For my STEP project, I participated in a study abroad program in Antarctica. With the program being offered from the school of Environmental and Natural Resources, we examined the human impact on the natural environment. We spent 10 days on a ship travelling to different islands with an additional 3 days total before and after in Argentina.
Visiting Antarctica allows for much personal reflection due to the isolation and unbelievable marvels everywhere. As such, even though I have always enjoyed travelling and plan to do much more in the future, this program has encouraged me to travel in any free time I have possible. Examining the sustainability of humans in Antarctica has led me to want to incorporate sustainability more into my major.
There were several specific instances that led to personal transformations throughout my study abroad program. The first main instance occurred when we first saw land at around 1:30 am. Nearly the entire ship was asleep due to breakfast beginning at 7:00 am the next morning; however, my roommate was awake due to sleeping earlier that day. He woke me and my other roommate up due to his amazement of its sight. I was hesitant in interrupting my lessened sleep to see Antarctica initially; however, he said it was worth it. As I ascended the stairs to the observation lounge I began to see land through the windows. Immediately I was awestruck and rushed towards the windows to see closer and in more detail. The magnitude of the land, the icebergs, and everything in sight was humbling and I cannot describe the contrast and beauty of it all. Eventually we went outside to observe the changing landscape as the ship slowly proceeding along the coast. With few colors and no man-made objects to scale the landmasses it was interesting to see icebergs and the mountains to evolve as we saw them from different angles. Perhaps, the most amazing experience of this night was the sunset, which never actually set. I had never seen a sunset like it before and there were so many colors and so many unusual shapes that I could not imagine would come from a sunset. I spent so much time looking at the colors and shapes evolve that I lost track of time and we ended up spending about an hour and a half outside in the freezing weather. The amount of beauty that these sights showed me made me realize how beautiful the natural environment can be and caused me to want to appreciate more of it.
On a similar note, another significant moment was on one of the islands we went to. We hiked up this hill with snow so deep and light that we fell a couple feet through it every other step. Once we got to the top, we sat down to observe our other-worldly surroundings. Eventually, one of our tour guides suggested for us to be quiet for a couple of minutes. This was amazing, since there were practically no other sounds. I had a similar experience on the ship one night. We were circling around a bay while the engine was only humming. I decided to spend some time outside after working on an assignment for the program. Once I stepped outside I stopped in my footsteps because I heard no sounds besides for the quiet humming of the engine. After absorbing my surroundings for a few moments I quickly gathered some students to share my experience with them. Standing outside observing the amazing landscape with extremely still waters was transformative. I enjoy being busy and having a tight schedule to get more accomplished but moments like sitting on top of the island and on the ship in silence encouraged me to relax and take in these amazing sights and examine the intricacies rather than look at the landscape and move on.
In relation to my project on human impacts on wildlife, I felt ambivalent about our impact. While our research suggested that humans, particularly visitors, have a minor impact on wildlife. Nevertheless, it was unfortunate to see the potential that future impacts may have on wildlife. This encouraged me to ensure that I try to prevent harm to the natural environment and try to live more sustainably.
Getting to experience the silence in Antarctica and observe the mostly undisturbed natural environment in Antarctica has led me to enjoy seeing and learning more about the natural environment. Previously, I was mainly interested in visiting cities and learning about various structures, particularly as a structural engineer. Antarctica has led me to see the beauty in nature and want to experience more authenticity. Additionally, the lectures and other coursework has reinforced my view that learning about and researching places before visiting yields a far more rewarding experience that travelling without any background.
In the winter of the 2015-2016 school year, I had the opportunity to travel with BUCK-I-SERV to the city of Antigua, Guatemala with 10 other OSU students. BUCK-I-SERV partners with two non-profit organizations, HANDS and Constru Casa, to bring students in to build houses for families living in poverty in Guatemala. There are a few areas of consideration before a family can be approved for housing such as proof of income, willingness to work, current living conditions, and other various factors. On this particular trip, my peers and I constructed a home on the outskirts of Antigua for a single mother of two and three additional family members. In 36 hours, with help from three masons and the mother's son, our group constructed over half of the house. We learned how to lay foundation, mix cement, and literally build a house from the ground up!
Immersing myself in the city of Antigua has allowed me to learn parts of the culture I never thought I would know. Living in the city gave me the opportunity to brush up on my Spanish skills. I learned several new Spanish words each day and by the time I came home I would find myself speaking Spanish with family and friends. I even go to Hebrew, a language I have been studying most of my life, class and struggle differentiating between the two. Not only did I learn some of the Spanish language on my trip, but I also learned a lot about the food from Guatemala. Each day our host mother, Elvira, would make us breakfast, lunch, and dinner. We would eat fresh fruit and delicious Guatemalan meals such as Tostadas and a group favorite, "chicken heaven." I made an effort to learn about each dish and even came home with a few recipes! One heartbreaking thing I learned from being in Antigua was how different life can look outside of America. On the outskirts of Antigua, where my group and I volunteered, we passed homes made from bamboo posts and tin roofs. The water running to each home was not clean and we had to buy water from the grocery store to drink. In America, I take for granted having a roof over my head, access to clean water, and an overall safe environment. Traveling to Guatemala opened my eyes to the disparity between the United States and third world countries. Each time I reach for the faucet handle I can't help but think of Guatemala.
Studying Arts Management and Hebrew has introduced me to the non-profit world and allowed me to dive into a culture outside of the United States. However, participating in this trip has allowed me to have firsthand experience with both of those topics. I have always known that I wanted to spend my life travelling and helping others, but this trip has truly solidified those feelings and helped me set a goal for the future. I have already scheduled another volunteer trip abroad and cannot wait to immerse myself in another culture while helping those less fortunate than myself.
This trip has had an incredible personal impact on me. My group and I worked each day from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon. Although the work was quite strenuous and required a great amount of physical labor, my group and I remained optimistic and gave it our all each and every day throughout the week. I remember one of my peers to be exceedingly motivated. This individual's desire to work hard instantly rubbed off on to me and drove me to push myself every day. My group's (seemingly) endless amount positivity and perseverance not only impacted my experience on the trip, but has made an extremely significant impact on my life today. I have come back to America with a more positive and motivated outlook on life. Instead of questioning myself and my surroundings, I have become more confident and motivated to succeed.
It is very difficult for me to pick my favorite part of this trip, but I would have to say that it was bonding with the people of Antigua. No matter where I was in the city, I could've been in the market, working on the house with the masons, or simply staying in with the host family, I always felt a part of the community. When going out to the markets or on the streets of Antigua, my peers and I felt like we were home. Everyone opened their shop doors to us and no one made us feel out place. When working with the masons, I would struggle a lot with the language barrier. However, instead of getting angry about not understanding each other, we would laugh together and use our bodies as a tool of expression. With my host family, Elvira and Enrique, I would stay in after dinner and help them clean up just to hear their stories. They taught me about love, loss, and how each person who stays in their house becomes a part of their family. I truly felt at home in Antigua. The people there are genuine and full of love and that was no doubt my favorite part.
Merriam-Webster defines a laboratory as "a place providing opportunity for experimentation, observation, or practice in a field of study." The most prominent version we encounter is for science: chemicals, test tubes, dissection tools, things that help us break the world around us down into smaller pieces to analyze and rebuild or recreate. But by the above definition, the whole world qualifies as a laboratory, if one takes the opportunity to use it. Through the Fisher College of Business Marketing Global Lab, I was able to do just that.
The Marketing Global Lab was a second session fall semester course followed by a capstone trip to Singapore. During the class, we not only did marketing case studies and textbook readings to familiarize ourselves with the pains and gains of going global as a corporation, but we were split into teams and assigned projects to complete. These projects came from big companies, asking for research and fresh, relevant ideas for marketing strategies, which we would ultimately present to the respective company executives during our week in Singapore. My team was assigned to Johnson & Johnson's Acuvue brand; talk about high stakes and pressure.
I have worked in teams before; no one in Fisher is a stranger to group projects. But never before had I had so many obstacles to a team bonding together, let alone getting the job done. We had very little guidance, save a one page prompt, and had to find a way to put a lot of moving pieces together in a concise, compelling manner. To make matters worse, a member of our team dropped halfway through the course. In theory, this should have made things easier in terms of coordinating and communicating, but we were still struggling to channel all of our research and creativity into a persuasive presentation that did our work and ideas justice. We did not manage to do it in time.
The dress rehearsal for the Singapore presentations took place during finals week of fall semester. Not an easy time for anyone, but my group seemed to have an especially difficult time getting our act together. We had a presentation for the rehearsal, but with as horribly as that went over, we might have been better off to skip the rehearsal entirely. Everything was very scripted and our PowerPoint a weak visual aid. That alone could not have been so bad, but when team members choose to go off script in a presentation they do not know like the back of their hand, there is no coming back. We were embarrassed, furious with ourselves for being so underprepared, and sick of the project that had turned into such a guessing game we were no longer sure there was any merit to our ideas.
Luckily, they call it a "rehearsal" for a reason: we rallied. Over break, team members worked diligently to rewrite the presentation. Our PowerPoint got more than a facelift – something closer to completely reconstructive plastic surgery. We upped our presentation skills game and arrived in Singapore a new team. Well, half of us did, at least. One of our teammates got stranded in London, a city not in his original flight itinerary, and was 24 hours delayed to Singapore. It was not the worst set back we had faced. To be honest, I think we were all excited to present the heart and soul we had poured into the new, improved presentation to get approval.
Once more, things did not go well. Our first presentation to our professor at the hotel in Singapore resulted in more severe makeover work to be done. The flow and order of our presentation was completely rearranged once, twice, then returned to its post-Christmas break product all in 24 hours. Our speaking parts did not change immensely, but parts were added and removed in certain places, some spiels were inverted and reordered and then returned to the first iteration. We were all so mentally shaken up in regards to the material we created and knew inside and out that we were, quite frankly, rather stripped of confidence. We had a lot of help, a lot of people cheering for us. The MBA mentors on the trip offered time and advice for improving our product. They patiently listened to us work through the presentation in a rough draft form, as we struggled to wrap our minds around the final version. For the third time in the course of this experience, we did not make the cut. By the time we re-presented to our professor, our brains were fried, and we were terrified of failure. We were unable to communicate the really intriguing research we had done, let alone the creative applications we had developed to apply this research to a marketing strategy. It did not matter that we had been fully functioning two days prior – we had to do it now. And that meant figuring out a different way to execute the task at hand.
Our presentation was morphed into a sort of moderated panel. When we arrived at Johnson & Johnson's headquarters, the entire class situated itself around a long conference table. My team sat in the middle, the three of us with an MBA mentor on either side. One of the mentors introduced our project and team members and was meant to transition us between segments of the presentation, but we took it away. We presented like I had never heard or seen my teammates present before. The time, effort, sweat, and tears we had poured into this work was evident in the confidence and exuberance with which we discussed our research and ideas with the President of Johnson & Johnson's Acuvue Brand and his team. Our twenty-minute presentation was followed by 45 minutes of Q&A; the executives were genuinely curious about what we had learned in our research, and in hearing more about our proposal and the potential benefits it would pose for their business. Even once we broke for refreshments, I continued to speak with executives about our findings and ideas; they genuinely cared and appreciated the journey we had made and the findings we brought to them. Our team finally made it out into the sunlight, and I could not have adequately imagined how warming the success would feel.
I learned a lot through this experience. I learned to deal better with teams; never before had I had such a difficult task in encouraging cooperation and guiding the work we had to do. Maybe that was because none of us really knew where we were going until we got there. Maybe we underestimated how tricky it would be to do our preparation justice in the actual presentation. I am not sure. But I cannot control other people, and that was extremely evident over the course of this project. I think adversity was our saving grace; we had fallen down together so many times that we were all bound and determined to conquer this challenge once and for all, no matter how our work was critiqued nor what setbacks we faced.
I learned to put my head down and barrel through. It did not matter how frustrated I was with the situation, how aggravating our lack of momentum might have been, how much I thought the world was against us; I just had to reset and start again. The alternative option was quitting, and I was not going there. I learned to deal with criticism and disrespect, to separate the hurt from the constructive points and take only the latter with me. I learned that one does not always receive a pat on the back for a job well done, and that a finale could be all the more grand for the mountainous hurdles that might get in its way.
Dealing with and rising from failure is the most valuable lesson this experience taught me. Bodybuilders cannot bulk without tearing down the muscles that exist, and a person cannot grow without being knocked down and rallying to come back strong. I cannot please everyone, but I can put forth my best effort and commit to a task entirely, pushing through the ups and downs. Sometimes adversity wins out, and no matter how hard I work the outcome may still be lousy. But even then, there is effort and resilience to be proud of – I just have to be sure that I leave everything I have on stage with the final product. If I do my best, and do not give up, then I have every right to take pride in my work. The opinion of a boss or of teammates can be taken or left, but when show time comes, I have to be satisfied with my own performance.
For my STEP experience, I traveled to Peru to take a three week Tropical Biology and Primatology field course in the Amazon rainforest. During my stay at Los Amigos Biological Field Station, I learned all about the diverse flora and fauna of the rainforest through classroom lectures and hands-on field activities. I was introduced to different field research skills such as radio telemetry, GPS, tree-climbing, and mist-netting to better understand how field research is carried out.
Since my time in Peru, I am more willing to take risks. I have learned that I can handle more than I think. I did not meet up with my group until I arrived at the hostel in Puerto Maldonado. I had to navigate a couple of foreign airports and manage to get a taxi whilst not knowing any Spanish. It was definitely the most stressful traveling experience I have ever had but completely worth it.
By living in the rainforest for three weeks I learned that I don't need a lot to survive. We only had electricity for 3 hours every day but it never felt like a problem. It was more like I was being set free from technology to go out and experience the beauty of the natural world. I also learned how wasteful my way of life can be and that I need to make changes to fix that. Living with so little, I realized how many of the "things" I own are not necessities.
I have always been a cautious person and tended to do as I was told. Neither of which is necessarily a problem but it has stopped me from doing things in the past. Going into this trip, I really had no idea what to expect and that absolutely terrified me. Somehow I managed to make myself take the risk and I don't regret it for a second. There were many parts of this trip that terrified me; going to a country where I didn't speak the language, spending three weeks with a group of people I have never met before, and living in a place so far off the grid that we had to take a 3 hour boat ride to get there. I was able to do all of those things and loved every second of it. I surprised myself in so many ways and I am a more adventurous person because of this trip.
Every time I think about Peru, I have a smile on my face but sadness in my heart. I adored my time in the rainforest and will treasure the many good memories I have but I am saddened by the fact that I may never have a chance to go back there and that future generations will probably never have a chance at all. This crash course in field research made me realize that my idea of becoming a field researcher was not for me. But this trip also left me with a passion for making choices in my life that will make a difference for the health of our world. I am still trying to figure out what my future career will be, but it will have something to do with conservation of species and their habitats.
When I heard about STEP, I immediately began to think of all the possibilities available to me. From research to creative projects, I felt like I was given the opportunity to do anything, the opportunity to make any dream come true. Upon some careful consideration, I decided to fulfill my dream to study abroad, immersing myself in my language of study. I travelled to Valparaíso, Chile and enrolled in La Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso to take Spanish courses for my major and to live in the language I love each day.
As I became increasingly familiar with the culture I was thrown into during those nearly 6 months abroad, I found myself becoming incredibly self-critical. However, this ability to criticize myself and where I came from was not disruptive to my life, but rather it helped me to enrich my experience. Each day I would encounter some difference that could shock me or cause me discomfort. Instead of allowing myself to simply remain shocked or uncomfortable, I would force myself to reframe the situation and determine why I felt that way. By always asking why, I allowed my innocent curiosity to guide me towards self-discovery.
An example of when looking at a situation in a different light led to a productive self-criticism began upon my arrival to Chile in the middle of July… the middle of winter. In Valparaíso, since the weather is relatively mild, many of the buildings don't use any climate control. In most places I went, my classes and homestay included, there was no heat for the majority of my first-ever winter in July. However, instead of just saying to myself Why do they not have heat? I can see my breath in here! I went a step further and asked the people who I was meeting how they dealt with the winter, and why they didn't use the heaters in their home. Not only are Chileans saving money and the earth by refraining from heating the whole home, but they demonstrate the idea that sometimes we need to change in reaction to our environment, not change the environment to accommodate us. So, I put on a sweater or two and quickly became accustomed to and appreciative of this way of life.
This theme of becoming accustomed to the environment instead of trying to change that environment would guide me through much of my study abroad experience.
This photo I took in Horcón, Chile won the Buckeye Pride Worldwide Category in the 2015 International Photography Exhibition at Ohio State.
As I attended classes, I could feel a difference of teaching styles in Latin America: professors expect students to be self-motivated and to come to class with their own ideas, then take into account the words of the professor. This is only made more difficult when all the courses are instructed in Spanish, which can at times cause some confusion due to misinterpretations. While the teaching method in the States was and is effective for me, the various changes in teaching styles (ahem, Spanish only) and the expectations allowed me to expand the way in which I approach my studies. Instead of simply arriving to class with the readings in mind, in Chile I learned to arrive with questions, inter-disciplinary connections, and even opinions which helped me to better engage with my studies. My accommodation to the Chilean classroom has travelled with me back to Ohio State, and I can feel and see the difference each day as I continue my studies.
In addition to my classroom experience and academic maturation, I found myself accommodating to the Chilean way of life outside the classroom, too. Engaging in English-Spanish Conversation Exchange programs was a highlight of my experience, and it was the way by which I met most of my Chilean companions. While my Spanish was far from perfect, my partners' English was also still developing, so we were on equal ground. What people don't always advertise about study abroad, in this scenario, is the amount of ridiculous descriptions that you will have to make to get your ideas across language barriers. From describing U.S. pancakes as "soft, flat waffles" to explaining the rules of american football to making up Spanish words for something I forgot how to say, I became comfortable with looking a little silly. However, the frustration of being unable to communicate with one another often subsides into mutual hearty laughter and unforgettable conversation. Thus, this live struggle, instead of relying on dictionaries, allowed me to react to the world around me without the expectation that others would help me.
Exploring the colorful city of Valparaíso isn't complete without a photo at this street art landmark.
In all my experiences, I was developing a maturity and independence that I had never before been able to develop. While I never was one to look at the world as a place that would cater to my needs, in my daily life, I used to be the kind of person that would turn up the thermostat if I get cold. Now, my first instinct is to put on a sweater.
The capacity to adapt to your surroundings is not only valuable in terms of becoming more versatile. Adaptability also allows you to go out with a goal that you'll achieve despite all the chaos the world can bring. For me, this has translated into the pursuit of conducting research abroad for a thesis to be completed by my graduation this December. My ability to change my plans at a moment's notice or to adapt to necessary changes has allowed me to seek this incredible opportunity, and it will allow me to continue its pursuit as I get closer to achieving my goal. These lofty academic goals are complemented by my personal goal to live, study, and work abroad. Clearly, these plans are inspired and supported by my incredible experience in the long, thin country at the end of the earth. So as I look to my not-so-distant horizons, I'm packing up my bags, grabbing a sweater, and going out into this chaotic world to seek my latest winter in July.
To learn more about my experience abroad, watch my video Planning for Chaos on YouTube or visit my personal blog fancyfreelindsey on Word Press. My work blogging for ISA about my time in Chile can be found here, and if you're interested in seeing a brief project written in Spanish, check out La Lindsey Enjoyada.


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Reedy Reels to feature Women in Film panel, special guests and more
by User Author · May 27, 2021
The Reedy Reels Film Festival has announced a schedule that features plenty of interesting events sure to draw in any film lover next month.
There are numerous especially exclusive events in the festival's packed schedule, said Mike Giordano, Director of Operations for Reedy Reels festival. These include The Mushroom Huntress, a short film about a woman who discovers a family secret while foraging for mushrooms in the forest, and the feature film Intersection, about a man who returns to the place where his daughter was killed in a car crash, and meets an alluring woman with a dark secret.
Besides these exclusive films, Reedy Reels Film Festival also will be hosting unique panels and guests to encourage conversation. One of these panels is on Women in Film, which features a collection of films from female filmmakers, as well as a Q&A on how women have found their voice in film.
Other event speakers include Hoyt Richards, a successful male model who joined the Eternal Values cult on which he spent millions. In his years of healing, Richards has found a passion in filmmaking and acting. He will star in three films that are featured at Reedy Reels Film Festival—including Hell in a Handbasket, which opens the festival— and is flying into Greenville from Los Angeles to attend.
"We are very excited about this year's lineup for Reedy Reels Film Festival," Giordano said. "This year's festival is packed with incredible movies and unique panels that are sure to amaze any attendee."
Reedy Reels Film Festival will be held Friday June 4, 2021 through Sunday, June 6, 2021 at the newly renovated South Carolina Children's Theatre, which has a limited capacity. This means that tickets are going to sell quickly. For a full schedule and to purchase tickets, go to www.reedyreels.com.
About The Reedy Reels Film Festival
Reedy Reels is an independent Film Festival in Greenville, S.C. promoting the appreciation of the art of film-making while generating support for independent filmmakers in the Upstate. The Reedy Reels Film Festival is a non-profit organization that supports the education and appreciation of filmmaking. Learn more at www.reedyreels.com or follow the festival on www.facebook.com/reedyreels.
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This photo set of abandoned mid-century homes on Flavorwire is gorgeously sad. I, and probably most of you reading this, would move into any one of these homes, even in their current state. It's sad that they got to this point, but hopefully they found someone to love and restore them.
I'd change the photo that you're using for this article. The pictured FLW-designed Turkel House was purchased in 2006 and is in the final stages of being restored.
Thanks for the tip. Right after writing this post I did a little research on some of the houses and found out all about the Turkel House and found out it's being restored. That's great news, and probably something I'll write about in the future.
That's probably true, I forget that sometimes the house isn't the expensive part of the real estate. Still sad to see some of them go.


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See inside mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as signals return from the InSight mission as it lands on Mars. Landing commentary includes interviews with team members.
Why are the tallest peaks in the solar system found on one of its smallest worlds?
Mars in a Minute: How Did Mars Get Such Enormous Mountains?
NASA's InSight spacecraft arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, to begin final preparations for launch.
An artist's rendering of the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft as they fly through deep space.
InSight is the first mission dedicated to studying the deep interior of Mars.
This illustration shows a simulated view of NASA's InSight lander firing retrorockets to slow down as it descends toward the surface of Mars.
This is an artist's rendition of the InSight lander.
Artist's concept of the interior of Mars shows a hot liquid core that is about one-half the radius of the planet.
Engineers for NASA's MarCO technology demonstration display a full-scale mechanical mock-up of the small craft in development as part of NASA's next mission to Mars.


With Miles guidance (Article),I went to the range and found some more stuff. I have 2 20mm rounds, 3 .50 cal casings, a hundred plus .50 cal bullets and at least that many links. The icing on the cake is a 80mm mortar point detonating nose cone. I will go back as I have found the bombing range and just have to explore it.
Where did you go to find this stuff? I would love to find some non .50 cal stuff.
This stuff was found down the first powerline road to the right right when the white gravel stops. I went down that powerline trail about 2 miles before I stopped, thats where I found the 20mm rounds and the nose cone.


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Q: How do I parse the FAQs in this page Here is the URL that I need to work with.
https://www2.chubb.com/us-en/claims/faq-auto.aspx
Here, there are questions as collapsed and once you click on this there would be the corresponding answer related to this.
My task is to make these questions as a key and the corresponding answer as value. For example:
{
    "What should I do in the event of an accident?": "Call 911 for emergency assistance, especially in the event of any injury. After calling 911, you should Remain at the scene of the accidentTake photos of the accident scene and vehicles involvedExchange insurance and contact information with anyone involved or witnesses to the accident "
}

I know that these long values might sound odd ;-), but this is the valuer that I need.
I've searched for this online. But I'm able to see solutions for only the HTML with a table in it.
How can I start working on creating this json? I've got some more projects that is used for handling this type of data.

A: You are misinterpreting the task. You can't make a question a key because it is invalid json. Your json would actually look something like this:
{
    questions : [
                {
                    question: '1+1?',
                    answer: 'TWO',
                },
                {
                    question: 'Is cheese dairy?',
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}

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Okay, you guys have to let me know what you think of this chapter in the comments section. While it was easy to write it was very difficult to edit. That's mostly because it gets deeply philosophical in some areas and I had trouble smoothing that out. I needed to get my point across without losing you guys and I hope I did it right. Either way, let me know in the comments section. Maybe I can fix it before it goes public on Saturday.
A calm controlled wind plucked the finished tome from Valerian's hand and placed it neatly back on its shelf. Elder Richard was busy making preparations for his training and attunement. Between lessons with Elder Allard and Uncle Richard, not mention his own frustrating attempts at attunement, the study was his only refuge and even here, he had weights to bend his neck.
Taking only a single sip of his medicinal tea, he pulled another tome from the stack in front of him. The books were old and the leather that bound them had grown stiff from age and disuse. However, the answers he sought lay within them and Valerian was resolved to go through them all in search of what he wanted.
With this to guide him, the Lord of the Light, now King of Bathar agreed. The powers of the dark were shattered but many of their elements were allowed to remain only under strict supervision from their light masters. What better way to keep an eye on them? What better way to use them? Why rule only the light when you had the chance to rule both?
Thus were born several clandestine and not so clandestine guilds like The Shadowed Daggers and The Royal Shadow Guard respectively. Forces of the dark, leashed by the light.
That was also the sum of what Valerian could understand. The books were difficult to read through. The language of the text was very antiquated and the author made several analogies that, frankly, made no sense to him. More annoying still were the portions where the author rambled on, seemingly without direction as she tried to make some arguments on ethical issues he had never heard off. She was exceedingly philosophical and spent half the book rambling about the concepts of light and dark. Valerian was ashamed to admit that, for all his vaunted intelligence, most of it went over his head.
Even so, he read on. Somewhere in these notes was the information he needed, information on the Shadowed Daggers. It was in one of these very tomes that he had learnt a bit of their history that had enabled him to identify Pugio for what he was. He was younger back then and he'd not bothered to read too much into the text or to even persist past the first book.
Hearing familiar footsteps, Valerian's head a popped out from behind the book he was reading. For a split second, he hesitated, unsure whether to hide his activities or not. He'd gone past the stage where he needed the old man's approval for everything he did. However, their relationship was damaged enough. He did not want any more fights if he could help it. Even so, he did not move. The pitter-patter of feet grew closer but Valerian carried on as if without a care.
He wasn't looking for a confrontation. Valerian just did not want to hide anymore.
Valerian turned to face him, even tilting the book so he could see the symbols on the cover.
The old man went still for a second. His eyes immediately went to a recessed bookcase on the eastern wall. The fact that the bookcase was visible and no longer sealed away by an array was proof enough.
He continued to stand still for few more moments, his eyes flickering from the bookcase to the stack on the desk, to the tome in his grandson's hands. Valerian watched him, wondering just how this would play out.
Valerian stared the man wondering how much of that was actually true. Despite having learned a lot from the man or perhaps because of it, he was acutely aware of precisely how good his grandfather was at this. Tone, volume, diction, expression, demeanour, the man was a master. He could have you eating out of his hand or dancing to his tune. There were times he let things slip but those were few and far between.
"You were practising in the study?" the old man asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Sorry, grandfather!" Valerian quickly answered.
"I need information on the shadowed daggers. Now that I have one in my life, I figured it was best to learn everything I could. I remember that they were mentioned in the first book of this series so…" Valerian explained, raising the book in his hand at the end.
Clearing his throat he took a seat and began. "The concept of darkness described here is probably nothing you are familiar with. Here the dark is the mire that men who indulge in vice sink to. It is not evil like in common parlance. Good and Evil are false concepts. They do not exist. There is virtue and there is vice. Many confuse these with something they are not but the truth is they are wholly unconnected to good or evil. To be virtuous is to uplift oneself. To practice vice is to indulge oneself. The two are not disparate either. It is very easy to practise virtue to the point of vice or to follow vice to the altar of virtue.
"For example, justice so easily becomes judgement and love, obsession depending on the individual just as easily as the hate of something can become the love of its opposite depending on the focus and direction", he tried to explain.
"Wait! Virtue and vice are laws?" Valerian asked in shock. This entire time, he thought his grandfather was giving one of his philosophical lectures. Instead, they were actually discussing world laws, the very things cultivators pursued.
"Saving? As in saving people? The Bringers were killing people to save them?" Valerian asked incredulously.
"That's the thing", the magistrate exclaimed excitedly. "So deep was their belief and so staunch their faith in their ideal that they practised their bizarre ways and remained in the light. Over time, the slaughter, bloodlust and death adherence took over and they fell to vice. It really is an almost perfect example of the relation between virtue and vice.
"Good and Evil are objective concepts and to me and all like me, that is the reason they are wrong, why they will never be proven. Good and evil are propositions some religious folk band around but where are they? Virtue, we know. Vice, we know! They are classes of the laws that govern Verre and its people. Good and evil? Show me their paths!" he stated animatedly.
"And the Shadowed Daggers?" Valerian asked pulling the conversation to what he really needed.
"The Shadowed Daggers will serve anyone so long as the person is Bathan and someone they approve of, as you well know. Beyond that, they allow every Bathan who can afford it to purchase their services. You find daggers in service to individuals ranging from the King himself to a seamstress in an overlooked village.
"Just be mindful, it is not only the dagger that fights" he added worriedly. "There are times that the lords are the ones that do the fighting. This is very important because whilst a daggers fighting can be seen as a competition and self-improvement. Fights between dagger masters are all about standing. If you lose significantly, do not be surprised when your dagger either leaves on its own or is taken away by a senior.
"No dagger will cut short its path by following a weak master he said, unknowingly quoting Pugio.
Valerian looked at the time and excused himself. The gaunt elder was very demanding. It would be best if he went ahead and got something to eat before the man came.
Clara watched the exchange with warmth. It was nice to see the two of them together like old times. She couldn't help but be happy that their relationship was on the mend. In spite of this, she cast this warmth aside as soon as Valerian left.
"I thought you said that you were going to speak with him about the O'be?" she said advancing on her husband furiously.
"I intended to!" The magistrate argued.
"Then, what happened?" his wife asked.
"I-I..I…" he stammered as he searched for an answer.
"The first blood rite", Valan answered in a sombre tone.
Having placated her, he quickly went to one of the walls of the study and began checking its protections.
"What are you doing?" his wife asked with a curious tone.
"Thanking my luck", he said with a sigh.
"It is just some files from before", he said in a bid to play it off.
"How long has this been here?" she asked angrily.
"Since my old office burned down", her husband said, trying to explain.
"No one will find out Clara", her husband asserted.
Valerian pushed off the wall, leaving the old couple to argue in peace. It took a bit longer to reorient himself due to the effort it had needed to listen in this time but he felt it was worth it.
'Wasn't that interesting?' he asked himself as he made his way back to his courtyard.
How was it? A lot of stuff was discussed in this chapter. I assured you that it will all make sense eventually. For example, I dropped a couple of new terms today; concepts, vice, virtue, light, dark, aspects, orders. Well, some of that should have come already. The cosmology of Verre is something I've put a lot of thought in. If you have access to the lore packet on the elements/attributes/laws you'll see I've updated the listings to include the new information. Take your time and go through it again. Maybe you'll get some clues.
I'm also adding a new lore packet for patrons. This one has the complete ranking system (it goes past everything we have so far). It is also a cheat sheet. You'll find attached some short notes. They are very important and explain the peculiarities of the ranks to those who can figure them out.
Let me know if you have any guesses.
Now, here's a quick question. How many of you remember the O'be? They've come up quite frequently in this series and every book has at least one small reference to them. If you remember who they are or anything about them, why not let us know in the comment section? They are finally going to become relevant and here's a bit of a spoiler. They are very important!
If Valan says it's hidden I can say with 100% certainty that it's not. Valerian is going to find it. I'm getting absurdly excited to see what he does with the blackmail.
Pretty sure Valerian found this long ago. He used his grandfather's files on people way back in book one or two.


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Curtis Mayfield: American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music. He first achieved success and recognition with The Impressions during the civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s, and later worked as a solo artist. Here but I'm Gone, Move on Up, Tripping Out и другие песни. Вся дискография, Радио, Концерты, рекомендации и похожие исполнители.
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Two beautiful examples of the greatness, compassion and enduring spirit of the great Curtis Mayfield. After a career of hit making with The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield's debut solo album was the culmination of an ever-blossoming talent, laced with social activism.
A year before Marvin Gaye's seminal What's Going On and two years before Stevie Wonder's Music Of My Mind & Talking Book, Curtis Mayfield began using his music to spotlight the cultural issues of the late 60s and early 70s, with a melodic invention and majestic flair equaled by no one. The All Music Guide calls this 1970 debut, Curtis, the "Sgt. Pepper's of '70s soul," and the album's blunt lyrical assessments still ring loud on tracks like "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go," "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue" and "Move On Up." While Mayfield condemns the still segregated 60s and the cultural clashes that would continue for years afterwards, his music still embraced an undying optimism (a Mayfield trademark) that has helped to ensure his work will always remain timeless and uplifting. This 2000 expanded edition also includes a generous helping of early demos and backing tracks.
But… if optimism and redemption has long been the cornerstone of Mayfield's messages and themes, it was Curtis' last album, New World Order, that put his words and attitude to a real world test. Recorded six years after an on-stage accident that paralyzed him from the neck down, New World Order is a breathtaking example of one man championing his adversity. Legendarily, Mayfield's vocals were recorded almost line-by-line (while lying on his back), but you'd never hear that in the unending beauty of his voice or his still, inexplicably optimistic world view. Most of the material was co-written by Mayfield, while – in full-circle fashion – he also revisits Curtis' "We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue." New World Order is an album that proves, despite everything in his life, that Mayfield's golden soul soared until the very end.
Curtis - Tracklist:
1.	(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (7:51)
2.	Other Side Of Town (4:02)
3.	The Makings Of You (3:44)
4.	We The People Who Are Darker Than Blue (6:06)
5.	Move On Up (8:54)
6.	Miss Black America (2:59)
7.	Wild And Free (3:17)
8.	Give It Up (3:49)
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10.	Underground (Demo) (3:12)
11.	Ghetto Child (Demo) (5:10)
12.	Readings In Astrology (Demo) (3:31)
13.	Suffer (Demo) (2:32)
14.	Miss Black America (Demo) (2:23)
15.	The Makings Of You (Backing Tracks, Take 32) (4:35)
16.	(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Backing Tracks, Takes 1 & 2) (9:35)
17.	(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go (Edited Single Version) (3:27)
New World Order Tracklist:
1.	New World Order (5:37)
2.	Ms. Martha (4:24)
3.	Back To Living Again (5:11)
4.	No One Knows About A Good Thing (You Don't Have To Cry) (5:20)
5.	Just A Little Bit Of Love (5:27)
6.	We People Who Are Darker Than Blue (5:03)
7.	I Believe In You (4:58)
8.	Here But I'm Gone (5:22)
9.	It Was Love That We Needed (4:16)
10.	The Got Dang Song (5:17)
11.	The Girl I Find Stays On My Mind (3:59)
12.	Let's Not Forget (3:43)
13.	Oh So Beautiful (4:38)
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
I was getting bored and, I think, being a real pest. I remember Brando coming and sitting on the bed and cutting out the most exquisite paper fish, with detailed scales and fins. Then he took a hotel pen and a piece of string and made a fishing pole.
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual extemporaneous speaker that I have ever known.
I have the Muji pen that has different colors. My daughter loves to play hangman, or we draw. It's important you can draw a rainbow at all times.
I got to take classes in writing with a fountain pen, and actually, something you make is your own textbook. So, while you're learning about something, you have to write essays on it, and then you handwrite in cursive, in fountain pen, your essays out on beautiful paper and you bind it together into a book that you hand in at the end of the course.


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The above mentioned quote summarizes one of the main themes in Hearne's political thriller, "Hulagu's Web". The book suggests that much of the horror, destruction and mayhem that happen in the contemporary world are explained by the endeavors of Sorat, Lucifer's terrifying accomplice. It is said that Sorat incarnates every 666 years. 1998 would therefore be the year of his last manifestation. Coincidently, it is the same year that Usama Bin Ladin and his associates publicly declared their Jihad against the West with blatant orders such as "We - with Allah's help - call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it."
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In last year's Fishing in the Air, Creech took a spare, metaphorical approach to a father-son relationship. Here she examines the bond between a boy and his dog to create an ideal homage to the power of poetry and those who write it.
The volume itself builds like a poem. Told exclusively through Jack's dated entries in a school journal, the book opens with his resistance to writing verse: "September 13/ I don't want to/ because boys/ don't write poetry./ Girls do." Readers sense the gentle persistence of Jack's teacher, Miss Stretchberry, behind the scenes, from the poems she reads in class and from her coaxing, to which the boy alludes, until he begins to write some poems of his own. One by William Carlos Williams, for instance, inspires Jack's words: "So much depends/ upon/ a blue car/ splattered with mud/ speeding down the road." A Robert Frost poem sends Jack into a tale (in verse) of how he found his dog, Sky. At first, his poems appear to be discrete works. But when a poem by Walter Dean Myers ("Love That Boy" from Brown Angels) unleashes the joy Jack felt with his pet, he becomes even more honest in his poetry. Jack's next work is cathartic: all of his previous verses seemed to be leading up to this pièce de résistance, an admission of his profound grief over Sky's death. He then can move on from his grief to write a poem ("inspired by Walter Dean Myers") about his joy at having known and loved his dog.


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I received this same error after modifying the smart.cgi program with a DOS editor. However, after I re-loaded the original smart.cgi script to the server and used vi to make the same changes, all was well. This may or may not be relevant.
The problem is that I never gat a "clean" copy of smartrack.cgi, so I can't implement the same "fix".
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mobility, bicycles, cyborgs
I've mentioned that Adam Roberts is blogging his way through the voluminous works of H. G. Wells, and I've found myself thinking often about this post, on Wells's early book The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll (1896). At one point in the post Adam engages in helpful ways with Paul Smethurst's recent book The Bicycle: Towards a Global History (2015):
Smethurst's account of the rise of the bike argues for speed as the salient, something he equates with a new mode of mastery that is both spatial and sexual. 'Pedestrian travel is more embodied and place-bound than bicycle mobility, but mastery of space is more limited,' he suggests. 'Ground gained step-by-step can be less expansive: there is little sense of speed and motion is absorbed into the surrounding space. … Bicycle mobility has a greater potential for transgression than walking because the cyclist can more readily breach the boundaries of social space.' [Smethurst, 64] He concedes that the motor car 'has displaced the bicycle as a figure of speed' nowadays, but maintains that bicycling involves the actual penetration of space in a way that the spectator-like experience of driving does not.
Then Adam quotes Smethurst:
As modernity advanced in the West in the late 19th century, the idea of existential spatiality was beginning to supersede attachment to traditional place-bound community, in both theory and practice. … Humans are said to be able to cope with severing ties to traditional place-bound communities through a capacity to objectify the world by setting themselves apart, by creating a gap. While this is sometimes represented in modernism as a negative sense of alienation, bicycle mobility re-engages the subject through narcissistic projection and a mastery of space en passant.
And comments:
It's a particular kind of machine, in other words. Wells pitches the narcissistic projection (as it were) as comic, and his take on the mastery of space is tied, I am going to argue, as I freewheel down the hill of this post, with a sensibility we would nowadays call cyborg. Not just the fusion of man and machine in the context of modernity, the fusion of male and female, and their respective modes of sexual desiring.
You should read the whole post. It's really good.
I think both Roberts and Smethurst are onto something quite important here. Reading them together you discern that the bicycle as a technology occupies a distinctive point where embodiment and crossing meet. (I say "crossing" rather than "transgression" because I don't want to confine myself to morally or politically freighted uses, and though the root of "transgress" means simply to "step across," we now use it exclusively to describe bold, risky crossings that defy something or someone, either for good or ill. That's too freighted a set of connotations for my purposes. Smethurst often uses the term "crossing" for similar reasons.) The appeal of the bicycle lies in its power to enable crossings of space, including politicized social space, that would be frustratingly time-consuming on foot, but to do so in a way that requires your embodiment, that demands your full physical engagement. And if Adam is right, this particular nexus of possibility is powerful enough that people can become in a sense fused with their bicycles and thereby become proto-cyborgs.
As Adam notes in another post, this one on the 1905 book A Modern Utopia, the question of mobility is an essential one for Wells:
Not for the first time in Wells's career, the ability to move freely about is the real index of utopian desire. His alt-world, with its globe-spanning networks of rapid electric trams and trains, and its happily nomadic population, is one vision of that possibility. Where Thomas More sequestered his utopia on an island against the hostility of the larger world, Wells inverts that model: his whole world is perfect except for 'the Island of Incurable Cheats'', 'Islands of Drink' and so on. But this larger logic of inversion reveals itself as, actually, an ideological shift. For just as Wells's Utopians zoom here and there with ideal and total mobility, so they are surveilled with an ideal and total surveillance. Every Utopian is assigned 'a distinct formula, a number or "scientific name," under which he or she could be docketed', and every single citizen is included in this database: 'the record of their movement hither and thither, the entry of various material facts, such as marriage, parentage, criminal convictions and the like'.
This, provocatively, suggests a proportional relationship between a given person's mobility and his or her legibility (to borrow a term from James Scott You are free to move about insofar as the state can "read" you, can know who you are no matter where you are. As mobility goes up, privacy goes down; one freedom comes at the expense of the other.
In this context we might note that in the (benevolently?) panoptic world described by Iain M. Banks in his stories of the Culture, those who commit crimes are not imprisoned but rather are followed everywhere they go by a drone, which in turn leads to social ostracism. Mobility is not restricted because the prerogative of the state of punish does not, in circumstances of unlimited surveillance, require the restriction of mobility. But for the person who gets "slap-droned," freedom of movement may not have much point.
But in our imperfectly surveilled world, one of the primary ways that citizens become legible to the government is through having homes, domiciles, permanent addresses. A legal system like the Schengen Agreement is meant to apply to people whose governments are sure to know where they live; when it's made to deal with refugees and others who are homeless, confusion ensues. For those who make, and most completely benefit from, the rules by which the state sees us, mobility might seem to be an unalloyed good, which is why Emmanuel Macron's campaign slogan was En Marche! — On the Move! On the way! To where, one might ask, but it doesn't matter, the point is simply that we picture ourselves as mobile people, unconstricted by place.
But if you're a Syrian refugee, being en marche can become a curse. It is good, indeed, to reduce one's chances of being bombed or gassed or shot, but it is also harrowing to have no idea when one can stop being on the move, can rest — can, maybe, even have a home. We might here offer a thesis: The value of mobility is relative to the option of stability.
In this recent essay on displaced persons, past and present, Peggy Kamuf writes,
What, then, of the right to move, the right to migrate? Is it not the most fundamental human right, presumed by every other right that can be claimed as a human right? … Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognized in 1948 that everyone has "the right to leave any country, including his own," none of its 30 articles says anything of the right to migrate to elsewhere. As for freedom of movement, the Declaration envisions it solely "within the borders of each state" (Article 13, "Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state"). As conceived by the UN, then, freedom of movement is a right limited by the sovereignty of the nation state. Writing in the same year, Hannah Arendt pointed to just this limitation of the "best-intentioned humanitarian attempts to obtain new declarations of human rights from international organizations."
Freedom to depart means very little if there is not also the freedom to arrive.
In a few days I'll be going to Wheaton, Illinois — a thousand miles from where I now live, in Texas — to visit my old friends, and I've decided to drive. I'll not try to do it in one day; I'll have to stop overnight; it's not exactly a scenic drive; and yet I'd rather put up with those inconveniences than with the multiple indignities of commercial air travel. That is, in this particular case, I would rather accept restricted mobility than accept the multiple ways that the TSA and the airlines demand that I become what Michel Foucault calls a "docile body." (I might feel different about all this if I could afford business- or first-class travel, but I can't.)
All of which should serve as a reminder that it is not only mobility that we are discussing here. Flying does not give me more mobility, it gives me greater speed: that is to say, it uses less time. If I were wholly unconcerned about time I could ride a bicycle or walk to Illinois. But if I were more concerned about time than I am — if, for instance, I were in the middle of a school term and could only spare a couple of days — then I'd simply have to accept the indignities of being the airline's docile body. Or stay home. But I'm not in school right now, I have no pressing deadlines, and my wife and son are happy to share his car for a few days; so I'll be driving.
Publicists and salespeople speak of "the romance of travel," but not all travel is romantic, and among the kinds that could plausibly be so described, there are multiple sources of appeal. Crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, or Europe on the Orient Express, or Route 66 in an old Mustang, may all be romantic, but in radically different ways. (Is flying first-class to Europe also romantic, or just luxurious? I'm not sure.) We might experience the romance of being served, the romance of novelty, or the romance of … well, what is the driving-cross-country romance, the On the Road romance? It has a good deal to do with making your own decisions, driving as long as you want to drive and stopping when you want to stop. The romance of novelty can still be had in an automobile, but can be more readily had if you stay off the interstate highway system, which promises (and delivers) the complete absence of novelty.
Because you drive the automobile yourself — a situation that will last for the next few years at least — a fairly high level of physical as well as mental engagement in the act is possible, especially if (a) your car has a manual transmission and (b) you're not on the interstate. As Nick Carr points out in his book on the powers and limits of automation, The Glass Cage, it's even possible when driving a car to enter into the state of flow celebrated by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi — and that sense is what enables the cyborg-feeling that Adam talks about in his post on bicycles.
So any serious understanding of mobility will require that we map our experiences on a complex set of axes:
slow/fast
embodied/disembodied
independent/docile
impoverished/luxurious
rooted/rootless (or secure/insecure, or sameness/novelty)
Typically, people emplaced in the world as I am — i.e., wealthy people in safe and stable societies — have control over at least some of these dimensions, while the further you descend the social scale the fewer options will be available. And those who can choose will choose rather differently, because they will have different "sweet spots": for some the conservation of time will be paramount and will therefore fly whenever flying takes less time than driving; others will prefer to stay local so they can be on their bicycle, or on their feet, as much as possible; and so on. We'll have different preferences in different circumstances, of course; but each of us, I think, has an "all things being equal" default preference when it comes to being en marche.
Please look again at the binaries listed above. In general, I think we've seen over the past century or so a dramatic shift of preference towards the right-side options: willing to be more docile and disembodied in exchange for speed, luxury, and rootlessness. Which is why, even if the most important thing an individual can do for the environment is to stop flying, that's simply unthinkable even to the most bien-pensant among us.
But I wonder if that could change, given (a) the increasing unpleasantness of air travel, (b) increasing reports of the unpleasantness of air travel, or (c) both. I have always hated long-distance driving, but the more time I spend in airports the better driving looks to me, thus my decision about this week's trip. And next month, when Teri and I head to Biola University in Los Angeles for me to lead a faculty seminar there, we'll also be automobiling there — certainly a more interesting drive than the one from Waco to Chicagoland, but also a longer one. And then maybe those who now drive can recover the pleasure of bicycling … Well, it's something to hope for.
Though I don't think the trajectory can be reversed: speed and neophilia (the love of novelty) are, I think, sufficiently desirable to most people who have choices that they'll gladly accept docility and disembodiment in exchange for them. And that exchange is one of the key paths to the posthuman.
Adam Roberts
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5 thoughts on "mobility, bicycles, cyborgs"
The appeal of fixed-gear bicycles seems to me that they pull biking towards the left side of your axes.
It also occurs to me that while 'mobility' tends to mean 'overall quantity of motion,' it can alternatively be taken as 'power over one's own motion and rest.' Sometimes when we praise increased mobility, it's because we have the second thing in mind: increased power as a self-mover. The refugee has plenty of the former, very little of the latter.
Adam Roberts says:
Well this is a wonderful post, Alan: long and chewy with ideas and thought-provoking, which is just how I like them. There's a great deal to engage with here, and a lot I agree with; but for now I'm going to respond to one thing.
You say "Freedom to depart means very little if there is not also the freedom to arrive"; which makes plain sense. And of course I share your hatred of the manifold humiliations of air travel, and try to minimize that mode of transport as much as I can in my own life. But it's a function of travelling in ways that are, in one way or another, encumbered, isn't it? You, for instance, have to travel to a particular place at a particular time to see your friend. In the UK there's a general grumble about the way airlines hoik-up prices as soon as the school terms end, because they know that that's when families want to fly abroad. This is nothing but market forces of course, but it creates huge resentments amongst ticket-buyers, in exactly the 'they've got us over a barrel' sense you're talking about. Parents taking their kids out of school early, illegally, disrupting their education and so on, all to get cheaper flights, has been a news story over here lately.
But all this is so only because the travel is encumbered by the various practical constraints of certain ties, certain specific destinations and so on: by the necessity of specific arrival you touch on. It's all the constraint of arrival, which is the real enemy of the freedom of arrival you mention.
Travel without that constraint and the whole thing becomes much less oppressive. And this brings me back to the bicycle, where you start; or more specifically to the bicycle as cyborg. In my original Wellsian post I mention Kraftwerk in passing; but really they merit a whole post to themselves, because they really are the first great prophets of the cyborg bicycular manmachine. This post quotes an interview with Ralf Hütter about his many bicycles, and how he likes to ride them, and this bit in particular strikes me:
"Hütter saw cycling as more than a mere leisure pursuit, something closer to a political statement: 'No, it's not for holiday. It is the man machine. It's me, the man machine on the bicycle. Holidays are an alienation, a consumption concept. To relax ourselves, we ride the bicycle, it's enough. We are liberated from holidays.'"
Liberated from holidays! This, it seems to me, is the real freedom of arrival, because it is the cyborg eradication of those constraints by which car companies and train companies and airlines hem us in. Travel, in this model, would be a purer sort of flâneur living: turning up and buy whichever tickets are going cheap. Travelling for the same of travelling. Pursuing motion for the sake of motion rather than destination; travelling hopefully, not arriving.
Not sure that appeals to me, mind.
(And it may have its own cyborg downside: in 1983 Hütter was involved in a bicycle crash serious enough to put him in a coma for two days; and when he woke his first words were "where's my bike?")
". . . speed and neophilia (the love of novelty) are, I think, sufficiently desirable to most people who have choices that they'll gladly accept docility and disembodiment in exchange for them. And that exchange is one of the key paths to the posthuman." As I read this, in the context of a post on bicycles and air travel, I recalled the scene in E.T. where the kids on their dirt bikes are hemmed in and magically fly over the town to escape. Having reached the dead-end of their ability to transgress social spaces, they're liberated into a different – extraterrestrial – kind of freedom. A wonderful wish-fulfillment!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR1-UFrcZ0k
Alan J says:
These are great comments, folks! I shall incorporate them into my thinking and you may hear from me again on these matters….
John Roe says:
Regarding academics ("bien-pensants"?) and flying, you might like to take a look at flyingless (also Twitter @flyingless).
To drive a given (fairly long) journey, alone in an average American car, is typically less carbon-efficient than flying the same journey, though the math changes if you carry passengers. Flying's carbon impact, then, comes less in its passenger-mile efficiency than in the expanded range of possibilities that it opens up (as in, "I am going to China for a three-day conference"). Do we really need to attend all those conferences? But of course our whole academic ecosystem, including our system of status evaluation, has fashioned itself around them.