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Madoff Email: Banks Were in on Ponzi Scheme
In a letter to MarketWatch, Bernard Madoff writes that banks knew of his Ponzi scheme all along. MarketWatch's Chris Noble discusses the details of the letter. (Photo: Getty Images)
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From a thermodynamics perspective, all systems, even the universe itself, are all driven by two aspects of their state—entropy and energy. Any closed system will simultaneously tend towards a minimum energy or maximum entropy state—open systems behave differently, but the idea is similar. Under a variety of conditions, these two states represent opposites: a system that has obtained the maximum possible entropy is often a high energy state; conversely, the low energy state may be a nicely ordered system with little disorder.
It can be tough to study what entropy alone can do. In real world systems, energetic contributions—such as changes in chemical bonds—often dominate, preventing us from observing the beauty of what disorder alone can accomplish. To overcome the shackles of reality, researchers have employed molecular thermodynamic simulations to study hard systems—those that have no attractive forces, but do exhibit repulsion due to the shapes of individual particles. This allows researchers to study a system where the only available energy state is zero, and the thermodynamic properties are driven by entropic considerations alone.
Under certain conditions—high density or pressure—simple systems such as this tend not to arrive at a state of disorder as they attempt to maximize their entropy. Simulations of hard spheres (billiard balls) will show that, at low pressures, a disordered, random state is favored by thermodynamics. But, at high enough pressures, an ordered state emerges, resulting in a close packing arrangement of the spheres—the same shape that one gets when stacking cannon balls.
Recent simulations, the results of which are presented in a recent edition of Nature, examined how hard tetrahedrons (four sided pyramids) behave when compressed. The result is not a simple shape (like the face-centered cubic packing that spheres exhibit). Instead, a complex quasicrystal emerges from the disorder—a result that shocked all involved.
Where regular crystals are defined as solids made of regular repeating units (called unit cells) that exhibit long-range ordering. Quasicrystals exhibit long range order, but have no regular packing arrangement; there is no simple unit cell that ends up being repeated.
In the new research, compressing tetrahedrons produced a structure that consisted of 12-fold quasicrystals, parallel stacks of rings around pentagonal dipyramids. The simulations found that the packing fraction for the structure (the ratio of space taken up by solids to the total space available) to be 0.8503, well above the previous packing record for tetrahedrons, 0.782, which was obtained earlier this summer.
For those not overly enamored with the power of entropy to drive order, or how tightly you can pack your d4 die into your bag of holding, the implications of this work go deeper than you might expect. The tetrahedron is a shape that's commonly found in nature, and seeing how it can be ordered can lead to advances in understanding of complex systems.
More generally, this is the further evidence that entropy alone can drive extremely complex phenomena (researchers have made entire academic careers out of understanding "simple" hard systems). It may help further our understanding of the emergent behaviors seen in natural systems.
Nature, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/nature08641
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A Little Respect Goes A Long Way
Posted on June 28, 2011 by AlTheRespectGuy
Someone once said that a little respect goes a long way. I believe that self respect goes with you a lifetime.
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RESPECT Quote – William Lyon Phelps
Posted on June 25, 2011 by AlTheRespectGuy
"This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him"
– William Lyon Phelps
(American Educator, Journalist and Professor, 1865-1943)
This is a quote that The ROAR Show School Assembly Program has collected. ROAR is an acronym for Respect Others and Act Responsibly. Each quote deals with the topics of respect, responsibility, self-esteem, character building, manners, proper behavior, friendship and/or anti-bullying. We've enjoyed collecting these quotes and hope you enjoy reading them as well. We are happy to share them with you here. If you have any submissions on these topics please send them to us. Thank you, Al The Respect Guy
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The most significant moment during an emotion-filled evening was not when Columbus Crew forward Jairo Arrieta scored the first goal, nor the save in stoppage time by Andy Gruenebaum to preserve the 1-1 tie Wednesday against the LA Galaxy.
No, what the Crew will remember from their first match since the unexpected death of rookie midfielder Kirk Urso on Aug. 5 was the presence of his family in the Crew Stadium locker room after the match.
WATCH: Tributes to Urso around Crew Stadium
Grief-stricken parents Michael and Sandra Urso and Kirk's brother, Kyle, came from Lombard, Ill., where they had buried their son on Saturday with the entire Crew team in attendance.
"I really appreciate them showing up," goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum said. "I know how tough it is, but it's great for everyone to see them because they're part of our family. They'll always be."
There was applause from the hushed locker room when the Ursos entered.
"For them to watch the team their son played for made me want to win the game that much more for him," midfielder Eddie Gaven. "If we work with that kind of spirit, if we fight like that throughout the year, not only are we going to win more games than we lose but we're going to be honoring Kirk's memory pretty well."
There was a pregame ceremony for Urso that included a video, and even though the team had seen a prior screening it still made an impact.
WATCH: Urso tribute video
"I had seen the video already but pretty much lost it after that," Gruenebaum said. "A lot of guys were affected by it. It was tough to refocus but the whistle's going to blow and we had to be ready."
Columbus labored through the first 20 minutes or so but then started clicking even though they did not go ahead until the 47th minute on Arrieta's third goal in five games since the Costa Rican forward joined the team in late June.
He understood how special the goal was.
"I didn't know him as much as everybody else, but the few times I met him, he was a great guy," Arrieta said through a translator. "I wanted to dedicate the goal to him and his family in these tough times."
And though a tie at home is not usually a good result, Crew head coach Robert Warzycha knew this was no ordinary night.
"It was a difficult game for us to play," he said. "The three points were not the most important thing for us. There is something bigger we played for."


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The open source appliance platform
Frank Ableson, Software designer
Summary: Android is a complete operating environment based upon the Linux® V2.6 kernel. Initially, the deployment target for Android was the mobile-phone arena, including smart phones and lower-cost flip-phone devices. However, Android's full range of computing services and rich functional support have the potential to extend beyond the mobile-phone market. Android can be useful for other platforms and applications. In this article, get an introduction to the Android platform and learn how to code a basic Android application.
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The BlackBerry and iPhone, which have appealing and high-volume mobile platforms, are addressing opposite ends of a spectrum. The BlackBerry is rock-solid for the enterprise business user. For a consumer device, it's hard to compete with the iPhone for ease of use and the "cool factor." Android, a young and yet-unproven platform, has the potential to play at both ends of the mobile-phone spectrum and perhaps even bridge the gulf between work and play.
Today, many network-based or network-capable appliances run a flavor of the Linux kernel. It's a solid platform: cost-effective to deploy and support and readily accepted as a good design approach for deployment. The UI for such devices is often HTML-based and viewable with a PC or Mac browser. But not every appliance needs to be controlled by a general computing device. Consider a conventional appliance, such as a stove, microwave or bread maker. What if your household appliances were controlled by Android and boasted a color touch screen? With an Android UI on the stove-top, the author might even be able to cook something.
In this article, learn about the Android platform and how it can be used for mobile and nonmobile applications. Install the Android SDK and build a simple application. Download the source code for the example application in this article.
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A brief history of Android
The Android platform is the product of the Open Handset Alliance, a group of organizations collaborating to build a better mobile phone. The group, led by Google, includes mobile operators, device handset manufacturers, component manufacturers, software solution and platform providers, and marketing companies. From a software development standpoint, Android sits smack in the middle of the open source world.
The first Android-capable handset on the market was the G1 device manufactured by HTC and provisioned on T-Mobile. The device became available after almost a year of speculation, where the only software development tools available were some incrementally improving SDK releases. As the G1 release date neared, the Android team released SDK V1.0 and applications began surfacing for the new platform.
To spur innovation, Google sponsored two rounds of "Android Developer Challenges," where millions of dollars were given to top contest submissions. A few months after the G1, the Android Market was released, allowing users to browse and download applications directly to their phones. Over about 18 months, a new mobile platform entered the public arena.
The Android platform
With Android's breadth of capabilities, it would be easy to confuse it with a desktop operating system. Android is a layered environment built upon a foundation of the Linux kernel, and it includes rich functions. The UI subsystem includes:
Widgets for displaying common elements such as edit boxes, lists, and drop-down lists
Android includes an embeddable browser built upon WebKit, the same open source browser engine powering the iPhone's Mobile Safari browser.
Android boasts a healthy array of connectivity options, including WiFi, Bluetooth, and wireless data over a cellular connection (for example, GPRS, EDGE, and 3G). A popular technique in Android applications is to link to Google Maps to display an address directly within an application. Support for location-based services (such as GPS) and accelerometers is also available in the Android software stack, though not all Android devices are equipped with the required hardware. There is also camera support.
Historically, two areas where mobile applications have struggled to keep pace with their desktop counterparts are graphics/media, and data storage methods. Android addresses the graphics challenge with built-in support for 2-D and 3-D graphics, including the OpenGL library. The data-storage burden is eased because the Android platform includes the popular open source SQLite database. Figure 1 shows a simplified view of the Android software layers.
Figure 1. Android software layers
Application architecture
As mentioned, Android runs atop a Linux kernel. Android applications are written in the Java programming language, and they run within a virtual machine (VM). It's important to note that the VM is not a JVM as you might expect, but is the Dalvik Virtual Machine, an open source technology. Each Android application runs within an instance of the Dalvik VM, which in turn resides within a Linux-kernel managed process, as shown below.
Figure 2. Dalvik VM
An Android application consists of one or more of the following classifications:
Activities An application that has a visible UI is implemented with an activity. When a user selects an application from the home screen or application launcher, an activity is started. Services A service should be used for any application that needs to persist for a long time, such as a network monitor or update-checking application. Content providers You can think of content providers as a database server. A content provider's job is to manage access to persisted data, such as a SQLite database. If your application is very simple, you might not necessarily create a content provider. If you're building a larger application, or one that makes data available to multiple activities or applications, a content provider is the means of accessing your data. Broadcast receivers An Android application may be launched to process a element of data or respond to an event, such as the receipt of a text message.
An Android application, along with a file called AndroidManifest.xml, is deployed to a device. AndroidManifest.xml contains the necessary configuration information to properly install it to the device. It includes the required class names and types of events the application is able to process, and the required permissions the application needs to run. For example, if an application requires access to the network — to download a file, for example — this permission must be explicitly stated in the manifest file. Many applications may have this specific permission enabled. Such declarative security helps reduce the likelihood that a rogue application can cause damage on your device.
The next section discusses the development environment required to build an Android application.
Required tools
The easiest way to start developing Android applications is to download the Android SDK and the Eclipse IDE (see Resources). Android development can take place on Microsoft® Windows®, Mac OS X, or Linux.
This article assumes you are using the Eclipse IDE and the Android Developer Tools plug-in for Eclipse. Android applications are written in the Java language, but compiled and executed in the Dalvik VM (a non-Java virtual machine). Coding in the Java language within Eclipse is very intuitive; Eclipse provides a rich Java environment, including context-sensitive help and code suggestion hints. Once your Java code is compiled cleanly, the Android Developer Tools make sure the application is packaged properly, including the AndroidManifest.xml file.
It's possible to develop Android applications without Eclipse and the Android Developer Tools plug-in, but you would need to know your way around the Android SDK.
The Android SDK is distributed as a ZIP file that unpacks to a directory on your hard drive. Since there have been several SDK updates, it is recommended that you keep your development environment well organized so you can easily switch between SDK installations. The SDK includes:
android.jar Java archive file containing all of the Android SDK classes necessary to build your application. documention.html and docs directory The SDK documentation is provided locally and on the Web. It's largely in the form of JavaDocs, making it easy to navigate the many packages in the SDK. The documentation also includes a high-level Development Guide and links to the broader Android community. Samples directory The samples subdirectory contains full source code for a variety of applications, including ApiDemo, which exercises many APIs. The sample application is a great place to explore when starting Android application development. Tools directory Contains all of the command-line tools to build Android applications. The most commonly employed and useful tool is the adb utility (Android Debug Bridge). usb_driver Directory containing the necessary drivers to connect the development environment to an Android-enabled device, such as the G1 or the Android Dev 1 unlocked development phone. These files are only required for developers using the Windows platform.
Android applications may be run on a real device or on the Android Emulator, which ships with the Android SDK. Figure 3 shows the Android Emulator's home screen.
Figure 3. Android Emulator
Android Debug Bridge
The adb utility supports several optional command-line arguments that provide powerful features, such as copying files to and from the device. The shell command-line argument lets you connect to the phone itself and issue rudimentary shell commands. Figure 4 shows the adb shell command against a real device connected to a Windows laptop with a USB cable.
Figure 4. Using the adb shell command
Within this shell environment, you can:
Display the network configuration that shows multiple network connections. Note the multiple network connections:
is the local or loopback connection.
is the WiFi connection with an address provisioned by a local DHCP server.
Display the contents of the
PATH environment variable.
Execute the
su command to become the super-user.
Change the directory to /data/app, where user applications are stored.
Do a directory listing where you see a single application. Android application files are actually archive files that are viewable with WinZip or equivalent. The extension is apk.
Issue a ping command to see if Google.com is available.
From this same command-prompt environment, you can also interact with SQLite databases, start programs, and many other system-level tasks. This is fairly remarkable function, considering you're connected to a telephone.
In the next section, you'll create a simple Android application.
Coding a basic application
This section provides a whirlwind tour of building an Android application. The example application is about as simple as you can imagine: a modified "Hello Android" application. You'll add a minor modification to make the screen background color all white so you can use the phone as a flashlight. Not very original, but it will be useful as an example. Download the full source code.
To create an application in Eclipse, select File > New > Android project , which starts the New Android Project wizard.
Figure 5. New Android project wizard
Next, you create a simple application with a single activity, along with a UI layout stored in main.xml. The layout contains a text element you're going to modify to say Android FlashLight. The simple layout is shown below.
Listing 1. Flashlight layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:background="@color/all_white"> <TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:text="@string/hello" android:textColor="@color/all_black" android:gravity="center_horizontal"/> </LinearLayout>
Create a couple of color resources in strings.xml.
Listing 2. Color in strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <string name="hello">Android FlashLight</string> <string name="app_name">FlashLight</string> <color name="all_white">#FFFFFF</color> <color name="all_black">#000000</color> </resources>
The main screen layout has a background color defined as all_white. In the strings.xml file, you see that all_white is defined as an RGB triplet value of #FFFFFF, or all white.
The layout contains a single TextView, which is really just a piece of static text; it is not editable. The text is set to be black and is centered horizontally with the gravity attribute.
The application has a Java source file called FlashLight.java, as shown below.
Listing 3. Flashlight.java
package com.msi.flashlight; import android.app.Activity; import android.os.Bundle; public class FlashLight extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
The code is boiler-plate directly from the New Project wizard:
is part of a Java package called com.msi.flashlight.
has two imports:
One for the activity class
One for the bundle class
When this activity is initiated, the onCreate method is invoked, passing in a savedInstanceState. Don't be concerned with this bundle for our purposes; it is used when an activity is suspended and then resumed.
The onCreate method is an override of the activity class method of the same name. It calls the super class's onCreate method.
call to setContentView() associates the UI layout defined in the file main.xml. Anything in main.xml and strings.xml gets automatically
mapped to constants defined in the R.java source file. Never edit this file directly, as it is changed upon every build.
Running the application presents a white screen with black text.
Figure 6. White screen of flashlight
The AndroidManifest.xml file setup for the FlashLight application is shown below.
Listing 4. AndroidManifest.xml for FlashLight
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.msi.flashlight"
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name"> <activity android:name=".FlashLight" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> </manifest>
This file was created automatically by the Android Developer Tools plug-in for Eclipse. You didn't have to do anything.
Of course, the application is not terribly magnificent. But it could come in handy if you want to do some reading without disturbing your sleeping spouse, or if you need to find your way to the fuse box in the basement during a power outage.
In this article, you learned about Android at a very high level and built a small application. Hopefully, the example got you excited enough to explore more of the Android platform. Android promises to be a market-moving open source platform that will be useful well beyond cell phones.
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Springtime in Full Bloom at Texas State Parks
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March 8, 2012
AUSTIN – What looks to be a promising wildflower season has started early this year and Texas State Parks remain some of the best and safest places to see and photograph a dazzling array of bluebonnets, mountain laurels and other blooming flora.
This comes as good news for wildflower fans on the heels of last year's record-setting heat wave and drought that make wildflower season a bust throughout most of a state that boasts more than 5,000 wildflower species. Most parts of Texas as of late, however, are benefiting from the late fall and winter rains and warmer-than-normal January and February temperatures.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department botanists and state park natural resources specialists concur with Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's prediction of an impressive wildflower season thanks to well-timed moisture in central, eastern and northern parts of Texas.
Even in drought-stricken West Texas, state park field reports show exceptions to the rule of a poor wildflower showing.
"The rains and snow, coupled with recent suitable temperatures have proven to be the perfect combination for a beautiful and prolific Mexican gold poppy blooming season," reports Adrianna Weickhardt, interpretive ranger for Franklin Mountains State Park in El Paso. "We'll be celebrating with the Poppies Festival at nearby Castner Range on March 31."
"It's a great spring in East Texas," says TPWD botanist Jason Singhurst, who has been seeing lots of sandyland bluebonnets (Lupinus subcarnous) that are expected to reach full bloom in coming weeks.
Singhurst also looks for good crops of Texas groundsel, bluets, white trout lily, mayapples and other flowering flora in the piney woods and post oak savannah of East Texas. He recommends Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway, and Tyler and Purtis Creek state parks as good wildflower-viewing locations in East Texas.
TPWD botanist Jackie Poole concurs with her fellow botanist about a promising wildflower season and notes "some weird things happening" where spring bloomers are concerned around Austin.
"Texas mountain laurels already have bloomed ahead of agarita and Mexican buckeye that usually come first," Poole says. "The drought may be causing some species to flower earlier or later than normal, but I've got a great crop of bluebonnets, as well as many other species, in my yard. Give us some sunny, warm days and things will really start to pop."
Sandy soils typically produce some of the better wildflower displays, according to Poole, so wildflower lovers in central Texas should consider visiting Palmetto and Inks Lake state parks, as well Enchanted Rock State Natural Area north of Fredericksburg.
Just outside Bandera, park staff report "Hill Country State Natural Area has put on her spring bonnet with purple mountain laurel, hot pink redbuds and bright yellow agarita bushes all ablaze. The fragrances are fabulous and the wildflowers are just starting up and promise to be in full bloom after early spring rains and sunny days."
A healthy crop of bluebonnet rosettes spotted in mid-February are now starting to bloom in Goliad State Park, where spring arrived early, and park ranger Tammy Zellner promises "somewhat of a bumper crop this year." In addition, she reports pink evening primrose, winecup, blue-curls and Indian paintbrush are starting to put on blooms.
In parts of central and north Texas, Texans are already being treated to the colorful blooms of such flowering trees as redbuds, peach, pear and Mexican plum. Judging from the profusion of pink blooms on peach trees recently spied around Fredericksburg and Stonewall, barring an unpredictable late spring freeze, peach lovers are in for a mouth-watering season.
Wildflower season at Lyndon B. Johnson State Park & Historic Site takes on special meaning this year during Texas' year-long celebration of the 100th birthday of one of the state's biggest wildflower champions, Lady Bird Johnson, who would have turned 100 years old this December. LBJ Park Superintendent Iris Neffendorf expects showy displays of bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush and other along park trails and roads.
In honor of Mrs. Johnson, the park has installed a new wildflower display inside the Visitors Center to help with wildflower identification along the park's nature trail that Lady Bird helped get developed and frequently strolled. On May 5 and 12, park will host a guided nature walk to highlight its flora, fauna and history.
Some of the most eye-popping wildflower crops to be viewed year-in, year-out are found in rolling, verdant Washington County. Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site between Brenham and Navasota offers great wildflower diversity among 293 acres of natural riverside beauty, as well as an informative primer on early Republic of Texas history. Rewarding patches also can be seen near Houston at Brazos Bend andGalveston state parks.
For updated statewide wildflower reports, visit the Texas Department of Transportation's Web site or call 1-800-452-9292 that details where noteworthy stands of wildflowers have been sighted along the state's highways.
Additional field reports this week from park staff:
San Angelo State Park – Fairly decent rainfall as well as some snow have resulted in blankets of bladderpods, small patches of plains yellow daisy, Dutchman breeches, windflower and fringed puccoon. Smaller flowering plants, such as peppergrass, cranesbill and henbit are becoming abundant as well.
Mustang Island State Park – We have some beach evening primrose lighting up the dunes.
Goose Island State Park – We should have somewhat of a bumper crop this year. The field behind the Rec Hall is covered in bluebonnets and wildflowers are sprouting all over the Lamar Peninsula.
Colorado Bend State Natural Area – There are some serious mountain laurel displays and we're expecting the bluebonnet crop to be great.
Enchanted Rock State Natural Area – Bluebonnets are coming out and should be in full bloom within the next couple of weeks, and the Mexican redbud and mountain laurels are blooming.
Government Canyon State Natural Area – Wildflower season is in full swing. Currently, the hills and savannah are covered in a mix of golden-eye phlox and prolific displays of low bladderpod. Bluebonnets are just beginning to open and will be in full bloom within the next week or two.
Lost Maples State Natural Area – Mountain laurels are putting on blooms.
McKinney Falls State Park – Bluebonnets starting to bloom.
South Llano River State Park – The wildflowers are just getting started, but right now, we have prairie verbena and agarita blooming. In the next few weeks, redbuds should be blooming and shortly thereafter the mountain laurels should join the verbena in an awesome show.
Wildflowers appear to be abundant in most parks in this region, but peaking about two weeks earlier than normal. Right now, flatwoods plums and redbuds are in full bloom at Huntsville and Stephen F. Austinstate parks.
Dinosaur Valley State Park – Bluebonnets will be the major flower here.
Cedar Hill State Park – We have done several prescribed burns of Blackland Prairie remnants at the sound end of the park. Typically, this results in an extra special mix of wildflowers, including wild foxglove, prairie celestials, wild hyacinth and Engelmann's daisy, lasting through spring months.
Ray Roberts Lake State Park and Greenbelt – At this time, visitors are seeing oft-overlooked, but lovely early spring wildflowers such as small bluets, spring beauty, vetch and crow poison, as well as blooming Mexican plum trees. Soon to show their blooms will be bluebonnets, Indian blanket, fire wheels, pink evening primrose, prairie spiderwort, dotted blue-eyed grass, Drummonds wild onion, lemon bee balm, brown-eyed Susan and green wild indigo .
Purtis Creek State Park – We should have bluebonnets in bloom this month. There's a large patch at the office, should be blooming sporadically throughout the park, along with Indian paintbrush and other species.
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Basil Cheesman Bunting (March 3, 1900 – April 17, 1985) was a British modernist poet.
I SUGGEST Advice to Young Poets[edit]
- Compose aloud: poetry is a sound.
- Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader, but is the rare one with ears in his head.
- I SUGGEST Advice to Young Poets Basili Bunting Poetry Archive, Durham University Library 190
Basil Bunting on Poetry[edit]
- All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own."
- Basil Bunting on Poetry ed Peter Makin, The Johns Hopkins University Press; New edition (1 Oct 2003) ISBN 978-0801877506
Gin the Goodwife Stint, from Odes I:14 (1930)[edit]
- Gin the goodwife stint
and the bairns hunger
the Duke can get his rent
one year longer.
- The Duke can get his rent
and we can get our ticket
twa pund emigrant
on a C.P.R. packet.
from "Villon" (1930)[edit]
- He whom we anatomized
'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers
and thought on his wit and how neatly he described things'
to us, hatching marrow,
broody all night over the bones of a deadman.
- Then he saw his ghosts glitter with golden hands,
the Emperor sliding up and up from his tomb
alongside Charles. These things are not obliterate.
White gobs spitten for mockery;
and I too shall have CY GIST, written over me.
- Remember, imbeciles and wits,
sots and ascetics, fair and foul,
young girls with little tender tits,
that DEATH is written over all.
Worn hides that scarcely clothe the soul
they are so rotten, old and thin,
or firm and soft and warm and full—
fellmonger Death gets every skin.
- Mine was a threeplank bed whereon
I lay and cursed the weary sun.
They took away the prison clothes
and on the frosty nights I froze.
I had a Bible where I read
that Jesus came to raise the dead—
I kept myself from going mad
by singing an old bawdy ballad
and birds sang on my windowsill
and tortured me till I was ill
- The sea has no renewal, no forgetting,
no variety of death,
is silent with the silence of a single note.
What The Chairman Told Tom, from Odes II:6 (1965)[edit]
- Poetry? It's a hobby.
I run model trains.
Mr Shaw there breeds pigeons.
It's not work. You don't sweat.
Nobody pays for it.
You could advertise soap.
- Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find work
On the Flyleaf of Pounds Cantos, from Odes I:37 (1949)[edit]
There are the Alps. What is there to say about them?
They don't make sense. Fatal glaciers, crags cranks climb,
jumbled boulder and weed, pasture and boulder, scree,
et l'on entend, maybe, le refrain joyeux et leger.
Who knows what the ice will have scraped on the rock it is smoothing?
There they are, you will have to go a long way round
if you want to avoid them.
It takes some getting used to. There are the Alps,
fools! Sit down and wait for them to crumble!
External links[edit]
- Basil Bunting Poetry Centre
- Basil Bunting's Grave
- Basil Bunting Home Page at EPC, Buffalo
- At Briggflatts Meetinghouse recording read by the author
- Minor Poet, Not Conspicuously Dishonest Richard Caddel's Introduction to Complete Poems
- Review of Complete Poems


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Colette Bourgonje of Saskatoon will receive the Whang Youn Dai Achievement Award at the Paralympic closing ceremony on Sunday, along with Endo Takayuki of Japan.
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Sunday, 19 May 2013
Metro: Last Light stuttering and SLI
What you have to do is apply a x2 factor in DXTory framerate limit. So, if you will play in a 60hz screen at 60 fps, set in game profile "vsync controlled by application", set Vsync ON in the game menu and SET FRAMERATE LIMIT TO 120 FPS IN DXTORY! Fucking smooth framerate.
Note: Use Hyperthreading if you cpu has it.
UPDATE 3: Some people report that the stuttering fix doesn't work for them. I've seen that using "Realtime priority" to MetroLL.exe after start the game, eliminates stuttering too. But then, can appear sound distorsion when too many sounds at the same time (for example in firefights). Anyone knows a 4AGames contact email?
UPDATE 2: Ok, now I know a real fix to avoid stuttering but .... you have to use a cracked exe. Game starts without steam and stuttering goes away. I'm using the modified user.cfg too, with
sso_connect_tries 1
sso_first_time 0
sso_receive_updates 0
sso_receive_updates_thq 0
UPDATE 1: Shit! today after restarting my computer, stuttering is back O_o
I hope 4A games can fix this problem because playing yesterday 3 hours without stuttering is a different experience.
About stuttering (multigpu and monogpu users)
If you are experiencing stuttering while playing, please try this config:
- Copy to c:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\4A Games\Metro LL\[game code]\
- Run game
- Change video options if necessary (the file sets your resolution to 1080p, change it to your native resolution in game menu. Also advanced physx is activated, disable it if your gpu is not good enough).
Profile for Nvidia Inspector
- Import with nvidia inspector (not necessary).
- This profile limits your framerate to 60 fps.
About SLI
I'm used to customize SLI profiles. I've been doing since there were no programs to help in the task (like SLI profiler or Nvidia Inspector).
Rarely appear unsolvable problems and it is normal to slightly increase performance over nvidia profile.
The performance of Metro Last Light is extremely surprising. Its optimization is amazing. But the scaling in SLI configurations is not as good as expected. Yes, increase the performance of something that's already good, can not be bad. But it could be better.
I found a profile that increases performance SLI enough, at the expense of a graphic problem. Light glares are visible through geometry. The last game I remember with a similar problem using an early SLI profile was Prince of Persia (sun glare was visible through the mountains), and was easily solved by changing the SLI profile (I even think nvidia not take long to fix).
Custom SLI profile in Last Light increase performance 30-40% in my computer. A 40% more performance in the most demanding scenes is a great jump. I tried in a place where there are lots of tessellation and characters.
Why write about this? Because logic says to hide glare effects does not have to cost 40% of the performance. Since it is not possible to avoid this error by changing SLI profile (I've tried), I'd love that 4A Games and Nvidia can fix to this problem.
Game configuration is 1920x1200, SSAAx3, Very High preset, very high tessellation and advanced physx. My computer is 2700K@5ghz and Tri-SLI GTX680 with 32GB of ram.
Custom SLI bits: 0x080600F5 for DX11 and 0x02400205 for DX9
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your user.cfg didn't make any difference. but 0x080600F5 bits made it smooth as a butter and performance increased drastically. but lens flares problem is killing me. reminded me about witcher 2 with the same flares problem.ReplyDelete
Stutter was gone for me yesterday using this .cfg but today is different. Today I'm able to avoid stuttering playing without using steam.ReplyDelete
Funny thing but custom sli bits fixed stutter in benchmark. Game itself still stutters (though with good performance but with flares artifacts).ReplyDelete
MaLDo, you should or if you don't mind I could stick it up on the steam forums (fully crediting yourself). Seems like you would reach a far greater audience (and maybe some devs) if you stuck this info up there, as that is pretty much the only "official" forum as such.ReplyDelete
EDIT: The Witcher 2 had a similar light bleeding problem when SLI was enabled. It was fixed with a SLI profile at the cost of performance if I remember correctly. Its DX9 though so that only sorts half the problem as such. I'll do comparisons with the profiles and do what I can to help out! :D Many thanks MaLDo!
- Munakas23 May 2013 at 17:59
Using Real time priority does indeed fix the issue, for me at least. But as said sound gets distorted in places at least when using realtek integrated audio.ReplyDelete
Hey Maldo,ReplyDelete
I've been trying everything you've suggested here and in the steam forums and anywhere I can find tips to try in the game... How is it you can set the game to real-time, where when I try to do that I get a msg says it cannot, but puts the game to HIGH priority instead?.. Besides this, of all the things suggested from many many posts, the only way I can tolerate this game is if I cap the framerate to 30 in the NCP and set vsync to smooth. ANY OTHER method just don't work for me.. : (Can you honestly play the game SMOOTHLY with your latest update?? (update 4)
- Anonymous27 May 2013 at 10:11
Hi Maldo! DXTory? what is it? i read that it is used for record video, isn?t true?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 May 2013 at 20:41
Hi Maldo, i just found that this SLI bits works greatReplyDelete
it still have some drop but definitely better that vanilla and without lens flares problems.
hope it helps
Sorry for my english
P.D this number is like god number, it help me with 3 or 4 games now, remember it XD
- Anonymous27 May 2013 at 23:36
im sorry, i wrote the wrong sli bits number in the last post the good one it'sReplyDelete
0x0C0200F5 (Max Payne 3)
i get up to 89% of usage and again without lens flares
hope it helps
- Anonymous31 May 2013 at 12:35
Guys I found the fix for Metro LL! just turn on Hyper Trading in your BIOS and make UNPARKED your CPU (find on google cpu parking software). I tested this on my Intel i7 3770K and GTX580 Sli. the stutter issue has been fixed for real! tried all levels without stuttering awesome!.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 May 2013 at 12:51
download here CPU Parking here: http://www.coderbag.com/Programming-C/Disable-CPU-Core-Parking-Utility eliminate stuttering for real! but remember to enable also Hyper Trading function because if is disabled the stuttering is always on. The fix is working only with HT activated and Unparked cores. I repeat, tried this on i7 3770K with GTX 580 Sli. Good LuckReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous1 June 2013 at 19:41
Thank you very much!It really work, constant 60 fps without drop, even turning up my setting!some time ago i tried to make active those cores but i didnt find anything, so i just forget about it... and now you show me this program!! im really happy! thank you again!Delete
Tried this on i7 950 with GTX 570 SLI
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hey, maldo, what about maldohd for crysis 3 ?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 October 2013 at 22:58
Why all these games killing nazis!? Why not all these ugly communists??ReplyDelete
Maldo, i' d like to thank you for your amazing work that you have done for Crysis 2.ReplyDelete
It was probably the last time you have made texture enhancements since next gen games are coming and if i look at i.e. Shadowfall there is nothing more to add.
Crysis 2 Maldo HD was the most amzing game i ever played(better than Crysis3).
I am a graphics nut. So yeah your mods were a healing to me. Thanks for that.
EDIT: perhaps we'll need you one more time for 4k textures in virtual reality! :)
and hopefully it will be Crysis 4 on the Ceph planet.
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 01:31
SLI bits 0x080116F5 works amazing under my configuration, haven't observed any SLI related stuttering, FPS drops or visual artifacts of the sort. Also lens flare' bleeding doesn't occur through walls either. Woop-de-woop.ReplyDelete
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Skip to 0 minutes and 13 seconds Up to now we've discussed why we need to trap mosquitoes, both in areas where Zika and other viruses are currently found, but also in areas where there is a risk that they might arise. The purpose of this step, therefore, is to provide an overview of adult mosquito trapping methods. Once we've trapped the mosquitoes we can then bring them back to the lab where we can identify them under the microscope and, if necessary, test them for the presence of viruses such as Zika. There are many different types of trap for adult mosquitoes, and the one that you choose will depend on which species you are targeting and what the purpose of your trapping programme is.
Skip to 0 minutes and 47 seconds With this in mind I will start by discussing the importance of understanding the basic biology and behaviour of the mosquito species that we want to collect. Next, using this information we'll discuss how we can exploit these behaviours to actually collect the mosquito and provide a rundown of the most commonly used mosquito traps for Aedes mosquitoes. Finally, along the way I will also highlight some of the many challenges involved in actually conducting a mosquito trapping programme in the field. The first step in designing in particular method of trapping mosquito species is to understand the mosquitoes'behaviour. There are over 3500 species of mosquito worldwide, found on every continent except Antarctica.
Skip to 1 minute and 28 seconds Whilst each of these species follow the same four stage life cycle, consisting of egg, larva, pupa, and adult, there are many differences in the basic biology of each life stage between species which will influence how we are able to trap them. Here we're focusing on adult behaviour in particular. There are three main adult mosquito behaviours that are frequently targeted to collect Aedes mosquitos these are host seeking behaviour, resting behaviour and oviposition or egg laying behaviour. In this step, we will mainly focus on host seeking and resting behaviour as oviposition behaviour is incorporated into the next step. We will also look at how we can design traps to target these particular subsections of the population.
Skip to 2 minutes and 9 seconds During host seeking behaviour female mosquitoes are actively trying to find a host, such as you or me, from which to take a blood meal. They do this by detecting the various chemical compounds that we and other animals naturally produce. These chemicals include carbon dioxide, which is a major component of our breath, as well as a large number of different compounds produced in our skin such as lactic acid. These skin derived compounds are very volatile, meaning that once they are produced on the skin, they rapidly evaporate and diffuse into the surrounding air and, together with carbon dioxide, produce a complex plume of odours which can be detected from some distance away by mosquitoes.
Skip to 2 minutes and 46 seconds Mosquitoes will then fly up the concentration gradient of the odour plume towards the source using shorter range visual cues, such as colour, heat, and movement, to land on the host and take a blood meal. Therefore, traps designed to collect host seeking mosquitoes are designed to mimic the characteristics of a real human or animal. This is done by providing a chemical attractant, often with carbon dioxide, and then replacing the actual host with a fan and a catch bag to collect the mosquitoes. I have in front of me two of the most commonly used traps for Aedes host-seeking, adult mosquitoes. These are the BG-Sentinels; this is the original version and this is the more recently released, updated version the BG-Sentinel 2.
Skip to 3 minutes and 28 seconds Now these traps work on the basis of creating a convection current mimicking the natural processes that release odours from a host. Here at the top of the trap we have a fan inside into which air is drawn.
Skip to 3 minutes and 44 seconds A chemical blend derived from human skin odours, such as lactic acid, is added the trap is a package or as a cartridge placed inside the trap. Now air drawn into the trap subsequently leaves through the outer edges of the trap, taking with it the chemical blend creating an odour plume which can be detected by the mosquitoes. Closer in, the mosquitoes are additionally attracted by the alternating dark and white colours of the trap. Now unfortunately it isn't quite as easy as simply placing these traps out and waiting for the mosquitoes to be collected.
Skip to 4 minutes and 18 seconds It's important to note that different mosquitoes may preferentially feed him some types of host over others, for example, humans or birds, and therefore, when designing your trap, you need to consider which attractive chemicals to include and other factors such as trap height. So for example, bird feeding species may require you to place a trap at a greater height to mimic a host in a tree. Aedes aegypti are mammalian feeders primarily and in urban areas feed largely on humans, therefore traps are frequently placed inside or close to houses. Most available traps rely on either battery or mains power to power the fan.
Skip to 4 minutes and 53 seconds Batteries will last for one to two days at most before they need replacing requiring collectors to visit each trap frequently with fresh batteries. During these visits, the trapped mosquitoes will also need to be collected. If they are left inside the trap for more than a couple of days, they will quickly dry out and make it very difficult to identify them. If you're using a source of carbon dioxide as part of the attractant of the trap, you need to either carry large gas canisters around or regularly replace a source of the carbon dioxide such as dry ice.
Skip to 5 minutes and 22 seconds Finally, it is important to consider the weather on your trapping days; strong winds and heavy rain will stop mosquitoes from flying and can even damage the traps. It's always a good idea to record these meteorological variables so that you can better explain variation in your trap collections.
Skip to 5 minutes and 39 seconds When not attempting to find a blood or sugar meal, adult mosquitoes can be found resting even in vegetation or, commonly in the case of Aedes aegypti, on the inside of houses. We can target these mosquitoes by using aspirators, such as this Prokopack aspirator here, which work like vacuum cleaners to hoover up mosquitoes into a collection pocket. Collectors will work primarily during daylight hours so they are able to collect mosquitoes resting on the inside of houses.
Skip to 6 minutes and 9 seconds Whilst relatively simple in principle, collecting mosquitoes from inside houses poses several challenges beyond simply gaining permission for entry. Mosquitoes may rest in areas not immediately obvious or accessible for collection, therefore collectors need to be well trained in finding areas where mosquitoes are most likely to be found. Just like the host seeking traps, aspirators also require a battery for power and with intensive use these batteries become rapidly drained. In my experience a regular 12-volt battery will become drained within an hour or two of intensive use; this means the collector will need to carry several heavy batteries with them in order to cover several houses.
Skip to 6 minutes and 47 seconds It's not always something people think about when collecting mosquitoes, but carrying a pack of batteries around with you does get tiring, especially in the heat. Finally, the powerful vacuum generated by the backpack aspirators may damage your specimens, especially those containing blood which you may wish to analyse in future in the lab. Therefore, these specimens ideally need to be transferred as soon as possible to a storage pot where they can be kept until analysis. In summary, when designing a mosquito trapping programme, it is important to first understand the behaviour of the target mosquito you want to collect. And then which subsection of the population you need to collect for your purposes.
Skip to 7 minutes and 23 seconds The most commonly used adult traps for Aedes mosquitoes include the BG-Sentinel trap for host seeking mosquitoes and backpack aspirators for resting mosquitoes. All trapping methods have advantages and disadvantages which need to be considered alongside factors that you can't control, such as the weather, when designing your collection programme. In this section, I've highlighted some of the most commonly used approaches for trapping adult Aedes mosquitoes, but there are many different trapping methods currently used for this species as well as for other important mosquito vectors. Many research groups are also developing and testing new, more efficient traps to improve our ability to collect mosquitoes in the field; you can read about these in the accompanying material.
Skip to 8 minutes and 3 seconds Trapping adult mosquitoes provides important information to help us understand the transmission patterns of mosquito-borne pathogens. This will ultimately help us better understand and control outbreaks of this type, including of the Zika virus.
Trapping and monitoring: adult mosquitoes
More than 3500 mosquito species have been recorded worldwide. Each of these species behaves differently, and therefore we need to understand the behaviour of our target mosquito in order to effectively trap it. In this step, Dr Victor Brugman describes the main types of adult mosquito behaviour that we can exploit to trap Aedes, and the challenges of collecting mosquitoes in a field situation.
In a practical demonstration, Dr Brugman describes a commonly used traps to collect Aedes aegypti, the BG-Sentinel, and explains how it exploits the host-seeking behaviours of the mosquito. He also demonstrates the use of a backpack aspirator to collect resting mosquitoes, and discusses the factors to consider when using this type of collection method.
The gold standard for measuring the densities of host-seeking vectors is the human landing catch method, where human volunteers catch mosquitoes that land on their exposed body parts. Unfortunately this approach exposes the volunteers to potentially infectious mosquitoes. Light traps placed indoors next to occupied bed nets are an invaluable and safe alternative for Anopheles mosquitoes, the vectors of malaria,1 but for Ae. aegypti they are ineffective as this species is an outdoor day biter.2 Larval sampling can be used, taking advantage of our understanding of Ae. aegypti to identify potential breeding habitats. Collected larvae and adults can then be identified by trained specialists.
Population size can be estimated through mark-release-recapture experiments, in which a portion of the mosquitoes in an area are captured and marked, then released. On a second occasion another portion is sampled and the number of marked individuals is counted. The number of marked individuals within the second sample should be proportional to the number of marked individuals in the whole population, so an estimate of the total population size can be obtained. Modelling can be done to improve the accuracy of the estimate, taking into consideration the distance between release points and traps, the time between release and recapture, and the loss of marked mosquitoes to death or dispersal.3
Before swatting them, have you ever considered how many different types of mosquito are found in your country or around your home? Have you used mosquito traps yourself? What methods of attracting mosquitoes did these traps use?
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CHICAGO — Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa scored in the second period, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Saturday in Game 1 of the NHL's Western Conference finals.
CHICAGO — Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa scored in the second period, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings 2-1 on Saturday in Game 1 of the NHL's Western Conference finals.
Corey Crawford made 21 saves, and the Blackhawks generated just enough offense to improve to 7-1 at home in the playoffs.
Game 2 is scheduled for tonight.
Jonathan Quick stopped 34 shots, and Justin Williams scored for Los Angeles, which has won just one of seven road games in the playoffs.
Williams has scored the last three goals for the defending Stanley Cup champion Kings. He was responsible for all of Los Angeles' offense in a 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks in Game 7 of the second-round series on Tuesday.
The Blackhawks and Kings returned to the ice after getting through strenuous second-round series.
Top-seeded Chicago stormed back to beat Detroit after trailing 3-1 in the series, winning Game 7 on Brent Seabrook's overtime goal Wednesday night. Fifth-seeded Los Angeles was pushed to the brink of elimination by the Sharks in a series in which the home team won every game.
For the first period and much of the second of the conference finals opener, Chicago looked hopeless against Quick and Los Angeles' talented defensemen.
Drew Doughty, Robyn Regehr and Co. kept the Blackhawks' fleet forwards in check, and Quick made it look as if there was a white wall moving from side to side in net.
As they did against Detroit, the Blackhawks began to create more quality chances when they put more traffic in front.
With 7½ minutes left in the second, Sharp skated into the zone, left the puck for Johnny Oduya and kept moving forward. When Quick kicked away Oduya's slap shot, the puck went right to Sharp, who scored into the lower right corner to tie it 1-1 with his eighth playoff goal.
Sharp created another strong opportunity a few minutes later, but Brandon Saad shot wide right on a potential tip-in.
The Blackhawks kept up the pressure and went ahead when Hossa had a beautiful midair tip on Duncan Keith's long slap shot at 16:22 of the second.
The puck landed in the lower right corner again before Quick could find the puck in the group of bodies near the net.
It was the sixth goal of this postseason for Hossa and the 42nd of his playoff career. The 34-year-old forward has at least one point in four straight games.
Los Angeles turned up the pressure at the beginning of the third, but Chicago killed off a power play. Crawford was solid after an early gaffe played a role in the Kings' goal. He stopped Dustin Penner's tip attempt with a little more than five minutes left, preserving Chicago's lead.
Crawford has allowed just one goal in four of five games, playing a huge role as Chicago rallied to eliminate Detroit.
Chicago controlled most of the first period, using its speed and skill to keep the puck away from Los Angeles. The Blackhawks had nine shots on goal before Crawford was tested for the first time, grabbing Penner's attempt with 8:11 remaining.
While Quick turned away every charge at the other side, Los Angeles made the most of its second shot after a couple of costly Blackhawks misplays.
After the puck was dumped into the Blackhawks' zone, Crawford went behind the net to try to clear it away, but Brad Richardson jumped in the air and knocked it in front. Dave Bolland then tried to break up the play, but the puck went right to Williams, who beat Crawford to make it 1-0 at 14:23.
Most of Chicago's shots in the first period came from the outside, and Quick had a clear lane for most stops. The 2012 Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoff MVP made 17 saves in the first 20 minutes.
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The Central Connecticut swimming and diving team wrapped up the 2013 Northeast Conference Championships Saturday night in fourth place. Diving Coach Michael Trueworthy was named 2013 NEC Diving Coach of the Year and freshman Jessica Goldman won the 3-meter dive event. Goldman swept both diving events and was named Diver of the Meet.
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In addition to placing first in the 3-meter with her score of 254.40, Goldman broke the previous NEC six-dive record of 248.40 set in 2011. Goldman was followed by Wagner's Mallory Lee in second place and CCSU sophomore Kate Dwyer took the bronze with a score of 205.80. Freshman Shawna Herter placed fifth in the event, totaling 192.50.
Central took home a pair of bronze medals in the 1,650 yard freestyle and in the 200 yard backstroke. In the 1,600 free, junior Kasey Chilton finished behind a pair from Saint Francis (PA) with a time of 17:19.09. In the 200 backstroke, senior Allison Rasile claimed third with a time of 2:02.95 behind a duo from Bryant.
Final team results:
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Geographic is thrilled to present, at last, the fabulous debut single by The Royal We. All The Rage encapsulates their staggered swagger perfectly, glam on the cheap, sassy and fun, but sadly not built to last. In a way that's why it's a perfect pop moment, touchable but not really - you could fill a weekend scanning youtube for these kind of moments and maybe find yourself looking at The Move (with Carl Wayne) singing Flowers In The Rain or The Fire Engines singing Candy Skin or Francoise Hardy or T.Rex or anything really. The Royal We are on youtube too singing All The Rage. The singer gets eaten by the rest of the group. How come?
The Royal We were, and are, six young dreamers who came together in early 2006, under inevitable Glasgow rain to plot and do stuff and hang out in cafes as if in a Godard movie. Some of them were on their way to university or art school and others were just waiting. Singer Jihae Simmons had come all the way from Los Angeles with an idealised image of Glasgow and how a Glasgow pop group should be. It's fair to say that the other members, Roxanne Clifford, Patrick Doyle, Graeme Ronald, Joan Sweeney and Colin Kearney had their own take on a 'Glasgow pop group' but things seemed to coincide and very quickly they'd a bunch of songs with winning names like All The Rage. They were fast and they knew they were already pretty good.
So good by summer 2006, The Royal We had kind of taken over and everyone was talking about them and members were turning up on Belle & Sebastian and Franz Ferdinand covers. If that all sounds quite hype then ok, but The Royal We were the most fun in town their shows had it down and they had great songs and a great sound. On All The Rage and on their forthcoming self-titled album you can, like with everything else on youtube, almost be there in this polaroid moment. Only better than that, this group still exists, they're not history, you might even see them at one of their shows, Jihae never really got eaten by the others, not really. L'Enfant Terrible is only about two months old, but it's very much like a later polaroid, with different colours, different film. They changed, but that's good.
The Royal We are so pop it's almost over already. In December Jihae is moving back to LA and the other members are ready to move on to new things too. But for now, they're plotting and dreaming new schemes, together and apart. People, The Royal We are here.
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'True Detective': The bad things men do to women
In the second episode of "True Detective," Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty Hart (Woody Harrelson) find themselves at a seedy trailer-park bunny ranch, where Marty becomes outraged at the presence of an underage prostitute named Beth (Lili Simmons). Marty lays into the madam, Jan (Andrea Frankle), for employing a girl clearly younger than 18. But Jan isn't having it. She tells Marty he has no idea of Beth's circumstances, what she's left behind, and besides, "Girls walk this earth all the time screwing for free. So why is it you add business to the mix and boys like you can't stand that thought? Because suddenly you don't own it the way you thought you did." Still disgusted, Marty hands Beth some cash and tells her, "do something else." Back at their car, Rust asks Marty if he was making "a down payment."
Even at the time, the show seemed to be on Jan's side: Marty had already shown himself to be a high-order hypocrite. After Sunday night's episode we can be sure: Calling it a down payment may have been a crude way for Rust to put it, but it was not inaccurate. Seven years later, Marty cheats on his wife with Beth, the troubled former underage prostitute whose innocence he had once been so keen to protect.
"True Detective," let me concede upfront, does not come close to passing the Bechdel test. The show opens with the violated body of a dead woman crowned with antlers, and it has consistently objectified the naked bodies of the young women Marty has slept with - particularly during Sunday night's extended, groaning, porny sequence with Beth. Michelle Monaghan, who plays Marty's wife, Maggie, has done well with the material she's been given, but before this week that consisted almost entirely of her being a (completely justified) nag. In the previous episode, Elizabeth Reaser showed up for a minute so she could deliver one line as Rust's long-term girlfriend. The other women on the show have been mistresses, prostitutes, corpses, or some combination thereof, most of them barely memorable.
Presenting women as a parade of scolds, sluts and the strung-out typically makes me hate a television series. But I love "True Detective." While it is possible - by which I mean undeniably true - that I am completely in thrall to the ever-captivating McConaissance, I think "True Detective" has not triggered my usual response because it is, at least on some level, very aware of how stereotypically and perfunctorily it treats its female characters. When it comes to women, "True Detective" is undeniably shallow - but I think it's being shallow on purpose.
Ignoring women may be the show's blind spot, but it is also one of its major themes. "True Detective" is explicitly about the horrible things that men do to women, things that usually go unseen and uninvestigated. No one missed Dora Lange. Marie Fontenot disappeared, and the police let a rumor stop them from following up. Another little girl was abducted, and a report was never even filed. "Women and children are disappearing, nobody hears about it, nobody puts it together," Rust told his boss Sunday night, outlining what he believes is a vast conspiracy in the Bayou. Rust is haunted by women who aren't there - his ex-wife and his dead daughter - while Marty cannot deal appropriately with the women who are.
It's with Marty that "True Detective" most often tries to have its misogyny and get away with it, too. ("How good is cake if you can't eat it?" he says to his girlfriend Lisa when she chides him for wanting a mistress who doesn't sleep around.) The show presents Marty's women as kinky and crazed and seems overly sympathetic to Marty's skewed view of them. But if Marty's peccadilloes have been used for titillation they have also been used for character assassination. While "True Detective" has luxuriated in the tawdriness of his particularly pronounced virgin-whore complex, it has also interrogated it: Marty's inability to control himself with women is his defining, disfiguring character flaw.
Marty fancies himself a protector, but again and again he is an aggressor. He becomes almost as violent when controlling women as he does when protecting children: slapping his daughter, methodically beating the boys she had sex with, breaking down his girlfriend's door, wrapping his hands around his wife's throat. His sexual double standards are staggering: Whatever he does is fine; when women do it without him, it's disgusting. In his interviews with detectives Papania and Gilbough, Marty talks endlessly about the way that a family can ground a man - then we watch him use his married-father status as a cover to misbehave, praising propriety while doing nearly anything he pleases.
"True Detective" is a man's story taking place in a man's world, a world in which ignoring women has been the cause of untold horror - and has probably delayed that horror's resolution as well. Would fully realized female characters be preferable to these fleeting glimpses, however well those glimpses highlight the limitations of our leading men? Yes, definitely. But I can wait until next season for that.


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Response: The Best Ways To Use Tech In The Classroom
Carla Arena asked:
How do teachers make informed decisions in relation to a balanced use of technology in the classroom? Where can new teachers become better informed about best practices for technology use in the classroom without becoming overwhelmed and discouraged by the overload of information?
It's a great question, Carla, and particularly timely in light of last Sunday's major New York Times article on this topic. In order for me to use any kind of technology in my classroom -- beyond a document camera or showing a YouTube clip on my computer projector, I need to be able to answer yes to most of the following questions:
1) Does it take me less than one minute to learn the basics on how to use it?
2) Will it take less than one minute -- with guidance -- for my students to learn to also learn the basics on how to use it?
3) Does it provide a value-added benefit to student learning over a similar activity using basic classroom tools? (Note: I'm not thrilled with using the term "value-added" because its main use has been in the context of a questionable teacher evaluation system, but I can't think of a more accurate word to use here) You'll find that this particular piece of advice is also emphasized by the guests I've invited to respond later in this post.
For example, research and most teacher's experience indicates that it's important for students to see and experience that they are progressing -- that they're learning and getting better. One simple way I use technology in my class to make that progress visible to both my mainstream and English Language Learner students is by having them record a short reading of their choosing periodically during the year so that they can see their improvement in prosody and fluency. I prefer to use the Fotobabble site, but there are plenty of other options.
In addition, studies have found that having students write for an "authentic" audience beyond just the teacher helps them feel motivated to do a better job, and plenty of online opportunities, including communicating with "sister classes" from around the world, can provide those venues, as well as offering exposure to different cultures.
I will admit, though, that sometimes even if using tech offers no clear advantage to "old-fashioned" means, there can be value to using it just to provide students with a change of pace.
4) Is it a tool that I believe can be used regularly in class? I'm not interested in spending time learning about, or having my students spend time learning about, a tech tool that will be a "one-shot wonder." Of course, I might start out believing it can be used regularly but, as I tell students when they start reading a book -- if you find you don't like it, go back and find another one.
5) And, lastly, though being able to answer yes to the previous four questions usually outweighs a negative response to this one -- Can it make my life a little easier? This can particularly relate to tools that may not be ones that I ask students to use. For example, there are multiple sites that let me develop "playlists" for videos and songs that I might incorporate in lessons. That ability definitely makes it easier to "curate" and use them.
The Internet provides an extraordinary opportunity for educators to learn from the mistakes and successes of their colleagues from around the world in using technology in the classroom. Tens of thousands, if not more, of teachers and administrators regularly ask and answer questions and share their best practices with each other, not to mention working together online with "sister" classes.
I'd like to recommend three resources that people might find particularly helpful as they explore using tech in their classrooms:
The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics
The Best Guides For Helping Teachers Develop Personal Learning Networks
The Best Places To Find Research On Technology & Language Teaching/Learning
Advice From Guests
I posed Carla's question to Richard Byrne. His blog, Free Technology For Teachers, is probably the most popular Web resource on using ed tech. Richard is a high school teacher in Maine:
My advice for new teachers and veteran teachers dipping their toes into the technology pool is to not lose sight of your instructional goals when selecting a technology tool for your classroom. When looking at technology tools I ask myself, "how can this make my lesson better?" If a technology tool doesn't make my lesson better then it just becomes "one more thing" that I have to do. For example, Google Docs is a word processing tool, but because it has collaborative features it enables my students to engage in peer editing in real-time in my classroom and outside of it. Likewise, I can use Google Docs to provide feedback to my students faster than if we were trading emails with file attachments.
For sources of information about using technology in schools (other than Larry's blog and mine) I often refer people to Kelly Tenkely's iLearn Technology; Silvia Tolisano's Langwitches; Wes Fryer's Speed of Creativity; and Tech & Learning Magazine.
I also invited Marsha Ratzel, a National Board Certified Teacher in Science from Prairie Village, Kansas, to share her response (Marsha is also a member of the Teacher Leaders Network):
The best way to think about this is to consider what you can accomplish with it and without it. If you're just subsituting a tech tool for a traditional tool, you have to be sure there's some additional learning that will be accomplish by using the technology. Otherwise it's not worth the extra time that it will take to incorporate tech into the lesson. But if there's more learning that can be done...say you can access sources or do things that you couldn't before and those things help you accomplish your goal, then you should definitely use technology. The balance is making sure the tech is not an add-on...that it's used to improve and amplify the learning.
I'd suggest new teachers look for a virtual learning community that has a focus on technology. Something like Classroom 2.0 where there are free webinars, subject and interest groups, a general forum and a wide vareity of places where they can meet and talk with teachers who are in their same situation. You can sample those communities as you are able...
Advice From Readers
Readers shared other helpful advice and comments:
I think it is critical that we incorporate technology into our coursework and classrooms. It's how our students are communicating with each other, with their parents, with the world. So, choose one or two tools that you like. Become familiar with them. Try them. Don't be afraid to fail. If it doesn't work after a while, move on to something else. Guard your time. Good teaching can be enhanced by technology but it can't be replaced.
And Bob Mac seconded the caution about "time":
I believe that many teachers are overwhelmed just by the thought of searching and implementing new "best practices". Even dedicated teachers may simply not be able to find the time. I do not have children at home and I love new practices; therefore, it is a pleasure for me to search for new sites and "set up" data for whole classes. If I had a family to come home to, I simply don't know what additional time I would have left over after the class day.
Please feel free to leave a comment sharing your reactions to these ideas, or write about other strategies you've tried that have been effective.
Thanks again to Carla for posing this week's question, and to Richard, Marsha, awright55, and Bob Mac for sharing their answers!
Consider contributing a question to be answered in a future post. You can send one to me at [email protected].When you send it in, let me know if I can use your real name if it's selected or if you'd prefer remaining anonymous and have a pseudonym in mind.
Anyone whose question is selected for this weekly column can choose one free book from a selection of twelve published by Eye On Education.
I'll be posting next week's question here on Friday, and hope readers will share their responses. Several will be included in next Wednesday's post responding to that "question of the week."


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