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Home Perspectives Break the Head
Break the Head
Uri Avnery
Many years ago I got interested in a field of military activity called Psychological Warfare, in which all the armies in the world invest considerable resources.
Psychological warfare is the opposite of propaganda. Propaganda tries to convince the other side that we are right. Psychological warfare does not try to convince anybody, it is an instrument of war like the air-force or the armored corps. Its aim is to break the enemy and compel him to submit to our will. If propaganda is honey, psychological warfare is prussic acid.
To achieve this aim, this field uses psychological means in order to break the enemy apart and sow suspicion and distrust between its parts. The main objective is to destroy the person leading the enemy, i.e. break the head: to undermine the trust in him and to get his fighters, followers and the world at large to hate him.
How does one do this? The manuals describe the methods:
The leader of the enemy is corrupt. He sends his fighters to their death while he himself enjoys life. He steals the people's money and hides it in foreign bank accounts. His henchmen are a gang of thieves, who lead a life of luxury in hotels around the world, while the ordinary people go hungry. The leader is a contemptible, loathsome, brutal, effeminate, tyrannical, ridiculous figure.
These stories are repeated thousands of time, they are planted in "neutral" foreign media, so that they come back from "objective" sources.
Of course. For several years, already, almost all Israeli media and spokesmen are engaged in demonizing one person: Yasser Arafat. All the classic tricks of psychological warfare, as well as some authentic Israeli inventions, are used to achieve this central aim. Not against the Palestinian people, not even against the Palestinian leadership, but against Arafat personally.
The conductors of this campaign do not care a damn whether Arafat is nice or mean, handsome or ugly, a peace-lover or a war-monger, super-honest or a highway robber. Quite possibly, Sharon himself admires him in secret. (In 1976 he asked me to arrange a meeting with him, in order to propose that Arafat become the president of a Palestinian state east of the Jordan river.) That did not prevent him last week from declaring that he regrets that he did not succeed in killing him in Beirut.
Arafat is targeted for one sole reason: he is the head of the Palestinian people fighting against the occupation. Breaking the head means breaking the whole structure of the Palestinian fight. In the course of war, especially a war of liberation, trust in the leader is essential for steadfast resistance against overwhelming forces. Without it, the movement will splinter into thousand pieces. No amount of missiles can compete with that.
In the Israeli and international arenas, this campaign has achieved considerable success. The story about the corrupt Arafat, heading a "corrupt authority" and surrounded by a gang of thieves has been spread throughout the world with relentless effort, until the very words "Palestinian Authority", "Arafat" and "corrupt" have become synonymous. These days, the success can be measured: If Atafat had been imprisoned in Ramallah ten years ago, there would have been riotous demonstrations in all European capitals, with the pictures of Arafat being carried side by side with those of Che Gevara and Mandela. Where are they now?
In Israel itself the success is even greater. The hatred of Arafat unites all parts of the public, from the extreme right to the established left. Research shows that out of 300 articles published by "leftists" about the Palestinian problem, 284 contained abusive remarks about Arafat. Like Christians crossing themselves when entering a church, an Israeli "leftist" has to say something like "I am for peace with the Palestinians, but I cannot stand the corrupt Arafat", or "I am against the occupation, but Arafat's corrupt gang has to be removed", as a sop to public opinion. The people who write this are not aware, of course, that they are serving the psychological warfare campaign aimed at breaking the Palestinian people at the decisive point.
One can view Arafat positively or negatively. He can be criticized from many directions. He is not a romantic figure like Che Gevara (who died in a stupid campaign) or Nelson Mandela (whose task was incomparably easier than Arafat's), neither is he a television star. He is only the leader of the Palestinian people, elected by an immense majority in democratic elections (under the supervision of Jimmy Carter). The corruption in the Palestinian Authority is no worse than in Egypt or Jordan, and there is less there than in the United States (the Enron affair), France (the Elf-Aquitaine affairs), Germany (the Kohl affair) or Israel (Shass). In the middle of a life-or-death national liberation fight, the treatment of this disease can certainly be postponed.
The Palestinians themselves understand this well. In this arena – the main target of Israeli psychological warfare é the campaign, it now turns out, has completely failed. Sharon believed that by shutting Arafat up in Ramallah he would expose him to ridicule and show that he is not "relevant" anymore, in order to install a gang of collaborators in his place. The very opposite has happened, of course: from Sheikh Yassin of the fundamentalist Hamas to the left-wing Popular Front, the Palestinian people has closed ranks behind Arafat at this moment of supreme danger to their very existence. Even the rumbling of criticism from some Palestinian intellectuals é who where also unwittingly exploited by Israeli psychological warfare é has fallen silent.
These methods were used against Churchill, as well as against Castro. To no avail. They will, probably, not succeed against Arafat either.
[The author has closely followed the career of Sharon for four decades. Over the years, he has written three extensive biographical essays about him, two (1973, 1981) with his cooperation.]
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Please stay for the post-film discussion with Director Cidney Hue, as well as Amy Rosenthal, Program Officer for Conservation and Sustainable Development at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Learn about ways to take action from R. Carson of Edward Jones' Socially Responsible Investment funds.
After the program, enjoy Conservation International's virtual reality short film, "Under the Canopy."
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Well what fun, summer get-togethers with both new and "annual" RV friends. This year Lovely Ouray "regular" John Q. brought his recently retired better half, Joalenn, along for his annual Colorado hiking pilgrimage. We had a blast getting to know her on trails and through chit chats over lunch and dinner. And now, salt-of-the-earth farmers from Illinois, Chris and Mindy, are camped at the 4J RV park…their vacation home base for Jeep tours that would scare the bejesus out of most flat-landers. We all joined up for pizza and beer last night at Mine Shack II, now our only house as we closed on the sale of Mine Shack I at 4:00 pm Monday. It's a step toward simplifying our lives, I think, maybe… hopefully… oh who knows.
"Anchors Away:" A Wildflower Walk With John and Joalenn Q.
BCB regulars know of John Q's annual visits to Ouray; he's been featured every July since we landed here. Toward the end of his working life, just before he retired from the Corporate Jungle, John would spend lunch hours perusing a few RV travel blogs. When the day finally came to empty out his desk, he already had ideas about how he wanted to spend some of his free time. An A-liner pop-up camper was purchased, and Lovely Ouray was circled on his map.
Dehui Yang captured the above photo of Molas Lake while camped above Silverton last week. We feel privileged that he shared some of his best "vacation" shots of our personal "stomping grounds." BCB readers are overdue for some quality photos shot through someone else's eye… someone (gulp) maybe even better than your's truly… so I thought it would be nice to share Dehui's photos with you. The majestic mountains pictured and reflected in Molas Lake are called the "Needles," located in the heart of the Grenadier Mountain Range. It's home to three fourteen thousand foot peaks, Eolus, Windom, and Sunlight, all of which we've summited. A stellar shot, Dehui.
A few posts back you may have noticed Dehui Yang's comment box request to go hiking with Bobbie and I. A graduate student at School of Mines, he was coming over from Golden, Co. in order to explore the mountains around Lovely Ouray—this, largely based on my "beautiful" (his word, not mine) Postcard Photographs right here on the BCB. We had never met Dehui nor communicated before, but that didn't stop him from politely asking to tag along, and we are so thrilled he did. Besides, what better way to get to know someone than on the trail?
Yesterday was my first real test at hiking above 11,000 feet; all systems were "Go," however, I would add "Slow" to that. Even Coffee Girl seemed to lack her usual rambunctious energy level. Bobbie was still feeling the effects of her recent eleven plus miles push to Bridge of Heaven, so I was in good company. Boonie learned the value of Gore-Tex lined shoes as we waded the soggy tundra and soft snow above Bullion King Mine and Lake. Cutthroat Trout by the dozens plied the shallow waters near the bank for food, reflecting fluorescent red and green in the early morning sun. Wildflowers are a little late this year due to lingering winter snows, but it was still a beautiful place to hang out and watch atomic bomb monsoonal clouds mushroom into the stratosphere.
That's my six foot three inch—body by CrossFit—son, Caleb, approaching "Bridge of Heaven" on a hike with Bobbie. The snow is about gone above timberline, which means the long-awaited wildflower season is upon us.
Sidewalks are jammed, parking nonexistent, one hour waiting lines at restaurants, yet they come—year in and year out. Fourth of July Tourists looking to see a good fight, retribution for lost bragging rights…maybe even a little blood. It's Lovely Ouray's equivalent to Bull Fighting in Spain, a duel that leaves opponents alive, but exhausted and bruised for days. It's amazing what 90 pounds of pressure will do to water. A fire hose nozzle can be a weapon of destruction—knock you off your feet, steal your breath, freeze you stiff, and leave you black and blue. The contestants call it fun, the crowd calls it crazy. You just have to see it to believe it.
Ala Garrison Keillor, It's been a busy week in Lovely Ouray. As the detritus of Lake "Woe-is-me" fades like a bad dream, Life, as I once knew it, is beginning to reemerge from the wretched fog of "complications" like a long lost ship. Thank God for Lighthouses.


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Fold in the almonds and flour with a wooden spoon. Press the mixture into a greased tray to a thickness of about six millimetres.
Place in a preheated oven at 180°C/gas mark 4 for 10-12 minutes or when just starting to colour. Carefully turn out onto a sheet of baking parchment on a flat cool surface.
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Excerpt from The Worst of Times: Illegal Abortion-Survivors, Practitioners, Coroners, Cops, and Children of Women Who Died Talk About Its Horrors, ed. Patricia G. Miller, 1993.
During my medical training, I saw women being treated for septic abortion, and as a resident I took care of lots of them. There was a special ward in the hospital. It had four to eight beds filled with women who had either pelvic inflammatory disease, usually from gonorrhea, or septlc abortion complications. The septic abortion patients were usually looked down upon as having done something illegal, probably because just about everyone grows up with the idea that bad people do illegal things and good people don't….
I do recall two women who died from the complications of illegal abortions. One happened in 1 9S5. A young woman-she was only seventeen or eighteen-died of a ruptured uterus and an absolutely overwhelming infection…. She died of septic shock. Afterward there were spirited discussions among the doctors about whether we might have been able to save her if we had done some-thing differently-maybe different antibiotics, things like that. But no one talked about or even seemed to notice the really obvious solution: making legal abortions available.
The second woman I remember probably died in 1957 or 1958. She was a young woman too, but not a teenager. She had an abortion, and when she was brought to the hospital, she had gas gangrene. She was in shock by the time she arrived, and nothing we did made any difference. She died quickly-in less than twenty-four hours.


Are you living in the moment? I happened to realize I do not in the majority of my day. Have you ever done something for the sake of finishing it? have you ever felt you are just waiting for day to pass to arrive to tomorrow? Recently, I realized it became a pattern of behavior in my life. I truly manage to notice it only after I realize that my capacity to enjoy daily events and concentrate in random task has diminished drastically. Can you recognize those moments in your life? Does it sounds familiar? Your personal peacefulness and daily happiness depends on it. be aware.
In a fascinating book I read recently called "focus", written by Daniel Goleman my eyes got open to the idea that focus is working like a muscle and that we are losing the capacity to use it. I start noticing it in many fields in my life. My capacity to read long texts, listening to conversation I do not find very interesting and just wait diminish drastically.
It is not a secret, that the over use of technology is affecting our life and habits. unfortunately, it also affect drastically our capacity to love, show empathy, feel real happiness and achieve peacefulness. To test yourself is very easy. take one day of your life and try to notice how many times you manage to actually enjoying the moment. It mean, that you will not reach to your phone or think about other tasks. Try to remember how many times in the last month did you took the time to read a long text. In your daily activities, try to notice how many times did your truly enjoyed what you are doing without thinking about the next mission or task to come.
I realized I failed in all these tests. In my life, I noticed I do not enjoy the road I'm taking (walking, train, bus). I'm to busy thinking about my destination and my next mission. My capacity to enjoy a moment of quite without reaching to my phone, do not exists any longer. At the evening, instead of enjoying my wife and the peacefulness of finishing a long day, I'm busy thinking about tomorrow.
Self awareness is the key for a better life. peacefulness and happiness, are the essence of the well being of one self. Today, we are a reflection of the habits we built in our past. The answers are simple, if one is willing to listen and practice. life is a journey and not always a simple one. If we will not enjoy it a step at a time, life will just be a long, exhausting and frustrating path. One in which we will always wish to be somewhere else.
Since I start working on it in my life, I have more beautiful moments and more quality in my days. Not only because I create more interesting interaction with people by actually listing to them. But because I notice how many beautiful things I miss walking my life with the head down.
Can you connect to such thoughts? how many time can you say you're really living in the moment?
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Q: Find lesses positive integer that satisfies a congruence I found this exercise in a book, but I don't even know how to start tackling it.
Find the lesser positive integer z such that:
$1234 \equiv z \mod 5$
$2^{240} \equiv z \mod 3$
Looking at their definitions, I can say that $1234 \equiv z \mod 5$ $\implies$ $5 | 1234-z$, which implies that $1234-z=5c$ for some integer $c$. Likewise, $2^{240} \equiv z \mod 3$ $\implies$ $3|2^{240}-z$, which implies that $2^{240}-z=3d~$ for some integer $d$.
I don't know where to go from here. I deduced $1234-5c=2^{240}-3d$, but I'm not sure how does that help me. I'm also unsure about the "lesser" condition.
Any hint will be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.

A: $1234 \equiv z \mod 5$, so $z\equiv 4\bmod 5$
$2^{240} \equiv z \mod 3$, and $2^2 = 4\equiv 1 \bmod 3$, so $z\equiv (2^2)^{120} \equiv 1^{120} \equiv 1 \bmod 3$
So: given
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and we can certainly find a solution$\bmod 15$ through the Chinese remainder theorem. For these small numbers we can just use examination:
$z \equiv 4\bmod 5 \implies z\in\{4,9,14\} \bmod 15$
$z \equiv 1\bmod 3 \implies z\in\{1,4,7,10,13\} \bmod 15$
and we have $z\equiv 4 \bmod 15$ and $z=4$ as the smallest positive solution.

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Trump Skewers Police Who Didn't Even Attempt To Save The Children Of The Florida Shooting.
Trump Takes Jab At Police Who Failed To Act During Florida Shooting.
The Florida shooting has been in the media non-stop from the tragic details of that day to the gun control issues. But this incident could have been much different. There could have been a heck of a lot less bloodshed. If the police had done what they are supposed to do. The whole serve and protect motto went out the window when the police present during the shooting hung back until the end.
There are no guarantees that the officers would have been able to save the students, but they could have at least tried. Is that not what they are paid for? Would this not fall under the protect part of the motto? This incident was at a school during the day and at least one officer among the others was more complicit. He was a school resource officer whose sole job was to keep the school safe.
Broward Deputy Scot Peterson was stationed at the school. He made the odd decision of waiting outside while the shooting took place inside. He claims that he was in the right.
So for six minutes, he couldn't figure out where the shooting was coming from?
In the heat of the moment, it is tough for the normal person to act but this wasn't a civilian. These were armed and trained authorities. These are people that know the sound of gunfire and are trained to deal with armed perpetrators. So why is it that none them even attempted to confront or stop this shooter? Is this cowardice or poor implementation of tactical training?


With PHANTOM THREAD hitting theaters Christmas Day, Jacob T. Swinney thought now would be a good time to examine a less-discussed Paul Thomas Anderson technique. Though PTA made a name for himself with elaborate and technically complex filmmaking, one of his defining trademarks is a simple one – letting his camera linger on a silent character.
While many filmmakers rely on dialogue to convey poignancy or gravity, PTA allows his lens to absorb a character's silence. They may be watching, they may be listening, or or they may be in utter shock, but the result is the same; we feel the moment. Here is a look at PTA's lingering and reflective silence.


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3 Game Design Tools to Inspire Learning
Help kids develop their design-thinking and coding skills.
By Emily Major
Game design combines important skills like critical thinking, creativity, and perseverance -- plus, it just sounds fun. Get kids excited about drawing game blueprints, building blocks of code, learning computing concepts, and participating in a collaborative community beyond the classroom.
From drag-and-drop programming to scripting language, these top apps and games are great for a range of learners. Students will not only exercise their design-thinking muscles, they'll also learn valuable coding and engineering principles.
Pixel Press Floors
Price: Free (with in-app purchases)
Platforms: iPad
Kids begin by drawing "glyphs," or predefined shapes, to create blueprints for their game. After they take a photo and upload the drawing, students can test the game and iterate before they choose to share it with a global community. Although kids will need to draw their games within specific parameters, it is still a highly customizable experience. Students will be amazed by the magical transference of their creation from paper to screen. By using drawing as a starting point, this app appeals to a wide range of students and helps them develop engineering and design skills along the way.
GameMaker: Studio
Price: Free standard version; $99.99 for professional version
Platforms: Mac, Windows
Grades: 5–12
Beginners can start with the drag-and-drop interface and eventually switch over to the more advanced scripting language. With a clear and consistent user interface, this tool appeals to novices and more experienced game designers alike. As one of the most popular game-creation tools, GameMaker: Studio includes active support forums, built-in tutorials, and the ability to join a learning community beyond the classroom.
Price: Free; $99-$199/year paid versions offer more publishing options
Students can use drag-and-drop design to plan and create games without needing to code. Stencyl stands out by connecting student work to major publishing platforms, including iOS and Android (but only with the paid version). The free version allows users to export their finished games as flash files or upload them to Stencyl itself. Students will benefit from endless critical-thinking and problem-solving opportunities, and as with most game design tools, the project-based learning framework helps to prepare kids for future career and life challenges.
Emily Major is project coordinator of education content for Common Sense Education.
Common Sense Education helps educators find the best edtech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Go to Common Sense Education for free resources including full reviews of digital tools, ready-made lesson plans, videos, webinars, and more.
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Radical prostatectomy can provide cancer-specific survival of 15 years or more in 80% of patients with limited prostate cancer.
In patients with well differentiated prostate cancers having Gleason scores of 2 to 4, the 10-year PSA progression-free survival is about 70 to 80% with radiation therapy or surgery.
The 10-year PSA progression-free survival drops to 50 to 70% for Gleason scores of 5 to 7. Eight-year survival for clinically localized tumors with Gleason score less that 7 is 85-95%.
The 10-year PSA progression-free survival drops further down to 15% to 30% for Gleason scores of 8 to 10 with a 8-year survival rates of about 70%.
The distant metastasis-free survival response to radiotherapy is influenced by the dose of radiotherapy.
High-risk patients with Gleason scores of 7 have 8-year survival rates of about 70%, while those with Gleason scores of 8 to 10 have an 8-year survival of about 50% following radiation therapy.
PSA doubling time of 15 months or more are better managed with surveillance. The have median time to metastatic disease in these years is about 8 years and the median survival is about 13 years. Patients with PSA doubling times of less than 3 months are at very high risk of prostate cancer related death and have a median survival of 5 to 6 years.
Extent of the disease, Gleason score of 8 to 10 and presence of bone pain are other important prognostic factors in metastatic prostate cancer.
The median progression-free survival in patients with minimal disease (metastatic disease confined to pelvis, spine or nodes) is about 2 years and in extensive disease (metastatic disease affecting viscera, long bones, skull or ribs) about 18 months.
The median overall survival with androgen deprivation therapy in patients with metastatic disease is 3 to 5 years.
For men with resistance to androgen the overall survival ranged from 8 months to 20 months depending on the extend of spread.
In patients with HRPC, higher baseline PSA levels and greater PSA velocity predicts higher-risk for metastatic disease and shorter overall survival.
Significant rise in the acute-phase reactants is often a finding in the late stages of disease and suggest a poor prognosis.
Palliative care or comfort care is the treatment undertaken to prevent or reduce the symptoms of a life-threatening illness like cancer. It is usually indicated for cases where other therapeutic options have either failed to "cure" the cancer and the case has advanced to the point where any further treatments aimed at "cure" would be fruitless and drastically reduce the patient's quality of life. Palliative care is therefore for symptomatic relief.
Many advanced prostate cancer patients often suffer from bone pain that adversely affect quality of life. The management of pain or other cancer related functional impairment is integral part of palliative care. Palliative management can include analgesics, glucocorticoids, palliative chemotherapy, radioisotopes or radiotherapy.
Radioisotopes (like phosphorus-32, strontium-89) that selectively concentrate in bone lesions are approved for the palliative treatment of painful bone metastases. The treatment is of more value in patients with multiple metastases (cancer spread to several sites). The radioisotopes have been found to reduce the need for opioid painkillers (analgesics) in such patients.
EBRT is effective in painful bone lesions in advanced prostate cancer patients but not an ideal option if there are multiple lesions at different sites. The lesions in multiple sites will progress after EBRT in one site and pain will reappear in a short time afterwards, unless other systemic therapies are initiated to control the disease process. Read more on EBRT under prostate cancer treatments.
Androgen deprivation therapy or ADT is the treatment that reduces the androgenic stimulation of prostate cancer cells by different approaches. Androgenic stimulation means the hormonal factors that promote cancer growth.
An approach with early ADT or deferring ADT till progression is still debatable and usually depends on the patient preference or often left to the discretion of the attending physician. There is cancer-specific survival benefit with early ADT, but the overall survivals in both approaches have been found to be similar. The cardiovascular risk assessment should also be done before ADT is commenced as ADT is known to increase risk for cardiovascular events.
ADT may be used as neoadjuvant treatment option before definitive primary treatment or used concurrently with it. It may also be used as adjuvant therapeutic agent following radiotherapy or prostatectomy. Patients with recurrence after surgery or radiation may be considered for ADT if they are not suitable for local therapy. ADT may be considered a therapeutic option in patients with high-risk limited disease along in combination with radiotherapy or surgery.
ADT is the standard of care in patients with metastatic prostatic cancer. The options available in advanced cancer include bilateral orchiectomy, LHRH analogues and anti-androgens. The surgical approach in this set up is less preferred by most patients now.
Several LHRH agonists are approved for advanced prostate cancer and are equally effective in reducing the testosterone to castration levels.
The anti-androgens binds to the androgen receptors and blocks its activation by androgens. When anti-androgens are used as monotherapy, there can be increased testosterone levels due to stimulating feedback from the blocked receptors.
Estrogens were found to be associated with serious adverse effects than other LHRH agonists and are now reserved only for secondary hormone therapy.


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Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications
Sung Hyuk Oh, Sang Hun Lee, Dong Chan Lee, Sung Hyun Moon, Yongchan Kim
In this study, the air-side heat transfer characteristics of microchannel heat exchangers (MCHXs), with enhanced shapes as condensers in refrigerators, are investigated. The heat transfer performances of flat-type, U- and V-shaped MCHXs, and conventional spiral fin-tube heat exchangers were measured and compared at various air flow rates and inlet temperatures. Furthermore, the Colburn j-factor and friction factor of the MCHXs were analyzed as a function of the Reynolds number. The second-type volume and area goodness factors were also analyzed to compare the heat transfer performances of the MCHXs considering various design parameters. Additionally, the empirical correlations of the Colburn j-factor and friction factor for U- and V-shaped MCHXs were developed using dimensionless parameters that reflect geometric and operating conditions. Hence, a U-shaped MCHX with a longer tube length was recommended to obtain a high absolute heat transfer rate, while a flat-type MCHX was recommended to realize high compactness and heat transfer efficiency.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121460
Published - 2021 Sep
Colburn j-factor
Friction factor
Microchannel
10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121460
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Oh, S. H., Lee, S. H., Lee, D. C., Moon, S. H., & Kim, Y. (2021). Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 176, [121460]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121460
Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications. / Oh, Sung Hyuk; Lee, Sang Hun; Lee, Dong Chan; Moon, Sung Hyun; Kim, Yongchan.
In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 176, 121460, 09.2021.
Oh, SH, Lee, SH, Lee, DC, Moon, SH & Kim, Y 2021, 'Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications', International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 176, 121460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121460
Oh SH, Lee SH, Lee DC, Moon SH, Kim Y. Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2021 Sep;176. 121460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2021.121460
Oh, Sung Hyuk ; Lee, Sang Hun ; Lee, Dong Chan ; Moon, Sung Hyun ; Kim, Yongchan. / Air-side heat transfer and pressure drop characteristics of flat-type, U-and V-shaped microchannel condensers for refrigerator applications. In: International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 2021 ; Vol. 176.
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import logging

from hamcrest import assert_that, equal_to
import pexpect
import re

def with_protocol(test):
    def wrapper(self):
        try:
            logging.info(">>>> CONNECTING [%s]" % self.protocol.name)
            self.protocol.connect()
            logging.info(">>>> START")
            test(self, self.protocol)
            logging.info(">>>> SUCCESS")
        finally:
            self.protocol.disconnect()

    wrapper.__name__ = test.__name__
    return wrapper

class LoggingFileInterface(object):
    def __init__(self, prefix):
        self.prefix = prefix

    def write(self, data):
        for line in data.rstrip('\r\n').split('\r\n'):
            logging.info(self.prefix + repr(line))

    def flush(self):
        pass

class ProtocolTester(object):
    def __init__(self, name, host, port, username, password):
        self.name = name
        self.host = host
        self.port = port
        self.username = username
        self.password = password

        self.child = None

    def connect(self):
        self.child = pexpect.spawn(self.get_ssh_connect_command())
        self.child.delaybeforesend = 0.0005
        self.child.logfile = None
        self.child.logfile_read = LoggingFileInterface(prefix="[%s] " % self.name)
        self.child.timeout = 1
        self.login()

    def disconnect(self):
        pass

    def get_ssh_connect_command(self):
        pass

    def login(self):
        pass

    def read(self, expected, regex=False):
        self.wait_for(expected, regex)
        assert_that(self.child.before, equal_to(""))

    def readln(self, expected, regex=False):
        self.read(expected + "\r\n", regex=regex)

    def read_lines_until(self, expected):
        self.wait_for(expected)
        lines = self.child.before.split('\r\n')
        return lines

    def read_eof(self):
        self.child.expect(pexpect.EOF)

    def wait_for(self, expected, regex=False):
        self.child.expect(re.escape(expected) if not regex else expected)

    def write(self, data):
        self.child.sendline(data)
        self.read(data + "\r\n")

    def write_invisible(self, data):
        self.child.sendline(data)
        self.read("\r\n")

    def write_stars(self, data):
        self.child.sendline(data)
        self.read(len(data) * "*" + "\r\n")

    def write_raw(self, data):
        self.child.send(data)

class SshTester(ProtocolTester):
    def get_ssh_connect_command(self):
        return 'ssh %s@%s -p %s -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null' \
               % (self.username, self.host, self.port)

    def login(self):
        self.wait_for('[pP]assword: ', regex=True)
        self.write_invisible(self.password)
        self.wait_for('[>#]$', regex=True)

class TelnetTester(ProtocolTester):
    def get_ssh_connect_command(self):
        return 'telnet %s %s' \
               % (self.host, self.port)

    def login(self):
        self.wait_for("Username: ")
        self.write(self.username)
        self.read("Password: ")
        self.write_invisible(self.password)
        self.wait_for('[>#]$', regex=True)


Welcome to the Melrose Foam League!
We are located south of Santa Monica Blvd. and west of N La Brea Ave., at the Poinsettia Rec Center.
Foam League is coming to Poinsettia Rec on Sundays! Get your co-ed team of 6 ready to play (teams will play with 3 men and 3 women). It's gonna be a 6-week season with multiple matchups per week and a 1-day, 4-hour playoff to conclude the season. We seek to make this a more competitive league and will be playing all games with modified WDBF rules and 7″ foam balls.
Note: While we want everyone to experience Melrose Foam and the advanced level of play, we cannot guarantee spots to free agents who are hoping to play without a team. Grab a friend (or 5) and register today!
Open gyms are from 12:30PM-2:30PM. Open to all skill levels and just $5 for two hours!
6v6 Co-Ed: Teams must begin every game with 3 guys and 3 girls on the court. No exceptions. Teams who do not satisfy this requirement will begin the game short-handed. Teams may have a max roster size of 8 players.
Waiver Subs: Teams in need of subs will select from a pool of approved, available players based on their position in the standings. The team positioned lowest in the standings will have the first choice, next lowest will have the second choice, so on and so forth.
Gameplay: Games will be played with 6 7″ foam balls, one of which will be colored to denote burden (10-second countdown). A female-only neutral zone will be in play. All headshots are an out for the player hit.
Rankings based on the following order: overall record points, (win = 3 points; tie = 1; lose = 0), head-to-head play, game differentials and most games won.


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Hi there Oddies! Åsa here today showing some tips and tricks.
I love to do 'head shots' with my digital images.
And Im going to show you some tips on how I edit them before I print them. Just to get that perfect size for my dies.
Start by select and insert your digistamp.
Right click on the image and select 'Edit size and position'.
Choose the last one, now you can move around the image as you like.
Im going to use a round die to cut out the image, so I choose to insert a cirle.
I have measured the size of my circle die, so I know how much space I need.
So I change the size on the inserted circle the same as my die.
and then size it up/down to make it fit nicely in the circle.
…so that only the head fits in the circle.
Now I just delete the circle and hit the Print button.
Easy peasy – you got the image in the right size!
Good Luck and have fun playing with your digis!
Don't forget to use our share buttons below to spread the info to all your crafty friends!
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AWE Love your card!!!! It is Awesome!!! Might have to try this tutorial out!!!
You've explained it so well that I think even a technical numpty like me could do it!
Great information…thank you for sharing. Love your card!
This is a fantastic tutorial – thank you so much. I'm a digi freak and can't wait to try this.
Thanks so much, this is a great tutorial!!
Thanks for the tutorial. I will definitely be trying this. Love your card.
I can't get the circle to be transparent so that I can see the image through it. Is there a secret to this? I know how to do that in Publisher…but not in Word.
Noemi & Deanna: if your circle is all blue (or filled with any other colour) you need to change the settings of the filling under the command "Shape Fill" (the symbol looks like a bucket of paint). Change it to "No filling". Now your circle is transparent.
Now you can go up in the right corner and Crop your circle (see the tutorial), just write in your numbers of the size on your die (the inside messure).
Awesome tutorial! Thanks for sharing and I will definitely be using this!
Thanks for the tutorial! Once I figured out no fill color, it all fell into place!
I will be looking forward to trying this out! I too like your card.
This was great. Now I have a lot more things I can do with my digital images. And I can make sure all I want to fit in the shape is there instead of guessing. Thank you so much for the share.
Thanks! I can't wait to try this out!


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Steam Greenlights 100 New Titles — Including 'Doctor Who'
By Marshall Honorof 31 October 2013
Steam's Oct. 31 update has added 100 new games, bringing the Greenlight total to 159 for the month.
October 2013 has been an incredibly rich month for Steam Greenlight, the service that lets users vote on their favorite indie titles to see which one merits a place on Valve's digital distribution platform. Steam's Oct. 31 update has added 100 new games, bringing the Greenlight total to 159 for the month.
If you don't know the process, here's how it works: Developers submit their games (and occasional pieces of nongame software) to Greenlight, and fans vote for their favorite ones. Steam then tallies up the votes, curates the results and picks which titles get a spot on the platform.
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"12TailsOnline": a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from Thailand
"3079 -- An Action RPG": an open-world sci-fi action/RPG
"99 Spirits": an RPG/puzzle hybrid based on Japanese folklore
"A Mass of Dead": an action game where you fight zombies with upgradeable weapons
"A.N.N.E.": an old-school space shooter with RPG elements
"After Reset RPG": a postapocalyptic RPG in the vein of "Fallout"
"ALLBenchmark Catzilla": not a game, but benchmarking software to rate PC requirements
"Ballpoint Universe: Infinite": a side-scroller with scanned ballpoint pen drawings as graphics
"Battle Fortress Tortoise": a third-person shooter in which you ride a giant tortoise into battle
"Beast Boxing Turbo": a fighting game where a woman must battle monstrous boxers
"Cannons Lasers Rockets": a multiplayer space combat game
"Cardinal Quest II": a retro hack-and-slash action game
"Castaway Paradise": a life simulator with quirky animal townspeople
"Cloudbuilt": a parkour-based action game that challenges you to race through levels
"Colonies Online": a strategy game where you explore and colonize new worlds
"Cornerstone, the Song of Tyrim": an action/adventure game in the vein of "The Legend of Zelda"
"Dead Sky": a survival-horror game that pits you against a zombie horde
"Deadly 30": a survival-horror game where you must survive 30 days against zombies
"Deckadance": not a game, but a professional-grade DJ mixing application
"Doctor Who: The Adventure Games": an adventure game series originally hosted on the BBC website
"Drifter": an open-world sci-fi game with procedurally generated worlds
"Enamel": an action/RPG in a dark, sci-fi setting
"Epic Battle Fantasy 4": a retro Japanese-style RPG
"Eryi's Action": a traditional side-scroller with bright, colorful graphics
"Eschalon: Book III": the final installment in the acclaimed indie RPG series
"Estranged: Act I": a story-driven "Half-Life 2" mod
"Everworld Island": a co-op multiplayer game with both combat and simulation aspects
"Fading Hearts": a Japanese dating simulator
"Festival of Magic": a Japanese-style RPG with old-school sensibilities
"Finding Teddy": a point-and-click adventure game with handmade graphics
"Fistful of Frags": a Wild West-themed first-person shooter
"Flowstorm": a racing game where aerial combat takes center stage
"GoD Factory: Wingmen": a multiplayer space combat game
"Gun Disassembly 2": not a game, but a gun assembly simulator
"Half-Life: Before": a "Half-Life" mod that acts as a prequel to the original game
"Hero of the Kingdom": an adventure game that lets you take on a plethora of quests
"Holy Avatar vs. Maidens of the Dead": an RPG that parodies the conventions of the genre
"I Shall Remain": a third-person action game with grotesque enemies and horror trappings
"iRacing.com": an online racing game that simulates real cars and racing circuits
"Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery": a point-and-click adventure game with a humorous bent
"Jets'n'Guns": a sci-fi side-scrolling shoot-'em-up with nods to "R-Type"
"Last Knight": a 2D platformer with a focus on ragdoll physics and 2D jousting
"Loren The Amazon Princess": a fantasy RPG with an intriguing female protagonist
"Lost Saga": a retro 2D action game that lets you swap between 60 characters
"Luminesca": a low-key exploration game with gorgeous underwater environments
"Magicite": an old-school multiplayer RPG with a procedurally generated world
"Mines of Mars": a mining game with a dark, sci-fi storyline and procedural content generation
"Molten Sky": a flight combat game with a near-future political storyline
"Montas": a first-person survival-horror game with a minimalist story
"Nightrealm Tales": a first-person competitive multiplayer game with a melee combat focus
"Nimble Quest": a tower defense game that pits a party of heroes against endless enemies
"OddPlanet": a dark side-scroller about a little girl trapped in a frightening world
"Oozi: Earth Adventure": a retro side-scroller with hand-drawn visuals and low difficulty
"Orc Attack: Flatulent Rebellion": an irreverent take on cooperate hack-and-slash games
"Our Darker Purpose": an action/RPG with a high difficulty curve and horror elements
"Paper Monsters": a 2D platformer with characters made of household goods
"Parallax": a first-person platformer with a focus on solving puzzles
"Particulars": an action/puzzle game with a focus on physics
"Pirate Galaxy": a strategy game focusing on tactical starship combat
"Platformines": an action platformer with RPG elements and exploration
"Private Infiltrator": a stealth game set in a film noir atmosphere
"Probability 0": an arcade game where you level up abilities and fight endless enemies
"Pulse": a first-person exploration game with colorful, otherworldly graphics
"Purge": a first-person stealth game with a focus on parkour
"Race to Mars": a sci-fi simulation game where colonizing Mars is the goal
"The Real Texas": an action/adventure game set in an alternate universe Texas
"Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages": a space combat simulator with RPG elements
"Rogue's Tale": an RPG with turn-based combat and dungeon exploration
"Rollers of the Realm": a pinball game with a fantasy setting and RPG mechanics
"Savant – Ascent": an action game where you play as a wizard who fights robots
"Science Girls": a Japanese-style RPG starring a group of schoolgirls
"Shaun the Sheep – Home Sheep Home 2": a kids' puzzle game starring the popular British TV character
"Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe": an air hockey simulator with a comedic sci-fi storyline
"Spintires": a driving simulator that focuses on off-road vehicles
"StageLight": not a game, but instead beginner-level software to compose and create music
"Sub Rosa": a multiplayer first-person shooter with a focus on intrigue and car chases
"Suguri Collection": a collection of two side-scroller games from the popular mobile series
"Survivor Squad": a tactical action game where you control four survivors during the apocalypse
"Tales of Maj'Eyal": an old-school fantasy RPG with a high difficulty curve
"The Escapists": a strategic action game where you organize a prison break
"The Mandate": a sci-fi RPG where you command a starship and recruit new crewmembers
"The Red Solstice": a 2D co-op shooter with randomized missions and loot
"The Somme": a first-person shooter set during a key World War I battle
"The Yawhg": an adventure game with a branching, randomized story
"Tom vs The Armies of Hell": a third-person action game full of humor and bizarre weapons
"Tower of Guns": a shooter with a high difficulty curve and randomized elements
"Trash TV": a puzzle game where you play as a television in a dangerous junkyard
"Two Brothers": an action/adventure game in the style of a classic Game Boy title
"Vanguard Princess": a fighting game with a Japanese aesthetic and story
"Void Destroyer": a hybrid space combat/real-time strategy game with a sci-fi setting
"Will to Survive": a survival game where you must build a base in real-time to fend off aliens
"Wings of Vi": a retro platformer that casts you as a fireball-wielding angel
"Worlds of Magic": a strategy game that lets you do battle in a fantasy world
"WorldShift": a hybrid MMORPG/real-time strategy game with a sci-fi setting
"XING: The Land Beyond": a first-person exploration game all about poetry
"Xyson: Prelude": an MMORPG that takes place in a postapocalyptic fantasy world
"You Are Not The Hero": an action/RPG where you evade monsters rather than fight them
"Zigfrak": an action/RPG in a sci-fi setting that focuses on exploration and loot
"Zombeer": a first-person shooter where you fight zombies, but can also transform into one
Steam has no preset limits for how many games it can Greenlight, or how many times per month it can do it. Keep an eye on the Greenlight page for future updates.
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RICHARD X. HEYMAN
(Turn-Up Records)
A prominent player on the early 21st Century music scene, NYC based Richard X. Heyman strikes pop-rock gold with his 2017 solo album Incognito. Richard Heyman reemerged in the pop resurgence of the late 1980s and early '90s and has gone on to release a range of rock-based pop solo albums—as well as considering the music he's made, live and on record as the drummer / vocalist with his band The Doughboys, who he's known since way back in the 1960's. While he was still high school, Heyman with the Dougboys went on to open concerts for The Beach Boys and The Buckinghams. A drummer and a versatile multi-instrumentalist, Heyman has been compared to gifted pop giants like McCartney, Rundgren and even cult-pop hero Emitt Rhodes. While also echoing the spirits of rock legends like Dylan and Springsteen, Heyman skillfully cooks up something uniquely all his own on the 14 track Incognito. It sounds like the 2016 U.S. presidential election cycle might have influenced the music on Incognito, yet as Richard explains in the following interview, "The country seems to swing back and forth, like a pendulum. I don't think the political campaign or election had a direct effect on the writing of these songs. It was more subtle. I didn't notice the effect until after the songs were done. There's a certain tension and a touch of darkness that crept into the material. As they say, nothing is created in a vacuum. I was inhaling the air like everybody else and when I exhaled, there were a bunch of new songs. If you're an optimist like me, you never lose hope." The CD features informative liner notes by John Branning, and while no lyrics are printed, they are available and are well worth reading along with the music. Assisted by his wife and band mate Nancy Leigh, on Incognito, Heyman rocks up a storm, playing most of the instruments himself with the aid of musicians appearing on the occasional bass, cello, horns, backing vocals and even trumpet. Pop aficionados have been hip to Richard X. Heyman for years and the 2017 CD release of Incognito will please long time fans as well as providing a solid introduction for the uninitiated. www.richardxheyman.com
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mwe3: I was looking at that excellent hi-res version of that pic of you in the Incognito CD packaging crossing Delancey Street. I imagine Ratner's to be right across the street! How has New York City changed for you over the years? Where are you living in the city now? Has it gotten easier or harder in the city? What subways do you live near?
Richard X. Heyman: One of the major changes in New York City is the closing of so many music venues, starting with the Fillmore East and the Anderson Theater, both in the East Village where we used to live. I performed at CBGB's countless times, along with doing gigs at places like The China Club, Trax, The Bottom Line, etc. Local businesses come and go. Some survive the increasing rents, others aren't so lucky. NYC always had an edge to it, but that's part of what makes it interesting. Like Frank said, "if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere." Nancy and I live on the Lower East Side, near the F train line.
mwe3: You were saying how the 2016 election influenced the song cycle on Incognito. Does that kind of political upheaval give you, as a songwriter, even more to write about?
Richard X. Heyman: The country seems to swing back and forth, like a pendulum. I don't think the political campaign or election had a direct effect on the writing of these songs. It was more subtle. I didn't notice the effect until after the songs were done. There's a certain tension and a touch of darkness that crept into the material. As they say, nothing is created in a vacuum. I was inhaling the air like everybody else and when I exhaled, there were a bunch of new songs. If you're an optimist like me, you never lose hope.
mwe3: What do you think happened with the 2016 election and what are your friends in the city saying? I don't think there's ever been a precedent for such a kind of election. Was the title track "Incognito" a direct statement on the presidential campaign last year? It seems like persecution is on the upswing again.
Richard X. Heyman: All I know is it must be a drag to live in a state where you know your vote doesn't count. That goes for either side of the political spectrum. I wish more people would cast their votes. The powers that be should make it easier to vote. Spread it out over a few days, so people have a better opportunity to get their votes in. "Incognito" deals with injustice and its aftermath.
mwe3: "A Fool's Errand" has a great indie rock beat that takes me back to my original safety zone of the 1980s and early '90s such a great time for new rock but you really nail the song. Do you consider it one of your catchiest?
Richard X. Heyman: I'm glad you enjoyed "A Fool's Errand"! For me, it's almost more 60's influenced than 80's. But then, I think a lot of the more melodic pop from the 80's and 90's was an homage to mid-to-late 60's songwriting.
mwe3: You and Nancy make such a great team in the business and music side. How did you meet Nancy originally and to what do you attribute your successful partnership?
Richard X. Heyman: Nancy and I met down in Bethesda, Maryland in 1976. I had just moved there and had placed my name and number with a booking agent in hopes of securing a job as a drummer. The first call I received was from a woman who needed someone to play drums for a New Year's Eve gig. Long story short, the woman was Nancy's mother Helen. Nancy and I met and hit it off big time. Our mutual admiration for The Beatles was the capper. Nancy and I have a lot of common interests and peculiar quirks. When we both love something, say, like a movie, we will watch it over and over countless times. She's the only person I know who shares that eccentricity. We like a lot of the same music, including Broadway show tunes. We're both big Yankees fans and are both vegetarians and animal lovers.
With all that common ground, though, I think it's the differences that make our relationship solid. Nancy reads fiction, novels and murder mysteries non-stop. I tend to read non-fiction, history and biography, but we often will cross over when it's highly recommended. These differences keep things interesting. Here it is in 2017... you do the math and we're still going strong!
mwe3: Tell us about your label Turn-up Records. How many albums have you released on Turn-Up and is the label also home to your albums with The Doughboys and tell us about the upcoming Doughboys and how do you compare your solo music with the Doughboys albums?
Richard X. Heyman: Turn-Up Records is a venture Nancy and I started early on to release my music. We've released 11 albums on Turn-Up. My first EP, Actual Size, and my first album Living Room!! were released on our old indie label, N.R. World Records Unlimited. Nancy basically runs the business side. She also engineers all the recordings except for the drums. We do those at Eastside Sound here in the city. The Doughboys have their own label called Ram Records, and we're about to release our fifth album Front Street Rebels.
To simplify it, The Doughboys are more raw garage rock than my music, which is more on the melodic and folky side of rock. Though there are a few crossovers where I get down and dirty and the boys go a little poppy on your ass!
mwe3: Was "And Then" written from a third person perspective? So many can relate to your lyrics. Did you have someone in mind for the subject of the video or is it imaginary? The guitar figure has a kind of surf-rock beat to it. How many guitars are you tracking on "And Then"?
Richard X. Heyman: "And Then" is a kind of "told-you-so" song. You left me and you'll be sorry, but deep down the singer knows he's just blowing off steam, which is all you can do after you've been rejected. It's happened a few times in my life and I suppose it's the gift that keeps on giving because these lost love songs keep coming. As far as I know, there isn't any video for "And Then." But if there was, I'd cast Christina Hendricks, who played Joan on Mad Men. I can dream, can't I? (lol)
The guitars on that track are a Paul Reed Smith "Starla" guitar through a Fender Vibro Champ amp with the vibrato cranked playing the squiggly riffs, a Waterstone "Bobby-O" model playing electric rhythm, the Dan Electro baritone playing the solo, and the Martin Shenandoah playing acoustic rhythm.
mwe3: "Gleam" is a song for Nancy? It's a great country rock song too with some cool finger style guitar in the middle. Did some musical style or genre affect your approach on "Gleam"?
Richard X. Heyman: I was actually thinking a little more about the Kinks on "Gleam." Songs like "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion," "Dandy," "Party Line" … those kind of 2/4 ditties. But the lyrics were definitely written for Nancy.
mwe3: Is there a New Jersey rock sound? If so it's probably the same sound on Long Island! "So What" is a great New Jersey type song with its Springsteen / Southside Johnny vibe. Is that a fair description?
Richard X. Heyman: Well I would say I was thinking more of The Rascals or maybe Wilson Pickett. And I'm sure they - Bruce and Southside - were channeling those artists when they wrote and performed similar R&B-tinged tunes.
mwe3: "In Our Best Interest" has a kind of McCartney touch. Are you sharing the vocals with Nancy? There are some great harmonies in the song too.
Richard X. Heyman: The inspiration for "In Our Best Interest" was asong called "The Name of the Game" by Badfinger which certainly has a McCartney-esque flavor, so yeah it's in that vein. I'm doing all the vocals on that one. Though that's Nancy singing the harmony on "So What" and "Gleam."
mwe3: After giving "Her Garden Path" and "Lift" some good spins, I'm convinced you're a big fan of the original Byrds and the Strawberry Alarm Clock! You must have been quite a music collector 50 to 55 years ago. Can you remember the first 45 you bought and the first album or albums you bought? Each of those tracks are excellent by the way.
Richard X. Heyman: Thank you! Glad you picked up on those. I have three older sisters, so they had a lot of 45s that I would listen to on one of those box record players. The kind where you had to put a coin on the arm to keep the needle from skipping. All kinds of 50's and early 60's music – Chuck Berry, Dion & The Belmonts, The Everly Brothers, James Brown, some doo-wop vocal groups, The Five Satins, The Drifters, The Orlons, The Exciters, The Shirelles. My big favorite albums back then were James Brown Live at The Apollo and The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. I was really into The Ventures, too. I believe the first single I bought for myself was "She Loves You" by The Beatles. My sister Linda had already purchased "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in late 1963. The first album would be Meet The Beatles. As far as favorite album picks, it's very subjective and the choices could be interchangeable.
mwe3: What's your favorite Byrds album and favorite Beatles and Stones album? I just made Facebook friends with the founded of Strawberry Alarm Clock Mark Stephen Weitz. My first real concert was Strawberry Alarm Clock and Buffalo Springfield, and Bobby Goldsboro, who were the opening acts for The Beach Boys in South Beach April, 1968!
Richard X. Heyman: For The Byrds – any one of their first five or six records could be a fave, especially the first two with all those beautiful Gene Clark songs. I do have a special fondness for Notorious Byrd Brothers which is a bit later. There's something very cohesive about that album. It just flows as a whole. The Beatles A Hard Day's Night is pretty flawless. I love Help! – John Lennon's voice is so strong. I have to go with Revolver ultimately. "She Said She Said" may be my favorite song of theirs. The Stones – I love Between The Buttons. Out Of Our Heads is great but then all those early albums have a certain magic.
mwe3: Tell us what guitars you used on Incognito? Did you dedicate "Miss Shenandoah Martin" to one of your guitars? Do you like to layer guitars in a song, both electric and acoustics or are they separate fretboard domains to you so to speak? What are your favorite strings for the Martin and your electrics? Do you have a guitar endorsement and how about your favorite amps to use?
Richard X. Heyman: The main electric guitars are a PRS Starla, a Fender Telecaster, a Rickenbacker 360 12-string, a Waterstone Bobby-O and a Dan Electro baritone. They're all played through a Fender Vibro Champ amp that goes into a Summit Pre Amp Compressor. "Miss Shenandoah Martin" is obviously about my Martin Shenandoah that I've had for 35 years. I used D'Addario mediums on the acoustic and D'Addario 11's on the 6-string electrics. I don't remember what's on the Rick - I haven't changed them in years! All guitars are subjected to taste, but you can't go wrong with a good Martin. As far as layering guitars, it all depends on the song and the production. I often will double the exact part so they can be spread left and right in the stereo field. I have an endorsement with Waterstone Guitars out of Nashville, who also make great basses, most notably for Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick.
mwe3: Is broken love and ended relationships a never-ending source of material for songwriters? Do you consider "All You Can Do" to be a sad song of sorts?
Richard X. Heyman: "All You Can Do" is about regret tinged with bitterness. It seems, at least for me, that once you've been dumped in a relationship, that memory can be harnessed into a song years later, even decades. It's the music itself that tells me what the song wants to say, so the melody and chord progression often dictate whether it's a happy-go-lucky tune or a melancholy lament.
mwe3: Is "Terry Two-Timer" is another broken love song? This track has a better sense of humor though. Is "Terry Two-Timer" another track with a Jersey rock kind of Springsteen influence?
Richard X. Heyman: "Terry Two Timer" is based on a guitar riff over the one and four chords. Once I got to the five chord, the title came to me. Then it was a matter of filling in the why and how she got that moniker. I would say the influence was mostly Little Richard's "Lucille" and maybe a little "Birthday" by The Beatles.
mwe3: "These Troubled Times" gets back to what you do best. Is that one of the newer Icognito tracks? Is that part where the song character complaining about his shoes and then sees the man with no feet a plea to stick it out and get through these troubled times? Cool little piano solo near the end… Nice and a very effective kind of song.
Richard X. Heyman: "These Troubled Times" is a combination of two songs. The beginning I wrote several years ago but it needed another part. The second section I came up with recently, so I stuck the original song in front, like an old-timey introduction, or what the American Songbook composers used to call the verse. The Beatles carried on the tradition with "Do You Want To Know a Secret" and "If I Fell." The song basically deals with the fact that no matter how dire things get, there are others who have it worse, so just stay positive and work through whatever is confronting you.
mwe3: Is "Everybody Get Wise" another newer song? Is this song kind of the flip side of "These Troubled Times" only taking a more proactive stance? How can we get wise in these troubled times?
Richard X. Heyman: "Everybody Get Wise" is a new song. It's about the proliferation of cameras in our society and how we the public can keep tabs on the people who are supposedly protecting us. Unfortunately it works both ways, as we have relinquished our privacy via modern technology. Hopefully the ubiquity of our digital devices can keep things on a level playing field. Maybe.
mwe3: So now with Incognito out what other plans are you taking on for the second half of 2017 and how do you plan on getting wise to get out of these troubled times? What's the secret to doing that?
Richard X. Heyman: I am going into Eastside Sound soon to lay down drum tracks for my next album. It's going to focus on mostly raw and rockin' material. The working title is "Between Pop and a Hard Place." As far as the future is concerned, I live by the old adage, life is short, and the immortal words of the late great Warren Zevon - enjoy every sandwich! To that, I can only add, it's easier to live it up than to live it down!
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Finally Google Has Figured Out A Way To Keep Up With My Blog
For the longest time I have wondered why my blog posts don't show higher up in the Google search results. For a few days about a year ago Google had me happy. When I did a search on Cupcake Android or Donut Android, I showed up among the first few results. I expected my page hits to jump into the hundreds of thousands. It did not happen. It took me a while to get a sense that Google results are tied to zip code, or something like that. So it was not like everyone in the world who was doing a search on Cupcake Android or Donut Android was seeing my blog on the first page. So I have been lukewarm about FroYo.
But now news is Google is out with Caffeine. I mean, I am on Google's Blogger platform for a reason. I did not go for WordPress. I figured if I am already on Google property they will have no excuse not to index me as soon as possible, sooner the better.
I see Caffeine as Google's way of saying thank you for using our blogging platform. We are going to try and remove a few more layers between you and your potential audience. There are bloggers who blog daily. In the recent weeks I have been doing more than that. I have been blogging several times a day on average. That is profuse. I am glad Google has now enhanced its capabilities for the growing web. I blog often, I often have smart, insightful things to say. I share interesting uptakes on tech events in town. What's the use in not sharing?
Google, thanks for catching up. Keep up the good work.
Via TechMeme
The Official Google Blog: Our New Search Index: Caffeine: Searchers want to find the latest relevant content and publishers expect to be found the instant they publish. ..... With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a continuous basis, globally...... Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.
The Official Gmail Blog: Making It Easier To Video Chat, Voice Chat, And Group Chat In Gmail
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Electronista: Skype Won't Use FaceTime, Still Hints At iPhone 4 Video Chat
Search Engine Land: Google's New Indexing Infrastructure "Caffeine" Now Live: Google's Matt Cutts added that "Caffeine benefits both searchers and content owners because it means that all content (and not just content deemed "real time") can be searchable within seconds after its crawled." ...... Caffeine is a revamp of Google's indexing infrastructure. It is not a change to Google's ranking algorithms. It is live across all data centers, regions, and languages. ..... you can estimate how often your pages are crawled by taking a look at your server logs or checking the cache dates in Google ....... ......Content owners will reap the benefits of Caffeine without doing anything at all. In fact, there's really not much, if anything content owners can do.
Bing Community: Use Bing To Search Facebook And Twitter: bing.com/social ..... a re-designed homepage that shows improved trending topics derived from both Twitter and Facebook data
TechFlash: Bing Updates Social Search, Adds Top Facebook Shared Links: a new section of search results on its Bing search engine that will aggregate tweets, Twitter trends and the top links being shared at any given moment by users of Facebook
Twitter Blog: Links And Twitter: Length Shouldn't Matter: Since early March, we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. ...... We want users to have this benefit on all tweets. ..... It should be easy for people to share shortened links from the Tweet box on Twitter.com. ...... When this is rolled out more broadly to users this summer, all links shared on Twitter.com or third-party apps will be wrapped with a t.co URL. ..... Ultimately, we want to display links in a way that removes the obscurity of shortened link and lets you know where a link will take you. ..... routing links through this service will eventually contribute to the metrics behind our Promoted Tweets platform and provide an important quality signal for our Resonance algorithm ....... analytics within our eventual commercial accounts service. ..... Ultimately, every link on Twitter will be wrapped. ...... we'll wrap the shortened links you submit.
Advertising Age: AOL To Hire 'Hundreds' Of Journalists, Reorganize Content Division: grouping all the sites into 17 "super-networks." ...... one overarching conclusion: produce more content, faster. ..... to be the world's largest producer of high-quality content ....... "We are going to be the largest net hirer of journalists in the world next year" ....... produce content they want, which leads to engagement, which leads to what advertisers want ..... will also look to new launches, acquisitions and partnerships ....... Currently there are about 40,000 freelancers contributing to AOL ......... the number of people that click, how long they stay, and the amount of ad revenue associated with it. ...... Yahoo is now calling itself "the world's largest media company" ...... Like AOL, Yahoo has concluded that its original content performs and monetizes better ...... a key rationale for acquiring Associated Content is the sheer number of contributors (340,000) on its freelance rolls.
Paid Content: David Eun Puts AOL On A URL Diet With 'Super Net' Strategy: the new AOL content structure—a slimmed-down 30-plus sites channeled into 17 "super" networks— ..... the previous URL-based approach with more than 80 distinct sites ...... —AOL News & Info, AOL Entertainment, AOL Life, and AOL Commerce (plus the AOL.com front page as its own)—but with a TV-like emphasis on programming and production. ...... bringing together the best of media and technology. ...... the company has shifted the ratio from 20 produced internally to 80 percent produced in house...... "You iterate, gather intelligence. Iterate, gather intelligence. Rinse. Repeat." ...... the digital media company of the 21st century. ...... "we will end up having the most amount of content at the deepest level to drive the most engaged audiences on the web." ...... a data driven way to organize around the most important networks of information. ..... more than 100 million uniques in the U.S. and some 250 million globally
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Q: Difference between _ and self. in Objective-C Is there a difference between using the underscore and using the self keyword in Objective-C when calling an @property?
Property declaration:
@property (weak, nonatomic) NSString *myString;

Calling @synthesize on the property:
@synthesize myString = _myString;

Is there a difference if I want to use it in my code? When? In the getter/setter?
self.myString = @"test";
_myString = @"test";

A: You are correct - the first version (self.myString) calls the synthesized getter/setter and the second version access the private member variable directly.
It looks like you are using ARC, so in that case it doesn't make that much of a difference.  However, if you aren't using ARC, it can make a difference as assigning to the private member directly won't trigger the automatic retain/release or copy/release logic that is generated for you by using synthesize.

A: self.myString = @"test"; is exactly equivalent to writing [self setMyString:@"test"];. Both of these are calling a method.
You could have written that method yourself. It might look something like this:
- (void)setMyString:(NSString*)newString
{
    _myString = newString;
}

Because you used @synthesize, you don't have to actually bother writing that method, you can just allow the compiler to write it for you.
So, from looking at that method, it looks like calling it will do the exact same thing as just assigning a value to the instance variable, right? Well, it's not so simple.
Firstly, you could write your own setter method. If you do so, your method would get called, and it could do all sorts of additional things as well as setting the variable. In that case, using self.myString = would call your method, but doing _myString = would not, and thus different functionality would be used.
Secondly, if you ever use Key Value Observing, the compiler does some very clever tricks. Behind the scenes, it subclasses your class, and overrides your setter method (whether it's one you wrote yourself or one generated by synthesize), in order to make the calls to willChangeValueForKey: that are needed for Key Value Observing to work. You don't need to know how this works (although it's quite interesting if you want some bedtime reading!), but you do need to know that if you want Key Value Observing to work automatically, you have to use setter methods.
Thirdly, calling the setter method even if you're relying on synthesize to write one gives you flexibility for the future. You might want to do something extra whenever a value is changed, and at the point you discover you want to do that, you can manually write a setter method — if you're in the habit of always using self.myString =, then you won't need to change the rest of your code to start calling the new method!
Fourthly, the same applies to subclasses. If someone else was to subclass your code, if you use the setters then they could override them to adjust the functionality.
Any time you access the instance variable directly, you're explicitly not providing a way for extra functionality to be hooked in at that point. Since you or someone else might want to hook in such functionality in the future, it pays to use the setters all the time, unless there's a good reason not to.

A: The _ (underscore) is simply a convention, as explained in this question.
When you don't prefix a property access with self., you are accessing the underlying variable directly, as in a c struct. In general, you should only ever do this in your init methods and in custom property accessors. This allows stuff like computed properties and KVC to work as intended.

A: There is a tip not mentionend,  the access using underscore is faster and the access using self is safer (KVC). Maybe this can summarise when you have to use each one.


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Diane Neal is best known for her role on "Law and Order: SVU." She first appeared on the show in 2001 as a murderous villain in one of her very first acting jobs. Neal then reappeared, in classic "Law and Order" style, as the justice-driven ADA Casey Novak from 2003-2012. Since 2009 she has also recurred as Gibbs' doppelganger, CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin, on "NCIS" and for two seasons as Alison Holt on "Suits." Neal has also guest starred on a wide variety of other hit shows from "White Collar" to "30 Rock" and has appeared in numerous films and television movies.
With over a decade of playing tough-as-nails good guys and bad guys, it comes as a surprise to many fans that Neal is also a stand up comic. Although difficult to book consistently while filming, for years she has made audiences laugh all over New York City and Los Angeles. She can routinely be seen at Stand Up New York, her home club, and Upright Citizen's Brigade Los Angeles. She also enjoys appearing in the hip and hysterical storytelling show Don't Tell My Mother produced by Nikki Levy.
Neal was born in Alexandria, Virginia, moved to Littleton, Colorado at age eight, then to Oahu, Hawaii for college another eight years later. Thanks to her older sister, she started modeling and was fortunate enough to live and work in myriad countries in Asia and Europe. Neal landed in New York City, the city she still calls home and serendipitously found herself at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in 1999.
A life-long learner, Neal is very proud to currently be an undergraduate student at Harvard University. Her areas of interest include everything from Classical Archaeology to Neuroscience and Biology. Previous to Harvard, Neal has taken classes as wide-ranging as "Predators of the Outback" handling dangerous wildlife in Australia at Uluru and the often handy "Coconut Opening 101" in the Caribbean.
Neal whole-heartedly believes in philanthropy and is on the artistic board and is a full participant in the Urban Arts Partnership under the tutelage of fellow actor Rosie Perez, as well as actively working with the Thirst Project, the RFK Center for Human Rights, Water Keeper and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name a few.
This Magic Moment cast
Travis Schuldt
Vincent Spano
Roberto Molinez
Emily McIntyre
Charles Shaughnessy
Doyle Duncan
Molly Burnett
Justine Gable
Robin Riker
Maryellen Gable