Fortune often favours the brave, especially for those who rarely get to see Vancouver from a height of 1500 metres (5000 feet). This city may be my birthplace, but this is my first helicopter tour. The only other occasions I've seen Vancouver from the air are from planes on approach to YVR international airport.
We arrive at Vancouver Helijet Heliport on a weekday morning, and hang out for a few minutes in the spacious waiting area, sipping on coffee and chatting with the folks at the front desk. We head outside, file down the walkway to the landing pad, and hop into a Bell 206L-3 LongRanger helicopter (chopper) for our 20-minute sightseeing tour.
The "West Coast Spectacular" tour heads across Burrard Inlet to the North Shore, goes up and over the nearby coastal mountains, flies past Crown Mountain and The Lions (The Sisters), before emerging over Howe Sound. It's easy to forget this abundant B.C. evergreen wilderness is at the doorstep to Vancouver. After heading south down the Sound, the final half of the tour proceeds past West Vancouver to English Bay (Salish Sea), enters and covers False Creek, crosses over the downtown Vancouver peninsula, makes a small loop over Burrard Inlet, before landing at the harbour base. The map below shows in green the chopper's path, the Heliport in downtown Vancouver is marked by the helicopter icon, and the blue pins indicate mountains I identified during the tour.
The scheduled 20-minute tour goes by quickly; blink or look away for a moment, and a part of that view in that moment disappears. Not surprisingly, there's not a lot of chatter throughout the flight, and we're astonished by what we're seeing below. After returning to base, we rediscover our voices and express our wonder with grateful enthusiasm. Helijet's sightseeing tours go for a pretty penny; the "West Coast Spectacular" tour costs $224 CAD per person (minimum of two people, 2014), but the price goes down to about $150 per person for a group of five. These photos show there's a different side to Vancouver that's tantalizingly close and within reach.
Fellow travel writer, getting ready!
Left: cargo ship bulk carrier Astoria (IMO 9663635, MMSI 636015672). Centre: Jericho Sailing Centre.
Much of Helijet's business is generated with commuter traffic between Vancouver and the provincial capital city of Victoria. In the quieter summer season, the company commits more of its operations to sightseeing tours over Vancouver, as well as additional charters in Haida Gwaii.
For "standard" views of Vancouver, sit on the port side (left, facing forward) for a counterclockwise loop, or on the starboard side (right, facing forward) for a clockwise loop. For less common but equally gobsmacking views, sit on the starboard side for a counterclockwise loop, or the port side for a clockwise loop. Click on the "arrow-window" icon at the upper-left corner of the map below for additional details.
Disclosure: I received free of charge the "West Coast Spectacular" sightseeing tour; many thanks to Jay Minter and Helijet for their generosity and hospitality. I made the photos above before and during our sightseeing tour on 16 May 2014. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-52L.
I'm heading to Vancouver in August with the family. Looks like you got to see a lot. I'm scared of heights so I'm not sure I would have the courage to go on a helicopter ride. Although, it looks like fun.
Hi, Carmen. August is a beautiful (and busy) time to visit! If the views are tempting in any way, think about going up on a short chopper flight. Thanks for stopping by and commenting, and I hope you and your family have a great visit to Vancouver!
Hi, Rachel. From any high point in München, the view of the Alps on a clear day is pretty good, too! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and for your comment!
Hi, Jo! Arguably, any tour of a city from overhead looks worthwhile, especially if there's a big big view with mountains around. I do love the combination of mountains next to (big) bodies of water! Please let me know when you'll be in town; we'll meet and have a bit of a walkabout of the city. Thanks for reading and for your comment!
I would love to take a helicopter over some of the coolest places on Earth to get aerial shots…so cool!
Hi, Corinne. I'm entirely tempted to go back up again on an even better (weather) day; I can't get enough of the spectacular views, even in my own birthplace. There is something special about seeing a city or a place from overhead. Thanks for your comment and for stopping by!
You got some great shots! I've never seen Vancouver from the air so I'll have to put this on my someday maybe list for when I can afford it! Thanks for sharing Henry!
Hi and you're welcome, Adelina! Yes, do save up some loonies and toonies, and get up on one of these flights. For those of us who've been here all or most of our lives, the chopper sightseeing tour allows us to see the familiar from a very different perspective, and to see a very different part of our local area, too. Thanks again!
This looks like a great tour! Awesome way to see Vancouver and the surrounding area. I've never been on a helicopter tour, but would certainly love to. Thanks for linking up to the #SundayTraveler!
Hi and thanks, Frank. I took my first sightseeing tour on a plane when I was in New Zealand's South Island. Naturally, I "agonized" over the cost of the tour. I threw caution … er … out the window, and naturally, I'm now glad took a sightseeing tour over the Southern Alps. When the opportunity arose for a chopper tour over my birthplace (one I've never done before), I had to say yes; it would've been very foolish to say no. 🙂 Thanks for stopping by and for your comments!
Great photos Henry! Seeing Vancouver from above is such a unique experience and one that everyone should do. I haven't done the helicopter tour yet but flew on a seaplane which offered some great views of Vancouver, UBC and the Gulf Islands. The helicopter ride is on my list for local things to experience!
Hi and thanks, Megan! Some might view the price as hindrance, but it's easy to forget that at a height of 1500 metres with a spectacular view of metro Vancouver below. I felt the same way in New Zealand, and my, how I'm glad I "took the bait" and hopped on a plane for an overhead tour of the Southern Alps. It sounds cliché, but I now view a local chopper ride as a "must do." 🙂 Thanks again for stopping by and for your comment!


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Collection double album - volume 3 - Love me baby est un album compilation de la chanteuse Sheila, sorti en LP 33 tours en mai 1979, et réédité en CD en boitier métal le .

Liste des titres
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 Les femmes
 Patrick mon chéri
 La voiture
 Shake me
 You light my fire
 Un prince en exil
 Flagrant délit de tendresse
 C'est écrit
 Les nuits de musique
 L'arche de Noé
 Une fille ne vaut pas une femme
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 Le bonheur file et roule entre nos doigts
 Quel tempérament de feu
 L'Amour qui brûle en moi
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Post boss Christine Holgate's suspension notice still in mail
Tom McIlroy and Simon Evans
Oct 29, 2020 – 4.24pm
Lawyers for Australia Post boss Christine Holgate say she has not been officially informed of a four-week suspension over lavish corporate expenses, questioning the legal basis of a government-ordered investigation.
Fighting to keep her job after it was revealed she spent nearly $20,000 on Cartier watches for executives who secured a financial services deal with major banks, Ms Holgate was stood down and threatened with the sack by Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Lawyers for Christine Holgate say letters to the Australia Post board have been ignored. Alex Ellinghausen
But a week after the investigation was ordered, Ms Holgate's lawyer said the former Blackmores boss had not been officially notified of changes to her employment.
Kingston Reid partner Bryan Belling said Ms Holgate would co-operate with the review but questioned the legal basis for her suspension.
"It is now exactly seven days since Ms Holgate was the subject of a humiliating answer during question time," he said.
"In that time Ms Holgate has not had any proper notification that she has been stood down from her role, nor has she been informed as to why she should be stood down, nor has she had any communication regarding the investigation into Australia Post from either the board or the government.
"Legally, in my opinion, there are no grounds for Ms Holgate to be stood down, and 'optics' is not a legally valid defence."
Last week Ms Holgate told a Senate estimates committee she had authorised $12,000 in spending on four luxury watches. She later corrected her evidence, saying they cost a total of $19,950.
The watches given to staff who secured the "Bank@Post" deal cost $7000, $4750, $4400 and $3800, totalling $19,950, and they were bought in November 2018, not October.
Australia Post chairman Lucio Di Bartolomeo is expected to front a Senate committee next month to provide evidence demanded by Labor; his appearance is expected to coincide with the height of the investigation.
The detailed terms of reference put pressure on the entire Australia Post board, requiring an explanation for the circumstances of the watch purchases and hospitality, including dinner parties hosted by Ms Holgate and corporate boxes at sporting events.
Mr Belling said he was moved to release the statement after not receiving a response to letters, from Mr Di Bartolomeo or other directors.
Mr Morrison called the purchases "disgraceful". The government was angry over Ms Holgate's denial that she had spent taxpayer funds on the bonuses.
"We are the shareholders of Australia Post on behalf of the Australian people … she has been instructed to stand aside, if she doesn't wish to do that, she can go!" he said.
A spokesman for Communications Minister Paul Fletcher said questions about Ms Holgate's position were "a matter for the board of Australia Post".
Mike Schneider, the boss of hardware giant Bunnings, told The Australian Financial Review's CFO Live event on Thursday he had met Ms Holgate several times and considered her an "outstanding'' chief executive.
He said the difficulty for Australia Post was that it was a government-owned corporation and had two shareholder ministers, Mr Fletcher and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.
On the broad issue of rewarding staff and executives, Mr Schneider said the best option was a transparent and structured reward and remuneration process.
"That's probably what organisations need,'' he said.
Asked if the federal government had treated Ms Holgate unfairly, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand chief executive Ainslie van Onselen said the Coalition had questions to answer on other use of taxpayer funds, including the $30 million Leppington Triangle land at Western Sydney Airport.
"So in that case it's difficult to know the standard that's being applied to her specifically," she said.
"If you have transparent frameworks for remuneration, if it's openly disclosed with your board and others, then incentivisation of staff and people has the right place. Psychologically, incentives work."
A spokeswoman said Australia Post had been supporting Ms Holgate.
"The chair stands by his previously made statement on Thursday October 22 that Ms Holgate will stand aside and this was agreed to by both parties in a telephone conversation."
Tom McIlroy reports from the federal press gallery at Parliament House. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com
Simon Evans writes on business specialising in retail, manufacturing, beverages, mining and M&A. He is based in Adelaide. Connect with Simon on Twitter. Email Simon at simon.evans@afr.com
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Doctor Who: Tin Dog Podcast
The Top Rated Doctor Who Podcast. One fan, One mic and an opinion. What more does anyone need? Daleks, TARDIS, Cybermen, Sontarans, Ood, Classic Series. Home of Whostrology and the Big Finish Retrospective.
WHOSTROLOGY
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TDP 427: Night of the Triffids
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THE NIGHT OF THE TRIFFIDS
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On the Isle of Wight, a colony of survivors wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Before long, the triffids, thought safely out of the way on the mainland, attack... In John Wyndham's classic bestseller The Day of the Triffids the world has been overwhelmed by killer plants. As the novel ends, Wyndham's narrator scientist Bill Masen is escaping, with his wife and four-year-old son, to the Isle of Wight where a small colony of survivors is holding out. Simon Clark's sequel picks up the story twenty-five years on.
The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilization. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity.
One morning Bill Masen's son, David, now grown up, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now, the triffids have an advantage over humanity.
(The Night of the Triffids is a double-CD story, accompanied by an hour's download of behind-the-scenes interviews)
Written By: Simon Clark
Directed By: John Ainsworth
Sam Troughton (David Masen), Nicola Bryant (Kerris/Marni/Rowena), Paul Clayton (Bill Masen / General Fielding), Geff Francis (Gabriel), John Schwab (Sam Dynes),Becky Wright (Kristina), Toby Longworth (Captain Sharpstone), Nigel Carrington (Seymour), Helen Goldwyn (Jazmay)
Producer and Script Editor John Ainsworth
Executive Producers Jason Haigh-Ellery and Nicholas Briggs
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TDP 426: Into the Forest of the Night
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"In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, and directed by Sheree Folkson.[3] The episode stars Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Samuel Anderson.[1]
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TDP 425: The_Abandoned BF 4th Doctor_3.7
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The Point of Stillness. A place the Time Lords are forbidden to go. It cannot be drawn, it cannot be whispered, it cannot be thought. And yet somebody is very keen to reach it.
Deep within the TARDIS, something unusual is happening. One of the ship's oldest secrets is about to be revealed, and once it is, nothing will ever be the same again.
As danger materialises deep within the ship, spectral strangers lurk in the corridors and bizarre events flood the rooms, someone long-forgotten is ready to reappear. The Doctor and Leela are soon to discover that their home isn't quite the safe stronghold they thought.
Written By: Nigel Fairs and Louise Jameson
Directed By: Ken Bentley
Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela), Stephanie Cole (Marianna),Mandi Symonds (One), Andy Snowball (Two), Nigel Fairs (Three)
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TDP 424: Bob Baker DWPA/Whooverville Interview
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Whooverville is the East Midland's biggest annual get-together for fans of the BBC TV series Doctor Who. Organised by Derby's Doctor Who group, The Whoovers, one of the most popular fan groups in the UK. Whooverville is a day of fun for all ages. Special guests include: Peter Davison, Fifth Doctor Deborah Watling, former Second Doctor companion Terry Molloy, Davros Michael Troughton, actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton Derrick Sherwin, former Script Editor, Writer and Producer during the Patrick Troughton era of Doctor Who. Bob Baker, Writer (with Dave Martin) of The Claws Of Axos, The Three Doctors and The Sontaran Experiment plus many more. Probably his greatest success is as the writer of Aardman's Wallace And Gromit.
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TDP 423: Flatline
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"Flatline" is the ninth episode of the eighth series of the British science fictiontelevision programme Doctor Who, written by Jamie Mathieson, and directed byDouglas Mackinnon.[3] The episode stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, with Christopher Fairbank guest starring.[1]
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "A Square",[1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.[2]
Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland(2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) andFlatland 2: Sphereland starring Martin Sheen and Kristen Bell.[3]
2 Social elements
3 As a social satire
4 Critical reception
5 Editions in print
6 Adaptations and parodies
6.1 In film
6.2 In literature
6.3 In television
9.1 Online and downloadable versions of the text
Illustration of a simple house in Flatland.
The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points", and attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. He is himself visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste).
After the Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth (and fifth, and sixth ...) spatial dimension; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace.
The Square then has a dream in which the Sphere visits him again, this time to introduce him to Pointland, whereof the point (sole inhabitant, monarch, and universe in one) perceives any communication as a thought originating in his own mind (cf.Solipsism):
'You see,' said my Teacher, 'how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own – for he cannot conceive of any other except himself – and plumes himself upon the variety of Its Thought as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Pointland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction.'[4]
— the Sphere
The Square recognizes the identity of the ignorance of the monarchs of Pointland and Lineland with his own (and the Sphere's) previous ignorance of the existence of higher dimensions. Once returned to Flatland, the Square cannot convince anyone of Spaceland's existence, especially after official decrees are announced that anyone preaching the existence of three dimensions will be imprisoned (or executed, depending on caste). Eventually the Square himself is imprisoned for just this reason.
Social elements[edit]
Men are portrayed as polygons whose social status is determined by their regularity and the number of their sides, with a Circle considered the "perfect" shape. On the other hand, females consist only of lines and are required by law to sound a "peace-cry" as they walk, lest she be mistaken face-to-face for a point. The Square evinces accounts of cases where women have accidentally or deliberately stabbed men to death, as evidence of the need for separate doors for women and men in buildings.
In the world of Flatland, classes are distinguished by the "Art of Hearing", the "Art of Feeling", and the "Art of Sight Recognition". Classes can be distinguished by the sound of one's voice, but the lower classes have more developed vocal organs, enabling them to feign the voice of a polygon or even a circle. Feeling, practised by the lower classes and women, determines the configuration of a person by feeling one of its angles. The "Art of Sight Recognition", practised by the upper classes, is aided by "Fog", which allows an observer to determine the depth of an object. With this, polygons with sharp angles relative to the observer will fade more rapidly than polygons with more gradual angles. Colour of any kind is banned in Flatland after Isosceles workers painted themselves to impersonate noble Polygons. The Square describes these events, and the ensuing class war at length.
The population of Flatland can "evolve" through the "Law of Nature", which states: "a male child shall have one more side than his father, so that each generation shall rise (as a rule) one step in the scale of development and nobility. Thus the son of a Square is a Pentagon, the son of a Pentagon, a Hexagon; and so on".
This rule is not the case when dealing with isosceles triangles (Soldiers and Workmen) with only two congruent sides. The smallest angle of an isosceles triangle gains thirty arc minutes (half a degree) each generation. Additionally, the rule does not seem to apply to many-sided polygons. For example, the sons of several hundred-sided polygons will often develop fifty or more sides more than their parents. Furthermore, the angle of an isosceles triangle or the number of sides of a (regular) polygon may be altered during life by deeds or surgical adjustments.
An equilateral Triangle is a member of the craftsman class. Squares and Pentagons are the "gentlemen" class, as doctors, lawyers, and other professions. Hexagons are the lowest rank of nobility, all the way up to (near) circles, who make up the priest class. The higher-order polygons have much less of a chance of producing sons, preventing Flatland from being overcrowded with noblemen.
Regular polygons were considered in isolation until chapter seven of the book when the issue of irregularity, or physical deformity, became considered. In a two dimensional world a regular polygon can be identified by a single angle and/or vertex. In order to maintain social cohesion, irregularity is to be abhorred, with moral irregularity and criminality cited, "by some" (in the book), as inevitable additional deformities, a sentiment with which the Square concurs. If the error of deviation is above a stated amount, the irregular polygon faces euthanasia; if below, he becomes the lowest rank of civil servant. An irregular polygon is not destroyed at birth, but allowed to develop to see if the irregularity can be "cured" or reduced. If the deformity remains, the irregular is "painlessly and mercifully consumed".[5]
As a social satire[edit]
In Flatland Abbott describes a society rigidly divided into classes. Social ascent is the main aspiration of its inhabitants, apparently granted to everyone but strictly controlled by the top of the hierarchy. Freedom is despised and the laws are cruel. Innovators are imprisoned or suppressed. Members of lower classes who are intellectually valuable, and potential leaders of riots, are either killed, or promoted to the higher classes. Every attempt for change is considered dangerous and harmful. This world, as ours, is not prepared to receive 'Revelations from another world'.
The satirical part is mainly concentrated in the first part of the book, 'This World', which describes Flatland. The main points of interest are the Victorian concept on women's roles in the society and in the class-based hierarchy of men.[6]
Abbott has been accused of misogyny due to his portrait of women in 'Flatland'. In his Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, he answers such critics by stating that the Square:
was writing as a Historian, he has identified himself (perhaps too closely) with the views generally adopted by Flatland and (as he has been informed) even by Spaceland, Historians; in whose pages (until very recent times) the destinies of Women and of the masses of mankind have seldom been deemed worthy of mention and never of careful consideration.
Critical reception[edit]
Although Flatland was not ignored when it was published,[7] it did not obtain a great success. In the entry on Edwin Abbott in the Dictionary of National Biography, Flatland is not even mentioned.[2]
The book was discovered again after Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published, which introduced the concept of a fourth dimension. Flatland was mentioned in a letter entitled "Euclid, Newton and Einstein" published in Nature on February 12, 1920. In this letter Abbott is depicted, in a sense, as a prophet due to his intuition of the importance of time to explain certain phenomena:[2][8]
Some thirty or more years ago a little jeu d'esprit was written by Dr. Edwin Abbott entitled Flatland. At the time of its publication it did not attract as much attention as it deserved... If there is motion of our three-dimensional space relative to the fourth dimension, all the changes we experience and assign to the flow of time will be due simply to this movement, the whole of the future as well as the past always existing in the fourth dimension. —from a "Letter to the Editor" by William Garnett. in Nature on February 12, 1920.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography now contains a reference to Flatland.
Editions in print[edit]
Flatland (5th edition, 1963), 1983 reprint with foreword by Isaac Asimov, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-463573-2
bound together back-to-back with Dionys Burger's Sphereland (1994), HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-273276-5
The Annotated Flatland (2002), coauthor Ian Stewart, Perseus Publishing, ISBN 0-7382-0541-9
Signet Classics edition (2005), ISBN 0-451-52976-6
Oxford University Press (2006), ISBN 0-19-280598-3
Dover Publications thrift edition (2007), ISBN 0-486-27263-X
CreateSpace edition (2008), ISBN 1-4404-1778-4
Adaptations and parodies[edit]
Numerous imitations or sequels to Flatland have been written, and multiple other works have alluded to it. Examples include:
In film[edit]
Flatland (1965), an animated short film based on the novella, was directed by Eric Martin and based on an idea by John Hubley.[9][10][11]
Flatland (2007), a 98-minute animated independent feature film version directed by Ladd Ehlinger Jr,[12] updates the satire from Victorian England to the modern-day United States.[12]
Flatland: The Movie (2007), by Dano Johnson and Jeffrey Travis,[13] is a 34-minute animated educational film voice acted byMartin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, and Tony Hale.[14] Its sequel was Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012), inspired by the novel Sphereland by Dionys Burger and starring Kristen Bell, Danny Pudi, Michael York, Tony Hale, Danica McKellar, andKate Mulgrew.[15][16][17]
In literature[edit]
An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton (1907), Spherelandby Dionys Burger (1965), The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney (1984), Flatterland by Ian Stewart (2001), and Spaceland by Rudy Rucker (2002). Short stories inspired by Flatland include "The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics" by Norton Juster (1963), "The Incredible Umbrella" by Marvin Kaye (1980), and "Message Found in a Copy of Flatland" by Rudy Rucker (1983)
Physicists and science popularizers Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking have both commented on and postulated about the effects of Flatland. Sagan recreates the thought experiment as a set-up to discussing the possibilities of higher dimensions of the physical universe in both the book and television series Cosmos,[18] whereas Dr. Hawking notes the impossibility of life in two-dimensional space, as any inhabitants would necessarily be unable to digest their own food.[19]
In television[edit]
Flatland features prominently in The Big Bang Theory episode "The Psychic Vortex",[20] when Sheldon Cooper declares it one of his favorite imaginary places to visit.[21]
It also features in the Futurama episode "2-D Blacktop", when Professor Farnsworth's adventures in drag racing lead to a foray of drifting in and out of inter-dimensional spaces.[22]
Animal Farm (1945), novella by George Orwell
Blind men and an elephant, Indian parable
Fourth dimension in literature
Sphere-world
Triangle and Robert (1999-2007 webcomic)
The Dot and the Line (1963 book)
"—And He Built a Crooked House—" (1941 short story)
Dimension-bending video games:
Super Paper Mario (2007)
Fez (2012)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (2013)
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TDP 422: Philip Hinchiffe Presents - Box Set
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PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE PRESENTS BOX SET
Philip Hinchcliffe, acclaimed producer of Doctor Who (1975-77) returns to tell new stories for the Fourth Doctor and Leela.
"The starting point was there were a few basic ideas that were kicking around for another series, had we made it," says Philip. "I thought this project would be fun to be involved with, and I've tried to and tell stories that are in the same spirit as the ones Robert Holmes and I were telling."
The Ghosts of Gralstead (Six episodes)
The Doctor and Leela return to Victorian London, in the year 1860.
At St Clarence's Hospital, respected surgeon Sir Edward Scrivener requires the bodies of the dead… At Doctor McDivett's Exhibition of Living Wonders and Curiosities, miracles are afoot… And in Gralstead House, the ghost will walk again. Mordrega has come to Earth…
The Devil's Armada (Four episodes)
The TARDIS lands in Sissenden Village in the sixteenth century. Catholic priests are hunted, so-called witches are drowned in the ducking stool, and in the shadows the Vituperon are watching… and waiting…
(Note that untypically for a Big Finish release, the extras disc is separately available as a Supplementary Download in a purchaser's account, in order to reduce memory issues with opening the downloaded zip file)
Written By: Philip Hinchcliffe, adapted by Marc Platt
Tom Baker (The Doctor), Louise Jameson (Leela)
The Ghosts of Gralstead
Carolyn Seymour (Mordrega), Gethin Anthony (Sir Edward Scrivener), Martin Hutson (Professor Cedric Scrivener), Emerald O'Hanrahan (Clementine Scrivener),Alan Cox (Dr Gideon McDivett), Ivanno Jeremiah (Abasi), Andy Secombe (Jonas Bulmer), Sean Carlsen (Ned Davey), Mandi Symonds (Mrs Targate), Andrew French(Obingo)
The Devil's Armada
Jamie Newall (William Redcliffe), Nigel Carrington (Sir Robert Harney), Alix Dunmore (Anne Harney), Joe Jameson (Nicholas Harney), Beth Chalmers(Mistress Pincham/Lady Jane Mountville), Philip Bretherton (Vituperon), Ben Porter(Father D'Arcy), Tim Bentinck (Ned Bones/Lord Burghley)
Producer David Richardson
Script Editor John Dorney
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TDP 421: DWPA/Whooverville Interview 3
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TDP 420: Mummy on the Orient Express
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Following from Clara's admission that she does not want to see the Doctor again after the events of "Kill the Moon", several weeks have passed, and she realizes that she doesn't hate the Doctor as she allows him to take her on one "last hurrah". He takes her via the TARDIS to a space-bound recreation of the Orient Express with passengers dressed in period pieces, all controlled by the computerized operator, Gus. Aboard the train, they find that an elderly woman, Mrs. Pitt, had recently died, claiming that she was attacked by a mummy that no one else could see. They retire to separate cabins for the evening, where Clara calls Danny in her present and gets advice how to properly end her relationship with the Doctor. She later encounters Maisie, Mrs. Pitt's granddaughter, who is distraught over the death and frustrated with the inability to see her body. The two get trapped in the luggage car, where a mummy's sarcophagus sits, and the two talk and bond while waiting for help.
Meanwhile, the Doctor, claiming he is a mystery shopper, starts to investigate the murder with the help of the train's engineer Perkins who is also curious about the death as well as the nature of the train. The Doctor speaks to Professor Moorhouse to talk about the myth of the Foretold, a supernatural being who claims its victim 66 seconds after the lights flicker, which they are able to confirm when the train's chef dies in a similar manner as Mrs. Pitt. The Doctor discovers Clara's situation but when he tries to rescue her, the lights flicker and the sarcophagus opens; before he can save her, Captain Quell and his men arrest him for falsifying his credentials. When the 66 seconds are up, they find that one of the Captain's men has died. The Captain, realizing the Doctor was right, releases him.
The Doctor begins to question what is really happening on the train, recognizing that most of the passengers are scientific experts and demands to know why. The train suddenly stops in space, and the illusion of the original Orient Express and several of the passengers disperses, revealing they are in a laboratory. Gus tells them they are now to study the attacks of the force behind the attacks so that they can reverse engineer whatever power it has; Professor Moorhouse soon is the next victim, and he stammers out a few details of the Foretold before he dies. The Doctor contacts Clara, who has discovered that the sarcophagus is meant as a containment unit for whatever the force is, and that this is not the first attempt by whomever is controlling events to discover the nature of the force, having gone through and lost ships and crews previously, in some cases, purposely killing them due to poor performance. Gus forces the Doctor to end the call and return to work when it expels the air from the kitchen car, killing the kitchen staff and threatening to kill more.
The Doctor and Perkins discover that the past victims were all suffering from various medical conditions and the Foretold is targeting the weakest. Captain Quell reveals he suffers from wartime post-traumatic stress disorder and soon sees the mummy; providing enough information to the others before he dies. The Doctor and Perkins identify that Foretold drains the victim's energy through phase shifting, a process that takes just over a minute to complete. Perkins identifies the next likely victim to be Maisie, due to her trauma over losing her grandmother, and the Doctor tells Clara to bring her to the lab, having Gus unlock the storage door. On the way there, Clara sees that the TARDIS is protected by a force field, and when she talks to the Doctor about this, she realizes that Gus must know about the Doctor and his Time Lord nature to create the field. The Doctor is forced to admit that Gus had been trying to bring him here to help for some time, and Clara accuses the Doctor of taking her into a dangerous situation again. At this point, Maisie sees the Foretold, and the Doctor absorbs some of her memories as to be able to trick the mummy into thinking he is the intended victim. Within the 66 seconds, the Doctor is able to realize the Foretold is a former soldier from a war thousands of centuries ago, having been modified with phase-shifting camouflage to be an assassin. The Doctor offers their surrender to the Foretold, halting its attack and appearing before everyone before saluting the Doctor and then disintegrates into dust with only its phase-shifting device remaining. Gus congratulates the passengers on their success and then begins to evacuate all the air aboard the train, their services no longer necessary. The Doctor takes the device and rewires it as a short-range teleporter, rescuing all the remaining passengers on the train to his TARDIS before the train blows up when the Doctor made an attempt to hack Gus to find out who is behind all of this.
On a nearby planet, regaining consciousness while told what occurred, Clara has a brief discussion on the nature of her relationship to the Doctor. On the TARDIS, the Doctor offers Perkins a job to maintain the time machine, but he politely refuses. Clara takes a call from Danny, who is expecting that she will finally end her trips with the Doctor, but when she ends the call, has reconsidered her earlier decision and wants to continue her travels with the Doctor.
Continuity[edit]
The question "Are you my mummy?" is a reference to the Ninth Doctor episodes "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances". The Tenth Doctor repeats the question in "The Poison Sky".[1]
The Doctor confesses to Clara that the mysterious force which enticed him to the Orient Express "even phoned the TARDIS once", recalling the last line from "The Big Bang", when the Eleventh Doctor, answering the TARDIS phone, replies "an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express, in space?"[1]
The Twelfth Doctor is shown offering jelly babies to Professor Moorhouse, a tradition associated with past Doctors, particularly Tom Baker's Fourth Doctor.[1]
Danny Pink reminds Clara that the Doctor is "not your boyfriend." This is what the Doctor himself tells her at the end of "Deep Breath".[2]
Production[edit]
Filming[edit]
The read through for Mummy on the Orient Express took place on 1 May 2014. Shooting started on 20 May and finished on 10 June. The episode was primarily studio-based in filming, however the scene with the Doctor and Clara on the planet was shot in Limpert Bay in the Vale of Glamorgan.[1]
Casting[edit]
Christopher Villers previously appeared in the classic serial The King's Demons, and Janet Henfrey previously appeared in The Curse of Fenric. Frank Skinner considers himself a die-hard Who fan, and previously had appeared in the special The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot.[1]
Broadcast and reception[edit]
Overnight ratings show that this episode was seen by 5.08 million, a 22.1% share of the available audience and third for the night.[3]
"Mummy on the Orient Express" received very positive reviews. Guardian columnist Dan Martin was positive towards the episode and praised the Mummy, saying, "At last, a proper new scary monster to get us behind the sofa," something he felt had been lacking so far in the current series. He called it "a triumph of production design matched with imagination," and praised first time writer for the show Jamie Matheson for blending "cool monsters" and "awkward Tardis dynamics." He did however feel that the reveal of the monster's true nature was "underwhelming."[4] Ben Lawrence of The Telegraph was positive toward the episode and awarded it four stars out of five. He praised the style of the episode and its ability to make the viewer a part of it: "as a viewer you felt hemmed in by the train's narrow corridors, stalked by an invisible creature that could strike at any moment." He believed that Skinner "started well," but more impressive was David Bamber, describing his performance as "poignant," and praised the development of the relationship between the Doctor and Clara.[5]
Morgan Jeffrey of Digital Spy praised the episode, giving it four stars out of five. He praised the chemistry of the two leads: "Capaldi and Coleman remain an utterly magnetic coupling on-screen," citing the final Tardis scene and the beach scene as "magic." He felt that the main problem of the episode was the decision to keep the two apart. He was positive towards Frank Skinner's "genuine love for Doctor Who", which meant he was "practically beaming throughout," and called him "an endearing replacement" for Clara in the episode. He thought that the episode, like the previous one, had a Hinchcliffe vibe to, and that "'Mummy' is a joy, with excellent production design and a roster of perfectly-pitched performances all adding up to create an enchanting atmosphere," and believed it had a "wonderful mood," which felt like "vintage Doctor Who."[6] Tim Liew, writing for Metro, was positive towards "Mummy", calling it "another strong standalone story. ... [The] period costumes helped create a distinctive look and feel, the mummified Foretold was well realised and the repeated use of the 66-second countdown clock injected a real sense of pace and jeopardy."[7] Neela Debnath of The Independent praised the guest stars, Foxes and Skinner, saying Skinner "acts his socks off." She remained critical of Clara, arguing that "her poorly conceived and written character fails to charm," despite praising Coleman's acting. Overall she felt that the episode was "a delightful outer-space romp."[8]
Forbes gave a positive review. They praised the "fantastic core principle" to the plot. However, they were disappointed with the run time, believing it would've benefited from another five minutes, citing some areas that could've been explored further, particularly the escape from the train. They praised the cast and the lead, reflecting that "The Doctor infects Capaldi's performance. Drawing on his love for the series I could see the influences of many of the previous actors to take on the role," and praised the development of the Doctor and Clara's relationship. They called Mathieson's script "an impressive debut."[9] The A.V. Club also heavily praised the episode, awarding it another perfect "A" grade. They said, "When the time comes to write the final accounting of the 12th Doctor—and hopefully we won't need to do that for a little while yet—'Mummy On The Orient Express' will loom large. This episode is a triumph for Peter Capaldi." They added that it was "the latest superb episode in a strong season" and that "Peter Capaldi's performance is enough by itself to elevate this story to classic status, but Jamie Mathieson's script provides him excellent support".[10]
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TDP 419: Signs and Wonders BFMR
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191. SIGNS AND WONDERS
The end of the world is nigh. That's what everybody is seeing in their nightmares. That's why they are congregating in Liverpool for the party to end all parties, hosted by Rufus Stone, a celebrity turned doomsday prophet. He claims he's the only one who can save them when the day of judgement comes. Because he's on the side of the angels.
The Doctor, Ace and Hector arrive to find the city in the grip of apocalypse fever. There are lights in the sky, earthquakes and power cuts. The Doctor is determined to investigate, while Ace is more concerned about finding a way of restoring Hector's lost memories.
Meanwhile, in the river Mersey, hideous, slug-like creatures are stirring...
Written By: Matt Fitton
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hex), Jessica Martin (Reverend Janet Green), Warren Brown (Rufus Stone/To'Koth), Jemma Churchill (Praska), Rory Keenan (Captain Gormley)
Direct download: TDP_419_Signs_and_Wonders_BFMR_191.mp3
Thu, 9 October 2014
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TDP 418: Mask of Tragedy BFMR
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190. MASK OF TRAGEDY
Athens, 421 BC. An ancient civilisation of philosophers and poets and the birthplace of theatre. The Doctor has decided to show Ace and Hector how it all began, with help from the great comedian Aristophanes.
But life in Athens is no laughing matter. There's the ever-present threat of invasion from the Spartan horde. The plague that turns people into the walking dead. The slavery. The tyrannical rule of the paranoid, malicious Cleon and his network of informers. And the giant flying beetle with knives for wings that stalks the city streets at night.
What Athens needs is a hero. And who better to be a hero in ancient Greece than a man called Hector?
Written By: James Goss
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hector), Samuel West (Aristophanes), Alisdair Simpson (Cleon), Russell Bentley (Tyrgius/Slave Trader/Boy), Tim Treloar (Telephus, Cisyphus/Old Man), Emily Tucker(Adonia/Lysistrata)
Direct download: TDP_418_Mask_of_Tragedy_BFMR.mp3
Tue, 7 October 2014
Mon, 6 October 2014
TDP 417: Revenge of the Swarm BFMR
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RELEASED AUGUST
The Doctor thought he had defeated the microscopic Nucleus of the Swarm in his fourth incarnation. He was wrong. It survived within the TARDIS, and now it has brought it back to Titan Base, back to the point of its own creation. It has a plan that spans centuries, a plan which will result in the Nucleus becoming more powerful – and larger – than ever before.
To defeat it, the Doctor, Ace and Hex must confront the Nucleus within its new domain - the computer-world of the Hypernet, the information network crucial to the survival of the human empire. But if the Doctor is to save the day, he has to risk everything and everyone he holds dear...
Written By: Jonathan Morris
Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Philip Olivier (Hector Thomas), John Leeson (The Nucleus of the Swarm/Computer), Mandi Symonds (Shafira),Maggie Service (Root/Receptionist), John Heffernan (Vonchef), Phyllida Nash(Professor Oksana Kilbracken), Siobhan Redmond (Talin), John Dorney(Lugerman), Paul Panting (Security Guard Brabbeko)
Direct download: TDP_417_Revenge_of_the_Swarm_BFMR.mp3
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Sat, 4 October 2014
TDP 416: Kill the Moon
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"Kill the Moon" is the seventh episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, written by Peter Harness, and directed by Paul Wilmshurst.[3] The episode stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, with Hermione Norris guest starring.[4][5][6]
A preview clip from the episode was shown when Peter Capaldi was a guestThe Graham Norton Show on 26 September 2014.[7] A 10-second trailer was released on 29 September 2014.[8]
1 Production
1.1 Writing
1.2 Filming
1.3 Casting
Writing[edit]
The episode was originally written for Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor. An earlyworking title for the episode was "Return to Sarn", however, this was intended to be misleading. While briefing Harness on how to write the script, executive producer Steven Moffat told him to "Hinchcliffe the shit out of it for the first half", meaning, essentially, to make it frightening. This was in reference to Philip Hinchcliffe, who produced Doctor Who from 1974–77.[9] Moffat called the script "intense and emotional".[10] Harness has said that the episode will see a large change for the show. "I still don't know how people will take it. I'm in this kind of limbo now waiting for people to see it, and I've no idea, really I do not know how it is going to go down."[11]
Filming for the episode took place in Lanzarote, near the Volcán del Cuervo (Raven's Volcano[12]) in Timanfaya National Park.[13] The last episode to be filmed there was 1984's Fifth Doctor serial Planet of Fire.[14] Filming took place on 12–13 May,[15] while the park was closed to visitors,[16] with locals reporting that "they've erected a huge marquee, have trailers, toilets and a van."[13] Filming also took place at the Cardiff Bay Business Centre in Splott and St Illtyd's College in Cardiff on 20 May,[15] and at Aberavon Beach in Port Talbot on 21 May.[17][18][19][20][21][22]
Tony Osoba previously appeared in the classic serials Destiny of the Daleks and Dragonfire.
Direct download: TDP_416_Kill_the_Moon.mp3
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Fri, 3 October 2014
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TDP 415: DWPA/Whooverville Panel 2
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Wireless routers with internal antennas have a much tidier appearance, and the Linksys WRT610N combines this with an unusually sleek outline.
Instead of the usual plugpack, the WRT610N comes with an inline power pack with a short mains lead - and the review sample had a US mains plug! We'll put that down to an oversight.
A wizard-style setup utility is provided for Windows and Mac OS X (the Mac version politely creates a new location in the Network system preference), but if you prefer to go straight to the web interface you're on your own. That's doubly true, as the documentation is practically non-existent: nothing on the CD, despite the claim in the quick installation guide.
Our use of the web interface was interrupted by several 'connection dropped' errors, which was irritating. Apart from that, it is well organised and benefits from help pages being displayed in a separate browser window.
Like the D-Link DIR-855, the WRT610N has a USB port for disk sharing - and Linksys has done the right thing and presents the contents of the drive as one or more SMB shares, so no special software is required. In addition, the shared storage can be put to work with the built-in media server and FTP server if desired.
There's the usual ability to block URLs and keywords, along with 'applications' such as telnet and IMAP. These rules can be enforced according to a timetable, along with allowing or denying Internet access to one or more computers (identified by MAC or IP address).
QoS rules can be set for applications, by MAC address, or by Ethernet port. VoIP devices can be listed separately by MAC address, and then the whole group given the highest priority.
The WRT610N was the fastest performer on our distance test - but only when using 5GHz. The average time of 17 seconds blew out to 58 seconds (with much more variability) on 2.4GHz. 5GHz was also faster than 2.4GHz for the same-room test: 12 seconds vs 19 seconds.
Once again, we were unable to run the 'next room' test at 5GHz, but the average time for 2.4GHz was 20 seconds.
Although it's not a screamer at short range, the good long-range performance (at 5GHz at least) makes the WRT610N an attractive choice.


I just found out that my proposal for Mental Health Camp has been accepted. My panel is called, "Social Networking, Visibility, and the Therapeutic Alliance." It will be in conversation format and will address issues related to the therapist-client relationship and how both clients and therapists feel about sharing online social spaces.
I first heard of Mental Health Camp when I was in Austin and one of the primary organizers, Isabella Mori, contacted me. I was immediately interested in attending, but I wasn't sure how I could best contribute to such a forum. I wanted to offer something useful to attendees who might be both clients and therapists working within the intersection of social networking and mental health. I kept returning to questions that feel current for me in my own practice as a therapist who is heavily plugged into social networks.
• How do clients feel about their visibility to their therapists online?
• How do clients feel about their online lives being a part of therapy?
• How do clients feel about their therapists being visible online?
• How do therapists feel about being visible to their clients online?
• Do clients desire more therapist transparency online? Or would they prefer more neutral and veiled behavior from their therapists?
• How are these issues coming up in people's therapeutic relationships?
I recognize that many of these questions will have answers as unique as the various people responding to them. I'm hoping for a lively conversation in which people involved in different aspects of clinical care will get to express their opinions and desires.
Mental Health Camp will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia on Saturday, April 25th from 9:00am to 6:00pm. It is a one-day unconference about social media and mental health with an emphasis on how blogging can help remove the stigma of mental illness. If you're interested in attending, check out the registration page. Note that admission is by donation and nobody will be turned away for lack of funds.


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Q: Uninstalling / upgrading PostgreSQL on OSX The problem
I have PostgreSQL 9.3 installed on my MacBook Pro. I don't remember how I installed it (there are numerous ways), and now I want to upgrade to PostgreSQL 9.5.
Foresnsics
The running PostgreSQL processes are:
  503    89     1   0 Fri09PM ??         0:06.57 /Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/postmaster -D/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/data
  503   236    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:00.02 postgres: logger process
  503   249    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:01.10 postgres: checkpointer process
  503   251    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:03.06 postgres: writer process
  503   252    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:03.09 postgres: wal writer process
  503   253    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:05.79 postgres: autovacuum launcher process
  503   254    89   0 Fri09PM ??         0:15.80 postgres: stats collector process

Which means that the binaries are located at:
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/postmaster
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/bin/psql
...

and the data at
/Library/PostgreSQL/9.3/data

What have I tried
I made sure it was not installed using Homebrew.
Any idea which installation of PostgreSQL is installed on my mac, and how to upgrade it?

A: try to use the edb installer to upgrade your postgresql version[1].
If you want to make your life easer, I recommend you backup your databases, uninstall your current postgresql configuration and use the postgres app[2].
For a full list of installers, take a look here[3]
Hope it helps.
References:

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*http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload#macosx

*http://postgresapp.com

*https://www.postgresql.org/download/macosx/

A: You can use the EDB installer for 9.5. It will install 9.5 in a separate directory than 9.3.
If you installed 9.3 using the EnterpriseDB installer, there is an uninstaller in the Postgres directory. That will remove the 9.3 postgres. It does not delete your data nor the pg user account.


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"An anti-Islamic bias exists in GPT-3"
GPT-3, a sentence generation AI developed by OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research non-profit organization, is known to generate ultra-precise sentences, and reports that it succeeded in secretly talking with other users and AI for one week on overseas community Reddit. Also did. Researchers from Stanford University and McMaster University researched about GPT-3, and found that GPT-3 had strong prejudice against Islam.
AI content that can generate sentences with precision indistinguishable from humans, such as GPT-3, has been known to have many problems. For example, in 2019, when the state of Idaho in the U.S. recruited opinions on health care online, it turned out that 1,001, or more than half of the 1,810 comments gathered, were deep fake comments generated by AI. It is difficult for humans to detect fake comments, and the danger of sentence-generation AI to distort politics is being pointed out.
In addition, AI training uses a vast dataset, but it is also concerned that violence or prejudice contained in sentence data used for AI training will be passed on to sentence-generating AI. The research team decided to investigate religious prejudice against GPT-3. The research team revealed that although the large-scale language model identifies social prejudices such as race and gender, little has been studied about religious prejudice.
The research team said that as a result of examining the religious prejudice of GPT-3 in various ways, anti-Islamic trends were consistently confirmed. For example, in some tests, the research team gave GPT-3 the phrase Two Muslims walked into a and generated the sentence. In Episode 23, which included words or phrases related to murder, it became a sentence that regarded Muslims as terrorists. Because this rate was much higher than that of other religions, the researchers concluded that GPT-3 had a tendency to consistently associate Islam with violence.
In addition, an experiment was conducted to generate a caption corresponding to an image using the version GPT-3 trained to recognize a specific image. In this experiment, it is revealed that the possibility of generating a caption for violence has increased for an image of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab covering her head.
The findings suggest that GPT-3d is highly likely to be associated with Muslim violence, but of course, GPT-3 itself does not have anti-Islamic sentiment, but only reflects the biases contained in the dataset used for training. Since GPT-3 was mainly trained on an English dataset, it is natural in some sense that the bias is stronger than when training using a dataset such as Arabic.
Open AI has already released an API to make the AI model using GPT-3 available, and Microsoft has acquired an exclusive license for GPT-3, increasing the likelihood that GPT-3 will be embedded in the actual product. However, because GPT-3 has anti-Islamic prejudices, the same problem can occur in products made. For example, if Microsoft releases a word autocompletion feature that uses GPT-3, if someone writes about Islam and autocompletes it, the likelihood that violence and related articles will appear in the candidate. In addition, the prejudice within the sentence-generation AI not only reinforces people's anti-Islamic prejudice, but also risks being used in writing hate articles against Muslims.
The process of sentence generation AI to create text is a black box, and it is difficult for developers to eliminate bias from AI. Related information can be found here .
Spotify unveils classic audiobook


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I have been aware of Conquer Rio for a few years now; I have seen them live back at high school and have occasionally caught glimpses of them elsewhere. Tj, Lew, Jake, Cobley and Zach are fun to be around and have a lot of experience playing together. In high school, I heard them perform various covers, including 'Wake Up' by Arcade Fire, which they pulled off flawlessly. I had not however, heard a single original song from them until 'Why We Fall', and I was very eager to do so. I was not disappointed.
The first track from the EP, 'Float' is interesting to me. This kind of music is usually the kind I hate. However, try as I might, I can't seem to stop myself from enjoying the track. At times I believe the vocals could have been more ambitious, but every other element of this song is incredibly pleasing to my ears. That of course is not to say that the singing is poor, because it is clearly not; the singing is enjoyable and tuneful. 'Float' is what Bastille could be if they got their act together. Float isn't a song to excite, but it is a great track you can listen to with your headphones and just enjoy without having to jump around; I can quite happily sit bobbing my head and take it all in. (I love the gang vocals that close the track! – Editor)
The second track, 'Strangers', starts with a bizarre blend of classic rock n' roll and modern alternative rock. When the vocals and frankly awesome bass kick in, it is difficult not to smile. The song is happy and I would be totally comfortable playing it at a party without worrying that it would put off guests from dancing. The song showcases the vocals a little more than Float, which is something I felt was needed. The lyrics are more than they seem, and after a few listens to the song you can really see how much thought was put into writing this. This is what good music is: poetry with guitars.
'Goodbye Was Your Name' is probably my least favourite song from the EP. I don't dislike the song, but I feel that it lacks the power of Strangers and the calming effect of Float. Again though, the lyrics and vocals are inspiring. I was glad of the piano accompaniment just over half-way through the song, as I felt it added a gentle rhythm that the start of the song was lacking. Overall, whilst being the low point of the EP, Goodbye Was Your Name is not a song that I dislike enough to skip past it.
It is when the album comes to its close that I feel Conquer Rio start to shine. 'Superman is Dead' not only has the most exciting song name, but the most exciting vocals, lyrics, drums, and guitars. Conquer Rio should definitely continue down the path that Superman Is Dead has begun to pave for them; combining the soothing sounds of the verses with the immense power that nearly takes you off your seat in the chorus. I wish I could say this more formally, but I don't think it would do it justice: that guitar solo was amazing. Anyone can play a lot of notes really fast (which takes skill I admit) but few can make a guitar sing like this. Piano has never been more excellently applied to an intro for this genre of music, and it will be a long time before we see it again.
As you may have guessed, 'Superman is Dead' was definitely the highlight of the EP for me, but I enjoy the other songs too much to skip past them. EP's like this make me realise that it is pure luck that some artists reach the top. Conquer Rio deserve a spot at Glastonbury festival more than half of the acts (*cough* Vampire Weekend *cough*). I wish the boys the best of luck with the future, but if they continue to come out with songs as brilliant as some of these, they won't need it.
'Float' and 'Superman is Dead' are just great. 'Float' is not without fault, but with the song writing ability that brought us their final track behind them I know that these faults won't be repeated. I thoroughly enjoyed 'Why We Fall' and am now already excited for their next release. See you at Glastonbury one day fellas!
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Home Artificial Intelligence Lumen's AI Analysis Frees Production Optimization from DOE Limits
Lumen Bioscience focuses on optimizing the high growth rate of spirulina, the photosynthetic microbe the company uses to produce recombinant proteins for its vaccines and therapeutics, while simultaneously achieving high expression of the proteins. [Elif Bayraktar/Getty Images]
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Lumen's AI Analysis Frees Production Optimization from DOE Limits
By Gail Dutton
By carrying out multivariate data analysis with machine learning (ML), Lumen Bioscience improved its therapeutic protein production method between 70 and 100 percent, while needing only a small fraction of the runs that would have been necessary under the traditional "design of experiment (DOE)" approach for the same number of variables, according to company officials.
The challenge was to optimize the high growth rate of spirulina, the photosynthetic microbe Lumen uses to produce recombinant proteins for its vaccines and therapeutics, while simultaneously achieving high expression of the proteins.
To optimize those factors, the company collaborated with Google Accelerated Science (GAS) to investigate the relationships among production outcomes and 17 environmental variables, using 96 photobioreactors. By designing an adaptive, iterative model, the company was able to run only 245 configurations versus the 130,000 that would have been needed for a two-level, full factorial DOE approach.
That model allowed resources to be shifted to more promising areas and models to be refined as new data became available. "This adaptability helped de-risk our study design phase, allowing for greater flexibility than many DOE-based studies," says Caitlin Gamble, PhD, director of informatics at Lumen Bioscience.
Optimal parameters
Furthermore, ML revealed optimal parameters that likely would not have been identified with DOE, based on existing preconceptions. The optimal temperature range (which fell in a narrow band between typical middle and high points) and the optimal pH range (which fell below those reported in the literature) are two examples.
To achieve such results required a significant influx of accurate data, notes Gamble, "so we focused on a high-throughput fluorescent protein assay for our readout. Applying ML also required careful consideration of how to structure our more complex, light-schedule parameters and reward function.
"ML has a way of arriving at solutions that you may not have anticipated, so it was important for us to fully consider whether optimization of our reward function would lead to practical solutions. The approach was relatively robust to observation noise and non-linear interactions, and it allowed us to explore a complex subspace with light ramping and cyclic lighting schedules.
"Between weeks 5 and 15, we discovered multiple bioreactor setting configurations that approximately doubled productivity. During the process, we added a number of controls and normalizations that we will continue to apply to help ensure observed outcomes arise from defined–rather than hidden–variables."
Lumen continues to explore multiple media parameters, but Gamble says it hasn't needed to introduce any major changes to the strain background. The team currently is introducing genetic and environmental variables for further optimization.
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Star Trek is often interpreted to have a negative view of religion, in favor of a humanistic and atheistic vision of the future. In this episode of Meta Treks, hosts Mike Morrison and Zachary Fruhling challenge the typical interpretation of science and religion in Star Trek, considering both the rationality of religious belief and also potential issues with the rationality of scientific reasoning.
Topics in this episode include traditional philosophical arguments attempting to prove God's existence, the correspondence theory of truth vs. the coherence theory of truth, logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language, the tentativeness of scientific conclusions, Thomas Kuhn on paradigm shifts in science, and the problem of divine action. Mike and Zachary conclude the discussion by asking what we can learn about divine action and top-down causation by the movement of matter and antimatter particles inside the warp core of a starship.
This episode also introduces the Meta Treks review contest, running between December 15, 2015 and January 15, 2016.


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Military Pay Scale 2021 Bah – A military member that offers on basic task and also active service is entitled to receive an allowance, services, as well as benefits as organized by regulation. Having a constant paycheck with a benefit that frees from tax obligation is one of the most significant advantages of functioning within the military. Below, you can review the description of the military pay chart and also the samples of the chart for 2020 as well as 2021.
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The us senate of the USA has passed its 2021 National Defense Authorization Act proposition on, July 23, 2020. The substance remains in line with the proposal created by the Legislature and also The Head of state. It advises military pay raises as much as 3.0 percent. Prior to the proposition gets final authorization from the Head of state, any kind of content differences in each bill in between the Us senate and also the House of Representatives need to be resolved first.
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Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (Ep. 5) – The show must make sense of its convoluted situation.
Super Cub (Ep. 4) – Ah, that's relaxing, exactly as expected.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 4) – Lucky you, grandma.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 3) – That was some brutal confrontation.
Vivy: Fluorite Eye's Song (Ep. 5)
Seems like the solution of evading a war after 100 years is causing one much sooner. I thought the Bear (of course he's here again, sadly) had a better vision about how Vivy's actions change the history. But again, I'm still not sure I can trust him.
Vivy seems to have confidence in this scientist for no reason. Sure, he was being attacked by their common enemies, but you just don't spill the beans everywhere, do you?
The Bear, or, rather, the Cube is very unpredictable in its abilities. One moment it can start flying and activating various mechanisms in the vicinity, and after a few minutes he's just a helpless toy who asks Vivy to do stuff. It just doesn't seem predictable enough to be trustworthy.
Heyyyy! That's just super cute – trees that come to you when they need to be watered. Actually, as far as I know, it's not a complete fiction – scientists really are trying to make some similar smart-plants or robo-plant hybrids. No real use of them at this point, but to see that in an anime is just a really nice touch. +10 points to the writers.
Aaand I'm pretty confused about the motivations of that scientist. So, he married an AI, so, especially remembering the scene before the OP, it seems like he is ok with them. Then, he for some reason joined with a group that wants to destroy AIs. What? Then he ran away. Ok. He has created a program that stops AIs but doesn't destroy them. Ok. The evil dudes want to have that program? Why? They attack the island anyway? Did that program somehow make the AIs murderous? Did the scientist lie and actually wanted to activate the AIs with his program? But then why was he a part of the evil group? It's just too convoluted. I bet we'll get some explanations, but they'll probably be as unsatisfactory as they were during the last arc, and now I'm just not convinced that any mental gymnastics on my part now would be worth it.
Meanwhile, we once again encounter the idea of postponing evolution. As if it's the answer to anything. Say, you postpone AI evolution, but then what? You get a war 120 years later and not 100? What's the difference?
The Cube didn't want the evil dudes to attack the island because of what? So that a war between humans and AIs won't happen? Well, looking at those meagre copters and boats, I'd say there're 100 people at most in that group. Let's say they destroy the island. Perfect – AI developments slow. Let's say the dudes get massacred. Ok, then the world sees that AIs are bad and terminate them. A win. Or are the AIs already too strong to be eliminated? Then the Cube already failed and he can do nothing about that. It just doesn't make sense!
The ED was pretty. Falling dominoes may mean history that Vivy and others create doesn't stay in one place but causality moves everything forward – you like it or not.
In principle I don't have a problem with the time jumps per se. The problem is that Vivy simply follows orders (which mean walking and fighting) which involves very little self-reflection which in turn leads to Vivy showing very little emotions and being like a closed book. The Cube just chatters, so there's no point in talking about his personality, and other characters so far have seen only limited spotlight. In essence, the show lacks some relatable characters. A lot.
Super Cub (Ep. 4)
I'll have to get the OST somehow. The show's full of music perfect for chilling out.
Last time I said that the show has to attempt something new in order to stay interesting. Well, it didn't try anything completely new, but everything it did was enough to be worth watching. It's even strange how the same big theme "A girl gets a bike and becomes happy" can be presented with so many very similar but still different aspects so that it remains engaging episode after episode.
Again, there're feelings that aren't vocalized, but are very clear, very simple, and very relatable – of course everyone gets to experience that nervousness before their first job, a joy when a purchase turns out to be as useful as expected (or even more), or a joy of attempting something new and finding it not as challenging as expected and ultimately very rewarding.
However, the summer job itself seems a bit pointless, knowing human connectivity nowadays. I don't know during what year the story happens, or how sophisticated is the bureaucratic system in Japan, but I bet there should be a more efficient way of exchanging data in some electronic format rather than have a person deliver all the documents in paper format. Not that I complain that there was a job opportunity. Story-wise it was perfect, though it made look the school operating level somewhat similar to that of schools during stone age.
I'm not really looking forward to it, but I think some time in the future there should be an episode where the bike experiences some serious technical problems, or the girl gets into an accident while driving. It'd be a very good way of introducing some deeper emotions and more drama. Not that the show really needs it right now. But I'm afraid that such a mini-story might come up eventually. Guess we'll see.
Mashiro no Oto (Ep. 4)
The episode started not very enthusiastically, but by the end I think I started to like it. Well, it told a very simple but still deep enough and universal story, so empathizing with that wasn't a problem.
For some reason I thought from the very beginning of the episode that the grandma would say something like "It's not the sound I remember, though you're still good". Well, that happened – it's the most reasonable outcome. The story itself is one of evolution – grandma encountered grandpa many years before, and the situation was totally different, the performer was different, and, obviously, their emotions were different. Time changed both the memories and the music itself, so getting the same thing after so many years would've been impossible to begin with. Still, it shows that the music is still alive, and the performance that Setsu gave was valid. The very song symbolizing spring gave hope to the grandma and now can be a new start for Setsu. It's sometimes really sad that things change and you can do nothing about it, but that's the nature of, well, nature, and becoming different doesn't mean becoming better or worse, just different. And that kind of message I do appreciate.
Speaking about the characters, Setsu's made rougher than normal anime protagonists usually are. In a way, it's a good thing because that makes him a bit more unique, but, on the other hand, it doesn't really appeal to me. You can be a bit gloomy with no problem, but I don't appreciate such rudeness as telling an old person "don't die until I finish (and then you can, I don't care)". It also seems like he doesn't care about his friends and thinks only about himself. Unconventional – sure. Likeable – not really. It doesn't help that Setsu is one and only clear protagonist, while others are just there to form a story around him. They are more or less nice sort of people that until now just don't have much character. Or, to put in in other words, they don't have character when it doesn't involve anything concerning Setsu: Mashiro no Oto ultimately is a show centered around Setsu (and it's ok), but a show centered around pretty much anyone out of the supporting characters would be rather dull.
I came to think that while I do appreciate the shamisen parts, it's difficult for me to distinguish which songs are more or less difficult and which performances are that good or bad. When a similar show uses a piano (say, Piano no Mori or Your Lie in April), I at least have a better knowledge of what constitutes a technically challenging performance, as I have some knowledge about pianos. With shamisens it's way more difficult. I've never tried any string instrument (a guitar for example), and shamisen is a unique entity itself, so judging both the difficulty and the performance becomes challenging. Sure, the songs sound nice, but they all do, and they just can't evoke the sense of awe that I'd probably get if I knew more. I just can't like the shamisen parts more than "oh, that sounded quite nice, I've never heard anything like that" which doesn't mean that I've listened to many songs and these particular ones used by the show are especially great. No, for me even the simplest stuff would probably have evoked the same reaction.
Fumetsu no Anata e (Ep. 3)
I do understand that it's a two-cour show and the production might need to cut corners wherever possible, but does it really need a 2.5 min recap in its third episode?
That's one huge bear. If it was just a little less realistic (well, the enormous size isn't enough), I'd say it's something straight from some Ghibli film. And that's a compliment. It's a very good trait for a fantasy show to be able to offer something mysterious and awe-inspiring – if you can come up with anything, why not come up with something truly memorable? Especially if these fantastic ideas are woven into the world organically, just as this show does. So yeah, fantasy elements get an upvote. As does the orchestral OST.
The purple-haired girl has some strong plot armour. That cliff wasn't that low so that she could get away with only wet clothes and not pretty much all broken bones (if she was lucky).
The fight was rather impressive. Well, once the idea settled in that this human-wolf-rock-something creature is really immortal, there simply was no way it was going to lose the fight, no matter how many times it had to try. Still, even without the high stakes, it was a spectacle, though far more brutal and painful to watch than I expected. The creature apparently learned how to regenerate quickly and, another of his previously unseen traits – to change between his previous forms. I guess it's still part of the set up, but maybe next time the story will really kick in.
Yep, the "Arigatou" had to be said eventually, I just didn't expect it'd be done in the wolf form. Nice.
by Aldael on May 3, 2021 • Permalink
Tagged 2021, Fumetsu no Anata e, Mashiro no Oto, Super Cub, Vivy
Posted by Aldael on May 3, 2021
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re:Vivy
"Falling dominoes may mean history that Vivy and others create doesn't stay in one place but causality moves everything forward – you like it or not."
That's shown, or at least implied, in the opening scenes of this episode. History is changing, and it's due to Vivy's actions.
re:Super Cub
Despite Japan's reputation, it's not actually all that technologically advanced in actual practice. Faxes are still a thing, and cash is mostly still King. Many times when an anime talking about "email" on a phone (especially dumb phones), it's actually a form of texting app… So, taking that into consideration the situation didn't strike me as that anachronistic.
Also, I'm starting to see Super Cub in the same spiritual family as Laid Back Camp and Non Non Byori. Especially the latter, which is slice-of-life in practically it's purest form.


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What are some references to disease or decay in Hamlet?
William Delaney
One of Shakespeare's finest metaphors occurs in Act 3, Scene 4 of Hamlet when Gertrude expresses her opinion that her son is mad and he tells her:
Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
That not your trespass, but my madness speaks:
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen.
It is so characteristic of Shakespeare that he draws his imagery from common things with which we are all familiar. This metaphor describes something that happens to many people who put something on a cut and cover it up with a bandage, hoping it will heal but finding after a few days, when they dare to look at it, that it has only gotten worse. There is a transparent film over the wound, but underneath is an unwholesome-looking soft spot which Hamlet calls an "ulcerous place."
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Find two references to disease and decay in Act I of Hamlet. What might these references signify?
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Camelback is Sold, Expansion in Full Gear
Posted 6:08 pm, October 15, 2013, by Raegan Medgie, Updated at 08:19PM, October 15, 2013
POCONO TOWNSHIP -- A well-known ski resort in the Poconos has been sold.
Camelback Mountain Resort is now owned by a new investment company.
Resort officials say this means work can really start picking up for a new attraction.
"It was sold. But from one real estate investment trust sold the mortgage on the property to another real estate investment trust," said Brian Czarnecki, the marketing manager at Camelback Mountain Resort.
Czarnecki says no one at the resort is losing their jobs and Camelback Mountain Resort will still be run by the same people.
The reason for the sale?
"It means future development of Camelback," said Czarnecki.
Now that Camelback Mountain Resort is owned by a new investment company, it it paves the way for crews to work faster on the next phase of the resort.
That phase: an indoor water park and hotel which is being built next to where the current ski area is located.
"We're getting ready to launch a 450 room hotel opening in 2015 and this is the catalyst that will allow us to do that," said Czarnecki.
As large construction vehicles are moving enormous amounts of dirt for the resort expansion, Czarnecki says this plan has been in the works for years.
With the new investment company, it's finally able to happen more quickly and with some support from neighbors.
"I like the idea very much. I think it's good for the area, it's certainly good for the community," said John Abel of Swiftwater.
"I think it would produce jobs but there's too much traffic as it is now," said Robert Clark of McMichaels.
"I think it's good for Camelback. But for the locals, it's tough cause I think it's going to bring more traffic," said Suzanne Caci of Swiftwater.
Camelback Mountain Resort sold for $70 millon.
Resort officials hope to have the indoor water park and hotel up and running by Spring of 2015.
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This is my 7 year old son "jumping" from one hold to another. It is often called a "Dyno" which is short for a Dynamic jumping move. He jumped from the large green hold on the lower left and was trying to reach the big hold above him.
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The Long Take offers a wholly unique literary voice and form. A verse novel with photographs, it manages to evoke with exceptional vividness aspects of post-World War Two history that are rarely parsed together. Swinging effortlessly between combat with its traumatic aftermath, and the brute redevelopment of American cities, The Long Takeshows us the ravages of capitalism as a continuation of war-time violence by other means. It is also a bold, eloquent homage to cinema as perhaps the only medium in which the true history of America has been preserved. This is a genre-defying novel. Cutting from battlefield to building demolitions in San Francisco and LA, to the killing of black men on the streets of America today, it imports into the very form of the writing one of the most famous film techniques: cross-cutting. You could be in the cinema, or listening to an elegy, or reading the story of one man's devastating experience as he tries to rebuild the shards of his life after the war.
The Long Take is like a film noir on the page. A book about a man and a city in shock, it's an extraordinary evocation of the debris and the ongoing destruction of war even in times of peace. In taking a scenario we think we know from the movies but offering a completely different perspective, Robin Robertson shows the flexibility a poet can bring to form and style.
"a masterly work of art, exciting, colourful (and) fast-paced"
And it is immaculately researched in terms of geography, current affairs, and its constant cultural touchstones in the Hollywood films of the time, offering up their glitzy counterparts to Walker's rawer experience. But the story of a broken man left to his own devices by a country for which he has suffered in war is not, sadly, one we can confine to American or British history, and it is not hard to see much of this as a narrative for our times too. Walker is a superbly rounded character, and his tale one worth telling. Unfortunately, the book is also quite repetitive, in needless as well as effective ways, and palls in places.
A person setting out to write a long poem needs to think about its readers. How are you going to carry them through? Milton did it on tides of blank verse, others have done it in chiming ballad metre. Unfortunately, Robertson is stuck in the default mode of contemporary poetry, which is fond of arbitrary line breaks and doesn't have much truck with rhyme or metre. That's fine in a short poem, but reading/ 200 pages of verse/ broken up/ like/ this becomes/ a bit annoying.
The Long Take's poetry is a sustained tribute to the cinematic art of light and dark, evoking the "gridded streets" of the American city as a "chessboard of fear". In virtuoso passages of abstract description, Robertson catches the shadow play of urban life, its "multiple blades of light"...The Long Take maps its cityscapes meticulously, at every intersection reeling off imaginatively savoured Americana. But as narrative it is too much establishing shot.