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Mozilla, Python
PyCon 2015
Apr 23rd, 2015
So I went to PyCon 2015. While I didn’t leave quite as inspired as I did in 2014 (when I discovered iPython), it was a great experience and I learned a ton. Once again, I was incredibly impressed with the organization of the conference and the diversity and quality of the speakers.
Since Mozilla was nice enough to sponsor my attendance, I figured I should do another round up of notable talks that I went to.
Technical stuff that was directly relevant to what I work on:
• To ORM or not to ORM (Christine Spang): Useful talk on when using a database ORM (object relational manager) can be helpful and even faster than using a database directly. I feel like there’s a lot of misinformation and FUD on this topic, so this was refreshing to see. video slides
• Debugging hard problems (Alex Gaynor): Exactly what it says — how to figure out what’s going on when things aren’t behaving as they should. Great advice and wisdom in this one (hint: take nothing for granted, dive into the source of everything you’re using!). video slides
• Python Performance Profiling: The Guts And The Glory (Jesse Jiryu Davis): Quite an entertaining talk on how to properly profile python code. I really liked his systematic and realistic approach — which also discussed the thought process behind how to do this (hint: again it comes down to understanding what’s really going on). Unfortunately the video is truncated, but even the first few minutes are useful. video
Non-technical stuff:
• The Ethical Consequences Of Our Collective Activities (Glyph): A talk on the ethical implications of how our software is used. I feel like this is an under-discussed topic — how can we know that the results of our activity (programming) serves others and does not harm? video
• How our engineering environments are killing diversity (and how we can fix it) (Kate Heddleston): This was a great talk on how to make the environments in which we develop more welcoming to under-represented groups (women, minorities, etc.). This is something I’ve been thinking a bunch about lately, especially in the context of expanding the community of people working on our projects in Automation & Tools. The talk had some particularly useful advice (to me, anyway) on giving feedback. video slides
I probably missed out on a bunch of interesting things. If you also went to PyCon, please feel free to add links to your favorite talks in the comments!
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[Using ipython to analyze some eideticker data][3]
Using ipython to analyze some eideticker data
• The ability to immediately re-execute a block of code after editing and seeing an error (essentially merging the immediacy of the python console with the permanency / cut & pastability of an actual script)
• Live-printing out graphs of numerical results using matplotlib. ZOMG this is so handy. Especially in conjunction with the live-editing outlined above, there’s no better tool for fine-tuning mathematical/statistical analysis.
To learn more about how to use ipython notebooks for data analysis, I highly recommend Julie Evan’s talk Diving into Open Data with IPython Notebook & Pandas, which you can find on
Other Good Talks
• All Your Ducks In A Row: Data Structures in the Standard Library and Beyond – A useful talk by Brandon Rhoades on the implementation of basic data structures in Python, and how to select the ones to use for optimal performance. It turns out that lists aren’t the best thing to use for long sequences of numerical data (who knew?)
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Catching problems early with python
Oct 15th, 2012
Just a few quick notes on how to avoid a class of errors I’ve been seeing in Mozilla’s automation over the last year. Since python interprets code dynamically, it’s pretty easy for problems like undefined variables to slip through, especially if they’re in a codepath that isn’t frequently tested. The most recent example I found was in some cleanup-after-error code for remote mochitest/reftest, which tried to call “self.cleanup” from a standalone method.
def main():
retVal = mochitest.runTests(options)
logcat = dm.getLogcat()
print "TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | %s | Exception caught while running tests." % sys.exc_info()[1]
self.cleanup(None, options)
We’re calling cleanup as if it were a class variable, but we’re not inside any class! It’s easy to see what will happen if you try to run some similar code from the python console:
>>> self.cleanup()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'self' is not defined
However, because we’re in a blanket try…except, we will never see an error. The cleanup code will never be called, instead the exception is immediately caught and subsequently ignored. Probably not the end of the world in this case (there are other parts of our mobile automation which will perform the same cleanup later), but it’s easy to imagine where this would be a more serious problem.
There’s two very easy ways to help stop errors like this before they hit our code:
1. Try to avoid using a blanket try…except. In addition to catching legitimate problems which we want to ignore (in the remote case for example, devicemanager exceptions), it also catches (and thus obscures) things like syntax, name, or type errors. Instead, try just catching the specific exception you’re looking for. For example, we might rewrite the case above as:
``` try:
mochitest.cleanup(None, options) except devicemanager.DMError: print “WARNING: Device error while cleaning up” 2. pyflakes, pyflakes, pyflakes. [Pyflakes][2] is a fantastic tool for analyzing your python code for common problems. It’s kind of analagous to [jslint][3], for those of you familiar with that. Here’s what happens when we run pyflakes against the offending code: wlach@eideticker:~/src/mozilla-central$ pyflakes testing/mochitest/ testing/mochitest/ ‘time’ imported but unused testing/mochitest/ undefined name ‘self’ testing/mochitest/ undefined name ‘self’ ```
I’ve found pyflakes to be an indispensable part of my workflow. I generally run it after making any substantial change to a python file, and certainly before pushing anything to be consumed by others.
Ultimately there’s no substitute for actually thoroughly testing your code, no matter what language you’re using. But using the right techniques and tools can certainly make your life easier.
[ for those wondering, a fix for the issue mentioned in this post is part of bug 801652 ]
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iPhone To Get Keyboard
rimmiphone The Times of London is reporting that Apple has placed an order with it's suppliers for 200,000 of the new 3G iPhones by the end of May. According to reports the new iPhone will be different to the current device. The possibilities given are a flip version giving the user a larger screen and sliding version which would have a fully functioning QWERTY keyboard rather than a touchscreen keyboard.
The most likely outcome is that we will see all three versions of the device released. This would give the touchscreen version for users who want music and videos, the flip version for those who want Internet browsing on a larger screen and I would also say easier use of enterprise software and the slide for the average user and the Blackberry users who want a device similar to the one they are using.
The release of these three products could catapult Apple into a dominant position in the handheld market and bump RIM into second place. The timing should also guarantee an excellent quarter 2 for Apple. The image above shows the next Blackberry which RIM hope will be the iPhone killer, I doubt it though,
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My Aish story began New Year’s Eve in a casino in Reno, Nevada.
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Dave heard from my mother that I was getting a little more interested in Judaism and asked if it would be okay if one of Aish LA’s rabbis could call me. “Sure, Dave. But just not tonight!” I told him.
It wasn’t long before I got a call inviting me to a major Aish event in Los Angeles that was followed up with Shabbos experiences and weekly classes that began to transform my view of Judaism. Then I met the legendary philanthropist, Dick Horowitz, who helped me make the decision to leave my Miata behind and head for the hills of Jerusalem.
That was the beginning of a journey that brought me to Aish Jerusalem where I learned more about Judaism than I ever could have imagined… where I met my amazing wife with whom I’m raising five terrific kids… and where I cherish every moment of being able to work with the team sharing Jewish wisdom with millions of readers around the world.
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Anno Urbis - The Year of the City
Roman Empire > History >The Roman Empire Online
Roman Empire
B.C. 753—713.
Virgil goes on to tell at much length how the king of the country, Latinus, at first made friends with Æneas, and promised him his daughter Lavinia in marriage; but Turnus, an Italian chief who had before been a suitor to Lavinia, stirred up a great war, and was only captured and killed after much hard fighting. However, the white sow was found in the right place with all her little pigs, and on the spot was founded the city of Alba Longa, where Æneas and Lavinia reigned until he died, and his descendants, through his two sons, Ascanius or Iulus, and Æneas Silvius, reigned after him for fifteen generations.
The last of these fifteen was Amulius, who took the throne from his brother Numitor, who had a daughter named Rhea Silvia, a Vestal virgin. In Greece, the sacred fire of the goddess Vesta was tended by good men, but in Italy it was the charge of maidens, who were treated with great honor, but were never allowed to marry under pain of death. So there was great anger when Rhea Silvia became the mother of twin boys, and, moreover, said that her husband was the god Mars. But Mars did not save her from being buried alive, while the two babes were put in a trough on the waters of the river Tiber, there to perish. The river had overflowed its banks, and left the children on dry ground, where, however, they were found by a she-wolf, who fondled and fed them like her own offspring, until a shepherd met with them and took them home to his wife. She called them Romulus and Remus, and bred them up as shepherds.
When the twin brothers were growing into manhood, there was a fight between the shepherds of Numitor and Amulius, in which Romulus and Remus did such brave feats that they were led before Numitor. He enquired into their birth, and their foster-father told the story of his finding them, showing the trough in which they had been laid; and thus it became plain that they were the grandsons of Numitor. On finding this out, they collected an army, with which they drove away Amulius, and brought their grandfather back to Alba Longa.
They then resolved to build a new city for themselves on one of the seven low hills beneath which ran the yellow river Tiber; but they were not agreed on which hill to build, Remus wanting to build on the Aventine Hill, and Romulus on the Palatine. Their grandfather advised them to watch for omens from the gods, so each stood on his hill and watched for birds. Remus was the first to see six vultures flying, but Romulus saw twelve, and therefore the Palatine Hill was made the beginning of the city, and Romulus was chosen king. Remus was affronted, and when the mud wall was being raised around the space intended for the city, he leapt over it and laughed, whereupon Romulus struck him dead, crying out, "So perish all who leap over the walls of my city."
Roman Banquet
Romulus traced out the form of the city with the plough, and made it almost a square. He called the name of it Rome, and lived in the midst of it in a mud-hovel, covered with thatch, in the midst of about fifty families of the old Trojan race, and a great many young men, outlaws and runaways from the neighboring states, who had joined him. The date of the building of Rome was supposed to be A.D. 753; and the Romans counted their years from it, as the Greeks did from the Olympiads, marking the date A.U.C., anno urbis conditæ, the year of the city being built. The youths who joined Romulus could not marry, as no one of the neighboring nations would give his daughter to one of these robbers, as they were esteemed. The nearest neighbors to Rome were the Sabines, and the Romans cast their eyes in vain on the Sabine ladies, till old Numitor advised Romulus to proclaim a great feast in honor of Neptune, with games and dances. All the people in the country round came to it, and when the revelry was at its height each of the unwedded Romans seized on a Sabine maiden and carried her away to his own house. Six hundred and eighty-three girls were thus seized, and the next day Romulus married them all after the fashion ever after observed in Rome. There was a great sacrifice, then each damsel was told, "Partake of your husband's fire and water;" he gave her a ring, and carried her over his threshold, where a sheepskin was spread, to show that her duty would be to spin wool for him, and she became his wife.
Roman Forum
Romulus himself won his own wife, Hersilia, among the Sabines on this occasion; but the nation of course took up arms, under their king Tatius, to recover their daughters. Romulus drew out his troops into Campus Martius, or field of Mars, just beneath the Capitol, or great fort on the Saturnian Hill, and marched against the Sabines; but while he was absent, Tarpeia, the daughter of the governor of the little fort he had left on the Saturnian Hill, promised to let the Sabines in on condition they would give her what they wore on their left arms, meaning their bracelets; but they hated her treason even while they took advantage of it, and no sooner were they within the gate than they pelted her with their heavy shields, which they wore on their left arms, and killed her. The cliff on the top of which she died is still called the Tarpeian rock, and criminals were executed by being thrown from the top of it. Romulus tried to regain the Capitol, but the Sabines rolled down stones on the Romans, and he was stunned by one that struck him on the head; and though he quickly recovered and rallied his men, the battle was going against him, when all the Sabine women, who had been nearly two years Roman wives, came rushing out, with their little children in their arms and their hair flying, begging their fathers and husbands not to kill one another. This led to the making of a peace, and it was agreed that the Sabines and Romans should make but one nation, and that Romulus and Tatius should reign together at Rome. Romulus lived on the Palatine Hill, Tatius on the Tarpeian, and the valley between was called the Forum, and was the market-place, and also the spot where all public assemblies were held. All the chief arrangements for war and government were believed by the Romans to have been laws of Romulus. However, after five years, Tatius was murdered at a place called Lavinium, in the middle of a sacrifice, and Romulus reigned alone till in the middle of a great assembly of his soldiers outside the city, a storm of thunder and lightning came on, and every one hurried home, but the king was nowhere to be found; for, as some say, his father Mars had come down in the tempest and carried him away to reign with the gods, while others declared that he was murdered by persons, each of whom carried home a fragment of his body that it might never be found. It matters less which way we tell it, since the story of Romulus was quite as much a fable as that of Æneas; only it must be remembered as the Romans themselves believed it. They worshipped Romulus under the name of Quirinus, and called their chief families Quirites, both words coming from ger (a spear); and the she-wolf and twins were the favorite badge of the empire. The Capitoline Hill, the Palatine, and the Forum all still bear the same names.
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African American women face unique challenges when it comes to relationships. A 2006 U.S. Census Bureau survey revealed that 45 percent of Black women are single as opposed to 23 percent of White women. Black women also outnumber their male counterparts. In 2000, there were 1.8 million more Black women than Black men. A documentary was made about the circumstances surrounding Christian African Americans called Soul Mate . The film’s director Andrea Wiley shares what Black women can do to help their relationships before and after they start.
Who Is the Head of the Household?
I'm finding that there's a lot of tension in marriage among Type A women. There are so many Black women who are highly educated and have achieved a lot. They're the boss all day at their particular jobs. When they come home, it's sometimes difficult to turn that off. It can create an uncomfortable situation, because men are wired to lead and to be respected.
I'm talking about myself first, because years ago I struggled. I sensed God telling me this even before I made Soul Mate. He said to me, ‘Get your house in order.’ At the time I thought He meant clean it up a little bit, but He really meant that I needed to get my spiritual house in order. I needed to regard my husband. I needed to allow him to lead.
After I did Soul Mate, I was out traveling and promoting the movie. I remember one time I was on the road and he called me because I was gone a lot. He said, “You're gone a lot. I fully support what you're doing with Soul Mate, but don't forget that we are your ministry as well,” meaning him and my son. He said, “We only have these boys for a few short years and then they're gone.”
When I was still writing for television and very much a career woman, one of the things that my mentor shared with me earlier in my marriage was the notion of submission. Of course I didn't want to hear that. The hairs on the back of our necks stand up when we hear that word. It really is a frame of mind. We have to realize that we all submit to someone. If we have a job, we submit to a boss. If we don't agree with the boss, we state what we believe, but the boss still says, "This is the way to go." We go along with it with gratitude if we want to keep the job. Why can't we show that same kind of reverence in our home?
We really need to just take another look at how we treat our men. There's a reason why the statistics show the more education and the more money that a Black woman earns, the more likely she is to never be married or have children. It's a mindset change that has to happen. You can still have your career, run your company and have your business, but there should be a shift in the dynamic at home. Men are wired to lead and to be respected, and we're wired to be loved.
The Myth of Superwoman
We have a lot of women feeling like they can do everything to the best of their abilities; you have the Superwoman label. Women were burning out, and they were getting very frustrated and very discouraged because it's just not physically possible. Life is about seasons. If you're a mother, you can have a career, but the focus is making sure you raise healthy, well-balanced children. That is our core calling. Multiplying disciples out into the world, and that, that's a full time job in and of itself. You cannot have it all at the same time. Something suffers. Something has to give. You will drive yourself crazy trying to be the best wife, the best mother, and trying to be at the top of your career. You can't do it. It's impossible.
What can Women Do?
We can certainly support our Black men and let them know that we support them. Let them feel that genuine support. I remember my brother once said to me, “You career women have it all wrong. You think you know your husbands are here to help you when you were designed to be a helper to them. That's why God created you, to help him.”
My number one advice: make time to spend time with your Creator, the Creator of the universe. I know it's hard to believe, but He wants to spend time with you. Your intimacy with Him is His highest priority for your life, the quality and the time spent privately with God directly determines the public impact your life will have.
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Pre-Columbian Frog Pendant
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Long before the arrival of the Europeans and others, Native people of Latin America had mastered many metallurgical techniques, including mining, hammering, and casting gold to produce jewelry, ornaments, masks, and other items. In ancient Latin America, gold symbolized power and spiritual wealth, but was never used for money. Throughout Latin America, frogs are associated with rain and water. Frog symbolism is commonly in ceremonies to bring rain. The frog jewelry and figurine is adapted from a cast gold originally found in Chiriqu?, Panama, that dates to AD 1000-1200.
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Tulisa - Titanium (David Guetta Cover)
A bare footed Tulisa became the latest singer to perform a cover of David Guetta and Sia's "Titanium" in the Live Lounge today. She said she chose the song because someone that she know's doesn't like it, so I wonder who that could be...
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Bloody equity
Sometimes I ride the Internet over the funny, creepy, tiny Forex retail world. It’s often hilarious when we, true profitable traders, see some trading systems with huge profit (+2000% per year) and huge drawdowns (-70%). This is the kind of system we see the most on the specialized Forex website and the most “followed” too. A lot of investors only see the final return per year and don’t even take care of the drawdown. Until this kind of “investors” lose money. Losing money is always a rich experience teaching you the good way to take. This kind of system can be detected really easily except for dumb investors and traders.
But there is one thing the rookie “investor” can have trouble to notice until he will learn what is it exactly : the equity curve of trading system.
Yes. There is another curve different from the growing account curve. I know, it’s surprising. In fact, this curve is as important as the return curve because it explains how the trader is managing the risk over the long run.
This equity curve is calculated by the money available on a trading account at a given moment. The growth curve is easy to understand : this is the amount of money on your account. More you have, more you are rich. However, it’s not because you have $1000000 on your trading account that you can withdraw $1000000. If you have trades running on the Market, you freeze the dedicated money relating to your leverage and lot size. For example, if you have 2 trades running with 5% risk for each (which is crazy risk), you have “only” $900000 available on your account until your trades are closed. 2 x 5% risk = 10% risk. 10% of $1000000 = $100000. Money available : $1000000-$100000 = $900000. In fact, it’s even less than that because of your margin level.
So, the equity curve represents the money commited on the Forex market at a given moment. By analyzing it for a particular trading system, you can see how many money is at risk during accurate periods of time. Of course, if the equity curve reaches the deadly 0 level, you have lost all your money.
The things become funny when the growth curve and the equity curve are no more friends and take their own path to live their own life. It’s not a good idea at all. I took a random example on the famous Myfxbook website :
Something wrong ? The same with color painting :
Above, you can see that currently the growth is at 92% and the equity around 56%. What does that mean ? In fact, the “trader” is currently exposing 36% (92-56) on the Market. If you only look at the growth and the historic drawdown (26%), you can think that the system could be good to use. However, what do you think about a money management which exposes 36% (more than a third of your account!) of your money at a given time and even since 6 months. Of course, it’s a creepy system and we will see when the equity curve will reach the funny 0 level for a nice margin call.
In this particular case, we can have 2 main hypothesis:
• This guy doesn’t use stoploss and has a running position since few months. If it’s the case, the margin call is a matter of time. Not using stoploss on Forex Market is like throwing your money down the drain.
• This “trader” uses stoploss but have a bunch of running positions with too heavy risk implied. Having 36% of its own capital at risk since few months is dangerous. Even, just for one single day, it’s crazy. Imagine taking only 3 trades exposing each one 30% of your account. Surprise, these are all wrong. Account blew up.
When you assess a trading system, don’t forget to look at the equity curve. It’s critical because it provides you the way the trader manages the risk on the market. Now, if you go to some signal provider sites you can have a lot of fun. The famous site Myfxbook launched a signal provider platform few weeks ago, called “signalstart.com”. We can see this kind of system on it :
“Alien waves” is aptly named. It’s obvious that the money management is some kind of alien for this “trader”. How it’s possible to expose 80% of its own capital at a given moment. It’s pure crazyness. The proper picture may be that :
This system is really lucky because it came really near to the margin call with a cute 81% drawdown and after the equity became higher than the current account. I don’t know why but I bet that this alien has a really short life expectancy. Time will say.
Another funny system called “Strategy that works” :
93% Drawdown ? Okay… why not. But in that case, what can we call a Strategy that doesn’t work ?
All of these examples are caricatural (but sadly true) because if you let a child trade, the results would be almost the same. Now, we could analyze the risk management of this kind of system :
In this case, the risk is harder to reveal but still there… We can see the May 26, the trader exposed almost 20% of its capital in one day. It’s huge. Hopefully, the equity curve rejoined the growth curve to make a kiss but the scenario could have been different. You can expect big coming drawdowns with this kind of system.
On the Forex, you have to always expect the worst. Just remind the January 15th…
When you analyze the reliability of a trading system, don’t forget to look closely at the equity curve !
Some trading websites don’t even display this information or partially, like www.share4you.com or www.mql5.com. If you go to these kind of sites and want to invest in some strategies, my advice : Take to your heels.
The equity curve and the growth curve have to be friend forever. They have to follow each other over the long run. If the equity curve falls apart and the growth curve keeps increasing, it’s a really bad sign for your money.
3 thoughts on “Bloody equity”
1. Hi,
Old (yet useful) article. But regarding mql5 You should update the information. There is Equity curve (Balance or DD related) on that site on signal providers.
1. Hi,
Yes, you’re right. This Grid/Martingale nest is showing the Balance and the Equity on the same graph :)
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microsatellites, VNTRs, minisatellites
Steve Guroff stevegur at abac.com
Wed Jun 26 00:05:52 EST 1996
Paulo Santos wrote:
> I would like to have a definition of the following expressions:
> microsatellite
> minisatellite
> AmpFLP
> Amp
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Paulo Santos
> LUSOTRANSPLANTE Fax +351-39-33674
> Centro de Histocompatibilidade do Centro Telefone +351-39-33693
> Apartado 3004 P-3049 COIMBRA Codex PORTUGAL +351-39-20527Dear Paulo,
Hope you don't mind answers in English; my Portugese is lousy. On micro-
and minisatellites, all I can tell you is they're DNA structures; I can't
even remember if they're genomic DNA or not. As for the others:
VNTR = Variable Number Tandem Repeat; describes a locus consisting of a
series of repeats of a given sequence. These loci are found in "junk"
(noncoding) regions, but are useful in forensic biology as the number of
repeats is, as the title implies, highly variable between individuals.
The "classic" method of forensic DNA analysis ("classic" means "ten years
old"), restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis, is based
on the examination of VNTR loci.
AmpFLP = Amplifiable Fragment Length Polymorphism; a DNA locus consisting
of tandem repeats as described above, for which primer sequences for PCR
amplification have been identified. These loci are also called short
tandem repeats, or STR's, since the length of the repeat sequence is
usually <20 base pairs, and often as little as four.
Amp, I assume, is an abbreviation for "Amplifiable".
Hope this helps.
Steve Guroff
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This is my failed attempt to use the timed photo feature on my phone. Sometimes it is good to laugh at yourself 😉
The photo was taken in the lobby of the Belk Theater at intermission. And yes I had enjoyed a glass of wine before the photo 😉
The scene is of the Belk Theater at 130 North Tryon. Following is a link to a previously shared photo taken from outside the Belk Theater which is part of Blumenthal Performing Art.
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Easter dining options from Phil Vettel
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It comes with many more useful features like multiple user profiles, chrome cast, incognito mode and the reason I like Chrome more than any other browser is it comes very handy for web developers like me because of developer tools bundled with it.
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How do I get the Best Digital Exposure?
The aperture of a lens controls the amount of light that strikes the camera’s sensor. Shutter Speed controls how long the camera shutter is open for. Aperture and Shutter Speed work hand in hand to determine the amount of exposure the image gets. A slow shutter speed of ¼ of a second requires a smaller aperture to give the same amount of exposure as a fast shutter speed of 1/125 of a second.
This controls the depth of field (DoF) which is the area in front of and behind the subject that is in focus. For a portrait you want a narrow DoF which serves to emphasise the subject. Conversely a much greater DoF in needed for a landscape shot.
Shutter Speed
This control is used creatively to give a sense of movement or speed to a shot. A fast running stream shot using a slow shutter speed (1/4 of a second) will cause the water to become a white blur so imparting a sense of movement to a still image. A technique known as panning is used to create a sense of speed. This involves holding a fast moving subject in the viewfinder and following it by swing the body. It keeps the subject clear and blurs the background so creating the sense of speed.
How do you know that you have got the best exposure?
OK. Pin your ears back, fasten your safety belt and get ready for some thought shifting stuff. You need to find the Histogram setting for your viewfinder, turn it on and keep it on! The best digital negative does not necessarily look excellent on your LCD screen. It is certainly not the one that you get using the spot metering. The best digital negative is the one that contains the most digital data. The more data captured the more that a final print can be produced that is of greater quality, exhibits less noise, and has more impact. This is what the histogram shows you.
So what is the Histogram? It’s a very simple graph. It shows the light value in the scene you’ve just captured at the exposure values you’ve captured it at. The far left shows shadows plunged totally into darkness. The far right shows the highlights that have no details, which are totally burned out to white. Between these extremes are all the tonal values from black to white.
How do you determine the best digital negative? The right half of the histogram is able to store more data in it than the left half, a lot more data. And the right quarter of the histogram, much, much more than the other three combined. There isn’t much information at all in the dark areas. So you want a histogram that is weighted to the right but which shows information trailing off to the left.
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Unit 5: Activity 3
Do you think a school-wide movement around Learner Agency is possible with your guidance? Here is a worksheet for your team as you discuss ideas to work together to build support for all levels. Bring these ideas to your team, your PLC, your admin or whomever you feel is the right group of people to make the dream a reality at your school. You will feel the culture of the school dramatically change.
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@ Fritz : (23 May 2018 - 02:19 PM) @Ive I am sorry if my comment offended you this much.
I meant no harm, it was merely a suggestion nothing else.
@ Ive : (23 May 2018 - 01:48 PM) @Stark.420 your wrong. We respect each other (of course there are exeptions, like always:/) but when I read 333rd message: "demo is dead come full".... just stop bother us, we dont want to .. kurwa years going on and we still stick to demo so maybe we are ok with this level of activity. Besides full and demo isn't same game. We play demo, you play full. We don't go to full forums to cry: full isn't active enough, but you DO! You come to demobase ONLY to cry demo is dead (lies) and we all NEED to move on full. You guys don't make sense at all. So next time when u wanna cry full isn't that active as it should be PLEASE don't interfere it with demo. Greetz.
P.S. I strongly recomend all players from full should move to demo because full isn't active enough and we should all play one game. Demo clearly is better so.. See you all on hitmans.
@ Stark.420 : (22 May 2018 - 03:15 PM) see this is the perfect example of the remainders of demo, i dont need to explain myself. @Ive
@ Ive : (22 May 2018 - 02:47 PM) yesss ppl used to talk about u like this: no ppl for mix he doesn't count
@ Fritz : (22 May 2018 - 06:15 AM) Haha I am glad that you know me - everyone knows me ;)
@ Ive : (21 May 2018 - 02:12 PM) ohhh what a shame :)) I know u very well fritzgaylord with ping > 300, every time we played against each other u lose
@ Fritz : (21 May 2018 - 11:17 AM) Ive, I have never heard of you before and I have played this game since 2010. You are either very noob or a nobody, either way stfu
@ Ive : (21 May 2018 - 08:36 AM) Fritz, full sucks as hard as u.
@ Fritz : (21 May 2018 - 02:01 AM) and also do you guys play demo, full or gold?
I would encourage you to come to FULL
@ Fritz : (21 May 2018 - 01:55 AM) @Mokap bring the brasil community to demobase
@ Ive : (18 May 2018 - 12:46 PM) @Stark.420 I think we play against each other not vs noobs
@ Stark.420 : (17 May 2018 - 04:11 PM) A bunch of biased friends that only fight noobs dont count @Ive
@ Mokap : (17 May 2018 - 03:29 AM) Sof2 is not dead! True, many players are coming back. http://sof2brasil.rf.gd
@ Ive : (15 May 2018 - 02:59 PM) @Fritz Demo isn't dead, every evening ppl play on tea hitmans but u don't realize it even in next 10 years that we are not interested in moving to game that we don't like same for old players/
@ Fritz : (14 May 2018 - 11:16 AM) the demo game is dead but the full one is not, everyone should come back !
@ Fritz : (14 May 2018 - 11:16 AM) Sof2 Full is not yet, we mix at least once a day! I encourage you all to come and see what its like!
@ Stark.420 : (10 May 2018 - 06:00 PM) Is sof2 demo dead yet?
@ sndkz : (09 May 2018 - 03:01 PM) busted
@ Fritz : (09 May 2018 - 02:29 PM) Hi @ deleted, it is wallhack more than clearly. The arm and leg are both past the wall in which we can see clearly, that he can see behind the wall.
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verb (used without object), plead·ed or pled, plead·ing.
1. to appeal or entreat earnestly: to plead for time.
2. to use arguments or persuasions, as with a person, for or against something: She pleaded with him not to take the job.
3. to afford an argument or appeal: His youth pleads for him.
4. Law.
1. to make any allegation or plea in an action at law.
2. to put forward an answer on the part of a defendant to a legal declaration or charge.
3. to address a court as an advocate.
4. Obsolete.to prosecute a suit or action at law.
verb (used with object), plead·ed or pled, plead·ing.
1. to allege or urge in defense, justification, or excuse: to plead ignorance.
2. Law.
1. to maintain (a cause) by argument before a court.
2. to allege or set forth (something) formally in an action at law.
3. to allege or cite in legal defense: to plead a statute of limitations.
Origin of plead
1200–50; Middle English plaiden < Old French plaid(i)er to go to law, plead < early Medieval Latin placitāre to litigate, derivative of Latin placitum opinion. See plea
Related formsre·plead, verb, re·plead·ed, re·plead·ing.un·plead·ed, adjective
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1. beg, supplicate. 2. reason. 5. claim.
Examples from the Web for repled
Historical Examples
• “Better luck next time, missus,” repled I, wiping my eyes with the back of my hand.
Jacob Faithful
Captain Frederick Marryat
• "I never think: I scorn the imputation," repled Vincent, with a look of assumed disdain.
British Dictionary definitions for repled
verb pleads, pleading, pleaded, plead (plɛd) or esp US and Scot pled (plɛd)
1. (when intr, often foll by with) to appeal earnestly or humbly (to)
2. (tr; may take a clause as object) to give as an excuse; offer in justification or extenuationto plead ignorance; he pleaded that he was insane
3. (intr often foll by for) to provide an argument or appeal (for)her beauty pleads for her
4. law to declare oneself to be (guilty or not guilty) in answer to the charge
5. law to advocate (a case) in a court of law
6. (intr) law
1. to file pleadings
2. to address a court as an advocate
Derived Formspleadable, adjectivepleader, noun
Word Origin
C13: from Old French plaidier, from Medieval Latin placitāre to have a lawsuit, from Latin placēre to please; see plea
Word Origin and History for repled
mid-13c., "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French pleder, Old French plaidier, "plead at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum (see plea). Sense of "request, beg" first recorded late 14c. Related: Pleaded; pleading; pleadingly.
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1. lacking tact; showing no tact; undiplomatic; offendingly blunt: a tactless remark.
Origin of tactless
First recorded in 1840–50; tact + -less
Related formstact·less·ly, adverbtact·less·ness, noun
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rude, inconsiderate, thoughtless, brash, boorish.
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• Mrs. Brereton wondered in her own mind where Maud could have got her tactlessness from.
Scarlet and Hyssop
E. F. Benson
• And, as the just reply to tactlessness is truth, also tactless, he let Evelyn have it.
The Angel of Pain
E. F. Benson
• But they were used to tactlessness from Willie, and they merely winked mutually.
• It was evident that such a state of affairs portended something more serious than tactlessness or mismanagement.
Wounded and a Prisoner of War
Malcolm V. (Malcolm Vivian) Hay
• His isolating and aggressive pride engendered a tactlessness which often spoilt any chances of advancement that came his way.
Word Origin and History for tactlessness
1847, from tact + -less. Related: Tactlessly; tactlessness.
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Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Is Evolution a Theory or a Fact?
It is both. But that answer requires looking more deeply at the meanings of the words "theory" and "fact."
In everyday usage, "theory" often refers to a hunch or a speculation. When people say, "I have a theory about why that happened," they are often drawing a conclusion based on fragmentary or inconclusive evidence.
Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the Sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics). Like these other foundational scientific theories, the theory of evolution is supported by so many observations and confirming experiments that scientists are confident that the basic components of the theory will not be overturned by new evidence. However, like all scientific theories, the theory of evolution is subject to continuing refinement as new areas of science emerge or as new technologies enable observations and experiments that were not possible previously.
One of the most useful properties of scientific theories is that they can be used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed. For example, the theory of gravitation predicted the behavior of objects on the Moon and other planets long before the activities of spacecraft and astronauts confirmed them. The evolutionary biologists who discovered Tiktaalik predicted that they would find fossils intermediate between fish and limbed terrestrial animals in sediments that were about 375 million years old. Their discovery confirmed the prediction made on the basis of evolutionary theory. In turn, confirmation of a prediction increases confidence in that theory.
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Concept of Cost of Capital
Cost of capital is one of the corner stones of the theory of financial management but it is a controversial topic in finance. And at the same time it provides suitable guidance for the formulation of capital .’structure of the firm. In the present fmancial world, it is used as a sophisticated technique of evaluating the profitability of capital investment proposals and also to examine the alternative sources of capital. In order to meet out the modern financial decision making process, in this chapter, it is proposed to discuss the concept and implications of the firm’s cost of capital, procedure for the measurement of different sources of capital and also to explain its uses.
The term cost of capital is the rate of return a firm must earn on its investment for the market value of the firm to remain unchanged. From the company’s point of view, cost of capital is the measurement of profitability of investments and a yardstick to decide whether to make investment in particular project or not.
(i) “The cost of capital is the minimum required rate of earnings or the cut-off rate
for capital expenditures”. -G.C. Philippatos
(ii) “The cost of capital represents a cut-off rate for the allocation of capital to
investment of projects. It is the rate of return o n a project that will leave unchanged
the market price of the stock” – james C. Van Horne
(iii) “In a general sense, the cost of capital is any discount rate used to value cash
streams”. -Haley and Schall.
From the above definitions, it is clear that the cost of capital is otherwise called as cut
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I've heard of that Kytb and before I ever buy a kayak I'll have to try just
that to see if the seating arrangements even allow me to cast.
So far I haven't found a place near me that rents kayaks so I'll have to go
to the coast I guess...guess I'll have to fish a lagoon or two while I'm there too !
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Website Background Patterns – 2nd Pack
Sometimes website backgrounds are no less important than foregrounds. To tell you the truth, you can get away with small design flaws if you have a really good background covering the website screen. This is because a website background provides the environment or surroundings in which a website is presented to its audience. That makes these web backgrounds a very important web design element.
You may recall that I had shared with you a pack of website background patterns a couple of months ago. This post is in continuation of that earlier post. Today I’m going to share another pack of website background patterns.
These website backgrounds are absolutely free. You can download these psd files and customize these patterns according to your design requirements and tastes.
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A perfect PSD for me to convert it in CSS3, thanks for your share, I just made it in CSS3
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can the items in this website be included in sold items like website templates freely?
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September 05, 2008
with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were
growing up; what with walking twenty five miles to school every morning
... uphill both ways
yadda, yadda, yadda.
And I remember promising myself
that when I grew up,
got it.
can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it
so easy ... I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia.
I do really hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've
got it. I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The
the card catalog.
There was no email - we had to
actually write somebody a letter with a pen.
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and
put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week
to get there.
There were no MP3's or Napsters.
You wanted to steal music, you had to
hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it
yourself. Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the
DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @*% it all up.
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting. If you
And we didn't have fancy Caller I D Boxes
either. When the phone rang, you
had no idea who it was.
It could be your school,
just didn't know.
You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister.
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution 3-D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With games like Space Invaders and Asteroids. Your guy was a little square.
You actually had to use your imagination.
And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever. And you could never win.
The game just kept getting harder
and harder and faster and faster until you died.
Just like LIFE.
When you went to the movie theater there no such
thing as stadium seating. All the seats were the same height.
If a tall guy or some old broad with a
hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you
were just screwed.
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that
control. You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was
You were screwed when it came to channel surfing.
You had to get off your ass and walk over to the
TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon
Network either.
You could only get cartoons on Saturday mornings.
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled.
You guys wouldn't have lasted five
minutes back in 1980.
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2,922 DAYS
It's over. Really, it's over.
Numerous times over the past eight years I have discussed the concept of "Outrage Fatigue," the Bush administration's purposeful effort to bury the nation under such an avalanche of cronyism, malfeasance, deception, disregard for the rule of law, and brazenly stacked bullshit that we would simply accept it as the natural state of affairs. Previous presidents found out the hard way that a scandal can cripple an administration. Bush's lasting contribution to the presidency was the discovery that, as animals herd together so that predators cannot target any single member, piling 1001 scandals on top of one another negates the damage any one could cause.
I tried to get up the nerve for a retrospecticus of two terms of this administration of nitwits and thugs. Suffice it to say that like the rest of the nation I am simply sick to death of George W. Bush and everyone associated with him. Once again I think back to the words of the famous epilogue to the Lincoln assassination once the conspirators were executed. The Evening Star noted, "In the bright sunlight of this summer day the wretched criminals have been hurried into eternity…We want to know their names no more." That is the entirety of what Americans want from this administration, this (now ex-) president: to go away. Go away and never be heard from or seen again. Get out of our sight while we attempt to put band-aids on the gaping wounds left by eight years of willful negligence and thundering incompetence. We never want to look at any of the Bush inner circle again unless they are seated next to a team of defense attorneys and attempting in vain to testify for their legal freedom.
In lieu of a retrospective I tried to think of the quintessential Bush moment, the single image or anecdote which can be used decades from now to summarize the experience of living in Bush's America. That is a tall order. Eight years is a long time. I dare you to think over those years and try to remember every disaster, scandal, and legal subterfuge wrought by this administration. No single example can encapsulate everything that happened, but I humbly submit the following as the quintessential Bush Presidency moment: the testimony of Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, and Sara Taylor in the DoJ scandal. That scandal itself is unlikely to be historically relevant, but that testimony…holy shit.
What better sums up the past eight years than Sara Taylor, who went from VP of the College Republicans to White House Political Director in the span of 3 months, testifying about her oath of loyalty to the President? Who better represents the kind of people Bush appointed to run the most powerful nation on Earth than Monica Goodling, the vacuous, unqualified hack from Pat Robertson University whose deer-in-headlights testimony looks more like an SNL skit than historical reality? But if I have to pick one single moment it has to be Alberto Gonzales with that idiotic oops-I-shit-my-pants smirk on his face testifying about all of the things he didn't recall (hint: everything)
I don't really have to stick to a single example, do I? Because the time he denied that the Constitution grants the right of habeas corpus (nearly blowing Arlen Specter's jowls off in the process) is pretty awesome too:
This sole example doesn't provide substantive information about everything that went to hell over 2,922 days, but when I need to show my kids (or more realistically my students) the five minute version of 2000-2008 I will use these videos and say, "These are the kind of people who were in control of the largest and most powerful government in the history of the world." And that, as improbable as it may seem, says it all.
(chime in if you think there's a better Bush-in-nutshell moment)
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Hey did anyone notice – or pause to consider, as it takes very little thought to figure out – what the real Message is in that "Mother scolds and smacks her son for participating in Baltimore riots" viral video? As America's white people celebrate their mental image of what black people should do (in this case, raise children who will Know Their Place) the woman stated, "That's my only son and at the end of the day I don't want him to be a Freddie Gray."
In other words, it's not Good Parenting finally on display from Those People. It's another black American trying to teach her son the lesson that in this country the police will kill a black male in this country for looking at them funny. It's a woman trying to teach her son the lesson that you can't stick your hand in an alligator's mouth, not someone who is worried about the alligator.
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July 21st Letter to the Bankruptcy Judge From IBM
Monday, August 10 2009 @ 01:18 PM EDT
A July 21st letter to the judge from IBM has just shown up in the docket:
08/07/2009 - 894 - Letter dated July 21, 2009 from Richard Levin, Esq. to the Honorable Kevin Gross Filed by Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. (TAS) (Entered: 08/10/2009)
08/09/2009 893 BNC Certificate of Mailing. (related document(s) 892 ) Service Date 08/09/2009. (Admin.) (Entered: 08/10/2009)
This is the famous letter referenced by the judge in his responsive order, where IBM tells the judge all the difficulties it was having with SCO and discovery. In it IBM tells the judge that SCO agreed that there should be no mini-trial of the external SCO litigations in bankruptcy hearing. But you know how well they stuck to that. Not so much. And interestingly, there is a list of witnesses. And when you read the list, ask yourself, was it factually true what SCO's lawyer said at the hearing that their witnesses cut and ran off when they were subpoenaed? I see only one name that didn't show up, when I compare the two lists, William Broderick.
At the hearing, Spector said this:
SPECTOR: ... We had other witnesses. They didn't show up. I won't even go into the side story about that. I got subpoenas and they disappeared. And so things had to change.
He is the master of whine. But was that true? Witnesses?
The list of witnesses in the IBM letter, as of the July 21st letter are the following six: Darl McBride, Ryan Tibbitts, Willaim Broderick, John Hunsaker, Ken Neilson, and Rene Beltran. Perhaps Mr. Spector means these folks who were subpoenaed by IBM? Rene Beltran is on the list, but he didn't run. IBM had also subpoenaed the following: Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Norfolk and Chad Kemp. But I don't think they were SCO witnesses, but rather rebuttal witnesses if SCO called David Dickerson, the CACI contractor who had said how the military can't live without OpenServer. He was not subpoenaed, but SCO didn't list him as a witness either. The only other subpoena we know about is the one to unXis, and the newly surfaced letter indicates that it was IBM that called Norris to the hearing.
So where are all the witnesses that ran away after getting a subpoena? Yoo hoo. Mr. Broderick. Judge Kevin Gross ordered that both Ryan Tibbitts and William Broderick had to submit to depositions. And I see no mention of him at the hearing. So, by my simple calculation, he seems to be the missing link, if there actually is any truth in what Mr. Spector told the judge. Anyone see it differently?
Mr. Broderick is not unknown to us, of course. In SCO's Reponse to the three motions to convert, SCO lists him in a long narrative about how the appeal is so sure to go their righteous way because of the "strength" of SCO's claims:
Messrs. Frankenberg, Chatlos, Thompson, Mattingly, Mohan, Wilt, Michels, and Sabbath, and Ms. Madsen all testified that Article 4.16(b) was not intended to apply to Software and Sublicensing Agreements.80 William Broderick and John Maciaszek, executives in Novell's UNIX licensing group, specifically testified that Novell used the term "SVRX Licenses" to refer to other agreements that Novell and AT&T used in licensing individual SVRX products under the terms of the Software and Sublicensing Agreements.
Interesting that he didn't show up at the hearing, but couldn't it just be that he had nothing to say after the judge accepted IBM's suggestion, which IBM said SCO agreed to, that there should be no testimony about the alleged "strength" of SCO's claims in bankruptcy court?
Logical. In which case, now how much truth is left?
We can't know for sure, as there could be other witnesses that SCO had in mind that never reached paper, but it looks very odd on its face to me, I must say.
Well, in the heat of a hearing, especially one as long and significant as this one, people can misspeak. So let's be charitable. Then an alternative understanding of his words might be that Mr. Broderick, after his deposition, decided he'd prefer not to show up after all, all things considered. Personally, I doubt that. He wasn't afraid to testify at the Novell trial, after all. So perhaps another interpretation might be that Mr. Spector wanted to paint IBM as a bully, and he saw an opportunity, even though it wasn't precisely true. Did IBM know it wasn't so? Of course.
Ryan Tibbitts showed up, despite being deposed. Here's a sample of the quality of his testimony, from the audio purchased from the court. IBM's David Marriott asked him about his declaration, and asks him if it's correct that Tibbitts describes SCO's claims against IBM, but not the counterclaims, and Tibbitts says it is correct. That is what he did. But, he is asked, doesn't IBM have a number of counterclaims? Tibbitts' answer:
Well, I know at one point they had a number of counterclaims and they dropped many of those. And I don't know if they have many claims left, or one or two, sorry.
Sorry, indeed. Marriott of course pointed out that when describing the case to the court, presumably in an effort to demonstrate the alleged potency of SCO's claims, Tibbitts neglected to mention the counterclaims at all, which number six. Friends, believe it or not, SCOfolk at the hearing tried to tell the judge that IBM's counterclaims would result in no damages at all, or maybe just attorneys' fees. Here's what Spector tried to say:
IBM has a claim they say that you've heard testimony and it's been valued by their own people at zero. They don't have -- all it is is an attorney's fees claim is all it is.
Can you believe it? Of course, Mr. Marriott leaped to his feet:
MARRIOTT: Your Honor, I would object to that characterization of the value of the claim by their own people. That's absolutely untrue, and it indicates there's no evidence in the record, but have their own people, whatever that means value the plan.
SPECTOR: I thought there was evidence about an expert report saying there were no damages except for the attorney's fees.
MARRIOTT: And expert report in which Mr. Tibbitts said he didn't really have a great recollection about what it said. That's not the same thing as testimony as to what it says. And I'm happy to make a proffer as to what it says if and when the Court wishes to hear that.
SPECTOR: Well that's why I was ... I thought there was something in the record about it. I'm trying not to go out of the record.
JUDGE GROSS: I don't think there was anything. I know there's nothing in the record on that issue.
So first Tibbitts gives his interpretation, and you just saw his "interpretation" of the number of IBM's counterclaims, and then Spector tries to use it in summation as if it were something IBM's own side had acknowledged. Marriott, as you see, was not afraid to call a spade a spade. "That's absolutely untrue." And he makes an offer to introduce a proffer, showing the court what the expert report really says, as opposed to the Tibbitts version of what he recollects, or says he recollects, and offer which is not, I notice, accepted. Because it's "absolutely untrue" that there are no damages. The Lanham Act damages alone plus the GPL violations... well, it's potentially massive, I'd say.
This gives you a taste of the day's testimony from those who did show up.
Here's a general question I'll throw out there. Is it actually winning, if the only way to win in a court of law is to say things that are absolutely untrue?
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1. To The Unknown Man [9:02]
2. 12 O'clock [5:25]
3. Bacchanale [4:38]
4. Pulstar [5:48]
5. Beaubourg (excerpt) [10:35]
6. Dervish D. [5:13]
1. Spiral [6:55]
2. Alpha [5:45]
3. Albedo 0.39 [4:22]
4. A Way [3:35]
5. Theme From "Cosmos" Heaven And Hell, 3rd Movement [4:03]
6. So Long Ago So Clear (with Jon Anderson) [5:03]
7. Ballad [8:26]
8. Sword Of Orion [1:56]
All compositions by Vangelis except CD2 track 6 by Vangelis and J. Anderson
Arranged, performed and produced by Vangelis Excellent 2 disk compilation of inspiring classical, electronic and some rock.
For the most part better than original Cosmos LP.
Biggest pluses: Much greater length than original. Much better mixing. Drawbacks that keep this from rating a 5: Liked the mix of the Vangelis song Heaven and Hell from the original better than on this CD; sound effects between tracks annoying as they were in original; I agree with another reviewer that Aquarius track is annoying, but not that it doesn't fit, the song WAS in one of the Cosmos episodes (the one discussing so call astrology and the birth of astronomy), and the album is called Cosmos, meaning it covers life, the universe and everything to quote Douglas Adams.
Unknown Judging from the tracks on this double CD, I would say that this is a re-issue of the long gone 'To The Unknown Man' LP's RCA released in the early 80's as Volume 1 and 2 respectively!
This shows Vangelis' classic fusion of electronics and acoustic instrumentation with tinges of jazz, classical, rock and romanticism, pure and unmistakable when he was at his best, this double CD would a good start to anyone who is just new to Vangelis, unlike myself... I heard 'Heaven & Hell' when I was just 8 years old!! and a good few other EM artists around the mid 70's as well. Of course Vangelis has gone all classical on us, what a shame!!
2003. Dave / UK
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[ "Back to Berlin" is the title of the 11th edition of Raudio's mainstream. It contains extracts of the tapes found in Berlin, some isolated oddities and parts of the synth recording I made when visiting Berlin way back in 1984. All is centered around "Kentucky Freedom Chicken - The Master of Germany", a selection of several hundreds of extracts taken from the about 18 hours of field recordings that I made during and around das kleine field recordings festival in Berlin (monophonic using my dictaphone, and stereo on an MD recorder), between february 6th and february 13th of 2007 ... Now listen to this ... ]
april 25, 2007.
[ acoustic flux ] [ sonanismo ] [ bergsonian flux ] [ fifty2 ] [ magnetic {eye} ]
The very last couple of days of march I again spent in Berlin, to attend the finissage, on saturday 31st, of the Acoustic Flux exhibition in Kunstprojektraum Takt, the opening of which, in february, I had missed. I used this second short stay at Takt's to prepare a next acquisition in the Found Tapes Exhibition, nr. 71, which meanwhile has been put online.
It also gave me a chance to see, and hear, the other works on show, and spend some fun time with one of the other artists having work on show, Neil McIntee, from Dundee, Scotland.
neil mcintee Neil called his work the Electicfluxmachine. With two piezo's he picked up the continuous electric hum of the large fuses- switch- and meter-box, in the back of the gallery, amplified the sound, and altered it with a set of electronic delays and filters. An extremely simple, but effective set-up, that worked very well within the gallery's space, where the machine's output due to the reverberation and reflections of the room gave rise to fields of sound through which one could move almost as if it were through some thin wavy liquid. On the evening of the finissage he mixed the machine's output with a shuffle play of the found tapes exhibition's playlist.
Along with the found tapes that could be played on a crummy radio cassette/CD player, Neil's work was the only one that actually sounded in the Takt space. The two other pieces were meant to be experienced in private. With headsets.
Alexandre Decoupigny's installation Town Country House (subtitled "a virtually real soundwalk") is a spatial projection of four 'phonographs', four field recordings, through which one can walk - as it were from 'town' into 'country' and on into 'house' - wearing a set of wireless headphones, and going along a straight line in the direction of an ultrasonic sensor detecting the direction, speed and distance of your body moving; and, of course, the sound 'projected' then is adjusted accordingly. An amusing way to experience a 'changing soundscape', which makes one wonder whether it would be possible to extend the principle to other movements, for example in a plane, in two dimensions, enabling one to walk along a vast 'surface of sounds'. That might open up interesting perspectives and potential from a compositional point of view, which in the current version of course remain somewhat limited, permitting none other than transitions between recordings corresponding to adjacent points in a linear order ...
Town Country House Town Country House
sonanismo sonanismo
An intriguing looking hatcap with fourteen small loudspeakers and something like an oxygen mask modeled as a hand containing a contact microphone, are the hardware elements used to make one undergo Sonanismo (soundanism), a collaborative project of Miguel Álvarez-Fernández, Stefan Kersten and Asia Piascik.
Apart from the drawn diagram that also forms the Sonanismo website frontpage, the installation comes without further explanation or information. So I put on the hat, had Marcus switch the thing on for me, and held the mask on my mouth and nose and started breathing (the way Neil's doing in the picture above). I heard kind of a mash-up of rock tunes and sounds, louder to the left than to the right. I tried several ways of breathing - from very calmly to pretty agitated - but none appeared to have much influence on the sounds, that continued to blurt out (mainly) into my left ear. I gave up after some ten or fifteen minutes. Maybe there was something wrong? Some bug? Something not working?
Nobody there to explain. I didn't get to know the artists, though they seem to have hopped in and out of Takt towards the end of the finissage on saturday ...
There is, however, a twelve page article on the Sonanismo, written by one of the trio, Miguel Álvarez-Fernández. It is in spanish ("Del diálogo a la ilusión de control: Procesos interactivos en la instalación sonora Sonanismo"), but with a little help of automatic translators here and there I did manage to get some understanding of the many-layered ambitions of the Sonanismo. The paper's list of keywords may serve for a first impression: interactivity, sound installation, sound art, masturbation, feedback (retroalimentación), hyperinstrument.
From the paper I learned that ('free translation') "the software underlying the installation is keeping track of the tempo of the listener's breathing, by analyzing the information provided by the microphone in the mask, and then relates in real-time the continuously updated 'breathing regularity information' to the rhythmical data of a couple of hundreds of sounds, accessible as a sound archive, all elements of which are in some way or other related to the phenomenon of masturbation: extracts from porno film soundtracks, guitar sounds from rock songs (as tokens for onanism in popular culture), recitation of fragments of Walt Whitman's poem Song of Myself, repeating sounds of animals and mechanical tools (jackhammers, et cetera)."
The program should pick and play prominently in the 'sound hat' a file with a tempo corresponding to the tempo of the breathing ... et cetera. I don't think it ever did for me ... or maybe my breathing's tempo was too ... too ... something ?
Once given the 'masturbation' key, other 'semantic layers' written and/or readable into the Sonanismo installation become more or less obvious. Here is another fragment taken from the paper (in automated Google translation ( * )):
"Between the different interpretativos levels from which this piece can be analyzed, is possible to find in her a reading critical, or at least ironic, with respect to certain typical assumptions of the creative scopes normally denominated like 'digital art', 'electronic art' or 'average art' (scopes within which Sonanismo it can be incardinar easily). Beyond which the own one subject of the masturbation could be understood like one possible appeal to the remarkable endogámico will that it characterizes the diffusion of the practical mentioned ones artistic (since most of the assistants to festivales and samples consecrated to these activities usually are dedicated people more or less directly to those same activities, taking place a peculiar one identification between producers and receivers), the piece also it tries to raise a reflection about concept of interactivity, omnipresent in the mentioned ones aesthetic scopes."
I have nothing against masturbation ambition.
In order to get somewhere, it may even seem essential to be ambitious. ("Especially as long as you have not done anything yet ...!", a former colleague and renowned logician used to insist.) But for the fact that the piece did not seem to work (for whatever reason, me including), and thus ended up coming across as being pretentious rather than ambitious, and as self-indulgent, as auto-referential, rather than as 'smart' and 'critical / ironic' ...
So, "Слава России !" I'd say ...
That's right.
"Glory to Russia !" ...
totaldemokratieDid you know that in Germany one actually is allowed to drink alcoholic beverages from bottles while walking in the streets or riding public transport? Or maybe one is not. But still, everybody's doing it and nobody seems to be taking offense. And on fine warm evenings like those of these last few days of march, you'll come across literally hundreds of bottles of beer strolling along Berlin pavements, being emptied between one and the next party. Doing so in Paris might very well get you arrested, and I remember only recently an Amsterdam tram driver on a late friday evening summoning a couple of youngsters zipping beer inside his tram to leave the vehicle, and refusing to continue his service before they indeed - be it grudgingly - had done so ...
Thus it was that each of us was holding on to a b i g bottle, when Marcus Ahlers, Neil, David Krepfle and myself took the s-bahn up to the Prinzenallee in Wedding on the evening before the Acoustic Flux finissage, for the opening of a show by the moscovian artist group PG, in the Art Laboratory Berlin, a non-commercial art space much like Takt, founded in autumn 2006 by a team of art historians and artists from Germany, Sweden and the USA.
I chatted with at least one of them: Dr. Margareta Tillberg, a most charming art historian from Sweden, who wrote a thesis on the color theory of Mikhail Matiushin (1861/6-1934), russian futurist, painter, musician, theorist ...
"Acoustic Flux ... I love this name," Margareta raved (she had been at a conference on art and science all day). "Today we have been discussing the bergsonian flux, you know, Henri Bergson, the french philosopher, who's talking about flux, you know, the world being dissolved into particles and vibrations, so this is from this particles-and-vibrations theory that came up in the beginning of ... and he has this philosophy about everything being dissolved, you and me being dissolved, into these particles and we're part of this ... flux ...". She ever so slightly but still quite perceptibly shuddered, from her head down to her toes, while uttering that word and tasting each one of its letters: "... f l u x ! ..." and her eyes closed a wee bit more, radiating a knowing smile ...
Was it bergsonian flux then that carried us back to Friedrichshain, where after midnight the party continued in David Krepfle's studio, only to drift on, again several hours later, into a Heavy Metal bar for another parade of ever more vibrating beers and tequila's, waiting for dawn as if it were a Godot ... ? And was it any wonder that I felt somewhat dissolved the day after, on the day of the finissage ... ?
Margareta did not make it that saturday evening to Takt in the Wülischstraße. Neither did quite a few others on 'whose list' we were ... Ah well, there's so much going on in Berlin on a saturday night ... Who did make it, though, were Patrick Huber and Ute Lindner, at whose show in the parisian gallery Immanence we did a Diktat performance early december 2006, and who meanwhile did move back to Berlin.
Magnus SchaeferAlso there was Magnus Schaefer. Magnus writes for Vital Weekly, "an e-mail magazine, which appears 48 times a year and has the latest cd-reviews and news on concerts and festivals". Magnus came to the finissage to get his copy of the Fifty/Fifty box [click his picture to enlarge] ... which sort of reminds me that I should find some time to update the 50/50-pages, and to prepare some more copies to send out ... (Fifty/Fifty continues to be available, so if you would like to get one: shout!).
Magnus reviewed our parisian trio in La Miroiterie, with Philippe Simon, and the Fifty/Fifty, in issue 566 of Vital Weekly, ( ** ) but as you may understand, just writing a review will not get you a complete Fifty/Fifty ... So this was the deal: we would give Magnus a box and a cassette, and he himself would buy the dictaphone to play the tape on, and complete the object; in return Magnus made and send us a fifty minutes field recording / reportage about his acquisition of the dictaphone ... ( *** )
Here's what Magnus writes about it himself, in an email dated april 25th, 2007 ... Much looking forward to actually listening to his recording ....
"ich habe jetzt ein dictaphon zu dem fifty/fifty-tape gekauft, auf dem flohmarkt am mauerpark, 3 euro. ein sehr schoener kauf, insofern es funktioniert, allerdings nicht reibungslos. manchmal kann man kassetten damit abspielen, manchmal nicht. also so individuell, wie ein guter flohmarktkauf sein sollte. das dictaphon ist etwa doppelt so gross wie ein normales, also zu gross fuer die box. es benoetigt vier batterien und wird dadurch ziemlich schwer. das eingebaute mikrophon scheint zu funktionieren, aber der 'record'-knopf nicht.. das schoenste an dem geraet ist wohl, dass es manchmal ein lautes brummen erzeugt (ohne dass eine kassette eingelegt ist), dessen frequenz und intensitaet sich mit dem lautstaerkeregler veraendern laesst. und euer konzert klingt auf tape und mit einem walkman gehoert tatsaechlich viel besser als digital. die aufnahmen selbst habe ich mit meinem geliebten "standard radio company"-kassettenrekorder gemacht. ca. 25 - 30 jahre alt, sehr gross, sehr schwer, etwas kaputt. das (zugehoerige) mikrophon hing aus meiner tasche heraus. die ersten zehn minuten dokumentieren meinen gescheiterten versuch, auf einem flohmarkt in der schlesischen strasse, ecke cuvrystrasse einen walkman zu kaufen. der versuch scheiterte, weil es den flohmarkt nicht mehr gibt. jedenfalls hoert man mich auf meinem fahrrad durch kreuzberg fahren. goerlitzer park und wrangelkiez. der rest der aufnahmen ist dann einen tag spaeter entstanden, ein teil meiner u-bahnfahrt nach prenzlauer berg. der weg fussweg zum mauerpark. flohmarkt. am interessantesten sind wohl die vielen unterschiedlichen sprachen, die es zu hoeren gibt. und insgesamt kommt es dem, was du, harold, ueber die aesthetik von field recordings schreibst, schon sehr nahe."
And then there was Gunter Krüger.
I was very happy to meet Gunter...
In the year 2000 he picked up the debris of magnetic tapes that he came across in the city of Jerusalem, during his stay at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Art there. Between march 01st and june 20th, he collected both cast away audio- and videotapes in the streets of Jerusalem. These found tapes in an intricate manner became - to a large extend - subject, content and script for his video-film entitled Magnetic {eye} - Jerusalem (2002).
And even though you will be able to see and hear what was on the tapes that Gunter found, you will, however, not encounter a single image of cassette- or video-tape, twisted, unthreaded, entangled, broken, or otherwise, in Magnetic {eye} - Jerusalem.
magnetic eyeThe film opens with images of a young israeli in a bar, or club, with loud music playing. He is asked: "Tell me, where can you go in Jerusalem, on a friday evening?" The young man starts summing up some clubs and places, but then adds that, "really, there is nothing going on in Jerusalem."
It is a curious start.
Is there nothing going on in Jerusalem?
In what follows the maker, in 33 short scenes, takes us to 31 different places in Jerusalem. Each of the scenes starts with a black screen. Then the name of a place is indicated: Henriette Szold Street; and a date: 15-06-2000. In the beginning of the film, for the first four scenes, the date is preceded by the indication 'videotape', or 'audiotape': this does suggest that what we (are about to hear) and/or see, is material recovered from magnetic tape found at the indicated spot on the indicated day; this then fades into a short film sequence shot at that same spot. And nothing much happens. Birds are singing. A flag is waving. We hear the distant sound of traffic, voices ... The first few chapters are like moving postcards (videa's) from a deserted suburbia.
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As of the fifth spot (Efratah Street) the indication 'videotape' or 'audiotape' is no longer given. Maybe we are supposed to now have understood the idea, and as of now it should be clear what is the found material that triggered the scene?
We first become aware that there must be more to this city than the detached suburban emptiness that we witness, when we come to a place called Hussein Palace, 20.06.2000. We hear somewhat meditative sounding instrumental music, with an 'eastern air', using acoustic and electronic instruments. One of course suspects these sounds to be part of an audiotape found near there, but the chapter then surprisingly continues with shaky and coarse-grained black and white film footage of what looks like ruins on a hill top. That must be Hussein Palace ... But was this footage found there? Or is it a filmed sequence only made to look as if 'old and found'? Or maybe it was found elsewhere? Then color comes back in, and on the same spot a man is being interviewed, who explains that we are at the site of king Hussein's summer palace, the construction of which came to a grinding halt with the six day war of 1967.
Then there is other 'old and found looking' footage, and the chapter ends with some questions to a girl (maybe the man's daughter?). "Do you know what the name of this hill is?" she is asked. The girl hesitates, then says that she forgot ... We vaguely hear the sound of sirens, and then the music starts again.
For me this was a key moment: there are no answers ...
No answer as to what it is that is being celebrated or commemorated in Gershon Agron Street, and on Za'Hal Square where people are standing still, motionless, while sirens are wailing. And no answers to what is happening there in Jaffa Street, where the police closes off the road, while an officer carefully approaches what must be 'a suspicious parcel' left behind at a bus stop. And no answers even when, for (for the viewer) unclear reasons Gunter is being identity checked at King George V by some ferocious looking police men, who ask him: "How long are you here?" ... "And will you come back?" ... There are no answers ...
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The subsequent absurdity of the three Ibn Shaprut sequences in the second part of the film, instructions on how to set a great cup of turkish Aladin coffee, breaks a lot of the tension built up in the detached, almost abstract, city places sequences, but in doing so they also add to 'the mystery'. Why this sketch? How is it related to the 'Creative Labs' intro, that does look like it came from a found video? The 'sketch' cannot be from a found tape, or can it? And the guy making the coffee, is that Gunter? How is this room, this 'inside' related to the outside 'found footage' spots? Can this be the room or apartment where the author was living during his stay in Jerusalem? Is that why Ibn Shaprut on the DVD's cover does not figure in the list of finding places? Is it a joke?
Magnetic {eye} - Jerusalem traces an idiosyncratic and erratic path through the city, high lighting a spot for no other reason than that (pieces of) magnetic tape were found lying there. It is a random walk with many surprises, and many interesting and sometimes funny encounters between found audio / video and the spots where they were found. (One of my favorites: that at Agripas Street.)
From a technical point of view, Gunter's project also seems to once more illustrate how much more difficult it is to 'restore' found video tape ( **** ) than it is to 'restore' audio tape. Much of the found video footage appears to be nearly impossible to 'track', and its playing back gives rise to not much more than what one might call a 'glitch clip'. Some of these are great, though ... (let me again mention a favorite: Shivtei Yisra'el Street).
I'm really pleased having found out about this work, which of course in spirit is very related to the Found Tapes Exhibition. It also makes me the more curious to see that other early 'found tapes' film that I know about, Lost Sound, by John Smith and Graeme Miller ... to enjoy, and compare ...
[ Unlike 'Lost Sound', you can watch Magnetic {eye}-Jerusalem online, in Quicktime format. And when you like it, of course you support the artist by ordering and buying, for only 15 euros, a copy of the DVD, that comes with many extras: a whole series of additional found audio tracks, a view according to finding place, and a whole series of 'chapters' corresponding to finds and finding spots, that did not make it to the final cut ... ]
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(*) This is the spanish text: "Entre los distintos niveles interpretativos desde los cuales puede analizarse esta pieza, es posible encontrar en ella una lectura crítica, o al menos irónica, respecto a ciertas asunciones típicas de los ámbitos creativos normalmente denominados como “arte digital”, “arte electrónico” o “media art” (ámbitos dentro de los cuales Sonanismo puede incardinarse fácilmente). Más allá de que el propio tema de la masturbación pudiera entenderse como una posible apelación al notable talante endogámico que caracteriza la difusión de las mencionadas prácticas artísticas (ya que la mayor parte de los asistentes a los festivales y muestras consagrados a estas actividades suelen ser personas dedicadas más o menos directamente a esas mismas actividades, produciéndose una curiosa identificación entre productores y receptores), la pieza también intenta plantear una reflexión acerca del concepto de interactividad, omnipresente en los citados ámbitos estéticos."[ ^ ]
(**) "{HARS/SIMON/VAN ALEBEEK - __Trio (3" CD-R by Postcard from Paris)} This is a total lo-fi affair, a 16-minute buzz of frenetic violin playing, found voice sounds, crude tape manipulations and bizarre rumblings. And, yes, it's great. Sure, the energy this must have had live is not captured, since the sound quality is pretty mediocre. However, this intensifies the lo-fi-character of the music even more and thus, rather than being a poor reproduction, it adds up to the existing. Right from the start they go at full volume, with snippets and washes of sound swirling in and out of the mix - or maybe rather mud. Schellinx's and van Alebeek's approach to working with tapes is not so much about radical abstraction, as for example Howard Stelzer's, but they are rather using their Dictaphones as playback devices with possibilities for spontaneously manipulating the sound, while the focus is on exploiting the inherent technical limitations to transform and obscure whatever sound finds is way on the tapes. So, as said, in combination with Simon's straightforward violin-scraping and blurred even further by the recording quality, this makes up for a great piece of lo-fi drone noise.
{HARS/VAN ALEBEEK - Fifty/Fifty (Tape and Walkman by Fifty/Fifty)}
Both Schellinx and van Alebeek turned fifty last December, and on this occasion they played a short concert together, which is now released on tape, in, of course, an edition of fifty. Music-wise this goes in the same direction as the trio recording reviewed above. Voices, singing and talking, found and plundered, play an even greater role, mixed with field recordings, rudimentary electronic noises and snippets of popular music (which I, as usual, cannot identify, although they sound so very familiar) and again obscured and melted together by the overall lo-fi sound. It's nice, albeit without Simon's violin it somehow lacks the upfront energy that was so fascinating about the recording reviewed above. However, this release is not only a tape, but each of the tapes comes with a functioning walkman cassette player (either found or bought second hand at garage sales, flea markets, thrift stores, etc.), and everything is packed in nice, individually decorated boxes. As a concept this is really great. It pushes the lo-fi aspect of the whole affair to the limit, with the inbuilt speakers of the walkmans transforming the sounds even further (at least that's how I imagine it, I only got a CD-R and played it back over the inbuilt speakers of my notebook) and combining it with the poetics of cheap disposable electronics and thrift store finds. (MSS)" [ ^ ]
(***) As we do not want to be accused of any form of favoritism, please note that we will gladly extend this offer to any other reviewer willing and able to publicly let his or her light shine on the Fifty/Fifty release. Please contact us by using the mail me link in the upper left part of this page. [ ^ ]
(****) Early on, when I began picking up cassette tape, I also collected the pieces of discarded VHS and other video tapes that I found lying around; but I gave that up when I found out how difficult and time consuming it was to wind video tape back into a video-cassette and have it play back without messing up over and over again ... I tried once or twice, but then decided to stick to audio. [ ^ ]
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Introduction: S'MORE MARTINI
No more slipping a little brandy into your hot chocolate around the campfire. Now you can "glamp" around with this ultimate, adult version of the universal childhood favorite.
This S'more Martini is the perfect addition to any summer party or camping trip. It's a little on the sweet side so you might want to serve it as dessert or as an after dinner drink.
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Three Olives Chocolate Vodka- 2 jigs
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To make the s'more martini rimmer, create a double boiler by placing a heat-proof bowl over a pan with simmering water and melt the chocolate. Allow the chocolate to cool for 2-3 minutes. Dip the top of the martini glass in the bowl with the chocolate and slowly rotate. Next, place the graham crackers on a flat plate and slowly rotate until the chocolate rim is covered with the crushed crackers. Set aside.
Next, fill the martini shaker with ice. Place three jigs of marshmallow vodka and two jigs of chocolate vodka into the shaker. Vigorously shake until the shaker becomes icy and chilled. Fill the martini glass to the bottom of the rim.
Place 8 mini marshmallows onto a wooden skewer and use a culinary torch to roast the marshmallows to perfection. Place over the martini glass as a garnish.
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you missrd out the opportunity to call it a "smoretini"
looks delicious :P
any idea where I can get marshmallow vodka from?
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Thank you! Try your local liquor store. If they don't have it in stock, they can probably order it for you. :)
You are a cocktail genius and will have to try make a non-alcoholic version of this as I can't drink yet but this looks too amazing not to try
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Thanks! Let me know what you come up with!
Looks delicious, but I dont see gin or vermouth on the ingredient list, how is this a "martini"?
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This particular cocktail is served in a martini glass and is prepared in a similar way to the classic martini. (shaker and ice)There are a lot of non-traditional martini's that don't use gin or vermouth, but the distuinsher is the glass it's served in.
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Macklemore's "Same Love"
I'm a sinner. At least, that's something I believe.
Every week, heck sometimes even multiple times a day, I pray a prayer in church that recognizes that sinful nature and confesses it before God and our neighbors. Then, as one whole body, those gathered partake in the meal that Jesus instructed us to partake in. It's a bit of grace, reconciliation, confession, mercy, atonement, and love all rolled into one mysterious experience that Christians have been sharing together since Jesus Christ himself.
We live in a society where sinfulness is celebrated. In much of the secular world, it is becoming increasingly acceptable to act in a certain way.
The only thing that holds one from acting in a completely "wrong" way is the fear of the consequences of their actions. The world acts within a framework of consequence. In example, if I'm willing to be held to the consequences of my actions...that's something I am totally ok with...then I can act however I'd like. The individual becomes the standard for what is "right." How else is it to be judged? Respect the individual because they are being themselves.
Now, look at this individualism in a different light. From this comes respect for the individual comes a respect for the unique. This, perhaps, is something a bit more modern. If someone challenges the status quo in today's society, they are looked up to for their courage and uniqueness. There was once a time in our society that if you didn't conform to the status quo (either in your very being or your thoughts and actions), you could be tried and killed.
So, to recap: sinfulness is celebrated in our society now because the only standard against which actions are judged is the willingness of the "sinner" to accept the consequences of their actions. That's the secular world. The reason that this is the judging standard is because individualism is the dominant force and uniqueness is celebrated. This is the secular world. This is the world of Macklemore's "Same Love."
Many Christians argue that this is bad. They argue that the standard against which we ought to be judged is God. The closest tangible evidence that we have of God's standard is the Bible. Hence, they argue, the ways of the world ought to be judged by what is outlined in Scripture. Since the beginnings of Christianity flowed out of Judaism and Judaism was ruled by a "Law," they argue that the words of Paul and many other biblical writers ought to hold the world to account. Paul was against homosexuality, they argue. Therefore, homosexuality in the world is wrong. It's unnatural. It's unbiblical. It's just wrong. This is a different language than the one Macklemore is speaking.
Macklemore, in his song "Same Love," argues against the "paraphrasing of a book written 3500 years ago." He argues against a church preaching hate. He argues against the idea that it's a changeable thing. He argues that the "right winged conservatives" are "playing God." The hook of the song says, "I can't change...even if I tried, even if I wanted love, my love, my love, she keeps me warm." The individual wins, here. "Just be yourself," Macklemore raps.
The church doesn't speak that language and it never really has. The church has been in the business of telling an individual that how they act is wrong. That it's keeping them from God. That it's sinful. That they need to change in order to follow Jesus and live into holiness. The church speaks a language of sin. And, now, perhaps more than ever before the world is speaking a language of uniqueness. A language of the individual. A language where the understanding of something being "wrong" is reliant completely upon the individual and their level of comfort with the consequences of their uniqueness. Two different languages.
Because so many Christians today live in the "individual" world and yet still belong to the church, the conversation, the argument, goes in circles. It tears us apart, eats us up, spits us out, and leaves us for dead. The conversation even hurts souls.
How, then, to mend ourselves? Ah, yes. Remember what I said? I'm a sinner. A perpetual sinner. One who (at least) weekly comes before God to confess my own sins before I partake of the grace that Jesus conveys. Sometimes I know my own sins. I'm aware of what I've done wrong. Many times (in fact, probably more times than not) I'm unaware of all of my sins. And yet, not even knowing all that I've done wrong, I come before God routinely to confess and pray for forgiveness. I pray that I may be joyfully obedient. The best part? It's not just me. It's the whole church coming before God for such a task. The whole church coming to confess our sins and pray for forgiveness.
It seems to me that the conversation over homosexuality is not one of just individualism. It's not one of just sin. It seems to me that the conversation in the Christian church over homosexuality is both. It's a conversation over a dinner table of bread and wine, where all at the table confess their sinful nature and are gravely aware of the significance of the meal. They're aware of themselves. They're aware of their brokenness. They're aware of the grace offered to them and the call on their lives to be better.
"I can't change" the song says. "Even if I try. Even if I wanted to."
Well, then, thank God for grace. A trust in that grace might result in a holier community: a community that can understand sin in light of the individual and the individual in light of the sin.
Macklemore is speaking the language of the individual standard. The church is speaking the language of the biblical standard. If we are going to keep this issue from tearing our churches apart, we're going to have to learn the language the other is speaking and figure out a way to understand each other. I bet if we tried it, God's grace would step in and help us out. Then, and likely only then, could rappers stop rapping about how awful the church is and the church could stop condemning people with a speck of dust in their eye.
Grace has got to be the key.
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Movie review: Alternative Christmas viewing
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It's the season of giving, the season of family and the season of sitting for hours in front of the television watching holiday movies. The same holiday movies you probably watched last year, which are the same ones from the year before that, and the year before that, and… you get the point. So, in the spirit of my alternative Halloween viewing suggestions, I give you my alternative Christmas movie ideas. Once again, all of these are available on Netflix, or your local rental store, if you still have one of those.
For those who want a little action in their stockings:
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While my all-time favorite Christmas movie is the original "Die Hard," it has become almost as much of a holiday staple in the past few years as "A Christmas Story." What some folks forget is that another of the huge, long-running action franchises that the 1980s spawned also began at Christmastime: "Lethal Weapon." From the introduction of Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) during a drug bust in a Christmas tree lot, to the smashing of Roger Murtaugh's (Danny Glover) decorated tree by a car entering through the front window of his house, this movie has Christmas coming out its pores. At the very least, a lot of red is sprays into the air. Sure, Mel's gone a little further off the deep end than Riggs ever got, but he's one of those actors who had such a great library of film work behind him before going batty that you are able to overlook real life Mel and still enjoy reel life Mel. Beyond Mad Max, this is the role that most defines him.
For those who want a little mischief in their stockings:
We all remember the rules: Keep them out of sunlight, don't get them wet and, whatever you do, never feed them after midnight. Do you remember, though, that "Gremlins" was set during Christmas? Gizmo the Mogwai was a gift to Billy from his father, something he found in a curio shop in Chinatown. Having these little buggers invade a Norman Rockwell-esque small town during the jolliest time of the year was a stroke of storytelling genius. That just amps up the creepy value so much more than having them invade during, say, spring break. Extra kudos goes to the movie for being one of the two movies Spielberg was involved with in 1984 that are credited for the creation of the PG-13 rating, probably because it taught my generation that things look really cool when they blow up in the microwave.
For those who want a little banter in their stockings:
"The Thin Man" series of movies was to the 1930s as "Moonlighting" was to the 1980s. You had a quick-witted couple who solved mysteries in between bouts of clever, fast-paced dialogue. In "The Thin Man," Nick Charles (William Powell) is a former police detective who retired years earlier when he married rich socialite Nora (Myrna Loy). They have returned to New York City for the holidays and to reconnect with old friends. Clyde Wynant, one of those friends as well as the thin man of the title (people often make the mistake that Nick is the thin man, but it actually refers to Clyde), goes missing. Clyde is also suspected in the murder of his secretary. Clyde's daughter, Dorothy (Maureen O'Sullivan, in a very early role), asks Nick to look into it, believing her father to be innocent of the murder. This is one of the first romantic comedy mysteries, setting the template forever.
For those who want a little neo-noir in their stockings:
Shane Black, the writer of "Lethal Weapon," eventually transitioned into directing with "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," a modern noir thriller that is splashed with a healthy dose of comedy. Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey, Jr.) is a petty thief mistaken for an actor when he crashes an audition while being chased by police for trying to steal a toy for his nephew for Christmas. The producers love him and hire him for the movie. They assign a real private detective named Perry (Val Kilmer) to teach him how to act like one. They witness a body dump, get chased by the bad guys and discover it links to an old flame of Harry's. Black took the classic Philip Marlowe-brand film noir and punched it up with style and humor. The eventual fate of Harry's accidentally severed finger makes it worth watching all by itself.
For those who want a little fright in their stockings:
There are plenty of Christmas-themed horror films, mostly consisting of someone dressed as Santa running around terrorizing innocent civilians. By "plenty" I mean an overabundance. "Black Christmas" is one of the lone standouts that doesn't contain the fat man in a red suit making things even redder. A deranged man takes refuge in the attic of a sorority, tormenting the girls with nasty phone calls before eventually moving on to murder. If "Psycho" is considered the grandfather of the slasher film, "Black Christmas" is the father. With a cast of up-and-coming actors such as Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder and John Saxon, as well as post-"2001" Keir Dullea, it's also an early movie from director Bob Clark, who 10 years later would give us that venerable classic "A Christmas Story." Make sure you get the 1974 version, NOT the 2006 remake.
There you have a small sampling of some of the many alternatives to watch once you've finished the millionth go at "White Christmas" or "Miracle on 34th Street." Happy viewing!
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#45 – Building in Vancouver
January 21, 2018
How much does it cost to build in Vancouver? How does Vancouver differ from other municipalities when it comes to building? How does the building process affect affordability in Vancouver? These questions answered, and more, in this episode of The Vancouver UnReal Estate Show.
My guest this week is the guy who built my house – Shawn Wilson, along with his project manager Pasquale. Shawn is the owner of Northern Concepts, a Vancouver based residential contracting company.
I’ve been wanting to have him on the show for a while now, we I’m super excited to have the both of them as our guests this week.
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Trying to integrate magento 2.0 with a desktop application (i.e the desktop application should be able to create products & download orders) using the REST API.
I am trying to make a 'POST' call to Magento 2.0 token request to get the access token, however I am getting an error while sending the request: oauth_problem=Consumer+key+has+expired.
I am trying to generate the signature using:
POSThttp://xxxxxx/magento/oauth/token/request?oauth_nonce=cyzHawrmnCYz7cJT&oauth_signatu re_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_time
I have been trying to implement rest api.
may be, can i try SOAP if rest api did not work out. really confusing
which is advisable to use? REST or SOAP based
I am using bitnami magento 2.1.. bitnami is like library which takes over of wamp,magento installation as package. is that okay to use or separation installation is best?
Help needed.
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The Control Factor Formula:
C – 2 + 14z = 710Y + 409 430
C – 2 + 14z = 710Y + 409
• C is the high speed pulsed light energy coming to our solar system outside of space and time, arriving at Jupiter.
• -2 is the number of planets Earth is away from Jupiter, the magnetic center of our solar system.
• +14z is the energy stream coming to Earth from Jupiter at a 14° angular.
• 710 is the number of distinct units of combustible factors on Earth which are a combination of earth, air, sound, speed and light.
• Y is the combustible factor of the elements, an essentially unlimited number of combinations of elemental energetic templates that allow any natural combination of elements to exist within our environment, and receive the necessary energy to maintain existence.
• 409 is the number of elements available to us as the molecular structure templates for all these elements are in the outer energy rim of the ionosphere.
This is an explanatory formula. It is a simple teaching tool. The variables represent numbers that are constantly changing. With the proper technology the variables could be filled in at any given moment.
The left side of the formula represents an energy flow coming to our planet, and the right side represents the environment in which we live. We live in an open system that continually attracts energy into our environment to sustain our existence.
The problem is that there are human-made and/or manipulated elements in our environment that do not have a naturally occurring energy signature so they create unrecognizable polarities that cannot be matched by the incoming attract stream.
If both sides of the equation are not equal, then the system is out of balance, and it will strive to find balance until it eventually creates an environment that is uninhabitable.
This formula describes a molecular structure just outside the earth’s rim that is the CONTROL FACTOR that governs the complete particle interchange process of our solar system.
The balanced formula is given as:
C – 2 + 14z = 710Y + 409,
however the current situation on our planet has the formula reading something like:
C – 2 + 14z = 710Y + 430
which is out of balance. The right side of the formula is in a constant state of imbalanced change depending on the volume of unnatural elements on our planet.
Two main technological advances, electricity and radioactive particle production (and the spreading of those particles through explosions, power plants, etc.), are creating an imbalance in this formula. Evidence of this imbalance is becoming more and more apparent. The ozone holes (which continue to worsen), the increase in storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions; the gravitational fluctuations and the sun’s erratic behavior are all indications of a serious imbalance in the system. We will briefly discuss this evidence of imbalance.
The ionosphere is not merely an "ozone layer" or "invisible gases" but it is a rim of pulsing energy that is the DISTRIBUTION ZONE for the energy that supplies this planet. All magnetic fields are sustained through a connection to the ionosphere and beyond, but electro-magnetic fields do not properly recycle the energy they attract so they slowly drain the system.
Electrical power plants are now forming ionospheric energy into electricity at a rate whereby the FEED SOURCE that provides our planet with energy cannot sustain this protective rim, thus ozone depletion is happening.
It is imperative to generate energy from a natural attract-attract principle. People will soon be able to observe the core structure of the electron, then the need to stop generating electricity will be well understood because the effects of electricity will be clearly observable.
The molecular structure C – 2 + 14z = 710Y + 409 governs the conditions within the entire earth system, including the conditions of our atmosphere. As this governing molecular structure is affected by electricity and radioactive particle production, our environment reaps the consequences. For example, storms start as an imbalance in the magnetic field that creates the physical manifestations (tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, etc.) that are attempts to regain balance. The storms will get worse as humans throw off the magnetic harmonies of the earth with more and more destructive technology.
Likewise, almost all geological activity is the result of the earth regaining or re-establishing balance in the magnetic grid. The earth depends on atomic consistency in the elemental vibrations. Humans have created elements that do not occur in nature and then humans spread those elements throughout the system. This radical molecular contamination is far more serious than scientists have realized. The future of our species depends on redistribution or nucleic breakdown of radioactive particles.
The energy exchange between the earth and sun is continuous and largely interdependent. The conditions on earth are reflected by the sun and visa versa. The earth and sun will continue to attempt to purge the system of radioactive waste until a total system reset occurs. This extinction level event is avoidable if humans embrace magnetic energy and clean up the planet.
The variables in this formula (C, z, & Y) represent energies that are constantly changing to keep both sides of the equation in perfect balance. This formula represents a system in motion. The molecular structure (represented by this formula) is designed to keep perfect harmony between the Center Point or KING PIN, around which the total Universe takes its preordained course, and the Earth. The left side is the energy from the Universe coming into our Solar System and the right side is the manifestation of that energy.
The problem is that we are currently experiencing an imbalance of energy on earth because of our technological influence. This imbalance is causing an unwanted change to the Y part of the formula.
The impact of electricity and radioactive particles is now responsible for the destructive distortion of the 710 units of combustible factors. Humans have misused natural forces to create unnatural elements, which are now a major contributing factor to the timing of the DRASTIC EARTH CHANGES that are about to occur. The earth, and the system it is part of, is in the process of rebalancing itself with a pole shift and a series of gravitational/energetic changes.
We will try to explain the formula further:
At this stage of our human understanding this formula serves more as an explanatory tool of the workings of our solar system, compared to a scientific equation for taking measurements.
• C is the magnetic light, in this instance, without considering time and space.
• – 2 is the number of planets Earth is away from the magnetic center of our Solar System, identified as Z or Jupiter.
• +14z is an energy stream coming from Jupiter at 14 degrees°, the 14 being the magnetic light arc as it travels from the magnetic center, Jupiter, to the Earth at a 14° angular.
• The z represents the units of magnetic energy coming from Jupiter to Earth.
• When the left side of the equation is calculated, it ideally equals 710 units of combustible factors; these factors are multiplied with Y. All of the combinations of combustible factors result in the production of 409 elements that structure the Universe.
• Y is the combustible factor of the elements. Y represents every energy polarity or signature necessary for the manifestation and redistribution of any molecular combination. Y helps organize the 710 combustible factors into the 409 elements that make up the physical world.
Everything that exists within our planetary system has a specific energy vibration that keeps every group of molecules together or allows them to separate – these energy vibrations are represented as Y. All elements have a specific energy combination that can be formulated or broken down. All elements are combustible with the right energy field or polarity. The magnetic lock that holds all molecules together can be opened or closed with the proper energy field, and this process does not require heat as we are used to thinking. Of course all elements can be burned with high enough heat, but that is not the kind of combustion we are talking about. The combustible factors can transmute elements into the pre-ordained patterns that are imprinted on their molecular templates or break down the molecular structures into a more neutral polarity. The process is continuous and the number of energy polarities represented by Y adjusts as necessary.
Humans have used destructive technology to force certain molecules to separate and join in a manner that does not naturally occur. This violation of natural law produces drastic consequences that the system must rectify.
The 710 combustible factors are variations of magnetic free energy and are concentrated in our atmosphere. These combustible factors are combinations of earth, air, sound, speed and light and they provide the polarities to form the 409 elements of the physical world. We are not experiencing many elements available to us at this time. Living energy systems on Earth must exist within these combustible factors to operate at full potential. If a living energy system attempts to exist or operate outside of the ionosphere, it will not maintain normal functioning. For example, if humans leave our atmosphere and do not have the appropriate energy field on their spacecraft, their bodies will not function properly. Gravity, or compressed magnetism, is the overseeing force that allows the combustible factors and elements to exist.
The letter C commonly denotes the speed of light in scientific equations. The element light mentioned as one of the factors of Y is not the light identified as "C" at the start of this molecular structure equation. This is important to note. This formula explains how pulsed light particles emitting from the center of the Universe travel to our solar system at variable ‘speeds’ outside of time and space. This formula is primarily concerned with how the high speed pulsed light energy, represented as C, is transmuted into magnetic energy which then creates a speed change that is considerably slower. This formed magnetic energy is captured by our Solar System and is then transmuted into an energy that supplies and sustains our Sun. The light pulses then leave our Sun (and other stars) at about 4 times the speed of light waves (light waves are about 186,000 miles a second). The pulses elongate into waves when they come into contact with something. This formula is primarily for our Solar System. Contrary to popular opinion, Jupiter, not the Sun, should be seen as the center of our Solar System when trying to understand the energy dynamics of the system. To understand the full impact of the formula, it is necessary to look at the solar system with Jupiter as the center.
The presently held LAW of entropy is completely false. All magnetic molecular structures are in a constant state of change forming and re-forming with the action always resulting in 100% efficiency. All universal systems proceed to take their prescribed course of action with pre-ordained precision from the Creator Force, utilizing a process of time during the forming and reforming of structures until ‘given evolution’ results. Yes, scientists have observed randomness in the cosmos, and they believe the events they observe have no order, however, the randomness is not RANDOM. The Universe functions perfectly in a PATTERN AS NEEDED while repeating in a random sequence.
As the scientific community makes advances in the field of magnetic pulse detection, people will be able to monitor exactly how many units of combustible factors arrive here from Jupiter at any given moment, thereby maintaining the Earth’s energy needs. People will observe that the energy from Jupiter is then used by the Earth as needed, and the Earth simultaneously imparts energy to our Sun where it helps to sustain the Sun’s energy that is again returned to Earth. The Earth is the vacuum of our planetary system, the final point where energy is recycled back into the Universal system. The pollution produced on Earth affects not only our planet, but other planetary systems as well. Contaminated magnetic energy travels from our planet instantaneously to other systems forcing other beings to cope with our pollution. We are truly connected to a much larger community than we like to think.
We must stop seeing our Earth as an independent, isolated and non-contributing part of this Universe. We must begin to understand that we can no longer move against nature but we must now utilize the magnetic energy technology being offered for the benefit of the world. We have long overlooked, through greed, the use of magnetic energy, and the time to expand our minds is now at hand because our planet is soon to find itself extinct if we do not.
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How significant do you think the opposition To the war in Vietnam was in bringing It to an end? In a democratic society public opinion is very important, and has a strong influence on actions that leaders of that society take. Because of this the opinion of the public is a major factor in the outcome of events, but how significant an effect did it have on the outcome of the war? Some of the first objectors to the war were people who disagreed with the drafting system that decided who was sent to the war. The media had a large influence on this public opinion especially after a series of filmed raids by the Vietcong into South Vietnam, known as the Tet Offensive, raised the number of objectors. These objectors did have a large impact and this is considered to be the reason that persuaded Johnson not to stand for re-election. The objectors also seemed to be more committed than the pro-war supporters to get their view across and this is shown by the amount of protests held which were anti-war. ...read more.
These beliefs of discrimination were fuelled by the amount of white, rich people who managed to 'draft dodge' the system and miss out on fighting in Vietnam. The objectors were committed to their opinions being acknowledged by others and this is why they had a significant influence in the eventual outcome of the war. Before the 60's mass protests were pretty rare, however, with the improvement in technology it became easier to organise these protests with the use of television and telephones helping to organise these mass demonstrations. An example of this was that in April in Washington DC there was an anti-war protest which included 500,000 people, two weeks later there was a pro-war demonstration in Washington but only 15,000 people were involved. This does not show the proportion of the population who were against the war but it did show that the opposition were more committed in getting their view across. The opposition to the war did make sure that the media noticed them and this brought the point across better to the whole nation. ...read more.
Also there was the innocent killing of many Vietnamese women and children shown in newsreels. The opposition grew when Martin Luther King publicly announced his objections to the war, and the Tet Offensive was a propaganda stunt that worked very well for the Vietnamese as it contradicted what the public was being told by people such us general Westmoreland. The objectors made their point very clear as they were more committed and held more effective protests. The influence and size of the objections were so great that Johnson failed to stand for re-election. It also made Nixon make promises to end the war that he was held to and this led to the overall outcome of the war. I do not believe that the support back home had an influence in the way the Americans lost the war, but it did make them pull out earlier than they wished to. The war in Vietnam was going to be a stalemate as the military strategy used opposed the guerrilla tactics used by the more committed Vietnamese. However, the gradual lack of support for the war caused them to pull out quicker as Nixon made promises to end the war so that he could win the election. David Alison 11PJM ...read more.
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For thousands of years the women of this world have been considered the weaker sex. They have been seen as not capable of doing many things. The media often uses the theme of men overpowering women in their story lines and programmes using poor helpless women victims. The film and theatre make use of this well. The "lady" has always been the helpless maiden in storylines of old films and is still portrayed today in many with little more subtlety. A woman for example is easily used as a person captured at gunpoint where as a man would be the one pointing the gun at her head. For my images I have chosen still images of women in a position of terror at the hands of a man. Each of my three images shows the woman being controlled against her will by a man in either a purely physical way or mentally. The first picture that I have chosen is of a military solider, due to the race of the woman; I think most probably in the Korean or cold war. The solider is crouched upon the floor pointing a gun at a woman's head. The best visual code for this picture in my opinion is expression. Gesture and clothing also play a small part but expression shows the feeling of the people in the picture therefore leading you deeper into the true meaning of it. ...read more.
Her legs however show her determination to beat him as they are positioned ready to get back up again, as if she is ready to run from him. To freedom. The clothes show only a little yet very crucial part of the explanation of the picture. It helps us to understand the situation of these people. The clothes in this picture are torn and dirty showing that they have most probably been outside for some considerable amount of time. Her clothes also seem more torn and destroyed than his he may have attacked her already. When you look at this picture your eyes are first drawn to the arm he has wrapped around her, then to his body and lastly to the gun. There is where your eyes will last look at the picture. My second picture is of a man lifting a woman up by her neck. In this picture there seem to be only two visual codes that are relevant for analysis. The first being expression and the second being gesture, all other visual codes do not seem to affect the picture's meaning. You are first drawn to the woman in the picture due to the fact that she has the larger majority of her body in view. Her expression is mixture of many things including showing some of the unseen actions. She is very scared and frightened because of the fact that she is choking, however she seems to be pleading with an unseen person to do an action that will change the situation. ...read more.
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Climategate: it’s worse than you ever imagined
Last week the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in the UK confirmed that its computer had been hacked. It has also confirmed that thousands of e-mails and other information have been taken public.
The CRU is one of the leading research units behind the theory that increased CO2 is causing global warming (this theory is called anthropogenic global warming or AGW). The released e-mails are extremely damaging to the scientists involved, and, depending on how this all plays out, this incident could end up being the end of the global warming movement as we know it. Some of the leading climate scientists are likely to have their reputations destroyed and some of them could end up in jail. Leading environmentalists, sympathetic to the AGW theory, are warning that Phil Jones, the director of the CRU, should resign and that environmentalists need to be aware how serious this scandal is.
I’ve been following this issue closely since the 1980s. At the time, I was living in Miami and the Miami Herald (where I worked) published a series of articles predicting that Miami Beach and Key Biscayne would be underwater within a few decades because of the melting polar ice caps. Well, it is 22 years later, and, except for a serious real estate crisis, Miami Beach and Key Biscayne are still there and doing well.
I am old enough to remember some climate scientists going crazy about global cooling in the 1970s. In elementary and middle school in those days, we were told that the Earth would freeze up by the 21st century.
Needless to say, given the contradictory nature of such warnings, I’ve learned to be skeptical of climate scientists’ exaggerated claims. For good reason: we now learn that many climate scientists have deliberately been exaggerating for their own political reasons since the 1980s. Back in 1989, Prof. Stephen Schneider said it is necessary to create over-wrought “scary scenarios” to justify action on “potentially” harmful climate change. In this 2006 interview, Al Gore admitted to exaggerating the dangers of global warming because his cause is so sure and right.
The CRU e-mail leaks are only the latest proof that “scary scenarios” are only the tip of the global warming alarmist ice berg, as it were.
So, to sum up: the leading climate scientists, who have been pushing for a worldwide regime to control CO2 emissions, have been perpetrating a fraud, ignoring the scientific method, hiding information, and possibly committing seriously illegal acts. And one of their motives may simply have been grant money. In the words of one scientist, “you should be angry. Very angry.”
I have written about global warming several times. You can read here and here, for examples. In this post I discuss the reality that it is a generally accepted fact that the Earth has not warmed in 11 years. I want to make it clear that many scientists, certainly the majority, are honest, simply curious people trying to figure out the complex system that is our planet’s climate. These scientists have been duped by Phil Jones, Michael Mann and their ilk just as much as we all have.
It is also clear that there was a warm period in the 1990s that was unusually warm by historical standards. It is also clear that CO2 is rising. But as any scientist will tell you, correlation is not causation. The global climate is extremely complex, and CO2 is only one of the factors that may or may not be affecting the weather.
If the people involved in this scandal had been honest from the beginning and stuck to true scientific methods, they would not be in this mess. But they let their political agendas skew their thinking.
The result: there will be investigations, and there will be lawsuits. There is significant evidence that U.S. entities may have also falsified data.
But the good news is that the cap-and-trade bill, which would have caused the loss of millions of jobs in the U.S., is apparently dead in the Senate. Hopefully it will not be resurrected. The other good news is that the scandal takes place right before the climate conference in Copenhagen and should hopefully derail any agreement that will hobble the global economy.
Hopefully this scandal will bring a new era of honesty in the climate change discussion. That is change we all can believe in.
Reminder to commenters: stay on topic, don’t insult anybody and be nice or your comments will be deleted.
About Geoff B.
53 thoughts on “Climategate: it’s worse than you ever imagined
1. By the way, if you want a good web site to keep track of this scandal, the best place I’ve found is You will be overwhelmed by the amount of information there.
2. Here’s a companion piece to your summary, Geoff, from the libertarian reason magazine:
Personally, I’m kinda bummed. I like apocalyptic movies, and was looking forward to driving my own Ford XB Falcon Pursuit Special at breakneck speeds through the Australian outback, followed by Lord Humungus and his vicious gang of post-holocaust, motorcycle-riding vandals.
3. How can I believe anything in this post when it wasn’t published
in a peer reviewed journal? But seriously, I’ll be very interested
to see how this plays out in the scientific community.
4. Mike, cheer up! The way nuclear proliferation is going, you may still get your wish. I kinda imagined you as a sidekick to Tina Turner in “Thunderdome.”
The movies that are looking really stupid right now are “Waterworld” and “The Day After Tomorrow.” Al Gore, Phil Jones and Michael Mann have always imagined themselves as the good guys protecting that atoll that Kevin Costner visits in “Waterworld.” But in fact, they are the “Smokers,” rowing their powerless ship of global warming alarmism in a quixotic quest for the “dry land” of proof.
5. “..stay on topic, don’t insult anybody and be nice or your comments will be deleted.”
Geoff, you are a kill joy. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving.
6. Jack, it’s always important to read the other side, and indeed I have read this and other pieces. Frankly, the desperation on the side of global warming alarmists is pathetic, and this piece does nothing to address all of the issues I mention in the post. You may or may not know that a lot of the people carrying out the fraud are contributors to Realclimate. Some of them will probably soon be in jail, and they are at the very least completely discredited. Many of the comments on this very piece point out how damning the evidence is. Read through the comments.
7. Note that even the strongest arguments the denialists are proposing from the emails don’t remotely invalidate all the extensive scientific evidence. Ice caps are melting. Glacier are melting. This is an attempt to distract by pointing at emails out of contexts and scientists being human and writing unfortunate things in private email (as I think we all have).
Claiming that people will be in jail is ridiculous.
8. I’ve been looking into this somewhat.
The first impressions of various scientists, statisticians, and programmers who have been looking into the computer code varies from incredulous to profane. This group apparently includes one of the CRU’s own programmers who apparently had to pick up the work after some of the original programmers were gone and try to make the software reliably produce output consistent with results had previously been published. He couldn’t.
Regardless of whether the principals attempted to prettify the results, hide the apparent discrepancies between what they had predicted and how nature seemed to be behaving, or attempt to manipulate the peer review process to stifle skeptics and critics, their data and the processes used to derive their conclusions are both irremedially corrupt. Their entire body of work has to be redone, and so does that of everyone who collaborated with them and acepted their resulds.
Whether they were actually guilty of fraud or merely intense wishful thinking, their scientific credibility has been shredded. At this poinrt, it scarcly matters whether they retract their findings (at a huge cost to their scientific prestige, funding, and political influence) or whether they maintain them in the face of what will surely be mounting criticism, (also at aserios risk to their scientific prestige, funding, and political influence)
One of the most elementary canons of true scientific research was expressed by the late Richard Feynman who said “The first principle is that you must avoid fooling yourself–and you are the easiest one to fool”. To that end, he claimed that strict scientific integrity demands that you disclose all your data and methods, including, and even especially, those that do not support your thesis. This, they manifestly failed to do.
9. Clark –
You sound angrier than usual. Not being a scientist, I won’t comment on the science issues. I haven’t read a whole lot on this, but what I did read made it sound like these e-mails weren’t hacked, but instead released by an (anonymous) disgruntled insider.
And yes, glaciers are melting. Except where they aren’t. And the arctic is melting, except when it isn’t (up here in Alaska much is being made of the huge increase in second year ice in the Arctic). As a layman, I can’t really accept the “take our word for it because we’re scientists.” There have been too many time when the vast majority of experts have been in the wrong (for example, in my dissertation research, I came across of lot of stuff in the 19th century where it was often stated that the vast majority of medical doctors agreed women were just incapable of being equal with men intellectually because of the composition of their brains).
Of course, the vast majority of experts have often been right, so who knows. I haven’t been following this issue a whole lot, but I know you have a more scientific grounding on this issue. I’d appreciate something more reasoned from you – you seem out of sorts and rather too angry to me (though it may just be the internet effect).
As for “hide the decline” though – well, IIRC, that e-mail was written in 1999 when there was no “decline” at that point, so I don’t think the anti-global warming crowd gets that point. I’m more concerned about all the other points on Geoff’s list above.
10. Confutus: Yes! Results must be repeatable, which in this case means that someone else analyzing the same data gets the same results. Someone who locks up the data and has unmaintainable code seems uninterested in repeatability. I love the Feynman reference.
Clark: I agree that some of the predicted fallout from this seems over-the-top, but look at some of the non-email documents, as in the Reason article in Mike’s #2. I would be very troubled if the Particle Data Group (for example) used such terrible data acquisition and analysis techniques in presenting evidence of a new particle, and much more so if such existence was being used to bolster support for sweeping changes in global governance, quality of life, and political freedoms.
11. It looks like the comment that I was going to reply to is gone. But I still wanted to let Clark know that I am proud of him. Keep up the good fight. If that is you angry…well…you have much better control than I do.
12. Chris –
Clark can fight the good fight all he wants, but I’m a student of rhetoric, and I can clearly say that that type of rhetoric does very little to convince the clueless scientific layman such as myself. Go ahead and cheer him on and be proud of him. Just realize it doesn’t actually further the debate or do anything to convince people like myself who find themselves turned off by all the doomsday scenarios and attacks that seem to have little to do with the actual issues at hand.
13. I read Clark’s comment as being hurried, not angry, but Clark and I have gone around and around on this for more than two years, so maybe by now he is angry. 🙂
Regarding whether somebody will go to jail, actually not ridiculous at all:
Read this in its entirety. There is incontrovertible evidence that Phil Jones tried to hide and delete data rather than release it under the Freedom of Information Act. He could very well go to jail.
For more about the general legal climate, read below:–CEI-to-sue-NASA
14. With that, my friends, I am hoping to spend most of this weekend with my family. I wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving. I will be monitoring this thread occasionally and will delete anything that violates our comment policy, but otherwise not spending a huge amount of time here.
Eat turkey, eat stuffing and watch some football.
15. Well, perhaps not angry. It was just a different tone then I’m used to from Clark – he’s usually the reasoned/reasonable one who discuss things in detail from many possible viewpoints in order to frame the issues at stake.
But it may just be me or the lack of body language on the net. I’m not disagreeing with Clark – I just was more surprised by the change. I would really prefer a more reasoned response – every time this debate comes up, I feel in over my head.
16. Ivan, from what I can tell, the “decline” that is being covered up is a discrepancy between an indirect (and somewhat doubtful) practice of using tree-ring growth data as a substitute for actual temperature records for periods before the widespread use of the thermometer, and actual recordings since that time. For most of the period when records of both exist, these seemed to be correlated.
However, beginning about 1960, the estimates and the averages of recorded temperatures began to diverge. What Dr. Jones and colleagues did was to splice on the recorded data for the past 30-50 years, because that showed an increase in global temperatures, rather than continuing to use the estimate from tree rings, because that seemed to show a decrease in temperatures. While this may not rise to the level of actual fraud, there is something dodgy about it, especially when the shift isn’t specifically labeled and identified.
17. “Hockey Stick” Michael Mann may be transferring from Penn State to the State Pen. I think the Sun spot theory (low Sun spots this decade) probably are the source of the planet’s cooling this decade.
18. Regarding the legal issues, here is an excerpt from the WSJ “Best of the Web Today” on Nov. 25:
A lawyer writes us that “‘the purloined ‘global warming emails’ suggest several lines of legal inquiry”:
Tortious interference. For researchers and academicians, publication in peer-reviewed journals is important to advancement, raises, grant funding, etc. Wrongful interference with the ability to publish has monetary and reputational damages. If that interference is based not on editorial judgment of worthiness for publication, but rather on protecting reputations, scientific positions, political goals or “places in history” (as mentioned in one email), then it could give rise to liability in tort for the individual scientist and possibly for the university or organization for which he works.
Breach of faculty ethics standards or contracts. Most universities and research organizations have ethics clauses in their faculty/employee manuals and in their contracts with faculty/researchers. If (as suggested by the purloined emails) these individuals cooked data or manipulated assumptions to achieve preferred outcomes, or denied others access to data essential for replication of result that is essential to the scientific method, they could have violated university or organizational ethics standards.
State-chartered universities. Some of these individuals appear to work for state-chartered and state-funded institutions, and might well be classified as state employees (and thereby eligible for generous state benefits). The conduct suggested by the purloined emails might violate state ethics or funding policies. State governments and legislatures therefore might have a basis for inquiry and oversight.
Federal grants. Federal grants typically have ethics/integrity clauses to assure that the research funded by the grant is credible and reliable (and to assure that the agency can avoid accountability if it isn’t). As noted, the purloined emails suggest that data might have been cooked and assumptions might have been manipulated to generate a predetermined outcome. If true, and if the work in question was funded by federal grant, the researchers in question might well have violated their federal grant contracts–for which there are legal consequences. Inspectors general of the grant agencies should be in position to make inquiry if the data/assumptions in question could be linked in time and topic to a contemporaneous federal grant to the researchers in question.
ME AGAIN: This is, of course, above and beyond the obviously illegal course of plotting to ignore a Freedom of Information request and indeed deleting e-mails so you don’t have to comply. See comment 16 for more on this.
19. The fallout from the global warming scandal is spreading.
In New Zealand, scientists were finally able to get at the raw temperature data. This is significant because it is exactly this kind of data that the CRU and others were trying to hide (which is why they ignored repeated Freedom of Information requests). So, it turns out that when you look at the actual data for New Zealand, the global warming problem is much less severe than reported by the government.
20. Ivan,
I am pretty sure that Clark will just ignore me.
As a political philosopher, I am a student of political ideology. That is why I read this posts. They have little to do with science and everything to do with political ideology. My guess is that Clark see right through it. That is why I cheer him on. He is the voice of reason in this discussion. If he is angry, my guess is that it is for good reason.
21. I’m a great believer in skepticism. I’m still skeptical about those weapons of mass destruction we were told were in Iraq.
If the scientists concerned had an actual theory backed by any sort of evidence whatsoever for the divergence, and clearly documented it, that would be one thing.
As it is, the scientists were effectively pretending that the laws of physics changed in 1960 without telling anyone about it, and changed in a way that does not completely invalidate the entire data series.
Financial fraud, perhaps not. Scientific fraud, absolutely. Could a scientist do anything more damaging to his credibility?
It is worth mentioning of course, that questions of personal gain aside, the real issue here is that a trillion dollars here, and a trillion dollars there, pretty soon we are talking about real money. $40-100 trillion dollars worth, based on in no large part on a conspiracy to fabricate evidence and suppress dissent.
23. I was just wondering: what do you think we would find if we hacked into the General Authorities email?
24. I’m sure the anti-Mormons would find stuff that they would claim discredits the church entirely.
Not that the emails would discredit the church, but the enemies of the church would be happy to use whatever ill-gained private communications they could get their hands on, warp it to their own ends, and say, “look, the church is false, and these emails prove it….”
25. In case anybody thinks that the e-mails are somehow being used in an unfair way to discredit global warming alarmists, they may want to read this:
Key graf:
“But the furor over these documents is not about tone, colloquialisms or even whether climatologists are nice people in private. The real issue is what the messages say about the way the much-ballyhooed scientific consensus on global warming was arrived at in the first place, and how even now a single view is being enforced. In short, the impression left by the correspondence among Messrs. Mann and Jones and others is that the climate-tracking game has been rigged from the start.”
26. This has been discussed by Ben and Confutus above, but here is a detailed article looking at the source code used to come up with temperatures that were highly inaccurate. To sum up: all of the data that shows increasing temperatures is highly suspect if not fraudulent. This does not necessarily mean temperatures have not increased (other sources show the 1990s to be unusually warm), but it does mean that all of the IPCC data needs to be redone to be considered accurate.
27. Her are two blog posts I found somewhat informative:
“It is true that climate change deniers have made wild claims which the material can’t possibly support (the end of global warming, the death of climate science). But it is also true that the emails are very damaging.
“I thought John’s point that there will
always be contrarians in any scientific discipline, and that in general it
is likely that the consensus position has more validity than the
contrarian one, is a valid one. Given the recent events, though, it seems
to me that we need to develop methods that can alert us to situations
where the consensus position is faulty. In the case of climate research,
there were numerous such clues that were available five or more years ago
which should have made people look much more carefully at the consensus.
Here are some red flags in the behavior of mainstream scientists that
could be used as prompts for examining more carefully the consensus
(1) Consistent use of ad hominem attacks toward those challenging their
(2) Refusal to make data public. This has been going on in this area for
some time.
(3) Refusal to engage in discussions of the actual science, on the
assumption that it is too complicated for others to understand.
(4) Challenging the credentials of those challenging the consensus position.
(5) Refusal to make computer code being used to analyze the data public.
This has been particularly egregious here, and clear statements of the
mathematics and statistics being employed would have allowed the
conclusions to be challenged at a much earlier stage.
If one believes in the science one is doing, one should be willing to go
to great lengths to engage those who challenge it or fail to understand
it, and provide various explanations at various levels of technical
detail, rather than attempt to discredit others.”
I recall something Ralph Nader once said – that if you are going to fight for some cause, you have to ensure you are better behaved than your opponents. These two posts, both from opposite ends of the political spectrum (I didn’t quote them in their entireties, so go read the whole things, etc.) both sort of (in a round about way) sum up how I feel.
28. From 1990 to 1994, I spent half my time at Los Alamos working in the GeoAnalysis Group, which was part of LANL’s Earth and Environmental Sciences Division. My connections to environmental research continued at Johns Hopkins where I took some courses in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, one of my advisors headed our Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics, and one of the faculty on my dissertation committee was from the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. If anyone not directly involved in climate research should have an opinion on AGW, I should, but I’m undecided. I credit my vacilation to my years studying fluid dynamic turbulence. Perhaps I’ll get around to writing something about this perspective, but for here, I’ll write that it shouldn’t be surprising that some scientists demonstrate the same careerist pathologies found among all professions, even religious ministry.
Even in the circles I worked in through the ’90s, AGW was the focus of little attention for most people. Chick Keller, past director of the LANL Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, was one who thought it was important, and he and others like him are propounding their pro-AGW views in honorable ways, including respect for scientists who disagree with them. One other thought, though AGW is a scientific question, it isn’t just that, since the economic impact of action regarding it would be bigger than health care reform and the finance industry bailout combined. It is silly to think such a thing could possibly be a matter beyond politics.
29. Here’s a nice website that provides links to everything bad caused by global warming:
Which helps explains why I find the global warming debate so odd. Instead of sticking to the science, we get told everything bad in the world (Darfur! Unemployment! Hurricanes!) is caused by global warming.
I don’t know – perhaps hysteria helps build short term consensus, and if we’re headed into a real crisis – well, they might justify it that way. But it’s terrible for building long term consensus, and I don’t like giving too much power to the government.
30. John M, I think it is telling that, in addition to all of the things mentioned in this post, which are many, that global warming alarmists have reacted with complete disdain to easy solutions to the problem, such as seeding clouds over the oceans with SO2. Apparently (I am not a scientist, just an aggregator of information), SO2 will help create a cover that will overcome the increase in CO2. It could cost just a few billion dollars (compared to the trillions that involve turning us back industrially more than a century) to perform this task, yet the idea is completely out of bounds for Al Gore, & Co.
31. One of the most troublesome aspects is the way the CRU, and apparently NASA as well, have been stonewalling about releasing their raw data and disclosing their methods, including the assumptions and methods embedded in their software. The more they do this, the more they convince others that they have something to hide.
This is temperature data. It is not the gold in Ft. Knox. It is not the Crown jewels. It is not copyrightable, patentable, or a corporate trademark. It is not hazardous to the life, liberty, prosperity, or privacy of either the contributors or those who use it. It isn’t a military secret. It isn’t sensitive diplomatic corresponence that could lead to war. It was created by public institutions using public money for public use and benefit. It is not the private, proprietary domain of those who are being paid by the public to analyze it.
The worst that could happen, from the public’s point of view, is that some one else (possibly less competent or honorable) could get hold of the data, and process it using different assumptions to come up with different conclusions. The researchers would then have to spend time and effort trying to prove that their analysis is better than that of those who disagree with their conclusions.
But this is exactly how science is supposed to work.
However, if it should turn out that their own assumptions and methods were sloppy, careless, or scientifically illegitimate, then releasing their data and methods would amount to professional suicide. That’s a very powerful motive for refusing to release them.
I usually stay charitable and neutral on these matters such as this, but at some point, the whiff of something rotten becomes an overpowering stench.
32. According to some of the emails it seems like they’re afraid of having to spend half their valuable time rehashing stuff merely to satisfy the demands of skeptics (most of whom are poor scientists according to them and therefore not worth the effort). I suppose I can understand why they might have an aversion to making some of the data more accessible in light of the above. On the other hand, one really runs the risk of crossing the line into an irrational orthodoxy when closing the door on honest inquiry however impertinent it may seem.
33. If Clark is still monitoring this thread, I would like him to know that I spent about two hours today on Realclimate (the pro-AGW site) trying to read as much as I could about the other side of this debate. There are two threads on the CRU hack that have hundreds of comments, many from skeptics. Now, I think the Realclimate people should be credited with spending hours and hours answering concerns. At the end of the day, I don’t think their answers are satisfactory (to me), but I think anybody interested in this discussion should take a look to see the other side.
34. Here’s the latest: a UN scientist has declared that Jones and Mann (two of the most prominent supporters of AGW and the authors of many of the unflattering hacked e-mails) should be barred from any future IPCC work, at least partly because they have a long history of trying to intimidate opposing viewpoints.–They-are-not-credible-any-more
35. Ivan, I read that today — nice to see a climate scientist with a more open approach. The good news is that we’re likely to see a big change in the closed nature of climate science in the wake of recent events.
It’s also nice to see Revkin being more balanced in his reporting in the last few days. At first, he appeared to see his job as “circling the wagons” to protect Mann, Jones and co, but his reporting in the last few days has been better. I think a lot of people are going from “oh, this is just another stunt by skeptics” to “whoa, we really do have a problem, we should do something about it.” And that’s a good thing.
36. Nice symmetry: for eight years the Bush Administration censored all papers on global warming, and now…
37. I imagine many of the original data sources still have the original records. New Zealand apparently has them, for example. Now all that is necessary is collect them and make a new database accessible and verifiable in a transparent fashion.
38. As I understand it, the loss of original data had been rather reluctantly and mutedly conceded back in August, well before the current flap, but it hasn’t had much publicity. This is embarrassing to the CRU, as it rightly should be. Anyone in law or law enforcment could probably produce multiple examples of where breaking the chain of evidence often means losing the case.
Any long chain of reasoning going from raw temperature data to predictions of future climate is going to have to involve a mighty chain of assumptions and intermediate conclusions.
Without revealing what those assumptions were, no one can entirely trust the the conclusions, as has been demonstrated with a lesser flap over New Zealand temperatures. With different working assumptions, someone else using the exact same raw data but with different assumptions can reach entirely different conclusions. It is those hidden assumptions that need to be made transparent to skeptics and critics.
One thing that the relased material showed was that at some point in the process, the CRU’s data handling, software, and documentation were ridiculously poor and sloppy compared with statistical analaysis and computing techniques that are standard practice in other fields, especially outside the physical sciences. It is not clear what the original data was, nor what was done to it, nor why. Depending on what data handling techiques and assumptions were embedded in the code, it is entirely possible to have good data in and garbage out. It may be garbage that looks very much like what you expected to see, but subtly and seriously flawed garbage nonetheless.
Until there is more evidence, (and I was a bit hasty in my first response) it’s not necessary to assume bad faith on the part of either Anthroponenic Global Warming proponents or skeptics. Simply on the basis of how poorly the data has been handled, though, the case for AGW is not quite as sound as its more committed proponents would like to have everyone believe.
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Consolidate Your Transactions
Hi-When you start listing your monthly income/debts, you may think of consolidating your utility bills as one catagory, consumables as another, car expenses in another, and so on. You won't have as many line items in your transaction list, but it will be easier to look things over. Aslo, another idea would be to keep a manila folders for all your receipts/pay stubs in seperate folders and label them as you did in the transaction list. Inside the front cover of your misc expenses, staple a lined piece of paper so yopu can list all the misc. items you normally would not get a receipt for. Just a couple of thoughts. Thanks...
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Fifty Shades Of Grey: My Years With Elena *Warning - Explicit Content*
'Picture this, an adolescent boy looking to earn some extra money so he can continue his secret drinking habit. So, I was in the backyard at the Lincolns', clearing some rubble and trash from the extension Mr. Lincoln had just added to their place. Elena - Mrs. Lincoln appeared out of nowhere and brought me some lemonade. I made some smart-ass remark...and she slapped me. She slapped me so hard. She then seduced me and I became her submissive for six years.'
And this is my account of what happened.
I drop my head and go to kneel down, but I am stopped in my tracks with another resounding whack to my ass.
"Stay as you are Peachy." She snarls. "Don't kneel, don't turn round, just stand there and take your punishment."
"You want to be a man Christian - start acting like one." Her hand reaches around me and without touching me; she flicks the water dial from warm to cold.
My ass is burning from the stinging blows and I shudder as I start to get drenched in a cascade of icy water.
Well at least it's helping to take the sting out of my ass...
"Stay as you are until I tell you. And in the meantime you can think about your behaviour earlier."
Goddammit what is there to think about? Isn't it normal I should get angry when she spends time with other men, given our circumstances?
I screw my eyes closed. Maybe it isn't normal behaviour. What do I know about behaving normally? Nothing in my life has ever been normal. Even my 'relationship' with Elena isn't normal!
Shit...I feel a double session with Dr. Flynn coming on when we get back...
I feel the water come to a stop and I cautiously open my eyes.
"How's your fine peachy ass?" She whispers from behind me.
"Cold and sore."
"It's still gorgeous and the most glorious colour."
"I'll take your word for it." I mutter.
She tugs on the handcuffs sharply, making me stagger back.
"Don't get pissy with me Peachy or I'll punish you further."
Shit...I don't want another beating...
I let out a heavy sigh and hang my head again. I'm cold, wet, sore and confused.
"Do you have something to say to me Peachy?" Her breath is warm on my frozen back, as I feel her unlock my cuffs.
"I don't know what you want me to say."
"You can start with an apology."
Seriously? Well, if it gets me out of here any quicker...
I shake the feeling back into my hands. "Sorry."
Suddenly her hand delivers a resounding slap to my ass.
AHH! Goddammit!
"That wasn't the most convincing apology."
The all too familiar red mist descends and before I can stop myself, I spin around, grab her hard by the wrists and push her against the cold wet tiles, making her squeal.
"CHRISTIAN! Let go of me!"
"NO!" I snarl. "You want me to apologise? Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry you're married to some asshole who doesn't appreciate you. I'm sorry you've still got to live with him and spend time with him. I'm also sorry I don't like six foot Neanderthal's breathing the same air as you. But most of all I'm sorry we have to pretend we're nothing more than friends, when I want to tell the whole world how special you are to me."
She gasps at my words, then her eyes glimmer and become hooded, her breathing shallow and her skin begins to flush. She is transforming before my eyes and my own body is responding, mirroring her actions. She widens her stance and hooks a leg over my hips.
"You're in control, Christian." She says in a breathy voice as she drops her head. "Fuck me... please Sir."
Those four words are like an incendiary device to my libido. I let go of her wrists with one hand and place my erection at the entrance to her sex. I can feel her wet heat even before I slam into her. She gasps and arches her back off the tiles as I quickly stretch and fill her. I place my arm under her fine ass and lift her off the floor.
"Wrap your legs around me." I breathe into her ear.
She complies immediately. Balancing her lithe body on my slanted thighs, I take the cuffs she is still holding in one of her hands and snap it around her wrists. She doesn't object and keeps her gaze lowered. I move us to underneath the shower head and lifting her up in my arms till just the head of my shaft is inside her, I hook her bound hands around the shower head, suspending her above me and turn the water on. She wraps her legs tighter around my hips as the welcome warm water begins to cascade over us and placing my hands under the curve of her ass cheeks, I begin to lift her up and down my length as I rock into her.
As her head is bowed, my mouth sweeps along her jaw and I catch her earlobe gently between my teeth. She gasps and jerks her head up and I feel her inner muscles ripple around me.
WHOA! Wasn't expecting that reaction! Interesting...
Her mouth is now exposed to me and I take full advantage, devouring her lips and plunging my tongue into her mouth. As my tempo increases, I begin to pound into her - my heavy balls making a satisfying slapping sound against her. I feel her begin to tremble against my cock and I know she is on the verge of climaxing. I pull my head away, let go of her ass cheeks and bending my knees slightly, I take her weight onto my thighs again, as I grab her face in my hands and tilt her chin up, forcing her to look at me.
"Eyes open. I want to watch you come." I pant.
She gazes at me for a moment and suddenly she looks exposed and vulnerable - totally powerless as I have her completely at my mercy. Then her pupils dilate, her eyes go hazy and her inner muscles begin to clench around my throbbing shaft. I grit my teeth to hold on, my eyes not leaving hers, but the sensation is too strong and with one last magical thrust, I erupt explosively inside her as her climax clings to me. With my last semblance of energy, I lift her off the shower head and we sink to the floor.
"Here, take these," Elena instructs as she hands me two tablets and a glass of water. We have been drying off in my bedroom and Elena has just finished massaging baby oil into my ass. Thankfully, it doesn't hurt as much as when she beat my calves.
"What are they?"
"Advil - painkillers. I gave your ass a good going over and these will help with any residual pain."
"Where did you get the cane from?" I ask in curiosity.
"I saw it in a plant pot outside the house when I was unpacking the car."
"So you improvised again?" I ask with a smile.
"Oh Christian...I'm always looking for inanimate objects I can use on you! Now take the tablets."
I swallow down the Advil. "I like it when you look after me."
She smiles softly. "Christian - I'm your friend and your Domme. Looking after you is all a part of that. If you become a Dom, you are obliged to look after your Sub and make sure she is fit, wants for nothing and able to take care of your needs."
"Do you think I'd make a good Dom?" I ask in wonder.
She shakes her head and then smiles. "From what I've seen so far, I think you'd make a great Dom."
I beam from ear to ear and she laughs. "There's still a long way to go before then, Christian. You've only just lost your virginity and there is so much more I want to do with you."
I'm sure my eyes grow as wide as my smile. She leans down and we share a sweet kiss. "It's late. You need to get your beauty sleep after all today's exertions!"
I grasp her chin. "Today has been the best day of my life, Elena." I whisper.
She takes my hand and kisses my palm. "Mine too." She softly whispers back.
"Why did you step forwards?"
"I thought that was our next move!"
I shake the pain out of my foot. As we are going to a dinner-dance this evening, Elena is trying to show me some basic Foxtrot moves so I can dance with her. Apparently she and Linc had dancing lessons so they could schmooze clients in various social settings.
"I don't understand why you are finding this so difficult," she sighs in exasperation. "That's the third time I've stood on you."
"Because I've never entertained dancing like this with anyone! Before I met you, I only really liked Rap music."
She arches an eyebrow. "Perfect choice for the angry young man you were then."
Now it's my turn to raise an eyebrow. "Were? Oh I think I will always be an angry young man deep down, Elena."
She smiles. "Nothing wrong with keeping him under wraps, Christian," she says huskily. "Just as long as you let me unleash him every so often!"
The Sinatra CD changes to the next song. Luckily I'm quite familiar with his music as my parents are fans. Now, if I could just get my stupid feet to co-operate...
"Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away..."
"Well this is appropriate," Elena smiles.
I grin back. "I'd fly away anywhere with you, Elena."
Her smile softens. "I know you would. And hopefully we can find an excuse to do this again sometime." She pulls up straight, adjusts my position then grips my hand firmly. "Now get your head back in the game young man, as I will not be happy if you tread on my toes tonight!"
It has been a magical four days. We have explored the beautiful island - from its Neolithic temples, to its historic fortresses, again built by the Knights of St John to keep out the invading Turks. They were then fortified to keep out their enemies in World War Two. Malta is like a living interactive experience; it's long history just oozes out of its beautiful scenery. I will definitely be coming here again - whether with or without Elena. We have taken long romantic strolls, swam and frolicked in the sea and gone out dancing most evenings. Elena is a beautiful dancer - so graceful and light on her feet and somehow, SOMEHOW I have finally picked up the basics enough so that I can keep up with her on the dance floor. She has turned a gangly, uncoordinated dumbass, into a dancer of sorts. If Elliot could see me, he'd rib me for months...
Then there's the glorious, wondrous sex. If I ever find that little kid who made me ill, I'm going to buy him a lifetime's supply of toys. If it wasn't for him, I'd have never had the excuse to come to Malta and experience everything I have. I have been trussed up, blindfolded, flogged, caned, spanked and then fucked into oblivion on a regular basis.
It's been...AWESOME!
Now here I stand, my hands spread out and shackled to the metal rails of the pool steps, whilst my Domme strokes my erection with one hand and places clothespins on my erect nipples with the other.
"Nrrrmmmm..." I moan.
"Hush now. Breathe through it, Peachy. Focus on my hands and the music."
Ravel's Bolero pumps out from the HIFI indoors, to us outside in the pool. It is early evening and dusk is sending beautiful opalescent colours into the sky - from yellows and oranges to aquamarines and indigos. The first stars are beginning to come out and twinkle in the sky above me. I'm concentrating so hard, that I almost don't notice Elena has replaced her hands...
...with her mouth...
"Ahh! Elena!" I hiss, as her ice-blue eyes glimmer at me. She pushes my trunks down to my knees as she kneels on a step - the lower half her glorious bikini-clad body covered in warm pool water.
Over and over her head bobs as she sucks, her tongue rolling around the tip and back down again. The sultry Mediterranean breeze, the warm water, the beautiful, erotic lilt of Bolero...'s too much...SHIT...
"Elena," I plead desperately. "I'm gonna..."
I come loudly and violently into her skilled mouth. Her hands immediately reach for the pegs and she undoes each one whilst I'm still coming.
I let out an animalistic growl like I have never done before, as the blood travels back to my nipples causing a sweet, sharp, but ultimately glorious sensation to finish off my climax. My head rolls forwards as my body tries to slump, but I'm held back by the handcuffs. Elena immediately unlocks one wrist and then the other, rubbing the life back into my arms as sanity returns. I slowly lift my head and she immediately pounces, kissing me tenderly and with reverence.
"Fancy a beer?" She finally breathes against my lips.
"I'd love one." I grin.
She kisses me swiftly. "You've more than earned it. I'm very proud of the way you handled that." She runs an elegant finger along my lips. "Just a quick re-charge, because I haven't finished with you yet."
She smirks naughtily and then she walks into the house, whilst I feast my eyes on her fine ass. I slink down to the lower steps of the pool and lie back so that my body is pretty much submerged in the warm water and I look up at the stars.
God, I'm a lucky son-of-a-bitch...
I never in a million years thought of myself as lucky. After my shit start to life, I've resented just about everything - even though mom and dad have given me everything I could have possibly ever dreamt of and more. As much as I don't want to leave, I can't wait to get back and see them all. Now my head has cleared itself of a few issues, I've really begun to appreciate them all - yeah, even dipshit Elliot! And of course, I've missed my darling Mia more than anything, despite her daily calls! I can't wait to get back in the gym with Bastille too, I'm feeling so much stronger and all the fresh air, and umm...exercise, has really helped. And I really need to see Dr. Flynn ASAP too. I can't wait to see his face when I tell him I can now take my top off and just about tolerate Elena's touch...
...Where the hell is she by the way? How long does it take to fetch a couple of beers?
I hear footsteps and twist to greet her with a wise-ass remark, but my mouth gapes open. Elena stands by the patio doors, wild-eyed and ashen-faced and standing next to her... Linc.
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Why so serious?
A girl wants to be a killer, she meets the joker when she was younger and he makes her do something that will change her life.
See will soon pick if she is truly good or bad maybe both!
2. pistol
I look over the lights of gotham. I surprisingly forget a lot from 2 years ago when I killed the bastard who killed my family. The clown, joker, who made me do it even if I wanted to do it, he took my arm and brand me to his lair. Soon enough the batman came and "saved" me.
I guess I'm half bad half good. I'm like catwomen, sometimes I'm good and sometimes a kill/ steal. I work with catwomen, sometimes, but now I'm alone.
Before I got my sweet ass name I thought, everyone has weird ass names and I wanted one. There was batman, bane, joker, scarecrow, killer moth, and Harley Quinn.. Wait what? But you get it . I have a special pistol I always use, so I decided my name should be pistol. Sweet name right?
Sorry it's short just getting back. Ganna post more tho! See ya soon!
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Ballard teen’s gluten-free cookbook now available
About a month ago, we told you about Dominick Cura, a 13-year-old who was in the process of writing a gluten-free cookbook. That book, “Eternally Gluten-Free: A Cookbook of Sweets and Inspiration, From a Teen!” is now ready for purchase on Amazon.
Cura, who was diagnosed with celiac disease at age 9, has been working since last summer to create his book, full of original recipes for desserts, breakfast foods, and drinks. To view his cooking videos or to check out some recipes, visit his blog, Eternally Gluten-Free. The book will be available on Kindle in a few days and will soon be available in bookstores.
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How popular is the baby name Hermenegilda in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, see baby names similar to Hermenegilda and check out all the blog posts that mention the name Hermenegilda.
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Korea, Democratic People's Republic of (DPRK) - Organizations
Mass organizations established for specialized political, economic, or cultural purposes include the powerful Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland, commonly known as the Fatherland Front. Among its constituent members are the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League (formerly known as the Socialist Working Youth League), under the direct guidance of the Korean Workers' Party Central People's Committee; the Young Pioneer Corps, open to children aged 9–15; and the Korean Democratic Women's League. Also important are the Korean Red Cross Society and the Korean Agricultural Workers' Union.
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very informative
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Re: <nettime> Critique of the "Semantic Web"
David garcia on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:33:45 +0100 (CET)
Re: <nettime> Critique of the "Semantic Web"
Thanks you Florian for helping to clear up this fog of conflicting
For those of us less confident in the realm of automated search and
classification. I wonder if you could address the current status of the
Dewey Decimal Classification system in this context?
It's value in physical libraries was that it is not spatial but relational
(it is indirect not a direct reference to a book's location). So you are
not told where to go but where the book is in relationship to other books.
For some of us setting out on knowledge journeys before the era of search
engines might like me have found this very 19th century method of
classification - which combined a numbering system with classification by
topic very valuable as a mode of orientation, Neither cosmology nor
ontology. It is still going strong today as its rough categories seem to
have been remarkably scalable given the vast number of new subjects have
been comfortably accommodated.
So despite Borges's wonderfully poetic puncturing of the folly and hubris
in taking our categoristions of knowledge too seriously, some standardized
relational way of mapping our knowledge landscape seems to work quite well
in practice for physical libraries. So I guess I am asking is whether the
"Semantic web" is an attempt to do a Dewey Decimal Classification for the
of the web. And (if this assumption is not mistaken) given the continued
value and robustness of Dewey why we must assume that this effort will be
I am sure that I am asking a very naive questions, but for those of us who
are unsure how automated search differs in principle from searching for
things in libraries the distinction between DDC and automated search
technologies and (further) how this relates to the ambition of the semantic
web efforts might be illuminating.
Once again thanks.
David Garcia
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Taking a Stand: The Changing Role of CCOs & CMOs
Taking A Stand: How CMOs And CCOs Are Redefining Their Roles In Today’s Highly Charged Social, Cultural And Political Climate
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This is the third study released by Peppercomm and the Institute for Public Relations (IPR). The first study in 2017, looked at how Chief Communications Officers (CCOs) and Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are operating in an era of uncertainty, polarization and false news with the new presidential administration. This 2018 follow-up study is an analysis based on in-depth interviews with 25 senior communications and marketing executives in large companies about how their roles and responsibilities are shifting in light of the current social, cultural and political landscape.
What we found is while companies are more comfortable with uncertainty, they also are spending more time addressing social topics that may or may not be related to their core business, guided by their organizational principles and values. This is not a political piece advocating for any position; rather, this is a paper focused on what the interviewees reported.
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Acidi'nus 2. L. Manlius Acidinus Fulvianus, originally belonged to the Fulvia gens, but was adopted into the Manlia gens, probably by the above-mentioned Acidinus. (Vell. 2.8.) He was praetor B. C. 188, and had the province of Hispania Citerior allotted to him, where he remained till B. C. 186. In the latter year he defeated the Celtiberi, and had it not been for the arrival of his successor would have reduced the whole people to subjection. He applied for a triumph in consequence, but obtained only an ovation. (Liv. 38.35, 39.21, 29.) In B. C. 183 he was one of the ambassadors sent into Gallia Transalpina, and was also appointed one of the triumvirs for founding the Latin colony of Aquileia, which was however not founded till B. C. 181. (Liv. 39.54, 55, 40.34.) He was consul B. C. 179, (Liv. 40.43,) with his own brother, Q. Fulvius Flaccus, which is the only instance of two brothers holding the consulship at the same time. (Fast. Capitol.; Vell. 2.8.) At the election of Acidinus, M.
Aebu'tia Gens contained two families, the names of which are CARUS and ELVA. The former was plebeian, the latter patrician; but the gens was originally patrician. Cornicen does not seem to have been a family-name, but only a surname given to Postumus Aebutius Elva, who was consul in B. C. 442. This gens was distinguished in the early ages, but from the time of the above-mentioned Aebutius Elva, no patrician member of it held any curule office till the praetorship of M. Aebutius Elva in B. C. 176. It is doubtful to which of the family P. Aebutius belonged, who disclosed to the consul the existence of the Bacchanalia at Rome, and was rewarded by the senate in consequence, B. C. 186. (Liv. 39.9, 11, 19.)
Apollo'nides 8. Of SICYON. When in B. C. 186 the great congress was held at Megalopolis, and king Eumenes wished to form an alliance with the Achaeans, and offered them a large sum of money as a present with a view of securing their favour, Apollonides of Sicyon strongly opposed the Achaeans' accepting the money, as something unworthy of them, and which would expose them to the influence of the king. He was supported by some other distinguished Achaeans, and they magnanimously refused accepting the money. (Plb. 23.8.) At this congress Roman ambassadors also had been present, and after their return, Spartan and Achaean ambassadors went to Rome, B. C. 185. Among the latter was Apollonides, who endeavoured to explain to the Roman senate the real state of affairs at Sparta, against the Spartan ambassadors, and to vindicate the conduct of Philopoemen and the Achaeans against the charges of the Spartans. (Plb. 23.11, 12.) At the outbreak of the war between the Romans and Perseus of Macedon
Bae'bius 3. M. Baebius, one of the three commissioners sent into Macedonia, B. C. 186, to investigate the charges brought by the Maronitae and others against Philip of Macedon. (Plb. 33.6.)
Cassander 3. An Aeginetan, who, at the Achaean congress, held at Megalopolis, B. C. 186, followed Apollonides in dissuading the assembly from accepting the 120 talents proffered them as a gift by king Eumenes II. [See p. 237a.] He reminded the Achaeans, that the Aeginetans, in consequence of their adherence to the league, had been conquered and enslaved by P. Sulpicius (B. C. 208), and that their island, having been given up by Rome.to the Aetolians, had been sold by them to Attalus, the father of Eumenes. He called on Eumenes to shew his good-will to the Achaeans rather by the restoration of Aegina than by gifts of money, and he urged the assembly not to receive presents which would prevent their ever attempting the deliverance of the Aeginetans. The money of the king of Pergamus was refused by the congress. (Plb. 11.6, 23.7, 8; comp. Liv. 27.33; Plut. Arat. 34.)
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Crispi'nus, Qui'nctius Crispinus occurs as an agnomen in the family of the Penni Capitolini of the Quinctia gens. [CAPITOLINUS, p. 606a.] The full name of the L. Quinctius Crispinus, who was praetor in B. C. 186, and who triumphed in B. C. 184, on account of his victories in Spain, was probably L. Quinctius Pennus Capitolinus Crispinus. (Liv. 39.6, 8, 30, 42.) [L.S]
Duro'nia Gens 1. DURONIA, the mother of P. Aebutius. Her second husband was T. Sempronius Rutilus, who seems to have had a dislike to his stepson Aebutius. His mother, perhaps with a view to get rid of him m some way, wanted to get him initiated in the Bacchanalian orgies at Rome; but Aebutius betrayed the Bacchanalia to the consuls, who protected him against his mother, and Duronia was thus the cause of the discovery and suppression of those orgies, in B. C. 186. (Liv. 39.9, 11, 19.)
Here'nnius 3. Herennius Cerrinius, was the son of Paculla Minia, a Campanian woman, who lived at Rome. Paculla was the arch-priestess, and Herennius one of the chief hierophants of the Bacchanalia in that city, B. C. 186. (Liv. 39.13, 19.) It is probable that the son of Paculla became an Herennius by marriage with Herennia, according to the Sabellian practice of annexing the wife's name to the paternal or family appellation. (See HERENNIA. GENS and Göttling, Staatsverfassung der Röm. p. 5
Hi'spala Fece'nia by birth a slave, but afterwards a freed woman, was in B. C. 186 the mistress of one P. Aebutius, who lived in the Aventine quarter of Rome. To prevent her lover's initiation in the Bacchanalian mysteries, she partially disclosed to him the nefarious nature of their rites, which, while a slave in attendance on her mistress, she had occasionally witnessed. Aebutius revealed to the consul, Sp. Postumius Albinus [ALBINUS, No. 12], what Hispala had imparted to him. She was in consequence summoned by the consul, who, partly by promises, partly by threats, drew from her a full disclosure of the place, the practices, and the purposes of the Bacchanalian society. After the association was put down, Hispala was rewarded with the privileges of a free-born matron of Rome; and lest revenge or superstition should prompt any of the worshippers of Bacchus to attempt her life, her security was made by a special decree of the senate the charge of the consuls for the time being. And
Lae'lius 2. C. Laelius Sapiens, was son of the preceding. His intimacy with the younger Scipio Africanus was as remarkable as his father's friendship with the elder (Vell. 2.127; V. Max. 4.7.7), and it obtained an imperishable monument in Cicero's treatise "Laelius sive de Amicitia" He was born about B. C. 186-5; was tribune the plebs in 151; praetor in 145 (Cic. de Amic. 25); and consul, after being once rejected, in 140 (Cic. Brut. 43, Tusc. 5.19; Plut. Imp. Apophthegm. p. 200). His character was dissimilar to that of his father. The elder Laelius was an officer of the old Roman stamp, softened, perhaps, by his intercourse with Polybius, but essentially practical and enterprising. A mild philosophy refined, and, it may be, enfeebled the younger Laelius, who, though not devoid of military talents, as his campaign against the Lusitanian guerilla-chief Viriatus proved (Cic. de Off. 2.11), was more of a statesman than a soldier, and more a philosopher than a statesman. From Diogenes of
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Thread: how to filter surounding light
picon face BY : [email protected]
Hello everybody
I want to measure reflected light from an object with an photo diode
but i don't want surrounding light to effect measurement .
I thought of lighting the object with infrared light pulsed at a certain
frequentie and detect the signal back and read the detected level.
My fear is this way is sensitive for noise and i wand a high level
Are there good filters that pass light at an certain wave length?
an other way i thought of is to first measure surrounding light then light the
object with an additional light source measure again and subtract the
surrounding light from measurement with additional light
this method has also risks like is the surrounding light changes
Any body with suggestions or idea to this matter?
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Friday, February 1
Speaking of widget consolidation...
How much money does Facebook Apps make? Not too much, judging by results from VideoEgg, which serves ads to a network of Facebook apps. Earlier in the week, the company trumpeted about its so-called eggnetwork pulling in $1.5 million in ad revenue over the last five months, but that isn't too impressive, especially when you consider that VideoEgg's client list includes some of Facebook's most popular apps like Scrabulous, Flixster and Vampires. In all, the application network contains more than 150 Faceook-specific programs."
On the other hand, advertising agencies might just be suckers enough to bite. Just like they did back in the late 90s:
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4 stars An already good sound
Iron Maiden demos from the seventies! The "Iron Maiden" song is interpreted by Harris and delivers a more 70's feel with its downtempo. But it still rocks. The main novelty here is the track "Invasion" which carries well its name. Agressive and catchy mini-epic song with great solos and lots of changes in only 3 minutes. You could easily imagine invaders and knights while listening to it. The last song is "Prowler", which, as for "Iron Maiden", is slower than in the album version, but still interesting as it sounds 70's.
Although I prefer the album versions, these demos are worth a try, especially for early IRON MAIDEN and heavy metal fans.
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4 stars They're back ! It seems like it's been a long time between albums and in fact it's been about 5 years but Sears, Swann, Scott and Newhouse are up to their usual high standards with "Palindrome". Some guest horns, guitar and female vocals on this one as well. No strings this time but there is some bassoon along with a multitude of instruments.
"The Angels Share" was inspired by Tom's family trip to Scotland.Apparently the title of this track refers to the alcohol that is lost in the aging process of whiskey in those wooden barrels.The sound collage to start the song is actually snippets of audio from that trip to Scotland.The music kicks in with bass, drums and piano and we get some sax playing over top. A laid back beauty. "Not Yet Awake" is mellow as the clarinet comes in. It does get fuller but the song continues to shift. Some nice deep sounds after 2 1/2 minutes.This is a nice ride. It turns heavy before 5 1/2 minutes. Female vocals after 7 minutes.This is dark. Dave mentions that the clarinets at the end of the song are a shamless tip of the hat to SOFT MACHINE / Hugh Hopper's "Virtually". Some fuzz bass here too for good measure. A very interesting track.
"Fishing In America" sounds incredible ! A low end melody with horns and piano coming and going. Billy mentions that fuzz bass drones at the end of each stanza. So cool. "Dynamite Is Not The Solution" builds and we get vocal melodies as well. Such a rich sound here with drums, horns and bass all helping out. Gorgeous track. "When Fela Comes To Town" has a good beat with the horns honking and screaming. It settles 2 minutes in and the piano helps out here. Fela is a reference to multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. "King Fish" has this dreamy mood with guitar and other sounds.Vocals can be heard in the background. A change 2 minutes in and the vocals come to the fore.The lyrics are a tribute to Tom's eldest son who loves sports fishing.
"Bats And Birds" opens with piano and bass as horns come in after a minute. Dave mentions that the bass and flute drive the melody which he says is another tip of the hat to SOFT MACHINE. It picks up 3 minutes in with organ and check out the drumming ! Alto sax 5 minutes in leads.Love the keyboards 7 1/2 minutes as well. Aboe around 9 minutes then we get this experimental ending. "Yukapoe's Lament" is a laid back tune with plenty of wind instruments. Beautiful stuff.
I appreciate this band so much.That Canterbury flavour is still evident in that MUFFINS style of course.
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Building a Motion Detector using Scratch GPIO server
Configuring Pins and Lighting LEDs
As I work toward the motion detector, I'll first show how to control an LED through the GPIO server so that you can see the steps necessary to configure and control a pin. For the simple circuit, connect an LED to pin 15 through your breadboard. Make sure to use a resistor to protect the LED.
The Scratch GPIO server uses the BCM numbering system to address pins, rather than the physical pin location. Refer to Figure 2 to identify the pin numbers. BCM refers to the chip maker, which is Broadcom. The BCM numbering does not follow a human-friendly pattern, which is why you should always reference a pin diagram.
Figure 2: BCM pin numbers are labeled "GPIO" here.
Before you can turn the LED on or off, you need to configure it at the start of the project with a broadcast message. The broadcast(config15out) block accomplishes the goal. The command to configure the pin consists of three parts (config+pin number+configuration option).
For this example, the only configuration option I'm using is in or out, but there are others. Using in or out sets the specified pin number as either an input or an output. Inputs take sensory information from the physical world and send it to Scratch. An example is the PIR sensor that I'll use later in this project. Outputs send information from Scratch to the physical world, such as lighting an LED.
Using the GPIO server, a pin can be configured as either input or output, making it critically important to your project that you specify the configuration before you attempt to use it.
You can experiment with the commands by turning an LED on and off. Figure 1 shows a script that turns the LED on and then off, which is happening with the gpio15on and gpio15off broadcast messages. When you control a pin, the message consists of three parts (gpio+pin number+setting). My example uses on and off as the settings, but you can also substitute low and high, respectively.
Adding a PIR Sensor
The PIR sensor detects movement. The sensor has three labeled pins. Connect the sensor pin labeled GND to the ground on the Pi. Connect to pin labeled OUT to pin 21.
The sensor pin labeled VCC can be connected to a 5V or 3.3V pin on the Raspberry Pi, depending on the power requirements of your sensor (Figure 3). My sensor happens to work with either. Refer to the pin diagram in Figure 2 to find the power pins. The 5V and 3.3V power pins supply power to the sensor continuously.
Figure 3: Diagram of the wiring between the PIR sensor, the Rasp Pi, and the LEDs. (Fritzing)
To detect movement, you need to monitor the OUT pin of the sensor, which should be connected to pin 21 on the Raspberry Pi. As part of the project initialization, set pin 21 as an input. Figure 4 shows the initial configuration for all the pins in the project. Pins 14 and 15 are configured as outputs. Connect pin 14 to a green LED via a resistor and connect pin 15 to a red LED through a resistor. The LEDs provide a visual indicator to help you see if motion is detected; red will signal motion, and green will signal no motion.
Figure 4: Script to configure the initial values for the motion detector project.
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"Gattaca" director Andrew Niccol's sense of the zeitgeist is as on the money as ever with "In Time," a sci-fi parable that plays like "Occupy Wall Street: The Movie."
Though its action beats and story arc are nothing if not conventional, this startling commentary on a world of haves and those-we'll-keep-from-having touches on the greatest sci-fi trope of all — dystopia, how the future looks because of the things we do wrong today.
Justin Timberlake is Will Salas, a young guy who will be "25" to the end of his days — or hours. In this future, people stop aging at 25. Then, unless they can buy, borrow or steal time from another, they die. "I don't have time" has a whole new meaning to the working poor. They sprint, breathlessly, from home to work to date night and constantly stare at the luminescent digits counting down on their arm. Time, for all of them, is running out.
The gangs that rule the place are "Minutemen," thieves who steal from others, kill at will and drive cool retro cars. Portis, given a nicely petulant taste by Alex Pettyfer, is leader of the pack.
The rich, barricaded in their own fortress "time zones," stockpile the years, live spectacularly well and spectacularly long. But they live without risk, in fear of the one thing that can get them — accidental death. "The poor die, and the rich don't live."
But an act of kindness earns Will time — enough of it to change time zones. He goes undercover and resolves to live it up and take the rich "for everything they've got." That's where he gambles with the rich guy ("Mad Men's" Vincent Kartheiser). That's where he meets the rich man's stunning, rebellious daughter, Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried). And that's where he runs afoul of the timekeepers, led by the obsessed Javert-like maintainer of the status quo, Ray Leon (Cillian Murphy, terrific).
Timberlake is more adequate than epic in this leading-man turn, and Seyfried, in a red flapper's bob, impossibly high heels and provocatively short skirts, still seems an innocent young thing playing at being bad. But she's good at suggesting a woman bored with a life where she doesn't dare so much as take a dip in the ocean behind the mansion she grew up in. (A girl could drown, after all.)
Writer-director Niccol manages to cover the same ground as the most recent "Spy Kids" movie without tumbling into silliness. But "In Time" still has its silly side, its eye-rolling moments mixed in with the pungent observations about modern society. The poor are sentenced to poverty, and the hint that even one of them might escape enrages the system. What do the rich enjoy if not the luxury of leisure — servants to handle mundane tasks, travel expedited, lives lengthened by a system stacked in their favor? Has Sean Hannity labeled this "class warfare" yet?
But "In Time" is more a potentially great parable than a particularly good one. The earliest scenes, where Will meets a rich man tired of his excess years, are preachy. When Will and Sylvia go on the lam, the film gets a needed jolt of adrenalin. It's a pity Niccol's script doesn't give them anywhere to go. Even with its thoughtful nods to "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Les Miserables," "In Time" never delivers that transcendent "Blade Runner" moment, and never rises above cult classic to simple classic.
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Manual Steps To Remove From Chrome
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Anatomy of My Dreams
For some reason, I awake in the night with sweat pouring down my face, and the question of reality pounding through my ears, the nightmare isn’t one we all know and experience. It’s not getting shot or poisoned or any other brutally violent act I so anxiously day dream about. My nightmares always start the same way, in a car somewhere along a busy, busy road. I’m looking around, searching for the source of my movement along the highways and expressways that are nameless and faceless, only veins of transport for the truckers of America, searching for the hands driving me along.
As my dream continues, I discover that it is me driving the car, this huge SUV. My tiny feet barely touch the floor, and my hands are shaking. Even within the grasps of my inner dreaming mind, deep within those membranes where in my sleep the cells are being divided; where my nails thicken; where my curls grow, millimeter by millimeter; and my feet widen, I can tell that my hands are shaking as I grip this imaginary wheel. I have never driven a car before, unless you count the small circles I made in a rural Iowan parking lot, perched on the knee of my father, who shouted, “Left! Right! You’re going to kill us little goofball...”, as if it were a game. Now he just shouts.
There are flickers of light that dance across my dilated pupils, because of the terror. There are horns honking angrily, holding up fists at me, and it’s as if I’m driving the wrong way down the line of incoming traffic. I wonder what I’m doing. I wonder where I am. My death will be a joke, “Girl Goes Wrong Way and Drowns In Sea of Vehicles”. What is taking so long, a part of my brain not fully turned to the power of movies in our sleep, says. Because after nightmares like these, you feel as though you never slept at all, and a certain exhaustion overpowers you, pushes on your head and cramps your thoughts. This is the brain, because it bursts with anxiety and fear, irrational fear. It’s funny, though, over the course of the day, the dream fades, and all you’re left with is a flicker of terror, but no real memory of the cause.
Another vivid dream I have constantly, is running into a figure from my past. Are you coming back? Are you coming back? I’m waiting. I’m on the train, alone, in the rain, and my hair drips. I’m shivering, because I’m always cold. The train lurches, then stops, and we are across from another train. It’s always the green line, that is parallel. She is sitting there, with her journal out, and my melancholic playlist is ringing through my eardrums. Alice Boman is playing “Waiting”, and I see her first. Are you coming back? Are you coming back? I’m waiting. She turns the page, pen in hand, and that’s when she looks up, and our eyes lock, like in the movies. Wait, this is a movie.
Waves of whatever she did to me flood through the glass of the train window, and I press my fingers up, up, up, towards her. Every time, her mouth forms this O, as if the sight of my being, alive and not entirely well, is a shock. She is reaching towards me, this ghost of a person. Somebody that I used to know. Slowly, though, pieces of her are breaking off like pixels on a computer. The further she reaches towards me, through those two stopped trains, the more of her breaks. I am screaming I realize, and trying to run away. A homeless man shakes his cup of dimes and laughs at me with an empty gummed smile. It’s raining, hard. This is the heart of my dreamland. I look back at her one last time, as she breaks into a million pieces and again mouths at me to help her. I have already helped her one too many times. The homeless man freezes mid-laugh. I blink, and she is gone.
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Intelligence Is Overrated, ctd
Felix Salmon was flipping through a recent book by David Rothkopf, and found some striking evidence for Chris Hayes' theory of rot in the meritocracy recently:
Later there's a similar interview with Robert Rubin. Both Summers and Rubin are clearly brilliant people, and the products of the most prestigious educational institutions in the world. Summers entered MIT at 16, and was a tenured professor at Harvard by 28, one of the youngest of those in history. Rubin has degrees from Harvard, the London School of Economics, and Yale. Yet they both espouse beliefs that I am quite confident in labeling total horseshit.
Am I so arrogant to think I'm smarter than these two? Nah. I bet either of them would whup me good on the SAT. These men are just being human. To admit that deregulation is a problem would be to say a large part of their lives' work--probably the most important part--was a terrible, catastrophic mistake. It's an extraordinary person indeed that will cop to being a principal architect of the greatest recession in 80 years. This reminded me of something Matt Yglesias wrote awhile back about Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi economic wizard:
...part of what's so incredible about it are that Schacht's two great achievements—the Weimar-era whipping of hyperinflation and the Nazi-era whipping of deflation—were both so easy. The both involved, in essence, simply deciding that the central bank actually wanted to solve the problem.
And the answer really just comes down to refusal to admit that a mistake had been made. To halt the inflation, the Reichsbank would have to stop printing money. But once the inflation had gotten too high for Reichsbank President Rudolf Havenstein to stop printing money and stop the inflation would be an implicit admission that the whole thing had been his fault in the first place and he should have done it earlier. It was easier to say that hyperinflation was a necessary consequence of allied demands for reparations payments and that he had no choice but to print currency in the quantity demanded ... So things continued for several years until a new government brought Schacht on as a sort of currency czar. Schacht stopped the private issuance of money, launched a new land-backed currency and simply . . . refused to print too much of it. The problem was solved both very quickly and very easily. His later work helping Hitler rebuild the German war machine was a bit different, but again essentially just involved looking at what the previous failed policy had been (gold standard and deflation) and doing the reverse.
The institutional and psychological problem here turns out to be really severe. If the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee were to take strong action at its next meeting and put the United States on a path to rapid catch-up growth, all that would do is serve to vindicate the position of the Fed's critics that it's been screwing up for years now. Rather than looking like geniuses for solving the problem, they would look like idiots for having let it fester so long.
I wouldn't go so far as to say running the Fed, for example, is easy, but I would say that intelligence is only one of many qualities necessary to run it well, and probably not the most important one. When looking to make a hire of that kind one should also consider humility and wisdom, among other things, and as Matt says, make sure the "reputational incentives ... point in the direction of [running the agency well]."
[UPDATE: Also, leaders should be doubly skeptical with super geniuses so they're not being snookered by dazzling displays of ability. If anything, the very intelligent will be more vulnerable to this kind of biased reasoning on account of being brilliant tends to make a person arrogant and overly certain.]
A solely intelligence-based meritocracy is a lousy way to set up an institution.
1. Very well put. I think there are other weaknesses in the meritocracy too. But the inability to admit mistakes, while something that happens at all levels of intelligence, seems to be even more dangerous and pervasive the higher up the brains scale you get.
The other big problem with the cult of the meritocracy as has happened in the Obama administration is that people that didn't make all the right steps are being left out of the thinking and testing process. Which is bad because someone that has a background where he was sheltered and enabled to make it to Harvard at 16, isn't going to have the same experiences and perspective as someone that didn't grow up in this type of guided manner. In fact, I would argue that in these cases the need for people that have had to live with the results of these 'genius' ideas is even greater and more necessary.
2. Thanks! Chris Hayes goes into the sort of thing you mention in a lot more detail in his book Twilight of the Elites, which is coming out in June I believe. He's got a big section about how social distance of elites is a major problem.
Make sure to check it out if you haven't already!
3. I have a lot to say about this post, but my midterm that begins in ~4 hours will cut this short....
but performing well academically does NOT make you an intelligent person. Entering MIT at 16, or getting a good score on the SATs, might make you competent - able - dedicated- hard working - but it does not make you wise, or just, or truly capable of making good decisions.
Mr Wakeman above did a good job of accentuating what I mean to say, but I wanted to make it more plain that having wine at a Princeton eating club or playing naked football with Geronimo's skull at Yale does not make you an intelligent human being. It makes you a privileged one, who is very adept at loping through the arbitrary and self-selecting hoops that are established by the wealthy to maintain the homogeneity of their clique. It speaks nothing of wisdom, integrity, selflessness, or any number of other truly worthwhile values that have enabled true foresight and sustained us as a race for millennia.
4. I agree Wells, though I was in this case defining intelligence as something like "ability to perform logical calculations," in a broad sense. Someone can be absolutely brilliant at solving math or science or economics problems but have countervailing personality defects that make them useless in a policy or leadership role.
I'd like to separate wisdom, integrity, and selflessness from intelligence, so they can be valued for their own sake.
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Ethics concerns as scientists keep pig brains alive for 36 hours
The brains, which are not conscious, are kept alive through the circulation of an oxygen-rich fluid through the organs
PUBLISHED : Sunday, 29 April, 2018, 11:46am
UPDATED : Sunday, 29 April, 2018, 9:11pm
US-based researchers have successfully kept alive the brain cells of decapitated pigs for 36 hours, sparking concerns over the ethics involved in such frontline research.
The MIT Technology Review said a team at Yale University led by neuroscientist Nenad Sestan had carried out experiments on between 100 and 200 pigs sourced from an abattoir.
Sestan had presented the findings of the experiments, where his team restored blood supply to the dead pigs’ brains, in late March to a conference organised by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The researchers said they had succeeded in delivering oxygen to the cells via a system of pumps and blood maintained at body temperature, the MIT Technology Review said.
Thanks to this system, dubbed BrainEx, millions of cells were kept in good health and were capable of functioning normally, the review said.
However, there was nothing to indicate that these cells experienced some form of consciousness, it said, citing Sestan as saying he was “convinced” they did not.
Such experiments could herald advances in restoring blood circulation at the micro level, including in the brain, the article said.
They could also be potentially useful in the study and treatment of some cancers and debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer’s, it added.
At the same time, the article noted that Sestan himself raised some of the ethical issues involved in such research.
The key question being that if a brain is revived in this way, would a human being involved have any memories, an identity and rights?
In an open letter published Wednesday in Nature magazine, Sestan and another 16 top scientists and philosophers said the authorities should lay down specific rules to guide them in their work on human brains.
Recent advances have seen what are known as brain “surrogates” composed of real human cells -whether in tiny organoids grown in the lab, in grey matter removed from a human patient, or brain tissue implanted into animals – as part of efforts to study the brain.
The risk is that “as brain surrogates become larger and more sophisticated, the possibility of them having capabilities akin to human sentience might become less remote,” the Nature article said.
“Such capacities could include being able to feel (to some degree) pleasure, pain or distress; being able to store and retrieve memories; or perhaps even having some perception of agency or awareness of self.”
There is a need, the group argued, for “clear guidelines for research”, and for special oversight committees.
Additional reporting by The Guardian
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Flaired Hair Extensions: Your Basic Hair Extension Guide
I am so back to my diary! Sorry for being inactive for a while, I've been busy processing my clearance at work lately and today, I'm officially free. Unemployed but hoping to be employed again, the soonest time. For today, I will be sharing to you a simple guide for hair extensions.
Ever wished your hair was longer or thicker for that special occasion? It may be your own birthday celebration, a wedding of a friend or a corporate party that you want to dress to impress more than the usual. But much to your disappointment, your hair has not grown long or thick enough to be heat-styled, colored, permed, straightened or trimmed the way you wanted to. The solution is not waiting for several months to grow your hair, or putting yourself on expensive hair growth treatments that may have strange side effects. The easiest way to have longer, fuller hair is to get human hair extensions. Find that intimidating?
Here is your complete guide from Flaired Hair Extensions on how to finally have that longer, fuller hair.
1. Choose your hair
There are three types of hair used for hair extensions: synthetic hair, animal hair, and human hair. Synthetic hair is made of colored plastic strands which make for good wigs. Only certain types of synthetic hair can only withstand a certain heat before it burns out. Animal hair is much coarser and thicker than human hair so it is not advisable to use it for finer or thinner hair (also, it’s quite icky!) The best hair type is of course human hair especially if you want a natural look or a seamless blend between your hair and the extensions. Human hair allows you to treat the extensions like you own – you can heat style, color, perm, straighten or trim it to your taste.
2. Choose your hair extensions attachment
You can braid, glue, sew, press and clip hair extensions to your hair or scalp in order for it to stay. One of the common ways to attach hair extensions is via snipping in micro-rings with hair strands, however, it can be uncomfortable as you have to adjust the way you wash and brush your hair. One of the easiest and fastest attachment method is via one piece clip-on hair extensions. It allows you to quickly wear or remove hair extensions in a snap and by yourself, without need of extra tools. What differentiates “one piece” from multi-piece clip-ons is that you don’t need to put too many clips on your scalp – just one piece gives you a full head look.
3. Choose your hair extensions thickness
Once you have chosen to buy hair extensions, you may be faced with two choices – double drawn or single drawn hair extensions? Single drawn hair extensions typically have a V-shaped quality because most of the hair strands do not reach their prescribed length. For example, if you order 20 inches of hair extensions, only about 10% of those strands actually reach 20 inches and the rest are much shorter. On the other hand, double drawn hair undergoes a second process of selection where shorter hairs are removed by hand so that it has a solid length from root to tip.
That’s the basic information you need before getting your own hair extensions! Once you know these about hair types, attachment types and the difference between single and double drawn hair, you will be more apt to inquire with your provider on what products best fit your fashion and lifestyle.
Hair extensions are how celebrities and models can afford to have their natural short ‘do one day and glamorous longer locks the next. It’s no longer a secret that hair extensions make for a great beauty enhancer. Be sure to keep this guide on hand the moment you decide to avail of your own hair extensions! For more information about Flaired Hair Extensions, you may visit their Facebook page via http://fb.com/flairedhairextensions or follow them on Instagram via @flairedhairextensions. With only PHP 3500, you can already have your 20 inches of full head, double drawn human hair extensions for longer, fuller hair just like your own.
About Flaired Hair Extensions: Flaired Hair Extensions is a Filipino brand of hair extensions that offer human hair in one-piece clip-on format, which makes getting longer and fuller hair easier. Our products include human hair extensions (PHP 3,500 for 20 inches and PHP4,500 for 26 inches, free shipping) and human hair bangs (PHP1,000, free shipping). Some of our celebrity clients are Anne Curtis, Cristine Reyes and Kim Chiu. Flaired has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine and the ABS-CBN News Channel.
For me, having hair extensions is quite expensive but worth the spend. Imagine if you have different events in a month and you have to go to salons every time you need your hair done. Accumulated cot of doing your hair isn't worth it. Although I haven't tried this one yet since I have thick long hair already, I would fairly suggest that using hair extensions is better than going to salons and waiting on the line. This can help you minimize your idle time of doing extra stuffs you need for your beautification purposes.
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1. i hope you can make a step by step tutorial on how to put hair extensions properly :D thank you for this interesting post!
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"How Metal Is Your Period?" is the most important BuzzFeed quiz of all time.
The Most Important BuzzFeed Quiz of All Time
The Most Important BuzzFeed Quiz of All Time
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What Women Really Think
April 10 2014 12:13 PM
The Most Important BuzzFeed Quiz of All Time
how metal is your period, a buzzfeed quiz.
Remember that time you woke up in a pool of your own blood?
Photo-illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo. Photo by Yuriy S./Thinkstock
Thanks to the BuzzFeed quiz, we now all know which city we should live in (Paris), what kind of sandwich we are (grilled cheese), and which Twin Peaks character we are (Agent Dale Cooper). BuzzFeed quizzes exploit our urge to belong, to categorize ourselves into an identifiable group that we are instantly a part of. (Oh, you’re a Miranda? Me too!) Which is why the latest BuzzFeed quiz, “How Metal Is Your Period?” is such a masterpiece of the form.
The questions range from the mundane (Q: “Have you ever tried to put in a tampon only to discover you forgot to take the old one out?” A: Uh, yes, who hasn’t?) to the silly (Q: “Have you ever used your period blood to cast magical spells in your enemies?” A: No, but good idea) to the horribly, tragically real (Q: “Have you ever bled through your underwear, pants, and onto a chair?” A: Yes, ninth-grade English class. I was the last to leave. The longest three minutes of my life). The beauty of this quiz is that it normalizes the bloody corporeal mess that women everywhere experience but rarely talk about. There were things on this list that I thought only I had gone through, and, man, it is good to know that enough other women have experienced the same to have the incident make it onto the quiz. I am apparently not the only woman who has DIY’d a pad or tampon out of household materials. “How Metal Is Your Period?” is like the best bodily fluid joke of all time—gross, but also these things are human, and it’s OK to laugh about them.
Women, take this quiz and rejoice: You are not alone. Also, make the men in your life take the quiz, too. No, they won’t actually be able to check any boxes (hopefully), but it will sure be more informative than “Which Haim Sister Are You?
Juliana Jiménez is a former Slate photo editor and now a contributor writing on Latin American politics and culture for the Slatest. She translates for Democracy Now! and writes in English and Spanish for publications in Latin America.
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Nokia PC Suite is a very useful tool which helps you take total control of your Nokia Phone. The main Nokia PC Suite window features the following options: 1. Backup: You can make an instant backup of all the data from your phone on the PC 2. Synchronize: You can synchronise all the data from your phone including contacts, calendar, notes and e-mails 3. Connect to the Internet: Makes possible a direct connection to the in ...
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For a game lover, it is easy to set up a desktop with the best gizmos and gadgets to create an environment for playing games. However, if you find that you are always on the go, you need to create the same in a laptop.
A few tips for first-time gamers that may help you to decide if you truly need a gaming laptop:
• If you are a beginner in games and play low-end games, a basic integrated card will not do it. Aim for at least a gaming laptop with a NVidia GeForce 940M, something you can get in a gaming notebook for less than $500.
• If you are on a budget, then strictly avoid touch screens. This will not only shoot the bill through the roof but the battery also drains out quite quickly.
• If you are planning on adding a GPU, the good news is that the recent versions are powerful, faster and VR ready( will need GTX 980 Graphics card)
• Use the money in your budget to install an SSD card. The games will install faster and reduce the loading time.
• Invest in a high-resolution display.
A powerful processor: Everyone has a laptop these days and most come with a good processor. While it may be great for office applications and an odd game or two, it can heat quickly if you start using them for heavy duty gaming. Investing in a good powerful processor like an Intel is an absolute must. An i5 may be good for a beginner but an i7 will be the best for hard-core games.
A good laptop without a good graphics card is pointless: There are a number of games that are considered hard-core, like the Call of Duty: Black Ops III or Star Wars. If you want half of the excitement while playing these games then you should invest in a good graphics card like a NVIDIA GeForce GTX. You cannot go wrong with this one. It is sure to give you your money’s worth!
RAM: It is almost like a piece of music where things have to function in unison for it to sound good! All of them work in conjunction to give you a good experience. For a beginner a 4GB Ram is good (which is what you get in most laptops), you are definitely better off going with an 8GB get the best performance.
Hard Drives and Solid State Drives: Games like Call of Duty: Black Ops take about 50-60 GB right off the bat. Most laptops come with 1 TB of hard drive space. You can always look to increase it up to 2TB. The more space you have to store music or video, the better it is.
Warranties: Most companies offer warranties, but make sure you check the fine print for backup in case you have troubles with the laptop. This is valid generally for a period only. Look for all options that are available and any extended warranties where available. Invest in accessories to keep your laptop and its paraphernalia safe.
You are well on your way to buying your first new laptop. I hope that you are better equipped to understand what to look for before you invest your money. Good luck and happy gaming!
Waterproof Phones are those that can tolerate a high level of exposure to water. Now, does that mean that you can dunk your phone into a jar of water—definitely not!
To clarify, when phone companies claim that phones are waterproof, they actually mean that the phone is water resistant. How resistant and how much of splatter it can tolerate before it stops working can be gauged from the IP number (called the International Protection Code) given to it (based on various tests carried out).
The higher the rating, greater is the resistance to water. If we were to explain further, the first number next to the IP number ranges from 0-6 and offers resistance to hazardous particles or entrance of solid particles (the lowest offering least resistance and the highest offering the greatest protection). Similarly, the next number (which indicates liquid ingress protection) offers resistance to water, with the numbering working in the same way as the first.
How does it work?
In order to be water resistant (please bear with me while I explain why I use the term water resistant and not waterproof), water should not affect the working parts of a phone. A phone with its many parts, like the ports, microphone holes, buttons, speaker etc is an open invitation for the water molecules to flood and short the phones in minutes. So, how does one actually make it resistant to water? What technology do they use? Seal it with Glue!
Manufacturers refer to it in a number of ways, gaskets, rubber adhesives etc but the purpose and the means are the same and that is to provide an airtight seal. Typically, this glue is used to stick the screen to the chassis of the phone. In addition, they use it at the back of the ports or even near the edges where the exposed circuits are. However, in order to preserve the design and the finish, gaskets or rings of rubber are used to secure areas, which are visible to the naked eye.
The same logic cannot be used where speakers and microphones are used. Here, a sealant will completely defeat the purpose of the phone. Hence, here a super fine mesh is added to the front of the speakers or microphones. Using Cohesion and surface tension (basic science where the liquid tends to attach to its own molecules rather than flow) they solve this tricky problem. Elsewhere, they use a water resistant, breathable fabric membrane that equalizes the pressure allowing the air to flow through completely.
What should be considered and understood is that all of the above just delays the inevitable! It is not possible to stop the water from entering the device. What the manufacturers have been successful in doing is to make it resistant for a while. They have been careful enough not to call them waterproof phones. What they claim is that these are water resistant phones and rate them with IP codes. What they do test (in a lab!) are:
• endure droplets of water
• surviving jets of water
• enduring a dip in water for longer durations (for e.g. 30 minutes )
Having stated the above, it would be wise to see what damages the manufacturers actually cover. If you go through the warranties, you will see that none of them covers water damages. Hence, it will be wise to go through the fine print before getting experimental with our phone.
It means that you cannot swim with your phone, click pictures underwater and hope that your phone stays alive after your laps are complete!
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Out of all the origins in comic book history, whose could be more bad-ass than Doctor Manhattan, who was transformed into a powerful super being after he was disintegrated by an Intrinsic Field Subtractor and recombined his atoms into the blue-skinned giant we all know and love? Alan Moore is a genius, and Doc Manhattan is easily his most mind-blowing character to date.
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Active Listening Activities
Active Listening Activities: The purpose of the activities is for students to identify and point to correct shapes in the correct sequence as presented via oral instructions. After each instruction, students should be given adequate time to correctly process the information and identify the correct answer. If students consistently have difficulty identifying the correct sequence, repeat instructions in a slow, clear voice and point to the correct answer if necessary.
The advanced section has some very tricky and complex tasks so it is ok to repeat the instructions as often as is needed and even break the question into separate parts. Provide as much scaffolding as is needed to ensure that students are able to cope with the complexity of some of the questions.
It's important to state that the active listening programs are teaching activities, not assessments so it's fine to break the instructions into bite size portions if needed. Students who have difficulty with concepts such as before, after, next to, beneath, etc may find some of the activities too difficult.
1. Print and laminate the table of coloured shapes in the appendix.
2. Each student listens to the instructions and points to the correct sequence.
3. Once a student has completed a task, mark their response on the score sheet which is provided on each program.
The activities have been designed to be used with your students who may have difficulty with 2-3 stage instructions or had difficulty with sub-tests from the CELF-4 such as Concepts and Following Directions.
Both programs are free to download and begin using with your students almost immediately. The only preparation needed is to print and laminate the shapes board. The programs also make useful homework to send home to parents as they are easy to use and children find them engaging and challenging.
Active Listening Activities - Entry Level Program
Click on the image to download the entry level program. The entry level program features simple one, two and three stage instructions and can be used with students as young as six. The shapes used are common shapes such as circle, triangle, square and star.
Active Listening Activities - Advanced Level Program
Click on the image to download the advanced level program. The advanced level program features complex instructions that are designed to stretch students' ability to listen to complex sequences. The shapes used are designed to represent celestial objects and common weather phenomena and so are a little trickier to initially identify. For instance, students will be asked to point to a four-sided star, not the five-sided star, etc.
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Balance of Payment in Economics
Topics: Export, International trade, Balance of trade Pages: 2 (340 words) Published: December 11, 2012
Balance of Payments: Meaning and Components
The Balance of payments of a country is a systematic record of all economic transactions taking place between the country and other countries over a given period of time. It includes both exports and import of goods as well as services. Many confuse Balance of Payments (BoP) with Balance of Trade (BoT).However, BoT only takes into account the transactions arising from imports and export of goods.
Transactions recorded in BoP account can be classified in 5 major categories. (1)Goods and services a/c
(2)Unilateral transfers a/c
(3)Long term capital a/c
(4)Short term capital a/c
(5)Short term official capital a/c
There are 2 major categories of accounts in the BoP a/c statement i.e Current a/c and Capital a/c. The items which don't fall under any of these categories constitute "other items" in the BoP.
Current a/c shows the balance of exports and imports of goods and services and Unilateral transfers (receipts or payments for which they get nothing in return, eg.Foreign aid, Gifts etc.)
Capital a/c shows private transactions (transactions affecting assets and liabilities by individuals, businesses and non government entities), Official transactions(transactions affecting assets and liabilities by government and agencies),Direct investment(purchase of an asset and acquiring control of it other than the ability to resell it) and Portfolio investments(acquiring the asset and not the control over it).
The items which do not fall under the above two are errors and omissions (which include sampling of transactions, dishonesty, smuggling etc.)And Official reserve transactions which can be again divided into non-autonomous and autonomous transactions. on autonomous transactions are those carried out by government and the central banks for some international economic policy objective and Autonomous transactions are those which are entered into with some independent motive.
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Where to Live in Jacksonville a Neighborhood Guide
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There are over 500 neighborhoods in Jax, making choosing an area to move to seem like a overwhelming project. To make it easier to pick, Jacksonville is divided into seven areas, each with it’s own style. First it breaks up into these sections— Northside, Arlington, Southside, Westside, Downtown and Jacksonville Beaches—and then narrow the list down to these neighborhoods.
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Impressions of “Stories from Ancient Canaan: Second Edition,” Edited and Translated by Michael Coogan and Mark Smith
I previously read The Assembly of the Gods which provided an overview of Canaanite religion. Their religious texts provide the context for much of the Holy Bible. But unlike the Hebrews, the Canaanites did not have a Canon of specific texts which were included or excluded. Instead, their tales were like episodic superhero movies, that are mostly coherent and feature overlapping characters. You can read these for yourselves in Stories from Ancient Canaan.
Everyone knows the main characters of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe:” Ironman, Thor, and the other Avengers. In the “Canaanite Mythological Universe” the main characters are
• El (the Creator, the Father of Time, the Most High). The Hebrews and the Canaanites, unlike the Greeks or Romans, believed in one supreme creator God who created the universe out of nothing and is constantly active in it. His animal form is a Bull. The name Isra-El means “El strives” or “Strived with El.”
• Asherah – the Queen of Heaven, El’s consort. Women would bake cares to her (Jeremiah 7:18), and King Manasseh set up a Asherah Pole to venerate her in the Temple (2 Kings 21).
• Ba’al — Part of El’s extended family, whose quest for a house occupies the greatest single work. The Greeks and Romans thought he was the same being as Zeus or Jupiter. The difference is that while Zeus/Jupiter is often sown as the “father of the gods,” Ba’al is clearly the ambitious, capable son of of El. Like El, Ba’al’s animal form is a Bull. Gideon adopts the ironic name Jeru-Ba’al, meaning “Ba’al contends” or “Contended with Ba’al” and ironically translated as “Let Ba’al Plead,” after smashing an idol to Ba’al (Judges 6:32).
• Anat – El’s daughter. “Women leave their fathers to cleave to their husbands” and “Women must submit to their husbands” in semetic culture, but Anat is not married. Her father, El, is indulgent to her, and she even complains about El to his face and gets up to all sorts of mischievous. The Greeks and Romans thought she was the same goddess as Athena or Minerva. The mysterious judge Shamgar, of whom we only know one sentence, is called “Son of Anat” (Judges 3:31).
• Kothar-wa-Hasis – the Lord of Egypt, a craftsman who makes especially valuable objects or devices. A bow Kothar-wa-Hasis makes for a lad will become an object of envy for Anat. Likewise, when Ba’al finally is able to build his house, Kothar-wa-Hasis is his general contractor. Kothar-wa-Hasis, literally “Skillful and Wise,” does not appear to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
• Death, Yam, Judge River, Leviathan, Dawn, Dusk, and so forth — the central tension of Canaanite myth is El’s love for all of his creatures. Death and Judge River (also called the “Sea”) are two chaotic forces which were created by El, and which his son Ba’al must fight. These forces are kept around by God as a sort of sport or game, like powerful man may have a pet lion (Job 41:1-7),
For Bible readers, the Canaanite tales are also interesting because they were written down before the Bible. The stories presented here seem to have been set to tablets around 1200 BC, in other words halfway between the Conquest of Joshua and the Kingship of Saul. The description of Biblical events, even those that occurred before the writing down of these Canaanite stories, often assumes the listener had heard the Canaanite stories first.
The primary story from ancient Canaan is Ba’al, which in this book is ordered differently than in Assembly of the Gods. The reason is that we have multiple nearly complete copies of Ba’al, and while the main events in the tale are pretty consistent, the specific ordering changes.
There does not appear to be an overarching theology to these tales. I will take them one at a time, beginning with Ba’al, typically placing a Canaanite verse next to a Biblical verse that appears to play on it.
The motivation Ba’al’s adventures is to have his own house. As he complains
But Baal has no house like the other gods,
no court like Asherah’s sons:
El’s home is his son’s shelter,
Ladery Asherah of the Sea’s home
While the Bible repeatedly condemns worship of Ba’al, neither Ba’al’s existence nor his question to have his own house are denied anywhere in the text. Instead, Ba’al supernatural attempt to achieve his ends is contrasted with the path available to the believer
John 14:1-4
In the Hebrew Bible, God’s home at Eden was finished in six days of work, and a seventh of rest
Genesis 2:1-3
The construction of Ba’al’s home takes a similar amount of time
Then on the seventh day,
the fire went out in the house,
the flames in the palace:
The silver had turned into blocks,
the gold had become bricks.
Baal the Conqueror was glad:
‘I have built my house of silver,
my palace of gold!'”
Though there is a humorous wrinkle — a dispute with the general contractor! Should the house have windows, or is that an unncessary complication?
“And Kothar-wa-Hasis replied:
‘Listen Baal the Conqueror,
pay attention, Rider on the Clouds:
I should put an opening in the house,
a window in the palace.’
But Baal the Conqueror replied:
‘Don’t put an opening in the house,
a window in the palace!'”
Eventually, after the day of rest, Ba’al relents and asks for the window to be reinstalled.
And Baal the Conqueror said:
‘I will put it in, Kothar, son of Sea,
Kothar, son of the Confluence:
let a window be opened in the house,
an opening in the palace;
so let a break be opened in the clouds,
as Kothar-wa-Hasis said.’
Kothar-wa-Hasis laughed;
he raised his voice and declared:
“Baal the Conqueror, didn’t I tell you?
You’ll recall my words, Baal?
He opened a window in the house,
an opening in the palace.'”
The God of the Hebrews, however, is a more careful builder. After each day he evaluated the work, notes “it is good” (Genesis 1:3,10,12,18,21,25,31) and has no need to resume construction afterwards.
In the version of Ba’al presented here, Ba’al attempts to fight the Sea with a magical club
The club swooped from Baal’s hands,
like a vulture from his fingers.
It struck Prince Sea on the skull
Judge River between the eyes.
Sea stumbled;
he fell to the ground;
his joints shook
his frame collapsed.
Baal captured and pierced the Sea;
he finished off Judge River
But Moses needed neither a sword nor a club, nor even his own power, but only his hand
Exodus 14:21
As did Joshua (thus did the LORD part the Sea and the River)
Joshua 3:14-17
Two character interactions are worth noting. Anat, El’s daughter, seems to be a high maintenance woman and has memorable scenes with both Death and El.
It’s striking how similar Death’s response to being accosted by the goddess Anat. (As she was a single woman she was answerable only to her father — and El is remarkably tolerant of Anat…)
“What do you want, Maiden Anat?
I was taking a walk and wandering
on every mountain in the heart of the earth,
on every hill in the heart of the fields.
.. is to Satan’s description of his activities before God
Job 1:6-7
When Death takes her brother, Anat hysterically threatens El
“Maiden Anat replied:
“My father, El, the Bull, will answer me
he’ll answer me… or else,
I’ll push him to the ground
like a lamb
I’ll make his gray hair run with blood,
his gray beard with gore”
These threats were made in spite of a statement acknowledging that God is the supreme creator
She arrived at El’s encampment,
the tent of the King, the father of Time
One wonders if she made good on her promise
John 19:1-3
or if it was really just us
Mark 27:25-26
And if she, liked us, benefited from the salvation of the cosmos. El was patient with Anat, may He be patient with human sinners also!
El replied from the seven rooms,
from the eight enclosures
“I know you, daughter, how furious you are,
that among goddesses there is no restraining you:
What do you want, Maidan Anat?”
And Maiden Anat replied
“Your decree is wise, El, your wisdom is eternal
a lucky life is your decree.”
El the Father treats the other gods hospitably
“Eat, please drink:
eat some food from the table,
drink some wine from the goblet
blood of the vine from the golden cup”:
as His Son treats us
When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve[a] apostles with Him. Then He said to them, “With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I will no longer eat of it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves; for I say to you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
Luke 22:14-19
Aqhat’s father Danel is specifically referenced along with Noah and Job as righteous gentiles in the Bible
Ezekiel 14:19-20
The story of Aqath is of a Goddess’s greedy wrath against Danel’s son, Aqath. Aqath is struck down, and Danel — a righteous man who judges the orphans and the widows — prays to the God’s for his return.
Danel, the man of Rapau
the Hero, the man of the Marnamite
got up and set down at the entrance of the gate
amon the leaders on the threshing floor
He judged the cases of widows
presided over orphans’ hearings
This matches Job’s descriptions of his own work
“When I went out to the gate by the city,
When I took my seat in the open square,
The young men saw me and hid,
And the aged arose and stood;
The princes refrained from talking,
And put their hand on their mouth;
The voice of nobles was hushed,
And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.
When the ear heard, then it blessed me,
And when the eye saw, then it approved me;
Because I delivered the poor who cried out,
The fatherless and the one who had no helper.
The blessing of a perishing man came upon me,
And I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.
I was eyes to the blind,
And I was feet to the lame.
I was a father to the poor,
And I searched out the case that I did not know.
I broke the fangs of the wicked,
And plucked the victim from his teeth.
Job 29:7-17
Interestingly, the same story includes the Canaanite identification of the deities controlling Egypt
This provides a clue as to the importance of the LORD’s humiliation of them in Exodus
Listen, Lady Danataya
Prepare a lamb from the flock
for Kothar-wa-Hasis’s appetite,
for the desire of the Skilled Craftsman
Give food and drink to the god
serve and honor him,
the lord of Egypt, the god of it all
Both Aqhat and Job deal with the fall-out from tragedy. Job has his famous arguments with the friends who visit him, though in literary merit Job is superior. The context for Aqhat’s actions appear to be the end of mourning, as paid mourners are dismissed from their paid positions
Then, in the seventh year,
Danel, the man of Rapau, spoke:
the Hero, the man of the Harnamite,
raised his voice and declared:
“Leave my house, weepers,
leave my palace, mourners,
leave my court, you who gash your skin.”
And Aqhat himself kicks out the mourners. And unlike Job, which structurally is missing at least two chapters (we are left without a resolution on earth or heaven), Aqhat promises a sequel. The dead boy’s brother, Danel’s daughter, vows revenge
Now bless me, that I may go with your blessing;
favor me, that I may go with your favor.
I will kill my brother’s killer,
put an end to whoever put an end to my mother’s son.
It ends on a cliffhanger! Aqhat’s sister is in the enemy’s tent, having seduced her brother’s murderer…
Twice she gave him wine to drink,
she gave him wine to drink
The Book of Judith, included in the Catholic Deuterocanon, is the only similar Bible story i can think of
And if you follow out the words of your maidservant, God will accomplish something through you, and my lord will not fail to achieve his purposes…. “Therefore, when I, your servant, learned all this, I fled from them; and God has sent me to accomplish with you things that will astonish the whole world, as many as shall hear about them.
Judith 11:6,16
In the Hebrew Bible, the Rephaim are described as “giants,” regularly more than six foot tall and (in the case of King Og) having a bed as wide as a modern queen-size.
“For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the rephaim. Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
Deuteronomy 3:11
But in this story Danel — the father of Aqath from the previous story — invites them to his houes. These are divine ones, supernatural creatures
To his place the Rephaim went
to his place the divine ones went
the warriors of Baal and the warriors of Anat
“Go to my house, Rephaim
to my house I call you,
I call you to the midst of my palace.”
To his palace the Rephaim went,
to his place the divine ones went.
Whatever these things were both the Scriptures and the Canaanite stories agreed they were physically manifest in the land.
Kirta is an anti-Abraham, which is to say Abraham is an anti-Kirta. Kirta longs for a male her, and his focus on his future family and not worldly rewards reminds us of our father in faith.
Why should I want silver or gleaming gold,
along with its land,
or perpetual slaves,
three horses,
chariots in a courtyard,
a slave woman’s sons?
Give me sons that I may want be established,
give me a clan that I may be magnified!”
God instructs him to take a lamb up a mountain and sacrifice it
And the Bull, his father El, replied:
“Enough of your weeping, Kirta,
of shedding tears, Graceful Lad of El.
Wash yourself and put on rouge,
wash your forearms to the elbow,
from your fingers to your shoulder
Enter the shane of your tent;
take a lamb in your right hand,
a young animal in both your hands
the measure of your food that can be poured out.
Take the proper sacrificial bird,
pour wine into a silver goblet,
honey into a golden bowl,
and go up to the top of the tower,
climb to the height of the wall;
raise your hands to heaven,
sacrifice to the Bull, your father El
serve Baal with your sacrifice,
the son of Dagon with your game
The story of Abraham reverse is beginning, with God initially demanding a human sacrifice.
And he said, “Here I am.”
Genesis 22:1-2
Other aspects are reversed as well.
But while the seed of Abraham does not become a mighty army until half a millennium later, under Joshua, the Kirta does not have to wait
Your army will be powerful indeed
three million strong,
soldiers beyond counting,
archers beyond reckoning.
They will go in thousands, like a downpour,
and in ten thousands, like the early rain;
they will go two by two
three by three, all together.
Indeed, even after the Kingdom of Israel is established, it is the second king David, and not the first King Saul, who is known for those “tens thousands”
So the women sang as they danced, and said:
“Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands.”
Then Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now what more can he have but the kingdom?” So Saul eyed David from that day forward.
1 Samuel 18:7-9
though Abraham’s daughter-in-law is said to be the future mothers of tens of ten thousands during her engagement
And she said, “I will go.”
“Our sister, may you become
The mother of thousands of ten thousands;
And may your descendants possess
The gates of those who hate them.”
Genesis 24:57-60
Kirta then is instructed to go to war against a neighboring kingdom. This contrasts with Abraham being able to conceive a son with his old wife
And the Lord visited Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him—whom Sarah bore to him—Isaac. Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him. Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him. And Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and all who hear will laugh with me.” She also said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Genesis 21:1-7
Unfortunately, Kirta vows a sacrifice to another god, which leads his own to abandon him (though in both stories, the alternative is to a “slavewoman’s son” — either theoretical as with Kirta, or already born as with Ishmael)
Give me Lady Hurriya,
the loveliest of your firstborn offspring:
her loveliness is like Anat’s
her beauty is like Astarte’s
her pupils are lapis lazuli
her eyes are gleaming alabaster
Both Abraham and Kirta are accosted for deception, for Abraham it was to protect the well-being of his sister Sarah…
So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid. And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.” Then Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you have in view, that you have done this thing?”
And Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me on account of my wife. But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 20:8-13
…for Kirta it was hiding his own health from his own sister:
“She approached her brother and declared,
“Why did you deceive me?
How many months has he been ill?
How long has he been sick?
And the Hero Ilihu replied:
“For three months he has been ill,
for four Kirta has been sick.
Certainly, Kirta is reaching the end…”
The story concludes with God alarmed by Kirta’s sickness. The assembly of the gods have failed on their own to prevent this injustice
And El the Kind, the Compassionate, replied:
“Who among the gods can expel the sickness, drive out the disease?
But none of the gods answered him.
He spoke a second, then a third time:
“Who among the gods can expel the sickness, drive out the disease?”
But none of the gods answered him….
Indeed, the Heavenly Father often upbraids the divine ones, but being in heaven is not the same thing as matching the power or wisdom of the Creator
God stands in the congregation of the mighty;
He judges among the gods.
How long will you judge unjustly,
And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
Defend the poor and fatherless;
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Deliver the poor and needy;
Free them from the hand of the wicked.
Psalms 82:1-4
The Lovely Gods is the story of the birth of Dusk and Dawn, most notable for the parallels to presentation of Israel and Judah as lovely supernatural women in the Book of Jeremiah. Both stories are presented ironically. Duck and Dawn are “lovely gods,” but endlessly hungry, and the overall effect is like something out of Thomas Ligotti.
Twin lovely gods,
day-old devours, one-day-old boys,
who suck the nipple of the breast.
They sit a lip to earth,
a lip to the heavens.
Then entered their mouths
the birds of the heavens,
and the fish of the sea.
As they move, bite upon bite
they stuffed on both their right and left
into their mouths, but they were not satisfied.
El takes for his own two women, and from these the lovely gods are born
So the two women became wives of El,
wives of El, his forever
He bent down, kissed their lips, their lips were so sweet
sweet as pomegranates
As he kissed, there was conception,
as he embraced, their was passion
The Book of Jeremiah presents a dramatization of Hebrew history, substituting Israel and Judah for the women, and the fullness of Israel as the lovely gods:
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
Jeremiah 3:6-8
The Lovely Gods is also disturbing as Death the Ruler
Death the Ruler sits:
in his hand a staff of bereavment,
in his hands a staff of widowhood.
The pruner prunes him like a vine;
the binder binds him like a vine;
he is felled to the terrace like a vine.”
appears to be a type of God:
John 15:1-8
The Incarnate God of the Bible is often presented as a good guest to have at a party
Matthew 11:18-19
In one of His parables, He castigates sleeing guards, who are not on watchful enough
Mark 13:33-37
El’s Drinking Party may be a literary background of this. The short plot is almost the reverse, with a drunken Moon-God stuck in his animal form. The goddesses try to feed him steak, but are shooed away by the guards.
Astarte and Anat he approached;
Astarte had a steak prepared for him
And Anat a shoulder cut.
The gatekeep of El’s house rebuked them,
not to prepare steak for a dog,
not prepare a shoulder cut for a houand.
Jesus’s reversal of the fault of the guards — instead of being too cautious, bad guards are those who are not cautious enough!
Less seriously, El’s Drinking Party ends with a cure for a hangover — including “hair of the dog”!
What one should apply on his forehead: dog hair;
and the top of pqq and
one should apply them together with fresh olive oil
The Holy Spirit provides numerous empirical methods of identifying the Messiah. The most eloquent Jewish critics of Christianity, like Rabbi Federow, emphasis this in guarding against an identification of Jesus as the promised Son of David.
These Stories from Ancient Canaanite are fascinating. The Bible not only parallels them in many places, but reverses certain elements or themes. These reversal may well be important to fully understanding what the Bible says.
That said, the commentary is not great. The editor assumes the author already understands that the reader knows the pattern of ancient near-East narrative and poetry. The commentary includes unsupported patter about the LORD dethroning El that is found nowhere in the Bible. It is less of an intellectual overview as The Assembly of the Gods, less of a literary introduction than anything by Robert Alter, and less of a rigorous understanding of biblical Context than the works of Michael Heiser. I’m very glad I read it — it is short and thought provoking — but is recommended only for those who have already read other works on the Canaanite background of the Hebrew Bible.
I read the Stories from Ancient Canaanite in the Kindle edition.
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How a Monkey Took Over Kenyan Social Media
Monkey on Gitaru Power Plant
Via KenGen’s Facebook page
Yesterday, a rare thing happened in Kenya. We are usually accustomed to the planned power outages for maintenance and localized outages when there is a fault. This time around,there was a countrywide blackout that lasted for hours and of course people kept on asking Kenya Power on social media about the situation. They later on gave an update of the extent of the problem and the action being done to rectify it.
We still didn’t understand the root cause of the problem until Kenya Power released a presser about the actual cause of the blackout.
Apparently, there was a fault on Gitaru power station, which is among the several ones on Tana River and actually generates the most power in comparison. KenGen is the state parastatal that is tasked with the responsibility of generating power for the country and later on were able to give a conclusive reason why there was a blackout of this magnitude.
It reads:
At 1129 hours this morning, a monkey climbed on the roof of Gitaru Power station and dropped onto a transformer tripping it. This caused other machines at the power station to trip on overload resulting in a loss of more than 180MW from this plant which triggered a national power blackout…
This news of a monkey causing a power blackout in the country was the talk on social media since an action by a rogue animal could actually make the entire country have a blackout was too good to pass it out.
The story has been quoted by major publications around the world and is quickly becoming a popular news item. If you were wondering if the monkey is alive, KenGen confirmed it on their Facebook page within that the monkey is alive and was taken by the KWS. Well, this was indeed a rare reason for a national blackout and we will probably not see one like it ever again.
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California Oranges
August 28, 2011
By 12mscaledonias BRONZE, Tokyo, Other
12mscaledonias BRONZE, Tokyo, Other
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Favorite Quote:
Life is too important to be taken seriously --Oscar Wilde
She sticks out her pink tongue at me and then giggles to herself with her hand placed on her lips and her shoulders hunched. Teehee. Nothing is really funny though. But Leah gets to laugh like that ‘cause she is her and everyone knows it. If I did the same thing all my friends would think I’d gone crazy and was trying to act all cute like one of those girls that act cute just for those damn boys. Those damn sophomore girls. Anyways, Leah is not like them.
Sitting in the locker room is not fun, I dunno why all these kids think it’s cool and sit there for hours trying to look like they’re important or something. But it just so happened I was sitting there, on one of those picnic tables.
Do you wanna play Ninja?
I didn’t know what Ninja was and I don't like playing games that I’m unfamiliar with ‘cause I almost always lose but she tugged on my arm with both her arms and with her full force (which is not that much) with a leg pushing against the bench and everything so then of course I had to play.
Okay, one kung fu chop, two kung fu chop, three!
She swung her arms wildly, she’s like a 4 year-old kid, you know, everything is fun for her, doesn’t worry about anything. Anyways, I won the game though, so that was good.
She’s from California and she had that kind of personality to prove it. Not those b****y girls though, those damn social climbers. For her, everyday was a sunny, warm summer day; bouncing all over the place, always something to say that made people laugh, always someone to ask a piggyback ride for. I was usually the one to run through the cafeteria with Leah on my back while she shrieked and giggled like she was having the time of her life. I admit I had some fun too.
At lunch, I’d peel oranges for her ‘cause her clumsy fingers couldn’t find the right niche to rip the juicy fruit open. California oranges for a California girl. And if she tried, she’d get sour spurts in her eye and she’d make a whining sound and start crying like one big fat baby, rubbing her eyes and waiting for the other kids sitting at the table to play along with her baby act. Helpless.
Sometimes when I'm carrying her I feel like flinging her off my damn back and telling her Dammit! Why won’t you walk like a normal person! I’m not your babysitter! You’re not five! Why do you have to act like a damn baby all the time?! You're a junior in high school! But, I don’t ‘cause that what crazy people do and I’m in no way a crazy person. At least I don’t think so. But anyways, if Sarah had a nervous breakdown, everyone would be okay with it. They’d just say, aww feel better! Attention w****.
And then one day her mother called all the way from the States. She told Leah’s aunt to tell Leah that her parents were getting a divorce. Leah didn’t live with her parents. They didn't like her. They’d sent her away to get a, whatever they call it, better education.
After that, she came to school all quiet and she stopped smiling. Her once honey-eyed morning HI! ’s were now just a grunt of a greeting in my general direction. She didn’t even ask for piggyback rides anymore and she didn’t cry like a damn baby.
No whining.
No crying.
No sheepishly giggling after snatching one of my Kit Kats.
No sneaking up behind me in the locker room to have me chase her through the waves of people.
No no no.
No nothing.
I stopped by after class to carry her book bag like I always did but she’d gone without me. I still offered to peel her oranges though. She looked away and said no.
I found out: she could peel oranges without me.
The author's comments:
So many people come in and out of our lives. I wrote this about a girl who taught me a lot of things about friendship and how people turn out to be a lot more and different than they seem on the surface.
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"Jesus told your church that the rapture is very very soon!
But recently I read a post by a woman who has been visiting heaven. She wrote that before the rapture happens there will first be the “Kingdom Age” where heaven will be brought to earth. She wrote that there are still many generations before the rapture will happen." A friend from Europe
Every encounter, no matter who receives it, it must line up with the Word of God. To discern man's opinion, or what is true and false, we use the word of God as a mirror to look through every experience. I would advise you to compare your question with what the Word of God says. "No one knows the day or the hour." To say the rapture cannot happen now is to set up a time. When Jesus speaks to you, He is the Word and uses the same language He used in the Bible. Even Jesus speaking to John the Apostle 2,000 years ago, He said, "I am coming quickly... soon" Revel 22:7, 20. ""Behold, I come quickly""In just a little while, he who is coming will come and will not delay." Hebrews 22:20.
"I am coming very very soon" is the language of Jesus of the Bible and this is the truth. In all the visitation from the Lord, and there has been plenty, counteless hours... never once have we seen Him saying that He was not coming soon... but we see a man in Luke who thought he had many years to come and he was caught off guard (Luke 12). When Jesus talks to you about end times, there is an urgency in His voice, and we also noticed that Jesus lives every day like the rapture can happen any moment. When we would go to evangelize, sometimes He would say for example "10 people got saved today as you evangelized, 3 will make it through the rapture, 20 will be left behind but repent and make it etc...." Jesus uses the word soon but He would tell us you never know when soon is soon. His soon can be 1 year, a week, a month, years or hours. Indeed there are many times Jesus Soons were really suddenlies. I remember one night, we were talking and the Lord said "Soon this and that..." will happen. In my mind I was thinking about 3 months... well, the next days by 7pm what the Lord had predicted came exactly to pass. The Lord came and He taught me that NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND GOD'S TIMING... IT IS A MYSTERY.
But you can study about the end times in Matthew 24 and the other Gospels, Revelation, Zechariah, Daniel and other books of the Bible, they give the signs of His coming. You can look at the signs, they are every where in the world today, and those signs will show you which season we are in. Study and know about His coming, the wise men studied and understood the season of Jesus first coming and they followed the stars to see Jesus. One of the big signs the Lord gave us about His coming, it came to pass June 26, 2015 when gay marriage was legalized to fulfill "It will be like the days of Lot Luke 17:28). So my friend, use the word of God to discern the encounters... and be extra careful because false statements and encounters have purpose to lead the elect away or at least in this case to make Christians relax thinking there is plently time!
Jesus will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire
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[1865–70, Amer.]
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Spotlight: Alyssa Kazew
What's the difference between real and imaginary anyway?
There's a sense of delirium pervasive in Alyssa Kazew's work; a sort of generalized frenzy woven through the neon disorder of her collections. Her art reminded me of those first few moments after waking up in the middle of the night when I can't tell if my dream, or nightmare, was real; when I'm still parsing out the hypnagogic visions from the bed I wake up in. Her work incorporates unsettling details interwoven with fluorescent portraits at different points along the spectrum of reality: a ghost in a cage, cicadas overtaking the Empire State Building.
Going through her collections gives a vague feeling of adrenaline as bright colors intensify to lurid; imbuing the pieces with a sort of momentum. Calling art 'imaginative' is usually redundant, but there is a defiance of categorization in Kazew's work (strengthened, perhaps, by its theme of androgyny) that makes it feel singular. I talked to Alyssa about what inspires her art, her life in New York and the perfect playlist for making stuff (it really is perfect, I tried it).
THE LE SIGH: Can you tell us a little bit about your background? Where you're from, where you went to school, where you currently live?
Alyssa Kazew: I'm from Mars, Pennsylvania. I went to school at Pratt Institute and I currently live in Brooklyn.
TLS: How do you think your environment has informed your work? Have you felt any difference in terms of the themes of your work as you've moved geographically?
AK: I'm interested in sub-cultures and being inspired by other artists, and New York City is great for that because there's always something happening, and there's always new people to meet and new things to experience. I feel like I've always been interested in the things I like now, but before moving to the city I didn't really have the opportunity or resources to explore them.
TLS: When did you know art was something you'd want to pursue? Did you have a moment where it all started to click, or is it something that has been a theme in your life for a long time?
AK: I've always been making art my whole life.
TLS: Has your outlet changed? For instance, was there a time when you were more focused on a different mode of expression? How has your style transitioned over time?
AK: It all depends, really. I mean, from time to time I'll be more focused on maybe taking photos or other times it changes to drawing. It more or less depends on what outlet would best suit an idea I have. I write poetry on and off as well, and occasionally practice guitar. I also want to get into making clothes in the future. I guess over time I've become more open to trying and mixing various modes of art making, like for example, making a sculpture that's ultimately part of a photo.
TLS: While looking through the pieces on your website, I noticed they were created in what appeared to be different media. Can you explain a little about that? I see some are illustration and some are photographs, but there also appear to be some that are in between: a photograph that also appears to incorporate illustration; the usage of color and light to alter an image. Can you explain a little about how you create the different types of pieces?
AK: Hm, I don't want to reveal too much about my process. I more or less prefer working by hand, and scan my drawings and photos and then assemble them in Photoshop. I like the method of layering in a psychical sense, like taking a photo, photocopying it and then scanning it.
TLS: What do you mean by 'psychical'?
AK: Like, not digital. Not layers in Photoshop. Making photos that could be taken with a digital camera, but printing them and rescanning them (or some variation of that) - so these photos that started as a digital file, go through a process of entering the physical realm and becoming something you can touch and then going back to being a file on a computer.
TLS: Can you identify some themes in your work? How are the categories I, II, and III delineated?
AK: As far as themes go, I don't have a particular theme or idea I abide by. Half of my pieces are documentations of my life at the time and the other half are premeditated, or like a romanticized version of the truth. Oh, and there's really no rhyme or reason to how I have my website set up right now. I'm still in the process of figuring out a more meaningful way to categorize my work. One of my current projects I'm working on is going through thousands of negatives I've taken in Brooklyn over the past five years and condensing them under a "Brooklyn" category. I'll probably remove a lot of the images I have on my site and put all the premeditated, mixed media photos in another category. I usually make things and then figure out what they mean later.
TLS: Have you every talked to anyone about their reactions to your work? Have there been any reactions that have surprised you?
AK: I mean, it's always nice to get feedback for perspective, whether it's good or bad. If another artist I respect likes my art, I'm usually pretty stoked, but other than that, I really don't expect any particular reaction. I guess it all just depends on who the person is that's reacting.
TLS: I wondered what the illustration of the submerged Statue of Liberty was meant to represent. I also noticed that androgyny seemed to be a recurring element of your work. Are there political or social messages in your collections?
AK: That piece was actually an editorial piece for an article about natural disasters in New York City. It doesn't mean anything to me (another part of my website I need to redefine a little better). I'm not trying to make a statement about anything political or social. If I'm not making art for someone or something else, the art I make for myself is solely to make myself happy or document my life. As far as androgyny goes - I do try to live my life in a neutral way, free of/re-appropriating gender roles. And I like to surround myself with people who live their life in a similar way.
AK: I recently moved into a new apartment with a photographer friend of mine, and we plan on using our living room as an installation space for photo projects. So I'm looking forward to starting on that. I'm also in the middle of working on a diptych dickpic involving ouroboros and the Hollywood Hills.
TLS: What is a 'diptych dickpic'?
AK: It's a diptych that involves a dick picture (I thought it was a funny play on words).
TLS: Do you currently support yourself with your art, or do you have additional jobs or commitments?
AK: I wish. Ideally, I'll hopefully be able to support myself with art at some point soon. But in the mean time, I'm the model casting director for the photographer Matthias Clamer. I also babysit, and just started to intern at this art space called The Hole.
AK: My ideal working conditions are a large space on the floor I can sprawl out on and make a big mess. I end up working on my bedroom floor a majority of the time. I always have to have music on. Most of the time I'll pick a song to obsess over and play that on repeat and get into a trance.
TLS: Can you give examples of any songs you've done that with?
AK: So many! Okay okay, I'll just list some of my favorites in no particular order:
"Molly" - John Maus
"Xtal" - Aphex Twin
"Among Dreams" - Ariel Pink
"Sulk" - Trust
"Sucker" - Astrobrite
"Letter to Hermoine" - David Bowie
Most recently I've been obsessed with "I'd Like to Walk Around in Your Mind" by Vashti Bunyan.
Check out more of Alyssa's work here.
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Daredevil Climber Dies After Falling From 62-Story Building
Wu Yongning
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Wu Yongning, a 26-year-old Chinese daredevil roofer, was confirmed dead more than a month after the popular Internet star stopped publishing videos on the Weibo platform. According to reports from the Chinese police, Yongning died on November 8 after falling from the 62-story Huayuan Hua Center, one of the tallest buildings in Changsha, the capital of the Hunan province.
Yongning was making the challenge of “rooftopping” (the dangerous art of climbing to the roof of skyscrapers and high-dimensional structures to take shocking selfies) to earn 100,000 yuan (about USD $ 15,000) in prizes, according to statements from his family to the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, although no details were given about who the sponsor was.
Wu worked as an extra in movies before beginning his career in rooftoping. He began publishing his feats of fearlessness on Weibo, the equivalent of Twitter in China, last February, and with more than a million followers, Wu appeared regularly in social media ads and live broadcast platforms.
His girlfriend, identified only by the last name Fu, called the police on November 9 after Yongning did not return home. Apparently, he ended up risking his life to take home the prize money, according to his stepfather Feng Shengliand.
“He planned to propose to his girlfriend the day after the challenge. He also needed money for the wedding and medical treatment for his sick mother. ”
Wu became famous for climbing skyscrapers without any security equipment, using only his training in martial arts and careful planning, according to one of his publications on Weibo. Until November he had shared almost 300 videos of his adventures on various buildings in China.
In recent years, the popularity of rooftoppers has exploded thanks to social networks, especially under the impetus of Vitaliy Raskalov and Vadim Makhorov, who made themselves known by climbing to the top of the Great Pyramid. But the tragic end of Wu Yongning unfortunately reminds us all of the massive risk taken by these thrill seekers to achieve their great feats.
Carl Frantz
Polyglot, humanitarian, Carl was born in Germany but raised in the USA. He writes mostly on tech, science and culture.
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Google Forms in the Classroom
posted Jan 21, 2013, 1:19 PM by Kate Petty [ updated Jan 21, 2013, 1:20 PM ]
3. You’ve Got to Try This: Google Forms in the Classroom
WRITTEN BY: KATE PETTY - Originally published DEC• 05•11
Okay. I’m the type of teacher that assigns a lot of cooperative group work and, while I do walk around a lot, I also am caught with my feet resting on my desk while I am grading on my laptop.
“What?” You ask…”grading on your laptop?” (I know you’re not offended by the feet on the desk imagery).
Yes! My students responded to three Macbeth quotes with (mostly) in-depth answers and I graded them in about 10 minutes (all three classes) without using any paper.
“How?” You ask. Let me relieve you from your suspense…
Google Forms- yes Google has made it all possible. I’ll explain by using my own class assignment as the example.
The Why:
In the past I’ve always wanted students to analyze important quotes at home before we discuss them in class to avoid “cold” conversations. I’ve used just about every traditional method to attempt to induce some sort of insightful thought- you think I’m ambitious, but wait, just wait.
Here is where Google Forms can inspire thoughtful insight.
The How:
Google Forms is a survey, of sorts. I go to my Google Docs and create a form. I create questions customized to my lesson into one survey and then link or embed the survey on my website- what the students see is a survey that asks questions and provides room for an answer (they can answer on a computer at home or on their smart devices in the classrooms: iPhones, droids, iPods, iPads, etc.). They answer the questions and click submit at the end of the form. What appears in the Google Form I created in my Google Docs account is a spreadsheet (think along the lines of Excel) with the questions in the first row and each student’s response in the columns below the corresponding question.
“Okay, so is this it?” No! It’s not!
The first two questions I pose to the students are (1) What period are you in? and (2) What is your last, first name? Why do I ask these two questions? Because in the spreadsheet form, I can sort the answers by period and then (if the students really paid attention) by alphabetical order.
“Okay, so is that it?” Nope!
It’s a spreadsheet- I make a column at the end for grades! I read the answers straight across the row (right under the questions) and assign the grade in the last cell. I then click return- read across the row, assign a grade, click return, etc…
“Do the grades automatically link to my gradebook?” Sadly, no. But I have a student aide who can enter the grades into my gradebook for me!
“Wow! This is incredible, can it do anything else?” Well- think about all the uses for this tool!
Let’s Take It Even Further
The recent Bloomberg Businessweek article “How to Fix the Education Crisis” recently complained that teachers don’t teach how to analyze data. After reading the article, I couldn’t stop wondering how I, as an English teacher, am supposed to teach how to analyze data. I teach analysis of literature and non-fiction, but how do I teach how to analyze data? I decided to give it a whirl using the Google Forms assignment. My students filled out five forms total- one for each act of Macbeth. Each form had 2-4 quote analysis, short-answer questions. Once the unit was over, I divided the class into five groups, deleted the period and names off the forms and shared the data of a different act with each group. Using the Common Core Standards, I created some “required” questions and told the students they needed to analyze all of the answers to each question in the act they were assigned. Students needed to find the most common answer, the second most common answer, the most uncommon answer, etc. I then gave them a quick tutorial of and told them they were to present their “boring” statistics in an interesting presentation.
The results were beyond my expectations. The students took about 20 minutes to wrap their brains around the assignment overall but got right into the research and then became really enthusiastic about prezis. A positive, unexpected result of this exercise occurred when students saw the responses of other students and thought one of three things, “My responses are wholly inadequate!” or “Hmmm, I guess I’m not supposed to be in texting mode for academic assignments!” or “Sweet, my response kicks butt!” Yes, sadly, some students had two of the three responses and one of those two was not the third.
I can’t wait to think up other ways to use the data from Google Forms and I can tell you, without a doubt, Google Forms will be used religiously in my classroom from now on. Feel free to provide suggestions for using Google Forms and/or its data.
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Widen your vocabulary
– Read a lot: reading a lot helps you widen your vocabulary, and when you do that, it improves your reading, both in speed and in comprehension. This premise is essential.
– Consult dictionaries: It’s not about stopping your reading every time you find an unknown word or something whose meaning you don’t know, because this would make your reading slow and tedious. You must mark the word and continue reading, because most of the times, you’ll find the meaning in the context, without the need to use a dictionary. Nevertheless, once you’ve finished reading the paragraph or the text, you should use a dictionary to look up the words you found. Lastly, read the text again, and this time it won’t be difficult.
– Use the new words you learned: It’s important to get a full and real understanding of a word, using it in different contexts.
– Handle your synonyms and antonyms: you can use synonym and antonym dictionaries to widen your vocabulary.
– Solve crosswords, Swedish-style crosswords, etc.: With them, apart from being entertained, you’ll widen your vocabulary.
– Know the most common acronyms: This way, you won’t stop during your reading every time you find one. There are more every day: UN, NATO, NAFTA…
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Toddlers guide to sleep by A. Toddler
Friday, 7 March 2014
How Not To Sleep: By A. Toddler
* The first rule of sleep club is we do not sleep. The Second rule of sleep club is, we do not sleep.
* Sleep is for the weak. Resist naps at all costs. The only exceptions to the aforementioned rule are:
a) Your Mum or Dad are due to go out somewhere. In this instance, nap. Nap like your life depends on it. They will agonise over whether to wake you or not. If they choose to wake you, this is your golden ticket to tantrum all afternoon. Win! Either way you've thwarted your parents enjoyment. Job well done friend.
b) Later afternoon / early evening naps are always permitted. This will totally fuck with your parents. They have this cute little ideology about routenes. It's our mission to smash this fallacy into smithereens. It's for their own good. Really. One day we'll break the news about the tooth fairy to them too. One fallacy at a time my comrades, nice and gentle. If we nap late, we get to stay up late. Yes, that means Peppa wins over Eastenders. Wine reverts to tea and better still, it reduces the chance of a sibling being made and thus forcing you to share your toys. Epic Win. Now, be warned, Mummy might cry but stay strong. This is for her own good. Parents are manipulative creatures. We're being cruel to be kind.
* If you must nap, ensure you don't let your parents fall into a routene. Every few months change your nap time. Keep them on their toes. We must prevent them from planning around us at all costs. Any security we lull them into must be false. Do not be predictable.
* You must not, ever, go straight to sleep at bedtime. Bedtime isn't relaxing, quiet nor easy. It consists of a complex string of events that must be enacted. We are exercising our parents sanity here, it's an important work out for them. We will be doing them a grave disservice if we didn't do this. Here are just a few of a multitude of ideas that you can utilise to delay sleepytime:
- Need a wee. They're so chuffed we're out of nappies, the thought of us wetting the bed terrifies them. I think the pee must awaken the wet monsters or something. Don't worry, we'll tell them monsters aren't real, when they're old enough to understand it. Do not tgo straight to the toilet, do not pass go, do not collect 200 rusks. Peer into every room along the way. Stare at your willy or wriggle on the seat for a while. Dribble on your PJ's and cry until they put new ones on you. Then scream like the world has ended because they've put the wrong pj's on you.
-Need a poo. Aint nobody want to risk a poo-in-the-bed incident. Make sure you use this excuse after the wee one. Let them put you back in bed first. Whilst on the toilet it is intrinsic you remain alert and awake. Talk to your poo. Grunt lots. Squirm. Take your time.
- Need a drink. Whichever vessel they present your drink in, it's the wrong one. You must tell them this. Make them change it. Twice.
- Want another story. No matter how close they are to a tantrum, they will not deny you this. The Book of Parenting tells them they must read to us. If they decline, we will lose all interest in books. Forever. It will be their fault. A lifetime of failure will await us. Because they wouldn't read to us. Take your time choosing a book. Choose a long one. Then choose another. Cry if they insist you pick just one.
- I'm too hot. When they remove your blanket, tell them you're too cold.
- I'm hungry - If you're lucky enough to still have it on draught, persist until she gets those bad boys out. It's your milk. They're your boobies. She needs reminding of this. If she tries to get you to unlatch, bite. Hard. When she screams, cry. Cry hard and loud. It's important she feels guilty for this. This isn't about you biting her. This is about her making you bite her.
-Want a song - It's important we build up their sense of self worth. Take this one for the team, and let your parents believe they can sing. Try not to cry, I know it's painful to listen to. Whichever song they sing, interrupt halfway through 'no not that one, uvver song'
Be creative. Be firm. It's vital you prolong bedtime as long as possible.
* If you keep teasing a dog with a toy but never actually throw it, they lose interest. It's important to let them feel like they're winning occasionally. Parents are like dogs. We have to make them believe in the possibility of sleep. It's this hope that keeps the going. Otherwise they'll refuse to play again. Start to go to sleep. Make sure you make that little quivery sigh, they love that shit. Let them think they've won. Wait. Wait. Bide your time. You have all night. If you're lucky enough to have a nipple in your mouth, wait until she's unlatched you, let her move away then wake up. Nice and bright. Nice and angry. Cry until she returns it to it's rightful place; your mouth. If they're rubbing or patting you, let them stop, let them ninja move away. Wait until they get to the door. It's important they taste escape. Then, cry. Make them start again, from the top.
You'll be able to practice this rapid return technique around 9-10 times depending on how much Valium is in their system. If they accidentally shout at you. Cry like your heart is broken. If they cry, cry louder. If they beg and plead at you, stare at them in silence, with wide eyes and pouty lips.
* Let them go. If you love something let it go, if it loves you it will come back. This one is all about timing. It will take around 30 minutes for them to believe you're asleep, pour some wine, put a film on etc. They need this thirty minutes. At around 35 minutes, wake up and start shouting for them until they come up to you.
* Finally, on a week day, wake up several times throughout the night then sleep in late. Parents thrive on rushing around in the morning, it helps them feel alive. If they're not knackered their coffee won't have a use anymore. Their world will end.
1. Phahahahaha! Oh my days this has made me laugh so much!
1. ;) never believe even for a second that we the parents are in charge lol
2. Haha, This has had me in stitches and so many points made that I now fully understand from my child.
3. Wonderful little cretins erm i mean darlings aren't they lol
4. this is a great post! made me laugh, especially after I can relate to most of them lol! xxx
5. This made me laugh.. and then cry quietly into my tea. Damn those late afternoon naps.
1. These Toddlers are sent to try us *L*
6. Oh, this is so hilarious! You've got it perfectly right.
7. This is fab! i love it! x
8. This is fab! i love it! xx
9. This just popped up on my news feed.... This is just brilliant!!! Very very funny! And so so true!
1. Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for reading ☺
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That Dumb Cowboy Bush
It’s sure a good thing we got rid of him.
[[Update a while later]
Who lost the Middle East? The wrecking crew in the White House.
[Another update a few minutes later]
Who are the good guys in the Middle East?
Prospects for liberal democracy there have never been bright, except for the one exception of Israel, which was formed by transplants from elsewhere.
Also, related: “Dismiss the Egyptian people, and elect a new one.”
7 thoughts on “That Dumb Cowboy Bush”
1. I see pros and cons to Obama’s policy.
On the pro side, he’s managed to wade into the vast gulf of political differences and unite Egypt, Turkey, and much of the rest of the Middle East into agreeing that Obama is a pathetic excuse for a Democratic leader. He’s a champion of tyranny, injustice, racial animus, religious intolerance, jihadist terrorism, anti-Semitism, and little else.
He’s also sparking a Christian religious renaissance in all of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, since now everyone over there is gratefully thanking God that Obama wasn’t President during the end of the Cold War, since he would’ve told all the anti-Communist protesters in Romania, Poland, Romania, Easter Germany, and elsewhere to shut up, go home, and obey the rule of their legitimately elected representatives in their various politburos. He would’ve decried the ensuing, illegitimate social chaos and demanded they end their vandalism of the Berlin Wall.
His actions have also reassured the Russians, former Soviet republics, and the former East Bloc that yes, the KGB and Stasi really were the good guys, because at least they didn’t bug every phone, all the time.
His Presidential directives have reassured the Chinese government that yes, rule by fiat really is the wave of the future, and their communist/corporate system based on graft, corruption, and naked power really is as legitimate and as progressive as ours.
He’s made every world leader and government take stock, look at themselves, and rightly gain confidence that no matter what their failings, at least they don’t suck as badly as Obama.
On the con side, well, the list is too long to go into (I only type at about 80 wpm and I’m not going to live forever) and Rand is still struggling with hard drive space. Two terabytes can’t possibly contain it all.
1. I’m seeing some “pro” aspects to Obama’s policy of leading from behind. “He’s also sparking a Christian religious renaissance” among other things. He may have halted and turned back the growth of the Caliphate, which was certainly a goal of Al Qaeda. The people in Turkey and Egypt are pushing back on the strict adherence to Sharia and Islam. He could take credit for this, but even if the American media and LIV is fooled; Egyptians are not.
Kudos to Kerry for pulling embassy people out of Egypt. Amazing he can do that and vacation at the same time. At least someone knows how to handle these situations in a timely fashion and make it look easy.
2. Is “liberal democracy” really the best we can hope for these days?
Why is there never anyone suggesting a liberal republic for Egypt, Iraq, Somalia, or whichever “regime change” is the pressing concern of the US this year?
Everyone seems to forget that democracy is inherently abhorrent mob rule until they get under its thumb, but they still inexplicably want to press it into power elsewhere. Why? Is it the delusion that somehow democracy will work better there than it has here? Or is it simply that misery loves company?
1. The delusion is that the populace understands and embraces rule of law, consent of the governed, government reduced to the most localized institution possible (i.e. no Big Federal Government), notions of property rights, the value of individual freedom.
a solid 50% of the US populace don’t even understand thous (yes I’m talking about libs, Progs, and Soccie-Commie symp(athizer)s.
The US populace was born and bread to such notions by way of the original settlers and the vastness of the continent. Egypt has been autocratically ruled by kings for thousands of years.
2. I get really tired about all these tirades against direct democracy. To me this simply means you have eaten up all the propaganda done by Plato and the Roman Empire. Plato. A guy which came from the aristocratic class which thought that people should be ruled by a philosopher king i.e. an enlightened despot. From my point of view Athenian democracy worked just fine as a method of government. It took an alliance with the rest of Greece put together to crush Athenian military might. The much vaunted Spartans couldn’t have done it themselves alone. Athenian wealth was also unsurpassed across all Greece due to their strong trade networks and navy. The supreme irony is the Athenian democracy itself survived long after the Spartans themselves crumbled. It even survived the Hellenic age until the time of the Roman Empire.
The fact is the democracy survived for the better part of 500 years. I think it is pathetic to consider it a failed way of government.
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2001-2002 UAF Catalog
Academic Regulations
Grading System and Grade Point Average Computation
All course grades are letter grades unless otherwise specified in the class schedule. The method of grading (letter or pass/fail) is an integral part of the course structure and is included in the course description. It is the same for all students taking the course. Instructors are expected to state their grading policies in writing at the beginning of each course. Grades appearing on academic records are as follows:
When the I grade is given, the instructor will include a statement of the work required of you to complete the course and the time limits you have to complete the work. The maximum time to be allowed is one year. At the end of the defined time limits, the instructor may issue a grade based on the work turned in. If the instructor does not change the I grade, it becomes permanent at the end of one year. The I grade is not computed in your GPA. You can't graduate with an I grade in either a UAF degree or major course requirement.
Computing Your GPA
Your grade point average (GPA) is a weighted numerical average of the grades you earn in your courses at UAF. To compute your GPA, the total number of credits you have attempted is divided into the total number of grade points you have earned. Grade points are calculated by multiplying the number of grade points awarded, according to the chart below, by the number of credits attempted for the course. The following grades are figured in your GPA: A, B, C, D and F. Grades of I, DF, W, P, AU and CR don't carry grade points and don't affect your GPA. Non-credit courses, transfer credits and credit by examination do not affect the GPA calculations.
Grade Grade Points per Credit
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B 3.0
C 2.0
D 1.0
F 0.0
Repeating Courses
All grades (original and retakes) for a course completed at UAF will be shown on the permanent record. For scholastic standing calculations, the GPA calculation for graduate students includes all courses listed on your advancement to candidacy (including repeats and undergraduate courses approved for your program). If you haven't been advanced to candidacy yet, your GPA will include all courses (including repeats) you have taken since your admission to graduate study.
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Mudlark No. 39 (2010)
Refrigeration system, like pneumatic system, operates under controls which are independent of the molding and vending cycle.
Thermostat which controls refrigeration system is located on right side of top panel. Thermostat should be set at “4” to keep coolant at approximately 25 degrees Fahrenheit.
If at any time your newborn has a fever in excess of 100.4 degrees, as measured by an axillary thermometer, he or she may be on the verge of composing a poetic masterpiece. Call the after-hours help line immediately.
Thermo-switch attached to circulating pump is a safety switch which prevents MOLD-A- RAMA from operating if temperature of coolant is not low enough. Not all models are equipped with this feature. Your pediatrician can verify your model using your infant’s nine-digit serial number.
Applying for this number is voluntary.
But, your child needs a number if you plan to —
Claim your child as a dependent on your income tax return;
Open a bank account;
Buy savings bonds;
Obtain medical coverage; or
Apply for some kind of government services for your child.
I have an irrational fear of randomly generated numbers, I’m unable resist the urge to dislodge obvious patterns, the clear evidence of tampering. Random never looks random enough.
Your child’s serial number is just the beginning of the valuable protection and benefits he or she may be eligible for in the future.
You’re frightened of hotel bedspreads; I have an inexplicable predilection for the blueprints of imaginary space-aged machines; we find ourselves unable to make use of the changing stations in public restrooms.
Below the heat exchanger is a pan with a coil to evaporate surplus condensation.
(Schematic diagram of refrigeration system follows this page.)
Drew Dillhunt | Mudlark No. 39 (2010)
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430 – Personnel Files; Release Of Information
A confidential file of employment records shall be maintained for each employee in the central administration office. Included in the file shall be the following, without limitation: licenses and transcripts if required, employment application, references, contracts of employment, formal evaluations, disciplinary reports, and wage information. Information on leave usage may be maintained separately. Confidential health information, such as physical forms, sick or long-term disability leave days, worker’s compensation claims, emergency information, family and medical leave request forms and reasonable accommodations to accommodate an employee’s disability, shall be maintained separately.
Except in limited instances, only the Superintendent, the Director of Human Resources, the employee’s immediate supervisor, the building principals, the Board secretary, the employee, and authorized representatives of the District or of the employee shall have access to the confidential employee files without the employee’s consent or a valid subpoena. However, information for tax purposes, for qualification for benefits, and for wage garnishment may be released.
Employees who have listed the District as a place of employment or who have listed a District employee as a reference shall be deemed to have granted permission to the District to release information which may be included in the personnel file. Information from confidential health records shall not be released, however, without permission of the employee. This does not preclude release of leave usage information to a prospective employer, however.
The following information only will be confirmed to any entity with whom an employee has applied for credit or has obtained credit: title of position, income, and number of years employed. This information will be released without prior written notice to the employee. Confidential information about the employee will not be released to an inquiring creditor without a written authorization from the employee.
Each employee shall have the right to review the contents of his/her own confidential personnel file maintained in the central administration office, except for confidential credentials or reference letters. An employee desiring to view the contents of his/her file shall make a request to the Superintendent or his/her designee. No papers may be removed from the file, but copies may be obtained. The employee shall have the right to respond in writing to materials contained in the file.
All employee records, except payroll and salary records, shall be maintained for a minimum of seven years after termination of employment with the District. Applicant records shall be maintained for a minimum of seven years after the position was filled.
Date of Revision: February 12, 2007
Legal References: 22.7(11), 91B.1, 91B.2, 141A, 273.1, 279.8, 279.15, Code of Iowa; 281 I.A.C. 12.4(10), 12.4(11); 12.4(14), 282 I.A.C. 12.3(3)(d)
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Flavors of Peru
Sunday, June 20, 2010
-Peruvian food at it's best involves deep frying.-
I know as much about Peruvian food as I do about the Large Haldron Collider, which is to say I know the general premise of it. Peruvian food involves smashing potatoes, the LHC smashes protons. They're similar in that they both demand smashing of things. That limited amount of knowledge on both subjects has served me well enough and there has been little need or desire to pursue either any further.
However, when my co-worker, Estrella, invited me to a Peruvian food festival I decided that this was a golden opportunity to learn about a foreign cuisine I knew little about. Looking through the flyer she gave me it listed all sorts of tasty sounding goodies which my limited Spanish was unable to translate. I saw the words arroz verde (green rice) and masa morro (red corn) but that didn't tell me much.
-Sweet potato doughnuts. Smother these with maple syrup and you're good to go.-
I knew through my thesis research was that Peruvian food's primary food source is potatoes. I'm not saying Russets or Yukons, but any number of varieties and all sizes and colors such as bright green Emerald potatoes, oblong pink and purple potatoes, and tiny, red potatoes the color of a matchhead. Other key ingredients are apples, red corn, rice, and just as famous as the potatoes, Guinea pigs. It's a strange mountain ritual using the familiar and unfamiliar in creative ways to make dishes that are both strange and comforting.
Take, for example, the sweet potato doughnuts. Each culture has a delicious fried dough recipe that they hold dear. Here a sweet potato dough was slowly poured out into boiling dough like a churro or funnel cake. They were served with a bit of maple syrup, a modern, new world ingredient for Peruvian communities in America; one they've happily adopted.
-Peruvian food is awesome.-
Right across from the sweet smell of doughnuts the hot sizzle of vinegar and oil in cast metal pans echoed outside. Here bits of skirt steak were tossed with onions and tomatoes in a blazing hot pan. A few quick turns in a pepper vinaigrette and the mix was laid atop of fries and rice with a small dollop of neon green chili sauce. The flavor was epic, sour and savory it burst with flavor while the chili provided a subtle heat that enhanced with pungency of the flash-cooked vinaigrette.
-Alfajores. A shortbread cookie sandwich filled with dulce de leche.-
Inside, away from the smoke and oil, other dishes bubbled away. Lamb layered with cilantro and culantro. Next to that piles of empanadas sat steaming; you could hear their crispy skins crunching underneath the weight of each other. The next table over had piles of roast Guinea Pig slathered in chili sauce. Potato dumplings in a molten aioli so spicy you were compelled to drink the morro fresca, a drink of boiled red corn and apples that's sweetened and strained, in order to cool your fiery tongue.
Potato dishes of every kind were readily available from smashed to mashed, boiled to fried, in desserts to drink and each was new and different.
-A sort of Peruvian stir-fry. Seasoned with vinegar and black pepper. Crazy tasty.-
Desserts were there in plenty, another red corn and apple pudding mixed with cinnamon was the most popular treat, but alfajores, bread and rice puddings, and even small Napoleon like desserts were available.
It was as educational as it was tasty. I, sadly, can't recall the names of most of these dishes. I wasn't writing it down and the Peruvian names to these dishes were for the most part so foreign to me that I won't even try to recreate them for you out of fear that I may simply butcher them so badly that I'll accidentally utter some strange and forgotten Lovecraftian curse. Furthermore it was one of those situation where I was so focused on the flavors and the eating that the details are all lost to me in the ether of deliciousness.
Regardless, I came away from the festival with this: Peruvian food is too unknown and under-appreciated. If you find the opportunity to go to a Peruvian restaurant, do so. You'll find a riveting new cuisine that's just bound to surprise you.
-Red corn and apple pudding. Incredibly rich. The red corn isn't so much a flavor, but rather makes the pudding thick and gives it the deep burgundy color.-
P.S. Vanilla Garlic has a new fan page on Facebook. Be sure to become a fan to show your Vanilla Garlic support and get updates. Thanks! ~Garrett
1. Fried stuff and dulce de leche, sold! Love your Hadron Collider reference and at least you actually understand the premise vaguely - my brother worked there on and off for a couple of years and I still have to smile and nod when he's talking about it because my brain...well, he got the brains in the family, let's say ;P
2. You gave me a good chuckle this morning. I, too, knew very little about Peruvian cuisine beyond the penchant for potatoes. I can now consider myself more informed and I'm certain I would devour each dish you pictured here.
3. Wow this makes me hungry. Have you ever tried Argentine alfajores? My friend's mom makes them. The shortbread cookie is lemon scented, the dulce de leche is the same, but then they roll the edges in coconut. They're to die for.
4. I just came back from a volunteering trip to Peru and you're right, unknown and underappreciated it is! Most of what we ate was made by the women in the small villages we were working. What I was most amazed with was the utter simplicity of ingredients and the purity of the food. Lomo fino seasoned purely with salt and pepper and grilled... yum!
And then of course there's the pisco sours which are delicious and deadly.
I've been trying a new Peruano recipe at least a few times a month ever since I got back and it's so exciting to see others appreciating it too.
5. any thoughts on where i could get a good recipe for said "crazy good" peruvian stir-fry?
6. Your blog's as beautiful as ever Garrett!
7. Hi: I am peruvian and i would write the name of those dishes. The sweet potatoe dough is mixed sweet potatoes with pumpkin. The name is picarones ( pee kah ro nes). The stir fry beef is called lomo saltado. The purple corn refreshment is called chicha morada, amd the purple corn dessert is called mazamorra morada combined with the rice pudding we use to call it combinado.
The culantro beef stew is called seco de carne usually it's served with mashed and refried lima beans rice and/or potatoes. The traditional is made with sheep meat so we use to call it seco de cordero.
I loved your post and it made me proud to know more people in the world are enjoying our cuisine.
In the 30's the renowned french chef Auguste Escoffier said the peruvian cuisine is a hidden treasure and he placed our cuisine at the same level of the french and the chinese.
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POETIC ANTHOLOGY | Vinicius de Moraes
backBooks of Poetry
Rio de Janeiro, A Noite, 1954
Organized by the author himself, this book is the first anthology of Vinicius’s work. Published in 1954, although the first edition does not have the date, is reprinted enlarged in 1960 by the Editora do Autor publishing house, owned by his friends Rubem Braga and Fernando Sabino. In the 1954 edition, is the same Rubem Braga who signs the book flap.
The Anthology accounted a trajectory of 21 years of publications, with books being sold out or of extremely limited editions. In the introduction of the first edition, Vinicius gives his explanation for the gathering of the texts chosen by the author (identified by him as "A."):
"Could this book be divided into two parts, corresponding to two distinct periods in the poetry of A.
The first part, transcendental, usually mystical, resulting from his Christian phase, ends with the poem "Ariana, a Mulher” (Ariana, the Woman), published in 1936. Except for some minor amendments here and there, the only significant change in this part was reducing the poem "O Cemitério da Madrugada” (The cemetery of dawn) on the initial four stanzas, in which A. considered an old idea of his friend Rodrigo M.F. de Andrade.
The second part starts with the poem "O Falso Mendigo” (The False Beggar), which is, according to A, written in opposition to the previous transcendentalism. There is some poetry of the book “Novos Poemas” (New Poems), also represented in the first phase, and the other verses later published in books, magazines and newspapers. In it, the approaching movements of the material world are clearly distinguished, with the hard but consistent rejection to the idealism of the early years.
Inwardly, the Five Elegies (1943) was added as a representative of the transitional period between those two contradictory trends - it was also a book where they had better come together and merged in search of an own syntax.
Despite some differences, easily verifiable in the index, they imposed the chronological criteria for a true impression of what was the struggle maintained by A. against himself in a sense of liberation, today achieved, from the prejudices and annoyances of his social status and environment, which both, and so uselessly, afflicted his upbringing.
Los Angeles, June 1949”.
Bibliographical Note
The flaps of the first edition bring the following quotation written by Rubem Braga (1913-1990):
This book brings together the largest and the best part of the work of one of the great poets of Brazil.
Vinicius de Moraes was born in Rio in 1913, where he graduated from Law School and started, through official examination, his diplomatic career. He served for four years in the Brazilian consulate in Los Angeles and is currently working as secretary of our embassy in Paris. His first book was “The path to the distance,” from which little was utilized in this selection, followed by Ariana, the woman and form and exegesis, with which he won the Felipe de Oliveira Award. Afterwards, he published “New Poems,” “Five Elegies,” “Poems, Sonnets and Ballads” and “Homeland of mine,” which consolidated his name, on the consensus of criticism, as the best poet of a group of poets who at present have got into their forties.
Some of these books were published in limited editions; all are sold out a long time ago, and with that the great admirers of Vinicius de Moraes know only a small part of his work. Thus, this selection, singled out by the poet himself with the help of friends - especially Manuel Bandeira – acquires considerable importance, since it allows a study of the evolution of the poet and the admiration of the uppermost and best, he has done.
Coming from a religious background of mysticism to a distinctly sensuous poetry that later turns into verses marked by a deep social feeling, Vinicius’s work has as a constant, a lyricism of great strength and purity. At the risk of incurring the censure of those who take their puritanical concerns to the arts field, the friends of the poet, particularly the one signing this note, and thus is responsible for this resolution, didn’t want to delete some stronger words or expressions that very seldom appear in his verses. This will cause to be no advisable the presence of this book in juvenile hands - but protects the purity of his poetry, that everything, in poetry, transforms. We are certain that, with the publication of this book, the work of Vinicius de Moraes will reach more popularity, and he will have, among the public, the place of honor that has long occupied the spirit and feeling of poets and critics.
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Facts about Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh died at 53 years old
Birthplace: Darjeeling, India
Best known as: Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind
Vivien Leigh Biography
Name at birth: Vivian Mary Hartley
Vivien Leigh didn’t make many films, but she made movie history with her portrayal of Scarlett in Gone With the Wind (1939, opposite Clark Gable), winning her first Oscar. Leigh’s affair and marriage to actor Laurence Olivier was just as famous as her ambitious effort to play the lead in what was then — and maybe still is — Hollywood’s biggest event. Her appearances in film were few and far between, but she won another Oscar in 1951 for A Streetcar Named Desire (with Marlon Brando). Her marriage to Olivier ended in 196O, and Leigh’s final years were spent battling manic-depression and tuberculosis.
Something in Common with Vivien Leigh
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