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Moon rocks from Apollo missions are transforming our understanding of the universe
To get grams of these precious samples on Earth, scientists go through a rigorous process when requesting a sample.
Agence France-PresseJun 18, 2019 09:40:43 IST
Moon rocks look rather nondescript — they are often gray in colour — but for NASA planetary scientist Samuel Lawrence, they are the "most precious materials on Earth."
What is certain is that the lunar samples first gathered by Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong nearly 50 years ago have helped transform our understanding of the cosmos. Apollo astronauts collected 842 pounds (382 kilograms) of rocks and soil during their six missions to the Moon between 1969 and 1972 and brought it all back to Earth.
"The Moon is the Rosetta Stone of the solar system," Lawrence, who works at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, said in an interview with AFP. "It's the cornerstone of planetary science." "People don't fully appreciate just how important studying the Apollo samples was for understanding the solar system and the universe around us," he said.
"Many of the discoveries that we've made in planetary science, not just on the Moon, but on Mercury, on Mars, on some of the asteroids, directly relate to some of the results that we obtained during the Apollo missions."
Moon rocks collected from the Apollo 16 mission. Image: Washington University, St Louis
Studying Apollo rocks has given scientists an understanding of how the Moon was created, roughly at the same time as Earth some 4.3 to 4.4 billion years ago. Debris spent the next several hundred million years coalescing in Earth orbit into the Moon we have today, explained Lawrence.
"We learned that the interior structure of the Moon is like the Earth," he said. "It has a crust, it has a mantle and it has a core." And while life evolved on Earth, "the Moon is lifeless," he said.
Several moon rocks are on display at the Johnson Space Center, where they attract hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. President Richard Nixon also gave moon rocks from Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 to all of the nations of the world — 135, at the time — as a token of US goodwill. But most of the moon rocks are kept at NASA's Lunar Sample Laboratory in Houston. Another cache of samples is stored at White Sands, New Mexico.
"They're kept in sealed sample containers in a secure vault that's capable of surviving hurricanes and many other natural disasters," Lawrence said.
Lunar soil collected from Apollo 17 displayed in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. Image courtesy: Wikimedia Commons
Lunar samples are being handed out this year to scientists around the country for further study to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
"We're very careful," Lawrence said. "These are the most precious materials on Earth and they go through a rigorous process when scientists request a sample." And while the samples have been in NASA hands for five decades, new discoveries are still being made.
"The rocks haven't changed but our ability to analyze them has in terms of laboratory equipment," Lawrence said.
Among the recent discoveries? Evidence of water.
"We're not talking about lots of water," Lawrence said. "But it's there and we didn't really appreciate it during the Apollo era." Lawrence said he is excited about the possibility of sending astronauts back to the Moon, a goal President Donald Trump has set for 2024.
"The (Apollo) astronauts only directly explored an area that's roughly the size of a large suburban shopping mall," Lawrence said. "There's a lot of places on the Moon that we haven't yet explored."
"Six missions to the Moon transformed our understanding of the universe," he said. "Imagine what happens when we're going there for weeks or months at a time. It's going to be pretty spectacular."
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Eight-String Guitarist Charlie Hunter Brings His Irrepressibly Fun Band to the Rockwood
Guitarists who don't waste notes are a rare breed. They're even rarer in the world of jambands and summer tours, which is where Charlie Hunter made his mark. As you would expect from a guy who tacked on a couple of extra strings to bolster the low end of his six-string model, groove is his thing. In doing so, he invented his own style of music, equal parts jazz, reggae, funk and vintage soul. And he can be hilarious. His latest excellent, characteristically eclectic album Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched is streaming at Spotify. Hunter and his fantastic quartet have a two-night stand coming up on March 8 and 9 at 8:30 PM at the third stage at the Rockwood; cover is $15. The last time this blog was in the house there, they weren't enforcing that annoying drink minimum, a good thing since Hunter's crowd is more likely to smoke than get wasted on the Rockwood's expensive drinks.
The album opens with the title track, a slow, comfortable swing blues with a characteristically wry, bubbling Curtis Fowlkes trombone solo; then cornetist Kirk Knuffke signals that all may not be so cool after all. Drummer Bobby Previte's emphatic, tersely swinging slow triplet groove anchors the second track, Looks Like Someone Got Ahead of Schedule on Their Medication, which opens with an amusingly woozy voicings from Fowlkes and Knuffke, then takes a detour to New Orleans before the meds kick in again.
Staccato horns add spice to Leave Him Lay, a mid-80s Grateful Dead style blues fueled by Previte's swinging, almost disco drive and Hunter's spiky, Bob Weir-ish chords. We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent is an uneasily swaying midtempo noir theme, like Big Lazy with horns and a long, purposefully crescendoing blues solo from the bandleader. Then Hunter gets even more retro with Big Bill's Blues, ostensibly a Big Bill Broonzy homage. beginning starkly and then shifting into jubilant Crescent City territory with some artful counterpoint from the horns.
The darkly simmering soul theme Latin for Travelers is a vehicle for a contrastingly bright solo from Knuffke and then Fowlkes, dipping down to just the horns and then back for extra dynamic punch. No Money No Honey is as hard as the funk gets here, although it's more of a swing tune: everybody in the band, especially Previte, is having a ball with this one.
Who Put You Behind the Wheel opens as a spaciously tiptoeing, Asian-tinged excursion, then morphs into reggae, with a trick ending. The looseness and freeness of Wish I Was Already Paid and On My Way Home mask its relentlessly dark, distantly klezmer-tinged undercurrent . The album winds up with the jaunty, dixieland-ish second-line march The Guys Get Shirts. This works on every level, as first-rate jazz, blues and psychedelia.
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Christian T Petersen part 2 – Childlike Capitalism and Danish Dungeoneering
Welcome back to a GenCon dinner with Christian Petersen, founder of Fantasy Flight Games, former CEO of Asmodee US, designer of Twilight Imperium. The food is ordered, not yet delivered, and we are currently chatting about Stronghold Games founder, Stephen Buonocore.
CTP: He's a good guy. I like Stephen.
DTD: I really like Stephen a lot. I got to know him much more during the pandemic. I mean, I ran into him as just the Stronghold board game guy. But really got to be friends with him during the pandemic. It's really been delightful.
CTP: But you're in… You're in California, he's in Florida.
DTD: Yeah, all I know, it was all online.
CTP: It was an online "get to know him?"
DTD: Absolutely.
CTP: He's a really good guy, you know. My first meeting with Stephen Buonocore was every potential to be very awkward and adversarial.
Christian grew up in Denmark, and he has a very slight accent. Almost unnoticable. But I absolutely loved the way he said "boo-ahn-o-core-eee." Made Stephen sound classy and renaissance.
DTD: [laughs]
CTP: And it, I think both of us were able to manage it in a… I think in a very good way.
DTD: Oh, that's good.
CTP: Do you know the story about that?
DTD: I know hints about it. I don't know any of the things I'm not supposed to know.
Honestly, I knew a different story. I didn't really know this one.
CTP: So yeah, I mean it's a pretty basically… So, we had done a deal with Wizards of the Coast, us at Fantasy Flight, for four old games that we wanted to re-do. We did five even; it was five, I think. One was Fortress America, which we redid. Another was Netrunner, which we redid. The third one was Merchant of Venus, which we redid. Two other ones were… I know one of them was Up Front. We never ended up doing that, it ended up getting caught in so much mess, we just stayed a mile away from it.
DTD: Wow.
CTP: But we had almost finished all the work. It was almost ready to go to the press. On Merchant of Venus, which is by Richard Hamblen. And we were at Essen, and all of a sudden, we hear this big announcement – "Stronghold Games is very proud to be publishing Merchant of Venus!" And I'm like, "Ok, what?!?"
DTD: I know the end result, so… No, I don't know this story at all.
Journalistic integrity.
CTP: Yeah. And so I, you know, it's somewhat awkward, but I go up to Stronghold Games, and I said to them, "Who's, like, the boss? Who's in charge? Who can I talk to about a problem?"
DTD: Yeah.
CTP: It was some helpers and they were very nice. And then Stephen came up, "How you doing?" You know he's very…
Christian did an absolutely spot-on Stephen Buonocore impression. Loud, flailing arms, the whole deal.
CTP: I said, "Do you have a second, this is who I am, and… I really want to sit down and just have a talk with you." So, we sat down. "I noticed that you did this press release, and… here's the deal. We actually signed the rights from Wizards of the Coast, based on their rights from Avalon Hill. And we're almost ready to put it out. I mean, we haven't announced it, because we don't… We've learned our lessons, and not announcing stuff way ahead of time. Because we get slaughtered if we are late, so…" Man, I could just see Stephen going, "Oh! Rrrrrrr…." It was like… And he's got that New York Italian… like, not fight-or-flight, more fight than flight, right?
DTD: Yup.
Christian really did growl. I'm not sure how to spell a growl. I made it seem like he was purring or something, but it was a for-real growl.
CTP: "I'm sorry. I don't know what to tell ya, you know. I know it's a "super sucks." And I don't know where this legal issue is. Because we signed an agreement with them. You must believe you have the rights, too." It was a long, messy… But it wasn't messy, it was a messy thing. But I think we both tried to really figure out…
DTD: Oh sure, find out where…
CTP: It wasn't really apparent what happened, and in the end, you know, in the end we published the game.
DTD: Right.
CTP: I think the, I think Richard Hamblen probably had more emotional rights in the game, then maybe legal rights in the game. But even then, it was still murky, because of all of the, maybe not-great contracts of Avalon Hill in the day, and so on and so forth. So it was, it was murky, but I do think it was… The clarity was probably on the side of the Wizards component. And regardless, I think we worked it out really well. I think one of the things we got to do, is that we got Stephen warned early. We had the game at GenCon.
I have heard the story now from both sides. It seems there was issue with who held the rights to the game, each party licensing it from different parties. The contracts were old and informal. But both sides agree it was settled very amicably. And Stephen and Christian are still good friends. In fact, if you look at the rules for Merchants, Stronghold Games is thanked.
DTD: Nice.
CTP: I suppose, and there's various other things we were able to do, and since then, we've been, you know, buddies and try to help each other we can.
DTD: Awesome. So, tell me how you got started in the whole board games thing. I know I'm going into almost ancient history here.
CTP: That was really ancient, yeah. Like you… I probably was much younger at that time, but I started gaming really in the early 80s. It came from my dad. My dad was a… He was a consultant, he was in the army, whatever. But he was always a gamer.
CTP: He played Tactics II and all those things growing up with his brothers.
DTD: Oh, how cool.
CTP: So, they were from Chicago. And I grew up in Denmark, actually. I was born in Chicago. Lived there for a few years. Don't remember much. And then I moved to Denmark.
DTD: Wow, OK.
CTP: That's where I grew up. And there wasn't much access to those kind of games over there. I mean, they were kind of niche here.
DTD: I remember working really hard trying to seek out those Avalon Hill and 3M or even the TSR clamshell games, and…
Technically called the TSR Minigames, these small games from 1977-1983 had folded paper boards and components you had to cut out of sheets with scissors. But I loved them.
CTP: Oh yeah. Sure, sure. So, even getting those, and even getting those in the US was difficult. But I know that, and believe it or not… My dad I think got a clipping out of a Newspaper, or Time Magazine, or something. We lived in Denmark still. They were talking about Dungeons & Dragons.
DTD: Oh, OK.
CTP: And he thought it was fascinating. He didn't really quite understand it.
DTD: It was really hard to wrap your head around.
CTP: So, he said it was something about numbers. Then, he asked, I guess… I mean I was 12 at the time. He asked my grandparents, his parents, who still lived in the US, in Chicago, to get me Dungeons & Dragons.
DTD: Oh, awesome.
CTP: Whatever that was. And so, they did. And I got the the "red box" and the… Not the blue box, but whatever is before the blue box. I'm blocking. The one with the wizard on the front.
In 1977, Dungeons & Dragons split into Basic D&D and Advanced D&D. AD&D stuck mostly to the classic hardcover books, but the Basic game came in boxes, often vaguely referred to by color. The most popular were released in 1983, when the "red box" was the Basic Set, covering levels 1-3, and the "blue box" was the Expert Set, covering 4-14.
DTD: Yeah!
CTP: So, then we got into D&D, and that was a big deal, right?
DTD: Oh yeah.
CTP: That was so great! My dad… I was 12, my English was OK, but it wasn't at the level of abstraction you needed to understand.
DTD: I thought at that point you'd have learned, you know, 7-8 different languages.
CTP: [laughs] I was a fluent Danish speaker. We spoke English at home, but you know reading English… I did it, but not that much. Later I would, a lot. He wrote the rules, he played the first, the first dungeon master. And you can almost need to play it, to get it, right? So, in a sense.
CTP: So, that's what we did. And Oh! That was so much fun! This was at Christmas time. So for some reason…
DTD: It's such an unusual story. I don't think anybody I've talked to, who played Dungeons & Dragons, actually in the 70's to 80's, actually played it with their parents. That's awesome.
I certainly did not play with my parents. I played in secret, after school, in basements.
CTP: So, it was Christmas time, and he read it, and so we stayed a week end at my Mother's parents in Denmark, and we always had live trees at our Christmas celebrations. And I still remember very fondly, something about gaming and the smell of Christmas pine trees. That I kind of connect. And there's another weird smell I connect with gaming, and just with the excitement of gaming. And that is really stinky cheese. This is why, because I…
DTD: [laughs] That's awesome. Nothing wrong with that.
Don't worry. Stinky cheese is coming up later. I wouldn't let that get dropped, then just fade from converation.
CTP: I had this D&D… I actually like stinky cheese, but I still favorably… I did not have any D&D stuff. All I had were these two box sets. So we would play that, and I think that I begged and pleaded my Grandparents to send another couple of modules, or something over.
DTD: Oh, that's so cool.
CTP: I think we got The Lost City, which…
DTD: I totally remember that.
Module B4. It came after In Search of the Unknown (B1), The Keep on the Borderlands (B2), and Palace of the Silver Princess (B3).
CTP: With The Lost City, there's a big pyramid, and you went into it. And in the desert. And then it becomes an inverted pyramid. Very, very long. Very, very deadly. So that that was one we played. But that was it. It was some sort of mysterious magic, dropped out of the United States into Denmark. And I didn't know anybody who played. I got all my friends involved, to try this thing in Danish. And I was the DM. And they were, "Oh this is really keen!" You know, it was amazing. But, so then, I was… I think I was maybe 13. The year after. We were walking the very cold streets. Also, christmastime. Very cold streets of Copenhagen. Which are very… I am from Minnesota, but I am never as cold as I am in the streets of Copenhagen. I mean, it's cold, but nowhere near as cold as Minnesota. But it's damp.
CTP: And it's wet. And it's windy. And it's this cold, this cold. [lots of hand gestures]. And yeah, it's just old stones, cobblestones, it's emanating cool.
Somehow, Christian communicated to me a surprising degree of "cold" with a strange hand gesture. I wish I could describe it. Just trust me. It was cold.
DTD: It's, it's such… I mean, I'm really involved in the story, because I spent Christmases in Hamburg.
CTP: Right, it's probably very similar.
DTD: Cold and wet. And we we played games. And I vividly remember the red box. Dungeons & Dragons. Actually reading it over and over and over on the plane. So, it's… all of this is just… connecting.
I was really struck by how much Christian's story, the Christian T Petersen's story, connected with my own experiences.
CTP: Awesome. So, we were walking, down the pedestrian street in Copenhagen. We're going to that… I'd been, for some reason, to my dad's work. And we were going to the station, to take a train home. I'm looking, and there's a hobby shop. And a hobby shop in Denmark at the time means model airplanes and kites and maybe some model cars, or whatever.
DTD: Sure.
CTP: But in that hobby shop I see, like a North Star shining in a carpet of night, a D&D box.
CTP: And I'm like, "Holy S***!" You know, this is something I'm really into! I have maybe four books. The D&D logo is… The books are dog eared, and I can't tell how many times I've rubbed the damn wax into my dice, you know?
DTD: Right?
At the time, it would be difficult to see the numbers on a D20. Some of us rubbed wax, or crayon, into the engraved numbers to make them pop.
CTP: And there it is. And then what it was, it was one of the miniatures boxes. They had put out these boxes with nine miniatures.
DTD: Yeah! I had those.
CTP: This was the purple, pink, one of clerics. But there was enough there to… "Oh, this guy could probably be a wizard, this guy could probably be a warrior."
DTD: That is so cool!
CTP: So, I up there, but the thing is about this store, is it was up a level, up half a level. Below was a cheese store. Which I mean, I'm sure is a great cheese store. But it continually fumed the upstairs hobby store. So, it would smell like cheese store up there.
Stinky cheese story recap!
CTP: So, it was a smell I really like, I was so excited. Lo and behold, they said, "Yeah, yeah. We got these and we didn't know what to do with them." They had a box. Like a small box, but there was probably 80 modules for D&D in there.
DTD: Wow. "Can. I. Buy. Them. ALL?"
CTP: I couldn't believe it and… Well, I couldn't afford it! You know, my parents were indulging, but not such as that. So, they actually… I, we talked my dad into buying a miniature box, and then one module, which I think was a Dragonlance. I think it looked so different from the other ones. "This is a completely different one!"
DTD: All right.
CTP: So I got, of course the Dragonlance module, but they actually told me, there's another store in town. A comic store, one of the oldest comic stores in town. The oldest comic store in Copenhagen, sure. Maybe in northern Europe.
CTP: Called "Fantask." "And they have this kind of stuff too." And that's how I found my first game store. And I played D&D. When we got there, the game store… I told my Dad about it, and he said "Yeah, we gotta go home." So I think it was maybe a month later, or whatever. We went there, and they had not only the D&D stuff. Also, Games Workshop stuff. But they had board games.
Fantask has quite a history. Founded around 1972, it almost closed during the pandemic, but was revived via a GoFundMe campaign, raising about $80,000.
CTP: They had full Avalon Hill, Victory Games, all those. And my Dad went, "Whooaaaa!" [laughs] That's what he liked!
DTD: I love it.
Victory Games was a subsidiary of Avalon Hill founded in 1982, specializing in war games.
CTP: So, we went in and bought… First game we bought, we noodled around forever… It was also very expensive there, for the time. So, we ended up buying Hitler's War. Which is an old Avalon Hill game.
DTD: OK. I can picture the cover.
CTP: Yeah, exactly, with Churchill and… And de Gaulle is on there, for some odd reason, on the cover.
DTD: Yeah, yeah. It was a weird one.
CTP: So, because it was a World War II game, and they thought that would be a reason to play. It's actually a weird one, it's a weirdly abstracted one, where you have all these numbers you track on the side.
CTP: But anyway, my dad got into that, and I got into that, and played a lot of that. And that really kind of awoke the board game, the complex board game gene in me. And so, we played a lot of those. Ultimately ended up getting Axis and Allies when I was on a trip over here. My family on the other side are still from here. And so, I was just kind of immersed in the hobby. All of it. Painted miniatures. And I won miniatures painting competitions. And D&D games. All of it is just fascinating to me.
DTD: Wow, you were so much more involved in it than I was. I would randomly… I was in New Jersey at the time. And I knew of a couple bookstores, and like billiards or darts stores, that would carry some games. And I would hit them all the time, because their inventory almost never turned over.
Our waiter returned with some of the finest vintages Yolo County, California can produce. Two wines, best described as "also red."
DTD: Cheers! [clink]
CTP: Their inventory never turned over…
DTD: Yeah, so I hit them over and over and over, looking for that one new game to fall in. And I think my first Avalon Hill box was Freedom in the Galaxy.
CTP: Sure!
I have oft spoken fondly of 1979's Freedom in the Galaxy: The Star Rebellions, 5764 AD. It was big and complex. And it was an unlicensed robbery of Star Wars. I give the game more love than it deserves, but it was a formative game from my childhood, and we forgive the faults of those we love.
DTD: Big, massive, blatant Star Wars rip-off.
CTP: Oh yeah, I know! I don't have it, but it's… I had it in the office at one point. It was even… Like, the characters were very, very similar to the…
DTD: Oh, they were! It was hysterical. They cracked me up. Bread?
The characters were very, very blatantly Star Wars characters. Look it up sometime.
CTP: Sure.
And Andrew the waiter returns with plates of meat. I'm not entirely sure what the word means, but I'm pretty sure I slavered.
DTD: I don't see any silver or anything.
Waiter: You need some silverware?
DTD: Yeah, I think we need silver. Thank you.
DTD: And I think I set it up and read the rulebook 100 times, and probably played it twice. It was just that kind of massive game.
I played Freedom in the Galaxy twice, with a margin of error of two. But I truly became an expert at setting it up. No small feat.
CTP: Yeah, just too much… I did the same thing later on with… It wasn't too much later on than this particular… I tried Magic Realm. And, uh, yeah, that was too hard. My dad was really into it.
DTD: A lot of them were hard.
CTP: Oh man was that hard. I would never… I never ended up being able to digest it.
Complexity rating of 4.53/5 on BGG. Freedom in the Galaxy is only 3.95/5. I guess I am a lightweight.
Interestigly, Magic Realm (1979) is also designed by Richard Hamblen, the designer of Merchant of Venus.
DTD: My dad was very much into chess. So, his opinion was always that chess was the only game. So, I was kind of soloing, when I was playing the games.
CTP: I see. I got quite involved. I even, in high school… I did two things in high school. First of all, I was kind of a business kid, all businesses.
DTD: That seems to make sense.
Christian Petersen, after founding Fantasy Flight Games and being CEO of Asmodee North America, now has started 3 new companies. Yeah. "Business kid."
CTP: When I was really small I would pick pears from our big pear tree. You know, put them in little baggies and go sell them down at the, down by the beach.
CTP: Fresh pears. And I would… I'm just the kind of kid that would put up, you know, lemonade stands, stuff like that. In high school, I was… I sort of felt that people could do a better job of selling these games. I actually got, when I was in high school, second year High School, I got a contact at Avalon Hill in the US.
In High School, I played video games. Yup, that's it. Video games.
CTP: And I said, "Can I start an import business of your games," and so on.
DTD: In high school?
CTP: In high school. And they said, "Sure!"
DTD: Man!
CTP: I said, "Yes!" And so, I think I borrowed, started with… Maybe at the times, three or four thousand dollars, and putting in an order. And we got it, and it was stored in my parents' basement.
CTP: We had a spare room that my mom had sewing in, and I pretty much usurped it as my warehouse. And so, we would go to these little conventions. Then I started my own convention, which ran for…
DTD: I am like infinitely impressed.
CTP: Well, I was just into it. So I started a convention, ended up having a 400 person convention that we ran for a few years.
I am officially not talking about my childhood any longer. I didn't do squat.
DTD: Wow, this is still in Denmark?
CTP: Still in Denmark, yep, yep. So, I'd, you know, I was really a part of the scene, I guess. It was a really burgeoning, exciting, adventure games scene. But my dad was like, "OK, you must finish high school, it's fine." But he really wanted me to go to college. At least that was his goal. So, I really wanted to go back to the US, because I mean, the US was where all this stuff came from. D&D, the board games, all that stuff was from the US.
I got almost all my stuff from the US.
CTP: Anyway, I got to the US with my friend, after graduating high school. Drove around all the United States, most of it anyway. Got an old car, just drove around, and saw the sights. And then he ended up going back to Denmark, and I stayed in Minnesota, where my parents had friends.
DTD: OK.
CTP: And, uh, wasn't sure I wanted to go to college, because I was too full of other things I wanted to do.
DTD: Youth.
CTP: So, I took a job as a pizza delivery driver in Roseville, MN. And I worked at that for about five months, six months maybe. At a place called Davanni's Pizza.
CTP: And I soon realized that that's not really what I wanted to do. I was not really into being a pizza delivery driver.
Come back next time for more stories from the early days. We talk about starting Fantasy Flight out of a love for comics, some early game titles, and the much rumored haven for board game design that is Minnesota.
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As part of my ongoing mission to explore all music, and go where MTV no longer goes anymore, here's another video: I WANT YOU TO WANT ME by Cheap Trick.
Why show this old thing from 1879 or whatever, when they had to plug their guitars into steam engines?
This is a case where simple and repetitive works, because there's a nice little pattern here with the words: "I want you to want me. I need you to need me." And so forth. Nothing fancy. Nothing complicated. But it is inspired, and it's the kind of song a moderately talented punk band could learn to play, you know, the kind of band that knows four chords and forgets two of them in the middle of the show after they finish off two bottles of cheap vodka.
So in that way, this thing is genius. You don't need a degree in music to play it. You don't need a great voice to sing it. It's the perfect cover song, which is why so many other bands have covered it.
Also, it's one of the few songs that sounds good live versus all auto-tuned and cleaned up in the studio. A gritty garage band can play it and fudge notes without ruining the thing.
You — yes, you — could probably do a decent job singing this thing at a karaoke bar, even if you are TOO DRUNK TO SPELL KARAOKE.
Bottom line: a simple, study, lovable song. A punk-rock deal with interesting twists in the lyrics.
The lyrics are way, way below, just for fun. Straight-forward stuff – no need to dissect or improve these. They're perfect.


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Guest post: Cathy Bryant on 'Heroines and Inspirations'
Welcome to the 'Look At All The Women' Carnival: Week 3 – 'The Eclectic Others'
This post was written especially for inclusion in the three-week-long 'Look At All The Women' carnival, hosted by Mother's Milk Books, to celebrate the launch of Cathy Bryant's new book 'Look At All The Women'. In this final week of the carnival our participants share their thoughts on the theme 'The Eclectic Others' (the third, and final, chapter in Cathy's new poetry collection).
Please read to the end of the post for a full list of carnival participants.
When it came to the third section of my book, 'The Eclectic Others', my editor and I worked hard to choose the right balance. After all, there was no way we could include every possible take on a woman's life, unless the book was to have infinite pages! So we fiddled and discussed and put things in and took them out again and scratched our heads and argued for our particular favourites, until we came up with a selection that, if not wholly representative, was at least as strong and varied as we could make it.
Poems we were both keen to keep in included those about some of my personal heroines – those inspirational women who have made a difference to the way I live my life.
One of those was shared with me by an English teacher called Mrs Lawton. Our set text for poetry was a volume called 'English Poetry 1900-1975', which contained the work of many wonderful poets – only two of them, however, being women. One was Stevie Smith. The other was Sylvia Plath. (As poet Ali Smith said, between those two you get most of human experience, but still!)
So imagine me at 14, being abused at home by my violent father (who was also headmaster of my school), depressed and suicidal, self-harming and lost, opening the book obediently and finding the nursery rhyme rhythms of a hellish experience not far from my own: Daddy. You can see the poem here. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178960
It knocked my socks off, and my shoes and mind too. For terms we had been dissecting poems to see why and how they were clever, and now a strange, dead, American woman had reached right inside me and spoken to me in the language of my sorrow and fear.
I loved her after that and read everything she wrote, including her diaries – and found her to be a complex person, often far sunnier and funnier than the myths would have us believe, full of life and charm and brilliance. On the 50th anniversary of her death I went with my O.H. to visit her grave in Heptonstall, and when I came home I sat and wrote the experience down – it was so vivid. It came out partly as prose and partly as a poem. You can see the prose result here: http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=34328
And here is the poem:
Yellow Roses on Snow
(written after visiting Sylvia Plath's grave on the fiftieth anniversary of her death)
It's a plain grave, though thickly meringued with snow;
dark granite monolith open to the sky. The church
is old and friendly, proud with bells pealing
in glorious cascades. There is a sense of celebration
as well as mourning in the tan stone streets,
some cobbled, with views of hills, hills, hills
all covered in snow. But such a small grave.
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Guest post: Cathy Bryant on 'Moments with Mothers and (Imaginary) Daughters'
Welcome to the 'Look At All The Women' Carnival: Week 2 – 'The Mothers'
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Guest post: Cathy Bryant on 'Fantasy, love and oddity'
Welcome to the 'Look At All The Women' Carnival: Week 1 – 'The Lovers'
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Carnival time! And images still needed…
We're getting ever closer to the publication of Cathy's new book (eek!) and I really want to release it with a noisy, multi-coloured send-off, so if you think you can help me do that, please do get involved!
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Dear glorious women, we need your images!
I'm (obviously) very excited about publishing Cathy Bryant's new book Look At All The Women and want as many people as possible to read her accessible – yet thought-provoking – poetry, so with that in mind I'm going to be producing a YouTube video called 'Look At All The Women'. Cathy's already provided me with the sound – her reading of the glorious poem 'Look At All The Women' – but now I need some glorious images of women to accompany the poem. So if you have a good quality and high-resolution image that would fit with ANY of the themes of the poem, please do email: teika [at] mothersmilkbooks.com with the image as a jpeg. I would welcome either photographs or artwork but please only send me images for which you own the copyright to and have permission to use. Every kind person who sends me a suitable image that ends up in the video will get a goodie: a free e-version of Cathy's book (a PDF) when it is released on 28th May, as well as mine and Cathy's eternal thanks! (Deadline for submission of images is Tuesday 20th May.)
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The Vision for Religious Education as stated in the Religious Education Curriculum of Brisbane Catholic Education is a clear expression what St Brigid's hopes for its students in terms of their religious literacy and faith formation.
"The schools and colleges of the Archdiocese of Brisbane aspire to educate and form students who are challenged to live the gospel of Jesus Christ and who are literate in the Catholic and broader Christian tradition so that they might participate critically and authentically in faith contexts and wider society"
The following model identifies two distinct, but complementary, dimensions of Religious Education in our school.
The Vision for Religious Education challenges students to be a religious voice in the world. Through vibrant and engaging Religious Education, we aspire of our students to become active constructors of culture rather than passive consumers. At St Brigid's we acknowledge that parents are the prime educators of their children and we aim to work with parents in the Religious Education of their child with the assumption that the above model will not be limited to the primary school context rather that these elements will be developed over a whole lifetime.
St Brigid's School Religious Education Program Reviewed August 2020.pdf outlines the principles and processes involved in planning for quality learning opportunities in Religion that promote equity and excellence for our students. Our aim is that all students develop as confident, creative learners who can participate in society as empowered citizens who can shape their world, inspired by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Whole School Values
Our whole school values are integral to the St Brigid's Way. They are a guiding light for all in our school community and are play a pivotal role in our efforts to strengthen our Catholic Identity. Each week, we focus on one value and this is cemented through classsrom and incidental teaching moments, whole school and classroom prayer and by providing a pastoral avenue in line with our Positive Behaviour for Learning Policy.
At St Brigid's, our four core values of FAITH, COMPASSION, LOVE AND PEACE highlight the the charism of St Brigid who rests in Celtic origins. Three sub-values extend from each core value. The link below lists our Values and how we live and action these each day in our school.
THE ST BRIGID'S WAY.pdf
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Religious Life of the School
With Christ at the centre of all we do, our staff take every opportunity to be the face of the Catholic Church for families at our school, realising that many families will experience the formal life of the Church exclusively through their connection with our school. Hospitality, authenticity and inclusivity inform decisions made with and for learners and their families during their time in our community. Families who are less familiar with Catholic Christian traditions can be unsure about how to participate fully in the religious dimension of school life. To address this we seek to provide support and information for families to help them participate more fully in the life of our school.
Contemporary Context for Religious Education
Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Brisbane seeks to reflect a Catholic Christian worldview that integrates faith, life and culture. At St Brigid's, we seek to embrace a perspective that reflects the multi-faith context and reality of contemporary schools and colleges.
Student demographics are used as a starting point to shape the pedagogical and planning choices made by staff when implementing the curriculum. These decisions are further informed by the societal, ecclesial, educational and digital contexts of contemporary life and education. For many of our students this exposes them to a broader perspective on life and learning, allowing them to access a variety of quality learning experiences to nurture lifelong learning. Our beliefs about learners and learning in Religious Education are informed by quality professional learning, which in turn directs the curriculum choices made by teachers.
At St Brigid's, we are responsive to the needs and religious backgrounds of our students and the contemporary contexts for learning in the Religion classroom. Our vision aligns with the Archdiocesan aspiration for all students: to educate students for lifelong, critical participation within society as people who are challenged by the gospel of Jesus Christ to live wisely and authentically in communion with God and with others. We seek to do so in such a way as to nurture the faith development of students, ever mindful of the diversity of religious backgrounds and understandings represented in our community.
Teaching and Learning
As a community, we strive to live the charism of St Brigid: charity, strength and hospitality, a love of learning and love for God. Our school motto 'Making Christ Present' is a regular reminder to all at St Brigid's that the knowledge we seek in the Religion Curriculum serves a purpose only when it informs our relationships with God and with others. Opportunities to involve children in application of their classroom learning to life in our community and beyond are planned for each term.
St Brigid's School, Nerang Student Data 2020
In the 2020 school year, 38.6% of St Brigid's students identify as Catholic. This has significant implications for the planning and teaching of Religious Education at our school. Up to half of every cohort comes to us with little or no background in the Catholic faith, and little experience with its beliefs, teachings, traditions or rituals. They may come from a family that aspires to these things, or may lack support for their learning and experiences in these areas. When planning for student learning in Religious Education, teachers access relevant data and consider the individuals and their backgrounds in order to differentiate curriculum delivery and address individual needs, allowing all children to have the opportunity to fully engage with the curriculum.
Student Religion Name Student Religion Percentage
Catholic 38.6%
No religion 30.2%
Not stated 8.7%
Other Christian 20.1%
Table 1: Student Religious Background


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Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond
The only archive reviewing every ECM album in existence.
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Akira Sakata: Fisherman's.com
April 13, 2016 April 13, 2016 | Tyran Grillo
Originally released in 2001, Fisherman's.com is Japanese free-jazz stalwart Akira Sakata's ode to folksongs of the sea, reimagined and repurposed as seeds for avant distortions. Featuring Sakata on alto saxophone and vocals, Bill Laswell on bass, Pete Cosey on guitar, and Hamid Drake on drums, it's an intensely personal statement on the fluidity of tradition.
"Kaigarabushi" opens with a fisherman's song from the region of Tottori in western Japan. Sakata's singing of it has a mineral quality that will taste familiar to admirers of Mikami Kan. Like a blind minstrel who feeds only the ears of ghosts longing to relive their exploits, he touches listeners from temporal distances. The band at his side sets up a row of large beakers, each filled to brimming with funk. Yet while Laswell and Drake are precisely measured, Cosey stirs up an amorphous mixture of colors through the flange of his talking guitar. His sound bleeds out the smallest facets of Sakata's singing, and finds in their reimbursement an alluring style of damage. So, too, does the bandleader's reed work pour on strange beauty.
"Ondo no funauta" sets out on more troubled waters before bass and drums drop an anchor of groove, while Cosey's fins move in more mysterious ways below depths. By no coincidence, the song tells of boatmen handling a particularly treacherous strait in Hiroshima Prefecture, though one might never know those challenges for the skill with which the band navigates them. Neither does Sakata's saxophone betray one wave of that treachery, as it emotes without fear, and blasts the surety of their experience beyond the ultimate fallibility of their technology.
"Saitarabushi" (incorrectly Romanized as "Saitarobushi"), another fishing song, also made an appearance on Sakata's 1997 trio album, Dō deshō?! (How's That?!). Here is the fruit of dangerous labors, the celebration a big catch with due ceremony. Sakata is soulful as ever over the band's shoreline backdrop, even as Cosey portals in some modal ghost signatures of those who drowned long so. Laswell is thick and thin by turns, imprinting the sand but flying off with a harmonic in the same breath.
"Wakare no ippon sugi," a ballad from the 1950s that clinched singer Hachirō Kasuga's status as a pioneer of the Japanese enka form, is barely recognizable through Sakata's filter—no small feat for such a famous tune. The forlorn lyrics tell of love lost under a cedar tree, a parting so sad that even the birds cry in the mountains. Not that a non-Japanese speaker would know this, given the upbeat presentation. All of which makes Sakata's cries through the reed, and the guttural exhale with which he ends the album, that much more cathartic and emotionally relevant.
From this archival trove comes Bill Laswell's remix of "Kaigarabushi," which holds fast to its original drone but pencils in hues of Mongolian throat singing and faraway percussion. Cosey's guitar is reborn as a long stare into the sun, while Sakata's voice reaches for even farther stars, his saxophone strangling them until they gasp for darkness. The funk returns intermittently, only to fall into the earthly ooze from which it sprang.
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sedge808 says:
i'm a big Bill Laswell fan.
Tyran Grillo says:
Me, too. He's one of a handful of favorite artists I plan to write on, now that I have more room to expand beyond ECM in my reviews.
My ECM collection is always expanding ☺
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Philcoxia bahiensis is a rare plant species in the Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the Brazilian state of Bahia. It was first discovered collected by a local resident, Wilson Ganev, in August 1992 from the Serra do Atalho in the Piatã municipality. That collection was sent to Kew Gardens for naming. Because of its placentation, the specimen was determined to be a member of the Scrophulariaceae (later Plantaginaceae sensu APG II) despite its appearance close to that of terrestrial Utricularia. Material of this specimen had been sent to Vinícius Souza, who was working on the Scrophulariaceae of Brazil. It was then formally described in 2000 as a new species.

Its habitat consists of deep white sand in the midst of cerrado vegetation at an elevation between 800 and 1450 m. Initial descriptions of the genus included suspicions that the plethora of stalked capitate glands on the upper surfaces of leaves was an indication that these species may be carnivorous.

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From heroes to zero - remembering North Ferriby United's greatest day four years on
March 29, 2015 is a date forever in the memories of North Ferriby fans
Relive the celebrations four years on
It was a day that hundreds of loyal fans and thousands of casual supporters will remember for the rest of their lives - the day North Ferriby United descended on Wembley to lift their greatest prize.
One of the most dramatic games in the club's history, played out on English football's grandest stage, is a memory that will stick with the travelling support from East Yorkshire - outnumbered three to one by their far bigger opponents, Wrexham, Ferriby defied the odds and won the FA Trophy.
In the four years since, significant ups and downs have followed at a club that has seen more in four years than many would see in 40.
The dramatic 3-3 draw after extra time led to the Villagers famously going on to win a nail-biting penalty shootout. It proved to be the springboard for a club takeover and the most unlikely of promotions before two relegations took their toll and more new owners oversaw its liquidation.
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The change in fortunes for the club has been stark.
The heady heights of Wembley, 18 years on from their only other visit - an FA Vase defeat to Whitby Town - could not be further from the reality that has played out over the last month.
North Ferriby United no longer exists.
Former North Ferriby United chairman 'delighted' as phoenix club given green light to return to the village
They were shut down by Hull County Court a fortnight ago for an unpaid ground maintenance bill after a turbulent year fighting for scraps in the Northern League.
Under the ownership of Jamie Waltham and latterly Carl Chadwick, the club dropped to a depth that some younger fans would have never seen the like of before at Church Road.
Eventually, their results were expunged from the record books with the clubs now former name only needed to place-hold the bottom spot in the EVO-STIK Premier Division.
But it is important to remember the good times and the day Hull and East Yorkshire turned out in their thousands to pull behind the club who offered joy to so many.
Manager Billy Heath and his assistant Mark Carroll oversaw the most successful period in the club's history which culminated in the Wembley final and promotion to the National League.
The side made up of ex-pros including former Hull City men Adam Bolder and Russell Fry, dynamic wingers Curtis Bateson, Danny Clarke and Jason St Juste, as well as a smattering of young talent, gelled to create an irresistible force in non-league football.
The team was captained by Liam King while Adam Nicklin, the Wembley hero between the sticks, shone on the brightest stage many of the team could have ever dreamt of playing on.
On their big moment, it looked like the semi-professionals were going to choke when faced with Wrexham - a fearsome former Football League club that many expected to run away with the game.
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However, it wasn't to be as captain King and then super-sub Ryan Kendall bulldozed them to a penalty shootout in which Nicklin came to the fore.
The celebrations were wild and saw the entire squad invited to a civic reception by East Riding of Yorkshire Council before a homecoming at Grange Lane where fans could get photos with the players and the FA Trophy itself.
It made overnight stars of many of the team and led to owners Steve and Eman Forster injecting further funds and pushing them on for improbable promotion to the National League the following year.
It was a fantastic achievement for a club used to only playing at a regional level and relegation against some huge clubs was to be expected. However, when the Forsters handed the keys to new owners, the tide turned for the worse.
A name change application submitted to the FA, as well as a request to move their home ground to Dunswell, only angered fans and shortly after they were denied, the events that led to the liquidation unfolded.
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Screen printing is a process by which you can print on virtually anything. Getting to the point where you're able to do that is another story entirely. But the good news is that whether you're just starting out in your garage with a manual press or running dozens of multicolor automatics in a huge facility, there are people in the industry dedicated to helping you get the job done.
They're the unsung heroes of screen printing. They man phones and run diagnostic tools. Some travel around the world to increase customer knowledge and satisfaction. They're specialists.
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The importance of being able to make a call or send an e-mail and receive sound recommendations about which mesh counts to select when you need to print a high-res P-O-P graphic or special-effect garment design cannot be overlooked. A good technical-service rep is the maître d' of mesh—the sommelier of screens, if you will.
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Once you are in, you will see a progress area indicating what you have completed and what you need to do. If you used Career Cruising last year, you will most likely need to complete the My Saved Pathways section and the Career & Life Goals section. However, I would advise you to first complete another Matchmaker session for this year. Remember, Matchmaker this the interest tool that we used in EdTech class last year. You will answer a series of 100+ questions that help you identify your possible career interests. If you recall, I recommended to you last year to complete once a year, and this is a great time to do it. Also, if you did not go to KHMS last year, you need to complete one to get your Career Cruising account going. To complete another Matchmaker session, simply click on the Assessment tab at the top of the webpage. There, you will find a blue button that says Start Matchmaker on the left side of that page. Click that button to start another Matchmaker session for this year. Remember, there are 3 sections to the survey, and after each section it will generate a list of career suggestions. On the left of the screen you will find a progress bar. Keep clicking Answer More Questions until the progress is complete. At some point, it will ask you to name this Matchmaker session. Title "January 2015" or "8th Grade" so you can keep it separate from your 7th grade Matchmaker session.
Next in your checkup, complete the Saved Pathways section. This is pretty easy to do. It will ask you what your first and second choice is for Michigan Career Pathways. Below that, there are the recommendations based on your Matchmaker results. Simply choose the recommendations from the drop down lists for 1st and 2nd Choice.
The last thing you will need to do as part of your checkup will be to set some Goals. The Career & Life Goals section will ask you to set a short term and long term goal. For short term goals, think of at least one goal you would like to accomplish in the next 1-2 years. For long term goals, think about at least one goal you would like to accomplish 5-10 years from now. Short term goals might be something like making a sports team, joining a club or group, an academic goal, family vacation, etc. A long term goal may be a career field you want to get into, a college or training program you want to attend after high school, someplace you want to travel to, etc. Please fill in your goals in the appropriate space.
Once you have finished these steps, your checkup is complete. Your progress bar in your EDP (Educational Development Plan) should be at 100% complete.
*** NOTE: If you started attending KHMS after September 30th this year, you may not be in the KHPS/Career Cruising system, so your login may not work. If you cannot get logged in, please let Mr. Kaman know. Most likely, he will send you down to Mr. Heyboer who can get you registered in the Career Cruising system.


On the photography side there's a whole new section for a friend's 40th birthday party last year and a gallery of paragliding photos from the same day (a couple of which have been turned into wallpapers). There's also some photos of Frangipani flowers and a new desktop wallpaper featuring Brighton beach.
To support all of this lot there are two new categories: war and galleries.


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Q: WCF FaultException - crashes App Pool when "re-throwing" from internal WCF call I have a WCF service that's hosted in IIS, and uses a WS HTTP binding (the external service). This service ends up calling a second WCF service that's hosted in a Windows service, over Net TCP (the internal service). When the internal service throws a FaultException, the external service crashes rather than throwing it to the client. All the client sees is the connection being forcibly closed.
The internal service uses the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block to validate the incoming messages. When validation errors occur, the service throws a FaultException<ValidationFault>.
Both the internal and external service have a [FaultContract(typeof(ValidationFault)] attribute in the service contract. If I change the external service to just immediately throw a new FaultException<ValidaitonFault>, this gets back to the client fine. I can catch the exception from the internal service in the external service, but if I try to re-throw it, or even wrap it in a new exception and throw that, the whole Application Pool in IIS crashses. I can't see anything useful in the event log, so I'm not sure exactly what the problem is.
The client object the external service uses to communicate with the internal service is definitely being closed and disposed of correctly. How can I get the internal service's faults to propagate out to the client?
updated:
Below is a simplified version of the external service code. I can catch the validation fault from the internal service call. If I throw a brand new FaultException<ValidationFault>, everything is fine. If I use the caught exception, the connection to the external client is broken. The only difference I can see is when debugging the service - trying to use the caught exception results in a message box appearing when exiting the method, which says

An unhandled exception of type
  'System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1'
  occurred in mscorlib.dll

This doesn't appear if I throw a brand new exception. Maybe the answer is to manually copy the details of the validation fault into a new object, but this seems crazy.
public class ExternalService : IExternalService
{
   public ExternalResponse DoSomething(ExternalRequest)
   {
      try
      {
         var response = new ExternalResponse();
         using (var internalClient = new InternalClient())
         {
            response.Data = internalClient.DoSomething().Data;
         }

         return response;
      }
      catch (FaultException<ValidationFault> fEx)
      {
         // throw fEx;   <- crashes

         // throw new FaultException<ValidationFault>(
         //    fEx.Detail as ValidationFault);   <- crashses

         throw new FaultException<ValidationFault>(
            new ValidationFault(new List<ValidationDetail> {
               new ValidationDetail("message", "key", "tag") }),
               "fault message", new FaultCode("faultCode"))); // works fine!
      }
   }
}

A: I have almost the exact design as you and hit a similar issue (not sure about a crash, though!).
If I remember correctly, even though the ValidationFault is a common class when the Fault travels over the wire the type is specific to the WCF interface.  I think this is because of the namespace qualifiers on the web services (but this was a while back so I could be mistaken).
It's not terribly elegant, but what I did was to manually re-throw the exceptions:
try
{
    DoStuff();
}
catch (FaultException<ValidationFault> fe)
{
    HandleFault(fe);
    throw;
}

...

private void HandleFault(FaultException<ValidationFault> fe)
{
    throw new FaultException<ValidationFault>(fe.Detail as ValidationFault);
}

A: Well, it works if I do this, but there must be a better way...
This only seems to be a problem for FaultException<ValidationFault>. I can re-throw FaultException and FaultException<SomethingElse> objects with no problems.
try
{
   DoStuff();
}
catch (FaultException<ValidationFault> fe)
{
   throw this.HandleFault(fe);
}

...

private FaultException<ValidationFault> HandleFault(
    FaultException<ValidationFault> fex)
{
    var validationDetails = new List<ValidationDetail>();
    foreach (ValidationDetail detail in fex.Detail.Details)
    {
        validationDetails.Add(detail);
    }

    return new FaultException<ValidationFault>(
        new ValidationFault(validationDetails));
}

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Q: Loading JSON object in Python using urllib.request and json modules (#2) I keep having troubles with the following code in Python 3.2, probably due to some encoding error. The json.loads-function gives the following error message: "No JSON object could be decoded". The strange thing is that when I print out data_object.decode(encoding) it gives a JSON object that is valid. Here's the code:
req = urllib.request.Request(post_request_url,object_json,request_headers)
file_response_packet = urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=2)
data_object =  file_response_packet.read()
encoding = file_response_packet.info().get_content_charset('utf-8')
print(encoding)

try:
    print(data_object.decode(encoding))
    test= json.loads(data_object.decode(encoding))
except Exception as e:
    print(str(e))

Here's the print out:
utf-8
{"code":100,"status":"success","message":"API OK!","restart":"1","save_response":"1","offline_operate":"Yes","result":{"timestamp":"2017-05-20T18:55:22.216Z","channels":{"settings":{"1":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"false","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"false","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"false","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Less Than","instruction":"true","value":"23","parameter":"in_temp"},"duration":"3600","label":"Temp","hash":"1"},"2":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"true","13:00":"true","14:00":"true","15:00":"false","16:00":"true","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"false","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Greater Than","instruction":"true","value":"22","parameter":"in_temp"},"duration":"3600","label":"Fan","hash":"2"},"3":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"true","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"true","11:00":"true","12:00":"true","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"true","17:00":"true","18:00":"false","19:00":"true","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Less Than","instruction":"false","value":"28","parameter":"out_humidity"},"duration":"3600","label":"Water","hash":"3"},"4":{"hours":{"00:00":"true","01:00":"true","02:00":"true","03:00":"true","04:00":"true","05:00":"true","06:00":"true","07:00":"true","08:00":"true","09:00":"true","10:00":"true","11:00":"true","12:00":"true","13:00":"true","14:00":"true","15:00":"true","16:00":"true","17:00":"true","18:00":"true","19:00":"true","20:00":"false","21:00":"true","22:00":"true","23:00":"true"},"override":{"condition":"Greater Than","instruction":"true","value":"0","parameter":"none"},"duration":"3600","label":"Lights","hash":"4"},"5":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"true","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"false","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"false","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"true","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"true"},"override":{"condition":"Greater Than","instruction":"false","value":"20","parameter":"none"},"duration":"0","label":"Temp","hash":"5"},"6":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"false","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"false","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"false","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Less Than","instruction":"false","value":"0","parameter":"none"},"duration":"0","label":"Misc","hash":"6"},"7":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"false","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"false","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"false","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Less Than","instruction":"false","value":"0","parameter":"none"},"duration":"0","label":"Temp","hash":"7"},"8":{"hours":{"00:00":"false","01:00":"false","02:00":"false","03:00":"false","04:00":"false","05:00":"false","06:00":"false","07:00":"false","08:00":"false","09:00":"false","10:00":"false","11:00":"false","12:00":"false","13:00":"false","14:00":"false","15:00":"false","16:00":"false","17:00":"false","18:00":"false","19:00":"false","20:00":"false","21:00":"false","22:00":"false","23:00":"false"},"override":{"condition":"Greater Than","instruction":"true","value":"47","parameter":"none"},"duration":"3600","label":"Lights","hash":"8"}},"switches":{"1":"false","2":"true","3":"false","4":"true","5":"false","6":"false","7":"false","8":"false"}}}}
No JSON object could be decoded

A last interesting remark is that if i copy the JSON from the console, paste it into the json.loads-function and add '-characters before and after, it works perfectly. If I try to do the same string manipulation within Python, it keeps giving me the same error. Please help me!

A: Issue solved, upgraded to Python 3.4 and it works like a charm


All pieces designed for and featured on the TNT television series, LEVERAGE, Season 4 Episode 2 – The Ten Li'l Grifters Job. When the team's mark is murdered at a murder mystery party, the team must complete their mission and find the killer before Nate is arrested for murder.
This episode took place in a giant murder mystery themed party. I was asked to produce the invite and signage for the event. To develop the look I took some visual cues from the board-game Clue as well as old detective stories.


Their dream coupled with their extra-ordinary perseverance has taken WittyFeed to dazzling height of success. As it stands today, WittyFeed is the world's second largest viral content company in terms of traffic. This simply means that today no other viral website, except for global leader Buzzfeed, gets as much traffic as WittyFeed does.
To know more about this and other factors affecting Wittyfeed as well as the viral content industry, Techpluto spoke with WittyFeed's co-founder & Coo Shashank Vaishnav.
Q1) WittyFeed's rise has been quite meteoric. What, according to you, are some of the key factors that helped WittyFeed to emerge as the world's second largest viral content company in such a short span of time?
One thing I've learned in my business career is, things don't go as you plan. You can always tackle uncertainty and think of contingencies prior to the outcome. Not saying that it will be a full proof plan but, it helps in at least maintaining the balance in some time than shattering down to the floor in pieces altogether.
In the content ecosystem, it always comes as a mandate to come up with new ways and always head in the north direction – growth's direction.
In current times, your business is represented by your website. It means to have a perspective as to how the outer world works other than the coding part, have knowledge of the real-world experiences of people and how a customer uses the product. To make sure that the customer experience doesn't become a reason for failure, we know to get faster results in the shortest possible time – results which can be measured quantitatively.
Q2) WittyFeed.com recently changed to WittyFeed.tv Why this sudden change from text to video format?
Today, as video is watched on smart phones and laptops rather than on living room couches, the .tv suffix is the best fit for our Audience i.e. Millennials. This was one of the main reasons we decided to shift ourselves to a much easy to remember and brand able domain name.
Q3) Websites like WittyFeed and Buzzfeed primarily earn through content marketing. Is there any other non-traditional revenue stream that the company is seriously trying to explore?
The ups and downs have never pulled us down, the only reason competition or drawbacks couldn't hold us back from growing is our mindset of never stopping, being resilient. Talking about non-traditional revenue streams, I don't run with the blinds on in order to come up with ways which would help us grow exponentially and keep us ahead of our competitors.
With our recent product "OneFeed – A unified feed of Undiscovered, Informative and Entertaining Content!" our own unique distribution channel of content has helped us stay in the lead, making users fall in love with their app, reduce ads, and still make money!
Q4) How much is WittyFeed influenced by Buzzfeed in terms of business model? I am asking this because many people refer WittyFeed as India's Buzzfeed?
We consider ourselves to be the competition of our future self and adapt to our success faster than we make mistake. Don't know about BuzzFeed's business model but the moment we see one of your well-thought experiments working, we start thinking about the next step before the trajectory starts to diminish. And, the same goes for the experiment which comes at the cost of our growth, we shift to a newer tactic and adapt.
It's not a money game, it's not a mindset; it's purely your skill set. Never invest financially because we're living in the times where the most low-cost alternative gets you the maximum results. Lastly, like any business, retain your customers else your growth will fade away sooner than you expect.
Q5) Consumption of viral content seems to be growing phenomenally in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities, where consumption of English language is relatively low. What is WittyFeed doing to tap into these promising markets that are mostly dominated by regional languages?
Adopting vernacular languages is the step which we've already implemented with our Intellectual Property – Dunia Digest. Our video production team connects with our prospective user by creating videos with a native essence. One of the videos which people relate to most is "When you have a Bihari roommate" Series which tends to touch and create an impact on a wider spectrum.
Q6) How has the audience or browser's consumption of viral content changed since WittyFeed entered the scene in 2014?
In the initial days when we gathered a good number of followers on our pages and started posting links, there came a time when 700-800 people would instantly click on our links and website's traffic would spike. That was the time when we first realized that a good profile and content can fetch a great number in terms of traffic.
It was later that, we thought of optimizing the process and created multiple pages on Facebook with different interests our audience shares. Today, we manage more than 20 pages which makes a gateway for 100 MM+ Internet Users to visit our websites along with our network of affiliates (cumulatively).
Q7) Can you please shed light on WittyFeed's current traffic data?
WittyFeed is the fastest growing content marketing platform in India, with 15MM+ Sessions monthly on an avg.
Q8) After spending so many years in this industry, do you think there is any fixed or unfailing formula that can help any content to go viral?
We constantly monitoring factors such as CAC, CPM, CTR, increase in LTV to help us understand what kind of content is preferred by our audience mix and where are we going wrong. Being a content platform, we're constantly required to improve the content we write and there have been instances when we saw a 30% decline in CAC making us believe that we're on the right track.
Talking about unfailing formulas, we come up with different ideas to compile a story, from impressive images to informative content. The stories are written to educate readers along with keeping their entertainment in mind, creating content pieces through multiple media formats to engage them in the best way possible.
We also choose to go with Progressive Web App (PWA) design which is best for providing readers with a better interface on a desktop/laptop as well as mobile. To strengthen the technological front we make use of Akamai Technology for content delivery network and availing cloud service.
Q9) WittyFeed had raised seed funding in 2017. Any plans to raise more funding in the coming years?
Q10) Your projection for WittyFeed for the next five years?
It's all about getting the results as fast as possible. This means, there's no long-term plan in place. We keep our marketing goals linked to sales objectives, money matters! Technology plays a major role in the progress and I say it because the Internet world has an infinite reach and it will always be out of your grasp.
I prefer to make a new projection everyday and think of what tomorrow holds for me rather than thinking about where would I be tomorrow. From using assessment tools to reaching out to your target audience, technology has a pivotal role everywhere. I intend to be unconventional in the next five minutes, and every minute after that. Our vision is to build products, sell services, and never stick to a set of principles in any way to yield extraordinary results.


Eco IO Mini is a notable addition to the Allen Martin Eco range of products, offering greater flexibility and choice to our comprehensive range of energy saving devices.
Eco IO Mini is a compact, yet powerful input/output module comprising 4 universal inputs and 4 universal outputs that are configured in software, plus 4 dedicated digital inputs. Eco IO Mini is DIN rail mounted and has pluggable connectors for ease of installation.
The Eco IO Mini module offers 4 universal outputs each capable of acting as a 0 to 10V analogue or digital output, 4 dedicated digital inputs (volt free) and 4 universal inputs each configurable as digital, 0 to 10V, 0 to 5V or as a 10K3A1 thermistor input.
Eco IO Mini is easily configured over a standard TCP/IP network port. The network communication is secured with AES-256 encryption for peace of mind. Eco IO Mini communicates with Eco Plus, Eco Hub or Eco Hub2 via an I²C link or the local area network.
Eco IO Mini retains compatibility with the ACM-X IO cards when running in compatibility mode. The compatibility mode allows you to configure the Eco IO Mini as multiple ACM-X IO cards, allowing the unit to be used as a drop in replacement for ACM-X IO cards in existing Eco Hub installations.
Eco IO Mini has the same high standard of noise immunity as all products in the Eco range. The Universal Inputs are electrically isolated from the Digital Inputs and both sets of inputs are isolated from the Universal Outputs.
4 universal outputs – Each capable of acting as a 0 to 10V analogue or digital output.
4 dedicated digital inputs (volt free).
4 universal inputs – Each configurable as digital, 0 to 10V, 0 to 5V or as a 10K3A1 thermistor input.
Easy to install – Eco IO Mini has a simple DIN rail fixing. It can be easily installed in a new or existing control panel.
Power Consumption: 300 mA Max @ 24V ac.
2 x Double row (Green), pluggable, 8 way Screw terminal connector, accepts cable from 0.5 to 1.5mm².


About a year ago, I was having a quick conversation with someone I had never met before, and this person saw my tattoos. I'm not covered in them, but I have a few which are visible if I'm wearing a shirt which has shorter sleeves.
My tattoos are personal because they have a significant meaning to me. So I explained they all had a very personal meaning, and I got them because I like tattoos. They are also a way for me to remember certain events, people or milestones in my life.
I kept it brief and gave this person what I thought was a good enough explanation without getting too deep. It was sufficient as far as I was concerned. I even repeated it.
But this person kept questioning me until I finally said, "I don't want to explain that to you." Now, this may seem rude to some, but I don't think it is. I had already given them an explanation which was enough for a stranger. Twice.
And it got me thinking about the need to go deeper with others just to be nice. The need to explain yourself. We all feel this need sometimes.
It also reminded me I don't have to explain myself and my choices to anyone whom I don't know or have an intimate relationship with. I don't have to justify something which is very meaningful to me. I don't have to justify anything. And I don't need your approval for my decisions.
Neither should you. You don't need to explain yourself.
The choices you make are yours. And it's none of anyone else's business why you did something.
There are obvious exceptions like a spouse, a partner, a boss, etc. However, unless your decisions affect someone else, you don't have to answer to anyone except yourself for the decisions you make. And the only person you have to please is you.
A lot of us feel this need to explain ourselves. Whether it be what we are pursuing for a career, our choice of partners, or even our appearance, we want to explain to others why we made that decision.
It occurs everywhere, even here on Medium. We feel we need to explain why we write what we write. Or our headline choices or why all our stories are locked.
I have no clue. I don't know why we feel the need to explain why we do what we do. I'm not sure if we feel the need to justify everything or what it is.
It may be because we don't want to be seen as rude. But in reality, the person who is constantly questioning and criticizing your choices and decisions (whether or not they know you) is the one who is rude.
You know why you made that decision. You have your reasons, and they are your reasons alone. That is good enough. No further explanation needed. It's your life, not theirs. You don't have to explain yourself.
Whether those choices are the right ones can only be determined over time, but that is not the point. You made those choices based on your own experiences and knowledge. Nothing anyone else can say or do will change the decisions you've already made.
So why waste time trying to explain something to someone who may not understand? Or doesn't really want to understand?
They will think whatever they want, regardless. And I can't control their thinking. I'm not talking about having a discussion about important topics where someone's mind could be changed, I'm talking about your life decisions. Your everyday choices.
It's none of their business!
I've written a lot about us as individuals. I understand we need others to have a healthy balance, but we need to take care of ourselves, too. YOU are the most important person in your life.
So stop feeling the need to explain yourself to others all the time.Make your decisions and stick to them. If you see you've made a mistake, then correct it. But correct them with your own choices, not someone else's.
If the decisions you make please you, that is what is important. You don't have to justify yourself. You don't have to explain yourself. Because when you do, you are only pleasing everyone else.