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\section[]{Introduction}
The fact that atomic nuclei can take on wide variety of shapes in different intrinsic states is evidenced by the appearance of excited states identified within collective models as e.g. rotational bands, vibrational states, gamma bands \cite{Cas01}, or within microscopic approaches such as GCM in terms of wave functions peaked at particular deformations \cite{Ben04}.  While deformation is not an observable \textit{per se}, the link between deformation and observable quantities is a well-established cornerstone of the interpretation of nuclear spectra.

A self-consistent mean--field based approach using Skyrme--Hartree--Fock \cite{Ben03,Sto07,Ben03b} is one starting point for the study of nuclear shapes \cite{Ste03,Ste05}.  Of the many kinds of extension beyond the static mean field that can probe nuclear shapes, we concentrate here on results from time-dependent Hatree--Fock calculations.  The time--dependent Hartree--Fock (TDHF) method \cite{Sim12} uses an Ansatz that the nuclear wave function is represented at all times by single Slater Determinant (often with occupation probabilities smeared out by pairing interactions), which evolves as time progresses.  In some sense the approach remains a fully mean--field approach, though since there are many Slater Determinants involved when one considers all times in a calculation, there is also a sense in which the TDHF approach is a beyond--mean--field one.  Certainly, in the treatment of small-amplitude vibrations of the giant resonance type, one typically takes the Fourier transform in the time coordinate of a time series of and observable extracted from the set of Slater Determinants, and one gains results formally equivalent to the Random Phase Approximation \cite{Rin80}.

In this contribution, we give a summary of the formalism of TDHF and the Skyrme interaction, and present results for some cases in which one can learn about nuclear shapes from the dynamics which result from TDHF calculations.

\section{Time--Dependent Hartree--Fock}
The time--dependent Hartree--Fock equations were originally posited by Dirac in the 1930s \cite{Dir30}.  Calculations in the case of nuclear physics came only after computational power rendered them practical, in the 1970s and 1980s \cite{Neg82,Dav85}.  Since then, realizations of the TDHF equations have been made with few or no restrictions on the symmetry of the system being considered \cite{Kim97,Mar14} -- meaning for example that any nuclear shape can be studied -- and also with quite sophisticated forms of the effective interaction, providing one sticks to those of the Skyrme type \cite{Fra12} (but including many or all the ways in which they have been extended).

The detailed formalism can be found elsewhere \cite{Sim12,Mar14}, but the short description is that one starts from a static Hartree--Fock solution of some sort, in which the density is found self-consistently together with a density--dependent Hartree--Fock Hamiltonian such that
\begin{equation}
  [h_\mathrm{HF}(\rho),\rho]=0.
\end{equation}
In time--dependent Hartree--Fock the equation now reads
\begin{equation}
  [h_\mathrm{HF}(\rho),\rho]=i\hbar\partial_t\rho.
\end{equation}
In order for this to give a non--trivial time--evolution to a density which describes an eigenstate of the Hartree--Fock Hamiltonian, an external perturbation is usually provided in some form.  The most common examples are; (a) that two nuclei are placed together on a grid and are perturbed with initial velocity vectors setting them on a collision course to study the resulting reaction (see e.g. \cite{Uma08,Uma10,Dai14,Ste15} for selected recent examples); (b) initialization of a single nucleus with a shaped field (usually, but not always, multipolar) to instigate a giant resonance (e.g. \cite{Nak05,Ste04,God13}); (c) giving an effective perturbation by not starting from an eigenstate of the HF Hamiltonian, but instead some physically meaningful state connected to the true Hamiltonian -- e.g. a multiquasiparticle state, or a solution of the static HF equations subject to some constraint, such as the quadrupole deformation.

\section{Giant Resonances as Probes of Shape}
\begin{figure}[tb!]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{si28den}
  \caption{A slice of the calculated ground state density in $^{28}$Si using the SkI4 Skyrme interaction.  The nucleus is oblate and the total shape is given by envisioning the presented density slice rotated about the $x=0$ line.  The colour bar to the right of the figure gives the scale indicated in the total particle density presented in the main panel of the figure.\label{fig:si28den}}
\end{figure}

Giant resonances have long been known to show evidence of the underlying shape of the state upon which the resonances are built \cite{Dan64a,Dan64b}.  The underlying shape gives rise to a deformation splitting in which for a prolate nucleus, with two short axes and one long axis, there should be a higher peak at a higher frequency corresponding to vibrations in the short-axis directions, and a lower peak corresponding to the single mode in the long-axis direction.  In the case of an oblate nucleus, there are two long axes and one short axis, so the lower-energy modes dominate the higher-energy ones.  At least, this is the simple model.  In reality, there are other effects which confound a clear separation between deformation splitting, even within model calculations.  In time--dependent Hartree--Fock (or RPA, or other such models), Landau damping caused by the spread of underlying single particle energies can obscure the deformation splitting, in a way which can depend on details of the model \cite{Mar05}.

As an example here of the effect of shape on giant resonance vibrations, we perform a calculation of $^{28}$Si, which when calculated with the SkI4 Skyrme force \cite{Rei95} in the Sky3D code gave a static ground state deformation of $\beta_2=-0.210$.  A slice of the ground-state density in the $x$--$z$ plane is shown in figure \ref{fig:si28den}.

\begin{figure}[tb!]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{si28time}
  \caption{The time-dependent response of $^{28}$Si to an external monopole kick using the SkI4 Skyrme force.  The equal response in the two identical long axes $x$ and $y$ for neutrons and protons are shown in the top two panels, as labeled.  The response along the short axis, $z$, is shown for neutrons and protons in the final two panels.\label{fig:tresp}}
\end{figure}

We then proceed to give a monopole excitation to the nucleus in the form of an instantaneous boost of the form
\begin{equation}
  \psi(r,t=0^+)\rightarrow e^{ikr^2}\psi(r,t=0)
\end{equation}
where $\psi(t=0)$ are all the single--particle wave functions in the Slater Determinant, and $r$ is the coordinate relative to the centre of mass of the nucleus. $k$ is a parameter to control the strength of the imparted excitation.  The RPA limit is obtained as $k\rightarrow0$.  The calculations were performed with a version of the Sky3d code \cite{Mar14} to which modification were made in a particular way as a published exemplar for extending the code \cite{Ste14}.

The time--dependent response of the instantaneous excitation as a function of time is shown in Figure \ref{fig:tresp}.  Since the role of the $x$ and $y$ axes is symmetric for this nucleus, the response in the $x$ and $y$ direction is the same (the expectation value of $x^2$ for protons means $\int\rho_p(r)x^2d^3r$ etc.)  One sees by inspection of the responses along the $z$ direction (particularly by examining the period of the initial oscillations) that the dominant energy of excitation along the short axis is higher than along the two long axes, exactly as expected.

\begin{figure}[tb!]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{mixed-resp}
  \caption{Quadrupole response to monopole kick (upper frame) and the imaginary part of its Fourier transform (lower frame). \label{fig:mixedresp}}
\end{figure}

One can also observe that there is a slow oscillation superimposed on the faster oscillations.  The interpretation of this is directly due to the deformation of the nucleus.  Because of the deformation, we see that the oscillations are not the same in all three directions, so therefore the initial ``monopole'' boost, immediately couples to a quadrupole excitation \cite{Sim03}, which must occur since $\langle Q_{20}\rangle=2\langle z^2\rangle-\langle x^2\rangle-\langle y^2\rangle\ne0$.  Figure \ref{fig:mixedresp} shows the $Q_{20}$ response of the $^{28}$Si nucleus to the monopole kick.  The top panel somewhat accentuates the quadrupole response and the lower panel shows the imaginary part of its Fourier Transform, which can be interpreted as a kind of mixed strength function as
\begin{equation}
  S(E) = \sum_\nu\langle0|\hat{M}|\nu\rangle\langle\nu|\hat{Q}|0\rangle\delta(E-E_\nu),
  \end{equation}
where $\hat{M}$ and $\hat{Q}$ denote the monopole and quadrupole operators respectively, $|0\rangle$ is the ground state and $|\nu\rangle$ the excitation state within the model space at energy $E_\nu$.  The non-zero nature of this strength function shows the coupling between the modes due to shape effects.  The sharp low energy peak in the strength is presumably the coupling to the first $2^+$ state.

\section{Shape fluctuations in Fission Isomers}

\begin{figure}[tb!]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{pu_paul}
  \caption{Potential energy surface around the fission isomer in $^{240}$Pu, calculated using the SkM* Skyrme force.\label{fig:pupes}}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[tb!]
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{below_barrier_mpole_sub}
  \caption{Time-evolution of different multipole deformation parameters as a function of time starting from different initial points along the constrained quadrupole deformation surface of $^{240}$Pu using the SkM*\cite{Bar82} force, which was adjusted to give good fission barriers.  The initial deformations are given at the right hand side of each row, and the deformation being followed is given as a column header.\label{fig:pu} }
  \end{figure}

As an example of starting a TDHF calculation from a state which is not an eigenstate of the static Hartree--Fock Hamiltonian, we performed calculations of the time-dependent response following the release of a static configuration which had been constrained to have a particular quadrupole deformation, inside the fission isomer valley in $^{240}$Pu.  These calculations aimed to understand general non-adiabatic fission properties \cite{God14,God15a,God15b}.  The potential energy surface around the fission isomer is seen in Figure \ref{fig:pupes}.  It shows the fission isomer with a deformation of around $\beta_{20}\simeq0.69$ with a barrier height of around 5 MeV.  The ground state is off to the left of this zoomed-in plot.

We performed calculations starting at different points on the slope of the fission isomer valley, leading towards the fission barrier, at deformations of $\beta_{20}=0.71$, $\beta_{20}=0.77$, and $\beta_{20}=0.83$.  Following the subsequent shape vibrations as a function of time, a range of interesting behaviours were evident, and are shown in Figure \ref{fig:pu}.  One can see qualitatively different results between the three different release points, especially in the way that the most quadrupole-deformed initial shape manages to explore a region of octupole deformation, while others do not.  We see also hexadecupole fluctuations, but did not take the studies further in terms of shape analysis as it was not the focus of this fission study.

We made quite extensive studies of different release points also after the barrier, including fissioning states, where the TDHF method proved amenable to following shape properties also of fission fragments.  We direct the interested reader to the resulting publications \cite{God14,God15a,God15b}.

\section{Conclusion}
Ways in which nuclear shape influence dynamics (at least from a TDHF perspective) have been presented.  The link between giant resonances on deformed nuclei and the resulting different response in along different intrinsic axes in the nucleus (which is ultimately responsible for deformation splitting) was shown, along with a consequence for coupling of different shape excitations.  We gave also a recent indicative calculations of shape vibrations in the fission isomer of $^{240}$Pu showing that multiple multipoles come into play.  We conclude that it is clear that TDHF provides a useful tool for understanding nuclear shapes.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
Support for this work comes from the UK STFC funding council via grants ST/L005743/1 and ST/J000051/1, along with the award of time on the DiRAC computer system, and via the Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF) under Contract No. DFNI-E02/6.

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Turkey to ramp up EastMed drilling in response to EU sanctions
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Juncker rejects cutting EU funds to Poland
European Commission president says he is not in a 'militant mood.'
By	Judith Mischke
1/9/18, 5:04 PM CET
Updated 1/9/18, 10:26 PM CET
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he rejects the idea of cutting EU funds to Poland amid an ongoing spat between Brussels and Warsaw over rule of law concerns and refugee obligations.
Juncker told German broadcaster ARD ahead of his meeting Tuesday with new Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that he preferred the EU and Poland hold "sensible discussions with each other, without moving into threatening gestures."
"I am not in the mood to make wild threats," Juncker said.
Poland is the largest overall beneficiary of EU cash — set to receive about €100 billion in structural, agricultural and other funds during the current seven-year budget ending in 2020. But there is increasing disquiet in parts of Western Europe about sending so much money to a country that violates the EU's norms.
The Commission decided last month to trigger the so-called Article 7 process against Poland over concerns about the country's judiciary reforms. The move put Poland on a path that could ultimately lead to the suspension of its EU voting rights.
Juncker said that as Commission president, it would not be appropriate for him to "threateningly intervene in the debate at the moment" and thus he preferred to play a "mediating" role.
"I'm not in a militant mood," Juncker said. "I would like us and the Polish people to move toward common ground. Talking about the Polish people without talking to the Polish people is the wrong way. I talk with the Polish people."
Juncker added that "one should not give the impression to the Central European countries that Western Europe is leading the Union on its own," but also called on Central European countries — including Poland — to stick to the principle of solidarity.
Euro push in Poland pitched as peace offering with EU
Jan Cienski
Polish reshuffle removes controversial ministers
Juncker urged countries like Poland and Hungary to take in refugees as part of the bloc's refugee redistribution scheme.
"I think the European Union has to breathe with two lungs, the Eastern and the Western one," Juncker said. "Both have to breathe."
Judith Mischke

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The Dead Bird Test: Can Any Business Pass It?
We are curious people, us peeples. Things happen and we wonder,"why?" Like, why is so much snow falling during global warming? Why does Lindsay Lohan keep making movies? Why do employees allow a dead bird to lie, rotting, in front of the entrance to their restaurant for two weeks?
I have a fear that the answers to the first two questions are related – we'll see.
My job – as a customer service evaluator – is to know the answer to the last one. Especially since I put the dead bird in front of the door in the first place.
"Don't mind me. Enjoy your dinner!"
Some tests grade on a curve and most give you credit for guessing. Except field sobriety tests, the "If your mother and I were drowning, which one would you save?" test and The Dead Bird Test – all strictly pass-fail.
I plopped down the bird carcass to see if employees were seeing their workplace the same way we consumers do. They weren't. This became the core of our customer service training program – walk in the consumer's shoes and see your working world through their dining eyes.
It is impossible to teach emotions – like empathy, pride and a sense of ownership. We either care or we don't. A business owner can clamp down with checks, balances and any array of left-brain customer service procedures, but in the end it's all about human choice. An employee either wants to do it and does, or doesn't want to and won't. That choice reverberates throughout the entire structure of a company, dictating its future success or failure.
The dead bird was the tip of a diseased flock. The restaurant dive-bombed into bankrupcy, through a systemic failure of hundreds of Dead Bird Tests that cost employees their jobs and an owner, his livelihood.
It's never a pleasure, giving bad news to owners. The pleasure comes from helping save them, or teaching them how to save themselves, or at least pointing out the problems so they can be addressed by someone else.
That's what I do. That's my job – trying to save businesses before they die from a customer service version of the avian flu.
Another series of Dead Bird Tests did just that – for an entire city – or at least helped.
Living in a city outside of Des Moines a few years ago, I was concerned that city employees weren't being terribly friendly or helpful – a concern shared by others in the community, expressed in several stories and Letters to the Editor in the local newspaper.
I decided to give city staff a series of Dead Bird Tests – to see how bad the problem really was.
Admittedly I was also looking to grow my consulting business at the time. If there were chronic problems I wanted to be able to prove it with more than just my word. So I bought a body video camera – about the size of a pack of smokes. It videotapes through a camera lense shaped like a button on your shirt.
The cop was there quickly, in a half-hour. DBT #1 was passed.
He was friendly and empathetic. "Kids just have no respect these days," he said.
No, I agreed, they certainly don't.
Whoops. We're not talking about wreckage from a 727. Just some newspapers and paper plates and whatever else was in my Hefty bag from home. I figured he'd probably say something like, "Why don't we grab this stuff before it blows all over?" and we'd have it done in two minutes.
"We better get Haz-mat in here."
I waited a few hours for PRCU to be dispatched, then checked on the garbage every day for a week. Like the dead bird, it stayed there – until I cleaned it up. Yes, "somebody else" dealt with it. This is part of my life as a customer service evaluator – staring at dead stuff.
A city zoning person also flunked. She explained to me that I, a "new resident looking to start a business in the downtown area," should avoid specific areas of the city because of their "economic and ethnic makeup." Whoops II. And III and IV.
That Dead Bird Test and others – all caught on tape and played privately for the shell-shocked Mayor – convinced him that the city could use some customer service training.
They brought in nearly 200 city employees for a seminar. The first guy was literally a comedian. He had the entire room erupting in laughter.
The city's doing better – or as good as any city in Iowa is doing in this economy.
A Dead Bird Test, you may have noticed, is often about cleanliness – and does not have to be set up intentionally.
Do you shop at a store, own a store, or know of someone who does, where employees are flunking The Dead Bird Test?


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The Role of the Housewife in Social Production
The contemporary American left press often discusses the 1970s Italian feminist arguments for the productive character of housework. However, this argument had already been made somewhat closer to home. In 1936 Communist Party USA fellow traveler and eventual member Mary Inman, who had roots in Socialist Party and IWW milieus, wrote a large manuscript reviewing anthropological theories of sexual difference, popular discourses around femininity, and the economic role of housework. The manuscript was rejected by the CPUSA, but portions were serialized in the San Francisco-based daily People's World, and eventually published in book form in 1940's In Woman's Defense. Its theoretical conclusion was radical and explicitly stated: "We come then to see the social importance of 22 million housewives' work, and its present day relation to the production of commodities. And we see how erroneous is the belief that the housewife became unimportant to the system of production when the home mainly ceased to be the place of production it once was. We say mainly, and not entirely, because the most valuable of all commodities is still produced there: Labor Power."
While Inman's theory was articulated in the language of the Popular Front, with a strong emphasis on middle-class women, it nevertheless sparked a bitter debate, opposed in official CP polemics by Avram Landy which insisted that women had no special interests beyond gender-neutral socialism. The remainder of Inman's book, along with a counter-polemic, was published as Woman-Power in 1942, followed in turn by Landy's 1943 Marxism and the Woman Question. Completely marginalized by the CP, from which she eventually resigned, Inman envisioned a new organization for women called the "Union of Labor-Power Production Workers," and participated in the "anti-revisionist" movement that split from the Party in the late 40s. In an extraordinary 1949 pamphlet called 13 Years of CPUSA Misleadership on the Woman Question, Inman drew lines of demarcation that had been blurred in the earlier period, exposing the complicity between economic reductionism and identitarian reformism in the CPUSA. By effacing the economic role of women's work and naturalizing the social phenomenon of motherhood, the Party reduced the mass "struggle against capitalist oppression of women" to the ideological contestation of "masculine superiority." Socialism, cut off from the agency of working-class women, became little more than an abstract policy to be implemented from above in alliance with the progressive bourgeoisie, including bourgeois women's organizations.
Inman continued to elaborate on these themes up to 1964's The Two Forms of Production in Capitalism. We present here an essay from In Woman's Defense.
The Housewife's Role in Social Production
Workers of no other group have had their importance so ignored and denied as present day housewives.
Because productive tasks once performed in the home are now performed elsewhere, the housewife's work now is under-rated to such an extent that she is considered in certain quarters to even be living in ease and parasitism.
Adding to this erroneous notion, and appearing to support it, is the fact that the 22 million housewives who work only at home and do all their work have no earnings or income of their own and must depend upon their food, clothing and housing being bought with money earned by their husbands.
Now this support a husband gives his wife comes out of production, and if she is not useful, in fact indispensable to the owners of industry, why do they permit 22 million women to subsist on the proceeds of industry? They could not possibly be unaware that these 22 million women, not directly productive, are out there.
And this owning class is noted for its ability to exploit the balance of the population in some manner. So insistent are they that persons work for them that they even hound those they refuse to employ, because they are unemployed, as the bulk of the vagrancy cases bear witness.
Why then do not the paid propagandists of this owning class attack this arrangement of 22 million housewives being maintained out of the proceeds of industry, instead of lauding the arrangement and surrounding it with moralistic robes?
There can only be one answer. Under certain conditions it profits them. Under certain conditions it is irreplaceable.
One very striking peculiarity of certain trends of theory about woman and what is called woman's work, is that this work has been described and then elsewhere, generally apart from it, broad generalizations have been made referring to woman's subjugation being a part of the system of exploitation of human labor, but these two things have not been adequately connected.
It is somewhat as if the woods were described and in a separate section the trees were also described but the whole matter was left in such a disconnected shape that neither seemed to have any relation to the other; the trees did not appear to be in the woods and the woods were not a collectivity of trees.
Let us illustrate the point further. The work of a cook in a logging camp is a necessary part of the production of lumber. The services of all the cooks in all the camps, restaurants and eating places wherever productive workers are fed, are a necessary part of production. And for the same reason, the work of the cooks in the homes of productive workers is also, at present, a necessary part of production.
The labor of a woman, who cooks for her husband, who is making tires in the Firestone plant in Southgate, California, is essentially as much a part of the production of automobile tires as the cooks and waitresses in the cafes where Firestone workers eat.
And all the wives of all the Firestone workers, by the necessary social labor they perform in the home, have a part in the production of Firestone Tires, and their labor is as inseparably knit into those tires as is the labor of their husbands.
Anyone can multiply this illustration by the products produced by Republic Steel, Standard Oil, Henry Ford, etc., and always get the same answer, that the wives' labor is a necessary service in the creation of products in these plants.
The labor of workers in the laundries who wash clothing for productive workers is necessary to the system of production. Maids and porters who sweep the floors, make the beds and tidy the rooms in boarding houses or camps where productive workers sleep and rest, so that they may prepare themselves to return to work the next day, are a necessary link in the productive process.
And in the same way, the labor of housewives in the homes of productive workers who perform the services of keeping clothing washed and beds and floors clean, is also an indispensable part of production.
Persons who work in houses where children are boarded and trained, or schooled, are performing a useful service, and their labor is indispensable to the present method of production and distribution. And for a similar reason, millions of women in homes, who do the greater part of such work, are rendering an indispensable service to the present method of producing and distributing commodities.
If profits are to be made, commodities must not only be produced but distributed. Both production and distribution are complex and are inseparably linked to communication and transportation, and have tentacles that extend into schools and almost every legitimate phase of human activity.
The housewife does not cook eight or nine hours like the camp cook, nor wash and iron a stated number of hours like the laundry worker, nor make beds for certain hours like the maid in the hotel or rooming house, nor teach and nurse and feed children, future productive workers, a stated number of hours like teachers and workers in nurseries and schools, but she does perform all these tasks, and more, for unlimited and unstated hours every day, every week, and every month for years.
If the man cook in the lumber camp could be held to a subordinate economic position, directly under another worker and required to work, not nine hours, but an indefinite number, from ten to twelve, or more, and be paid nothing directly but have to get his keep from the little extra given the worker over him, and then be scornfully referred to as being "kept," it is easy to see that his employer would be further enriched by the decreased status and lengthened hours of the cook.
And it is in some such manner that the collective owners of industry, the Hearsts, Rockefellers, Mellons, du Ponts, Fords and Morgans benefit by the cheap labor of the collective housewives and their resultant economic and social degradation. Besides, the wife's dependence is a means of binding the man too, and of reaching through the parents their subject children.
And what shall we say of the housework middle class women performed under developing capitalism, cleaning, cooking, ironing, scrubbing and washing clothes and dishes? We must consider the work of most of these women as being necessary to the system of production and distribution also.
It is true that some of them hired girls but in many cases where they did, the housewife herself performed a great deal of useful work. It is our belief that the majority of the women of what is commonly called the middle class, did not subsist parasitically upon society, but did socially useful, necessary work.
Why was it useful, and why was it necessary? Because at one stage of the development of capitalism the middle class was an indispensable part of the system of manufacturing and distributing commodities. These persons with small capital investments were useful to the big capitalists, who had not yet gotten around to department and chain stores, and mass production and distribution.
When feudalism was overthrown by capitalism, the new system in the process of revolutionizing production, and spreading over the world, utilized millions of small producers and distributors.
And until the big capitalists had time and opportunity to expand over the entire earth with imperialistic, monopolistic combines and interlocking companies, banks, loans and business interests, hundreds of thousands of little stores and one-man management factories, with the manager often making a hand himself, were required in the United States, and millions more were required throughout the world.
This middle class helped build and develop and present machine system. During the building, the larger capitalists benefited by collecting tribute in the form of rent, interest, taxes and in various other ways from this middle class.
Yet, although this tributed increased in kind and amount with the years, that did not satisfy the big capitalists who wanted ownership in more and more cases and not only wanted ownership but took it.
And in time, monopoly-finance capitalists, with their inside track on politics and increasing power of wealth control, through financing and producing goods and selling them cheaper, practically destroyed the once numerically great middle class.
The small individually owned and operated factories and stores became outmoded and could not compete with ever-growing enterprises not handicapped by small capital investments. Such a method of production and distribution truly belonged to the horse and buggy days, but like the horse and buggy, useful in its historical setting.
The middle class housewife then, who did useful housework for a husband engaged in such work of production and distribution, or for songs so engaged, or for songs who were already, or preparing to become, technicians, engineers or teachers for the capitalists, or for daughters who would become the working wives of men so employed, such middle class housewives filled a socially useful role in their day to day work, and they contributed to the cumulative building of the great factory process that is modern America.
Housewives of both the middle and the working classes helped create this wealth that is America today, and part of it belongs to them by right of toil.
Mary Inman	(1894-1985) was a Marxist-feminist theorist and activist.
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Issue 2: Theory and Practice
Issue 3: Workers' Inquiry
Issue 4: The State
Issue 5: Social Reproduction
Reproducing the struggle: a new feminist perspective on the concept of social reproduction
Bringing the Vanguard Home: Revisiting the Black Panther Party's Sites of Class Struggle
Collective spaces
Decolonial Feminist Economics: A Necessary View for Strengthening Social and Popular Economy
Domestic Workers' Rights, the Politics of Social Reproduction, and New Models of Labor Organizing
How Not To Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class
Introduction to the Archive of Feminist Struggle for wages for housework. Donation by Mariarosa Dalla Costa
Le operaie della casa
Mapping the Terrain of Struggle: Autonomous Movements in 1970s Italy
Precarious Intimacies: The European Border Regime and Migrant Sex Work
Production, Reproduction, and the Problem of Home for Work
Race, Class, and Social Reproduction in the Urban Present: The Case of the Detroit Water and Sewage System
Radical archives and the new cycles of contention
Repression and Resistance on the Terrain of Social Reproduction: Historical Trajectories, Contemporary Openings
Sex Work Against Work
Social Reproduction Beyond Intersectionality: An Interview
Social reproduction, but not as we know it
Social reproduction, neoliberal crisis, and the problem with work: a conversation with Kathi Weeks
Surplus Population, Social Reproduction, and the Problem of Class Formation
The Bronx Slave Market
The Negro Woman Domestic Worker in Relation to Trade Unionism
The Productive Subject
The Social Reproduction of Sexuality: An Interview
Toward a Brighter Dawn
Autoworkers and the working class in Brazil - John Humphrey
An analysis of the strike waves of the late-1970s Brazilian working-class movement, and the important role which car factory workers played in it.
We demand nothing
Essay by Johann Kaspar that appeared in the insurrectionary anarchist journal Fire to the Prisons. Highly influential within the California student movement...


The events surrounding the downfall of Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo, aren't over: Yet another accuser has come forward to sue Clash.
The events surrounding the downfall of Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo, aren't over: Yet another accuser has come forward to sue Clash, Robert Gearty at the New York Daily News reported Tuesday evening. This time a 29-year-old man, being referred to as "John Doe," alleges that he and Clash engaged in "some sexual activity" when the accuser was 16 in 2000.
The accuser's lawyer, Jeff Herman, said that in an initial conversations on a gay chat line, Clash told his client that he was 30, though when they met at the apartment of Clash, who called himself "Craig," the accuser realized the now 52-year-old Clash appeared to be older. Per Herman, "John Doe," who interacted with Clash again in 2003 and 2004, recognized Clash's celebrity when he saw "Elmo dolls, an Emmy award and photographs of Elmo with movie stars." Herman said his client started writing a book about the experience in 2009.
Herman is also representing Cecil Singleton, the second accuser to step forth, who claims that Clash frequented gay telephone chat rooms to meet underage men.
All of the controversy, however, has not damaged the Elmo brand — at least when it comes to toy sales, Sam Ro at Business Insider reports. A toy-industry analyst told Ro that the new LOL Elmo doll was selling well this weekend. As for Sesame Street, well, that's another story.


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By jrrtestadmin October 3, 2022 October 3, 2022 Freedom Through Literacy 2022
Dr. Lisette Caesar – "Book Vending Machine"
EAST HARLEM, NEW YORK
A Judith's Reading Room Honorable Mention awardee in 2021, Lisette Caesar is recognized with a Board Option Award for her unrelenting optimism and passion to build a reading culture during her tenure as principal at Mosaic Prep Academy. Her newsworthy project, "Book Vending Machine," capitalizes on a reward system to honor good citizenship with tokens that are used to "purchase" a new book, much like one would purchase a candy bar out of a vending machine. Her incredible and inspiring project has been shared with at least five other principals and we are sure to see its impact grow.
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Judith's Reading Room at Mosaic Preparatory Academy
By jrrtestadmin January 9, 2022 February 14, 2022 News
On Friday, Feb. 11th, Scott and Cathy Leiber represented Judith's Reading Room, the non-profit that made the day long event at Mosaic Preparatory Academy featuring author Ty Jackson.
Bringing together 2020 Freedom Through Literacy Judith's Award Winner, Ty Allan Jackson and 2021 Honorable Mention winner Lisette Caesar.
Setting up at Mosaic Preparatory Academy, East Harlem, getting set up with librarian Ariel Birdoff and Ty Allan Jackson.
Kids raise hands because they like money!
On Giving Tuesday. Pennsylvania Non-Profit Packs Book Vending Machine at Mosaic Prep Academy in East Harlem, NY
On this Giving Tuesday, Judith's Reading Room, a nonprofit literacy organization based in eastern Pennsylvania with offices in New York City, joined hands with its 2021 Freedom Through Literacy Award winner, Dr. Lisette Caesar, Principal, Mosaic Preparatory Academy in East Harlem to "stuff" her school's first-of-its-kind Book Vending Machine with 50 children's books.
Judith's Reading Room donated the books thanks to generous patrons at the Wyomissing, PA Barnes & Noble. That store chose Judith's Reading Room for the 2nd year in a row as its "Holiday Book Drive Charity." Mosaic Prep Academy is just one of a a dozen recipient organizations that Judith's Reading Room has selected to receive the donated books. Today's Giving Tuesday gift of 50 hand-picked books is valued at $436.
The Book Vending Machine is the brainchild of Dr. Caesar in response to her students' less than enthusiastic passion for reading following the shutdown of schools as a result of COVID-19. To spark a renewed passion for reading, scholars earn coupons for being good Samaritans or for reading a certain number of books. They exchange coupons for a token to unlock a book of their choice from the bright blue Book Vending Machine.
To entice even the youngest scholars, Judith's Reading Room selected "I Can Read!" books as well as Caldecott Medal winners such as Drummer Hoff, and all-time favorites including The Story of Ferdinand and The Runaway Bunny. "The key to excite a child to read is simple. "You need to give them books that they want to read, that they choose to read," stated Cathy Leiber, President and Co-Founder, Judith's Reading Room.
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Judith's Reading Room's mission is to enrich lives and societies by proactively encouraging freedom through literacy. That mission has been fulfilled by establishing 103 libraries in 22 countries with nearly 131,000 books donated worth over $1.4 million. Its annual Freedom Through Literacy Award offers cash prizes to champions of literacy around the world. Visit www.judithsreadingroom.org to learn more about previous winners and how to apply for the 2022 Award beginning in early January 2022.
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Judith's Reading Room Packs Book Vending Machine
By jrrtestadmin December 5, 2021 December 5, 2021 News
By jrrtestadmin August 15, 2021 January 19, 2022 Freedom Through Literacy 2021
Lisette Caesar – "Mirroring Our Kids
EAST HARLEM, NEW YORK Lisette's steadfast efforts to create libraries that reflect her students
and their lives earns her an Honorable Mention.
CBS NY clip on Lisette Caesar's "brainchild" Book Vending Machine at Mosaic Prep Academy in NY
Simon Ke – "Mobile Library Project"
We honor Simon Ke and the Mobile Library Project at Anjali House for reaching
over 850 children in Siem Reap with an Honorable Mention.
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2021 Freedom Through Literacy Awards Announced
By jrrtestadmin July 30, 2021 July 30, 2021 Media, News
CONTACT: Cathy Leiber
www.JudithsReadingRoom.org
Winning Applications Highlighted Exceptional Creativity and Impact
July 22, 2021 — Ms. Angela Chalkiopoulou, Limassol, Cyprus, declared Grand Prize Winner of the 2021 Freedom Through Literacy Award. Chalkiopoulou, an educator, dominated the field of applicants with her literacy project, "Alice in Writer's Land," winning her the top prize of $2,500. A colleague described Angela as "a future literacy marvel and an excellent example of how creative teachers can turn inspiration into action, changing the way children perceive themselves towards literacy." Alice in Writer's Land collaborates with artists, educators, writers and illustrators—introducing the children of Cyprus to the writer's way of thinking. "Literature is the absolute source of inspiration, the joy of human intellect, when combined with ingenious art and multimedia toolkits, it can transform a classroom into a small collaborating and learning society, offering the prospect of a hopeful future for all of us," said Chalkiopoulou.
Ms. Joicki Floyd, Newark, New Jersey wins the 2021 Freedom Through Literacy "Judith's Award." Floyd, a high school teacher whose literacy initiative "Y.O.U.T.H." (You Open Up Then Heal) seeks to transform the lives of inner city children and their families through reading is awarded $1,500. Joicki's creative program includes the use of Socratic Seminars and discussion panels with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. She articulated the essential idea that in books, youth who lack hope and positive influences, can find positive motivation, examples and influences. "If you build libraries in the hearts of the youth, you will empower them with points of reference that may change the trajectory of their lives," stated Floyd. The Judith's Award is named in the memory of Judith F. Krug, a librarian who dedicated her career at the American Library Association to protecting the freedom of speech.
At the discretion of Judith's Reading Room's Board Members, each year, $1,000, is set aside for Board Option Awards to recognize high-scoring applicants. The winners of the 2021 Board Option Award are:
Ms. Sue Goatley, nonprofit leader, Children in the Wilderness, "Jabulani Community Literacy Programme," in the Zambezi Region, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Goatley, a 2019 Board Option Award winner and recipient of Judith's Reading Room's 100th library dedicated July 2021 at Ziga Primary School, has once again captured the judges' attention with her acute description — and solution — of adult illiteracy. She writes, "Seeing a young child struggle learning to read can often seem like an uphill battle. However, a truly heart-breaking scene is watching a young teen, new into high school, staring blankly at a page." Goatley's community literacy program at Jululani Primary School is an evening program available to teenagers and adults with any level of literacy. It also offers an opportunity for teachers to earn additional income. For her work to de-stigmatize adult illiteracy in isolated and rural Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe, Goatley wins a 2021 Board Option Award in the amount of $400.
Ms. Lisa Gerard, founder, Little Read Wagon, in Norman, Oklahoma. In 2020, Gerard had a kernel of an idea that grew into an ambitious grassroots outreach effort to supply new and donated books to children living in "book desert communities" in Norman and surrounding areas. Lisa built a mini "library" at a local laundromat then added a lending library and a volunteer program to collect and distribute culturally relevant books at community events. In just one year, Gerard has distributed more than 10,000 books to children and adults. Ms. Breea Clark, Mayor, City of Norman endorsed Gerard adding, "This outreach program engages and inspires a great love for reading with a passionate ambition in bridging the literacy gap in the Oklahoma City Metro area." For her joyous, passionate and creative approach to getting books into the hands of her fellow citizens, Gerard wins a 2021 Board Option Award in the amount of $300.
Mr. Derek Witmer, 2nd Grade Teacher, "Diversity and Inclusion Library," in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Described by his Principal as "a conscientious and exemplary teacher, a true difference maker and a positive force in modern education," Witmer initiated a collection of literature — a curated library — that touches on important topics such as general diversity, acceptance, gender identity, familial make ups, and SEL. This 2nd grade teacher didn't stop there. Also included are stories where a student has a parent in prison, families dealing with immigration, language barriers and stories dealing with the loss of a parent. He enhanced the library by creating resources and discussion cards for teachers. It is no wonder that other schools in his district have reached out to him for help in adopting his Diversity and Inclusion Library. Derek believes that "Literature has the power to change the world, and I'm glad to be able to have an impact on the upcoming generations." In recognition of his compassion toward students who experience and struggle through things that most of us can never truly understand, Witmer wins a 2021 Board Option Award in the amount of $300.
To encourage and propel certain 2021 applicants to continue their efforts and to re-apply for the 2022 Freedom Through Literacy Award, the judges declared the following Honorable Mentions (no cash award):
Ms. Lisette Caesar, Educator, "Mirroring our Kids," in East Harlem, New York. Caesar's project is to fill her classroom libraries with books that have protagonists that look like the children she educates. She emphasizes, "Kids asking us to provide more books about their culture or with characters that look like them — is a first for us." In recognition of Caesar's belief "that it is important that impressionable black and brown kids see themselves in positive ways in the books they read," Judith's Reading Room, through the Honorable Mention designation, wishes to give Caesar global recognition and encouragement.
Ms. Simon Ke, Executive Director, Anjali House, "Mobile Library Project," in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Anjali House's Mobile Library used tuk-tuks (a common mode of transportation in Cambodia) to reach over 850 students in remote villages. COVID restrictions have prevented its expansion. In recognition of their community outreach, Judith's Reading Room seeks to bring global attention to the literacy work currently "stopped in its tracks" in this well-known tourist destination near Angkor Wat, where Judith's Reading Room dedicated a library in May 2013.
Judith's Reading Room's mission is to enrich lives and societies by proactively encouraging Freedom Through Literacy. To date, the organization has fulfilled that mission by establishing 101 libraries (and counting!) in 22 countries with 130,500 books worth over $1.4 million.
The Freedom Through Literacy Award was initiated in 2015 as the organization's signature event. Including the 2021 winners, the organization will have disbursed $43,500 in cash awards to 40 unique champions of literacy. Freedom Through Literacy Award winners — 2015-2021 — hail from the United States, the Philippines, Bhutan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Cambodia, Mexico, Australia, Zimbabwe, Greece and Cyprus.
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The richest 0.1% of Americans have seen their share of pretax national income rise from less than 3% in 1970 to more than 12% in 2007 — the highest proportion since the creation of the income tax in 1913. Yet even as the rich grew vastly richer, Washington decided they needed more help. Since 1995, the top 400 households have enjoyed a 45% cut in their federal income taxes (they paid 30% of individual income in 1995 and 16.6% in 2007). In 2007 alone, that saved the top 400 filers $46 million — per household.
In the coming weeks, you will hear a great deal of discussion about whether maintaining tax relief for the rich passed in 2001 will create jobs. You will hear much less about the real issue raised by the tax-cut debate: America's fraying democracy.
Most economists agree that extending Bush-era tax cuts for the highest-income Americans would do little to stimulate the economy. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently ranked extending the 2001 tax cuts last among 11 options for creating employment. It noted that even within that option, extending tax cuts for the rich would be the least helpful tax-cut extension, because wealthy people would be likely to bank their tax savings rather than spending them.
Good ideas for putting Americans back to work are running into a wall of congressional opposition in the face of deficit worries. Yet the same members of Congress who denounce deficit spending are ready to find vast sums for the idea that ranks dead last.
For a while, pundits chalked this up to election-year pandering. Yet multiple polls have confirmed that by large margins, Americans don't favor keeping the high-end tax cuts. This means politicians are flocking toward a proposal that is at once ineffective and unpopular.
Of course, no one is really surprised by the GOP position. Even if jobs were plentiful, Republicans would be insisting on extending all the Bush tax cuts. Budget surplus? Budget deficit? Weak economy? Strong economy? For roughly two decades, the Republican answer has been the same: tax reductions for the most well-off. At times the mantra seemed particularly absurd: Just before the invasion of Iraq, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay told a group of bankers that "nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes."
Today, the Republicans' main argument is that breaks for those at the top are crucial for small businesses — even though, as House Republican leader John Boehner recently admitted, the overwhelming majority of small-business owners won't be affected. The benefits of extending the upper-income tax cuts instead will go overwhelmingly to the richest of the rich (tax filers making more than $1 million a year will save an average of $128,832 each), while costing roughly $1 trillion over the next decade in lost revenue and increased interest costs on the national debt.
If you wanted to encourage small-business job growth, there are much more cost-effective ways to do so. But that would not advance the Republicans' campaign to lock in the vast top-end tax cuts passed a decade ago.
The roots of that tax-cutting campaign go back more than a generation. In the wake of a major political mobilization of corporate America in the 1970s, the GOP forged a political coalition bringing together anti-government libertarians, social conservatives and powerful business backers. Tax cuts increasingly proved to be the glue of that coalition, feeding into the conservative cause by starving government (at least in theory) while showering very specific largesse on the GOP's deepest-pocketed supporters.
The real puzzle is why Democrats, the putative party of the little guy, offer cover for these top-heavy initiatives. In 2001, and again today, a nontrivial contingent of Democrats has been willing to blur the conflict and hand victory to the tax cutters, proving that gridlock can be overcome when doing so benefits the well-off.
It's hard to remember, but a small but crucial bloc of Democrats that included Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the key to passing the tax cuts in 2001. This time around, 31 House Democrats have written to Speaker Nancy Pelosi to insist on retaining the upper-income cuts. What might be called "Republican-for-a-Day Democrats" are not always moderates in GOP-leaning districts. Charles E. Schumer of New York, for example, has been one of the fiercest defenders of favorable tax treatment for hedge-fund managers, a widely condemned tax loophole benefiting the superrich that still survives four years after the Democratic capture of Congress.
There is a widely held view that rising inequality is somehow beyond politics, a natural occurrence driven by global economic forces. The skew of tax cutting toward the rich gives the lie to this fatalistic perspective. From rules shaping chief executive pay to financial deregulation to, yes, tax policy, a political system tilted toward those at the top has greatly widened the gap between the rich and everyone else.
To close that gap and restore broad economic growth, we need to improve our democracy, not just our economy.
Jacob S. Hacker is a professor of political science at Yale. Paul Pierson is a professor of political science at UC Berkeley. They are the authors of "Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer — and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class."


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Observer: Some Ember & Dead Voices On Air
Posted by I Die You Die | Mar 19, 2021 | Observer | 0
Some Ember
Held a Fragment of the Moon
Some Ember have been active and releasing music for nearly a decade now, transitioning through various styles and lineups while the willfully rough edges of their earliest material gradually gave way to a smooth and velvety take on the modern darkwave. You can hear the evolution in Dylan Travis' work on new EP Held a Fragment of the Moon, especially in terms of his programming and production which have a clarity that sets it apart from even his most recent efforts. That means that the synth bassline and snappy drums of "Excavate" have a pleasing weight to them, but allow plenty of space for Travis' dramatic vocal delivery on the song's hook to embed itself in the listener's ear. Similarly, "Fragment" works a post-punk rhythm section against synthesized choirs and a vocal lament that conveys emotion with carriage and impact in spite of the track's mournfulness. Travis' voice is especially important to the mood of the EP, his tenor delivery somewhere in the neighbourhood of latter-era Scott Walker, creating pockets of lament in the bouncy electro of "Wellspring", and doubled-up for dimensionality during the the half-time swing of "Rift". It's a brief but potent dose of an act who are forvever zeroing in on what makes them stand out from comparable acts in their style.
Held a Fragment of the Moon by Some Ember
Dead Voices On Air
The Piss Frond Tapes Volume One
As we've discussed in the past, Piss Frond is a landmark achievement in Mark Spybey's distinguished career, and so an archival trawl through the demos which spawned that drone/experimental masterpiece comes as a welcome exercise. That this marks the first of two such releases, with the second to come in April, speaks to the creative run Dead Voices On Air was on at the close of the millennium, as is spelled out in the detailed notes which accompany the release and contain revelations that are eye-popping to experimental music fans and Vancouverites alike (Dadaist free association with Holger Czukay? Oh right, that Alexander Varty!). The early versions compiled here are arranged with the same sequencing as their final counterparts, allowing for the experience of listening to the record through a glass darkly. Some, like "The First Swan Flax" are almost indiscernible from the originals, while the roots version of Piss Frond centerpiece "Sulphur" is so radically minimal in comparison to its lush later execution that Spybey's valorization of the contributors who worked to flesh it out into what it would become begins to make sense. Piss Frond is a record of moods and textures, and so there's something of the uncanny about listening to an early version of "Red Kerre" which has its proportions and frequencies just tilted a bit differently here and there – akin to putting on a favourite sweater and finding it to be a shade bluer than you remember and just one of the arms half an inch longer. A couple of unreleased tracks plus thirty-odd minutes of live improv from a 1999 show add some extra value. An absolute must-purchase release for any fan of the original record.
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Amplitude Review (PlayStation 4)
The plastic peripheral-slinging music game developers at Harmonix have returned to their roots with a modern remake of Amplitude. This 2003 hit was a sequel to the studio's first game, Frequency. After a very successful Kickstarter campaign last year, Harmonix was finally able to get this revamped version of Amplitude up and running in order to give its now broader fan base a taste of what things were like when they were just starting out. Likewise, fans who may have played Amplitude and Frequency during their original runs on the PlayStation 2 (including myself) will have something relatively different and new to enjoy as they soak up all that nostalgia. Best of all, it's nice trip back in time to the later days of the PaRappa the Rapper and Bust a Groove era, when music games didn't focus on having a pricey instrument replica in your hand and just focused on getting your rhythm down and matching notes.
Like Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Amplitude's premise is easy to figure out but almost impossible to perfect. You control a ship moving along different lanes trying to reach a finish line, but the ship isn't really important when it comes to gameplay. As you progress through each track, you have to hit each note in rhythm to the song and as it appears on screen. There are three different notes to hit in varying orders, speeds and layouts, but you'll mainly be using L1, R1 and R2 to hit the left, middle and right notes. These notes obviously contribute to the level's song. Your ship can jump from lane to lane, and each labelled area represents the instruments (such as drums, synth, etc.) or vocals for the song playing. It's rather addictive and fun to see how each lane sequence contributes to your song; I enjoy hearing what happens when you hit (and miss) each note depending on your lane.
As you'd expect, you're encouraged to hit as many notes on-key as you can and combo them together for a higher rating and more points. You can occasionally unlock a power-up that will temporarily clear an entire instrument lane/segment for you to give you breathing room, acting as a sort of Star Power for the game. In Harmonix fashion, there are higher difficulties for each song, with tougher note sequences and chains to pull off depending on what you selected, which ups the replayability and inspires you to keep coming back.
Harmonix gave the visuals a nice overall and everything looks stellar. I personally get a kind of tunnel vision going on when playing scrolling music note-based games like Amplitude, so having to glance over at other lanes to prepare for the next notes in sequence felt a little strange at first. Luckily, the vibrant colors and twisting format of the lanes helped me prepare for split-second transitions that I probably wouldn't have been able to pull off if the lanes were more straightforward or dull in their layout and designs.
I dreaded to find out that the more famous songs from the original version of Amplitude are nowhere to be found in the remake. As blasphemous as it sounds, I was actually hoping to hear Papa Roach for the first time in over 15 years. Likewise, the Bowie, Slipknot and Weezer songs are all AWOL, along with a lot of the indie Hip-Hop acts I was hoping to hear again like Akrobatik and Styles of Beyond. Unfortunately, this makes Amplitude's soundtrack feel very one-dimensional in terms of genre offerings, which is a letdown for a music game.
A lot of the songs were done by Harmonix's own studio musicians, and the tracks feel like they bleed into one another after extended gameplay sessions. The tracks we do have cater to the type of gameplay and the out-of-this-world visuals, but it would've been nice to have a bit more variance in the song type. Most of the tracklist is stuck behind gameplay quotas, and some of them require hours of song-play just to unlock, which is a bit underwhelming considering how similar each song sounds compared to the next.
Amplitude is a proper return to form for one of Harmonix's most important games prior to the Guitar Hero era. Unfortunately, a similar-sounding tracklist reiterates how much of a shallow experience this is after a while. The Frequency-based tunnel mode is an interesting addition and is bound to add replay value for a lot of the Harmonix veteran players. There's a sort of campaign mode that is basically comprised of just multiple songs played in a row, but most will aim for the standard freeplay mode after a while in order to just pick specific songs.
Amplitude has multiplayer modes available, but as you'd expect the level layouts have less twists and turns when using it in order to reduce the on screen chaos. You're able to support up to four players in various ways, including 2v2 and 3v1, which is where you'll get the most bang for your buck in terms of enjoyment, because the single-player gameplay does get stale after a while. Considering its price, Amplitude is an solid alternative for those who don't want to break bank for the new Guitar Hero or Rock Band games and their pricey peripherals.
This review was completed using a digital retail copy of Amplitude provided by the publisher for PlayStation 4.
Filed Under: 7.0 out of 10 Review, Amplitude, Harmonix, Playstation 4 Game Reviews
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Avoiding Death by a Thousand Cuts
The recent decision of Azusa Pacific University to again reverse an earlier decision on same-sex relationships on campus, reviewed by an article earlier this week, clearly points to the need for contemporary Christians to understand that in the world we live, that there are costs to discipleship, and to know in advance how we will respond to them. It is possible to set such events aside, since they do not immediately affect one's life, and go on as if it didn't happen. That would be folly, and really, unfaithful.
For that indeterminate mass of religious Americans who go under the label "Evangelical," this identity began in the early twentieth century, when many of the major Protestant denominations, what became known as "mainline," ceased to enforce doctrinal orthodoxy. The loss of Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 1920s is commonly regarded as the signal event. The response of orthodox Christians in these denominations was in some cases to leave, but more broadly to establish a Christian subculture of liberal arts colleges, Bible colleges, mission agencies, youth ministries, publishing houses, and religious broadcasting. It was within this subculture that Christian life was lived.
Things became less secure in the 1960s, as the wider culture and its laws and policies moved away from a broadly Christian basis and toward one based on self-fulfillment and quality of life. The school prayer decision of 1962 might be regarded as the signal event here, and particularly its underlying justification of not giving offense to unbelievers. ("Established religion" was found to foster "hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs"). The common thread of the offensiveness of traditional Christian doctrine and morality runs through all the contemporary legal and social pressure against the practice of orthodox Christianity, and all the political and legal losses since then. After this mid-twentieth century change, Evangelical primary and secondary schools became more common, and homeschooling appeared.
At the present time, the very existence of Christian doctrine and morality in its traditional, pre-Enlightenment forms is the real issue in the fierce culture war, and the Left proposes to destroy the Christian subculture with anti-discrimination law and policy. Whether the Left will have the power to do this remains to be seen. The crucial linchpin of the cultural revolution, the homosexual revolution, was achieved largely by court order. But with cultural trends directed by the entertainment industry, a radical academy, and the leftist news media, the post-1960s generations are increasingly socially and politically leftist. They may well accept and enact into law provisions that make it impossible for Christians to live in obedience to God in their personal and corporate lives. Since Christian commitment to obey God cannot change with public opinion, it is imperative that there be no compromise which involves complicity with sin.
Under pressure, some traditional Christian believers and institutions are accommodating sinful behavior. Some examples of this include Azusa Pacific University, Trinity Western University (which dropped its requirement of chastity for students under pressure from professional associations and the Canadian Supreme Court), Pepperdine University (which dropped its Title IX exemption from sex discrimination requirements, thus opening itself to same-sex and transgender claims), Grand Canyon University (which recently began providing benefits for same sex couples, under ACLU pressure), specifically Christian dating sites (required to facilitate same-sex relationships), and perhaps most well known, adoption agencies (required to provide children for same sex couples, resulting in their closure or secularization).
This kind of compromise, or in the cases of Christian dating sites and secularized adoption agencies, simple surrender, indicates that the Christian subculture is slowly being destroyed under pressure. Leftists clearly hope that, in the case of people still faithful to traditional Christianity, a slow, sluggish acceptance of sinful behavior will make it acceptable and irreversible. An individual's own viewpoint may change when one is desensitized to sin by constant exposure and compromise. Substantial numbers of people from Christian homes and churches who grow up in the present environment can reasonably be expected demand changes in Christian doctrine and morality to accept both the sexual revolution and an inclusive, or even universalist, understanding of salvation. This clearly shows the two big issues, namely sex and hell – and behind them, the ultimate theological issue of obedience to a personal God – where the liberal/left finds traditional Christianity offensive and intolerable.
It is imperative then, that faithful Christians not be complicit in sin, although it means loss of opportunities, jobs, property, or friends. The difficult and insidious problem, that will work against long term faithfulness, is knowing when an accommodation to the world we find ourselves in becomes sinful. Beyond that, a disciple of Christ cannot go. Short of that will be the world in which faithful Christians can live, perhaps very much reduced in opportunity and income.
Two examples should show how Christian institutions responded to intense pressure. In the second half of the twentieth century, it was thought by some Christian schools that to carry forward the Biblical idea of male headship of the home and family responsibility, men should receive higher pay than women for the same work. This is not legally possible, even for a Christian institution. Hence Christian schools follow the rule of "equal pay for equal work." Different pay rates for different sexes are not required by Scripture, and doubtless many Christians today would not believe they are desirable. So a state requirement forbidding a practice justified from the Bible can be complied with, because it does not involve sin. Much more questionable is last year's decision of Trinity Western University in Canada to no longer require Christian sexual morality of its student body. To do this, the university seems to have redefined itself from a covenanted Christian community to a Christian ministry (since Christian doctrine and morality continues to be required of the faculty). The real problem here is that in the ongoing life of the university, it will still be understood as a Christian institution functioning in the Evangelical world. The faithfulness of that world is thereby diminished, and demands for more compromise likely to result. And it likely will be (wrongly) pointed to as an example of how to be "Christian" or even "Evangelical" while tolerating sin.
Perhaps this will be an easier question for individuals. Is one directly facilitating sin, as one is clearly doing by designing a homosexual wedding, assisting in an abortion procedure, publishing literature condemnatory of Christian faith or morals, or participating in a "Christian" organization which has come to tolerate or even advocate sin (II Cor. 6:17)? These activities clearly cause one's neighbor to stumble (Matt. 18:7), and thus are sins in themselves. On the other hand, we are to live in the world but not of it (Jn. 17:14-15). Thus Christians accept employment with secular organizations that are not committed to obeying God, and might patronize stores offering some goods that facilitate sin (e.g., a drug store selling the Plan B abortifacient).
For a professedly Christian organization, it may not be possible to continue to exist as such. Christian adoption agencies are perhaps the most striking example. Faced with an absolute requirement to provide children to same-sex couples, some have closed; others have redefined themselves as secular. But providing goods and services that facilitate sin, or tolerating sin in the lives of what is supposed to be a community of Christians, is simply contrary to Scripture, and thus disobedience to God.
The intensifying time of trail shows no signs of abating, and signs of getting much worse, as recent articles by this writer on the Equality Act and the multipurpose "dignitarian harm" concept make clear. But here we need to realize that God and his truth do not change, and our commitment to God should not change, nor should our enthusiasm at being Christ's disciples in a dark world. It may be necessary to live as an underclass for many years. But we know that nothing happens apart from the will of God, and we have absolute assurance is that he will be victorious in the end.
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21 Responses to Avoiding Death by a Thousand Cuts
Lee D. Cary says:
Excellent piece. Thank you, sir.
Four grandchildren left the public school to attend a Christian school where they're learning more, in all subject venues.
It's time, I believe, for those homeschooling or sending their children to a private school demand a reduction in their public school taxes. Or, at least, better organize to run for School Boards.
"At the present time, the very existence of Christian doctrine and morality in its traditional, pre-Enlightenment forms is the real issue in the fierce culture war, and the Left proposes to destroy the Christian subculture with anti-discrimination law and policy. Whether the Left will have the power to do this remains to be seen."
Perhaps it's equally true to ask whether the Right has the will to resist the Left.
Excuse me? As a senior citizen who chose not to have children, I've always gladly paid my taxes to educate every child, none of them my own. Furthermore, I've donated thousands of dollars in my lifetime and thousands more in volunteer hours to our public schools. So-called "Christians" who want an opt-out of taxes paid to educate kids other than their own are, in my opinion, self-sentered, self-serving, selfish and just plain greedy.
Don't you just love all those right-wing self-righteous folks who constantly defend their "right-to-life," pro-unwanted-babies beliefs and then are anti-adoption of those same little ones by single folks, same-sex couples, Jewish folks, etc. Jesus wouldn't qualify to let the children be raised by him because last I checked, Jesus was Jewish. The nurture, love, and parenting of unwanted children is not dependent on sexuality, gender, or religion. Get over yourself. Leaving unwanted, hard-to-adopt children to struggle in the foster care system without any sense of a secure, permanent family just because you think others not like you make unsuitable parents is despicably cruel to children. I have friends a gay couple – who adopted four Hispanic, hard to place children, all brothers, so the kids could stay together after their alcoholic, heterosexual parents were judged by child protective services as unfit and abusive. The boys are happy and thriving, no thanks to right wing Christian bigots who won't adopt these kids and stand in the way of loving parents who're all to happy to adopt them and give them a loving, happy, supportive, and stable family. Have you no resurrection faith?
Rick Plasterer says:
While it's been several days since you posted this comment, and I don't intend to respond to everything in this and your other extensive comments, I do feel that I have to respond to a couple of particularly outrageous statements in this one. Same-sex or single parents arguably do not provide the complete family in which it is best to raise children, but those on your side of this argument would close religious adoption agencies rather than allow them function by their own religious standards, which are the very reason the agencies exist. You have decided what is best for everyone (adoption by opposite sex or same-sex couples, single adults, or, I suppose cohabiting couples), and then would impose that standard on all agencies. Similarly, critical comments in this and other articles I have written in support of liberty of conscience on sexual matters will attack traditional sexual morality itself. But all I am arguing – in the articles, at least, although I do believe, as a separate issue, that traditional morality is what God requires of everyone – is the right of traditional believers to practice it. But this is forbidden by the new morality that finds it offensive.
You also refer to social conservatives being "pro-unwanted baby." I must spell out that this means that you are maintaining that unborn children should be killed because the mother determines it adversely affects her quality of life. This kind of new morality is nothing short of barbaric.
Mr. Cary,
Responding almost a week later, thank you for the complement and let me say that is one of the greatest questions I try to address in my articles. Obeying God is a non-negotiable with God, and thus a non-negotiable for Christians. As noted in this article's excerpt, it may mean loss of job, family, friends, or beloved institution. People do unexpected things under pressure. May God give us the grace to obey him always.
Loren Golden says:
As the husband of a former public schoolteacher who now homeschools our two young daughters, while I appreciate your sentiment, I believe it wisest not to demand that our local government reduce our taxes used to support the local public schools. First, public school is the only viable option for children living in poverty, and such rarely get the support they need at home. Second, the public schoolteachers are underpaid for all the work they do, and the taxes raised, as high as they are, are still inadequate to provide a decent salary to those charged with the education of the next generation. Third, the Lord Jesus admonishes us to "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's," which includes duly raised taxes. And fourthly, we are to pay duly raised taxes, so as "not to give offense" (Mt. 17.27). "Live in harmony with one another. … Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all." (Rom. 12.16-18)
Andrew Hughes says:
Thank you for your faithfulness Rick.
"After this mid-twentieth century change, Evangelical primary and secondary schools became more common, and homeschooling appeared"—think Brown v. Board of Education. Bible reading and school prayer originated as a way to convert Catholics. Only Protestant prayers and bibles were ever used. Why students could not simply pray privately in their free time has never been answered.
diaphone64 says:
Yet the same schools that prevent Christians from praying will gladly accommodate ritual cleaning stations, prayer rooms and students leaving class for prayer if Muslim.
No one has ever been prevented from praying on their own during free time. What was prohibited was schools conducting religious services of a sort. If a school ever conducted a non-Christian prayer, the howls would be immediate.
I believe you are incorrect. School officials sometimes do prevent teachers and/or students from engaging in private prayer at a public school, although current jurisprudence from the Supreme Court does not require that, and in fact I think, does not allow that. The following case in Colorado, posted by the Alliance Defending Freedom, is an example:
https://www.adflegal.org/detailspages/press-release-details/colo–school-relents-on-prayer-ban-during-free-time
I was a public school teacher. I prayed all the time – silently. I had kindergartners who individually self initiated their own prayers before eating lunch. No problem. Anyone can pray silently in our schools, anytime, anywhere. I recall how evangelical Christians demanded before and after school prayer and bible study groups on school grounds. No problem. But as soon as Gay-Straight Alliance student organizations asked to meet, those evangelical Christians demanded all groups (including their own bible study and prayer groups) be prohibited. I guess bible study and prayer groups really weren't all that important after all. I also recall the tragic shooting and killing of students in a before-school prayer/bible study group in Peducah, KY. The shooter had been repeatedly harassed and bullied because a student newspaper added to its"rumor has it column" that the young man (the shooter) was gay (he never identified he was gay, it was a rumor). While there's no excuse for the violent retribution he sought after months of being mercilessly bullied, it is also notable that all those Bible-studying and praying Christian kids never lifted a finger to stop the bullying. Their "religion" was all for show. Really sad, pathetic, and tragic situation all around. Some kids would be alive today had a responsible adult intervened and taught something basic tomthe Christian faith, "love one another, as God has loved you". The Bible doesn't say "love others like yourselves, bully the gay folks, jeven as God loves you.
In my post about the tragic Peducah, KY, High School shooting, I apologize for stating the religion of the students in the Bible study and prayer group was "all for show". I confess don't know their hearts and minds. I'm sure they'd say they were acting with sincere faith.
We do know that a Peducah kid who was publicly identified and cruelly belittled in a school publication's "rumor has it" column for having a boyfriend (though he never identified as gay) was continuously tormented and ridiculed each and every school day by students.
Yet when school systems want to add lgbtq children to their non-discrimination policies, it's evangelical folks who scream "no" the loudest.
I recall a young, openly lesbian student at a university who was continually interrupted while studying for final exams by an evangelical student who felt "called" to remind her that she was going to hell and needed to repent & accept Jesus as her savior. This is harassment. It is bullying. Evangelical kids have learned this is OK after growing up in churches where they've been told homosexuality is evil and they're God-given duty is to save gay people. No! They're God-given duty is to love. They are neither called to save or judge. Evangelical folks need to be reminded to stop pretending they're God. Maybe they should go humbly back in their closets and pray about it. In the meantime, they would do well to tell their kids in Sunday School to love lgbtq folks without arrogantly judging them or trying to save them.
David, you are spot on! In the 1950s, every school day began with the recitation of the Protestant version of the Lord's Prayer and then the pledge. One third of the class was Jewish and another third was Catholic. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize Protestant leaders (bullies, all white men) devised a daily weapon of cruel intimidation toward non-Protestant kids. I rejoiced when corporate prayers were removed from schools. There was nothing godly or Christian about the practice of belittling non-Protestants.
"At the present time, the very existence of Christian doctrine and morality in its traditional, pre-Enlightenment forms is the real issue." Well stated. The faithful orthodox Christian must be openly and forcefully pre-enlightenment and pre-modern, and not allow modern knowledge to supersede traditional interpretations of the Bible, and worldview in general.
their, not "they're" in my previous post
Gary Bebop says:
Thanks again, Rick, for presenting this topic of interest despite the noisy static it attracts from those with other agendas.
Richard Bell says:
Yes, "we know that nothing happens apart from the will of God, and we have absolute assurance is that he will be victorious in the end." In the U.S. Supreme Court's recent vindication of civil marriage equality, we see God's plan being realized. From now on, everywhere in the United States, Christian same-sex couples will establish homes and families free of the legal-social disabilities that once hid or distorted their witness. God will bless their civil marriages in all ways he blesses Christian marriages. These manifestations of God's blessing will persuade conservatives that God wills same-sex marriages. Conservative leaders of the Church will be enlightened in the same way Peter was when he witnessed God's giving his Holy Spirit to Gentiles (Acts 10:44-47) and they will make celebration of same-sex marriages a standard ministry.
Mr. Bell,
We know God's will from the Bible, not prevailing opinion. There is no indication that the uncircumcised believers of Act 10 were either advocating or practicing the vices the New Testament condemns. To the contrary, Peter indicated that they feared God and did what was right (v. 35). Divorce and remarriage are now commonly accepted by many Christians, but it is as much a violation of Jesus command against divorce and remarriage as it ever was. The fact that people are pleasant and seem happy does not mean they are not engaging in gross sin.
I see a couple of "Christians" on here have a different Bible from the rest of us. Evidently, their Bible leaves out the story of Sodom & Gomorrah and Leviticus 18:6, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and
Joe M says:
"two big issues, namely sex and hell – and behind them, the ultimate theological issue of obedience to a personal God – where the liberal/left finds traditional Christianity offensive and intolerable." this is the bottom line.
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The Political Ecology of the State
DOI link for The Political Ecology of the State
The Political Ecology of the State book
The basis and the evolution of environmental statehood
ByAntonio Augusto Rossotto Ioris
SubjectsEnvironment and Sustainability, Geography, Social Sciences
Ioris, A. (2014). The Political Ecology of the State. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315858401
The contemporary state is not only the main force behind environmental change, but the reactions to environmental problems have played a crucial role in the modernisation of the state apparatus, especially because of its mediatory role.
The Political Ecology of the State is the first book to critically assess the philosophical basis of environmental statehood and regulation, addressing the emergence and evolution of environmental regulation from the early twentieth century to the more recent phase of ecological modernisation and the neoliberalisation of nature. The state is understood as the result of permanent socionatural interactions and multiple forms of contestation, from a critical politico-ecological approach. This book examines the tension between pro- and anti-commons tendencies that have permeated the organisation and failures of the environmental responses put forward by the state. It provides a reinterpretation of the achievements and failures of mainstream environmental policies and regulation, and offers a review of the main philosophical influences behind different periods of environmental statehood and regulation. It sets out an agenda for going beyond conventional state regulation and grassroots dealings with the state, and as such redefines the environmental apparatus of the state.
The reason and the purpose of environmental statehood
Environmental statehood as irrational rationalism
Early and conventional environmental statehood
Unpacking the Hobbesian influence
Responding to regulation rigidity and persisting socioecological problems
The Kantian basis of the transition
The contingent relation between flexible environmental statehood and the neoliberalisation of socionature
The increasing neoliberalisation of socionature
Flexible environmental statehood as the realisation (actualisation) of the Hegelian state
What is beyond flexible environmental statehood and the naïve faith in the eco-state?


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Q: How can I download a file from clicking event using Selenium on Colaboratory? I want to download files from a website.
The website has a file download button.
But when I click the download button by button.click(), the file doesn't download on Colaboratory. (It works at Juypyter Notebook.)
I googled and found a solution. My code applying the solution was as follows:
!apt-get update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!cp /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromedriver /usr/bin

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

# solution
prefs = {'download.default_directory' : "/some/path"}
options.add_experimental_option('prefs', prefs)
driver = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)

# Download code
xpath = '''//*[@id="glopopd_excel"]/span'''
element_get_excel = driver.find_element_by_xpath(xpath).click()

But I can't find downloaded files anywhere.
Do I have to type 'GoogleDrive path' on prefs? (But it didn't work.)
If not, how can I download files on a click event using Selenium on Colaboratory?

A: Yes, you have to type GoogleDrive path but not normally, as you expect. You have to first mount/ask permission to read and write file, using:
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive')

Run this cell first, it will ask for the google drive permission, complete this steps accordingly and now you can do anything with google drive. Now it is same as our local machine. If you want then you may change directory now, using !cd <path>. I don't know how you are trying to download file but now it is same as local machine. You can visit these file in provided directory of google drive, after download.
First completely run that cell, and run your file downloader cell. Just doing this should work for you.
You can visit here for more/detail information.
Edit:
When you are saving files, simply specify the Google Drive path for saving the file. When using large files, Colab sometimes syncs the VM and Drive asynchronously. To force the sync, simply run:
from google.colab import drive
drive.flush_and_unmount()

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Green Lantern Reboot Is Titled Green Lantern Corps.
During the epic DC and Warner Bros. panel in Hall H at Comic-Con, an early rumor was confirmed when it was announced that the upcoming Green Lantern reboot is officially titled Green Lantern Corps. Nothing further was revealed about the movie, and no casting was announced. This makes sense, as the film isn't scheduled to hit theaters until June 2020. That's a full five years away.
Still, many thought a Green Lantern actor would be announced at Warner Bros.' epic event, which did tease both of next year's big DC releases, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, with never-before-seen footage (which may or may not be available on the internet in the very near future). An earlier report claimed that both John Stewart and Hal Jordan will headline this sci-fi superhero adventure. And it has been widely rumored that these characters will be played by Tyrese Gibson and Chris Pine, respectively.
The fact that no casting was announced for either character sheds some truth on the often told rumor that Green Lantern is not in most of Justice League Part 1, only showing up at the end to warn the other superheroes of a threat from deep space. While the title Green Lantern Corps. certainly hints that Hal Jordan and John Stewart will be a part of the action, that was not confirmed. It was previously reported that the movie will also include third most popular human Green Lantern Guy Gardner, introducing the character to the big screen for the first time.
Green Lantern Corps. is an intergalactic police force that controls over 3,600 sectors of the known universe. The idea of introducing Green Lantern Corps. on the big screen is not new, and the ruling force was seen in the original 2011 Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds. Though, it focused more on the various alien Lanterns and did not introduce any of the other human (or Earthling) characters known from the comic books. What do you think? Is this the best way for DC to go?


Internet service and cable TV provider Hathway Cable added 100,000 broadband subscribers during the quarter ended June 2017 (Q1 FY18), taking the total broadband subscriber base to 700,000 users. This is a slower growth compared to 200,000 user additions in the previous quarter. On a Year-on-Year (YoY) basis, broadband subscriber base has grown by 75% from 0.4 million in Q4 FY17, but this is on a very small base.
Broadband ARPU: down to Rs 730 from Rs 740 last quarter, Rs 724 in Q1FY17 (last year).
Revenue from broadband services stood at Rs 129 crore during the quarter, which is up marginally from Rs 127.6 crore in the previous quarter. On a YoY basis, broadband revenues were up 23.3% from Rs 104.6 crore. The ISP made Rs 27.2 crore in profits (after tax) during the quarter from its broadband business.
Overall revenue from operations: Hathway reported Rs 365.6 crore in gross revenue during Q1FY18, up 20% YoY from Rs 304.5 crore in revenues a year ago.
EBITDA margin: For the quarter ended June 2017 (Q1 FY18) Hathway's EBITDA was at Rs 76.5 crore, up by 97% YoY from Rs 38.9 crore.
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Inchworm has kindly written a kin mod that allows you to easily add kin images to your posts.
wowa. inchworm. that is cool!
tag, does that mean it just embeds the days kin in the page, and stays permanently set on the chosen kin (ie. yellow lunar star), or does it mean that it will change with the passing of each day?
You're welcome to use it Explora. I think Q has already sent it too you.
It stays on the day that you put it in. It saves have to write long image tags when writing DJs.
That's what i was hoping it would do. Yes there are so many journals at Sea Life, which have the dreamspell kin for each day, so that'll be super handy. I can't wait to implement it!
wow, this is nice work! no more having to type all those long internet addresses referencing to the pictures!!! Awesome!
it's now updated so the timezone is taken into account.