving!”
Stu nodded. There was something strange in the old man’s eyes…a hunger…
“Two chicken, one regular cheese, three large fries!” called Candy from the drive through window.
Stu turned from watching the man, who had nearly finished already, and reached for another frozen patty.
“Erm, three more Hunger Busters?” shouted Michelle, somewhat unsure from the counter.
Stu quickly looked over.
The man in the brown coat was stood in front of Michelle, a ten-pound note held tightly in his hand. His fries and coke still remained untouched on the table behind him. He groaned, and the saliva that was quickly gathering on his bottom lip glistened under the bright lights.
The clock above the milkshake machine showed that an hour and twenty minutes had passed, but the employees of Kelly’s didn’t notice the time; they were too busy.
Stu was throwing frozen burgers in groups of ten onto the grill, while at the same time scraping the cooked ones from the back and dropping them on pre-prepared buns. Powers had five metal baskets on the go in the fryers, while Michelle and Candy carried on shouting out the orders. Joanne was rushing between tables in the dining area, mopping up spills with a huge grin. She loved the fact that her restaurant was full.
“Hey! Pies!” Powers shouted over the noise of the restaurant, “Our bonus is looking pretty good all of a sudden!”
Stu wrinkled his nose. It’s all about the money for you Francis, he thought. But he was right; their chances of a bonus had improved.
He wiped a trickle of sweat, caused by both the heat from the grill and the exertion of working so fast, from his forehead with the back of his forearm. Taking a quick glance at the dining area, he could still see the old man in the brown coat, forcing yet another burger into his mouth in one go.
“Another four kids’ meals and two more Hunger Busters,” asked an irate woman at the front of the queue. The mass of people behind her had started to complain and shove the people ahead of them impatiently. Her two children, a boy and a girl of around six, pulled on her woolly green sweater.
“Mummy…want more burgers…burgers…more…” they muttered up to her.
The kids un-nerved Stu slightly, he didn’t like the look of their glazed eyes and hanging mouths. They reminded him of the Children of the Damned…but in a fast food restaurant.
Michelle looked at the woman, frowning with concern.
“Madam,” she started politely, “this is your third time at the counter. Maybe you…”
She was cut off by the woman’s bark.
“Look here, bitch! If you were so concerned about my family’s diet, you wouldn’t work in a fucking fast food joint! Burgers! Now!”
All the workers heard this, and shot a look over at the counter. The woman’s kids were still hanging on her jumper. “…burgers…”
Beth looked at Joanne, obvious to Stu that she was looking for approval to serve this rude customer. Joanne shrugged, and then turned to empty a tray piled high with empty burger boxes into a bin.
“Four kids’ meals, two Hungers!” shouted Michelle.
Stu, trying his best to force the man in the brown coat, angry woman and weird kids out of his head, concentrated on preparing the food. His concern was growing. There seemed to be more and more customers, but his supplies of frozen burger patties was getting pretty low.
Stu’s concern had grown into a knot of foreboding, deep in his stomach. As he placed the last of the burgers on the grill and scooped the last few spoonfuls of remaining relish onto dressed buns, he knew that the shit was about to hit.
“Joanne!” he called, but he couldn’t see her in the large crowd of customers. He couldn’t even see the tables, or the door, or even the windows for that matter. There were too many people.
He called again, and saw the black bobbed hair of the manager as she forced herself through the mass of bodies.
“What is it, Stuart? We are very busy you know!”
“We’re out,” he said.
“Out of what?”
“Burgers and relish.”
Her mouth dropped open as his words sunk in. It was the best day of business in years, and she had to inform the customers that they had no burgers left? Her mind quickly raced through her options. If she phoned for a delivery, that might take all day. She would have to apologise to the customers first, and keep her fingers crossed.
She turned from towards the kitchen and counter to face the crowd. They all glared at her, eyes wide and mouths hanging open. There were sounds of a scuffle at the back of the room, and Stu saw a half eaten burger fly up in the air, a dozen hands reached up for it.
Powers abandoned the fryer to stand with Stu.
“What’s wrong with them?” he asked.
The hungry crowd all had their eyes fixed with on Joanne.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” she began, trying to sound professional. The nervous quiver of her voice suggested to Stu that she was on the verge of shitting herself. “On behalf of Kelly’s Kitchen, Samhane, I regret to inform you that our stock of burgers has ran out.”
“…burgers?…mmm…” murmured some of the customers.
“Shit!” cried Candy, diving to the floor.
Stu and Powers turned just in time to see a large saloon car smash into the drive through window with a deafening crash. Candy covered her head to protect herself from the falling shards of glass.
The car had completely destroyed the drive through window, and the bonnet and front half of the car was inside the kitchen.
Stu stayed rooted to the spot in shock. Through the settling dust of the impact, he could see a fat man with a comb over haircut in the driving seat. His head was leaning out of the smashed side window of the car, blood not dripping, but sickeningly gushing out of a cut on his face.
His lips pulled back, forming a hideous smile.
“…burgers…want more…mmmm…”
Finally breaking free of his horrific transfixion, Stu rushed over into the scattered debris to help Candy get to her feet.
He nearly dropped her as Michelle’s scream cut through the air.
Powers had already burst into a run towards the counter.
With Candy still in his arms, all Stu could do was watch.
It wasn’t Michelle that was in trouble. She was safely backed up against the serving hatch.
It was Joanne, who had been stood in the crowd when the car hit, that needed help.
There were arms everywhere, grabbing at her green uniform, tugging at her hair and pulling her deeper into the throng of groaning bodies.
Those closest to her put their heads against her body, the stains of mustard and relish on her uniform close to their faces. They sniffed.
There was more smelling, and the odd lick of the fabric.
The crowd roared and Joanne was swept into the body of customers, yelling for help.
Powers got there and tried to grab her outstretched hand, but it was too late.
She screamed, a high-pitched wail of terror. The cry was cut short immediately, and was replaced by other noises.
Stu couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Was that chewing?
A woman with blonde hair in the crowd held up something red that dripped down her arms. She pushed this straight into her mouth, her face becoming flecked with scarlet droplets.
Stu retched.
They’re eating her! His inner voice screamed. They’re eating Joanne!
Powers grabbed Michelle by the wrist and pulled her into the kitchen.
Members of the crowd, including old brown coat, followed. Some staggered around the counter, while others simply climbed over it in pursuit.
“Run!” shouted Powers, releasing his grip on Michelle.
Stu backed away from the advancing customers towards the rear of the kitchen. He looked to his side for Candy, but she had disappeared.
Brown coat took a swipe at Michelle, his outreached fingers inches away from her green uniform. She yelped and increased her pace.
Powers, not looking back, ran past the fryers. His foot slipped up from under him as he ran into a patch of cooking oil that was on the tiled floor. He landed solidly on his rump.
Michelle ran on in blind panic.
Powers was nearly back on his feet when the first few customers reached him. Brown coat was heading the charge and grabbed him roughly by the shoulders.
Powers’ hands swept around in panicked circles trying to find something, anything, which he could use as a weapon. His fingers found the slippery handle of one of the metal frying baskets. He jerked it out of the bubbling golden liquid, causing browned fries to scatter in all directions. Driving the hot basket up between brown coat’s arms, he forced it into his attackers face.
Brown coat roared with frustration, and shook Powers so hard that he lost his grip on the frying basket, and it fell to the floor with a clatter. Powers found himself looking into the face of the old man.
The hot oil on the basket had done some damage, as angry red lines had formed a lattice on brown coat’s skin.
More customers had joined around Powers, and he was doing his best to fight off the hands that clawed at his body.
“You two! In here! Quickly!”
Stu looked over his shoulder and saw Candy in the dark doorway of the stockroom.
The stock room! It had a lock!
“Powers!” he shouted over the groans of the crowd. “Come on!”
Stu followed Michelle, who had run the full length of the kitchen, towards the sanctuary of the stockroom.
“Help me! Guys!”
Only when Stu had seen Michelle safely enter the stockroom, did he turn to help Powers.
He had been held aloft by six of the crazed customers, his body close to the reflective lights on the ceiling. Like a football team carrying their match winner, they walked together, taking Powers towards the grill.
“Oh shit! Girls, get inside.”
The wave of lurching customers had taken over the kitchen, and even the fat guy in the car had clawed his way out, and was quickly advancing towards them.
A wall of reaching and drooling people lay between the stockroom and the suspended Powers. Stu didn’t have a chance of reaching him; he’d be ripped to pieces before he got halfway.
“Help me! Please!” Powers pleaded again.
The group dumped him like a sack of coal onto the shiny black surface of the grill. His scream was joined by the hiss as his flesh began to cook. His cries became uncontrollable shrieks of agony as brown coat forced Powers’ face onto the hot metal, rolling his head around.
Stu felt hands grab his shoulders and he was pulled backwards into the stockroom, Candy slammed the door closed and locked it in front of him, cutting out Powers’ dying screams. When Michelle had released him, he ran into the corner, and emptied the contents of his stomach into a box of napkins.
All three could hear the fingernails and fists against the wood of the door.
“…burgers…must eat…”
Candy warily backed away from the door.
“What do we do now?”
Stu turned from the box of napkins, a string of saliva hanging from his lips.
“We wait,” he said, wiping his mouth.
Michelle started to cry, and Stu was quick to go to her, and wrap his arms around her trembling body. She pressed her face deep into him.
“It’s okay, Michelle. We’re safe in here.”
The blows from the other side of the door caused it to rattle on its hinges. Long, painful groans could be heard through it.
“What the hell happened to everyone?” asked Candy, calmly unwrapping a piece of gum from her pocket and popping it into her mouth.
“Isn’t it obvious? They ate Joanne and fucking cooked Powers like he was a piece of meat! They’re zombies! They must have taken over the town or something!”
Michelle raised her tear-streaked face from his chest.
“It’s a disease. They all came into the shop normal, but then they…they changed…”
“Nah!” snorted Candy, chewing her gum with her mouth open. “It can’t be. I mean, we’re fine, aren’t we?”
“Then what do you think it is?” asked Stu. He was getting annoyed with her lack of respect for the severe situation that they now found themselves in, that and the open mouthed chewing. It’s a disgusting habit.
“Aliens. No doubt.”
He rolled his eyes.
“How long before they give up? I mean, we could be here for days! We could starve to death!” a hysterical Michelle blubbed, her shoulders shook with sobs.
“No problem!” grinned Candy. “There’s enough food in her for at least a week! And besides…” She walked to one of the shelves, moved a stack of kids’ meal boxes to one side, and pulled out a large white paper bag. “I stashed these when I saw that we were going to run out. I mean, I wasn’t going to miss out on my lunch!”
She ripped the bag open, and half a dozen Kelly’s Hunger Busters toppled out.
“See? Good burgers with extra relish! We’ll be fine!”
I can't believe I posted that. Is that how bad things have been this week? Honestly...
See you all next week with hopefully a better blog!
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Rowena Ravenclaw
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure."
—Rowena Ravenclaw
Rowena Ravenclaw was a witch and one of the four founders of Hogwarts. She was noted for her cleverness and creativity, and was described by Xenophilius Lovegood as "beautiful." The Sorting Hat introduced her as “fair Ravenclaw, from glen,” suggesting she was from Scotland.
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Along with her friends Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, Ravenclaw founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. She devised the ever-changing, moving staircases in the Hogwarts Castle. She was particularly close to Helga Hufflepuff; their friendship is used as a foil to the failed friendship between Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin. As with the other founders, she is the namesake of one of Hogwarts' four houses.
Ravenclaw is described by the Sorting Hat as having selected students according to intelligence and wisdom. Ravenclaw house thus values a sharp mind, wisdom, creativity, and cleverness in its members. Thus, rather than asking for a password from members, a bronze eagle door knocker asks them a riddle which, if answered incorrectly, would force the student to wait until another could answer the question correctly, allowing the failed student to learn.
Door Knocker: "Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
Luna Lovegood: "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning."
Door Knocker: "Well reasoned."
— a riddle at the Ravenclaw common room entrance[src]
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Helena Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw's daughter, Helena, as a ghost
Ravenclaw died at a relatively young age, though legend had it that a "broken heart" contributed to her early demise. This may have been her estrangement with her daughter, Helena Ravenclaw, who after her death became Ravenclaw house's patron ghost known as the Grey Lady.
Helena stole her mother's diadem, which had the phrase wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure engraved upon it and was said to enhance the wisdom of the wearer. Helena was jealous of her mother's famous intellect, and took the diadem in hopes of surpassing her. When Rowena became fatally ill, she asked the Bloody Baron, who was in love with Helena, to go find her daughter. He eventually tracked her to Albania, but when she refused to return with him, the Baron flew into a rage and killed her. Immediately overcome with guilt, he then took his own life, and would become the Slytherin patron ghost.
Thus, Rowena did not get the chance to reconcile with her daughter before their deaths.
Tom Marvolo Riddle was able to charm the location of the diadem out of the Grey Lady centuries later. He turned it into a Horcrux and hid it in Hogwarts' Room of Requirement. The diadem was destroyed by cursed fire unleashed by Vincent Crabbe during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998.
Rowena Ravenclaw on a Chocolate Frog card.
• Rowena is a Latinised form of an old Germanic name: "Fame," (cf. the Anglo-Saxon hrōd, or hrōð), and "Joy," (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wyn(n)), or "Friend," (cf. the Anglo-Saxon wine). Rowena, Queen of Britain, is a figure in Britain's traditional history; she was supposedly the daughter of Hengest and the wife of Vortigern.
• In Welsh poetry, Rowena is named "mother of the nation," which could link in to her being a founder of Hogwarts. She also is another character whose name surfaces in the great epic Ivanhoe.
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• Despite being a house that values intelligence, the house has its quota of female beauties (Rowena and Helena Ravenclaw, Cho Chang, Padma Patil, Luna Lovegood), and even Fleur Delacour, who decided to sit at the Ravenclaw table while staying in Hogwarts. Male Ravenclaws such as Roger Davies have also been described as good looking. Even Filius Flitwick, Ravenclaw's head of house in the 1990s, was described as good-looking in his younger days.
• The Portuguese translation in Brazil for Ravenclaw was "Corvinal", taken from the word "Corvo" (Raven in portuguese), the suffix "inal" does not add any true meaning and the "claw" part of the name was completely lost in translation.
• This meaning is also lost in Italian, as she was named "Cosetta Corvonero" ("Corvonero" literally meaning Black Raven).
• Even though the word "Raven" is in Ravenclaws name, the symbol of her house is an eagle.
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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Hogwarts Houses:
Gryffindorcrest Hufflepuffcrest Ravenclawcrest Slytheirncrest
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
U: Up Above The World So High!
Stretching from my shoulders all the way to my stomach, the snug vest feels like any regular jacket. Except, it weighs sixteen kilograms. Defacto pipe bombs line the inner area. The fragmentation layer built over it is full of tiny steel balls. The wire running down the sleeve of my shirt ends in a lever.
A beautiful heaven beckons. I have waited for this all my life. As I finger the lever, I realize that I have been holding my breath. As images of a breathtaking paradise up there float to my mind, I smile. And I flip the switch.
Uranophilia refers to the ultimate expression of faith in that you can take such joy and derive such pleasure from the mere thought of heaven alone. It is an abnormal affection that the individual has for heaven.
Pic Credit: Doctrines of Faith
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1. U have such an imaginative mind... Superbly written!
2. I want to stretch my hands to hug you ... u are too good and hats off to ur power of imagination.... superb
1. * Big Hug* .. Thank you so much for that compliment! Very sweet of you :)
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First published in Supernova, the mag for curious kids volume 1, issue 1 in 2011. Reproduced with kind permission from BK Publishing. Words by Dina Steyn ‘Power’ or, as it is sometimes called, ‘energy’ is an important part of modern life. We use electricity to power everything from computers to …
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The configuration file
Start from UnrealCV v0.3.1, the config of UnrealCV can be configured in a configuration file. Use vget /unrealcv/status to see current configuration.
Change game resolution
The output resolution of UnrealCV is independent of the window size.
If you want to change the display resolution. In game mode, use console command r.setres 320x240
When use play -> selected viewport the resolution can not be changed, use play -> new window editor instead.
Change the server port
Use vget /unrealcv/status to get the directory of the configuration file. Then open the configuration file and modify the server port.
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Dr. Nooh Alshyab is Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of Yarmouk University (Jordan) since September 2012. Between 2013 and 2015 he served as Head of Economic Department. Before joining Yarmouk University, he worked at the Jordanian Foreign Ministry.
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From 2004 to 2012, he was appointed Head of Economic and Investment Desk at the Jordan Embassy in Berlin. He obtained his Doctoral title (Dr. rer. pol.) in Economics at the University of Potsdam (Germany), School of Economics in 2011 and in 2003, a Master Degree in Economics at Dresden University of Technology (Germany). His fields of expertise are economic development, economic reform policies, and applied econometrics. In EMNES he serves as senior researcher and scientific coordinator for the Jordanian team. He contributes to several research areas of EMNES including institutions, institutional reforms and economic development, macro economic policies and employment, private sector development and trade policy and economic integration.
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#qi-hardware IRC log for Monday, 2016-09-19
whitequarkDocScrutinizer05: wow, this is way worse than I expected https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/why-german-trains-dont-run-on-time-any-more22:28
DocScrutinizer05old news22:29
DocScrutinizer05"Privatisierung", I think they seen same - just 10 times worse - in UK22:30
DocScrutinizer05or GB22:30
whitequarkthe article is saying that one of the major reasons is a lack of state borrowing22:31
DocScrutinizer05main reason afaik is "make the 'company' ready for IPO(?) on stock exchange markets"22:32
DocScrutinizer05so a service that always been subsidized and run by 'state' now suddenly needs to make profit22:33
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#qi-hardware IRC log for Thursday, 2016-12-22
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wpwrakhmm, freud would be happy about positions 7 and 10: https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/hallo-ist-meistgenutztes-deutsches-Passwort-auf-Platz-zehn-steht-ficken-3579567.html08:33
wpwrak(most common german passwords: 7. asshole, 10. fuck)08:33
wpwrak4. is clever. contains letters and digits, so password strength checks give it a good rating, yet it's the name of a very well-known football club.08:34
eintopfwpwrak: I had one course at my study where the professor gave us an old passwd file08:50
eintopffrom earlier days without ldap08:50
eintopfof all students08:50
eintopfand then we tried to hack it08:50
wpwraknice :)08:50
wpwrakhopefully not hardened against rainbow tables08:51
eintopfmost people inclusive me did some dictonary stuff09:35
eintopfmost password was 123456789009:35
eintopfI remember fews09:36
eintopfwpwrak: these passwords was for people who started a computer science study :-)09:49
wpwrakstudents in year N get to hack the passwords those who chose the password hacking course in year N-1 ;-)10:54
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The Ursa Major Awards Anthology
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The Ursa Major Awards Anthology: A Tenth Anniversary Celebration is a June 2012 anthology celebrating ten years of the short fiction works recognized at each year's Ursa Major Awards. Containing eleven stories over 339 pages, the anthology was edited by Fred Patten, and released by FurPlanet at Anthrocon 2012 (just days after the 2011 Ursa Major Awards at Califur 8).
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Sharing similarities in different countries by creating an European comic book
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
A recipe for Polish gołąbki
The name ”gołąbki” means ”little pigeons” but, of course it has nothing to do with them.
In Poland, many people like eating cooked cabbage. Gołąbki is one of the dishes with cooked cabbage.
You need:
- some cabbage
- 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 parsley
- some minced meat: may be beef or pork
- some rice
- optional: some tomatoes and tomato paste
- some salt, some pepper, other spices, e.g. marjoram
Boil some rice and mix it with spiced minced meat. Put cabbage leaves into hot water and boil for a coupe of minutes. Take out the cabbage leaves and put the rice with the meat into the cabbage leaves. When finished, put your gołąbki into boiling water with a carrot, an onion and a parsely. You can add some tomatoes or tomato paste.
Cook for half an hor and serve with potatoes. Enjoy!
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Notice of Special Meeting
Forks City Council
Notice is hereby given that a majority of the City Council may be in attendance at the Forks Chamber of Commerce Meeting Scheduled for Wednesday April 4, 2018 at noon at 1222 S Forks Avenue. As such, this event will constitute a Special Meeting of the City Council. No action will be taken and the purpose of the meeting will be to hear a presentation by Congressman Derek Kilmer.
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August 10, 2011 #27
Fun sized comic cartoon funny towing company ran by kids very corrupt
Episode 27
This one is all from the frustration with towing companies these days, one of which was the reason I missed some days of comics. When you run a company that has 100% of the leverage.. (your car) it really sucks dealing with the completely corrupt nature of the business.
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How often should we partake of
by Herbert W. Armstrong
1952, 1974 Edition
The “Lord’s supper,” like so many essential points of the original true doctrine, has fallen into the mire of erroneous tradition. But Jude exhorts us, “that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” Here is the real truth as to when and how often we should observe the “Lord’s supper.”
TODAY different church denominations take this sacred ordinance different ways. One church claims the bread and wine literally is transferred into the actual body and blood of Christ. Some churches take this “supper” every Sunday morning. Some take it once a month, in the morning. Others take it four times a year; and at night.
There is but one way to get back to the plain truth once delivered to the saints, and that is to shelve our assumptions and traditions, and then with open mind diligently “search the Scriptures,” the only true record of what was once delivered.
The First “Lord’s Supper”
Notice, it was “when the hour was come,” that Jesus first introduced the bread and the wine. There was a definite time – a definite hour – when He held this supper, setting us an example.
Notice, too, He commanded them to observe it – “THIS DO.” And why? “In remembrance of me,” Jesus said. It was, then, a MEMORIAL – in memory of His death. He instituted it on this tragic night, the very eve of His death.
In Matthew’s account, we read, “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread” (Matt. 26:26). It was “as they were eating” that He took bread and introduced this solemn ordinance we call the Lord’s supper. Eating what? Eating the Passover!(Verse 17, and Luke 22:15.)
Now notice Matthew 26:2. “Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.”
Jesus knew His time had come. He was our Passover, sacrificed for us (1 Cor. 5:7).
“Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?” (Matt. 26:17.)
So we see that it was the night of the final and last Passover supper that Jesus introduced the New Testament “Lord’s supper.” To thoroughly understand the connection between the “Lord’s supper” of the New Testament, and the Passover of the Old, let us make a quick examination of the Passover.
The Ordinance Under the Old Covenant
On the 10th day of the first month (the Hebrew, or sacred year, began with the new moon in the spring, near the equinox, not midwinter), they were told to take a young lamb without spot or blemish, a type of Christ, the Lamb of God. This lamb was to be kept until the 14th day of the first month, Abib, when they were to kill it “in the evening” (verse 6). The literal Hebrew, margin, is “between the two evenings,” and from the Jewish Encyclopedia we find this is the twilight period between the time the sun goes down, when the new day has commenced, and the darkness when the stars are out. So the lamb was killed in the very beginning of the 14th of Abib.
As soon as it was killed, the blood was to be sprinkled over the doorposts of their houses. The lamb was to be roasted, and eaten in haste. At midnight that night the angel of the Lord passed through the land, striking dead all the firstborn of the land. But, “when I see the blood, I will pass over you,” the Lord told the Israelites.
Year after year Israel continued to observe the Passover.
Instituted an Ordinance Forever
How Often Observed?
Now notice Exodus 13:10, speaking of the Days of Unleavened Bread: “Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.” The time is once a year, at night, after the sun has set in the beginning of the 14th of Abib.
Jesus set us an example (1 Peter 2:21), observing it at this set time once a year (Luke 2:42).
The Ordinance of Humility
In giving us the account of the instituting of the “Lord’s supper” ordinance, Matthew, Mark and Luke describe the taking of the bread and wine. But John relates another part of this ordinance.
Many today do not want to humiliate themselves by washing the feet of their church brethren. Some argue that Jesus commanded only the disciples to wash one another’s feet. But they will admit it was a command to them. Very well; turn to Matthew 28:19, 20:
“Go ye therefore,” Jesus said to these same disciples, “and teach all nations, baptizing them …teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” So they were to teach US to observe all things whatsoever He commanded them. Surely God is no respecter of persons.
Kept Once a Year in the Apostolic Church
Now notice 1 Corinthians 5:7, 8: “Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven …but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
Paul gives directions regarding the Lord’s supper in the 11th chapter of 1 Corinthians. Some have misunderstood verse 26, which says: “As often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup,” and interpret it to say “take it as often as you please.” But it does not say that!
It says “as often” as we observe it, “ye do show the Lord’s death till he come.” And Jesus commanded, “This do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me” (verse 25). We do it in remembrance of THE LORD’S DEATH – a memorial of His death. And memorials of momentous occasions always are observed annually, once a year, on the anniversary of the event they commemorate. That is the way we observe the 4th of July, Armistice Day, etc.
Jesus instituted this New Testament ordinance on the eve of His death. It was the 14th Abib, Hebrew calendar. He was our Passover, sacrificed for us – and He was sacrificed on the same exact day of the year that the Passover lambs always had been slain. As the Old Testament Passover commemorated Israel’s deliverance from Egypt, a type of sin, so the New Testament Lord’s supper – a continuation of the Passover with different emblems – commemorates Jesus’ death, and our deliverance from sin. Immediately after that last supper, Jesus and His disciples went out to Gethsemane, where, later that night, Judas Iscariot led the bloodthirsty mob who seized Jesus, and led Him away to be crucified during the daylight part of the same 14th day of the month.
Jesus set us an example, and by following His example and observing this sacred ordinance at the same time He did – the same time the Passover always was observed, commanded to continue FOREVER – we do continue to remember His death, annually, on the very anniversary of His crucifixion. It is the most solemn and sacred occasion of the year – especially when observed at this correct scriptural hour.
Example of the First Century Church
The Days of Unleavened Bread were still being observed. Notice Acts 20:6: “And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread.” That was about 59 A.D.
Then notice Acts 12:3. The Holy Spirit inspired these words, to tell us the time of year: “Then were the days of unleavened bread.” That could not have been written had these days been done away and kept only by Christ-rejecting Jews.
In the mouth of two or three witnesses is a thing established. Notice a third text, Acts 12:4. The word “Easter” is a mistranslation. The Greek word is Pascha meaning “Passover.” It is exactly the same word used for “Passover” in Matthew 26:2, 17, 18, 19. Many other translations faithfully render this “Passover” in this text, as it should be. So this text is, “intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.” This was more than ten years after the New Testament Church had been established.
The Meaning of “Break Bread”
Some churches turn to Acts 20:7“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread…” To them this says take the Lord’s supper every Sunday morning.
Let us examine this. Notice verse 6. This was just AFTER the Days of Unleavened Bread, when the “Lord’s supper” had been taken. Paul was holding a farewell meeting at Troas, ready to depart at sunrise. When was Paul preaching? It was not Sunday morning, but what would now be called Saturday night. It was between sunset, when the first day of the week commenced, and midnight (verse 7) and there were many lights burning (verse 8). But it was after midnight before they broke bread, when they were all getting hungry. Notice carefully in the 11th verse. “And had broken bread and eaten.” This bread-breaking was not the Lord’s supper, but eating a plain meal.
“Break bread” does not necessarily refer to the “Lord’s supper,” as some have carelessly assumed. Notice Acts 27:34, 35: “Wherefore I pray you to take some meat …he took bread …and when he had broken it, he began to eat.”
Notice Acts 2:46: ”…And breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness…” Here they were breaking bread daily, eating meat, and Paul says if we eat to satisfy hunger at the Lord’s supper, we do it to our condemnation (1 Cor. 11:34).
Then notice Matthew 26:29. Jesus said He would not again take the New Testament “Lord’s supper” until after His second coming in His Kingdom. Yet, later, as He sat “at meat,” eating a meal, He broke bread and blessed it (Luke 24:30).
They then used a kind of bread such as is used in many European countries today, and instead of slicing, they broke it. “Break bread” was a common term to indicate eating a meal.
The first day of the new year begins near the spring equinox when the new moon usually is first visible to the naked eye at Jerusalem (not the United States). The Jewish calendar as used by Jews today is correct. But it must be remembered that “in the 14th day of the first month at even is the passover, and in the 15th day of the same month is the feast.” The Jewish people no longer observe the Passover on the 14th. They observe the FEAST – one night after the Passover, on the eve of 15th Abib. The “Lord’s supper” or New Testament Passover should be observed after sunset on the evening before the Jewish people of today celebrate their feast.
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Maciej Giertych
Evolution, devolution, science
Is man descended from an ape? This assumption entered permanently into the canon of school textbooks. Few scientists dare to question this. Prof. Maciej Giertych decided to try. He formulated a series of scientific arguments demolishing the theory of evolution. In 2006 for a presentation in the European Parliament he invited scientists who supported his view. The presented book is the fruit of the discussions held on that occasion.
We constantly observe the dying out of species (devolution) while we do not see the appearance of new ones (evolution). The books shows that eminent palaeontologists, physiologists, geneticists and sedimentologists negate the theory of evolution while supporting the hypothesis of devolution. Accumulation of genetic diseases (genetic load) endangers the very existence of our species. It is easier to show that it is dying out than to claim it evolves. This concerns not only man but also all other species. There are many organisms that do not fit into the postulated evolutionary lines. Among fossils we see stasis and not sequences of progressive changes. Genetics shows how races are formed by reduction of genetic information but it does not provide evidence to support the theory of information growth (evolution).
In the book besides the scientific perspective also a religious one is given. The majority of confessions oppose the theory of evolution in spite of the fact that a view dominates that evolution was adopted by all, including John Paul II. Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox, Jews and Muslims in common favour creationism. In contrast to the general opinion the pope was not uncritical of Darwin’s idea.
The book is in the form of a richly illustrated textbook. In view of its simple language it can be recommended to anyone. It boldly demolishes the unproven dogma of the theory of evolution that took possession of minds throughout the western world.
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Audio Encryption Based On Chaotic FCNNs
Publication Issue:
Volume 39, Issue 2, 2018
Page No:
Date Received:
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Authors' Name:
M. Kalpana
K. Ratnavelu
Authors' Affiliation and Address:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
Extensive theoretical work and few application part in the area of image processing have been done in fuzzy cellular neural networks (FCNNs). However, there is lack of utilizing of FCNNs for audio encryption. The sound file is ciphered by in a state of complete confusion and disorder signal in which accomplished via FCNNs system. While, the risky task is to evaluate the variables of the FCNNs as follows d; z ; h; a; b; g:
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Sandy Rapczewicz was a lieutenant commander in the Coast Guard at the time of the Event.
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After the Olmec Expedition, Marian Alston-Kurlelo recommended Sandy for promotion to commander, telling Jared Cofflin that she expected to put Sandy in command of Eagle.
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This is another thing I learned while implementing convolutions for a convolutional neural net. See part 1 for the motivation.
• Part 1 is an introduction to the problem and how I used numpy.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided.
• Part 2 is about numpy.einsum.
What now?
After using as_strided, I have a 4D representation of the image like this:
and I need to multiply each of those 3 x 3 matrices by its corresponding value in the kernel
Kernel params
and sum over those 9 values to create the value in the feature map.
One way is to use numpy.tensordot. But there’s another tool: numpy.einsum.
When I was looking at StackOverflow for direction, a lot of them used numpy.einsum. It took me a while to look into it because it looked cryptic.
This blog about einsum helped me first understand it. I recommend it! The docs also help once I got a few examples working.
Matrix Multiplication
np.einsum looks pretty scary. Matrix multiplication becomes:
ij,jk->ik, or the “einstein sum subscripts string,” tells einsum what it should do. The groups of letters are the operands and represent the arrays it should act on.
ij,jk->ik is defining a little function array1, array2 -> output.
Each letter labels an axis. ij is labeling the two axes of A.
I can read ij,jk->ik as “takes a 2D matrix, another 2D matrix, and returns a third 2D matrix.”
Then there are the rules:
• repeating a letter on the left-hand side of the arrow means to multiply along those axes
• omitting a letter from the right-hand side means sum over this axis.
• the order of the letters in the output is the order of the array, so I can transpose too.
This example
tbh, what ended up working best was not thinking too hard, labeling my input axes and my output axes and following the rules to update it.
In this case, I wanted to multiply the last two dimensions of the expanded_inputs by its corresponding value in the kernel. So xyij,ij will do that because ij is in the expanded_inputs and kernel. The result should be of size xy. This gives me the function
feature_map = np.einsum(
Higher dimensional tensors are no big deal
I actually needed to do this with even larger tensors, with dimensions for the items in a minibatch, the number of input feature maps, and output feature maps. Labeling the dimensions and following the rules made this a little less of a headache. For example, getting gradients during back propagation looked something like this:
# n - N
# i - inputs
# o - outputs
# x - feature map dim1
# y - feature map dim2
# i - kernel dim1
# j - kernel dim2
conved = np.einsum(
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
Culture And Communication
When you talk with someone who speaks English as a second language, it’s important to stay with
basic language to reduce the risk of poor communications. Follow these guidelines: 1) Avoid slang expressions (i.e. Close but no cigar.”) 2) Avoid jokes, they usually are misunderstood. 3) Be patient, language conversion takes time. Remember, foreign speakers convert what you said to their native language, and then respond back in English. 4) Be prepared to repeat yourself (and do it exactly). If you paraphrase something, you’ll throw off a foreign speaker, because you said something new. 5) Speak slowly. If the person has trouble understanding you, speak slower, not louder! 6) Check for “understanding.” Observe their body language because the majority of language is nonverbal. If you feel they didn’t understand you, make a point of going over points that are were unclear. 7) Throughout your conversation or presentation, show sensitivity. Remember that you’re talking with someone from a different culture who speaks English as a second language.
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Thursday, March 23, 2017
It Can Sting!
Anyone in leadership knows that criticism goes with the job. You constantly have to make decisions, and with every option you choose, there will be somebody waiting to tell you what a big mistake you’ve made. Can you smell the fear?
Once you learn a process of evaluating criticism, you take control of it, rather than allowing it to control you. You don’t waste your time and energy with things that are negative – you move forward and use the criticism to better yourself. Criticism can be good. Use it for your growth. When someone gives you positive or negative criticism, take a moment to think about it, and ask yourself what you can learn from it.
If it is not done well, criticism can sting. The person who is criticized can get hurt or angry. It’s good to understand the source of the criticism. Instead of getting defensive, get calm and ask for specific information.
The goal of constructive criticism is to steer clear of an “attack.” Use a “respect and collaboration” approach.
Just for today, think about how you criticize people. When you criticize, do you maintain the person’s integrity, or do you “go for blood?”
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Friday, March 17, 2017
Know Your Breath (Part 2)
Know Your Breath
Part 2: Anxiety: You can work with anxiety by focusing on your exhalations and lengthening them – deliberately and gradually. If your everyday exhalations last about 6 counts, draw each one out to seven for a few breathing cycles and so on, until you find a length that suits you. Once you’ve increased the length of your exhalations, pause briefly at the end of each of them.
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
The "Art" Of A Network
Looking for a job is a “job.” If you’ve pounded the pavement for any length of time without any results, it’s time for a new approach.
A creative and effective way to get your foot in the door is to network. That means talking to your friends and acquaintances and telling them you’re available for work. In many situations, it’s not what you know, but who you know, that will get noticed. An important aspect to networking is being pro-active. You have to get off your butt and put out “notice” that you need a job. Here are 2 ways to get you started!
1) Get business cards! A business card is a “mini-resume.” Having as much pertinent information on it, will get people to remember what you “do.” The cards don’t have to be “whistles and bells,” just simple. Use both sides if necessary. Carry a stack of them in your wallet or purse. You never know when you’ll need them. How many times did someone ask, “Can I have your card?” only for you to respond, “I don’t have any with me.” American Express says it best, “Don’t leave home without it!”
2) Prepare your “elevator speech!” Elevator speech might be a new term for some of you but it is critical for networking. Think about what career skills make you a good hire. Where do you want to work and why? (This is the part where you have to BRAG about yourself because THAT is what will get people to notice you.) Here’s an example: “My name is Bob and I’m a speech consultant. I help foreign speakers reduce their accents. I am also a spiritual/executive coach for clergy and ministry students, and I write grants. I want you to remember me for accents, clergy and dollars!” See how concise that is? Think about how fast it takes an elevator to go up (or down), a couple of floors. In order to have people remember you, you have to sell yourself! This takes practice but the more you do it, the easier it gets.
You are destined for a good job! Incorporate these 2 ways into your “job” bank and see what happens.
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Sunday, March 5, 2017
The Big Picture: Open Up!
Your experience(s) color or filter the way that you see, or hear things. You can be in a room of 20 people listening to a speaker and EACH person will hear something different. Why? Because each of us has an inborn filter which creates our perspective(s) on things. If you are stubborn, you will not be able to compromise or adapt to situations because your filters LIMIT you. The best way to change that, is to ask yourself, How am I seeing this situation? Am I open to learning something new or is my PAST the guiding force right now?
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gradual evolution
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The 13 thematic meetings, with explanations and discussion, are supported by the gradual evolution of working examples of live web documents and applications using the mainstream programming languages HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Another contrast: Although paleontologists have discovered fossils that chronicle the gradual evolution of birds, Alexander writes, the earliest flying members of the other groups are, for now, frustratingly absent from the fossil record.
And retailers in the business need to go that extra mile to understand this gradual evolution and suggest solutions that will enable customers to store and transfer data without any hiccups.
With 5G, we see more of a gradual evolution occurring .
It's a step-by-step process of gradual evolution rather than sudden makeover.
Instead, institutions should be allowed to grow so as to ensure a gradual evolution of people's political consciousness.
As with all cities there has been a gradual evolution as old has made way for new, and for much of that time it was steady progress.
From the looks of things, however, this alleged Build 9788 aACAo if it is real aACAo will be more of a gradual evolution of Windows 8.
The change from the bottom is a gradual evolution of changes about awareness of this issue.
Cotabato City - Maguindanao, one of five component provinces of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), continued to draw citations for its gradual evolution from the armed conflicts and feudal politics in a trend that motivated incumbent local officials to aspire for a "hall of fame" in the government's annual Seal of Good Housekeeping awards.
The study combines a structural analysis that aims to identify the social, economic, and legal structures of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period that made it possible for market society to develop (and the changes to those structures that occurred due to the rise of markets) with a process perspective that stresses the gradual evolution of commercialization in England and focuses on the development pattern and potential of this process.
Following NAA tradition and having worked for 14 years to promote the leadership of Latinos on Wall Street, business and government, the NAA Wall Street Summit showcased the gradual evolution on Wall Street and Corporate America acknowledging the market value and contribution of the American Latino community and a push towards greater inclusion.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Nifty Sidebar:
Now, I am a classic car admirer. I'd call myself an afficionado, but I really don't know enough about them to truly claim that coveted title. I know a little about engine muscle and a few design details and I can usually name the make and model both coming and going.
However...I loooooove Mustangs. They are just...beautiful. Make it an incredibly powerful Mustang, and GutterBall is a happy, drooling girl.
So I must now link you to...the latest retro!
[Forgive the "Gone in 60 Seconds" reference....]
Isn't she a beaut? I could do with a nifty scoop or something, but...she's lovely. Her lines are clean and just new enough to be "retro", but the front end looks a lot more like the classic front than in years past...*kicks the '80s models and narrows eyes at the late '90s*...and the vents are neither overdone nor suspiciously absent. Yup, the Shelby Cobra GT.
*drools for a while*
I could look at her all day. But you couldn't pay me money to drive her. Nope, a car like that must be driven by a painfully attractive man who just happens to double as a stunt driver who just happens to double as a race car driver. *nods* Yup. That car deserves a professional.
*sighs at the thought of all the idiot teenager girls and punk teenage boys who will soon be driving this lovely*
It just...breaks the heart.
Sunday, March 27, 2005
Hilarious Sidebar:
Look what I found! I found a page with all the WWE WrestleMania trailers!!
I particularly love the "Taxi Driver" and "A Few Good Men" trailers, though the "Dirty Harry" one cracks me up, too.... And the "Braveheart" one got a helluva snicker the first time I saw it....
Aw, who am I kidding? They're PRICELESS! I hope they leave them up even after WrestleMania, as I only have two of them on tape! *laughs*
Saturday, March 26, 2005
Dear Charlie:
I am LOVIN the ride Luther Reigns drove into the ring! Woo-hoo!
It's a big Jeep, jacked up high 80's style. *big grin* I am SUCH a child of the 80s! Heh. Big black beast of a vehicle.
Unfortunately, he's making an ass of himself with it. *sighs* They really need to give him more props. He's a big guy and he looks like he can move well -- quick on his feet with a good range of motion. Why don't they let him win more? I know he's a bad guy, but....
*sighs* I just want my favorite to get some props.
*grins* Too bad he's scripted to make an ass of himself. Awr. See, he came out bragging that he could tip over his 4400-pound Jeep. Couldn't do it. So now Big Show's givin it a go. That used to be his thing, you know? I watched him tip over a Ford Taurus last year, ne?
There it went! Woo-hoo!
*laughs* It really, really doesn't take much to amuse me!
Hey, I gotta get my jollies where I can. I spent a good chunk of the day scraping wallpaper. Some of it just don't want to come off. That's the stuff I'll soak off. It looks better all the time, though. Every bared foot of wall is like a little victory.
I scraped the hell out of my knuckles, though. *eyes them* I should maybe wear some gloves, ne? Heh, my hands are scarred enough as it is. I think I use them too much. They're just so darn...well, I was gonna say "handy", but even I won't make THAT bad a pun.
Versatile. That's the word I'll use. Heh.
They do learn pretty well, and I can use them for lots of different good stuff. And they earned me $9 an hour a while back, scraping wallpaper as a carpenter's helper. *grins* Too bad I'm doing it for free this time. *grumbles*
Heh, I wish that carpenter hadn't moved to Springfield. I'd give him a holler and do some of that until I get another day job, ne? He was impressed and told me to give him a call if I had some time to fill...but then he moved his business. Darn it.
Wrestling is fun. I hope they bring Luther Reigns back in sometime tonight. *happy sigh* He's like the walking example of that really terrible come-on line: "Look at them legs, how they go all the way up and make an ass of themselves."
Heh. I could watch him make an ass of himself aaaaaaaall day. Throw in a little wrestling and some trash talk, and GutterBall is again a happy girl. Woo-hoo!
Friday, March 25, 2005
Hilarious Sidebar:
And speaking of my beloved sister's hilarious Christmas ditty...here's another in honor of my resignation!
What a riot!
Sorry I've been quiet this week folks, both here and just online in general, but I've been...mulling.
The upside of all this mulling is that I just put in my two weeks' notice this morning. Yup, I'm quitting my job. Remember that hilarious parody of The Twelve Days of Christmas that my beloved sister did for me? Well, while it's funny as all hell, it's painfully true.
On top of that, my boss just insulted me yesterday. Twice. In one day.
So, while I don't have another job lined up just yet and pickins are pretty slim in ol' Joplin, MO, I really have no choice but to blow this popsicle stand. I'm tired of my boss taking advantage of my willingness to work hard while he insults my work ethic and refuses to pay me equitably.
Shine on that, Silent Bob.
And rather than being upset or worried or whatever, I'm just so relieved. This place has sucked the life out of me for too long. This is probably something of a shock to most people reading this [heh, all three or four of you...], as I try my best not to splooge in this blog, but I spent five years in this meat grinder, swallowing my pride and keeping my mouth shut, and it feels really, really good to know that, even though my future is more uncertain now than ever before, I won't have to be HERE anymore.
So, I'm still not splooging. *big grin* I'm CELEBRATING.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Dear Charlie:
You have seen many things. You do not fear death, but sometimes you wish for it. Is this not so?
It happens to men who have seen what we have seen. And then, I come to this place of my ancestors, and I remember...like these blossoms, we are all dying. To know life in every breath, every cup of tea, every life we take. The way of the warrior.
That is...bushido.
Watching The Last Samurai again...and loving every minute. I am so fascinated with both the Japanese culture and the eternal art of fighting. *happy sigh* This movie gives me both.
Can't get enough of it.
Heh, I gotta get me some o' that.
If I only watch this flick until Algren gives the Emperor Katsumoto's katana and the Emperor pleads to hear of his unendingly loyal servant's death, it's a perfect movie. Good conversations. The intense battles. The equally intense need...to find place, to find self, to find honor. The unending dedication to a way of life that is so dear, so precious...that it BECOMES life.
Striving for perfection in each and every movement, every action, every word and deed.
The end of an era...the beginning of another...the merging of the old with the new as New realizes that Old is beautiful and perfect and cannot be lost to the vicissitudes of time. Culture clashing with Progress, the West intruding on the East. Way of life falling under the will to live.
Samurai. To serve.
And it's over.
I could weep, if I were that kind of person.
Beautiful. Achingly so. It touches my heart, and as anyone who knows me will tell you...that's no easy feat.
I could weep for what's past, even as I understand the need for what's come. And I ache with all my heart at the soft, heartbroken words of a young Samurai who has lost the emblem of his way of life to the unyielding march of progress when a soldier hacks off his mage and leaves him dishonored and humiliated in the street:
"Jolly good."
Oh, and by the way, I slept last night.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Dear Charlie:
Still in the midst of insomnia. Meh.
In better and MUCH more amusing news, I finally got to watch DBZ Movie 12 last night! Thanks go in sum total to Lady Pesh, who generously donated to my unfashionable obsession with DragonBall Z. Woo-hoo!
See, I didn't have this one because it hasn't been translated yet. I didn't want to buy it in Japanese just to turn around and buy it again in English. Despite the many iterations of Pitch Black I've gone through, I really don't relish buying a movie more than once. Heh.
At any rate, remember that "Kung Fu Fighting" phase I had (and still haven't completely kicked) thanks to a music video made with DBZ clips? Remember? It's all synced up perfectly and it's priceless, seeming to follow the theme of the song and everything?
Yeah, that's the one.
Turns out, all of those video clips are from Movie 12. So, while I watched last night, I caught myself blurting snatches of "Kung Fu Fighting" to match the scenes on the screen. What a riot! I didn't know I'd combined the song and clips so...INEXTRICABLY in my mind!
Priceless stuff.
Back to the insomnia -- but only for a moment, I assure you -- I managed to get SOME sleep last night. How do I know, you ask? I'll tell you.
I had a dream.
Having a dream means I finally managed to drop into deep sleep -- the stuff you need to keep your sanity and boost your immune system (though they can't really PROVE that last). It means I not only slept, but that I slept long enough to relax into deep sleep -- which, for a "slow sleep" insomniac like me, means I probably got at least 3 hours, since it takes me a looooong time to fall that deep.
If you've ever studied the physical aspect of dreams, you know that even a long, drawn-out dream supposedly only takes a few seconds or minutes in real time. You may dream out an entire life in 5 minutes. Dream time is very different from real time.
So, while I did finally catch enough Zs to hit deep sleep, I still probably didn't get more than 3 hours, and that rather broken. But it's better than the night before, where I'm not really sure I slept at all.
So, hopefully, this rough patch is on the mend. I still seem to be functioning okay -- spurts of random conversation and the terminal giggles aside -- so maybe I'll make it through this one without going totally bonkers. Woo-hoo!
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Dear Charlie:
Comedy is when something terrible happens to you. Tragedy is when it happens to me.
Heh. Ironically enough, thanks to Night 3 of the Great Sleep Deprivation Challenge, this whole "I can't sleep" thing is funny as hell. So, is it really tragedy and I just don't know because it kinda feels like it's happening to someone else?
Or am I just that loopy from lack of sleep?
To be honest, I'm not sure if I slept at all last night. I mean, I'm sure I must have, but I don't remember either falling asleep or waking up. I probably caught a wink or two here and there. I had a mental breakthrough in a story I'm writing for Xodtica. Woo-hoo!
Of course, I didn't dare get up and write it for fear of axing those few, precious winks I might get by keeping my sorry ass in bed. *snickers* But I did come up with a nifty plot thingie.
Another funny: I came to this morning (didn't bother with the alarm, as I was already wide awake, ne?) with Motley Crue's new single If I Die Tomorrow on repeat in my head. Don't worry. I like the song.
The funny part is that, though it had been repeating over and over and over in my mind for a good hour and a half at least, when I flicked on the radio in the bathroom, it kicked in exactly where I was singing. Same key. Same tempo.
That always kinda wigs me out.
I mean, of all the songs they could be playing right then, ne? Of all the places in THIS song to have turned on the radio, ne? Of all the keys in which I could SING the damn thing!
Ah, the wonders of sleep deprivation. I mulled over countless possibilities for this odd (okay, not so odd, but definitely disconcerting) occurrence while I ponderously got dressed, fixed my hair, and brushed my teeth. I came to the conclusion that I'm either psychic on Day 3 of insomnia or that a series of cosmic coincidences and a touch of Chaos Theory came into play just to make me blink for a good 30 seconds when I turned on the radio this morning.
I'm still not sure which one I buy.
I hope everyone else is having at least as interesting a day as I am!
Oh, yeah. And remember yesterday when I said something to the effect of "at least I remembered underwear"? Fastforward about half an hour from that point. Yes, I remembered underwear, but the first time I got up to use the restroom, I realized, to my amazement, that I'd put them on backward. Not inside out. BACKWARD.
Needless to say, I checked this morning BEFORE leaving for work. And again before posting this.
Just in case.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Dear Charlie:
3 hours sleep last night. Wheee!
I heard Dave get up this morning -- not because he woke me up, but because I was still awake. Gah. Not cool.
You know, the first couple of days of sleep deprivation are actually kind of amusing. I mean, not FUN by any stretch, but I just get so punchy. Heh. I realize I'm behaving like an idiot, but there's really not much I can do about it with this foggy focus I manage, so I just go with it and let myself be amused.
Dave gets a BIG kick out of it, though he sympathizes with my plight.
Like just this morning, I dragged myself out of bed, got dressed, brushed my teeth, did something resembling fixing my hair, and came to work...and sat working with my coat still on for a good 20 minutes while I answered e-mail. And I'd thought I was doing so well! I mean, I remembered underwear and everything!
And then someone saw me and went, "Geez! What's wrong with YOU?"
Thanks, guys. I needed that. I didn't notice that I look like I'm rockin' two shiners. Really.
Apparently, I'm also very pale, which is kind of a joke. I seem to be terminally cursed with rosy cheeks -- I blush A LOT -- but today...no dice. Death moderately warmed over. Placed near a stove, actually. Not even completely thawed.
And this damn COUGH....
At any rate, yeah, these first couple of days of sleep dep are somewhat amusing. *grins* If it goes on for longer than a 5-day work week, I'll definitely change my tune, but for now, I'll try to keep my mind from drifting off onto story plots and costume ideas and what I'd do if I won PowerBall and actually get some work done. God only knows how much of it will make any sense, heh, but I'll do it.
Ooh! Look at the butterflies! And how CAN a Moebius strip have only one side? The very word "side" implies more than one, ne? And why haven't I learned any more words in Japanese? I picked up the cuss words so easily. Why can't I hold a conversation yet? Oh, and I had the BEST conversation yesterday.....
Monday, March 14, 2005
Dear Charlie:
So I called in sick today. Been tired and kinda whonky all week, but I was hoping it was just because I haven't been sleeping well. Then, last night, the insomnia kicked in with a vengeance, and I just laid in bed, planning a possible Halloween party and the reworked plots of my trilogy, unable to so much as doze until after sunrise.
So, waking up after getting perhaps 2 hours of sleep, I realized that the coughing and hacking I've been doing may not just be allergies, after all. *shrugs* I officially throw in the towel. I'm sick.
Of course, that towel-throwing could be due to not having a voice for half an hour and then sounding like a lion choking on a zebra leg after that. Heh.
In other news, I did something I'm rather proud of this weekend.
Keep in mind that I'm not a computer person. I know just enough to admire anyone who can work on these pesky, temperamental blocks of plastic and circuitry on a regular basis, ne? Somehow, though, I've managed to become something of a tech at work. Probably because I can upload programs without getting hives, I'm not afraid to push most buttons, and I'll go on an "end task" and deleting spree if I think a computer's lugging some spyware. Heh.
But on my own computer? Sure, I'll tweak. Sure, I'll delete. But when it comes to the software, I usually rely on someone else. Until now.
I wiped my system and installed Win2K...all by myself! Woo-hoo!
*does a little dance*
Okay, so I had a lot of over-the-phone help from Derek. And some on-line shoulder-leaning with my beloved sister. *grins* But I did it, and things are running faster and and better than ever. Woo-hoo!
And so what if I got two viruses and a trojan (sounds like I got a couple of STDs despite safe sex, ne? *snickers*) because I had to upgrade to IE6 before I could load Norton Antivirus? *rolls eyes* Now THERE'S a Catch 22 if I ever saw it. Make me be online for 2 hours (I'm on dial-up, so something that should take maybe 15 minutes takes 120) without any virus protection so I can actually load up my virus protection. *snorts*
Anyway, it's all cleaned up now and running smooth. I still can't get rid of this clipping thing my sound card's doing...*kicks sound card*...but I can live with it until I figure it out. I downloaded the driver from the company site, and that still didn't fix it. But, so long as my overall performance is sweet, I can deal.
Woo-hoo! And I did it mostly myself!
Kinda liberating, actually. I think I'll wipe this thing annually. *big grin* It's nice to start with what amounts to a new system. 'S like a blank slate. However, next time I think I'll save the IE6 executable to a disk or something so I don't have to get online to download it. *grumbles*
Anyway, so I'm feeling kinda proud of myself for getting all this done by myself for the first time, and having my stuff up and running and all personalized, etc., in maybe 12 hours of work, even with dial-up. Woo-hoo!
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Dear Charlie:
Aw, camel-poo.
So last Thursday, I got an e-mail from my friend Scott, who plays at Woody's on Wednesday nights. He's gone to playing every other Wednesday, and he'd just played the night before, ne? So I figured he had another gig he wanted me to see, and I'm always happy to oblige. The guy is absolutely fantastic.
The e-mail informed me that he'd be playing "next Wednesday" -- last night, March 9 -- since Weevil, the guy who plays Wednesdays when Scott's not there, would be playing somewhere else. Yes, I know someone named Weevil. I also have a friend named Muskrat.
Anyway, Scott asked if I'd show Wednesday night [last night], and I said sure. Like I've probably said, I'd take almost any chance to listen to him play. Yes, he's that good.
As a whole, yesterday was somewhat hectic. I was just in a hurry all day. I doubt there was really any reason to rush, but -- long story short -- I managed to cram in some sandwich meat at lunchtime, and that's it. I ate a few ounces of turkey at about 1:00, and that was it all day. My stomach was HOWLING by 5:00, of course, and I don't get off work until 6:30.
Now, another friend came by the office after work to drop off a present -- thanks, Pesh! I love the little SS4 Goku! -- and chat for a while. By "a while", I mean...two hours. *sheepish* With my stomach howling, we stood outside in the cold wind and just shot the shit until almost 8:30.
Needless to say, I was supposed to be at Woody's at about 8:00 to listen to Scott, and he was probably starting to think I wouldn't show, so we hurriedly cut off the conversation, I flew home to change into more comfortable clothes -- I'd have never lived it down if I'd showed up at Woody's in a skirt -- then flew back across town, arriving at about quarter 'til nine.
And Weevil's setting up.
Nothing against Weevil here, folks. He's excellent. He does a lot of his own stuff. He can move you. But he's not SCOTT, and I was there to see SCOTT.
Not. Pleased.
Luckily, Jane and Elliott -- regulars, like me -- were there -- also expecting Scott -- so I sat at their table, ordered a pizza for carry-out, and planned to get home early to IM chat with the people I'd kinda blown off to show up on an off Wednesday.
And I'm FAMISHED. And it's just shy of 9:30 at this point.
Just as my pizza's up and I get out my checkbook, I get a phone call. Now, should I be ashamed that I'm enough of a regular to receive phone calls at what amounts to a glorified bar?
*big grin*
Anyway, it's Dave. He's out of class and his usual ride wasn't there, so he wondered if I'd pick him up when I was done at Woody's. The poor guy is obviously planning on standing out in the cold for at least an hour, as Scott isn't usually done until 10:30 or so. Luckily for him, I was just leaving. But my pizza's up, and I am FAMISHED, and I don't want to leave Dave standing there while I shove in a couple of slices, so....
Much to my shame, I ate as I drove. Heh. I got some seriously strange looks, gnoshing on pizza while driving. I've never tried it before, but it's strangely liberating.
I was so hungry, I didn't care if I got any on me, you know? Ironically enough, I didn't drop so much as a mushroom.
So I pick up Dave, who -- bless him -- doesn't say a word about me snarfing down 3 slices of pizza in the five minutes or so it took to get from West 7th Street to East 32nd Street and another before we get out of the parking lot. The best part of the trip was stopping by Burger King for Dave, ordering 4 Whoppers and a large order of onion rings, and paying at the window while quite obviously eating pizza.
Anyway, got home and signed on, only to be swamped with "Where were you!?!" messages and conference invites. 'S good to be missed, ne?
It took me half an hour to even check my e-mail.
Busy day. Hectic day. But by God...it was damn good pizza.
Monday, March 07, 2005
Okay, a little more on AvP, as I kinda shorted it last night. What can I say? I was tired.
As I said, I went into the flick disappointed. How can you take two franchises with solid R ratings and end up with a PG-13 combination? It just doesn't add up.
They did some things right. As countless comic books and even a few novels story, the Predators use Earth as a proofing ground for their young. Every so often, they allow the aliens to breed and threaten so they can use their destruction as a right of passage. They'll drop a few juvenile Predators on Earth to fend for themselves. Usually, everything's all right. Occasionally, the juveniles fail and have to resort to that handy self-destruct the Predator used on Arnold Schwarzeneggar.
Very cool.
So, they got the basic premise for the combination right. They drop 3 Predator teens on Earth after making sure the humans discover their perfect set-up and proofing grounds, then sit back and wait to see what happens.
This makes for incredible effects shots, lots of acid-spewing, and some fabulous "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" type reasoning that just never gets old. Very sweet.
While it's true that these Predators are juveniles, they are not helpless without their shoulder cannons. *facepalms* Admittedly, the shoulder cannons are potent as hell, but...but...but they're PREDATORS. They're not mere hunters. They have other weapons at their disposal than a big, mean gun, and even if they had no other weapons, they have strategy and cunning and brute strength.
The aliens killed two of the Predators in the same damn scene. Geez. Even juvenile Predators wouldn't be THAT unaware of the approaching danger. C'mon.
Now, the one that lasted was a bad-ass, yes. Very cool. And man, can that fool communicate! *big grin*
However, once deprived of his shoulder cannon, he took quite a beating. *facepalms again*
Oh, and the female lead? Total Mary Sue. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check here. Trust me, it's kinda funny.
Don't get me wrong. I'm glad they made her smart and resourceful. That's all good. I'm also glad the Predator gave her mad props for said cunning and resourcefulness. He hooked her up with some weaponry and gave her some serious respect. That's all good.
But she's a Mary Sue. If this story had been written up in fanfiction, the author would have been laughed off the internet and flamed within an inch of his/her life.
*big grin*
All that said, they really did a bang-up job for not being allowed the violence/gore/cussing factor. They did handle the premise well. The effects were KILLER, as were most of the Predator/alien fight sequences [except the one where two -- count 'em, TWO -- Predators keeled over for no good reason]. The tie-ins between the Alien flicks -- gotta love the head of the Weyland company, which of course becomes the infamous Weyland-Yutani Company that Ellen Ripley works for and eventually tries to destroy -- are a little more well-done than the Predator flicks, but only because the Alien series is more fleshed out with 4 movies, as compared to 2.
I like it. I'm watching it again [caught about 45 minutes of it over lunch]. But the great movie it could have been but for a PG-13 rating and some props to the boys in armor?
Naw. It's not THAT good.
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Dear Charlie:
Well, hell. This has been a great weekend for movies! First, I watched Friday Night Lights at my beloved sister's house. More on that later. Then, I got home just in time to watch m'man, Luther Reigns, wrestle Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio. That was cool, and the rest of the show was a riot with Big Show grinnin' from ear to ear after destroying Rene Dupris with a single, monster choke slam.
And today, Dave and I watched Be Cool. Now, if you didn't like Get Shorty (though I can't imagine why you wouldn't), don't bother with Be Cool. If you DID like Get Shorty, you absolutely cannot miss the sequel.
GAH! Yes, I said the "s" word. But this sequel is at least as good as the first.
Chili Palmer in all his smooth-talkin, "look at me" glory absolutely rules the roost. Suave, luck-of-the-Devil, and with a mind that runs a good 5 conversations ahead of the rest, Chili is the epitome of the movie title. Cool, indeed.
And as much as I dislike Uma Thurman (the Kill Bill movies aside), I gotta say that she kicked ass in this movie, as well. She only screwed up once (mentioning the Russians against orders). The rest of the time, she was game and rockin' out. Super sweet.
I love how everything just came together. How the right people were willing to listen to reason. How the wrong people kept accidentally serving the cause. And how the one honest-to-God good person, Linda Moon (and damn, did they pick an excellent chick to play her!), is actually an honest-to-God good person. Who knew?
Steven Tyler and Aerosmith. Cedric the Entertainer as a sophisticated gansta leader of the low-rider, spinner-wheeled, HumVee-driving DubMDs (Weapons of Mass Destruction). *snicker* And that white guy who'd swear to you that he's black.
*falls over laughing*
And the Rock...the Rock and his red baseball bat....
Yeah, definitely go see this one if you liked the first one. It's sweet. Absolutely sweet.
As for Friday Night Lights?
Well, maybe I'm just pining for the football season. Maybe even a month is too long for me to live without football. Maybe I'm just a sucker for kick-ass halftime speeches.
Whatever the reason, I absolutely loved this flick. High school football in Texas is notoriously hardcore, and this film really does it justice. Those boys play football because it's what skilled, talented high school boys in Texas do. There's no question.
Now, some rely on it because they have nothing else. For some of those boys, if they don't excell at football, they don't go to college. For others, their fathers were football gods, and they are simply expected to follow that path to glory.
For most of them, that senior year is their one and only shot at something to remember, something to story about. A perfect season is something to keep them warm throughout the long, cold rest of their staid, work-a-day lives.
That grim possibility is behind every scene in the flick. Sure, some of those boys had a chance at other things, but they didn't see it that way. For them, they had a single season to build enough glory to last a lifetime.
And damn, did they ever, no matter what the final result.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Oh, yeah -- and while writing this? Heh. I watched Alien vs. Predator.
Keep in mind that I went into this flick wondering how the hell they could take two R-rated franchises and make them into a PG-13 film. Geez. I mean, I want gore and F-bombs. I want chunks and gobbets flying, tails tearing people in half, predators ripping out spines....
You know, the good stuff.
So, I was prepared to be disappointed. 'S probably why I was reluctantly surprised at the things they did right. Wasn't QUITE gory enough for me (the aliens and predators all bled enough, yes, but the humans just kinda got chest-bursted off-camera), but there were some seriously kick-ass shots, and that one predator hooked the smart chick UP.
He did her a solid for standing her ground.
So yeah, this has been a kick-ass weekend for movies. GutterBall is officially a happy girl.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Dear Charlie:
I kid you not. Spunk, or Clarice, if you prefer, is running circles around the living room furniture. Guest room to loveseat arm, across the back to the chair arm, across the back to the other chair arm, mighty leap to the floor, and a streak into the guest room to start it all again.
Good Lord.
Luckily enough, she hasn't slipped and caught any of me in her claws yet. I keep waiting. One of these times.
I also embarrassed the hell out of myself last night by getting caught singing in the shower. Egads. Not singing like humming while washing dishes. Oh, no. BELTING it out. Louder than the radio, which was up pretty loud so I could hear it over the shower.
What can I say? Didn't know Dave was home. Didn't know he'd have anyone with him. Luckily, they just applauded racuously outside the bathroom door and ribbed me mercilessly when I came out, fully clothed.
*facepalms again*
At least they liked the music, ne?
If there's any other way this week can be bizarre beyond belief, please...for the love of all that is good and right...DON'T TELL ME. *grins* I don't know if I can take any more oddity before I sleep in next!
Weekend, here I come! Thank God that when I wake up, it'll be Friday.
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How Do Brain Stem Cells Age? Their Damage Filter Breaks Down
Credit: Penn State
Could discovering how neural stem cells protect themselves from damage lead to treatment that helps combat aging?
We now know that stem cells in the brain do in fact divide, and that this regenerative capacity begins to falter with age. The majority of our cells don't divide, and the bulk of division falls to stem cell niches dotted across our body. Stem cell populations do age, but they're more resistant than 'normal' cells are, and they produce higher levels of telomerase - enabling them to divide for years.
How do brain stem cells remain free of damage?
Neural stem cells aren't perfectly protected from aging, but they're generally a hardier bunch. Scientists from the University of Zurich have now discovered that part of this aging resistance in neural stem cells is due to a 'diffusion barrier'. When they divide, these cells produce a barrier which filters out damaged proteins to one side, allowing the new cell to be damage-free.
Here you can see the asymmetric sorting of damaged proteins Credit: UZH
This diffusion barrier arises in the endoplasmic reticulum, where proteins are normally created and modified. It then prevents damage from travelling into the new daughter cell - confining it to the mother. This protects offspring from inheriting any damage accumulation.
This barrier weakens with age
This tactic remains effective for a while, but with age it starts to fray and allows some damage leak through into progeny. The overall stem cell population then begins to age as a whole, as damaged proteins are spread around.
Does this mechanism happen in other stem cells?
The heavy burden of division requires that stem cells take extra precautions, and analysing stem cells from other parts of the body could reveal that they also use similar protection. Rejuvenating this diffusion barrier could refresh a stem cell population, once again preventing damage from accumulating to toxic levels.
Read more at Neuroscientist News
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How big is one-tenth of one percent?
How big is one-tenth of one percent?
Tonight the five leading candidates in the race for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana will take the stage for a televised debate. Unlike the last debate, a sixth candidate will join them: the noted white supremacist David Duke.
In order to avoid the chaos of having two dozen candidates on stage, Raycom set a polling threshold of five percent in a recent Mason-Dixon Polling & Research poll to qualify for the debate. Duke hit 5.1 percent.
One-tenth of one percent…in one poll.
The decision to put Duke on the stage has sparked controversy on the campus of Dillard University, the historically black institution that serves as the site of the debate, and beyond. The university's president even called the poll 'rigged.'
Large candidate fields create obvious problems for debates. Just take a look at the debates in the Republican presidential primary. Debate sponsors, therefore, look for ways to cull the crowd to something more manageable. Often they turn to polls as a measure of viability.
This is a bad idea for at least three reasons.
Qualifying on one-tenth of one percent is no better than deciding based on a coin toss
When you have a margin of error of four points, as the Raycom/Mason Dixon poll does, one-tenth of one percent basically amounts to nothing.
The margin of error is how we measure the uncertainty that stems from the fact that surveys interview randomly-selected samples of voters rather than interviewing everyone who will actually vote in the election. The Raycom/Mason Dixon poll includes 625 respondents. If they had talked with 625 different respondents instead of the 625 particular respondents they actually interviewed, the results would have been a little different. On average, we would expect the results from all (quality) polls to come out to whatever the real level of support for Duke is among voters. But any one poll will differ somewhat from that value and from any other one poll. The margin of error gives us a sense of how much the results bounce around from sample to sample.
It does not really tell us about the likelihood that Duke actually has support from 5.1 percent of voters. But it does allow us to say what the chances are you would end up with 5.1 percent supporting Duke in a poll for any particular value for Duke’s actual level of support.
For example, let’s imagine Duke’s actual level of support was just a hair under the debate threshold at 4.9 percent. If Raycom knew that, then presumably they would not let him on stage. They do not know that, so they do a poll of 625 likely voters with a four point margin of error. What are the chances that someone who does not meet the threshold polls above the threshold in this case? It is basically a coin toss: 49 percent.
That’s the best case scenario for a candidate who falls below the threshold. Even when they are further from the threshold, there is still a decent shot the poll will put them over based on random chance alone.
We do not know the actual level of support for Duke, but a reasonable place to start is by looking at all the polls. Duke’s support in the Raycom/Mason Dixon poll is on the high end of what we’ve seen across the polls released in the last two months. Most polls have him at two or three percent. This does not mean something is wrong with the Raycom/Mason Dixon poll. Random sampling means you sometimes get outliers…and 5.1 percent is not even that far out of what we would expect to see from time to time.
As of this writing, the Huffington Post polling average has Duke at two points, and the FiveThirtyEight average has him at 3.8 points. They use different sets of polls and different methods of computing their averages, but they agree that Duke’s level of support is probably under five percent.
If Duke’s actual level of support among the electorate is two points, as the Huffington Post average suggests and which would fall below the Raycom threshold, then about one in every five polls should have him above five points based on random chance alone.
Similarly, if his actual level of support is 3.8 percent, as the FiveThirtyEight’s average suggests but still below the Raycom threshold, then we would expect about 44 percent of polls to have Duke above the Raycom threshold.
Based on the randomness of sampling, there is a very good chance that someone who is actually under the threshold would qualify for the debate.
By the same logic, a candidate whose actual level of support is above five percent could fall short of the threshold in any particular poll. Let’s take Rob Maness as an example. The polling averages have him under five points, but let’s imagine hypothetically that his actual support is just above the threshold for qualification. There would still be a 34 percent chance that he would show up below the threshold in this poll.
Pollsters make decisions that shape the outcomes
What I have written so far is a best case scenario in which the only reason a candidate’s result in a single poll might differ from his or her actual support is random error from sampling. There is much, much more.
Polling results do not come from on high untouched by human hands. Pollsters have to make real decisions about how to process raw data once collected. Raw data from a single sample could look demographically different from the population you care about due to random sampling and non-response. Perhaps a bit more whites than the typical electorate or a bit less female. Pollsters deal with this by weighting the data to a known demographic profile of their target population. The sample will also include a significant number of respondents who will not vote. Pollsters want to screen them out, which makes sense if you want to make a statement about what the electorate thinks.
These decisions about how to weight data and identify likely voters are crucial steps in the process. Good pollsters should take these steps, but there is no single best way to decide how exactly to do them. There are better and worse ways to be sure, but even high quality pollsters will make different decisions and – here’s the key part – those decisions shape the results.
Recently the New York Times Upshot provided raw data from a single presidential poll to five highly reputable pollsters or statisticians and asked them to make their own decisions about how to process the data. Despite starting with the same raw data and the apparent reasonableness of each group’s approach to processing the data, the five groups came up with five different sets of results from the poll. The results spanned from Clinton +4 to Trump +1.
Five points! This is not random sampling error that the margin of error is giving some clue about, this is a whole other source of variability called the design effect. Most poll coverage ignores it (in part because most pollsters ignore it).
The folks at Mason Dixon or Raycom made decisions about how to weight the data and screen for likely voters. We do not know exactly why they settled on the choices they made or how the results would differ if they made other (perhaps equally reasonable) choices about weighting and likely voter screening.
However, we can be pretty sure their decisions amount to more than one tenth of one percent.
Polls – especially polls of primaries in Louisiana – often miss by more than one tenth of one percent
Finally, polls in Louisiana’s primaries for U.S. Senate and governor elections tend to miss the final result by a bit more than the typical poll in other states. For some reason our primaries are just a bit more difficult to poll accurately. I have written about this before.
At the end of the day, all these issues mean the decision to put one candidate on stage and leave another off because of where they fall in relation to the threshold is an arbitrary decision that leaves a lot to randomness and decisions of pollsters.
None of this means that the Raycom/Mason Dixon poll is a ‘bad’ poll. But that’s exactly the point. Even if the poll was conducted exceptionally well and the pollster made reasonable choices about weighting and likely voter screening, it would remain incredibly naïve to use it in this way for the reasons I just laid out.
A poll doesn’t have to be ‘rigged’ for this to be a bad way to use it.
Election 2016: Everything Old is New Again
Election 2016: Everything Old is New Again
What will Turnout look like in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race?
What will Turnout look like in Louisiana's U.S. Senate race?
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Dave's Progress. Chapter 56: I Know What You Did Last Friday the 13th
As some of you will know I am a great fan of the movies. And of all the types, or genre, of movies there are, it seems that, of late, I have developed a penchant for the horror variety. The only trouble is, when it comes to the American horror film, one can't help but think sometimes that one is watching the same film, but with a different title, over and over again.
For example, I have just watched "Sorority Row", and I can't help thinking that it was just produced to a formula that has been known to work in the past and so is rehashed time and time again. This will be an obvious statement to make to those familiar with the teenage "slasher" film sub-genre, but perhaps it is worth just reiterating how boringly familiar these films have become and to ask, then, just why they are made and appear to be so popular?
Billed as "the best horror movie since 'Scream'", "Sorority Row" has obviously had money thrown at it. Although it has no "stars", hence making it harder to deduce just exactly who will survive, it's production values are, for this type of movie, pretty good. However, whoever has seen "Scream" will know from watching "Sorority Row" that whoever wrote the blurb above has entirely missed the point of the earlier film. Directed by Wes Craven, "Scream" was something of a post-modern masterpiece, in that it took all the conventions of the teenage slasher film and cleverly deconstructed them. One might have concluded that post "Scream", this type of horror film would be effectively dead, as there would appear to be nowhere, creatively, to go after such a genre-busting film. However, it has not stopped the proliferation of the slasher flick, and "Sorority Row" is no exception in playing it, even after the post-modern shenanigans of "Scream", completely straight.
So, just what is the fascination with these types of movie? Well, for one thing, there is the inevitable baring of female teenage flesh, which would appear to go down well with male teenage audiences. Many of the films, also, seem to be trying to express some form of morality, particularly when it comes to sex. Going all the way, if you'll excuse the pun, back to John Carpenter's seminal slasher flick, "Halloween", which is perhaps the Daddy of them all, the teenagers all seem to get killed after they have engaged in some sort of sexual activity. Is there, then, a bizarre sort of moral preaching going on in these movies. Have sex early in your life and you never know, there may be a Michael, a Jason or a Freddy just waiting around the corner, ready to pounce.
This alone, however, does not explain why these films seem to be constantly remade and rehashed, "Sorority Row" itself seeming to be a crude reworking of "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and, erm, "I Know What You Did Last Summer". The answer perhaps lies in the fact that such films are relatively cheap to make and accrue a relatively good box office return. Again, going back to "Halloween", it took only, I believe, around $3oo,ooo to make and in return took millions and millions at the box office. So, in inevitable Hollywood fashion, once one has a winning formula like that, one can't but help churn out endless sequels and reworkings, hoping to reproduce the money that was made initially.
Indeed, such films seem to be a long way from some of the horror movies produced during the '70's, my favourite period in Hollywood. Then, genuinely scary, artful and profound horror movies, such as Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now!" and William Friedkin's "The Exorcist" were made. "Don't Look Now!", behind its sinister and scary facade, was actually a quite deep examination of a couple's grief after losing their child. Similarly, "The Exorcist" seemed to examine profound theological issues, such as the mystery of faith, the massive problem of iniquity in God's world and the fathomlessness of acts of true goodness.
Indeed, it would appear that in more recent years one has to look to Europe to find any sort of originality in horror movies, and to get away from what has been called the "MTV" inspired American teenage slasher flick. For example, France has given us "Switchblade Romance", "Frontiers", "Them" and "Martyrs", all of which may have been influenced by American movies, but at least, although they may not be to every one's taste, strive for some form of originality. Spain, meanwhile, produced "Rec", which was, like most good foreign movies, rehashed and remade in Hollywood as "Quarantine". And in Sweden, there was the haunting, poetic adolescent vampire movie "Let the Right One In", which, to my mind, knocks spots off anything the "Twilight" saga can offer. Also, from England there was the brilliant "The Descent" and the truly original horror/comedy "Shaun of the Dead".
Perhaps, again though, as I have done in previous chapters, I look at the '70's through rose-tinted spectacles and, now being an old fart, look back on it with over sentimental eyes. And Europe, no doubt, makes its own fair share of stinkers. Indeed, there are exceptions to the rule that all American horror movies are just rehashed rubbish. Take, for instance, "Cabin Fever", Eli Roth's (who now seems to work with Quentin Tarantino) clever and scary tale of a flesh-eating illness (sounds gross, I know- and now I even sound like an American teenager- ewww, gross!). Also, there was "Mandy Lane", the denouement of which had all sorts of resonances for me of Columbine and similar tragedies.
What is not in doubt, then, is that, as long as there is money to be made, Hollywood will continue to churn out these movies, and so, as a little homage to them, I have written a short poem. It is called "The Teenage Sex and Death Club" and goes as follows:
The film keeps coming back,
It's always the same,
A winning block-busting formula,
The teenage sex and death club.
When you're the last big breasted teenager on the block,
The first thing you want to do is...
The closeness of death creates a primal urge,
One that you simply have to purge.
But if you go down in the woods tonight,
Make sure it's just heavy petting,
If it's full-on sex you're having,
You never know what you might be getting.
So sex and death,
Death and sex,
Are the two inter-related? Le petite mort?
I think they are, mortality and the score.
So there you have it, folks. And, I think, in my next brief foray in to Hollywood territory I will attempt to make my own teenage slasher movie. It's called, "I Know What You Did Last Friday the 13th". It's sort of a cross between.... well, isn't it obvious?
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klahanie said…
Dear David,
And now for a comment in English.
From reading this posting; you have left no doubt in my mind that you have a most enthusiastic passion for movies. In particular, the horror genre.
The American horror films you allude too; do seem to have the same tired old formula repeated but slightly reshuffled.
So speaking of repetition. How about a horror version of 'Groundhog Day'? A crazed Groundhog strikes terror into the hearts of the good people of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, over and over again....
Hey David, good luck with your own 'teenage slasher' movie. Any plans for this summer?
With great kindness, Gary.
dcrelief said…
Dear David,
They could drop the bomb on Hollywood and I could care less (just joking, blog police). In fact that piece of footage would make them more money than they could ever imagine. That's it!! Call Ron Howard; he owns Imagine Productions, right?!
Sorry; I'm not myself today. I'm the 'other one'.
By far, the 1970's version of "Last House on the Left" drove me away from horror forever. Oh, I don't mind a little "Jurassic Park', but please don't hack up people.
You definitely know your stuff. Great article.
Most sincerely,
David said…
Dear Gary,
Thanks for your comment (in English) which, fortunately, I can undersatnd.
As you say, these films do seem to repeat themselves, so a "Groundhog Day" version might prove fitting. I had you in mind for the Bill Murray role, whose droll, sardonic wit you could surely emulate. You also have that sort of hang dog face, which I mean in a flattering way!
With Very Best Wishes,
P.S. Was hoping to see you this week, but it appears the weather may thwart us yet again. Roll on Summer. Wich, incidentally, "I know what you did" in! :)
David said…
Dear Dixie,
Thanks for the comment. I, too, sometimes, could happily see them drop a bomb on Hollywood. Perhaps, as you say, it would make a good movie.
Also, I totally agree with you about the '70's version of "Last House on the Left". It was banned until very recently in this country, after which it was released on DVD. If you want to see an eloquent, haunting version of the same story, perhaps you should watch Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring", a Swedish film form the '50's which relates the same fable that "Last House on the Left" was based on, but without all the gratuitousness and gore.
Wishing you All the Best,
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For the prayers that you decide to ignore,
Which when answered all they would do,
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My zen of modeling
1. Your model should have some theoretical basis.
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BioWare's intense new 'Anthem' trailer finally dishes on story details
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So why do people have to be nasty. Here is what happened. I have been unburying my very very very old sewing machine from the basement, because all the sudden I am caught by the idea to make a quilt for my sweet baby. And guess what happens - I have never been sewing with that thing. I have never been sewing period. Plus - obviously I have no user manual for that thing anymore. Anyways. I am all decided about doing this. So I go to the web to find a user manual - not possible - except on these "download the user manual after a personalized websearch from one of our search specialists (aka very expensive)"-websites. So I go to find a forum for sewing people. I had so good experiences with the beading people, so I decide I will try it, right? And believe it or not, there are 5 comments. 4 of them are complaining about the way I asked the question, the location where I posted it, and other stupid comments about why they are not going to help me. Here is my answer: you sewing people SUCK.
(In case I have offended any nice sewing people, sorry! I am not talking about you).
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1. Dawno Says:
That's a real shame, Nicki. Try - there's a forum all about sewing machines:
They're a nice group (in general, I've never visited the sewing area). Hope they help you!
2. Nicki Says:
thank you so much Dawno, and sorry for being too straight, but that's how we germans are.... ;-)
3. Dawno Says:
heck, you weren't "too straight" at all - tell it like you see it!
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Posted on 06 Aug 2018 @ 1:25pm by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe
Mission: Character Development
Richard was troubled by how difficult Rebecca had become in recent weeks. She'd always been opinionated, but she'd never been unruly, outright rude and obnoxious. To put it bluntly, she'd become a miniature version of his mother, and once that comparison had been made, he was finding it exceptionally difficult to relate to her, as he kept seeing his mother - who he loathed and hated with a fiery passion. This meant he was transferring feelings he had for Kassandra onto Rebecca.
Realising he didn't have to deal with all this on his own was something of a blessing to the embattled marine. He was fighting a war on two fronts at the moment, and he was becoming fatigued and worn down. Fighting to save his career and even his own freedom on the one hand, whilst fighting his family on the other. All the while, still dealing with the psychological demons he'd aquired recently, that despite a trip to a rehab clinic, he wasn't cured so much that he'd been given a tool-kit for ongoing mental maintenance. One of those tools was to remember that he wasn't a lone rock in the ocean, and that he had people he could trust and rely on to lean on in trying times.
This realisation brought him to the door of his best friend's quarters, hoping that he was actually in, and wasn't... 'busy' with Archie. Deciding that discretion was the better part of valour in this instance, he tapped his comm badge. "Sharpe to Commander Porter." He said, mocking him even in this. "You free for a chat?"
=/\= Always for you, Big Guy, =/\= Paul’s cheery voice popped up over the Comm. =/\= Swing by my quarters... =/\=
"I'm standing right outside." Richard replied, smirking as he did so. "Just thought I'd check for the 'all clear', rather than chiming and interrupting something."
The doors swooshed open and revealed the sound of Archie’s bustling around the kitchen as Paul sat on the counter and shook his head at Richard. “You’re such an asshole. And here I was about to offer for you to join us for dinner...”
Archie looked up and gave Richard a smile, then saw the slightest bit of tension in the man’s face. She quickly set aside her large spatula and reached towards an empty glass. “Want anything to drink?”
"Whatever you've got lying around, I'll have." He said, giving Archie a friendly smile, which was a little forced.
"As for you, last time I came over unannounced and tapped the chime, you guys nearly hurt yourselves from the shock of the interruption. I've learned to announce myself well in advance, Mister Porter." Sharpe smirked at his friend. "As for dinner, I could always go to the burger joint, if you feel like letting this sad lonely man wander the promenade alone... forlornly eating a take-away burger that's getting cold..."
Archie rolled her eyes while Paul let out a laugh as he took a drink from his beer bottle. “Oh, cut the horse shit, Richard.” The woman cut him off, giving him a childish smirk. “Just get your ass in a chair.”
Paul jumped down from the counter and grabbed the bottle of synthehol wine that was reserved for Archie and brought it over to the table. He gave himself the opportunity to look over Richard and notice the slightly distraught look on his face. “You alright? Everything good with you and Amaya?”
"As well as can be." Richard said, taking a seat at the table. "I'm afraid its Rebecca that's causing the problems at the moment." He sighed, deciding that he might as well make a clean breast of it.
"Basically, I'm struggling with handling my own sister at this point." He said. "I've got a lot going on, as you well know, but Rebecca's just making it so much harder than it needs to be. She had a huge great row with Amaya the other day over the bathroom. So we decided she could get her own place. At first, things were going well, but then when I agreed that Caroline could get her own place, she just... flipped."
Paul nodded slowly as he sat in the chair across from him. “Ah, yeah I heard about that from Caroline.” He let out a sigh, frustrated that the once sweet and energetic child had all of a sudden flipped into a raging bitch of a young woman. “Think she feels entitled or something?”
"I'm not sure, its like a switch went on or something." He said. "I admit, I lost my temper with her, but I rolled it back in. My big problem at the moment though is that she's acting more and more like our mother, and as a result, I'm reacting to her like she's our mother, and I'm treating her like she's our mother. That's only going to make things worse. Right now, I feel like I'm this close to another melt-down, so... I reached out."
“Hey,” Paul gave him a pat on his shoulder, “I’m glad you came to us. Archie’s been trying to reach out to her, especially since the whole... Klingon...” his lips tilted up a bit, “...thing. I think we have to remember that she grew up with a mother who beat her and sheltered her for 17 years. And, on top of that, she was brought here to essentially start her life over. She had a real shitty female role model to look up to and learn from.”
"I've tried exposing her to as many positive female role models as possible. Admittedly, Archie probably wasn't the best choice..." He said, giving her a mischievous smirk. "Joking aside, I had hoped that being around the police gals would instil some positive virtues in her, but she's definitely taken after Kassandra. Which is worrying."
Archie placed Richard plate of food in front of him, then smacked him on the back of his head. Paul laughed at the display and gave her a kiss on her lips as she continued passing out the food. “It hasn’t even been six months since she moved here.” Archie poured herself a glass of the synthehol and sat down in between the men. “She’s also a teenaged girl. That’s an entire issue on its own, with or without abuse. She’s not going to be able to unlearn 17 years of terrible behavior in six months. And the whole Amaya thing... that’s gotta be hard on her, too. I think she’s just feeling overwhelmed by everything that’s been going on.”
"I'm just not in the right place to be trying to deal with all this." Richard said, as he took a bite of the food. As expected, it was pretty good. "I think if I weren't dealing with the trial, I might be able to focus more, but it's so easy to get angry now, I'm terrified I'm pushing her away."
Archie and Paul looked at each other with worry about the Sharpe family. They had been through so much both separately and together and the pot was finally starting to boil. Paul then looked back at Richard. “How about Archie and I take her out to dinner and spend an evening with her. Just Rebecca. No Caroline, no girlfriend. We’ll talk to her, see if we can get down to the bottom of whatever it is that’s going on inside that head of hers.”
“I know how much you guys love each other,” Archie chimed in. “Families are bound to have bumps like this. We just need to be straightforward with her and explain how much her behavior affects us all.”
"I'd appreciate that." Richard said. "At this point, every overture I make, I seem to just make things worse. I really did think that giving her her own space would help - but I'm not sure."
Archie gave him a shrug. “It’s time she finally got some adult responsibilities. Maybe pushing her out of the nest will snap her back to reality. She’s also well aware that if she messes up too bad she’s got to answer to quite a number of high-level adults around here.”
"You think that could be part of it?" Richard asked, after he finished a mouthful of delicious dinner. "That since she got here, she's been treated somewhat as a pampered princess. She's effectively starbase royalty at this point, being my sister, and the niece of effectively every senior police officer on the base."
Paul shook his head. "No, I think it's annoyed her more than anything knowing that if she were to do something even remotely out of line we'd find out about it. Though," he cracked a smile, "you, me, and Matt haven't exactly been the strictest guardians out there. She and Caroline do have us wrapped around their fingers."
"All I know is that it must be something I've done wrong, because she was never like this before." He said, sighing. "I was never cut out to be a parent, god knows what I was thinking taking on two teenage girls. Caroline is relatively easier than Rebecca, although I do wish she was less of a recluse."
Archie placed her hand over his. "Richard, don't say that. You're an amazing brother and you'd make an amazing parent. You saved those two and took them in when you absolutely didn't have to. They're just teenaged girls with two very distinct personalities. Don't be so hard on yourself. God knows I'm not going to be the most perfect parent..." She laughed at her own thought. "And this little guy isn't going to be the most perfect kid. Nothing is perfect, and that's half of the fun. Don't give up on yourself or on her."
"I'd never give up on her." He said, resolutely. "I'd go through hell or worse to spare her a moment's pain. But you have to understand, I've basically been in the marines for nearly twenty years now. It's all I've ever really known, and if someone back-talked me, they'd end up in the brig. I can't really put my eighteen year old sister in the brig. As much as I'd love to on occasion."
Paul chuckled as he finished off his beer. "Believe me, you're not the only one."
Archie playfully smacked Paul. "I'll make sure that Sully and Annie and I spend more quality time with her. We need to teach her the consequences for her verbal outbursts and that people aren't going to want to be around her if she keeps it up. Rebecca is a popular girl and would be devastated if people stopped hanging out with her. I've dealt with, and beaten up, a few of those types back when I was her age."
"So basically, the girls are going to have an intervention, girl-style?" Richard asked, taking a swig of his drink. "What could possibly go wrong?" He looked to Paul. "Make sure you have SWAT on standby."
Paul threw his hands up. "If anyone asks, we were in the holosuite and were absolutely not taking side bets on who would win that fight."
Archie rolled her eyes as she started clearing up the empty plates. "You guys are a couple of jerk-offs."
"Love you too, baby." Paul gave her a playful air kiss.
"You kinda have to at this point." Richard said to Paul. "I can't think of anyone else who'd be stupid enough to not only put up with you consistently, but have kids with you - willingly. The jury's still out on the 'willingly' part. I keep waiting for Archie to find the mind-control device you inserted in her ear... oops!" He said, in mock horror.
Paul leaned over and gave his wife, who had just sat back down in her chair, a firm kiss on the lips. "Been running flawlessly for the past ten years."
Archie's lips tilted up into a goofy grin, as was her usual response to Paul's romantic gestures. She was head over heels in love with him and realized how incredibly lucky she was right at that moment. "Yeah, I deserve a medal or something after a couple of missteps you took in those ten years."
Richard rolled his eyes. "Seriously, when you two get ewwy-gooey, you do realise you're noxious to everyone around you, right?"
"Oh, you love it!" Paul tossed his crumbled up napkin at Richard. "By the way, it is nice to see that Amaya hasn't thrown your ass onto the Promenade yet."
"Pfft." Richard scoffed. "I don't think I've ever seen her so happy, fights with Rebecca not withstanding."
Archie chuckled at his cockiness. "Well, you certainly keep her properly distracted." She then raised her eyebrow at him. "Six times, right?" Her lips slipped into a mischievous grin as she poured everyone more wine. She always enjoyed embarrassing the couple whenever she could.
"A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell." Richard replied, putting an end to that conversation thread before it gained traction. "I love Amaya, and she loves me. God knows why, but if she likes you Ari, she clearly is a few screws short of a Meccano set, which would explain why she's with me."
"Hey!" Archie exclaimed as she pointed a strong finger at him. "Don't bite the hand that feeds you, Buddy!"
Paul sat back and watched two of his favorite people bicker back and forth. He seemed to have made himself quite an enjoyable life. He ran and toyed Archie's fallen hair with his fingers. "Alright, children, settle down now or both of you will go to bed without any dessert."
"I'll get my dessert at home." Richard grinned. "Two is company, and three is a crowd." He said, getting up from the table. "Thanks for listening to me anyway."
Paul and Archie nodded as they both stood up. "It's what we're here for." Paul patted him on the shoulder. "Say 'Hello' to the Missus for us."
"And tell Rebecca we're picking her up tomorrow at 1900 at her place for dinner." Archie stepped up onto her tippy-toes and kissed Richard on the cheek.
"Have fun." Richard said, waving as he left.
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Home / Economy / Socialism Eats its Own
Socialism Eats its Own
Socialism cannot work. Socialism is not Righteous.
I’m not saying it doesn’t work. That would imply that there are some tweaks and changes that could be made that would make it work. It cannot work.
First we have to define what it is. It isn’t exactly easy to define though. People seem to have different ideas of that. The standard meaning is this.
If you ask Marx then it’s just transition. “(in Marxist theory) a transitional social state between the overthrow of capitalism and the realization of communism.”
So if you are a Marxist the ultimate goal of socialism is the overthrow of capitalism on the way to communism. It’s just a transition. Socialism and communism have been tried before. Some have modified forms that don’t go all the way. Don’t be fooled by movement in degrees. The same concepts are still at play.
One of the most notable examples of course is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR the head of which was Russia.
When the “community” (think State) owns everything then it is not hard to conceive of a time they can take everything away. They can hold back food, electricity, housing, anything really. They don’t need to kill you outright; they create conditions likely to do it for them. For them socialism was death. I propose that for us, metaphorically and often literally, socialism is death.
Nazis were socialists too but not the worst.
We often think of Nazis as the worst. They were bad. They too were socialists by the way. The name Nazi is short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which in English translates to “National Socialist German Workers’ Party”. I run into very few people who are aware of that. But Hitler was the Bernie Sanders of his day. That’s not a shocking comparison either. Of course the Bernie supporters will write entire articles on how that’s a silly comparison. While the outcome of the belief system may be different the number of shared beliefs supports a comparison. Bernie isn’t the next Hitler in terms of killing Jews and invading Canada, but socialism is what it is and by necessity of the ideology they believed so many of the same things.
The Nazis are believed to have killed 25 million non-combatants. That is nothing when compared to communism proper. 94 million killed in the USSR alone. 65 million in China. Communism is a deadly ideology (20th Century Deaths).
You may say, “but that’s communism, not socialism! Socialism is awesome. Go Bernie!”
Well…no. Remember that socialism is that transitional state required before communism can be achieved. The soviets never achieved it. They never got out of that phase where the state owns everything and into that phase where the community does. Neither did Cuba, by the way. Neither has China. Neither has North Korea.
One of the latest and most modern examples is Venezuela and President Hugo Chavez with his United Socialist Party. We all know from watching the news the very real crisis taking place in that country. Inflation is so high that a wagon load of money is needed to pay for a loaf of bread. According to the International Monetary Fund inflation is expected to reach an incredible 1,660%. Think of that for a moment. Let’s say that a loaf of bread cost you just $1.00. That means it now costs $1,661.
It is believed that, “… the government’s mismanagement and its socialist policies have led to the spiralling inflation, food shortages, lack of medical supplies, and power cuts Venezuelans have to endure.”(BBC)
In a very real way this is the result of putting all your eggs in one basket as it were. Venezuela’s export revenue is largely from oil. Estimates put the number at 95%. Because the government took over and used this oil money to pay for social programs all over the country when those revenues dropped the government could no longer pay for the programs. People had come to rely on the government and those programs for their sustenance. Suddenly the rug was pulled out from under them.
One of my favorite Ayn Rand quotes is, which you will hear me repeat ad nauseum I admit but which is still most effective is, “There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”
She got into more detail on this subject and wrote:
That idea of property rights might be new to some or at least something they haven’t yet made a connection to.
Capitalism is the only moral choice
Boy do we hear a lot about the ills of capitalism. This is because under it some people are poor and always will be and there are only two ways the system provides for them to get out of poverty. Either someone shows them charity and willingly gives them assistance. Which happens to the tune of $358.38 Billion annually in the United States. No government needed, just those greedy capitalists un-clinching their tight fists from their ill-gotten dollars. The second method is to earn more. That’s it. There are a million reasons why people don’t earn more. But the point of a free market system is that within it they have the greatest number of chances to succeed in some way or the other. But you are in charge of how you use your labor and your property.
What about greed?
Greed, I argue, doesn’t exist, or better yet, no one can know of its existence in another human being without being explicitly told by that human being that it exists. It is defined as, “Intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” How do you know I am being greedy? You may look and see me desiring something but how do you know my desire is intense? How on earth do you know that it is selfish?
We hear so much about greedy corporations. There’s even a mattress making firm that uses the this to sell their product, “mattress companies are greedy.” No…no they aren’t! Fist off, they can’t be because they are companies which aren’t alive. Companies often get anthropomorphized by the left but I can assure you, they aren’t alive. But companies are led by humans, and humans have a vested interest in them. Who? You. Me. Your neighbor. If you have a 401.K you own stock in a company and likely many other retirement or investment plans you are part of gives you stock in multiple companies. Or perhaps you work for a company. If you work for greedy Wal-Mart you likely own stock in it. They have a stock program for employees that allows them to buy into the company they work for and get bonuses from this.
You aren’t greedy for going to work each day and earning money and keeping that money and using that money. It’s your labor and your property. No one else has a right to it. If you want to share you should. Under capitalism you get to decide that. As a culture we clearly teach that this is a good thing for you to do. We give billions. Among those billions you will likely find the widows mite as well. It is not charity when someone forces you to give. The left acts like they are doing something righteous and noble when they take your money away and give it to someone else because they have decided on your behalf that you don’t need it. You’re greedy. Are you really selfish? You don’t feel selfish I bet. If you do, then I also bet you give some to charity so you don’t feel selfish anymore. Good for you. That’s charity. That’s your moral compass working.
Don’t ever look at your neighbor and decide that they need to give more. Don’t ever try to look into their heart and determine if they are greedy. You don’t have the psychic power to do that. And for heaven’s sake don’t ever decide that you have the right to take their money and give it away to someone else using the justification that they should be doing it anyway.
If you like socialism, if you like government programs that give money away, don’t ask where that money comes from, rather ask what gives you the right to take it.
This story contains graphic images likely to disturb you.
Photos from the Russian famine in the early 1920s show a couple selling human body parts as meat at a market and children suffering with sever malnutrition. WARNING: Distressing images.
Source: Photos show how 1920s Russian famine turned peasants into cannibals | Daily Mail Online
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163 // DevOps DevOps with Wouter de Kort and Henry Been
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In this episode Greg and Gordon are joined by Wouter de Kort and Henry Been where they talk about using DevOps to help with your DevOps, CI/CD to help with your CI/CD, PAT's, Build Agent Queues, creating SonarQube custom rules, Inspiration DevOps Utopia Demos, One Project Rules Them All and more...
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Who Can Fast?
Fasting the month of Ramadan fulfills one of the Five Pillars of Islam. It is compulsory for anyone of age who prays. Excpetions are given as follows:
1. All under age children (not of the age of which prayer is mandatory).
2. The sick. There are two categories here: those who are temporarily ill and thus they make up the days later on and those who are so ill or have a medical condition that inhibits them from fasting. The later may compensate by feeding the poor.
3. Pregnant women. A woman may fast, however if there is any risk of harm to the child then she must not. The days are made up later on.
4. A breastfeeding woman. She has the choice of either making up that fast when she is able to, or paying for that day by feeding a poor person.
5. A menstruating woman. It is not permissible to fast while menstruating. The days are made up later on.
6. Travelers. Anyone on a journey may make up the days later on.
Shaykh Joe Bradford raises a good question: "Does a person have to pay for the day AND make up the fast for that day as well?" He states, "the companions of the Prophet have ruled that they are exclusive and do not have to be done together". For the full article, read here.
In general, the fast is about putting one's focus on God, striving to do actions that will bring you closer to God and engaging in all manner of worship (prayer, dhikr, reading Qur'an, giving charity, visiting the sick and elderly, etc.). Abu Hurayrah narrated,
“The Prophet as saying: Fast is a shield ; when one of you is fasting, he should neither behave in an obscene manner nor foolishly. If a man fights or abuses him, he should say: I am fasting, I am fasting.” Sunan Abi Dawud, 2363
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"Whoever eats out of forgetfulness while fasting, let him complete his fast, for it is Allah Who has fed him and given him to drink." — Prophet Muhammad
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"Whoever breaks the fast during Ramadan without an allowance or illness, then if he fasted for all time, his fasting would not make up for it." — Prophet Muhammad
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Why not to eat meat essay
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Essay:Why You Shouldn't Eat Meat
It then pins down its partner and stabs it in the abdomen with its genitalia, piercing into the body. Because they are viewed not as living beings but as commodities, they are treated at best with indifference and at worst with violence.
Maybe it only takes twenty times as much. Several clinical trials have documented that vegetarian eating patterns lower blood pressure. I take a multivitamin for vegetarians most days, for this reason. Fatty acids - Seaweed makes a great source for fatty acids, which is why I frequently eat it in soups or salads.
Reasons Beyond the Moral[ edit ] While it has been the moral reasoning that has always seemed most persuasive to myself, others have felt that there are more persuasive arguments.
Letting a deer spoil and rot seems like a shame. If people worldwide stopped eating cows and pigs and chickens, and also stopped using their bodies for other purposes, thanks to some miraculous shift in ideals across the planet, I feel fairly confident that some zoos would still preserve specimens of these animals which are now of course well-adapted to such captivity.
Though the animals may live in more respectable conditions, they still suffer the same heart-rending fear when their lives are ended. It kidnaps the larvae of other ants, raises them as slaves, and forces them to forage.
Eating meat is correlated with an increased risk for virtually all chronic disease. Just as with factory farms, the deaths are not physically and psychologically painless nor as swift as their proponents would like people to believe. One Cornell ecologist calculated the ratio of fossil-fuel use - how much fossil-fuel was used to produce types of meat versus their grain.
But what I keep struggling with is how can people choose to contribute to an oppressive system that harms so many? Using this fact as an objection to vegetarianism, because it would reduce their numbers, presumes two things: Imagine your pork cutlet with septendecuple its weight in grain piled up next to it.
As to the former concern: There are numerous products available that are fortified with B12, however, such as soy milk. Animals experience and exhibit the full scope of emotions ranging from anger to altruism. This argument misses the point, though.
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The prevailing truth is that it is wrong. On average, vegetarians consume a lower proportion of calories from fat particularly saturated fatty acids ; fewer overall calories; and more fiber, potassium, and vitamin C than do non-vegetarians. And ten times as much water to produce beef. An analogy might be with people.
It seems so unlikely, in fact, as to border on farce. Anecdotally at least, I can tell you that I am much healthier than I was a few years ago when I ate meat and that my wife has been a vegetarian for fifteen years and is probably even healthier.
The upshot is essentially to imply hypocrisy - why, it is asked, are you so concerned about the chickens you eat but not about all these other animals? Dairy cows and pigs are kept perpetually pregnant, forcibly inseminated on rape racks in order to continually produce milk and produce litters.
But there will always be some humans who are so marginal as to fall outside of your arbitrary definition of what gives them special rights. Everyone can always be a little more moral, and I am no exception. Beef has a Food intertwines with culture and tradition, a defense meat-eaters argue for their lifestyle.People who have no easy alternative might have a good case for why they need to eat meat, and that's something that they have to decide for themselves.
But it's like murder or theft: something that is usually wrong, but might allow exceptions in extreme circumstances (like defending a loved one).
Not too long ago the New York Times asked its readers to write essays in no more than words explaining why it’s ethical to eat meat.
They wanted to hear how meat-eaters defend themselves against the overwhelming perception that a plant-based diet is best for ourselves and the planet. A recent United Nations report entitled Livestock's Long Shadow concludes that eating meat is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global".
The report finds that eating meat causes almost 40 per cent more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars. Well, presently 70% of all the grain we grow is fed to farm animals so that wealthy people can eat meat.
Meanwhile, millions of poor people are starving to death. If we stop eating so much meat, less livestock will be raised, and less food will need to be grown for them. Stopping eating meat could be the answer to the end of World Hunger. In her fascinating book Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Dr.
Melanie Joy, with her coinage of the term “carnism,” argues eating meat is every bit a choice as not eating meat. Society reinforces that it’s a choice we don’t see.
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About Gnarls Barkley
Gnarls Barkley is the soul-music duo consisting of producer Danger Mouse and singer Cee-Lo Green, having released two studio albums together before moving into a long period of inactivity, beginning in 2008 despite recent rumors of new record releases.
Wielding a name that literally comes from a parody of NBA superstar Charles Barkley’s name, Gnarls Barkley is a sonic and lyrical tour-de-force, often cryptically elaborating on Green’s complex, neurotic conscience over expertly crafted beats from Danger Mouse. Originally rising to prominence with massive hit “Crazy”, Gnarls Barkley made a name for itself in the late 00s alternative/soul scene. Gnarls Barkley’s typically equipped with a glossy, eerie set of production values and equally evocative lyrics, and it pays off. The duo has successfully pirouetted on thicker subjects like materialism, loneliness, schizophrenic behavior and glorification.
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Stack Overflow – like most online communities I've studied – naturally trends toward increased strictness over time. It's primarily a defense mechanism, an immune system of the sort a child develops after first entering school or daycare and being exposed to the wide, wide world of everyday sneezes and coughs with the occasional meningitis outbreak. It isn't always a pleasant process, but it is, unfortunately, a necessary one if you want to survive.
Consider this question from two years ago:
New programming jargon you coined?
Write your programming term, word or phrase in bold text followed by an explanation, citation and/or usage example so we can use it in appropriate context.
Don't repeat common jargon already ingrained in the programming culture like: kludge, automagically, cruft, etc. (unless you coined it).
This question serves in the spirit of communication among programmers through sharing of terminology with each other, to benefit us by its propagation within our own teams and environments.
Is this even a question, really? How many answers does it have?
Three hundred and eighty six!
A question that invites 386 different "answers" isn't a question at all. It's an opinion survey, a poll, a List of X. I suppose you could argue that reading through all those responses would teach you something about programming, but it was pretty clear that the bulk of the responses were far more about laughs and GTKY (Getting to Know You) than learning. That's why it was eventually deleted by experienced Stack Overflow community members. Although it is somewhat borderline in terms of learning, and I didn't personally vote to delete it, I tend to agree that it was correctly deleted. Though opinions vary.
I won't bore you with the entire history, our so-called "war on fun", and the trouble with popularity. Ultimately, Stack Overflow is a college, not a frat house. All the content on the site must exist to serve the mission of learning over entertainment – even if that means making difficult calls about removing some questions and answers that fail to meet those goals, plus or minus 10 percent.
In terms of programmer culture, though, there is precedent in the form of The Jargon File. Unfortunately, we don't have a good designated place for deleted "too fun" questions to live, but all Stack Exchange content is licensed under Creative Commons in perpetuity. Which means, with proper attribution, we can give it a permanent home on our own blogs. So I did. I've collected the top 30 Stack Overflow New Programming Jargon entries below, as judged by the Stack Overflow community. Enjoy.*
1. Yoda Conditions
2. Pokémon Exception Handling
For when you just Gotta Catch 'Em All.
try {
catch (Exception ex) {
// Gotcha!
3. Egyptian Brackets
You know the style of brackets where the opening brace goes on the end of the current line, e.g. this?
if (a == b) {
We used to refer to this style of brackets as "Egyptian brackets". Why? Compare the position of the brackets with the hands in the picture. (This style of brackets is used in Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language, so it's known by many as K&R style.)
4. Smug Report
5. A Duck
Eventually, it came time for the producer to review the animation set for the queen. The producer sat down and watched all of the animations. When they were done, he turned to the artist and said, "that looks great. Just one thing - get rid of the duck."
6. Refuctoring
Jason Gorman
7. Stringly Typed
Mark Simpson
For example:
• Message passing without using typed messages etc.
8. Heisenbug
A computer bug that disappears or alters its characteristics when an attempt is made to study it. (Wikipedia)
9. Doctype Decoration
<!DOCTYPE html>
<BLINK>Now on sale!</BLINK>
10. Jimmy
A generalized name for the clueless/new developer.
This led to the term: "Jimmy-proof" when referring to well designed framework code.
11. Higgs-Bugson
12. Nopping
I'm writing a scifi novel from the POV of an AI, and their internal language has a lot of programming jargon in it. One of the more generalizable terms is "nopping", which comes from assembler NOP for no-operation. It's similar to 'nap', but doesn't imply sleep, just zoning out. "Stanislav sat watching the screensaver and nopped for a while."
13. Unicorny
Yehuda Katz
An adjective to describe a feature that's so early in the planning stages that it might as well be imaginary. We cribbed this one from Yehuda Katz, who used it in his closing keynote at last year's Windy City Rails to describe some of Rails' upcoming features.
14. Baklava Code
John D. Cook
Code with too many layers.
15. Hindenbug
Mike Robinson
A catastrophic data destroying bug. "Oh the humanity!"
Also related to Counterbug (a bug you present when presented with a bug caused by the person presenting the bug) and Bloombug (a bug that accidentally generates money).
16. Fear Driven Development
Arnis L.
When project management adds more pressure (fires someone, moves deadlines forward, subtracts resources from the project, etc).
17. Hydra Code
Nick Dandoulakis
Code that cannot be fixed. Like the Hydra of legend, every new fix introduces two new bugs. It should be rewritten.
18. Common Law Feature
A bug in the application that has existed so long that it is now part of the expected functionality, and user support is required to actually fix it.
19. Loch Ness Monster Bug
I've started Loch Ness Monster bug for anything not reproducible / only sighted by one person. I'm hearing a lot of people in the office say it now. (Possible alternates: Bugfoot, Nessiebug.)
20. Ninja Comments
21. Smurf Naming Convention
22. Protoduction
Chris Pebble
A prototype that ends up in production. Heard this from a tech at the Fermi lab. He said he didn't coin the term but had heard it used a number of times at Fermi.
23. Rubber Ducking
Sometimes, you just have to talk a problem out. I used to go to my boss and talk about something and he'd listen and then I'd just answer my own question and walk out without him saying a thing. I read about someone that put a rubber duck on their monitor so they could talk to it, so rubberducking is talking your way through a problem.
24. Banana Banana Banana
/// <summary>
/// banana banana banana
/// </summary>
public CustomerValidationResponse Validate()
Other food-related jargon: Programmer Fuel (Mountain Dew, coffee, Mate, anything which gets you well-caffeinated), Hot Potato (Http and Https respectively. Same number of syllables, but more fun to say), Cake (Marty's noob cake broke the build), Chunky Salsa (based on the chunky salsa rule, a single critical error or bug that renders an entire system unusable, especially in a production environment).
25. Bicrement
Adding 2 to a variable.
26. Reality 101 Failure
Loren Pechtel
The program (or more likely feature of a program) does exactly what was asked for but when it's deployed it turns out that the problem was misunderstood and it's basically useless.
27. Mad Girlfriend Bug
Jeduan Cornejo
When you see something strange happening, but the software is telling you everything is fine.
28. Megamoth
Stands for MEGA MOnolithic meTHod. Often contained inside a God Object, and usually stretches over two screens in height. Megamoths of greater size than 2k LOC have been sighted. Beware of the MEGAMOTH!
29. Hooker Code
Code that is problematic and causes application instability (application "goes down" often). "Did the site go down again? Yeah, Jim must still have some hooker code in there."
30. Jenga Code
When the whole thing collapses after you alter a block of code.
This is just the top 30, what I consider to be the most likely candidates for actual new programming jargon based on community upvotes, not just "funny thing that another programmer typed on a webpage and I felt compelled to upvote for hilarity". Because that would be Reddit. If you're itching to see even more, there are plenty more answers to read – three hundred and fifty six more to be precise. Longtime Stack Overflow user Greg Hewgill maintains an archive of old deleted Stack Overflow questions, but this one hasn't quite made it in there yet. In the meantime, try Stack Printer, or if you have the requisite 10k rep on Stack Overflow, you can view the full soft-deleted question on the site.
* But don't enjoy it too much. We will be watching you.
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Rebranding Hierarchy
Once upon a time, I was involved in the Monash University branch of AFES/Intervarsity called “The Evangelical Union”.
This was the early 1980s, and young men and women alike were leading everything. The term Complementarian wasn't yet a twinkle in Wayne Grudem's eye.*
In this period, egalitarian theologians were arguing that men and women were designed to complement one another; that we neededboth women and men in leadership.
In society more broadly, the ideal of a gender hierarchy was being profoundly challenged. The idea was normalised that women should have equal legal and workplace rights to men - in theory if not in practice.
By the late 1980s, Christian conservatives who believed in a gender hierarchy found themselves with an image problem. They were becoming theologically marginalised, as well as out of step with society at large.
It was time for a rebranding exercise.
To quote Scot McKnight:
'Grudem tells us that he and John Piper, in editing the 1991 sympos…
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Fredric Lehne (sometimes credited as Fredric Lane) played Azazel/The Yellow-Eyed Demon for the second season of Supernatural. He has been in numerous films and virtually every prime time TV show, among them such TV hits as Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Bones, CSI, Without a Trace and others.
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The PHREG Procedure
Left-Truncation of Failure Times
Left-truncation occurs when individuals are not observed at the natural time origin of the phenomenon under study but come under observation at some known later time (called the left-truncation time). The risk set just prior to an event time does not include individuals whose left-truncation times exceed the given event time. Thus, any contribution to the likelihood must be conditional on the truncation limit having been exceeded.
You use the ENTRY= option to specify the variable that represents the left-truncation time. Suppose T1 and T2 represent the left-truncation time and the survival time, respectively. To account for left-truncation, you specify the following statements:
proc phreg;
model T2*Dead(0)=X1-X10/entry=T1;
title 'The ENTRY= option is Specified';
Equivalently, you can use the counting process style of input for left-truncation:
proc phreg;
model (T1,T2)*Dead(0)=X1-X10;
title 'Counting Process Style of Input';
Since the product-limit estimator of the survivor function is not available for the counting process style of input, you cannot use PROC PHREG to obtain the product-limit estimate of the survivor function if you have data with left-truncation times. In the preceding PROC PHREG calls, if you also specify METHOD=PL in a BASELINE statement or an OUTPUT statement, it is defaulted to METHOD=BRESLOW.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
No Plan Survives Contact with the Players
Saturday night, we officially kicked off the b/x / LL game I'm running, as both players were present.
The player characters:
Euphrates - elf - race-as-class - 2nd level
Lenny the Elf - uh, elf- race-as-class - 1st level
For Lenny's player this was the first time he had played a tabletop rpg in about 20 or so years. I decided to give them something that would be challenging, offer opportunites for roleplaying and combat, gold, and fame depending on what motivated them.
I spend a lot of time reading blogs about being a good GM. Definitions vary of course, but I am a big fan of the concept of player agency. I want my players to have meaningful choices to make and these should impact the game at some level (i.e. consequences) - and that means that scenarios don't have pre-ordained conclusions, that players can miss/skip whole piles of stuff I prepare (and I don't force them to end up there, or suddenly change the location of a particular encounter so that players have to go through it), etc.
Of course, this means things will happen that you aren't prepared for; you'll have to wing it. That seemed a little intimidating at first, but, I do the same thing all the time in my solo games, so it's really not that bad.
Part of me, the part that doesn't want to be put on the spot during a game, still couldn't help but think "But surely you can anticipate what the players will do!" Sure. To a degree. But how many possible responses are there to a given situation?
The correct answer is: Always one more than you thought of!
And the first session reinforced that idea in spades:
• PCs hired to escort a holy relic from city temple to remote monastery.
• Caravan ambushed by bandits (of course).
• Temple cleric on journey is in fact a priest serving Chaos. He hired the bandits.
• Said cleric intended to deliver relic to his master who will use it as a way to gain favor with their god and entice it to this world.
• The cleric was to race off with the wagon bearing the relic during the ambush. But Lenny had already jumped on the wagon to get a better line of sight on the onslaught of bandits. (I had not counted on that)
• Euprhates jumped on the wagon too and she tried to race of with it (ostensibly to protect the relic, but later on I wasn't so sure. Definitely didn't see that coming.)
• When the bandit leader dropped down from a tree limb (expecting to only have to deal with the merchant per my original time line), Lenny cleaved him in half.
• PCs defeated the cleric and learned his plan thanks to a charm spell by Euphrates
• The players decided they like the idea of unleashing the "God of Chaos" on the world and wanted in. (Say what now? You want to open a portal for this entity you know nothing of, but that is promised to bring down the world as you know it? Now, you know that this, this and this can happen right? You do? Ok then.)
Maybe you would have anticipated the final bullet point. I did not and I'm even more excited to see where the story goes now.
Unfortunately, this weekend is Dragon*Con and so we're not playing. But we're planning on the weekend after. Which gives me a little less than two weeks to come up with the next scene/situation.
1. Apparently, there was no reason for you to change the original expression for your post's title.
2. I remember many years ago running a quick "training game" for beginner players where I let them find a magic sword that kept whispering to the Dwarf who picked it up, "I'm really good against Elves, try me on the Elf" . . . so, of course the Dwarf did, hacking his fellow party member to pieces (the sword was right about being good against Elves) . . . which started the whole party fighting against each other except for one guy . . . who picked up the sword who was really good against Elves.
-- Jeff
1. Hello Jeff,
Great story! I think my players are cut from a similar cloth as that Dwarf.
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Functional food: Matcha green tea powder
Why: Matcha has been studied for its incredible anti-cancer benefits. One of the reasons why matcha is so powerful as an anti-cancer agent is thanks to its content of the antioxidants known as catechins. In particular, catechin EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate). ECGG helps to protect cells from DNA damage and inhibits tumour cell proliferation. In addition to this, matcha contains an amino acid called L-theanine. This is an amino acid that perks you up but not like caffeine does. It actually has a calming affect as well, and studies have shown that L-theanine helps to put your brain into the same wave state as monks when they meditate. This makes matcha lattes a perfect alternative to coffee in the mornings as it still gives you some energy, but it’s “clean” energy that won’t tax your adrenals.
Makes 12 muffins
Dry ingredients
• 3 C almond flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 2 tsp matcha powder
• 1/4 tsp salt (I use pink himalayan salt)
Wet ingredients
• 6 eggs
• 2 tsp real vanilla
• 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
• Zest from 1 lemon
• 1/3 C maple syrup
1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Line your muffin tin with muffin liners, set aside.
3. Whisk the dry ingredients together, set aside.
4. Combine the wet ingredients together then mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients.
5. Distribute batter evenly between the muffin liners then place in the oven.
6. Bake for 15 mins until brown around the edges.
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Martin Hunter
I am writing to urge the MIT community to take a more active role in calling for a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Iraq.
MIT has in the past acted forcefully on moral and social issues which transcended its elite reputation in science and technology. Students and faculty alike played important roles in the 1960s in opposing the Vietnam War. In the 1980s, MIT joined in the campaign for divestment from investments in South Africa, a global campaign which proved instrumental in bringing down the Apartheid system.
More recently, I was moved by the way the MIT community came together for support and discussion in the week following the terrible events of Sept. 11, 2001. The large gathering facilitated in Killian Court filled an emotional gap many of us needed to bridge, and provided a rare opportunity for students, faculty and staff to interact closely with each other at a personal and vulnerable level. Feelings were shared, and complex issues and implications of the terrorist attacks were processed in the small-group discussions in Killian. In my own group, a professor from Iran, administrative assistants, undergraduate students, and a member of the MIT Board who had lost a friend in the attacks all contributed their views and insights. The wall of writings later set up in Lobby 10 served a similar purpose, providing an invaluable channel for healing and expression, as well as argument and discussion.
By contrast, however, I find a disturbing lack of conversation on campus about the current rush for war on Iraq by the Bush Administration. We are facing a very serious situation. We are being asked to accept the unprecedented possibility of a unilateral, pre-emptive military strike on another nation by the United States -- a move which is expected to cause enormous civilian casualties in Iraq, and possibly of U.S. military personnel as well; a move which will likely exacerbate, rather than mitigate, the threat of terrorist attacks on the United States; a move which may trigger chemical, biological and even nuclear warfare; a move which may initiate another World War. And yet, with a few notable exceptions on campus, like the teach-ins organized by the MIT Social Justice Cooperative and the Technology and Culture Forum, there is little concerted effort to deal with these questions as a community.
My wish is for a deepening and continuing dialogue on these issues to take root on campus. The problem is complex, and fraught with uncertainties. The peaceful path may not seem so clear to many, and some may even outright defend the Bush Administration’s approach. It is essential, however, that we confront the issue and clarify our position, and that we do it now. I encourage everyone, for example, to sign on to a nationwide petition opposing a war with Iraq, which was set up online by MIT professor Nancy Kanwisher at <>. But we must also be increasingly creative and forceful, to find new ways of making our vision heard and acted upon. We must let our voice be heard in the mainstream media. We must let our Representatives know where we stand. We must initiate the dialogue they are not giving us.
The world is living a time of escalating violence and rhetoric of war, and we must find ways to redirect that course and restore hope and faith in humanity. We are certainly responsible to meet and resolve this challenge in our individual lives; lasting change can only be rooted in deep personal transformation. However, as members of the broader MIT community, we are also blessed with a tremendous pool of human resources and potential. It is our duty to make use of that.
Martin Hunter is a staff scientist in the spectroscopy lab.
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Saturday, May 21, 2011
Positive Thinking
Since my diagnosis with bladder cancer, I have had several conversations with friends who have urged me to "think positive!" This is an admonition to which I respond generally negatively, for reasons that go back to the time when my father was dying of cancer in the mid-seventies.
In those days, there was a popular idea that there was a "cancer personality:" introverted, pessimistic. I found the idea hurtful and unscientific. Cancer, I believed, was strictly a consequence of events in the physical world. The idea of preventing or curing cancer by thinking happy thoughts was superstitious nonsense designed to blame the victim and, perhaps obscure the reponsibility of polluters who were pumping carcinogens ino the environment.
Since then, my ideas about how the mind interacts with the body have changed significantly. Since I conceive of human consciousness as a manifestation of physical events in the brain and since we know that the major function of the brain is to control the functioning of the body, it seems perfectly possible to imagine that how a person thinks and feels can effect how his body reacts to cancer or anything else. The brain is an organ of the body connected to the rest of it by nerve, blood, bone, etc. and the function of the brain effects the other organs just as their function effects the brain.
So, what bothers me now about the admonition to "think positive" is not the notion that positive thinking might help, but my inability to understand what it means for "me" to decide how I will think or feel. If my self, my ego, is, in fact, a consequence of my brain function, how can "I" cause my brain to think about things differently when "I" am, in fact, an idea or sensation produced by the material action of my brain? The causation arrow runs the wrong way. Indeed, it seems that my optimism waxes and wanes with my physical state--I think optimistic thoughts when I have had enough sleep and eaten healthy food.
So, rather than trying to fool myself into believing things that are not true, my conclusion is to try to improve my state of mind by taking care of my physical body by making decisions about what to eat, exercise, etc. Hopefully, that will produce the positive brain activity that will help me survive.
kateg said...
as you know i also hate this injunction. In my opinion, feel however you want, and its easy for non-cancer-ridden people to say "think positive!" and run marathons and buy extra t-shits or whatever.
But despite having a mere 50% of your life experience, i disagree that you cannot change your thoughts. You can, and the benefit is spending less time having fewer negative stressful thoughts, rahter than immune response. Anyway, a basic tenet of cognitive behavioral therapy is that you CAN change your pattern of thought, simply by recognizing "habits" of thought (say every morning you wake up and think "I cant get it all done" or "if things dont work out i can kill myself" or "im just going to die anyway, what does it matter" or "i'll always be poor" or whatever negative habit if thought you have) CBT asks you to recognize the thought in its own right in a kinda meta way--and if you dont like having that thought you can replace it with a second one like "Being busy makes me more productive" or even just "If things dont work out, I can always move, get a new job, etc" or whatever habit of thought you want to use instead.
This works--to me its kind of like mental yoga. Do enough hand-stands and they aren't hard and you even want to do them; think enough "positive" thoughts and you get better at it.
Similarly you can recognize consistent logical flaws that you make in many areas of thought--eg black and white thinking, and begin to notice when it happens, and consciously think "actually things aren't that black and white" and rethink through the problem without the extremism.
That said, I dont think that is what most of the "think positive" people mean. I think they mean "dont make me uncomfortable by being sad." And sometimes being sad is necessary and logical.
Texan By Chance said...
My problem is with the idea of "I" directing my mind what to think. Perhaps I'm engaging in the kind of hyper-logical thinking that Dr. Holmes mocked in "One-Hoss Shay."
I know about cognitive therapy, and thought about it while writing the post. My problem may be that that I am not taking seriously my own admonition on the existence of free will: Yeah, from God's viewpoint everything you think or do is determined, but there is no God.
kateg said...
maybe the problem there is still thinking there is an "I" separate from (and static with respect to) the collection of constantly changing neurotransmitters, chemicals and cells that make up body and mind--like you believe it but not *really*. just because there isnt such an "I" dosnt mean there is no will, direction, and some limited control
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M&A deals
M&A are increasingly growing in Europe
M&A Deals: Fundamentals For A Robust Market Clearly In Position
In 2017, the global aggregate value of M&A deals amounted to $3.66tr, predicted to increase to $4.4tr in 2018. This year, in the US alone, the first six months of the year registered a balance $2.5Tr, up 40% on 2017, with megadeals in excess of $10bn constituting some 38% of the total.
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Žižek, Narrative, and Transformation
Books Mentioned in Video:
Amos Niven Wilder’s Theopoetic: Theology and the Religious Imagination
Sandra M. Schneiders’ The Revelatory Text
13 Responses
1. Hey man. Great post. But I have some questions:
Wouldn’t the rooting of one’s self in “history” or “fact” be just as slippery as rooting in story? Is it merely the style of a writing or its categorization that makes it a fact? Read the history of the American revolution in textbooks printed in the U.S. versus those in the UK and you’ll find two differing stories about the same event. What really happened? Put me there. Give me characters and emotion. Let me swim around in this a bit. It seems to me that the event – the story – is the thing that matters, and discourse on such is, at best, to be included in the preface, commentary, or footnotes.
Also, does doubting the truth of something necessarily mean you’re knowingly believing a lie? Specifically to the ears of postmoderns, this is a bold statement. For some, faith is the evidence of that which left no trail. But for me, faith is found in believing in something in full knowledge of my being bereft of evidence.
I see this posing of discourse and narrative against one another hinging on deconstruction. Take this very post, for example. There is a very good chance I’m pulling things from it that you weren’t saying. It just wasn’t there, but I came up with it. In a narrative, however, what you are saying is – to a point – irrelevant. The event isn’t the story itself, but the deconstruction of the story by the reader. What did it do to them and why? The handoff from writer to reader is not only an exchange of goods but also of ownership. What the writer was trying to say has been said, and that’s that. The reader, however, now owning the story is free to be changed by it for as long as they keep that window open. Another good example is the parables of Jesus. How many of us have drawn how many different meanings from the parables and acted accordingly? How many of us were wrong? Were any of us right? Is there a right or wrong to be drawn of was the fact that we experience the event of God at all the “it” to be gotten?
2. @Ian: Asking “What really happened?” raises interesting questions about historical veracity. In hindsight, can anything be specifically said to have happened?
Also, I’m not sure that Derrida (or his successors) would put the full weight of deconstruction on narrative over discourse (hence the whole idea of logocentrism I mentioned in my post). Deconstruction is just as possible and prevalent within discourse. The difference is the engagement of the intellectual presuppositions versus the pre-existing emotional state (as if humans could be so dichotomized, and as if intellectual crises were not existential). I want to utilize discourse not when I’m hoping to escape the risks of deconstruction, but when I intend to be more precise in my own self-expression. Therefore, my choice of genre and style are for me more than for the reader.
@Callid: Your video reminded me a lot of Rollins’s theories of evangelism. I like the idea of the transformative power of narrative as a means for seeing through the eyes of the Other. Although, I might suggest that you are guilty of the same thing that I am in the post you linked to: I dichotomized the world, presented only two options, and implied that people should choose. I did this in response to a specific conversation I was having with Ian, so I justify it slightly as a corrective post. Still, I think that both narrative and discourse have transformative power, though it does seem easier for me (and for the Creatives in my community) to engage transformation through the “theopoetic” (a term that I now love and will borrow, steal, and appropriate from this day forth).
Great post. I love the video format. I may have to try that someday.
3. On re-reading my comment, I’ve decided that my language of guilt sounds unintentionally harsh and condescending. I just meant to raise the possibility of a mild sort of false dichotomy (one that I introduced!), not to condemn your post as fallacious or “wrong.”
4. Great thoughts everyone. I agree with McLaren’s statement that we don’t see reality as reality, we make up stories about it. Which story are we living in?
5. @Ian Booyah brother, this question hits it for me: “Does doubting the truth of something necessarily mean you’re knowingly believing a lie?” Heck no! I think this is the kind of thing I wished had been avoided in that sermon I mentioned. I think Rumi was there with lines like, “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing is a field. I’ll meet you there.” That is not to deny that there is wrongdoing or rightdoing, but to invite people into the consideration that beyond those categories there is another (set of categories).
@ Matt I agree whole-heartedly that the distinction between narrative/discourse is a false, mild, dichotomy. I am much more interested in the capacity of the reader to read any text with the understanding it is contingent, composed of many small suppositions, and a place to encounter the other. I think that this can occur with lots of different types of texts, and I only mean to suggest (perhaps incorrectly) that it is easier for folks to encounter that transformation in narrative, not that is an essential quality of narrative.
@ Jesse And, for that matter, what parts of my story are like yours?
6. @Callid: I don’t think your suggestions are off-base at all. At least for me, narrative is incredibly transformative. Also, I love this:
Could be another line I borrow in the future.
7. Callid,
You mention J.R.R. Tolkien briefly in this video (The Christian narrative “buried in the text” of LOTR, whereas CS Lewis wrote very much “on the surface”- “parablesque” I believe was the term you used, which I’m sure was a proper word choice, but regardless….) I’m wondering how far you have delved into his notion of subcreation, and its theological implications with regard to narrative.
In addition, the thoughts presented reminded me on Farley Mowat’s famous utterance when under critical fire for the “narrative” alterations made to his book Never Cry Wolf- “To hell with the facts, I want the truth!”
Thanks for posting
8. Hey folks,
I wonder if some of our questions arise from a literate view of history/facts while the writers/storytellers of the Scripture functioned in a largely oral society.
9. The problem is that we have two categories: truth and lie. And occasionally we also have the category of allegory, but even this must be stuffed into one box or the other when we (literary-minded folks) consider history. We have these categories because the medium we use is written (it can be checked, copy-written, verified, dissected and doesn’t have to be committed to memory) But in oral culture, the categories were different because the medium was different. The medium used to convey almost all messages was the oral story.
When we write a story, we consider the events of the story to be facts. The meaning of the facts comes in commentary or reflections written along with it. We have this luxury because we don’t have to remember both the story and the commentary.
In oral culture, the events of the story served a few different purposes. First, they could communicate what we would call a fact (something that actually happened and nothing more). Second, they were used to communicate the meaning the storyteller was trying to get across (they fulfilled what we use commentary for, but within the event itself- thus sometimes they coincided withe reality, and sometimes didn’t because they were used to communicate something considered more important than simple fact- they included the interpretation metaphorically). So, the events of a story in oral culture are more purposefully meaning-laden because those events are responsible for transmitting both the historical facts and the intended interpretation of those facts.
I think of it as the oral-cultural understanding of Marshall McLuan’s “the medium is the message.” If we were to ask the author of Matthew, for example, “Did Jesus really escape from Herod to Egypt when he was a baby? Or did you just lie about it?” His response might be, “It’s really important that you tell the story that way or future generations won’t know that Jesus is the new Moses.” -a response that frustrates the hard-fact-minded, but for the orally-minded, Jesus escape to Egypt is even more true than whatever actually happened in his childhood because the “event” contains a truth about Jesus (which is deemed to be more important than bare facts about Jesus).
All this stuff can be found in a lot of places. A good intro is Tex Sample’s “Ministry in an Oral Culture.” I also learned much from Casey Davis, who’s work is pretty localized to Rochester, NY and is unfortunately hard to get ahold of anywhere else.
So long and thanks for the fish,
Katie Jo
10. Thank you for your video. I think your take is interesting and helpful. I appreciate your explanation and appeal to pastors and others that take texts as important dialogue partners for discerning significant values and meaning. I agree that narratives are particularly powerful ways of communicating values and trying on meanings. I think that listening to the stories from scripture or other paradigmatic texts as they are told as a story teller tells them can be a helpful approach to engaging the narrative approach. One idea I heard from a biblical scholar today that would be interesting to throw into the mix is this. The west tends to take our interpretative framework for stories from the Greeks and not so much the Hebraic sensibilities. The difference is that the Greeks believed that stories should have a moral, a hero that the listeners should identify with and follow as an example. For example, Aesop's Fables. A good moral examplar. Hebraic stories, on the other hand are stories about ancestors. They would be more like stories at family reunions, "Remember Uncle Jake, He was sure full of piss and vinegar–he'd wrestle God himself." In our western world view, we try to impose– or we do impose this Greek hermeneutic to the Hebrew Scriptures and it ends up making our view of the Bible and its values, claims and uses sometimes mixed up.
Any way, thanks for spurning ideas!
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Quietus Mix 11: Spykidelic Celebrates Blackmaps
The Quietus , February 10th, 2011 09:51
A cross pollination of sorts this week as the legend who is Spykidelic mixes up for the Blackmaps label
Since he first emerged in the mid 1990s, Spykidelic (known to the Inland Revenue as Tony F Wilson) has had many a string to his noise-generating bow, from producer to electronic musician, multi-genre collaborator to DJ. It's the latter skill he exercises for the Quietus as he curates an eerie mix of electronica, post-industrial, dub, witch house and more in celebration of the new Blackmaps label. Like Spykidelic himself, Blackmaps is an operation that doesn't like to be constrained by the usual ways of doing things in the music business. So while music, often released on high-q lathe-turned vinyl is always to be at their core, Blackmaps also works in the realms of design, literature and film. You can find out more about their operations over at the Blackmaps online HQ. Spykidelic himself sent us the following communique: "This mix was put together by Spykidelic aka Tony F Wilson. His relationship with blackmaps stems from he and blackmaps founder (and former Warp Records A&R Stuart Souter) having recorded together in Knives ov Resistance (Aurora Borealis, 2007), as well as deejaying together at ATP. Wilson currently lives in Oslo where he records in the collective/band Necessary and has an ongoing DJ partnership called Dausteg with artist and musician Are Mokkelbost."
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Fact or Myth: Coconut Oil Prevents Tooth Decay
This is a FACT.
Here’s one more reason to love coconut oil! Coconut oil prevents tooth decay and cavities. Your mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, but coconut oil prevents tooth decay by zapping these cavity-causing bacteria with its antibacterial and antimicrobial properties.
Researchers from the Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland found that coconut oil eradicated stains of bacteria known to cause tooth decay, particularly Streptococcus. Researchers added enzymes to render the coconut oil in a semi-digested state. The semi-digested coconut oil stopped the spread of bacteria in the mouth. The coconut oil also destroyed the Candida albicans yeast that causes thrush, a nasty mouth infection.
What’s so exciting about this research is that it offers a viable alternative to fluoride. Coconut oil is natural, safe, and side effect free, unlike fluoride, which is used in virtually all commercial toothpaste brands. Fluoride is touted as a cavity-fighting agent, but no legitimate study has ever been able to confirm that fluoride fights or prevents tooth decay when ingested. On the contrary, fluoride—which is also added to our water supply—has been shown to be harmful to health.
uses of coconut oilCoconut Oil’s Antibiotic Powers
Coconut oil is a natural antibiotic that protects against bacterial infections and treats:
• Throat infections
• Ulcers
• Gum disease
The lauric fatty acids in coconut oil protect against infections from parasites, fungi, viruses, yeast, and bacteria.
Studies have also shown that coconut oil is an anti-cancer agent that may help inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells by strengthening the immune system.
Can Coconut Oil Cure All?
Maybe not “all” but coconut oil certainly helps heal a lot! It protects heart health, raises energy levels, promotes an efficient metabolism, improves digestion, and enhances your immune system. You can start benefiting from coconut oil today by making it your cooking oil of choice. It’s the perfect oil to cook with because it doesn’t oxidize when exposed to light or high temperatures.
For oral conditions like tooth decay, start “oil pulling” with coconut oil. Swish a tablespoon of coconut oil around in your mouth for 10-20 minutes. The oil “pulls” bacteria from your mouth. Spit the oil (and the accompanying bacteria) out of your mouth after 10-20 minutes. To find out more about the benefits of oil pulling, click here.
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Helsinki meet pregnant with hopes
The “encirclement” of Russia and stationing of its troops along with Colour Revolutions posed a major challenge to Russia’s hegemony. NATO’s strategic behaviour towards Russia was aptly summarised by Putin way back in 2015 in his address to the Valdai Club Meeting where he stated, “NATO is a military alliance. We are worried not about democracy on our borders, but about military infrastructure coming ever closer to our borders.” ( One may recall here that to tame the Russian challenge, a “Special Operations Command Europe” (SOCEUR) under the aegis of NATO also came up.
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AppDirs A Tcl Module to Simplify Cross-platform Application File Locations
Module Usage
First create an instance of the AppDirs class by instantiating it with a brand and applicationName. The brand may be ignored depending on the platform that is being used. You can then call the methods on this instance as follows:
package require AppDirs
set myAppDirs [AppDirs new myBrand myApp]
# Return location of user-specific data files
puts "data home: [$myAppDirs dataHome]"
# Return location of user-specific configuration files
puts "config home: [$myAppDirs configHome]"
# Return a list of locations for system-wide configuration files in preference order
puts "data dirs: [$myAppDirs dataDirs]"
# Return a list of locations for system-wide data files in preference order
puts "config dirs: [$myAppDirs configDirs]"
Default Directories
To list the default directories for various platforms and to see the directories being used for the current system run:
$ tclsh bin/listdirs.tcl
To install the module you can use the installmodule.tcl script or if you want to manually copy the file AppDirs-*.tm to a specific location that Tcl expects to find modules. This would typically be something like:
To find out what directories are searched for modules, start tclsh and enter:
foreach dir [split [::tcl::tm::path list]] {puts $dir}
or from the command line:
$ echo "foreach dir [split [::tcl::tm::path list]] {puts \$dir}" | tclsh
Find out More
To find out more have a look at the following articles:
AppDirs v0.2
Copyright (C) 2013-2015, Lawrence Woodman [email protected]
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Role of social media in creating drug abuse essay
During that conquest, one imperial contender turned to fossil fuels after its woodlands were depleted by early industrialization. Soon most forms of media content were introduced on mobile phones, tablets and other portable devices, and today the total value of media consumed on mobile vastly exceeds that of internet content, and was worth over 31 billion dollars in source Informa.
The oldest stone tools yet discovered are about 3. Properly educated, that group might be able to help catalyze an energy effort that can overcome the obstacles. And as noted just below, "Some intuition did enter in Their main endeavor has been to enforce their compulsory e.
The average age of onset of puberty is at 11 for girls and 12 for boys. I have called that group the Global Controllers and others have different terms for them. The mobile media content includes over 8 billion dollars worth of mobile music ringing tones, ringback tones, truetones, MP3 files, karaoke, music videos, music streaming services etc.
People will disagree on which types of eugenics are good and which are bad. Through experience outside the family circle, they learn that rules they were taught as absolute are in fact relativistic. The examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
They may all be worthy ideals, but none has existed in the real world. Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: The areas of the brain involved in more complex processes lose matter later in development.
I think the word is just so. The years of adolescence create a more conscientious group of young adults. The tall, white and fair-haired Chachapoyas of the Andean forest have, alas, no remnants left to sue the Incas for genocide in a Peruvian court of law.
The Internet is quickly becoming the center of mass media. Mass media had the economics of linear replication: As w e weathered attacks from the localstatenationaland global power structures, such treacherous opportunities abounded. Although these were produced in huge numbers, very few early examples survive, and even most known to be printed before about have not survived.
These improvements occur in five areas during adolescence: Some theorists believe that there are many different possible developmental paths one could take, and that the specific path an individual follows may be determined by their sex, orientation, and when they reached the onset of puberty.
Society Is Fixed, Biology Is Mutable
The extent to which media exposure shapes audience perceptions over time is known as cultivation. An RSS document which is called a "feed" or "web feed" or "channel" contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. Plenty of people have unhealthy relationships with mass media and technology.
Even th e ultra-elites who run Earth from the shadows readily see how their game of chicken with Earth may turn out. Films are also artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and, in turn, affect them.
The Barbie and Ken dolls of the s are sometimes cited as the main cause for the obsession in modern-day society for women to be skinny and men to be buff. It has been recently found that demographic patterns suggest that the transition to adulthood is now occurring over a longer span of years than was the case during the middle of the 20th century.JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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There's a new movement called "HOLLABACK! STOP STREET HARASSMENT", a developing organization of everyday women who are tired of being harassed as they walk down the street or in public in general.
These women are pushing for laws to be passed to the extent that a man could go to jail for making unwanted comments directed at a woman.
Is this being taken too far? What's your opinion?
Watch these videos of street harassment. WARNING: Some content is EXPLICIT.
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p..." /> Science in Christian Perspective Part 2: Development – West Virginia for the Gospel
Published on February 27th, 2014 | by Josiah Batten
Science in Christian Perspective Part 2: Development
In the previous post I addressed certain foundational issues in the relationship of science to religion. Namely, religion can provide a metaphysical foundation for the practice of science. This is in contrast to the popular zeitgeist that pins science against religion like the two are mortal enemies.
To demonstrate the compatibility of science and faith further, I want to examine some of the ways that religion contributed to the rise of modern science. It is an interesting fact that while technologically places like China were often more advanced than Europe, it was Christian Europe alone that gave rise to modern science. To understand why this is the case, we must look at some history. My method here will be to highlight important principles or trajectories that motivated and helped the development of science while using historical examples to demonstrate the broader principle. For those who want a more in depth analysis, I recommend James Hannam’s The Genesis of Science (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2011). All quotations or parenthetical references, unless otherwise noted, come from this book. Without further ado, Science in Christian Perspective Part 2:
Principle 1: Logic Can be Used in Theology
This will take some explaining. After all, what does theology have to do with science? Well, to the Medieval mind, quite a lot. In fact, theology was regarded as the “queen of the sciences.” It was the highest domain of study, to study theology one had to complete courses in all other subjects first (hence why so many Medieval scientists and mathematicians were priests). A theologian had studied science and math, but someone who had studied science and math may not have ever made it to the study of theology. This is also why theologians were regarded as the smartest people at the time, they were the most educated.
At the time of Saint Anselm not everyone agreed that logic should be used in theology. There was a fear that if logic was allowed to influence theology than faith could be ultimately discredited (38). St. Anselm, who famously formed the ontological argument, helped reverse this. There was a heretic named Roscelin who was promoting tri-theism, stating the members of the Trinity were actually three gods (41). Roscelin claimed Anselm supported him, and in the fracas Anselm wrote directly to the Pope to refute Roscelin; the Pope agreed with Anselm and in so doing endorsed the use of logic in theology (42).
Given that theology is the queen of the sciences, if logic could be used here, it is only a small step down for its use in natural philosophy (the precursor of science). Hence, people like Anselm, Lanfranc, and Peter Abelard who raised the status of reason and its use in theology had the effect of promoting the logical and rational study of the natural world as well.
Principle 2: Faith Motivates Discovery
For all the talk we hear about the Church persecuting heliocentricism (the view that the sun is the center of the solar system and is stationary while earth orbits it), we seldom hear about what motivated the great heliocentricists like Copernicus and Kepler. This is because they were motivated by their faith commitments, and that does not play very well into the “science vs. religion” myth so popular in our society.
Copernicus was motivated to find an alternative model to Ptolemy’s geocentric model because Ptolemy’s model seemed poorly designed, or as Hannam (277) notes “too messy to have been designed by God.” Copernicus believed that God would make a universe that fit His character, and an ill-designed one did not. It still took time for these views to gain ground because, in the historical context, the evidence for the geocentric model really did seem better.
This is hard for many of us to grasp, but that’s because we have the benefit of hundreds of years of scientific and technological development. Such developments were not available at the time of Copernicus. Thus, many people wondered “If the earth is moving, why do we not feel rather constant wind from the movement?” Additionally, Aristotle had raised the issue of stellar parallax, and no one had ever addressed this objection to heliocentricism. The idea, as Aristotle saw it, was that if the earth was moving, our position relative to stars would change. But, to the naked eye (which is all Aristotle had) the stars seem to be in the same positions night after night. Thus, Aristotle concluded (and Tycho Brahe agreed) the earth cannot be moving. Of course, in the 19th century we finally had sophisticated enough technology to observe stellar parallax. It turns out this phenomenon is very slight, and without rather advanced telescopes we simply could not observe it. Thus, it’s hard to blame people at the time of Copernicus for using it as an objection to heliocentricism since they did not enjoy the technological advancement we now do.
Kepler, like Copernicus, found essential motivation for science in his faith. At the time of Kepler Hannam notes (295) there was “A rising tide of skepticism” which held the planets could not be mapped out and their movements could not be determined. Kepler did not give in to this skepticism because of his faith, “If the paths of the planets were ordained by God, then they must be simple and elegant” (ibid). Thus, Kepler suggested the elliptical movement of planets and articulated key astronomical laws (ibid., 296).
In short, Kepler’s faith assured him of the knowability of the world, when many others were advocating giving up on trying to map out the solar system. Where would modern science be if Kepler’s faith had not served him here? Perish the thought.
Principle 3: Faith Supports Science
I’ve already talked about how faith “supports” science in terms of giving it metaphysical grounding. But faith “supported” science in an entirely different way, especially as science was getting its early development in natural philosophy. Clerical orders like the Dominicans and Franciscans often paid for the education of its members. As noted above, this included education in natural philosophy as a prerequisite to the study of theology. In fact, some people joined a clerical order because they could not afford an education on their own. Notably in this group is Roger Bacon, who some consider the “father of modern science,” though I’m hesitant to attribute that title to any one individual (136).
The main point is that even as the Church ran cathedral schools, clerical orders provided for the advanced education of their members. These members, which include a scientist of no less stature than Roger Bacon, made very important contributions to science and the development of modern science. Without this financial support of the Church and its orders, the development of modern science would have been stunted.
While the relationship of faith and science is complex, we are at the place where we can banish the simplistic notion of “faith vs. science” or “science vs. religion.” Historically speaking, modern science owes a great debt (literally and figuratively) to faith. Modern science is a rational discipline, and the use of logic in theology advanced the use of logic in natural philosophy. Additionally, faith provided important and necessary motivation to men like Copernicus and Kepler who, because of their faith, would not accept an ill-designed astronomical model nor the rising agnosticism about making a valid model. The Church, through its schools and orders, sponsored the education of many men, including key players in the history of science such as Roger Bacon.
To claim science and religion have always been at odds is grossly historically inaccurate. This claim cannot rationally be maintained in light of the evidence. The person making such a claim is either stupid, ignorant, or dishonest (or a combination of them). Many, however, will still point to instances like the Galileo affair to argue the conflict of faith and science. This, we will see in my next post, is a misrepresentation of the facts.
Soli Deo Gloria,
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September 28, 2018
What I’m Drinking: The Last Word
As September rolls into October, it feels we should have one Last Word for it – hahaha! Really, sometimes I just feel like a classic, and this is one of my classic classics, brought back to the world, after nearly slipping into the mists of history, thanks to legendary Seattle bartender Murray Stenson, who launched it into modern bar culture. It was, legends say, originally created by Frank Fogarty way back in the Prohibition era, though he wasn’t a shaker and stirrer. Instead, he was known as “the Dublin Mistral,” and was one of the leading vaudevillian monologists of his time. Give a toast to both, and to September, when having this.
The Last Word
Ice cubes
3/4 ounce gin
3/4 ounce maraschino liqueur
3/4 ounce Green Chartreuse
3/4 ounce freshly squeezed lime juice
1. Fill a cocktail shaker halfway full with ice cubes. Add the gin, maraschino, Chartreuse, and lime juice. Shake well.
2. Strain through a fine strainer into a cocktail glass and don’t forget your toasts.
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Antonyms of GABLES
Synonyms of GABLES
Examples of usage:
1. What are gables, John? "A Mere Accident" by George Moore
2. The more Matthew thought about the matter the more he was convinced that Anne never had been dressed like the other girls- never since she had come to Green Gables. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908" by Lucy Maud Montgomery
3. House of the Seven Gables. "The Lamplighter" by Maria S. Cummins
4. The whole building is surmounted by brick battlements, everything else being of granite, resting on a good trefoil corbel table, and, as the roofs are perfectly flat, there are no gables. "Portuguese Architecture" by Walter Crum Watson
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Final Fantasy X Walkthrough, Part Three: Kilika
Final Fantasy X owned by Square Enix.
Images used for educational purposes only.
S.S. Liki - Deck
- Talk to Wakka and Lulu to learn a few things about the trip in general. Note that Yuna's a bit clogged with people at the moment.
- Approach the rear of the ship. It's a bit difficult to see, but near the door leading to the navigation cabin is a set of stairs. Go down.
- The first person you'll meet down here is O'aka, merchant extraordinaire. Though he is a bit of a jerk, it's not a terrible idea to give money to O'aka. He'll follow you throughout your journey, later providing items, and if you donate now the prices he charges will decrease. O'aka's often the only guy around to sell you things while in dangerous territory.
- Check the white door on the right side of the lower deck. Inside you'll find a chest containing a Remedy. Also here is a suitcase; kick it seven times to receive as many Potions.
- Behind O'aka is the Power Room. After receiving a lesson about chocobo power, check the floor near the bottom-right corner of your screen for the Al Bhed Primer Vol. III.
- Approach Yuna's crowd after looking around, then talk to Wakka. This will clear up Yuna for a conversation. You know what to do. Just be ready for battle, 'cause a battle is ready for you!
Though technically a boss, Sin isn't that tough. The fin itself does nothing, relying on the three Sinscales it deploys to attack your party. Wipe out two of the Sinscales, then use Wakka, Yuna / Valefor and Lulu's long-range attacks to hit Sin. Don't kill all three Sinscales or Sin will deploy a fresh complement, over and over and over.
- After 'defeating' Sin, Wakka and Tidus will have to fight a solo battle.
BOSS: Sinspawn Echuilles
Only two characters? Eesh. Fortunately, this battle isn't so bad. Ignore the Sinscales completely and focus your attacks on the Sinspawn. Use Wakka's Dark Attack to inflict blindness on Echuilles, thereby greatly reducing its ability to drain HP. After that, just wail away until it crumbles, reapplying blindness as needed. So long as you keep your HP in the 200s as a minimum, the Sinspawn and its cohorts won't be able to kill either of your characters.
Kilika (or what's left of it)
- Welcome to, er, pictuesque Kilika. Sin hasn't left much to see in its wake; make do with what you find. Start by using the Save Sphere beside the S.S. Liki.
- Follow the gangplanks northwest. On the next screen you'll see Yuna doing what summoners do.
- Zip to the Inn. After a nice night's sleep, leave.
- Head south. You'll find Wakka on the east side of the next screen. Enter the remaining hut here to find the Al Bhed Primer Vol. IV on the bar, beside the bartender. Back outside, you can speak to a woman to the southwest of the tavern to purchase her many wares. None of what she's selling is vital, but if you've nothing better to wear...
- Return to the Inn and wander west. On the left side of the walkway is a ramshackle house with a child in it. Approach it from the proper angle and Tidus will save her before it can collapse. The other hut on this screen contains a chest; inside it are three Potions. Grab them, return to the walkway, and carry on northward.
Kilika Woods
- After a short cut scene you'll wind up at a crossroads, with paths leading north, east, and west. Dead ahead is a fiend blocking the path; it's an optional fight which we'll return to shortly.
- To the east is a dead end with a chest. Inside the chest are two Mana Spheres.
- To the west is another split in the path. Both lead to the same spot, though heading north takes less time - and you'll find a Scout in a chest along the way.
- Either way, you'll arrive at another crossroads, this one watched over by some Crusaders. Follow the Crusaders who head north to arrive past the huge fiend guarding the main path.
- Speak to the female crusader here to receive a Hi-Potion.
- Go north. You'll quickly arrive at a dead end. Inside a chest here is a Luck Sphere.
- Return to the female crusader. You now have an option: you can either run east and north to find the way out of this area... or you can take on that fiend you bypassed earlier.
SEMI-BOSS: Lord Ochu
Though it doesn't get boss music, Lord Ochu is the strongest opponent you've faced yet. Over 4,000 HP? Yikes. Fortunately, this thing is quite formulaic. It uses three attacks:
- Poison Claw, which causes some damage and inflicts poison status;
- Water, which does a decent dose of aquatic damage; and
- Sleep, which inflicts regen status on Lord Ochu. If you hit Lord Ochu out of sleep it will immediately counter with the all-hitting Earthquake. Be prepped for that.
Your primary weapon here will be Lulu's Fire spell. Keep her in the front lines and use her to fry Lord Ochu every time her turn comes up. Wakka's Silence Attack will stop Water from popping up; beyond that, everyone else should just be hitting and defending. Yuna is invaluable here if she's learned Esuna to counter Poison Claw. Lord Ochu will take a while to beat down, but it's not that difficult.
After beating the Lord Ochu, speak to Luzzu and Gatta. Luzzu will give you an Elixir. Then you can head north and continue to your next destination, Kilika's Cloister of Trials.
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Economize the Economy or Destroy the Planet along with Humanity
First off, let's talk about the word "economy" and its definition. I imagine that most people in the modern world when they hear or see the word economy they instantly think that a good economy is a growing economy. Meaning that in a particular geographic region which is producing something from their resources is being consumed more then was consumed from the day before, in turn creating growth in that economy. In the news when you hear the word economy it's typically a report of how the stock markets are doing in reflection of the consumption of goods sold by large corporations. So in the equation of economy in reference to the stock market, the more we as a society consume, the better off the economy is, hence "a growing economy".
Something I found quite interesting, when I Googled the definition of "economy" no two definitions were alike. Here are some examples:
2. The correct and effective use of available resources.
b. An example or result of such management; a saving.
a. The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community.
b. A specific type of economic system.
3. An orderly, functional arrangement of parts; an organized system.
4. Efficient, sparing, or conservative use.
5. The least expensive class of accommodations, especially on an airplane.
6. Theology: The method of God's government of and activity within the world.
-The Free Dictionary
1. Thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
3. The management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
4. The prosperity or earnings of a place: Further inflation would endanger the national economy seriously.
5.The disposition or regulation of the parts or functions of any organic whole; an organized system or method.
6. The efficient, sparing, or concise use of something: an economy of effort; an economy of movement.
7. Theology .
a. The divine plan for humanity, from creation through redemption to final beatitude.
b. The method of divine administration, as at a particular time or for a particular race.
OK, so as you can see there are similar definitions, but know two are exactly alike leaving room for interpretation.
Now let's take a look at the word "economize".
2. To make economical use of something.
-The Free Dictionary
1. To practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
2. To manage economically; use sparingly or frugally.
1. To practice being economical
2. Using things sparingly or in moderation
3. To be frugal
4. Avoiding waste or extravagance
For the most part these definitions are pretty much the same. "To practice economy means to avoid waste or extravagance." So living on a world where finite resources are limited, wouldn't you think that the governments of our world would want to economize the economy making sure resources will continue to be available for generations to come, especially at a time in history where climate change is evident due to the over consumption. You would think so, but the model of a Wall Street economy does not allow it because to economize, would mean less consumption from the consumer, lowering the numbers on Wall Street effecting the "economy". Now you know why the latest, greatest phone comes out every other month.
"OMG, have you seen the new iphone 10 with the new 9G up-grade? It's so cool and sales start tomorrow at 3am. The line is going to be huge so get there early."
Some people are so conditioned by advertising that their willing to wait in line through all hours of the night to buy that new phone, even if their current one works perfectly. People find these items to be important to own, because it will somehow improve their lives. But if you stop, take a step back and look at the reality. Does it really improve one's well-being? Sure it's cool to own, and in many cases switching to a smart-phone (one that connects to the internet) can be extremely useful. But it's gone way beyond that. Even know that the average cell-phone user holds on to their phone for up to twenty months, it's now been determined that the majority of people who own cell-phones own two. In America the average age that someone receives their first cell-phone is at the age of 12, and the average life span of Americans is 78. Most Americans throughout their lifetime will own approximately 66 cell-phones.
Cell-phones and cell-phone chargers contain toxic material such as lead, mercury and cadmium, which can end up in public drinking water and food sources. Cell phones also contain gold, silver, platinum, and copper which will be exhausted in a few years, based on the current rate of extraction. According to the CTIA Wireless Association there are currently 205 million cell-phones users in the US not including the millions of undocumented workers who use cell-phones as well. It's estimated there are currently over a billion unused cell-phones in the US with an additional 100 million added to that number every year. WOW, that's a lot of cell-phones! How many cell-phone repair shops do you know of? Wait, there aren't any because sales would go down, effecting the stock holders, effecting Wall Street, and effecting the "economy".
You hear this all the time, "sales were down this month, having investors worried about the economy". We are conditioned to think that in order to have a good economy or thriving economy we must as a society consume, consume, consume.
"Well, the economy is looking really good today, consumers are out shopping and making bigger purchases, Wall Street is up and if the trend stays how it's going, our economy will the best it's ever been."
From an investor's point of view, sales must consistently grow, meaning that it's important to sell more goods then the day before. From this equation, how long will it be before we run out of resources? If a company is to consistently sell more goods than it did the day before, science and common knowledge tells us that eventually the resources to make that good will run out. But investors don't care about long term consequences, because if companies were to actually make products or goods that lasted for years or could be repaired, sales would Plataea or go down and the "economy" would be in a state of crisis. Or at least that's what they would like you to think, when in reality the only people having a crisis are the wealthy investors who thrive off greed. This train of thought makes me want to puke. It's wool over the eyes people.
We are living in a world where it's been scientifically proven than clement change due to global warming is real. Even Barack Obama during his campaign pledged to spend $150 billion dollars over the next decade on clean energy. While this is without a doubt a positive sign for the future, it's still a long way off to having a sustainable future. It is imposable to have a growing Wall Street economy while working towards a sustainable future. As long as 80% of the world's wealth stays in the hands of the elite who make up 1% of the population, things will never change. The more resources become scarce, the more they'll be worth, and it's these elite who will be in control of whatever is left. Oh shit wait,.. they already are.
Think about how many products we buy as consumers that come from china for example, like a simple pair of sunglasses. How much oil is in the plastic of the frames and lenses? How much oil was used by the machines to make the plastic frames and lenses? How much coal was burned to run those machines? How much oil was burned from the truck that transported the glasses to the harbor? What about the oil burned from the huge cranes that move the shipping container onto the ship? The oil burned from the cargo ship crossing the Pacific Ocean, then the oil used from the other crane at the harbor in California, onto an oil burning truck that moves them to a distribution warehouse where oil driven fork lift takes them off the truck and stores them until there ready to be transported again. Then another oil burning forklift takes them back onto another oil burning truck and in many cases on to a oil burning plane, then on to one more oil burning truck to its destination to be sold for 5$-$10 each. Try to think about that the next time you hear an increase of Wall-mart stock.
Sustainability and a growing Wall Street economy will ever work because they contradict each other. How can you have something grow forever and ever and be sustainable at such a rate? You can't, because nothing lasts forever, and at the rate were going it's only a matter of years, where in our lifetime we will see resources run out, and come to a tipping point. Well,... what happens then? The math is simple, the rich will live and the poor will die because the more a resource becomes scares, more valuable it becomes.
Do you drink bottled water? You may not, after you realize that bottled water alone is slowly killing our planet. Worldwide people approximately drink 40.6 billion gallons (154 billion liters) of bottled water every year. Why do companies bottle water? Pure as the water profit! Their selling water from fossil aquafers which is a non-renewable resource and sell it in cheap plastic! That bottle of Arrow Head spring water cost about 3 cents to produce and they sell it to you for whopping $1.50! You do the math. I also find it funny that they consistently use the word "spring" as if the water is coming from a natural mountain spring. Well it's not. Many companies who bottle water (like Poland Spring), get their water from drilling hundreds of feet down and tapping into fossil water, which just like oil has been there for thousands of years, is non- renewable and once it's gone, it's gone forever. This by itself aside from all the plastic is having a major impact on the environment, creating drought on a global scale. But do you think that Nestle who owns Arrowhead, Calistoga, Deer Park, Ice Mountain, Ozarka, Poland Spring, Zephyrhills, Perrier, S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna, Contrex and Nestlé Pure Life give two shits about their environmental impact? They do their best to make you think they care by making smaller plastic caps, and putting less plastic in their bottles with a little note saying "This bottle is green", as if you're doing the environment a favor by buying their product. But do they really care? No, because if they did, it would decrease profits, lowering their stock which would have a negative impact on Wall Street effecting our, as they say "economy". Environmental scientist at the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development fears that by the year 2025, as many as one-third of the worlds projected 8.3 billion people will suffer from water shortages. If there is limited water, then food becomes limited which turns into a price increase of basic resources. People with money will live and the others will die. It's that simple. Bottled water alone is a huge contributor for the water shortage our world is experiencing today and is playing a huge role in our demise. Get a good water bottle, filter and drink from the tap.
OK, so now that we have a very small prescriptive on how a growing Wall Street economy will never create sustainable future for our planet, what can we do to help combat our demise through consumption. Well as easy as it sounds, recycle (everything you can), compost, buy local and consume less,.... much less. The hardest problem people have is deprogramming themselves from all of the propaganda were bombarded with from advertising. Many people go shopping for no reason except to make themselves feel better. Hey, I'm just a guilty as the next person. I love to go out and buy stuff I don't really need. But for me personally, I now notice what it is I'm actually doing and have committed to change. I think about the item I have in my hand, look where it's made and what it's made from, I then can make a conscious decision whether I'm going to buy that product or not. I find myself asking "do I really need this?" Most of the time these days my answer is no, and I find myself consuming much much less.
My household of three takes out the trash once a month, and our recycling twice a month. We recycle twice to three times as much as we through away in the land fill. Even know that's still not enough, it's a start. We use earth friendly products such as household cleaners and washing detergent, made by companies that don't exploit the earth and humanity. They may cost a little more, but what price can you put on the future of humanity. If you have kids, think about the standards they're learning from you? It's the first conscious effort and decision you make that leads to the next, and the next and the next. If we as individuals don't start making conscious decisions on what it is that we really need, what it's made out of and where it comes from, then the elite will win. But is it a matter of winning or losing? Yes, it is. The winners will have control of few resources left on the planet, while everyone else will be like starving mice, scurrying the ground waiting for the scraps to fall from the table, dying of disease and famine.
It's not too late, but that's only if the word spreads fast enough to counteract the reaction that's already taking place. Help me in the fight of taking our planet back and the keeping the power away from the elite. We need to economize the economy by taking away the power from the large corporations and stop consuming the way we have been. The less you consume the more power you take away from the corporation. To create change we together must let everyone we know what can be done to reverse this vicious cycle before it's too late. Recycle everything possible, know exactly what it is you're buying and where it's from, and for Christ sake, don't drink bottled water! Remember that it's consumption that's feeding the fire which the elite define as "economy", it's your dollar and mine, don't make the mistake by giving it to the huge corporations. Obviously that's not an easy task, but do what you can and go from there. There is a beacon of hope, but we MUST acknowledge it, and do whatever we can to make a difference. Help your neighbors, your family, your friends and your co-workers pull their heads out of the sand by spreading the word . These are the real people in our lives, not CEOs and elitist, so why give money to them. We can reverse the way things are, but we all must be aware and do our part. Join a community garden, buy local foods and other things you need, recycle everything, don't shop to feel better, everything counts, it's not just for your self but more the majority.
If you haven't seen "HOME", watch it. It's a real eye opener!
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03 August 2010
Explaining death to children with autism
By: Dang U. Koe, ASP Chair Emeritus
How did Gio react to his father’s death?”
That was one of the most frequently-asked questions during the wake of my husband who passed away a little over a month ago.
My 16-year old autistic son Gio is challenged with his language and cognitive skills. So I am not really sure with my answer to the above-mentioned question. But fortunately, he was very calm all throughout the “unfamiliar” funeral situation. He was patiently sitting and waiting for at least five hours each time he was in the funeral parlor during the three-night wake. Used to sleeping by 8 p.m., he slept with nary a complaint on one of the wooden benches while waiting for his ride home. During the interment of his father’s ashes, Gio was very compliant with instructions given him.
Things may be different though for others in the autism spectrum disorder during these very trying moments. Families may need to prepare for it.
The website of UK’s The National Autistic Society (NAS) has a section which covers the difficult issue of helping a child with autism to cope with the death of someone known to them. According to said website, NAS is UK’s largest provider of specialist autism services. Their trained staff and volunteers provide a lifeline for 100,000 people every year, offering support with day-to-day living, social skills, education and employment.
Angels Talk sought the permission of NAS to share its website’s section on “Death, Bereavement and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs).”
Death and bereavement are subjects we do not not find easy to discuss. This natural reluctance means that we avoid discussing death until it is too late, especially with someone who has ASD.
Clearly every child is different, and their level of understanding will differ, too. Therefore you may have to make some adjustments for your individual child, and adults with ASD as well.
As with most life experiences, a child with an ASD will understand and adjust better if they are involved in the situation and prepared for dealing with it as much as possible. If someone in the family is ill, it is better to explain what is occurring and why grandma, for example, keeps going to the doctors or spending time in hospital. This is because unexplained occasions and the unknown often, scare people with ASD, producing anxiety and challenging behavior. As a family you will need to decide how much detail will be appropriate, but do remember to explain any possible change in the person’s appearance.
It is only natural to be concerned that you will make your child anxious by telling them about an illness. That worry is understandable in such a situation but you may nevertheless upset and confuse the child by not telling them. By providing your child with an explanation, and changing as little as possible, that anxiety will be kept to a minimum.
It may help your child to understand the progression of the person’s illness by charting on a timeline or calendar the various appointments that the person will attend, including any prolonged stays in hospital. Alongside these, you can also position any significant dates for the child; for example, their birthday, school play or first day at college. You could also add any routine changes, such as who will pick them up from school. This is particularly important if that role is normally fulfilled by the family member who is ill. This will help the child with ASD to see the situation in a more general context within their life. Also, as change is difficult for any person with an ASD, this will remind your child about those things in their life which will remain the same, such as attending school every day.
If the person’s illness becomes more serious, you may feel that you need to prepare the child for this individual’s possible death. Your explanation of what death is will be determined by your own beliefs and values. However, Allison (2001) suggests explaining death within a life cycle, possibly using insects, plants or animals to demonstrate this. This biological approach is practical, clear, and could be presented visually. Many individuals on the autism spectrum respond well to visual descriptions.
In one case, a school took this principle a stage further in order to explain.
Explaining death to children with autism death to a five-year-old child with an ASD whose father had terminal cancer. They got a dead chicken from a local farm and named it Charlie. Charlie was shown to the child, who commented that “Charlie not moving” (Ulliana 1998). They explained that Charlie would not move again as he had died. They then put Charlie in a box, which they referred to as a coffin, and buried him with a cross placed above the grave (presumably this reflected the family’s own beliefs). They photographed this process and compiled these into a book which they entitled ‘Brett says Goodbye to Charlie Chicken’. This method was then used with Brett’s father, as they photographed Brett with him, in hospital, before his death and took pictures of his empty bed after he had died. Again, these photographs were placed in a book called ‘Brett says Goodbye to Daddy.’ This book was then used to talk regularly to Brett about his father in the weeks and months after his death. Although this preparation might seem morbid, the school clearly appreciated this child’s need for visual supports in order for him to understand death, and where his father had gone.
Remember to be careful about the language you use, especially if your child is literal in their understanding and interpretation. For example, if you describe death as “like going to sleep.” you may make the individual terrified of going to sleep at night. Something simple such as “sometimes people’s bodies become worn out” may be appropriate. If they want to know what this means, or how it will affect their lives, you could say that they “will not see grandma again”.
You will also need to explain any religious practices that your family observes at the time of death. This might include visiting in advance the place where any ceremony will be performed, speaking to the person leading the observance, and introducing the child to any other unknown practice. It may be a good idea to ask an appropriate relative to care for the individual during the funeral. This will help to ease the pressure on the immediate family and will also provide a reliable person for your child during this difficult occasion.
There is a series of books available called “Books Beyond Words’’ which explains burial, cremation and bereavement counseling. These books are not specifically written for people with ASD, but they use only pictures and are therefore ideal for use with individuals who have autism.
Whether your family has specific religious beliefs or not, it may help to establish a particular ritual within the family when someone dies, whether this is a pet, family member, friend or even a personality on TV whom the child liked. This will give your child a particular routine to follow and will hopefully lessen any inappropriate responses to the announcement of a death, which may cause further distress to other members of the family. This ritual might involve the simple lighting of a candle, while everyone thinks about the person or animal being remembered. By “preparing people with autism for the losses which can occur, they may become more able to cope with major bereavements.” (Allison 2001)
A sudden death may cause more extreme forms of upset and confusion. But this reaction is natural and will probably be experienced by everyone within the family. When explaining why that person died, you may need to reassure the child with an ASD that this will not happen to them. You may like to set a boundary on age, for example: usually only people over 70 years of age die, and it is rare for children or people younger than that to die. However, if you do use this, please think very carefully about the likelihood of your child experiencing a younger person’s death.
Howlin (1997) describes how the “person with autism may seem apparently unconcerned, even by the death of someone very close,... [they may focus on] seemingly callous issues, such as how much they may have been left in the will.” She then outlines one particular adult’s reaction to her father’s death, describing how she “began to embark on bizarre monologues about punishment and pain, murder and the police”, though her father’s death had not involved the police in any way.
These behavioral changes may not coincide with the death of a relative or friend, but may occur perhaps three months, six months, or a year afterwards. This will need to be recognized so these behaviors are appropriately understood and supported. You may notice a reoccurrence of these or other behaviors at significant dates after the person’s death; for example, at an anniversary, Christmas or birthdays.
There are recognized approximate stages of bereavement (Allison 2001):
• Shock, numbness, denial
• Despair, turmoil and acute grieving, including: anger, guilt anxiety, fear, panic, depression, pain, appetite disturbance, breathlessness, illness, more than usual need for sleep, sleeplessness, hyperactivity, nightmares, regression, loss of skills
• Recovery, including acceptance, resolution of grief, when the bereaved can think of the deceased without pain or anger and can recall the times they had together in a positive way.
Please be aware of these stages: they may merge together, and not everyone will experience all of them. Your child may have all of these feelings, and others too. For example, they may experience confusion over why they do not see the person any more, or anxiety about why members of the family seem to be acting differently. You may like to use a Social Story to explain how people become upset and cry when someone has died, and perhaps that it is okay that they have/have not cried.
When it is appropriate, you might also consider making a ‘Memory Book’ (Allison 2001). This could be a book or box which is used as a record and reminder of the individual or pet who has died; it could also be used more generally to highlight significant moments in your child’s life. They might choose mementos which show “...happy incidents in their lives, family holidays, previous homes, photographs of family members and pets...” This record can then be used to demonstrate the role that the deceased individual had in the life to the child with ASD. This role will also be seen in a more general context of life progression, as the child can see previous homes, pets and friends which they no longer encounter.
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