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The Legacy of Clark Schurman
Mary Hsue
Former Mountaineers Director of Development
Clark Schurman joined The Mountaineers in 1936 and devoted his abundant energy and talent to developing mountaineering techniques and a philosophy oriented to safety. In his book, Molenaar called Schurman "An intense, brusk little man with the military way, he had a soul highly sensitive to the beauties of the mountain and to the dreams of youth. Visitors to the small, musty auditorium in the basement of the Guide House long remembered Schurman's evening program of tinted lantern slides (and the first Kodachrome slides) which revealed the beauties of the mountain and its surrounding parklands. Schurman's poetic interpretation of the great natural forces at work helped bring the mountain close to the hearts of his guests." Read more…
Governor Evans and the Book That Saved the Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Peter Dunau
Mountaineers Communications Specialist
A picture is worth a thousand words, but the images collected in The Alpine Lakes are worth even more than that. The photographs in this book, published by The Mountaineers in 1971, inspired President Gerald Ford to designate the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area. Read more…
Registers & Canisters: A Grand Northwest Tradition
Kristina Ciari Tursi
Mountaineers Communications Director & History Enthusiast
I heard the buzzing first. As we were placing our signatures back inside the summit canister, an unfamiliar noise tickled my eardrums. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and I could see the hair on my partners' heads rising to the sky as if to kiss an invisible balloon. I spun frantically searching for the source when it dawned on me: it was us. We were buzzing. Our ice axes and skis and the metal zipper pulls were vibrating in unison. I didn't know what was happening, but I knew it was time to move, and fast. Read more…
John Davis - A True Lifetime Member
Mountaineers Peak Society Member
John Davis' imprint on Seattle is inspiring. In addition to being the founder of Davis, Wright, Tremaine law firm in 1944, John served on the boards of many nonprofits, including Whitman College, the Pacific Science Center, and the Seattle Symphony. The Mountaineers was also a recipient of John's strong commitment to giving back to his community. He volunteered as a leader at The Mountaineers serving as board president in 1968, climbing committee chair in 1967, as an editor of the second edition of Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills, and as a co-founder of the Mountaineers Foundation. A lifetime member since 1959, John passed away in April of 2015 at the age of 101. Read more…
The Case for Tahoma
Cooper Weissman
University of Puget Sound graduate
The name Rainier means a lot to people in the Pacific Northwest: it's our majestic guardian mountain and the first major summit for many local outdoor enthusiasts. It was also the training ground for famed Mountaineers member and first American to summit Mount Everest, Jim Whittaker. Do you know what essential item he carried on his journey to the top of the world? Why mountain-fresh Rainier beer of course! Read more…
Happy 94th Birthday, Fred Beckey!
Fred Beckey, a living legend among Northwest Mountaineers, is a climber, environmentalist, historian, and author. He is recognized as one the most imaginative, persistent, and thorough explorer and mountain investigator of the Cascade Range Wilderness. Read more…
Legends and Lore Reaches Back Across the Pond
"I must stress that this book is a fascinating read," wrote Noel Dawson in his review of Sherpa: The Memoir of Ang Tharkay, which appeared recently in an issue of the UK's Climber magazine. "It tells a very important story that could so easily have been lost." Read more…
A Living Legend - Fred Beckey
Mountaineer climbers in 1939 were well aware of their unparalleled good fortune. Only the highest Northwest peaks had been climbed, and all a young climber had to do to score a first ascent was head for the nearest blank spot on the map. Many of the mountains hadn't even been surveyed, and the climbers often went without benefit of a map. Often they explored the area first and returned later, relying on their own notes to reach the summit. Read more…
How The Mountaineers Helped Create The Olympic National Park
In The Mountaineers: A History, longtime Mountaineers President Edmond Meany summed up the club's mission in the 1910 annual: "This is a new country. It abounds in a fabulous wealth of scenic beauty. It is possible to so conserve parts of that wealth that it may be enjoyed by countless generations through the centuries to come… This club is vigilant for wise conservation and it is also anxious to blaze ways into the hills that anyone may follow." Read more…
Theater in the Wild
Suzanne Gerber
Publications Manager
When I first learned The Mountaineers had a theater, I thought it was a bit strange. What does acting and drama have to do with mountaineering? The answer, in short, is community. Before forest access roads and rules that limit parties to 12, it was common for large groups of Mountaineers to spend days together just to get to where we now park our cars. To entertain each other in the evenings, animated camp-fire stories and performances, when organized with props, quickly became a type of theater. Read more…


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Q: Android: navigate through Activity hierarchy My application has a logical Activity hierarchy, as follows:

I'm trying to navigate across Activities while checking if they're running. For instance:
Main Menu > Activity A1 > Activity A2.
Now if I go back to Main Menu, is there a way to check if Activity A2 is already running, and if so, jump directly to that Activity?
I think setting android:launchMode="singleTask" to Activity A1 might do the trick, and read about the android:allowTaskReparenting attribute. But i'm unsure exactly what to use to achieve what I want.

A: It would be easier to use one host Activity (as a navigation controller ) and many Fragments. Current Fragment will callback to the Activity, so it will make decision how to navigate on your graph.
If you really want to stick to the graph with many Activities, default behaviour - all activities in the same process will be alive. Android OS can only clean/kill process, not Activities (documentation a bit vague about it). You can use Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_HISTORY for middle activities, so only root one will be on the stack.
There is a way to investigate back stack with ActivityManager, but it's deprecated.

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Listen: Saara's 'Monsters' Has Leaked!
X Factor UK participant and Finnish representative for Eurovision 2018 Saara Alto's probable Eurovision song has leaked!
Finland's last qualification to the big final was in 2014 when the country was represented by Softengine. Finland will compete in the first semi final this year. Monsters is one of the three songs which will compete in the Finnish National Final UMK which is going to be held on 3 of March. Listen here:
Saara Aalto Released "Domino"

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See also The Heavenly Prince Melchizedek for a text that wasn't corrupted that supports the view that Christ's life 2000 years ago was not the first incarnation of God on this earth.
Hebrews 5:5 So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest.
I didn't write the Biblical Corruption Article but I reprinted it (with permission) because it was done so well.
Christ lived an example life for us and the begettal was part of the "example" and was also necessary for him to become free of the cycle of birth and death forever just as it can be for us.
The Bible records that Christ is the firstborn of many brethren --- Colossians Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: Christ was the pace setter, the trail blazer, the initiator of a new and improved way for us to achieve God Consiousness.
Furthermore, the Church itself became so Pagan and corrupt, that it was often referred to throughout history as the "synagogue of Satan" (Rev 2:9;3:9).
In a letter to Pope Leo X on September 6th, 1520, Martin Luther wrote of the Christianity of his day that the church, "once the holiest of all, has become the most licentious den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the kingdom of sin, death, and hell.
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Mainstream Media Struggles With Fact That Americans Want Peace with Russia
Big League National Security
They still can't figure out Trump's base.
The mainstream media is incredulous at the fact that, despite their framing of President Donald J Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland as a disaster of epic proportions, Trump seems not to have suffered at all in the polls.
"Donald Trump did not draw many positive reviews after his summit with Russian president Vladimir Putin last week, at least among the punditocracy," wrote New York Magazine. "But in a new NBC News–Wall Street Journal poll, conducted both before and after the Helsinki summit, Trump has seen his approval rating tick up to 45 percent, an all-time high for him in the survey."
The same people who told us that Hillary Clinton was honest, and that she would win the 2016 election in a landslide, are still wrong about Trump. They still do not understand his base, and what makes his voters tick. It must be difficult to think critically while hurling baseless accusations of racism and bigotry 24/7.
But the fact is, Trump has been very consistent in his stance on foreign affairs, which is that making enemies is not prudent when, through showing strength and flexing American muscle, we can have peace.
He has been calling for peace with Russia and in the Middle East since his campaign days. His supporters were vehemently opposed to military intervention in Syria, and have no use for spending billions more dollars fighting wars that have accomplished little.
Trump re-iterated this message after his summit with Putin in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
Big League Politics reported:
"Today, President Donald J. Trump spread a message of world peace on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight," hosted by Tucker Carlson after taking heat from the mainstream press for being "too soft" on Russia.
"[Russia has] a strong military, as you know, but their economy is smaller than China, and I don't even want to use the word adversary," Trump said regarding U.S. relations with Russia. "We can all work together, we can do great. Everybody can do well, and we can live in peace."
This has been Trump's message with Russia since his campaign days, yet the political left deems anything less than nuclear war with the communist nation as treasonous capitulation to Putin.
"I'm not pro-Russia, pro-anybody," Trump said. "I just want to have this country be safe. I don't want nuclear weapons – people even thinking about it. You know, Russia and the United States control 90 percent of the nuclear weapons in the world, and getting along with Russia, not only for that reason, is a good thing, not a bad thing."
BLP Passage Ends.
Most war-weary Americans simply want peace. Why is the mainstream press hell bent on war?
Locked and Loaded: Pentagon Grants Soldiers in DC Power to use Lethal Force
The National Guard have been authorized to use lethal force, if needed.
Matthew T. McDonald
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy has authorized the twenty thousand National Guard members providing security around the U.S. Capitol to carry lethal weapons as Washington, D.C., braces for Inauguration Day.
"On January 12, 2021, National Guardsmen were given authorization to be armed in support of the U.S. Capitol Police to protect the U.S. Capitol and individual members of Congress and their staff," according to a statement from the D.C. National Guard, which is commanding Guard forces in the city, including units deployed from six other states, to provide security for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration next week," the DC National Guard revealed in a statement "This was requested by federal authorities and authorized by the Secretary of the Army."
The National Guard Bureau declined to specify what weapons troops would carry.
"National Guard members are postured to meet the requirements of the supported civil authorities, up to and including protective equipment and being armed if necessary," said the statement. "The public's safety is our top priority."
Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, told media members on Monday that a force of up to 15,000 will deploy to D.C. with all their issued equipment, including their individual weapons. So if the need arises, "they are close by and they are readily accessible."
The Pentagon initially authorized up to six thousand two hundred Guard members from Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania to deploy to D.C. on federal status to maintain security through Inauguration Day.
The history of National Guard members being a part of the presidential inauguration dates back to the first inauguration of President George Washington in 1789.


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I've seen numerous founding teams come to heartbreak when, before things even get exciting, they arrive at irreconcilable differences. Usually a camel-back-breaking event is related to some business issue. But the problem probably started before that. Usually I've noted serious personal differences in style, ethics, experience etc., that actually have little to do with the business usually break up the founding team. It is imperative that some legal corporate structure be put in place that allows the founders to separate in an orderly and fair manner. This is fairly easy to do, and I'd start with Chris McDemus' excellent advice below. In addition to this hard advice, however, I'd add some softer work to accomplish. Share a vision for the business.
Write a business plan together. Agree on big ideas of 1) responsibility separation; 2) operations fundamentals of the business; 3) the vision. Discuss what success would look like with a critical eye. Yes, success would be cool. But talk about your viewpoints regarding number of employees, outside capital to take and likely company exit points. Can you imagine running a $1 million business? $10 million? What are the implications of success? If you share that, it might be easier to make good decisions together to get there. Now, on to Chris' good advice in this regard.
The entry below is from attorney Chris McDemus, aka, the VC Deal Lawyer. You can follow him on Twitter @vcdeallawyer.
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Q: Trouble opening ports in SQL Server 2019 Express - WMI Error [0x80071779] Update:
Going back one version to SQL Server 2017 Express allowed me to save TCP/IP ports and IP addresses entered in SQL Server Configuration Manager.
None of these variables were saved in the registry:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server**INST**\MSSQLServer\SuperSocketNetLib\Tcp}\
In SQL Server Configuration Manager this error message only appeared when an IP section had it's "Active" state set to "no":
The specificed file is read only. [0x80071779].
For me this applies to both 2017 and 2019.

Old description:
I Have installed a local SQL Server 2019 Express (SSE 2019), that I can connect to locally with:
<computer_name>/<sql_server_name>.
I have issues trying to setup static ports to enable a remote connection.
When configuring ports in SQL Server Configuration Manager (SSCM) -> TCP/IP, upon saving I get a WMI error:
The specificed file is read only. [0x80071779].
Searching for the issue lead me to this page that shows the same error message that I get.
This page describes a workaround by changing the ports and IP settings in the registry instead. However all the sub-keys to TCP: IP1, IP2, IP3 etc. are missing for me. Could someone running a SQL server 2019 express confirm that this structure is still in use for this version of SSE?
It's strange that the WMI error points to a read only issue when I am able to change the TcpPort value in the key called Tcp with SSCM (where it's called IPALL) and by restarting the server the value in registry is updated correctly.
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So far my attempts to connect remote have failed
I have:

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*Opened the standard SQL server port both in my router and my firewall

*Tried to turn off the firewall completely

*Added the keys missing and their contents in the registry based on this, but did not seem to work (SSCM didn't even read from them)

*Restarted the SQL server and it's services, SQL Server Configuration Manager application and the computer several times while trying the above

*Made sure that remote connection is on in SQL server properties (was on by default)

Some remarks about Connecting locally
Update:
When using only one instance of Sql server (and with working port management) you only need to enter the servers IP-address to initiate a connection.

Old:
While this went just fine:
<computer_name>/<sql_server_name>
I was unable to connect to the SQL server locally using 127.0.0.1 or 127.0.0.1, <port>.
What's the correct syntax for connecting to the localhost?
Some suggestions were to use a comma to separate IP and Port:
<x.x.x.x>/<SQL_server_name>, <PortNumber>
Would it work just as well using a colon?
<x.x.x.x>:<portNumber>/<SQL_server_name>

A: Uninstalled Sql server completely and installed a one version older sql server.
Setting it up the same way and the issue was solved. Updated the question as well.

A: In my case (SQL Server 2019) none of the above was effective. The problem was related with Hyper-V. I suspect that the network bridge it creates conflicts with the SQL Server network settings. Uninstalling Hyper-V restores normal functioning. It could be possible that just deactivating the Hyper-V network bridge also work.


This example shows how you might create a policy that allows IAM users that are authenticated through multi-factor authentication (MFA) to manage their own MFA device on the My Security Credentials page. This AWS Management Console page displays account and user information, but the user can only view and edit their own MFA device. To allow users to manage all of their own credentials with MFA, see AWS: Allows MFA-Authenticated IAM Users to Manage Their Own Credentials on the My Security Credentials Page.
The AllowViewAccountInfo statement allows the user to view details about a virtual MFA device that is enabled for the user. This permission must be in its own statement because it does not support specifying a resource ARN. Instead you must specify "Resource" : "*".
The AllowManageOwnVirtualMFADevice statement allows the user to create and delete their own virtual MFA device. The resource ARN in this statement allows access to only an MFA device that has the same name as the currently signed-in user. Users can't create or delete any virtual MFA device other than their own.
The AllowManageOwnUserMFA statement allows the user to view or manage their own virtual, U2F, or hardware MFA device. The resource ARN in this statement allows access to only the user's own IAM user. Users can't view or manage the MFA device for other users.
The DenyAllExceptListedIfNoMFA statement denies access to every action in all AWS services, except a few listed actions, but only if the user is not signed in with MFA. The statement uses a combination of "Deny" and "NotAction" to explicitly deny access to every action that is not listed. The items listed are not denied or allowed by this statement. However, the actions are allowed by other statements in the policy. For more information about the logic for this statement, see NotAction with Deny. If the user is signed in with MFA, then the Condition test fails and this statement does not deny any actions. In this case, other policies or statements for the user determine the user's permissions.
This statement ensures that when the user is not signed in with MFA, they can perform only the listed actions. In addition, they can perform the listed actions only if another statement or policy allows access to those actions.
The ...IfExists version of the Bool operator ensures that if the aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent key is missing, the condition returns true. This means that a user accessing an API operation with long-term credentials, such as an access key, is denied access to the non-IAM API operations.
This policy does not allow users to view the Users page in the IAM console or use that page to access their own user information. To allow this, add the iam:ListUsers action to the AllowViewAccountInfo statement and the DenyAllExceptListedIfNoMFA statement.
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Sandals Resorts International awards three team members with inaugural Gordon "Butch" Stewart Tourism, Hospitality & Service scholarship
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via buzz-caribbean.com
The Stewart family, Sandals Foundation and Sandals Resorts International, through its Sandals Corporate University, have awarded three team members with the inaugural Gordon 'Butch' Stewart Tourism, Hospitality and Service Scholarship.
The scholarship is open to team members across the Sandals and ATL Group, including the Jamaica Observer, Island Routes and Unique Vacations Limited's Caribbean offices and was created to honour the company's late Founder and Chairman, Gordon "Butch" Stewart, OJ, CD, Hon. LLD and fund team members' pursuit of a Bachelor's Degree in Tourism, Hospitality or a service-related discipline.
Adam Stewart, Sandals' Executive Chairman shared, "My dad always believed in sharing knowledge and even before we had a Sandals Corporate University or an ATL Academy, he was passionate about learning and development and about empowering people to become their best selves. This scholarship is a manifestation of his longstanding belief in investing in our team members and is a most fitting way to celebrate and immortalize his memory."
After a call for applications in June and an extensive review process, Engineering Coordinator at Sandals Resorts International, Deidre-Ann Osbourne, Director of Guest Services at Sandals Barbados, Barbara Thomas and Wedding Documentation Specialist at Sandals Ochi Beach Resort, Michelle Samuda-McBean, will mark history as the first recipients of the scholarship, which holds a combined value of more than US$41,000.
As he presented the recipients with commemorative frames on Wednesday, Stewart said, "Deidre-Ann, Barbara and Michelle, I am proud of you. I am proud that you have each taken the initiative to pursue further studies and to invest in your development. I am proud to award you with the first ever Gordon 'Butch' Stewart Tourism, Hospitality and Service Scholarship and I have all confidence that you will excel in your studies, continue to represent the Sandals brand with excellence and motivate your fellow team members. Congratulations and all the very best with your studies."
One year into her pursuit of a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources at the University of the West Indies, Osbourne began the process of building her home. It however soon dawned on her that her single income household would not be able to sustain both her education and her dream of building her home. She thought she would be forced to choose one dream over the other and was convinced that her dreams of pursuing further studies would go unfulfilled.
This was before she saw the call for applications for the inaugural Gordon 'Butch' Stewart Tourism, Hospitality and Service Scholarship and decided to apply. Now among the three recipients of the scholarship that will cover the remaining four years of her six-year part time programme, her gratitude knows no bounds.
"I am grateful and honoured to be one of the first recipients of this scholarship", she said, "This company has opened so many doors for me and still continues to do so. This is like a dream come true for me. I've always had a drive to improve myself and this special investment that Sandals has made in me will go a far way towards me achieving my goals. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the company for finding me deserving of this scholarship."
For Samuda-McBean, the move to pursue further studies has been a long time coming and the scholarship could not have come at a more opportune time. She will now pursue her Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management at the University of the West Indies thanks to a full scholarship. She shared, "I have been with Sandals since 2004, I have grown as an individual and as a professional but I have always wanted to take my career even further. Human Resource Management has always been my passion and I want to be able to assist in the development of my fellow team members. Words cannot express how grateful and appreciative I am. Mr. Stewart believes in dreams and in giving back and I am so proud that I was selected. The selecting committee saw my potential and believed that I would not only excel in my area of study but also impact the wider team when I begin to work as a HR practitioner."
Thomas, who will be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in International Management also with the University of the West Indies, was equally grateful for the full scholarship to gain certification in a field she is passionate about. She said, "I have been working in Management for the last 11 years and with the increasingly diverse culture at Sandals Resorts, a global outlook is needed in order to be a relevant and effective leader."
Especially thankful for the financial assistance after the uncertainty caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Thomas added, "I am overwhelmed with gratitude. I must express gratitude to God, my General Manager, Resort Manager and Hotel Manager who have always supported me and pushed me to become a better leader. Lastly, Mr. Gordon 'Butch' Stewart who made my dream a reality thanks to globalization and who has touched so many lives and continues to do so through his legacy which lives on through our Executive Chairman."
Following the passing of Founder and Chairman, Gordon 'Butch' Stewart in January, the Sandals Foundation, in a move to preserve and honour his legacy, announced the intention to create a scholarship to serve the company's team members and welcomed donations to further this vision. Five months later, the scholarship was launched with a call for applications.
Heidi Clarke, Director of Programmes at the Sandals Foundation, shared, "The Sandals Foundation is extremely happy and proud to have seen the launch of the Gordon 'Butch' Stewart Tourism, Hospitality and Service Scholarship and to now see its first recipients being awarded. Through our work in schools and communities across the region, we have made significant investments in education, one of the Foundation's guiding pillars and key focus areas and we are especially thrilled to be able to present this opportunity to our own team members. We are thankful for all our donors and the Stewart family and extend heartiest congratulations to our three well-deserving recipients."
Stewart added, "This scholarship not only pays homage to our Founder and Chairman, but signals our commitment to continuing to invest in our team members. We have the world's best team and we will continue to support them as they pursue their dreams. I am incredibly happy for Deidre, Michelle and Barbara and look forward to awarding even more team members in the years to come."
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Mark Bernstein is chief scientist at Eastgate Systems in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he develops new hypertext tools including Tinderbox, Twig, and Storyspace. He is the author of The Tinderbox Way, which describes the design philosophy of Tinderbox as a personal content assistant for visualizing, analyzing, and sharing notes, and co-editor with Diane Greco of Reading Hypertext. For over twenty-five years, Eastgate has published original hypertext fiction and nonfiction and pioneered hypertext tools for writers. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Bernstein received his PhD (in Chemistry) from Harvard University.
How did you get started working with hypertext literature?
I met Ted Nelson in 1976. Ted was briefly flirting with an academic career. I was in college. Computer Lib had just been published, and Ted was working on what would become Literary Machines.
Years passed; I got my doctorate and went down to DuPont to help set up an AI research group. When that blew up -- DuPont wanted all its AI work to be done in FORTRAN IV -- I came back to Eastgate to work on electronic books. Even in 1987, it was clear that the future of serious reading lies on the screen. I wanted to be part of that, and this seemed to be a research area within the scope of a small, independent firm. We started to publish hypertexts after the second hypertext conference in 1989. In those days, everyone was desperate to know whether people would (or could) read hypertexts. Everyone in the field had built their own hypertext system; they wrote hypertexts themselves, assigned graduate students to perform evaluative studies,and recruited their own undergraduates to serve as test subjects. It was the very definition of a methodological problem, and it seemed a good solution might be to provide some well-known "standard" hypertexts.
These hypertexts helped focus discussion. For the first time, if you and I wanted to talk about the craft of hypertext writing, we could talk about a specific work we'd both read, a work with some ambition and scope, a work we could admire and with which we might disagree. That gets us beyond the broad generalities and simple-minded media essentialism that still dominates so much discussion of the Web.
You did a great service to the field by being one of the first to publish classic works in the field. In addition to scholarship and research in the field, from a writer's point of view the enrichment of our practice through being able to read what others in the field were/are creating has been very influential in the development of hyperfiction. The continuing role of Eastgate, of your vision in bringing together the writers in this field, publishing their work in a publishing model that includes royalties for writers, is very core to the field. And it has also helped bring literary hypertext to a wider audience. Eastgate's continuing role in developing and publishing authoring software is also important.
Can you talk about the creation of Storyspace? How do you see the role of Storyspace in the field -- past, present, future?
Michael Joyce, Jay David Bolter, and John B. Smith worked together to create the first Storyspace in late 1986-7. I saw a prototype at Hypertext '87, the first hypertext conference. I wasn't part of the original design, though I did make some contributions to the final user interface.
I think Storyspace was shaped by two overriding desires. First, a hypertext system that would truly embrace links. The TINAC Manifesto said, "Three links per node or it's not a hypertext." The other widely-available hypertext tools of that time - GUIDE, HyperCard, Intermedia - were all somewhat ambivalent about undisciplined linking, anxious that readers would be lost and confused. We only gradually learned that readers didn't feel lost, and that at times a little confusion is exactly what we want.
A second desire called for concrete writing spaces that students could pick up, hold, and move around. This grew, in part, from the needs of composition instruction; as Michael Joyce once said, many students in community college composition classes find abstract editorial strictures confounding. They have no difficulty dealing with writing made concrete; many have been battered all their lives by writing -- report cards, probation reports, job applications -- whose material weight and underlying structure was to them, altogether clear.
Storyspace's guard fields, which let the writer change link behavior depending on what the reader has already seen, were tremendously important for the development of serious hypertext, especially hypertext narrative. That let people craft important large hypertexts with meaningful interaction - three links or it's not a hypertext! - and with the scope we associate with the novel. The result was an outpouring of large, ambitious, and beautiful fiction. afternoon of course, and Moulthrop's Victory Garden, and Jackson's Patchwork Girl. But also the miniatures, like Mary-Kim Arnold's "Lust" and Kathryn Cramer's "In Small & Large Pieces". Bill Bly's We Descend, Carolyn Guyer's Quibbling, and Ed Falco's A Dream With Demons are every bit as good.
At the same time, Storyspace inherited the Intermedia legacy, most notably George P. Landow's Victorian Web. There's tremendous scope for writing hypertext in this vein. Bill Bly's got a sequel under way; Susan Gibbs is doing fascinating small pieces; and Steve Ersinghaus's Life of Geronimo Sandoval spring to mind. After a decade or so, the frothy fringe feared that hypertext wasn't shiny enough, while some critics began to lambaste Storyspace as a symbol for postmodernism. They'll all be back, because we're all writing with links; we need to write with links; and we don't understand links. Tools like Storyspace and Tinderbox -- a tool for notes that adopts Storyspace's mission for constructive hypertext -- remain uniquely powerful for crafting, annd teaching, linked writing. Adrian Miles has a terrific new essay in Reading Hypertext on hypertext teaching.
Thanks Mark! Storyspace and the works that you mention were important in creating a new literature, in providing new media writers who wanted to create hypertext structures with a flexible creative tool and in making hypertextual writing accessible to a wider audience.
With experience as a database programmer and years of trying to create nonsequential artists books, I came to hypernarrative from a different background. But the advent of Storyspace was of great interest. My copy of Michael Joyce's afternoon came when I was in New Hampshire, I think in the summer of 1992. A Mac, needed to run that copy, was not available at home, so I made a trip to a New Hampshire city library to read the Eastgate publication of afternoon. I still remember the experience of sitting in a library and reading this work. I also remember having lunch with you in Boston to talk about the Eastgate publication of its name was Penelope. Carolyn Guyer came to New Hampshire, and we talked about our work. Michael, Carolyn, Stuart Moulthrop, and I met in New York City at an MLA panel hosted by Terence Harpold. It was an exciting time to be a creating a new kind of literature. And Eastgate was core to this new field!
Any hypertext system will, sooner or later, be used to make art. Tinderbox was designed as a tool for making and analyzing notes, but that hasn't kept people from doing fascinating things with Tinderbox for crafting hypertexts. Susan Gibb has been writing a big sequence of small hypertexts in Tinderbox, working in a vein that sometimes recalls Deena Larsen's pioneering Web work. Steve Ersinghaus, too, is building terrific work in Tinderbox. Bill Bly is using Tinderbox to construct a new artifactual hypertext, set in the world of his Storyspace classic We Descend. And there's lots of interesting work behind the scenes. That's the role for which Tinderbox was envisioned, after all: making notes, world building, analyzing connections and experimenting with textual structures. Sarah Smith (, Chasing Shakespeares) did a terrific talk at Tinderbox Weekend a while ago on world building in Tinderbox. Jeff Abbott has written some intriguing notes on planning a thriller. And I understand Michael Bywater is currently at work with Tinderbox on a musical!
Do you have any advice to new writers in the field as to how to begin?
Know what you want to say. Have something to say.
Some topics seem to suggest themselves to people who want to try their hand at hypertext but don't know what to say. Hypertexts about madness - attempts to use hypertextual fragmentation to suggest paranoia, psychosis, or intoxication - arrive in the slush pile with great regularity. They seem easy, but they're hard to do well. Annotated maps are another refuge of beginners. Nonfiction writers who are losing confidence in work sometimes decide to claim the work is really intended for children. This seldom ends well. Young readers are a demanding audience with strong preferences and sophisticated taste.
Whatever you do in electronic literature, it's not likely to get you on Letterman. This is not a sign of the irrelevance of serious writing: People Magazine has never been rich in serious thinkers in Physics or Philology. Write with ambition, but be sure that your ambitions and your medium are not at war with each other. Read broadly. If you want to write hypertexts, you should know the work of people who have written good hypertexts. That your work might not resemble theirs does not matter; know what they sought to do and learn how they accomplished what they did.
Master your computer, and know how to use your tools well. Look for new tools and techniques that can improve your work or open new creative opportunities. But don't let the dazzle of fresh software displace your own work; use new tools to make new things, not merely for the sake of using new software. Don't let the accident of having purchased a particular brand of computer limit your horizons; computers are not very expensive, and professionals frequently use two or three computers. Avoid the politics of Open Source or Web standards or DRM or Apple v. Google v. Microsoft. Capitalism is not your fault and these are not your battles. A writer who pledges to use only Open Source is the modern equivalent of the early 20th century writer who took the Temperance Pledge.
Ask questions. Almost no one in the field is so busy that they won't read your email or take your phone call. Get to know the people who are doing the work. Ask for help, and offer it. Invitations are always good, and an audience is always welcome. Arrange a terrific session at a suitable conference or and event at a university or bookseller; this is a gift that almost any writer will welcome. (Some writers are busy, some shy, and everyone has too much to do; make generous offers, and don't read the tea leaves should some people have a previous engagement).
Read criticism. A generation of thoughtful readers have studied electronic writing and have read earlier electronic works with care. But always remember that some critics don't know the subject, and some may at times have been mistaken. Magazine editors know even less, and because referees are often shoddy, the fact that an essay appeared in a good journal (or even a book) does not always ensure that the critic knew their subject.
Even when sound, a critic's taste may not apply to your own work. Balance each critic's views with what you are trying to achieve; if a critic is interested in different things than you, they may not be a reliable guide. Do not concern yourself with demonstrating that your work is unprecedented. Claiming that your work is the first of some sub-genre may impress an occasional newspaper reporter, but that news story will soon wrap fish. The novice shouts that her work is like nothing ever written. I find it preferable to show how your work is influenced by work you admire, since this helps both your colleagues and your own audience to grasp what you are trying to do.
Write criticism. Participate in the discussion, bringing an open mind and generous understanding and, if possible, a sense of humor and humility. Studying other writers' hypertexts gives you a chance to see how they accomplish what they do. Do not hesitate because you think yourself unqualified, but do your best and let the reader assess your judgment. Don't worry about being able to publish your criticism: there are plenty of places to put it, and you could do worse than simply posting it on the Internet and emailing your twenty favorite writers and critics to let them know it's there.
Today's literary world is shadowed by an industry that exploits wannabes and careerists and those who covet the accoutrements of writing. Beware of those who want money from writers and avoid hollow and superficial "literary organizations"; their goals are not yours. Many contests are scams. Readings and signings are at best a marginal proposition for booksellers. Selling books is hard work; if a bookseller asks you to do a reading, try to oblige them as best you can and do your best to fill the store. Ask not what your bookseller can do for you; she has to scramble.
Don't worry excessively about the size of your audience. If you require an audience of millions, write for television. The serious writer - the writer with ideas - accepts that their audience, though it may be influential, will not be numerous. Let posterity take care of itself. Ignore the archivists; they're thick on the ground right now because the government handed out a bunch of grants, but as soon as those grants expire the pack will be off again, chasing some shiny new thing.
From my point of view, there has been some good work by archivists in making sure that the work of hypertext writers is documented. This is important in the literary field. I'm thinking, among many others, of the Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library; the Dickinson Electronic Archives; and the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas at the Yale University Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
I'm wondering if you have any thoughts about the ways in which archivists can be important in the electronic literature field?
Libraries have long been a great supporter of literary hypertext. Good hypertext collections are important. David Durand's work with the 1960-vintage FRESS was terrific. Xerox PARC used to have a fine collection of hypertext for people to read. Jim Whitehead and the UCSD library have built a terrific reading room and lending library for early and contemporary computer games. But not all the work is good. There's been far too much hand-wringing over access and preservation by people who don't actually improve access or preserve very much. In their writing, one senses that they really like to discover that works are endangered or neglected or even lost. What we need is intelligent criticism, but that's very different from book collecting.
But as computer platforms and software change, preservation can be continuing issue for creators of new media art and literature. Do you have any thoughts about how writers can ensure that their work survives?
I think you're mistaken. Preservation isn't an issue for creators: it's not their business. The business of the creator is making wonderful new things that inspire and move us. If you capture imaginations and inspire an audience, your work will be preserved. If not, it might not. The technical issues of preserving new media are not much greater than those that confront conventional media -- and are trivial compared to the challenges of preserving dance and drama. Do your best. Gather your rosebuds, and let the archivists worry about pressing the flowers.Do good work and find the readers who need to hear what you have to say; if you do, people will take care of preserving it.
And looking to the future, do you have any thoughts about how electronic literature will develop?
The future of serious writing lies on the screen. This is now settled beyond doubt, except of course for the doubt that serious writing (or we ourselves, for that matter) have a future. Tomorrow's screens might not look precisely like today's.
I think one great opportunity is historical fiction. Twentieth century critics weren't especially eager to embrace historical fiction, but obviously there's been a tremendous amount of great and important work -- Mailer and Wouk and O'Brian and so much more. Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which won the Booker, is obviously historical fiction, but so is McEwan's On Chesil Beach. But historical fiction always fights constraints of size and sequence -- look at Wouk. Hypertext in skillful hands should completely change the equation.
Many people, most notably Robert Coover, have predicted that electronic literature will become more visual. I'm skeptical; artists have been trying to meld film and hypertext for twenty years now, and I don't think we have seen an entirely convincing path.
I believe publishers will continue to have a place in the literary ecology. They will not relieve the writer of the responsibility of promotion, but they never did: Sam Johnson worked tirelessly to promote his books and Shakespeare wrote for money. Publishers can praise your genius, which you cannot gracefully do yourself, and they can introduce your work to people you do not know. Publishers sometimes employ editors, and a fresh, experienced pair of eyes can sometimes transform a work. The natural size of the publishing enterprise is small -- we call them publishing houses for good reason - and small, agile publishing houses will be increasingly prominent in the coming years.
What seems most important right now is actually to take the leap and do the work. This requires tremendous faith, since today's writer is called upon to step into the void without knowing whether an audience will come to catch him in their embrace. But in the end, this is true for all art, especially all literature; you cannot be confident you'll find an audience until you have found one.
Thank you so much Mark! Eastgate has been at the forefront of publishing literary hypertexts, and it is of great interest to hear not only about the history but also your point of view on the future of the field. The following sources provide more information about Mark Bernstein, Eastgate, Hypertext Literature, Storyspace, and Tinderbox.
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If you were Miley, and you went on Yahoo Answers, and you realized that almost everyone on here hates you, how would you react??
Would you change, and be a better person??
Best Answer: If I were her, I would change for the best. Honestly, I think Miley has started to clean up the mess she did. She's not as slutty as she was a couple of months ago. I started hate her less. I still think she is doing bad things. I don't like how she posted the pictures of her in her bra laying down on another guy, when she was dating Nick! Then she wrote 7 things because she didn't like that Nick dumped her! If I were Miley, I'd apologize to all the people who trusted her, and who supported her before she did those things. Miley, you should be ashamed of yourself.
I'd be upset, but compared to the amount of people in the rest of the world.. the yahoo population isn't really alot. I wouldn't change to be what someone else considers a better person.. I would be myself.
If that is the way Miley really is, whether the public like it or not, why should she change?.. If she did, she'd be accused of being fake.. Really. she can't win.
If I were Miley Cyrus I would probably tell everyone "I am sorry I acted like a jerk and I will change and become a better person!"
Well for one thing I wouldn't be Miley cause I wouldn't wear all that risque clothes and also wouldn't be taking risque photos of myself!She probably would feel a little bad but it's pretty much her own fault.
I would write songs about people how they hate me and properly ignore them because other people that are not on yahoo might like them.
I would change. I would be like I need to get my stuff together and quite being a lil sl*t.
okay,think like miley. omg! they hate me! they hate me! excuse me while i complain to my 20 year old boyfriend, justin gaston who probally will ignore me because he is most likely dating me for publicity anyway! hahahahaha! oh, wait. boo hoo !
No I'd be to busy coming up with another stupid song to worry about people who don't like me.
I'd probably look at a shorter list which are people who do like me.


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Q: How to achieve forward declaration of class template I am trying to create a Graph class by using Nested Classes Vertex and Edge. I want to make my Vertex class to accept generic parameters. I have forward declared my Vertex class so that I can use it in my Edge Class.
When I use templates, I get few errors that I am not sure how to resolve.
Here is what I tried. The errors are commented out next to each line.
class Graph
{
    private:
        template <class T>
        class Vertex; // Forward Declaration

        template <class T>
        vector<Vertex<T> > vertices; // Err: member 'vertices' declared as a template

        class Edge
        {
            public:
                template <class T>
                Vertex<T>& _orig; // Err: member '_orig' declared as a template

                template <class T>
                Vertex<T>& _dest; // Err: member '_dest' declared as a template

                template <class T>
                Edge(Vertex<T>& orig, Vertex<T>& dest) : _orig(orig), // Err: member initializer '_orig' does not name a non-static data member or base class
                                                         _dest(dest) { }

                template <class T>
                Vertex<T>& getOrig() { return _orig; } // Err: use of undeclared identifier '_orig'

                template <class T>
                Vertex<T>& getDest() { return _dest; } // Err: use of undeclared identifier '_dest'
        };

        template <typename T>
        class Vertex
        {
            public:
                T _data;
                vector<Edge> _edges;

                Vertex(T data) : _data(data) { }

                void addEdgeToVertex(Edge& edge)
                {
                    _edges.push_back(edge);
                }
        };

    public:
        template <typename T>
        void addEdge(Vertex<T>& orig, Vertex<T>& dest)
        {
            Edge edge(orig, dest);
            orig.addEdgeToVertex(edge);
            dest.addEdgeToVertex(edge);
        }
};

Can you please help me in pointing out what I am doing wrong? How can I fix this code?

A: The forward declaration looks fine. The problem is that you can't declare "template member variable", how could you specify the template argument for them?
You should make class template instead.
template <class E>
class Graph
{
    private:
        template <class T>
        class Vertex; // Forward Declaration

        vector<Vertex<E> > vertices;
    ...
};

It's same for class Edge too.
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The good thing about my course is that there are activities, like a city excursion for instance. You already know well how I tend to be on full student mode instead of default tourist mode whenever I move to a new city to study a language. I live just right across the main train station here in Minsk and that's the only area I really need everyday access to. Suffice it to say that I haven't really gone sightseeing yet until my second week, when teacher and I joined this tour they call 15:15 Minsk.
If you can speak Russian, then I highly recommend this tour. It's good listening practice! They have it in many cities across Europe at 3:15 PM every day, lasting for around 2 hours. The caveat is that the tour is totally in Russian. Immersion, baby! At least it's better than when I tour a city alone, see a cool building and be like, oh that's cute. I wonder what it is? Snap a photo. And then I move on with my life. My Russian might be rather basic, but at least I still caught some details. It was fun!
The 15:15 Minsk tour starts at the main train station, whose windows reflect the twin Stalinist façade of the apartment complex across the street where I reside. These used to be government offices. If I heard it correctly, the tour guide said that after being destroyed in both World Wars, the city underwent some serious renovation to echo the styles of its western neighbors. I guess that explains the overall Euro feel. We then had a stroll at nearby Michajlauski Garden Square and checked out some of the sculptures there.
Crossing two streets to the other side of Praspiekt Niezalieznasci, you will end up at Lenin Square. I already described the area in the previous blog entry, but I decided to Google some of the buildings there. Described as one of the biggest squares in Europe, it is now referred to as Independent Square IN ENGLISH. The metro station is still labeled as Ploshka Lenina/Ploshad Lenina in Belarusian and Russian, respectively. But as they say, a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.
The building with a Lenin statue in front of it is the seat of the Supreme Council, which is another name for the Belarusian parliament. This building is the first one you usually notice because of its style and because of the statue in front of it, too. After that, the Church of Saints Simon and Helen tends to steal the show because of its attention-grabbing shade of red. The church is Roman Catholic and was built over five years from 1905 to 1910 according to Wikipedia. On the opposite side is BSU.
BSU stands for "Belarusian State University". They offer Russian courses on a semestral basis, if I remember what I saw on their website correctly. I am considering it as one of my options if ever I decide to study Russian long term, but I am kind of turned off by the long list of documents that they are requiring. If I am to go through all those bureaucratic hurdles then I might as well just head to Moscow, no? But yeah, the building also commands attention because of its height and the Virgin Mary portrait.
We then passed by a museum but it was closed for some reason. We stopped by Pishchalauski Castle too, which is referred to as the Belarusian Bastille. They say it was used as a prison before. We didn't go inside. Passing by another park with a monument dedicated to Polish poet Adam Mickievicz, we made our way to Pobeda Cinema which plays host to various international film screenings all year round. We then took a stroll along Praspiekt Niezalieznasci which is a candidate for the UNESCO World Heritage list.
That's one of the things I understood wrong. I automatically assumed that it is ALREADY a UNESCO World Heritage Site. My teacher later clarified that the government already applied, but it hasn't been granted such status yet. My bad. Hahaha. This is one of the dangers of joining tours in languages that you are not that good at yet. HAHAHA. Moving on, we also passed by the Presidential Palace and October Square, whose metro stop often confuses people new to the city because of its many names.
Minsk used to be the capital of the CIS, if I'm not mistaken. If I understood it correctly, this spot used to be the center of power. Nowadays, it is mostly used for cultural events as well as the commemoration of historical ones. The building which serves as the center of attraction is the Palace of the Republic, but I like the Greek colonnade of the Trade Unions Palace of Culture better. What? I think Greek columns are elegant. After that we ended up at Niamiha, but I had to run because of my medical appointment. To be continued!
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I made a truly custom keyboard case ... starting from a tree.
I wrote it up on medium, so I thought I would link it here.
Jokes aside, nice keeb. Any comments on routing the usb cable?
I just drilled a hole very carefully and then printed a cover.
Nice job. It looks great!
Indeed, it is quite peculiar and awesome... Thank you so much for these graphs!
Wow !! does anyone produce these caps still ?