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Q: How can I pass a dynamic multidimensional array to a function? How can I pass a multidimensional array to a function in C/C++ ?
The dimensions of array are not known at compile time

A: A pointer to the start of the array along with the dimensions - then do the array arithmetic in the function is the most common solution.
Or use boost

A: Passing the array is easy, the hard part is accessing the array inside your function.  As noted by some of the other answers, you can declare the parameter to the function as a pointer and also pass the number of elements for each dim of the array.
#define xsize 20
#define ysize 30
int array[xsize][ysize];
void fun(int* arr, int x, int y)
{
 // to access element 5,20
 int x = arr[y*5+20];
}

fun(array, xsize, ysize);

Of course, I've left out the whole business of allocating the array (since it isn't known what its size will be, you can't really use #defines (and some say they're bad anyhow)

A: Use a vector of vectors, you can pass a vector.

A: You could pass a pointer and sizes, or use a std::vector. But the "real" solution is with a template:
template <size_t N, size_t M>
void foo(int (&pArray)[N][M]);

This function template accepts a N by M array of ints, by reference. Note this is a function template, not a function, so you do get a different instantiated function per array type.

A: I think this is a GCC extension (or a quite modern C feature), but it can be quite convenient:
void foo(int bar[n][m], int n, int m) {...}

A: You can pass the pointer to initial memory location of your multi dimension array. you should also pass the size of array i.e. limit of each dimension.
i.e
int var [x][y][z];
func (var, x, y, z);

function definintion:
void func (int*, int, int, int);

A: I'm just summarizing the options from other posts.
If the number of dimensions (the N as in N-dimensional array) is unknown, the only way is to use a C++ multidimensional array class. There are several publicly available implementations, from Boost or other libraries. See Martin Beckett's post.
If the number of dimensions is known but the array size is dynamic, see Tom's answer for accessing an array element (converting multi index into element pointer). The array itself will have to be allocated with malloc or new.
If you are writing the multidimensional array class yourself, you'll need to know about Row-major-order, Column-major-order, etc.
Namely, if the array dimensios is (Size1, Size2, Size3, ..., SizeN), then:

*

*The number of elements in the array is (Size1 * Size2 * Size3 * ... * SizeN)

*The memory needed is sizeof(value_type) * numOfElements

*To access the element (index1, index2, index3, ..., indexN), use

*

*ptr[ index1 + (Size1 * index2) + (Size1 * Size2 * index3) + ... ] assuming the first array index is the fastest-moving dimension

A: Section 3.4 on this page addresses your question:
http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/Pointers-and-Arrays-page-2
Of course variable-length arrays were not present in C until C99 and as far as I know they are not present in C++. Also, MSVC does not implement/support C99.

A: A simple method is to flatten the array and iterate using dimensions.
#include <stdio.h>

void print_array(int *arr,int row,int col)
{
     int i,j;
     for(i=0;i<row;i++){
         for(j=0;j<col;j++){
             printf("%d ",*(arr+i*col+j));
         }
         printf("\n");
     }
}

int main()
{
int a[2][3] = {{1,0,2},{-1,3,1}};
int b[4] = {1,2,3,34};
print_array(a,2,3);
return 0;
}

This technique works but flattening array might prevent compiler optimizations which in turn might result in slow execution.


IT was only two years ago when Greg Inglis scorched the sidelines to score a 90-metre game-winning try that gave the Rabbitohs an ANZAC win that few NRL fans will ever forget.
How the times have changed since then.
The Rabbitohs and Greg Inglis in particular haven't had much to cheer about this season, having notched only three wins from seven games and only one win from the last five. Inglis hasn't been in the same form which had once enthralled fans and the Australian representative might be carrying an injury.
The Rabbitohs face a juggernaut in the Brisbane Broncos this Friday night, which have rebounded well after losing the 2015 Grand Final in dramatic fashion. To win six from seven this season is a testament to their coach and their mental attitude. The Broncos are on track to make be a key player in NRL premiership race and as the bookmakers' odds suggest, the Rabbitohs shouldn't really come close.
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Friday night marks a special evening for Broncos captain Corey Parker, who will surpass Nathan Hindmarsh as the most-capped NRL forward in history with 331 games. Parker is nearing retirement, but still plays at an elite level and his goal-kicking can often be the difference between winning and losing.
The Broncos are coming off a 53-0 win against Newcastle last week and the Rabbitohs are coming off a 44-18 embarrassment at the hands of the Cowboys.
The Broncos haven't changed the lineup which handed the Knights a 53-0 loss last week. There are only six players from the Broncos to not yet score this season, among them is Corey Parker who is $46 to score first, but we think he might cross the line in this historic game at odds of $7.50.
Scoring tries has come easily for the Broncos this season with Dally M Medal favourite Anthony Milford ($3.50 at Sportsbet) having scored eight tries from only seven games. The star five-eighth has come of age this season under the coaching of Wayne Bennett and he remains a first tryscoring threat at $8.50.
Also making waves in the tryscoring market is current favourite Corey Oates. The big winger has scored six times from five games and bookmakers have him short at $6. With nine line breaks on the season (top for the Broncos) Oates looks a solid play at those odds.
The South Sydney Rabbitohs have an unchanged lineup from its drubbing against the Cowboys last week, which demonstrates its lack of depth.
Damien Cook comes onto the extended bench for a Rabbitohs side which doesn't have many try scoring threats. Aaron Gray has scored five times this season with three of those coming in one game. Bryson Goodwin and Cameron McInnes have both scored three times, but Greg Inglis and Kirisome Auva'a have only two tries between them.
We don't think the Rabbitohs have much chance of scoring first so we will list the anytime tryscorer odds instead.
Friday night should be a long night for the Rabbitohs and 2016 should be a long season. The Broncos haven't let up all season and the Rabbitohs simply don't match up well against the Queenslanders.
The points spread line of 14.5 is a tough call, but luckily Sportsbet offer alternative points spreads where punters can choose their own lines. We don't mind taking lower odds for a better chance of winning, therefore we suggest backing the Broncos 11.5 at $1.65 with Sportsbet. That gives is some insurance that the Broncos only have to win by two converted tries and no more.
Anthony Milford to score a try is paying $1.67. Based on his form this season that looks a good bet and teammate James Roberts is paying a handy price of $1.83 to cross the line. Punters haven't gone wrong backing these two players this season and the Broncos shouldn't have any problems scoring tries this Friday night.


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Changes in commuter traffic due to track work during the summer
The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency has an exceptionally high number of railway network maintenance work ongoing this summer. Track work will affect K-, I-, P-, D-, Z- and R-trains by changes in timetables, trains being replaced by buses and reduced services. You can find up to date information from the trip search and the replacement buses page.
K-trains
K-trains will be operated on an exceptional schedule from Jun 7 to Aug 29.
On weekdays c. 5:30 am – 7:30 pm K-trains will operate only between Tikkurila and Kerava, with a 20 min interval. On weekdays between June 7–27 and Aug 16–29 the rush-hour traffic will be operated with 10 min intervals between approx. 6:30 am – 8:30 am and 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm.
During early mornings, evenings and weekends the K-trains will operate between Helsinki and with a 20-minute interval. K-trains heading to Kerava do not stop at Pukinmäki on weekdays between 5:30 am – 11:00 pm, nor on weekends between 7:30 am – 11:00 pm. In the night time the trains operate ase usual.
Those travelling towards Helsinki on a K-train are advised to change onto a P-train already in Hiekkaharju. Those travelling towards Kerava are advised to travel on an I-train up to Hiekkaharju, before changing onto a K-train.
P-trains
P-trains operate with a 10-minute interval during the day and night time June 7 – Aug 29, but have a 20-minute interval in the evenings between approx. 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm.
During the weekends the P-trains operate with 20-min intervals between 7:30 am – 11:00 pm, and as normal during the night.
I-trains
From Sat June 12 every second I-train goes straight from Tikkurila to Oulunkylä, without stopping at Pukinmäki, Puistola, Tapanila or Malmi. The departure times of these trains vary a little.
On weekdays from the departure at 5:45 am to the departure at 6:45 pm, every second I-train (hourly departures at -05, -25 ja -45 mins) pass Pukinmäki, Malmi, Tapanila and Puistola. The other I-trains in between (hourly departures at -15, -35 ja -55) mins only pass by Pukinmäki.
On weekdays from the departure at 7:15 pm to the departure at 10:35 pm all I-trains pass by Pukinmäki, Malmi, Tapanila and Puistola without stopping. During the time the I-passes these stops, passengers travelling to Malmi, Tapanila and Puistola can travel on K-trains.
During weekends from the departure at 7:55 am to the departure at 10:35 pm all I-trains pass by Pukinmäki, Malmi, Tapanila and Puistola without stopping.
During weekday evenings and weekend when the I-trains pass by several stations, passengers can travel on the K-trains. Passengers can also travel to their stations (Malmi, Tapanila, Puistola) on the P-train via Tikkurila, and exceptionally do so with an AB-zone HSL-ticket.
These exceptions apply to I-trains until Aug 29.8.
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D-trains are cancelled between June 7 - Aug 15. The replacing rush-hour services from Hämeenlinna to Helsinki in the mornings and Helsinki to Hämeenlinna in the afternoons are operated with R-trains.
Z-trains
Between June 7 – Aug 15 the travel time on Z-trains between Helsinki & Lahti will be 6–8 minutes longer.
The majority of Z-train services are cancelled between Helsinki and Haarajoki during Jun 21 - Jul 6 as well as Jul 16 – 22, while the trains will only operate between Haarajoki and Lahti. The rush-hour trains on route Kouvola–Helsinki–Kouvola will operate all the way to their destination, as will also the first and last services of the day on the same route.
There is a replacement bus between Kerava and Haarajoki (bus 979X). The buses are operated once per hour, connecting passengers from R-trains to Z-trains. Please follow the signs at Kerava train station to find your way to the buses heading to Haarajoki.
R-trains
Travel time on R-trains is lengthened by 5 minutes between June 7 - Aug 15. R-trains are operated mainly with a 30-min interval. Between Jun 7-27 as well as Aug 9 - 15 there will also be additional rush-hour trains from Riihimäki at 6:59 am and Helsinki at 4:24 pm.
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CHAPTER 26 - Next
Buffy opened her right eye tentatively and then her left. She looked around her but saw nothing but black. Smoke and whiskey assailed her nose and then she realized that cold arms were protectively around her. She did her best to keep her eyes from watering at the knowledge that he was still here. It worked. He was here with her. The black soon disappeared as she felt Spike helping her up and releasing her from the confines of his leather duster. But although she was free of his coat, he held on to her tightly.
"Damn woman. You could have burned us into oblivion by breaking that crystal and releasing the power within it. And you accuse me of being reckless?!"
Buffy gave him a smirk and elbowed him in the chest, making him fall and release his hold on her. "Hey, I just saved your life ... or I guess your unlife. You should be kissing my feet!"
He raised an eyebrow and licked his lips. "Would kiss more than that and would do more than kissing if you let me. 'Course I should be bloody pissed off at you Slayer for doing that. Told you a good ole' fashion stand off was the best way to go."
"But it all worked out in the end."
"Yeah, because I came to save the fucking day. God, Buffy I thought you were better than this."
"But you went along with the plan anyway."
"Because you can be such a stubborn bint."
"Well it seems like everything went well." Giles said as he moved closer to them. "Though I would have to agree with Spike on this one. It was quite dangerous for you to have done what you did." He said taking his glasses off and cleaning them. "Magic is complicated and you were lucky that the results came out favorable for uhm ... you."
"I'm touched Rupes. You actually agree with me." he said picking himself up from the ground.
"Well I don't intend to make a habit of it." he said, putting his glasses back on.
"Same here." Spike grinned to irritate the Watcher.
Giles let out a sigh and moved to gather up the blue green gem, and the other three remaining crystals. "So I will take this back to my place and keep it safe. I trust that you will head back and ..." he turned around to face them and let out another sigh at seeing that his audience had started kissing. He didn't know what to do with Buffy. He wasn't sure how he could keep his Slayer's relationship with Spike a secret. He suspected that with Angelus out of the way, perhaps Spike would be in line to head the Aurelius clan in Sunnydale. If that was to be the case, then it might prove even harder to keep this relationship a secret. He had always been against it. Even now he was strongly against it. But after witnessing what happened that night they first met, he thought it best to keep things hush hush. He had never seen nor heard of a master vampire protecting a Slayer. And Buffy was extremely attached and dependent on him. For some strange reason, this vampire gave this Slayer some stability in her life. Giles could see the potential in her. She was resourceful, strong and brave, but this vampire -- the one that scourged through Europe so many years ago, the one that had taken the life of two slayers himself, gave her a reason to fight harder. It was a difficult pill to swallow, but it was true and it was evident.
"I guess I'll be going." he announced though he wasn't sure they were listening to him at all. "I trust the both of you can find your way home safely. "
Spike raised a hand and waved at Giles, never breaking contact from his beloved girl. "Hope I didn't hurt you too much earlier." he said between kisses.
"Please!"
"Of course you know what we have to do now when we get back?" he asked seductively.
"What?" she asked as she pulled away from his lips to look into his eyes and try to figure out what he was implying.
"Well since we had that little fight earlier, I was thinking it was time for a little making up."
Buffy eyed him, then without warning, pushed him back down on his butt. She stuck out her tongue then quickly ran, giving him chase all the way home.
They played tag all the way home. That game eventually ended but was quickly replaced by a new one when Buffy decided to go into the bathroom to get cleaned up. She knew she was filthy with leaves in her hair, grass stains on her clothes, and dust on her face. She was slowly removing her clothes when Spike shook his head and stopped her. He batted her hands away as he unbuttoned her top slowly, dipping his head down to lick then kiss the flesh that was revealed. As his lips focused on the smooth skin of her belly, his fingers worked to unzip and push her pants down. He knelt down, his hands moving firmly into place against each butt check as he moved his head to smell and feel the heat and arousal from her quim. He nuzzled her need through the sheer fabric of her panties. She squirmed slightly as she felt him pushing against her clit, but he held her firmly.
Spike growled as he heard the soft whimpers coming from Buffy's lips. He smiled to himself before grabbing the crouch of her panties with his teeth and tearing the fabric away from her. He continued to lap at her juices with more fervor than before, occasionally teasing her clit with his tongue. Buffy moaned and laced her fingers through his hair as each lick sent her closer and closer to ecstasy.
Spike looked up a her, a devilish grin on his face. "Hope you liked that."
Buffy answered with a soft mew. "What was that for?"
"Smelled it. Wanted it. Took it."
"Was that it?" she asked looking somewhat disappointed.
He searched her eyes then stood up. "Buffy... I almost lost you. Heck, I almost lost me!" he said wondering what possessed him to risk so much for her. He loved her. That was the answer. "Wanted to know you were real ... you were here. I hope you don't plan on making a habit of this."
Buffy shook her head. "How many times are you planning to apologize anyway?" she said trying to lighten the mood.
"Actually, the way I see it, you should have your fair share of apologizing as well!" He said, tilting her head to the right, growling angrily at seeing the angry bite mark she now wore. "Nasty bite. That could have been avoided you know!"
"It will heal. No biggie."
"No biggie?! Just because you're the Slayer doesn't make you immortal. That's my department." he said growling again trying to show her that she should listen to him next time.
Buffy looked at him apologetically.
Spike sucked his cheeks in, his jaw somewhat clenched. He reached his hand out to tentatively touch the new bite mark. He shook his head. "I won't do it now, but you're not wearing anything of his. You're my girl." he said caressing her cheek then letting his fingers move towards her hair. He let them lace between her locks then pulled her possessively to him, kissing her full on the lips.
Darla sat quietly, her hands clenched together on her lap. By her feet, Drusilla looked like a broken doll. Just moments ago she had finally sobbed herself to sleep at the loss of her "Daddy". Darla was more in control of her feelings as she fought back tears at the loss of her child and lover. But things were now set in motion that were beyond her control. As much as she loved Angelus, he inadvertedly chose his own fate by going after the Slayer. The Aurelius Clan had plans for the Slayer but Angelus' intentions for his former plaything were not part of it. Or perhaps it was because the true Master of the Clan just didn't like Angelus that much.
"It was a loss. Though I did not think your child would do what he did. He almost sacrificed himself for the Slayer, such devotion, especially for a human … a Slayer … is unheard of." a foreboding voice came from across the room.
Darla looked up and nodded. "William is quite brash, which on a few occasions can be an asset. At the very least he is quite entertaining."
"Yes, entertaining. ... I know you do not like this Slayer, my child." the vampire clad in black said moving closer to Darla and placing a loving hand on the top of her head. "But she will be part of our family soon enough. In one way or another she will be a part of us."
Looking up, Darla nodded solemnly. "Yes Master. It will be as you wish my Sire."
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But a university spokesman slammed the union for "organized theatrics."
Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined striking University of California-Los Angeles workers, speaking during a single-day strike. But the stunt did not sit well with the top university administrator.
Sanders stressed the significance of labor unions for a little more than ten minutes in front of a crowd of several hundred striking workers, supporters, and students at a rally on March 20 held by the University Professional and Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America rally held during the strike, according to The Daily Bruin.
"If UPTE and AFSCME leaders had channeled as much effort into negotiations as they do into organized theatrics, we'd have a deal by now."
The strike itself is thethird in less than a year, as negotiations between unions and university officials continue.
Sanders referenced "a war being waged against the working people of America" and said that "the time is long overdue for the American people to stand up and say 'enough is enough.'" The speech was the first in a multi-stop California tour for Sanders as he campaigns for 2020.
"If UPTE and AFSCME leaders had channeled as much effort into negotiations as they do into organized theatrics, we'd have a deal by now," UC Office of the President spokeswoman Claire Doan told the Daily Bruin.
Anne, an English and political science major at UCLA who asked to go only by her first name in the article, told Campus Reform that she believed that Sanders "was targeting the smaller activist demographic." She said it felt like his focus was not on the presidential campaign but Sanders' support for laborers and income inequality.
After some hesitance, she said that she felt like the speech made her want to vote for Sanders a little more.
The campaign stop comes just under a year before California's presidential primary date on March 3.
Arik Schneider is a California Campus Correspondent, and reports liberal bias and abuse on campus for Campus Reform. He attends University of California, Los Angeles, and is the UCLA Chair of Young Americans for Freedom.
Ripped right from its frame?
"The demands they present here are laughable on their face."
"Some may interpret as an intention to endorse violence."


Unlike the last season, this time the schedule resembles a can of sardines. Seven fashion weeks in one month!
You can find the full schedule of each event at their website, all addresses are in my blogroll under Fashion Weeks.


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AT&T Unveils Network-Based "on Demand" Computing for Companies of All Sizes
AT&T today announced AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service(SM), its latest innovative global cloud-based service, designed to give companies of all sizes simple on-demand access to scalable computing capacity. Using technology from VMware and Sun Microsystems, AT&T's Synaptic Compute as a Service provides companies with a self-service approach for using IT solutions that are reliably delivered by AT&T over its highly-secure world-class network cloud.
Customers can use the service to quickly address demands for variable computing processing power and expand capacity to scale with their business requirements. In turn, AT&T delivers computing processing capacity that can scale to meet a business's immediate demand, along with management of the network, server, hardware and storage.
"As companies increasingly move to cloud-based environments, AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service provides a much-needed choice for IT executives who worry about over-building or under-investing in the capacity needed to handle their users' traffic demands," said Roman Pacewicz, senior vice president of Strategy and Application Services, AT&T Business Solutions.
"AT&T is enabling customers to extend their internal IT environments to the cloud by using their unique strengths in global network capabilities to offer cloud services that are compatible with customers' private VMware environments," said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware. "We are excited to contribute our technology to enable this and to work with AT&T in our VMware vCloud™ initiative that is focused on integrating and connecting private and public clouds, using the VMware vSphere™ virtualization platform and the VMware vCloud API."
AT&T is also working closely with Sun to use the Sun Cloud Open Cloud Platform, Sun Cloud APIs, cloud reference architecture and design expertise to create an environment to make it easy for developers to build and deploy value-added services.
"Sun is committed to helping our customers and partners deliver public and private clouds that are cost effective, open and interoperable," said Dave Douglas, senior vice president, Cloud Computing, Sun Microsystems. "AT&T's network and operational excellence coupled with Sun's Open Cloud Platform and Sun Cloud APIs delivers a revolutionary cloud offering. We're excited to be working with AT&T to bring an enterprise-class, highly scalable offering that delivers choice and flexibility to market."
AT&T will introduce the service in the fourth quarter of 2009. The service will be deployed in the U.S. and will be accessible by customers connecting to the Web anywhere. In time, AT&T plans to add the service to select global IDCs to meet customer demand internationally.
Other service features:
A Web portal to order, provision and manage server capacity, or to program the APIs.
The convenience to pay only for the capacity used and receive a monthly bill that can, if desired, be paid with a credit card.
Multiple storage options including disk capacity for each virtual server's operating system and space to share files between virtual servers, as well as the ability to connect to AT&T Synaptic Storage as a Service.
Round-the-clock monitoring of the Synaptic Compute as a Service platform by AT&T support teams.
A service level agreement that covers availability of the platform that runs the customer's virtual servers.
No upfront fees, no long-term obligations and no termination fees.
AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service is the latest addition to the AT&T family of Synaptic Services to be delivered in little more than a year. AT&T's Synaptic portfolio is part of its umbrella strategy to drive innovation across enterprise networking and computing environments through hybrid public and private cloud platforms. The AT&T network is the lynchpin for integrating these technologies, and delivering enterprise class network-based security and application management capabilities. In addition, AT&T believes its "infrastructure as a service" platform over time will accelerate the deployment of applications generated by developers working within the AT&T network cloud.
By unifying also known as "federating" with the AT&T service, customers will be able to seamlessly manage all their IT resources across the enterprise and develop applications all from one location and move application workloads where and when they are needed. Customers will be able to handle their business needs all in the same way whether they will be running internally in their own datacenter or in AT&T's cloud.
With AT&T Synaptic Compute as a Service, customers can program their application to routinely expand capacity during a block of days each month to handle their firm's book closing. Transportation firms can increase computing power daily for processing driver schedules, route changes and other logistics. Companies can program the service to respond to spikes in Web traffic from holiday sales or events, sports programs, short-term campaigns, emergencies and more. Also, IT architects can use the service to build environments for safely testing new applications, or installing system upgrades without impacting the entire enterprise.
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Rick Santorum: White Supremacist Was Attacking Religion, Not Black People (AUDIO)
By Stephen D Foster Jr on June 18, 2015 7:59 pm ·
Right-wing domestic terrorists exist in this country and white supremacists are part of the pack, but you wouldn't know it the way conservative "Christian" Rick Santorum talks.
During a radio interview with Joe Piscopo, Santorum made remarks about the South Carolina mass shooting that left nine people dead at an historical black church.
Even though right-wing terrorist Dylann Roof has been identified as a white supremacist who purposefully walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Wednesday to kill African-Americans in attendance, Santorum claimed that the terrorist attack is all about waging war on Christianity and further stated that Roof chose his victims "indiscriminately."
"It's obviously a crime of hate. We don't know the rationale, but what other rationale could there be? You're sort of lost that someone would walk into a Bible study at a church and indiscriminately kill people. This is one of those situations where you have to take a step a back and say — you talk about the importance of prayer at this time, and we're now seeing assaults on religious liberty we've never seen before. So, it's a time for deeper reflection even beyond this horrible situation."
Here's the audio via Raw Story.
Conservatives like Rick Santorum are desperately trying the deflect the fact that Dylann Roof is a racist white supremacist who holds conservative views. Instead, conservatives want us all to believe that this is an attack on Christianity so they can continue to push their false claim that liberals are persecuting Christians and churches in America.
But they are lying.
According to the Washington Post, Roof entered the church and observed the service for an hour before he stood up, yelled racial epithets and shot and killed nine churchgoers, all of whom had black skin. Law enforcement, witnesses, and his Facebook page all indicate that Roof had a deep hatred of African-Americans and wanted them dead, not because they were Christians or religious, but because they are black.
Further adding fuel to the racist attack is the fact that South Carolina continues to fly the Confederate flag at full mast as if as a salute to Roof attacking a black church like the KKK used to do throughout the post-Civil War South. The American flag and South Carolina flag in contrast, are flown at half mast.
The fact is that Dylann Roof went on a racist rampage and conservative media and Republicans are racing each other to see who can spin this incident of domestic right-wing terrorism the fastest. It's despicable, yet they wonder why minority voters refuse to vote for them, and they complain as the number of Americans who identify as Christian continues to drop.
Of course, we really shouldn't expect Santorum to stand up for the black community. After all, he did once say that he isn't interested in making the lives of African-Americans better.
Featured image by Gage Skidmore. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Author: Stephen D Foster Jr


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How to fix the NFL's flawed overtime rules
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The NFL's overtime system is broken.
The current overtime system dates back to 2010 — a pseudo-sudden death (or "victory," if you are an optimist) format. The team that receives the opening kickoff in the extra session can end the game with a touchdown. If they only kick a field goal, or don't score at all, the other team gets a chance, and then the next score wins.
Just eight of the 85 playoff games (9.4 percent) played since 2010 have gone to overtime. However, in six of those eight games (75 percent) the team that won the coin flip went down and scored a TD to end the game immediately, which is exactly what the Vikings did to Drew Brees and the Saints on Sunday.
Coin flips shouldn't carry such significance. The regular season is one thing. The playoffs (or even Super Bowl LI, New England over Atlanta) are another, which is why there is a need for a simple solution:
Each team must get possession, or at least have the ball kicked to them, before the game can end. If the first team to receive scores a touchdown (or field goal) they then have to kick off to the other team. (They could try a daring onside kick if they want, they just need to kick it.)
If they don't score, then turn the ball over via downs, punt or turnover, next score wins. Any defensive score wins it, too.
That's pretty much it.
Oh, and eliminate the coin flip altogether. Give the home team — or team with better record if it's a Super Bowl — the choice to kick or receive. This increases the importance of the regular season. Kicking would be an advantage because you'd know if you need a touchdown or just a field goal when you get the ball. It would also potentially ensure better field position if you get a stop or turnover.
Player safety is important, but this would have required just six extra possessions over the last decade. It wouldn't cause any of those marathon college overtime games.
It certainly seems like a fair trade to end coin flips causing a Patrick Mahomes or Drew Brees to be eliminated without even seeing the field in overtime.
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Sihlhof University-Zurich, Switzerland
Sihlhof University is located in Zurich, Switzerland. It was designed by Lorenzo Giuliani and Christian Honger of Giuliani.honger architektin. It was engineered by Luchinger + Meyer Bauingenieure. It serves a dual purpose as a business school and pedagogical academy.
The building is a massive concrete structure. Architects used projections and recessions of a rectangular nature. The building has two load bearing cares. Ceiling slabs support the loads of transposed levels. The wall system includes windows with two layers of sealed glass. The wallas are wrapped in two layers of concrete with a layer of insulation in between. Pins placed horizontally span the three layers to provide lateral bracing. The roof includes a concrete slab with a stainless steel grate system to drain water. In some portions of the roof there is a space for planting. The upmost part of the roof is supported by steel beams and includes a skylight system.
Sources: DETAIL MAGAZINE, College in Zurich, 2007 Volume 4
Written by Carlos Rodriguez


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Fact Sheet: Legal Interventions to Increase Access to Naloxone in North Carolina
posted on Tue, Dec 1 2015 2:36 pm by Southeastern Region
Fatal drug overdose is a nationwide epidemic that claims the lives of over 36,000 Americans every year. The situation is particularly acute in North Carolina, where overdose deaths have increased more than 300 percent in just over a decade, from 297 in 1999 to 1,140 in 2011. This increase is mostly driven by prescription opioids such as oxycontin and hydrocodone, which now account for more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Opioid overdose is typically reversible through the timely administration of naloxone, a drug that reverses the effects of opioids, and the provision of other emergency care. However, access to naloxone and other emergency treatment is often limited by laws that make it difficult for those likely to be in a position to reverse an overdose to access the drug and discourage overdose witnesses from calling for help. In an attempt to reverse this unprecedented increase in preventable overdose deaths, a number of states have recently amended those laws to increase access to emergency care and treatment for opiate overdose.
In 2013, North Carolina joined their ranks. Senate Bill 20, "Good Samaritan Law/Naloxone Access," was passed by overwhelming majorities in the state House and Senate and was signed by the Governor on April 9, 2013.This Fact Sheet examines specific aspects covered by the law.
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Say goodbye to your gangly, teenage delivery boy and hello to a giant Ped Egg on wheels.
Starting in New Zealand, Domino's will begin testing pizza delivery via robots with a team known as the Domino's Robotic Unit (DRU). The robots, which are 3 feet tall and battery-powered, have built-in, heated compartments to keep your pies piping hot.
And according to the Telegraph, DRU can drive itself as far as 12.5 miles at a time.
The robots get your pizza from the shop to your door, thanks to sensors that detect obstacles along the way and a special code you punch in to retrieve your order, so hungry thieves can't steal it.
DRU is cheeky and endearing and we are confident that one day he will become an integral part of the Domino's family. He's a road to the future and one that we are very excited about exploring further.
Who knows if or when these robot slaves will catch on, but one thing is for certain: Domino's is willing to do just about anything if it'll get you to order more pizza.


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Omar Barghouti, Contributor
Founding member, BDS movement
Why Is BDS a Moral Duty Today? A Response to Bernard-Henri Levy
02/01/2011 02:29 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011
In his angry attack on the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Mr. Bernard-Henri Levy desperately attempts to smear the movement by presenting a number of patently false, regurgitated, and misleading premises and reaching, as a result, unwarranted, even illogical, conclusions. What Mr. Levy peculiarly tries to hide or obscure are the real objectives of the movement, who stands behind it, and the reasons behind its spectacular rate of growth lately, especially in France and other Western countries. The fact is the BDS Call was launched by a great majority in Palestinian civil society on July 9, 2005, as a qualitatively new phase in the global struggle for Palestinian freedom, justice, and self-determination. More than 170 leading Palestinian political parties, trade union federations, women's unions, refugee rights groups, NGOs, and grassroots organizations called for a boycott against Israel until it fully complies with its obligations under international law. Rooted in a century-old history of civil, nonviolent resistance against settler colonialism, occupation and ethnic cleansing, the effort recalls how people of conscience in the international community have "historically shouldered the moral responsibility to fight injustice, as exemplified in the struggle to abolish apartheid in South Africa," calling upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to "impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era." Since 2008, the BDS movement has been led by the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organizations inside historic Palestine and in exile, the BDS National Committee (BNC). Anchored in deep respect for international law and universal human rights, the movement has spread across the world, empowering and mobilizing creative energies and emphasizing sensitivity to the particularities of each context. BDS activists anywhere select their own targets and set the tactics that best suit their political and cultural environment. The fact that BDS categorically rejects racism of all sorts, including anti-Semitism, has further increased its appeal among liberal and progressive movements everywhere. While several leading BDS activists openly endorse the unitary state solution, most of the members of the coalition leading the movement still subscribe to the two-state solution. This is, however, an irrelevant issue, as the BDS movement, being strictly rights-based, has consistently avoided taking any position regarding the one-state/two-states debate, emphasizing instead the three basic rights that need to be realized in any political solution. Ending the Israeli occupation that started in 1967 of all Arab territories, ending Israel's system of legalized and institutionalized discrimination against its own Palestinian citizens, and recognizing the UN-sanctioned rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes of origin are the three basic principles of the movement. Everything else is secondary and tactical. Mr. Levy completely misrepresents my position on the matter. Citing a 2003 article of mine, he outlandishly claims that I endorse a "two-Palestines" solution. Here are my exact words: "... one must not deny that the right of return of Palestinian refugees does contradict the requirements of a negotiated two-state solution. Israel simply will never accept it, making it the Achilles' heel of any negotiated two-state solution, as the record has amply shown." The point was that a negotiated two-state solution will de facto exclude the right of two-thirds of the Palestinians, the refugees, to return to their homes, as all refugees are entitled to according to international law. For more than 27 years, I've consistently and openly advocated a secular, democratic state in the entire area of historic Palestine, where everyone enjoys equal rights, irrespective of ethnicity, religion or any identity attribute. This, to my mind, is the most ethically-consistent formula that can accommodate the inalienable Palestinian right to self determination, including the return of refugees, with the rights of all the inhabitants of the land to justice, peace, dignity and democratic rights. Regardless, even if my real position on this issue were presented by Mr. Levy, extrapolating from this alleged position of mine to implicate the entire BDS movement not only lacks intellectual honesty; it is logically equivalent to claiming that the anti-war movement in France, say, is plotting to replace the capitalist system with a socialist order based on having a communist (or one merely claimed to be a communist) among its leaders. Like any large, democratic coalition of groups that is built on common principles but espouses and dearly respects pluralism, the BDS movement, as anyone can conclude from examining the huge record of official statements and documents issued in the last five years, does not endorse any specific political solution to this colonial conflict. The common denominator of the movement is upholding Palestinian rights in accordance with international law. Another serious fallacy in Mr. Levy's article is his rhetorical characterization of Israel as a "democracy." South Africa was also the only "democracy" in Africa during apartheid. The U.S. was a "democracy," as well, when in the South millions of African-Americans were thoroughly segregated and racially oppressed. An ethnocentric state, like Israel, that discriminates by law against people who are not Jewish and that occupies, forcibly displaces, colonizes and commits what leading international law experts and human rights organizations describe as war crimes, cannot remotely be called a democracy. If France were to adopt laws discriminating against its Jewish citizens and favoring its Catholic citizens, would we call it a democracy? Former South African government minister Ronnie Kasrils and British author Victoria Brittain addressed this point quite well. They wrote:
The desire for an ethnic-religious majority of Israeli Jews has seeped across from the occupied territories to permeate the Israeli 'national' agenda... The Palestinian minority in Israel has for decades been denied basic equality in health, education, housing and land possession, solely because it is not Jewish. The fact that this minority is allowed to vote hardly redresses the rampant injustice in all other basic human rights. They are excluded from the very definition of the "Jewish state", and have virtually no influence on the laws, or political, social and economic policies. Hence their similarity to the black South Africans.
Furthermore, at a time when a wave of popular uprisings is sweeping the Arab region, demanding freedoms, social justice and democracy, it is quite telling, if largely expected, to see Israel -- and the US government -- in such a panic and uproar, standing on the wrong side of history, with despots and authoritarian regimes against the people. Unnerved by the storm of criticism, albeit polite, of the Egyptian dictatorship by its hitherto European allies and even some in the US administration, Israel has launched a diplomatic campaign to convince key capitals to support Hosni Mubarak lest stability is lost and Israel's other despotic friends in the region feel abandoned.
In Tunisia, as well, the vaunted electronic surveillance apparatus of the former dictator Ben-Ali was run in close cooperation with Israel, as Tunisian civil society organizations systematically reported. With more of Israel's friends in the region being dethroned, it is becoming abundantly clear how much Israel and its Western partners have invested in safeguarding and buttressing the unelected, autocratic regimes in the Arab world, partially to make a self-fulfilling prophecy of Israel as the "villa in the midst of the jungle" -- the myth often repeated by Israel's lobby groups. The fact that Israel was for decades apartheid South Africa's best friend, helping it to develop nuclear weapons, to crush popular resistance by the black majority, and to dodge the widespread boycott against it has not helped Israel's case in projecting a deceptive brand of democracy and enlightenment either. Finally, regarding the patently misleading and unfounded claim that a boycott of Israeli products is tantamount to boycotting "Jewish merchandise," one can only ask whether a boycott of Sudan, or Saudi Arabia, for that matter, would be considered Islamophobic? Was the boycott against South Africa anti-Christian? Why the double standard when it comes to Israel? The BDS movement against Israel could not care less whether it is a Jewish, Muslim, Catholic or Hindu state; all that matters is that it is a colonial oppressor that persistently denies the Palestinian people their basic rights. Is this too difficult to understand? A boycott of Israel today is a moral duty for all those who care about the rule of law and universal rights for all humans, equally. Omar Barghouti is a founding member of the BDS movement and author of Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights," (Haymarket, 2011).
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Contributed By Heather Whittle Wrigley, Church News and Events
The Ensigntablet app, now being tested, includes optimized navigation and additional elements the printed version cannot support, such as audio, video, links to ChurchofJesusChrist.org, and extra pictures.
Article Highlights
A prototype tablet version of the November 2011 Ensign is available for the iPad and Android tablets.
The interactive version includes optimized navigation and additional elements the printed version cannot support, such as audio, video, links to ChurchofJesusChrist.org, and extra pictures.
The app is available for free download through Apple's App Store and the Android Market.
Download the prototype app from the Apple App Store.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints released a prototype of a tablet app on December 16 that features an enhanced digital version of the conference issue of the Ensign, the Church's monthly English magazine.
The prototype is based on the November 2011 issue of the Ensign magazine. Its primary purpose is to assess the publishing platform and get users' feedback on their experiences with it in this format.
A collaborative effort through the Church's Curriculum, Media Services, and Information and Communications Systems Departments, the interactive magazine includes audio, video, links to ChurchofJesusChrist.org, and extra pictures not available in the printed version. It is available for download through Apple's App Store for the iPad and for Android tablets such as the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab through the Android Market. To find the free app, search for "LDS Ensign" and look for the blue icon shown below.
In the digital version of the issue, when a user taps on a portrait in the organizational chart of Church leaders, biographies of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will appear.
Enhanced navigation allows individuals to jump to specific talks and enlarge pictures at the touch of a finger. Several other navigation options provide quick access to the contents, including a thumbnail view of the magazine pages and a miniature table of contents that can be accessed throughout the issue.
Embedded video highlights and audio of entire talks also create an interactive experience. Once the magazine has been downloaded, no Internet connection is required for those embedded features.
For those with a wireless Internet connection, links within the interactive magazine refer users back to the ChurchofJesusChrist.org conference page or other sites such as youth.ChurchofJesusChrist.org, which Elder Bednar referenced in his most recent general conference talk. Other links are provided in the news section at the back.
The decision on how to proceed with the interactive magazine will be based on feedback and assessment of this prototype. Users may offer comments through a link available at the top of the issue's contents page.
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Nobody is a perfect environmentalist, however, together we can take some honest steps to reduce the number of resources consumed and waste that is generated.
Take a look below at some ideas and tips on how we can do this. Let's protect the planet and go green to save our environment!
Where possible, try not to use water as a cleaning solution. Baking Soda and Vinegar can work just as well as other cleaning products.
Water conservation is very necessary as a lot of energy is required to pump water from the river into your home.
Unplug chargers, turn off lights and appliances not in use like computers, laptops, and phones when you leave for the day.
Join the carpool or public transportation to save fuel and its cost.
Avoid using disposable cup or coffee mug at work in order to save space in the landfill and energy. You can bring your own ceramic cup or coffee mug to work.
When you make purchases, try to opt for the brands that use recyclable packaging.
Bring your meal in a reusable container and don't buy an additional plastic container for it. Don't generate waste with a plastic fork and plastic takeout container. Use a reusable container if bringing in lunch from home.
Start a recycling program in your home, office or community.
Start paying your bills online and ask companies to stop paper bills from being sent to you. Print and copy on both sides of the paper. It helps to save paper and trees.
Get your IT equipment like computers, laptop, printer, and phones recycled or decomposed in order to reduce related air pollution and water pollution. It can take a million years to decompose. Contact a company offers IT equipment recycling or disposal services in your area.
Use a more eco-friendly disposable or cloth in place of nappy of the child as it adds million tons of waste in landfills each year.
Recycle newspaper, bows and gift bags by reusing them. You can also create something unique by using old newspaper, maps, and cloth.
Instead of purchasing a plastic water bottle, buy an appropriate reusable container. A plastic bottle takes thousands of years to decompose and because it's not recycled or biodegradable.
Put the cruise control button on your car to work as you can get better mileage. With increasing gasoline prices, this is a boon for your budget and the environment too.
You can save about 10% of your energy use by adjusting your thermostat 1% cooler in winter and 1% higher in summer.
Try to get your phone recycled as it introduces very harmful and toxic substances into the environment and go into landfills.
Maintain your vehicle by regularly checking the air filter and giving it a clean. This will help your car more efficiently. It's also important to inflate your tyres to a specific pressure as it reduces tyre-wear and helps the fuel economy.
Katie Baker writes on behalf of Eco Green IT Recycling, a company which provides electronic waste recycling solutions. Apart from writing, she likes to explore the world with her camera.
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try all these things to make your earth better.you will surely love doing all these works and this will help you in excercise also.
i love my earth alot and i will always keep it claen.
I would just like to jump into a body of water without having plastic and pollution in it, without knowing that an animal of some sort below me could be dying because of humans. And I love the fact that people are reading articles like this and doing something.
I would like to say something about the use of the plastic seed bag in agro forestry and water pollution that human's action causes, beside wildlife animals like Big-five that are threatened by the phenomenon of extinction. The missing of sustainable vision in the input projects by social and human organizations: Saving the environment is becomes consistent in building interactional relationships between the planet, human solidarity and the commitment of every individual human being. Remember that there are interactions between the planet, animals and people.
It would be advisable to emphasize the action of human solidarity at all levels by stimulating him to invest in the environment rescue.
I agree with all the things that you said. I think that we should know how to conserve water and energy.I believe that by simply doing some of the ways that you mentioned will make a big difference and help save Mother Earth. I also believe that it is important that we are aware of ways to save the environment for the next generations.
Actually, this tips and suggestions should be followed by each and everyone to save our environment.
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After breakfast, check out of the Hotel at Srinagar and proceed to Gulmarg. Gulmarg is located at an average elevation of 2,690 m (8,825 ft). Spend the day witnessing the picturesque locales like the Golf Course (Golf kit and caddy charges optional & extra). Also take the exhilarating cable car ride to Khilanmarg Snow Point (Gondola ride up to Khilanmarg is not included in the itinerary and Gondola ride strongly depends on weather conditions). .The rest of the evening is at leisure. Overnight in Srinagar.
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Geography
Yekimovo is located 44 km north of Cherepovets (the district's administrative centre) by road. Petryayevo is the nearest rural locality.

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Rural localities in Cherepovetsky District


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Afternoon collage
The simplest cut
The art of collage, for me, is mostly one of contextomy and juxtaposition: you put two things next to each other that aren't really supposed to be together and you get a new thing. (1 + 1 = 3.)
I've been obsessed lately with the simplest cut: what's the least amount of cutting or folding or editing that you can do for maximum effect?
I really got thinking about this when a woman in one of my workshops made the newspaper headline collage above. (An exercise from The Steal Like An Artist Journal.) It was so simple and funny it was like a gag out of a Nancy comic strip.
For a more visual example, here's a picture of a sunset and moon that I took at the same time, but edited together with Instagram's simple Layout program:
The simplest, cleverest expression of 1+1=3… that's what I really love.
There are stone monuments scattered throughout my neighborhood — fancy signs announcing the parks, etc. I find them sort of hilarious — they're so serious, and they look like big tombstones. (They had to cost a fortune!) I like to go around and take pictures of them and then make a game of cutting them up so they announce other things. The only rules are that I never add, only subtract, and I try to make the edits as simple as possible.
(For this one I cheated just a bit and rubbed out letters with the clone stamp in Photoshop.)
Filed under: de-signs
Intelligence in your fingers
Reading some of composer Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians, I came across this piece of advice for composing, which I thought was spectacularly bad: "If you are starting out on a composition, begin by working everything out in your head. Do not try out a piece on your instrument until you have fully conceived it in your mind."
This might be good advice for a musical genius, like Beethoven, Mozart, or Robert Schumann, but it runs counter to my own personal experience with art. Very few of my decent pieces have come from me thinking in my head, as in, thinking through a piece and then sitting down and executing it. In fact, I don't know if that's ever happened. Most of my good ideas have come from an exploration of specific materials, a kind of back and forth between eye and hand and head. These collages are good examples: I did not set out with any kind of purpose or ideas before I made them, merely some time, space, and materials.
I know some writers who claim to work out all their writing in their heads before hitting the paper, but 1) I suspect they're liars 2) even if they do have it worked out, it's in getting the words on paper and then editing those words that the ideas take on any kind of real form. As a young artist, I thought the ideas had to come first before you wrote, and now I think the opposite: You start working with your hands and the ideas come.
Better advice than Schumann's might be from a newspaper clipping I saved called "How To Draw Blood" (you could cross out the last word), in which a worker at a free clinic started out by saying, "Develop intelligence in your fingers." Her point was that every vein in every arm is different, and you not only have to think, you have to feel your way through a lot of medical procedures. The feeling is as important as the thinking.
Best not to overestimate the intelligence in your head: your fingers have a lot to teach it.
See also: Don't Ask.
Glue one thing to another
"Sometimes we are so confused and sad that all we can do is glue one thing to another. Use white glue and paper from the trash, glue paper onto paper, glue scraps and bits of fabric, have a tragic movie playing in the background, have a comforting drink nearby, let the thing you are doing be nothing, you are making nothing at all, you are just keeping your hands in motion, putting one thing down and then the next thing down and sometimes crying in between."
WORD SURGERY (MORE COLLAGES)
I'm working on a whole notebook of these for fun while I watch TV. Here's the first batch.
IT'S A WEIRD TIME SO BE NICE (SOME COLLAGES)
Whenever I have a free night and no ideas, I grab scissors and some old magazines and I make collages.
25 *MORE* QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST
25 QUOTES TO HELP YOU STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST
I think of almost everything in terms of collage.
My poems are made up of bits and pieces of words I've taken from newspaper articles.
My drawings are simply collages of points, lines, triangles, circles, and squares. I take Saul Steinberg's faces, Otto Soglow's hands, John Porcellino's lines, Lynda Barry's handwriting…
I myself am simply a collage of my ancestor's DNA, mixed with the hundreds of thousands of words and images and ideas that my brain has absorbed.
These are all quotes and doodles I abandoned while working on a presentation for next week's PechaKucha night here in Austin.
Most of these notes were grabbed from my tumblr tags on "collage", "influence", and "originality" or "plagiarism." I grabbed one or two from Jonathan Lethem's incredible essay, "The Ecstacy of Influence."
Next time you're stuck, think of your work as a collage. Steal two or more ideas from your favorite artists and start juxtaposing them. Voila.
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent."
"If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal 'em. Take those hands."
"You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it."
A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
— T.S. Eliot
"In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable."
— Andrei Codrescu
"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."
"Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos."
"The choices a writer makes within a tradition – preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme – constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him."
"If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.
— R G Collingwood
"Every idea is a juxtaposition. That's it. A juxtaposition of existing concepts."
— Steven Grant
"I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist."
— Brian Eno
"Really the truth is just a plain picture. A plain picture of, let's say, a tramp vomiting in the sewere. You know, and next door to the picture Mr. Rockefeller or Mr. C. W. Jones on the subway going to work. You know, any kind of picture. Just make a collage of pictures."
"Sometimes I think everything I draw is just a combination of all of the millions and millions of drawings I've seen."
—Dash Shaw
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
— Wilson Mizner
"If you have one person you're influenced by, everyone will say you're the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you're so original!"
— Gary Panter
My hobbie (one of them anyway)…is using a lot of scotch tape… My hobbie is to pick out different things during what I read and piece them together and make a little story of my own."
"The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands."
— Jens Lekman
"To spark my creativity…I often re-use pieces from my other works…basically collaging my own stuff…"
—Nate Williams
"All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?"
"I love art, I love being thrilled by art, and I love folding these thrills into my own practice. I love stealing….I absolutely believe my best work lies ahead of me, and lies in the work I'm absolutely on fire to steal from."
—Tom Hart
"I was…attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love."
"Some one may say of me, that I have here only made a nosegay of other men's flowers, having furnished nothing of my own but the thread to tie them."
— Montaigne
"I'm being given a little bit of credit now as being a viable collage artist, which some people think is ridiculous. Like this guy who said, "Wait a minute: You had an art show where you just cut out pictures and then glued them back together?" And I said, "Yeah, that's pretty much what it is." There's more to it than that. It's about having the eye for detail, moving things from one environment and reassembling them into new environments….Everyone can do it, but not everyone can do it well."
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion."
"It's not where you take things from—it's where you take them to."
— Jean-Luc Godard
Add your favorites and anything I missed in the comments below.
ALL IN A NIGHT'S WORK
I tried to keep as many "poems about making poems" out of the book as possible, and so this one got cut. Done from an article about another Midwesterner using collage to make his art, Greg Gillis (a.k.a. Girl Talk).
In the late 1950s, Brion Gysin, originator of the cut-up technique, and his buddy William Burroughs who ran with it, had this idea: writing is fifty years behind painting. And so, they looked to collage.
Last week the New Yorker an article by Louis Menand about the writer (and native Texan) Donald Barthelme, examining Barthelme's fascination with collage.
Having worked at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and then in New York for two art-world figures at a magazine covering the arts, Barthelme naturally looked to what was going on in painting for a way to get back to the spirit of Joyce and Beckett without merely copying Joyce and Beckett. The method he struck on was collage.
Barthelme, at a symposium on fiction in 1975, said:
The principle of collage is one of the central principles of art in this century and it seems also to me to be one of the central principles of literature.
Which is echoed by Jonathan Lethem in his remarkable plagiarism, "The Ecstacy of Influence": "collage…might be called the art form of the twentieth century, never mind the twenty-first." (Lethem writes that he heard filmmaker Craig Baldwin say that, in defense of sampling, in the trailer for his documentary, Copyright Criminals.)
But When it comes to the use of collage, there's a big difference between visual artists and writers. Menand:
The visual artist can deal with almost every kind of material, even sound, but the writer deals with only one kind of material: sentences. The solution, therefore, [is] to treat sentences as though they were found objects.
And just as Caleb Whitefoord, the first writer to make poetry from the newspaper, noted almost 250 years ago, Menand writes that we are already bombarded with juxtapositions of nonsense every day in the daily newspaper:
The illogic, the apparent absurdity, of a Rauschenberg collage or a Barthelme story makes people impatient, because it seems to violate ordinary habits of perception and understanding. But we experience the arbitrary juxtaposition of radically disparate materials every day, when we look at the front page of a newspaper.
Our goal then, with blackout poems, is to treat words, phrases, and sentences as "found objects" and to capture Barthelme's "faculty of 'not-knowing'" and to have "faith that, by an intuition operating below the threshold of consciousness…the juxtaposition of unlike to unlike [can] trigger a new kind of awareness…"