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Oil in the Arctic
Diving in the Gulf Oil Spill
Book Synopsis
Synopsis; a little more technical than I wish to convey in my book, but the essence is here. Contract signed after six months of wrangling (and with a different title from that below); now to write it, due in April 2011 for publication a little later that year;
Distant Lands Unknown
A Glimpse of a Human Future Beyond Earth
© 2009 Cameron M. Smith and Evan T. Davies
For Praxis Publishing, UK
The time has come for humanity to begin the interstellar migration, and this book explains why space colonization isn't about rockets and robots, it's about humans doing what we've been doing for four million years; finding new places and new ways to live.
For centuries, authors and dreamers have mused on travel to the planets and the stars, even proposing the human colonization of space, and each justifying this audacious venture in a different way; space colonization would relieve conflict stemming from overcrowding on a finite world; it would lead to a better understanding of our universe; it would foster technological benefits; it would protect our species from any single Earthly calamity. The reasons to go are many.
But mention "space colonization" and many roll their eyes, arguing that it's a technocratic program focused on rockets and robots, or that it's unrealistic, unnatural, too expensive or technically "impossible"—or that we must sort out our problems on Earth, first.
Distant Lands Unknown—an anthropological perspective on human space exploration and colonization—argues that on the contrary, space colonization will be a natural continuation of our species' four-million year legacy of adaptation to difficult new environments, that human innovation has often built reality from "impossibility", and that staying on Earth will eventually cost us everything.
Serious calls for human space colonization began with Konstantin Tsiolkovski's early-20th century musings on a peaceful and bountiful human expansion "out of the cradle", that is, off of Earth. Tsiolkovski's ideas were in great contrast to the outer-space books of the Space Race era, which carried a competitive, nationalistic, and technocratic tone. More human-centered space colonization books appeared in the 1970's and 80's, including Gerard K. O'Niell's popular-science hit, The High Frontier. But since that time, no book on space colonization has been a real popular-science hit, mainly because they use worn-out sloganeering, sentimentality, conceptions of destiny, and intimidating technical jargon that alienate the very mass audience they wish to engage.
In contrast, Distant Lands Unknown is written accessibly and engagingly for the widest audience possible, humanizing space colonization. The authors discuss the history of human adaptation and technological innovation, put people in charge of the machinery of spaceflight (rather than the other way around) and contextualize space colonization as a continuation of human evolution at large.
The authors begin by reviewing human evolution, emphasizing proactive adaptation as a distinctive feature of our lineage in contrast to the reactive nature of the evolution of every other species. Next, they illustrate that humanity has been actively expanding geographically for the past four million years, specifically via three adaptations: (1) tool use to augment anatomy, (2) cognitive complexity and language, and (3) the development of agriculture and occupational specialization.
Drawing on examples from the four-million year history of human adaptation to new environments, the authors argue that human settlement beyond Earth would be a continuation of the adaptive history of our lineage, demonstrating that we have done this before, and we can do it again.
The authors highlight three thrilling tales of human colonization; the migration of human ancestors out of Africa, the prehistoric colonization of the Pacific islands and the settlement of the high Arctic. In each of these cases, humanity adapted to new, hostile environments with everything from novel social customs to new technologies including voyaging canoes and igloos. We reason that these inventions were as critical to survival as any astronaut's space suit.
Next, the authors review what humanity has learned about our solar system to date. The authors suggest that, as Carl Sagan once remarked, we have put one foot into the waters of the cosmic ocean; now, will we continue in, or will we retreat? The authors convey the wonders and dangers that await humanity in space with prose that immerses the reader in cosmic grandeur and the adventure of discovery.
The authors show how this is everyman's journey—not only the domain of the engineer and rocket scientist. From the Inupiat colonization of the Arctic to walking on the Moon, humanity has been exercising our fundamental evolutionary instinct to explore and expand. Our history and prehistory have prepared us for the final and grandest episode of adaptation; building self-sufficient human colonies beyond Earth.
Having humanized space colonization and shown why it is critical to human survival, Distant Lands Unknown concludes with a review of concepts for extraterrestrial colonization, including the settlement of Mars and some of the moons of our largest planets. Based on the most current understandings of our universe and the most recent technological breakthroughs, we at last offer a glimpse of a possible human future involving interstellar travel and settlement of worlds beyond our own. In the end, Distant Lands Unknown argues that space colonization is a good idea for humanity, and that this adaptation can be done; after all, we've been doing it for four million years.
Chiu Liang Kuo is Still Alive
Email from Chiu, back from a month without communications in the Arctic:
Hi Cameron,
I am still alive.
I just arrived home.
Many weeks are in storm there, unusual weather for Pond in the Apr.
Anyway, I talk to you later.
Chiu
Tonight's Work
Connected the helmet, with its recently-installed oral-nasal mask (ONM), to the A-14 regulator, although the regulator wasn't connected to a pressurized breathing gas supply. Still, a useful exercise to see the ONM working inside the helmet and starting to get a feel for the helmet, breathing gas management system and flight performance monitor panel all working together. Getting used to using the system makes it, bit by bit, less mysterious and exotic; which is good, as it all needs to be done so many times that in flight these movements are automatic.
Once the pressure suit and life support system is built, I'll start building the actual flying seat and the very limited gondola that will be suspended beneath the balloon. Everything builds out from the pilot in his seat, so the suit and life support system are first; the balloon to take all of this to 50,000 feet will be the last thing I build. Sewing a balloon is laborious but not complicated; two builders recently built a balloon of roughly the size I'll need over the course of a few weekends. Sewing fabric panels into a balloon of the size I need requires a 20-foot long seaming table, and there's just room in my living space to build that table when the time comes. For the moment, though, plenty of work just on life support and the seat / gondola (balloonists for some reason hate the term 'gondola', preferring 'car', and I'm interested to know why...but for the reason I prefer 'gondola' or better yet 'ship'--and it will be, at least in my eyes, a magnificent ship!).
Aranjuez concerto and New Life
'Space music' by Isao Tomita; an interpretation of Juan Rodriguez's 1939 masterpiece, the Aranjuez concerto.
And a note on the first production of synthetic life. I think this is a spectacularly bad idea. Since January I've read over 300 journal articles, books and papers on the cutting edge of modern evolutionary biology in research for my forthcoming book on evolution, and the clearest message of all is that there are several major paradigmatic shifts going on, right now, in the life sciences, particularly in microbiology. That tells me that we are still just sorting out the principles of genetics, and that introducing new life into the world is foolish and reckless. Of course these life forms will escape the lab; Venter and his associates have even planned for that by writing a 'fingerprint' into the DNA so it can be identified later, so I can't be told that even they are confident of confining this synthetic life. Bad idea, guys. Remember the nuclear genie, of which--with, say, the prospect of London incinerated by a nuclear blast--we now think, Gee, wish we hadn't let that one out of the bottle? Remember that?
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Oral-Nasal Mask Installed
This component has given me more difficulty than any other in the project so far. For a number of reasons, I've decided to use an oral-nasal mask inside the pressure helmet; building it in has been difficult because the mask--until I heavily modified it--was too big to fit inside the helmet. Also, routing breathing gas intake and exhalation hoses has been comically difficult--it seems so easy, but half a dozen factors make it hard to do. I spent a month on the gloves, but now I'm into the second month of this component. The mask is in, now, as you can see above...but to be honest, it still isn't right; it's a little too tight, and the intake/exhalation hoses are too small, making breathing slightly more laborious than usual...and I just can't have that. So, while this is close--no cigar! More modifications are in store. I might even devise a system that ditches the O-N mask altogether, which would be preferable.
Emilio Herrera's 1936 Space Suit
In 1936 Spanish aeronautical engineer and pilot Col. Emilio Herrera (1879-1967) completed building a pressure suit--from canvas, wire, rubber, and a modified diving helmet--for an exploratory balloon ascent to 25,000 meters (82,020 feet). Above, one of Herrera's sketches, envisioning himself in his airship. Herrera tested the suit in an altitude chamber for over six hours, at very low pressures and cold temperatures, with no ill effects. Just before flight, though, the Spanish Civil War erupted. Herrera's balloon was cut up for soldier's ponchos, and the space suit was captured by Fascists. Herrera salvaged the helmet but was prevented by World War II and its aftermath from ever making his stratosphere flight. He is seen below working at his study in Madrid.
Troika -- a collection of three, from Russian language. And a nice piece of music, above...I can taste the frosty air and hear the snow under my boots :)
Interview with Ripley Davenport
I've just done an interesting Skype interview with Ripley Davenport, the 39-year old explorer on his way tomorrow to Mongolia. He's attempting to cross the steppe country on foot, towing his food and equipment in a cart. Ripley's expedition is particularly interesting to me because I've wanted for some time to incorporate raising money and support for a charity on an expedition, something done more often on European and British expeditions, in my experience, than by Americans. On his first attempt at this trek, just a month ago, Ripley's cart broke down, and he (an Englishman living in Denmark with his wife and two children) returned home to make repairs; his cart is ready to go, and he climbs onto a plane for Ulan Bator tomorrow. I'll be digitizing the sound recording I made of the interview in a few days, and I'll post it here. Interesting stories about camels that helped him cross Namibia some time ago, mirages, and a full Coke can he found in the middle of one of the world's truly 'trackless' deserts. For the moment, you can find out about Ripley's expedition here: his expedition profile is pasted below:
Ripley Davenport is a renowned explorer, adventurer, humanitarian, and
inspirational speaker and best known for his demanding expeditions to the
isolated areas of the world, notably accomplished solo and unassisted without
any machine or animal but on foot by hauling or carrying all his equipment.
He avoids the worn tourist paths, and eminent landmarks, favouring instead to
position himself unaided in potentially hostile environments. Without any film
crew, Ripley can continue to pioneer the filming of his genuine experiences
authentically in unforgiving surroundings as his journey develops.
In 2001, he completed a solo and unsupported snowshoe/ski of the Kungsleden
Trail in Northern Sweden from Abisko to Hemavan, via Kebnekaise, in 32 days.
In 1999, he spent several weeks in the company of the Air Tuareg of Niger. The
purpose was to learn about desert living and their culture.
In 1998, Ripley completed a solo trek across the Karakum Desert in 21 days.
Then in the same year, Ripley successfully crossed the Namib Desert, solo and
unassisted, with two camels in 82 days.
Since then Ripley has been fixated with desert exploration and adventure and
he intends on traversing across many of the worlds most isolated deserts.
The list doesn't stop here. Ripley has completed several other expeditions in
addition to raising thousands of pounds for childrens' charities.
He has recently joined the i2P - impossible2Possible team as an Inspirational
Ambassador and remains loyal and dedicated in supporting numerous children's
charities.
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What Carl Sagan--who died in 1996-- is reading & speaking here are each great sentences--take it apart, write down the words, and you will see that they are not easy to write; they look simple, but each is tough. It's hard to write this way without being called corny, or intellectual, or high-falutin, or ivory tower. To write like this, much less speak the words on camera, Carl Sagan had to be passionate and in love with the material. When everything around you screams 'here and now', dissolving and devaluating real passion, it's hard to pull off. I'm sure all these problems held also when he made Cosmos, but somehow, somehow, Carl Sagan's producers 'got it' and they let Carl Sagan say what he wanted to say. So good on Carl, but also on his producers.
The Carolinian Star Compass
Rendering for the forthcoming book on the migration of humanity off the Earth's surface; in my effort to dismantle the common conception space colonization as a technocratic, machine-centered endeavor, I will present it as the completely natural continuation of the four-million year legacy of the genus Homo adapting to new environments. My question: why should our adaptation end at the curve of the Earth? To that end, I'll use examples of particularly complex, technologically-intensive adaptations that humanity has already made, here on Earth, even in prehistory. These examples will show that while technology was needed, people were not doing this for the machines, but for humanity itself; people were finding new places to live, from the Pacific to the Arctic. Below, a rending of one example in progress.
Tonight, exhausted by grading and some adminstrivia, I'll take a break and do some work either on illustrations for this or the evolution book, or sketching out some basic refutations of the usual arguments against space colonization, to wit:
* it's too expensive
* it's too difficult
* it's too dangerous
* it is a plaything of the rich
* we have to sort out humanity, first
* all we will do is transport humanity's problems off the Earth and into space
* we cannot just go and ruin the rest of the universe like we are ruining Earth
My coauthor and I will take these arguments apart, piece by piece.
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Writer's Tools (II)
The Wonders of Writing Well
To complement my previous post, which delineated some common writing mistakes and how to avoid them, this post focuses on some common writing successes. These are things that work to connect with the reader and keep them reading. Some are of course just the converse of the points laid out in the previous blog, and when they are, I elaborate to clarify. And, again, subtleties can be debated (though I'd argue the principles are ironclad) and, no, I don't always accomplish these in every work; but I do work at it.
Telling an Old Tale in a New Way: We writers usually tell an old tale; the only reason we didn't quit at Shakespeare (in the West, anyway) is that the world changes, people change (to a degree), and old messages need new context and new telling. Casting wisdom in a new mold lets you communicate that wisdom with modern people. This isn't easy to do, but it's one of the main reasons we keep writing.
Taking the Reader to New Place: Many people do not have the luxury to travel the world, or can't or won't travel across town or even down the street. A good writer can take the reader anywhere. It's not easy, and it requires certain tools and methods, but there are many reasons to do it, one being the same reason to travel; to see things from a different perspective. Breaking a reader out of the bubble of daily time and space--and you can tell you've done it when they tell you they felt like they were right there in that new world--is tremendously rewarding for both writer and reader.
Exploration: This is very similar to Taking the Reader to a New Place, but, in some way I haven't yet sorted out, it's different. I feel this is more motivational; it doesn't necessarily have the function of place-setting for an ancient tale, it simply stimulates the reader to see, and maybe even do. This kind of writing is often somewhat breathless. Dozens of examples rise to mind; here's one from Craig Childs' superb book, The Way Out, in which he describes his exploration of a flooded cavern in the Grand Canyon: "Our headlamps brushed the ceiling, showing a few passages. We went up. Each of us tried a different route, climbing through dust and pieces of rubble. I ascended a chimney, emerging into a room the size of an aircraft hangar. Perhaps seventy feet tall and over a hundred feet long, its ceiling was a lifted dome, its floor a garden of waterfalls and pools. Darkness ate my beam of light toward the back. A quarter-mile into a desert cliff, beneath two thousand feet of solid rock, inside the belly of the mother, was this: a buried grotto with the broken plumbing of a spring sending water everywhere. As I walked, my light took on altering values, passing through swift water, still water, deep water, sheeting water, plumes of mist, and shiny, wet stones. The river ran the width of a street.. That makes me want to drop everything and explore the caves of the Grand Canyon. That motivates me into action, if 'only' charging me for my own projects. This writing, contrary to elemental physics, generates energy from apparent nothing. Exploration can take place in many domains--mine is largely that of the physical universe--but, I think, you get my point.
Revealing the Truth / Exposing Complexity: Presumably readers want clarity, or at least some kind of understanding (at least, the readers I want to communicate with). A writer has the potential to expose truth because reading takes more time and attention than listening to a sound-bite. In John Steinbeck's daily journal he wrote, about taking time with his writing to expose truths, "The human mind, particularly in the present, is troubled and fogged and bee-stung with a thousand little details from taxes to war worry to the price of meat. All these usually get together and result in a man's fighting with his wife, because that is the easiest channel of relief for inner unrest. Now--we must think of a book as a wedge driven into a man's personal life. A short book would be in and out quickly...A long book, on the other hand...instead of cutting and leaving...allows the mind to rearrange itself to fit around the wedge...When the wedge is withdrawn, the tendency of them mind is quickly to heal itself exactly as it was before the attack. With the long book...when the wedge is finally withdrawn and the book is set down, the mind cannot ever be quite what it was before." While plenty can be said for shorter forms, such as short poetry, I think what he was getting at there is the time it takes, in some forms of writing, to clarify. Again, yes, short works can well wash and make clear, but, again, the point--whatever the form--is clarity and the exposure of complexity.
Reminding the Reader of Dignity: The world, as I feel it, shaped largely by commerce, leaves us little dignity; great power lies in the hands of those who constrain our choices, and unless we're careful to protect our own dignity, we are defined by our consumption, we are simply consumers (you can see a clip of how I feel here). Writing in a respectful way reminds us of human dignity. If that is too much social commentary for you, you might want to read someone else. I'm leaning a lot on Steinbeck right now, and here I will use him again: "I intended to make [some of his writing]sound guileless and rather sweet, but you will see in it the little blades of social criticism without which no book is worth a fart in hell." This is very important to me. About it, Antoine de Saint Exupery wrote, "The airplane is a means, not an end. One doesn't risk his life for a plane any more than a farmer ploughs for the sake of the plough. But the airplane is a means of getting away from towns and their book-keeping and coming to grips with reality."
The Crystallization of a Worldview: This is entirely for the writer; the writer, presumably wishing to communicate something clearly--even if it's uncertainty--requires something of a comprehensive worldview; in German, the word weltanschaung, literally translates into world-view, but carries something more organic and expansive that I can't quite outline; it is more a feeling than a statement, a feeling that suffuses everything a writer writes. This worldview is part of one's voice as a writer. Writing, putting your words down in some durable form, forces you, at least in the moment, to assemble the building-blocks of a worldview. This view can change as the world and the writer changes, of course, but having these worldviews, and knowing which ones came before, and even how the one-at-present may be changing, is important to clarity and honesty as a good writer.
As ever, all material © Cameron M. Smith, 2010
Writer's Tools
Some tools for writers; spotting mistakes, and fixing them. I have made all of these mistakes, and continue with some of course, but I'm getting better at knowing when I'm making them. Some are easier to be aware of than others. Not all apply to all writers, all kinds of writing, or even all stages of a writing career; they are things I've learned, sometimes from my own mistakes (I see one already committed in a book chapter meant to go out in the morning--so my evening will be expended in fixing a paragraph), and sometimes from others'. Every point could be argued, this way and that, in a fun evening at the pub. I have my biases and preferences, and they're obvious below. I think they're relatively benign RE advice to an aspiring writer or even to myself. I'm sure all of this has been written before, but I don't care; writing it out has been useful for me and may be useful to others. Well; it all goes in the hopper.
* Writing Too Quickly: Deadlines can motivate, but they also lead to compromises. Stay organized with a writing calendar and schedule your work. Truck drivers, the old writers' saw goes, are not allowed to have 'Truck Drivers' Block.' On the other hand, writing well is not truck driving (however subtle good truck driving might be.) Writing well is like painting or drawing well, it is not easy. A good sentence can represent hours of work. "I sweat over every word," Irwin Shaw said.
* Distraction: You cannot write well without full concentration. When it is time to write, people who wish to have contact with have to think of you as off to South America (as Norman Mailer said); you will not be back for some time, not even a little. Quarterbacks, airline pilots, mountain guides, train drivers, and other professionals do not engage with others while they're working--they don't take phone calls or answer the door--and at least some writers (like me) can't, either.
* Writing for Money: Writing is a grinding, inefficient way to try to get your hands on money. Well-paying jobs are rare. The Authors' Guild reports that 95% of American writers do not make their primary income from writing. Writing for money, like writing too quickly, leads to compromises. You're normally writing for so little that you're doing it for yourself, and you might as well have the self-respect to do it well. Keep your day job, then compartmentalize your writing time to eliminate all distraction so that you produce good work. Eventually, the money comes in because the work is good. Yes, crummy writing may sell, but is that what you want to do--sell crummy writing?
* Not Doing Your Research: If you want to tell the truth in writing, which you must do even in fiction, you have to know your topic. Even if you don't directly use a single fact you learn about your topic, one false word or tone and your reader will rightly lose confidence in you. Know the material inside and out; it will come through in the writing--or, at least, ignorance won't.
* Being Too Close or Too Distant: Writing too close to the reader can come off as 'cutesy' or taking liberties. Writing too far off, though, comes across as high-and-mighty. This is extremely delicate ground, though; some readers (like me) prefer some distance between author and reader, others want the author right there. Again, very thin ice, here. As Galadriel said in the The Lord of the Rings: "The quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail."
* Tension: A reader can tell whether or not the author is relaxed. A written work can be tense, but that tension must be manufactured by the author. A genuinely tense author gushes, revealing too much about their own state. Before his writing on East of Eden on March 23, 1951, John Steinbeck--in his daily journal entry to his editor--ranted about the low quality of his pencils; "Points break and all hell breaks loose" he wrote. But by the end of the entry he wrote, "I have lost the sense of rush with which I started this [the day's work] and that is exactly what I intended to do."
* Looseness: A reader can tell whether or not the author is being loose with their words and therefore their thinking and therefore their attention to the reader. A loose author sounds inebriated, they write for self-indulgence and the reader is an afterthought. Pick material you care about, and focus on saying what you want to say, in your chosen form.
* Trying Not to Offend: Trying to please everyone leads to compromises with words--and you must use exactly the right word, no matter what--and facts, which are so easily blurred to fit your purposes. Naturally, a good author considers the audience, and there are conventions for some kinds of writing, but personal narratives in which everything is peachy-keen and everyone is filled with light come off, rightfully, as sickly-sweet. Honesty will gain the reader's trust, which is everything. The reader doesn't have to like you, but they do have to trust you. Above I wrote that writing was not truck driving. Then, to avoid offending any truck-drivers or friends whose relatives may be truck drivers (and so on), I Tried Not To Offend by adding this: "(however subtle good truck driving might be.)" I've kept this parenthetical only because it's such a good illustration of a mistake. One more example; Anthony Bourdain, whom you may not like and who may actually exaggerate on occasion, writes very well and does not try to please everyone; in Kitchen Confidential he wrote, "Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn." I know at least one vegetarian who has laughed at that. You may not like Bourdain, but at least you know he's not schmoozing you.
* Not Listening to Advice: While you mustn't write-to-not-offend, you should listen to good advice from readers. A good writing group can be hard to find--members have to be able to give and take useful critique, which is a skill--but is important. A good writing group can help you, over a few years, to find your voice, and that is done by analyzing your writing time and again. Listen to readers and writers, determine what you're willing to adjust, and then do it. Don't forget that you will need some kind of armor. Not everybody has to see it, but you will need it. Be sure, in your writing group, to edit other writers' work with complete attention; give them reason to be equally exacting about your work.
* Not Being In Love With the Subject: Whether or not passion is overt in the work, you have to be passionate about the subject to write well. Passion ultimately exposes truth, and good writing is about truth. Lack of passion will flavor the writing with weak, noncommittal wording and a depressing mediocrity. Don't undertake a writing project unless you're passionate about the material. The most dismal examples of passionless writing I have seen are in travel magazines, where the author is once again reviewing a 'breathtaking sunrise' or a 'charming villa'. These unfortunate writers are exhausted. They are 'calling in' a performance and, arguably, wasting their own time and yours.
* Copying: Aspiring writers want to sound 'just like X' but everyone can tell if you copy another author. A good author's voice is distinctive, it is their own, though it can be well-informed by their attention to other writers. It can take years to work past copying, and even after this time, you must re-read your material to be sure you're not copying subconsciously. Develop your own voice through years of diligent work and by taking to time to know who you are and what you have to bring to the world of readers.
* Exaggerations: In editing you may see that you've written an exaggeration, and that should remind you that you're using a crutch. Things aren't compelling enough without a side-show, and that's a red flag to reconsider the whole work. For the reader, an exaggeration says that the writer might just make up anything...so why keep reading? Don't exaggerate. Our own lives are more compelling than any movie, but we're often too bedazzled by movies to remember it. Write about things that don't need exaggeration. The horror of reality TV is that it is a lie posing as truth; fiction, although it might communicate great truth, at doesn't pretend to be truth. Pick a genre.
* Putting Yourself in the Work: Unless you are already well-known to the world, nobody cares about your specific experience or troubles. The reader cares about what they can identify with, and that may well be your specific experiences or troubles, but they have to be told that way; the author is a vehicle. A story of hearbreak is excruciating to read unless it communicates some new insight (which the reader can learn from and apply to their own life) or reiterates an old lesson (which the reader can learn from and apply to their own life). A lot of an author's personal writing should remain in a journal. Well enough for the author to write that, and in writing it understand themselves to improve the writing, but pouring it out for everyone can reveal too much. Ray Bradbury, in an interview in The Paris Review, addresses the issue when talking about his writing in a very general way: "I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion's den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can't get free of them..." See? Even when Bradbury is talking about himself, he's not really talking about himself.
Yep, it's a lot to keep in mind, and these are only things that come to mind right now; emergencies come up, the wrong word can collapse a work in a moment! Alarm! And if you don't think a single word can do that, if you don't feel that strongly about the writing, you're not going to write well.
When you have cleared your mind to write, and sit down to do it, you may as well be climbing into a cockpit. To me, it's that important to get it right.
To take this kind of thing seriously demands disconnection from just about everything we're told is important.
Wonderful Sounds
Music from the ITV series, 'The Midsomer Murders', interpreted by Celia Sheen:
Quick image of the gas management system in schematic form; now, with the system sketched out by trial-and-error over the last year or so, I can specify every item in the system; every valve (eight at the moment), gauge (four at the moment), hose, component, connector and tank can now be specified, purchased (I have about half of the needed items), cataloged, weighed, and finally built into the system. This schematic doesn't include the electrical components, but those are going to be very limited; I don't like to rely on batteries, especially at -50F.
Below, a quick description of the system. I am trying to keep it as simple as possible. The fewer components, the safer; then again, backups--I don't have many at this stage--will be necessary, and are, of course, worthwhile.
Life-Support System Gas Management System Schematic Alphanumeric Key
Tank A=breathing gas
Tank P=suit pressurization gas
Tank R=breathing gas for bail-out
Gasses to be determined. If liquid oxygen is to be used for breathing gas, extra components will be added.
Breathing gas for the pilot is delivered from tank A at c.3000PSI (monitored at gauge G1) through first-stage regulator A1 (controlled by valve V1) to a pressure-reducing valve (A2,V2), where it is reduced to c.40PSI (monitored at gauge G2). This gas travels through low-pressure hose A3 to a demand regulator (B). The demand regulator reduces pressure to 10PSI and delivers breathing gas via low-pressure hose B1. Breathing gas passes through component B2, a battery-operated gas-warming unit, and B3, a backup warming unit using chemical heating packs. Breathing gas is delivered to the helmet through component C, an inhalation valve (V3) activated by lowered pressure in the oral-nasal mask (D; installed inside the pressure helmet) at each inhalation.
Exhaled gas is motivated by increased pressure in the oral-nasal mask at each exhalation, where it is carried out of the helmet through component E, an overpressure valve (V4) activated at approximately 0.07PSI, the standard increase of gas pressure at normal exhalation into an oral-nasal mask. Exhaled gas travels along low-pressure hose F to a valve (V5, G) that admits exhaled gas through low-pressure hose H into the Exhalation Reservoir (I).
During normal breathing, V5 is open and V6 is closed. When the Exhalation Reservoir is nearly full the pilot (a) closes valve V5 (G) and opens valve K (V6), where low ambient pressure draws Exhalation Reservoir gas from I, through J, V6/K and Outlet Warmer L (a battery-operated warmer to prevent ice-up) and outlet hose M. This Overpressure Dump Procedure can be accomplished by the pilot in a few seconds by (a) closing V5, (b) opening V6, (c) closing V6, and then (d) opening V5. This procedure dumps exhaled gas into the ambient atmosphere. Care should be taken such that (a) the Exhalation Reservoir (I) is evacuated periodically (by the pilot responding to a simple, mechanical alarm, backed-up by a reminder from Ground Control) and that (b) valves V5 and V6 cannot be opened at the same time; this would allow low ambient pressure to evacuate not only the Exhalation Reservoir (I) but also hoses H and F, oral-nasal mask D, the pilot's lungs, and would activate inhalation valve V3 (component C) until valve V5 or V6 were closed. Since this evacuation / depressurization might be lethal, it must not be allowed. A mechanical arm connecting the physical valves V5 and V6 should be designed so that when V6 is open, V5 could not physically be open. Backup valves for V5 and V6 should be built into the system, to be used in the event of failure of V5 and/or V6.
A wrist-mounted pressure gauge (N, G3) indicates suit pressure.
Pressure suit pressurization gas is delivered from tank P at c.3000PSI through a first-stage regulator/valve (P) which reduces pressure to c.10PSI; low-pressure hose P2 admits this gas through a second valve (P2) and into low-pressure hose P3, which delivers it to component Q, a self-sealing quick-connector that admits pressurization gas into the pressure suit bladder.
In the event of bailout, the pilot would (a) open valve V8 (admitting breathing gas into low-pressure hose S), (b) close valve V2, (c) disconnect breathing gas hose B1 from demand regulator B (this hose would self-seal), check suit pressure at gauge G3 and if necessary pressurize the suit with supply from tank P, (d) disconnect self-sealing hose P3 from the suit inlet valve (Q), (e) begin breathing from tank R, and (f) bail out.
1. The Exhalation Reservoir Dumping Procedure should be streamlined such that it is accomplished in less than three seconds. Valves V5 and V6 must be in easy reach of the pilot at all times. The procedure must be practiced to the point of 'muscle memory' at the moment of Exhalation Reservoir Dump Alarm.
2. The Bailout Procedure should be streamlined such that it is accomplished in ten seconds or less. The procedure must be practiced to the point of 'muscle memory' at the moment the pilot decides to bail out.
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The Outer Heavens
As usual, tremendous writing by Antoine de Saint Exupery (photographed above about 1937), this time from 'Prisoner of the Sand' in 'Wind, Sand, and Stars';
"In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens."
The system is growing; it is claiming territory in my living space, creeping like moss; it is also consuming whole domains of my mind. I swing between moments of despair, when I envision disaster, and a glowing joy, when I accept that I've arrived exactly where I am supposed to be, doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.
John Steinbeck, writing about writing East of Eden, told his editor that he could not allow himself that there was anything beyond that book; he was writing it as though it were his last book; and he believed that every book should be written that way. That sounds right because it is how I feel about the stratosphere project; I am not preparing to lose my life, but I am preparing as though this will be the last expedition. Everything I am, to paraphrase Steinbeck, goes into this. There can be no dilutions, no compromises.
Above, the system now growing East away from the building table.
Regarding the creative momentum that some call the effects of muse, others call associative though processes, others call simply inspiration, Rudyard Kipling--who called it Daemon--wrote;
"My Daemon was with me in the Jungle Books, Kim, and both Puck books, and good care I took to walk delicately, lest he should withdraw...When your Daemon is in charge, do not think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey."
Rudyard Kipling in Working Tools, 1937.
From "The Naturalist" by Barry Lopez, published in the Autumn 2001 issue of Orion magazine:
"To read the newspapers today, to merely answer the phone, is to know the world is in flames. People do not have time for the sort of empirical immersion I believe crucial to any sort of wisdom. This terrifies me, but I, too, see the developers' bulldozers arrayed at the mouth of every canyon, poised at the edge of every plain. And the elimination of these lands, I know, will further reduce the extent of the blueprints for undamaged life.
After the last undomesticated stretch of land is brought to heel, there will be only records—strips of film and recording tape, computer printouts, magazine articles, books, laser-beam surveys—of these immensities. And then any tyrant can tell us what it meant, and in which direction we should now go. In this scenario, the authority of the grizzly bear will be replaced by the authority of a charismatic who says he represents the bear. And the naturalist—the ancient emissary to a world civilization wished to be rid of, a world it hoped to transform into a chemical warehouse, the same uneasy emissary who intuited that to separate nature from culture wouldn't finally work—will be an orphan. He will become a dealer in myths."
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Checklists for everything; for suit donning and suit doffing; for the communications system; for the electrical system; for the life-support system. Can't make a mistake. I have to clean my workspace, too; in the 60's, David Clark company seamstresses, who built the space program's pressure suits, cataloged every needle in their work area. Get with it, Cameron! A metal shaving in the wrong place today could be catastrophic a year from now.
Above, a mockup of the basic elements of the Life Support system for the first time integrated with the Flight Performance Indicators Panel. Good progress today. So 'simple' and yet so complex!


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LEED Certified Attractions to Visit in Virginia This Summer
August 27, 2019 VAEEC Admin
Virginia is home to a huge selection of attractions and locations to visit and spend your leisure time, many of which offer the added benefit of being energy-efficient! As the summer winds down, you're probably considering a last-minute vacation for the Labor Day weekend. Read up on a few special locations that have been awarded LEED certification for their efforts in energy-efficiency.
Brock Environmental Center
Located in the City of Virginia Beach, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation(CBF)'s Brock Environmental Center has been described as a must-see destination for anyone who is interested in seeing how infrastructure and nature can thrive side by side. The Brock Environmental Center serves as the CBF's regional base of operations to offer its award-winning environmental education programs to 2,500 students and teachers each year and provides space for other local conservation partners, community meetings and special events.
The project has seen some truly remarkable feats. "In the past year, the Center has produced about 83 percent more energy than it has used. The building also uses 90 percent less water than a typical office building of its size. And as a result . . . uses 80 percent less energy than a typical building that size."
The building has achieved LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and Living Building Challenge certification from the International Living Future Institute. Platinum certification designates the Center has scored 80+ points across categories that include: Location & Transportation, Sustainable Sites, Water Efficiency, Energy & Atmosphere, Materials & Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, Innovation and more. The Living Building Challenge certification requires a building to produce more energy than it uses over the course of 12 consecutive months and maintains strict criteria for water use, location, health, materials, equity, and beauty.
3663 Marlin Bay Drive, Virginia Beach, VA
https://www.cbf.org/about-cbf/locations/virginia/facilities/brock-environmental-center/
Clark Hall – University of Virginia
While visiting the University of Virginia (UVA) campus in Charlottesville, be sure to ask your tour guide for a look inside Clark Hall, a historic that went through a series of retrofits and renovations as part of the university's pledge to energy-efficiency. Once home to the school of law, the current Department of Environmental Sciences "serves as an unsurprising candidate to lead UVA's energy conservation efforts by example."
Within Clark Hall, UVA began its Better Buildings Challenge by converting all of the building's 5,000 interior and exterior lighting fixtures from fluorescent to LED, installing low-flow toilets and faucets, re-calibrating air handling units and upgrading HVAC controls. The resulting impact saved UVA about $770,000 in energy and water savings, and 3,000 tons of carbon emissions per year! Quite fitting for the building that houses the Department of Environmental Sciences.
291 McCormick Rd, Charlottesville, VA 22903
https://www.virginia.edu
Virginia Beach Convention and Exhibition Center
Located within walking distance of the beach, the Virginia Beach Convention Center (VBCC) is publicly owned and maintained by the City of Virginia Beach. Having earned a LEED Gold in the Existing Buildings category, its when renovations helped better serve its capacity of 18,000 while more effectively manage its carbon footprint. 85 percent of the work done to achieve LEED certification was completed by the City of Virginia Beach staff, a testament to the manpower Virginia Beach has to offer.
"The upgraded building automation system provides real-time thermographic color images to illustrate occupant comfort and provides live energy use data. In addition, an on-site vegetable garden, improved water efficiency, and the annual diversion of more than 140 tons of waste from the landfill helped VBCC earn necessary certification points."
Address: 1000 19th St, Virginia Beach, VA 23451
https://www.visitvirginiabeach.com/convention-center/
Cooper Vineyards
Trips to the vineyard are an excellent way to enjoy the surrounding community one glass at a time, and knowing it was managed in an energy-efficient manner should put your mind even more at ease. You'd achieve exactly that when you delight in a glass of Noche at Cooper Vineyards LEED Platinum certification in 2012 for their environmentally-friendly tasting room. As the Green Badger described it, "the architectural design of the tasting room, with two complete walls of glass that extend up for two stories, makes the visitor experience that of an "indoor/outdoor" space regardless of the weather."
Cooper Vineyards boasts a nearly 5,000-square-foot building that deserves recognition for its strides in energy efficiency as well. The building holds the vineyard's offices, kitchen, and tasting room mentioned earlier, and includes a 3,000-gallon tank rainwater harvesting system, a Structurally Insulated Panel System (SIPS), solar power panels, and several 30-foot indoor solar-light harnessing tubes.
13372 Shannon Hill Rd, Louisa, VA 23093
http://www.coopervineyards.com/
Henrico County Public Libraries
Henrico County Public libraries are essential information hubs for their communities. They offer access to resources that can change lives, at no additional fee. Maintaining a library's many books, computers, videos, conference spaces, learning programs, and more can be energy-intensive. Four of Henrico's libraries have created a benchmark on implementing energy-efficient practices into their building implementation; the Gayton Branch Library, Glen Allen Branch Library, Libbie Mill Area Library, and Varina Area Library have all reached LEED certification for multiple designs.
After a renovation project that included building automation HVAC systems, high-efficiency sink fixtures, alternative transportation parking, and environmentally conscious material selection, each library was able to reduce water consumption by an average of 42% and energy consumption by 32% with its renovations. Additionally, 90% of construction waste was diverted from landfills! Glen Allen Branch Library was the first of the four to finish renovations in 2010. with Varina finishing up in 2016 and was recognized in 2017 by the American Institute of Architects and the American Library Association for excellence in library design. The new library offers Varina area residents many new and improved services in a beautiful setting while reinforcing Henrico County's commitment to environmental stewardship.
10600 Gayton Rd, Henrico, VA 23238
https://henricolibrary.org/gayton
10501 Staples Mill Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060
https://henricolibrary.org/glen-allen
Libbie Mill
2100 Libbie Lake East St,
https://henricolibrary.org/libbie-mill
1875 New Market Road
https://henricolibrary.org/varina
Baseball fans and Washington D.C. natives alike will be familiar with the home to the MLB team, the Washington Nationals. Nationals Park has the distinction of being the first Major League Baseball stadium with LEED certification!
Built on a brownfield, a lot of care was put into incorporating the stadium into D.C. while minimizing its energy use and resource waste production. Efficient field lighting, external shading, additional shading, low-flow faucets and dual-flush toilets, a 6,300-square-foot green roof over the left-field concession and restroom areas, and stormwater filtration systems help improve the efficiency and quality of the experience offered to its 1,000,000+ sqft. Campus.
1500 S Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003
https://www.mlb.com/nationals/ballpark
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I say it all the time: There's nobody in Washington representing me. I can't remember who said it, but the expression goes something like, "If voting really changed anything, it wouldn't be allowed."
Yea...sometimes it feels that way. In Oz it's mandatory to vote. I'm curious how that kind of system would effect the results of elections in the US.
I'd have to say that a little representation is better that a whole lot of none. You gotta at least try and have a say.


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#include <cmath>
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namespace nvbio {

///
/// A 4-way uint8 SIMD type
///
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{
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Samsung's 'The Frame' TV Can Now Rotate From Landscape To Portrait
byChris Singh
With CES 2021 rolling along, the tech innovations we can expect over the next 12 months (and beyond) are starting to trickle in. We've already seen a slick new pair of smartglasses that can handle fivr displays at once, and now we've latched onto the news that Samsung has updated their 2021 TV line with a few new interesting products. The most interesting? Possibly an update to decorative lifestyle TV The Frame, the highest-end model Samsung will offer from the new batch is able to easily switch between portrait and landscape mode.
The various new designs and form factors in the Samsung 2021 TV range are all set the redefine how consumer's can play around with their home cinema set-up, with standouts including the 110-inch MicroLED which we reported on just a few weeks ago, as well as a series of new Neo QLED TVs, which further improve upon Samsung's renowned QLED screens for more precise light control thanks to a micro-layer instead of the traditional LED module lens.
The Frame is of particular interest because of how it brings over a feature from last year's Samsung Sero – as mentioned above, that's the seamless pivot between landscape and portrait mode, furthering the The Frame's purpose as a premium TV that also doubles as a high-end digital art piece. The Frame was first launched in 2017, and has since become one of the most unique offerings from Samsung.
Note that only the biggest version of The Frame, the 43-inch model, will boast the ability to switch orientations on a whim. Like all the other models, it's also about half as thin as previous iterations of The Frame – 24.9mm thick to be exact – mirroring the depth of a traditional picture frame for a more realistic, head-turning look.
New attachable bezels come in five different colour options – white, black, red, brown and beige – and either a "Modern" or "Beveled" style, to better suit whatever design scheme the TV is a part of. Adding to the customisability is a reimagined Art Store, packed with 1,400 curated pieces which can be fed into Samsung's new AI-based auto-curation software, designed to better analyse an individual user's preferences and recommend artwork as a result.
This boosts Samsung's lifestyle TV portfolio to now include new version of The Frame, The Serif, The Sero, The Terrace and The Premiere, all distinctively designed to upgrade the décor of any home.
As with a lot of newly minted CES announcements, Samsung aren't quite clear on the pricing and availability, but based on history we should know more details around March of this year.
samsung.com
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Beaker Burial Ground Smeeton Westerby
Who Were The Beaker People?
The Bell-Beaker culture, sometimes shortened to Beaker culture, Beaker people, or Beaker folk, c. 2900 – 1800 BC is the term for a widely scattered archaeological culture' of prehistoric western Europe starting in the late Neolithic or Chalcolithic and running into the early Bronze Age. They were called Beaker because of the shape of their pottery vessels.
The Beaker People were farmers and archers were also the first metalsmiths in Britain, working first in copper and gold, and later in bronze, given its name to the Bronze Age.
The Burial Ground.
A burial ground of Beaker People was found in 1975 situated to the south west of Smeeton Westerby on Smeeton Hill The hill is 500 feet high and on the west side of the hill lies the Beaker Burial Ground. No trace of a burial mound is visible on the ground but the situation would be ideal for one.
The site was discovered during drainage excavations work when at one point the contractor had to excavate a hole by hand to replace a broken section of pipe. It was during this work that the burial site was discovered and human bones and pottery were unearthed. The drainage work carried on and the burial site continued to be disturbed and some artefacts were removed although the majority were subsequently recovered.
Leicestershire Museums were notified and on 3rd September 1975 a team from the museum attended the site. They enlarged the hole and discovered a crouched burial. A crouched burial was a new form of burial rite, called the Beaker burial which began to appear around 4700 years ago, the burial is crouched inhumation where the body is interred, usually on its side with the hip and knee joints bent through an angle of more than 90 degrees, accompanied by a particular pottery known as a beaker. The burial was removed to Leicester Museum;
Beaker Close in Smeeton Westerby is a reminder of this important archaeological find.
Written by David Adams
R A Rutland, 'A Beaker Burial at Smeeton Westerby, Leicestershire 1875'
Spoilheap Archaeology
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Nellie Taylor
Mary Ellen 'Nellie' Taylor (Suffragette) 1863 - 1937
For 10 years the Taylors (Thomas, Nellie and their three children) lived at Westerby House, Smeeton Westerby.
On March 5th 1910 Nellie Taylor organised a WSPU (The Women's Social and Political Union) meeting in the Kibworth Village Hall when an audience consisting mainly of women listened to speeches by two famous suffragettes, Alice Pemberton-Peake and Dorothy Pethwick. From 1910 to 1912 Dorothy Pethwick was the WSPU organiser in Leicester.
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From Smeeton Westerby to Hollywood
This brief note is about Smeeton Westerby resident Captain Thomas Smithies Taylor (born 5 July 1863), who founded a company that was to dominate lens manufacturing in the inter-war period. Through his camera lenses, the world quite literally saw the twentieth century.


Partner with Phil Minnick in Bunn-Minnick Co. of Columbus, Ohio, 1982; active in 2016.
American Institute of Organbuilders (AIO) Membership Rolls: 1982, 1989.
Company was founded in 1969, active in 2016.
There are no entries in the database that describe organs by Robert W. Bunn Jr.


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This is sooooo bad it just came in the mail today, DON'T buy it. First of all it smells like an old lady, secondly I put only 1 pump in my palm and dispersed it and than put it on my dry hair or gave like a wet glossy effect everywhere and yep I DISPERSED it. I probably will wash my hair tomorrow again because it weighs down it. It's just useless my hair is still frizzy but it looks like I put sunflower oil on it. I didn't try to put it on my body but I don't really want to and it's too expensive for such little amount of product to just use as a body lotion.
I usually use Argan/Moroccan oils on my hair, but I wanted to give this a go as I love rose and heard good things about Ouai! A little goes a long way, which is good, and it SMELLS GORGEOUS!!! When your hair moves you get a wave of rosy scent! It doesn't make your hair greasy when applying it to styled hair. It also works well on wet hair and then leave to dry, or on wet hair and gently blow dried! My hair has been so shiny and healthy! It's also lovely on your skin - especially after showering - it sinks in and smells lovely!
Unlike the Ouai hair oil that smells divine, this one smells strange and nothing like a rose or any other flower. It smells expired and bitter. How this one was released from the lab and a bunch of chemists all agreed this smells good or even ok is beyond me. Absolutely strange. Of course, smell is a very individual preference but trust me this has nothing to do with the definition of "good smell". Yes - skin feels nourished and has nice glow and with the right amount it's not bad for (my, curly) hair, but the strange scent wins over what the product does, which isn't exiting. Do yourselves a favour and go buy the NUXE dry oil instead - you'll thank me.
Received this oil in the Jamie Genevieve Cult Beauty box and I have to say it's lovely! Such a light fragrance and it's super absorbent! Just all round a lovely product!!
I got this in the Jamie Geniveve Cult Beauty box and it's great. It smells gorgeous, dries down very quickly for an oil and leaves both your hair and skin feeling wonderful. A little really does go a long way with this product though so don't over do it or you will end up greasy.
I normally use davines Ol oil but thought I would try this product, I don't think it smells that nice and don't feel it really adds any benefit to my hair. I was fairly disappointed by this, to be honest as I was expecting more. I have gone back to my davines one and haven't even finished the bottle of this first which says it all really. Not for me sorry.
This is a great product. Made a huge difference to my hair.
I love the way it makes my skin feel. The smell is amazing too.
I use just a tiny bit on my hair before drying them. Looks cool, smells nice.
I got this in the goody bag and after reading Veronica's review regarding her father and decided to use it on my 9 year old who has eczema down the backs of her legs that I and doctors have literally tried everything on and nothing has soothed or treated it like this oil. It's amazing. As it was only a sample size I managed to use this on her upper and lower legs 4 times and it's almost gone completely. Like Veronica's father, she has stopped scratching which means there are less new open sores she also doesn't complain that it's too greasy or thick stopping her pulling on her school tights or leggings which for me is a bonus as we can apply it without fuss. I will now be ordering the full-size version.
It doesn't quite smell like a rose but the smell is still lovely, it's airy and flowery and not overwhelming. Haven't used it on my hair yet, but it is an amazing body oil. My father has terminal cancer and suffers from dry, flaky skin after target meds and radiotherapy. His skin is extremely dry and fragile, lotions and creams do not work at all. He scratches himself endlessly and couldn't sleep at night because it was too itchy. We tried this product yesterday after consulting the doctor, thinking we had nothing to lose. After just 1 application his skin appears soothed and moisturised, and it absorbs nicely, doesn't leave any residue(neither on him nor me). For the first time in months, he was able to sleep through the night without scratching himself until his skin breaks. We had 3 more applications today and everything is going uphill, some of the less affected areas even appear quite normal and is no longer dry, wrinkly...the more damaged areas might need more work though. I have already ordered some more!
I do not like rose scented product but this oil smell amazing. The absorption is also very quick. So I definitely buy it again.
It's so bad, please splurge on something else.
I just receive this one day ago and I already felt in love. Normally I hate hair oils, because they make my hair look greasy and weight it down. I just took a few spritz into the palm of my hands and rub it to the ends if my hair. It absorbs so fast which I love it. Also I did use it on my arms and after a few seconds it was already absorb from my skin. I love it. And the smell is to die for. I could not stop to smell my hair. Definitely a product which I will buy before it runs out.


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International organization operating under the principle of collective security to maintain global peace. It was weak because there was not universal membership - the United States did not join, Germany was not permitted to join, nor Russia.
Single party government that uses propaganda, repression, surveillance, and terror in an attempt to control every aspect of society.
Radical ideology consisting of hating Jews and non-Aryans (which was not an actual race) and wanted to create "pure Germans"
After the Wiemar Republic ended the Third Reich came about with Hitler as its chancellor.
Replaced the ineffective League of Nations after WWII to prevent such a war from occurring again.
Led the non-violent and self-rule movement in India against Britain. Encouraged the individual making of resources. Led to a Partition of India into a predominately Hindu India and predominately Muslim Pakistan. Because the partition was not popular and the tensions between the two religions grew, a radical Hindu zealot assassinated him.
A form of nationalism of Jews that supports a Jewish nation state in the territory to be liberated from antisemitic discrimination, exclusion, and persecution.
The US vs. North Vietnam and the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communist guerrillas. US became involved because of their belief in the "domino theory" that once a country fell into communism then others would.
East German government built this wall to stop the flow of East Germans to West Germany. It was built overnight and torn down in 1989.
Soviet Allied Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba and the US attempted to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs but failed. The Soviets based nuclear missiles on Cuba. negotiations between Kennedy and Khrushchev led to the Soviet removal of weapons and the American pledge never to invade Cuba.
President of the Soviet Union. Was critical of the repressive aspects of Communism and put in place policies of perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness).


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There's no denying that preparing fresh artichokes is a labour of love, but every year, as spring rolls around, we find ourselves craving them. This dish uses one of our favourite Eastern Mediterranean cooking techniques, of braising vegetables slowly in an oil-rich, aromatic liquor. We let the artichokes' flavour sing through, sharpened with preserved lemon and paired with creamy-fleshed, new-season fingerling potatoes. Any small, stubby or heritage-style, waxy potato will work well here; try nutty kipflers or, if you live in the UK, sweet Jersey Royals. With its smooth basil cream topping this dish is lovely served hot, warm or even cold.
Prepare a bowl of cold water, acidulated with the juice of 1 lemon. Trim the artichoke stems, leaving about 4 cm, and peel away the tough outer layer. Remove the outer hard leaves until you get to the lighter coloured inner leaves. Cut through the artichoke crossways, just above the heart, to remove all the leaves. Use a sharp knife or melon baller to remove the choke. Cut the artichokes in half lengthways, then drop them into the lemon water.
Put all the vegetables in a medium roasting tin and tuck the herbs in among them. Scatter on the coriander and chilli flakes and season with 1/4 teaspoon each of salt and pepper. Pour in the wine, stock and oil and cover the tin with a sheet of greaseproof paper, followed by a sheet of foil.
Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the foil and paper and return to the oven for a further 20 minutes.
While the vegetables are braising, combine the creme fraiche, lemon zest and parmesan in a small saucepan and heat gently until the parmesan melts.
Transfer the vegetables and some of the braising liquor to a serving dish and season with a little extra salt and pepper. Tear the basil leaves roughly and add them to the creme fraiche. Spoon over the vegetables and serve.


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Underprivileged children celebrate Children's Day
At DBYC
ITANAGAR, Nov 14: To commemorate the 128th birth anniversary of Pundit Jawaharlal Nehru, Children's Day was celebrated across the state with great enthusiasm.
More than hundred underprivileged children studying at the Don Bosco Literary Centre celebrated Children's Day at the Don Bosco Youth Centre (DBYC).
The event, organised by Childline, in collaboration with DBYC saw the children taking part in various games and sports activities.
Addressing the students, Deputy Commissioner, Capital Prince Dhawan called on them to become ambassadors for a clean capital.
Encouraging the underprivileged students to have a dream for future, he asked them to work hard towards its realisation. He further said that wellbeing of the state depends on the well being of its children.
Dhawan appreciated the Childline and DBYC for giving a platform to underprivileged children to hone their various skills.
The Itanagar Parish, Fr Mathai and Vice Chancellor of Arunodaya University Dr Vishwa Nath Sharma also spoke on the importance of educating young minds.
Members from the Art of Living distributed protein supplements to the children.
On the occasion, Chief Minister Pema Khandu visited the Government Higher Secondary School and the lone government college of Upper Subansiri district.
On witnessing the dilapidated condition of the school, Pema assured to immediately sanction Rs 10 crore for building of new classrooms and requested the execution of work be carried under DC with proper monitoring team.
He also assured to introduce diploma level computer courses for the school with support from the Department of Telecommunication and informed to hold discussions with the union government on this matter.
He further assured that the college will be shifted to its permanent site at Jeram village.
At Itanagar, the Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee celebrated the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India on November 14 at the Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan in Itanagar.
The party leaders recalled the contributions of Nehru on the occasion and highlighted his love and affection for children. They also appealed to the party men and women to take a pledge to tirelessly work on his values and ideals.
The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Seva Dal also paid tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on the occasion of Children's Day. The Pradesh office bearers and City Congress Seva Dal attended the programme.
DRS International School, Itanagar celebrated Children's Day in its school premises with colourful programmes and healthy competitions.
Children were taught about the significance of the day by the teachers, who also advised them to be good citizens.
At Kharsang, the Bridge of Hope, a child care project for underprivileged children of Believers Eastern Church celebrated Children's Day and its annual day at Namphai Project under Kharsang circle. Cultural programmes by children marked the event.
At Sagalee, the children of Donyi-Polo Mission School celebrated the day with literary and games and sports activities. ADC Jalash Pertin also shared valuable lessons for the children to follow in life.
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Beans are primarily warm season vegetable. There are various varieties of beans. Pole beans can be grown in the container with depth of 8 to 9 inches. Bush beans can be grown in the container with depth of 6 to 7 inches. Some varieties of beans also need containers with depth of 10 to 12 inches around.
There are various varieties of carrots. Smaller varieties are typically better than standard length varieties of carrots for growing in containers. So choose smaller varieties of carrots to grow in containers. Thumbelina, Short n Sweet, Little Fingers, are some varieties of carrots which are well-suited for container gardening.
Cauliflower, broccoli and cabbage are Cole crops which can be grown in containers. But make sure you do not plant lots of plants in single container or pot.
Salad Bush and Bush Pickle are varieties of cucumbers which are very popular in container gardening. Consider right size of containers for growing cucumbers.
Any container which has the depth of at least 5 inches is well-suited for growing eggplant. Use two seeds in one container. You can use clay pot or plastic container to grown the eggplant. Clay container is well-suited for growing well.
Growing your own salad greens and lettuce can provide you a source of fresh leafy vegetable which are nutrient rich and easy to grown. Use right container to grow lettuce and salad greens. A clay pot or container or tray that is at least 6 to 12 inches deep and 18 inches across is a good choice for growing the greens and lettuce.
Dwarf melons or bush sugar baby melons are well-suited for container gardening. Pay special attention to melon plants if you have planted in containers. Enjoy taste of farm-fresh melons growing at your home in containers.
If you have decided to grown onions in containers at your home then you should choose green onions which are known to grow well in containers or clay pots. Make sure the container has at least 5 inches of depth. Within this size you can freely and easily grown onion plant until it is a bulb size.
Choose a container that has 12 inched of depth. Green arrow, maestro, English peas, and sugar bon' snap pea are some known varieties of peas which are well-suited for container gardening.
Use big pot or container to grow peppers at your home. You can grow any type of peppers in container. All varieties are suitable for container gardening.
Generally potatoes are grown in fields. But now-d-days people have started it to grow at containers for enjoying the taste of farm fresh potatoes. It is always fun to grow potatoes but growing them in containers can be more fun activity. Use container that has 12 inches of depth; and plant 3 to 4 potatoes in the container. Irrigate the plant regularly. Make sure the stems are fully covered with the soil.
Radishes are very popular among people who love container gardening. They can be easily and quickly grown in container even in smaller containers. Scatter some seeds in the container and keep the soil moist diligently.
Squash can be easily grown in containers. You should use the container that has 5 to 7 inches of depth so that you can grown the squash varieties such as Cornell Bush Delicata, Papaya Pear and Table King.
And of course if you love gardening especially container gardening then how you can forget about growing yummy tomatoes. Tomatoes are among most important vegetables which are well-suited for container gardening. They can be easily and quickly grown in containers. Cherry Tomato, Plum Yellow, Window Box Roma, etc are some known varieties of tomatoes which can be grown at containers.


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Space History Photo: STS-107 Classroom Training
By NASA Archives 2013-06-07T14:15:29Z
The STS-107 crew trains for their mission, learning about the experiments they will be on board.
(Image: © NASA.)
In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the STS-107 crew in the In-Flight Maintenance training, learning more about experiments that were a part of the mission on Dec. 5, 2000. Seated in front (left to right) are Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla, Israeli Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Commander Rick D. Husband, Mission Specialist Laurel Clark, Pilot William C. "Willie" McCool; in back are Mission Specialists David M. Brown and Michael Anderson.
As a research mission, STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Double Module in its first research flight into space and a broad collection of experiments ranging from material science to life science. For more information on STS-107, please see GRIN Columbia General Explanation
Each weekday, SPACE.com looks back at the history of spaceflight through photos (archive).


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// Utilities
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#include "Utils.h"

//
// Symbols
//
#include "Symbols.h"

//
// NTDLL
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#include "NtDll.h"

//
// Globals
//
extern HANDLE g_hProcess;
extern DWORD  g_ProcessID;
extern ULONG_PTR g_AttachedProcessAddress;
extern DWORD  g_AttachedProcessSize;
extern CString g_ProcessName;

extern std::map<ULONG_PTR, struct MemMapInfo> g_MemMap;
extern std::vector<struct MemMapInfo> g_MemMapCode;
extern std::vector<struct MemMapInfo> g_MemMapData;
extern std::map<ULONG_PTR, MemMapInfo> g_MemMapModules;
extern std::vector<struct AddressName> g_Exports;
extern std::vector<struct AddressName> g_CustomNames;

extern std::vector<HICON> g_Icons;

extern COLORREF g_clrBackground;
extern COLORREF g_clrSelect;
extern COLORREF g_clrHidden;
extern COLORREF g_clrOffset;
extern COLORREF g_clrAddress;
extern COLORREF g_clrType;
extern COLORREF g_clrName;
extern COLORREF g_clrIndex;
extern COLORREF g_clrValue;
extern COLORREF g_clrComment;
extern COLORREF g_clrVTable;
extern COLORREF g_clrFunction;
extern COLORREF g_clrChar;
extern COLORREF g_clrCustom;
extern COLORREF g_clrHex;

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#define FONT_DEFAULT_HEIGHT 16
#define FONT_DEFAULT_SIZE	10

extern CString g_ViewFontName;
extern CFont g_ViewFont;
extern int g_FontWidth;
extern int g_FontHeight;

extern bool g_bAddress;
extern bool g_bOffset;
extern bool g_bText;
extern bool g_bRTTI;
extern bool g_bRandomName;
extern bool g_bResizingFont;
extern bool g_bSymbolResolution;
extern bool g_bLoadModuleSymbol;

extern bool g_bFloat;
extern bool g_bInt;
extern bool g_bString;
extern bool g_bPointers;
extern bool g_bUnsignedHex;

extern bool g_bTop;
extern bool g_bClassBrowser;
extern bool g_bFilterProcesses;
extern bool g_bPrivatePadding;
extern bool g_bClipboardCopy;

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    CString Hex;
    CString Int64;
    CString Int32;
    CString Int16;
    CString Int8;
    CString Qword;
    CString Dword;
    CString Word;
    CString Byte;
    CString Float;
    CString Double;
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    CString Vec3;
    CString Quat;
    CString Matrix;
    CString PChar;
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} RCTYPEDEFS;
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// Hotspot, Node, & Item IDs
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#define WM_CHANGECLASSMENU (WM_USER+WM_MAXITEMS+WM_MAXITEMS)
#define WM_DELETECLASSMENU (WM_USER+WM_MAXITEMS+WM_MAXITEMS+WM_MAXITEMS)

#define ICON_OPEN 0
#define ICON_CLOSED 1
#define ICON_CLASS 2
#define ICON_METHOD 3
#define ICON_VTABLE 4
#define ICON_DELETE 5
#define ICON_ADD 6
#define ICON_RANDOM 7
#define ICON_DROPARROW 8
#define ICON_POINTER 9
#define ICON_ARRAY 10
#define ICON_CUSTOM 11
#define ICON_ENUM 12
#define ICON_FLOAT 13
#define ICON_LEFT 14
#define ICON_RIGHT 15
#define ICON_MATRIX 16
#define ICON_INTEGER 17
#define ICON_TEXT 18
#define ICON_UNSIGNED 19
#define ICON_VECTOR 20
#define ICON_CHANGE 21
#define ICON_CAMERA 22

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// Global functions
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void UpdateMemoryMapIncremental();
BOOLEAN UpdateMemoryMap( );
BOOLEAN UpdateExports( );

ULONG_PTR GetBaseAddress( );

BOOLEAN IsCode( ULONG_PTR Address );
BOOLEAN IsData( ULONG_PTR Address );
BOOLEAN IsMemory( ULONG_PTR Address );
BOOLEAN IsModule( ULONG_PTR Address );

const MemMapInfo* GetModule(ULONG_PTR Address);
ULONG_PTR GetModuleBaseFromAddress( ULONG_PTR Address );

CString GetAddressName( ULONG_PTR Address, BOOLEAN bJustAddress );
CString GetModuleName( ULONG_PTR Address );
ULONG_PTR GetAddressFromName( CString moduleName );

BOOL ReClassReadMemory( LPVOID Address, LPVOID Buffer, SIZE_T Size, PSIZE_T BytesRead = nullptr );
BOOL ReClassWriteMemory( LPVOID Address, LPVOID Buffer, SIZE_T Size, PSIZE_T BytesWritten = nullptr );
HANDLE ReClassOpenProcess( DWORD dwDesiredAccessFlags, BOOL bInheritHandle, DWORD dwProcessID );
HANDLE ReClassOpenThread( DWORD dwDesiredAccessFlags, BOOL bInheritHandle, DWORD dwThreadID );

CStringA ReadMemoryStringA( ULONG_PTR address, SIZE_T max = 40 );
CStringW ReadMemoryStringW( ULONG_PTR address, SIZE_T max = 40 );

int SplitString( const CString& input, const CString& delimiter, CStringArray& results );
ULONG_PTR ConvertStrToAddress( CString str );

//
// Classes & Structs
//
#include "CMemory.h"

struct MemMapInfo
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    DWORD   Size;
    CString Name;
    CString Path;
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struct AddressName
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#define CNodeHex CNodeHex64
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}
#else
#define PrintOutDbg(fmt, ...) (void)(fmt)
#endif

//
// Plugins
//
// NOTE: Plugins disabled and enabled states are dependent on the implementation inside the plugin.
// All we do is send a state change to plugins for them to disable or enable their functionality.
// Also decided to change folder creation so that its up to the user to create the folder if they
// want/have plugins.
//
#include "PluginAPI.h"


I couldn't disagree more and I'm utterly offended. That's a lie. This is helpful summary of a complex issue, and implications abound. I appreciate your work. Faith is often understood as some sort of abstract belief, in which case a sinner's prayer will suffice regardless of what one does afterwards. I think you rightly define faith as a comprehensive, participatory response. The question that I am wrestling with is what to make of conversion experiences. What exactly happens in the "existential moment?" Should pastors use alter calls, and if so, how? I want to emphasize the importance of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, which seems to begin at the conversion experience in the NT, but I also don't want give the impression that someone can say a prayer and then do whatever he or she wants. Thoughts?
Hey Eli! I appreciate it man and I think you certainly raise some important issues/questions. I think conversion experiences are obviously a real/biblical thing. The question for me right now is are they a matter of having faith- understood as just saying a few words or a prayer- or having faith- understood as "a comprehensive response" as noted above, something that radically reorients our belief, behavior, and belonging. I think this is why alter calls (as I understand them) are an unhelpful thing, they typically seem to emphasize the importance of the first definition of faith (just changing my belief) rather than the second (which as a comprehensive response does include a change in belief but can't be limited to that). As for what exactly is happening in that "existential moment" as you put it, that is a interesting question that I certainly don't have a good answer to at the moment! I think it would be interesting to look at Paul/NT use of "calling" or "kaleo" language (like Romans 8:30 and Galatians 1:6) which typically seems to carry an "elective" meaning and think about how that relates to conversion. Obviously what you think is happening in that moment is going to be tied to your thoughts on election. I'm not sure if any of that made sense, I'm typing completely off the cuff right now (maybe Ethan can help us out) but I'm definitely going to have to be thinking about that more. Who knows maybe we can try and figure that out together next semester?!


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Q: on tortoise svn I'm getting commit failed file already exists: filesystem Well I'm getting those error messages.
I've updated my tortoise client and tried cleanup and updates and still can't commit.
Any ideas?
Richard

A: Delete and then check out the code again.
That's it

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Director, MOSTYN | Wales' leading visual arts centre, UK, 2011-present; Head Curator, APT Global, 2009-present; Editor, Critical Photography series Intellect Books, Bristol, UK and Chicago, USA, 2009-present.
Previously Co-curator Pavilions of Mauritius (2015), Maldives and Wales (2013) at the 55th & 56th Venice Biennial, Italy; Curator, EXPO VIDEO Chicago, 2015; Artistic Director, Sequences VII Reykjavik, Iceland, 2015; Senior Curator, QUAD, Derby's Art, Media and Film centre, UK, 2008-11; Co-curator, Manifesta 8, European Biennial of Contemporary Art Region of Murcia, Spain, 2010. Co-founder and -director of itinerant curatorial agencies AGM Culture and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets. Visiting Lecturer in numerous European and American universities.
Auhtored publications include the books Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009), Unmapping the City: Perspective of Flatness (2010), and Forewords (forthcoming, 2017). Free downloadable texts, images and videos from wwww.alcramer.net.


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Q: Проблемы с отправкой POST запроса с помощью cURL Пытаюсь отправить вот такой POST запрос:
POST /prozone HTTP/1.1
Host: 185.47.152.162:82
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: */*
User-Agent: delivermore/2.0.51 (iPhone; iOS 10.3.2; Scale/2.00)
Accept-Language: ru-BY;q=1, en-BY;q=0.9
Content-Length: 76
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

{
  "answer_id" : 177,
  "session_id" : "токен"
}

С помощью вот такого кода:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://185.47.152.162:82/prozone");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "answer_id=177&session_id=токен");  //Post Fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$headers = [
    'Accept: */*',
    'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate',
    'Accept-Language: ru-BY;q=1, en-BY;q=0.9',
    'Content-Type: application/json',
    'Host: 185.47.152.162:82',
    'Connection: keep-alive',
    'User-Agent: delivermore/2.0.51 (iPhone; iOS 10.3.2; Scale/2.00)',
    'Content-Length: 76'
];

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$server_output = curl_exec ($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

print  $server_output ;

В ответ пришла такая строка и я не знаю, выполнилась отправка или нет, и что пришло в этом ответе:

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A: У вас конфликт с кодировкой. Необходимо задать явно возвращаемую кодировку.
Например: Content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Но вам лучше удостовериться какая кодировка используется на внешнем api, а какая на машине с php-скриптом. И исходя из этого указать нужную кодировку, либо результат вручную обработать.


Your washing machine is built with a float mechanism inside of it that works much like the float inside your vehicle's fuel tank gauge. Sometimes these floats are electronic gauges and some or actual floats that you cannot see inside the machine; think of a buoy in the water. A washing machine float tells your washing machine when it is full and the water flow needs to stop, in order to prevent an overflow. Sometimes these floats are defective, or eventually fail due to time.
When a washing machine float fails, it will cause a washing machine overflow. The washing machine no longer can detect the level of water therefore it keeps filling, waiting for the float to tell it to turn off the water flow. When a washing machine overflows, this water can cause damage to the flooring, walls, baseboards and other things that might be in the vicinity of the overflow.
Because we wash our clothes to get rid of dirt and bacteria from everyday use, the water coming from your washing machine is actually not clean. The water contains bacteria that can provide a breeding ground for microbial growth, also known as mold. If not addressed immediately, materials such as carpet and pad will start smelling musty. Baseboards and drywall will begin to visually grow on the surface; this could take days or it could take weeks, but it will happen. Wood floors will buckle and warp and while the mold growth will not occur on the surface for many months, mold will begin to form underneath the wood floors; between the subfloor, paper backing and wood.
If possible, move as many of your personal belongings from the affected area as soon as possible. Wood furniture will stain the floors, particle board furniture will swell and be irreparable, textile materials will soak up the water and cause musty smells in as little as 24 hours.
The important thing about a washing machine overflow is to make sure to call your 24/7 Restoration Professionals and have a technician help you with the cleanup as soon as possible. While the damage might look minimal at first assessment, there may be more than meets the naked eye.