So, aside from being The Aural Retentive, I am also known as Spike Master D. I thought I had written about this before, but I only found one mention in a previous post and it just said "More on that later"… so I guess now is later.
This has only a scant connection to music, so I am stretching here, but it was music that started it in a way, so I'll allow it.
When I was in grade school there was a kid in my grade who was called Spike. I always thought that was the coolest nickname. When I changed schools some years later I tried to brand myself with that, but it never took. I was just plain old Mike. I let it go.
Fast forward many many years and I end up working in a factory driving forklift. It was steady work and what I needed then, but eventually I ended up going back to school and getting a job in IT. During my time there at the factory though I made several pivotal friends. Dalton for one. If you read this blog you know about Dalton. He worked as a box strapper or bander as we called it, on the assembly line next to mine. We talked music all the time and eventually became lifelong friends. Miss you bud.
When I started at the factory I grabbed cabinets off the hot shrink line and burned my hands constantly, but it was a job and I NEEDED one, bad. I was thrilled. Eventually a place on the line scraping glue from the edges of boards came up and I moved to that job with delight. From there I ended up at the end of the assembly line strapping the boxes together. I think I worked on the line for about a year when a chance to drive forklift came my way.
I had driven a forklift extensively at another factory job I had had (which I got because my handwriting was the clearest of the 5 candidates – thank you Universe!) so I parlayed that into a chance to become a coveted forklift driver. I got it. I had that job picking and delivering cardboard boxes to the assembly lines to pack furniture in for several years.
This is the time I became, to my delight… Spike! There were radios that each of us had on out lifts that were used to call orders, or for the line folks to check with us on their deliveries or whatever. We were on them a lot. Trouble was at one point we had 3 Mike's driving forklift. It got really confusing on the radio. So we all chose nicknames. This was my chance! I declared myself Spike. I spent about 10 years being Spike. The other 2 Mike's became Hans and Virgil.
Then a different forklift job came available and I stepped into it. This is the job I was to have for many years. Too many actually, but it was my life.
Instead of driving a propane fueled forklift like you would expect to see on a loading dock, I became a stand up driver. This was an electric lift which was used in the "wide aisle" where the long or deep parts were stored. This was opposed to the narrow aisle lifts of which we had 2 that handled the short and narrow parts.
It gives me a shiver to look at this now. It was such a weirdly satisfying job that took me nowhere for a long time until I went back to school and eventually got out. While I was there though I was the king of this lift. I suited me.
I pulled the following shot from a video shoot we did at work for fun one day. They look terrible, but you get the idea of what my favorite ripped flannel looked like and the heights the parts were stored at. It was scary sometimes.
At the far end of the picture above, was the drop off spot. The "pusher" would use a track and cart system to deliver the parts to the line or bring back the leftovers back to be return to the racks. This was hard physical work and I respected it. I knew I had a plumb job and though there were days that were hard and the pace was ridiculous we did have one perk. A radio.
See the music connection? I know, weak. That radio though was a lifesaver and we took turns between the 3 drivers and 1 pusher on what station we listened to. Sometimes it was rock, sometimes it was Top 40, but whatever it was, it was always better than listening to the sounds of our own work. This radio was at the end of the pusher line at the drop off end and so it was the place to be and linger if you could. Lots of times we took break there just to listen.
So, back to Spike Master D.
For a while we had a pusher called Norm. I had known him for a bit, and he was a skinny long-haired kid that I had doubts would be able to handle the job, but he did well actually, and we talked a lot about music when I was dropping off/picking up and listening to the radio. He was a guitar player and loved rock. He loved Frank Zappa and metal bands like Queensryche and Tool. We got along great.
One day, when he was having a rough physical day, he came back to the drop off area with a huge stack of parts for me and found me singing to Young MC's "Bust A Move" and was kind of disgusted. The radio had been tuned to Top 40 that day and Norm was not loving it. He stated flatly something like "yeah, like you're a rap guy" and snorted. Then he laughed a cathartic laugh and shouted "Spike! Spike Master D!" and shook his head and took more parts out to the line. I think it was a morph of Heavy D and The Boys and Grandmaster Flash? Either way it was funny. From then on he called me Spike Master D. It stuck with the other workers around too.
So to the line folks I was Spike and to the other drivers and Norm I was Spike Master D.
Norm ended up getting a job in the parts cutting area and I hardly ever saw him after that, but his impact on me was forever. I would have to drive down to that area every so often and I would stop by and talk to him. We exchanged music now and then. I gave him a copy of David Bowie's "Outside" (he love it) and new Smashing Pumpkins and he gave me copies of Zappa stuff I had never heard of.
So the factory was a weird place to have been stuck for years and years, but eventually when I went back to school, I got to move to the Engineering department (because they knew I was taking computer classes and could use Excel. Mad skills that every grade school kid knows now.
None the less, that was where I met Kris B. who turned me on to a whole new world of music and styles. I have him to thank for knowing about Buckethead and DJ Shadow. In the engineering department I used my portable CD player that would play MP3 CD's and absorbed Kris's entire collection slowly over the year or so I worked up there.
Then I moved on to the Maintenance department who needed help with parts tracking and schedules and I created an Access Database for. My boss there allowed me to play music on my computer speakers, he loved Springsteen. It turned out to be my final short-lived stop on my factory tour.
When I finally finished school I got my current job and had to say goodbye to my friends at the factory. It was bittersweet. I had been there for a dozen or more years and it really shaped parts of my life and psyche, introduced me to different music that shaped me going forward, and kept me alive when I needed a job badly, but it was time to move on. I'll always look back at the good parts of the job though, and I will always have Spike Master D.
I used it as my school e-mail, and seems silly when I fill out my e-mail on official forms, or tell it to someone over the phone, but it's me and mine for life.
Thanks Norm wherever you are.
I have made no secret of being a huge Tori Amos fan.
In this Pitchfork Media short from 2017 she says she is almost 54, and yes she likes adult coloring books, and Frank Zappa. Say no more.
Of course I can't say no more.
Let me just say that in prepping to write this post I discovered another site that has bootlegs, and tons of them. I may have to dip in again… I have plenty of storage now. However, this is not the subject of this post.
I have purchased the last few Tori albums on my phone, and I see there is another one recently that I need to get, but when I am out and about I do not look for Tori CD's. The only actual CD's I have purchased are weird singles or $1 St. Vinny's or Library Book Sale CD's.
Recently though, I found myself in Half Price Books and glancing at the CD's while I was talking to Cindy who was calling from her travel to Mexico. As I was chatting I noticed an odd looking box set on the "look at these" shelf where they put the items that are quick movers or things they are showcasing. I almost didn't pick it up, but I wanted to see what it was. It looked embossed and as though it was missing its cover.
When it was in my hand and I could see the price label, I was surprised to see it was Tori Amos. "Tori Amos – The Original Bootlegs". This one I have not only never seen before, but knew I didn't have, so… I brought it home with me.
I suspect that these were once available on Tori's website, but couldn't find them there anymore. So I checked Amazon.
Say what?! $199.98 No. That is ridiculous. However, I can see from the picture that at least I am not missing the cover, it just doesn't have one. I checked my other go to for pricing in the real world. Discogs.
That seems more reasonable. Regardless, I paid a great price.
The box is a little dirty, but all 12 CD's (2 per show) are there.
I listened to one disc of one of the shows on the way home and it was fantastic. In each show she does a 2 song covers bit. On this one "Paramount Theater, Denver Colorado 4/19/05" she does "I Ran" by Flock Of Seagulls, and "Suzanne" which was written by Leonard Cohen, but that I know by Neil Diamond. So cool.
I only have a limited amount of CD's left in my collection, having given most of them away, but this is staying with me and will be at home alongside the Tori CD singles I still have squirreled away.
Listening to a YouTube mix of Tori as I write this.
"Native Invader" is the new album. I just reserved it from my local library.
Finally coming down off of a tooth extraction, no sleep, pain medication stupor for the last 48 hours… I couldn't help but think of the Alice Cooper song "Unfinished Sweet" off of the Billion Dollar Babies album.
Back in the day Alice used to use (among other grand stage props, like the guillotine) giant toothbrushes and dancers dressed as giant teeth to add to the creepy and unnerving sense when he performed this song.
Only from the mind of Alice Cooper.
Only Alice could make a trip to the dentist a deeply traumatic experience. I would have loved to see Alice back in the 70's. I think his stage show would have been great coupled with the best music his band made in my opinion. I am glad that he is still kicking it and touring, actually coming to Madison this year (2019).
Thoughts of his fight with Mr. Tooth Decay have not been far from my mind the last couple days. It has been not fun. Slept (very little) sitting up on the couch the first night and discovered all the soft foods in the house. However, managed 5 hours of sleep the next night and cut the pain pills in half the next day, so on the mend. It will be until next week until I feel "normal" but even though it has been bad I guess it could have been worse.
Thanks for staying out of my dreams Alice.
So, my last attempt at a puzzle ended badly.
However, I did want to try another. I had my mind set on one of the Record Cover puzzles I had seen a long time ago at Half-Price books. Surprisingly, they didn't have them in the place I had seen them like a year ago. Hmph.
They did have though a puzzle of David Bowie album covers! Here Reggie, whom I believe was the culprit in the Bob Marley incident poses with it.
Again, 1000 pieces. Challenging small pieces, but I'm up for it. And the subject matter is varied enough to not be TOO strenuous. It's packaged well.
And not being a used garage sale puzzle, I can be fairly certain that all the pieces are there, unlike the ill fated Bob Marley puzzle. So I grabbed it and will start work on it this weekend. THIS time though, I will be taking measures to keep the cats off of it. I will be making a cardboard cover that should keep cats from jumping up and sliding across the table like they are surfing and knocking off all the pieces.
I postulate that to include them ALL would have made the image maddeningly small, particularly at 1000 piece size, but… I have some questions.
I understand why "The Next Day" was not included. It's cover is awful, and they already had "Hero's" so what would be the point. I also think that Pin-Ups, though an inferior album of covers (in my humble opinion) is visually good and would have made a great pick over perhaps "Hours".
Further, if you are looking for David Bowie face to adorn your puzzle, why not "Young Americans"? It's all face.
Including "Blackstar" makes a nice chronological bookend, but it isn't even a real representation of the actual cover. No Bowie face either. I would have left it out.
"Reality" is a cartoon, so given that, still I have to ask why no "Diamond Dogs"?
At any rate, even though I disagree with the puzzle makers picks, I am still anxious to build it.
I won't get into the whole "there are 2 types of people…" conversation, but I did make sorting out the edge pieces step one. That's them lower right.
I put on Hanna's last few episodes on Amazon Prime Video and got to work. Several hours later you can see it taking shape. I worked on Low first and made piles of like pieces, but soon found out that space in the middle was precious. I had to pile them outside the puzzle.
This is where I got before I went to bed.
The hardest parts are left. The bottom is just black and red with very little variation and Heroes and Outside and Blackstar are a lot of one color. Still missing a piece in Low, I stalk the edges of the table looking for it for an achingly long time. Joe came home from work and I complained to him and he looked down at the table and in like 4 seconds found it and put it in. I was both ecstatic and disgusted at the same time. Thanks Joe!
My eyes were bleary and I had to hang it up for the night. I chose a more secure method of protecting the puzzle this time.
It's a good thing I did too. I came out to find Reggie on the table! That's him fleeing.
My plan to keep the cats off the table worked, but Lulu the cat not pictured above decided to join me while I was working on it. Yelling "NO! GET DOWN!" was a mistake. She leaped and knocked pieces down and upended part of the puzzle mat. Sigh.
After I got that repaired, I noticed that there was 1 piece that I couldn't seem to find. I knew it wasn't part of the cat incident, but I simply could not find it. I shut down production and went clockwise around the puzzle, checking each and every piece so far unattached. Result. Not there. What the actual hell???!
I decided to go take a shower and leave the puzzle alone for the day. Things were getting harder now that all the obvious pieces were placed and it was all the dark variations of black and brown and the solid black , solid white and solid red pieces that remained.
Post shower, with a clear head, a thought occurred to me. The ONE place I had not checked. Sure enough.
When I had torn open the plastic bag like a Neanderthal, these 2 pieces were stuck in the bag still. OMG. Time wasted on searching for them… probably a full half hour, and the loss of a not insignificant bit of sanity.
After that, things went smoothly. Only the bottom most border section with black and red to complete.
Then finally the last bit.
In the end, I hesitate to call it FUN, but it was satisfying to complete, though my feet and back are sore from standing and leaning over the table. I binged some Neteflix, and then later some Crime Junkie podcasts, so I was satisfied AND entertained.
Did I really just write a blog about building a puzzle?
I sat here this morning, getting some selections together for Otis whom I exchange music with and I discovered that the last set of selections I gave him (4 selections only) had 1 that he already had (Various Artists – Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits), and 1 that I had ALREADY given him (The Kissers – On A Monday Night). What a fail! I swear I am going to build that spreadsheet database for us Otis.
So, I set out to create a 5 star selection to make up for it.
For this mega offering I ended up purchasing 2 MP3 albums from Amazon.
These were 2 selections that I had discovered through listening to an album recommended to me from my daughter Abbey. She recommended Billy Eilish. I looked for the album cover to post here, but found this instead.
Height? Really? Is that the sort of info that fans are looking for? Interesting. If you predicted that with a name like Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell she might be not your average artist, you win.
Well, I listened to it and I liked it. Sort of a weird stripped down Lorde meets Soccer Mommy with some danceable techno thrown in kind of vibe. FYI that is not the selection for Otis, but from there I "related artists" hopped to a whole other place and stumbled onto a few things I know/hope he will like.
I have of course Spotify to thank for this.
In about 2 hours in front of my computer clicking stuff in Spotify I found about 10 albums that are currently changing my life. It got me thinking about how it used to be when you couldn't listen to an album, unless one of your friends had it, until you bought it and brought it home and put it on the turntable.
This is where I point out why I weep for my past experiences.
I can recall MORE than once when I would go out and buy and album on the basis of one song and get it home, tear it open and play it and think to myself… what the hell man? What IS this crap?! Like if you bought Jane's Addiction because you loved "Jane Says" and then discovered that they weren't a mellow pop calypso band.
You had to have a bit of a gambler's spirit back in the day. You might hear a few tracks on the radio, but there was no album pre-release streaming, no Spotify, no music blogs, no sampling tracks (even though short snipets) on Amazon, or any streaming services that are so popular now.
I think perhaps that is why people USED to be SO devoted to bands and would buy everything that they released. You had to be invested to buy without knowing what you may be buying. It's so easy to just buy the tracks you want these days. I get that, and have done it myself. I'm not gonna buy the whole album Sir Mix-A-Lot album when I just want "Baby Got Back" for a mix. You used to have to buy the 45 (if it even WAS released as a single) or borrow the album from someone to record that particular track.
CD's really changed things, eh?
It feels good to have been alive during this time of change and can relate to the history of how things have evolved. Sometimes you don't really understand or see it for what it is until the moment has passed and you are looking back years later. I feel like I am watching it transform and grow before my eyes.
I made a list of the albums to check out as I bounced around on my Spotify rabbit hole run and then spent the morning listening to the whole album of each. Some had great songs, but had some dogs too. I noted them for adding to a personal Spotify playlist and moved on.
I ended up with 5 selections (and one supplemental album) that I think will make up for dismal offering of our last exchange. The fear though is that by picking albums I really think he will like, it's possible that he already has them.
I have never understood highlighting in books.
You pick up a great book in a used bookstore and look inside and someone has taken a highlighter to random passages throughout the pristine pages and you sigh and put it back. I don't want to try and ignore what someone else decided were passages that they wanted to… to what?, remember, reference again, or thought were interesting while they read through it? I especially laugh when there are more passages highlighted than not.
I feel the same way about Greatest Hits packages.
When I was first buying music, I did buy a few, but quickly learned that if I liked a band, I would end up getting all their albums and would make the Greatest Hits packages redundant. I tended more to pick up their live albums as a starter when checking out a band, which could probably be argued were LIKE a Greatest Hits package, but at least were unique versions of the songs.
I may have written about this before, but the reason that this came to my head again was after hitting the Public Library for copies of Neil Diamond and Linda Ronstadt CD's. I realized that I only had them on vinyl and wanted digital too. The library as you may expect was replete with copies of both.
In the pile of CD's that soon came I found my all time least favorite example of a Greatest Hits package: the slightly different Greatest Hits package.
I do allow for an artist with as long a career as Neil Diamond's to have a Greatest Hits package. However, and not to pick on Neil, because I really love the man's work, but there are a ridiculous amount of these collections.
This is a great set of songs, no doubt about it. However, see the last 2 listed there? Cherry Cherry (Live) and Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon (Live)?
I also like to call these Collectors Only Greatest Hits packages. They take 90% of classics and actual greatest hits and then toss in a couple of tracks from live albums, singles (that probably were not really Greatest Hits) or remixed tracks, etc. presumably to make their Greatest Hits collection just ever so slightly different from another.
The 2 live tracks on "Neil Diamond – Icon" are from "Neil Diamond – Hot August Night" and though I have and love that album… why pull the live tracks? The studio tracks are better.
Sometimes the band releases a Greatest Hits package with a couple NEW tracks on it. Are these Greatest Hits!? Did the band not have enough Greatest Hits to fill an entire album? This is an awful gimmick. Shame.
I suppose there is a layer of detail that I don't understand… record company rules and restrictions and song releases and royalties and copyright owners, but as a consumer of music adding tracks unattainable anywhere else is a tactic I am familiar with and despise.
and us poor vinyl lovers pay even more ridiculous prices for said box sets.
I need to set a Google notification for this, but managed to spot it while looking for another show that I was considering going to. WHOA! Is that Buckethead!
I'm already getting a shiver thinking about him playing "Soothsayer".
Do I bring the vinyl cutting again to try to give to him?
For the record, I tried to get an opera box for this show, but the 2 seaters were already all gone. I was disappointed at first, but if we had done the opera box I'm sure there would have been a part of me that wished I was down front.
It certainly has been eventful down there.
With this show, I believe Buckethead will reach the exalted group of bands I have seen 3 times or more: T.U.G.G., Wayne Hancock and The English Beat.
See you soon Buckethead !


Regardless of where you work or volunteer, it is highly likely that at some time you will encounter emotionally distressed or challenging people.
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The Accidental Counsellor workshop aims to provide you with a range of practical and effective skills to be able to appropriately respond to and support people when they are angry, distressed, or experiencing a challenging time.


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EIFF preview: Live Live Cinema opens up Little Shop of Horrors
Credit: Gareth van Niekerk
Roger Corman's classic is brought to madcap life at the Edinburgh International Film Festival
Shot for $30,000 in two days on a set leftover from another film and featuring a talking plant, Roger Corman's 1960 horror comedy, Little Shop of Horrors, has always been unique. Its cult following has slowly morphed into an Off Broadway musical, a 1986 remake and a further Broadway revival. Now it's getting the live cinema treatment at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, courtesy of New Zealand outfit Live Live Cinema.
As high-octane cinematic experiences go, there's nothing quite like a film with four artists providing voice, music and sound effects live on stage. Having tackled Carnival of Souls and Dementia 13 with larger ensembles, director Leon Radojkovic explains why LSOH was perfect for something altogether more dangerous.
What was the inspiration for Live Live Cinema?
The main inspiration actually came from the fairly common format, particularly within film festivals, of a musical ensemble performing a new score to an old silent film. Live Live Cinema pushes this basic concept much further however, by working with films from the sound era. So not only do we have a band performing new music, we have actors performing all the dialogue, and a madcap Foley artist working furiously to produce the sound of everything from the clinking of cutlery to an axe to the head. This immediately introduces all sorts of new layers and complexity, and also allows us to really interact with the film and reshape it quite significantly, simply with the power of audio.
The EIFF programme describes Little Shop of Horrors as 'Corman at his most bizarre'. Why did you choose this film?
Where Dementia 13 and Carnival of Souls both trade on atmosphere and tension, which can really be exploited by a large ensemble of performers aiming to produce an all-encompassing, thrilling live cinema experience, LSOH is much more dialogue and character driven. It's talky and fast-paced, which makes it a perfect fit for a much smaller ensemble of just four actor-musicians being forced to work like maniacs to essentially all fulfil three separate roles simultaneously.
What was the motivation to go smaller?
There were two reasons really, the first was we wanted to create a show where we amped up the danger. We wanted to create something that was impossible, that had the audience on the edge of their seat and pushed our performers to their breaking point. Four performers trying to do all the music, dialogue and sound effects is ridiculously difficult and that makes for exciting, dangerous theatre. The other, if we are to be honest, is financial. We want people to see our work and four people and two suitcases is way easier to tour than 17 people and a container of stuff.
How were the cast brought together?
We needed performers who were both funny, skilful character actors and musical chameleons – we needed very clever humans. We were all fans of Hayley Sproull and thought she would be a superb Audrey, which she is. Oliver and I had both just worked with Laughton Kora on Jesus Christ Superstar and we loved his energy and on-stage personality. Byron is a comedic genius and Barnie is one of my favourite performers. Ultimately these four shone in the auditions. We wanted a cast of naughty clowns, each with a different personality and style. We honestly couldn't be happier with them, they are all astonishing.
How big a challenge has it been?
The biggest challenge is that it is simply impossible, but that's what makes it such an exciting performance to watch – you know they must at times fail, they will, they do. It's hilarious when it happens. Our first two productions were beautiful presentations of classic cinema; LSOH is a chaotic trip; mad, funny, insane.
Live Live Cinema, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Wed 24 Jun, part of Edinburgh International Film Festival.
The oldest continually running film festival in the world, the EIFF draws on its prestige to consistently present abundant programmes of new features, documentaries, retrospectives, shorts, panel discussions and educational workshops, with a few high profile premieres thrown in for good measure.

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Q: Crop Video and Audio files when uploading in a Rails app using paperclip I want to crop the audio and video based on length to show a sample of about 30 seconds along with saving the original audio or video file.
I am using this gem in Rails Paperclip-FFMPEG to generate the thumbnail image for videos.
But I also want to crop the video to a max length and also generate a sample audio for the audio by taking the first 30 seconds of the audio.
I looked at the docs but was not able to find any documentations or questions like this on Stackoverflow.
Does anyone know a solution on how to do this with paperclip-ffmpeg or another gem?
Thanks in advance.

A: With paper clip you should use the following command of ffmpeg to generate the crop audio/video:
ffmpeg -ss 0 -i file.mp3 -t 20 file.wav

Look at the -t and -ss arguments, it will do what you want:
-t duration

Restrict the transcoded/captured video sequence to the duration specified in seconds. hh:mm:ss[.xxx] syntax is also supported.

-ss position

Seek to given time position in seconds. hh:mm:ss[.xxx] syntax is also supported.

For example, ffmpeg -ss 0 -t 20 -i inputfile.mp3 -acodec copy outputfile.mp3
It's start the video / audio from 0-20 seconds
-ss 0 - Start at 0 seconds
-t 30 - Capture 30 seconds (from 0, so 0:00 - 0:30). If you want 1 minute of audio, use -t 60.
-acodec copy - Stream copy (re-mux) the audio instead of re-encode it.
file.mp3 - Input file
file.wav - output file

Hope this will solve your problem.

A: I converted the ffmpeg commands above into a paperclip extension, hope this's useful.
https://github.com/jentzheng/paperclip_audio_crop

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3:1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?
3:4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
3:5 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
3:6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
3:7 Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
3:9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
3:10 They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
3:11 The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.
3:12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.


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Hammer Projects: Ola Pehrson
Feb 24, 2007-May 27, 2007 This is a past exhibition
Ola Pehrson's Hunt for the Unabomber (2005) is a recreation of a documentary film on the notorious American terrorist Ted Kaczynski. Though the subject is dark, the video's black-and-white images have an eerie, ethereal quality of their own: one slowly realizes that the filmed scenes are not in fact real, but rather created entirely of small maquettes made of polystyrene, cardboard, string, and other odds and ends. These false documents—some similar to the originals, others not—take on a truth of their own. The film will be displayed along with the objects in the Hammer's lobby. This exhibition was planned before the artist's recent untimely death.
Ola Pehrson (1964–2006) was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied art at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and received a master of arts degree in 1997 from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Pehrson's solo exhibitions include those at Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm; Galeria Noua, Bucharest; and Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. His work has been included in group exhibitions in Sweden at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and the Malmö Konsthall, and in Japan at the Yamaguchi Museum of Art. Hunt for the Unabomber was included in the 9th International Istanbul Biennial in 2005 and the 27th São Paulo Biennial in 2006. This is the first solo exhibition of Pehrson's work in the United States.
Ola Pehrson, Hunt for the Unabomber, 2005
Ola Pehrson, Hunt for the Unabomber , 2005
By November Paynter
From 1978 until his arrest in 1996 Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber (university and airline bomber), targeted individuals with a campaign of mail bombings. In all he sent sixteen carefully crafted bombs to academics and scientists, members of the air force, airline officials, and individuals working in public relations and in computer stores, killing three and injuring a further twenty-nine people. The mistake that led to Kaczynski's capture was his demand that his anti-technology manifesto, "Industrial Society and Its Future," be published for full public scrutiny in a major national newspaper. In the end the US Department of Justice agreed to the publication in the hope that it would help with the capture of the Unabomber, and the text was excerpted in the New York Times and published in full in the Washington Post on September 19, 1995. It was Kaczynski's younger brother David who recognized the arguments against an industrialized society and the style of writing as those of his brother. Based on this evidence, the suspect's identity was finally reported to the FBI.
In 1998 Kurtis Productions Ltd. and Towers Productions Ltd. produced a half-hour documentary based on Kaczynski's notorious bombing campaign and life story entitled The Hunt for the Unabomber. Ola Pehrson spent several years re-creating this documentary in his own unique way. Pehrson's process was theoretically very simple. He selected a series of stills and animations from the original documentary and then modeled them in a variety of everyday materials such as clay, junk, thread, and polystyrene. Nearly all his creations were formed as three-dimensional objects, and they included everything from newspaper clippings, which he made and then drew and wrote on by hand, to environments, locations, and photographs that all became intricate three-dimensional models. Even the documentary's on-screen quotes took the form of handcrafted speech bubbles, rather than being applied via computer during the editing process. Although the number of objects kept rising—because, as Pehrson stated, "the reality of the quantity and form of models required for this remake remains elusive and utopian"—he eventually assembled enough handmade re-creations to shape almost every detail and scene to be found in the original documentary, and he personally acted out all the included interviews. Once these elements had been filmed in the correct order, and the original soundtrack had been added, a new documentary that is just one step further away from reality and yet no less authentic than the original was created.
When exhibited, Hunt for the Unabomber is shown as an installation, which includes Pehrson's version of the documentary, as well as around 120 models used in the video. By including these delicate but often scrappy sculptures, Pehrson raises a number of allusions to the practice and philosophy of the Unabomber. Even before the publication of "Industrial Society and Its Future," it was known that Kaczynski was obsessively concerned with the advancement of technology and its application in society. He feared that while humanity gained power through technological tools, the individual was losing the ability to freely make personal decisions. To somehow reiterate these concerns, he began to construct personalized bombs from extremely basic, found materials, which led to his secondary FBI code name: "Junkyard Bomber."
This interest in playing with or subtracting the technological devices used in certain modern-day processes is apparent in a number of Pehrson's earlier works. In two installations from 1999, Desktop and Yucca Invest Trading Plant, Pehrson presents a new way to imagine the relationship between a virtual world of computer programming and a possible physical embodiment of its existence. In Desktop, a 10:1 scale re-creation of a standard Windows 95 interface is painted on one wall, in front of which hang plastic models of the desktop's icons. This arrangement is filmed and shown in real time as a 1:1 image on a computer screen on the opposite side of the exhibition space. In a similar way to the installation Hunt for the Unabomber, the process of intricately creating a step away from reality results in a more physically present and personally heartfelt interpretation of the original subject. In Yucca Invest Trading Plant, Pehrson's subjective approach to dealing with technology is materialized via a yucca plant wired up to the stock market. As all living organisms, including plants, emit electric impulses, here the yucca's amplitude readings are translated into currency via a computer. Based on the plant's success, it receives in different doses its own essential currencies: water, air, and light. While the yucca plant replaces a young urban businessman, in a later work, NASDAQ Vocal Index 2003–04, graphs tracking share prices of companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange are translated into sheet music, and members of local choirs are invited to vocally interpret the current situation in each market.
It is a clear development in his practice that Pehrson selected the subject of Kaczynski's life as presented in a "produced"' documentary format. For Pehrson a documentary such as this, based on historical events, is no more than a re-creation of reality anyway. He sees it as a combination of memories, ideas, and representations of the world that can be embodied via found photographs and mimicked events, or just as honestly described by reproductions of these occurrences modeled in clay. Talking about the overlaps in reality and fiction, as well as the combination of the objective and subjective in documentary making, particularly in Hunt for the Unabomber, Pehrson said: "Some of the representations, in both the original version of the documentary and in my remake, are highly subjective visual statements, which carry little visible resemblance to the original subjects. In contrast other moments present minutely precise copies of say a house, or a photograph of a relevant person. Many scenes, in both versions of the film, are highly neutral in relation to their connection with the actual events told. A specific airplane for instance, which in the original film has to become any airplane, since it is impossible to show the actual plane from the earlier event, is in my version represented by a winged detergent bottle."
Ola Pehrson tragically and prematurely died in a car accident near Ljusdal, Sweden, in 2006.
Theodore Kaczynski is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole at the federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
Note: All quotations from the artist are from e-mails sent to the author in the spring of 2005.
November Paynter is curator of Platform Garanti CAC in Istanbul and is currently on leave to work as a consultant curator at the Tate Modern in London. In 2005–6 she was assistant curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial.
Hammer Projects is made possible with major gifts from Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.
Additional generous support is provided by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, L A Art House Foundation, the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, and the David Teiger Curatorial Travel Fund.


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Síklaky István (Budapest, 1927. április 15. – ?, 2005. július 4.) magyar közgazdász, informatikus, politikus.

Élete
Apja külvárosi gimnáziumi igazgató volt, egy diákújság kiadója és szerkesztője, amit később fia végzett.

Közgazdász végzettségű. 1945 és 1947 között az FKGP, 1948 és 1956 között az MKP, majd az MDP tagja volt, 1956-ban a Népművelési Minisztériumban a forradalmi bizottság szervezője volt, ezért 1957-ben elbocsátották.

Első házasságából született István nevű fia, aki pszichológus, a tömegkommunikációval és a szociálpszichológiával foglalkozik. 1965-től foglalkozott vállalati, ügyviteli és számítógépes rendszerszervezéssel. (Infelor, SZÁMKI, Számalk, Diebold, Comporgan). A hetvenes években fiával, valamint Virághalmy Ferenccel és Szepesváry Tamással együtt terveztek meg egy moduláris alkalmazási programot és nyelvet, amely a vállalatirányítás főbb funkcióit fedte le, és az akkori R-10-es magyar számítógépre készült. Gyakorlatilag a PC feltalálása előtt találtak fel egy PC-s technológiát és paraméterezhető programozási nyelvet. A rendszer leírása könyv alakban is megjelent, MM-rendszer néven volt a szakmában ismert.

A maga idejében úttörő munkának számított az általa leírt és kidolgozott számítógépes műszaki dokumentációs rendszer megvalósítása a Videotonban, amelyen az angol nyelvterületen BOMP (Bill of Materials Processing) nevű alkalmazások alapulnak. Ez a rendszer nemcsak vállalati szinten működött, hanem képes volt a Nemzetközi Tudományos és Műszaki Információs Rendszerrel való kompatibilitásra is. A szerelőipari vállalatok gyártmány családfastrukturája ma is rendkívül tanulságos adatszerkezeti mintával szolgál, annak ellenére, hogy maga a BOMP algoritmusok mára már elnyelődtek a MIS-t felváltó ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), elfogadott magyar kifejezéssel integrált vállalatirányítási információs rendszerekben. Részt vett Liska Tibor vállalkozáskutatásában, a "szentesi kísérletben" is.

Élete második részében egy nálánál jóval fiatalabb történelem-pedagógia végzettségű nőt vett feleségül, akitől három gyermeke született.  Tevékenyen részt vett az alkotmányozó nemzetgyűlés szervezése körüli, "összefogás a fennmaradásért" munkanevű politikai csoportosulásban, amely egy harmadik utas mozgalomnak számít. A rendszerváltozás után, 1990 novemberétől Budapest XIII. kerületének polgármestere volt, 1991 júniusában azonban lemondott. 2005-ben hunyt el.

Főbb művei

Könyvek
A számítógépes adatfeldolgozás alapfogalmai; Vegyipari Egyetem, Veszprém, 1977
A fennmaradás társadalmi programja. A pénzuralmi rendszer alternatívája; Éliás, Tököl, 2000
Létbiztonság és harmónia. Egy zöld fordulat programja. A pénzuralmi rendszer alternatívája; Éghajlat, Bp., 2003,

Írások
Belső vállalkozás (1985)
Konstrukciók egy világnézetről (1986)
Ajánlás a túléléshez (1992)
Éliás Ádám: Reális víziók / Síklaky István: Ha a választók fordulatra szavaznak: leáll a pénzszivattyú, és 4 év alatt kétszeresére emelkedhetnek a reáljövedelmek; Összefogás a Fennmaradásért, Bp., 2001 (Kitörés)
Jóléti gazdaság a Szent Korona országában (többekkel, 2005)

Fordítások
Dieter Brüll: Az antropozófiai szociális impulzus (kézirat)
Silvio Gesell: A természetes gazdasági rend, Kétezeregy Kiadó,
Utószó Silvio Gesell: A természetes gazdasági rend c. művéhez

Jegyzetek

További információk
In memoriam Síklaky István. Országépítő. 2005/4. sz. 44-45. p.

1927-ben született személyek
2005-ben elhunyt személyek
Magyar közgazdászok
Számítástechnikusok
Az FKGP korábbi tagjai
MKP-tagok
MDP-tagok
Budapest XIII. kerületének polgármesterei

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Renters In Oakland, Cities Nationwide May Lose Their Homes When COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Ends
By John Ramos July 22, 2020 at 7:09 pm
Filed Under:Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eviction Moratorium, Homeless, Pandemic, Rent, Tenants
OAKLAND (KPIX) – When California placed a moratorium on evictions it was to prevent people who lost work from ending up homeless. But the back rent is piling up and experts say if something isn't done the results could be disastrous.
Nearly two-thirds of homes in the city of Oakland are rentals and housing advocates say 10-20,000 residents may be at risk of eviction because of the pandemic. Orlando Zepeda is afraid he's about to become one of them.
"I'm very concerned," he said. "Right now, I just got laid off work, so, I am very worried about not having the money to pay all the rent that I owe."
He has a lot of company according to a nationwide survey from the data firm, Apartment List. Before the pandemic, the people who failed to make housing payments on time hovered at about 3 to 4 percent.
"That percentage has increased dramatically," said Apartment List research associate Rob Warnock. "In the last month we ran the survey it sat at 32 percent."
One in three households did not make their July housing payment on time. The eviction ban is protecting cash-strapped people who forgo paying but at some point the moratorium will be lifted and a lot of people are going to owe money they do not have.
"They are rent-burdened and they are in danger of being evicted. So there is a catastrophe in the making," said James Vann, co-founder of the Oakland Tenant's Union.
Vann said local governments simply can't let that happen.
"The society, the city, the budget — none of those things can stand thousands of people being evicted at one time," he said.
Vann says Alameda County has discussed the idea of lending money to pay the landlords and giving tenants 2 years to repay the loan, but nothing has come of it, so far. Now, with the threat of tens of thousands of people pushed into the streets, they may be forced to revisit the issue.
It's not just in the Bay Area grappling with the problem. Housing advocates estimate that, nationwide, 20 million people may be subject to eviction in the near future because of the pandemic.
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It seems like I'm constantly talking about the fact that the beautiful models and celebrities we see in magazines simply don't look like that in real life.
In my book, You'd Be So Pretty If…, I included a chapter on how media images affect women — and girls. I talked about my experience as Shape magazine's Weight-Loss Diary columnist and how much my daughter learned about the "perfect" images we see in magazines when she accompanied me to a photo shoot for the May 2007 issue.
There's an attitude that if a model or celebrity is our age or at a similar stage in life, we could look the way she does if we just work hard enough.
First, let's consider the teams of people involved in the lives of most celebrities. There are nannies or babysitters or live-in grandparents to watch the kids not only while they work, but also while they work out, head to the spa and otherwise spend time doing the maintenance work that needs to be done to look a certain way. There are shoppers and stylists, manicurists and make-up artists, designers and trainers, all dedicated to the upkeep of a celebrity's image.
Please know that I'm not faulting them. Yes, there are clearly rewards to the celebrity lifestyle, but it's also clearly a lot of pressure and there seems to be very little forgiveness from an often fickle public.
Second, let's consider the amount of retouching that goes into the average magazine photograph. It's a lot. Really.
Instead, I'll leave you with this, which came to me courtesy of another body image blogger. It's a Newsweek wrap-up of "the decade's most egregious retouching scandals," under the very apt headline: Unattainable Beauty.
Please, grab your daughter and take a look together. Talk about what you see. Talk about how it makes you feel. Talk, talk, talk about what beauty really is…and be sure to notice that all of these women — Madonna, Faith Hill, Beyonce, Katie Couric — are still beautiful in their "before" shots.
They're just not perfect. Neither are we. And that's OK.


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package jp.ambrosoli.quickrestclient.params;

import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.junit.Test;

public class BasicQueryStringBuilderTest {

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数にリクエストパラメータを渡して呼び出すと_クエリストリングが生成されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> sut = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        List<NameValueObject> params = new ArrayList<NameValueObject>();
        params.add(new NameValueObject("a", "A")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
        params.add(new NameValueObject("b", "B")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
        params.add(new NameValueObject("c", "C")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$

        // Exercise
        String actual = sut.createConformedParams(params, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // Verify
        assertThat(actual, is(equalTo("?a=A&b=B&c=C"))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数に空のListを渡した場合_空文字が返されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> sut = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        ArrayList<NameValueObject> params = new ArrayList<NameValueObject>();

        // Exercise
        String actual = sut.createConformedParams(params, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // Verify
        assertThat(actual, is(equalTo(""))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数にnullを渡した場合_空文字が返されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> sut = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        // Exercise
        String actual = sut.createConformedParams(null, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // Verify
        assertThat(actual, is(equalTo(""))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数に渡すエンコーディングがnullの場合でも_デフォルトのエンコーディングでクエリストリングが生成されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> sut = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        List<NameValueObject> params = new ArrayList<NameValueObject>();
        params.add(new NameValueObject("a", "A")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
        params.add(new NameValueObject("b", "B")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
        params.add(new NameValueObject("c", "C")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$

        // Exercise
        String actual = sut.createConformedParams(params, null);

        // Verify
        assertThat(actual, is(equalTo("?a=A&b=B&c=C"))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数にすべての要素がnullのListを渡した場合_空文字が返却されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> paramBuilder = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        List<NameValueObject> params = new ArrayList<NameValueObject>();
        params.add(null);
        params.add(null);
        params.add(null);
        params.add(null);

        // Exercise
        String queryString = paramBuilder.createConformedParams(params, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // Verify
        assertThat(queryString, is(equalTo(""))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

    @Test
    public void createConformedParamsの引数にマルチバイト文字を含むリストを渡した場合_URLエンコードされたクエリストリングが返されること() {

        // Setup
        RequestParamBuilder<String> paramBuilder = new BasicQueryStringBuilder();

        List<NameValueObject> params = new ArrayList<NameValueObject>();
        params.add(new NameValueObject("あ", "あいうえお")); //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$

        // Exercise
        String queryString = paramBuilder.createConformedParams(params, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$

        // Verify
        assertThat(queryString, is(equalTo("?%E3%81%82=%E3%81%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%86%E3%81%88%E3%81%8A"))); //$NON-NLS-1$

    }

}

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The Immaculate Conception
Oil on canvas. XVIII century
Mengs, Anton Raphael (Attributed To)
In keeping with the traditional iconography of the Immaculate Virgin, Mary appears over the Earth's globe and the crescent moon, stepping on the head of evil serpent and backlit by a shining circle. S [+]
The Youthful Saint John the Baptist in the Desert
Oil on panel. 1753 - 1754
Mengs, Anton Raphael
Painted with remarkable delicacy, probably from life, in this panel Mengs captures the artless fascination with which the saint presents to the world the message of the Redeemer's arrival, inscribed o [+]
Maria Amalia of Saxony
Oil on unlined canvas. Ca. 1761
A frontal view of the Queen. She sits, wearing a red silk dress with white sleeves and bonnet. Her right arm rests very naturally on a table, while her left holds a book. She is marking one of the pag [+]
Father Francesco Pepe
Oil on canvas. 1758 - 1759
Francesco Pepe (c. 1684-1759), an influential Jesuit preacher in Naples, promoted the dogma of the Immaculate Conception and acted as intermediary between Pope Benedict XIV and the Bourbon monarch Cha [+]
Head of an Apostle
Oil on canvas. Ca. 1764
This highly finished study, in which the priming of the canvas is left visible, relates to one of the heads in The Ascension, painted by Mengs for the high altar of Dresden cathedral. He began the fin [+]
This vigorously modelled study, in which the priming of the canvas is left visible, relates to Mengs's great canvas of The Ascension. Painted for the high altar of Dresden cathedral, it survived the d [+]
Ferdinand IV, King of Naples
Oil on canvas. 1760
Ferdinand IV (1751-1825) was the third son of Charles VII of Naples and his wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony. When his father acceded to the Spanish throne as Charles III in 1759, he became king of Naples [+]
The Prince of Asturias, the future Charles IV
This portrait of Charles IV as the Prince of Asturias has as its pendant a portrait of his wife, María Luisa of Parma, also in the Museo del Prado (P2189). Anton Raphael Mengs had come to Spain [+]
María Luisa of Parma, Princess of Asturias
Mengs painted these portraits of the heirs to the Spanish throne -the prince and princess of Asturias, Carlos de Borbón and Maria Luisa of Parma- on the occasion of their wedding. As the daught [+]
This image of King Charles III was paired with a portrait of his wife, Maria Amalia of Saxony (P2201), although the image of the queen was not painted in her presence. Instead, it was invented on the [+]
Penitent Magdalene
Mary Magdalene, recognisable by her beauty, semi-nudity and the skull -a symbol of meditation on death- prays before a cross made from a branch. Based on a celebrated seventeenth-century Bolognese pai [+]
Portrait of King Charles IV as Prince of Asturias
Mengs, Anton Raphael (Replica)
Mengs had a profound influence on the younger generation of Spanish painters, notably on the Bayeus, Maella, Inza, Goya and Vicente López Portaña. His Neoclassical style was diametricall [+]
Portrait of Queen María Luisa as Princess of Asturias
Presented almost half-length with his face turned to the viewer, Mengs wears a velvet gown and holds the tools of his trade. The panel was painted shortly after the artist's arrival in Spain and uses [+]
Saint Peter preaching
This work recalls the philosophers and Apostles by the Baroque painter José de Ribera, albeit refining their pictorial language from the more restrained perspective of Neo-classicism. Saint Pet [+]
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There's a major bug in FaceTime right now that lets you connect to someone and hear their audio without the person even accepting the call.
For this reason, the other person can't necessarily tell that you're listening in to their audio, which has huge privacy implications, especially because the ringing stops as soon as the bug is initiated.
There appears to be no way to avoid this bug short of disabling FaceTime on iOS and macOS entirely, so it's likely Apple will implement a fix quickly.
We do not recommend or condone following these above steps to invade on other peoples' privacy, and we are sharing them only so MacRumors readers can be aware of the issue to protect themselves.
If you follow the steps above and the person on the other end presses the power button on their device to make the call go away, it activates their video.
Update 2: Apple appears to have temporarily addressed the issue by disabling Group FaceTime calls server side.


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Q: Why would an FTL-drive imply time travel? (other answers and questions unsatisfactory) I've been spending quite some time trying to understand why an FTL-drive would also imply time-travel, but every answer I can find seems to mainly be about semantics and perception. I will break it down to a very simple question:
I have a watch. Jean-Luc Picard leaves on the Enterprise from my position at my current time (10:05, 2021-09-13), his mission is to go to [place] and then return to my position. No matter how fast or slow his FTL-drive is, I am going to claim that there is no way he will ever achieve time-travel and thus violate causality according to my time at my current position, i.e he will never arrive to me before he left in a way where it's not just the perception of light-lag to my retina, and thus he will never be able to interact with himself in any way (meaning: no time travel). Can anyone refute this?
On John Donnes request I will clarify a few things. What spurred me to write my own (according to me) simpler question was reading through the answer given here: How does faster than light travel violate causality?.
This answer is basically "plug x numbers into equation y and then you have time travel", but it allows zero intuitive understanding, and I can still not see how it would allow Jean-Luc to arrive at my position before he left. Erudaki exemplifies my confusion in his comment to that answer, where he calculates that the ship in that question would return to earth at year 23204, not year 2796 as the answer claims.
Here's the specific part of that answer which irks me:

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*In the futuristic Earth year of 3000, Tralfamadore is 98,000 light years away, and receding at 20% of $c$. I leave Earth at 1000% of $c$, relative to Earth.

*In Earth year 13000 Tralfamadore is 100,000 light years away, and I catch up to it. I turn around and leave Tralfamadore at 1000% of $c$, relative to Tralfamadore.

*In Earth year 2796, I arrive home.

I do not understand why in this example the traveller would arrive at 2796 (earth calendar), rather than 13000 + x (where x is travel time from Tralfamadore).

A: An important caveat: FTL implies time travel only if the FTL mechanism obeys the principle of relativity (that is if there is no "absolute" speed, only relative speed). All known physical laws obey this principle, and it dates back to Galileo, so this is a reasonable assumption.
For simplicity let's consider an arbitrary FTL communication mechanism, and again for simplicity let's assume it is so fast it is "instantaneous" (we'll relax this constraint later). Suppose Bob and Alice are in deep space, moving apart at 0.87c relative to one another, and each is equipped with identical FTL message devices. At time t=0 they passed one another and synchronized clocks.
Suppose Alice sends a signal to Bob when her clock reads 10 hours. What will Bob's clock read when he receives the signal? The principle of relativity says we can assume Alice is at rest, and Bob is moving at 0.87c, so he experiences time dilation relative to Alice with a factor of 2x. So according to Alice, Bob's clock is showing 5 when Alice's shows 10. Thus Alice knows that when her clock reads 10 Bob's will read 5. Since Alice's FTL message is instantaneous, Bob will receive the FTL signal at 5 o'clock (his time).
But the situation is completely symmetric: we could equally well assume Bob to be at rest and Alice to be moving, so in Bob's coordinates Alice's clock is slow and when his clock reads 10 Alice's will show 5. That both observers see the other's clock as running slowly is the root of the so called twin paradox, which we won't go into here (there are many, many questions and answers about it) but it is an established fact of relativity.
Thus: Alice uses her FTL machine to send a message from her 10 o'clock to Bob's 5 o'clock. Bob can then wait 5 hours and send a message from his 10 o'clock to Alice's 5 o'clock. Thus, Alice can use Bob to send a message back in time to herself!
OK, suppose the FTL isn't instantaneous, just very very fast. This doesn't help much: the message gets from Alice to Bob a bit slower, so instead of Bob's clock showing 5 maybe it'll show 6 or 7, and vice-versa. Backwards in time messages are still possible.
If the message is slow enough though, it'll get to Bob after his 10 o'clock, and the paradox is resolved. In this particular case if the FTL message is slower than 2c then no paradox is possible. But if Bob and Alice are moving apart faster, the time dilation effect is stronger and the FTL has to go slower still to avoid paradoxes. In the limit as Alice and Bob are moving apart close to c, the FTL message has to slow down to c to avoid paradox.


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In New Zealand, income support is available to working-age adults (18 and older) if they:
are legally resident in New Zealand
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are available for and looking for work, or are exempt from this requirement (for example, because they have a child under three) or are unable to work because of an illness, injury or disability.
Income support is also available to 16- and 17-year-olds in some situations. People over 65 qualify for New Zealand Superannuation regardless of their income if they meet residency requirements.
The benefit system is administered by Work and Income, which is part of the Ministry of Social Development (MSD). Work and Income has about 150 service centres throughout the country. It also has several 0800 enquiry numbers, the main one being 0800 559 009.
Note: Several kinds of secondary assistance, such as the Accommodation Supplement and Special Needs Grants, are available to people who are working and who are not receiving a main benefit such as Jobseeker Support (see "Coming off a benefit" in this chapter).
Upcoming changes to benefit rates
In May 2021, the government announced an increase of benefit rates. See the section "Benefit rates: How much you'll get, and how much you can earn" in this chapter for more information.
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This website contains information about who qualifies for the different benefits and payments and how to apply for them.
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There's likely to be an advocacy group for beneficiaries in your area. Look for them online. If you're not able to find one, contact your local Citizens Advice Bureau (see below).
Auckland Action Against Poverty
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AAAP provides a free advocacy service for people dealing with Work and Income. They have also published a 30-page "Beneficiary Rights Booklet", which you can download from their 'Resources' page.
Address: 120 Church St, Onehunga, Auckland 1061
Email: advocates@aaap.org.nz
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Phone: 0800 FOR CAB (0800 367 222)
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Bishop of Corfu, Mr. Nektarios: The late Archbishop Christodoulos left his mark alive
On the occasion of the memory of Saint Christodoulos in Patmos, His Eminence Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxoi and Diapontian Islands, Mr. Nektarios held a Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of St. Nectarius Kamaras.
At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, Mr. Nektarios dedicated a memorial to the rest of the soul of the blessed Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. Christodoulos, who on this day held his monasteries.
Mr. Nektarios pointed out that the blessed Archbishop Christodoulos left the mark of his reading on life in the hearts of the people. Was he a man of deep and authentic Orthodox faith, a patriot, a true Greek, and a confessor of the ecclesiastical tradition and identity in the age of religious indifference, hypocrisy, cultural alienation.
His confession was "Christ and Greece". The Greeks are called upon to keep his virtues and example alive in our hearts and to fight for our individuality!
Mr. Nektarios
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Winter Curls and Hats, Oh No!
Winter is here and I've just learned to deal with wet hair. My hair usually doesn't dry until 2pm, if it's up in a bun then it stays wet all day. I've learned to just deal with it. At least it's not voluminous or frizzy that way. Pineappling always gave me way too much shrinkage and an odd curl pattern, neither of which I liked. Diffusing takes me 30 minutes and it also gives me way too much volume and shrinkage. Second day hair is impossible for me. I have long 3b low porosity highlighted hair. I don't like layers because they increase my shrinkage and volume, which I don't like. So I keep my hair long and layer free. Anyway, since I've just learned to deal with having wet hair, my new complaint is that winter is now here. I currently reside in the city and have to walk to train stations to get to work which can be freezing when the wind strikes. If I wear a hat it messes up my hairstyle(buns, half ups, etc... for work). So I've been walking without a hat but I don't think I can tolerate it much more. I had a really painful headache for the entire day recently after the wind hitting my wet hair during my work commute. My ears were throbbing too. Has anyone figured out how to combat this issue?
Maybe try using a hood instead of a hat? If your coat doesn't have a hood, you can buy one of those scarves that can be pulled up into a hood shape.
Where I live, it is winter for about 6 months a year, and that's how I deal...the loose shape of the hood keeps in heat and protects my hair from wind, but won't push against - or crush - your hair. Hth!
I *sometimes* sew, and I had thought of buying some curl-friendly fabric and fashioning my own linings for a few winter hats.
If I can get the shape right, I'm thinking maybe just line a hat and tack it in random places.....or something?
I've always used a sort of fleece/wool headband. They're thick, keep your ears warm, but don't get in the way of your curls.
I'm crocheting a slouchy hat (for maximum curl room) and lining the inside with a matching color satin, if you're into needlecraft/crocheting, then that's an option.
Cool! I crochet, also! Do you mind if I ask where you got the pattern?
I saw an ad on this site that looked basically like a satin or some other curl-friendly lining that you could put inside of your hats.
Maybe you can measure your head and just sew a removable lining for all of your hats.


Very warm welcome and nice stay!
We had an extremely nice stay in Alberta´s Gästehaus. The possibility to have wonderful walks through the Alps very close to the appartment is an absolute advantage, both in summer and in winter!
On the outskirts of Matrei towards Steinach your right you see a SPAR supermarket. Here you turn right to Navis. You follow the road and go up the hill and through St. Kathrein. After about two kilometers you see on the right side the firehouse except Navis and on the left a striking fir. Here, turn left and continue almost parallel to the road up the hill. After 150 meters you come to a small chapel followed by a farmhouse. From here you can see our house. You then continue on a high stone wall along. At the end of the wall, turn sharp left into our driveway. You can park under the carport next to the garage.


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Bank of Sharjah faces capital deficit
November 1, 2020 CL Jose 0 GULF AND ABROAD,
CAR at 10.75 pc against country average of 17.6 pc
DUBAI/October 31-2020: Bank of Sharjah (BoS), which has seen its first half (H1) profit plummet 88 per cent from AED151.85 million to AED18 million as of June end, 2020, is currently confronted with capital deficit challenge.
The bank that sits on a shareholders' equity (capital base) of AED3.19 billion as on June 30, 2020, is in capital deficit given the quantum of risk it carries in its asset book.
Low CAR
The bank's capital adequacy ratio (CAR) at 10.75 per cent is in shortage against the minimum CAR of 14.5 per cent prescribed by the Central Bank of the UAE, though the COVID period exempts banks to maintain a CAR as low a11.5 per cent as part of the measures announced by the Central Bank specific to this period.
The UAE banks on an average enjoy a capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of 17.6 per cent, much higher than the minimum prescribed by the Central Bank, in line with the trend historically.
Total equity of BoS was AED3.19 billion as of June end, compared with AED3.13 billion as of December end 2019, and AED3.87 billion as of June 30, in the earlier year.
It goes without saying that the bank can't grow its asset base for want of capital, but more serious is the fact that the current capital is not sufficient to hold its present risk weighted assets.
In fact, BoS has been facing the pressure from its 100 per cent Lebanese subsidiary, Emirates Lebanon Bank (EL Bank), which has been facing problems idiosyncratic of the country, where it operates.
BoS has 10 fully owned subsidiaries including EL Bank, which was acquired in 2008.
Healthy UAE operations
In fact, BoS has reported a net profit of Dh210 million for its UAE operations for the first half 2020, up 38 per cent compared with Dh152 million in the same period of 2019.
But the losses incurred by its fully owned Lebanese subsidiary pulled its consolidated profit down for the period, to as low as Dh18 million compared with AED151.85 million in the earlier period.
"The first half of the year has marked very significant developments having impacted markets, where the Group operates in. Despite all challenging environments, the Group's UAE operations demonstrated resilient performance underpinned by the robust fundamentals," the bank said in a statement.
Strong balance sheet
The bank said its balance sheet remains strong, with total assets standing at Dh34.45 billion compared with AED31.75 billion at year-end 2019 reflecting an increase of 9 per cent growth.
The Group continues to enjoy comfortable liquidity and a solid capital position with a customer deposit base of AED23.5 billion up 10 per cent from AED21.3 billion at year-end 2019.
The bank's loans-to-deposits ratio was 82 per cent at the close of the first half of 2020 compared with 83 per cent at the year-end 2019, whereas the cost-to-income ratio was 32 per cent compared with 57 per cent a year earlier.
High provisions in Lebanon
The Group's operations in Lebanon, through its subsidiary EL Bank, have been witnessing unprecedented events stemming from political and economic turmoil, since October 17, 2019.
"The Group has complied with Banque du Liban's (BDL) call for the increase by 20 per cent of the equity of Lebanese banks prior to June 30, 2020," the bank statement said.
Dividend, directors' remuneration skipped
At the annual general meeting of the shareholders held on August 5, 2020, the shareholders voted against cash dividends distribution', directors' remuneration and appropriation to contingency reserves.
The major shareholders of BoS are Sharjah Asset Management with 17.16 per cent, United Alsaqer Group (12.65 per cent) and Ahmed Abdalla Al Norman (6.23 per cent).
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WEST POINT BAND CONTINUES MUSIC UNDER THE STARS SERIES AT TROPHY POINT WITH "ALL AMERICAN"
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West Point, NY – The West Point Band will continue its Music Under the Stars outdoor concert series with a performance titled "All American" on Saturday, August 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Trophy Point Amphitheater. In the event of inclement weather, the concert will move indoors to Eisenhower Hall Theatre. This concert is free and open to all.
Bring your family and friends to Trophy Point and join the West Point Band as we present this all-American lineup featuring everything from jazz to patriotic to movie music. The band's deputy commander, Capt. Richard Winkels will lead the band in a rousing performance featuring vocalist Master Sgt. MaryKay Messenger singing the works of George Gershwin and Natalie Cole, as well as a Spanish-style trombone trio titled Blades of Toledo, featuring Staff Sgts. Phil Stehly, Barry Cooper, and Alaina Alster. The concert also includes movie music from the 80's Western "Silverado," as well as music from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." As always, the band will pay tribute to those who serve our nation with a performance of Armed Forces Service Medley.
Established in 1817, the West Point Band is the Army's oldest musical organization and continues to provide world-class music to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets and to serve as ambassadors of the United States Military Academy and the Army to local, national, and international communities.
For concert information, cancellations and updates, call 845.938.2617 or visit www.westpointband.com. West Point Band news can also be found by following us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Are you ready to start making the most of your day Gabshiebertechcrunch? Well, here's how to do it right: with movies. Whether you're a young adult or an old fuddy-duddy, there's something for everyone in this list of 10 top kannada cinema. From romance and comedy, to science fiction and action, these films will have you on the edge of your seat. From heart-stopping dramas to family fun classics, check out our list of the best kannada movies!
Arunachala: A tale of love and loss
In this sparkling Kannada tale, Aruna (Lali Godrej) falls in love with Dokka Alai (Anil Chidambaram), a farmer from a hill station. But their wedding is interrupted by a gale which brings havoc to all their loved ones. Forced to escape from the clutches of the storm, Aruna's family and friends are taken to a nearby monastery, where they start to reflect on the past. What they need to keep to themselves is the terrible truth about their pasts, along with a promise to meet again in a better time. When they get back home, they learn that their beloved Dokka has been captured by a group of thieves. Forced to confront the truth about his past, Dokka is tempted and then shown the door by his attackers. Finally, his family and friends vow to one day repay the wrong they had done to him by avenging his wrongs.
Dokka Alai: An Ancient Indian Tale of Adventure and Loyalty
In this delightful tale, Bhagat Singh (Anil Chidambaram) comes to the aid of a Brahmin family when their lives are threatened by a Maratha warrior. Bhagat Singh's warrior-cum-sage, Dokka (Amitabh Bachchan), is a true hero. Dokka is a true warrior, who in this tale rides a yakkar (an ancient and wild animal) to save a family from ruin. Seen from start to finish, Dokka is a story of adaption, loyalty and courage. Dokka is a true hero, whose story is interwoven with that of the Bhagats and their friends.
Bhagat Singh's Jhoothi Ki Rani
This is the story of love, loss and adventure, told through the eyes of a doting mother who loves her four children with all her heart. Dharmesh (Sonam Kapoor) is the eldest son of Bhagata Singh (Anil Chidambaram) and Sarada (Playful Harpreet Kaur). When Bhagat Singh is called up for a mission, he asks his wife to take care of his children while he goes off to battle. When he returns, he is surprised to see his eldest son, Dharmesh, running in the house with a load ofSIYAS (Special Indianweapons). When Bhagata and Sarada hear this, they become suspicious and vow to avenge their fallen son's death. When they are far away in the desert, a few Marathas approach Dharmesh with a plot to kill him. When he sees them coming, he charges at them with all his might, but is easily taken down. Forced to survive in the desert for months on end without any food or water, Dharmesh becomes a fighting man. When he dies, his wife comes to the conclusion that the Marathas are her husband's killers. When they get back to the family home, they learn that his younger brother Gada Singh (Pankaj Mishra) has been gutted in an accident. Forced to eat his own organs, Gada Singh becomes a living reminder of his mentor, Bhagat Singh.
Kannada Actress Lali Godrej's Sholapathi
This is a story of two women, Lali Godrej and Sanjeev Kumar. When Lali is pregnant with their first child, she comes to know that her partner is Sanjeev Kumar (Sanjay Dutt), a youth from a upper-class family. After the birth, Sanjeev returns to his own home, while Lali stays with her friend Amma (Sanjina N Degra). When they get back together, they have three children: Akil (Akshaya), Akil Paa (Ravindra) and Shivani (Rambha).Amma is a famous Kannada artist and the Kannada language play is successful both at home and abroad.
Bhootnagar's Gulabdas
This is a comedy in all the right ways, and it's a real treat for the eyes and the heart. In this tale, a small-town goulard stores elephants, who are then transported to a remote hill station for their shoot-dance. While the elephants are being trained, an iron-hearted Goulard's nephew, Moti (Salim Nair) and his pals come up with an ingenious plan to steal the elephants and send them off to sea. Moti, who is the son of Goulard's younger brother, Mal Guru (Salom Nair) and his wife Sukanya, gets himself in trouble for the theft and is threatened with execution. When he is about to be hanged, he and his henchmen come up with an ingenious plan to escape and let the elephants loose on the Goulard's estate. They have a plan to steal the elephants and have it ready for the shoot. When Goulard's sons and his wife see this, they become infuriated and demand to see the plan. Now, that's action!
Peepli's Jaanarthi Arjunanatha Pillai-Panchmi Parvathi
This is a great story of love, loss and redemption, told through the eyes of a sweet old Tamil woman. When her husband gets passed away, she must take care of their remaining two children, who are very young. Her 14-year-old daughter, Pari (Anupam Kalyan), is from a lower-middle class family and is a strict, conservative Muslim. When his older daughter, Mrity (Anupam Kalyan), is about to marry a Hindu girl, he takes up for her the offer of leading a turmeric field trip to a nearby hill station. When the turmeric field trip goes wrong, he is framed for the crimes and subsequently sent to jail. When he is released, he comes to the conclusion that the whole thing is a setup by his stepmother, whose name is Pari. When he is about to meet his mother, he meets a girl from a lower-middle class family, who helps him find his way back to his conservative beliefs.
Bhuveri Baby with an Iron Fist
This is a flip-top history lesson of the great Bhuveri Bata, and his city of origin, Bhagsu. When Bhuveri is young, he and his friend Ajit (Varun Dhawan) set off on a journey through the forests,bs and fields of Bhagsu. When they get to Bhagsu, they see a beautiful city and a thriving economy, and Ajit and Bhuveri decide to stay put. While Ajit stays put to build a fire, Bhuveri starts a bakery and takes his family to a nearby town for lunch. When he returns home, he learns that his stepfather has been murdered and his house has been set on fire. When the family returns to Bhagsu, they are surprised to find that the streets are empty. When they see the burning house, they become enraged and start a campaign to lynch the culprits. When they are all arrested, Bhuveri vows to avenge the murder of his stepfather, and his family vows to return to Bhagsu and take revenge on their attackers.
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Barminco Ltd is currently seeking a suitably experienced Underground Charge Up Operators at our Mt Colin Operations on 2/2 Rosters.
Reporting to the Shift Supervisor you will be required to carry out charging of jumbo development rounds, stripping rounds and long hole stopes in a safe and efficient manner whilst providing assistance to all underground development production teams through safe, cost effective and professional practices.
This challenging and rewarding role will provide you with an excellent opportunity to further develop your career and work alongside experienced industry professionals in a safe, dynamic and outcome focused environment.
A strong focus toward safety and hazard identification.
A full pre-employment medical will be required, including a drug and alcohol screen and site specific clearances. A National Police Clearance will also be required as part of the onboarding process.
If you have the necessary skills and experience to be an asset to Barminco's Mining Operations Team, we would like to hear from you.


Abstract: Git, being the de-facto standard version control system in the open source community, enterprise customers are looking into git as their approach to modernize their mainframe development pipeline, to consolidate into one single SCM and Enterprise DevOps pipeline.
This paper provides guidance how the principles of mainframe software development can be taken into account by a modern SCMs like git, benefit from isolation techniques like branching and integrate development activities within and across teams through merge and consolidation workflows.
IBM Dependency Based Build provides the necessary capabilities of dependency analysis and build scripting to automate the build process driven through a pipeline coordinator like Jenkins.
The purpose is to review relevant areas required when moving to a modern SCM, comparing them and providing explanations. There will be an emphasis on how an existing mainframe application can be componentized and how it's interfaces can be described and managed with git.


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