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US to boost nuke sniffing with modified C-130s
By casey,
June 14, 2018 in 2018
LocationDallas, GA
When the Air Force dispatches aircraft to the Asia-Pacific to monitor the atmosphere for signs of nuclear activity from North Korea, it relies on its WC-135 Constant Phoenix nuke-sniffing planes. But with only two of those in the service's inventory, it's possible the WC-135s might not be able to respond to every contingency.
Enter the ever-versatile C-130 Hercules, which now can be equipped with a modular kit that allows it to detect nuclear particles in the atmosphere.
The Air Force spent $10.1 million in fiscal year 2016 for two "Harvester Particulate Airborne Collection System" kits that can be strapped onto C-130H/Js and collect microscopic nuclear solids in the event that the service can't make its WC-135 aircraft available, said Susan Romano, a spokeswoman for the Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), which is responsible for conducting nuclear surveillance for the Defense Department.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein has said that the current WC-135 planes are too old and too few in number to meet all of the Defense Department's demands.
"Our mission capable rates, and more importantly our aircraft availability rates to go do this mission, are much lower than not only the secretary of defense but the combatant commander's requirements for that mission," he told Congress in April.
While the Harvester kits won't give the C-130 the full capability of the Constant Phoenix, it gives the U.S. Air Force a needed boost in capacity at a time when its more focused than ever on the nuclear activities of Russia, North Korea, China and Iran.
Defense News first learned about these specially-outfitted Hercules thanks to a series of tweets by Quinton McGuire, a former C-130 loadmaster who participated in 2015 tests of the Harvester system aboard a Super Hercules flying out of Hurlburt Field, Florida.
McGuire's photos show a C-130J with the rear paratrooper doors outfitted with a podded sensor hanging from the exterior of the door.
During the demonstration, a WC-135 crew operated the sensor pod and conducted onboard analysis, McGuire said in a series of tweets. Also present during the flight were representatives from Sandia National Laboratory, one of the nation's largest research labs for nuclear weaponry, which developed the Harvester pods.
"The door was really cool. It allowed the Loadmaster or system operator to get a better view of the equipment (and also take kick ass pictures at high altitude)," McGuire tweeted. "And it's more cost effective to develop more flexibility without dedicating 2 high value assets to that mission."
The Harvester kit was also tested on Customs and Border Protection MQ-9 Reaper drones before technical demonstrations wrapped up in 2015, Romano said. Since then, the Air Force decided to procure two kits, which are currently going through the acceptance process and will fully operational and mission-ready in fiscal year 2019.
Each Harvester suite includes two sampling pods that collect radioactive particles and a gamma radiation sensor that helps guide the aircraft to a radioactive plume, according to a Sandia news release on a 2013 test aboard an MQ-9.
It also includes radiation protection gear and other equipment needed to sample and analyze nuclear particles in air and on the ground, Romano said.
During a mission, Air Mobility Command would provide C-130s and the pilots and crew needed to operate the aircraft itself, while the 21st would provide the personnel needed to use the Harvester equipment and do the nuclear forensics onboard.
The C-130 would first use the gamma radiation sensor to find a hot spot of nuclear activity, and then flying through the plume, passing air rapidly through the sampling pod. That action rams microscopic nuclear particles into the filter paper in the pods much the way that a vaccum uses a filter to collect dirt.
"A separate radiation sensor analyzes the filter in real time to estimate the type and quantity of radioactive particles collected," said a Sandia news release that explained the Harvester capability. "More extensive examination of the filters occurs after the aircraft has landed."
So if nuclear particles can be detected by a C-130, why does the Air Force still need the WC-135?
A "rapid, medium altitude, manned, refuel-capable aircraft" is currently required to do the nuclear treaty monitoring mission, said Romano, and the C-130 doesn't fit the bill.
For one, it can't refuel other aircraft. But even more importantly, the modular Harvester kits only give the C-130 the ability to collect particles, while the WC-135 has a collection system for nuclear gases, as well as other equipment like internal filtration that allows the crews to conduct longer missions, Romano said.
Additionally, the C-130 flies slow and low. While the C-130J may be able to hit a higher top speed than a WC-135, its 28,000-foot ceiling is significantly lower than the WC-135's 40,000-foot maximum altitude, according to Air Force fact sheets. Meanwhile, the WC-135 outperforms the C-130H variant in both areas.
Although the nuclear treaty monitoring mission isn't often discussed by the Air Force due for classification reasons, it's clear that the service is putting more money into ensuring that it can rapidly respond when an adversary tests nuclear weapons.
In September 2019, L3 Technologies will begin transforming three KC-135R tankers into WC-135s. Those three new Constant Phoenix planes will allow the Air Force to retire its current two WC-135s — and increase the number of nuke sniffers by one aircraft.
The Air Force is requesting $208 million in FY19 for the Constant Phoenix upgrade effort, with an additional $8 million planned in FY20.
Source: https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018/06/12/us-to-boost-nuke-sniffing-with-modified-c-130s/
IIRC the WC-130E's had the same system as the WC-135's, so why not use those pods again?
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Dietary studies on generalist predators may provide valuable information on spatial or temporal changes in the structure of ecological communities. We initiated this study to provide baseline data and determine the utility of stable isotope analysis (SIA) to evaluate the foraging strategies of an opportunistic reptilian predator, the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin), which specializes in salt marshes and mangrove estuaries along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. We evaluated stable carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotope values of multiple tissues from terrapins inhabiting mainland and island mangrove habitats in south Florida and potential food sources to examine spatial and temporal variations in terrapin resource use. We fit linear regression models to determine the best predictors of isotopic values for both terrapins and their prey, and Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R (SIBER) analysis to examine terrapin isotopic niche space and overlap between groups. We identified differences in terrapin isotopic δ13C and δ15N values among all sites. Blood and scute tissues revealed different isotopic compositions and niche overlap between sites, suggesting diets or foraging locations may change over time, and amount of variation is site specific. Niche overlap between size classes was larger for blood (short term) versus scute (long term), suggesting greater variability in food habits or resource isotopes over the long term versus short term. These results demonstrate the usefulness of SIA in examining the spatial and temporal variability in diamondback terrapin resource use within estuary systems and further define their niche within these dynamic food webs.


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Antisemitismo in Europa
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Daniel S. Mariaschin
European antisemitism is still a threat
Will the countries of Europe see the need to seize the imperative? Or will the easier path of looking the other way cause Europe to fail its Jews twice within memory?
The dramatic rise in antisemitism across the length and breadth of Europe is more than unsettling for the Jewish community. But it should also be of deep concern to European governments, which have watched as extremist parties and organizations have seized the public stage to vent their rage over the past several years.
Much of this is taking place in Eastern Europe, but it is not only there that these practitioners of hate are mobilizing. From Ireland in the west to the eastern reaches of the continent, and from both the Left and the Right, rallies, posts on Facebook and other social media, and acts of violence are targeting Jewish communities, their institutions and individuals in a way not seen since the end of World War II.
The beating of an eight-year-old boy wearing a kippa in Paris last week was only the latest example of this alarming trend. Two months ago, tens of thousands of people rallied in Warsaw, chanting the Nazi slogan "Sieg Heil" and "Ku Klux Klan." Banners touting racist slogans such as "Pure Blood" and "White Europe" revealed the grassroots animus that has long served as the foundation for antisemitism in Poland and elsewhere in Europe. Such street demonstrations and similar language were staples in the cities of Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s, and are now returning.
Political parties, such as Golden Dawn in Greece, Jobbik in Hungary, Ataka in Bulgaria and the National Front in France traffic in the same xenophobic rhetoric. That in some countries the Jewish population is relatively small has nothing to do with the vehemence of those who engage in such behavior. Indeed, the expression "antisemitism without Jews" emerged from state-sponsored antisemitism in Eastern Europe 50 years ago.
While growing antisemitism and bigotry of the far Right is deeply troubling, the role that being anti-Israel plays in the political Left also cannot be overstated. Antisemitic motifs underline much of the extreme Left's likening Israel to the Nazis, to apartheid South Africa, and its charges that the Jewish state is "racist" and committing genocide against the Palestinians.
Editorial cartoons, posters at demonstrations and social media messages often cast Israelis in images that could have appeared in Der Sturmer.
Adding fuel to this fire are attacks against the Jewish religion. Already four countries in Europe have banned shechita, or kosher slaughter. During a debate over the issue in Norway, one legislator said that if the Jews were disturbed by the ban, "Let them go somewhere else." Similar efforts to ban circumcision are also occurring in a number of countries.
IN THE MIDST of all this, on January 29, the Italian government hosted the Rome Conference on the Responsibility of States, Institutions and Individuals in the Fight Against Antisemitism in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Italy is the new chair of the OSCE, an organization composed of 57 member countries and 11 partner countries, dedicated to common security and human rights issues. Co-sponsoring the meeting were the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights – which is the OSCE's human rights arm, the Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan and the Union of Italian Jewish Communities.
The conference also coincided with the 80th anniversary of Italy's racial laws, promulgated by its Fascist government on the eve of World War II.
There has been a series of such conferences aimed at combating antisemitism, sponsored by the organization over the past 15 years. The key word in the conference's concept paper is "responsibility." The gathering in Rome – of more than 400 diplomats, human rights NGOs, Jewish leaders and others – heard presentations on the role and responsibility of lawmakers and civil servants, the challenge of hatred on digital platforms, and the role of educators, sports and religion in addressing the growing virus of hate directed against Jews in Europe.
The statements each country represented at the meeting, delivered at the plenary session, were also important. Having to go on the record to report what individual governments are doing to assess antisemitism within their borders and how they are acting to respond, is not just an exercise in blowing diplomatic hot air. Granted, some presentations were perfunctory, but others demonstrated an appreciation that the world is watching, and that left unchecked, the 1930s will return in the 21st century, aided by the Internet and social media platforms.
THIS YEAR, Italy will also chair the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a consortium of countries that offer primarily Holocaust education programs in schools and related remembrance activities. Membership in this group is not automatic; a country has to be elected based on fulfilling certain standards.
In 2016, the IHRA adopted a working definition of antisemitism. It is important that the OSCE adopt similar language to educate public officials, journalists, teachers and others about contemporary manifestations of antisemitism.
Conferences of this type often set high expectations – for the moment – many of which we find go unfulfilled. One objective has been met by the convening of the meeting itself. Certainly one cannot conceive of a gathering like this taking place in the 1930s.
Had it, a spotlight would have shone on the evil and barbarity about to grip the Jews of Europe in its clutches. Even 40 or 50 years ago, such a meeting would be unlikely, since the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe would never own up to their own brand of antisemitism, which targeted Jewish religious observance and any kind of activity or connection to Zionism and to Israel.
So the fact that more than 50 countries met to deliberate on the subject is, as we say, a "dayenu moment" – meaning, if we only have this, it is sufficiently important.
But, of course, that isn't enough. Once again, the shadows of hatred loom over Jewish communities, some of whose elderly members still wear tattoos on their arms to attest to what happens when societal "responsibility" – by governments, the media and individuals – fails to materialize when it is needed most.
The Rome Conference has laid down the challenge and the imperative to act.
Daniel S. Mariaschin is the executive vice president and CEO of B'nai B'rith International. As the organization's top executive officer, Mariaschin directs and supervises B'nai B'rith programs, activities and staff around the world.
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Hackers have been targeting companies that operate nuclear power stations around America, prompting the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI to issue an urgent warning about the severity of the threat, several media outlets reported on Thursday.
Both The New York Times and Bloomberg published details from a joint report released by the government agencies last month that described efforts by hackers to infiltrate the systems of nuclear facilities, including the Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation. The report did not provide details of the cyberattacks, but the Kansas-based Wolf Creek said its systems were not affected, according to the Times.
Both publications, citing security experts and U.S. officials, said the attacks could be used to disrupt the power grid, and DHS and the FBI sent out a warning to utility companies on June 28 about the potential for hacking.
The agencies said on Thursday that there is no current threat to the public.
"There is no indication of a threat to public safety, as any potential impact appears to be limited to administrative and business networks," DHS and the FBI said in a joint statement provided to the Times.
E&E News, a news site focusing on the energy industry, first reported that investigators were looking into multiple attacks on nuclear power generators this year. E&E said there was no evidence any systems had been compromised, but experts warned the existence of such threats points up the vulnerability of American power plants.
Last week, Reuters said hackers have been using phishing emails in an attempt to "harvest credentials" for various energy sector networks.
"Historically, cyber actors have strategically targeted the energy sector with various goals ranging from cyber espionage to the ability to disrupt energy systems in the event of a hostile conflict," the report said, according to Reuters.
In 2016, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, warned of the potential for hacking at nuclear power plants worldwide, citing an effective attack that "caused some problems" two or three years prior.


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The Impact of The Dixie Hummingbirds
Who are the Dixie Hummingbirds?
The Dixie Hummingbirds are a famous African American gospel music group playing styles from jubilee quartet of the 1920s to hard gospel from the 1950s. The Dixie Hummingbirds consist of 5 members; James B. Davis, Fred Owens, Wilson Baker, Barney Parks, and Jimmy Bryant. They began their music career in Greenville, SC in the 1930s as a jubilee act. When they moved to Philadelphia in 1942 the Hummingbirds popularity grew and engaged audiences by their theatrics. The Hummingbirds have received much recollection throughout their career from several Grammy nominations; Best Traditional Gospel Album to actually winning Best Soul Gospel Performance Grammy for "Loves Me Like a Roll" in 1973. They were also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2000 for their song "Amazing Grace". Although the original 5 took the group to much success there were many replacements throughout their career. The first member to leave was James Davis but he was replaced by Rev. Joseph Williams. Once Williams left the group in 1987 he was replaced William Leon Bright until the group ended.
What is Jubilee Quartets?
The Jubilee Quartet period began in the late nineteenth century. Beginning at Fisk University with The Fisk Jubilee Singers. The Fisk Jubilee Singers are an influential musical group that has impacted the way we view Negro Spiritual music to this day. Founded in 1871 at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee the group's sole purpose was to raise money for the school. After facing financial crisis George L. White, the Fisk treasurer brought together nine chorus members from the school to save the school. Once other institutions noticed the success from the Fisk Jubilee Singers other HBCUs such as created jubilee quartets. Quartets consist of either male and/ or female singers who ensemble together of four to six voices that perform in close four-part harmony. In the 1940s originated quartet competitions were formed. These competitions were to promote quartet performances and uplift the black community. Competitions were held in churches, high schools, universities and community centers. Most often seen groups were The Fairfield Four, The Golden Gate Quartet, and The Dixie Hummingbirds.
There were many elements that fall into the jubilee quartet style. Quartet consist of religious and secular songs having a big gospel influence. Jubilee originated from college choirs and was used to rejoice. Each group had an individual sound consisting of four different vocals; baritone, bass, lead and tenor. In the beginning of jubilee styles they consisted close harmonies and "flatfooted" style of singing.
The majority of quartet groups were male-dominated and defined by a lead (tenor), second tenor, baritone, and bass. Many quartets grouped not have the proper singing training but came together to create complicated rhythms, lively tempo, and chords.
How have the Dixie Hummingbirds Effected Music Today?
The Dixie Hummingbirds along with the jubilee quartet style had a huge impact on music today. in the jubilee means to rejoice and with this style of music that is what people came together and did. with groups like The Dixie Hummingbirds, it inspired other musicians and allowed this genre of much to grow it did. The Dixie Hummingbirds receiving recognition on a national level as well it really gave blacks the exposure they truly needed.


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The OPPO F9 Is A Heavyweight Midranger | Specs And Pricing
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More and more, midrange smartphones from all the locally-available brands are incorporating bigger and bigger specs in their devices. Gone are the days when...
More and more, midrange smartphones from all the locally-available brands are incorporating bigger and bigger specs in their devices. Gone are the days when a midrange offering compromises one feature in favor of cutting costs. Also gone are the days when certain specs or features are reserved only for flagships.
The new OPPO F9 is an example of a midrange smartphone what has a lot going for it. First off, the specs:
6.3 inches, 19.5:9 Aspect Ratio Waterdrop Screen display
Helio P60 Processor
Octa-core (4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A73 & 4×2.0 GHz Cortex-A53)
ARM Mali-G72 MP3 800MHz
64 GB (up to 256 GB)
ColorOS 5.2, based on Android 8.1 Oreo
16 MP, f/1.8, PDAF + 2 MP, depth sensor rear camera
25 MP, f/2.0 HDR front camera
3500mAh with VOOC Flash Charge
The F9 has the latest Helio chipset, the P60. Where you'd usually get an older generation processor on a midranger, the F9 doesn't compromise, allowing it to have AI capabilities and a bit of future-proofing. It's GPU is purpose-built to compliment the chipset, and is still one of the current GPUs Mali has to offer (note that the newest Mali chip is the G76, which just released and therefore, not yet applicable in this year's crop of smartphones)
64GB of storage used to be the standard capacity for flagships, but midrangers are quickly adapting to it as a stock offering. Soon enough, you'll see phones within the F9's price tier sport 128GB of storage!
The great thing we've noticed about the F9 is the RAM. 6GB RAM isn't something to easily dismiss here. Where it used to be a mainstay in flagships, the F9 is boasting such a large RAM capacity that it can easily play all the latest mobile games you could ever think of, and still have enough to multi-task. For us, the 6GB RAM is a big draw for the F9, and will certainly favor a lot of mobile gamers.
Despite all the heavyweight hardware inside the phone already, the F9 has an impressive pair of rear shooters (16MP + 2MP). Both cameras have AI recognition software built in, and is already a standard for camera setups in mobile phones. The F9 also has a large 25MP front camera, a trademark of the F series from OPPO. The re-invented 'Sensor-HDR' technology dramatically improves backlight selfies and allows users to check high dynamic exposure live effects in real-time.
Then finally, there's the VOOC quick-charge technology. Not all OPPO phones sport this type of charging, and the company claims that five minutes of charging time is equivalent to two hours of talk time. Even if you're not really keen on talking to someone for two hours on a dying phone, the quick-charging tech in the F9 can be a godsend during emergencies. We'd like to note that the VOOC charging technology only works with a VOOC-capable device (like the F9), a VOOC charging cable, and a VOOC charging adaptor. While that may sound a little exclusive, OPPO has made sure that each piece of the setup (phone, cable, adaptor) has safety precautions to prevent overcharging, overheating, and other dangerous situations. The intelligent five-layer protection system of the F9 ensures the safety of your investment and most importantly, you.
The OPPO F9 is priced at Php 17,990. It's a little higher than the other phones in its class but when you think about it, a few thousand pesos extra for 6GB RAM, the latest Helio and Mali chips, plus VOOC technology is a very great deal.
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Here's why smart glasses could be key to the 5G future
The biggest use cases for 5G will probably be a pair of smart glasses, predicts Kedar Kondap, VP of product management at Qualcomm. Even though 5G is at a nascent stage and use cases are still being developed, Kondap says he sees a bright future in augmented reality glasses in context to 5G.
Kondap, who flew down from San Diego to attend the launch of Qualcomm's new chipsets in India, lends his support to a 5G-powered extended-reality (XR) platform through which Qualcomm wants to bring new experiences by merging augmented reality and virtual reality together. It's essentially a new augmented reality chipset for the next generation of AR headsets.
"This year you will see a lot more innovation in terms of untethered devices," Kondap told Indianexpress in an interview. "Today, they are getting paired with smartphones, which will drive some amazing use cases," he said.
Not all but most first-generation augmented reality glasses need to be paired to mobile devices like smartphones to handle computing and rendering of visuals. The use of smartphones for core processing is central to AR glasses and that's probably the reason why Kondap isn't ready to give an exact timeline on when smart glasses will replace smartphones.
"Yes, all of the processing happens on the phone and it's rendered on your glass, but over time it will see much more innovation," he explains.
While AR glasses are seen as the next big thing after smartphones, the biggest hurdle is obviously lack of consumer-focused content. Magic Leap, one of the heavily funded and hyped startups in the augmented reality, failed to sell its $2000 Leap One headset to consumers due to a lack of killer apps and immersive AR content.
Kondap did acknowledge that AR headsets lack exciting applications, but that might change this year. Without revealing the name of developers, Kondap revealed that a lot of new augmented reality content is currently being made that could increase the penetration of AR glasses.
The hype around AR glasses is real, but the fact remains that we are in the early adoption phase of augmented reality technology. Industry experts believe that the first true augmented reality glasses that consumers would want to use haven't come yet. The argument they are marking is that existing AR headsets are just an extension to smartphones.
Even Kondap admits that it will take a few years from these headsets can reach mainstream adoption. And the question of AR headsets replacing smartphones is too far from reality, considering mobile phones will initially drive sales of smart glasses in the near term.
Panasonic showed a futuristic-looking VR headset at CES 2020. (Image credit: Nandagopal Rajan/Indian Express)
Future AR glasses will be different from a smartphone. They will have a new type of manufacturing process, a significantly larger field of view, AR-focused apps and games, and will be designed in such a way that you can wear them all day.
Despite initial challenges that have negatively affected the mainstream adoption of AR headsets, Kondap hopes to see some positive momentum going forward. At this year's CES, N-real, the Chinese start-up, got rave reviews for its augmented reality glasses that deliver an experience where virtual objects are superimposed onto the real-world environments. The headset, which resembles a lot like regular glasses, is powered by Qualcomm's XR platform and uses an Android smartphone for the processing and rendering visual to the glasses.
But Qualcomm isn't the only one eyeing the augmented reality market. For the past few years, major tech companies including Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have shown interest in augmented reality. While Google failed to find a market for its AR glasses, Microsoft just recently started selling its $3500 HoloLens 2 to consumers. Apple and Facebook are yet to launch their respective AR headsets. But the rumours of both Apple and Facebook getting to the AR headset market have intensified in recent months.
Samsung, too, is interested in making AR glasses. Earlier this month, at CES 2020, Samsung showed off its first pair of augmented reality glasses. They don't have a name, price or exact release date yet.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/why-smart-glasses-could-be-key-to-the-5g-future-6229730/
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Impromptu Fantasias
Inside the world of Benjamin De Casseres: aphorist, diarist, egotist
Benjamin De Casseres(Photogravure by Marius De Zayas, originally published in Camera Work XXIX, 1910)
I have thought of writing the lives of some great artist—Shelley, Manet, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Chopin, Keats, Sappho, Emerson, Nietzsche, Redon, for instance—directly from a complete inhalation of and meditation on their work without any regard to the facts. Wherever the known facts conflict with my mythus, I shall reject them or flatly deny them. It would be a fascinating undertaking—the lives of Shakespeare, Chopin, Verlaine, for instance, as I conceive them to have been from their faces and work alone.
Such an endeavor would take considerable egotism, and that Benjamin De Casseres was possessed of that quality is no "mythus" but verifiable fact. The paragraph above is an extract from his voluminous, life-spanning diary that no one reads, and that, perhaps, no one will ever read. In this essay, we will try to be more responsible, though the sources are obscure. Despite Shakespeare dying centuries ago, the dates and important events of even his contested life are more thoroughly available than those of De Casseres, who wrote regularly for newspapers and magazines in the most public city in the world, New York, during the heyday of the most public century before ours, the 20th.
It is regrettable that for a man who wrote so much, so little is known, and so little is the desire to know. There is hardly any scholarship about De Casseres (he's mentioned in a handful of doctoral dissertations regarding interwar New York literary society); none of his books are in print; and the manuscript of his thousand-page diary, Fantasia Impromptu, reposes in the basement of the New York Public Library, where I might have been the first person to read through its pages since they were interred there by De Casseres' widow, Adele "Bio" Terrill, following her husband's death in 1945.
Benjamin De Casseres was born April 3, 1873, in Philadelphia, to a Jewish family of Sephardic descent. And so, an outsider: This man so vocal about his Manhattan credentials was born out of town, in the sixth borough; not Ashkenazi like the majority of American Jewry, he was a nonimmigrant from comparatively exotic stock. The family name derives from Cáceres, the ancestral capital of the same-named Spanish province, and De Casseres himself liked to speculate that he was related to a hero of his, Spinoza: one Samuel De Casseres married Spinoza's youngest sister, Miriam, became a rabbi and scribe, and offered the funeral eulogy for his teacher, and Spinoza's excommunicator, Rabbi Saul Levi Mortera of Amsterdam.
De Casseres moved to New York by the turn of the century, began losing his hair, smoking cigars, drinking to excess. Physically, De Casseres writes of himself: "I am strong meat; false teeth and babies, lay off! Fat and Jewish; bedroom eyes; voluptuous flesh." Surviving photographs by Arnold Genthe show a paragon of sly dissolution, tempered by self-seriousness, in precarious pince-nez, dark worsted suit and patterned, probably colorful, tie. (Genthe's nitrate negatives, dating from 1925, are obviously in black and white).
However, the most telling autobiographical detail might be that of the outsized ambition De Casseres did his narcissistic best to conceal. If the man was, as he weekly reminded himself in print, the equal if not better of any writer who ever lived, then he was so unwittingly, as if against his will. He was, he said, like Rip Van Winkle of the Catskills, in that he "grew famous while [he] slept. I slept all day and worked on a New York newspaper all night (1900 to 1920), and almost precisely at the end of twenty years I was astounded to find out that I was famous not only in my own country but that I was being translated into French by no less a person than Remy de Gourmont, who was writing about me in the Mercure de France and La France."
From his backrooms at 11 West 39th Street, a building that no longer exists, De Casseres mass-produced articles for dozens of publications: to begin with, The American Spectator, The Bookman, The Boston American, The Chicago Examiner, Fra Magazine, Gay Book Magazine, The Greenwich Village Quill, Haldeman-Julius Monthly, The Los Angeles Examiner, Metropolitan Magazine, The New York Evening Post, The New York Herald, The New York Journal-American, The New York Times, The New York World, People's Favorite Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philistine, Reedy's Mirror, The Revolutionary Almanac, The San Francisco Examiner, The Smart Set, The Sun, The Washington Herald; he wrote for Alfred Stieglitz at Camera Work; at the American Mercury he was edited by H. L. Mencken. De Casseres also provided ad copy for, among other concerns, cheesecake manufacturers, and graphomaniacally ghostwrote radio commercials: "With a genius that is profoundly Latin to my latter atom, I have been accepted and printed in various magazines in an Anglo-Saxon and puritan country. I am a one-call salesman. If I don't succeed at first, I never try again."
Not just columns on literature syndicated by the Hearst Service and interviews with the likes of Charlie Chaplin. De Casseres amassed reams of drama, and fiction: "And some days I love to write lines for poems I'll never write." His books and booklets include: The Adventures of an Exile; Anathema!: Litanies of Negation; Black Suns; The Book of Vengeance; Broken Images; The Chameleon; The Comedy of Hamlet; The Communist-Parasite State; The Complete American; Don Marquis; The Eighth Heaven; The Elect and the Damned; Enter Walt Whitman; The Eternal Return; Finis; Forty Immortals; I Dance with Nietzsche; The Individual Against Moloch; James Gibbons Huneker; The Last Supper; The Love Letters of a Living Poet; Mars and the Man; Mencken and Shaw; Mirrors of New York; The Muse of Lies; My New York Nights; The Overlord; Robinson Jeffers, Tragic Terror; The Second Advent; The Shadow-Eater; Sir Galahad: Knight of the Lidless Eye; Spinoza: Liberator of God and Man; The Superman in America; When Huck Finn Went Highbrow; Words, Words, Words. One of his most personal preoccupations was editing The Sublime Boy, a volume comprising poems by his younger brother Walter, a depressed homosexual who committed suicide at the age of nineteen by hurling himself into the Delaware River. (Poet Edwin Markham, in a letter to De Casseres: "I am touched by your brother's failure to fit himself to this tragic existence, touched also by the pathos of his fate"; other of the surviving De Casseres' correspondents: British sexologist Havelock Ellis, French writer Maurice Maeterlinck, science-fiction writer Clark Ashton Smith, paranormal investigator Charles Fort, Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht, poet Edgar Lee Masters, novelist Damon Runyon, and Nietzschean Oscar Levy.)
But De Casseres' posterity mainly rests on a single poem, Moth-Terror, first collected in the Second Book of Modern Verse in 1919, edited by journalist colleague and correspondent Jessie Rittenhouse. The poem was subsequently recycled into numerous reprints and subanthologies that proliferated in schools, colleges, and book clubs even after World War II (which should tell our writers of today that if they intend their work to live for tomorrow, they should make friends with anthologists):
I have killed the moth flying around my night-light; wingless and dead
it lies upon the floor.
(O who will kill the great Time-Moth that eats holes in my soul
and that burrows in and through my secretest veils!)
My will against its will, and no more will it fly at my night-light
or be hidden behind the curtains that swing in the winds.
(But O who will shatter the Change-Moth that leaves me in rags —
tattered old tapestries that swing in the winds that blow out of Chaos!)
Night-Moth, Change-Moth, Time-Moth, eaters of dreams and of me!
All these elements of a life—the journalism, the interminable pamphleteering of poesy, the feverish letterwriting to more celebrated contemporaries—can be bound between two covers that don't exist: De Casseres' Fantasia Impromptu, subtitled ridiculously "The Adventures of an Intellectual Faun." Unlike the preciously polished texts of the chapbooks and broadsides De Casseres self-published, sent around to friends for free and offered for sale to the general public for 50 cents apiece, this daybook—and, often, latenight book—could never be collected into finished form. Excerpts last appeared in an unedited 1976 Gordon Press Selected Works reprint of a privately subvented 1935 Blackstone edition (Blackstone seems to have been De Casseres' own venture). "I can see the standpoint of the American publishers: an American thinker must be a fakir of some sort because fake is a national trait. They simply will not believe in the possibility of my existence—as an American. They can, and do, conceive me as a Spaniard or a Frenchman, but as a Philadelphia-born original—Jamais!"
Begun in 1925, soon extending to multiple volumes, De Casseres' diary was dedicated "to the thinkers, poets, satirists, individualists, dare-devils, egoists, Satanists and godolepts of posterity"; the introducing author continues, on the manuscript's frontispiece: "This book will be continued to the end of my life—a new volume about every two years. Please read carefully and to the end to get full flavor of book. It is all spontaneously set down, and all literally my self." De Casseres kept making random undated entries into older, mentally weaker age; le prosateur was going on 70 when he noted that the world had never appeared so threatening: "This jealousy of likeness, that is at the bottom of the German persecution of Jews today," and, "Adolf Hitler is as personal, private, and peculiar to the German people as my morning bowel movement is to me." Toward diary's end, just before his death, the physical evinces and affects as much as the written: Not only is De Casseres writing letters to God, but he's writing letters as God, too, to himself; the paper gets cheaper, thinner; typewriting gives way to handwriting, a shaky agitated scrawl.
Interleaved with metaphysical whimsy, racism, and misogyny ("God couldn't possibly be a female, for He keeps so well and so long the profoundest secrets of life"), along with a loathing regard for his own Judaism, is to be found a trove of the most startling epigrams our country has ever known — the work of an American La Rochefoucauld or Lichtenberg, a Karl Kraus or George Bernard Shaw. Indeed, these stacks of incomprehensible, often insipid pages could be edited down to a one-hundred page book of surpassing aphorism; but because I haven't yet received that commission, and not everyone has the time for a library visit to pile through the archives, I offer the following—a De Casseres Chrestomathy, as Mencken styled his own collection of a career's worth of the miscellaneous but brilliant:
A practical man should have knuckles in his eyes; a poet should have them in his images.
To almost any American "thinker": the feet of your thoughts are always asleep.
All summits are cemeteries.
Art can only influence artists.
If you have no ideas, beware of your tenses and your grammar.
An emotion has more reality than a nail.
Hope is the promise of a crucifixion.
Whatever we do is a remedy.
Beauty is distance.
Only the ugly are modest.
Identity is partisanship.
The difference between Science and Theology is that Science is evolving ignorance and Theology is static ignorance.
We used to say, "It is raining." Now (1930) it would be more appropriate to say: "The bladders of the atoms have opened and torrents of electronic urine lave the asphalt."
Symbol. — I live behind a statue of myself.
Esoteric.— If you swallow your jewels you will have to recover them in your excrement.
Things that intoxicate me. — Gardens; the sea; mountain solitudes; great poetry and great prose; abstract ideas; profound sleeps; twilight; music; God, the sense of Wonder and Mystery; Satan; amorous sports; Bio's love; the peace of death; wine; fastflying automobiles when I am in one; the voice of little children; the word Shelley; the word Baudelaire; the words Victor Hugo; imaged coitions with ideal women of an impossible beauty; well-buttered lima-beans; spaghetti; the flash of a metaphor through my brain; praise from superior minds; the stars; checks, checks, checks.
Keep the masses happy. Unhappiness should be the privilege of the few.
To have written a book that no one has ever read is like having a face that no one has ever looked at.
Pleasure has no eyes.
All life aspires to mirrors.
Joshua Cohen was born in 1980 in Atlantic City. He has written novels (Book of Numbers), short fiction (Four New Messages), and nonfiction for The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, London Review of Books, The Forward, n+1, and others. His first essay collection, Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction, will be released in August. In 2017 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in New York City.
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It appears that you have been able to research him at the New York Public Library with access to their special collections. Well done.
Thank you for your illuminating essay!
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Gerald Baker says:
I first read about Benjamin De Casseres in Charles Angoff's biography (1956) of H.L. Mencken.
Several years ago, in a used-book store, I found, and bought a copy of De Casseres' book about Spinoza.
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February 6, 2011 - 3:13 am
A very interesting article and someone who it seems (to him at least!) should be better known. have you read his other books? As a lover of strange fiction it would seems as if Anathema and Black Suns have potential.
In any case, a very interesting piece of research. THANK YOU!
April 6, 2011 - 7:44 pm
I just bought a first edition, signed, #31 of the Shadow Eater – great shape and the illustration is haughting. How did he die, just curious and did he have children?
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I was unfamiliar with this man until today. I found a Chicago Herald America newspaper from February 6th, 1944, and Benjamin had written a book review, which follows. 'The Book Shelf' column, entitled "A Critic Views Jazz" by Benjamin De Casseres. "Do you mind, folks, if I tell you what I think of jazz before I review Robert Goffin's JAZZ: FROM THE CONGO TO THE METROPOLITAN? Jazz is the last stages of musical tuberculosis. It is an emotional disease. It is the disintegrator of all that is normal and decent, beautiful and romantic in the human mind. I thank you. However, Robert Goffin, a Belgian, in his book glorifies jazz as one of the great arts. He makes it the Tenth Muse. And I must confess that he has written an infernally interesting book. The author says the genesis of jazz can be traced to New Orleans, also to the African tom-tom. he is mistaken. Jazz can be traced, I believe, to the Dionysian revels in ancient Greece. These revels were a mixture of ecstatic insanity and gross obscenity. It also exists in embryo among the American Indians with their boogie-woogie and hepcat contortions. In spite of Mr. Goffin, I fear it will be a long time before Duke Elllington and Paul Whiteman rank higher than Beethoven, Bach, Johann Strauss, Mozart or Paganini. Or am I mistaken? -for in the Descent to Avernus that mankind seems to be treading just now it may be just possible that the last gasp of the last civilized man will be set to the wail of a saxophone blown by Gabriel Lopez the Last."
I suppose that Cohen's piece is the best that we're going to get in these times on someone such as de Casseres, whose writing certainly deserves better and more intelligent commentary. Let us be grateful, I suppose, for (very) small favors.
In particular, it is regrettable to read lines such as the following dreary rear-projection:
"Interleaved with metaphysical whimsy, racism, and misogyny ('God couldn't possibly be a female, for He keeps so well and so long the profoundest secrets of life') […]".
Whether one shares it or not, Casseres was clearly had a sense of humor. The author of this piece should consider aspiring to one, as well.
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Following the shock announcement that Sew columnist, May Martin will no longer be co-judging series four of The Great British Sewing Bee, we caught up with her for an EXCLUSIVE interview, before she jetted off for a much-deserved break!
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Q: Installing IPython Notebook table of contents I'd like to install the extension to generate automatic table of contents using header cells.
however, when I copy/paste
curl -L https://rawgithub.com/minrk/ipython_extensions/master/nbextensions/toc.js > $(ipython locate)/nbextensions/toc.js

into terminal, it says directory not found. The extension in question can be found here.

A: Install jupyter_contrib_nbextensions by entering the following commands at the shell
pip install --user jupyter_contrib_nbextensions
jupyter contrib nbextension install --user

Activate the table of content extension:
jupyter nbextension enable toc2/main

There are many other extensions available in this package.
Optionally you can install the jupyter notebook extension configurator (not needed)
pip install --user jupyter_nbextensions_configurator
jupyter nbextensions_configurator enable --user

This will make a configurator available at:
http://localhost:8888/nbextensions

A: I did the following and it worked for me using Ubuntu:
1. git clone https://github.com/minrk/ipython_extensions.git

2. ln -s $(pwd)/extensions $(ipython locate)/extensions
   ln -s $(pwd)/nbextensions $(ipython locate)/nbextensions

3. curl -L https://rawgithub.com/minrk/ipython_extensions/master/nbextensions/gist.js > $(ipython locate)/nbextensions/gist.js

4. I use ubuntu so I  used the text editor from bash like so   gedit $(ipython locate profile)/static/custom/custom.js.

5. I appended "IPython.load_extensions('gist');" to the bottom of  custom.js and saved the file.

If you want to install the Retina Figures extension follow the rest of the instructions here
If you do are using Windows there is a tutorial here that shows both how to create sym links in Windows and Linux.
If you do not have git installed then download the zip file with this link

A: This IPython Notebook semi-automatically generates the files for minrk's table of contents in Windows (I guess one only needs to change
%%cmd- to %%bash magics

to make it work in Linux). It does not use the 'curl'-commands or links, but writes the *.js and *.css files directly into your IPython Notebook-profile-directory.
There is a section in the notebook called 'What you need to do' - follow it and have a nice floating table of contents : )
Here is an html version which already shows it:
http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/ahambi/140824-TOC/blob/master/A%20floating%20table%20of%20contents.htm

A: Cloning the repo and creating the sum links did not work for me.
While using ipython 1.1, I had to do the following:

*

*Download the jquery-2.0.2.min.map, from this link and copy it to $HOME/.ipython/profile_default/static/components/jquery/

*Create sym link to nbextensions in the $HOME/.ipython/profile_default/static/
ln -s ../../nbextensions nbextensions

The extension expects the section headings to be in separate cells. So, if one has a markdown cell with a few headings & sub-headings, it will not be recognised.
For ipython 2.2, you need to also download the min map files of backbone & underscore also.

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According to the Forbes, the King of Skills Cristiano Ronaldo has an estimated net worth of $93 million and it was announced that Real Madrid pays him more than $50 million for next four year each.
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The Real Madrid star, Cristiano Ronaldo has a long list of donation to the number of fantastic causes, for paying the brain surgery of a 10-years-old fan in 2001. And then another nine years old's cancer treatment for giving £5 million of donation to help the aid effort in Nepal following the devastating earthquake in 2015.
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For many budding wildlife biologists, being paid to research a species as rare and elusive as the snow leopard is the dream. For Imogene Cancellare, a PhD student at the University of Delaware, this is her reality. Imogene kindly spoke with me about her journey to this position, and shared some advice for others starting out in their careers.
Studying the Snow Leopard
Imogene is in the second year of her PhD, working alongside Panthera to investigate the evolutionary and contemporary genetic structure of snow leopards across their range in High Asia. Aptly referred to as ghosts of the mountain, encounters with snow leopards are not common-place, so Imogene and her project collaborators collect scat samples for DNA analysis.
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With her research explained, I asked Imogene how she came to land such an awesome PhD…
Extensive field experience
Following competition of a Bachelor's in Animal Science at North Carolina State University, Imogene set out to expand her skillset by working in a plethora of carnivore focused fieldwork jobs. As a field technician or assistant biologist, Imogene worked on species from fishers and martens to cougars and black bears. These jobs provided Imogene with the comprehensive carnivore skillset; radio tracking and telemetry of live collared animals, tracking and trapping animals for collaring, setting and monitoring hair snares for DNA analysis, and use of camera traps.
To gain these experiences, Imogene worked across the United States from California to Colorado, and implores undergraduates to look outside their own state for opportunities. If your dream job does exist in your home town or state, it's likely fiercely guarded by its current occupant. Such periods of travel can be expensive or unrealistic depending on the situation, but the message is simply to put yourself out there where you can, and apply for as many positions as you can.
For people hoping to study for a PhD, a Master's is a logical, and in some cases required stepping stone. For people hoping to build a career in wildlife conservation, in the field or otherwise, a Master's can also be of great standalone benefit. Imogene completed a Master's in Biology at West Texas A&M University, focusing her research on landscape genetics of bobcats in Texas, a project of her own design. Experience level of the student and logistics involved can dictate how projects are designed prior to the student starting, and Imogene was lucky that her acceptance into the program included learning how to design a project on her own.
Find your niche (but be open to opportunities)
In addition to extensive field and research experience, Imogene has spent time working at the Savannah River Ecology Lab at the University of Georgia as a research technician on a variety of genetic projects. You've probably identified two key components that combine to form Imogene's niche; carnivores and genetics, which inevitably made her the perfect candidate for her PhD on snow leopard genetics. That being said, it is important to be open-minded with jobs you apply for, as some careers are more competitive than others, particularly if you want to work on big cats or other charismatic mega fauna.
Don't "just" network
Network, yes! Push your CV, yes! But don't stop there. Networking is not just about telling someone who you are and what you want, networking is also about nurturing the relationships that you have. That, combined with the aforementioned experience and skills, is what led to the highlight of Imogene's career – the moment Dr Kyle McCarthy phoned her up (at 7 o'clock on a Thursday morning, while Imogene was in a California RV park) and offered her the PhD. Five years previously, Imogene had applied for a MSc project with Dr McCarthy, and as a firm believer in "the squeaky wheel gets attention" kept in touch ever since. As a result, Imogene was in the forefront of Dr McCarthy's mind when the project became available.
Imogene demonstrates that hard work truly does pay off, and the connections you make along the way are valuable. PhDs (and jobs in conservation) are competitive, so whether you want to study snow leopards, salamanders, sea turtles or skylarks, the key take-away messages are the same; get experience, go to graduate school, find your niche, and always remember to network.
Imogene is an active member of the science Twitter (@biologistimo) and Instagram (@biologistimogene) communities, often dispensing natural history facts and updates on her field adventures. You can also have a look at Imogene's website for blogs and further information on her research and science communication engagements.
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Tags: conservation genetics, DNA, genetics, Imogene Cancellare, Panthera, PhD, Snow Leopard, University of Delaware


Words of wisdom from Chris Wood who always keeps it in perspective. Following his part in earning that Connor Coady own goal last week on the way to a 2-0 win over Wolves, snapping a run of four games without a win since beating Tottenham, Burnley travelled down to Bournemouth to take on the Cherries knowing that they really kinda massively needed three more points given how ruthless their remaining fixtures are. And things took a big blow just a few minutes into it when Ashley Barnes accidentally headed his defensive header into his own top corner and Burnley were playing from behind.
Crisis time? Nah, not really. In the 18th minute Chris Wood popped up at the far post and get in there, lad! Asmir Begovic came leaping for it from the corner kick but couldn't get a touch on the ball and Chris Wood basically had an open header from half a yard out. No dramas for that fella. None whatsoever. And within three minutes they were in front thanks to a poor defensive clearance and an excellent strike from Ash Westwood. Burnley responding in the perfect way after being put under pressure in the early stages. Twenty minutes gone and they were up 2-1. They were still up 2-1 at HT.
The Clarets then came out of the sheds and immediately Wood and Barnes linked up to create some danger. Soon enough, more of the same. Begovic fumbled the ball as Bournemouth yapped at the ref for a throw-in for a ball that never actually went out. Woody snapped it off the keeper, turned and stabbed it back to Barnesy while somehow keeping his balance and awareness. Barnes did the rest to make up for that OG at the start.
This was an end to end game and if Callum Wilson had been his usual sharp self then maybe we'd be talking about a 3-3. But Ben Mee and James Tarkowski were sharp and the Clarets bossed their way home after scoring the third goal. A huge victory on the path towards ensuring they'll be back in the Premier League next season. They can make that all but certain by beating Cardiff next week.
"The Burnley forward is owned by just 0.9 per cent of managers for his trip to AFC Bournemouth. Wood has an impressive record against the Cherries, scoring home and away in their two meetings last season. He travels to Vitality Stadium hoping to extend his strong second half to the campaign.
Wood struggled for output in the opening months, scoring just once in the first 19 Gameweeks. But from Gameweek 20 he has six goals in 13 appearances. The New Zealander also claimed his first assist of the season in last weekend's win over Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Nearing half-time of the game, it's Ankaragücü at home against Fenerbahçe, a team which has had a shocking season this time around but last season qualified for the Champions League playoffs having finished second in the Turkish SuperLig. Their starting eleven for this one included the likes of Roberto Soldado, Martin Skrtel, and Victor Moses. But nearing half-time it was Tyler Boyd who brought out all the pace he had in the tank to gas in behind the defence on the end of a long ball from midfield and, slipping it past the keeper, he put his side up 1-0.
It's a smooth little finish but the real measure of this goal was in the run that he made and the pace that he showed along with it. Natural aspects of his game which are going to be effective wherever he plays. And it just goes to add to what's been an absolutely brilliant spell in Turkey so far. In eight games he's now scored three times and set up four more goals.
It didn't last. Hasan Ali Kaldirim equalised in the 67th minute and the two side drew 1-1. But even that's a good result for a club that was flirting with relegation when Boyd arrived and which looks to be doing more than enough to survive now as long as they can maintain this level the rest of the way. With seven games remaining they have a five-point buffer.
Also, some real biffo at the end of this game, as Hector Canteros (Anka) and Mehmet Ekici (Fener) were both sent off in stoppage time after a bit of a fracas. Some Fenerbahçe dude got hit in the face but Ankaragücü kept on pushing for a winner. The ball finally went out and some fellas got all up in each other's faces. It had been a pretty rough game full of penalty shouts and Fenerbahçe in particular were frustrated at not turning more of their pressure into goals. Eh, that's their problem. Our only problem is making sure the Turkish Süper Lig loses any broadcasting rights deals they have in the United States so that they never find out about the winger they never knew they needed.
Strange scenes midweek as Stefan Marinovic, who was supposedly healthy and took part in pregame warm ups, wasn't even named on the bench for Bristol City. Not only that but they didn't name a reserve keeper at all. A risky undertaking from manager Lee Johnson, the brave fella. They were away to an out of form Middlesbrough and with a couple guys short on fitness on a Tuesday night game he just figured the extra outfield option was the way to go.
He's a gambler, old mate is. Knows when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em. And it all paid off as a first half goal from Adam Webster earned the Robins a 1-0 win, a crucial victory in the race for the playoffs, and in the end he only used two subs anyway.
They then took on Wigan Athletic at home on the weekend and Marinovic was back on the subs bench. Didn't get on though. As the history suggests, you only have a 4-5%, possibly even less than 1%, chance of using a sub keeper anyway. Right now Marinovic is the backup at Bristol City until something changes and he's just training hard, building his reputation in the English game, and setting things up for his next move in the summer… whether that's staying with Bristol City or moving elsewhere.
Bit of a rough one against Wigan for the lads. Fell down a goal as Reece James scored a screamer from distance that Max O'Leary didn't even move for. Bristol City fought back with two goals in five minutes between the 65-69th minutes to take the lead and it seemed they were poised for another big win… until they conceded a proper goal-mouth scramble type in the 90th minute. Jeez, that's a punch in the guts right at the end. Still sitting sixth on the ladder, one point behind Aston Villa with a game in hand while Derby County are also hovering within striking distance in seventh.
Last game before they christen their flash new purpose built stadium, the Loons had to do it tough away to New York Red Bulls. Injuries to Miguel Ibarra and their superstar creator Darwin Quintero meant a change in formation to cope and that in turn meant a back three for the first time this season, with Brent Kallman coming in to join Mikey Boxall and Ike Opara at CB.
No dramas for Boxall, he's seen it all before. As for the shuffled attack, well it started quite hushed but an Abu Danladi goal had Minny in front at the half as his speed began to cause some real problems on the counter attack. And based on their set up, it was all counter attacks for Minnesota. Yet Danladi succumbed to injury at the break and was replaced by Romario Ibarra… no dramas for that bloke either as he later put the Loons up 2-0 with a rebounded volley.
It was all working perfectly for Minnesota. The lead meant they were justified in continuing to play with men behind the ball, plenty of help for Boxall and company. NY Red Bulls were thwarted a few times by keeper Vito Mannone but eventually they did get a goal through Cristian Casseres with twenty minutes left. So on came some defensive subs and the Loons made it even scrappier. It worked. They held on for a 2-1 win despite a couple nervous moments and that puts the last couple stinker performances into the rearview mirror ahead of the big opening next week. Their first home game finally after five straight road games.
The Footy Ferns are currently in Spain playing Norway (it's easier that way, for some reason). A team with a large amount of rotation lost 1-0 in the first game, an unofficial behind-closed-doors friendly, with the second game on Wednesday morning at 4am our time. Although it ain't on telly by the looks of it.
So that's where all the Fernies are at this week, but no sooner do they get back to their clubs than the NWSL begins over in the States. North Carolina looking to defend their title. Katie Bowen also doing her thing at Utah. Those are the only two kiwis left in the comp as Rebekah Stott has moved to Norway and Rosie White is in between clubs and prioritising the Ferns by playing in Aotearoa at the moment. Nobody else making that step up… yet.
Another week and another start for Billy T. These last two games he seems to have put a real case forward for him as a first eleven defender… although nothing's safe when the team keeps on losing. After five games the Timbers, who were beaten finalists last year, are still yet to win their first game. One point out of a possible fifteen. The latest was a 3-0 defeat to San Jose Earthquakes who themselves hadn't won a game until this one. Really not good for the Timbers at the mo'.
Playing alongside Larrys Mabiala at CB in a back four – the French Connection finally getting another go at MLS level – Tui couldn't do a whole lot as Che Salinas tapped in at close range in the fifteenth minute. Maybe he could have been a little tighter on his man before the second goal but it wasn't him who was left on his arse by Magnus Eriksson's turn before Danny Hoesen tapped in from close range. Tuiloma had done the right thing in getting back on the line as cover but it doesn't always work out. The third goal, two minutes later, he definitely coulda done better on as a burst of pace from Cristian Espinoza gained him the space he needed to slam it into the near post despite Tuiloma's coverage. Just not quick enough to keep up.
At that point, three goals down with ten minutes remaining in the first half, they were pretty much buggered. They teased a comeback in the second half but Diego Valeri missed a penalty kick and they were probably luck not to lose by more.
Gonna be interesting to see who holds their places for the next game. Tuiloma has benefitted from injuries/suspensions in getting these last two games so we'll find out soon if he's done enough to crack the top team… in as much as the Timbers even have a top team right now.
The good news: for the first time since his debut in February (this being his seventh game for the club), Marco Rojas played a full ninety minutes for Sonders, in a game away to Vejle.
The bad news: they lost 4-1, making it three games without a win and leaving them pretty likely to end up in the four-team relegation playoff round in May – they have four games left to do something about that.
There are certain trends of the Rapids that followed on from Anthony Hudson's time with the All Whites, but after more than a year in charge of the club most of those have dissipated by now and the Hudson Rapids are very much their own beast. The back three is gone. The kiwi signings have dried up, with just Deklan Wynne and Tommy Smith still there. They still struggle to score but they also concede silly goals which the All Whites at least never quite stooped to under Huddo.
Tommy Smith was suspended after his red card last week, so Deklan Wynne came back in to start. Still waiting on the two of them to share the field this season. Also, coming in for Smithy meant another game at centre-back for Wynne which these days is where he seems to be getting in more than anywhere. Dude's played basically every position in the backline for the Rapids, not bad for a bloke who looked a specialist left-back back in the day.
Away to Orlando City, this was a cracking contest. The Rapids struck first as Kei Kamara capitalise on some poor defence being unable to cut out the chip over the top. That was within the first ten mins but then Nani, former Man United and Portugal winger, leapt up to nod in an equaliser on half an hour at the back post before Orlando City struck again on the break almost straight away with Tesho Akindele supplying the final touch.
Crazy footy and it got crazier as a lightning storm caused the game to be delayed by an hour. Late on it was Colorado's time to bring the goods again as a magnificent cross from Cole Bassett gave Nicolas Mezquida a free header for 2-2 with half an hour remaining. Ten minutes later Bassett scored one of his own with a sharp finish and Huddo's boys were up 3-2!
Buuuut they conceded a sloppy one in the 81st min and then an Axel Sjoberg handball gave Nani the chance to win it with 88 mins gone from the penalty spot, and he did exactly that. Absolute chaos throughout but the end result was a 4-3 win to Orlando City. Still just two points from six game for the Rapids. No red cards or own goals this time though, although a last minute penalty doesn't really help things. There was a legit case however that Nani should have been sent off for a headbutt while the score was still 3-2, which would have changed things.
By the way, including cup games, Anthony Hudson has been in charge of this team for 43 games now, of which the Rapids have won… eight. With 10 draws and 25 defeats. Scoring 45 goals and conceding 83.
New manager, same situation. Andy Dawson's the caretaker boss for the Iron since Stuart McCall got the flick two weeks back but nothing too much has changed with the team and Clayton Lewis is still working his way into games from the bench. It's been a slow integration for him but five of his ten subs appearances in League Two this season have come in the last two months so he's as involved now as he has ever been with the squad. Easy to forget he's only 22 years old as well.
Lewis played the last 18 mins against Shrewsbury as his lot sought to hang onto a 1-0 lead earned from a Kyle Wootton header in the first half. But with both teams looking to put some distance between themselves and the relegation zone it was a fraught one and Adam Hammill's 84th min own goal, an awkward one that bounced right in front of him from a ball across goal which he couldn't quite avoid, ended up sharing the points in a 1-1 draw. With five games left Scunthorpe are two points clear of the drop zone.
A couple spare goals in the first half and it was a 1-1 draw between Macclesfield and Morecambe that perfectly suits the Shrimps who have little left to play for. Bottom placed Macclesfield not so much but the point does keep them well in range of safety with a game in hand on Yeovil and Notts County though. Not the worst.
The first strike was a header from Zak Mills for Morecambe. Nicely guided into the bottom corner but of course everybody in the stadium will tell you that the real magic of the goal was in the rising header back across goal from Steven Old. Rack that up as an assist for old mate. But Elliot Durrell levelled soon after, striking past Old's jockeying presence and the keeper kinda dove over it. Don't worry, nothing much else happened. Although a flicked header from a free kick from Old might have won it.
Things are feisty at the top of the Danish first division. Viborg have been up near the summit the entire season but in this final straight, with eight more games to play, they've failed to pull away and a 2-2 draw with Nykøbing coupled with Silkeborg's win means they slip to second. Only winning two of six games since the winter break ended, that's what you get.
Nikko Boxall didn't play last week as his yellow card suspension kicked in but they won 4-1 without him anyway, a super helpful win over fifth-placed Lyngby. He was back in for this one but despite twice taking the lead, Viborg weren't able to hold on for victory. Soren Christensen's 82nd minute equaliser doing the damage.
James Musa (Phoenix Rising) – Unbelievably the Rising drew another game as they had 23 shots and just two on target against a Fresno team that played fifty mins with ten men. But James Musa was on the bench and didn't play so that's probably why. Four games and four draws for this lot.
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James Musa, @cfer97, and @k_lmbrt27 are out this week.
Elliot Collier (Memphis 901 FC) vs Sam Brotherton (North Carolina FC) – Our first USL Flying Kiwis Derby of 2019 and both dudes played! Collier back from a minor injury and Brotherton maintaining his spot at CB as usual. Collier on the right wing though so not a direct head to head. Memphis took the lead when a player who wasn't Elliot Collier stole the ball off a defender who wasn't Sam Brotherton and said defender completed a sloppy rugby tackle to concede a penalty (and earn a red card) which was scored by somebody not named Collier. An hour gone. Collier nearly made it 2-0 when he shuffled off his defender but his shot off the left was kicked away at a stretch by the goalie. Then NC tied it up with an impressive free kick from Marios Lomis which still shoulda been saved. 1-1 feels fair though. Mixed emotions and all.
Kyle Adams (Rio Grande Valley) – A 0-0 draw with New Mexico. Keeping things ticking over. But no Captain Kyle on this occasion, who wasn't even on the bench which suggests an injury, although the Houston Dynamo did loan five players to the team for this game and three were defenders, all of whom started in the back four.


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I've mentioned this little guy before. It's most always with me(see exibit A) unless flying or getting a passport renewed, which I absent-mindedly learned the hard way that in a Federal Building, they confiscate pocket knives(duh). And they don't return them upon your exit. Even if you ask, like, 7 times. It's a trusty friend to have.
Can you talk about that blue chambray cloth with the red edges lying under your knife?
Great little knife. You should add affiliate links to these posts so that if people buy them from your site you can get a little referral kickback!
I like the Giles and Bro's necklace!!!
Love the denim photo. Hilarious. A friend joked that he could see the engraving in my Swiss Army Knife... through my new standards. Great post, sir.
Great video and pics James, as always!
Excellent post! I carry the same knife with me often, though liking a little varietty I also carry a Lone Wolf City Knife designed by the greatest knife designer R.W Loveless or the retro Swiss Army Knife Alox Solo.
I've been looking for a quality PK actually. Been eyeing that one Sid Mashburn sells down south. Anybody know anything about it?
Love the site and this post too! I'm a huge pocket knife fan, especially ones that are a bit more "traditional". I've just recently discovered one that fits perfectly in the ol' watch pocket. It's the CRKT folding stubby razel. It's very stout, has a ram's horn handle, and the blade looks like it's a mix between a straight razor and a chisel. I definitely recommend it.
Every man should carry a pocket knife. I like to get a bit more function out of mine, so I carry a combination blade, bottle opener, cork screw. 1930's French Cognac distributors made a whole bunch back then and I was lucky to find one. So useful.


Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, "O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?" Then Daniel said to the king, "O king, live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lions' mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm." Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.


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Signs You're Emotionally Unavailable
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The "emotionally-unavailable man" is probably the biggest issue women deal with in the dating world. The term emotionally unavailable usually refers to those who create barriers between themselves and others in an effort to avoid emotional intimacy. Emotional unavailability in men stems from multiple causes and poses many issues in relationships.
Are you one of those rare breeds of men who are emotionally unavailable and find yourself running for the hills each time a woman comes along and tries to tame you? Here are 10 signs of an emotionally unavailable man.
1. You're a serial dater
Men who are emotionally unavailable may have several women they are involved with be it a wife, girlfriend, an ex or "friends with benefits." You often look for multiple people to have relationships with to avoid becoming emotionally intimate with any one woman.
2. You're repulsed by available women
You pursue an attractive woman hard at the beginning, shower her with attention and lay it on thick in order to reel her in. But once she lets you know you've won her over, you back off and start making excuses about why you're not into her. You pull away due to your fear of becoming lost in a relationship and losing your freedom.
3. You're non-committal about everything
You begin answering yes and no questions with "maybe," "I'll get back to you on that," and other various non-committal answers. Your schedule is always "up in the air" and when it comes to making plans you prefer to "live in the moment" almost a little too much, often arriving late if you show up at all.
4. You're physically unavailable
You're physically unavailable to your woman and always find a way to create distance from her. She talks to your voice mail more often than she talks to you, and when she sends you text messages, you get back to you hours or days later (if you respond at all). You're hard to track down, hard to get a hold of, and disappear often for days or weeks with no excuse other than "I was busy" to explain your Houdini act.
5. You're in love with a fantasy
You want a girlfriend. You have all these ideas about who she's going to be, what she's going to act like, and what it's going to be like to date her. Then this normal woman appears in your life and wants to be your girlfriend. She doesn't look exactly how you'd like her to look, isn't the age you thought she'd be, and doesn't have the job you wanted her to have. Even though this real person could be the one to offer you the love and companionship you've always wanted, you're too busy clinging to the idea of this "Perfect Woman."
6. You hate discussing the relationship
You have absolutely no interest in talking about "the relationship." You meet any attempt from your woman to discuss the nature of the relationship with silence or a series of meaningless grunts. This can be tough for any woman to deal with because she'll never know where she stands. Furthermore, this behavior is generally code for "I am not ready for a relationship, but I would love to have sex with you!"
7. You're all about the sex
You consistently try and sleep with women on the first night and use sex as your only way of demonstrating your so-called 'emotion.'
8. You're full of excuses
You always seem to have justification or an explanation for doing the things you do, especially when it comes to anything that could even be remotely considered intimate.
9. Everything is about YOU
When you do manage to meet up with your lady, it's usually on YOUR terms, when YOU decide, so as never to interrupt YOUR routine. And while we're being honest, it's usually only ever to serve YOUR baser needs.
10. You have negative self-emotions
Deep down, you feel inadequate and fear that you don't measure up. You're afraid that sooner or later your love interest will find out about you, agree that you're not good enough, and eventually dump you. So you remain distant from her, aloof and disengaged so it won't hurt as much when she tells you she's going to leave you.
Can an emotionally unavailable man change? Well, in order to become a more emotionally available person, you will need to act trustworthy, develop a greater level of empathy and compassion for the feelings of others, and commit to being more of a giver than a taker.
-DFTM
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Q: AJAX - Issue calling two functions inside one onchange event I am trying to retrieve two things from a database through AJAX, an image and a product price, with a function containing two functions within itself in one onchange event.
After many try and errors i finally stopped receiving errors in the console but now even though i get no errors the two things im requiring through AJAX do not appear.
I ran out of ideas and getting no error messages left me adrift.
The AJAX function in the <head> :
<script type="text/javascript">
    function seleccionProd(str) {

        function precioProd(str) {
            if (str=="") {
                document.getElementById("precio").innerHTML="";
                return;
            }
            if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
                var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
            }
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
              if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
                document.getElementById("precio").innerHTML = this.responseText;
                document.getElementById("precioOculto").value = this.responseText;
              }
            };
            xmlhttp.open("GET", "precio.php?q="+str, true);
            xmlhttp.send();
        }

        function imagenProd(str) {
            if (str=="") {
                document.getElementById("imagen").innerHTML="";
                return;
            }
            if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
                var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
            }
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
              if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
                document.getElementById("imagen").innerHTML = this.responseText;
              }
            };
            xmlhttp.open("GET", "seleccion_prod_compra_imagen.php?q="+str, true);
            xmlhttp.send();
        }
    }
</script>

The <select> element:
<select class="custom-select my-1 mr-sm-2" id="producto" name="producto" onchange="seleccionProd(this.value);" required>

The two PHP files called inside the AJAX function:
precio.php
<?php
require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/php/db_key.php';

$con = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

$q = $_GET["q"];

$sql = "SELECT precio FROM productos WHERE titulo = '".$q."'";

$result = mysqli_query($con, $sql);

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo $row['precio'];
}
?>

seleccion_prod_compra_imagen.php.php
<?php
require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'].'/php/db_key.php';

$con = mysqli_connect($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

$q = $_GET["q"];

$sql = "SELECT imagen FROM productos WHERE titulo = '".$q."'";

$result = mysqli_query($con, $sql);

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo '<img src="/img/productos/'.$row['imagen'].'" class="card-img-top fluid">';
}
?>

As always any kind of help is greatly appreacited and thanks for your time.

A: You define precioProd and imagenProd but never call them.
function seleccionProd(str) {
    precioProd(str);
    imagenProd(str);

    function precioProd(str) {
        if (str=="") {
            document.getElementById("precio").innerHTML="";
            return;
        }
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
            var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
          if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById("precio").innerHTML = this.responseText;
            document.getElementById("precioOculto").value = this.responseText;
          }
        };
        xmlhttp.open("GET", "precio.php?q="+str, true);
        xmlhttp.send();
    }

    function imagenProd(str) {
        if (str=="") {
            document.getElementById("imagen").innerHTML="";
            return;
        }
        if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
            var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
        xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
          if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
            document.getElementById("imagen").innerHTML = this.responseText;
          }
        };
        xmlhttp.open("GET", "seleccion_prod_compra_imagen.php?q="+str, true);
        xmlhttp.send();
    }
}