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Music Meme
I hesitated to play this intermittently popular game but I needed a movie break this morning. This game has a no cheating policy for the host -- what comes up when you click play on your iPod or iTunes is what you post no matter how embarrassing or strange (I cheated a little. I have a lot of stuff on my iPod that's not really songs per seor only clips or whatnot) and a no cheating policy for the guessers -- no googling the lyrics. You guess the song and artist from the first sentence "_____" indicates the title is in the first sentence and has been removed)
Wouldn't you know, that it's not really a movie break. At least six of them are from movies and a couple of others have movie connections.
Can you guess the songs from their first line?
01 "I stumble in the night, never really knew what it would've been like" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by The Bee Gees guessed by Rizz
02 "______ brings sunshine to my house most every day. _____ brings her friends over to my house to play. "
03 "Is there a way out of this? If there is I don't see it. Can Heaven and Hell coexist?" "Dark Side of the Sun" by Tori Amos was guessed by Guy.
04 "Cover me with shades of disbelief. Can happiness be someone else's dream?"
05 "When the earth was still flat, and the clouds made of fire..." "The Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch as guessed by Garen. And lookie here. Original Hedwig star and creator, the all around brilliant John Cameron Mitchell (also of Shortbus fame), just performed it again last week. Very exciting. Here he is.
06 "______ porque estás como ausente, Y me oyes desde lejos..."
07 "When no friends can't be down, and my girl is out of town"
08 "Yeah, I, I got to know your name. And I could trace your private number, baby" "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive. Guessed by Dave. Apparently some mixes don't start with this line. But mine did ;)
09 "Gumsum gumsum gup chup, gumsum gup chup. Halchal halchal ho gayi teri, honth hai tere chup"
10 "You want all my love and my devotion." "One Night Only" from Dreamgirls as guessed by Noecito
11 "She said something like I wanna go down where the river's wild. He said take me then I want to drown deep in your violent eyes..."
12 "I gave up looking for a reason to live with things just the way they are. I came around. Used to be easy to get to. And they got to me just about every way"
13 "May god bless you and keep you always..."Forever Young" by Bob Dylan guessed by Lev.
14 "Marilyn Monroe ain't got no rock and roll. Ain't got the means to make a scene..."
15 "________ a minstrel show. It makes you laugh. It makes you cry. You go. It just isn't the same on radio. It's all about the makeup and the dancing and the Oh... " "A Pretty Girl is Like..." by the Magnetic Fields guessed by Hazel Shade.
16 "Hey, you Hov... Tell 'em! Hip Hop better ___. Yeah, turn the muh'****in' music up"
17 "Called me up today. Should've stood in your way"
18 "My daddy was a rag-time trombone player..." "Jazz Baby" from Thoroughly Modern Millie guessed by eDot and PoliVamp.
19 "Hey old friend let's look back on the crazy clothes we wore. Ain't it fun to look back to see it's all been done before..." "Come So Far" from Hairspray guessed by PoliVamp
20 "______ points the spire of the steeple. But God's work isn't done by God. It's done by people." "Up, Up, Up, Up, Up" by Ani DiFranco guessed by Deborah
21 "I was born a world ago on top of rocks and under snow"
22 "There was a time when I was in a hurry as you are. I was like you..." "Have You Never Been Mello by Olivia Newton-John guessed by Paul Outlaw
23 "Darling how can I stay here without you? I have nothing to ease my poor heart. This old world would seem sad, love, without you. Tell me now that we never will part..." Nobody guessed this one but it was EmmyLou Harris and here's Meryl Streep doing that same song "Gold Watch and Chain"
24 "_______ and her age stood still and she danced twice a day in the vaudeville" "Queenie Was a Blonde" from The Wild Party guessed by StinkyLulu
25 "I should write a song about you and all the shit that you do" This was "Crash and Burn Girl" by Robyn as guessed by Josh
Labels: Hedwig, John Cameron Mitchell, meme, Meryl Streep, musicals
E Dot said...
These are difficult!!!
Is number 18 from Thoroughly Modern Millie? Otherwise, I have no idea...
6 is a Pablo Neruda poem: Me gustas cuando callas, I don't know if there's a song out of it.
10 can be One Night Only from Dreamgirls. If it is I hope it's Beyoncé's version...
Rizz said...
01 is easy,
the Bee Gees...For whom the bell tolls
I miss the Bee Gees!
RIP Maurice!
Garen said...
These are guesses and I'm not sure at all.
#5 History of Love from Hedwig?
#13 I will always love you, I will guess the Dolly version
Origin of love, I meant Origin of Love!
13 - Forever Young by Bob Dylan
5: "The Origin of Love," Hedwig and the Angry Inch
19 is "We've Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" from Hairpray
PoliVamp
Make that Hairspray instead of Hairpray.
Also, I was listening to that song as I was reading the lyrics. Does that count as cheating?
Oh, and 18 is Jazz Baby from Thoroughly Modern Millie. Partial credit to E Dot or I wouldn't have remembered that.
Agustin said...
19 is Come So Far, Got so Far to Go from Hairspray
The last one is so Robyn "Bum Like You," right?
20 is Up, Up, Up, Up, Up by Ani DiFranco. I may have the number of Ups wrong but I don't think so.
#8 is 'You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record)' by Dead or Alive. Which is weird because I've come across it about three times in the past 24 hours.
^ I hope that's right because listening to it now that's not actually the first line...
Noecito is right about 06. The music to the Pablo Neruda poem "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" was written by Mexican composer Blas Galindo back in the 70's, I believe.
Could #22 be Cat Stevens' "Father and Son"? I know it starts like that (or with something very similar).
Ah, right person, wrong song, oops!
hazel shade said...
Ooh, I know one!
#15: A Pretty Girl Is Like, The Magnetic Fields
StinkyLulu said...
#24: "Queenie Was a Blonde" from The Wild Party
How come no one's guessed #22 yet?
Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow"!!!!!!
@ StinkyLulu:
Is your profile photo from A Place in the Sun? Anne Revere always seems like a cross between Mrs. Danvers and Carrie's mother in that movie. Scarier than both somehow.
Guy Lodge said...
Not too many Tori Amos fans in the house, obviously!
#3 is "Dark Side of the Sun." Like, DUH. (I kid, I kid ... these are pretty tough, Nat.)
#2 is "Alice Everyday" by Book of Love
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What Are Your Power Symbols? 1/2
So, symbol are symbols. Well, symbols are anything, anything that represent something else to you. They're almost like a normalization of a process, if you will, to use an LP terminology. What do I mean by that? Now, if you are religious, then you are a Christian, and you have a cross, then when you see that cross it reminds you of a lot of things. Some empowering, potentially some disempowering. But you just see the cross, you know what it means. From my Jewish listeners, when you see the Star of David, it means something to you that ideally empowers you. For other people when they see the symbol of a Swastika which, interestingly enough, before Hitler and the Nazi used that as a symbol of hate and their fear, it was actually an ancient symbol when it was the other way around of peace and harmony but a lot of people don't realize that.
So, two types of people are going to see a Swastika, one very destructive and negative and to some people very positive, very, very peace orientated. To some people that symbol might be an item of jewelry that they wear around their necklace, or around their wrist, or potentially on their fingers like a ring. They may see it...it just may remember them...remind them of when they got married, or a wedding ring is really, is a symbol. It's a symbol of unity, it's a symbol of love with your partner. That ring you're looking at, it reminds you that you've got this great partnership, this loving partnership that you're in love and they've got this bond, it's a symbol.
Symbols are all around us and are a metaphor, this one is basically frozen in time if you are normalization of something that when you see it, ideally, good symbols will motivate you and inspire you to do good work on yourself and other people. Negative symbols, and there are many out there, will inspire you in the wrong way to do not so good things. And today's podcast is about the good things. Symbols can also be tattoos. They can be tattoos that you have that mean something to you that empowers you. I'm going to share some of my symbols with you today and I urge you to look at your own symbols in life, clear up any negative ones you might have and make sure you have these positive ones to get you through the day and keep you on path, to keep you on track. To identify those, if you don't already have them and if do have them to identify them, if you don't have them go out and get some symbols to help to keep you on your path.
So, my first symbol I'll share with you and there are some videos of this. If you ever seen me live or in any of my videos, you'll see that I have what appears to be sex written on my wrist. It's not sex, it's S with a big X and an E, what it means is straight edge. What straight edge is, is for me growing up I had a bad...still does drink and smoke way too much. And I made a conscious decision, a very young age to not go down that path. And I think I've drank less than five times in my life and haven't had any alcohol for about 20 years now. And I'm not here to judge people who do drink alcohol, "Don't drink alcohol." If you want to drink alcohol, and you're cool with it, and your life's great, continue to do it. I'm not here to say you need to be straight edge and say, "I am better than you."
Although, CM Punk is but he's straight edge reminds me that I lived this lifestyle that at a time when I was young it was the cool life to lead. But I'd fallen into this because I did not want to replicate stuff that my dad was doing and have that lifestyle in my life. And it always reminded me that I chose to go down a very different path and it would've been very easy if we believe that, you know, it is inherent in families that if somebody is addicted, an elder, a parent, a caregiver that you're more inclined to be addicted. I chose to throw that one out of the window very, very early on in life. So, straight edge means that to me. And I didn't realize about the term straight edge which is actually, it comes from punk music which was what happened in the early '90s is under-aged kids would go to music punk-rock festivals, punk-rock bars, and they were allowed to go into these bars. But what the barkeep would do or the bouncers, they would take a Sharpie, permanent marker, and draw and X on the back of their hand which would simulate to the barkeep to not serve them any alcohol because they were under-aged. And this spawned a whole movement of youngsters being able to go to punk-rock music to enjoy it but not to drink alcohol.
A whole movement came out of this, so really be able to enjoy of music, enjoy punk music but to be able to do it in a sober state without any drinks and making that choice and it being a cool thing. And it got bought over to me that one of my favorite wrestlers was Jack Brooks CM Punk and he'd be talking about this straight edge thing and then, I realized, "Hey, I've been living my life straight edge, pretty much my whole life before I knew it was a thing." And so, that's one of the symbols I have of straight edge.
I have multiple tattoos on me that symbolize "The Matrix" which is certainly one of my top three movies. I have the red pill, I have the blue pill, I have the Matrix plug on the back of my neck, and I have the Matrix green writing going down my forearm. What that is is oftentimes when I attempt to tell people what I do, I've brought it down to, "I help people unplugged from the Matrix." So, the red pill and the blue pill is essentially, if you've seen the movie and I have this tattooed on my lower wrist, as well to the side. It's the red pill is true fix, even though you may not like the truth or being given the truth. The red pill the truth, and seen the world, and seen yourself for who you are, versus the blue pill which is you can continue to become comfortable and not see your problems but they're there. And you know they're in the background but you're choosing never to face up to them. And you're choosing a life of being comfortable and going along to get along like sheeple, as opposed to being honest with yourself. And the war, taking that red pill even though it may be uncomfortable at times.
That's what it means to me, it's what the symbol means to me. Empowers me in my work and my relationships with people. The plug at the back of my neck is to remind myself to become unplugged. I'm not part of the machine, I'm going down a different path. I choose to unplug, I choose to go down this path to heal people, to help people, to inspire people, to become even more than they believe they can become. That they have the power to overcome anything in their life, that's what the plug was made. It's about throwing away social media and it's about not being influenced by all these negative sound. All these sounds are out there that are trying to control us, to make us feel not so good about ourselves, and we don't have these many fans or I only have this many likes in my Instagram, or our Facebook posts, or we only have these many followers on Twitter. And media is real and everything but we read in newspapers, or we see on TV is absolutely real. We know it's bullshit.
Now, it reminds me that the world is essentially just an illusion. It's just an illusion. You can choose an illusion of things as successful and the world is a good place or the world is a negative place and you're just a fucking loser. You can choose, they're both essentially a hallucination. They're not necessarily real, it depends on what perspective you're looking at. But it reminds me of my own perspective and to walk off to a beat of a different drama, to go the opposite way that most people do, to leave a trail behind for other people to follow and become empowered. I have the, "Always believe," tattooed on me and if you've ever received an email from me or I sign out from these podcast's, I'll say, "Always believe." Again, it comes from being inspired by my favorite wrestler growing up. A guy called, The Ultimate Warrior and I've talked about him before in videos ad nauseam. But his phrase was, "Always believe," it wasn't about believing in him, God, or anyone else. As my "Always believe" is not about believing in me, that I am great, that I am magnificent, that I am your guru. It's not about believing in that, it's about believing in yourself, inspiring yourself to always believe that you have the power to overcome everything.
That's why I end my emails, sign off the ways, why I've signed off this podcast's, what's written on my arm to remind me of these things. Another symbol I have on the opposite forearm to "Always believe" is "Unbreakable." Yes, it's one of my favorite movies with Bruce Willis, an M. Night Shyamalan movie that they're going to be making a sequel to soon. It's actually a superhero movie but you don't realize it's a superhero movie until the end. Sorry, I should've said spoiler first but the movie has been out about 18 years now. So, I think the deadline for that is done.
Unbreakable is for me, is about becoming unbreakable in my character and my personality. No matter what the world throws at me, whatever the world says I should be or conform to, it's about being unbreakable in my beliefs and what I think I should do in my character. And in part in that upon the people that I love and the people that hire me to help them to become unbreakable in their own life. To help people to discover the superhero that's been hidden inside that you don't find until the last scene in the movie. It's about helping people find that unbreakable character who living in themselves, way before the last scene of them moving their life to find out as soon as possible so they can start to live that superhero lifestyle.
On my left elbow, it's an A for anarchy. Now, do I believe we should burn down the world and create violence? No, no, no. But then again, it comes back to this belief that you're empowered to live your own life and as long as you're not going out there, intentionally breaking laws, and hurting people, you should be out to do whatever the fuck that you want to do. Very, very, very punk-rock. Live your life the way you want to live your life no matter what polite society says that you should do. That's what the A for anarchy means.
Stay tuned next week for part 2.
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It was a divided house in Mississippi when it came to certifying the results of the Electoral College early Thursday following a riot that started at the U.S. Capitol, leaving four people dead and dozens wounded.
The U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives resumed proceedings Wednesday night, despite the chaos that ensued earlier that day.
An objection to the certification of the electoral votes did not succeed, leading Vice President Mike Pence to declare former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris the nation's next president and vice president.
While an overwhelming majority voted against the objection, most Mississippi lawmakers voiced their support, claiming the electoral process had become corrupt and the 2020 presidential election results were based on fraud.
Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, both Republicans, effectively canceled their Senate votes on the objection, with Hyde-Smith in favor of the objection and Wicker taking a stand against it.
"The American democratic process is working despite the unacceptable violence and destruction at the U.S. Capitol today," Hyde-Smith said in a news release. "The mobs will not stop the Senate from fulfilling its constitutional duty."
Riot in DC:Mississippi lawmakers are safe, condemn violence at U.S. Capitol
Wicker, however, sided with the majority, saying there was no cause for the objection.
"I am disappointed in the outcome of the 2020 election," he said in a news release. "However, our campaign lost a close election, and it is time to acknowledge that. The President's own Attorney General, his head of election security, and a number of Trump-appointed, conservative federal judges all have found that, despite widespread allegations of fraud, there simply was not enough evidence to change the outcome of the election in any state."
Wicker went on to further explain, "Congress cannot — and should not — get into the business of deciding the results of our elections. Under the Constitution and federal law, Congress's power is limited to counting electoral votes duly submitted by the states. Anything further would not be compatible with our Constitution or the conservative principles of limited government that I have sworn to defend."
Washington, DC:US Capitol quiet after night of unprecedented assault: 4 dead, 52 arrested, FBI seeking information
While Democratic Congressman Bennie Thompson also voted against the objection, his Republican counterparts supported it. Reps. Michael Guest, Trent Kelly and Steven Palazzo all cast "yea" votes in objection to Biden and Harris' wins in the Electoral College.
"I cannot idly stand by and watch Mississippi be disenfranchised while other states knowingly violated their Constitution and side-stepped their legislatures in the 2020 election," Palazzo said of his decision. "I am committed to ensuring that all Americans are confident and trust the outcome of our election. It's the bedrock of our democracy."
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A 'yes' vote was to support an objection to the certification of Electoral College votes.
Rep. Michael Guest - Yes
Rep. Trent Kelly - Yes
Rep. Steven Palazzo - Yes
Rep. Bennie Thompson - No
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith - Yes
Sen. Roger Wicker - No
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Value-creation cycle of science to mass creation is important for Aatmnirbharta: PM
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi today exhorted the scientific community to promote value-creation cycle of science to mass creation. He was speaking on the occasion of National Metrology Conclave 2021 where he dedicated National Atomic Timescale and Bhartiya Nirdeshak Dravya Pranali to the Nation and laid the foundation stone of National Environmental Standards Laboratory today through video conference.
The Prime Minister pointed out, historically, any country has progressed in direct correlation to its effort to promote science. He termed this 'value creation cycle' of Science, Technology and Industry. Explaining further, the Prime Minister said that a scientific invention creates a technology and technology leads to industry development. The industry, in turn, invests further in science for new research. This cycle keeps on taking us in the direction of new possibilities. CSIR-NPL has played a major role in taking forward this value cycle, the Prime Minister added.
This value creation cycle of science to mass-creation has become all the more important in today's world when the country is moving forward with the goal of Aatmnirbhar India, Shri Modi said.
The Prime Minister expressed happiness over CSIR-NPL National Atomic Timescale which he dedicated to humanity today. He said that India has become self-reliant in measuring the time within the range of a nano second. Achieving the accuracy level of 2.8 Nano Second is a huge capability in itself. Now Indian Standard Time is matching the International Standard Time with the accuracy range of less than 3 nano second. This will be a big help for organizations like ISRO who are working with cutting edge technology. Modern technology related to banking, railways, defense, health, telecom, weather forecast, disaster management and many similar sectors will be benefitted greatly from this achievement.
The Prime Minister also dwelled on the role of the timescale in strengthening India's role in Industry 4.0.India is moving towards a leading position in the field of environment. Still, for technology and tools for measuring air quality and emission, India is dependent on others. This achievement will lead to self-reliance in the field and will lead to creation of more effective and cheaper tools for pollution control. This will also enhance India's share in global market for technologies related to air quality and emission technology. We have achieved this by the continuous efforts of our scientists.
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Man pushed onto Glasgow subway tracks
11 December 2017, 15:21 | Updated: 11 December 2017, 15:22
A Subway passenger was pushed onto the tracks then assaulted after he managed to pull himself back on to the platform.
British Transport Police (BTP) detectives described the attack as a "violent and extremely dangerous assault" which could have ended in tragedy.
The assault happened at Buchanan Subway station around 8.25pm on Saturday after a train had pulled into the station.
The 23-year-old male victim left the train and walked along the platform and was deliberately shoulder barged by another passenger onto the tracks.
He managed to scramble back on to the platform and was then punched by the suspect who then walked out of the station.
The suspect was a white man aged in his 40s or 50s, he had receding dark hair and was wearing a black jacket, white shirt, black trousers and black shoes.
Officers say he was with a woman and three other males, with one line of inquiry linked to a football match earlier that afternoon.
Detective Constable Finlay Bruce said: "This was an extremely dangerous and violent assault which could have had ended in tragedy.
"The victim could have been struck by a train or been seriously injured, or even killed, by the high voltage electrical lines. It is essential we trace the person responsible.
"What we know so far is that the suspect is believed to have been chanting football songs before he left the subway at Buchanan Street.
"Because of this, I believe he may have been at the Glasgow Rangers v Ross County match earlier that afternoon.
"I am looking to hear from anyone who was at the station at around 8.30pm and saw what happened.
"Likewise, if you know someone who matches this description, then I would urge you to contact BTP as a matter of urgency."
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American Perspective: The Size of Typhoon Haiyan
by Niki Clark November 11, 2013 November 12, 2013
EDIT 4:51 PM ET: Earlier today, we posted a map of Typhoon Haiyan comparing the size of the storm to geography of the United States. In the process of making the rest of our maps for our operations in the Philippines, we made a mistake with this one and it was not to scale. We always strive to provide the most accurate information possible and we missed the mark with this one-literally. We would like to apologize for this mistake and thank the people who kindly pointed this out to us. We would like to thank everyone for their patience and their continued support of the American Red Cross. We are working on revising the image so it is correct.
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The images and stories coming out of the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan have given a glimpse to the massive destruction that has impacted an estimated 9.5 million people across nine regions.
Since its initial landfall on Friday, November 8 in Eastern Samar, Philippines, more than 600,000 people have been displaced, and more than 1,400 evacuation centers have been opened. The Philippine Red Cross is reporting at least 1,200 deaths, with the number likely to increase as previously inaccessible areas are reached.
Philippine Red Cross volunteer rescue and relief teams continue to provide assistance in the hardest hit communities, including assisting in search and rescue efforts and distributing food and relief supplies to survivors and are working in close coordination with government disaster authorities.
In addition, four American Red Cross disaster relief specialists have been deployed to assist in the assessment and relief efforts, including two American Red Cross telecommunication specialists. The telecommunications specialists have brought along a satellite since communication is still very limited in the hardest hit communities.
Last night the American Red Cross loaded up their VSA, a satellite communication system for a flight to the Philippines.
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One can post a great view of marriage or long term relationships on Facebook and Twitter. In real life this is quite different. There are some ways in which the real life marriage does not live to the nice photos and quotes posted online. One has to manage a long relationship.
Most of us get love in our own exceptional way. This is the aspect that can make us who we are actually and make our love very special. It is pivotal to get adapted to our partner's love language as it is about teaching them our own.
Most of us have not taken into consideration the fact about how to utilize the words, specifically the pronouns. We have to know that sometimes words affect the relationship's quality.
One has to choose the inclusive pronouns in our interactions and develop a sense of purpose and unit in our relationships. When we choose and utilize the singular and possessive pronouns, we have a tendency to make ourselves isolated and alienate the ones who share our lives.
To find a romantic partner is one of the many objectives you may have at once. There is some difference between making something a priority and getting into an obsession. There is no individual who would like to be a Captain Ahab of the dating world.
People have been doing silly things in order to impress the girls. It is that state every person finds himself in at some point in his life. You have to create a nice impression on someone who is special. There are some of the silly things that men do so as to flatter women.
It is quite simple to lose complete control of our emotions. Emotional intelligence called as EI is highly pivotal. The ability to recognize emotions, to know their strong impact and to utilize that information to guide the behavior and thinking can enhance the opportunity of accomplishing your objectives to a great extent.
According to the scientists, the honeymoon period may be for one year. It is not important after that and it is not about sunshine till you get after some aspects.
A family is of great significance for all the people. It is a tremendous support system that can rely on several aspects to keep it shiny. They wake up each morning and move to work. They make an effort to give stability, comfort and contentment emotionally for our healthy family and we have to search for several avenues to make this aspect a real one.


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Aug. 10, 2010, 10 a.m.
All Our Ideas facilitates crowdsourcing — of opinions
By Megan Garber @megangarber Aug. 10, 2010, 10 a.m.
What do readers want from the news?
It's a hard question to answer, and not only because we don't often know what we like until we find ourselves liking it. To figure it out, news outlets have traffic patterns on the one hand, and, if they choose, user surveys on the other; each is effective and unsatisfying in its own way. But what about the middle ground — an analytic approach to creative user feedback?
Meet All Our Ideas, the "suggestion box for the digital age": a crowdsourcing platform designed to crowdsource concepts and opinions rather than facts alone. The platform was designed by a team at Princeton under the leadership of sociology professor Matt Salganik — initially, to create a web-native platform for sociological research. (The platform is funded in part by Google's Research Awards program.) But its potential uses extend far beyond sociology — and, for that matter, far beyond academia. "The idea is to provide a direct idea-sharing platform where people can be heard in their own voices," Salganik told me; for news outlets trying to figure out the best ways to harness the wisdom and creativity and affection of their users, a platform that mingles commenting and crowdsourcing could be a welcome combination.
The platform's user interface is deceptively simple: at each iteration, it asks you to choose between two choices, as you would at the optometrist's office: "Is A better…or B?" (In fact, Salganik told me, All Our Ideas' structure was inspired by the kitten-cuteness-comparison site Kittenwar, which aims to find images of the "winningest" kittens (and — oof — the "losingest") through a similar A/B selection framework.) But the platform also gives you the option — and here's the "crowdsourcing" part — of adding your own idea into the mix. Not as a narrative addition — the open-ended "Additional Comments" box of traditional surveys — but as a contribution that will be added into the survey's marketplace and voted up or down by the other survey-takers. (The open-ended responses are limited in length — to, natch, 140 characters — thus preventing modern-day Montaignes from gumming up the works.) You can vote on as many pairings — or as few — as you wish, and contribute as many/few ideas as you wish.
That contribution aspect is a small, but significant, shift. (Think of All Our Ideas, in fact, like Google Moderator — with a cleaner interface and, more significantly, hidden results that prevent users from being influenced by others' feedback.) Because, it should be said: in general, from the user perspective, traditional surveys suck. With their pre-populated, multiple-choice framework, with those "Additional Comments" boxes (whose contents one assumes, won't be counted as "data" proper and so likely won't be counted all), they tend to preclude creativity on the part of the people taking them. They fall victim to a paradox: the larger the population of survey-takers — and thus, ostensibly, the more rigorous the data they can provide — the less incentive individual users have to take them. Or to take them seriously.
But All Our Ideas, with its invitation to creativity implicit in its "Add your own idea" button, adjusts that dynamic. The point is to inspire participation — meaningful participation — by a simple interface with practically no barriers to entry. The whole thing was designed, Salganik says, "to be very light and easy."
Here's what it looks like (you can also test it out for yourself using All Our Ideas' sample interface — a survey issued by Princeton's student government asking undergrads what improvements it should make to campus life):
The ease-of-use translates to the survey-issuers, as well: All Our Ideas is available for sites to use via an API and, for the less tech-savvy or more time-pressed, an embeddable widget. (Which is also to say: it's free.) Surveyors can tailor the platform to the particular survey they want to run, seeding it with initial ideas and deciding whether the survey run will be entirely algorithmic or human-moderated. For the latter option, each surveyor designates a moderator, charged with approving user-generated ideas before they become part of a survey's idea marketplace; for both options, users themselves can flag ideas as inappropriate.
So far, it's been used by organizations like Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, which used the platform to survey more than 4,000 employees — based out of 150 offices worldwide and speaking several different languages — about what makes an ideal relief worker; Columbia Law School's student government used it to find the best idea for improving campus life (that survey got 15,000 votes, Salganik told me, with 200 new ideas uploaded in the first 48 hours). And the Princeton student government survey got more than 2,000 students to contribute 40,000 votes and 100 new ideas in the space of a few weeks.
A new way to survey
All Our Ideas, Salganik says, "deals with a fundamental problem that exists in the social sciences in terms of how we aggregate information." Traditionally, academics can gather feedback either using pre-populated surveys, which are good at quantifying huge swaths of information, but also limited in the scope of the data they can gather…or, on the other hand, using focus groups and interviews, which are great for gathering open, unstructured information — information that's "unfiltered by an pre-existing biases that you might have," Salganik points out — but that are also difficult to analyze. Not to mention inefficient and, often, expensive.
And from the surveyers' perspective, as well, surveys can be a blunt instrument: their general inability to quantify narrative feedback has forced survey-writers to rely on pre-determined questions. Which is to say, on pre-determined answers. "I've actually designed some surveys before, and had the suspicion that I'd left something out," Salganik says. It's a guessing game — educated guessing, yes, but guessing all the same. "You only get out what you put in," he points out. And you don't know what you don't know.
But "one of the patterns we see consistently is that ideas that are uploaded by users sometimes score better than the best ideas that started it off," Salganik says. "Because no matter how hard you try, there are just ideas out there that you don't know." But other people do.
Conceptual Crowdsourcing
That utility easily translates to news organizations, who might use All Our Ideas to crowdsource thoughts on anything from news articles to opinion pieces to particular areas of editorial focus. "Let's say you're a newspaper," Salganik says. "You could have one of these [surveys] set up for each neighborhood in a city. You could have twenty of them."
The platform could also be used to conduct internal surveys — particularly useful at larger organizations, where the lower-level reporters, editors, and producers who man the trenches of daily journalism might have the most meaningful ideas about organizational priorities…but where those workers' voices might also have the least chance of being heard. News outlets both mammoth and slightly less so have been trying to rectify that asymmetry; an org-wide survey, where every contribution exists on equal footing with every other, could bring structure to the ideal of an idea marketplace that is — yes — truly democratic.
But perhaps the most significant use of the platform could be broad-scale and systemic: surveying users about, yes, what they want. (See, for example, ProPublica's employment of an editorially focused reader survey a couple months ago.) Pose one basic question — broad ("What kinds of stories are you most interested in knowing?") or narrow ("Whom should we bring on as our next columnist?") — and see what results. That's a way of giving more agency to users than traditional surveys have; it's also a way of letting them know that you value their opinions in the first place.
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Just on two years back I wrote a post about a particularly interesting album by David Bowie entitled Station To Station. That blog post attracts more comments than most on this blog.
The album was released in 1976. The album is excellent in its own right and marks Bowie's transition from his US influenced 'plastic soul' period of Young Americans through to the experimentation of the Berlin influenced trilogy of Low, "Heroes" and Lodger. Bowie collaborated with Brian Eno on those albums.
My original post sets out the variations in the artwork that were planned for and finally graced the Station To Station album sleeve. The original artwork incorporated a full colour photograph of Bowie taken on the set of the film, The Man Who Fell To Earth. This artwork, apparently, was not favoured by Bowie and a cropped black and white incarnation of the photograph was utilised instead. That album sleeve is shown below. Some of you may own a copy.
Many fans were oblivious to the existence of the full colour artwork until a copy was published in David Bowie: An Illustrated Record by Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray. The full colour artwork was an impressive revelation at the time and many wondered why the decision was made to go with the cropped black and white photograph.
Full colour printer proofs were produced by RCA in the USA in 1975. Michael Olsen, who was working for Bowie's record company in 1975 obtained copies of the printer proofs amongst a collection of materials that the company felt was no longer needed. Michael himself commented about this on my earlier post. In addition to the RCA full colour proofs printed in the USA a number of 24″ X 12″ full colour flat mock-ups of the sleeve were produced by RCA in the UK and these were used by sales representatives to market the forthcoming album. One of these RCA UK mock-ups is illustrated below. Promotional posters printed at the time featured the full colour artwork as well.
During the late 1980s one of the full colour RCA proofs was sold or passed to a collector in the UK and it was utilised to produce a counterfeit of the full colour artwork. One could pick up a copy of the counterfeit sleeve for £10.00. As I commented on my original blog post the counterfeits were excellent and nicely reproduce the RCA USA colour proof. They were folded and glued and they were ubiquitous amongst Bowie fans from that time. Some collectors bought half a dozen or more. It was a genuine bargain. One of these counterfeits is illustrated below. I bought two.
Most fans thought that they would never ever get to see a copy of the authentic artwork for the full colour Station To Station sleeve and when the counterfeit turned up it it was a real god-send. We all knew it was a counterfeit but we did not care. It was simply neat to have a copy and thus get an idea of what the full colour RCA sleeve would have looked like if it had actually been officially released.
The counterfeit is a little flawed however. When one looks closely at the artwork it is blurred. The colours do not blend well and appear to be 'bleeding'. This is illustrated below. The counterfeit is on the left. The official RCA product is on the right.
Well today, Jeff Gold, a famous record collector and dealer commented on that blog post as well. Jeff confirmed Michael's account of the original colour proofs in the USA and shed light on yet another version of the Station To Station artwork that featured white lettering across the top of the album sleeve. A copy of that proof was placed on eBay today. I illustrate that proof below.
This new revelation adds another chapter to the history of this album sleeve. It will surprise many fans.
Finally, in order to confuse all of you further, when the Station To Station album was reissued with bonus tracks by both Ryko and also EMI during the 1990s they utilised the full colour artwork. A Japanese CD reissue in 2007 featured the black and white artwork.
Addendum. This is a photograph of the two late 1908s reproductions and the RCA UK flat mock-up, in the foreground, that I possess. The test pressing of the album is on the right.
Bowie released Station To Station in 1976. The release number was RCA APL1-1327. The album released to the public had artwork with a black and white still from the Man Who Fell To Earth movie. Apparently plans had been made to release a full colour sleeve and some artwork had been undertaken. The colour artwork attracts considerable debate among collectors as to what was printed and what was not printed. It seems that in the UK RCA had 24″ X 12″ flat mock-ups printed. In the USA RCA printed proofs of the sleeve. Some collectors glued the proofs together to make up the sleeve.
This was further complicated in the late 1980s when an English collector obtained one of these US full colour proofs and had counterfeit copies made, possibly by a printing company in Japan. They were then sold by record dealers in England. Occasionally these counterfeits are now sold to unwitting collectors as authentic RCA USA sleeves. I think that is patently unfair. Check out this link for photographs of the UK 24″ x 12″ mock-up and one copy of the aforementioned counterfeit.
Anyway, Ryko reissued the album with the full colour artwork in 1990. Subsequent issues on CD have also included the full colour artwork. This year Toshiba reissued the album as a Mini LP CD with the original 1976 black and white artwork. In many respects the original 1976 black and white RCA album sleeve (especially the UK pressing) in mint or sealed condition would be a valuable acquistion.


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Eddie Downey said the saturated land means that all livestock have to be housed for some time yet and there is an inevitable increase in workload and costs as a result.
The IFA President said a strong community spirit exists in rural Ireland, and he encouraged farm families to look out for each other. "I would appeal to them to check in on elderly neighbours in particular."
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Corporate history

Toda Racing was established in 1971 in Okayama Japan as a maintenance company of racing cars. It started activities in the SUZUKA FL Race and participation in SUZUKA FJ1300 Race. In 1978 it clinched the championship in SUZUKA FJ1300 Race (Driver: Kengo Nakamoto) and moved from FJ1300 to Formula 3. In 1979 it started maintenance of NOVA TOYOTA 2TG engine and started development of TODA TOYOTA 2TG engine, followed in 1980 by starting development of the TODA F3 Chassis.

In 1981 it began participating in the British F3 championship and finished second in the series. In 1982 it started development of the F2 BMW engine. In 1985 it started development of TODA TOYOTA 3SG Engine with Bosch fuel injection type and began Participation in all Japan F3 championship series. It started development of TODA TOYOTA 3SG with TODA fuel injection type in 1986. In 1987 it became champion in the All Japan F3 championship series and discontinued maintenance of TOYOTA 3SG. In 1988 it started maintenance of MUGEN MF-204 and started development of TODA MUGEN MF-204. It also founded the F3 racing team SUPERHAKKA Racing team (F3 driver: Kouji Satou).

In 1989 it founded F3000 racing team CHERENA Racing team (F3000 driver: Osamu Nakako), started maintenance of the MUGEN MF-308 engine and participated in all Japan F3000 championship series and all Japan F3 championship series.

In 1990 it participated in the all Japan F3 championship series as SUPERHAKKA Racing team. It also introduced the TAKISAWA CNC piston lathe machine and introduced the TOYODA machining center.

In 1991 it introduced a three-dimensional coordinate measuring machine, IBM CATIA CAD CAM system and MAZAK CNC multitask machine. It participates in all Japan F3 championship series (F3 driver: Kazuaki Takamura). The TODA Racing team was the first Japanese driver that acquired third place in a FUJI International F3 race and SUPERHAKKA Racing team won the PANASONIC F3 super cup four years in a row. In 1992 it established the FIGHTEX division and expanded product manufacturing division and started development of TODA HONDA F4 engine. 1994 saw production of TODA HONDA F4 engine and sales. TOYADA machining center was introduced in 1996.

1997 saw the foundation of the LIAN TODA Racing team, continued development of TODA MUGEN MF-204 and began development of NISSAN SR20DET GT300 engine. 1997 also saw the second victory in the All Japan F3 championship series and won the championship in F4 Suzuka series and F4 TI series with TODA HONDA F4 engine. TODA Racing team was founded in 1998, and finished second in All Japan championships (driver: Hiroki Kato) and sixth place in MACAU Grand Prix. Team driver was changed from Hiroku Kato to Wagner Ebrahim in 1999 and to Seija Ara in 2000. The TOYODA CNC camshaft grinding machine was introduced in 1999.

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Q: Cleaner way to initialize & populate a new List<>? Without using a method after creating the List, and without using an array or new List<>(array), is there syntax to make this code cleaner?
List<CustomObject> list = new List<CustomObject>
{
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject(),
    new CustomObject()
};

Is there a cleaner way to write this, when initializing? Something like...
List<CustomObject> list = new List<CustomObject> { new CustomObject() * 10 };

A: What is wrong with a good old for loop?
var myList = new List<CustomObject>();
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    myList.Add(new CustomObject());
}

A: Maybe too simple but can't you create your own specialized list?
Something like:
public class MyList<T> : List<T> where T : new()
{
    public MyList(T o, int times)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < times; i++)
        {
            this.Add(o);
        }
    }
}

A: You could try to make use of Enumerable.Range:
var list = Enumerable.Range(0, 10)
                     .Select(i => new CustomObject())
                     .ToList();

Update
Definitely using the above code is slower that using the collection initializer you have already used, as correctly mjwills has pointed out in his comment. In order to measure how slower is this approach than the collection initializer approach I set up the following test case and I used the BenchmarkDotNet library
public class CustomObject
{
}

public class ListInitiator
{
    [Benchmark]
    public List<CustomObject> InitializeList()
    {
        return new List<CustomObject>
        {
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject(),
            new CustomObject()
        };
    }

    [Benchmark]
    public List<CustomObject> InitializeListUsingEnumerableRange()
    {
        return Enumerable.Range(0, 10)
            .Select(i => new CustomObject())
            .ToList();
    }
}

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var summary = BenchmarkRunner.Run<ListInitiator>();
    }
}

Below you can find the results of the Test
Processor=Intel Core i5 CPU 760 2.80GHz (Nehalem), ProcessorCount=4
Frequency=2732435 Hz, Resolution=365.9739 ns, Timer=TSC
  [Host]     : .NET Framework 4.7 (CLR 4.0.30319.42000), 32bit LegacyJIT-v4.7.2110.0
  DefaultJob : .NET Framework 4.7 (CLR 4.0.30319.42000), 32bit LegacyJIT-v4.7.2110.0

 |                             Method |     Mean |    Error |   StdDev |
 |----------------------------------- |---------:|---------:|---------:|
 |                     InitializeList | 319.6 ns | 3.904 ns | 3.260 ns |
 | InitializeListUsingEnumerableRange | 642.4 ns | 9.139 ns | 8.549 ns |

It's more than clear that if you make use of Enumerable.Range approach you need more than the double time of using the collection initializer approach. However in both cases you are significantly under 1ms. Based on the latter fact you can't tell that this is a performance hit or not. There are systems that this difference would be a great performance hit. On the other hand there are systems that this difference wouldn't have been noticeable in any way.

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Fieldwork Blogging from Iceland
Dear Aliens,
I've landed safely in Iceland, where I'll be carrying out the second phase of my fieldwork as part of the Alien Energy research project.
Hveragerði, my home over the next few months, is a small town 50kms south east of Reykjavik. Translated variably as hotspring town/garden/corral, it developed in the early part of the 1900's around its abundant supply of geothermal water and steam. It quickly became the greenhouse capital of Iceland producing cucumbers, tomatoes, red peppers and flowers, and at one point even experimented with the production of bananas (ever head of an Icelandic banana?). Also foundational to the town was a group of artists who left Reykjavik during the 1930's housing crisis and settled here for the free heat that came with the small houses, along with the awe inspiring tectonic landscape that the town is nestled within. Today it has over 2,000 residents, boasts an ice cream factory (driven by geothermal heat), along with one of Iceland's largest retirement homes (again driven by cheap heating) and a rehabilitation clinic founded along the principles of the 'healing earth' (more on that at a later time).
So why am I here?
Hveragerði sits in the Hengill volcanic system, which is also home to Hellisheiði, the world's second largest geothermal power plant. On my first phase of fieldwork, from September 2013 to January 2014, I spent time amongst the geoscientists at Reykjavik Energy (the operators of Hellisheiði and owned by the municipality of Reykjavik) and learned about the production of geothermal energy, a vastly complex endeavour that lies at the intersection of a range of scientific disciplines and practices (geology, volcanology, geochemistry, geophysics and engineering). Since expanding its geothermal energy base after the oil crisis of the 70's (today, Iceland's energy matrix is 86% 'renewable', split 66% geothermal and 20% hydro electric), the country has evolved into one of the world's leading knowledge hubs for geothermal energy. Boasting a 100% renewable electricity supply and the world's biggest consumption of electricity per capita (by a factor of two – as we shall see, Iceland is a weird and wonderful place for lists of OECD toping per capita firsts), energy is a topic of much 'heated' discussion.
The 'lure of abundance' would be one way to describe it. Harnessing the tectonic earth and glacial landscapes in a comparably clean, green renewable fashion is an enticing prospect, especially for a country with little other than fish and tourists. Although hydroelectric power is the more dominant mode of electricity generation in Iceland, a mega project in the east of the country circa 2008 created a wellspring of resistance revolving around both environmental and economic issues, and as such geothermal is being looked to as a possible way forward.
The Hellisheiði power plant was conceived and constructed in the 2000's (operationalized in 2008), a period in which Iceland was attempting to become the financial mecca of the North, and which, as most will know, ended badly.
Debt appreciation was exorbitant after the currency tanked, but in the hay days, foreign currency loans from the markets were easy to come by and difficult to resist. Hellisheiði took advantage of this setup and was up and running and ready to produce 303mw of electricity in a geological jiffy, all for the provision of an aluminium smelter in the west of the country (of course, back to this one later!).
But little is known of effects of geothermal power production when it is scaled up to a level not previously imaginable. Up and running for 6 years now, the plant, in order to comply with environmental protection laws, is re-injecting the geothermal waste water back into the volcanic fractures, a process not hugely dissimilar to fracking. The net result of this 'experiment' is the proliferation of what geologists call 'induced seismicity', experienced in Hveragerði as earthquakes.
So, again, why am I here? Well, energy production always occurs somewhere, someplace, close to some people, and Hveragerði is such a place. It lives with the energies of the earth, taking up its bounty (greenhouses, rehab clinics, green tourists) and living with its risks (earthquakes, induced seismicity, sulfur pollution).
As a very distinct volcanic island, the earth has played an inordinately active role in Iceland's history, culture and society. I am constantly reminded of the inseparability of the fiery earth from socio-cultural life, whether it be volcanic eruptions decimating populations and changing rural settlements and agricultural practices throughout the centuries, or stories of rock people and elf folk who populate these craggy and mysterious places. Renewable energy is a more recent manifestation of this 'earthy relationship' and is articulated through the promises of green innovations and resisted through the rhetoric of economic justice (or the lack thereof) and environmental concerns. The earth in Iceland is unruly, its forces are potent, and its bounties are plentiful. But it is also deeply embedded in ways of living and modes of telling stories, and I hope to be able to bring you some of these stories along the way. I will try to link geothermal energy, as a form of collaborative earth action, into a broader frame of previous and ongoing earth issues, volcanic outbreaks, earth mythology, (rock people and elf folk) etc. In positioning energy as part of this trajectory, I hope to open up a narrative frame with a broader than usual arc, one that takes the enfolding of the earth with capital seriously. So in many ways this feels like a story of the anthropocene, as free flowing capital intersects with techno-scientific knowledge and the exuberance of a small island nation. However, I will try to tease out the concept a little, not only pushing the neologism beyond geological terrains, but through them, as I examine the ways in which the dystopic (earthquakes) and utopic (green imaginaries) work up and against one another.
But again, back to Hveragerði. The town has experienced many earthquakes over the years, but a particularly large one in 2008 (6 Richter) has stepped up the levels of anxiety associated with living in a tectonically active area. The previous quakes are described as being more local, and thereby more knowable and manageable, but the one from 2008 brought with it a sense of earthquake as 'other' and rattled the town accordingly. Wedded to this sense of otherness are the multiple small earthquakes being triggered by induced seismicity, something that the town is finding difficult to live with. As geothermal scales up for aluminium production, so do many other forms of action and emotion.
There are many questions to think about while I am here over the next few months, but in a broad sense I will be trying to enquire into how it is that the people of the town 'get along' with the energies of the earth in an everyday sense.
This entry was posted in Iceland, News and tagged anthropocene, earthquakes, geothermal power, Iceland, renewable energy on 23/07/2014 by James Maguire.


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Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space
Denis Linehan
Gary A. Boyd
Published October 10, 2016 by Routledge
Published January 23, 2013 by Routledge
Book Description Table of Contents Author(s) Reviews Support Material
Ordnance: War + Architecture & Space investigates how strategies of warfare occupy and alter built and other landscapes. Ranging across the modern period from the eighteenth century to the present day, the book presents a series of case-studies which operate in and between a number of settings and scales, from the infrastructures of the battlefield to the logistics of the domestic realm. The book explores the patterns, forms and systems that articulate militarised spaces, excavates how these become re-circulated and reconfigured within other domains and discusses the often ephemeral legacies and residues of these architectures. The complexities of unpicking the spaces of the 'fog of war' are addressed by an inter-disciplinary approach which deploys graphic and textual analyses and techniques to provide new and unique perspectives on a hitherto underexplored aspect of architectural and spatial discourse: the tactics and programmes through which the built environment has historically been made to respond to the imperatives and threats of conflict and, in the context of the 'war on terror', continues to be so in ever more pervasive ways.
Contents: Introduction: a place called war, Gary A. Boyd and Denis Linehan; Part I Urban Orders: Militarised Terrains in the City: To gather in war and peace; the city squares of Savannah, Georgia, Nathaniel Robert Walker; The political aesthetics of counter-terrorism, Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer; Protecting the population: bureaucracy, affectivity and governing the Liverpool blitz, Peter Adey (with Barry Godfrey and Dave Cox); Funky bunkers: the post-military landscape as a readymade space and a cultural playground, Per Strömberg. Part II The Invisible Front: Domesticity and Defence: 'Hiding the assets': 'self-concealing' architecture and the British landscape in the Second World War, James Robinson; Home base: militarization of the American home in the Second World War, Rebecca Lyn Cooper; The art and science of invisible landscapes: camouflage for war and peace, Sonja Duemplemann. Part III War in the Landscape: Infrastructures and Topology: The Atlantikwall: from a forgotten military space towards places of collective remembrance, Rose Tzalmona; Military intelligence: the Board of Ordnance maps and plans of Scotland 1698-c.1760, Carolyn J. Anderson; Commanding the rivers: guarding the German railway network in peace and war, Volker Mende; Forteresse invisible: the casemates of the Maginot Line in Alsace-Lorraine, Lisa Haber-Thomson. Part IV Trauma: Spaces of Memory: Defending the Irish border: the map of watchful architecture, Garrett Carr; British soldiers' graves in the Crimea and the origins of modern war commemoration, Andrew Keating; Contested spaces: invisible architectures, Reenie (Karin) Elliott; Sketches of war: the graveyards of historical memory, Jonathan Charley; Index.
'War and architecture are usually seen as mutual opposites, in that the former destroys urban and social fabrics while the latter hopes to repair and improve them. Yet this excellent collection of essays shows that the two are far more intertwined than perhaps we would wish. On a fascinating journey we are taken from the squares of colonial Savannah over to Ireland and Britain, then to France and Germany in the Second World War, plus a digression to look at soldiers' gravestones from an earlier conflict in the Crimea. It is a chilling but highly informative read.' Murray Fraser, UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, UK 'From colonies, bunkers and camouflaged buildings to maps, railways, watchtowers, counter-terrorist street furniture, even homes... Like no book before it, Ordnance really gets to grips with the many ways in which militarism stalks everyday architecture, infrastructure, landscape and memory. A startling and beautifully illustrated collection that should become a pivotal text in burgeoning debates about the architectures of war past and present.' Stephen Graham, Newcastle University, UK
War & Conflict Studies


Main Title Chloride and Nitrogen Concentrations Along the West Shore of Lake Erie.
CORP Author Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Inst. of Water Research.;Detroit Edison Co., Mich.;Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.
Abstract Chemical concentrations of chloride and selected nitrogen parameters were measured in the area near the western shore of Lake Erie over the period of May, 1970 to June, 1975. Samples were taken at six stations in Lake Erie in the vicinity of the Detroit Edison Monroe Power Plant as well as in the Raisin River and the power plant discharge canal. The study began one year before the power plant began operating and continued until full operation was reached. Chloride was used as a conservative element to determine the relative contributions of the three major tributaries in the study area, the Detroit, Maumee, and Raisin Rivers. Changes in nitrogen parameter concentrations were noted with respect to chloride concentrations.
Supplementary Notes Sponsored in part by Detroit Edison Co., Mich., and Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. See also report dated Feb 76, PB-251 209.
NTIS Title Notes Thermal discharge series interim rept. May 70-Jun 75.


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Amy Schumer's humor isn't for everybody — but those who love the fearless, tell-it-like-it-is comedian's style probably understand that finding the right guy might be a little bit of a challenge.
Fortunately, as she told Vogue magazine in its July issue, she's seriously involved with a 29-year-old furniture designer from Chicago, Ben Hanisch.
"We're in love," said Schumer, who also graces the cover of the magazine (and had her photos shot by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue). "And we're still in a total honeymoon phase. It's a real relationship. Who knows what will happen, but we're real good right now."
Good for her! But lest you think Schumer's appearance in Vogue means she's becoming a fashionista, think again. In general, she admitted, fashion isn't important to her. "I don't think it's stupid," she says. "There's no moral reasoning. It's just not my thing."
She prefers comfy clothes like yoga pants, if possible. "I just have this sense of entitlement that I should be able to feel comfortable at all times, like I could go to bed at any moment in what I'm wearing," she adds.
And you can trust that she believes what she says. If nothing else, Schumer is unafraid to share her opinions, as she did in fighting for stricter gun control last August alongside cousin Senator Chuck Schumer.
"I have this innate need to say things that I think are important for people to hear," she noted. "I can't stand injustice, so even if it makes people uncomfortable, I'm not afraid enough [of] conflict to keep my mouth shut."
Expect more from the mind of Schumer in August, when her memoir "The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo" is published.


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Lord You are a merciful Father please listen and answer the plea of Your child. In Jesus name I ask for Your blessings for this person, Amen!


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Q: ¿Cómo puedo quitar las comillas en un valor numérico al crear un JSON? ¿Cómo puedo quitar las comillas del id en un JSON generado con PHP?
Mi código:
$students = array();

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
    $id = $row['student_id'];
    $student_name = $row['student_name'];
    $student_image = $row['student_image'];
    $student_course = $row['student_course'];

    $students[] = array(
        'id'=> $id,
        'student_name'=> $student_name,
        'student_image'=> $student_image,
        'student_course'=> $student_course,
        );
}

$close = mysqli_close($connection)
or die("An unexpected error has occurred in the disconnection of the database");

$json_string = '{"students":' . json_encode($students) . '}';
print ($json_string)

Quiero obtener este resultado:

"students": [
  {
    "id": 1,
    "student_name": "David John",
    "student_image": "avatar.jpg",
    "student_course": "10",
  },

A: En tu caso, como respondió @lois6b, es trivial redefinir a mano el array para obligar a json_encode a devolver un número.
Para el caso general, sin embargo, cuando no tienes idea de lo que puede contener el array que vas a entregarle a json_encode, puedes pasarle un segundo parámetro (una constante JSON) que modifica la forma como éste entrega los resultados.
Usando tu ejemplo, en vez de
$json_string = '{"students":' . json_encode($students) . '}';
print ($json_string);

Quedaría como:
$json_string = '{"students":' . json_encode($students,JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK ) . '}';
print ($json_string);

Aunque, en realidad, yo encuentro que sería más elegante hacer
$json_string = json_encode(['students' => $students], JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK );
print ($json_string);

A: El problema es que en $id se está almacenando un string.
deberias pasar ese stringa int: (ten cuidado por si la conversion no puede hacerse)
 $id_int = (int)$id;

y luego:
'id'=> $id_int,

O directamente:
'id'=> (int)$id,


Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts? One Dunkin' sign on the freeway today, but otherwise still firmly Starbucks country.
Today in Ft. Stockton, Texas, I almost became a man.
When it comes to the traditional gender stereotypes, I've always been grateful for my love of sports as my savior of masculinity. When I meet another guy, I feel I always have sports to possibly bond over. Sure, there are many guys that don't like sports, but when you're meeting someone new and doing that weird feeling-each-other-out-awkwardly-thing, sports is usually a reliable go-to for breaking the ice. But when it comes to other "manly" things, I'm pretty much screwed. Screwdrivers and hammers represent the upper bound of my understanding of tools--wrenches are borderline too difficult. I have AAA for the sole reason that I could never change my own tire. I break out in hives walking into Home Depot.
For all of this, I mostly blame nurture rather than nature. My dad, who is a wonderful man and who will be making a cameo later on in this journey, did not show me what's under the hood of a car (come to think of it I don't know that he ever showed me how to pop the hood), didn't build a tree house with me, didn't let me apprentice while he worked in the garage (because, well, he didn't work in the garage). None of this is his fault, because he also didn't possess the knowledge or interest in such tinkering/building/man-making.
Instead of showing me how to fixa faucet, my Dad told me to read a book, which is why I spent much of the late '80s and early '90s crouched over the National Geographic Atlas and nerdy baseball books like The Scouting Report. This also explains why, when it comes to anything related to that other sphere of manly hobbies, the automotive industry, I am completely and utterly helpless.
Fast forward to today, waking up in Ft. Stockton, Texas and realizing that my aching 2002 Honda Accord was in bad need of an oil change. But being Sunday morning, and Sunday morning in Texas no less, all of the oil change places were closed as people flocked to church or slept in.
I did spot one place, a dingy outpost on the main commercial road, called RL Auto Service that looked promising. RL was bustling, with customers standing around waiting and people wheeling tires around and calling back and forth in Spanish. There was hardly any room to fit my car in the store lot with all of the other parked cars and the dozens of used tires stacked everywhere.
I quickly realized that this was a tire repair place and not a general auto service shop. I walked over to two men in the garage area who were focused intently on inflating a tire and seemed completely uninterested in my presence. One of them, a short, slight Hispanic man with finely trimmed gray hair and black pants whose waistline seemed just above his knees, didn't even look at me. Finally, his younger and meatier counterpart took notice and looked up at me.
"Do you do oil changes here?" I asked.
He looked at his partner and spoke in Spanish. They exchanged several lines before the younger one came back to me: "Do you have oil?"
This seemed a ridiculous question to me, having never purchased oil in my life other than the type I'd use for cooking.
Although this was clearly not a place where oil changes were regularly done, they probably took one look at my notebook, pressed flat-front khakis, and California license plates and realized this could be their good deed for the day.
Thirty-five minutes of bizarre, extended conversations with an O'Reilly Auto Parts down the road ensued, I was dispatched to pick up the oil and filter (so that's what an oil filter is!), and I returned with the supplies for an oil change.
Many of my friends change their own oil, so I saw this as an opportunity to finally grow up, to finally check off one of the boxes of manhood that remained on my own 1986 Topps checklist card.
I watched as the younger mechanic popped the hood, manually jacked up the front of the car, brought over some flattened cardboard boxes to lie on underneath. I stood in front of the car, notebook and pencil poised, slightly bent at the knees and leaning forward like a coach too nervous to stand up straight to observe the next play.
Then I saw him take out several wrenches and disappear under the hood, and I knew right then that I would never truly be a man.
The oil change was more involved, more complicated than I was prepared for. There were bolts to unscrew that remained out of my line of sight, old oil to drain, new oil to pour and test. It was beyond my feeble reach. I needed diagrams, practice, and lots of hand-holding. This was not the crash course I was hoping for. I will not be changing my own oil in the future.
And so, emasculated but relieved by the purr of my engine when I turned the ignition, I climbed back into the driver's seat and cracked open my road atlas, and got back on the road.


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