There are very few smartphones launches that I look forward to, but this year, that list has unexpectedly grown. Up until last year, the Pixel and the Note announcements were the only ones I looked forward to, but this year, Huawei and Honor have definitely joined the list. The Huawei P20 Pro was launched to tall claims of unmatched camera performance, which turned out to be almost all true, and given the shared heritage between Huawei and Honor, the Honor 10 was another smartphone I was looking forward to. Why? Well for starters, Honor's flagships have always been spec'd to the hilt, sporting Huawei's top-of-the-line processor mated with the highest amount of RAM logical. They've traditionally also thrown in ample storage. This was the Honor 8 Pro, which had every making of a flagship but lacked in the design aspect. The Honor 10 fixes that. You still get the best possible hardware, but now its all packaged into this one sleek, gorgeous looking smartphone. But are looks and on-paper specs everything? Let's find out just how much the Honor 10 delivers on the specs it boasts of.
Honor 10 Design: What Sorcery is this?
There are two things about the Honor 10's design that stand out about the Honor 10. First is the colour treatment of the phone. Huawei's P20 Pro made quite a splash with its Twilight Purple, dual tone colour, however, the Honor 10 takes things even further. On this phone, the finish is so unique that it not only changes colour based on the angle you look at it from but also creates streaks of light running from top to bottom. It's a finish unlike any other and the good thing is, its done well enough for the phone to not look tacky. The glass front and back are held together by a metal frame that has no flex at all. The three components are put together well. While the construction quality is impressive, it still lacks any kind of IP rating.
While the back of the Honor 10 will instantly turn heads, the front is incredibly subtle. The only thing that stands out about the front of the device is the fingerprint sensor, which is embedded under the display glass. Before you get excited, no this is not the in-display fingerprint sensor, but it is quite close. The fingerprint sensor resides below the glass on the chin of the Honor 10, where a traditional capacitive fingerprint sensor would go. This is an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor that should not be affected by wet or greasy fingers, and in my usage, I found the claim to be true. I also found the phone to unlock just as fast as I'd expect a capacitive sensor to do its job. On the bottom, there's a USB-2.0 Type C connector sitting next to a 3.5mm headphone jack. The Honor 10 is 7.7mm thick and manages to incorporate a headphone jack. Phones really don't need to be any thinner, especially if it's going to mean losing features that have been a standard for decades.
As far as the design goes, the Honor 10 stands out, from Honor's own smartphones and from everything else that's available today.
The Honor 10 comes with a 5.84-inch IPS LCD display with a 19:9 aspect ratio, with an effective width of just 2.8-inches. What this means is that the phone is very easy to use with just one hand, a boon for people who have small hands like me. The display itself has a resolution of 1080x2280 and when you factor in the screen size, you're looking at a display with a pixel density of roughly 432 ppi. Sadly, there is also a notch here and even though it's noticeably smaller than the one on the iPhone X, it still feels like something that could have been done without. You can "turn off the notch," a feature we saw on the Huawei P20 Pro, but it doesn't work as well on the Honor 10 because of the IPS LCD display which can't turn the pixels off to achieve perfect blacks. The notch trend is really annoying and takes more away from the display than it gives. Moving past the notch, the display can crank up to a maximum of 560 lux according to our lux meter. In case you're wondering, it's just about enough to be legible under bright daylight, and thankfully, the reflections aren't all that bad. Because Honor uses an IPS panel, the colour accuracy is very impressive, but if you're the kind of person who likes saturated displays, you can always just tweak the display settings to achieve the saturation levels.
So yes, this is essentially a 1080p display that only supports standard colour gamut. This means there's no DCI-P3 colour support and no HDR video playback compatibility either. This is something we would expect from a phone that tries to call itself a flagship. In Honor's defence, no other smartphone offers HDR panels in this price range, but that isn't really a justification to leave some features out. If anything, Honor could have earned itself an advantage had it used a higher resolution display or procured a panel that supported HDR video playback.
Overall the display is functional, colour accurate and can go between bright enough for daytime to dim enough for use in pitch dark. This is something you can get from a lot of smartphones that cost a whole lot less. The lack of higher pixel density or HDR support is an opportunity lost for Huawei so as to be able to set itself apart from the competition.
I should probably state at the very beginning of this section about my bias when it comes to gauging performance. For starters, I am not convinced that benchmark numbers are an accurate portrayal oh a phone's performance, simply because we've seen multiple cases of smartphone manufacturers gaming benchmark tests. Second, I do feel that if a phone performs well in day-to-day usage (average to aggressive), it's a far stronger indicator of performance than synthetic benchmarks. However, our testing methodology still relies on a combination of benchmark and real-world usage scores, so I will discuss both here.
The synthetic benchmarks reveal that the octa-core Kirin 970 processor falls squarely in the Snapdragon 835 segment when it comes to performance. The processor has four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and four big Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.3GHz. Interestingly, this setup is identical to what was seen on the Kirin 960 processor, including the clock-speeds. What has changed though is the GPU. The Kirin 970 has a Mali G72MP12 graphics processor, which is 50% denser than the Mali G71 on the Kirin 960, but also has a lower clock-speed (764 MHz. vs. 1037 MHz). When putting the Honor 10 through a flurry of benchmark tests, we see that it just about keeps up with smartphones that run on the Snapdragon 835 chipset. While the Honor 10 manages to eek ahead of the OnePlus 5T and the Pixel 2 XL on AnTuTu (199836, 180754, 168828 respectively), it loses out to all but the Pixel in Geekbench's single and multi-core benchmark. We note the same behaviour in our GFX Manhattan 3.1 tests and even the 3D Mark suite of benchmarks. What was rather surprising though was the rate at which the phone was heating up during the testing. In fact, during one run of 3DMark's Sling Shot Extreme test, the phone gave an over-heating warning and shut the benchmark down. This same heating is noticed even when taking photos, especially in Pro mode.
Moving past synthetic benchmarks and into real-world use, I've been using the phone as my primary and only smartphone for about a week and I have to say, its been surprisingly smooth sailing. After setting up the phone with all my apps and data, there's been practically no reason to complain. Everything works acceptably fast and smooth on the Honor 10, whether its multiple rounds of Need for Speed, a few matches in Injustice or even if its to edit the RAW photos using Snapseed. There's no lag, no stutter and most importantly, no crashes. The Honor 10 has become a very reliable daily driver for me. Before this, I was using the Google Pixel 2 XL as my daily driver and honestly, the Honor 10 has not let me down. Sure, the benchmark numbers peg this phone's performance more in line with last year's Snapdragon 835. The concern with this is that the OnePlus 6 which will be powered by the Snapdragon 845, along with all other flagships of this year, is only a day away from being launched, officially raising the bar on performance. Then there is also the concern of whether the Honor 10 will be able to maintain its performance over the course of the year, as apps and OS receive updates. The Honor 10 feels like it may be starting off at a disadvantage when it comes to the modernity of its hardware, but from what I've experienced in the last few days, it sure doesn't feel any less than a top-tier performer.
The Honor 10 runs on EMUI 8.1, built on Android 8.1 Oreo. This is the same OS that the Huawei P20 Pro runs as well. But there were some differences in its behaviour. While setting up the phone, I was unable to copy data from my old phone onto the Honor 10. Honor's Phone Clone app just wouldn't establish the WiDi connection, no matter how much I tried. After about an hour of trial and error, I finally gave up and decided to set the phone up as new. I had to spend another two hours copying all my data from one phone to the other via a USB drive, along with manually downloading all the necessary apps. Finally, once all the data stuff was done, I moved into display settings and changed the colours from Vivid to Natural so as to get a more colour accurate representation of colours. In the Colour mode setting, you can not only select between the two-colour modes, but also choose the colour temperature of the screen from either one of the three presets, or anything from the colour-wheel. The next thing I did was change the launcher layout from the default, iPhone like implementation to the standard Android layout with an App Drawer.
Once the phone was set up, using it has been almost a total treat. It hasn't crashed a single app yet and even the 4K video shot from its own camera in HEVC playback without any stutters. The built-in theme store opens the door for a major visual overhaul, something I particularly liked. Unfortunately, there is still no way to apply custom icon packs downloaded from the Google Play Store without using a custom launcher.
While the OS is beautifully optimised with the hardware, not letting any app or gesture falter, there is one major problem with EMUI 8.1 that ships on the Honor 10 and that is bloatware. There are a large number of Huawei's own apps, a few social media apps, some games and even some utility apps that are pre-installed on the phone. Some of these like the social media apps and games you can remove and others you cannot. For example, EMUI has its own Mail app which cannot be removed and feels mostly like a waste of space since most people just prefer to use Google's own Gmail app for managing e-mails. OEMs really need to start making their operating systems leaner and trim the fat off the software. Removing or allowing users to remove unneeded apps would be a great start.
Overall, EMUI 8.1 is surprisingly stable and functional. I'm typically very wary of non-stock Android-based smartphones, but my experience with EMUI 8.1 on the Honor 10 has been pretty good. The bloatware is annoying, but when you have 128GB of on-board storage, you don't really feel the pinch for space.
The Honor 10 comes with a 24-megapixel RGB sensor and a 16-megapixel monochrome sensor that make up its dual camera assembly. Both the cameras sport lenses with an f/1.8 aperture. The Huawei P20 Pro had very impressive camera performance thanks to the over the top camera specs, but the Honor 10 is a lot more modest. What did raise my eyebrow was the 24-megapixel front-facing camera with a pixel pitch of 1.8 μm, which is larger than what primary cameras on more expensive flagships sport. Lets first talk about the primary cameras. Only a few camera samples are shared in this review, and they have been downsized for easy web viewing. If you'd like to see a whole gallery of untouched camera samples, head over to this link here.
In daylight, both the primary cameras can take impressive photos with very little loss in detail. The detail loss occurs due to two factors; the JPG compression that is applied to the RAW sensor data to convert it into a readable image file and if the camera deems fit, the application of noise reduction. I did notice that in good night, the Honor 10 was retaining a lot of the detail that is otherwise lost. The detail in skin is often the first to be sacrificed, with the texture changing into a smooth, brown coloured surface. That is not the case if you shoot with the Honor 10 in good light. In good light, even the autofocus will be reliable at least 8 out of 10 times. You can shoot in the auto mode, but if you truly want to shoot without a care in the world, you should turn on the AI assist mode. Turning this feature on will engage the NPU built into the Kirin 970 processor which will help automatically detect the subject and adjust the shooting settings accordingly. I was very surprised to see that the AI was accurate 100 percent of the times, whether I tried shooting my dog in good light or trying to photographer obscure looking food in the really bad light. The AI sure works well at identifying the subject and in most cases, does apply the right kind of tweaks to get the perfect shot. For example, every time I tried taking photos of individual people, the AI kicked into portrait mode.
Once the sun has gone down, things change a little in terms of cameras performance. Photos have visibly more aggressive noise reduction applied to them which is apparent from the loss in texture on surfaces with texture. Colour reproduction also takes a hit with slight shift in hues across the colours blue and green. There is also a noticeable loss in contrast. Interestingly, all this behaviour I speak of applies to the RGB sensor, but once you shift to monochrome, things change. Suddenly, you can shoot in Pro mode and use a high ISO value because noise will turn into gorgeous film grain. The low contrast will lend a retro feel to your image. Workarounds aside though, the Honor 10's primary cameras can go up to ISO 3200, shooting at which will have visibly poor image quality. If you can keep the ISO at 1600 or below, you should be able to walk away with images that are definitely usable. The best part, however, is that if you shoot in RAW, yes, the high ISO RAW files will have more noise than their JPG counterpart, but through editing, you will not only be able to clean up much of the noise, but also retain a lot of the detail and colour. With Adobe Lightroom and Snapseed, RAW editing is now possible on the phone itself, so you don't even have to bother with moving the images to a desktop.
The Honor 10 boasts of not just a high-resolution sensor for its selfie camera, but also a 1.8 μm pixel pitch. The result is not just high-resolution selfies, but also very impressive low light performance. When I switched to the front-facing camera to take some selfies (which rarely happens), the first thing I noticed was the lack of autofocus. Most OEMs don't offer AF capabilities for the front-facing camera, so it is well within the norm for Honor to not do the same, but it would have definitely been a big notch on their belt if they had the feature. The selfies in any case, look pretty good, especially those shot in low light. The camera app is applying some smoothening by default and a lot of aggressive JPG compression. Selfies shot in low light and examined on a large screen show significant compression loss. Where all this won't matter is when you're taking selfies in poorly lit situations. The low light performance of the Honor 10's selfie camera is definitely a cut above what's available in this segment, but the camera app could use a little more refinement and possibly, better JPG algorithms which apply lesser compression.
The Honor 10 packs a 3400mAh battery which supports fast charging. There is also a fast charger in the box. In the week I've been using the Honor 10, the phone easily lasts over a whole day's use. Unplugging the phone from the charger by 8 in the morning, the phone generally required a recharge the next day even on days where my usage was higher than normal (not on benchmarking days), the battery still adequately lasted till bed-time. This behaviour is corroborated by the PCMark battery test, on which the Honor 10 recorded 8 hours and 21 minutes for the battery to go from 100 to 20 percent. The phone charges up in under an hour and a half, with the first 30 percent of the battery charging faster than the rest of it. There's really not much to write about the battery honestly, given that it performs well within the expected norms.
The Honor 10 is a striking smartphone with its Aurora Glass finish that gives the back its unique look. The Phantom Blue colour variant we reviewed was an eye-catcher, with the back looking like a joyous mix of blue, purple, white streaks and at times, pink. The 5.84-inch display in a 19:9 aspect ratio means the width is notably narrow, making the phone surprisingly easy to use with just one hand. The performance of the phone is also good, with no hiccups or lag, but the phone I had was heating up way too much for it to be normal. I have never seen any phone hit 55.7 degrees during a 3DMark run and on another occasion, shut the app down due to overheating. I was even more surprised to see the phone heat up around the edge with the camera module after shooting maybe five photos in pro mode. Overlooking the heating, I did enjoy taking photos from the Honor 10. While the phone produces great images during the day, shooting RAW is a far better option if you want better images in low light. It produces impressive selfies too and has enough battery to get your well through a busy workday. The only apprehension I see would be with the fact that Honor is using the Kirin 970 processor, which doesn't perform poorly today, but there is no telling how the phone would fare in a year from now, after a few software updates.


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Q: WooCommerce / Wordpress images rotated for no reason? I know this is probably not the best SO question ever because I don't have the relevant code (I don't know where it is and I can't find it). If anybody has seen this problem before or knows what is causing this I can't tell you how much I would appreciate it.
I have a storefront and the images in the storefront are showing up rotated 90 degrees to the left for no apparent reason.
The actual source files of the images are normal, if you look at the actual .jpg used in on the site they are upright.
How or why would they be showing up rotated? Is this some setting or a bug in WooCommerce?
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Yes, I've disabled every addon and used only WordPress and WooCommerce and the result is the same. Different themes yield the same result as well.

A: I discovered the problem in case anybody stumbles across this later down the road. The issue is with Apple's exif data and rotation information they store within each image. It is apparently not compatible with most computers and when you upload a picture from a mobile device from Apple (ipad, iphone etc.) you are likely to experience this phenomenon.
There is little than can be done about it, shy of uploading the images to a computer and manually fixing the orientation of all rotated images before using them.

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Q: Eigenvectors of difference of inverse matrices I have two matrices $A$ and $B$, symmetric and positive semi-definite (in fact, they are covariance matrices), and I am interested in computing the eigenvectors of the matrix $A^{-1}-B^{-1}$.
From numerical simulations, it appears that the eigenvectors of $A^{-1}-B^{-1}$ are often well approximated simply by the eigenvectors of $A-B$.
Moreover, if I regularize the matrices $A$ and $B$ before inverting them, by computing the matrix $(A+k\cdot I)^{-1} - (B+k\cdot I)^{-1} $ (where k is a positive constant, and $I$ is the identity matrix), the eigenvectors of $A-B$ provide an almost perfect approximation, especially if k is large.
Is there a way to prove that the eigenvectors of $A-B$ are a good approximation of the eigenvectors of $A^{-1}-B^{-1}$?
Edit: in light of your (very helpful) comments, I expanded my numerical tests to larger matrices, where I can see that it is not generally true that the eigenvectors of $A-B$ are close to those of $A^{-1}-B^{-1}$.
However, this still works if I consider the "regularized" versions of $A$ and $B$, i.e. the eigenvectors of $A-B$ correspond to the eigenvectors of $(A+k\cdot I)^{-1} - (B+k\cdot I)^{-1} $ (where k is a large positive constant, and $I$ is the identity matrix). Is there any way to prove this?
Edit 2: I think I might have found the proof for this. There is a well known result that $(I-A)^{-1}= I+A+A^2+A^3+...$ (this can be shown by multiplying both sides by $I-A$).
My expressions $A+k \cdot I$ can be rewritten as $\epsilon \cdot A +I$ (for small $\epsilon$), and so I can approximate $(\epsilon \cdot A +I)^{-1}$ with $I-A$ because I drop the following terms.
Finally I have:
$(A+k\cdot I)^{-1} - (B+k\cdot I)^{-1} = (\epsilon \cdot A+ I)^{-1} - (\epsilon \cdot B+ I)^{-1} = (I-A)-(I-B) = B-A$
Please let me know if you have any other insights about this, and thanks again for your help!


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I hate making cheese sauce. It's not difficult, it's just a waiting game, and I always get bored watching and stirring it, so then it gets too thick. I also generally only make it for lasagne topping, but all of my recipes are for about four times the volume I need. I did once try freezing it, but it wasn't quite the same – thanks to our permanently over freezing and frostbitten chest freezer.
But this time I decided to check our antiquated microwave cook book. Now this isn't a cook book from either of the 2 microwaves I've bought and used in the past. Nope, this one is like a cook book from the 70s/80s when microwaves first really started taking off. If you watched the tv show Back for Dinner on BBC2 recently, you'll know what I mean.
Anyway, anything for an easy life (but not so easy I just buy a readymade sauce), so I looked up a couple of the recipes in there. The first was mornay sauce (in the index as 'alternative cheese sauce'. I thought mornay sauce was for fish, so I headed to the macaroni cheese recipe. I just needed to reduce the ingredients by a third to get to what I needed for a lasagne for 4 people. If you want it for macaroni cheese you might want to double it.
I don't really use the microwave for anything other than porridge, scrambled eggs, and defrosting items, so I was interested to see how it turned out. Surprisingly it was really nice, although cooked a lot faster than I anticipated – obviously my 850W microwave is slightly more powerful than the 70s or 80s Sharp one in the recipe book.
(for macaroni, lasagne, cauliflower cheese, or whatever else you fancy – serves 4).
And the mystery ingredient 1 drop of red pepper sauce. I have no idea what this is, if you know then add it, if not you could add freshly ground nutmeg which is always great in cheese sauce.
Add the mustard powder, pepper, and milk. Stir to combine.
Microwave on high until thick. I found it was really thick, so added a bit more milk until it was the consistency I wanted.
Add the grated cheese and some freshly ground nutmeg. The cheese should mostly melt. If you want it smooth, add the cheese earlier. If it's a topping and will be reheated, then just whack it on the food because it'll melt and go smooth in the oven.
I'll definitely be doing this again, because it's a lot less stirring but tastes just as good as doing it in a pan on the hob. The OH didn't notice it was any different to normal, which is always a result too.
My microwave is mostly used to re-heat mugs of tea or coffee that have gone cold while I've been distracted or procrastinating!
Mine's mostly porridge and scrambled eggs, melting chocolate. But so handy to have this.
My microwave is used almost entirely for re-heating and popcorn… however now it is going to get used for cheese sauce too, I love how easy this looks!
My best guess would be that "red pepper sauce" is just a way of avoiding saying Tabasco :-). Personally I prefer a drop or two of Siracha (which is a Thai variant and is typically less vinegary) .
You could be right. Bleurgh! To strong for my liking. I'd stick to the warmth of nutmeg myself. I've heard of Siracha and not looked it up yet, so nice to know what it is.


Agree with previous review that sauce/ gravy amount seems disportioned. I used only 2 thick pork chops (all I had on hand) and I still added more water for the gravy. I highly recommend searing. I cooked "stove top stuffing/ sage" separate. Used less onions (family preference) & added canned mushrooms. Somewhat bland. Added sage, thyme & seasoned salt. A good quick & easy crock pot recipe but would increase amounts for sauce/ gravy.
This did not turn out good at all. I think something is off with the measurements. It was very dry.


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At first sight each image looks simple and contains nothing except the people (or landscape, etc) photographed, and memories, of course. Hard to believe, but there is much more information hidden behind the image. It's like the image "genealogy" containing the information of the file type, date when it was taken, camera used, ownership information, and other descriptive elements. Alongside with advantages that the metadata offer, there may be inconveniences as well mostly related to privacy. There are two types of metadat a: EXIF and IPTC. Exchangeable Information File Format (EXIF) is used by camera manufacturers to store the information built inside the image file. EXIF also describes some camera settings, such as aperture, shutter speed, white balance, etc. These data are important for any software supposed to open and process the image file. EXIF is normally not altered, except for the situations when some settings, such as date, time, etc. were incorrect. IPTC (The International Press Telecommunications Council) includes the fields to insert the photographer's name, location of a photo, and any other additional information the photographer finds useful. By removing or altering metadata from a file you protect your privacy when sharing photos on the web. The possibility to remove or edit metadata, including GPS, exists with ImageConverter Plus. Choose between "overwrite" or "remove" it in the corresponding menu.


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Sam: Did you get touched by a goddess?
Tom: I did with. But yes, she touched me and maybe look brawny. And my thighs have never looked so good. I've got a wonderful town now.
Sam: Well, you are a personal trainer in your day job, so I have absolutely no doubt.
Tom: I don't practice what I preach. That I've got very fat, very lazy on. I have horrible posture.
Sam: Marvelous e. There's nothing. There's nothing I can really say that is there. It's been a while since we actually saw each other. You know, the photos on your website could be several years old.
Tom: I found out from one kind, who I trained, that she was on tinder and she saw a picture of someone she knew very well. It was one of the best friends husbands on the photo he was using on tinder was actually one of their wedding photos where he put out his wife. Uh, classy. Stay classy.
Sam: Now, maybe actually a topic for an episode coming up. Sneaky historical sidelines. That's
Tom: no, no, that's good. Historical tinder dates. We could go for Cleopatra.
Sam: Oh, come on. Now, some blame tomorrow. Some blame to Marc Antony. Hello, Tom.
Tom: Hello, Sam. How are you?
Sam: I am very good. Thank you. How you doing this? Fine. Fine. Friday afternoon slash Morning.
Tom: I'm wonderful. I'm wonderful. It's definitely my evening. I'm fairly sure that
Sam: it's definitely my morning. I'm sat here in my pants as bloody per excellent during a snowy view out over Manchester.
Tom: Yeah, I can't say the same here. I'm looking out in the dark, but it has been a sunny day. It's been a sunny day out in New Zealand that you probably explain why it's my evening. Yes, I'm tuning in from New Zealand.
Sam: So for those who are new to this podcast, which is pretty much everyone, since this is probably gonna be episode number one, Um, this is that was genius. A podcast in which two men on different sides of the world, but united by a love of history surprise each other with a story about history. I am in the UK. Tom is in New Zealand. We are in many ways completely opposite people. He says, Tomato, I say tomato. Let's call the whole thing off for assemble. A group of bishops split our churches on result in 400 years of strife and socio economic deprivation.
Tom: I like it.
Sam: Did you like that?
Tom: They do say Tomato in New Zealand, though I think sorry to ruin it. Sorry to ruin it.
Sam: Shit Cut. It started again. It's
Tom: not all over again. So what's our topic for this first week? I think we chose it last week, didn't we?
Sam: Yeah. So last week we did a pilot which may or may not ever get released, and you probably won't ever hear if you're listening to this. But we decided that the topic for this week is going to be. You wreak her moments. So the form that's pretty simple. We each take it in turns to tell each other historical story or and wonder we interrupt. We swear a bit. It basically becomes a fantastic podcast. On this week. We are doing eureka moments or moments when people said,
Tom: Oh, excellent. Is it worth defining Eureka moments? Because I I found this quite difficult, Sam, because I was thinking about Eureka moments, and there was some quite well known ones on, but I wanted to be a bit more creative because we've all heard of, For example, Isaac Newton Hemmingway sitting under the apple tree on Apple falls on his head and he goes, Oh, gravity, which call me a cynic. But I doubt that's how it happened. I'm sure he was pondering the concept of gravity long before an apple fell on his head. So it's Are we okay if we broaden the definition slightly, make it so it's, you know, sudden moments of inspiration or discovery. Intuition, I suppose. Is that OK?
Sam: That's absolutely fine. I feel obliged to say that that is absolutely fine. Because from the fact that you're already three minutes into the podcast looking for loopholes that no stick rigidly to the rules, this might fuck up this entire thing. Absolutely. You go for it.
Tom: I haven't got anything prepared if we don't do that so that that's good. I'm glad to reflect. A Bally reflects Will host. Thank you.
Sam: My pleasure. The flip side of this is that I'm gonna make you go first.
Tom: Oh, no, that's all right. That's quite fine. I'm quite happy to go first. Did incidental Sam, do you know the origins of the word eureka?
Sam: I do. But let's fill people in
Tom: X. I think we should I think we should just
Sam: No, I tell a bloody life because I know about the thing in the bath, but I don't know why, he shouted, Eureka! I don't know why that word.
Tom: Let's take ourselves back to I think it was 1/3 century BC in Syracuse, which was in Sicily on it was sort of independent. I think it's more the Greek state than a Roman state. We're actually talking about Archibald Mendez or Artoo to his friends on Dhe, since the third century B. C has been bastardized into common parlance is Arkham Edie's. But I prefer to call them. Archie was
Sam: actually Archie.
Tom: No, it wasn't That's that's silly. I just think it reads better as our party. Mendez. It's a sort of, you know, when you know when you first read Harry Potter and you have no idea how to pronounce Miami. Yeah, and yeah, it's a little bit like that when you read our comedians for the first time. It looks like Archie Medevaced, isn't it? So are comedians, was a great mathematician of ancient romantic grease on dhe. Hey was well known, has been a mathematician in an engineer on the king off Syracuse had a bit of a problem. He was in a bit of a pickle. He had asked for a crown to be made of gold, and he had a sneaking suspicion that the chaps that were making the crown had made some adjustments to it, made the gold less pure by including some silver, and that basically pinched some gold on DSO. Thinking wanted a way of discerning Whether or not that I've been the case, so are comedians was pondering this. Andi hey, sort of went and had a bath, and he was sort of playing with his rubber duckies and putting a load of bubble bath. And he was burned all over his face and pretending to be father Christmas, like we all do on Dhe realized that he had displaced a lot of water. And then he thought, Wow, There you go. That's it. That's my eureka moment on the water Displacement Could be my tool for working out the mass off the crown is on. I'm gonna be honest with you now, Sam. I don't know very much about physics, chemistry or fluid mechanics, so I'm not gonna try and explore this anymore or explain how water displacement can allow you to establish whether or not metal has been made less pure. But we'll leave that you can go and research that yourself and try and comprehend it. But our comedians, when he works this out, he jumps up and shouts Eureka! Which is ancient Greek for I've got it and then, like your eye or any normal person would do. He decides to celebrate the discovery by streaking through the streets of Syracuse.
Sam: To be fair, though, the Greeks didn't really wear many clothes. Anyway. I've seen a few Greek pots in my time on dhe. If there's two things the Greeks love, it's not wearing any clothes and shagging goats whilst they're not wearing any clothes, that is, that doesn't apply to modern Greek people. By the way, I'm not being racist. This is purely the ancients
Tom: peeling. The agents loved a goat and love to be the nudity. So you might be right, Sam, you might. It might have been not quite as novel as it might be. For example, in Newcastle two in the morning, on a cold Friday night on someone streets streaking through the streets,
Sam: we've all been the examining fluid Dynamics in an alleyway, Newcastle at two o'clock in the morning Friday top eyes placing fluids all over our shoes along with
Tom: Excellent. So like with the story of Isaac Newton, I'm I'm not convinced there are comedians actually discovered it that suddenly, but it's it's a good storytelling tool. And then these eureka moments have been used in a lot of stories. Going back to her mind if you, um if Reggie Harry Potter books haven't you, Sam,
Sam: You know, I'm ashamed to say on almost like you're proud to say that I have never read a Harry Potter book.
Tom: Oh, dear,
Sam: I am so culturally blind Tom Isil Greece for the first time last weekend,
Tom: out in May.
Sam: But don't don't bother explaining the backstory of this, because I know that most of the listeners are not a zoo ignorant, Threatening says, I
Tom: am totally credits. I like that on one of the books, one of the early, but I think it's the third book, the Chamber of Secrets, or I'm gonna get some Harry Potter enthusiasts being very unhappy. If I'm wrong with that, it might be the second book. There was a moment in there where her mind. He realizes that the battle ISC is is killing lots of people in Hogwarts, and she has. Her Eureka moments is very, very common in literature because it allows for a dramatic turn of events on that. I think that's kind of what's being used here with our comedians. And with Isaac Newton, you know, it's it's a sort of storytelling tour.
Sam: I am glad that you brought it back to history from Harmony because I would probably have raised issue if, in a history based podcast, your eureka moment off choice to discuss was the Chamber of Secrets.
Tom: Yeah. No, no, don't worry. Don't worry. We are. We are getting onto. I do, So I just like taking my time. Sam, I like taking the scenic route to my my story. So, Sam, now, this is where the link comes in. I decided I would go to the from our comedians and h increase. I would go even more ancient Greece on. I would go back, back and further back to the eighth century B C. To the second oldest book in Western literature. Do you know what that is? Some
Sam: I have no idea. I'm trying to think of a comedy book to think off, but I can't find one
Tom: said right now, something with a rude title that so it's actually the Odyssey, and that will give you clues to what's the oldest book, which is the iliac by both by the Bard Homer and also yet back in the eighth century BC. I think it was probably sunk, not written, because it comes from a long tradition, as far as I understand. Anyway, The Odyssey has lots off sort of eureka moments in the final Chapters used its literary tools from just a dramatic finish, and I'll go into a bit. I'll give you a bit of background to the Odyssey, just for those who have read it and forgotten all those who have never read it. So The Odyssey is the story of Odysseus returning from the Trojan Wars, and we have all heard about trading mortar migrants, details on that on Dhe he's got. He was at the Trojan Wars for 10 years, and it took him 10 years to get home, largely his own fault because he pissed off Poseidon. And if there's one thing I've learned from reading the Odyssey it's Don't piss off Poseidon. You know
Sam: there is the God of the Sea.
Tom: Absolutely, absolutely any piss of Poseidon by poke in one of his sons in the eye and blinding him just to, you know, make things worse. That son was Polly FEMA's, I think policy Miss only had one Ike's heaves a sigh crops. So you know, the only had one eye to lose on. Odysseus goes and pokes it out. So he takes 10 years to get home to Ithaca, which is in Greece. On when he gets home to Ithaca, he finds out his wife, Penelope, and his only son, Telemachus, are having some real problems with a bunch of suitors who are basically basically taken over. It issues his home andan eight in all of its wine, drinking all of his wine on basically trying to bunk Penelope. So it's all a bit of a pickle, Really, Sam, that's a bit
Sam: forward, isn't it? That's a little bit rude. Not only am I going to come and try and seduce you, but I'm going to do it whilst it's camping out in your house, eating all of your food?
Tom: Absolutely. That
Sam: doesn't scream in future husband material, does it?
Tom: No, no, it's no, it's not very chivalrous. I don't think it's not so these suitors just being a pain in the ass. Basically, they think that this uses dead because he's been away for 20 years, and these aren't that concerned. He's he's gone. A lot of the other heroes of the Trojan will have returned successfully, while most successful actual mom died. But anyway, let's jump to when he arrives in Ithaca, having had lots of adventures for 10 years. So he arrives in Ithaca, washed up on the shore, largely thanks to Athena. So he's pissed off Poseidon. But Athena, the goddess, is on his side. So he does have one of the gods on its side, which is good. Andi, He goes to the hut off his old swine hood. Hume es es Onda dishes, pretends that it's just the beggar it is, pretends it is what it doesn't let anyone know who he is. And this is where the good revelations and the Eureka moments come from. Whilst he's at this hut who turns up. But Telemachus, his only son, who's just narrowly avoided being killed by the suitors so they really are a rather horrible bunch. Sam. What
Sam: a bunch of wankers. Where on earth if you wanted to marry a woman, would you go out of your waist, Try and kill her son? I scream marriage material to me as if eating out of house and home wasn't bad enough.
Tom: I know, I know. And they're bonking all of you a lot of his and her mates as well. So all the maids in the house they're joining in the fun it's just is chaos. And quite frankly, it's chaos. And there's only one man that we want to come sort out. There's only one man who can sort out and his name is a dis use.
Sam: I was gonna go, No skipping a bit. I'll edit that
Tom: out. You're gonna go Mr T. Anyway, So we've got the first revelation, the first moment where Odysseus reveals himself to his son, Telemachus. And it's a It's a rather emotional moment, and Athena is there to lend a helping hand. She does. It's a lot on the Odyssey. Let me read it. As she spoke, Athena touched him with her golden one. At this year's first, she clothed him in a fresh cloak and tunic, then restored his stature and youthful vigor. His bronze town returned. His jaw filled out in the beard, grew dark on his chin. Her work done. Athena disappeared, and the dishes went back into the hut. His son gave him a look of amazement, then withdrew his eyes for fear that he might be a court and said with words that were Winged, Stranger, you're not the same now as before anyone. There's a revelation of this year's soon points out. I'm not God, actually. I'm your dad's Telemachus. Dad's home, eh? Go on! They put they have a bit, they have a big cuddle. And you know, Odysseus does dad like things like blow raspberries on Telemachus, his stomach and all that sort of thing.
Sam: He's been gone for 20 years. How old is absolutely come here. 30 year old son. Let me blow raspberries on you and change your nappy
Tom: raspberries on your hairy stomach filled with lint. Yes.
Sam: This does explain why the suitors might have been trying to kill him. Yeah, yeah, something of something of a leech it.
Tom: Hey, no. Still haven't got a job still left home. So anyway, you have the Tellem IQ, Telemachus Revelation and the two of them that make a bit of a plan. They basically decide they're gonna go give all the suit of six of the best they're gonna go and they're gonna sort them all out, Which is far sunk. Seems pretty good. So they decided. Dishes decides he's gonna disguise himself as a beggar, and he's gonna go into his old home on just scout around, sniff around, find out what's going on, find out, find out who's good. Final was bad, and then it killed them all. Regardless, it isn't. Actually what happens
Sam: somewhat point the Segway. The story Let me kill you on. Anyway, we're gonna do a little bit of an assessment on you.
Tom: You're absolutely right. And I've got another good, quite this is. Here we go. There, several. Here we get Athena now appeared before Odysseus on urged him to go around collecting scraps from the suitors and so learned to distinguish the good from the bad. Though this did not mean that in the end she was to save a single one from destruction. She was gonna die anyway. It didn't matter. They were ruthless. They were absolutely
Sam: also I have to say all this effort feel has gone to touching him with a magic wand, making him or beautiful again. And all this is just gonna grow is bared out right away again. Dress up is a bigger again and start off back home. I think given the she's just performed a miracle on him that seems somewhat ungrateful.
Tom: Absolutely. I mean, she does this a lot of things, but actually it's actually a very temporary spell. She does a lot of sort of turning up in. People's dreams are whispering in their ears. He doesn't honor this stuff, but I particularly
Sam: so do I.
Tom: You with you one now? Yep. Where the tide. So we have a Really I like this encounter sound. This is an account of the chap called Milan Thea's who also you is technically one of Odysseus is on servants on Bill Anthea sees the bigger heart. The fellow cried One villain leading another. A case of birds of the feather Tell me, you miserable swine owed. Where are you taking his dirty pig of yours is nauseated, bigger and plate liquor at the feast Just the sort to stand scratching his back against the door post, begging for scraps. I never asked him for swords and cauldrons. I love that. That's that's a good insult, isn't it? That's that's a cracking put down. I like that. Put him in its place. Milan Theus. Little dismal. Anthea Snow. That Vicious is gonna give him a bit of the and, uh, he's gonna He's gonna give him a usually give him one
Sam: quite right too. Picking on the homeless like that
Tom: absolutely is gonna get a knuckle sandwich or two. When it comes to it, we have another little revelation. So we get August the hound soon after this. So when a dish is about the end to the house, now goes his old hound, who again must be about 20 years old,
Sam: if not more,
Tom: if not more so. August The Herald or sitting on a I know the the poor thing has been left. It's not being cared for. You starve any sitting on a mound of dung outside the building. But August recognizes that this is just raises an eyebrow and gives a smile, but hasn't got the energy to run up to him. So that's probably the least dramatic of the Eureka moments when someone realizes who Odysseus is.
Sam: I'm not sure we construct to allowing a eureka moment.
Tom: There could be no way, Camino. Really. Sorry. Disappointing. Sorry. Poor August.
Sam: I feel sorry for August. Poor old might know teeth.
Tom: Yeah, I do as well. I mean it, to be honest with you. I mean, his choice to sit on the dung was probably his. So there is an element of him needing to take responsibility for his life.
Sam: I mean, dogs do love done
Tom: that. They love they love for
Sam: Yeah, the air Fox poo particularly. Oh, my God, if you don't, if you ever come across a dog who's rolled in Fox, it is just the worst smell in the world. But they do it with such a massive grin on their face. They're so they're so proud. And they just want to share their This is like a real eureka moment for a dog is discovering that fox poo is Rollerball in there so excited? It's a reverse eureka moment because they have a eureka moment. Run naked through the streets and then you have to give them a bath.
Tom: You like nice life. I once when I was in India, I once saw a stray dog attempt to hump a straight
Sam: needs must.
Tom: There was there was no Yeah, absolutely. There's no sort of beautiful misty sunrise over the Ganges for May. Now I was watching dogs. Hunter
Sam: takes everything in Newcastle.
Tom: We? Yeah, Yeah. Nice. So we've got a nice little moment here with another beggar called Iris who turns up at the hall as well and additions. I mean again, Iris doesn't realize that this year's is that this year, so he starts picking on him or what? A mistake of the maker. And so we basically get an opportunity where one of the one of the worst of the suitors decides. All right, let's settle this with a fight. Go on, then, you beggar who happens to be this year's have a little scrap with Iris, and there's a nice description here, but I like they all approved of his words, So this is tucked up his rags around his loins and bared his fine massive thighs. His broad shoulders in his chest and brawny arms were now revealed. Athena herself stood by and filled out the limbs of the shepherd of the people. As a result, all the suitors were lost in amazement in significant glances of comments were exchanged and that she is again, you know, just given a little bit of help. Just making this thighs look nice. Filling out his shoulders make him look good
Sam: these days. Paying homeless people to fight each other is frowned upon. Yes, The Greeks had a very strange moral code, didn't they?
Tom: Absolutely, Absolutely. Wasn't. I think you're absolutely right. That wasn't Every YouTube channel was a website like, 10 years ago. That was pretty repulsive.
Sam: There was. And I can't I can't remember because I was just thinking about this. And I can't remember if it actually existed, which I think it did, or whether it was used as a whether it's part of story line for a TV series.
Tom: I think I should Sorry.
Sam: I think it might be both.
Tom: I okay. You think I mean, but anyway, for what was supposed to be like hide podcast, I think we should probably never relevant topic. So So we have way now. No additions has got lovely. Lovely on, Sam. Well, let's be honest. We all like to admire another man, Stites. We don't really like to admit it, but we've all done it. We've all seen another man size and Oh, yes. Good, good, lovely, lovely quartz. So we get this till we get this, like beggar turf war, then we get another revelation. This is another good ones. This is I'm not pronounce the name runs You're eclair Who's a disease is old maid on by all accounts on old lady by now. So I think he may well have brought up a dizzy issue had been like a wet nurse. From what them that issue of says on Dhe. She notices that it's Odysseus when she's washing his feet on that sees a scar that only had issues would have because it was from a boar hunt when he was younger on DDE. What would you do, Sam, if you know someone who's ah loving made of your family you haven't seen for 20 years suddenly discovers you, do you Would you presumably give Rog?
Sam: Well, obviously I would. But I'm predicting, since this is a Greek epic that he either kills her or turns her into some kind of animal
Tom: could not quite that bad. But he's really rather nasty. Sir is not the nicest person to her nurse. He said, Do you want to ruin me? You who suckled me at your own breast? I'm indeed home after 20 years of grief in trouble. But since the God has revealed it to you, keep your mouth shut and let not a soul in the house learn the truth. Otherwise I tell you plainly and you know I make no idle threats. But if the gods deliver these find suitors into my hands, I won't spare you. Though you're my own nurse on the day when I put the rest of the maze in my palace to death. Well, hold on. There might Well, with this year, So I think you've got a different Reacted a bit much. I'm not sure that was a proportionate Medicis. We then get their cool moment where Odysseus plots to kill all the suitors. So he's got a little bit of help from some of his. From some result, loyal servants who shut the doors and make sure the armory is locked so that suitors can't go and get themselves on.
Sam: This is the montage in the film version, isn't it? This is the I'm preparing skyfall
Tom: always just leaving that the bit we always used to like in 18. Yeah, it's that bit it is. And so we we get the moment with the boat so we get a challenge laid down which of the suitors can in string a dis uses old bow on, then fire an arrow through 12 ax hits and they all try they fucking up. Telemachus gets closest cause hey, he's a disease is Sonny's guys. He's got good genetics, Got lovely legs himself.
Sam: The family thought,
Tom: Sammy you absolutely. On dso eventually addition it says, or what can I have a go? And all the suitors go puffed You're you're a little beggar, but lo and behold, the strings of both fires it through It doesn't sell himself with just firing it through the access he decides. Now it's time. And so we get this kill bill moment where just violence is let loose and they're about 100 suitors. I think they were slightly over 100 suitors on Telemachus, Odysseus, Andi, I think that's a couple of their little servants get involved as well. Just go fuckin ape ships and they go crazy and they just kill everyone. That's not really relevant to a eureka moment. But it's fun because we because we don't like the suit, is do they sound like a right bunch of pompous prats? And then we get the final one. We get the final revelation that the 4th 1 that I've touched discussed there are a few others, by the way, he reveals himself to a few of his some servants. And by the way, when I say reveal himself, I can hear you sniggering Sam. I think this isn't This isn't our comm. Edie's okay.
Sam: He shows of his golden one, doesn't
Tom: reveal himself
Sam: not just got fantastic thighs.
Tom: Telemachus, have a look at this. Oh, God.
Sam: No again, Dad.
Tom: It was like
Sam: all those on the day photos from when we were younger in the seventies.
Tom: Oh, yeah. Or the eighties when everyone had short shorts. Real short shorts.
Sam: Yeah, My mom's proudest photo in our house is a photo of May, about three years old, completely naked from the waist down on a beach in France, with a baguette in each hand wearing nothing but a T shirt, a sun hat.
Tom: Well, that sounds for it to sound. That sounds like a bit of French art.
Sam: Yes. Yes, it is. On A LL. Visitors get shown it
Tom: it Is it big? Is it about six foot wide and six foot tall in the hallway?
Sam: Well, it's not that big. I was only two or three years old. Very good, but still generous. Very good, lads.
Tom: So we get the final revelation, which is where Medicis introduces himself to Penelope reveals himself to Penelope, his wife. I should actually point out also that he his infallible proof of this is when he points out that the bed that they used to sleep, it was made out of an olive tree that was still planted. So that's his bullets. Sort of secret. Bit of knowledge. That was the sort of eureka moment, Penelope. Yeah, It sounds like a nice piece of furniture does, presumably still growing. I mean, you could maybe sort of pick up, pick an olive in your sleep and just have a chew
Sam: eyes. It's got it's got stones living in
Tom: twirling through the shop. How It was a good idea at the time, having a live tree for a bed, but I went to school, will start running over here, but and anyway, so we get this boat, we get this moment, I'll go go over again at his words, and these began to tremble on the heart melted, and she realized it had given her infallible proof. Bursting into tears, she ran up to it did Odysseus threw her arms around him, threw her arms around his neck and kissed his head. There we get there. Is that the beautiful final moment? The sort of culmination of the of the Odyssey where poor older this year's finally gets home? Having killed a few suitors on the way, I had some lots of adventures. So there you go, something that was my my Siri's of literary eureka moments from the second oldest text in Western literature.
Sam: I like that. And and from Harry Potter, a cz well, something for the King.
Tom: Absolutely. You learned something about Harry Potter when I said when I said earlier in podcast about not knowing how to pronounce the Miami, there wasn't mine. A hesitation wasn't there, and you just sort of went the extra five. If I play along, nobody's gonna quest that I will never read. Harry Potter isn't
Sam: my any name from Greek literature.
Tom: I think it is. I couldn't tell you where I'll be perfectly honest with you, but Yeah, I said, as far as I'm aware it is. And there are a lot of other ones. I'm trying to think of one other one that came across when Severus Severus,
Sam: Ron Ron from the Rania. See that famous Greek epic
Tom: he was. I thought Ryan was one of the gods. Got wrong. God of Ginger's.
Sam: Oh, nice God of the sun rise.
Tom: How about you? That's good. That's good, eh? So you have several several snaps? Never. Severus was a Roman name. There was some emperors of Rome course. Severus.
Sam: Marvelous. Bringing the ancient to the modern. So that's a great as neatly from the old to the new. And I'm gonna do exactly the same, Tom, because I'm going to talk to you today about Charles Goodyear on the completely accidental invention of rubber. You know about rubber, Don't you Tell me if you've heard of rubber,
Tom: I have. And I'm also making the connection between rubber and Goodyear. Is that a connection? The organ, Um
Sam: Well, actually, you know what? It's not a connection. No,
Tom: is it not? So this is nothing to do with the tires.
Sam: No, we'll come to this sort of at the end of the story. This is the end of the story. Charles Goodyear had nothing to do with Goodyear tires. Goodyear tires were named in honor of Charles Goodyear on the reason will get to know a bit more about that is or the reason that there's kind of a loose connection there. Good yet very successful company. A very big company. Charles Goodyear. Absolutely king. Useless businessman, but very, very keen on rubber. So I'm gonna take you back to the early 18 hundreds. Yes, very keen on rubber. There are plenty of jokes coming. Don't you worry. Yeah, s so I'm gonna take you back to really the early to mid 18 hundreds. The 18 twenties in the 18 thirties, when rubber as this kind of tree sap that comes out of trees in the Amazon and rain forests around the world was first being discovered and people loved it. It seemed like the wonder material off. It's time you could turn it into into boots. You could turn it into a life vest. It was waterproof. It was stretching really magical, magical stuff. People were going bloody mad for rubber on. American investors were putting millions and millions of dollars into rubber factories, rubber manufacturing, rubber design. The problem is that rubber waas shite, it waas useless Tom.
Tom: That's disappointing.
Sam: It is. The problem is that everyone was so keen on Robert that they never really gave it time and rub. It works really well in spring and autumn, but if you hung around long enough to watch rubber in the summer or winter, you would realize that it had some really quite serious problems because it melted at more or less warm day temperatures on it collapsed and crumbled in winter so you could have a rubber life vest and many ships did on. It would work fantastically well, as long as your ship sunk between the months off March and June or October on November, any other time of bizarre. Yeah, any other time of the year, your life vest would either disintegrate into the sea underneath you, or it will melt around your waist on in case you as you went down into Davy Joneslocker. Same with boots. Same with pretty much anything else. Rubber was being used for.
Tom: On the plus side, you'd look a bit like a gimp when you drowned.
Sam: You. Did you go down looking hot
Tom: looking? Yeah, absolutely. Looking. A little bit like 50 shades of grey. Yeah, indeed. Have you read that, Sam? Have you read 50 shades of Grey?
Sam: No. No, I haven't. And even if I had, I would deny it.
Tom: No, I haven't either. Have you watched the films? No, no, no. I have.
Sam: That was That was a conversational cold attack, wasn't it way. So what we're gonna talk today about is the invention off a better kind of rubber? Because Charles Goodyear bloody loved the stuff. He first discovered rubber in about 18. 34 on Dhe. He got interested in it. He thought this seems like a really good material. He could use this for all kinds of things. And so he went on a bit of a tour of rubber factories. He, by the way, was an engineer at this time. He was making agricultural implements, knew absolutely nothing about rubber, but thought this is the future. And he thought This is the future, as everyone else who had invested in rubber was thinking, Oh, God, we've lost millions upon millions of dollars. But then child could hear was a terrible businessman. So he visited this factory in New York that was making rubber life vests on the factory owner was quite open with him on told him that Robert was awful, that it wasn't working, that he was losing millions upon millions of dollars. He took him to a warehouse full of life vest that just melted into a puddle on a warm day. Really, anyone with any sense whatsoever would have been put off by this. But Charles Goodyear being the king useless businessman, he wasthe, thought, I'm having me some of this on. He became an absolute rubber obsessive. It should be noted, by the way, that the factory he visited was in the process of hiding tens of thousands of dollars worth of ruined rubber materials in a giant hole so as not to scare off its investors. Nice. Charles Goodyear looked past all this on DA, decided to invest literally everything the family had ever earned into rubber and making it a better material that could withstand heat and could withstand cold.
Tom: Sorry to stop you there, Sam. But this this giant, this giant hole full of rubber. Has anyone tried toe? Yes, you know, get back up again because surely that would be the biggest bouncy ball in the world.
Sam: Well, it would be, except that it's probably melted or disintegrated by now because it's setting his old rubber. Ducky doesn't like heat or cold.
Tom: Such a ship product. Yeah, I think
Sam: it's such a shit.
Tom: Wasn't listening, Sam. Sorry. Yeah, let's say that
Sam: that's quite all
Tom: right. Very, very
Sam: few people did
Tom: say this shit product. Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. A carry on.
Sam: So anyway, Charles Goodyear spends the next five years absolutely ruining his family's life. And when I say ruining his family's life, I mean absolutely ruining it. It's never a good thing when you discover your father is into Rubber Tom. It's even worse when it's in a mad scientist way rather than in a CD back
Tom: alleyway. Is it worth some? I have eyes it I'm not. Yes, I mean, maybe, I don't know. I've not experienced either. Maybe there's a listener, Sam, who has experienced both and they can. They can maybe call in.
Sam: Yes. Hey, listeners, do you live in pampas grass fronted suburbia? Does your father like to disappear the weekends and come back with slight rushing around the neck? If so, get in touch with us at that was genius on Facebook.
Tom: Your pool balls keep going. Missing. Well, that answers the phone. Is he always muffled Lord? Oh.
Sam: Huh? Does he break into a cold sweat in that scene in Pulp Fiction? Yeah,
Tom: that's good. Scene
Sam: is a great scene. Anyway. Charles Goodyear really bloody like rubber. He spent literally everything that the family had ever earned on putting shit into rubber and mixing it to try and get it to stay in shape. It should be added. Charles Goodyear was not a chemist. He hadn't got a flipping clue what he was doing, so he would grab anything he could find, mix it into rubber and try and make it work. Everything from lime to paint stripper to dies, everything. He sold his children's school textbooks to buy more rubber with. He ruined everything.
Tom: That's better than I thought it was for you to say sold his children for a moment. There I thought You gonna tell me? He sold? It's
Sam: still quite, but But nearly Hey sold all of the family furniture. He ruined every pot pan and teacup. They owned mixing rubber. He was sent to debtor's prison for not paying his taxes, not paying his debts. Hey, smuggled rubber into prison and spent his time in prison playing with rubber in his cell.
Tom: Now I've never been in prison, Sam and I don't think you have either. But I imagine showing an interest in rubber objects probably isn't the best thing to do as a young, vulnerable
Sam: mail. Well, quite. Although to be honest, I imagine people are probably scared of him because if they got too close, he'd have tried to turn them into better rubber. But remarkably, through absolute chance, he did manage to make some improvements to rubber. Over the five years where he was selling the family silverware in spending time in prison, he did manage to make it a bit prettier. He managed to make it a bit smoother, but he didn't manage to make it less shit and melty. There are no words for how much this guy absolutely loved rubber, itwas his thing. He waas Mr Rubber,
Tom: you've got to admire his persistence. Seven year. I mean, it is clearly sees potential in this.
Sam: Really? Absolutely did. Yeah, and And he did have some business success along the way. He designed a rubber mail bag, which he sold to the U. S. Postal service, which on hot days melted over all of the mail. Uh, on the times when he was really destitute and needed money to buy rubber, he got by by getting a job in a rubber factory. I mean, he really, really loved Rubber Tom there. There are no words for how much Charles Goodyear loved rubber. I mean, God, he loved Robert.
Tom: He loved rubber. Yeah.
Sam: In fact, he loved it so much. It said that he was flailing around madly one day in a shop whilst giving a sales pitch on unsurprisingly rubber. This was in 18 39 and the story goes that lost. He was flailing around. He accidentally spilled some rubber, which he mixed with sulfur onto a hot stove on dhe. At this point, there was a eureka moment. Fantastic, because he didn't want to lose his rubber samples, so he scraped it off the stove on discovered that actually, it hadn't melted. What actually happened is that it? It's gone hard and completely by accident. After five years of trying, he had spilt some rubber onto a stove, would have been mixed with a little bit of sulfur, and he had created the perfect rubber. It no longer melted in, no longer cracked. It was smooth. It could be easily molded and designed into things. And most of all, it was really cheap to improve it. That's fantastic. He nearly killed himself along the way. He made himself sick several times from inhaling noxious fumes, its oldest kid's textbooks. But he had made fucking rubber, and he made it good.
Tom: You know, sometimes, Sam, you're just gonna make that commitment. Having you, you know, you gotta be willing to destroy everything. Everything you hold dear,
Sam: sometimes you do
Tom: in a desperate attempt to prove all you doubters wrong.
Sam: Yeah, in the quest to make a better welly yet, there can be no sacrifice too. Great.
Tom: That's Yeah, that Q Elton John, that's that is an excellent story. Where did you find this one? Outside. Because that's an excellent eureka moment. I've certainly never heard off.
Sam: You know what? I don't really know. I've heard about it some point in the past and thought that it was a great story, so I did a bit more reading into it. The story isn't quite done yet. Carry on. It's not a good story for the remainder of it. The conclusion is, Ah, I'll be honest. It's something of an anti climax, but it does go to show what an absolutely terrible businessman Charles Goodyear, was, despite his moment of luck. The process, he named it Balkanization after Vulcan, the Roman god of fire on Till
Tom: it comes Full Circle
Sam: King Circle, doesn't it? On the process is still used today. Everything that we make out of rubber today from tires toe rubbers is made by balkanizing rubber by heating, sulfur infused rubber. And so you'd think that, given that it's such an important invention today, it's used in so many things that he would have made an absolute fortune off it, wouldn't you?
Tom: You'd hope.
Sam: Well, no, Tom, No. I have mentioned several times that Charles Goodyear waas an absolutely terrible businessman. Andi, this is just how much of a bad businessman he waas He sent samples of his new mega rubber toe, all of the big rubber manufacturers, to help drum up sales and interest. He was hoping he could, you know, sell the license to make it. Unfortunately, he sent it without any kind of paperwork, without establishing any kind of Peyton's anywhere outside the U. S. A. On
Tom: Ah, a
Sam: couple of the British engineers he sent it to very quickly noticed that there was a yellow tinge to it. And so he done something with sulfur. Reverse engineered it on, painted it throughout Europe on most of the rest of the world. Goodyear sued. Goodyear lost. Do
Tom: you know why Goodyear lost
Sam: again? This is It's kind of a sign, No, but this is how much of a useless businessman he waas. The two English engineers basically admitted what they'd done and offered to settle out of court and pay him a 50% royalty on on everything that they made. Yeah, which, which would have made him an absolute fortune, that he was so angry that his invention had been stolen, that he decided he would pursuit through the courts and try and get them for everything they were worth which point they basically went to court and said, Look, there's no possible way that just by looking at this rubber and seeing that is yellow, we'd know how you did it. We completely invented it ourselves. It's serendipitous that it happened at the same time and he lost,
Tom: You know, when they needed some,
Sam: they really needed to go absolutely ham with a bow and arrow and 12 ax heads. Unfortunately, we're all made of rubber and just bounced off
Tom: on gorgeous Melted in the hot Difficult
Sam: just melted. Yeah,
Tom: I'm not sure if it is actually worth. It will roll with it.
Sam: He unfortunately died in 18 62 $100,000 in debt, and I haven't done the Modern the modern conversion off that. But I think that's, you know, that's a couple of $1,000,000 in debt. His family did eventually get some money from royalties on dhe. All of the other Peyton is that he made along the way for rubber related inventions on, Of course, the Goodyear Tire Company was named in his honor, but he really waas on absolutely terrible businessman and a useless chemist who happened to have one happy accident spilling some rubber over enthusiastically on the hob on that is the end of the story.
Tom: So I'm guessing someone that you know when he was bankrupt is all his checks bounced.
Sam: Hey, so I did that.
Tom: I thought that out about minutes ago, Sam. Just waiting. Just waiting for the right moment.
Sam: You have been very patient.
Tom: Thank you. I think your brain. Have you heard of the musical Eureka moments? There's a good one from Paul McCartney with song yesterday for the Beatles. We heard that one
Sam: eyes this the story when he he was asleep and he dreamed it.
Tom: He and he wakes up, and I think he speaks to John Lennon and says, What song is this? You know, they discover it's not anyone else. Song is actually just something he's dreamt up, and they then get to work on the Solomon Loan. Behold, they produce the song yesterday on by all accounts, is this isn't a unique thing that's happened to quite a few musical artists. Have you ever done it? Because I remember is about 12 year old waking up from a dream with a really cool rift in my head on dhe I haven't it? One of our brothers And he went shop. I went back to sleep. That could have been me, made
Sam: what you were. In fact, coming, though, is into the sand. Man,
Tom: I think a lot of these Eureka moments are actually that they come about through a slower process on. Then that's just the sort of quicker breakthrough where someone goes, Yeah, that's the thing I was looking for. Well,
Sam: who knows? I mean, it's It's all part of a rich storytelling history, isn't it? I mean, Eureka moments definitely happen. You've got Alexander Fleming coming back from holiday and discovering that he'd accidentally and
Tom: our dependency. Yeah, yeah, I did hear that was a good year. That is another good one. Maybe I'm wrong, Sam. Maybe.
Sam: I think you're a skeptic, Tom. You're You're a healthy skeptic, but a skeptic nonetheless.
Tom: So I'm definitely escape.
Sam: You're the kind of person who doesn't believe that NASA put men on the moon.
Tom: They didn't sound.
Sam: That's That's five.
Tom: They didn't sound. I read on a website they didn't.
Sam: And the Internet never lies. Tom, the Internet never lie.
Tom: Elvis is still alive. The world is flat. Yeah, and that's What true? Because I read on the Internet.
Sam: Got it all from info wars. Thanks, Alex Jones.
Tom: Nice. So, what are we gonna set a topic for next week?
Sam: Why the fuck not? Let's give people something to look forward to in the bleak midwinter slash. Wonderful summer, depending on where in the world you're listening from. And we do value all of our listeners. So thank you. All three of you.
Tom: Even those who think you get autism from getting your MMR facts.
Sam: Ah, uh, you're so sure about them? Take him or leave him.
Tom: You think you believe like I like your style, Sand. I like what you stand to. Amount of principle.
Sam: I certainly am.
Tom: I've had some ideas, I reckoned. What about journey Journeys on? Not the rock band. You can't go down the rock band
Sam: well apart. Anything else that is journey singular. But yeah, I like journeys.
Tom: Excellent. Right. Well, how about that, then? You happy to settle on that connection?
Sam: Let's talk their journeys next week. Let's do journeys. And that's a good one. Thank you so much. Everyone for shooting in Do come back next week for Episode two, in which we are discussing great historical journeys. Until then, it's goodbye from snowy but lovely Manchester.
Tom: And it's goodbye from a rather sonny but dark New Zealand
Sam: rather sonny but dark.
Tom: Oh, it's sorry. It was a real sorry. Sorry. Yes, it's the middle of summer, So we haven't some. We haven't been lovely days, but the day has gone. Sam, the sun has set on dit is nighttime
Sam: the fire God. Ron Weasley has dipped his head below the horizon. I'll see you next week.
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Responsible for providing the necessary support, training and personal assistance needed for individuals in internal ODC work programs and Day Services, or at community employment sites, volunteering or connecting with their community. Clients may have multiple needs including but not limited to: cognitive, mental health, physical, medical, learning, and behavioral disabilities. Assistance may be one to one with individuals with significant disabilities and/or may be multiple interactions addressing the needs of multiple individuals with special needs. This position is considered a security point for individuals with special needs in ODC programs and for other employees. This position will provide intervention to prevent injury to clients with special needs, other program participants and/or ODC employees.
High School graduate. One (1) year of experience working with persons with disabilities or in a nursing or home health care position. Can be as a volunteer or familiar experience. Two (2) years of work experience. This position requires pre-employment medical screening and annual background checks. This position may be subject to "fit for duty" evaluations.
· Possess awareness of special needs and the ability to provide assistance according to individual needs (i.e., medication schedule, bathroom routines, and schedules, care procedures). Makes these known to and trains other support staff.
· Work cooperatively with all people.
· Work cooperatively with Employment and Connect Staff to maintain and establish job/connect sites (when applicable).
· Possess awareness of realistic work expectations regarding quality of work, and appropriate work behaviors.
· Communicate with staff at community sites and respond to training needs and/or related problems.
· Work a flexible schedule – some evening hours and occasional weekend work (when applicable).
· Perform creative problem solving as needs arise for individual at their work site or in the community.
· Perform personal care in a discreet, respectful manner (i.e.; toileting, eating, mobility, behaviors).
· Provide physical intervention if necessary to respond to client behaviors that could be injurious to others. Receive training and possess the ability to comprehend and follow through with established procedures and plans.
· Evaluate and report on the performance of adults with disabilities to make recommendations concerning goals and objectives.
· Break tasks down to achievable components.
· Actively participate in Personal Care Worker certification program, accurately pass each competency test or have 6 months of full time hours work with people with disabilities (when applicable).
· Create "jigs" which remove the barrier preventing the person from performing the task.
· Ability to understand, follow, carry out written directions, plans, and procedures.
· Assist with and support individuals in Day Services groups by providing support in life enhancing activities that incorporate daily living skills, community and social awareness, and leisure, recreational and educational activities.
· Coordinate/Lead one weekly group in Day Services (when applicable).
· Monitors arrivals and departures, transportation information.
· Provide assistance during emergency procedures and takes responsibility for getting individuals to safe area.
· Implement training plans as established by Service Coordinator and Service Navigator.
· Supervise the work of the assigned individual including assisting with the time clock, checking quality standards, supplying materials, removing finished product, etc.
· Train individual(s) on job tasks at community work sites and within ODC programs to perform tasks or parts of tasks as abilities allow.
· Provide support and "adult-like" reassurance when needed.
· Allow individual to become as independent as possible in all aspects.
· Quality – know, understand, monitor and follow quality control procedures – complete quality inspections- notify supervisor/lead of any non-conformance- authority/responsibility to stop production due to quality issue.
· Complete first aid, CPR and CPI training and certification if requested to.
· Ability to facilitate, initiate and respond to verbal, written, computerized, telephone and fax communications. Requires capability to visually see and hear to respond quickly to individuals and situations.
· Ability to demonstrate, train and/or model job tasks/duties/responsibilities.
· Ability to visually see and physically perform quality inspection according to ODC's and/or customer's requirements.
· Mobility to access various locations within/outside ODC facilities.
· Ability to learn and utilize training provided to safely provide personal care including but not limited to lifting, transferring, and feeding.
· Physical ability to prevent an individual from harming themselves, harming others. This can include becoming involved in a crisis intervention procedure that would involve physical intervention and participation by you. Ability to pursue and prevent individuals from eloping; ability to physically stop an individual from throwing objects, hitting, or otherwise attacking other individuals. Ability to complete training regarding these procedures and ability to physically perform intervention procedures and techniques.
· Must be able to push, carry or lift up to 50 lbs frequently – and up to 100 lbs occasionally. For wheeled devices, must be able to push up to 250 lbs occasionally.
· Physical ability to lift, utilize lift devices, support or transfer adults, male/female when assisting with toileting or personal care area such as a shower seat. Weights of individuals will vary as will personal care approaches and techniques. Must possess ability to follow training procedures and methods for lifting, supporting, and transferring.
· Ability to stoop, stand, pivot, twist, and lift over head.


The '#3' trio have risen to the top of the chart this weekend with their will.i.am collaboration.
The Script have risen to number one on the Vodafone Big Top 40 this weekend ending Ne-Yo's reign at the top of the chart.
In their third week on the chart The Script's team-up with will.i.am on 'Hall Of Fame' has risen up to number one.
Gerry & The Pacemakers have scored the highest new entry of the week with their 1963 hit 'You'll Never Walk Alone', which reentered the chart following the revelations this week about the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy.
Former Big Top 40 number one 'Let Me Love You' by Ne-Yo falls to number three while Pink's 'Blow Me (One Last Kiss)' is at number four after her iTunes Festival 2012 performance this week.
Example's latest single 'Say Nothing' enters at number five to round out the top five songs of the weekend.
David Guetta also scored a new top ten entry this weekend when his Sia featuring hit 'She Wolf' entered at number nine.
The Vodafone Big Top 40 with Rich and Kat airs Sundays from 4pm.


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Where time has lost its relevance is the third project within the presentation format on art as a mental space. Art (or P/////AKT) as a mental space consists of a serial solo presentations whereby each series of three has a specific focus and this focus in turn is connected to past or forthcoming editions. Furthermore each series has a moderator as a fourth participant. The moderator represents, through reflecting on the concept and the exhibitions, the outside perspective.
Preceded by Space is a Word (on the construction of visual language and its architectural implications) and Will it really take place (on the ever shifting relations between artwork and art space) Where time has lost its relevance is focusing on big themes such as religion, sexuality and violence and the possibility to create a transcendental environment through (recognizable) images. Four artists, each with a very outspoken visual language, have been invited to assemble and merge subjects, representations and art history into the here and now and the physical space of P/////AKT.
Publication: Where time has lost its relevance, P/////AKT, 2012. A publication in two pamphlets. More information about the publication here.


The Idea of BigShoe "Doing good and Football": When would this fit together better than in the year of a World Cup? BigShoe founder Dr. Igor Wetzel had just returned from South Africa from a trip to children undergoing surgery, as the initiators of the aid organization and their supporters – including, of course, WOM – met in Wangen in the Allgäu. On the occasion of this year's World Cup in Russia, eleven children could be helped who now have a chance of a carefree life.
Do you like football, Mr. Kupka?
Our WOM Kids Reporter Team was once again active for BigShoe. Fanny Tschepe (13 years), Nina Michel (15 years), Gina Gütlhuber (15 years), and Lorenz Hohenhaus (17 years) interviewed CFO Oliver Kupka after WOM became the proud owner of its own symbol shoe with the No. 9.
The surprise for WOM employees was fantastic: Today, the original BigShoe with a WOM design was handed over in a solemn ceremony. It is a symbol of the company's commitment to the activities of the BigShoe initiative to help sick children.
When terms such as pin shot, jet or snake technology are soon being thrown around at WOM, it is not about the latest medical technology developments but simply the most important football shooting techniques. "Foosball" tables have arrived at the Ludwigsstadt and Berlin sites. But this is not all about having fun during breaks. The collected game money is doubled at the end of the month by the company and donated to the charity BigShoe e.V. from the Allgäu.


Lecours Motor Sales is a family-owned Ford dealership based in Hearst, Ont., serving its customers of Northern Ontario for some 60 years, with the second and third generation of the Lecours family working together today. Through its history, the dealership has gone through several expansions, recently finished the construction of a brand new building, expanded with a second branch in Kapuskasing, and started providing additional automotive services in order to remain competitive in a very challenging business environment.
the Canadian Business Journal spoke with Jean Lecours about the challenges of operating a car dealership in Northern Ontario, where logging is the bread and butter of the local economy, and how this small business has managed to diversify in order to remain relevant and profitable.
The company has been working on some major construction projects in recent times. Ford Motor Co. has required their dealers to renovate their dealerships to meet the new brand standard, so the main location had moved to a new building, and the Kapuskasing branch had to be renovated in order to meet the requirements of the Ford Image Program. "We went from an 80-year old building to a brand new facility and it allowed us to hire more people – we did not have the room before – so now we can provide more services to our customers," says Lecours. Hearst is quite an isolated town of only 5,000 people with only three dealerships, so the actual construction has had a positive impact on the town itself. "The logging industry has been going through challenges, so this construction came about the worst of the logging industry shrinkage, and the construction did help the town to get by." With two locations, the dealer has had more success in attracting more customers from the surrounding region, where its combined inventories are more comparable to a larger urban dealer, which is a significant advantage against other neighbouring dealerships.
But let's look a little closer at the challenges of a small community which relies on a single resource industry: Lecours notes that the logging industry has been struggling for 30 years now, so these challenges are not new, but the industry is still the major employer in the community, and when times are tough they are tough on everyone. Interestingly enough, the industry does not move just in macro industry cycles, but also locally, and they both weigh on the local economy. Today, for example, the potential tariffs on softwood lumber could result in harder times. Besides that, there are three main local logging companies working under a single union contract.
Operating solely as a dealership in such a small market and a shrinking industry is a hard proposition, so to balance these external cycles and help the business through these cycles, Lecours expanded the business, and started to provide vehicle modifications for customers and fleets. The company is now a certified automotive installer and modifier, and can modify a vehicle, or buy an empty frame truck and engineer and build a design according to the customer specifications and needs.
"The new building with the additional space was key for us to be able to do this. Now we add many different modifications to the trucks such as high rails for road-rail vehicles, modified bodies, air compressors, and others. We are able to create and install any form of modification. It's a turnkey solution. Also, being in a small town, we really need to provide a quality service with great attention to detail. And because it is a turnkey solution, we are also able to serve large fleets outside our district," says Lecours.
To broaden the business base further, Lecours launched LMS Rail Services that rents specialized road-rail vehicles, and partnered with two other dealers in Kapuskasing and opened an auto body shop to serve the community.


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What Is A Flick Knife
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Is spring assisted knife a switchblade?
The difference is important legally; because the blade does not open simply "by the push of a button or by force of gravity" the assisted-opening knife is typically not considered a switchblade, and may escape the restrictions applying to those in many places.
Why are butterfly knives illegal?
Why Are Butterfly Knives Illegal? Butterfly knives are illegal in many places because of their potential for use as a threatening weapon. A person with extensive practice can deploy butterfly knives with immense speed, which may be the knife's most dangerous quality.
Can I carry a Swiss Army knife UK?
Are there any legal provisions regarding Swiss Army Knives? Please note that it is an offence under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 to carry a knife with a blade of more than 3 inches/7.62 cm long in public and can lead to a fine and/or imprisonment unless there is a lawful reason for doing so.
Can you buy an automatic knife online?
Can I buy a switchblade online in California? – Quora. The overall and yes you can buy it.
What OTF knife does John Wick use?
The Marfione Custom Continental Set features custom versions of Microtech OTF automatic knives used in the John Wick movies. Alongside the Ultratech and Combat Troodon is a set of three 24kt gold plated challenge coins and one seriously tactical pencil.
Are stiletto knives legal?
Currently, the only country-wide law about switchblades is US Code Title 15, Chapter 29, and this law only controls the importation of these knives into the US, and the sale over state lines. It has no effects on buying, owning or carrying switchblades. Such is left to the states.
What knife does Gordon Ramsay use?
Gordon Ramsay uses both Wüsthof and Henckels branded knives; the brands are known for quality products, and they are two of the best knife manufacturers in the world. Wüstoff has been making knives since 1814, and Henckels has been around since 1895.
Are pocket knives and switchblades the same thing?
A pocket knife is any knife that you carry or is designed to be carried in a pocket. Generally from . 5 inches to 4 inches maximum blade length. A switchblade or automatic opener knife is any that opens under spring power when a button is pressed.
Who made the first OTF knife?
The first automatic blades were made by European smiths in the mid-18th century and they were used as folding spike bayonets on flintlock and coach guns. By the mid-19th century, the first actual examples of switchblade knives were created.
Are flick knives legal in the UK?
The ONLY knives which are illegal to own are spring-assisted knives – also known as flick knives. Every other type, length etc are perfectly legal to own. However, they all become illegal if carried in a public place without good reason.
What is a wasp CO2 knife used for?
After the blade penetrates a target, at the press of a button the WASP unleashes compressed air into the target that is capable of creating a cavity the size of a basketball. The secret is a replaceable handle that contains a CO2 cartridge.
What knife does MacGyver use?
MacGyver and the Swiss Army knife together defined the term "MacGyverism" in the original show. The star uses his Swiss Army knife to MacGyver life-saving tools from nothing. The plethora of tools, including knives, screwdrivers, bells, and whistles makes the Swiss Army knife the best pocket tool to have in a pinch.
What would a wasp knife do to a human?
The aptly named WASP Injector Knife shoots a compressed basketball-sized ball of gas into the victim where it instantly freezes then explodes the internal organs at 800psi.
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