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Lauren Ko has only been in the pie biz for a little over a year, but you'd never be able to tell by looking at what's coming out of the oven at her house. Her desserts are so intricate and artistic, it's hard to imagine digging a serving knife into that beautifully-latticed crust or delicately-arranged fruit filling. Her Instagram page has blown up as a result of her culinary adventures, and she now boasts a following of more than 68 thousand.
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A quick post to let all of you know (ok, the 5 of you who read my blog know) , that I will be in US for a long trip. Ok, it's only two weeks, but that'll be the longest I'll be away from home, in these last few years.
I will be in San Francisco from 12th to 19th August, meeting the cofounder of my new venture and generally meeting up clients and friends. I will post more details on the new venture when I am back.
From SF, I will go to Florida, to attend the BizConf. I am really looking forward to this promising conference. I will tweet and blog about my experience there and share my learning with all of you.
From Florida, I will be off to Chicago for a long conference – Agile2009. I look forward to learn a lot at this conference too. We use agile development methodologies at VinSol and I have so many questions related to all the aspects – be it "Planning Poker", "Iteration Lengths", "Development Contracts" , "Maintenance Contracts" etc – I am prepared to pick the brains of all the experts who are coming there.
I want to be able to apply all that learning to improve the experience of working with VinSol for our clients as well as all our team members. Again, I will tweet and blog about the learning there, too.
Anybody reading this post who is also attending these conferences or is in that area – and interested in meeting up – please let me know.

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Improving the comfort and efficiency of daily life is easy with the range of connected objects now available. So-called "wearable technologies" turn clothes and accessories into intelligent objects with simple and discreet integrated sensors. By communicating with a dedicated smartphone application the sensors provide a wealth of useful information. Watches and other activity trackers offer many functions that keep an eye on our physical shape but sensors can do other things as well such as geolocating lost keys at the bottom of bags or tracking our suitcases as we travel.
Connected objects and the home
Automation services embedded into homes facilitate the remote management of many devices such as lighting. We can program the opening and closing of roller shutters as well as set heating hours from our smartphone or tablet. We quickly appreciate the effect these useful features have on energy bills. Connected objects also contribute to home security. Cameras can now differentiate between human and animal presences and you will receive a notification directly to your smartphone if an unexpected presence is detected.
Healthcare and connected objects
Health care is also at the heart of the connected revolution and everyday objects simplify our relationship with health through tailor-made monitoring. This inevitable balance keeps evolving and shifting. Yesterday, trackers carefully watched our weight now they can evaluate our heart rate. New toothbrushes can even assess how well we brush our teeth so decreasing or eliminating the risk of caries. Like the connected thermometer, all of these devices provide accurate measurements in real time that are then recorded on dedicated applications. In situations of disability or illness medical professionals can easily follow our health condition and care from a distance thus saving our time and theirs.
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The entertainment potential achieved with the Internet without even the need to open a computer is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Virtual helmets offer us the ability to join networks and play while objects around the home become broadcast channels on which you can receive SMS messages, listen to the radio or even watch episodes of the latest TV series that's got everybody talking.
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We can see then that the Internet of Things or IoT offers the real advantage of data exchange in the provision of new services. The result? These developments facilitate the management of our shopping and other daily chores allowing us more time for our family life and leisure activities. Washing machines can be operated remotely with an application and the stock of food in our fridges monitored and managed, reordering supplies as necessary. Appliances that track our food stocks can even suggest recipes according to what's in our cupboards. A button placed on the front of any appliance allows it to be cleaned with just a single click while, as for our coffee machine, it knows exactly how we like our coffee! What's next?
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- an API to do syntax highlighting on <textarea>, <pre>, and contenteditable sections would be highly popular with Web developers (ack Ryan Johnson). (This would probably best be done as some sort of output filter at the CSS level, rather than anything HTML-specific.)
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End of a long sede vacante
It took thirteen months, an almost unprecented long time, but the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden will soon have a bishop again. The Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Aldo Cavalli, had already stated that the name would be known before Easter. With tomorrow being the fifth Sunday of Lent, he was cutting it a bit close. The long time between bishops gave rise to some speculation and rumours, which I wrote about here. These speculations will undoubtedly continue now that there is a new bishop. Many will choose to see the selection, which was ultimately made by Pope Francis, in political terms: the new bishop is either a man in the vein of the Holy Father, which means he is a pastoral figure with an eye for the people instead of the law; or he fits the mold of Cardinal Eijk, which means he is a dogmatic, a stickler for rules. Reality, as often, is more nuanced.
The new bishop
The new bishop comes from the south, and thus, in a way, makes the opposite move than his predecessor, who went from Groningen-Leeuwarden to 's-Hertogenbosch. From that later see comes its vicar general, Msgr. Ron van den Hout, to take over the reins of this country's most northern diocese.
Bishop-elect Van den Hout is 52, not extraordinarily young or old when compared with his predecessors. He has been vicar general of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch since 2012. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1993, studied in Rome and Nijmegen, and most recently taught Bible studies at three seminaries, in addition to serving as temporary pastor in the Bommelerwaard region, in the north of the diocese.
The Diocese
The new bisdom inherits a diocese wich, in some ways, is a work in progress. In the eight years (from 2008 to 2016) that Msgr. de Korte was ordinary, the diocese underwent a process of change which saw the number of parish decrease from 84 to 19. While the previous bishop made it policy to maintain the old parishes as communities in the new larger parishes, it is up to the new bishop to see the process to its conclusion and his choice to keep Bishop de Korte's vision intact or adapt it as he sees fit. With one parish, which includes the cathedral in Groningen, exempt from the mergers, only two new parishes are awaiting establishment, while a third is already merged, but will see one more old parish join at a later date. The entire process is expected to be concluded by 1 January 2018.
In the years that Bishop de Korte led the diocese, the number of religious establishments within its boundaries tripled. A relatively large increase, in absolute numbers it is perhaps somewhat less impressive: from one to three. In addition to the shrine of Our Lady of the Garden Enclosed in Warfhuizen, which is under the care of hermit Father Hugo, the Holy Ghost Fathers have established themselves in Heerenveen, while the Cistercians from Sion Abbey are working to build a monastery on the island of Schiermonnikoog. Bishop de Korte actively encouraged this trend, and his successor could do worse than do likewise.
The Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden is one of the two youngest in the Netherlands, having been established in 1955, it is the second largest in size, and the smallest by number of Catholics (a little over 100,000, of whom some 10% attend a Mass or celebration over the course of one weekend)*. It covers the three northern provinces of the Netherlands (Fryslân, Groningen and Drenthe) as well as the northern third of the province of Flevoland. Its population varies from traditionally left-wing in the former Communist stronghold of eastern Groningen, to traditionally Catholic along the German border from the southeastern tip of Groningen to the south of Drenthe. Major cities are few, but include the university city of Groningen, which is also home to the cathedral of St. Joseph and the diocesan offices (relocated there by then-Bishop Willem Eijk, bishop from 1999 to 2008). Catholic faithful are clustered in various places, but in general the parish, especially in the countryside, are expansive. Coupled with a relative low number of priests this means that clergy has to be able and willing to travel.
Bishop van den Hout Will be the fifth bishop of the Groningen-Leeuwarden. Two of his predecessors are still active: Cardinal Willem Eijk as archbishop of Utrecht, and Msgr. Gerard de Korte as bishop of 's-Hertogenbosch. Bishop Hans van den Hende of Rotterdam is a former priest and vicar general of the diocese, and his immediate predecessor, Msgr. Ad van Luyn, was born in Groningen.
In the past eleven months, since the installation of Bishop de Korte in 's-Hertogenbosch, the diocese has been run by diocesan administrator Fr. Peter Wellen, vicar general under the previous bishop, and general delegate Fr. Arjen Bultsma, formerly the episcopal vicar for Fryslân and the Noordoostpolder.
Bishop-elect van den Hout was informed about his appointment last week, and accepted it on Wednesday. His initial reaction was hesitant, but he realised that it was "something that had come his way, and I was obliged to cooperate gladly".
^The new bishop, at left, receives a welcome present from diocesan administrator Fr. Peter Wellen.
As for the future, the new bishop sees himself as a man of the parish. "The life of the Church must be realised in the parishes," he said. "The faithful must take their baptism seriously, while the diocesan curia serves to support this." As yet unfamiliar with his new diocese, the bishop-elect intends to start visiting the parishes soon after his consecration, which is scheduled for 3 June. Asked about his predecessors and how he compares to them, Msgr. van den Hout said that he simply wants to be himself, to be there for the people. He hasn't taken up a position on how the diocese should be run, as this depends on the specific local situation. He is curious and open about the Catholic life in the parishes of his new diocese, and will make any decisions based on what he finds.
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YouTube executives this week spoke publicly about that very eventuality, revealing that paid channels and videos on YouTube will likely be an important part of its business going forward.
YouTube Vice President Robert Kyncl told reporters on Wednesday that paid content will be an "incredibly important" tool in the site's efforts to create "additional revenue streams" for content makers.
He admitted that many users will push back against paid YouTube videos, but predicted that video makers will experiment with different models and "over time, a lot of people will figure it out."
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Google has been considering charging users for paid YouTube content since at least 2009.
Paid YouTube discussions heated up again earlier this year, when the rumors began flowing in.
That's not to say these YouTube execs actually admitted anything concrete, though, and it could still be some time before the Google-owned video site starts allowing content creators to charge viewers.
We asked YouTube whether they could provide us with any more details or anything concrete at all, and a company spokesperson sent over the following statement:
"We have nothing to announce at this time, but we're looking into creating a subscription platform that could bring even more great content to YouTube for our users to enjoy and provide our creators with another vehicle to generate revenue from their content, beyond the rental and ad-supported models we offer."
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But that also means they likely haven't ruled anything out, and Kyncl's reference to "experimentation" could indicate that enterprising YouTubers will have some flexibility when it comes to how they charge their viewers.
Charging a flat rental-style fee per video could work for a company like Disney, which hinted at putting full-length films up as early as 2009. YouTube even put up a rentals store in 2010, seemingly testing the waters for future endeavors.
But other models could work as well. Users could pay a subscription fee to gain access to entire channels; the site's head of global sales, Lucas Watson, reportedly said on Wednesday that this model could work for content makers with "passionate but very narrow audience segments."
Even a pay-per-minute model might work for certain segments.
YouTube also reported on Wednesday that its traffic climbed to 1 billion viewers every month.


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Abstract: Starting with Nixon, the Kennedy-Johnson welfare state became the wealthcare state. The rise of systematic failures such as Lawrence Summers, was instrumental that way.
Democrats point at Republicans all the time. In truth, they set-up the Wealth Care State just as enthusiastically. Ever since Nixon, all outwardly socially motivated programs grew that monstrosity. (With the exception of G.W. Bush's senior drug program! Yes, W. the torture man!)
Nixon publicly funded the HMOs, to make a Kaiser richer. Now Obama has extended plutocratic care. Ever since Nixon, plutocracy has made failure into rapture. It did not start this way, quite the opposite: engineering made the USA rich and powerful. Most renewable energy is hydraulic. It's symbolized by this dam:
President Hoover's dam is an astoundingly high 222 meters (like a skyscraper). The reservoir holds 35 billion tons of water (yes, 35 cubic kilometers). The Hoover dam was launched by Sec. of Commerce Hoover in 1922, and construction ordered, early, by President Hoover, mid-1931.
Imagine Obama built something that big… Instead Obama's idea of bigness is big money from the wealthy, food from their big tables, sleep in their big beds.
The latest thrust towards the Wealthcare state is a frenzy to make Larry Summers chief of the Central Bank. The usual suspects push for it: the Rubin-Goldman Sachs-Citigroup gang.
Larry Summers, plutocrat, plutophile, enabler of deregulation under Reagan, fought to repeal the last vestiges of Glass-Steagall, which separated traditional banking practices and investment (very risky) banking. Summers deregulated complex derivatives of the world-gobbling type under Clinton in the late 1990s. Summers, grotesquely sexist to the point of imbecility, hyper connected with the worst, the great whale that swallowed the world economy, and regurgitated the neoplutocratic order.
Under Obama, Summers was made chief economic adviser, and gave the worst advice imaginable. Irreplaceable. He is now inciting Obama to see ghosts. Says the President (July 2013):
"let's make sure that we're growing the economy, but let's also keep an eye on inflation, and if it starts heating up, if the markets start frothing up, let's make sure that we're not creating new bubbles."
Obama is worrying about inflation? What else? Little green men? Inflation? Which inflation? Obama is keeping an eye on non-existent inflation? What for? No new bubbles? Really? Is not that rich, Mr. President, after your administration gave about 8 trillion, half of GDP, to the biggest, nastiest banks that ever existed? And all this so those nastiest banks and their bankers could pay the immensely greedy Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin and their ilk? And fit the vision of the world they have, where financiers know best about everything? 8 trillion dollars to replenish criminals, that's not a bubble?
After the tragedy of the 1930s, we are now enjoying a farce (before it turns again to tragedy!)
Hoover, an engineer from Stanford U., was no idiot, far from it; and he was experienced: the Hoover dam was his baby. But as President he became an idiot by not understanding the extent of the crisis, and providing an insufficient stimulus program, while allowing banks to de-fund the economy. Not that Hoover did nothing: look at his colossal dam above. He just did not do enough.
Now here is Obama: one would expect that he heard of Hoover's meekness. But all he knows is basket ball, not engineering. Obama does not have a Hoover dam to point at: Obama's stimulus was mostly a fake. He kept his eye on the ball, indeed, from basket to golf.
Obama could have done something to mark the future, as Hoover did, with the Hoover dam. To this day, most of "renewable" energy is symbolized by the Hoover dam (hydro, worldwide, is on its way to pass gas in electricity generation).
What could have Obama done to mark the future with more than basket or golf balls? Get himself genuinely brainy advisers, not just greedy chickens, pecking away (Summers style). An obvious little project would have been Very High Speed trains, where they nearly exist, along the North East corridor or where they are guaranteed to be profitable, as in California.
Much more pharaonic and futuristic would have been for Obama to preside over a massive solar project in the South West USA.
The South West USA is the world's best place for solar energy (due to solar energy guaranteed & proximity of enormous California, and its two giant metropolises, plus great safety). But Obama did not notice: all he has, is his "eyes on the ball". The basket ball, historically, and now the golf ball. That's the balls he knows. Not ball-bearings, not an engineer, just a player.
Yes, Obama gave a bit of money here and there (Mostly to Elon Musk, because he is a tall, good-looking rich South African). Stimulus-wise, Obama is a dwarf Hoover that built dams never higher than a few meters high.
Some will scoff I am unfair to Obama. But I have been too generous: Obama is Hoover in full reverse. Hoover used the power of the government to build a giant dam (so did FDR, only more so). Instead Obama used the power of the government to give money to plutocrats.
A non banking example? Elon Musk and space X, and the like: NASA money has been detoured to give to that clique, to the point NASA does not have enough money to develop the successor of Saturn V… (Finally decided 40 years after Nixon buried it!… except Musk stole the money…)
We have a Great Depression, but Obama has not noticed, because he only listens to Goldman Sachs (historically his greatest source of funds to get elected)! Indeed, Goldman Sachs's owners are doing great. Obama breathes Goldman Sachs and its ilk. Such as Citigroup.
Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, etc. were all broke. What did Obama-Summers do? Each of the broken banks got about 60 billion from taxpayers, but Obama failed to acquire those properties taxpayers had paid for. So the plutocrats that controlled those institutions still do, and that's why Rubin's Citigroup and its immensely paid creatures (such as Lawrence Summers) are resurfacing from the abyss, stronger than ever. Well fed by clueless, pathetic taxpayers.
Why do we have a great Depression? Because presidents of USA such as Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama thought small, supposing they thought at all. Nixon ordered the stupid Space Shuttle instead of improving enormously the fantastic Saturn V (as it was easy to do, and Von Braun wanted), and Nixon conceived the stupid HMOs crony capitalism (= plutocracy).
The corrupt (What else?) Summers is paid by Citigroup (founded by Goldman's Robert Rubin, B. Clinton's main minder.) According to the Wall Street Journal, Saturday July 27, 2013: "Mr. Summers is getting millions from a number of other financial firms.
These include stock-exchange operator Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., hedge fund D.E. Shaw, venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and asset-management and advisory firm Alliance Partners"
Making Summers central bank chief, reminds me irresistibly of the nomination of H. Schacht at the head of the German central Bank.
Schacht, a pawn of the American plutocrat JP Morgan, enabled Hitler. Was it under orders? Schacht was tried at Nuremberg, and rebounded nicely as a master world plutocrat afterwards (he was obviously protected; he was best silent, as he knew all about Hitler's mighty financiers).
Quantitative Easing (QE) enthusiasts advocate the idiotic, but highly profitable to them, notion that the economy is all about money: just send enough money to the financiers, and they will make the world right for you (such is the main idea of QE).
Many "democratic" economists have advocated QE: send trillions to buy off the (unprosecuted) banking criminals. And thus most of what Obama did was to implement the notion of sending, according to the esteemed economist and lawyer William Black, and also according to the inspector of TARP, and evidence, trillions to the very banks that created the 2008 disaster. (This is not just my opinion anymore: even the Wall Street Journal agrees now, see below!)
(The banks used a bit of that money to "reimburse" TARP, enabling big reassuring titles in the Main Stream Propaganda: "Banks/Companies Reimburse Government Loans").
Perfect for a world where the financiers in power decide who deserve money (namely themselves and their friends: why do you think Obama spent years calling Jamie Dimon, the daemon head of JP Morgan, "my friend"?)
Thus caring about the economy was straight WEALTH CARE: take care of the rich, they will do the rest. Reagan ("Ray Gun"?) got the ball rolling all over industry. Thanks to Goldman Sachs, Rubin, Summers, Clinton (in that order), it was extended to all financiers, drugged out on derivatives, in the 1990s.
Bush succeeded to out-Clinton by extending wealth care massively to defense contractors by engaging in carefully unwinnable wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, all over.
Nixon has started HMOs by giving billions to private companies for Health Maintenance Organizing (HMO). The idea had been suggested to him in the Oval Office by the head of Kaiser Permanente, the industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. (Recent profits of Kaiser are of the order of 2 billions, and its revenue 50 billion; it's the largest HMO in the USA).
Just as Obamacare flaunts the notion that stock exchanges and turning patients into shoppers will be the royal road to health care. Just send enough money to private insurance companies and health care plutocrats, such as Warren Buffet, Obama's self interested adviser, and, little people, they will take care of you, thanks to the benevolent (and 'invisible'!)hand of the market.
QE enthusiasts are propagandists for plutocracy. Just like many of the health care advocates are just poorly disguised wealth care fanatics who see more government subsidies coming their way.
Fine. This is what a plutocracy (aka "crony capitalism") is all about. What's not fine is when conscientious liberals fall for these schemes and howl in their favor for years. If one wants a society that cares, one builds a society that cares, and one does not simply throw money at the problem. That latter scheme is not new: Roman emperors practiced it for centuries, until the flood of money had corrupted the entire civilization.
Money even corrupted the most basic intelligence of the elite. When society is exclusively organized by money, there is no room for true intelligence. Even the Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2013, is finally understanding (five years after I got alarmed by Obama's seduction by Summers!):
"Mr. Summers is a master at "failing up." Screw up at one job, get a better one. He's now considered a front-runner to replace Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in January.
Mr. Bernanke's response to the financial crisis has been to digitally print trillions of dollars and give most of it to the biggest banks that caused the crisis. This seems to have averted another Great Depression, but at what cost? Eventually, the Fed must ease this money out of the system…
Meantime, President Obama launched yet another campaign to help the middle class. "With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, Washington's taken its eye off the ball," he complained last week in Galesburg, Ill.
He blames Washington, even as he leads Washington. One reason why the middle class is still suffering is because Mr. Obama has a knack for putting the same people who ruined the economy in charge of fixing the economy."
Well, it's not a knack, it's a system. There is constant commuting between the Obama administration and the institutions that got the most money from said administration. The woman who wrote so called Obamacare, a high level (VP) health care insurance executive, went back where she came from, after she was done. Single payer, American style: one woman, singularly paid.
But let's look at the bright side. The Wall Street Journal's broadsides against Summers are hilarious, and gratifying; the critiques above I put in bold letters I advocated for 4 years at least. At the time, most would have described my ideas as rabid, irrational leftism. In truth, it was only the truth.
The traditional method to deal with bank-ruptcy of banks is to nationalize them: stakeholders get wiped out, management thrown out, the state brings in what's needed to keep the bank going, and then sells it back to the private sector. This is fair: banks have a monopoly on money creation, granted by the state. Although privately managed, they are still agents of the state. This is efficient: it punishes malfeasance. And it costs taxpayers, thus, We The People, nothing: all the money is brought by the wealthy, twice.
Faced with the bankruptcy of thousands of a type of banks, the S&Ls, Reagan and Bush Senior followed scrupulously the nationalization method.
Yet the American subprime/European malinvestment crisis of 2008 was dealt in the opposite way: money was just grabbed from taxpayers, and given to the criminals, the banksters. Why? So they could do it again? Bush, Paulson a steroid laden football player who was made president of Goldman Sachs, before becoming Treasury Sec., Nancy Pelosi, a plutocrat daughter of somebody, head of Congress democrats, Obama, the basket ball man, and Lawrence Summers took all the decisions, and gave no explanation, except that they saved the world!
Verily, they saved nothing, except an established order that had blossomed in an orgasm of over-exploitation. What they did, was to Transfer Assets to Rich People (TARP), and impoverish everybody else.
So why Reagan and Bush Senior behave fairly, and the politicians of 2008 so dishonestly? Because the world political class of 2008 was much more corrupt than that of 1998.
How did it get there? Under Clinton, that is the reign of Goldman Sachs-Rubin-Summers, corruption got away from any critical examination. That allowed it to reach a crtitical mass. Summers had a screaming fit against the lady heading the Futures' Commission, insisting, as he did, that financial derivatives ought not to be regulated (under Harvard president Summers' supervision, that University lost a billion dollars in derivatives trades, meaning students' money was transferred to plutocrats).
The same lady, Sheila Bair, was unpopular in the Obama administration, just as the highly qualified Fed Vice President, Janet Yellen.
What's the problem with those women? They are more careful that the men, being more emphatic. Somebody such as Summers believe that greed is the noblest engine of humanity, and government should serve greed. The welfare state is their enemy, the wealth care state, their solution. They have understood nothing to humanity. And even less to how Earth works.
Lawrence Summers helped ruin Russia (by giving Yeltsin terrible advice) and turned it away from democracy, and back to the KGB. Lawrence Summers made the economy of the West "derivative". Worse than him, there is not. Thus, Summers is intensely attractive to those whose wealth depends upon ruining the rest of mankind.
Summers? Irresistible to the Obama administrators: that's where the money is. Citigroup will reward them. Amen.
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Obama also urged the badly fractured and largely dysfunctional Iraqi government to move quickly to forge a united front and give hope to Sunni tribes who've been marginalized. Obama noted last week's decision by Nouri Al-Maliki to step down as Iraq's prime minister, a move that raised hopes a new government could roll back Iraq's powerful Sunni insurgency and prevent the country from splitting apart.
"They've got to get this done because the wolf's at the door," the president said.
Speaking from the White House briefing room, Obama said he was pleased the United States had given Iraqi security forces and the Kurdish militia an important boost in Mosul. But he stressed the importance of political progress and said it is imperative that Iraq become a viable partner for the US.
The US will continue to assist Iraqi security forces with a limited military campaign designed to protect American personnel and facilities and to alleviate humanitarian crises created by ISIS, he said.
He added that it is not for the US to be a surrogate air force for Baghdad and it is up to Iraqis to create a sustainable peace.
"We've got a national security interest in making sure our people are protected and in making sure that a savage group that seems willing to slaughter people for no rhyme or reason other than they have not kowtowed—that a group like that is contained because ultimately it can pose a threat to us," Obama told reporters.
The Islamic extremists captured the Mosul dam on August 7. Obama said if the dam on the Tigris River had been breached it could have had catastrophic consequences and endangered American Embassy personnel in Baghdad.
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, said the US had conducted 35 airstrikes in the area of the Mosul dam since Saturday.
"In all, we destroyed over 90 targets including a range of vehicles, equipment, and fighting positions. Iraqi forces have cleared the dam and are working to further expand their area of control," Kirby said.
The president gave no indication of how long the US military will remain engaged in Iraq. Washington is urgently providing arms and assistance to Iraqi security forces as well as Kurdish fighters as they seek to reverse Islamic State gains, he said.
Obama has said he will not send US ground forces to fight in Iraq.
US Central Command said American fighters, bombers and drone aircraft conducted 15 strikes Monday around the dam, hitting ISIS fighting positions as well as an anti-aircraft artillery gun and other weaponry of the group that has captured wide swaths northern and western Iraq this summer.
The White House notified Congress by letter Sunday that US warplanes were engaged in strikes aimed at helping Iraq regain control of the dam.
The letter said "failure of the Mosul dam could threaten the lives of large numbers of civilians, threaten US personnel and facilities—including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad—and prevent the Iraqi government from providing crucial services to the Iraqi populace."
A Pentagon spokesman, Army Col. Steve Warren, said Monday the US had no indication of the dam's imminent failure but is determined to prevent that possibility, which would pose a humanitarian disaster for people along the Tigris river.
Before Obama spoke, Kurdish forces said they regained full control of the dam and its surrounding facilities following two days of fierce clashes. But Iraq's Defense Ministry said security forces only "liberated a large part" of the dam and not the entire complex.
The 15 US airstrikes on Monday were in addition to 16 on Sunday and nine on Saturday. The Pentagon refused to identify the specific types of aircraft used in the airstrikes around the Mosul dam, citing restrictions imposed by countries in the Middle East that are allowing the US to use their air bases.


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Lee Blue has posted his next article in a series covering some of the real costs and considerations around using PHP for your applications. In this latest post he talks about frameworks and what kind of effect they could have on the overall profitability of your business.
Last week we talked about application shelf life an aspect of PHP development that often goes overlooked. This week let's talk about how the web development framework you use contributes to the shelf life of your app and the profitability of your web application. [...] The main goal of all web frameworks is to improve the developer's ability to get ordinary things done so we can focus on the primary goals of what we're building.
He talks about how PHP was "made for the web" and why there are so many different kinds of frameworks out there (though most are generally MVC-ish). He talks about one of the standard arguments, learning curve vs efficiency, and how it compares to the "no framework framework" ideals. He then gets into some of the dark side of using frameworks, specifically how they can shorten the shelf life of an application and how difficult migration can sometimes be. He points out the irony of large frameworks: the bigger the app/framework, the harder it can be to migrate (and cost more). He encourages sticking with smaller, lighter frameworks instead and suggests coding standards, common packages and using custom libraries only where needed to create your application.


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'Rain Man'-like Brains Mapped with Network Analysis
Innovative Technique Sheds Light on Abnormal Brain Connectivity Responsible for Common Genetic Cause of Autism
A group of researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley have mapped the three-dimensional global connections within the brains of seven adults who have genetic malformations that leave them without the corpus callosum, which connects the left and right sides of the brain.
These "structural connectome" maps, which combine hospital MRIs with the mathematical tool known as network analysis, are described in the upcoming April 15 issue of the journal Neuroimage. They reveal new details about the condition known as agenesis of the corpus callosum, which is one of the top genetic causes of autism. The condition was part of the mysterious brain physiology of Laurence Kim Peek, the remarkable savant portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the 1987 movie "Rain Man."
While some people born with agenesis of the corpus callosum are of normal intelligence and do not have any obvious signs of neurologic disease, approximately 40 percent of people with the condition are at high risk for autism. Given this, the work is a step toward finding better ways to image the brains of people with the condition, said Pratik Mukherjee, MD, PhD, a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at UCSF who was the co-senior author of the research.
Understanding how brain connectivity varies from person to person may help researchers identify imaging biomarkers for autism to help diagnose it and manage care for individuals. Currently autism is diagnosed and assessed based on cognitive tests, such as those involving stacking blocks and looking at pictures on flip cards.
While the new work falls short of a quantitative measure doctors could use instead of cognitive testing, it does offer a proof-of-principle that this novel technique may shed light on neurodevelopment disorders.
"Because you are looking at the whole brain at the network level, you can do new types of analysis to find what's abnormal," Mukherjee said.
The Connection between the Brain Hemispheres and Autism
Agenesis of the corpus callosum can arise if individuals are born missing DNA from chromosome 16 and often leads to autism.
Scientists have long puzzled over what the link is between this disorder and the autistic brain, said co-senior author of the paper Elliott Sherr, MD, PhD, professor of neurology and genetics especially since not all people with this malformation develop autism.
Doctors believe this is because the brain has a rich capacity for rewiring in alternative ways.
Pursuing this question, Mukherjee and Sherr turned to MRI and the mathematical technique of network analysis, which has long supported fields like civil engineering, helping urban planners optimize the timing of traffic lights to speed traffic. This is the first time network analysis has been applied to brain mapping for a genetic cause of autism.
The brain offers a significantly complicated challenge for analysis because, unlike the streets of a given city, the brain has hundreds of billions of neurons, many of which make tens of thousands of connections to each other, making its level of connectivity highly complex.
By comparing the seven rain man-like brains to those of 11 people without this malformation, the scientists determined how particular structures called the cingulate bundles were smaller and the neurons within these bundles were less connected to others in the brain. They also found that the network topology of the brain was more variable in people with agenesis of the corpus callosum than in people without the malformation.
The article, "The structural connectome of the human brain in agenesis of the corpus callosum" is authored by Julia P. Owen, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, with co-authors Yi-Ou Li, Etay Ziv, Zoe Strominger, Jacquelyn Gold, Polina Bukhpun, Mari Wakahiro, Eric J. Friedman, Elliott H. Sherr and Pratik Mukherjee. It appears in the April 15 issue of the journal Neuroimage, and is now published online ahead of print.
This work was funded by the National Institutes of Health through grant #R01NS060776, #R01NS060776 and #R01NS058721. Additional support was provided by a grant from the UCSF Sandler Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.


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Actually that title captures 98% of this blog's +1800 posts. And just as elsewhere in Gotham or anywhere else, so on the sixth boro what work you see depends entirely on your station. And my station this particular day was Tchefuncte River's Equitable Equipment's hull # 1428, delivered in August 1966 as Red Star Towing's New Haven. Now she's Freddie K. Miller; I took the foto below just over five years ago when she was Stapleton Service. I use this foto here because a downside of being on the tow is my inability to get a foto OF the tow.
At 0520 hrs, dawn was sweetest and coolest, from this point a mile south of Miller's Launch. When I reported at 0530, the Miller's yard was already busy.
The crew of Freddie K Miller's had a job: pick up Weeks Crane Barge 552 and its crew and proceed to the East River ConEd. By 0615, crew was making the tow.
0645 we were crossing west to east across the Upper Bay. Buchanan 1 was towing a scow and
Douglas B. Gurion headed west for passengers. The ferry is named for a victim of September 11.
0715 . .. near Red Hook container port, we passed this ex-MSC vessel Transatlantic. I will post more MSC soon.
0730 . . . we had passed under the Brooklyn Bridge and now could feast on this potpourri of Manhattan skyline. Side by side on the right are Gehry's flowing-facade 8 Spruce (2011) and Gilbert's spiky-tower (1913).
0745 . . . we pass GMD Shipyard, where morning shift has already started its work on Massachusetts Maritime's TS Kennedy (1967).
0815 . . . the crew have tied to the ConEd dock and Weeks' crew has begun setting the spuds, for stability as the load is transferred. My very general understanding of this load is that ConEd purchased equipment from Manufacturer M. Company A trucked it to the Weeks yard because installation by land (by Company B) was less feasible than installation from water. Miller's job was to move equipment on crane barge to ConEd so that Weeks–with collaboration from Company B–could set equipment exactly where it will be used.
0915 . . . first equipment is lifted and rotated over the East River counterclockwise to avoid obstacles on land, and at
0920 . . . crew guides unit into exact location. If half an inch off, then lift and get it right.
1010 . . . next piece of equipment is moved. While the tug stands by with the crane barge, Miller crew does fine carpentry work in wheelhouse.
Since my self-appointed job is to record details, check out Carolina IV, sailing westbound on the East river . . . hailing from Stockholm, Yes, sailing! and . . . yes . . . that Stockholm while
eastbound are Gage Paul Thornton and a floatplane.
1115 . . . heavy-duty pipe elbow gets lifted into place. Tower protruding from the building just right of MetLife is Chrysler Building.
1215 . . . the spuds are up, the crane boom lowered and secured, Freddie K Miller has spun off the dock and now heads back westbound for the Weeks yard. If the grayish vessel in the foreground is locally known as a "honey boat," then this has to be one of the sweetest scenes possible in these parts.
1300 . . . as we approach the Weeks yard we cross Buchanan 12 towing three stone scows, possibly headed for a quarry up the Hudson.
1330 . . . Freddy K Miller is now "light," having left the barge at the Weeks yard. Ever Decent is outbound for sea, and by this writing is southbound off Cape Hatteras.
Meanwhile, close to Manhattan, Asphalt Star takes on bunker fuel from a Vane barge. That black hose . . . that's like the hose at the pump where you fill your car tank.
By 1400, I've said my thanks to the crew of Freddy K Miller —who await their next job on this or another vessel–and the dispatcher, and take a break to examine a familiar sight: Alice, she who inspired my first ever blogpost!!
Back on the bank and before heading home, I get another shot; she's loaded deep with her Canadian aggregates.
Imagine my delight, then, later that day getting a foto from Mike C. of Alice Oldendorff north of the Navy Yard self-unloading her cargo of crushed stone.
Many thanks to all the folks at Miller's Launch. Also, thank you Mike for sending along this last foto. All other fotos by Will Van Dorp.


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Earth Day 2015: A Stunning, Jaw-Dropping, 121 Million-Megapixel Single Shot of Earth
This is THE definitive photograph of planet Earth. A Russian Satellite captures ALL of our planet — in a SINGLE SHOT — ONE stunning, 121 MILLION-MEGAPIXEL shot. See more of these beautiful, massive photos taken by Electro-L, Russia's latest weather … Continue reading


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Dale Carter's book, Transitioning Your Aging Parent, is a must read for anyone with senior parents who need extra support. The book has been well reviewed — a resource that helps right now, and honestly, it still may be a useful resource years from now when we require support from our children. Follow Dale's blog, Transition Aging Parents, her blog radio podcasts, or just chat with her for a short time. You'll discover she's a born communicator who uses web 2.0 digital tools to share her expertise.
Now Dale is heading off on a author's tour, traveling in a few days to the Atlanta area and then on to Florida. In this day and age of instant digital communication, a book tour seems almost a quaint literary device from the past, so I am always glad to hear that a friend or colleague is off on a tour to share a book and meet potential readers up close and in person.
If you live in the Atlanta area or in Florida, check out Dale's post on her blog to get additional information about the book tour and take advantage of the opportunity to learn more about gently and respectfully helping parents — not to mention yourself — through a time of life that can be challenging for everyone involved.
Maybe her next tour can be in my area — Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC,


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Cornett got songwriting advice from a Sparkletone
Editor's note: Arts and entertainment writer Dan Armonaitis recently spent a few days in Nashville, Tenn. This is the third in a series of stories about people from the Spartanburg area who are having an impact in the Music City.
NASHVILLE, TENN. – On a recent Wednesday night, Spartanburg native Amanda Page Cornett was on a small stage at the Commodore Grille, a restaurant and bar in a Holiday Inn next to Vanderbilt University.
The intimate venue sometimes hosts open mics, but, on this occasion, Cornett was performing as an invited guest for a songwriters' night that was headlined by a handful of veteran tunesmiths whose songs have been recorded by some of the biggest names in the music business.
Just moments after Cornett had finished performing alongside two other aspiring singer-songwriters, the evening's musical heavyweights took the stage.
There was Jim Parker, whose hits include John Anderson's "Chicken Truck"; Lisa Carver, who co-penned Sugarland's hit "Everyday America"; Bob Regan, whose hits include Trisha Yearwood's "Thinkin' About You"; and Ricky Ray, a W.C. Handy Award nominee as co-writer of Ruth Brown's "Good Day for the Blues."
Being around such talented individuals has become routine for Cornett, who has been involved in Nashville's songwriting community ever since moving to the Music City eight years ago.
"To hear people like Jim Parker and Lisa Carver and all those guys, who are amazing, it is an inspiration for me to push myself and to dig deeper when I'm writing," Cornett said.
And it was through songwriters' nights such as this one that Cornett learned to broaden her own musical vision. Suddenly, she wasn't just writing pop-tinged, modern country songs.
"When I moved here, I was not fully aware of the different genres here, and I'm so glad it's like that because I've been going more on the rock side lately than the country side," Cornett said. "… It really is 'Music City,' not just 'Country Music City.' "
Cornett's final selection at the Commodore Grille on this evening, for instance, was a scorching, soul-laced rocker in the tradition of Bonnie Raitt. Cornett belted out "Morphine," while the song's co-writer, Ken Buono, accompanied her on electric guitar.
"I try to put emotion into everything I do," Cornett said. "I may not be the best singer in the world, but if I can get people to feel what I'm singing, that's what it's about."
Cornett said one of the most rewarding experiences she's had as a songwriter occurred not too long ago when a woman contacted her about a song she'd written called "Soldier's Girl."
"She said that her brother-in-law just got killed in Afghanistan, and she asked if she could use the song for his funeral," Cornett said. "That is the most humbling compliment anybody could ever give me as a songwriter — to say 'I want to use your song for the funeral of somebody who just died for our country.'
"… When that happened, the first person I called was my mom. I told her the story, and she was like, 'I just got chills.' And I told her, 'Mom, that is why I do this. That is why I'm here.' "
A graduate of Dorman High School, Cornett earned a degree in sports medicine from the University of Florida before moving to Nashville. She still works as a personal fitness trainer, but music is what she loves to do most.
Cornett can be seen singing her song "He's Lookin' Better" in the 2010 film "Junkyard Dog," starring Vivica A. Fox, and she's appeared in music videos for such country superstars as Kip Moore, Brooks & Dunn and Gretchen Wilson.
Cornett said she has been singing for as long as she can remember and that she began writing songs when she was 9 years old.
But it wasn't until she started taking guitar lessons from Joe Bennett, of Sparkletones fame, that she became serious about songwriting.
"I got a guitar when I was 13 or 14," Cornett said. "Actually, it's the same one I'm still playing because I can't afford to buy another one."
Bennett taught Cornett the basics of rhythmic guitar playing, but it was his gentle songwriting advice that had the biggest impact on her.
"I remember he asked me, 'When do you write?' " Cornett said. "And I answered, 'Oh, whenever something comes to me.' Then, he said, 'I want to challenge you. I want you to make your songwriting talent a skill.' "
Cornett said Bennett gave her a song title, "When Love Kicks In," and asked her to write words for it, setting a deadline of the next week's guitar lesson. She surprised him by fulfilling the assignment.
"What was great about it is that he was the first person to really tell me, 'Hey, you need to actually work at this if you want to be good,' " Cornett said.
Cornett takes pride in having been raised in Spartanburg, especially considering the city's rich musical heritage. She said that "one of the coolest" moments of her music career was getting to sing "Can't You See" with the Marshall Tucker Band a few years ago in Nashville.
"Doug (Gray, MTB's lead singer) handed me a tambourine, and he actually let me keep it," Cornett said. "I've still got it at my house."
Since moving to Nashville, Cornett has also gotten to know singer-songwriter Marshall Chapman, having met her at a mutual friend's party.
"I was really inspired by her book, 'Goodbye Little Rock and Roller,' and when I started listening to her music, I could just feel the passion and emotion," Cornett said.
Cornett considers herself "a bit of a rebel" when it comes to music. Growing up, her idols were Tanya Tucker, Hank Williams Jr. and especially, Charlie Daniels.
Oddly enough, she met Daniels while standing in a line for concessions at a Tennessee Titans football game.
"He's one of the few people I've ever been star-struck by," Cornett said. "I was like, 'Mr. Daniels, I'm a big fan of yours, and I really appreciate everything you do for the troops.' And then I told him that I grew up with all the Marshall Tucker Band's kids in Spartanburg.
"And he looked at me and said, 'I used to live in Spartanburg, down off Pine Street.' "
At the time, Cornett was unaware that Daniels had attended junior high school in Spartanburg.
"Here's my musical idol, and for him to tell me that he lived in Spartanburg, I was like, 'Oh my gosh, how cool is that?' He is the nicest man in the world."
As Cornett continues to pursue a full-time music career, she has a couple of goals in mind.
"The ideal scenario, on a low scale, would be making a living just off music — playing, writing, having other people cut my songs and things like that," Cornett said. "But, of course, on a larger scale, there's always the dream of being a Top 40 or Top 10 artist and getting to tour internationally."


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Casino Pier Amusement Park Sustains Heavy Damage from Hurricane Sandy
Images surfacing on the Web have shown part of Seaside Heights, New Jersey's Casino Pier washed away by Hurricane Sandy. The aerial image below shows part of the pier ripped away and the Star Jet roller coaster now sitting in the ocean.
Star Jet was a compact E&F Miler roller coaster that RCDB is already listing as defunct. Some of you may recognize the ride and Casino Pier from MTV's The Jersey Shore. The show would often include shots of the park's rides. CoasterImage has more pictures of Casino Pier.
Today, Screamscape also shared that a number of other rides including the park's haunted house were washed away as well. I'm not that familiar with the park and I've never visited. The only seaside amusement park in New Jersey that I've visited is Morey's Piers. According to Screamscape that southern NJ park fared pretty well.
Hurricane Sandy Damaged Funtown Pier
A tweet by ACE shows an image of Seaside Park, New Jersey's Funtown Pier which was also damaged by Hurricane Sandy. RCDB lists all of that park's roller coasters as defunct with the statement: "It is presumed all the roller coasters were lost."
Obviously the loss of human life is the most important tragedy when natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy occur. But, these amusement parks were staples in these communities. The economic and cultural losses will be felt for years to come. I hope and pray that these parks will be able to recover and rebuild.
Have you been to Casino Pier or Funtown Pier? Leave a comment below.


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Ah, C. The best lingua franca we have… because we have no other lingua francas. Linguae franca. Surgeons general? C is fairly old — 44 years, now! — and comes from a time when there were possibly more architectures than programming languages. It works well for what it is, and what it is is a relatively simple layer of indirection atop assembly. Alas, the popularity of C has led to a number of programming languages' taking significant cues from its design, and parts of its design are… slightly questionable. I've gone through some common features that probably should've stayed in C and my justification for saying so. The features are listed in rough order from (I hope) least to most controversial. The idea is that C fans will give up when I call it "weakly typed" and not even get to the part where I rag on braces. Wait, crap, I gave it away.
Great re-read towards the end of the year: [WayBack] Let's stop copying C / fuzzy notepad
Via: [WayBack] Old and busted: emacs vs vi. New and hot: Language war, everybody against everybody else. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+


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Two from InishmorePosted: July 12, 2016 Filed under: Uncategorized 25 Comments
I spent a most spectacular day on Inishmore, the largest of the three Aran Islands. And for the first time, I did a sketch tour by bike. Cycling is really the best way to see the island. There are buses or horse-drawn carriages that can take you around as well, but biking allows you to stop wherever you find a good view and since the island is only 18km long, it's easily travelled in a few hours. If you take the low road along the coast, the views on the land side are almost as breathtaking as the sea side. The fields, sectioned by rock walls and dotted with livestock, slope up to a constant wall of clouds. I found a stone table and bench to sketch the view.
In the afternoon I found an outdoor spot at a cafe in the town of Kilronan. Before returning to Galway, I found some time to draw and paint a view of the town but the wind picked up and was so fierce that I had to finish the sketch on the ferry ride home. Despite the rough water, and the occasional screams from passengers as the ferry slammed up and down on the waves, it was still easier to draw than in the wind. I know this sounds like a Rick Steeves guidebook, but if you ever get a chance to see Inishmore, jump on it. It was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, but I have a feeling I may say that a lot in Ireland.
25 Comments on "Two from Inishmore"
Biking, boating, painting & journaling – sounds like a quadruple triathlon to me !! You are Iron Woman – great paintings as usual. Rick Steves should commission you. BTW, that ring finger on your palette only popped out when I stressed it trying to open it – not while holding it.
Keep enjoying !
How can you sketch on a ferry boat-that is bouncing all over the place? This is a super sketch. What size is it? I am enjoying Ireland thru your eyes and sketches.
I was in Inishmore about 20 years ago, and I still recognize your 2nd sketch. Great stuff!
It's wonderful to get your posts from Ireland. Great sketches, two such different views. Happy trails. Raise a pint for me!
I've been all over the planet, but Ireland is the one country I would see again. We drove along the entire coast and every new turn was another picture postcard. Enjoy your visit….I envy you. Your sketches are always amazing.
These are both beautiful!!! Sounds like quite an adventure you had today.
I enjoy all of your pieces, but the sketch of the town is absolutely amazing…..Bravo!
Hi Shari
Off topic. Will take your art book about Montreal for Symposium for sell? Thanks Monika
It so upsets me that I could not do your class in Galway, you and your fabulous work are tantalisingly near but so far! Maybe next year you could do a class in Dublin or co. Wicklow, it is so beautiful up and down the east coast and half an hour could get you to the mountains….you could fill dozens of sketch books with your beautiful work!


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RACHEL LOIS CLAPHAM writes: A Writing Station is used to produce short texts live and in public. The WRITING STATION includes: Two typewriters, pebbles, white A4 80gsm and black carbon copy paper (it generally keeps things close to the ground).
The invitation is to type, punch-in and publish. There and then. The texts act variously as gift, context, conversation slip or document/ation at the discretion of the typist.
VSK: Can you say more about "close-to-the-ground"…
RLC: Close to the ground- for me, this is non networked, literally buried in its moment, in the soil. Also, with regards to the materials present- metal, ink, paper, carbon paper. There is something quite rooted about these materials coming from the ground. Save for the plastic covers on the machines that is!
TEXT: By Rachel Lois Clapham. "For Charles Olson" and "For Alan Turing" from an email exchange with Alex Eisenberg.
Type (typos) was recognized as individual. (Some of us sixties poets were trying to find our own voices as opposed, that is, to what seemed an expected and traditional meditational and cryptic "English" inner voice.) That sense of the individual imprint, outside of tradition, outside of an inherited world of form, became immediate.
We used the Gestetner, the letterpress, the typewriter. Type became letter as literal and letter as object.
Elisabeth Mann Borgese… had trained a dog in the 1940s to type answers to questions on a special machine that fitted its paws. The success of this undertaking is still dubious in scientific circles, but the spectacle it made at the keyboard of its machine stuck in Joseph Cornell's mind as one of the events of the century, and he supposed that all well-informed people were familiar with it. La Borgese's accomplished beast's habit of typing BAD DOG when it had flubbed a right answer had brought tears to his eyes. He… had no qualms about dismissing people tediously ignorant of such wonderful things.
For Open Dialogues, SOB BASIC is part of NOTA: NOTES, which they describe as:
NOTA: NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), NOT/A, pressing on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to performance…. towards a sometime set of performance writing tools.
As part of our collaboration in Leeds, a gathering of materials on typewriter as art-writing practice by VerySmallKitchen can be seen here …
… whilst a conversation on the typewriter with artist Marianne Holm Hansen in a coffee shop on Brick Lane became TYPE TYING TYPINGS TYPIST TYBE.
TEXTS: Collected from Writing Station at the conclusion of InXclusion, East Street Arts, Leeds, 6pm 24th March to 6pm 25 March 2012.
VerySmallKitchen writes: …DocU, morphing into SOB BASIC after a deliberately erratum transcription of a skype conversation… different aspects of the typewriter and how it might bbbbbe… gathering sources from various histories and art and poetry, colleagues and contemporaries, towards new acts of individual imprint..
… actually, this dominates over any desire to actually type myself!… Where do I put the paper? people (under, say, 25) asked in Leeds. Can I do capital letters?…
(1)Simon Cutts' poem "An ode for the recovery of an olympia splendid 66 typewriter originally designed by max bill in 1939…." This is in Jerome Rothenberg's A Book of the Book anthology and Cutts' own A Smell of Printing: Poems 1988-1998. Just the title for now.
(2)The projects on Colin Sackett's website under the heading Typewriting. As well as the specifics of each project, the suggestion of "Typewriting" as a distinct writing category, transferring and multiplying agency, breaking away from the machine itself, whilst confirming its materiality and history, ghosting into laptop and InDesign…
KNEAD the linguistic material; this is what justifies the label concrete.
Don't just manipulate the whole structure; begin rather with the smallest elements—letters, words. Recast the letters as anagrams. Repeat letters within words; throw in alien words, peavroog-se do; interpose letters that don't belong, aacatioaanniya for action; explore children's secret code languages and other private languages; vocal glides gliaouedly. And, of course, newly coined lettristic words.
To bring down a military plane over Afghanistan. To welcome the sun. To water the plants. To roll back the hose. To unroll it again. To go on watering. To place the hose next to the wall. To displace shadows while displacing oneself. To go back to the typewriter. To worry about the ribbon, to wonder if it needs to be replaced by a new one. To control the desire for sherbets. To breathe painfully. To keep one's anger low key, sweep away one's worries. To take off the shoes and wear other ones, and enjoy the result. To see what time it is. To uncork the inkpots. To read "Mont Blanc" on the label. To glance at the watch and realize that it's time for the (bad) news. To put up with it.
A scaphocephalic X-ray: top-heavy. The bloodshot reels are tin eyes. Pince-nez of ribbon, legion of dishonour. Rictal mouth in mash of metallic teeth, German dentistry. Or: stand the thing on its head and the keys become strokes of electrified hair. Shock therapy. One scarlet lip, bitten and bloody. And the other? Black as human ignorance. Bridled, the scold who has swallowed her own children. The typewriter, long out of service, dictates the screenplay: Bring Me the Head of Emanuel Swedenborg. Stripped of flesh, this instrument is our first skull. It vibrates like a skin drum. An empty cranium filled with wormcasts. It writes the long house into being, as a form of apology; architect of its own ruin. Fingered to erotic frenzy, it talks code. The truths of the sense of the letter of the Word… are found in dump receptacles.
Provenance unknown. Thought to be in use for matters of business until the coming of the word-processor. In essence a memory-device waiting to be activated; to reveal, without human intervention, all the secrets of its infinite interior.
The other night out at the bars, I learned that Nietzsche wrote on a typewriter. It is unbelievable to me, and I no longer feel that his philosophy has the same validity or aura of truth that it formerly did. No other detail of his life situating him so squarely in the modern age could have affected me as much as learning this. He typed Zarathustra? Goddamnit, the man had no more connection to the truth than a stenographer!
NOTES: A & B (above) are from (A) Fred Wah, Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity Critical Writing 1984-1999 (NeWest Press, 2000) 246 and (B) Guy Davenport, Every Force Evolves A Form (North Point Press, 1987), 146.
(3) Oyvind Fahlstrom Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy: Manifesto for Concrete Poetry (1953) in Antonio Sergio Bessa ed. Mary Ellen Solt: Toward a Theory of Concrete Poetry, OEI No.51/ 2010, 257-260; (4) Etel Adnan, In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country (City Lights Books, 2005), 104; (5) Iain Sinclair, from "Commentaries: The Typewriter" in Sinclair and Brian Catling, Several Clouds Colliding (Bookworks, 2012), 15; (6) Sheila Heti, How Should A Person Be? (Henry Holt & Co., 2012).
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Get A Life, Guys. Here Are 5 Things You Could Be Doing Rather Than Queuing For iPhone 5
It's the launch of iPhone 5! As the entire world stands in line and tweets live updates of their quest for iPhone glory, we'd like to provide a little reality check. It's just a phone, guys. Just think of all these things you could be doing instead:
1. USA - Go to the SPAM museum. No seriously, don't just take our word for it. If you're kicking it around Austin, Minnesota then swing on by to experience "this life-altering pure pork bliss for yourself." You too could be smiling alongside these two happy spammers:
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2. AUSTRALIA - No queues, just a vast expanse of land and a really big (model of a) potato. Oh yeah, sure, all your friends will have an iPhone 5 but imagine how jealous they'll be when you send them an Instagram picture of The Big Potato (dubbed the Big Turd by local residents) when they're waiting in line. #SoJealous.
3. FRANCE - You're in Paris. You shouldn't be queuing for materialist fads. Get out there, see the sights. Oh but yeah, your feet hurt, it's crowded and you've strained your neck just by looking up at the Eiffel Tower. Hello, France Miniature is made for you. The whole of France... in miniature. Oh look, it's St. Tropez... in miniature!
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4. JAPAN - Go to the Parasite Museum. Yes we'd rather do that than line up for a new iPhone. You know why? Because we'll be learning and will have super interesting dinner party topics. So you just got a new App? Yawn.
5. UNITED KINGDOM - Teapot Island... the largest collection of teapots in the UK! Enough said.


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Reality TV is a Mental Illness
I read a blog post from The UX of Social Media Blog, and the author wrote, "The suffering of others is also the staple of millions of viewers who tune in from squalid rooms and palaces alike to watch someone besides themselves become the latest humiliated outcast."
The Reality of Reality TV
After reading the rest of the post, I thought of a letter I received in Vietnam that said, Dear Skip. Then I thought of the millions who have nothing more constructive to do but tune in and watch others suffer and be humiliated. This same ship of fools may also have enjoyed my suffering then, but I'm also sure they would not want to have what I brought home from Vietnam—the beast that lives inside my head.
I have no desire to watch reality TV, and I'm sure America would be a better place if the misguided people that watch this junk had a dose of Vietnam as I did. Maybe then, Americans would be less combative and judgmental on so many levels like this dog fight between the Democrats and Republicans.
Learn more about the reality of Politics as Usual
Lloyd Lofthouse, a former U.S. Marine and Vietnam Veteran, is the award winning author of The Concubine Saga.
His latest novel is Running with the Enemy. Blamed for a crime he did not commit while serving in Vietnam, his country considers him a traitor. Ethan Card is a loyal U.S. Marine desperate to prove his innocence or he will never go home again.
And the woman he loves and wants to save was trained to hate and kill Americans.
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