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// Copyright (c) Microsoft.  All Rights Reserved.  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.  See License.txt in the project root for license information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
using Roslyn.Utilities;

namespace Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.ExtractMethod
{
    internal abstract partial class AbstractSyntaxTriviaService
    {
        private class Result : ITriviaSavedResult
        {
            private static readonly AnnotationResolver s_defaultAnnotationResolver = ResolveAnnotation;
            private static readonly TriviaResolver s_defaultTriviaResolver = ResolveTrivia;

            private readonly SyntaxNode _root;
            private readonly int _endOfLineKind;

            private readonly Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxAnnotation> _annotations;
            private readonly Dictionary<TriviaLocation, IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia>> _triviaList;

            public Result(
                SyntaxNode root,
                int endOfLineKind,
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxAnnotation> annotations,
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia>> triviaList)
            {
                Contract.ThrowIfNull(root);
                Contract.ThrowIfNull(annotations);
                Contract.ThrowIfNull(triviaList);

                _root = root;
                _endOfLineKind = endOfLineKind;

                _annotations = annotations;
                _triviaList = triviaList;
            }

            public SyntaxNode Root => _root;

            public SyntaxNode RestoreTrivia(
                SyntaxNode root,
                AnnotationResolver annotationResolver = null,
                TriviaResolver triviaResolver = null)
            {
                var tokens = RecoverTokensAtEdges(root, annotationResolver);
                var map = CreateOldToNewTokensMap(tokens, triviaResolver);

                return root.ReplaceTokens(map.Keys, (o, n) => map[o]);
            }

            private Dictionary<SyntaxToken, SyntaxToken> CreateOldToNewTokensMap(
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, PreviousNextTokenPair> tokenPairs,
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair> triviaPairs)
            {
                var map = new Dictionary<SyntaxToken, SyntaxToken>();
                foreach (var pair in CreateUniqueTokenTriviaPairs(tokenPairs, triviaPairs))
                {
                    var localCopy = pair;
                    var previousToken = map.GetOrAdd(localCopy.Item1.PreviousToken, _ => localCopy.Item1.PreviousToken);
                    map[localCopy.Item1.PreviousToken] = previousToken.WithTrailingTrivia(localCopy.Item2.TrailingTrivia);

                    var nextToken = map.GetOrAdd(localCopy.Item1.NextToken, _ => localCopy.Item1.NextToken);
                    map[localCopy.Item1.NextToken] = nextToken.WithLeadingTrivia(localCopy.Item2.LeadingTrivia);
                }

                return map;
            }

            private LeadingTrailingTriviaPair GetTrailingAndLeadingTrivia(TriviaLocation locationKind, PreviousNextTokenPair tokenPair, IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia> trivia)
            {
                var list = trivia.ToList();

                // there are some noisy trivia
                var index = GetFirstEndOfLineIndex(list);

                return new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair
                {
                    TrailingTrivia = CreateTriviaListFromTo(list, 0, index),
                    LeadingTrivia = CreateTriviaListFromTo(list, index + 1, list.Count - 1)
                };
            }

            private int GetFirstEndOfLineIndex(List<SyntaxTrivia> list)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < list.Count; i++)
                {
                    if (list[i].RawKind == _endOfLineKind)
                    {
                        return i;
                    }
                }

                return list.Count - 1;
            }

            private Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxToken> RecoverTokensAtEdges(
                SyntaxNode root,
                AnnotationResolver annotationResolver)
            {
                var resolver = annotationResolver ?? s_defaultAnnotationResolver;

                var tokens = Enumerable.Range((int)TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan, TriviaLocationsCount)
                                       .Cast<TriviaLocation>()
                                       .ToDictionary(
                                            location => location,
                                            location => resolver(root, location, _annotations[location]));

                // check variable assumption. ordering of two pairs can't be changed
                Contract.ThrowIfFalse(
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan].RawKind == 0 /* && don't care */) ||
                    (/* don't care && */ tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan].RawKind == 0) ||
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan].Span.End <= tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan].SpanStart));

                Contract.ThrowIfFalse(
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan].RawKind == 0 /* && don't care */) ||
                    (/* don't care && */ tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan].RawKind == 0) ||
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan] == tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan]) ||
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan].GetPreviousToken(includeZeroWidth: true) == tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan]) ||
                    (tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan].Span.End <= tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan].SpanStart));

                return tokens;
            }

            private Dictionary<SyntaxToken, SyntaxToken> CreateOldToNewTokensMap(
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxToken> tokens,
                TriviaResolver triviaResolver)
            {
                var tokenPairs = CreatePreviousNextTokenPairs(tokens);
                var tokenToLeadingTrailingTriviaMap = CreateTokenLeadingTrailingTriviaMap(tokens);

                var resolver = triviaResolver ?? s_defaultTriviaResolver;

                var triviaPairs = Enumerable.Range((int)TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan, TriviaLocationsCount)
                                            .Cast<TriviaLocation>()
                                            .ToDictionary(
                                                location => location,
                                                location => CreateTriviaPairs(
                                                                location,
                                                                tokenPairs[location],
                                                                resolver(location, tokenPairs[location], tokenToLeadingTrailingTriviaMap)));

                return CreateOldToNewTokensMap(tokenPairs, triviaPairs);
            }

            private LeadingTrailingTriviaPair CreateTriviaPairs(
                TriviaLocation locationKind,
                PreviousNextTokenPair tokenPair,
                IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia> trivia)
            {
                // beginning of the tree
                if (tokenPair.PreviousToken.RawKind == 0)
                {
                    return new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair { TrailingTrivia = SpecializedCollections.EmptyEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia>(), LeadingTrivia = trivia };
                }

                return GetTrailingAndLeadingTrivia(locationKind, tokenPair, trivia);
            }

            private IEnumerable<Tuple<PreviousNextTokenPair, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair>> CreateUniqueTokenTriviaPairs(
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, PreviousNextTokenPair> tokenPairs,
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair> triviaPairs)
            {
                // if there are dup, duplicated one will be ignored.
                var set = new HashSet<PreviousNextTokenPair>();
                for (int i = (int)TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan; i <= (int)TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan; i++)
                {
                    var location = (TriviaLocation)i;
                    var key = tokenPairs[location];
                    if (set.Contains(key))
                    {
                        continue;
                    }

                    yield return Tuple.Create(key, triviaPairs[location]);
                    set.Add(key);
                }
            }

            private Dictionary<SyntaxToken, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair> CreateTokenLeadingTrailingTriviaMap(
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxToken> tokens)
            {
                var tuple = default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair);
                var map = new Dictionary<SyntaxToken, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair>();

                tuple = map.GetOrAdd(tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan], _ => default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair));
                map[tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan]] = new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair
                {
                    LeadingTrivia = tuple.LeadingTrivia,
                    TrailingTrivia = _triviaList[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan]
                };

                tuple = map.GetOrAdd(tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan], _ => default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair));
                map[tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan]] = new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair
                {
                    LeadingTrivia = _triviaList[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan],
                    TrailingTrivia = tuple.TrailingTrivia
                };

                tuple = map.GetOrAdd(tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan], _ => default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair));
                map[tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan]] = new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair
                {
                    LeadingTrivia = tuple.LeadingTrivia,
                    TrailingTrivia = _triviaList[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan]
                };

                tuple = map.GetOrAdd(tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan], _ => default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair));
                map[tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan]] = new LeadingTrailingTriviaPair
                {
                    LeadingTrivia = _triviaList[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan],
                    TrailingTrivia = tuple.TrailingTrivia
                };

                return map;
            }

            private Dictionary<TriviaLocation, PreviousNextTokenPair> CreatePreviousNextTokenPairs(
                Dictionary<TriviaLocation, SyntaxToken> tokens)
            {
                var tokenPairs = new Dictionary<TriviaLocation, PreviousNextTokenPair>();

                tokenPairs[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan] = new PreviousNextTokenPair
                {
                    PreviousToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan],
                    NextToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeBeginningOfSpan].GetNextToken(includeZeroWidth: true)
                };

                tokenPairs[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan] = new PreviousNextTokenPair
                {
                    PreviousToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan].GetPreviousToken(includeZeroWidth: true),
                    NextToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterBeginningOfSpan]
                };

                tokenPairs[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan] = new PreviousNextTokenPair
                {
                    PreviousToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan],
                    NextToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.BeforeEndOfSpan].GetNextToken(includeZeroWidth: true)
                };

                tokenPairs[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan] = new PreviousNextTokenPair
                {
                    PreviousToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan].GetPreviousToken(includeZeroWidth: true),
                    NextToken = tokens[TriviaLocation.AfterEndOfSpan]
                };

                return tokenPairs;
            }

            private IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia> CreateTriviaListFromTo(
                List<SyntaxTrivia> list,
                int startIndex,
                int endIndex)
            {
                if (startIndex > endIndex)
                {
                    yield break;
                }

                for (int i = startIndex; i <= endIndex; i++)
                {
                    yield return list[i];
                }
            }

            private static SyntaxToken ResolveAnnotation(
                SyntaxNode root,
                TriviaLocation location,
                SyntaxAnnotation annotation)
            {
                return root.GetAnnotatedNodesAndTokens(annotation).FirstOrDefault().AsToken();
            }

            private static IEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia> ResolveTrivia(
                TriviaLocation location,
                PreviousNextTokenPair tokenPair,
                Dictionary<SyntaxToken, LeadingTrailingTriviaPair> triviaMap)
            {
                var previousTriviaPair = triviaMap.ContainsKey(tokenPair.PreviousToken) ? triviaMap[tokenPair.PreviousToken] : default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair);
                var nextTriviaPair = triviaMap.ContainsKey(tokenPair.NextToken) ? triviaMap[tokenPair.NextToken] : default(LeadingTrailingTriviaPair);

                var trailingTrivia = previousTriviaPair.TrailingTrivia ?? SpecializedCollections.EmptyEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia>();
                var leadingTrivia = nextTriviaPair.LeadingTrivia ?? SpecializedCollections.EmptyEnumerable<SyntaxTrivia>();

                return tokenPair.PreviousToken.TrailingTrivia.Concat(trailingTrivia).Concat(leadingTrivia).Concat(tokenPair.NextToken.LeadingTrivia);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Q: Put all info into one worksheet(excel, python) # Conbine all the accounts in one sheet
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('toupi-all.xlsx')
for y in duplicate:
    print(y)
    filterYTD=YTD[(YTD["LOGIN"]==y)]
    combine=filterYTD.groupby(["LOGIN"]["EQUITY_CHANGE","TRUE_PROFIT","SWAP","total_cost","cost_to_loss","WITHDRAW",'DEPOSIT',"EMAIL"].sum().sort_values(["EQUITY_CHANGE"],ascending=False).round(2)
    combine=combine.merge(intra,on='LOGIN',how='left')
    combine=combine.merge(tags,on="LOGIN",how='left')
    combine.to_excel(writer)
writer.save()
os.startfile('toupi-all.xlsx')

The logic is not right; just only the last account will appear in the excel; one account is one row. How can I have all the rows in one worksheet? I just dont know how to google this problem; sad

A: pandas to_excel takes an argument startrow - if you want all data on the same sheet you need to include this in your loop to prevent each iteration from over-writing the previous iteration's data. Also you can use the header parameter to prevent the columns being added to the sheet in each iteration.
Something like this:
writer = pd.ExcelWriter('toupi-all.xlsx')
startrow = 0
for y in duplicate:
    print(y)
    filterYTD=YTD[(YTD["LOGIN"]==y)]
    combine=filterYTD.groupby(["LOGIN"]["EQUITY_CHANGE","TRUE_PROFIT","SWAP","total_cost","cost_to_loss","WITHDRAW",'DEPOSIT',"EMAIL"].sum().sort_values(["EQUITY_CHANGE"],ascending=False).round(2)
    combine=combine.merge(intra,on='LOGIN',how='left')
    combine=combine.merge(tags,on="LOGIN",how='left')
    combine.to_excel(writer, startrow=startrow, header=not bool(startrow))
    startrow += len(combine)

writer.save()
os.startfile('toupi-all.xlsx')

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Two youngsters and future tennis stars
Posted on December 19, 2015	by Admin	in Tennis
It began Tennis Championships Puerto Rico National victories for several of the favorites.
The favorites in the men's Tennis Championship of Puerto Rico El Nacional, Alex and Eric Diaz, agenciaron their first victories in the tournament has the best tennis talent Island.
Alex, current runner-up in singles, won 6-1, 6-0 Shandor Gomez, while Eric beat 6-2, 6-2 Eduardo Fuertes. The brothers, sons of renowned tennis coach and former Puerto Rican national champion Manolito Diaz, showed great mastery and skill in this initial round.
In women, they were held in the first day of competition first round five games with Chantal Martinez Blanco and Clary Rodriguez, who come to court today. With them, they will debut Mareli Julia Sanchez, who will try to repeat the achievement of his mother, Julia Marilda, female national champion in 1980.
In the doubles, it will be an important day for public tennis as it marks the return of Alex Llompart Filardi in his specialty of doubles, combined with the prospect juvenile Ignacio Garcia. They will face composed Juanlucca Casalduc and Guillermo Torres at 7:30 pm While the couple double female category will start its first round.
As part of the events related to El Nacional, the Tennis Association of Puerto Rico organized by the Academia Sánchez-Casal Tennis, free clinics for young players (intermediate and advanced) and adult courts. For youth training today at 5:00 pm, followed by a talk for parents at 7:00 pm Thursday, December 17 players a clinic for adults will be held at 5:00 pm will be offered. Those interested in participating should contact at 787-982-7782.
The national tennis promising young southpaw Brandon Perez culminates U16 2015 campaign with impressive record of 36 wins, experiencing significant progress in the HEAD Recruiting Lists, the IMG TennisRPI and PRINCE lead the Hot 100.
The Caracas 15 years of age, after reaching the quarterfinals of the 6th USTA MAS Challenger, completed last December 7 at Boars Head Inn & Sports, Charlottesville, VA, remained as U16 player of greater progress throughout the United States as the Prince Hot 100 in November, which publishes the renowned site TENNIS RECRUITING NETWORK.
Brandon, who currently trains at the Junior Tennis College Center at College Park, in Meryland, is also the third best player in the state of Virginia, according to the HEAD Recruiting List, where it is also among the top 100 mid-Atlantic and among the top 150 across the United States after completing the 2015 American with 21 wins.
"I felt good, and I learned quite a few things have improved during this 2015 where mistakes have been very active, not only playing in USA, but in Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela," said the young Caracas.
In the IMG TennisRPI, the most popular college ranking in the US and followed by the NCAA committee Brandon Pérez is among the top 100.
The aspirations of the young Creole, who plays with Babolat racquets and Venezuela are trained at the Academy of Roman Recarte, is being in a Grand Slam and represent the country in Davis Cup. / Sportweb


It's been a crazy week. For a couple of months I had been trying to make some decisions about my coaching. My racing and running were going well, but I felt like I needed to make some changes. I decided to go back to being self-coached and put together a group to support and advise me. The ultra community is fairly small in Phoenix and my decision seemed to cause some problems. As my support team fell apart due to split loyalties I struggled with what to do next. In the end, Norm and I decided I needed to find a new coach.
I took recommendations from friends and emailed a few people. Ultimately I decided to go with Chris Vargo and I am already really happy with my decision. I had some great people to choose from, but as soon as I read the reply email from Chris I knew he was the one! And after a few easy weeks I am really excited to get back to hard training.
So, I have decided that next week I go back to not only running hard, but crossing training hard. It isn't easy. When I first started I was a stay at home mom who homeschooled. Time was on my side. Now I work 2 or more jobs and I am going to school for my PhD while trying to raise 2 tweens and 1 teenager. But, my family makes a lot of sacrifices with out complaining so that I can devote a lot of time to running. Running competitively is selfish, but I am lucky to have a supportive family.
Another change I made this week is hiring a manager. It sounds so big time, but as I mentioned, I am a little busy. I really need help organizing my racing life. I decided to hire Sabrina Redden. She has a lot of knowledge of the ultra world and is one of my besties so I know she has my best interest at heart. I'm super stoked to have her help!
A few days ago everything seemed so up in the air, but in the end I am feeling really good about the team I have put together and I'm looking forward to a great year of racing!
Overall you looked great as I expected. Just a couple little tweaks to you hip mobility and stability.


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Q: How to tell if a user's iOS device has been lost or stolen? We built an iOS messaging app that's in the App Store.
Messages are sent from the sending device to our servers, which store the messages until they are delivered to and stored on the receiving device(s).
Is there a way to know if a user has deactivated their device?
For example, a user lost their phone and reported it to their wireless carrier, so the carrier can disable their account to prevent calls, texts, and data use. And/or, can we know if the user unlinked their iCloud account from their device?
If a device is deactivated, we want to stop sending messages to it because we want to be efficient and stop storing messages on the server forever.


"the Belt and Road" is a development strategy started by the Chinese government in 2013. It refers to the New Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
"the Belt and Road" is a development strategy started by the Chinese government in 2013. It refers to the New Silk Road Economic Belt, which will link China with Europe through Central and Western Asia, and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, which will connect China with Southeast Asian countries, Africa and Europe. Neither the belt nor the road follows any clear line geographically speaking; they serve more as a roadmap for how China wants to further integrate itself into the world economy and strengthen its influence in these regions.
While relative region could gain better finance, strength infrastructure for development through cooperation, China expects to be beneficial from enhanced and integrated market for its infrastructure productivity and outward investment.
The planned actions include consultations with countries involved, construction of international economic cooperation corridors and ports, as well as infrastructure projects.


Staff file photo The Carr Fire surges along Highway 299 near the Trinity-Shasta county line near Lewiston.
Dana Hendricks had a front-row seat when 176 hikers got stranded by fast-moving wildfires last year in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge.
The veteran trail manager who lives just upriver from where it happened says the harrowing episode underscores why those heading into wilderness need to be prepared for a fire. Although all the hikers eventually were rescued, most had to spend a night on a popular trail an hour from Portland after a teenager set off a firecracker that resulted in a wildfire.
While incidents of hikers getting trapped by on-rushing conflagrations are rare, the potential for calamity has dramatically increased with more people venturing into the backcountry where wildland fires are breaking out at an alarming rate as illustrated by recent infernos in Redding and Mendocino County.
More than 4.8 million acres have burned from 37,500 fires in the United States this year, according to statistics from the National Interagency Fire Center. The figure ranks fourth in acreage for the past decade looking at fires from January through July.
How fires can impact outdoor recreation has been on display with the Ferguson blaze just outside of Yosemite National Park.
The wildfire has resulted in levels of particulate pollution in Yosemite Valley exceeding those of Beijing, one of the world's most polluted cities. It got so bad last week that officials closed some of the park's most popular sections — the Valley and Wawona Hotel. It was the first closure because of fire in almost three decades.
Recently, a firefighter died after being struck by a dead tree that fell in the Ferguson fire area. The incident is a reminder of the dangers of falling debris in scorched terrain even after fire-damaged trails reopen.
Fire and wilderness experts say outdoor visitors need to adjust their habits because the situation is expected to worsen with the impact of climate changes and droughts.
Fires become devilish prey shifting directions without warning and gobbling up the arid landscape with a bottomless appetite.
"You cannot outrun a fire — there is just no way about it," says deputy chief Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
But those with a burning desire to get outside can do more to ensure their safety. Here are five recommendations for playing in fire country.
Those who spend time in the wilderness say it has become more important than ever to know the conditions before starting — even if only for an afternoon hike.
McLean recommends using InciWeb, an online map that shows forest fires across the United States. The National Weather Service offers another platform at Cal Fire Weather Watch.
It's still a good idea to stop at a local ranger station even after checking the online information. Rangers can help visitors access the risks of specific trails.
Hendricks says officials often close trails if it appears a fire is headed in that direction. Some people, though, ignore the warning because it doesn't look dangerous to them.
Hikers don't need to wear durable Workrite Nomex firefighter pants for a visit to the great outdoors. Jeans and cotton shirts will suffice. However, do not wear fabrics made of polyester.
"They will melt and stick to your skin," McLean says.
Cotton bandanas serve many purposes but perhaps none as important as reducing the inhalation of smoke. McLean swears by the colorful neckerchief although some experts recommend the N95 or P1000 disposable particulate respirators.
The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention says to avoid dust masks found in hardware stores. They are designed to trap large particles, such as sawdust. The masks won't protect lungs from small particles found in wildfire smoke.
Experts recommend people carry what is known as the 10 essentials even on short trips. Among the items listed are a topographic map and compass, which could be life-saving navigation tools when surrounded by flames.
After 18 years as a firefighter in remote corners of Butte County, McLean has learned invaluable lessons that he says others need to master when entering the backcountry.
McLean wants hikers and others to take mental notes of escape routes to safety zones, which usually are a body of water, but also could be a denuded granite rock area.
As a last resort, trapped firefighters build safety zones composed of bare earth by cutting away vegetation the size of a sheet of 4×8 plywood.
Most hikers can avoid such scenarios by using common sense.
The Pacific Crest Trail Association advises staying away from heavy smoke even if trails are open. Wildfire smoke can cause a reduction in lung function, infectious bronchitis, asthma and heart failure. Other symptoms might include headaches, eye irritation, chest pain, sore throat and shortness of breath.
Researchers for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have found that premature deaths from short-term exposure to wildfire pollution averaged from 1,500-2,500 victims annually in the years 2008 to 2012.
If entering an area covered in smoke, stay low to the ground, experts say. The PCT Association reports that air quality is better at lower elevations because smoke rises.
Outdoor enthusiasts also should learn about smoke's traits to help them predict a fire's behavior.
When the smoke swirls straight up it indicates little to no wind. If smoke bends in one direction then the fire is pointing to where it is heading.
Smoke likes to travel up the drainages and dirt ravines during the course of the afternoon much faster than in the morning, Cal Fire's McLean says. However, when the air is cooler and heavier late at night or early in the morning the wind can switch 180 degrees and push a fire back down a canyon.
Watching the smoke's color can provide clues as to what the blaze might do next.
For instance, white or gray-colored smoke indicates the fire is burning light fuels such as grass or twigs. It usually means the fire will move quickly, McLean says.
Brown plumes suggest it is burning brush whereas dark brown and black means it has ignited oily vegetation or perhaps a structure and would move at a slower pace.
Like smoke, it is important to know some of the basic characteristics of fire, which, for example, burns uphill faster.
Experts say it is best to travel upwind and downhill when encountering a fire. Avoid canyons, ravines and drainage areas, they say. Hike through streambeds if possible.
McLean says it is best to lie on the stomach with feet pointed in the direction of the fire. Even without a shovel dig a hole big enough for the face to minimize inhaling smoke. McLean suggested covering the face with a bandana and the head with something made of cotton.
The American Red Cross warned against putting wet clothing over the mouth or nose. Moist air causes more damage to airways than dry air at the same temperature, the relief group says.
Others recommend covering the body with dirt.


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Public Filming: York Incident
Tim Hicks July 15, 2020 North Yorkshire Police
by TIM HICKS
In my article "Public filming: Minneapolis and North Yorkshire #3", I made reference to a video clip of officers from North Yorkshire Police making an arrest as follows:
"Last week, the footage below concerning the arrest of an adult male in a public place in Scarborough by three police officers was forwarded to the NYE by a person concerned that the police had used excessive force to arrest him.
I have been unable to ascertain any more information about the full sequence of events prior to the video clip, so other than to say that this is the first time the NYE has had video of the police sent to it, I will not comment further. "
Correction and Update
The NYE's policy is that whenever any error is pointed out, we always publish a correction as soon as possible.
As is my custom, I had asked for a media comment from North Yorkshire Police on the video footage.
The Office of the Chief Constable kindly forwarded a media statement to me and also confirmed that the incident happened in York, not Scarborough. Unfortunately, because of the NYE's publishing schedule, the article was published before the statement was received.
The media statement is very clear and is reproduced in full below:
"Officers dealt with an incident in York city centre when a man was being abusive to members of the public. Officers initially attempted to disperse him from the area under a dispersal order, which had been put in place to assist with any reports of disorder on 4 July. The incident escalated and he was subsequently arrested. He has since been charged with assaulting a police officer and obstructing a police officer. He is due to appear in court on Monday 6 July.
We are aware of a video circulating on social media which captures only a few seconds of the incident.
It may be alarming to members of the public who have witnessed the use of force during the incident or seen the social media video, however we must reassure the public that the incident will be reviewed using the officer's body worn video footage to ensure the use of force was proportionate and in line with training.
What the short clip does not show, is the full incident that the officers were dealing with. Importantly officers were wearing body-worn video which captures the preceding five minutes leading up to the man's arrest. As the man has been charged with offences, we cannot go into more detail at this time.
The statement does vindicate my decision not to comment, because the full sequence of events was not available.
The fact that this video clip had extensive coverage on social media also reinforced the view I expressed in the article that the existence of mobile 'phone technology and the internet will inevitably involve more occasions when the police are filmed by the public.
I have asked Chief Constable Winward for any further media statements on this matter, to keep the NYE's readership up to date with developments on this incident and complete our coverage.
"Allegra and the Chief"
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Hilary Neff '13 has received $15,000 from Oberlin's Creativity & Leadership (C&L) Fellowship fund to expand a school garden in southeastern Kentucky, an initiative she cofounded two years ago.
Neff, an environmental studies major who graduated in May, established the Mountain Garden Initiative with Rachel Manning, a rising senior. The program provides 150 fifth- and sixth-grade students in Harlan County, Kentucky, a safe space to learn about science, nature, and gardening in a hands-on, outdoor environment.
Neff and Manning first visited the region—which was once home to the largest coal camp in the world—during a community service trip led by Immerse Yourself in Service (IYS), a student organization at Oberlin. The area struggles with unemployment and brain drain, and increasing levels of mountain-top removal mining have damaged water supplies.
Gardening was once a common practice in the region, but community members have told Neff that gardens have disappeared for two reasons: Fast food is a more convenient alternative, and much of the land suited for gardening has been bought up by coal companies or the government to build housing projects.
After talking with residents, Neff and Manning brainstormed ways to increase food access in the area, and they applied for grants to start a community garden. They were awarded a $10,000 grant from the Dalai Lama Fellowship and additional support from Oberlin's C&L fund to launch the garden in 2012. Manning, a 2013 Udall Scholar who is majoring in sociology and East Asian studies with a Chinese language concentration, continues to be a partner in the project. This year, Chris Gould, a junior biology major, has joined the effort and will help lead IYS trips during academic breaks.
The C&L Fellowship competition is open to graduating seniors and awards individuals or teams up to $30,000 to develop and launch a venture. The program selects ventures that are business, artistic, or social justice-oriented and that reflect a feasible strategy for financial and structural sustainability. In addition to funding, fellows benefit from mentoring from alumni and entrepreneurs in the field.
Over the next year, Neff and Manning hope to increase their reach from fifth- and sixth-grade students to more than 1,000 students of all ages throughout Harlan County. Starting in August, Neff will spend a year living in Harlan County. She will work on expanding the size of the current garden at Cumberland Elementary School to make it available to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. She also hopes to start a garden at the local high school. All three partners will spend time there this summer.
Neff is also working to develop a sustainable financial and educational model that may include employing local high school students to teach younger children in the garden. Oberlin students will maintain a partnership and continue to visit, but Neff and Manning believe the garden will be most successful if the community has total ownership of the project.
Neff says she is fortunate to pursue a project that she helped build from the ground up, rather than entering a job market that is unpredictable and struggling, or working for a nonprofit that is not her own. And she is already realizing the value of mentorship and advising support. The C&L program connected her with Jeff Hanson '80, founder and president of Hanson Advisors Corp. Hanson has more than 25 years of management consulting, professional service, and institutional asset management operating experience, and this year he served as a mentor/panelist for the C&L LaunchU pitch competition.
"Not only did Jeff offer financial support after hearing our pitch for Mountain Garden Initiative, but he also invited me to a dinner full of Oberlin alumni in New York City a few days after graduation," Neff says. "I had the pleasure of meeting about 15 alumni who are doing some form of entrepreneurship and doing it well. Several have offered to mentor me as I move forward into the fundraising and sustainability phase of the project.


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Delivery driver saves dog from drowning in icy pond
By Team Pickle|2 years ago
A heroic UPS employee has stripped down to his boxers and jumped into a freezing pond to save a pup from drowning.
Just when you thought delivery drivers and dogs would never see eye to eye, a heroic UPS employee has stripped down to his boxers and jumped into a freezing pond to save a pup from drowning.
Ryan Arens was delivering packages just before Christmas in Bozeman, Montana, when he heard a dog frantically yelping.
The delivery driver went to investigate the noise and saw a dog surrounded by ice on the pond about four metres from shore.
Arens flagged down a man in a rowboat who was unsuccessfully trying to chip away ice so he could reach the dog.
"I stripped to my boxers and got the guy out of the boat. Then I slid the boat out onto the ice, using it to distribute my weight," he told the Great Falls Tribune.
The ice gave way and Arens plunged into the freezing water where he made a swim for the dog who was "starting to go under".
Arens grabbed the dog by the collar and brought it back to shore where a bystander handed him a blanket.
"We took the dog inside the older guy's house and got in the shower together to warm up," he said.
Impressively, Arens finished his shift after saving the dog, delivering 20 more packages before calling it a day.
The UPS employee would be reunited with the dog again after delivering a package to the owner's home.
"She was freaking out, and when he let her out she ran to me," he said. "She must have remembered me. It sure made me feel good."


The Sculpture Gallery at Woburn Abbey is a classic, beautiful and high-end venue which provides very grand surroundings for wedding magic in Bedfordshire.
I was asked to entertain 120 people at a recent wedding, with half of my time spent performing at the drinks reception, then the other half spent at the tables in between courses.
My aim was to see at least half of the guests during the drinks reception. At the meal, those guests will be sitting with people who won't have seen my performance, which is great as it means they'll welcome me over and create a bit of a buzz about what they've already seen.
I have got a lot of tricks in my repertoire so it's easy to make sure I don't do the same one twice; and luckily, some tricks are more suitable for doing at tables and others standing up.
When I'm performing table magic, I always confer with the head waiter beforehand to make sure I work the opposite way to that of the waiting staff so I don't get under their feet whilst they're trying to serve the food. Just as well, as at this event, I found that people sitting around us were leaning over to watch what was going on at the other tables, so my table magic became more of a series of mini shows!
The event was entertaining for me as I got a great response as I went round. During the drinks reception I was able to gauge the reactions of people so when I was going round the tables, I knew which people were the most enthusiastic so I could start talking to them and they got everyone else involved.
Everyone wants to be entertained at a wedding and splitting the magic this way certainly kept the energy levels high.
If you'd like to discuss your wedding entertainment in Bedfordshire, contact me to add a little magic to your big day!


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> BUILDING OPERATIONS > WHO'S INSPECTING THE CITY'S ELEVATOR INSPECTORS?
Who's Inspecting the City's Elevator Inspectors?
Many co-op and condo boards say they feel besieged by city inspectors eager to write violations for facade repairs, cooling tower and water tank maintenance, fire code compliance, and other work on building systems. Maybe it's time for someone to start inspecting the inspectors.
In a recent audit, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that "private elevator inspectors in New York City are missing hazardous violations and allowing unsafe conditions to go unrepaired," Curbed reports.
The city's Department of Buildings (DOB) has about 48 staff inspectors but regularly relies on private companies to assist in performing annual inspections for the city's 71,000 elevators. The audit, which took a selective look at work carried out by some of the companies contracted by the DOB, produced some alarming findings.
Auditing 12 elevators in nine buildings across the five boroughs, auditors accompanied by DOB inspectors found the following: elevator inspections were falsely certified before inspections were actually performed; some non-DOB inspectors failed to spot defective devices that are responsible for preventing doors from opening in between floors; and private inspectors did not inspect the top of elevator cars or the elevator pits at four of the nine sampled buildings, as required by standards set by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Additionally, two elevators in two different buildings had hoist cables that showed signs of wear. In one case, the problem was missed; in the other, the non-DOB inspector did not have the right tool to measure the cable thickness.
"In a vertical city, with tens of thousands of elevators carrying millions of people, it is unacceptable that New Yorkers should have to worry about false inspections or hazardous conditions," DiNapoli said in a statement. "Even in a limited group of inspections, we found nearly every one missed violations that could pose risks to safety."
DiNapoli has made several recommended improvements to the DOB, including mandating that non-DOB inspectors comply with DOB procedures when performing elevators inspections. DOB officials have agreed to implement eight of the nine audit recommendations.


The poster, entitled "Development of Milnacipran, A Dual Reuptake Inhibitor for the Treatment of Chronic Pain Associated with Fibromyalgia," is being presented today at the annual New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) meeting, sponsored by the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH) in Boca Raton, Florida.
Duloxetine is a potent, balanced dual reuptake inhibitor of both serotonin and norepinephrine that is being studied for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence and depression.
made a presentation entitled 'Development of Milnacipran, a Dual Reuptake Inhibitor for Treatment of Chronic Pain Associated with Fibromyalgia' at the National Fibromyalgia Research Association 'Neurology and New Treatment Modalities in Fibromyalgia' Meeting in Portland, Ore.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Cymbalta(TM) (duloxetine hydrochloride), a dual reuptake inhibitor that works through two key neurotransmitters -- serotonin and norepinephrine -- involved in depression.


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by David Leo Rice
From Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
The Shining As Space, Not Story
Isaac Bashevis Singer's first novel, Satan in Goray (published in English in 1955), tells the true story of a 17th century Jewish mystic, Sabbatai Zevi, who sweeps into a Polish village and convinces the people living there that the end is nigh. He tells them to stop honoring their rituals and traditions, based as they are on the assumption that life will go on, and instead to indulge whatever dark urges they've repressed. Both frightened and exhilarated, the villagers comply, quickly reducing Goray to ruin. When the apocalypse doesn't come, Zevi sneaks away, leaving the villagers to sort through the wreckage, having learned, as Singer puts it, that "you can't force the end."
Four hundred years later, human feelings about the end remain both hopeful and fearful: every generation wants to believe it's the last, and yet doesn't really want to believe this. So we toy with the possibility in books and movies and video games, indulging in its romance without facing the consequences.
The Overlook Hotel, as conjured by Stephen King in his 1977 novel The Shining and brought to the screen by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, is a microcosm for a world that's always ending. The same people are reincarnated, only to kill each other again and again. They exist in a perennial state of crisis that, following the warped logic of a nightmare, becomes perfectly sustainable.
The plot of The Shining is simple: a struggling writer named Jack Torrance brings his family to the abandoned Overlook Hotel in Colorado, planning to spend the winter there, working as a caretaker while finishing (or perhaps starting) his overdue novel. As soon as the property gets snowed in and the roads become impassable, he begins a descent into madness that ends in his attempting to murder his wife and son. But plot has little to do with The Shining's lasting power. Like the Zone in Tarkovsky's Stalker, the Overlook transcends the events that occur in it to become something larger: a space that haunts an entire culture. It lingers in our popular imagination, now more than ever, because its predicament mirrors our own.
The Hauntological Hotel
A hotel isn't anyone's home; it's a cold public space that sells strangers a simulation of home for a night or two. Hotel rooms thus perfectly model how Freud describes the uncanny, as a home that's not a home, a place where the resident ought to feel comfortable but can't help feeling alienated instead.
In The Shining, the Overlook is even more alienating in that it's an off-season hotel, devoid of guests. Despite this fact, after settling into the premises for what initially seems to be the first time, Jack Torrance tells his wife that he's "never been this happy or comfortable anywhere." As the late theorist and music critic Mark Fisher puts it in his essay collection Ghosts of My Life (2014), "Even before he enters the Overlook, Jack is fleeing his ghosts. And the horror, the absolute horror, is that he—haunter and haunted—flees to the place where they are waiting. Such is The Shining's pitiless fatality… "
Hauntology, a term coined by Derrida and expanded in provocative and poignant ways by Fisher, is the haunting presence of a future that was expected but never arrived, the "tantalizing ache of a future just out of reach." In the Overlook, the future and the past are indistinguishable. The cycle of madness and murder, repression and realization, is ongoing, so the benign "homecoming" that Jack says he longs for (the peace and quiet to finish his novel, the cozy and luxurious winter with his family), never comes. Instead, the true homecoming—that of his reversion to murderous insanity—does.
If one accepts that going insane and attempting to murder his wife and son was Jack's calling all along, then his claim of having never felt more comfortable anywhere makes perfect sense. Jack and the Overlook are versions of one another. He's Mr. Overlook, inhabiting the hotel while also being part of it. In exactly this same way, humans inhabit the earth while also being of the earth, both complicit in its destruction and subject to its wrath. The fact that we can't recognize this—that we've come to see the earth as an inert environment, ripe for exploitation, rather than a vital part of our being—is surely a key component of the death sentence we've signed for ourselves, the end that we, like the villagers in Goray, are awaiting with an anxious mixture of fear and glee.
Hauntology is the disappointing failure of a longed-for future to arrive, but it's also the more deeply horrifying arrival of the future that was inevitable all along. Seen with a year of hindsight, Trump's victory last fall is hauntological in this second sense. The superficial horror is that something unexpected occurred (in The Shining, that Jack became a maniac, in America, that a maniac became president), but the deep horror is how much sense these turns of events make, such that last November was not an aberration of American identity, but a stark expression of it.
In 2017, the techno-utopian future that sci-fi writers in the early 20th century imagined both has and hasn't arrived. There are no flying cars, but we've mapped the genome, networked the world to the point of instantaneous communication with almost everyone alive, extended our lifespans by decades, and created more entertainment options than any mind can absorb. And yet human nature has remained unchanged. Rather than adapting to new technologies, many people have only harnessed them to magnify their innate fear and greed, whether through automatic guns, nuclear weapons, factory farming, fracking, or mass media, which broadcasts the age-old message of "hate thy neighbor" on an unfathomably vast scale.
The realization that this is where technology has landed us is akin to Jack's "all work and no play" realization at the Overlook: on the surface, we hoped technology would liberate us from the worst of being human, just as Jack hoped that taking the caretaker job would allow him to finish his novel, but, deeper down, we knew it wouldn't. In the depths of our collective consciousness, if there is such a thing, we, as a species, know we're never going to finish our novel. That's not what we came to the Overlook to do.
The Overlook in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
The Haunted Earth
It would be a gross understatement to say that the end of the world, or at least its suitability for human inhabitation, is a significant topic in today's discourse. As William Gibson put it in an interview last August about the recent preponderance of dystopian sci-fi, "Seriously, what I find far more ominous is how seldom, today, we see the phrase 'the 22nd century.' Almost never. Compare this with the frequency with which the 21st century was evoked in popular culture during, say, the 1920s."
But, beyond the fact that the future looks bleak, there's no consensus as to how the end will arrive, nor when. To take climate change as one of several apocalyptic forces in discussion, human opinion currently runs the gamut from despairing certainty to outright denial. Even the most rational and data-driven science can't be certain what will actually happen, nor when, much less how to deal with it, short of dismantling capitalism and ceasing reproduction. In response to this uncertainty, our collective dystopian imagination tends to create grim but ultimately hopeful future visions in which life is bad (Mad Max, The Walking Dead, The Hunger Games, etc.) but still goes on. These are near-future stories of the resilience of the brave few, celebrating their ingenuity and integrity while acknowledging the terminal fate of the weaker masses.
But what about the far future, when humanity has simply ceased to be? This is obviously harder to imagine, but the past decade has seen a number of compelling attempts. These include Alan Weisman's 2007 thought-experiment The World Without Us, which posits that radio waves drifting through outer space will be the last remnants of human existence and rhapsodizes about the edenic beauty the earth would soon return to if humans just left it alone, Eugene Thacker's 2011 "Horror of Philosophy" book In The Dust of This Planet, which draws useful distinctions between the "earth" (the geological and biological realm humans inhabit), the "world" (the network of human affairs), and the "planet" (the orb itself, as it exists independently of its inhabitants), and Peter Brannen's The Ends of the World (2017), which offers in-depth analysis of past extinctions in an effort to predict how humanity's will play out. There's also horror master Thomas Ligotti's 2010 philosophical treatise The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, which argues that being alive is an abnegation of free will, not an expression of it, and considers the possibility that, if there is a God, perhaps He/She/It created the human race in a desperate attempt to commit suicide.
In the haunted space of the Overlook Hotel, the brutal murders that occurred on the previous caretaker's watch insinuate themselves into the visions suffered by Jack's clairvoyant son, Danny. People with the shining can, as Danny learns from Dick Halloran, the hotel's benevolent head chef, see the deep past as well as the deep future. They understand that the present is always informed (or infected) by both. Thus, Kubrick's famous image of blood rushing from the elevator is both a memory of what has occurred in the hotel, and a premonition of what's about to occur again. The image has the cold, inexplicable power of Kubrick's most inspired work, which reaches the level of Bosch's paintings in its ability to reflect on the entire human condition from a great distance, filled with pathos but devoid of compassion.
In his effort to reach this distance, Kubrick insisted on a level of control that he must have known was impossible outside the confines of his film sets. Indeed, the fact that the Overlook set feels abandoned and inhuman while also being the product of famously obsessive human labor is a contradiction that defines Kubrick's artistic approach. It is no exaggeration to say that his directorial calling was that of a human being trying to leave his humanity behind, a brilliant mind fighting to overcome the limits of its body (and those of his traumatized cast and crew).
His films are consequently haunted by a spectral presence, which fills every frame so densely with meaning that no single viewer can parse it all. Rodney Ascher's 2012 documentary Room 237, about Shining fans' obsessive theories regarding Kubrick's layers of hidden messages, may present no more than a gallery of crackpots, but they show how Kubrick instills in his viewers a fanatical need to analyze his films like fragments of Scripture. Whether or not one believes these crackpots' specific interpretations, the force driving them to such desperate scrutiny is undeniable.
Might the same be true of the earth, as it tends back toward the inhuman state it existed in before us, a state that perhaps some people can remember on the level of déjà vu (which Jack claims he felt when he "first" saw the Overlook)? This is the psychic challenge that interests me here: to understand how Thacker's "planet" already exists, hidden just beneath the human realms of the "world" and the "earth." Imagining the planet in this way is analogous to imagining the afterlife: both are alien realms that may or may not exist, separated from the living by imaginative leaps no one can fully make, and yet both are also ubiquitous, clouding all present-tense experience with hauntedness and premonition. In terms of The Shining, the "earth" and the "world" are the story—the human drama—whereas the "planet" is the space, the Overlook itself, where no human visitor can intrude without becoming ghostly.
Screenshot from Bioshock
Someplace We're Not Meant to Be: Video Games as Post-Human Spaces
No contemporary medium makes us as ghostly as video games. Aside from sports and puzzle games, it's hard to name any recent title that doesn't offer its players the sick thrill of going someplace they're not meant to be. The best, and most troubling, video games gratify the human desire to imagine being either inhuman or post-human, liberated from the defining fact of existence by the ability to die and return from the dead over and over again. Even uncannier are the games that not only allow their players to die and return from the dead, but those that invite them into realms where no one else has survived.
One of the uncanniest of such games is Fallout 4, where a poignant early sequence finds the player wandering through his old Boston neighborhood hundreds of years after it's been destroyed by a nuclear detonation, seeing the street where he used to live with his family as a natural landscape, the houses and cars no more human now than the rocks and trees. Here, as with the cold winding hallways and famous hedge maze at the Overlook, human structures have become natural ones and people have become ghosts, haunting the spaces they used to inhabit. Another notable recent game is NieR: Automata, where the player, who herself turns out to be an android, wanders a vast ruined machine-scape on the moon in the year 11,945, fighting robots that were built by a now-extinct human race. Key ancestors of such games include 2010's Limbo, which finds a nameless boy dying horribly, over and over again, as he wanders a liminal nightmare realm in search of his sister, 2007's Bioshock, which takes place in an Atlantis-like city where the player battles the last residents of an insane visionary's Randian design project, and 1993's Myst, where the disembodied player explores a deserted island, haunted by an atmosphere of non-specific but all-encompassing dread.
At their most visionary, these games succeed in imagining life after the end, allowing the player to indulge in long, meditative journeys through sinister laboratories, sunken cities, abandoned hospitals, and defunct asylums and factories, all remnants of human settlement that have returned to nature. Despite their violence, a strange sense of peace sets in while playing such games, a feeling of a world liberated from its human burden.
And yet, of course, the key human presence of the player remains. The Overlook predates Jack and is more powerful than he is, but it can do nothing without his body to possess and act through, just as Kubrick's vision couldn't have existed without the actors he forced to embody it. In this same way, video games cannot play themselves. Thus, while such scenarios may appear to be instructive in preparing humanity for extinction, in reality they are a means of denying it by pretending that when the human race no longer exists, the player, as an individual, somehow still will.
Most simply put, all such games are hauntological, since the expected human future of dying and staying dead never comes. Instead, the player, after dying and being reincarnated, sees the world made uncanny by simple virtue of their unwelcome presence within it.
This is precisely the feeling that life on earth in 2017 has taken on. Humanity has worn out its welcome, and yet its presence persists, somehow both fearful of the end and eager to hasten its arrival, with each feeling magnifying the power of its opposite. This may be one reason why Steve Bannon managed to coax hordes of disaffected basement gamers out to the polls for Trump: beyond the bitterness and misogyny that reared its head in 2014's Gamergate harassment campaign, there's also the belief that nothing is final, that even the planetary destruction a Trump presidency daily threatens is just another phase in an ongoing narrative where the living and the dead commingle in an eerie but harmless digital space, somewhere between ghosts and monsters.
Ghosts & Monsters
Weird fiction writer China Miéville makes a productive distinction between ghosts and monsters in his 2011 essay, "M.R. James and the Quantum Vampire." Making his own use of hauntology to describe ghostly presences in horror fiction, Miéville writes that ghosts partake of a "radicalized uncanny—something which is secretly familiar, which has undergone repression and then returned from it—rather than a hallucinatory/nihilist novum," which describes monsters. In other words, ghosts derive their power from the recent past—family secrets, murders and suicides, stolen fortunes, treachery and betrayal—while monsters derive their power from total otherness. They issue either from the pre-human past, the depths of the ocean, or other dimensions entirely, and are physically tangible (Miéville claims that the tentacle is the prototypical monstrous form), while obeying no human logic. Unlike ghosts, they aren't trying to communicate with us.
Using these definitions, Jack Torrance is both ghost and monster: he is summoned to the hotel and emerges from its unresolved past, but he is also a flesh-and-blood man, in body if not in spirit. He haunts the premises, by why? What was the original trauma for which he's seeking revenge? Like the player in a videogame, he is caught in a dreamlike cycle whose only mandate is to perpetuate itself.
The Gothic fiction of the 1800s took the haunted to its apex—perhaps this was the last century of linear history, upon which the concept of haunting relies—whereas Weird fiction, a product of the harrowing absurdity of the 20th century, reached its watershed moment in the 1920s, with the tales of Lovecraft. Over the past several decades, the two traditions have been bleeding together, as the ghosts of a history that seems to have reached its end conjoin with the monsters that have never acknowledged anything but an eternal present.
This bleeding-together is part of why the Overlook, a haunted house with a monster, not a ghost (or not only a ghost) at its center, has remained such a resonant space forty years after King introduced it. At the very least, history has now reached a point where, as Gibson claims, it is nearly impossible to imagine a desirable future. The human race is still physically instantiated (thus monstrous), and yet the looming specter of checkout time is turning us ghostly. People are uploading themselves to the cloud and the digital non-space of the gaming world at ever-increasing rates, willingly turning into ghosts in an effort to outrun their monstrous disregard for the conditions that have made life on earth possible. This surely issues from some hope that, as ghosts, life will go on. Perhaps someday gamers will look back from inside their screens to regard their own corpses, decomposing in armchairs on what will then be the far side of the line dividing the living from the dead.
Anselm Kiefer, Walhalla, 2016. © Anselm Kiefer. Photo © White Cube (Charles Duprat)
Frozen Ghosts
Absurd as this hope surely is, I wonder if there might be a grain of truth in it. Since we, too, are creatures of the earth, made of earthly materials (as are our digital devices), perhaps there is something in our nature that can reach beyond our limited time as humans, and partake in the larger cycle of dust returning to dust. Perhaps some part of the consciousness of the earth itself exists within us, and will go on existing.
To believe this is to believe in an afterlife of time, rather than space: to believe that human consciousness, once it has become disembodied, will not travel upward or downward to heaven or hell, nor into space as radio waves, but rather that it will linger here on earth, as earth, even when that earth is transformed into a planet that, if we were to perceive it while still human, would have to be called alien. This is the dream of the entire species being present at its own funeral.
Many climate scientists warn that bacteria and viruses frozen in the permafrost may thaw and rise back up once it reaches a certain temperature. Thinking along these lines, I wonder if dormant myths and thought patterns are already rising back up, re-haunting the human world in what might be its last days. Perhaps this is what Eugene Thacker means when he calls the present a "Post-Secular Age." Beyond the rabid Fundamentalism pouring from the fissures in a great number of economically and socially tenuous societies, might there be a deeper and more beautiful process by which frozen ghosts are thawing, offering a premonition of how the planet will be haunted by humanity's absence? Might it, even now, be possible to glimpse the Arcadia that Alan Weisman believes will spring up once humans are gone?
At the very least, if such a glimpse is possible, I hope some of us summon enough shining to appreciate it. Rather than imagining ourselves fleeing this world for another, or being rebooted to play again, we ought to take after the superfans in Room 237 and look more deeply into the world we already inhabit, just as they believe that only devotional scrutiny of The Shining, not the constant search for new frontiers, can answer their deepest questions. To invoke another of Kubrick's sublimely hopeless visions of human folly, this may be the only means left of learning to stop worrying and love the bomb.
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Changing Mid-Stream (Views: 8840)
By: Blogger Lauren Sprieser
Oct 1, 2019 - 3:41 PM
In the last decade, I've embraced the educational approach of having one coach. Too many voices in my head aren't good for me or for my riding; it seemed to muddy the waters. Over the last nine years, I've dabbled in the occasional clinic with phenomenal people—USEF and USDF training sessions with the team coaches or other very accomplished names, and the Masterclass with Isabell Werth this winter—but all with my coach at my side to frame the new perspective into context and to help translate into a system with which I'm familiar.
Late this summer, I lost that coach. In August, Michael Barisone, who's been my trainer, my mentor, my family and my friend for nine years, was charged with shooting a woman at his farm. The details of the crime will be tried in a court of law, and since I wasn't there, and I'm not a lawyer, that's the beginning and end of my role in this tale.
But I'm a professional rider with lofty goals, and that means I had to find a new trainer. It's been awkward and difficult and horribly sad. After going through the stages of grieving, I looked at my string of magnificent horses, all too precious to have their ascendence to High Performance Sport sent askew by my sadness. And so I started the process of forging new coaching partnerships.
I stayed close to what I knew. My first phone call was to Mike Poulin, with whom I'd taken a clinic just a month before, and who taught Michael and many of my other major influences—Lendon Gray and Carol Lavell—much of what they know. Mike is one helluva experienced horse trainer, and he's also a sucker for a weirdo. Neither Elvis nor Swagger are weird, and Mike has been fantastic with them, but I'm most excited to work Puck with him, which I'll do in the next month or two, because he is the epitome of weirdo. And Mike has been a terrific person to have around for a million other reasons, one of which is that he's very portable: As he's a pilot, he can fly himself down to teach clinics at my farm on a regular basis.
Elvis is too precious to have his training taken off the tracks. Heather Richards Photo
Right away, I recognized a lot of the common language, and I also recognized some common personality traits. Mike has a big resume and a lot of confidence, with a cheeky sense of humor that runs parallel to a deep love of horses on an almost spiritual level. Plus, he texts me poetry. Mostly, he showed a deep investment in my horses' and my success almost immediately. I felt like I was part of the family right away.
My second call was to my amazing friend Ali Brock, a fellow longtime student of Michael's, and one with some serious street cred. Ali spends much of her time in Wellington year-round, but she makes regular appearances in central Virginia, less than two hours from my own farm. Logistically, Ali is an awesome choice, but she's also got a fresh take on me and on my horses because she's about half my size. My first lesson with her was phenomenally enlightening, and we worked well together because while the basic thread was so familiar, the language was just different enough to freshen up my riding, with more than a small dose of personal accountability: I can't let my horses talk me into using my strength, something that at 5'10" it's just a bit too easy to do.
So far, it's working beautifully. They parallel each other, addressing the same concepts I'd been addressing in very complementary ways. And the process of working with new voices has made me think about what makes a good coaching partnership good, and what I can be doing better for my own students.
A huge part of hearing a new voice is getting comfortable with every individual instructor's terminology. Mike says "diagonal change," which it took me about an hour to figure out meant to go across the diagonal and change directions, not do a flying change on the diagonal. (This after he asked me to do it several times at the trot, where a flying change isn't really possible, though I certainly tried.) Ali says keep the hand in front, and I say keep the hand at the mouth, which sound like they could be the same thing but aren't. She means, "Don't pull," and I mean, "Don't drop the contact." The familiarity with the language of any individual comes with time, but in picking voices that come from a common educational line, at least the truth behind them was familiar.
It was also phenomenally helpful for both my new instructors to ride my horses. Ali asked to ride Elvis right away, and with the power of hindsight, it shouldn't have taken me so long to suggest that Mike ride him, because unfortunately I'm both big and clever, and I can make it look like I'm not working very hard. Ali called my bluff right away, which started me down a terrific path of how to address the piece of the self-carriage puzzle I knew I'd been missing but had struggled to solve. When Mike was here last for a two-day clinic, I had him hop on Elvis on Day 2, and he was blown away by what a good liar my riding was, and his advice to me and the exercises he prescribed really changed for the better.
This hasn't come up with Ali or Mike yet, but I know it will, and it's relevant to my own teaching: We riders must be prepared for the inevitable pendulum swings of bringing horses up the levels. How many times have I worked with a student for a month to get them to slow down, only to have a clinician I love see them for the first time and tell them to hustle? Or how many times have I worked through a tension issue on a horse, solving it by riding in a lower and rounder outline, only to have my coach then tell me it was time to pick the neck up? A clinician or instructor telling you to do a certain thing counter to how you've been doing it doesn't necessarily mean that they're right and you've been doing it wrong, or vice versa, but just that the bringing of horses (and riders!) up the levels involves a lot of ebb and flow. I'm sure it'll only be a matter of time before one of them tells me to do a 180 in my approach to something, and there may even be a time where they contradict each other.
And that brings me to my last thought: For all that a set of fresh eyes can bring some great new exercises or approaches to any one particular person's riding, new voices need to be blended into my successful system, not replace it outright. I'm not trying to be an egomaniac; I'll be the first one to tell anyone that I have tons to learn and that I'll never be done doing it. But as I listened to some lessons at a recent clinic, I was reminded of a very competent student of mine a few years ago going to a clinic with a very famous person and coming home with a totally different warm-up than the one we'd spent a year cultivating… and it was really, really not working. I asked the student why she was doing what she was doing, and she said, "Well… the clinician said this is how he warms up his horses." Just because it works for person X, or horse Y, doesn't mean that it's the right thing for me, or for her, or for you. When I teach clinics, I try not to reinvent the wheel for my riders, because I know I'm hitting and running; two days of instruction isn't enough to swallow an entire philosophy, no matter how well taught or logical.
Like anything, a teacher-pupil relationship is an evolution, both growing on one another over time. I certainly didn't come into this year expecting to forge a new path, but I'll make the most of the situation, and I'll certainly learn plenty along the way. It's not the worst thing in the world to be able to conjure up TWO Olympic bronze medalists!
Lauren Sprieser is a USDF gold, silver & bronze Medalist making horses and riders to FEI from her farm in Marshall, Virginia. She's currently developing The Elvis Syndicate's Guernsey Elvis, her and Beverley Thomas's Ellington, and her own Gretzky RV and Ojalá with hopes of one day representing the United States in team competition. Read more about her at SprieserSporthorse.com, or follow Lauren Sprieser on Facebook and Instagram.
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The first step in learning and making provisions for the transition from hospital to home is identifying support services within the hospital. The nurses overseeing your loved one's care during his or her in-service course can act as liaisons for your specific needs, but communication is paramount. Questions regarding financing, medical equipment and home care in Centennial are all important. Information about medications and how to assist in performing activities of daily living can be garnered directly from the RN, while other potential issues may require consultation with social workers, case management, physicians and therapists. In order to make a smooth transition, be sure to voice your concerns so the appropriate professionals can be notified.
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