Ria Loves Pawlish: So, Ria... Do You Always Have A Perfect Manicure In Public?
So, Ria... Do You Always Have A Perfect Manicure In Public?
i thought for this So, Ria... i'd talk about something people always like to ask... do you have to do your nails to go out? well, the answer is... NO! i definitely prefer an immaculate mani, but i will definitely head out with trashed nails. like today... as you can see in the picture, i have on different colors, some stamping attemps... and everything is chipped, chipped, chipped. i feel the same way about hair and makeup... while i like to look sharp... sometimes, i'm just not in the mood. i think California has affected me, too... people here (in Monterey, at least) just do not dress up like people in the South. i rarely see people with a really full on face of makeup during the day! i have noticed that most people are less concerned with how their nails look than with their face and hair. some makeup perfectionists would think nothing of leaving the house with massively chipped polish, but would never leave without at least some foundation!
I used to not leave the house without foundation and blush at least, but I confess, I've been a lackey the last couple of months! The horror of going to physical therapy early in the morning has made me less concerned about what I look like there, lol, those poor people!! I won't do chipped nails tho...that's like wearing those hose with big holes in them ala Miley Cyrus. ew. wrong. Although I often go out with just one hand done, or seven different colors.


The Nantucket Film Festival Opening Night Party took place at the Chanticleer immediatelyafter the opening film at the Casino, "Cold Souls". Some of the people we saw there: Katherine Kay, Nancy Thayer, Mike and Charlotte Jehle, Jack & Anne Curlett, Hazel Fleming, Bill Frederick, Susan & Larry Levine, Susan & Howard Bloom, Jeniffer Blum, Anne Chaison, Jonathon Burkhart, Michael Kopko, Jesse & Billy Voss, Marietta Hale, Jessica Garner, Susan Galvani, Mark Hsu, Nancy Thayer, Melissa Murphy, Natalie Ciminero, Christine Malia, Jason Briggs, Ivey Day, Suzanne Lewis, Justin Levitas, Kirby Hosea, Brandon Rohwer, Lauren Hall, Jennifer DiMartino, Lisa Frazar, Paul Giamatti, Michael Kopko, Anna & John Shaw, Ben Stiller, Christine Taylor, Elle Christy, Deanna Chandonnet, Scott Leonard, Christina Samone, Charlene Kelly, Jennifer Boysen, Rick James, Christina Dirossos, Josie Williams, Amy Bicikler, Hans Dalgaard, Kevin Flynn, Keith War, Melanie & Mike Hajjar, Cheryl Fudge, Gabriel Gould, Tom Scott, Kate Brosnan, Dagmar Klein, Dave Murphy, and Katie McGrath. Photos by Gene Mahon, assisted by Amanda Morgan. More photos online. See also Plum TV's coverage of the opening night.
Actor Jim Belushi belted out the blues on Friday night, August 1st in the new grand ballroom of The Point Breeze Club and Residences, hosted by Mia and Bob Matthews. This followed the grand opening of the ballroom on Saturday, July 19, with a beautiful performance by eight time Grammy winner, Natalie Cole, with over 200 people in attendance. Here's a short slide show of the band.
A late addition to the calendar, but a big one – the legendary Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson with the Magic Rockers is coming to the Muse on Saturday night, October 6th, from 8:00 to 11:00 pm. Luther is one of the best blues musicians to emerge from Chicago's music scene, where he started playing in the 50's. Johnson played and sang with Muddy Waters' band from 1973-79, when his front and center solos for that band got the world's attention. This is the real thing folks. Don't miss it. Admission only $15.
Summer resident and MSNBC's Hardball moderator Chris Matthews returns to the island to talk about his new memoir 'Life's a Campaign: What Politics Has Taught Me About Friendship, Rivalry, Reputation and Success'. Saturday, October 6th, 5:00 pm, Unitarian Church. Book signing at Mitchell's Book Corner follows.
live&local, just one facet of the Nantucket Arts Festival, presents Dave Provost, Mike Kopko, Andy Bullington, Cary Hazlegrove and Chris Westerlund, Friday, October 5th, beginning at 7:00 pm, at the Preservation Institute, Upstairs at 11 Centre Street. Al Louderer and Ben Briere will open the evening. Saturday night it's Amy England and Susan Berman, same time, same place.
One of the centerpieces of the Nantucket Arts Festival is the Organ Crawl, this year the 15th annual, on Saturday (6th), from 9:15 am to noon. See the complete schedule here.
The traditional Arts Fest wrap is the Artists Association Wet Paint Live Auction, this year on Sunday, October 7th. Preview at 4, auction at 5, at the AAN Gallery. Click here for a complete list of participating artists.
Happy Birthday to Anne Meara, her birthday just last week.
Thank you to everyone who showed up at American Seasons last week to donate to Carla's medical expenses for her broken, but now nearly healed, arm. Between the money raised in house and your tips that night, $6,500 was raised. Kerry Hallam donated a painting, which hangs on the patio, and is still looking for more bids.
Thank you to all my friends at American Seasons for last Monday, they went above and beyond as usual! And thank you to all who supported in person and in spirit – and continue to do so every day. You are all part of the reason that I remain on this alluvial sandspit, almost-antipodean, from my homeland. I look forward to 'paying it forward'.
Every once in awhile, the planets align and all the right people show up at the same place, and the result is a magical night you'll not forget. Such was the night of Saturday, August 4, at The Summer House. Good friends, a fun group of people we didn't know, a beautiful and quintessentially Nantucket restaurant, and a few celebrities thrown in the spice it up. Steven Tyler had dinner with some friends, then stopped out front on his way to the Chicken Box to say hi to Peter and Danielle and Donna (pictured). Katie Couric first served her table of friends a tray of shooters (pictured), then joined Jamie at the piano for the better part of two sets. And all sang and danced into the night.
11th Annual Boston Pops with Natalie Cole, to benefit Nantucket Cottage Hospital, gets going at 7 p.m. Saturday night at Jetties, with conductor Keith Lockhart and host Tim Russert, sponsored by Nantucket Island Resorts Jill and Steve Karp. Ticket information and availability at 508-825-8181. Always a spectacle, the annual town beach party.
Nantucket School of Music student Junyi Fitzgibbon is quite simply a child prodigy on piano. Here's a fairly rare chance to see her perform Monday from 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm at the Methodist Church, performing solo works of Liszt and Scarlatti. Junyi also appears later in the week with "Young Pianists on Nantucket", Junyi Wang Fitzgibbon, Samantha Reis, and Martina Ivanova, Thursday, 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm at the Unitarian Church.
Spookie Daly Pride at the Box tonight, Saturday. Not touring anymore, this wacky eclectic group comes together only to play at the Box. Each time could be their last.
Livingston Taylor plays the Methodist Church Thursday night at 8:00 pm to benefit the Two Centre Street Preservation Project.
I've written about Jamaican singer Nicole Miller before, and her synergy with singer/songwriter Jeff Ross. They'll be playing together on Thurday and Sunday nights for the next few weeks at the Starlight from 9:30 to 1.
The first Nantucket Farmers and Artisans Market, sponsored by Sustainable Nantucket, opens today, Saturday, from 9 to noon at the Nantucket New School, 15 Nobadeer Farm Road, and will run for 9 Saturdays. The market, completely run by local vendors, will feature locally grown vegetables, berries, herbs, plants and cut flowers, eggs, baked goods and locally, hand-crafted pottery, jewelry, crafts and more. The market's mission is to provide fresh, native produce directly from local growers to residents, to promote local cottage industry and to educate the community about the personal benefits of healthy eating and the economic benefits of supporting local entrepreneurs.
The Nantucket Arts Council Shakespeare by the Sea Festival kicks off on Saturday night with Seaside Shakespeare Company's Twelfth Night, featuring a cast of on and off-island actors including Susan Burns, Ciaran Byrne, Tom Butler, Laurel Devaney, Christy Kickham, Chas Libretto, Len Germinara, Susan Lucier, Susan McGinnis, Adam Skogen, Amy Stiller, and AT Wilce, with original music by Kim D. Sherman, played by Robert Behrman and Armen Ghazarian. Saturday (11th) at the Unitarian Church at 5 p.m.; Saturday at 5 p.m. at Children's Beach; Sunday and Monday at Children's Beach at 6 p.m.
Films shown this week as a part of the Festival are: Richard III, 8:00 pm Monday, Nantucket Whaling Museum, and "Henry V" with Kenneth Branagh, released in 1989: Tuesday 8:00 pm Whaling Museum.
Marjorie Garber, the author of "Shakespeare After All", speaks at the Coffin School on Wednesday night at 7:30 pm. Book signing to follow. Mick Hales, author of "Shakespeare in the Garden", appears Thursday night at 6:00 pm at the Coffin School, with a book signing to follow.
Fashion shows are more frequent with higher energy this season. Sunday night I expect the best yet. It's at the Box, with live southern rock by the Christopher Robin Band, and it's called Live Music Couture, presented by Cisco Brewers, Triple Eight Vodka, and Nantucket Vineyard. Models will wear clothes from the Lauren Di Nardo Collection, Cheryl Fudge and Current Vintage. Admission is $20 at the door, $15 at Cisco Brewery, the proceeds to benefit Sustainable Nantucket. It all gets going at 9.
Suzy Welch will moderate a Q&A session with Jack Welch on the topics of Winning and Leadership today at the High School Auditorium, Wednesday night at 8:00 pm.
You don't often see Corey Sandler, but he does live here. Corey writes books. Lots of books. Look him up on Amazon. 164 entries there, some duplicates I'm sure, but it's got to be 100 books under various categories: Business & Investing (29), Entertainment (19), History (6), Computers & Internet (70), Home & Garden (8), Professional & Technical (47), Science Fiction & Fantasy (7), Sports (13), Travel (49). I joined WNAN radio's host of "The Point", Mindy Todd, (9;30 am weekdays on 91.1) when she interviewed Corey about his new book 'Henry Hudson; Dreams and Obsession. The Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer' back in the middle of May. Here's a podcast of that interview.
Corey calls Henry Hudson the "least known of the great explorers who went to the ends of the known world, though he profited nothing." He describes Hudson's trip to the North Pole when he tried to find a way from Europe to Asia, thinking it would not be frozen in summer, with no navigational cues (compasses are not accuarte that close to the magnetic pole, and there are no stars in 24 hour daylight. And in a later quest to reach the Bering Straight by sailing up the (now named) Hudson River, sailed just south of Nantucket on August 6, 1609.
Corey is speaking Monday night at 8 pm at the Atheneum, cosponsored by Nantucket Bookworks and the Atheneum. Pictured are Corey, Corey showing Mindy photos from the trip, and the interview.
Happy Birthday to Jerry Stiller, who was 80 years old last week.


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Cavendish looking forward for the upcoming season
2013 was a prosperous year for both Mark Cavendish and his team as they successfully took the lead in Tour de France and maintained a time gap of almost four hours. Mark Cavendish has always tried to do something for the team and also for the fans. Although he has some plans to surprise the fans he has not let out the secret just yet.
The season of 2014 has not yet started and the fans are eager to know what it is that Cavendish is keeping away from them. He is one of the most versatile and knowledgeable riders in cycling and the records he has prove his knowledge about the game. In a recent press conference he was asked about the records he has achieved and the secret behind his achievements.
He said that hard work and proper focus is the main key to achieve anything and if anyone applies these two then they would be successful in any sport of life. His answer was cheered by everyone who was present there. He also said that in cycling one has to have a great mental strength as it involves travelling for miles and when you have to stretch it often becomes really difficult but that is the time when the mental strength is required the most.
Cavendish was also asked about his preparation for the upcoming season and how he would be planning his year ahead. He said that his prime focus currently is Giro d Italia and after that he would be concentrating on Tour de France. He has been one of the most successful riders in Tour de France having had red jerseys for five stages and also finishing in the first place one time. Rob Hayles his trainer and advisor said that he is happy with the training he is doing and hopes that Cavendish will be winning a lot this season.
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Doctoral students are required to complete 21 credits of coursework, with 19 credits completed by the end of the fourth semester. In addition, students must complete 12 credits of BCHM899.
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Tim Hall
Tim Hall studied at Manchester University and after graduating worked as a jazz and rock photographer documenting musicians such as Miles Davis and Prince. During the 1990's he lived and worked in South East Asia where he travelled extensively, documenting the local inhabitants.
Hall has made a fluid shift in transferring his photographic interest from portraiture to focusing on the natural environment. His previous work took a more intimate view on human interaction with the landscape, including projects such as Hong Kong People (1997) and Hanoi People (1998). His work has changed in its desire to simplify this emotion and has taken on a more painterly quality. Strongly influenced by Rothko, Hall's images of the landscape present to the viewer vast, stretched horizons, filled with colour and atmosphere.
In 2009 Hall's image Mountain Hut was auctioned for £1200 for the charity PhotoVoice, an award winning international charity whose projects empower some of the most disadvantaged groups in the world with photographic skills so that they can transform their lives. Another particularly successful image, Varanasi Rooftops from the Pilgrimage series, was selected from 10,000 entries for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2009), and chosen to be included in the BRIC auction – a major auction involving the emerging contemporary art practices within Brazil, Russia, India and China – at the Saatchi Gallery in London in April 2010.


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Kansas station's zoo cams tap global appetite for animal-watching
KTWU's webcasts of tigers and giraffes are pulling in YouTube ad income and finding fans in Germany, Japan and Bangladesh.
Kansas governor proposes 18 percent cut to pubcasting support
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has proposed reducing state funding for public broadcasting by $100,000 for fiscal year 2016, a 16 percent cut from this fiscal year. Brownback's proposed budget calls for a two-part reduction in funding that would cut state support by $12,000 this fiscal year, to $600,000, and then to $500,000 for fiscal years 2016 and 2017. Eugene Williams, c.e.o. of KTWU-TV in Topeka, was not surprised by the proposed cut, since Brownback has consistently opposed state funding of public broadcasting. Williams had already adjusted his station's budget to prepare for cuts in state support. KTWU's received $50,000 in state funds this fiscal year, down from a high of $300,000 in previous years.


Above mentioned Donkervoorts have a hydraulic operated brake light switch. The required part number is C16062A. Manufacturer is Lucas (Lucas invited the darkness). Part can be found on some UK manufacturers (Jaguar, Mini etc.). Price around 8 Euro. Many webshops for English car parts offer the part in their web shops.
The Ford OEM camshaft lubrication feeder opening position is not set optimal. The oil is kicked away by the camshaft itself. Thefore a straight modified oil spray feeding tube can be made in an easy way. This will help to improve lubrication and reduces camshaft wear.


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Varna Kodoth: Look around the room
by Varna Kodoth March 23, 2020 April 20, 2021
When reflecting on my four years spent trying to navigate the University of Michigan as a South Asian woman, I recall only one professor who shared the same core social identities as me. It's a harsh realization to enter a community or field of work where it is not common to find professors who look like me, talk like me or grew up like me. It's the role of an academic institution — particularly a leading center for education, research and innovation — to create a faculty that is reflective of a diverse student body. It's time to equally prioritize diversifying University staff and faculty positions, just as it is to create a diverse student population.
The ADVANCE Program at the University not only pursues highly effective initiatives to improve diversity but also tests whether the recommendations actually result in a more diverse faculty. For example, a recent study conducted by Denise Sekaquaptewa, Koji Takahashi and the ADVANCE program at the University and published in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion — an international journal — seeks to evaluate current departmental hiring practices and suggestions to hire for diversity. In the study "An evidence-based faculty recruitment workshop influences departmental hiring practice perceptions among university faculty," the authors demonstrate the positive impacts of a workshop on attitudes toward diversifying hiring practices and reducing biases on both an individual and department-wide level. In doing so, Sekaquaptewa et al. highlight the importance of introducing systematic changes that require faculty search committees to practice mindfulness about social identities and emphasize how critical it is to challenge societal norms.
The results show that even if a member of the recruiting process did not receive the formal workshop training intended to address social identities, disparities, gender, race and so on, if the majority of their colleagues within the department did attend the training, there was a positive impact on the decisions of the untrained individual. This reflects a behavioral shift across a department simply caused by opening up perspectives on partaking in more equitable hiring strategies. This isn't just an example of successful program implementation; it clearly shows that the University is capable of setting a higher standard in which search committees make it their responsibility to reduce unconscious biases and adjust attitudes.
Additionally, constructing a faculty of diverse backgrounds is particularly beneficial to students because the content of the course is then further supported by a variety of experiences specific to the unique professor and their own path. Varied experiences are also helpful when there's a need to make department-wide decisions. Life experiences pave the way for options that may not have been considered otherwise when making decisions about what fits best for a student population made up of many different identities. For example, it is inspiring for a female aiming to work in a male-dominated profession to see female professors making an impact in their own fields. From a student's perspective, it's reassuring to see a professor of similar identities at a prestigious institution like the University challenging societal norms and working on what they're most passionate about. The University of Wisconsin-Madison makes use of "Cluster Hiring," or interdisciplinary strategic hiring. The goal is to create teams that collaboratively pull on individual strengths to contribute to a department's overarching goal. A main reason for this new implementation is to serve the university's objective in increasing campus diversity. This is an interesting concept that might serve well for the U-M community.
University departments must make ongoing assessments of where they stand on the spectrum of diversity in the workplace. "Diversity in the workplace" is a buzz phrase thrown around by Fortune 500 companies in an attempt to showcase that their mission statement is intolerant of discriminatory behavior; however, it is important to look around the room. When you're at a meeting involving executive positions, such as the chair of a department, evaluate whether or not the department is incorporating as many identities as possible. This requires rethinking and restructuring of the hiring process in the short-term. The long-term gains to the University as a whole make this endeavor worth it.
Varna Kodoth can be reached at vkodoth@umich.edu.
SACUA discusses in-person class requirements, clinical faculty committees
Tensions run high at Faculty Senate meeting over COVID-19 protocols, sexual misconduct response
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After almost a year in development, MMO Guildsites is now live!
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Now that our service is live we've already begun work on new features we will be adding to the service in the coming months, included a detailed DKP system for raiders.
If you have any suggestions for features you'd like to see us add send us a shout and let us know.
Woot, congratulations guys! I'm sure this will be a very useful service for a number of mmo-gamers out there!
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Perfect for any vacation destination! RVs are also available for use outside the Lake Somerville parks.


Trifonov Dmitry Sergeevich, Lecturer, Department of Constitutional Law, Moscow state institute of international relations, MGIMO-University.
and legal nature of the grounds for suspension of the head of the subject of Russian Federation due to lack of confidence. The main conclusions of the research are identification of problems both on the grounds and the procedure for suspension of the head of the subject of the Russian Federation due to lack of confidence.
Keywords: head of subject, suspension, lack of confidence , the President of Russian, federal interference, political communications, political responsibility, legal liability, political institution, federal regulation, communicology.


I love to make girly things. Things like dolls! These are handmade rag dolls, made with cotton, felt, yarn and polyester fiberfil. The dresses are all removable and each doll has a colorful pair of permanent undies. Some of the vinyl shoes are removable and some are sewn onto the feet. Four different skin tones are available: Pinkish, cream, tan, brown. Hair is either yellow, light brown, russet, or dark brown.
So far I have only sold them in my favorite store, Space Montrose and to friends. But I am putting these for sale right here because I finally have a small inventory stored up. The customized dolls can be ordered on my Etsy shop.
I love making these dolls for several reasons.
1. I loved my dolls as a child. And I mean LOVE.
2. I get to make hair, dresses, and shoes. Who doesn't adore the trifecta of girl accoutrements?
3. I get to make presents for my grand baby.
Tan skin tone with dark brown hair.
Lovely brown skin tone with dark brown hair.
Pale cream skin tone with medium brown/russet hair wearing a lined voile dress.


control LEGO robots with your smartphone – LEGO Mindstorm EV3 announced!
Almost 14 years after the release of the first generation of LEGO Mindstorms, third generation of LEGO Mindstorms named EV3 was announced this year at CES, Las Vegas. The biggest change: Implementing the best from smartphone technology!
This LEGO snake is controlled by the gyrosensor inside the smartphone.
Also the voice command feature (that already exists on Mindstorms NXT but with a lousy quality) is going to be very interesting.
I believe there are some learning perspectives in the EV3 that can be adapted into educational use – So does LEGO. The company began letting teachers in on its plans for the new platform quite some time ago, it said, looking for the educators' input on how to best position Mindstorms EV3 as a learning tool for children, and how the new product can best meet teachers' needs. All told, Lego talked to more than 800 teachers around the world, it said.
Mindstorms EV3 features three interactive servo motors, two touch sensors, an infrared seeker sensor that can measure distance, movement, and object detection, an infrared "beacon" designed to control the robots remotely from a distance of up to 6 feet, and a color sensor.
The robot kit is going to be iOS and Android compatible.
The ability to skip the computer, when programming robots, is possible because of the intelligent bricks, that lets the user program directly from the smartphone and to the robot. This is limited to simple codes though. For the more complex coding, the programming environment on the computer is generally still the same, luckily.
Constructionism also has the connotation of "construction set," starting with sets in the literal sense, such as Lego, and extending to include programming languages considered as "sets" from which programs can be made, and kitchens as "sets" from which not only cakes but recipes and forms of mathematics-in-use are constructed. One of my central mathetic tenets is that the construction that takes place "in the head" often happens especially felicitously when it is supported by construction of a more public sort "in the world" — a sand castle or a cake, a Lego house or a corporation, a computer program, a poem, or a theory of the universe. Part of what I mean by "in the world" is that the product can be shown, discussed, examined, probed, and admired. It is out there…Thus, constructionism, my personal reconstruction of constructivism, has as its main feature the fact that it looks more closely than other educational -isms at the idea of mental construction. It attaches special importance to the role of constructions in the world as a support for those in the head, thereby becoming less of a purely mentalist doctrine. It also takes the idea of constructing in the head more seriously by recognizing more than one kind of construction (some of them as far removed from simple building as cultivating a garden), and by asking questions about the methods and the materials used. How can one become an expert at constructing knowledge? What skills are required? And are these skills the same for different kinds of knowledge?
With Mindstorms EV3, LEGO continues to be state of the art when it comes to constructionistic learning, as Papert (and I) likes it. Papert is now 84 years old, and hopefully he is proud of what his thoughts have given learning tools and toys for educational use.
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Indie music: Riverside area albums worthy of…
Indie music: Riverside area albums worthy of your ears
DAVIS "Alright" album cover (Courtesy photo)
By George Paul | britpopgeo@sbcglobal.net | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: March 19, 2020 at 2:27 p.m. | UPDATED: March 19, 2020 at 4:30 p.m.
Independent acts can find it difficult to garner widespread attention, so we're shining a spotlight on recent standout releases revolving around acts with local connections.
Brainstory
"Buck'"(Big Crown)
The Rialto psychedelic jazz/ pop trio, including two members who studied jazz at RCC, has toured with Chicano Batman and performed at the Riverside Art & Music Festival. Debut album "Buck" boasts a laid back 1970s vibe, grooves reminiscent of War and Santana and smooth Smokey Robinson-styled vocals. Perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Purchase/listen via bandcamp.com, Amazon and major streaming platforms.
DAVIS grew up in Riverside, has had songs featured in video games and landed airplay on stations like KROQ and KCRW. For his eclectic latest EP, the quirky alt-rock musician deftly traverses a variety of terrain, both modern (Queens of the Stone Age, the Strokes, Beck) and retro (Mott the Hoople, Velvet Underground).
Purchase/listen via Amazon, Apple Music and Spotify.
The James Hunter 6
"Nick of Time" (Daptone)
Riverside native Bosco Mann (Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings) re-teamed with James Hunterto produce the British R&B/blues vet's sumptuous "Nick of Time." Recorded here in town at Penrose Studios, these engaging tunes contain spirited sax blasts, vintage street corner backing vocals and wicked harmonica work straight out of the Sixties. Hunter's gritty, yet soulful singing evokes Sam Cooke and Ray Charles.
Purchase/listen via daptonerecords.com, Amazon and major streaming platforms.
The New Division
"Hidden Memories" (Division 87)
Inspired by new wave, techno, trance and progressive house music, John Kunkel formed The New Division in 2006 while attending California Baptist University. Since then, the popular electronic dance group has amassed nearly 8 million Spotify streams – an astounding feat for an Inland Empire musician. On the first full-length effort since 2015 (following several EPs), there are alluring sonic nods to M83, Underworld and New Order, while Kunkel's stream of consciousness lyrics add to the overall mystique.
Editor's note: A version of this story appeared in the spring 2020 issue of Riverside Magazine.
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Kristof on Darfur
Kristof nobly trying to do some good again. I've seen him ridiculed a good bit on lefty sites, but I've never understood why. But you know how those people are. Anyway, he's on the job again here, and good for him.
Interesting to note the quote from a reader he starts off with. It's funny that one is as likely to hear Americans say that Americans are the most generous people in the world as one is to hear someone say that we need to quit worrying about these little brown people elsewhere and do for our own. In fact, you often hear the same people say both things. (The former is more common if the breeze is being shot, the latter if actual money or action is being asked for.)
Can't really have it both way, friends....not without seriously tortured reasoning.
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Chris Wallace: Republican Partisan
More Faux News Follies
We only get basic cable, so on Sunday morning when I'm really jonesin' for the talk shows, I have to start out with Fox "News" Sunday because nothing else is on yet. Whew, man. I didn't have easy access to tv last semester, and I'd just plain forgotten how blatantly biased Fox "New" is.
Dunno whether anyone else had the displeasure of seeing the spectacle, but Chris Wallace first interviewed Richard Meyers. He lobbed him nothing but softballs, always in an extremely deferential tone, always waiting patiently while Meyers answered, giving him as much time as he wanted to answer each question. "Wow," I thought, "what a wienerly interview."
But then I thought about Meyers's stature and impending retirement, and thought that one might justifiably go easy on him.
Then Chris Dodd came on the show to talk about the Bolton nomination, and Walllace's demeanor changed completely. He was aggressive almost to the point of being disrespectful, interrupting Dodd several times, talking over him at other times, always rushing him, repeating the same questions over and over in different forms even though Dodd had already given excellent answers several times. Even in response to eminently reasonable answers, Wallace would react in a way that conveyed a kind of subtle incredulity. It was a disgusting display of naked bias.
It may also be worth nothing that later on This Week, Stephanopoulos was interviewing Sam Brownback (who opposes new fetal stem cell lines) and Specter (who supports them), and after Brownback's first response, Stephanopoulos responded rather too quickly and sharply with another question, seemingly indicating his disagreement. But after that, he got himself under control.
The impression I came away with was that Stephanopoulos was trying to be objective and doing a passably good--but by no means perfect--job of it, whereas Wallace wasn't even pretending to be neutral.
Slay the Gerrymanders
Here's some good news from the NYT.
I don't know of any issues more important than redistricting reform. This is something I lay awake worrying about at night.
Wait...did I write that or only think it? Holy God, I am a geek...
Anyway. Our democracy is slipping closer and closer to becoming a joke because the voters no longer choose the politicians, the politicians choose the voters. Witness the recent, blatant, anti-democratic (and anti-Democratic) power-grab by DeLay and his minions in Texas. Why there weren't riots in the streets over that I'll never understand. Sure, the Democrats gerrymandered NC districts after the last census, but at least they were honorable enough to merely cheat in the time-honored way, not between censuses like DeLay & co. I mean, there are limits, right? Sheesh.
Iowa already has an independent commission for drawing districts, and (believe it or not) the Gropenator has proposed such a commission for California.
E-mail your congresspersons!!!!!!! THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Orson Scott Card vs. Smartness
Or: The Last Refuge
Whew. Here's another real stinker from the sci-fi-writer-turned-conservative-hack. It's like a parody of right-wing paranoia and nationalism-disguised-as-patriotism. There's a good deal of my-country-right-or-wrong-type stuff, a suggestion that we should suppress news stories that undermine the War on Terra, and some whining about a recent expose on Mormonism.
My favorite part, though, is his David Brooksian attempt to invent some snappy terminology that distills the essence of The Current Unpleasantness. The fruit of his efforts? Well, you see, it's all about "Smartland" vs. the Heartland. The inhabitants of Smartland are those unpatriotic media and intellectual elites who don't realize that they should STFU, support the president, salute the flag, and go to church. The inhabitants of Smartland don't realize how lucky they are to live over here, in a country where the religious right merely dreams about killin' 'em and drops hints about how they probably deserve killin', instead of over in the Middle East where it would just kill 'em...
Oh, gosh, that last bit's a little unfair to Card. He doesn't really drop any hints about killing us. That's Coulter...
But the rest is more-or-less accurate. Christ, how do people like this find an audience? Are there really that many people out there so deluded and possessed of such modest intellectual abilities that they think that this crap is insightful? Perhaps it's all about having one's predjudices reinforced...
The thing about these my-country-right-or-wrong types is that they see even the truth as a threat. They're so comitted to the claim that this is the best of all possible nations that they are willing to distort the facts in order to support the fantasy.
And, um, just for the record, let me make it clear that I think this is a damn fine country. In fact, I think I think it's a better country than I think they think it is, because I think it's good enough that it can withstand having the truth told about it. In fact, I think it'd be an even better country if rather more truths were told about it....
What we have here are two visions of how we should conduct our efforts against terrorism. Card thinks that critics of the administration should shut up, and we should all fall in line behind Dear Leader. When America does something wrong, the information should be covered up. Our opponents, he claims, are unified, and this gives them an advantage over us. We should respond by becoming more Borg-like ourselves.
I, on the other hand, think that we should appear virtuous by being virtuous, not by lying about our virtue. If we do something wrong, we should admit it and promise not to do it again. I think dissent is good, especially when there are criminals and idiots running the country. I think America will win this struggle only by being America, in all it's cacophanous glory.
But, then, I guess I'm one of the insidious denizens of "Smartland"...
One thing Orson Scott Card gets right, I think: Osama bin Laden et. al. are considerably worse than Orson Scott Card et. al. I'm fairly certain that OBL would kill people like me if he ruled the world. I'm fairly certain that people like OSC (Pat Robertson, James Dobson) would merely make our lives miserable. The nugget of truth Card's screed is that many on the left underestimate the badness of the Islamic religious right. That's a point worth keeping in mind, thin and obvious though it might be.
After reading this dreck, though, one can only hope that Card will go back to writing sci-fi and leave off the fantasy.
[O.k., that's it. I'm done picking on the worst of the worst. From now on, I'm going to focus on non-crap. But after my customary four hours of sleep, I was cranky and this really annoyed me.]
[Oh, and, to my shame, I found this on Fark.com, where it was--I'm not making this up--labeled "Hero".]
Why John Bolton is Unqualified to be U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
(1) Anyone who thinks that it is permissible to kill innocent people for oil is unqualified for any post in the U.S. government that might affect foreign policy
(2) John Bolton apparently believes that it is permissible to kill innocent people for oil
(3) John Bolton is unqualified for any post in the U.S. government that might affect foreign policy
This is not hyperbolic lefty paranoia about the reasons for the Iraq war. John Bolton is a foreign policy "realist" (as are many other members of the administration, e.g. Rice, e.g. Cheney). Foreign policy realists think that the ONLY thing that should guide our foreign policy is the pursuit of our national interest. (Bolton has said, among other things, that the U.S. should have unrestricted "discretion in using force to advance its national interests.") This means that it's permissible for us to kill innocent people for oil. It also means that it's permissible to kill innocent people for money. Or for land. Or to distract Americans from domestic problems. It also means, among other hideous things, that it's permissible to invade other countries to enslave their populations. In fact, it means that it's permissible for us to do anything to anyone so long as (a) that person is a non-American and (b) doing whatever to him would be good for America in some way.
Perhaps John Bolton does not really beleve any of these things. If not, then he should stop saying things that entail that he does. It's hard to believe that most "realists" (better term: 'amoralists') really believe the obvious entailments of their view. If they don't, then they should stop saying things that entail that they do. So long as they keep saying it--and acting as if they believe it--I'll continue to conclude that they do believe it.
This fight should not be about John Bolton's personality. This fight should be about John Bolton's evil theory of foreign relations, an evil theory shared by many in the current administration. This is the theory of a von Ribbentrop, not of a U.S. ambassador to the U.N.
W may be a bad president, but at least he's an "idealist" about foreign policy. 'Idealist' in this context means: someone who believes that America has moral obligations to non-Americans. That is, we can't kill them indiscriminately. It's "realists" who brand non-realists "idealists," the term suggesting that we believe in some kind of pie-in-the sky utopian vision of the world. But what "idealists" really believe is that it's not permissible for nations to be evil.
Hitler was a "realist" about foreign policy. Churchill--in his better moments--was an "idealist."
Brother Tom Gets It Right Again; Atrios Apoplectic
I think Tom Friedman is on the mark today--as he often is--when he argues that we must shut down Guantanamo Bay. Our actions there are likely to go down as one of the blackest black marks on our history--a history with entirely too many black marks on it as it is.
The administration's policies with regard to the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay seem to indicate that their commitment to human rights is shallow at best, a mere smokescreen at worst. What's going on at Guantanamo Bay is consistent with the general orientation of American conservatives in my lifetime: they have been all too willing to engage in egregious violations of the rights of non-Americans in order to purchase even miniscule--and sometimes purely fictional--improvements for security for Americans. This is what happened, for example, when conservatives backed the Nicaraguan Contras.
But our government is underwritten by a theory according to which all human beings have certain inalienable rights. Our constitution guarantees that our government must recognize these antecedently-existing rights, but the constitution itself is not taken to create these rights, and, so, these rights are not limited to American citizens. Here's a good place to use the "what if the tables were turned?" test: how many of us would tolerate the abuses of Guantanamo Bay if the prisoners held without trial there were Unites States citizens? How many of us would tolerate it if another country were holding our citizens under such conditions?
As the most minor of footnotes to all of this, I notice in passing that Atrios now exists in a state of near-constant apoplexy. I hate to be too harsh toward the guy who gave me my first big link, but I have to say that I consider Atrios to be little more than the Instapundit of the left anymore. And although the comments are sometimes amusing, they are almost uniformly shrill and irrational, an exercise in the worst kind of groupthink Atrios, like many others on the left, has nothing but contempt for Tom Friedman--and, apparently, anyone else who dares to be a centrist and refuses to toe the party line. I frequently disagree with what Friedman has to say, but he certainly doesn't warrant the kind of sneering disdain that Atrios heaps on him.
But, sadly, such seems to be the polarizing and snarkifying effect of the blogosphere. Whereas we more-or-less leftish types spend a good deal of time complaining about Fox "news," Atrios and his ilk make Fox look like Frontline.
Atrios is, however, right to say that it would have been better to see this column two years ago. Still, better late than never. Let's hope that Darth Dubya is listening.
Tips on Thinking: What if the Tables Were Turned?
Another in my fascinatin' series in which I tell you things you alread know...
Here's a little trick to help you be a better reasoner in general, based on a trick your mom taught you about how to be morally good. Since many mistakes in reasoning are actually moral mistakes--e.g. unfairly using different standards for yourself and others--it should come as no surprise that the same trick that helps you in your moral reasonings will help you in other domains as well.
The trick goes a little something like this: when you are evaluating an inference or assertion, simply ask yourself "what if the tables were turned?" That is, if you are evaluating someone else's inference or claim, ask "how would I evaluate this if I had made it?" And if you are evaluating your own inference or claim, ask "how would I evaluate it if someone I disagree with had made it?"
This trick works very well, and that's because we do tend to apply differential standards to the claims of those with whom we agree and those with whom we disagree. We tend to be far less critical of the inferences made by ourselves and our allies than we are of our opponents. This is the logical analog of certain well-known moral facts: we all have a tendency to cut ourselves more slack than we cut others.
Cognitive scientists tell us that humans have a tendency to accept rather uncritically claims that they find congenial, but to submit other claims to scrutiny until they find some flaw in them. There is a certain respect in which this may be a rational strategy, but the logical downside of this inclination should be fairly clear.
Of course, applying a consistent standard to yourself and others doesn't guarantee that you're applying the correct standard...but applying different standards does guarantee that you're getting it wrong at least half the time...
Orson Scott Card: Christianity More Plausible Than Star Wars
Man, this has got to be a new high in setting the bar low. What's really sad is that I'm not even sure he's right..
I haven't seen Revenge of the Sith yet, so it could suck for all I know. I do find it amusing however how the fringes of the political spectrum get all bent out of shape about Lucas's movies. After The Phantom Menace, some of my liberal (and intelligent!) friends tried to convince me that Lucas was a racist because some of the characters sounded vaguely Asian. Now, apparently, we've got Orson Scott Card and other conservatives coming down on the side of the Empire against the Jedi. (Um, wait...that actually makes a bit of sense, doesn't it?)
Anyway, apparently it's now patriotically correct to be anti-Star Wars. So straighten up and fly right, people (in your TIE fighters, that is). Enough of these bleeding-heart Jedi and the anti-authoritarian Rebellion (er, Insurgency?).
Anyway, Card's ditty will probably provide you with a chuckle. For extra Cardy goodness, you might also enjoy reading an account of my afternoon with the guy about 13 years ago. But probably not.
On a related note, check out this awesome petition in favor of charging Michael Moore with treason. Man, you can't make this stuff up...
Um, let me re-iterate my belief that blogs shouldn't just be used to obsess about the biggest kooks on the other side. That's a waste of the time and bad for the soul. But sometimes I just can't help myself...
Philosoraptor Plays Hooky from NSA, Gets Hit By Truck Instead
So my department Chair decided to go to the NSA, thus sparing me from a 10-hour round trip + $100 hotel room charge. If this program takes off, I'll probably still participate, but getting to this meeting was going to be quite a pain, probably for little gain. So my plan was to stay home and get some work done on this #@&* book...but, on account of the on-going insomnia problem I have to take out several hours a day to exercise in order to have any chance of sleeping that night. I've been riding my mountain bike on the trails near Bolin Creek and the Chapel Hill airport, but I cleverly injured my feet a couple of years ago, and the trail riding was putting undue stress on the injuries. So I decided to do some riding on the roads.
Now, I used to do some road riding, and I when I first thought about trying mountain biking, the latter seemed a little scary. After mountain biking for awhile, however, you come to realize that it's a lot safer than being on the roads with @*$&%&ing idiots who don't know how to drive zooming past you all the time, barely in control of their land dreadnoughts.
So anyway, I'm on the road for less than five minutes, riding along at a good clip, doing everything right, when I hear a truck coming up on my left. It starts to pass me, and I note with some alarm that it is WAY too close, despite the fact that nobody's even coming in the other direction. I move over to the very edge of the road. This is happening pretty fast...I'm thinking this a**hole is going to hit me...when I see out of the corner of my eye the back end of the truck going by.
That's when the trailer hit me.
It was a glancing blow, barely catching me in the ribs, hitting me mostly in the left triceps. It knocked my left hand off the handlebars, and sent me and the bike off the road, wobbling wildly. Fortunately the shoulder expanded into a relatively wide, grassy section just as I went off the road, and I ended up far enough down and back on the bike that I managed to keep from going over the bars...in fact--and I still don't know how this happened--I didn't even fall over.
By the time I come to a stop, the truck that hit me is at the top of the next hill, turning left. I managed to flip him off and yell some naughty words at him, but then he was gone. I got on the bike and rode after him like hell, but I knew he'd be long gone by the time I could get up the hill. It looked like a kind of groundskeeping truck, and I think what hit me might have been a tow-behind wood-chipper, but I can't be sure. I spent the next hour and a half riding around the area looking for 'em, but, of course, couldn't find them. Just as well, probably. I must admit I was pretty pissed, and not looking to talk about the matter.
In the end, I got off pretty easy. Some scratches and bruises, a sore triceps, and a little bit of neck and back pain, but nothing serious.
But, just the same, I think I'll stick to the trails from now on...
Evangelicals Storm the Academy
One of the great things about living in a university environment is that it's one of the few places in the country that's dominated neither by conservative Christianity nor by big business. But that won't last if the former group has its way, according to this in today's NYT.
I've talked extensively with students who have fallen in with e.g. Campus Crusade for Christ, and it's a sad thing. Happily, sensible students frequently break out again after they see what's going on with the Stepford Students, but many are trapped for good.
Of course one can't talk about that branch of Christianity without discussing their bizarre attitudes about sex, and these do emerge in the Times piece. Mr. Haven, the protagonist of the piece, is an evangelical minister who did not even kiss his fiancee until after they were engaged. Think about what this betrays about Mr. Haven's views about sex. Kinda scary. It is, of course, no surprise that a significant percentage of Christians have pathological and indefensible views about sex. It's tragic, but not likely to change any time soon. And it's more than a little worrisome that someone with such a twisted view about such a great and important part of the human experience would presume to advise others on how to live their lives.
There's a vicious hatred of much of what is wonderful about humanity at the core of many conservative religions. Such hatred of our humanity is one of the forces of darkness that Western civilization has managed to beat back, but our victory over such forces is far from complete. It's an on-going battle. When relatively more reasonable forces managed to wrest control of the university from religious fanatics, a major victory was won. If people like Mr. Haven have their way, however, that front will be re-opened.
One might be able to maintain a kind of conflicted optimism here by noting that reason has some powerful, though unsavory, allies in this battle. Big corporations have gone a long way toward brainwashing many of us into accepting a kind of mindless hedonism--turn on MTV or BET for a few minutes if you don't believe me. Those corporate forces won't give up ground without a fight, and they must be aware that the puritanism of the religious right represents a significant threat to them.
The trick, however, is to construct a culture that is dominated neither by the anti-human puritanism of sexual conservatives, nor by a vulgar, mindless hedonism that promotes physical pleasure and material wealth above all other goods. That leaves an extraordinarily wide and varied range of possibilities for sexual exploration and expression[. O]f course, it just discourages the dumbest of the dumb mistakes one might make about sex.
Philosoraptor to the NSA
...for one day, anyway. That's right, unless I can figure out some way to get out of it, I'll be trekking up to Fort Meade for a meeting about developing an information analysis program at my university. It's rather a schlep for me when I'd rather be mountain biking...er...I mean...working on my book...but, well, you know how these things go.
I did briefly wonder whether it would be wrong to help out the NSA, but then came to the conclusion that that's kind of a nutty worry. If I can somehow, some way make some small contribution to improving the country's intelligence and information analysis, then I should do so. In particular, I'm interested in impressing upon them the importance of not spinning the data in the politcally correct direction...
Anyway, more real posts soon!
None Dare Call it Wanking:
The Poor Man on Instapundit, Administration Propaganda, and Defacing the Koran at Gitmo
The Poor Man sums it up for us.
You know, I've been getting more and more irritated with liberals of late. Sometimes you just can't get those people to see reason. Sometimes I even have thoughts like "maybe my natural home on the political spectrum is with the liberal Republicans..." But then I remember that liberal Republicans are a dying breed. And then I remember the theft of the 2000 election, the fact that two of the last three Republican presidents have been unqualified for the job, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the relentless torrent of propaganda and lies leading up to Gulf War Episode II, and the extent to which fundamentalists control the party...and I must sadly admit that the Democrats--God help us--are our only hope.
Anyway, this is really just a link to the Poor Man's post. I'm in the process of recovering from the semester and getting web access started up at Johnny Quest's digs. So real posting should resume soon.
Oh, and note that The Poor Man catches Rice still trying to link Iraq to 9/11. God, these people are reprehensible.
The Pope's Sins of Omission
From the Chronicle.
Haven't read it all yet--currently trying to get the hell out of Dodge and back to NC for the summer. But this looks interesting.
Limited Government and Living in Sin in NC
Republicans claim to want to get the government off our backs. If that's true, then they will raise a ruckus about this development in North Carolina. Apparently a Sheriff's dispatcher was forced to quit her job when her (fascistic) boss found out she was living with her boyfriend. U.S. Magistrate Carl Horn in Charlotte is also said to "regularly ask defendants whether their living arrangements violate the cohabitation ban," and refuse to release them until they promise to comply.
Be funny to see them try to enforce that ban in Chapel Hill...
The Newest Thing In Armageddons: The Verneshot
For some time now Canis Major and I have been playing a friendly game of "What's the Worst that Can Happen?", in which we argue about whether we should be more alarmed about, say, quantum vacuum decay, gamma ray bursts, supervolcanoes, global warming, the release of undersea methane hydrate, or what.
Well, in case you're jonesin' for a new super-worst-case scenario to worry about, check this out. It concerns the "Verneshot," a theoretical phenomenon which, if real, would explain some puzzling facts about mass extinctions. You're probably familiar with the dispute between those who think that the KT extinction (the one that killed the dinosaurs) was caused by a meteor impact and those who think that it was caused by an eruption of the Deccan Traps. The former hypothesis seems to have taken on the status of orthodoxy recently, but the question is complicated by the fact that the Deccan Traps were erupting around the time that the KT impactor hit.
Well, it turns out that this coincidence of "meteor" impacts and supervolcano-like eruptions may not be unusual. In fact, there is allegedly evidence of such coincidence of events for at least four mass extinctions. The odds of this occurring by chance are purportedly 1 in 3,500 (though intuitively they would seem to be even greater).
What allegedly happens during a Verneshot goes something like this: gas seeps up from deep in the Earth, as it is wont to do--but its escape is blocked by a big ol' chunk of ancient crust, a "craton." When enough gas builds up, there may be a supervolcano explosion at the edge--which would be bad enough--but even worse, the craton, along with a large amount of material from underneath it, is shot out of the atmosphere, only to come crashing back down on the other side of the Earth. And that means curtains for most living things on the planet. Even things lucky enough to avoid being vaporized, shredded, shot into orbit, squashed, or burned, would probably die in the resulting (non-nuclear) nuclear winter.
And get this: apparently the KT impactor hit at about a twenty degree angle, which is consistent with an impact by material ejected from the Deccan Traps. If true, the Verneshot hypothesis would unify these two competing explanations for the KT extinction.
Oh, and give us disaster afficianados a little something else to ponder...
Red State Family Values?
In the parking lot of an Idaho Wal-Mart, no less...
Via Fark.com.
[Gosh, this is a cheap shot...]
Firefighter Recovers after Ten Years of Unresponsiveness
This story is so great I almost can't believe it. Unfortunately, thirty seconds into my happy reaction to this, I realized that some folks are probably going to try asserting that if we'd just waited another couple of weeks, we could have saved Terri Schiavo...
Anyway, that's my prediction. Be interesting to see whether I'm right.
[I'll be done with grading in a couple of days, and then will start posting again. Sorry about the hiatus.]


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Q: Simple Asset Web Map Service I want to make an asset/inventory map of locations (points only) that can be viewed and queried easily from computers and mobile devices. The dataset is not very large, and the user traffic would be quite low. I had used Google Fusion Tables and Google Maps API in the past for similar projects. I'm looking for the simplest options.
What are some of the most user-friendly options for accomplishing this?
Open-source would be ideal, but definitely not a requirement.

A: I recommend you consider Leaflet or OpenLayers ..personally, I prefer Leaflet. If you don't have "that many" location points, I'd just convert them into a JSON file or a GeoJSON file and load them all on $(document).ready(). When I say "that many", obviously that threshold is subjective. I consider it to be around 2000 points/features.
If you want it to be searchable, you have some options. But if you want a search-suggest type functionality like you get on Google, etc, you'll be doing a little bit of extra coding.
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Carl Otto Czeschka Die Nibelungen (The Nibelungs) (1920)
Carl Otto Czeschka's eight double-page illustrations to Franz Keim's abridged version of the Nibelung saga, a mythic tale of royal wealth and betrayal, evoke an elegant and enchanted world. Stylized toy soldiers and chessboard knights, like the ones the artist displayed at the Viennese Kunstschau exhibition in 1908, stand guard or enact epic battles. A Viking ship glides through choppy waters; the luminous geometric ornamentation on its sail epitomizes the Viennese use of lush surface patterning, in which exotic and folk sources were filtered through a distinctively modern aesthetic. The volume appealed to the widespread interest in untutored forms, such as "primitive" and children's art, as a basis for cultural authenticity and renewal.
Czeschka's designs elevate the simplified, populist interpretation by Keim, a former teacher and German nationalist. First published in 1909 as part of the thirty-four-volume series Gerlachs Jugendbücherei (Gerlach's youth library) aimed at Austrian schoolchildren, the tiny, almost square-shaped book serves as a perfect realization of the Gesamtkunstwerk—a total work of art in which all elements follow a single artistic idea. Checkered borders frame every page. The text is set in a modernized blackletter type, suggestive of medieval calligraphy, by the famed Jugendstil artist Otto Eckmann. The Museum's copy dates to 1920, when the publishers issued a second edition.
Publication excerpt from Heather Hess, German Expressionist Digital Archive Project, German Expressionism: Works from the Collection. 2011.
Franz Keim
Illustrated book with eight double-page line block reproductions
page (each): 5 1/2 x 5 5/16" (14 x 13.5 cm); overall: 5 7/8 x 5 3/8 x 9/16" (15 x 13.6 x 1.4 cm)
Gerlach & Wiedling, Vienna and Leipzig
Christoph Reisser's Söhne, Vienna
Gift of Walter Bareiss
22.1981.1-8
Illustrated Book
Drawings and Prints
There are 8 works in this illustrated book online.
Carl Otto Czeschka has 12 works online.
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Striking workers in South Africa call for nationalization of Transpharm
GIWUSA is demanding that Transpharm be nationalized if it cannot guarantee a living wage to its workers
September 21, 2019 by Peoples Dispatch
Workers of the South African pharmaceutical giant Transpharm, have been on strike since September 12, demanding a living wage or the nationalization of the company's operations.
About 400 workers at the Pretoria operations of Transpharm, one of South Africa's largest pharmaceutical distributors, have called for the company's nationalization and its integration into the public health system if the company cannot pay living wages to its employees.
Workers marching under the banner of the General Industries Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) and the South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU), put forth this demand to the Department of Health yesterday.
This move came after the company, at a meeting with the union leaders on Wednesday, blamed the government's regulation of prices of medicines for being unable to pay its workers a R12,500 (about USD 840) per month.
The workers maintain that a minimum pay of R12,500 per month is essential to meet the basic needs of a family. However, the company is currently paying them a minimum wage of only R4,500 (about USD 300), which is less than half the living wage.
Strike action over this demand began in Pretoria on September 12, when 400 members of the GIWUSA working at the company's Pretoria operations downed their tools. Transpharm is said to have been losing R11 million (about USD 740,620) everyday as operations at Pretoria have come to a virtual halt due to the success of the strike.
The unrest spread to Cape Town, where other GIWUSA members employed at Transpharm also joined the action, and the company was forced to come to the negotiating table and talk with the union leaders. However, at the meeting, the management placed the blame "squarely on the shoulders of the government for regulating the prices of medication," GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei, said in a statement.
The failure of these talks led to the workers' marching to the Department of Health, the implicated institution, the very next day. Workers communicated to the department that "if they regulate the prices of medicines, they should also.. regulate the price of labor.. to ensure decent wages. And if the industry cannot afford to deliver both affordable medicines and decent wages, then [it] should be nationalized and integrated into the public health service," Sebei told Peoples Dispatch.
Transpharm has claimed that if it pays a living wage of R12,500 per month to its employees, it can no longer remain profitable. However, the company's new CEO was paid R31.26 million (USD 2.10 million) in 2017 alone.
"Actually if you take both the outgoing and new CEOs salaries combined, the [executive officers were].. paid over 80 million Rands (USD 5.39 million) in 2017," Sebei has informed.
Nevertheless, Transpharm continues to maintain that it cannot afford living wages for its employees. The company has threatened to shut down branches if the union does not call off the strike action. "Should they dare to shut down operations, workers will occupy these branches and run it as a cooperative," Sebei warned.
Categories South AfricaTags Cape TownGeneral Industries Workers Union of South AfricaLiving wageMametlwe SebeiPretoriaSouth African Federation of Trade UnionsTranspharmWorkers strike
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Q: Capturing InputEvents from a JPanel containing an Applet I have a JPanel to which I add an java.awt.Applet. If I add an input listener, like a MouseListener directly to the panel, I will be able to receive events when I click on the blank panel, as expected. However, when I add the applet, which completely fills the panel, the listener no longer picks up mouse clicks, presses, etc. So I figured that I would try adding the MouseListener to the actual applet, but the listener did not receive any events when I clicked on the applet. I know for a fact that the applet uses listeners of its own, but I don't think that would be the cause of this, though possible.
I tried using a glass pane with the JFrame containing the panel, and then adding a MouseListener to the glass frame and delegating input events to the component lying directly under the point at which the event occurred. I figured that way I would be able to receive events but not lose functionality. However, I found that method to be a little messy and I could not get it to work. I've also tried using the setComponentZOrder function but that was confusing to use and I could not get it to work either.
What am I doing wrong? How can I capture input events from an Applet or a JPanel containing (only) an applet?
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IMPEL confirms pan-European deal with Amazon
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IMPEL, the consortium of independent music publishers that exists to negotiate direct licences with digital music platforms, has announced a new deal with Amazon covering is various music streaming products in Europe.
Confirming that deal, the organisation's CEO Sarah Williams said yesterday: "Because of the amazing repertoire its members represent, IMPEL is an essential licensing partner for any streaming service that wishes to include the world's most popular songs on its platform. We're very happy to have signed this deal with Amazon".
IMPEL began life as an initiative of the UK's Music Publishers Association in 2010. It was set up in response to the big five publishers – Sony, Universal, Warner, Kobalt and BMG – starting to license their Anglo-American song catalogues to streaming services directly rather than via the collective licensing system (albeit in partnership with the Anglo-American collecting societies, because of complexities regarding the ownership of song rights).
It meant that smaller publishers could go the same route, even if they didn't have the scale or resources to start negotiating their own direct deals. Then, in 2018, IMPEL was spun off as a standalone organisation. And while some of its original members have since opted to do their own deals directly, the consortium still includes the likes of the Bucks, Beggars, Reservoir, Kassner, ABKCO, Truelove, Faber and Mute music publishing businesses.
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Q: AutoLayout UITextField to fit UINavigationBar I've been trying to resize the UITextField to fit and stretch out on the entire UINavigationBar but have been unsuccessful. I am aware that this is the simplest problem in the world, but I am oblivious.

A: It's not the simplest problem in the world.  In fact it's rather thorny.
You can't do this using constraints.  UINavigationBar takes responsibility for laying out its subviews.  Xcode knows this, so it doesn't let you set constraints on the text field.
The navigation bar asks your text field how big it wants to be by sending it sizeThatFits:, and provides the maximum allowed size, so one approach is to create a subclass of UITextField that returns that maximum.  This works:
@implementation MyTextField

- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
    return size;
}

@end

Another approach is just to make the text field very wide and let the navigation bar shrink it to fit.  You need to reset the width on rotation, because the navigation bar won't stretch the text field out again once it's shrunk.  Create an outlet in your view controller that connects to the text field, and update the width before layout.  This works:
@interface ViewController ()
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UITextField *textField;
@end

@implementation ViewController

- (void)viewWillLayoutSubviews {
    [super viewWillLayoutSubviews];
    [self widenTextField];
}

- (void)widenTextField {
    CGRect frame = self.textField.frame;
    frame.size.width = 10000;
    self.textField.frame = frame;
}

@end

A: Swift 4 version
class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet var textField: UITextField!

    override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
        super.viewWillLayoutSubviews()
        widenTextField()
    }

    func widenTextField() {
        var frame: CGRect? = textField?.frame
        frame?.size.width = 10000
        textField?.frame = frame!
    }

}


Ive got 20 PMs on my "Afterglow" page, and she was the first to PM me. I kinda felt she was trying to protect me or something, i can't really get into it because i don't really understand from what.
She was the ONLY person who I have ever gotten "into it" with here, and when we did numerous people PM'ed me in support and understanding.
She made me feel horrible because I love The Afterglow, it's one of my few social outlets, and I don't want to have any issues here that are negative.
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With over 3,000 posts orangejasmine was a very active and committed member of this community. Whatever the reason for her departure, I think this is a loss for The Afterglow. I've only been around here for a few months and OJ was the person with whom I had developed the strongest bond. I'm really going to miss her. I'm surprised by the banning, but as I don't have the full view of what happened, I have no opinion as to whether the decision was the right one or not. I'm sure it was a difficult one to make.
Afterglow Staff, I'm not sure what kind of warnings you give to those who are about to be banned? I guess that's what I'd like to have clarified if possible.
Just an idea...maybe the rules could be updated to include the text of a final warning form-message, something informing a wayward glower in clear, objective language that a line has been crossed and that s/he must step back and chill out before continuing any public or private conversations on The Afterglow. A form message might be easier to send and easier to receive - it's a step back from difficult personal emotions...a step in the right direction in many arguments.
Deb gave her a warning. She clearly said, to everyone, that the next person who starts a fight will be banned.
It was every day, every day there was an argument.
I remember one thread where someone had just got back from a show and stated that it sounded like Tori had a cold. OJ then proceeded to fight her/him on that.
Also true. Like I said, we don't know the exchanges between Deb and OJ behind the scenes, but I know Deb and I know Tom. If they say there was a good reason to ban her, I believe them. And maybe she was given 20warnings in PM's? We don't know these things.
What's done is done, I believe there was a fair reason, I don't need to know that reason, I trust Deb, Mel, Saar and Tom to know what they do around here.
As the mother of this forum, I'll put my last two cents in here.
I believe we've only banned 4 people in 'Glows history. Which is NOTHING. We have NEVER banned anyone without warning or without discussing it with the person in question. We have NEVER banned a person without a valid reason. I don't see why we should put out even more rules. I think the rules are plain and simple: respect. And that's a two way thing. This is a forum for discussions, but like I've said before, they do not equal fights. Yes sure, in real life it's easier, 'cos of the facial expressions and whatnot, but still, we've done it all these years without it here and we're doing fine. Just think before you write something down; respect someone elses opinion, surely that's not that hard?!
Yes sure OJ was a sweet girl and I understand a lot of you had a good relationship with her, and it's always sad when we have to say goodbye to people, but that's life unfortunately. There was stuff going on thru pm's, so most of you aren't seeing the whole picture.
I am behind my people here. I for one haven't been around much, 'cos I'm going thru a difficult patch right now and left my baby with people I trust, mainly Deb. She has been doing SO much for this forum and the people here. It's sad to read people are giving her such a hard time with this decision. I'm actually quite dissapointed in some reactions here. She made a decision for this board, for the people... for peace and for the wellbeing of the 'Glow. I hope you guys can trust and respect this decision. I know most of you guys know Deb longer than OJ, I don't think any of you think she would do this banning, 'cos of personal feelings. I also want to add that no decision is ever made by one person here. We always discuss issues behind the scenes with all the mods/admins.
This is a very 'open' forum, which is good. You guys have a lot of say. But there needs to be trust towards the admins/mods. We only do what's best for everyone and this place here. We never single out anyone without reason.
Agent starling, you were talking about warning, this is what i posted in that thread, doesn't that sound clear enough to you ?
Ok people , i don't appreciate the tone in this thread. i'm annoyed that once again people get into a fight. SO PLEASE LET IT GO FOR NOW.
Orangejasmine, it's nice that you like to debate things with other afterglowers but i think you are constantly trying to push people to agree with you even if you don't quite realise it and that certainly creates tension.
I have nothing else to add since the others said it so well. But I believe the right decision was made, even if it seems harsh to those who don't have the full picture (being the PMs Deborah received as well) and yes, she was warned on the board and it was discussed further in a PM.
Banning here rarely happens and there is always a reason for it and the mods and admins always discuss it thoroughly and it is never done just for the sake of it or taken lightly.
And I truly have added nothing worthwhile.
There really aren't many rules here. It pretty much boils down to "Don't request officially released music and no fighting or drama". Pretty simple to follow.
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Q: Should I re-authenticate once Socket.io upgrades to WebSockets? When using Socket.io in NodeJS, it creates a polling transport first and then tries to upgrade it to a websocket on the side. During the initial polling request, it is possible to send headers to the server and use information in these to do authentication. That socket is then marked as safe, and every request coming after the initial one is considered coming from the same user.
This assumption is never stated directly in Socket.io documentation, but several examples uses middleware (which is only run on initial connection setup) to handle authentication.
My question is, does this certainty carry over when the polling transport is upgraded to a websocket? Should I re-authenticate once the socket presents and "upgrade" event? And am I certain that a mallicius client won't be able to establish a websocket directly, without first going through the polling step?