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The Places We Make For Ourselves
Last time I was in France I tried desperately to get to the Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval, but was unable to make the 5-hour trip from where I was staying - and have regretted it since. My parents have been several times, and brought back pictures and posters which I stare at every time I use their bathroom; but the actual experience, which by all accounts is surprisingly intimate and mysteriously private, is not mine to claim.
A Facteur is a postman, used like an honorific, and this "Ideal Palace" was built by one Ferdinand Cheval, starting when he was forty-three years old and finishing thirty-three years later. The inspiration for the building of this dream was an odd one:
"He tripped on a bizarre and beautiful stone in the road along his mail route and bent to pick it up. Looking about, he was surprised to see that such marvelous stones were scattered all around him, and he pocketed them to find a use for them at home. "From that moment," he says in a letter from 1897, "I did not sleep day or night." He continued his search on his daily 32 kilometer route (adding 10 km to search for more stones), first putting his treasures in his pockets, then in a wheelbarrow. He scoured the countryside for days and nights at a time on his mail route, sleeping in farmhouses and under the stars. He stock-piled the stones he brought back in his yard, which convinced his neighbors that he had gone mad, but he was determined to build the castle and grottoes that had populated his dreams 15 years earlier -- dreams he never told a soul about, fearing people would ridicule him. Cheval was a mailman by day and an architect by night, building his palace of stones and intricately carved concrete with little available light and no assistance from anyone." [from Kristin Fiore's fine website about same]
The Palais Idéal was put together from wire, lime, and cement, working by the light of an oil lamp. When they found out he wanted to be buried there with his wife, the local government protested and insisted he be buried in the consecrated cemetery; so at the age of seventy-six he began work on a mausoleum that took eight years to build; he died a year after he had finished it.
What is it that drives people to build these things, to express their creativity by building? Outsider art is a big thing these days, but for many, many years it was simply the expression of one person's eccentricity, often at the expense of their social credibility. Raw Vision, a journal of outsider art and folk art, had an article recently about the visionary environments found in the rare, vintage postcard collections of two collectors. Among others, there are postcards of the Palais Idéal, the Hotel of Old Plates in Seine Maritime, France, and Agnes Jones' Boneyard (see below). There are photos of the Shell Fence in Florida, The Living, Speaking Church of Mesnil-Gondouin, and the Mont-Cindre Hermitage in Rhone, France. A lot of the images in the article have a similar look: a complex, pebbly, "grown" look, like the dribble sand-castles we used to make when I was a child. They bear a remarkable resemblance to Gaudi's Cathedral in Barcelona.
The article begins this way:
"The rapid spread of photography from the late nineteenth century onwards meant that for the first time ordinary people could commission a visual record of themselves and their family in the same way as only the wealthy had been able to do before. The combination of this with the introduction of universal postal services and widespread railway travel resulted in photographs of every day scenes, popular figures, important events and local curiosities being printed and widely distributed as picture postcards. These postcards were produced in their millions but were some of the the earliest records of what are now termed as Outsider Art or Visionary Environments. Many of them have survived over the years and portray a variety of long lost creations with others that still exist to this day."
And so these eccentric creations get caught in time.
How long have people been driven to build such intimately bizarre masterpieces? Has this been a product of the modern world, or is it part of the human condition, that a certain number of the population must express themselves this way? America is sprinkled with the oddities that have sprung from the wild imaginings of a nation of frontierists, people insisting on being themselves because that's what "being American" is all about (traditionally): going your own way and having the freedom to express yourself, dammit! But I was impressed with the number of French visionary places, never mind that one of the collectors appears to be French, and it made me wonder.
And then, on looking into it, I find there are people like Nek Chand, who was a (surprise, surprise) a "humble transport official in the north Indian city of Chandigarh", who felt driven to clear a piece of jungle to make himself a garden, and then couldn't stop, going on to build several acres of courtyards with sculptures and walkways:
"After his normal working day Chand worked at night, in total secrecy for fear of being discovered by the authorities.When they did discover Chand's garden, local government officials were thrown into turmoil. The creation was completely illegal - a development in a forbidden area which by rights should be demolished. The outcome, however, was the enlightened decision to give Nek Chand a salary so that he could concentrate full-time on his work, plus a workforce of fifty labourers. Nek Chand's great work received immediate recognition and was inaugurated as The Rock Garden of Chandigarh."
Or, in Los Angeles, my favorite attraction - Watts Towers, the creation of Simon Rodia, about which the excellent film I Build The Tower was made. The towers are made of steel pipes and rods, around which wire mesh has been wrapped and coated with mortar, and decorated with mosaics made from broken bits of glass and pottery, as well as many found objects such as bed frames and seashells.
In 1959, "...the city of Los Angeles condemned the structure and ordered it razed. An actor, Nicholas King, and a film editor, William Cartwright, visited the site...[they] saw the neglect, and decided to buy the property for $3,000 in order to preserve it. When the city found out about the transfer, it decided to perform the demolition before the transfer went through. The towers had already become famous and there was opposition from around the world. King, Cartwright, and a curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, along with area architects, artists, and community activists formed the Committee for Simon Rodia's Towers in Watts. The Committee negotiated with the city to allow for an engineering test to establish the safety of the structures.
For the test, steel cable was attached to each tower and a crane was used to exert lateral force. The crane was unable to topple or even shift the towers, and the test was concluded when the crane experienced mechanical failure." [wiki]
Agnes Jones, an ex-slave known as "Aunt Aggie", built a garden in Florida with fences, arches, and trellises made from bones wired together in fanciful ways:
"Bones bordered the white-sand walkways and formed an arcade between the front gate and the Joneses' house". There was also an informal natural history museum inside, which contained snakes preserved in jars and alligator skeletons, as well as a human skeleton hung in the hallway. No human bones were ever used in the structures, however, as Aggies was quick to explain to her visitors. Visitors are said to have loved the mixture of lush flora and sepulchral structures; "they wrote their names and addresses on the bones; children gazed on the strange beauty of the place with awe and admiration. You could buy flowers and good things to eat, have your fortune told, and hear a good story or be reminded of Aggie's favorite Bible verses".
Unlike Watts' Towers, the Boneyard was torn down in 1918 to build a high school.
And did I mention bottle houses? Or tin can houses, which are being proposed as a cheap building material (not to mention their artistic qualities)? Or how about Loy Allen Bowlin, the Rhinestone Cowboy, who made incredible interiors, exteriors, and clothes? The list goes on and on of people getting creative with their environments.
One of The Rhinestone Cowboy's interiors
I find myself thinking, reading about these fanciful places and the great sculptures, structures, doohickeys, and environments people create, and wondering how many things like this have been created - and lost - throughout history? How many of our historic and archeological discoveries are really just some eccentric's creation, lost in the sands of time? Or is it only in modern times, as the need for survival began to retreat and people had a little more leisure time, more access to materials, that people began to experiment like this?
Is it a product of mass culture, of mass-built housing and mechanized production? Or is it simply that before modernity people built what they built, and lived in it, be it eccentric or not?
Makes me want to go out and build something. There's some great rocks out back...
- Roadside America's links to Florida oddities
- Anna's Bottle House, a funky and interesting inn near Tucson, Arizona - built of bottles
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Labels: architecture, contemporary, culture, history, place
All That the Rains Bring
It is finally starting to be mushroom season here. The rains come through, though still not often enough, and the air is chill. The grass is starting to sprout, and the acorns have ceased hammering down on everything. The need to water the garden has finally worn off, and the fear of fire. Socks have once again come on the scene, to my children's dismay. There is frost in the valley three mornings a week. We go musseling, and come back with reddened fingers and hot bodies from the walk along the beach.
I know this does not sound like winter to most people. To the majority of Americans and Europeans, winter means ice and the death of greenery. Green is for springtime, when the ground thaws, or summer, when thunderstorms roll through after a hot spell.
But here in Northern California, winters are chilly, not cold, and so this is the season when things come alive: the moss on the trunks of the oak trees goes emerald from the rain, the grass begins to grow like a mist over the hills, and the naked ladies poke their green up along the banks of roads. We walk in rubber boots through the lengthening grass, heavy with drops; we wear sweaters and rain ponchos. It may not be frozen, but it can be tiresome, being wet for a whole season; sometimes I envy people in the deep cold, who stay dry in their low temperatures. There is something about cold water trickling into your inner clothing, and the constant presence of mud, which can get to you after awhile.
We have a Mediterranean climate, which means really only two seasons, wet and cold, and warm/hot and dry (and by dry, I mean the grass goes blonde, then grey; your nose gets dried out inside; your plants all die if you don't water deeply twice a week - and there is no rain for between five and nine months: everything dies back, goes into stasis). Spring is simply the moment when the air gets warm but the ground has not yet dried out, and autumn is when the air begins to get cold but the rains haven't come yet. Those areas where there are actually four distinct seasons always find this odd, this "lack" of seasons.
It's true that it's weird, living in a place where the leaves don't turn in the fall and there is no snow in the winter - but it's not because we miss them. Not at all. It's weird because we are constantly barraged with images and words about what it's supposed to be like. Snowmen, vast swaths of turning leaves, crocuses; these have no meaning here. All the conventions of our culture are caught up in a Northeastern perspective, a prejudice toward the "norm", which seems to be somewhere in Massachussetts. Children's books represent an entirely inaccurate world to the Western children who are reading them; seasonal cards, gardening books, and magazines misrepresent was is likely or even possible in our climate. It is as if we are colonists on another planet, yet living according to the rhythms of the home planet, the home propaganda.
Still, though we don't fit the Home-world's view of normalcy, or even the Pagan idea of summer equaling life and winter equaling death, we do have our own rhythms, our own discreet seasonal characteristics. For example, this year, in our area, the chanterelle mushrooms are late (last year, they were nonexistent, but that's another story). The candy caps, another kind of mushroom, are sprinkled everywhere, and king boletes will follow soon after; toward the spring (or our version thereof), the horn-of-plentys will be hiding themselves among the detritus of the madrone trees. Mussels abound in the winter tides, and evil non-native crayfish continue to climb inside our traps. Miner's lettuce springs up everywhere; ferns uncurl their buds for us to pick. There are still baskets full of California hazelnuts, and if we wanted to eat the native acorn meal there would be a whole winters' worth of it available. Winter is a time of unfurling, of strange abundance, of cold and happy movement.
Summer, on the other hand, is nature's empty time here, a time of drought and fire peril and little native harvest. No flowers bloom, nothing lives without tending. Our small vegetable plots need constant attendance to keep them alive through the heat and the dryness. There are no walks in the woods looking for bounty, only looking for shade, watching for smoke. The red tides come and shellfish are forbidden. The ground is hard and unforgiving, so even looking for roots would be difficult. By October we are watching the endless parade of hot days anxiously, cocking a weather eye to the flame-fanning wind, crossing our fingers against arson.
I often wonder what it must be like for the other colonists, the ones on the planet Louisiana, for example, living with their swamps and their gardenias. Do they read the Home-world's books, listen to the Home-world's broadcasts? Give each other cards with snowmen on them at this time of year? How do they feel about their lack of seasons?
Or that far-orbiting Australia, world of Christmas barbecues? Do they tire of the messages coming in on the ansible, telling them they are backwards, wrong, out-of-step with the real seasons? Or do they simply ignore the Americans and Europeans telling them these things, and make their own cards, their own books?
To all my fellow-colonists, and to those of you on the Home-world who would like to become colonists: beware. For out here, the Home-world plants sicken and die; the children don't learn the arts of Home-world clothing; the old arts are lost. But there are wonders beyond imagining: the lightning-fire orange of the endless poppies at the break between Wet and Dry, the yellow-bellied newts migrating to some unknown place, the electric buzz of the hard summer sky around the edges of the trees. The first chanterelle, which I found today. If the Home-world abandoned us now, I think we could find our way, if we only looked around us at what is here.
How is it with you others, in your far-flung worlds?
As for us, we are on the verge of bounty.
Labels: geography, seasons
Holiday Ponderables
The holidays are eating me alive, but I leave you with these things to wonder about until after the rush:
- North Dakota is becoming one big, beautiful and sad Wunderkammer (to read about it, click on the link at the right). Here is a beautiful book on same, from photographer Steve Fitch.
- The largest diamond ever found was over 3,000 carats. So if you're thinking of buying someone diamonds for Christmas, think on that before you blow your pocketbook (more on this topic after the holidays).
- Give the gift of weirdness: shopdropping at Christmastime.
- Chickens prefer to lay eggs in nests that already have eggs. Thus the age-old use of porcelain/clay/stone eggs, leading to more decorative specimens.
On a less savory note (caution: if squeamish or lacking weird humor, stop here):
- Quotes from a 5-year-old:
"The god of the creek has shorts and a see-through suitcase with swim stuff inside it, just in case the water gets too deep."
"I think your butt-hole is secretly elastic." (This from the author of the Butt Trilogy)
- If you have not heard of the Benny Lava phenomenon, here's your chance, complete with lexicon analysis, plus MySpace page and so on - but it's not funny. No, really.
Okay, that's all the weirdness in my brain at the moment. The rest is steeped in holiday etceteras. I hope you all have an excellent period of excess and twinkling lights.
Labels: miscellany
LilyPads and Wearable Electronics
This evening I accidentally came across the website of one Leah Buechley, a woman who may change the face of clothing as we know it.
Long ago, I got a BA in Art, with dual emphases in Conceptual Design (read: early computer graphics and concept follow-through) and textiles. I tried, in every way I knew how, to combine the two: I made weavings out of wires, adding LEDs and plugs; I learned about their new computerized loom, I thought long and hard about how to get computerized technology into fabric. But it was too early, the technology was too clunky, and everyone was looking at me like I was a lunatic, so eventually I gave up.
Imagine my pleasure at coming across Ms. Buechley's wonderful DIY site, where she shows you how you, too, can create amazing interactive clothing with the LilyPad Arduino, a washable, flexible fabric circuit system you sew together with conductive thread, so that your whole body becomes circuitry, and, for example, if you move your arm quickly it sets off LEDs in your clothes. Or: if you put your coat on, your clothes go dark. Take it off, your clothes light up. Best of all, you can use things like snaps to keep the circuitry going when you attach things together.
The RGB LED chages color in response to motion and tilt from the accelerometer which is sewn to the right wrist.
I'm telling you: this woman is smart.
The Arduino is "an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators" (See more here).
It's hard to describe how this is different from previous interactive clothing. For one thing, she has come at it from a textile person's perspective, redesigning the whole circuitry thing to look like...well, parts of clothes. For another thing, all the pieces in the group of items (she calls it a "kit", but they are all sold separately) seem to be made as patches, with iron-on circuitry; and there are no wires or weird bits that you have to hide or otherwise deal with (Though the picture of the LilyPad for sale seems harder than the one above. I'll have to find out about that - still, it's not much bigger than a quarter).
Ms. Buechley helps you access the materials, and shows, in clear step-by-step instructions, not only how to use the LilyPad and attendant bits, but things like how to use needle-nosed pliers to turn a regular LED into a decorative sew-on bead, so you can have as many LEDs flashing across your clothing as you want. And she has lots of Flickr pics to look at, too.
She says:
"I am interested in integrating "feminine" activities like sewing with computer science, mathematics and technology. I think that social issues more often than lack of talent discourage women from entering math, technology and science related fields, and I hope to help create environments where women's interests are explored and represented."
Her kits for kids are available for only $15 to make little wearable LED items for themselves (with a little help). I have been trying very hard to find ways to make the robotics curriculum I teach at the local school into something more exciting for girls; their interest, always fickle, waxes and wanes depending on the personality of the students. Not only could we do the kids' kit, but then we could move on to real programming, using the LilyPad itself. This is a sure-fire technological way to get girls' attention, for those of you out there with smart daughters or sisters. In fact, this is a sure-fire way to get my attention. I can't wait to start making stuff.
Finally, after all these years.
Buy the LilyPad development kit from SparkFun
Labels: art, machines, people, weird fashion
Call for Wunderkammern: an UnContest
My kitchen Cabinet: a taxonomy of food?
I'm looking into people who have their own Wunderkammern, or Cabinets of Wonder, with the view of featuring a select few on the blog. Send me pictures (up to four of them) and an explanation of how you started it and why you did it.
I am particularly interested in hearing what you think about what it takes to create a Wunderkammer. What is the most important feature in making one? The taxonomy? The size? The labels? Or is it the exquisiteness of what is displayed? Or perhaps it is simply that it matters to the person making it? How is a Wunderkammer different from a museum display? Tell me about it.
Email me at the address under the "About Me" header, below. I will answer everyone, and if I am particularly taken with yours I may email you asking more questions.
Looking forward to seeing the results!
Labels: contemporary, editorial, wunderkammern
The Unknown Museum
Years ago, my college friends and I used to take trips up to Mill Valley to visit the Unknown Museum, an amazing collection of stuff arranged in a house which looked, from the outside, like a typical Mill Valley home...except there was a bunch of stuff in the yard. Stuff like stacked TVs, bowling balls, and baby dolls transformed the outdoor space, so that walking by, you had a peep of something amazing.
Going inside on one of the few days it was open was overwhelming to the eye: an aquarium full of Mr. Potato Heads, stacks and stacks of old lunch boxes, rooms and rooms of toys, dolls, plastic bits; mannequins and glitter-balls and every kind of thing from fake food to electronic parts. Nothing seemed to be single. It all came in multiples, sometimes in the hundreds: this Museum was a Wunderkammer of post-consumer detritus. Things were not only displayed in tanks, towers, and piles but in fascinating tableaus where mannequins sat down with TV dinner trays full of vacuum tubes, or a bride-mannequin crawled across a landscape of tiny bridal figures who seem to be tying her down, Gulliver-style.
The Unknown Museum, as it was called, lived in an old radiator shop in Mill Valley from 1974 to 1985; its founder, Mickey McGowan, believes in having lots of stuff. "I always thought that if your mom threw it away, the Unknown Museum was the place to come. Once I tried to create a sort of Zen space there, a room that was spare and austere, but when I'd go in there I'd go nuts wondering what I should put in. Gor me the perfect Zen space is jammed with all kinds of stuff. Zen is all one, isn't it? Well this is all one, the purity of allness." (thanks to Image Magazine for the quote).
After twelve years, the Museum lost its lease, and Mr. McGowan moved the whole museum to the residential neighborhood that I remembered visiting, a place he felt was perfect for the Museum, having a sort of Beaver Cleaver/Ozzie Nelson flavor to it. The different rooms of the house became theme rooms: a boy's room "crammed with chemistry sets, sports equipment, war toys and insect collections; the girl's room had stacks of Nancy Drew mysteries, worn ballet shoes, jump ropes, wedding dress dolls and Katy Keene comics..."
Trapped on the way to the wedding, while everyone watches in anticipation: the landscape around the Bride is made of heaps of rice
Yet the art of the place was not simply in its sheer collecting madness, but in the way that McGowan placed everything. Nothing was overlooked. He used volumes of stuff as a kind of space-painting, creating awesome displays that overwhelmed with their numbers - but he also paid attention to theme and worked asthetically to arrange things so that they had humor and looked...well, artistic. It's rare for someone with Mr. McGowan's bent to really put so much thought and artistry into their collection of stuff, really treat it as a Wunderkammer - in how it is arranged, how it is displayed. The whole art of crafting a proper Cabinet is to be found, not only in the asthetic presentation of things, but in the personal quality of the taxonomy. So often people who love collecting tend to file their stuff away in boxes, or stack them up like Scrooge McDuck all around their room or in some kind of storage, following some external taxonomy of value or meaning; but to put it all together, to present it in a personal, whimsical, commentative style, so that people can gasp and wonder at the sheer awe of it, is really something.
And to do so with objects that most of us do not admire or feel have value is especially impressive. I would not, if you told me of this place, think that it sounded very inspiring; but the care and order of it, the gimcrack-ish depths of our own associations with what some would call junk, makes us pause, makes us wonder.
Which is the point, isn't it? Plus, making it funny is always a bonus.
The Mill Valley house was a great place, with a wonderful garden, but eventually Mr. McGowan had to move again. He put most of his stuff in storage and moved into a railway car (still decorated, of course) in Mill Valley for awhile. When I talked to him recently, he was living in a house at an undisclosed location in Marin, which he said was done up much the same as before but which he no longer opened to the public. It's a shame, because it was truly a service for people, saying to us: "Here is your unwanted, your discarded: it is your past, your childhood - and see how it can be made wonderous?"
Which is something everyone in modern consumer society needs to hear. And see.
Labels: art, contemporary, culture, philosophy, wunderkammern
Rosamond Purcell: Goddess of Wunderkammern
Peter the Great's collection of pulled teeth, probably the most influential picture, for me, ever.
Just found this slide show/article, courtesy of Slate, about my absolutely favorite artist of all time, Rosamond Purcell, a few of whose books I mention in the Christmas list, but who is also the extraordinary contributor to Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors, and the amazing Illuminations: a Bestiary, both incredible books.
Check it out - it's worth reading and looking at! And if you want to put the above two books on your list, well, I won't stop you.
Also, a marvelous review by John Crowley of Purcell's work.
Labels: art, books, culture, history, natural wonders, people
The Cabinet of Wonders Gift Guide
This is an unusual idea for me, but after looking at Make Magazine's Steampunk Gift Guide (which is pretty great, courtesy of Jake von Slatt of the Steampunk Workshop) I thought I'd come up with a list of my own. If I were to look for some really unusual things for a gift list, these would be but a few:
- Owl's Head: On the Nature of Lost Things or Swift As a Shadow: Extinct and Endangered Species, or particularly Bookworm, all by Rosamund Purcell, the goddess of museum photography. The first of these is a meditation (with, of course, photos) on her relationship with an amazing junk collector and how he influenced her life; the second, photographs of taxidermied animals; and the third, works made by Purcell herself using books that have been destroyed in interesting ways - very reflective of the Picturesque aesthetic, making them look like ancient remains - to reveal astonishing loveliness and interesting truths.
- If you're in London or thereabouts, go visit Get Stuffed, one of my favorite stores. A taxidermical paradise.
- On this same note, Van Dyke is the Wunderkammer of all taxidermy supplies. You can get any kind of eyes, including some that don't exist in the real world (see picture above, custom ordered), as well as animal forms and every kind of chemical, etc. They even have a gift certificate option for that special taxidermist in your life.
- Also in London there is Pollock's Toy Museum, where you can check out the amazing toy exhibits (mostly toy theatres from many different periods). Then, if you're feeling like a good person, you can help help the Museum's Trust by going to Pollock's and buying some of their lovely vintage greeting card reproductions. If I could make a massive neon hand pointing to this entry in the List, I would. Pollock's shop (not to mention the Museum) is one of my favorite places in the world. You can buy some of their most extraordinary collection of reproduction toy theatres (paper cutouts, of the most wonderful variety and complexity) at Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop, another amazing place, whose relationship with the museum is...well, it seems to be complicated(wiki). I do wish that the Museum Trust sold theatres, because they need help, and greeting cards may not be enough.
- On the matter of mechanical gewgaws, the Horology Source's page on How to Make Your Own Clocks and Watches, including kits and plans.
- John Gleave, Orrery maker (hope this website still leads to a real person and is not an artifact).
- The Brass Compass, purveyors of fine brass nautical instruments: compasses, astrolabes, sextants, and so on. Make sure to look through the mind-numbing list of links at the bottom of the page, which will take you places like this theodolite, which you can buy with hardwood case and teak tripod.
- For all things stereoscopic, including stereoscopic cameras and all sorts of vintage (read: 60's 70's and on) stereo/photographic items, check out 3D by Dr. T, a warehouse of everything of this sort, for true enthusiasts - no antiques offered, only modern supplies and devices. But if you ever wanted to make your own stereoscopic pictures, this would be the place to go. They even have how-to books.
- From Jeffrey D. Picka, a professor at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, here is a list of genuinely strange books which is not only interesting to peruse but, if you can find copies of them, might make for really unusual gifts.
The Secrets of Building Electrostatic Lightning Bolt Generators, an eccentric book by an eccentric man who has experimented with many different types of crazy electricity machines, who after writing about his trials and errors (complete with instructions and experiments), encourages you to improve upon them.
- Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl is a fascinating hypertext retelling of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Here's a description:
"What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?
What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?
And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?
This is their story."
The work has gotten great reviews and sounds unusual and fascinating. I like Ms. Jackson's My Body: A Wunderkammer, a lively, down-to-earth hypertext work wherein clicking on parts of the beautifully-drawn body will get you bits and pieces of stories about her body and its life.
Outposts: A Catalog of Rare And Disturbing Alternative Information. I've heard this is an amazing book from before the Internet really took off, with "sections on drugs, sex, or other bizarre but interesting fringe culture interests." People seem to find it difficult to put down (Disclaimer: I have not read this book and cannot guarantee it would not offend some people).
- This is kind of weird: staples and eyelets to supply those who use, or would like to use, their antique paper-fastening devices.
- You can also go to eBay and type in "reliquary." There are all kinds of fascinating things that come up...
- Lastly, here is a site, entirely in Dutch (I think), showing off Jos de Vink's amazing collection of self-made Stirling hot-air engines, beautiful creations of brass and glass run entirely off small candles. I have no idea if the man is interested in selling these, but if you have enough cash, you could ask. It's worth looking at in any case. You can also see the "Kathedraal" machine, above, on Youtube.
Labels: editorial, information, miscellany
NaNoWriMo is over (I made it to 40,000 words, which is a great deal of novel, so I've only got a little more to go, and I'm pretty happy).
The chaos that is my life is calming somewhat, despite Christmas and so on.
Give me a couple of days. I'll be back.
Blood Tea and Red String: a Feast of Wonders
The other night I finally watched Blood Tea and Red String, a mind-boggling animation by Christiane Cegavske, and I must say, I was really impressed.
The movie has a home-made quality, in much the same way as many of Svankmejer's movies, meaning all the parts of it are lovingly crafted and beautifully-imagined. The "camerawork" (panning and focusing) is dizzyingly versatile, moving in and out and across in the same way that a camera moves in live-action movies.
Much of the plot is mysterious and odd, and to begin with takes a bit of deduction to work out; you find yourself having to let go of preconceptions and simply let it unfold. Ms. Cegavske, who is American, does a bang-up job supplying with body language and camera work what is lost through lack of dialogue.
Some of the images are so extraordinary, so iconic: like memories or dreams. I suppose this is the purview of art, that it makes us feel that completely new images are old, something with which we are already familiar. It feels, as in dreams, that you are meeting someone you already knew, but can't quite place.
And yet, the whole thing was so original, so inspired and strange, that I find myself thinking back on the images as I go through my day. Little glimpses of it come back in the grocery store, at school, in the car, and I find I can't share what I'm remembering with anyone - they would think me too strange.
Labels: animation, contemporary, creepy stuff, culture, magic


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Q: How use JS variable as ngresource parameter name? I'm trying to filter columns with the following code:
JS:
$scope.filter = {};

$scope.filterColumn = function (propName) {
   $scope.informsystemList = EntityManager.query({entity: "informsystem",propName:$scope.filter[propName]});
}

HTML:
<input type="text" ng-model="filter.name" ng-change="filterColumn('name')">
Resource:
portalApp.factory("EntityManager", function ($resource) {
    return $resource("rest/:treeNodeType/:entity/:id", {treeNodeType:'@treeNodeType',entity: '@entity', id: '@id'},
        {
            update: {
                method: 'PUT'
            }
        });
});

Problem is in propName:$scope.filter[propName] - param value is OK but parameter name is not variable value but "propName". How to fix this issue?

A: So if you want to use the propName value as a property name you have to do it like this :
$scope.filterColumn = function (propName) {
   var data = {entity: "informsystem"};
   data[propName] = $scope.filter[propName];
   $scope.informsystemList = EntityManager.query(data);
}

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Welcome to this section! Here you can find many interesting Facts about Turrican. If you think you know anything that should be mentioned here, please contact me.
TURRICAN 3 Development Diary - complete with many pictures !
Turrican 4 by Neon ?
A short quote from an interview with M.Trenz - and the answer to the question "why was Turrican 3d stopped ?"
Interview with Factor 5 - "Wo bleibt Turrican 3?"
The Turrican 1 C64 Turrican Soundtrack, Subsong 2 was stolen from "Transformers the Movie" (1985)! Best compare it to the track "Escape".
The Name Turrican has its origin in the telephone-book of Düsseldorf, from an italian named "Turricano"
Turrican´s worktitle was Hurrican, it was renamed to Turrican short before the release to avoid naming conflicts with another game. See an Article with the original title here.
As the Turrican 2 Demo was prelaunched on a computer-show in Cologne, so many people tried to get one of the 900 copies that 2 people were injured !
Turrican 3 was first released for Megadrive as Mega Turrican .
At first, Factor 5 started Turrican 3 on the Amiga, they even had a demo with the plasma-rope. But then began the problems with the Amiga and they switched to the Sega MegaDrive. One year later Kaiko offered Rainbow Arts to do a Turrican 3 on Amiga, not identical to MegaTurrican. But there were copyright problems, and so MegaTurrican was ported.
The inspiration for Turrican were Metroid (NES, Nintendo), Psycho-Nics Oscar (Arcade, 1987 Data East Corporation ) and Mario (Nintendo).
It once was once planned to beam Turrican star-trek like into the stages, but they were never happy with the results. The remains were used in Turrican 2. This was the particle implosion-system mentioned in the Turrican 1 Demo.
The Box to activate the elevator in Turrican 1 simply was part of the copy-protection. If you had a copy, it just was not there, as well as some other Bonus rooms.
The german techno-Band Scooter remixed the Turrican 2 Extro-Song "Freedom", the track is named "Level One"
In "Earth Defender", only available on the SuperVision-Handheld they even stole the Turrican 1-Cover.
The 2 facts above may be the reason why it is so complicated for both to release a new Turrican.
Turrican was performed live, with a full orchestra and choir at Games-Convention opening-Concerts in Leipzig and at the Symphonic Shades-Concert in Koeln.
The Turrican 3 / Mega Turrican Boss was inspired by the Marvel-comic-character "Stryfe", he even is named as such in the ASM source code of the Turrican 3 intro.
The size (of Turrican 2 levels anyway) differs per level, level one is approximatly 130x51 blocks (1 block = 32x32 pixels) so this would be (130x32)/320 = 13 screens wide and (32*51)/200= 8+ screens heigh.
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Adaptogens can help with everything from cognition to liver health to helping with cancer and tumors. These mushrooms have been used for centuries and are now, finally, making it into the spotlight and I couldn't be happier. Using natural foods in lieu or in addition to medication to help heal your body is a wonderful thing! For more information on adaptogenic mushrooms check out my contributor Lauren's post on a handful of the most common adaptogenic mushrooms here.
For this recipe I chose to use Reishi. Reishi is known as the queen healer and it pairs beautifully with coffee (as well as chocolate) so of course it's perfect for Morning Power Coffee! But there are a myriad of other adaptogenic mushrooms that would work well here, also. Lion's Mane and Turkey Tail are two others that you can easily find but many more are available through Om Mushrooms, my favorite company for adaptogenic mushrooms!
Head to my YouTube Channel to watch me make the recipe and then come back here for the ingredients and the quantities. I'm sure this drink will help you power through your day the way it helps me with mine!
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Add everything to a blender and whir up until smooth and frothy. Enjoy immediately and feel the power!


After Loads of Promises, DMRC Has Finally Kickstarted Trials for The Heritage Line!
Finally ending the wait, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has started its trial run for the much awaited 'Heritage Line'. The 5.1 km-long extension of the Violet Line will have three stations - Delhi Gate, Jama Masjid and Red Fort Post ITO. This new line will be open for public use from November onwards. The highlight of this Heritage Line is the new Jama Masjid Metro Station.
What We're Tripping on | The panels at the Jama Masjid Station will be showcasing the mosque's traditional architecture - arches, jharokhas, minarets, domes and marble inlays that form this beautiful monument. The mosque and its surroundings in Shahjahanabad will be shown using an archival map. Google Maps will be used to explain its present day setting in the city.
The Station will improve connectivity from Chawri Bazaar, Matia Mahal, Darya Ganj and Dariba Kalan.
For all you foodies out there, this line connects you directly to the food line opposite Jama Masjid - yayy!


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Sea World has Roller Coasters?
Home » Sea World has Roller Coasters?
Florida Destination Story, Orlando
When many of us think of Sea World we think of graceful dolphins gliding across the effervescent waters, cute and cuddly sea lions balancing big rubber balls on their noses and making that cute yelping noise they do that pretty much warms any heart in earshot. We also may think swimming with dolphins in Orlando, or whales jumping out of a huge pool and making a gigantic splash that wets almost every person in the audience, enormous and all-encompassing aquariums surrounded on all sides by crystal clear glass so you can observe all manner of aquatic life frolicking and swimming in every direction. But one thing is for sure, we don't normally think of Sea World as a major rollercoaster attraction site.
What's new at Sea World:
Sea World has been busy expanding over the years adding parks like infinity falls and Nautilus Theater and even bringing in a Sesame Street rendition coming in 2019, but Sea Wolrd has also been keeping up with attempting to cater to the adolescent thrill seeker audience. Other Parks like Universal and Busch Gardens have made their names on rides like the "Hulk" and "Sheikra" but what exactly does Sea World have to offer with those big thriller rides and can they even compare?
Enter Manta:
Besides the cute bellowing sea lions, the lumbering magnificent manatees, the energetic dolphins and porpoises, the massive Orca's, waddling penguins and even the sleek and stealthy sharks, inspired by many of these creatures are the parks roller coaster rides. Enter Manta, one of the first roller coaster rides most may come across when entering the park. This ride as the name implies is inspired by the Manta Sting ray, and even the front of the coaster bears its iconic shape. This ride by far is the most docile entry, but we use that word only in comparison to the other two coasters later available in the park.
The Manta ride can be described as quick with many undulations up and down and side to side, as you might expect if one was to imagine riding literally a giant Manta. The roller coaster emulates the qualities that many might expect by this graceful yet fairly agile creature. The coaster will give you thrills and leave a wide smile on your face at the end as you get warmed up for the real depth defying stunts ahead, if you consider yourself a modest thrill seeker, that wants a few bumps and turns but not at the risk of feeling too dizzy, this ride is for you. It's a good taste of what a roller coaster should feel like without going overboard by any means. Especially excellent for someone who would like to try their first ride!
The Kraken!
Some rides are memorable for a few moments, some for hours and some, well, you don't forget for a while, the Kraken is the latter most of these. While the Kraken is not based off of any actual sea creature but more so a mythological one, the name suits its increased intensity on the track. If you follow this ride immediately after experiencing Manta, you will understand more clearly. The Kraken was said to be a legendary gigantic creature of the deep with unmatched ferocity and strength, to be in its wake was to be met with utter despair and ultimately, annihilation. This ride attempts to capture those descriptions and turn it into pure emotion. With a gradual and slow grind to the top of an elevated platform at least 50-60 feet high, you feel as if you are on the Krakens Head just before dropping down one of its very long tentacles. The drop is intense but oh so much fun! If you're able to survive the initial drop straight down then you are met with intense turns left then right, and swung upside down in a few spirals one after the other, the ride intensity stays consistent for about half of the 5-6 minute ride before giving you a very small break to catch your breath before the next onslaught of turns begin.
Overall this ride is squarely in the intermediate thrill seeker range and may just graze the edge of severe. For those of you reading this saying, I've been on this ride or that ride, and I'm bored by most rollercoasters, then you should definitely add some spice with this one and let us know what you think. A helpful hint for those looking to expand their horizon of thrill seeker fun and claim the coveted title of "yea, I rode that one" you can always remember if any of the parts get too intense, closing your eyes for a few moments can help get you through the most intense moments, but regardless it will be a great experience and a lot of fun.
Maku..
The final ride offered by Sea World is the most intense the park has to offer. There is no mincing words here, let's be very blunt, this ride was meant to be direct competition for some of the most intense rides offered at other theme parks in Orlando, and is not meant to be trifled with. Inspired by the Maku shark, with its super think and sleek body shape, absolutely lethal reaction time, and incredibly fast speeds under water, this is a shark with a deceptively peaceful name. This roller coaster boasts approximately a 80-90 foot drop straight down into a dark abyss, that rockets you upward into the light at incredibly fast speeds, you are then subjected to violent twists and turns both left and right as to imitate when the shark strikes in full attack mode against its prey. In full swing the ride plummets you down and around in constant spirals cylindrically numerous times over and then drops you again and again from higher altitudes. While many might say it does imitate some of the features of the kraken, one might conclude that it is that but with added duration of intensity. You don't get any breaks on Maku..
This ride should be considered for advanced thrill seekers who fancy themselves daredevil's, do not start with this ride in the park as the others will be noticeable downgrades in sheer intensity, heart wrenching terror and absolute excitement. If you have ridden on Hulk, Sheikra and other such name sake rides that many think are the pinnacle (at least at the time of writing this article) of rollercoaster perfection, and came away saying, I wonder what else they can cook up that could be like this? Then Maku will become your best friend quickly. Do not be intimidated, the ride is safe, but depending on your threshold level of intensity, some may find this ride just a tad much for their liking. Of course, we all know, there is only one way to really find out. And at the last, just remember, if you can hang on, not only will you have a ride to remember and tell everyone how absurdly fun and exciting it was, but you also receive the privilege of applying such bragging rights similar to one such very famous person in history;
"I came, I saw, I conquered".
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IRS Whistleblower Program Recovered $472 Million in 2020 – But Office is Plagued by Massive Delays
byGeoff Schweller
in Corporate, Features, IRS & Tax, News
On December 29, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Office released its Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report. The report highlights the central role whistleblowers have played in IRS enforcement efforts and the degree to which whistleblowers have been correspondingly rewarded. According to the report, in fiscal year 2020, whistleblower disclosures helped the IRS collect over $472 million from tax law violators, and the IRS issued over $86 million in awards to 169 whistleblowers. However, the report also documents issues with extremely long delays in processing whistleblower claims, which whistleblower advocates argue undermines the effectiveness of the program. On average, the IRS Whistleblower Office currently takes 10.79 years to process a claim.
The IRS Whistleblower Office was created in 2006 with the passage of the Tax Relief and Health Care Act. The Office issues whistleblower awards to individuals who provide specific and credible information to the IRS that "results in the collection of taxes, penalties, interest or other amounts from the noncompliant taxpayer." Awards are issued in cases where the funds in dispute exceed $2 million or, in cases dealing with an individual, when the individual's annual gross income is more than $200,000. In these cases, whistleblowers are entitled to an award of 15-30% of the funds collected. According to this year's annual report, since 2007, the IRS Whistleblower Office has issued over $1 billion in whistleblower awards based on cases that resulted in the total collection of $6.14 billion in back taxes, interest, penalties, and criminal fines and sanctions.
"The IRS whistleblower law continues to demonstrate the importance of whistleblower reward laws. Whistleblowers are the eyes and ears of enforcement, and their disclosures are essential for prosecuting tax cheats," said whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center.
However, the annual report documents a decrease in the monetary amount awarded to whistleblowers in the 2020 fiscal year. The $86 million issued to whistleblowers in 2020 is substantially less than the $312 million and $120 million paid in awards in 2018 and 2019, respectively. In addition, the report details massive backlogs and delays in the processing of whistleblower award claims. On average, the Whistleblower Office currently takes over 10 years to process a whistleblower case and as of September 30, 2020, the office had a backlog of 23,943 cases.
In a recent article for the National Law Review, Kohn states that these backlogs and delays undermine the whistleblower reward law's effectiveness and whistleblowers' contributions. However, Kohn claims that "these delays and backlogs are not the fault of the IRS Whistleblower Office." He explains that the office "lacks the resources to properly respond to the thousands of whistleblower filings it receives each year." Kohn notes that there are only 43 full-time employees for the Whistleblower Office, including the executive staff, award recommendation staff, planning and programming staff and case development and oversight staff.
Therefore, Kohn argues that Congress must pass reforms to fix the IRS whistleblower program. He claims that, given whistleblowers' effectiveness in exposing tax fraud and the fact that it is estimated that the United States loses $441 billion per year in unpaid taxes, the lack of resources given to the IRS Whistleblower Office is "inexplicable."
The reforms Kohn proposes include:
"A strict 1-year deadline for adjudicating whistleblower claims, commencing on the date that sanctions are collected by the government.
Additional resources for the Office of the Whistleblower. These funds can be obtained, in whole or in part, as a percentage of the sanctions recovered by the government from whistleblower cases. In this manner the entire whistleblower program can be financed solely from the successful recovery of sanctions from tax cheats.
Certain statutory and administrative deadlines that are used to justify the delay in paying awards must be shortened."
In an article for Forbes, tax whistleblower attorney Dean Zerbe, who was the central counsel in the writing of the 2006 tax whistleblower law, advocates for the same reforms as Kohn. Zerbe also expresses hope that the incoming Biden/Harris administration will "make a priority of cutting through the red tape that is causing untoward delays in awards." He explains that "the power of whistleblowers is undeniable. Any serious effort to go after big-time tax cheats must include the IRS whistleblower program as part of the effort."
FY 2020 Annual IRS Whistleblower Office Report
IRS Whistleblower Program Recovers $472 Million from Tax Cheats
Tax Whistleblower Report — Opportunity For New Administration To Crack Down On Big-Time Tax Cheats?
New Rule Prohibits House Members from Disclosing Identity of Whistleblowers
Germany's Double-Standard on Whistleblowers on Full Display
Geoff Schweller is a contributing editor with Whistleblower Network News and writes about breaking whistleblower news, SEC whistleblowers, IRS whistleblowers, and CFTC whistleblowers. Geoff graduated from Hamilton College with a degree in Sociology and minors in French & Francophone Studies and Cinema & New Media Studies. While at Hamilton, Geoff was awarded an Emerson Foundation Grant to conduct an independent summer research project on representations of place in ethnographic film.


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Focal Length of an Astronomical Telescope
Arny, Thomas T., and Nicholas A. Pananides. Introductory Astronomy. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1973: 53. "Thus a 10-inch, f-9 telescope has an objective with a diameter of 10 inches and a focal length of 90 inches." 2.2860 m
Muirden, James. How to Use an Astronomical Telescope. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1985: 14. "Astronomical eyepieces are available in a considerable range of focal lengths. The longest are up to 50 mm or so, the shortest may be as little as 4 mm." 0.004–0.050 m
Chaisson, Eric J. The Hubble Wars. New York: HarperCollins, 1994: 150. "Hubble's focal length — the distance between the main mirror and the point at which it focuses light — is 189 feet (nearly 58 meters), or about three times as long as the shuttle, but because the light is additionally reflected by a secondary mirror back through a hole in the main mirror, a long focus can be attained within the confines of telescope." 57.6072 m
Worvill, Roy. Stars and Telescopes for the Beginner. New York: Taplinger, 1979: 50. "A Newtonian reflector … … made by J.H. Hindle. The focal length is 7½ ft." 2.2860 m
Hsu, Daniel. NASA. Electronic mail. 29 May 2002. "The primary mirror is 2.4 meters and the telescope has a focal ratio of f/24. The focal length is then 2.4 x 24 = 57.6 m." 57.6 m
As evidenced by the wide array of books about astronomy aimed at beginners and amateurs it is clear to see that this a field of science in which nonprofessionals can easily partake. All that is needed is an astronomical telescope and the sky is the limit. An astronomical telescope is a device used by astronomers to examine planets, stars, and other heavenly bodies. The telescope can magnify these distant objects or produce images that are otherwise too faint for the naked eye to see. There is no standard telescope used by all astronomers but rather an assortment of designs to choose from.
The astronomical telescope is an instrument that works based on a relatively simple premise. A lens or mirror, known as the objective, collects light from an object and focuses it at a location called the focal point. The focal length is the distance from the focal point to the surface of the mirror or the center of the lens.
The Hubble Space Telescope, arguably the most famous telescope, has a focal length of roughly 58 M. This is longer than the space shuttle in which it is delivered into orbit but not a problem because a secondary mirror is used to reflect the light back through a hole in the main mirror. For comparison, a Newtonian reflector made by J.H. Hindle has a focal length of 2.860 m and a 10-inch (25.4 cm), f-9 telescope also has a focal length of 2.2860 m.
An eyepiece (essentially a magnifying glass) is also needed in an astronomical telescope. It is used to bring the human eye closer to the image produced at the focal point and examine it. Astronomical eyepieces also have focal lengths, which vary from 0.004 m to 0.050 m depending on design.
Jennifer Hu -- 2002


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System, process and the politics of economic development.
David E. Apter
Published 1964 by University of California in Berkeley .
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'The Process of Economic Development has been an excellent text and resource for development studies and economic development students for many new fourth edition of this book continues to provide these important educational services in a relevant and scholarly manner, while effectively keeping up with the evolving research literatures of the field' ― Kenneth A.
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making system within which economic policy players operate.2 China's economic policy making: an important but little-understood subject Economic policy is product of a policy making process, in which policy players seek to influence the economic developments to achieve social, economic and political objectives.
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Politics is a multifaceted word. It may be used positively in the context of a. Economic growth, the process by which a nation's wealth increases over time. Although the term is often used in discussions of short-term economic performance, in the context of economic theory it generally refers to an increase in wealth over an extended period.
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• To facilitate participatory support in economic development. • To create a positive attitude towards sustainable economic development 1. INTRODUCTION In the modern, highly competitive world of today, important sources of wealth and economic development are knowledge, learning and innovation (Committee of Technikon Principals ).
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol Number 2,pp– The political economy of development: an assessment Christopher Adam∗ and Stefan Dercon∗∗ Abstract Research in the field of economic development is increasingly engaged with questions of political economy, of how political choices, institutional structures, and forms of governance influence the economic.
The historical development of public policy development and policy analysis from the s to the present provide the basis to understand the process over the decades. Various theoretical approaches, namely the process approach, the rational approach, the sequential mode approach, the equity approach, the anti-poverty approach and.
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Economic development demands and entails profound cultural change, including, often, transformation of the political system, of individual behavior norms, of the culture of work and production, and, most fundamentally, modifications in the manner in which society confronts, molds, propels, and adapts itself to the requirements of technological progress that are the fount of economic growth and.
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Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two People's Representative Councils. evidence on the relationship between economic development and political factors. Determinants of economic development have been variously classified and studied.
With regard to the role of political factors in the process of development, the interest has greatly in-creased since the emergence of the many new nations. Various. This article explores the role of the financial sector for economic growth, the causes and consequences of financial fragility, and the politics behind financial deepening and fragility.
In doing so, it identifies the critical role of the financial sector within capitalist economies, a role with bright and dark sides. Specifically, it surveys the large theoretical and empirical literature that Cited by: Normal majority-rule politics, such as bargaining over distributive and monetary policies, generate instability and frequently undermine economic development.
Above Politics argues that bureaucracies can contribute to stability and economic development, but only if they are insulated from unstable by: E.J. Blakely, R.J. Milano, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Community economic development is a branch of local economic development.
Community economic development is based on two essential notions. First, the community or neighborhood should be the focal point for developing human, social, and physical resources.
Indian Government and Politics is a must-read. The book offers definitive information on topics ranging from the Indian Constitution to local governance and planning and economic development.
There is little that has been left out; indeed, it can be safely said that, whatever is absolutely needed is there. The book discusses the origins of economic systems and the development of both capitalism and socialism from earlier economic systems.
The conflicting ideas of the two systems are compared and evaluated, as well as how each system has actually performed in practice. Economic development, political-economic system, and the physical quality of life. This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development.
The World Bank was the principal source of statistical data for countries (97 per cent of the.In 'The Theory of Economic Development' and all of Schumpeter's subsequent seminal books, one of the most important aspects of the analysis is the distinction between exogenous and endogenous factors of the economic system.
This perspective allows analysis of economic phenomena through economic factors and maintains aFile Size: KB.The thesis expounded here does not pay even lip service to the sequential development of 'economy first and democracy later'. Instead it suggests paternalistic authoritarianism tempered by nominal democratic institutions such as elections, as a permanent political system.
The political economy of development here has politics in undisputed command.
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Wantagh Crash Leaves Driver Dead
By Timothy Bolger Posted on October 24, 2015
A driver was killed after crashing on the Southern State Parkway, sending the car airborne into the opposite lane of traffic, where it collided with another vehicle Friday night in Wantagh.
New York State police said the driver was heading eastbound in a Honda Accord when he crashed into the center median, sending the car airborne into the westbound lanes, where it collided with a Nissan Maxima near the Wantagh State Parkway.
The driver of the Honda was taken to Nassau University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. His name wasn't immediately released. The driver and passengers in the Nissan suffered minor injuries.
State Troopers ask anyone with any information to call them at 631-756-3300.
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Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who's been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he's not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won't be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.
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