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The Givenness of Things
Published in Bookforum on 06 July, 2015
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The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 304 pp., $26.
In the impassioned polemic, "Darwinism," that opens The Death of Adam (1998), the first of her four philosophical/theological essay collections, Marilynne Robinson hurls a flaming spear at all of modern thought:
Now that the mystery of motive is solved - there are only self-seeking and aggression, and the illusions that conceal them from us - there is no place left for the soul, or even the self. Moral behavior has little real meaning, and inwardness, in the traditional sense, is not necessary or possible. ...[T]here is little use for the mind, the orderer and reconciler, the artist of the interior world. Whatever it has made will only be pulled apart. The old mystery of subjectivity is dispelled; individuality is a pointless complication of a very straightforward organic life. Our hypertrophic brain ... that house of many mansions, with ... all its deep terrors and very rich pleasures, which was so long believed to be the essence of our lives, and a claim on one another's sympathy and courtesy and attention, is going the way of every part of collective life that was addressed to it - religion, art, dignity, graciousness. Philosophy, ethics, politics, properly so called. ... [H]ow much was destroyed, when modern thought declared the death of Adam.
Robinson has not ceased from mental fight since then, nor has her sword slept in her hand, though she has also, over the same period, published three exquisitely beautiful, wholly untendentious novels, the acclaimed Gilead trilogy. With an equal abundance (though varying proportions) of eloquence and lyricism, her essays have made a case for her Calvinist theological vision, while her novels have made a world out of it.
Religious thinkers have tried to beat back rationalism in many and various ways. Pascal cajoled; De Maistre snarled; Kierkegaard mocked; Newman preached; Chesterton punned; C.S. Lewis allegorized. Robinson mystifies. I don't mean that she's ever willfully misleading or obscure, but rather that she looks at the commonplace and continually finds the uncanny, the ineffable, the mysterious. The idea that human nature and behavior are lawlike and predictable, that sociobiology or psychoanalysis can even begin to account for the complexity and depth of a single personality, she regards as a fatal failure of imagination. Like Blake shuddering at a clockwork universe, she prays: "May God us keep/From Single vision and Newton's sleep"; though her own bêtes noires are Darwin and Freud.
More particularly, it's their contemporary epigones she objects to, especially evolutionary psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists, who draw out and embrace the supposedly anti-religious implications of the Darwin's and Freud's discoveries. Evolution may be unimpeachable, she acknowledges: we may have descended from creatures without minds, through modifications caused by accidental genetic mutations that conferred advantages or disadvantages in the competition for survival. Yet we have minds, and souls too, she insists, however we got them; and not all of life is a competition for survival. There may be no thought without brain activity, but brain activity is not all there is to thought.
"Merely" is a fighting word in Robinson's lexicon. The self is not "merely" physical; virtues are not "merely" adaptations. The gravest intellectual sin in her catechism is reductionism: of mind to computation, generosity to self-interest, beauty to functionality, love to desire. We don't even know what "physical" means, she protests: "On scrutiny the physical is as elusive as anything to which a name may be given." [P. 8] It "frays away into dark matter, antimatter," and beyond; it is "a pure artifact of the scale at which, and the means by which, we and our devices perceive." [9] It is sheer arrogant pretense to employ such an unstable category to discredit the idea of the soul, whose character was "established in remote antiquity, in many places and cultures, long before such a thing as science was brought to bear on the question." [9]
Evolutionary psychology is equally pretentious and vacuous, with its insistence that any traits not obviously necessary to "establish and maintain homeostasis ... to live and propagate" are somehow less real than those that are. "So generosity is apparent and greed is real, [and] the great poets and philosophers toiled in the hope of making themselves attractive to potential mates." Like cognitive neuroscientists, evolutionary psychologists are soul-deniers.
The soul is Robinson's guiding idea, her master concept (not to mention her stock in trade as a novelist). "A very great deal depends, perhaps our humanity depends, on our sensing and acknowledging that quality in our kind we call the soul." [235]Nonphysical, it is and is not the self; it is stained by moral failings but "untouched by the accidents that maim the self or kill it." The soul is "sacred" and "immortal," a "statement of the dignity of a human life and of the unutterable gravity of human action and experience." Heroism, creative fire, immortal longings are irrefutable evidence of the soul. That science will someday be explain it in terms of "nuts and bolts ... signals and receptors" is an empty promise.
Science is, in any case, no longer in a position to make promises. With recent developments in quantum physics and cosmology, Robinson declares, our conception of Being has exploded and all bets are off. Undecidability, indeterminacy, non-locality, entanglement, multiple universes - nowadays the scientifically literate must be prepared to swallow ten impossible things before breakfast. Reality is so very strange, it appears, that believing in God, immortality, and free will is hardly a stretch anymore. If even space and time are utterly mysterious, why expect that grace or the soul will be any less so? "Anyone who has spent an hour with a book on the new physics knows that our old mechanistic thinking, useful as it is for so many purposes, bears about the same relation to deeper reality that frost on a window pane bears to everything beyond it, including the night sky and everything beyond that." [210]
What might Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, or E. O. Wilson (all of whom Robinson pillories in one essay collection or another) say in response to her anathemas? They would first of all, I imagine, reject her insinuation that Darwinism logically implies Social Darwinism and indeed was partly inspired by Malthusianism. The fact that the forceful and cunning usually win the contest for survival in the state of nature does not guarantee them equal success in the state of culture. Indeed, there is no contest for survival in the state of culture, since culture is simply a society's way of spending its surplus over subsistence. Moreover, force and cunning are not the only successful strategies even in the state of nature; cooperation often trumps them. On the primeval savannah, teamwork sometimes outwitted tooth and claw.
Neuroscientists might point out in their defense that the up-to-date among them no longer refer to the brain as a hunk of meat (which greatly annoyed Robinson) but as a design space, and to the mind as a software module. (Though this may annoy her only slightly less.) As for the soul, they may respectfully reply that while they're perfectly comfortable with the vernacular sense of "soul" or "spirit," the metaphysical sense - something "untouched by the accidents that maim the self or kill it," and which will be reunited with the body at the Last Judgment - is just a blank to them, so could Robinson please try once more to explain it?
And the new physics - does it license Robinson's ontological maximalism? Some physicists think so; some don't; most have no opinion and no interest. But even those who agree with her generally limit their wilder imaginings to the subatomic or intergalactic spheres. Few would agree that because quarks may have free will, people have free will; or that because an electron may be in more than one place at the same time, a mountain may be in more than one place at the same time; or that because subatomic events may have no cause, everyday events may have no cause. Very freaky things do happen at quantum scales, but statistically they cancel out. In any case, wouldn't it be a bit perverse of God to have made His existence seem so implausible from Laplace to Bohr?
The Givenness of Things is by no means wholly polemical. Much of it is devoted to theological discussion, or meditation, about the interpretation of scripture, the nature of Christ, and the inexhaustibly inventive and persevering love of God for humanity. The prose is as finely wrought as in any of Robinson's novels, though less relaxed and elegiac. Not every reader will be convinced by her arguments, or even understand them, but any reader not tone-deaf will be enchanted by her grave, urgent music.
The surest way to take the moral measure of a professedly devout Christian is to ask how she feels about Matthew 25, where Jesus says to the saved and the damned: "What you have done to the least of my brothers and sisters, you have done to me." Robinson feels very strongly about it. "The souls we let our theories and our penuries frustrate are souls still, and, if Jesus is to be trusted, they will be our judges, they are now our judges." [235]
George Scialabba is a contributing editor of The Baffler and the author of What Are Intellectuals Good For? and For the Republic.
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The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited by John Carroll (Review)
Published in Bookforum on 01 February, 2009
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"Man was created a rebel," Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor admonished the silent Christ in his prison cell, "and how can rebels be happy?" The burden of freedom, the responsibility of finding - or creating - one's own purpose and meaning without the guidance of authoritative inherited creeds and values, is too heavy for all but a few. The rest of us cannot endure for long the tensions of uncertainty. We must, at some point, stop questioning, quiet our doubts, turn away from moral and metaphysical inquiry and toward life. Untrammeled skepticism ends in paralysis.
That is true of societies as well as individuals. No purely rational justification can be offered for trust and self-sacrifice. But without them, social life is chaos, a war of all against all.
Until a few hundred years ago, this problem scarcely existed. The authority of communities and traditions, though often enough evaded or defied, was rarely put in radical question. There were sinners, doubters, even heretics, but dogma and hierarchy, as the foundation of individual morality and social organization, were unchallenged.
Then modernity happened. Beginning in fifteenth-century Europe, a critical, experimental, libertarian spirit began to flourish, which came to be known as "humanism." A crescendo of scientific discoveries, artistic innovations, geographical explorations, and political reforms ensued until, at the end of the eighteenth century, Kant hailed "humankind's emergence from its self-imposed minority" and baptized it "Enlightenment." At the same time, the prestige of the sacred and the supernatural, of what the Grand Inquisitor called "miracle, mystery, and authority" and declared indispensable to ordinary people's happiness, was correspondingly diminished.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, humanism's luster was tarnished. First came the blight of early industrialization, then colonial brutality, totalitarian repression, and the technologies of extermination in concentration camps and global wars. Even after these horrors passed, in the midst of unprecedented prosperity, an epidemic of spiritual emptiness descended: alienation, consumerism, and the loneliness of mass society. Perhaps, as a minority of modern thinkers have always believed, we cannot live by reason alone. Perhaps modernity is a mistake.
Criticism of modernity is a distinguished intellectual tradition. In the first half of the twentieth century, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer formulated such criticisms with great subtlety and learning, as have Christopher Lasch, Philip Rieff, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Gray more recently. The Australian sociologist John Carroll makes a small but significant addition to this tradition with The Wreck of Western Culture, published in 1993 but now revised and appearing for the first time in the United States.
Carroll is a different kind of sociologist. Not only does he not make a fetish of data and method; he eschews them altogether. The Wreck of Western Culture is nothing so pedestrian as social theory; it is a (sometimes) inspired vaticination, a dramatic and portentous reading of the entrails of Western high culture from Homer to Hollywood. Proceeding from one representative masterwork to the next, Carroll meditates them intensely, laying siege to each one's inner meaning, pitting them against one another, and wresting from the sequence a hidden narrative of Western decline. It is an audacious performance, sometimes electrifying but just as often erratic and tendentious. It is hard not to be frequently impressed, but even harder not to be continually exasperated.
Boldly (or rashly), Carroll begins with a proclamation of universal ruin. "Our culture is a flat expanse of rubble." [QUOTE FROM PAGE 1] In our depths, we "are desperate, yet don't care much anymore. We are timid, yet we cannot be shocked. We are inert underneath our busyness. We are destitute in our plenty. We are homeless in our own homes." [p. 1] If you do not recognize yourself in this desolate portrait, you will simply have to take Carroll's word for its accuracy; no attempt is made to substantiate, or even elaborate on, the book's initial, apocalyptic paragraph.
Not diagnosis but etiology is Carroll's concern. How have we arrived at this civilizational cul de sac? It started five centuries ago, Carroll answers, with our adoption of the false myth of humanism. The ambition of humanism was "to found an order on earth in which freedom and happiness prevailed, without any transcendental or supernatural supports - an entirely human order." [p. 2] In humanism's glory days, the eras of Socrates, Leonardo, and Newton, this was a pardonable illusion. But now, in the wake of Auschwitz, the Gulag, Hiroshima, and 9/11, the bankruptcy of humanism is manifest. We need a new cultural myth. Since none is yet available, Carroll proposes to sift through the wreckage, retracing the path to catastrophe and prospecting for glimmers of a different future.
Before Socrates, the Greeks were not humanists, they were fatalists. The gods - and behind them, a dimly discerned cosmic order - determined human destiny. Philosophical speculation about the good life and right action was irrelevant; culture rested on mythos, the "timeless archetypal narratives that carry the eternal truths," the "ancient currents of shape and form that move in the unconscious dreamtime of the people." [p.70] Myths and stories give a culture and its members "a place to stand" - an indispensable function, which mere human reason and will cannot fulfill.
Likewise, reason and will cannot withstand the annihilating necessity of death. But Jesus's resurrection was "the death of death": that is, an end to death as the meaning, or negation, of life. For Carroll, Jesus's key affirmations are "Before Abraham came to be, I am" and "I am the way, the truth, and the life." With these, he offered himself as a place to stand, transcending the Law. His disciples Paul, Luther, and Calvin would become humanism's greatest opponents.
The first humanist masterpiece Carroll ponders is Donatello's 15th-century sculpture of a Venetian general on horseback, the Gattamelata. The figure's ease, grace, and power "anticipate the Renaissance ideal, 'we can become what we will,' and project it in three-dimensional form." [p. 14]
The virtu embodied in the Gattamelata also animates Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Brutus acts; Hamlet, famously, does not. The two plays are the day and night sides of "humanism's quintessential genius." [p. 15]
In Hamlet and Hans Holbein's painting, The Ambassadors, a skull appears. This is the sort of detail from which Carroll conjures far-reaching interpretations of cultural health or malaise. The gravedigger scene in Hamlet is not merely a comic interlude; the trompe l'oeil skull in The Ambassadors is not merely a visual trick. On the contrary, Carroll claims, their significance is momentous. "When culture is reduced to the skull, death takes over. ... Once faith is gone, fate is reduced to necessity - and the ultimate necessity is death." [p. 32] In Carroll's reading, the painting and the play acknowledge that "there is no humanist solution." [p. 33]
The Protestant Reformation is usually seen as a religious parallel to the Renaissance, a movement of liberation from authority and tradition. Carroll sees it differently. Luther opposed faith and grace to reason and will; he and Calvin "preached darkness and suffering against the reasonable and the comfortable." Against the hope, common to secular and Catholic humanism, that a measure of wisdom and righteousness might be attained through human effort, Luther and Calvin insisted on our radical depravity, folly, and helplessness.
Through lengthy commentaries on paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Poussin, and Velazquez, Carroll traces the achievements and failures of the Protestant Reformation and its less well-known Catholic counterpart. Descartes and Kant advanced the humanist project, undermining notions of cosmic order and setting reason in command of philosophy. Bach and Jane Austen founded their art on perceptions of human insufficiency and dependence. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche subjected themselves fully, heroically, to the spiritual tensions between humanist light and anti-humanist darkness. After them, the deluge: the frank "degradation of Western culture," illustrated by Edvard Munch's Madonna and Marcel Duchamp's Urinal. In its "death throes," the only vital works that Western culture yields are futile protests against modern homelessness, either ironic (the novels of Henry James) or wistful (the movies of John Ford).
To produce - in fewer than 300 pages - a passionate, imaginative, richly detailed interpretation of the spiritual history of the modern West is not a small achievement, even if that interpretation is, as I believe, profoundly wrong. At a time when cutting-edge cultural criticism is often about ephemeral effluvia, it apparently takes a maverick Aussie sociologist to don the prophet's mantle. Let him be praised, if only for forcing us to look once again at our cultural monuments, this time as harbingers of life or death.
But is it true that "without God, without a transcendental law, there is only death"? [p. 32] And - and entirely separate question - even if that is true, does that make it any more likely that either God or a transcendental law actually does exist? Like virtually all other anti-modernists, Carroll does not even assert - much less attempt to prove - the existence of God or transcendental law. He merely deplores the consequences of not believing that they exist. This is not, it seems to me, a grown-up position.
In any case, there are grounds for a truce between believers and unbelievers. Why not lay aside questions of ultimate meaning for as long as there is unnecessary suffering in the world? I don't mean necessary suffering, like disappointed love or the infirmities of age. I mean wholly unnecessary suffering, like undernourished, illiterate, or malarial children. When there are no more such, then let us begin asking again about the meaning of life and the existence of God.
Carroll's latest book, The Existential Jesus, is an anticlimax. It bears roughly the same relation to The Wreck of Western Culture as Finnegan's Wake does to Ulysses, or Norman Brown's Love's Body to his Life Against Death. In each of these pairs, the first book was rewardingly adventurous, the second frustratingly self-indulgent.
The Existential Jesus is an emotionally fervent but intellectually slack reading of Mark's "enigmatic" gospel. Here is Carroll's solution to the enigma:
Why is he the "existential" Jesus? Because the normal identifying markers of the self have been stripped away from him - family, friends, a past, an occupation, and even an anticipated life-path. In effect, all he can proclaim about himself is: "I exist." His story then becomes a quest for the I that exists. [p.2]
Anyone who has read Geza Vermes or Hyam Maccoby or E.P. Sanders - virtually any New Testament scholarship, in fact - will have very little patience with the notion that Jesus came from nowhere and was concerned above all with the nature of his own being. Jesus was a devout Jew, probably a radical Pharisee. He was no more an existentialist than he was a Zoroastrian. If you're just getting to know him, read Garry Wills and leave John Carroll alone with his enigmas.
George Scialabba is the author of Divided Mind and What Are Intellectuals Good For?
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QNET, a leading international direct selling company specialising in exclusive lifestyle brands, is the team's Official Direct Selling Partner and the organiser of this tour. Fans of the high-speed sport can enjoy the rare opportunity of seeing a stunning, state-of-the-art F1 car up-close.
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"Republicans, and too many Democrats, have rigged our economy to enrich a select few," the union chief told an audience at the National Press Club.
"Give every worker out there the right to bargain with their employer for better wages, better working conditions whether you have a union or not," he said.
Trumka's cautionary messages about allowing corporations to enrich themselves at the expense of workers, and the dangers of deregulation struck a familiar theme for unions. But the speech was also notable for the way it veered from traditional party politics, calling attention to a growing rift in the once-solid relationship between unions and the Democratic Party.
"We'll stand up to the corporate Republicans who attack working people and the neoliberal Democrats who take us for granted," Trumka said. During the last election, 37 percent of the AFL-CIO's membership voted for Trump. Both parties, he argued, are struggling with an identity crisis.
In the early days, Trumka and other union leaders supported the Trump administration's position against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. But more recently, he said, the administration has lost its focus on workers in favor of relaxing rules on employers.
"There is a Wall Street wing that seeks to undermine Donald Trump's promises to workers, and there's a competing wing that could actually win some progress that working people need," he said. "I'm concerned that the Wall Street wing of the White House is starting to hijack the agenda."
Unions are not what they were during Trumka's childhood in Pennsylvania coal country, when about a third of all American workers were members of unions. That declined to about 20 percent in the early 1980s. Now, it's half that. Trumka himself referenced unions' efforts to reverse that trend, including organizing efforts with white collar workers such as graduate students and technology professionals, as well as hotel and fast-food workers.
"I think it is a recognition that, at some level, what unions did 50 years ago is not what they are able to do today," she said.


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Transformers began as robots from different Japanese Transformers lines cobbled together under one banner and story. This section is dedicated to the reviews of the action figures that make up the Transformers universe starting from the original series all the way to the present day. In general, any reviews marked with an asterisk are reviews that still need to be added.
The successor line to Generation One chronicling the continued adventures of Optimus Prime versus Megatron complete with new characters joining the fray.
The line that revived Transformers in the 90's, bringing Maximals and Predacons into the spotlight.
A Japanese exclusive spin-off of "Beast Wars" featuring a new cast of characters including Big Convoy leading the Cybertrons versus Magmatron and his Destrons!
A Kay-Bee exclusive line of vehicular Transformers released during the Beast Era.
The follow up line to Beast Wars, where vehicles were reintroduced into the main line of Transformers.
A section focusing on sub-lines of "Transformers" that were labeled simply "Dinobots".
Consisting entirely of redecos from previous lines, Universe introduced alternate versions of popular characters along with all new characters.
The US release of the Binaltech line including figures not released in Japan.
Crossing various Transformers lines, this Japanese take on "Universe" featured characters from various generations locked in combat.
A galaxy spanning trilogy that saw the introduction of a whole new group of characters and abilities to the Transformers universe.
The exclusive line of Transformers figures distributed by Fun Publications via the official Transformers Collector's Club and Botcon convention starting in 2005.
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Generation One is reborn in the form of Classics, a line that reimagines favorite characters from the era that started it all!
A bold new look and storyline relaunches the Transformers line for new and old fans alike.
A continuation of the "Classics" line, focusing on G1 characters in new forms.
The world of Disney collides with the Transformers universe in this unique toy line.
An ancient threat awakens on Earth and Sam's destiny comes into sharper focus as the Decepticons gather their forces for another strike!
The world of "pop" vinyl dolls and "Transformers" merge with "Mighty Muggs"!
A Japanese exclusive line focused on releasing figures focused on Generation One characters largely utilizing sculpts from Classics, Reveal the Shield and Generations. United "EX" was the end of the line featuring figures from the Power Core Combiners with new colors and identities.
Keeping in the spirit of toys such as Matchbox and Hot Wheels, this line focuses on the vehicular aspect of Transformers with small size and larger vehicles with lights, sounds and transformation!
Combiners take center stage with this sub-line of Transformers featuring "Commander" figures that combine with Mini-Cons and Drone vehicles to form larger robots.
Continuing the tradition started by the Classics line, old characters get reinterpreted for a new age!
Picking up where "Generations" leaves off, this line focuses on classic characters in new forms and use of the famous "rub symbols" to show allegiance!
Split into several sub-lines including Mech Tech, the Cyberverse and Robo Power, this section covers toys released for the "Dark of the Moon" live action movie.
Based on the first CGI animated Transformers series on "The Hub" network, this toy line features many classic characters reimagined.
The war with the Decepticons is over, but the Autobots still have plenty of adventures to meet with bravery!
Based on "The Amazing Spider-Man" feature film and the Generation One "Jumpstarter" technology, a new line of Transformers is born!
An action figure based game involving super deformed versions of Transformers from G1 and other series.
After the battle of Chicago, the Autobots have gone into hiding - but soon a challenge arises that forces them to battle evil once again.
A Japanese exclusive line focused on characters from the Transformers movies including "Lost Age", the Japanese release of "Age of Extinction".
A Japanese exclusive toy line featuring super deformed Transformers who convert to licensed vehicles.
The story begun in "Transformers Prime" continues with Bumblebee leading Autobots against a new Decepticon threat on Earth.
The Japanese line with the "Robots in Disguise" figures at its core with add ons from other lines including "Generations" and "Animated".
The fifth film in the live action franchise gets its own toy line featuring an assortment of challenge levels including the "Generations-esque" Premier Edition.
A new adventure begins as Bumblebee is on a mission to find his lost memories!


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Scotland's women reach highest ever FIFA World ranking
ANNA SIGNEUL'S side have moved up one place to 19th in the World, and remain the 11th ranked team in Europe.
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SCOTLAND'S women have moved up to their highest ever World ranking position.
In the latest FIFA Women's World Rankings, Scotland climbed up one place to 19th in the World, and remain the 11th ranked team in Europe.
Scotland are currently top of their FIFA Women's World Cup 2015 qualifying group, with four wins out of four. Their next qualifying match is against Poland at Fir Park, Motherwell, on Saturday 5th April.
Earlier this month, Anna Signeul's side also equalled their best-ever finish in the annual Cyprus Women's Cup. Scotland finished fourth and were unbeaten in open play after drawing with France – who moved up to fourth in the World in today's rankings – defeating The Netherlands and Australia, and only losing out on penalties to Korea Republic in the final placing match.
And coach Signeul said: "Every little step we take is a fantastic achievement. We're hot on the heels of the biggest nations in women's football, most of whom have full-time professional players, so it becomes tougher each time to take these steps up.
"This shows just how valuable it is to get experience of playing against higher ranked teams at tournaments like the Cyprus Women's Cup, particularly after a good year like this one, when we drew with France and defeated The Netherlands and Australia.
"I'm particularly delighted for the players, but this is down to the hard work of everyone involved in the game in Scotland, and those who provide us with valuable support, such as the Scottish Government and Scottish Institute of Sport."
The majority of Scotland national team players currently fit their football commitments around work or study, however in October 2013, Sport Minister Shona Robison announced additional support to help players to work less and train more, with the aim of qualifying for the FIFA Women's World Cup Finals.
This additional investment will allow players to have more recovery time as well as more strength and conditioning sessions, to help enhance performance levels.
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Wyze's security camera pay-what-you-want subscription accepts $0
Wyze has officially launched a new pay-what-you-want subscription tier for its lineup of home security cameras called Cam Plus Lite. In a forum post, the company explains that Cam Plus Lite includes Person Detection, which alerts you when it detects a human being rather than just motion, as well as cloud recordings that are limited to 12 seconds in length, with a 5 minute cooldown period between them. Users can choose to pay as little as $0 a month for the new tier.
Wyze also says it's removing the 32GB microSD card size limit on its cameras, and is adding new rewind and skip buttons to make it easier to scrub through locally-saved footage.
Regarding subscriptions, Wyze started experimenting with its pay-what-you-want model for its person detection feature back in 2020, hoping (correctly) that some users would be willing to pay to allow Wyze to provide the service for free to others. Person detection was originally added as a free service in 2019, but the company was forced to temporarily remove it the following year after the company providing its AI technology terminated its licensing deal when it was acquired by Apple.
Smart home companies are currently split on whether to charge for person detection. Google and Eufy currently offer similar features for free, while Arlo and Ring charge. Wyze's big selling point has always been the affordability of its security cameras, and the $0 payment option helps to preserve that. Its Wyze Cam v3, for example, is currently on sale for just $35.98.
Cam Plus Lite sits below Wyze's other existing subscription tiers: Cam Plus and Cam Plus Pro. Cam Plus costs $1.99 per camera per month and removes the 12-second limit and 5-minute cooldown on cloud recordings while expanding the AI detection feature to also recognize packages, pets, and vehicles. Cam Plus Pro, meanwhile, costs $3.99 per camera per month and includes 24/7 professional monitoring, as well as the ability to recognize specific faces.
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Gates Foundation Intern, Amanda Song, on the importance of internships
Amanda Song: Junior Consultant at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
"The dream that I've set for myself is constantly evolving," says Amanda Song, a recent graduate from UC San Diego's doctoral program in Cognitive Neuroscience. She's gone from an undergraduate, enamored of neuroscience, to an itinerant electrophysiologist studying the secrets of sensory processing in labs based in Belgium and Japan. For her graduate work, she approached the visual system from a completely different angle, using computational techniques such as machine learning to map how humans perceive faces. Now, after spending several years working in internships at technology companies, consultancies, and financial institutions, Amanda is eager to start a new career as a data scientist and consultant at the firm KPMG.
For Amanda's doctoral research she measured the initial impression that her subjects had when they saw an unfamiliar face. Is that face trustworthy? Does it belong to a friend or a foe? According to Amanda, these impressions form within milliseconds, and revolve around two major dimensions: what is the intention of this unfamiliar person and how capable are they of achieving that intention? She then trained an algorithm to map traits of the unfamiliar faces to these dimensions, allowing her to determine what aspects of each face contribute most to her participants' subjective impressions. Amanda thinks there are a number of commercial applications for this work–for example, she muses about making a company which would tell someone which of their pictures would make the best profile picture on different social media platforms (e.g. Facebook or LinkedIn).
Exploring Life Outside Academia
While pursuing her doctorate, Amanda also explored the world outside of academia. She pursued internships at a number of technology corporations including telecommunications giant Qualcomm, self-driving truck company TuSimple, and Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla. Later, she applied for an internship with the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, an international development organization, and used that opportunity to learn more about the world of finance.
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According to Amanda, internships for PhD students come in a number of different forms. Some fellowships (such as work at Google Brain or DeepMind) are purely to conduct scientific research using the student's expertise and the resources available at the company. Other internships (like Amanda's work at Tesla, where she helped to design a quality control system which could detect when cars were assembled properly) are more production based; they require more training and involve the completion of a task which relates to the company's output. Finally, internships can also be recruiting tools; they can be used to introduce graduate students to a company's culture and provide necessary training which would be useful if the students return after completing their degrees.
While these internships have tangible benefits for the companies offering them, Amanda thinks of them as crucial opportunities that graduate students can exploit to expand their horizons. "If you don't know something's out there," she says, "you won't think about searching for it."
After spending her PhD working in so many diverse settings, what do the next six years hold for Amanda? What does she want to do with the rest of her career? "I think I'll take this opportunity to see what industries have the most potential, and where I can add the most value" she says, "and then I'll take it from there."
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
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How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon
The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite by Daniel Markovits
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Did you know your carpets should be meticulously deep cleaned once every one to two years? If you want a truly clean home, your carpeting needs to be refreshed, with the underlying dirt and debris removed on an annual (or semi-annual) basis. Get 'em cleaned once every 18 months, ideally.
Most people hire professional carpet cleaners like the experts from Horizon Carpet. But others choose the DIY (do-it-yourself) route. Which is better?
Professional carpet cleaning services have (and use) heavy-duty tools that the average person doesn't own or even have access to– and these portable steam cleaning machines, or units attached to a truck, have more power to clean than any DIY approach could ever hope to achieve.
Sure, you could save money by cleaning a carpet yourself, but is it really worth your time, money, sweat and effort? Most DIYers end up renting a steam cleaner to do the job. These cost, on average, $50 a day. Here's the problem, though: you might not have any idea on how to properly use a carpet cleaner, which leads to oversaturation of your carpet, equipment complications and frustrations, and, in the end, not being able to easily get to small spaces with the awkward equipment you rented.
Frankly, if you want a thorough cleaning and you can afford it, hiring a professional carpet cleaner is the way to go. Not only will your carpets receive a deep, powerful cleaning, but also look, smell, and feel refreshed.
In Phoenix, if you've got dirty carpets, whether at home or the office, you should hire Horizon Carpet to come clean them. Horizon gets rid of dirt, soil, grease, pet hairs, ugly spills, and more. Happy customers often remark their carpeting looks "like new" after Horizon has been to their house or office in Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs.
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Q: DynamoDB vs ElasticSearch vs S3 - which service to use for superfast get/put 10-20MB files? I have backend that recieves, stores and serves 10-20 MB json files. Which service should I use for superfast put and get (I cannot break the file in smaller chunks)? I dont have to run queries on these files just get them, store them and supply them instantly. The service should scale to tens of thousands of files easily. Ideally I should be able to put the file in 1-2 seconds and retrieve it in the same time.
I feel s3 is the best option and elastic search the second best option. Dyanmodb doesnt allow such object size. What should I use? Also, is there any other service? Mongodb is a possible solution but i dont see that on AWS, so something quick to setup would be great.
Thanks

A: I don't think you should go for Dynamo or ES for this kind of operation.
After all, what you want is to store and serve it, not going into the file's content which both Dynamo and ES would waste time to do.
My suggestion is to use AWS Lambda + S3 to optimize for cost
S3 does have some small downtime after putting till the file is available though ( It get bigger, minutes even, when you have millions of object in a bucket )
If downtime is important for your operation and total throughput at any given moment is not too huge, You can create a server ( preferably EC2) that serves as a temporary file stash. It will

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*Try to upload it to S3

*If the file is requested before it's available on S3, serve the file on disk

*If the file is successfully uploaded to S3, serve the S3 url, delete the file on disk

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This week we've looked at a number of tax policy proposals coming out of the Senate, including those that are part of the $4.6 billion tax cut package announced by Senator Jane Nelson and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. We're concerned that these proposals take Texas in the wrong direction at a time when our population is growing and when the state has pushed more responsibility for funding public services onto local governments.
Next week the Senate will hear testimony on all the tax proposals, and we hope that our blog series whetted your appetite for the hearings to come.
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This finca in Mallorca is located in the municipality Llucmajor. It was built in 2001 on a plot of 7735 sqm and has a constructed area of 396 sqm. There is a main house and two guest houses on the property. The main house is divided into a living-dining room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms en suite. Throughout the whole house was laid marble floor. There are beamed ceilings and partial stone walls inside. Outside the house is fully equipped with natural stones. It has installed an oil-fired central heating and air conditioning hot / cold. The living room has a fireplace with a cassette. Furthermore, the house has a garage for 2 cars and parking space for several cars. The outdoor area includes 150 square meters of open terraces with a large pool, 50 square meters of covered terraces and balconies on the upper floor of 40 sqm. It was created an ornamental fish pond with a wooden bridge to the entrance of the main house. There are two separate guest houses, each with a living room with open kitchen, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.
The facility is equipped with very high quality materials and is in very good condition. Different golf courses and beaches nearby. The capital of Majorca, Palma de Mallorca, is easily reached in about 20 minutes by car.
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Transgender People Aren't Sick – They Are Failed By An Inadequate Classification System
Image is of a drop-down menu offering gender choices including: Guy, Girl, Dude, Lady, Fellow, Bird, Chap, Grrrl, Gentleman, Damsel, Beau, Belle, Male, Female, Transgender, None of the above
Yesterday, Pam Belluck of the New York Times reported that the World Health Organization is working toward removing transgender identity from the list of mental health disorders in its International Classification of Diseases.
Removing it from the list of mental health disorders is apparently not controversial. The question Belluck spotlights in her piece is the question of what to do with it outside of that list. The WHO is likely to determine that transgender identity represents an illness related to sexual health, instead of one related to mental health. The answer matters if transgender people are still going to want any related medical care to be covered by insurance policies or health plans.
When the American Psychiatric Association demedicalized homosexuality in 1973, the issue was different. By saying that homosexuality was itself not an illness they were not saying that gay people would not, like anyone else, suffer from psychiatric problems. They were simply saying that no one needed to be treated for homosexuality itself. The kinds of treatments required to help a person whose gender identity and sex assignment don't match are directly related to that discrepancy, and so a diagnosis recognizing that would still be important.
Calling transgender identity a sexual health issue doesn't fit many people's experience, since the issue is one of gender more than sexuality. In addition, finding a name that reduces stigma is also a challenge. "Gender incongruence," appears to be leading the list of likely new names but as Belluck points out, words have very different connotations in different languages, so something that seems benign in one language is stigmatizing in another. She quotes psychologist Geoffrey Reed, who notes that "In English it sounds kind of neutral … but in Spanish it sounds very bad, it sounds kind of psychotic."
I have a suggestion. Why not remove the burden of illness from the transgender individual altogether, and call this phenomenon something like "gender misassignment," thus putting the burden on the system that does the assigning rather than on the individual, whose identity is not a sign of illness.
There are good reasons to do it this way. Gender assignment is a process that happens without consultation of the individual being assigned. In most nations, it is a process that happens at or before birth based on a very brief inspection of genital organs. If the fetus on the ultrasound image or the baby in the delivery room appears to have a penis, it is assigned male and expected to be raised as a boy and develop a boy identity that transitions into "man" over time. If it doesn't appear to have a penis, it is assigned female and we expect it will be raised as a girl, will develop a "girl" identity that transitions into "woman" over time. This simply doesn't happen for all of us. The problem is not with the individual, but with the original diagnosis of sex/gender.
If the WHO, and as a result national health organizations, could conceive of transgender people as people who were failed by a system that only had two options for gender when more were needed, or who were misdiagnosed by a system based on an at-birth inspection genitals when there are many more factors involved in shaping how our identities develop over time, then the required care could be provided without considering the transgender person to be sick in the first place. This approach would also facilitate dialogue within national and international health care about gender diversity and the need for a different way of classifying humans by sex and gender from the start. In fact, imagine if by starting this process at the level of the WHO, we could move toward the kind of world that Lois Gould imagined back in 1978 when she published "X: A Fabulous Child's Story," where sex/gender isn't relevant when a child is small. Maybe we'd even end up with societies where reproductive capacities are no longer associated with abilities, interests and positions in society.
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In this blog I want to go over how some of our hardware can be used for logging and risk analysis. The idea is to give you a feel for how you can do logging and risk analysis with very little latency overhead. The solutions I'm presenting here make use of both the ExaNIC X4 and the ExaLINK ultra low latency switch.
The purpose of logging is to keep an accurate record of all messages sent between two or more systems. Ideally, these messages will be monitored and stored by an independent system or server. This record of messages can then be used in a number of ways, perhaps the most useful of which is in replay. The idea is that with an accurate record of what happened, and when, you can reconstruct events from the past and learn from them.
Having a live and accurate record of messages sent between your trading servers and the exchange also allows you to have an independent system monitor your open positions.
When you're trading though, one thing you definitely don't want is the logging and risk analysis system getting in the way or slowing down your trades. This is where our hardware can help - you can definitely keep accurate log of all events without impacting on your overall latency budget.
Let's look at how the ExaLINK can be used in logging and risk control applications, with particular focus on a typical trading environment. Let's assume you have a trading system that includes a number of clients, all sending orders to a single front end processor (FEP) or gateway that is responsible for validating orders prior to sending them to the exchange.
We can create these logs using the ExaLINK, configuring it to mirror ports. The easiest way to do this is to patch two ports together through the ExaLINK (this results in under 5 ns of latency - equivalent to less than a meter of fibre). Then, mirror the port you want to log out of a port connected to the logging server.
In the diagram below, we're taking client orders into one port on the ExaLINK, which we then patch through to the FEP. We also mirror these client orders through to a logging/risk machine. Likewise, we also take orders sent from the FEP through the ExaLINK, prior to being routed to the exchange. We then mirror FEP orders to the logging/risk machine.
This way the logging machine can see all traffic being sent from the client to the FEP, and from the FEP to the exchange all with virtually no latency penalty - under 5 ns per patch through the ExaLINK. By using ExaNIC network cards in both the FEP and the logging/risk machine, we can very accurately timestamp all packets as they pass through the network - to 6 ns resolution.
Let's look in a little more detail at the ExaNIC low latency network interface card. One of the more interesting features of this card is port mirroring, which allows you to replicate any traffic transmitted or received on the first 3 ports out of the 4th port. This is all done in hardware on the card and has no effect on the latency. This has some obvious advantages when you're trying to log traffic sent by a trading server!
Now anything that port 1 or 2 transmits or receives will be replicated, by hardware, out of port 3 to our logging machine.
This works well in instances where there are less clients than would necessitate a full low latency switch like the ExaNIC.


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My name is Corina. I own Amber Days, an ethical and sustainable childrenswear label. We're 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned and we collaborate with Aboriginal artists to tell stories about our culture.
I'm a Yorta Yorta woman, my family is from Echuca. My culture is a huge part of who I am. I'm also a mum to a three-and-a-half year old daughter, she's pretty much my everything. She's my little assistant – yesterday she was designing a dress!
As Aboriginal people, I feel like we are born political. You have no choice. One of my biggest passions is to use the business for good, especially around the barriers that we face as women of colour. From a very young age, I've been asking how we can fix these inequalities and these injustices and feeling the trauma that's been passed down the generations. I felt that the narrative about my future meant I couldn't have a successful life, and that as an Aboriginal woman, my future was destined to be a stay-at-home mum, controlled by our government and government payments and to not have my own freedom and follow my dreams.
I did a lot of searching with a lot of inspirational mentors, trying to really work on what it meant to be an Aboriginal woman and reconnecting to the strength and the resilience and all the beautiful parts about my culture. I wanted to shift the narrative – and not just shift it, but also push against it. We have all of these amazing qualities and we're creative and we're strong.
That strength has really driven me so much in my business. It's an amazing way of not being controlled by a Western system that does not align with my values and my culture. It's a really empowering way to be able to live to your authentic self. The term 'walk in two worlds' is easier said than done, but I get to choose the parts of the world that I want to be walking in. It's strengthened my identity as an aboriginal woman immensely.
There are lots of reasons why the traditional nine-to-five model doesn't fit an Aboriginal woman. There's deep-seated racism in all of our systems and I've faced it in all of my workplaces. But, in particular, being a full-time single mum and working at the same time is almost impossible if I want to actually support my child. I realise that I can't fully protect my daughter from intergenerational trauma, but I can build her to be the most resilient person that I can and give her the best life that she can live if I am there. It was really important to have the choice to be able to provide her with that. I want her to feel safe and supported, to celebrate our culture, and be proud of who she is. It was really important that I was there for her and the traditional system doesn't work for that.
I took my daughter to work with me when she was six months' old. She was surrounded by amazing strong activists from a young age, but it was extremely exhausting and I felt guilty. I could see that she needed slowness. I quit and decided to do Amber Days full time. It gives me full flexibility. I didn't know how to launch a business and I was nervous. My mum was like 'have you heard of Global Sisters?' We went from there.
Lisa at Global Sisters gave me some pro bono work around being financially ready for investment. I needed capital to be able to scale and she spent numerous hours with me helping me to understand my financials. That was a game-changer. It's changed my business and I'm forever grateful.
Financial independence is incredibly important, I'd be lying if I said I was there right now. Building a business, particularly in the fashion industry, is a difficult, long process. Just being able to be in control of where you're heading, how much work you want to put in, how much money you want to earn – the aim is to one day be able to make a living off my business and to parent with choice.
"Being an Aboriginal person in business is incredible. We're creating our own idea of business and what it means to us.
Corina MuirAmber Days
There's this amazing, growing community of Aboriginal entrepreneurs and their focus isn't so individualistic, it's on how that business supports a family, supports a community, supports a nation. It's incredibly heartwarming.
Amber Days is about so much more than a transaction, it's about impacts on the environment, how we're bettering our country, strengthening our voices, revamping our culture and our language. I really hope our clothing brings strength and connection to young people, too.
© 2023 Global Sisters Impact.


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calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate is mined from the earth and has been one of the most commonly used sources of supplemental calcium. Calcium carbonate is the most economical form of calcium and is available in a variety of tablets, capsules and chewables. It is proposed to take calcium carbonate with meals for maximum calcium absorption.
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These different types of lime are used to their own special characteristics. Use of each of them is safe, and probably a healthy alternative. By using this you are enabling your body to function properly and correctly.
The three different types of calcium all have an important role and are used to enhance the natural calcium in the body. These types of calcium contained in the foods you eat, beverages you drink, and dietary supplements you use.
Each of these has been shown to improve blood system muscles, bones and your teeth. These are the simplest form, just like calcium, with the exception that this actually help calcium do what it needs to do in the body.
calcium you need increases as you get older. When you were young all it took was one or two meals a day to meet the right amount, you grew you started having more calcium rich foods.
It will how ever, come when eating calcium-rich foods will not get you the right amount you need. To get the right amount of calcium you need you have to start taking supplements.
supplements you take and the amount of them depends on your body and your calcium. If calcium levels are very low, you may find yourself having to take supplements as many as three times a day, along with eating calcium-rich foods.
thing is to do when it comes time to start taking supplements is to find out the current calcium you, and then to find a website that gives you the right amount you need. This can be difficult and trying or simple and easy, it is up to you and your calcium.
The best thing to do when the time comes to ask your friends what they think would be right for you, after you try just one, unless your doctor has prescribed a website for you.
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Arcade action Games #58
Arcade action Games:
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Nova 9 1994
Stellar 7 and its better sequel Nova 9 are two fun 3D action old games that combine furious action with resource management similar to the classic Spectre. Drive futuristic hovercrafts in missions against the evil warlord Drax and prevent him from-- what else?-- controlling the universe. They're fast and fun,...
Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon 1991
It has been two years since the Stellar 7 war. Gir Draxon, the villain, has not been found. Nova 9 has just issued a distress call... Captain John Alex, takes the experimental Raven II tank to investigate the distress call... Nova 9 is the sequel to Dynamix's Stellar 7, a...
Novastorm 1994
When Cybertech Corp. first announced almost 50 years ago, that it had discovered a way to take human flesh out of the military equation, there was a monumental sigh of relief among many. The Star Corps Armored Response Battalions (SCARAB) were pitched to a generation ravaged by the scars of...
Nuclear Strike 1997
In the 1990s, the Strike series by Electronic Arts distinguished itself in the genre of helicopter action games. It combines a flashy, eye-catching form of presentation with a solid game engine. The series peaked with the release of Soviet Strike. The taut storyline and innovative full-motion video work of the...
Nyet 1988
Nyet is a freeware Tetris clone using ANSI graphics. The following was taken from the game's readme file: Although I did not invent the game, I did write this implementation from scratch (using Turbo Pascal Version 4.0). I did it mainly for the hell of it, but I improved...
O-DEN2000 2003
O-DEN2000 is a fun, unassuming horizontal shooter from the designer of Akuji the Demon. Like in his better-known platformer, this game sports crisp graphics, smooth animations, and fluid gameplay that will delight G-Type fans. Your craft, as well as all the enemy ships, are well designed in stumpy-head "SD" anime...
Obake 2004
One of the most unique and fun platformers I have ever come across, Obake is a fun Japanese platformer that plays like what Messiah would probably be without the third dimension, religious/sci-fi overtones, and 'real-world' graphics. The gameplay is similar to Nintendo's Kirby console games, which allow you to use...
Oberon 69 1990
You find yourself in a world where the air has become unbreathable and Sun's light barely reaches planet Earth. With your planet almost desertic, many cities began to be built in other planets of the solar system. But... in Oberon, the fourth satellite, there appeared an strange life form, which...
Obliterator 1989
You play Drak, the last of the Obliterators (genetically enhanced machines bio engineered for otherwise impossible missions.) Your mission is to save the Federation from an alien spacecraft. Obliterator is an arcade style platform action game. The game screens are static (instead of scrolling, though you can optionally turn on...
Obliterator (freeware) 1997
Obliterator is a fine, small and free 360 degree space shooter, with aim no more glorious than achieving a score as high as possible. Luckily, Obliterator plays well and fun indeed. By shooting multiple and distinctive types of enemies, such as the tiny Putput, the Blastor turret and cumbersome Robby...
ObsCure 2004
The Breakfast Club meets Resident Evil, with this survival horror adventure set in a typical American high school; the first video game developed by the French studio Hydravision Entertainment. Players take the roles of five different students attending the run-down Leafmore High School, each representing a different social-clique stereotype. Kenny...
Ocean Mix 2001
Ocean Mix comes with probably the longest loading time I've ever seen for such a small game. While this isn't a good start, the rest makes up for this. The game is a "score-attack" shooter: you haven't lives or energy, but 120 seconds to make the highest possible score. By...
Ochakumi 2003
Ochakumi is a neat little arcade-style game from Japan that plays like an office version of Pac-Man. In the game, you play a cute anime-style secretary who has to collect various items that appear at random. But along the way, you must avoid bosses and other menacing office workers who...
Ocular Ink 2005
Ocular Ink is hands down one of the most fun and unique freeware games I've played in the past few years. Just reading the official storyline will already give you a clue as to how wacky this game is: "... In a strange and twisted land where evil dismembered body...
Odentodo 1997
This is the number one time-killer! I have no idea who made it, but it is now installed on every computer at my school. You play a little guy who is riding on the back of a fish, while his family is sailing in a wok behind him. The object of...
Offroad 1988
Offroad is an arcade action game in the style of Moon Patrol. You drive a four-wheel-drive truck across a one-dimensional desert. You can accelerate, decelerate, fire missiles and jump with your truck. On some levels you can also shoot bombs at enemies in the sky. The game has 8 levels, you complete...
Oh! Hajiki 1998
Oh! Hajiki is a fun little roll-the-ball game that is reminiscent of Marble Madness and Macintosh classic Crystal Quest. The objective is simple: knock out all the balls on the board except your own to clear a level. Each knock, as in real life, has a strong force of impact...
Oil's Well (1984) 1984
Extend your oil-mining robotic arm deep below the earth's crust to mine oil and line your pockets. But watch out for the monstrous bugs that lie in wait for you -- one touch of them to the robotic arm and you lose a life! ...
Ojamajo 2002
Ojamajo and Kakutuku are two excellent 2D fighting games coded by ASCII's Fighter Maker application. The games feature a good number of characters and moves, very fluid animations, and a well-balanced gameplay that is neither too easy, nor too difficult as to frustrate most people. Since both games were made with...
Oliver & Company 1989
You are Oliver, a cat from the Disney movie "Oliver & Company". The game is 3rd person perspective arcade scroller. Plot is same as in the movie. Oliver is homeless cat that teams up with a gang of dogs and their poor but good owner in New York. You control Oliver...
Olmangzolmang Paradise 1995
Olmang Jolmang Paradise is a Space Harrier-like arcade 3D shooter that allows one or two players to control characters from various Family Production. There are eight controllable characters in total: the two ships from Illusion Blaze; the two mechas from Iron Blood; the two anthropomorphic animal heroes from Pee &...
One Must Fall (Beta version) 1993
One Must Fall is an early beta version of the excellent fighting game One Must Fall: 2097. Interestingly, it is remarkedly different from the released version, it was originally developed as a side-scrolling karate game, with no signs of giant robots... hence, the absence of "2097" in the working title....
One Must Fall 2097 1994
One Must Fall 2097 is a remarkably good fighting game and, in fact, could possibly be one of the best fighting games available on the PC. The game compares favorably to some Arcade and console fighting games although it's not quite in the same league as top echelon standard fighters...
One Must Fall: Battlegrounds 2003
The sequel to One Must Fall 2097 features a 3D engine with a perspective positioned behind the lead character's shoulder. As in the 1994 original, players select from a list of robots and their pilots before entering a tournament, where they must fight a series of opponents until they emerge...
Onesimus: A Quest for Freedom 1992
You are Onesimus, a slave of Philemon. You want to escape from slavery and be free. For freedom you must go to Rome. There you must find the apostle Paul. He will teach you how to become a Christian. Only then will you discover true freedom. This game uses the Jill...
Oni 2001
The multi-developer, multi-distributor, multi-platform Oni attempts to resurrect the whack-a-mole close combat of games like Double Dragon, to see if the Tomb Raider generation will bite. For PC gamers, at least, this might cause some concerned coughs. Oni is a third-person fighting game that relies on the old flip-that-switch-to-flip-the-other-switch template, following...
Onimusha 3: Demon Siege 2005
Promoted as the final release in the series, Onimusha 3: Demon Siege looks to surpass its predecessors in areas such as gameplay, art, and technology. Reprising his voice-acting role as the lovelorn samurai Samanosuke Akechi is Takeshi Kianeshiro. Joining him is renowned French actor Jean Reno, best known for his...
Onslaught 1990
As a highly respected warrior, you are attempting to conquer as many regions as possible. This is a three-stage task, as first you must fight through hordes of fighters simply to reach the castle, and then you have to climb the various sections of the castle, before battling with its...
Operation Blockade 2002
The first-person turret shooter Operation Blockade is "set in a fictitious World War II environment." Scheduled as the first in a series of budget shooters, it's a bit out of the ordinary given the recent tilt toward RTS and RPG games. Older gamers will be reminded of standing in the...
Operation Body Count 1994
"Aieeeeeeeee!" This is a sound that will reverberate through your head long after you've finished playing Bodycount. It's the bloodthirsty scream of a terrorist rushing at you with his Uzi or Kalashnikov blazing and it is often the last thing you hear before the words "you have failed" appear on the...


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Routine, Agh!
Every summer, for about a week or so, my routine is in flux. I still get up early to read, but my writing, eating, exercising and thoughts are like a juggler who has lost his rhythm, like he's been startled and just threw all the bowling pins up at one time. A catches a few, but most of them end up smashing and bouncing on the floor.
Routines are funny. They can feed creativity, allow our brains to relax and conserve energy for when we need them most, and they can create schedules that ensure everything we need and want to get done, gets done.
But they can also destroy. Marriages that fall into routine lose their fire and drive and, eventually, each other. Teachers who live for routine get a tone of shit done but can often become stagnate and shallow in their efficiency. Drivers tend to checkout and neglect to look around, stop appropriately, or follow the speed limit, especially when they're within a mile from home.
The more we live in habit, the less we think.
"Premeditating a reward." I love that because, for things like marriage, teaching, and life, the reward may be something as simple as losing weight, but, and more importantly, it could also be something much bigger, much greater, like renewing and growing and strengthening love and passion and commitment to loved ones, discovering new ideas and passions or sometimes even friends.
Simply changing the routine of where we eat or when we eat will bring new faces into our lives, which in turn creates new discussions and invites new ideas, which will inevitably change our lives. Because our brains can't shut down when we're exercising new habits, they have to be fully and completely engaged. Which is why we don't do them, because they're hard and uncomfortable and exhausting. Because they require work.
My daily routine of reading in the morning (with two cups of coffee), walking to work (listening to half a podcast), prepping for the day, teaching, writing during lunch, then exercising after school is broken, and it's killing me. But it's also growing me.
Because I'm home, working on a project outside my normal routine, I've interacted with my neighbor more (which I've wanted to do since we moved in), met a few people at the hardware store because I don't know where everything is and can't move swiftly and seamlessly through the aisles, and been able to work and talk with a friend about growing up and parenting that we have never talked about because they never had any reason to come up. All because of broken routine and a change of habit.
Routines and habits create efficiency, but they can also produce complacency, which might be the worst kind of marriaging, teaching, parenting, and living.
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Harvard-educated deception expert: 4 red flags can show when people like Sam Bankman-Fried are lying
Sources December 13, 2022 in World Tagged Elizabeth Holmes, Entrepreneurship, Fraud and false statements, FTX Token/USD Coin Metrics, Sam Bankman-Fried - 5 Minutes
Elizabeth Holmes is headed to prison. Now, with Sam Bankman-Fried arrested on Monday by Bahamian authorities, the world is wondering if the FTX founder will follow in Holmes' footsteps as the next disgraced startup founder to end up behind bars.
These fallen founders, and others like them — from WeWork's Adam Neumann to Uber's Travis Kalanick — have something in common, and it's not just the prestige television shows being made about their collapses.
They're what happens when an enigmatic, passionate founder spins an impressive story about their startup — only for everything to later fall apart in a mess of exaggeration, deception and in some cases, allegations of outright fraud.
Were they simply masterful deceivers? Or, were there signs that might have pointed toward their deceptions and exaggerations sooner?
The answer is the latter, says Pamela Meyer, a Harvard-educated deception expert who is a certified fraud examiner and the author of the 2010 book "Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception."
It takes several critical "thinking errors" to be fooled by potential fraudsters, Meyer tells CNBC Make It.
Those errors are easy to make. We often trust people offering "something we desperately want," like a potentially life-saving medical device or a way to get rich quick through cryptocurrency, she says.
It's easy to be blinded by traditional signs of legitimacy, like an elite education, Meyer adds. Holmes attended Stanford before dropping out to launch Theranos. Bankman-Fried's parents were both Stanford law professors, and he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
And there's an element of mob mentality: If people around you say someone is trustworthy, you're more inclined to trust them. It's far too easy to "unconsciously conflate familiarity with legitimacy," Meyer says.
Here are Meyer's "four key verbal indicators of deceit" that anyone can spot, whether you're talking to someone face-to-face or watching a public figure give an interview:
Protest statements
Be wary of anyone who falls back on a lot of "protest statements," Meyer says.
"Imagine someone across the table from you has put their hand up in the 'stop' position and says, 'But that's the wrong question to ask. Let me tell you why,'" she says.
It's a form of deception, and an indication that the person is trying to avoid a confrontational question — rather than responding with evidence that could clear things up and assuage your concerns about their truthfulness.
"When someone protests, take note," Meyer says.
Minimizing language
Fraudsters sometimes ward off probing questions by using "minimizing language," to downplay any concerns, Meyer says.
Bankman-Fried, for example, has blamed his own inexperience as a founder and businessman for FTX's downfall — while denying that he actually, purposefully defrauded any customers or investors.
As for the $8 billion in customer funds that remain missing, Bankman-Fried blamed the issue on "a poor internal labeling of bank-related accounts" in a Twitter thread apology he posted in November.
Bankman-Fried said he was "shocked" by what happened at FTX, while denying again that he committed any fraud, in an interview with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times' DealBook Summit last month. He appeared to deflect some blame toward Alameda Research, the crypto hedge fund he co-founded.
Bankman-Fried did not immediately respond to CNBC Make It's request for comment.
"When minimizing is clustered with protesting and deflecting, you've got a sign to dig deeper," Meyer says.
Deflection
People who repeatedly change the subject when asked difficult questions raise an obvious red flag, Meyer says. But expert fraudsters can do this so well that you might not notice.
Holmes often deflected difficult technical questions about Theranos' hardware by telling stories about her great-great-grandfather, a surgeon who had a hospital named after him, Meyer says.
Or, Holmes would talk about her uncle who died of cancer, Meyer adds — and how he inspired Holmes' devotion for more easily testing people for deadly diseases.
Meyer also notes that Bankman-Fried often uses financial jargon in his interviews, which she calls "a deflection tactic."
And when first pitching FTX to investors, Bankman-Fried would reportedly play video games during pitch meetings, while insisting that the investors give him complete control. The New York Times described those meetings as "take-it-or-leave-it" offers.
Such tactics should have been "a red flag, for sure, that he was deflecting a deep dive into the details" of FTX, Meyer says. "Deflection can be verbal, but it can also be wag-the-dog tactical."
Convincing behavior
Take note when people suddenly switch from being cooperative and forthcoming "to 'convince mode,' where they shift to a pleading, persuasive tone," Meyer says. "What do you do, when someone shifts to this mode? You let them talk and talk and talk."
This appears to be Bankman-Fried's current mode, Meyer says.
The FTX founder has participated in numerous recent interviews, attempting to convince the public that he didn't intentionally mislead anyone, and that the downfall of his company was simply a result of poor oversight and honest mistakes.
But it's hard to trust those statements, Meyer says. After all, Bankman-Fried has admitted to very recently lying about several aspects of his life — including his devotion to effective altruism, political donation history and veganism.
"Most people exhibit patterns of deceit. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire," says Meyer. "When you interrogate someone and artfully ask, 'Is there anything else?' several times after they have claimed to come clean, it is remarkable how much else they come forth with."
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