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I was on the Richard Syrett show last night and we did an hour and a half. He started out the show by asking about the Indiana Jones- Crystal skull movie. I gave a brief overview of what the plot offered and then bloviated about how I believed it linked to the coming great deception, that of the revealing of the E.T. and the announcement that they were the ones behind all of the worlds major religions.
Richard then moved topics and we discussed the Vatican announcement a few months ago. This is when a spokes-hole for the Vatican announced that, "the Extraterrestrial is our brother." How's that for some nice advance PR, for the coming great deception!
I then gave a brief summary of the UFO flap in Stephenviille Texas and discussed Edgar Mitchell's announcement, regarding the existence of ET, and that the Roswell crash of 1947 really happened.
When we step back and take a look what has happened this year, so far there has been, what I would regard, as baby steps toward full disclosure. Think about this. Mitchell makes his statement on KARANG radio and the story is circulated and picked up by much of the main stream press. Most people yawn and act like, so what, big deal, we've always suspected that. Have we grown that desensitized? Are we under a hypnotic stupor brought to you by the pabulum, that the so called news media serve up to us nightly? I wonder what Paris Hilton had for breakfast this morning? Better turn on the Telly and get the latest update. Even the FOX news network had a segment called, The Daily Brittany, which tracked the daily antics of the troubled pop-tart! It would seem to me that with the admission of UFO's and ET's by Mitchell, that there would begin to be some serious discussion about the UFO / ET presence. What about Fyfe Symington, the former Governor of Arizona, who admitted on the Larry King Live show, that the Phoenix lights were indeed an extra terrestrial craft, not of this world. His words not mine. He also apologized to his constituency for making light of the affair when it happened.
Finally we settled into a discussion about what is going on in the Middle East and how I believe it is setting the stage for the coming war there. I told about the currency of the Luciferians, which is FEAR, and how a nuclear exchange in the Middle East, which I believe is eminent, will create the perfect climate of fear, which will then be the trigger that the Luciferians will use to usher in the Great Deception. All one has to do is look at Iran, Syria, Russia and Israel to see that the situation is grave at best. Remember also that we have beefed up our military in the Persian Gulf, while Hezbollah has claimed that they have rockets that can reach Tel Aviv. It's a crazy world in which we live in. On one hand we have the marvel of the athletic competition, of the Olympic games, and on the other, a nun who is burned to death in India…
Jesus said, "As in the days of Noah, so it shall be when the son of man returns."
What differentiates those days is the manifestation of the fallen angels. Are we in those time now? Are we going to see the so called ET / Fallen angels manifest again? Are we in the window of time of the Great Deception?
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Understanding your prescription
Your prescription is split into three sections, Sphere, Cylinder and Axis. You will most commonly see this written as, Sph, Cyl and Axis.
There are simple rules for each part of the prescription
Sphere – Is always a number in 0.25 jumps (i.e. 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, 1.25). This can either be written in minus or plus (- or +).
IMPORTANT: You must select the correct symbol when ordering (minus or plus, – or +) as selecting the wrong sign will create the completely wrong prescription required to correct your vision.
Cyl – Is always a number in 0.25 jumps (i.e. 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1.00, 1.25). This can either be written in minus or plus.
IMPORTANT: You must select the correct symbol when ordering (minus or plus, – or +) as selecting the wrong sign will create the completely wrong prescription required to correct your vision.
Axis – Is a number between 0 and 180, it can also be written to point five (0.5) of a degree. This simply happens if the optometrist can't decide wether you prefer for example 79 or 80 so they simply write your axis as 79.5. In this case lets get your glasses as accurate as possible so please provide us with the 79.5.
The in instances when a prescription doesn't have a value for the Cyl section please leave the Axis blank (or some opticians write this as 0.00), the Axis is indicating what degree the Cyl figure sits at so if there is no Cyl there is no Axis required.
Other symbols which are often seen written in a glasses prescription
Infinity Symbol ∞ – this is another way of writing zero (no prescription) so simply select 0.00 into the corresponding section for either sphere or cyl.
Plano – this is another way of writing zero (no prescription) so simply select 0.00 into the corresponding section for either sphere or cyl.
Varifocals – What is the Add (Addition) part of my prescription?
You typically start to get the add part to a prescription when you hit 40+ and it is a measure of the amount of magnification you require to read.
The add is a plus (+) power which identifies how much extra addition (magnification) a glasses wearer requires (on top of their distance prescription) in order to read comfortably at close up distances, such as reading.
NOTE: Sometimes an optician will write your prescription for reading as a full prescription rather than simply supplying your reading add.
Right: -2.50 / -0.50 x 180
Left: -2.00 / -0.75 x 175
Right: -1.00 / -0.50 x 180
Left: -0.50 / -0.75 x 175
Reading Add = +1.50
In this case to get your reading add take your distance Prescription Sphere off your reading Shere. The difference between the two figures is your reading add used for Varifocals.
Let our Dispensing Optician Measure your Pupil Distance accurately
For the Pupil Distance options on the ordering pages select 'Let Extreme eyewear measure your PD' and we'll post you our specially designed glasses.
(Note: On some projects the PD option will state 'send ruler' this option will still get you the new PD Measuring Glasses)
All you have to do is take a simple photo of you wearing our glasses and emailing your photo to us.
Our Dispensing Optician will then accurately take your mono pupil distances. Our PD glasses allows our dispensing opticians to gain all the details they need to set up single vision and varifocal sunglasses / eyewear accurately.
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- You maybe lucky enough to have been given this by your optician
- You can select to have our Pupil Distance measuring glasses posted to you. These will leave us on the same day you place an order 1st class post.
Why have we gone to the trouble of supplying PD Glasses?
Prescription glasses and sunglasses always work better when the centre of the optical lens is over your pupil. Not having this set up correctly can cause head aches and limit how well the glasses will work.
Varifocal Wearers
If you don't know your Mono Pupil Distances (this is two separate measurements for your right and left pupils) we strongly advise you select to have our PD Glasses posted to you. Varifocals with out mono pupil distances will not work correctly.
If you know your Mono Pupil Distances during the checkout there is a comment box, please write your right and left mono pupil distances in this comment box.
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In the PD options select 'Let Extreme eyewear measure your PD'. The Digital ruler will be posted out on the same day as your order is placed to your shipping address supplied. (If your order comes in after 4.00pm the ruler will leave us the next day)
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Posts tagged with "hislope" and "tracking"
Boiling the soft egg aka Webcam Stories
If you came here after seeing my FOTB talk – that's great! Thank you!
Make sure you've seen the Black or White vs Machine Vision mash-up first.
Then head to the HiSlope GitHub repo to download/fork the HiSlope toolkit and have fun.
Yes, HiSlope is opensource!
I am going to add more examples, couple of cool and previously unreleased Pixel Bender filters and more tutorials/documentation soon, so make sure you follow me on Twitter @blog2t.
Please send comments and feedback, I'd really like to hear from you! Any Q&As - catch me at the conference.
Update: I've added the video from my pitch.12:16 AM | posts | 2 Comments | Tags: tracking, pixelbender, experimental, fx, source, hislope, as3
Machines are looking for Michael Jackson
Today passes my 5th year of living and working in the UK... feeling in sort of a nostalgic/festive mood, did some cool VJing last nite and decided to spend semi-hangovery afternoon doing some (softcore) flashcoding. I got some good feedback and suggestions (thanks you know who) to my recent Terminator Salvation "machine vision" experiment and decided to explore that area a bit further.
This time I've managed to add "the real face tracking" ported from OpenCV by Masakazu "Mash" Ohtsuka (with some great optimizations by Quasimondo) to my video processing framework (codename HiSlope) which should be hopefully released within a couple of weeks (still need to do some important/major refactoring). Follow me on twitter.com/blog2t for updates.
So I was looking for some perfect video to use for testing... couldn't think of anything really. Then suddenly the spirit of Michael Jackson (RIP) came to me and whispered into my ear: "Black or white?" – and it was all clear then :)
Enough words, click the image to sing along.
I found this video particularly challenging – with loads of head banging and different races (skin tones, facial hair etc.) – which actually makes a perfect source material for testing.
And again, I am really surprised by the final result – it's still not the fastest (I am getting 20 FPS in browser and about 35 FPS in standalone projector) but the main task is achieved.
The filters' settings were optimized for the video, so if you switch to the webcam mode you probably won't get your eyes detected (there's still a bit of work for me to do on it – that's why I am not releasing the sources yet), but do try to play with sliders, especially with HSBC (no, not the bank, it's Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast) – enable it by clicking the checkbox on the left) and Eye Finder – enable debug and adjust blur and fuziness.
So, where's Michael? He's wandering somewhere in that black puma's outfit, fighting with racism. Watch out!05:05 PM | posts | 21 Comments | Tags: tracking, as3, experimental, fx, flash ide, hislope
Realtime Terminator Salvation "Machine Vision" fx
Have you seen Terminator Salvation yet? There's a bunch of cool visual effects developed by Imaginary Forces, it shows the world as seen by machines. There's a lot of object tracking going on there, I was thinking whether I could recreate the whole thing just in pure AS3. And, well, here's the result (which I am actually very proud of) ;-)
Click image to activate, wait for the video to buffer (1.6MB) press EDIT button to play with the filters (in full screen mode). Enable your webcam (if you have one) and play about with sliders and checkboxes – try if your face can be tracked too – but then watch for evil Terminators – they'll come and get you! ;-) Btw. you can turn histograms for every filter - thanks to Quasimondo for the code.
This is a part of the whole video filter framework I am developing just now, the inspiration came from Joa Ebert's Image Processing library (as far as I know, he's cooking a complete rewrite). The full source code (including Pixel Bender kernels and examples) will be soon released on Google Code and will feature face/eye tracking/gestures and few other things (surprise!) A lot of people are very sceptic about the whole eye tracking idea, they don't believe it's precise enough to make any use of it – I will prove that it is, and it works! (just watch closely how it tracks my eyeballs on the video!)
My approach is to make everything as much simple as I can. If something cannot be achieved using this rule, I either abandon the idea completely or look for a simpler solution.
The face tracking is actually relatively simple, I will briefly describe each step:
- Brightness/Contrast (HBSC filter) - initial adjustment of the input (will be replaced with auto levels)
- Motion Capture - works the same way as the "movement watchdog" that's implemented in brains of almost all animals (including humans) in order to survive – it finds the rectangle area of the all the differences between two frames. This step could be much more complicated (i.e. I might use face detection or Eugene's motion tracker once he decides to release the source) but simple motion capturing is good enough for Machine Vision experiment here.
- Shape Depth Detector – finds centres of colour local maximums, play with the levels slider carefully to get more details – it works by posterising the image then does a very fast blob detection on every result colour – thanks to Kynd and Kampei Baba for sharing this technique.
Color Grading – identical to Photoshop's Gradient Map – uses
paletteMapto remap the colors.
- Machine Vision – the final and the most complicated filter – utilises Delaunay triangulation and Voronoï diagram by Nicoptere – it's fast enough to process it realtime (thanks for sharing!). Then it plots the points and lines and applies my spotlight effect class (another blog post on that subject coming soon) to achieve the final look. Btw. I've found another very cool experiment using Delaunay for face triangulation by Neuro Productions.
Other thanks goes to Mr. Doob for his stats widget, Bit-101 for the Minimal Comps and SubBlue for lots of inspiring technical discussions we've had during lunch breaks at tictoc.
Feel free to leave any comments questions and suggestions, I am really interested what you think. You can also follow my blog updates on Twitter or RSS. It's getting very late now, so I better go.
UPDATE: I am giving up, it's just too hard to track human's head, I gonna do next experiments with chickens:
If you liked this experiment, make sure you see the new version.


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Brando's only excursion into directing
Mr. Contrarian | Seattle, WA United States | 03/31/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I love this film, even though it might not deserve all the 5 stars I have given it. The DVD versions are (so far, up to Spring 2010) really poor transfers. Plus, it is not a movie for all tastes, because it was one of the first attempts to bring moral ambiguity, and psychological drama, to the western genre.
The film works extremely well on two levels, but is weak in another. The central plot is that Malden betrays Brando when they were both bank robbers. Malden uses the stolen money to "go straight," while Brando goes to prison. The clash between Brando and Malden, once Brando is out of prison, is tensely done and expertly acted. We might sympathize somewhat with Brando's character, because he is hot headed, passionate and vulnerable; but we know he is still a criminal. Despite being sheriff of Monterey, Malden's character has not changed at all. He still has a criminal mind but now wears the badge of legitimacy. There are no pure men (the women are flawed too) in this film. Their consistently wicked behavior, compared to the beautiful Monterey Peninsula setting, makes us wonder about the goodness of the human heart. This is the philosophical heart of the film and was striking even on my first viewing. The weakness of the film is the ending. It feels phony. In fact, the legend is that the ending was changed, on orders from the studio, to make it happy. I say, So What? Red River had a phony ending and it is one of the absolute classic westerns.
The fine acting by the two co-stars is alone worth viewing this film. Add the beautiful cinematography and we have a slightly flawed yet ground breaking western. The acting is excellent. How could it be otherwise? We have here Karl Malden, Slim Pickens, and Ben Johnson. Three of the most solid actors of their generation, in addition to Marlon Brando. Watch this film and be prepared for a surprise -- Brando could direct as well as act!
WARNING: Do not buy a DVD of this movie. All are poor in quality, because the film is now in the public domain. Even some of the VHS releases are poor. However, excellent VHS versions are available (look for editions released under the Paramount label). If you have a laserdisc player, try to find the widescreen version. The full screen version has more viewing area on the top and bottom, but the framing is better on the widescreen edition."
Marlon-acts & directs!!
Charles Mymit | 04/02/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One-Eyed jacks is a western starring Brando &directed by him aswell. Story line is good-Brando's friend Karl Malden plays his
role to a tee!Of course Brando is Brando-top acting! Can't go wrong with this flick."
P. Moodie | Australia | 05/07/2010
(4 out of 5 stars)
"We all know that this movie, One Eyed Jacks is a brilliant movie with Marlon Brando. And it is directed by the man himself. The entire movie, storyline and acting is still way ahead of many a today's movie. I have seen many a version of this dvd and the quality has been terrible,unwatchable. However, the DIGIVIEW version of ''One Eyed Jacks'' is the best I have ever seen. The standard of the ''natural''colour is very high. Even on my 46'' Toshiba LCD TV, the quality is still very high.
It is still lacking sharpness to detail compared to the best digitally re-mastered movies. This version is DEFINITELY WIDESCREEN with a 16:9 ratio (1:78:1) the same ratio as today's widescreen TV'S. (others have commented on this fact and it's quality, and their comments of the DIGIVIEW version are accurate). I have given it four stars because:- (1)a fantastic Marlon Brando Movie, still superior to many of today's movies (2) The high standard of ''natural''colour. (3) DIGIVIEW WIDESCREEN 16:9 RATIO.
I cannot give it five stars because it is still lacking in sharpness of detail viewed on a 46'' Toshiba LCD TV. I am looking forward to a first class re-mastering version of this dvd. Surely with Marlon Brando's popularity, someone should do it soon."


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Consecrated virgin. Deaconess. During an anti-Christian uprising in Alexandria, Egypt caused by a pagan prophecy, the mob seized Apollonia as a leader among the local Christians. After her teeth were broken with pincers, she was given the choice of renouncing Christ or being burned alive; she lept onto the fire herself. Martyr.
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One researcher has identified 11 new species of sweat bees, including a bug named in honor of Gotham City — but in a sense, these bees aren't new at all. They've probably been right under our noses all this time.
The new identifications were made by Cornell entomologist Jason Gibbs by checking dead-bee collections and conducting DNA tests. Species names and descriptions were published last month in the journal Zootaxa as part of a reshuffling of the family tree for 97 species of sweat bees. Gibbs said there may be thousands of bee species yet to be identified.
"This highlights the need for additional studies of our major pollinators," and not just honeybees, he told me.
One bee may look like another, but there can be subtle morphological and genetic differences that set them apart. If the bees are so dissimilar that they can't breed with each other, they're considered separate species. Mitochondrial DNA tests provide a reliable way to map out species relationships by revealing how long ago particular strains of creatures diverged. "These bees are morphologically and genetically distinct enough that you can say with confidence that they are their own species," Gibbs explained in a Cornell Chronicle interview.
Sweat bees are so named because they get some of their sustenance from licking the sweat off our skin. They nest in the ground or in tree cavities. Four of the species that Gibbs identified are "cuckoo bees," which have lost the ability to build their own nests and collect pollen. These species lay their eggs in the nests of other bees, which end up raising the invaders' progeny. That's the same sort of trick cuckoos pull in the bird world. (Gibbs named one of the cuckoo-bee species Lasioglossum izawsum, which is awesome.)
Four of the species were found in the New York City area, including a specimen that was collected at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 2009. That species was named Lasioglossum gotham, which led The New York Times to declare that the Big Apple "has a bee to call its own." Sure, Gotham may be one of New York's nicknames, but if you want to think of L. gotham as the "Batman bee" instead, no one's going to stop you.
The species names for the nine other newly identified strains are arantium, ascheri, batya, curculum, furunculum, georgeickworti, katherineae, rozeni and trigeminum. Some of these labels echo the names of other bee researchers: Cornell's George Eickwort, for example, or John Ascher and Jerome Rozen of the American Museum of Natural History. It was Ascher who found L. gotham and passed it along to Gibbs for identification. The Times reported that L. katherineae was identified by analyzing a dead bee that had been sitting in a drawer at the museum since 1903.
The fact that the list of bee species is a little longer than it used to be doesn't mean that the widely publicized crisis besetting the bees is over. Honeybees have been hard-hit by a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, which experts suspect is caused by a combination of mites, parasites, viruses and pesticides. Bumblebees are having problems, too.
"This discovery doesn't counter the idea that bees are declining," Gibbs told me. "What it points out is that there are a lot of species we don't enough about to say whether they're at a stable level."
Identifying the wide variety of bee species just might be the first step toward identifying the factors that keep some populations healthy while others are put at risk. "Even though these bees were only recently described, we can go back to the collections by digitizing records, and start comparing modern abundances," Gibbs said.
More about the bees:
- Big mystery surrounds bees' tiny foe
- New bee viruses found attacking healty hives
- Bees feel the sting of huge population plunge
- Four bumblebee species declining in North America
Gibbs' research was supported by the Canadian Barcode of Life Network through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Genome Canada, and the National Science Foundation. Gibbs was a researcher at York University in Toronto for a time while working on the study, which explains the Canadian connection.
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OMG! These cookies are so ridiculously cute. I just had to pin them and share on FB. Love them!ReplyDelete
Aren't these just the cutest cookies...you are so creative and your hubby is one lucky fella! XOXOReplyDelete
I love that gingham effect, I needed to make some the other day but the spray costs around $30 over here and I was too cheap to buy it, now seeing yours I so wish I did. The cute ketchup and mustard bottles are totally my favorite.ReplyDelete
These are entirely too cute. I love the little googly eyes on the bottles. So fun!ReplyDelete
These are the cutest cookies! You're inspiring me to get better at decorating :)ReplyDelete
I just love these to pieces! What a fun addition to any BBQ!ReplyDelete
You are just so creative!!! Super cute and perfect ideas for summer!ReplyDelete
These are adorable!!! I think the little bottles are plotting how to steal themselves a hot dog!ReplyDelete
Oh Sue these are adorable and PERFECT for Father's Day! Great job and thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
These are SO much fun!! I really love the googly eyes, they take those cookies to the next level. Wonderful set of treats!!ReplyDelete
The oven mitts are just too cute!ReplyDelete
This looks absolutely amazing my friend - well done :D
Oh my goodness! You always amaze me with your creativity and talents. These are so adorable!!! Yes, that pair of eyes and a smile brought these cookies to live! I love them.ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness Sue! These might just be my favourites of your cookies! They are so adorable! :D Each bottle of ketchup has a different expression!ReplyDelete
What a perfect way to commemorate Father's Day! I can't imagine a single dad who wouldn't adore them.ReplyDelete
These are so cute that I actually said out loud "Ah! Those are so cute!". Then I pinned them :)ReplyDelete
This is what I love about your creativity - you went the extra step and put eyes on the ketchup and mustard. This set is beyond adorable. LOVE!ReplyDelete
Stinkin' stinkin' cute! Love everything! You are the coolest mom and grandmom around. Those ketchup and mustard bottles are killer!ReplyDelete
These are incredibly cute! Shared on my FB page: facebook.com/HomeConfettiReplyDelete
SQUEEL!!! I'm in love with your mustard and ketchup bottles!ReplyDelete
These are so adorable, Sue! You truly are amazing! And the addition of the eyes is awesome!!!ReplyDelete
These are the cutest cookies I've ever seen!ReplyDelete
I seriously love those bottles of ketchup and mustard...the little faces!! SO adorable. :0)ReplyDelete
Oh my! These cookies are sooooooo cute!!!!ReplyDelete
These are just too stinkin' cute!!!ReplyDelete
Absolutely adorable! Love the little faces.ReplyDelete
How Adorable!! I can't make cookies to save my soul, but would love to be able to make these!ReplyDelete
These are just too cute!
Thanks for linking up! I featured your post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2012/diy-fathers-day-ideas/
Have a great Father's Day Weekend!
how adorable! perfect for dad's day! thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
These are adorable, Sue. I can't get over your creativity and talent with cookie shape ideas. Your a super fun grandma;)ReplyDelete
girl, you are seriously the most amazing baker everrrr.... i totally added these to my special post about father's day bbq ideas!ReplyDelete
Wow, your cookies are great! You did an amazing job.ReplyDelete
Those are too cute, Sue! What perfect cookies for summer.ReplyDelete
These are so adorable! Love the little eyes.ReplyDelete
Sooo cute, love the eyes and smiles on the bottles. ;)ReplyDelete
SUPER CUTE! Crossing my fingers you'll share at my party! Saturdays at Seven!
XO, Aimee
Those are the cutest cookies ever!ReplyDelete
These are such a fabulous treat for all dads. As always....you are so talented and creative.ReplyDelete
I can die over these adorable cookies. I actually would be able to grill. Love themReplyDelete
Cutest cookies I've ever seen. Love the ketchup and mustard bottles. So clever!ReplyDelete
Oh my. I don't think even the meanest meanie could look at those smiling ketchup and mustard bottles and not crack a smile.ReplyDelete
oh, my gosh! These are adorable! I have been dying to make the gingham cookies since I saw your post and the one on Glorious Treats. I got a Michael's gift card for my birthday. I WILL buy some spray paint!
The ketchup and mustard are just so cute! I can't get over them.
I wiwh I had seen this post come FD, but these would be great all summer long for BBQ's - NOT that I could actually pull even one off! They are AMAZING, Sue!ReplyDelete
So fun for summer!ReplyDelete
These are adorable! Found you from Something Swanky!!ReplyDelete
These are unreal. The expression on the faces of the K/M bottles is PRICELESS!ReplyDelete


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2 cloves garlic, minced
14 oz canned, diced tomatoes, drained
1 lb small or medium sized pasta, cooked
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PodCastle has just posted the podcast reading of my novella "The Cage," originally published in City of Saints and Madmen and reprinted in at least one year's best. The story can also be found in The Weird.
I first had the idea for "The Cage" at a bar mitzvah party. I saw a strange-looking cage wedged high up in a corner of a ledge in the banquet area. It didn't seem to fit. I worried that detail in my mind for quite awhile, not sure what it meant. Then one day we were traveling back from some event on the Florida coast and we passed by the University of Tampa, which is housed in part in an old former hotel. It was after hours, and we walked around that place, which was eerie and somewhat like The Shining hotel in both the decor and the way the silence was watchful. And behind glass, in an exhibit: another cage. At which point, something was sparked in my imagination and I suddenly had the core of the idea for the story.


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Just a note to say that Manalicious is participating in the Great Noblegarden Egg Hunt. The contest is open to all and sundry so if you want to take part, just follow the link and instructions to locate the eggs on all the participating blogs! Last year mine was kind of annoying to find so I'd say this year's is a bit easier, although hopefully not too easy. Try to find it without the hint first!
The contest starts tomorrow. Happy hunting, and good luck!


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Dr. John Cox of the Hope College English faculty is author of "Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith," which revisits the question of Shakespeare's connection with religion by focusing on the intersection of faith and skepticism in his writing.
Dr. John Cox of the Hope College English faculty is author of "Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith," which revisits the question of Shakespeare's connection with religion by focusing on the intersection of faith and skepticism in his writing.
The book was published earlier this fall through the new "Studies in Christianity and Literature" series of Baylor University Press of Waco, Texas.
Cox, who is the DuMez Professor of English at Hope, examines Shakespeare's works in the context of the 16th century, when thinkers such as Thomas More and Erasmus wrote skeptically to expose the weaknesses of Christians without doubting the truth of Christianity itself.
Cox sees in Shakespeare's work "continuing reflection on the narrative of salvation history and its way of imagining the human situation." In his preface Cox notes that Shakespeare's response to that situation "might better be described, I suggest, as suspicion than skepticism, because he is more doubtful about those who know than he is about what they know."
Debora Shuger of the English faculty at the University of California, Los Angeles has said of the book that "John Cox offers a compelling account of the Christian premises of Shakespeare's plays," noting that "'Seeming Knowledge' makes apparent how fully the faith informing Shakespeare's plays registers the duplicities of false consciousness and the opacity of mortal suffering."
Following an opening chapter on skepticism and suspicion in 16th-century England, the book is divided into two sections. The first considers Shakespeare's work by genre: "Comic Faith," "Tragic Grace," and "History and Guilt." The second explores ideas that can be discussed in the context of Shakespeare and skeptical faith, including faith, ethics, esthetics, and the relationship of Shakespeare's thought to contemporary thinking in France.
The title "Seeming Knowledge" is itself taken from one of Shakespeare's plays, "All's Well That Ends Well": "They say miracles are past, and we have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
Cox wrote "Seeming Knowledge" with support from a prestigious fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) that he had received for the 2004-05 school year. He had previously received NEH awards for two other book projects. His first book, "Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power," published by Princeton University Press in 1989, was supported by another year-long fellowship from the NEH. In 1993, he was awarded a summer grant from NEH to work on his third book, "The Devil and the Sacred in Early English Drama," published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.
Cox is also co-editor of two other books: "A New History of Early English Drama," published in 1997 by Columbia University Press, and the Third Arden Shakespeare edition of "Henry VI, Part 3," published by Thomson Learning in 2001. He has also written many scholarly articles and book reviews on Renaissance drama and contemporary writers.


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Academic hoaxes are nothing new. In 1768 the Baron d'Holbach published the Portable Theology, or Brief Dictionary of the Christian Religion — slyly attributing authorship to the Abbé Bernier — in which he stoutly defended the prevailing Christian dogmas with entries like:
Doctrine: What every good Christian must believe or else be burned, be it in this world or the next. The dogmas of the Christian religion are immutable decrees of God, who cannot change His mind except when the Church does.Probably not very many people were taken in by the hoax. But d'Holbach's mordant satire was brilliant nonetheless, and it circulated clandestinely for decades.
In 1931 the physicist Hans Bethe and two colleagues published — while they were still postdoctoral fellows — a short article titled "On the quantum theory of the temperature of absolute zero," in the journal Die Naturwissenschaften, parodying speculative attempts to determine the fundamental constants of nature by numerology Senior physicists were not amused, and the authors were forced to apologize.
In 1943 the young Australian writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart hoaxed the modernist literary journal Angry Penguins into publishing 16 poems allegedly found among the papers of a recently deceased — but, alas, fictitious — poet, Ern Malley:
We opened books at random, choosing a word or phrase haphazardly. We made lists of these and wove them into nonsensical sentences. We misquoted and made false allusions. We deliberately perpetrated bad verse, and selected awkward rhymes from a Ripman's Rhyming Dictionary.The hoax was quickly outed in the Australian press, and the editor of Angry Penguins held up to ridicule. But some critics nowadays claim that "crazy as it seems, the Malley poems do have merit."
So there were precedents — most of which I was unaware of at the time — for my parody article, "Transgressing the boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity," which was published in the spring/summer 1996 issue of the cultural-studies journal Social Text.
But in the past few years, academic hoaxes seem to have proliferated. In 2014 the French sociologists Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin hoaxed the journal Sociétés — edited at the time by the very media-savvy French sociologist Michel Maffesoli — into publishing a hilarious article gushing over the Parisian rental car Autolib' as:
a privileged indicator of a macrosocial dynamics underlying the transition of a "modern" episteme to "postmodern" episteme. Through the analysis of the vehicle aesthetics (which is characterized here as poly-identificatory) and its most salient functional features (for instance, the connected electric car illustrates the contemporary topos of "dynamic rootedness"), the article interprets the various socio-anthropological aspects of the "Autolib' " and finally emphasizes the fact that this small car is, among other things, the product/producer of a new "semantic basin."In 2016 the French philosophers Anouk Barberousse and Philippe Huneman hoaxed the journal Badiou Studies — "a multilingual, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the philosophy and thought of and surrounding the philosopher, playwright, novelist and poet Alain Badiou" — into publishing an article titled "Ontology, Neutrality and the Strive for (non-)Being-Queer" as part of a special issue, "Towards a Queer Badiousian Feminism." The abstract gives a bit of the flavor:
Since "gender" has been continually the name of a dialectics of the continued institution of gender into an ontological difference and the failure of gendering, it is worth addressing the prospects of any gender-neutral discourse through the tools of Badiousian ontology. As established by Badiou in Being and Event, mathematics — as set theory — is the ultimate ontology. Sets are what gendering processes by reactionary institutions intend to hold, in contradiction to the status of the multiplicities proper to each subject qua subject. This tension between subjectivity and gender comes to the fore through the lens of the 'count-as-one,' the ontological operator identified by Badiou as the fluid mediator between set-belonging and set-existence …And so on for 23 pages. (Curiously enough, Alain Badiou himself is a member of the journal's editorial board.)
So it was a pleasure to read this year's contribution to the genre, "The conceptual penis as a social construct," by Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay (writing under the pseudonyms Jamie Lindsay and Peter Boyle). I'd like to offer a few brief thoughts, first about the article itself, and secondly about what I think its publication does and does not prove. For it seems to me that this hoax, while both amusing and instructive, proves somewhat less than the authors have claimed for it.
The underlying theme of the article — that hypermasculine "machismo braggadocio" can have negative consequences for both men and women — is not, in and of itself, ridiculous; on the contrary, it is by now a commonplace, accepted by almost everyone (including the authors of the parody). So, beyond that platitude, what is novel in this article that makes it worthy of publication in a scholarly journal of sociology?
The answer, in my humble opinion, is: nothing.
The most telling parts of the article, I think, are the passages in which the authors buttress their claims by citing a provably meaningless article that they had produced using the Postmodernism Generator. For instance:
This tendency [to use the word "dick" as a verb] is easily explained by extrapolation upon McElwaine (1999), who demonstrates clearly that, "Sexual identity is fundamentally used in the service of hierarchy; however, according to Werther (1977), it is not so much sexual identity that is fundamentally used in the service of hierarchy, but rather the dialectic, and hence the defining characteristic, of sexual identity. The subject is contextualised into a subcultural desituationism that includes sexuality as a reality."The reference list cites five nonexistent articles by nonexistent authors. Even the copy editors at Cogent Social Sciences, it seems, were asleep at the wheel.
But not every sentence in the article is completely meaningless, and not every assertion is made entirely without argument. Even the article's most amusingly outrageous claim — that "the conceptual penis … is the conceptual driver behind much of climate change" — is supported by some argumentation, however flimsy:
Destructive, unsustainable hegemonically male approaches to pressing environmental policy and action are the predictable results of a raping of nature by a male-dominated mind-set. This mind-set is best captured by recognizing the role of [sic] the conceptual penis holds over masculine psychology. When it is applied to our natural environment, especially virgin environments that can be cheaply despoiled for their material resources and left dilapidated and diminished when our patriarchal approaches to economic gain have stolen their inherent worth, the extrapolation of the rape culture inherent in the conceptual penis becomes clear.Let me even go out on a limb: it is conceivable that this sketch of an argument — on the connection between masculine psychology and environmental destruction — could be transformed, by marshaling additional evidence, into something halfway convincing. But as it stands, this reasoning would barely merit a C− in a freshman course.
So how did such a worthless article get published? Boghossian and Lindsay opine that
There are at least two deeply troublesome diseases damaging the credibility of the peer-review system in fields such as gender studies:
1. the echo-chamber of morally driven fashionable nonsense coming out of the postmodernist social "sciences" in general, and gender studies departments in particular and
2. the complex problem of pay-to-publish journals with lax standards that cash in on the ultracompetitive publish-or-perish academic environment. At least one of these sicknesses led to "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" being published as a legitimate piece of academic scholarship, and we can expect proponents of each to lay primary blame upon the other.The latter prediction was astute, and it has been amply borne out by the commentary thus far on the hoax. But I would like to add some nuances concerning the two "sicknesses" diagnosed by Boghossian and Lindsay, starting with the second.
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Of the more than 168,000 patients who undergo hip replacement surgery every year in the U.S., as many as 20% require subsequent revision surgery due to aseptic loosening and periprosthetic osteolysis. The goal of the Osteolysis Research Laboratory is to develop, at the cellular and molecular levels, a better understanding of the events which lead to periprosthetic osteolysis. We are approaching this in four ways:
1. Firstly, we will be focusing on the roles of wear debris particles derived from the prostheses or bone cement in perturbing the complex intracellular signaling pathways within the cells around the prosthesis. It is known that macrophages within the periprosthetic membrane phagocytose these particles, and results from our laboratory have shown that this interaction between macrophage cells and particles can initiate pro-inflammatory cytokine signaling pathways, whilst concurrently inhibiting anti-inflammatory pathways.
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3. We will complement our cell culture studies by directly examining revision tissues obtained from patients. Systematic analysis of these tissues by immunohistochemistry and in-situ hybridization is expected to provide important indicators of the mechanism of pathogenesis.
4. Finally, we are developing a mouse model for periprosthetic osteolysis. Currently used mouse models of osteolysis do not involve prostheses and do not target the effective joint space. The model under development at HSS involves introduction of bone cement particles around a titanium pin inserted into the tibia and, as such, is more closely analogous than other models to the human disease. Once optimized, we will use this model to test the involvement of key cytokines and other signaling molecules in wear debris induced osteolysis
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Purdue, P.E. and P.B. Lazarow. Peroxisome Biogenesis. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 17: 701-752 (2001).
Purdue, P.E. And P.B. Lazarow. Pex18p is constitutively degraded during peroxisome biogenesis. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 47684-47689 (2001).
Purdue, P.E., J. Zhang, M. Skoneczny and P.B. Lazarow. Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata is caused by deficiency of human Pex7p, a homologue of the yeast PTS2 receptor. Nature Genetics, 15: 381-384 (1997).
Danpure, C.J. and P.E. Purdue. Primary hyperoxaluria. In "The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease" (7th Edition), McGraw-Hill, Eds. Scriver, C.R., Beaudet, A.L., Sly, W.S. and Valle, D., pp 2385-2424 (1995)
DS Rakshit, K Ly, TK Sengupta, BJ Nestor, TP Sculco, LB Ivashkiv and E Purdue. (2005) Wear debris inhibition of anti-osteoclastogenic signaling by IL6 and IFN-gamma; mechanistic insights and implications for periprosthetic osteolysis. Submitted to The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.
Nair DM, Purdue PE, Lazarow PB. (2004) Pex7p translocates in and out of peroxisomes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J. Cell Biol. 167:599-604.
For more publications, please see the PubMed listing.
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