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the eternal swirl of penetrability
Alfred William Lawson, Supreme Head and First Knowlegian of the University of Lawsonomy, at Des Moines, Iowa, was in his own opinion the greatest scientific genius of his day. Martin Gardner devoted an entire chapter of Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science to Lawsonomy
image found here
At the base of Lawsonomy, underlying the entire structure, was a theory of physics so novel that Lawson was forced to invent new terms to describe it.
Lawson conceived of a cosmos in which there was neither energy nor empty space, but only substances of varying density moving toward each other through the operation of two basic Lawsonian principles—Suction and Pressure. The law governing this movement was called Penetrability.
suction image found here
The human body operated by means of thousands of little Suction and Pressure pumps. Air was sucked into the lungs, food into the stomach, and blood around the body. Waste matter was eliminated by Pressure. This "internal swirl goes on as long as the Suction and Pressure terminals are properly maintained." When they cease to draw and push, the man dies.
pressure cooker cola braised ribs found here
Sex, as might be expected, was simply Suction and Pressure. "Suction is the female movement. Pressure is the male. Female movement draws in from without, and male movement pushes out from within. The attraction of one sex for the other is merely the attraction of Suction for Pressure."
Within the human brain, according to Lawson, were two types of tiny creatures called the Menorgs and the Disorgs. The Menorgs (from "mental organizers") are "microscopic thinking creatures that operate within the mental system." They are responsible for everything good and creative.
Unfortunately, the Menorgs have opposed to them the destructive, evil activities of the Disorgs ("disorganizes"), "microscopic vermin that infect the mental system and destroy the instruments constructed by the Menorgs." As Lawson expressed it, "a Menorg will sacrifice himself for the benefit of the body, but a Disorg will sacrifice the body for the benefit of himself."
Just after he turned nineteen, Lawson became a pitcher for an Indiana ballteam. For the next nineteen years he worked in professional baseball, both as a player and a manager. Photographs taken at the time revealed a handsome, chiseled face, dark curly hair, high forehead, and dreamy eyes.
It was during his baseball career that Lawson became corrupted by friends. He began to earn money for money's sake. Worse than that, he took to tobacco and liquor, and the eating of meat. His health failed. His teeth decayed. Then, at the age of twenty-eight, by a superhuman effort of will, he abandoned all these vices.
His first book, a novel called Born Again was written about this experience. It is one of the worst works of fiction ever printed, but Lawson claimed "many people consider it the greatest novel ever written by man."
Soon after he published it, Lawson began a career in aviation. In 1908 he established the first popular aeronautical magazine, Fly. From 1910 to 1914 he edited another magazine called Aircraft, a word he coined himself. He introduced it into the dictionary as editor of the aviation section of a revised Webster's.
In 1919 he invented, designed, and built the world's first passenger airliner. It carried eighteen people, and although there was considerable doubt as to whether it would fly, Lawson himself piloted it from Milwaukee to Washington and back. In 1920, he built a twenty-six-passenger plane, and made a handsome profit flying it around the United States. It was the first plane to have sleeping berths.
His books Direct Credits for Everybody, and Know Business, detail the basic tenets of the "Lawson Money System." He proposed that he gold standard be abolished. "Valueless money" was to be issued, not redeemable for anything. Parades and mass meetings of his followers were held in dozens of midwestern cities; the largest was in Detroit in October 1933. The floats, carrying plump and elaborately costumed women, were so preposterous that unless there were photographs you wouldn't believe them. (Unfortunately I couldn't find any).
Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade found here
In 1942, Lawson purchased the University of Des Moines. The school, which included fourteen acres, six buildings, and dormitories for four hundred students, had been closed since 1929. He called it the Des Moines University of Lawsonomy. Lawson's opinion of American education was low. "You don't begin to get bald on the inside of your heads until you start to go to high school," he once declared, "and you don't get entirely bald until you pass through college."
bald head design art found here
He placed a high premium on bodily vigor, and recommended an elaborate set of health rules. He believed in a diet without meat, consisting mostly of raw fruits and vegetables. "All salads," he once wrote, "should contain a sprinkling of fresh cut grass." The head should be dunked in cold water upon arising and before going to bed. He also believed in sleeping nude, and changing bed sheets daily.
nude by Modigliani found here
He was against kissing. "Can you think of anything filthier than a man and woman with their faces stuck together and spitting disease microbes into each other's mouths?" "Alfred Lawson never hated nor harmed a man, woman, or child in his life," wrote Lawson. "In days gone by when anybody struck harmfully at this writer, he merely took hold of the offender and threw him to the ground to show his superior strength and ingenuity, and then rose with a friendly smile to show there was no hatred in his system whatsoever. "
on April 25, 2012 at 6:47 am Comments (50)
Tags: history, lawsonomy, sacrifice, sex, suction
a darker shade of bad hat
'Bad hats' was a term employed in China during the 20th century to describe undesirable or simply 'bad' characters that landed in their treaty port concessions.
"In the 1930s a new breed of 'bad hat' began to emerge, often well-financed and politically affiliated with intelligence contacts in their own countries.The term began to take on a much darker shade in the press. One of the most notorious was a Viennese Doctor by the name of Hermann Erben.
In 1924 he won a fellowship for study at the Psychiatric Institute for Medical Research in New Jersey. He moved to the USA and acquired citizenship. In 1926 he began a wandering life and ended up a ship's doctor on the American Dollar and President lines. In 1934 he visited Papua New Guinea and struck up an aquaintance with the film star Errol Flynn.The two of them ended up bumming around together travelling to India, Abyssina and then Vienna. In 1935 the New York Herald Tribune reported his arrival abroad the freighter 'City of Rayville" in the company of 1,100 monkeys that he was importing from Calcutta. Upon disembarkation in New York he encountered difficulties with the customs authorities. Eventually he secured admission with his simian charges and took lodging with them at the YMCA but left soon afterwards, following a difference of opinion over the bill.
In 1937 he was reported to have been engaged in inciting a mutiny abroad an American cruise liner on which he was working. FBI inquiries revealed a pattern of challenging behaviour aboard the ship; he allegedly "wiped his hands on the American flag after taking food from the icebox", had given the Nazi salute to a passing German ship and had threatened anyone criticizing Adolf Hitler that he would "sink his teeth into their throat". His on board stage act was an uncanny impersonation of Adolf Hitler for anyone interested.
Baby Hitler found here
In 1941 Erben arrived back in China. He went directly from the docks to the German consulate, where he was interviewed by local Gestapo and bureau chiefs. Shanghai at this time, due to its non-defined territorial international settlement's status, had become a hotbed of espionage activities, its big hotels were famous for eavesdroppers and electronic bugs which had led to such wartime incongruities as a Nazi-controlled German embassy being housed in a British owned building on the Bund.
Shanghai in the 1940s found here
Erben, as a ship's physician, was assigned to treat American sailors. He also received an order to contact the U.S embassy in his capacity as a U.S citizen with a view to learning about their security. Meanwhile he practiced medicine as a venereal disease specialist and abortionist for rich Chinese and foreign families. Extortion by sexual blackmail became something of hobby for him too, a well-known practice amongst corrupt doctors in the city. He also entered the opium smuggling business which proved more lucrative than espionage for the Nazis. Slowly the lure of easy money drew Erben away from his Nazi beliefs and he began selling 'intelligence' reports to Allies and Axis powers alike, often being creative in his write-ups.
The German intelligence establishment in Shanghai came to consider Erben an extremely questionable person and made inquiries about his background. In 1943 a message came from Berlin that Erben was an 'imposter, narcotics dealer and American propagandist'. The Nazis in Shanghai decided to play one of their (few and far between) humourous jokes on him. His controller, a Gestapo officer called Habenicht, asked him to go undercover in an internment camp in order to gather intelligence; from there he could effect an escape with an American prisoner and flee to Chungking to work as a German agent. He was handed over to Japanese guards but Erben quickly became a pariah, due to the other inmates' well founded suspicions. He spent two and a half years in the camp as a 'volunteer' with no word from his controller. It appears to have been a joke assignment from his Gestapo superiors.
After the war he returned to Vienna and took up medicine again (where no one discovered another of his secrets -he never actually got his medical degree), dying at the age of 88 in an tiny unheated apartment in 1985.
on April 22, 2012 at 12:33 am Comments (49)
Tags: bad hat, espionage hotbed, history, Hitler, nazi, simian
guilty of many carelessly written sentences
Olga, the Baroness de Meyer (1871 – 1930/1931) was an artists' model, socialite, patron of the arts, writer, and fashion figure of the early 20th century. She was the wife of photographer Adolph de Meyer and was rumoured to be the natural daughter of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.
image of Olga found here
To many individuals who observed Olga's early life the most distinguished familial connection was her relationship with Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales and later King Edward VII. Though officially her godfather, the British royal was known to be one of Olga's mother's lovers and, consequently, suspected of being Olga's actual father.
King Edward visiting Marienbad found here
However, other potential fathers have been identified. A strong candidate was Stanislaus Augustus, 3rd Prince Poniatowski and 3rd Prince of Monte Rotondo, a former equerry of Napoleon III, whom Olga reportedly resembled and with whom the newlywed Duchess Caracciolo reportedly eloped on 1 September 1869, the very day her arranged marriage with the duke took place.
Olga married Marino Brancaccio in 1892, and divorced him in 1899. Artist Jacques-Émile Blanche, a family friend, called it "a short and most dramatic union". A month later she married Adolphe de Meyer, a celebrated artist and photographer. This was a marriage of convenience, as the groom was homosexual and the bride was bisexual; some sources went to far as to identify her as a lesbian.
Baron de Meyer found here
The de Meyers were characterized by Violet Trefusis—who counted Olga among her lovers —as "Pederaste and Medisante" because, as Trefusis observed, "He looked so queer and she had such a vicious tongue". Olga also had an affair with Princess de Polignac, the well known Singer sewing-machine heiress and arts patron.
Known for "her elusive combination of childlike innocence and soigné charm" and described as "tall and slender, with Venetian red hair", Olga de Meyer was muse and model to many artists. Though British novelist George Moore was unimpressed by her beauty. As he commented to an admiring friend, "By Jove, you're all after the girl, a fine Mélisande for the stage, with her beautiful hair down to her heels. She's paintable, I admit, but as to one's daily use, I should rather have the mother than the daughter. Too slender for me … you know my tastes."
image of long hair found here
She worked briefly as a society columnist for a Paris newspaper in the 1890s. As Mahrah de Meyer, a name she adopted on the advice of an astrologer, she wrote one novel, the autobiographical Nadine Narska. The New York Times condemned the novel as "morbid, exaggerated and guilty of many carelessly written sentences", while The Dial called de Meyer's book "a miscellaneous mixture of paganism, diluted Nietzsche, and the doctrine of reincarnation".
paganism image found here
Known as a female amateur fencing champion, Baroness de Meyer competed at tournaments in Europe and the United States in the early 1900s. The last years of Olga de Meyer's life were not pleasant ones. As an observer wrote, "Nervous, drugged, surrounded by ambiguous friends and accompanied by a too-conspicuous husband, Olga became frankly spiteful. Scandal-mongering had eliminated the last of her respectable friends, and people visited her only because they could be sure to find a pipe of opium or a sniff of cocaine".
more lovely stereoscopic images here
Olga de Meyer died in a detoxification clinic in Austria in 1930 or 1931.
on April 18, 2012 at 9:54 pm Comments (38)
Tags: artist, author, diluted Nietzsche, marriage of convenience
putting his body on the line
Richard Glover is a columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald, who, last year, wanted to rid himself of warts…..
warthog walking stick found here
A month or so ago, I confessed to having a couple of doozies on my left hand. I'd visited several doctors who tried to defeat them in vain. I was forced to conclude medical science was not up to the job.
medicine man found here
Cue 137 readers who have kindly written about the wart-defeating method used in their household. I'm now able to present at least 30 different cures and – by statistical analysis – list the Top Three Folk Remedies.
Karen recommends the sap from a poinsettia bush. Trevor, Kathryn, two Davids and a Rowley recommend the sap from the milk thistle weed. Bill recommends breathing on them. Fiona recommends homeopathy; Lyn prefers echinacea; and Georgie says to take two kelp tablets a day for three weeks.
learn to make poinsettia cookies here
Caro then invites me to urinate on my hand first thing in the morning. I decide against including this method in my study, however many votes it receives.
Sandie recommends vitamin E oil. Belinda and others advocate aloe vera. Mick suggests taping a piece of onion over them for a few days. Henry cites the same technique but using a slice of lemon. Jenny substitutes oranges and, in her cure, you eat them.
purple onion skunk found here
As I open the letters and emails, things are getting weirder. Anne, Alicia and Keith all recommend fetching a snail from the garden and rubbing the mucus over the warts each day. Mary instructs me to spit on them first thing in the morning, then offers the helpful addendum: ''P.S. You cannot use another person's spit."
snail graffiti found here
Barbara says she had a wool-classer boyfriend in the 1950s and he, along with the shearers, never suffered from warts because of the lanolin in the wool. I should give that a go, she says – the lanolin, not the shearer boyfriend.
Lynne says hers disappeared sometime during a 16-hour labour, giving birth to her first son, and suggests I close my eyes and fantasise I'm giving birth.
Tracy was told by her mum to rub the wart with raw meat then take the meat outside and bury it in the garden. Beverly has the same rub-then-bury technique but hers uses a potato. Barnie does the same but using the furry bit inside a broad bean pod.
In the 1950s, Frank lived in a small country town in which the cure was to ask a local called "Old George Kearns" to stare at your warts, at which point they would fall off. If Old George wasn't around, you'd tell his son, who'd ask his father to think about your warts when he arrived home. As soon as he got around to it, the warts would disappear.
Old George found here
And Anne says she'd get an empty washbasin, take it into the backyard at night and wash her hands in moonlight.
What was the cure most often recommended? Banana peel, white side pressed against the wart and then fixed in place with sticking plaster, as suggested by 12 readers.
Each day I strap two bits of peel to my hands. They have an amazing effect, rapidly eating away the warts, somewhat assisted by a bit of action with a pumice stone.
Nine days into my experiment, the warts are almost gone. I had intended to test the aloe vera cure and the milk thistle cure but I won't have a chance.
What to do about the rough patch left behind? Thoroughly converted to the world of folk cures, I grab an empty washbasin and head out into the darkened backyard.
It's nothing washing my hands in moonlight won't fix.
Tags: banana, cure, health, warts
faith and fasting and the mysterious man from Mayfair
Maurice Wilson MC (1898–1934) was a British soldier, mystic, mountaineer and aviator who is known for his ill-fated attempt to climb Mount Everest alone
Wilson found here
Often characterised as "eccentric", he wished to climb Everest to promote his belief that the world's ills could all be solved by a combination of fasting and faith in God.
Mt Everest found here
He joined the army on his eighteenth birthday and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a Captain. He won the Military Cross for his part in an engagement where, as the only uninjured survivor of his unit, he single-handedly held a machine gun post against the advancing Germans.
Wilson left the army in 1919, and like many of the "lost generation" found the transition to post-war life difficult. For several years he wandered, living in London, the United States and then New Zealand where he ran a ladies clothes shop.
NZ Fashion Week 2008 found here
In 1932 he underwent a secretive treatment involving 35 days of intensive prayer and fasting with the aim of restoring his fading health. He claimed that the technique had come from a mysterious man he met in Mayfair who had cured himself and over 100 other people of diseases which doctors had declared incurable.
The idea of climbing Everest came to Wilson while he was recuperating in the Black Forest. He formed a plan to fly a small aeroplane to Tibet, crash-land it on the upper slopes of Everest, and walk to the summit. A practical problem was posed by the fact that Wilson knew nothing at all about either flying or mountaineering.
Black Forest found here
Wilson purchased a three-year-old Gipsy Moth, which he christened Ever Wrest, and set about learning the rudiments of flying. His preparation for the mountaineering challenge that lay ahead was even worse than his preparation for the flight. He bought no specialist equipment and made no attempt to learn technical mountaineering skills, such as the use of an ice axe and crampons. Instead, he spent just five weeks walking around the modest hills of Snowdonia and the Lake District before he declared himself ready.
Snowdonia found here
Ignoring the Air Ministry's ban, Wilson set off, and remarkably, and in spite of the best efforts of the British government, he succeeded in reaching India two weeks later. After trying and failing to get permission to enter Tibet on foot, Wilson spent the winter in Darjeeling fasting and planning an illicit journey to the base of Everest.
Darjeeling found here
Most of what is known about Wilson's activities on the mountain itself come from his diary, which was recovered the following year. He seems to have found the trek up the Rongbuk Glacier extremely difficult, constantly getting lost and having to retrace his steps. He wrote in his diary "It's the weather that's beaten me – what damned bad luck" and began a gruelling four day retreat down the glacier.
Rongbuk Glacier found here
On May 22, he made an abortive attempt to climb to the North Col. After four days of slow progress and camping on exposed ledges, he was defeated by a forty foot ice wall at around 22,700 ft. His last diary entry was dated 31 May, and read simply "Off again, gorgeous day"
In 1935, a small reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest found Wilson's body, lying on its side in the snow and surrounded by the remains of a tent which had been torn apart by the elements.
But there's one more twist to this adventure. Rumours have continued to arise that Wilson had a secret. Barry Collins, who's written a play about Wilson says, "It appears that when Wilson was found there was women's clothing in his rucksack and I've heard someone say that he was decked out in women's underwear".
The story was fuelled by the discovery of a ladies shoe at 21,000 feet by the 1960 Chinese expedition. Historian Audrey Salkeld says "We can't conclusively pin the woman's shoe find on Wilson but, knowing that he worked in a ladies dress shop in New Zealand, all these things have come together to build a picture of him as a transvestite or shoe fetishist."
NOT this shoe found here
Tags: fall from grace, history, mountaineer, mysterious man, secret, shoe
he had his father's eye for women
Harry Crosby (1898–1929) was an American heir, a bon vivant, poet and publisher. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England.
Harry and friend found here
Tired of the rigidity of everyday life, he said he wanted to escape "the horrors of Boston virgins." Profoundly affected by his experience as an ambulance driver in World War I, Crosby vowed to live life on his own terms.
He had his father's eye for women and in 1920 met Mrs. Polly Peabody, six years his senior. Harry reportedly fell in love with the buxom Mrs. Peabody in about two hours, confessing all in the Tunnel of Love at the amusement park. Their open affair was the source of scandal and gossip among blue-blood Bostonians. Polly divorced her alcoholic husband and married Crosby. Two days later they left for Europe, where they enjoyed a decadent lifestyle, drinking, smoking opium, traveling frequently, and having an open marriage.
Harry worked at Morgan, Harjes et Cie, the Morgan family's bank in Paris. They found an apartment overlooking the Seine, and Polly would don her red bathing suit and row Harry down the Quai d'Orléans in his dark business suit, formal hat, umbrella and briefcase. As she rowed back home, the well endowed Polly would enjoy whistles and waves from workmen. She said the exercise was good for her breasts.
"The Young Rower" found here
Even by the wild standards of Paris in the 1920s, Harry was in a league of his own. The couple lived a hedonistic life. Harry was a gambler and a womanizer; he drank "oceans of champagne" and used opium, cocaine, and hashish. They wrote a mutual suicide pact, and carried cremation instructions with them.
more of Harry's photography to be found here
In 1924, Harry persuaded Polly to formally change her first name, as he felt Polly was too prim and proper. They briefly considered Clytoris before deciding on Caresse. Harry and Caresse became known for hosting small dinner parties from the giant bed in their palatial townhouse, and afterwards everyone was invited to enjoy their huge bathtub together, taking advantage of iced bottles of champagne near at hand.
image by Burt Glinn found here
Crosby claimed to be a "sun worshiper in love with death." He added a doodle of a "black sun" to his signature which also included an arrow, jutting upward from the "y" in his last name and aiming toward the center of the sun's circle: "a phallic thrust received by a welcoming erogenous zone".
In Morocco Harry and Caresse took a 13-year-old dancing girl named Zora to bed with them. His seductive abilities were legendary and he engaged in a series of ongoing affairs, maintaining relationships with a variety of beautiful and doting young women.
NOT this Zora (Hurston) found here
His wildness was in full flower during the drunken orgies of the annual Four Arts Balls. One year, Caresse showed up topless riding a baby elephant and wearing a turquoise wig. The motif for the ball that year was Inca, and Harry dressed for the occasion, covering himself in red ocher and wearing nothing but a loincloth and a necklace of dead pigeons.
pigeon ring necklaces found here
Embracing the open sexuality offered by Crosby and his wife, Henri Cartier-Bresson fell into an intense sexual relationship with Caresse that lasted until 1931. Meanwhile, in 1928 Harry found 20-year-old Josephine Rotch. Ten years his junior, they met while she was shopping in Venice for her wedding trousseau. She was dark and intense and had been known around Boston as fast: a 'bad egg' with sex appeal.
image by Cartier-Bresson found here
Josephine and Harry had an affair until the following June, when she married Albert Smith Bigelow. Briefly, their affair was over, but only until August, when Josephine contacted Crosby and they rekindled their love. But unlike Caresse, Josephine was quarrelsome and prone to fits of jealousy.
In December, the Crosbys returned to the United States. Harry and Josephine met and traveled to Detroit where they checked into the Book-Cadillac Hotel as Mr. and Mrs Harry Crane. For four days they took meals in their room, smoked opium, and had sex. On December 7, the lovers returned to New York. Crosby's friend Hart Crane threw a party to bid Harry and Caresse bon voyage, as they were about to sail back to France. Josephine said she would return to her husband but instead stayed in New York, writing a poem to Harry, the last line of which read: Death is our marriage.
refurbished Book-Cadillac Hotel found here
On the evening of December 10, Harry was nowhere to be found. It was unlike him to worry Caresse needlessly so she called Stanley Mortimer, whose studio Harry had used for trysts. Mortimer forced open a locked door, behind which he found Harry and Josephine's bodies. Harry was in bed with a .25 caliber bullet hole in his right temple next to Josephine, who had a matching hole in her left temple, in what appeared to be a suicide pact.
A picture of Zora, the 13-year-old girl he had sex with in Egypt, was reportedly found in his wallet. The coroner reported that Harry's toenails were painted red, and that he had a Christian cross tattooed on the sole of one foot and a pagan icon representing the sun on the other. The coroner concluded that Josephine had died at least two hours before Harry. There was no suicide note, and newspapers ran sensational articles for days.
Harry's poetry possibly gave the best clue to his motives. Death is "the hand that opens the door to our cage, the home we instinctively fly to." Harry's biographer Wolff wrote:
He meant to do it; it was no mistake; it was not a joke. If anything of Harry Crosby commands respect, perhaps even awe, it was the unswerving character of his intention. He killed himself not from weariness or despair, but from conviction, and however irrational or ignoble this conviction may have been, he held fast to it as to a principle. He killed himself on behalf of the idea of killing himself.
Tags: bad egg, drugs, parties, pigeon, sex, wealth
his name is Unilson and he comes from the planet Vanfim
Silvio Berlusconi has his own private fortune teller and her name is Teodora
She foretold that he would become prime minister, to which he replied that if her predictions came true, he'd guarantee her TV appearances—and riches—for life. Recently, Teodora was kind enough to consent to an interview with Vice Magazine, which must have been boring since she presumably knew what would be asked beforehand.
Vice magazine cover found here
VICE: Tell us how your psychic career started.
"In 1984 I was in a car accident, which put me in a coma for 14 days. When I came around, I had these strange feelings. I thought I was going insane. Hearing the voice in my head for the first time, I refused to accept it was real. In communist times it was very difficult to share such bizarre experiences.
more communist construction images found here
VICE: So who, exactly, is the entity behind the omnipotent voice that is broadcast inside your head?
His name is Unilson, and he comes from the planet Vanfim. What he told me is that everything around us is energy, which contains information about all that exists, much like a giant computer. All you need is the key: a name and birth date. The key allows you to look into the past and the present, and therefore the future.
VICE: Did Unilson tell you about the origin of this world, of human beings?
Both us and them are God's creatures, and the extraterrestrials made the robot.
VICE: Is it likely that your alien friends may wish to pay us a visit anytime soon?
They're already here, they're the energy making contact with us. But we are not ready yet. They don't want tot scare us; they just want to help us lead a more earthly and natural life. The indigo and crystal children who have been coming into the world recently are prepared to make contact with them.
VICE: Will the world be ending soon?
2012 will not be the end of the world. However, the system will change and provide answers to a number of important questions that have been piquing the human mind. For instance, the euro will continue to decline, and by 2016 there will be a new European currency. Germany will embark on a new path and establish its own currency. Italy will be revived and prosper once more. Turkey will become the leader of the Islamic world. China has been trying to see how the land lies before it starts to expand.
polluted land in China found here
VICE: How about the USA?
America is still the top power, but China is claiming the position. There will be turmoil over some countries' debts, but the future belongs to the Asian race. America will clash with Iran in an Israel-inspired conflict. Chemical and nuclear war will start from there.
VICE: Oh, man, this doesn't sound good. Iranians can be a tad extreme.
This is inevitable, and so is the war. Parts of the ocean will be poisoned, the air too, and some of the crops, and not only in Iran but in many parts of the planet. Sea animals will start dying for no visible reason. Countries will become self-encapsulated. Those that have freshwater will not share it; those that have oil will keep it to themselves. Another thing: There will be some problems caused by an asteroid.
Geonosis asteroid battle found here
VICE: What is the future of the Middle East following the Arab Spring?
They will turn to modern Islam, and great changes are in store for their governments. They will be united around their sheikhs and have their own currency. But this and other things I should not tell you, for they are in my new book, which is due out soon.
Bedouin sheikhs found here
VICE: With previous prognostications you've made, many failed to come true. For instance, you predicted that Berlusconi would complete his full term, and look what happened.
I am only a tiny conductor of all this energy. I am not perfect, and good for me: Imagine the CIA abducting me, and then I'd have to work for them. Generally, I have about 80 percent reliability, plus the future can be altered by other factors.
image from the CIA museum found here
VICE: What other factors?
Humans, for example. We have been excessively investing in the material, and therefore nothing good awaits us. In 2012, people's thinking will undergo a process of reevaluation. The flexible ones, who are fit to live with plenty and with little, shall survive, while the rest fall away.
VICE: Do you honestly believe such a change is possible?
The year started with a tragedy in Italy, and remember what happened in Japan last year. Calamities bring people together, and there are more to come. People will be continuously scanned; the computer will become an integral part of any man, like a wristwatch. We shall all be scanned, financially and otherwise, but we'll also be watched by other civilizations. Time will be running out, and it will seem to us that life is getting shorter and shorter.
wristwatch computer found here
VICE: Won't it be getting longer?
It surely will. Some people will look like mummies but will live as long as 150 years, thanks to advanced medicine.
VICE: How do people of faith respond to your powers?
The Catholic Church will acknowledge the extraterrestrials, who implicitly obey God anyway, so the Vatican and the rest of the churches will have to reconsider their attitude to this particular issue. The first disconcerting thing to happen will be the discovery of God's particle. And this is due to happen very very shortly……
Tags: alien, asteroid, CIA, extraterrestrials, prediction, vice
James Barry (c. 1789 – 1865), was a military surgeon in the British Army.
"Among his accomplishments was the first caesarean section in Africa by a British surgeon in which both the mother and child survived the operation. Although Barry lived his adult life as a man, it is widely believed that he was born a female named Margaret Ann Bulkley and that he chose to live as a man so that he might be accepted as a university student and be able to pursue his chosen career as a surgeon.
Margaret was born in Ireland in 1789, the second child of Jeremiah and Mary-Ann Bulkley. The child's mother was the sister of James Barry, a celebrated Irish artist and professor of painting at London's Royal Academy. However, a family crisis left Mary-Ann and Margaret without the support of Jeremiah Bulkley. Letters during this time of financial hardship refer to a conspiracy between Mary-Ann and some of her brother's influential, liberal-minded friends to get the teenager – then still known as Margaret – into medical school.
self portrait by James Barry found here
A letter to the family solicitor shows that Mary-Ann and Margaret travelled to Edinburgh by sea in November 1809. The letter also indicated that the younger traveller had assumed a male identity upon embarking on the voyage. Following his arrival in Edinburgh, Barry began studies as a 'literary and medical student'. He qualified with a Medical Doctorate in 1812, then moved back to London.
Edinburgh found here
Barry was commissioned as a Hospital Assistant with the British Army, taking up a post in the Royal Military Hospital in Plymouth, where he was promoted to Assistant Staff Surgeon. After that he served in India and South Africa. Barry's next postings included Mauritius, Trinidad and Tobago, and the island of Saint Helena. In Saint Helena he got into trouble for leaving for England unannounced. Later he served in Malta, the Crimea, Jamaica, and Canada.
St Helena found here
He was a misfit from the start: less than 5ft tall, he wore stacked heels and had to have 3in soles fastened to his boots to give him elevation. But the flamboyant styles of the day – men dressed effeminately as a fashion, not a sexual statement – worked in his favour.
elephant dung stacked heels found here
He rapidly became known for his foibles, which included sleeping every night with a black poodle called Psyche, riding about in dress uniform wearing a cavalry sword and taking a goat everywhere so he could drink its milk. Despite "a most peculiar squeaky voice and mincing manner", as one ambassador's daughter noted, Dr Barry's fierce temper ensured he was a force to be reckoned with.
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Barry was not always a pleasant fellow to be around. He could be tactless, impatient, argumentative and opinionated. He reputedly fought a couple of duels when someone commented on his voice and feminine features, though he appears to have had a good bedside manner and professional skill. He was a vegetarian and teetotaler and reputedly recommended wine baths for some (lucky) patients.
Wine Bath image found here
James Barry retired in 1864 — reputedly against his wishes — and returned to England. He died from dysentery a year later. Sophia Bishop, the charwoman who took care of the body, discovered his female anatomy and revealed this information after the funeral. Many people then claimed to have "known it all along".
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the well done count
Comte St. Germain (allegedly 1710-1935) has been described as an adventurer, charlatan, inventor, alchemist, violinist and amateur composer, but is best known as a recurring figure in the stories of several strands of occultism.
St. Germain never revealed his actual background and identity, leading to many speculations about him and his origin and ancestry. Some of these include the possibility that he was the son of Francis II Rakoczi, the Prince of Transylvania.
still from the movie Transylvania found here
St. Germain's first chronicled appearances were in London in 1743 and in Edinburgh in 1745, where he was apparently arrested for spying. He was released in 1746 and promptly disappeared. Horace Walpole, who knew him in London, described him thus: "He sings, plays the violin wonderfully, composes, is mad and not very sensible".
speedy violin player, David Garrett found here
He reappeared in Versailles in 1758, claiming to have secret recipes for dyes. During his time in Paris he gave diamonds as gifts and reputedly hinted that he was centuries old. After that the Count moved into Russia and apparently was in St Petersburg when the Russian army put Catherine the Great on the throne. Later conspiracy theories credit him for causing it.
The next year he turned up in Belgium and tried to offer processing secrets of wood, leather and oil paint to the state. He supposedly turned iron into something resembling gold and then disappeared for another 11 years. In 1776 he appeared in Germany calling himself Count Welldone, and again offered recipes for cosmetics, wines, liqueurs, treatments of bone, paper and ivory.
ivory tabernacle found here
There were rumors of him being alive in Paris in 1835, in Milan in 1867 and in Egypt during Napoleon's campaign. Annie Besant said she met the Count in 1896. Theosophist Guy Ballard claimed that the Count had introduced him to visitors from Venus and published a book series about his channelings.
Though he never ate any food in public, he liked dining out because of the people he met and the conversations he heard. They say he lived on oatmeal. He had an immense stock of amusing stories with which he regaled society. He was interested in the preparation of dyes and even started a factory in Germany for the manufacture of felt hats. The count claimed that he had learned how to turn several small diamonds into one large one and to make pearls grow to spectacular size.
Mr Pearl found here
In 1972, ex-convict and lover of singing star Dalida, Richard Chanfray claimed to be the Count of St. Germain on French television. He also claimed that Louis XV was still alive. During the centuries after his death, numerous myths, legends and speculations have surfaced. He has been attributed with occult practices like snake charming and ventriloquism.
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But even if he has never come back, even if he is no longer alive and we must relegate to legend the idea that the great Hermetic nobleman is still wandering about the world with his sparkling jewels, his senna tea, and his taste for princesses and queens, even so it can be said that he has gained the immortality he sought.
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imaginary solutions
Alfred Jarry (1873 – 1907) was a French writer and inventor of a pseudoscience or "science of imaginary solutions" which he called 'pataphysique.
In collaboration with his classmates at the Lycée of Rennes, he wrote Ubu Roi to ridicule a pompous and fat mathematics teacher, Monsieur Hébert. At the age of 18 he moved to Paris to pursue his studies and to write two sequels, Ubu Enchaîné and Ubu Cocu.
Ubu found here
When Ubu Roi was first presented in 1896 at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, the coarseness of the language and anarchistic tones were too much for the audience, which rose in outrage after the first word, "Merdre!" One reviewer said: "Despite the late hour, I have just taken a shower. An absolutely essential preventive measure when one has been subjected to such a spectacle."
When he was drafted into the army in 1894, his gift for turning notions upside down defeated attempts to instill military discipline. The sight of the small man in a uniform much too large for his less than 5-foot frame was so disruptively funny that he was excused from parades and marching drills. After five months, Jarry was discharged for medical reasons.
dwarf in uniform in walnut shell coach found here
He then began to frequent literary salons and devoted himself to writing. Jarry's first book was a collection of prose and verse. It was followed by an unperformable play and a novel, even more obscure than anything he had previously produced. Le Surmâle (The Supermale) was Jarry's last work. "The act of love is of no importance, since it can be performed indefinitely," states Jarry in the beginning of the book. The hero of the erotic fantasy is a superman who wins a bicycle race against a six-man team, he has sex 82 times with a women, and experiences the final climax with an amorous machine.
amorous machine found here
'Pataphysics – the initial apostrophe was deliberate – mixed science, science fiction, technology and art. Jarry defined it as the science of imaginary solutions, "which will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one." Paul McCartney paid homage to Jarry's branch of metaphysics in his Beatles song Maxwell's Silver Hammer from 1969.
Until his death at the age of thirty-four, Jarry was a familiar figure stalking the streets of Paris with his green umbrella, wearing cyclist's garb and carrying two pistols. According to an anecdote, once he was asked for a light in the street and discharged a pistol shot instead. He also adopted the gestures of his creation, Ubu, speaking in a high falsetto and always employing the royal "we." In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, "If that should ever happen, madame, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you" (though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied).
Jarry and child found here
His fortune was soon spent, and Jarry lapsed into a chaotic, Bohemian life. He discovered the pleasures of alcohol, which he called "my sacred herb" or, when referring to absinthe, the "green goddess". A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour (and possibly under its influence). He lived in a bizarre apartment where each storey had been cut horizontally in half to make double the original number of floors. He lived and died a virgin, and although he hated christianity, he felt compelled to seek God on his deathbed. It is recorded that his last request was for a toothpick.
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Stewart Mandel's college football bowl projections: It's time to project all 41 bowls each week
By Stewart Mandel Nov 1, 2021 50
You know it's November when I turn crazy enough to start projecting the lineup for all 41 bowls. My College Football Playoff lineup remains the same as last week, but to be clear, this is how I see the race playing out over the last five weeks. Ohio State and Oklahoma don't belong in the committee's top four just yet, but they'll get there if they keep winning.
Unlike some, I'm not concerned about Cincinnati being left out at 13-0. They already have a top-10 win at Notre Dame (who I now have going 11-1), and both SMU and Houston are now ranked in the AP poll. With Ole Miss and Kentucky losing on Saturday, the SEC may max out at three New Year's Six teams. I still have the 6-2 Rebels as that third team, but the winner of Saturday's Auburn-Texas A&M game will put itself in prime position.
Finally, as soon as I jumped on the Pitt bandwagon last week, I had to jump back off and ask Wake Forest for forgiveness.

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TA Will Track Safety Policies of NYC's Private Fleet Operators
By Brad Aaron
Transportation Alternatives is calling on private fleet operators who do business in New York City to talk about what they're doing to make employees safer drivers.
Operators of private trash trucks are among the most dangerous drivers in NYC. Photo: Jason Lawrence/Flickr
"Fleet management is one of the most effective ways to reduce injuries and fatalities on New York City's streets," said TA Executive Director Paul Steely White in a press release. "Fleet managers set the pace for safe driving, and we want to recognize the operators that are raising the bar for safety on New York City's streets."
In Sweden, a principal Vision Zero strategy is to move responsibility upward by directing reforms and incentives at the level of fleet operators. NYC does not keep track of how many people are injured and killed in crashes caused by the drivers of private fleet vehicles, but other data sets point to the extent of the problem.
A 2014 U.S. DOT study of city data found that trucks make up 3.6 percent of vehicles in the city, but account for 12.3 percent of pedestrian fatalities and 32 percent of cyclist deaths. "Killed by Automobile," Charles Komanoff's 1999 analysis of city traffic fatalities, reported that private trash haulers kill more people per mile driven than other truck drivers.
In January, TA sent out surveys to more than 100 commercial truck and taxi fleet operators, with questions concerning driver training, crash avoidance technology, and collision response protocols. Three companies — Fresh Direct, Con Edison, and Academy Bus — were ahead of the pack, TA reports, and were invited to participate in a workshop at last month's Vision Zero Cities 2016 conference.
The workshop was hosted by Keith Kerman of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services. DCAS is taking steps to reduce injuries and deaths from collisions involving city fleet vehicles, including measuring and publishing data on such crashes.
DCAS has also installed "black box" tech on the department's own vehicles, according to TA, and has pledged to install side guards on 6,000 city-owned trucks by 2024. "Through the early adoption of innovative technology and vehicle design modifications," says the TA press release, "DCAS has triggered a race to the top for safety among private fleet operators here in New York City."
This summer, TA will release a report based on fleet survey responses. In the meantime, you can find highlights here. According to TA, Fresh Direct is installing side guards and "blind spot" sensors on vehicles, and uses telematics to regulate driver behavior and keep dangerous drivers from operating company trucks. Con Ed employs driving simulators and coaching curricula that includes crash data, TA says, and Academy Bus uses cameras to identify reckless behavior and rewards safe drivers with bonuses and company recognition.
TA says it will "roll out a fleet management gold standard" in 2017, "recognizing operators that have met the most rigorous driver training, technology, vehicle and crash response standards in the industry."
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Op-Ed: The Simple Way To Keep Truck Fleets Safe
By Noah Budnick	| Oct 8, 2019
The city can use its leverage with the industry to promote best practices for rigs.
Labor and Advocacy Groups Call for Action on Unsafe Garbage Haulers
By David Meyer	| Jun 16, 2016
A new report from Transform Don't Trash NYC, a coalition of labor and advocacy groups including Teamsters Local 813 and Transportation Alternatives, is calling on the city to get unsafe sanitation trucks off NYC streets. The job of collecting garbage in the city is shared by the Department of Sanitation, which handles waste from residential and governmental buildings, and […]
Report: All New NYC Garbage Trucks Should Have Life-Saving Side Guards
By Stephen Miller	| Feb 26, 2015
Earlier this month, the city announced a pilot program to add side guards, which prevent people from being dragged under the rear wheels of large vehicles, to 240 trucks in the city fleet. It's a start, but there are thousands more trucks on NYC streets that need this life-saving equipment. A new report from the U.S. […]
City Council Poised to Require Side Guards on 10,000 Trucks by 2024
By Stephen Miller	| May 26, 2015
The City Council transportation committee unanimously passed a bill this afternoon that would require side guards, which keep pedestrians and cyclists from being swept beneath a truck's rear wheels, on approximately 10,000 New York City trucks by 2024. The legislation, likely to pass the full council tomorrow, mandates the add-ons not just for city-owned trucks but also for private trash haulers. The […]
It's Bike Month, So NYC Closed the Busiest Bike Route in the Country With No Notice. Again.
By Brad Aaron	| May 26, 2017
Continuing what's become an annual tradition, the Parks Department has set up a bike dismount zone on Hudson River Greenway for Fleet Week. Adhering to past practice, Parks posted no notice of the detour on its website or Twitter.
All Those NYPD Bike Tickets Aren't Fixing the Streets Where Neftaly Ramirez Lost His Life
By Ben Fried	| Jul 27, 2017
In these videos, you can see some of the major pathologies in New York City's culture of disregard for street safety: NYPD's complete disdain for bike infrastructure, the deference to placard holders, the lack of incentives for delivery fleets to park lawfully, and the absence of a coherent system for commercial loading.


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2016 MAC Player Countdown #2: Corey Davis, WR, WMU
He's a big-time NFL prospect. But he's also got one more year to set the MAC on fire.
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Davis scoring a touchdown in last year's season opener
There's no beating around the bush, Corey Davis is primed to go down as one of the greatest wide receivers in Western Michigan and MAC history. Heck, he's already passed Bronco and NFL great Greg Jennings for career reception yards, and needs only seven touchdowns on the year to surpass Jennings for his career in that category. In the WMU team preview, Justin Coffin mentioned what's needed statistically for Davis to become to the MAC's best ever. If Davis can nab just 410 yards on the year, he'll pass fellow Bronco Jordan White (2007-2011) to be the conference's most prolific receiver in terms of yardage.
Davis went for 100+ receiving yards in 9 of 13 games for Western last year, including against MAC West powers Northern Illinois and Toledo. The Broncos will need him to be big in those division games again this year. I'm also planning on the Broncos' coaching staff developing a strategy to unleash Davis against Georgia Southern (on September 24th). He was held to just two receptions and 16 yards against Eagles last year, his only real blemish on the season. That game was a disaster for the whole squad though, the Broncos got destroyed 43-17.
How does Davis stack up nationally? Well he was fifth in the country in 2015 in total receiving yards -€" only BGSU's Roger Lewis passed him in the MAC. A quick Google search and you'll find all sorts of watch-lists (including preseaon All-American) and potential draft positioning for Davis. He's the real deal and it's going to be a crazy amount of fun to watch him work this year.
Davis has been ramping up yardage and receptions year by year during his tenure in Kalamazoo. Sixty-seven receptions, 941 yards as a freshman: HO-HUM. Seventy-eight receptions, 1,408 yards as sophomore: A BREEZE. Ninety receptions, 1,436 yards last season: BOOM.
Keep in mind though that Davis's performance last year was in concert with a 1,377-yard season from Daniel Braverman (now with the Chicago Bears). The Broncos don't exactly have someone who can pick up right where Braverman left off. Will that let defenses key-in more on the Davis-to-Terrell connection? Will the Bronco running game still give Davis enough breathing space to get those big-yardage games? Or will Davis's pure strength and breakaway speed be enough to keep him competitive regardless? We'll see as the season goes.
A lot of people have pegged Davis as the prototypical deep threat WR, but it's clear he has more to offer. He's shown off multiple examples of getting open on crossing routes, and several touchdowns in his career have developed from breaking free on bubble screens, or shaking off a defender within a few yards of the line of scrimmage and then taking it to the house. Maybe with the super-quick Braverman on the roster last year, Davis got kind of lumped into that "deep-threat" narrative in a relative sense. This year we'll notice his size, speed, and versatility on display all at once.
In the 2013 season, Davis scored a touchdown at Northwestern that put the Broncos up 10-3 in the second quarter. I was at that game, and he pointed directly at me and my Bronco t-shirt as he ran into the southern endzone of Ryan Field. Despite being five years his senior, I was giddy as a damn school kid. In his last college season, expect Davis to be pointing at a lot of fans during a lot of runs into the endzone.
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Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert opens Pablo Picasso Exhibt
Picasso Marks a New Season
A survey of the modern master's works opens this month in Palm Desert
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Buste de Femme D'Apres Cranach (1958), colored linoleum cut, 7/50 ed. Picasso runs Nov. 28 through March 14, 2010.
COURTESY HEATHER JAMES FINE ART
A towering, prolific talent, Pablo Picasso produced more than 20,000 works of art and mastered a number of media, including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, and illustration. In addition to creating such linchpins of art history as Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and Guernica (1937), Picasso invented Cubism and helped give rise to Surrealism.
This month, Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert opens a significant survey of Picasso's paintings, drawings, and sculptures from several major periods, including Cubism. The gallery will also feature an important private collection of 80 to 90 pieces of his ceramics. Although Picasso's work has made appearances in the desert before, this show will be the largest to date.
Among the works on view will be a color linocut from 1958 titled Buste de femme (d'après Cranach le Jeune), or Bust of a Woman (after Cranach the Younger). Linocuts form a tiny portion of Picasso's printmaking; he generally favored etching and lithography. But between 1958 and 1963, his residence in the south of France, away from the printmaking resources of Paris, led him to experiment with linoleum and produce many strong compositions. A postcard image of Lucas Cranach the Younger's Portrait of a Young Girl inspired this print, an edition of 50. A powerful image with rich colors, evoking a blend of Cubism and classical portraiture, this piece is considered the most important of Picasso's linocuts.
The nucleus of the show will certainly be the ceramic collection. The old art world hierarchy held that ceramics, a functional craft, was of lesser stature than the fine arts of drawing, painting, and sculpture. However, with the gradual breaking down of all strictures in the arts since the 1960s, this hierarchy has slowly become obsolete. In fact, ceramics is downright hip these days.
In recent years, cutting-edge ceramic works by up-and-coming artists such as Eduardo Sarabia, Kristen Morgin, and Kathy Butterly have gained solo gallery shows and important group shows.
As the scholarship on ceramics practice has increased, so has the recognition of Picasso as a pioneer in the medium. A major 2004 traveling exhibition, Picasso and Ceramics, argued that Picasso was one of the most important ceramists of the 20th century — an artist who worked firmly within the traditions of the medium, and yet pushed it forward with an innovative, conceptual approach. The result is a body of work that is every bit as distinctive as Picasso's paintings and sculptures.
An excellent example of Picasso's ceramic work is Vase à la tête [Visage de profil], (Vase with Face), a four-sided white vase in an edition of 25, handmade by the artist. As the vase is turned, four images look out from its rounded surface, forming four "sides": a smiling sun, a human face, a woman's front side, and a woman's backside. The piece is charming and whimsical, showing off its splendid curves and highlighting its function as a vessel.
The round platter or bowl seems to be a surface on which Picasso particularly delighted in tweaking pictorial possibilities. Plongeurs Fond Blanc (Divers in White), a convex wall plaque in an edition of 500 dated 1956, is a remarkable piece that depicts a group of divers lounging by a pool or a lake. A diver in mid-arch atop a platform echoes the curvature of the top rim of the plaque, while a diver lounging on the ground accentuates its bottom edge. In Picador, a bowl in an edition of 500 dated 1953, a horseman lances a bull's neck as a toreador waits nearby. All three figures stand on a plane that lightly curves across the bottom of the bowl. On these objects and others like them, the formal possibilities of the piece are beautifully teased out, as a placid round surface is transformed into an arena filled with drama, action, and surprising complexity.
Picasso runs Nov. 28 through March 14, 2010.
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Deranged Press Hacks Want You to Know Inflation Is Fine Now
By Bonchie | 12:34 PM on January 23, 2023
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Did you know that the inflation crisis is over? That's the word from deranged press hacks Paul Krugman and John Harwood.
Krugman, who has built a brand as the Jim Cramer of economists, is now taking a victory lap, claiming that he was right all along about inflation being "transitory."
Folks who claimed inflation would last ~3 months and go away on its own are now declaring they were right because it lasts (at least) 20 months and seems to (hopefully) be fading after 400 basis points of rate hikes. https://t.co/DFZW3bhNPj
— Marc Goldwein (@MarcGoldwein) January 23, 2023
There's being shameless and then there's whatever Krugman is in that post. Nearly two years after the inflation boom started, he's now proclaiming the burden of proof about the situation to be on those who said inflation wasn't just transitory. I realize he probably gets his groceries delivered and never looks at the bill given he's a wealthy man, but I have to wonder what planet he's living on.
No one is buying this redefinition of the word transitory at this point. Inflation began to spike in the summer of 2021. It is now January of 2023, and the only reason inflation appears to be lower is that it's being compared to the already elevated year-over-year baselines of the prior year. If inflation goes from two percent to nine percent but then you begin comparing current inflation to the nine percent number and not the original two percent number, you will end up with a decrease in the rate of inflation.
In reality, Americans are still suffering under prices that are around 15 percent higher than when Biden took office, and in no universe has the inflation crisis been transitory. Krugman knows that because he himself originally promoted the idea that there was going to be no inflation crisis.
He's the Jim Cramer of economists. pic.twitter.com/KCH06rI9tg
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 23, 2023
Regardless, the talking points obviously went out, because John Harwood decided to push the same line as Krugman.
"People are finally experiencing relief from what had been a relentless rise in living costs.
"After false dawns in 2021-22 — when price hikes slowed only to accelerate again — signs that inflation is genuinely turning a corner have begun to accumulate."
https://t.co/XQC2TusjlL
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 23, 2023
What "relief" is he talking about? Food prices are through the roof. You might as well forget about airfare right now. Never mind the increases in home heating and other energy costs. Yes, used car prices have gone down somewhat, but even then, they are still far higher than when Biden entered the White House.
And that's really the game being played here. Hacks like Krugman and Harwood want you to forget what things were like before Biden was elected. They want you to compare your current position to mid-2022 instead of the end of 2020. But that's not how politics works. Americans are in the position they are in, paying through the nose for basic necessities, because of the current president's policies.
Lastly, to the extent that inflation is easing (core CPI is down slightly), that's only because the Federal Reserve had to hike interest rates up to around seven percent. So yeah, grocery prices aren't growing at quite the same rate, but now you can't buy that house or car you wanted to buy. Am I supposed to be excited about that? Give Biden a pat on the back? It's ludicrous gaslighting.
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Presenting my 2nd Blog Award from Gracey of Stay at home Pretty Mom blog, thanks sis for branding my blog as lovely and awesome! Receiving such award gives me a chance to search for new blogs to visit and i am not passing this on just to complete my 15 blogger list but I meticulously and carefully chosen these blogs that's why it took me 4 days to finally complete my list. And here's my newly visited blogs that i found lovely too!
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The fifth season of the Netflix series Last Chance U premiered late Monday night on Netflix.
The series follows a JUCO football team that focuses on "elite athletes with difficult pasts turn to junior college football for a last shot at turning their lives around and achieving their dreams."
We back! #LastChanceU, now streaming. Only on @Netflix. pic.twitter.com/hiRqCY2voq
— Last Chance U (@LastChanceU) July 28, 2020
This season, the series follows Laney College in Oakland, California and the quest to repeat as CCCAA Champions. But this season also features one player that Oregon State fans should be excited about: Rejzohn Wright.
If the 6-foot-3, 186-pound cornerback who recently committed to Oregon State, isn't the first person your eyes draw to on the field based on his play, then his mouth will. But that's just in his competitive nature.
Here's what we learned about Wright after watching Last Chance U.
[Listen to the latest Talkin' Beavers Podcast with host Ron Callan].
WHAT THE COACHES ARE SAYING
Rejzohn, he is a natural corner. He's 6'3". He's got a phenomenal competitive nature about him. He could be a Sunday player. — Laney head coach John Beam
Here's a preview of what is coming to Reser Stadium and the Pac-12 in 2020:
Probably THEE Coldest one hand you'll see 💯 pic.twitter.com/OMmSct9Mu5
— Rejzohn Wright (@Ray2wright) October 1, 2019
His brother went to Oregon State after one year with us. He's better than his brother. — Laney Defensive Coordinator John Ramos
His brother is Nahshon Wright, a 6-foot-4, 184-pound corner who played at Laney in 2018 and then transferred to Oregon State in 2019.
Rejzohn might be following in big brother's footsteps but make no mistake, the two are quite the competitors and will bring that same competitiveness to Corvallis.
Rejzohn explains the differences between the two in episode 3:
I come with a different intensity. He a more mellow guy on the field. I just come with like a little bit more than he does and that's just I'm a bit more fiesta than he is. — Rejzohn Wright
Where does this intensity and drive come from? He says his mom.
Nahshon played in all 12 games last season and started in 10 for the Beavers. He made 34 tackles and grabbed three interceptions.
And then there is Alton Julian, another JUCO transfer (College of San Mateo) to Oregon State and the cousin of the Wright bothers. Julian is another defensive back for the Beavers at 6-foot-2, 200 pounds.
Different paths....same results #JucoProducts pic.twitter.com/60EJmibk9W
— Rejzohn Wright (@Ray2wright) October 12, 2019
WHY HE CHOSE OREGON STATE
It came down to Oregon State and the University of Central Florida for the Union City, California native. Turns out Florida was just too far away and he wouldn't be able to see his family that often, which was a huge factor in his decision.
I really liked UCF but it was just a little too far from home. Being able to not come back home would have been hard. It was more of a business move knowing that it will bring more attention to the school and attention to me and my brother and my cousin to get to the league, to get to the NFL. If we both play good on the defense, the team does well, it will just look right. — Rejzohn Wright
Oregon State fans should be excited at the prospect of The Wright Brothers locking down the Pac-12's receivers for years to come.


GLOBALFOUNDRIES set a goal to raise one ton – or 2,000 pounds – of food to donate to the Saratoga County Food Pantries for the holiday season. Not only did the company achieve this goal, but raised an additional 1,600 pounds, for a total of 3,630 pounds of food! That's enough food to feed 360 families over the month of December.
On Friday, December 2nd, the Saratoga County Economic Opportunity Council picked up the almost two tons of food. As a new company with new operations in the region, GF has created 1,000 new jobs and quickly ramping the new Fab 8 facility.
The food donated by GF employees was donated to the Saratoga County Economic Opportunity Council, helps people to help themselves, empowering and guiding families through times of crisis and uncertainty and providing a safety net for people who will always require assistance. Since 1973, the Saratoga County Economic Opportunity Council has helped thousands of local families by addressing their immediate most basic needs, having made a difference in thousands of lives.
GF is continuing the holiday spirit by collecting toys for the U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation. Check back in a few weeks to find out how many toys were donated!


Taylor and Sierra have been best friends forever, sometimes it even seems like longer than forever because their mothers were best friends too. Sierra leads a somewhat charmed life, her well off parents able to give her everything she needs and nearly everything she wants. Taylor is more grounded, the death of her father leaving her mother and herself as a tight family unit. Taylor is happy with her life, but sometimes it's a challenge not to get a little jealous of Sierra and her trips to the American ski season each year. Taylor is the sensible friend, while Sierra is more inclined to see something she wants and just go for it.
When Sierra meets a cute boy online it seems like harmless fun - even if she is sneaking time on Taylor's internet because she is banned from accessing the internet herself after her last little "adventure". When Jacob contacts Taylor she realises that Sierra used her details (again), but she quickly falls in love with him as they chat online over the weekend. Taylor is all excited, until she discovers that Jacob has been chatting with Sierra all weekend too and they have agreed to meet. Sierra is desperate to spend time with Jacob and arranges to sneak off with him while she is supposed to be staying with Taylor.
When Sierra doesn't make it home as promised Taylor thinks it is just Sierra being Sierra, but then another day goes past and Taylor realises that she has to tell Sierra's mother the truth. Soon the police are involved, and Sierra's body is discovered. As the full story comes out Taylor realises that nothing was as it seemed. The carefully crafted lies of a calculating predator drew Sierra in and left her vulnerable. As the weeks pass Taylor decides to create a blog to keep Sierra's memory alive, and to help stop other girls fall prey to predator that they don't even know exist. Her goal is to stop Sierra's killer from taking another victim, but she may be too late for that.
Risk is an amazing book, not least of all because it is a story that needs to be told - and that teenagers need to read. Often books about serious life topics (like Risk) are too serious or boring, trying to drill a message home rather than concentrating on telling a story teenagers can relate to. Fleur Ferris has pulled off something of a miracle with Risk, the warning messages are all here, but they are carefully folded into a realistic and emotional story about an event that destroys the lives of not one, but two teenage girls. Sierra may have died, and her family bears that loss, but because the lives of their families are so intertwined Taylor feels the loss of not only a best friend but also a sister and second family. There is some uncomfortable reading here, and some moments that stretched my ability to suspend belief, but overall this is an engaging and emotional book. I have to confess that I was more than a little teary eyed at the end of the book because I had connected with Taylor so strongly in this story!
I am not a teenager anymore by any stretch of the imagination, but this is a book written for today's teenagers - both in terms of the realistic language and relationships, but also because teenagers today are more vulnerable than previous generations because they live so much of their lives online with little understanding of the consequences. Just to clarify I am not saying that teenagers are silly or stupid, just that teenagers have very different ideas about privacy and sharing things online!


Meet Dr. Alonso & psychology students!
Visit with Pyschology Program Director, Dr. Alonso, and current students to learn more about our psychology program and the opportunities available!
Hear from Dr. Deluty, Associate Dean of UMBC's Graduate School, as he provides a wealth of information on psychology graduate programs!
UMBC's Bachelor of Arts in Psychology provides students the analytic and interpersonal skills needed to prepare for a wide range of careers in psychology, social services, education, and business in both the public and private sectors. The skills and information students learn through research may be translated into treatments, interventions, and policies that improve the quality of life. Upper-level (300- and 400-level) psychology courses are offered on a convenient schedule during the weekdays (generally between 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.) for students planning to complete a bachelor's degree in psychology. Students who have completed all General Education requirements can take all of their courses at the convenient Shady Grove campus. Additionally, research opportunities and internships are available for UMBC-Shady Grove psychology students to enrich their educational experiences and help prepare them for a successful future.
Students enrolling in the Bachelor of Arts program in Psychology at UMBC-Shady Grove will complete approximately two years of full-time study prior to entry and complete the remainder of their upper-level credits with UMBC-Shady Grove. Students may transfer a maximum of 60 credits from a community college and 90 credits from a four-year school to UMBC.
UMBC-Shady Grove has developed Suggested Transfer Pathways (STPs) for students at Montgomery College (updated version coming soon) and Frederick Community College (updated version coming soon) who may be interested in transferring into any one of our undergraduate programs. In the meantime, please make use of our General Suggested Transfer Pathway. Our STPs provide an academic plan of action for transfer and an outline of the recommended transfer coursework specific to each of our academic programs.
Please note that the Suggested Transfer Pathway is not intended to serve as an official articulation agreement.
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General Requirements are an important component of study at UMBC. Please refer to the following worksheets for guidance.
Additional advising resources are available here. For more information on degree requirements, please contact the UMBC-Shady Grove Coordinator of Undergraduate Recruitment and Advising at 301-738-6281.
In addition to completing a major, UMBC students also have the option of completing a minor to supplement their coursework. The minors listed below are available to all students at UMBC-Shady Grove. Please note that all social work majors are required to complete a minor of their choosing.
Please click on the links below for University requirements specific to minors requiring coursework available at UMBC-Shady Grove. Other minor options may be explored as well. You should meet with your academic advisor to discuss how your minor of interest may best fit your degree plan.
Diane Alonso, Ph.D., serves as the UMBC Psychology Department's Program Director at the Universities at Shady Grove. She started the undergraduate program at the Center in 2004 and the Graduate I/O Psychology program in 2007. Diane is a lifetime Maryland resident and received her undergraduate degree (B.S.) in Computer Science and her graduate degrees (M.S. and Ph.D.) in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP). With a background in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors/Usability, Diane has over 10 years experience working in the industry both for IBM's Federal Systems Division and for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)'s Health and Human Services Division. While employed at CSC, Diane performed usability work for clients such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Department of Education, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She also created and led a successful training program for new software implemented for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Systems (MMCS).
In addition to her vocation, Diane's avocation is musical theater. For over 15 years she performed locally in community and professional theaters in the D.C. and surrounding metro areas. In 1992, during a production of an original version of the "Phantom of the Opera" at Toby's Dinner Theater in Columbia, Maryland, Diane met her future husband, Tom Alonso, the very talented composer of the commissioned production. They were married a year later and now have two beautiful daughters.
Research Areas: Family and community violence, personalized health, and public health.
Undergraduate Courses: PSYC 375 (Neuroanatomy), PSYC 390 (Neuropsychopharmacology) and a Special Topics Course entitled "The Neuroscience of Resilience"
Karen Watkins-Lewis, Ph.D., serves as a full-time Instructor in the UMBC Psychology Department at the Universities at Shady Grove. Karen received her undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and her doctorate degree in Developmental Psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC. Her research areas of interest are socio-cultural child development and the processes of parenting as it relates to the mental health and academic success of children in underserved communities. While pursuing her graduate degree, Karen worked as a research associate with the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (currently known as CAPSTONE) at Howard University. She has completed post doctoral fellowships with the Child Development Institute at the University of Maryland, College Park and the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at the University of Virginia. She has co-authored several peer reviewed publications and book chapters in the areas of socio-cultural child development and education. Karen has over 5 years of experience as a lecturer in psychology and human development, and has served as an Instructor and mentor for two student scholars programs: the Child Advocacy Scholars program at the University of Maryland, College Park and the Meyerhoff Scholars program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Karen currently resides in the Washington, DC metro area. She lives with her husband of 23 years, Gilbert Lewis, Jr., and has three beautiful daughters: Morgan, Maya, and Michelle "Kai."


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Two Indian states to hold elections in October
September 21 2019 10:56 AM
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Two Indian states will go to the polls in October, the election commissioner said on Saturday, in a test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity after he won a clear mandate in a general election in May.
The state assembly elections come after economic growth slipped to a six-year low in the April-June quarter, leading to major job losses, fuelling discontent in the countryside.
Voting in the northern state of Haryana and western state of Maharashtra, home to the financial hub of Mumbai, will be on Oct. 21, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said.
Votes will be counted on Oct. 24, he said.
Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power in both of the states.
The party won all of the seats in Haryana in the May general election.
In Maharashtra, an alliance between the BJP and the regional Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party won more than 85% of the seats.
The main opposition Congress party has been struggling to hold its support in the two states after senior party officials in both of them joined the BJP in recent months.
BJP elects Nadda party chief ahead of key polls
Kejriwal holds roadshow, fails to file election nomination
Explosive found at Mangaluru airport
Indian 'Rapunzel' remains a cut above with world's longest teen hair
No competition from Congress, BJP: Sisodia
Fearless Delhi women protesters inspire national movement
Shabana injured in car accident
Many leaders quit AAP ahead of polls
To defuse palm row, Davos diplomacy likely between India, Malaysia


The times in which shopping-centers have functioned with faceless profiles clearly are over. But how can you make them successful again? In our topic we show how malls are staged as brands and what component it needs to create an attractive environment for both customers and tenants.
More and more outdated, no longer functional shopping malls need to be revamped. This also goes for the former Marstall-Center in the center of Ludwigsburg, Germany. With a new concept and design, the once unsightly square is meant to once again put customers in the mood for shopping starting the end of September.
The big success of eCommerce is not just a problem for small retailers in city centers – shopping mall operators also need to face competition by online retail and create new incentives for customers to continue frequenting their stores.
mfi GmbH wants to turn shopping into an experience in their centers by offering a variety of gastronomic options, comprehensive services and consistent customer focus. One example is the Palais Vest in Recklinghausen, which opened last year. In this interview, Ulrich Wölfer explains why each shopping mall should have its own individual design today.
Sustainability is increasingly becoming a success factor for retail. Refrigeration and air conditioning technology can also contribute to sustainable management. The Conveni-Pack by Daikin combines air conditioning, heating, ventilation, normal and low-temperature refrigeration. CEO Gunther Gamst explains the advantages of the system and the development in terms of sustainability.
While paid search and email marketing still top retailers' list of effective customer acquisition channels, social media has moved up the ranks to become an important tool for engaging with and attracting new customers. According to the State of Retailing Online 2015 25 percent of retailers surveyed cite Facebook as a top acquisition platform.
The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) introduced a new Commercialisation programme this year at the popular European Retail Property School held in Frankfurt from 5-9 July. The European Retail Property School offers a wide variety of classes to retail real estate professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of retail property and shopping centres.
The nation's largest retailers, as ranked by STORES Magazine and Kantar Retail, have collectively held their top spots thanks to one common denominator: a customer-centric, omnichannel focused business model.
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The final ratings for the fourth episode of Series 11, Arachnids in the UK, have been released.
The episode had 8.22 million viewers after a week of catch-up on all devices, a rise of 1.79 million on the overnight figure of 6.43 million. That's a very moderate tick down from Rosa's 8.37 million. Stripping out mobile, tablet and computer views on BBC iPlayer, the 'traditional' rating for the episode was 7.97 million.
Doctor Who was fourth for the week behind two editions of Strictly Come Dancing and The Great British Bake-Off, the strongest chart position obtained by an episode four of the revival series.


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How does OCP work?

This is a question that often causes confusion. Here's a quick explanation!

The basics for a new user

As a new user, you can get started with OCP
	without understanding the technical details. Once you have installed an OCP Client
	on your computer or mobile phone, you can create an OCP user account.
	The space will be empty, and in order to store content, you can buy OCP storage resources
	more whenever you need. The OCP Client connects to any available OCP Market Place and
	let you choose the best deal to start.

The basics for a new provider

As a new provider, you can get started with OCP
	without understanding the technical details. Once you have installed an OCP Storage Node
	on your computer, you can create an OCP user account.
	You can then start your OCP storage node and wait that it is accepted on the network.
	Once accepted, you can create and publish a deal to sell the totality or only a part of your
	OCP storage node memory. Once the deal has been bought by another user, you node start to be used.
	If you want to receive the money as expected, do not turn off your OCP Storage Node and let it
	connected to the network.

Storing data

When storing data on an OCP network, the data is splitted into small
	blocks and encrypted. All blocks are sent to the OCP network,
	a hat block that contains addresses of the other blocks is also sent to the network.
	The user account is locally updated with the reference on the hat block

Retrieving data

When retrieving a file on an OCP network, the hat block of the file is first retrieved.
	Then all blocks indicated in that file is also retrieved from the OCP network.
	The block are all decrypted and join to rebuild the file.

Immutable objects

	All objects stored in the OCP network are immutable, except connection objects.
	Immutable objects are object which address is linked to their content.
	In other words: address = f(content) where f is a global function chosen
	by the OCP network before initialization. The function f should be homogeneous in order to use
	the whole address range. The function f should not be reversible, it should not be easy to guess the content
	with a given address. The function f should be quasi-injective (or anti-collusive) to avoid two different
	content to be stored at the same address. The good candidate for f
	is therefore a hash function (like SHA1, SHA256, etc.).
	Immutable object has two interesting properties: when getting an immutable object, its integrity can be easily checked. And an immutable object can be cached anywhere. There is no expiration date.

Data Structure Model

	Immutable objects content can store addresses of other immutable objects. So it is possible to make graph with only immutable objects. Such graph are necessarely directed acyclic graph (DAG). Fortunately, most current used data struture such file system can be represented as a DAG. It is better if the DAG has only one root object. In this case, to retrieve all objects, it is necessary to know only one object which is the root object of the DAG.
	A data structure model represents the type of DAG used: file system, versioning system, relational database, etc.

Connection objects

	Connection objects are used to allow user to get the address of its root object. The principle is to get the connection object address from some information that the user knows: login, password. Thus we have address = f(login, password). Connection object can be stored on decentralized system the same way cryptocurrencies do for storing money transactions.

Address topology

	In a distributed storage system, when retrieving an object from its address, the system must indicate which node must have a copy of it. The way it is done depends of the address topology. On a mathematical point of view, an address topology can be defined by a triplet (S, U, D) where S is a distributed system with a set of node N and a set of oriented connections between these nodes L, where U is a set of all possible addresses, and D is a function that attribute the address responsabilities. D is a function that associate foreach address at every instant, the set of nodes that are responsible for this address. The topology term is used because generally, it is possible to represent U as a shape (ring, rectangle, etc.) and represent the node responsabilities area as part of the U set.

Multi-ring address topology

	The set of address U is represented many times as a counter-clockwise directed ring. Each node N is represented as point located on rings at different angles. The successor of a node is a node represented on the same ring and located just after the node. For a given node, the addresses under its responsability are the ones located between the node and its succeessor. The function D (called find in the figure below) indicates foreach address the set of currently responsible nodes.

Caching on the road

	Each OCP node has two repositories: one for storing the data which the node is responsible for (the storage repository), and another one for caching the data that pass through the node (the caching repository). All immutable object passing through a node is potentially stored in its cache. The advantage is to reduce the trajectory of object on the network.

	From a client node, when retrieving data, the OCP node checks if the data is already in its cache. If the data is already in the cache, then it is taken as is and no network connection is needed. If no data is in the cache, the node connects to its closed nodes, and request the data. This is done recursively until a responsible node is found.

Want to know more ?

There are some interesting links:

Cloud Storage for Small Cell Networks

Proactive Small Cell Networks

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I'm new to Chibios, so if this is a dumb question, please excuse.
I'm using a STM32F103, I have some functions that need to wait for a specific number of milliseconds.
I'm using chVTGetSystemTimeX to get the start time and check periodically if X milliseconds have passed. The problem is that my system time overflows and goes back to zero in a short period of a time, making my function run much before it should.
I don't have a 32bits timer available, I tried increasing the system tick time, but I'm almost in its limit.
The problem is that if the cycle_start_time is, for example, 0xFF00, after the system time reaches 0xFFFF it will overflow, and the next check it will not be "WithinX"... thus, running the function before it should.
The system time is meant to overflow, chVTIsSystemTimeWithinX() also works when end<start.
The size of the counter is HW constrained but if you disable tickless mode in chconf.h then you can use a 32 bits system time, in normal mode the counter becomes a normal variable increased by an interrupt.
0x3333 wrote: I have some functions that need to wait for a specific number of milliseconds.
I'm using chVTGetSystemTimeX to get the start time and check periodically if X milliseconds have passed.
This sounds like a busy-loop and is not very efficient. Sometimes you need it when you need a very fast reaction time, but if you mention milliseconds I doubt that this is the case for you.
If you really want a busy loop, have a look at chSysPolledDelayX().
If exact timing isn't that critical, have a look at chThdSleepMilliseconds() and family. This allows allows other threads to run while you are waiting. Resolution depends on the system tick frequency.
Well, let me explain a little better my situation.
Parameter new_state is the state I must switch to, interval is an integer, ranging from 2000 to 5000 milis, or zero, which I'll not check if the timeout has passed.
// Basically I switch to the next state when the condition is true(Not within interval).
The switch case is inside a while(true) loop, with a chThdSleepMilliseconds(50); in the end.
So my app switches to the new state immediately, it doesn't wait for the 5000 milis.
If the check would be made after the chVTGetSystemTimeX() overflows, the check would return true.
I'll write a function that checks if the start is greater then the end, if so, if the chVTGetSystemTimeX() returns greater than the end, I'll consider within interval. I belive that it will solve, as my timeouts are much smaller than the system time.
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electronic_eel, thanks for the info, I explained a little better in the previous message, I believe its clear now, I'm not using a busy loop.
// If the end has overflowed and the current time is greater than start, we're good.
end - start = 6000 (considering the overflow over 16 bits).
The expression (bool)((time - start) < (end - start)) returns true if I have done it right, which is correct, time is greater than end and within the interval.
I need to verify if there is a problem when systime_t is 16 bits, it is possible there is a type promotion problem. Could you try it as follow?
With your patch, it worked!
To be honest, I thought about it, but I thought it was too basic to be the truth. Well, it wasn't.
Will this be upstreamed or should I work with a local patch? Thanks again.


Because your subconscious mind is "where it's at" when it comes to making change, yet it has a gatekeeper – your conscious mind – who's job is to make sure your subconscious stays the same.
Subliminal affirmations "slip past" the conscious mind so they can directly absorbed into your subconscious to make change.
In order words, you have to get to the roots of your beliefs before you can make change occur and these root beliefs are inside of your subconscious or sometimes referred to as your "UN-conscious" mind, and by using one of the best law of attraction techniques such as subliminal affirmations, you can make the change you desire in life.
First, let's briefly discuss how the Law of Attraction and manifestation work together.
Some consider the cosmic Law of Attraction synonymous with the String Theory where everything is "strung" together. So, if one thing happens at one end of the "net," through the law of attraction vibration, there is an effect somewhere else "within" the net.
Which means that you could be holding certain thoughts within your subconscious or unconscious that are negating your daily affirmations.
The same holds true in the law of attraction weight loss category, if you want to change your body weight, you first have to change your inner mind to "think thin." When this subconscious "vibration" of "thinking thin thoughts" emanates for your subconscious mind, you act like a radio transmitter for the "strings that confirm you're thin" to respond to you from the Universe.
For more on subliminal weight loss affirmations, check out this article on how to "think your way thin...".
Once your subconscious mind emanates whatever vibration you wish to manifest, whether its around money, love or happiness, the Law of Attraction vibration responds to this subconscious frequency.
Then you've gone beyond the Law of Attraction basics and can now figure out how to get what you want simply by programming your subconscious mind to attract it.
So, I think it's clear that you want to include subliminal affirmations in your list of affirmations so you can make change, right?
But, what is a subliminal affirmation and how can you find one?
I say "might" because this can be tricky to get just the right volume and situation where you can bypass your conscious mind.
A better subliminal affirmation to use is where the frequency has been raised to a higher level outside your audible hearing range and your positive affirmations wash right into your mind. When the frequency is raised, your subconscious mind still "hears" it, but your conscious mind cannot.
Another way of making affirmations subliminal is something called "stereo confusion" where you hear the affirmations in such a way that your conscious brain can't exactly make them out too well.
Once you start using subliminal affirmations, you'll probably find yourself motivated in new ways. In fact, when I started using them, I found myself doing tasks easily that I had procrastinated doing for years. It actually surprised me in a very pleasant way.
Adding to your affirmation list daily positive affirmations that work on an unconscious or subliminal level is one of the best Law of Attraction techniques you can practice because it "sets your radar" to attract abundance, prosperity, good health, love or whatever you truly desire to manifest for your life.


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