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Cranberries singer and Smiths bassist form surprisingly upbeat supergroup
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In what should be a recipe for some great European moping, Cranberries singer Dolores O'Riordan and Andy Rourke from The Smiths have formed two-thirds of a supergroup called D.A.R.K. that—going off of its first single—doesn't sound very mopey at all. The band's unexpectedly upbeat attitude presumably comes from the third member of its triumvirate, a songwriter/DJ from New York named Olé Koretsky, who is referred to as "little known" by the press release.
According to that same press release, though, the whole idea behind D.A.R.K. (short for Dolores O'Riordan, Andy Rourke, and Olé Kortesky) is that the three members each have "distinctive personalities" and bring their own thing to the group. However, they all share a "love of electronica and new wave" that heavily influenced their debut album, Science Agrees. That album will be available on May 27, and you can preorder it in various different formats at this link.
The aforementioned first single, "Curvy," is below.


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EA Showcase 2012: SimCity returns with multi-city ...
EA Showcase 2012: SimCity returns with multi-city play
Maxis shows off its eagerly anticipated reimagining of SimCity in Sydney
Patrick Budmar (PC World) on 13 December, 2012 17:39
Maxis SimCity producer, Jason Haber, presents during EA's Showcase 2012 event in Sydney
EA has been quiet on the PC gaming front, but it hopes to rectify that with the March 7 release of Maxis' SimCity.
The game picks up from where 2003's SimCity 4 left off and ramps up the possibilities when it comes to creating your own metropolises.
Maxis SimCity producer, Jason Haber, says the game is running on an all new, reimagined, Glassbox simulation engine, which makes use of a tilt–shift effect to give the game a miniature toy look.
"The game has been designed with multi-city play in mind," Haber said.
Glassbox engine allows the player to see individual Sims and what they are doing when clicked.
"You can get into a Sims' car and follow them around as they navigate the city," Haber said.
The game now allows for curved roads that take advantage of the terrain, and roads can be simply drawn over water to create bridges, which can later be upgraded.
Sims live in residential, work in industrial, shop in commercial areas as before, but land value can now be influenced by the surroundings, such as the addition of a park adding to the value.
"Roads can be upgraded to provide density, and in the process nearby buildings also increase in size," Haber said.
Street cars and buses can be used to reduce traffic, with the player choosing where to put stops.
"There are even boats, ferries and aircrafts that allow Sims to travel between cities," Haber said.
Tourists in your town can be tracked from what town they came from, and this is useful as a happy Sim brings their happiness back to their own city, which in turn influences the development of that city.
In addition to being able to see sources of happiness, Haber says players can also see what is causing unhappiness, such as criminals.
"If holding cells at a jail become full, criminals begin to get released out on the streets and create unhappiness in the area," he said.
"The solution is to upgrade the police station."
The game also depicts seasonal change, such as leaves turning colours, and natural disasters from past iterations, such as meteor showers, are included so players can destroy their cities.
The large amount of features and flexibility of the game will allow players to design not one but many cities which can be used to support each other.
An example Haber used is making one city in an area entirely focused on sewerage treatment and maintaining garbage dumps.
"You can create a sustainable city around trash and also make a lot of money in the process," he said.
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Why Managers Need to Boost Their Emotional Intelligence
Written by Adam Rowe
Telling people they need to raise their emotional intelligence sounds like an insult: Who wants to hear they aren't intelligent enough for their job? But emotional intelligence, also called emotional quotient or EQ, is an essential factor in the work life. Here's why a high EQ matters, and what steps you can take today towards boosting yours.
EQ: The "Hidden Key" to Success
Emotions tend to be overlooked in favor of logic and facts: How many times have you seen a tortured, self-centered genius on a TV show, for example? Walter White and Dr. House definitely should have taken a few emotional intelligence remedial courses.
But you don't want your life to be gripping TV. You want a better job performance — and 90 percent of top performers have a high emotional intelligence. You want a higher salary — and those with a high EQ average $29,000 more per year than those without. You want be the competitive choice for a tech position — and 21.5% of IT professionals say that emotional intelligence is the most difficult quality to find at their organization.
The final proof that EQ will take you farther than IQ? 70 percent of the time, according to a Visual Capitalist article, "a person with an average IQ can actually outperform a person with more smarts." Those fictional TV geniuses don't look so great now.
How to Boost Your EQ
Writing at performance management software company Lattice, Sulagna Misra unpacks the elements of a strong EQ via the four-quadrant method: Self-awareness, awareness of others, self-control, and control of others all comprise a high EQ.
You can check out the article for a deeper explanation of each quadrant, complete with examples of good and bad responses to a situation.
With a healthy EQ, managers can respond to their employees' needs while ensuring everyone's goals are met by providing compromises when required.
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Adam is a writer at Tech.co and has worked as a tech writer, blogger and copy editor for more than a decade. He was a Forbes Contributor on the publishing industry, for which he was named a Digital Book World 2018 award finalist. His work has appeared in publications including Popular Mechanics and IDG Connect, and he has an art history book on 1970s sci-fi out from Abrams Books in 2023. In the meantime, he's hunting down the latest news on VPNs, POS systems, and the future of tech.


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Earlier EU petrol and diesel car phase-out would save drivers €635 billion on fuel
Brussels, 20 June 2022 – An earlier EU phase-out date for cars and vans with internal combustion engines would net significant savings for European drivers and hugely reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to new calculations by Greenpeace Germany. An end to sales of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars in 2028 would reduce oil use enough to save drivers €635 billion by 2049 compared to the EU Commission's current proposal for a phase-out in 2035, and would reduce CO2 emissions by an additional 1.7 Gigatonnes – equivalent to Russia's entire emissions for a year.
A phase-out of internal combustion engine cars in 2030, a position already supported by several EU governments, would save €460 billion in fuel costs and reduce CO2 emissions by 1.2 Gigatonnes by 2049 compared to the European Commission's proposal. Greenpeace Germany's calculations on the potential savings for drivers are conservative, based on fuel and electricity prices before the spike caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Greenpeace EU transport campaigner Lorelei Limousin said: "Transport in the EU is desperately dependent on oil, which is a disaster not only for the climate but also people's wallets. A huge amount of the oil burned in the EU comes from repressive countries – a quarter from Russia – where the money Europeans pay at the pump ends up funding war and human rights abuses. Environment ministers must speed up the phase-out of oil-burning cars, because the climate can't afford to wait longer, and drivers can't afford the prices."
The calculations also show the potential for national savings on fuel costs, and CO2 emission reductions, for Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
Greenpeace is calling for an end to sales in the EU of new cars and vans with internal combustion engines in 2028, in line with the EU's contribution to the Paris climate agreement's goal of limiting global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and avoiding the worst effects of climate breakdown.
EU environment ministers are due to decide on a joint position on the ban of new fossil fuelled cars and CO2 targets from 2025 when they meet on 28 June. Governments such as Germany and Spain back the EU Commission's proposal of a 2035 phase-out, which was also backed by the European Parliament in a vote on 8 June. Several EU countries, including Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium, have backed a phase-out by 2030.
In recent months, car lobby and fossil fuel groups have lobbied heavily against a ban on internal combustion engine cars, and for the introduction of CO2 credits to carmakers for the use of synthetic fuel that would further weaken the regulation and the outcome of the Council. The French and the German car industries have already slammed the 2035 date after the Parliament vote earlier this month.
Transport accounts for almost two thirds of the oil used in the EU, with Russia as the single biggest supplier. Greenhouse gas emissions from transport in the EU have risen by over 25% since 1990 and make up 30% of the EU's total greenhouse gas emissions, with vans and cars accounting for 14.5% of CO2 emissions.


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Flat-Globe of the World Edited by Robert E. Peary...
International Globe Company
Flat-Globe of the World Edited by Robert E. Peary Pres. American Geographical Society
New York / 1905
A Two-Sided Flat Earth Globe?
Fascinating "Flat-Globe" of the World, published in New York by the International Globe Company.
Includes a note that it was edited by Robert Peary, the American explorer and United States Navy officer who made several expeditions to the Arctic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is best known for claiming to have reached the geographic North Pole with his expedition on April 6, 1909.
The map was described in The Publishers Weekly, Volume 71, Part 2 (June 15, 1907), page 1836 as follows:
The International Globe Company, 115 Nassau Street, New York City, have brought out an educational apparatus of great value in their "International Flat Globe of the World," with its geographical history, edited by Commander Robert E. Peary. The globe is printed in eight colors on one flat disc, two feet four inches in diameter—the western hemisphere on one side and the eastern on the reverse of the disc—showing at a glance oceans, seas, lakes, mountains, international boundaries, colonial possessions, ocean currents, steamship routes, distances between ports, prevailing trade winds, latitude and longitude, cable routes, limits of ice drifts, railroad systems, and the longitudinal time at any point, east or west, by a series of clock faces.
The globe may be hung flat on the wall or laid flat on the table, and gives an unobstructed view of the earth's surface, and, being flexible, it can be rolled small so as to go in a trunk or valise. "The International Geographical History of the World," accompanying the globe, edited by Commander Peary, is a handy flexible book of 100 large pages, thoroughly indexed, and practically takes the place of a whole geographical library, because it gives the really important facts on geography in an instantly accessible form. It treats the subject under three heads: (1) Physical Geography, and the Phenomena and Forces of Nature; (2) Mathematical Geography, with Its Interesting Data; (3) National and Political Geography, which really embraces all the activities of the human race. It treats all these important subjects concisely, entertainingly, and with the very latest, up-to-date statistics and science. The globe and the accompanying book will be found as desirable and useful in the home and counting room as in school.
The "Flat-Globe" is apparently very rare. We located examples at the Library of Congress (copyright depository copy), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (likely the AGS/Peary copy) and 4 other examples in American and Canadian Libraries.
We find no record of another example at auction or in a dealer catalog.
Two sided map.Paper laid on each side thin card stock, with cloth tie at the top for hanging. Minor abrasions, minor paper loss, soiling and some dampstaining.
Antique Maps / World / World
[A Map of the World] Bankoku Ichiran no Zu
The Original Protype For An Important World Map By An Influential Neo-Confucian Scholar and Mapmaker
[Map of the Five Parts of the World Accroding to Mercator's Projection] Карта Пяти Частей Свѣта по Проекціи Меркатора
Detailed and very rare Russian-language the World, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836.
Mappe Monde ou Description Du Globe Terrestre & Aquatique…MDCCXCII
Hubert Jaillot's World Map Re-Issued At the End of the 18th Century
Carte Physique de L'Ocean ou l'on voit des Grandes Chaines de Montagnes. . .
An Example of Philippe Buache's Theories on Submarine Mountain Chains, an Important Part of the Early History of Thematic Mapping
Planisphere Physique, Politique, Historique, Economique, Industriel, Commercial et Agricole
Fantastic and very rare late-19th-century French mappemonde, showing the world with a number of fascinating features, including currents, the heights of principal mountains, distances between cities, exchange rates, and much more. This map was first published in Paris in 1876 or 1877 by Artheme Fayard, and here reissued in a previously unknown 1882 edition.
Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula -- To the Right Reverend Father …. by divine permission Ld. Bishop of Oxon. This Mapp is humbly Dedicated…
A striking example of this scarce 17th Century English Map of the World, based upon the earlier map of Willem Blaeu by Pieter Van Den Keere.


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Rushes are often the first species to colonise bare peat and are one of the most common plants found in Lough Boora. However, in some areas it is quickly succeeded by other species such as Purple Moor-grass, Devil's-bit Scabious, Wild Carrot and Heath Groundsel. At Turraun Wetland, the oldest site in the park, these grasslands often develop into rich wildflower meadows where orchids such as the Common Spotted, Bee, Early Purple Fragrant and Marsh Helleborine can be found.
Large areas of the park have developed into naturally regenerating open woodlands, predominantly made up of Downy Birch and Willow, with some Rowan and recolonising Scots Pine also present. Meanwhile, Bent Grass, Hard Fern, Bramble and Raspberry are found among the trees.
The site's wetlands are characterised by species such as; Bog Cotton, Water Mint, Water Horsetail, Phragmites Reeds, Bulrush, Marsh Arrowgrass and Marsh-bedstraw. The natural wetlands at Finnamore Lakes are of special significance as some areas are dominated by Fen species such as: Blunt-flowered or Fen Rush, Yellow Sedges, Marsh Cinquefoil and Bog Thistle.
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Just for kids: May
Resources and classes for children in the Upstate.
Just for kids: May Resources and classes for children in the Upstate. Check out this story on UpstateParent.com: https://www.upstateparent.com/story/entertainment/events/children/2016/04/29/just-kids-may/83705464/
Chris Worthy, Contributing Writer Published 1:17 p.m. ET April 29, 2016 | Updated 1:25 p.m. ET April 29, 2016
The Spartanburg Science Center in the Chapman Cultural Center offers a variety of interactive exhibits perfect for kids. Call 864-583-2777.(Photo: FILE)
KEY: G=Greenville County; S=Spartanburg County; P=Pickens County
iCAN BIKE CAMP for children with special needs is Aug. 1 – 5 at Eastside Family YMCA. Volunteers are needed. For details, visit http://icanshine.org/ican-bike-taylors-sc.
THE S.C. 4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM uses a learn-by-doing approach for a variety of activities and interests, including animals, natural resources, shooting sports, food and nutrition, science and technology and more. For more information, visit http://www.clemson.edu/extension/4h/.
THE HALTER PROGRAM – Handicapped Athletes Learning to Enjoy Riding – is an equestrian program at the S.C. School for the Deaf and Blind. Contact Mike Hollifield at 864-577-7638 or mhollifield@scsdb.org.
G — LIL CHEFS for ages 4 – 12 is offered at the GHS Family YMCA. Create a main course and dessert. Email ldredge@ymcagreenville.org.
G — THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE UPSTATE offers a variety of interactive exhibits. Daily programs are offered for ages 5 and younger and programs for older children are offered throughout the month. Trivial Pursuit: The 50-State Adventure is open through May 15. Fun and Games opens May 28. Bib's World, a permanent outdoor exhibit, is now open. For details, visit http://www.tcmupstate.org/.
G — RANDOM ACTS OF SCIENCE are at 11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays – Saturdays and 3:30 p.m. Sundays at the Children's Museum of the Upstate. For details, visit http://www.tcmupstate.org/.
G — STORY TIME AND MORE is at 10 and 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Tuesdays – Saturdays at the Children's Museum of the Upstate. For details, visit http://www.tcmupstate.org/.
G — STRIDES, a nonprofit program, provides tutoring in reading and math to children who are below grade level. Parents pay by sliding scale and some scholarships are available. Strides has locations in Greer, Easley, Fountain Inn, Travelers Rest, Piedmont and Cherrydale. Students with disabilities and speakers of other languages are welcome. For information about tutoring, call 864-246-9898 or visit http://www.stridestutor.org/.
S — THE SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER is in the Chapman Cultural Center. A variety of interactive exhibits are available. Call 864-583-2777.
P — OUR VILLAGE, a play group sponsored by Stroller Strides, is at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at 334 Rock Springs Road, Easley. The program is free. Come early at 9:30 am with baby and stroller for a workout. For details, call 864-608-6727.
P — PICKENS COUNTY 4H CLUBS are open. For details, visit http://www.clemson.edu/extension/4h/index.html. To start a club, email jsutter@clemson.edu.
P — LEGO STORY BUILDERS for all ages is at 3:30 p.m. Fridays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.
P — LIFE-SIZED BOARD GAMES for ages 10 – 12 are at 4:30 p.m. Mondays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.
P — WIGGLES AND GIGGLES for ages 2 and younger with a caregiver is at 10:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.
P — POKEMON LEAGUE is at 5:30 p.m. Thursdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.
TOTALLY TURTLES is 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. May 7 at Myrtle Beach State Park. The park offers interactive nature programs June – August. For details, visit, www.myrtlebeachsp.com.
THE CENTRAL RAILWAY MUSEUM is open 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. every Saturday in downtown Central. The museum has a variety of model railroad layouts on display. For details, visit http://www.crmha.org/.
A 4D THEATER, planetarium and more are open at the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia. For details, visit http://scmuseum.org/.
BLOOMING BUTTERFILES is open at EdVenture in Columbia. For details, visit http://www.edventure.org/.
DISCOVERY PLACE is in Charlotte. Visit http://www.discoveryplace.org/ or call 704-372-6261, ext. 300.
RIVERBANKS ZOO is in Columbia. For ticket information and a calendar of events, visit http://www.riverbanks.org/.
THE FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY is in Atlanta. Visit http://www.fernbank.edu/ or call 404-929-6300.
THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE LOWCOUNTRY in Charleston is open Tuesdays – Sundays. Visit http://explorecml.org/.
G — GIRLS ON THE RUN and Girls on Track combine training for a 5K with esteem-enhancing workouts for girls ages 8 – 15. To register, visit http://www.ghschildrens.org/girls-on-the-run.php.
G — HAPPY FEET/LEGENDS SOCCER for boys and girls ages 2 – 8 is offered in May at Pelham Road Baptist Church. For details, visit http://www.upstatehappyfeet.com/content/happyfeet_league-2016-programs/happyfeet_spring-2016-league.
G — YOUTH CONDITIONING is offered at the GHS Family YMCA. For details, call 864-963-3605.
G — MAULDIN MIRACLE LEAGUE is for children ages 3 and older with special needs. For details, contact Jeff Powers at 864-303-2362 or Sandy Somerville at 864-346-7688.
G — HOME-SCHOOL PE is offered at the Kroc Center. For details, call 864-527-5948.
G — HOME SCHOOL P.E. is offered at by Greenville County Rec. For details, visit http://greenvillerec.com/.
G — THE PALMETTO CURLING CLUB offers a variety of opportunities in the sport of curling. For membership and event information, visit https://www.palmettocurling.com/.
G — YOUTH TENNIS PROGRAMS for ages 5 – 18 are offered at the Greenville County Recreation District. For details, visit http://greenvillerec.com/ or email timd@gcrd.org.
G — JUNIOR TEAM TENNIS, a USTA program for ages 6 – 18, is at sites in Greenville. For more information, email greenvillejtt@gmail.com.
G — YOUTH PROGRAMS are offered all year by the Eastside Family YMCA. Sports programs for ages 4 – 14 include spring and fall soccer, summer and winter basketball, T-ball, softball and tennis. Additional programs include home-school physical education programs, swim lessons for ages 6 months – adult and family fitness for parents and their children ages 10 – 12. Call 864-292-2790.
S — THE FIRST TEE OF SPARTANBURG teaches life skills through golf. After-school classes are held at Willow Creek in Greer, The Creek Golf Club in Spartanburg, Woodfin Ridge Golf Club in Inman and Cherokee National Golf Club in Gaffney. Schedules, applications and online registration are available at http://www.thefirstteespartanburg.org. For more information, call 864-583-7084, ext. 6.
S — MARTIAL ARTS classes for ages 5 and older are offered at the Thomas E. Hannah Family YMCA. Call 864-585-0306.
S — GIRLS ON THE RUN is available for Spartanburg County girls ages 8 – 11. Visit http://www.gotrspartanburg.org/.
S — CAROLINA MIRACLE LEAGUE is a baseball league is for children with special needs. Games are played at Miracle Park. For more information, call 864-579-1805 or visit http://carolinamiracleleague.org/.
S — YOUTH SOCCER is offered through the Spartanburg Parks Commission. For details, visit http://spartanburgparks.org/.
S — KINDERGYM is offered at the Middle Tyger YMCA. Call 864-433-9623.
P — THE CITY OF EASLEY offers a variety of youth sports programs, including football, flag football, basketball, volleyball and baseball. Call 864-855-7933, ext. 110.
STORY TIME AND BOOKS
S — PAJAMA HOUR is at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays in May at the Middle Tyger Branch Library. Call 864-439-4759.
G — THE TEEN ADVISORY BOARD is open to students ages 13 – 18 and meets monthly at the Hughes Main Library. The program lets teens have input into library programming. Call 864-527-9248 or email jbabb@greenvillelibrary.org.
G — STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 735 Haywood Road. Call 864-458-9113 or visit http://www.barnesandnoble.com/.
G — STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1125 Woodruff Road at the Shops at Greenridge. Call 864-627-9197.
G — PRESCHOOL STORY TIMES are offered at Greenville County Library System branches. Visit http://greenvillelibrary.org/.
S — STORY TIME is offered at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1489 W.O. Ezell Blvd. The event is free. Call 864-587-8822.
S — PRESCHOOL STORY TIMES are offered at Spartanburg County Library System branches. Visit http://infodepot.org/.
P — PRESCHOOL STORY TIME for ages 2 – 5 is at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays at the Hampton Memorial Branch Library in Easley. Call 864-850-7077 or email publicist@pickens.lib.sc.us.
G — TEAM GREENVILLE is a year-round competitive swim team that provides opportunities for all ages, skills and commitment levels. The program is at Westside Park and Aquatic Complex. For details, call Roy at 864-220-0209 or email coachroy@gcrd.org.
G — SWIM LESSONS are offered monthly at Eastside Family YMCA. Call 864-292-2790 or visit https://www.ymcagreenville.org/.
G — YOUTH SWIM LESSONS for ages 6 months and older are at the Caine Halter Family YMCA. The programs provide goal setting and workouts for advanced swimmers. Call 864-679-9622.
G — SWIM LESSONS are offered in monthly sessions at the Cleveland Street Family YMCA. Call 864-242-4651.
G — SWIM LESSONS are offered for all ages at the GHS Family YMCA. Sessions include stroke school, Kinderswim, parent/child lessons, adult lessons and more. Call 864-963-3605.
S — THE SWIM ZONE is at C.C. Woodson Center. For details, visit http://www.cityofspartanburg.org/ or call 864-562-0459.
S — SWIM SPARTANBURG, a competitive swim program based at Converse College, is accepting swimmers ages 5 and older. Groups are designed for beginning swimmers who can swim a 25-yard lap, through advanced. Instruction emphasizes stroke and turn techniques. Fees apply. Call 828-287-4429 or email swimspartanburg@rfci.net.
S — Y-SPARTAQUATICS SWIM CLUB is based at the Middle Tyger YMCA. For more information or to schedule an evaluation, call 864-433-9623 or visit https://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=scsyssc.
S — PARENT AND CHILD SWIM LESSONS are taught at the Middle Tyger and Thomas E. Hannah Family locations of the Spartanburg YMCA. Competitive swim programs are available for ages 6 and older. Call the Middle Tyger YMCA at 864-433-9623 or the Thomas E. Hannah Family YMCA at 864-585-0306.
THEATER AND ARTS
AUDITIONS FOR DISNEY'S "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST" presented by South Carolina Children's Theatre are May 24 – 26. For details, visit http://www.scchildrenstheatre.org.
AUDITIONS FOR CAROLINA YOUTH SYMPHONY'S 2016 – 2017 season are May 21 and 28 at Furman University. For details, visit http://carolinayouthsymphony.org or email lee@carolinayouthsymphony.org.
CHRISTIAN YOUTH THEATRE (CYT Upstate) offers theater arts classes for ages 6 – 19. For information call 864-209-1884 or visit http://www.cytupstate.org/.
G — MAKE THEMED ART during Off the Wall art time 2 – 4 p.m. Tuesdays – Fridays and 1 – 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays in May at The Children's Museum of the Upstate. Visit http://www.tcmupstate.org/.
G — BABIES AND FRIENDS free play dates for ages 2 and younger are May 2 – 23 at Piano Central Studios. For scheduling information and reservations, call 864-232-5010 or visit http://www.pianocentralstudios.com/.
S — BALLET SPARTANBURG offers classes for ages 3 – 10 at the Middle Tyger YMCA. Call 864-433-9623 or visit http://www.spartanburgymca.org/.
G — DANCE AND CRAFT CLASSES are offered at Greenville County Community Centers. Visit http://greenvillerec.com/.
G — THE ARTS ACADEMY at Younts Center for Performing Arts offers a variety of classes. For more information, call 864-409-1050.
G — PIANO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE for grades K – 12 is at Furman University. This program provides comprehensive training through theory classes and private lessons. Enrollment is by audition. For details, call 864-294-3134.
G — YOUTH ART CLASSES are offered at Furman University, the Mauldin Cultural Center and the Greenville County Museum of Art. Call 864-294-2153.
G — THE S.C. CHILDREN'S THEATRE offers classes at every level for grades K3 – 12. For more information or to receive a brochure, visit http://www.scchildrenstheatre.org/ or call 864-235-2885, ext. 21.
S — ART CLASSES for ages 4 and older are offered at the Spartanburg Art Museum. For details, visit http://www.spartanburgartmuseum.org/.
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Christianity Today: COG Founder Berg Dead at 75
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COG Founder Berg Dead at 75
Christianity Today/1995-01-09
By Joe Maxwell
David Brandt Berg, known by followers in the controversial Children of God (COG) as Father David or Moses David, died in November at age 75. He remained in hiding for years prior to his death. Berg wrote that his second wife, Maria, will receive his "mantle and anointing" and hear from him from heaven.
In 1969, Berg founded the COG, now called the Family, with followers among former West Coast hippies. The communal group drifted into deviant beliefs, teaching that God approved of unmarried adults having consensual sex. COG members also practiced "flirty fishing," allowing women members to evangelize by having sex with non-members. The Family says that practiced ceased in 1987.
The Family recently returned to the United States (CT, Dec. 14, 1992, p.42) and now claims 9,000 full-time members in more than 200 communes in 43 countries. The group has been hounded by legal battles in foreign countries over child sex abuse charges, although no convictions have resulted.
Deborah Davis, Berg's daughter, left the Family and wrote a book against it. "They are going to keep going strong with the people they've got in it," Davis predicts, although she believes the group might "lose some of its continuity," noting Maria is not as "radical" or charismatic as Berg.
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In his first professional years Szasz is an admirer of Freud. He conspicuously examines whether his positions correspond with Freud's in his earliest works. When he quotes Freud in 1949, he adds praise, such as: "as Freud … so clearly describes…"; "this beautiful analogy of Freud's…" In a 1955 article he stresses in a footnote that certain of his positions should not be taken as criticism of Freud's views. When, fairly early in his career, Szasz criticizes aspects of psychoanalytic theory, he carefully avoids personal criticism of Freud. By 1959 he openly attacks Freud about the ambiguity of using both biomedical-therapeutic and psychological-moral frames of reference. Shortly afterwards Szasz states that Freud's motives for vacillating between stressing a medical approach to psychoanalysis and a psychological one were not scientific but of a social, professional, legal, and political nature. Just how dangerous it was in those days to attack Freud becomes apparent in the ensuing discussion about Szasz. Several of his opponents accuse him of shortchanging Freud and quoting him out of context, even though to varying degrees they concede to the criticism.
Szasz's criticism of Freud becomes clearer in The Myth of Mental Illness, but remains circuitous and is directed at Freud's theory, not at him personally. Two years later in an article entitled "Freud as a Leader" Szasz directly attacks Freud. He describes him as a kind of industrialist who wished to patent psychoanalytic discoveries, who opposed anyone with ideas on psychoanalysis that differed from his own, and who wished to monopolize the determination of what is included in the concept of psychoanalysis and what is not. That is why, according to Szasz, Freud had endless confrontations with his disciples as soon as they tried to make their own contributions. Freud made psychoanalysis a movement rather than a science. Not only was he an autocratic leader – this had been claimed before – but he was also deceitful, pseudo-democratic, and pseudo-scientific. Szasz ascribes psychoanalysis's resemblance to a movement rather than a science to Freud's leadership. In 1913 Freud wrote to Ferenczi, "We possess the truth; I am as sure of it as 15 years ago." Szasz calls that an example of how leadership ought not be. On the side, I note that although Szasz has no ambition to form a movement comparable to psychoanalysis, it is ironic that he responded to Roth's criticism of his (Szasz's) views on schizophrenia as follows: "I believe, therefore, that my influence is due … to the fact that I tell the truth …"
Karl Kraus and the Soul Doctors is published in 1976. Karl Kraus was a Viennese journalist who published a magazine, Die Fackel, for decades at the beginning of the twentieth century. He wrote most of the articles himself. Szasz describes him as an individualist with integrity who opposed every form of collectivism and advocated human freedom and dignity, as well as purity of language. Thus Kraus is presented as a man who strives for the same ideals as Szasz. The book about Kraus is however as much about Freud, and opposes him as well as the psychoanalysts around him. Szasz scathingly criticizes Freud as a man whose "basic aims" were "to annex morals to medicine, to create a cryptoreligious ideology and be its leader." (p. 52)
Szasz posits that both Kraus and Freud were rhetoricians, describing rhetoric as the use of language with the intention of influencing others. He quotes Richard Weaver: there are three ways in which language can influence us. It can move us in the direction of good ("noble rhetoric"), it can move us in the direction of evil ("base rhetoric"), or, hypothetically, in no direction. Weaver states, "Base rhetoric is therefore always trying to keep its object from the support which personal courage, noble associations, and divine philosophy provide a man." (p. 53) Szasz considers Kraus a noble rhetorician, whereas Freud is a base rhetorician, someone who "uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal followers of his person." (pp. 53-54) Freud was also a "base rhetorician" because he aimed to mislead people by labeling their conflicts illnesses, and by humiliating his opponents, defaming them, and often even stigmatizing them as sick.
Szasz accuses the historians of psychoanalysis of falsifying history. They ascribe Kraus's opposition to psychoanalysis to his personality, as assessed by one of Freud's followers, Wittels, at a meeting of the Viennese Psychoanalytic Society in 1910. Such a procedure, "psychoanalysis" of a personage from the past or present in his absence and without his consent, was customary in the at the time still small circle of psychoanalysts. In fact, Freud himself did so in his writing on Leonardo Da Vinci, about which Szasz says, "Where Freud is at his best as a base rhetorician, defaming one of the most revered artists the world has ever known." Szasz demonstrates that Kraus already rejected psychoanalysis in 1908, and that Wittels' view was "an exercise in psychoanalytic denigration and defamation for which no special knowledge of the victim's personality is required." (p. 27) This book will not be further discussed here. Szasz's condemnation of Freud as a person and as a practitioner of a pseudo-science has been sufficiently highlighted. Also Szasz's view on the role of Freud's Jewishness, which is discussed thoroughly in The Myth of Psychotherapy (1978), is omitted here for the sake of brevity.


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Paul Joseph Watson, a right-wing YouTube creator and editor-at-large at the prolific conspiracy theory outlet Infowars, wants you to forget the last decade of his career and to now believe he doesn't like conspiracy theories.
In an interview uploaded yesterday to Dennis Prager's digital media outlet PragerU, Watson joined conservative commentator Candace Owens on her podcast to discuss issues of social media moderation as interpreted through the right-wing lens that defines it as "censorship." Watson was banned from Facebook earlier this year.
During the interview, Watson took issue with how the media has characterized the content he produces, often identifying him as a conspiracy theorist and sympathetic to the alt-right. Watson rejected being considered alt-right, since he said he does not believe in the pursuit of a white ethnostate, and similarly rejected being called a conspiracy theorist.
"I hate conspiracy theories. I think most of them are really dumb," Watson said.
Owens chimed in that she doesn't watch CNN because it's a "conspiracy theorist network." It's worth noting that Owens got her start in right-wing media thanks in part to an in-studio appearance she made on Alex Jones' Infowars show while she still operated under the moniker "Red Pill Black."
Watson said, "I was a conspiracy theorist when I was a kid, like 15 years ago. That's where I came from, so I know how those ideas—you take disparate bits of information and fuse them together to create a conspiracy. That doesn't mean there aren't some conspiracies. But I know how they're created and I know mentally how people are lulled into believing them."
After making his claim, Watson maintained his newfound anti-conspiracy theory position for about 10 minutes. Then, Watson and Owens theorized that tech companies were banning right-wing figures from their platforms because they are involved in a conspiracy to silence political dissidents and enforce homogeneous political thought.
Watson appeared in-studio on Infowars in March to talk about a new project he was working on to "generate the next generation of YouTubers, of young political commentators."
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Many people think that "political correctness" means "politeness" or "inclusive language" or "avoiding words that hurt people's feelings". It follows that "political correctness gone mad" means "taking that to a crazy extreme, objecting to language that no one has ever objected to"; but that people who complain about "political correctness gone mad" are often rude people who think they should be able to say bad words if they fucking well want to. If Mrs Whitehouse came back to earth and tried to stop the television saying bum and bloody and ding-a-a-ling, the news people would almost certainly accuse her of being politically correct. And also mad, which she very probably was.
However, "political correctness" is also in use to describe a conspiracy theory in which the world is secretly run by a Marxist cabal based in Frankfurt. "Political Correctness" -- and 20th century literary theory, and human rights legislation, and health and safety at work rules, and, very especially and, the idea of man made climate change -- were created by this Marxist clique in order to destroy civilization. What they have in common is that they rationalize unreasonable behavior, and make people do obviously bad things in the name of the greater good. It is obvious that Christian civilization is based upon citizens having cars, refrigerators, and central heating, and air conditioning, so the Marxists have invented the fiction of "global warming" -- which no reasonable person could believe in, and for which there is not a shred of scientific evidence -- in order to make people feel bad about owning these things. PC is an overarching term for the whole plot: believers very often say that it is Political Correctness that says that children have to wear crash helmets to play conkers, or that there is a modern Politically Correct notion that we should reduce carbon emissions. (*)
Obviously, not everyone who has ever used the word "Political Correctness" believes in the conspiracy theory. (I myself have occasionally said things like "some of the older children's books are not very PC"). But believers in the conspiracy theory talk a lot about Political Correctness. And lots of people do believe in the conspiracy. The Daily Mail went so far as to run a headline "How the BBC fell victim to a Marxist plot to destroy civilization". I took this as rather strong evidence that the Daily Mail believed that there was a Marxist plot to destroy western civilization and that the BBC had fallen victim to it, although some people thought that I was reading a bit too much into it.
So. It is possible that when people say that something called "Political Correctness" ("the evil doctrine of Political Correctness" according to Norman Tebbit) was to blame for the Rotheram child abuse scandal, they are talking about "Political Correctness" in the sense of "not saying stuff that hurts other people's feelings, being careful about what words you use". I suppose that what they have in mind is that "you have to be so careful about what language you use about race that it's really hard to talk about race at all; so when there actually is a racial component in some specific crime; it's easier not to talk about it at all and if you can't talk about it, well, obviously, you don't see it."
It is also very possible that Flying Rodent (**) is correct and that after a shocking cock up where serious child abuse was taking place under the police's noses, someone, by way of a damage limitation exercise, said "I know! If we pretend that we can't do anything about dark skinned people molesting little kids because Political Correctness Gone Mad, the papers will swallow it because they love that kind of thing." I can just about believe that PC Copper honestly thought that dark skinned people were free to molest kids if they really wanted to because it was part of their culture and Political Correctness meant that the law couldn't touch them. I don't believe that the entire police hierarchy believed that. (It's also hard to believe that any officer would independently come up with the idea think that "you have to let them rape kids" followed naturally from "you aren't allowed to call them Pakis" unless he had already been told that "Political Correctness" and "Human Rights" were basically the same thing.)
But I think that it is also very likely that when people say that the child abuse scandal was the result of "Political Correctness" they mean that a shadowy group of Marxists was secretly controlling the police, and forcing them to act against "Common Sense" as part of an active plot to bring down Civilization and replace it with a communist superstate. Tebbit definitely thinks that there was a plot to establish an enclave in England that functioned under Pakistani law, as if that followed on naturally from "please use inclusive language".
It seems to me that a lot of these claims -- that Isis or Rotheram or the Girl Guide Oath are "caused" by Political Correctness -- read like nonsense if "Political Correctness" means "the belief that it is nicer to say 'black person' rather than 'n----r'". But they make a kind of sense if you believe that Political Correctness and Common Sense are two dueling ideologies, the one committed to destroying "civilization" and the the other committed to preserving it.
But maybe they are simply nonsense.
(*) I grant that Political Correctness could in those contexts mean simply "Prevailing Orthodoxy."
(**) http://flyingrodent.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/chicken.html Note that the New York Times essay that Mr Rodent links to is rather more nuanced than he give it credit for
I can just about believe that PC Copper honestly thought that dark skinned people were free to molest kids if they really wanted to because it was part of their culture and Political Correctness meant that the law couldn't touch them. I don't believe that the entire police hierarchy believed that
Never underestimate the human capacity for wilful blindness in the face of unpleasantness.
'Of course it's not okay for dark skinned people to rape kids. If dark skinned people were raping kids then I would have to do something about it. But doing something about it would mean saying publicly that dark skinned people are raping kids, and if I am the first person to do that then my career will be over. Therefore because dark skinned people raping kids would cause me to have to do something that would end my career, dark skinned people must not actually be raping any kids, and any apparent evidence that they are must be being misinterpreted. If I investigate just enough — not too much and not too little — then I am sure I can uncover lots of no evidence that this bad thing is happening. And if I continue to uncover lots of no evidence, that means that nobody is being raped, which is good, and I can keep my job, which is also good. So the best possible thing is that I continue to find no evidence that dark-skinned men are raping little girls.'
(I have no idea how this fits into your bit about political correctness, but it's what I think happened at a lot of levels.)
(It's pretty much the same as how it works in, say, a political party picked totally at random: 'It is clearly not okay for anyone to molest women, even if they are our master election strategist. Therefore if our master election strategist really has been molesting women, then we will have to get rid of him. But then we won't have our master election strategist, and the publicity will be terrible, and beside, I know him and he's a good bloke. So he mustn't actually be molesting women, because if he was then the consequences would be terrible. So there must be some perfectly innocent explanation for any situations where he apparently molested a woman, that means it's all a misunderstanding, no women have actually been molested (thank goodness!) and we can continue to have our master election strategist and I don't have to face the possibility that I was very mistaken about how good a bloke someone was.')
(Also note that it need not be true that publicly saying dark-skinned men are raping kids would end a career: it is enough that the person believes in the bad consequences, for them to begin the process of finding ways to interpret the evidence such that the bad consequences can be avoided.)
Harland said...
The Frankfurt School is real.
"In the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Marcuse translated the abstruse work of the other Frankfurt School thinkers into books college students could understand, such as Eros and Civilization, which became the Bible of the New Left in the 1960s. Marcuse injected the Frankfurt School's cultural Marxism into the baby boom generation, to the point where it is now that generation's ideology. We know it as "multiculturalism," "diversity" or just Political Correctness.
That is the dirty little secret of Political Correctness, folks: it is a form of Marxism. If the average American knew that, I suspect Political Correctness would be in serious trouble.
The Ft. Hood killings raise an interesting question: why would Marxists of any variety come to the support of Islam? After all, if the Islamics took over, they would cut Marxists' throats even before they cut the throats of Christians and Jews. The answer is that cultural Marxism will ally with any force that helps it to achieve its goals, destroying Western culture and Christianity."
http://dnipogo.org/2009/11/17/on-war-322-what-is-"political-correctness"/
Sunday, 28 September, 2014
Rodger C: The above troll posting may be mysterious to most readers because it references a peculiarly American bugaboo of the moment. But it leads me to the observation that Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man and C. S. Leeis' Abolition of man have essentially the same thesis.
Monday, 29 September, 2014
Andrew Rilstone said...
You have just proved my point. Thank you very much.
Thursday, 02 October, 2014
RC: You're very welcome.
Friday, 03 October, 2014
That was me, Andrew, claiming that Mr Harland had proved my point, in case that wasn't clear. Sorry for lack of postings, I've been too busy plotting the downfall of civilization.
Sunday, 05 October, 2014
What are "Islamics", by the way? Are they different from "Islamists" or indeed "Muslims"? From now on I shall refer to people who go to church as "Christianities".
RC: I figured out what you meant right after I posted, of course. Reality is always ahead of satire.
The Frankfurt School is definitely real. It has a web site and everything:
http://www.ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/
(Okay I guess not everything that has a web site is real. But this one is.)
Monday, 06 October, 2014
RC: Of course the Frankfurt School is real. I could have told you that; I've read most of them. The question is whether (a) this is a Bad Thing and (b) it has anything to do with the case, tra-la.
The site has taught me a new German word, "Drittmittel." Nice, but not as nice as "Futternutzung."
What are "Islamics", by the way?
It's funny how some adjectives can be used as person-nouns ('American', 'Christian', 'Italian', indeed 'Muslim') and some can't ('Scottish', 'French').
I can understand it would be confusing to someone for whom English is not their native language.
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SiriusXM today announced that 2014 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 4 Ford Fusion for Stewart-Haas Racing and one of the sport's most popular drivers, will host a new exclusive show on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, available to listeners nationwide on satellite radios and the SiriusXM app.
Happy Hours will debut on March 28 and air every Tuesday from 7:00 to 9:00 pm ET, featuring Harvick's distinctive perspective on his sport and life outside the track. Harvick and co-host Matt Yocum will take calls from listeners and give NASCAR fans a unique view on the driver's life and interests when he is away from the race car. In June the show will begin airing every other week.
"I'm excited to partner up with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio and give the fans an inside look at what it's like to be a NASCAR driver in today's age," said Kevin Harvick. "It will be fun to give the listeners my opinion on things that are happening within our sport."
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They Used Her As A Test Subject And Took Away Her Babies. Now Foxie Has A New Lease On Life.
Finally free.
Jason Pollak @runninwithit
Foxie the chimp has had a rough life.
As her bio says, she was born in August 1976, and knew nothing besides her home, the test lab.
According to the sanctuary that rescued her, Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, "Foxie was used in hepatitis vaccine research and as a breeder for the biomedical research industry."
As a breeder, that meant Foxie had babies, but they were taken away from her at birth to be raised as more test subjects. In total, she had four babies and even a set of twins.
Towards the end of her time as a test chimp, she was mainly kept in a cage in a basement with no windows, companions or toys to occupy her mind.
However, in 2008, her life finally changed for the better.
Foxie was found by Diana Goodrich, the co-director of Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest, a 26-acre farm in the Cascade mountains, located 90 miles east of Seattle.
As Diana explained in Foxie's bio, the caretaker at the lab warned her that the chimp couldn't be trusted if given the opportunity, but that wasn't something Diana easily accepted.
She decided to give Foxie that opportunity, saying of their first meeting, "She watched my every move and by the end of the visit she presented her belly for me to tickle with a rolled up newspaper."
At this point, you might be wondering why Foxie is so fond of her troll dolls.
Due to the years of isolation and mistreatment, Foxie was initially very aloof when it came to interacting with people and her surroundings.
However, one toy, the troll, piqued Foxie's interest and she adopted the toy almost as if it were her own baby.
Not only has Foxie warmed up to her surroundings, Diana also reports that Foxie does not try to attack her caregivers in the least bit. Instead, "She is mostly interested in playing with us, and she can't get enough of play! She nowplays with any of her chimpanzee 'family members' who are up for a romp and her human caregivers throughout the day."
While there are six other chimps which make up Foxie's new family (Annie, Jamie, Jody, Missy & Negra), one chimp by the name of Burrito spends the most time with her.
Like Foxie, Burrito spent most of his life as a test subject. He did spend some time in a human home during his toddler years though and also some time as an entertainment act.
While they may have found each other later in their lives, there is certainly a strong bond between the pair, who spend time grooming one another and playing.
While these seven chimps have found happiness, there are still many more out there that need support.
If you would like to donate to the sanctuary, volunteer and more, please check out their website here.
As you can see, Foxie is extremely friendly and certainly enjoys her backflips even at 39. Stay young Foxie.
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Nepal Telecom is a Government-owned pioneering Telecom operator of Nepal. Nepal Telecom is mostly known by the short name NDCL or Ntc or NT or Doorsanchar (in Nepali). It has almost all telecom services, available throughout the country. It is also the one and only Landline (Home phone)/PSTN service provider in the country. Whereas other services to name a few are:
GSM (2G, 3G, 4G)
You can find here: All the offers in Nepal Telecom.
Their subscriber base has already crossed 20 million (2 crores) by the no of distribution lines in several services. Among these, the majority of Ntc customers are in their GSM service (2G, 3G, 4G). NTC is the first telecom company to launch 4G in the country back in 2017.
The company history dates back to when the first telecom service started in 1973 B.S and Mohan Akashwani established in 2005 B.S. Then Telecommunication Department established as Nation Five year plan was converted into a Telecommunication Development board for the modernization and expansion. Later they changed the same as a Nepal Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) in 2032 B.S. Lastly, the corporation was changed to a company called Nepal Doorsanchar Company Ltd. or Nepal Telecom, under the company act.
The government owns a 91.5% stake in the company while others are with the public and its employees. Although the Government has decided to sell some stake (~30%) of the company to a Telecom giant as a strategic partner, significant result or development has not yet achieved till date.
Recently Ntc expanded 4G coverage to all 77 districts with more than 2000 towers.
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Is anyone else getting PHP errors at the top?
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shel's theory (http://www.nicolaas.net/dudley/index.php?f=20050822) is that when we give the site a ) then the parse error goes away. I was unable to move my unicorn hornMen have always sought the elusive unicorn, for the single
twisted horn which projected from its forehead was thought to
be a powerful talisman. It was said that the unicorn had
simply to dip the tip of its horn in a muddy pool for the water
to become pure. Men also believed that to drink from this horn
was a protection against all sickness, and that if the horn was
ground to a powder it would act as an antidote to all poisons.
Less than 200 years ago in France, the horn of a unicorn was
used in a ceremony to test the royal food for poison.
Although only the size of a small horse, the unicorn is a very
fierce beast, capable of killing an elephant with a single
thrust from its horn. Its fleetness of foot also makes this
solitary creature difficult to capture. However, it can be
tamed and captured by a maiden. Made gentle by the sight of a
virgin, the unicorn can be lured to lay its head in her lap, and
in this docile mood, the maiden may secure it with a golden rope.
[ Mythical Beasts, by Deirdre Headon (The Leprechaun Library) ]
Martin took a small sip of beer. "Almost ready," he said.
"You hold your beer awfully well."
Tlingel laughed. "A unicorn's horn is a detoxicant. Its
possession is a universal remedy. I wait until I reach the
warm glow stage, then I use my horn to burn off any excess and
keep me right there."
[ Unicorn Variations, by Roger Zelazny ]
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. from nethack.alt.org to www.nicolaas.net before I died to try to cure the error, Maybe we can borrow Dudley's Bazooka and offer it to the parse error as the requested weapon. (Dudley's dungeon, Google ads, and now parse error are here! What comes here next?)
Recently I found a newt(kinds of) small animal, like a lizard, which spends most of
NetHack may be freely redistributed. See license for details. in the real world. It was black, had four legs, and was smaller than the bottom of my shoe. I saw it hurry across my path. Luckily it was not interested in me. Sometimes I do have difficulty understanding how those things kill Dudley.
The newts grow to be pretty big in those dungeons.
Poor Dudley... he'll perish tomorrow.
Those comics are just not funny any more
A little plot arc never hurt noone. Now eat your lichenThe chamber was of unhewn rock, round, as near as might
be, eighteen or twenty feet across, and gay with rich
variety of fern and moss and lichen. The fern was in
its winter still, or coiling for the spring-tide; but
moss was in abundant life, some feathering, and some
gobleted, and some with fringe of red to it.
[ Lorna Doone, by R.D. Blackmore ]
Also, I just recieved an email from Dion -
From: "Dion Nicolaas" <dion@nicolaas.net>
To: "L"
Subject: Holiday. Back 5/9.
...and the message was empty. Cryptic, very cryptic. : )
I have a sneaking feeling that both the PHP problem and Dion's whereabouts will all be resolved come this "5/9," doncha think?
Kernigh: Because we really want to give a Holy Bazooka of Deadening to php: "Expected T_STRING at... *foom*", no more site at all!
Anyway this arc was good but has been going on a bit long now.
M'ladapiro
No; this cannot be. If the weapon is capable of bringing all to ruin, I must stop Dudley from causing an early Armageddon!
I think this arc's pretty good. Not as good as Dion's stuff but still good.
And I get the PHP error too.
Ooh, gross.
Go Dudley, Go Dudley, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dud-
Bazooka of Deadening has killed Grognor.


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'Photograph 51': Theater Review
6:50 PM PDT 9/14/2015 by Stephen Dalton
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Nicole Kidman in 'Photograph 51'
Kidman just about manages to shine, despite uninspired staging and dowdy source material. TWITTER
Nicole Kidman returns to the West End to play scientist and feminist icon Rosalind Franklin, long denied full credit for her groundbreaking work on DNA.
Back on the London stage for the first time in 17 years, Nicole Kidman sharpens her feminist credentials in the first British production of Anna Ziegler's 2008 play Photograph 51. The last time she appeared on the West End, directed by Sam Mendes in David Hare's The Blue Room, one critic famously branded Kidman's sizzling performance "pure theatrical Viagra." Her latest role is almost the polar opposite, playing the frosty and spinsterish Rosalind Franklin, the young British-Jewish chemist whose crucial role in mapping the structure of DNA was overlooked for years by a male-dominated scientific establishment.
The production is directed by Michael Grandage, formerly of the Donmar Warehouse, now heading his own theater company, who has recently wrapped his debut feature film with Kidman, Genius. Grandage has a long track record of starry productions in both London and New York, yet Photograph 51 feels oddly staid and conventional, perhaps because Ziegler's play is essentially a middling blend of straight bio-drama and high-school science lesson. Without Kidman's marquee appeal, it would have been an unusually dowdy choice for the West End.
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Fortunately, Kidman delivers. Sporting a lab coat and tidy brunette hair, and deploying that clipped English accent familiar from screen roles like The Hours, her performance is muted but reliably intense, hinting at wounded depths beneath Franklin's implacably chilly exterior. Constrained by the obligation to keep his heroine within the limits of plausibility, Grandage settles for milking maximum comic bite from Mary Poppins-ish lines like "As a girl, I prided myself on always being right," and "Laziness? I don't believe in it." But there are no emotional fireworks, no grandstanding epiphanies, no Viagra moments here. Even if some of Franklin's male colleagues found her stern ice-queen aura arousing, as Ziegler hints, this is not Fifty Shades of DNA.
The play compresses Franklin's crucial career phase during the early 1950s into a single 95-minute act, specifically her work on X-ray diffraction images of DNA at King's College in London. Here, she fights daily battles for respect and equality against her condescending, chauvinistic boss Maurice Wilkins (Stephen Campbell Moore), while his charmingly goofy assistant Ray Gosling (Joshua Silver) serves as comic relief.
Actually taken by Gosling under Franklin's tutelage, the photograph of the title became the key image that helped confirm DNA's double helix structure, eventually winning a Nobel Prize for Wilkins and his friendly rivals at Cambridge University, James Watson (Will Attenborough, grandson of Sir Richard) and Francis Crick (Edward Bennett). By this time, Franklin was already four years dead from ovarian cancer, aged just 37.
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Christopher Oram's stage design is static and spacious, a single all-purpose set lined with stone archways suggestive of Victor Frankenstein's dank basement laboratory, which resonates on both a literal and symbolic level. The stage itself is a grid of opaque white squares that light up intermittently, chiefly when characters step out of a scene to address the audience. Alas, Grandage resists the temptation to use them as an illuminated disco dance floor, Saturday Night Fever-style. Strangely, he also makes no attempt to visually represent the DNA double helix onstage, as some U.S. productions did. A glaring missed opportunity.
Photograph 51 slips fluidly between two time frames, one during Franklin's life, the other after her death, with Wilkins and his fellow scientists reflecting on her posthumous reputation — and, on some level, trying to salvage their own. The tone initially feels like a creaky English drawing-room comedy from the 1960s, overly reliant on stuffed-shirt caricatures and labored banter, sprinkled with casual sexism and anti-Semitism. The lines get faster, smarter and more poetic in the final half-hour, but never quite shake off the sense of a musty provincial theater piece.
Grandage's production is a worthy effort, but a little passionless, inherently limited in dramatic force by its subject matter. Because Franklin died tragically young, lived mainly for her work and reportedly never had any kind of romantic relationship, directors and playwright are faced with the options to speculate or fabricate if they want emotional context to help sweeten long stretches of dry scientific detail. Ziegler drops a few hints about Franklin's secret crushes and minor flirtations, but these are very inconclusive and timidly handled.
Kidman says she chose Photograph 51 partly to correct the injustices of history, and partly to pay tribute to her biochemist father Anthony, who died last year. In truth, Franklin's reputation has been thoroughly rehabilitated in the decades since her death. She even has a university faculty named after her barely 10 minutes' walk from this theater.
But sexism in science remains a live issue. Recent off-color jokes by Nobel Prize-winning professor Tim Hunt about the dangers of allowing "girls" into laboratories became a major news story in Britain, helping to generate an extra blast of free publicity for Kidman's stage comeback. Not that she will need it. Photograph 51 is already heavily booked for much of its three-month run, a testament to celebrity power more than to strong writing or great directing.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The production was reviewed at a preview performance prior to its official opening.
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Stephen Campbell Moore, Joshua Silver, Will Attenborough, Edward Bennett, Patrick Kennedy
Director: Michael Grandage
Playwright: Anna Ziegler
Set and costume designer: Christopher Oram
Lighting designer: Neil Austin
Music and sound designer: Adam Cork
Presented by Michael Grandage Company
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True Tribe's Luxury Swim Shorts Are Proudly Not Made In France
Murray Clark
14 August 2020, 4:30 am ·5-min read
Photo credit: True Tribe
From Esquire
You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht. And yet, Carly Simon wasn't talking about you. Or him. Or those two city boys over there. Or the guy across the way that you faintly remember from first year who, actually, looks a lot like every other guy you met in first year.
But you, and everyone else, could well be mistaken for the chief antagonist of Ms Simon's seminal 1972 FU hit. Not because you're a bad man. But because, in the last eight years or so, men's swimwear – the sort worn to actual yacht parties, and every other water-based party not hosted by a Belarusian cabinet minister – has become a homogenous body of Riviera-tinged, my-father-the-land-baron short shorts. They're often tailored, clean, best-worn by Ralph Lauren models, but also standard kit for those who weren't so successful in the DNA lottery. They come in classic shades of aquamarine and cerulean and Sean Connery (never blue, though), or in a print inspired by the architecture of an exclusive LA postcode. And they're very good. Hence, very popular.
What's more, it's in line with the resurgence of that whole prep 2.0 thing: the trust fund kid down the skate park. But what if you're not into that? What if you want something different, something built for more than Sicilian sunbathing? It was a conundrum faced by Alexandre Sundberg: a born and bred Parisian who high schooled in Sweden, and who that wanted proper flexibility with his summer essentials.
"I wanted shorts that were versatile, and shorts that you can swim in, and run in, or go to the gym in or, y'know, go for a stroll in Rome," he says. Which, coincidentally, was exactly what Sundberg was doing when we shared a phone call earlier this month, during which he was also wearing a shorts solution of his own making: True Tribe.
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As a label that's yet to reach its third birthday, Sundberg's brainchild hasn't yet faced that difficult sixth season quandary: doing something different just to attract attention. It knows exactly who it is. Which means it's not much like the current rotation of yachty swimwear, but it's also not so left-field that it's "deconstructing the shorts paradigm" (there are, for example, still two leg holes). Instead, True Tribe is simple: a bit sporty and informed by Sundberg's travels abroad.
"I didn't have many clothes, just a backpack, and I went to Australia with some swim short samples I'd sorted with some Portuguese suppliers as a bit of a side project," says the former Saint Laurent staffer. "I went hitchhiking from Perth to Darwin in these shorts, so I had some exposure to tribal and Aboriginal culture, and that's kind of what triggered the whole brand. I saw some extremely beautiful prints and designs, and it was such a defined, individual sort of art, and the whole philosophy of True Tribe emerged from there: you just need shorts and a backpack and the bare minimum."
Alongside the kaleidoscopic patterns of Aboriginal art are iridescent fabrics, quieter takes on camo (elevated in name to the rather French special forces-sounding "camo verde") and mosaics that are much easier to wear than all-over prints. These are shorts you can just throw on, but which won't look out of place if you wear them straight from the beach to the bar. Less formal than what we've grown used to over the last decade, but that's sort of the point.
Most brands at this price point trumpet their homegrown manufacturing, but True Tribe's early marketing campaigns proudly bore the slogan: 'Not Made In France'. "My family is in production, and they work a lot in Pakistan," says Lundberg, "So, we decided to start our own workshop there, and we saw a massive opportunity for a new way to do business in developing countries where fast fashion is the dominant industry.
"We wanted to focus on craftsmanship, so we started with around five pieces and each pair of shorts takes about four hours to make. And it's all made from recycled materials, using nylon from fishing nets and other trash from the ocean. That whole circularity in the fashion business is really key, and we partner up with Survival International that covers the rights of Aboriginal peoples around the world with different projects." Quality over quantity then. And, unlike major players in fashion, True Tribe's dedicated artisans have faces, and names, and fairer salaries – all introduced to shoppers on the brand's website.
That tightly curated initial line of five pieces has grown to 20. That includes a pair of well-made t-shirts which, again, make their presence known with subtle design details – and a focus on the sustainable. "It's something we were able to produce using organic cotton, but now everyone's going for that. So we looked at interesting options like tencel, which is a tree fibre," says Sundberg. "Then, we went for something slightly more raw, so the edges of the collar are a little torn. It sits with shorts that are designed to go exploring in, and it's a change from the regular clean collar most brands are doing."
Who, coincidentally, are all sat on deck right now, Aperol in hand, Ibiza Chill Classics snaking from the sound system. True Tribe is nowhere to be seen. And as for the guys opting for its unique strain of fun-to-look-at functionality? Don't worry: that Carly Simon song is most certainly not about you ('bout you, 'bout you).
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Suda 51 keen to develop No More Heroes 3
Whilst there were no new game announcements at Grasshopper Manufacture's Grassstream 2 Travis VS. Garcia charity event yesterday, Grashopper CEO Suda 51 has commented that he would like to make a third instalment within cult-hit series, No More Heroes.
When speaking of the possibility of a further No More Heroes sequel, as reported by Famitsu, Suda explained: "Although it won't happen soon, I'd like to do it at some point." Then, referring to his two colleagues by his side, character designer Yusuke Kozaki and mecha designer Shigeto Koyama, he added "Let's make it together."
Such comments were made during the first part of the event, which centred upon the No More Heroes series and featured a talk session with Suda, Kozaki and Koyama. During this, Kozaki revealed that he made many characters that were unused in the past games with which they could make at least another two more No More Heroes games. He also stated that he would like to direct a game where the game's Shinobu character plays the central role.
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Cyber Security Range Opens in Baltimore with a Little Help from Israel
Justin Silberman
Bruce Spector shows off the training center at the Baltimore Cyber Range. (David Stuck)
Bruce Spector couldn't help but smile and revel in the moment. Less than a year after he helped conceptualize the idea for a city-based cybersecurity training center, Baltimore Cyber Range celebrated its opening at Power Plant Live on Aug. 3.
Spector's company, Pikesville- based Electronic Technology Associates (ETA), operates the range, which uses a platform developed by Israeli technology firm Cyberbit to provide security teams hands-on simulations in realistic settings.
Spector, 61, founder and CEO of ETA, told the JT the goal of the range is to attract the most talented individuals to meet a growing demand in the cybersecurity industry. In turn, he hopes Baltimore morphs into the "cyber- security training mecca of the United States, if not" the world.
"Anybody who is involved in cybersecurity, we want them to join us, because we think we can make them better," Spector said. "I'm a Baltimore boy, and I've been doing this kind of work for 35 years. Nothing gives me greater joy than being able to see a project like this happen."
The range's ribbon-cutting ceremony drew Gov. Larry Hogan, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, former City Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector (Bruce's mother) and other state and city officials, all eager to praise the partnership between ETA and Cyberbit.
Hogan, a Republican, said that Baltimore "is quickly becoming the hotbed of cybersecurity activity" and that the range makes the area an attractive destination for more cybersecurity companies to bring their business.
The idea for the project took shape last September when Spector accompanied Hogan on a week-long trade mission to Israel, where the partnership between ETA and Cyberbit was first announced. The trip was part of a statewide effort Hogan has undertaken to bring resources from Israel's cybersecurity industry to Maryland as a way to help boost local jobs and businesses.
For its part, the Baltimore Cyber Range is working to lay the groundwork to meet the burgeoning needs of the industry.
Labor statistics data indicate that more than 200,000 U.S. cybersecurity jobs are currently unfilled, Spector said, underscoring the need to develop and train more information technology and cybersecurity professionals. The shortfall is projected to swell to more than 1.5 million by 2019.
"Most of these jobs are right in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., corridor," Spector said. "We have the National Security Agency (NSA), the Pentagon and other government agencies all right here, so we couldn't ask for a better fit."
Maryland boasts more than 12,000 information technology and cybersecurity companies — including four from Israel — that serve organizations such as the NSA, making the state an ideal breeding ground for cybersecurity specialists.
Stephen Thomas, general manager of Cyberbit North America, said he expects 1,000 people annually to receive training at the range, which is Cyberbit's 12th location worldwide but first in the United States. There are plans in development for Cyberbit, a subsidiary of defense company Elbit Systems, to expand in the region, including Virginia.
"This is probably the best example of how quickly we can bring technologies from Israel here to the U.S. market," Thomas said.
The center welcomes anyone, Spector said, including fresh-faced high school and college graduates with no cyber- security experience and well-trained, skilled professionals looking to enhance their skills. Participants will be trained on Cyberbit's "Range Platform," allowing them a chance to combat cyberattacks in real time without the risk of damaging a real network.
Spector said he expects the range, which has held classes since July, to grow from its current total of 10 employees to 100 by year's end.
"It would give me no greater satisfaction than to bring more high-paying jobs to my hometown," Spector said. "We want to provide long-term, viable careers for people who come to this range."
Pugh, a Democrat, agreed, noting it's essential that individuals are equipped with the proper tools to make their mark in a booming industry.
"We are going to create jobs and connect people to the jobs of the future," Pugh said. "It's more than just training people for jobs — it's training people for the right jobs."
From left: Former City Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki Spector, Gov. Larry Hogan and Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg of Beth Tfiloh Congregation celebrate the Cyber Range's opening. (David Stuck)
The center is funded with a $250,000 state grant through the Employment Advancement Right Now (EARN) that paved the way for ETA to put together a consortium of public and private companies. The Downtown Partnership of Baltimore provided the consortium a $10,000 grant for locating within the city, creating an opportunity Spector said was too good to pass up.
The range compromises 6,000 square feet on two separate floors in Spark Baltimore at 8 Market Place. It's part classrooms, part office space, part training center and also includes a lobby. The training center, which takes up about 1,000 square feet, seats five professionals, one instructor and one observer in a tightly bunched space with state-of-the-art computers, servers and routers.
But at the opening, part of the lobby had been cleared to make way for a lectern, dozens of chairs and refreshment tables. Crowd members were taken up to the training center in small groups and treated to live demonstrations and discussions of the "Range Platform."
After hearing the dignitaries speak, some in the audience said they felt the addition of the range would fill a niche to assist private and public-sector organizations against the latest real-world cyber threats.
Abba Poliakoff, president of the Baltimore Jewish Council, said the range will do a lot for cybersecurity innovation.
"This is what is really going to propel Baltimore into the next generation and help propel the area into the Silicon Valley of cybersecurity," said Poliakoff, who was on last year's trade mission to Israel.
Barry Bogage, executive director of the Maryland/Israel Development Center, pointed to the high priority he feels Maryland and Israel have put on cybersecurity as a reason to be optimistic for the range's success.
"It's a natural for this area to blossom in cybersecurity," said Bogage, who was also on the Israel mission trip and introduced Spector to Hogan. "Israel and Maryland are arguably the strongest places in the world for developing cybersecurity."
Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg of Beth Tfiloh Congregation — mentioning economic, academic, societal and religious ties — said individuals should take comfort in the protection the range will provide to their digital experience.
"Anything involving Israeli businesses and the city and state and country is very important to the future," said Wohlberg, who delivered a prayer and hung a mezuzah outside the door to the training center. "We live in a world in which we need protection from the evil spirits that are out there. In this place, advances are being made to provide us with security, security for threats from without and security from jobseekers within."
The benefits for Israel and Maryland run both ways, Spector said.
"The Israeli and Jewish technology is so well thought of that the officials in Maryland want to bring that technology here," Spector said. "So I'm extremely proud that we're going to be able to do that."
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ONErpm Signs Brit Taylor To Distribution Deal
December 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM (PT)
Global music company ONERPM has signed Americana singer/songwriter BRIT TAYLOR to a distribution deal. The KENTUCKY native recently released her debut, 10-song album, titled "Real Me." BOBBIE GENTRY, LORETTA LYNN, WAYLON JENNINGS and WILLIE NELSON are among some of the album's influences.
"It's not often you get to work with artists who have honed in on who they are and what they're trying to say through their music," said ONERPM A&R rep JEFF TOBIAS. "BRIT is a one-of-a-kind artist who is creating undeniably standout music that will continue to wow audiences everywhere."