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Obama's Unbearable Blackness of BeingFriday, February 29th, 2008
Last week, I wrote that this presidential campaign might be more civilized because the press may continue their love-fest with McCain lest they give the conservatives ammo and well, they'll be nice to Obama because he is their guy. It might just be more civilized because of white guilt.
How will this play out in the election? Howard Kurtz wonders at the "pulled punches" because Obama is black:
"As conservative columnist Peggy Noonan wrote this month, 'Mr. Obama will not be easy for Republicans to attack. . . . There are many reasons, but a primary one is that the fact of his race will freeze them.' "
It certainly won't freeze them on the issues. But on personal matters and insinuations, that's probably right.
Politico's Ben Smith says Obama may be milking the contrition of his rivals:
"Most of them have apologized for saying something insensitive about Obama's race, his name, or his heritage. And the dynamic of outrage and offense this campaign has proved race to be a much touchier subject than gender. At times, Obama's campaign has sought to downplay burgeoning outrage. At others, he's stoked it for political advantage.
The problem with the pussy-footing is that it is, in itself, racist. When a black man or woman can be criticized or challenged like a person of any other color, then we'll know that equality has been achieved.
I don't think we'll see "equality" in this election by either the press or the candidates.
Seven Parenting PrinciplesThursday, February 28th, 2008
Continuing this week's unintentional theme, I'm going to delve where most people fear to tread because they're a lot wiser than I am. Unfortunately, or fortunately for your sport and entertainment, I've been hit with a stupid stick and have decided to share my philosophies on everything from getting a woman to what it means to be a friend. Why not go one further and piss everyone off and talk about how to raise decent kids?
This is an especially dicey topic since my kids are not even teenagers yet. I haven't run the parenting gauntlet, but that doesn't mean I don't have an opinion. Oh no! I'm a blogger and bloggers have opinions. It's what we do. So here goes my leap into words that will be eaten. These words will come back to haunt me. Hell, they're haunting me now.
The question before us, is how to raise a decent kid. And by decent, I mean a kid who doesn't end up in jail, or on drugs, or is a smorgesboard of STDS or what have you. Before this rather low bar is hurdled in the late teen years and adulthood, the kid is parented, or not, a lot. I happen to believe that what happens in the formative years is, well, formative. Some people don't. I think those people are stupid. It's like saying that you plant a sapling, don't water it, don't feed it, don't stake it, and then wonder why it either dies or if it somehow manages to live, ends up bent in the trunk. Parenting matters.
So here's some thoughts on parenting:
1. Mean what you say and say what you mean. A child needs to believe his parents. A parent who consistently threatens is viewed for what he or she is: an impotent buffoon. The child will push and push, the parents will get frustrated, the child will feel emboldened and in charge, and ultimately, the child will feel insecure. Disrespect for parents translates into disrespect for all authority which translates into pissing off the boss and getting fired. Really, it's not that big of a leap.
2. Make few rules. So many parents have weird and arbitrary whims, really. A child can be defiant and mouthy, but must not, under any circumstances eat a piece of candy at grandma's house. Or, the child must say please and thank you like a robot but he is allowed to have a rotten attitude while doing it. Make your rules make sense. Explain them. Explain why they're important. And explain what will happen should the be broken. This shouldn't have to be a long conversation.
3. Have some standards. Good grief! It isn't cute when your miscreant speaks truth to power at age six. He's six. Yes, children can have their own wisdom. Yes, they can be very interesting. Mostly, they're interesting to you, the parent. Other people think your little Johnny is annoying. They're just too polite to say anything. What standards are a minimum? Respectful communication and behavior is a minimum. A child should not allowed to be surly and miserable. A child's demeanor means a lot. A happy, open attitude can be trained.
4. Reinforce good behavior. It's easy to spot the under performance. It takes more work to find the good work and praise it. When your child does something right, note it. And how you note it is important. Saying, "You're the best kid ever" is vague and actually puts pressure on the kid. Say instead, "I noticed how hard you're working to share with your younger brother" or "Your effort at math paid off! Keep it up!" This praises effort and not end results. The kid will be more inclined to keep trying to be better.
5. Model good behavior. Are your kids screamers? Do they hit? Do they have mean mouths? They learned it somewhere. Oh yes, kids are little parrots or monkeys or whatever screeching animal you prefer. They are paying attention to what you say to dad/mom. Model mature conflict resolution. Model kindness. Model taking turns. Model graceful losing. All those things where you want to stomp your feet and throw a fit like a toddler? Don't do it–unless you want the same thing modeled back at ya.
6. Judiciously use corporal punishment. Back in the day, the whipping was used for everything. Most of our parents would be in jail for child abuse and rightfully so. Excessive seemed to be the modus operandi. I know lots of parents in my generation have gone to the other extreme. They won't touch their child's tushie no matter how deserving it is of some instant messaging. I told a friend of mine that the quickest way to get a message to a boy's brain is through his butt. She didn't like that much. There are rules, though, about all this. And here are mine:
- Never spank in anger.
- Always use a hand. (You need a feedback loop.)
- Never, ever, ever hit, slap, or meanly touch a child's face or head. EVER!
- Only spank the butt or thigh.
- Children under two should not be spanked.
- Rarely, rarely spank.
Spanking is a last resort. Spanking is to send the kind of message that absolutely must be driven into the child's mind or else. For example, a child who has been told to not go into the street and then looks at you defiantly and runs into it deserves a spanking. The consequences for this disobedience can be death. A spanking is a small price to pay for the child to get the long-term, potentially life-saving message.
I want to note here that each of my children have been spanked less than five times in their entire lives. I have a 10 and an 8 year old. I believe the children are too old now to be spanked. Age 8 seems to be a cut-off, for me. The child can reason. He knows right and wrong and other consequences are needed to make a point. To me, the majority of spankings should be given between 2 1/2 and 5. And remember, this is a last resort.
Why spank at all? Well, it's effective. Used sparingly and with purpose, a spanking can give the child the hard boundary he needs to have. Some children need this structure more than others. Some children need few boundaries at all and will be somehow internally guided toward the right way of doing things.
Also, a note on special needs children: I have an autistic son. He has never responded well to spanking. He had a difficult time connecting the punishment with the behavior. The spanking seemed like a random act and would elicit a complete melt-down unrelated to the physical discomfort of a spank. So, he didn't get spanked except for the one time he was four or so and once or twice when he was older and understood. Parents should be very cautious about using spanking with special needs children.
7. Love them. Love means action. It means participating in their lives. It means reading to them. It means exploring their interests and building upon them. Love means being tough and saying "no", but it also means showing kindness and mercy and saying "yes" as often as possible. On the back drop of love, everything else falls into place. A child does not want to disappoint loving parents. A child wants to please mom and dad. A child will forgive all sorts of mistakes if he is loved.
This is not a definitive list. If you have more, add them to the comments. Parenting is absolutely a challenge. In fact, after marriage, I think it's the most challenging task I've undertaken. It is so long-term and the outcomes aren't guaranteed. But the results of good parenting are worth it. Many long-term miseries, much of the suffering adults endure goes back to the formative years. A good parent makes a big difference.
What Does It Mean To Be A Friend?Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
What is a friend? This definition seems good to me and describes a beloved few in my life:
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." – Anais Nin
I am what you could call selectively social. That is, in my private life, I have a few, intense, long-time friends rather than a vast collective of "networks". Some formative experiences caused me to be rather slow to trust and so, even people who consider me their friend often don't know a good part of who I am for a very long time, if ever.
Thankfully, I've been fortunate enough to accumulate friends over the years. There are the childhood friends who grew up with me back in the day. There is my High School friend. And there are the college friends. And then there are the Chiropractic college friends. And then there are my siblings who I am happy to now count as friends. In adulthood, as a doctor, making friends has been more challenging, but there are a couple doctors who are friends. It's a time thing, really. And I do have some friends now whose company and whose money I enjoy taking on a frequent basis.
Now, there are many people I consider "friends"–that broad category of people who are better-than-acquaintances level. And this is where things get dicey. For me, an acquaintance is like a business acquaintance, someone we've met but not someone we count as a friend or know that well. An acquaintance would not be, say, a friend we've lost contact with, however. That person would be a long-lost friend, who is just waiting to be reconnected. Unfortunately, I've allowed too many friendships like that wane. And with the advent of the internet, it has been possible to reconnect and rebuild.
In the blog world, I've made some acquaintances. Do these, mostly women, consider me a friend or an acquaintance? It's not a real "knowing" is it, communicating via email or reading someone's blog or even briefly chatting on the phone? In fact, I've been surprised a couple times when the voice didn't match the content. And, as it turns out, I've surprised others the same way. Such is the nature of the blog world.
A friend of mine suggested that I diminish the notion of friendship by calling so many people friends. I responded by saying that I felt truly fortunate and did indeed have many friends. For me, a friend fits this definition:
A true friend loves me despite my faults. She shows that love by keeping confidences and giving true advice and just listening. If I needed him or her, this person would come the instant I called. That instant, he or she would get on a plane, and come and be here with me, if it were at all possible. In absence of that, a friend would give me love, time, money, or whatever I needed to survive.
Well, that does shorten the list of friends now that I think about it, but I still think that I have more people who are true friends, than I probably deserve.
How about you? What is your definition of a friend?
College Tuition SubsidiesWednesday, February 27th, 2008
I've written about government subsidies and college loans before. Now, the topic is receiving lots of publicity because all the candidates think it's important. It's my belief that the chief beneficiaries of government loan subsidies are the colleges themselves. The government ups loan limits, magically, tuition increases. and voila! college students are screwed.
Now, Ilya Somin sees the benefits of rising tuition costs, and makes that case that compared to not having a college education, receiving a college education is a good deal. So, that's his reasoning for no subsidized tuition:
Even at the most expensive private universities, four years of tuition, room, and board is unlikely to cost more than $180,000 or so (the approximate cost of four years at Harvard at maximum tuition rates). And, as Becker notes, many students (especially the poor) don't pay the full sticker price because of widely available financial aid and merit scholarships. The income gains of getting a higher education far outstrip the tuition. The vast majority of students can therefore afford to pay for college by borrowing against their future incomes, and still have an enormous income gain left over. Thus, there is no reason for government to subsidize college tuition on the grounds that it is "unaffordable" – even for those students who are unfortunate enough to have to bear the full cost themselves, without parental assistance.
Well, I didn't have parental assistance for any of my college and worked my way through all of them. And ten years out, I'm still paying loans off even with the income gains. What I don't think Somin is factoring in, is that the loans are such a heavy, long-standing burden, they affect the next generation.
Of course, the kids whose parents are paying the bills are at a huge, long-term advantage. Those who pay off their own loans for years, to the point that they're not saving for their own children perpetuate a cycle of governmental indebtedness. It's just not a good pattern. And yeah, there is free will. And yeah, the professional life is much better than I expect I would have had without the education. And yeah, it's worth it.
Still, my reasons for disliking governmental subsidies are different. Without them, the institutions wouldn't be subsidized. They'd have less students entering. There would be more competition. They'd have to control costs. Students would benefit.
Either way, I want the government out of the college loan business.
H/T Instapundit
How To Get A WomanTuesday, February 26th, 2008
Today, Rachel Lucas discusses the woman who would dump on her guy "friend" while still dating the "jerk". She goes pretty tough on the girls, and rightfully so. I've known these types. In fact, one of my college friends dismayed me with her shameless using of the guy "friend". She knew damn well that there was no future with the friend but he had a car, or money, or an ear, or whatever she needed at the time. And, it was ALL about her. Men should flee this woman.
But let' not fool ourselves here. Men get something out of the "friend" equation. They get the company of a pretty girl. They get the moral superiority of not being like that guy. They get to be the shoulder to cry on without any of the expectations of a real relationship. In short, the arrangement suits them, too. They don't do any of the hard work to woo a woman, yet there she is next to him, anyway.
Guys need to man up. It really isn't that tough to get a woman. Yeah, we're complicated. Blah. Blah. That comes with the reproductive parts you love so much. If you want a woman, you invite complication and all the wonderfulness that comes with it. You do want to invite a woman, right? So, how to do it:
1. Dig women. Simple enough. But some guys seem strangely gender neutral. One of the hottest guys I ever met had a pot belly, low-brow humor and gold chains around his neck. He was the typical Long Island guy ala Chris Katan. But he dug women. All women. Every woman he met he could find something interesting about. I remember a compliment he gave me, like it was yesterday. And he meant it. Did he ever have a shortage of women? Uh no. Every girl wanted to be around this guy. And he always had girls. Sometimes two at a time.
2. Make eye contact. I know. I know. You're shy. Get over it, already. Join Toastmasters. Do something to overcome your fear. Because when you're a scaredy cat, you're making it all about you and not the woman. She will see your interest in your eyes. An interested guy is an interesting guy.
3. Be quietly confident. You don't have to be a complete jackass to be confident. It's how you carry yourself. If you hunch over and act like a kicked dog, you will give off kicked-dog vibes. Don't be surprised when you're kicked. Confidence breeds confidence. Stand up taller. See #2 again. Make sure you have a firm handshake. Smile. If it means you need to work out or better yourself in some way to overcome your insecurity, do it.
4. Approach her. What are you waiting for? If she's that great, she's worth an approach. A guy who can't overcome his nerves to go to a girl he thinks is awesome, doesn't deserve the girl and really, doesn't want her bad enough.
5. Tell her. If you're sick of the "just friends" moniker, tell her how you feel. Sure, you're risking losing her friendship, but you might risk losing more if you don't tell her; and she won't be your's anyway if you never say anything. So, it's a win, win, if you tell her. A woman may not be into you, but it will always mean something to be told that she is appreciated and loved. By the way, this step is terrifying. Some women can be cruel or unkind or just plain stupid in this situation. This does not say anything about you, other than next time choose better. A good woman will not intentionally hurt you even if the response isn't what you want.
6. Have fun. This isn't life and death. This is making friends that could be something more. Too often, the pressure is to make this "perfect". It doesn't have to be. It just has to be fun.
There are wonderful men and women out there–smart, funny, kind, beautiful, handsome, the whole package. No complaining. No whining. No kvetching to friends. You can do this. I have a friend who found her soul mate on Match.com. I have another who met at a bar. There are friends who met at work or at school or at church.
Love is all around us. We just have to bring it to us and sometimes that means stepping out on faith.
Feng Shui At McDonaldsTuesday, February 26th, 2008
I actually think Feng Shui makes lots of sense and have incorporated some ideas into my own home and life. If McDonalds finds that using the five elements balances the profit column, I don't think anything else will matter to them.
Barack Obama's Record–UPDATEDMonday, February 25th, 2008
Want to know more about Barack Obama, international man of mystery, and all-around swell speaker? Here's some links:
*Guess whose mento is a Communist? Obama, that's who!
* Why isn't Obama patriotic enough to hold his hand over his heart for the Star Spangled banner?
* What has Obama got against flag pins?
* Obama wants to give away $845 billion dollars of your money to ungrateful Third World countries.
* Who loves to hang around with terrorists? Obama, that's who!
* Do people even know why they're voting for Obama?
* Che Guevara and Obama.
* Texas state Senator Kirk Watson can't name a single thing Obama has ever achieved.
* Obama wants to waste 850 billion dollars of your money.
* Here are 8 things you need to know about Obama and Rezko.
John Hawkins has more here.
Obama, like many politicians, likes something for nothing–thus the career choice. In this case, Obama bought a house with nasty money. Big surprise! It's hard to decide who is worse between Obama and Clinton, but one thing is for sure: they both give McCain a chance he would never get otherwise. A friend from Michigan told me yesterday that a lot of his dad's union buddies are voting McCain. Maybe McCain will pull enough wafflers to make up for the conservatives pissed off at him and abstaining from voting.
Schizophrenia and Making People SmarterMonday, February 25th, 2008
The role of glutamate in mental illness, especially schizophrenia. More drugs, with the hope that there won't be side effects. When you're monkeying with the brain, I can't imagine not having side effects.
The most interesting part of the research, for me, was this throw away sentence:
Another glutamate drug, meanwhile, has been shown in preclinical studies to reverse mental retardation in adult rats, a finding that previously appeared impossible, Dr. Insel said.
Can you imagine the implications of reversing mental retardation? And, would a smart person be made smarter with a drug like this?
Short Car Trips More Environmentally Friendly Than Walking?Monday, February 25th, 2008
Say it isn't so! Actually, this article is kinda funny and illustrates the absurd lengths people go to to ensure righteousness. In the absence of God, people will create one anyway. And environmentalism gets more Pharisaical by the day. For example:
If you walk 1.5 miles, Mr. Goodall calculates, and replace those calories by drinking about a cup of milk, the greenhouse emissions connected with that milk (like methane from the dairy farm and carbon dioxide from the delivery truck) are just about equal to the emissions from a typical car making the same trip. And if there were two of you making the trip, then the car would definitely be the more planet-friendly way to go.
How can one keep up?
McCain Hanging From His Own Shiny RopeMonday, February 25th, 2008
One reason conservatives dislike McCain: McCain-Feingold. This heinous piece of legislation, ostensibly written to remove corruption from the political process, did nothing of the sort. It simply made it harder for average people to share what they think about the candidates which suited incumbents like McCain just fine. He didn't mind regulating speech–yours–while he could say whatever he wanted to.
Well, tied up in this legislation, are rules and more rules about money. It's rather complicated, but McCain now suffers from his own legislation. I would cry a little harder if it was another candidate so suffering, but since McCain did this dastardly deed, it seems fitting that he lives with the consequences.


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Record number of Westminster pilgrims at Lourdes
A record number of Londoners took part in the Westminster Diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes last week. Headed by Cardinal Cormac and the diocesan Bishops, more than 1,200 pilgrims from the capital visited the shrine - an increase of 300 on last year. Teams of volunteer medical staff and Red Caps cared for the sick and disabled around the clock. There were also pilgrimages from Arundel and Brighton, Brentwood, Lancaster, Liverpool, Motherwell, the Order of Malta - about 4,000 in total - joining the international throng of around a quarter of a million. Westminster's pilgrimage director Fr Chris Vipers attributed the increase in numbers to the At Your Word Lord programme currently underway in the diocese. He said: "This has been a marvellous pilgrimage. Many are here for the first time and I am sure that is partly because the renewal programme is giving people a desire to deepen their spirituality." The week for most Westminster pilgrims began with a sunny open-air Mass at the Cathedral of the Trees. The diocese also met together for a number of other events - among them an evening gathering at the church of St Bernadette, a penitential service, Mass for the Anointing of the Sick, an all-night vigil at the Grotto (during which there was spectacular thunderstorm) and a Closing Mass. They also joined pilgrims from around the world in the Torchlight Procession where Westminster's choir, directed by Canon Pat Browne, joined other choirs to sing from the steps of the Basilica. The choirs from Westminster and Liverpool also sang during the huge International Mass at the St Pius X Basilica. Throughout the week, parish groups held their own smaller gatherings, praying the Stations of the Cross, visiting the Blessed Sacrament chapels, going to the baths, lighting candles, or simply sightseeing around the town and the nearby mountains. After midnight when the crowds had died down, some returned to the Grotto for a time of quiet prayer. More than six million pilgrims go to Lourdes each year. On Saturday Pope John Paul will be visiting the shrine. For more information, including live webcams, see: www.lourdes-france.org


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Tim Rogers
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Aristotle one said that tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
That dying society very well may be Europe.
There is a disturbing video that is making the rounds, that appears to be from the NRK1 television network of Norway.
In the video (left), it is being reported that every apprehended rapist in the nation's capitol city of Oslo for the past five years are of "Non-Western appearance".
Continue reading and see the video report...
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Aristotle one said that tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.
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- scotju said...
If the police and the courts won't take care of the problem, I'm afriad the sons of Norway will have to show the Muzzies that the Viking spirit is still alive and kicking in these modern times. Blood-eagle carving anybody!
- Séamas Seosamh said...
I haven't been able to find where Aristotle said that. Can you help?
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Speaking of planning and organizing, do any of you use a homeschooling organizer/planner? If so, do you have a specific one that you'd recommend? I'm considering getting one because I'd like to have everything written down and recorded in one place.
I don't use an organizer, but then again, I'm not a super-organized person. The other day, I bought a college student planner at Office Depot to write my lessons in, and I have a stackable organizer which is where I put finished worksheets and flat projects. I do keep Reilly's math worksheets in a three ring binder since it's all one curriculum. Now, this being said, a lot of it might have to do with us still being in early elementary school, as well as the fact that I don't have to keep any official records to homeschool in my state. I may switch to an actual homeschool organizer as The Kids get older.
A couple of years ago I bought a real teachers organizer. I have not seen any since. I have not looked at the store I bought it from though. I think it was Barnes and Nobles, or Borders. Instead of putting a date with each assignment, along the top. I just write in each assignment. That way I can see how much I have left, and have done. Then plan accordingly. After the work is completed, I write in the date and score. I do that for each subject. I started doing this last year, because otherwise I would constantly go through his books and look ahead, and guess what I should be doing and how much needed done. This way I can see right away, so in the end it is a time saver. Plus, it keeps me on track and I KNOW what I have accomplished with a glance.
The reason I don't put a date in for ANY of them, is because as you know, a home school doesn't run the same way as a classroom. I tried doing that 2 years ago, and gave up. We were off course within a couple of weeks, if that. What with, appointments, unforseen circumstances, needing a lighter day, or being sick!
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Daybreak. It's a fitting title for Saves The Day's upcoming record, the third part of a trilogy that began with 2006's Sound the Alarm and continued with Under The Boards in 2007. "Sound The Alarm is an expression of discontent. Under The Boards is reflection and remorse. Daybreak is acceptance," explains singer-guitarist and chief songwriter Chris Conley. "Daybreak wraps up all the turmoil and misery of the previous two albums and transcends the pain by facing the fear and angst that comes in this Life and turning it into growth and positive change."
Positive change makes sense for a band that has always had a penchant for evolution. After forming in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997, Saves The Day released its debut album, Can't Slow Down, in 1998. The band followed it up with the genre-defining Through Being Cool one year later. 2001's Stay What You Are elevated Saves The Day to an even greater level of success and critical recognition, followed soon after by 2003's In Reverie. In Reverie took an exciting sonic leap from Stay What You Are, which itself was a stylistic departure from Through Being Cool. Each album the band has released has its own distinct style and flair, though they are all undoubtedly Saves The Day through and through.
Fast-forward to 2010, and Saves The Day is evolving once again. After the departure of long time member David Soloway in 2008, along with Mannuel Cerrero and Durijah Lang in 2009 (who left the band to focus on former group Glassjaw), Saves The Day hit the road rocking all their classic tunes with a brand new look. Arun Bali, Rodrigo Palma and Spencer Peterson, now join Conley to round out the Saves The Day lineup. It is with these new members that the band will record Daybreak. As Conley explains, "it makes sense that Daybreak features a new lineup, as thematically the album deals with coming back to Life with a renewed appreciation and attitude of perseverance and acceptance."
Now, with the band ready to release the long-anticipated third part to the trilogy, you get the feeling that a new day is truly breaking for Saves The Day. "Daybreak is both an ending and a new beginning," says Conley. "Daybreak comes back to Life to say, 'we are here together and we can make it through.'"
Evan Thomas Weiss is more than just a singer-songwriter; he's a storyteller.
The 27-year-old driving force behind solo act Into It. Over It. has been penning his tales since 2007. With music that is wholly heartfelt and unabashedly unapologetic, Weiss has been making waves in both the indie and punk rock worlds since the release of his debut, "52 Weeks."
The collection of songs – which, as the name suggests, was written over the course of a year – began as a project without grand intentions. But as he discovered that people genuinely liked his music, he continued writing. His debut was followed up by a series of splits, featuring songs about towns, which would later be compiled onto "Twelve Towns," an album that came out earlier this year. There was also the split with Koji, featuring five songs about neighborhoods in Chicago, which is where Weiss is located. And finally, in September of this year, Weiss came out with "Proper," a 12-song release which, in some sense, he feels is his first proper album.
"I am so proud of that record, and with the amount of time we had to make it, which wasn't very much, I'm really pleased with how it came out," Weiss said. "And I think people are generally really stoked on it."
Disregarding his track record of writing songs that are thematically related, Weiss' approach this time around was to pay attention to how the songs fit together and fed into one another.
"We made a point to make a cohesive album, which we'd never done before when we were writing songs," Weiss said of the collaboration between himself and drummer Nick Wakim.
With the exception of Wakin's role, the rest of the album is entirely written and performed by Weiss. This, admittedly, can create some confusion on the road for fans who have only heard the recordings and assumed that Into It. Over It. was a full band.
While there is always the possibility of touring with a full backing band, the slight disparity between the recorded and the live versions is something that Weiss treasures when performing in front of crowds.
"I think it adds a different vibe to the songs and it allows them to become more personal for people," he said. "The songs are so personal that it's like I want to share that intimacy with people that would come see the show."
Earlier this month, Weiss played Berlin on his first European tour in two years, opening for The Swellers and Broadway Calls
"It's been nice to get my feet wet again, playing shows here…cause it's a completely different feel," he said of the experience. "[And] it's been rad playing for crowds that aren't necessarily mine…and being able to win a bunch of people over."
Although he has been friends with members of the bands for a long time, Weiss acknowledged that his music doesn't necessarily "fit" with that of theirs. Because of this, audience members who aren't there to see him specifically are often skeptical of him at first. The good thing though, is that he said he acquires new fans that way.
"To see someone get on stage with just an acoustic guitar…you get written off pretty quickly," he said of the experience. "It's definitely been a lot of me, like, having to like, show my worth."
Although Weiss might come across as a songwriting powerhouse, he shared that he isn't always initially confident about his songs, explaining that they don't tend to see the light of day until after they're already recorded and it's too late to take them back.
"I do run into periods of self-doubt," he said of the songwriting. "But really that struggle is just an internal struggle."
When it comes down to it, he said he is proud of each and every one of the songs he has come up with.
"I mean, there's 95 songs [and] I love them all, like, I really like every single song," he said. "You know, maybe there's things about them that I would have changed, had I recorded them again, but, like, as far as the music goes, or the message, or what I was talking about, they're all really important to me."
Looking back on the past four years, Weiss said his attitude toward his songs hasn't changed; the old ones are just as meaningful to him as the new ones. But he did admit that he himself has changed, both as a musician and a human being.
"I'm a little more focused and I'm more responsible and I think I'm just overall a better person than I was when I started, but I think that also just comes with age," he said with a laugh. "I would just say I'm more of a grown-up, like, in a good way, you know. Not in a boring way."
"Please Remain Calm" is the punk album of the Great Recession. The Connecticut five-piece has crafted an album that captures the defeat, the heartache -- what it feels like to be young in the American Decline. Following up 2010's critically acclaimed self-titled LP, "Please Remain Calm" combines elements of Springsteen-esque heartland rock with the band's signature blend of 60s pop melody, 70s punk energy and 80s new wave panache.
Hostage Calm begin "Please Remain Calm" with weaving counter-melodic guitars and bass, stitched together with anthemic choruses. Openers 'On Both Eyes', 'Don't Die On Me Now' and 'Brokenheartland' take the listener through all of the band's signature stylings, setting the mood as the album reveals greater depth and dynamism. A slower, more intimate version of the band's classic 'The "M" Word' features an orchestral arrangement, complete with strings, brass, keys and concert percussion. Immediately following this, the band delivers perhaps its most avant-guarde arrangement, 'Patriot'; a full a cappella ode to a lost love affair with America. What opens as a very electrifying, hit-driven album fully descends into some of the band's most intricate and moving work to date.
But "Please Remain Calm" is more than Hostage Calm's opus: it's their manifesto. Like how "London Calling" captured the gray and grinding Britain of 1979, this album calls to mind the hopeless college student moving back in with her parents, the bank boarding up the house next door, and the impossibility of love in a time where nothing moves forward. Pushing musical boundaries at every turn, "Please Remain Calm" never loses its feeling of timelessness.


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Johannesburg - South Africa's Paralympian sprint star Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend on February 14, is still too traumatised to start training for competition, his family said on Thursday.
Pistorius last week succeeded in having his stringent bail conditions relaxed to allow him to travel abroad for competitions, but his uncle Arnold Pistorius said he was still battling to even step out of the house.
"Oscar is not back on any official training programme. This may change in future, but this will be a decision taken by Oscar."
"At this point Oscar is still in an extremely traumatised state and has made it clear to all of us that he is not able or willing to even contemplate this issue at this stage," the uncle said in a statement.
Pistorius's athletics career has been on hold since the killing of 29-year-old Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day.
The double amputee known as "Blade Runner" is considering to resume training, his agent Peet Van Zyl told AFP on Wednesday, to get "some form of routine in his life".
His family is also encouraging him to get back on the track to help him to "stabilise" emotionally.
Last week a judge eased his bail terms to allow him to move about inside the country and abroad for competition.
His uncle said he has since gone out to run on a number of isolated occasions, "but each time has been very difficult and he has 'struggled immensely' with the decision to even leave the house."
Pistorius who faces a trial later this year on charges of pre-meditated murder, had appealed against the raft of bail conditions he said were unfair and unwarranted.
He claims he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he shot her several times through a locked bathroom door in the early hours of February 14.
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The end of 2016 draws closer and the Travian Team reveals what players can expect in the coming 2 months:
Travian Tournament Finals
Every year, the Travian Team hosts a worldwide Travian Tournament that awards players with great prizes, such as tablets or in-game currency. The finals for this year's tournament are starting soon. Players who didn't qualify at an earlier stage can join the Wildcard raffle for a chance to gain access to the finals.
Christmas Special
The Travian Team is currently preparing some winter events on the social media channels to share the holiday spirit with the community.
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Extended warranties are the bane of any consumer's existence. Extended warranties are like any kind of insurance — you hate paying for it, you'd rather not purchase it, but that guilt that your mother instilled in you makes you buy it.
Extended warranties are also the last real profit margin for retailers who have to compete with Internet vendors and the likes of Wal-Mart, BJs and Costco. So it's not a surprise that when you go in to make a big purchase, you're offered an extended warranty.
Since this past weekend was a tax-free weekend here in Massachusetts, I took the opportunity to purchase a new Toshiba laptop and save a good 5%.
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We've finally completed the process for getting our first credit card that's, well, a real credit card. We have a debit/credit card from the bank, but we're making the plunge for a real credit card to help build up our credit score.
I've got a pretty good credit score, and the wife's is OK, but obviously we'd like to do anything we can do help us out for big future purchases.
That's why we need some credit tips.
Okay, the question is a bi loaded, but it's something that everyone my age (and even folks older) thinks about. At the ripe young age of 23, do I really need life insurance?
The thing about insurance is that it sucks. All insurance sucks, until you need it. And even though I could obviously never use my life insurance, my wife could.
Before the wife and I started paying bills together (a few months before our wedding), I never really cared much about my money. My parents were still (mostly) helping me out, but once I got a full-time job, I was pretty much on my own.
We started out keeping a budget to track what we spent, which was great. But we didn't really know how else to make our money worthwhile (besides spend it). Then I met my online savings account.
Without a doubt, one of the biggest questions coming up for the wife and I is whether or not our next living situation will be in a rental or a condo. Right now, we are renting, and our rent is pretty expensive.
Now, we love our apartment and the neighborhood is great, but obviously we'd rather be investing in something that we can call our own, rather than giving our landlord our hard-earned dollars. One of the reasons that we are penny-pinching now is so that we will be able to buy sooner rather than later.
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Sharing your iOS device (iPhone, iPod, iPad) screen to a Television is pretty easy. There are variety of cables available for connecting your iOS device to a TV.
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Consecutive home loan interest rate rises have cooled hiring, with the unemployment rate remaining stable at 5.4 per cent.
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics found unemployment rose 0.3 per cent in NSW, 0.1 per cent in Queensland and 0.2 per cent in South Australia to 5.8, 5.6 and 5.6 per cent respectively.
However, it wasn't all bad news, overall full-time jobs rose by 37,500, overshadowing the fall in part-time employment of 3,900.
Moreover, unemployment fell 0.1 per cent in Victoria to 5.3 per cent; 0.3 per cent in Western Australia to 4.7 per cent and 0.1 per cent in the ACT.
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In continuation of my list of directors that you should be aware of, I have five more names to add to the list. Many are known among indie horror fans, while others are breaking into different genre directions. Below are five directors that I think have bright futures and should be on your radar.
5. Oklahoma Ward
Director Oklahoma Ward (Crawl or Die, The Battle of Tinker, The Isolation of Subject #136) killed it with one of my favorite indie films of 2014, the sci-fi/horror/creature feature Crawl or Die.
I'm anxiously looking forward to seeing Ward continue to progress as a director in the future. Be on the look out for Crawl or Die 2 coming soon.
4. James Cullen Bressack
Director James Cullen Bressack (Hate Crime, Pernicious, Bethany) has been churning out films since the ripe old age of 18, with his first feature being My Pure Joy. With several more films already under his belt, this guy shows no signs of stopping any time soon.
I'm personally looking forward to seeing his upcoming horror film Bethany. Keep your eyes peeled for Bressack's films, or else he just might peel your eyes open for you.
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3. Scott Schirmer
Director Scott Shirmer (Found, Harvest Lake, Plank Face) has taken the indie horror genre by storm. I mean this guy has some hardcore dedicated followers!
I first became familiar with Shirmer through his film Found. I really dig the way this guy approaches directing and his passion for the art of filmmaking. I'm looking forward to the upcoming film Plank Face.
2. Jared Masters
Director Jared Masters (Slink, Ballet of Blood, After School Massacre) is a filmmaker whose trademarks include: retro themes, female empowerment, fetishism, burlesque as an art form, voyeurism, society's underbelly, carnival and circus themes, as well as cinematic homages to '80s slasher films and B-movies of the 1960s.
Masters recently finished the silent horror/fantasy film Amethyst. The film centers around a girl who consumes a full vile of LSD (believing it was a shot of alcohol) on her 17th birthday. We follow her descending journey into madness, as her best friend searches for her.
1. Steven C. Miller
Director Steven C. Miller (Marauders, Submerged, Silent Night) first got my attention years ago when I saw the 2012 horror film Silent Night, a remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Since then Miller has directed the action thriller Submerged among others.
In 2015, Miller was hired to direct two Bruce Willis films back to back, Extraction and Marauders. This dude is now onto his third film where he will direct Bruce Willis in the action/thriller First Kill, coming in 2017.
So there you have them. Five more directors that are showing mucho amounts of promise and deserve to be known.
Keep an eye out for more lists like this soon, which will include some very talented women directors who need to be recognized.
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Pelican Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Durham-based Heat Biologics Inc., has entered a service agreement with Geneva-based Selexis SA to advance development of Pelican's cancer-fighting therapy candidates.
Greensboro-based Piedmont Animal Health, a developer of health products for companion animals, has gained a strategic equity investment from the life science division of Sumitomo Corp., a Fortune 500 company based in Tokyo.
Fennec Pharmaceuticals, a specialty pharmaceutical company with executive headquarters in the Research Triangle Park, is making a difference for children with hearing loss.
Humacyte, a Morrisville-based regenerative medicine company bootstrapped with early funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, has received more than $18 million from three sources to help test and commercialize its bioengineered blood vessel, Humacyl.
Executives from two ag biotech companies that raised major funding in 2017 shared some of their success secrets to a group of North Carolina peers this week.
Foundation Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts firm selling genomic cancer tests, opened a precision health laboratory in Morrisville last year that it is growing into a major facility.
Bioscience briefs with names making news
Executives from two ag biotech companies that raised north of $20 million in capital recently will offer their insights on "Secrets for Raising Capital to Build Startups" at the AgBiotech Professional Forum September 27 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center.
Triangle Business Journal's latest annual roundup of the 50 fastest-growing private companies in the Triangle region includes two bioscience companies and seven others that provide valuable life science support functions.
The successes expected from CRISPR-Cas systems "Will come first in agriculture," said North Carolina University food scientist, Rodolphe Barrangou, Ph.D., at the 8th annual NU-Tech Roundtable.
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Resolution supports keeping Kings in Sacramento
Sacramento's efforts to keep its NBA team from moving to Seattle should get some political support Tuesday night.
The Sacramento City Council is set to vote on a resolution in support of the Kings and a plan to build a new sports arena with public and private investment.
The resolution acknowledges that the Kings are "one of the most well-known employers in Sacramento and it recognizes what it calls "significant economic and fiscal benefits" generated by the professional basketball team.
The resolution "respectfully requests that the NBA support the city's efforts to keep the Kings in Sacramento long-term and approve the sale of the Kings to an ownership group that commits to keeping the Kings in Sacramento long-term."
The Sacramento Bee reports that a group opposed to any direct public subsidy of a new arena is expected to testify before the council as well.
Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson says major investors are preparing a proposal to counter the binding purchase and sales agreement between the owners of the Kings and a Seattle investment group, led by Chris Hansen and Steve Ballmer.


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ASUS RoG Swift PG278Q G-Sync monitor review - The First RoG monitor
- Written by Petrus-Iulian "Devon" Fatu
- Published in Display reviews
First Look
The ASUS RoG Swift PG278Q gaming monitor, to give it its full name, arrived in a large, fully coloured box. Once the package was opened, I found ASUS has prepared decent bundle with the beast. There's the obvious reading material, including a Quick start-guide, a warranty card, and disk manual, and then the assorted cables, which includes a power cable with an external 90w power adapter, a DisplayPort cable and an USB cable to power-up the USB 3.0 hub.
Out of the box, the screen is already assembled, and positioned nicely in Portrait Mode. As you might expect, the monitor is also VESA wall-mount (100x100mm) enabled.
The oversized flat-base is similar to the one PB287Q sported, only slightly bulkier. Overall, I like it more than that one, just because it's a bit more stable and it allows the arm to rotate in its socket. Around the arm, there's also a large red LED indicator related to the ASUS Light-in-Motion technology.
PG278Q is a gamer-tool, there's no doubt about that. It comes with only 1xDisplayPort input, and nothing else.
I kinda see why ASUS chopse to only use this port. After all, to get the 144Hz refresh-rate at 2560x1440 resolution, you need DisplayPort, because HDMI, DVI, or VGA can't support such high refresh-rates (at such high resolutions). However, I do believe that this shouldn't be a problem, because you're not buying a ~$800 monitor to plug it into VGA video-card.
Still, it would have been nice to at least another connectivity option, be it HDMI, or DVI.
OSD controls
Whilst the controls for the PB287Q relied on guessing a bit, the PG278Q is not really the same. At the top of the menu, there's a tiny textured joystick that is in charge of menu navigation.
Underneath the 5-way OSD controlling joystick, there are also 4 other buttons, each corresponding to a certain action. The top one is Exit, the second one is GamePlus, third is TurboKey, and the bottom one is Power On/off.
Overall, I liked this control scheme a lot more than the one employed by PB287Q.
The Display
The minimalistic PG278Q features a very narrow 6mm bezel, catered to those who want several of these monitors side by side.
However, keeping in mind its size, that's going to be an challenge, especially since its base is so massive. Of course, you can run a quadruple screen G-Sync set-up, but you're going to need a lot of power, and I don't think 4xNVidia (GTX650Ti minimum) graphic cards are that easy to come by.
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Meeting the survivors
Indonesia, September 10, 2009
Last Friday afternoon, as half of Mercy Corps' Healthy Start team were preparing for the weekend, we were suddenly pulled into a rush meeting at the round table we share. We found out that three of our team members would be going to Garut Selatan — one of many districts affected by the 7.3-magnitude earthquake that struck West Java — with other two Indonesia Response Team (IRT) members that very night. More than 64,000 houses in the area were shattered by the earthquake.
It took about eight hours by car for us to reach Pameng Peuk and Cikelet, two sub-districts in Garut Selatan. We had just two hours to refresh ourselves before beginning to go around to the tents where earthquake survivors were staying. We also visited local puskesmas — community health posts — to collect information related to breastfeeding in this emergency situation. Along the way to the survivors' tents, we saw many shattered houses, temporary shelters constructed from bales of rice paddy, people gathered in the streets and makeshift signs hung in the trees to show the location of tents.
It was a month ago that we received a storytelling training from Roger Burks and Thatcher Cook in which they explained that, at Mercy Corps, we use the terminology of survivor rather than victim to respect their dignity. And, in Garut Selatan, we met those survivors.
In the first set of tents we visited, we didn't see many survivors there. Only three women with some children, playing and shouting with each other, were there as we talked with them and used our cameras to capture the reality of the situation. According to Ibu Wiji, a mother of two children, the children and women stayed in the tent every night while their husbands and other men vigilantly stayed near to their houses to watch over their belongings.
We asked her about what happened the day of the earthquake. She told us that she had just finished her daily routines and was dressing her five-month-old son Muhammad Rian when she felt the ground swinging. After the earthquake, she chose to stay in the tents because she is afraid it would happen again. She was breastfeeding her baby as she shared this experience. Ibu Wiji told us that she has breastfed her baby since he was born but, around three months ago, she also started giving him instant baby food because he cries a lot.
She lost everything to the earthquake and now has limited access to clean water, and so can no longer give instant food to her baby. Now he's getting breastmilk from his mother when he needs it, just like it's supposed to be. According to Ibu Wiji, she's not feeling any difficulties to breastfeed her baby, even though she's only eating rice and instant noodles since the disaster struck. When we gave her information about breastfeeding in emergency situations, she agreed with the message about the dangers of giving formula to babies. She also still remembered the information she had seen on television, that many babies got diarrhea after the earthquake in Jogjakarta three years ago. Those babies had been fed donated formula.
Based on the data we got from local health facilities, there are about 600 babies affected by this disaster. Some of them already infected by acute respiratory infections and conjunctivitis, since this is dry session and there is dust everywhere. Local health staff are afraid there will be cases of malnourishment, and this made them distribute donated baby biscuits intended for infants between 12-24 months of age. Unfortunately, with unclear information and improper distribution to babies younger than this, these biscuits have actually made some infants even sicker.
Surprisingly, there were no journalists or TV reporters here in Garut Selatan to give live reports about the situation. Not many of the survivors complained that they were suffering. Some of men had already begun helping each other to clean the debris of their houses. Women were gathering to talk with each other. Near the tents we visited in the Pameng Peuk sub-district, some mothers even cooked together in front of a house that withstood the earthquake, preparing the food to break the Ramadan fast.
"Please, take our picture," said one of the women. Many of those we met even said thank you when we left.
We are very touched by their kindness. Even though they are not in the most pleasant situation, they accepted us with smiles. They openly shared their experiences during earthquake and, every time we asked about their families, they said ALHAMDULILLAH — "praise to God."
But these survivors, especially the mothers with babies under six months of age, do need support for breastfeeding their babies. We can offer support for breastfeeding mothers in emergency situation by conducting short training for local health center staff and community leaders, to help them understand the advantages of breastfeeding for infants and young children. We must also stress the importance of complementary feeding and provide trained lactation counselors to motivate mothers.
Mercy Corps, through the Healthy Start program, is committed to creating supportive environment for breastfeeding in any situation — including the earthquake-devastated villages of Garut Selatan.


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School's Out!
June 19, 2014 by admin
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by Mommy MD Guides blogger Julie Davidson
School is out, and camp is in session. Ahhh, yes. A child's respite from the rigors of elementary school (hey, show and tell and recess aren't as easy as we think). Sports, games, swimming, songs, and field trips will fill their summer days. But for me, the best part is the stories they share with me. And not because I'm living vicariously through them. Well, not completely. It's just seeing how excited they are to tell me things. It's like a kiddie soap opera: Days of Our Summer, All My Campers, General Craft Camp.
There's always some kid who brings cool stuff to camp. "Mom, there's a guy who brings a cell phone to camp. But it doesn't have batteries, so he can't call anyone." Note to self: Must thank that parent.
And once a week, they'll tell me that there are older girls who think they're cute. They no longer like this because "cute" is synonymous with small and young. Apparently, they are oblivious to the fact that they are still both.
And there were crushes galore. "Our counselors have a crush on each other and are getting married." Something tells me the counselors are unaware of this arrangement. And every week, there were details of a new crush.
Oh, and there's a guy named George who lives in the trees at camp at night. He walks around and tries to eat little kids under 18. Thank you, camp counselors, for guaranteeing an occasional nightmare and keeping my guys out of trees after dark.
And I can't wait to meet the older camp friend who has a six pack and shows it off daily. That kid is who I have to thank for my boys wanting to do 100 sit-ups a day. I showed my younger son my stomach, and he shook his head in disappointment and told me, "Mom, that's a one pack." On second thought, I'm not thanking that kid for nothin'!
Of course, there are naughty words that they've heard at camp. It would be hypocritical to get upset because I'm certain they have heard those same words at home once or twice. Maybe three times. The best was when the kids from Canada taught them a bad word in French. I was ready to be proud, but they still got it wrong!
One of the best pieces of intel was about their "secret" fort. They even told me the passwords: "Money Man" and "Astronaut." It sounded kind of sophisticated in that they had different rankings like Managers and Assistant Managers. My youngest told me he was allowed in because his older brother was a member. Hmm…sounds like nepotism to me. No worries, though, because the counselors found out and put a kibosh on it. Squashing exclusivity? I like that.
Kids don't always tell you what you want to hear. But to some extent, as parents, we need to hear it. And I hope they don't stop talking with me. Seriously. Bad language, endless crushes, and six packs? This is so better than Jersey Shore.
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Lebanon Training Facility Expanding – Temporarily Closing for Renovation
Festool's training facility is growing! Over the next few months, it will triple in size, which will allow for larger and more frequent classes.
The downside is that it will be closing from Dec. 18 – February 29. When it opens again, we think you'll be excited about the classes and events in our new, expanded space.
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Pillow of Air: Poolside with David Hockney, Richard Feynman, a pair of Twins and some Bugs
There's a painting of David Hockney's that I've always really loved, though never gotten around to writing about; but now, in the final craw of winter, it seems as good a time as any to dip into the image's coy allure. It's one of his pool paintings, which as a group played on all sorts of themes of surface and transparency and awareness and memory (the wet paint on canvas, drying, summoning the fading memory of what it was like to soak in the water that balmy distant afternoon, observing the dance of light on the surface of the water and to the depths beneath, mirroring what happens as we focus on the pigments on the canvas surface and through them, to the imputed image beyond, the pool, the sandals, the steps, the palms, whatever lies beyond—all of them, all of it, just so many pigments in play and yet so much more).
I guess I also love this particular image because of its presence on a poster (one I have facing the bed in my bedroom) from Denmark's marvelous Louisiana Museum. The way one bores through the poster to the original painting, into the scene and then beneath the shallow waves (the play of all those surfaces)—and then the second set of disjunctions provoked by that headline "Louisiana," which initially (mis)places the image to New Orleans, say, but rather refers to that other Louisiana, in Denmark. And while the image so obviously seems to be of a pool in my homestate of California, my own heart's true home, actually its title there in the microscript of the poster instead places it in Le Nid du Duc , which (Google reports) would be at Tony Richardson's old estate in the hills above St Tropez.
And those aren't the only of the painting's supple confusions. Because where are we exactly? At first we seem to be floating up to our chests in the water, but then again, maybe not: the vantage seems a tiny bit high for that. The steps rise and bend, indicating an upper level, maybe that's where everyone else is. We would appear at any rate to be by ourselves, unless those two palms are standing in for anything. Come to think of it, what is the deal with those palms? Or rather with the space beyond them. Is that sky or is that wall? Deliciously hard to tell, except of course that in fact it is neither. It is paint on canvas. Or rather ink on poster.
I've been thinking more than usual about that painting because of Richard Feynman, the incomparable Cal Tech physicist, and his meditations on what it's like to look at the world from the side of a pool. Back in 1983, the BBC broadcast a series of shorts titled "Fun to Imagine," which was really not much more than the good professor seated on a comfy couch explaining stuff. In this instance (Episode 8 in the series), Feynman is trying to explain how light itself works, and beyond that the sheer marvel of any sort of vision.
And he begins with a nice California analogy of his own. "I'm sitting next to a swimming pool and somebody dives in," he says,
and before that, lots of other people have dived into the pool, so there's a very great choppiness of all these waves all over the water. And that gets me to wondering whether some sort of insect or something with sufficient cleverness sitting in a corner of the pool and just being disturbed by the waves, by the nature of the irregularities and bumping of the waves, could figure out who jumped in where and when and what's happening all over the pool.
Because that's what we're doing, Feynman goes on to insist. When we're looking at something,
The light that comes at us is waves, just like in the swimming pool, except in three dimensions instead of in the two dimensions of the pool surface. They're going in all directions. And we have an eighth of an inch black hole into which these things go.
It's quite astonishing, he goes on to note, how easily that we figure everything out.
Granted, the waves in the water are a little bit more complicated. It would have been harder for the bug than for us. But it's the same idea: to figure out what the thing is that we're looking at, at a distance. And it's kind of incredible, because…the waves are going every which way—right left up down perpendicular and so forth—it's just a complete network. Now it's easy to think of them as arrows passing each other, but that's not the way it is, because all it is actually is this entire field that's vibrating—it's called the electric field but we don't have to bother with what it is— it's just like the water height, going up and down—so there's some quantity shaking about in a combination of motions that's unbelievably elaborate and complicated and yet whose net result is to produce an influence which makes me see you.
And he goes on like that, evoking "this tremendous mess of waves all over in space: all the light bouncing around the room and going from one thing to the other." And on top of the light waves there are longer (heat) waves and shorter (radio) waves, and from this virtually infinite criss-crossing welter, the eye is still somehow able to draw out only those waves that specifically allow us to see the world before us. Those particular sandals over there. And those two damned palms.
Of course, Feynman concedes, at some level we all knew this all along. But, he concludes, "you've got to stop and think about it to really get the pleasure about the complexity—the inconceivable nature of nature."
Decades after the original broadcast, I had occasion to summon Feyman's explanation back to mind recently when I was curating a show at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City that was given over to a pair of young identical twin artists, Ryan and Trevor Oakes. Because completely independently, without ever having heard Feynman, they'd come up with a remarkably similar conception of what they themselves were up to.
Long story (and if you want to get a fuller sense of it you might just want to order the show catalog from the Museum), but one of the main things that makes the Twins singularly interesting is the way the two of them have been locked in intense conversation about what it is like to see with two eyes, pretty much since their toddlerhood. And they have become convinced that compounding spheres characterize the travel of light from its source to the eye at its every point. Thus light leaves the sun (or any other light source) in a spheroid explosion of virtually an infinite number of individual light rays, each of which, upon hitting any surface, ricochets out in another hemisphere of expanding light rays, the rays all bounding through and past each other in a tremendous criss-crossing mesh, until the human eye gathers a splay of such rays, one each from every single one of all of those ricocheting explosions into its own (inverse) spheroid capture.
The Twins' name for this phenomenon is "light foam," and in their most recent work, they have been trying to evoke the wildly various "light foam" suffusing our world, by drawing rings of overlapping colors into an ever denser mesh, often capturing the full spectrum of colors by simply overlaying ink from four or five colored pens. See, for example, their vantage of a Martha's Vineyard home:
Actually, in some ways it's easier to see what they're getting at when they evoke the "light foam" phenomenon in black and white, as they've likewise taken to doing on occasion, and as it happens as they are going to be doing this week, as they complete the second of two elaborate concave drawings of the Getty Gardens. A perfect occasion to see the Twins in action, if you happen to be in the neighborhood—action involving a lot more than just light foam (for starters their whole remarkably novel and exacting method for depicting the visual world before them as if by way of a camera obscura, although using no other projective equipment except their own two eyes, mediated by way of the operations of their visual cortexes).
(The apparatus is a whole long other story, part of which can also be found here.)
So, anyway—and now we're getting to the point, this is the reason I was wanting to take you on this whole looping conceptual walkabout—no sooner had I included a transcript of that entire Feynman exposition in a sidebox of my catalog to the Twins' show back a MoMath and sent the thing off to the printer than, a few days afterwards, the following item appeared in the Observatory sidebar of the New York Times Science Times section, under the headline "Spiders' Webs Hum with Information"
Like strings on a guitar, spider silks can vibrate along a wide range of frequencies, transmitting information about prey, other spiders and even the condition of the web itself, researchers say.
Spiders have bad eyesight and are known to rely on the vibrations of their webs to alert them to the presence of captives. To discover more about the vibrations, British scientists fired lasers and bullets at individual spider strings and used ultra-high-speed cameras to record the results. They found that the strings vibrated across a wider range of harmonics compared with other materials, and that the type of vibration varied with the type of impact and the quality of the individual silk.
The vibrations help a spider determine what sort of prey has landed in its web, the researchers concluded. Spiders can also produce different kinds of silk depending on their needs, essentially "tuning" their webs to the environment and hunting conditions. Their study was published in the journal Advanced Materials.
Aye, I found myself thrumming, reading the news bulletin, if only Feynman had lived to hear it! On the other hand, gorgeous web mind that was obviously his, he probably already knew it all implicitly.
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Relative's fury over fresh appeals by family of Lockerbie bomber
FURY was sparked yesterday after relatives of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi launched a fresh bid to clear his name.
There's never been any evidence to say Megrahi was innocent
They claim the man, who died two years ago, was pressured into dropping an earlier appeal.
The taxpayer-funded Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission has been asked to look again at his conviction.
Megrahi, a Libyan secret service agent, was the only person convicted for bombing an airliner over the Scottish Borders town of Lockerbie in 1988, killing 270 people.
But when he was diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer he was allowed to return to Libya on compassionate grounds in 2009. He died there in May 2012.
Susan Cohen, 76, whose daughter Theodora, 20, was killed in the bombing, said from New Jersey: "We're not hearing anything new here. There's never been any evidence to say Megrahi was innocent."


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For eight years, coach Mike O`Neill saw his St. Laurence football teams win five section titles in the Chicago Catholic League, reach the state title game once and post a 61-25 record.
This Monday, O`Neill starts another season. But instead of planning two-a-day workouts for his old school in Burbank, O`Neill takes over as the head coach at Andrew High School in Tinley Park, inheriting a program that has won only 14 games in eight years.


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Christians Seek to Comfort Survivors of Sikh Massacre
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Christians in Oak Creek, Wis., are extending a hand to their Sikh neighbors following Sunday's massacre at their temple, CBN News reports. Rev. Jim Jodrey, an associate pastor of Harvest Community Church, which is just a mile from the temple, said his congregation knew very little about the Sikhs or their religion but that members were meeting their neighbors to offer material assistance and prayer. The weekend shootings claimed the lives of six worshippers and the alleged gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page. Police shot and killed Page, who had described himself as a member of a skinhead group based in Texas.