text: Messages from the Ether http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether/ discussions on the Fine Arts, current events, programming, and what-not en-us 2015-10-04T11:11:36-05:00 When should you not report a name? http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002009.html We're back in that cycle of a post-mass-shooting where some struggle or denounce, faux heroically, naming the shooter. The logic is that the shooter wanted attention and, by getting it, will spur on other potential shooters who want attention. The Wikipedia article, Umpqua Community College shooting, gets over with it in the second sentence by naming Christopher Harper-Mercer. Facts are facts, whether you choose to suppress them or not. The Reddit post, This just happened on CNN..., is a prime example of the do-not-name camp. It includes a video from CNN with a clip of the local sheriff refusing to name the shooter, followed by the reporter naming him. Reddit's opinion as represented by the multi-thousand up-voted comments, several of which were given gold, is that this is an example of media hypocrisy (how?), irresponsibility, arrogance (again, how?), and blood lust (what?). Reddit rarely shocks me with large subreddit, highly up-voted posts going completely opposite to my opinion. However, others who I respect, notably Charlie Brooker back in 2009, also disagree with me. On The Media, regarding the 2012 Aurora shooting, discussed the issue in the segment Don't Say His Name. Interviewing the father of a victim who is part of a group trying to get media outlets to hide shooters' names, Bob Garfield cites the five Ws as a basic tenant of reporting. The exceptions to reporting "who" are usually (always?) that of rape victims or minors. That is: the assaulted, innocent survivors receive the solace of anonymity. To hide facts of a car chase or the oft romanticized bank robbery or a home invasion or mass shooting based on the fear that there is someone who will then want to replicate it takes us into a labyrinth of reactively filtered speech. It proposes to remove information from the news if it might trigger any imbalanced fetish out there. That, ultimately, reduces the well-informed-ness of the public.... sstrader 2015-10-04T11:11:36-05:00 Health cost http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002008.html Impact > Public Policy > Effects on insurance premiums from Wikipedia provides CBO estimates pre-implementation from Dec 2009, along with Kaiser Family Foundation findings from Jun 2013. The definition of who will be affected and how is by the nature of the problem not straightforward, as is suggested by the opening sentence: Several studies on insurance premiums expect that with the subsidies offered under the ACA, more people will pay less (than they did prior to the reforms) than those who will pay more, and that those premiums will be more stable (even in changing health circumstances) and transparent, due to the regulations on insurance. For additional variables in the equations, we could look at whether the person is self-insured or employer-insured. Here are the CBO's estimates of percent cost increase by group: Individuals (17% of the market): 10-13% increase, over half are eligible for subsidies Small groups (13% of the market): 1% increase to 3% decrease; for those eligible for subsidies: 8-11% decrease Large groups (70% of the market): up to 3% decrease; for high premium plans: 9-12% decrease By Sep 2013, the actual premiums were better than predicted. The Jun 2013 Kaiser study found that for individuals purchasing their own insurance, Obamacare saved this group of consumers $1.2 billion in 2011 and $2.1 billion in 2012, reducing their 2012 costs by 7.5%. This does not immediately reconcile with the predicted 10-13% increase, but may be explained by the subsidies provided....]]> sstrader 2015-09-18T10:39:05-05:00 Techniques after using Swift for a month http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002006.html At work, I was put on an iOS/iPad app project a little while ago. I've never written anything in the iOS ecosystem so I spent about a week to research before digging in.The transition was smooth primarily because I'm using Swift--a much more succinct and modern language than Objective-C--and my somewhat dated Android experience and very dated Windows dev experience provided me with all of the patterns I needed to understand iOS. Also, coming off of Groovy development, Swift's syntactic sugar was immediately understandable. I came up with two small techniques for the project. One helps with data persistence using Core Data with models and entity managers, a la JPA. The other technique simplifies updating multiple views using the Notification Center with type safe additions. They've helped to speed development and--the thought of every developer who thinks they've discovered something new--some aspects aren't commonly known (which could be good or other). My Core Data code starts with the NSManagedObject model generation. In a separate file, I create an extension class so that the model can always be re-created without wiping out my custom methods. I also create a class derived from a DAO utility class to implement all CRUD methods using generics. The DAO util: class DaoUtil { var managedObjectContext: NSManagedObjectContext var managedObjectModel: NSManagedObjectModel var entityName: String init(managedObjectContext: NSManagedObjectContext, managedObjectModel: NSManagedObjectModel, entityName: String) { self.managedObjectContext = managedObjectContext self.managedObjectModel = managedObjectModel self.entityName = entityName } // ... create, find, count, and delete methods } The find, count, and delete methods come in an *All() version and a *(fetchRequestName: String) version. The implementation for a User model would be as follows: extension User { // ... } class UserDao: DaoUtil { let EntityName = "User" init(managedObjectContext: NSManagedObjectContext, managedObjectModel: NSManagedObjectModel) { super.init(managedObjectContext: managedObjectContext, managedObjectModel: managedObjectModel, entityName: EntityName) } // ... custom methods } This design favors the data mapper pattern over the active record pattern, which I think is more common in iOS. I prefer a separation of data object and persistence. The other technique is a type-safe wrapper around the notification center. iOS's notification center calls reminded me of Windows SendMessage (and, with dispatch queues, PostMessage). One potential issue with these is the lack of type safety since you're effectively passing around a void pointer. Using Swift's generics again allows us to create small, typed versions based on a named string constant, an event (e,g, BeforeUpdate or AfterDelete), and an object type. The core of the implementation: private func observe(id: String, event: Event?, notify: (observable: T?) -> Void) -> NSObjectProtocol { var observer = notificationCenter.addObserverForName(id, object: event, queue: NSOperationQueue.mainQueue()) { notification in if let userInfo = notification.userInfo, observable = userInfo[id] as? T { notify(observable: observable) } else { notify(observable: nil) } } return observer } private func notify(id: String, event: Event?, observable: T?) { if let observable = observable { notificationCenter.postNotificationName(id, object: event, userInfo: [id: observable]) } else { notificationCenter.postNotificationName(id, object: event) } } func observeUser(event: Event?, notify: (equipment: User?) -> Void) -> NSObjectProtocol { return observe(NotificationService.Name.User, event: event, notify: notify) } func notifyUser(event: Event?, user: User?) { notify(NotificationService.Name.User, event: event, observable: user) } With this, I can trace publishers and subscribers by type and event, but still take advantage of the built-in message queue. Still much to learn ...... Programming sstrader 2015-08-26T23:41:51-05:00 The children of Infinite Jest http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002007.html Listening to dialog from the movie The End of the Tour (which we will probably go see tonight), spoken by David Foster Wallace: So look, as the internet grows in the next 10, 15 years, and virtual reality pornography becomes a reality ... we're gonna have to develop some real machinery inside our guts to turn off pure, unalloyed pleasure or I don't know about you, I'm gonna have to leave the planet. ... 'Cause the technology is just gonna get better and better and it's gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient and more and more pleasurable to sit alone with images on a screen given to us by people who do not love us but want our money and that's fine in low doses but if it's the basic main staple of your diet you're gonna die. Taken from the On The Media interview that Brooke Gladstone had with David Lipsky 'We've Sort of Become Friends': The Original Tapes from David Foster Wallace's '96 Book Tour (transcript here). This fear is examined and realized in Peter Watts' book Echopraxia in several forms: biological sex has become non-existent, relationships are created by altering each others' personalities to be more compatible, a large percentage of the human population lives only hooked in to a virtual world, etc. He suggests that our basic desire to eliminate pain will inevitably lead us to become not-human. Our toolmaking will destroy us. DFW worried in a similar manner concerning drug addiction and pleasure-seeking. The idea of a rat continually pressing a button for pleasure until it dies is unnerving. When I had written about Echopraxia, I recognized the connection to works by several other SF writers but hadn't considered how deeply these themes are encoded in Infinite Jest until I heard the quote above.... sstrader 2015-08-23T15:48:24-05:00 Peachtree Road Race 2015 http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002004.html After a 40+ min delay from the rain, we swam our way to a late finish: 56:14. Down four minutes from last year. Retired my now 3-year-old Vibrams (!) and got my 3rd pair. Went to Abadabba's in Buckhead again; excellent selection and staff. I look horrible in the photos as I retired both my Vibrams and my 2009 Crescent City Classic t-shirt:... Where was I? sstrader 2015-07-11T11:45:21-05:00 ATL Collective at Terminal West http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002003.html ATL Collective is a group of local and regional musicians that get together to re-create classic rock albums live [ Web site | Facebook | Twitter | Tumblr (outdated) ]. I had heard about them many months ago from Michael H., a previous co-worker, but only decided to go see them when I got the notification about their concert on Sun 31 May for Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life. Flyer for the concert: front and back. It's a double album written after he reversed his decision to retire and go into charity work in Africa, and it contains several huge and hugely recognizable hits. ATL Collective had maybe 10 or 12 musicians total throughout the evening, with multiples for every skill: vocals, keyboards, guitars, drums, horns. Sometimes all would be on stage and at others just one or two. It was an amazing concert and perfect at that venue. The next concert was on Thu 25 Jul for Jeff Buckley's Grace album. I knew him only from his posthumous album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. I picked that up after hearing tracks on an indie Internet station run by two guys in Texas. I listened to them frequently at around the time that album came out in 1998 (?!) and from their broadcasts also acquired Durian's Sometimes You Scare Me, Faraquet's The View from This Tower, and Don Caballero's What Burns Never Returns. Obv. heavy math rock fans. Anyway, Grace was an equally amazing concert with a guest vocalist from Nashville (the Google-friendly named Landon Pigg) who hit JB's vocal style perfectly. Sadly, I missed their previous performances of This Year's Model and Led Zeppelin IV. On my radar for future gems.... Concerts sstrader 2015-07-05T12:10:03-05:00 Notes on We Don't Care About Music Anyway http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002002.html Documentary about avant garde electronic music in Tokyo [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ]. Very good. Structure worked with the music. Performances alternating with a round-table discussion by 8-or-so of the musicians represented. Worth watching for the natural, organic statements of intent that resulted. Music in the same vein as that from No Fun Fest back in 2009. Is the avant garde a symptom/expression of a society's psychological disfunctions? More than mainstream forms, I see it as a working though of as-yet unformed or forming ideas. Often works from existing instruments and extends them. Re orchestral writing expanding how sounds can be produced from stringed instruments (cf. even simple alterations like sul tasto and sul ponticello and then extend to other areas). Prepared piano. Records repurposed. Microphone feedback. Even when using modern devices (sequencer) it can be physically beat on to produce unintended sounds. "Hacking" your instrument. Use of autonomic body processes to generate music. Think of all the personal health metrics that people are generating that could be converted to music. John Cage did similar things to remove the human hand from art. Both try to tap hidden forces, but the autonomic technique seems to have different intent. Issues of authenticity. Object and location imbue meaning. Even the avant garde suffer the anxiety of influence. "Contact mics allow you to amplify microscopic phenomena." "To compose is to remember things that have entered us." How does music reflect environment? Images of landfills and destroyed buildings shown as cultural memory. To be used by artists? Or triggered by artists? All musicians were older (>30?) and, except one, male.... Cinema sstrader 2015-06-07T13:06:34-05:00 Where was I? http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002001.html Where was I? sstrader 2015-06-04T21:22:23-05:00 Music from the Sonic Generator concert, 6 May 2015 http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/002000.html Went to see Sonic Generator at MOCA this Wednesday upon prompting by Dan. I'd missed several previous performances and this made up for it. Each piece was its distinct own world. (Mostly) 21st century composition at its finest. [ updated 5 Jul 2015 ] Flyer for the concert: front and back. The program, plus several random videos of other performances of the pieces: Like sweet bells jangled (2009) - Nathan Davis. Traditional instruments with some electronic phase shifting that I understand audibly yet don't understand the science behind it. Very Music For Airports #1 (which I had seen performed live in Knoxville by Bang on a Can All-Stars!) with the undeniable theme and variations structure, ending with a palette-cleansing scherzo section. September Canons (2002) - Ingram Marshall. Violin playing against itself. The periods of live sampling and repetition were asymmetrical. Long sense of ocean waves. Nostalgic Synchronic: Etudes 1-3 (2015) - Dan Trueman. Prepared piano done with an electric piano. I started with a dislike of the sound. I feel like sometimes I'm a traditional modernist who likes new sounds to be created from the composition and arrangement. Altered instruments sometimes leave me cold. Eventually I warmed up and feel these were the most emotional pieces. The three map nicely to a three-movement sonata: brainy, challenging first movement; soft, emotive second; exuberant third. New emotions were created here. delete/control/option (2008) - Marcos Balter. This was the most demanding for the listener. Very very very sparse, episodic expressions with flute and cello, layered tremolo. The most amazing aspect was that throughout they were seldom individual but rather a single, new instrument. Music in Similar Motion (1969) - Philip Glass. Ha! The staid, Brandenburg Concerto of the evening, 40+ years old. Very rock and roll and a fiery performance. First time seeing live. (The videos I picked were either from lack of option or best looking available. There may be other, better performances.)... Art sstrader 2015-05-07T23:01:42-05:00 Posthuman dystopia http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001999.html I'd recently read Blindsight by Peter Watts after my Kindle recommended it and the content of the reviews suggested I would like it (correct and correct). It's a posthuman sci-fi novel about a small group of enhanced humans sent on a decades-long journey to investigate an alien presence at the outer regions of the solar system. Throughout, there's a sense that humanity has reached a dead end. As people with means alter themselves with enhanced abilities--man/machine interfaces, multiple consciousnesses in one person, neuro-physical updates--un-altered "baselines", without the ability to keep up against an advanced society, hook their brains up to a virtual world called Heaven. Once in, they abandon any emotional bond to those they left behind. One particularly odd aspect of the novel is that vampires exist as an extinct offshoot of humans. They have been resurrected and though there is a detente of sorts, they are so far advanced in intelligence and ability that even the most enhanced humans are like children. To trump even this level of insignificance, the aliens the crew encounter are orders of magnitude more adept than even vampires. I've since started the sequel titled Echopraxia (which means "the involuntary repetition or imitation of another person's actions"). I'm 50-or-so pages in, but the grimness is the same. The action takes place on Earth where a group of hive mind Bicamerals push the boundaries of invention but cannot explain how they achieve it. It's another example of humans becoming so far from equal that there is no longer a single humanity. Non-Bicamerals are as threatened by them as baselines by the transhumans. Similar fears have been echoed in Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl (and his even more stunning and depressing short stories Pump Six), Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief trilogy, and even somewhat in Atwood's Oryx and Crake trilogy. Notably, Watts is a marine biologist, Rajaniemi a mathematician and programmable DNA entrepreneur, and Atwood a developer of remote robotics. Contrast these with Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End (read at the same time as Oryx and Crake). Though he deals only slightly with posthumanism, he shows the tension of modern, augmenting technology. Rainbows End has all of the aspects of a dystopian warning--aggressive emergent AI, near 100% surveillance state monitoring, the physical destruction of all books in order to digitize--yet he somehow offers an optimistic message in the end. Ever the singularitanist. Or maybe the realist. Still, sci-fi is not about what will happen; it is simply plotting a straight line with a few of the data points we currently have. Sometimes it's a warning, sometimes a hope.... sstrader 2015-03-22T10:21:25-05:00 Recent movie-watchin' http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001998.html Over the last month or so, Lisa was out of town so I got to watch a lot of my movies. Here: Two art documentaries, The Artist is Present [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ] and Exit Through the Gift Shop [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ]. Artist was more moving than I'd anticipated. Abramovic's show from the film's title--where viewers took as much time as they wanted to sit in front of her--went, in my mind, from being attention-demanding by the artist to more an act of respect for the viewer. Many who sat were brought to tears; a Tumblr page documents some of them. Exit was interesting at first when it was documenting the various street artists and their cavalier exploits (are there any other kind?!), but its twisty hook halfway in left me cold. Maybe I just wanted a different documentary. Exit is about, as the title would suggest, the commodification of free expression. I wanted a Scratch-like history of that free expression. Oddly, I was put off by Maria's conspicuous wealth acquired via an art form that started as rebellion against the over-commodification of art (paintings as investments instead of expression), yet showing street art in galleries did not bother me. A quote from the article VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE VS. CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE for reference: One impulse behind Visual Art Performance was the rejection of making objects for sale in favor of creating non-commodifiable, ephemeral events that were meant to critique and undermine the capitalist structures of the art market. Some artists, like Marina Abramovic, have managed to commodify that work in retrospect, completely abandoning any pretense of anti-capitalism, in fact becoming major players in it. Re-watched A Clockwork Orange [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ] after a coworker commented on it. It holds up well, but its violence has become more satirical than grisly over time. Still, Malcolm McDowell is a memorable bastard. I'd avoided reading the book since many cite it as extremely difficult because of the first-person slang used, but decided to buy a copy and give it a shot. I got the Rawlinson-edited Norton edition because it contains a glossary and various essays on the book and the movie. Haven't started, but several random excerpts have been enormously entertaining. I had gone into one weekend with the hope of watching some classic Japanese cinema. I couldn't work up the courage to watch Ran (almost 3 hours), so I scanned Mubi's list of 30 MUST SEE JAPANESE FILM CLASSICS. I had already seen Woman in the Dunes (#13), Rashomon (#14), Tampopo (#28), and Audition (#30). For some reason Funeral Parade of Roses (#16) [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ] caught my eye. Their description sold me: A feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange), Funeral Parade of Roses takes us on an electrifying journey into the nether-regions of the late-'60s Tokyo underworld. The director did interesting things with time-shifting and repeating scenes. I could see some of what Kubrick borrowed in the slapstick fast-forwarding. Experimental but actually moving at times with a wow ending. More experimentation with The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ]. It wasn't until the 10th time I was reminded of Amer that I realized it was the same directors. Very style heavy but with a menace that files it with the memorable Berberian Sound Studio. More mainstream stuff: I finally got to see Showgirls [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ] since Netflix recently added it. Like not knowing what Rosebud is, I felt that a basic cinema element was missing in my education. The most unsexy sexy film I've ever watched, it wasn't as all-out horrible as was promised. Biggest surprise: Gina Gershon looking like she did on Seinfeld! The Grey [ IMDB | Rotten Tomatoes ] was stunning from start to finish. Writ as all metaphor, it maybe could have ended as melodrama but didn't.... Cinema sstrader 2015-03-14T17:54:20-05:00 Smart watch 2 http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001997.html Six months on, almost exactly, and the smart watch scene has matured to mid-infancy. Apple provided more specifics about their watch on Monday (starts at $350, releases on 24 Apr) and so the reviewers began assessing the potential and comparing it against Android Wear. Apple's contribution to the smartwatch: An app-centric approach and Wi-Fi from Ars - The wifi is a nice way to break it out from tethering. NILAY PATEL ON THE APPLE WATCH INTERFACE - Concerns about unintuitive navigation. Being able to internalize your domain space is important to avoid spacial confusion. Breadcrumb trails are a useful technique in web or desktop development. A phone or watch poses more constrained problems, but it's not like there isn't research in that area. Android Wear will get Wi-Fi support, gesture control in next software release - Competition is good! Sadly, the hardware already out there will of course need to support this. From a casual search, no one knows what devices do. [ updated 24 Apr 2015 ] Ars Technica has a rundown of which models get Wi-Fi (via the hard work of Phandroid). The Android offerings have gotten very stylish. What Caught My Eye: Moto 360 - The first good design, still holds up. Asus Zenwatch - The rare rectangular design that also looks good. I'm not sure why I think it looks better than the iWatch. Need to see them next to each other. Huawei's Android watch - Just announced. See This could be the best-looking Android Wear smartwatch yet from The Verge for copious details. Better look than the 360 because the band connects in the middle of the watch instead of at the base.... sstrader 2015-03-12T12:38:39-05:00 Ives Concord Sonata http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001996.html Several years back, I would read Jeremy Denk's blog (Think Denk!) as he was practicing Ives' Second Piano Sonata (sheet music here). It's an early modern work--though from a composer far ahead of the curve--that I should like but I'd never really warmed up to Ives and so never gave it a chance. In college I'd heard a visiting tenor (baritone?) perform Ives' song "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" (sheet music here) and fell in love with its sheer rock and roll as modernist dissonance and rhythmic cubism. It's colorful, dramatic, wide-ranging, collaged, and allows the piano to speak a separate, orchestrated story from the vocalist. Another one of those Songs I Wish I Would Have Written. Still, nothing else Ives did captivated me. In a recent article titled "Charles Ives as Improviser", Kyle Gann examines the source material for the sonata as pulled from research for an upcoming book. The sonata consists of four titled movements ("Emerson", "Hawthorne", "The Alcotts", and "Thoreau") and was published in 1919 with a revision published in 1947. The first draft of the Emerson movement was in the form of a piano concerto (the Emerson Concerto) in around 1913, and later reworkings of the first movement to return it to its concerto-state became "Four Transcriptions from Emerson" in the 1920s. As with most composers, themes from the one work appears in multiple places. For the Concord, the themes were also shared in several of his 20+ Studies for piano (these are poorly internet-documented, but I've found reference for at least 22 studies in the set [ updated the next day ] I've updated the Wikipedia page of Ives' compositions with the list of studies. There are 27 with 8 of those being lost.). From the 1930s to 1940s, Ives went into the studio and recorded from across all of these pieces. Kyle Gann's article focuses on those recordings and their provenance in the Emerson stuff based on the transcriptions he's made from them. The article has excerpts of both the recordings (of dismal quality) and Gann's transcriptions (of excellent quality). The efforts at transcription and resulting DNA analysis of the music contained is fascinating. This weekend shall be a get acquainted with the Concord weekend. Ives Concord Sonata by Scott D. Strader on Grooveshark... Music sstrader 2015-02-13T17:13:17-05:00 Human VMs http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001995.html Several months ago, I finished the third book in Hannu Rajaniemi's post-human Jean le Flambeur series. It's a monument of fiction of what-will-happen-when-we-can-upload-consciousness that has social cachet for today's various technological anxieties. Fantastical art as commentary on present day. While researching author interviews and secondary sources after-the-fact, I read one of the author's recommended source articles titled "If Uploads Come First", written in 1994 by Robin Hanson. One key dramatic history, revealed near the end of the Rajaniemi trilogy, was that when brain uploads happened humans became dupe-able VM workers for tasks that algorithms couldn't accomplish. What a computer can't achieve, 5K uploaded brains could be sold into slavery to achieve. The problem that computers can't do X is solved by simply having digitized humans do it by the thousands. A few years ago, a coworker told me about out-sourced personal assistants. These are 3rd-worlders who will sell their time by the penny to organize your life remotely as best as possible. The concept was as fascinating as it was morally ambiguous, but I never took advantage. How to organize such unlimited resources? This I had encountered before--conceptually--with Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Again, not having partook, the MT offers a marketplace of people-who-will-do-anything with people-who-need-anything-done. Think 1000s of addresses to enter for fractions of pennies an address. People have time and need money, and there is work to do that would be too costly to write a computer program for. Friday was an argument with the boss about whether a large VM containing multiple server instances was more valuable than multiple, smaller VMs of equal summed potential.... Internet sstrader 2015-01-25T22:53:46-05:00 The strangely enduring power of kitsch http://www.scottdstrader.com/blog/ether_archives/001994.html From the article The strangely enduring power of kitsch: The Czech novelist Milan Kundera made a famous observation. "Kitsch," he wrote, "causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!" Kitsch, in other words, is not about the thing observed but about the observer. It does not invite you to feel moved by the doll you are dressing so tenderly, but by yourself dressing the doll. All sentimentality is like this - it redirects emotion from the object to the subject, so as to create a fantasy of emotion without the real cost of feeling it [emphasis mine]. The kitsch object encourages you to think, "Look at me feeling this - how nice I am and how lovable." That is why Oscar Wilde, referring to one of Dickens's most sickly death-scenes, said that "a man must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell".... Art sstrader 2014-12-21T16:34:46-05:00


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Flocks of birds, schools of fish, and groups of any other living organisms might have a mathematical function in common. Studying aquatic microorganisms, Andrea Giometto, a researcher EPFL and Eawag, showed that for each species he studied, body sizes were distributed according to the same mathematical expression, where the only unknown is the average size of the species in an ecosystem. His article was published in in PNAS in March 2013.
Several observations suggest that the size distribution function could be universal. Giometto made his observations in the lab on 14 species of aquatic microorganisms, including unicellular and multicellular ones that are very distant from an evolutionary point of view. The microorganisms he studied varied by four orders of magnitude, the difference in size between a mouse and an elephant.
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"As educators, that's what you're doing," Collier told a packed audience in the University Hall Amphitheater on Thursday evening. "You're planting seeds. Just be patient. Keep encouraging and keep cheerleading, and that seed is going to grow into a tree one day, and it's going to bear fruit. Our children are watching all the time."
Collier was the guest speaker at the 17th Annual June Fox Lecture held in honor of former Lesley University Dean June Fox, which was presented by Lesley's Graduate School of Education and the Evelyn M. Finnegan Children's Literature Collection.
During his talk, titled "It starts with a seed," Collier took the audience back through his childhood in Maryland, and went on to describe the moment his desire to become an artist was ignited by a special high school art teacher. He went on to win a scholarship to the Pratt Institute in New York City, and after graduation, he pounded the pavement with his portfolio for seven years, undeterred, until he was finally picked up by a publishing house.
"I knew I had a story to tell," he recalled.
Collier's unique style of painting incorporates water colors and collage, and he has illustrated numerous children's books, including "Martin's Big Words," about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and "Rosa," about Rosa Parks, by Nikki Giovanni, which won a Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor Award.
"Bryan Collier is one of the most dynamic illustrators working in the field of children's literature today," said Associate Professor Mary Ann Cappiello, who introduced Collier to the audience and praised his nonfiction picture books as a powerful teaching tool.
Collier explained his artistic process for his books, from the idea and research stage up through the hundreds of illustrations he creates.
"Making picture books is so encouraging to me because there are so many stories that haven't been told, which is why I have a blast trying to figure out a story in a new way," he said. "There is just so much that I have to say and I want to have the opportunity to say."
For "Rosa," as with all his books, he worked to study his subject deeply, cutting through layers of myth and assumption about the Civil Rights figure.
"She was tired and wanted to sit down; that's all they told us," he said, reflecting on history lessons in school.
To learn more, Collier traveled to Montgomery, visited Rosa Parks' home, met with her childhood friend, explored a city bus from the 1950s, and saw where she worked.
"She was a pillar in the community, a well-known seamstress," said Collier. "There was no music playing, no dramatic lighting – it was a day where she said enough is enough."
Collier, who drew a standing ovation from the audience at Lesley, fielded a number of questions about his process, his inspiration, and ways to foster children's artistic expression in an era of cuts to arts education.
"The biggest thing we can do as parents and educators of children is to figure out an arena that's conducive to creating art," said Collier. "We need to let them discover that voice of artistic prowess that's built in. Just cheer them on. Let them discover and find their way. What you'll end up with is a young person that trusts themselves."
The June Fox Lecture program started with the presentation of three scholarship awards to Lesley students:
- The June Fox Scholarship was presented by Dean Jack Gillette to Grace Vaughn, who is in the Early Childhood Master's Program and is an intern in the Collaborative program with Belmont Day School.
- The William Dandridge Book Award was presented by Assistant Professor Barbara Steckel to Erin Fyfe Yang, a Specialist Teacher in the Reading Licensure Program.
- The Mario Borunda Book Award was presented by Associate Professor Benjamin Mardell to Jaclyn Bentinck-Smith, who is in the Early Childhood Master's Program.
The lecture was followed by a reception and art exhibit of Collier's work in the University Hall Atrium.
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At 09:49 Northampton County dispatched Station 40 to 311 Creek Road for a house fire. EMS arrived and reported heavy smoke showing and moments later reported the house to be fully-involved.
At 09:52 Ladder 46 and Station 48 were added to fill-out the box for a working house fire. Hanover 15 was added for the F.A.S.T. company.
Engine 40 stretched one hand line into the interior of the 2-story M/O/R and Tower Ladder 46 set-up their tower in front of the fire building.
The fire was placed under control in 20 minutes.
|May 10, 2015 at 1:56PM
Early Saturday afternoon around 12:30 Northampton County Fire Dispatched Stations 46 and 45 to 5535 Colony Drive for a fire alarm.
Chief 46 went on location reporting smoke showing from a 1-story dwelling and had the tactical box filled out to a full 1st alarm assignment.
Tower Ladder 46 arrived and their members went to investigate. They found a kitchen fire and stretched a hand line to the fire. Engine 45 arrived and positioned behind the ladder and supplied them with water if it was needed. Command requested the hand line not to be charged.
Lehigh County Ladder 2 arrived and positioned in front of the tower ladder. Command ordered 42 Engine to stand by at a hydrant located a block from the fire building.
Lehigh County Engine 3311 arrived from the eastern side of the scene.
In all, 3 Engines and 2 Ladder companies were on location. Firefighters did a primary search that came up negative and checked for fire extension. 30 minutes later the companies started taking up and returning to quarters.
This home is a residence for the mentally handicapped. On arrival, evacuations were under way as personnel were using wheel chairs to get everyone out of the house before the arrival of the fire department.
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|May 04, 2015 at 9:35PM
Monday morning crews from Bushkill Township were dispatched to the area of Hahn Rd. for a reported structure fire.
first arriving crews had a vacant building fully involved with and extending brush fire. Crews called in additional tankers to shuttle water to the scene while they worked defensive operations on the buidling.
Crews worked for a couple of hours before clearing the scene.
Photos and video by Mike Nester.
|February 28, 2015 at 10:21PM
At 17:39 Northampton County fire dispatched Northampton Boro Station 42, 43, 46 and Rescue 1541 (F.A.S.T.) and EMS 49 to 851 Main Street on a report of a house fire across from that address. Dispatch immediately alerted all companies of a working fire.
On arrival, Chief 42-52 found fire venting from the roof of the 3-story duplex and signaled a working fire with an address of 840 Main Street. The 1st alarm was then filled out sending additional companies. Engine 42-12 arrived and brought water to the fire from a hydrant on Main Street just north of East 9th Street. Tower Ladder 46 positioned in front of the building and put their bucket in-service with the master stream to make a quick hit on the fire. Ladder 43 (North Catasauqua) also positioned in front of the fire building and put the stick up to the roof of the exposure (side 2) when they arrived at 17:47.
The tower ladder darkened down the bulk of the fire for the interior crew to gain access to the 3rd floor where they used a hand line to hit the rest of the fire.
Crews worked for an hour to bring the fire under control. Most of the damage was contained to the attic and roof of the original fire building.
Red Cross was notified to assist 6 people that were displaced by the fire.
Coplay Police closed their side of the Coplay / Northampton bridge for the duration of the fire.
|February 19, 2015 at 6:04PM
On Thursday afternoon crews from Lower Saucon were dispatched to the 3700 Blk of Old Philadelphia Pk for a structure fire.
First arriving crews encountered heavy fire and a 2nd then 3rd alarm were requested. Numerous lines were placed in service along with a tower ladder after the evacuation order was given.
Crews battled the fire for several hours and more resources were special requested before bringing the fire under control, cold weather hampered some of their efforts and the fire is now under investigation.
Video, Photos and story by correspondent Mike Nester.
|February 11, 2015 at 10:16AM
Lower Saucon Fire Stations were alerted around 22:55 for a report of a house fire with entrapment in the 1400 block of East University Avenue. Additional radio transmissions were reporting that police have a working fire. With that information, a chief officer responding transmitted the second alarm.
Once on scene, he transmitted a fully-involved 2-story single-family-dwelling (SFD). Firefighters attacked the blaze from the exterior to darken down the fire before they could get inside to search. Unfortunately, they found the 1st floor collapsed into the basement. Firefighters worked to knock down the fire on the second floor from the exterior. Once they did, they gained entry to the second floor from the front porch roof. Members did a primary search of that floor that came up negative.
It is unknown where they found the victim, who hasn't been identified as of this writing.
|February 01, 2015 at 4:38PM
At 08:50, Lehigh Township Fire 47 was sent to the area of Steven lane and Mulberry Drive for a reported house fire. The updated address was immediately given out as 4618 Steven for a dryer fire with extension to the house. Chief 47 arrived and signaled a working fire in a 2.5-story S/F/D with heavy smoke pushing from most of the house. The 1st alarm box was filled out.
As the fire was engulfing the garage area and roof of the dwelling, command struck the 2nd alarm along with a tanker task force. Walnutport's Ladder 29 positioned in the drive-way while Lehigh Engine 47 stopped on the street in front of the dwelling.
Interior members made a good push to the second floor after knocking down the fire on the first floor and darkened down the bulk of the fire in the attic within 20 minutes of arriving. Other members worked lines on the exterior of the dwelling on the side of the garage.
Companies from Lehigh and Carbon Counties assisted at the scene. A tanker fill site was established at a pond near Steven and Mulberry.
Extensive salvage work was also commenced to try and save a lot of the personal belongings in the dwelling not being affected by the fire. PPL was on location and cut power to the house. Red Cross was notified to assist the family.
|January 15, 2015 at 4:28PM
At 02:07 Northampton County transmitted a tactical box for 947 South Cotton Wood Road on a house fire, sending Lehigh Township 47, Walnutport Ladder 44-21 and Allen Township 45-31.
Chief 47-53 went on location and reported a fire in the exterior wall of a 2.5-story dwelling and had the county fill out the full 1st alarm for a working fire.
He ordered the first-in engine to check the interior walls with a thermal imaging camera and a second crew to the exterior to open up the wall.
Three hand lines were stretched with two in operation, one interior and one exterior. Once the walls were opened up, firefighters found fire in the wall near the pellet stove.
Companies remained on the scene for about an hour overhauling and checking for extension.
The residents told Newsworking that the wife noticed smoke coming out of the wall and woke her husband up. He called 9-1-1 and then used an extinguisher around the stove pipe where it entered the wall. Early detection on this fire saved the house.
|January 11, 2015 at 10:30PM
Sunday January 11th Lehigh Township Ladder 47 and Han-Le-Co Ladder 33 met for the last time before Ladder 47 goes to the paint shop for a new paint job.
Lehigh Township's ladder truck will get repainted with their red, white and blue colors to match the rest of their fleet. Both fire companies came together today to photograph the trucks for one last time that they will be seen with the Han-Le-Co colors.
Lehigh Township purchased the the ladder truck from Han-Le-Co a few months ago. It's nice to see the ladder was purchased by a local fire company and will be in-service in this northwestern Northampton County community and will provide the residents with a valuable firefighting tool. This is Lehigh Township's first ladder truck.
Both trucks were manufactured by Pierce Manufacturing.
|December 27, 2014 at 3:17AM
At 23:01 Friday night, Stations 42, 45 and 43 were sent to 1403 Main Street for a radio report from police of a house fire. Police report fire showing from the 1st floor.
Chief 42-52 arrives and reports a working fire on the 1st floor side 2 of a 3-story duplex. Chief 42-53 arrives and takes operations.
Chief 42-52 special-calls 1 additional station for a full response. Fire dispatch assigns Lehigh Township Station 47.
Engine 42-12 arrives first and positions in front of the fire building and ordered to bring a water supply from 14th and Main Streets and then stretch one hand line to the fire building.
Engine 43-11 (North Catasauqua) is ordered to assist P.D. in removing dogs from the exposure. Ladder 43-21 positions in front of the fire building nosed in to Engine 42-12. Engine 45-12 positions in front of the fire building on Main Street. Ladder 47-21 positions on 14th Street and stretches 2 hand lines to the rear of the exposure.
Fire arriving engine crews darken down the fire on the first floor within 10 minutes, however the fire is rapidly extending in the walls and within a few minutes the 2nd and 3rd floors of the main fire building are fully-involved. At one point during the battle, evac tones are sounded and all members pulled out of the building. After they re-group and darken down some of the fire from the exterior hand lines, they re-enter both dwellings to hit the hot spots. The fire was under control 1 hour later. Crews spent a few hours overhauling and mopping up. The fire is under investigation.
*UPDATE* There was a rekindle of this fire around 06:30 Saturday morning. Two alarms were transmitted before the rekindle was brought under control.
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