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Q: Resize an image for Histogram of Gradient I have an image in size of 150 pixel in height and 188 pixel in width. I'm going to calculate HOG on this image. As this descriptor needs the size of detector window(image) to be 64x128, Should I resize my image to 64x128 and then use this descriptor? like this :
 Image<Gray, Byte> GrayFrame = new Image<Gray, Byte>(_TrainImg.Size);
 GrayFrame = GrayFrame.Resize(64, 128, INTER.CV_INTER_LINEAR);

I concern resizing may change the original gradients orientation depending on how it is resized since we are ignoring the aspect ratio of the image?
By the way, The image is croped and I can't crop it anymore. It means this is the size of image after cropping and this is my final bounding box.

A: Unfortunately the openCV HoGDescriptor documentation is missing.
In openCV you can change the values for detection window, cell size, blockStride and block size.
cv::HOGDescriptor hogDesc;

hogDesc.blockSize = cv::Size(2*binSize, 2*binSize);
hogDesc.blockStride = cv::Size(binSize, binSize);
hogDesc.cellSize = cv::Size(binSize, binSize);
hogDesc.winSize = cv::Size(imgWidth, imgHeight);

Then extract features using
std::vector<float> descriptors;
std::vector<cv::Point> locations;
hogDesc.compute(img, descriptors, cv::Size(0,0), cv::Size(0,0), locations);

Note:

*

*I guess, that the winSize has to be divisible by the blockSize and the blockSize by the cellSize.

*The size of the features is dependent on all these variables, so ensure to use images of same size and do not change the settings to not run into trouble.


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Q: Understanding Rolling Windows in Python Pandas I am trying to get the 6th element value. as true but get NaN instead. I have an example based out of Excel. When i try rolling window of 6, i get nan for 6th record but i should get False, instead. However, when i try rolling window of 5, all seems to work. I want to understand what is actually happened and what is the best way to say sum product of 6 elements means rolling window of 6 instead of 5.

Objective :  Six points in a row, all increasing or all decreasing
Code I am trying
def condition(x):
             if x.tolist()[-1] != 0:
                 if ( sum(x.tolist()) >= 5 or sum(x.tolist()) <= -5):
                     return 1
                 else:
                     return 0
             else:
                 return 0

df_in['I GET'] = df_in[['lead_one']].rolling(
            window=6).apply(condition  , raw=False)

Tag column is what is expected.

A: When you use a rolling window of 6, it takes the current value + the previous 5 values. Then you try to sum those 6 values. I say try, because if there's any nan value in there, ordinary python summing will also give you an na value.
That's also why .rolling(window=5) works: it gets the current value + 4 previous values and since they don't contain any nan values, you actually get a summed value one row earlier
You could use a different kind of summing: np.nansum()
Or use pandas summing where you specify to skip the na's, something like: df['column'].sum(skipna=True)
However looking at your code, I think it could be improved, so you don't get the na's in the first place. Here's an example using np.where():
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

# create example dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame(
    data=[10, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 10, 9],
    columns=['value']
)

# create an if/then using np.select
df['n > n+1'] = np.select(
    [df['value'] >  df['value'].shift(1),
     df['value'] == df['value'].shift(1),
     df['value'] < df['value'].shift(1)],
    [1, 0, -1]
)

# take an absolute value of the last 6 values and check if >= 5
df['I GET'] = np.where(
    np.abs(df['n > n+1'].rolling(window=6).sum()) >= 5, 1, 0)

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Q: Add multiple Dataset programatically for subreports VB.net I have facing problem while showing crystal report with 2 subreports. Both subreports pulling data from stored procedure.
All working fine on design time. But at runtime, Crystal Reports has an error saying table not found (second table) and nothing is displayed in reports.
This is the similar problem that I want to solve -
Crystal Report for Income and Expense wth opening and closing balance
This is my code - both stored procedure has a single parameter of datetime type:
    Dim DOF As Date = #4/1/2016#
    DOF = Format(DOF, "dd/MM/yyyy")

    Dim DOT As Date = #4/1/2016# ' Now.Date
    DOT = Format(DOT, "dd/MM/yyyy")

    Dim DS As Data.DataSet
    Dim DA As SqlDataAdapter
    Dim s_Sql As String
    Dim s_sql2 As String
    Dim cmd As SqlCommand

    s_Sql = "sp_DailyIncome"
    cmd = New SqlCommand(s_Sql, o_con)
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
    cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@FDate", Format(DOF, "MM/dd/yyyy")))

    DA = New SqlDataAdapter
    DA.SelectCommand = cmd
    DS = New Data.DataSet
    DA.Fill(DS, s_Sql)
    cmd.Dispose()

    s_sql2 = "sp_DailyExpense"
    o_Cmd = New SqlCommand(s_sql2, o_con)
    o_Cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure
    o_Cmd.Parameters.Add(New SqlParameter("@FDate", Format(DOF, "MM/dd/yyyy")))

    DA.SelectCommand = o_Cmd
    DA.Fill(DS, s_sql2)

    Dim rptDoc As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
    rptDoc = New rptDailyCashReport
    rptDoc.DataDefinition.FormulaFields("SchoolName").Text = "'" & holdSchoolName & "'"
    rptDoc.SetParameterValue("@FDate", DOF)

    rptDoc.Subreports.Item(0).SetDataSource(DS.Tables(0))
    rptDoc.Subreports.Item(1).SetDataSource(DS.Tables(1))

    Dim objForm As New ShowReport
    objForm.ViewReport(rptDoc, , "")
    objForm.ShowDialog()

and this is the error:

A: this is how I open a subreport.
Dim mainReport As <Name of your report with crpt extension>
Dim subReport As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
Dim subReport2 As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
subReport = mainReport.OpenSubReport(<name of your subreport as defined in your main report>)
subReport2 = mainReport.OpenSubReport(<name of your second subreport as defined in your main report>)
mainReport.SetDataSource(<your main report's datatable>)
subReport.SetDataSource(<your datatable>)
subReport2.SetDataSource(<your datatable 2>)

reportViewer.ReportSource = mainReport

or from your code
Dim rptDoc As New rptDailyCashReport
Dim subReport1 As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument
Dim subReport2 As CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument

subReport1 = rptDoc.OpenSubReport(<name of your sub report 1>) '<-- !! NAME IS CASE SENSITIVE
subReport2 = rptDoc.OpenSubReport(<name of your second sub report>)

subReport1.SetDataSource(DS.Tables(0))
subReport2.SetDataSource(DS.Tables(1))

' place this at the last part, before showing your report
rptDoc.DataDefinition.FormulaFields("SchoolName").Text = "'" & holdSchoolName & "'"
rptDoc.SetParameterValue("@FDate", DOF)

Dim objForm As New ShowReport
objForm.ViewReport(rptDoc, , "")
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Author: Canzio, William Di
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Binding: Hardcover
William di Canzio's Alec, inspired by Maurice, E. M. Forster's secret novel of a happy same-sex love affair, tells the story of Alec Scudder, the gamekeeper Maurice Hall falls in love with in Forster's classic, published only after the author's death.
Di Canzio follows their story past the end of Maurice to the front lines of battle in World War I and beyond. Forster, who tried to write an epilogue about the future of his characters, was stymied by the radical change that the Great War brought to their world. With the hindsight of a century, di Canzio imagines a future for them and a past for Alec–a young villager possessed of remarkable passion and self-knowledge.
Alec continues Forster's project of telling stories that are part of "a great unrecorded history." Di Canzio's debut novel is a love story of epic proportions, at once classic and boldly new.

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14 April 2016 - TAP - Following the death of activist and politician Ahmed Brahim, Prime Minister Habib Essid sent a message of condolences to the family of the deceased and Al-Massar Party Secretary-General Samir Taieb.
In this message, the PM paid a posthumous tribute to Ahmed Brahim for his dedication and self-sacrifice in serving the noble principles and causes of freedom, democracy and human rights.
He also commended the active contribution of the late Ahmed Brahim to the democratic transition process and the materialization of the January 14 Revolution achievements.
Former secretary-general of Al-Massar Ahmed Brahim died, Thursday, at the age of 70, after a long illness.


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Q: processing a binary file containing an array using python I am reading and extracting some numbers from 2 LARGE files, storing them in 2 lists.
Then making histograms from the stored lists.
It takes a long time to read all the files to make the 2 lists. I figured if I stored the lists in a file I could possibly reuse them without reading all the files again.
Now the lists are large too, so if I write as binary file and it contains 2 lists like…
[1,2,3,4,5,6,7..]
[a,b,c,d,e,f..]

How can I process this binary file and read both arrays in ?
For smaller lists when I have done that I simply stored then copied it and pasted it in the processing code as
x= [1,2,3,4,5,6,7..]
y=[a,b,c,d,e,f..]

Thank you

A: Try pickle.
This will save your lists to 'out.dat':
with open('out.dat', 'wb') as pkl_file:
    pickle.dump([x,y], pkl_file, -1)

And this will load them afterwards:
with open('out.dat', 'rb') as pkl_file:
    x,y = pickle.load(pkl_file)

So you could put in your code something like:
if not os.path.exists('out.dat'):
    x, y = generate_x_y() #your time consuming method
    with open('out.dat', 'wb') as pkl_file:
        pickle.dump([x,y], pkl_file, -1)
else:
    with open('out.dat', 'rb') as pkl_file:
        x,y = pickle.load(pkl_file)

A: Pickle is a good way. If you want portability, you could go for JSON.
import json

x = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
y = ['a','b','c','d','e','f']

with open('saved_data.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump([x, y], f)    # or as a dict: json.dump(dict(x=x, y=y))

# To read it back...

with open('saved_data.json') as f:
    x, y = json.load(f)

>>> x
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
>>> y
[u'a', u'b', u'c', u'd', u'e', u'f']

And another often overlooked alternative is to use shelve.
>>> import shelve
>>> shelf = shelve.open('saved_data.shelf')
>>> shelf
{}
>>> shelf['x'] = x
>>> shelf['y'] = y
>>> shelf
{'y': ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f'], 'x': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]}
>>> shelf.close()

>>> shelf = shelve.open('saved_data.shelf')    # reopen shelf
>>> shelf['x']
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
>>> shelf['y']
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f']


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Home1 / Psychedelic Spotlight News2 / Culture3
Psychedelics and Sports: Can They Propel Athletes to Unprecedented Pinnacles of Ability?
byKiki DyonOctober 20, 2021
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While scientific literature on athleticism and psychedelics is still in its embryonic stages, there's a deep well of anecdotal evidence suggesting that psychedelics could bring athletes to new peaks of performance.
On the heels of sprawling cannabis legalization throughout North America, all eyes are hungrily hooked on the slow but certain legalization of psilocybin. No self-improvement trend has ever captivated every corner of the internet the way microdosing has.
The echoing accounts of those supplementing studious, sportive, and career-climbing endeavors with psychedelics have induced mania in the everymen. All groups, from existentially-exhausted mothers to weekend-warrior endurance athletes to university students, are eager to microdose their way to enhanced cognition.
Or, as Dr. Fey, a Western New York physical therapist and psychonaut, phrases it for Psychedelic Spotlight, "experimental success-seekers are using small amounts of psychedelics to propel them to unprecedented pinnacles of ability, and it's working."
Here we focus on a newly-researched niche: athletic performance and psychedelics.
A No-Hitter on LSD
Where should we start? With the infamous, LSD-fueled no-hitter, of course.
The century-spanning chronicles of baseball are charged with oddities and accomplishments, but few are as iconic as when a 25-year-old right-handed starter for the Pittsburgh Pirates named Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while tripping on LSD.
Dock Ellis recounted the drugged-out day in great detail to NPR before his death, and No Mas used the audio from the interview to create a fascinating short film (below). The story begins with Ellis partying with his friends the day before the game. The holy trinity –– alcohol, acid, and marijuana –– were involved. Ellis passed out and, upon waking up from his nap, took more acid, confusedly believing it was still the same day. He recalls thinking he was in the clear before a friend informed him that he had to pitch in just hours. So, he hopped on a plane and fulfilled his obligation with LSD lighting up his senses.
"I started having a crazy idea in the fourth inning that Richard Nixon was the home plate umpire," Ellis recounted in an interview years later. "And once I thought I was pitching a baseball to Jimi Hendrix, who to me was holding a guitar and swinging it over the plate."
The film and story are incredibly entertaining, but like most tales that seem too fantastical to be true –– there's just one lingering question: did it actually happen?
Well, that depends who you ask.
Bob Smizik, who covered the Pirates from 1972-77 for the Pittsburgh Press, is a believer. While he didn't cover the game, he was the first writer to break the legend of the LSD no-hitter.
In the story, Smizik even included a quote from a Pittsburgh-area psychologist, Dr. Maurice Cerul, to lend the story a dash of credibility:
"If he had a good trip, he could have done his task without problems. As a matter of fact, he could have performed even better. It's within the realm of possibility. [B]ut LSD should not be used to enhance one's athletic ability."
However, that quote was given decades ago, when psychedelic use was still a big no-no and counterculture activity. Now, researchers are abandoning their hesitancy to proclaim that using psychedelics to enhance athletic performance exists in a good or bad binary.
Psychedelics and Endurance Sports
When the topic of performance-enhancing drugs rears its head, the usual suspects—steroids, stimulants, etc.—are always mentioned. Psychedelics, meanwhile, are often overlooked.
Okay, fair enough, it seems like an easy assumption that psychedelic drugs aren't performance-enhancing. But as James Oroc explained in his legendary essay, extreme sports and the underground psychedelic scene have a surprising decades-long relationship.
"According to the combined reports of 40 years of use by the extreme sports underground, LSD can increase your reflex time to lightning speed, improve your balance to the point of perfection, increase your concentration until you experience "tunnel vision", and make you impervious to weakness or pain," Oroc claims. "LSD's effects in these regards are in fact legendary, universal, and without dispute."
More recently, a citizen scientist wrote an extensive self-study for Borealism chronicling the effect of microdosing mushrooms on athletic performance. In his report, he claims, "psilocybin provokes a more immersed engagement with any activity; in this context, it amounted to a much more motivated sense of engagement with swimming and running as it displaced the perception of discomfort, pain, and fatigue."
While he insists that there appears to be a performance-enhancing outcome, he acknowledges that it's hard to know how much a placebo effect is in play.
"This [performance-enhancing] effect, as expected, is more psychological than physiological, though it will be argued that there is little need to differentiate between the mind and the body when it comes to improving sportive ability in this sort of context," the researcher writes.
Moreover, the performance enhancement may only be relevant at the highest echelons of professional sport, where everyone is first-rate, and the difference between winning and losing is a game of millimeters or milliseconds.
Sports psychologist Stan Beecham explains, "The reality is not that [top athletes] think differently," in an interview with Forbes. "It's that they don't think. It's the absence of thought. It's the absence of cognition. It's the absence of emotion. That really is the advantage."
While the evidence isn't ironclad, it is accumulating.
With the potential of psilocybin legalization on the horizon, more robust research on psychedelics and exercise performance is promised. Dr. Fey is hopeful, telling Psychedelic Spotlight, "Soon, we'll get a clearer picture of the broad effects of these psychedelics on performance. Sports have always explored the outer limits of human potential, and as athletes start reaching even higher levels of precision, they'll search for whatever advantage they can get."
But for now, urban legend and anecdotal evidence are enough to convince, or at least entertain, many.
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  TOGGLE_DRAWER,
  SHOW_LIST_AS_LIST,
  SHOW_LIST_AS_GRID,
  CHANGE_ITEMS_PER_PAGE,
  SET_MOVIES_PAGE,
  SET_CHARACTERS_PAGE,
} from '../actions/types';

export function drawer(state = false, action) {
  if (action.type === TOGGLE_DRAWER) {
    return action.open;
  }

  return state;
}

export function listStyle(state = 'grid', action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case SHOW_LIST_AS_LIST:
      return 'list';
    case SHOW_LIST_AS_GRID:
      return 'grid';
    default:
      return state;
  }
}

export function pagination(state = {
  itemsPerPage: 20,
  moviesPage: 1,
  charactersPage: 1,
}, action) {
  switch (action.type) {
    case CHANGE_ITEMS_PER_PAGE:
      return Object.assign({}, state, { itemsPerPage: action.itemsPerPage });
    case SET_MOVIES_PAGE:
      return Object.assign({}, state, { moviesPage: action.page });
    case SET_CHARACTERS_PAGE:
      return Object.assign({}, state, { charactersPage: action.page });
    default:
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#28 Shipped to Timbuktu
by Reply All
An email to the wrong address sends us hurtling into the world of professional cookie advisors. Plus, a new Yes, Yes, No. This is a rebroadcast of a story.
Adam West's Tweet
PJ: So I've got this friend, let's call him Dale. Dale has a gmail address that's pretty generic, like dsmith@gmail.com. And people who have email addresses like these get a lot of emails that aren't meant for them, like email wrong numbers. And this happens to Dale all the time. Last time I saw him, he'd just gotten an email written completely in Spanish from a kid somewhere asking if he can turn in an assignment late. Another time, he got a letter congratulating him on the low insurance rate for his two-door Chevy Cobalt. He doesn't have one. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, Dale's a nice guy but he likes to mess with people. He likes to play pranks. So Dale answers the emails. Here's one he got a while back.
DALE: I think it started off, "Hey Ladies, to all Calgary area district commissioners and district cookie advisors:" and then it it started talking about how they had a bunch of stale cookies that they didn't know what to do with, and we gotta move them off the shelves, if they're past the expiration date then we can't use them in the next cookie campaign.
PJ: The emails continue and Dale learns that the world of professional cookie advising is surprisingly bureaucratic. At the top, there's a national cookie advisor, and then beneath her there are provincial cookie advisors who report up, and then beneath them, there are district cookie advisors. He was picturing a corporate office building with a lot of people in fancy business clothes talking about cookies all day. And Dale decides that what he should do is send an intentionally stupid email detailing all these asinine solutions to their stale cookie problem. He says the advisors should sharpie over the expiration dates on the packages. Or he says they could just eat all the stale cookies themselves.
DALE: In my mind I was thinking no one's gonna believe this, what a stupid email to write to somebody. Who would hire a person with suggestions like these?
PJ: Instead, Cynthia, who's the Calgary area cookie advisor, responds to Dale's email with complete polite cheerfulness. She sends him a cookie freshness calculator to help him sort his stale cookies from fresh cookies. So Dale responds with even stupider responses. He was trying to make it more obvious that he was just kidding.
DALE: I said, "What's the status on the cookies? Yarr, me so hungry" with a picture of cookie monster. and I think she responded with something along the lines of, "Those orders were supposed to go in a month ago, or did I misunderstand your question?"
PJ: Rather than clarifying, Dale asks her, why are we even in the cookie advising business? He said his clients, they're all about chocolate bars now.
DALE: And Cynthia responded, "Chocolate bars," question mark, question mark, question mark, question mark. All of my other suggestions were met with like, "Oh maybe I misunderstood or something," but this one was very emphatic, it was like, "Chocolate bars?!!!"
PJ: It actually seemed like Dale had touched a nerve, because after that cookie advisor world went quiet.
DALE: There was radio silence after that. I felt bad. I felt like I was in a little bit too deep maybe.
PJ: The original email he'd gotten had been meant for a woman named Debbie. What if he'd gotten Debbie in trouble, or even just made her look bad.
DALE: I'm a little afraid. I'd like to think that, oh they just got it sorted out and now it's funny and Debbie is in on the joke and everybody can laugh at me and I hope that they're not laughing at poor Debbie. They're just people trying to do their cookie job.
PJ: Hello?
CYNTHIA: Hello.
PJ: Hi Cynthia?
CYNTHIA: Yes, it's me.
PJ: Hi it's PJ. How are you doing?
PJ: I wanted to find out if Dale's prank had hurt anybody, so I tracked down Cynthia. She lives in Calgary. Cynthia has multiple sclerosis, so it can be hard for her to talk. Her friend Sheila volunteered to help out and I read them the emails.
PJ: "And of course the obvious solution is to eat them during our next member meeting. Please discuss with the rest of area and I will forward your decision on to national. Thanks so much." Do you remember getting that?
CYNTHIA: You know, I don't but-
SHEILA: We get a lot of questions all across Alberta at cookie time. Often they have suggestions that don't always fly. So we find a way to respond to them as best we can.
PJ: Cynthia and Sheila explained that they were part of Girl Guides. In the US, we have Girl Scouts. Most everywhere else they call them Girl Guides. Like the Girl Scouts, they wear uniforms, collect merit badges, and sell cookies to their parents' friends. Coordinating the thousands of underage cookie salespeople can be a logistical headache, and so some adults volunteer as cookie advisors. Those advisors frequently field confused emails. And they're used to handling them diplomatically. That's why Cynthia was so patient with Dale. It was her job. But she was very patient with me. Even as, for reasons unclear even to me, I explained to them the whole pattern of events that had led Dale to email her.
PJ: Yeah I guess the email was meant for a Debbie but it went to a Dale.
CYNTHIA AND SHEILA: Ohhhhhhh.
CYNTHIA: Now it's starting to make a little bit of sense.
PJ: The thing about talking to Cynthia and Sheila on the phone, is that they had this tone of voice. It had been in the emails too. And I was starting to think of it as girl guide voice. Girl guide voice is cheerful and patient, unrelentingly so.
PJ: Is there like a cookie general?
CYNTHIA: Cookie general?
SHEILA: No. We have advisors and commissioners but that's about the extent of the military terms.
PJ: And when I started reading about Girl Guides, I found out that that helpful, sunny tone is hardwired into their original mission statement, which reads, "A girl smiles and sings under all difficulties." So, all difficulties. When I first read this I'm thinking that this is hyperbole.
JANIE HAMPTON: Hello.
PJ: Hi, can you hear me okay?
JANIE: I can hear you. Can you hear me?
PJ: It's not. I talked to this woman named Janie Hampton. And she told me about this thing that happened that I literally found unbelievable. So a few years ago, Janie decided to write a book making fun of the Girl Guides.
JANIE: I have to admit that when I started writing the book I thought, you know I'm gonna make this a bit of a satire, and laugh at them.
PJ: Honestly it was sort of a Dale thing to do. And Janie says most people think about girl guides the way she did. They're not considered cool.
JANIE: What we call naff nowadays.
PJ: What's naff?
JANIE: Sort of unfashionable. Nerdy. Do you use the word nerd?
PJ: Oh we absolutely use the word nerd. I've had it applied to me.
JANIE: Right.
PJ: So, Janie sets out to tease some nerds. But then she starts researching and one day she's deep in the girl guides archive in their London headquarters. And she finds this old notebook. It's small. Seven by ten. And the book is a handwritten log of everything one Girl Guide troop did, years ago.
JANIE: And it said, we did skipping and we did knots and we did all sorts of jolly things. And then I came across this song that they'd written. And it said, "we sang our song yesterday, and it went: 'we might have been shipped to Timbuktu, we might have been shipped to Kalamazoo. It's not repatriation. Nor is it yet starvation. It's simply concentration in Chefoo.'" And I thought, what on earth does that mean? Concentration in Chefoo?
PJ: Janie doesn't know where Chefoo is, but she's sure it's not in England. So she looks it up. Chefoo is – was – a place in China. A coastal city. It's a good seven thousand miles from London. According to the guides' logbook, the song had been written and performed by a group of girl guides for a concert on Christmas Day, 1942. This Christmas concert, Janie discovers, was held in Chefoo. But not at a school. The girl guides sang their song in a concentration camp. Janie was baffled. Why would a concentration camp in China have a singing girl guide Troop? So Janie starts digging, and she finds another, more complete log of what happened to these girl guides. It's a website, run by an an old Belgian man named Leopold.
LEOPOLD PANDER: Leopold Pander. I'm seventy four years old.
PJ: So, the good news: Leopold was an actual witness, he was born in China, ended up in the same camp as these Girl Guides. The bad news:
LEOPOLD: I try to remember something but nothing comes back to me.
PJ: He has absolutely no memories, except for this nightmare he used to have when he was a kid. At the time it hadn't made sense to him, but later he thought it must've taken place at the camp.
PJ: What was the dream that you would have?
LEOPOLD: Well, I'm there in the hot sun, the blue sky, it's a brown slope, it's a brown earth and there are big stones next to myself. Dirty earth and people running all over the place.
PJ: Are there sounds?
LEOPOLD: No sound. Absolutely no sound. Somebody picks me up and then I wake up. That's all I remember. But the problem is, the curiosity is that that dream came back very often!
PJ: Leopold grows up, and as an adult, he wants to know about this place that he used to dream about. And so he builds a website. He invites people to write in with memories of the camp. And the story he learns is pretty crazy.
NEWS: Japan's latest invasion of China which has already lasted two years is war on a huge scale.
So I did not know this, but during World War Two, when Japan occupied China, they built concentration camps that were filled with American and British and other European civilians…
NEWS: Japanese put their prisoners of war to work.
PJ: …civilians who'd been living in China. One of those camps was called Weihsien. That was Leopold's camp. And among the inmates at Weihsien were a group of children. They were American and British. They were mostly the kids of missionaries. And they'd been studying at a boarding school called Chefoo. Japanese troops invaded Chefoo and captured the kids and eventually brought them to Weishen.
JANIE: With their teachers but no parents. So about a hundred and fifty children, who for four years were in this camp. And the teachers had very sensibly taken with them books, paper, musical instruments…
PJ: And, of course one more thing:
JANIE: Brownie uniforms, guide uniforms, all the things they thought, we're going to need this sort of thing to keep the kids occupied.
PJ: In the Japanese camps, there was very little food. Prisoners died of starvation. Take Weixen, imprisoned monks would smuggle in eggs and then everyone would share them, and then they'd also have the kids eat the ground up eggshells just to get some extra calcium. And the camp had almost no infrastructure. The prisoners had to build their little world from nothing, their own kitchens, their own lavatories, their own hospitals and their own Girl Guide Unit. The logbook Janie had found was the record kept by one of the girl guide's leaders. The leaders were called Brown Owls.This one was a woman in her twenties. And the tone of her writing was the exact same cheerful, impervious to bad news tone that Dale's Cookie Advisor email thread had had. This is the entry from the day they were marched into the camp: "Hullo. What's this? Behind bars? Yes. It's Weihsien camp! Well I guess there's a good deal of fun to be got out of this. Just the place to earn some badges." According to the logbook, The Brown Owl ran the troop as if it were any other girl guide unit. Concentration camp or not.
JANIE: They were all told: It doesn't matter how disgusting the food is, we still want good table manners. It doesn't matter how hungry you are, you're not going to steal. You're still going to do a good deed every day and help other people.
PJ: Obviously, the grim sadness of life in a concentration camp should have overpowered this miniature world that the Brown Owls were trying to build for their young girls. But according to Janie, that's not what happened. Instead, it was the girl guides who started to exert an influence on the adults around them. They led by example.
JANIE: It made a difference to all the adults in this camp and kept them going. The whole atmosphere was better because they had this very strong promise that they wouldn't stop smiling. They wouldn't give up. They would carry on singing songs. They would insist on everybody washing.
PJ: This is the point where I wondered, was this true? I didn't think that anyone was necessarily lying to me, I just thought probably the Brown Owl had left the bad stuff out of her log book. I figured she'd put the best possible spin on an awful situation. That's what girl guides do, right?
PHIA BENNIN: Oh and the door's open? Oh, hello!
MARY PREVITE: C'mon in!
PJ: Fortunately, there's a woman who's still alive and remembers Weihsien.
PJ: It's the first time I think I've been right on time.
MARY: You timed that out. I mean from New York!
PJ: Her name is Mary Previte. She lives in New Jersey. I visited her with my producer Phia Bennin.
MARY: Oh by the way, can I pour you some tea? I am so bad about this.
PJ: Mary Previte is a small, beautiful eighty-two year old woman. She's one of the happiest people I've ever met. I don't know if anybody I've interviewed has ever fully broken into song, unprompted. Mary did. Seven times. She's like a real-life Mary Poppins or Maria Von Trapp. Also, unlike Leopold, Mary has a phenomenal memory. She told me about the day that Japanese troops arrived at her boarding school.
MARY: The day after Pearl Harbor was attacked, the Japanese showed up on the doorstep of our school. They put seals with Japanese writing on everything, the tables, the chairs, the pianos, the desks, everything belonged to the great Emperor of Japan. And then they put armbands on us, everyone had to wear an armband, A for American, B for British, whatever our nationality was.
PJ: The girls were eventually transferred into Weihsien. And Mary became a concentration camp girl guide. This was over seventy years ago, but when Mary talks about the camp, it sounds like she's still there, like she's twelve years old again. She said the story about the Brown owls insisting on good table manners, absolutely true.
MARY: So you're eating some kind of glop, out of maybe boiled animal grain cause goulain is a broomcorn that the Chinese feed to their animals, was often what they fed us, and you're eating it out of a soap dish or a tin can, and here comes Miss Stark up behind us, one of our teachers: "Mary Taylor, do not slouch over your food while you are eating! Do not talk while you have food in your mouth! And there are not two sets of manners, one set of manners for the princesses in Buckingham Palace and another set of manners for the Weishen concentration camp!"
PJ: Mary was separated from her parents, unsure of when she'd be released, surrounded by attack dogs and men with guns. She says that she spent a lot of her time just thinking about earning merit badges. In the winter, it would get cold, freezing. But no heat was provided to the prisoners by the guards. Instead, Mary and her friends had to go collect left over coal shavings from the guard's quarters.
MARY: I remember now the ritual of going to Japanese quarters to get the coal dust and carry it back.
PJ: Like making a new pencil from pencil shavings. Except the coal was heavy, and it had to be passed bucket by bucket in a line of girl guides. Then the shavings had to be mixed with dust and water and dried into balls of coal. It was long hard work. And then at the end of it, you still had to go use the recycled coal in a pot bellied stove, and keep the stove lit so that everybody would be warm. It sounded horrible. Like a childhood from a Charles Dickens novel. Except Mary remembers it as being surprisingly fun. A game she could win.
MARY: I and my partner Marjorie Harrison, we won the competition in our dormitory of which stove lighting team made the pot bellied stove in the winter turn red hot more times than any other girl in the camp. Well, you know here I am eighty-two years old and what do I choose to tell you? I won the pot belly turn red more times with me and Marjorie Harrison than any other girl in our dorm!
PJ: When you describe it it sounds like you're describing summer camp instead of describing like a concentration camp. Did it feel like summer camp?
MARY: Well I never was in a summer camp so I can't give you a, no. No, no. Absolutely, not. When you had guard dogs, bayonet drills, electrified wires, barrier walls, pill boxes with guards, armed guards in them, you know, you weren't in a summer camp. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying this was fun city. I'm telling you we lived a miracle where grownups preserved our childhood.
PJ: There's reference in the logbook to the trouble the adults were having keeping it together, but you'd have to know to look for it. A scout leader writes one entry that reads "Dear me! What a tragedy! Brown owl had an attack of neuralgia — let's hope she better for our meeting." Neuralgia is a nerve disease, but what that actually meant was that the Brown Owl was having a nervous breakdown. Years later, Mary went and tracked down one of the grown ups.
MARY: I said Miss Carr, what were you feeling when we were in a concentration camp? Well, all the grown ups in the camp knew about The Rape of Nanking.The atrocities the guards, the soldiers had done when they came to the southern city of Nanking.
PJ: Japanese soldiers went door to door systematically raping and killing tens of thousands of Chinese civilians.
Mary: So they knew what could happen. The teachers knew what could happen. So I said to Miss Carr, What were you feeling? She said, Well I would pray to God, that when they lined us up along the death trenches, and they were outside the camp, when they lined us up to shoot us so our bodies would fall into the death pits, that I would be one of the first, so I didn't have to see it.
PJ: So there were two sets of prayers. At night, the grown-ups, many of them not much older than the kids themselves, prayed grimly for a fast death. And then they woke up in the morning and they sung psalms with the kids, set to bouncy camp melodies.
MARY: It was like you weren't going to be afraid if you could sing about it. We would sing, "day is done, gone the sun, from the sea, from the hills, from the sky, all is well, safely rest, god is nigh." How can you be afraid when you're singing about "all is well, safely rest, god is nigh?" How could you be afraid of that? So we were constantly putting things into music. Often, there was a little bit of a twist of fun to it. One of the songs that we sang was, "We might have been shipped to Timbuktu, we might have been shipped to Kalamazoo, It's not repatriation, nor is it yet stagnation, it's only concentration in Chefoo.
PJ: There probably aren't many places on earth where you have less reason to be cheerful than a concentration camp. But it turns out in a place like that, being able to be cheerful, to have a positive outlook, it's not dopey or silly. It's how you survive. How you tell the story matters.
MARY: I can still, for example, one of the things that we sang when the Japanese were marching us into concentration camp was the first verse of Psalm forty-six: "God is our refuge, our refuge and our strength" and on it goes, "in trouble we will not be afraid," all of these words, just sung into our hearts, that sticks. It's like you've got a groove, sticking in the gramophone record. I am safe, I am safe, I am safe. That was just profound.
PJ: The first Chefoo brownies warded off despair for four years. Until finally, on August 17, 1945, they were rescued.
MARY: It was a windy day.
PJ: Mary remembers the American plane flying low over the camp.
MARY: Then the parachutes falling from the sky. All I knew was I was running to find whoever it was that was dropping out of the sky beyond the barrier walls.
LEOPOLD: I'm there in the hot sun, the blue sky, it's a brown slope. It's a brown earth.
MARY: And the people went berserk.
LEOPOLD: People running all over the place.
MARY: People were crying, screaming, dancing.
LEOPOLD: Somebody picks me up and then I wake up.
PJ: Leopold says the nightmare that used to haunt him is just his memory of that day, of being a four year old, lost and wandering around a riot of freed concentration camp survivors. Most of the people who were there on liberation day are now dead. One of the dormitories at Weihshen's a memorial, but mostly, the place exists as a footnote in some books, on a website designed by a Belgian man, and in the memories of the remaining survivors. It's a half disappeared world with a strong pull on the people who do still remember it. A couple weeks ago, at the grocery store, I watched a gang of brownie scouts rush down the pet food aisle. They had their uniforms on, covered in merit badges for public speaking and backyard astronomy. They were happy and safe in their own world, well-fed and rich and a million miles from Weishen. I wondered if they knew what they might be capable of.
Coming up after the break: The Riddler.
AD BREAK
ALEX GOLDMAN: Welcome once again to "Yes Yes No," the segment on the show where our boss, Alex Blumberg, comes to us with stuff that he finds on the internet that he doesn't understand and we explain it to him. And then afterwards he's like, "That's it?"
PJ: Okay, so this is like, this is not typical in that this is a thing that I found on the internet that I don't understand.
ALEX BLUMBERG: Mixin' it up.
PJ: Yes.
BLUMBERG: Okay.
ALEX: Go for it.
PJ: I don't want to be agist or whatever, but I did look at it and I was like, "Maybe this is a thing that's like a reference Alex knows that I don't know.
ALEX: Oh.
PJ: Because of agism.
BLUMBERG: Oh.
ALEX: Which Alex?
BLUMBERG: Happy to help you out, sonny.
PJ: That one. Okay.
BLUMBERG: This is a tweet that you don't know.
PJ: It's not only do I not know, but like a lot of people are reacting to it so it means something. So you guys know who Adam West is.
ALEX: Yes.
BLUMBERG: Yes.
PJ: He played Batman on the old campy Batman.
ALEX: Mmmhhhmm.
PJ: So I was looking up his Twitter account for other reasons and. . .
ALEX: Hold on, can we just like have a break out session here? What does other reasons mean?
PJ: It's not like embarrassing or anything. It just feels like a long story. There's this Twitter account that just tweets that Batman, like from the 60's or whatever. They just tweet the labels from that show. It's called like Batman Labels and it's so funny, cuz they're really specific. It's like, "Anti-theft Joker spray" or whatever. Like they're, they're, they were clearly the sign designer on that show was having a lot of fun.
BLUMBERG: Yeah.
ALEX: Right.
PJ: So they tweet that so I've just been like
BLUMBERG: : by the way i used to watch that show i had no idea it was comedy.
PJ: Me ,too!
BLUMBERG: Yeah, yeah.
PJ: So Adam West, that Batman, I was looking at his Twitter cuz I've been like thinking about it a lot and having weird Batman dreams because of it. And this tweet, like he tweets stuff and people like are whatever. This tweet like went crazy and it makes no sense to me. So, he says, "At my age I try not to let myself get bored. No nincompoopery allowed." And then there's a picture of him and he looks kind of plaintive. And in one hand he's holding a bunch of grapes and the other hand he's holding a garlic head.
What does that mean? Like I've never felt more profoundly "no" in my life. Like the old grapes and garlic joke? There,. . .you don't look in @ replies and get more. . .
ALEX: Clarity?
PJ: No, cuz it's all people who are just responding to a famous person. "You sure aren't a nincompoop in my book. You look great for your age!?" Like he didn't ask that question. Like, that sorta thing.
BLUMBERG: What's crazy is like how much, how many people are coming on to him in his @ mentions.
PJ: What did they say?
BLUMBERG: "Are you modeling for a still life Mr. West? You're still such a fine figure of a man." And then there's another one, like, "Wow, you're a real hottie." Stuff like tha. . .it's just weird.
PJ: It's not the the point of the thing.
BLUMBERG: "No nincompoopery allowed." I have no idea.
PJ: But here's what I wonder is if this actually a pure "No No No" tweet? Like if this was something like a joke he had with his wife or like his kid and he was like, "Brawp, put it on Twitter. People will just tell me I look hot. It doesn't matter."
ALEX: Heh.
PJ: Like, did anyone ever get this?
ALEX: I wonder if it's somehow a joke about like a classic painting featuring a still life.
PJ: Called like "The Nincompoop"?
ALEX: Called like, "Still Life with Nincompoop, Grape, and Garlic."
PJ: I looked up the definition of "nincompoop" to make sure it didn't mean something I didn't know about. It means exactly what you think it means. This is one where like I want. . .if we don't know, I want to call Adam West.
ALEX: All right. So we have to call Adam West.
PJ: Yeah.
ALEX: Alright.
PJ: Alright.
BLUMBERG: Bring me back here when you find out.
PJ: Hold on a second. Okay. Alex. So it's been 24 hours and I have news. So, Phia was able to get contact information for Adam West in under an hour. And I called him to find out what his tweet meant.
BLUMBERG: Huh . .
BLUMBERG: : What?
BLUMBERG: : Shut up.
PJ: Seriously.
BLUMBERG: : That's why you brought me back into the studio?
AG/PJ: Yes
BLUMBERG: : Oh my god.
PJ: And I am now at a "yes" for this.
ALEX: I'm dying to know what it means.
PJ: You said that sarcastically but I know you mean it.
ALEX: No, I, I was not being sarcastic. I so desperately want to know what this means. Now more than ever because I just don't like you having info. . .having knowledge that I don't have.
PJ: Oh, get used to it. Anyway, so I called him.
ADAM WEST: Desert bat cave.
PJ: Hi, is this Adam West?
ADAM: It is.
PJ: Hey, it's PJ. How's it going?
ADAM: It's going great.
PJ: Did you just say "desert bat cave?"
ADAM: Well it's – you're, you're calling me in Palm Springs.
PJ: Oh, I've been there once, it is a beautiful beautiful place. It is not like New York in spring which is gray and cold and horrible.
ADAM: Yeah, I know what you're saying. I like New York in … what, what was the old song? "I like New York in June?"
PJ: What song is that?
ADAM: That was an old Cole Porter song, I believe. You see. . .
PJ: He sounded like the most normal nice man in the world. We talked for, like, probably 35 minutes and then at the end I was like, I hung up and I was like, "Wait I never really asked him about the tweet." And then I called him back and was like, "Hey Adam West. I'm so sorry to bother you again."
So…okay. So the tweet. . .the deal is, it's a joke about vampires. The reason he's holding garlic and grapes, is the joke is like, "Oh what if you're such a nincompoop you that didn't know like which of these things warded off vampires, garlic or grapes."
ADAM: Yes.
PJ: Ah.
ADAM: What if you were such a nincompoop you didn't know and you thought it would be grapes and not garlic.
PJ: That makes sense to me. And So it was almost like a skit, but then the caption is being like, you're saying like, "Oh, I don't mess around." But obviously you're messing around.
ADAM: Yeah, I think was too obtuse.
ALEX: He's like describing a joke that he made to himself.
PJ: Yes. It's an Alex Goldman tweet.
ALEX: Oh, it's totally an Alex Goldman tweet.
BLUMBERG: : I still don't get it. He's describing a joke that he made to himself about vampires? What?
ALEX: All right, all right. Here's the scenario.
ALEX: Imagine a guy. A guy who is so old and dumb, he doesn't know whether grapes or garlic ward off vampires. And he thinks to himself, "It'd be super funny to tweet this, but not give people the vampire reference, so they have no idea what I'm talking about."
PJ: It took me 40 minutes to get where Alex just got in half a second.
ALEX: Except vampires were never mentioned in the tweet, so .
BLUMBERG: : But then, "At my age I try not to get bored." What is that, what's that, so I come up with amusing scenarios to amuse myself and take pictures of them?
PJ: I think exactly.
BLUMBERG: : Ok – Alex Goldman, so you've, you've sent tweets like this?
ALEX: On April 12th, I was just looking through my Twitter feed.
PJ: I'm sorry.
ALEX: On April 12th I tweeted the words "Elk Neck".
BLUMBERG: : … So anyway, PJ
PJ: Yeah yeah yeah.
ALEX: It got 8 favorites.
PJ: Yeah, and similarly, if people really liked you like they like Adam West, like, that got like 100 retweets. There's a, there's a, a point where people were just like, "Adam West is just goofing around. I don't need to full. . .I don't need understand this on a 1-1 level. I like him and he's goofin' around and I support it."
BLUMBERG: Well that's what, so that was so confusing. So it was like sort of like, so like, you're looking at that tweet and looking at all the, all the responses to that tweet. Like we were sort of looking for meaning.
BLUMBERG: And there was no meaning to be gotten.
PJ: The meaning was –
BLUMBERG: Like what percentage of the people commenting understood what his joke was?
PJ: I'm gonna say like maybe zero.
BLUMBERG: There's no signal in that whole thing.
PJ: It was all noise.
BLUMBERG: It's all noise.
ALEX: I love this tweet so much.
PJ: I think I mentioned, but like, we talked for a very long time. Like longer than I talk to most people.
ADAM: The. . .a podcast is like a radio show isn't it?
PJ: Yeah, exactly.
ADAM: I started in radio.
PJ: You did?
ADAM: Yeah.
PJ: What kind of radio?
ADAM: Well, it was AM at that time and I. . .
BLUMBERG: He has a beautiful voice.
PJ: He really does.
ALEX: Yeah, he really does.
PJ: And he said that his like big breakout hit was Batman. And that role actually created a lot of problems for him. So the thing that everybody already knows about Adam West's Batman is it was like a very goofy version of Batman.
VILLAIN: Ho ho, ha ha. Remember me old chum.
BATMAN: You jolly devil. Harm one hair of that boys head.
THE RIDDLER: Riddle me twice Batman. What kind of pins are used in soup?
ROBIN: Terrapins, Batman.
BATMAN: Right.
THE RIDDLER: Very good.
PJ: And this was supposed to be funny. Like, Adam West thought it was funny. The people making the show thought it was funny. But some of the viewers thought that Adam himself was not in on the joke. That he was trying and failing to play a very serious Batman. And that he was a dope. And so when Batman was over it was hard for him to get other jobs. Like other, particularly serious acting jobs.
ADAM: You know, there were times when I was so poor and desperate to work that I was shot out of a cannon.
PJ: Really?
ADAM: With my cape flying behind me.
PJ: Wait, not really though. Not really. I. . .
ADAM: Yes, once. In order to survive and take care of family and so on, I had to do a lot of stuff I didn't want to do.
PJ: So he kept trying out for all these serious roles, but he couldn't get them because nobody took him seriously. And then finally he was just like, "You know what? Fine. I will just embrace the joke that everybody's making about me."
ADAM: I realized that everybody loves Batman so why the hell shouldn't I love Batman. I am Batman.
PJ: So he started allowing himself to be typecast as Adam West, the guy who used to play Batman and used to make us all laugh.
BLUMBERG: Right
PJ: And he credits that with saving him.
BLUMBERG: : I still don't quite get the "no-nincompoopery allowed."
PJ: Yeah, and everytime I asked him about that he, he, he'd be like, "Oh, well, a nincompoop. . . " And I was like, "No, I know what a nincompoop is. . ." But I feel like. . .Erase that sentence in your mind, and just hear it as, like, "JK," or like, "Here's a joke." Or like, "Smiley face emoji." Like, you know what I mean? It's like. . .
BLUMBERG: Oh, right. "No nincompoopery allowed" is like a smiley face emoji.
ADAM: Anyway I better, I better run and not take too much. . .
PJ: Thanks so much. And, yeah, just thank you for existing in the world. You are a very wonderful person.
ADAM: Well you sound like a great guy, and my best to all your pals and fellow workers there.
PJ: I'll pass it on.
ADAM: Ok, Kiddo.
PJ: Alright, have a good one.
ADAM: You, too . Thank you.
PJ: Bye.
ADAM: Bye.
PJ. That conversation you just heard was originally recorded last year. This month, Adam West died. We feel very lucky to have gotten to talk to him.
You can find more episodes of the show at itunes.com/replyall. You can also find us on Google Play as of this week. Our website is replyall.fail.
Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week.
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Шельпек или чалпак (; ; ; ; , jit/жит):
 традиционные лепёшки среднеазиатских народов, изготовляемые путём жарки во фритюре в казане, бывают трёх основных видов:
 хрустящие
 мягкие, но не сдобные
 мягкие и сдобные одновременно
 разновидность пасты (макаронного изделия), характерная для блюда кульчетай, отличается от обычной лапши тем, что не нарезана в тонкую лапшу, а представляет собой листы тонко раскатанного теста, которые варятся как лапша.

См. также
 Кыстыбый
 Баурсак
 Лепёшка
 Токаш (токоч)
 Тандыр-нан
 Крупук — индонезийское блюдо, похожее на хрустящий вариант шельпека
 Лангош — похожая венгерская лепёшка

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Лепёшки
Макаронные изделия
Казахская кухня
Киргизская кухня
Туркменская кухня
Уйгурская кухня
Узбекская кухня

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Women Who Love Psychopaths: Summary & Review
Women Who Love Psychopaths (2008) looks into psychopaths' abusive sexual practices and the pathological relationship patterns between women and psychopaths.
Sandra Brown says that some psychopathic traits can be attractive and, in particular, they can be attractive to women who also have some specific character traits.
Full Summary
About The Author: Sandra L. Brown holds a master's degree in counseling from the Liberty University and she is the CEO of " The Institute for Relational Harm Reduction & Public Pathology Education". I couldn't find much information about it except for its Facebook page.
In any case, the author has focused her studies and work on pathological relationships with dark triad men, especially psychopaths and sociopaths, and women.
1. Dangerous Men Have Low or No Empathy
The book focuses on 3 of the Cluster B Disorders:
Narcissistic Personality Disorders
Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) includes both sociopaths and psychopaths.
My Note: BPD is different
In my personal view, it's a mistake to include here the Borderline Personality Disorder, both because they are quite different, and because the book mostly discusses predatory behavior.
Furthermore, narcissism should include "unprincipled narcissists" and not any other types.
That being said, I liked the author's idea of grouping and simplifying the dangerous men she describes in the "low/no empathy and conscience" category.
Brown says that one does not need to be a full-fledged psychopath or diagnosed as one.
A few traits can be enough for a harmful and toxic relationship.
2. Psychopaths Seek Power
Psychopaths seek power.
But, contrary to most other people, they are much more likely to find pleasure in using their power destructively (Rieber and Vetter, 1994).
Psychopaths enjoy power the most when it induces victimization, and that's what makes them highly dangerous.
However, how they get what they want must not always and necessarily be through violence.
It can be covert aggression, control through paranoid jealousy, passive aggression, guilt-tripping or, the author says, even pathetic neediness.
Here is a real-life example of guilt-tripping and pathetic neediness:
And it was working.
So you must be careful when people appeal to you as their only possible savior.
You must walk that line where you want to help people, but you don't want to help them to sucker you down.
3. Psychopaths Present A (Fake) Successful Image
Psychopaths lie.
Sure, many men lie and play games, but the psychopath hides some true malignant personality.
Many psychopaths like to present themselves as truly successful. Some even are successful.
But many just fake it and, in some cases, also recruit the help of others for their lies and fabrications.
Some psychopaths can be found in professions that imply empathy, like medicine, theology, or psychology. So don't be swayed by the job title.
4. Traits of Women Who Love Psychopaths
These are the traits of the women who love psychopaths;
Extraversion and excitement-seeking
Relationship investment and positive sociability
Sentimentality
Concern for having others' high regard
Harm avoidance
The author goes into detail on why they matter and why they are at such high risk for pathological relationships.
I will quickly review them here:
High extraversion: women who love psychopaths also chase fun, novelty and dislike boredom and "boring men". They often talk about how their initial exchanges hooked them up, while other women would would have felt like the psychopaths' dominance dangerous or overpowering
Attraction to dominance: albeit this is not a listed trait, the author mentions that women who love psychopaths tend to be attracted to dominance and dominant men, and that's a risk factor because psychopaths tend to be dominant
Competitiveness: she refuses to take the loss and is more likely to stay and "battle it out" and make the relationship work. Or to "battle him out" and avoid "losing"
High relationship investment: this trait often gets confused with "codependence", but wanting to invest and give is a normal human tendency that is simply more accentuated in women who love psychopaths. Giving a lot is great with a man who is healthy and giving, but with psychopaths, it's a risk factor because they will take everything and give nothing.
And that's why "princesses" and "divas" who ask for investment don't mix well with psychopaths
Social sensitivity: the psychopath leverages her high empathy with (false) stories of his past pains
High attachment: the author bundles "attachment" with "relationship investment and social sensitivity". While many women would tread more carefully, women who love psychopaths attach quickly and deeply.
Sentimentality: she focuses more on the positives and remembers more of the positives. Psychopaths see affection as a way of making her addicted, and her high sentimentality helps the psychopath in his dark pursuit of power
Concern for having others' high regard: they care too much about what others think about them, including the psychopath. After all the toxicity, some women still care about "staying friends"
The author also adds "tolerance", as in the ability to withstand pain, "trust", "loyalty" and "high morality".
Psychopaths like women with high morals because those women are unlikely to do to the psychopaths what the psychopaths do to them.
Plus, I'd add, they are more likely to fall for his games, and easier to control.
Brown says that women who love psychopaths tend to be high in:
Trust: These women tended to trust too much, too soon. Even in the face of evidence to the contrary, women were more likely to trust the psychopath's words rather than his action.
In the most glaring example, one woman ended up doubting she even saw the psychopath in bed with another woman when he denied there was anyone in the room.
Loyalty: women feld bad about breaking promises and vows. Including promises of "never leaving him" which were done before he turned into Mr. Hyde.
5. Attractive Traits & Techniques of Psychopaths
Here is what makes psychopaths potentially seductive and attractive:
(Fake) success: many of the psychopath attractive traits, like business success, resourcefulness and directedness, are the fruit of lies and fabrications
Operant conditioning: the psychopaths Dr Jekill / Mr Hyde double personality rewards positive behavior and punishes bad one (proper and good behavior are classified in accordance to his selfish convenience, of course)
Some psychopaths can make women feel safer
Said one woman:
"At some level, his false power feels like protection, even though in many ways it is the opposite. It feels like it is the strong protection that I had at home from my father. The fact that he can do actions disregarding rules in society, feels like a strong protective force when it does not work against me or others."
High sexual drive: psychopaths are very high in sex drives, which can help make the beginning of the romance feel like a whirlwind of passion. Sex also releases oxytocin, which makes women feel bonded
Bold initial move: psychopaths sometimes start the relationship with bold moves that captivate the woman. And sometimes it's strong chemistry with the psychopath's "rawness"
Replaying abusive past: in some cases, the psychopaths simply "help" the women to repeat patterns of abuse from their fathers (traumatic replay)
(Fake) emotional bonding: psychopaths don't feel much emotion, but they can make women emotional. They do so talking about the 3 Ps: past, pain and perceptions
Love bombing: intense focus on her, constant chasing, making her feel like the only one in the world
Emotional roller coaster and threatening the relationship: once she's hooked, the psychopaths keeps her insecure and (unhealthy) attached by threatening the relationship (called "dread game" in Red Pill communities). The pathological relationship's keyword is "inconsistency"
Make-up sex: make-up sex is part of the roller coaster of negative and positive emotions which is so addictive. When the psychopath has turned into Dr. Hyde, sex can become her only way to feel bonded to him
Isolation: the psychopath seeks to isolate her from friends and support network
Highlight her resistance: when women want to trust him, it's often enough for the psychopath to highlight their resistance to make it disappear
Appeals to family desires: when women want children, the psychopath implies or outright says he's looking to settle down and have children (also read: atypical seduction techniques)
Persistent pursuit: psychopaths were fast to move from the first contact to closer and closer relationship under the guise of "so into you that I can't resist". Her high investment trait blinds her to the risk of men chasing and moving fast
(Fake) vulnerability: the psychopath exposes his wounded side to make her feel sorry for him and trust him more.
That makes her feel safer about moving fast (yes, that can work, but do read "vulnerability is not power"). That's why some women refer to psychopaths as "incredibly macho" and yet "wimpy and needy"
(Fake) initial support: in the beginning, he encourages to do more, be more and believe in herself. Later he will do the opposite and undermine her self-esteem
Dark psychology of Trance, Hypnosis, and Suggestibility: female victims tend to be more suggestible than the average population, and the author says the psychopaths leverages it. She says psychopaths have "hypno-power"
For more on psychopaths' sexual strategies, please see:
The Machiavellian sexual strategy of pscyopaths
Psychopaths' Sexual Strategy: Marauders of Sex
Pick-up artists are high in psychopathy
The book is written in 2008, and the author also takes aim at the pick-up community of that era which focused on NLP and hypnosis.
Says Brown:
Psychopathic traits are found in many people not just diagnosed psychopaths.
The web sites devoted to 'seduction techniques' are an example of varying levels of psychopathy and are now being taught online to others. Anyone wanting to do this to another person, by definition is high in psychopathic traits.
I actually don't fully disagree with Brown. There is something true in what she says.
But it's also a major generalization with which I can't fully agree.
Finding a mate does not equate psychopathy, of course, and many people writing and learning seduction are simply looking for a mate and a healthy relationship.
Also, looking for many mates is not necessarily psychopathic, and can also be done as a value-adding individual.
And she goes on saying:
The difference between students of seduction and the professional psychopath is that most psychopaths know these techniques instinctively.
In fact, the worst psychopaths are probably the ones teaching others and making a fortune from the new hot seduction online communities.
If I think of the early pick-up artists, she might be right.
But, again, I don't agree with the generalization that learning seduction necessarily equates with high psychopathy traits.
How to Induce Trance
The author says the following techniques induce trance:
Sexual intensity
Breathing and heart rate becoming in sync through sex
Euphoria – feelings of connection and the effects of sex hormones
Kinesthetic – through the sense of touch generating feelings or emotions
Intense playing or enjoyment
Prayer and meditation (cults use it)
Neuro-feedback—also referred to as Biofeedback—which changes brain waves and alters your state of consciousness
Peak experiences or flow states (heavy concentration produces a sense of interconnectedness)
6. Psychopaths' Arguing Tactics: How He Wins & Keeps Her Around
Relationships with psychopaths have lots of emotional turmoil.
And lots of fights.
Psychopaths fight in the following way:
He rages
When that doesn't work, he is tender
When that doesn't work, he says she is just as sick as he is so they might as well stay together
When that doesn't work he threatens to find another woman
When that doesn't work he fakes insight that she was probably right all along about what's wrong with him and is the only one who understands him
When that doesn't work, he threatens—he'll tell her family, work, children, etc. something negative about her
When that doesn't work he carrot dangles with something she has wanted—to get married, have a child, buy a new house
When that doesn't work, he says she must have another man which is why she is not making up with him
When that doesn't work, he'll go to church
When that doesn't work, he claims he has serious medical conditions like cancer to bring her back to him
What a nice piece of work, eh?
7. Breaking Up With A Psychopath
Since psychopaths are all about power and dominance, they want to end the relationship themselves.
Often, they will end the relationship in the most destructive way possible. With a power play or by leaving one last mark on her soul.
But even when he leaves, there is no "for ever" in the psychopath world. He will circle back in the future, sometimes years and years later, as if nothing had happened.
But what if it's her to end it?
Well, then the problems start.
Psychopaths cannot tolerate that she is now not under their spell anymore, they are vindictive and they will try to damage her as much as possible for the "affront" she is doing to him.
When She Can't Leave
Sometimes it's hard for her to leave.
Reasons include:
Intensity of the attachment
Impacted by depression or PTSD (see "The Body Keeps The Score")
Anxiety and fear, which in turn increase the betrayal/trauma bonding dynamics
Social or religious pressures
8. Psychopaths Do Attach, But Like Things, Not People
The author says that psychopaths don't bond, but they do attach.
Why would they become stalkers otherwise, which we know they do?
Normal people also attach, but we attach to things.
Psychopaths attach to women because they want to possess them and have power over them.
Says the author:
Psychopaths seek others because it is through human contact that they get to experience dominance
9. Sex With A Psychopath Is Great… Or Terrible
Sex with psychopaths is not always a great experience for women.
Some consistencies included: bonding through women thought was occurring, intensity, frequency, deviancy.
And then, either the best or worst sex they had ever had.
Of course, psychopaths often added their lying twist to make women feel even more bonded.
Says one woman:
"He was so completely captivated by how our sex drives were identical. He said he had never felt that about anybody and how we were completely different from anything he had experienced."
The sexual aftermath, either in the positive or in the negative, contributed to making women struggle in the aftermath.
Bad Sexual Experiences
Often sex helped the psychopath, but often the psychopaths' tactics and demeanor only pushed women away.
For example, said one woman:
"He would speak to me disgustingly like, "Come here and suck my dick." He would put me down sexually. He couldn't see how his treatment of me led to my lack of desire for him. He told me he didn't have to put up with me—that other women wanted him."
Some other times, psychopaths forced women to tell him how good he was.
"I would have to measure his penis regularly with a tape measure and tell him how nice it was to know I was sleeping with a man so well equipped and that his penis was attractive."
Psychopaths are often deviant in a way that is not sexually attractive. Among the craziest stories, a psychopath spits on the woman while having sex, while another defecated on her because he came too soon (!!!).
Some other times, psychopaths' hyper-sexuality means it's also channeled in ways which are disgusting to most normal people, for example to children -including their own children-.
"I never felt totally comfortable with him sexually. I always felt like he was a pedophile."
And of course there was the woman who fought in court to keep her children away from him but couldn't manage to protect them through court.
Psychopaths Don't Like Active Women
Psychopaths often prefer sexually passive and submissive women.
Because psychopaths don't like it when women come to them: that doesn't give them the feeling of power that they crave.
10. Psychopaths' Shit Tests
"Shit tests" is a vernacular term for women testing men during seduction.
Well, the author says that psychopaths test women to gauge their likelihood of hooking.
For example, they will violate her boundary early on, or ask for help right after they have shown lots of affection to test her level of cooperativeness.
The examples of the book weren't just "highly cooperative" but, it seemed to me, quite naive of women as well.
So, sometimes, "naiveness" is the true trait that allows psychopaths to extort money or goods from women.
11. Psychopaths Won't Change
The judicial system is:
Sending them to batterer intervention, anger management or some other treatment is to waste resources and gives women the false impression that they have been 'treated' when what is wrong with them is actually highly untreatable or treatment-resistant.
Also see "Why Does He Do That" for the perspective of Ludy Bancroft, a man with decades of experience in running treatment seminars for abusive men.
12. Road to Recovery
Brown devotes a chapter on how to recover from pathological relationships.
Among the most important steps:
Understanding the pathology
She must learn to tell the difference between healthy dominance and pathological dominance, excitement seeking behavior and "pathological" excitement seeking.
Deep introspection
If a woman is picking similar partners and replaying similar relationships, she must find out why.
Luckily, it's not love but it's traumatic attraction.
Self-Care: the psychopath took all her energy, now she must focus on herself
Symptom management: the recovery should be treated as a potentially serious case of PTSD. The author discusses "intrusive thoughts" and "cognitive dissonance" particularly
Not all dominant men are psychopaths, but most psychopaths are dominant.
On courts who need to wake up to the incurability of psychopathy and stop allowing psychopaths around children:
Wake up courts!
Sociopathy is created from toxic early childhood environments. This toxicity is largely a child's exposure to how the low/no conscienced think, feel, relate and behave during parenting.
I couldn't agree more.
I loved "Women Who Love Psychopaths", I learned a lot and I believe it can be an extremely useful book for many.
Yet, I also have quite some criticism.
Let's start:
1. Very small sample size
I quote from the book:
Dr. Leedom was very helpful in assisting in developing the Women Who Love Psychopaths research survey. Over 75 women worldwide completed the survey.
In the beginning I thought that was a typo, but I doubt that the most important number in the whole book is a typo.
And this is a very low number to generalize to the whole population of women.
On the other hand, it's a positive sign that most of the psychopaths in the study have not been incarcerated, since most other books on psychopaths refer to imprisoned psychopaths.
2. What About Sexual Market Value?
As I read the book, I had this nagging, lingering question:
What if the women who fall for psychopaths simply have fewer options and few suitors?
That would certainly make the psychopath's job easier: game a woman with fewer options and everything becomes easier.
I quote the author:
The psychopaths they got involved with were far below their level of career status and education.
Why were they dating below their level?
Many of the women in the examples were not the youngest either. That should raise the question if psychopaths' biggest targets are not also facing a difficult dating market.
Unluckily, the author never addresses the question from that angle.
Sure, it's politically incorrect, but it could well be part of the picture.
3. Doesn't Add Up On Extraversion
Extraversion is a critical trait of women who fall for psychopaths?
That made little sense to me.
Introverts make for easier targets, usually.
The author of "Psychopath Free" was introverted. A negative review on Amazon for this book said she was introverted. Robert Greene in "The Art of Seduction" says that the best targets are isolated and introverted.
And I also think the same.
Extraverted people meet more people, have bigger social circles and, in general, are also more worldly and experienced.
Plus, the author seems to equate extraversion to power and dominance. She says:
This type of extraverted, competent, and competitive woman could easily emotionally overpower a man who wasn't similar in his own extraversion.
I'm not convinced there is such a strong overlap between extraversion and dominance.
4. Sometimes Unscientific
The author says that psychopaths have a "predatory 6th sense".
I quote:
Psychopaths have been endowed with what seems to be a 6th sense to hone in on women's feelings of loneliness and grief
And later:
Women are fascinated by the whole idea of a 6th sense in men who 'know' her so completely so early.
"The whole idea of a 6th sense"?
This is nonsense.
Or, talking about hypnosis, she says:
There are hypnotic techniques that trained hypnotherapists regularly use. The psychopath no doubt uses these as well
"No doubt"?
Based on what?
5. Poor Grasp of Scientific Principles
Sometimes it feels like the author has a poor grasp of scientific principles, of what's "proven" and what's just an indicator.
For example, she says:
Psychopaths instinctively know that women high in cooperativeness will stay in relationships with them longer.
That has proven to be true.
She indicated that when the psychopath had dated a far less cooperative woman, their dating period was far shorter!
Sure, it makes sense, but it's not been "proven" to be true.
Or, later on, she says:
All of the women reported that they were harmed by the relationship with the psychopath.
Stated another way, 0% reported 0 harm.
That alone should alert courts (…) with decision making power over psychopaths and pathologicals that someone is always harmed by them.
Nobody argues that a relationship with a psychopath is likely to be destructive.
But… Does she realize that her sample is not representative because it's self-selected?
In her sample there are only women who have been armed. It's like going to a hospital and saying that cars kill. Sure they do… But not all the times, maybe.
6. Women Can Feel The Wounded Psychopath?
The author says that women in her sample talked about how they can feel others' emotions, especially the "wounded psychopaths".
And she writes:
This is one indicator of why they feel so deeply attached to the psyches of the psychopaths—sensing at a deeper level the undiscovered disorder and its brokenness.
This made little sense to me.
Psychopaths feel little emotions and aren't very likely to be wounded and emotionally pained.
I think it's more like the women who wanted to see something deeper, catching at straws, believing -against evidence- that if they only keep holding onto it, they can make it right (see: "women who love too much").
I loved reading "Women Who Love Psychopaths", and I learned a lot.
Not only it teaches a lot to anyone interested in people nad psychology, but it's also useful information for very practical purposes.
I would give it 5 stars for the pro-social and potentially life-saving information it contains.
We need fewer women who fall for psychopaths and fewer children fathered and reared by psychopaths, and Brown's work helps with both.
But at the same time, I cannot gloss over some generalization and the lack of a truly scientific approach.
Including the very small sample size which is used for sweeping generalizations to the whole population.
For that, I would give it 0 stars.
Yet, I can still recommend "Women Who Love Psychopaths" to any woman who's either in a relationship with a psychopath, has been with one or, potentially even more life-saving, to any woman who is out dating.
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