The tool groups consumers into microsegments based on characteristics and behaviors, allowing employers to then create targeted communications for HSAs.
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Jaipur Railway Station Will Recycle Its Garbage to Run Trains and Cook Food
Post author:Tanaya Singh
Post category:News / Quick Bytes
Very soon, garbage discarded in and around the Jaipur railway station premises will not be just garbage, but a source of energy. It will be used to run trains, cook food and more.
According to officials of North Western Railways, two plants for the treatment of biodegradable and plastic waste will soon be set up near Jaipur railway station. As the station generates considerable amount of waste – both biodegradable and non-biodegradable, through passengers and vendors – the collection can be used for the benefit of infrastructure.
This step will help in the disposal of waste in an environment-friendly manner and also utilise it for the generation of energy.
Source: Wikimedia
"This would have a capacity of converting 500 kg biodegradable waste into 22 kg LPG equivalent of bio-gas which would be utilized in cooking at the railway station," Tarun Jain, chief public relations officer, NWR, told the Times of India while talking about the biodegradable waste plant. He added that dustbins in the station have been segregated to collect waste responsibly.
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Q: How to avoid circular references with EF Core and Global Query Filters? We're working on building a multitenant application, and we're using Entity Framework Core as our base data provider. With EF Core, you can use Global Query Filters to define custom filters that apply to all queries generated by EF.
These filters work great and appear to serve most of our purposes, but we begin running into issues when we attempt to add our multitenancy filters to the application. To better separate our concerns, we've created various classes to serve as our tenant identifiers and handles. However, this begins to cause problems when we attempt to use our tenant identification/security classes as the whole project breaks down as these security classes have a dependency on the data context itself.
A simplified model of our application would look something like the following.
In our application project, you'd find:
public class TenantService : ITenantService
{
    private IHttpContextAccessor _accessor;
    private ITenantIdentifier _identifier;
    private ITenantSecurityService _security;

    public TenantService(IHttpContextAccessor accessor,
                         ITenantIdentifier identifier,
                         ITenantSecurityService security)
    {
        _accessor = accessor;
        _identifier = identifier;
        _security = security;
    }

    public Guid GetCurrentTenant() {
        var tenant = _identifier.GetTenant(_accessor.HttpContext);
        if (!_security.CanAccess(tenant))
            throw new TenantAuthorizationException("User cannot access tenant", tenant);

        return tenant.TenantId;
    }
}

public class TenantSecurityService : ITenantSecurityService
{
    private readonly IDbContext _dbContext;
    private readonly ICurrentUserService _userService
    public TenantSecurityService(IDbContext dbContext,
                                 ICurrentUserService userService)
    {
        _dbContext = dbContext;
        _userService = userService;
    }

    public bool CanAccess(Tenant tenant)
    {
        var currentUser = _userService.GetCurrentUser();
        // do various checks with dbContext data...

        return result;
    }
}

And in our persistence project, you'd see something like:
public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext, IDbContext
{
    private readonly ITenantService _tenantService;
    public ApplicationDbContext(ITenantService tenantService)
    {
        _tenantService = tenantService;
    }

    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        ConfigureTenantFilter(modelBuilder);
    }

    private void ConfigureTenantFilter(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        var tenant = _tenantService?.GetCurrentTenant();
        foreach (var entity in modelBuilder.Model.GetEntityTypes().Where(x =>
            typeof(ITenantEntity).IsAssignableFrom(x.ClrType)))
        {
            entity.AddProperty(nameof(Tenant), typeof(Guid));
            if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(tenant))
                modelBuilder
                    .Entity(entity.ClrType)
                    .HasQueryFilter(IsTenantRestriction(entity.ClrType, tenant));
        }
    }
}

As you may note, the above code actually fails to run due to the circular dependency, but I cannot seem to find any better ways to structure the application aside from having 2 separate dbContexts (which seems a bit hacky).
What would be a better approach to handling these query filters without needing to tightly couple my security to the dbContext?

A: The question doesn't mention it, but you actually have two circular issues here: circular project references (which I surmise is the issue you're asking about) and circular dependency graphs (which I suspect you may not have noticed yet).

Circular project references
From the question, I assume your project structure is as follows:

One thing that is crucial to notice is that the circular dependency is between TenantSecurityService and the persistence layer, not between ITenantSecurityService and the persistence layer (since an interface doesn't have an implementation that depends on the data layer).
The trick here is to separate the contract from the implementation. I often create a contracts library specifically so I can put all my (DI) interfaces in there. Every project references the contracts library, and this is how you can have dependency graphs that have "circular" dependency layers like you're faced with now.
In essence, you want to structure your project dependencies like so:

Correction The top-level project should also reference the contracts. I already deleted the image I created so I couldn't fix it.

*

*The contracts contain all DI interfaces

*The middle projects (persistence, business logic, and all others) provide the concrete implementations of the DI interfaces

*The top-level application connects the interfaces to the implementations (by registering them in the DI container).

Since the middle projects do not reference each other directly, you logically can never run into circular references between these projects, which is what you want.
Note that this is just a basic example. In the architecture I most commonly use, there are multiple contract libraries, specifically to avoid bloating the contracts library in very large applications where there are heaps of interfaces. But the overall point remains the same: separate your contracts.
Using this setup also helps you keep things clean by ensuring that your public interfaces don't expose any layer-specific types. For example, if the interface is housed in the persistence project, your interface can have a method that returns (or takes in) a persistence type (e.g. MyDbContext), which you shouldn't do for obvious reasons.
By having the contracts in their own project that depends on nothing (because depending on any other project would create a circular reference), your interfaces are forced to only use either commonly known types from the language/framework, or DTOs you've explicitly created in the contracts library.

Circular dependency graphs
This is always a matter of conflating two concepts, in this case IDbContext. The circular graph you end up with is:
IDbContext (1)
  --> ITenantService
    --> ITenantSecurityService
      --> IDbContext (2)
        --> ITenantService
          --> ITenantSecurityService
            --> and so on...

Note: just to be clear: infinite recursion exceptions can be avoided if at least one of these dependencies is registered as a singleton or scoped dependency. But the point remains that the dependency graph itself is circular. If your setup works and you're not worried about making this distinction, you can skip the rest of the answer.
Does IDbContext (1) require a security layer? Yes, because you want the rest of your application to have to pass through this security layer (in this case for implementing multi-tenancy safeguards).
Does IDbContext (2) require a security layer? No, because it is part of the security layer. At this point in time, IDbContext (2) cannot be a tenanted context yet, because you're still setting up the multi-tenancy filter for IDbContext (1).
You have two different roles for your db context, and representing them as a single concept is causing you to run into unwanted circular dependencies.

I cannot seem to find any better ways to structure the application aside from having 2 separate dbContexts (which seems a bit hacky)

I disagree. It's IMHO more "hacky" to foist two separate-but-similar roles on a single class than it is to create separate classes for the separate roles.
It's not so much a matter of having to make two completely unrelated db contexts, but rather making two variations built on the same context.
Given your situation, I'm inclined to call these ITenantContext/TenantContext (i.e. with the security filter) and IDbContext/ApplicationDbContext (non tenant-specific).
ITenantContext derives from IDbContext and acts as a marker interface to separate the two interfaces so your DI container can distinguish between them.
public interface ITenantContext : IDbContext { }

TenantContext has a dependency on ITenantService (which the defining difference between it and ApplicationDbContext).
public class TenantContext : ApplicationDbContext, ITenantContext
{
    // The same content as your ApplicationDbContext in the question
}

Note: OnModelCreating is a difficult one because it happens during the construction of the context. In general scenarios, it would be possible to use composition-over-inheritance here (where TenantContext doesn't derive from ApplicationDbContext); but this is much more complicated given that we're trying to override the OnModelCreating behavior.
If there is a way to set the filter on the ApplicationDbContext after it has been created, then you should favor composition over inheritance here. But I currently can't think of a way to do this.
ApplicationDbContext is essentially an unfiltered tenantcontext. This means that it loses the ITenantService dependency and the custom OnModelCreating.
public class ApplicationDbContext : DbContext, IDbContext
{
    public ApplicationDbContext() { }
}

This cleans up the unnecessary recursion in your dependency graph:
ITenantContext
  --> ITenantService
    --> ITenantSecurityService
      --> IDbContext

Note: If you really want to prevent anyone except the persistence layer from accessing the untenanted context, that is possible if you use composition over inheritance. In that case, you can simple keep the untenanted context as an internal class. But that sadly isn't possible in the current example as a base class must have the same (minimum) accessor as its derived classes, you can't make the base class internal if the derived class isn't.
You can still refuse to register IDbContext in the DI container so it can't be used as a dependency, but it will lead to exceptions if your consuming classes try to depend on IDbContext (which they aren't allowed to). That's not as good as having a compile time error when ApplicationDbContext is internal.

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Have you heard the expression, "Bad things happen to good people?" I don't buy that expression. I don't go along with that.
I don't know who said that, but someone doesn't know what they're talking about. In fact, talking like that can actually cause bad things to happen.
God made us in his image. God speaks things into existence. So people also have some power to speak things into existence. If you go around saying "bad things will happen," you'll have bad things happen.
Joseph's brothers hated him and sold him as a slave to Ishmeelites, who sold him into Egypt. The brothers tried to make Jacob think Joseph had been killed by a wild animal.
Joseph did a good job for his master in Egypt, but was falsely accused of desires against his master's wife. So, Joseph went to prison in Egypt.
And yet, Joseph had done nothing wrong.
So, is this the time to say, "Well, bad things happen to good people?" No it is not.
Joseph was a God-fearing man. He had put his faith in God.
God had let some things happen to Joseph for a purpose. In the dreams God had given Joseph, Joseph was in a position of authority. Joseph didn't doubt that God would promote him.
And Joseph wasn't disappointed. He was called on to interpret Pharaoh's dreams, which Joseph did, and then Pharaoh promoted Joseph to second in command of Egypt. He went from bottom of the barrel to top of the heap.
When seven years of famine came, Joseph and Egypt were ready, and Joseph nourished his people, the Israelites, when they moved to Egypt.
So, this is not bad things happen to good people. This is God providing for his people with a savior. In this case, Joseph.
There have been things that didn't go the way I had hoped they would go. Shall we then say, "Bad things happen to good people?" No, let's say instead, "Time and chance happens to everyone," and "the Lord will bring me through and promote me, I say by faith."
I do not accept the bad things that have come my way from Satan and his demons. I reject all of that in Jesus' name, and my God will turn it around so that it's all beneficial to me, and not an inconvenience, I say by faith.
Every cent of money that God means for me to have, he will put into my hands. I call myself a prosperous man, in Jesus' name.
Last I checked, both of those books were very reasonably priced.
Let's look at another example. Jesus came along and taught the people. He healed the sick and raised the dead. He cast demons out of people.
He did nothing but good. Then he was falsely accused, and wrongly sentenced to death. He died by crucifixion. The third day God raised him from the dead.
Is this bad things happen to good people? No, it's God providing for his people a savior. In this case, Jesus.
Joseph saved people from starvation. Jesus saves people from hell, if they'll accept his free offer of salvation. Surprisingly, some don't accept, and go to hell, where they immediately see that they made the wrong choice.
Well, maybe it's not so surprising. Satan and his demons are making it their business to try to persuade as many as possible not to become Christians. They want you in hell.
Also, people can sometimes get so far into sin that there's just no getting back out. That's why God tells us, "Now is the day of salvation..." (2 Cor 6:2) Get right with God now. If you put it off until tomorrow, you might not have the opportunity tomorrow.
You'd probably get more out of it by actually reading the above Hagin book, but I'll briefly summarize it.
Hagin was doing the work God called him to do as a Bible teacher. But he was not prospering financially. He found a verse of scripture in Isa 1:19 that says, "If you're willing and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land."
Hagin was holding meetings at the time, two meetings a day I think, but he fasted one meal a day and did extra praying about this financial problem. He reminded God that we're supposed to eat the good of the land.
So Hagin got willing right away. Then the Lord showed Hagin he hadn't been using his faith right. He had been using faith for other things, but not for finances, and now he needed to start using his faith to solve the financial problem.
The Lord gave Hagin a plan. The Lord said, "I don't want you to pray about finances anymore, not like you've been praying. Here's what I want you to do. (Step 1) Claim whatever it is that you want or need. (Step 2) Say, "Satan, take your hands off my finances." (Step 3) Say, "Go ministering spirits and cause the money to come."
So, Hagin saw that he could give his angels tasks to accomplish.
The Lord told Hagin after he did that to just stay in faith, and not even think about it. Or, if he did think about it to say, "Thank God for it, it's working."
Hagin started doing that and started prospering financially.
Charles Capps had been a failing farmer in England, Arkansas. For two years he didn't have enough income to pay for his driver's license.
Then a Christian man came by his house and had a couple of books with him, one of which was, Kenneth E. Hagin's "Right and Wrong Thinking."
As Capps thumbed through the book, he realized, "Oh that's what I've been doing wrong." What he had been doing wrong was talking wrong. Remember what I said about speaking things into existence?
When it's time to plant seeds, farmers have to choose how deep to plant the seeds. At that time, Capps said a foolish thing. He said, "Well, it probably doesn't matter how deep I plant the seeds. I'm probably going to get rained out anyway."
Can you guess what happened? That's right, he got rained out.
When Capps got his talking straightened out, and started confessing over himself God's promises about prosperity, he started prospering.
You'll find lists of such promises in my book, "Your Abundant Success Lasting Forever."
Capps went fishing and was catching a lot of fish. Another fisherman saw it and asked him, "What are you catching them on?" The other fisherman thought the key might be in which bait was best.
Capps answered, "Psalm 1:3, Whatever he does will prosper." That doesn't answer the bait question, but actually, it was a good answer because Capps faith at work was more significant than the bait.
Capps said the Lord told him, "I've told my people they can have what they say (Mark 11:23), but instead, they are saying what they have."
Norvel Hayes is both a businessman and a Bible teacher. Hayes had a restaurant that had shut down, and wasn't bringing in any income.
The Lord told Hayes, "Son, your problem is that you're not laughing at the devil." Hayes drove over to the restaurant. He didn't really feel like laughing, but he forced himself to laugh. He commanded the restaurant to reopen and make him a lot of money.
Not long after, he met an unemployed cook that he hired. The restaurant reopened and made Hayes a lot of money. Hayes did what the Lord said and laughed at the devil.
David spoke words of faith when he went up against the giant, Goliath. Goliath scorned the young man. David answered, "God will give you into my hand." And that's just what God did. David knocked Goliath down with a sling shot, and then killed Goliath with Goliath's own sword.
I think most Christians are quite lax about this. We're supposed to be speaking things into existence. We're supposed to be binding and loosing.
You can say, "I bind all powers of the enemy that would come against me or hinder me in any way, me and my family, in Jesus' name." "I loose ministering spirits to help me with everything that I'm doing, in Jesus' name." "Ministering spirits, fight for my finances, in Jesus' name."
In the Bible there's the woman who kept on bleeding. She said, "If I can just touch the border of Jesus' garment, I'll be healed." She went to where Jesus was and touched his garment and was healed.
Kenneth E. Hagin was born with an "incurable" heart defect. Hagin learned to use his faith and got healed of it.
Then the Lord told Hagin, "Now go teach my people faith." So Hagin taught faith for about seven decades and wrote about a hundred books, most of which were best-sellers (they sold over a million copies).
I met a young man in Los Angeles, a Christian. I tried to give him a good little book from one of the better teachers. He wouldn't take it. He said, "I just get it all from the Bible."
Well, of course we should be studying the Bible. But in Ephesians 4:11 it says God has given us teachers. Hagin is one of those teachers. I'm one of the teachers.
If God thought it was important to give his people teachers, wouldn't it be wise for us to try to listen to the best of the teachers?
People don't always get everything just by reading the Bible. As a youth, I had read in the Bible about binding and loosing, but I don't think I really saw how to apply it until one of God's teachers came along and explained it.


If you'd been subscribed to the NosillaCast News you'd have known what was going on with my site last week. Easy to remember Amazon affiliate link now at podfeet.com/amazon. Teach your Mac to talk with these fun terminal tricks. Full review of Mac application Snapheal from snapheal.com to erase icky things in your photos. In Dumb Question Corner I answer Kevin and Mark's question, "why not Squarespace?" In Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart takes us into Taming the Terminal where we actually get to start poking around in our directories.
Hi this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Mac Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Macintosh bias. Today is Sunday May 26, 2013 and this is show number 420. We've got a lot on the table for the show today – after a short PSA, we'll hear a quick note from Guy about his chat with us last week, some fun with Terminal and VPN, and then I'll give you my review of Snapheal from snapheal.com. In Dumb Question Corner, I'll answer the question, "why not SquareSpace?" and in Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart takes us through Taming the Terminal Part 4 of n where we actually get to start navigating around in our file system.
Last week when my site was borked, you may have been wondering what was wrong. I wanted to remind you that if you had subscribed to the NosillaCast News, you would have known what I was doing to try to fix things. If you go to podfeet.com and click on the NosillaCast News tab in the menu bar, you can subscribe by just entering your email address, and then choose if you want the pretty html version of the newsletter, plain text, or a mobile version. Every Sunday night you'll get an email IF the podcast went out, and that's it unless something really cool or really bad is going on. For example, when the Macheist bundle came out for $10 including Clarify, I did send out a quick note on that, and when podfeet.com was borked out, I sent out a quick note to make sure every one was kept up to speed. It may not be for you, but there's no danger giving it a try because every email ha a link to unsubscribe if you don't like it.
A while back Mike McPeek (aka @dscchipman suggested that I really should make all of your lives easier by creating a link from podfeet.com/amazon to my affiliate link. That way you don't have to hurt your brain or your fingers trying to find the Amazon button on podfeet.com, you will instinctively know how to find it! Well I want to be helpful of course, so now just in time for your Father's day shopping – try out podfeet.com/amazon to make the dad's in your life happy and to help out the podcast. This now closes out the Public Service Announcement segment of our show.
I'm glad Guy sent that In, I think a often about how we all get to where we are. I think that saying "it takes a village" is really true in podcast land – we all have to help each other.
I had such a giant blast using Donald's instructions to create my VPN server on a spare Mac in our house. This week Dorothy (aka @maclurker in the chatroom and on Twitter) is off on her boat and before she left I whipped out a couple more connection files so that she could use my VPN from her iPhone, iPod Touch and the iMac she has on her boat. It took me about 2 min to find the spot in the tutorial that Donald and I put together and boom, she was in business. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
You know I can't just leave things be though, I had to try another step – could I actually connect into my network and do something on other machines. Since the Mac I'm using on the outside is now actually on the inside of my network, it means I can do all kinds of interesting things. I can Secure Shell (SSH) into the VPN server and poke around using the command line. That was fun and geeky for sure. Then I realized from there I could actually use the built in screen sharing in the Finder to actually use the Mac GUI.
Isn't that crazy? So now what does this have to do with my VPN server? Well, remember I said I could SSH into my VPN server? Well picture this – I'm at work, Steve's at home, and I SSH'd into the VPN server and had it say hi to Steve! It was pretty fun. I love this! It pretty much has just about zero value but I think it's awesome.
I don't remember whether Bart has mentioned it yet, but there are these things called man pages for every command in unix, they're essentially little (or big) manuals on how to use the commands. I have often looked at the man pages but pretty much never knew what to do with them. After Niraj said to use -v to change the voice, I decided to peek into the man pages for say and sure enough there was more fun to be had. After typing say, if you add -r and a number, it speaks at that rate in words per minute. About 2-300 words per minutes sounded pretty good to me.
Still having fun with this? if you type -f and follow it with a file name, it will read the file out loud to you! I had to test out a lot of different file formats; it didn't like .docx or .doc at all, or even .rtf but it was delighted to read .txt files to me. There's even a progress indicator you can add to the command – if you type –progress it creates a little counter by percentage of how far through the file it is, what bit rate it's working at and how much time it's taking to read it out.
I'm not sure I need to be able to do this but it really is fun. There's a bunch more options you can play with – have fun!
I know this sounds weird but one thing that's been bugging me is that there are cooler photo editing apps on the iPad than there are on the Mac. Oh sure, you've got Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Pixelmator and Acorn, which are super powerful, but some of the finger-based stuff is missing from the desktop. Steve Stanger taught me about Touch Retouch HD from adva-soft.com/products/touch-retouch/ which is an awesome app for the iPad that lets you erase things from a photo that you don't like by simply scribbling over it with your finger. I REALLY like Snapseed too for iPad which has a really interesting interface for modifying photos. With finger drags you can adjust contrast, saturation, brightness, and do all kinds of cool presets for filters. Google bought the makers of Snapseed, Nik Software and cancelled the desktop version of Snapseed. Thanks for that Google.
I was glad to hear about an app that brings some of the functionality I've been enjoying on the iPad over to the Mac desktop. It's called Snapheal from snapheal.com. With Snapheal, you can simply brush over something you don't like in a photo to create a mask, and have it simply erased. Unlike Snapseed on the iPad, you can control a lot of how things get erased. You can use the controls to change the size of the selection tool (or using [ and ] which I like), and after you select the area you have three different types of erasing modes to actually perform the maths to get rid of your selection. Your choices are Twister, Shapeshift and Wormhole. I don't know what the three modes are, but I did notice that depending on the environment, your results will vary on which one you like. With each of the three modes, you also get to adjust precision levels of norm, high or highest.
This allows an easy workflow to see if it got close on Norm for a given mode, and then you might want to up the precision level to improve things. Just like any editing program sometimes you'll find that it works perfectly and sometimes it doesn't, but the controls in Snapheal give you a much better shot at it.
I think one of my favorite things about Snapheal is that when you set it to the higher level precision erasures, and it's taking a long time, you get these really cool fun facts to know and tell. Like did you know that From east to west, Hawaii is the widest state? or that chocolate was used for blood in Psycho shower scene? Well I didn't until I learned it from Snapheal.
In addition to the brush to make selections you can also use a polygon or free lasso tool to select what you want to erase. With any of the selection tools if you select too much, you can use an eraser to refine what you've selected. I know that sounds funny – you're using an eraser to erase what you've selected to be erased – hope you follow what I mean!
Sometimes the fastest way to fix an image is to use a clone tool, and Snapheal's implementation hits the mark beautifully. If removing things was all you needed Snapheal to do, it would be worth the $15 price in the Mac App Store to me. But it's not a one trick pony, or even a three trick pony with it's three erasure modes. Snapheal also includes image adjustments like exposure, contrast, clarity, saturation, sharpening, and more. Much like the expensive editors like Aperture, you can grab a brush and select an area and apply those adjustments to just that area. Let's say you've got a great photo but dad's face is in shadow because he had on a hat. You can simply brush over his face and then adjust the exposure until his shining face looks perfect.
I tested Snapheal on several photos to see how it worked. I took a photo of me with an afghan I'd crocheted, and I started eliminating all kinds of distractions from the photo. I got rid of a water bottle and slippers on the floor and then erased some hanging medals off of the wall. I did find that choosing different modes had more success depending on the background around the thing I had to erase so it was great to have those options.
Next I took a photo taken of me outside against some trees that had a weird bright stripe diagonally across the photo – some kind of sun flare that we didn't notice on the iPhone when the pic was taken. I used erase, and then did some image adjustments to make the trees stand out more colorfully and to correct the kind of purplish tinge of the stuff on the ground. I was pleased with the ease of the controls and it was intuitive to achieve my objective.
Finally I took a gag photo Steve and I staged for a joke we sent over to the SMR Podcast guys – you'll have to listen to next week's show at smrpodcast.com to hear why we took this goofy photo. It's a shot of Steve in a recliner with an old wired Xbox controller in his hands. I used Snapheal to erase the wire, then get rid of a Macbook charger and cable hanging off the couch and finally the Macbook Pro itself that was sitting on the arm of the chair. I did have to do some cloning in addition to the erasing but I think it came out pretty good.
While you're working on your photos, Snapheal lets you view your improved photo side by side with the original, or if you'd rather keep the image large on screen, you can simply hold down the eyeball to see before and after. That's actually a really fun thing to do, blinking the stuff on and off really shows off what Snapheal has done for you.
When your masterpiece is complete, you can export to Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr or email for all your sharing needs. I think Snapheal is well worth the $15 in the Mac App Store and I'm really glad they've brought this awesome functionality to the Mac desktop. Heck, they've even got a free 30 day trail over at snapheal.com if you want to test it out yourself first.
Hi Alison, Thank you again for a wonderful podcast – it always cheers me up on a Monday morning.
I have looked at their service and it looks stunning but can't see why I should bother to leave the blogger environment. In the beginning I did consider going with WordPress because I like the geek aspects of it but as a working physician I just don't have the time to tweak and maintain a WordPress installation. So I'm just wondering why you chose the route you did and why you also didn't go with Squarespace? After all, it would eliminate the problems of downtime and all the hassles of staying up to date with no worries about hackers and flaws allowing you to focus on the content.
I really look forward to your (and Bart's) thoughts and hopefully I can put this lust for more shiny web hosting behind me!!!
SwitcherMark asked the same question in Twitter by asking "why not SquareSpace?" I think this is going to be one of those "what problem are you trying to solve" questions.
In my case, the problem I was trying to solve was to get away from GoDaddy. I like WordPress, and I especially like that I have friends like Bart and Niraj who are amazing at it so they help me when I get stuck. It's kind of like when people ask me whether they should get a Mac for the first time. I always ask them first, "who is going to help you when you get stuck, and what did THEY tell you to get?" If they say Windows, I tell them to get Windows!
I like being able to redesign my site, and to extend it with plugins (even if my number of plugins makes Bart crazy). I understand how it works and I do enjoy the level of geekiness I get to exercise managing it. The changes I made this week will give me even more geek opportunities, like Bart talked about teaching me to make a script to run my own automated backups. Yippee!
On the other hand if your main goal is to have a good looking site where you never have to much with managing it, and you're willing to accept reduced flexibility (fewer themes, fewer plugins) you can use WordPress.com which is a hosted version of WordPress where they manage everything. If you're willing to live with a wordpress.com domain name like podfeet.wordpress.com, and you can live with ads on your site delivered by wordpress.com and not doing any of your own ads, and you like the idea of a FREE service, then wordpress.com is a great alternative. Not for me, but suits a lot of people just fine.
Now let's talk about SquareSpace. I know virtually every podcaster right now is advertising for them, and that creates great buzz and makes you feel like it must be a great service because they all gush over it. Remember though, these are ADS, not necessarily how they feel about the product. It kills me to point this out but when you hear me gush about ScreenSteps and Clarify, you have to take that with a grain of salt and remember that they are an advertiser. By now the number of testimonial examples I've given have gotten a lot of you to buy these products at least once (Kevin seems to buy them once a week) but still, these ARE ads.
I remember ages ago everyone who was anyone was advertising for Drobo. Remember that? It even caught the Sheridan household, we convinced ourselves we needed one. Well, convinced Steve we needed one. Since I'm a good little wife, I got him one. It does do much of what was advertised but I actually think it has a lot of failings, and now most of my podcaster buddies feel the same way. I'm not saying by any means that you can't trust these people, far from it, it's just that in an ad you don't ever say what you don't like about a tool. There are still things I'd like to see improved in ScreenSteps and Clarify but I'll be darned if I'm going to tell YOU guys about it, right?
So with all that giant caveat in place, I too find myself thinking maybe I should try Squarespace! the ads ARE very compelling. However, you mentioned in your note that with SquareSpace I wouldn't have to worry about downtime, but that's not really true. Any web hosting company can have problems and cause downtime to their users. There's no magic sauce that these guys use that make it impossible for them to have system wide failures. I know they have expanding resources (as do other hosting companies) in case you make the top of Reddit, but that doesn't mean their systems can't fail. They're all using computers all managed by humans, so failures happen.
With all that said, the one ad that really does compel me is Ken Ray's from Mac OS Ken. He will tell you that he's not the technical guy and yet he was able to build his website using SquareSpace with very little effort and he's sincerely happy with the results. That's provable because MacOSKen.com looks completely different than his old site and I know he did it himself, so that's a good sign.
I expected from the SquareSpace hype that every site made on their service would look completely different. They are pretty but I notice a certain similarity between them. They do have a fresh look about them which is cool. I have definitely been tempted to give SquareSpace a try but I really do like to play with this stuff and get a little dirt under my nails.
So if you've got a site you like, but you want to play with something more fun, but you don't have time for getting down and dirty, SquareSpace might just be a good option for you to get a change but not have to spend hours and hours fiddling with it! Or you could just stop eating, don't shower, leave your family on their own and get geeky with WordPress! It's up to you.
Speaking of ads, let's talk about Clarify! Forget everything I just said and believe me with blind faith, ok? You've heard me talk about Dorothy (aka @maclurker) a lot of times – she writes scripts for me and helps me out a lot with the back end stuff for the show. She gave me permission to call her cheap though. She won't spend a nickel unless you really justify it to her. She's heard me rave about Clarify, even while we're at the gym and I don't have to be telling her about it (yeah, I'm a lot of fun to hang out with), but she had never bought it because she was cheap.
When the MacHeist mini-bundle came out, she could no longer resists. She paid a grand total of $10 for 10 apps, one of which was Clarify. In the same Macheist bundle we had both gotten PathFinder and were learning to use it. I noticed that the Services I use were not available if I right clicked on a file inside PathFinder. For example, when I'm done recording the show, I right click on the audio file, select Services, and then I select the Service Dorothy wrote for me that runs Levelator on the file, pulls it into iTunes, adds the meta data tags to the file, embeds the NosillaCast logo in the the fie and converts it to an mp3. But in PathFinder the service simply doesn't show up.
Dorothy wrote back and in her words she said, "I have to get my money's worth out of Clarify, I mean I did pay a whole dollar for it you know, so here's an explanation of how to get the Services to show in PathFinder." This was one of the simplest tutorials I've seen but it was EXACTLY what I needed. She showed how in Automator you have to change one itty bitty little control. She gave me a before screenshot and an after screenshot with two arrows to draw my attention to what she changed.
This two step Clarify document took her probably 1 minute to create (maybe more because she was learning how to use Clarify, but it SAVED her a lot of time because if she'd written that to me in text form I guarantee I would have written back and forth with her at least 2-3 times before understanding what she was telling me to do. Using Clarify is an investment of your own time to save yourself time in the future.
Check out Clarify from BlueMangoLearning.com for a free trial, or click the Clarify logo in the left sidebar at podfeet.com to buy it in the Mac App Store.
Last time we talked about /etc/fstab, and how on Linux it is used during boot to mount partitions into the filesystem. We said that the Mac doesn't have a /etc/fstab, and that it has a dud files called /etc/fstab.hd that tells people not to use it. It is true that OS X does not have a /etc/fstab by default, and it's also true that /etc/fstab.hd does nothing, HOWEVER, if you create a properly formatted /etc/fstab, OS X will process it correctly during boot. OS X even has a command line tool specifically for making changes to /etc/fstab in a controlled way so as to make it impossible to introduce an error – vifs.
Although you can use /etc/fstab to mount disks/partitions to anywhere in the file system, what it seems to be used for most often is to stop disks people don't want to see from automatically mounting by using the keyword none as the specified mount point – http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-57507755-263/how-to-prevent-a-volume-from-mounting-at-boot-in-os-x/.
Bart's rant on Android security may be correct, if possibly hyperbolic. I regret there's no link in the shownotes to his cite. Probably he's talking about the recent "discovery" that some Android Apps tied to a mobile advertising network lurked peacefully for months, then started pop-up ads luring users to download and install fake anti-virus programs that were indeed malware(s).
32 Apps were "infected." They were, for the most part, Russian, including some free games.
1. Downloading Apps that were Russian or from Russia (most or all).
2. Clicking on an ad to download an App (APK file).
3. (Probably) enabling the Android feature that enables Apps to be sideloaded other than from the Google Play Store.
Now this shouldn't be possible on an iOS device unless it is jailbroken. That's because Apple has established and maintains a monopoly over the sale and distribution of iOS Apps.
On iOS you're totally dependent on Apple successfully identifying any threats before they're published to the App Store. As Bart said, you can't run your own local anti-virus. With as many Apps as Apple processes, and ingenious as "bad guys" are, stuff does and will slip through.
Google is aware of problem, both the threat and the damage to Android's image.
At I/O May 15-17 Google announced a new the "Google Play Services" module which is now core to Android and runs across all versions that runs across from 2.2 forward. This new "module" installs outside the "carrier and manufacturer blockade" that has made updating Android difficult and will enable Google to actively and proactively increase the OS's security (as well as enhance Google's ability to sell you stuff directly).
Google has been scanning Android Apps on the Play Store since early 2012. Android Jelly Bean (4.2.x) includes a native scanner.
But nothing is perfect. So if you're running Android, turn off that option to install from third party sources and only turn it on to install from Amazon, or perhaps to install the AdAway blocker that would protect you from malicious ads in the first place.
Now the biggie. What is malware?
How about a program that activates the microphone on your phone and transmits everything it hears to a remote server where voices are "printed," every connection you make, every contact you have,every click you make, every ad you view, is identified, stored, processed, with others are identified, your movements are tracked by GPS, and all the data stored, processed, and analyzed?
Which is why IBM banned Siri from its workplace. That "always on" microphone sending IBM and IBM customer confidential information to Apple for processing, storage, and retrieval just wasn't acceptable.
The "threats" described in the F-Secure "paper" seem very similar to and probably are related to the 32 Apps "discovered" by Lookout and tossed from Google Play Store.
Whether on a computer or a mobile device, don't click to install an App suggested by an advertisement, or that just pops up and asks to be installed. On Android keep the option to install from third parties off. Don't install pirated Apps. Beware Apps from Russia and China.
F-Secure sells anti-virus for Android. $14.99 per device a year.
What was it Allison said about the Drobo drumbeat? In the security field it is FUD.
Apologies for the partial post 2 up.
I'd like to blame it on malware in the Android Galaxy Nexus phone on which I was typing.
That tiny little box WordPress presented my phone browser was difficult to navigate.
So if there's malware, it's the human in the machine. Long been told I'm maleficent, and not the fictional Disney character.
I love knowing that I can order my Mac to speak, using the Terminal, but there is an easier way. If you just want to speak some text, select it, right-click, choose Speech > Start Speaking. To save the text as an audio file, using OS X Lion and later, just select your text, then right-click and choose Services > Add to iTunes As A Spoken Track. From there, you can name the snippet to be converted to an audio file, and choose the voice you want. You don't have control over the speaking rate with this shortcut, as you do in Terminal. Oh, you can turn text to spoken tracks in earlier versions of OS X, but the option is not enabled by default in Services. You have to set it in System Prefs. I used to use an app called books2burn that would convert long text files into audio, based on settings I specified. It could even split book-length documents into chapters.I don't think that has been updated in several years, but I'm sure there are others out there that do the same thing.
For what it's worth, Squarespace is really impressive technology-wise. Their drag-and-drop site creation engine is superb, once you get the hang of the UI. And they have some pretty good technology under the hood, and perhaps more important than that, good people that ensures that sites stay up, come he-double-hockey-sticks or high water. And I mean that literally. In a famous case, during the whole Hurricane Sandy disaster, their datacenter in NYC stayed online despite days without power, thanks to data center staff as well as customers (including Squarespace president Anthony Casalena) who quite literally formed a fuel "bucket brigade" to ensure that their backup generator remained online.
Also Mac OS Ken loves Squarespace. He actually uses it for his site. And although his daily show is sometimes sponsored by Squarespace (i.e. he advertises for them), Ken has also frequently spoken highly of them even in contexts where he was not obligated to (e.g. guest appearances on other shows where he was not obligated to perform an ad spot for them).
Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever, advertised for Squarespace. I do not benefit in any way, financial or otherwise, from saying what I said above. I just happen to really like the service, even though I don't personally choose to use it.


"Let yourself be 'mercy'd.'" Nice. It reminds me of an old grandma's hand-on-heart exclamation, "Mercy me!" Now, if only we had an example of this "verb" to burst forth from our merciless world of war, planetary destruction, and economic injustice. But wait, we do! Pope Francis himself is doing that very thing. He is vigorously showing us how to mercy the world.
While unapologetically upsetting the status quo with his relentless passion for the poor, the planet, and for the transformation of an economic system that creates havoc on both, Pope Francis puts mercy back into our vocabulary. But not as a noun. Rather, Pope Francis has single-handedly transformed an old-fashioned, dead-beat noun into a lively, active–albeit, somewhat subversive—verb.
In short, the Pope rocks.
Thanks to Pope Francis, mercy is a now a verb; he has given mercy legs to run. And we are all invited into this activity of mercy—all of us, Protestant, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, Hindu, nonreligious—we are all invited to be part of this divine activity of mercying the world.
The Pope sees mercy as the most salient feature of God's activity in the world. Some might prefer words like compassion or love. But these, too, are nouns--and that's not good enough. Pope Francis believes in verbs, in divine activity, not just ideas that sit around getting dusty.
As a process thinker, I can't help but feel a spiritual kinship, for the great process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote not of a remote noun-like God, but rather of an active, loving, suffering, transforming God who is "the great companion—the fellow-sufferer who understands." In the process worldview, everything is a verb—the whole world of becoming, from rocks to stars to people: everything is a verb. Including God.
And as a Protestant influenced by both Jesus and Whitehead, I share the belief that mercy moves divinity. It's a Copernican revolution of sorts, to think of the world—and God—in terms of verbs. Just as God, long ago, got lost in a noun of self-thinking thought (Aristotle), so mercy, through the centuries, became a fossilized noun: nice for display, but no longer alive. Well, now it is.
So "let yourself be mercy'd." It's not a trendy new malapropism, but rather old wisdom resurrected. It is the way of Jesus, the way of Buddha, the way of lovingkindess, the way of God. And now, as we witness a pope who continues to galvanize the world with his bold bent toward mercy for the poor and for the planet, we—all of us—are blessed to be mercy'd by his voice.


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Is Scott Disick getting between Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian?
By Jeremy Helligar| 4 years ago
By most accounts, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian have a tight sisterly bond. But there might be a little one-sided jealousy simmering below the surface.
Radar Online reports that Kourtney, 35, has been struck by the green-eyed monster over 30-year-old Khloe's hot new body…and her appreciative partner Scott Disick, 32, isn't helping.
In fact, a source says that earlier this month when Kourtney posted "Today's Mission: To try and get my butt looking like Khloe Kardashian's" on Instagram, there was a bit of jealousy mixed in with her admiration.
"Scott is always complimenting Khloe on her boobs and her butt and it is really starting to get to Kourtney," the insider says.
"Now that Khloe has a hot body and she is getting all this attention, Kourtney feels like she has to catch up and has upped her workout in the hopes of getting the same results as her sister."
My fitness journey will be a life long journey. Fitness is not about being better than someone else… It's about being better than you used to be. I'm not where I want to be and who knows if I ever will be. But I am healthier than ever and due to my consistent workouts, I am slowly seeing results. Hi baby abs 🙋!! I see you!!! I hope to meet your other ab friends soon 😝 (yes I'm talking to my muscles. I've never met most of them before)
A post shared by Khloé (@khloekardashian) on Feb 27, 2015 at 9:00am PST
Scott is further fuelling Kourtney's insecurity by constantly pointing out how hot the mum of three used to be. Whoa! Is he blind? Has he not seen those recent Instagram pics?
Hopped up out the bed, turn my swag on Took a look in the mirror said what's up?
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And there's also the deep bond that Khloe and Scott share. At one point, rumours were even floating around that they'd hooked up.
"Khloe and Scott have this weird bond that Kourtney and him don't have and it has always been that way," the source adds.
"They are like bros. Whenever s**t is going down between Scott and Kourtney, Khloe is the first one that he turns to and that automatically puts her in the middle of their relationship. It just gets old."
Here's a tense moment between the sisters on KUWTK that has nothing to do with Scott.
Kim Kardashian posts a naked selfie months after giving birth to Saint...but it's from last year
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Syrian air defense intercepts missiles coming from the direction of 'occupied territories' - State TV
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Syrian air defenses have intercepted missiles over the capital city of Damascus, according to state media.
An initial report from SANA stated that the missiles came from the "direction of the occupied territories" and Israeli media assumed that meant their country.
#Syrian media claimed air defense systems were activated, trying to repel a missile attack which they claim came from #Israel.https://t.co/CbTddKZHTY
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) December 22, 2019
The agency reported that one of the projectiles fell in the village of Aqraba, some 50 kilometers southwest of Damascus. A total of three blasts rocked the area near the Syrian capital, according to a report by Jordan-based Al-Hadath TV.
There was no information as to the damage or casualties so far.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have refused to comment on the alleged attack by the Israeli military on the Syrian territory, citing Tel Aviv's standard practice of not commenting on the reports by foreign media.
Also on rt.com Israel claims it hit 'dozens' of Iranian & Syrian military targets in response to rocket fire
The Israeli military has previously launched missiles into Syrian territory. In November, a number of Israeli projectiles were shot down near military positions in the country's south. Israeli officials later claimed that the attack was a response to rocket fire from Syria into northern Israel.
Israel is not involved in Syria's eight-year civil war, but does regularly target what it says are Iranian military targets in the country. Tel Aviv warns Damascus not to respond to the attacks, which the Syrian government says are a violation of international law.
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L'église Saint-Nicolas de Sibač, qui date probablement de 1767, est constituée d'une nef unique prolongée d'une abside semi-circulaire à l'est. Plus tard, un clocher de style baroque a été construit au-dessus de la façade occidentale.

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L'essentiel du décor de l'église remonte au . L'iconostase, qui date des années 1737-1740, a été réalisée pour la Basse église de Sremski Karlovci et achetée dans les années 1830 pour être installée à Sibač ; les icônes, les portes royales (en serbe : ), la déisis et les peintures des Prophètes sont l'œuvre du maître Georgije Stojanović (?-1746), qui s'inscrit dans la lignée de la peinture byzantine ; sur le socle, des compositions plus dynamiques, avec des personnages inscrits dans un paysage, sont vraisemblablement l'œuvre de Georgije Mišković. Les fresques des voûtes et de la nef ont été réalisées en 1851 par Konstantin Pantelić.

Restauration
Des travaux de conservation et de restauration ont été effectués sur l'iconostase en 2006.

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Before I give you your own experience of the fourth dimension, let me destroy the notion that you live in a three dimensional world.
Now don't jump to the idea that I'm going to talk about Einsteinian spacetime, i.e. three spatial dimensions plus time; I am talking about plain old spatial dimensions, as in: a box has width, length and height.
Let's go for a walk in the forest first. In the cool shade of the canopy we see holly bushes flowering. Will they produce enough berries for our Christmas decor? Personally, I love the wild strawberries and the fragile orchids. Can you smell the fresh pine? Can you spot traces and tracks of deer and wild boars?
Now have a good look and spot those three dimensions. No boxes here, I'm afraid. No geometrical shapes at all. Not a single circle, triangle, square or even straight line in sight. Wiggly branches, oddly shaped leaves and rippling water on the receding puddles of rain water.
The idea that there are three dimensions is entirely dictated by geometrists like Decartes who gave us a cartesian world in which everything fits in a box. Width, length and height. Enjoy. That is where Descartes is now, in a geometrical box in a box shaped hole.
Mathematicians have evolved since then and recognise that not everything fits in a box or is made of lines, circles and triangles. Most of us worked that out at pre-school. So Hausdorff proposed in the early 1900's that there are fractional dimensions. To save ink, Mandelbrot shortened that to 'fractals'.
This all came about when the Queen Elizabeth wanted to know how long her coastline was. So, geometers took to the task with yard sticks and came up with a number. The Queen, being a demanding lady, wanted a more precise answer and send an army of little geometers with shorter measuring sticks to remeasure the length of coastline of Britain. Because they had shorter sticks, they could measure the nooks and crannies of the rocky coast of Devon and Cornwall more precisely and found that the coast was a lot longer. So they took shorter sticks and remeasured and the coastline kept getting longer and longer. It wasn't until a brave geometer reported to Queen Elizabeth that her coastline was infinitely long that she was pleased and ordered tea.
Here is the surprising part, the coastline of Britain is not only theoretically infinitely long, it isn't even one-dimensional. It isn't a line and clearly it isn't a surface and strangely enough it is something in between. It has been established that it has dimension 1.25 at Cornwall.
Ha! You weren't expecting that, what?! In this lovely forest, there isn't a single thing that is either, 1, 2 or 3 dimensional. Everything in nature has fractal dimensions and although some things may get close to those pre-school dimensions, they are not quite that.
Just to destabilise you a little further: you can't even see in three dimensions. Our sight is mediated by two mushy globules called eyes. They are a few inches apart and give us stereoscopic sight. Attached to those eyes is a brain that calculates a three dimensional image from the two flat images that the eyes see and it is only partially successful. Things up close look reasonably well like three dimensional objects but past a few dozen meters, the third dimension fades into two dimensions and everything we see at a distance is as flat as a dutch polder. Our other senses aren't a lot better so our three dimensional perception only reaches a few meters at best.
But, all is not lost because we have the biggest illusion theatre ever built for mankind: Ze Brainne. Which is french for: the brain.
Everything you see is projected inside your head. What you see is what the brain theater is showing you and that isn't necessarily how it really is. This is good news. Actually.
Cartesian preschool design: straight lines, squares and circles. How quaintly human!
Dimensions as we perceive them are very much part the model of reality that has evolved in our brain. The fact that we can see approximately in three dimensions is quite extraordinary. That took a lot of evolution and anyone having tried to write 3D graphics code for computers will know how hard it is to make that work! But it isn't because we have evolved a three dimensional experience that the world is approximately like that.
The world is not in three dimensions, not even approximately.
There is a fourth dimension, a fifth etc. Physicists have got as far theorizing about eleven spacetime dimensions. I won't stretch my own brain and limited credibility by suggesting that there are no limits to how many dimensions there are; I will leave that for someone else to say.
Back to earth. Can we experience more than approximately three dimensions?
If, as I suggested there are more than three dimensions and our perception of dimensions is a matter of brain programming, then there is no reason why we can't experience four spatial dimensions.
Mathematicians and physicists are quite comfortable with higher dimensions. They can calculate them, reason in them and even visualize them. Sadly, they have chosen a four dimensional box as the standard teaching tool. It is called a tesseract (here is a rotating tesseract). No matter how many hours I have stared at a rotating tesseract, I can't make head nor tail of this box. If there is any evidence that Descartes with his box view of the world did us a disfavour, it is here. Forget boxes. Forget tesseracts.
The most beautiful example of a fourth dimensional shape I know is a flock of starlings in murmuration. You may have seen them in these massive bulbous morphing shapes. The movement is mesmerizing and there is a good reason for that: those birds are flying in a fourth dimensional formation! As this formation moves through our three dimensional view, it looks like the formation morphs and bulges but that is just a perspective from our viewpoint: the actual formation is close to static in the fourth dimension. I won't go into how they do it but it is relatively straightforward; each bird knows how to move with respect to other birds and controls its distance and speed.
Now, seeing a three dimensional view of a four dimensional shape is a little boring.
Or is all this trickery and sleight of word?
Have you ever seen a three dimensional scene on a two dimensional surface? Sure! Every time you watch TV you are seeing exactly that. And have you noticed that when the camera pans, that the three dimensions become much clearer? That is because the movement of the image creates a stereoscopic ghost image that our brain can interpret as three dimensions. We can see three dimensions on a flat screen. We really can.
It is the same with four dimensions: as long as a four dimensional shape moves in three dimensional space, we can experience it! This is why the flocks of starlings when seen in real are so mesmerizing: we observe four dimensions.
The same is true for any shape that moves.
Yes, you read that correctly. Any boring object will display its fourth dimensional view when you walk past it. I am not talking about the time dimension although it is hard to separate the two. This is why we pick things up and study them from all sides rather than just stare at that with our sluglike stereoscopic eye blobs. Our brain wants us to get a higher dimensional view so we rotate it, move it and play with it.
As I write this, a breeze ruffles the branches of a tree outside my office. It gives me an instantaneous sense of depth which it misses when the tree is motionless. Movement feels very different from stillness. It is a very different experience.
I promised that I would show you the fourth dimension. It works for me and I hope it works for you. Next time you pass a tree, when you get close, turn your head to the trunk. As you walk past it in a straight line, turn your head slowly so that it stays directed at the trunk. As you walk, the branches will slowly sweep through your field of vision and the create a three dimensional ghost image that your brain matches with the actual image that you are seeing. You might have to try a few times but at some point your brain will match the two three dimensional images and pop into a four dimensional vision of the tree. It only lasts a few seconds but it always stuns me.
This is something that filmmakers will have to learn. The purpose of 3D TV is not to show us images in three dimensions. We already had that with our flat TVs. They need to learn to conjure four dimensional scenes as they pan through the three dimensional panoramas. They will learn this over time and I predict that those silly 3D sets will become quite amazing yet!
There is a follow up post with some nuts, bolts and clarifications: Far fetched facts or fancy fiction?
[a year or so later] Here is a beautiful animation of 4D tree made with genetic fractals that I created. Much better than a rotating tesseract! Stare, wonder and be mesmerized!
Fantastic…far far better than fantasy your fractal tales!
"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things if you look at it right… It's lucky that we have such a large scale view of everthing and we can see them as things…" (Richard Feynman on Fun To Imagine 3: Rubber Bands).
And here's a link to my fave murmuration video to date. WOW!
If anyone understood the wiggles of this universe, it has to be Feynman. If only he had had 48 hours in a day, we'd be a wiser world!
I will only say this: I am so happy i found your blog.
Ditto. I'm glad I found your blog. I'd never heard of a murmuration before. I've always called them bird balls. I'm not sure I buy your 4th dimension though, except that movement requires time (which is only forward for us poor folks).
Honoured to have you here Steve. Sounds like I need to do a better job at explaining the fourth dimension and come up with better DIY experiments.
Adding a 4th dimension to my genetic fractals is definitely on the agenda and I'll be able to show more weird but tangible examples then. In the meantime, I'll be looking out for everyday examples and give a more convincing explanation.
I've been trying to see the 4th as well. It will be on my mind.
I'm definitely going to experiment with a tree, Genetic Fractals!
Great! It definitely works 🙂 Let me know how you got on.
In time we can ascribe this story to the Queen – isn't that how history is really crafted?
Great post!! I have been fascinated by the tesseract for a long time, but your tree experiment and the starlings' formation were new to me.
I am still stuck with the tesseract – I admit. Probably there is a trick to "get it" though?
I haven't found the trick. I think that their are easier objects than wire-frame tesseracts. The 4D torus on youtube is more accessible, in my view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxW-AjMq8M.
It seems to be a cruel prank of life that I am so fervently fascinated by these kinds of concepts but can't seem to wrap my mind around them. 🙂 I'm in Los Angeles so trees are hard to come by, by I'm going to track one down and give it a try!!
I don't think anyone finds this easy. When I reread this (and the follow up post) I wonder if I am mad! Good luck with the tree experiment: if it doesn't work, at least you'll have seen a tree!
🙂 I'll take any tree I can get!
I was out for a couple of days and didn't see this one: great! I am obsessed with fractals myself and I'm pretty sure our space has fractal dimension, since space and time have to be emergent. In fact, if you take renormalization in QFT seriously, space-time has dimension 3.9999 or so.
I have a different trick for visualizing other dimensions: a dimension is just an extra quantity, so for example, add color and make each gradation a "position" and you have an extra dimension.
So I can "know" there are more than 3 dimensions, but what hurts is not seeing it. And this is in 2 ways: seeing as understanding and seeing as a visual experience. I'll keep trying.
I'm delighted you find something of interest in this. I have to admit that in the back of my mind these notions are still simmering. René Descartes proposed a 3 dimensional cartesian system a few centuries ago and much of mathematics and physics is based on that (though not all). Although I do think that we are outgrowing this idea, the guy was brilliant and from what I can tell a very interesting person.
What is simmering in my mind is the: what else? If a straight angled cartesian system is too limited, how should we view "dimensions" instead.
As you can imagine, I take the fractal angle. Starting from the premise that at the origin of the universe there were no space, time or "dimensions", clearly these notions evolved gradually, if very fast. My hunch is vested in that "dimensions", including fractional "dimensions", is something that evolved like a tree from a seed. As it grows, it gets more complex. The cartesian 3 dimensional system is just a small and convenient part of that tree.
Should my hunch be correct (whatever that means), then it has enormous implications. It would expand the entire basis for mathematics and physics and create a lot of interesting research and redefine our perception of reality.
I am not qualified to work all this out (I'm no Descartes!) but I'm hopeful that the mathematical ideas I'm currently working on will be the equivalent of a hair crack at the base of a dam and get other and greater brains to work out the implications. Even here, I take a fractal approach 🙂 There is a 99% chance that I'm delusional and should that be so, these subjects amuse me and keeps my brain from going to dust.
Thanks for your comment Notes. Although I haven't posted or commented much recently, I rarely miss your posts, which I get daily on my blackberry and provide a great distraction from the mundane.
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Persian prints, frayed edges and sun-kissed fading, you can't beat finding the perfect vintage rug - just ask Kelly Vittengl.
Founder of the rug marketplace Frances Loom, Interior Designer Kelly is a fully fledged businesswoman with with an eye for detail and a penchant for pared-back design.
Here she dishes on Californian style, why fabric matters and of course - how to score the perfect vintage find.
Why rugs? What got you into them?
I was living in LA at the time and had just left my full-time position as a set designer and was starting my own interior design practice.
My style is heavily vintage inspired, so I was frequenting LA's amazing flea markets each weekend for clients. As I was shopping, I kept finding these amazing rugs that I couldn't pass up on, whether a client wanted it or not.
As my stock began to increase, I decided to start a little website on the side… and truly, the rest is history.
How did Frances Loom start and was this something you always wanted to do?
Selling rugs certainly is not what I intended to do. But, interior design is something I have loved since I was a child.
However, once the website started taking off, I fell so in love with what I was doing I decided to put the interior design business on the back burner and pursue Frances Loom full-time.
My style is constantly evolving. Something that heavily influences my design eye is the city I'm in. I would never decorate my home in London the way I decorated my home in LA.
My home in LA was all white and beige with lots of mid-century furniture and plants. It felt very California. My home here is darker and cozier with lots of linen and texture.
Would you say Frances Loom reflects your own personal style? What brands do you love to wear?
Frances Loom definitely reflects my personal style. I wear a LOT of vintage, so that's pretty spot on.
I've recently been focused on buying only from sustainable or eco-friendly brands — Reformation, Lily Ashwell, Rag & Bone, Everlane. It's important for me to know where my clothing is being made, who is making it, and where the fabric is coming from.
The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry in the world, next to the oil industry! A lot of people are completely unaware of this and it's really important for us to start talking about it.
My two greatest inspirations are also completely contradictory: Cities and Nature. I have lived in NYC, LA, and London, and I just love the energy each city has.
So far, London is my favorite because of the history, architecture, culture, and city parks.
I do miss the LA sunshine, but London has so much to offer. I am so inspired by everything here from the pubs, to museums, to houses, to the different neighborhoods. I am equally inspired by the amount of parks around the city and the amazing access to nature we have.
What are your favorite London spots?
I currently live in Notting Hill and I love it here so much, it feels so quintessential London. Just about the whole of the neighborhood is beautiful – it's hard to find an ugly street, so I love walking around and looking at all the different colored houses.
For food, I frequent Granger & Co, as well as Dishoom - both of which have several locations around London.
"I love antique shopping on Golborne Rd on weekends and at Kempton Park every other Tuesday."
I love visiting the Tate Modern and walking along the river and over the bridge to St. Paul's.
I love getting a bit of inspiration and nature time in Hampstead Heath. I could pop into just about any pub at any time with a fire going and be sublimely happy. London has so much to offer and I'm still doing so much exploring!
Where do you head to find the best antiques? Any tips?
As I mentioned above, the nearest antique market to London is Sunbury Antique Market at Kempton Park. Some people believe it's becoming overrun by Londoners which is raising the prices, but I absolutely love it.
The antiques here are so much better than antiques in America, so I think I'm just in awe of the amount of beautiful pieces when I wander [around] that market.
Other than Golborne Rd on weekends and Spitalfields Market on Thursdays, everything else is outside of the city. Bath has some wonderful markets, and I have heard amazing things about the shops in Lewes but I have yet to get down there. It's on my list for a weekend day trip!


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