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By Annie Dillard
Line, Run, Breath: On Annie Dillard and the Circuitous Work of Writing
Chris Wiewiora - 5.29.2018
1. Lifting the Heavens
Only after drafting my bus book Riding the Wheel did I recall Annie Dillard's advice in The Writing Life: "It is the beginning of a work that the writer throws away." Instead, I had followed her first chapter's first sentence: "When you write, you lay out a line of words." I had begun my first throwaway chapter by laying out a line of words about starting my runs: "It's an irony to take a car to work when you drive a bus for CyRide, but drivers are the folks that the city of Ames depends on to get people to work."
I continued my overview about my work until page 42 of the manuscript. I explained where I had worked odd jobs around the city to make ends meet, when I had taken the CDL test, what it had taken to drive a bus, who the other drivers had been, and why I hadn't become a full-time benefited driver. I kidnapped potential readers into backstory instead of chauffeuring them.
During my drafting, I gave myself a breather by taking an evening tai chi class where I learned an eight-sequence energy transformation exercise. I would drive my car downtown and park near where the Red and the Green and the Yellow bus routes connected. I ducked inside city hall's gym trying to avoid old co-workers spotting me and asking what I was doing now.
2. Bending the Bow, Shooting the Arrow
For an essay collection that talks a lot about not needing to reveal to readers the cost of writing books, Dillard spends a lot of time in The Writing Life on how she secluded herself to toil on them. In her second chapter, she inverts Virginia Woolf by saying, "One wants a room with no view so imagination can meet memory in the dark." Dillard shares that she finished her notorious, Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek holed up on summer nights in a study carrel at Hollins Library. Dillard covered up the carrel's windows so she couldn't see outside and then wrote. She realizes, "It was a nature book full of sunsets."
I wrote Riding the Wheel during winter days in an extra bedroom of my wife's and my rented duplex. My cat's litter box filled one corner with clay debris, and my desk, topped with run sheets, an operations manual, and my bus journal, filled another. On my runs, I had scribbled scraps of eavesdroppings and notes between stops and connections and driving breaks, and then at home I had transferred and expanded those notes into a journal of who drove during my shifts, what buses I steered, where my routes took me, when I began and ended my runs, and how I felt clocking in another day of driving.
My metallic flexible lamp shone on the keys of my laptop. On its base, I had taped an index card with the epigraph to The Writing Life's first chapter: "Do not hurry; do not rest. —Goethe." I sat on a red balance ball and hunched over my work. Weak winter light filtered through the plasticked-up west window, making everything look smudged and gray and sad. I came to realize my bus book was a working man's memoir about loneliness.
In my tai chi class, I only knew my scientist-philosophy buddy Dave. He worked on his master's researching small grains at Iowa State. His friends had known my wife's friends and he had asked me to take the class with him. Our class met above the full-size basketball court where I used to play pickup. We sometimes had to move stationary bicycles to the side so we could practice the circular motions of tai chi.
Dave and I were the youngest guys in a class of old men. Their hair had whitened. They tucked faded volunteer T-shirts into the elastic of sweatpants. They wore sneaker brands I didn't recognize.
Bones creaked. Knuckles popped. Tendons burned. By the end of each class, everyone breathed together: deep breaths, breaths that filled, breaths that energized.
3. Separating Heaven and Earth
Dillard's metaphor for laying out the line comes from her splitting wood in chapter three of The Writing Life. Before working on some writing in an unheated cabin, she attempts to split wood to size for a stove. She mocks herself, and Thoreau, by admitting that she was warmed twice by cutting logs down to thornlike tips and then burning those splinterings up inside.
Anyone who has cut wood already knows Dillard's advice, the last sentence in the chapter: "Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block." Dillard doesn't take her own advice to throw away the beginning of the chapter to get to the ending. (Paradox: Or maybe she did throw something out before writing her beginning?) Exception proves the rule. She cuts through an external hardship to illustrate the internal work a writer must do—hacking—to smoothly lay out lines.
Shoveling was as misleading as cutting. To make 20 dollars for gas in the tank, a bag of groceries, or the heating bill, I shoveled snow at an old lady's house where I had gardened after quitting bus driving. While I felt like I dug down, actually I lifted up. Dillard split; I scooped. I was glad when it snowed because it gave me a reason to work besides writing; it gave me a reason to take a shower, thus warming me twice—once while scooping, and then again under the hot water; it showed my accumulated work of inches and then feet, which was something more than digital sentences and paragraphs invisibly piling up.
Several evenings during the week, after my days of piling words or scooping, Dave would come over to my duplex to save me from spending the gas. We would practice tai chi in the basement. The blue-painted cement floor cooled our feet if we stood still, and the treated beams of the rim joist holding up the floor above us creaked with my cat running around to warm up. We practiced below the frost line where the foundation had been laid and the furnace huffed on when my wife came home.
4. Gazing Backward
At the top of The Writing Life's two-page Chapter 4, Dillard writes in all caps, "SORRY TO TELL YOU A DREAM!" But her dream is a valuable metaphor for dealing with throwing away beginnings. In it, she first thinks that a tremor has shaken her house after she's just left her study. She moves back into the doorway, but instead of finding safety from an earthquake, she finds her portable green Smith-Corona exploding like a volcano.
Dillard tears down the study's curtains to smother the eruption from her typewriter. She rushes to the kitchen and fills a bucket with water, but by the time she returns to the study, it doesn't seem needed. The fire goes out. An ash-like film remains for her to clean from the typewriter before she can write again.
My nightmare was losing my draft of Riding the Wheel, most likely via my aluminum PowerBook's memory somehow erasing it. I took appropriate measures. I removed my laptop's battery and plugged in a surge-protected charger. After every day at my desk, I emailed myself the newest version of the draft. Also, I saved a copy of the draft onto a USB flash drive attached to a carabiner that I kept clipped to my belt loop during the day and placed on top of my nightstand when I slept. I hadn't dreamed that the writing itself wasn't worth saving; losing it all might have made me consider what parts of it were worth remembering.
An agent friend offered to read any manuscript for me, and so I sent him my draft—so proud, so sure. But he couldn't get into it. He told the truth I needed to hear: "I don't care about you and your work shift and your daily routine, kid. I care about the bus and all the weirdoes on it!"
Our tai chi instructor sent an email with a two-page attachment of "The Ten Essentials of Taijiquan Theory" by Yang Chengfu from Fu Zhongwen's Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan. The fourth essential read:
Distinguish insubstantial and substantial. The art of Taijiquan takes the distinction between insubstantial and substantial as the first principle. If the weight of the entire body is placed over the right leg, then the right leg is substantial and the left leg is empty. If the entire body's weight is placed over the left leg, then the left leg is substantial and the right leg is empty. If one is able to distinguish empty and full, then the body's turning motions will be light and agile, and there will be no wasted strength. If one is unable to distinguish, one's steps will be heavy and sluggish, one's stance will be unsteady, and one will easily be unbalanced by an opponent's pull.
5. Swaying the Head, Swinging the Tail
"Admire the world for never ending on you—as you would admire an opponent, without taking your eyes from him, or walking away," Dillard writes in Chapter 5 of The Writing Life.
At first, I was terrified of my failure after hearing from the agent. Then, I agreed. I hadn't titled it Learning to Ride the Wheel.
I understood what our tai chi instructor said: "Your best opponent is yourself."
6. Holding the Feet with Hands
In The Writing Life's penultimate chapter, Dillard asks her painter friend Paul Glenn how his work is going. Instead of answering directly, he recounts a story about an old neighbor on their northwest island who in the afternoon had rowed out to an Alaskan cedar log to bring it back for construction. When the neighbor reached the log, the tide began to pull out. The man rowed all night, caught in the current, until dawn broke and the tide rolled back in.
I think writers on a roll, or artists of any kind, like to hear and tell stories about the cost of creating new art. Not the grand total. The old proverb of appreciating the journey more than the destination.
I pushpinned a map of all the bus routes around Ames above my desk and sat down to revise. First, I threw out the beginning. Then, I rewrote it line by line.
I can't explain how it felt to start over, but I can recount a story Dave told me about our tai chi instructor Matt. Back when Matt first lived with his now-wife Laura, he had asked her to take care of his cat. Matt, also a sustainable agriculture professor who had summer field projects to monitor, sometimes spent weeks away from home. Shortly after Matt left, his cat left. Laura looked and looked, and then she found the cat and brought it inside. When Matt called and asked how the cat was doing, Laura said that it was fine but didn't mention the disappearance. Laura came to like the cat. Laura was looking forward to having Matt come home, and she was sure the cat would be glad to see him. When Matt came in the door, after hugging Laura, he saw the cat and said, "That's not my cat."
The other cat, the original cat, was still missing. Matt and Laura kept the replacement.
7. Screwing the Fist
Dillard ends The Writing Life with an essay about a stunt pilot and geologist named Dave Rahm. Rahm saw "the air as a line," which later looped into a noose when he died during a skydive. First, Dillard witnesses his air show's "end unraveled in memory while its beginning unfurled as surprise." Then, she discovers the cost Rahm risked when she flies with him as he takes his plane within inches of the landscape before he yanks up and the G-forces slam down.
I don't know if there's a way for a reader to fully experience the act of writing. Should readers sit in the cockpit as a co-pilots or just enjoy the ride as passengers?
I restarted Riding the Wheel: "Zoe looks through me as she boards my bus." I reorganized my chapters into a repeating pattern of circular routes that looped around the university, my fixed routes that ran back and forth across the city, and odds and ends salvaged from my draft's junkyard about picking up/dropping off, cleaning buses, and then I ended the manuscript checking out a bus one last time before quitting, when "I set [my sign] to Not-in-Service."
Once, Dave and I witnessed a man doing the complete 108 sequence of tai chi. We had met at a park after class ended that spring and continued to practice together. In a field, we saw a mop of black hair swaying along with limbs in a white T-shirt, athletic pants and sneakers moving silkily. He wasn't practicing. I didn't know the full form, but I recognized the pure pattern.
8. Rocking the Bubbling Wells
I had read The Writing Life five years before finishing Riding the Wheel. I hadn't remembered Dillard's best advice until I reread it after finishing a draft of my manuscript. I didn't remember her advice as a koan to mutter as I wrote but rather as something I needed when my agent friend's commented on my draft. I remembered it when I needed to revise. Isn't revision actually reseeing? And in nonfiction, looking at memory again, differently?
My first tai chi instructor said not to worry, that we would remember something incorrectly—we would—but it is easier to correct a consistent mistake than to have to relearn moves. In class, we would walk back and forth, retracing our steps while smoothing them and softening them, building up energy with intention until we returned to the beginning position to restart.
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Q: ADVERTENCIA: No se ha completado la solicitud Estoy intentando mostrar un listado de 7675 registros obtenido de este web API: https://boletusapi.azurewebsites.net/api/ofertas
que tarda unos 17 segundos en devolver los resultados

Pero cuando consulto este mismo web API desde mi front de angular en local

Se queda aqui eternamente y no recibo nada

Se que recupera de alguna manera los registros por que tengo esto por consola
ngOnInit(): void {
this.allOfertasConPropiedadesMapadas$
  .subscribe(
    data => {
      this.ofertas = data;

    }
    , err => console.error(err)
    , () => {
      console.log('ofertas', this.ofertas.length);
      console.log('la ultima', this.ofertas[this.ofertas.length-1]);
    }
  );

Pero en mis templates los valores no se rellenan y cuando usaba datos de prueba con solo unas decenas de registros no tenia ningún problema así que asumo que está relacionado con el numero de resultados a devolver pero como veo que si que se ha rellenado this.ofertas no lo entiendo la verdad
Alguna idea por favor?
Salu2

A: Los resultados están ahí, el problema son la cantidad de registros que quieres mostrar en el navegador. Esta operación debe ser sumamente costosa y por ende no se procesa. Para minimizar el impacto renderiza solo una fracción de los elementos a la vez. Un ejemplo rápido puede ser este:

todasLasOfertas = []
ngOnInit(): void {

    this.allOfertasConPropiedadesMapadas$
      .subscribe(
        data => {
          this.todasLasOfertas = data
          //Limitamos a mostrar solo 30 registros.
          this.ofertas = data.slice(0, 30)

        }, err => console.error(err), () => {
          console.log('ofertas', this.ofertas.length);
          console.log('la ultima', this.ofertas[this.ofertas.length - 1]);
        }
      );

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"Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else."
— Henry Rollins
Zdroj: Smile, You're Traveling: Black Coffee Blues Part 3
Henry Rollins7
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— Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014
My Twisted World (2014), 19-22, UC Santa Barbara, Inceldom
"Her face is a map of the world
Is a map of the world
You can see she's a beautiful girl
She's a beautiful girl."
— KT Tunstall Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1975
"Suddenly I See".
Eye to the Telescope (2004)
Kontext: Her face is a map of the world
And everything around her is a silver pool of light
The people who surround her feel the benefit of it —
It makes you calm
She holds you captivated in her palm.
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— Charles Bukowski, kniha Tales of Ordinary Madness
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— Harriet Beecher Stowe, kniha Uncle Tom's Cabin
Ch 13 The Quaker Settlement
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
"beautiful girls have certain advantages."
— Janet Fitch, kniha White Oleander
"Girls are beautiful, let's face it, and life is quite, quite worthless without them."
— Chetan Bhagat Indian author, born 1974 1974
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"What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
"Notes on 'Camp'" (1964), note 9, p. 279 http://books.google.com/books?id=e3qgRrVlEH4C&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA279#v=onepage; originally published in Partisan Review, Vol. 31 No. 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=qEwqAQAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+most+beautiful+in+virile+men+is+something+feminine+what+is+most+beautiful+in+feminine+women+is+something+masculine%22&pg=PA519#v=onepage, ( Fall 1964 http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/books/PR1964V31N4/HTML/#519/z)
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (1966)
"I really don't care that much about "Beauties." What I really like are Talkers. To me, good talkers are beautiful because good talk is what I love. The word itself shows why I like Talkers better than Beauties, why I tape more than I film. It's not "talkies." Talkers are doing something. Beauties are being something. Which isn't necessarily bad, it's just that I don't know what it is they're being. It's more fun to be with people who are doing things."
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
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"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't."
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Varianta: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
"When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her."
— Adriana Trigiani American film director 1970
"We can all be beautiful girls."
— Sarah Dessen, kniha Keeping the Moon
Zdroj: Keeping the Moon
"Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial."
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
"all girls are beautiful in their own way"
"Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen."
— Cassandra Clare American author 1973
"You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky,
or the ocean and you move the hell on."
— James Patterson, kniha Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
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"She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close."
— Terry Pratchett English author 1948 - 2015
Zdroj: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
"I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do."
"Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said… was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?"
— Willa Cather, kniha A Lost Lady
A Lost Lady (1923), Part I, Ch. 7
"There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl."
— Joan Rivers American comedian, actress, and television host 1933 - 2014
Quoted in L.A. Times (10 May 1974), as reported in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 638


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living with a love that's not just make believe.
I see your candle glow.
the time and the space.
every little moment we're apart is pain to me.
Maybe we can find some hide-away.
Everybody knows but who can say.
Anyway you want me I'll be standing by.
I don't wanna lose the one I hunger for.
everything to lose and no alibi.
there's nothing you can do but rise above.
(together we can take away the time and the space).


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Iron spun from gold: Melbourne's filigreed houses
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Cast iron filigree
Post category:Architecture / Australia 2013
If you walk around the inner suburbs of Melbourne – such as Carlton, East Melbourne, Fitzroy, Richmond and others – it doesn't take long to notice the fancy cast ironwork and distinct style of many of the homes. These "filigreed" row houses , or terrace houses, date back mainly to the 1880s, though the style remained popular for quite a while and was pre-dated by similar row houses back to the 1850s, some of which are still around. While the style originated in England, the look reminded us most of those New Orleans' French Quarter houses decked in similar swirls of iron.
Gracious terrace houses in East Melbourne
Walking Melbourne (www.walkingmelbourne.com) – a passionately collected bounty of information about what you see, well, walking Melbourne – claims: "Melbourne has more decorative cast iron than any other city in the world and much of this was used to decorate its terrace houses in the filigree style".
Cast iron filigree in East Melbourne
The late 19th century gold rush in the mountains north of Melbourne ensured enough wealth and a growing population to encourage extensive building of such "boom" townhouses. The very linear style also worked well in the city's flat terrain, though it is amusing to see how builders were able to adapt the look by adjoining homes in a stair step fashion where modest hills made tweaks necessary.
A well maintained 19th century terrace house in Melbourne
At first glance, the ironwork seems all the same, but then you notice the many different patterns, even on adjacent homes. Observing repeated ones and new ones can become a kind of treasure hunt on a walkabout.
Not surprisingly, both the city and its residents consider these terrace homes historically valuable. The heritage registry program sets many restrictions to make sure the buildings remain and are renovated authentically.
Two-thirds of a terrace house remain in complementary colors
Sadly, as Walking Melbourne laments, in a story Americans will recognize from their own cities, many of these terrace homes were torn down in the 1950s and 1960s. Areas like East Melbourne had declined into slums, as the wealthier moved farther away from the CBD. As a result, according to Walking Melbourne, "many rows were substantially affected by widescale slum reclamation programs for public housing during the 1950s and 60s. Later private development of walk-up flats and in-fill development has further reduced the number of complete rows. As a result, streets and suburbs which contain large intact rows of terrace housing are now fairly rare. Suburbs such as Albert Park, Fitzroy, Carlton, Parkville and East Melbourne are now subject to strict heritage overlays to preserve what is left of these streetscapes. "
The house on auction – right side only – in typical Carlton style
We noticed the spottiness of these vintage houses especially in East Melbourne, where blocks have become a jarring mix of some terrace homes, a number of undistinguished boxes for apartments and some sleek contemporary low-rise condos to which the well-to-do have returned. In Carlton and Fitzroy, we could detect the impact of changing fashions and simple lack of maintenance as much ironwork has disappeared.
Yet, the well preserved ones in such trendy neighborhoods can be quite pricey now. Part of Blanche Terrace, a diminutive 1904 row house we saw auctioned in Carlton, sold for over a million dollars (click here see the post about the auction).
What's in a name? Blanche Terrace, Carlton
The style has a number of distinctive features beyond the ironwork, but one of them puzzled us. Centrally placed at the parapet atop the façade, on rowhouses with many homes or just a few, usually sits a kind of stuccoed cartouche or neo-classical aedicule (a fake portal) with the house name etched on it.
Why this passion for stuccoing names on top? No one seems to know for sure though the practice did start in England. Perhaps the nouveau riche of Melbourne also wanted to think of their homes like the named domains and castles of England. As one forum member at Walking Melbourne reported about a single street in St. Kilda, names proliferated and changed: a pair of terraces were "named St Leonard's House before the name was changed to Clendore," the name of Farndon was used for another terrace down the street, and an original owner James Hogan called a third one Findine. You wonder why they bothered with street numbers.
Casa de Juana and Casa de Maria in black and white
Many house names seem to be personal to the original owner: Byrne's Arcade Terrace (Richmond) for the shopkeeper Byrne; Ellen's, Eliza and Mary's Terraces as well as Blanche Terrace (all in Carlton); the intriguing adjacent homes of Casa de Maria and Casa de Juana built for Monsieur A. C. Allee (East Melbourne); or the more obvious Hope Terrace for a minister (East Melbourne).
Simple row houses on Richardson Street, Carlton
Even the lesser homes unable to afford the filigree could sport a vanity plate on the roof like these simple one-story terrace homes on Richardson Street in fashionable Carlton, where the Chester, Congleton, Bolton and Stockport families originally lived.
The Stocktons lived below
This naming thing seems to have become habitual; we're told by locals that Melburnians still like to give pet names to their houses, as people in other countries name their baches (holiday houses) and boats. They just tend to use a name plate by the front door, not stucco on the roof.
Other names we've seen suggest the developers just wanted to distinguish their terrace houses from the many others being built and, at the same time, use an attractive name prominently displayed as a marketing hook to increase curb appeal (before curbs, of course). For example, there's Royal Blue (Carlton) for the blue noses, Shakspeare (Richmond) for the literary crowd, and Hillside for those wanting something other than level ground. The latter is actually on a slope in Richmond. It eventually adopted the anomalous name of Hillside Flats when the 60 rooms became a combination hotel and brothel. Or maybe developers preferred a tribute to themselves. On one street in Carlton, for example, a developer preserved his first name above the building as George's Terrace.
Locales in England like Canterbury (East Melbourne) seemed attractive, especially coastal towns whose names had been transplanted to Victoria's shore, as with Torquay and Lynton Terraces (East Melbourne) or Shoreham Terrace (North Melbourne). Meanwhile along the coast more exotic reference could be needed. A blogging resident of Mentone, like the Riviera's Menton/Mentone, notes old and new house names like Venezia Court, San Remo, Taranto, and L'Avenir on Port Phillip Bay.
It's Halloween every day at this terrace house
And some names just seem odd. Along Hotham Street in East Melbourne, one 1854 house began life as Calthorpe, then became The Pines by the 1880s. By 1912, the the house turned into six flats for rent, while the filigreed ironwork balcony so typical of these gracious 19th century terrace homes seems to have disappeared, later to return on renovation . Plus, up on the parapet, the name had changed to Halloween.
NOTE: Some background info came from a remarkable collection of notes on historic buildings offered online by the East Melbourne Historical Society at www.emhs.org.au, as well as from Australian Terrace Houses at www.australianterrace.com.
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Alex 18 Jun 2013 Reply
So what is your house's name? Also this reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoHo#Cast-iron_architecture
Us 18 Jun 2013 Reply
Good question. Our house was actually a commercial building done in 1908 transformed into apartments back in the 90s but by then it was the Dovers Building (previously the Snider and Abrahams Building…how about that?). According to Walking Melbourne, it was built "in the Edwardian period in the Chicagoesque style." Not quite sure what the Chicagoesque style refers to except perhaps the three sectioned windows. Or…
"It was the second example of American C A P Turners flat plate system of reinforced concrete construction to be built and was begun in the same year as Turners Lindeke Warner Building in Minnesota. The building was designed by H R Crawford CE Who held the Australian rights to the Turner system. The structure is of seven storeys, the top two being an addition. Facades are decorated with foliated capitals and arches at the top floor level of the original building, but otherwise the walls are not decorated."


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North Shore Sports Hall of Fame
1968 Sports Hall of Fame Inductee - Henry Baker
Induction Year: 1968
Sport: Lacrosse
Category: Athlete
Henry Baker was one of the great goaltenders in the early days of box lacrosse. Although he began playing when the game was the field variety in the 1920s, his notable accomplishments came when the sport moved indoors in 1932. He played in the very first box lacrosse game in Western Canada, tending the net on July 1 at New Westminster's Queens Park Arena for the Squamish Indians, the early name for what became the famed North Shore Indians.
Baker was selected to Canada's all-star team which played the United States in a three-game series as a demonstration sport that August at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics.
Once he was back home, the Indians copped the B.C. playoffs and travelled eastward in quest of the cherished Mann Cup. They beat Calgary but fell to Winnipeg and were eliminated from going on to Toronto for the finals. Then the team promptly folded, so Baker played for New Westminster Salmonbellies in 1933 and 1934. He backstopped the team all the way to the Mann Cup finals both years before losing in best-of-five series to Hamilton 3-2 and Orillia 3-0 respectively.
When Andrew Paull resurrected the North Shore Indians in 1935, Baker was back with the team in net, becoming the last line of defence for another shot at the elusive Mann Cup in 1936 as the team racked up a league-best 16-8 record while Baker stopped a league-leading 66.4% of the 590 shots he faced. He was awarded the Maitland Trophy for outstanding play, sportsmanship and assistance to minor lacrosse. In playoffs, the Indians disposed of the Salmonbellies for the B.C. crown and Calgary and Winnipeg en route to facing Orillia in Toronto for Sir Donald Mann's trophy. Three of the games were decided by two goals with Orillia winning 3-1.
Henry, who also played for the competitive Squamish Indians baseball team, continued playing goal into his late 40s until 1950. He was inducted into the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame in its first year (1965) and the North Shore Sports Hall of Fame in its inaugural year (1968).
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Max got the serial casts on Friday. It took about an hour, and he was calm the entire time. (Thank you, DVD player and Cars movie.) I was so worried about how he'd get around with casts on both feet. He's a little wobbly, as you might expect when you're walking around with a couple of extra pounds glommed onto each leg, but it didn't stop him. Max was as happy and intrepid as ever.
As it turns out, the so-called "shoes" are the real trouble. It took us about eleventy billion hours to get a pair of Dave's socks on over the casts, or maybe it was ten minutes, and then once we Velcroed the "shoes" on, Max couldn't get a lot of traction and walking wasn't as easy. We may have to send him to school with open toes, perhaps Max could set a new trend in footwear.
My friend Wendy says that someone could make a killing if they invented actual shoes that fit over the casts. Heads up, Prada!
Max is still deciding what he wants me to write on the casts—it's either going to be "Max loves Cars 2" or "Max loves mac 'n cheese with ketchup" or both. Tough decisions like this take time.
I knew the casts didn't hurt but at bedtime last night, I asked anyway. "Nooooo," said Max. And then he gestured toward one foot, then pointed to the other and said "Nooooo." I knew exactly what he was saying. "You want to have a cast just on one foot, right?" I said. "Essss," he told me. And I hugged him tight and tried not to get upset and made myself think, This is good for him. This is good for him. But it was definitely one of those times when I hated the cerebral palsy.
Max wears two long blue plastic sleeves at bath time to keep water out. Thursday night, we have to take them both off; basically, you just unravel them. Sabrina actually did the job two years ago, the last time he had one, and we might ask her to do it again—assuming she still charges reasonable rates.
Max is supposed to wear the casts for six weeks but there's a good chance the left one may come off a couple of weeks before the right one. His grand prize: a new night cast in purple.
Maybe try going for a pair of warm socks and Birkenstock type sandals to cover his feet? The rubber bottoms would give much better traction than the weird foam bottom on the "shoes" they give you for a cast.-Prof.Mommie.
He doesn't have sandals like that but as a last resort, we might have to buy some! I checked in with the head of the casting dept today for advice. Thank you, Prof!
Max's fuel is high-octane determination and willpower!
Oh, yes, that scene last night was haunting me today... I wish it could only be one cast. I wish it could be NO casts. Thanks for that virtual hug.
Oh-- I so get how big a pain in the neck casts are, now that I have one on my right hand for six weeks. Max's request for only one made my heart hurt. Perhaps you can let Max know that I chose amazing purple for my fiberglass cast. I think I'll call it the Max cast. Take care!
He would be honored if you named your purple fiberglass cast the Max cast. I hope you are healing well!!!
What about trying those fuzy socks with grippers on the bottom? Could he wear socks indoors at school?
Listen, he could come to school in nothing but boxers and they'd be all "Oh, that's fine" if it was something that could enable him! Er, not that anything like that would happen. Fuzzy socks are a good option if I can't figure out a sturdier shoe solution! Thanks, Jill.
Max the trendsetter! Maybe he might be a shoe designer.
Well, that would be fabulous because I have an extremely boring flats habit and could use a style muse who happens to be related to me!
We bought really big socks to go over the casts after getting very frustrated with trying to shove the casts into other socks. It's definitely trickier when casting is happening in the winter. I know it's a huge hassle and I cringe every time it is suggested again for my son, but it seems like Max had great results with it last time and it's nice to know there is a non-surgical way to help sometimes.
That is exactly what's keeping me going: That it's going to be good for him. And yes, more good perspective, at least it's non-surgical.
Ah. You know, this would be far easier than trying to shove them over the entire cast. Plus I am betting I can find some purple duct tape. (It is a little unnerving how I view life through purple-colored glasses.) Gina to the rescue! You always have such creative solutions to everything.
You and Max are both troopers! Moms and dads need lots of courage as you ride the roller coaster of life. I've been on the ride for 20 years and I understand how you feel. Keep up the courage and your spirits!
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import threading
import thread
import struct
import logging as logger

from google.protobuf import service
from sofa.pbrpc import rpc_meta_pb2

class Error(service.RpcException):
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class TimeoutError(Error):
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class Connection(object):
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    def stop(self):
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I've spent a lot of time over the past few years writing about Grant Morrison, talking about Grant Morrison, and making a film about Grant Morrison, and it's now time to continue that work with a series of articles covering Grant Morrison's "Day-Glo Years," syndicated every other week right here on Sequart.org.
In the 1990s, Grant Morrison was undergoing a personal awakening and reinvention, shedding his inhibitions, and setting out on a campaign of personal reinvention that turned a low-key, brown-haired kid into a bald, psychedelic, rock-star bad boy. Along the way, he wrote some of the greatest comics of all time; works that captured a feeling of imminent transformation, of a world on the verge of the millennium, and a future that promised something amazing.
The most ambitious work was The Invisibles, a series which I've already written about in the book Our Sentence is Up (available now from Sequart). It's amazing to think that as he was writing The Invisibles, he was also writing some of the biggest titles in comics and changing the Big Two super-hero universes forever.
Over the coming months, I'll be picking up where Tim Callahan left off in Grant Morrison: The Early Years and analyzing Grant's '90s work. I've spent many, many hours talking with Grant about his life and his work, and I'm eager to go back and read these works in this context. In the process of making Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, I saw how intensely personal Grant's writing is, and now that I know more about his life, I feel like I'll see the work in a new way.
Frankly, after making the documentary about Grant, I felt like I needed to take some time away from his work. I read his current comics but didn't re-read any of the older books. I had been so immersed in his world, I needed some time away. But, it's been a few years, and now seems like the perfect time to look back.
Grant's early '90s creator-owned work – The British Invasion comic book writers revolutionized super-hero comics in the late '80s, and soon they moved on to original stories. At the time, comics were still proving their legitimacy as an artistic medium, and works like The Mystery Play and Sebastian O were Morrison's contribution to the growing trend of literary, high-art graphic fiction. At the time, Grant had given up on super-hero comics, and it's particularly interesting to read these short-form, low-key books after he's spent the past twenty years chronicling the adventures of comics' biggest characters, usually in massive, epic stories.
Flex Mentallo – This is the work I'm most excited about covering. It's one of my favorite Grant comics and also one of the most dense and complex. In this work, Grant found a renewed interest in super-heroes, and it has inspired nearly everything he's done since. It's also his most personal and autobiographical story, drawing together memories of his recent past and childhood in a dizzying psychedelic spiral. This is also his first work with his greatest collaborator, Frank Quitely.
JLA – Grant's entry into the super-hero mainstream is a wonderful filtering of his often drug-fueled adventures into stories featuring the most iconic heroes around. It set a new standard for "widescreen" comics and is filled to the brim with wild ideas and concepts.
Marvel Boy – A hyper-dense shot of pop excitement; in a rush of youth and energy, this series captures the excitement of a future coming at us faster than we can handle. It's one of Grant's most hopeful works, even as we can see the roots of 9/11 depression in its images of citywide destruction.
New X-Men – The final work in Grant's day-glo period begins in the utopian haze of the end of The Invisibles, then watches that dream crumble when the drugs don't work and the people promising us a better world turn out to be frauds. I always felt bad about glossing over New X-Men in Talking with Gods since I think it's both an amazing reinvention of a super-hero property and a really personal chronicle of Grant's own collapse into depression and eventual fall into the post-9/11 "abyss" years. It's a series with a particularly tumultuous production history; one that I'm excited to explore.
Along with these major works, I'll be tackling smaller titles like Kill Your Boyfriend, Fantastic Four: 1234, Kid Eternity, and others.
I'll be starting things off in two weeks here with a trip through the early '90s, then moving forward roughly chronologically. So be here for that, and if you haven't seen it yet, be sure to pick up the new two disc SE version of Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, or if you're tight on cash, watch the film on Hulu!
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I've buckled up, got my popcorn in hand (who wears a seatbelt to eat popcorn?) and I'm primed. This is going to be good!
Having recently put together a thesis focusing upon 'Flex Mentallo' and its place in a post-'Crisis' milieu, I shall be following your contributions with great interest, Mr. Meaney.


Today's geek memorabilia is one of great importance to me. Back in the day, a member of my North Carolia geek brethren and I, broke a 64MB stick of synchronous dynamic random access memory. I, more so than him, dubbed this our friendship stick of RAM, and so I carried this on my key chain for some time. Recently, after the third of four chips fell off and the hole broke, I decided it was time to retire this piece of memorabilia. It was a constant reminder to me of were I found my niche in life.
I want the mouse chip! I want it because its sooo shiny...[beady eyes glitter] so if it doesn't work, I want it for my collection.
Ooh, I am such a raven.
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Thankfully, that wasn't the end of the story. Years later – after saying it was on an indefinite hold – Capy surprised everyone by announcing the game's imminent release. Within a week or so, we were sent a review code. Finally, Below was available to play. It was only right that I'd jump right in and experience what I assumed would be a mystifying adventure game.
For the most part, I was right. Below is an absolute slow burn with very deliberate pacing; it's apparent that a lot of thought and love has gone into every aspect of the game. It starts with the camera zooming-in on a spec of light. As you draw closer, descending from the clouds, you'll notice that spec of light is actually a boat in the middle of an inky black, shimming water. From there, the boat lands on a seemingly deserted island and you start. There is no hand holding. You have to figure out what to do next. This is, without a doubt, a gamer's game. That's not to say it isn't accessible. Anyone can pick it up and play as they'll eventually stumble upon the "correct" path. Things get tricky as the game progresses though.
Below is a top down dungeon crawler with roguelike characteristics. The goal is to get to the bottom of every cave or cavern to unlock whatever's at the bottom. There are hints here and there, that let on about the island's mysteries. The point doesn't seem to be in getting answers though; majority of the game is spent just trying to survive, which isn't easy thanks to the game's interesting set up. Your tiny explorer will need to eat, drink and stay warm. They'll also need to fend off various creatures that lurk in the darkness while solving environmental puzzles. They'll use multiple weapons, the most prevalent being a sword and shield combo. He or she will also utilize bows and arrows and other weapons, once found.
As you explore the tunnels and caverns hidden underneath the island, you'll collect items. The inventory has limited space, so you must figure out how to conserve or craft/combine certain items to make room. This can be anything from a torch to a crystal imbued with magical properties. These items are littered through the first few floors as you get used to the pacing but in later levels the items become harder to find. Enemies are presented in a similar fashion, with more and more mobs showing up the further down you go. The combat, at times, is reminiscent of early Zelda games. It's way less forgiving though; I never could get the hang of the bow and arrows, so I mainly kept with the melee weapons. There are some instances where the bow is needed, however. That being said, I never felt I could accurately control it. My enemies made sure to take advantage of this fact. Some would land an attack or two, others would nearly kill me with a few swipes.
What really makes Below difficult is in how it seems to place you in unfair scenarios. This is due to the trial and error mechanics; remember, the game doesn't hold your hand. Many times, the only clue you have that something should be avoided is a quick death. That's when the rougelike elements kick in. Each explorer's death is permanent. Meaning that you'll control another character whenever the previous one expires. Because of this, when you die – unless you are lucky enough to have opened a shortcut – your replacement character will have to go and retrieve important items from the remains of their counterpart. This includes the magical lantern, an item needed to progress through certain floors.
You can start to see the problem. If you die in a room full of monsters that you obviously couldn't defend against the first time around, it's an almost certainty you won't be able to the second time. This is especially true if said monsters' only weakness is an item the previous adventure was carrying; they aren't going to wait for you to retrieve it from the body. Making matters worse is Below's procedurally generated caverns. Just getting back to your body can be troubling when the world shifts with each death.
That doesn't mean that the game is unfair – I said it seems that way for a reason. This is because each death is a lesson on what to do or not to do. After a while, it'll become less about being lucky and more about using the skills you've learned through play. You'll still struggle to manage your limited supplies which can become cumbersome at times. Losing health as you scrounge about looking for food and water can be a pain. And the enemies will become deadly over time; as you progress through, the latter half of the game just batters you down. At the same time, you'll become more adapt at preparing for and dealing with these issues.
Below, to me, is made to be consumed in 1-2 hour chunks at a time. This is not a game to rush through. It's to be savored, bite by bite; I felt genuinely impressed with myself every time I discovered something new. If you do make it through to the end, the sequence is even better than the beginning. Even before then though, most of the magic is in the presentation and the process. The soundtrack helps with this, with Jim Guthrie's shining throughout. Even though your character is small and nondescript, your surroundings are what make the game beautiful. There is a sort of minimalist cubism look to it, mostly dark with stark lighting strewn about for contrast.
I wouldn't recommend Below to everyone. It absolutely doesn't have universal appeal. If you are looking for hand holding, move on. If you are expecting an easy laid-back journey into a mystical world, please pass. But, if you want an immersive and mysterious world where you can get lost and forget the worries of your life for a few hours, definitely check it out; I was overjoyed to find others in forums discovering things I've already found with the same excitement I had. Capybara has hidden so much in this world, you'll continue to come back for more. Oh, and do yourself a favor and stay away from any FAQs, at least until you get absolutely stuck or after you've beaten the game. You won't be sorry!
Below will be too difficult for some; its trial and error style gameplay can lead to frustration. Permadeath sometimes hampers the entertainment as well. Still, it does provide a rewarding experience for those who stick with it.
Below's environments are as beautiful as they are engrossing. The art style is unique.
The sound design and music are gripping and immersive. Definitely try headphones if you have them available.
Below becomes more entertain the further you go. Those that stick it out will most likely want to return to learn all of it secrets.


Birth of son Joseph Wharton in Ince Blundell, Lancashire.
Birth of son James Wharton in Thornton, Lancashire.
Birth of son John Wharton in Thornton, Lancashire.
Birth of daughter Ellen Wharton in Thornton, Lancashire.
Birth of son William Wharton in Sefton, Lancashire.
Birth of daughter Annie Wharton in Sefton, Lancashire.
Birth of son Henry Wharton in Sefton, Lancashire.
Birth of son Robert Wharton in Sefton, Lancashire.
Birth of daughter Margaret Wharton in Sefton, Lancashire.
Thornton is a small hamlet between Little Crosby and Ince-Blundell.


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Great tool at a great price...making my backyard work easier! Sprays well, comfortable in hand, etc.
Priced Great! A true value.
Works great, easy to handle, ergonomic handle that is comfortable. What more could you want for $5.00!
Our daughters like to play with this thing a lot (which means they're dropping it a lot) and it's still ticking.
Would have given a 5 but could not think of a use for the side way flow. Jet stream could be a little stronger. However, I think its my water pressure. Very versatile.
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All Africans?
Posted By Kerry Bolton On October 24, 2011 @ 12:00 am In North American New Right | 13 Comments
Milford H. Wolpoff, Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan
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In 2008, 60 Minutes ran a story on Spenser Wells, Explorer in Residence for the National Geographic Society, who is mapping the genetic linkages of the world population. The media are naturally eager to plug Wells' genetic mapping because it supports the "Out of Africa" or "African Eve" hypothesis put forward in recent times by some geneticists. The Liberal Establishment is eager to proclaim that we are all part of a nebulous mass of humanity without any differences other than what can be learned. The interviewer, a blond woman, was pleased to state that she was "once an African" (sic).
While this is the current theory in vogue, the new orthodoxy—to bolster the very old orthodoxy of the "Noble Savage" which has provided an ideological basis for subversive doctrines since the French Revolution—contrary evidence is suppressed. Those geneticists advocating the "African Eve" hypothesis are not in agreement with another branch of science—paleoanthropology, the examination of fossil remains. On the basis of the fossil remains paleoanthropologists maintain that there is a wide divergence of humanity going well back prior to the mere 200,000 years ascribed to different populations by the "African Eve" protagonists. On the basis of the fossil evidence human divergence occurred one to two million years ago, where the features that today mark Europeans, Australian Aborigines, Chinese et al. were already present.
The "out of Africa" hypothesis of human migrations 200,000 years ago was proposed by Wilson and Cann in 1992 (Allan C. Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann, "The Recent African Genesis of Humans," Scientific American 1992, no. 266: 68-73.).
Multi-Regional Evolution
What paleoanthropologists now call "multiregional evolution" on the other hand postulates racial divergence far beyond that time, on the basis of the fossil evidence. Alan G. Thorne and Milford H. Wolpoff state the polygenic or multiregional basis of modern human origins. They maintain that there is no single recent dispersal for modern humans, that humans originated in Africa and then slowly developed their modern forms in every area of the Old World.
According to the multiregional view, mtDNA is not our only source of evidence. Fossil remains and artifacts represent more reliable evidence. Multiregional evolution traces all populations to humans first leaving Africa 1.8 million years ago. Distinctive populations have maintained physical differences. The features that distinguish Asians, Australian Aborigines and Europeans are said to have evolved over a long period where these peoples are found today.
The hominid fossils from Australasia show a continuous anatomic sequence, with the earliest Australians displaying features seen in Indonesia 100,000 years ago. Similar evidence is seen in northern Asia where one million years old Chinese fossils differ from Javan fossils in ways that parallel the differences between north Asians and Australians today (Alan G. Thorne and Milford H. Wolpoff, "The Multiregional Evolution of Humans," Scientific American 1992, no. 266: 76-83).
In a typically biased account by P. Shipman in the January 16, 1993 issue of The New Scientist the hypothesis of Thorne and Wolpoff was nonetheless succinctly described among misleading comments about how genetic differences among races play no role in their relationship to society. Some of the relevant descriptions of the Thorne, Wolpoff hypothesis follow:
. . . At what stage in human evolution did the modern races evolve? And can ethnic behaviors and customs act as a selective force in human evolution, helping to shape the physical characteristics of the five or so genetic subgroups of humanity that we call races? Recent attempts to find clues in fossil and skeletal remains have triggered some fierce academic skirmishes.
The main battle centres on the attempts of a small band of researchers to prove that human races are hundreds of thousands of years older than conventional theories would have us believe. Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan and his colleagues maintain that the principal human races — Negroids, Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Australian aboriginal peoples and southern African Bushmen — began to evolve well before the appearance of anatomically modern humans, Homo sapiens. Contrary to mainstream thinking, races did not evolve as a result of modern humans leaving Africa to colonize the rest of the world some 100 000 to 200 000 years ago. Or so Wolpoff argues.
. . . Ironically, in everyday life most of the divisions we recognize are ethnic-that is, concern learned behavior and cultural traditions rather than biological factors. Yet in science it is race that is often the flashpoint . . . .
To anthropologists and palaeontologists, the question of when in prehistory races began to evolve is no less controversial. Wolpoff, Alan Thorne of the Australian National University and their colleagues would trace racial characteristics as far back as 2 million years ago, to the extinct human species Homo erectus. According to their so-called multiregional hypothesis (see "The case against Eve," New Scientist, 22 June 1991), anatomically modern humans evolved from this more ancient form simultaneously in different parts of the world, and it was during this period of simultaneous evolution that the racial characteristics of Homo sapiens first emerged . . .
Parallel Evolution
Thorne and Wolpoff are not the first to state the antiquity of human divergence. Carlton S. Coon, head of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, one of the most eminent of physical anthropologists, was one of the more well-known proponents of what is today called "multiregional evolution," and what was then called "parallel evolution." Like Thorne, Wolpoff and other sceptics of the "African Eve" hypothesis, Coon stated that today's races evolved separately, in different continents, over different time periods.
Coon writing in 1962 stated of the origin and early divergence of humankind into races:
Where homo sapiens arose, and Africa is at present the likeliest continent, he soon dispersed, in a very primitive form, throughout the warm regions of the Old World. Three of the five human subspecies crossed the sapiens line elsewhere. If Africa was the cradle of mankind, it was only an indifferent kindergarten. Europe and Asia were our principal schools.
As far as we know, the Congoid line started on the same evolutionary level as the Eurasiatic ones in the Middle Pleistocene and then stood still for a half a million years, after which Negroes and Pygmies appeared as if out of nowhere. . . .
R. Ruggles Gates, at the time the most experienced anthropologist human geneticist, had much earlier said: "Isolation has been the great factor, or at any rate, an essential factor, in the differentiation of races" (R. R. Gates, Heredity in Man [London: Constable, 1929], 295. Gates was the founder of chromosome genetics.).
The multi-regional evolution of separate races almost two million years ago, was the commonly held theory among both geneticists and anthropologists until recent times. The fossil evidence accords with the very early divergence and separate evolution of the primary races.
All Chimps Now?
A major tactic of the One World One Race scientists and their street and media level shock troops is to pompously declare that there is only "one race—the human race" on the basis that all subspecies of man share 99.9 percent of their genes.
This argument purports to establish moral and political equality on the basis of genetic similarity. But similarity is not equality. If our rights and obligations to one another are based on genetic similarity, and genetic similarity is a matter of degree, then so too must be rights and obligations. We would have greater obligations to closer kin than to distant ones. But this is not the sort of egalitarianism desired by the One World, One Race crowd.
Furthermore, the genetic similarity = moral equality position begins to look absurd when applied to non-humans as well. After all, the genetic relationship between chimpanzees and humans is 98.5 percent. Some scientists are now contending on that basis that chimps and humans should now be classified as of the same genus. Pickrell writing in National Geographic News, states:
A new report argues that chimpanzees are so closely related to humans that they should be included in our branch of the tree of life. Chimpanzees and other apes have historically been separated from humans in classification schemes, with humans deemed the only living members of the hominid family of species.
Now, biologists at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, provide new genetic evidence that lineages of chimps (currently Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens) diverged so recently that chimps should be reclassed as Homo troglodytes. The move would make chimps full members of our genus Homo, along with Neandertals, and all other human-like fossil species. "We humans appear as only slightly remodelled chimpanzee-like apes," says the study . . .
The term genus describes a very closely related group of similar species, thought to have diverged from one another relatively recently, and is the first grouping above the species level. Common chimpanzees and bonobos have until now been classified into their own genus, Pan.
Studies indicate that humans and chimps are between 95 and 98.5 percent genetically identical. . . .
Derek E. Wildman, Goodman, and other co-authors at Wayne State argue in their new study, published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that given the evidence, it's somewhat surprising that humans and chimps are still classified into different genera. Other mammalian genera often contain groups of species that diverged much earlier than chimps and humans did, said Goodman. "To be consistent, we need to revise our definition of the human branch of the tree of life," he said. (J. Pickrell, "Chimps Belong on Human Branch of Family Tree, Study Says," National Geographic News, May 20, 2003.)
But if chimps belong to the human genus, doesn't that mean that it is "racism" to buy and sell them? Is it racism to keep them in cages? Does it mean that it is racism not to give them the right to vote, the right to drive, the right to mate with one's daughter? Is it racism if we do not allow chimps to go to school? Will white people be blamed when chimps cannot pass the first grade? Will the President of the United States demand that "no chimp be left behind"? I am all for humane treatment of chimps, but that does not require that we treat them as human beings.
Behind the "One World, One Race" Propaganda
What has brought about the widespread belief in the "African Eve" hypothesis? Clearly it suits the political agenda of today, and has become a new article of faith among orthodox academe.
Just as the myth of the "Noble Savage," the notion of an Edenic idyll existing among the primitive races untouched by the corrupting influences of European civilization, became the vogue among the so-called educated and cultivated classes of the eighteenth century and provided the ideological impetus for the French Revolution, so the new myth of the "African Eve" is now serving similar interests.
The "African Eve," "All Africans" dogma provides pseudo-scholarly impetus for the leveling of humankind into a nebulous mass, without identity, easily malleable in the hands of those who seek to establish a "new world order."
The New Scientist article quoted above started with the obligatory references to "neo-Nazism" and "racism." Yet what we have arising from the dogma of "One World, One Race" implied in the "African Eve" hypothesis is something vastly more totalitarian. The egalitarian fallacy has wrought more evil—from the guillotine to the Gulag, from the "killing fields" of Pol Pot, to the mass suicides of Jonestown—than the worst excesses of Hitlerism.
If Hitlerism aimed at the creation of a "Master Race," the One World, One Race ideology aspires to its mirror image: the extermination of all distinct peoples through miscegenation and their replacement with a homogeneous, dumbed-down slave race.
In looking for distant, primitive origins, we might just as well go back beyond the "African Eve" to the primal slime of undifferentiated existence from which all life ultimately emerged, for it is just such a characterless, indistinct blob of humankind that our new slave masters seek to impose through the dysgenic reversal of evolution.
Freedom and justice are best served not through the dead weight of an enforced "equality", but through the recognition of differentiation, for it is in the differences that humanity can best be appreciated and valued.
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Q: What is a baseline function in policy gradients methods? Is this same as the Advantage Function?

A: A baseline function can be any function that doesn't affect the expected policy gradient update. Generally any function that does not directly depend on the current action choice or parametric policy function.
The idea for choosing a "good" baseline is to choose something that can correct for variance due to using the raw policy gradient for updates.
You actually have a lot of choices for the baseline function. Typical choices are $\bar{R}$, the average reward, or $V(s)$ the state value function (which can then lead to Actor-Critic methods, if you use it further to calculate a TD error for correcting the policy on each step).

Is this same as the Advantage Function?

The Advantage function can be treated as a baseline-already-included estimate, because it is $Q_{\pi}(s,a) - V_{\pi}(s)$. By using $A(s,a)$ as the gradient multiplier for policy gradient update steps, you are implictly using policy gradients with $V(s)$ as the baseline.
You might be able to use the Advantage function in some other way to establish a different baseline. However, you should not use the current policy to decide the action in $A(s,a)$ if you do so, because that is not independent of the policy gradient. You could use e.g. $\text{max}_a A(s,a)$ - I am not sure how well that would work in practice, but I think it would be a valid baseline function.