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Clippers rain threes early, beat Bulls 112-95
Jonathan Daniel
The Clippers made 10 of their first 11 three pointers early, and climbed on Blake Griffin's back late in a solid win over the Bulls in Chicago.
The Los Angeles Clippers played an absolutely terrible first quarter in Chicago against the Bulls Friday night. They allowed the Bulls, a team that averages 93 points a game and is ranked 28th in the NBA in offensive efficiency, to score 26 points on 12-24 shooting, including fully 20 points in the paint. The game was four minutes old before the Clippers got a rebound, and by that time the Bulls already had five boards -- of their own misses. It was a defensive disaster.
And it didn't matter a bit, because the Clippers couldn't miss, and in particular they couldn't miss from three point range. The Clippers led after one quarter 41-26, making 14-19 overall and 7-8 from deep. The seven three pointers was a franchise record for made threes in a quarter. The 41 points was the most the Bulls have given up in a quarter in several seasons under Tom Thibodeau. In fact, the Bulls must be feeling a bit snakebit after running into a white out Clippers team twice this season. The Clippers have now hung 121 and 112 on the Bulls, the two highest point totals Chicago has allowed in regulation this season.
But back to that first quarter. Teams can play well and lose; and conversely teams can play badly and win. The Clippers cleaned up their act some as the game wore on, but make no mistake: they did not play well in the first quarter, nor even in the first half. They SHOT well, but they did not play well. There's a difference.
Certainly the Clippers executed well on offense. They made 10 of their first 11 threes in part because they were moving the ball and finding good shooters for open looks. Of those ten first half threes, five were from the corner: one of the best shots in basketball, and consequently a shot that Thibodeau hates to give up. The Clippers offense was working to get those looks -- and then they made them.
The defense on the other hand: yikes.
I happened to watch the ESPN broadcast tonight. Mike Tirico and Jon Barry don't send me over the edge the way guys like Kevin Harlan and Reggie Miller do, and it's interesting to get the national TV perspective from time to time. Because I was on ESPN, I got to hear Doc Rivers' first quarter coach's remarks, and I'm glad I did, because he succinctly made a point that I've tried to make on the blog many times. When asked by Heather Cox about the seven made threes in contrast to the six they made all game in Charlotte, Rivers said:
It's a make-or-miss league. We got great looks the other night; they didn't go in. Tonight they're going in; and we're going to keep shooting them every night.
The Clippers' are among the worst three point shooting teams in the league by percentage, but Rivers does not view this as a team that shoots the long ball poorly. He knows that six of his top eight shooters are below their career numbers, and only one is above. He further knows that for the Clippers to be the team that he wants them to be, to be a team that can compete deep into the playoffs, they must be effective from beyond the three point line. If they don't take open threes, they have essentially already lost their chance, because good NBA teams make three pointers, and lots of them. This team was built to shoot threes, and that's just how it is. The common refrain of "If they're not going in then stop taking them" sounds simple enough -- but it is flat wrong.
Of course, it would be nice if we could trade a couple first half makes in Chicago for a couple of second have misses in Charlotte and come away with two wins in those two games, but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. The Clippers seem to run hot and cold (or more accurately, red-hot and ice-cold) from deep, and that's a problem. One can only hope they can find some consistency in the second half of the season. Overall, they remain well below what one would expect from theis group certainly.
The good news is that the Clippers could very well have given this game back, but they did not. Despite their crazy good shooting and 68 first half points, they led by only 13 at the break. The Bulls cut the lead to single digits a couple times in the third quarter, and seemed to be building some momentum. But the Clippers always put together a basket and a stop to turn the tide, and more often that not Blake Griffin was at the center of the surge.
It's one thing to go for 26, 13 and seven; it's quite another thing to do it against the Chicago Bulls, while being defended by Joakim Noah. And for some reason, the officials basically decided not to call ANYTHING, on either end, in this game. There were 17 fouls called on each team in the game. Teams shoot the bonus on the fifth foul each quarter: so 17 fouls probably means that teams weren't in the bonus for at least two of four quarters. How often does that happen?
At some point it seemed like the officiating crew just made a conscious decision that the game was over, that the Clippers were just too hot and nothing would change that, and wanted the game to end as quickly as possible. On one play Noah fouled Griffin going for a strip, then tried to wrap him up on an intentional foul -- with no call. (Griffin to referee Leon Wood: "Come on Leon.") Noah fouled Griffin hard the next time down also -- still no call. (Griffin to Wood: "COME ON LEON!") Early in the fourth quarter, Taj Gibson simply grabbed Hedo Turkoglu's left arm after he was badly beaten, and Hedo almost made a one handed shot with his left arm trailing behind him, firmly attached to Gibson -- no call. At least the officials were consistent -- Griffin and Jordan challenged many Chicago shots at the rim with plenty of contact and no call. Maybe Wood had a date, who knows.
The Clippers improve to 3-2 on the road trip, and even their road record on the season at 12-12. This was a Bulls team that had been winning a lot of games (though it's hard to say how exactly), so beating them convincingly on the road, while playing without Chris Paul, is a nice win. Yes the victory was abetted by a bunch of three pointers -- but the Clippers won the second half as well, while making only three long balls.
The Clippers now head to Toronto tomorrow to play the improved Raptors, who are also coming off a win today.
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We demonstrate that the activity of the major DNA topoisomerase I from calf thymus is severely inhibited after modification by purified poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase. Polymeric chains of poly(ADP-ribose) are covalently attached to DNA topoisomerase I. These observations with highly purified enzymes suggest that poly(ADP-ribosylation) may be a cellular mechanism for modulating DNA topoisomerase I activity in response to the state of DNA in the nucleus. Although extensive poly(ADP-ribosylation) of the Mr = 100,000 DNA topoisomerase I from calf thymus resulted in greater than 90% enzyme inhibition, exogenous poly(ADP-ribose) does not, by itself, inhibit topoisomerase activity. After modification, the apparent molecular weight of both the topoisomerase enzyme protein and of the topoisomerase enzyme activity was increased. In vitro, the extent of modification of DNA topoisomerase I could be controlled either by changing the ratio of topoisomerase to the synthetase or by varying the reaction time. More than 40 residues of ADP ribose per topoisomerase molecule could be added by the synthetase. Analysis of a poly(ADP-ribosylated) topoisomerase preparation that was about 50% inhibited revealed an average polymer chain length of 7.4, with 1-2 chains per enzyme molecule. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '900fddc28bd5fad4a45d264bba2491ba14c3f11a1b154a9df6a82aad17943039'} |
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Jail officials confirmed that Waka Flocka Flame, whose real name is Juaquin James Malphurs, was arrested by the Houston County Sheriff’s Office and is being held on a probation violation. He was taken into custody on Tuesday. The nature of the probation violation was unknown Wednesday. He received probation for a charge of possession of a sawed-off shotgun.
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President Obama’s Nuclear Policy
Since taking office, the Obama Administration has sought to enact policies that would fundamentally change premises on which the U.S. nuclear posture has lain since the dawn of the nuclear age. If Congress fails to act to prevent them, the United States will end up weaker and allies around the world will further question the validity and credibility of U.S. nuclear security guarantees.
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On the Road to Zero
President Obama entered office with a vision he articulated in his 2009 speech in Prague where he committed to work toward a world free of nuclear weapons. He said: “So today, I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” .1 This statement is deeply rooted in a belief that if the United States rids itself of nuclear weapons, other countries will somehow miraculously follow its lead and give up their respective arsenals. Yet, historical evidence contradicts this assumption. South Africa gave up its nuclear weapons while the United States maintained and tested its nuclear arsenal. North Korea and Pakistan conducted tests of their nuclear weapons after the United States self-imposed nuclear weapons moratorium.. The “world without nuclear weapons” really means the “world without U.S. nuclear weapons” in President Obama’s understanding.
In Prague during the same speech, President Obama also said that the United States “will maintain a safe, secure and effective arsenal.” .2 These words have not been backed up by tangible actions. U.S. nuclear infrastructure is in the worst shape in its history. U.S. nuclear weapons, built with a life expectancy of about 10 years, are now approaching 28 years on average. The United States has never had such an old nuclear arsenal. The weapons it currently has are poorly suited to missions that occurred since the Soviet Union split since they are based on 1970s technologies. U.S. nuclear delivery vehicles do not fare much better. In 2030, when the United States plans to start replacing its systems, it will have 60-year-old intercontinental range ballistic missiles (ICBMs), 40-year-old submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), and 35-year-old to 70-year-old bombers. A Trident SLBM replacement is not projected until 2042..3
In 2010, the Administration published its Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The document, which is designed to state presidential priorities and policy boundaries for the executive branch, reiterated a policy that has been detrimental to the nuclear weapons complex since enacted in the early 1990s. This policy precludes nuclear weapons testing, including any yield-producing experiments. .4 It establishes a policy of no new weapons, no new missions, and no new military capabilities.
The NPR also redefined U.S. negative security assurance “by declaring that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states that are party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations.” This is somewhat troubling because under some circumstances, biological and chemical weapons can inflict as many casualties as nuclear weapons.
The Past, the Present, the Bleak Future
The Obama Administration also negotiated a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. The treaty is a case study in failed U.S. negotiations and is the first arms control treaty in the history in which one side, the United States, has to reduce its nuclear arsenal while the Russian Federation gets to build up. The treaty is a throw-back to the Cold War since it re-establishes a link between strategic offensive and defensive arms. It failed to address the massive disparity in short-range nuclear weapons systems and does not provide for a proper verification regime. This means that over time, the United States will have an increasingly worse understanding of the Russian Federation’s strategic posture.
This problem will be exacerbated by the fact that since New START entered into force, Moscow launched the most expensive nuclear weapons modernization program in its history and has been conducting low yield nuclear weapons experiments. Well aware of these disparities, the Obama Administration certified to the Senate that it would increase investments to the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, currently comprising about one percent of the Department of Defense’s budget. The complex has been described as “decrepit” and has been underfunded for years. In addition, it has taken on other missions not solely focused on nuclear weapons programs, which means not all the resources in that one percent are dedicated to nuclear modernization.
The Obama Administration’s promises have not survived even a year after New START entered into force. Key facilities have been delayed and funds decreased below the Administration’s promised level. While it is true that congressional appropriators cut this funding, the Obama Administration took no effort to prevent these cuts from occurring. Sequestration mandated by the Budget Control Act introduces another layer of uncertainty regarding the future of U.S. nuclear modernization plans.
Even Worse
Even worse, another shoe has yet to drop. Last year, the Administration concluded an NPR implementation study. The study has not been made public yet but it is widely expected that it will recommend steps toward a “minimal deterrence” posture. This would mean further nuclear weapons reductions, potential changes in U.S. targeting and employment policy, or changes in the composition or basing modes of the triad. For decades, successive administrations considered relying on minimal standards of force adequacy to be risky.
The Obama Administration policies are creating a gap between U.S. nuclear capabilities and the future demands of the uncertain strategic environment. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates stated “To be blunt, there is absolutely no way we can maintain a credible deterrent and reduce the number of weapons in our stockpile without either resorting to testing our stockpile or pursuing a modernization program.” .5 The Administration is not intent on doing either.
Michaela Bendíková is a Research Associate for Strategic Issues at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC.
1. Remarks by President Barack Obama, Hradcany Square, Prague, April 5, 2009, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/…As-Delivered.
3. Mark Schneider, “After New START,” National Review Online, Juli 21, 2011, at http://www.nationalreview.com/…-b-schneider.
4. Nuclear Posture Review Report, April 2010, at http://www.defense.gov/…20report.pdf.
5. Robert Gates, “Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence in the 21st Century,” speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, October 28, 2008, at http://carnegieendowment.org/…_checked.pdf.
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Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997)
The word "elf" comes from the Saxon ælf, derived from the Nordic "Alfar", one of several groupings of Dwarfs. However, in Celtic myth elves are more closely related to the world of Faerie, which makes them creatures of light and air, whereas dwarfs are creatures of darkness and earth. In early Folktales there is considerable overlap between the two "species", and the mischievous attributes of dwarfs may be equally possessed by elves – especially brownies and pixies. Goblins and leprechauns are more dwarflike beings, but have many of the attributes of faerie folk. Elves, certainly as depicted by J R R Tolkien but also as portrayed in some early Fairytales, tend to be more graceful than dwarfs, are seemingly ageless, and are generally not warlike. The elf race splits between good and bad, just like the faerie realm. In Nordic myth the good elves live in Alfheim while the black (bad) elves live in Svartheim. The Svarts are shown as dwarfs or goblins; this manifestation was used by Alan Garner in The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and The Moon of Gomrath (1963).
In Die Elfen (1811) Ludwig Tieck depicted an Elfland indistinguishable from Faerie and with the same time displacement (> Time in Faerie). Throughout the Victorian period, elves and fairies are interchangeable. A subset of fictional elves – brownies – were considered to appeal particularly to children. Brownies derive from Scottish Folklore, where they are depicted as helpful faerie folk who attach themselves to a household and assist in running it; if they are offended, though, their mischievous side surfaces and they become hobgoblins (> Goblins). They are portrayed in this way as elves by the Grimm Brothers in "The Elves and the Shoemaker" (1812); James Hogg described them in "The Brownie of Black Haggs" (1828); memories of these tales inspired Juliana Ewing (1841-1885), who depicted them in "The Brownies" (1865 Monthly Packet). This suggested the idea of calling helpful children "brownies", which is how the name was eventually adopted into the Girl Guides in 1919. Brownies were also popularized in the USA by Palmer Cox (1840-1924) with his illustrated brownie poems in St Nicholas Magazine, which later appeared in the first of several books, The Brownies: Their Book (coll 1887). The popularity of these books meant that the brownie was firmly entrapped in the realm of Children's Fantasy.
It was not until the 20th century that authors sought to establish elves as a distinct part of Faerie, especially as it gave an opportunity to use faerie folk but to distinguish the stories from Fairytales and brownie tales. Elves thus became acceptable adult "packaging" for fairies, and in that sense brought certain adult attributes with them. 20th-century elves ceased to be playful and mischievous: they became secret guardians of Faerie, aristocratic and full of the wisdom of the ancient world. Lord Dunsany took readers some way there in The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924), and Poul Anderson went much further in The Broken Sword (1954), but the transformation was completed by J R R Tolkien, particularly in The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955). Tolkien's image of elves now dominates most Genre Fantasy. Typical examples are: the parallel elfin world in Kingdoms of Elfin (coll 1977) by Sylvia Townsend Warner; the haughty Sidhe in Greg Bear's Songs of Earth and Power sequence; the Alfar novels by Elizabeth Boyer; the Elvish sequence by Nancy Berberick; the Arafel tales by C J Cherryh, about the last surviving elf; Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett; and the Elfquest stories by Wendy and Richard Pini.
Other authors have portrayed Wainscots of elves surviving in our world; Jane Curry's Beneath the Hill sequence is a finely structured example. In his creation of the Borribles in The Borribles (1976) and its sequels, Michael de Larrabeiti returned to the original mischievous image of elves.
Different aspects of elves and their kin are covered in the anthologies Little People! (anth 1991) ed Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois (1947- ) and Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves (anth 1991) ed Alan Dean Foster and Martin H Greenberg. [MA]
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India v Australia: Ashton Turner blitzkrieg provides tasty prospect ahead of Australia's Cricket World Cup defence
Written By James Pavey
Ashton Turner
Indian fans left the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Mohali scratching their heads, mostly in the thought of their side letting 358 slip, but also to the hand of a guy they'd never heard of before.
They have now, and could see more of him still, with Ashton Turner being picked up by Rajasthan Royals late in the 2019 auction.
In just an hour's work after arriving to the crease on Sunday, Turner helped engineer Australia's highest-ever ODI run chase, and the fifth-highest of all time.
Australia's previous high was the 334 chased down against England at SCG in 2011. That day, the Aussies got there in the final over.
Such was player-of-the-match Turner's blitzkrieg, that in Mohali, Australia had 13 balls to spare.
HOW IT HAPPENED: Turner onslaught follows Handscomb ton as Australia level series
Turner (378 runs at 31.50) was the seventh-highest run-scorer in BBL08, and all players above him bar one - Marcus Stoinis - played more games than him.
However, his season was more miss than hit, registering five single-digit scores in his last six knocks for the Scorchers.
Now, with Australia's World Cup defence just over two months away, and with the squad being named on April 23, Turner has thrown his name up in lights thanks to his effortless Mohali masterclass.
If it wasn't for Stoinis breaking his thumb prior to the match, Turner may not have even played in Mohali at all.
"I turned up to the ground today and Marcus was doing a fitness test... he's got a broken thumb," Turner said after the match.
"He's a pretty tough bloke so I thought he'd get up and play and I'd be running drinks again.
"I feel like I've had a great opportunity to hit lots of balls in the nets and get used to these conditions behind the scenes.
"I had a lot of confidence I was ready to go if I was given the chance."
After Shikhar Dhawan (143 from 115) and Rohit Sharma (95 from 92) set the standard with a 193-run opening stand in 31 overs, India stuttered to 9/358 with Pat Cummins (5/70) snatching his first ODI five-wicket haul.
When Aaron Finch (0) and Shaun Marsh (6) were both castled, leaving Australia 2/12, the foundations were laid with a 192-run third-wicket stand between Usman Khawaja (91 runs from 99 balls) and Peter Handscomb, the latter notching his maiden ODI ton.
However, when Glenn Maxwell (23 from 13) was lbw attempting a reverse sweep off Kuldeep Yadav, bringing Turner to the crease, Australia still needed 130 runs with 83 balls remaining.
When Handscomb holed out for a 105-ball 117 off the first ball of Yuzvendra Chahal's ninth - and India's 42nd - over, Australia still needed 88 off 53. At the time, Turner was 26 off 18 balls.
Turner clubbed the final ball of that over over long on for six, and then all hell broke loose in an onslaught that left India stunned.
Australia scored 98 runs in the last 10 overs, and got 64 runs off four overs between the 44th and 47th overs. Of those 98 runs, Turner was responsible for 68 of them, off just 29 balls.
He also ended on a strike rate of 195.34. According to ESPNcricinfo, this is the highest by a non-opening batsman facing a minimum of 40 balls during a successful chase since Damien Martyn smacked an unbeaten 92 off 51 versus Bangladesh in 2003.
Turner had his moments - a missed stumping by Rishabh Pant, as well as two drops in the outfield, were punctuated by DRS drama that left Indian captain Virat Kohli seething.
However, his whirlwind effort turned a nervous finish into a surprisngly simple formality, and even run-machine Kohli had to acknowledge the knock.
"Ashton played a hell of a knock, Handscomb played a really good innings to hold the innings together, Khawaja was good again," Kohli said.
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Battle of the Billionaires Shapes This Year's Midterm Elections
In a clash that harks back to the gilded era, oil titans David and Charles Koch will square off with hedge fund billionaire turned climate activist Tom Steyer in this year's midterm elections.
The Koch brothers, who have built up their vast fortune through oil, gas and coal, will battle to protect their fossil fuel interests from Steyer, who is determined to make climate change a winning political issue.
The face-off comes as the International Energy Agency echoed the United Nation's recent trilogy of reports on the state of our climate. According to the IEA, global temperatures are poised to hit the 6 degrees celsius mark by the end of this century.
That is three times higher than the safe limit endorsed by governments.
The battle of the billionaires comes after an easing in political financing rules has allowed for "unlimited donations," enabling the very wealthy to enter the political fray.
To ensure that the Republicans control both the House and the Senate this November, the Koch brothers have spent at least $30 million over the past nine months to try and topple vulnerable House and Senate Democrats.
If they succeed, it would mark doom for Barack Obama's final two years in office, and potentially scupper any of the president's second-term green agenda.
The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity advocacy group has not indicated how much it will spend this year. But, according to the Financial Times, money into such groups is currently running at about three times the rate of the 2012 presidential elections, and 17 times that of the 2010 midterms.
And, the Center of Responsive Politics says that these groups might spend more than $1 billion this year.
The Koch's congressional campaign comes as they try to torpedo Obama's upcoming restrictions for power plant emissions by entangling them with several lawsuits.
Scheduled for release next month, the new rules mark's the president's signature piece of climate legislation: power plants account for most of the country's carbon pollution.
The news comes one year after the Kochs spent millions of dollars on setting up quasi think tanks to deny the science behind climate change.
In a bid to confuse the public, such misinformation campaigns are designed to keep the debate about global warming alive so that legislation on the matter does not pass. It's the same tactic that Big Tobacco used in the eighties to deny the link between smoking and cancer.
"The Kochs' bid for a hostile takeover of the American democracy is calculated to make themselves even richer," says Senate majority leader Harry Reid. His comments came after he endorsed amending the constitution to restrict "unlimited campaign spending."
In a bid to fight back, Steyer has set up his own super PAC to run a series of attack ads revealing the Koch brothers' shady ties to such obstructive campaigns. Unlike the Koch's who are gunning for a Republican Senate win, Steyer is only backing politicians with climate aspirations.
But, the $100 million that he has pledged to spend is but a fraction of what the Koch brothers have in their vast war chest.
In the end, the battle may just boil down to a handful of crucial seats that the Democrats must hold onto if they want to maintain control of the Senate.
Although Steyer may have less money to play with, Mother Nature may step in to lend a helping hand: El Niño is expected to arrive this summer.
The weather phenomenon ushers in unusually warm water temperatures across the Pacific, ultimately warming up the atmosphere. Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research describes it as a "mini" global warming event.
The opposite happens during el Nina, it's colder sister.
According to recent models, there is a 75 percent chance of El Niño arriving before the midterms, and Trenberth says that this could make 2015 the hottest year on record.
This could have a radical impact on public attitudes towards global warming.
According to Jon Krosnick from Stanford University, one third of Americans do not trust climate scientists. They base their opinion on the actual weather: In warmer than usual years, their belief in climate change thus rises.
As El Niño unleashes a string of extreme weather that accompanies hotter weather, it could reenergize Steyer's campaign against the Kochs who may not be able to account for events which may include torrential downpours and floods across the southern part of America.
It could also push climate change onto the center stage for the 2016 presidential elections: El Niño tends to be accompanied by a sustained period of warming.
This could leave Republicans with a public relations disaster if Senator Marco Rubio ends up being their frontrunner. He recently denied the link between human activity and the warming of our planet.
According to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, most Republicans with political aspirations are forced to deny the science behind climate change otherwise they will not receive enough money to run:
They will face primary opponents financed by the Koch Brothers, and others who are part of their group, if they even breathe the slightest breath of sympathy for the truth about climate science. It's not that complicated.
Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist, says catastrophic events will eventually soften the GOP's position on climate change. And, without such a change, legislation will not pass in Congress.
Challenging the Koch brothers to a climate duel last month, Steyer said:
Democracy isn't served by underhanded attacks and the voice of the American people shouldn't be drowned out by anonymous voices with expensive megaphones. Which is why today I am issuing a formal invitation to Charles and David Koch to come out of the shadows and join me in exactly what they've requested: a free and open debate. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9e38e565ea90833d2177411e73b9dafb550d42c7b95ca3eda31cf13020137a9d'} |
It's My Birthday!
Hi my dear friends, today is my birthday!
This year I prepared chocolate cake filled with chocolate brigadeiro with mascarpone cream covered with dark chocolate ganache. I’ve used brigadeiro in many of my recipes, but this was the first time that I tried it with mascarpone cream. I loved the result. The chocolate cake is an adaptation of the Double chocolate recipe from the book Miette.
Talking about the cake decoration, I used polymer clay to make the flowers. I’ve never tried this before and I really liked to work with it. The technique is quite different compared to gum paste. For example, I just used my fingers to model and shape the flower petals, differently from the gum paste, which I have to use cutters. Besides polymer clay flowers are harder to break.
My Birthday Cake
Double Chocolate Cake
(adapted from Miette Book)
1½ cups (7½ ounces) all-purpose flour
1¼ cups (4½ ounces) natural unsweetened cocoa
1½ teaspoons baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
2 ounces 70 percent cacao chocolate, coarsely chopped
1 cup boiling water
1 cup milk
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs, at room temperature
½ cup butter, melted
2¼ cups (
16 ounces
) sugar
1. Liberally butter two 6-by-3-inch regular or contour cake pans and dust with sifted cocoa powder. Tap out the excess cocoa.
2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
3. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a bowl and set aside.
4. Put the chocolate in a heatproof bowl and pour the boiling water over it. Whisk until the chocolate is melted. Let the mixture cool for 15 minutes.
5. In a separate bowl, whisk together the milk and vanilla. Set aside.
6. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, whisk the eggs on high speed until foamy, about 2 minutes. Reduce the speed to low and slowly pour in the butter, whisking until combined, about 30 seconds. Raise the speed to medium and whisk until fully incorporated, about 30 seconds longer.
7. Reduce the speed to low and slowly pour the cooled chocolate mixture into the egg mixture. Slowly pour in the milk and vanilla mixture. Add the sugar and whisk until the batter is smooth and liquid, about 2 minutes.
8. Stop the mixer. Remove the bowl and add the sifted dry ingredients and mix until just incorporated, preferably by hand, lifting and folding in from the bottom center. Using a rubber spatula, scrape down the sides of the bowl and mix again just briefly by hand. The batter may still look a little lumpy, but stop mixing.
9. Pour the batter through a medium-mesh sieve into a large measuring cup or bowl to remove any lumps. Press against the solids in the sieve with a rubber spatula to push through as much batter as possible, then discard the lumps. Divide the batter between the prepared pans. Bake until the tops spring back when lightly pressed and a tester inserted in the centers comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
10. Transfer to wire racks and let cool in the pans for about 20 minutes. When the cakes are cooled enough to handle the pans but still a tad warm to the touch, carefully run an offset spatula around the edges of the pans to loosen them, then invert the cakes onto the racks and remove the pans. (Note: If you are making the Old-Fashioned Cake and therefore using a contour pan, just invert the pans and drop them sharply onto the racks; they should fall out cleanly. Using an offset spatula in a contour pan will mar the edges of the cake.) Let cool for about 20 minutes longer. Wrap the cakes tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate to ensure that the interiors are completely cooled before decorating, at least 1 hour or for up to 3 days. To freeze, wrap tightly in a second layer of plastic and store in the freezer up to 2 months.
Belgian Brigadeiro with Mascarpone Cream
(from Lulu's Sweet Secrets)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons butter
7 oz Belgian milk chocolate
12 oz mascarpone cream
Place condensed milk, butter ang chocolate in a saucepan. Stir to combine. Over medium heat cook, stirring, until thickenedSet aside to cool.
In a bowl, beat the mascarpone by hand with a whisk until smooth, and then incorporate the brigadeiro. Stir to combine.
Dark Chocolate Ganache
18 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
2 cups heavy cream
Bring cream just to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat, add chocolate, stand until melted (5 minutes), stir until smooth and glossy. Refrigerate until firm yet still pliable (45 minutes-1 hour) then stir until smooth.
Divide each cake in two layers. Place one chocolate cake on a serving plate. Spread 1/3 recipe chocolate brigadeiro over top. Repeat the chocolate cake and chocolate brigadeiro twice. Top with remaining chocolate cake. Cover with chocolate ganache.
1. Happy, Happy Birthday!!! I have to tell you-that looks too pretty to eat! xo Diana
2. I hope you had a very Happy Birthday! Your cake looks divine, and the flowers are beautiful as always. You are an inspiration and give us such beauty on you birthday and always. Thanks!
3. Happy Birthday! Wishing you a year of beauty and happiness because that is what your great talent has brought to me, and probably MANY others. Happy Birthday!
4. Feliz aniversario Lulu! Vc é a rainha dos bolos, nao tenho duvidas! Deve ser delicioso pelo aspect. Parabéns e muita felicidade e sucesso em tua vida! Bjs, Lu
5. Happy belated! Hope you had a most marvellous day, and that the next year brings you many wishes come true...
6. I am astounded! What a gorgeous cake you created for yourself. The flowers are stunning. Happy birthday wishes!
7. Very late birthday greetings! :-) These flowers are absolutely amazing...so realistic and lovely!
8. Your talent amazing! I was in search of blogs to read and yours was suggested to me. I am so happy it was. I cannot wait to see what else I can learn from you. Thank you for sharing your beautiful delicious work.
9. I am so glad your blog was recommended to me, your work is beautiful and delicious I'm sure. I cannot wait until I am able to try some of your recipes.
10. What a beautiful cake and happy happy birthday! I must try that filling. it sounds awesome, I love Mascarpone cheese.
11. I can't believe this flowers aren't real!! You are so talented! I hope you had a wonderful birthday! You are my inspiration! I hope one day I would be able to bake my own birthday cake and decorate it as pretty as yours :)
12. As flores são divinais. Amo!
13. Wow! What I cake!! So beautiful!!! Love it! A late happy birthday :-)
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Q:
New Years Resolution: Move from Classic ASP to ASP.NET MVC. Where do I start?
I can write Classic ASP with my eyes closed, and can do it well. Frankly, I've only not moved to newer technologies because I haven't had a project that couldn't be done in Classic ASP (VBScript). However, my New Years resolution is to finally make the jump. I must state in advance that because I like VB, I hate C#, but I'm willing to learn. I've done a little C# in the desktop world, but never in the web world.
I've been reading all week, but my biggest hurdle is that it doesn't seem like these newer technologies let me code in the same manner I had been: inline in the pages. Now, I realize that most people think this is beneficial, but this is a huge leap for me.
Without my laying out my preconceived notions and things I think I've learned in the past week, where do you all think is the best place to start? I'm in my 30s now, so I probably don't pick things up like I used to. With that said, the learning curve is probably steeper for me now than it would have been in 2003 when I should have done this. Other than some valid links, what are some of the impediments I'll come across as I start this journey?
A:
In your position I would probably do the following. It sounds like you have access to Visual Studio. Since you have some experience with VB, I would pick a simple project that you did in VB and see if you can recreate it starting from a new ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application Template. The main concept in MVC 4 (at least new to me) was how to use 'Razor' to display server data. It can be used to write inline code in C# but there are a few conventions that can save you a lot of HTML coding. There is also the partial view concept which can save you a lot of work. There are quite a few useful You-Tube videos out there. In particular, I think this guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAo_CcePreaRTa3gQZBjWfA did a nice job teaching how to make Ajax requests in an MVC 4 application.
Good Luck!
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History of Karate
According to legend, in the sixth century A.D., the Indian monk Daruma journeyed from India to China to teach the Liang dynasty monarch the tenets of Zen Buddhism. To endure this arduous journey, Daruma developed the physical and mental powers for which he was later renowned. After delivering the tenets of Buddhism, Daruma remained in China, staying in Shaolin Sze where he taught Buddhism to the Chinese monks. Here he became famous for teaching standards of Buddhism that were very strict physically as well as spiritually.
Although there are many stylistic similarities in the fighting arts of India and China, there is no solid evidence that the Chinese fighting arts came from India as is told in legends. There are Chinese texts documenting the existence of several Chinese martial art forms prior to Daruma's journey in the 6th century.
I merely wish to affirm that the organized origins of Karate came into being during this time period, and that no known record either verifies or denies this contention.
Although the goal of Buddhism is the salvation of the soul, the body and soul cannot be separated. In weak physical condition one will never be able to perform the rigorous training necessary to attain true enlightenment." So Daruma taught student monks Icchin which is regarded as the tool through which is necessary rigorous physical and mental training may be endured.
As a corollary of Daruma's training, the monks at the Shaolin Temple won the reputation of being the best fighters in China.
Ch'Uen Yuan
Most Chan Fa systems are descendants of the one hundred-seventy hand and foot positions of Ch' Uen Yuan and they can be traced back to Bodhidharma's influence.
Branching Out
The Shaolin Chan Fa is listed as one of nine Wai Cha (external schools) of fighting systems and is regarded to be the first established system in China.
1. Shaolin Chan Fa, Sui period or before
2. Hung Chuan, Sung period (1127-1279)
3. Tau Tei Yu Tan Tui, Sung period
4. Hon Chaun, Ming period (1368-1644)
5. Erh-Lang Men, Ming period
6. Fan Chuan, Ming period
7. Cha Chuan, Ming period
8. Mi Tsung Yum, Ching period(1699-1911)
9. Pa Chuan, Ching period
In comparison there were the Nei Cha (internal schools), all from the Sung or post Sung Dynasties.
1. Wu Tang Pai
2. Tai Chi Chuan
3. Pa Kua Chaun
4. Hsin Yi Chua
5. Tzu Fan Men
6. Liu He Pa Fa
Sumo is perhaps the oldest known form or system of weaponless fighting in Japan and dates back beyond the mythological era (before 500 A.D.). The earliest legends tell of two god figures, Takeminakata No Kami and Takemikazuchi No Kami, who engaged in power contests. Another story relates the wrestling contests between Nomino Sikune No Mikoto and Taima NoKehaya. These contests are known to be the first between demi-gods and similar mythological beings.
In 607, during the Sui Dynasty, the first official Japanese ambassador was sent to China, and this exchange was maintained through the T'ang Dynasty. During this time Chinese influence flourished in Japan, and it is believed that Chan Fa was introduced along with many other things of Chinese origin.
Many forms of martial arts already existed in Japan during this time period which might carry the influence of Chan Fa in their fighting styles. However, these Chan Fa systems were never developed by the Japanese martial artists of the day. This lack of development was due to the structure of Japanese society. At that time, there was a very strong status system in Japan much like the caste system in India, and only the members of the samurai class were allowed to use weapons for fighting or train in the martial arts.
The samurai were respected because they protected the commoners. They were expected to behave in a respectful and courageous manner.. Through strong government control, the role of the samurai became a sacred trust, carrying "this burden of pride." Being a member of the samurai class meant lifelong employment unless a samurai was found guilty of wrong doing. In that case, he and his family would lose their jobs permanently.
Samurai constantly practiced weaponry to better themselves and had time for little else. It is easy to see how weaponless fighting systems developed at that time would never gain enough popularity to be properly recognized. Even so, some forms of martial arts were developed like Torite and Ashikeri, and later Yawara and Jujitsu did exist among the lower class police forces. An interesting note is the similarities in the weapons (kobudo) developed in Japan and in Okinawa during this time period.
Early Stages
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, many Japanese and Chinese representatives traveled with relative freedom between the two countries. This is also when Buddhism came to Japan and gained popularity. Interestingly, during the Heian period between 794-1184, many Buddhist monks were well trained in fighting methods and were used to maintain local law and order. Many became security guards for wealthy individuals in Kyoto. The popularity of Buddism made some temples so powerful that they became involved in many political upheavals. And because of the popularity of Buddism, the monks were untouchable by either the samurai or the government. Many temples became independent and secretive in their administration of religious matters due to the political intrigues.
This is believed to be the time when many martial arts developed in Japan. Wars and battles were still decided by the samurai, but the art of fighting systems was practiced and developed by the Buddhist monks.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
In 1592, this great general decided to fulfill his dream of conquering the world. He had conquered Japan and sought to continue his quest by marching on to China. Many of his generals were against this plan, and it soon proved to be a disaster as the Japanese faced too many disadvantages. Ships were not powerful enough, the climate was against them, the generals in Korea were not familiar enough with the terrain to plan strategic advances, and resistance was much stronger than expected. The dream was ended with the death of Hideyoshi in 1598 without a single Japanese soldier ever setting foot on Chinese soil.
The failure of this conquest cost Toyotomi not only his life and his fortune, but also his dynasty. Once again the peace of the entire nation was in shambles. The conflict between the remainder of the Toyotomi clan and the rival clan of Tokugawa Dynasty began and was to last for the next three hundred years.
It is oral history that many warriors came back from the failed conquest of China with some kind of hand-to-hand combat system. But as history has revealed, the warriors reached only Korea and not
The basic form of self-defense are perhaps as old as mankind. The art of Karate as it is widely practiced today can be traced back to Okinawan martial arts systems called "Te", meaning "hand". Te later was renamed Tode, the name it held before it became known as Karate. the Japanese used the name "kempo", which means "fist way", and the similar term in Chinese is Chan Fa.
Okinawa is the main island of the Ryukyu Islands, located in the East China Sea between Kyushu, Japan and Taiwan. Okinawa has maintained cultural contact for centuries with both China and Japan. Through a constant influence of Chinese sailors and merchants, the indigenous Okinawan fighting forms were heavily influenced by Chan Fa. Because of its strategic location, Okinawa was invaded several times by both China and Japan. Each country sought to use okinawa as a military and diplomatic base. With these two powerful countries vying for control, it is not surprising that the Okinawan people developed high levels of proficiency in self-defense.
Okinawans have long been known as fierce fighters, and the tragic battles of World War II proved to the world that the Okinawans would rather die than live in disgrace. The spirit of the samurai was well developed in the hearts of these people.
The Legendary Sakugawa
In 1724, a man named Sakugawa journeyed to China from his home in Shuri, Okinawa. He was gone for many years, and his friends and relatives thought him lost or dead. One day to everyone's surprise, Sakugawa returned home a much changed man. He possessed a mysterious physical strength and a complex form of Chan Fa. Soon many people wanted to become his students. This was the start of the Sakugawa style of Karate.
Thirty Six Families
The emperor of China sent Okinawa an imperial gift of skilled artisans and merchants. These people soon formed into a community known as the Thirty-Six Families. This community was responsible for the rapid spread of Chan Fa throughout Okinawa. It should be noted that "thirty-six" often means "a great many" and may not mean thirty-six numerically.
Chinese Numbering
One: Whole, absolute, first
Two: Pair, comparison, front and back, top and bottom, etc.
Three: Sanchin, top-middle-bottom, fate, Mother Nature
Four: Directions, square, objects
Eight: Multiple directions, many, plenty
Thirty-Six: Great many
Sho Hassi
In 1429, Sho Hassi united the kingdom of Okinawa under his rule and renamed North and South. During the era of his grandson Sho Shin, the policy of "Bunji-Kokka", or government by culture not military force, was put into effect. At this time all weapons were banned except for those used by military forces. The objective was to restore peace and to disarm rival clans.
Civil War In Japan And The Satsuma
After Toyotomi died, Japan was split into two massive forces. One force was the remainder of the Toyotomi clan from the West and the other was controlled by the new leader Tokugawa from the East. In 1600, these two powers met head-to-head at Sekigahara Field to decide the control of Japan. Although most of the Western generals and the Satsuma clan controlled most of Kyushu joined the Toyotomi, the Tokugawa forces won.
Tokugawa allowed the Satsuma-Shimazu family to retain their territories under the edict of unconditional loyalty to Tokugawa. The reason he allowed the Shimazu family to keep their lands was that they were so powerful that trying to destroy them might have proven self-defeating and was not in the best interest of Tokugawa. So instead Tokugawa took the Shimazu family as his allies and sent them to punish Okinawa for refusing to send supplies during the Japan-China war of 1592. It was also a useful way to smooth the honor of the frustrated Satsuma warriors by giving them a new target while keeping them too busy to make any further plays against Tokugawa.
A Ban On All Weapons
Upon seizing control of Okinawa, the Shimazu clan instituted numerous rules of martial law, one of which was a ban on all weapons. This time, however, the ban was on a much larger scale than that instituted by Sho-Shin. Only the Satsuma samurai, who were the invaders and conquerors of Okinawa, were allowed to have weapons.
The methods used by the Satsuma for enforcing the weapons ban were ruthless. Any weapons found in an Okinawan's possession were immediately confiscated and the owner was severely punished. As part of the ban, the Shimazu also prohibited the Okinawans from participating in the study or practice of the martial arts.
This ban had a number of serious effects on the Okinawan martial arts. All study and participation was forced underground, and all teaching was done by word of mouth only. No written records exist which would allow us to trace the development of the Okinawan arts during this time period. This has led to the creation of many false legends due to the inability to document facts.
Secrecy became such an obsession that instructors hid true techniques from rival schools, as in the changing or hiding of moves in kata. this eventually led to the development of new and unique fighting techniques and systems including the modification of farming and work tools into weapons for combat use. The fighting attitudes in the martial arts schools became very violent due to the suppression of civil liberties and the general sentiment of the times.
And above all, the ban made Karate one of the most practical and effective hand-to-hand combat systems ever developed. The need for practical application kept Karate from degenerating to a mostly theoretical art or a simple or obscure form of exercise.
The Secret Revealed
It is impossible to pinpoint when the secrets of Karate began to be revealed long after rules were changed. However, there was a gradual but steady unveiling and interaction of this magnificent art. Luckily, some schools were not as attached to secrecy as others, and slowly the major schools of Karate became less suspicious and more open. Officially, the Satsuma's control ended in 1875, but Karate did not become popular or even well known as being an Okinawan art until around 1903.
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Ultimate tensile strength
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Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS) or ultimate strength,[1][2] is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched or pulled before failing or breaking. Tensile strength is the opposite of compressive strength and the values can be quite different.
Some materials will break sharply, without deforming, in what is called a brittle failure. Others, which are more ductile, including most metals, will stretch some - and for rods or bars, shrink or neck at the point of maximum stress as that area is stretched out.
The UTS is usually found by performing a tensile test and recording the stress versus strain; the highest point of the stress-strain curve is the UTS. It is an intensive property; therefore its value does not depend on the size of the test specimen. However, it is dependent on other factors, such as the preparation of the specimen, the presence or otherwise of surface defects, and the temperature of the test environment and material.
Tensile strengths are rarely used in the design of ductile members, but they are important in brittle members. They are tabulated for common materials such as alloys, composite materials, ceramics, plastics, and wood.
Tensile strength is defined as a stress, which is measured as force per unit area. For some non-homogeneous materials (or for assembled components) it can be reported just as a force or as a force per unit width. In the SI system, the unit is the pascal (Pa) (or a multiple thereof, often megapascals (MPa), using the mega- prefix); or, equivalently to pascals, newtons per square metre (N/m²). The customary unit is pounds-force per square inch (lbf/in² or psi), or kilo-pounds per square inch (ksi, or sometimes kpsi), which is equal to 1000 psi; kilo-pounds per square inch are commonly used for convenience when measuring tensile strengths.
Concept[edit source | edit]
Ductile materials[edit source | edit]
Stress vs. Strain curve typical of aluminum
1. Ultimate strength
2. Yield strength
3. Proportional limit stress
4. Fracture
5. Offset strain (typically 0.2%)
Stress vs. strain curve typical of structural steel
1. Ultimate strength
2. Yield strength
3. Fracture
4. Strain hardening region
5. Necking region
A: Engineering stress
B: True stress
Many materials display linear elastic behavior, defined by a linear stress-strain relationship, as shown in the figure up to point 2, in which deformations are completely recoverable upon removal of the load; that is, a specimen loaded elastically in tension will elongate, but will return to its original shape and size when unloaded. Beyond this linear region, for ductile materials, such as steel, deformations are plastic. A plastically deformed specimen will not return to its original size and shape when unloaded. Note that there will be elastic recovery of a portion of the deformation. For many applications, plastic deformation is unacceptable, and is used as the design limitation.
After the yield point, ductile metals will undergo a period of strain hardening, in which the stress increases again with increasing strain, and they begin to neck, as the cross-sectional area of the specimen decreases due to plastic flow. In a sufficiently ductile material, when necking becomes substantial, it causes a reversal of the engineering stress-strain curve (curve A); this is because the engineering stress is calculated assuming the original cross-sectional area before necking. The reversal point is the maximum stress on the engineering stress-strain curve, and the engineering stress coordinate of this point is the tensile ultimate strength, given by point 1.
The UTS is not used in the design of ductile static members because design practices dictate the use of the yield stress. It is, however, used for quality control, because of the ease of testing. It is also used to roughly determine material types for unknown samples.[3]
The UTS is a common engineering parameter when designing brittle members, because there is no yield point.[3]
Testing[edit source | edit]
Round bar tensile specimen after testing
Typically, the testing involves taking a small sample with a fixed cross-section area, and then pulling it with a tensometer, gradually increasing force until the sample breaks.
When testing metals, indentation hardness correlates linearly with tensile strength. This important relation permits economically important nondestructive testing of bulk metal deliveries with lightweight, even portable equipment, such as hand-held Rockwell hardness testers.[4]
It should be noted that while most metal forms, like sheet, bar, tube and wire can exhibit the test UTS, fibers, such as carbon fibers, being only 2/10,000th of an inch in diameter, must be made into composites to create useful real-world forms. As the datasheet on T1000G below indicates, while the UTS of the fiber is very high at 6,370MPa, the UTS of a derived composite is 3,040MPa - less than half the strength of the fiber.[5]
Typical tensile strengths[edit source | edit]
Typical tensile strengths of some materials
MaterialYield strength
Ultimate strength
Structural steel ASTM A36 steel2504007.8
Mild steel 10902488417.58
Human skin15202.2
Micro-Melt® 10 Tough Treated Tool Steel (AISI A11)[6]517152057.45
2800 Maraging steel[7]261726938.00
AerMet 340[8]216024307.86
Sandvik Sanicro 36Mo logging cable Precision Wire[9]175820708.00
AISI 4130 Steel, water quenched 855°C (1570°F), 480°C (900°F) temper[10]95111107.85
Titanium 11 (Ti-6Al-2Sn-1.5Zr-1Mo-0.35Bi-0.1Si), Aged[11]94010404.50
Steel, API 5L X65[12]4485317.8
Steel, high strength alloy ASTM A5146907607.8
High-density polyethylene (HDPE)26-33370.95
Stainless steel AISI 302 - Cold-rolled520[citation needed]8608.19
Cast iron 4.5% C, ASTM A-48130200
"Liquidmetal" alloy[citation needed]1723550-16006.1
Beryllium[13] 99.9% Be3454481.84
Aluminium alloy[14] 2014-T64144832.8
Polyester resin (unreinforced)[15]55
Polyester and Chopped Strand Mat Laminate 30% E-glass[15]100
S-Glass Epoxy composite[16]2358
Aluminium alloy 6061-T62413002.7
Copper 99.9% Cu702208.92
Cupronickel 10% Ni, 1.6% Fe, 1% Mn, balance Cu1303508.94
Brass200 +550
Tungsten 151019.25
Glass 33[17]2.53
E-GlassN/A1500 for laminates,
3450 for fibers alone
Basalt fiber[18]N/A48402.7
Carbon fiberN/A1600 for Laminate,
4137 for fiber alone
Carbon fiber (Toray T1000G)[19] 6370 fibre alone1.80
Human hair 380
Bamboo 350-5000.4
Spider silk (See note below)10001.3
Darwin's bark spider silk[20]1652
Silkworm silk500 1.3
Aramid (Kevlar or Twaron)362037571.44
UHMWPE fibers[22][23] (Dyneema or Spectra)2300-35000.97
Vectran 2850-3340
Polybenzoxazole (Zylon)[24] 27001.56
Pine wood (parallel to grain) 40
Bone (limb)104-1211301.6
Nylon, type 6/645751.15
Epoxy adhesive-12 - 30[25]-
Silicon, monocrystalline (m-Si)N/A70002.33
Silicon carbide (SiC)N/A3440
Ultra-pure silica glass fiber-optic strands[26]4100
Sapphire (Al2O3)400 at 25*C, 275 at 500*C, 345 at 1000*C19003.9-4.1
Boron Nitride NanotubeN/A33000 ?
First carbon nanotube ropes ?36001.3
Colossal carbon tubeN/A70000.116
Carbon nanotube (see note below)N/A11000-630000.037-1.34
Carbon nanotube compositesN/A1200[28]N/A
Iron (pure mono-crystal)37.874
^a Many of the values depend on manufacturing process and purity/composition.
^b Multiwalled carbon nanotubes have the highest tensile strength of any material yet measured, with labs producing them at a tensile strength of 63 GPa,[29] still well below their theoretical limit of 300 GPa[citation needed]. The first nanotube ropes (20mm in length) whose tensile strength was published (in 2000) had a strength of 3.6 GPa.[30] The density depends on the manufacturing method, and the lowest value is 0.037 or 0.55 (solid).[31]
^c The strength of spider silk is highly variable. It depends on many factors including kind of silk (Every spider can produce several for sundry purposes.), species, age of silk, temperature, humidity, swiftness at which stress is applied during testing, length stress is applied, and way the silk is gathered (forced silking or natural spinning).[32] The value shown in the table, 1000 MPa, is roughly representative of the results from a few studies involving several different species of spider however specific results varied greatly.[33]
^d Human hair strength varies by ethnicity and chemical treatments.
Typical properties for annealed elements[34]
Offset or
yield strength
zinc (wrought)105110–200
See also[edit source | edit]
References[edit source | edit]
1. ^ Degarmo, Black & Kohser 2003, p. 31
2. ^ Smith & Hashemi 2006, p. 223
3. ^ a b NDT-ed.org
4. ^ E.J. Pavlina and C.J. Van Tyne, "Correlation of Yield Strength and Tensile Strength with Hardness for Steels", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 17:6 (December 2008)
5. ^ http://www.carbonfibertubeshop.com/tube%20properties.html
6. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/datasheet.aspx?matguid=638937fc52ca4683bc0c3f18f54f5a24
7. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=de22e04486ff4598a26027abc48e6382
8. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=64583c8ce6724989a11e1ef598d3273d
9. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=c140b20b165941c7a948e782eeced4ea
10. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/datasheet.aspx?MatGUID=722e053100354c02a6d450d5d7646d82
11. ^ http://www.matweb.com/search/DataSheet.aspx?MatGUID=b141bfe746f142638fdc30ac59aa306e
12. ^ USStubular.com
13. ^ Beryllium I-220H Grade 2
14. ^ Aluminum 2014-T6
15. ^ a b East Coast Fibreglass Supplies: Guide to Glass Reinforced Plastics
16. ^ Tube Properties
17. ^ Material Properties Data: Soda-Lime Glass
18. ^ "Basalt Continuous Fibers". Archived from the original on |archiveurl= requires |archivedate= (help). Retrieved 2009-12-29.
19. ^ Toray Properties Document
20. ^ I Agnarsson, M Kuntner, T A Blackledge, Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider
21. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2716092/table/T3/
22. ^ Tensile and creep properties of ultra high molecular weight PE fibres
23. ^ Mechanical Properties Data
24. ^ Zylon Properties Document
25. ^ Uhu endfest 300 epoxy: Strength over setting temperature
26. ^ Fols.org
27. ^ Lee, C. et al. (2008). "Measurement of the Elastic Properties and Intrinsic Strength of Monolayer Graphene". Science 321 (5887): 385–8. Bibcode:2008Sci...321..385L. doi:10.1126/science.1157996. PMID 18635798. Lay summary.
28. ^ IOP.org Z. Wang, P. Ciselli and T. Peijs, Nanotechnology 18, 455709, 2007.
29. ^ Yu, Min-Feng; Lourie, O; Dyer, MJ; Moloni, K; Kelly, TF; Ruoff, RS (2000). "Strength and Breaking Mechanism of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Under Tensile Load". Science 287 (5453): 637–640. Bibcode:2000Sci...287..637Y. doi:10.1126/science.287.5453.637. PMID 10649994.
30. ^ F. Li, H. M. Cheng, S. Bai, G. Su, and M. S. Dresselhaus, "Tensile strength of single-walled carbon nanotubes directly measured from their macroscopic ropes". doi:10.1063/1.1324984
31. ^ K.Hata. "From Highly Efficient Impurity-Free CNT Synthesis to DWNT forests, CNTsolids and Super-Capacitors" (PDF).
32. ^ Elices, et al. "Finding Inspiration in Argiope Trifasciata Spider Silk Fibers". JOM. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
33. ^ Blackledge, et al. "Quasistatic and continuous dynamic characterization of the mechanical properties of silk from the cobweb of the black widow spider Latrodectus hesperus". The Company of Biologists. Retrieved 2009-01-23.
34. ^ A.M. Howatson, P.G. Lund, and J.D. Todd, Engineering Tables and Data, p. 41
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Henry Lawes Essay - Critical Essays
Lawes, Henry
Henry Lawes 1596-1662
English songwriter.
The preeminent songwriter among the musicians associated with the court of Charles I, with more than 430 songs to his credit, Lawes was praised by contemporary poets for the style of song that he developed as a vehicle for lyric verse. His musical settings gave the greatest possible exposure to the poetic text in terms of meaning, imagery, and verbal play, qualities that were often summed up as “wit.” Lawes set to music poems by many literary luminaries of his time, and his prestige was such that contemporary printer-publishers included a reference to Lawes's settings on the title pages of volumes by John Milton, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, John Suckling, and William Cartwright. Lawes also set music to poems by Robert Herrick and Richard Lovelace. Many poets provided commendatory poems to the published volumes of Lawes's songs, the most famous being Milton's sonnet, “To My Friend, Mr. Henry Lawes, on His Airs,” printed in Lawes's Choice Psalmes (1648). Critical commentary on Lawes focuses on his relationship to the important poets whose lyrics he set to music and on his collaboration with them on their works.
Biographical Information
Little is known of Lawes's background and personal life. He was born on January 5, 1596 in Wiltshire, England. He was very close to his younger brother, William, who was to become the preeminent instrumental composer of the Caroline court. It is known that William at an early age was taught by Giovanni Coperario (John Cooper) in the household of Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford. Lawes's musical education probably began in the same way, though possibly in the household of the other great Wiltshire patron of artists, William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke. In either house he would have encountered Alfonso Ferrabosco, who, with Coperario and others, introduced the new Italian style of monody to Prince Charles's circle. These Wiltshire connections could also have been Lawes's entrée to the aristocratic households of London, where he was living by 1615, when he was nineteen years old. He received royal preferment soon after the accession of Prince Charles to the throne in 1625. In January 1626 Lawes was granted a probationary post in the Chapel Royal, followed within two years by full appointment as gentleman of the chapel. Five years later, in January 1631, he also became “Musician for Lutes and Voices” in the secular arm of the court musical establishment, the King's Musicke. In both posts his primary duties were to perform, but he was also called upon as a composer.
During the Interregnum, the period from 1649 to 1660 when Britain was a republic, Lawes supported himself primarily by teaching but continued to compose and permitted the publication of many of his songs. Personal allusions in commendatory poems and elsewhere depict Lawes as a sympathetic and convivial companion, and the number and quality of tributes to him by poets bespeak a genuine and widespread admiration. With the restoration of the monarchy to the throne, Lawes was returned to his former court positions, and he composed what has become one of the traditional coronation anthems, “Zadoc the Priest,” for the coronation of Charles II; but he was no longer an active force, and he died within two years, in 1662. His will mentions a “dear and loving wife Eleanor,” who served as executrix; he left no known descendants.
Major Works
Lawes is noteworthy not only because of his stature as a composer of songs but because of the range and variety of poets whose lyrics he set to music. His early compositions include settings of texts by Philip Sidney and John Donne as well as by Pembroke and his circle. His association with Milton is well documented, especially in relation to the masque Comus (1637), although it is seldom noted that at the time of these collaborations Lawes, not Milton, was the well-established artist sponsoring a young unknown. His principal collaboration was with the courtier George Sandys, for whose fashionable metrical paraphrases of the Psalms Lawes provided a set of new tunes in A Paraphrase Upon the Psalmes of David (1638). He also composed more elaborate, three-voice settings for Sandys's text that spoke to Royalist experiences of war, discouragement, and defeat in Choice Psalmes Put Into Musick (1648). Evidence of Lawes's personal association with other poets is sparse and inconclusive as to how long or how well he knew them. However, scholars have concluded that he was probably widely acquainted with the writers and wits of his time, working closely and fruitfully with some and on terms of long intimacy with a few. He worked almost entirely with the poems of contemporaries, and the preface to the first book of Ayres and Dialogues (1653), an anthology of miscellaneous airs and songs, makes the explicit claim that he received copies of the verses directly from their authors. If he was being accurate, this claim alone would establish an acquaintance with twenty-eight poets, including Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, Waller, William Davenant, Katherine Phillips, Sandys, Suckling, and George Herbert. Lawes's Second Booke of Ayres, and Dialogues (1655) is of particular interest because it reveals the composer's association with a group of gifted women, including his patron and student Lady Unton Dering and the distinguished singer Mary Knight, as well as Phillips. Many of the songs in Ayres and Dialogues express Royalist sentiments, and the third volume, which appeared in 1658, in particular displays an increasing confidence of the Royalist party and its hope for the restoration of the monarchy.
Critical Reception
During his lifetime Lawes was esteemed as a vocalist and composer of songs. He was praised highly by the poets with whom he associated for his special sensitivity to poetic structure and tone in his musical settings. Commendatory poems by Milton, Waller, and Herrick, among others, emphasize his ability to enhance the eloquence of their lyrics with his musical accompaniments. Modern musicologists point out that to the modern ear Lawes's settings might appear to be spare and lacking in substance, but his free rhythmic delivery, subtle ornamental figures, and slight variations in dynamics were calculated to convey a type of “charming negligence” that delighted seventeenth-century audiences. Modern studies of Lawes's work are limited, partly because he is overshadowed by his more well-known brother, but those that have appeared have emphasized his connection to the poets whose lyrics he set to music. Of particular interest to critics have been Lawes's collaboration on Comus and Milton's support of the composer. Scholars have also commended Lawes for his efforts to create a new music as an expression of the unique English language and character.
Principal Works
A Paraphrase Upon the Psalmes of David. By G. S. Set to new tunes for private Devotion [music by Lawes, text by George Sandys] (songs) 1638
Choice Psalmes Put Into Musick, For Three Voices [music by Lawes and William Lawes, text by George Sandys] (songs) 1648
Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voyces (songs) 1653
The Second Booke of Ayres, and Dialogues (songs) 1655
Ayres and Dialogues for One, Two, and Three Voices: The Third Booke (songs) 1658
The Treasury of Musick [contributor] (music anthology) 1669
Willa McClung Evans (essay date March 1936)
SOURCE: Evans, Willa McClung. “Lawes' Version of Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI.” PMLA 51, no. 1 (March 1936): 120-22.
[In the following essay, Evans points out that Lawes set a version of Shakespeare's Sonnet 116 to music, which she says establishes that the composer was the only contemporary who collaborated with both Milton and Shakespeare.]
That Henry Lawes set to music a version of Shakespeare's Sonnet CXVI “Let me not to the marriage of true mindes / Admit impediments,” has apparently never been mentioned in print. Lawes' version, which retains seven lines intact, alters seven, and adds two couplets to form three six-line stanzas, is found in John Gamble's...
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Willa McClung Evans (essay date September 1938)
SOURCE: Evans, Willa McClung. “Henry Lawes and Charles Cotton.” PMLA 53, no. 3 (September 1938): 724-29.
[In the following excerpt, Evans shows that Lawes set to music a version of Charles Cotton's poem “The Picture.”]
Hearty, cheerful Mr. Cotton and pious Izaak Walton shared enthusiasms other than their common devotion to angling.1 Both of these seventeenth-century fishermen had some proficiency in singing, and wrote verse to be set to music. Walton, it will be recalled, “made a conversion of an old ketch, and added more to it,”2 for which Henry Lawes composed the melody of The Angler's Song.3 Charles Cotton in...
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Morris Freedman (essay date summer 1963)
SOURCE: Freedman, Morris. “Milton's ‘On Shakespeare’ and Henry Lawes.” Shakespeare Quarterly 14, no. 3 (summer 1963): 279-81.
[In the following essay, Freedman provides evidence to show that Lawes may have been responsible for Miton's poem “On Shakespeare” appearing as a preface to the playwright's works in the Second Folio.]
Milton's first published work, “On Shakespeare”, appeared as one of the prefatory poems to the Second Folio, in 1632. At the time, Milton, twenty-four, was unknown as a poet; only his family, friends, classmates, and perhaps some of his teachers knew of his interest in writing. How did it happen that his lines came to preface the...
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John T. Shawcross (essay date December 1964)
SOURCE: Shawcross, John T. “Henry Lawes's Settings of Songs for Milton's ‘Comus.’” Journal of the Rutgers University Library 28 (December 1964): 22-8.
[In the following essay, Shawcross discusses the music Lawes composed for Milton's masque Comus, arguing that the text may have been altered after the composition of the music.]
In a former article on the manuscripts of John Milton's mask called “Comus”1 I drew attention to the fact that the texts of the songs for which music written by Henry Lawes exists are derived from revisions of the basic transcription in Milton's manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge.2 The...
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Audrey Davidson (essay date May 1968)
SOURCE: Davidson, Audrey. “Milton on the Music of Henry Lawes.” Milton Newsletter 2, no. 2 (May 1968): 19-23.
[In the following excerpt, Davidson speculates on the relationship between Milton and Lawes through a reading of Milton's sonnet of praise to the composer.]
Milton's encomiastic sonnet to Henry Lawes opens with the highest praise for his eminent contemporary:
Harry, whose tuneful and well measur'd Song
First taught our English Music how to span
Words with just note and accent, not to scan
With Midas' Ears, committing short and long …(1)
These lines, according to Donald Tovey, reveal a Milton who has forgotten the precise...
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Nan Cooke Carpenter (essay date spring 1972)
SOURCE: Carpenter, Nan Cooke. “Milton and Music: Henry Lawes, Dante, and Casella.” English Literary Renaissance 2 (spring 1972): 237-42.
[In the following essay, Carpenter offers an interpretation of Milton's sonnet in praise of Lawes, arguing that the poem likens Lawes to Casella and the poet himself to Dante.]
Several of Milton's sonnets, Italian and English, rely for effect upon musical allusions and overtones; only one (XIII) is completely musical—“To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.” Although, at first reading, the sonnet seems to be typical laudatory verse, couched in the classical imagery beloved of Milton, closer attention to the poem reveals...
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Franklin R. Baruch (essay date 1973)
SOURCE: Baruch, Franklin R. “Milton's Comus: Skill, Virtue, and Henry Lawes.” Milton Studies 5 (1973): 289-308.
[In the following essay, Baruch argues that in his masque Comus Milton characterizes Lawes, who plays the role of the Attendant Spirit, as the teacher and dramatic guide for the Egerton children.]
Much of the attention given to Milton's Comus has sprung from a concern with the pairings seen as operative in the poem. Virginity and profligacy, natural and religious virtue, celibacy and marriage, order and disorder—the list is an abundant one, with results often richly suggestive.1 It is perhaps inevitable that this focus in...
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Elizabeth A. Frost (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: Frost, Elizabeth A. “The Didactic Comus: Henry Lawes and the Trial of Virtue.” Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1991): 87-103.
[In the following essay, Frost elucidates the moral lessons provided in Milton's Comus, maintaining that in the didactic masque Lawes takes on the role of instructor.]
The Jacobean and Caroline court masque traditionally incorporated some moral message into the grandeur of its spectacle, but only as part of its elaborately conceived compliment. Both Jonson's Vision of Delight and Carew's Coelum Britannicum describe the restoration of order over disorder, virtue over...
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Lydia Hamessley (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: Hamessley, Lydia. “Henry Lawes's Setting of Katherine Philips's Friendship Poetry in His Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues, 1655: A Musical Misreading?” In Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, edited by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood and Gary C. Thomas, pp. 115-38. New York: Routledge, 1994.
[In the following excerpt, an expanded version of a lecture delivered in 1991, Hamessley considers whether, in setting Katherine Philip's poetry to music, Lawes projected, masked, or suppressed the lesbian voice.]
But as the morning sun to drooping flowers,
As weary travellers a shade do find,
As to the parched violet evening showers;
Such is from...
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The Ethereal Donkey
It’s tough to be a Democrat these days. President Bush has stratospheric approval ratings, the country seems to have tilted rightward after 9/11, and the Democrats seem compelled to defend their patriotism every time they nervously issue the mildest criticism of George Bush’s foreign policy.
While those are significant obstacles to Democratic success, they pale in comparison to the Democrats biggest problem. The nastiest fly in the Democratic ointment these days is that they really don’t seem to stand for anything except electing more Democrats.
This absence of issues has inspired the Democrats to test a novel hypothesis this campaign season. Can the Democratic Party take back the House and retain control of the Senate based on nothing more than being against everything George Bush is for on the domestic front?
Now I don’t want to overstate my case. The Democrats have strongly supported several pieces of legislation that they think will help get more Democrats elected like campaign finance reform, Federalizing airport workers, attempting to Federalize nuclear plant workers, and unionizing police and fire departments.
But, what about issues that aren’t primarily designed to fill the coffers of Democratic Party allies and expand the pool of Democratic voters?
The Democrats are trying to give the impression that they’re behind the president in the ‘War on Terrorism’ although most people expect them to start pulling out the long knives once the election is over. Still, there are currently no clear differences between the Democrats and the president on the war.
What about taxes? After much soul-searching and flip-flopping the Democrats are still waffling on that issue. The general consensus on the Left seems to be that the tax cuts were ‘bad’ and the Democrats don’t want to make them permanent, but they also don’t want to repeal them. So they’re against tax cuts, but not very much, sort of, well…never mind. Actually the Democrats are sorry they brought it up. Next question please.
Then there is the environment. The Democrats are espousing a few principles here. Unfortunately, they seem to be the same ones Jimmy Carter was putting forth in his notorious “malaise speech.” Basically, everyone should put on a sweater, turn the thermostat down a couple of degrees, and get in their government mandated go-cart rather than drill for oil on 2000 acres of frozen wasteland in Alaska. Of course, this position again appears to be mainly designed to thwart George Bush’s desire to drill ANWR rather than because the Democrats actually believe and intend to fight for all this pap.
Of course, there are plenty of other issues the Democrats may tackle. Gun Control? That would cost them too many Southern votes so forget about it. Immigration? Well, umm, so, ah’what’s the next issue? Abortion? That’s basically a wash on the national level so what’s the point? Social Security? The Democrats may try to scare old people by claiming that seniors will be driven to eating dog food because George Bush is suggesting privatizing part of Social Security but they have no ideas of their own. Drugs? Let’s not go there OK?
That brings us back to the November elections. Because of the Democrats reluctance to give voters anything to “vote for”, the Republicans are a shoe-in to continue controlling the House and may very well take back the Senate. That’s despite the fact that the party that isn’t in the White House usually cleans up in off-year elections. Now many people may wonder why the Democrats would choose to pursue the unwise strategy of opposing everything a president with an 80% approval rating is for, rather than state their positions. The answer is simple. Whatever losses the Democrats take from executing this strategy can’t possibly be as bad as running on a platform of raising taxes, expanding government, undercutting the ‘War on Terrorism’, and electing more Democrats. Sometimes it’s better to be thought of as having no ideas at all, than to show people how foolish your ideas really are.
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Using dynamic component dispatch
This page assumes you have defined a MyComponents function as described in Providing components, and set up the following preamble:
#include <improbable/standard_library.h>
#include <improbable/worker.h>
#include <example.h>
using namespace improbable;
The C++ SDK provides two functions for type-safe manipulation of components when the component type is not known statically.
When using these, the complete set of possible components must be statically provided using the worker::Components template class.
These functions are defined as follows:
* Invokes Accept<T>() on the provided handler for the component in the given
* list of components whose ID matches the given component ID.
template <typename... T, typename Handler>
void ForComponent(const Components<T...>& components, ComponentId component_id, Handler&& handler);
* Invokes Accept<T>() on the provided handler for each component in the given list of
* components.
template <typename... T, typename Handler>
void ForEachComponent(const Components<T...>& components, Handler&& handler);
Example of usage
For example, you could use ForComponent to copy the components of one entity to another without knowledge of the types of the components. To do this, you would first define a class which implements a handler to provide the desired copying functionality:
struct CopyFunc
const Entity& from;
Entity& to;
template <typename T>
void Accept<T>() {
You would then create an instance of the CopyFunc class and call the static methods worker::ForComponent or worker::ForEachComponent to apply the functionality defined in Accept to the entity’s components:
// Probably defined elsewhere.
using MyComponents = worker::Components<my_schema::Foo, my_schema::Bar>;
// Copy all components from source_entity to target_entity.
CopyFunc copy_func{source_entity, target_entity};
for (auto component_id : source_entity.GetComponentIds()) {
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Bringing a gator to the city is a daring task. We collaborated with our friends at Skies Fall to shoot a new video for Gator Cases. Together we are launching a campaign that dramatizes the tender loving care that every Gator case provides to the stuff you love. Immortalized in a character simply known as Gator, the spot showcases Gator in a variety of scenarios where he can't help but try to rescue instruments, DJ gear, laptops and more that are about to be in peril. In each vignette, the lovable character sacrifices himself to protect from dings, dents and the dangers of life.
Gator showed up to the winter 2015 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) trade show where he shook hands, posed for pictures, and rocked out on the drums. The show, which took place in Anaheim, CA, is known as the music industries annual family reunion. Gator shared the spotlight at NAMM with Zombies, Celebrities, Gwar, and Pig Hog.
Tough on the outside, tenderly crafted on the inside, every Gator Case is designed to keep your stuff safe from the dings and dents of life. Whether you're a musician, DJ, gear junkie or simply need a case for your pet goldfish, Frankie, Gator has you covered. For the stuff you love, Guard it with Gator. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9539000391960144}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '50361', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:75HGSOJUSABVJDH3QS4GBB2E2P4IM4RB', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d8bd7302-5dad-40a0-813f-3875b994ec52>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 25, 10, 55, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.185.159.145', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:LKD5FRGQX5PN2NOY26V4EGDB5JM6QHTZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:db769003-99cd-4b77-9da6-f56e744a6288>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.manifestoagency.com/blog/guarditwithgator', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9e845e17-5230-4ded-ad01-92b62a5a2d40>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '216', 'url': 'http://www.manifestoagency.com/blog/guarditwithgator', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-166-27-36.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.024053096771240234', 'original_id': '2b0cf0f6506b9b4349026eea6dbdee2636619329c809b4b2c489576c50837334'} |
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Subject: 90s Graffiti
Written By: Ryan112390 on 08/23/10 at 5:49 pm
Maybe it was just where I live (NYC) but I seem to have memories of there being a lot more graffiti around the mid 90s (94-96) than there is now. I know Graffiti has been around for a LONG time but I wonder if in general it became really popular around the mid 90s?
My opinion is a little skewed I guess you could say since I spent 1990 (birth) to Jan 1997 in NYC but from 1997 to 2002 I lived in NJ--but by the time I had come back to NYC just five years later there was a lot less Graffiti.
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All work and no play they say, makes jack a dull boy, but In as much as most people find gaming a way to relax the mind and distract us a bit from the daily stress we find ourselves, some people take it religiously and some even use it to make money.
Most people who play games don’t know when they get addicted, its a bit like falling in Love, you don’t plan for it but it just happens, first of all you think you just really like to play games then you find out you are useless without it when its not available.
How do you really know when you have become addicted to gaming? Let’s take a look at some symptoms.
The first one is your happiness, when ever you are playing a game you feel so excited and happy with everyone, but the moment you are away from the game, for no reason you just feel depressed and have what most people call a “mood swing”
For the kids or those still in school, when given money to get an ice cream or a snack you keep it, and when you are meant to be in school you make your way to a game centre and spend the money playing games
You are above your teen age and are meant to he hanging out with the guys and do what young, vibrant men do on a normal basis, but for no reason you just find it more comfort spending night and day with your game, even to the extent that you forget to do your assignments.
Even when its time to take care of your self, because you are busy playing game you neglect your personal hygiene and even lose or gain weight as you then then find taking care of yourself a bit of a distraction.
Sometimes gaming is okay, grownups do it, too. But when it’s keeping you from sleeping, or causing you to be angry with the people who love you, you then must find a way to tackle it. Gaming addiction can be very difficult to stop, you don’t get over it one day, just like drug addiction, it takes a process | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '12', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9672017693519592}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '69113', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:YJVP5W53VQKBTXD43YDF3JVRW54Q4EIO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d2a2d66f-487d-44f3-b675-a2fff76159c5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 22, 13, 18), 'WARC-IP-Address': '5.134.11.231', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:CKX7F64KUMURCPS7BOQNKLNLLS4QRBTZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c9388215-dc9b-41bc-b916-49af0f35fedf>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.habanaija.com/how-do-you-know-you-are-a-addicted-to-gaming/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f8557f7b-1a67-47e2-a4ce-913e66b8bba6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '391', 'url': 'https://www.habanaija.com/how-do-you-know-you-are-a-addicted-to-gaming/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-159-220-225.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.2453773021697998', 'original_id': '7c8c9f8e35389aca7a701e59a1ca3036ac870ca4c4da7570672538df6c8ec136'} |
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Planning a funeral for a member of your family or friend can be the most difficult day of your life. Everything your family and friends ever thought about a loved one is expressed on that day.
The thought of arranging a funeral is not something any of us would want to do. This together with the distress and emotional upset felt, may leave the bereaved disorientated and unsure of what to do next.
Our funeral directors’ are fully trained. They understand the grieving process and ensure that the funeral arrangements are performed in a sympathetic, professional and seamless manner. We will endeavour, under all circumstances to provide the bereaved with full and fair information about all of the services we provide and any other information requested.
Some of the key elements to think about beforehand will include whether the person who has died expressed any preferences or pre-arranged any elements of the funeral beforehand.
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o What style of funeral would they have liked, elaborate or simple, traditional or bespoke?
o Do you want to express their unique personality in elements of the ceremony?
o How involved would family and friends like to be in the planning of the arrangements and participation in the ceremony? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '28', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9318543076515198}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '46843', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3VFVSKGOBBW67RGBYHKBSAAOFY7LDPQI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:073aec3a-2580-4e17-ac80-06c7f766dcfd>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 23, 15, 38, 33), 'WARC-IP-Address': '46.30.215.136', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:BDN6PLLBCEZDLDCEKNK2ZBT2GOFCF5SB', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:14661569-7b3f-43ba-b21c-9e821c5aeb47>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.kanefuneralservices.com/planning-a-funeral/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:aff28498-1d95-4e7a-aaac-022d7d7f023a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '240', 'url': 'http://www.kanefuneralservices.com/planning-a-funeral/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-183-105-77.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.044092535972595215', 'original_id': '6fe1ad8cbf48b8ed1ecaa27999b8aecff9cbc75c063b992b9a82ee5ce5d6759a'} |
Bigpoint Surpasses 200 Million Gamers Worldwide
Online-game publisher reaches a new milestone
Bigpoint sent over a press release announcing that they surpassed 200 million registered users worldwide, doubling from 100 million users in less than 18 months. Bigpoint's browser-based game portfolio includes titles for every segment in the market, including hardcore, core, and casual games, such as Seafight, Farmerama and Battlestar Galactica Online. Check full article for further details. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8869049549102783}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '17922', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:3AW2L4QLYQZD234GX2HMMZKLGMORBVVM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:76d5db72-2624-40f4-8f5b-780193c4ba07>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2016, 7, 29, 16, 17, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '94.228.129.30', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:RHFBGEODTTYOVU6EAFGAS4ITIJGGF7YM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dd150b38-19fd-4aa4-94e6-e689eb41b822>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.gamershell.com/news_119328.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2e25a59d-f10f-4658-b9f1-5087e2c46a9c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '69', 'url': 'http://www.gamershell.com/news_119328.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-30\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for July 2016\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.09389972686767578', 'original_id': '68c7280aa45ab6e039a32d455489abff32284f2ef38ec253d66dc98f215f2200'} |
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Review: Ernie Ball Expression Tremolo Pedal
(Image: © Ernie Ball)
Ernie ball makes the best volume and expression pedals in the industry, so it made perfect sense for the company to use their ultra-reliable, pro-quality foot treadle design as the platform for a new series of effect pedals they introduced last year, starting with the Expression Overdrive and Ambient Delay pedals.
The brand-new Expression Tremolo expands Ernie Ball’s pedal effect line by providing the same instant foot-controlled expressive capabilities that make standard stomp boxes with their on/off switches seem plain and limited in comparison. Even without its foot-sweepable tremolo control capabilities, the Ernie Ball Expression Tremolo is an impressive tremolo pedal with a versatile set of controls, but it also includes a cool spring reverb effect that, along with the foot-control feature, makes the Expression Tremolo a must-have for tremolo aficionados.
FEATURES With its compact, pedal board-friendly dimensions, ultra-sturdy aircraft aluminum chassis and incredibly cool (and regal) purple finish with gold logo, the Ernie Ball Expression Tremolo impresses before you even plug it in. Controls are mounted on the front-facing vertical surface and consist of tremolo Depth and Rate knobs and a five-position waveform switch that provides slow rise, slow fall, sine, square and harmonic waveform settings.
There’s also a knob for dialing in the desired amount of Reverb depth. Mono ¼-inch input and output jacks are also mounted on the front, along with a jack for the required 9VDC 100mA power adapter (not included)—the pedal does not operate with batteries. The treadle has a textured non-slip surface, and a PVC-coated braided Kevlar cord delivers consistent control tension and reliable resistance to wear and tear.
PERFORMANCE Every desirable tremolo effect—from smooth sine waves with subtle on/off transitions to the heavy helicopter-like chop of square wave tremolo—is here and can be changed instantly in between (or even during) songs with a flick of the selector switch. The pedal’s Depth and Rate knobs set the maximum volume variation and speed of the tremolo effect. Pressing the momentary switch on either knob will illuminate the corresponding LED, which applies treadle control to that feature.
If only one LED is not illuminated, then that control remains constant as the treadle is moved. On the other hand, when both LEDs are not illuminated, both controls are dynamically controlled by the treadle and are maximized to 100 percent when in the toe-down position, regardless of knob position. The treadle also simultaneously fades in the depth of the reverb effect, with the reverb becoming deeper at the toe-down position, creating wonderfully moody, hypnotic tremolo/reverb textures.
The sound quality of both effects is stellar, and the action of the treadle pedal is smooth as butter. Being able to manually adjust and alter speed settings can lead to some very trippy effects that are worth the price of admission alone.
● The treadle pedal allows users to manually control tremolo-rate and reverb-depth settings simultaneously for gorgeous, moody effects and sonic textures.
● A five-position waveform switch provides settings for slow rise, slow fall, sine, square and harmonic waveforms, providing a full assortment of tremolo effects.
THE BOTTOM LINE Even without the foot-control feature, the Ernie Ball Expression Tremolo would be highly recommended, but with the addition of spring reverb effects and the ability to manually adjust tremolo-rate settings hands free, it’s essential for tremolo fanatics. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9164177775382996}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '94967', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CJFAPMZKR5CMHC6B6EFBFT6GY5BUA6RO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:e3b65dba-0221-4f52-b1db-c1335fc6d00f>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 19, 20, 28, 9), 'WARC-IP-Address': '185.113.25.56', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VPM72FKJA7CBOIVX2ZIYWMYJ46BF7FQS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c43babfb-b1cc-4f18-852f-f7929a557b79>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/review-ernie-ball-expression-tremolo-pedal', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:15176b6d-f8cc-48cd-973e-7af2b29630e9>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '554', 'url': 'https://www.guitarworld.com/gear/review-ernie-ball-expression-tremolo-pedal', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-179-238-165.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05394303798675537', 'original_id': 'e4f3509666ee47b2b26f0e0a2e974b78245a9a871068c1dcfdae34d05ef499da'} |
Leeds Castle 1981- a piece of guitar history
Some very familiar faces, and some no longer with us.
A scary but great competition!
Thanks to Oren Myers for bringing this to my attention.
There were some notable events from this competition – Tsuyoshi Horiuchi, the first prize winner had a tragic accident with the little finger of his left hand; Paul Galbraith, who won second prize was only 17 years old at the time, and there was an incident involving a prize sherry goblet and Eliot Fisk!
Here is a quote from Graham Wade’s second volume on Segovia:
“After the playing of three movements from the set repertoire and a movement from Fantasia para un Gentilhombre, the finalists were Eliot Fisk, Tsuyoshi Horiuchi, Cheryl Grice, Paul Galbraith, Stefano Grondona, and Yoshinobu Iwanaga. The competitors then went into the performance of a concerto and when this was completed the unanimous choice for winner was Tsuyoshi Horiuchi, with the youngest competitor, Paul Galbraith, second, and Stefano Grondona, third.
All finalists were given a silver sherry goblet, though it was at first reported that Eliot Fisk, disappointed with the result, threw his goblet into the moat at Leeds Castle. This story was eventually clarified in an editorial in Guitar where it was reported that the goblet had been thrown from a taxi and later retrieved by the driver, who was allowed to keep the article.” | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9804936051368712}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '67863', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XTESYDOYD6RD6EX3FMRANOJGEPJFHFJ2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:10ab6610-d90a-4153-ae12-fc496ec79453>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 22, 17, 22, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '91.136.8.128', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:U3XES5Z6AMZT4LJ2HPCWCSS46F5MT5GW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fca4495e-c475-4918-8d28-de8b12ac5218>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.geraldgarcia.com/wordpress/?tag=fisk', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f99d6d71-efb8-4773-8c74-ba6636f44b67>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '229', 'url': 'http://www.geraldgarcia.com/wordpress/?tag=fisk', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-116.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.031330883502960205', 'original_id': 'b889cf328f34fa7860dfe2c0ba850e6dfe2d7b36b8ad89da1273271d1c4ba5ed'} |
Traverse City Record-Eagle
December 14, 2008
Foodie With Family: Whispers and shouts
I don't try to eavesdrop on my children but I can't always help it. I'd have to lose all my hearing to give them the privacy that they want. They are, simply put, loud. Just last week I was in the kitchen and heard the following exchange from the boys who were in the dining room:
Ty: "Hey Liam! What's the difference between gravity and anti-gravity?"
Liam: "I don't know. I'm not Einstein. Aidan's not Einstein. Nobody's Einstein except for Einstein and he's dead so I'm pretty sure he doesn't know anymore either."
At this point there was silence for a couple seconds and then Liam added, "Go ask Mom." This either means that Liam wanted me to verify that Einstein was indeed passed beyond the veil or that he wanted Ty to ask me for the theory on gravity vs. anti-gravity. Since I am an optimist, I choose to believe that my children have put me on an intellectual level with the great mind that was Einstein. Don't try to talk me out of it.
In addition to having loud everyday speaking voices, my kids also have bionic whispers. The bionic whisper is accomplished when the child who wishes to be subtle adopts a very breathy near-scream. Because, as they've explained to me, "you still want to be heard even if you're whispering."
You could say that my kids' bionic whispering makes me more pious. In church, I hold my breath and pray really hard when my boys tug on my sleeve and motion for me to incline my ear toward them for a whispered missive. I never know what they're going to say. Two Sundays ago, Aidan got the attention of the pastor after the children's message as he was walking back up the aisle. He screech-whispered, "Hey Pastor Dave! My Uncle Greg killed a deer yesterday. I watched him pull the guts out. It was really gross. But it was great when he pulled the intestines out 'cause they made a huge pooting noise."
I kid you not. He actually said "pooting noise" in church.
Aidan was so loud when he shared this heartwarming story that a sweet elderly gentleman sitting nearby turned down his hearing aids. At least he didn't repeat his, "Ass is an old Bible word for donkey, you know," performance of last year.
I imagine that both of my parents might think that I had this coming ... But that's another cup of coffee.
I want to thank all my kind readers for following my (mis)adventures in the kitchen for yet another year. And I would like to say, as Victor Borge so aptly said years ago, "I'd like to thank my parents for making tonight possible. And my children for making it necessary."
Try the following recipes for the food lovers on your gift list. They'll thank you!
Super Thick Hot Chocolate
This European style hot chocolate is so thick you can eat it with a spoon. It is available in street carts and kiosks all over Italy, Spain and France. Try it out this evening and you'll see why it's so special. Not only is it delicious and decadent, but it's also incredibly quick and easy to prepare. To give as a gift, mix the dry ingredients and put into a resealable plastic bag or container along with the directions on how to prepare it.
4 T. cornstarch or arrowroot powder
4 T. high-quality dutch processed cocoa powder
4-8 T. sugar (depending on how sweet you like it)
13/4 c. milk (whole is preferable but 2 percent and skim are acceptable substitutes)
Pinch of salt
Whipped cream and chocolate shavings, optional for serving
Whisk dry ingredients together in the bottom of a heavy-bottomed 11/2 quart or larger pan. Add milk slowly, while whisking, until the dry ingredients are fully incorporated into the milk. Turn burner heat to medium-high and continue stirring.
Bring mixture to a boil, stirring constantly, until thickened to an almost pudding-like consistency. Remove from heat immediately and transfer into serving bowls or mugs. If desired, top with whipped cream and chocolate shavings. Serve while hot.
Cider Trilobites
(or Cider Beetles for those of you not arthropodically inclined)
This is a fun project to do with or without the kids. These adorable little orange shells stuffed with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves resemble trilobites or beetles and make wonderful hostess gifts by themselves or packed with a half gallon of cider. My kids made a score and passed them out to rave reviews at a party we attended recently. Make certain to include directions for preparing the beverage with the Cider Trilobite when you give it as a gift! To make these most economically, buy your spices in the bulk section of your grocery store.
6 large oranges
6 c. approximately, light or dark brown sugar
12 cinnamon sticks
12 small whole nutmegs
24 whole allspice berries
72-96 whole cloves
Halve the oranges. Scoop the shells clean taking care to leave the orange peel and pith intact. Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place empty orange halves, cut side up, on a cooling rack on top of a cookie sheet or sheet pan. Place a crumpled foil ball in the cavity of each orange and bake for about 2 hours or until the shells are dry. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before proceeding to the next step.
Pack about 1/2 c. of brown sugar tightly into each orange shell, doming the sugar slightly at the top. Lay a cinnamon stick so that it appears to divide the orange into two halves. Lightly press it into the sugar so that it stays in place. Place a whole nutmeg at the top of the cinnamon stick to serve as your trilobite's head and lightly press that into place.
Repeat with an allspice berry on both side of the nutmeg for the trilobite's eyes.
Lay three or four cloves perpendicular to each side of the cinnamon stick and press until they're held by the sugar.
Carefully and tightly wrap the trilobite (beetle) with plastic wrap and tie closed. Be sure to label with the following instructions!
To prepare cider with your Cider Trilobite:
Remove and discard wrapper from Cider Trilobite. Place trilobite in a large pan with 11/2 -2 quarts unsweetened apple juice or apple cider.
Bring to a boil and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain out solids before serving.
The cider can be served with a cup of brandy stirred in if desired.
Store leftover juice or cider in a tightly lidded container in the refrigerator.
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Low-molecular-weight RNAs associated with tobacco ringspot virus are satellites.
The low-molecular-weight RNA associated with an isolate of tobacco ringspot virus [TRSV(F)] lacks polyadenylic acid [poly(A)] sequences. Complementary DNA (cDNA) specific to this RNA was made with an oligo(dT) primer after tailing the RNA with poly(A). However, a significant amount of cDNA was made only when the RNA was treated with alkaline phosphatase prior to tailing. Hybridization of RNA in solution and by a Northern blot technique showed that there was no detectable nucleotide sequence homology between TRSV(F) RNA and two of the low-molecular-weight RNAs associated with this virus. These associated RNAs are therefore, satellites of TRSV(F). The relationship of these satellites to a previously reported satellite of TRSV is discussed. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'dde9245ef818d4f0c49881db3bd5f3ce98319624c53706edb05694528dc3392e'} |
Often times, hot tub and spa owners take for granted the importance of proper sanitation. They usually use detergents to clean their hot tubs and spas. Take note, bacteria easily thrive and reproduce in wet areas, so sanitizing your hot tub using the right chemicals is the most important maintenance you can do.
There are many sanitizers available on the market. However, not all are effective enough to kill the harmful bacteria that usually grow in hot tubs and spas. It is recommended to use EPA approved, & specifically formulated Sanitizers for spas & hot tubs.
Before sanitizing your spa and hot tubs:
It is a must to test the pH level and calcium level of your water before adding any sanitizing agent to your hot tub. A good quality test strip is highly recommended. Test strips are formulated to measure the levels of the different sanitizers like bromine, chlorine, biguanide or mineral content in your hot tub water. They are easy to use.
Here is a list of some common types of sanitizers:
1. Chlorine
This is the primary sanitizer used in pools. In hot tubs and spas, chlorine comes in different concentration: granules and tablets. These concentrated form of chlorine are specifically made for hot tubs and spas. Take note not to tamper the level of concentration in sanitizing your hot tub with chlorine.
2. Bromine
Just like chlorine, Bromine is an effective sanitizer and comes in the form of nuggets or granules and tablets. Sodium bromide is activated using an oxidizer like chlorine or Potassium Monopersulfate shock. BCDMH is another bromine product, which is a self-activating chlorine bromine combination. Bromine do not produce strong odor like chlorine. It does not “gas off” when use at temperatures higher than 98 degrees.
3. Biguanide
Biguanide can kill bacteria by attacking the cell wall. It is a non-chlorine, non-bromine sanitizer and like bromine, it does not “gas off” at hot tub temperature.
4. Ozone
Though not a sanitizer, ozone as an oxidizer helps reduce the work of the sanitizers. It lowers the level of sanitizers needed to keep the spa and hot tub clean. The process starts with the use of an “ozonator” that is commonly equipped in most hot tubs. However, the ozonator process still needs to be supplemented with a low level of sanitizer like chlorine, bromine, biguanide and other mineral systems.
5. Enzyme
Natural enzyme cleaners help hot tub and spa owners reduce spa maintenance because they break down oils, lotions and organic materials that usually cause odors, scum lines and cloudy water.
6. Boost (Shock)
This is a powerful non-chlorine, liquid shock sanitizer that is formulated to break down oils, lotions and other organic materials.
Hot tub and spa owners should buy sanitizers only at reputable retailers of hot tub accessories, filters, chemicals, lifters, hot tub and spa covers.
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import axios from "axios";
const isLocalhost = Boolean(
window.location.hostname === "localhost" ||
// [::1] is the IPv6 localhost address.
window.location.hostname === "[::1]" ||
// 127.0.0.1/8 is considered localhost for IPv4.
window.location.hostname.match(
/^127(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)){3}$/
)
);
const API_URL = isLocalhost
? "http://localhost:5000/api/"
: "https://supablogapi.supatechie.ga/api/";
export const Axios = axios.create({
withCredentials: true,
baseURL: API_URL,
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NAME Email::Stuff - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails SYNOPSIS # Prepare the message my $body = <<'AMBUSH_READY'; Dear Santa I have killed Bun Bun. Yes, I know what you are thinking... but it was actually a total accident. I was in a crowded line at a BayWatch signing, and I tripped, and stood on his head. I know. Oops! :/ So anyways, I am willing to sell you the body for $1 million dollars. Be near the pinhole to the Dimension of Pain at midnight. Alias AMBUSH_READY # Create and send the email in one shot Email::Stuff->from ('' ) ->to ('' ) ->bcc ('' ) ->text_body($body ) ->attach (io('dead_bunbun_faked.gif')->all, filename => 'dead_bunbun_proof.gif') ->send; DESCRIPTION The basics should all work, but this module is still subject to name and/or API changes Email::Stuff, as its name suggests, is a fairly casual module used to email "stuff" to people using the most common methods. It is a high-level module designed for ease of use when doing a very specific common task, but implemented on top of the tight and correct Email:: modules. Email::Stuff is typically used to build emails and send them in a single statement, as seen in the synopsis. And it is certain only for use when creating and sending emails. As such, it contains no email parsing capability, and little to no modification support. To re-iterate, this is very much a module for those "slap it together and fire it off" situations, but that still has enough grunt behind the scenes to do things properly. Default Mailer Although it cannot be relied upon to work, the default behaviour is to use sendmail to send mail, if you don't provide the mail send channel with either the "using" method, or as an argument to "send". The use of sendmail as the default mailer is consistent with the behaviour of the Email::Send module itself. Why use this? Why not just use Email::Simple or Email::MIME? After all, this just adds another layer of stuff around those. Wouldn't using them directly be better? Certainly, if you know EXACTLY what you are doing. The docs are clear enough, but you really do need to have an understanding of the structure of MIME emails. This structure is going to be different depending on whether you have text body, HTML, both, with or without an attachment etc. Then there's brevity... compare the following roughly equivalent code. First, the Email::Stuff way. Email::Stuff->to('Simon Cozens') ->from('') ->text_body("You've been a good boy this year. No coal for you.") ->attach_file('choochoo.gif') ->send; And now doing it directly with a knowledge of what your attachment is, and what the correct MIME structure is. use Email::MIME; use Email::MIME::Creator; use Email::Send; use IO::All; send SMTP => Email::MIME->create( header => [ To => '', From => '', ], parts => [ Email::MIME->create( body => "You've been a good boy this year. No coal for you." ), Email::MIME->create( body => io('choochoo.gif'), attributes => { filename => 'choochoo.gif', content_type => 'image/gif', }, ), ], ); Again, if you know MIME well, and have the patience to manually code up the Email::MIME structure, go do that. Email::Stuff, as the name suggests, solves one case and one case only. Generate some stuff, and email it to somewhere. As conveniently as possible. DWIM, but do it as thinly as possible and use the solid Email:: modules underneath. COOKBOOK Here is another example (maybe plural later) of how you can use Email::Stuff's brevity to your advantage. Custom Alerts package SMS::Alert; sub new { shift()->SUPER::new(@_) ->from('') # Of course, we could have pulled these from # $MyConfig->{support_tech} or something similar. ->to('0416181595@sms.gateway') ->using(SMTP => ''); } package My::Code; unless ( $Server->restart ) { # Notify the admin on call that a server went down and failed # to restart. SMS::Alert->subject("Server $Server failed to restart cleanly") ->send; } METHODS As you can see from the synopsis, all methods that modify the Email::Stuff object returns the object, and thus most normal calls are chainable. However, please note that "send", and the group of methods that do not change the Email::Stuff object do not return the object, and thus are not chainable. new Creates a new, empty, Email::Stuff object. headers Returns, as a list, all of the headers currently set for the Email parts Returns, as a list, the Email::MIME parts for the Email header $header => $value Adds a single named header to the email. Note I said add not set, so you can just keep shoving the headers on. But of course, if you want to use to overwrite a header, you're stuffed. Because this module is not for changing emails, just throwing stuff together and sending it. to $address Adds a To: header to the email from $address Adds (yes ADDS, you only do it once) a From: header to the email cc $address Adds a Cc: header to the email bcc $address Adds a Bcc: header to the email subject $text Adds a subject to the email text_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Sets the text body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See Email::MIME::Creator for the actual headers to use. html_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Set the HTML body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See Email::MIME::Creator for the actual headers to use. attach $contents [, $header => $value, ... ] Adds an attachment to the email. The first argument is the file contents followed by (as for text_body and html_body) the list of headers to use. Email::Stuff should TRY to guess the headers right, but you may wish to provide them anyway to be sure. Encoding is Base64 by default. attach_file $file Provides a one-argument method to attach a file that already exists on the filesystem to the email. "attach_file" will auto-detect the MIME type, and use the file's current name when attaching. using $drivername, @options The "using" method specifies the Email::Send driver that you want to use to send the email, and any options that need to be passed to the driver at the time that we send the mail. Alternatively, you can pass a complete mailer object (which must be an Email::Send object) and it will be used as is. email Creates and returns the full Email::MIME object for the email. as_string Returns the string form of the email. Identical to (and uses behind the scenes) Email::MIME->as_string. send Sends the email via Email::Send. mailer If you need to interact with it directly, the "mailer" method returns the Email::Send mailer object that will be used to send the email. Returns an Email::Send object, or dies if the driver is not available. TO DO - Fix a number of bugs still likely to exist - Write some proper unit tests. Write ANY unit tests - Add any additional small bit of automation that arn't too expensive SUPPORT All bugs should be filed via the CPAN bug tracker at For other issues, or commercial enhancement or support, contact the author. AUTHORS Adam Kennedy SEE ALSO Email::MIME, Email::Send, COPYRIGHT Copyright 2004 - 2007 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 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Steve Jobs, Apple's iconic co-founder and visionary behind many of its bestselling products, resigned as CEO on Wednesday after saying he could no longer fulfill his duties.
Jobs, who underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004 and had a liver transplant in 2009, has been on medical leave from Apple since January. His resignation raised new fears that his health may have worsened.
"I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know," wrote Jobs, 56, in a letter to Apple's board. "Unfortunately, that day has come."
After Jobs submitted his resignation, Apple's directors elected him to the board and made him chairman. Tim Cook, the company's chief operating officer and its interim leader since January, was named CEO.
In a sign of his perceived value to the company, Apple stock dropped 5 percent in after-hours trading, to $357.10.
Founded in 1976 in Cupertino by Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple helped spur the rise of personal computing with its Apple II and Macintosh computers. After being ousted from the company in 1985, Jobs returned to a near-bankrupt Apple in 1997 and oversaw the creation of blockbuster devices like the iPod, iPhone and iPad.
Pop culture phenom
Along the way, Jobs became a figure in popular culture, sought after for his insights into consumer desires and a marketing savvy that made him an unofficial evangelist of the digital age. A noted perfectionist, he is credited with having an impeccable sense of design - leading to products that have resonated with consumers time after time, generating hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.
As a result, Apple has become the rare company to successfully reinvent itself multiple times. Roughly two-thirds of the company's profits now come from devices that didn't exist five years ago. This summer, for the first time, Apple surpassed ExxonMobil to become the world's most valuable company. (It is currently No. 2.)
"The actual product road map that Steve has already approved goes through 2015," said Tim Bajarin, president of the research firm Creative Strategies, who has followed Apple for 30 years.
During his most recent medical leave, Jobs has continued to make appearances at Apple events. In March he took the stage at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to debut the iPad 2, and in June he appeared at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference at Moscone Center to announce the coming iCloud service.
"In his new role as chairman of the board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration," said Apple board member Art Levinson, chairman of Genentech, in a statement.
Still, questions lingered over how Apple would thrive over the long term. Sachin Agarwal, who worked at Apple as a developer for video editing suite Final Cut Pro from 2002 to 2008, said one of Jobs' greatest assets was his willingness to say no - to delay or even abandon products that failed to meet his exacting standards.
Agarwal, who has since gone on to found the blogging and publishing platform Posterous, said friends still at the company have expressed concerns about the company going forward.
The attention now shifts to Cook, 50, who joined Apple in 1998. The Alabama native, who had previously worked at Compaq, quickly gained a reputation for being an operational genius - making Apple's supply chain the envy of the industry, ensuring its products never lingered too long on the shelves.
"The board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO," Levinson said. "Tim's 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does."
Jobs, for his part, struck an optimistic note.
"I believe Apple's brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it," Jobs wrote his letter to the board. "And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role." | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '88', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9836315512657166}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '215908', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:IET2JYMD6HTVHWYZ5F3F2LNNT3RVZ6W2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:ee9d068a-67f5-4c78-8b4a-e044791a70a2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 10, 16, 23, 53, 56), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.202.220', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:O3QV4EGAT6QWAVJ2LNKNBJHLGHSY3KKH', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:bf287410-0b43-40eb-b02e-1ff6fb66c26f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Apple-CEO-Jobs-resigns-saying-he-can-t-fulfill-2140112.php', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:238a9b96-f1c1-4b8e-b949-fdfe7ee390dc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '661', 'url': 'https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Apple-CEO-Jobs-resigns-saying-he-can-t-fulfill-2140112.php', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-43\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-45-10-135.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05012255907058716', 'original_id': '5e284ca300e827a413a52f858754e230ab356a44706ac545e4f3dabf74095298'} |
Joshua Ostroff
In Defence Of 1 Per Cent Strollers
Posted: 01/04/2013 6:07 pm
We finally decommissioned our son's stroller a couple of months ago. It had sat largely unused in our back room -- blocking our dish cabinet and generally being in the way -- ever since Emile, who recently turned three, grew old enough to walk decent distances... and old enough to decide he was a big boy and that strollers were, like, totally for little babies.
Yet for those first 20-some months of his life, it was our most-used possession. It was also one of our most expensive and most controversial.
Strollers, ironically, come with a lot of baggage. These days, they can cost upwards of $1,000 and are seen as symbols of status and sources of derision. They even comprise their own battle division in the Mommy Wars. My wife may have loved our stroller, but she felt a lot of hating from other moms, online and off. As the New York Post described the stereotype in a strollers vs. slings piece: "stroller moms are corporation zombies with pimped-out rides that cost more than their first car."
Now, I must make a disclaimer: our Bugaboo Cameleon, with its gratuitous-yet-gorgeous, limited-edition Paul Frank fabric, was a generous gift from my mother-in-law. Being thrifty by nature, I may not have bought this particular stroller -- and definitely not new -- and surely wouldn't have shelled out extra for the primary-coloured print of monkeys, puppies, and pirate skulls. But damn, I'm sure glad we had it -- and, considering the countless hours we spent pushing Emile around and rocking him to sleep in it, I like that it was nice to look at, too.
But mostly I like how useful this marvel of modern engineering was, how it broke down into a small, easily packed item and transformed from a baby bassinet into a toddler chair while also being compatible with our car seat. I was able to take it into restaurants and fold it up out of the way. It navigated snow, sand, and forest trails, could be forward- or rear-facing, store plenty of groceries, and was lightweight, too -- a plus for my wife when she was out with Emile on her own. These so-called SUV strollers get a lot of grief for their size, but ours was a relatively compact 60 cm wide and 82 cm long.
Babies sleep a lot, so a stroller that doubles as a bassinet meant our baby was in it a lot, whether parked at the foot of our bed overnight, behind the couch in the evening, or in the kitchen while making dinner. It was so much more than a transportation device -- it was E's headquarters. Even after he moved to a crib at night, he still napped in it until last spring.
Sure, these strollers are totally overpriced and most fancy features add nothing but corporate profit -- the Bugaboo Donkey, released in Canada last year, costs between $1,200-$1600. No wonder many believe they represent the worst excesses of modern, materialistic parenting. The Globe and Mail's recent "Conspicuous Parenting" feature leads with an anecdote about a Thornhill man and his beloved $900 Origami stroller, which charges his Smartphone, measures his speed and distance, and even has headlights. "It's kind of an ego-booster," he said, embarrassingly out loud. The New York Times wrote a similarly themed feature on stolen strollers last year in which the author, and former owner of a $400 stroller, described it as an item "that epitomized privilege, and all that is loathsome about urban bourgeois parenting to begin with."
But let's put this into perspective. A thousand dollars for a stroller is a lot of money, but serious cyclists can also spend up to the same amount on their bikes. I'm not saying this Origami stroller and its ego-boosted owner aren't ridiculous, but its price point is an issue because it's a kid's stroller, not some expensive adult item like an iPad or a car. Is everyone who's not using an Android tablet or driving a used Tercel loathsomely bourgeouis, too?
Strollers have also become a flashpoint between parents and non-parents. Brooklyn hipsters are angry about sharing patio space, while recently in Toronto, a transit rider took to social media to sound off on a driver who refused to lower the bus for her and her stroller. According to mom Jodi Christie, the driver said she should "really get a smaller stroller that you can manage to lift onto the bus so that I don't have to mess around with this stupid bulls*** at 6:30 in the morning."
There was even a recent police stand-off in Halifax following a confrontation between a bus driver and several moms who refused fold up their strollers.
As per the Globe's example, the typical response is "maybe they should go out and buy a less expensive, smaller stroller." I get that. I bike (a $200 beater, if you were wondering) and feel the same way about actual SUVs hogging the streets. But unlike a downtown SUV, we used all the figurative horsepower our stroller had.
When people think of strollers, they tend to think of the tiny, fold-up umbrella variety, and that may be why these big ones are so hated. But those cheap strollers aren't suitable for babies and can be a nightmare to navigate. We did buy one for times when we wanted something smaller, but barely wound up using it because it was such a piece of crap.
We live downtown and we walk, a lot, and for those first couple of years our kid couldn't. When my wife was on mat leave, the stroller became her lifeline to get him around the city (and served the same purpose for me on weekends). This was especially true in the winter. If you drive everywhere, or usually use a sling, or live somewhere without snow, then an inexpensive stroller is fine. But that is not our life.
There's a curiously intense judgement surrounding these strollers, which are indeed unnecessary if you're primarily using it as a status symbol. But if you're using it as multi-functional device for hours and hours every single day, including sleep, naps and transport, it's a worthwhile investment.
Look: the billion-dollar parent-industrial complex is a terrible thing that scaremongers parents into overspending on their kids. In hindsight, we would have bought much fewer (and cheaper) items for those first two years. But this stroller more than came through in the use department.
Of course, stroller parents need to share sidewalks, be mindful on transit, and generally be more conscious of their surroundings, but so does everyone else. And, as for the high cost, well, just buy it used. I know of at least one that's up for grabs...
A version of this blog was originally published by The Grid.
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? / Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, written by sci-fi maestro Philip K. Dick, was the inspiration behind the film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1982.
Blade Runner is a favourite of mine – a futuristic noir classic, but I want to discuss the novel it was based on. The film is relatively faithful to the book in terms of overall plot but I found the tone to be vastly different.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep introduces us to Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter operating in North California on an Earth that has been ravaged by nuclear war, nearly extinct of all live animals and left behind by the majority of humanity, who have begun to colonise on Mars and beyond. Rick Deckard hunts androids who illegally pose as humans and must ‘retire’ them (as you cannot kill what is not alive).
Animals are the ultimate status symbol – well live animals anyway. To keep and own a live animal is an important societal need. World War Terminus has caused extinction in a huge percentage of animals, and now the humans who remain on earth spend their credits on live animals…or if they can’t afford them, the cheaper electric variety. In the past Deckard owned a live sheep but chose to replace it with an synthetic sheep when it died of tetanus. When he reveals this to his neighbour there is a sense of pity and awkwardness. His neighbour promises not to reveal the truth to anyone, such is the shame of owning a synthetic animal.
The androids Rick must hunt over the course of the novel are the most advanced robots ever created and their intelligence and likeness to humans is eerily close. The Nexus-6 brain module is a technical accomplishment that the creators The Rosen Association are immensely proud of. So much so that they boast their androids are near indistinguishable for humans. Deckard must hunt down and destroy six of these Nexus-6 models who have escaped their colony on Mars and are classed as fugitives.
His only method of identifying these androids is by asking the suspect a series of questions aimed to measure a person’s empathy, the Voigt-Kampff test. Various scenarios are put to the suspect to test their reactions, more specifically their empathic responses as the androids have no sense of empathy.
Meanwhile, a second strand of narration is viewed through the eyes of John Isidore, who is deemed special, derogatively called a ‘chickenhead’, and ultimately viewed as below human life as the vast amount of radioactive dust on the Earth has caused his intelligence to diminish (along with thousands of other ‘specials’). He lives alone in an empty apartment building covered in ‘kipple’ and has little outside contact outside of his job as a driver. As a special with sub-par IQ he is treated with disdain by all other humans who have not yet been genetically damaged.
When one of the fugitive androids Pris Stratton moves into an apartment below his he attempts to befriend her. She is eventually joined by Roy and Irmgard Baty, husband and wife within the group of fugitive androids. Isidore aids them due to the involvement and importance he feels when they include him in their plan to stop Deckard, despite treating him with as little respect as other humans do.
Electric Sheep
Philip K. Dick’s novel contains several interesting themes, one of which seems to be humanity’s struggle for relevance; those people who have been left behind and have to exist on this dying Earth. I want to talk briefly about Mercerism, a new religion based on the life and struggles of Wilbur Mercer. All over Earth and in the space colonies, empathy boxes are used for followers of Mercerism to connect with each other, to share their emotions together. Empathy, compassion and community spirit are the core beliefs of Mercerism, and so both joy and pain are shared collectively in a kind of hallucination that all believers can share together.
Opposing Mercerism is Buster Friendly, a talkshow android who dominates the television with his chatshows, guests and interviews. An upbeat, colourful, chatty distraction from the real world, Isidore notices that the world seems much more lonely when the television is off. This is because Buster Friendly gives an illusion of friendship but no more; after all, it is just a television show. Towards the end of the novel, Buster Friendly announces
“We may never know [who has spawned this hoax]. Nor can we fathom the peculiar purpose behind this swindle. Yes, folks, swindle. Mercerism is a swindle!”
Mercerism is based on a lie; Mercer is portrayed by a down and out actor, and the ‘hallucinations’ the users share were recorded years ago. Buster Friendly and the androids seem to relish this expose, that humans have been deceived into following a phoney. But what Buster Friendly doesn’t realise is that even if Mercerism is a ‘swindle’, the effect it has on people is real. It causes empathy, while the androids who are devoted to Friendly’s type of religion are pulling legs off spiders.
So it is true that Mercerism is fake, but does it matter who Mercer is or whether he even exists? For the likes of Rick, his wife Iran and Isidore, the ideals of Mercerism still stand because they are believed in.
The whole novel boils down to the emotion of empathy. Deckard initially feels no guilt in performing his job as a bounty hunter as he believes that androids are incapable of true human emotion and therefore do not deserve a status on par with humans. But if the androids cannot feel empathy why does Roy Baty scream in anguish when Deckard shoots his wife Irmgard through the door of their apartment?
And so the lines are blurred. Androids are capable of empathetic feeling with each other…and humans are capable of a loss of empathy. Fellow bounty hunter Phil Resch has no empathy at all. He enjoys killing androids for the sake of it, and thus can perform his job easily.
“If I test out android,” Phil Resch prattled, “you will undergo renewed faith in the human race. But since it’s not going to work out that way, I suggest you begin framing an ideology which will account for-”
If this is the case (and Deckard seems to realise that it is) then it makes his job that much harder, leading to his existential crisis towards the end of the novel. Humans are meant to feel empathy, something that androids cannot do. But they are not meant to feel empathy for androids, despite the fact that they are not mere machines but have emotions and are made from living tissue.
“These electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are.”
After Rick’s epiphany and fusion with Mercer, he has renewed empathy with all forms of life; he is able to see value in the androids version of a life, and even the ‘paltry’ life of a mechanical toad he found, that he had believed was real. Rick states that while he is disappointed that the toad is not real, he prefers to know it is fake rather than believing it to be a live creature. Just one day hunting these ‘androids’ has completely changed his idea of empathy and compassion and is now similar to Isidore in this respect. Does this make them both chickenheads?
Outside of the various messages which could be discussed in much greater depth, I found the Dick’s writing style through the book to be fantastically simple. We switch from tense, slow and steady scenes to fast paced dialogue and laser tube showdowns. The perspective occasionally shifts between Deckard and Isidore, two protagonists with differing views and levels of intelligence but both were fascinating to me as a reader. We are introduced to so many themes and ways of life that are now the norm in this future, but Dick manages to make them real and understandable.
To end the novel (and this post), Deckard collapses into bed exhausted at his physical and mental battle throughout the day. He dials the 670 setting into the Penfield mood enhancer; the setting for long deserved peace. Yet he doesn’t naturally feel, or feel he deserves, this mood. If our moods and emotions can be affected and manipulated by electrical currents, how different are we to the androids?
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Hudson's Robot Party
Party Recap
I made Hudson's invitations with pre-cut card stock from Micheal's Craft store, and a robot rubber stamp from papersource.com. I also used an embosser tool on the stamp.
I tried to have lots for the kids to do at Hudson's Robot Party, we had kids of all ages. I made robot bodies for the kids, and adults to dress up in, along with some robot antenna headbands. We took polka dot wrapping paper and taped it to the wall outside for pictures to be taken in front of. I had some boxes that had not been decorated yet that the kids could color on and take home with them. I had a table with card stock and all kinds of foam sticker shapes for the kids to make their own robots and color the paper. I made homemade play dough and sprinkled star confetti into it and had that on a table outside. We had a rocket ship tent out back, a water table, and other colorful toys.
I made the robots and stars on the cupcakes out of fondant. I saved lots of empty silver cans to place things in, like the marshmallow pops. I bought the blue candy to melt for the marshmallow pops at Micheal's and used silver sanding sugar from Williams Sonoma to sprinkle on top.
For the party favors I bought the wind up robots and robot tattoos from oriental trading company. I also had glow sticks, and stretchy robots that I had found along the way at a small toy store. I used the small round silver tins (you can find at Micheal's in the wedding favor isle) to hold "nuts and bolts". This consisted of chex mix, pretzels, M&M's, and cheerios. I placed a round robot sticker on the top of each one (found at papersource.com) and labeled each one "nuts and bolts". | mini_pile | {'original_id': '2f6016aaa7136645f012db6934d7c15fb4c4cefb263fe73a9066c7fccc1b2efd'} |
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An open window; a gathering of companions. A spectacled man sings a Lof Liet (‘song of praise’) handwritten on a piece of paper, while another man peers over his shoulder. A third man is listening attentively while he holds a jug firmly. A pipe is attached to his hat. In the middle of the scene, a laughing jester points at us. There is no doubt that Jan Steen’s famous picture (c. 1658–1665, fig. 1) shows a group of rederijkers, middle-class men who gathered in chambers of rhetoric or guilds devoted to the practice of vernacular poetry and theatre. The lower part of the canvas shows a blazoen: a coat of arms that the rederijkers would display at the place where they were meeting.2 The painting is clearly about drinking. This motif is indicated by both the jug in the centre of the scene, and the man emptying a cup in the left background. A vine with ripe grapes covers the upper part of the window. Jan Steen seems to have intentionally and quite literally depicted the expression rederijkers, kannenkijkers (‘rhetoricians, jug watchers’) that had become a popular saying in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. There was certainly some truth in this representation of the rederijkers as heavy drinkers: Raymond Van Uytven has documented how, in the early seventeenth century, a chamber of rhetoric in Leuven spent a quarter to half of its budget for its annual three-day banquet on alcohol. The chamber provided up to ten litres of beer and wine per capita.3
Fig. 1
Jan Steen, Rhetoricians at a Window, c. 1658–1665, Oil on canvas, 75,9 × 58,6 cm, John G. Johnson collection, Cat. 512, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Historians of early modern Europe have established that drinking is an important subject of research, since the consumption of alcohol reveals much about the social practices, gender relations and cultural assumptions of a wide range of men and women.4 Because of the poor quality of water and the need for calories, in the Ancien Régime almost everyone consumed fairly large amounts of alcohol on a daily basis.5 But the benefits of drinking were not just nutritional; it was also essential from a social perspective. Drink was poured liberally on occasions when people bonded, such as at births, engagements, weddings, funerals, the signing of contracts or public festivals, in order to celebrate, honour the other party or seal the agreement. Contractual drinking was also at the core of religious ceremony, both in the Catholic mass and the Protestant Lord’s supper. Most of the existing studies on this subject are firmly rooted in social history and use legislative, administrative and juridical sources to analyse drinking in taverns or in informal settings such as the household. In addition, several historians have documented changing theories about drinking in Reformation Europe through an examination of the writings of moralists and visual images produced in order to warn people about the effects of alcohol. More recently, a number of authors have questioned the success of these civilizing efforts, by highlighting literary texts like drinking songs and broadside ballads and the ways in which convivial drinking contributed to the formation of both elite and popular male identities.6
A survey of how rederijkers drank and thought about drinking offers an additional perspective. Chambers of rhetoric were formally organized as guilds, and thus complemented the rich Netherlandish urban landscape of merchant and craft guilds, religious confraternities and shooting guilds. Guild ideology explicitly attributed religious and social agency to collective drinking. In the late Middle Ages, every guild held an annual fraternity feast, which combined the liturgical celebration of the patron saint with a banquet that was, in theory, open to all brothers. On this occasion the guild union was regenerated, and social and political bonds were cemented.7 Although this general picture holds true for the Low Countries, a number of comparative studies have shown that there were important regional variations in the way guilds were organized, and that the Dutch Revolt (1568–1648) brought significant changes, including the secularisation of guild ritual in the Dutch Republic.8 However, there are few indications that the dominance of Calvinism led to more sober guild meetings in the Northern Low Countries. The generally rising consumption of alcohol and the success of the artistic genre of the guild banquet suggest the contrary: a growing emphasis on eating and drinking.9 In the Southern Low Countries, the Catholic Church endeavoured to purge guild ritual of all profane elements as part of the implementation of the Council of Trent (1545–1563). Nevertheless guild brothers seem to have maintained traditions of heavy drinking.10 Moreover, campaigns against the visiting of unrespectable taverns led to the organisation of banquets in the more private contexts of the family or the guild.11 Harald Deceulaer and Frederik Verleysen have argued that, in the seventeenth-century Habsburg Netherlands, the meals of craft guilds became more copious, but also less inclusive. They contend that excessive eating was a form of conspicuous consumption in an increasingly competitive society.12
Like other guilds, the chambers of rhetoric were subject to change. Initially, the centre of gravity lay in the South: the first chambers were instituted in Flanders and Brabant in the 1440s, in Zeeland, Holland and Hainault in the 1480s, in Liège and Overijssel in the 1490s, in Utrecht and Guelders in the early 1500s and in Frisia only in the 1570s. On the eve of the Dutch Revolt, the Southern Low Countries counted approximately 175 chambers of rhetoric, while in the Northern Low Countries around seventy companies were active. The most important rederijker festivals took place in Flanders and Brabant, such as the competition in Ghent in 1539, and the landjuweel in Antwerp in 1561. The outbreak of the Dutch Revolt occasioned a shift in the dynamics of rederijker culture. Many chambers of rhetoric in the Habsburg Netherlands ceased their activities until the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609–1621), because of the military unrest and the repressive measures issued by the central authorities. Meanwhile, émigrés instituted ‘Flemish’ or ‘Brabantine’ chambers in the Dutch Republic. During the Truce new chambers were established in both the North and the South, and many public festivals were held. By the end of the Truce, both regions had similar numbers of chambers: about one hundred were active in the South compared to about ninety in the North. Around that time the chambers of rhetoric began to gradually reduce their public role. They staged fewer plays in the urban public sphere, both because of tightening Calvinist and Catholic censorship regulations, and because of new notions of decorum among rederijkers themselves. As a result, in the course of the seventeenth century an increasing number of chambers of rhetoric opted for performances behind closed doors. Yet, the social aspects, including regular Sunday meetings, were at the heart of the rhetorical practice, both in the Northern and Southern Netherlands during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.13
Prosopographical research in the Northern and Southern Low Countries has established that the chambers of rhetoric recruited mainly among skilled and highly skilled artisans, shopkeepers, traders and clerks, or what have been labelled the ‘urban middling groups’.14 These middling groups played an important role in the economic, social, cultural, and in some cities also political life, precisely because the guild model offered powerful levers for collective action.15 A study of the drinking practices of the rederijkers can therefore contribute to our understanding of guild culture more generally. The statutes and accounts of these chambers frequently refer to the regulation and practice of drinking.16 The rederijkers have also produced a wide range of literary texts - theatre, poetry and songs - both of a serious, allegorical and comical, satirical nature.17 In their literary texts, rederijkers reflected both on their own drinking practices and on the drunkenness of stereotypical others. In about five percent of the more than six hundred rederijker plays still in existence, drinking was the central theme.18 About fifteen percent of the more than three hundred refreinen in ‘t zotte, a comical poetic genre, make explicit allusions to eating and drinking.19 Farces in particular were a favourite genre in which drinking behaviour was depicted: about half refer to food and drink.20 The rederijkers also had a specific dramatic genre, the tafelspel or ‘table play’, which they performed during banquets.21 Moreover, since many rederijkers were professionally active as visual artists, there was a close connection between rederijker theatre and genre painting; similar themes were explored in the two mediums.22 Tavern scenes are particularly common in both literary texts and contemporary genre painting.23
Accounts, regulations, literary texts and visual images are sources that had very different functions. Financial records were drafted to justify the expenses of the guild corporation and offer only summary information. For example, they do not document gifts of food and drink by individual members.24 Statutes were usually ratified by the local magistracy at the moment of the official institution of a chamber of rhetoric. In some cases they were almost exact copies of the statutes of other local guilds or of other chambers of rhetoric. Sometimes amendments were added, but in general regulations stayed valid over a long period of time. They represent norms rather than reality and it is unlikely that guild members strictly respected them.25 Of course, texts from different literary genres have their own conventions. These texts were composed in specific contexts that cannot always be easily reconstructed. Moreover, with the exception of plays or poems written for public competitions, rederijkers did not usually bring their literary products to the printing presses. Most of the texts from that period have therefore been preserved by chance, in manuscript collections of chambers of rhetoric or of individual rederijkers.26 The analysis of paintings, of course, requires visual methodologies and there has been a fierce debate on the interpretation of Dutch genre painting in particular.27 Yet we believe that by combining these different sources and methodologies, we can reconstruct how rederijkers conceptualized drinking and drunkenness both from a practical and a rhetorical viewpoint.28
In this essay we contend that the ideas about drinking expressed by the rederijkers in both text and image, reveal much about the urban culture of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Low Countries – both the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. Many studies on early modern drunkenness have rightly pointed out the tension between the social necessity of male drinking and the concern for moral disorder.29 It remains to be seen, however, whether moralists, like Catholic publicists or Calvinist ministers, had a great impact on day-to-day urban life.30 Therefore, a study that focuses on the perceptions of guildsmen can reveal more about mainstream practices and opinions. This also brings into play the influential thesis of the Dutch burgermoraal (‘bourgeois morality’). Herman Pleij and Paul Vandenbroeck, amongst others, have typecast rederijkers and genre painters as the vanguard of a bourgeois civilizing offensive. In their view, around 1500, urban elites developed a new moral code that promoted the values of profit, rationality and utility, prescribed the control of passions and rejected all forms of licentious behaviour or popular recreation. Pleij and Vandenbroeck have forcefully argued that literary texts and genre paintings used the technique of comical inversion to project negative images of the self and to warn viewers, both at a conscious and subconscious level, about inappropriate conduct.31
Although we agree that rederijker texts and images should not be taken at face value, we advocate a more nuanced view when it comes to their significance as instruments for disseminating bourgeois morality. First of all, most rederijkers did not belong to the elites but were rather part of the broad urban middling groups. These groups had their own set of ‘corporative’ values: they were first and foremost concerned with collectively defending their place within urban society and creating strong social bonds within their own milieu.32 As we will show, drinking and even drunkenness were in many ways constitutive of the collective identity of the rederijkers and the social group they represented until well into the seventeenth century.
Drinking Practices in the Chambers of Rhetoric
Conviviality and drinking were essential to the social life of the chambers of rhetoric. The annual celebration of the patron saint was followed by a banquet with large amounts of food and drink.33 In the Dutch Republic, the chambers of rhetoric gradually dropped this form of religiously inspired feasting, but there were many other occasions to raise the cup. Every week, fortnight or month, rederijkers held a Sunday meeting in their rooms. During these gatherings, they practised verse, rehearsed plays and drank together. In some chambers of rhetoric drinking was part of the literary game: the cup went round and he who took a sip was expected to toast in rhyme to his neighbour’s health.34 Every chamber had its own customs in this respect. Sometimes the Sunday meeting was called a colve (literally ‘club’), while in other cases the colve was a drinking bout, which a new brother was obliged to pay for.35 Some chambers appointed a ‘king’ by lot-drawing on the feast of Epiphany. This ‘king’ presided over a lyrical contest and had to finance the banquet.36
Drinking not only defined the closed sociability of the chambers of rhetoric. When they staged plays in the public sphere or interacted with fellow companies, alcohol was always close at hand. We owe our knowledge about the development of rederijker culture in the fifteenth century in large part to the fact that city magistracies offered presentwijnen (‘wine gifts’) to companies that performed on the occasion of civic processions or Shrovetide celebrations. These ‘wine gifts’ are registered in the city accounts and are often the only attestations of the early rederijker guilds.37 The chambers of rhetoric also spent considerable amounts on beer and wine to seal their dealings with the outside world. The accounts of Mariën Theeren from Ghent for 1556–1566 list expenditure on drinks for the banquets and the performances after the annual Corpus Christi procession, but also wine gifts for members who married and for the other chambers of rhetoric in the city. When messengers came from other towns with invitations to a literary contest, Mariën Theeren treated them to a bout of drinking.38
About half of the statutes and regulations of chambers of rhetoric that contain rules of conduct list guidelines pertaining to drinking and drunkenness. The general message is that making merry and drinking is fundamental to the rhetorical practice, but that moderation is essential. The regulations for Mozes Doorn in ‘s-Hertogenbosch from 1539 stipulate that a droncken verken (‘drunken pig’) dishonours the chamber.39 In Kruishoutem in Flanders, the guild board could reprimand a rederijker who acted like a drunkard in the village (1630).40 Arjan van Dixhoorn and Benjamin Roberts have argued that the chambers of rhetoric in seventeenth-century Holland played an important role in the education of middle-class youths, by training them in civilized manners.41 This extended to drinking behaviour: in a number of chambers in Zeeland and Holland, a fellow could be fined for spilling more drink than he could cover with his foot, hand or a dish.42 The detailed description of bad drinking practices in guild regulations suggests, however, that the ideal of moderation was often disrespected. Many regulations refer to a drinking game, in which one brother drank to another’s health and expected a toast in return.43 These drinking games could easily get out of hand. Statutes warn that it is not appropriate to drink from bowls or jars, to drink unsolicited from another fellow’s cup, to overfill a fellow’s cup, to write the score of drinking games on the walls with charcoal, or to shout defiantly through the windows to passers-by.44
We can safely assume that the drinking of the rederijkers was not excessive by contemporary standards, and that it was representative of guild practices in general. In craft guilds, shooting companies, religious confraternities and chambers of rhetoric, collective identities were constantly reaffirmed with alcohol.45 For example, the shooting guilds in Brabant also marked special occasions with drinking: these included the annual celebration of the patron saint, shooting days and colven. Their regulations similarly warn of the dangers of drunkenness and of inciting others to excessive drinking.46 In seventeenth-century Holland, the shooting companies or schutterijen spent considerable amounts of money on collective meals, including on beer and wine. Therefore, contemporary observers readily associated the schutters with eating, drinking and drunkenness.47 In sum, in the early modern guild culture of the Low Countries, there was a general tension between the ideal of conviviality on the one hand and of civility on the other hand. Drinking was indispensable for a joyful atmosphere, but the message was that uncontrolled drunkenness could harm unity and harmony.
Foolish Verses
The chambers of rhetoric did not differ from other guilds in their level of consumption of alcohol, but stand out because they also created literary sources that document their drinking practices. There are a few examples of on stage re-enactments of the drinking rituals of chambers of rhetoric. The toasting in verse to each other’s health forms a cheerful intermezzo in an allegorical play staged in Ghent in 1539 by the chamber of rhetoric from Kaprijke. In an abundant atmosphere, all characters are provided with een lecker zaeynkin (‘a tasty drink’). The allegorical character Der Zonden Voetsele (‘The Fuel of Sin’) shouts Het comt u (‘There’), while Mensche (‘Man’) answers with Ic maerct (‘Cheers’). Both characters continue their toasting in a typical drinkrondeel or drinking verse.48 The allegorical and sinful nature of the characters indicate that the scene has a moralizing intention, although the inclusion of a familiar sounding drinkrondeel was also a clever literary strategy to bring some comic relief to the serious play.
A number of recent studies on early modern England have argued that drinking was fundamental in generating sociability or ‘good fellowship’ on all levels of society. Several authors have pointed to the role of drinking songs and printed broadside ballads, as these were performed in taverns and male societies.49Rederijkers also wrote drinking poems, ballads and songs for their own circle. Dirk Coigneau has dissected the genre of the refrein in ‘t zotte, a comical or satirical ballade. These refreinen in ‘t zotte refer to drinking and eating in various ways: they evoke joyful companies or banquets, present monologues by drink-loving artisans and drunkards, or reflect on drinking and guild life more generally. Some of these verses contain warnings about drunkenness, but others straightforwardly celebrate the joys of drinking.50 Although there are few references to identifiable guild contexts, there can be no doubt that these refreinen in ‘t zotte were often performed in real drinking settings: both in the Northern and Southern Low Countries, during the Sunday meetings or colven, the guild brothers of the chambers of rhetoric were expected to compose and recite verses, including refreinen.51
Some of the surviving refreinen in ‘t zotte laud the effects of beer and wine on the human body, defend the right to good food and drink and call for feasting in company. In a refrein by the famous poet-priest from Oudenaarde, Matthijs de Castelein, posthumously published in his Const van Rhetoriken in 1555, the author refers to the love of the ancients for drinking and calls on his listeners to follow their example, albeit with moderation: ‘Fill your bottle daily with Bacchus’s wine/Drink freely, and let the mind be merry/It will be medicine to the body/As people have drunk since ancient times’.52 Eduard de Dene, a clerk and prominent rederijker in sixteenth-century Bruges and a documented hard drinker, exhorts his local audience, in several verses, to consume large amounts of food and drink.53 In Lof vanden Wyne (‘Praise of the Wine’) De Dene enumerates more than ten different kinds of wine with their specific qualities for body and soul.54 In a drinking song he advises men and women to fill their bellies on Shrove Tuesday for six weeks with beer, wine and food. Every stanza ends with a call to heavy eating and drinking on the eve of Lent. The reference to soberness seems more regretful than moralistic: ‘Empty your drinking bowls/Revel and devour/Tomorrow you have to be sober’.55
Rederijkers also wrote refreinen in ‘t zotte about drink itself and, more specifically, about the quality of beer. Een beklaeghelijck Refereyn van dat arme bier (‘A sorrowful refrain of this poor beer’), dated around 1540, laments that the Kuitebier has become sick because of too much water, a reference to fraudulent practices of brewers in times of rising grain prices.56 More than just an exhortation to brewers to add more hop and malt, the poem expresses the hope that its audience can keep on drinking beer and visit taverns.57 The Kuitebier was in fact one of the most popular beers in the Low Countries.58 Yet, in addition to a demand for quality, rederijkers cultivated a sort of beer chauvinism. Local beers were often pitted against imported ‘foreign’ beers. In a refrein from 1567 the poet defends the Crabbeleere beer from Ghent against the Kuitebier from Gouda. The Crabbeleere is not only lower-priced, but it also causes joy, makes people sing and dance and it is vet vul graen (‘fat and full of corn’). Therefore, the author advises against drinking Kuitebier, which lacks taste, and to let Crabbeleere keep its crown.59
The Staging of Drinking
How can we understand the verses and songs that encourage the consumption of alcohol? There is no doubt that they refer to a social reality of drinking. Chambers of rhetoric were involved in festivities that called for large amounts of beer and wine, in the closed context of their meeting rooms as well as in the public sphere. There is even one documented case of a rederijker contest in Diksmuide in 1560, organized by the farmers of the excise taxes on beer to raise their income.60 Especially in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, rederijkers also performed plays on the occasion of large-scale dynastic events, such as joyous entries or celebrations of peace treaties, marriages or births. Wine fountains were often among the popular attractions on these occasions.61 Other events, in a Catholic context, were civic processions, after which the established corporations would receive ‘wine gifts’ from the city magistracy. Shrovetide celebrations were all about eating and drinking.62 In the Dutch Republic, rederijkers staged plays on the festive occasion of public lotteries intended to raise money for charitable purposes.63 Alluding to these contexts in an explicit or implicit way, the literary representations of the drinking of the rederijkers often include a moral note, even if the general tone usually remains joyful. This is particularly clear in the case of two dramatic genres, the tafelspel and the factie, which were composed for actual festive settings, and thus offer a commentary on the real-time drinking of a merry audience.
Patricia Pikhaus has inventoried more than one hundred ‘table plays’ written by rederijkers in the period from c. 1500 to c. 1620 (she also refers to later examples). The tafelspel or ‘table play’ is a short, simple play with one to four actors that was performed during banquets. This could be a banquet organized by the rederijkers, or by rich burghers on the occasion of their marriage, or by the city magistracy during festive events. The connection with food and drink was very direct, since the audience was a dining company and the actors often alluded to this context in their performances.64 One interesting example is the table play of De wijncan en de pispot (‘The wine jug and the piss-pot’), written for a Shrovetide banquet. The play, which comes from the collection of Trou moet blijcken in Haarlem (compiled c. 1600), is a word-fight between the wine jug and the piss-pot – impersonated by two actors – about which one is most useful to man. The wine jug boasts that he is very popular among rederijkers, a clear nod to their drinking practices. He also brags about how he is needed during ‘processions, king feasts, weddings, fairs and large banquets’, making explicit the role of alcohol in the civic culture of the Low Countries.65 The piss-pot replies with a moral note by describing in detail the physical discomforts of the drunkard. Yet, the satirical play comes to a humorous conclusion when the actors agree that they are both useful, since ‘when one drinks a lot, one has to piss a lot’.66 In a similar vein, in a tafelspel staged in The Hague in 1665 at the birthday party of a local apothecary, the character of taste triumphs over the four other senses, because he brings the gifts of food and drink to the guests.67
The factie is a short satirical play that concludes with a dancing song, intended for a festive context. During the landjuweel festival in Antwerp in 1561, a large public theatre contest, the factie plays were performed not on the central stage, but on wagon stages at various places in the city. Broadsheets with the text of the concluding song were distributed among the audience.68 The facties were easy crowd pleasers that combined joyful song and play with exhortations to avoid excess. They fitted the purposes of the Antwerp city fathers, who made every effort to turn the landjuweel into a magnificent but well policed public event.69 In the factie play of the Zoutleeuw chamber of rhetoric, Bacchus addresses his followers who have gathered in his vineyard. These followers are allegorical characters that impersonate types of drink; along with eight different wines, one character is named after the local beer of Zoutleeuw. But the concluding song also warns of drunkenness.70 The play of De Christusooghen of Diest directly refers to the occasion of the Antwerp festival, by re-enacting a meeting in the city of a group of merry-makers from all over the country. Every character is named after a quality or attribute that fills the head. ‘Head full of joy’ opens with: ‘Hear hear/come around all merry spirits//which are here in Antwerp for the feast//low and high//because it concerns you all’.71 One character named ‘head full of hop’ is only interested in drinking beer, but the other ‘heads’ reproach him. In a similar vein, the concluding song calls for peaceful and civil entertainment.72 A comparable rhetoric was employed at a contest in Mechelen in 1620, the last large public rederijker festival in the seventeenth-century Habsburg Netherlands.73
The Drunkenness of Others
The guild regulations, the verses and the theatre plays of the rederijkers all praise conviviality and positively assess drinking alcohol, while warning of excess. These moral notes are never formulated very strongly. Yet, literary texts comment upon the drunkenness of stereotypical others far more often than they reflect on their own drinking. Rederijker plays borrow from a stock of drinking types that also frequently appear in contemporary genre painting: the foolish youth, the drunken husband, the dissolute monk, the bawdy soldier, the seedy vagabond, the boorish peasant and the voluptuous tavern hostess. By drinking too much, these characters create disorder, as in Hieronymus Bosch’s famous representation of the Ship of Fools (c. 1500–1510, fig. 2). The unruly world of these unsocial types is at first sight far removed from the joyous meetings of the rederijkers.74 The omnipresence of precisely these stereotypical caricatures in Dutch drama and genre painting has led to the notion that a burgermoraal, or bourgeois morality, was a driving force in the urban culture of the Low Countries. In the 1980s Herman Pleij argued that the rederijkers formed a cultural elite that propagated a neo-stoic lifestyle by formulating strict moral prescriptions, cultivating a rational individualism and firmly condemning popular culture.75 However, it has since emerged that most rederijkers did not have an elite background. Also, guild values often included an appreciation of collective drinking and drunkenness. It seems that rather than functioning as didactic ‘negative images’ of the self, the exaggerated nature of these drinking types was intended first and foremost to create laughter.76 In fact, these literary drunkards represented behaviour that was not so far removed from the drinking habits of many guildsmen. We agree with Pleij’s emphasis on the social function of literature, but in our view, instead of presenting stringent moral admonitions, these caricatures helped to uphold a fiction of a firm distinction between the joyful drinking of the rederijkers and the excessive boozing of others.
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Hieronymus Bosch, The Ship of Fools, c. 1500–1510, Oil on panel, 58 × 32,5 cm, Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Martine Beck-Coppola.
Femke Kramer has highlighted the very physical nature of rederijker farces, half of which give food and drink a central role. The actors eat and drink, but also accidentally or intentionally spill their beverages, smear food and throw victuals at each other in grotesque scenes intended to provoke laughter from the crowds.77 In Droncke Taverne (‘Drunk Tavern’) the main character gets into a fight with a straw puppet that he mistakes for his new bride.78 The two actors in Een droncken man ende zijn wijf (‘A drunk man and his wife’) engage in a scuffle, which the woman wins in a topsy-turvy manner.79 Another typical farce is Een cluijte van plaijerwater (‘A farce of spoof water’) that pits a naive husband against his unfaithful wife and her lover, the parish priest. Pieter Baltens, himself a member of the chamber of rhetoric De Violieren in Antwerp, has painted the central scene of this play as part of a larger village fair (c. 1570, fig. 3a). Whether this reflects the actual performance context of the farce is unlikely, as the painting is filled with scenes of abundantly eating, drinking, dancing, love-making and worshipping peasants. Yet, Baltens acknowledges the rederijkers by painting a blazoen on the stage curtain and he accurately depicts the dynamics of the play and how the plot is fuelled by alcohol. We see the moment when the husband, hidden in the basket of a perceptive pedlar, surprises his wife and the clergyman, who are making out at a set table. The priest holds his lover with one hand and a cup with the other. A jug is standing underneath the table, ready for a refill. Also, a stick with a tankard hanging from it (often used as a tavern sign) signals to the audience that the scene is about drinking and drunkenness (fig. 3b).80
Fig. 3a
Pieter Baltens, Village Fair with the staging of ‘Een cluijte van plaijerwater’, c. 1570, Oil on panel, 112 × 157 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
Fig. 3b
Detail of the Village Fair with the staging of ‘Een cluijte van plaijerwater’ (theatre stage).
Drinking scenes in farces were intended to provoke laughter.81 The moral message was wrapped in the humour of watching drunk and over-the-top characters arguing and making a mess of things. Comparable scenes in allegorical morality plays are seemingly more openly disapproving. These plays highlight the weak and sinful nature of man. The role of the sinnekens, a devilish twosome that tries to seduce man, is crucial in these plays. They personify bad qualities and human weaknesses. It is important to note that they were also very popular with urban audiences, because of their antics and foul and irreverent speech.82 The play by Kaprijke at the theatre contest in Ghent in 1539 lets two sinnekens, Vieryghe Lust (‘Fiery Lust’) and Dwaze Iongheyt (‘Foolish Youth’), mislead Man. They take him to a tavern with the unmistakable name Poel van Desperacyen (‘Pool of Desperation’). Together, they have a meal, which degenerates quickly into a drinking orgy. Man indulges in wine and is seduced by the hostess Der Zonden Voetsele (‘The Fuel of Sin’). She offers him food and drinks and takes him int groene (‘into the garden’), a clear sexual reference. The moral warning is made explicit when two other characters arrive, Zalyghe Leerijnghe (‘Blessed Teachings’) and Redene (‘Reason’). The sinnekens leave the scene and Man stays behind defeated, while the tavern turns into a dark hole.83
The Tavern and the Chamber of Rhetoric
The tavern is one of the favourite settings in rederijker farces and morality plays. Conveniently, this setting could be constructed using a minimum of props: a set table and a few stools or benches sufficed. The cast consisted of a stock of recognizable characters: an inn-keeper and/or his wanton wife, and a few loud tavern-goers.84 This is exactly how taverns are represented in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century genre painting. From Pieter Aertsen’s Egg Dance (1552, fig. 4) to Adriaen Brouwer’s Tavern Scene (c. 1635, National Gallery London, fig. 5) images abound of sparsely furnished, but messy tavern interiors. These scenes evoke disorder and even vice. The tavern is a place of loose morals, where people carouse, gamble and engage in illicit sexual activity.85 This literary and pictorial topos corresponds strikingly to the contemporary social construction of the ‘bad’ tavern.
Fig. 4
Pieter Aertsen, Egg Dance, c. 1552, Oil on panel, 84 × 172 cm, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
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Adriaen Brouwer, Tavern Scene, c. 1635, Oil on oak, 48 × 67 cm, London, The National Gallery.
Historical studies of early modern drinking have stressed that contemporaries made a distinction between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ taverns. The ‘good’ tavern was an indispensable social space in the early modern city. For men from the middling groups the tavern had a direct professional function. In the tavern, sellers and buyers drafted contracts; master guildsmen engaged new journeymen; conflicting parties reconciled; men proved their solvency by treating their friends and fellow guild brothers to a drink. The presence of an audience to witness the transactions and the availability of drink to seal the agreement was crucial. Drunkenness was tolerated and even encouraged when it stayed within bounds. Innkeepers were usually respectable, educated men who maintained a close working relationship with the civic authorities. After all, beer taxes provided one of the most important sources of income to the town’s finances.86 In contrast to these ‘good’ taverns, there were also so-called ‘bad’ taverns. The ‘bad’ tavern was usually located outside the city walls (or outside a village) where it escaped control and tax collectors. It was also often a place where prostitution was part of the business. The distinction between a hostess or maid and a professional prostitute was particularly vague. Yet, despite these contrasts between the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ tavern, in reality the opposition was far from absolute.87
At first sight, the rederijkers sought to clearly differentiate themselves from the tavern. The regulations of a number of chambers of rhetoric proclaim that the civilized drinking practices in their own rooms were the opposite of the disordered boozing in taverns. In a contract De Goudbloem in Antwerp drafted in 1525 for its playwright, the chamber demands that he let the actors rehearse in the guild’s meeting rooms and not elsewhere in the city, certainly not in taverns.88 The statutes of De Kersouwe in Oudenaarde from 1556 stipulate that the brothers may make merry during banquets and drinking bouts by singing spontaneously or in chorus, but that they may not brawl and yell like drunks in a tavern.89 However, upon closer inspection, the chamber of rhetoric and the tavern can hardly be considered as completely distinguished social spaces. Many chambers of rhetoric did not own a meeting room and therefore had to rehearse in taverns.90 This was the case for example for Mariën Theeren in Ghent.91 An innkeeper in Borgerhout (near Antwerp) sued the local rederijkers in 1567, because they had neglected to pay their rent and their drink bill.92 The distinction between a chamber of rhetoric and a tavern was not always very clear, even to the city government. The magistracy of ’s-Hertogenbosch decided in 1595 that Mozes Doorn could no longer serve beer at the lower burgher’s excise, and had to pay the tapper’s excise instead. Mozes Doorn resisted but did not deny the similarities between chambers of rhetoric and shooting guilds, on the one hand, and (respectable) taverns, on the other hand.93 In 1681, Bloemken Jesse in Middelburg sold its premises to a couple of former members, who kept the furniture and turned the place into an inn.94 In fact, quite a number of rederijkers were professionally active as innkeepers.95
We can conclude that the chamber of rhetoric was a social space that overlapped in many ways with the ‘good’ tavern. At the same time, the rederijkers criticized the licentiousness and excess of the ‘bad’ taverns precisely in order to uphold their own moral reputation. By exaggerating the topos of the ‘bad’ tavern and accentuating its grotesque features, the rederijkers conveniently presented their own, often extreme, drinking practices as reasonable and civilized. However, matters were not always that straightforward. The most famous tavern scene in Dutch literature (in a prose text from c. 1515) is the visit of Mariken van Nieumeghen and the devil Moenen to the Gulden Boom in Antwerp. Mariken, who has mastered the liberal arts in no time, recites a hymn in praise of the art of rhetoric. At first she wins the approval of the tavern-goers, but soon the scene degenerates into a brawl, and a man is slain. Although there can be no doubt that a tavern where the devil thrives is a ‘bad’ tavern, the fact that it is centrally located in Antwerp, that there is a noted presence of respectable burghers and guildsmen, as well as the allusion to the performance of the art of rhetoric, indicate that it is an ambiguous setting.96 Similarly, the reference to the drinking rituals of the rederijkers in the bad ending to the tavern scene of the Kaprijke play from 1539, has a self-parodying rather than a moralizing effect. Bret Rothstein has likewise suggested that the depiction of tavern scenes by the early sixteenth-century painter Jan Sanders van Hemessen was intended more as a game of wits than as a high moral judgment.97 In a similar vein, rederijkers played with their own stereotypes to tease and entertain their audiences.
A literary text that brings together the moralizing, satirizing and self-parodying conceptions of drinking and drunkenness by the rederijkers is the Mandement van Bacchus (‘Mandate of Bacchus’) from 1580. The performative context of the printed pamphlet is unknown, but it formed part of a Shrovetide celebration and belongs to a wider genre of mock sermons and mock charters.98 In a very formal manner, directly reminiscent of princely ordinances, Bacchus calls his subjects to appear on Shrove Monday and Tuesday in his courts of justice, which are in fact Antwerp taverns. The text is unique because it enumerates a long list of wines and beers and no less than ninety-two identifiable Antwerp inns and taverns. Both the drinks and the taverns are named in an order from high to low, showing a keen appreciation of quality and of social distinction. While the drunkards parade from posh inns to shabby taverns, they too degenerate socially and physically. The mock mandate is signed by a set of satirical characters voor die kerckduere van ‘t groot Gasthuys (‘for the church portal of the great hospital’), where incorrigible drunks are bound to end up. Yet, the moral warnings do not detract from the reader’s amazement at the bedazzling diversity of drinks and taverns in Antwerp.99
Rederijkers, Kannenkijkers
By creating disordered tavern scenes with hard-boozing, over-the-top characters, the rederijkers legitimized their own drinking practices and affirmed their self-image – albeit often with a sense of irony – as convivial but civil guildsmen. In an odd reversal of this cultural strategy, they were themselves reduced to a stock drinking type in the seventeenth century. Rederijkers became kannenkijkers or ‘jug watchers’. The exact origin of this expression is unknown. An often-cited source is Jan van Hout, a town secretary of Leiden and one of the first Renaissance poets in the Low Countries, who tried to reform both the poetics and the social practices of his fellow rederijkers. In a satirical text from 1578 he refers to hare penssen mit dranc verladen (‘their bellies full of drink’), but he does not yet use the word kannenkijkers.100 The expression seems to have first appeared during the Twelve Years’ Truce (1609–1621), when rederijker culture was again thriving in both North and South. In the context of a dispute about the social and literary developments in the local chamber of rhetoric in 1613, Adam van der Hagen, former playwright of De Wijngaertrancken in Haarlem, complained that many slanderers spoke mockingly and contemptuously, out of ignorance or malice, of the chambers of rhetoric. According to Van der Hagen ‘it has become for many, almost a common saying: Rhetoricians/Wife-beaters/Jug watchers’.101 In Jean de la Roy of d’ingebeelde Rijke, a farce from 1665, the Amsterdam author Joost van Breen lets his boastful title character patronizingly narrate: ‘Recently I came to a place where there were rhetoricians from the village of Hazerswoude, those boorish jug watchers’.102
Contemporary to Joost van Breen’s farce are a number of paintings by Jan Steen in which he represents the rederijkers reciting verse, making merry and boozing. Rhetoricians Carousing (c. 1665–1668, fig. 6) shows an indoor meeting of the rederijkers: a blazoen is attached to the wall; the well-dressed company includes a standard bearer and a drummer; a man with an embroidered cap may well be the elected ‘king’. The guild’s drummer is leaning through the window, reading out a poem to an amused crowd. Above their heads hangs a tree branch with a pitcher and a tankard, signalling the occasion for drinking. In the right-hand corner a man is effectively emptying a jug, while two others are striking a deal or maybe gambling. In the foreground, in a gesture reminiscent of tavern scenes, a jester is grabbing a servant maid who is smiling at the viewer of the painting. A wreath of flowers with a piece of paper attached to it hangs from the ceiling. The quatrain scribbled on it plays with the literal and poetic meanings of food and drink. The short text jokes that rederijkers are better at drinking than at writing verse: ‘They rhyme of dry fare/Excellent poets of Bacchus/Dry is an empty barrel/But there has to be some food too’.103
Fig. 6
Jan Steen, Rhetoricians Carousing, c. 1665–1668, Oil on canvas, 86 × 100 cm, Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts Belgium, Photo: J. Geleyns - Ro scan.
The interpretations of Jan Steen’s rederijker paintings diverge widely. Although there is no direct documentary evidence, Albert Heppner has asserted that Steen was himself a rederijker. Heppner pointed at Steen’s accurate representation of the blazoenen and the mottos of the chambers of rhetoric in Holland. He argued that although the scenes are humorous, they are never truly mocking or condescending. Therefore, he concluded that the chambers of rhetoric themselves may well have commissioned the paintings.104 Mariët Westermann has defended the opposite position. She claims that Jan Steen belonged to a bourgeois cultural elite that looked down upon the popular entertainment of the old-fashioned rederijkers. In the second half of the seventeenth century the chambers of rhetoric had become a thing of the past, which now evoked both a feeling of nostalgia and distaste.105 So, in Westermann’s interpretation the rederijkers were no longer the subject of a civilizing offensive but its object: they had become the laughing stock of the educated bourgeois. The precise intentions of Jan Steen (who interestingly also exercised the professions of brewer and innkeeper) thus remain open to discussion, but a better understanding of the dynamics of seventeenth-century rederijker culture brings some nuance to this debate.
In his detailed study of the Dutch rederijkers, Arjan van Dixhoorn has discussed the attacks on the drinking practices of the chambers of rhetoric in early seventeenth-century Holland. He has shown that these charges formed part of a wider dispute about the future of rederijker culture in the new political and cultural context of the Dutch Republic, where the now secularized guilds had to find a new social role. On the one hand, a small but influential group defended the position that a chamber of rhetoric had to be a sober sodality of scholars and culturally refined amateurs.106 This was the path chosen by the famous – but short-lived – Nederduytsche Academie (1617–1622) in Amsterdam. Jan van Hout’s earlier satirical attacks on the excessive drinking of the rederijkers must be understood as a similar endeavour to reform the chambers of rhetoric in a culturally exclusive way. On the other hand, however, a much larger group defended a more inclusive position: the chambers of rhetoric should not create high intellectual barriers and should place sociability – including collective drinking – before sophisticated poetry.107
Many literary scholars have uncritically repeated the judgment of the ‘moderns’ and have taken for granted the fact that the ‘ancients’ were marginalized, both culturally and socially, during the seventeenth century.108 However, comprehensive research on the social background of the rederijkers contradicts this interpretation. In the Dutch Republic the chambers of rhetoric continued to recruit from among the broad middling groups and also attracted prominent burghers, intellectuals and artists.109 This was equally the case in the Habsburg Netherlands, where some chambers of rhetoric became more socially exclusive than in the sixteenth century. The more restricted recruitment amongst established and well-off guild masters went hand in hand with a partial withdrawal from the public sphere and a growing preference for a closed sociability in the presence of representatives of the local elites.110 We assume that this also led to more copious banquets.111 It seems likely that the general trend of more exclusive and more abundant guild meals established by Harald Deceulaer and Frederik Verleysen also holds true for the chambers of rhetoric.112 Therefore, independently of his own personal position, Jan Steen’s rederijker paintings can best be understood as relatively mild satires on the continuing appeal of the drinking practices of the mainstream rederijkers in his own time.113
The complexity of the kannenkijker cliché (and proof of its reception in the Habsburg Netherlands) is perhaps best illustrated by a work by Adriaen Brouwer, known as The Smokers (c. 1635, fig. 7). At first sight the small panel shows a simple tavern scene, but Karolien De Clippel has established that it actually presents a group portrait of Antwerp artists, with Brouwer in the central position. Brouwer painted the portrait for a very specific occasion: in 1635 two of the depicted painters, Jan Lievens and Jan Davidsz de Heem, registered as masters in the Antwerp artist guild of St Luke. The same year Brouwer became a liefhebber (‘amateur’) in the chamber of rhetoric De Violieren, which functioned as a branch of the guild of St Luke.114 A strong point in favour of De Clippel’s thesis is the manner in which Brouwer depicts himself: the painter who is raising a jug, seems to be taken by surprise by the viewer. Brouwer is unmasked as a kannenkijker, and thus as a rederijker. In sum, this group portrait disguised as a tavern scene warns us that we must not consider the topoi of genre painters and rederijkers as static conventions.115 This particular painting is both an ode to conviviality and to friendship and a parody on the drinking clichés Brouwer had built his career on.
Fig. 7
Adriaen Brouwer, The Smokers, c. 1635, Oil on wood, 46,4 × 36,8 cm, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In Nederland’s beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw (first published in 1941), Johan Huizinga writes favourably about the shooting companies and the chambers of rhetoric. Their old forms of sociability had guaranteed a unity in culture and an open communication between different social groups in the Dutch Republic.116 While Huizinga paints a very rosy image of guild practices, his vision acknowledges the importance of corporative conviviality in the urban culture of the Low Countries. The quintessential Dutch word gezelligheid aptly captures this early modern phenomenon.117 We have argued that drinking and even drunkenness were fundamental in the constant regeneration of this ideal of sociability, both in the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic. This does not imply that there was no diversity or that nothing changed within rederijker culture. The notorious boozer Eduard de Dene (1505–1576/79) from Bruges, and the cultural reformer Jan van Hout (1542–1609) from Leiden, although both contemporaries and respected authors, viewed the carousing of their fellow rederijkers very differently: De Dene lauded heavy drinking in his refreinen in ‘t zotte, while Van Hout condemned this practice and pleaded for more cultural refinement. Rederijker culture also underwent important transformations, including a secularization of its guild practices in the Dutch Republic. Yet, while there were also changes in social recruitment, in both the Habsburg Netherlands and the Dutch Republic, the chambers of rhetoric continued to represent the urban middling groups of skilled artisans, shopkeepers, clerks, schoolmasters and visual artists. From the late sixteenth century onwards, a small cultural elite distanced itself – at least verbally – from the drinking practices of the guilds, but this seems to have had the opposite effect on the much larger group that maintained this tradition. As a result, from the fifteenth century until at least the second half of the seventeenth century, drinking alcohol remained an essential social act in mainstream guild culture.
In the same period, drinking was a central theme in many rederijker texts, from refreinen composed and recited during Sunday meetings to allegorical plays and farces staged at public festivals. The representations of drinking and drunkenness were clearly dependent on genre. The tafelspel or ‘table play’ was performed during banquets and thus commented playfully upon the eating and drinking of a dining company. The factie, with its concluding dancing song, had to incite the joy of the crowds at festivals while simultaneously keeping them from excessive drinking and maintaining public order. The many drama, prose and lyrical texts that represented the drunkenness of stereotypical ‘others’ and/or re-enacted tavern scenes are the most complex to read. These literary texts have many layers of meaning. On a first level, they triggered the laughter of the public, which enjoyed watching (or hearing descriptions of) the antics of grotesque drunk characters. On a second level, these texts created a fiction of a clear distinction between the rederijkers, with their self-image of convivial and civilized guildsmen, and all kinds of low-life drinking types. Yet, on a third level, these literary creations offered the opportunity to tease the audience by turning clichés upside down and making fun of the excessive drinking habits of the rederijkers. Much depended on the precise performance context, but more research is needed to reconstruct these settings in more detail.
Finally, the kannekijker cliché should not be taken as proof of decadence or of backwardness. It is significant that the saying invented in the early seventeenth century by the cultural critics of the chambers of rhetoric, was quickly appropriated by the mainstream rederijkers. Adriaen Brouwer’s pictorial reinvention testifies to the fact that the topos of drinking was continuously played with in rederijker texts and genre painting. The unfathomable Jan Steen seems to have favoured a similar ironic but sympathetic approach in his rederijker paintings. Of course rederijkers were aware of the need for moderation and, if they were not, they were frequently reminded of this by regulations, theatre plays, songs and poetry. Yet previous studies seem to have overemphasized the moralizing intentions of these texts and the visual images that mirrored them, or have overestimated their ability to discipline social behaviour. A more integrated study of guild culture in particular and urban culture in general can nuance many of the claims about the pervasiveness of the Dutch burgermoraal. When read closely, the diverse cultural documents presented here are often full of irony, self-parody and witty references. These regulations, verses and images were in any case more about defining the self than about disciplining the other. In a sense, they were an integral part of the early modern drinking game. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.954333245754242}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '184542', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ZPJ2TATQCV6YH5VNOEFAZ5ISEO6A5FAH', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:5b68f2b5-3912-4f48-ae7c-b6919f020009>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 5, 26, 17, 26, 7), 'WARC-IP-Address': '34.90.253.37', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:T2WC3PRI6EW6FEHNGXINI2BQGABQ5XGF', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a80aa01e-5b7d-4000-b8db-8afb6c24bcd6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.4/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f503540f-bd26-4ec0-8b60-f286791ecafc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '8462', 'url': 'https://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.4/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-24\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May/June 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-5.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.021128714084625244', 'original_id': 'e825b96f28bad6564f61ccbc08f7432df2a3a4e883aec0cbd0de8ea837972df3'} |
Tag: 40 Days in Acts
Shipwrecks & Serendipity
Read Acts 27-28 (Psalm 104) here. Listen here: Sing with me…. Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip, that started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship…[1] Gilligan’s adventure has some striking similarities to Paul’s adventure in the last few chapters of Acts. How long was ...
We’re On Our Way
The American way is the expectation of equal rights for all to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. What if God's plan for us is about more than making us happy? How would that change our perspective on life?
If Then, Then Now
Encouraged and strengthened. How did it happen then? How does it happen now?
God Breaks Through
Coach John Wooden said, "It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” In Acts 11, we see that Peter and the council learned something new about God. What new things is God teaching us today? We worship our amazing God and give thanks that there is more to learn!
To Tell The Truth
It’s not just a game show, it’s life. Sometimes people say that someone or something will be the death of them. Was it the money or the lie that became the death of Ananias and Saphira? | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '18', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9326645135879515}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '100322', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CBF7VML2YUQ7JE2CBA34NNXXDNTTJVZ3', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c532fda8-68c1-4e44-ae39-2ca9575d724b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 12, 8, 9, 43, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.24', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:H7ODKJDUGDDVCVRTMZDWZXBB6FPM2EPI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:407b0432-cd80-48ae-b2df-6920be4158c7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://upcsterling.com/tag/40-days-in-acts/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e6928c73-39c8-42ca-be31-7082ea6a9133>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '213', 'url': 'https://upcsterling.com/tag/40-days-in-acts/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-111\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.20431774854660034', 'original_id': '8fc0e2f3f80be77ac30052f13fd59e182c2ce2b86ba495d870c8f51fb2615ec5'} |
Drive The Cold Winter Away
Rain does not fall here: it fills the air, drifting in shoals blown by the gusts between the tall machines broken down on either side. Neither wind nor rain ever ceases. A constant crashing fills the air, though it is hard to tell the sound of the water from the sound of the machines gradually grinding themselves away. Glacial rust flows from the engines’ sides only to sink below the shallow rivers of water running down every alleyway. They shatter around the feet of the people standing there.
“What is this place?” asks Ashes O’Reilly. They are staring up at the metal walls in bewildered amazement. Jonny d’Ville is watching Nastya. She is looking for the skyline, trying to find something over the heads of the skyscrapers, towering into the mists.
A speaker overlooking the street crackles into life as they walk beneath it. It begins to chant, “Работник Енин! Работник Енин!” before Jonny puts a bullet through it. “It gives me the creeps,” he replies. “I liked it better the last time.”
Ashes coughs. There is something in the rain, or in the space between the rain, which is making even their mechanisms glitch. Jonny’s heart skips a beat, and when he glances at it he sees rainbow sheens running across its surface, breaking out to be kept in check by the device’s self-regulation. He frowns anyway.
“Nastya!” he calls out ahead, to the ghost flitting ahead in the clattering smog. “This place is no good. I say we leave as soon as. There’s nothing left to find here.”
But the ghost has vanished. Jonny sighs and presses on, Ashes close by his side, but she does not reappear. He quickens his pace. Still he cannot see her: they have passed two intersections where she could have turned off already. “Shit.” There is a dull rattle behind them, but it is only a bulkhead sagging with age. “Shit,” Jonny says again. He kicks at the rain.
“Yeah,” says Ashes. “I figure we just gotta wait for her to come back.”
In the end they wait until nightfall before tramping back to the shuttle. It has gone, the rain washing away even the rockets scorches. Jonny rages.
“Didn’t she tell you?” Brian asks Ashes, confused, when they radio Aurora. “She said she’ll be back in a while. She’s going to catch us up later, so she took the hauler. I assumed she’d at least told you two.”
“Nope.” Ashes can almost hear Brian raising his eyebrows in the slightest surprise.
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Why five-year FIA reset products are dumb and dumber right nowArticle added by Kevin Startt on April 26, 2013
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It's an excellent time right now to encourage caution, communicate with clients and go over the reasons why their stock- or bond-linked indexed annuities are up and why the commodity-driven indexed product is way down.
The toughest job in the world has got to be selling door bells and doors door-to-door. Can you imagine ringing the door bell at each house in the neighborhood and asking, "Can I interest you in a door or bell?" and realizing that, shoot, they already have one?
That's kind of the way one feels when they realize that Einstein's definition of insanity holds true with anyone considering an uncapped five-year FIA reset product today. Insanity is defined as doing the same thing over and over. Investors are, again, not learning, and they're making the same mistakes. Another five-year uncapped product was released recently with a spread that was greater than the illustrated returns. If the indexed annuity ever wants to achieve the success of the mutual fund industry in the 1980s and 1990s and exchange traded funds in the 2000s, distributors must realize that the typical fund investor or even variable annuity investor will not pay more in annual spreads than the product has yielded.
Secondly, they will probably not do that with interest rates at all-time lows and with the Dow at an all-time high, even with 10 percent annual liquidity. The contrarian argument might be that the market has been up better than 60 percent of the time over a five-year period, but savers and investors remember that the last two downturns occurred in their lifetime and are part of the 40 percent of time the market was down over a five-year period.
Or do they? Certainly, recent equity fund flows are showing a great rotation from risk off to risk on, but whether they show a long-term trend or not will be confirmed in the spring when previous rallies have gone off track. The smart money is exiting the market, including the revelation recently that many hedge funds and private equity funds are bailing as they recognize one of two facts: 1) The unprecedented government intervention is making the late FDR and John Maynard Keynes blush and will result in higher inflation, and 2) interest rates are crushing stocks.
Right now, the QE2 is on steroids, feeding $82 billion in Treasury purchases by the Fed each month, releasing the power for businesses and individuals to spend or invest, and no one is responding. The above institutions and company insiders are hoarding cash or paying out dividends, rather than adding jobs and investing. The disconnect between the economy, wage growth and the stock market is unprecedented and a facade. The Fed is forcing individuals into taking more risk in stocks and alternatives. So, the question remains: Why not buy a good, uncapped five-year point-to-point indexed annuity with a generous income rider? Here are the reasons, beside the facts that individual investors are lagging indicators of market performance and the market is not cheap by historical standards:
1. 2000 or 2009 would have been the time to pioneer these products, yet the annuity industry is notorious for creating products based on past performance. How many VAs or FIAs contained a commodity or real estate option in 2000 at the outset of a raging 12-year bull market for commodities? The answer is three out of 60 sponsors.
2. The market, as measured by the S&P 500, is near an all-time high, and history teaches us about sequence risk and buying high, selling low and losing money. Most investors are still upside down in their variable annuities, according to Morningstar, and are holding out for the death benefit. This is my favorite oxymoron for a product that is supposed to provide a lifetime of safe income, not help one die with dignity and dispose of wealth to the kids.
3. Stocks are selling at a PE multiple of 15.8 based on this year's earnings and have not gotten back to their inflation adjusted levels since 2000. The media pundits like to point out we are hitting all-time highs, but when inflation is considered, we are nowhere near an all-time high when inflation's bite is considered. It took investors during the Great Depression of the 1930s until 1954 to break even on price and until the 1990s when taxes and inflation are considered. Most folks don't have 60 years to break even, unless you're 115-year-old Misao Okawa in Japan and can afford to sit out a massive rebound.
A great number of suckers involved the indexed annuity's most popular product this past year that is down 12 percent in its first year and requires greater than a 15 percent return net of fees to break even. The sad part of the equation is that this indexed product is being used as a core holding in a clients' safe money portfolio to replace CD money, rather than as a supplement to improve diversification in a laddered-income annuity portfolio.
With a multiple of 15.8, the market has only performed at a 6 percent average annual return in the subsequent 10-year party. Put the confetti away, as the party has been crashed already.
4. Smart Money advocates who have been very accurate in past downturns are turning the alarm sirens on with a vengeance, like Nouriel Roubini, who sees an increased risk of economic civil war in Europe between rich Northern European countries like German and the austere, entitlement-ridden southern countries like Greece and Spain.
So in conclusion, the opportunities for indexed annuities and income riders is bright, but with the market at an all-time high in nominal terms, keeping maturities short and expectations modest should rule an advisor's plans as their ladder or bucket annuities, regardless of whether they are variable or fixed.
It's an excellent time right now to encourage caution, communicate with clients and go over the reasons why their stock- or bond-linked indexed annuities are up and why the commodity-driven indexed product is way down. The seesaw is working, but clients will always pay attention to the down side of the saw and what they see on their statements. Be proactive in your reviews, and keep it short, simple, safe and stable.
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Vemma Premix is Back at Discounted Prices
Vemma, the maker of the best-selling liquid supplements from the USA is back! Now it is exclusively available at discount prices at VitalAbo
Vemma is an acronym for:
V itamins
E ssential
M inerals
M angostan
A loe vera
Vemma is a liquid premium dietary supplement with high bioavailability thanks to the high-quality ingredients. It contains 12 essential vitamins, more than 65 plant-based minerals, mangosteen, aloe vera and decaffeinated green tea. Only four tablespoons of this beverage contains a large percentage of the required daily micronutrients and vitamins, etc.
Vemma is free from gluten, soy and lactose. In addition, artificial sweeteners, colors and flavors were deliberately omitted from the beverage. The packaging is also BPA free.
Let's look at a few ingredients included in the drink more closely, as they may not be so well known.
What is mangosteen?
The name "Mangosteen" comes from the Malay language and refers to a tropical tree with edible fruit that grows in Southeast Asia. The fruits from this tree can be called superfoods because they are exceptionally rich in antioxidants. They have been used in Asian folk medicine for a very long time. In particular, the anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties of the fruit are highly value.
The abundant fruit phytochemicals such as polyphenols and xanthones found in the fruit contribute to their healthy properties. The xanthones are considered especially important natural antioxidants, and mangosteens represents one of the richest sources for them.
Thanks to a unique extraction process, Vemma uses the juice from the entire fruit, including the peel, which is particularly rich in polyphenols. This makes the juice particularly healthy.
Why does the juice contain aloe vera?
Aloe vera is considered the queen of medicinal plants. It has been used for healing purposes for thousands of years. The Aloe vera plant store waters in a kind of gel that contains nearly 200 different active ingredients. That makes this plant so effective as a medicinal plant. The cosmetic industry has discovered the beneficial properties for themselves, but the juice of the plant can also be drunk. The natural glyconutrients also play a role in its healthy properties.
Why is decaffeinated green tea?
Green tea is highly valued in Asia, especially because there are many studies that indicate possible health benefits and antioxidant effects of green tea. Since not all people can tolerate caffeine, Vemma chooses to use decaf tea. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '88cb2a4e58c35e122122244d081e6eaa58b1c4c38f7a279dac77ab13f104e0fd'} |
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Quum enim tot , tan- taque tua in Georgium extiterint beneficia , ut ne ab optimo qui- dem parente majora expeftare po- tuerit ; quumque tu illi fiud tem- pore perneceffiario ades ifias , Mufarum perfugium ac fiedem , patefeceris , atque omnium re- rum , qua ad corporis animique cui - \ Digitized cultum pertinerent , copiam fup- p e ditaris, cumque & vivum fem- per dilexeris , & nuper etiam domi ture mortuum familiariter luxeris ; jam non ullum officium, nec mea fumma in te obfervau- tia , fed res ipfa a me pofiulare vifa efl , ut qu<e de hoc homine fcripfiffiem , qualiacumque tandem effient, nemini alii, nifi tibi di- carem. < Ai que hic effiet locus de tuis fingularibus in omni genere vir- tutibus prae dicandi: jlirpis enim antiquitatem , fplendoremque Ma- jorum mirari non foleo . Sed quo- niam affientatorum levitas omnem hujiif- hujufmodi epifolarum fidem jam diu elevavit i non faciam profe- flo, ut quum materiem laudum tuarum non vulgarem, fed prae- cipuam , 'non fiflam , fed veri fi- niam habeam , hanc ei Scriptu- ne committam , qui e minimum ponderis habitura effie videatur. Itaque cJetera in prafens' re- linquam : hoc unum - modo affir- mabo, Georgii gloriam ita effie cum tua conjunflam, ut nihil ab eo vel fapienter faflum , vel prae- clare excogitatum lefluri fint pofleri , quin ejus rei magna pars laudis in te redundet. Etenim fic propemodum fatuo i ipfum Digitized ipfum Georgium nifi in tuam amU citiam tuumque conviftwri perve - hijfeti ad id dottrina clarita * iifque fafiigium noti fuijfe emer* fur uni.' Accipies igitur prd tua per« petua in me humanitate hoc par- vum Commentariolum libenti ani* mo ( neque enim quod tibi de- beatur y munus aude a dicere ) nieque , fi ita meritum arbitra- re i in tuorum numera habere perges i Vale* De 1 feri ano IV. Idua Sepumtni Gl3*l3>QGAXXS*i 1 V > V A 4 r e X ' " ' :.:v ') v ' •h\\''?h vaviVA YY i % i * • * v V.Y V» . « * \ % \ -•V A v- • ... r. + v:\\ t«-v- .i « • . - " Vi *v . • ■ ,' 4 \V W ». J \ VuVj oYvay* v*v. v. • X • • * V * \ v \ M \ 2 \ V Vu V .* v, A W'\M ttt — •/ i ■i Mii -I V I.'4v. .\4\. •. T’ «x J '} r I , • ' > , r ■« ■ • V «i v. i v, DE VITA fyjggggp ALEXANDRI GEORGII. ' On ignoro equidem > illam verifiimam propofitam ef- fe Hiftoricis legem , ut non folum odio, verum etiam amore omni fic va- cent, ut nec falli quidquam dicere au- deant, nec veri non audeant. Mihi au- tem dc Alexandri Georgii vita aliquid feribere conanti verendum non cft pro- fecto, ne amicitia, quae mihi cum ipfo A fuit 2 DEVITA fuit maxima, me aut a vero re ipfa abducat, aut in vanitatis fufpicionem apud alios, qui pridem ipfum noverint, vocet. Etenim quum ego illum non ex amore admirari, ut plerumque fit, fed ex admiratione amare coeperim , eum amorem fequor, qui cum fincero incor- ruptoque judicio fit conjun&us . Quum autem, ita jam pridem judicare potuerim, Gecfrgaum non unum elfe*e multis, qui doctrinse ac probitatis laude florerent, fed inter multos propemodum lingula- rem ; video ad eum laudandum nec men- dacio ufquam efie opus, neque filentio* Nam cum omni virtutum genere abun- davit, tum, quoad homini fas fuit, i vi- tiis omnibus caruit, ‘ 11. Quod utinam ipfum coram ali- quando, videre atque alloqui licuiflet ; nunc enim quum ejus res atque mores ex -ipfius tantum ad me Epifiolis, atque a Francifci Malfatti Sobrini mei, quoti- diani Digitized by Googli ALEXANDRI GEORGII. 3 diani ejus (ludiorum teflis > praedicatione cognitos habeam i intelligo, multa in hoc icripto multos ede defideraturos , quae , nid praefenti & diuturna confuetudine , adverti notarique non polfunt. In quo tamen non metuo ne reprehendar» (i majorem pietatis rationem habui, quam facultatis, & (I Amici in ipfo paene aeta- tis flore fublati memoriam aliquo potius officio profequi malui, quam nullo. Quod quidem & ipfi , qui mihi nunc ex illo divino animorum concilio meum luflum meafque lacrimas intueri, ac meis cogi- tationibus quodammodo interede videtur , fpero fore gratidimum. Itaque jam ex- ordiar. 111. Alexander Georgius Venetiis na- tus eft anno milledmo feptingentefimo quadragefimo feptimo m. Idus Septem- bres. Quod nos quidem magnum fortu~ nae munus putamus , urbe in ea lucem afpexide , in qua una veteris Romano- A 2 rum II 4 DEVITA ram & fapientiae & dignitatis quali fimit- lacrum refideat. Patrem habuit Leonar- dum Georgium Venetum, matrem Car rolinam Trechmayriam Caroli filiam , nobilis apud Germanos viri , qui in Sar- matarum Regis exercitu meruit, legio- pemque duxit Tribunus militum. Sed & Georgiorum familia ante aliquot States in patriciis fuit, quae pofiea quum hu- miliori connubio ad Scribas tranfiflTet ( qui ordo patricio proximus habetur), in Patavinam nobilitatem cft adfcita. Ale- xander mature admodum in Jefuitarum difciplinam traditus eft, quo ad huma- nitatem ac philofophiam inftitueretur. Qni quum & ingenio eflet fummo & prae.- clara indole, ut fecundum religionem ni- hil haberet litteris carius, fluxis morta- lium rebus nuntium remittendum, atque illud ipfum D. lgnatii inftitutum fequen- dum fibi elTe ftatuit . Itaque decimo fepti- { • Uio » i ALEXANDRI GEORGll. 5 mo anno in Societatem jam jamque per- ituram Bononiae nomen dedit. IV. Tirocinio polito , Placentiam biennio pofl: fe contulit Rhetoricae addi- fccndae cauda, mox Parmam docendae Grammaticae . Sed brevi cum Ceteris So- ciis Bononiam rediit. Ubi quum pari modo fcholam aliquandiu habuilTet, fre- quentiflima fanguinis exfcreatione id mu- neris omittere coa&us eft. Qua; re jam tum oftendrt , ei morbo fe obnoxium fore, qui ipft poltea fuit fatalis. Neque eo fecius ad Theologiam penitus cogno- fcendam accelHt , iniitque Sacerdotium annorum trium & viginti. Atque in hac Bononienli commoratione facile fibi adi tus patuit cum ad alios do&iflimos vi- ros, quorum in ea urbe lingularis feni- per exftitit copia , tum ad maximum il- lud poli Leonis Decimi tempora Latina- rum noftrarumque litterarum lumen Fran- cifcum Zanotcum. Itaque adolefcens fa- A 3 pien- Digitized by Googl <$ DE VIT\ pientifiimo Seni, cui ufque ad extremum diem mira conftitifte fefti vitas dicitur, fuit jucundiffimus . Etenim ille, qua erat fagacitate , intelligebat profecto , inefie in Georgii mente eximiam vim quan- dam , deque eo , ut Socrates olim de Ifo- crate, re£tiflime augurabatur. V. Sequutum eft illud, quum Je- fuitarum Societas , quie tantas habere ra- dices , quantus eft orbis terrarum , puta- batur, Clementis XIV. Pontificis Maxi- mi nutu, tamquam fulmine, excifa ac deleta eft . Qua ille communium tempo- rum calamitate perculfus, in Patriae por- tum confugit. Quo quum veniffet, quo- niam nimia majorum comitate rei fami- liaris anguftiis premebatur, in ipfa do- ftrina fortunarum prcefidium invenit fua- rum. Etenim intra parietes ludum ape- ruit, in quo adolefcentes , qui aut fa- cris initiati eflent aut jam Sacerdotio fungerentur, Theologicis difciplinis eru- di- ALEXANDRI GEORGIt. 7 diret . Cujus plena lapientia vox ut pri- mum eft audita» major in dies concur- fus ad euin fieri coeptus efl: fub tali do- &ore proficere cupientium. Ac diutius fortalle in eo munere permanfiflet, ni fi Chriftini Bevilaquae Patricii Ferrarienfis .amplifiimi viri liberalitas multo lautio- rem ei conditionem obtuliflet. Namque ipfum ultro magnis praemiis domum fuam invitavit, ut duos illos, quos Frater libi moriens commendaflet , filios quam di- ligentifiime informandos regendofque fu- fciperet. In quo difficile intellefru efl - uter meliori fortuna fit ufus: cerre nec Bevilaqua aptiorem magiftrum atque il- lis Graecis fimiliorem , quos antiquitas ce. lebrat; nec amantiorem Patronum inve- nire Georgius potuiflet . Efl enim Chri. flinus ex eorum numero, qui nec ge- neris nobilitati, quae a virtute fejunfta fit, duidquain tribuunt, & divitias, quas v pleriq\je aut mifere obruunt aut fluite A 4 proji- Digitized by Googli 8 DE VITA projiciunt, ad alenda potiflimum dolo- rum virorum ftudia fibi datas efte arbi- trantur. Itaque ejus domum quamiam bo- narum artium quafi officinam ede dixe- ris: ita praeclaris rebus omnibus ornata atque inftrutla eft . Neque enim folum litteratorum hominum amicitiis & con* tubernio maxime dele&atur, fed cum ipfe in primis eft cultus atque eruditus, tum illud praecipue ftudet, ut ejus fratris fi- liis (quibus non tam patruus natura eft» quam animo pater, & in quorum ado- lefcentia fuaviflime acquiefcit) nihil ad- modum ullo in genere defit , quo minus quam exfpe&ationem fui apud omnes con. citarunt, ei cumulate fatis faciant. VI. Hic igitur quum miram Ale- xandri follertiam fidemque & probitatem perfpexiffct , tanta hominem benevolen- tia complexus eft, ut dignum poftea fem- per habuerit, cui maxima minimaque om- nia concrederet. At ille viciffim ei gra- tiam Digitized by Googl< ALEXANDRI GEORGIl. ,9 riam referebar, neque fe, quoad poterat, officiis vinci patiebatur . Ita autem ufque- quaque fe geffit, ut nec fuperbius quid- quam fecerit aut liberius, & femper di> gnitatem retinuerit fuam . Neque enim pxdagogi alicujus loco fe exiftimabat ef- fe , fed utique hofpitis atque amici , qui pueros illos in fpem Patria adolefcentes non quali in ludo, fed 8c docendo ali- quid , & vero fsepius monendo , percun-» ftando, una legendo, denique affiduo convi£tu fermonibufque familiaribus ad fcientiam atque ad virtutem inftrueret. Quod quidem difciplinae genus merito utiliffimum exiftimatur. Nihil enim pue- ris moleftius , nihil odiolius, quam fchohe nomen ; at iidem quum magiftrum fe do- cere profeflum averfentur» diffiinulanter docentem libentiffime audiunt. Hoc igi- tur Georgio tum aeftate tum hieme quo- tidianum erat, ut quum vefperi amplius tres horas variis exercitationibus pueros non Io DE VITA non tam continuiffet , quam oblectaflef , quorum acumen , docilitatem , feftivica- temque & diligebat & prsedicabat, ut etiam amicos auditum tentatumque ad- mitteret; parciilime caenatus, abderet fe in cubiculum , atque intentiilimo animo in lucem lucubraret , aibenteque demum coelo quieti fe traderet. Quem quum familiares monerent , videret quid ageret , hoc refponfum ferebant, dum rieceflkati aliquando facis faceret , parum referre , utrum no£lu id faceret, an die. VII. Pomeridiana tempora amicis facile tribuebat. Nam quum veteri phi- lofophorum more turbam odiflet, ac do- mo non f?epe exiret, complures autem fama impulli notitiam ejus & colloquium expeterent, ea re fiebat, ut numquam interdiu ab interpellatoribus tutus edet. Ac condat fuiffe, qui de induflria fe in Bevilaquie domum inlinuarent, quo iibi humaniffima Georgii confuetudine . . . frui Digitized by Googlt' 1 ALEXANDRI GEORGII. ii frui quotidie liceret. Ad quem quidem nemo unquam accedit» quin & do£tior & cum magna redeundi cupiditate di- fceflerit . Forte in eamdem domum ali- quanto ante fe contulerat Francifcus Alal- fattus Sobrinus meus Chriftini munificen- tia & i pfe invitatus. Cui etfi fcio, me r non gratiflimum faturum, fi de eo quae fcntiam aperte dixero, dicam tamen, nec veritati vel ejus gratiam vel pudorem meum anteponam. VILI. Eft igitur Malfattus miris qui-* bufdam virtutibns praeditus : mitto mathe- maticarum rerum fcicntiam , quam it a in Ferrarienli Lycaeo profitetur, ut ma* gni Riccatii difcipulum facile agnofcant omnes; mitto etiam ftudia dodtrinae, in quibus fic interdum verfatur, ut appa- reat , eum omnia poffe quae velit ; de his loquor , quae animi , non ingenii funt, integritate, modeftia , /implicitate, beneficentia, fua vitate, quae in illo pror- fus ri 1 DE VITA fus maxima ac fumma funt . Itaque ne- mini mirum videri debet, fi Georgius hunc fimul cognovit & amare coepit. Qui quidem amor e virtutis amore , at- que ex animorum fimilitudine ortus, Sc quotidiano ufu confirmatus brevi incre- dibiliter adolevit. Igitur magna erat in- ter eos voluntatum confenfio , it udiorum etiam conliliorumque fine ulla exceptio- ne communitas; ut jure Bevilaqua glo- riari pofiet,fua opera amicorum par no-' bilifiimum exftitille . Quae res cum ipfos rllufirabat, tum hujus judicium, qui ta- les viros delegiflet, commendabat pluri- mum; eoque magis , quod peculiaris lit- teratorum morbus femper fuifle videtur invidia . Quum enim' pluris vulgo inge- nia seflimarentur , quam mores, inde fa- ftumarbitror , ut plerique do&iores, quam probiores videri mallent. Quae contentio & amicitiam & veritatem tollat, necefle e 11. Quod quidem tantam habet apud opti- ALEXANDRI GEORGII. 13 optimos quofdam viros offenlionem, ut litteras ipfas, infcite quidem, led tamen refugiant, quum videant, litteratiflimum quemque fere cifc fallaciae invidiaeque ple- niflimum. Georgius autem quum obrre- ftaret nemini, a bonis omnibus amaba- tur t Itaque etiam Ferrarienlium docfif- fimos familiaritate implicatos habuit , ex quibus duo tantum honoris caufia no- minabo, quos mihi quoque ipli concilia- vit , Laurentium Barottum, & Vincen- tium Montium Poetam. IX. EIoc ille tam opportunum otium quum elfet na&us, planeque in Mufarura quali complexu verfaretur, ea intendit animo, quae fi perficere licuiflet , magnam profe&o gratiam ei tota Italia debuillet. Sed haec demonftrabimus poftea . Nam- que initio librum edidit de ratione utriuf- que ling;uae Italicae Latinaeque pueris' tradendae, eumque Patrono fijo dedica- • , vir, : 14 DE VITA vir. (i) Qua in epiftola veriflimis lau- dibus referta illud pofuit, fe, quamvis ea omnia ante annos ferme decem, quum fcilicet in Jefuitarum fcholis pueros vel ad feptem & nonaginta fimul doceret, animo informata ac defcripta habuerit, non fuiflc tamen litteris mandaturum, nili id ipfum ab fefe novorum difcipu- lorum amor exprefliflet . Prooemium por- ro attexuit , in quo confilium atque uni- verfam rationem fuam ita complexus eft ut cum ea , quae rem proprie continebant diftin&e atque illuminate expofuerit, tum vero multa de puerorum intclligentia , deque erroribus inftitutorum non pingui minerva , ut ajunt , fed accuratius exqui- fitiuf- (i) Hic liber Ferrariae ab Jofepho Rinaldo im« preflu* eft anno MDGCLXXV. hoc titulo : Dii mo~ do d' infegnart a' fanciulli le duc lingue Itali ana 9 Latina , trattato di Alejfandro Zorzi Venetjana . Fa« &a eft de eo mentio in Ephemeridibus Romanis eodem anno ad pa g. 24$. Num. XXXI. j 1 ALEXANDRI GEORG 1 I. 15 fitiufque difleruerit. Opus ipfum perfe* qui non eft inftituti noftri; tantum di- cemus , Georgium quaedam a Clenardo & Clarchio fumpfifle, cetera fere nova attulifle ( quam tamen novitatem ipfe non magnopere prae fe fert ) eaque praeclaris exemplis illuftrafle. . Qui quidem omne Grammaticae munus ad tria revocans , fyntaxim, verborum ufum, eorumdemquc declinationem ; ac duo priora ex una in- terpretandorum au&orum confuetudine , hoc vero tertium e certis tabulis, quas ipfe excogitarit, percipi pofle demonftrans* ,•> • ... illud unum habet propofitum, ut fimpli- ' v ces quafdam atque expeditas & docendi & .diffcendi vias cum fincera elegantia conjunctas in fcholas inducat , Gramma- , 1 ticorum falebras barbariemque removeat. Itaque qui haed legat, ftatim intelligat, non a Grammatico aliquo paullo doCtio- re » fed ab acutiirimo experientiflimoque Philofopho profefta effe , neque tamen ab 16 DE VITA ab eo, qui fuo potius ingenio ferviat, quam communi utilitati . Quod contra fit a non paucis» qui idcirco pervulgata rejiciunt , non quo aut illa re vera im' probent aut ipfi habeant meliora , fed ut fe tamen excerpant. Quorum libri» ut noXurni per aeftatem ignes , primo fulgore evanefeunt . Quapropter magiftris \ vehementer auXores fumus » ut hanc do- cendi rationem » quae ad prafeXus tum celeritatem tum magnitudinem mirum in modum fit appofita» & cognofcant & amplexantur . Nam de ftilo quidem » quo totum opus feriptutn eft» leXores malumus exiftimare. X. Habebat omnino Georgius & per- acre judicium, & aures maxime teretes ac religiofas : nihil autem aeque oderat , atque obfcuritatem , nihil fic amabat » quomodo planum atque apertum feriben- di genus , tantumque perfpicuitati tribue- bat , ut etiam fi ceteris laudibus careret » hac 1 ALEXANDRI GEORGll. 17 hac una contentum feeffe diceret . Verum in eligendis quoque collocandifque ver- bis magna erat cura. N.tm nec afperis aut infolentibus utebatur» & quaerebat veriffima' Ea porro fic devinciebat, ut aequabile quiddam exii fleret & jucundum. In quo ufque eo diflicilis ac morofus erat , ut etiam in fummis au&oribus numerum faepe requireret. Nec vero longiores com* prehenfiones confectabatur ; quin potius minutis, fed aptiflimis membris oratio- nem carpebat* Aberat enim ab illa rhe- torum copia atque ubertate ; in eoque prorfus animi fui imaginem exprimebat, quod concitata & vibrantia repudiaret » modica affumeret & temperata, ut quam- quam jejunus non effet , tamen aliquid ejus orationi fortaffe addi poffet» detrahi quidem certe nihil . Sed idem afferebat miram quandam urbanitatem venuftatem- que non tam verborum, quam fenten- tiarum, quae quum ita inanimos influat , B nihil Digitizod by Google ,8 DE VITA nihil ut fuavius fieri poflit , quorundam < feriptorum non ampullis» fed prope jam fulminibus longe videtur anteponenda . Sic autem praedicare folebat» fe a nemine tan- tum prsefidii ad bene fcrjbendum habere , quantum ab uno Alambertio , quem ut praeclarum & differendi & eloquendi ma- giftrum colebat. Neque vero Gallorum tantum difertiflimos legerat, qua lingua ipfe etiam haud imperite utebatur , fed & Anglorum», quorum feripta ex tempore convertebat . Ac fcio, inuftam efle ab adverfariis ejus ftilo hanc notam, quali gallicum quiddam redoleret * A quibus tantum diffentio, ut quum illud facile concedam» in philofophandi fcientia, ac cogitata digerendi confirmandique arte multa Georgium ab Gallis didicifle; quae tamen orationis propria funt, verba ver_ borumque complexio, imagines, color, haec omnia fic ufurpafle contendam , ut fumma in eo appareat patrii fermonis integritas, pe- regrinitas nulla . xi. . ty Co ALEXANDRI GEORGII. t$> XI. Quanquam illud affirmare non dubitarim, quod ego quidem pro certo habeo, alii fortafle mirabuntur , majorem in eo latinae lingua; & facultatem & ele- gantiam fuilTe. Nam quum e Malfatti Ter- monibus de me ille primum aliquid inau- dilTet ( cujus rei magna femper apud me erit memoria ) , atque ultro latine ad me fcriplidet , Tullii epiftolam legere mihi fum vifus.Quem poftea quum crebrius nec fruftra provocarem , intellexi eafiem illas virtutes, quse in italicis ejus fcriptis elu- cerent i ubi fe ad latina contuliifet , con- dimentum quoddam abfolutionemque per- cipere. Itaque ( abiit verbo invidia ) jam diu (ic (latui , neminem fere memoria 'noftra de hujus laudis principatu cum eo certare potuifle , prster Zannottum . Ce- teri enim qui in hoc genere excelluerunt, qui fane funt pauci , ut diclionis fplendo- re (int ipfi pares, ambitu, concinnitate, lepore certe funt inferiores. Sequebatur B 2 au- io DE VITA autem ex omnibus maxime Ciceronem , atque hujus iplius id potidimum fcribenii genus » quod in libris de philofophia adhi- buiffet, fubtile quidem illud Sc predum, fed tamen nec raris diftin&um flofculis, & jucundillimis claufulis interpunflum. Quod quidem quum faceret , in illud mo- ledae imitationis vitium, quod fuperiorem tenuit aetatem, non incurrebat i fic pror- fus,ut non Ciceroni ede fimilis quia eum expreflidet , fed quia fimilis edet expreflide videretur. Xll. Atque hic quidem diligentidi- jnam adolefcens latinis litteris operam de' derat, iifque plus multo, quam domefti- cis fuerat dele&atus. Sed poftquam Gal- lorum libros dudiofe le&itare coeperat, nefcio quo modo fe ad eos inclinarat , qui ajunt, hodie bene Jatine fcribi non pode: cujus feftae princeps & quafi caput eft A- lambertius. Itaque abie&a latinitate, ftu- dium omne ad patriam linguam tranftu- lerat , ALEXANDRI GEORGIl. 21 Ierat, quam fe mulco verius callere polle atbirrabatur . De quo quum ad me accu- rate fcripfillet , faciendum mihi putavi , ut fententiam ipli meam viciffim aperirem. Ego enim quamquam & italice feribendi conlllinm maxime probabam, & in quibuf- dam a latinis nos longe abellc non infitia- bar, hoc tamen defendebam, veterem il- lum fermonem nobis dumtaxat, hoc eft Italis hominibus effingere imitando lice- re . In quo fummam ejus aequitatem co- gnovi. Nam etfi eam opinionem, quam veriffimam putabat, non plane depofuit, tamen & quaedam conccffit , & vero per* mifit, ut rem rotam ad virum judicio prae- cellentem Hieronymum Tirabofchium , quo uterque noftrum amico utebatur , re- jicerem . Qui quidem Italorum cauffie fa- vere fe oilendit. XIII. Quoniam igitur haec quaeftio dolorum hominum coetus jam diu perva- gatur, non alienum mihi vifumcft, quas B 3 de '•y /Ts ROM A ) 22 DEVITA de ea rc inter nos milimus cpiftolas, eas in lucem proferre , ac nonnullas etiam adjungere familiariter fcriptas . Quamquam initio id ne facerem» pudore quodam im- pediebar, quod Georgius multis locis me laudibus oneraret . V erum poftea fic cogf- tavi, intempeftivam elle verecundiam, quje amici gloriae obeffct; quum praefertim pateret , tales laudes ejus efle non judicii , fed benevolentiae tcftimonium : quare fi illas epiftolas continuidcm , Sc litterariam rem publicam fine caufla non contemnen- do munere fraudatum iri; & vero, quum latina Georgii fcripta exftarent praeterea nulla, quippe id ipfe neglexit, hoc tan- tum ejus bonum debita gratia apud pofte- ros cariturum . Nam quod mea quoque re- fponfa adjeci, id me necedario fecifle qui- vis intelliget . Neque enim alioqui igno- rabam , quam iniquam comparationem fu- birem. Quod fi erunt qui dicant, has epiftolas in vulgus edi non dcbuifle , quod nihil Dlgitized t ALEXANDRI GEORGI 1 . 23 nihil magnopere contineant , praeter ne- gotia quaedam & jocationes ; ii fic habeant,- me Georgii non do£lrinam demonftrare voluiffe fed elegantiam,- quae quidem in oratione maxime enitet familiari . Quam- quam hujufmddi reprehenfores nolim omni- no ad hoc. volumen accedere. XIV. Hic igitur quum & noftris & externis litteris ( nam & Graecis (Indue- rat ) ita efTet do&us , ut inter eos , qui phi- lologiappellantur, poflet excellere ; tamen hsc ut levia , fi minus contemnens , certe nonmigni faciens, fe veriores difeiplinas fi bi potidimum colendas putavit , ad quas quidem natura fa&us videbatur r Ex ipfis autem his difciplinis duas fumme in de- liciis habuit, Metaphyficen , & Theolo- giam ( utar enim illo verbo , ut & hoc > pro latino ): quae quantam' mentis aciem defiderent , quam firmum judicium , quan- tam etiam moderationem nemo eft qui ignoret . Itaque nimirum hinc fieri vide- B 4 mus , 24 DEVITA mus , ut multi, quibus obtufior cfl mens , ita in his (ludiis vcrfentur, ut fpifiis vo- luminibus nihil proferant, praeter notifli- ma; alii vero, acuti illi quidem, fed qui ingenio temperare nequeunt , (ic notiflima quaeque mutare (ludeant , ut etiam vera convellant. Q.ui quidem nihl volunt, ni- li novum atque admirabile : eas autem quaeftiones inducunt , quas aut explicare nihil profit , aut etiam obfit attingere. At in Georgio tanta eminebat cum in- genii, tum prudentiae vis, quanta opus erat ei, qui propofitum haberet duas il- las difciplinas ita inter fc conciliare atque conjungere, ut non liceret noftrae aetatis Philofophis ad alteram oppugnandam al- tera jam abuti. XV. Hoc autem ille fcquebatur, ut quum a Pontificum Conciliorumque refponfis difcefiiflct , quae ut inftin&u di- vino edita maxime fufpiciebat, uni infi- ileret philofophiae, adcamque, tamquam ad ALEXANDRI GEORGII. 2S ad obrufiam > omnia exigeret; Theologo- rum vero etiam graviflimorum au&orita- te adeo feduci non fineret, ut fententiam fuam qu'«e veritati videretur propior illo- rum fententiis fine dubitatione antepone- ret. Etenim dicere folebat, fe exiftimare plus detrimenti religioni attuliflequorun- dam Theologorum perverfitatem, quam pleraque Phiiofophorum etiam vaniflimo- r um volumina: Quod ita elTe facile intelliget qui cogitarit, hos ipfos ad impia fepe abi- ifle non tam confilio, quam indignatione , quod nullam potius religionem mallent, quam ineptam. Itaque pati non quibat, ut aut plura homines crederent quam deberent, aut quasdam fecus ac deberent interpretarentur. Tantaeque id fibi erat curas , ut fi quid cuipiam non indocto viro cxcidiflet, quod probari non pofiet, non modo verbis, fed, fi opus efiet, etiam ' feriptura confutaret . Quamquam non erat nefeius, fe eo pa&o( qu* eft hominum in’ 25 DE VIT A in errore pervicacia ) invidiam potias > qnam laudem invenire; fed & veritatem ille unice fequebatur, nec gloriarrt expe- tebat» nifi eam» quae poft mortem ab in- corrupta pofteritate infolentia jam vacui; impertiri folet, non levis neque caduca fed folida atque sterna . Quam quum af- lidue ante oculos haberet, ac nemineth ad eam» nifi qui bene auderet & naviter » afpirare pofie veriffime arbitraretur ; tan- tum facinus molitus eft, quantum Italo- rum ante fe nemo. Etenim con filium iniit conficiendae Encyclop£di& ( efi enim hujus tam docis aetatis hoc nomen jure Latii donare) quae cum ab illa Parifienfi plane dilferret , tum noflrae genti potifiimum eflet ufui. Quod totum efi: ejufmodi ,uc quem- admodum exponam, non reperiam. XVI. Ac quam magnus quidem ei animus in re fufeipienda fuerit , fatis li- quet; quam conflans autem & firmus in perfequenda , vel ex eo apparet » quod dc- - ALEXANDRI GEORGII 27 deterrentium amicorum voces non magis audierit, quam ignavi audire foleant ad- hortandum . Igitur ex ec tempore ita fe totum in hanc curam abdidit conjecitque, ut incredibiles labores atque infinitas oc- cupationes fuflinuerit. Quum enim do- diflimiex tota Italia viri nulla alia, quam gloriae fpe invitandi edent, ut quam quif- que fcientiam vel artem profiteretur, ejus ipfius rationem aut totam , aut per partes explicandam fufciperet , perfpicuum efl , quantum temporis vel una epiftolarum fcrL ptio poflularet. Quod nili lingularis in eo fuiflet & celeritas & follertia, nunquam tam brevi tam multos ad focietatem ope- ris perducere potuiflet. Quamquam Mal- fatto etiam adjutore plurimum ufus eft. Verum totius rei fumma ipfius demum velut humeris nitebatur. Igitur nullus fer- me efl: hodie in Italia magni nominis Phi- lofophus aut Mathematicus aut alioqui litteratus > cujus ille amicitiam non & pe- tie- 28 DE VITA tierit & fit adeptus » In primis autem hos coluit fummos viros, Rofalium Mediola- neufem, Salutium, cujus illuftria funt in Taurinenfem Academiam merita , Lagran- gium , qui Berolini magna cnm Italiae di- , gnitate Borufiorum Regi operam navat» Gregorium Fontanam civem meum, Jor- danum Riccatium, Burferium , Spallanza- nium, Tirabofchium, Martinium eum, cui in muficis primae facile deferuntur, & Canterzanium , qui Bononienfi Acade- miae eft a fecretis . Atque hi omnes fidem ipfi obligarant; Ctnterzanius etiam cura- verat , ut in eam Academiam , quae ne- mini unquam patuit, nifi do&iflimo, ad- fcifceretur. XVII. Poftquam igitur fe optime ab fociis paratum vidit ; ratus , maximo ope- ri par quaerendum efle patrocinium , duo Regios Fratres fapientiflime elegit , quo- rum numini majeftatique illud dicaret , PETRUM LEOPOLDUM Magnum E- tru- y ALEXANDRI GE 0 RGI 1 29 trurise Ducem, & FERDINANDUM Ar- chiducem Auftriae. In quo difficile eft ju- dicare, utrius major eluxerit humanitas ac clementia ; certe uterque quum primum ejus rei certior efl fa&us, tantam volun- tatem tantumque ftudium declaravit, quan- tum non erat exfpe£hndum, nili ab iis T qui fic perfuafum haberent, praecipuum & regum & regnorum cum decus, tum fir- mamentum in optimarum artium tra&a- tione perfe&ionequq ede pofitum . Qus res Georgium mirifice confirmavit. XVIII. Atque ediderat jam ille qu dem libellum (1) de nov* hujus italicss Encyclopadia propofito& enucleate & po- litiffime feriptum. Ex quo licet cognofeere quam ea , quae ad rem pertinerent , omnia in animo meditata atque infiru^a , & (1) Hic quoque prodiit Ferrariae Rinaldi ope- ra anno MDCCLXXVI. hoc titulo: Profpetto di u„a Suoya Enciclopedia It ali an a. 3 o DE VITA • quali fuo quseque loco lita haberet , fic prorfus, ut quod inceptum in aliis fuif^ fet impudentis temeritatis, in ipfo etTet perfe&i conlllii. Nam primo quidem often' dit , quanto in terrore verfarentur ii , qu l hujufmodi libros» ex quibus docti horni' nes magno temporis compendio maximas interdum commoditates capiunt , afperna- rentur; deinde gallicam Encyclopadiam reverentius quidem, fed tamen ita excuf- flt, ut quam multa in ea peccata eflent quam multa omilTa , quam multa non ne- ceflario congefta demonftraret; tum ipfum confilium fuum difertiflime explicavit, quod eo prxeipue fpe&are docuit, ut quum italicus Termo vocabulorum ad arces per* tinentium inopia laboraret, quibus gal- jicus abundat, ea vocabula hoc in opere vel obfoleta revocarentur , vel formaren. tur nova; quum autem pauca admodum ab Gallis de moribus inftitutifque noftris commemorata eflent, theologica vero mul- ta- ALEXANDRI CEORGII 31 ta perperam pofita, ut & illa adderentur diligenter, & haec quam veriflime emen- darentur. Poftremo univerfam operis oeco- nomiam perfequutus eft fic , ut ne minu- tiflima quidem praetermiferit. Quod ipfum magni ingenii eft: profe&o omnia comple- ri; nihil denique non videre, XIX. Hic autem libellus, non dici po- *eft , quam valde omnium voluntates in- cenderit , Sed nihil asque Georgio pro- fuit, ac PETRI LEOPOLDI incredibilis favor. Etenim ( ut mos eft hominibus re- gia exempla fequi) tota Etruria fubito fic eft erefta , ut operam ipft fuani ultro per Targionium deferre vifa fit. Quibus ille rebus, tanquam fecundo aliquo vento, magis & magis proveftus, ne nimia ope- ris tarditate tanta hominum ftudia refrf- gefcerent , ftatuit ( id quod etiam eo li- bello attigerat in extremo ), ut ex variis aliquot opufculis ad id exaratis quod- dam quali Specimen interea concinnaretur ex 3i .DEVITA ex qio periti exiftimatores quale porro ipfam opus futurum eflet, facile pof* fent conjicere . Itaque rem cum cereris ag- greiTus, quum Metapbyfici e ac Theologiae tra&ationem ipfe eo animo fufcepiflet , ut Theologorum fpinas atque ineptias re' vellens , ac nihil non ad Ecclefia^ fen" fum, re&aeque rationis normam directum proponens Religioni quam maxime prodef. fet ; duas commentationes confecit, qui- bus fere Theologiae initia continentur. Namque earum altera eft de Libertate > altera de Primava culpa , cui quidem non- nulla fubjecit de Gratia . Quae qui legat ab eo fane explicata tam fubtilia elegan- ter, tam obfcura dilucide, fateatur necef- fe eft, ipfam nec ulli Theologorum fa- miliae fuilfe addi&nm , & de omnibus re- bus re&iflime fentirc folitum. Quo ma- gis dolendum eft t talem virum tam im- matura morte praerept um reliqua deinceps , ut conftituerat , exfequi non potuiffe, Nam de Digitized by Googld ALEXANDRI GEORGII. 3? de ceteris quidem Sociis dubitare mihi non licet: efiet enim probrofae cujafdam focordiae , quod Georgio vivo facturi erant , ij mortuo deferere» & cum 'illius , ac fuarum vigiliarum fru<Stum fubito delere , tum Italiae externarumque gentium ex- fpectationem fruftrari . De ipfis commem tationibus plura non dicam, ne, quum Specimen, in quo hae fant , Pazziniorum Fratrum opera, qui in nobilifiimis Italiae Bibliopolis numerantur, jam Senis ex- ierit (i), doctorum judicia videar velle • C * • ' prx' (i ) Hujus Specimini hsec eft inferiptio : Pro- dromo della nuova Enciclopsdia Italiatta . Contine, tur autem unico volumine , optima charta , elegan- tiflimis litteris . Totum Opus ( ut eft in Epiltola Pazziniorum ad viros litterarum ftudiofos vim. Id. i Junias data quse feparatim praemifla eft ) fiquidem ad Unem adducatur, XL. volumina facile expletu- rum videtur. 54 DE VITA praevertere . Ac fcio permultos ede ia Italia peregrinos homines, qui haec ditlri- fto, tanquam gladio, fic calamo jam diu expe&ent : qui etiam ii quid fcripferint audiendi- non erunt, quum antea de re- prehendendo cogitarint, quam plane fci- re potuerint, an quidquam edet reprehen- fione dignum. XX. Quare hismidis, de PETRO LEOPOLDO & FERDINANDO Fra- tre dicamus aliquid. Nam quum Geor* gius pulcherrimam illam Epiftolam ad eos mififlct , quae huic ipfi Specimini eft prae- pofita , hujufinodi ab utroque proteft* funt grati animi fignificationes , ut ce- teris Principibus documentum dare voluif- fe videantur, quantum virtuti deberetur. Itaque his imperantibus Italiae non folum gratulari licet, verum etiam majora in dies augurari . Illud autem tacendum non pu- tamus, tantam fuilTe in PETRO LEO- POLDO modeftiam > ut quum in ea Epi- ftola ALEXANDRI CEORGII (Vola non tam difcrte quam vcrc ab Geor- gio laudatus eflet , eas ipfas laudes vel tolli vel certe extenuari voluerit; benigni- tatem vero tantam , ut a- d. x 1 1 . Cal A pril. Vindobona rediens , quum ad Pontem obfcuri Lactis veniffet, qui locus Ferra- ria didat tria millia pafluum , fui pote- datem Georgio fecerit, cum eoque duas ipfas horas fit colloquutus. De quo 'qui- dem colloquio ipfe Georgius ad nos feri* pdt in haec verba : Magnum Etruria Du- cem incepto vehementer favere , id que noti fimum efje cuper e : quod fi etiam pri- vatus ejfet , tamen ejus clientela mirifice opus illufir atum iri ; tantam enim in eo apparere cum ingenii vim tum differen- di fidentiam r ut vix unum aut alterdnfe litteratifimis cum ipfio comparandum pu- tet ypofir emo fie ab illo non humaniter neque amice , fied plane familiariter exce- ptumcft' Huic de LEOPOIDO GeorgiuS 3 - Quidem LEOPOLDUS de Georgio ea po i c 2 ft ea 3 6 ' \\ rr DE VITA H ftea praedicavit:» quae fumma e flent ; S( ex ejus fer mortibus magnam fffijje volu •, pt at em $ quadam etiam in eo bona adverr tiffe , qu£ a dottijfimo quoque fere ab (inf ^ Quod teflimonium cft ejufmodi, ut nui* lam laudationem nullofque; .honores cum eo conferamus ; atque haec commemoran- tes videamur nobis -in beatiffima illa tenv pora translati, quum Divus Auguftus & Cajus Cilnius Maecenas fuse excellentis fortunae obliti ita ie cum ■ Virgiliis , 8c Horatiis exaequare effient .-foliti , ut eos omni comitate ad mutua neceflitudinis officia provocarent. Sic enim fapientiffir jni homines judicabant > non tam do&os viros principu na patrocinio , quam Prior ciptsdo&orum confuetudine. cohoneflar.L. .. XXI. Sed in viam redeamus. «Et- *• .*•'.* * * * , enim Georgius , quamvis in. unam Ency,- c/opediam o mnes . curas cogitati onefque converfas habere videretur , tamen , quem- admodum pictores folent, inter majoris o^c- i ALEXANDRI GE0RG11 37 aperis tabulas levandi laboris fui cauda, Veneris aut Adonidis cap.ut ; . adumbrare» iic ipfe abducebat fe interdum ab funi- C '* ' ‘ / 1 * ' * * •* - • • • ma illa intentione » & in levioribus qui^ bufdam rebps^ quali in opportuno aliquo hofpitio j reqqiefcebat . Quod quum face- ret» nugari i feujebat . Sed utinam ejus nugas imi cari- nobis- liceret. Quid enim ijjtfftrius fieri poteft Epiftolis iis, quas injMartini Serlochii Librum ad Marcum La.ftrium ornatiflimum fibique amiciflimum varum cq nfcri pfi t ( 1 ) ? quas li cum tri- r*»<- • - ? ■ f » ^ 1 , a.-,; ' . - , •. (1) Hac Epiifolat , quas itidem Rinaldus Ferra* 'riae impreflit hoc f anno MDCCLXXIX. ita infcri- ilintur :r LetUrt Jtrc.:dii Aleffabdroc Z$rzJ Vcntajano al Sigvf Propofto Marco haflri Fiorcntino intorno a cib cbe ha fcritto il Sig. Martino Serlok i, dcllo flato dtlla poefia Italiana ,u.dell' Ario flo , m. dei Sakefpear . Vide de his Ephemerides Romanas Num. 'XXXIIi: p. 35T‘^~TCum. -XXXIV. p. 266. Vide etiam Epitomen Aftis Litterariis Vicentinis infertam ( Vol. VIII. „0. 4?» Num. 6$. ) quam ipfi confecimus. 38 DE VITA duo abfolvifie dixero» vereor» ne vetus 1 proverbium afpernari videar» quo in om- ni re non quam cito » fed quam bene - $ quaerere jubemur* Ego vero tot celcrita 1 tem per fe non reqliiro, ita fi ad eam diligentiae bona accelTerint j rfoa minimi facio. Vulgaverat autem Serlochius Nea- poli libellum, in quo homo Anglus non indo&us ille quidem , fed tabfurdus & im- pudens au&orem fe ac Ducem Italae ja- ventuti in poetice (i) praebebat. Qui etfi univcrfa ratione haud mediocriter aber- rabat ( quippe quum omnia fere ad tragi- cum quodiam & rebus denfum genus revocaret ) tria tamen inepte praeter cetera pofuerat , Nam & poeticen^pud nos ve- tat in incunabulis ob eam atulTam adhuc ' • V _• '. yciS V- i’ i- ' > , <iv«\ ii .'-.rc (l) Serlochiani libelli hic dft tirahi* : Co*figti$ dd un Gitvane P»et* dei Sig. Muttito Strlok. ALEXANDRI GEORGIL 3? verfari affirmabat, quod noftri poetas nec Graecos nec Gallicos Scriptores eyolvif- fent, & negabat, Areoftq magni poeta: nomen jure efle datum, qui Romanenfeg fabellas in poema tranftuliflet , & Sache- fpearium omnibus omnium aetatum & poe- tis & oratoribus fidentiffime antepone- bat. Quas quidem fi cui fuperioribus tem- poribus in mentem veniflet fcribere , nae ilii totius Italiae clamores ac fibi!i fuiflent perferendi. Nunc autem» quod ego ne cogitare quidem fine pudore poffuin, eo infamae ventum efl, ut externa amentur» contemnantur domellica; & ut quifque in praecipiendo feribendoque falfum quen- dam Tplendorcm maxime fequitur , ita in pretio potiffimum habeatur. Itaque cor- ruptis jam magna ex parte hominum vo- luntatibus, Serlochii liber & legebatur avidiffime, & ferebatur in primis. Hoc autem nefeioquod genus grandiloquorum poetarum» qui inanimis fenfum, corpore C 4 e*- 4 o DE VITA expertibus corpus fine dele&u tribuentes infinitam quandam quafi larvarum turbam e xcitant , ac fubinde tum phyfica tnm ma- thematica inculcant» ita ejus Audio fla- grabat , ut nihil fupra. XXII. Quum igitur & mali poetae quam maxime faverent» & boni» quo- rum fanc non magna eft copia» prope furerent; Georgius in certamen primus defeendit. Nec vero totum Serlochii li- brum excutiendum fufeepit » fcd tres tan- tum fententias illas , quas fupra demon- ftravi, fic quidem, ut fingulas «fingulis Epiftolis refutarit. Atque haec cfl earum fumma:* poeticam , quam nos quidem ha- bemus, tantum ab infanria abefle, ut ad extremam ■ fene&urem ex eo perveniife appareat, quod in pejus jam ruat. Cere- rum apud nos 8c ab hinc annos quadrin- gentos fu i (Te Perrarcham, & Epicum poe- ma multo ante, quam apud reliquas na- tiones , efle conditum perfedumque - Grar -. cos ALEXANDRI GEORGII. 41 cos poetas non folum a noftris non eflc negle&os , fed , quod ii quoque fciunt qui hiftoriam leviflirae attigerunt» lin- gulari ftudio, fortafle etiam nimio le£ti- tatos. Nam Gallos quidem bonos effe Satyrarum feriptores , Tragoediarum fum- mos; praeterea vix ftare. Ad Areoftum quod attinet , non , fi poema quodpiam Romanenfibus fabulis fit contextum, id- circo effe malum. Ludovici autem poe- ma ita ex his conflare , ut nec tempo* ribus nec locis nec unitate quidquam peccet. Porro ut Latini Graecas fabulas receperint, fic ipfum RomanenfeS pro Graecis adhibui fle; fed & partium con- venientiam & decorum & cactera qux in arte fpe&antur -fervalTe; poftremo ip- fa haec prodigia nihilo minus exemplo- rum fuppeditarc quam Homerica. De Sachefpeario fe tum denique hujus prae*» ftantiam agniturum, fi ea, quam unam Scrlochius urgeat, Marci Antonii contra Bru- 4 42 DE VITA Brutam Cxfaris percufforem oratio tam pulchra revera iit, quam ei videatur. Hac ille conditione, quam nemo non «quif- fimam dixerit, orationem ipfam aggref- fus, fic per omnia verfavit, ut plane oftenderit, nec partitione nec arte nec lentendis efle probabilem. 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Peter Cochrane's Blog: The search for spectrum
All the free spectrum we need for a wireless world is there to go get!
Written at Chatham House, London. Pics compiled on the road between Zurich and Southampton. Copy dispatched via Wi-Fi from a London coffee shop.
Every time I look at the allocation of radio spectrum channels I go to a brightly coloured wall chart (see Fig 1 below) that gives the impression that it is a resource of great scarcity.
However, every time I look at the spectrum using an analyser and antenna I find a desert, just a few signals and a lot of random noise. The reality is that the radio spectrum has, at a modest estimate, a utilisation of less than 10 per cent. What is happening?
Unfortunately, analogue systems and analogue thinking still rules! Dumb transmitters pump out high power AM, FM and PM signals, in many different guises. Then equally dumb receivers listen, plucking out a fraction of the energy from the ether. This is the world I grew up in as a young engineer, where interference, multi-path, scatter and signal-to-noise ratio dominated all design and operational considerations. This automatically leads you to a world of bands and channels - a carving up of the spectrum for individual applications and uses.
But we have a new raft of digital systems being rolled out that have intelligence built into the transmitter and receiver. They talk to each other to minimise the energy used and problems associated with interference and signal scatter. Also, their signal processing aids consistent performance by adjusting the modulation mode. So in contrast to the analogue world, we can reuse time, frequency and space like never before. This gives us a whole raft of new freedoms.
We have already adapted our work patterns to sit in a room full of people with laptops using Wi-Fi, or mobile phones, all operating interference-free. So none of this should come as a surprise but the old analogue history still seems to dog our progress. What we do today was unthinkable 20 years ago when interference was still a problem with the analogue technologies that dominated.
So what happens next? We have hundreds of radio and TV broadcast transmitter masts surpassed by the thousands installed for mobile networks, which in turn are eclipsed by the millions of mobile terminals (see Fig 2 below).
Soon we will see billions of RFID tags and sensors also configured into wireless networks. Will interference be a big problem? No! Will spectrum be limited? No! So what will be the big deal? Migrating from the old to the new - as ever!
We have to find a way of using those bands and channels that are dormant or hoarded, and totally wasted. It could be hard to work out the details but I don't see why unused broadcast radio and TV channels cannot be used for WLAN applications. Or indeed, how about all the channels held in reserve by the military? All it needs is a change of mindset - the technology will do the rest.
Fig 1: Spectrum use looks very full and a scarce resource - but looking at the reality reveals another story!
Fig 2: From a few big and fixed, to a near infinity of small and mobile.
Fig 3: Most of the radio spectrum remains unallocated and unused!
Fig 4: Even more complexity to come!
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Video Game Consoles Get A Temporary Reprieve From Higher Tariffs
In the United States, President Trump has openly threatened China with an increased 25 percent tariff on all products coming from China. This has alarmed console manufacturers as the heightened taxes would force hardware prices higher in the U.S. unless those companies can move their manufacturing out of China or make them eat a quarter of the MSRP themselves. Sony has been upfront that this means higher-priced PlayStations, while all three manufacturers signed a joint letter to the White House discouraging these tariffs.
The administration today released a list of exceptions to these upcoming fees, but only a temporary one.
In a statement released today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) listed out exceptions to the upcoming tariffs, which were scheduled to go into effect in just a few weeks on September 1. Those exceptions include but are not limited to “cell phones, laptop computers, video game consoles, certain toys, computer monitors, and certain items of footwear and clothing.”
Those items will see the tariffs rise on December 15. When asked about the delay, President Trump said that he did not wish to affect the holiday shopping season in the U.S. While this does not actually solve the problems video game manufacturers have, it does offer a brief reprieve to perhaps seek other options for manufacturing outside of the U.S.-China trade war, which escalated recently when the White House officially designated China as a currency manipulator.
The tariffs were originally supposed to go into effect on June 1, but were delayed to the September date when President Trump said that trade negotiations with China were going well. There might still be a third delay, especially as businesses put more pressure on the administration, though that remains to be seen. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '13', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9734572768211364}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '41109', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:T4ZLSGTNURZWEH7NFSTKUOPAYW4JDCJ5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:071db346-ea27-4a7e-a582-66494930955e>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 25, 22, 11, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '69.163.161.226', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:PLXGSQWXA7UA2SN3K5DXAOK3QN66XYLZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7eacbc80-74e0-4033-bed9-45a1b19830b0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.techbabbler.com/2019/08/13/video-game-consoles-get-a-temporary-reprieve-from-higher-tariffs/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c95ba269-0476-4019-89d0-9209841211c0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '299', 'url': 'http://www.techbabbler.com/2019/08/13/video-game-consoles-get-a-temporary-reprieve-from-higher-tariffs/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-35\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for August 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-159.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1946648359298706', 'original_id': 'aab77ebd9c08be0f3e0d3bc83c066f8badb0d41679c4e954df29c4f32e4f1bb6'} |
Back to the Future: Wind Power and the Decarbonization of Shipping
Marine shipping is undergoing a major transformation as it seeks to decarbonize. Will wind power be part of the solution?
By Edward Downing
As a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, pressure is building on the marine shipping industry to meet ambitious carbon emission reductions of half the 2008 level by 2050. And the answer — as Bob Dylan famously sang — is blowing in the wind.
Virtually limitless, wind is synonymous with the history of shipping, and an important supplement to other energy sources that could make the industry greener and those carbon cutting objectives achievable. But with the revival of wind power, engineers and ship designers are harnessing new technologies and materials that provide a more modern take on the cloth, flax, and linen sails on wooden masts of yore.
In their simplest form, modern high-tech sails are arranged on a ship’s deck to catch the breeze based on sophisticated computer software. But such a rig can clutter the deck of the ship and interfere with the loading and unloading of cargo. So AirSeas, a spin-off of Airbus Industries, has developed an industrial-scale kite that can pull a ship along without taking up very much room.
There are several takes on reducing the intrusive nature of sails to make them more efficient. The Dutch company eConowind has developed a highly-efficient suction wing called a Ventifoil, which uses an internal fan to enhance the boundary layer of an airfoil to produce more “lift” which drives the ship forward.
Another example, and probably the most innovative and widely used wind-driven technology, is the Flettner rotor. These look nothing like a sail and harness the Magnus effect named for the 1850s German physicist. He noticed that when a spinning object – such as a ball – moves through the air, it experiences a sideways force. To capture this effect on ships, giant tubes are mounted vertically on its deck like upright pipes, and a small electric motor gives them their spin. When the wind blows from the side of the spinning rotors, the Magnus effect creates a forward thrust.
There are six ships operating globally with Flettner rotors including an Ultramax bulk carrier, an oil tanker, ferries, and vehicle carriers with three more coming on stream later this year. The narrow vertical rotors don’t take up too much room and can be mounted on trolleys so they can be moved during loading and unloading operations for cargo ships.
Preliminary estimates of the fuel consumption and greenhouse gas reduction benefits to be gained by retrofitting sails to ships varies from 1% to 47% depending on the number of sails, and the speed and direction of the wind, according to the International Council on Clean Transportation. Usually, the sails are deployed if the wind direction happens to be favourable, but what if ships could take advantage of modern global positioning and weather forecasting technology to plan their routes to maximize the wind? How much greater an advantage could that be?
While these technologies can be retrofitted to existing ships, others have taken a more radical approach. What if the shape and structure of the ship itself was designed to catch the wind? Usually, mariners are fighting against the effects of cross winds, but if the hull of the ship could be designed to act more like a wing, then the ship could literally fly through the wind using its hull as a sail. The International Windship Association says purpose-built wind assisted ships would have a 50% average reduction in fuel consumption and GHG emissions, and some designs could be fully wind-powered.
The shipping industry has serious challenges ahead to reduce its carbon footprint. There are other competing low carbon options under development but so many of them seem to be focused on finding replacements for traditional fuels. To make a radical change like moving to wind power will require structural changes. Ships are large investments with lifespans of 30 or more years, so ship owners who purchase vessels need to be sure they could share in some of the fuel savings to be gained by the ship operators who lease them to justify the investment. And operators would need to factor limitations on cargo capacity or extended journey times because of wind conditions.
But all these problems don’t seem insurmountable given how large the opportunity is, and this time it will be a good thing if history repeats itself so ships are once again powered by the wind.
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The public perception of the DOL fiduciary rule
March 20, 2017 by Matt Marcum
Two financial advisors discuss the DOL fiduciary rule
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you have likely noticed that President Trump has issued an order to delay the implementation of the Department of Labor (DOL) Conflict of Interest Rule, which was scheduled to go into effect on April 10. In fact, you can read all about my own opinion about what the delay means for advisors and for their clients here.
However, when discussing the potential impact of the delay with my wife, an elementary teacher who is less exposed to the financial industry on a day-to-day basis, she pointed out that the term “fiduciary” may not be seeping into the public sphere as much as I thought. As much as I enjoy ranting about it to her, most of her colleagues had very little exposure to the term “fiduciary” and were unaware of the DOL rule in the first place. Though some people may not be aware of what a "fiduciary" is or how it affects them, they still expect advisors to act in their best interest. Working at Advicent, the term “fiduciary” has been prevalent in our company for a long time now, and it is possible that I overestimated how much the news of the delay would affect the public.
Who is aware of the DOL fiduciary rule?
Before we move forward, I should provide a little background to why I am discussing this. The conversation with my wife started while we were listening to NPR. They were discussing a piece about what the delay of the DOL rule could mean and why the term “fiduciary” is important. My wife had made a great point that perhaps the portion of the population that listens to NPR is not reflective of the entire American population. This got me wondering: who is the average NPR listener and what does financial planning mean to them?
Fortunately, NPR actually has data on who their listenership is. There are some jaw-dropping statistics in that profile, but the section that stands out the most to me is “The Affluent Business Leader” audience profile. According to NPR, their listeners are:
• 133 percent more likely to be top management and 148 percent more likely to be C-suite executives
• 74 percent more likely to earn $100,000+ in household income
• 456 percent more likely to have a doctorate degree
So what is my point? It is important to understand where the argument about the word “fiduciary” is happening. Even if the term “fiduciary” never seeps into mainstream language, it is certainly being discussed in forums that are most likely to catch the ears or eyes of the best prospects for financial advisors.
NPR claims that they are able to reach “the nation’s best and brightest.” I think it is safe to assume that the “best and brightest” includes some of the highest income earners across the country. These are the people that are coming to expect a higher level of service from their financial professionals. These are also the people that are going to expect a fiduciary standard from their advisors, regardless of how long the DOL ruling is delayed.
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Jun 21, 2019 in Exploratory
The issue of ethnicity and identity is valuable while discussing general national resources and perspectives. New Zealand comprises more than ten various Pacific ethnic groups or their subgroups, which constitute the major part of the entire population of the country. In Auckland, one of the largest ethnic groups is called Tongan, and it has its own language, kinship traditions, and civil rules. The paper will discuss Tongan ethnic peculiarities, values, and their impact on their daily life. Also, the work will prove that the increasing demography and weak leadership does not combat constant unemployment, prevent migration, and improve social well-being.
Tongan People: Traditionalism and Ethnic Values
According to “Demographics of New Zealand’s Pacific Population” (2010), “In 1991, 80 percent of Pacific people identified as Pacific only. By 2006 this figure had fallen to 70 percent” (p. 13). Simultaneously, there are “near the 266,000” Pacific inhabitants in New Zealand, which is a far more elevated number than before (Tanielu, Johnson, 2013, p. 14). Among them, the largest groups are Samoans (“131,000”) and Tongans (“50,000”) (Tanielu, Johnson, 2013, p. 14). The complex analysis of the statistical and institutional research of the mentality, social involvement, and well-being demonstrates the challenges facing ethnic minorities and their perspectives.
The strategic plan of Auckland by 2050 recognizes the necessity to provide improvements for the ethnic minorities in the spheres of culture, business, social life, education, economy etc. Nevertheless, there is one more important factor that may be included into planning and expected results: traditional affiliations, which also have a valuable impact. In her book “Community development: A Tongan perspective” (2005), Tracie Mafile’o provided a deep analysis of Tongan’s interaction in the context of its religious and community cognition. She proves that Tongan group is one of few that have saved and still support the royalty and hierarchy division on chiefs, their attendants, and major commoners. “Within this stratification, kinship-based lines provide the basis of the structure for Tongan communities” (Mafile’o, 2005, p. 112). Surprisingly, Tongans were never colonized on their native territory, but they have got a large British influence on their civil life and religion. For example, “British concepts of justice and law”, Christianity popularization (“a high religious affiliation compared to the general population of New Zealand” (Mafile’o, 2005, p. 113). For this reason, the communities have many churches and high social involvement in religious life and events.
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In fact, religion, spirituality, loyalty towards ancestors and focus on family values are the components of the models of mental care, which assert a positive influence on the medical policy in general. Actually, the therapy gives more compassion and better communication, which is based on development of interpersonal relationships and exchange of values. Furthermore, some of the modern technologies in medical care are not reliable due to two reasons: 1) not all of them are available in the communities in poorer areas; 2) modern and innovational infrastructure, which is one of the reasons of migration, is not developed in some areas. Consequently, the care models in Auckland include such components as workforce, availability, cost, and quality. However, some mentioned qualities are not suitable for regular medical care outside of such overview. In the modern medicine, it is considered that feelings may prevent objective treatment, rehabilitation, and break medical confidentiality.
Also, the institution of family is also a valuable component of Tongans’ social organization. This traditionalism and conservative Christian ceremonial definitely make an impact on the division of gender roles and complicity. Even though nowadays a lot of women especially the young and educated, try to actively participate in social life and, consequently, have high ambitions, there are still many prejudices. For example, in 2002 election, “Seven of nine elected representatives of the people were chosen under the pro-democracy banner, with the remaining two representing “traditionalist” values” (Small, Dixon, 2004, n. p.). Considering the fact that the majority are people under age 65, it means that many of them are still not ready to sacrifice their conceptual recognition and take a risk. Probably, this is a usual thing for those who were living in controlled conditions with a strong kinship division during the period of personality development. Nevertheless, the majority of the older generation will not actively oppose the few optimizing changes of the youth if they declare an intention to make some.
In the scientific research “Tonga: Migration and the homeland”, Cathy A. Small and David L. Dixon apply to the “MIRAB” economy in the context of Tonga characterization. It is signed by such revenue sources as the government, “remittances, foreign aid”, and migration (2004, n. p.). Being mostly an agricultural area, Tonga has a weak export activity of root crops, coffee, vanilla. Many people subsist on export of fish, which is very spread within the local area. Thus, there is no developed industry sector, so Tongans import building and agricultural tools and materials, fuel, gas, chemical supplies, some kinds of food. In addition, it is obvious that people spend more than they earn, particularly because Tongan products are cheaper and their import taxes are lower.
Migration is one of the prerogative sectors that support the economic survival of Tonga through food, production and cash remittances of the diaspora and migrants from abroad. “At the national level, remittances are the major source of foreign exchange and accounted in FY 2002 for about 50 percent of GDP” (Small, Dixon, 2004, n. p.).
In various cultures and ethnic groups, the concept of being and survival are individual and original. Speaking about the Tongan people, they have a specific point of view about treatment and traditionalism. There is a combination of local traditionalism and spirituality on one side and Christianity on the other. This symbiosis is noticed in treatment, mentality, psychology, family hierarchy, and values. According to S. Vaka, M. W. Stewart, S. Foliaki, and M. Tu’itahi (2009), “There was in general little recognition or acceptance of the biological component of the western model” (p. 93).
Statistical Analysis
In 2013, the Statistics New Zealand Census published quantitative analysis of the Pacific ethnic groups in the Northern region. It is said that “Over half of the Northern region Pacific population were Samoan 94,653 (47.3%), followed by Tongan with 43,603 (21.8%)” (Statistics New Zealand Census, 2013, p. 2). It means that comparing Tongans to some other Pacific ethnic groups such as Niuean, Fijian, Tokelauan, and other groups, they are more populated and able to develop. Another issue is the ability of Tongans to enrich and modernize their life and comfort, because population does not necessarily mean progress prerogative. Conservatism, when comparing to the major ethnic groups and their subgroups, does not guarantee the high quality of intellectual resources.
The Statistics New Zealand Census also provided analysis of the qualification level of minorities, which may be helpful while discussing organizational peculiarities. For example, in 2005, the number of Tongans with “no education” was “32.1%”; finished only “secondary school” – 38.2%, “vocational” group was “11.8%”, and “bachelor’s degree and higher” was “4.4%” (Statistics New Zealand Census, 2013 p. 3). Nevertheless, the educated and intellectual youth actively participated in various intercultural and exchange events directed at educating conscious leaders that will be able to support traditions. Along with that, it is important to recognize the difference between ethnic identity recognition in the context of daily life in reality and in theory.
Moreover, Auckland has the lowest rate of unemployment in the Northern region – 10.8%”, and Tongans have one of the highest income rates: “20,000 or less – 44.1%”, “20,001-30,000$ - 14.5%”, “30,001-50,000$ - 17.5%”, and “50,001 and more – 4.9%” (Statistics New Zealand Census, 2013, p. 4). Comparing it with the analysis of the Northern region, Tongans always take second or third place in the population rate and qualification level.
High rate of unemployment caused internal problems and instability within the Tonga community, which led to decrease of the national rates. The organization called “Tongan Democracy Movement” (TDM) was founded by and for support of the middle class, business class, including start-up, and social cooperative initiative.
Tongan Youth Trust and Local Media Control
One of the most popular organizations is called Tongan Youth Trust. Formally, it is a charitable fund that promotes Tongan cultural inheritance through the support of 13 – 24-year-old youth. The TYT has a Study Skill Centre NCEA, which has a role of the resource center: assistance in doing homework, help with books and materials etc.. Also, it is the center of social and interpersonal support as youth may ask for some advice, skills in study, or just talk. The leaders of Tongan Youth Trust are 19 – 24-year-old university students. They have a vision and experience of facilitating Tongan youth development and leading a youth movement as an element of restoration and support of traditions. Its mission is: “To help and support Tongan youth reach their goals and aspirations to become contributing members of NZ society” (Tongan Youth Trust, n. d.). Their official Facebook page contains brief information on TYT, the official contact e-mail address (tongan.youth.trust@clear.net.nz), mail address, working schedule, and 334 subscribers (the address is: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tongan-Youth-Trust-Toutupu-TongaTrust/121076521307884?sk=wall). On their page, the group administrators write regularly in the Tongan language and post photos of events. Also, there is institutional and facultative support of the Tongan culture and ethnicity in general. For example, the University of Auckland provided special courses for Tongan about career and study options. Also, it supports various scientific publications on the history, migration process, ethnicity, challenges, and future perspectives, including advocacy campaigns for support and development of the Tongans’ rights.
Such small local initiatives try to prevent the development of social challenge facing the entire Pacific youth, which in fact has one of the highest unemployment rates. The general low rate of the university or college attendance by young people, comparing to NZ’s demography scale, raises new challenges. Nowadays, every third child born in Auckland is Pacific. According to the Auckland Pacific strategic plan (2009), “These babies will grow up to represent 30 percent of new job entrants in Auckland in twenty years and by 2050 will be one of the largest consumer and voting groups in Auckland” (p. 8). Nevertheless, there is no enough representation in the government for completion and promotion of education and employment programs on the governmental level; hence, there is weak leadership.
Reformations and Obstacles
A helpful tool for reforming the traditional system is the media, including the Internet and press. The organization called THRDM (Tongan Human Rights and Democracy Movement) and along with the Tongan Times newspaper, promotes political and economic changes in ethnic communities. Additionally, they attempt to fight corruption, which is one of the elements of such a strong support of traditionalism. According to Cathy A. Small and David L. Dixon, in 2003, the king of Tongans forbid the edition, despite the fact that it is published in the Tongan language and read by both local citizens and migrants abroad. In October, 2003, “this legislation spurred the largest protest in Tongan history, after which, in mid-December, the king very quietly signed the newspaper ban into law” (Small, Dixon, 2004, n. p.). Yet, the representatives of THRDM are still retaining loyalty to Tongan religion and traditions.
In the future, this tendency among the younger population may decrease, but, consequently, there may be a risk of identity crisis. In this case, Tongan representatives will not be accepted as a part of ethnical majorities and lose their feeling of ethnic identity. Simultaneously, with the comparably high rate of unemployment, it may lead to decrease of motivation among the young generation to act in a more innovative way. The network activities may leave behind the real challenges future Tongan and Pacific ethnic groups may face in their cultural, economic, religious, and kinship arrangements. The strategies the state government tries to provide do not represent the fulfilled SWOT-analysis with real risks and opportunities. Hence, there is a possibility that Tongan may become a larger population or of mixed ethnicity, but with less identity, youth support, and simplistic hybrid interpretation.
The Pacific ethnicity groups became a major population in New Zealand, and Auckland has one of the highest numbers of Pacific inhabitants. Tongans are the second large ethnic group that has its own traditions, language, and lifestyle. Tongans are closely tightened with their archaic traditions, including kinship hierarchy, support of family values, and a strong loyalty to Christianity. There are few organizations trying to support Tongan ethnicity, for example THRDM, Tongan Youth Trust etc.. However, the tendencies the new generation faces create a risk of cultural marketing and loss of ethnic identity.
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Excerpt from the book, “Behind the Fake Smile” ~ Cut Chapters
“I’m so glad tomorrow is Friday. This week seemed like the longest week, and I want the weekend to be here already.” Chelsea thought as she looked up at the clock. The bell rang, and outside the door, she could see Brett’s surfer’s hair waiting for her to get out of class. A routine that they had at the end of her 7th?period. Brett would be outside waiting, hug and kiss her and then carry her books while they would go to their lockers. It was her favorite part of the day. She felt loved, protected, and a little bit like a princess.?
At their lockers, they were joking and holding hands when the sound of sirens seemed to overtake the school. They started walking faster to find out what was happening, and as they were walking out of the school, people were walking into the school in tears. The entire surrounding seemed to be in slow motion as they both hurried to see what was happening.
Outside they saw an ambulance and several fire trucks that seemed to be right next to Brett’s home. Immediate fear, hurt, and anxiety rushed through Chelsea’s body as she looked at Brett, who looked equally as concerned. He starts running, and she follows behind him to see a little body being ushered into the back of the ambulance and Brett’s Mom, holding on to the gurney visibly shaking and crying. “Oh my God, Cole?” Chelsea yells and starts sprinting. Brett hugs his Mom and jumps into the back of the ambulance with his Mom.
Chelsea just stood there, unable to move or process what she is seeing, and falls to her knees to pray. She feels a hand on her shoulder, and she looks up to see Roger with tears in his eyes. She looks at the road where a teenager is being questioned by a police officer, blood all over the way, one tiny shoe on the sidewalk, and a crowd of people staring at the ambulance in tears and disbelief.
Roger said, “I’ll call my Dad to take us to the hospital.”
Chelsea just shook her head, still in shock from what she just saw. On the way to the hospital, she felt like she was in a slow-motion tunnel.
“Cole has to be ok,” she would say in her mind over and over. Then she would think of all that blood on the road and his tiny shoe on the sidewalk and start to cry. Roger’s Dad kept looking in the rearview mirror back at Chelsea in the backseat and give a fake type smile.
They arrived to find Cole hooked up to machines and tubes, unconscious and unable to breathe on his own. He has massive injuries and is too unstable for surgery to repair broken bones. Brett didn’t even look at them in the Emergency Room. It was as if he was looking past them. Brett’s Dad walked out and said his son has a severe life-threatening traumatic brain injury, damage to his heart and lungs, multiple compound fractures to both of his legs, damage to his kidneys, a small laceration to his spleen, a broken shoulder blade, and a dislocated or broken collarbone. Chelsea just gasped and put her head into her hands to say a silent prayer on his behalf.
After an hour or so, Brett came up and hugged her and told her it was late and to go home and he would call her later. He seemed so cold, she thought, but nodded and hugged him and his family goodbye. That night she had to have said hundreds of prayers on Cole’s behalf, but she had such a horrible feeling, and she couldn’t shake it.
She asked her Mom if she could miss school and go to the hospital. Ava drove her on her way to work. Upon arriving at the hospital, she found Brett’s Dad in the waiting room drinking coffee. He hugged her and exclaimed that “Cole cannot breathe on his own and is now on a ventilator. He just started on round-the-clock kidney dialysis due to the damage to his kidneys and is in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit now”. Brett was shaking, and his eyes were bloodshot and swollen. It was visible that he has not slept and had shed tears all night like her. He put his arm around her as he ushered her with him to go and see the family. Walked into the room, Chelsea could feel a big black fog of sadness and shock. She had just seen him, and he was playful, funny, and full of life, and now as she looks at Cole, he seemed already gone.
Brett came up to her and hugged her, and they both sat there sobbing together. Brett’s Mom came over and hugged them both together and said, “Don’t worry, he will be just fine. He needs to rest.” Brett had a flash of anger come across his face, and he just walked out of the room. Chelsea steps behind him.
“Brett, wait!” She yelled.
He turned around and said, “Chels, he isn’t going to make it.”
“What? How do you know?” She stood there in awe.
He came over and touched her shoulder and said, “He came to me last night in my dream and told me.” Then he turned and walked out the door.
She didn’t follow; she knew his look meant he needed to be alone. She kept replaying over and over, “he came to him in a dream?”
Chelsea went to the front reception area and called her Mom for a ride home. She couldn’t imagine going back to school and couldn’t imagine sitting at the hospital. She just wanted to be alone to process what she had seen and heard. Her intuition and gut feeling had also told her that Cole wasn’t going to make it.
Her Mom pulls up, and as she is sitting in the car, she sees Brett seated around the corner. She waves, and he gives a forced smile and a nod of the head.
Ava looks at Chelsea and says, “Do you want to go home or to school?”
“Home”, Chelsea mutters.
When they arrived home, she immediately went to her room to be alone in her thoughts, tears, and heartache.
She felt like she couldn’t cry one more tear and her head was throbbing, then she heard the phone ring. Her mom called to her, she lifted her head off the pillow and reached for the phone on her nightstand. “Hello?” she sighed. “Chels, he’s gone,” Brett said softly.
She could tell the pause in his speech and cracking that he was breaking through tears to say those three words. She tried to say something and couldn’t say anything through the tears.
“I love you. Bye.” He said.
“Here is a guy that just lost his baby brother, his only brother and he calls his girlfriend and she couldn’t mutter a single syllable of comfort, love, or anything. He even said that he loved her for the first time, and she couldn’t say a thing back.” She thought feeling weak and hopeless.
Chelsea was choked up and felt heartbroken and sick. “Rest in peace,” she thought silently staring at the ceiling of her bedroom. “Rest in peace.” Hoping Cole could feel her words and her love for him.
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4. The three knives
Wáng Róng dreamt that two knives,
and then a third
knife, were nailed into the roof beam.
Master Li Yì explained to him:
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"The character dao: knife, repeated three times gives the character zhou
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Soon after that, he
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As Wáng Róng had, without doubt, plotted to become governor,
the "Damocles knife " was only in appearance hanging over his head
the goodwill of the emperor is always a two-edged sword,
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Cross-Device Advertising & Marketing for Maximum ROI
Cross-Device Advertising & Marketing for Maximum ROI
What is Cross-Device Marketing?
Equipped with a device graph, marketers are able to confidently identify consumer’s devices to reach, engage and measure each interaction with their desired customer. Through unified identification across desktops, laptops, mobile devices and tablets, marketers are able to achieve true return on ad spend through accurate reach and frequency targeting and reporting.
What is Cross-Device Marketing?
Our proprietary technology, the Tapad Device Graph™, enables cross-device marketing to be screen-agnostic. Marketers should be afforded the opportunity to speak to a consumer wherever they are, regardless of the device they may be using. Our technology provides marketers with unified reach and frequency across all devices.
Cross-Device Advertising
Marketers face many challenges, but none more fundamental than the fractured nature of today’s digital marketing and advertising ecosystems. Most technology platforms treat a single user as different people since they use different devices and switch between contexts within those devices. However, this just doesn’t cut it as consumers are constantly jumping between multiple devices. Consider these stats:
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What are the benefits of cross-device analytics?
Cross-device advertising helps marketers determine the actual value of their advertising spend, as well as how to optimize future campaigns based on that knowledge. Our technology enables unified reach and frequency reporting and also cross-device audience amplification. In fact, we amplify your cross-device scale by 5x on average, meaning you’ll be able to find the best consumers regardless of device.
Investing in proper metrics and measurement tools for cross-device has tremendous benefits for companies long-term. The analytics provide marketers more accurate reporting to enable more efficient budget allocation.
Why Invest in Cross-Device Marketing?
Every dollar spent is an opportunity to influence a consumer. Though simple, this promise is often hard to achieve. Whether your goal is to increase brand awareness or influence a consumer decision, it’s imperative to consider two things:
• Keeping every media dollar spent accountable requires that you reach the right person, on the right device, with the right message.
• Your brand needs the maximum number of opportunities to deliver tailored messages, regardless of device or browser.
The ultimate goals in digital marketing are to increase transactions, brand awareness, and lower CPA. To do this efficiently requires two main concepts:
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In the dream world it is very common for you to come across various animals, one of the most frequent being snakes. Dreaming about snakes tends to arouse contradictory feelings in people, but on the other hand it also leads them to a state of alert which is often mixed with some fascination, fear or repulsion. Similarly, there are people who are phobic about snakes so they can’t even see them, while others are so attracted to this animal that they get to adopt them as pets.
Although, from an objective perspective, the serpent is a dangerous animal, however, it is almost impossible to deny that this creature holds a peculiar mysticism. That’s why seeing a snake in your dreams can cause great fear and much panic.
There are many reasons for you to feel that way, especially because this animal, however small is, can end your life. When a serpent is shown in an oneiric vision, you must know that there is a power-laden and multifaceted symbolism, which brings with it a lot of meanings.
It is very likely that, if during this week you have had a close encounter with snakes, whether real or virtual (television, Internet, among others), you will find them once you close your eyes, especially if you fear these creatures. It is not necessary that you give much thought to this dream because it is a remembrance expressed by your subconscious.
On the other hand, if you have not experienced any situation with these creatures and do not suffer from any phobia towards these creatures, then pay attention as you need to find out what your meaning of dreaming about snakes is.
It is normal that when you dream of animals such as rats, spiders or snakes, you feel some rejection, but these dreams are not always interpreted negatively. As for snakes, their appearance in dreams can have different interpretations. Various experts in onirology point out that dreams with snakes in general speak of deceit and betrayal.
On the other hand, the Christian Society accuses the serpent with a negative meaning since in the story of Adam and Eve it was he who deceived them to disobey God.
There are many meanings of dreaming about snakes, which in the first instance usually speak of negative events such as problems, conflicts, fears, gossip worries, betrayals, death, ambitions, obsessive sex and serious diseases. Snakes are the complete representation of evil, foreshadowing the presence of evil and demons around you. That’s why you usually wake up restless and disturbed after dreaming about snakes.
In case your dreams with snakes are frequent, you should take into account the possibility of starting relaxing activities that allow you to achieve serenity so that you can solve your problems.
However, not all dream experiences with snakes often portray negative events. For example, when you dream of killing a snake, it is a sign that you manage to solve a conflict and, dreaming of hunting a snake tells you that soon a new business or job opportunities will come to you.
Similarly, dreaming of selling snake skins is related to personal vanity and your incessant taste for fashion and desire to stand out. Seeing a snake bite you in a dream is a good omen about your finances. Finally, always bear in mind that the dream world is fascinating and mysterious, so it is often considered a bridge between the divine and the human, and also a way to portray the future.
Dream of big snakes
The meaning of dreaming of big snakes points to the presence of fear in your life. His presence in your dream world fills you with dread and terror as you run the risk of the snake attacking you without warning. Dreaming about big snakes can also be an indication that you have a deep fear of unknown things and you will soon begin to experience certain changes in your life that you cannot control.
In case the snake only observes you, you must be careful because someone close to you seeks to plagiarize your ideas. On the other hand, if the big snake is after you, you must open your eyes and be alert as people around you will try to interfere at any cost in that good development that carries your current plans, projects and programs. They’ll try to make you look bad to people you care about or who are superior to you.
Dream of many snakes
We have already highlighted the fact that snakes in dreams are often associated with betrayals or acts of disloyalty by people close to you. Now, the interpretation of dreaming of many snakes tells you to tread carefully and be cautious, for soon there will be bad news about deceit and treachery. Likewise, it may reveal a possible death.
On the other hand, if you see a lot of snakes falling on you, then you should know that you are in the middle of a very difficult season in your life that overwhelms you with different negative situations. Besides, you don’t know where to start to fix everything. It’s time for you to talk to your close friends and trusted family members to get all the help and counseling you can get. Instead, if you dream that many snakes sting you, it means that in your life many negative or nefarious ideas and thoughts are flowing.
Dream of black snakes
Dreaming of black snakes is a warning sign that reveals to you that you will soon face various situations of danger. Bad news is coming to your life. Unfortunately you will be greatly affected, as this bad news relates to something you like very much. It may be someone close to you, your job, your health, among others. Likewise, everything will depend on what the snake does in the dream and how you feel when you watch it act.
In case you see the black snake attack you, then it’s an imminent warning that a person very close to you, someone you don’t even imagine, will soon stab you in the back. It’s time for you to be very cautious in trusting people, so you avoid being negatively surprised.
Now, if you dream the black snake bites you, it’s time for you to get a health check. This dream tells you it’s time to catch up with the doctor. You’re likely to be affected by health problems in a short time, so take a look.
Dream of colored snakes
Dreaming of colored snakes is the way your subconscious tells you that there are a number of personal situations that are getting your attention as they create different emotions in you that tend to confuse you. The reason is that they are very attractive looking and have the ability to complicate your life completely.
This dream vision can tell you about certain people or situations that give you a pretty nice first impression which then moves away from those primary expectations. Finally, this dream tells you the arrival of inconveniences, problems or changing events before which you have no idea how to deal with them or what the results of dealing with them may be.
Dream of green snakes
Dreaming of green snakes reveals to you the presence of a possible attack of betrayal by one of the people who forms your immediate circle of which you had no doubt would do that. It may seem very contradictory, but even though dreaming of green snakes can be harmful, it also tells you that you will find a sign of light. It is your time to reflect on the personal and make decisions from a perspective that you have not taken into account until now.
Another interpretation of dreaming of green snakes tells you what you want to know about yourself and you are very anxious to reconnect with it. In addition, the green of snakes in your dreams is associated with nature and the earth, as well as the green color is a symbol of one’s emotions, feelings and hopes.
Therefore, in dreaming of a green snake, your subconscious calls you to attend to those aspects of yourself that you have neglected a little until you ignore it. Seeing green snakes in dreams indicates the arrival of a personal transformation from within, an exponential personal growth that will cause many positive changes to your life.
Dream of small snakes
Dreaming of small snakes tells you that within your inner circle of people there is a friend or family member who has begun to speak ill of you behind your back, wishing you much evil in your path. Be careful because they can be very harmful to you and put you in difficult situations.
In case the little snakes attack you, it’s time you didn’t underestimate the enemies around you. If you see snakes crawling into your home, it means that there are friends who visit you that you should not trust at all, as once you turn your back they will start criticizing you without compassion.
Dream of dead snakes
Like when you kill an enemy, dreaming of dead snakes reveals that you have managed to conquer that fear that for a long time took away your peace and sleep. Among these can be the fact that you have managed to face that person who attacks you personally, learn to say no whenever it was necessary or know how to share your thoughts to a person without fear of what it might cause.
Another meaning of dreaming about dead snakes indicates that you are becoming a much stronger person, especially if during your dream vision you appreciate more snakes or other animals such as rats, spiders or cockroaches. The point is that they must all be dead.
Dream of white snakes
Dreaming about white snakes is the way your subconscious tells you it’s very important that you learn to manage your energies. Likewise, the white serpent in your dreams tells you that changes will soon come to your life and, despite being a snake, you should not be afraid because the white is a symbol of integrity, peace, good feelings and good things.
This type of snake is very exotic, hardly found, so it is very expensive to have them as a pet. Therefore, when a white serpent appears in your dream world, it means that you will experience unique and rare moments in the coming days. Dreaming that you find a white snake and face it reveals that you will soon face an unusual event. This event can have a great influence on your life and bring about significant changes that can be both positive and negative.
Dream of killing snakes
Dreaming about killing snakes is an interesting dream experience because it announces the overcoming of personal problems. It also shows your desire to end various emotions and feelings. Likewise, dreaming of killing snakes shows you that the door has been opened in your life to move forward, you will begin to overcome the obstacles that appear in your path. In addition, dreaming that you end the life of a snake demonstrates your mastery over one’s own defects, vices, or limitations.
This dream experience is the way your subconscious tells you that you have recognized that your problems and conflicts have a solution. Dreaming that you kill snakes in general is an oneiric vision that shows your strong inner energy. Popular culture points out that killing a snake indicates that your enemies and false friendships will be exposed or confronted, although it is not a common interpretation today.
To dream that you kill a snake, but they keep appearing more indicates that you have not been able to give a definitive solution to your worries and problems. On the other hand, you may not be responding adequately to that personal problem that is causing your snake dreams. To dream that you kill snakes and eat them indicates that you have managed to get rid of this great problem that afflicted you and that you have also acquired a lot of energy to face the obstacles.
Dream of snakes attacking you
Having dreams about snakes attacking you is an oneiric experience that shows you your great fear of a possible risk or danger situation that may arise from one moment to the next, without warning. Dreams where you see a snake attack you are often very common in people who will have to face a difficult situation in a very short time. This situation is usually quite unpleasant and cumbersome, as it can also be a challenging situation.
To dream that a snake approaches you and attacks you is a clear symbol that in a short time you will suffer a great attack from your enemies. In case you see that the snake rolls around your neck during sleep, you should know that there is a lot of intrigue and doubt in your life and, in some cases, it means that the problems you have are your own fault.
Dream of snakes in the water
Dreaming of snakes in the water reveals that something negative is about to alter all your peace. In case the snake does not inspire fear, then you must know that you are a very calm and serene person. Dreaming about snakes in the water and being afraid to see them is a clear sign that there are threats or disturbances that are affecting your personal tranquility.
In case the snake in the water is black or poisonous, this indicates that there are negative thoughts or sensations that are seeking to contaminate your mind.
In case the snake in the water maintains a neutral or even friendly attitude, it is a good sign that tells you that you are in complete harmony and control with your emotions. On the other hand, if you see that the serpent swims in complete tranquility within the water then this means that you have managed to address your emotions in a correct way.
Dreaming about snakes in the water also speaks of a new life, although the idea of betrayal is still maintained. It is likely that during the course of your life you have experienced a betrayal which still hurts. However, you know that you have the strength to move forward and to overcome all the evil that has happened to you.
Dream of yellow snakes
Dreaming of yellow snakes tells you that soon there will be a negative event in your life. These usually have a sentimental character and in case you see yellow snakes in your home, then you should know that you will have partner problems because of the intrusion of a third party. If in the dream the yellow snake bites you, then you should know that you will be harmed by a person close to you.
Dream of poisonous snakes
Dreaming of poisonous snakes tells you that your life or that of your close relatives will suffer many problems, usually related to perfidy, serious illnesses or partner problems, the context of the dream will tell you which of the three it refers to. In case you suffer the attack of the poisonous snake, it means that your enemies will find a way to manipulate some matter so that you get involved in serious problems, now, if you manage to kill the snake, then you will enjoy the victory over your adversary.
Dream of snakes at home
Dreaming about snakes at home, or in your room, is the clear representation that there is a threat that will affect your intimate and private life. It’s probably an enemy who wants to meddle in your personal affairs. In case the snake hides or escapes, you must know that all that negativity is moving away from you. To see that suddenly a snake appears in your house crawling possibly is a manifestation of unconscious psychic energy that has burst unexpectedly.
Dream of two snakes
Dreaming of two snakes reflects your quest for balance against opposing forces. You need to take special care of the spiteful, shallow people around you. Likewise, this dream experience also indicates the need for you to seek a balance in your personality. To do this, you need to start controlling your sudden changes in behavior.
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June 2, 2015
Some Surgery Details
Today has been a frenzy of preparation for the next couple of weeks. I've been on the phone sorting out insurance and deductibles and trying to figure out meals and childcare for Eloise and what our daily schedule might look like while Clara is hospitalized. I've been doing laundry and grocery shopping and nesting. And in between, I've been trying hard to be present for Clara and to savor and enjoy her sweet joyful spirit. We haven't explained everything to her yet, but I am sure she senses our anxiety and has heard enough conversations to have some idea that something is up. Her pretend play the past few days has been a lot of "hospital" where she tapes a folded up tissue to her stuffed animals and runs an IV with "all the medicine" to the bandage. When we've been building with blocks, she says the towers are hospitals filled with doctors and nurses and sick people. It breaks my heart that she even knows of this world and how to pretend play in it, but also somehow strangely warms my heart to watch her sorting out her ideas and feelings in a totally developmentally appropriate way. We'll have a longer conversation with her tomorrow to prepare her more for what's to come. I hope she will take it okay and know that whatever she is feeling is fine and we will feel it with her.
I got a few more details today. Surgery is currently scheduled for 7AM on Thursday morning. These schedules are always subject to change, but that's what we're planning on now. I was relieved to find out that they would be able to pretty much knock her out before taking her away from us and that they would do so with oral and inhaled medications, so she won't even have to be aware of the IV. When she wakes up in recovery, we'll be with her again and as far as she will know we will never have been apart. Dr. Petty expects the surgery to be about four hours. He will begin with laparoscopy, but expects to probably have to open her incision to fully close the hole and deal with the sticky gore-tex patch. We'd rather he be sure it's done thoroughly than have a less invasive surgery that might leave something undone. Clara will be intubated again for the surgery which strangely brings back some difficult emotions for me, but he expects her to be able to be extubated again quickly. The hope is that after a few hours in recovery we will be able to be moved to a regular floor room at Brenner. We'll have to see how she does from there, but we're planning on a week in the hospital.
I will mostly be at the hospital with Clara, at least for the first few days and nights. When you don't feel well you just want your mama and I cannot really imagine driving away from there and leaving her, even with other family members who love her deeply. Mama K is coming for the first several days so she'll be mostly caring for Eloise. I'm still nursing her though and wasn't planning on weaning quite this soon, so I'm hoping that I can slip away a couple of times a day to nurse and try to maintain that.
I do not have words for all of the love you've shown in the last 24 hours. The phone calls, texts, emails, Facebook messages and more have meant a lot to us. Just hearing you say, "This is crummy," and "I wish you didn't have to do this." has shown me that I am not alone. Your offers for food and childcare and errands and coffee runs and company and everything else are such meaningful tangible expressions that show me how willing you are to share some of this burden. I think a younger Chrissy might have tried to stoically do it all, but I won't even pretend this time around. I know I need you and I will be calling on you. Thank you for being there. Thank you for understanding that Clara is our everything and that our hearts will be rolling into the Operating Room on Thursday.
We remain grateful for prayers. Please continue to lift up Dr. Petty and the other medical staff who will be caring for her. Pray that Clara is filled with courage and strength and peace, and that we are too, for that matter. Pray that we are able to balance wanting to give Clara our 100%, but needing to still be there for Eloise, too. Pray that the surgery will be successful and free from complications and that she will have a smooth and quick recovery.
Today, Robert rescued a box turtle from the road. Clara named her Heidi (because she likes to hide-e in her shell) and we kept her for a few hours before releasing her. This child loves animals. Hopefully I've done most of the planning and preparing and tomorrow can be spent just focusing on Clara and enjoying our last pure fun day with her for awhile.
1. Chrissy and Robert,
Please know all being lifted up in prayer ! Especially Precious Clara! I have contacted my prayers partners and everyone is praying for Clara and the upcoming surgery. Praying for all to go well with surgery and the surgeon feels Gods hand in every decision that needs to be.
We love you all!
2. I went to school with your Aunt Lisa and saw her post. Know that many prayers will be headed to the throne and the Master will take care of your sweet Clara and guide the medical team and give you peace.
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As I am away for a few weeks, I am raiding the archives for old material not published here before, mainly on the theme of human nature. ‘The Nature of Sex’ was the title of the second of three talks entitled ‘Man Beast and Zombie’ that explored the political impact of evolutionary psychology and were broadcast on BBC Radio 4′s Westminster Hour in October/November 2001. (I published the first talk in this series, ‘Stone Age Politics’, earlier this month.) Inevitably the examples have dated; were I to give the talk now, there would be a wealth of data from the past decade upon which I would draw, not to mention much fine work by the likes of Cordelia Fine, Elizabeth Spelke, Deborah Cameron and many others. The broad arguments, however, I think still hold.
This should be the last raid on the archives. Normal blogging will (I hope) resume by the end of this week.
les demoiselles d'avignon
‘The Nature of Sex’, Westminster Hour, BBC Radio 4, 4 November 2001
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.’ So wrote Simone de Beauvoir in her celebrated 1949 book The Second Sex. In the decades following the Second World War, most thinkers believed that differences between men and women were culturally created and could be transformed with suitable child-rearing practices and social changes. Give a boy a doll instead of a toy gun, and he will grow up to be loving rather than violent. Create adequate nursery provision, and women will be as happy in full time work as looking after their children.
There is today increasing dissent from this view. The differences between men and women, many argue, are not culturally created, but deeply rooted in our evolutionary history. Evolutionary psychologists view human nature as having been designed primarily to help humans survive, reproduce and spread their genes. Men and women, they argue, have different strategies to do this, and hence possess different natures. Why the different strategies? Because to produce an offspring women are required to go through nine months of pregnancy. Men, on the other hand, are simply required to have sex. In evolutionary terms women have to invest considerably more in parenthood than do men.
Such differential investment, many argue, leads to distinct psychologies. Men are evolved to be promiscuous, aggressive, competitive, and not care much about whom they have sex with, so long as they can have sex. Women, on the other hand, tend naturally to be monogamous, home-loving, nurturing and picky about their sexual partners. Men are from an evolutionary Mars, women from a Darwinian Venus.
The trouble with much social policy, evolutionary psychologists insist, is that it is sex-blind – uninformed by Darwinian understanding of sex differences. Here is how Helena Cronin and Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics’ Darwin Centre put it:
Achieving sexual equality between men and women does not entail treating them as identical. Contrary to fashionable ‘gender’ thinking, women, like men, have their own distinct evolved psychology. If the government genuinely wants to extend the scope of women’s choices then it should allow for the fact that their priorities are not always identical to those of men. Rather than taking male standards as the universal measure, or expecting the sexes to adopt androgynous working roles, the government should design family-friendly employment practices that reflect the different preferences of women and men.
Despite this insistence that social policy must be informed by knowledge of our evolved natures, what is striking about the application of Darwinian theory to policy formulation is the confusion that accompanies it. Take, for instance, the question of sexual harassment. In 1995, the US Supreme Court ruled that the criterion for assessing whether a woman had suffered sexual harassment was whether a reasonable person would have found such behaviour offensive.
blind ape
The American critic Robert Wright dismisses this as an illogical ruling because the Court failed to take human nature into account. When it comes to sexual harassment, he suggests, there is no such thing as a ‘reasonable person’: men and women have evolved different criteria as to what constitutes harassment. Women are much more likely to be distressed by lewd comments and sexual suggestions because
during evolution it was costly (genetically) for women to have sex with a man she didn’t want to have sex with… The abhorrence women feel at the prospect of sex with a man they find unattractive is an expression of this logic.
For men the logic is different:
The worst likely outcome for the man (in genetic terms) is that pregnancy would not ensue. There is no reason for evolution to have instilled in the male mind an aversion to coerced sex with women.
When it comes to the question of sex, therefore,
asking what a reasonable person finds offensive is like asking what colour a typical fruit is. The answer depends on whether you’re talking apples or oranges.
As Helena Cronin and Oliver Curry have put it, since ‘male and female psychologies have evolved to be distinctly different’ so ‘our legal system should reflect these differences if it is to promote true equality before the law.’
But what does this mean? If men and women really are so different how can the law be fair to both? It may be possible to treat sexual harassment in the way the McPherson report suggests that we should treat racial violence: by taking the victim’s perception as the truth. But such an approach would clearly be unfair to men who, according to Wright and Cronin and Curry, would then be penalised for behaviour that they do not, and cannot, accept as harassment. Even if such evolutionary thinkers are right about the psychology of sexual harassment, then, their analysis does not help us formulate a policy to combat it.
The law takes the view of a ‘reasonable person’ as its standard because it recognises that humans are not simply evolved creatures. We are also rational agents, capable of determining what might be reasonable behaviour and of modifying our behaviour in response to this. Humans can take responsibility for our actions, which is why those actions can be subject to the scrutiny of laws and regulations. US Supreme Court judges appear to have a more nuanced understanding of human nature than do many evolutionary psychologists.
Similar problems arise in certain Darwinian discussions of rape and of how we might prevent it. The government is currently conducting a review of rape laws. How might an understanding of human nature help? Evolutionary psychologists view rape as a strategy designed by evolution to help men to spread their genes further. The biologist Randy Thornhill and anthropologist Craig Palmer, for instance, argue in their book A Natural History of Rape that men rape because it’s in their nature to. It is an argument that has been subject to much withering criticism. But if their analysis is controversial, their prescriptions appear both banal and highly traditional. They inform us, for instance, that evolutionary psychology has come to the conclusion that ‘punishment can influence the frequency of rape’ and that ‘long incarceration’ is the most effective. Now, why hasn’t anyone thought of that before?
A Natural History of Rape
Thornhill and Palmer want all young men to receive ‘an evolutionarily informed educational program.’ Teenage boys should be taught ‘why they get an erection just by looking at a photo of a naked woman’ and why they might ‘mistake a woman’s friendly comment or her tight blouse as an invitation to have sex’. They should complete such a course before they can get a driving licence (though why evolutionary knowledge about rape should make young men better drivers, the good professors do not explain).
Thornhill and Palmer have advice for women too: don’t dress provocatively and don’t wear too much make up. A woman’s behaviour, they insist, plays an important part in encouraging rape. They worry that ‘the common practice of unsupervised dating in isolated environments such as automobiles, often accompanied by alcohol consumption, has placed women in environments conducive to rape to an extent unparalleled in history.’ And their answer? All young couples should be chaperoned. Don’t wear sexy dresses. Don’t get drunk. Don’t have a grope in the car. Never leave teenagers without adult supervision. Why does all this sound depressingly familiar?
The arguments of Thornhill and Palmer are controversial, even among evolutionary psychologists. But their policy prescriptions are fairly typical: a combination of the blindingly obvious, the fashionably authoritarian and the depressingly sexist. They leave you wondering why you need evolutionary knowledge to come up with such banalities in the first place.
There is another way, too, in which evolutionary psychology seems irrelevant to the real task of policy making: almost any political viewpoint seems able to draw comfort from human nature. Take, for instance, the discussion about discrimination in the workplace. Two expressions of such discrimination are the ‘glass ceiling’ – a metaphor that describes the under-representation of women in the upper reaches of management – and the ‘gender gap’ – the gap between the pay of men and that of women. Feminists and others have long argued that both are created by social discrimination. Evolutionary psychologists disagree. According to Kingsley Browne, professor of law at Wayne State University, the problem lies not so much with social structures as with evolved psychology. Most women, Browne believes, are simply not cut out to be top managers:
Men are more inclined to take risks, more oriented towards attainment of status and resources, and more single-minded in achieving these goals. Women, on the other hand, are more nurturing and empathic, and more centred on maintaining a ‘web’ of relationships than on being at the top of a hierarchy.
Men, unlike women, possess the traits required to climb the greasy pole. Hence, Browne suggests, it is not surprising that there are disproportionate numbers of men in leadership positions, nor that they get paid better for their work.
the glass ceiling
Like all evolutionary psychologists, Browne insists that he is explaining discrimination, not justifying it, and that by understanding such discrimination, one can devise means of eradicating it. Unfortunately, however, he also thinks it unlikely that any real change is possible. Human nature simply won’t allow it:
Pressuring fathers into greater domestic roles… is unlikely to result in an overall gain in life satisfaction, and it may not even benefit women… Conversely, pressuring women to accept management positions that they really do not want is likely to lead to inadequate performance or unwanted stress and changes in family life.
What practical conclusions might a Darwinian-aware politician draw from all this? Probably that women should be encouraged to remain in part-time, low-status jobs, and to devote much of their time to domestic work; that men should be encouraged to work in full-time, high-risk, high status jobs; and that childcare should be seen as primarily as the private responsibility of women.
Such a programme might appeal to conservative traditionalists, but it would probably turn Blair’s babes apoplectic. No problem. The new breed of evolutionary psychologists can serve up a political programme in tune with the Blairite vision too. The future is female, suggests American anthropologist Helen Fisher. Evolution has provided women with all the requisite Blairite virtues:
Empathy; emotional sensitivity; an ability to do and think several things simultaneously; a broad contextual view of any issue; a penchant for long-term planning; a gift for networking and negotiating; an impulse to nurture; and a preference for cooperating and leading via egalitarian teams.
Women, in other words, unlike men, are evolved to be joined-up thinkers. That’s why the twenty-first century needs them. While Kingsley Browne celebrates the cave-man mentality, Helen Fisher prefers the mentality of the cave woman. But many who agree with Fisher also believe that men’s evolved tendencies – the willingness to take risks, the lust for power, the capacity to form coalitions – allow them to achieve positions of prominence unrelated to merit. Hence we need policies, ‘not to redress prejudice but to redress human nature’, as Robert Wright has put it. These include affirmative action to promote women into jobs from which they are now excluded; flexible working conditions (such as the establishment of tax incentives for part-time and homeworking); and family-friendly social policies – for example, the changing of school hours to better fit mothers’ work schedules.
Both traditionalists and modernists, then, can draw comfort from evolutionary theories of human nature. Given the political climate of our time, it is likely that the Blairite version of evolutionary psychology will win out over the more traditional vision of sex differences. But the question arises: if a theory can be all things to all policy makers can it be of any use to any policy maker?
men women
There is a deeper problem, too. Kingsley Browne suggests that ‘each sex seems to have a different definition of what constitutes success in life’, a view that virtually all evolutionary psychologists share. In reality, however, sexes do not have definitions of anything; people do. And policy makers must engage with the views and behaviours of real people, not of abstracted sexes.
Men and women clearly differ in their anatomy, their physiology, their psychology and their behaviour. You don’t need a PhD in evolutionary biology to recognise this. We should, however, over-estimate neither the extent of the differences, nor their importance to policy-making. What is important for policy makers is to treat men and women as individuals, and as rational agents, not simply as members of groups with purported values and abilities. The danger of evolutionary-based policy making lies in its failure to understand this. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '2', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9572799205780028}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '99749', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:KGENLGQ4BNOLTCHZOZWGAHVZEAPPZAFN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:17ac036d-3b11-40b7-b985-e7ab5387f09c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 15, 2, 35, 29), 'WARC-IP-Address': '192.0.78.25', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:ABY3777X43QO57UBWHY4LTXGEDRXJTEZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b2d74065-5a76-4353-864d-9ff396ecee92>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://kenanmalik.com/2013/07/29/from-the-vaults-the-nature-of-sex/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:7ea4bf9f-2419-40d4-85c6-d0847d67f045>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '2236', 'url': 'https://kenanmalik.com/2013/07/29/from-the-vaults-the-nature-of-sex/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-222.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.07508581876754761', 'original_id': 'd016eefebf6d4055511c029f12d13e7a821618f8dca8130e2431ae6540c76e0f'} |
Playing Doctor With Time
When I was seven
or eight or nine, my grandpa stretched out
on the sofa, straight as Jesus in the grave
and faced the ceiling, his head
perched on the armrest. He pulled
a small, black, brittle comb from his
front shirt pocket and paid me
twenty-five cents to run it through
his graying hair until his eyes closed.
I stared at his sun-tanned skin (dark
and wrinkled), his thick glasses that
magnified his tired eyes, his large ears
that sprang out from the side
of his head like seashells.
I’d never seen him hold so still, this man
who never stopped working, never stopped
moving. I wonder, now that I
am older, what dreams came to
him on those slow Sunday afternoons
while I pulled the comb softly through?
Dreams of a more successful life?
Dreams of enough money to stop
worrying? Or maybe dreams of
kidneys that weren’t failing him?
Perhaps dreams of having
more time, maybe ten
more years, maybe twenty? Enough time
to meet more
grandchildren or great-
grandchildren? He was 55
when I combed his hair, and only 61
on the morning he didn’t wake up.
My parents
are now 63.
I am
In the midst of all those numbers,
questions: Are there ever enough
years? Is there ever enough time?
I lay quietly on the sofa, still, eyes closed, as
if I am dead. Poppy opens her plastic
doctor’s case. She is three. “Open
up,” she says, placing
a pretend thermometer in my mouth.
“Hold still,” she chides, wrapping a velcro
blood pressure cuff around my hand.
“This will hurt a little,” she warns,
pushing the plastic shot
against the wrinkles on my wrist, those
“Will I make it?” I ask with a straight
face. “Am I going to live?”
Demure, she packs her things away and looks
at me with a serious gaze, dark brown
eyes that seem to know it all. “You are
very sick,” she admits in a knowing
voice, “and you will be okay. But only
if you eat good food.”
She is her mother’s daughter.
She leaves the room and I lie there
listening to the sounds of Maile and the kids
in the kitchen, the banging of pots, the
dancing of silverware. I
hear the traffic going by on James Street.
I wonder, Are there ever enough years?
I wonder, Will I make it?
I wonder, What is a life?
In my pocket, a quarter, and I call my little
doctor back to my bedside. “This is for
you,” I say. “Thank you for saving me.” She
grins and runs for the kitchen, holding
the coin aloft, as if it is
a flame
as if it is
a dream
as if it is
a memory that she will remember
when she is 43.
3 Replies to “Playing Doctor With Time”
1. Very meaningful parable, Shawn
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2. Wow, this brought back strong memories of how much my Dad loved having his hair combed as he was sleeping, by me or my sisters. Seems weird now, that wouldn’t work for me (to be combed while I’m trying to nap)! But I can see Dad just as your grandpa stretched out on the couch on Sundays with his head on a somewhat hard arm of the couch, napping. Or on the floor, especially through the week when he had work clothes on, catching his quick after lunch snooze. I say lunch, farmers dinner at noon and that really took some sleeping off. Very evocative, as usual, Shawn.
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As we cling onto the classics that helped shape rock throughout the decades, we're all wondering what the youth of today will champion as they grow up. Will it be the tried and true legends or will it be a new reign of rockers who win the emerging audience? Prepare to find out what kids think about Guns N' Roses in this latest Kids React video!
The video starts off by informing the group of children ranging from ages six through 13 that they'll be listening to a 30-year-old album: Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses. Some of the youngsters are already aware of the band while other remain in the dark, perturbed by the title of the record and thrown off by the seemingly conflicting imagery of the band's name.
The first song they're subjected to is the immortal "Welcome to the Jungle," where some confirm their suspicions that they were dealing with a rock 'n' roll band. The opinions vary when "Mr. Brownstone" comes on with some preferring the track to the theatric anthem they heard just prior.
Up next was "Paradise City" and a number of kids immediately recognized the song and started to proclaim how much they like the band. One of the best moments comes when the familiar intro of "Sweet Child O' Mine" starts up and one young girl exclaims, "My mom sings this to my brother every night!"
As the songs roll on and the kids react to photos of the band and the music video for "November Rain," the reactions remain mixed, but an overwhelming amount of little ones detail how much they enjoyed the songs they heard, which is a testament to the timeless quality of one of rock's greatest albums!
These kids will have the chance to catch GN'R live this summer as the band continues their "Not in This Lifetime..." tour. The North American trek will start on July 27. Check our 2017 Guide to Rock + Metal Tours for a list of stops before getting your Metallica tickets.
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A Quiet Weekend in Capri Review
Capri certainly seems to be an enchanting island. It's too bad you don't get an adventure to match it.
Have you ever sat down and politely sifted through a towering stack of your friend's latest amateur holiday photos and thought, "If someone would just add a few voice-overs, this would make a great adventure game"? Probably not, but that's what A Quiet Weekend in Capri will remind you of. This program includes both a virtual walking tour and a point-and-click adventure set on the island of Capri, off the Italian coast. Both components are built around a Myst-style slide-show presentation. "Slide show" really hits the mark here, too, because the gameworld is made up of about 4,500 photographs of the island: Nearly every little alley, stairway, park bench, and villa seems to have been photographed by an overzealous shutterbug. A computer adventure set in a real-world locale could have been a thrill. However, what's good in theory isn't always so good in practice, and A Quiet Weekend in Capri has so many weaknesses that it only merits a very guarded recommendation.
Once you start playing, you may want to turn back.
The program's sightseeing component begins as you board a ferry and head to Capri, situated in the Bay of Naples. From there you take a cab up some of the rocky island's narrow, winding streets to a central square in the capital town. You grab a map and then start walking wherever you choose in the pedestrian areas of the island's eastern half, where the game is also set. You'll see beautiful seaside panoramas; rugged, sun-drenched hills; and quaint, flower-lined lanes. Along the way, occasional characters or an offscreen narrator will offer bits of tourist information about Capri's history, climate, and attractions. Some of this information is pretty colorful: You'll learn how author Oscar Wilde aroused the indignation of some of the locals with his open homosexuality during a visit and how Lenin refined the ideas of communism while staying on the island. Then again, much of the information is dry and quickly forgotten tourism pamphlet fare.
A problem with the sightseeing mode is that you can only jump directly to a limited number of locales, and there's no guided-tour option. It can feel a bit overwhelming as you wander street after street without any guidance. The island's roads and paths aren't laid out in any convenient grid, either, but rather twist and snake in all kinds of unpredictable ways. This makes them very picturesque, but it also makes getting lost quite easy unless you check your map every five seconds, yet its lettering is often too fuzzy to read, anyway. It's too bad the program didn't give you a better map and an onscreen compass. At least there's the occasional street sign.
Perhaps the biggest flaw of A Quiet Weekend in Capri is its obsessive, almost indiscriminate treatment of locales. Instead of showing you one or two dramatic photos to represent a certain passage, promontory, or piazza, the game gives you a whole string of images for every twist and turn and viewing angle. Thus, you end up with a massive and overwhelming number of mini-locales to visit, even if many are ultimately just small parts of the same small area. As such, walking down a simple lane can require an inordinate number of mouse clicks.
Too bad you can't read half the lettering.
Many of the problems with the tour mar the adventure game portion of A Quiet Weekend in Capri. In fact, this whole part of the program is often disorienting and disappointing. The game begins with a bland and vague text prologue that simply tells you that you're visiting Capri and someone or something is plotting against you. That's hardly the most dramatic and enticing way to draw someone into a game. Still, you gamely head to the island, get a map, and start for your hotel. Suddenly the screen swirls, almost all the people disappear, and you find that your hotel bears a "closed" sign.
So there you stand, with no clue at all as to what you're supposed to be doing or why. That leaves you with one option: wander around aimlessly until you find some clues as to what the game is about. Occasionally, you'll find characters who call you Rafele--part of the obscure and uninteresting mystery. These shopkeepers, farmers, and fishermen might give you an object, like a cigarette, "fruit converter," or "narcissistic object transformer," before inexplicably vanishing right before your eyes. You can't talk back to any of these static "characters," and often you don't even see them but just hear them over a front door's intercom. In addition to what these people might hand you, you can pick up many objects on your own, but they're unlabeled, so you can't even tell what some of them are. Frankly, all of this doesn't seem mysterious, so much as needlessly obscure, clumsy, and silly.
The game also gives you precious little motivation to first find and then solve the puzzles. One of the chief motivations for solving puzzles in an adventure game is that they usually open up exciting new areas for you to explore. But here you can explore just about everything right away in either the game or the tour mode. By offering such a vast area to explore right off the bat, the game also overwhelms you and leaves you laboriously hunting for needles in an island-sized haystack. You'll actually have to find single pieces of fruit somewhere on the island and locate tiny walnuts at the base of a tree in a grove, which is a tedious chore even if you know the grove to look in and have the help feature turned on that outlines hot zones in black. Get ready for outrageous amounts of "walking" to and fro as you search in vain for items.
Some of the "characters" you'll meet.
In addition to making you search for minute objects, the game forces you to embark on exhausting and mundane "FedEx" delivery marches back and forth across the island, where you pick up some arugula or hand a newspaper to someone you neither know nor care about. Where's the sense of wonder, mystery, and adventure that you expect from an adventure game? Not in playing grocery delivery boy.
Things do get more complex--expect some tough puzzles--and a tad more interesting if you can suffer through the early going. There's actually a certain odd charm to the game's surreal story and clumsy writing, too. The main saving grace, though, is that the game plays out on such a quaint, pretty island, and you can certainly feel the developers' enthusiasm for the place.
Despite that enticing source material, A Quiet Weekend in Capri's presentation does it few favors. It all seems very amateurish and cheap. The program was created almost entirely by two men, a father-and-son team, so it's unreasonable to expect superslick, big-budget production values. Still, you do expect a certain level of polish from a professionally published game, not the antiquated, ugly, low-tech feel on display here. The game's audio, for example, is marred by bland voice-overs and unconvincing, simple sound effects reminiscent of 20-year-old games. The music is uneven at best: A few tunes are mildly pleasant, most are bland, and one or two will make you cringe and hurriedly reach for the mute button.
As for the visuals, the menus and icons look gaudy and hand sketched, and text appears in simple, ugly fonts. Occasional hand-drawn objects superimposed on the photos often look comically fake. There's no animation, and the thousands of still images only take up part of the screen, so their impact is less than it might have been. The sheer overabundance of photos further weakens their impact.
Superimposed graphics like these are hard to take seriously.
For that matter, the photos seem for all the world like those taken by an amateur tourist photographer. They're certainly competent--no fingers over the shutter or cropped heads--yet they're often marred by predictable and boring composition, fuzzy details, or blurry highlights. Some players might find that these flaws add to the whole you-are-there tourist vibe of the program, but it would have been nicer to see professional-quality, discriminating, artistic shots of the island.
By starting you out utterly clueless and giving you scant motivation other than mere curiosity, the adventure portion of A Quiet Weekend in Capri gets off to a horrible start. It doesn't improve very much, typically ranging from boring to silly to confusing, with only the odd moment of interest to keep you trudging along. Hardcore adventure gamers willing to ignore a lot of serious flaws might find the game somewhat amusing, though most gamers will likely want to steer clear of this virtual Capri. At least the tour component, despite its flaws, should be of real interest to potential visitors. Capri certainly seems to be an enchanting island. It's just too bad you don't get an adventure to match it.
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Q:
how to insert content into wp_head after loop_end
I'm trying to access the info on a post, so I can get the post title and post content so that I can generate the respective OG tags to put in the header.
Problem is that the info is only avaiable after loop_end. How can I go about inserting into head after that action occurs?
Edit: Here's the code being used
<?php
/**
* *snip*
* standard plugin info
* *snip*
*/
$jobTitle ="";
$jobDescription ="";
function getJobInfo() {
global $jobTitle,$jobDescription;
if (is_single()) {
$jobTitle = get_jobs()->get("job_title");
$jobDescription = get_jobs()->get("job_description");
}
}
add_action("loop_end", 'getJobInfo'); // the info is only available on this hook since this is part of a plugin that modifies some pages.
function generateOGtag(){
global $jobTitle,$jobDescription;
echo "<meta property='og:title' content='$jobTitle'>\n";
echo "<meta property='og:title' content='$jobDescription'>\n";
}
add_action("wp_head", 'generateOGtag');
According to the wordpress plugin reference it does state that wp_head is loaded before loop_end so, how am I going to get the info from the loop_end action into the wp_head action?
A:
Since the plugin you are using does not provide the data you need until the loop_end hook, getting information into the header is going to be tricky. I can only think of two ways to proceed:
Use Javascript to insert the data into the header after page load. I
don't know if this will work. I am not sure if the "og" headers will
be respected.
Run a loop before the page loads, and get your data early. I have no
to test that but I imagine it too look something like this:
function generateOGtag(){
if (is_single()) {
global $wp_query;
if (have_posts()) {
while (have_posts()) {
the_post();
// no idea if your plugin needs anything else here
}
}
$jobTitle = get_jobs()->get("job_title");
$jobDescription = get_jobs()->get("job_description");
echo "<meta property='og:title' content='$jobTitle'>\n";
echo "<meta property='og:title' content='$jobDescription'>\n";
wp_reset_query();
wp_reset_postdata();
}
}
add_action("wp_head", 'generateOGtag');
This is obviously a labor intensive procedure as code will run twice.
| mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c9b111073b7f5afe0d0842ca8c7dafdbeafd98adaec246511ddc8c217169b373'} |
Scrambled eggs never tasted so good. Instead of the cream cheese I added crumbles of fresh goat cheese at the end. It was a gourmet breakfast at home and so quick and easy to make.
a cook
posted:
3/21/2010
This is absolutely great ! The one thing I did wrong, was used too much milk, but that's fine. Hah. But other than that, this was seriously good. It take ordinary scrambled eggs & puts a delicious twist on it. Anyone should love this.
a cook
posted:
11/3/2009
It tasted like normal scrambled eggs. Next time, I plan to use more cream cheese.
Kaitem131
posted:
5/26/2008
This is a recipe that some will love and others won't enjoy. The texture was a lot different from the standard eggs. I used about 1/4 a bar of cream cheese and I think that was enough.
annimee
posted:
1/18/2008
The cream cheese really made the difference! The eggs were a side with waffles/syrup and sausage. A little bit of my syrup mixed in with the cream cheese...oh, gosh, it was good. Mmmmmmm.
jessicashepherd
posted:
12/16/2007
I would rate this 2 stars, but my kids loved it, so that's where the 3 stars comes in. I thought this had way too much cream cheese. It didn't have much flavor. It was creamy all right, a little too creamy. I may make this again, but use half as much cream cheese and add some sharp cheddar for more flavor.
a cook
posted:
8/28/2007
I was at first very sceptical, because of the cream cheese, but this superb, something out of the ordinary.
a cook
posted:
4/10/2007
I made these for my family for Easter brunch. They are big cream cheese fans and I waited to see their reaction. No one even noticed the cream cheese! I didn't get the rave reviews I expected from reading other people's reviews and I followed the receipe exactly. I liked them but didn't really think it was worth the extra calories.
MsMaryB6
posted:
3/21/2007
I've made these eggs a few times. The family loves them. I thought my husband and son (3) were going to eat the entire pan themselves! Definitely better than plain old eggs.
10minchef
posted:
8/4/2006
This was a simple but unique way to cook a delectible breakfast meal. The antiquated way of the "original" scrambled egg making this a appetizing breakfast or "brekfasty treat" words my 6 year old daughter used to describe this appetizing breakfast :) . | mini_pile | {'original_id': '191025b2fa1420413dcd11fdaedfdf187ac1e1c953fbc3054c8af40376ce324a'} |
Immuno-bacterial homeostasis in the gut: New insights into an old enigma
Charles O. Elson, Yingzi Cong, Nuzhat Iqbal, Casey T. Weaver
Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review
42 Scopus citations
The intestinal mucosa is the interface between the immune system and the massive antigenic load represented by the commensal enteric bacteria. These commensal bacteria drive the development of the mucosal immune system, and in turn most of the lymphocytes in the intestinal mucosa appear to be specific for enteric bacteria antigens. Proper regulation of the responses of these anti-bacterial lymphocytes are extremely important because T cell effectors reactive to enteric bacterial antigens have been shown to cause chronic intestinal inflammation in an adoptive transfer system. The cells and molecules important in regulating mucosal immune response are now being identified. Insights into the mechanisms of mucosal regulation have come from a number of genetically manipulated mouse strains which develop inflammatory bowel disease in response to the enteric bacterial flora. CD4+ T cells with regulatory function in the mucosa are being identified; other cell types such as CD8+ T cells. NK cells, and B cells may also have a role in mucosal immune regulation. A model for T cell-immune homeostasis in the intestinal mucosa is presented.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)187-194
Number of pages8
JournalSeminars in Immunology
Issue number3
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
• Effector T cells
• Enteric bacteria
• Regulatory T cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
• Immunology and Allergy
• Immunology
Dive into the research topics of 'Immuno-bacterial homeostasis in the gut: New insights into an old enigma'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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laravel mix sass images not found/hash
I am working for the first time with Laravel. With the 5.4 version they introduced the laraval mix. I tried to paste my SASS of the static website (I compile this with gulp) into sass files in the resources folder. This goes all well, my SASS will be compiled to the app.css file in the public map.
I have 1 main problem. All images in the sass files (resources/assets/images) are not compiling as I would like to have.
Code in SASS file (resources/assets/SASS/banners.scss)
section.module.parallax-1 {
background-image: url('../images/banner1.jpg');
}
Compiled with mix in (app.css)
section.module.parallax-1 {
background-image: url(/images/banner1.jpg?ef4f135bad144d886f07c8b65f757a85);
}
So instead of compiling the url to css like I have it in my SASS file, it compiles it to something different with the hash at the end. Also, after compiling the sass it generates a images map with the images I used in my SASS files. My images map originally is located at resources/assets/images.
I don't know what I am doing wrong. I've tried to change the url in my sass files but this will not help. Is there someone who can help me out? Or is there a other solution for this?
webpack.mix code / js
const mix = require('laravel-mix');
mix.js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'public/js')
.sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/css');
I had the same issue right now. As far as I can see this is no longer the case in the newest laravel mix version. But since its not yet up on npmjs
You can use the following fix:
in webpack.mix.js add
mix.options({
processCssUrls: false // Process/optimize relative stylesheet url()'s. Set to false, if you don't want them touched.
});
Then copy node_modules/laravel_mix/setup/webpack.config.js to your root directory.
(Same as where the webpack.mix.js is)
Find and remove this string from your new webpack.config.js file
{ loader: 'resolve-url-loader' + sourceMap },
When thats done you have to update your npm scripts to use your webpack.config.js file.
In your package.json use these scripts instead
"scripts": {
"dev": "node node_modules/cross-env/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules",
"watch": "node node_modules/cross-env/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --watch --progress --hide-modules",
"hot": "node node_modules/cross-env/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot",
"production": "node node_modules/cross-env/bin/cross-env.js NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules"
},
It worked! One question, that config file has to stay always in the root directory? Thanks :)
Nice, Well originally the "scripts" section points to the node_modules/laravel_mix/setup/webpack.config.js. So when you update laravel mix next time you probably want to update the webpack.config file to the newest aswell. Hopefully they will remove this ugly feature that manipulates the URLS in the future - and if thats the case you can use their config file again.
This is fixed in Laravel-mix 0.8.5, all you need to do now is have processCssUrls: false in the webpack.mix.js
You're my saviour!!! I don't understand why Laravel has broken it. It was complaining it couldn't find the file, but why does it need to find it if it's a url?
processCssUrls() is used to move "source assets" like images, fonts etc so that you can point your scss url(..) to your source assets and the compiler would automatically move those assets to the public directory, make some optimisations on the asset and also fix the urls so that they would point at the compiled assets. So its not that its broken, its just debatable if it's necessary.
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Nylon Magazine celebrated its annual TV issue last night with a party that brought out anyone with a Proactiv subscription or Facebook account. Stars from a broad spectrum of series -- like "90210's" AnnaLynne McCord -- trotted out their fanciest dresses and most dapper duds for a night of small screen revelry!
In the last year as AnnaLynne's star has risen, she's used that newfound power to make her siblings pseudo-famous. Like an impromptu edition of "AnnaLynne McCord's My New BFF," her sisters Angel and Rachel have begun hitting red carpets and gifting suites without their big sister's celeb ID.
It was a night of couples as "True Blood" co-stars, and real life lovahs, Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, got cozier on this red carpet than they ever have before.
This was their most tame smooch ever -- typically there's blood and fangs involved. Ditto with their on-set kisses.
Eliza Dushku brought new boyfriend (more like manfriend) Rick Fox, who is Vanessa Williams' ex husband, to the event.
"90210" on-screen siblings clearly didn't carpool to the mall -- while Shenae Grimes is rocking a very modern-day glam ensemble, Tristan Wilds is channeling "Clockwork Orange" via the early 80s.
"Dancing with the Stars" professional Chelsie Hightower brought her season nine partner, professional snowboarder Louie Vito, and flaunted some of the fancy footwork she's already taught him.
My favorite Pussycat Doll Ashley, the one on the right who was rumored to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio , brought along Melody, my least favorite PCD. I can't decide if it's worst to have a favorite or least favorite member of the Pussycat Dolls...
But there were inherent pairs last night, even if the stars didn't arrive together! For every talentless blonde, like Aubrey O'Day...
There was a talentless brunette, like Shannon Elizabeth.
For every breakout star from "Melrose Place," like Katie Cassidy...
There is one whose name is destined for obscurity, like Jenna Dewan.
For every brooding boy, like Daren Kagasoff...
there was a sullen star, like Shane West. Seriously dude, what's wrong with you -- did an evil genie promise to kill the world's kittens if you ever smiled?
For every reality star, like Bridget Marquardt, who understands where her fame bread is buttered...
There is another who thinks she's superior to the genre, like Kristin Cavallari.
There were dueling "Greek" stars Spencer Grammer and Amber Stevens ...
And 20-something actresses with serious promise, like "Californication's" Madeline Zima and Emma Roberts.
But at the end of the day, with all those stellar stars, I just want to slink in between Stephen Moyer and his co-star Carrie Preston for a tall glass of True Blood!
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import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
/**
* Banner
*
*
*/
public class Banner
{
private static final String eol = System.getProperty("line.separator");
public static String encode( String raw )
{
// Canonicalize line ends to make them easier to process
raw = raw.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n");
StringBuilder encoded = new StringBuilder();
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encoded.append( c );
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}
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{
char c = encoded.charAt( i );
if ( c == '$' )
{
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if ( nc == '$' )
{
decoded.append( '$' );
i++;
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else if ( nc == '.' )
{
decoded.append( '\\' );
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{
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{
decoded.append( rot13( c ) );
}
else
{
decoded.append( c );
}
}
return decoded.toString();
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{
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{
char dc = c += 13;
if ( dc > 'z' )
{
dc -= 26;
}
return dc;
}
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{
char dc = c += 13;
if ( dc > 'Z' )
{
dc -= 26;
}
return dc;
}
else
{
return c;
}
}
public static String injectVersion( String text, String version )
{
Pattern pat = Pattern.compile( "#{2,}" );
Matcher mat = pat.matcher( text );
StringBuilder ret = new StringBuilder();
int off = 0;
while ( mat.find( off ) )
{
ret.append( text.substring( off, mat.start() ) );
String repl = mat.group();
ret.append( StringUtils.center( version, repl.length() ) );
off = mat.end();
}
ret.append( text.substring( off ) );
return ret.toString();
}
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{
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public static void display( String version )
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String banner = getBanner( version );
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}
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Q:
How to develop a custom sculpt tool?
Blender comes with a bunch of sculpting tools:
I am wanting to create a custom sculpting tool but I am not sure where to begin. How would I go about creating a custom sculpting tool with several extra properties in the properties area:
As an aside, when looking at the contents of a .blend file I noticed that all of the sculpting tools are inside there; so I basically want to add a new custom one into there somehow...
What I am looking to create
The tool that I want to create would basically have three properties "Source Mesh Min", "Source Mesh Max" and "Direction". Both of the source meshes would have the exact same topology as the actual mesh that is being sculpted.
The sculpting tool would then essentially lerp the current mesh towards one of the two source meshes depending upon the selected direction.
A:
Sculting is a very calculation intensive task. For speed reasons it has been developed in the core of blender using the C language. Implementing the tools you describe in sculpting is possible, but not using the python API. Gladly Blender is OpenSource so you will be able to get the sourcecode and change it to your likings.
Python Alternative:
As in your description the topology must be the same it sounds like sculpting is more the UI/workflow and not the tool (using sculpting the topology does not have to be the same (Dynamic topology). Implementing such a feature inside the 3d editor using python seems to be an good alternative.
You could even store the values in a Weightmap and use this data to calculate the new mesh. Getter the interactivity will be the challenge.
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The seamen of the Bellevite had listened with intense interest to the conversation between the commander of the West Wind and the lieutenant; and there was not a single one of them who did not comprehend the purpose of the chief of the expedition. They were greatly amused at the manner in which Christy conducted himself, and especially at the mongrel dialect he had used. It was a little difficult for them to realize that the awkward fellow who was in conversation with the skipper of the schooner was the gentlemanly, well-spoken officer they had been accustomed to see on the quarter-deck of the Bellevite. They separated as they had been instructed to do; but they were careful not to go to any great distance from the spot, for they understood that they should be wanted in a few minutes. Graines had not spoken a word on this occasion, though he had done most of the talking at the bivouac. He was ready to do his part; but the skipper had addressed his companion first, introducing the subject, and he had no opportunity to get in a single word. “I suppose you understand it all, Charley,” said Christy as soon as they were alone. “I could not very well have helped doing so if I had tried. The only thing that bothered me was when you appeared to be betraying yourself by alluding to the mate,” replied Graines. “I did not do that by accident; but I desired to get the whole attention of the captain, and I got it. The rest all followed in due course. Now tell all the men to go down to the shore, and wait a little distance from the two boats till you and I join them. Tell them all to be hungry. Your name is Mr. Balker, the mate of the Rattler, the blockade-runner from which we escaped in a whaleboat. My name is Jerry Sandman, the second mate, for the want of a better. Tell them not to forget any of these names,” continued Christy. “They heard the whole story, and they were deeply interested in it, for they could not help seeing what was coming,” added the engineer, as he went to carry out the order he had just received. The seamen still kept together in pairs, and Graines instructed them by twos, impressing them with the necessity of remembering the names they had heard in the lieutenant’s story, which was a “story” in the double sense of the word. As each couple received their lesson, they sauntered in the direction of the shore. “What’s going to be done, Mr. Graines?” asked French, who was one of the second pair the engineer instructed. “That is none of your business, French. You are to remember the names I have given you, and then obey orders,” replied Graines rather sharply, for it was a very unusual thing for a seaman, or even an officer, to ask such a question of his superior; and the discipline of the Bellevite was as exacting as it was kind and fatherly. “Excuse me, Mr. Graines; I only wanted to be ready for whatever was coming,” pleaded French. “Excused; but don’t ask such questions. You listened to the conversation between your officer and the captain of the schooner; and if you cannot comprehend the meaning of it, ask Lines, and he will explain it,” added the engineer, “Where are Londall and Vogel?” “Right by that pile of rubbish, sir,” replied French, as he led the way to the shore. The last pair were instructed and sent with the others, and they asked no questions. Graines joined the lieutenant, who had seated himself on a log, and reported that all was going on right. “As I said before, Charley, you will be the mate of the Rattler, and will no doubt be engaged for the same position on board of the West Wind. I will ship as second mate, if one of the two men now on board of the vessel is not shipped as such, for I wish to be among the men,” said Christy, after looking about him to see that no one was within hearing distance of them. “I take it I shall not make a long voyage as mate,” replied Graines. “Probably not, though I cannot tell how long you will have to serve in that capacity. I purpose to have the Tallahatchie tow the schooner as far down as practicable; but we shall doubtless have business on our hands before it is time to cut the towline. Now we will wait upon the captain.” They found him walking up and down the shore, apparently somewhat excited; and doubtless he had not entire confidence in the promises of “Jerry Sandman.” The six seamen had not joined Captain Sullendine on the shore, but had placed themselves behind a coal shanty quite near the water. “I’ve brought the mate down, Cap’n Sull’dine,” Christy began, as he and the engineer halted in front of the master of the schooner. “Here he is, an’ I reckon there ain’t no better sailor in the great Confed’racy. This yere is Mr. Balker.” “How are ye, Mr. Balker? You are just the man I want more’n I want my supper. Now tell me something about yourself.” Graines invented a story suited to the occasion. Then the conversation was about wages; and the candidate haggled for form’s sake, but finally accepted the lay the captain offered. “By the way, Captain Sullendine, do you happen to have a second mate?” asked the engineer when the terms were arranged. “I had one; but he run away with Bird Riley. He wa’n’t good for nothin’, and I’m glad he’s gone,” replied the skipper. “The man you talked with is Jerry Sandman, and he was the other mate of the Rattler. He isn’t a showy fellow, but he was a first-class second mate,” continued Graines. “Then I ship him as second mate;” and they arranged the wages without much difficulty. The six seamen were promptly shipped. The whole party then embarked in the two boats, Captain Sullendine dividing them into two parties for the purpose. The fog had settled down very densely upon the shore; but the West Wind was easily found, and they went on board, where one boat was hoisted up to the stern davits, and the other on the port quarter. “Here you be, Mr. Balker,” said Captain Sullendine when the party reached the quarter-deck; and he was so lively in his movements, and so glib in his speech, as to provoke the suspicion that he had imbibed again at the conclusion of his oration on shore. “Here, you, Sopsy!” he continued in a loud voice. A lantern was burning on the companion, which enabled the party to see that the waist of the vessel was compactly packed with bales of cotton. The schooner seemed to be of considerable size, and Christy thought she must be loaded with a very large cargo of the precious merchandise. In answer to the captain’s call, Sopsy, who proved to be the negro cook of the vessel, presented himself. “All these people want something to eat, Sopsy. Let the crew eat in the deck-house for’ad, and bring a lunch into the cabin right off,” continued Captain Sullendine. “Yis, sar,” replied the cook with emphasis. “Git ‘em quicker’n a man kin swaller his own head. Libes dar a man wid soul so dead”— “Never mind the varse, Sopsy,” interposed the captain. “—As never to hisself have said”— “Hurry up, Sopsy!” “He don’t say dat, Massa Cap’n,” added the cook, as he shuffled off over the bales of cotton. “Hullo there, Bokes! Where are you, Bokes?” called the captain again. “On deck, Cap’n,” replied a white man, crawling out from a small opening in the bales. “Wake up, Bokes! You ain’t dead yet.” “No, sir; wide awake’s a coon in a hencoop,” added the man, who appeared to be one of the two left on board by the deserters, the cook being the other. “Be alive, Bokes! Here, wait a minute!” and the captain ran down the companion ladder to the cabin, from which he presently appeared with a bottle in each hand. “Do you see them men on the cotton, Bokes?” he asked, pointing with one of them at the six Belleviters, who stood where they had taken their stations after hoisting up the quarter-boat. “I see sunthin over thar,” replied the seaman, who seemed to be hardly awake yet. “Them’s the new crew I shipped to-night—six on ‘em, or seven with the second mate,” added the captain. “Show ‘em over to the deck-house, and let ‘em pick out their bunks.” “Seven on ‘em; the cook and me makes nine, and they ain’t but eight berths in the deck-house, Cap’n,” replied Bokes, who seemed to be afraid of losing his own sleeping quarters. “You can sleep on the deck, then. These are all good men, and they must have good berths,” added the captain. “You can sleep as well in the scuppers as anywhere else, Bokes; and you ain’t more’n half awake any time.” “Must have my berth, Cap’n, or I go ashore,” persisted the seaman. “Small loss anyhow,” growled the captain. “How is the cabin, Captain Sullendine?” interposed Graines. “Two staterooms and four berths,” replied the master. “Then why can’t the second mate take one of the berths in the cabin?” suggested the new mate. “He is a first-rate fellow, and I reckon he’s a better sailor than I am, for he’s been to sea about all his life.” “’Tain’t reg’lar to have the second mate in the cabin. He’ll have t’eat with us if he bunks there,” argued the master. “He’ll have to keep his watch on deck when we eat, and I reckon he’ll have to take his grub alone,” reasoned the mate. “I’d ruther live in the deck-house with the crew,” said Christy. “But there ain’t no room thar,” added Graines, who thought his superior had made the remark simply to keep up his character. “Let him come into the cabin, then,” said Captain Sullendine, in order to settle the question. “Now, Bokes, take this apple-jack, and show the other six to the deck-house. Give ‘em one or two drinks all round. It’ll do ‘em good.” Bokes obeyed the order, after the master had lighted another lantern for his use, and he went over the bales of cotton to the seamen. Captain Sullendine remarked with great complacency that he always treated his men well, gave them enough to eat and drink, and he thought the apple-jack he had sent them would do them good. He liked to be liberal with his crew, for he believed a tot of grog would go further with them than “cussin’ ‘em;” and the two mates did not gainsay him, though they believed in neither grog nor “cussin’.” Though Christy never drank a drop of intoxicating fluid under any circumstances, and Graines almost never, both of them believed that “apple-jack” had been a very serviceable ally during the night so far. Rut they considered it useful only in the hands of the enemy, and they were sorry to see the bottles sent forward for the use of Belleviters; for they were afraid some of them might muddle and tangle their brains with the fiery liquor. “Come, mates, let’s go down into the cabin now,” continued the captain, descending the ladder without waiting for them. “I will go forward for a few minutes, Charley,” whispered Christy in the ear of the engineer, who followed the captain below. When the lieutenant reached the deck-house he found the men there, with Bokes in the act of taking a long pull at one of the bottles, while French was holding the other. “Here’s the second mate,” said the seaman with the bottle. “You can keep the bottle you have, Bokes,” said Christy. “Now go aft with it.” The sleepy sailor was willing enough to obey such a welcome order, and the lieutenant took the other bottle to the side and emptied it into the water. 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We present the case of a patient, 60 years old, which has been carrying multiple central venous catheters for hemodialysis. We recived consultation: the patient need a central vascular access. He has malfunctioning of femoral dialysis catheter, central catheter in left internal jugular vein removed a week ago, the right jugulosubclavian territory with thrombosis.
We try cannulation of left internal jugular vein, with ultrasound and radiologic guidance.
During the procedure, the patient experienced sudden and intense chest pain, which disappear spontaneously in a few seconds. At the end of the procedure one of the catheter´s lights was malfunctioning. Before starting hemodialysis the chest pain is reproduced by serum injection. Rx appropriate check. Chest CT is performed and it shown the vascular perforation. The patient suffer mediastinic perforation due to catheter of 14\'5F, into the left brachiocephalic vein. The vascular perforation is in the same area of permcath kink previous.
Discussion
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Several mechanical complications associated with central venous catheters, even using ultrasonography and radiology during the procedure, are reported.
It is essential to have a high index of suspicion in patients with known vascular diseases, carriers of thick catheters for long periods, especially left approaches. This creates particular vulnerability to serious complications as vascular perforation.
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Marvel acquires Marvelman: Has anything like this ever worked out well before? Part 2
Go here for Part 1.
So if they never really work out for the characters how do I explain the fact that these acquisitions continue to happen?
In a few of these cases there have been obvious reasons for these sales that have little to do with getting access to the intellectual property involved. It's well known that the main motivation for Marvel's acquisition of Malibu and, to a lesser extent, DC's of Wildstorm was to the acquire the sophisticated coloring departments both companies possessed.
Wildstorm also had exclusive contracts with arguably the two biggest creators in the business - Jim Lee and Alan Moore - and DC hoped to make use of those relationships. The other big benefit for Marvel and DC in buying Malibu and Wildstorm was that it immediately increased their market share by taking a potential competitor out of the marketplace.
It is this second, somewhat controversial motivation that I think explains why so many other properties have been bought up by the big two. Buying these characters removes the possibility that another competitor will figure out a way to utilise and disrupt the marketplace.
Valiant is an example of just that happening. Jim Shooter set-up this company in the early 1990s using a bunch of nearly-forgotten characters from 1960s Western/Gold Key Comics to launch his new line of comics. With solid production values and the full resources of a talented editorial and promotional team behind them, the company took off and quickly became one of the biggest comics publishers in the country.
Their success was brief, and in part based on peculiar market conditions of the time, but the example is as stark reminder of the potential disruptive power of new comic company using old concepts in a focused and well promoted manner. If Valiant had only been an imprint of a larger company I don't think it would have been anywhere near as successful, just remember Shooter's earlier attempt to a launch a new superhero line - his failed "New Universe" project at Marvel.
It is for this "spoiler" reason of wanting to block potential competition that I think DC may be kicking itself now that it didn't actively pursue Marvelman. The character probably wouldn't add a huge amount to DC, but he has the potential to help Marvel enormously in areas that DC traditionally dominates.
In part 3 I'll go into the opportunity costs inherent in buying and promoting these new acquisitions and explore the most obvious benefit these companies see in buying the rights to old properties - the idea that these new characters will add value to their pre-existing catalogues -and explain why I think that, except in rare cases (like Marvelman), this is usually a mistake.
1. I'm really enjoying this series of comments. I just wanted to chip in to say that the failure of Shooter's New Universe seems to have been as much about internal politics at Marvel than anything else, so it could be argued that it was Shooter's association with the project, not Marvel's that was the death-knell of that enterprise.
2. I didn't know that about the color departments. That's very interesting. I doubt highly that DC really believed they could leverage their agreement with Wildstorm to get Moore back in their fold...unless they were borderline delusional about it.
New Universe was a great idea with weak execution. It still has kind of a nostalgic appeal to me...even though I know it wasn't actually that good.
3. This deal did mean that DC had Moore "back in their fold" though - they got to publish all his ABC work and they continue to sell the trades.
Maybe they hoped that by establishing a new relationship with him, Moore might reconsider working on their own properties, but I'd guess that was a remote consideration to them.
He is one (of if not THE) best-selling authors the publisher has ever had, so getting access to any new material from him was very valuable to them. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9857407808303832}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '50995', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:HKP47C6B5D4XU6GESNEEZT4PDBUVTH5J', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:fb4a411d-ad0a-4ba5-b8b6-8dfa10646dd3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 10, 18, 7, 53, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.5.225', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:2727NKYCVYBZ5NI7XLW4JYJKM6KFNBHJ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:400ab27d-5cd0-4179-a31f-29859cfcd3a0>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://hueysheridan.blogspot.com/2009/08/marvel-acquires-marvelman-has-anything_10.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:218669d9-3492-49b6-9f9a-6f0f03d0259e>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '680', 'url': 'http://hueysheridan.blogspot.com/2009/08/marvel-acquires-marvelman-has-anything_10.html', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-232-73-119.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-43\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for October 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.20184016227722168', 'original_id': '0297f1f7b5b8ee6a980a5407981354fb8d2e57ae8da8327920567f095a3f73cc'} |
Andrew Watt, who served as producer and guitarist on Ozzy Osbourne's new Ordinary Man album, has revealed that he has tested positive for the coronavirus.
He said he's sharing so he could help "bring awareness to the severity of what's happening in the world." You can see his entire Instagram post below.
"Twelve days ago, early morning of March 6, I started feeling like I was hit by a bus," Watt explained. "I couldn't move out of my bed for days and started to run a fever." After being told by a doctor that he couldn't possibly have the coronavirus, Watt nevertheless quarantined himself.
He said when his symptoms got worse, he went to an emergency room and "begged" to be tested for the virus, but was turned down because of federal regulations and instead diagnosed with viral pneumonia. "A private doctor was finally able to test me himself," Watt noted. "Yesterday afternoon it came back positive for COVID-19."
Watt recalled that his fever has gone down, and his appetite has returned to some degree, but he's still having trouble breathing as a result of the pneumonia.
"I am a healthy young man, and I am going to get through this, no matter what," Watt concluded. "But there are so many people in my life and in the world that could possibly not get through this due to their age and/or a compromised immune system. ... This is why I am writing this post. I can't stress this enough ... this is not a joke. Stay inside, stay sanitized. Please stop everything and take care of yourselves and the people you love around you until we are all through this. To have the mentality, 'I'm young, this can't affect me,' is just straight-up stupid and so dangerous to everyone around you. Social distancing is to protect someone's mom and dad, someone's grandmother ... it's not about you. It's about everyone together fighting this as a team. Stay safe."
The virus has caused widespread hospitalizations and fatalities around the globe, leading government and health officials to implore Americans to stay home and isolated in an effort to curtail the spread of infections. Music, sporting and cultural events of all kinds have been postponed or canceled as a result of the pandemic.
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David Hammer / Eyewitness News
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NEWORLEANS- The two rig supervisors accused of manslaughter in the BPoil spill have asked to delay their Feb. 4 criminal trial in federal court.
Attorneys for BPworkers Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine are asking Judge Stanwood Duval to push the trial back to the end of 2013 because it involves a 'large volume of material,'is 'complex'and 'More time is needed for preparation.'
The two men are accused of misinterpreting the results of a final test of the strength of BP's deep sea well shortly before it blew sky high on April 20, 2010, killing 11 rig workers and setting off the worst accidental offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
Investigative records show that Kaluza, and later Vidrine, were confused by the results of the final well strength test, called the negative pressure test, but ruled it a successful test and assumed that the cement and steel lining the well had successfully kept dangerous natural gas out of the hole. Under that false impression, Vidrine ordered the removal of heavy drilling mud that protected against gas flowing up the well and that's when it blew.
Independent experts have said that Kaluza and Vidrine never should have accepted the test, and prosecutors say they were grossly negligent to do so. Investigators' notes show that contract workers under Vidrine and Kaluza reassured the supervisors that a force called the 'bladder effect' or 'annular compression' was at play and urged them not to worry about it, even though independent experts say the 'bladder effect' is a myth.
Kaluza and Vidrine's lawyers have signaled that they will defend their clients by citing several government and corporate investigations that found a series of decisions not just the interpretation of the negative pressure tests caused the blast, starting with BP engineers and other higher-ups who devised cost-cutting designs for the well and used less safe sealing methods. They say their clients have been 'scapegoated' by BP and the federal prosecutors for mistakes that go far above the two veteran oilfield workers.
The well, known as Macondo, had been drilled three miles into the seafloor and a mile below the floating drilling rig, the Deepwater Horizon. The intense pressures down there caused gas to seep into the bottom of the well and that gas blew out through tubing to the rig above, setting it ablaze in massive fire balls.
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Special Educational Needs
SUPPORT FOR YOUR CHILD AT BEAVER ROAD PRIMARY SCHOOL
At Beaver Road Primary School we believe excellent teaching gives children the life chances they deserve. We work hard to provide a caring, stimulating and inclusive environment to ensure that every child reaches their full potential. We recognise that you know your child best and you may feel that they need additional help or support for some or all of their time at Our School.
Not all children will need extra support with their learning but the progress of all children at Beaver Road is monitored closely to ensure support is provided where necessary. Support can be given for a variety of reasons. This booklet is to inform you of the types of support available for your child at Beaver Road. It will help you understand who can help and how this support can be accessed.
TEACHING AND
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Children learn and develop in different ways. Teachers know and understand this and use different teaching styles to plan work at different levels in order to meet the needs of all pupils in their class. This is called “Quality First Teaching.” All pupils at Beaver Road receive “Quality First Teaching” from their class teacher. Our aim is to provide the highest quality learning environment for your child and for them to achieve their full potential. All our classes, when necessary, are supported by teaching assistants and pupils are offered additional support or catch up intervention programmes where needed.
At Beaver Road the progress and attainment of all pupils is reviewed on a termly basis by the School Leadership Team. These termly pupil progress meetings help identify children who may need additional support.
Parents and Carers are informed about their child’s academic progress and targets through the twice yearly Parent’s Consultation Evenings and the annual end of year school report. In addition, Parents and Carers of children who have a Statement of SEND or a SEND Resource Agreement are invited into School at least three times a year for a review meeting.
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT
If a child continues to have difficulty after intervention or has a high level of difficulty when they join Our School, they may be considered to have special educational needs/disability (SEND) and are placed on the SEND register. This decision is made in partnership with Parents and Carers.
At Beaver Road Primary we provide support for pupils across the 4 areas of need as laid out in the SEN Code of Practice 2014:
Communication and interaction
Cognition and Learning
Social, emotional and mental health difficulties
Sensory and or physical needs
Children with SEND have learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities which make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. They will need extra support or different help eg. modified tasks, extra time or breaks in formal assessments.
Our School and other agencies can help most children overcome their difficulties quickly and easily. A few children will need extra help for some or all of their time in School.
This means they may have difficulty with:
Some or all of the work in School
Reading, writing and mathematics
Understanding and processing information
Expressing themselves
Understanding others
Organising themselves
Sensory perception or physical mobility
Managing their behaviour or emotions
Making friends or relating to adults
At Beaver Road Primary School teaching and learning opportunities are adapted and continually evaluated (with support of external agencies when required) to ensure the needs of all our learners are met. Parents and Carers should not feel unduly anxious about such additional support as it allows children to receive the specific help they need to make the next steps in their learning journey. To ensure that staff are aware of children’s needs some children create a Pupil Passport in conjunction with their class teacher and their parents. The Pupil Passport is designed so that staff have the correct information. This means that appropriate strategies are used to ensure that teaching has the maximum impact and pupils feel valued and their needs are understood.
Some children will also have an Access to Learning plan. This will focus on outcomes that teachers, pupils and parents want to achieve each term and will be reviewed after each term.
SEND Stages and Terminology
The Special Educational Needs Code of Practice gives guidance to schools in meeting the needs of pupils. It sets out how help should be given in a step-by-step approach.
Our School SEN Policy reflects the new SEND Code of Practice. Parents and Carers will be consulted at all stages of our graduated approach and the class teacher will inform you of the additional work they, or other adults in School, do with your child.
The process is as follows:
Wave 1
(Quality First Teaching)
All pupils in School receive quality first teaching which is also known as Wave 1.Wave 1 is the effective inclusion of all pupils in high-quality every day personalised teaching. Such teaching will, for example, be based on clearappropriate objectives that are shared with the children and returned to at the end of the lesson. Teachers use a lively, interactive range of teaching styles and make maximum use of visual and kinaesthetic teaching techniques such as Kagan structures as well as auditory/verbal learning.
If a pupil has needs which are related to more specific areas of their education, such as spelling, handwriting, numeracy and literacy skills, then they may be considered for a Wave 2 intervention. A Wave 2 intervention is a targeted catch up provision for children to ‘put them back on course’. This will be led by a teacher or a teaching assistant and is usually done in focus groups. Interventions at Wave 2 will be planned and reviewed by the class teacher half-termly to ascertain the effectiveness of the provision and to inform future planning.
Wave 2
Wave 3
If a child continues to have difficulty after a Wave 2 intervention or has a high level of difficulty when they arrive at School, they may require support from an outside agency such as an Educational Psychologist or a Speech and Language Therapist. After an assessment is undertaken by the EP or Speech Therapist, a programme of support is sent to the School from the involved agency and is shared with the Parents and Carers. School may seek professional advice from a range of agencies including:
Education, Health and Care Plan – EHC Agreement
(Formerly Statement of Special Education Needs.)
If your child’s needs are complex or severe we may suggest that we make an application for an EHC Agreement to the Local Authority. This document will describe your child’s SEND and the special help they should receive. Education, Health and Care Plans usually involve the Local Authority providing extra resources to help your child. These could include money, staff time, special equipment or attendance at a school with specialist resourced support. This additional provision will be reviewed annually or sooner if required and would include Parent, teacher, SENCo and pupil.
From September 2014, all children and young people from age 0-25, who have significant special educational needs will undergo an Education, Health and Care (EHC) assessment (unless the Parents/Carers of the young person decide to opt out of the new system). This will lead to an EHC Plan instead of a Statement of SEND. For children and young people who already have a Statement of SEND, the transfer of Statements into EHC Plans will be a gradual process and this is the responsibility of the Local Authority.
Beaver Road Staff
Here at Beaver Road Primary School we have an experienced team of staff who work together and may be involved in supporting your child in school. These include:
Your child’s teacher who will always make sure that learning is differentiated appropriately and that tasks set are accessible for your child. Your child’s teacher is available at the end of each day or a meeting can be scheduled either directly or via the school office. Please talk to your child’s teacher if you have any concerns regarding your child in school.
Teaching assistants support all pupils in class. Here at Beaver Road Primary School we have several additional teaching assistants who help support groups and individual children with their learning.
Our School SENCo (Emma Easmon) who is an experienced teacher. Emma Easmon has completed the National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is responsible for co-ordinating SEND provision across the school, from Nursery to Year 6.
Our Specialist Dyslexia Teacher (Cathy Blairs) who was judged by Ofsted to be an outstanding practitioner, provides and coordinates assessments and interventions for children with dyslexia. This is a 1:1 intervention which has a good evidence base for rapidly increasing progress in reading. Cathy holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Specific Learning Difficulties, is a member of the British Dyslexia Association (BDA) holding AMBDA status, and attends regular training and workshops as part of her continuing professional development.
A Designated School Governor (Pauline Black) who works with the SENCo in leading SEND across the school.
EHA (Early Help Assessment) Lead Teacher (Lorna Downey)who coordinates the EHA meetings across the school, from Nursery to Year 6.
Nikki Williamson is our Speech and Language therapist and is commissioned to work at Beaver Road for a day a week.
Other teachers on Our School Staff
Joanna Burrows and Siobhan Holmes have also completed the National Award for Special Educational Needs Co-ordination.
Sometimes School may commission Specialist Support to work with identified children with a particular focus eg. Speech and Language therapists or Occupational therapists. We also regularly liaise with Specialist schools and use their outreach services to support our children.
To ensure we have a whole School approach and our staff have the skills and knowledge to support children with SEND, there is a programme of training. Staff regularly attend specialist training courses. Recent training has included Lego therapy, Precision Monitoring (A method of teaching in very small steps), The impact of adult language, De-escalation training, Autism training and Friendship groups and social interaction training.
The Manchester Early Help Assessment (EHA)
As part of our support for all children here at Beaver Road Primary School, we have regular opportunities to consult support services and health agencies through a multi-agency approach which sometimes includes completing the Early Help Assessment Framework (EHA) to support the family as well as the identified pupil. School and the family will meet and discuss and plan together the best use of advice and support from other agencies, with a view to achieving the best outcome for the child and family.
Professionals who might attend a CAF meeting include:
The School Nurse who works closely with us and can advise and assess any medical needs. If a care plan is required this would be done in conjunction with the Parent and School nurse and would be reviewed annually.
A Speech and Language therapist who works with children in School and can offer advice as to whether your child would benefit from this support or assessment.
An Educational Psychologist may give advice or complete an assessment for a child.
Outreach support from specialist schools.
If you would like advice from professionals outside school you may find the following numbers and websites useful:
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who should I talk to if I am worried about my child?
Your child’s class teacher is always best placed to answer any questions you may have relating to any aspect of School life. They may consult other staff members involved with your child. You can also contact the School SENCo either via email or the school office if your concerns have not been answered by your child’s class teacher.
What types of support will be available to my child? How will teaching be adapted?
There are many types of SEND support available at Beaver Road Primary School.
These range from full time 1-1 support to short 20 minute intervention sessions.
Support for all children begins in the classroom with ‘Quality First Teaching’, where the class teacher plans differentiated activities in all lessons including a range of learning styles and outcomes. If a teacher feels that a child needs more support, they will share this information with you as a Parent/Carer and outline and deliver initial provision. If progress remains a concern, the class teacher and SENCo will follow the process outlined in the school SEND Identification Strategy.
How will I find out about my child’s progress?
You can attend regular Parent’s Evenings throughout the School year. In addition, you can email the class teacher or call the School Office to arrange an appointment to meet with the class teacher to discuss any concerns.
How can I support my child?
Stay in regular contact with School – we want to work in partnership with Parents and Carers. Attend all Parent meetings and support your child in following tasks and homework set by School. Encourage your child at all times and let us know of all successes outside of School. Always talk to your child’s class teacher if you have any concerns or worries about your child.
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Thanks for the answer Cliff,
I don't have a specific question at this point, I will download ANTLR and
play with it.
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Each time you reach a fundraising level, we will say thank you with an incentive prize. We know you aren’t participating for the prizes, but they don’t hurt, right?
Raise Earn Helps Provide
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Just a week after Jerry Manuel declared Ryota Igarashi his setup man, his setup man has hit the disabled list with a hamstring tear suffered in Tuesday night’s game. Igarashi has a serious fastball and has been successful so far this season, even if he hasn’t been exactly dominant (3Ks and 4 BBs in 6 IP). Given the already depleted state of the Mets’ pen, this is not welcome news.
But this is one instance where Mets’ fans can be happy that Jerry Manuel is their manager. After all, if Lou Piniella were in charge he’d deal with this injury by moving Johan Santana to the pen.
With Odorizzi, the Twins finally have the front-end starter they’ve been seeking all winter. It’s a bargain deal as well, as the 27-year-old righty is under contract through 2019 and didn’t require the club to part with any of their top-shelf prospects in the trade. Odorizzi will be looking to stage a comeback in 2018 after a dismal performance with the Rays last year, during which he eked out a career-worst 4.14 ERA, 3.8 BB/9 and 8.0 SO/9 through 143 1/3 innings.
Palacios, 21, ranked no. 27 in the Twins’ system last season. He split his year between Single-A Cedar Rapids and High-A Fort Myers, raking a combined .296/.333/.454 with 13 home runs and 20 stolen bases in 539 plate appearances. He’s expected to continue developing at shortstop, though he’s also seen limited time at second and third base during his four-year career in the minors. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '268e523de9fbf6f2e650fc6b942fb19c9ff4380dd5ea1210808472dd95e45f89'} |
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How to take great photos of food – six tips from an expert
@theskinnybib instagram Photograph: @theskinnybib
Master proportions and take a deep breath – follow this Instagrammer’s guide and say goodbye to disappointing food photos forever
by Poonperm Paitayawat
Main image: @theskinnybib instagram Photograph: @theskinnybib
Six years ago I opened an Instagram account, @theskinnybib, to tell of my obsession with food, travel and culture. After 5,211 posts and 783,403 likes, I have developed another obsession: food photography. I now know how to shoot the most intimate angle for an heirloom carrot, how to make a starchy porridge glisten in the sun, and how to capture a market vendor at the peak of her afternoon boredom. Here are my six top tips:
Master shots from the top
Taking top-view shots is basic Instagram knowhow. Not only can it make your dinner look like an editorial, it’s also easy to get right. Check the light, which I prefer to come from the front or the sides – if the light source is right above your dish or comes from behind, it will cast a shadow in your shots, though you can usually fix this by moving yourself around. Hold your phone or camera steadily above your dish. Position the dish right in the middle of the shot. Focus. Make sure your hands do not tilt or shake. Then, snap. Done. It is that simple.
Top-view shots can capture a lot of visual eclecticism. You can see the detail in a dish, the contrast between the dish and the colour and texture of the table, and so on. That’s what makes these shots so beautiful and popular.
Interact and add some life
I usually don’t fiddle with the food that is presented to me. In most cases, dishes are served the way they should look. But I do personalise my shots by interacting with the food. I’ll hold a bao up against a crowd or queue; or carefully prick an egg for its yolk to gently drip; or snap a stylishly half eaten dish. Things like this make food shots less of a geeky culinary anatomy and more of a lifestyle choice to be envied. Ask a friend who is waiting to tuck in to wave their fork into the shot, too. It can look fun.
Burst-mode things that move
It is not true that you need to be a pro to capture emotion, livelihood and movements. There is a way to cheat. Most phones and cameras are equipped with burst mode. It allows you to take photos in very quick successions, be it a pastry chef quenelling ice cream, a fisherman quartering his 200kg tuna, or a seagull landing on your mum’s chips. All you need to do is anticipate movements, frame your shots, focus and let burst mode do the magic. Capture between 10-20 shots; at least one of them will work.
Let there be light
You cannot take photos without light. There is no way around it. When you are in an extremely low-light situation, you need to either find light or give up. While flash turns a beauty into a beast (or human food into feline feeds), torchlight from your friend’s phone does not. Do kindly ask them to switch it on and assist you. This is not to say that torchlights can solve the problem of having low light, but they can make the situation better. Buying light-up phone cases is another solution. At the other end of spectrum of no light is too much sunlight. First, you cannot take photos against sunlight. Second, too much sunlight makes your food fade in colour or create shadows. My preference is to have natural light coming from the front or the sides and not to deal with direct sunlight.
Get the proportion right
This is the more advanced stuff. You need to use your common sense to get the proportion of food in a photo right. For example, if your plate is chunky or large but your food portion is small, top-view shots (which aims at capturing everything) will make the food look minuscule. You will be better off snapping a photo at a 60-degree angle and zooming in on the food content. For food items that are stacked upward or sculptural, like a sushi or a burger, a 60-to-70-degree angle works better.
Stop breathing
I hold my breath for a few seconds every time I take a photo. This is no joke. Once a light source is secured and a perfect angle is locked, a small, unpredicted movement from your hip, thighs or elbows can spoil your shot, making it blurred. To prevent this, you have to be as still as a rock. This means no talking and no shaking. Set the focus. Stop breathing. And snap. And breathe again. You can also rest your wrists or your phone on a stationary surface when snapping a photo, too. No photo-editing app can save a shot that is blurred. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9364625811576844}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '1005500', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M7UT6VJ2LBOYHQ23JNT4ZJVA34PHWTVO', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d7442b7d-7332-42ab-b752-13dcaf5ebbdc>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 24, 6, 45, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.201.111', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:DIQ2Q6332UWQDAJW5P7QQ6F3IGYF32QR', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d1a8c983-36b4-4dd2-b46a-328367146c99>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/16/six-tips-for-taking-great-photos-of-food', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:940fc986-6de4-43dd-b1df-2f2744580a4c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '832', 'url': 'https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/16/six-tips-for-taking-great-photos-of-food', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-144-182-216.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019218385219573975', 'original_id': 'f604fec985eb984cff94ce395debf5867072ae3bb6cd11b316b4be31882e219b'} |
08 January 2015
parents staying at home
This is an interesting article by a young man named Ryan Park who chose to take a year off to stay at home with his daughter. Many times statistics are quoted about women taking a future pay cut by having children, but men getting a bonus for the same. This article points to research that indicates a different cause:
"The fatherhood bonus also dissipates when men become more involved at home. ... Men who decrease their work hours for family reasons suffer a 15.5 percent decline [in future salary], while women’s salaries decline by just 9.8 percent. In other words, having a family helps men in the workplace only if they submit to their traditional gender role."
Park was a clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I really enjoyed the video interview with Justice Ginsburg. Here is an interesting excerpt:
Park: "You mentioned your work at the ACLU women's right's project. ... Many commenters, the first thing they talk about was the tactical brilliance of bringing these cases where men were complaining about gender distinctions in the law that they believed harmed them. Can you talk a little bit about that strategic choice? Was it a strategic choice? Do you think the course of jurisprudence would have been different had you only brought cases with a female plaintiff?"
Ginsburg: "I have been complemented for mapping out a strategy, in truth it's the cases that came trooping into the ACLU.
"The turning point case, Reed v Reed, was a woman plaintiff. A law that discriminated blatantly against a woman, said 'As between persons equally entitled to administer a decedent's estate, males must be preferred to females.' Great first case.
"But then, let's talk about Stephen Wiesenfeld case, because that's a perfect example of what's wrong with drawing rigid lines based on gender. So Stephen was married to a teacher who had a very healthy pregnancy. She was in the classroom until the ninth month. She went to the hospital for the birth of the child. The doctor came out and told Stephen you have a healthy baby boy, but your wife died of an embolism. So he at that moment decided that he would not work full time until the baby Jason was going to school full time. And he had heard that the social security system has benefits for a sole surviving parent with a child under the age of 12 in his care. He applied for that benefit and was told, well we're sorry Mr. Wiesenfeld, these are mothers' benefits. Why mothers? Because mothers take care of children.
"Where did this discrimination begin? It began with the woman as wage earner. She paid the same social security tax as a man paid, but her family did not get the same protection that a man's family would. That was the majority view of the court, that it was really discrimination against the woman. And then one, who later became my chief, he was then Justice Renquist, said, this is utterly irrational from the point of the baby. Why should the baby have the opportunity for the care of a sole surviving parent if that parent is female, but not if the parent is male? So that was my example of how these rigid gender lines in the law hurt everybody."
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Notes From an Undeclared Cold War
Gloria Center- 11/12/2010
The diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks earlier this week confirm that the key strategic process taking place in the Middle East is the push for regional dominance by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The documents show that the Iranian nuclear program is only the most worrisome element of a broader effort, as there is additional evidence of Iranian involvement and interference in political processes across the region.
The method depicted and discussed is familiar: Local Islamist proxies are located, organized and exploited (the creation of “mini-Hizbullahs” in Saudi King Abdullah’s memorable words used in one of the cables), and influence is accumulated through the combination of ground-level brute force and Machiavellian maneuver.
The documents reveal that this Iranian effort is uppermost on the minds of the rulers of the Arab states that Iran is targeting. They suggest that the stronger Arab states are organizing political and intelligence warfare of their own to combat the Iranian effort. They also strongly indicate the absence of a corresponding sense of urgency among US administration officials.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in a meeting with Sen. John Kerry, says that “Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism is well-known, but I cannot say it publicly. It would create a dangerous situation.”
Suleiman asserts that Iran has tried to transfer payments to the Kassam Brigades in Gaza, which Egypt has prevented.
He also notes Egypt’s apprehending of what he describes as a large “Hizbullah cell” on its soil (the 49-man cell apprehended by the Egyptian authorities in April 2009), and reports Iranian efforts to recruit among Sinai Beduin.
Suleiman tells Mullen that Egypt has begun a “confrontation with Hizbullah and Iran.” He mentions that his service has begun to recruit agents in Syria and Iraq, and says that Egypt has sent a clear message to Iran that if it continues to interfere in Egypt, Egypt will interfere with Iran. Iran, Suleiman concludes, must “pay the price” for its actions and not be allowed to interfere in regional affairs.
Saudi officials quoted sound no less concerned than the Egyptians, but their remarks are notably less robust and more anxious.
In a meeting with White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, for example, King Abdullah describes a conversation he had with with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, on the issue of Iran’s “interference in Arab affairs.” Abdullah challenges Mottaki on Iranian meddling in Palestinian politics and support for Hamas.
“These are Muslims,” he quotes Mottaki as responding.
The exchange ends with Abdullah giving the Iranians a year to improve matters, otherwise “it will be the end.”
In the discussion, Brennan responds by noting that the US is reviewing its Iran policy, and observing that the US and Saudi Arabia have a “lot of work to do in the Middle East together.” He then seeks to change the subject.
On two subsequent occasions, Abdullah tries unsuccessfully to return the focus to Iran. When the issue of Iraq emerges, he notes that “some say the US invasion handed Iraq to Iran on a silver platter,” before referring to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as an “Iranian agent.”
The Brennan-Abdullah meeting is dated March 22, 2009. In the meantime, the king’s ultimatum appears to have run its allotted span, and Iranian activities have continued untroubled.
The cables also show how Iranian regional ambitions have placed Teheran’s fingerprints on myriad political processes across the Middle East. They detail Iran’s extensive interference in Iraq, quote the Saudi king’s assertion of Iranian aid to the Houthi rebels in Yemen, outline Iranian and Syrian involvement with illegal arms transfers from North Korea and describe the extensive involvement of Revolutionary Guards personnel in shipping weapons to Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War (using the Iranian Red Crescent relief organization as cover).
So the leaked cables provide added and deepened color to an already existing picture of regional cold war. They do not require the altering of any of the main contours of that picture.
Iran is attempting a hostile takeover of the local system.
Regional states are concerned by this and are trying to organize in order to frustrate it. The US administration, meanwhile, appears to be failing to acknowledge this overarching reality in private conversation with its allies, just as it refuses to speak its name in public statements.
For as long as this state of affairs continues, the private conversations of US officials look set to be a (henceforth probably better guarded) repetition of the dialogue of the deaf available from the cables. The likely subject of the conversation, meanwhile, will be the latest example of successful subversion of the regional order by Iran and its allies.
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Q:
Match all nodes that contain a child node with specific contents
Suppose I this have this XML doc, where ... just represents other miscellaneous nodes:
<AA>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
</AA>
I'm trying to make some templates, e.g.:
<xsl:template match="/">
<DD>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/AA/YYY" />
</DD>
<EE>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/AA/XXX" />
</EE>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="YYY">
<!-- do stuff -->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="XXX">
<!-- do stuff -->
</xsl:template>
To produce output similar to this:
<AA>
<DD>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
</DD>
<EE>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
</EE>
</AA>
I am just struggling to find xpaths to place in the match attributes, where I currently place XXX and YYY. Anyone got the answer?
Basically I want to select all nodes that have a child node that contains a specific contents.
A:
If you use an identity transform, you shouldn't need any additional templates if you're not going to change anything in the <BB> elements.
XML Input
<AA>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
</AA>
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/AA">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<DD>
<xsl:apply-templates select="BB[CC='True']"/>
</DD>
<EE>
<xsl:apply-templates select="BB[CC='False']"/>
</EE>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
XML Output
<AA>
<DD>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>True</CC>
...
</BB>
</DD>
<EE>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
<BB>
<CC>False</CC>
...
</BB>
</EE>
</AA>
If you do need to change <BB> add additional template(s) to override the identity transform.
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NPDC-1, a novel regulator of neuronal proliferation, is degraded by the ubiquitin/proteasome system through a PEST degradation motif.
Neural proliferation and differentiation control protein-1 (NPDC-1) is a protein expressed primarily in brain and lung and whose expression can be correlated with the regulation of cellular proliferation and differentiation. Embryonic differentiation in brain and lung has classically been linked to retinoid signaling, and we have recently characterized NPDC-1 as a regulator of retinoic acid-mediated events. Regulators of differentiation and development are themselves highly regulated and usually through multiple mechanisms. One such mechanism, protein degradation via the ubiquitin/proteasome degradation pathway, has been linked to the expression of a number of proteins involved in control of proliferation or differentiation, including cyclin D1 and E2F-1. The data presented here demonstrate that NPDC-1 is likewise degraded by the ubiquitin/proteasome system. MG-132, a proteasome inhibitor, stabilized the expression of NPDC-1 and allowed detection of ubiquitinated NPDC-1 in vivo. A PEST motif (rich in proline, glutamine, serine, and threonine) located in the carboxyl terminus of NPDC-1 was shown to target the protein for degradation. Deletion of the PEST motif increased NPDC-1 protein stability and NPDC-1 inhibitory effect on retinoic acid-mediated transcription. NPDC-1 was phosphorylated by several kinases, including extracellular signal-regulated kinase. Phosphorylation of NPDC-1 increased the in vitro rate of NPDC-1 ubiquitination. The MEK inhibitor, PD-98059, an inhibitor of extracellular signal-regulated activation, also inhibited the formation of ubiquitinated NPDC-1 in vivo. Together these results suggest that retinoic acid signaling can be modulated by the presence of NPDC-1 and that the protein level and activity of NPDC-1 can be regulated by phosphorylation-mediated proteasomal degradation. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '66021cd71b8e1d12009a0538b1f673bfaff5057c47c9c0f569bcd6f7c95980ec'} |
View Full Version : I know C/C++, now what?
09-02-2001, 09:24 PM
I am really interested in learning openGL. I am content on using it to create games. I currently use MSVC++6.0 for my compiler, and have a good knowledge of C/C++. Questions:
1. Is GLUT worth the time learning if I do not care too much for learning windows programming?
2. Game-wise, what can and cant you do? (For example, are there simple functions like 'line(3,54);' ?)
3. If I am serious about game programming, should I go for openGL over DirectX? (and why, if possible).
4. If openGL is right for me, what books would you recommend and why?
Thank you all so much. This really means alot to me. Without the help of perfect strangers, I would not be where I am today. So thanks again.
I really just want to upgrade from using the only graphics I have ever used which was BGI from Borlandc++3.1... So please, bare with me and be elaborate. Thanks!
PS..... Yes, I know about nehe.gamedev.net
09-02-2001, 10:45 PM
1: If you don't want to learn Windows programming, I strongly suggest you go for GLUT. It's very easy, and very powerful.
2: What can and can't be done is not so easy to say. But as a beginner you can do "a whole lot of stuff".
3: Please do not compare OpenGL with DirectX. OpenGL is a graphics API, while DirectX is a whole multimedia suit. DirectX contains components for network, input, sound, graphics, and literally everything involved with games. OpenGL vs Direct3D has been discussed lots of times before, and is a very quick way of starting a flame war. It's like discussing which religion is the best, and different religious oppinions is usually the source of most wars going on on our planet. Enough said.
4: OpenGL programming guide, the official guide to learning OpenGL, aka the Red Book cause of it's red cover, is, in my oppinion, the best book. It's a complete guide over the OpenGL API. That book is just for learning the API, if you want to learn game programming with OpenGL, you should look for another book aswell. Don't know about any good game programming book, but whatever book you buy, the Red Book is a must http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/smile.gif
And if you know about NeHe's site, I'm surprised you aren't convinced yet. Use OpenGL! http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/biggrin.gif
p.s. You can of course use OpenGL for rendering, and DirectX for sound and input. That is a good combination.
p.p.s A search for "opengl vs directx" (or the other way around) will answer question #2.
09-02-2001, 11:45 PM
1. Bob said everything on this question. One GLUT call can replace 50 lines of windows code.
2. Everything that can be done with your hardware. Remember that Quake3 uses OpenGL. And to answer you question, yes, it is also possible to perform traditionnal 2D drawing.
3. Nothing to add.
4. The SuperBible is great. There is also : OpenGL game programming.
I know BGI. So you want to make 2D graphics. Yes, that's very possible with OpenGL : just use a glOrtho projection.
Hope that helps
09-03-2001, 11:06 PM
I think you should try OpenGl for Windows, because no one uses GLUT if he wants to publish his game one day. or have you ever seen a PC computer game with an error message after install like this:
"Glut.dll not found" ??
I am not a "microsoft lover", i just think it is good to know some pieces of the Win32 API.
You said you know NEHE? Nehe uses the Win32 API. http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/ubb/smile.gif so why do you ask for GLUT?
NEHE's tut's are very easy to understand.
and he uses the API just for creating/destroying the app window and for message handling.
so...happy coding!
regards, Christoph
09-04-2001, 12:51 AM
Black and White uses GLUT. They simply provide a glut dll with the game. It's true that some knowledge of windows never hurts, but I think it's only necessary when you begin using really advanced features, like multithreading or a complicated user interface.
09-04-2001, 12:57 AM
Oh yes, I've forgotten explaining why the SuperBible was so great. That's because it explains you in the most easy way how to create application with GLUT (it seems to be difficult to find a book without GLUT) and it's good for you because it begins with glOrtho projections, which are what you need to make 2D graphics. It has also a full treatment of most usual topics, and it treats a good number of advanced topics, too. The main drawbacks are : nothing about loading 3D models from disk, nothing about environmental mapping, bump mapping...
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/*
* Copyright 2014 Alexander Oprisnik
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.oprisnik.semdroid.training;
import com.oprisnik.semdroid.analysis.results.AppAnalysisReport;
import com.oprisnik.semdroid.app.App;
import com.oprisnik.semdroid.app.DexClass;
import com.oprisnik.semdroid.app.DexMethod;
import com.oprisnik.semdroid.utils.Log;
/**
* Application classification by folder name.
* For example, if the application is in folder SMS, components will be labeled as SMS.
*/
public class FolderNameAnalysisPlugin extends LayerBasedTrainingAnalysisPlugin {
private static final String TAG = "FolderNameAnalysisPlugin";
@Override
protected void classifyApp(AppAnalysisReport report, App app) {
String label = app.getApkFile().getParentFile().getName();
Log.d(TAG, "Labeling " + app.getApkFileName() + " as " + label);
report.label(app, label);
}
@Override
protected void classifyMethod(AppAnalysisReport report, DexMethod method) {
String label = method.getApp().getApkFile().getParentFile().getName();
report.label(method, label);
}
@Override
protected void classifyClass(AppAnalysisReport report, DexClass clazz) {
String label = clazz.getApp().getApkFile().getParentFile().getName();
report.label(clazz, label);
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The Irishman and Joker Supervising Art Director Laura Ballinger Gardner speaks to us about her work as the art department traffic controller in the studio.
Recently I spoke with the key figures of The Irishman’s Art Department to wrap my mind around the film’s production design. I had the unique opportunity to interview The Irishman Supervising Art Director Laura Ballinger Gardner, as well as Set Decorator Regina Graves, and Production Designer Bob Shaw. This is the first part of our series on The Irishman‘s production design. The Irishman is nominated for Best Production Design at the 2020 Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and the ADG Awards.
“ Some day I’ll have to get those little air traffic control light signals and I’m just going to have to walk around the art department with them. “
If you’ve known me very long, or have been reading this site for a while you may already know how obsessed I am with the work of Martin Scorsese. Needless to say, The Irishman surpassed all of my expectations and closed what I and many others see as an epic mob trilogy by one of the grand masters of classic and modern cinema.
I felt it was important to interview Laura, as the Supervising Art Director of the film, not only because we have never interviewed an Art Director here before, but also because she had the extraordinary experience of art directing another production design giant this year with Joker. Joker is nominated at the 2020 ADG Awards and BAFTA Awards for Best Production Design.
I should also note that I’ve been following Laura’s career since I saw her production design work on the first season of Girls. She designed Charlie’s apartment and Shoshanna’s first apartment which left a lasting impression on me as a big fan of the show. Since then I always smiled when I saw her name on a new project so it was really lovely to pick her brain about her work which you can read below.
L: The Irishman (2019), Production Designer: Bob Shaw | R: Joker (2019), Production Designer: Mark Friedberg
Interview with Joker and The Irishman Supervising Art Director Laura Ballinger Gardner
How did you get into production design and the art department and what made you interested in it?
I went to school for theatre, but it was a film school. I went to Emerson College and I always wanted to be in the film department. Instead I was working in theatre design and working in the shops building and painting scenery.
I kept going to the film department and asking if I could work on student films because I knew that’s what I wanted to do. I didn’t know exactly the capacity, but I knew I wanted to work on films.
When I moved to New York I worked as a Stagehand and an Electrician, as a Prop Master and a Scenic Painter for theatre, but I also kept doing films for free– good ones until I could fill up a portfolio. I kept going until I could leave theatre and go into film.
I did all of the jobs. I was a Prop Master, I was a Set Decorator for one job, I was an Art Director and then a Production Designer, but I think I’ve settled into art direction now. I’m pretty happy here.
What was it that made you feel like film was a better fit than theatre?
I think I liked the realism. Using real materials, working with real outside vendors, sign makers, stained glass makers– just being able to work with real materials instead of faking it.
I’m glad I worked in theatre. I have a lot of knowledge about rigging and painting and fabrication, but for me, I like the realism aspect of it as well as the research.
Girls (2012), Episodes 102-110 | Production Designer: Laura Ballinger Gardner
What was your decision process like as you transitioned from art direction to production design, and back to art direction? Why have you chosen to be an Art Director over being a Production Designer?
It was an organic process. I was art directing smaller budget films. I had done The Fighter, and other films in the 18-20 million dollar range, but I always thought that you were supposed to want to be a Production Designer. That’s what they tell you in college. That, that’s the goal: you work your way up, and you become a Production Designer. So I just kept working my way up.
Then Girls presented itself to me and then I got an agent. Things presented themselves to me but I was never quite comfortable in that position. I missed the interaction with the shops and the draughtsman. It’s a different interaction when you’re designing and I missed that.
At some point after I had designed a few things, I started getting some art direction offers that were bigger, and they just kept getting bigger, and bigger, and more interesting. I ended up art directing for Production Designer Doug Kraner on the Gotham pilot and he was a big influence on my decision to move more permanently into art directing. I just decided to stay in that world. I also have kids and I don’t want to travel so it was a better fit family-wise too.
Now, you’re at the point where you get to do the biggest shows available. You were the Supervising Art Director not only on The Irishman but on Joker, right?
Yes, I also did The Greatest Showman. I kept doing these great movies that I really enjoyed, but, yeah, this year is a great year because they just happen to coincide. I did The Irishman and then went straight onto Joker, but they were both released at the same time.
The Greatest Showman (2017) | Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
So you did Joker after The Irishman?
Yes, because The Irishman had such a long post-period, that’s how it worked out.
How did you get involved on The Irishman?
Well, I had been working with Bob Shaw for a couple of years prior to that. We did Deliver Us From Evil and then we did the Vinyl pilot. We’ve done quite a few jobs after that together. We’re a good fit and I enjoy working with him. We laugh a lot and we like the same people– the same Set Designers.
Do you usually bring on the same Art crew? How do you go about crewing, and is Bob really involved in that process?
He is. I will always ask him first and usually, there are only one or two people, and they’re people that I’ve brought on prior jobs. I try to bring a core group of people but I always like to get at least one or two people that I haven’t worked with before.
I’m always bringing in somebody new to join us because I don’t want things to get stale. I want to bring people in with new ideas, but there’s a core group of Set Designers I like to work with but I’m always looking for somebody else to bring in that’s new.
Vinyl (2016) | Director: Martin Scorsese, Production Designer: Bob Shaw, Art Director: Laura Ballinger Gardner, Set Decorator: Regina Graves
Does the same thing go with the Graphic Designer/s, Art Department Coordinator, and Art PAs?
Well, my Coordinator… I have always tried to use the same Art Department Coordinator, Stephanie Abbaspour and that is something I don’t want to experiment with. There’s a shorthand I have with my Coordinator.
We also have a great Art PA– at least she was an Art PA. Her name is Nara DeMuro. She is now an Art Department Research Coordinator which has now become a category here in New York– it’s an IATSE 829 category. So now she’s doing research.
It’s amazing having her and Stephanie. They know how I like to run the Art Department, how I like to distribute drawings and everything. We have a really good shorthand so I would never want to mix that up, except for the Art PAs. I always want a new Art PA.
With graphics, I always let Bob choose. Mostly the Production Designer will always pick who they prefer for graphics. It’s almost always whoever the Production Designer is comfortable with, and then we bring on 2nds and 3rds.
Sometimes we’ll bring on new people but I kind of leave that to Holly. Holly Watson is the Graphic Designer 1st who works with Bob a lot so I always let her say who she wants to work with.
Before Concept Rendering Working Drawing
Ext. Food Fair
How early were you involved on The Irishman? I read that Bob was scouting up to 5 months before the rest of the Art Department was brought in?
Yes, he was.
Were you on board at that time? Were you already working with him on The Irishman that early into pre-prep?
I don’t entirely remember. I was definitely in early, but not as early as Bob was. He was sending me links and we were talking about who we were going to hire.
He was definitely putting out feelers to get Set Designers even before I started because it’s so busy in New York and you really have to plan ahead if you want the A-team. As soon as you know, you have to start putting feelers out there so I was doing that.
I honestly can’t remember how many weeks of prep I had. It must have been in the 22-25 week range because we had a lot of stuff to build, to just get that stuff out of the way before we could even start on the locations.
I read that you guys had 295 locations including 28 set builds?!
That sounds about right. We had 20 backdrops! [laughs]
I can’t even imagine looking at that set list every day.
It was very, very long. We had to print it on the plotter and put it on the wall because we couldn’t read it any other way. It was 8 feet tall.
You guys shot for 106 days, I read?
Yes, we did. It was a long one, but it never felt overwhelming. We had enough time to plan so it really felt like we could just keep going. We were able to react to changes because we knew there would inevitably be changes but it just seemed to flow. Maybe because it was 2 years ago, I don’t remember the pains of it but it seemed to flow. I loved that job.
On the soundstage at Marcy Armory in Brooklyn
With all of these locations, in order to make your days worth it, how many unit moves were you guys looking at per day?
We were doing 3 unit moves per day max. I don’t think we moved more than that. On the stage, we were in the Armory in Brooklyn, we could move more freely. At any one time, we had at least 5 or 6 sets standing. When one would come down, we’d put a new one in.
They could move faster in there but on location, it was about 3 moves. We jumped around a lot. I would start in the morning at one and then leapfrog onto the next and then the next. I always want to open the sets with Bob even if I’m only there for half an hour with him and then take off.
You guys were recreating a wide span of areas, like New York, Pennsylvania, Miami, Michigan, Ohio, and New Jersey. So was most of it still shot in New York? Did you guys shoot in Pennsylvania at all?
There were some other Units that did exteriors all over, but everything else was in New York. Sometimes we would go out of our zone. We have a shooting zone here but we went to Rockland County and Long Island. We basically went wherever we could find something that looked outside of New York. It’s out there, it’s definitely out there.
I know that Bob would try to key in on whatever the regional gas station was because we had 3 or 4 gas stations. We would key in on whatever that regional gas station would have been and that’s what we would turn the set into. So those gas stations are all regional right where they were but they were all created and shot in New York.
Before After
Ext. Gas Station- Hwy 476- Philly 1950s
Other than that, I did read that you guys shot a little bit in Florida, yes? Was that just 2nd Unit or was that a separate Unit?
Yes, there was a Miami Unit. They shot outside the Deauville Resort there because it still exists. I didn’t go. We had an Art Director down there and they had their own crew.
We had the Miami Unit and two 2nd Units, one in the middle of the shoot and one at the end of the shoot that also had their own Art Directors so we crammed a lot in there.
Did you have a lot of discussions with them? What was the flow like between you guys in New York to the other Units?
The Miami Unit would send me the budgets and photographs and the work lists. I would look at them all because they tied in with things we were building here. I wanted to make sure that it was seamless so I would review that stuff.
Bob went down twice, I think. Once when they were shooting and once for the tech scout. He saw everything and I would make sure it was flowing with everything we were drawing up here.
The 2nd Units were out of New York so with that Art Director, we would give them one of our Set Designers to work with them in the office together. We looked at everything together, we looked at pictures and work lists, but they did their own budget and I didn’t tech scout with them on the 2nd Unit. They were independent but we were always checking to make sure everything was always seamless on camera.
Ext. Deauville Resort
How did you work with the AD department to schedule the studio sets build and strike flow on The Irishman?
I’ve worked with them before. David Webb is the 1st AD and I’ve worked with them a few times now. We did the Vinyl pilot and then we did The Irishman and then we did Joker so I have a really good working relationship with them.
They were comfortable coming to me and I would text with them and I helped them make their calendars downstairs then we’d come stand in front of it and figure out how to move the post-its around. I like being involved to that extent. I think it’s helpful.
I had to move those sets around and know when they could move so we had to constantly be talking. I have a pretty large flow calendar of my own that also prints on the plotter and we run it across the wall and try to track it that way.
Bob Shaw refers to you as an air traffic controller. How do you feel about that?
I love that. Some day I’ll have to get those little air traffic control light signals and I’m just going to have to walk around the art department with them.
So how big was your art department on this? How many Set Designers were you running with on this given how many sets there were to accomplish?
We maxed out at 6 Set Designers, 1 Illustrator, and 4 Graphic Designers. So that’s on par with The Greatest Showman which was about that much. Joker was a little less, but anything more than that is too much. It’s a lot, but they’re all great.
That was another flowchart, right: the Set Designer finishes now, they are moving onto the next thing and what are they moving onto, that sort of thing. You have to keep it open to give to whoever can take on the next set, whoever is going to finish first. It’s a bit of traffic control as well.
Int. Villa di Roma Concept Art by Eric Fehlberg
I saw some of the pre-vis on The Irishman. Were the Set Designers doing the 3D renderings from the beginning or did you have a separate Concept Artist on board from the start?
We had both. We had a Concept Artist, Eric Fehlberg, but I also have… two of my Set Designers are very good at SketchUp and that’s how they start their set designs. Ryan Heck and Ann Bartek both start in SketchUp and then they move onto the draughting.
They did a lot of the concept views for us that way. Eric would do a lot of the Photoshop concepts for exteriors because those aren’t models that we have built. So he did mostly the exteriors with a couple of the interiors as well.
Some of my Set Designers don’t do 3D. They have a different way of working. They have a different process, so they would just draught in 2D and then Eric would take over and do concept art for that.
For example, that’s how Villa di Roma was done. It was draughted in 2D in Vectorworks and then Eric built himself a little 3D model and took his views from there. It just depends on what the best way to handle it is based on who the Set Designer is.
Int. Villa di Roma
Are all of your Set Designers using Vectorworks? Is that the standard program in New York or do some people use AutoCAD?
It’s 90% Vectorworks. Ann Bartek can use AutoCAD and Vectorworks which can be really helpful, but almost everyone uses Vectorworks. There are a few AutoCAD users.
Is Rhino commonly used in New York?
There are some people who use Rhino. For whatever reason, I haven’t run into it that much, but yes, I know there are people who use Rhino.
I don’t, so maybe I gravitate towards the Vectorworks people because I usually do the stage plans. When it’s Vectorworks I can usually just take their set and put it on the stage plan.
It makes sense that everyone, for the most part, would be using one program like Vectorworks. It gets a little difficult when everyone is using something different.
It does. It can be really challenging. Even with Vectorworks though, they’ll give me a stage set to put in a stage plan and it’s got 30 classes in it so I end up with a stage plan that I can’t… it’s a challenge.
Before Working Drawing Working Drawing After- Set Still
Int. Latin Casino
For you, what was the biggest challenge in art directing The Irishman, other than the sheer amount of sets? What were your big challenges on this?
For me, it was the backdrops. I found the backdrops really challenging. Trying to make sure that there was enough room on the stage to light them how Rodrigo wanted to light them, but still have the ability to move them around. The backdrops were sharing lighting space on the stage so you’d have to move one out of the way to backlight the other and I found that was a tricky one to figure out.
Some of the backdrops were rented and some were printed. We had such a mishmash of backdrops. Some of them were exterior locations that we were building the interiors of. They wanted to be able to look directly out the front door and just shoot it while still on the stage so that backdrop couldn’t just be okay or passable– it had to be really good.
We had to really know our heights and how far away it was and get our horizon line perfect. We had greens out there on the stage so they could shoot out the front door. Usually, we don’t do that, you do that part on location, but they wanted to do it on the stage.
I also found it challenging to get the sets all done on time on this one. Location-wise, it was really the weather, the winter weather, and getting the Scenic Artists to be able to work outside in the cold. Which was more about scheduling too.
Working Drawing Before Concept Rendering
Ext. Friendly Lounge
When were you guys shooting roughly?
I can’t remember. I just remember we had a lot of challenges with snow and ice so we must have shot into January, February, and March. You can ask people to work outside in the cold and they will, but the paint and the graphics won’t stick.
We had advertisements printed on Rough-Tack, you know, that sticky vinyl that’s meant to adhere to brick but the wind and the cold would take that right off so there were some challenges with that. It wasn’t sticking.
One time we had arrived to set the next day and it had flown right off. Rough-Tack is meant to adhere to brick and be up outside for long periods of time, but something about that cold and that wind just ripped it right off. The outside work was tough.
I noticed there are loads of vintage signage in The Irishman which I imagine was all custom signage you guys had made. Can you tell me a little bit about that?
I love making signage. It’s one of my favourite things. I like to use as much real sign material as we can, so we did. We made a lot of signs. I tried to use different vendors. I don’t like to put all of my graphics into one vendor. I like to mix it up with which vendor does a better job with each material or type of signage.
The Howard Johnson sign that is seen at the front of the hotel was completely made by de Boer here in New York and I thought they did a really nice job. That one worked out really well. We integrated it with Construction building the base of it so there was that challenge of an outside vendor integrating with Construction, but it seemed to work out really well.
Ext. Howard Johnson’s- Front
The Latin Casino and the Clam House signs were really great too. I loved those details because I felt like they were really authentic.
The Latin Casino letters were real sign letters ordered from a sign company in the style of letters that would have been appropriate at the time.
The Copacabana awning— did you guys custom make that? I loved that it was nearly identical to the one in Goodfellas. Which as a huge fan of Goodfellas, was such a nice Easter egg.
Yes, it was done custom. It may have even been an amalgam of reference photos that included Goodfellas. You can find pictures of the original Copacabana, but I suspect we looked at the one in Goodfellas too.
I appreciated the continuity between the films. This is more of a Bob question, but do you know if there was any conversation about keeping the continuity between films in this Scorsese mob trilogy?
Not for me. I’ve only seen this as I’ve been reading the reviews and seeing people referring to it that way. As I’m sure you know, Bob has a relationship with Marty. I think I’ve only met him once and this is my third time with Marty. I’m not sure he knows who I am. [laughs]
That’s different. He’s so huge a figure that I guess he’s not the type of director you’re able to have a personal relationship with when you’re working on the same project.
I speak with his producers and I really like all of his producers and the people that work with him. That’s who I end up talking to a lot.
Working with the Set Dec team– you were working with Regina Graves, and you’ve worked with Regina before, right?
I have. I first worked with Regina on The Knick and we got along really well. We hit it off at that time. Relationships with a Set Decorator can sometimes be difficult, not difficult exactly, but… everyone is just trying to get their stuff done so you have to remember that none of it gets done if we don’t work together.
The goal is to make sure that the Production Designer and the Set Decorator get time in the set alone, not to have Painters and Carpenters working around them. They need that time. So that’s always my scheduling goal is to back out of that and make sure that we’re done so they can get in there. The set won’t look good if they don’t get time in there.
So I try to keep that the focus with Construction and Scenic to make sure that they have enough time to do what they need to do. They have to get out in order to get Bob and Set Dec in there and I think Regina and I work really well in that capacity. I really like working with her.
After The Knick, we did the Gotham pilot together, we did the Vinyl pilot together, I don’t know what else, but we just keep going as well so I like working with her a lot. She brings a lot of interesting details to the set that I love finding in each set.
I like collaborating with her on the things that we have to get done ahead of time, like the tile and the linoleum, and figuring out how to build the windows so that she can have the window dressing that she wants in it, you know, there has to be a certain depth to the window for her to get what she wants in those windows. We have to talk about that ahead of time to make sure that’s addressed and little stuff like that.
Concept Rendering Set Still Concept Rendering Set Still
Ext. Gotham Square on Joker
With Joker, was it a very different process from The Irishman? Fewer locations I’m sure. Can you talk about that a little bit?
I can. It was my first time working with Production Designer, Mark Friedberg, and the Set Decorator, Kris Moran so you don’t have that shorthand.
Mark does have specific people he likes to work with and I brought some people in too. It was actually a super mix. We had some old school hand draughtsman in there and some Vectorworks draughtsman and it was a really nice mix.
It was very different working with Mark. He has very strong ideas from the beginning of what everything should look like and his process starts with concept art and the Concept Artist starts before the Art Director. He’s doing concept art much earlier than anyone is on so when you walk in, there’s all this concept art up already.
It doesn’t always stick to that, but it’s just a different way of starting out. It was interesting. I really enjoyed it. I loved working on that show quite a bit as well.
Set Still Set Still Set Still
Int. Arthur’s Apartment Building on Joker
How did you get involved on Joker?
I got involved because it was the same Line Producer/UPM from The Irishman, Carla Raij. I think Mark’s Art Director, Kim Jennings, has become a Production Designer now, so he was looking for someone new. Carla recommended me and I went for it. I just decided that that was going to be a good job for me, and it was. I was really glad to work with him.
It’s very different in scope and style. It’s a superhero movie, but also not a superhero movie. It’s very different from other superhero films.
Yeah, I never saw it as a superhero movie. It was always a character study in my mind, and Mark is very character-driven and he really wants to get into that character.
Concept Rendering Set Still Concept Rendering Set Still Concept Rendering Set Still
Int. Ha-Ha’s on Joker
Were there a lot of logistical issues on Joker? What were your biggest challenges on the film?
We had two stages, but only two sets on those stages. Both sets took up the entire stage. One was the apartment building where the Joker lives with his mother. It’s not a big apartment by any means, but it has an extremely long hallway of a Bronx apartment building. It was a very long hallway that must have been almost 150 feet long with another little apartment at the other end. The set was almost all hallway.
Then the other stage had the late-night talk show set. That was a real challenge because they wanted it to feel like The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, but not quite Johnny Carson. We went over to the Jimmy Fallon show and did a tour there to see how those sorts of shows work, to see where the cameras are and how they light it.
Even though it’s the wrong period, that technology hasn’t changed that much— where they place the cameras, where people come in and stand on their mark, how the curtain lifts up, all those little details that I think we got right. I liked that talk show set a lot. I think that was a big challenge to design. We went through a lot of trial and error on the fabrics and colours.
The locations were great. They weren’t challenging. There were a lot of them and they all had to be aged. We had to do a lot of graffiti.
Concept Rendering Set Still Set Still Set Still Set Still
Int. Murray Franklin Talk Show on Joker
Did your Scenics do the graffiti or did you bring an independent artist to come in do it?
It was our Scenic Artist, Abe Costanza, who is a graffiti artist who has since joined our union and that’s mostly what he does. Although he’s a great Scenic in general too. When it’s graffiti time though, we have to figure out how to get him from set to set to do the graffiti. He’s a specialist for sure and then when he’s done with the graffiti, he’s just a great Scenic Artist on the crew.
Jumping back to The Irishman, I was just thinking, The Irishman explores 15 years of American history. Who was spearheading the research process given how early Bob started? How was the research achieved? It must have been an extensive process. How did you work with the research team?
Bob started his research process very early on. So when we walked in, there was already a library, but it wasn’t enough. It’s never enough. There’s never enough research. So then we brought on our Art PA, Nara, who is sort of a specialty PA since she is great at research.
She started doing research and also really cataloguing it. You can have all the research you want, but if you can’t find it, it’s not useful so you kind of need a librarian to do that.
Then Marty’s researcher, Marianne Bower, joined us— she’s an amazing resource. She really knows her way around video archives which is something we have a little bit of a harder time getting into. I think her ability to get into the video archives of a news organization is pretty amazing.
So they– Nara and Bob and Marianne, had a great relationship via email sharing information and so it was the three of them working on the research together. The Set Designers do their own research too so we would throw their stuff in there as well.
It became a mishmash, but as long as you have a point person who can organize that stuff then it’s easy to find. We always have Bob make sure he picks his heroes within each file and has a hero file in each folder so then we know what his favourites are in each set.
Are you a stickler for that, for mass organization? Do you have your own system or did you allow Nara to create her own system?
I definitely have the final say, but as long as it’s organized I’m always open to what other people’s ideas are. Having a hero file within each folder works for Bob, and it works for us, so that’s definitely something I like to do.
How the drawings are distributed and other things like that are just trial and error from stuff that I feel like I know what works and what doesn’t work. With that, I will kind of tell people how I want it to work, but Nara is a tech genius so she really knows how to work her way around The Box or the Dropbox and all the other techie things that some of us don’t know that well.
Before Concept Rendering Set Still
Ext. Villa di Roma
So you guys were using Dropbox?
We had– I’m trying to remember now. I think we had switched to “The Box” during The Irishman. I’ve always done Dropbox for many, many years but now the studios are no longer allowing Dropbox because it’s not secure enough so I think we may have had The Box on The Irishman, but I can tell you, on Joker they were absolute sticklers for The Box.
We had a person in-house who monitored The Box to a point where he would ask us to rename some of our files and reorganize stuff and it was a bit much to try to take on while you’re shooting and while you’re prepping. I understand they were trying to streamline their process, but The Box has become the only way that we can do it anymore.
Rename your files to reorganize and create a new system mid-way through?
Yeah, it was to fit in with their system. I don’t quite understand it but it just became a thing during prep to have to go rename all the files on The Box. It just didn’t seem efficient to me, but perhaps it was efficient for them in post.
Lawyers are getting more and more involved in the process of what we do in the art department and what we can show. I was wondering if you can tell me a little bit about the clearance process on The Irishman?
Especially on The Irishman— we had to show legal everything because these were events that really happened. With Umberto’s Clam House, we needed to show them the references. What was important to them was that we were creating a real facsimile, that we were really showing the places as they were, and of course, that was what we really wanted too. It wasn’t a stretch for us.
They wanted to make sure that we weren’t making anything up and that we kept it true. Even on the look of the sets— not just the signage or the graphics which I think we’re all used to, you know, we have to show them our references, but for this, they wanted to know that even the sets were good representations of what they were since pictures of these places are out in the world and people know what these places look like.
Before Concept Rendering Set Still
Ext. Umberto’s Clam House
And on Joker, when you’re not directly recreating various locations, was the clearance process very strict and limiting?
Well, definitely on signage. The graffiti was a big thing. We had to cover up all graffiti that existed and create all original graffiti, but other than that, our clearance process was simpler on Joker.
Hopefully, the clearance process doesn’t get any worse. It’s getting very difficult.
It is. You end up spending so much more time on a simple logo than you thought you would.
Do you have any other parting thoughts about The Irishman?
I’m extremely proud to have worked on it and to have seen those actors working together. Even if I am just off-set, I’m usually working on the side when they’re rehearsing. Just to be there and see them together was really great. I’m really happy I got to see that and be a part of that.
Also to work with a really great producing team. I think Emma Tillinger Koskoff, his producer, and Carla Raij, are a great team of producers that work with Marty and they’re really inspiring.
Designing the Everyday on The Irishman
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Milk Carton Animals
Milk Carton Animals
My two-year old is in a barn animal phase. It's super cute--all his animal noises and the pointing out of each cow and pig he sees everywhere we go (it's surprising how often we see them!) I wanted to make an easy animal craft with him that he would enjoy.
2 - 7
Est. Time:
<30 mins
How we did it:
Materials List
1. milk carton
2. construction paper
3. tape
4. glue
5. googly eyes
6. pipe cleaners (1)
7. felt
8. marker
1. We started off by wrapping our milk cartons with construction paper and tape. I helped Grayson with this. He enjoyed placing the tape for me.
2. Once covered, he added some googly eyes and felt ears using glue. Our pig was just about done.
3. All he needed was a cute little curly (pipe cleaner) tail that Grayson attached easily with a piece of tape.
4. The fun animal play began. Grayson thought this pig could fly for some reason and ran from room to room oinking, snorting, and flying his pig through the air. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '19', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9692055583000184}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '87075', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:V66C3QHGXIHEJ7RO3THFVDJUMTMVE7P5', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:07d6f503-014c-48da-946c-510b746156ef>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 15, 17, 1), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.20.82.69', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:JWQ7HZP2EIIRNB6RA4OOM5E23JNB6LUA', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:c2407382-f078-483b-99e0-5e526c71e917>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.kiwico.com/diy/Arts-and-Crafts-Projects/1/project/Milk-Carton-Animals/1005', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f1ac128e-1756-44bf-a871-3cdbccd424a3>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '182', 'url': 'https://www.kiwico.com/diy/Arts-and-Crafts-Projects/1/project/Milk-Carton-Animals/1005', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-180-116-122.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7750313878059387', 'original_id': 'e3a3b11b776686af4f7a2a80e07ceb63561f3288f098b4ccc734ca4d8c0c94c6'} |
Braces Suspenders
Are called for as soon as the ways "to maintain your trousers" - inside the truest feeling of the phrase - today, in reality, have developed into outsiders. Belts, and also also far more so supports suspenders are unseen in a lot of guys like, say, socks. No, obviously, there are men for which the selection of these devices - create extra than severe and also identified them the logo is typically the main motivation for the option. Nevertheless, most typically by agents of the more powerful sex ignore the stylistic significance of belts and also braces suspenders
Braces Suspenders The method of "hanging" pants on his shoulders now thought about obsolete. Not each guy does this focus, as with suspenders, worn without a coat or vest, you are able to quickly create a particular picture, a stereotype
A little weary, but still personifies the success of popular banker ... and also able to dominate any kind of height lawyer ... And also also though the pants with suspenders so fond of clowns, in reality they seldom are individuals who wants various other people to obtain laughs. Intense red versus a pale blue tee shirt, deep blue on a pale pink background, or even gold on white, suspenders, without overestimation, making the picture. Significance is simple suspenders: any images or even strips clearly left out.
A guy that gowns tastefully, would not flaunt it either at home or on the street, their dental braces, also if they're slim as well as rather suitable. This doesn't mean that dental braces aren't required at all
We must not just place them on show and tell. For complete men's suspenders is an indispensable part of the bathroom. One of one of the most unpleasant view - a male that continuously pull decaying pants. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9640581011772156}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '27154', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:H2S7QY7IET5YC7MFMNAYQ4JETBDFDU74', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:83a8d80a-2abd-47d9-8d7b-d83e849d16b9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 12, 13, 11, 6, 42), 'WARC-IP-Address': '13.230.115.161', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HFZ6YDSNB7GYDJJQXFBBUV6M7BVSHTUO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6fbaf747-e73d-465d-abdf-decfad5cd16e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://coolssuspender.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/05/21/030635', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ef28f876-c3e6-47cf-a12b-f6575d6faddf>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '294', 'url': 'http://coolssuspender.hatenablog.com/entry/2017/05/21/030635', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-51\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for December 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-165-185-158.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.046048641204833984', 'original_id': '23b67c7599b87a1a29d376fe00a13ad6a6c956787913f71ab7177f63fa07bb5e'} |
Moscow’s narrative around the recent chemical weapons attack in Douma took another twist Tuesday, with a Russian military figure claiming troops had found a chemical weapons laboratory and stockpile in the Syrian town — but that it belonged to an Islamist rebel group.
The shifting story comes as international weapons inspectors Wednesday continued to push for access to the site of the attack.
Speaking on Russian state TV, Alexander Rodionov, from the Russian military’s chemical weapons protection unit, said his team had found chlorine and components for producing mustard gas in the laboratory of the rebels, who were driven from Douma by a brutal regime assault.
Top Russian officials had claimed that the deadly April 7 attack never actually happened, and the attack was faked by the medical charity the White Helmets, at the behest of Britain, as a false flag attack to provide a pretext for attacking Syria.
The U.S., Britain, and France say that the Syrian government was responsible for the attack, and carried out missile strikes Saturday in retaliation. The World Health Organization, citing medical partners on the ground, has said that 43 of the dead had symptoms “consistent with exposure to highly toxic chemicals.” About 500 total people were affected.
A team of international inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived in Syria Saturday, but as of Wednesday had still not been able to begin its work in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus. Reuters reported that the team of inspectors had encountered a security issue and was unlikely to gain access to the town Wednesday.
The delay has prompted accusations that Syria and its backers are deliberately attempting a cover up the attack. The U.S. accused Russia Monday of blocking inspectors from reaching the site and said evidence may be being tampered with, while France said it was very likely that the evidence was disappearing.
Russia has denied tampering and blamed the Western missile strikes for the delay.
Meanwhile, Israel indicated Tuesday that further military action against Iranian forces in Syria could happen, a development that would further complicate the seven-year conflict. Israeli media ran satellite images and a map showing what it called an Iranian “air force,” using civilian planes to transport weapons in Syria, signalling the sites could be targeted amid growing tensions with Tehran.
Israel, which borders Syria, has been increasingly concerned about the actions of Iran, its nemesis and a key backer of the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, in the conflict. Iran, Syria, and Russia accused Israel of carrying out strikes on a Syrian airbase on April 9 that killed seven Iranian soldiers, with Tehran vowing to retaliate.
Israeli analysts said the publication of the sites was intended to telegraph to Iran that the sites would be targeted if it took action against Israel. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '855dc975c87258aa4e9f8f1a4512160179770e84fc2660684848918d479e3b0e'} |
Dr. Mengele Makes A Comeback As Mad Scientists Play With Genetics
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Mostly alarmist nonsense. As for Dr. Eugene McCarthy, I have to wonder whether he even exists, and if so, when last he has taken his medication. :-)
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The pig/chimp hybrid hypothesis actually made me laugh out loud. It suggests that a "geneticist" is unfamiliar with how species work.
The essence of humanity is not the sum of its DNA. I, for one, would not mind tinkering with my own genes. For instance, if I were to assemble a retrovirus that targets the phi-GULO pseudogene and repairs it, using a gene copied from practically any other mammal, my liver would begin producing vitamin C and peroxide. Is that "corruption"?
It seems to me that the corruption was losing that capability in the first place, and having insufficient interbreeding humans to repair it from within our own gene pool.
This particular djinn is already out of the jar. If you need to be alarmist, bang the gongs against misfolded protein prions arising from newer sciences such as preoteomics. It takes significant computing resources to calculate how a given gene sequence translates to a particular protein, and even more to design a protein and calculate backwards to a gene that creates it. This is coming within our grasp. If you are afraid of animal DNA corrupting the genome, cower in horror at the prospect that we can now design entirely novel genes.
Why, imagine what could be done! You could design a venomous baby! Make a virus that kills only the Miller family! Cure a profitable cancer!
There's really no more to fear here than any other potentially useful technology. You will likely not even notice it, unless your child chooses to become a bioengineer. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9403335452079772}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '47866', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:34OTOYVU4KKOGQG4VW4CE5A6VQ7K7ITS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:34dc1a4b-039b-437a-b07e-53a321db36a5>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 22, 14, 25, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '162.243.16.47', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WYUBDIMODIKJECXAB4R26XDSBHH7WASQ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:7c0274b5-e8c6-4ae2-aa38-1e62ba42a889>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.strike-the-root.com/dr-mengele-makes-comeback-as-mad-scientists-play-with-genetics', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:62313067-1663-4953-b157-b205f5856c91>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '297', 'url': 'http://www.strike-the-root.com/dr-mengele-makes-comeback-as-mad-scientists-play-with-genetics', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-232.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.6041550636291504', 'original_id': '7ff127b1636f06a2ef70fa5bb10338e7c830523ca977f82024eb8ededccc977b'} |
Around this time 10 years ago, I was poised to start my first job as an oncologist when personal tragedy visited in a way that would forever change the way I would practice medicine.
I had returned from my Fulbright year at the University of Chicago, blessed with only the joys and none of the irritations of being pregnant with twins. Landing in Melbourne, I went for a routine ultrasound as a beaming, expectant parent. I came out a grieving patient. The twins were dying in utero, unsuspectedly and unobtrusively, from some rare condition that I had never heard of. Two days later, I was induced into labour to deliver the two little boys whom we would never see grow. Then I went home.
If all this sounds a little detached it is because 10 years later I still have no words to describe the total bewilderment, the depth of sorrow and the intensity of loss that I experienced during those days. Some days, I really thought my heart would break into pieces. Ten years later, the din of happy children fills our house. But what I have found myself frequently reflecting on is how the behaviour of my doctors in those days profoundly altered the way in which I would treat my patients.
An experienced obstetrician was performing my ultrasound that morning. Everything was going well and we chatted away about my new job until he frowned. Then he grimaced, pushed and prodded with the probe, and rushed out before I could utter a word. He then took me into his office and offered me his comfortable seat. Not too many pregnant women need a consultation at a routine ultrasound.
“I am afraid I have bad news,” he said before sketching a picture to describe the extent of the trouble. I thought for a fleeting moment that my medical brain would kick in and I would present him with sophisticated questions to test his assertion that the twins were gravely ill. But of course, I was like every other patient, simultaneously bursting with questions while rendered mute by shock.
I was well aware that doctors sometimes sidestepped the truth, usually with the intent of protecting the patient. I knew he could easily get away with not telling me any more until he had more information but I also knew that he knew. I read it in his face and I desperately wanted him to tell me.
I asked the only question that mattered.
“Will they die?”
“Yes,” he said, simply holding my gaze until his tears started.
As I took in the framed photos of children around his office he probably wished he could hide them all away.
“I don’t know what to say,” he murmured, his eyes still wet.
Until then, in 13 years of medical training, I had never seen a doctor cry. I had participated in every drama that life in bustling public hospitals offers but never once had I seen a doctor cry.
My obstetrician’s tears stunned me but also provided immediate comfort. They normalised the mad grief that had begun to set inside me. Yes, the doctor’s expression said, this is truly awful and I feel sad too.
“You are sure?”
“There is a faint chance that one lives but if you ask me, things look bad. You know I will do everything I can to confirm this,” he said.
The obstetrician had told the unflinching truth and in doing so almost surgically displaced uncertainty with the knowledge that I needed to prepare myself for what lay ahead. I had test after test that day, each specialist confirming the worst. I think I coped better because the first doctor had told the truth.
Two other notable things happened that week. Among the wishes that flowed, another doctor wrote me an atypical condolence note. His letter began with the various tragedies that had taken place that week, some on home soil and others involving complete strangers. “I ask myself why,” he wrote, “and of course there is no answer to why anyone must suffer.”
Until then, everyone had commiserated only at my loss – and I was enormously grateful – but here was someone gently reminding me that in life we are all visited by tragedy. All the support and love in the world won’t make you immune to misfortune, he was saying, but it will help ease the pain.
Finally, there was the grieving. I lost count of the pamphlets that were left at our door to attend support groups, counselling sessions and bereavement seminars but we were resolutely having none of it. My midwife called me out of the blue – it was a moving exchange that taught me how deeply nurses are affected too. But I didn’t need counselling, I needed time. I valued the offers but I knew that my catharsis lay in writing. I wrote myself out of suffocating grief, which eventually turned to deep sadness and then a hollow pain, which eventually receded enough to allow me to take up my job as a brand new oncologist. How I would interpret the needs of my patients was fundamentally altered now that I had been one myself.
Cancer patients are very particular about how much truth they want to know and when. I don’t decide for them but if they ask me I always tell the truth. A wife brings in her husband and his horrendous scans trigger a gasp of astonishment among even the non-oncologists.
“Doctor, will he die from this?” she asks me.
“I am afraid so,” I answer gently, “but I will do everything in my power to keep him well for as long as I can.”
It is the only truthful promise I can make and although she is distressed she returns to thank me for giving her clarity. Sometimes honesty backfires, when the patient or family later say they wanted to talk but not really hear bad news. I find these encounters particularly upsetting but they are rare and I don’t let them sway me from telling the truth.
Oncology is emotionally charged and I have never been afraid of admitting this to the very people who imbue my work with emotion. I don’t cry easily in front of patients but I have had my share of tears and tissues in clinic and contrary to my fears, this has been an odd source of comfort to patients. In his Christmas card, a widower wrote that when my voice broke at the news that his wife had died he felt consoled that the world shared his heartbreak.
It can be tricky but I try to put my patients’ grief into perspective without being insensitive. It’s extraordinary how many of them really appreciate knowing that I, and others, have seen thousands of people who are frightened, sad, philosophical, resigned, angry, brave and puzzled, sometimes all together, just like them. It doesn’t diminish their own suffering but helps them peek into the library of human experiences that are catalogued by oncologists. It prompts many patients to say that they are lucky to feel as well as they do despite a life-threatening illness, which is a positive and helpful way of viewing the world.
I will never know what kind of a doctor I might have become without the searing experience of being a patient. The twins would have been 10 soon. As I usher the next patient into my room to deliver bad news, I like to think that my loss was not entirely in vain.
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Press–Online and Offline
There is no denying that good press and public relations is more valuable than any marketing or advertising ever created.
In an age where there is a general distrust of advertising, a good online Public Relations campaign can really start to spread the word like wildfire.
Advertising can then maintain the brand name or product, but names like Starbucks and Coca Cola were originally built with Public Relations first. How much advertising did Google spend to become Google? Next to nothing. In fact, they even had the investment money to do a big “branding campaign” with a major agency and never could really get everything together for various reasons. Did it make a difference? Nope.
Publicity people are always in a kerfluffle because too many times they are called only after a major pr problem or crisis occurs, and advertising people are usually called first to get the word out and bring in sales leads. You need both and PR shouldn’t be given short shrift. In fact, the smaller the resources the more vital Public Relations becomes, because that is the cheapest source of getting the word out you will ever get.
Why does Donald Trump keep a whole suite of floors available, unused above his offices, just for the media? He knows that for an hour or two of his time, he can get millions of dollars worth of advertising.
So how do you go about getting online and offline press? At Yada Yada, we concentrate on the online aspect of things, since there are so many old school PR agencies with tons of connections. We work with many PR agencies and handle all the online aspects of a Public Relations campaign however, so we can complement the Public Relations program that any company has running.
If you are a smaller company and you are trying to get some press, the first thing you have to do is take a look at reputation management for whoever is the owner of the company, and if you have a little bigger company the names of the key executives. Go and search Google and the other search engines for your own name and see what comes up.
This is what reporters are going to do when they get your press release. If they search, and find no other interviews you’ve done, nothing else about you that shows you are important, that release goes right into the circular file. If they search your name and find lots of articles on other websites besides your own, see you being quoted in “important” websites for your industry, you have passed the first hurdle in getting press. That is where we come in. We can help you get through this very important first step and then hook you up with the right people who can take you further, or at least give you the right books to read if you are on a small budget.
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To Use: apply a few drops to a freshly washed and dried face. Gently massage into skin.
Ingredients: Distilled Water, Sweet Almond Oil, Avocado Oil, Organic Argan Oil, Organic Jojoba Oil, Cetearyl Alcohol (and) Polysorbate 60, Stearic Acid, Honeyquat, Organic Rosehip Oil, Geranium Essential Oil, Ylang Ylang Essential Oil, Phenoxyethanol (and) Caprylyl Glycol (and) Sorbic Acid (Paraben Free Preservative), Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Citric Acid
*Only 99% natural, you say? Thats because lotion or cream is an emulsification of oils and water. And you know what happens when you mix oil and water and don't use a preservative? Mold, fungus, bacteria and all sorts of nasties. Hence, we use a paraben free and formaldehyde free preservative at 1% of our formulation, so you can stay nasty-free. You're welcome.
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